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Agricultural Good New Year Resolutions For Any Farmer. 1 will have a money crop, but I will not go wild over any one taple. ] will as nearly as possible keep an accurate account of my receipts and my expenses. 1 will study the experiences of r>ther farmers and the counsel of agricultural scientists, and will profit by their labors. 1 will give my children the best educational advantages I can afford, and I will try to make that education bear directly on their lite work. 1 will try to get ray neighbors to start a movement- for better roads, and will see that our pre sent laws are more rigidly enforce J. if possible, 1 will organize S'?rae kind of farmers'club at my school house, so that the farmerp and their families may meet every two weeks for social and intellectual improvement. 1 will co operate with my brother farmerp as much as possible in the-purchase of supplies and in all other matters which reward united action. I will study the fertilizer oroblern, and see if 1 cannot expend my guano money more economically. I will look into the matter of improving my breeds of horses, tattle, hogs and poultry, and cooperate with my neighbors to this end. I will try to get the best mail service possible lor our rural districts. I will see if the town nearest me would not purchase certain supplies which I can raise, and pay me a larger prolit. than I get from staple crops. I will send for catalogues of farm advertisers, and make better tools and machinery do some ot the work that would otherwise require high priced labor. Seeing that my health ih my capital, 1 will look to its preservation by living temperately and according ta the common laws of health and not by dosing with patent nostrums whose ingredients I know nothing of. 1 will encourage the study of agriculture in the schools. Besides trying to have the best farm, I will try to have the hap - piest home in the neighborhood, nnd will try to get the help of to- wife and children to this end ertwill improve and beautify buildings and grounds. 8 'I get the best books and liifor my family to read. Make a short vacation ,i|fe after the crops are wtv to lighten the house .>11 as the farm wnrlr implements and ap'"d . ind I will have the lat , . >ply as convenient as red and H no? j0j. slick tongued ;IU,8 persuade me into buying ^ Tl^es 1 do not need, or into ^ th.'ying two prices for those I do need. J will not be humbugged into paying two prices for food for my stock merely because it is put up in gayly-colored packages and boosted with high-sounding testiTnonials. I will not waste money for finery, but 1 will not help the c>mio cartoonists by being orish or careless in my dress. Department. I will visit my neighbor and i try to make the community an ] attractive social center. 1 I will put my brain as well as ' mv muscle into everything that I 1 do. < Not only will 1 try to use the moBt progreppive farming method?, but I will hIro endeavor to i interest my farm laborers in 1 better methods by having them read good from literature. 1 will raise as many vegetables in the garden as the family can use, and thus save the buying of high-priced groceries. < I will take an interest in politics and will try to get my party to support the best men and the best policies, and I will not abuse those who difTer with me. I will get as many of my neighbors as I can to read the 1 farmers' bulletins and farm pa 1 pers po that they may co-operate with me in bringing about better 1 fiii-mincr methods. 1 will avoid debt as 1 would a pestilence. I will investigate tiie profits ray wife makes on poultry, and see if the industry could not be profitably extended. I will try to keep plenty of fruit, milk, and eggs, for family use and will enlarge my orchard. 1 1 will encourage the planting 1 of llowers about the house,' and every other reasonable effort to 1 make home beautiful. As the farm's best crop, after 1 all, is its crop of strong, sturdy ' men, and pure, sweet women, 1 1 will do all I can, both by precept * and example, to train my children for useful, happy lives. Lastly, I will not worry. If 1 an.t rv;1 ran be remedied, I will 1 remedy 11, iusi"c: no time in *or- ' rying; if it cannot be remedied, ' I will not make it doubtly 1 evil by worrying about it.?The Progressive Farmer. i j Poultry Management. , i The high price of poultry and eggs should induce the farmer to j provide better poultry houses ami give more attention to poultry on the farm as the farm conditions give far better results than the confines of restricted quarters. < Now we should cull our Hocks I and select our best pullets for 1 layers and breeders. "Pullets for profit should be 1 kept tame. Wild, scarey birds ! never amount to much, the egg j crop depends upon the amount of confidence and comfort, the i hen, old or young, possesses. Each must be active, made to take all the exercise possible. This advice has been given time and again, and quite as frequently neglected. The best exercise is a search tor food. If allowed o f -,w. ln.,,1 (\ i icq i (u.