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Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06

fined and cooped In order to be fat
tened for market:
The first ration consists of mixture
of six parts by weight of corn meal
and four parts of low-grade wheat
flour or middlings; the second ration
is one part by weight of shorts or mid
dlings, two parts of low-grade -four and
three parts of corn meal; while the
third feeding mixture is composed OF
equal parts by weight of corn meal,
wheat -four or middlings, and oat flour.
With each or all of these grain mix
lures either whole milk or skim milk
should be fed, in amount sufficient to
bring the mixture to the consistency
Of porridge, so that II will drop from
the end of spoon. If no milk is avail
able, the farmer should add 10 per
cent of chopped vegetables and 8 per
cent of meat meal to the above rations.
If water is used for mixing the feed,
enough should be used to make crum-
bly,, moist mixture. Water may also
be given to the fowls for drinking pur-
poses where this feeding combination
Is used, but In the case where milk Is
used in the ration 1t is not advisable
to supply any additional water.
Feed Light Rations at First.
When the birds are first confined for
fattening purposes they should be fed
lightly for two to three days, after
which they may be furnished all that
they will clean up in 80 minutes, two
or three times a day. Their heaviest
meal for the day should always be the
last one. Comprehensive experiments
by the United States department Of
agriculture show that it takes 81
pounds of grain to produce one pound
of gain on fattening poultry. Usually
1t costs considerably more to fatten
mature hens than 1t does to flesh up
cockerels and younger stock. Accord
ing to the experience of the depart
ment specialists, the general purpose
birds are the most desirable for fatten-
ing purposes.
AS rule the fattening period usu-
ally lasts from seven to seventeen
days, during which time the fowls are
confined in coops. The younger or
smaller birds give good results where
they are fed for the longer period.
What has been said in the foregoing
paragraphs applies with equal force to
the fattening Of all poultry.
The accompanying illustration shows
practical homemade fattening bat
terry In which the moist rations may
be fed In troughs, so that the birds can
eat cafeteria fashion.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
SUMMER FoRAGEs FOR cows
Plan Recommended by Missouri COL
Iege Expert Calls for Seeding
Of Sudan Grass.

A good general plan recommended
by Prof. SWEET, of Missouri Agricul-
tural college, for providing late pas
ture for cows is to plant Sudan grass
about June 1, at the rate of sixteen
pounds to the acre. This should yield
ten to fifteen tons to the acre and
should be ready for feeding from about
July 10 to August 1. An early matur-
Ing variety of soy beans planted at the
rate of thirty pounds to the acre May
30 will be available for feeding from
about August to 20. A good north
ern variety Of corn planted about the
middle OF May at the rate of six
quarts to the acre will become avail
able about August 10 Rad can be fed
whenever needed. The second crop of
Sudan grass will be ready to cut about
August % to September 1. Cow peas
planted at the rate of five pecks per
acre about July l may be fed from
about August % TO September 10.
After this time field corn may be used
at any time. Sorghum crops give good
results during the late sumner.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
Thin PEOPLE
SHOULD take
PHOSPHATE
Nothing Like Plain Bitro-Phosphate
to Put on Firm, Healthy Flesh and
to Increase Strength, Vigor
and Nerve Force.

