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"Ducklings." (By TOA M. SHEPLER.) It is odd the strange markings we get when crossing most of the varie ties of fowls known. Crossing the male of one breed with the hens of another will in every instance I have known, produce a differently marked chick from that of the chicks pro duced by crossing the hens of the first breed with males of the second. For instance, crossing a Barred Rock male with hens of a certain game breed, you get all Barred chicks, but cross the rooster of the game breed to Barred Rock hens, and you get all black. Sometimes In crossing one of our other common breeds with that of another will produce penciled fowls if the rooster of the first breed is mated with second, and spotted roos ter of second breed is mated with hens of the first. Not only this, but the shape of the first may be bulky, while that of the second is long and gangly. Ducks, too, show strange markings when crossed, sometimes the cross looking exactly as 6cme of our oddly marked ducks that, as far as we know, do not enter at all into the past breeding: of either cross, ace, in mating a black topped knot jster with a white hen, breed of ich then unknown to me, I produced white fowl showing but one black pot, the top knot eliminated. I used >nese chicks, mate and female, and interbred them. Result, always a white chick with a black spot some where on its coat-nevei twice In the same place. Some people would like to line ihreed, but scarcely knew how to be gin. Line breeding proper is simply .started with, say, a finely marked hen of the standard breed required, and a male of same requirement, neither in any way related. Both picked from vigorous flocks. In sec ond year, the pullets of this mating are bred b-.ck te their sire, and the j best marked and nearest to the stand j ard cockerel, back to the mother. This should be kept up until the fourth year, each year, breeding back the last year stock selected as your breed ers to this first pair-should they live so long, and usually they will if cared for right. After the fourth year you have now two distinct lines from which you can select your breeders at will, keeping, of course, the breed ers well marked BO that you may as far out as far as possible to in the relationship. This is for small yards. Should the farmer start line breeding, with plenty of room at his command for separate pens and yards, he can start in with from five to ten hens and males as a beginning. From the breeding stock hatched in this graded flock he should make a specialty of breeding stock of both sexes for sale. Protelna. which is a product of soy beans, is now taking the place of meat in many western poultry yards. Soy beans are rich in protein. Peo ple often ask what are the meat foods ut ed in the poultry business. How mt h must I feed them, and how often? Well, there are meat scraps, which may be flesh or liver boiled, and cut iu small bits. Some of lt is horse meat, some the bits of meat left about any beef shop, pork, beef, mutton. Some of lt again is the re fuse of chickens about the poultry killing houses. Next is meat meal dried blood, dried fish, fresh cut bone skim and buttermilk. Meat scraps contain highest per cent, of protein Some poultry keepers feed the animal foods, unless it may be milk, but three times a week, giving each fow two tablespoonfuls at a meal. Others give this amount, or half of it, every day in the mash. Milk can safely be fed every day. Some poultry keep ers, going in heavily for winter eggs, keep meat scrap in hoppers alwaya before the hens. NOTES ON PRACTICAL FARM MANAGEMENT. Corn Left In the Shock. (By W. MILTON KELLY.) My experience with handling corn fodder during the past ten years has convinced me that the husker and shredder is a very valuable tool on all dairy farms where more corn fodder is raised than can be preserved in the silo, or, on farms where there ls no silo. The value of good shredded stover will compare favorably with timothy hay, and the various experimental farms report very satisfactory results while feeding it to young stock, beef (cattle, sheep and horses. Many farmers have made a failure ?of keeping the shredded fodder In good condition tor feeding, while oth ers seem to have no difficulty In keep ing lt for weeks, when they can faed lt out. Some claim that it will keep nicely by running it In the mow with a layer of straw and then a layer of fodder, gradually filling the mow with the mixture. We have found lt rather an uncer tain feed to keep, and after trying every method that we could think of we now make a practice of shredding the fodder and then running lt through the ensilage cutter into the silo and keep well wet down and packed, and find that the cows like it about as well as they do the ensilage put up In the ordinary manner. When this method ls to be practiced it is best to leave some of the best eared corn in the shock until the silos have settled und the top ensilage fed off, and then refill them In November with the shredded stover. 3ough treatment invariably makes a jxnean disposltioned horse. . . . That food that contains the most of (Constituents of bone and muscle is the ?best food for raising colts. . . . Sweet clover ls not a rival of red dover or alfalfa, and ls not needed where these plants do well. . oe Cc a acre of alfalfa will furnish ,-iJro forage for hogs than two acres id clo- er, as lt grows faster and keeps Ba gi wins as fast as the hogs tat lt Im. e . . Fresh sir and sunshine are Important as well as food. Hens kept In a close, stuffy house without sufficient air and sunshine never lay the maximum num ber of eggs. True economy in farm matters ls a wise use of resources. . . . The farmer who breeds up a good herd of dual-purpose cattle ia going to be at the front of the row Borne day. eec All who have never tried lt are ab solutely sure they could make a big success of raising chickens, and do it easy. . e e If the roof of the sheep barn leaks better fix it up now before the snow comes. Sheep will not thrive on mud dy floors. se? A dog and a cow seldom agree, so never give them a chance to disagree. Keep the dogs and cows away from each other. see Ditches dug around the hardy plants in the yard, to carry off