The Dillon herald. (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, March 10, 1910, Image 2
Protection of Cows.
Far better to rig up a pine-brush
bed than to let the cows or calves
hirer during a bitter cold night in
the lea of an old straw stack. When
storms are brewing see that all the
stock is safe and warm. Then you
can go to bed sntisfied and sleep.
Either feed your stock well or sell it:
don't have anything lean, hungry,
cold and sore-eyed.?Farmers' Home
Journal.
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Sort Casing For Trees.
The landscape gardeners of one
of New York City's parkways have
devised an attractive way of protecting
the base cf tree-trunks by arranging
a square border of sod. two feet
wide, around each one of the trees
bordering the boulevard. In this way
the soil between the border and the
tree-trunk may always be kept loose,
allowing the moisture of rains to soak
into the ground and nourish the roots.
Were it not for this sod basin the
gravel path, coming close to the tree,
would, in time, become firmly trodden
down, causing the tree to suffer accordingly.
The idea is one that could be adopted
elsewhere to good advantage.
Harvesting Alfalfa.
The first point to accentuate as we
approach the subject of harvesting is
the pre-eminent value of the leaves.
These contain from seventy-five to
eighty per cent, of the protein of the
whole plant, that valuable rnmnminH
that goes to produce milk and meat.
It has been estimated that a ton of
properly cared alfalfa leaves is equal
in protein to 2S00 pounds of wheat
bran; and when it is also estimated
by careful observers that the loss of
leaves in harvestiug, even under
favoring circumstances, ranges from
fifteen to thirty or more per cent., it
is readily seen that the har esting is
an important part in alfalfa 1 ay-mak
ing.?From Coburn's "The Book of
Alfalfa."
Scientific Forestry.
A Consular report comes from Germany
which shows that scientific forestry
is a practical and money-making
proposition. It is stated that the German
Rmpire has nearly 35.000,000
acres of forests, of which forty per
cent, belongs to the State. German
forestry methods have resulted in
raisiug the average yield of wood per
aero from twenty-two cubic feet in
1 s30, to sixty-five cubic feet in 1904.
During the same period it has trebled
the proportion of the sawed timber
secured from the average cut. In
fifty-four years it increased the money
returned front an average acre of
forrsts sevenfold, yet to-day, the German
forests are in better condition |
than ever before.?Farmers' Home
Journal.
Feeding Frosted Corn.
Untimely severe frosts sometimes
damage the corn crop n that its marketable
value is considerably towered,
but in this event, as in other cases,
the hog comes to the rescue. Soft
corn is considered excellent for =n.in>i
and especially for the young: in fact,
many breeders believe they can obtain
better gains from soft corn than with
the sound, hard grain. In soft corn
the maturing of the grain has been
checked, thereby arresting the development
of t'rtb starch content or fatproducing
element. When used it is
advisable to add, for finishing, some
torn that is well matured. Immature
corn that is frozen and even somewhat
soured may be fed to hogs, but
if there is on hand a greater quantity
in that condition than can he used on
the farm before warm weather sets in
it should he disposed of while the
weather is cold. Ordinarily 'it may
be used in cold weather without danger,
but it should not be carried over
into the warm season, as it will ferment
and become unfit for use.?
From Ooburn's "Swine in America,"
V-.
^ Gold and Gilt.
Professor Fraser, of the Illinois1
Agricultural College, makes a plain
difference in "Gold" and "Gilt," the
names of two cows on the college
farm, lie says:
Th OH aior/. ~ '
. ?w ,.^,v uiuuf,nL u]> <111kp on a
farm near Elgin. III., and obtained
their early education in the game herd
of 100 cow;?. Here at the university,
with the very same surroundings and I
equal opportunities, they have drifted j
apert in character, and their progress
has been in opposite directions. It is
not a difference of hide, or hornB, or |
temper; it is not that one is wild and
the othei a pet. It is not a difference j
of beauty or intelligence, but solely
a difference in the way they have I
worked, a difference in the money j
they have earned for the owner.
All the milk of these cows has been
weighed and tested for three years.
A record has been kept of every
pound cf feed consumed by each animal,
both summer and winter.
Each year Gold produced on the
average 11,390 pounds of milk, containing
405 pounds of butter fat, but
dnrlng the same time Gilt averaged
only 3830 pounds of milk, with 138
pounds of butter fat.
