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Show A r t SOME EXCELLENT SUGGESTIONS REGARDING BREEDING OF HOGS ) LONDON MYrcrim" 'rrrm carte ttoafilimge Is On tf Most Important 'Factors tn Wintering Brood Sows Animals Do Not Thrtv Well If Not Glvaa Sufficient Qnaatlty Scrub Hog Is Not Profitable, (By B x Lara.) -- A sows, and if they do not get enough coarse food they will not do well. Corn and milk are well balanced aa a diet, but there ahould be something added to distend the organa or digestion. Than again, brood bows will keep more quiet and contented If they are given alfalfa, clover or some kind of roughage to work over during the day. Good corn stiver is better than nothing and the aows will work it over and eat large quantities of It every day. The man who haa a lot of thrifty August or September pigs and gives them rational care until grass comes and has them ready for the market Combination Hog House, With Hay and Grain Storage Rooms. very helpful About all we can do 1 to feed a ration that can be easily digested and keep them In clean quarters, thoroughly dUinfect the pens and, let tbe disease run Ite course. Whole milk Is one of the best feeds for hogs that are suffering with disease of any kind. It la an excellent feed and haa often been of great assistance in bringing boga through spells of sickness. Thera Is no disputing the fact that corn la an Ideal hog feed, but every practical feeder admits that better results can be brought about by feeding a ration that Is composed of less than s corn. It Is a mistake to think we cannot afford to buy other feeds to mix with the corn. Ordinarily It Is a mistake not to feed the boga the liquid before the solid food. See that the hogs have comfortable quarters now and the months to come. Failure here will Impair the usefulness of the herd. Hogs will make from 10 to 13 pounds of meat, live weight, for each bushel of corn eaten, but because of this too many farmers feed too much I corn. The cream separator has greatly reduced scours In pigs because the skim-mil- k can always be fed while sweet. When the sow of good type has proven herdelf a prolific breeder, an economical feeder, and a good mother, it la a good plan to keep her several two-third- Tbit Is Fast c Disap-- ' pearing. the middle of June will make better money for his feed than he will on any bunch of pigs that he feeds during the year. Do not be afraid to give shoats plenty of range during the winter, providing, of course, that you have good, dry sleeping places and warm houses to shelter them during the extremely cold weather. On each and every farm there should be 'sops- - provision made for dipping hill. Title not only proves to be an easy and ectual way of disinfecting animals which are brought pn the farm, but It also keeps them free from BYNOPttt. Clam Haraleb. known all through Alae-fc- a aa "Burning Daylight." celebrataa hla loth birthday with a crowd of minora at tbe Circle City Tivoli. Tbe dance lead to hsevy rambling, )n which ovsr 1100.000 ta staked. Hamlaa loaaa hla money and hla mlna but wlna tha mall contract. He tarta on hla mall trip with dogs and aladga, tailing hla frlanda that ha will bs In tha big Yukon gold etrlke at tha atart. Burning Daylight makes a senaatlonaUr rapid run across country with tha mall appears at tha Tivoli and la now ready to loin hla frlanda In a dash to tha new Deciding that gold will be fold field. In tha district Hamlah buys two tons of flour, which ha declares wtll be worth Its weight In gold, but whan ha arrives with hla flour be finds the big flat desolate. A comrade discovers gold and Daylight reaps a rich harvest. Ha goes to Dawson, becomes tha moat prominent figure In the Klondike and defeats a combination of capitalists In a vast mining deal. He returns to civilisation, and, amid the bewildering complications ot high finance. Daylight finds that he has been led to Invest his eleven millions In a manipulated scheme. He goes to New York, and confronting hla disloyal partners with a revolver, he threatens to kill them It hla money la not returned. up-riv- er CHAPTER IX, Continued. A long session of three hours followed. The deciding factor was not the big automatic pistol, but the certitude that Daylight would use it Not alone were the three men convinced of this, but Daylight himself was convinced. He was firmly resolved to kill the men If his money vaa not forthcoming. It was not an easy matter, on the spur of the moment, to raise ten mil lions In paper currency, and there were vexatious delays. A docen times Mr. Howlson and the bead clerk were summoned Into the room. On these occasions the