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(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture.)
| In feeding hogs for the market, as
also with any other class of meat ani-
mals, larger returns are obtained when
the stock is as nearly uniform as possi-
ble, and as it is very profitable for
each farmer to breed his own feeders,
particular attention should be given to
the selection of the original breeding
stock. Uniformity is of primary im-
portance, for to have a uniform crop
of pigs there must be uniformity in the
breeding herd, and to obtain this must
be one of the first considerations in
selecting the original herd.
: Selection of Sows.
The females of the herd may be ob-
tained by purchasing bred sows or
gilts safely in pig to a boar of recog.
nized worth. As it is often difficult
to obtain a sow which has shown her
self to be a good breeder by the pre-
vious litters she has produced, it is ad-
visable for economy's sake to purchase
bred giits. These should be about 12
months old, being bred after the age
of eight months, and if possible all
should be in pig to the same boar.
Here is the first opportunity to prac-
tice selection for uniformity: wheth-
er pure-bred or not, the sows should
be similar in color, marking, type and
conformation. The type of the sows
selected should be the one which the
market demands. While there is some
variation between the different breeds,
it is largely a matter of characteristics,
as a good individual, no matter what
breed it represents, if properly fed
and managed well will make economi-
cal gains, :
If possible, the first purchase of sows
should be made from one herd, for in
this manner it 18 easier to get uniform
FOOD QUALITIES OF
PETSAI OVERLOOKED
Highly Recommended as Supple-
ment of Head Lettuce. -,
al
Chinese Cabbage Can Be Grown
Throughout Whole United States
-~Has Advantage of Being
Most Economically Grown,
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
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Petsai is a supplement of let-
tuce recommended by the de-
partment of agriculture, not a
substitute for it
Petsai can be grown through-
out the whole country and at
about half the expense of let-
tuce,
It keeps better than lettuce,
and, pound for pound, probably
contains as much of the wval-
unable substance for which we
eat lettuce,
In transit it “holds up” better
than lettuce,
Petsal is one of the staple in-
gredients of chop suey, a dish
that thousrads of Americans
have eaten and liked.
Technleally petsai is not a
cabbage and the unfortunate use
of the name Chinese cabbage
should not create prejudice
against it,
As a garnish it is preferable
to lettuce; it retains its crisp
ness in flavor as well as in ap-
pearance,
Petsal is grown from seed, just
as lettuce is grown. It attains
the hoight of 12 to 14 inches,
and when ready to serve it re-
sembles the heart of lettuce,
Apply to your seedsman for
.
The poet who said “What's in a
name?” evidently had no iden that. in
80 far as the important matter of food
is concerned, prejudice could be
aroused to such a point as to cause a
mental aversion to, if not a positive
condemnation of, a really delectable
article of diet, Take the case of the
Chinese cabbage for example. In-
stinctively the gourmet shudders at the
attempt to associate that name with a
delicacy. Call it petsal—the Chinese
name for it—and probably his
prejudice will change to desire; he
will try it, like it.
Petsal was Introduced by the United
- Btates department of agriculture from
China. It is now grown in consider
able quantities in Nlinols, New Jersey,
The testimony of unprejudiced peo-
wie who have eaten petsai is all in its
ity. Uniformity goes deeper than the
mere visible type of conformation; it
| 18 determined by past ancestry and {is
tained in the germplasm.
plasm is continuous, extending from
individual to individual, and any mem-
| ber of the chain shows in its visible
| conformation only a few of the pos-
| sible combinations. In other words, a
{ SOW may not produce offspring In type
| of the same type. By selecting the
| Sows from one herd, it is not only pos-
sible to chocse animals similar in vis
ible type, but they are apt to be sim.
{Hlar in dormant characteristics as well,
In buying such animals the farmer is
not purchasing separate individuals to
form so many breeding units, but rath
er kindred individuals, all parts of a
single established line or type which
breeding unit,
At best, it is impossible to choose
sows that will produce true to type,
for as yet no line of breeding is abso
lutely pure, but by selecting the sows
in this manner the chances for uni
formity are Immeasurably increased
Some mistakes are bound to be made
and their correction will be difficult
but by keeping records of the breeding
stock and their produce, it will be pos
viduals as their poor reproductive abil
One ideal musi
der to make any real progress, It is
relatively easy to produce hogs. but tc
produce uniform hogs that will build
up and advance the breed, requires
time and constant effort.
favor, and many who have eaten choy
suey and liked It, not knowing of wha!
