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" BOLL ASSOCIATION
Ecw They Work . Out in
Vr:,ctlcc.?Helpful to Large
zz Well as Small Breeder!.
Clcassa College, April M.?More
f rtl thA r?rw
u w ?U?<iC uo uomiiwvM vo w
.. ir..tive bull associations Is recogr
zed as time goes oo and lis ben?!.
.? u> tie dairy Industry hare a
* sri.iice to become evident. The full
r.-3uli3 that can be obtained from
tuch an association obviously can aot
u.<I>e.ir for several years. It is evi'
L.rr.t therefore that since the "bull asejetetions
are of only recent beginLl_:g,
the benefits so far obtained are
only t^o foreshadowing of greater
things to come.
The co-operative bull association
has been carefully planned to enable
a number of small dairymen and farmers
who individually could not afford
good bulla, to oomblne their resources
and fcuy a few really good
dairy airefc. For example, suppose
tmi* JirrriflM each have $100 to invest
In a bull. They are bo situated that
they can all use th? game hull. The
association makes it possible for them
to $ofl their resources and buy on?
|4M bull, presumably tour times as
I food as nay <oee et the (our $160 animal*
that they eould buy individually.
It hi fratifyiai to eee that this theory
l? working oat In practioe so well that
K applies uet only to the dairymen
with |100 available Cor to vestment in
a bull but ofually well to the one
with only 910, er on the other hand
It the eoe with $600.
lavM the Qoed Bulla
It* money advaatace to the first
which attracts the fanner's atleMtofi
te the bull association, but by
Aar the greatest advantage at the orgealnsrtl?
is the exchange of bulls
* iwry twe years by means e< which
wattaaod use of bulls een be had un01
their value to proved. 'Statistical
rures todteete the* buHs owned by
ladividnato are used ealy te aa average
age e< abeut three yaw. At this
at* H to toipoeslMe te have aay production
veoorde ef the offspring:,
tmt of a sire's
vaiae. 1?MM of thla shert Mfe of
ttw bull ft happen* orer aad orer
agala that dairy farmer* ten dleeorered,
attar tha daughters had flnlahed
a reeord, tha wceftlonal yrayoteot
gaalitlea of tfeelr alra;, and
Ihea, cm looking aromd for that aire,
lava nada aaother dlacorerr, a aad
oae, that tha aearch taa tattle, for
the alra had fooe to the fcoMhee.
Beneficial ta Family dew Owners
Th* areraire herd af all the saem
I ' bM ef fee? aaeoeiattaoe cohMi of
is emurr Inaaameh u ?bere , are
naany beHU with tea ar a Iwe nwi,
4 II faBewa that there past Ha a great
amtar of herds with lew than sis
ee-we each, la fact, town people wnitng
famUr town are aftea nambara.
payiag feelr ihare or aaaeaftueat af
tra, tan, or whatever number of foliar*
! reqaired for aaoh ?ow; aad
for thte TMiynaot they have the ?ea of
all the bulla hi th? auoAMta. ifcuc
a family eom owner may far a fit in
TMUaiDI UT1 I or r jmivu w i? j-??i o
th? use of suck bulla aa frss8y as
tfeOUffe ha Owned tk?QB hlmMtf.
Leatfa t? Keeping Pvrsbrarf Cmm.
The claim la made la behalf af the
bull aasociatltfD as aa tint
H opens up aa opportunity far t*v?
small dairyman to da pusa bvaatfng.
The flguraa tatfiefed ia tha 1MI directory
of bull associations ahoar that
h while the number of organisations,
the number of members, eto., hare
Increased leas than 77 per c?t as
ompared with 1911, tha Increase in
number of purebred cows owned by
members went up Z4U per com. rcuw^
tag plainly that the bull association
does help the small breeder to do
pure breeding.
Ne Chance ef Loss.
We hare still to get the first report
from a farmer to the effect that
lie has lost money on his investment
in a co-operative bull association, says
J. P. LaMaster, Extension Service
dairy hnafcandman. Ttoe greatest loes
that oftn be sustained from ft Alsband
*4 association Is that the wrong imwhich
the semiminKy and
otttr coacnuBitiM may receive may
prevent them from orxmalslag other
aasooiaMons of the itnie kM. For
1Mb r?uoB, we in anxious to see all
aaaootatlons erg&nised on the right
bad* aad properly lookad altar, ao
that aoaa ef them will <H?kand. upfeetlens
far Svcetss.
t Tfce principal potats ta keep to
mtBd far building a successful aaeoeietoc
ara as foUawa:
r 1. Hare the Mocks well organised,
principally with refsreaee ta satlafactory
looatloa of members and vvhe
flaea la keep the boll.