pistol lay on Daylight's lap, covered carelessly by a newspaper, while he was usually engaged In rollciging or lighting his brown-pape- r arette. But in the end. the thing was was brought accomplished. A suit-cas- e up by one of the clerks from the waityears. and Daylight snapped It The mature sow requires only food ing motor-car- , for maintenance while the growing one shut on tbs last package of bills. Hs needs food for growth. ,, Furthermore, paused t thq.door ta make his Baal j the older one will have an appetite for remarks. waste that a young one would not care "Theres three several things I sure When I get outwant to tell you-al- l for. Exercise will help make that streak side this door, be set free to of lean and etreak of fat that la de- act, and I just want to warn you-aal red. about what to do. , In the first place, no warrants for my arrest savvee? This moneys mine, and I aint robLABOR-SAVIN- G bed you of It. If it gets out bow you gave me tbe double cross and how I CORN-PICKE- R dons you back again, the laugh 'll bs on you, and Itll be sure an almighty cant afford that laugh. Tou-a- ll Machine Will Do .The Work ot big laugh. Besides, having got back my Several Man Ie I Destined stake that you-al- l robbed me of. If you to Become Very arrest me and try to rob me a eed-onPopular. time 111 go gunning for you-al- l and I'll sure get y.pu. .No little f raid-ca- t While the corn picker is e comparacan skin Burnshrimps Uks you-al- l e tively new member of the and ing Daylight If you win you line, nevertheleas It Is destined therell sure be some several lose, unexpectto become a very Important one. ed funerals around this burg. Just Before the advent of the look me In the eye, and savhelp, and before ih became so scarce, vee I mean business. Them stubs the harvesting of the corn crop was and on tha tabla la all yourn. not such a serious problem. Modern Good receipts day. ideas and changes In the methods of As tha door shut behind him, Naliving, however, have brought about thaniel Letton sprang for the telea shortage In the supply of farm labor, This shortage is very pronounced, phone, and Dowsetf Intercepted him. What are you going to dor Dow-se-tt especially in the husking season, when demanded., extra help la needed. For this reason. The police. Its downright robbery. I wont stand K. 1 tell you I wont you-aU'- Re Jndao," was said of him, wag tag truly. fit a a free lance, and had no 1 khadly business associations 8uL 4 alliances as were formed from tee . to time were purely affair 4 expediency, and he regarded hla tflhi as men who would give him thef (able-cros- s or ruin him tf s prcfiaMs chance presented. In spite of pi point of view, ha was faithful to Ik files. But ha was faithful Just as as they were and no longer. Thstouon had to com from them. n( pas it was 'Ware Daylight, kislnees men and flbanclera of thgfafifio coast never forgot tha laa-r-f Char lea Kllnkner and tha Call-- 4 Altamont Trust Company, waa tha praaldant In part twlth Daylight, the pair raided Saajoa Interurbaa. Tha power-fullLa- l Power A Electric Lighting coounfion cam to the rescue, and Kl&knt, seeing what ha thought waa thd opprtunlty, went over to tha an emir In tbe thick of the pitched battle. Dapgk lost three millions before be wa da with It. and before be was doas vth It he saw the California A Attempt Trust Company hopelessly e wrsckfi and Charles Kllukusr a laa felon's cell 7 B It was that Daylight became sul-sid- of alcoholic lphlbltlookthwart bis consciousness The office became Immediately a closed affair. It ceased to exist In the afternoon, after lunch. It lived again for one or two hours, when, leaving It he rebuilt tbe wall ot Inhibition. Of course, there were exceptions to this; and, such was tha rigor of his discipline, that if be had a dinner or a conference before him In hlch. In a business way, he encountered enemies or allies and planned or prosecuted campaigns, he abstained from drinking. But the instant the business was settled, hla everlasting call went out for a Martini, and for a double-Martin- i at that, in a long glass so as not to excite comment Into Daylights life cam Dede Mason. She came rather Imperceptibly. He had accepted her impersonally along with the office furnishing, the offloe boy, Morrison, the chief, confidential, and only clerk, and all the rest of tbe accessories of a superman's gambling place ot business. Had he been asked any time during the first months she was la his employ, he would have been unable to toll tbe color of her eye. From the fact that there resid she was s s ed dimly In hts subconsciousness conception that she was