it is composed, unwittingly have hel¢
a brief for petsal, one of the staple In
gredients of that well-known anc
much-enjoyed Chinese-American dish
To Americans lettuce has becoms
the great leaf vegetable for salads
Throughout the year it is grown Iz
some part or other of the country and
shipped from great distances to om
tables, It is grown under square miles
of glass near the great cities and at ¢
considerable expense for coml. It Is
estimated that 40200 tons of lettuces
is grown under glass every year and
that the value of this product is
£0,648 000,
Petsal can be grown throughout the
{| whole United States. It possesses not
{ only all the good food qualities of let
{ tuce but also it has the advantage of
being more ecapomically grown
about one-Half the cost of lettuce—by
reason of its heavier yield. This fea
ture alone should recommend it during
these times,
FEEDING CATTLE IN WINTER
Careful Estimate of Silage on Hand
Should Be Made and Prepare for
Any Shortage.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
cattle this winter, a careful estimate
feed dry roughage following the silage
before turning to pasture in the spring,
two ways to meet the situation-—el«
ther feed dry roughages altogether for
a time at the beginning and keep the
silage until the latter part of the feed-
silage with other roughage throughout
the winter, :
Sufficient silage and other roughages
should be provided so as to begin feed.
ing the cattle by the 1st of January
at least, and to last until the 1st to
the 15th of April. This later date is
off the grass in the spring and protect
the pasture as long as possible. Best
results from feuding silage are obtain.
ed when some dry roughage is fed
along with it,” Unless legume hays are
used a small amount of coftonseed
meal, one-half to one pound, should be
used.
KEEP GOOD PRODUCING COWS
Animals Should Not Be Disposed of
Just Because of Corn Crop Fail.
ure—Feed Roughage.
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WORLD NEEDS FOOD
nm
Demand Makes Opportunity for
Returning Soldiers.
See Glorious Possi.
bilities in Settlement of Avail.
able Farm Land in This Coun.
try and in Canada.
The war is over, peace will soon be
the fighting nations
sheathed their swords, and the day of
What of
Hundreds
it?
of thousands of men,
from the ranks of labor, from the four
walls of the counting house, and the
confines of the workshop, taken from
world, and in the meantime
machinery with which they were for-
merly attached dislocated.
Are they to become aimless wander-
“rs, with the ultimate possibility of
tugmenting an army of menacing
‘osfers? If they do it is because thelr
tions, In building up
structures, is underestimated.
who fought as they fought, who risked
much-required
omes to the restoration of what the
‘nemy partially when it
to the reconstruction of the
world, the ideals of which they had in
destroyed,
mes
ring about this reconstruction.
Inured to toll, thoughtless of fatigue,
‘helr outdoor existence, they will re.
‘urn better and stronger men. boys will
have matured and young men will have
developed.
They will themselves
decide for
their future should and will be. On
the field of battle they developed
alertness and wisdom. and they will
return with both shedding from every
pore,
Action was their watchword, and it
will stand them in good stead now that
the din of the battle no longer rings
in their ears, or the zero hour signals
them to the fray, and it will
during their entire existence,
But If they return to find their old
avocations gone, their places filled
the institutions with which they were
connected no longer existing, new
walks of life and employment must be
opened to them. It may be that the
couniing house, the factory, the
workshop will have lost attrac
tion. The returned in
elsewhere for en within his
reach there
to-the-Land”
the remedy that will not « nly
of
their
soldier w look
fa ‘Forward
necessity, this Jies
inke
a multitude of the
he able to return to thelr
we who may
former occn
pations, whose desires are not to do so
in
door life or whose outdoor habits from
or fe
have given them such a taste and de
sire for it confinement
unbearable. Farm
peal to them, and the indications are
that it will be taken advantage of by
thousands. It means much to them as
well as to the continent of
that provides the opportunity to the
world at large, and to the stricken and
famished nations of Europe, who, not
only today, but for years to come, will
require the sustenance that can only
largely be supplied by
States and Canada.
pursuit of agriculture the returned sol-
dier will continue the cause he
whose health prohibits them from
the past one, two, thre Ir Yenrs
that wonld be
life thus ap
Wii
!
field of battle. Both countries have
ment,
past few years,
growing that unqualified and almost
unequaled success has followed honest
effort, but the raising of horses, cattle.
sheep and hogs has been a Inrge source
of profit. These are facts that are
well known to the many friends and
acquaintances of the thonsands of
farmers from the United States who
have acquired wealth on the prairies
of Western Canada. Farms of from
one hundred and sixty to six hundred
and forty acres of the richest soil may
with an excellent climate, with a
school system equal to any in the
world, and desirable social conditions,
little else could be asked.
Canadian statesmen are today busily
engaged planning for the future of the
returned soldier with a view to making
immediate necessary assistance has
been granted, the main idea being to
show in the fullest degree the coun-
try’s appreciation of the services he
has rendered.
