Farrowing Sow, Also a Temporary Shelter for Fowl, For many jobs in the fall a alle house to use as a shelter be of great advantage. or turkeys to be moved about entcess, says Orange Judd Farmer. Build the floor the you andl make as strong possible size as is placed, which can be made of a is placed on one is fastened behind a sueving the building Under Tangue a block is placed when degired to use the building wiheels, as in husking corn in the fidd In cold weather. » The building is ere fioor, and if for tengue end, wagon it cted above the corn husking T Portable House. . 13 the walls may be canvas, painted to Keep out the rain, with a small bench budlt at one end for the stalks to lie upon, with hooks for strings This makes it as comfortabl working place as be desi: with the advantage that it fram one end of the fi 83 needed Where built for ¢ the walls should be m beards, or, at least, the ills, and the roof, of or canvas. When used hogs or it is proper place and the 1bus resting the building on the and by replacing wheels it be moved to new sired. A can and be moved » other Urnoge Ir POSE light as a pen for moved to the wheels removed axle, again fowls can a location KNELL OF CHOLERA SCOURGE Government Experts of Agricultural Department Anncunce Discovery of Vital interest. wl ally Extraordinary Interest was arous« in Chicago the other day, especl: the stock yards, by rec news from Washington cholera, the great scourge in Logs, has, in the opinion of the agricultural department, conguered. According to reports a serum, with which the department has been experimenting, bas proved a sue cess at the Union Stock yards at South Omaha, Neb. The Washington reports state: “The Stock Yards company pur chased thirty pigs weighing from for. iy to sixty pounds each from a farm which had been free from hog cholera far several years. These pigs were brought to the stock yards and four of them were inoculated with cholera. placed in a pen by within five days they had sick, at which time eighteen remaining pigs were given a doge of the serum, while the eight pigs were not treated way. The eighteen serum-treated pigs and the eight untreated pigs were ait the eipt of that the e Of experis the new become of each four pigs which had been made by fnoculation. “The fowr pigs which given hog cholera all died and eight untreated pigs all contracted the disease from them. The eighteen pigs which were given serum and were perfectly well and were finally turned over to the officials of the stock yards company upon the completion of the experiment.” The department of agriculture does not distribute this serum to farmers. but is enleavoring to bring the value of this method to the attention of the #tock-raieing Interests in order that shey miay arrange to secure state funds for the manufacture and dis srfbution of the serum. Better Silage for Sheep. At the Minnesota experiment sta. tion it is believed that greater care must be had in preparing silage for sheep than for cattle. Sheep require im sweet and dry silage. Thickly plant. od corn cut before It Is well matured, does not make Ideal silage for sheep. n planted about like field corn, ested and put Into the silo when begins to dent, has proven very Ithful to sheep, and they have e well upon it. If clover hay is in conjunction with this silage, and satisfactory gains may be in sheep fattening. A —————————— NEW TROUGH Ingenious Contrivance Invented by In- diana Man Fills Tank as Fast as Emptied, An Ingenious contrivance for use in watering troughs has been invented { by an Indiana man. It consists of an automatic device for filling the trough as fast as the water is depleted by New Watering Trough. animals drinking it. The pipe throug! £ with a spring valve An angle the bottom « shaped arm is ¢ +h pivoted e tank near this pipe with the lower end of the as the i a wooden mi raat i Tess valve and end upper whicl ball, face of the wa nis appliance wil When the wate fie is depleted by nks with it on the valve rises, admit water This device insures always a full sup ater in tank water otherwise the source Yor < ply of fresh w the And saves the waste that runs over when trough from a running CROWDING ABOUT SALT BOX i Prevented Hiustration—How Together. by Receptacle it Shown Is Put in Salt Box. crowding about the bunk is place i made about long S50 AS bt sides, The within an inch that stock can lick the salt, salt An ordinary three the salt fit | DArTY come the bo and to naide it mu sides ch Wer down to of ntom se Wean Pigs Gradually. should be weaned trough near the pen but out of reach of the larger hogs A small opening ihat will allow the little fellows to pass in and out free some milk in small trough | and in & very short time they will be tasting the milk They may not eat at first, but it will not be but i a short time before you will find them tossing each other about, each trying to get the last bit of the milk. 3 Pigs gradually Have a small iy, the much Hogs often get crooked legs for lack i of exercise Stockmen say this Is a good time tc buy up calves. Packers find it hard hog prices down. Shropshires and Hampshires best all purpose sheep. Pure air, pure water, clean food and | 4 clean place to sleep make hogs prof work to put i {table Some cattle breeders make the mis take of crossing breeds for the pur pose of combining the excellencies of each breed, If one has plenty of pasture, and can ralse clover hay, there Is nothing that will pay so well for as little labor as a flock of good sheep, When a small bit of pork costs a day's wages, and even a