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Show are not as expensive cattle, horses, or hogs iodine ilmpte: reason :tnat they need not be built for warmth. Let them be dry and well ventilated and the flock will thrive In the coldest Of wittier, weather. That dampness la fata PORTABLE STOCK FEED RACK w a, amply demonstrated on" a Turn near Madison, Wis. The owner tele to the university that his phoned Found of Great Convenience for Use were dying, and that an expert sheep During Cold Months of Fall and should be sent out to determine the Winter Saves Waste. cause. The Instructor ' no sooner into the barn and got tls stepped When it Is desirble to feed stock filled with water than he Jumped shoes In the lot or yard, as is often the back and said, "I ' know already. case during the fall and early winter, ' a portable feed rack may be made Bheep barns as. those, for HE ii "I I , H r fz "Ht"l " panying illustration, and will be found to save enough feed to .pay for the materia and labor of making Is a very short time, says a writer in the Homestead. For framework pieces PQrdjjjxJCbea..widje Mi- a.tlia. best A space of material for boarding. about six inches should be left be tween each board, up the. Bides and at the ndk Xhis rackeAiT be either plaeed. on .xunnera or if rollers are - no attentfanrTa6rlwtTniHi As first aid work the railroad maw-lngp- j) then wiped out the flock in a very litHW'"' " Sheep barns should not be built on low or niafehy tracts, but on 'nigh elevated areas so that the water may drain away. They nhould be set in such a manner as to form a agalnwt the prevailing coldL winds from the northwest. A yard should always be connected with this windbreak, as ghefcp should be driven out. of doors every time the weather .. permits. The ventllaUoB itrtist be perfect, Tho King system Is probably the most convenient yet .devised, although .devices are many uf the There Is Just this about the good. King system; it takes some men a little time before they are able to grasp-I- ts principles and get it to working successfully).- - Windows are needed for proper lighting, as sheep will pot thrive in tho dark any more than any other animal, in fact, will not - thrive -- under lighting condition found tolerable by cattle. Again, win dows are excellent as part of the system If carets taken not to open them in such a manner that a draft is formed on windy days. Drafts are fatal to sheep. . wlnd-brea- k witiarrying Into liWar-st-aldicresad- the shops and mills' and throughout the railroad world, the Red Cross has lately enlisted the of the Boy ScOuts of , America, and first aid instruction is being given to- - all f the youngsters In this organization according to plans and methods prepared by the Red Cross. Sueh- are the- demands upon it that a first aid car cannot remain for long at any" given point The general plan adopted Is to spend about threjss days at each point se- Jeetetf'by the railway officials that Is, the officers of the railroad sys- - r If - men and other toilers of the country. . By means of this car the Red Cross will be enabled to carry on a moist-Ore- Short:- r .Wheels known as a first aid to the TVia Ohlppt of thl8 in intiired par a result, the heavy f to spring caused the just through one of the foundation walls In streams, covering tha drainage. Red - - :. American Croesr that great humanitarian organization for relieving suffering and distress in time of peace as well as in time of war, is broaden . Constantly Its ing the scope of its activities. most of its one latest, and certainly important services on behalf of man klM is the placing in commission of a second' hospital and school on much-neede- f d ' get, In close touch; as it could by no t tJtfr "vt T" of the land who'are in a position to render the most "valuable service as volunteer Red Cross workers. The - first aid car which has lately gone Into commission is the second of these cars tp.be sent a wandering d up and, down the high ways of the United States, but the first one, which was Introduced less than a year ago, went forth with so TiYr rrrrr' ' rrrr nr.' MVMGINQ Till 1TAD "OF A rclLQW WORKMAN steel-tracke- tern whose lines are being traversed. As many first aid ..demonstrations and lectures as possible are given . m(l-s- t As a rule It in the. time alU'ted, .a heralding that the general or Its work. is thoroughly to inNo sooner, however, had Car No. 1 struct men in first aid work in so short a time, but they learn considentered upon the work of giving Inhome-mad- e erable of the subject and there is Portable Stock Feed Rack. struction in first aid to employee of an arousal of interest which almost various railroad systems than It beavailable they are better. In fact, I came evident that a single car would invariably results in the organiza' have found the wheels to be the most -i be insufficient to meet the demands tion of a first aid corps which is dejconvenienL-and-4he-heels from an a for this new" service. veloped by - loeal physicians-- , and old binder truck' are very suitable for with the aid of the Red Cross second car was arranged for an old the purpose, but any kind of very old books and emergency outparlor, car being purchased bv the wheels will jie all right. However, If fits. 