2. Rare the association well organized,
with carofally seleotad offion
a of whom 4s the
secretary. The secretary Is the Hfe
of the association. Ha should b? a
dairyman interested In the breed selected
and In breeding generally, and
? man with good buatneee idoa*.
3. Buy the beet bull* porslble with
the available money.
4. Provide a good place for the
bull, stad keep hla properly.
I. Hold at least two meetings a
few, the regular annual business
meeting aad the anneal ptcnta.
0. Cooperate in all this whh the
eotmty agent ani the stat? specialist
in bull association werfc, aad you will
have an organization that will exert
o tremendous influence for the fanprerement
of livestock in your oeoinunity,
far-reaehing in its beaeite.
\
FARMERS GET ONLY $5.85
FOR WOOL IN $75 SUIT
, *
Sheep raisers in Indiana are r.ot
responsible for the high cost of clothing,.
according to Claude Harper,
Purdue University sheep specialist,
and also secretary of the Indiana
Sheep Breeders and Feeders Association,
who had just issued a statement
to the effect that the farmer
receives only $5.85 for enough wool
to make a suit for a man weighing
175 pounds.
" A man who weighs 175 pounds
requires three and one-half yards of
cloth for a suit, the weight of the
clothing being from ten to eighteen
ounces a yard," Mr. Harper says.
"The average medium weight wool
suit is made of goods weighing fourteen
ounces a yard. At three and |
one-ha-'f yards a suit, the cloth in the
entire suit weighs forty-nine ounces,
or a little more than three pounds.
In the manufacture of all-wool cloth
it requires one and three-fourths
pounds of scoured wool to produce a
puuuu VA V1VMII
' "Therefore,, considering waste in
manufacturing, it requires about
sixty-two ounces of scoured wool for
an average suit of cothes. Most of
the Indiana scoured wool is seling in
Boston from $1.25 to $1.44 a gound.
This wool scours around 50 per cent
of grease and dirt. At $1.44 a scoured
pound, this makes wool worth 9
cents an ounce. A? sixty-two ounces
are required for the entire suit, then
the cost of wool in the suit is $5.85.
Mr. Harper says that if a suit is
made of the very best grade of wool,
which is selling at about $1.90 a
scoured pound, then the wool in the
suit will cost $7.37. The cost of
shipping, commission, etc., he says,
is at least 5 cents a pound, which is
deducted from the producers' receipts.
These suits, he pointed out,
sell at retail all the way from $40 to
$75 and higher.?Indianapolis News.
DOING WITHOUT
Cannon Landbridge in the London
Daily News.
How things have changed! I re/nember
the day when observing a
crease in my coat, I turned into my
tailor's and ordered a new suit. Now,
for five years,I have lived, as a bear
on his fat on my husbanded resources.
If a pair of trousers showed
an undesirable roundness, I put them
between the mattresses of my bed. If
' ">y waistcoat were greasy, I rubbed
it with ammonia and water. If my
boots were down-at-the-heel, and
lumpy as an ancient pod of peas, I
put them int? the cobler's hands. I
became a connoisseur in patchtes?I,
who always preferred a jaunty hole
to the patient premeditation of a
seam.
Everybody, I suppose, has a few
old things lying about him, like roseleaves
in a garden bed. They are not
as old as they look. Old clothes can
learn a sprightliness unguessed if you
go the right way with them. They can
be refreshed like ancient pictures.
? ? ii ? J-1- _
Lake long lanes, mey nave meir
turnings. Like damaged young men
in elegant shops, they can acquire a
smile of artificial charm, and teach
their wool a second summer. They
can be turned out well-groomed
young fellows, in not too strong a
light.
Take your old things in rotation;
every time their turn comes round,
they will come up smiling. I have
kept my four suits marching round
?nd rnnnd. like a staee armv of
about the same number. Happily, I
have long preferred unobtrusive apparel;
you can't hide thunder and
lightning; carpet patterns will out.
