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Gisof Hot Wate Before Breakfist a Splendid Habit Open sluices of the system each morning and wash away the poisonous, stagnant matter. Those of us who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when we arise; splitting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stom ach, lame back, - can, instead, both look and feel as fresh as a daisy always by washing the poisons and toxins from the body with phosphated hot water each morning. We should drink, before breakfast, a glass of real hot water with a tea spoonful of limestone phosphate in It to flush from the stomach, liver, kidneys and ten yards of bowels the previous day's indigestible waste, sour bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleans Ing, sweetening and purifying the en -tire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. The action of limestone phosphate -and hot water on an empty stomach Is wonderfully invigorating. It cleans out all the sour Sormontations, gases, waste and acidity and gives one a splendid appetite for breakfast and it ds said to be but a little while until the roses begin to appear in the -cheeks. A quarter pound of lime. stone phosphate will cost very little at your druggist or from the store, but Is sufficient to make anyone who Is .bothered with biliousness, constipa tion, stomach trouble or rheumatism a real enthusiast on the subject of in ternal sanitation. Try it and you are assured that you will look better and feel better In every way shortly. Adv. Ever notice how many females of the species wear hair that looks as if it had been nalled on by a carpenter? SALTS IF BACKACHY OR KIDNEYS TROUBLE YOU Eat Less Meat if Your Kidneys Aren't Acting Right or if Back Hurts or Bladder Bothers You. When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means you have been eat. Ing too much meat, says a well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to illter it from the blood and they be come sort of paralyzed and loggy When your kidneys get sluggish and clog you must relieve them like you relieve your bowels; removing all the body's urinous waste, eNse you havc backache, sick headache, dizzy spells your stomach sours, tongue is coated and when the weather is bad you havc rheumatic twinges. The urine il cloudy, full of sediment, channels oft en get sore, water scalds and you art obliged to seek relief two or threE times during the night. Either consult a good, reliable physi. cian at once or get from your pharma, cist about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act ie, TIhis famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com. bined wvith ltthia, and has been usedl for generations to clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralizc acids in the urine so it no longer irri tates, thus ending bladder weakness Jad Balts is a life saver for regula1 meat eaters. It is inexpensive, canno injure and makes a delightful, effet i'escent lithia-water drink.--Ady. One-half of the world is kept bus trying to find out how the other hal lives. TENDER SKINNED BABIES With Rashes and Irritations Fin Comfort in Cuticura. Trial Free. Baby's tender skin requires mikc Soothing properties such as are foun In the Cuticura Soap and Ointmen Cuticura Soap is so sweet, pure an cleansing and Cuticura 1Ointment a *uoothing and healing, especially whoe baby's skin is irritated and rashy. Free sample each by mail with Bool Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. I boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv. A man may be able to deceive h own wife, but not lis fat her's wife. To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The Syste Take the Old Standard GROV[E TASTELESS chili TONIC You ku< what you are taking, as the formula rinted o every laeshowing it ulnine adIron ina asessform. T Quinine drives out malaria, the Jr bilds up the system. 50 cents. The Church with te higest steepl sif't always the nearest heaven. LiADES CAN WECAR SHlOES On ise etnaller after using Allen's [Fo Za bantiseptle powder for the fe, jh~nIto shoes and used in foot-bat 's aot-Eas maks tghtshoes f. eas~ and vs nstant relief lto corns al ns ttoday. Sold everywhei ,FRZEE trial package Addrem 6, Olmsted, Le Roy, N. if. Adv. U d Ol With the dance! The old he SiowepWaged for every set. * 'u'~4n rs use305 Hanford's Ba INEVERY IA Maximum Amount of Convenience Arranged For in Plan Shown Here. WELL WORTH CAREFUL STUDY Intending Builders Will Quickly See Points That Make Building So Desirable-Two Silos Provid ed, as Cheaper Than One Large One. By WILLIAM A. RADFORD. Mr. William A. Radford will answer iuestions and give advice FREE 01F COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building work on the farm, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as IEditor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Rad ford, No. 1821 Prairie avenue, Chicago. Ill.. and only Inclose two-cent stamp for reply. Three different kinds of material are used in the construction of the large and well-equipped dairy barn that is shown here. The foundations are of concrete, the walls up to the floor of the haymow are of structural tile, and the upper part of the barn is framed. Concrete is used almost