FARMER SHOULD PROVIDE
DIPPING TANK FOR SHEEP
Advantages of This Treatment Are Great and Not Ex
pensive or Difficult to Build—A
Hood Plan.
(By EDWIN 8. GOOD.)
Scabby sheep should he dipped at
the first opportunity, for if kept until
shearing time most of the wool may be
lost and the vitality of the animal
greatly reduced. All sheep badly af
fected with the disease should, before
being dipped, have the thick scabs
softened by pouring some of the dip
on them and rubbing them with a
smooth stick, care being taken, how
ever, not to draw blood, for upon co- j
agulation it is likely to protect the |
mite from the dip. They should then ,
Dipping Vat.
be allowed to stand for at least half an
hour before being put into the bath.
Each sheep should be immersed in the
dip for two minutes by the watch, tho
head being ducked at least once just
before the animal emerges from the j
vat. Within 10 or 14 days the dipping I
should be repeated in order to kill j
all mites hatched since the first dip
ping, as the eggs are more resistant
to the dips than are the mites.
Sheep may be dipped in the winter
in many localities, but warm, dry days
must be selected for the purpose and
the dipping discontinued in the middle
of the afternoon. If the sheep, after
being dipped, are allowed to stand for
a few hours on the sunny side of a
A Sheep Dipping Chute.
kirn they will not chill as quickly as
it" turned inside a building at once.
Dipping vats can be made of wood,!
metal or concrete. A farmer owning
as many as 25 sheep should have a
good dipping vat. For a small number
than this the barrel used to scald the
pigs will do if the farmer feels that
he cannot afford to purchase or build
a vat. A good galvanized vat ten feet
long and four feet deep, made pur
posely for dipping, can be purchased
for about sl2. There are smaller
sizes than this that can be purchased
for less money. Three or four farm
ers can club together and purchase
PROPERCARE
GIVEN SWINE
Feed and Attention Must Be Var
ied in Accordunce with What
Is Desired to Be Done
with Animal.
(By A. J. LOVEJOY.)
The pig that is to be sold for meat
has but a few months to live and there
should be no let-up in feeding from
birth.
it will begin to eat shelled corn at
three or four weeks' of age, and a lit
tle sweet skim-milk or a thick mush
of the same material as that given the
mother is a great help to hasten
growth.
Well-bred or even good-grade pigs
should weigh sixty to eighty pounds
when weaned at three months of age,
and should then goon alfalfa or oth
er green pasture and have corn twice
a day.
Late in the summer there should be
ready for them a pasture of rape, Held
peas or soy beans, besides the corn.
If their teeth become sore, change
to shelled corn, soaked 24 hours in
water slightly salted.
It will pay to have a cool, shady
place where it it- rather dark, if pos
sible, for the pigs to lie in during the
heat of the day, with free access to
p. mixture of salt, copperas, lime and
b.llleS.
The feeder should watch closely to
see that every pig is eating with a
relish
If pigs cough it is probably due to
a dusty shed. Worms will also cause
a cough, and if the hair becomes starv
ing and dead in appearance it is well
to give a worm powder.
In raising hogs to be used as breed
ers the object is very different. They
are not togo to market at six to ten
months of age, but to grow onto ma
turity.
They should be pushed for rapid
"rowth, but must be fed for a growth
112 frame and bone: not fattened on
n, but expanded by a feed rich in
.otein.
At six to eight or ten months of age
they should show more length of body
and more scale than the market hogs
one of the galvanized tanks and haul
it to their respective farms as it is
wanted. A dipping vat for sheep
should be narrow enough to prevent
the sheep turning around in it, and
deep enough to swim large sheep.
The length of the vat should depend
upon the number of sheep which can
be dipped in a day. There is consid-
I erable variation as to the width of
vats found on different farms, and as
a usual thing they are wider than
necessary. Then, too, the narrower
the vat the less the dip required to
fill it. A vat twenty inches wide at
the top and eight inches wide at the
bottom is a fair average as regards
width, although some very practical
sheep men construct their vats as nar
row as sixteen inches at the top and
six inches at the bottom when the
vat is four feet deep.
The dipping vat used at the .{en
lucky experiment station is located
in the driveway of the hoghouse and
can be used for the .lfffiug of sheep
and young pigs. It is built entirely
of concrete, the walls of which are
six inches in width, with the excep
tion of the partition between the vat
and dry chamber, which has a thick
ness of nine inches. The end of the
vat into which the hogs and sheep
are plunged is perpendicular, while
the opposite end is provided with an
incline which is quite deeply creased
so that the animal can walk out. The
lloor around the end of the vat from
which the sheep emerge is so graded
that all drippings return to the vat.
