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Show I I BEAVER CITY PRESS RoT LWr X DAIRY FACTS TWIT-V JL JLyX STOCK HANDLING DRY COW HOG SANITATION DIFFICULT TASK OVERCOMES PEST . (Prepared by tn United Slate of Aitricuituro.) Every cow should have a period oC rest before her next lactation period begins; that Is, she should be allowed to go dry for at least six weeks just before calving and muny consider that eight weeks Is better than six. Unfortunately, the average dairy covr usually takes a much longer period than eight weeks, many taking vaea- -' ttons f three to four months. Such, cows, however, should not be maintained in the dairy herd but should ba seut to the shambles as soon as pos- Department bath In a 50 per cent sulphuric acid solution or of 50 per cent solutions of hydrochloric, uilrlc, or acetic acids, saturated solutions of copper or Iron sulphate or copper acetate would be too much for most living beings, But the egg of the ascarld pest of swine, otherwise known as the roundworm, can take such a hatband thrive. The eggs will actually develop, experiments In the United States Department of Agriculture found, and become Infective while In solutions of such powerful chemicals. Moreover they can endure temperatures as low as 16 degrees below zero (Fahrenheit), and when they thaw out will develop If conditions are favorable. Other eggs burled for more than a year survived. Of the disinfectants known to science only certain phenols were at all effective against ascarld eggs. Such discoveries provided the reasons for the particular steps In swine sanitation which have come to he known as the McLean County system, It Is explained In a recent summary of the development of the system by the men representing the of Agriculture, In the first large-scaldemonstration of the effectiveness of this method of reducing the mortality among young pigs Ascarld Infection and the subsequent multiplication of the parasites has been so serious that It Is estimated that owing to these worms and other agencies not more than 60 to 55 per cent of the pigs farrowed arrived at marketable age. These internal parasites and the diseases due to or associated with filth account for a high proportion of the deaths. Accidents and cholera also take a toll, but in many cases strict attention to sanitation has made profitable ventures in hog raising which hnd proved unprofitable without sanitary control. In r McLean county In a trial on SO farms the system averaged In actual practice 07.8 per cent of a theoretical perfection, and this allows for the Inclusion of pigs constitutionally weak. It does not eliminate the deaths from cholera and from accidents which fall outside the field of sanitation. A to 4 too -- rf JL Hi. t ' "Siijr Lc 1 V . l SCOTT WATSON DAY last year was trie because of plans which were under way for the erection of memorials to one of the most heroic types of motherhood the world has ever known the pioneer mother of America. One of them was the selection by popular vote, among the twelve models suhmltted by the leading sculptors of the United States, of the desifrr. by Bryant Baker for the heroic statue of the pioneer woman which E. W. Maria d. an Oklahoma i oil millionaire, proposes to erect the famous Cherokee Strip In his ate as a perpetual reminder of t.ie part played women In the winning of the West. The other fas the completion by A. Phtmister Proctor of s "Pioneer Mother" statue, which was later pre- nted to Kansas i icy, mo., Dy uowaru vanuer- in Penn Valley park In that ice and erected By ELMO Sfflf -- -- -- s M sv NVnDTUEIi'S 81 4 t S I v jjcirzrr 4. fV - - x - Jf- l- vn"'V-V ! I f ?ffl fCV V t W S O zy SSftitS- ' day this year, which will he cele- throughout the country on May 13, will ated project under way for further hon- e mother with enduring Daughters of the American Revolution jff planning to mark the National Old Trnlls pit across the country from the Atlantic to the oi toe irall .inmiiniiu jaruir wiiii tirters. one each In Maryland Pennsylvania, test Virginia. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois. Missouri, Innsis, Colorado. New Mexico. Arizona and These markers. ach 18 feet tall, repre-fr- tt s typical pioneer mother. She holds a ha he I her anus and a small boy clings to her skins she' faces the dangers and privations of the !si The model fcr thp "Madonna." made by I folmhack of St. I.otiis. was selected from a jNe number which were suhmltted and It Is fi nned to erci the statues In time for dedica-f"ii another iring the J 1 pioneer niemo-Jali.Th- -- ifne 3sJsvftTjRi Cal-iml- tcrtM Id Rj ta yon if ti n lets I Rut f "tlierhiMid the pioneer mother Is not the only type of which Is to be honored with memorials year fur plans are now eoing forward for firii; a similar tribute to two mothers of n race iih occui'li'd thl! continent long before the mother made her appearance. P.oth are imllinr names In American history Pocahontas "I Snkakawen (or Sactijawea, as she Is often )' Ubni s It f