log Cholera Is Dangerous Today ment Certain Precautions Are Needed. nited States ture.) (Prepared by the 1 Department of Agricu of United States A recent investigation the hog chivlera situation by the Den: prisi Agriculture reveals sur sness among farmers in the The tiveness of the preventive-serum treat careles dealing with disease effec ment has given many swine owners a feeling of security which is not real, “Yet without " de clares Dr. U. { hog-cholera Just was," For safety proper Houck, in “the today (: disease it e control, as dangerous as against this disease it Give the Farm Home a Distinctive Name Movement Fostered in Ten- nessee for Past Four Years. (Prepared by the United of Agriculture.) “Name your farm home” is the gan of a movement fostered by home slo- More than 3,000 named, by it the homes have already been cording to a report received This year the idea is again be there ill homes which have not registered a dis tinctive either with the the state department agriculture, The passed a law permitting such registry Farm home owners are urged to give stressed, as are st many name exten $1011 Service or state recently keeping a period precau tions. Isolate all stock, it apart from other hogs for of at two weeks, This tion especially to new least hogs applies chased at public pur likely to spread infection, Permit no sick hogs to roam at large. nced and ma repalr. Burn Keep hog iots properly fe l fen tS in deeply the ca croodd reasses of ani Dea farm (EN) (NE) Developing Implements for Use in the Orchard i 113 result Best Time to Purchase Different Dairy Feeds A survey of the various feed mar kets indicates that wheat bran usually reaches bottom price in June, July 1 and August ; and Ju Nepter linseed oil meal in May, June 1 cottonseed meal in August, her, January and February, and feed in May, June their feed budgets ac ginten and July buying what feed they n not £ 1% ill probably feed pointed out by ry extension spec ial nome-grown gh feeds It i protein the ads the dairymen intage of feed and mine when these feeds can be bought study the markets tleter. at the best price, he said Does your farm have a name? » - * Purebred sires should he judged hy their progeny rather by their nncesiors, than - - » Feedz are low, and farmers who have money or plenty of credit mav profit hy laying in a supply of feed for fall use, * * * head of cattle and ranks fourth the United States in beef cattle pro- duction. . . -. Tuberculosis of fowls should be watched for at all times, as its In- flaence in the control of fowl cholera is not to be Ignored. . oo» Do not feed brood sows for 24 hours after they farrow. They should have plenty of fresh, clean water all the tise, but should not be back on full feed for at least eight or ten days, * * . With potato seed high, farm man. agement oo to the acre. And a bushel stock sold now may bring enough to buy two bushels of certified seed next your, right name, It should be dignified, sultable, lasting, not too com mon, easy to say, easy easy to remember, It the mail box or over oar to read, and should it, or on n on gate, It is In that it should be used t on let and on the label of anything appear the tended terhends gold from the farm, » naming of the farm home is oft step in general home im There 1s an effort it which has to live Farm Shop as Important to Farmer as Railroad v ortant Practical Suggestions for Pruning Grapevines Prof College orneil fol Young Joseph Oskamp of the CO of Agriculture directions for the training "At nfter planting time, and the year young grapevines should be and tied to The second mld send out a cane long cut hack to two buds stakes for each vine she support 81 enough to be tied to the top wire This if the Kni training ig used, shoul at a height other three feot Number 9 or 10 used strung on apart, after third canes will develop from the trunk left, and of be removed in except at wire at the lower wire: these four canes should be tied to the wires to the right and left at right angles to the upright trunk, and should be eut back to four buds each.” a trellis trellis, gyatem of have two wires, one and the ground. generally t five feet from the and oh feet “In the summer the all these the winter pruning two the top Cause Orchard Neglect Lack of equipment the biggest single factor in bringing about of the farm orchard, in the of W, rock, of the hort! has heen neglect | opinion ture, University of Illinois, The farmer has been induced to buy the cheapest kind of hand-operated spray A brave start Is made with this the only individual because the work is hard, The sprayer has been a men have refused to hand-operated failure because work it, Apple Pomace for Cows Dried apple pomace, when com- pared with dried beet pulp and corn silage at the Virginia experiment station, showed that one ton of pom- ace was about equal to three tons of corn silage and that one ton of beet pulp was about equal to four tons of corn silage. The pomace was highly relished by the cows and was an excels lent appetizer. The experimental re gults indicated that the value of the pomace was 75 per cent of that of dried beet pulp and that the present price of pulp is too high In compari son with corn siiage, FISH 5 DAYS FOR ATLANTIC CABLE At- tend Mending of Strands in Heavy Gale, Thrilling Experiences Fayal, Azores.