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Show y-- f ilEEAt THE GRANTSVILLE, UTAH NEWS-OBSERVE-R, terns In mahogany, birch, maple and hickory furniture now so much in vogue do not cost much, and would lit In well here; spindle and d chairs, maybe a longlsli table for the lopg living room, and a cosy upholstered chair to think the fl replace on either side. The wall flnlsh should not be too obvious; by staying close Neat, Substantial Home of Type to neutral grays, tana, and creams, one would not go fur Sure to Appeal to Builders The woodwork could be wrong. white enamel, or the wood could be and Home Owners. stained lightly and then varnished splay-backe- Device to Prevent Cow Rat Trap and Dry Mash From Sucking Herself Feeder in Combination la gray-brow- waxed. By WILLIAM A. RADFORD Mr. William A. Radford will anawcr questions and give advlca FREE OF COST on all aubjecta pertaining to the JEWEL subject of building, for the readera of thla paper. On account of hla wide experience aa Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he la. without doubt, the hlgheat authority on all theaa subjects. Addresa all Inqulrlea to William A. Radford. No. 1127 Prairie avenue, Chicago. 111., and only lncloae two-cea tamp for reply. More anil more, In recent years, we are seeing the erection of homes wlilch measure up to he best American traditions. It Is not that they are growing larger, for modern living conditions seem to favor the smaller house; but there Is no denying the fact tliat there has arisen a more critical stundurd of what constitutes good nt taste. No one could accuse the owner of thla handsome dwelling of anything approaching extravagance in building and living In It. Could they! It seems a simple, unobtrusive place, such as you might find occupied by the town bank-- SHRINE AT RANCOON Graceful, Golden Pile Towers 870 Feet Above City In Eastern Asis. The Jewel shrine of eastern India, In Rangoon, towers shove the city 870 feet from a platform. Itself more than 150 feet higher than the surrounding leveL The graceful golden pile, flashing In the blase of an Indian sun, is surmounted by a Jeweled umbrella bang with a chlma of bells which may be tinkled by the gentlest breath of wind, aaya a bulletin of the National Geographic society. The material In this canopy alone la valued at a quarter of a million dollars. Tradition hna It that men who had acquired eight precious hairs from the beard of Gautama decided to bury them on the already sacred knoll and It annoying to say the least when A coiiibiuuilou rat trap and a cow contracts flie habit of robbing a nut el addition la feeder rather her own dairy and how best to stop to the feeder la The house. poultry the vice is a problem. In some In- a 1 foot and 1 foot dry-ma- sh stances where a cow shows a marked shrink in milk and la not seen to suck herself we hare found that the robbing was being done by a calf, or even a yearling, on pasture. The usual treatment In such a case Is to put a spiked halter on the robber calf, aaya a writer in the Successful Farming. Such a contrivance la objectionable In that injuries to the udder may result The better plan la to prevent the thieving calf from getting at the cow. In another Instance campers on the lake at the far sldo of tlie farm were doing the robbing, bo Investigation la necessary in all such cases. When a cow sacks herself there are various methods of prevention, each of which has Its advocates. We have R. 8. Hughes, Tester for Boone County Tenting Association, at Work in Office, often had good results from simply What la claimed to be the largest single cow testing association In the putting an old horse collar upside on the cow's neck. A neckle world Is located In Boone county, Hi'nols, with headquarters In the Boons down of pqjntedath- - oij'smaV.picie:!j county farm bureau office at Belvldere. shown in toe Illustration proves efTills association consists of 100 dairy farmers of Boone county. It started It la made as follows: Taka fective, operation January 1, 1923. The members weigh and record the milk from each six pieces of round, light wood about cow two days during the month, talcs samples and mall or deliver them to the twelve Inches long and one and one-hal- f farm bureau office where they are tested and all calculations are recorded. Inch.1' In diameter, or pieces of Advantage of System. strong lath of similar length, and with "While this system has Its disadvantages, says Farm Adviser J. C. Kline; small cord passed through holes bored who organized the association, Its advantages far outweigh them. Owing to the expense of the testing association, we could not Interest enough farmers to organise one. The big majority of our members regularly mall their samples to the ofIn the operation of the plan. One farmer told fice and otherwise me that as a result of testing, be hnd culled out seven of bis poor producers and now gets more milk each month from 15 cows than he formerly did with 22. Others are getting like results." ' Cost of Membership. Membership In the Bonne County association has cost members only 10.20 each for 1923, but Mr. Kline states that the dues will be increased to $15 next year to make for more efficient operation. reInquiries to find out the details of the Boone county plan have been a with started been have associations several and states ceived from many similar plan. wide; high long box, with a sloped and slatted top, through which the hena put their heads te eat during the day. To convert this into