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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03
MINERAL MATTER Is
ESSENTIAL FOR COWS
Ordinary Rations Do Not Contain
Sufficient Amount of Mate
rial for Milk.

Dairy cows ordinarily cannot digest
from rations of the usual character
sufficient mineral matter to meet the
demands made by heavy milk produc-
ton. This conclusion has been reach
ed by nutrition experts at the Ohio eX-
pertinent station after two years in
vestigations with cows yielding large
quantities of milk.
These specialists also say that even
when the common practical rations
are supplemented with large amounts
of calcium carbonate and bone flour,
the cows still give off more lime than
they can digest from their rations. To
meet this demand for heavy milk pro-
auction the cows must draw upon the
mineral substances of their skeletons.
Further attempt is being made, by
the use of more readily soluble lime
salts. to learn whether a COW can alb
Sorb as much lime as she gives off
Turing heavy milk production.
The results obtained thus far en-
phasize the value of leguminous rough
ages in milk production. Without lib
eral allowance of such feeds the loss
Of minerals from the bones becomes
excessive, and predisposes to disorders
Of nutrition.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03
SPREAD The MANURE
DIRECT FROM WAGON
Several Good and Substantial
Reasons for Condemning
Practice of PiIing 1t.

(By II. T. FRENCH, Colorado AgricuI.
tural College, Fort Collins Colo)
A common practice in farming sec
lions is still followed, that of hauling
manure from the yards and stables to
the field, and instead of scattering the
manure, placing it in piles. There are
several reasons why this should not be
done; first, it offers breeding place
for flies and insects, and a harbor for
mice and other vermin. Second, and
more important, there is a consider
able loss in the effect of the manure
by teaching and unequal distribution
of it's fertilizing ingredients,
Wherever the piles are made the
ground will receive more than it's share
of the fertilizer and other portions will
not get fair show. 1t is mistaken
notion that much of the fertilizing
value will escape in the air If the ma
nure is spread at once. The soil will
catch the valuable constituents from
the melting snow and rain, and even
dew will carry some of them into the
soil. The third reason is important
also, and that is in the economy OF
spreading the manure direct from the
wagon as soon as hauled to the field,
rather than to handle it again in
spreading from the piles.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03
GREEN FEEDING IN WINTER
Experience in North American Con-
test Disproves Idea That Sue
cuIent Feed Is Necessary.

A great deal of stress has been laid
on succulent green feeds as an i'm
portant part of an egg ration, but the
experience in the North American egg
laying contest seems rather to disprove
that idea. No green feed is furnished
except that which grows in the yards
during the summer, yet the winter lay
ing has been very satisfactory. In a
supplementary test the poorest laying
pen consumed the most green feed and
the highest laying pen the least. There
is no doubt that green feed is good for
poultry. The question is whether it is
essential to heavy egg production in
winter, and the experiments tend to
prove that it is not. The reason hens
That consume a great deal of bulky,
green feed do not lay as well as those
that eat more concentrated feed is
easily seen. Because of its bulk the
green feed fills up and satisfies, but
does not contain the high percentage
of nutrients that dry feeds do. In or
der to become high-power layers, hens
must have high-power feed. so unless
the bulky, green feed is supplemented
by highly concentrated feeds, having
the food elements that green feed
lacks, 1t will not furnish the excess of
nutriment that is needed to make eggs.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03
ECONOMY or FEEDING GRAIN ON PASTURE

half of May or the first of June, II
should be ready for pasturing in six
to eight weeks.
Hogs which have been pastured dur
ing the grazing season on crops al
ready mentioned may be finished by
allowing them to hog down corn and
soy beans. These crops may be grown
together or in separate fields. If
grown in separate fields, they should
be arranged so that the hogs can have
the run of both fields at the same time,
since the two crops make better ra-
ton than either alone.
Experimental results at the Missouri
agricultural experiment station show
that, on forage, it required an average
of 3.1S pounds of grain to produce one
pound of pork, as compared with 5.11
pounds, the average from five dry-lot
feeding trials conducted under similar
conditions. This would mean a saving
Of SO per cent in the amount Of grain
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03
HABIT OF FEATHER PULLING
Generally Develops in Winter When
Fowls Are Crowded Into Houses
Too Small.

