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Show y V y the Weekly reflex, kaysville, utah r U- campaign ltls getting tn Its w0re licks. The minute the average citk sea entered a convention hall plague hit him behind the ear acd hq, was bereft of all sense and reason. A man would get up on the plat form, take a drink of water, and begin to speak. Tfeen ethe victims of re disease, would think that theyji&d to do 'something queer. - Most of tLPtn' would keep on talking, and ever g often the plague would sweep over bis audience and theyd go unto eon- - - SOWS IN GOOD FLESH 4.'iS YOUNG - BY I EE ished the people would think thev had to get up on chairs, throw their hats and canes Into the air and bum up a years energy cheering thnir heads off. Then somebody would get nominated and the people would go back to their Jobs and find that the boss had got somebody in their pi, me while they were away. "It was a great game. It rea. bed Us climax in 1913. Ah! well, 1 miir-m-bebow the people of this country were running around that sunrruer actually worrying because there were three parties in the field, and the c cleclim.QL.-- n ew ss.j !l Important. Hah! Tls queer to look back on it now. There was Teddy st one corner, Wilson at another, at, 1 fafl at the other And the ieo;iie actually excited abopt it Youd Hunk. 4twas something Importantrlikt the Invention of Tonnesens Sun Rav Storage battery, or Mikaroffs Agri- cultural Accelerator - 'Now you ami I, lad, we know that the real trouble in those days was because it wag so hardier a lot of the people to keep fm iit winter end .gnrraunujiOeT the year around. Thats why they had those obsolete words, want ami And you and .1, J?d we suffering. know that when that Norwegian professor began to catch sun rays and use in winter, and 8fore them-fo- r when the old Russian dually h:t upon IACQUODD 1 THE coniect the upper end of the TTn und Tlie home made electric bell shown the illustrations Is very simple In construction, and Is made of only such materials as are easily obtained. The working principle of an electric bell Is this When the pushbutton Is pressed, the current from the bell battery passes along the bell wire and through colls of wire mounted upon the bell bane. These coils of wire Hre Wound around cores of soft Iron, and tTmf passes around amL around through the many turns of wire the cores become magnetized Wag-net- . and together form a "horse-sho- e This magnet draws the bell hammer arm, or, armature, towards It. Then, the Instant that the armature Is --pulled away from the little adIn " ijl t . Ai "t O -- V'T ,'-3r- .'' rv; . f r! ,,H ! - 7 " A Good Type of Hog Cot pleted In strength. Frequently she is absolutely exhausted, and requires many weeks to regain flesh and strength, If It Is possible to reguln ihe loss. There Is no doubt buttlutt this frequent flesh and vltallty'weakenlug impairs the health and value of the animal. Were she kept In good round flesh at all times there la no question but that she would live longer and be more productive In advanced yeara. The young sow often - grows until after her second or third litter of pigs. Then Is the period when maternity tells on an animal most. If to the physical strain of giving birth to .pig and suckling them Is added the stunting effect of too light feeding the young sow cannot possibly attain hor This will nol highest development. only affect her future earning power, but will also affect the profits In he: pigs They will to some extentlnfierlT her undersized and weakness,- snd thB .4. future stock will therefore be small and poor. If the young sow Is kept In good, i'Sy round flesh until after full maturity she will have a chance to develop into a large mother animal, and be able to transmit her size and strong vitality to her offspring. If she carries an abundance of flesh and some fat nearflutebed ly equal to that of the prime Medium Type of Yorkshire. a surhave will she market for hog maternof weekB vitality. She needs much feed during plus for the draining so poor st any pregnancy for the development of the ity, and not become unborn pigs and for her own vital time, that hor lystmn Is materially It la held by most farmers that the rood sow must be kept in thin flesh. PWlowlng this rule, which Is good .In way, many farmers allow .the sows n Insufficient amount of feed, and hence both sow and pigs suffer, writes W. H. Underwood In the Iowa Homestead. Also the yonng sow farrows before she Is mature in stse, and through light feeding she never attains the site and breeding capacity that she would had she been given larger amounts of feed during her growing period. The sow