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Safeguardieg Your Hugs.
Every breeder of purebred hogs can
snake a. profitable investment of a few
(Toilers and a few hours' time by eon-
strueting a small quarantine plant
on his farm. Such a plant will safe-
guard the herd from disease intro-
duced by stock from other breeders.
I have found it a wise rule to keep in
quarantine for at least three week$
every hog brought to the fame, The
new arrivals should be closely watch-
ed, so that if azty disease symptoms
appear the animals may be dealt with
accordingly.
A. quarantine pen should. be from
one-half acre to an acre in size. The
home herd should be excluded from it
a all times, and should not be el -
lowed to pasture close to it, Many
breeders locate them in oat -of -the -
way places, often at some cornerof
the farm. Enclose a well -drained area
with a heavy, woven -wire fence, which
should be high enough to prevent
begs from jumping over it. Place an
Irdisidual hog house in the lot, and
install a dipping tankane troughs. A
stockyards -style platform entrance,
with inclined chute leading from the.
platform
to the level
of the c*is not
necessary, but will pay -.here many
hogs are handled,
Whether you attend public sales or
buy at private treaty, it will pay you
tet keep every rew hon in your guar»
antine pen for about a month before
he is to ned in with the horno herd.
On arrival of the new purchase, dip
'aim with a fairly strong dap and, if
possible, give him the feed he is ac-
customed to.
No matter how healthy tht log may
have been, he may contract { xseliae in
transit. You e.ay buy a hog in per»
feet health from a disease-free herd,
and yet in a few days be may develop
cholera or some other disease.
Careful breeders caaran ine every
hog they buy, and every hog they reit
is dipped before shipment. Dipping ig
practiced as much to prevent disease
as to eure it. There are several de-
pendahle dips and disinfectants on the
market A supply of these should be
constantly on hand. Not only should
hogs be dipped with more or less regu-
larity, depending on their condition,
but their sleeping quarters and pens
should be disinfected occasionally.
Y
Dogs and other animals should be
kept away. Cholera germs are often
transplanted front one farm to an-
other by cats, rabbits, and even by
birds. In some places pigeons are a
prolific source of cholera infection.
These birds cover large areas, feeding
in the barn lots of farmers in widely
separated regions. The hog man's
;t as,pathy to pigeons is therefore well
uu..%ied. Use the sliotgun •m them ii
necessary, but be sure to keep them
cat a the hog lot,
Quarantine plants will pay the
breeder well indirectly, for visitors
noting such devices will be inspired
with confidence in the owner's care
fulness. You will find ,it easier to
prove the health of your herd by
showing a quarantine plant, sanitary
houses, and modern appliances for the
stock than by talking.
The cost of the quarantine plant
need not exceed 850 to $100. Many
plants have been established for half
that amount, depending -upon the class
of materials used, The pen can be
used for other purposes; but if there
have been cholera hogs in it, disinfect
before allowing other stock to use it.
Plow or disk up the soil in it each
year, and sow to rye, rape, or some
other forage crop. Do not allow a
blue -grass sod to establish itself in
the pen, as sod is a harbor for disease
germs. A. quarantine pen is one of
the cheapest and best forms of insur-
anceyyou can use.
ing the liquids, -In many parts of the
country where graveland sand are
readily obtainable cement floors need
not be expensive. often, now, it costs
less than timber and plank, floor.
Cement floors enaperly . laid - are
practieally everlast,ltlg. Plank and
timber flooring begins to rot at once,
In a few years at best it is down and.
out and another must be built, A
reprint floor needn't be more slippery
than a first-class lumber floor. Stockl
of all kinds can be kept on cement,
with the best of results, if bedding is.
properlyu sad. The cement floor is .
colder than the plank floor. But this
is a platter of ro ..onsequence, par _. .
titularly se stock sl.ould always have:
plenty of good bedding under them
for their comfort and welfare. Don t:
let anyone tell you that a cement floor
is too -hard for a horse's feet. It would;
be bard fox a horse to trot - on all
day. but in a stall lie stands still most`
of the time, and when doing this he
eannot tell whether he ie on cement, ti
plank, or dirt, if the bedding is suf-1
anent.
I have bee n using cenmerst floors tori
twelve years, They are all right in;
every way,and ifthey are F
roFerly1
laid and nnana ed no liquids can get`
away. The bedding will soak it all up.
And the liquid is worth more than the'
solids, pound for pound, on a basis
of cost of the same elements in com-
mercial fertilizers.
Laying the Cement Floors.
"I'll have to hire a mason!" you'll-
say. No, you won't; do it yourself,
The first thing into put underpinning,
under the stable sills all around,'
should there be none now. This will
keep out snow and rod wind. And
you can lay the cement mortar right`
ails t this and make all air -tight.
The Welfare a of the. Home
Do 1 Understand My Chihli en?•
By -ANNE GOODWIN WILLIAMSii,
"I just love 1'diss Brown," said Betty et difficult to- understand the agony,
Jane, "she's the understandingest per- the actual suffering of a sensitive,
timid •child, who ,is forted to fight for
his fears all alone. •
All lovers of children' eandeien the
ignorant nurse who, threatens, "The
primal .from the little, children we Boogey Man will get you in the dark
IG
ve? to -night if you don't mind me,' I
1i,.s we recall our own childhood ev, know: one mother.. calm carne home
periences, do not the times when wea after making -ohne afternoon calls
were misunderstood stand out very and found her little son in bed with
distinctly and very bitterly , do our .a .high fever and in his delirium he
lirindsl
cried out over acid over again, "Don't
A mother told me of a 'little- child let tee policeman get ine--Don't let
who was angel •ed almost iritcn by aim take me away from my moaner--
sterics 'b by having lits . lisp mimicked Don't let him ---Don't let him!" The
and mocked, ieIno you want the to thoroughly frightened nurse confessed
thing for you?" little' John asked a that she had put him to bed as apan-
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i to :friendliest f e t -
g•uest n efashion. "Yes, yshmen and had left him there, says
indeed, you darlitig, I want you to ing, "Now I'in going out to get the
thing for Tile," the visitor said laugh- policeman to take you away Oso -you
intgly inmitating his Iisp. The child's xvon't sd:e your mother again." She
ears were keen. Be recognized the bad left -him there alone, thinking
correct promnun.siation although his that his serean s of terror when -a door
u t 'et f rn �it n i ac en a cl �e •0 1 t hhim a
lips � ld. no y o. a a d In s f a opened r o. d, w u d ea�c
reddened as he said in a grieved voice, good lesson."
"I didn't they thing, 1 thaid thing" Dorothy Canfield Fisher's "Under-
" " •n
Oh, you precious lanm'b, thitng for me stood Betsy" is a met delr,,lttf'ul
or thing for me -•-I don't care. I just study of n child -rho was sometimes
adore that lisp of yours." misunderstood, a story so charmingly
Did she get the song—the ehild's told that grown people and children
offered gift to a guest? No, emphatic- can read it together with great en -
ally allied joymeet.
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She had 1.11 d t 'o of o Hien .
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:elf c;zpression. She had grieved the And, aftea• all, is not that the ,neat
boy and made him sulky end she had secret of under'standing ..the doing of
truly been guilty of an net of rude things together, talking together,
Hess to a trusting little child. walking together, sharing each other's
And vat she thought that she loved joys ;and sorrows?
children! But she lacked the under- "Never mind, honey," said -wee Lie
standing of the sensitive nature of a to het.' dearly beloved kindergarten.
little child. Ridicule is even harder teacher, "never mind if you are hearse.
I will tell the children a story to -day
and you won't have to talk." Isn't
this a true illustration of the mutual
desire to be ofservieo which we so
long to have underlie our reln:tionship
to the children who are tittle children
for so very few years?