Feather pulling or eating may not
be so bad as egg eating, but it is an
noying, and is a habit with which
most poultry keepers have more or
less trouble. During the fall and win
ter, when birds are not getting suffi-
Gent exercise and are crowded into
small houses, this habit is most likely
to develop.
Such habits as egg and feather eat
ing are usually the fault of the own
er. When birds are not overcrowded
in large fiocks, and are forced to work
all day for all the feed they get, it is
seldom that either habit appears. AS
rule, a feather-eating bird is poor
layer, and the quicker you can rid
your flock of such a pest the better
One feather eater in a flock will cause
no end of trouble, and in a few weeks
will make all the birds show insight
ly bare backs.
To stamp out the habit, get rid Of
the hen that is causing the trouble,
supply the flock with plenty of animal
matter, such as meat and green-cut
bone, make the birds exercise after all
the food they get.
AS a treatment, apply an ointment
of some bitter -quinine or
aloes mixed with lard will do the
work. A solution made by boiling to-
bacco in water will be found salts
factory. The feather-eating bird will
quit after one or two of these bitter
doses.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03

Systematic feeding is just as neces-
sary in the poultry yard as it is in the
steer pen or hog lot. G. w. Hervey
of the Missouri college of agriculture,
gives the following hints which may
help relieve the egg shortage:
Grain for chickens should be clean
and free from mold. Moldy grain will
often cause death or result in any one
of the several diseases common to the
digestive tract. Birds affected be-
come weak and inactive and often
manifest an intense thirst.
There is always danger of under
feeding. The birds should go on the
roosts at night with crops well filled.
Only a little grain need be scattered
in the straw litter each morning to in
duce exercise during the day. The
total amount of grain to be supplied
daily will depend largely upon the
palatability of the dry mash which is
fed as an adjunct to the grain ration
and also the, housing facilities. IL the
dry mash is not relished or If none is
fed at all, greater amount of grain
is required to satisfy the appetite of
the birds and at the same time they
cannot utilize the feed efficiently for
production purposes. When INSULT
cient protection is given, especially
during the winter months, by undue
exposure of houses or by allowing
draughts, more grain is required to
keep up the body neat.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03

1t is questionable whether chickens
ance, however, between mash and
grain will often result in an excess
sive deposition of fat, so much in fact
that the function of the reproductive
organs is interfered with and the bird
does not lay. 1t is believed that lay
ing hens should eat half as much mash
as they do grain but experience, based
on year-round feeding, shows that the
dry mash consumption is only about
one-third of the total ration. A wet
mash consisting of bran and sour
milk may be fed two or three times
weekly during the late summer and
during the winter as an appetizer, and
in this way the total amount of mash
eaten may be increased.
The dry mash fed in the University
of Missouri pens consists of equal
parts by weight of grain, shorts, corn
meal and meat scrap. If sour milk
is given the meat is not necessary.
This mash admits easy mixing, is
bulky and has a sufficient protein con-
tent of an animal source to make it
practical for production. This mash
may be fed in self-feeding hopper
to which the birds have free access.
If fed in this manner they will, to a
large degree, gauge their own ration,
and at the same time considerably less
labor is required than if the mash is
thrown into troughs each morning
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03

Forage crops make cheap pork, be-
cause they permit cutting the grain al
lowance to the minimum. A system
of management which will furnish for
age through the entire grazing season
should be planned early.
Rye and bluegrass will furnish pas
ture early in the spring, and may be
followed by alfalfa or clover. Hogs
have been turned onto alfalfa at the
Missouri College of Agriculture as
early as April 10, although it will usu-
ally be several weeks later before it
is ready. Glover viii usually be ready
for pasture during the last half of
May.
These crops must be seeded the
year previous to that in which they
are to be grazed. Perhaps the best
spring-sown forage is dwarf essex
rape, or mixture of rape and oats
Rape may be seeded for hog pasture
as early as the ground can be worked
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03

which brought me out of it all right, so
j am now well and do all my homework,
besides working in my garden. Several
Of my neighbors have got well by tax
ing Lydia Z. Pinkham' S Vegetable Com
pound. = Mrs. VIOLA FIN1CAL, Wagon
n, Okla.
Such warning symptoms as sense of
aches, dread of impending evil, timidity,
sounds in the ears, palpitation of the
heart, sparks before the eyes, irregu-
Arities, constipation, variable appetite,
weakness and dizziness should be needed
by middle-aged women. Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has cnrried
many women safely through the crisis.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03
SYRUP OF FIGS FOR
4 CHILDS BOWELS
n is cruel to force nauseating,
harsh phySic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on-castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them, how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form of
physic simply don't realize what they
DO. The children's revolt is well-found
ed. Their tender little "insides" are
injured by them.
If your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs" Its
sction is positive, but gentle. Millions
ut mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative" handy; they know children
love to take it; that it never fails to
dean the liver and bowels and sweet
On the stomach, and that teaspoonful
gwen today saves a sick child tomor.
row.
Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle
Of California Syrup of Figs which
has full directions for babies, children
oE all ages and for grown-ups plainly
On each bottle. Adv.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03
Not Surprising.
BILIOUS, HEADACHY,
SICK 'CASCARETs'
Gently cleanse your liver and
sluggish bowels while
you sleep.

Get a 10-cent box.