for several well understood reasons should not be kept too fat, especially In farrowing, time. She has. however, large demands placed upon large requires her, and . hence amounts of fet'd to sustain normal - . '-- heeds. n After the pigs are born, during the suckling period, the sow requires an extra large amount of nutritious feed In order to furnish a full flow of milk for the little pigs and maintain her own flesh. Too often , the sow at the close of the suckling period becomes poor and de DAIRY BY PROSPERITY USE OF A SILO Dairymen Should Take Advantage of Every Opportunity to Reduce His Expensed (By J. E. WORMAN.) Were told a dairy farmer' ' that work. In these days of close competition dairymen should be ready to take of every opportunity to reduce the cost of production, and It will bo found that It is easier If the proper methods are used to do that than to' raise the selling price of the The results, are the dairy producL same; a large net profit In the corn plant about 40 per cent of the feeding value Is In the stalk the and W per cent. In the ear alone Is fed nearly half of the corn crop Is wasted. ' Where the dry stalks are fed at least half of them remain uneaten, while If stored In the silo the loss Is almost nothing. ' Every dairyman knows- that cows will do their heat on trash June pasoa ture. The grass la sueculeat and palatable and the oondttlons for a maximum milk .flow are IdeaL These conditions, however, do not last very long. The silo comes as near to supplying the ideal conditions as anything that can be found, and It Is available every C'7 n the year. It provides a uniform feed for every one of the 12 months. Highly sensitive dairy cows resent any sudden change or violent alteration in feed, and will show It by a decreased milk flow. The change Finishing Off. Even rough animals can be finished t an early age with plenty of feed. ;h the cost far exceeds that with bred, sorts. - animal when Its teed Is tn- deration uses it to grow , and If we want to fiu- A early-maturin- " T we must feed beav- - i food for this in- - -- home-mad- e sound-conductor- ' " . lt - Grow Truck Crops. It is better to grow for truck-crop- s our own laboring men than to ship grain to Europe. around so much during the growthy period as to remain muscular, without that finishing touch the market ' demands. . , , Pick Out Paying Cows. of dairy farmers are feeding and milking 20 cows twice per dsy each day of the year, when the chances are that 12 to 12 of the number would T'.y a larger profit The, whole idea 1 V , Doxens V r ' ' intocon-vul.sion- -- -- s g the ray that made five crops grow in the time one had grown before, then was when something important happened. But In those days they had queer notions. Politics! Polit'cs! How strange It Is to look back at it all! "Who got elected in mthnt terribe campaign 'of T9T2?" asked the operator. Captain MacMinns looked down at the city below and sho d, his head "I don't remember." said he lives. But before there things came to (Copyright, bv W G Chr.man pass this country was the worst example of .what the Imaginary disease WARFARE WA2ED BY YOUTH could do to of Youngsers Always in tW Front Ranks j - -- When? of Waf oga Are Loosed. over-crowde- d 1 1 . -- that-pos- politlcal-campaignlt- is am mu u uiiuuu muimmiii ijhs Londons Best Donkey. Bill has Just been declared the best donkey of the year In London, at the Peoples Jalace, In the Fast end, when he had to compete against 250 other donkeys. II Lb master Is a butcher in Ithe-D- Our own civil war was fought by youngsters, gaining the physique of maturity upon the weary march, coming Into their manhood upon the field of battle. - The yptlftiHof Russia and Japan was drawn upon to settle the dispute between the robbers of a third nations lands. Scarce half the of the Balkan allies, it is said. - rs small screw, and screw it at this point to a small block of wood (A, Fig. 8). Then fasten block A to the base block In the position shown In Fig. 2, with the armature exactly parallel to the inch magnet heads and about f away from them. Fig. 9 shows the details of the ad Justment screw and a binding post Cut B out of hard wood; tack the stflp ofT tin, JDijo Jtstopandfaoa, and nail B to the base block near the pivoted end of the armature, as shown In Fig. 2. Tack the piece oftiu, C, to the base block under the end of D, atd punch a hole through both C and D for the screw-ey- e binding post to run through. Fold a small piece of tin la half, aa shown In Fig. 10, for the the lower por-Jid pierce a . striplings. If' youth made war, there would be less of gross Immorality about It. But youth Is only the