Judging from the countless preparations
and treatments which are continually be-
ing advertised for the purpose of making
thin people fleshy, developing arms, neck
and bust, and replacing ugly hollows and
angles by the soft curved lines of health
and beauty, there are evidently thousands
of men and women who keenly feel their
excessive thinness.
Thinness and weakness are often due
to starved nerves. Our bodies need more
phosphate than is contained in modern
foods. Physicians claim there is nothing
that will supply this deficiency so well as
the organic phosphate known among drug
gists as bitro-phosphate which is mex
pensive and is sold by most all druggists
under a guarantee of satisfaction or money
back. BY feeding the nerves directly and
by supplying the body cells with the nee
essary phosphoric food elements, bitro-
phosphate should produce welcome
transformation in the appearance: the in
crease in weight frequently being aston
fishing.
Increase in weight also carries with II
n general improvement in the health.
Nervousness, sleeplessness and lack OF
energy, which nearly always accompany
excessive thinness, should disappear, duh
eyes become bright, and pale cheeks glow
with the bloom OF perfect health.
CAUTION: - Although bitro- phosphate
is unsurpassed for relieving nervousness
sleeplessness and general weakness, II
should not, owing to its tendency to In
crease weight, be used by anyone who
does not desire to put on flesh.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
DAIRY
FACTS
SEND HoLSTEINs TO FRANCE
Herd OF Pure BREEDS and Grades Pur-
chased by French Commission
to Be Sent Over.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
American dairy cattle are to follow
American soldiers to France. One
hundred and four Holsteln-Frieslan
cows-42 pure breds and 62 grades
and four pure-bred bulls are to leave
this country shortly on a specially
equipped transport. Passports" have
been issued to Havre. France, and from
there the cattle will be sent to de-
vastated districts where they will do
their bit in bringing back health and
happiness to the children of those re-
gions. The cattle were purchased by
the French high commission, and ut
the commissions request dairy spe-
cialists Of the United States depart
ment Of agriculture assisted in select
ing the animals.
Efforts were made to collect the ami
mails from herds believed to be free
from contagious disease, especially
tuberculosis.
OF the entire number of cattle Sc
lected from AZ herds a very low per-
centage reacted to the tuberculin test.
Special efforts were made to select
only well-grown, large, strong animals,
Of good conformation, which showed
evidences Of becoming large milk pro-
ducers. In age they varied from two
to four and one-half years, so that
long period of usefulness is ahead. All
were due to freshen soon after arrival
in France, so that milk will be avail
able at once.
The animals were shipped from the
assembling points by express to New
York, where they are to be loaded on
a specially equipped transport. To in
sure proper care throughout the
ocean voyage, a dairy expert Of the
United States department Of agrlcul-
ture will accompany the shipment.
Members of the French high COM
mission expressed themselves as be-
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
UTAH TO SPEND 100000
Part of Money ls to Be Spent for I'm
provements on Arrowhead Trail
to California.

The state of Utah has decided to
spend about $SOOO,00O on roads in the
next two years, with an expenditure
this year of about 100000. Some of
the Utah millions, which are made up
of state and federal funds, are going
to be used on the development of the
Arrowhead trail, which is tributary to
all parts of southern California, from
San Diego and Imperial valley on the
south to Fresno and San Luis Obispo
on the north.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06

'N~
to tell the methods for the proper up
building of the nations highway sys-
TEN.
For a number of years Mr.. Stevens
has been highway commissioner for
the Estes Park highway. This piece
of road work in itself is a testimony
to his ideals. He is also the inventor
of the Stevens improved road drag,
one Of the simplest and most efficient
road machines on the American mar
ket.
Mr.. Stevens believes in concrete
highways and prepared boulevards,
but he also believes that the earth
road, which comprises more than so
per cent of the country's highways, is
Of no less Importance. "a concrete
highway isn't going to do a farmer
much good If he has got to haul his
load three miles through hub-deep mud
before he gets to it." is Mr.. Stevens
attitude.
The farmer is the man who is going
to pay for most Of the country roads,
and although concrete roads are need
ed where the traffic is sufficiently
heavy the earth roads that feed the
concrete road must be kept up.
AS an inventor of road machinery,
a road engineer, road supervisor and
a road worker for his probabilities
and the life dream of better roads as
his idealism, Mr.. Stevens is ably quail
flied to judge highway problems.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
ATTENTION TO EARTH ROADS
Authority on Highway Construction
Likes Concrete, but Favors More
Care Of Lanes.

