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Show I Csie CULTURE OF THE ASPARAGUS Excellent Remedy for Killing Off Green 8luge le to Dust Dally With Lima. CMGDKffi Hungn r Eager chUdrenl Keen grown-u- p appetites to be appeased Mijr aupmM aad coats ao mom ihaa onJuaiy ! Claaajaraar Tias Lovers of Songsters in All Parts of Country Are Urging Protection for Feathered Tribe. AtEwryCaatari Lovers of birds In every part of our land and also the United Statea department of agriculture are urging people everywhere to do everything In their power to attract and protect our native song birds. In winter this may be accomplished by feeding tbe blrda when the land la covered with Ice and snow, in spring Libby, McNeill & Libby UMIT BEYOND OF 32-19- 12. PATIENCE Uses of the Telephone Will Be Apt to Condone Mr. Buelman's Brief Loaa of Temper. He was Just about exasperated with the telephone, waa Mr. Busiman. Ten times that morning he had tried to get on to a number, and each time aomethlng had prevented him from speaking. Either It was number engaged," or the person he want- Hot! By jlnas, I thouxlit I'd melt! ed to apeak to was out, or else he You know just tha way I felt. had been suddenly cut off. At last Wanted something cool to drink or else without a wink. With, he got through. as It my head would bust Hallo 1" said he. Is Mr. X. there?" Felt An' my throat was mil of dust. Yes," replied a voice. Do you An my hlood waa boilin' lead I was thirsty, as I said. want to speak to him?" first off, I went an' made That was the last straw. Back Bo. Me a lot o' lemonade. earns the reply In Icy tones: Oh, no! Nothing of tbe sort. I Still, that didn't help,' an so merely rung up to hand him a cigar!" I still felt that Inside glow. Rare Books for Harvard. Harry Elkins Wldener, who was lost on the Titanic, had a very valuable collection of books, and these will go to Harvard university. His grandfather, P. A. B. Wldener, will provide a building In which the books will be adequately housed. The collection Includes a first folio Shakespeare, a copy of Shakespeares poems la the original binding, and what Is described as the finest collection In the world of Robert Louis Stevensons works. - Her Engagements. Miss Vivian Is very much of a flirt and she has been engaged to a dozen 'young men during the few seasons she has been on the eligible list A few days ago she said to her father: Pa, you may congratulate me on having acquired a new object of my affection." I am glad to hear It," he replied. I hope you are as happy with him as you will be with the next one." Of Say, the Bird Kind. par Itr What Is Is an aviary a hospital for avla-tora- r FAMILY RUNT Kansas Man Says Coffee Made Him That. Coffee has been used In our family of eleven father, mother, five sons and four daughters for thirty years. I am the eldest of the boys and have always been considered the runt of the family and a coffee toper. I continued to drink It for years until I grew to be a man, and then I fohnd I had stomach trouble, nervoua headaches, poor circulation, was un- able to do a full days work, took medicine for this, that and the other thing, without the least benefit. In fact I only weighed 116 when I was 28. Then I changed from coffee to Foe-tubeing the first one In our family to do so. I noticed, as did the rest of the family, that I was surely gaining strength and flesh. Shortly after I was visiting my cousin who said, You look so much better you're getting fat At breakfast hia wife passed me I was always sucfl a coffee drinker, but I said, No, thank you What! said my cousin, you quit coffee? What do you drink?' "Postum, I said, or water, and I am well They did not know what Postum was, but my cousin had stomach trouble and could not sleep at night from drinking coffee three times a day. He was glad to learn about Postum, but said be never knew coffee would hurt anyone. (Tea Is just aa Injurious as coffee because It contains caffeine, tbe same drug found In coffee.) After understanding my condition and how I got well he knew what to do for himself. He discovered that coffee was the cbubb of his trouble aa he never used tobacco or anything else of the kind. You should see the change In him now. We both believe that If persons who suffer from coffee drinking would stop and use Postum they could build back to health and happiness." Name given by Postum ' Co Battle Creek, Mich. Theres a reason." Read the little book, The Road to Wellville, In pkgs. Ever read the above letter. A new one appears from time to tlmo. They are genuine, true, and full of human a cup of coffee, as she knew Interest. the star Ittlrrl A sew gram Sima fa (M They are praalac, traa, (all af ksaas latere t. ml appears ui Then I drank some ginger pop. An' waa still too hot to stop: Then I tried a phosphate thing Made me hotter yet. by Jlng! Then I just got deaperit. Raid, by berk, I wouldn't quit Till I found drinks, sour or sweet. To relieve me from the heat. I went there, an I went here. Drinkln' sody, an root beer. Fissy drinks an them with lea Didn't care about the price. With Ice cream, an other dope Never lettln' go of hope. Ice tea, an' Ice coffee, too: Drinks you drink an drinks you An tha further on I