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News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
AVERAGE VALUE OF HEIFERS
Those Sired by Purebred Bull Worth
Considerably More Than Those
by Inferior Sres.

The heifers sired by purebred
dairy bull are worth considerably
more than those sired by grade or
scrub bull. Some definite figures on
this subject have been obtained by
the University of Illinois in a dairy
survey made on SIT farms In 1912.
1t was found that the average cas-
value of all the heifers sired by s
purebred bull was $41, while those
sired by grade bull was $50, and
those sired by scrub bull only $50.
On the other hand. the average value
Of the purebred bulls used was $50
and the average value of the scrub
and grade bulls was SAB.
The increased value of only four
heifers sired by a purebred bull paid
the difference In value of scrub bull
and a purebred bull.-E. M. Clark.
Illinois College of Agriculture.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10

says the aStroloSef. ON the organs OF
the body says the naturalist. 1t is
the particular gift of heaven says the
divine"
Citing examples among great must
clans, StOneman continues:
"Beethoven's father was a drunken
tenor singer, whose name appeared
oftener on the police hlotter than on
musical programs, Beriioz's father
was physician; Choptn'S, a captain of
the National Guard Gluck's, gun
bearer to the prince of Savoy; Gou.
mods, a painter; Handlers. a barber
Mendelssohn's. haM.Se". and also Mey
erbeer's; MOZart's. lawyer: ROsSin's
an inspector of Slaughter houses :;
Schuhert's, sch0Olm"Ster; Schu.
mann's, a bookseller: Nerdi's, a gro
Ger; Wagner's, a government clerk.
"The only exception in-the array of
musical geniuses are the Bachs and
the Webers. Their families were mu.
steal, but lots of I ca lived in the re-
Elected glory of the one great genius
of the name.
"In the case of these great men, who
in turn became fathers. there progeny
showed no greater sign of musical
greatness than their progenitor's."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
DA!|!,. I. .IiiI:QY
FACTS
CALF ON MILK SUBSTITUTES
reeds Which Have Been Tried Have
Given Only Small Degree of
Satisfaction.

The need for home-raised calves has
led to search for milk substitute"
While the feeds which have been tried
have given some degree of success,
there has not yet l'een found a com.
plete or satisfactory substitute for
milk. 1t Is doubtful If any article or
combination of articles that will COM
pletely take the place of milk In diet
during the first two months Of the
calf's life can. be found. There are
number of sO-called milk substitutes
on the market. Most of them are sold
in the form of calf meals, and with
proper care many of them will give
good results. 1t should be clearly I'M
derstood at the outset that calves
raised on calf meals will not be as fat
They will be growthy and healthful,
however, provided they are given prop
er attention. Calf meals can be bought
from local dealers at varying prices.
or they may be mixed at home II the
proper ingredients can be secured. In
many cases the hOme-mixed calf meals
are superior to the ones bought on the
market, and as rule they are consid-
erably cheaper.
According to the University of Mis-
souri, college of agriculture. a calf
meal, in order to give success, should
be made up of ingredients that are cas-
lily digested and that are not too ex-
pensive. A few of the most commonly
used materials are: Fine cOrnmeai,
flour middlings. wheat -four (poor
grade), ground rice, oat flakes, barley
malt, coconut meal, lnseed meal, flax
seed meal, cottonseed meal, blood
flour, blood meal, and dried skim milk
or sikm milk powder. Skim milk pow
der is not absolutely essential and it
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10

balcony wnere the buyers can sit and
get a good view of the animals on dis
play. Below this balcony on either
side are stalls. seven in all, where the
animals can be held pending their
turn in the ring. The small wing to
the rear of this section contains the
office and also the main entrance.
In the large wing to the side is the
housing section, containing twelve
stalls, three box stalls, feed room
and a wash room. The animals can
be kept here, fed and cleaned before
going out into the sales room. This is
important to farmers and breeders
who come from distance. They have
the advantage of comfortable and
safe place to house their stock.
Leading up to this sales barn is an
attractive roadway with parking space
on each side for automobiles and other
vehicles.
While this kind of building is more
pretentious than is usually found in
many localities, it is gaining in popu-
Iarity and is being recognized as
very necessary link in successful farm
communities. Heretofore the disposal
of stock has always been more or less
of problem to the farmer because he
could not find a satisfactory place to
keep his stock while waiting for the
sale. This building provides double
adequate housing space
as well as an attractive salesroom.
Cooperative organizations have recog-
nized its value and many are being
built.
This building also emphasizes the
value of building modern structures on
the farm. More than one farmer has |
found a modern barn eliminates much |
of troubles in the way of getting in !
creased production and keeping con-
tented help. Just as steel stanchions,
cups, clean stalls and cork
prick floors make c0ntented cows and
Increase their milk production so do
litter and feed carriers and others !
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10