"More attention has got to be paid
to the earth roads If the coming bond
elections are to go over" This is the
opinion of Il. L. Stevens, inventor and
road expert. Mr.. Stevens is, perhaps,
one Of the most unique characters in
the road-building world. A graduate
civil engineer, he felt the tremendous
need for the perfection and develop
ment of the road system Of America.
He stepped out from the promising
channels Of the regular engineering
profession and went down almost be-
low the level Of ordinary men to study
road building, says Rocky Mountain
News. He has made road building and
maintenance his life work and is now,
probably, as well qualified as any man
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06

pound my husband wanted me to try il
/ took IL for week and felt little bet
ter. kept itup for three months, and
/ feel fine and can eat anything now
without distress or nervousness. Mrs.
J. woRTHLNE, 2s42 North Taylor St,
Philadelphia Pa.
The majority Of mothers nowadays
overdo, there are SO many demands
upon their time and strength; the result
Is invariably q weakened, rundown,
nervous condition with headaches, back
ache, irritability and depression - and
soon more serious ailments develop.
1t is at such periods in life that Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will
restore a normal healthy condition, 40
It did to Mrs. Worthline.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
prepared by the United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture)

| prepared by the United States Depart
ment OF Agriculture)
Because their room Is more desirable
than their company, the cockerels in
the flock during the late spring and
early summer are about as popular as
the appearance of Jack Frost during
peach-buddlng season. That is why It
pays the average poultryman to start
a cleanup campaign In his yards which
will result In selling all the surplus
cockerels as soon as they reach mar
ketable size. This disposition of the
male birds will provide more commodl-
Gus quarters for the pullets which are
to be raised to maturity. Furthermore,
as a general proposition, the earlier
the cockerels are marketed, after they
reach suitable size, the higher are
the prices they will bring, other condi-
tons being equal, while on the other
hand, the longer the cockerels are kept
in the flock the smaller will be the
net profit they will yield when finally
sold.
It is desirable that each poultryman
retain the choicest, most vigorous and
best-grOwn cOckerels In his flock for
subsequent breeding operations, while
II may also pay him to hold back and
grow to q larger size such birds as he
desires to use for the family table. The
common practice to be recommended
Is to sell the cOckerels as soon as they
attain marketable size. In sections
where special and fancy markets are
available, cockerels Of the lighter
breeds, such as the Leghorn, may be
sold as squad broilers when weighing
from three-quarters of pound to one
pound apiece. On the more general
markets where frying chickens are de-
sired and with the larger breads espe-
cially, the cockerels may be fattened
to weigh from one and one-half to two
and one-half pounds apiece before be-
Ing sold.
Coventry for the cockereIs.
The cockerels which are retained for
breeding purposes should be kept apart
from the rest of the flock. In the case
Of the male birds designed for market
1t often Is possible and practicable to
fatten them for few days before sell
Ing them. This extra attention gets
the birds into the best condition, and
even means the difference between
marketing them with the fancy trade,
which is willing to pay premium
prices, and selling to consumers who
desire goods of mediocre quality be-
cause they are cheap.
The following rations may be fed
profitably to cockerels which are con-
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
PRICE OF PRODUCTS
AND FARM LABORERS
Bureau of Crop Estimates Makes
interesting Comparison.
Wage Rates Have Not Kept Pace With
Advance of Farm Products During
War-Began to Converge Dur
ina Year Of 1918.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agrlculture)
A composite crop and live stock
price has been provided by the bureau
Of crop estimates, United States de-
partment Of agriculture, and the adj
vance of this price since 1914, or the
beginning of the war, may be COM
pared with the advance in the wage
rates paid for farm labor. From 1914
to 1915 wage rates gained 1 per cent
and the price of crops fell 3 per cent,
but since 1915 wage rates have not
gained on 1914 as much 0s the price
of crops and live stock has. The ad-
vance in wages In 1916 was. 10 per
cent above 1914, while the price Of
crops and live stock advanced II per
cent. In the next year, 1917, wages
rose q per cent above 1914, while the
price of crops and live stock rose IA
per cent. but in 1913 the disparity be-
tween the two in the advance was
slightly reduced and the gain Of wages
over 1914 was So per cent and of price
Of crops and live stock 90 per cent.
1t is well known that wage rates are
more stable than prices, as a general
fact, and It is according to rule that
the wage rates Of farm labor have not
kept pace with the advance of prices
of farm products during the war, even
though much labor was drawn from
the farm by higher wage rates else
where. The two movements began to
converge in 1918 and their places with
regard to each other in more normal
times to follow remain for the future
to determine.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
POWDER IN SHOES
AS WELL AS GUNS
Foot=Ease to be Added to Equip
ment of Hospital Corps
at Fort WAYNE,