hols was bored a rat trap, a In the end of the hopper, a short length of stovepipe fustened lit the hole, and a bug tied over the other end of the pipe and spread out on the ground. A heavy board cover was binged to the feed box; this was kept open by means of a hook during the day, but the hook was released, and . FARM BUREAU HEADS TUBERCULOSIS FIGHT the Big Projects in Live Stock and Dairy Sections. One of a small prop with a airing attached to It used at night. The string led away to a distant window so that the could pull It without entering the poultry house and disturbing the rats. A yank at the string let the cover drop and trapped the rate to aide. Then, by beating on the cover, with e stick, the rets were made to run through the hole, down the pipe; and Into the bag, where a few blows killed them. As long ss the hens ate from the feeder the rats never seemed suspicious. L. Harris Hlscock, N. Y., in Popular Mechanics poul-trym- an Sks-neatel- Monthly. credited a county must have less than f of one per cent reactors. Aa soon as the percentage of reactors drops below 1 per cent, only centers of Infection are tested In the county. In Michigan the work la proceeding rapidly. During August 4,553 herds, containing 83,128 animals, were tested. The work la carried on through a cooperative arrangement of the state, federal and county authorities. The county must appropriate funds to pay the expenses of the veterinarian nnd others working In the county. Indemnities for diseased cattle are borne by the state and federal governments. County farm bureaus In Maryland directly aided by the state federation era rapidly pushing the formation of A warm cow testing associations. rivalry haa been built up between various county units to see which will be able to show the cleanest sheet when the next report la made. The farm burean In Maryland haa determined that bovine tuberculosis will be completely eradicated In that state. Particular Interest In tuberculosis eradication la being shown by the farm bureau! in Hartford, Baltimore, Frederick and Carroll Montgomery, Necklace one-hal- Prevents Cow From ing Herself. Buck- Fay More Attention to In the round sticks, or tied around the Feeding Poultry Flock lathi, weave them to form an open With the coming of cold weather and fencellke necklace to be placed higher prices fur eggs, careful around the cows neck and secured pay more attention than ever there by tying together tlie free ends to the feeding of their flocks, so egg of the cords. When the cow turns to production may start early and be suck herself the sticks will prevent. maintained aa long as possible. To Another good plan la to place a strong belli meet the deniuml for Information halter on the neck and a surcingle on feeding, the college of agriculture around the body Just behind the el- at Ithaca has pul lulled a bulletin conIn one taining the rations it has found by bows. Then put a snap-hoo- k end of a piece of fork or broom hanto be the most efficient. Didle and a ring In the other. Now rections for the use of these feeds and snap the hook Into the hanging ring for the lnanugmneiy of flocks are also of the halter, pan the etlck between discussed, two wto-- h in the the forelegs and attach the ring in lti words o the bulletin, are aa lm-nend to the surclngi, or pass the rope cunt aa the mixtures themselves; or sfpip of the surcingle t The amount of feed depends upon g the appetites of tbe birds, and no ring of the atlck. Thla wW :ip but not prevent eating. definite rule for feeding will apply to A simpler plan is to put a bull ring all conditions. Scunt feeding In the In tlie cow's nose and hang another morning and at noon, followed by a ring from the first one. That usually heavy feeding of grain hi the litter of works well. If not, then put a com- tbe hen house early enough so the mon straight bridle bit in the mouth birds will find It before dark, has and hold it loosely In place by menus given best results. Green feed, oyster of a halter. One man suggests greashell, and clean, fresh, pure water are ing the teats with lard and then sprin- also essential. That kling freely with red pepper. Equal parts by weight of mesh end discourages the cow from sucking her- grain are fed; the former la made as self or being sucked by a calf. A follows for laying hens: 100 pounds somewhat cruel preventive measure Is each of wheat bran, wheat middlings, to put some ling rings In the cow's cornmeal, ground oats or ground barUps and the latest suggestion, which ley, and meat scrap, and three pounds we do not care to recommend, la to of salt. The grain mixture consists of put the rlnga In the tip of the cow's 500 pounds of cracked com, 200 pound! tongue. each of barley and wheat, and 100 The plan nf splitting pounds of heavy oats. the cow's tongue for a distance of A copy of the bulletin will be sent to two Inches from to those who write to the college at one and one-hal-f Its tip has of recent years been Im- Ithaca for E 45. proved upon by trained veterinarians who perform the operation according 10 M0p OlAtJ to modem methods of surgery and in APOrtani such a way as to prevent undue sufand Shape of All Eggs fering and Insure against Infection. For those who are shipping eggs to special markets, It is Important to watch the size and shape of the eggs, Given Superior Formula aa well as to see how many the hens to Treat Garget in Cow are luylng and what color they are. the top GHrget often causes considerable loss Too long an egg crushes from reIn the herd. When