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?AISING HORSES FOR PROFIT 2very Available Sound Mare Should Ba Bred to Meet the Demand Caused by European War. Ever since the first days of bicycles some have thought that the breeding of horses would become unprofitable. Meanwhile the horse has kept its place among domestic animals and we now have more than ever before. With the European war on us and so many horses being killed in battle the near future probably wm see a greater demand for horses than at any time to the last century. i It is not advisable to breed a mare having serious defects, but every sound mare available should be bred to a* stallion to produce stock to sup ply the coming demand. Don't think you are economizing to breed to some Excellent Farm Type. defective or disreputable stallion rath er than pay a little higher price for the service of a good one. I Two years ago a fanner who had two mares of equal value bred one to M low-grade horse, the other to a jgood one. The celts had the same treatment in every respect. At wean ing time he refused $100 for the bet ter colt and could not find a buyer at $50 tor the other. This demonstrates tts benefit of breeding from the best Jt takes no more to raise a good ani sas! tl an a scrub, and the selling price 6s gen erally twice as much or more, ?ad a bayer is much easier found. ?00D MATERIAL FOR GROWTH Alfalfii? Either In Oreen State or as Hay, ls One of the Best Feeds for ! the Young Pigs. The pig which does not grow, but jnerely gets fat is likely to die of **thumps." Corn makes fat The small grams are richer in the things that make the bone and muscle need led If the pig is to grow. Two parts -cf shorts to one of corn is a growth Cation rather than a fat ration. " Skim milk furnishes a good material tor growth If fed with a little corn. -*When the shoats reach the weights of abouts 76 pounds, the feed may be ?nade of one part of tankage to ten Tuarts of corn, or ons of the small grains. Small grains: should be ground 0t crushed. ? Alfalfa, either in the green state or isa hay, is one of the best of feeds for tho young pig. It feeds the bones and arr?seles, but should have corn to ren der it complete. These ideas have Swen found correct by the Nebraska station. Those who have not the al falfa may grow rape as a growth crop. St ts equal to alfalfa in materials for 5>ono and muscle. Pigs Need Protein. Growing pigs need more protein than.they can get from corn and pas lure. .Skim milk is fine for them and mo ls meat meal or tankage. In the -writer's experience there ls no better thing for growing pigs on pasture, that are getting some corn, than a 'slop jnade of shorts with a little tankage added. It sure helps a pig to make a hog of himself In quick time. Keep the Colt Sleek. A few minutes every day with brush and comb would keep the colt sleek. It is when we let this work slip by that Ve have to turn the little fellow out and leave him tb get rid of dust and dirt Breed to Pure-Bred Stock. If everybody Insisted that they must breed their mares to pure-bred stock, lt would not be long before scrub stal lions would be scarcer than hen's teeth. Vacation From the Arduous Duty of the Pulpit ls an Imper ative Need. . Upon the advent of the clergymen's vacation season it is timely to call to their attention the disuse into which nature themes for pulpit em ployment have fallen during the past few years. A decade ago the minister went upon his vacation prompted hy , that hunger and thirst after the sweet and quiet meditations of nature places that has always been the source of tratst Idealizing in pulpit deliver ances. Today the field of social reform and the kinds of service that find ex pression in organized form and by in sistent appeals, have quite supplanted the green pastures and the still wa ters. The Sons of Boanerges have taken the place of the shepherd singer of Israel. The Interpreter of the lilies, the divine advocate of beauty in na ture forms has been set aside by the wielder of the whip of small cords. The woman sweeping her house for the piece of silver has usurped the place ra the pulpit of seeker after the lost sheep. Matching metal against metal, the pulpit sounds at times like a boiler factory by reason of the tap ping of t?ie hammers of denunciation upon the bessemerized materialism of the day. One feels like taking np the longing of the psalmist for a lodge in some vast wilderness. When will the men who regard themselves as having a mission to manifest their superficial ingenuity in dealing with the passing fashions of the times give place to the men of lesser public mold but of vaster sympathies and basic intelli gence, who would lead the wearied hosts of the daily battle for bread out Into the mount of refreshment where the Master is declaring that men shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. When will they turn again to the construction of the Scriptures and extol such provision as that which points to the young lions lacking and suffering hunger in contrast with the provident care of God, which gives as surance that they that trust him shall not lack any good thing. When will they lead their flocks in the shepherd ed ways of meditation upon the things ot nature, pointing to the cattle upon the thousand hills to declare unto the poor In this world's goods that these are all possessions of their heavenly father? Majettlo Nature. Row wonderfully placid is nature! How marvelously serene its represen tations, how beneficent its changing moods; what contrast and light and uplift com?? from meditation upon this age-old book that has been the source of all true devotion; of all wor thy idealisation, of all responses to the true things of melody, of all creative faculty for art depiction, of all the true science of gracious and good living. Nature echoes the voice of its Maker, who says he will keep in perfect peace all whose minds are stayed upon him. Where will the ministers go upon their vacations? Some will go where the newer laws of social regeneration are being declared in assemblies for study and for instruction. Others will go where the masses of men teem in the thronged places of recreation re sort, in order to see how their fellows deport themselves and to observe the glaring contrasts in human condi tions; yet others will go to work amid the slums of congested cities; others again will enter the libraries and pur sue some favorite line of study, from which they hope to produce yet an other of the panacea books of the writ ing of which there is no end and the reading of which brings weariness to the flesh. Getting Back to Real Things. Happy the true scholar, the real idealist, the wide-visioned pastor, the man who looks beyond the murk of the day and who sees the clear Shin ing of God in the smiling beauty of an orchid. Blessed that clergyman who learns new litanies from the brook and new offices from tho interlaced and waving branches of the trees; thrice blessed ls that leader of a well instructed congregation who claims nature unsullied as his companion and who seeks in vacation absorption, gar nished with a few suitable booka, and perhaps a rod and Hne, the communion with nature that alone can bring clari fication of view, enrichment of nature and serenity in all times of pressure from the little things -of living. Let the clergymen get back to nature and let them bring nature back into the pulpit Living In God. Childlikeness, in its Scriptural sense, is a perfectness of trust, a resting in a Father's love, a being oorne on in its power, living in it it means a simplicity which resolves all into the one idea of lowly submis siveness to one in whom it lives; a buoyancy of spirit, which is a foun tain of joy in itself, always ready to spring forth afresh brightly and hap pily to meet the claims of the pres ent hour, not looking lingeringly back to the past, nor making plans inde pendently, as of oneself, for tho fu ture; a resting contentment in one's lot, whatever that lot may be; a singleness of intention; a pliancy, a yielding of the will,' a forgetfulness of self in another's claims. To be thus childlike in the pure sense of such on ideal, is to be living in God, as one's Father, one's Preserver, one's Guide, felt to be a perpetual Presence and Providence.-Carter. Southern Railway Premier Carrier of the South Schedule effective April 18, 1915. 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