= IN CATTLE-FEEDING SURVEY RESULTS Extensive Studies Have Been Made in Connection With Many Agricultural Colleges. GOVERNMENT MAKES EXHIBIT Amounts of Feed Necessary to Make Same Amount of Total Gain on Feeder Steer Shown Pictori. allly--8Systems of Feeding. {Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) In an exhibit at the International Live-Stock exposition recently held at Chicago, the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture showed some of the results obtainetl from an exten- sive survey of steer feeding in the Middle West. These studies have been made In co-operation with agri cultural colleges In the states of Illi nols, Indlana, Iowa, Mingesota and Nebraska. The survey has been car Prize-Winning Hereford Shown at the International Live-Stock Show. on for the last fi involved approximately each year. Another is to be made, but been obtained to date that practical Interest to cattle throughout the United States. Resu..s of Survdy. The results th's survey, tht shown at the exposition entitled, “Beef Producti of the large government exhib! as found that two f ratl ‘ing used by cattle feeders gen- thre ghout is region. T! used in a locality is determined by the kind of hay that there. About the same num! steers are fed by each metho out th studied. ried has steers study year's 8 have “0 feeders result are of were booth part It » are De erally type types 0 fs grown region Feed Necessaty, Agriculture, frog the Washington STANDARD FOR BEEF BREEDS To Assist Begitiner “Department of Agriculture Issues Bulletin Giving Information, The question of the begir “which is the best breed of beef tie?” cannot be answered If he vpon definite reasons, for no beef has been found superior to others, A man a personal neighbors may be raising one particu lar breed, or his eonditions may more nearly ides! for one breed than any of the others In order to help those wh certain as to which breed is sdapted to their conditions, the United States Department »f Agriculture has prepared a bulistin in which given the characteristics of the and dual-purpese breeds In the United States, together with a brief history of their development. A comparative standard of excellence for beef breeds iz inciuded in the bulletin, a feature which makes it possible for the ginner to wompare tLe breeds by point. ner, Chat insists all may have cholce, be © Aare un best be 20int free of charge by writing the Uni: Biates Department of Washington, D. C., and Farmers’ Bulletin 012. WHITEWASH THAT WILL HOLD ——— co ————— When Properly Prepared and Applied Material Will Cleanse, Disinfect, and Stay On, Whitewash Is often made 1+ a slip shod way and Is put on careiessly, It does not do the job well and will not Jast. When whitewash Is properly made and carefully applied, It will cleanse, disinfect and stay on. Slack ten pounds of quicklime In two gallons of water, Cover the con: talner and allow the lime tn slack for one hour. Add encugh warm water to make the whitewash spread easily with a brush, To cach five gulions udd one pound of glue, (stick glue dis solved In wot water), one-fourth poufid of salt and one pint of crude carbolie acid. Apply evenly, while warm, with a good whitewnsh brush Paul C., Jamieson, Poultry Extension Specialist, Colorado Agricultural fol bege. : ¢ ed Agriculture, asking for DOCKING LAMB WILL MAKE BETTER ANIMAL | Tails Are of No Benefit and May Do Some Harm. Is About Two Weeks Old-—Opera- ticn Requires Tw2s Men and Knife or ®ncking iron. tails are no benefit do harm; therefore Lambs’ and may even its second week of life, say the live stock men at the New York state agri- cultural college at Ithaca. The opera. tion requires two men and a knife or docking iron. the lamb and the other locates a joint in the tall by feeling on the Inside. that a flap will grow over the and the tall is cut off at i joint about one and a half inches from the body. knife, A plece of cord tied tightly around the stump close to the body will stop excessive bleeding, but {t must be removed In elght or ten hours so the stump will not slough off, Even old sheep can be sucecessfully docked with hot decking irons. the college says, and there {8 no dange: from loss of blood. Searing the off with Irons heated to cherry red sterilizes the wound “and prevents 18. Reasons given by clalists for docking the first place the if it is left on filth accun nd and beneath it: and females likely to fail to breed. An add tional reason for disposing of the tall is