^; im ci ^noiuic ianut they will get down to solid work. But if compelled to yard them, all the grain must be scattered among some light litter, not a full allowance of feed at one time, but just sufficient to keep them at work. A semi hungry condition isthe best. Oar. owever, must be taken that they are not underfed, for that state would be as bad aR one of over feeding. r._ i i l i. 1 ror i inure layers seieci oniy the best developed birds and discard the runts. We do not believe in an egg type, but do pin our faith to size, vigor and 1 health. Pullets when selected 1 for future work ehoulc! be yard ?d alone. No males should be admitted until [ready for breeding, which wiii hardiy be before February or March. We believe in full development first, and prefer receiving no eggs at all uutil the body has matured. We believe, [in fact our experieuoe has proved, that such birds make our best and strongest winter layers. No female should be bred when under nine months of age. When nearing the laying stage, pulletH are apt. to overFatten, and for this reason we do not feed very much corn. A little cracked corn daily is beneficial, but it should not be more than one third the meal.?Live Stock Journal. Dairy Notes. Butter, if once allowed to thoroughly cool, cannot be made so thoroughly plastic as when completed at its first finish. Butter failing to come quickly is often due to a difference in temperature: using a good ther mo meter will avoid much un necessary trouble. One advantage with the sepura tor is, that it enables the dairyman to secure more cream from the milk and also more butter from the cieam. As "hay is made when the sun shines," so is money increased to that dairyman who managed so that, his cows yield milk abund untly when dairy prices are high. Some dairymen seem to forget that the amount of profit on a pound of butter often depends as much on reducing the cost of pro iuction as in obtaining an en tianced price. VV Kan Q r* r\ rr? i r> 1 11 full m 1 1 Lr n ml *? iicii n in in iiiii 111111% ctuvi Full flesh, she will give her normal quality of milk for at least a limited time even though the quality and quantity of food be ?ery deficient. The work of making butter is least when all the conditions for making the butter are just right. It is easier, therefore, to make stood butter than bad because liood butter is always produced when conditions are just right.? l^ive Stock Journal. Winter Quarters For Hogs. (Farm News ) You think of the hog as being covered with a two or three-inch layer of pure fat. You think of that fat as being a poor conductor of heat and cold, letting little body heat escape and letting little of the cold of the weather fet at the real hog. If you will stop to think you remember that hogs are a hot weather animal. All summer they spend much time in the sun, and in winter they pile up so as 4 i_ __ fin. r to Keep warm, nicy came irom the house or pen steaming in the cold air of winter. They shiver with the sudden chill. Somehow that fat does not act as a non con ductor. The hogs sweat in the dead of winter as they pile up in a cold place. i? .......1,1 a r ? i... it wwiijii HUM nuir rtt-oiii uu? ble that it would require more feed to keep hogs out in the cold than it would in a warm place. Experiment!! have ahown that a saving of about 25 per cent in the feed bill is made when hogs are sheltered so they are comfort able. It is better for the hogs to be warm all the time. They move about more and take needed ex ercise, and are less liable to catch cold when they do not get up a sweat, then go out in the cold to feed. A Slaugt In view of the fact that wc changes in our business on Ji make some special prices t following and compare with 2000 yards 10c Outing at 7 1 , r- r*AAA 1 /? . Iing at dc ; zuuu yarns oc uuij ette, all colors, 8 1-Cc ; nice 1 sale 50c ti e yard ; yd. wide T wear guaranteed, 98c; 52 in* per yard, for only 75c. We 1 Clothing and to beat the band, but we ar (previous records. $15.00 sui suits, this sale 0.0 >; 10.00 sui this sale 5.00 ; 5.00 suits, thi ter price in Overcoats. Ever advance in the leather marke but we continue to sell Shoes at 4 Should you need Undcnve; weather, see ours. Wright's best 50c knit Underwear 37c 22c. If your dollars are wor making your purchases. _;?r ^ Funderburl* 5 cents will buy either 4 < 10 cents bottle Machine Oil, a hundred other things we ca 1 Horses, Mu ^ Our Mr. Hood has just clos ^ loads of Mules and Horses ^ cars come here, one of horses m of it, 00 head to arrive in * wires they are the best we ft Some closely matched team? ? that weigh from 1100 to 125( 0 portunity to buy brood mare ^ finish and family broke. 1 Buggies, Two solid cars to arrive this ^ Wagons, IHave just closed a deal f( stacks of them on hand of all four horse with regular or br all. Those who do not feel a ^ vehicle can buy a second han J second hand buggies, carriag W we are going to sell regardles f Come anc ft for we are far ahead of ar m tVio Miceioei I ^ harness department. We mi J ness and have no competitior (== s Gregory-Hood iter Sale ; are going to make some inuary 1st, we are going to o cash buyers. Note the what you've been paying : L-2c ; 1000 yards 7 l-2c Out- * ghams at 5c ; best Flannelme of 75c waist Silks, this affeta 75c yard, best grade, L'li Broadcloth, worth $1.00 lave been selling i Overcoats ^ 1a 1 wnnLr oil C UCLC1 II111 ItU tv/ Mivtuv uu its, this sale 11.00; 12.50 ts, this sale 7.50; 7.50 suits, s sale 3.75. Same slaugh- J? ybody knows there is an ... JU* t of at least 25 per cent., Did Price ir for the cold December i Health Underwear S5c; ; good 35c knit Underwear th saving, see us before fours to serve, i ; Comp'y. 4 !akes good Laundry Soap, 8 balls Sewing Cotton, and r .n't mention here. I F. Co. ;ES! !'. les, Mules! | >ed another deal for six car ^ -180 head. Two of these ^ ; and one of mules. Think ? i few days, and Mr. Hood ? have bought this season, a ; of extra fine mare mules W ) each. This is a grand op- J s. Have some with extra ^ Buggies. I week, all kinds and styles. ft Wagons. 5 >r 100 more, and we have ft 1 sizes?one, two, three and ft oad tire. Come One, come ft ble or willing to buy a new ft d, as we have at least 100 ^ es and wagons on hand that J * >s of the price. Don't fail to W ' i See Us | iy retail stock and vehicle ft r>ni Por orMKnx M |/|Vi i IT v> > 1VV1 I^IULfCI UUI anufacture all of our har- J) l as sell. J Live Stock Co. ?*%%