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The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
SC0URS IN CALVES
CAN BE PREVENTED
Animals Should Have Warm,
Clean and WeII-VentiIated
PenS-Feed Grain.

Thousands of calves are lost each
year by what is known as scours, saws
III. III. Kildee, University farm, st.
Paul. On every farm measures should
be taken TO guard against this dis
ease, which results from a deranged
digestive system.
Calves should have warm, clean.
light and well-ventilated pens. Milk
should be fed on regular amounts, at
regular times, at temperature of
about so degree F., from scrupulously
clean pals. The foam which accum-
ulates on the milk while it is being
separated should never be fed.
The time to feed the grain ration is
after the milk is fed. SO
that the calves will not suck each 9TH
er's ears and thus take air into the
stomach, which causes bloat and pro-
duceS ScourS.
1t is well to have stanchions in one
side of the pen so that the calves may
be confined for Il short time after he
ing fed milk.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
RIGHT MANAGEMENT OF BOAR
Animal Should Not Be Used Very
Much Until One Year Otd-Keep
in Best of Condition.

A boar should not be used very
much on sOws until he is one year old,
nor for heavy service until two years
old. If one wants to develop a boar
to the highest possibility it is not
well to use him at all under one year
old.
One service per day is enough, but
in case two sows are to be served in
one day, breed one In the morning
and the other in the evening, and let
the boar rest day or so before using
him again. One service to a SOW Is
all that is necessary. With such a
treatment a mature boar should be
able to handle 80 or 60 sows during a
breeding season.
The boar should be kept in good
condition all the year, but not so fat
as to be lazy and clumsy. His ration
should be increased before the breed
ing season, in order to have him gain
ing at the time he is being used. This
keeps him in good condition, and bet
ter results may be obtained.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
R0UGHAGES OF FARM
TURNED into MONEY
One of Chief Advantages in Keep
ing Live Stock Is Utilization
of Cheap Feeds.

tBy c. A. WILSON. Kentucky Expert
ment Station.)
The chief advantage that would re-
suit from the keeping of live stock on
the majority of farms is that to a
large extent the returns would be ad-
ditional to those realized when live
stock was not kept. These returns
would be additional because live stock
would turn the roughages of the farm.
that are now going to waste. into
money. More than one-half the fod-
der in this state goes to waste every
year. For every head of cattle in the
state there are produced three acres
OF corn, which will average one ton
OF slower per acre. One and one-half
tons of slower is more than is needed
to winter one head of cattle. There Is
going to waste, then, every year In
this state, 100000 tons of corn slower,
which at q valuation of So per ton
means loss to the farmers Of the
state, through a lack of proper utili-
cation Of feeds by cattle, of over $685.
100000.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
PRINCIPAL AIM IN WINTERING STOCKERS

possible use should be made of such
rOughagPS as corn fodder, straw, or
Silage, but these feeds must be
supplemented with either a little cot
tOnSeed cake, linSeed meal or alfalfa
hay. An advantage of cottOnSecd
cake is that ii can be used readily
to supplement poor winter grazing, be
ing easily transported, very conCcn.
trated. easy to feed. and Il natural
supplement To native grasses. Alfalfa
alone fed To steers at the North Platt,
station, Nebraska, made gains Of three
fourthS pound per day as compared 10
gains of 0nc-tifth pound on prairie hay.
but alfalfa and prairie hay together
were practically equal to alfalfa alone
Fourteen pounds Of straw and one
pound of cOttonSeed meal have put
II pounds gain on 'Stockcrs during
winters feeding. The addition Of one
pound cOttonSeed meal to a Silage IA
ton has proved more profitable than
silage alone, making total gains of 1G
pounds per head
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
REDUCE EXPENSE OF HAULING
Improved Roads Put Farmer in Posi-
ton Where He Can Go to Market
Every Day in Year.

Permanent road building costs
money, and it is well to look at the
cOld-cash side of the proposition. True,
the beneficial effects upon the social
and educational standards of the COM
munity are not always susceptible of
exact calculation, but they are certain
to come; and since a permanent road
costs money, We must know there is to
be profit from somewhere to offset
the cost. Something for nothing has
never yet been found.
Profits from permanent road come
to the farmer in the reduction of haul
Ing costs. 1t puts him in a position
where he can get to market every day
in the year, and where he can haul two
loads at one trip instead of having to
make two trips to haul one load.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
Gowns Of the Moment.

