T " Ll.—<■-» --1 j Balcom & Ll# I WE have the best stocked general store in the county JB and if you are looking for re- w liable goods at reasonable jjjj prices, we are ready to serve ffl you with the best to be found. iff Our reputation for trust- |J worthy goods and fair dealing is too well known to sell any but high grade goods. jj| Our stock of Queensware and ra Chinaware is selected with great care and we have some Jj. p of the most handsome dishes 8 | ever shown in this section, both in imported and domestic gj makes. We invite you to visit P us and look our goods over. M I I B m l -j I Balcom & Lloyd. J LOOK ELSEWHERE BUT DON'T FORGET |jj THESE PRICES AND FACTS AT || ft* li LaBAFfS I! M H II M M M 14 We carry in stock I - ' ■ & -At H fc* the largest line of Car- ~ _ hj kg pets, Linoleums and r*/_ 'Ltw^Tiif?TTriTnT(TT}B ■ |] H Mattings of all kinds "'""''S J J ever brought to this lIEEffiB •' 112" town. Also a big line . »* of samples. jSMOIII ti A very large line oi FOE THE I JJ J? Lace Curtains that can- A Xre e fo" c r y - COiDKME LOD6ING ?? Art Squares and of fine books In a choke library Rugs of all sizes and select the Ideal pattern of rGJ[&je kind, from the cheap- Wernicke "Elastic" Bodtc^sp. M est to the best I Furnished with bevel French H plate or leaded glass doors. *4 Dining Chair*, I »°» •««■*»» I M Rockers and GEO. J. LaBAR, J fcjf High Chairs. Bole Agent for Camcroti County. fcj £ J A large and elegant L——__J Rj line of Tufted and Drop-head Couches. Beauties and at bargain prices. Eg fc| fcj h - S3O Bedroom Suite, C*5C S4O Sideboard, quar- fls®o solid oak at SZD tered cak "* F 3 S2B Bedroom Suite, CO I $32 Sideboand, quar- S? Pll solid oak at 4>Zl tered oak 3nSD jH| $26 Bod room Suite, OH $22 Sideboard, quar- ftWJ 14 14 solid oak at 4)ZU I tered oak, 47ft) !4 A large line of Dressers front Chiffoniers of all kinds and 14 g $8 up. all prices. fcg kg The finest .line of Sewing Machines on the*maj|S£t, a'g JJ the "DOftfiES'riC" and "ELDRIEGE.' AM Mf gj £1 heads and warranted. Bfl £5 A finedine of* Dishes, common grade and China, in Ec *2 sets and'Jby ?£he piece. As 1 keep a full line of everything that -goes to H >4 make up a.good Furniture store, it is usHess te entrm- H u eratevthem fall. KB JJ jj Blease call and see for yourself that Jam tcEHaip ttjj || you the truth, and if..you don't buv. there is no ISmn kg done, as'it'is no trouble to show goads. || GEO. J .LaBAR. | TJ N . CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1908. HANDLING HEAVY HOGS. Convenient Arrangement by Which One Man Can Do Work Alone. The old fashion of having a lot of help around at hog killing time is go ing out owing to the use of better appliances for handling the animals after kililng. I rigged up a simple arrangement so that I am able to handle heavy hogs without assistance, says a writer in Farm and Home. I built a fire box with a flue, b, of A One-Man Butchering Plant. three joints of old stovepipe. The vat was made of heavy galvanized iron four feet long by two feet wido and IS inches deep. Over this I erected a frame of two by four-inch strips, upon which I placed nn old traveler from a hay car rier. With the windlass arrangement, a, and the tackle, e, to which were at tached the four feet of the hog, I can convey it from the vat to the bench. A rope, c, passing over the pulley at g, serves to pull the carrier, d, over the bench from the vat. I have seen ar rangements that were more simple than this but have never used one that was any easier to work. CANKER OR SORE MOUTH. A Disease Which Is Apt to Appear in the Herd in the Spring, It usually happens in the spring that there is a great deal of complaint from this trouble. The disease is one that is quite common in almost every sec tion of the country and while it has been noticed that it is more preva lent some seasons than others, we feel justified in quoting from Mr. S. M. Shepard in his excellent, book, "The Hog in America," 011 account of the number of letters we have recently re ceived asking for information about this disease. Mr. Shepard thinks it is usually the result of unhealthful milk from the sow or from poison on her teats obtained by contact with poi sonous vines or wet grass. He says: "The first symptoms are lumps on the sows' udder, and sometimes sores; next will be noticed blisters on