universally for foundations now, no matter how the rest of the building is built. Struc tural tile makes a most satisfactory wall for several reasons. Walls made of this material are very quickly built and the air space in the tile forms an effective insulation against tempera ture changes. Because of the nonab sorbent surface of vitrified tile the walls can be readily washed down and kept clean. Tile is not subject to de --im cay and will therefore last indefinitely, the same as concrete. The upper part of nearly all barns is built of frame because it is so much cheaper than~ any other way of doing this work. The clear space betwveen the floor and the ceiling is eight feet six inches, It is much better to have too much head- room than too little, especially in a large, well-built barn, which car be kept warm very easily. There it another reason for building witi plenty of roon. In this particular cast the litter carrier runs out onto crane that is high enough above thi fground so that the manure can bi emptied directly into" the manur spreader without all the muss that i: generally caused if the material ii placed in a pile and emptied into th *manure spreader later, If the grouni is on a slope this process can be cai ried out very readily, but in som c ases a slight depression is dug a that the manure spreader can be ru into thuis and lowered enough so tha the carrier will runi on the crane wvel over it. The crane is shown in th lperspective and also in the floor plar The floor plan shows most complett ly tihe extensive and well-designed ver tilating system. The intakes ar placed in the structural tile wall an run over the cows and let the free Is air in above their heads. The air i then carried back across the animal and goes out throulgh the foul-al shafts back of the cattle, from wher it is carried in flues up along the wal s. and along under the roof to the yeu w tilators on the peak. The dotted line ih in the floor plan show the arrang4 tmont, with its various parts. The facing-in arrangement is use in this plan, but it could be easli changed to the facing-out style if di le sired. $uch a change would also ir volvo a chlange in the ventilating sy~ -- Il L- - JT lL bf Ploor Plan of Rtemodt *Concrete Beidd~ tem, and woum the wall and the dtet. tral part of the .t6ble. would not have to be oba way however, as e it possible to run thi -ar o *of the tracks from Iny of tracks. The floor plan learly the construction nd arrangemen. of the track, with all the necedary, switches. All the interior finishings ahd ws)lp of the barn should be as smooth as possible, so that the barn can b.e washed down with cold water, eac day. All the stanchions are generally made of enameled iron or Japanned iron, so that the water will not have any effect on them. Two- silos are included in the plan for this barn. in many instances the owner may decide that it would be better to build one large silo, but very often it is cheaper to build two small. er ones. The higher the silo goes the more it costs per foot to build it, and very often it is much cheaper, if care. fully figured out, to build two silos that do not go very far above the ground. The feeding is generally very easy in either case. One of the details of a barn tpat is very important is the type of hanger that is to be used on the sliding doors. In a large barn such as this one there are quite a few sliding doors, and the best quality of material should be used, or they will be a nuisance. The kind that is chosen should have a cover over the track so as to protect it from the action of the weather and also keep the birds out of it. It should be strong enough so that there will be no tendency to sag or break. Little things like this are often con sidered unimportant, but if a farmer had a door break down during very cold weather and had to nail it in po sition to keep his stock warm until he could fix it, he would be much more likely to consider such little things of importance afterward. The floor plan shows all the equip ment that is necessary to do all the work in the stable. For instance, hydrants are placed in the stable to NIXI handle the cleaning. This is a good plan, because the stable will be warm enough so that there will be very little danger of the hydrants freezing, as they might if they were on the out - side. The study of this plan will b-e worth while to any man that is interested in the best modern practice in the er rangement of dairy stables for the maximum amount of convenience. Undesirable Erzerum. Erzerum, the ancient Armenian city which the Russians have taken from the Turks, is, from the European point of view, one of the most undesirable places of residence upon earth. It stands more than 6,000 feet above the sea, and in winter the temperature falls to 20 degrees below zero, while I in the passes by which it is approached - rages the Tipi, a terrible blizzard. But Erzerum is at its worst in sum >mer, owing to the appalling lack of i sanitation. Mr. Hepworth, an Amern t can clergyman, who was there after I the Armenian massacres of 1896, found 3 even an ollen gutter only in one or .two thoroughfares. The people elm. -ply pile their refuse of all kinds on -the pavement before their houses, a which has long become invisible; and I mortality is so heavy that of 12 chil z dren, a common family, it is lucky if S six survive.