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?-<Neas York American,
h
which simply means a good:
Love Your Enemies, {
An Irish priest had labored hard
“Me enemy, is it, father?” respond
ed Michael, “and it was your river.
with one of his flock to Induce him ence's self that was tellin’ us in the
to give up whiskey. ; pulpit only last Sunday to love our
“1 tell you, Michael,” sald the priest, enemies!”
“whiskey Is your worst enemy, and | “So I was, Michael” rejoined the
you should keep as far away from | priest, “but I didn’t tell you to swal
it as you can.” {low them."—Kansag City Independent.
CULTIVATE PERSEVERANCE
filied will i
Most lives are
ished tasks, which were
enthusiasm,
dropps d
ginners
which
4
them
+)
¥
seem an un
acenmplishment in the
some who are suspicious
{ the sex Yet it
that woman herself is not
to he
i eves of
e the anal
Or ae sae
reflected
insensible
nay ove
jons of a good
further to be
atirac
and it is
apple
ple; borne in
presupposes in the inventor vir
No mere frivolous feminine or weak:
brained women could have ever de
vised the apple-ple. She was, without
question, a well-poised, cleareyed
clear-headed Individual, with an intel
lect for onganization and a heart for
noble ideas. Nobody but the apotheo
CARE OF THE EYES.
in reading or writing, in either
standing or sitting, the head and body
should be erect,
The act of bending constricts the
neck veins, hindering the return of
of the common causes of short-sight.
edness,
Do not work by flickering light.
color
sd embroidery, should be worked oniy
Mm a good Mght
De careful not to read lying down,
ts there is then too much blood pres
mre in the eyes and the external mus
tas senm become very tired,
French houses
An ordinary fourdn-hand
much moming Wear
row ane. of course that
slender knot
Plaited bows of lace are very much
in style, and are pinned under the
chin at the base of the collar with a
good-looking brooch
Embroidered linen collars
to be worn with all manner
and foulard gowns as wel
shirtwaists
Attle dangling bunches of red cur
rants drip down the front of ome
French waist by way of fastening,
and cascade fruitily from the girdle
in back.
Stripes veiled in tulles, voiles and
other semitransparent {fabrics are
fashionable both for street and home
wear,
China aud Japanese blue straw mod
cap sbapss with fuil ruches of pale
green tulle and touches of green and
blue ribbons are quite delightful.
Stiff little tallored hats in odd
shades of blue, heliotrope or green
straw, with many looped bows of self
colored ribbon at the back and a
wreath of roses or fleld flowers
around the crown, will be worn with
coat suits
A milliaery novelty is a wreath ot
flowers disposed not in the ordinary
manner round the crown or as an oud
line to the brim, but reared at ove
side or hooped at the back.
# ‘
m amous
used for
ties
promise
of voile
as with