Mother's day. n I 'lnenf the outstanding features of the "Westnter Ahhey of America." the Washington f HiHlrnl. which la to be hnllt on Mount St. n overlooking the Potomac at Washington he the Chapel of Women. The Washington f 'Mral tins selected what It considers to he twenty greatest Christian women sin. the a'h of Christ" unit thou will ha honored with windows In the Chapel of Women. f fifteen Phoehe. Cecelia, I'hipslne, Helena. Prsnla. levleve. Hilda. Rtbelgiv- -. Frldeswlde. Edith ir;ant. fruit, nnd CIlzMheth Other women. fin have achieveit tuinmrtnttf t h thutp lirtqtlfln 'Itude. their ci.nrace and their nletv and will lnmi.red therefor, are Af:ne of Pohenda. wife U f England: Mother Superior liar i'"i HHaril S'nrr Cannon; .lulln Emory; Joan of Arc. - immortal "Maid of Orleans"; l.ady .lane who as behesided In the Tower of London; y.Siisamiy Wesley, mother of the founders of tllndlsm. A tin Inst hut nnt lonat In t L'lllaXV I' Peat women Is the Indl.in kindness whose girl, " service to the first colonists In America have I" hef tneinorr hrl-- ht t.,r tUraa centuries - 'lined-glas- s - '"ihru,t:is Evervi itlf f.i.III..M ...I.I. then hut thlrion (a "ahontas. a.ahm p t hnf nld mvpd l"fthe' J",m s,n,th wh,' he wa" cap' Indians and ordered to be put to ' by ci,,,f us are platan. P.ut few ofpocahon""" witl' I'ocahontus' later history, !" Ihe wifp tim) ninthPr l)fl9 )(Hn qute sl f.f Ill I'ocnhontHi, the maiden and heroine of the est mi f Poniat)re )n American history, a J H'hlch SOIIIP to hp B h,.llo, htotfipl.ma ' ,t by ' i. - as"nt plocp r'''aln f n,..i(, I1..nffl h tha many years after the event "allj in0',""" I" I mra i , I 2, r ri' f't h i i Si ''h hy .,f A was Indian name, which elves her a p'ce In ' cathedral. U'"""'n In ''. the National Mie i "nil was converteil to In . ,"' ,j'",:l'" . "She stand waiidnring ciuiuren Rcbpi-ca. . of tlioe ,vrI,es ,h,? l"i"''r Cha; man "who """'"few. Indeed, and far be- "'"" iH d from the fang, of bar ry. to hi ne lambs lu die fold of 'e iiT1" . Chrlst'nlty ana little church at the . . . l .)., n tne illnrimmn in oaptiseti '''''1'ionlnl Ll. 'inner 'he name of n" i --s Her baptism had been preceded by a base act upon the part of the English who owed so much to her effort In winning for theni the friendship A certain CapL of the powerful Powhatan. Thomas Argail had bribed some of the Indians to bring her aboard his sliip where she was detained and taken to Jamestown and there held as a hostage for the good behavior of her tribesmen. Soon after her baptism she was married to John Uoife. a young planter. A son was born to them and given the name of Thomas Rolfe. About a year later Rolfe took his family to England where Lady Rebecca, as she was known, was received at court and was the object of many flatreturn tering attentions. In 1C17 they prepared to In an to America, but Pocahontas was stricken Gravesend a epidemic of smallpox and died at short time before they were to take ship. She was burled under the flagstones In the chancel of old St. Georges church in that city and In late years although attempts have been made sure Just to locate her grave, no one knows for to returned son and husband Her It is where "F. F. V.V so Virginia nnd the Rolfes became In that that today some of the proudest families of an ancestor, (me as state claim Pocahontas John Randolph the famous was descendants her of Roanoke, and another Is Mrs. Edith Rolling Woodrow Wilson Wilson widow of President Is to oe hon Pocahontas of While the memory Sakakawea. or ored In the National cathedral, with another monuSaca!uea, Is to he honored monument Is to be ment, nl'houuh where that A bill approlocated Is somewhat of a question. monument has been a such priating r,.Wii but until the problem in reduced Into -o- gress, famous as a this Indian died the Lewis and Clark expedition of the hill the passage solved, Is buried Utns somewhat doubtful Wyoming, whose re on for the resentatlves are asking the approprlut it. on April dhd she believes that than one hundred years, and f nPflr f"e S huriS on fr tlto Z "i ?7.1 wot n "T'Lio e il f'r. Charles by f A the Indian woman's t rf)f Eastman, an cdu- '"'"tlngs'ln the Capitol at nttracts universal attention John Oadshy chapman named "The In ppN,ontn!, It was ,,, rf '''"'"'""'tas. or Metoaka, which " of immigration. kota commissioner Wash Is the 'eitm ll, ll .. . . i ram ' . t!(i r. was have taken place, although others evidence to prove that It la ttllh- tr Photograph of Pocahontas statue, courtesy Virginia State Chamber of Commerce; of Ska-kawe- a statue, courtesy J. M. Devine, North Da- Hoil-'llt- Jl,,,n ! -- Ih.nl." i nt e six-yea- ;ty. Mother's sible. Much depends upon the manner la which a cow Is carried through tha LITE f- -w - e -k- r ntlott Dakota hand. North and South On the .rsl'on upon the studies of Doane ,,e nnslng ttieir - " inn of smun . lol,Inson. veienui in- died ,cti i?