Under the above heading the Detroit
Free Press, among other things says,
"The theory is that soldiers whose feet
are in good condition can walk further
and faster than soldiers who have corns
and bunions incased in rawhide."
The Plattsburg Camp Manual advises
men in training to shake Foot-Ease in
their shoes each morning.
There is no foot comforter equal to
Aliens Foot-Ease, the antiseptic, healing
powder to be shaken into the shoes and
sprinkled in the foot-bath, for hot, tired,
aching. perspiring, smarting, swollen,
tender feet, corns, bunions, blisters or
callouses. What wouldn't you give to be
relieved of one days pain of your corns
and bunionsp Here is relief for eUeTy
day. You won't realize this until you
have tried Aliens Foot-Ease yourself.
You simply forget all about your feet
they are made so comfortable. Ask
your druggist to-day for O package of
ALIENS FOOT-EASE.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
The New Modesty.

"The new modesty," said Clarence
Underwood, the magazine illustrator.
has a frank quality. 1t is born OF
athletic beauty. The old modesty was
merely desire to conceal ugliness.
"a beautiful girl in white bathing
dress came out of the water at
Palm Beach the other day and adj
vanced over the sand to her mother.
"Dear mel the mother whispered
You shouldn't have got white. dar-
ling. That suit is almost transpar-
ent.'
1.-THE girl smiled calmly.
Don't worry she said. I'm not de-
formed "-Detroit Free Press.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
BETTER BREEDING WILL AID
Furnishes Most Economical Way to
Obtain Larse-Produetion Cows
Use Best Heifers.

In dairying, large production and
profit go hand in hand. Breeding fur
nishes the most economical way to OBJ
tain large-productiOn cows. The pure
bred bull, with generations of high
producing ancestors back of him, must
be used for breeding, and only the best
heifers from the best cows should be
chosen to be the dams of the next gen.
Grafton.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
$3oo,oOo,OoO FOR HIGHWAYS
Sum Which II Capitalized at 5 Per
Cent Would Represent Invest
ment OF $4,000, 100000.

Government road officials estimate
that road construction and mainte-
nance in the United States involve an
annual outlay of over $300,000,000, O.
sum, which, If capitalized at 5 per
cent, would represent an investment
Of $6,O00,000,000. There has never
been a nationwide traffic census to
show either the direction or volume
Of traffic over these highways.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06

sickly most OF the
time. i went to q
doctor and he said
l had nervous indi-
gestion, which adj
ded TO my weak
condition kept me
worrying most Of
the time and he
said If | could not
stop that, 1 could
not get well. /
heard somuchabout
Lydia E. Pinkham's
g.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
Ancient Precautions.

"We'll have this friendly agreement
Of ours carved upon monument Of
stone" said one ancient king.
$50 that all the public can read it."
added the other.
mot only that. 1t will make 1t i'm
possible to treat 1t as scrap OF
paper"
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
Cow for Tropical Countries.

The black HOlstein COW is being
urged for dairying in tropical coun-
tries.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
Roads Must Be Linked Up.

If We are to keep costs down, our
highways must be linked up and there
must be through trunk lines, provided
to which feeders can be built.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
Lower HauIIna Costs.

Hauling costs are lowered by good
roads because the size Of the load is
limited by the worst spot In the road.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06

The undoing Of the work that Satan
finds for idle hands to do furnishes
employment for other people.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
One Of Major Activities.

Road building will shortly become
one Of the major activities OF our
government
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
Salt is Important

Do you salt the cows regularity
This is just as important as regular
milking.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06

Dr. Peery's Dead Shot" not only expels
Worms or Tapeworm but cleans out tho
mucous in which they breed and tones up
the digestion. One dose sufficient. Adv.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
THIS WEAK,
NERVOUS MOTHER
Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Restored Her Health.

Philadelphia, PAT was verywesk,
ALWAYS tired, my back ached, and felt
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06

It's a poor gunboat that can't shoot
the rapids.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
important 10 Mothers
Naturally.

"He went all to pieces"
"What made him do that?"
HE was broke"
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
At the Hotel.