the lip, tongue and mouth of the pig; the tongue and lips become swollen and the roof and the sides of the mouth inflamed and covered with deep red or white blister spots. Swab the pig's mouth out thoroughly with a solution of carbolic acid and water sufficient ly strong to make the flesh upon the arm tingle. Apply with a rag or small piece of sponge tied on a stick. Strong sage tea applied in the same way is Rood and in addition blow powdered j sulphur through a straw into the pig's mouth. Bathe the sow's teats and udder with a weak solution of carbolic acid, and keep afflicted lit ters away from other pigs." THE FARM STOCK. Improved breeds are most profit- I able. Old horses with poor teeth need ground grain. Save waste grain by grinding their feed for them. It's a good plan to have a veteri narian inspect the teeth before winter time and do any floating that is neces sary. Too many feed the sow too much corn and when the pigs arrive they are weak, the sow is feverish, and the result is only about a half crop of pigs saved. I always fatten my hogs on old corn. In this way I get them to market earlier in the fall and secure the high prices. Do not feed old, hard corn to hogs until it is ground and soaked. Hogs are apt to get too hot in a straw pile then chill, and trouble begins. In feeding hay to hogs cut and moisten it and mix with meal for A-l results. Ojie ear of corn a day and all the alfalfa hay she will eat will carry a brood sow through the winter in good breeding condition, says ex-Gov. Hoard, who keeps his that way. Beans Make Good Pig Feed. Mixed with other grains, cull beans may be fed to sheep and swine. Some times they are used for dairy cows. In tests of feeding swine on culled beans, it was found that an average gain of a little more than one pound per day could be made, at a cost of about $2.50 per 1001 pounds. There is practically no better way to make use of culled beans than to feed them to hogs. The beans should only be fed when cooked, and to do this, they should be soaked for several hours before the cooking is begun. They can be cooked either by running live steam into a barrel containing them or by putting thera into an ordinary feed cooker or pot over a fire. For small quantities the pot is more convenient. Breeding Qualities.—lt is essential that all breeding animals should stand up in good shape and have plenty of bone, muscle and constitution. EXPOSURE OF COWS. Dairy Animals Need More Protection Than Beef Animals. Dairy cows will not stand the ex posure that beef cows will stand. This Is one of the argumeuts put forth by some of the advocates of the use of beef cows for the produc tion of milk. We have to acknowl edge its force. If cows are to be left to hustle around wintry strawstacks perhaps it is better to keep beef cows than any other. This can be said for them, that the fat that is laid up from hif?h feeding is distributed through their ilesh and forms also a layer under the skin, which serves as a non-conductor of heat. This prevents the escape of the heat from the body and gives the cows a certain amount of protection when they are exposed. The cow of a dairy breed makes all this fat up into milk and does not have it to use as wadding under her skin. The cold air strikes her skin and she shivers. Therefore the dairy cow must not be exposed to the cold rains of fall and spring or to the cold winds of winter. A Hoistein, Guern sey, Jersey, or Ayrshire cow of pure breeding must be given a fair amount of protection in winter, though not so much as was once thought to be necessary. Some years ago one of the prom inent dairymen living in northern Il linois came out with a theory which he promulgated that the dairy cow needed no protection in winter. He had made an experiment and found that when hie cows were allowed to fight their way through snow drifts and suffer other hardships they did as well as at any other time. Ho preached his theory quite vigorously, but did not obtain many followers, His experiments may have been made with cows that belonged to the beef breeds or that were grades having in them a large per cent, of beef blood. If there is one thing that seems to have been fairly well demonstrated by a large number of experiments, says Farmers' Review, it is that exposure of cows belonging to the dairy breeds lessens the milk supply and the fat supply. In Holland and some other countries the cows are frequently ; blanketed in cold days in spring and fall and are warmly housed in winter. Protection is given them against cold and wet, and it is a generally accepted i tenet that exposure reduces profits, i In winter it may be that some of the protection given such cows is ex i cessive, but we cannot afford to gc far in the opposite direction. FEED RACK FOR SHEEP. 