Sick headache, biliousness, dizzi-
ness, coated tongue, foul taste and foul
breath-always trace them to torpid
liver; delayed, fermenting food in the
bowels or sour, gassy stomach.
Poisonous matter clogged in the in.
testines, instead of being cast out
of the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes con.
gestion and that dull, throbbing. sick.
ening headache.
Cascarets Immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigested
food and foul gases, take the excess
bile from the liver and carry out all
the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep-a 10-cent box
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months. Adv.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03

in
skids provided writes w Frudden in
cac Magazine The
1n strips Three Aframes give the main
6 fwfd
a at ventlatng
covered with siding
hay panks The
f the ends
the raised
ou permitting the sunlight
ent TO Clean Tenders should be
hove the young shoas.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03
KEEP POULTRY HOUSE CLEAN
II Roosts, Nests, Etc, Are Made So
That They Can Be Moved Clean
ing Is Made Much Easier.

Keep the house clean at all times.
If all the equipment, such as roosts,
nests, etc, are made so that they can
be easily removed, the cleaning will be
made much easier. Use a good disin-
fectant around the roosts and nests
occasionally, and whitewash the house
thoroughly at least once a year.
A. good house is a paying invest
ment.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03

ia 81 e compound
b e Sc during
Change of Life |
was in bed tw o
years and had two
operations, but all
the doctors and OPP
erations did me no
good, and / would
have been in my
grave today had it
not been for Lydia
E. Pinkham s Veg
atahla Topnpo,1y,d
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03

Yale college seniors in four years
ave earned S53,352 and expended
1,50000
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03

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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03

The rail journey from Constanu-
nople to Bagdad requires 81 hours.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03

Anuric cures Backache, Lumbago.
Rheulnatism: Send 10c. DR.. V. M. Pierce.
Buffalo, n. Y, for large trial package
Adv.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03

Wichita, Kan, has adopted city man.
ager form of government.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03
CRISIS or
WDMAN'S LIFE
Change Safely Passed by
Taking Lydia E. Pinkharn's
Vegetable Compound.

Wagner, Okla.-'1 never get tired
Of praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03

at the rate of six pounds per acre.
When the season is favorable, 1t will
be ready for pasture during the last
half of June.
Sorghum win furnish considerable
amount of forage during the hot, dry
time of summer when other crops are
not growing well. If sown the latter
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1917-05-03
E.V y; lI ! ]

VIII redp1e Inflamed, Strained,
swoILn Tendons, Ligaments,
q Asdscles. Stops the and
paA from Splint, Side Bone OF
Bone SPAWN. No blister, no hair
gone and horse can be used. 81
bottle at druggists or delivered. De-
.nr..L. r.-..ar .a..aa 4. ..a...1 -.aA....
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-03-02
School Strikes In Japan.

School strikes seem peculiar to ia
pan, and invariably one is under way
Such a strike is a calamity dreaded
by head master and undermaster alike
A head master who has had strike
in his school is under suspicion, even
though he may be quite innocent of
any unjust conduct, and eventually he
must seek new field for his activities.
so unpleasant do the students make
his continued stay. When students
combine against one of the undermas-
tiers he has nothing to do but tender
his resignation. If the strike is tenn
pOrarily Gained down it is tacitly uD-
derstood that the master in question
is on the lookout for a new place.
Sometimes strikes take place for the
retention of the teacher rather than
for his dismissal In this lattara case
it is always the head master who
suffers the most, as the move is direct
ed against him for not retaining some
favOrite.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-03-02
CORRESPONDENCE
Fort AJKinsOn.

At the present writing it looks as
though GAINESVILLE would take fran
chise in the Central Baseball League
for the 1917 season. President G. W.
Rankin has written to George Caldow,
Janesville's sport promoter, who is
working on the matter. Mr.. Caldow
will be here for the annual meeting OF
the league which is scheduled for the
9th of March.
Geo. P. Miller of the town of Kosh-
konong killed wolf last Saturday at
ternoon and on Monday brought the
animal to the county clerks office to
receive his bounty. He is entitled to
500, ten from the state and ten from
the county. Mr.. Miller had rather
exciting experience before finally kill
ing the wolf He first saw it near the
road and followed 1t with his dog and
gun for about two miles. The dog
came up to the wolf and fight ensued
in which the dog received the worst OF
the battle. When Mr.. Miller arrived
he shot the wolf twice, one shot break
ing one of it's legs. 1t then turned on
the man and he struck it on the head
with the butt of his gun, killing the
animal and SCATTERING the gun. The
wolf was a large one and weighed
about 40 pounds.
DR.. Henry Ogden, probably the OLD
est practicing physician in Jefferson
county, was called to the great beyond
Saturday, Feb. 18th, at 4:45 a. m. He
was 70 years old. Death was due to
cancer of the stomach. DIR. Ogden
was born May 9, 1843, in the town of
Milton, where his early days were spent
on farm. After teaching school for
a year he enlisted il co. G, 10th Inf.
Reg. and served through the civil war.
Returning to Milton he entered Milton
college. At the end of two years he
departed from that institution and en-
tered the employ of the Fort Atkinson
National bank as assistant cashier. He
worked in the bank ten years, then
took up the study of medicine, gradu-
ating from Rush Medical in 1881. He
was married to Miss Elva Davis Octo-
Der 6, 1869. Three children came to
bless this union, all of whom preceded
their father in death. Deceased dur
ing his residence here endeared himself
to all, not only as physician, but as a
citizen, who took an earnest interest In
the welfare of his fellowmen. He was
an honored member of the Masonic or
der, was a worker in the K. of p. and
belonged to the O. E. S. and the M.
w. A. For thirty years he practiced
his profession in this city.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-03-02
Good journalism.