Why I Use Concrete On My Stable
Floors. '
No better stable flooring can be
used than cement, and perhaps none
other as good, when it comes to sav-
1000 Eggs
in Every Hen
son I ever knew!"
What a wonderful tribute Is there
anyone of us, grown laps vase does net
long to deserve juin this soft ap-.
to endure when one is four years old
than when he .is fourteen or forty,
But nide and cruel as. it is to laugh
at the mistakes of children,. it is far
worse to laugh at their fears! Just
because we know that there are no
goblins lurking in the dark, we And
If the floor is to be put in an old,
barn, tear out the plank and timberi
1 earth upto awithin
floor and fill with
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three o
surface of floor. Ties filling must be
packed solidly, so no part of it will
settle after the floor is finished. If it
should settle, the floor will crack.
Water is useful to settle the filling.
You do not need to put any foundation.
ef stones under the floor. But tile
drains around the outside of walls.
r prevent water from
are necessary' to pr n
soaking in. If you want a gutter, dig
it out of the earth, say eight inches
deep and twenty-four inches wide,
level from end to end. The liquid
should be absorbed by litter, and not
be allowed to run to one end or to
drain away.
Before laying the floor, Le very par-
ticular to have the grade of the floor
just right, so that it.will drain to the
gutter. If you use stanchions, about
one and one-half inches fall from the
manger to the gutter will be all right,
Four and one-half to five feet is about
the right length for the floor. Jerseys
can manage with four feet of space,
but Holsteins will need five feet, or
more if they -are large.
New System of Poultry !Seeping—Get
Dollar A Dozen Eggs—Famous Poul-
tryman
TELLS HOW
"The great trouble with the poultry
�isinees has always been that the lay-
ing life of a hen was too short," says
esenry Trafford, International' ` Poultry
Expert and Breeder, for nearly eighteen
years Editor of. Poultry Success.
The average, pullet lays 150 eggs, If
kept the second year. she may lay 100
more. Then she goes to market. Yet,
it has been Ercientiiioally established that
every pullet is born or hatched with over
one thousand =urate egg germs in her
system --and will lay them on a highly.
protitable basis over a period of four to
six years' three if given proper care.
How to work to got 1,000 . eggs from
every hen; how to get pul'l'ets laying
early: how to make the old hens lay lino
pullets; how' to keep up heavy egg. pro-
duction all through cold winter months
when eggs are highest; triple egg pro-
. duction; make sleeker' hens hustle; $5,00
profit tram every hen in "six winter
months, These gild many other money
malting poultry asoreta are contained in
Ur. Trs ord's "1,000 EGG HEN" system
of poultry raising, one oopy of which
Will e sent absolutely free to any reader
of this paper who keeps six hens or
more, Eggs should go to a dollar or
more a dozen this winter, This means
big profit to the poultry keeper who gets
the eggs, Mr. rafford tells how, L
on keep chickens and want them to
hake money for you, cut out this ad and
arend it With your name and addressto
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y31nghamhiton N a'':t and a. frog cony of
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zetui'tt anaii,
Your sand must be clean and free
from dirt, and it will be better if you
use crushed stone instead of gravel.
The mixture I use is two pails of
gravel or crushed stone to one of sand
and one of cement. albs thoroughly
while dry. A good way is to shovel
it from one box to another, dropping
each shovelful in the middle. If you.
have one man rake back and forth
rapidly as the shovelfuls fall, the
work will be perfectly done.
When the dry nixing is complete,
add water gradually, mixing with a
hoe. Make it just thin enough so it
will pour out of a pail readily, but
not rapidly. While the first' batch is
being used, have hands mixing an-
other. Allow no mortar to set at all
before using. Four 'inches is amply
thick for floors under cows and horses,
and two inches is sufficient for man-
ger bottoms and feeding alleys. The
hoar should be even, but not troweled
down smooth. The use of a board
float and fine gravel in mortar will
make' a splendid surface that is' not
slippery.
