IMPORTANCE OF SHEEP
ON ORDINARY FARM
Small Flock Properly Looked After Is a Source o t
Profit—Lambs Sell for fis Much us
Mother's Keep.
Head of a Well Bred Dorset Ram.
(Ry W. C. COFFEY.)
There bhc.ild be a few sheep on al
most every farm. It is easily admit
ted that a few horses, a few cattle, a
few pigs and some poultry must be
kept on every farm, from necessity or
because they are Why
not sheep?
If the dogs bother the sheep, shoot
Ihe dogs. The chief objection is that
the people don't understand sheep;
but they cannot possibly understand
them until they begin to deal with
them. A few sheep may do better
than a good many. Fifty would be a
"few" on a 160 or 200 acre farm.
H. A. Winter of Marshall county is
a very practical fanner and he be
lieves that each year the lambs sell
for as much as the mothers cost and
that the wool pays the cost of the
keep. The ewe, weighing 120 pounds,
at five cents a pound, cost SO.
It Is no exaggeration to say that
there will be as many lambs as ewes.
A 100 pound lamb will sell at six
cents, bringing s6—as much as the
mother cost. This ewe will shear a
nine pound fleece, which at 20 cents
will sell for SI.BO, which will pay for
the keep of the ewe and offspring.
The farmer still has the ewe,
which at 4cents a pound will bring
$5.40 —a profit of S)0 per cent, on the
Investment.
Sheep delight to clean up neglected
places, in the potato patch, the pig
lots, the stubblefield, fence rows, here,
there and anywhere.
L. 11. Helbig of Livingston county
counts that his sheep have made him
SI,OOO from fence rows in three years
and he has got rid of many noxious
weeds.
In Minnesota it was found that out
of 480 kinds of weeds there were only
50 kinds that sheep would not eat.
Sheep need care and with care will
return profit.
But the farmer must not fail to care
for these few sheep. The beginner
can learn more from a few sheep than
from many; he can know each one
individually and its troubles. If you
are to do sheep any good when ailing
you must get at them quickly.
If the sheep drops the angle of its
ear a few degrees there is something
HOG OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
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The above is an illustration of n I of great importance to the farmer, and
$5,000 Poland-China boar raised at 1 consumer JIB well.
Glen Kllyn, 111. His head denotes bis
splendici breeding. With lioga Helling! ilogs that are of uniform size and
around s'.) this unlovely animal is one weight will fatten best.
the matter, demanding immediate at
tention. The owner should see the
sheep each day. The ram should be
allowed with the ewes only at the
breeding season.
The most advantageous time to sell
a sheep is when it is a lamb. If the
lamb weighs 80 pounds, is fat and has
the quality, it will sell as a prime
lamb the year around; if it weighs 84
to 85 pounds on the farm it will weigh
about 80 on the market.
With this weight the buyer is more
assured that he is getting a lamb, and
the cuts are more convenient to use.
The average person eats about the
same number of chops and it is more
economical to get the smaller ones.
The roast cuts are also more con
venient to use. To-day the 80-pound
lamb is most popular.
It is important to see to it that this
lamb is fat; if not, it will be discrimi
nated against. You can't feel the ani
mal's ribs very well if it is properly
fat, but if the animal is not fat your
hands will rub over its ribs as they
would over a washboard.
Its Oity is Indicated by short
legs, . feet, compact form, without
c big v.asty middle.
The male lamb should by all means
be castrated when 8 to 16 days
old; but 80 per cent, of the owners
neglect to do this and thousands of
dollars are lost in this manner.
There is no mistake about it. Such
a lamb always brings less money in
the market.
Improvement in Fa-ma.
When we begin importing farm
products where will prices go? And
yet the solution is simple. All that
is needed is greater development of
the soli We need to learn in New
i York state what they long ago learned
abroad —that the soil must be replen
ished, and that properly nurtured it
may be made far more productive than
it is.
Studying Potato Bugs.
The Carnegie institute has employed
some western investigators to study
the potato bug, with a view to its ex
termination experiment will cost
SIO,OOO.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MARCH 10. 1910
MIT6NEN
L.'is4BINET
VN \ RE AT love through smallest
channels will find Its
purest way:
It waits not state occasions. which may
not come, or may:
it comforts and It blesses, hour by hour
und day by day."
Diet for the Too Plump.
Such foods as bananas, fresh bread
and butter, pastry, cake, candy, pota
toes, rich soups and made dishes are
death to the sylphlike form. Avoid
them you who would be slender, and
eat unbuttered toast or zwieback. Hot
water with a little lemon juice in
stead of coffee, or at most but one cup
of coffee.
Fish in any way except fried, eggs,
simple broth, creamed toast, green
vegetables, stewed dried fruit, baked
apples, cup custard or plain rice or
sago pudding for dessert. Any meat,
but pork may be eaten. Tomatoes
should be eaten freely as well as spin
ach and asparagus.
For dessert sherbet, fruit or toast
ed crackers with cheese. Once a week
fast one day, drinking plenty of fresh,
cold water. A month of this treat
ment will show a decrease of from
five to ten pounds, and a week will
show a slight reduction.
