*^Jr -V* -J'-v1"' -st-V, -1*- p* 3 *$!&** -.^ Cv "v""^ /-r \, c£wfcA« 1- AICTW6 INTERNATIONAL FALLS JPRESS Wlsi#1 RECORD FOR WHITE LEGHORN MOUNTAIN JOE Northwest Queen Produced 235 EffQf 4 in Twelve Months—She Is Modest, Retiripg Hen. The Northwest Experiment statioi By LEON W. DEAN. flock of White Leghorns includes the queen hen~ of Minnesota. Her name is Northwest Queen No. 117 and she has (Copyright, 1917, by the McClure Newspaper a record of 235 eggs in twelve months. Syndicate.) She did not-stop laying at thp end of Mountain House Joe he was called. the twelve months, however, but kept If it was an exclusive bit of scenery right on and finished her 248th egg in you wanted, an exceptionally fine trout twelve months and twenty days. This, or a deer in season, Mountain House picture was taken at that time. She Joe would see that you got it. is a modest, retiring sort of a queen He was like any one of a hundred LEGHORN IS GREAT FORAGER ,but she rules With great decorum in a other Adirondack guides—and different. queendom where there are about four SELECT DAIRY COW BY TYPE Just where the likeness left off hundred who look like her in their If There Is Any Scratching in Sight, and the difference began it was hard snowy whiteness. Whether Garbage Heap or Garden, Milk Production and Reproduction to tell. Whatever the reason, Mountain The value of good laying strain of Bird Will Find It Are Essential Functions—Records House Joe was considered the hens is so great, according to Supt. C. most popular guide in the mountains. Are Lacking. C. Selvig of the Crookston Agricultur- The Leghorn, while It is a breed One night-in the rugged defiles of of great merit, should not be confused The essential functions of the dairy Indian pass he gave us the first real as the right breed for every cow are milk production and reproduction. peep beneath the crust. We were looking man and every place. Put the Leghorn away over a score of darkening According to L. W. Wing, Jr., in its proper environment and of the Missouri College of Agriculture, mountain,, peaks to where Whiteface there is no fowl that will surpass it. the most accurate methods of determining reared its lofty head, still strongly these are: On the contrary, if subjected to conditions etched against the northern sky. that are not suitable for it, it "How sings Horace?—'mundi moles (1) Milk production by means of will be an endless source of trouble the milk scales and the Babcock test operosa'—the toil-wright mass of the and disappointment. Leghorns are ambitious world! I wonder what the old Roman (2) Reproduction by breeding records. fowls, tireless foragers. If there would say if he could look upon a There is only a small proportion of is any scratching in sight, whether it the cows used for dairy purposes on sight such as this?" be a garbage heap, truck garden, cold It was Lieutenant Golden who spoke. wfiich such records are kept. This tie- frame, manure pile or rose bed, the Joe, squatting on his. heels by the Leghorn will make strenuous efforts to fire where he was preparing the evening meal, turned his head abruptly. "If he were modest he would say CARTOON FUR/SI S"HEP THIS /NFW5PAPFR BY that you had just given him credit for MINNESOTA eOWHfJlON OF PUBU SAFET v, what rightfully belongs to Ovid." Backing Up The President The temptation had proved too provoking Northwest Queen No. 117. and our cook of many a merry excursion had suddenly become a al school, that during war times especially, scholar of the classics. But straightway every effort should be made to he was Mountain House Joe again increase the number of hens and also Vlummy of Sacred Cat. Demands of Youth. and no amount of urging on our part by scientific care and feeding to increase The mummy of a sacred cat from an could complete the metamorphosis. their yearly record. Man wants but little here below, but Egyptian temple and a part of the private "What the deuce is the matter with it is different with a boy. So far as collection of Dr. William White,! PREPARE FOR SPRING LAMBS the fellow?" whispered Charlie Osgood we have kept a record for a single has been placed on exhibition in the after a series of inglorious attempts week, that boy wants a mandolin, a Champion Dairy Cow. Pennsylvania university museum. Mrs. to inveigle him into conversation. pistol, a razor, a false mustache, a bull Success of Crop Depends Greatly on White has presented to the museum pup. :i magic lantern, a detective's tin cessitates the employment of some Care and Feed of Ewes During the entire collection of archaeological Despairing at length of a story from badge, si motorcycle, a mud turtle, a other method of selection. In the Cold Weather. and ethnological subjects collected by Joe, which we had come to anticipate flddie. a printing press, a stamp album, breeding of high producing animals Doctor White in his world tours. The as a part Of the regular evening program, a lame rat.