COMPEL HORSE EAT SLOWLY Habit of Bolting Food by Animal May Be Remedied by Constructing Self-Feed Box. If your horse has the habit of bolting his feed you can easily remedy it by making a self-feeder on his feed box, says the Iowa Homestead. The accom- panying illustration shows how a feed- er may ade similar to a poultry feed hopper. The contrivance may be made of enough to be n boards large Br 2 — Self-Feed Box. hold one feed. The horse get the grain only sannot eat should. with end and so than he be made all of the feed coming MAKING FIGHT ON HOG LICE Excellent sene Oil, About Equal Parts Will Not Injure the Skin. LEGG.) a continuous (By A.J It has been me agai: i 1 have bor brings Feed Trough Has Swinging Gate, Wh May Be Dropped While Feed Is Being Prepared. ch Seen Cp Cross Section View. Explanation: driveway: D, feeding platform; E, trough; F, swinging gate. It is 12 by 15 feet in size form (B) of heavy material about 12 Inches from the extending 8 Another platform (D) with a plat. bulit feet beyond shed 10 the by while feeding. The litter from the earth part (C), and driven through to haul {it gates at each side of the vided to drive through trough has a swinging gate (F), a out pen the pigs out while the trough is be ing fitlea. Action in Light Horses. Action is extremely Important light horses. It should be straight and At the trot it should be what is known as the straight line trot, no wabbling from one side to the other, or swinging the feet. The action from behind should be straight, the feet picked up smartly, hocks well flexed and the feet of both fore and hind lega at each step placed im- mediately in front of the formar po sition. in true, Alfalfa Better Than Clover, As a food for all kinds of live stock, pifalfa has been found the “king of forage crops.” It Is rich in protein tnd well adapted for the use In a feeding raticn with corn It makes excellent hay, and Is more digestible than most forma of rough feed. Num. erous feeding records show that it Is worth fully a half more than clover hay, and many feeders claim it to be almost equal to such materials as wheat bran. TREATMENT OF FLESH WOUND Method of Value to Every Owner of Stock Is Given by Prof. G. HM Glover of Massachusetis. of stock, as he Is a recognized au. thority. The ordinary wound will heal if not interfered with. ence may be from germs, parasites meddling with the wound, on the part of man or the animal itself. The first thing to do, of course, would be to stop the hemorrhage. This can be accomplished by a tight bandage of clean, white muslin applied either over the wound or above it. A thread may be run under the artery by using a needle and tied. Do not use flour, dirt, cobwebs or anything of that sort on the wound; they are unnecessary and may produce dangerous Infection. Having checked the bleeding remove the clots of blood and cut off the rag- ged edges of tissue with clean shears, A pan of antiseptic solution should be i provided, and one of the best antisep- | tics on the farm Is ereolin. Add a tea- spoonful of this to a pint of water that has been boiled and use it on wound two or three times a day. Place | th knife, shears, ete, in this solu- | tion and wash the hands before begin- | ning to dress the wound. | See that there good | the IL is drainage the kind well from the wound and do not tle wound up with covering of any { In about one week it may change to dry dressing. In the mean- time it will be well to get in communi cation with some skilled veterinarian who will advise you In the case from to time. I do not ing up the wound for the reason that in ragged cuts it is better not to 0. Remember that the principal thing get the wound healthy at the irt and then it will heal little interference ii ie be to time mention Sew do 8 to i with very | 1 | OPERATE CAGE DIPPING VAT of Team of Horses—{llustration Explains Itself. One of your readers desires ir to how tion as to operate the « the dipping vat | in your columas, sed cay Cage Dipping Vat, f the University of Nebraska in t} Dreeder's Gazette, The accompanying fDastration it clear. The crate is raise ywered by hilching a to a rope which » top of the drum down 1 ry pulley and from t for the singletree The suxiliary lar floor pulley for After the ie ret Ma % pulley tl make good by illey rope 1 tearm Fy Lion may ny convenlent direc Buy Feed or Sell Pigs? A good many are asking what they e to feed their pigs, this season, with 8) cents a bushel and mid {dlings $1.76 per cwt. and prospects of going ¢till higher. For the man has pigs and no feed, we thing it would | be about the most reasonable thing for { him to sell his pigs to some man who | has feed, and save himself the drudg. | ery of carrying the food to them and the risk of losing mood money In the process. It is the opinion of the writer | that even with pork abnormally high, | there is no money to be made Just now | by feeding hogs on a ration that must all be purchased at current prices { corn at who TIVE STOC i Cooking food for animals | pays. The stallion should show lots of i masculinity, One hundred acves will carry forty head o! live stock. Shear the sheep before thelr wool gets to be a burden. If you haven't a hog house, prepare to bulld one next fall You can’t be too partieuniar in plek- ing sires for your herds. Many stallions are used foo much to produce a large per cent of colta, Horses, cattle, hogs and chickens are dirty if they are not handled ia an in. telligent manner. The Ohio experiment station has found that rape Ig one of the very best forage crops for hogs i Sell your wool on a rising market, | Nine times out of ten you will miss it if you try to keep I for something | better. i Pigs fed on dirty, musty floors, are | apt to contract lung trouble through | inhaling dust, chaff and other clog- ging material, ! Dock every lamb, ewes when they are from eight to fourteem days old, and ram lamba from five to seven days after castration, People with a prejudice against sheep claim they are dirty. This ls quite true If they are handled mn snch & way that they cannot balp it seldom { | | | Baseball Fans are Fickle and] Have No Mercy. | | Veteran Umpire and Sporting