There are many stories of the jour
nalistic genius Of the blind Joseph Pu-
liter. One cropped up the other day.
There was big championship golf
tournament to be played" golfer
said ''This was years ago, before Mr..
Pulitzer went blind. Golf at that time
was in it's infancy in this country.
''Well, Mr.. Pulitzer sent for his
dozen best reporters and special writer's
and, lining them up before him, said:
Those who understand golf stand
on the left; those who are ignorant of
it, on the right
'The stars separated themselves ac-
cordingly. All understood golf but
three-three very excellent writer's.
"'You three chaps will cover the
tournament said Mr.. Pulitzer, with
his nervous smile. 4 want all our
readers to enjoy our story of this
event, and, since most of them are
ignorant of. golf, what interests you
three will be sure to interest them -
Washington Star.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-03-02
Oeerfeld

Jens Thorstad shipped car load of
steers to Chicago last week and last
Monday Steve Haight of Christiana
shipped two car loads. Mr.. Haight is
quite an experienced feeder. Some
Liberty Prairie farmers are also feed
ing steers.
Hellick Ramstad of Hawley, Mimi,
son of H. O. Ramstad formerly of Lib
erty Prairie, who has been visiting rel
atives and friends, returned Monday
afternoon to assist in the shipping of
their potato crop. He and his brother
had &c acres in potatoes last season and
harvested over 5000 bushels. Of this
they have 1000 bushels left, but had
recently sold sold seven car loads at So.
A Mr.. Magnus Hestness, who has
just arrived here from Norway, says
prices of food over there are so high it
is getting to be hard problem to sup
port family. Flour, he says, was 81
a sack; pork, when buying whole
butchered hog, 80 cents pound, but
ter 45 cents pound and eggs 80 cents
dozen. Mr.. Hestness sold farm
near Utica few years ago and went
to Norway and bought farm there.
He recently sold there and is now look
ing for farm here.
DIR. Grefsheim has made a test of
most of the colts that brought CHAMBERS
to this vicinity and following are the
results: Emil Albright lost two out of
three of his horses, Herman Triumph
lost the colt he had bought and the
horse that stood next to it, Hugo Ke-
SOW lost his colt and another horse,
Herman Bergholz lost the two colts he
had bought, Halvor Hommen the same,
Mr.. Being east of Kroghville lost one,
Mr.. A Kufahl had two of the colts and
Mr.. Macher one but these proved not
to have the disease.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-03-02
Evansville

Riley Searles has sold his farm near
town to John Pearson and purchased
the South farm, northwest of town,
from Ned Thompson, who will go to
Blanchardville, where he formerly
lived. Mr.. Searles formerly owned the
South farm, where he erected an eight
room house about eight years ago.
The city was greatly shocked on Mon
day morning when death called at an
other Evansville home, summoning
Mrs. George w. Hall Jr. to the Great
Beyond. Mrs. Hall, whose maiden
name was Ida Ward, was born in De-
Kalb, st. Lawrence county, N. Y, on
October l6, 1868, being So years, four
months and days old at the time of
her death. Thirty-five years ago she
united in marriage to George w. Hall
Jr. at Dubuque, Iowa, and to this union
three children were born-two sons,
Frank E. of Whitewater and Russell
c. of Evansville, and one daughter,
Mrs. Grace Bruce of this city.
The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1917-03-02

There is more Catarrh in this section
of the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to be incurable. For
a great many yesrs doctors pronounced
it local disease, and prescribed local
remedies; and by continually failing to
cure with local treatment, pronounced it
incurable. Science has proven catarrh
to be constitutional disease, and. there
fore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure. manufactured by
f. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo. O., is the
only constitutional cure on the market.
1t is taken internally in doses from 10
drops to teaspoonful. It acts directly
on the blood AID mucous surfaces of the
system. They offer one hundred dollars
for any case it fails to cure. Send for
circular and testimonials. Address,
f. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo. O.
rs Sold by druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation