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Show ' THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAYSV1LLE. UTAH WAR SCENES ' AFRICA IN .SOUTHWEST J m 4 CCCD EGG CANDLING HABITS OF COLTS t v - 1 Simple and Practical Device May Be Made Out of an Ordinary Paste- - , beard Box and a Lamp. f Once Learned Becomes Harder to Break Each Day. Trick isr"C"' t - - ' . . In spite of the greatest care, it will sometimes happen under ordinary Exampla Qlted of City Man Wh Attempted "to Approach Hoad f Yeung Animal of Extremely Nerv-ou-a . Disposition. .AD BREAKER 1$, CIVILIZER Ji Seal I Very Correctly Teited y Hi Attitud Toward Some Obstruction ia Road. (By J. M. BELL.) The secret of breaking a colt propThe civilized man make roads; erly is to keep him from learning bad the savage doe not. That is the habits, not curing him of 'them after safest test of civilization. they have been acquired, although the Among us in sll communities are latter must be done if he has acquired individuals mho are not really civilthem, providing you want a ized. They do not take any interest in borse. ' ' JfriS v ' roads. A bad trick once learned. soon bev IS A mans scale in civilization Is very comes a set habit, becoming harder correctly tested by his attitude toto cure each day if not stopped in the ward the Btone which has rolled into earliest stages. . the road, or the tree uhich has blown Let me cite an example: A neighdown across it; writes Herbert Quick bor of mine has a very fine colt that in Farm and Fireside. The man who he put in the hands of a trainer to drives around the obstacle day after break to light harness, double and day is one sort of man, the one who single, and also the saddle. stops his team and rolls or drags it The trainer knew his business and away Is another. And a person passin a month's time the colt waa fairly ing along a road which be does not sW. steady In harness and under the expect to retrace, who removes the saddle, but, being of a nervous dispoinvolved Stirring events nearer home have caused to be almost forgotten the fart that the great ar bas obstruction for the sake of the stransition and rather suspicious of human ger who comes after him, responds most of Africa. These pictures show, above, a British injading force in Southwest Africa crossing Jhe desert saM beings, bad to be handled very carefIn Botha bis General used one f German Invasion of the heavy guns by territc. ully. to a very high test of civilization. He under sharp fire; and, below, ' in Xamaqualand . feels socially. He was especially nervous when When tha anow piles up In the road, anyone approached his head, whether the man who goes ahead and breaks he was tied In his stall or to a hitchBRITISH COLONIALS OFF FOR DARDANELLES tha path for others bears the burden ing post, and inclined to run back which be who has made progress alagainst the halter or bridle if apways must bear. There is snow In proached too hurriedly. to better very road to The trainer a real horseman who schools, to better business methods. noticed all peculiarities of the many There most be road breakers for every different horses he handled from time Path. to time, was extremely careful not to The road breaker la the great clvl excite this particular colt and cerUser. tainly not when he was tied. the colt, although Consequently, DIRT HOAD IS THE CHEAPEST showing signs of nervousness at times, never attempted to really pull back and break away. Most Satisfactory Highway In The trainer left, after his work was of Tsrrltory 8ig Objecdone, and aoon afterward a city cousin, tion to Macadamized Roads a good fellow, but no horseman, paid my neighbor a visit and he waa given The time may com shea wa can the colt to ride. cost will make cement roads They Now, although the city man waa no from $5,000 to $10,000 a mile and they In the strict acceptance of horseman may be so smooth. If we learn to make the word, yet he waa deveted to home- them properly, that the children living on these Unes of road can go to school on roller skates as they do in some places down la Maryland. - There may be some satisfactory combination of sand and clay; but, peaking for the prairie lands the best and the cheapest road we can get over s of tha territory is the dirt road. The more clay there la In It. the better 'the dragged road will ba. ESCAPED FROM LUSITANIA Thera la no better road than the gumCOMMANDER OF ITALYS ARMIES bo road. If It is properly dealt with. It is really a pity that the drag it so simple and cheap. If it had cost $25 or $50, sad waa painted red, then the farmers would think something of it Tha mala reason why it has not come Into more common use la that it is so cheap and simple la construction and so easy to handle. Someone may ask: Why is it that A Colt. there was no objection to macadamized roads twenty or thirty years sgoT back riding and in his riding togs cut Simply because we did hot have the quite a respectable figure. He called on the writer one