- -. ..i IC(Cmir Mfve that mr river near the . Manuel with Fort I f d(.a,h southern tK.un.l..r, over he ,e ovpr ,he dispute $ "J"""'; t),.ta. ,,i. - Dakota, Missouri and Montana say that It shoulfl be Sakakawea; Wyoming and Oregon contend that It should be Sacajawea; and a compromise of Sacagawea has been offered. History records few finer examples of heroic motherhood than this Shoshone Indian girl who, at the age of sixteen as the wife of Toussalnt Charhonneau. a trapper, was on their Clark and Lewis "magnificent guiding adventure" over the Shining mountains to Everywhere Salt Water. Strapped on her back was her two months old baby, Raptlste Charhonneau. who as one historian has recorded was "a boy child destined to go down In his country's history as the first baby to cross the Rocky mountains and paddle his toes In Uie Pacific." Mother and son have already been Immortalized In three statues One, which now stands In a park In Portland. Ore., was made by Alice Cooper and was the outstanding piece of sculpture at the Lewis and Clark exposition In that city. Another was made by Bruno Zimin for the Louisiana Purchase exposition In St. Louis, and the third, made by Leonard Crunelle, stands on the state cnpltol the gift of the fed grounds In P.ismarck. N. erated women's clubs and school children of that state. Considering the value of her services to this nation the erection of a fourth statue to her memory to mark the place where she waa hurled Is eminently fitting and even then our debt to Sakakawea Is far from being paid. The nation s debt to a third heroic mother still remains unpaid so far as a memortul to her memory Is concerned She wa Wlnema ("Woman Chief), better known as Tobey Riddle, a woman of the Modoc tribe who has often heon called "The Pocahontas of the Lava Red?" For Tobey Riddle's friendship for the whites caused her to risk her life In their behalf more than once dur Ing the Modoc war In Oregon and northcrt California In 187.1. She and her husband. Fn.uk Riddle. Kentucky frontiersman, were Interpreters for the pence commission which was trying to bring about a settlement of the difficulties between the Modocs and the army which had open sent against them after hostilities had commenced late In 1872. Cpon learning that the Modocs were planning to murder the commissioners when they met under a flag of truce. Tobey Riddle, knowing full well that It might mean death at the hands of her tribesmen, betrayed the plot to the commls sloners and tried to persuade them not to attend the council. They refused to believe that thr Indians would dare treachpry and Insisted npon So they going through with the arrangements. went to the council and the heroic Indian womnn accompanied them. Her warning of the Indians Intentions proved to be a true one. In the mldsl of the council the Modocs opened fire on tin whites, killing Gen. E. R. S Canny and Rev Eleazcr Thomas and seriously wounding A. R Meachnm. When Tobey Riddle sprang to the defense of Meachnm and tried to prevent one of th Modocs from scalping him she was struck down Put her quick wit, which led her to exclaim "Soldiers coming caused the Modocs to flee and no doubt saved Meachnm't life. Tobey Riddle was the mother of Jeff C Riddle the "handsome boy Cbarka" mentioned by manj writers of that period, an ednrated Indian whr has written whBt Is probably the most cornpleu history of that conflict which has ever been pro duecd. Tobey Riddle died February 2D. Ifrjij during an epidemic of Influenza which swept tlx reslJcnts of the Ktamath res.!rvntlon In Oregon French-Canadia- r n Ground Grain Best Feed for Young Market Lambs Lambs will begin to nibble at grain when about two weeks old. They should be fed In a creep where the ewes cannot enter. Ground pr.-ilshould be fed until the lambs are five or six weeks old, but after that whole grain will suffice. They may be started on a mixture of ground corn, ground outs, and braa The proportion of corn should be gradually Increased because the lambs must be fattened while they grow. A good grain mixture to feed young lambs the lust month or six weeks is shelled corn six parts, Unseed meal one part. The lambs will consume a great deal of hay. Fine, leafy and bright fourth-cuttin- g alfalfa hay should be used whenever possible. If handled In the manner just outlined the lambs should be ready for market while still nursing their mothers. They will be about three months old and weigh from CO to 65 pounds when marketed. Finds Pigs Is Profitable Practice Ear-Marki- ng "I have been welt repaid for all the time and trouble Involved In earmarking my pigs during the last five years." says Amos Klrchhofer, who fed a ton litter In Adams county, Indiana, last year. "In the first place, enables me to determine the exact amount of pork which can be credited to each sow when I market the pigs. Sows that do not produce profitable litters have no place In my scheme of raising pork. "Another thing: I tike to select breeding stock from sows which are consistent Gilts from producers. prolific sows will be more likely to farrow large litters o.f thrifty