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mmm? e?===== .v" * /.vu-;.. </v. G-od Breed of Fowls. .- Select one good breed of fowls and then stop. The greatest nuisance In [the farm poultry department 13 the attempt to keep mere than one kind of poultry. Stick to one breed, and let the stock be pure bred In order to ecure fancy prices for those birds which come up to breeding or exhibition requirements.?American Cultivator. Clean Separators. Some farmers that we know, wash the centrifugal separator only once per day. but they flush it out with tepid water each time after separating milk in it. This is a bad practice. The separator should be taken apart and the bowl and accessory parts should be washed clean with a brush and washing powder, and then rinsed in fresh water, and then heated as hot as possible and set aside for drying. The separator slime is charged with bacteria and filth and it is difficult to wash this out of the separator, but an expenditure of a little elbow grease will bring results.?Inland Farmer. To Fool the Chicks. William H. Brown, of Tompkins county, N. Y., has made a "discovery" that will?perhaps?revolutionize the poultry industry of the country as far mutci c^i;s are cnncernea. une evening a while ago Brown was sitting by the kitchen stove complacently smoking his pipe and wondering why the deuce his hens refused to produce any eggs, when of a sudden iie was struck squarelv in his mind with an idea. The next morning, with the thermometer away down below [Groton, the home of Blanchard's White Leghorns (which, by the way, is in the same county). Brown's neighbors saw him splashing green paint around land over his poultry houses to heat the band, and before he quit he had 'every house on the place painted a [bright green, inside and out. It had occurred to Brown that if his hens had the same color scheme In their winter 'environment as nature provides in the spring and summer, they would conclude that spring had come and would shell out the eggs in abundance. He 'claims, too, that he was right and that the egg production has been trebled since he painted his houses green. There may be something in it?perJiaps.?Commercial Poultry. /' ' r Work Horses Scarce. ' The Drovers' Telegram has the following interview: "When you come right down to think about it," remarked O. B. Stovall otf Peabody, Kans., " it does seem very strange that we should come here to Kansas City from an old settled farming country, to buy work horses. But that is just what I am here for. Most persons would think that we could ship out a few carloads each year, infltooH rvf eroinnr + U ~ ? * vn bviiu5 lue LSIg IllaX hcl ceuter to buy and ship horses In. We have a most prosperous farming community. Thrifty farmers are very numerous, and In fact we have but a few of any other kind. And we do not have a great many newcomers into that part of the state, as In Oklahoma ^and new countries. Under these cir cuCirizrcc's, it would be very natural to suppose that we would never be come short on horses. But the demand simply exceeds the supply. I "6an buy horses cheaper on the Kansas City market than out in the coun try at heme. In all my experience I never saw the shortage of work hors-es so noticeable as right now. We seem to be raising a good many horses, and we do not seem to be using any more in carrying out the ordinary farm work than we did a few years ago, but still the shortage exists, and we must go outside to supply it. It would seem as though there would be ? cmnrl nrnfit In SMlfi coin? into the eorse-raising industry exclusively, but ley do not seem to take It up. Raising hogs and feeding cattle seem more attractive to our farmers than horse or mule raking." i Scrgum Forage Crops. i Eorguin is no longer an experiment as a farm crop. On a great many terms It is recognized as an important crop. It is a great help In stock jfeedlng, as an acre of sorgum will produce an enormous amount of feed. I would place it next to alfalfa in quality, as all kinds of stock will eat It readily, it is palatable as well as nntrltous and will Increase the flow of milk In the dairy herd when fed In the green stage in August or when dry weather comes and pastures begin to shorten. Hots eat it very readily, nod I believe that the expense of fattening can be gTeatly reduced by feeding sorgum in connection with corn. Sorgum can be cut and stored for winter feeding without any loss. We harvest it with the corn binder, ahock as yon would com with from 1? to 20 bundles in a shock, leave until thoroughly cured then haul and \ store it in the barn and feed at leisure. Sorgum has quite a drought resisting power, and will grow a fjood isrop even In a dry season such as the pS3t year. Our crop the past year. While It did not grow rank and tall at It would In a season when we have m plenty of rain, was, however, of excelfeeding quality, and the seed B _ . 