afterautomobils MacAdam, that Scotch- noon, tying his mount, the colt, to a tree. Later, as he was about to leave, be walked straight to the colt's bead; the latter edged away, backing the full length of the reins; the rider then extended a gloved hand straight in the colts face with the idea of patting him on the nose, but the now trembling young animal mistook the abrupt motion, and, swinging back, broke the bridle at the headstall and well-broke- n, O tJUTFIT , , 4 farm conditions that an occasional bal egg wljl appear among those sent to market. It would be wise to candle every egg shipped. Candling la "the process of testing eggs by passing light through them so as to reveal the condition of the contents." A simple candling outfit may be made ot as ordinary pasteboard box, sufficiently p large to be placed over a small after the rads have been removed. The box should have a hole cut in It on a level with the flame of the lamp. Several notches should be cut in the edges on which the box hand-lam- s nine-tenth- .rtlSS. Well-Traine- d above-mentione- d galloped off. The city man was somewhat surprised when 1 suggested that he should have quietly untied the colt and then patted him, holding on to the reins the while. He enticed the colt into my stable, fixed the bridle, and my friend mounted and rode off. Since then this horse has broken loose several times, and. it will require something stronger than an ordinary halter and bridle to prove to him that he must "stand hitched," as the say- Gen. Lalgi Csnevs. commander In chief of the armies of Italy. CROWN Excellent Roadway PRINCE HIS AND ing is. In Colorado. man from tha section where Secretary James Wilson was born, was n genius. Ha figured that by putting atone on the road, tha wheels of tha wagon, especially If broad tired, would gradually wear down thesa stones and furnish n filler. Ha did a great service to bis country. But the automobile baa come in. It baa no Iron tires; hence it makes no filler. On the other hand, it sacks out the filler and throws It out in the air. It pries the stones apart, and then wa have what is called a raveled" road, that is, a road covered over with loose stones, the mean- est kind of a road to travel ever. That is the r or son the macadam road fail under modern travel. Wallace'! Fanner. -- Too Much Moleture on Top. b More Profit In Hope. DISCIPLINE OF THE FARM There wilt be far store profit' in the when farmers breed and It Gives Ingrained Power te De the so as to auks a pound or more Herd Thing and "Do gar dzy.aod turn out prime " it now. trrrti f 1 l r at seven or eight months of Unceasingly we farmers are made to realise that a task delayed is a t L !eg Ewes. task rendered Increasingly difficult 2 period the ewes Build the fence today; a month from the beat of now the poet hole will cost you twice 1 front one to U much. Bow the alfalfa today; not " day, another day In the season can it be - t--T eaa sown with success.. Pick up that - ri rests, to supply air to the lamp. The box ought to be sufficiently large to prevent danger from catching fire. The box should be made of corrugated pasteboard, but ordinary pasteboard will serve the purpose. Candling is done In the dark, or at lefist away from strong light, and the egg Is held against the hole In the side of the box when its condition may be seen. An egg that shows any defect should not be marketed. GIVE SHEEP SOME ATTENTION Animats 8hould Not Bo Allowed to Stand on Wet or Muddy Dirt Floors Avoid Rangy Breeds. strand of barbed wire today; tomorrow your horse will he maimed by It So fall, day by day, demonstrations of the needfulness of "doing it now," until - the - desire to be - prompt, - to snatch the opportunity, becomes almost an obsession. Great as is the demand In the city for promptness, it is not so unpitying as the country demand, because In the city the demand comes largely through people, and people are aot so exigent as things. People will receive excuses, provide substitutes, slier require. - There was a time when I read advertisements which described the M bite Holland ' turkey u "the kind that stays at home." 1 could scarcely believe that it was in accordance with a turkeys nature, whatever breed they chanced to be, to "stay at borne.' Personal experience has proved that the White Holland will not wander as do the Bronze and Bourbon Red, the only other varieties of the turkey family with which I am acquainted. In the laying season White Holland hens are content to neBt in any building about tbe place, in straw sheds or nearby shocks of corn and do not resent being disturbed. When the poults are very young it is not necessary to keep tbe turkey-hepenned up more than a week, for she will go only a few yards from the coop, as she seems to realize the helplessness of her flock. Later, as the turkeys grow larger and stronger, tbe mother hens pick their way slowly through an adjoining meadow or field for a few hours each day, always coming home early In the afternoon. At