Pro | moter, Timothy Hurst, Tells of Troubles Awaiting Former Umpire Hank O'Day. “Baseball fans are fickle, but that | (an't all,” sald Timothy Hurst, veteran | ampire, referee and sporting promoter, | as he took part in a fanning bee the | other day, "They have no mercy, The | bugs out In Clonclnnat} used to ridicule and abuse Umpire O'Day are pow pralging Manager O'Day Hindt But if the Reds with the leaders, just rooters don't make That's the way it has bes i an on for years |i i who without do not keep | see if the Hank's up siillie miserable, going n the big cities where baseball Is played “I speak fi after I had run i experience Way, bed Hause let fo 1] Von der t} Louis te in because the year ie St handily way to the dressing r« “Believe m 0, 8 Keola actually broke down and wept The admirers of former days had against iim In less than His oid spirit had gone and he soon resigned from The treatment would be accorded any of the star bal! players of today if they turned to umpiring Their achievements on the diamond would be in the wild rooting for the home team’s success “Did I ever lose my nerve while um. piring? Well not exactly. But nights 1 didn’t sleep well, because | was dead sore. I've taken on thirty pounds since I quit the business.” turned two hours staff game 5 4 the umpire to forgotten goMme Injuries and Iliness to Many Players Early in Season May Force Leagues to Take Action. The poor physical condition of many ball players in the major leagues caused by the cold and damp weather early this season has resulted In an agitation to curtail the playing sea- Weather conditions caused sev. eral club owners to declare there should be a radical reform in making of schedules, Not only did the players fee! the ill effects from the weather, but records from the clubs show that the atten dance figures fall below the mark of other years. The playing form of the big league clubs was also below standard except in one or two cases. The Philadelphia National league club and the New York American League club played many games with teams made up al tnost entirely of substitutes fob knew 1 got him from the Athletics Why is it that weather man offers us his finest = the baseball iand*® 8 the Orin! the ways Ares a2 14 bn A fail Ingers in § Pirates thay ran tb Wey gang. Rajah is s i ¥Y Crew An optimi put the winning j ie team happens to in suce Those university professors named seven modern overlooked the woman who can score a baseball game Topsy Hartsel is making good as manager of the Toledo team, and is keeping the Mud Hens well up in the American association race The Phillies passed up Kid Gleason, and now the “old man” is giving Jim- my Callahan's White Sox the benefit of his baseball knowledge Do you really think that “Six” is a sufficiently euphonlous term for such a galaxy of manly beauty as the Chi cago American league team? According to a physical culture ex pert there Is no better exercise than rooting at a ball game. And most men seem to be strong for it, too, Harry Wolter's bum Jeg has proved, under recent X-ray and other sorts of examinations, to be troubled with a Potts’ fracture, whatever that is Jimmy Barrett, last year at the head of the Milwaukee team, is working out at the Detroit ball park and says he means to get into the game again. Nowadays if a major league man- Ager can cop one youngster a season who makes good he considers himself extremely lucky, but in Rath and Weaver the White Sox seem to have grabbed two stars in one shuflle, irely heading a scrap atic fan 1 + ian | one who raves streak when exsion who it wonders 1 dt NS NNSA ANS APN St 0 LAND PENNANT mp Away ed i Lions Rube Marquard. is the same old Matty. Then, too, form, while gpitball twirler, is I » Tesreau, a making good Rube Marquard was a forlorn hope last April. Yet he won 24 games and lost but 6. And the other day he con fessed that he expected to blow him sell to over 30 victories this season-— and 30 victories are a few more than any siabman from either circuit peel ed off in 1911, As the Rube pulled 22 out of his 24 victories after mid-June, an April start with the same line of merchan- dise should boost him well over the classic border, which but few slab men reach in a lifetime of pitching, giant Tacoma Keeps Ball Team, Following a visit of President Feld er A Jones of the Northwestern to Tacoma, where he In terested business men to take up the would stay In Tacoma. HAKD FOR THE HOUSEWIFE if in weak, aching woman It's hard enough to keep house perfect woinan and health 1% sullerir Rita heavy "no Any this condi LAR 1 spect kid. 11% trouble, ally if cidney ac fess Ordered, # Kidney For Aceounted #0 OUTDOOR LIFE. Will Not Offset the | Effects Coffee and Tea When One Cannot Digest Them of A farmer gays: “For ten from years or dyspepsia and the affeine, until I got foe entirely caused by URS | tains the Oi ee) give up ¢ up eating. There were times when [ could eat only bollad milk and bread; and when 1 went to the field to work I had to take some bread and butter along "1 doctored steady took almost evervthing I could get for my stomach in way of med! got any better it only lasted a little while I was almost a walking skeleton “One day | read an ad for Postum and told my wife I would try it. and as to the following facts I will make amy davit before any judge: “1 quit coffee entirely and used Pos. tum in its place. | have regained my health entirely and can eat anything that is cooked to eat. 1 have increased in weight until now | weigh more than 1 ever did. I have not taken any medh cine for my stomach since I Bezan using Postum “My family would stick to coffee at first, but they saw the effects It had on me and when they ware feeling bad they began to use Postum. one at a time, until now we al! use Postum™ a give me strength and the but Ine if 1 i i : i i § Creek. Mich, Ter far’ trial of Postum in place of coffee proves the truth, an easy and pleasant way. Read the little book, “The Road to Wellville,” In pkgs. “There's a rea Ever read the ahove letter? A new one apnears from time to tae. They are wennine, tree, sad full of haman interent.
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