ham bone is precious, there need be no fear of overstocking the hog market. There is no kind of animal breed ing that will pay better than the breeding of horses, but horges that will sell, not dunghilis or misfits, One of the highest uses of rye pas ture probably is for grazing ewes with lambs in the early spring, or In gra zing weaned lambs In the early fall Get a collar that will fit the horse and fix the hames 80 they will fit the collar. Do not get the bridle too tight, nor have any place which will rub and make a sore. In hilly going, an Improved brake would add years to the service of many horses that are crippled and worn out before (heir time by too much holding back. he RL Lh ML A RI ST i Michigan's close game with the { Michigan Aggies, in which the Wol {| verines were victorious, 6 to 3, should not taken seriously, as the Aggles have of the strongest teams In years this season and in Hill the farmers have a player who con | tinually keep his team from be tiful punt be too one can ing The game demonstrated thing and that is that Michigan has a strong that will be mighty svivania, Byracuse penetrate If Coach with this he will develop an offense which qually effective, F iid not take one hard a x defense, one Penn iesOta to for and in Yost is itisfied defense surels will be ollowers of football this contest or as criterions of Mi Yost is going to 1 powerful eleven with Case ngth strong and Bir« and he is which will interesting make for sure to have a (eam things exceedingly - wn - MAKE-UP OF ALL-STAR Wagner, Christy Mathewson Mordecal Brown Among Those Relegated to Bench. Honus and Wagner, Christy Brown Relegnting Honus Mathewson Mordecal but naming five in Pat and the bench of oblivion two Sox as the peers ve positions, E. ( Weekly, pick in Colliers eball ving comment: +h fil Star has team with the fol Kling Coombs, Walsh, Johnson Chance Recond Base—Lalole Hase 8; ortstop Pink Lord iders—Cobb atcher Kling has no equal to however, 10 Third Base ipeaker, Schult» mistake the work of is a iit for It re Chicago chers mind pitchers the game then in selocts sakes them out of knows been this season! 1. except Cole, have taken out many times All hata off to Chance as a manager for intelligence and Lajole needs no com. played the field, at the bat. or on the bases that Tinker has I hope prediction will not come true, but | think “Honus” has seen his best days the White Sox new life fielders are fast and furious at bat, on the bases, and In the fleld Take the five pitchers named, with batting behind them they win a pennant for any league, time, and any season if you and first baseman brains Wagner Year baseball has not in the ment game this w my and cepting plon hard luck pitcher of the year Baseball Presented to Him by Presi. dent Murphy ls Not Genuine, De- clares ThoWas Foley. Some one has “gold-bricked™ Charles Murphy, president of the Chicago The other day Murphy presented to A. G. Spalding, onetime champion the that Spalding’s great game against at magnates. How when Foley's billiard hall, In Chicago, was destroyed In the great fire of 1871. Foley, to use his own words, was “breathless” when he read a story to the effect that Murphy had given Spalding the old ball. Foley had clung to that ball with great care up to the time it was burned, as It was proof that his club had beaten the greatest pitcher at that time in the world, an@l says be knew positively that the ball was lost in the fire of 1871. Fight Club for Winnipeg. A number of Vinnipeg sporting men soon will organize a club similar to the National Sporting club of London. Before leaving for Chicago the other day Harry Glimore, who has been asked to organize the club, hod a Eleven. Michigan's Whatever opponents Michigan rules this make year, use may fered by the rule allowing unrestrict ed direct passes {s to be taken full ad vantage of by the Wolverine eleven Yost himself 4d that he is going to use the direct pass exclusive iy, and probably he won't. But itis a that the big jority of the ipon which he his faith Notre Oesnt say good bet plays in the Pennsylvania games wh there is no mi which who calls the signals, and ma pins Dame, Minnesota and will leman be plays In ich da in other n the quarterback ne leader always has and and for crossbucks ight bucks by halfbacks, r new code the plays stra the yl ¥ SBUCCEER OI chances fhe those to have Eeem increased immeasurably PAN NPN Sf DROP KICK BEATS Pr CHICAGO First Victory Cver Maroons in Nine Years. Playing with Otto Seiler. [liinols outplayed and outgeneraled Chicago throughout one of the most bitterly fought struggles between these ancient rivals in recent years. The wildest scenes occurred at the call of time at ‘he end of the final quarter, Revolvers were shot off and the cannon roared. The playing field was one mass of wildly shouting per sons who seemed unable to control their happiness. Everything that pos gibly could be done to celebrate vie tory was done and finished in a man ner which seldom has been witnessed. Hats were torn, women's hats. were thrown in the air, stands broken, and what took place that night will be re membered for some time. Numbers on Football Players. That football players should be Sy A A HA AFI EA SP Or RE HARD WORK TO GET STARTED Harmon, Considered One of Coming Pitchers of Country, Tells of His Early Playing. BY ROBERT HARMON. (Copyright, 1910, by Joseph B. Bowles) I broke into baseball on a bluff, or {a dare. ] had not the slightest in- i tention of making baseball my busi | ness in life, but 1 loved the game, and | never lost a chance