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Show , RETAIN ALL BREEDING STOCK CONSERVATION Near-Sighte- Kvory man, woman and child ouuht to know that nothing on retho earth or In the earth will we if tain its pristine strength retake more from it than we turn to it. In fact, this process will inevitably sap its vitality and finally destroy it. We cannot milk without feeding, subtract without adding, check without depositing, draw from the spigot without putting In at the bung; we cannot eat our cake and keep It. We canuot grow crops without returning fertilizer to the soil. Policy of Farmer to Let Animals Go Simply Because Prices Are High. d ,,,,1 i Children Cry For jEfco its1 9651) roe they-wil- ALCOHOL-- 3 v too 5' jtj, Thereby Promoting Mineral. Jhimptin Seed At Senna JkcktUi Saltt ArUtfittci ijsts Mfs Ml '0 'fit flesults Given of Experiments Conducted by Ohio Experiment Sta- v Worm Sod ClariMSugitf Wnhiymn fhvor $ A hel pful Remedy for Constipation and Diarrhoea and Feverishness ana Loss OF Sleep resulting What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep. The Childrens Panacea The Mothers Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Fac-Simil- e Sijnatureof hb Centaur Company NEW YQHftj In Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought NIW VORK THI 6KNTAUN Mdum Exact Copy of Wrapper DOBBIN HAS A DAY DREAM Faithful Old Horse Will Have Regular Thrill When He Casts Off His Shoes. When the automobile and the tin Lizzie shall at last have relegated the boss to the limbo of things obsolete, will the noble animal degenerate and hark back to bis ancestral type, or will he simply disappear like the dodo? asks Zim in Cartoons magazine. It has taken a lot of time and patience to develop Dobbin from the primitive models such as the hydraco-theriuthe pacliynolophus and the eohippus, to make him whoa, back nflO gitap and take his meals out of a nosebag. In the process of civilization he has gradually lost his toes and has had to accommodate his feet to the horseshoe. Does he still dream perhaps of the delights of having toes of sinking them down Into the green sqush of the tertiary era and feeling the cool .goo trickle up between them ! If so, how glad he will be some day to look down and see his toes beginning to sprout once again! His will be the thrill of the small boy on the first warm day of spring when he can cast off his shoes and go barefoot. When the hoss discovers for the first time that he can again wiggle his toes, he will doubtless radiate a smile of solid comfort. long-forgott- ' COMPANY, Jr1- CITY. - -- y 1 Liquor Control in Bermuda. Consul Carl R. Loop of Hamilton, reports that the Bermuda legislature has passed a law whereby "during the continuance of the present war the sale or supply of Intoxicating liquor In all clubs and licensed premises Is prohibited between the hours of nine oclock at night and nine o'clock on the following morning," The Egg In Transit. In all this economic discussion of the egg in transit, no humanitarian has arisen to suggest that this distinguished citizen should be permitted to travel hereafter In a lower berth. Boston Transcript. It Is better for a mans conscience that he be sorry for what he didnt get than for what he did. Considerable difference of opinion among wheat growers as to the proper depth of drilling wheat. The Canada Thistle. Eat More Com! Ohio agricultural experiment has conducted tests for five station Growing a crop of corn in hills and culyears com- tivating thoroughly both ways and the hills is another way of paring various depths of drilling and broadcasting. The yield of wheat in eradication. Getting rid of the patchbushels per acre for wheat drilled one es of Canada thistle and sow thistle inch deep was 28.7 bushels ; drilled two now will save a lot of work a little Inches, 28.7 bushels per acre; drilled later. three inches deep, 28.5 bushels per acre; sown broadcast, 24.9 bushels per Watch your bees closely during the When you eat com instead of wheat you are saving for the boys in France. ERADICATION Com is an admirable cool weather food. hand-hoein- g acre. honey flow. OF WEED SEEDS If Noxious Plants Have Not Gone to Seed They Can Be Plowed Under Whether or not you like com bread, com muffins, Johnny Cake, or com pone, you are sure to like as Fertilizer. Cornfield infested with wlreworms If the weeds have flourished In your should be cultivated as long and as garden or in parts of It, mow them down now. deeply as possible. If they have not gone to seed, they oan be Billbugs affecting corn cannot live plowed under later ta help out he stable manure on cotton, therefore follow corn with you apply, but If they have, they should be removed cotton. from the garden and thrown on the heap; composting kills weed compost seed. Silo on Every Farm. Only about first silo was ne farm In ' If practicable, grow field peas or buckwheat on sod land before plantingit to corn, in order to lessen tlie dumage due to wlreworms. The newest wrinkle in com foods crisp, bubbled flakes of white com a substantial food dish with an alluring smack thirty years since the built, and now almost Arsenate of lime may be used in every ten In the United place of the more expensive arsenate States has a silo. of lead, but should not be used on niants with delicate foliage, such as Keep High Feed Bills Away. the stone fruits. Plenty of silage and good legume nay will help to keep the high feed hills away. Sod land to be used for corn next aftyear should be plowed immediately