There are sewer connections with this
outfit, the valve of which is located
in the dry chamber. The dry cham
ber allows the attendant to carefully
control the dripping, break up thick
scabs with a brush, and, if necessary
help the sheep up the incline, and
also goto the aid of a sheep quickly
if it shows signs .of strangling. This
vat is quite inexpensive.
A chute like this can be built with
little trouble. The incline to the vat
j should be made of smooth lumber and
greased when hogs or sheep are dip
ped. In dipping animals the second
time they usually remember the first
experience and endeavor to jump the
length of the vat unless the swing
door is attached to the end of the
chute. As an extra ' blind" to either
. sheep or hogs a board can be fixed
| 0:1 a pivot and extended horizontally
t from the top of the chute toward th*
vet. The sheep imagines it a level
j surface 011 which to walk, only to fiad,
| as one or two steps are taken, that
j the end toward the vat tips down,
j plunging him quickly into the vat.
| and be smooth and well covered, but
not 112 o fat as for market.
! This can he very easily done by
| feeding a mixed grain ration, with ten
| per cent, of tankage or ten per cent
I of oil ineal.
I'se corn, barley and oats ground
| together, mixed thickly with water and
1 fed at once while sweet. It is much
better to mix three pounds of milk to
one pound of grain.
!f one has no milk the next best feed
is ten per cent, of tankage. If one has
the corn and does not want to buy
the mill feeds, he can use 80 per csnt.
of corn and 20 per cent, of tankage
and have a well-balanced ration.
The summer treatment of young pigs
sheuld be about the same as for the
I market pigs. For late summer and
| fall I have made it a practice to have
| a field of Evergreen sweet corn to feed
I in the roasting ear.
I begin by adding one stalk and ear
for each pig in addition to his other
feed; in a few days, two stalks and
two ears, and gradually increase this
amount to a full feeo, while diminish
ing the other ration.
In winter the brood sows shouia
have something to take the place of
the green pasture.
I know of nothing that will equal
alfalfa, bright and green, run through
a cutting machine. Two-thirds chaffed
alfalfa and one-third shelled corn,
mixed together and ground in a steel
| bur grinder, makes an almost ideal
j ration, which can be fed dry or mixed
; thickly with scalding water; a littlo
J salt adds relish, it. is a cheap ration
I and has just bulk enough to take the
j place of grass.
If one cannot have alfalfa, bright,
; well-cured clover is good. Sorghum
J cane is a good fall feed until heavy
| freezing. Mangles or sugar beets are
| of course very good.
Our Wheat Crop.
j Considerable more than 50 per
cent, of the entire wheat crop of
1007. estimated in round numbers at
631,800,000 bushels, was grown in 15
j of the older states east of the Missis
! sippi. their gross yield being placed at
| 382,000,000 bushels. This is more
than three times as much as the
largest wheat crop ever grown in the
1 Canadian northwest.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY. 17, 1910
CLIP THIS OUT
Rtnowned Doctor's Prescription for
Rheumatism and Backache.
"One ounce Syrup Sarsaparilla com
pound; one ounce Toris compound;
Add these to a half pint of good whis
key: Take a tablespoonful before each
meal and at bed time; Shake the bot
tle before using each time." Any drug
gist has these ingredients in stock or
will quickly get them from his whole
sale house. This was published previ
ously and hundreds here have been
cured by it. Good results show after
the first few doses. This also acts as
a system builder, eventually restoring
Btrength and vitality.
CALLOUS TO CRITICISM.
The Husband—As far as I am con
cerned, you may scold as much as you
like. lam by nature thick-skinned.
SCRATCHED SO SHE COULD
NOT SLEEP
"I write to tell you how thankful I
am for the wonderful Cutlcura Rem
edies. My little niece had eczema for
five years and when her mother died
I took care of the child. It was all
over her face and body, also on her
head. She scratched so that she could
not sleep nights. I used Cutlcura
Soap to wash her with and then ap
plied Cutlcura Ointment. I did not
use quite half the Cuticura Soap and
Ointment, together with Cuticura Re
solvent, when you could see a change
and they cured her nicely. Now she
Is eleven years old and has never been
bothered with eczema since. My
friends think it is just great the way
the baby was cured by Cutlcura. I
send you a picture taken when she was
about 18 months old.
