# 5 PROVEME ~ LIVE STOCK IM NTS HRs “8 hoticeadle fact at all the great stock yardsiof the country thai the quality offered in the market is steadily Improving. In the past dozen or mbre years this fact has "heen very noticeable by all the stock yard buyers. The greatest improve- ment has appeared in the beef cat. tle and mutton sheep from the west: ern and southern ranches. The ‘great number of pure bred sires sent to these sections in the past 20 years has had a most marked in this betterment of quality coming to the stock yards and pack- ers, The grading up Is also going on in the central agricultural states. It Ras come be known that good grade animals in the mar- kets at an average of dollars on to well sell 1 t wo has live same required common ones fall much in weight as as quality that of the high grades. The International, State and county fairs and live stock shows have had a marked influence for good In the direction of the use of beftér blood in breeding. The agricultural col- leges and experiment stations have also had an excellent influence in this direction, and last but the gricultural press has the gospel of better breeding to every sec- tion of by the publica tion of report the umerous caught amount finish fed ob%ervation that and all stock feeders of feed only both, while the is Lo the below At not least, carried the country, the and § examples of noted lers ’ the facts from testa feeders g8 well as mar! he the cent meat carcass These things all tel no peonlo be, th odds some rons and they go and flocks $0 a8 man shar of his friend,” the ance word wo i WAY things. —Indiana LOCUSTS AND CATALPAS has taught me that Experience trees will cultivated than They not do well in sod, and vy ou that do better when when not io | not to be crowded zo clossly el uta lant i ha | tg ‘te ‘stand 1t #déds have already ripened, will be neéceésary. The most gencrally effective means of prevent | ing the Introduction of dodder is to j use seed free from dodder seeds. The { purchasing farmer can easily make a reasonably satisfactory * * ‘or dodder seed. FARM NOTES. If a hen lays an egg a week the { year through, it will just pay for her feed and every extra egg will yleld a profit, If you want to get a good catch of clover next give the flelds { which are to sown, a good coat { ing of manure { It you sin against your stock, be sure sin will find you out in re- duced profits, No sensible man breeding should shrunken season, be your chan ani using for would take poor, starved think of grain Ces on uals, nor immature seed, The pasture should in better shape by sowing rooted places, and should be mended so that pigs do not break out. A pumpkin cut in halves and plac before the fowls will soon be noth but rind. A good way is to them nails in the walls of house, the fowls will get de few in. he and be gotten ZrAss over fence young hog hog the the badly ed ing stick on he as sirable exercise in jumping a 8 to reach them, Mite traps are being used success fully by some. They are so arranged that when mites seek seclusion after’ their nightly feast they are trapped the Id be fed the heaviest have for they th enjoy it. enough back breaking work shove! to ng the scoop rtable do ome days and 3 x use “x cept the coals, and pace the centre of the a wood floor, Ketile how Juuch thera is in. Rbwever. 1 quite ES wi square a ri : ia lh rs ap 8pace i i ! . La ely trees feet of enough posts to be and room and by crowded they will harvest when nosts to plant distance apart as a mat crder to pos- planting them then the culiiva- : vera faet id In ne as alvise foot: Years, greatly as milek zrowth upon the and other matters also much faster the wor soil than the ea catalpa will soon The lox would be profiteb'e for growing posts if were net affected by (he borers, but thay be watched or they fwill.ruln them. The eataipa neode fomparatively rich soil, and yet 1 have Had them do very well In soils that were not quite #5 rich: Hut In general, 1 would advise planting of catalpa In fairly rich soll, and locust on the poorsr soils, as my ex. periencé has been that locust will grow and thrive Better on thin. lant than the cataipa—R. B. Rushing. in the Indlana Farmer. ependa Zrows hn © ovaeriake It yYery it Td ne rer a 15f ALFALFA, ETC Plant Industry, Department of. Agriculture, freved a free clreular dc This®is a parasitic weed, which is particularly in alfaifa | clover fields, It feeds upon reproduces