Dont sell breeding animals. er haying and cultivated deeply the re the seed rest of the summer to reduce the numfor the nations live mdustrv ber of wlreworms. and costs but a trifle. Make Post Toasties Your V 7 A Fifty-FiftReal Foresight. P. M. Postmaster Hanks ran the general I am afraid you do not practice economy, my dear, complained Mr. store as well as the post office and one summer morning a lanky youth Kjones. His wife cast a contemptuous glance slouched In, removed his battered at him. Come with me to the attic, straw hat and said: Mr. Hanks, I unerstand theres two she commanded. And he followed her letters here fur me one wot come a thither. In the attic she opened a trunk and month ago and one wot come last took out a bundle wrapped carefully in week. Im afeared my folks must bo tissue paper. Tearing off the wrap- sick, or else they wouldnt be wrltln pings, she disclosed a lovely, filmy so plum often. Let me hare them letters, will ye, Mr. Hanks?" gown. The postmaster glared at the youth. That, she said, Is my wedding No, Pel eg Anderson, I wont let ye dress. them letters till ye settle fur have And do you call it economy to save o groceries wots been owin' lot that he chortled. your wedding dress? Thats not economy, Its sentimen- so long! The young man took out some tality. It would have been economy to wear that dress and get Its worth money. I kin settle half the account, Mr. out of it. But here It Is no earthly he said. Hanks, good to you nor anybody else. Econosaid the postmaster, in a Then," ! my Huh Thats where you are wrong, she milder voice, I kin give ye one o yef Squar up I am saving that dress letters, and he did so. said, calmly. In full, Peleg Anderson, an yell git for my next wedding. yer other letter, but not before. That held him for a while. tion for Five Years. exists - ihercfrom-mlnfanr- One Item in Its Favor Is That It Can Be Sown Any Time to Be Used for Cover Crop. FOR DRILLING WHEAT Digestion Not Narcotic Jttctpeof IS EASIEST CROP Buckwheat is about the easiest crop to succeed with. One item in its favor Is that it can be sown at almost any time during the growing season for a cover crop, and can be sown throughout a long season for the grain it proMoth Produces Corn Ear Worm. duces. Fruit growers should keep on corns, the cotton boll, tomato fruit, and hand a supply of seed buckwheat. sometimes the pods of beans and peas. Its greatest fondness, however, seems to be for sweet corn. Some seasons PLAN FOR KILLING THISTLES It Is almost impossible to get any absolutely perfect ears of early corn in Difficult to Destroy on Account of Unthe gardens on account of this Insect. derground Stems Cultivating The worm, which varies In colors of Thoroughly Is Good. and green, purple pink, is the larva of Canadian thistle and sow thistle are an ochre yellow moth marked with black. It is claimed that there are hard to kill, as they have underground stems from which new plants are sent two or three generations per year. up. A piece of this stem if cut off and the right conditions will form SELECTION OF HORSE COLLAR given a new plant. The first step, in the eradication is to mow the plants, then Close Attention Must Be Given to Preplow them under and disk the land as vent Galls Care of Shoulder Is often as new shoots appear. Keeping Simple Process. the top from growing will In time kill the roots and underground stems. In order to prevent galls and more serious conditions it Is not enough to give close attention to the selection of the collar. The shoulder of the horse should always be washed and given special care when the apimal is at steady work. If the selection of the collar has been properly made and all other things in regard to this piece of harness looked after, the care of the animals shoulder is a simple process. Under these conditions washing the shoulder with soap and pure water after the harness has been removed at the end of a days work, and thorough drying the parts by rubbing it with clean cloths, Is all that is CENT. Cheerfulness and RcstContains neither Opium, Morphine nor . BUCKWHEAT PER AVc$etablc IYcparationforAs similfttingthclbod by Rcgula of ting theStomachs and Bowls destructive DEPTH nwj Contents 15 Fluid Drachm jilt Due to the scarcity of, and demand for, all kinds of meat, the price of live stock is at present abnormally high. The farmer naturally wants to sell all he can at these figures, and It Is not to be wondered at tlmt he Is sorely templed to sell bis old or breeding stock ns well at ihese figures. It is true that l bring a good price, yet, unless others as good or better are on hand to replace them, this procedure Is bad indeed. Instead of selling off breeding stock, the opposite plan should be followed wherever possible tlie Increasing of breeders. The American live stock Inear worm is dustry must not only be maintained, but it must be built up. Kill the maSome Seasons It Is Almost Impossible ture stock and the industry is crippled. to Get Perfect Ears on Account With the breeders killed, production is of This Insect. cut off and future farm profits from these animals lost. The corn ear worm or boll worm Is The breeding animals on the farm In Its larval stage are quite destructive essential and must be considered throughout the country. It attacks as part of the permanent investment. the car of corn, especially the sweet Save these to earn future profits, and io preserve and l.nsure our domestic meat supply. Dont kill the goose that lays the golden eggs. in Yar Cereal |