got. Brother, I kept gettln' hot. chew- - My ole stummlrk mut 'a' felt I'd a hlame sight better melt Than keep fillin' It with stuff When It held more than, enough. But I went without a pause, Drinkln drinks you suck through straw Drinks with berries on their top ma- lime. morning with dry Paris green solution may be used instead of lime. We have always found the lime effective If put on aa soon aa the aluga appear. Use fresh lime and dust every morning until all the worms are killed. Asparagus grown from seed must he kept clean of grass and weeds, and the soil mellow end rich. Use dlluteJ urine from the stables, or bone phosphate, one handful To every 10 Inches of row, says a writer In an exchange. The beet remedy for asparagus rust la to cut the tops off close to the ground and burn. Then sow a thick coat of lime over tbe rows and give clean culture. All rust stalks should be gathered op and burnt. If any are left the spores will be blown by the wind on to the new growth. To grow stout plants from seed, thin out the plants to stand four Inches apart In the row. d ERECTING HOMES FOR BIRDS at plus k Bila a dudy vUt. Crauaed to pNpam kl W. N. U, Salt Laka City, No. applying a thick mulch of coarse nure, rotted leaves or grass. If the little fly appears, dust early In the (bdirw Off And Sliced Dried Beef kiwba Stop cutting aiparagus when peas are fit to gather. Let the tops grow until fall. Keep the weeds down by "i 4 air-slaek- CATTLE ARE BEST PURE-BRE- D To Be Successful Little Details Must Not Bs Overlooked Keep Up Records of Animals. A rattle breed of well-selecte- d pure-bre- d pleasure as Is a source of much well us profit, but to be successful details must not be overlooked. Mary breeder and beginners are too careless. They keep no accurate records of births, neglect their cattle, fail to keep up the record, do not take proper care of their rattle In winter, and are often caught with a lot of and unmerchantable bulla on hand and no buyers. Let me add that the only way to dispose of surplus stock is by judicious advertising In some good farm and stock paper, says a writer KILL OFF INJURIOUS WEEDS In an exchange. Keep your herd In nice, healthy conIf Noxious Plants Are to Be Destroyed dition, ao you will not be ashamed to Work Must Ba Dons In Thorshow your stock to prospective buyers. Make a yearly exhibit at a few leading ough Manner. tale and county fairs and present (By R. G. WEATHERSTONE.) your stock In the most attractive form The presence of weeds on many at home, as well aa at the fair. In defarmi demands that - more rigorous scribing your sale stock to prospective measures be taken for their destruction. It is plain that so long as so few pastures, meadows and cultivated crops are used in rotation with grain the farmers will find it very difficult to keep the weeds In check. Summer fallowing may destroy Neat Made From Tree Limbs. weeds, but It requires a great deal of people are urged to put up nesting labor during the entire season, when boxes where the birds may make their no crop Is obtained from It. Mustard, wild oats, pigeon grass, homes and rear their young. In summer tbeae little feathered neighbors and French weed are among the worst need human protection to shield their A Pure-BreHereeford. young from the attacks of cats. Are you going to join the ranks of buyers by mall or otherwlhe, never the bird protectors of this land? If sverestiinate the merits of an animal. you are now Is the time to show tout Make good every statement, and make loyalty to your feathered friends. It is cheaper every buyer a friend. Make some nesting houses and get to retain your old customers than to them up at once. The song birds are hunt new ones. worth protecting and should be proThere la no better way to restore or vided with placet to build their homes. keep up the fertility of your soil than It Isnt difficult to make nesting boxes. a herd of beef cattle, savby keeping Once the birds have discovered them and applying the manure. A libing they will begin to collect material eral supply of both grain and rough with which to line them and make feed should be grown and consumed them soft and comfey for their famby the cattle. They should he kept d . ilies. Any small wooden box may be converted into a house. Uee thin, smooth boards for the roof. Place a board beneath tbe house to keep the cats Bet I patronised each shop from climbing up to tbe birds' bomq. In this town an each one made A good bouse Is made by hollowing Me a hundred In the shade! The French Weed. out a large tree limb and cutting a bole In It for a doorway. For blue weeds Then a inspiration ruse with which farmers hate tc Brother, what do you suppose birds make the entrance hole about contend. I drank next, that cooled me right a the of le else quarter. If the box An filled me with calm delight? It Is to be regretted that so far aa Intended for wrens make ft smaller. No more greens an reds and pinks the writer knows, no simple or pracAn' all sorts o fancy drinks tical method haa been found that will Plain cold water! Yes slrree! That's what did the work for me. surely and completely eradicate Hut I wilted my straw hat French weed. Some farmers hare reX ever thought o that. 