to play it, no mat { ter what happened. { 1 remember that | school at my home in Liberal Mo, | where 1 was born In 1887, | used | play “hookey” to play ball, and when- | ever the West Side and the East Side teams played Saturday afternoon i 1 was either pitcher or | one could chase me into i I moved down into ! and started to play ball lin Arizona, not go much fou honor of when 1 wns at to on catcher N the the outfield s8OU 4 at Morenci, what they paid me as for the the teams I don’t | they happened to the Portland, Ore, trial in the spring boys bluffed me, saving 1 cou make good, 1 didn’t, but the fact t Portland me a sl playir know out exactly find me but team me nn the i of 1508 gave 1011 Ti¢ a CRicher He was Ix knew more Enos Garvin Garvin, an about pitch if 1 gan showing * 8 trade ten {use the natural cu He started earnest about how shutti i shooting the ball around {hard as I could | Dale {team, I began to learn the f pitching 2 i i ai successful In the will live to be lot of the tric the hit ! had ally instead of Gear, who was man: 3 scientific i 1 was { league, and befor over the Bt. louls club bought | WAS Taw even but managed tc i stick it out and by studying and work {ing 1 have managed to last this long A pitcher never gets through learn | ing. and the moment be thinks he { master of all tricks of trade he is ready to go back to the minor {i leagues. A fellow has to keep work | ing and studying all the time, learn {ing to do new things with a ball, and | learning to use his head It is hard work, but | never have re | gretied trying to break out into the | big leagues. Even If I slip back now, ior damage my arth so 1 never can | pitch again, the experience and train { Ing gained will help me In any line of | business or trade. 1 think I have | learned self-control, patience and to keep my temper; to respect the rights | of others and to look on things with e the season was hs me, 1 then, is i the Lae i § the other man's view as well as my ! own, and 1 think it has been as good { an education ag I could have gained In | any way. BAR MAN COACH FOR WOMEN Falr Sex Should Be Confined to Themselves. “1 am very decidedly opposed employment of men as athlete In. gtructors or coaches for girls or wom- en,” says James E Sullivan, secretary of the. Amateur Athletic association. “It 1s a mistake to have a man, for to have him coach or direct girls In thelr athletic exercises. “A man coach In a girls’ school will naturally present his theories from a masculine standpoint. He will tell his pupile to play a good, rough game and instruct them to do things as a boy or man would do them. “Girls’ athletics when conducted along safe and sane lines, I= a real | i " w——— ——— A TIMELY WARNING. Backache, headaches, dizzy spells and distressing urinary troubles warn you of dropsy, diabetes, and fatal Bright's discase. Act In time by cu- ring the kidneys with Doan’s Kidney Pills, They have cured thousands and will cure you Mrs. Sarah 8. Mau pin, Brentwood, Tenn, says: "Doctors sald 1 had Bright's disease and held out little hope of recov 1 could scarcely totter about. My and my life was 1 began us. And was as n ely weeks { could do a hard day's work without inoonveniencs id iS A Sry Hmbs one long, ing tons hed were swollen drawn Doan’s Kidney the out palin Pilis at results Remember the ~Doan's name iB Loy For sale by all des cents 8 box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo N . i 3, 3 * Getting a Reputation iate par from 5 next to enter of opportu. every- Ca an nave accord. respondent borrowed i utter This protest give up afraid man n't want nstantly ords aie f dia one y parted imparted ther that ne man ig.nnar gam ee? Ces were The pressed ould yuld de. apologetical- get 8 good Lippincott's What About Him? gone back and fro, and ful socialist had been an- ng that man ought to get his t by cheating, and we all listened im, and agreed that it was dread. when men and women did not tell truth, but tried to make their liv- Millionaries, we scarified all “No decep had i 80 no Le ful tie ing by deceiving people landowners, financiera who cheat the public make a living by he young man Then a 5 4 Cae rom “What about London Chronicle. tion,’ sald t the corner of the sofa, the conjurer?” THE FIRST TASTE Learned to Drink Coffee When a Baby. If parents realized the fact that cof- fee contains a drug—caffeine—which is y harmful to children, they would doubtless hesitate before giving the babies coffee to drin “When | was a child in my moth er's arms and first began to nibble things at the table, mother used to give me sips of coffee. As my parents used coffee exclusively at meals 1 never knew there was anything to drink but coffee and water. “And so 1 contracted the coffee habit early. 1 remember when quite young the continual use of coffee po affected my parents that they tried roasting wheat and barley, thea ground It In the coffeemiil, as a sud stitute for coffee. “But it did not taste right and they went back to coffee agam. Thar wus jong before Postum was ever heard of. 1 continued to use coffee until 1 was 27, and when 1 got into office work, I began to have nervous spelis. especially “At night, after having coffee for supper, 1 could hardly sleep, and on rising in the morning would feel and nervous, “A friend persuaded me to Postum. My wife and I did not it at first, but later when boiled and strong It was fine. Now we not give up Postum for the best we ever tasted. “Il can now get good sleep, am from nervousness and headaches I
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