-London Chronicle. B r On' Trial. a "'The trial judge says we must have 1 evening sessions to expedite matters." "Good gracious," exclaimed the beau s tiful actress. "And I haveya sigl evening gown." I The oil contained in onions is an v enemy of the germs that cause colds, -therefore, there is a good reason for -the argument that eating raw onions will cure colds. :nrn. -smer Shutter Front It is not the easiest. thing in the world to so feed young chickens as to bring them to an early and perfect maturity and then to continue feeding them to produce eggs and meat in the greatest qtiantities. Too many people let the chickens feed themselves. Oth ers seem to think that a few handfuls of corn thrown out night and morning is sufficient. Unless confined in pens where they cannot get at their natural food chickens will manage to survive on indifferent feeding for a long time, but if they are to be brought to a full Btate of perfection and if they are to be made to produce all the eggs possi ble and tip the beam at market time at the highest notch, a careful study of feeding is necessary. . The natural food of fowls is meat, seeds and grain. The meat they find in bugs. and worms and the dry feed in the seeds of grass and grain of the range. If allowed free range and giv en access to this in sufficient quanti ties fowls will balance their own ra tions and perhaps get as good results as if fed by hand. If they are con fined the lack of meat must be sup plied; but it must be understood that animal matter in the shape of meat meal, meat scraps or cut bone is dan gerous unless it is fed in conjunction with other food. It is extremely dangerous to give fowls too much of any concentrated food as it only renders them ravenous and unsatisfied, and in the end results in disease and death. Food must be nutritious and to balance the bulk, dry matter and animal matter must be of proper proportion to form just the right combination to produce health and the best conditions for laying and producing meat. As to the quantity to be fed there can be no fixed rule. The safe way is to feed liberally--all that the flock Chicken Feed Trough With Cover Re moved. will eat up clean. It is never safe to cut down the rations of growing birds until some feed is left over every day. Of course too much feed of the fat tening quality is not good for laying hens because they do not lay best . when overfed, but this does not mean that they should be starved. A well balanced ration consisting in the main of corn, wheat and animal matter will keep -a hen in fine laying condition. We do not believe that a very lean hen is the best layer. To persons who are obliged to buy all the feed for their flocks the ques DANGEROUS FOOD FOR CHICKS Practice of Feeding Salt to Cause Early Molt Should Be Avoided Unless Well Understood. Doubtless thousands of persons who ?eep a few fowls and depend upon the scraps from the kitchen consti tuting the greater portion of the food required to sustain~ them, are unaware of the danger there is in feeding salt food to poultry. A very little salt is known to be healthful for fowls, but if they re ceive more than a very small portion, such as might be found in oversalted victuals, or in scraps into which some accidentally spilled salt . had been thrown, it will- cause ,the hens to die, or if not sufficient to cause death, they will be apt to molt and lose their feathers out of season. Some poultrykeeperis who under stand just the quiantity : a-hien can stand without damage, will feed a lit tle salt early in autumn to cause the hens to molt early, soi as to insure eggs during the early winter months .when eggs are scarce, This praojice in dan gerous unlesis thoroughlly understood. Little chicks ehould have no salt at all until more thani halt grewn, In' stances -are, known where chicks were kept in~ a barrel laid on' its side; wpith the heat insfde,.and the chicks all died within' a tewrhotirs.. Investgifoh r veale4th th fet that the barfel Us94 for a on had-been a salt barrel well Adated,' and yet $tete yas enough p#aUtet to kill thO '4atire 9)*OOd .Reason tor FaME U e reaa~ ta1 in t~a wbte Yaoath* qa~ ti~ t~n Poultry House. tion is one of great importance -and many people .who have raised poultry for years without l5eeping account of expenses, and then turned to a sen sible system of accounts, have been surprised to learn that it 'cost them more to keep their Rocks than they received from them. However, people are learning how to manage poultry and even with grain at the high prices that have prevailed the last five years have been able to make a compara tively good profit in poultry. For growing chickens a mitture composed of three pounds of wheat, three pounds of cornmeal, meat con taining 50 per cent of digestible pro tein mixed with two pounds of finely cut clover or alfalfa makes an excel Chicken Feed Trough Accessible From Both Sides With Cover On. lent ration. Other grains at times may take the place of wheat or corn, although nothing will quite equal them. Of course in addition to grain and meat fowls must have plenty of grit, granulated bone or wood charcoal at all times. Green food in the