-a camera, a squirtgun. through several generations it has (Prepared by the United States Department mummy of the cat is supposed to be we turned back to the papers a baseball suit and a pair of roller been observed that there are certain of Agriculture.) from some temple and is in perfect which the ladies had brought with skates.—El Paso Times. characteristics of the conformation The care and feed of the ewes during condition, though it bears no marks them, now several days old. which are correlated with large production. winter has a great deal to do with which would serve to identify it with It was fall and the annual TaleHarvard White Leghorn Cockerel. These characteristics are the success of the spring lamb crop. any particular temple. Where Eider Ducks Abound. football battle was only a few namely: (1) Extreme angular form, Wise feeding |s esjjeclally important get into it. Therefore the person who Eider ducks are numerous everywhere weeks distant. The papers were full carrying no surplus flesh, but in good because of the liigti prices pf feed and would keep a garden for flowers or in Norway. Being the producers of it. physical condition. (2) Prominent development sheep. The flockowner is fortunate Hand That Rocks the Boat. vegetables had better see to it that of the valuable eiderdown, a staple article We were a Harvard crowd and felt of the udder and veins. (3) who has a good supply of clover, alfalfa, The underlying philosophy of most his henyard is securely inclosed with of trade in Norway, they are rigorously free to express our n'nds. cowpeas or soybean hay, for they The symmetrical development of the bitter criticism is this: The hand that wire netting if he expects to raise Leghorns. protected by law, and are in "All Brickley," said Dick Valentine, barrel with large capacity. After one a,re good feeds tkpon which to base the rocks the boat rules the world. It is consequence so tame as in many places turning the pages, "All Brickly and becomes familiar with these external winter ration of ewes. Corn stover, not an inexcusable basis for criticism, If the runs are large enough, Leghorns to approximate a domestic fowl. The Harvard." characteristics it is possible to select oats stfaw, silage, and roots are economical considering the, stupidity and folly of can be confined within a sevenfoot birds are regarded with far from It was Mrs. Mabel who saved the supplements. "Feed economically cows producing 300 pounds of fat per the particular world administration we fence. Yet once they develop the friendly eyes by the fishermen, by reason day. Mrs. Mabel was Dick's wife, but but well" is year from those producing 150 pounds. the advice offered by sheep have inherited but it has the disadvantage habit of "yard-breaking" they will of the damage they work among that didn't happen to help Dick any The difficulty comes in picking the animal specialists. The wise application of of indicting a whole class clear this with ease, for they make a the spawning beds of the fish. Lobsters in this instance. that will produce 500 pounds of this good advice will deplerid on the and may just as well proceed from that practice of half flying and half climbs in particular suffer severely from She laughed, and when Mrs. Mabel fat per year compared to the one producing farmer himself and such specialists as irascibility which made a man a critic Ing up the netting. their devastations. laughs it is irresistible. "Well, I guess 400 pounds. he may be able to consult. in the first place, as from any ordered we clean forgot that Cambridge wasn't The selection of animals by this or reasonable consideration.