7^. fjJ.'l' kirf k' ' Om*N^A^?V? (which is uo small item) matured perfectly. By experience I have found that It pays to plant a variety that will make a unifo-m growth, a kind that will not easily lodge. Clay upland Is the best for growing sorgum for feed, also for syrup malting. but my experience in syrup-making is limited 03 very little is made id this vicinity. In conclusion I will say that the more dxperleuce I have in sorgum growing the more I appreciate it. because It is a very profitable crop to grow and feed.?V. E. Weinmann, in the Indiana Farmer. Mechanical Incubators. Artificial incubation has become so I common that an article on the sub- ' ject seems hardly necessary. Still there are farmers who keep chickens * in considerable numbers who have not tried this manner of hatching. The uncertainty of hens because of their different moods makes it diffi- t cult to hatch chickens in large quan- t titles, or to raise the ones that are f hatched by the natural method, because it seems almost impossible to J control the lice. * There mny be difficulties and annoy- a ances enough with machine hatching, t but when a good machine is rightly a stflrfpfl tylth #??? *< u * - ? .. .vU isiwic egsct, mere is nine I difficulty in getting; a fair percentage C of chicks, and when they are once c hatched, they are free from lice and p with the modern methods of hover- t ing them in heated brooders, another o satisfactory percentage of the chicks 0 may be raised to maturity. t' The greatet advantage, however, is a in hatching as many as you want,and e at the time you want them. Incuba- ^ tors may bo started in March, long be- B fore the hens have any idea of becom- 0 ing broody, and we ail know the ad- s vantages of early hatches. Qggs pay c the best in December and January, but in order to have pullets lay at a that time it is necessary to have them ? hatched early. t Some poultrymen have incubators by the dozen, and they keep them busy ? during the most important months. Farmers could easily learn a lesson from these practical fellows, and the increase in value of poultry and eggs t would suggest the advisability of doing so. In starting a new machine, it is I c VPT*V imnArtonf 1 - ~w iw.j/uj mm im irau Lilt; liibiruc* ^ tions thoroughly. While doing so, h warm the machine slowly and keep ii the temperature even for several days N until the mechanism is well under con- ^ trol. A little care in this way when P starting in may save a great deal of ^ trouble and annoyance later. An in- a cubator, like most any other delicate w machine, must be handled Just right, v There is nothing especially difflcait w about it, but to be succesful, a * person must exercise great care. n When once thoroughly understood, it " comes easy to a person who is natur- j ally careful, but it is doubtful if thoughtless, careless persons ever be- h come experts with an incubator. In b fact, the poultry busines all the way tl through requires care and Judgment, |( the same as any other business if it is successful. That is one reason why an incubator should be part of the outfit of every farmer who keeps more than fifty chickens.?April Epltomist. A Farm Notes. A lump of rock salt should be kept In the manger of every animal of the horse kind. fl When lambs are about four months r< old, if intended for early market, they II should be pushed strongly on feed. No class of live stock requires good n fresh air and ventilated houses more w than sheep to keep them perfectly o healthy. | b Sheep will damage orchards when ? the trees are small both by rubbing ^ against them and by eating the ten- ^ der bark. B As a rule mo3t live stock do better n when the gTain fed to them is ground, * but sheep will do as well when fed ? whole grain. It Is Just as important to water the colts regularly every day as to feed ^ regularly in order to keep them In . thrifty condition. Corn silage in Hmited quantity may be fed to sheep, but not in a large ^ quantity. Yearling lambs when shed- 4 ding their first teeth will not fatten a rapidly on that account. 