"She was taken with the eczema
when two years old. She was covered
with big sores and her mother had al 1
the best doctors and tried all kinds of
salves and medicines without effect
until we used Cuticura Remedies. Mrs.
H. Kiernan, 663 Quincy St., Brooklyn,
N. Y., Sept. 27, 1909."
Knew the Calendar.
They were little girls, so small that
the teacher was telling them about di
visions of time, and receiving all sorts
of answers to her simple questions.
The little girl who lived in a board
ing house was a year older than any
of the others.
"We have learned that years are di
vided into months, months into weeks,
and weeks into days," said the teach
er. "Now can any one tell me how
the days are divided?"
The little girl who lived in a board
ing house raised her hand, and was
asked to speak.
"Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays
and Thursdays, beef," she said, glibly;
"Friday, fish; Saturday, corned beef
and beans; and Sunday, chicken."—
Youth's Companion.
Jim's Cost a Dollar More.
Richard Le Gallienne, the noted
poet, was entertaining a group of
magazine editors at luncheon in New
York.
To a compliment upon his fame Mr.
Le Gallienne said, lightly:
"But what is poetical fame in this
age of prose? Only yesterday a
schoolboy came and asked me for my
autograph. I assented willingly. And
to-day at breakfast time, the boy again
presented himself.
" 'Will you give me your autograph,
sir?' he said.
" 'But,' said I, 'I gave yoti my auto
graph yesterday.'
" I swapped that and a dollar,' he
answered, 'for the autograph of Jim
Jeffries.'"
HARD TO DROP
But Many Drop It.
A young Calif, wife talks about coffee:
"It was hard to drop Mocha and
Java and give Postum a trial, but my
nerves were so shattered that I was
a nervous wreck and of course that
means all kinds of ails.
"At first I thought bicycle riding
caused it and I gave it up, hut my con
dition remained unchanged. I did not
want to acknowledge coffee caused the
trouble for I was very fond of it. At
that time a friend came to live with
us, and I noticed that after he had
been with us a week he would not
drink his coffee any more. 1 asked him
the reason. He replied, 'I have not had
a headache since I left off drinking cof
fee, some months ago, till last week,
when I began again, here at your table.
I don't see how anyone can like coffee,
anyway, after drinking Postum!'
"I said nothing, but at once ordered
a package of Postum. That was five
months ago, and we have drank no
coffee since, except on two occasions
when we had company, and the result
each time was that ray husband could
not sleep, but lay awake and tossed
and talked half the night. We were
convinced that coffee caused his suffer
ing, so he returned to Postum, con
vinced that coffee was an enemy, in
stead of a friend, and he is troubled
no more with insomnia.
"I, myself, have gained 8 pounds in
weight, and my nerves have ceased to
quiver. It seems so easy now to quit
coffee that caused our aches and ails
and take up Postum."
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason.'"
Ever rend the above Ifltcr! A new
one nppenrM from time to time. The;
nre Eeuulac, true, and full of human
Interest.
EIGHTEEN YEARS
AGO HE HAD LESS j
THAN 3 DOLLARS
HE IS NOW ONE OF THE RICHEST
FARMERS IN SASKATCHEWAN,
CENTRAL CANADA.
Arriving In Canada in 1891, Just
eighteen years ago, E. A. Guillomin
could speak but his native language.
He Is a Frenchman. He had but
a little over two dollars in his pocket,
thus being short over seven dollars of
the ten dollars required to secure en
try for a homestead of one hundred
and sixty acres. He eventually bor
rowed the money and near Forget, J
Saskatchewan, he started life in Can- I
ada on the homestead in which to-day !
he is the fortunate possessor of fifty :
Quarter sections of land, or 8,000 acres. !
Now Mr. Guillomin did not acquire ;
all these acres as a result altogether of j
his farming operations, which were
extensive. He looked with satisfac- j
tion upon what he was doing on his j
limited area, he was saving, careful, j
and had foresight. Surrounding land 1
could be had for about $3.00 per acre,
and he continued buying as his sav
ings would permit, until now he has
fifty quarter sections, some of which
he can sell at $25.00 per acre.
Threshed Fifty Thousand Bushels.
