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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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| 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 |
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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
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oe Kern in By-tigh
Kite thin
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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,
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GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER
In the good old summer time when
of all kinds getting ripe
and tempting, when nbers, rad-
ishes and vegetables fresh from the
garden are too good to resist. when the
fest] prevails and everybody
goes back
wird will
that do you?
are
cucu
ve plonic
ts and your stomach
on you, then is the time for “August
Flower,” the sovereign remedy for
tired, overworked and disordered stom
achs, a panacea indigestion, fer |
mentation of food, sour stomach, sick
headache and constipation. It gently
stimulates the liver, cleanses the in-
testines and alimentary canal, making
life worth living. Sold everywhere. Ady.
for
The excracia sgonies of rheuma-
tiem are usually the result of failure of
the kidneys to expel poisons from the
f the irritation of these uric
kidneys must
Tl revert o mats iE pamedy
nt a return of the ane,
Get vom MEDAL Haas)
The Condition.
“Don’t you believe in getting next
to the soil?" “Yes, If you are able to
strike pay dirt”
Touch pimples, redness, roughness
or itching, if any, with Cuticura Olnt
ment, then bathe with
One hundred and fifty thousand pen
sons In the United States die from
tuberculosis each year,
such careful seasons
AY se
*d by master
wkage today.
Was prepar
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Libby, Chicago
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SULPHUR (OMPOUND
For pimples, black-heads, freckles, blotches
and tan, 2s well as for more serious face, scalp
and body eruptions, hives, ex 3. oC, use
this scientific compound of sulphur. Asa lo
tion, # soothes and heals; Laken internally
& few drops in a @ass of water—it gets at the
root of the trouble and purifies he blood,
Physicians agree that sulphur Is one of the
most effective blood purtficrs known. Ree
memaber, a good complexion isa’t skin deep
hip
L745
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~4t's health deep.
50¢ and $1 the bottle
HANCOCK LIQUID SULPHUR
[s=
enpe2 8 sud Slrfor wm with the eA
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tnese conditions are dus to outside Influences
it to be wondered at. Acid-stomach, begin-
degrees or other all the vital organs The
acid-stomsch, although he may not know
Be sure to sek for HANCOCK SULPHUR
COMPOUND. R has been used with satis
factory results for over 235 years.
at your druggist’s. If he can't supply you
send his name and the price in stamps
we will send you a bottle direct,
COMPAXY
Baldmore, M4, 7%
Bonesed Sulpbr Compound Cine. 4H
Lipwid Compound. Ss Mie
ee LEN THe wo
Millions of people who worry, are despon-
dent, have spelis of mental depression feel
blue and are oftem melancholy, believe that
over which they have little or no control
Nearly always, however, they can be iraced
to an internal source—acid-stomach, Nor is
ming with such well defined symptoms as ine
digestion, belching, heartburn Bloat ste,
will if not thecked, in time affect to some
nervous system becomes deranged. Digestion
fuffers. The blood Is impoverished Jiealth
and strength are undermined The victim of
the cause of his aliments, feels his hope,
courage, ambition and energy slipping. Ang
truly life i» dark-—mot worth much to the
man or woman who has seid stomach!
Get rid of It! Don’t let acid stomach hold
you back, wreck your health make your
days miserable, make you a victim of the
“blues” and Jisomy thoughts! ere Is 8
marve modern remedy called EATONIO
thai brings, oh! such quick reilef from your
#lomach miserisp—asts fous stomach to rights
snakes it strong, cool sweet and comfort.
able. Helps you get back your strength, vigor,
vitality, enthusiasm and good cheer.
many thousands Exon thousands of sufferers
have used BEATONIC with such marvel
heiptul results that ws are sure you om
feel the same way if you im ost ive It &
trial. Get a big 50 cent box BA TONIC
the good tasting tablets that you eat like -
bit of candy-~from your st today. He
will return your money If results are
even more than you expect.
Toilet Cream
Ask your druggist for it 30c and 60c.
MYSTIC CREAM CO. MIDDLETOWN, N. Y.