pawns of the fighting, only the creatures to be Bhot down, to be exposed to privation to be laid open to the sins and temptations that trail in the wake of armies It has not always been realized how little a 'part the fighters of nnr var h ve with its contriving. But that rean''tion must come home o a nation which takps account of the los of its virility through war. the sacritce of its. adventurous spirit whtet- in ether directions might have wrought quite- Perhaps in this new w'ay wc have of looking at 'the ng "gentTat ion- as-tI are What tell you Its no you laughing atTdemanded the best a of asset - laughing matter to sit still and watch a operator. country the wor'd! whole nation get crazy this think more of the wastes of war. way. fnoreof the damege it does, to that might come' the uufvi r:" a country that ever was known In the the speech and noise of Sal peace we pray for. as over came the history of the world. t Every four they Abyssynla wireless telephoneT People' arent years theplague came down. You Concerning Advice, paylug any attention to business or have seen how theyre behaving In In a magazine for women appeals the other things that concern them. Abyssynia today. Well, that Is a this choice bit of advice: "Dont go Theyre fairly consumed by this in- picture of this country as it was, say out to dinner unless you are willing In excitement. has the summer of 1912. Abyssynia explicable to talk. . Sounds rather needless, gone mad. The operator mused, shaking his dont It? Persons 'of the gentle sex Captain MacManus leaned back and head Incredulously. do talk when out to dinner chuckled heartily. What caused these oubreaks? "he generally or elsewhere. One is reminded of What are you laughing at? de- asked. that old saying about Carrying coals 1 tell you lt'a manded the operator. That, my lad, is something that to Newcastle. and all that .sort. of no laughing matter to sit still and ' none of the great scientists who thing. And it thrusts itself on one's . watch a whole nation go crazy this It ever was able to discover. attention that a large percentage of way. But this is the way It could the advice so generously bestowed on begin: I laugh, my lad, because you take a bunch of usually sane citizens would both sexes is rather on the unnecesme back to the days of my youth. be sitting together, and all of a sudsary order. Yet we read it and hunger You make me den one of them would chuckled the captain. Lappen to and thirst after it, dont we? And most the when remehiber, peo- look up at the calendar. days Whoops, why? Isnt it because we want to be ple lived on the ground. You take my dear! he'd yell. By the calen- advised to do the things we want to me back to the days when railroads dar I see that next year is going to do, like to do and will do anyway? . and steamships were trying to carry be the year when weve got to elect around on the another president. Who shall it be? The kind of advice we dont care inucb people and goods about Is that which runs counter to 1 laughs -- Put don'l. Earth- .- That QsexelLLODSLWOulJ . say. None of ?u (personal, wishes and Intentions, , a worry. The uncivilised nation of It, would come from a second. Taft Givers of such advice" are" sometime. has not gone crazy not per- Is the boy, Taft your eye! the third regarded as malicious, meddling, permanently, at least. It's just suffering would yell. Wilson! Wilson forever! nicious persons, even though it U Acfrom an old disease, a disease that Then all of a sudden be theyd yelling knowledged that their advice Is wholly now afflicts only the few nations that back act one another, and from words sound and reliable. are still barbaric enough to follow theyd come to blows, and from , Really, come to blows think of It, the situation la enough to the old, discarded customs. The name to chairs, and then the man who ran discourage any bat the I me beIs let of the disease jnoet willing see; the place would have t6 come in and it? advisor, Isnt Detroit Free ITralieve Ive forgotten. Ah! I have It: tell them to get out and fight In the Politics. Thats what's the matter street or hed lose Tils license. with Abyssynia; Its suffering 'from, an Taking No Chances. V W hy they did It ever nobody was Dlnny was taking dinner with attack of able to tell. It wasn't anything that gan at a brilliant cafe. They weran8 What's that? asked the operator-- A concerned the average man. He had accustomed to Joke, said Captain MacManus. to scramble Just as hard to eating at such a placet support but they got along fairly well Wbe It "Is Ms family no matter what dangerous. happened Only to the bystander. Hes likely Put theyd go at