This year he was engaged in thresh- \
ing on his place for 54% days. He j
threshed out 50,000 bushels of wheat,
of which he sold 34,000 bushels, one
train load, at a price varying from 84
to 87 cents per bushel. He has on
hand still 16,000 bushels. In addition
to wheat he raised 30,000 bushels of
oats, 7,000 bushels of barley and 500
bushels of flax. He owns 104 horses j
and a number of cattle, but since the
construction of the railway he has
been engaged chiefly in raising wheat.
This year he bought his first thresh
ing machine, paying for it the sum
of $2,100. He estimates that the ma
chine earned for him this fall $3,000,
thus paying for itself in one season
and leaving S9OO to the good. The
weather was very propitious for farm
threshing, not a single day being lost
in the two months which were spent ]
In this work. The wheat averaged 23 j
bushels to the acre and graded No. 1
and No. 2 Northern. In the past nine
years seven good crops have been har- j
vested on this farm. For six succes- j
elve years the returns were excellent, j
that is in the years 1901, 1902, 1903, |
1904, 1905 and 1906. In the two fol
lowing years there was a partial fail
ure. As the years have passed the
quality of the buildings on the farm
have been steadily improved, and are !
now as good as can be found in the j
district. About SIO,OOO has been in- j
vested in this way by Mr. Guillomin.
The farm consists of 6,880 acres, of
which about 6,000 acres were under
crop this season.
They Win.
"Do you look for a favorable out
come to your lawsuit?"
"No, but the lawyers do." -Houston
Post.
ONI.Y ONE "BROMO QUININE."
That is I.AXATIVK llttOMo yUI.NINK J.onk for
tin* signature of K. \V. (jfIUV £. I'boU thw World
over to Cure a Cold in One Day. 25c.
He loves his country best who
strives to make it best.—lngersoll.
DOCTOR YOURSELF
when yon foci a cold cuuiiiiKnn by taking a few doses
of /Yrry UIII'U' /'miikl'ler. It I sbetter than (Juinino
and safer. The large 50c bottles are the cheapest.
Health may be wealth, but that isn't
what makes the doctors rich.
Mrs. Wlnnlow's Soothing Syrup.
Forctaildren teething, softens the gums, reduces in
tlainmatiun.aHays pain. cures wind colic. 25c a buiUu.
A friend is merely a person we can
tell our troubles to.
The Wretchedness
of Constipation
Can quickly be overcome by
CARTER'S LITTLE
LIVER PILLS.
Grer. Cure Vf ITTLE
WsT RIVER I
aeu, and Indigestion. They do their duty.
Small Pill, Small Dose. Small Price.
GENUINE must bear signature:
ilk A TrilT Hook and Advice FREE. Hatoa.
r A IpN I F*nairk u Uawnw, Washington.
I 1 I kll I JJ.C. Kbt. 4U y rs. Best references
W. N. U., CLEVELAND, NO. 6-1910.
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Colo* more oooda brighter and latter coloi* than anj other d»e. One (Oe package color* all (Ibert. Ther d*e in cold water better than an»other dva Vatican*™
Ml eannsnt without rippina apart Writ* tor Ira* booklet-How to Die. Bleach and Mu Color*. MONROE DRUG C 0., Qufncy, ttllnolm*
Pleasant, tyteslgg fetie/icial.
Syrup of Figs and Elixir of
Senna appeals to the cultured ,
and the well-informed and the > r
healthy because its component
parts are simple and whole- -igf
some and because it acts with- ,
substance. In its production a | '
pleasant and refreshing syrup
of the figs of California is unit- BHbJe SqDW
ed with the laxative and car- ' M/y
minative properties of certain (>■ W&L
plants known to act most bene- /ffi- \
'< ficially, on the human system, /.IF *:
; when its gentle cleansing is de- . MaP?' **
| sired. To get its beneficial ef- /&^•
; fects, always buy the genuine,
j for sale by all reputable drug- A
I gists; one size only, price 'm
| fifty cents a bottle. The name VF
;of the company California jy^ap/
Fig Syrup Co.—is always plain- }lj j
ly printed upon the front of ev- V
ery package of the genuine.
(p/orr\iajs Syrup (o.
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WITH A JAR OF
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SCALDS ■ n B ggj WOT 081 ABRASIONS j
, , in the house you have a quick, certain remedy for all kinds of Skin Diseases. < >
< > A few applications will relieve the worst case of itching piles.
< « 50 cts. a Jar of all Druggists, or sent direct on receipt of price. ; £
! ! RESINOL CHEMICAL COMPANY, BALTIMORE, MD.