'Still further io stimulate interRed Cross and rebuilt for this specithere-ar- e no wheels available. Just fic purpose.' est throughout the country the Red Henceforth the Red Jt-JMand It can be officials CrossThas "set rasTdoa fund oF $4,099 be enabled to junners witt real ace drawn from-plto place without ize their dream to keep one of the the income of which is to be dis' much trouble. Do not tJeed on the tributed annually in prizes to the cars constantly in service on the . , ground. This fall these' racks will first aid workers who show the railroads west of the Mississippi and --' AID CAB nmrri? A be especially valuable, for the feed the other on the railway systems east greatest proficiency or who perform may be short and the need of saving of the Mississippi. exceptionally dangerous or arduous V first aid work. great In many places. . The Red Cross first aid instruction . The past few years f).as seen recars are rather small cars Judged by markable progress Iff" the. proficiency"" present- - day standards, but this was COMMON DISEASE AMONG PIGS FEED BAGS FOR THE HORSE attained by workmen in caring lor ' designedly so and is an advantage their fellows, who liave suffered in rather than a detriment. Indeed, with Juries in the line" of their .work. Thumps It Caused by Overfeeding and Adjustable Contrivance Shown In lllus-- " a length of less than sixty feet such tratlon Is Easily Operated by Lack of Exercise Best Plan From the rough and ready surgery a car may be Used not only on the Animal While Eating. It to Prevent Disorder. In ..which the workman has always mountain divisions of railways, with their sharp curves, but also on some displayed some skill in treating the V When the feed in the ordinary feed trolley lines. Indeed, the car can be (By W. H. UNDERWOQO.) injuries peculiar to. his own spec'al too low methods horse for bag common to Is gets reach modern the disease a, antiseptic vocation,, Thumps among pigs andf is caused by over- - easily, he either throws his head up have, been acquired and now the unor the sets victim of an. accident is .... disthe Hn of to fortunate lack The bag exercise. ground get feeding juid ease is easily prevented by careful given all the chances in his tight for life that modern science can devise. A feeding and seeing that the pigs gel There is no longer idle hands and plenty, of exercise. Unless promptly anxious moments awaiting the ar- dealt with, when plgsHre first seized, the disease is pretty certain to harm 'pJFTWDEPTW rival of the surgeon, and rough but them seriously. In quite a number of FIPJT Alb TO skliful hands perform the first aid - Instance they die. The most proml- JIN INJURED treatment which gives relief to the J?AIU?OAD MAN gUfferer, and in many cases means cent Indication of thumps is a jerky motion at the flanks in connection the saving of his life. Ail large now equipped , with their breathing. The nerves of ' In recent manufacturing establishments are years over the menace of the necessary all with first-aisupplied chests with the diaphragm-are aftectedr. hence the a the "white plague," and yet as for emerggiving medical Is trouble sometimes called spasms of appliances surgical and matter of fact, since 1881 the deaths in ambulance work drills treatmentRegular the diaphragm. In some Instances ency from tuberculosis in the United are conducted so that those whose duty it is to Jbere is wheezing. The affected aniStates have decreased 48 per cent, care for the Injured workmen may be kept at the mals soon lose" thrift, and even though the -- whereas in the same period Feed Bag Hung on a Rein. " they recover they are more or less highest state of proficiency. Humanitarian as well deaths from accidents have increasas financial reasons make it the part of wisdom subsea for stunted good long time, ed more than 47 per cent. Similarthe grain, says a writer In the Popular for the employers. to encourage in every way the . ; quenUy. Medicines cannot do much of J Mechanics.' In either case, much of ly 'the United StateR government afd crusade among their workmen. One case first for . affected with I the food la wasted. any good pigs. has felt compelled within the past is related of a workman in a Chicago factory who thumps. The best plan is to prevent shows a. feed-bacouple of years 'to take definite holder on the prin- a steel splinter from the eye of a fellow removed acof be done by the disorder, and this can steps to reduc the number skilful-mann- er -- workman- in such aa to excite-Wr cipliaeJn,wJUchanlckljt- - adjust J "daenimr our coarmtnes und' yet reedIngore"lhah'The"plgiwni the level of the grain to the mouth of who later of the admiration wonder surgeons and on eat up clean, and see that they get the horse the death rate from accidents took charge of the injured man. 