These cows were both cared for In
the same way; they were given the
itme kinds of feed and allowed to
,'eat all tbey wanted. Gold ate one
half more than Gilt, hut rsrorl neorl
three times as much milk.
i ISqual amounts of feed made In the
one ease 188 pounds of batter fat
! and la the other 1H pounds The
om cow produced nearly twice as
mueh aa the other from exact)} the
mum feed la kind and amount.
FaPfh?
Counting the butter fat at twentjrthree
cents per pound and taking out
the exact cost of feed in each case, the
one cow brought in a profit of $34.59.
while the other lacked $5.62 of paying
for her board at market prices
of feed each year.
This comparison, exact and complete.
for three years, and including
the record of both milk and feed,
means a great deal more than a single
VPU r'c rnntnurienn ?? {?? u-KInk i*
is necessary to introduce an estimate.
It would be gratifying, indeed, if it
could be truthfully said that these
two records are extreme and exceptional.
and therefore do not stand for
any general condition of the dairy
business. But the very opposite i?
true.
Hard Milkers.
Dr. David Roberts, the Wisconsin
State Veterinarian, writes us on this
subject:
A cow or heifer with a nice, large,
well de\ duped udder with four good
size teats placed squarely upon same,
seems like a source of pleasure, providing
that they are easy milkers, but
the same sort of a cow or heifer being
termed as a hard milker is as a rule a
source of annoyance, especially to
those who do the milking.
Owing to the fact that a cow or
heifer is si nice, easy milker, they are
usually milked out clean at each milking.
In this way they are enabled to
keep up their regular flow of milk,
while on the other hand if they be
hard milkers the milker becomes discouraged
and impatient, and fails to
draw out the natural quantity. The
cow or heifer will then soon show the
effects of this by drying up on her
milk. In this way many a valuable
cow has become practically worthless
as a milk producer.
Hard milking in cows or heifers
can be positively overcome in a short
period of time and in a very economical
way, not by the use of the milking
tube, but by the use of the teat
plug.
The teat should be washed with an
antiseptic solution, the teat plug
should be dipped in a like solution,
then in a little ointment and passed
into the point of the teat, and being
self-retaining, should be permitted to
remain in the teat from one milking
to another. In this manner hard
milking can be made a ihing or the
past.
The Shoulders of the Ilr.rso.
Coming now to what is meant by
"liarnessy" shoulders in a saddler, the
term is more or less erroneous, for
the reason that the position of the
shoulders should be oblique in harness
as well as in saddle horses.
Those who use the term mean to convey
the idea that the shoulders are
more or i?ss upright and the withers '
more or less thick and meaty. This
formation, as already detailed, presupposes
a short neck and a stilted I
way of going, both cf which are very
bad faults in a saddler. A certain ,
amount of jerk-and-slam action may
go with straight shoulders, but all j
the most accurate actors in the highstepping
classes have possessed sloping
shoulders: indeed, a very decided I
slope is necessary to enable any horse c
to show the correct sort of action,
which may be described as that the t
fore foot should apparently be follow. (
ing the circumference of a rolling
wheel. Forest King was the greatest
actor we have ever had in this country.
Anyone who remembers the set
of his shoulders will grasp the point
sought to he made instantly, when it
is stated that the truest and best ac- '
nou is never associated with straight '
shoulders. At that, however, much I
straighter shoulders will do for
ordinary harness uses than for the
saddle, for in the leather they have ,
not to sustain the superimposed (
weight of the rider. Hence the appli- |
cation?or rather misapplication?ol
the term "harnessy" in describing
or discussing the shoulders oi saddU
horses.?Breeders' Gazette. 1
Disappearance of Iiakes.
Whether the globe on which we
dwell is gradually drying up or not is
a question that has been much debated.
Recent discoveries in central
Asia have heen regarded by some a?
favoring an affirmative answer, but
others have replied that the observed
phenomena are simply periodic 1
changes. Dr. Walser. of Zurich,
champions the affirmative view on
the ground that a great number of
European lakes have certainly dis- j
appeared within the last 260 years.
The canton of Zurich, for example,
had 149 lakes a quarter of a century
ago, and only seventy-six to-day. He
believes that a similar tendency to
disappearance has affected the lakes
of Germany and Russia.?Youth'*
Companion.
An Kvaggcrrtt ion.
Her hair looked like a slack of sea
moss with strands of oakum and
kelp and dried alfalfa twisted
through It OcMRlnnnllv >
the bunch back into place, and il
trembled like a living thing.