Vaseline applied in the rectum may
aid in ejecting subsequent dry mat
ter.
To offset the danger of navel infec-
ton in foals (Which causes a disease
known as joint-ilD, the navel cord
should be washed several times a day
by holding up around the cord large
necked bottle which has been nearly
filled with a l to 1000 solution of cor
rosive sublimate (bichlorid Of mer-
cury). or by saturating the stump with
full-strength tincture of iodin. Then
dust it with powdered slaked lime.
This should be repeated each day until
the navel cord drops off. In case the
navel does not dry properly or shows
Inflammation, veterinarian should be
called. Mares are inclined to be peev-
ish or cross when with their young,
consequently it is advisable to per-
form the foregoing precautions as
speedily as possible, and then leave
the stable SO that the mare and foal
can rest without being disturbed.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
FEEDING TO FULL CAPACITY
Adjust Grain Ration of Cow to Mik
Production and Give All Rough
age She viii Eat

Economical feeding demands that
the cows be fed to full CAPE, ~. To
do this and to have the best rfect On
the individual COW require. thor
ough knowledge of feeds anG If COWS.
Under most circumstance HE COW
should be fed all the roughage that
she will eat up clean, adjusting the
grain ration to the milk production.
Only when the cow tends to become
overfat should the quantity of rough
age be restricted.
A grain mixture should be fed in
the proportion of one pound to each
three pints or pound of milk pro-
duced daily by the COW. except in case
of COW producing flow of 40 pounds
OF more, when the ration can be one
pound to each three and half or four
pounds of milk. An even better rule
is one pound Of grain each DAY for
every pound of butterfat pro- iced
during the week by the COW.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
Get Lucky Tips in Dreams.

When an Italian has a dream he
for the sake of making conversation,
but hurries to get his dream book to
find out what the dream portends. The
book has a number for everything man
wears, has, eats and sees. Things
shown In a dream are looked up and
the corresponding numbers are played
by the Italian In the weeks national
lottery. And if he doesn't win, says
Kenneth L. Roberts in the Saturday
Evening Post, he feels positive that
somebody with the Evil Eye has looked
at him and broken his chances. The
man with the Evil Eye is hated, feared
and Stunned.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
GLORY DESTROYED BY TIME
Of the Once Mighty Cities of Babylon
and Nineveh Hardly Ves-
tige Remains.

When the ancient kingdom Of the
Assyrians fell through effeminacy and
negligence 300 years after the Trojan
war, many petty states arose out Of
its ruins, two of which raised them
selves to high degree of power. The
kings of Media subdued the mountain
land of Persia, and established rela-
tions of amity with hordes that
wandered on the eastern side of the
Caspian sea; they conquered also
portion of the empire which had cen
tered in Nineveh. AT the same time
the king of Babel, or Babylon, -four
ished with still greater magniticence
and power.
In Babylon. ancient seat Of learning
and science, Nabopolassar, after
long period of anarchy and division,
erected a most powerful monarchy,
whose sceptre Nebuchadnezzar, his
son, extended from the Caucasus
mountains, where he defeated the
Iberians, to the sandy deserts of Lydia.
He burnt Jerusalem; defeated Ammon,
Moab and Edom; conquered Tyre, the
richest city of the Phoenicians; laid
waste Egypt, and formed his empire
on new boundaries. He adorned Baby
Ion, the city of his residence, with the
noblest works of architecture, but OF
this city the ruins are scarcely dis
cernible. 1t Is still more difficult to
trace the vestiges of Nineveh, which
lie three days journey from it, and
whose ruins have sunk in the marshy
soil
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
HAD GENIUS FOR INVENTION
Man Who Began Life as a Prairie
Sheep Herder made Most Re-
markabe Record.