The gowns de luxe of the momen,
are certainly most distinctive. Gray
Liberty is blended with tulle and EN-.
broidered in oxidized silver. Lone
capes, which really are more like
trains from the shoulder, fall all over
the back in tulle and gossamer fab.
RIGS. Many vivid contrasts are intro.
duced in mere touches. which, how.
ever infinitesimal, are effective. Light
and tender yellow is fashionable. es.
pecially in velvet, and such velvet
dresses quite ignore the waistline
while the decolletage is mostly Dor.
dered with beads and metallic
thread ornamentation In yellow, gold
and silver. Many evening gowns are
quite narrow and trained. having tulle
sleeves to the wrist. The jewel work
on many gowns is superb, but must
naturally be costly.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10

CBy C / BRAY. Colorado Agricultural
College. Fort Collins, ColoD
The principal object in wintering
cattle Is to bring them through the
the winter In such condition that they
will make the best returns the next
season. In days of unlimited range
and cheap beef. what would now be
considered high death loss was TAX
en- as matter of course. With
high beef prices. limited range. and
with feedStufTS more readily available
in case of need. il IS not considered
economical To let stock cattle lose
flesh in wintcring. They will be in
better shape to take advantage of the
next seasons grass if they gain lit
tie through the winter. 1t is not adj
visable, on the other hand, to let stock
cattle fatten much. unless they are to
be fed out for market before June, as
they are likely to lose this fat on
early spring grass, and will not make
such profitable gains through the fol-
lowing summer.
Under farm conditions, the greatest
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
RUSTY STRAW GOOD
FOR FARM ANIMALS
On General Principles 1t Is Not
Considered Advisable to
Feed It to Females.

CBy NJ. II. REYNOLDS, Division of Vet
Urinary Science, University Farm. St
Paul.
Is rusty straw safe or desirable
stock food? The general teaching for
many years has been that blights,
rusts, SHUTS, ETC., are all harmful and
likely to produce abOrtions and other
troubles. Actual experience and some
research work, however, show that
this statement is far too general.
There can be no question concern
ing the undesirability of moldy hay,
straw, grain, or ensilage, on account
of the well-known forage poisoning of
horses and cattle, but quantities of
corn smut have been fed in expert.
mental work, without evident harm,
though this does not prove that under
other circumstances smut may not be
injurious. Stock seems sometimes ac-
tually to prefer straw in the black
rust stage and eat it readily, yet the
same stock may appear to dislike
straw in the red-ruSt stage, possibly
because more dusty.
We think that the farmer would be
quite justified in the cautious feeding
of rusty straw. On general principles
and in view of some uncertainty it.,
would be better not to use rusty straw
for female heavy with young. though
even in such a case it might do no
harm. There is little positive informa-
ton available. The writer would
greatly appreciate reports of actual
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10

worse, to waste money in work of
this sort with the use of bad material.
In building culvert the road
builder must observe three funda-
mental requirements:
l. The first requirement is that the
culvert must be SO placed that il will
drain across the road, and under the
road, of course, all the water that is
delivered to it by the side ditch along
the road. If this be not done the
earth along the road and about the
end of the culvert will be wet and
soggy the most of the year and the
culvert opening will require almost
constant repairs. Repairing a high
way culvert is relatively more ex-
pensive than similar work in a town
because of the waste of time of the
wOrkmen in going to and from the
point at which the work must be done.
In placing the culvert care must also
be taken that it will not be choked
by brush and leaves, and this duty
must be discharged by the road super
visor, and will be, If he is worth his
salt.
2. The second and very important
requirement in the building of a cul-
vert is that its ends must be protected
by some kind of wall or facing car
ried down to q. firm foundation. If
this be done, 1t will be found that the
end of the culvert will not be under
cut by the water and will not be
broken, frost will not injure it, the
surrounding or superintendent earth
will not slide down into the ditch in
front of the opening, and, with the
further necessary work of keeping the
feeding bitches clear, the culvert will
be able to take care of all the water
alongside the road.
3. The third requirement is that the
culvert must be made so strong that
1t will not become broken and so tight
that 1t will not leak. These ends can
be reached by building the culvert of
masonry, concrete or Of good piping.
The material to be used must be de-
termined by the relative cost of the
several materials at the locality
where the culvert is to be built and
by the distance from the top Of the |
culvert to the surface of the road.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
f6B[1(
ROADS
BUILDING OF ROAD CULVERTS
If Not Constructed of Good Material
They Will Have TO Be Rebuilt in
Very Few Years.