a brunette. Likewise hs had aa Idea that she as not thin, while there was an absence In his mind of any Idea that she waa fat And how she dressed, be had no Idea at all lie bad no trained ey In such matters, nor was bs Interested. He took It for granted. In the lark of apy Impression in the contrary, that she wa dressed somehow. He knew Another time It waa a .hook, of Wells, "The Wheels of Chance." W bat's it all about Daylight asked. , "Oh, It's Jurt amovel, a r love-stor-y. She stopped, but he still stood waiting, and she felt it Incumbent to go on. It's about a little Cockney drapers assistant, who take a vacation on hla bicycle, and falla In with a young, girl very much above him. Her mother Is a popular writer and all that. And the situation Is very curious, and! sad, too, and tragic. Would you care to read It?" Does be get her?" Daylight de1 manded. He No; thata the point of It. wasnt" And he doesnt get her, and youvw aU them pages, hundreds of them, to find that out?" Daylight muttered In read amasement Mist Mason wss nettled as deml-blond- li Possibly there Is no other farm animal that can offer as poor an excuse for hja existence as the scrub bog. He is an unprofitable animal any way you take him. As an economical pork producer he Is a failure. Even his ability to shift tor himself does not recommend him to the people within the limit of his range as he has the reputation of prey Ing upon neighboring corn fields when food la scarce. .His build naturally adapts blm to his manner of living slnoe be la tong legged, narrow In the chest, has a long, narrow snout. This adapts him to his manner of living. With the crab bog it la root hog or die, hence the long anout His narrow body aids him In getting through small fence cracks And if he fails to find a place large enough to go through the fence be can soon dig under it with his long snout. There Is no standard of excellence for the scrub hog since he may possess almost any form except a beauti ful one; be may be of any color. He has the reputation of being able to stand all kinds of rough treatment and still survive. He Is regarded as being able to resist disease better than the improved breeds of hogs. We very much doubt whether this quality attributed to the scrub hog Is true slnoe we have noticed that hog cholera takes the scrubs as well as the well-brehog. One thing is surq, that the scrub hog can consume more valuable feed and give less in return" than any ' other animal that we know of. A farmer who owns a herd of scrub hogs seldom needs any other corn crib than his bogs. t Hs never gels rich selling pork, and In fact If he depended upon his hogs corn-machin- high-price- d you-aU- stand Com Picker In Action. d Pair of Champion Berkshire. to make him money to buy better bred hogs be would never own better ones. The scrub hog usually keeps his owner so poor that be Is not able to buy any better stock. In fact, this Is the excuse usually given for his existence. Poor farming and scrub bogs are usually found associated together. They are near and dear companion. Both make a rapid retreat before progressive spirit and there Is not s betteg evidence of the general progree- - farmers are more then ever In need of a machine which will husk the corn from tha standlng stalks a machine which will do tbe work of several men. Heretofore, about an acre wae considered an average days work for one man. A corn plcker, however, will husk several times this number of acres. A com picker will, however, not only do the work of several men, but It will deliver the ear com to thd wagon In much better condition than is done ordinarily when husking by bend. The com picker Is not tbe Inspiration ot e minute. rrislh work of years. While necessity was tbe mother of Its Invention, yet It was hard work that overcame tbe difficulties that confronted the designers of this maphine. One by one these difficulties have been overcome, and the machine Is now perfected so that it does a very high class of work. ' it Dowsett smiled grimly, but at tbs same time bore the slender financier back and down Into his chair. Well talk It over, be said; and In Leon Guggenhammer he found an anxious ally. And nothing eTer came of It The thing remained a secret with the three men. Nor did Daylight ever give the secret sway, though that aft-ernoon, leaning back In his stateroom , on tbe Twentieth Century, bis shoe off. and feet on a chair, he chuckled long and heartily. New York remained forever puzsled over the affair; nor could It hit upon a rational explanation. By all right. Burning Daylight should have gone broke, yet it was known that be Immediately reappeared In Ban Francisco possessing an apparently unimpaired capital. This was evidenced by the magnitude of the enterprises he engaged In, such as, for Instance, Panama Mailr by sheer weigh t nf mo Dy and fighting --power wrestling the control away from Sbeft-l- y and telling out In two months to the Harriman Interests at a rumored enormous advance. -- CHAPTER X. Back In Ban Francisco, Daylight fulckly added to hla reputation. In ays It waa not an enviable reputation. Men were afraid of him.