that lambs look neater and deeper in the leg if the tall is docked, eT tail bleeds the college spe are that fr of no bene lambs tail ic fit: lates aroun are and wist NOSE PRINTS IDENTIFY COW Method Is Being Employed to Deter mine Animals Being Tested for Milk Records. There are ‘ criminals, finger prints to tify {dentify footprints to I bables, and the Iz inkpad is to identify cows. ns of identifying when she new. itest use of the let born It is a sure men “Tessie,” the fam. comes home is ily cow, Demonstrating Simpl identification, night. Just take her nose print. photo Pro f. W. E. Pets Minnesota feity of this means of ident adobht being for etate of Minnesota swraon of the Und versity of Is der This method has been CONS ie sted milk POTATO GRADES GAIN FAVOR Big Majority of Buyers Demand That | Shippers Do Business on Basis of Federal Rules, records by the The federal potato grades are grow. ing in popularity. “More than cent of the buyers of potatoes in car lots are demanding that shippers do business on the basis of the U, 8, grades,” it was stated by the Depart \ ment of Agriculture following a sur { vey of the trade, Investigators found of the country who were queried, demanded the use of U, 1. The October forecast put the po tato crop at 433,015,000 bushels, To move so huge a crop at a profit de. partment officials urge strict grading of potatoes according to the No. 1 specifications. — MARKS ON LINCOLN HIGHWAY Uniform System of Signs Now Ex. tends From the Hudson River to the Golden Gate. The marking of the Lincoln highway was finally completed in 1021 when, with the co-operation of the New Jer sey highway department, the last per manent signs were placed along the 60-mile stretch between Jersey City and Trenton. The remainder of the marking In 1519 and 1920 has been well maintained with the result that a uniform system now extends from the Hudson river to the Golden Gute, The Lincoln bighway is undoubtedly the hest murked highway In Ameries and this system installed at great ex pense is a wonderful sid w motorists . Tasty Dish for Lunch or of Agriculture.) For a tasty dish for lunch or supper or unexpected guests, the States Department of Agriculture rec- ommends club sand- cottage cheese This sandwich is made of three good- slices of toasted bread, one or The rest of the the filling may be taste or the larder. often cut diag ed on individual plates with the halves arranged in shape. sandwiches are Such and sery dinmond the (4 to toast y cut Immediately after toasting, otherwise £ out the " rance of SHUES HAS rain while the sand- and the filling may sliced through with a sharp knife placed together ag be in these cheese contaln and to addition to the cottage club sandwiches dressing may lettuce, mato; with mustard; or nuts; or sliced orange, sliced Spanish onion, i tiny strips of bacon; pepper, salad dressing or sliced tart watercress ; mento’ or cucumber Let a pple, or green pirnento, tuce are usually these combinations, Nwest with marmalade made layers rose : of dried A GOOD PLAIN CAKE Tiny Squares. One Has Been Tested by Department of Agriculture and Found Suitable for Purposes Named-—Use Good, Clean Fat, be slowly nilia lace the first three ingredients double boiler fire, and until it stiffens enough to hold ghape. Then pinch of salt and | beat until thick enough to spread, flavoring. in over a low add a vanilla or other flavoring m ay half of unsweetened into the mixture enough to hold then thick, and For caramel icing caramelize tablespoonfuls of sugar and add an equal | water, squares I pouring stiffened cook until it has shape spread, two or three of amount boiling recipe, and continue according to fh AAAS POTATO STUFFED WITH PORK: Holes Made With Apple Corer and Filled With Cooked Sausage Is Most Excellent. Pare large potatoes, suggests the United States Department of Agricul- ture, and then make several holes through each one with an apple corer. Fill the holes with previously cooked sausage meat and bake. Potatoes that have been peeled take longer to bake than those In thelr skins, When Sink Stops Up. When you find that the sink is stopped up, turn on the tap untid the sink is three-quarters full, then turn it off. Put the palm of your hand flat over the hole and lift your hand up and down very quickly. This will soon make the water run away. Use for Old Stockings, When packing furniture for moving, old stockings will be found Invaluable for wrapping legs of chairs and tables. They will not tear or