If the culverts are not built of good
material they will have 10 be rebuilt
in a few years. whatever the quality
of the roads they are made to serve.
Defective culvertS vitiate one of the
elementary principles of highway eco
Monies, and the interests of the tax
payers require that the annual cost of
every part of the roads built for their
uS.a be reduced To the lowest possible
figure consistent with efficiency. Man
ifestly, it would be worse than folly
10 build culyerts of boards to take
care of roads that have cost hundreds
or thousands of dollars the mile and
1t would be none the less foolish, or
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
WITH THE CROCHET HOOK
That Especially Feminine utensiI
10 Likely to Be Kept Busy This
Coming Season.

From all indications the use Of cro-
chet work on hats, accessories and
costumes for spring is assured. Some
of the oldest things are used as medi-
ums for crochet work. For instance,
one may have a neat toque crocheted
from half-inch strands of changeable
taffeta. The stitches are not tight
and the taffeta is slightly frayed. The
effect is almost that of rough straw
Indeed, fine straw braid. what one
might call a straw soutache, is cro-
cheted into large picture hat, giving
the effect Of Tuscan straw. Che
nile is treated in the same way for
some very stunning sports hats.
The top Of fine silk bag is COM
Ssed Of meshwork of cords Of the
with black baby ribbon crocheted
Y large hook in an open pattern.
NQse Of the chemlse dress de-
Sde braids for girdles. Thus
olives the girdle question by
vands Of soutache braid
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
Woman Must Be
Her Own Guide

New York.-During the ebb tide of
fashions Is the time to plan ones COM
paign IN clothes. There may have
been days on this continent when q
woman could have gone along without
confusion, bought one or two of
the new things offered by the
dressmakers and worn them with So
renity until the following season.
But today there is dire confusion con-
corning clothes in the minds of most
women. Few are strong enough to
rise above 1t, and not many are suf-
hciently poised to disregard the per-
pleNties that confront every woman
who is attempting to dress either on a
small or large income.
Dressmakers have sprung up like
mushrooms; importers who were
once content with sending clothes
from Paris twice a year, now feel it
necessary to import them by every
boat, and standing orders are left by
them with the French houses to send
over anything that appears new or is
designated as such.
This may not be true of all the CEN
tiers Of American life, but 1t is GER
ftainiy true OF handful of great cit
les, and as women are travelling this
year in great flOcks, like birds do, il
Is the great centers that are catering
TO their tastes and caprices and per-
suading the coin out of their purses.
Season Of Uncertainty.
So, here you have this condition of
life In early spring-cOnflictng ru-
mors of what Will be worn and what
Will be passed up; widespread and
sensational prosperity which enables
women TO spend quantities of money
In the name of vanity; an immense
number of importers, who are shut
Ting across the ocean and making
new clothes do the same; a Paris
needing money and, therefore, CON
strained to originate new garments
at every turn in order to get the
money out Of the only continent that
has Ii.
Looking this condition In the face,
one finds 1t almost impossible to sail |
above it. Serenity of mind Is a diff |
cult thing to have when one is beaten |
by currents of fashion and rivalry.
The woman who can go calmly on
from October to April, content either
through taste or through philosophy,
with the clothes she has, is to be
envied. She is not the friend of the
dressmaker; she is the enemy of the
importer; she is not the purchaser
desired by the shops; but she keeps
her head above perplexities and con-
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
LAYING HEN NEEDS PROTEIN
Meat Scrap Has Produced Increased
Egg Production at the Ohio Ex-
pertinent Station.