At the Hotel.
"Mrs. Mary McGinnis," wrote the
woman. miss Wayne McGinnies."
registered her daughter.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06
Destructiveness.

"See that boy?"
Eyes"
VERY destructive"
How soT"
"Wears suit of clothes out the
first day he gets them"
Impossible I"
swell, he does. He wouldn't 60
naked, would heT"
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06

siuggish liver impedes Natures functions.
wrights Indian Vegetable Pills rouse the
liver and stimulate the bowels to function
regulRrly.-adv.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06

Some men manage to talk a great
deal without saying anything.
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06

No other I've is packed so safely and con-
yeniently, or Ia so economioal-not 9 bit
wasted.
No other I've or soap cleans ana disInfsets
30 easily and thoroughly as Banner Lye. IL
u not old-style I've, Odorless and oolorless;
the greatest cleanser and disinfectant the
world has ever known. Use II for cleaning
your kitchen. cellar. sinks, dairy. milk pans
and bottles for softening water, and the
labor OF washing and cleaning Will be cut in
hAiL ndAHBs PURE SOAR
and saves money besides. A Decent can Of
Banner Lye, bh pounds OF kitchen grease.
ten minutes easy work (no boiling or large
kettles), and you have 10 pounds OF best
hard soap or 70 gallons OF soft soap.
Banner lye Is sold by your grocer or
dyuggists. Write TO us for free booklet.
uses OF Banner Lye."
Mountain advocate., 1919-06-06

veniaI Crime.
"Punkryter tells ne that he has
killed the hero of his new novel;"
"Well, he needn't worry about that
ANY jury will acquit him."
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-07-03
Lees Moral Courage.

Soon after the fall of the Con
fe leracy there occurred through
out the South an attempt, mark.
Ell by much heated controversy,
to fix the blame for the loss of
the battle of Gettysburg. Many
writer's claimed that this critical
struggle, and with it the war,
would have been won had it not
been for the diSobcdi ,nce and
tardiness of General Longstrcet.
IN order to settle the matter re
peated appeals were made to
General Lee for some statement
on the subject. For q long while
these efforts were in vain. Lee
won1d say nothing. Finally how
ever, .ho broke his silence with
Just one sentence: II alone am
90 blame"
What a contrast between the
chief figure of the Lost Caus. in
America and the fallen leader Of
the lost Deutschtum. flow much
more digniiied would Wilhelmap
pear before Che world if he, in
stead of shifting the responsible
lty for the great war upon his
minifters, his generals, apon Rus
Sla, upon every one save himself
would repeat the words of tn,
great American; y alone am tc
olame. n. y. Evening Sun.
Watauga Democrat. [volume] (Boone, Watauga County, N.C.) 1888-current, 1919-07-03
The Northwestern Counties.

Inc people of northwestern
North Carolina are North Caro-
llans. Indeed, it may be said they
are still North Carolininians-
none better. And. if the great
tide OF good roads enthusiasm
does not without undue delay res
cue this rich region, economical
ly speaking, from Virginia and
Tennessee, it will be a circum-
stance greatly to be deplored,
from every consideration. Ex.
cept, indeed, that of Virginia and
Tennessee.
State attention to the high.
ways of this splendid region is
properly one of the threee fore.
most phases of road construc-
ton, the two others building of
an east and west lateral road
and the building of a north and
south lateral. These trunk lines
would be of direct use and value
to the great majority of the peo-
pie of the State, but the encour.
agement or road building in the
group of counties now eStranged
from North Carolina, CONNER.
cially, by reason of westward
railway constructio, would add
vastly to the volume of the States
commerce, and while the com
marcial benefit would be most
of all to the people in this grup of
counties, this benefit would not
be conferred without return.
In addition to the produce Of
their rich lands the mountain
people have other wealth for the
use and enjoyment of the people
OF all North Carolina and the
world. The price is a go get-it-
the sscenic beauty and invigora
ting climate.
1t is not to be supposed, sure
II, that the highway commission
is neglecting to consider t h $
group. These counties have man.
ifested the strongest disposition
to do their part. The Daily News
questions whether they have
been equally emphatic in putting
their case before the source of.
State and Federal aid. Greens,
boro Daily News.