9 Have the feet of unshod colts leveled ^ at least once a month with a rasp, un- 1 less the animals get exercise on bare " ground; also see that the feet are Q kept well rounded and the toes are t not too long. t A silo 16 feet in diameter and thirty- j* two feet high is large enough to sup- ^ ply silage for twenty cows two hun- ? dred and twenty days allowing an av- a erave feed of thirty-five pounds per sow per day. System is a very valuable substance to mix with dairy feeds. The best results are obtained by knowing what you want and by following your own 0 prescription carefully until you see a " chance to improve it. a More high-priced dairy cows suffer 1 from overfeeding than from any othor 11 cause. liberality is commendable up e to certain point, but overfeeding is not % a kindness; it is a damage, and it- { will not pay in the long run. f t iti'iliMiriiMlstifiniiiilia- V MR. BEAR DOESN'T LI * v> ' v ?Cartoon by ~\ JRISK REVIVAL IN ALL LINES Reports From Corporation Long Since Passed?Dee w Steel, Copper and New York City.?In an article on he improved industrial situation the Vail Street Journal summarizes as ollows: "W. E. Corey, president of the Tnlted States Steel Corporation, says he corporation is operating about eventy per cent, of normal capacity nd that indications are for a conlnued improvement in prices as well s production. "A representative of the Standard )il Company says the business of the ompany is normal. "A representative of the General ilectrlc Company says the corporaion since February has been receiving rders at the rate of between $51,00,000 and $53,000,000 a year and hat orders in the current fiscal year ru HVnlv V. * n r\ aa/? aa/i I v IU icav,u fOV,UUV,UUV, or qual to the boom year. "John A. Topping, chairman of he Republic Iron and Steel Company, ays all the blast furnace capacity f the corporation 1b operating and eventy-flve per cent, of the finishing apacity. "The equipment companies report n improvement in business,although rders are not coming in as rapidly s in the case of many other Indusrles. "The Western Electric Company hows a large gain in business. i 1910 TO BE A PR larvestlng Machinery Man Very Rrc New York City.?Edwin D. Met- i alfe, vice-president and general lanager of a large firm dealing in 1 arvesting machinery, who is attendug the annual convention of the iannfacturers' Association at the Waldorf, talked about the return of 1 rosperlty. "It seems to me now," he said, "to 1 epend on the harvest. If it is good, < nd at present there are no reasons rhy it should not be, I look for a ery big year In 1910. But, however 'ell the crops turn out, the farmers 'ill not be getting their money till ext spring, and so It is likely to be i ext year hefore there is a return to i he conditions which prevailed in 906 and 1907. "At the present moment there is. owever, one hopeful sign. Large ! uyers have arrived at the conclusion lat prices have about reached hot >m, ana are looking around to place I ' irge orders. Thus I heard of the nlted States Government the other THE DATE FOR I i Pittsburg Estimate on Revh Pittsburg, Pa.?Opinion differs as ) when the country's business actlv- i y will be such as to pronounce it ally recovered from the after-panic sactlon. Increased producing capac:y, as compared with 1907, In the teel trade especially, naturally raises tie level on which conditions must ow be Judged. A few weeks ago it ^as estimated that it will be the end i i?u ueiore iuii capacity would e engaged. Several things have Ince come In Bight to affect the prelctlon. If good crops are harvested his year, trade authorities now preIct that the first half of 1910 will ee a remarkable expansion in demand for Iron and steel, as compared rith the present situation, and they elieve sufficient business is at hand o keep eighty-five to ninety per cent. GOVERNMENT DETECTS I mmlgrants Are Coming Internal Reven Washington, D. C.?While Preslent Taft isn't bragging about it, two epartments, Treasury and Commerce .nd Labor, are pointing with pride to igns of the return of prosperity. Commerce and Labor has charge of he immigration work, and it is tated there that the first tangible vldence of panic was the departure if foreigners with the money that hey had earned in America. Now, he