It just as if it was they had finished, the waiter said: " "Shall I bring you a couple "of to get kicked tn the fracas, as the some of their business. After theyd exclaimed on "Not ancients used to say. yer life, got thoroughly warmed up some one ' What Is the cause of It?" "Our wives might come to Dlnny. of the tribe of agitators called pol"Imagination. iticians, who had been waiting for an see ns sittin wld them. Sa Francisco .Argonaut. the right moment lmaginatlont" Mr somei time, Yes, said the captain. Imagina- would signal hiscalcium operator and Pikes Peak' Sinking. tion, You see. suddenly stand forth In the Is Pikes Peak sinking? Isnt a .real disease, It really Isnt t 1 hatf to sacrifice myself, felThe latest government survey, ao y thlng, lL, n.tver was, not even low citizens:.. hed.Eav, if- - you. but. announced. Bay the altitude of that back In the old days of 1912 when It tosist upon boys, bring out famous used to he so, prevalent before the those hundred thousand peak is only 1400 feet above lithographs sea leveL Compared with Its height Fve had made of people got onto the Joke of 1L my8elf these last as given officially la the report of the really Is nothing six months.' more than a state of mind, a hallucisurvey three years ago, which vraA Then the common people, as they 1447 feet, the peak la thirty-eignation. The victim imagines that he were caBed then, would be touched feet lower. Denver must get excited over a name printed by the noble conduct Correspondence of the m . New York Sun. v on banners, must quarrel with his Hooray, theyd say. Then nothe best friend about the merits of the ble gent would get tome of his rich Truest Form of RefTgion. (cen whose names are on the ban-- , friends to hire a hall and theyd have The best brand of religion and otherwise, behave like a ; what thev called a f convention. Then kind a man uses In his in.. fSp busfj, , i, and-diseas- Walworth. Bill was declared to be alt that a donkey should be well groomed, carefully "manicured as to his hoofs, and Ills' inclination to was accounted in his favor- rather than against him. At once he secured-th- e cup, a silver medaL.a set of harness (given byOur Dumb Friends leugue, which organized the show) and a silver watch presented Bilk, it was deby clared, has little, If any, of the characteristics of hts species. He "Bhakes' hande is 'very sociable', , walks into his masters takes lumps of Bugar from the table, and (If nobody Is looking) will appropriate a Joint of meat or any other small item of that sort which may be left unprotected. In addition It may be added he only cost his master I2Q, harness and all. cor-pulen- dining-room- -- - - rt-- 'i itself-Throug- he h far-awa- y , Three Living Gene rale- Gen. GrenvilleDodge, whose home ie In Council Bluffs, Iowa. Is ope of three -- surviving army eorpa commanders, the other two being General Sickles and Gen. James H Wilson. General Dodge Is the last surviving general commander, however, having been tn command of the Army of the Tennessee and the Department of Missouri. He was major general - M ajor. - M.- - stud-dte- this rank iiv 1864. At that ttme, he says, he had In his command a brigadier general In command of a brigade who was barely twenty-twyears of age. Magazine of American , History. -- Progress In this respect the right direction. j s.. - In j rthei.r-chce.kand-I- n had down-jxpo- n Mexico the guerrilla warfare is carried on by boys who In a more ad vjipced country would be In schoot, It is probably true that since the days when entire natlonsmade profession of fighting, lived by conquest, and prospered by the loot thev took, war has been A duty assigned always to d lug heeded. is certainly s I sob-die- from fall pasture to dry feed Is always followed by the shrinkage In the milk. In changing from the pasture to the silage Is not so great, and often the cows Increase the flow when started on silage. to the starting point, then to the bolt-heafor a Is not ration end again, and ao on back and Silage complete a dairy cow,. Silage Is highlit carbo- .forth until the, height of the washers hydrates and some concentrates or has been reached. Wind an even roughage, with, a high, protein content. Burnhst (of lavera oil thw holts, ao the d with ltp,such as wheat upper end of the wire can be brought Should bran. - oil - meal, - cot unisev-- meat ' or. out t tiro u g h t h e ' ws s he r aU 'the. nut alfalfa or cloverjiay. end. Fig. 3 shows the core with the At the Illinois experiment station soli completed. If you now connect It Is reported that a selected herd of both ends of the coil wire to a battery, dairy "cowl Werfi being maintained- on