pigs. One cannot select these gilts If be loses sight of thlr ancestry hence the Importance of M. Busche In Farm Journal. g dry or resting period says the Iowa Homestead, if she Is starved and neglected during that six or eight weeks, she Is not likely to do well when her productive period begins. It Is a mistake to take all the grain away from a cow during the dry period; she should receive enough to ennbla her to gain In body weight. She should lay some fat on her ribs and build up a reserve of nutrients In her body while she Is dry. It Is almost Impossible for a nigh producing cow to assimilate as much mineral matter from her feed as she gives off lu her milk and as a result she must draw upon her bones to make up the deficiency. During the dry period. If a liberal ration Including mineral matter !s provided, the cow has an opportunity to ref tore the proper mineral balance In her body aud get ready for another lactation period. Naturally the amount of protein la the ration need not be so lurge during the dry period as when she Is giving a full flow of milk. A grain mixture of 200 pounds ground corn and 100 pounds ground outs, fed at the rate of two to four pounds a day with a fair grade of roughage, as mixed clover and timothy, will usually give good results. Or if clover or alfalfa is available half of the roughage may be made up of a good grade of corn stover. Just before freshening It Is Important to provide feed that Is more luxa-- ( the than that Just referred to. Ifl she freshens while on grass that feed' will be Ideal. A liberal supply ofj silage will serve the same purpose ofi keeping the bowels In a laxative con- ditloii when pasture Is not available.. If this can be supplemented with legume hay the grain mentioned for feeding during the dry period will do very nicely. Soy Bean Dairy Ration Recommended by Rhode , A ration for dairy cows containing soy beans that Is recommended by C. S. Rhode of the Illinois Agricultural college contains 500 pounds of corn and cohmeal, 350 pounds of ground oats and 150 pounds of soy beans. This is for use when a roughage consisting of part legume hay Is available. When no legume Is available, change the mixture to 450 pounds of cora and cobmeal, 3(H) pounds f soy beans, 150 pounds of cottonseed meal and 100 pounds of brafn. With a good legume roughage feed 575 pounds of corn and cobmeal, 500 pounds of ground oats and 100 pounds of soybeans. Feed from 2 to 3 pounds of these mixtures for each gallon of milk pro duced dully. Increase this amount to 3',4 pounds for Guernseys and Jerseys producing more than 23 pounds of milk dully. Penns must be ground when fed to dairy cows, I5y mixing them with corn and oats, they are not difficult to grind When cottonseed nieul Is worth $2 a hundred pounds, soy beans are worth f 1.13 a bushel as a substitute. To replace $2 Unseed oilmen!, they are worth $1.18 a bushel and for $1.73 gluteu feed, $1.21 a bushel. Good Sire and Herdsman Important to Any Dairy Records kept by the Pennsylvania railroad demonstration farm at Howard City, Mich., Indicate a good dairy sire and a competent herdsman are the two most Important factors la dairy herd Improvement. The farm changed herdsmen In 1027. Under the former herdsman, Rctsle, a grude Guernsey, produced 202 pounds of butterfat In a year but under the Feeding Young Cattle In 1027, she proThe .practice of feeding younger present herdsman 450 pounds, duced cattle for market is becoming more The vulue of a sire Is reflected general. Some feeders who try fat- In the rvcords ofgood a Mollle, distening calves and yearlings are Guernsey, and her mother, appointed because they do not get as also grade a grade cow. Mollie't mother rapid gains or as good finish as they 2'M pounds of butterfat In produced do with older steers. In order to sea year and was sold to the butcher. cure satisfactory results In fattening Mollle, whose father was a pure bred young cattle, It Is necessary to select feeder calves of good bef type and Guernsey bull, produced 440 pounds of butterfat In 11)27. breeding. Millet for Horses Calve3 on Full Feed It will take at least 'M days to bring Millet hay has been found quite uncalves to the point where they may be for satisfactory feeding horses, par- full fed on grain if they have not been ticularly where It made up the entire accustomed to grain feeding before beIt makes best the roiiuhuge. bay if ing put Into the feedlot. After this cut Immediately following the bloomfeeding period, during preliminary ing period. Cut with a mowing mawhich the amount of grain Is gradually a or In cure two the Increased. calves should be day chine; given all swath, depending upon the weather, will "clean up" twice uaiiy. fien rake and cure further In the It will they not prove profitable to limit the windrow or bayco'k. It makes a very amount of grain fed, for In such cases ffrnirf hay for caMe and sheep, but calves and yearlings will not become ftimiild le fed In conjunction with a I fat good legume hay the-grai- |