Delicate Mechanism Despite its scope Swift & Company is a business of in- finite details, requiring infinite attention. 8 Experienced men must know livestock buying with a knowl- edge of weight, price, the amount and quality of meat the live animals will yield. Each manufacturing operation must be done with expert skill and scientific precision. A highly perishable product must be handled with speed and care a PLAN GIVEN TO DEHORN CATTLE Strong Clothesline and Clean, Sharp Meat Saw Are Among Tools Required, MEANS TO CONTROL ANIMAL Necessary That Rope Be Held by As- sistant So That It May Be Slack. ened in Case of Emergency— Where Horns Should Be Cut. (Prepared by the United States Depart. ment of Agriculture.) The dehorning of caitle can be very satisfactorily performed without other | apparatus or instruments then a good | to avoid loss. Chemists, and r sp er i Of he LiaC Alert wisdom be used in gettin the open chann our four Branch house « ] / and « cy rebixri bey Si aciuvily ~ ¥ Ah — A SR FAAS os Cl in nm ——. accountants, ers, ne a, YLT ee Te —————————— pe wy. 4 ent must H0UsSes. must branch rant 1001S Aka ois. oe a A ri So a ea ro gr maa——— Ho A CA A I WA Sr ry Zax oS e acute competi- and oY Oi rge deli roved YY Lidps Bah % 2 Ew - #5 nd PAE PERE N pa Liiail JOVerancn —-—" acy ice the rendered nd you a Swift “Dollar”, i ——————— —— Chicago, Ill, 7 Tre we 1 hg 213 oO Walia ne” | wh AALS Oo A coat of arms is no good eealing a one-cvlinder brain. SWAMP-ROOT For many years druggists have watched with much interest the remarkable record senintained by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp Root, the great kidney, liver and bladder medi- It is a physician’s prescription. Swamp is a strengthening med: cine. It helps the kidneys, liver and blad- der do the work nature intended they should do. Bwamp-Root has stood the test of years, It is sold a druggists on its merit it should you. No other kidn medicine has 80 many friends, y Be sure to get Swamp-Root and start treatment af once. However, if you wish first to test this gras Ah eparation send ten cents to Dr. ilmér & Co, Binghamton, N, Y., for a samples . When writing be sure and this paper. —Ady, The poetry of earth 1s never dead. In W. Sheep A aaatie 1404 Came for The Governments of the wan and Alberta extend * J EE THIS Snow's Sy, &" WHAT BECOMES OF % / THE AVERAGE ooLLAR 7 RECEIVED BY ; J SWIFT & COMPANY | § mom Tee sais or wear ¥ AND BY PRODUCTS 8% CENTS 48 PAID FOB THE LIVE ANIMAL 12.98 CENTS FOR LABOR EXPENSES AMD FREIGHT 2.08 CENTS REMAINS WITH NI Sor - . AS PROFIT Not Much to Choose. The honors are about even, whether | your job wears out your shoes or your trousers. It sets vou back about £15 for replacements in eithér event. { Kansas City Star. . important to Mothore | Examine carefully every bottle of | CASTORIA, that famous old remedy ! for infants and children, and sce that it Bears the | Signature of In Use for Over 30 Yenrs, : Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria The grain deficit in Germany is re ported to be 2.000.000 tons, Small buildings are being erected In t Sweden with bricks made from pent. Dr. Peery's “Dead Shot" not only expels Worms or Tapeworm but cleans out the mucus in which they breed and tones up the digestion. One doss sufficient. Adv. i In Indian the average length of life "18 only twenty-four years, LAS 1 as Grain Growin Growing fa a profit maker. Cattle, ey ag Per Acre at Much Less. offer to { 50 the farmer ani renchismn: saey terms, and get high prices FA | strong clothesline and a clean sharp HeRt saw, or a m ¥ with a rigid The same ler sg means for USL 8 upbhis- ers are to Stezr Showing Result of Proper Dehorning. | Head of stanel then down anderneat! an rail the neck end up and over thie fhe op of stant, Now the the stanchion rail to an as hold it open i | stanchion, animal to | withdraw {1s head: ti oti, keeping the | | rope tight, it once around fhe | 3 Wh firmly i should Tieus i allowing Pass { muzzle, up and over the stanchion ' rall, and through to the front the hands of the asdsta: | should stand 3 or 4 feet In front of | | the animal again to who | and