1t Is probable that Walter Turner
was the worlds most prolific inventor.
Starting life as a shepherd on
prairie sheep ranch in the far West
he knew nothing Of the mechanics Of
railway engineering. One day, how
ever, while tending his sheep on the
prairie in the neighborhood of rail-
way, Turner came to where the ruins
of train were scattered, and among
the fragments he picked up as a curl
osity vital part of the Westinghouse
brake. This he was allowed to carry
away. During his lonely life on the
prairie he would ponder over the
mechanism of this brake His chance
came when, having failed as a sheep
farmer, he got job as a wheel Taper
on the railway, ultimately being pro-
noted to the engine shops. A series
of inventions, improving brakes pat
ented by the company, led to his fur
Their advancement. Mr.. Westinghouse.
who took him into his works, finally
made him the head of the engineering
department. Westinghouse patented
two hundred inventions, but the shep-
herd from the prairies patented four
hundred. Westinghouse made an air
brake that would control fifty railway
carriages; Turner improved it till it
would control hundred. When he
died it was said that the value of the
shepherds inventions TO the world
was over thirty-fve million dollars in
gold.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10

is rather expensive, but many of the
calf meals that have given the best
results have contained considerable
amounts OF it.
The cost of calf meal is variable. At
present, it may be bought, ready
mixed. at prices ranging from 81 to $40
hundred pounds. The average retail
price is approximately S.. In large
quantities the meal may usually be
bought at considerably lower price.
There is nothing to indicate that the
highest-priced meals are superior to
some of the more moderately priced
ones
one home-miXed calf meal, known as
the I'rr'l" Mixture. which has given
gooG rpauils il composed of equal
parts by weight of hOminy feed, linseed
meal. red dog flour and dried blood.
E,rh Of these constituents can be
bought AT a reasonable price and mixed
at home. Another mixture used with
success 1t Tia Indiana experiment sta
ton consists of eight parts cornmeaI,
three parts dried blood and one part
oilmeal. Still an0ther mixture that has
been recommended is one made up of
A pounds ground oat flakes ~ pounds
ground laXseed meal, 10 pounds -four
mddlings, % pounds fine cOrnmeal.
and pounds blood flour.
Many other mixtures can be used
that will give good results provided:
O the proper nutrients are present.
(2) the feeds are of a nature TO pro-
mote good physiological condition, and
(3) the nutrients are present in an
easily digestible form.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
BREEDING SIRES AND DAMS
Figures Given Representing Condi-
tons on More Than 1000 Farms
In United States.

Developments in the Better Sires-
Better Stock" campaign have resulted
in figures showing the relative number
of males and females kept for breed
ing purposes. Following are the ratios
based on more than 100000 head of
stock of all kinds listed with the
United States department of agricul-
ture:
Cattle ..........1 bull to 1879 COWS.
Horses ...........1 stallion to 169 mares
Swine .............1 boar to lis sows
sheep. ......1 ram to 81 ewes.
Goats. i buck to 266 does
Poultry. i rooster to 1913 hens
other poultry.
geese, ducks,
turkeys, ETC.,
(average)........1 male to SIS females
These figures represent conditions
on more than two thousand farms In
various parts of the country, and are
believed to be typical of other farms.
They show the Importance of placing
stress on quality in sires, since In
practically all cases a sire is the par
ent of very much larger number
of offspring than the average female
animal.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
JOHNSON

Mrs. Cora Fonyeau was in Burlington
for the we k-end.
Miss Helen Collins has been visiting in
Cambridge for several days.
Mrs. Frank Oldridge of Wolcott passed
Friday with Rev. and Mrs. G. r. Akers.
Rev. and Mrs. A. B. Ross and daughter
of East Fairfield spent last Wednesday in
town.
DR.. McSweney of Burlington was in
town last week TUESDAY to see Mrs. M.
F. Gray.
Mrs. c. H. Newton of Lowell was a
guest last week of her daughter, Mrs. A.
L. Grow.
Mrs. Osgood of Danvlle was a guest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Chris Dykeman, at The Ev-
erett, the last Of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. O. A. Mcfarland and
daughter, Miss Marion, of Burlington
were in town Tuesday OF last week.
Mrs. Matte Baker has closed her house
for the winter, and gone to Everett, Mass
where she will spend the winter with her
daughter, Miss May.
Mrs. Chas. Wright returned last week
from Connecticut and has stored their
household goods and gone back to West
Chester, where she and Mr.. Wright have
work for the winter on farm.
Emery Mills has purchased the house
and lot of Mrs. M. M. Buck on School
street. Mr.. Mills will occupy the house.
Mrs. Buck has gone to live with her
daughter. Mrs. w. F. Sinclair.
Mr.. Datin has finished work for the
American Mineral Co., and with Mrs.
Datin, left for Boston. His place is taken
by Mr.. Fordyce of New Jersey, who with
his wife and daughter, are at The Everett.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
Keeping Water Cool.