'Fore ported methods that have proved successful with them, but other farmers CHARGED. have tried the same methods and failed. Some few things have been learned by experiments, however. If this weed la to be destroyed, the work must be done thoroughly. The weed produces seeds ao profusely that If one plant la allowed to go to seed a large area of surrounding land will soon be Infested. If there Is one direction In farming In which thoroughness Is required. It Protected Against Cate. Is In trying to destroy this weed. A slipshod way will not do, and an ounce When doors are larger than the sizes of prevention Is worth a thousand mentioned sparrows are apt to inhabit them. Blue birds are among the most pounds of cure. Farmers whose farms are free from the French weed should desirable tenants and they bare been So that new family Is moving out?" known to utilize as houses tin cans, guard against Its incoming with the utmost vigilance and car?. says the woman who lives on the cor- old shoes, large funnels, or any other ner. la a that to nailed securely Yes. They found themselves un- receptaclewalL or able to maintain a house In this neigh- post borhood, replies the woman who lives How to Use Feed Roller. on the other corner. Never use a roller Immediately Then they didn't have as much after a heavy rain. But it should be Cut the rye heads out of the wheat. money as they said they had? Keep the cucumbers picked off each No. Nor they didn't have as much UBed aa soon as the surface becomes dry enough to pulverize easily with- day. money as they spent. out packing tightly. The roller should An Inverted clover soil la ideal for be used In dry seasons following the beans. A Preference. barrow to keep the moisture In the If your onions are running to You dont want to stay? asks the soil. Of course it is not possible to break down tbo tops. astonished lady of tbe house. Why, use the roller to any extent after Kerosene emulsion is good or bad I am surprised at your wanting to are well up but It can always for squash bugs. plants leave. We have treated you exactly be used to great advantage In the Keep llie tomato vines off the like one of the family, and I'm aura preparation of the aeed bed. Very ground, on supports of some kind. any girl often one rolling will not mash all the The first essential in fighting weeds the cook. clods nnd if tbe ground is Yea'm, acknowledges particular- in any crop Is to keep ahead of them. Yes'm. I know you have treated me ly rough It should be harrowed and There Is permanent satisfaction In like one of the fambly. I'd be willing rolled and harrowed r.galn until tbe the use of concrete equipment on thu to atay if you treated me like a ser- soil Is thoroughly pulverized. farm. vant. What I want Is more consideraA common rotation for largo g tion and appreciation." sections is clover, hernia, Staking Tomatoes. This Is a comparatively new prac- wheat. Appreciated. The small tice, but It is working out fine, and ts handy There goes a man who haa lots of even market gardeners are adopting and suYes much hoe work in every rich kinfolks, says our friend Indi- it on a large scale. Up to recently Its garden. cating an ordinary looking fellow. chief use was by village people In Experiments have proved that Nothing strange about that," we their email backyard gardens, but Is henna yield better on old land than comment. now used by growers who are sup- on new. But his rich kinfolks all brag about plying a No. 1 trade. Its Hay will bo valuable again this advantages him." are that more tomato plants can be year. none go to waste; mow evThey do? And he Is poor, you say? grown on a given area; they con be ery rorner. Is he distinguished for anything? r started earlier because they can be He sure that barrels and Nothing except that be never brags easily protected In case of a danger cisterns are closely screened to keep about how many rich kinfolks he has." from frost and that more and better out the mother mosquitoes. tomatoes can he grown on the plants. The longer you stick to the cultiYou may think that some one la vator between the corn rows the inoie Fence-Pos- t Problem. corn you will have lu the rrib by and worth ber weight In gold, Clarence, Cement will solve the fence-pos-t but Isn't your estimate influenced by by. For cabbage worms use insert powthe fact that you haven't got the gold problem for those who have a gravel pit nearby. It would almost seem der mixed with flour In the proporand you want the girl? that with concrete posts and woven tion of 1 pound of powder to 2.1 of wire a fence could be built that would flour. Dust the plants well after each be as permanent the farm Itself. rain. GARDEN well-bedde- d In tbe barns and all atraw-tack- liand-cultlvat- I-- et d, old. Not only this, but it stunts or dwarfs the growth of such young things permanently and they never attain good size. GOOD FEED-RAC- FOR SHEEP K Grain Trough Placed Beneath Saves Chaff and Leaves, Most Nourishing Part of Feed. (By J. W. GOODWIN.) The rack la made with a pole Tor the bottom rail and a piece of 2z6 inch scantling for the top rail. The rrosabora are pieces riven from an old i lece of timber. Tlicne crossbars ere four feet long and about one and one-haInches