Breeders in Move
to Improve Stock
Marked Interest Evinced in
Idea Throughout
the Nation.
With the steady increase in the
number of enrollments in the “Better
Sires—Better Stock” campaign, spon.
sored by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture for the improve.
ment of domestic live stock, there 18
also developing a widespread interest
in improved female stock. This is
brought out in a report covering near
ly 12 years. Within this period 17,060
stock owners definitely signified their
intention to use only pure-bred sires
for all their live stock.
The report shows that these per-
sons own nearly 2,000,000 head of
breeding stock, both male and female,
All the males are pure bred, but the
females, as listed on the enrollment
blanks, are classified as pure bred,
cross bred, grade, or scrub. The cam-
paign is intended principally to en-
courage the use of pure-bred sires,
but it is noteworthy that for every
pure-bred sire owned by the partici-
pants—including all kinds of live
stock, except pouliry—there are 6
pure-bred females, 2 cross-bred fe-
males, 9 grade females, and 0.4 scrub
females. Department specialists point
out that these ratios indicate note
worthy live stock improvement The
ratio of 6 pure-bred females to every
pure-bred sire is convincing evidence
that persons who begin to improve
their live stock by introducing pure
bred male breeding animals soon ac-
quire pure-bred females as well. In
the case of poultry the ratio is still
higher, being 14 pure-bred females for
each purebred male.
The report shows also a list of 44
counties, each of which has more than
100 participants in the “Better Sires
—Better Stock” campaign.
A new development in the campaign
is a simplified form of enroliment
blank which will eliminate hence
forth the necessity of listing breed-
Ing stock. The new blank is less com-
plex in other respects also and has
been designed particularly for the
convenience of busy county agents
and other extension workers engaged
in live stock improvement activities
It carries illustrations of the certifi-
cate and barn sign which the depart.
ment grants to pure-bred-sire users.
The blank likewise provides a space
in which stock owners may request
current publications on animal breed-
ing. The report shows the progress
of the campaign up to July 1, 18631,
and is available to interested stock
men, county agents, and live stock
officials.
Assist Horse to Shed
Coat by Clipping Him
No animal is in normal condition
while shedding—and it is unfortonate
that so much heavy field work comes
right at the time the horse must shed.
This period is hastened and passed
over with no lessening in the efficiency
of the horse if the owner takes
hour in the spring to clip him. Im-
agine yourself doing a heavy Job in
warm weather and wearing your over.
| coat! Yet that Is no more than the
farmer expects of his horse when he
puts him to the plow and harrow
while still wearing the cold weather
blanket of hair,
But the horse isn't the only bene-
ficlary. He'll pay for his clip with
more work. He can be cleaned in half
the time—and a more thorough job of
cieaning done, The clipped horse as-
similates his food better—and that
means he requires less feed. He rests
better and his actions show he feels
better,
Steer Classes Unchanged
The plan to classify steer competi
tion at the international live stock
exposition by weight rather than by
age has been temporarily abandoned,
according to Secretary B. H. Helde.
The classification by ages will be
maintained at the 1031 exposition as
in the past, Purchases of prospective
show animals by exhibitors prior to
the suggested change and the grant.
ing of appropriation by breed associa-
tions on the present basis are the rea.
sons for not making any change this
year, This year's show will be held
November 28 to December 5.
Fall Pigs
In order to make good gains on the
fail pigs and to bring them through
the winter months In a thrifty condl-
tion, they need to be given a good start.
Strong, vigorous young pigs are well
on thelr way towards making profits
for thelr owners next spring. They
should not be weaned until eight or
ten weeks of age. Also, if they are
trained to eat grain in a creep away
from the sow, they will lose little flesh
at weaning time. Keep the beds dry
an provide well-ventilated quarters
free¥irom drafts. Dry feeding is bet-
ter in winter than slop.
Seed in Fall for Lawn
There will be fewer anxious mo.
ments about the fate of the new lawn
if it is seeded in the fall with the com-
ing of fall rains, says 8, W. Decker,
of the floricultural division at the
University of Illinois. Early fall seed.
ing gives time to make a good, deep
root growth and be ready to withstand
the winter. Late fall seeding after
October 10, is not recommended, as
the alternate freezing and thawing
will heave the shallow-rooted plants
and they will disappear.
Specialists Tell of
Variety Pops to Twenty-Six
Times Its Volume.