A -form of the -desired length, width,
and depth is needed for this. Lay the
mortar in bottom of gutter, then put
form in place, leaving three inches of
space on each side of form. These
spaces can be filled- as you lay the
floor,, and. a walls behind then can'be
made at the same time.
It is well to shut all wind and sun.
from the newly laid floor. Sprinkle
it freely with -crater several times a
day for ten days or more, As soon
as it is set you call walk on it. ' It is
better to dry slowly.
'You will soon. see the -difference in
the manure, and you will be just like
me—surprised to see how much more
manure you have, and how much more
goad et does when the liquids are
saved,
A feller isn't thiukin' mean,
Out fishin';
His thoughts are' mostly geed an'
chetah,
Out fishin'. -
He doesn't knock his fellow lien,
Or haribor any,grudges then; - A feller's at,his finest when
• Out irshire.
—Edgar' A. Guest.
The worn gray stab yet lies before
SI'hat once. was a thrifty farmer's
door;
Now roofless cellar and scattered
stones
Show skeleton hopes with tune -picked
e
bons
Here backed against a'erunrbling wall
Still blooms at bay, unpruned arid tall
A. soil -disdaining, moss -rose bush,.
Tho debuds in faintest flush;
Clutched by the brambles and wood-
binelicate, .
Whose envious fingers tear and twine.
There was the huge barn; here the
yard,
Where the grim farmer labored hard
From dawn to dark, and never knew
A dreams beyond the crops he grew,
The stock he raised; the silver store
Under the loose board in the floor,
To and fro, to and fro,
The feet of his little wife would go,
All day long and half the night,
'Up a flight and down a flight;
Pantry to kitchen, pen to barn,
Cellar to garret with loom of yard;
In to the babies, out to the men,
Down to the pasture and back again,
Farms were never planned, you find,
To save the steps of womenkind.
One can trudge and drudge through
a long life's course,
If she discovers a hidden source
To seek -when the spirit is faint and
div,
Here was her rose -bush growing high
That he never knew—for he never
cared—
This was her joy no mortal shared;
Her hands were never too stiff or
tired
To foster beauty the soul desired; -
Never too worn the busy feet, -
Novel' too dull the old heart's beat,
For a furtive trip to the little shrine
That made the moment a pause divine.
Here by the bush oneglimpsed the
hills,
Where forests crooned and ranfree
mills;
One breathed deep drafts from a
windswept" sky.
Sunset, moonglow, mystery. •
This was her rose -bush by the wall.
Gone is the farmer, farm and all,
The herd, the crops, the silver stare,
The children grown- return no more
To the hearthdeserted, the loveless.
place, 4
Haunted by one enduring grace—
A dream of beauty torn with 'brier,
Clutched in vain as it clambers higher.
• —Abbie Farwell Brown.
Facing the Future:
Let me but lie my life from year to
year
With forward face and unreluctant
soul;
ITot hurrying to, nor turning from, the
goal;
Not in mourning for the things that
disappear
In the dim past; nor-holdingback in
fear -
From what tee future veils; but with
to whole
And happy heart, that pays its toll
To youth and age and travels on with
cheer.
Henry Van Dyke.
Oleamsliness is next to godliness, but
a clear coneeience is better than a
white 4ullar. .., ..... . ��_
More Returns from Unpro-
ductive
e
Acres.
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The average bay acre produces an-
nually OM and a quarter pons of hay,
and this even in sections where stock
is kept primarily for the nmanure- pro-
duced. Crops of this size 'Cannot com-
pete successfully against the attrac.
tion of two -dollar wheat. With grain
high in price, stock of all kinds must
consume more hay, more roughage
and less grain that in years past.
