VALUE OF THE SILO. Tribune Farmer readers member that last periment of ing only regulary may slow our own help, putting * in the silos at tons mature d that appearance of being Way The i we 1 1 winter have had feeding or f i food and for ries iod of against mals, exercise in bedded place to sles; oop 6 feet is an ideal place, and we found shredded fodder little tf the best nes * hava just a yr them to sleep on. We keep our coops in an fleld; in g have no hog lots; even our fattening never shut in lot's or pens, but let run on pasture flaids, This gives Che needed exercise and alds in digestion keeping them spry and active. It is a pitiful sight to see a hog cripple off open fact we inclosed hogs inclosed in a close, again, the hog is a splendid manure spreader which requires no team of hand to assist, Instead of that carbon diet called corti feed, a nitrogenous tiet of ground oats, middlings and oil meal should be fed. This will keep the diges. tion good and will nourish the unborn pig. A brood sow kept inclosed and fed comm continually will be constipat. ed and cannot submit the nourishment to the unborn litter. Therefore, she may be a good brood sow but fall because of bad management, The hog, being a foraging anima! will eat and relish good clover hay; red clover is yood: but we find by experience that Alfalfa is relished much better. Ag farrowing time approaches see that the sow is provided with good, comfortable quarters away from other i foul pen Then she allow her to it may cau Do not fe hours diet he ironical Honesty, whip flicking hero of iven an irascible old o-mile fot rn in the 11 the fare climbed out and wly produced a big pocket A watchful standing prevented all his relieving his féelings of picturesque terms. the fare make a prepared to be sarcastic constable ear Cabby watched the fare, count it over, and then proffer it to him with an expression on his face plainly indica twice it and I'l] take your number!” But cabby didn’t dispute it in. stead, he promptly accepted it, but slipping his hand Into another pocket he produced a farthing, which he handed to the fare “What's this for?” old fellow, “One farden, currint coin o' the rel lum, sir,” sald cabby, gathering up his reins. “I druv yer just the exact distance represented by arf of that there shekel under the three mile you reckoned I ain't got ne mt: farden about me, but {t don’t matter. You can keep the change, 1 ain't mean, QGood-by, sir, and God bless you. Gee up, ‘orse!’’—Tit-Bits, Every German soldier's equipment includes a Bible and a half-pound cake of chocolate, demanded the Weather and Character. By John L. Cowan. and women has the thought crime and climate hear to effect? That conditions? men ever the O how sel cause many each other relation of fel { that often a fair in jittle ¥1 ejudiced in and man's morals are very Police records and a quiet re and than a causal or ac dex of weather trospection will prove to any observant dividual criminal tendencies bear more cidental relat a falling A "low-pressure weather pressure” the police fected inal that barometer, map ought to activity the 8 Of gtorm and detective lorce area centre marks the point « activity almost mathematical precision The path of falling barometer is the path trail of suicide and murder, and outlined of minor lapse: } i which ever find and divor Mortality,” from the Way ance thi amount impurity that jag COUni Curious Crining {1 Qur Real War With Japan. r Inglis. rm of confi f Por HE Clty C« that nary iat th may dex man iushand I'd rather be married to a helpless invalid than to a cold-blooded, creature who considered me as simply an upper servant, bought by my dressmaker’'s bills to give up my whole life and my whole individuality & The man who hates children is just as unfit to be married as the with hereditary consumption in his blood The man who loves a good time with the boys w ought cal w and ide whether a is or not y be a selfish ald paic him man better than a quiet evening is the one place on earth to keep away from, or the freak who insists on hav ing the word obey cut out of the marriage service No sensible man would expect his wife to obey sense of the word, but no woman of sense would dream of objecting 'o {dea of the new-fashioned form of “obedience” humored agreement. Now, when 1 said that about the man who loves a good time with the boys, { didn't mean that there is anything particularly wrong with that particular kind of good time. It simply shows that he Is not the sort of man who will find domestic life amusing, and when a man ig bored by domesticity, look around the corner, not very far from him, and you will find a wife who is very unhappy. A man who likes restaurants and cafes and late suppers and red avtomo biles and fur-lined coats and yellow spats is no more fitted to marry and set. tle down than he is to go out on a farm and make his living hoeing corn. You've cut out a large and enthusiastic plece of work for yourself, Mayor Charles Bennett, of Fort Dodge. 1 wonder how you'll feel about it in some. thing like a year from now, when you've really tried to carry out that funny ordinance you have helped to pass? Can it be that you are a married man yourself and that you want to fine eserybody for the privilege of staying single? The dog In the manger was a very human sort of brute, but, after all, we hardly look upon him as an ex ample of unselfish patriotism, do we?-