1 One Which Is in Use on Experimental Farm in Louisiana. Dr. D. H. Dalrymple of Louisiana i in a bulletin from the experiment sta tion illustrates a feed rack that is be j ing used in experiments made at the ! station. A good idea of one of these I racks is given in the accompanying A Cood Feed Rack for Sheep. Illustration. Its advantages are a cov ered manger for roughage, a shelf to catch the waste, and a platform for the fore feet of the sheep or lambs. This sketch ought to contain some suggestions that will prove useful to those building feeding racks. THE GOAT IN AGRICULTURE. No Better Helper Can Be Found to Clear Land of Briers or Bushes. The owner of a badly brier infested or bush covered farm has before him an expensive aad disagreeable task, if he intends to clear it by manual labor. Many millions of dollars have been ex pended in this country in that kind of work, and many millions more will be spent in the same direction. But the Angora goat will do the work for nothing and will pay for the privilege. It prefers briers and bushes to the best clover or grass that was ever grown. An lowa land owner has cleared 600 acres of briers and bushes through this agency. He estimates that the goat has increased the value of this land at least ten dollars an acre, and while the animal has been making the owner money in that di rection it has been contributing to his bank account with its hair, skin and flesh. Nor has it been troubled dur ing the time by the great enemy of the sheep, the dog. Treating Horses' Hoofs. For horses that have eaten so much corn that the feet begin to swell near the top of the hoofs, the following mixture is advised: Poul tice the feet for two days with any good poultice, such as bread and milk, bran or flax seed meal. Keep the poul tice hot by the continued application of hot water while it is on the foot. When it is removed, the part should be washed well with warm water and castile soap suds, then dried with a linen cloth. Make a mixture of one part carbolic acid and three of gly cerine by weight and apply this to affected parU twice each day. FIVE MONTHS IN HOSPITAL. Discharged Because Doctors Could Not Cure. Levi P. Brockway, S. Second Ave., Anoka, Minn., says:"After lying for five months in a hos- P ital 1 was dis- charged as incurable, (• and given only six .jf months to live. My RT.: •- AGE AFFECTS POETRY. Orfis Boy—A lady with some poetry. Editor —How old? Boy—'Bout 18. Editor —What!!! Show her in at once, boy. The Most Suspicious Ever. Henry Clews, the banker and au thor, was talking at the Union ciub in Xew York about a certain financier. "Xo wonder the man is so success ful," said Mr. Clews. "Ho is the most careful, the most suspicious fellow I ever heard of. In fact, he reminds ma of a Staffordshire farmer my father used to tell of. "It was said of tliis farmer that, whenever lie bought a herd of sheep, he examined each sheep closely to make pure that it had no cotton in it." 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Write IIICSUY N.Co*»i\ Washington, D.0.. for further particular* , HICKS* SEcapjjne ' & wI ALL ACHES And Nervousness Trial bottle 10c At drug stores First Mortgage Farm Loans If you wish to place your money where, if lianka fail or burglars come, your security will not be affected. Write me and I will tell you abotit first mortprafje loans on tine farms worth s7ft to *IOO per acre in South-East Nebraska and Nortb- East Kansas. The richest agricultural section of the West. Twenty years of experience with out the loss of a cent. HENRY C. SMITH. Falls City. Nebraska. Rheumatism Cured KUEIM-KEX will DO IT NOW riiinmnteed. Vailed on receipt of * 1.0<», ;ul- mm tallied,(leiendtnlami prosecutedby A lil'X A NI)KK A liOM KLL, I'it.i.t PO7 7thKt..N. W M WASUINOTON.U.Ok Hook A of Information sent FKEK. PATENTS f^tssss: ■ a ■■■■ a free. lor ins low. ret A. N. K.—C (1908—1) 2211. 7