Therefore, the first step in attempt-
ing to grow grain crops and to keep
stock at the same time, must be to
produce better hay and more of it per
acre, so as to release amore land for
grain. production. -
Top -dressing a good sod with fertil-
izer gives wonderful results. This has
been tested out at many of the agri-
cultural experiment stations, but no-
where is at better illustrated than in
the test at Cornell Agricultural Ex-
perimental Station. To show the re-
markable results, we present the' fol-
lowing data:
(1) In this test every 100 pounds of
a high ammonia complete fertilizer
produced one-quarter ton of hay, and
later brought a substantial increase in
the following corn crop, without fur-
ther fertilization;
{2) The top -dressed; sod, when turn-
ed under, increased the organic mat-
ter of the soil by an amount equal to
that contained in a 6 -ton application
of manure.
Or time average farm, hay is fed to
stock and the manure returned to the
land. Thus it happens that the plant -
food in the fertilizer . may be used
again and yet again. 'In the Cornell
experiment the ammonia applied in
the fertilizer was apparently all re-
turned in the increased - hay crop—
THC SUNDAY -- SCHOOL
TIIE SUNDAY SCl'1OOL. LESSON
Novo. TBER 21ST
The Twelve Sent Forth, St, Matt. 10.
Golden Text, St. Matt, 9; 37, 38.
1-4, The Names of the twelve whom
Jesus chess have become xaore fam-
iliar and better known to the world
than, perhaps, any other Manes of hu-
man history. Eleven stand high in
the world's honor roll, one has become
the. synonym for traitor. Theso men,
when they had been with Jesus for
some weeks or months, observing alis
work, listening to His teaching, asking
Him questions, drinking in of His spir-
it, He sent out to do as He was doing,
to- preach the love of the heavenly
Father, to teach willing learners, and
to heal the sick. The instructions
which He gave therm for their work,
then and afterwvard, constitute our
lesson,
5-8.Got
Not, Rather. Thefirs
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instruction is where to go and what
to do. Jesus appears to have regard-
ed it as Ilia first duty and that ai
His disciples to minister to His own
people of the Jews. Later He was to
issue His command to go to Samaria
and
;,
to the itheoft
Gentiles, to he°
Ge send
,
earth (Acts 1:8). But r: ow it was to:
the people of Israel the disciples -acre i
sent. The gospel was to begin at
home. The Jews, prepared by the long!
discipline of their history, and by the -
revelation of the Old Testament Scrip- 3
ture, for its coming, were to hear' it
first. If they would but repent and
turn toGodvay.faith,
and e k time -.
s e of
y
the greati
prophetic promise of their
history would be fulfilled, and they ;
would be, as bearers of the gospel,1
"for a light to the Gentiles and for
salvation to the ends of the earth."
This was the challenge of Jesus to
them, this. God's call to them through
Him. ` We may well believe that Ile
expected and hoped great things, anal
that in the failure of the great mass
of the Jewish people and of their run:
ers to respond Ile was bitterly ;d s-'
appointed.
Preaeh, Heal. With preaching, no
i doubt, teaching was to go hand in
hand. So it is in the nmiaionary work
of the Church to -day. Preaehit 4 opens
up the way, attracts attention, persu-
ades and wins. Teaching instructs
and eatablishes and makes permanent,
Together with preaching and teach -i
ing must go healing. The .apostle end,
the missionary: will carry with them
the same spirit of compassion which
moved the heart of Jesus. They will;
-eel: to minister to the body as to the;
soul. They will make God's love real'
n in loving, human service. They will,
as it were, take Christ's place, and)
His healing and life-giving power will
'flow through them. They will not turn
back from any human need. The siel:,
the le the demoniac, i e eawill
per,
eh dead,
,
be the objects of their interest'feud
their. care. Every word of Jesus op -
plies to. the .Ohureh's work to -day as
surely as to the disciples whom He
then sent out. "Freely," He said, "ye
have received, freely give!'
In vs, 8.28 are many other counsels
and warniige. The theme of their
preaching is to be the nearness of the
kingd&m ef heaven, and that men must
prepare for its conning by repentance.