an animal Is found In shipping, and cuts down ilie too a of over months; she trouble period ceipts to be suffering from this should be milked after the remainder wide an egg crushes from the side. of the herd, as the disease may be car- Customers demand a fair amount of ried on the hands. Alter milking, tbe uniformity In size and shape, because hands should be washed with a good it ltiukes more attractive selling. They disinfectant. Milk from the diseased are willing to pay mure for such qualquarters should not be milked is the ity. The new breeder of today can floor, but Into a pall and disposed of. eows suffering from It may be treated make more money by breeding for egg quality than for more eggs, says with tlie following mixture, recomMany who go mended by tbe l'urdue university dulry an eastern authority. In for producing more egg overlook department. Mix eight ounces of vaseline, eight so many tilings. I recently saw a ounces of wool fat. two fluid ounces pnultrynmn who had a number of hena to 300 eggs per year hellndonnn, two fluid ounces extract with records up a flock of 200 averlie hud and eueli, mix. warm and Massage poke root; l age, liut of nearly 100 egg I saw, from udder thoroughly. Feed one of powdered poke root and ua many different hens, not over one tablcspoonful of saltpeter three 20 would pus for fancy eggs un the feeds, stop three feeds and continue market and bring top price. Some have gone as miscelagain If necessary. Diseased cows would simply should lie Isolated from the rest of the laneous eggs; they were too small and tinted." herd. pouL-tryme- n Eradication of bovine tuberculosis one of the major projects of all state farm bureau federations In live stock and dairy producing areas. In Minnesota under the direction of Dr. C. E. Cotton, head of the state Uve stock sanitary board, -- and: W, Frits, Inspector In charge of federal tuberculosis eradication work, cattle are being Inspected county by coynty. In fifteen days over 40,000 cattle In Meeker county were tested. The Meeker County farm bureau la actively assisting the county agent In that county In putting over the eradication campaign. Doctor Cotton praised highly the cooperation given the teat campaign by county farm bureau officials, saying, The way In which the farm bureau people helped with the work made It counties. possible for us to conduct a campaign that was 100 per cent efficient In every LAW FAVORED respect Without the farm bureau a been would have more time deal great Floor Plan. required and I am certain that the Action to Secure New Regulations In New Jersey Approved at Ro-- 30 feet high, campaign would have progressed far er or business man. Yet the average that the original pagoda, cent Conference. less smoothly. workman need not find It beyond his was erected to protect them, aaya the New York a special committee In inwas mound News. Thla Detroit means, either. new Action to secure has been appointed to head the eradiNo, It simply has been well designed cased with successive layers until the work In that state. Enos Lee, marketing law In New Jersey was apcation and built ; that Is alL We look at Its final one of gold now aheath the great of the state farm bureau proved in a Joint conference of all exterior, at the sym- pile. Once In a generation more gold president appointed the committee farm organisations and Institutions of federation, metrical gubllng of the porch, the dis- Is added by voluntary contributions, head up the work. will and the state held In Trenton, New Jeractively tinctive touch of the little pergola dec- which pour In because taking a part Illinois Agricultural sey, recently. the Illinois In la a a In of the middle the window, pagoda building oration above the association together with the county The decision followed a spirited dispergola at the side, extending from Buddhist act of high devotion. farm bureaus are engaged in an active cussion on legislative needs of farmthe terrace over the driveway all eners In New Jersey. The proposed cocampaign to secure the proper Figurehead of Chesapeake. have been so well thought out that orders and regulatrules of forcement operative lew would bring the present Among the figureheads of famous they add their attractiveness to the tuberculosis eradication. law on this subject up to date and in ing dockat Chatham still and It pleasships preserved complete whole, making farm bureaus, too, accord with the federal legislation and county Michigan the la that the of Chesapeake, yards ing to the eye. are giving Important assistance to the the statutes of 26 states. There are seven rooms. The re- American frigate defeated and capand state governments In The conference approved the apfight with the federal cessed porch leads directly Into the tured In the day-lon- g work which Is go- pointment of a committee to represent tuberculosis cattle In 1813, whole the British ship, Shannon, living room, which extends In Michigan. The the farm group In power this comThe battle was fought within sight of ing forward rapidly width of the house, with a fireplace at have been prime mittee to confer with Governor Sllzer bureaus farm the end. and the windows set at prop- Boston harbor. Capt. Sir 1hlllp Broke county the work started. and to meet the provisions of the coIn movers getting The Is borne excellent brought the Chesapeake. er distances, so that there last year law proposed Once It la under way they have loaned wall backgrounding for the proper dis- figurehead of hla ship, the Shannon, all their