itself by its seed and by pleces of stems. Theré are several kinds of dodder, seme, of which are affected by elm ate conditions. as the alfalfa dodder, which in the Wast, but DODDER IN The Bu the rey of of has just dealing with plant, or dang rous and less so with its hast plant, 144 Gar oH an fax and not known in the Eastern States. Dodder seeds are a very common brpurity falfa and flax sced in the trade, Bnd this can readily be detected with the ald of a magnifying ‘glass. Certain kMnds commonly found in domestic in foreign secod, while the is of other kinds, Low seed Imported from Bua rope generally containg dodder. With regard to ures, dedder plants allowed to seed. they moved early, and of clover, are more than cenirary true grade prevertive should not should be preferable dostroy- ed by burning Hand mothods may be used If the plants are not too abundant; otherwise ploughing un- der before they go to seed, or burn: meas no lic after the opera is the hotges of tight Clean done, best ure try use is no i satisfactory t can he house as well as be of after sulphur, into all sene oll to all the off the outer sur thoroughly .— in a li al supply which row cracks roosts, face har the sulph Apply ker and burn Air the h Witness uge Weekly SHEEP AS A CIVILIZER at a farmers’ little animal the following THE A speaker euloglzed the golden hoof esting strain “Sheep are always guard to attack new and undeveloped territory. The first sheep and first Negro slaves that placed foot on what mow the United States of America, were landed from the same fleet at St. Augustine, Septem ber 5. 1565, 330 years ago. From that day to this the sheep has been in inter is ! settlers in subduing the country and maintaining Its productiveness; and whenever they have neglected them, sterility exists as a momument to their folly."—~Weekly Withess ADVANTAGE CALVES One advantage ONE OF FALL geason of the year there is usually j mere time on the farm to aftend to | the cattle, calves are more economic i ally ralsed, since by the time the Spring grass shocts up they are ready for it, and are in good con dition the next | duties of maternity —Weekly | ness, Wit i SEPARATE THE BWE. Never allow a ewe to run with the { flock. When this Is permitted and {twing are born, the first born wand. (ers away and becomes mixed with {the flock before the mother has a i chance to own it, and the chances are that later she will refuse to have anything to do with it—Farm- ers Home Journal ———— DEFY THE COMBINE. { The man who has two or three | good cows and a bunch of Plymouth | Rocks can defy the meat combine or lany other combine. The enw and the i hen have paid for more Yuxusios for | farm homes than the Born crops, and {at the same time taken care of the | grocery bills ~~Indiana Farmer. According to the Engineering Rec. ord a concrete tank at the San An. {tonlo gas works has been ip service for tires years, holding heavy Texas oll without ¢howing any leakage whatever, “3 55 “1 és CONSUMPTION COSTS = Sy wl BE 0 PY 4 © ST wl ow = ’s SCRAP HERO. an 8 + Wp ae i 8 » =~Fyom the Indianapolis News, US A BILLION A YEAR. Fisher, read a International ing. Fisher, of Yale University, paper before the Professor nouncement that the plague costs in hard billion dollars a year He estimated that kills 138,000 persons every year fin the United States. This is equal, he said, to the deaths from typhoid fever, diphtheria, appendicitis, ingitis, diabetes, smallpox and Then again, he it generally takes three during which time thepoor victim earn little or nothing “Five million people now the United States are de consumptives' graves thing ean be done to clared Professor Flahe: death means anxiety whole family, 1 estim will be over twenty mill rendered miserable by th The scourge. he sald, victims when they young women, at the very great white cash over BAC years to di cks © oe = In i iis n and time of life yi v are you of Yale. when they are beginning to earn money The minimum cost of doc- tors’ bills, nursing, medicines and loss of earnings amount to over $2400 in each while the earning power which might have been if death had not come brings the total cost to at least $8000 for each individual If this sum Is multiplied by the 138.000 the cost, it seen, is bigger than the immense sum of { $1,000.000,000. Professor Fisher es- tir " case, wey ¥ hg ig deaths, is imated tha Ralf this cont falls the victims themselves, but the over “en ipon cost ve the consum A pti }, OUD a year As AR ms r of verred, It ould be w | the commun iy & qua | consumption is ove he while to n order to save the lives now lost by $5.500,000.