They were to go forth in simple gar-
ments, without ostentation, living on
the hospitality of the people who
would receive thein, and leaving be-
hind thein, with such hospitable souls
the" blessing. of peace. By contrast
those who tilt not receive them would
suffer great leas.. They would, like
their 11aster, meet with persecution,
but they would be sustained and guid-
ed by the Spirit of God.'
In verse 23 Jesus naa_kes the strange
deolaretion, "Ye shall not have gone
over the cities of Israel till the Son of
man be come." Did Jesus think that
in some marvellous way, by some dis-
play of supernatural power, such as
that cies: ribed in 24: 29.31, FHis king
done would speedily be established?
If so, He must have suffered keen dis-
appointment, er d'�ci ,I
o_. tm .. ox the r- es went
,pn r
upon their mission and returned, and
no such extreorduinry event happened.
Or is there another explanation of
Christ's words?
29.31, Fear Ye Not. This is the
iS-
1,z•eat •command of Jesus to His m.
sionarles. Whatever may happen,
fear not. it ratever or whenever the
foe, be not afraid. Feu God and God
whoc. •es- rthes.a.. �s
n He at Tor .crow
only. v.
p
care;; very mall and vera tend ,erly
for those who go cut to do His bidding
and to bear the gospel of Christ to
men. Fear ye not therefore.
"Thou on the Lord rely,
So safe shalt thou go on;
Fix en His work thy steadfast eye,
So shall thy work be clone,"
31-42. More Than Me. Jesus nrak"s
a very great demand upon His dis•
c plea. They must put Him fleet.
Neither father nor mother, neither son
nor daughter, must be more to them
than He. Even life itself must not ba
counted dear. Tlie erose will be for
them the way of life. And yet, is it
not true, in obe;lreree to 'this demand
of °britt, to this hew of clr �'ipleship,
there lies the sanctifying and glorify-
ingof human love, and the fueling of
tre life, the life that is eternal?g
Iteeeiveth Me. Receiving His tris-
•eiples, who were to be His mcssengeis,
it svouki be as though they receival
Him, and receiving Hite received Go:l
Himself who sent Hine It is a great
enuramh e and a great promise. The
simple and kindly and open-heerted
hospitality of those who receive and
entertain Chriist's mnessengere -will
have its abundant reward. Even' the
oz cold water is credited. Termy-
cup
son has said, "It is impossible to im-
agine that the Almighty will ask you,
The tight way to nee is as it each
•day were our +best and last,
Thore is no sweeter sight in ail the.
world' than the lights 'in one's hong
!epe l :set:mining nfilar an a'boenee,
none was lost by leaching. If the ma to the various crops with regard to
nure made by this hay were carefully, profits? With regard to labor dis-
saved, a part of this ammonia (not tribution?
more time 80 per cent.) would come How do your crop yields compare
back to the land and would become a with the average yields of the local -
part of the circulating medtuni of ity?
plantfood, thus being used over and What classes of live stock return
over. The same may be said of the you the most money?
phosphoric acid and potash.. The first
cost is not a measure of the final cost.
The Farm Business.
How do the returns Pram your live
stock compare with the average of
your locality?
How many acres of crops do you
A farm, to be successful, should raise per man? Per horse?
maintain its productivity and should Isyour feria so <amazed that eairh
return a reasonable wage for the labor part of the ]rosinessss is yielding satis-
of the farmer and his faintly, after factory returns?
paying farm expenses and 'deducting How mouth have you left for your
a fair rate of interest on the invest-_ oven labor, after deducting from your
ment. total receipts your year's expenses,
value of labor performed �,ny members
Four important faders in the sue of your family and, interest on your
cess of the farm business are size of investment?
business, yield of crops, returns from How much does the farmcantribute
live 'stock and efficiency in the use towatd your family living?of labor.
What is the size of your 'farm busi-
ness? A good name in our own neighbor.
What part of your investment is an hood is far more to be desired than
land, buildings, 'live stock, machinery preferment among strangers.
amid other capital?
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