"The trouble with the new faith
lonn in hair." she drawled, "la th?
unfortunate fact that the shop girl*
seize upon the latest arrangements
don't you know, and grossly exagger-1
ate them."
She pushed back tbo stack as sh<
spoke, and six puffs, throe short
curls, and a yard of fuzzy filler tot
to the floor with a anisstees thud.? .
Cleveland Ptnln Dealer. I
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BURDENS L
Weary is the back that b
woman who has a bad back.
It's hard to get out of bed. 1
S sudden movement sends a sha
night the sufferer retires to tos
aching in the kidneys. To cu;
do. You must get at the caus
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experience that they arc a valuable rcni>
edy. Several years ago I suffered severely
! at times from pains in the small of my
hack and often felt dizzy and nervous.
The kidney secretions were irregular in
jj passage and caused me much annoyance.
I Hearing Doan's Kidney l'ills highly recommended
1 procured a supply, and after
taking the contents of several Isixes 1 was
^ so greatly relieved that 1 considered it
unnecessary to continue their use. Kern
ccntly 1 felt a slight recurrence of my
u trouble, but I immediately began using
? Doan's Kidney l'ills and was relieved."
Womanly Wisdom. ?rao,'"T..'i
the knees. |M
"roni the Mareli Farm Journal. flat with tin
If von would be farsighted you \[?Q" ,ml lh?
1)ust iearn to live on the height*. l,?' ? "
Happiness consists often in just .
orgeiting. !ook "'."'V
..... . . i "'ff sht-.ves u
fried bam is improved 111 flavor ,]owii u
>y springling it slightly with sugar |j,in.rS Suel
>n both sides before jfrviiig. grievous; iiuli
Have a pair of eanvas gloves near
lie wood-box. with which to handle HINTS FO
lie wood, lake out the asli pan, etc.
Woman, what, downhearted Then ^ small <11
ro outdoors and stay a IVw hours a va,,H.(| ad(|i||(
lay. Nature is a wonderful healer jj,js
?f wearv nerves. ?? .
* I be air sli
A glazier's knife will be found an they can not
excellent thing in the kitchen with humble pig b
which to sera|ie ami clean the hot- portuut auitni
loins of pans and kettles. March wim
"I s'pose you might say, 100loin' off the cows.
Fit it one way. that liquor's great ' the cohl.
it 11 IT to sort of even up things. Of. We would
r-ourse it takes shingles off 11 man VI
r, - - - --- ? ? - I U.H? 111 l/.IIIU
barn. but then it puts patches on his wcrr a little
pants." the dairy.
Quit worrying over tilings you can Take paiiu
not help. and harden t
She didn't think how it would spring work
sound: A widow erected a monument sarv if you \
to her husband, with the inscription, risks.
"West in peace until we meet again." The farm
To keep sausage and sparerib fresh their coals,
till summer: Fry and pack in jars, down cows t
then pour over all melted lard. He tlanks for the
sure to use pure lard and not the If much eh
grease in which the sausage or meat taken at one
has been fried, for such grease will plunged in w
contain some water which will canse will stand,
the meat to become strong as soon as Then wrap
warm weather comes. The lard used and rub it di
will lie good for cooking purposes. If a ewe
for being |?onred over after the sail- he taught to
sage is fried it will have none or very fining her in
little of the llavor from it. After Standing i
trying several ways this lias proved I horse sooner
the only satisfactory one of keeping I When you ?f
either sausage or sparerib through '.he| :u?. hurrv a
warm weather. something. il
Many stores. even in rather small exercising in
towns, have a ''rest room'' for those Kee.i that u|
who eome to trade. Perhaps yon business to <
have not discovered this. Ask, next "I sang Is
time yon are in town, and see how but sing." 1
it is. And if enough |?eople ask and about expret
ask earnestly enough, the stores which Then laws f
now do not have such places will soon "dope" eon
get them.
Never buy spectacles of men who
eome along offering you great bar- GUMPT1
gains. The chances /?re that you will
not pet a tit and yon will pay more Speculate
than the glaaae* are worth. The eyes Chinese Pro
are too precious to be tampered with virtue ia
in anv such way. Ho to wow re-, . . . .
liaMe man and hare your eyes really 1
fitted. That'* the way tot do it. QnarrNa
When baking cookie*, or any small qu**tiou
eakea, invert the pan an^ place them Tslk tlu
njjj*994 **" V" r*Uhly| >
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IFTF.T> FROM RF
ears the burden of kidney ills. There's no re
The distress begins in early morning. You I
t hurts to stoop to tie your shoes. All day
rp twinge through the back. It is torture tc
s and twist and groan. Backache is kidne
re backache you must first cure the kidneys.