—The deep, black At- lantic wave mountains roll on endless- The and been wind. eleven northwest For our cable in this sea. smoke of another The here and the cable ship is pursulng its lonely path, We had to repair a broken trans-At- lantic cable of the line between New York and Fayal, snd therefore our steamer, the Great Western's Colonial, had gone out to the very midst of the ocean, We found fathoms deep. ous sky leaden, days nights steamer has the Only once di ' Bee nly once did we see a steamer, void, ocean is the water was 3.000 Three miles to the un- explored bottom of the Atlantic! But somewhere in that depth lies the nerve of the the and it with the mbssages of the people of two The » hauled on board ¢ world, cable, thrills \ Liner hemispheres, Azores fen paired. not rare done out the si egligently, Clasped to Bed of Sea. repair a ible ea 1 © of of two de New York and only 1,444 at Fayal. The cable was defective, Aec- cording to estimates, the defect was | to be sought around 1,600 cable miles east of New York. The Colonia, therefore, drove out in the heavy northwest gale. It found the place | 1,600 miles east of Sandy Hook and fished five days for the cable, The five-fingered grasping hook was search- ing the sea bottom incessantly. Day and night the Colonia swam about in a slow north to south, and from south agein to north, Watch Day and Night, Day and night the engineers stood watching at dynamometer looked at the red needle on a horizon tal indicated the Int nnoees of tons, A machine grees In on pace, from the and scale which re in numbers hundred i the i shrill signals to the engines, the ship | to haul In the Very! the rope wound over a drum on bonrd, The steel as thick 4,000 times telegraph gave | stopped hook slowly steel was up | rope man's thumb long and can | It Is worth $2,500,000, | is hardly but it lift forty tons and each unexpected turn of the winds | this heavily is a is meters burdened rope. | sid then the red needle jumps futhoms the hook has lost may tear Now back a few hundred means that Somewhere ma obstacle, perhaps After hour and . 1 v7 rocKy COMmes board tion cable of the of the ship-—the dispatches from the sending room the cable steamer run through the en tire 4,000 miles to the furthest shore The end we caught perfect connection with New York, The 1,600 miles of American cable thus were In tact. New York apparently controlled ! this purt of the cable without any dif ficulty, It gave signs of complete con trol tili the landed Pim bay. on Fi obsticle, there fore, must storeroom gave a Colonin The lain Apparently a submarine | had up the and damaged the to or plant in ival have somewhere more bottom cable torn of the sea which, traces On strange of other gay, inal CTrUISeE We Using i ip cable ith of hit crystallizations on the tip strange piants and ahi 1.066) fathoms which lay for fathoms slight m dept} vecade 3.004) showed neral which the dag gutta-percha insulation eo« had remained unchanged since when the cable hed slipped down te the bottom of the Atlantic ocean. The great cold of the deep sea, which is al- ways just a bit above zero, had kept away all life and preserved the cable. A cable lay The miles of new storeroom of the thousand steamer, could be achi The done in Ng a new weather no it for repair no ot than by att cable to the old one, ther end ve look of the of to fir defect! Ar the iimit the steamer could And Just then there were greal depths In the indicated by oy map. If the cable touched no ground for many more miles it would have te tear and disappear In an endless depth, where the diverse currents would make it Impossible for us to find it again. The was siarmed. The breaks required the greatest attention above stand. sen whole crew now. The pulling power of the eable had become so great that it threatened to cable which wus lle 1 in store tear of the the room and hun miles of cable would shoot the ! In One moment of neglipger dreds of without ¥ stance down into OCenn, thelr course The trageds fis cable of the Great in our ! ROOUIH ship, ived terribly ank showed a Then, tl Only One Woman Bobbed in Population of 11,000 ‘ 3 4 Pa 1 Lis oR IF \ A Teme. —— inside ”’ | ONE SYSTE M, — SERVICE, ~ IR,
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