Pop corn specialists have surpassed
the record of two blades of grass for
one, Through selection, they have
produced a new strain which pops to
20 times its volume,
The new strain, a yellow pearl pop
corn named Sunburst, was produced
during a seven-year period by agron-
omists of the United States Depart.
ment of Agriculture in co-operation
with the Kansas agricultural experi-
ment station,
The produced the new strain by test.
ing ears of pop corn and retaining for
seed the ones which gave the greatest
volume of popped corn. The test con
sisted of popping a sample of the seed
from each of the selected ears and
measuring the volume of the result.
ing popped corn. Each sample was
also tasted for fluvor and texture, The
remainder of the seed on the good
ears was kept and planted the follow-
ing year, The process was then re
peated,
better popping corn, It took one man
an average of 20 times the volume of
the seed when
Golden , the variety from which Sun
burst was developed, gives
grain,
possibilities for the commercial grower
of pop corn seed, declare the agron
omists who made the Kansas test,
Calves Need Grain for
Beef calves that are turned out two
grain in addition to thelr
milk and grass if they are to be quick
ly fattened into profitable “baby
beeves,” according to W. B. Young.
of the animal husbandry department,
College of Agriculture, University of
Illinois. They should be taught to eat
grain before they are turned out
that they may be fed in a “creep”
while running with their dams, he said
Getting them on grain
started Hes
easily by feeding the cow in a low
find out
Another
to
calves is
calf may around and
what his mother is eating.
method which be used
time and labor with several
to fix one large stall or pen into which
all the calves may be run,
The grain should be put
kind of a feed
that the calves can easily
and get their noses In. A mixture of
equal parts of cracked corn and
ground oats used at the rate of six
or eight parts, by measure, 1o one part
of or cottonseed
good one to feed.
nose
may
in
see into It
linseed meal, is a
Handy Grain Bin Boards
Joards in grain hin doorw
up and down easily when arranged nc
cording to the plan used by John IP
i's
county, Minn.
Hass, Rice county
fits his boards so that they lle
ing instead of horizontal. Mr.
cuts his bottom board about 2
As explained by Harry
agent, Mr. Becker
slant-
inches
the right end to give the proper slope.
with their ends cut
the groove.
up from left
the right
out very eas
after another,
the proper angles to fit
All of the boards slant
to right, and by lifting
of each board they come
ily.
him much time and annoyance.
Teach Terracing
Terracing equipment is being pur.
chased by rural school districts in
Pottawatomie county, Oklahoma, to
be used by classes In agriculture in
the schools and by farmers in the
neighborhood. The county agent amd
superintendent of schools co-operated
in the county-wide terracing program
and 8 majority of the districts pur
chased equipment. In one district
eight farms were terraced and seven
were drained. In another district near.
ly every farm had used the equipment
before the school year wns ver. Farm
ers there bullt five and one-quarter
miles of drainage ditches and ter.
raced 184 acres. —Capper's Farmer,
Agricultural Notes
Watch the nests and see that they
contain enough litter so that the eggs
will not be broken in the nest.
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In the Middle West soy hean hay as
a substitute for alfalfa has worked
well in wintering ewes with lamb,
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It is estimated that the American
farmer is at least four times as effi
cient as any other farmer in the world
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The United States bureau of blolog
ileal survey estimates the average
hawk or owl to be worth $20 a year
to farmers. They prey on insects and
rodents,
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July and August cultivation In the
orchard extends the growth period and
prevents the fruit from taking on the
best color.
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Careless handling in pleking, grad
ing, or packing !s responsible for much
cheap fruit. A bruise Is never re
paired.
DIG UP CEMETERY
OF ROMAN EMPIRE
Recent Discovery in Ostia Is
Important.
A workmen's cemetery, dating
from the second and third centuries
of the Roman empire, has been un-
earthed near Ostia, the ancient sea-
port of Rome, and will throw much
light on the customs and life of the
lower classes of that period,
During the construction of roads
In the Ostia section workmen came
upon a vaulted roof which revealed
the existence of tombg. Systematic
excavation led to the discovery of a
veritable "City of the Dead.”
The ancient cemetery, occupying a
triangular portion of land known as
the Isola Sacra (Sacred Island), is
enclosed within two arms of the |
River Tiber and the sea, says a Unii-
ed Press dispatch,
The island was called the “Para-
of Venus,” according to his-
torians, and later the “Sacred Is-
land” for some undefinable reason.
It was donated by Emperor Constan-
tine to the church of the Holy
Apostles in Rome and this was be
lieved to be the origin of the name,
Recent unexpected. finds, however,
give rise to the theory that its lat-
ter nume was given because the in-
habitants of the port had set it aside
for thelr burial
The 20 tombs unearthed are
artistic as well as archeological In
terest. Although it canoot be expe:-
ted that they will reveal such treas-
ures as would have adorned the bur- |
ial place of the wealthier classes, the
architecture and decorations display
a certaln inborn sense of art,
The tombs rise In groups of five
or six. Around the larger structures
are found burial places, dome-shaped, |
like the sepulchers of the Moham
medans, known as “marabuttl™ All
are bullt of bricks arranged with the
same astonishing skill that was
characteristic of the great architec
tural feats of the epoch of Emperor
Trajan, such as the colosseum, the
Trajan forum, the markets, ete,
On the outside is a marble tablet
dise
grounds, {
of
with a plain Inscription giving mere-
ly the name and age of the deceased.