As sugar is fattening and so many
of our desserts contain sugar in some
form, it would seem that desserts
should be left out.
Lemon or orange jelly with very
little sugar and no cream are the least
objectionable. Sour apples, prunes
stewed without sugar or with very lit
tle, are allowable desserts.
Things Good to Know.
If you are not sure that the sewer
pipes are perfectly tight, pour into the
soli pipe at its mouth, above the roof
if possible or into the basin nearest
the roof, a pail of hot water then two
ounces of the oil of peppermint. The
person handling the peppermint
should not do the sniffing for pepper
mint odor. Pass all through the lower
rooms and if the scent of peppermint
is noticed, follow it to the leaking
spot in the pipe.
Things Worth Passing On.
Heliotrope sachet powder that has
lost its freshness makes a good de
odorizer. A small coal dropped into a
cup with a tablespoonful of the pow
der will send up a dainty fragrance
for some time.
ETTER than srandeur, better
* | than gold,
Than rank and title a thou
«and fold;
Is a healthy body, a mind at ease
And simple pleasures that always
please."
"Ther Is no kind of achievement that Is
equal to perfect health."
Salads.
Salads are such favorite dishes that
we never seem to have the menu
quite complete without one or two.
Many people enjoy a simple salad as
an appetizer to begin a meal others,
enjoy one as a dessert so that the
salad may grace almost any course
acceptably.
For a dinner that salad should al
ways be light if meats are served, but
that it may take the place of the main
dish, such as chicken, lobster or sal
mon. A salmon salad being rich In oil
of the fish, is more palatable when
put together with a simple boiled
dressing with chopped pickle in the
dressing. For a simple dinner salad
of such vegetables as lettuce, cress or
dandelion, the French dressing is es
pecially appropriate. A mayonnaise
Is good served with chicken and cel
ery. Egg salad is nice for a lunch
eon or supper.
Cucumbers, when used in a salad,
should be peeled, sliced and laid In
ice water to keep them crisp. This
also removes some of the acrid prin
ciples which cause gastric disturb
ances In some stomachs.
For a fruit salad for dessert there
is nothing quite so nice as the juice
of fruit for a salad dressing. If pine
apple juice is at hand, boll it with
sugar to make a rather thick syrup.
Pour this over different sliced fruits.
Another dressing equally acceptable
for fruits is made by cooking two ta
blespoonfuls each of butter and flour
together. Add one-half cup of sugar,
one-half cup of orange juice and one
quarter of a cup of lemon juice,
cooked until smooth. When cold serve
on apple, nut, celery, banana, with a
few dates, or any combination of fruit
liked. A pretty salad may be made of
cream cheese. Arrange the tender
heart leaves of head lettuce. Prepare
cream cheese, well seasoned with
chopped chives, rpepper and salt,
and mold with butter paddles into tho
size of good-sized marbles. lioll
each in finely minced parsley or
chives, arrange on the lettuce leaves
and serve with any dressing liked.
Coois Watch Arrival of Guests.
In all private residences the Japan
ese kitchen is situated at the back of
the house, but the hotels, restaurants,
etc., have their cuisines facing tho
main entrance; the reason given for
this being that there tbe cook, hidden
I from view by a hanging bamboo cur-
I lain, can watch the arrival of the
| guest and with intuition judge them
j plebeian or patrician and serve them
1 plain or elaborate dishes as he thinks
| fit! —Delineator.
A CAUTIOUS HUSBAND.
Mrs. Henpeck—John, what's your
honest opinion of my new hat?
Mr. Henpeck—Don't ask me, Mary.
You know you're much bigger and
stronger than I am!
KEEP BABY'S SKIN CLEAR
Few parents realize how many es
timable lives have boon embittered
and social and business success pre
vented by serious skin affections
which so often result from the neglect
of minor eruptions in infancy and
childhood. With but a little care and
the use of the proper emollients, baby's
skin and hair may be preserved, puri
fied and beautified, minor eruptions
prevented from becoming chronic and
torturing, disfiguring rashes, itchings,
irritations and chafings dispelled.
To this end, nothing Is so pure, so
sweet, so speedily effective as the con
stant use of Cuticura Soap, assisted,
when necessary, by Cuticura Ointment.
Send to Potter Drug & Chem. Corp.,
sole proprietors, Lioston, for their free
32-page Cuticura Hook telling all about
the care and treatment of the skin.
Helping the Minister.
A Scotch preacher had in his con
gregation an old woman who was
deaf. In order to hear the sermon
each Sunday, this old lady would seat
herself at the fcot of the pulpit stairs.
One day the sermon was about Jonah,
and the preacher became very rhetor
ical.
"And when the sailors threw Jonah
overboard," he said, "a big fish swal
lowed him up. Was it a shark that
got 'im? Nay, my brethren, it was
ne'er a shark. Was it a swordfish
that got him? Nay—"
"It was a whale," whispered the
old lady excitedly.