department announces, the lmmi;rants are coming back. Washingon has not yet the detailed figures rom the Immigration Commissioner it New York, but It has the assur ince that the tide has turned and ' Halms He Can Explode Magazines of Vessels 500 Miles Away. New Orleans, La.?That a wireless pera'.or In a station five hundred nlles away may explode magazines n battleships of any navy with the id of his invention, is the claim of L A. Folk, who has taken up the natter with the United States Government. Folk has been experimenting with rlreless telegraphy since Marconi iroved Its successful utility. He rouses to divulge details until the Govirnment sets on the proposition. 7 ?;, V - '"' ' , " ' KE THESE JOT BIDES. ^lIsC^T X. A. Rogers, in the New York Hoi a d. i OF TRADE AND INDUSTRY ? Show the Turning Rolrat lded Increase Shown In Electric SuoDlles. "Representatives of the Pennsylvania Steel Company and the Cambria Steel Company report a satisfactory increase in business. "The Allls-Chalmers Company reports improving business. "Westlnghouse representatives report more men at work than at any time since the panic. "The American Steel and Wire Company states that record breaking orders have been received over the last two weeks. At times they have run as high as 20,000 tons in a single day. "The United States Rubber Company reports that sufficient business is on the books to assure steady operations for the rest of the year. "Representatives of the American Cotton Oil Company and the Chemical and Fertilizers companies report prosperous conditions. "Representatives of the Amalgamated Copper Company report large sales of copper at advancing prices and a heavy shrinkage in stocks. "The International Harvester Company is doing a normal business. "The Leather companies show satisfactory gains in business. "It is evident from the above that the turning point for the better, so far as industrial conditions are concerned, has been reached and passed." OSPERITY YEAR. ager Says the Outlook ^fs imising. day advertising for a year's supply of a certain class of goods. On the other hand, the manufacturers are not anxious tn k) P-n rnrtrorlc o Inno ? - ? ?? ivuB ahead. They are expecting a rise in prices and are unwilling to bind themselves down. Business Is Just waiting for buyers and sellers to get together, and when that has been accomplished prosperity will be back. "Of course the manufacturers are hanging back to see what the tariff will be. It does not matter so much whether It Is the Payne bill or the Aldrich bill. Once the question is settled business will accommodate itself to the new rates. "I don't see why we should not have good crops. All the reports of winter wheat are good, and although In some parts of the Northwest spring Bowing has been delaved by cold, there is still time to make it up. Anyhow, with the prices of cereals what they are. there Is sure to be an in? crease in the acreage sown." -ULL RECOVERY. the Progress o* Trade 1 val. of the capacity of the country In operation. As compared with 1906 and 1907, this would be equivalent to about 100 per cent. One thing that must be reckoned with next year, providing the tariff is n.;i revised to the liking of the country, is the Congressional elections. The sneechea mnrfe Kv tors Cummings, Dolllver, Brlstow and others have been overlooked as pos- j slble factors In the near future. A Democratic House of Representative* elected next year, and convening In December, 1911, might affect business conditions considerably. Farsighted manufacturers desire that the question be settled definitely, even If they must give up a larger proportion of their protection than was anticipated. RETURN OF PROSPERITY Back and Customs and ue Increasing. that the immigrant station at Ellis Island again Is the busy place that It always Is in prosperous times. At the Treasury Department the first Indication that the American people were becoming hard up was in the falling off In Internal revenue receipts and in receipts from the customs. These two failures in the great revenue raising means of the Government accounted for the tremendous deficiency that promises to confront Uncle Sam at the end of the uwni jeiir, June JU. With increasing receipts and decreasing deficit the Treasury Department is optimistic. Biggest Room Ever Expected as Boon as Tariff Rill is Signed. Cincinnati, Ohio.?Frank A. Vanderlip, president of the National City Bank, of New York, said at a dinner given here to financiers from the East who have been inspecting the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, and the Commercial Club of this city, that this country was on the verge of the greatest industrial boom it has ever known. He sal'l *>?? w *-* - wwviu would start the minute that President Taf* signed the new tariff schedule/' M'.SiA. jt. iui . ?