But now that the war is ended, and
the fact apparent that of all avoes-
tions the most profitable and independ.
ent is that of the farmer, there will be
A strong desire to secure farm lands
for cultivation. Canada offers the op-
portunity to those seeking, not as spec.
ulation but as production. The deep-
est interest Is taken by Federal and
Provincial authorities to further the
S—
Men of iron.
Capt, Pdward Beck of South Bends
i
are the most overworked | Ind., at present in France with 1
comoniion
colleges, are men of the highest tech.
1
: ®
nical knowledge and practical expe | Get New Kidneys!
rience, some being professors of iD-! The kidneys
ternational reputation. The results| o ane of the human bodys and when they | black Senegalese troops, recently
i TH Fir iv 3 pr A 2 i
ara eens Ad tests aro free and | throuis'off hors oh, dierent and | wrote home cohsetuing ther
available to all. Educational oppor. system, things begin to happen. | “They are just like our own ecole
tunities for farmers are the concern he writes, “No wonder
fighters,
They
in South
hardness
| day, of
o dropped Kine
never moved;
thing, Bo
Ove of the first warn ngs in pais og stifl- | ored troops,”
§ ness in the lower “art he bac k: ighly i . " 4 & 5 i
Y FOVer ’ er ' d { they're great hey eve
of the government and appreciation colored urine; loss of appetite: ind en | hey Lg req hey b r
Is shown by the number of farmers | tion: Irritation, or even stone § the blad. | feel any pain remind me of a
who attend the free courses. der. These symptoms .ndieate a condition | colored laborer Bend, One
Aric , | a that may lead to that dreaded and fata) | test t} ¢ fel
Agriculture in Canada has reached | malady, Brigh ‘s disease for which there to test the nx fel
a high standard, notwithstanding | is said to “e no cure { low’s head, a mason on the upper Hoor
which lands are low In price. Do not clay a minute. At the first in tof a er
fellow in
he bwdn't the
ve yourselr before it is too late. Instant |
With free interchange of travel, diffi.
t certa nly find immediate |
colored
tlers from the United States which | all kidney, bladder and urinary troubles
feeling fine. Get it at any drug store, and
{ what, If the American went to Can- |
None other genuine. In boxes, three
merable difficulties, most of which.
ered, had an interest in fomenting |
The | Tul but poorly prepared «
i Btates, kept many from golug to Ca
felt a
brick,
the
man
hit
up
his
HE
hesd
the
brick the
Haron
looked
languidly :
i
“Look out whar you'alls done drop
dat mortar,” he said.”
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Important to Mothers
| Examine carefully every bottle of
| CASTORIA, that famous old remedy
| for infants and children, and see that ft
Bears the
Bignature of
In Use for Over 30 Yenrs.
Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria
Real Optimist.
+ Optimistic {who has upset
blocks from the
Oh, well,
# often told me I ought
throat = water,
Short Period With the Mind Keenly
Focussed on a Subject Will Pro.
duce Amazing Results.
Guy
peoples ng boat four
sid to his faith
! “Judg
RNS |
appear
i
i
| ;
{ ol seaside resort)
{bat of an unfriendly character, ian ha
ing from your worn and tired ith salt
{ed for the your cople, you are putt
At this
88 brightened
Ig 3 ing in
any ® on study,
Accurate Knowledge,
up
, “Say, Jim hat are them
»
"pe . . dication of trouble i ; 3 er, |
Thus upon the United States and ay 0 ouble in the kidney, liver
treatment is nec CHET | mason dro ped a
cuitles of crossing and recrossing re-
relief in Gol Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules, |
prevalled previous to the war. Dur.| It is the pure, original Haarlem Oil your
if it does not give you almost immediate |
adn he might be conscripted, put In
| wizes, —~Ady.
of course, was untrue, These un-! STRIVE FOR CONCENTRATION
and creating trouble and distrust be- |
draft law of the United States, adopt
BOTH
ada during the period of the war.
biuldin
bladder or urinary organs start taking | on It
Canada for many years will rest the i
n kidney and blad- | .
der troubles. A delay Crash
moved, Canada may look for a speedy | Ie
| For more than 200 years this famous prep.