- of £ sum is being self-defense, rih mere ter invest only a this disease fraction mptives : su ding the 41 careless neighbe f:cords Show 1907 Washington, D. C .—Accidents coal mines of the United States ing the last calendar year resulted in the death of and injury to 5316 more, siatistics just made public by the Survey. The death record among the coal miners during the year was greater by 1022 than in 1906, and is sald to have been the worst year in the history of the coal m indus. try. The figures do not represent the full extent of the as re ports were nol received from certaln States havin no mine inspectors West Virginia reported the heaviest death rate in 1907, 12.35 per thou- sand employes, and this State also showed the lowest production each life lost-—65,96% tons New Mexico stood next on the list with a death rate of 11.45 and a production of 77.332 tons for each life lost Was the in dur “en “ = Neen arcording to disasters, 1 ia 9.2 per thousand and a production of » Year in Hislory of Indasiry. Mis head. and each 82.535 tons for each li lost sour} had thg los h orate ing roll of with 85 ¥ - 489.742 tons of al mined {fo the the pop- dizasters if the total ! during the last year, 343 injuries resulted dust explosions, snd 2( 41 were explo ns The ath among the mins ains, was due to 34 coal ters caused 1122 death | injuries EW. Parker, the survey, asserts that much will result from the action of Co gress in appropriating $150,009 to in. { vestigate mine disasters and take steps to decrease the number of ac cidenis each year. deaths and om gas and deaths and powder 6 injuries ¢ iD the of min fs and chief statistician ben i Thirly Fee! Under San Francisco, Cal.—Wrapped in the tentacles of*a giant devil fish, Martin Lund, a diver employed hy the Coast Wrecking Company, fought for his life in the hold of the wrecked steamer Pomona, which lies in thirty feet of water in Fort Ross Cove off the Marin County coast. Tha devil fish had evidently entered the vessel's hold during the night. Lund had been at work some time before he was attacked. A giant ten. tacle four inches in diameter first gripped one leg. Before Lund real ized what was happening another en- circled his thigh. The diver began to chop at the rub- ber-like bonds and at the same time gave the hoisting signal to the barge Two more tentacles squirmed Attacked. out of the darkness and one twined i about his neck men on the surface to comply with his signal threatened to pull his hel met off, Lund was forced to signal them to stop. With only his left hacked at the tentacles until they being drawn toward the fish when he saw the outline of the body. Plung. all his force into the head, repeating the blow until he had sl sections. topus tightened its tentacles until the brace. Lund finally eut himself free and was brought to the surface fainting. Washington, D. C.—Physicians and the laity will be greatly Interested in the result of a series of experiments made by the navy surgeons recently, through which they believe they have demonstrated that mercury is a spe- cific for tuberculosis. The Govern. ment Bureau of Medicine and Burg- ery has published the reports of Med. geon Barton Leigh Wright. Surgeon Wright, who is the origin ator of the treatment, says he discov- ered the efficacy of the drug by accel dent. He was treating a case which required mercury. The patient was tubercular as well. To the surgeon's astonishment the tubercular lesions began to heal. The mercury is administered by in. Dr. Wright says: remaining is how long a time will be the well established rules of treat. in abundance, sanitation, personal hy- glene and selection of climate.” Sur. ment ew the tests. Of course it is not elaimed by Dr. Wright that the new treatment will restore the lost lung tisgue, but where there is enough lung tissue to support life hebelleves the victim can be saved. Rain Storm Uncovers Rich Placer Pockets of Gold. San Bernardino, Cal. — Jacob lL. prospecting among the old Mexican overtaken by a furious storm, which forced him to seek shelter. After a quarter of an inch of rain had fallen fn less than one hour, throwing the canyons into roaring torrents, Thom- ason returned to his work. . When the water subsided he found scores of hours panged out $10,000 in gold, ww Kansas Mastodon Tusk Crumpled When Found, Concordia, Kan. — A large ivory tusk, seven inches In diameter, was found near here in a bed of clay. The find was made by Frederick Dutton, who was canoeing in the river. The tusk crumpled into small pieces when taken out, but parts of it were brought here, and Mr. Dutton will make a further search for the skele- ton of the mastodon, which is believed to be buried In the bed of silt and clay. Years ago the lower jaw of a mastodon was found in this distriet, e000000¢ Lak Nik POR BPORTS girl who attenipth to go in without proper dress geh- more harm than bLene- it. ‘ % § The ae 5 apt to it from As far as iressing is the stherwise as few 0 have thelr by heels. with ‘the Here aS sense lo ised si Tae mnis the feet sensible rule It BO, persons are tennis cours high But ferent, neu coreet it Is far dif baz but her com- If that is not suffere; goes In for wear a riobon gir guide Xere alone is the girl, who rowing, will 1¢ wise or Laan a corsel er, when loose, girdie rather { moderately the muscles i the weak, a rubber anxie worn under the Blockings, for ten: may result Berg or a and goif, ¥ i yw » VAG Sprain 0 the hyg is doubts st A Tres Ameri buiths however, CoORLt wi the nliav. the play ads " in All ID 3 fittle «¢ smoking evening Ye* when the hard excitement ir him any give insomnia non glee he is he the and § ba never hears an the block, with all he engines, didn’t “Then there nervous prostrati was confined nurse were siartled by an awa and i gets io person in the awaken # ga to ” arouse him a woman who had n 80 badly that she bed and had to have Early one evening was te her family i commotion room. They & corner killing =a shrieking in ther roshed up to find her in mouse with the stood In the centre of the bed screaming. ”-—New York Times GOWN TABOOED QUEEN OF ENGLAND. the left for BY Nef Cowes with day, Queen Alex andra made known that the sheath gown will not be tolerated at her winter. recorded at some london organs of aristocracy which among the mid occarioned no surprise whieh Her in known. The Queen of England notes with positive horrer., according to the Throne, an impression in certain {i Informed quarters that the court England in this reign has “lax.” Queen Alexandra is affirmed indignant at rumors of gambling for high stakes at Sand. ringham, the estate on which King lends, whenever he gets the life of a The idea that the court re Ring the other the cansed it to be this cont h in thore and the length fadhion die cinsses, in circled in " well gentleman. of the ing in tolerating cer American social notions regard. the treatment of divorced men It had been represented Queen that many eetimable® ladies on this side of the divorce as conven Amaoricans of distinction, their dai voreed countrymen and countrywom- the court which would not have been granted to the, sovereign's NE ly clreumstanced. wide that Vie is a now af Court 0 own fdbiects glmilhr i The h Bprogd only result as heen a in England, the late Queen divorce idea, rigidity titude toward past This error even of grave £4, il seams, 10 remove ur WHERE Twenty O60 ba dinner 3 Why try a ple menu and arrange that your maid shall first for you rate that she the dishes per the din vad friends at to experiment not “ Ei re the dinner conk night-—or at any learn make before the {io evening of arty.—Home Chat FASHION NOTES A fine lustrous well han usinrc broadcloth always and is dressy. wears well isome afternoon us loth are For the costumes broad fo be used The bridge stocking is a fad has openwork designs over the inste and ankle, sh clubs and It wing hes oration of the ad oat. Whether it Be of cloth, linen or silk, it is trimmed either with braid or with straps or bands of different materials. A novelly crepe ¢ tallor fe « called concession to It is a light chine is the Salome dance craze. borders. The polka dots are often arranged be featured, velvets, and of these velvets are to chiffon velvets are Panne woll nowest £3 he As the clagges A new buttoned oxford has come In rather late, to worn with the dresses, and colored stock. fashionable with it. is a peenliar charm As be are There about trimmed with hows of white or delicately colored ribbon A moire effect showing water lines narrow stripes is a new idea in and they are made in all molires, enlors England loses 60000 porsong every year by emigration.
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