hold the rope firmly, | { but prepared te release it when told | ! to do so by the operator, The animal | | 8 now resdy for the dehorning opera | tion. Rope Held by Assistant It is necessary that the rope be held PROTECTING HORSES FROM STABLE FLIES Source of Keen Annoyance to Animals in Hot Weather. Most Logical Method of Abating Nul- sance Is to Eliminate All Breeding Places—Coal Tar Sprays Are Reccmmended, Prepared by the United States Departs ment of Agriculture.) Stable flies are a source of keen an- noyance to work animals during the heat of summer. Every owner who has the welfare of the dumb beasts at heart should strive to alleviate as far the horses are exposed, the fly breeding plac x nuisance is fo 88s m eliminate , Such anure piles, fs iffitivre shonld i 1s s ont in fla pr oe Kern in By-tigh Kite thin most he f its Kind 1 STORAGE LOSS OF POTAT Enormous Waste by Building More Improved Houses, (Prepared by the Uniied States De ment of Agriculture.) Importance of modern sweet potato storage houses, such ns have heen de signed by the United States depart. ment of agriculture, In which potatoes can be kept with practically no loss, is ing from Improper storage. South | anlmal struggling during the opera- | | thon so as to throw itself off its feet, | | or if there appears to be danger of its i { choking, the rope may be siackened | i promptly at the word of the operator | and the animal partly released, however, Is rarely necessary, for as | ator should be ready, standing at the | saw, and proceed to saw off first the | right and then the left horn. It is a | good plan before commencing the real work to experiment upon an animal in the matter of control by tying the head to the stanchion rail as described. | If the stanchion rail is too wide to! permit of properly securing the lower | part as well as the upper part of the animal's head, the turn of the rope around the muzzle may be omitted and the last lap of the rope carried around the stanchion rafl to the front and to the hands of the assistant. Care should be taken that the rope pass each time over the neck of the animal Improper Dehorning. to the stanchion rail between the horns in such a way that it will not interfere with the work of the saw, Where to Cut the Horne. The horns should be severed from a quarter to a half inch below where the skin joins the base of the horn, cntting from the back toward the front. If the cut Is made too high an frreg- ular, gnarly growth of horn Is very apt to follow, It will be seen that the point of union of the skin and horn “varies in different cattle: hence there ean be no rule of measuremegt, ex cept ax the eye becomes trained to seo the point or line at which the cut should be made. In the beef breeds Interior of Satisfactory Potato Storage House With Earthen Side Walls, Carolina In 1017, because of disease In the field and In storage, lost 60 per cent of its crop—that portion being valued at £4688110. This state produces about 125 per cent of the sweet potatoes ralsed in the United States, and the crop ranks fourth in the state in value, being sur passed only by cotton, corn, and tobae co. Storage losses through the South are being greatly reduced, as the farm- ers and dealers are continually build. ing both community and individual storage houses of the improved type. LOSS OF VALUABLE MANURE One-Half of Plant Food Value Lost When Left in Open Yard Dur. ing Summer Months, Manure left In the open yard through the summer months may lose one-half its plant-food value due to fermenta- tion and leaching. Rotted manure which has been saved carefully will be richer in plantfood elements, ton for ton, than fresh manure. It re quires one and one-half to three tons of fresh manure to make a ton of rot ted manure, which is reduced greatly vantage In rotting the manure; fully one-half neh of skin, all around, usually taken off with the horn. tee apply It fresh from the fore any loss ocours, i : ! i SE TitireLe 3 a — fine me 1 ou ! ir er . “ty Contents will serve two, Libby, M%Neill it Two Were Mistaken Ts ¥ we “% : Brown ie # n i $ E N . NUINE ASPIRI Useless Quest Ho—1 am tor mind She-