But my symphonies and nocturnes in
gray were sweet, shy things, like
violets by a mossy stone. I find I
can subdue the shininess of a trouser-leg
by looking firmly into people's
eyes; it protects all but the very
crookiest knees. (If any faded
philosopher has found a way of
maintaining the level of his knees, I
wish he would tell me the trick.)
With collars I contrive a very successful
thrift. India-rubber and
bread crumbs are tine restorers, oe
sides, in this New-year light, a gentle
dubiousness passes as merely an autumnal
shadow. My unfortunate habit
of losing my right-hand glove has
been neutralized by carrying an odd
left glove in the covered hand.
One of the chief expenses of my
extravagant old days was the pui'chase
of books . Merely reading a
book is painful pleasure to me. I
want to read no others. If a book
isn'^ better than ever at its tenth
reading, it never was very good.
When I found that books were too
dear to buy, I fell back on the old
books that I had. I was amazed by
their number. All around me were
masterpieces that I knew hardly
I more than by sight. "Robinson Crusoe"
cariie upon me as a long-delayed
revelation, though I had loved him 1
since I was nine.
The richness of my dictionary al- |
meet overwhelmed me. Really, a |
good dictionary is reading for a life |
time. What surprises it holds? What |
l n-f wr>Tvls vnn Hnn't know: =
? J? -Ig
what hundreds you cannot spell!j|
How you grow into the intimacy of ^ |
speech; what relationships spring up; |
about you! When your dictionary j ?
begins to live, you almost feel lan-11
guage in the making.I think for a ?
few weeks of delicate browsing, I 1
shall pasture on my dictionary alone. I
A Bible, a Shakespeare, a diction- g
a?y, and a "Golden Treasury,",, and |
no man need be hungry. Upon my |
word, I have grown rich on having no j
money and no books'.
?
t It was rather a blow to me when I
felt "dryness" settling on my world.
I had always been a bad sleeper, and
without the kind persuasion of a
nightcap, sleep, I thought, would for
sake my pillow forever. With a grim
of fatalty that was not resigntion,7!
took my nightcap off. I was
thinking what a pity it was never to g
have a wink of sleep again, when I |
woke up after a very good night. My |
nightcap was a fool's-cap that wor- |
ried me with its jingling bells. I cast I
it off and felt my head calmer and 1
eooler.
Do you know, I think that "doing g
without" is rather a growing pleas- ?
ure.lt is more than not mitfing I
things. It is, attaining something be- |
yond; it is climing a hill into lighter
and purer air. It is a sense of the
spirit's being est man. Certain it is
that the more you do without, the
more you have. It is an earnest of
the keen and starry existence when
the body shall be outgrown, the
spirit, in exquisite self-sufficiency,
shall fill the whole beings needs. |
All the people who are learning to |
do without are becoming citizens of I
a new world larger, clearer, higher
than the old. Who ' could have
thought that such a radiant gift lay
clasped in the hateful hand of War?
EAT LESS MEAT 1
IF BACK HURTS
Tako a glass of Salts to fluh Kidneys
if Bladder bothen you?Drink
lots of water.
I
Eating meat regularly eventually pro- {
duces kidney trouble in some form or i
other, says a well-known authority, be-!
cause the uric acid in meat excites the
kidneys, thpy become overworked; pet:
sluggish; clog up and cause all sorts of;
distress, particularly backache and mis- j
ery in the kidney region; rheumatic twinges,
severe headaches, acid stomach, constipation,
torpid liver, sleeplessness,
bidder and urinary irritation.
j.ue moment your back hurts or kidneys
aren't acting right, or if bladder j
hplhers you, get about four ounces of j
Jad Salts from any good pharmacy; j
take a Itablespoonful in a glass of water I
before breakfast for a few days and your ! 1
kidneys will then act fine. This famous L|
salts is made from the acid of grapes j|
and lemon juice, combined with lithia, , |
and has been use*1 for generations to ! 1
flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them |
to normal activity; also to neutralize tne 11
acids in the urine so it no longer irri- | ?
tates, thus ending bladder disorders.
Jad Salts cannot injure anyone; l|
makes a delightful effervescent lithia- 11
water drink which millions of men and 11
on/1 fft IfAOn fhfl I i
vr vixJCTZZ wmi/ kx\j n nam?i>utu??uu
kidneys and urinary organs clean, thus 1
avoiding serious kidney disease.
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