The only way to keep water cool
is to surround it with some mate
rial that is bad conductor of heat.
or in other words, does not pass on
the heat 100 rapidly. The poorest
conductor Of heat is q vacuum or space
from which the air has been excluded !;
hence, a thermos or vacuum flask
makes the best container for cold wa
wood, leather, felt. horn oone; con-
tainers made of or covered with these
materials will keep liqn.as ryoer than
those made Of metal OF ASS.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
GENIUS FROM LOVELY ORIGIN
John Philip Sousa, Noted Band Lead.
er, Says Fathers of Great Compos-
ers Not Particularly Noted.

In his recent novel, "The Transit Of
Venus" (Small, Maynard & Coz, John
Philip Sousa puts into the mouth OF
his hero, Edward Stoneman, what We
may assume is the musicians own
opinion of the transmission of genius
from generation to generation, the
Kansas City Star states.
mature does not transmit genius
from father to son." Stoneman de.
clares. Dryden gives it in this d an
ner: Genius is the gift of nature 1T
depends on the influence of the stars,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
COWS REQUIRE FRESH WATER
Low Milk Flow viii Result If Animals
Are Compelled to Drink From
Polluted Ponds.

Good water should be provided at
all times. Cows should Got be forced
to drink stale and polluted water from
ponds and marshes. When this is the
case their demands are not supplied
and low milk flow will be the result,
according to r. w. Clark of the Colo
RADIO Agriculture college.
Eighty-seven per cent of milk fS
water and a COW giving five gallons Of
milk a day would require about thir-
ty-five pounds of water for 1t alone,
besides a larger amount for the other
requirements of the body.
Water should be accessible at all
times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
SWINE RELISH SOYBEAN HAY
Use in Hog Ration Reduces Cost of
Pork Production and Makes
Better Grade of Meat.

For hog feeding operations, soy
beans may be profitably fed in the
form of mature hay which obliges the
swine to nose out the beans and crack
them like corn. The hogs relish the
beans and hay and consume 1t with
minimum of waste while its use In the
ration reduces the cost of pork pro-
duction and makes for a better grade
of meat with "a nice blending and
marbling of lean and fat
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
INBREEDING REDUCES vIGoR
Any Weak Points Present In Blood
Strain Brought to View With
out Stint.

Inbreeding generally reduces the
vigor, although II concentrates what
ever good points happen to he present.
If there are any bad points present
in the blood strain it brings them to
view remorselesSly.. 1t takes excep-
tionally good blood to w>ths'ard the
test of inbreedine
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
The Doctors Prescription.

Servant Girl-rm awfully sleepy in
the morning, doctor.
DoctOr-Ah have you a sweetheart,
may / ask?
Servant Girl (blushing)-Yes.
"Who is he, may | ask?"
Hes night policeman"
"Ah, then, give him up, and fall in
love with the mikman."
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10
Near the cuspidormitory.

A Kansas student who appears to
be related to our old friend, Mrs.
Blanderby was describing the sunken
garden on the school campus. "In the
place where they had tulips" he said,
"they've now got row of salivas with
some spitoonas in the center.
ton Transcript.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10