Hens require some protein of ami
NAL origin If best results in egg pro-
duction are to be secured" said w. J..
Buss, pOultryman at the Ohio expert
ment station. I'm our work meat
scrap has produced increased egg
yields and more than paid for itself,
but soy beans generally are not a sat
isfactory high-protein feed. In re-
cent feeding tests at the station, hens
fed soy beans laid only few more
eggs than those given no feed high in
protein. Skim milk and tankage are
also suitable for use in rations for
laying hens.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10

west HobOken N j., said had
oru! b In the first week would have thought
business thoroughly having been it
o lhe stopping of the Of horses
come 10 America and am American
My
the regulations of the board of health
ecteu at an abat0 Long Island
regulations the horse
in New
he horses the
New YORK market
house r. rOns
bone r. hearts Frankfurters with
including bologna
cents pound In of food products wholly
meat
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10

head coverings that
pink of blue of white green
black and white
You wearing hat
In the
the a
caps In bright co and in these
back skating yellow
And here a a hat
and having perhaps wearing
eousy proporoned
on its roof yellow
Why do these the
told
calmly
Of
whom they who
buildings
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10

success or, at least, keep one out of a
series of quagmires.
No one, not even the rich woman,
wants to continue failures in the pur-
chase Of clothes. She who has 800
a year to spend on her apparel and
she who has $4,000 is fretful if she
sees her closet filled with garments
mat are wrong, unbecoming, or mop
perfume.
There are the stern economists
who insist upon wearing their fail
ures with the grim determination to
punish themselves for making mis-
takes; and there are others who dis
card them with the feeling that il is
unwise TO be tempted into looking
ones worst and that it Is far better
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
MUCH IN LITTLE

For restaurant use cups and saucers
that can be stacked for safe carrying
have been designed.
The membership of the Connecticut
Fish and Game Protective association
was increased last year from 723 to
1927.
Peeved by the gentle habit Cleveland
street cars have of neglecting to stop,
Joseph Jonesko threw his bucket
through the third offender. He actual
ly got seat-in the police patrol.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
Roughing Il.

Watch out for rough ways In the
fashion world this spring! It's a fact
that most every sort of fabric will turn
its rough side foremost. Thus you
will find rough straws of all sorts,
toques and high-crowned mushrooms
made of wide rough straw braids.
Silks, especially for sports wear, are
of the heavy rough Japanese silks,
tussore heavy, rough crepes and shan
lungs, etc. Woods for sports suits
show ruffied surfaces, pebbled and
basket weaves being particularly no
ticeable.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10

A rough estimate Of the power u,
can be developed from the rivers
Alabama places the total at 1,3ls~I
horse power.
In a new type of submarine the c.
ming tower may be detached. in O.
of accident the crew gets into y
tower, which, by reason Of It's pu~
ancy, rises to the surface.
An Italian pigs foot stuffed VIZ
nam meat looks like toy. i've!
thing but the tail Of cord is eas r.
This is but one of many food IT, IT,
that one finds in O visit to Sunny i~''
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10

They WrdngIed over each vote Cas
charged each other with a variety
crimes, from repeating to assault 81 1
battery, until police were called to VI
tie the disturbance.
Ostensibly the fight was waged z
the proposition of raising the dues q
the organization from 81 to s.. Mss
Katherine Craig Biddle was the cand1
date for president Of the "ProgressTsl
faction, which upheld the 81 fee.
Miss Ida Helen Ashbridge VS.
hacl,a cd hu tho nCnnrnrrn tirnru ord The
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
Marketing Dairy Cattle.