One door found in place, shows that
the entrance to the cells wus closed
by u solid plece of wood, lined with
a sheet of lead, turning upon hinges
like modern doors,
The Interior walls
which recelved the ashes of slaves
and poorer people and are embel-
lished with mural paintings not un-
like those found at Pompeli, and de-
picting mythological subjects.
The necropolis was probably
abandoned when the port of Ostia
fell into disuse, and the tombs were
soon buried by sand carried over by
sea winds, which explains why no
trace remalned.
held niches
Three Party Divisions
Had Name “Republican”
The pame Republican has been ap-
plied to three parties, a fact which
gives rise to confusion. The Repub-
lican party of today originated in
1854-56, after the dissolution of the
Whig party. The southern Whig
went over to the Democratic parts
on the slavery question and the
northern Whigs afliliated with the
Free Soil and Know-Nothing parties,
At a meeting held at Ripon, Wis,
1854, a group of Whigs, Free Soilers
and Democrats threatened to form
a new party If the Kansaus-Nebraska
bill passed. The bill passed, and on
July 6G, 1854, representatives of the
groups met at Ja Mic,
party tor which they
In the
election that fall, the new party car
ried 15 of the 31 Dem
ocratic party now
Anti-Federalists,
the federal
of the
in
Bame
and f
kson,
ried a
the name Republican,
states, The
fs known began
i
who o
Constitution be
8 surrendered bj
federal govern
took the name Re
oppose the Feder
with the >
pose d .
cause rignt
the states
ment, In 1792, it
publican party to
party. It later sometime
known as the Democratic-Republican
party, which name is still the official
designation of the Democratic party.
After its principles were clearly
formulated in 1708 by Thomas Jeffer-
son, it was sometimes called Demo-
Republican, on-
til Andrew Jackson's administration,
to the
alist was
wi
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PT ad Tint
6.00-19
which began In 1820, He was the
first President to be officially listed
under the name Democrat,
The Modern Girls
If things go on like this. there will
soon be either nothing left we can't
mention in polite soclety or no polite
goclety left in which we can't men-
tion it, Nowadays, Its is almost as
difficult to believe that girls ever
blushed as that they ever swooned,
Which reminds me of a colonial
friend who went to a dinner party
and found bimself next to a strange
young lady with whom it was his
duty to make polite conversation.
As we walked home afterward, 1
asked him how he got on with his
neighbor and what she was like.
Ol" he answered, “she was spien-
did—simply splendid. Completely
frank and straightforward and real-
ly—well, you know, ready to talk
about absolutely anything; In fact”
he added, confidentially, “between
you and me, | couldn't get her to talk
about anything else”
Could you sum it
that ?-
up better than
Altcheff in the London Globe.
Of All Things!
“Mamma, why are the street car
men on strike?
“Because they want
my dear.”
“Want more money? But they ride
nll day on the cars for nothing!”
L'Illustre,
more money,
at All
don’t quar-
No Sporting Spirit
Mother--Now, children,
rel, What's the matter?
Harold—MWe're playin’ shipwreck,
an’ May won't go into the bathroom
an’ drown herself — Stray Stories,
Mercolized Wax
Keeps Skin Young
Get an ounce and use as directed. Fine particles of aged
skin peel off until oll defects such as pimples, Hver
spots, tan and freckles dissppesr. Fils is then soft
and velvely, Y our face looks yesrs younger, Meroolised
Wax brisgs out the hidden besuty of your skin, Ye
remove wrin use one ounce Powdered Basolite
dissolved in one-half pint witeh hassel, At drug stores.
TEACHERS WANTED
i 1 public bio)
IN TEAC
gE. Ba I
%
lief or my
1 : ointment
i forms of hemor.
or C. O. D
Pile Sufferern
ref TH
Your Children!
Guarp their tender skins by
using Catienra Soap reg-
ularly from the day of birth.
Assist with the Ointment, if
required, to soothe and
heal any irritations.
Soap 25¢. Ointment 25¢, and
SOc. Talcum 25¢c,
Proprietors: Potter Drug
& Chemical Corp.,
Malden, Mass.
Jack Mail Route
The carrying of the malls has prog
ressed so rapidly
the aliplane now
country with mail in only a fraction
of the time required by trains of a
few years ago, yet in spite of all the
progress there is one mall route
which goes on unchanged in the 38
years of its operation, In Edwards,
Colo, W. H, Wellington, a8 veteran
from the
i railroad station,
for 36 yenrs he has
{ driven the and forth In a
buckboard drawn by a jack
mule. His is believed to be the only
jack-powered conveyance in the fed-
eral mail service,
for mall
post
transport]
office
and thrice
back
‘et FOIE
wagon
ve too much In a circle,
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