—New Re MAKE HENS WORK FOR LIVING LIGHT DRESSING OF MANURE the center of the earth," she said. method is rather uncertain. Until records public. Mirrors in History. "And it wasn't any farther back than are kept of more animals or some During the middle ages, from the our own day when the Blue was treating lther means devised for selection, the To Prevent Fowls From Becoming Too Yields Larger Returns Per Ton of cwelfth to the end of the fifteenth us as we are treating them. You selection by type should be used and Fat It Is Good Plan to Make Kapok Will Not Sink. ^Fertilizer Used Than Does century, pocket mirrors or small hand don't forget one Chase, do you, boys?" it is up to everyone interested in Kapok, or fiber silk, will.not/sink, .no Them Scratch for Food. Heavier Application. mirrors carried at the girdle were considered dairy cattle to become familiar with it. "Forget Joe Chase? I reckon not. matter how long it is left in the water, a necessary part of a lady's No Harvard man of our time is likely To prevent the hens from becoming and has remarkable buoyancy. It A light application df manure yields toilet. The methotl of backing glass to do that. He beat us for two years fat while consuming enough food for was first brotight to the attention of LEGUME HAYS ARE VALUABLE larger returns per ton of manure used with metal for mirrors was well known with a poor eleven behind him. No, the United States government by Lieutenant their support and for production they than does a heavier application. This in the middle ages, though steer and we aren't forgetting Joe Chase." must be made to work for the larger Edmonds, and has subsequently has been proven by the trials'at many silver mirrors were almost exclusively Utilization of Alfalfa or Clover Partly "Well," continued Mrs. Mabel, "I come into wide use as material for share pf the food received by scratching experiment stations. Heavy applications used. It was in Venice that the making Solves Dairyman's Problem think Dell knows ever a little more life preservers. One of the latest kapok in litter if this fails to accomplish of 30 to 40 tons per acre give of glass mirrors on a commercial of Feed. about Yale and Joe Chase than the the desired result, then the food ^devices is a duck hunting ''coat the largest yields, but when the scale was first developed. rest of us. How about it?" is not balanced. Too much grain may lined with this fiber, so that if the amount of manure is limited and the (By G. E. WEAVElt, University Farm, All eyes were turned inquiringly on be allowed, and the remedy is to reduce hunter falls overboard he will float. area of land is large, light applications St. Paul, Minn.) Dell. the proportion of grain and give more Old Roman Windows. One hundred and seventy-five pounds of six to ten loads per acre give "We were to have been married," egg-producing food. The hens should of good alfalfa or clover hay is worth The houses of rich people in ancient the most profitable returns. Very beneficial Derivation of "Hellespont." she said simply. not be overfed at any one meal. Give Rome, in the days of the Caesars, had as much as 100 pounds of the ordinary results may be secured by giving Hellespontus, (meaning the sea of a moderate allowance in the morning I saw Mrs. Mabel color to the ear window panes of glass set in frames grain feeds. With the present prices a very light dressing of one to Helle), is the ancient Latin name of tips. of mixed grain then let them out on for feeds ranging from $25 a ton for of bronze. They were uneven and full three loads per acre to the fields which the Strait of the Dardanelles, the long, grass or rye pasture. The, allowance Dell alohe was undisturbed. bran to $85 per ton for corn, the average of defects, so that the view of things are to be plowed for green manure. narrow strait connecting the Aegean of green food, such as cabbage, turnip cost for 100 pounds of grain is outside, from inside, must have been "Father and mother had picked out. The manure doubtless increases bacterial sea, or eastern part of the Mediterra-, tops and roots, is not because of the rather unsatisfactory. But at that the man they wanted me to marry, about $2.75. The Cost of its food action and hastens the fermentation nean, with the Sea of Marmora. The nutritious material contained in such and it wasn't Joe Chase. He had more equivalent in the form of 175 pounds time they were doubtless regarded as and dec&y of the organic matter. English form of the Latin word Hellespontus foods, as they renlly are of little value, of legume hay is $2.15. This much hay the height of luxury. Such panes were money and therefore more social is Hellespont, the name is but they perform excellent service will produce 200 pounds of milk and standing than