Dairy cattle can be marketed profit.
ably only in the following w2y-i. e.,
by vealing from thirty to forty days
old, or fed and sold as baby beef at
eighteen or twenty months old. A good
dairy COW will earn $40 or $50 more
every year than an average so-called
dual-purpose COW.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10

50 slogan The polls
~ street outside the society headquarters
1acon charges that
Sides Both Conservatives
were using the
out membership
10 get their votes religious
Inc crowd
women claiming the right to vote josed ~
polling Loud
And a hurried call III police in.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10

pandng his chest proudly, diary Complete Of acr
shows II items of things done BESIDES m
already the others re-
Wrote 800 letters; sent fl picture cards; printed 1850 picu,
SSD77; taught school 10l
sick day; made H. calls books;
quananceS walked 1850 miles; jurncd 100 miles by rail
y NJ c. A l0 days. instructed 2i9J individuals gymnasium
The worlds mcthodcii bush
held the title belt dsr
In he
In 1915 he rode $50 miles and 10 miles horseback He
of either in 1916 In 1919 he
Mexico
item the 1915 diary "Shool Bryan
Hammond
Panama Pacific exposition, United States John
he y racer."
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
PREVENT INJURY BY RABBITS
Paris Green Added to Wnitewash Ap-
piled to Trees Will Stop Animals
From Gnawing Bark.

According to the experts of the
North Dakota agricultural college,
damage to trees by rabbits gnawing
the bark can be stopped in the follow
lowing way: Make a thick whitewash;
Stacking the lime overnight improves
it, To each pailful of the whitewash
add three teaspOonfuls of paris green,
and paint the trees with it. Stir fire.
quently when applying it.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10

Bandeau and bodice to match; new
fashion started by French actress is
to complete an evening costume with
a headdress of the same material. The
gown is made of rose-coiored satin ruff
files from a deep, pointed cuirass of net
embroidered in gold and coIored crys-
tails. The high bandeau with it's chin
strap, is of the same.
to refuse invitations and stay at
nome than to appear in costumes
that are ugly, unbecomfng, or not
well made.
No one can tell your faults to you
as we'll as you can do it yourself.
One has heard a hundred women cry
out for an expert to go over all the
clothes they have, carefully mark
down the social opportunities they
are likely to have, regard well the
figure and complexion and the per-
sonality that shines through the face.
and, taking all these facts and posi-
bilities together, map out q rigid sys-
TEN of dress that will exclude fail
ures. III any woman were successful
along that line she would make more
money than a powerful captain of in
dustry. But the cry goes out into
the wilderness and no prophet an
swers.
There are dressmakers who take
entire charge of certain women and
guide them as best they can; there
are earnest friends who are willing to
give advice for nothing and make that
advice as good as human nature per-
mits, but the majority of women, after
trying the dressmaker and the friend,
still come face to face with these fail
ures in clothes, for the purely human
reason that salvation is from within
and not from without.
Must Make Own Endeavors Count.
do not mean that every woman
is her own best guide. There are
thousands who are lifted out of the
quagmire of failure by sensible
friends or dressmakers who literally
pull them out by the arms and COM
pei them to wear the things that are
becoming and suitable; but it is rare
that these women rise to any emf
nence in the art Of dress. The wom-
an who really dresses well, whose
clothes are rarely failures and who
appears suitably dressed on all occa-
Sions is the woman who takes her
clothes seriously, maps out her cam
paign of purchasing, puts cotton In
her ears when she hears the SIRENS
cry and passes on her own way, rising
to whatever heights of dress she can |
through her own endeavors.
Copyright. 1917. by the Mcclure Newspa-
per Syndicate)
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10

dellcacy OF the metropolis, horse md
Oh, yes, they sell horse meat
New York. The first hOrSe-meat md
ket was opened recently and dispOJ
of $500 pounds of horse in its q
week.
Aside from the fact that hor
meat is a tritle redder than beef b
of the store is no differsI
from any other neat and attracn1
butchers shop.
customers have come from
far rs fremont oypDup Rronv an,
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10

transactions to watchers. in the win
dows Of the neighboring buildings. is
sure to find his attention fixed next
on the riot of color in the brokers'
hats.
Men whose garb is otherwise
sober enough and who, perhaps, on
wet or sloppy days, are wearing rub
Der boots, have on their heads hats
or caps in all Che cOlors of the rain
bow, separately or in combination.
Scattered about In the crowd that fills
the street from curb to curb you see.
The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1917-03-10
Income From Lambs.

Ten dollars head is not an i'm
possible income from lambs and wool
from good ewes. Even as high a re-
turn as So has been reported by sheep
growers.