in lf d SAVE GRAIN IN FEEDING HOGS Feed Rack for 8heep. diameter, shaved smooth with a drawing-- knife. Two Troughs Conveniently Arranged That When Corn le Devoured More Will Follow. The holes In the top and bottom rails are made with an The crossbars are trimmed to lie the holes and then wedged to hold them two Make troughs six or seven The bottom rail la held In place Inches wide and two and feet the side of the barn by twe against long. Fit these troughs together ao strips of heavy sheet-irowhich has they will cross In the middle, writes i. been bent to fit around the pole. E. Spencer of Mount Pleasant, Tenn., The top rail Is secured by a piece of In the Missouri Valley Farmer. Make rope which passes over a a chute five feet high, large at the top pulley located In a hole in the wall and six inches square at the bottom. above the rack, a weight being attached to the outside end of rope, serving to always keep the rack, against the wall. When the hay Is put in, the rack is drawn down, and when filled is pushed, bark against the wall, holding the In place closely and kept In place by one-ha- lnch-aiige.- -. lf n half-inc- h h:-- the weight. The grain trough placed beiiRh and in front of the rr.ck serve aa a receptacle for the chuff and leans of the hay the best and most non: I part of the feed which wou'.J otherwise be pulled under foot and lost ns food. g Good f.c Self-Feede- r. to Ct into the croc of the leaving It three inclic from ilia botShell y:.:r coni n::d tom of trough. pour Into the chute. A tin I":; eat lie corn In the trough more wi ! r .'l down. The hogs feed la clean, i..:l :io corn is wasted. Raising Early Lsrrths. Thu sole object iu Pulsing early lambs is to produce a fine animal of good size and flesh and get him t market at the earliest posible moment. To do that require good feeding. good care and good management from the time he is horn until he is sent to market. rain-wate- J (By J. W. IXUIIAM.) Sows should be retained for s num-- i ber of years until their places be filled with their equals. It Is well known that the progeny from mature parents are superior to those descended from young progen -. tors not fully developed. Hoars and sows for breeding should be kept in a good thrifty condition but not fat. The writer has always been troubled to keep his breeding sows from becoming too fat and consequently farrowing a small number of scrawny pies. I once took a large sow to fatten for one-hal- f the pork. I did not know she was with pig and fed her all the corn meal and wheat middlings rha would eat. Imagine luy astonishment and vexation when she had three little dwarfed t igs not only smaller than pigs usually are when first farrowed, but emaciated. Sows for breeding should not Le allowed to run with the fattening hogs fed on corn but kept In a pasture by thepaelvra and given a plentiful supply of slop made of equal parts or wheat ahorta, corn meal and wheat bran. Most young sows will breed when three months old If allowed to run with a hoar, but eight or twelve months Is as young as Is judicious tc breed them. The pigs from large-bodieold sow will be more In number and frequently double the size of pigs from young sows when farrowed, and this with the same feed and care and will frequently weigh 60 per cent more at a yeas s Farm Notes bcan-growln- to good bleeders. con ve: ted Into manure and reanimal turned to tbe soil. A well-brewill not cousume as much food aa a scrub, and will always sell at a profit, even If sent to (he butcher. The beat Individuals will bring a fair profit to the owner when sold for breeding purposes. an who" on Old Sows! Pigs From Large-BodieNumber More and Often Doubts j In 8tzs When Farrowed. Air-Slake- D.NESDIT W1LDVR r . ii . time MEAL 1 A HOLD Watch Unshod Colts. Unshod colts need Inspection of the feet occasionally, as they are likely to grow more on one aide than the other, or to develop I no much toe. A very little rasping will keep the feet lev-cla- d. cattle require good taro and 1. a Tig should be grown on Marly a possible. Never rai.v a cult from a naturally vliljus tcm! ricd marc. A couple of shot p In the front yard :.rc good i s a l.iwn mov. er. 1 leg cholera in Kansas is unJcr cop tire pre cent. irid, at least Uciigh affecting pciing very . often is d; c t.) dusty Never f.tve a sow for a breeder unless she has a h.rgi number of tear. U Is uhsoluit !y neceisary that V.:v stallion should have plenty of exercise. Pasture aud exercise develop i strong frame that rcs.tonds quickly le feeding. Thi! boar should bo an ounstaudlng individual, possessing all the marfe lngs characteristic of the breed. Rome owners of land in the far west clr.lm they cun raise 14 sheep te the acre on alfalfa and beet pulp. The stable that has plenty of pine air and is well flooded with sunshine Is most comfortable rnd hrahhful. A run lired ram of the coarse wool bn ed crossed with Merino ewes produces a good lamb for early fattening. Home farmers do not realize the Importance of providing plenty of salt for nil the lilfi'erint animal kept ca Gentle Work for Mare. Gentle work for the mare with Teal will not harm lmr. but die should not Vu worked for a week before t'.u . tha fr.rni. r bcd-liug- fls |