« ! Resinol Medicated Shaving Stick makes shaving easy. < >
$125,000 net from 1200 acres grapes*
$15,000 from 22 acres peaches.
$3,200 from 20 acres raisins, in the
San Joaquin Valley, California
A cow and an acre of alfalfa will earn $l2O a year in the San Joaquin Valley.
Grapes will yield from SIOO to S3OO per acre; peaches and apricots, $l5O to $500;
while oranges will produce from 1250 to SSOO. and in many instances more than siooc
an acre. There are ten million arable and irrigable acres here. You still may buy
unimproved land for SSO an acre.
Ten acres are enough to comfortably support a small family. Twenty acres afford
a fine living, with money in the bank. Forty acres should make you rich.
You pay from one-fourth to one-|
thiril down, balance eaMily can be paid!
for out of the eropn.
Almost anything can be raised in the
San Joaquin country—oranges and
wheat, figs and apples, delicate grapes
and hardy potatoes. Products of the
temperate and semi-tropic zones flour
ish .<»ide by side.
Plenty of water for irrigation drawn
from the near-by Sierra snows. It In
eauy fur one to make a mart. l>and be
tween the rows can be used, while or
chard is young, for many profitable
crops. The point is to make every
■quare foot bear something.
\\ bnt ho me farmer* have done:
Frank Thomas, of Fresno, Cal.,
bofight twenty acres of land five years
ago. He had but S3OO to start on. To
day his place is paid for anil he has an
income of over $2,000 a year.
William Shrayer. R. P. D. 7, Fresno,
Cal., bought his first ten acres six
years ago. Now owns sixty acres all
paid for, and refuses $12,000 for his
place.
M. F. Tarpey, of Fresno, owns vine
yard of 1,200 acres, from which he
takes an annual profit of $125,000.
On the Harold estate, twenty-two
acres of peaches yielded a $15,000 crop.
I
(THE HOT SPRINGS
OF ARKANSAS
More than a mountain resort, more than a fashionable playground—these wonderful
springs, with their mysterious health-giving waters, have become world famous as
I NATURE'S GREATEST SANITARIUM
set apart by the United States government for the benefit of humanity.
Where modern medical aeunce Jo(os hands with the wonderful curative agencies of
nature—a retreat for the careworn or suffering in the exeat,"beautiful out-of-doors.
Water the greatest eliminator oF tvnman ills and the ■!
Hot Springs of Arkansas are the greatest
waters known to mankind
Patronized every year by more than 150,000 people from every part of the woild —the
recuperating station of our army and navy, the training ground of the world's greatest
athletes, the assembling place of statesmen and the rendezvous of society.
There is no Substitute for the Hot Springs Baths
The marvelous cures cannot be exaggerated.
No one can afford to deprive himself of the qniet rest, the exhilarating joy and the
wonderful toning-up that comes from a course of these baths, coupled with the rehabili
tating influences of the mountain ozone and woodland landscape.
Luxurious hotels, medium-priced hotels and high class boarding bouses with every
modern convenience.
BEST REACHED
MISSOURI PACIFIC
IRON MOUNTAIN MRRGMJK I
Let us tell you more about it and belp you plan K
your 17aVJi HE
For train time and railroad rates, address m
B. H. PAYNE, Till fil#i 11
General Passenger Agent,
St. Louis, Mo.
| Carson Reed, Reedley. Cal., from a
I twenty-acre crop of Sultana raisins
netted $3,200.
I know tbl* valley from end to end.
I have seen crops planted and harvest
ed in every one of its counties. X have
interviewed farmers, ranciiers and mer
chants. 1 have collated the testimony
of crop experts.
All this valuable information is con
tained in the San Joaquin Valley land
folder issued by the Santa Fc Railway.
Write for it. giving full name and ad
dress. I will also send you our immi
gration journal, The Earth, six months
free.
The Santa Fe employs me to, help
settle up its Southwest lines. The Com
pany has no land to sell, but I will
gladly refer your inquiry to reliable
land owners who have.
Low fare* nre offered by the SurUa
Fe daily. Comfortable tourist sleepers
and chair cars. The journey also may
be made at other times for a reason
able cost. Santa Fe tourist service to
San Francisco is quickest.
C. L. SEAGRAVES, General Colonization Ajeal
A. T. & S. F.Ry. Syttem
1150 Railway Exchange Chicago, UL
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