;e, inside.
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WHEN THE KIDNEYS
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PAINFUL SYMPTOMS ? P.ackaehe. ate
idcMche, pains when stooping or lifting, shi
sudden sharp twinges, rheumatic pains, boneuralgia,
painful, scanty or too frequent un
urination, dizzy spells, dropsy. tin
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URINARY SYMPTOMS?Discolored or Ha
cloudy urine. Urine that contains sedi- " >
ment. Urine that stains the linen. Pain- "r<
ful passages, lilood or shreds in the urine.
Let a lx>iileful of the morning urine stand '"
for 24 hours. Jf it shows a cloudy or Pu
tleeey settling, or a layer of fine grains, dtr
like brick-dust, the kidneys are disordered. '
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Price 5o cents.. 'Foster-Milburn Co: Buffalo.
sing men's trousers, in Pa<>W?i
c the baggincss out of * ?C I OUltry
ess tliein til'st perfect Iv
seams on the edges; Fpom (he Man.h Farm jou
seams together and iron Skim.milk is thin look
\\n the trout. j|||t p M)av j)e to ?00(j
oil man of the house to poultry yard,
supports of your swing- A litfle niore t.,Pan litt(
. the cellar, before they fl(>ol^ R (he fmy|s har(
uder the load ot canned ? is ?|e i(.e of ,irallh
i a smash would lie , * . .
i*ed. Don't risk it. In P?ulL,r.V raising the hr
port ant. hut the man or v
hind the hreeil is more so.
R, STOCK OWNERS. , ,
( luckens that lay aroun
anywhere sometimes are mi
inntitv of oil-meal is a latintr their betters,
mi to the it rain ration at ' The man who keeps hens
much of a philosopher as
ips are flying high, hut who has the hens keep him
overtake pork. I ho Excelsior always seemei
as become the most im- rather cold stuff to make
nl oti the farm. flood fine, clean oat straw
Is whittle the flesh right the best of anything that
Keep them in out of tried. So
As a rule. eggs from tw
not hear so much about liens give better satisfactii
in the creamery if there time of the year than wl
more pastur-izing in younger stock, anil the e
more vigorous.
i to exercise tlie horses I)o you keep your chiekt
liem up before the real they keep you?
begins. This is neees- The eggs of hens that t
fish to avoid delays and laying during the winter :
apt to bo as strongly fer
animals are shedding eggs from hens that made
and the l'eter Tumble- showing,
ivill soon show clean A shelf, a couple of feet
1 first time since last fall, roosts, is handy to catch
illed, the lamb should be pings, and handy to clean,
e to a warm room, and forget to clean it.
ater as hot us the hand For hatching purposes,
eggs from the hens that
> the lainb in hot flannel Build up; never let the
ry. down.
loses her lamb, she can The last egg laid before
mother n twin by con- to setting will often be so
a narrow stall. it will have no yolk at all.
n the ham will spoil a an old notion that it is hi
than good steady work, bring these small eggs in
e his legs begin to stock A nest that suits the t
lid get him to work at first-rate may be made bv
' it is nothing more than salt barrel on the side. Pu
i the yard every day. the hollow, and a nest egg,
l> till you have some real the barrel over with brui
lo. have it handy.
?cause I could not choose One of my neighbors
vrote the poet, and that there's no money in poultry
rnes the lay of the hen. the easiest way to get eggs
?f nature rather than them. He says that he k?
trol her output. ens to eat tlie bugs in hi
?March Farm Journal. j pays 'em a cent a bug.
When a hen lays now
ON ON THE FAJLM. nn(* not 80011 aKam. and yoi
cide whether .he hadn't I
not on distant things.? altogether, I 'II tell you w
verb W'hy, just ax her to, and
it. own reward, but a lit- "or in ke* wU1 ahe
M out. v another egg.
metre enemies and leave *S tkere I""'
it ill unsettled. budding whei v.. ...
gs er with the faired "** ?B<1 K"' 1 '
I he!, both you and hu*.|*tf They wii .twav h
?? the atuM do Mot fly ail | the waraw thuf nj.v Oi in
rd *h<a| wopuiog weed. ] ing will do li s. nvorr gr
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NT BACKS f
ist nor peace for the man or o.