no time during the summer of fall do they go any distance from home. n long-legge- up again. When pastures get short the sheep will eat the roots of the grass right out of the ground if too many are kept in one lot Better feed some grain and save the grasa. v. - ' & ; j - Elver notice that the pastures where are sheep kept grow better grass than those used for horses or cows? Pair of Whit Holland Turkeys. A South Dakota man has kept coyotes and even dogs sway from his and they make a practice of coming flock by setting up scarecrows in the back within a short time. White Holland bear confinement shape of a man. These he changes from one part of the pasture to an- well, and are therefore the ideal turkey for the breeder with limited ; other every day or two. space. The purebred specimen is a remarkably beautiful bird, being as IMPROVE THE RURAL HOMES large as the- Bronze, and of snow-whit- e plumage. The feathers, exceptKentucky Club Formed to Stimulate ing those of wing and tall, are as soft Farmers Interest in Crops and as cotton and very abundant breeders who cull their flocks, dry pick the Beautify Their Premises. birds which are Bold dressed, and use (By L. P. BROWNING.) the feathers instead of those of geese A commercial club in Kentucky has and ducks. appropriated a sum of money to be given as prizes among the residents of a certain section of the country for RHODE ISLAND WHITE BREED lawns and the best disthe best-kep- t plays of farm and garden products. They Are Equal of Any as Table Fowl, The' idea of the club is to Induce tbe Being of Size Which Suite the Average Housewife. people living in that section to improve their surroundings and beautify their premises. It believes in the (By M. JE. BEMIS, Phoenix. Aria.) The advice to go slow, on new value of keeping up appearances and that there Is a profit In beautification breeds is unquestionably, good. To which rural communities are not apt try each new breed that la heralded to appreciate. This organisation Is to invjte disaster. There te aa old thinks there are many rural homes adage which applies as well to poultry that could be greatly Improved in ap- aa to styles in hats, "Re not tbe first pearance by neatly kept lawns, at- to try the new nor yet the last to lay tractive shrube and gar the eld aside." In' the matter ol dens, and has come to the conclusion choosing a new breed of poultry, one that timely attention given to details should have some good reason, and if of this character by the farmer would perchance your Inclination causes not only vastly Improve the appear- you to fancy one of the new or newer ance ot his place, but stimulate his breeds, there should he no reason for interest in the success of all his crops. discarding this variety Just because All varieties were it ia new. -- MORE LIVE STOCK. IS NEEDED J. Ayala, Cuba consul general at REASONS FOR POOR FEEDER Liverpool, was one of the fortunate Unless More Attentiei Is Given to - Farm Animals Fertility of Soil passengers on the Lusitania, for h Foreign Bodies Often Found Embedded escaped with his life in the curiom Will Be Depleted. in Tongue of Animal Wire and outfit of clothing a which he Is her Nalls Lodge In Stomach. photographed. (By - WALTER B. LEUTZ.) American Unless farmers grow (By H. fi. EAKIN8.) more Uve stock In the future the fer"Dominion" of Canada. Every year it has been noticed We are accustomed to take the ox tility of the soil will be wasted at among cattle in feed k(a, that a tew presslon of the "Domiuhr" of Canada such a rate that fanning will prove individuals would not make the gains for granted; but the original of that generally unprofitable. Such is the expected. Various causes have been some hat unusual word is known to conclusion which has been reached by attributed to this condition as "poor" very few, Wheh at length the great students of the problem, as well as teeth, indigestion, infectious diseases, scheme of Sir Tohn Macdonald waa practical fanners . iu every comma-uni' etc. of the United States. realized, and the nine provinces Upon inspection of The farm animal is absolutely nec- several thousand beef cattle in some grouped themselves together into one great confederation, a serious diffi- essary. There are many reasons for of the packing houses of the West culty was presented by the choice ot this. Live stock enables much ot the author has frequently found fora suitable name. For a time almost the waste about the farm to be con- eign bodies, aa barley beards, or fox a deadlock ensued. vened into meat, milk and work. tail, embedded In tbe tongue, in some At length one old member of par Much of the crops on the farm can instances resulting in abscess forma liament rose frrm ,his seat and told be marketed in smaller packages, tion, or even actinomycosis ; his colleagues that he had read in when converted Into butter, milk and or penetrating through the his Bible that very morning the meat The boys and girls on the farm wall 6f the second stomach (honeywords: "His dominion ihnll be from are far more liable to become Inter- comb) a short piece of baling wire the one sea to the other." Accord ested In farming if an interest in live or a naiL Sometimes this piece of ingly he suggested that Canada should stock can be awakened. wire or other foreign body has penehe known as the Dominion, or Gods trated a lung, pneumonia ensuing; or Land. The suggestion seized upon the Efficient Water System. into tha heart or its coverings, rehearts and imaginations of those pres The expense of an efficient water sulting ofttlmes In gangrenous inflament and it was promptly acted upon. system is not so great as 'one would mation. . ' first Imagine. The usefulness of such system In ordinary use and in case Kents. Things will not; things, there Long, Narrow Gardens. fire Is inestimable. w fore, anymore unmercifully exigent The gardes plot should be long and than human masters. Disciplined un narrow. Long rows permit of cultiWhen Cow Go Dry. der such masters. It seems to me tb vation with horse and save (tm and must have greater In country-breIt Is very often as much the fault of expense of hand. labor. grained power to do the hard 'thing the milker, lfthe cow goes- - dry, ns It is the fault of the cow herself. The and "do It now" than the Grind Hens Feed. Arthur M. Judy, in the Atlantic. way she is handled and the feed she Grind about of the hens Is given art Important factors, feed for her and she win he mors Make the Most of It. helpful In filling the egg basket. Eliminate Boarders. ' The moment pasl is no longer, wrote All hens which have completed their Dust as insect Exterminator. Rousseau; the fiittr) may never be the present la all if. which maa b second . laying season should be Dust makes one of the hast He exof at once to make toons far terminator. Keep a hex Li the henthe softer. he young stock. house for the hens to wry. r t; d city-bre- Until recently the Mammoth Bronze turkey was in a class by itself, and was known as the king of domestic birds, but by scientific breeding tbe White Holland variety has become a close rival of the old favorite and promises to gain (n popularity over the Bronze within a very flew years, aays an Illinois writer in Farmers No man who understands his business will ever allow his sheep to stand on wet or muddy dirt floors. When selecting sheep for breeding beware of the rangy breeds. Get those that are close to the ground. There is no money In raising sheep legs. If the pastures are short this fall the sheep most have some grain or they will fall back to a point where all profit will be lost in bringing them (wooden-tongue)- Tree should not be allowed to Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the kaiser, and the erdsn prince abad the road as this keeps it too during a visit of the former to the cron prince's headquarters moist oa the surface after rains, so conversing France. that travel spoils the surface. lal Simple Candling Outfit. post-morte- Extremes to Avoid. the important factors in roadmaking is to control the moisture content of the soil in making up the roadbed. When the soil is - dad it crumbles to dust and when it contains too much water It becomes mud. These are two extremes to avoid. a heavy rope halter tied around his neck, and then passed through a ring at the bit so as to draw equally on the seek and bead will probably stop the had habit. , "One of Breed of Turkeys That Do Not Wan- der Away From Hm Hens Nest ia Any Convenient Piece. d - A UNCLE HOLLAND IS FAVORED Review. MdMda Nine-Tsnth- WHITE d. - one-thir- d die-pose- d - new once. Of the new breeds which are likely to make good, the Rhode I land White has many qualities which should ate tract the breeder who is looking for a fowl which will lay and pay. The Rhode Island White has keen bred now for more than ten years. The bird is the same size and type aa the Rhode Island Red. the only difference being the color, which is, of course, of pure white. The breed originated from n cross of the Cochin with a Wyandotte, this cross mated to a Cochin, and the resulting birds mated with a Rose Comb White Leghorn. TROUBLES OF LITTLE CHICKS Tender Toes Are Hurt by Scratching on Cement Damp Floor Causes Rheumatism and Pneumonia. Chicks housed on cement show up lame. Scratching on cement hurts their tender toes, and when the days are cool and damp somehow the cw mrat Is extra damp, and this give them rheumatism and paramenia. Often when they show puffs like blisters all over the breast or body, It Is the cement floor or damp ground causing 1L Lung trouble of some kind brings this oil Some soda in the feed Is a help, bad a change In bousing is immediately indicated when chicks go lame or gel pneumonia. Brooder chicks that go lame do aa from another eauee teo aswch float beet Sometimes they go lame, sad the toea twlat up and oflai ret S aw they- - say from a toe ket floor, wbea only fed too heavily. This la always fatal to a large n umber) Ct) r i t) die la reams - |