shape of chopped alfalfa leaves or.clover is es sential, particularly' in the winter when the birds do not have access to the range. This should be kept before the chickens at all times or it may be fed in the -grain mixture. Grit is absolutely necessary because chickens cannot digest the food in their crops without it. For this pur pose ground oyster shells, coarse sand or ground rock may be used. When at large chiekens supply their own grit and it is not necessary to keep it before them except when they are con fined. The difficulty of keeping the feed clean and dry during continued ex posure is nearly overcome by using tr'oughs with slatted sides and broad, detachable roofs. Build the troughs from six to ten feet long, with the sides five inches high. The lath slats are two inches apart, and the troughs are sixteen inches high from floor to roof. The roofs project about two inches -at the sides and effectually keep out the rain except when high winds prevail. The roof is very easily removed by lifting one End and slid ing it lengthwise. The trough can then be filled and the roof dr'awn back without lifting it. This arrangement saves the feed, keeping it in good con. dition and avoiditng'waste. The trough should 'be placed in a sheltered place out of reach of the wind. BALANCED RATION FOR EGGS Wheiat, Oats and Corn Make 0004 Sc'ratching Feed in Litter-Don''t Overlook Green Feed. Overfat hens cannot lay fertile eggi if they lay eggs at all. Corn is usei as the principal feed by many farmeri They 'do not stop to -think that cori is twelve parts fat-producing and oni part bone 'and muscle-producing Wheat is a more balanced ration, 'bi ing a little over nine parts fat-produc ing and one part bone and muscle producers. With this information W< can see that one-third wheat, one-thirl oats and one-third corn in the cold est winter weather niakos a grani scratching feed (to throw among dee; litter). As weather warms uip reduce tb corn and with bran as the basis of smash fed each day you will have 'you rations well balanced, with the excel tion of the meat and green~ foodi which must be lookced after by each ir dividual. Ten per cent of your mashe should c3opsist of animal food -of som nature.. You cannot feed' too muec green succulent feed. -If no beef scraps are on hand, of meal mixed with your mash each da will help to take the place of meati FEEDING THE SITTING HEI ~e*ides Qrain, Water-Grit, Etc., Poil Must be Kep~t Entirely Pree lrom Alt Vermin. Grain' and Water should be place ol~u, 9estisof itting hens, witl Sand green' feed, so tha S be in tfed to. feed regularl3 Sthe greatest care ii $ yand regp aas auu4 aik.4 64A suIt .Onoht 4h a suffering. Mte told'ljer t -iM at.. fied e oth And she a d. Why d4n't you buy a C 0Iih~' Vfg6tAble C6mpi ' y notherboh and the eX mon was so well that I worked all the month without staying at h4me'a d%* am in gohealt nfow and have t l4ots Of R2Ifussell Street, Taunton, mass. Thoussads of iAs suffer in silence every month rather than consult a ahy sician. If girls who are troubled'with painful or irregular periods,'backache. headache, draggingdOwn sensations, faintin spells orindigestion would take Lydia . Pinkham's Vegetablo Com pound, a safe and pure remedy made from roots and hers, much suffering might be avoided. Write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. (confidential) for free advice which will prove helpful. A winter Imperialist-Old King Coal. Every Household Needs It. For outs, burns sprains and bruises. Hanford's Balsam of Myrrh shoul.1 give quick relief. These may happen any day In any home and the prudent housewife will always keep a bottle on hand. Adv. Finding a diamond is also hard luck. To cool a burn apply Hanford's Bal sam. Adv. Cynicism is humor In Ill health. It Never Came Back Backache Sufferer! Thousands will tell you what wonderful relief they have had from Doan'ar Kidney Pills. Not only relief, but lasting cures. If you are lame in the morning, have headache, dizzy spells and irregular kidney action; don't wait. Use Doan's Kidney Pills, the best recommended special kidney remedy. A North Carolina Case Bfery t>Mrs. "1. - 3. Hargett, Picture 309 E. Jefferson Ave., I if_ Monroe, N. C., says: "I was .in such bad ' shape with my kid neys I couldn't do my housework. My back pained me terribly and * after stooping. I could hardly straighten. My .bladder was inflamed - at times and I was a phsclwreck. Three boxes of Dean's -Cid ney Pills cured me and my back and kidneys have never caused me the least tr o u ble - since." 0.t Dean'. at Anr Stor...80. a Be* D OA N'S "11)NT VOSTER.Mi.BURN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y. Relieves Pain And Siiffness Yager's Linimet gies al trost In stant relief fromt pain whetertheof aneral -gie, rheumatic, or gouty Characfer*. Mrs. Annie O1iver,.810 Weist Mulberry St., Shamiokin, Pa., writes,-'Your liniment comn pletl cured me fromn Rheu mais in my joints." YAGER"S LINIMENT an4 nesteoted to chang -ieotl a and congrcod a vreidn5h andoo aura Oa a motr~l I andatrlnedma n cretof of whinin andinIgaod trid yorlnim t -. abou treg js a b tiontean ansta confes thaihu-tIa of Lif.: Put up In large s ties contaidli ounces. At a~* 250oa botl. OBLOERT BROS. A 00. se. SALIMOR, liD