as a lest, y&0rWrtt flnd that the-boalfalfa hay and corn silage alone. has become an "electro magnet " The The cows are In excellent cindltlon, two electro-magnet- s connected at one and have made good yields and a good end with a metal yoVer form thd horse-sho- e profit. magnet. One end of a Every dairyman should make an horse-sho- e magnet attracts and the effort to grow alfalfa and put up sil- other repels, and In order to make one age. It Is a great combination and all a positive and the other a "negahome grown. This constant buying of tive pole" the winding of the colls milk feed 1b what cuts down the must be done in opposite directions profits, and should be eliminated aa that is, the winding on one must be far as possible. done clockwise, and that on the other When It Is considered that corn counter-clockwiscanhe grown oeaslly and In every Make the yoke out of--a strip of tin section of the country. It stands st t Inch wide and 3 Inches long, and the bead of the I(st of forage crops with a nail punch holeB through It 2 for this purpose. Inches on centers, large enough for The yield In feeding value and the the magnet bolts to stick through convenience of handling makes it the (Fig. 4). Connect the lower ends of best silage crop. the wire of the two colls together, The yield will range from 10 to then screw down the nuts tight 20 tonB per acre on good toll, and against the yokes. Figs. 6 and 6 even higher yields have been re- show how the horae-aho- e magnet Is ported At 16- - tuna- - per acre,...one fastened to the bell base by a wooden acre will furnish roughage enough for cleat. two cows for every day In the year, Details of the armature are shown or four cows during a feeding period In Figs. 7 and 9. It is made of tin of six months. What other crop will cut from a tomato can, and the hamdo that? mer from a broken alarm clock. Cut Other crops can be used, such as the place of tin 6 Inches long and 1 is sorghum or cow peas In combina- Inches wide, over all, with a ' tion with either sorghum or corn. The tab on the hammer end and a lnch cow peas Improve the silage, for it tab on the opposite end. as shown. adds protein, but the yield la small Fold the sides of the piece over onto and difficult to harvest the middle portion (Fig- 8), and then fold the sides "of the - hammer end - - Stick to the Farm. over the hammer wire and pound It - The young men are beginning to down until It holds the wire securely. take notice. The old advice for boys Punch a hole through the opposite end to stay on the farm is certainly be of i the armature large enough for a g . 6 push-butto- shoe-polis- h weakened. It Is much ealer to maintain a sow In good flesh than to restore It after It has been lost, and It Is better In sow every way for the animal. A good In giving herd the half be fully may sufquality to the pigs if she I givenmanificient feed and care to make fest her full powers. - t e bw-fe- he could roll sUver dollars down a hill and then pick up two dollars tor everyjbne he rolled down, and this sent was verified by " some' of his neighbors, and hundreds of other dairy farmers in .the country, that farmer would stay up nights to roll the dollars. But when told that he could double tbeprofita by the use of the silo he becomes very Indifferent and keeps on la the same old rut, feeding dry load, wasting nearly half of his corn crop and doing a lot of unnecessary ear.-'-Wh- justment screw that pressea against It, the electrical connection Is broken, the horse-shomagnet loses Its magnetic Influence, and the armature springs buck to Its former position against the adjustment screw. This "closes the circuit; then the current flows - through The magnet collu again, and the armature Is drawn away from the screw as before. The horse-shomagnet Is the first to make. Oet two of bell the portion Inch carriage bolts 2V4 or Inches long for the Iron cores, and V4 pound of ordinary Insulated electrical bolt bdl wire. AIho buy four washers for the ends of the magnets. Slip two washers upon each bolt, and screw the"nut onto the end tempo--" rnjly. Before starting to wind the wire upon the bolts, slip four or five Inches of the end through the hole of the washer on the nut end of the bolt; then carefully wind the wire around tho bolt between that washer and the one at the bolt head end. Wind back 6 e pretty-ged-4mUa- Alrigator, retired. Oh, thpyve gone mad the' whole nation; said the operator- - wearily. To look at the films youd think they were having a war, or a plague, or a wholesale riot all over the counJust held what they try Theyve call a convention. For three days theyve been marching around with