resource toward getting It operative which wns vetoed by the governor housed was his and Sepfurniture. became and perquisite play of pictures dime as economically as possible. This after pnsslng both branches of the arating It from the dining room la a In his county seat. Broke Hall, Nacton. means that the county farm bureau legislature. double doorway, making near Ipswich. colonnaded In economically The Chesapeake figurehead Is a fine bave assisted greatly the whole Interior view here extremethe plan of work, NORTH DAKOTA POTATO PLAN county organising is head The nrt the furnishly pleuslng with the French window! specimen of records, the campaign keeping and doors of the dining room opening crowned with the American Indian head also other and worker, speakers ing dregs of feathers. Detroit News. Organization Will Follow Schema Outonto the outer pergola ed terrace. financial assistance. we lined Early This Year by which counties Ily a very good hull arrangement Michigan has four bedBureau Federation. Ears. Patient's Into to access Blowing every Wen convenient have free and have In Zululnnd, South Africa, nHtlvo are tuberculosisthe United States govroom. and yet they are Isolated from designated by The North Dakota Farm Bureau the real of the house. The kitchen Is doctors collect rich fees by blowing ernment as modified accredited areas. to cast one executive committee has federation's their ears Into and the of same patients hull, this across reached In Hillsdale county live stock shippers voted to get squarely back of the cun safely assume that the cooking out evil spirits. The medicine man are already getting a state-wid- e organization committee to odors will never be too obvious In tlie seats the victim on the blanketed premium on hogs sent to market North a Dakota Potato GrowIt floor of the outdoor surgery, after anWhile house. organize of this the room dining This formerly was deducted by is to the he ers' that dispel Is exchange. efficiently nouncing very Is small, tlie kitchen packers as Insurance against tubercuThe organization of tho potato growanunwil. The sink Is by a double wicked demons causing sickness. lie losis losses. In a few years this Item one places a horn to the patients ear and ers in North Dakota will follow the at Ancabinet shelving with window, alone win pay for the campaign. HI one makes Tlie outlined early this year by the blows. Is the generally plan range, end ; Immediately behind benefit to come will be 25 cent be- other marketing department of tlie and the pantry has the Ice box so a bad face, cries "enough, and, from hundred packer more per Farm Bureau federation the American from ing convinced that he has been cured, on cattle outside beIcing enable still to us placed shipments. Thla la la troubled no more. for tlie nntlon-wld- e organization of Insurance the rear hallway. as against deducted In severe cases herbs are used aa a ing Is ample there grower. house potato tlie be taken will Throughout tuberculosis losses, but A remedy, when the horn la not effective. The marketing departprovision made for closet spnee, off very soon. can News. Detroit she tlrnt knows whose ment of the national farm bureau will one county haa paid housewife Michigan assist at tlie North Dakota organisaThere cattle have been twice tested for tu- tion. fpver have loo many of these. Slow. Too In one the the dining nil modified told, a six. i re berculosis. It soon will be The young Londoner was taking ills accredited area. Six counties have r mm esiieidnlly being very lumdy. to at out dinner cousin Buy Feeders Direct, This Ionise Is In surh simple good slow country been tested once and are getting ready The Maryland farm bureau feeder-cattltaste exteriorly that It would be a a French restaurant In 8uh ' Four counties second teat the for "These, he said, as a dish was have their Brat teat under way; 20 pool resulted In the purchase of shame, fo have Its Interior cluttered furnish- brought, "are snails." of western range cattle. carloads 25 In list, with nondescript. on tho counties are waiting "Oh, said the countryman, "we nevHear In mind that, If It Is an ings ome of tho above counties the test is Maryland feeders express themselves no er get them In Sussex. nt f- - as highly pleased with this method of Inexpensive house to build. It la showing as low ss ltt Pr "No, said the Londoner, "of course actor. To be classed as modified ac-- securing feeders. less Inexpensive to furnish well and - not. You couldn't catch them," , The simple Colonial patIs Poultry Feodor and Rat Trap. well-balanc- e 1 or tn.-nig- i m yjSr i,:rY - table-spoonfu- Causa of Slimy Milk. or ropy milk Is caused hy breeding poultry haa passed Into tha germs tlrnt get Into the milk nfter It pages of history. Tills la the day of Is cow. It has been drawn from the definite, accurate methods. The modesieclnlly prevalent where eowa have ern poultrymnn must know definitely across to low, wet pasture, also when the sire and dam of the birds he rows have access to muddy wnter. raises If he Is to have their exact pedigree. Milk. Beete for Sugar Sugar beets are somewhat mort Pulleta Lay In Winter. valuable for milk production than an stock that begins to lay in Yonng hundred a That Is, pound! mangels. of the yeur will usually lay fall the of augar beets contain more digestlbh the winter, the period nutrients than do 100 pounds of man throughout azs when eggs highest In price. Slimy gela. tf.Wi Day of Definite Method. 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