- - He became known as a fighter, a fiend, a tiger. His day was a ripping and smashing one, and no one knew where or how hla next blow would falL The element of surprise was large He balked on the unexpected, and. fresh from tbe wild North, hla mind not operating In stereotyped channels, be was able hi unusual degree to devise new tricks and stratagems. And once he won the advantage, be pressed It Large Pear Orchard. Mr. Cornell who has a large orchard of Worden-Seckpears In Lbs Hudson River Valley, was asked to give his experience with them and 'state their value as' compared with the Beckel pear. He said the Beckel pear Is larger than the old BeckeL It la very valuable, but not a substitute for the Beckel The tree grows larger and bears good crops, but the quality Is It not quite equal to the Beckel brings a fancy price when wel thinobd remorselessly.' so It colors well el As relentless as a The Cocktails Served as an Inhibition. succesrtl financier. Ho did not go Not In for dwindling the workers. only dlljhe not have the heart for II hut It (4 not strike him s s sporting The workers were so proposlSba. ! easy, stupid. It was more like pheasslaughtsing fat hand-reare- d ants on (he English preserves he had read steft. The sport,' to him, was in wsykying the successful robbers and 1st I their spoils from them.. The grid Yukon life had failed to make Dtf light hard. It required civilisation to produce this result In the flerte, savage game he now played. hi habitual geniality tm perceptibly 1'lpped away from htm.aa did his lasy Western drswl He stlhsd recrudescences or geniality, but Jhy were largely periodical and forefd. and they were ususlljrdue to the cocktails ha took prior to mealtime. 1 tbe North be had drunk deeply wd at Irregular Intervals; but now his drinking became systematic and disciplined. It was an unconscious development, but tt was based upon physical a mental conditions. Tbe Inhibition. cocktails served Without lessoning or thinking about It, the strata of tbe office, which was essential! due to tbe daring and audacity of his ventures, required check or cessatlot; and he found, through the weeks aad months, that the cocktails supplied this very thing They constituted A stone wall He never drank during the morning, nor In office hours; hut the Instant be left the offic he proceeded to rear this wall aln 4 Miss Mason," and that wss all, though bs wss aware that as a stenographer she was quick and accurate. He watched her leaving one afternoon, and was aware for tha first and time that she was that her manner of dress wss satisfying Ha knew none of tbe details of woman's dress, and be saw none of tbe details of her neat shirt waist tailor suit He saw only and well-cu- t tha effect In s general, sketchy way. She looked right This was Id the absence of anything wrong or out of the ' way "She's a trim little t his verdict, when the outer office -- oor closed on her. Tbe next morning, dictating, he concluded that he liked the way she did her bsir, though for the life of him be could have alren no description of It The Impression was pleasing that was all. She sat between him and tbe window, and he noted that her hair was light brown, with hints of golden bronze. A pale sun, shining In, touched tbe golden bronxe .Into smouldering fires that were very pleasing. He discovered that In the Intervals, when she bad nothing to do. she read books and magazines, or worked on some sort of feminine fancy work. Passing bar desk, once, be picked up a volume of Kiplings poems and glanced bepuzzled through the pages., Tou like reading Miss Mason? he said, laying the book down. Oh, yes," was the answer; vary much." bar as well-forme- good-looke- well a ' amuaed. But you read tbe mining and financial news by the hour," she re- torted. But I sure get something out oC that. It's business, and it's differ" ent. I get money out of II Wbat do you get out of books?" Points of view, new Ideas, llfe. Not worth a cant cash." But llfs'a worth more than cash the argued. Oh. well" be said, with easy masculine tolerance, so long as you so Joy It Thats wbtt counts, I suppose; and t