feel lame and not refreshed. lIT
the ache keeps up. Any -dp)
stoop or straighten. At :
y ache?a throbbing, dull
Plasters or liniments won't
CK KIDNEYS %
TWO YKAHK CURKD.
ackaclie. Kidney and Uladder Trou- A
ble Disappeared For (iinxl. '
I. A. Wirt, Kussell St.. Cnnisteo, N. Y.t X:
ya: "I had kidney and bladder trouble
r more than a year. My bark was lnme J
d 1 bad an ache acro?H my kidneys day A*~
d night. For days at u tune I could not
>op or lift, and if I alternant to do so
?rp shooting pains rndiateirthrougli my
dy. The kidney secretions were unnat- _
?f and there was much sediment in ^KS
em. The passages were also too fre- .
cut anil caused me much annoyance.
iving 1 loan's Kidney Pills brought to
attention 1 obtained a box. Their URe
night relief in a few hours, and the conits
of four boxes completely cured me.
that time 1 told of my experience in a
hlic statement, and can now snv that
ring the years which have since elapsed
uive found Doan's Kidney Pills effective ?ipc
lencver I have taken them."
PILLS1tW $
N Y- Proprietors. IftheRlnhp^ J *
y J Any system ot' feed ins; is expensive
1 aiui jf t li<? hens do not lay, and the greater Tfij"
tlie number of non-producers the 1
. greater the cost of every egg produe- v(f ]
.rn" * ? ed. Improper feeding or overfeeding
" r S I'i i may be tlie cause of a flock yielding MP
ust In 11 only half of what it should. It will
he found that the surest course of 'mT
pr on .the ft.e? 1 ihit is to follow as nearly as posil
at work. along the line of nature, and this
means variety in sneh a way as to
eed is itn- compel exercise.
k'oninn he- 4^r*
Wise and Otherwise. rfT
id almost Ar 4 . . . . .. g**.
?relv emu- Many a nut is not what it waa
eraoked up to he.
net ?o ^ horse may know a good bit with'
the m out 11 college edueation. gM
One of the surest ways to lose a
1 to me friend to lend him money.
nests of. Anti-fat remedies are seldom need- ^%jj
r is about ed by the man who leans on hope.
we ever It >s quite useless to tell the goat
lO-'lO. not to butt in; be will do it anyway.
ro-veat-old There are any number of men who* |
||,;o wilt lo ?v?nr vaa.lv I" ok ? ?..? *- L
i/ii m i 11 ir? v ,v. iw ?" I Iff II I TUUV
lien from lw with their wives, manifest a strong WLII
hicks are disinclination to share their pleaaures
with them. 9T J
ens, or do How can we teli whether a resolu- W**l|
tion is good or not till ufter we Idrve
lid heavy broken it? j|
?re not so "It was all over in a minute,"
tilized. as might refer to u railway accident or w*|j
but a fair to a wedding. JjM
below the THE OXEN. -Wg
the drop- mnm
And don't Shoulder to shoulder all day long ]
The oxen lubor across the held,
take the The pace is slow, but the plow in ]
lay best. strong.
standard And stubble and tussock yield. ^Jjlj
The plowmav halts as the suu goes
a hen goes down, ^jj
small that And leaves his plow near the fur- aK
There is rowed loam. j
id luck to Then slowly over the meadow brown E1|
the house. He follows the oxen home. J
urkey hen ^ rir
turning a Side by side in their stanehion^them
it straw in The oxen stand at the close^^toy, gJ
and cover Happy are tliey and free froimJfe, ^51
di. if you Eating their evening hay. ^|^ grj
They have borne the yoke from sun ]
says that to sun, Jfjk
/, and that Shoulder to shoulder in triie aecord, ^g||
i is to buy And now they reap, when the day is UH
?eps chick- done. j
s orchard; The laborer's /just reward. 49K
?From March Farm Journal. v 1
u can't de- POINTED PARAGRAPHS. V'-'aP
hat to do: There ore strong points of similarneither
in ?*>' between a football rush and a Wgll
i ever l?v bargain-counter rush. "JftP
In th?'Kf times of high prices every- ?TT|
some olrl
has to pa>. Even the oyster is - J
. compelled to shell ont. w.*l|
<H> We are told that Masts froth a J J
to work ram's horn knocked tfown the walla
(4 to And of Jericho, and we have seen a blast X-J
it, Noth- fro?* t ram'a bora haeck down a