the water, will often save their lives. Plants can stand a good deal of abuse, but If com pelled to remain In Ice very long, are opt to succumb. WRAPS FOR EVENING - INFINITE VARIETY FROM WHICH TO CHOOSE. Both In Material and Design the Choice ls Left to the Individual Desire-Fine One In Plain and Brocaded Velour. Certainly no one will have any cause to complain of any lack of va riety in evening wrap3 this winter, writes Lillian Young in the Washing ton Star. They are as original and show as much individuality as the gowns, which ia saying a great deal. There is no restriction as to material and, as to design, the three-quarter and full length effects are about equal ly popular. The shorter hip length models, while still in vogue, have been aban doned for winter wear, though lt is predicted by authorities that Dame Fashion will pick up the thread of their existence and make them popu lar again next spring. The smart and serviceable wrap sketched herewith showB the unabat ed favor accorded the use of differ ent materials in one design. In most of the latest wraps such combinations are decidedly in evidence, not only in varying weaves, but in contrasting colors. The model under discussion will serve as a dressy street wrap and as nn evening wrap, and will work out well in almost any color scheme. In this particular instance black brocad ed velour and plain black velour are combined with cuffs and neck facing of white moufflon or fox. The upper part of brocade has wide sleeves cut in one with the body, and the cut-away effect of the front ls the result of the method in which the plain velour lower portion of the wrap ls attached. This ls brought up to the bust Une in a diagonal line from the waist at either side, and from there lt rounds away across the back on a level with the hips. Each front section ls laid In three even plaits caught under the fur col* ! lar and hang from there in gracefully draped folds to the knees. The lower edge must be close flt Serviceable Wrap In Plain and Bro caded Velour. ting. This ls regulated by the front drapery at the line of closing. Special attention is given to linings. They can be as elaborate as personal taste dictates, In evening shades to match one's gown or in a color that corresponds to the wrap itself. Colored Hose Best Colored stockings with buttoned boots are the autumn's fancy, and many women find colored hose much better for the fee* than black hose.1 In these days of narrow skirts the stocking, even above the buttoned boot top, is much in evidence, for lt ls impossible to raise the skirt In crossing a street, or sit on a low chair without showing a little at least of the limb above the boot top. Silver gray and smoke gray silk stockings are in favor also, and certain shades of deep, rich red. Few women wear blue stockings, and green stockings are a little too pronounced in hue to be popular with any but those who go In for extremes. With the dressy eve ning boot of patent leather, with high French heel and buttoned top of kid, flesh-colored stockings or those of pal est buff are fancied. Beauty Veils. The latest half concealing, half re vealing veil is of very pale flesh pink tulle that ls traced over with fina black silk in a sort of shadowy design. French women are charmed with these veils, and, indeed, they are becoming? as they lend a sort of delicate pinkish glow to the skin and make the eyes look large and dark. Nervous? Mrs. Walter Vincent Of Pleasant Hill, N. C., writes: "For three sum mers, I suffered from nervousness, dreadful pains in my back and sides, and weak sinking spells. Three bottles of Cardui, the woman's tonic, relieved me entire ly. I feel like another person, now." TAKE The Woman's Tonic for over 50 years, Cardui has been helping to relieve women's un necessary pains and building weak women up to health and strength. It will do the same for you, If given a fair trial. So, don't wait, but begin taking Cardui today, for its use cannot harm you, and should surely do you good. E-72 INO DISEASE "After four in our family had died i of consumption I waa taken with a frightful cough and lung trouble, but my life was saved ana I gained 87 pounds through using DR. KING'S DISCOVERY W. R. Patterson, Wellington, Tex. 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SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY Don't Read If not interested. But you are obliged to be interested where mon ey is to be saved in the purchase of necessities of life both for y our self and livestock We are now in our warehouse, corner of Fenwick and Cumming streets, two blocks from the Union Passenger Station where we have the most modern warehouse in Augusta with Moer space of 24,800 squa.e feet ard it is literally packed with Groceries and feeds from ce.lar to roof. Our stock must be seen to be appre ciated. Our expenses are at least $450.00 a month less since discon tinuing our store at 863 Broad street, and as goods are unloaded from cars to wareheuse, we are in a position to name very close \ pnces If you really want the worth of your money see or write us ARRI!HGTO!\ BROS. & CO. Augusta, Ga. Farm Land-Bargains 50,000 acres of improved and unimproved land* at piices that will sell iem. These lands are situated in *W ire-Mms- Meortria" the beal farm a wet ion in the suie. No terracing and in? 'nitration. 202^ aere*, 65 under cultivation, 85 acre" fenced, mostly wire, 55 eared, not broke Near three churches, gund school; or, one public ad and nearing ?Hollier. (-rood 4-rmun frame h-?u**, two fire plac ? s, .od barn and good well. IU miles* to two good markets Rents for Huu cash per year. ?Viii sell for 415 per acre f.ish 175 acr- s, one and one half mile- from Lumber Oitv, Ga.; 90 acres eared, stumped ai'd under cultivation; extra goi d 4-room house, tw?i e place?; if? ?od bim; irood well ilso ? pring mi pl ice 130 pecan cre?-n ree years o d and all under good Wire fence. KW quick sale will take Lb |ier acre. rhese lands have i/ood ol ty sub-soil and *e have a number of otheis liiih we can not de-cibe in ihM spice II' liiere do not xu it yon lei ll s .ar from you and *e will give you further information If not as rep .>ented will i?ty ,v??ur railroad lare. A. J. 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