'The promptness braallght movement of his In exerciser-I- n than even Is winter plgs,,are inclined head downward. larger railways The sketch fully iland skill of this emergency surgeon saved the sight to remain In bed, and in such cases it lustrates the construction mines Moreover, under present ar- of the head- of thismau'a jey.3,j -- miner. the la well to compel them to exercise by rangemente-the-needs-rein conneulluu. fgear aad-h-e I chasInfTnenTa"Dc"wTth a twitch'. wtWW in respect to first aid instruction PIPE Oft CIGARETTE. XMEDI& PZRJT-A- U CADIIWC OP. Pf A seem to be met much better than In SlAKimUJE Cost of Ewes' Feed. of some other Industries. case the SELF-FEE- D RACK AND SHED Few farmers have a conception of Latter Apparently the Form In Which Tobacco Red Cross is directing No wonder, then, that the taken almost anywhere where there are rails "Was First Used. what It costs to feed breeding ewes over railroad- men of the to propaganda aid first It rum which may Incidentally It may be 'its - Can Be Filled, With Hay, Straw or during the winter months. Some will mills. In theworkers to shops, mentioned that the railroads of the country are the country and While the question as to which preceded the B Fodder as It It Esten--C- an guess 10 cents per day and some less, etc. of the valuable their manifesting appreciation the egg or the hen, is still a subject Tor dis. but scarcely any know. As an actual and dlstlnterested work which the Red Cross Is Refilled When Desired. other, Cross giving widespread Not only Is the Red in the district school debating societies, the pute maximum it fact, the cost per day is doing in this sphere by hauling the first aid cars Instruction in first .aid to the injured (which In as to which' came first into use; the pipe 2 question about cents stout while should It as Instruction set are more, not Threer posts go free of charge over their respective" lines. Is argued is Just as necessary or the cigarette, appears to have the greater part or this on each Bide (as long as you wish to above 2ft cents It Is possible, pf means by is conducting, The first &ld car Is divided Into two parts of it hygiene) but of Jhe evidence, far as white testimony Is con- make the shed), firmly In the ground. course, to increase the cost by feeding almost equal size. One-hal- f of the space of the new type of car. a campaign for the prevention in favor vi the cigarette and cerned, from the ground, hoard expensive concentrates, but that is en- car ts given over to an assembly and demonstraAbout of accidents. Statistics seem to indicate that in their pipe and smoke it, the conists that may "put in which result like and other roof, accidents of the any building, tirely unnecessary. up tion room for, as has been explained, the car about one-haIndianapoli? News remarks. When Columbus land--e- d by would naveJeen preventable is a hospital school on wheels and the other allowipg a large window to each end. or death injury on the Island of Guanahant, which he called San - of ' Make the ' feeding-racFeed for Profit. half Is taken up by the living quarters for poles the exercise of proper care and reasonable pre- on October 12, 1492. he and his men saw, Salvador, Is endeavorFeed for profits, of else sell and let and crew." These men live on the car through the center like a V, the upper ventive measures and the Red CrosB to their great astonishment, a number of copper ana to how of on end the poles resting the outside the other fellow make a at all times, Just as doctors and nurses might dodge misnaps Ine to teach workmen ' colored natives collected on the 'shore putting. ' animal out of what in your reside at a hospital with which they were con- plates- how to minimize the effect of an accident if it . clouds of smoke from their lips and, noses. They can This shed he filled with hay, hands would, does appear inevitable. through Insufficient nected. It Is In the assembly and demonstrawere smoking what later came to be called "tobacco,. straw. or fodder as fast as it is eaten feeding,- - prove to be a scrub. " . -- r tion room,- - however,' that the chief functions'of 'The Red Cross will not depend entirely upon the leaves of which Ihe natives had formed Mnto the car are carried on. The room Is large the lessons and lectures given on the first aid cylindrical rolls within the husks of the Indian In ' enough to accommodate a considerable number cars, althouab these pave the way for effort Demand for Registered 8lres. corn. "While this was evidently the most primitive work. Supaid Is so It first of that people, seated oh camp stools, the direction ot volunteer The demand for registered sires and f burning the leaf, there, were . pipes long. ti- ea lecture hall In plemenUng these are series of charts" and,, mora breeding ewes for improving mutton entirely practicable JtQ use It as v and iv, .bmiicu. unisc UUUIUVTI .OI IHJJeSts of no instruction when yvtumuua aid books Instruction there Imoortabt yet. simple flocks and for starting new flocks is giving, first . have been found in Indian mounds in the In a town visited and when . surgical materials which can prove serviceable hall available larger getting greater year by year. . s. as as well central west, the northern lakes ha?v along book aid first unskllle3"-h"andof not the conditions do A. special flrst weather In permit and throughout the south, in 1519, when Cortes aid demonstrations being conducted In the open use of industrial workers and the Issued for been 4 Ration for Brood Sows, Invaded Mexico, the natives smoked pipes made ' has been translated Into Italian,. Slovak. Polish Some wheat bran