Concentrated ink comes in tubes
like tooth paste and is squeezed out
a drop at time. 1t Is asserted that
one large drop Of this up-to-date ink,
properly diluted with water, will fill
an average-sized inkwell with good
ink.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1920-11-10

hold and it promises well for the
times to come. The whole world de-
ponds upon the ability of the farmer
to produce, and the greater the pro
duction the more satisfaction. Better
farm buildings are ORe of the means
by which this result can be brought
about
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24

escapes when the baggage, mail and com bination car left the track. Official con- firmation of the wreck came to the Mont gomery office of Superintendent J. l. Me Inney of the Louisville and Nashville shortly after o'clock, at which time nasty plans were made to send out crews for the clearing of the track, and an in- vestigation of the cause of the derall- ment.
 According to information in MontGom- cry, the accommodation was making about thirty miles an hour when the en- zine struck a COW, throwing it against a switch draft, breaking it and causing the switch to fly open. The accident oc- cured so suddenly the engineer did not have time to bring the train to stop. Fireman Malone. resident of Montgom- cry, was caught under the engine. En- gineer Wilson was badly burned and was said to have been cut by flying glass.
 Fast trains over the system were de- layed several hours. No. from New Orleans to Cincinnati arrived more than an hour late, while all other trains, pas senger and freight, were held up either on the Montgomery or Mobile side of the wreck
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
MR. DODSON WARNS
 USERS OF CALOMEL
Says Drug Acts Like Dynamite on Liver and You Lose a
 Days Work.

There's no reason why person should take sickening, salivating ca1o- rel when a few cents buys a large bottle of Dodson's Liver Tone-a per- feet substitute for calomel.
 It is pleasant, vegetable liquid which will start your liver just as surely as calomel, but it doesn't make you sick and can not salivate.
 Children and grown folks can take podsons Liver Tone, because it is per- fectly harmless.
 Calomel is a dangerous drug. It is mercury and attacks your bones. Taks a dose of nasty calomel today and you will feel weak, sick and nauseated to- morrow Don't lose a days work. Take a spoonful of Dodson's Liver Tone instead and you will wake up feeling great. No more biliousness, constipa- tion, sluggishness, headache, coated tongue or sour stomach. Your drug gist says if you don't find Dodsons Liver Tone acts better than horrible oalomel your money is waiting for you.---Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
CHANGE NOTION
 ABOUT CALOMEL..
 NOW DELIGHTFUL
Old-Style Calomel Gives Place to the De-Nauseated Tablets Known as "Calotabs"-Per- fectly Safe.

With all of the iver-cleansing and system- purifying qualities of the old-style calomel but robbed of it's nausea and danger, Calo- tabs is destined to become the most popular as well the most useful of all home reme- dies. For biliousness. headaches, cons tipa- ton and indigestion it is indispensable, for nothing but calomel will straighten out dis ordered liver.
 One Calotab at bedtime with a swallow of water-that's all-no taste, griping, no nausea, salts. Next morning your liver is active, your system purified. and you are feeling fine. with hearty appetite for break fast. Eat what you please-no danger.
 Genuine Calotabs never sold in bulk. Ask for the original, sealed package. Price thirty-five cents. If you are not thoroughly delighted your druggist is authorized to re- fund your money.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
GIRLS! MAKE A LEMON BLEACH
Lemons Whiten and Double
 Beauty of the Skin

Squeeze the juice of two lemons into bottle containing three ounces of Orchard White which can be had at any drug store. shake well and you have a squartere pint of harmless and delightful lemon bleach for few cents.
 Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face. neck, arms and hands each day. then shortly note the beauty of your skin.
 Famous stage beauties use lemon juice to bleach and bring that soft, clear. rosy-white complexion. Lemons have always been used as a freckle, sunburn and tan remover. Make this up and try it.-Adv.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-24
REFORM

Reform, Ala, June 23.-(Special.)- The Tuscaloosa district conference of the Methodist Woman's Missionary So- ciety meets here today. Delegates from throughout Pickens and Tuscaloosa counties are expected Mrs. C. R. Max we'll, district secretary, of Northport, will preside. Several speakers of note are expected. among them Rev. w. F. Faust, Tuscaloosa; Mrs. W. F. Price. Birmingham: Mrs. J. B. Cumming, Florence, and Miss Robinson, a re- turned missionary from China.
 Plans are being made by number of baseball enthusiasts to organize 2 Pickens county league of semi-profes- sional players. Already Reform. Car rolton and Aliceville have hired play CTS and the interest is running at high pitch.
 The Reform Methodist building com mittee have purchased from MT. J. o Stapp of the First National Bank g splendid lot on which they plan to erect a new church.