Joe. Father did the not blown, but cast on stone. When PROVIDE ABUNDANCE OF AIR derived from the story of Helle being effect a saving in feed cost of 60 cents, from a dietary standpoint. only underhand thing I have ever us«m1 tor public buildings they were set drowned in the strait. known hfm to do in his life and sorely which is at the rate of 30 cents for 'n pierced slabs of marble. Where Vegetables Are Growing in each hundred pounds. SELECTION OF BEST LAYERS has he repented. He told Joe he Cold Frames, Slide Sash Ctfiyvn wasn't in our class. Joe had often The utilization of such hay partly To Mend Coat Rocket. When Water Fails. on Every Mild Day, ytried to tell me the same thing, but I solves th? dairyman's problem in these Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture When mending the corner/of a man's Water will nor always put out a fire. wouldn't listen to him. He was proud days of high feed cost and milk investigations. Urges Poultry Keepers to side coat pocket, thread sewing machine 'This applies particularly to a fire Cauliflower, cabbage, lettuce and and dad must have used plain language. Save Laying Pullets. with black thread, lay coat under where grease is present in quantities. parsley plants which are in the cold Before I could stop him he had, machine foot, fix each piece of A technical paper cites an instance frames should be given an abundance gone. You have seen Joe hit the line HEIFERS. OF GOOD BREEDING Early hatched pullets, in fact, pnliets cloth straight and With a pin push where a fire in the oil box of an engine of air. Slide the sash down abouf when ten yards were needed for a of any age, are scarcer than ever little threads under with machine was spread over a large radius half way in the middle of every mild first down and you know it wasn't his this fall, and in view of this fact the sew ziz-zag back up cut thread, put No Stock More Profitable as They Consume when water was thrown upon it. The day for one or two hours. When it is way to turn back. He meant to leave Pennsylvania department of agriculture Less Compared With down pocket flap and see what, a neal water scattered the grease in all directions, not safe to take off the sash entirely me free and he has, for we have never is trying to aid poultry keepers Growth They Make. job you have done. and some of it was caught in the middle of the day, let them be heard of him from the day he walked meet the deficiency by urging the saving up by a flywheel, spreading the burning raised upon props two or three inches out of. dad's office five years ago. Anyway, of all the good, old hens for this No stock pays better to grow at grease over the building. In a few at the back of the frames to let 'in I didn't maxry the family's choice To Whiten Ivory. next year's laying. this time than young heifers of good minutes the whole plant was burning. fresh air to the plants. —they couldn't force me inti) that— When ivory ornaments become yellow breeding. They consume less feed compared The best hens are those still in old and I only wish Joe knew that my wash well'in soap and water with with yaluq£le growth than elmost plumage, still with red combs and still heart had4 been as strong as his and MANURE SHEDS ARE FAVORED a small brush and then place thein any other animal and there sure laying. All such hens are extra good Would Welcome Age. that there was never any other but while wet in the sunshine. Wet them will be a good market awaiting them' hens and should be marked and used Gladys had red hair and the school himself." with soapy water for two or three when they begin to be cows. They as breeding stock next spring. children liked to tease her about it. Measures to Protect Valuable Farm The silence that followed Dell's days, several times a day, still keeping should be kept thrifty and doing their The teacher, finding her almost in Product Are Well Worth Expense—Prevent words sets me to fidgeting even yet them in the sunshine, then wash best, tnough—and a very little grain tears, tried to-comfort her. But Gladys SUPPLY EGG-SHELL MATERIAL Leaching. when I think of it. No one seemed them, again and they will he perfectly will do this. pouted and said: "I'll be glad when able to say anything. Charlie Osgood white. I get to be an old lady." Her teacher, The high cost of fertilizer makes Where Not Furnished in Sufficient attempted to cough then seemed puzzled, asked why she was in a hurry TWO COMBINATIONS ARE POOR