\ ' . ? dt A .. * ?' ff1' ' ' V ?; . ' 5m Linbau-Scftoc INTERNATIONAL ?.WW?ON < MENTS FOR MAY 80. Subject: Relieving and Doing, J 2:14:20?Golden Text: J 2:20?Commit Verse 20? in e n tar y. TIME.?A. D. 60. PLACE.? salem. EXPOSITION. ? I. Living and Dead Faith, 14-10. There profit in a man's saying that hi faith unless he proves it by such duct as necessarily results from ] faith. Real faith is not mere opi it is not mere belief of the truth, faith, the faith that saves, is faith (Rom. 10:9, 10), faith governs our thoughts, our fee our choices and our conduct, that leads to action along the 11 that which we believe. The which a man says that he hai which does not prove itself by w "that" faith (v. 14 R. V.) o save a man. We are saved by but we are saved by real faith. " is the assurance of things hoped mnrlrtlnn nf thin nnt rppti *# I 11:1, A. R. V.). The found upon which this assurance of t hoped for rests is God's Word, reality of the faith shows itse conduct along the line of that > is believed (Heb. 11:7, 17-19 30). This is not only the do< that the Holy Spirit teaches thi James, but it is also the doctrine He teaches through Paul (Gal. 1 Cor. 16:22; 1 Thess. 1:3; Tl 16; 3:8). There were thos James' day who were abusing doctrine of salvation by faith. Interpreted faith as merely mei theological opinion and they holding that whoever held the theological opinion was thereby i irrespective of his conduct. The that tells a needy man to depa peace without giving him whs needs for his comfort is a sham a dead love (v. 16; cf. Matt. 1 16: 25:42-45; Rom. 12:9; 1 Jol 16-18), and Just so the faith does not lead to action is a faith?a dead faith. There 16 m nor profit in the one nor in the c A man may be a true Christian be destitute of the necessities o (v. 15; Heb. 11:37). Their nec< Is a call to us to prove our fail ministering to it. Obedience to is the only real proof of faith Heh. 11:3, 7, 8. 17, 24. 25. 30). faith is the migtlest thing the among men (Heb. 11:33, 38): faith is a disgusting corpse. D< merely say you have faith, pro by your conduct (cf. Tit. 2:7, l: 1 Tim. 1:5; Matt. 7:17; 2 Cor. I 7:1). It is well to believe the t but merely believing the truth I the head alone will not save a m IT. How Abraham and Rahab Justified. 20-26. Paul appeals t Old Testament Scriptures to ] that a man is Justified by faith i apart from the works of the (Rom. 4:1-12; cf. 3:28,R.V.). J emphasizes the other side of truth, that the faith that leads tc tiflcation is a faith that proves by works. We are Justified by without works, but we are not ; fled by a faith that is without w The faith which God sees and which He Justifies a man leads ir ably to works which men can God saw the faith of Abraham counted it to him for righteotn (Gen. 15:6; Rom. 4:3-6, 10. 11 24; Gal. 3-6), but the faith God was real and led Abraham to w j that all could see and which pi i his faith. The proof to us oi faith is works, and we know thi who does not work has no Justi: faith. There is no contradictioi tveen Paul and James. They f for opposite sides of the same t Abraham proved his faith by < what God bade him do, even U extent of laying his son, his only upon the altar. We must not lose sight of the i which Paul emphasizes against 1 ism on the one side?that we ar? tilled on the simple condition real faith in Christ; and we mus lose sight of the truth which J emphasizes against antl-nominla on the other side?that It is onl; faith that proves its genuinenei works that Justifies. To the lej who is seeking to do somethlc merit salvation we must say, ' working and believe on Him thai tlfieth the ungodly" (Rom. 4:5), the antl-nominlan who is boa that he has faith and is justified but who does not show his fait his works we must say, "What it profit if a man say he harth 1 but have not works, can that save him?" (.Tames 2:14, R. We are Justified by faith alone we are Justified by that faith i i that works (cf. Matt. 12:37; 21 (40). Real faith stops at no sac ( . 