"Hush, Biddie," said the preacher,
Indignantly. "Would ye tak' th' word
of God out o' yer ane meenister's
mouth?"— Success Magazine.
Unexpected Recommendation.
One day, when Lord Thurlow was
very busy at his house in Ormond
street, a poor curate applied to him
for a living, then vacant.
"Don't trouble me," said the chan
cellor, turning upon him with a frown
ing brow. "Don't you see I am busy
and can't listen to you?—what duke or
lord recommended you?"
The poor curate lifted up his eyes
and, with dejection, said he had no
lord to recommend him but the Lord
of Hosts.
"The Lord of Hosts!" replied the
chancellor, "the Lord of Hosts! —I be
lieve I have had recommendations
fiom most lords, but do not recollect
one from him before; so, do you hear,
young man, you shall have the living."
Some Luxuries Needed.
Those stern economists who are
pointing out that the people of small
means ought to abandon "luxuries,"
forget that even such people have a
moral right to something beyond the
bare necessities of life. The rapid
increase in prices does not mean to
them cutting out more extravagances,
but forgetting the modest recreations
which have brightened for them the
dull round of daily labor. It would
be a hard world indeed where one
could obtain just enough to keep body
and soul together, and no more.—
Providence- Journal.
SHE QUIT
But It Was a Hard Pull.
It is hard to believe that coffee will
put a person in such a condition as it
did an Ohio woman. She tells her own
story:
"I did not believe coffee caused my
trouble, and frequently said I liked
it so well I world ngt, and could not
quit drinking it, but I was a miserable
sufferer from heart trouble and nerv
ous prostration for four years.
"I was scarcely able to be around,
had no energy and did not care for any
•i:ing. Was emaciated and had a con
stant pain around my heart until I
thought I could not endure it. For
months I never went to bed excepting
to get up in the morning. I felt as
though I was liable to die any time.
"Frequently I had nervous chills and
1 the least excitement would drive sleep
j away, and any little noise would upset
me terribly. I was gradually getting
worse until finally one time it came
over me and I asked myself what's the
use of being sick all the time and
buying medicine so that I could fn.
dulge myself in coffee?
"So I thought I would see if I could
I quit drinking coffee and got soma
! Postum to help mc quit. 1 made it
j strictly according to directions and I
want to tell you, that change was tho
greatest step in my life. It was easy
I to quit coffee because I had the Postum
which 1 now like licttor than the old
cc/fee.
"One by one the old troubles left,
until now I am in splendid health,
uerves steady, heart all right and the
; pain all ne. Never have any more
nervous chills, don't, take any medicine,
can do all my hour-'work, and have
j done a great deal beside."
Read "The Road to Wellvllle," in
I pkgs. "There's a Raa:on."
Ever rcj' i the aIMiM- lefterf A nevt
; oni- :i|ip(MirH from tims* to time*. Tliey
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Enlarging Your Business
If you are in annually, and then carefully
business and you note the effect it has in in
want to make creasing your volume of busi«
more money you ness; whether a 10, 20 cr 30
will read every P*r cent increase. If you
word we have to watch this gain from year to
say. Are you y° u will become intensely in
spending your terested in your advertising,
money for ad- and how you can make it en
vertising in hap- large yOU r business,
hazard fashion If you try this method we
as if intended believe you will not want to
for charity, or do you adver- let a single issue of this paper
tise (or direct results? goto press without something
Did you ever stop to think from your store,
how your advertising can be will be pleased to have
made a source of profit to y° u ca " on us > and we will
you, and how its value can be take pleasure in explaining
measured in dollars and our annua l «■ on tract for so
cents. If you have not, you many inches, and how it can be
are throwing money away. used in whatever amount that
Advertising is a modern seems necessary to you.
business necessity, but must If you can sell goods over
be conducted on business the counter we can also show
principles. If you are not you why this paper will best
satisfied with your advertising serve your interests when you
you should set aside a certain want to reach the people of
amount of money to be spent this community.
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sa!n bills, r tatements, dodgers, cards, etc., all receive the same careful treatment
• just .1 little better than seems necessary. Prompt delivery always.
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If you are a business man,
J did you ever think of the field
of opportunity that advertis
irg opens to you? There is
almost no limit to the possi
bilities of your business if you
study how to turn trade into
your store. If you are not get
ting ycur share of the business
' of your community there's a
reason. People go where they
are attracted where they
know what they can get and
how much it is sold for. If
you make direct statements in
your advertising see to it that
you are able to fulfill every
promise you make. You will
add to your business reputa
tion and hold your customers.
It will not cost as much to run
your ad in this paper as you
think. It is the persistent ad
vertiser who gets there. Have
something in the paper every
issue, no matter how small.
We will be pleased to quote
you our advertising rates, par
ticularly on th« year's busi
ness.
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MAKE YOUR APPEAL
4| to the public through the
columns of this paper.
With every issue it carries
its message into the homes
1 and lives of the people.
Your competitor has his
store news in this issue. Why don't
you have yours? Don't blame the
people for flocking to his store.
They know what he has.
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