leave exposed Places for scratching ns paper does. G00D | PORK SAUSAGE RECIPE Homemade Product Favored More by Many People Than Any That Is on the Market. into meat piate, rough rie Pa MILLIONS oF ‘SHOES WASTED Annual Loss to Country Placed at $250,000,000 by Bureau of Chem. istry-—Poorily Shaped. SIMMERING BURNER | IS BEST Helps Greatly to Cut Down Amount of Gas Necessary in Boiling and Stewing Meats, of an simmering burner down the amount of gas the processes suggests of provided with but one “simmerer.,” but a second one could easily be substituted for one of the larger burners OF INTEREST 10 THE HOUSEWIFE New linoleum will clean more easily if of varnish. The ‘use he Ips fo cut consumed in and stewing, States Department Most gns of the siovYeR are last longer and given a light cont * » - Add a tablespoonful of vinegar to the last rinsing water, to bring up the color--do not use biue, - » - When washing colored clothes add a handful of ordinary salt—it pre vents the color from running. - * * Brooms lay be made quite new and clean if dipped into a pall of boll ing soda water, then dried in the sun, * - * Apple sauce that has its sugar add. ed after it is removed from the fire will not turn an unappetizing brown color, - . * To stew steak allow about one and three-quarter hours to two and three. quarter hours, according to amount and thickness, La * Juice may be extracted from an onion by cutting a slice from the root end, drawing back the skin and grat- ing on a toarse grater, Old furniture can be stained mission color with a package of green dye, Simply add one quart of water to the dye and boll it and then put it on with any common paint brush. The result A SI bed Rich sl lon colar, § Greeks and Romar Conseivad Idea of Communication by Method of Understood Signs, In mnns help tw fas placed ters they Hghted, A German general named Aeneas who lived in Aristotle's time, invent a novel system of telegraphy. Two earthen vessels were filled water. Each was provided with a top that would discharge an equal of water in n given thoe, whole or any part of the would take exactly the escape from either vessel, On the surface of ea plece of cork support marked off into Rto- the and with giraw olden days the Greeks practiced telegraphs of pots filled with sgturiated in in rows, expre to the oil, which, according order in which were al 4] that RO game time ch an divisions, each This system of communication army. Une placed at each station, anyone wanted to : he Hghted a torch. wmrge at the her s to show that he when send a mes Soon the he c ion did the same, tion. The torch, otd then exti: party sender and opened th sen a r relighted hi each cock of his WAS closed, +» POCeive ii » (iis said, but Not Meant. Twas } i in Vir res far pat ties from St Johns ater covered the area inl of over solid the river, ger n such e ex- Their produced merely mea but no justify extensiy quest quantities to | ploratic as Kreigler's Kindness. Fritz Kreigler gave two recitals In Hes offered entire In of the SOO.000 his to Hungarian Hungarian crowns. poor amounting He did where the 30000000 Austrian the poor through his art. “I Ing.” he said, “like a knight, the pocket of the wealthy people and giving it to the unfortunate ones. But, of course, in a different way from the regular robber knights” am act A Link With the Past, A singer recently died in Turin who boasted that for a short tinle she was a pupil of Donizettl. Now Donigetti died in 1848, 74 years ago. This longdived artist was Vir ginia Boceabadat!-Carignaml. She was a great star in her day, and some said that In some thinge she was the equal of Patti, At the time of her death she was ninety-nine years old, After she retired. from the stage she taught singing in. the Lyceum of Pesaro. Latterly she had lived In an old ladies’ home In Turin. + Light on the Subject, I married a man some years younger than myself and did not want his peo- ple to know how old I was, While visiting them last summer we passed a large dairy farm, with the year it was bullt printed upon it, _ “Why, that. barn was built the year I was born!" I exclaimed. The look on Fred's sister's fuce was epough. My husband laughed and added some more embarrassing mo. ments. I'll never imagine myself clever at concealing things again Chi | | Norman { of fix fies i yd dizzi- Pres. troubled + sirtburn ar ness, and nt there most cut off Since tuk My ny digestion is a wonder and want. 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