Ing the war period there was a dread | ¥eatgrandmother used. About two can
( relief, your money will be refunded. le
prison, or in his attempt to cross |
truths were circulated for a purpose |
tween two whose language | -
carrying out of the high! auce,
citizen army of the United St
The
Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules, and | fuct
j great burden of feeding the world.
is often fatal, i
You ean almos “When
resumption of the large Influx of set aration as been an unfailing remedy for
vules each day will keep you toned up and
of something, no one seemed to know |
ture you get the GOLD MEDAL brand
the border he would meet with innu-
| by an element, which, it was discov. |
and alms in life should be anything A college profes
purposes had in view by the United | twice too m
was quickly mobilized, and conta
* earthe
a large percentage of the
from the farmygs. In this
were prevented
{ nda,
That
no real
{ there Is no inw
On the contrary, there an
fathomable depth of good feeling, and
i ' & real i & 16 nequire ¢ wire . Plerce's Pi ant Pellets put
hip Is strong 8 red be i MOR ! ig
Clean
ove its merit fo
external and lone
going
from
is There
restrictions :
all over
or
now, are
wi her has.
honld at iret } tif ot ceed. bond is ng eps right on aski
interfere, Should at fi Ww content ex ae: hi Ring
imaginary
draft to
is un
as end to
thos, dined
house.” Adv.
the long-existing friends
This
r
knowledge of
~0
heen brought
er than ever, has
about by the
in
vying
credit for
In thought
in ms in
ild up a new
has been bred a kinship whi
indissoluble itself.
tisement,
what has
been done the recent if backed
the
wns
rygeny b freer.
great sira
gle, each with other rousiy
$a fo 4 tty
giving what for concen
uf
plished.
feeling, In on i Gg N ins i Lae wt he
Little Things Count in Thrift. Influenza and kindred
diseases start with a cold.
riches
and
language, % life, a
desire to bu world, there
The reason so many Americans has
not beer
nis as
as time —Adver-
————————————_
Bought a Larger One.
Mary Ellen's fat :
¢
Don't trifle with it.
At the first shiver or
sneeze, take
: QlLlp
CASCARA E? QUININE
40 MO”
- — Standard cold remedy for 20 rein tablew
form—aafe, sure, no opaetes-—breaks up a cold
Didn't Know, in 24 hours—geheves grip in 3 days. Money
I's . wie d bist vi back if it fails. The genuine box hes a Red top
! sail hu, with Mr. Hill's picture. At All Drug Stores.
Cold Breezes
Cause Sneezes
and warn you that you are taking
cold. Don’t let it settle in your head
or throat. Drive it out with Hale's
Honey of Horehound and Tar. Clears
bead and throat and relieves coughs
house and hozrseness. All druggists, 25cts,
ked Me Carter. Shottls,,
brigades | “how do you Hi being married?” When it aches agsin—try Pike's Toothache Drops
The | mar
if Country
Her was
.
She
Of Latin Derivation.
French
from the Latin corpus, a body.
Corps is
word
Had Its Drawbacks.
i: had been m
¥. 68 a police corps,
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It
: ers
not «i
yher
rine dows
fed Was vi
any hut
ah or
United Sta
particals nu
| ized body, n the
gan
fe] arm)
two or more divi
three
{ andl each brigade three regiments
{ term first came into use in 1)
| during the Civili war period.
| Grove's Tasteless
Pekin th blond > Lou ahd Tol egtnd 22
i ening, Invigorating Bfect. Price fie,
i ——— se ———
' RB Corps consists of
sions, each containing
gelling
Emma
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= Soothed —
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[41] drugwivts: Soap Bh Ointment 2 45, Toloun B.J
spoken p, Re ”
re
ried : plied
But
tedione?
added
chill Tonle
When a
he same
that the
and
are of
safe bet
husband wife
mind it pretty
mind belongs to the
i= a
— wife
It is in sccord with the eternal fit. — i
ness of things that ghosts should walk
in the dead of night.
One man in every sixty is partly or
wholly color blind
W. N. U, BALTIMORE, NO. 1.1918,
ATTENTION!
Sick Women _
To do d during these trvi
toes I ly your ir
consideration, two women
tell how they found health,
Hellam, Pa.—*I took Lydia E. Pinkham’s Veg.
etable Compound for female troubles and a dis.
placement. Ifelt all rundown and was very weak,
I had been treated by a physician without results,
#o decided to give Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound
a trial, and felt better right away. I am keeping house
since last April and doing all my housework, whete before
I was unable to do any work. Lydia E. Pinkbam’s Vege.
table Compound is certainly the best medicine a Woman can
take when in thiscondition. I give you permission to publish
this letter." Mrs. E. RB. CruMrIiNg, R. No. 1, Hellam, Pa.
Lowell, Mich.—*I suffered from cramps and dragging
down pains, was irregular and had female weakness and
displacement. I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege.
table Compound which gave me relief at once and
my health. I should like to recommend Lydia E. Pinkham'
remedies to all suffering women who are troubled in a simi.
lar way.” Mrs. ELise Hx, R.No. 6, Box 83, Lowell, Mich,
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