In the ration It air. from reeds and richly ornamented. Montezuma, 'tt In the near future there will be most suitable for. the brood sows. It . But the first aid car has another function quite - and Lithuanian. been has recorded, was accustomed to take ,hls work editions' this of specially adapt Issued other' tside from its primary purpose of a nomadic Rack and Shed. wnen it was brought 'to hlnr witn. keeps the system cool and the bowels school. PP " and firemen. use policemen ed as be woment tenv used on a by for It by occasion, may, . open. ana rancn oeauuiui uiuiuens ana worKers. i down hands and farm can below. It settles from by sailors and by porary or emergency, hospital apd It .Is likely., to handed to him after he had rinsed his mouth-wlt- tt in that' such not the is course Of since in thought it of it value .this he refilled whenever necessary. prove great capacity, , t 8f?nM water. skilled of the t.;1:;;,; struction will enable even This rack Is adaptable to the needs can, upon telegraphic request, be rushed to any of vrott volunteer town where or disaster or a in..aoc..k.. .wjpratQs. mtv village of ebeep. cattle and other stock, as it any lo.repiare Rd camp pipes out of a kind of stone known as red pipe- -' tor except in the .case of trivial injuries, but kind has taken place and where there aremay S prorides good shelter and makes, taot -stone, pf which there were large deposits in the with the new knowledge these volunteers will hap, po regular a covered manure shed, for the waste hospital facilities of any kind. " old Sioux country and, the great spirit is said to: ' ahl doctor until the do arrives, to know what The car carries the necessary,apparatus- for pulled out will be trampled under foot have given his indorsement to this particular maor other of flow un-.- , a man's by. A, a good' woLjiot? bloody lecture" room the .into stopping horse., by often, into converted quickly transforming and by the. tampering terial, .which might have been a .Sioux, monopoly,'-iderstand when he Is sworn at ' - hoepMtal ward and there Is a stock of stretchers, ' means, may be enabled to save lile when a"regu-- ' . manure. . . .-; these words:, . scene.on ;, the laT physician Is not promptly Growing pigg should receive, where remedies, bandages and all the paraphernalia red". "This stone It Is flesh; is It " your new the of this work full" belongs It Is possible, some buttermilk.-- -scope To oover .the necessary for' use under such circumstances. , At Lambing Time. ' to. you In all. Out of no more tomahawks, Is In addition, of course, t Red Cross has found It necessary to go even Keep the young jjigs out ,bf the This When the lambs are due, and the nor war: hafebets use It only to" scalping tnlves, of work Instrucits to V the appointments and Instruction' outfits,. farther and Give them a clean, dry place upplement aystein of band coupling enables the J drafts. make tie pipe of peace and smoke thetefrom when -. " " of forms are which first: severardifierent ; to y designed jnerelytJdh-b'provldini sleep, tjhartsooksretc., shepherd to determine this, the ewes you would .propitiate. me and do' my win." , ' r , ' in feeding farm atock variety. It ror use in rae regular instruction worn on ine , aid boxes equipped witn ceruin simple remedies should bo taken to the lambing1 pens. such as are required in putting later will probably be the equip- In the cajfe; of twins or; triplets the necessary,- - for this will keep ' the ,'ap. car and which ' the first aid Instruction Into "practice In sltops nine-tenth-s CHANGED PLANS'. for kumriJwns ot ment used the tiro, keen.' and Is pctltos generally strongest first bern --A Chicago banker was dictating' a letter to his are sold at prices It lend aid These ia disastera It will, ta elsewhere. happily". supplies great and wanders away among the other sheep, 7hepj.eeljieftlj!'."At irkst alrr an4 ' ,.' n , be of rate becurrehcer" which are lntendei merely tooover"'lh.''cptt. It teturh the ewe they certainly are. more' warmly clad if not confined-OWMT Few for taor. need the preparation, without providing any profit. ., and are. people great we affd appreciate wilf ' than Its not In Schenectad v" oraTa' tDaV smell, has forgctten want would seem to , .. felt long work the that aid tuch supply Instruction tf first at they, 1 general animals All Wd dQ more convehlent asked the ste-- ' . plenty of, exercise spell Schenectady own 1L Besides, it - be Indicated by tht Jact that the Red Cross has. " Red Cfpss is goini to try to give through-lh- e L . . to ewes In winter them nographer othe .when the. them the for keep W care more than "S-c- , err-eiv- er v--. . TeU: hla III meet him in ' Instrumentality of Uts new- - rolling ttockv .'We i .during the past year, sold considerably fpr the iprlng. h r,- cannot Interferes bave become pretty'well aroused in thlas country i. 5,W0 worth of such auppllet.- . -- L II1' yj Acco.-Ulngl- '" -- mrreroe orAFrpjTCiir. ven-tUaiin- vfCK 'Ck. il iSC Jf irN, ' . ; -- d - J J " V - i i !l H ,v of lJ - : t -- anti-tobac- -; : lt k l -- profit-producin- g - W WW . ' Self-Feedin- g Ver ""u' Livestock . - the-mos- cfc? Notes -- . n -- latter-equipmen- tof , -- r , -- .. . rr; - tttnr',':L.. ''1Wm r '.re |