brass bands and banners and shouting and talking, andloing everything but declaring actual war on one another. Today about twenty thousand of them got Into a big hall and shouted their heads off to decide on who they were going to shout their heads off for jthe next four months to come, or until election time, as they call It. Youd think the' way they went about It that an lnvadtug fleet was hanging over their heads threatening to spill the Hertzian rays on them before sundown. And all In order to decide on what name Is to' go on their campaign banners. "Its a fright, continued the operator, removing from his ears the wireless that had caught e tators who used to be known as politicians. Of course there Isnt any of It left now in the civilized .countries, but what youve been seeing and hearIng from down in Abyssynia, where they still refuse to turn their General ernment over to ail ug erris1- - a to of what that same disease-use- d of America, do to this United States In the days of my youth, around the year 1912. The operator laughed easily, you mean to tell me that this s lightened country ever went like that? 1 Lnean to tell you bat, and it s the truth, retorted the captain. You must remember, my lad, that back In 1912 this country was still in Jthe ground ana wale until many years after, when Came-rotand float helped people to learn that It was easier and cheaper to live In the air than on land or water, that jhe country really became enlightened. Then, when living became easier, and cities became a thing of the past, people began to take themselves less seriously. They laughed the politicians out of business, and a sorry day It was for the latter, too, because they couldnt do anything useful in the world, and most oHtbem had fo take up posing for the moving pictures to earn a bare ing. They were good at living. It all their at been Theyd gov-ceivm- g rca aiTTi cabinet and rubbed his eyes, red with staring at the moving films of the world a events that hud been flashing A fellow would think before him. this wus the year 1912 "instead of 19;2. What are they doing down there? asked Captain Mac.Manus, Master other coil wire to the screw which holds to block A. Mount the bell from a broken alarn clock upon a tin stilt made as shown in Fig 11, using a long enough screw to extend well Into the Vtase block. The armature mubt not strike the bolt heads, because Just enough magnetism Is likely to remain In them, after the electrical contact has been broken, to hold the armature fast Place the - bell In ham- swba position that-thmer end of the armature cunnot be inch to the drawn closer than bolt head, A splendid can be made with a can tnch thick (Fig. 12). Cut a block and of the Inside diameter of the can, and to it screw the tin contact plates E and F (Figs. 13 and 14). Use a brass rug tack for a button. File off Its end short, and drop enough sealing wax or solder on the remaining end to keep the tack from slipping out out of the hole. - JYou can .operate your bell, with-- a salammonlac battery. Use a Mason fruit jar to hold the solution, and a zinc penoil, and a carbon from a worn-ou- t dry , battery, for the zinc and carbon elements. 'After connecting the battery, pushbutton and bell, you will have to adjust the contact screw to the point at vibrates the which the armature steadiest and strongest. (Copy rigid, by 'A. Neely Halt.) home-mad- photo-tele-- 1 1'onnect one of the upper the block BELL "Theyre having a great time down j said the Abyssynia," graph operator on the New York re-float of the F. C. & A. Aerial In AN EASILY MADE ELECTRIC U T FIT, PO-- ANCIENT DISEASE OF LITICAL CAMPAIGNITIS., Entirely a Personal Matter. Mark Twain and hts peculiarities were being discussed by an English class in a western high school. One youthful orator had very eloquently described Mark's personal appearance and had laid unusual stress on the authors fondness for wearing whlte flannel. "Gee! said one much Interested youth., T dont see how the public knows whether his flannels was red or white. Everybody's Magazine. 6 Most Prosperous Township. Cullman, Alabama, claims to be the most prosperous township in the world It 1b said that every man in the town wbo.is,.the head of . a, family has a clear, title deed of ownership to his home, and every one of them has a farmbanking account. ing is practiced In the country. A Labor Tragedy- "Jim bad to pay a fine to the unioa when the strike was on. "What was the matter? A walking delegate happened te wife visit his house and found his t - U. ,Tt , d Abys-synt- rtc - politlcal-campaignlti- s. demi-tasses?- politlcal-campaignlti- s tt-- Here, ht - - -- |