21). Abraham's real faith, x J stopped at no sacrifice, won hln highest title ever bestowed up man. "The Friend of God" (2 CI 20:7; Is. 41:8). We may all the same title (John 15:13 There will be at least one fo harlot in heaven?Rahab. We the Word of God for it that si justified. She became the anees of our Lord (Matt. 1:5). And t< publicans and harlots are enti the kingdom before the Phar (Matt. 21:31). Of all the peopl ing in Jericho the only name tba come down to this present day is of a harlot. Others perished, bu perished not. She was saved faith that led to works ( . 25 Heb. 11:81). ^hts government cannot affo srffer toy comparison with ot^er perves the Utlca Press. Not sh-uld official residences abrot p-ovided, but the salaries shou advanced very i materially, "it not to be true that this republl have the services of those onl> are rich and willing to pay hand >y out of their own pockets fo { distinction of being Ambassndc J foreign courts. There is no ne it and there is no sense In it I The English Thank Yr-_ 3 The expression "thank you" ie I much more current in England than if I in America. It is also used with 'I I much wider significance, often as the ?J equivalent of "I beg your pardon." For instance, an English person passing before another or perhaps jostling DOM- one or even treading on his foot will say in apology "Thank you." "VA ben it thunders the thief becomes Tames hcrust.?Dutch. Tames Z\ AFTER 3 SIlflFFRINfi -r? ^ wm >' y { i . ;,A living I ONE YEAR faith faith Cured by ? ydi sorbku8* ham'sVeg< : a h ' -:; < innot Milwaukee, Wis. ? "Lydia E. Pint faith. ham's Vegetable Compound has made Faith me a we^ woman, [Heb. tell the whole world hlngs from female trouble Th? and fearful pains in If by ijXHKti |nl my back. I had the M best doctors and itrine thaC I had a tumor 'ough in addition to my ?that ^ female trouble, ana 5: G; I TanH ?Perae In Piukham s Vegetable Compound made j the me a well woman and I have no more They backache. I hope I can help others by ining telling them what Lydia E. Pinkham's were Vegetable Compound has done for right me. ?Mrs. Emma Imse, 838 First St, saved Milwaukee, Wis. i love The above is only one of the thonrt in sands of grateful letters which are it he constantly being received by the love, Pinkham Medicine Company of Lvnn, 4:15, Mass., which prove beyond a doubt that in 3: Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Comthat pound, made from roots and herbs, Bham actually does cure these obstinate dls 0 mo *nisea oi women aiter an oiner means >ther. have failed, and that every such suf. 1 and ering woman owes it to herself to at f life least give Lydia E. Pinkhaiu's Vegetaisslty ble Compound a trial before submitJi by ting to an operation, or giving up God hope of recovery. (cf. Mrs. Pinkham, of Lynn, Mass., Real invitee all sick women to write re Is her for ad vice. She has guided dead thousands to health and her 3 not adrlce is free. ^uh 1T1EACHER8: Write for free book let, "A Plan" Willi JL showing how we help you secure a better an. position. Thousands excellent vacancies open were paying $30-1150 monthly. Schools supplied with a teachers. Ours the largest Southern Agency. ? "i? Southxbw TmacRBBd' Aoskot. Columbla.8. C. ?rove i i ilone What you do for an ungrateful law man is thrown awav.?Latin, ames ; the Dr. Blggart Huckleberry Cordial ? Jus- Cores Children Teething, Diarrhoea, DyjItself ntery, Choieramorbus and Fun, all Stomfoitb sob and Bowel Troubles. At Drugijis.s |ustj and 60o per bottle. orks. He that courts injury will obtain upon it.?Danish. So. 22*'09. levit_eR Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Dyrup for Children teething, softensthe gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind oolic, 25c. a bottle. sness 22, Injurious is the gift that takes I saw away freedom.?Italian. 70rk8 for HKADACHK?Hlrk?' CA PUBINK "Oved Whether from Colds. Heat, Storaach or ! th?) Nervous Troubles. Capudlne will relieve you. ?t ho It's liquid?pleasant to take?acts immetli: , ately. Try It. 10c.. Me. ?0c. at drug rymg martm. e*ai- ? s JusUkodByTbm SE Wbofe Famify y tho ?. . 38 by You wul never be disapi'sc1 'to pointed if you use LM/l 'Stop PMtimm and Oamd#1 men f e on your table, stint; Libby's bare die right taste, which- is always uniform, doth and you can depend upon faith, Libby's as being absolutafr faith ? V V ) . pure. 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