here's no accounting for taste. Despite hla own superior point of view, be tad aa Idea that abe knew a lot and he experienced a fleeting feeling like that of a barbarian face--tfar with the evidence of some tremendous culture. To Daylight culture was a worthless thing, and yet sotnehow, be waa vaguely troubled by a tense that there waa mors In culture-- , than hs Imagined. Again, on her desk. In passing, be noticed s book with which he was familiar. This time he did not stop, for he had recognized the cover. It waa a magazine correspondent's book oa the Klondike, and be knew that be and hla photograph figured In It and. he knbw, also, of s certain sensational' TMprer'"ronrtfrftta''wiur'B ll Uce. I (Copyrlftit, tilt, by the New York Herald Company.) (Copyriaht, UlA by tbe MacMillan Coapeay. slveness of a people than the absence of the scrub hog from a community. Too much.stress cannot be laid on sele&lng breeding swine from sound,, healthy parents. Animals that are not strong In constitution cannot withstand disease as well as those which are strong in that respect. In case hogs are troubled with disease it lal almost impossible to give them medicine or anything elae that will prove The farmers of Denmark secure the best prices for their fancy bacon for the reason that they hare established small packing establishments where they can haul their bogs and get their pay for the hogs according to their actual worth. How different from the system, or lack of system. In this country, where we ere compelled to take Just what the packing house operators are a mind to pay us for our hogs. 'Will the time ever come when our farmers can see the great benefits T to be derived from Roughage Is one of the most Important factors In wintering the brood A Type of Hog or mrre cm or mrrLcC, crcS womans suicide, and with one To Much Daylight" After that be did not talk with, her again about books. Hs Imagined! wbst erroneous conclusions she bad) drawn from that particular chapter, and It stung him tha more In that they were undeserved. He pumped Morrison, the clerk, who had first to vent his personal grievance against Miss Mason before be could tell What little he knew of her. 8he comes from Siskiyou County. Shes vary nice to work with In the office, of course, but shes rather stuck on herself exclusive, you know. How do you make that out?" Daylight queried. Well she thinks too much of herself to associate with those she works With, In the office here, for Instance. Bbe won't have anything to do with a fellow, yon see. I've asked her out repeatedly, to the theater and the ebutea and such things. But nothing doing. Bays she likes plenty of sleep, and cant stay np lata, and has to go all the way to Berkeley thats where she lives) But that's all hot air. Shes running with the University boys, thats what shes doing. TVs needs lota of sleep, and can't goto rne theater with me, but she can dance alt hours with them. I'vs heard it pretty straight that she goes to all Iheln hops and such things. Rather for a stenogstylish and high-tone- d rapher, Td say. And r aha keeps horse, too. She rides astride all over thoe hills out there. 1 sew her one Sunday myself. Oh, she's a highflyer, and I wonder bow she does IL Blxty-fiv- s a month dont go far. Then she has a sick brother, too." "Live with her people?" Daylight asked. No; hasnt got any They were well to do, Ive beard. They must have been, or that brother or hers couldnt have gqne to tbe University of California. Her father had a big cattle-rancbut be got to fooling with mine or something, and went broke before-bdleA Her mother died long before that Her brother must cost a lot of money. He waa a husky once, played, football waa great on hunting and being out in the mountain and such) things. He got bis accident breaking horses, and then rheumatism or something got Into blm. One leg is shorter Jban tha other, and withered up some. He has to walk on crutches. 1 saw her out with him once crossing tbe ferry. Tbe doctors have been experimenting on him for yeare. and he's in the French Hospital now, I h, think." i s Miss MaAll of which son went to Increase Daylight's Intel est In her. Yet, much as he desired, he failed to get acquainted with her. He had thoughts ot asking her to luncheon, but hla was tbe innate chivalry of ' the' frontiersman, and the thoughts never came to anything. He square-dealin- g knew a man was not supposed to take hie stenograpber to luncheoa 8uch thing did happen, he knew, for be beard! the chaffing gossip of the club; but he did not think much of such meo and felt sorry for tbs girls. slde-llgbt- (TO Bte COWTINneD.S 1 |