barnyard manure a .most valuable Quantities There Will Surely Be horrified at what he had done. to grow old. "Then my Old red hair product of the farm. Measures to prevent Less Eggs Laid. Not Much Amiss, Dick tried valiantly to find a rallying will just have to turn gray," was the it from Teaching, such as storing are Good Cow in Hands of Unintelligent "Well, my dear sir, and how yon point from which gently to move ttartling anfewer. it in a shed,' are well worth the expense. When hens are fed and handled for today?" "Oh, doctor, I have terrible Dairyman Is' Most Undesirable our demoralized forces, for it was clear Experiments carried on In Ohio heavy egg production, and eggshell' pains all over my body, and it seems Dailry Proposition. A that any sudden change of front might show that manure loses about half its material is not furnished in sufficient almost Impossible to breathe!.: Of 'startle Dell into regretting her confession. Roman Art Lost. potash, one-third Its nitrogen and onefourth: quantity, there will be fewer eggs laid, course I can't sleep at all, and I haven't A good cow in the hands of a poor The ancient Romans knew not how its phosphorus when exposed to and those laid will be too thin-shelled a particle of appetite." "But potherWise dairyman is a poorer proposition than :o make transparent .glass free from "Well," Jie said, "I'll wager .even the weather for three winter months to market safely. The price of one you feel all right, don't you?" a poor cow In the hands of a good money, ten to ten, that Harvard wins flaws and bubbles, but they could make egg will now supply a good layer for dairyman. Both are. very poor combinations, two weeks from Saturday." the most exquisite articles of this vitreous a year. .however a good dairyman ESTIMATE VALUE OF MANURE material blood-red, crimson-red, t$ll lean figure stalked into the Talented Cow. will not keep a poor cow more than and of every Imaginable color—veritable firelit circle. Advertisement in a rural New England COMB IS A GOOD INDICATOR one season. geni-stuff in glass, ''such as we We looked up in surprise, it was Composition From Different Animals weekly—Wanted-—A steady, respectable know not how to imitate successfully Mountain House Joe, the guide. Varies—That From 8heep Rich young man to look after a today. STRONG FENCING FOR STOCK If "I'll cover that bet," he said quietly. Fowl Is In Good Health It. Will Be in Plant Food. garden and care for a cow who has Dell had half risers to her feet. Bright Red and Firm in a good voice and is- accustomed to I "When I saw that look in her eyes," Texture. The composition of. manure from "different Where This Improvement Hias Been sing in the choir.—Christian Register. ."Sugar First Used in the East. said Charlie Osgood, telling of it afterward, animals varies. Sheep manure Overlooked There Is Sure to Be It is thought' that sugar derived front "I thought -my "scalp was The comb is a good indicator of the is richest ii^ plant-food-elements iiog Trouble in Herds.' cane was known in China and India as health of a fowl. If the fowl Is in called for sure. Then that big lanky manure ranks second horse manure When .the Tide Turn*. long,ago as 4000 B. C. The sugar cane good condition the comb will be bright son-of-a-gun grabbed her as though it third and cow manure fourth. A ton When you get* Into a tight place, and Remember that it take& a good ... 7 was originally native- to those countries, red, and firm in texture. When the was'the real thing in a wild Indian of barnyard manure contains, on the everything goes against you, till it strong fence to hold the cows and and in the early middle ages cane jfc comb becomes pale and soft, or turns massacre and I closed my eyes to shot average, 10 pounds of nitrogen, 2 seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute calves apart during the long winter 4 is& sugar was brought to Europe by trad- dark or purpie, something is seriously out the" tragedy. When I opened them pounds of phosphorus and 8 pounds of longer* never give up then, for it is months, and where this improvement' U*J """'al?1 v' ,™ I ers from the Indies. Europeans called 1 wrong, and the sooner the matter is again they were still hugging each potassium, having a plant food vdlu*5 just' tho pi ft co rnd time the tide will .„m VjJ Is lacking there Insure to be trouble taokedjVn the boMer. fl nther at present otjbout S3, turn.—Hfivriet Bee efcer .Sto-ra. -VSri-w. a '&M