Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1911 — Page 3

FEEDING THE COLT

By Pref W. W. SMITH,

Feed the Foal So as to Produce Plenty of High Quality Bone, Muscle and Nerves.

Our object in the feeding and care of the colt should be to secure a sturdy body, hard, strong bone, and ian active, vigorous disposition. In other words, we want the largest and strongest development possible at maiturity. Without the liberal use of isuitable feeds In combination with sensible care and management this result will be impossible. To stimulate rapid growth and the Strongest development, the young colt {should be given the opportunity of eattlng dry food at an early age. When {one month old he will usually exhibit lan Interest In his mother’s feed box at meal time. A good way to encourage the colt to eat Is to place the mother’s feed box low enough for the youngster to reach. In a short time his capacity will demand a separate trough and an individual ration.» The demands of the colt are largely for bone and muscle and nerve building material. It Is impossible to grow tough feet, flinty bone, and strong elastic muscle upon com and timothy hay alone, especially when I exercise and pastures are not what {they should be. Prior to weaning the maximum supply of the mother’s milk ■should be sought by judgment In her {work and a plentiful’supply of good loats and a little bran. If the energies of the mother are conserved as much as possible and if she is naturally a good milker we have the most important conditions for rapid growth in the icolt. Add to this about all the bats

How to Start a Successful Co-operative Creamery

By H. C. MILLS,

The successful Organization of a cooperative creamery should not start rwlth the selling of stock, but with an accurate cow census. It should be determined by those Interested in the success of the creamery how many cows can be depended upon to furnish milk for the creamery when started. The creamery should not be started unless between 350 and 100 dairy cows are available. The location of the community with respect to large dairy markets should be considered. If located within shipping distance of city milk plants or large private creameries, the suOcess of the cooperative creamery may be doubtful. In fact, the cooperative creamery Is really unnecessary in such cases because the competition of two private, creameries will insure the highest price possible. If a sufficient number of cows are available and the creamery seems to be needed, the next step Is the selling of the stock. A dairymen’s picnic or meeting may be held and some successful farmers or members of the dairy department of the experiment station asked to explain the advantages of-the creamery and of dairy farming. At this meeting a committee may be appointed for selling stock. When suffideht stock Is sold, a meeting of stockholders may be

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the colt will clean up twice or three times a day, with access to a grass paddock, and the results should be most favorable. Corn should be fed in very small quantities, If at all. It tenda more to fattening than to growth. The best results are usually obtained when oats, , bran and timothy hay constitute the. main reliance. In the absence of bran a handful of oil meal will be found very desirable. A little salt should be supplied two or three times per week, or better still, made constantly accessible. The amount of grain to supply the colt before and after weaning should be determined by,., the appetite and condition of the colt No more should be given than will be cleaned up promptly. No harm will come from allowing the young colt hay at will, though it is usually wise to limit this part of the ration when older, especially If he has a tendency to overgorge. Liberal grain feeding should be continued until the colt is well established on pasture the succeeding summer. Grain is never used more profitably than when fed to a well-bred colt Good feeding alone, however, will never develop the best in any young animal. This is especially true of the colt. Judicious feeding must be supplemented by abundant exercise, with clean, sanitary conditions, to guarantee the well-balanced development of bone, “wind” and muscle —the essential things in a good horse of. whatever class or type.

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Purdue University Agricultural Extension

A Successful Cooperative Creamery.

held and officers elected. The officers should be elected because of business ability along dairy lines. The manager should be a ma* knowing something about creamery operation, If possible, and In a position to give much of his time to creamery work. The manager should be allowed to visit other creameries at the company’s expense, and learn how they are run. The buttermaker should next be secured, and much depends upon his selection. He can best be secured through the assistance of a dairy scmool. An efficient man should be secured, although a higher salary must be paid than for some one with fewer recommendations. The buttermaker may assist in the planning and building of the creamery and the purchasing of the creamery machinery. Cooperation of stockholders and patrons of the creamery should be secured by occasional creamery picnics and dairy meetings. Every stockholder should be made to feel that his help is needed and that a part of the creamery belongs to him. The success of the creamery depends upon hearty cooperation, which can only be secured where the farming cofamunity is composed of nourtpoTM. neighborly people.

GAMBLERS’ GRIM DUEL

DYING MAN WON WAGER THAT HE WOULD OUTLIVE OTHER. /. -y“I Could Always Beat' Bam at Any Game," He Whispered, and Passed Away Peacefully, as Any Saint “The ruling passions of men Assert their power even in the face of death," said a physician connected with a leading New York hospital to a Herald reporter. “They will possess the dying at the final moment as Intensely as they did throughout life, and they prove question that the thought of dissolution is subordinate to the dominant passions that control the mind:” “How do you mean?” asked the reporter. “I mead that men who have followed certain paths of life cannot depart from them even at the final moment,” was the reply. “It is as simple a proposition as a common rule of mathematics. When a financier is dying his last thought is upon the securities and funds he is to leave behind him, and until he falls into the state of coma which generAlly precedes death he discusses his financial affairs with members of his family, if a man’s life has been devoted to thoughts of revenge upon his enemies and death overtakes him before his mission has been accomplished, .his only regret In passing Is that his object In life has not been attained.” Then the doctor told of two gamblers who died In a hospital some years ago. They had been chums and both contracted consumption about the same time. One was thirty-eight years old, the other ten years his junior, and each was willing to bet his last coin upon the right or wrong of any question aS he viewed it. “I was In the ward one day when I heard these dying gamblers discussing their situation,” said the doctor. “They occupied cots only a few feet apart, and faced each other cheerfully. They were so exhausted they could hardly speak above whispers, but they felt confident they would recover. I knew differently and I realized, if they did not, that both would be dead within ten or fifteen hours. “ 'Say, Jim,* said the elder man, "we’re getting down to cases. ’Pears to me like you’re goin’ to leash In ahead o’ me.’ ' “ ‘Bet you ?3, all I’ve got, Sam, you cash in ahead o’ me;’ replied Jim, his face flushing with excitement. “‘You’re on, Jim,’ returned Sam,, smilingly. ‘l’ve got the dough in my wallet.’ “This remarkable duel of two dying men,” went on the physician, “necessitated a stakeholder, and the money of both was taken by a nurse and placed upon a chair between them within the reach of either. They chaffed each other for a time, and Jim asked if Sam would donate the stake to the hospital if he won. Sam answered that he purpose*) to have a good time with it at Coney Island or elsewhere. Their joking really was ghastly, and it was quite evident that all thoughts of death had been forgotten in the excitement of the outcome of the wager.”* “The end came swiftly; Sam was eyeing the little roll of bills upon the chair longingly, but his eyes began to droop and his respiration became stertorous. Jim watched Sam longingly, and his quickened respiration and glazing eyes indicated that he was in the final throes. Three bouts after the bet was made Sam lay silent, a smile of expectancy upon his wan cheeks. “The poor chap had lost the bet," said the doctor, “and I lost no time In telling Jim he had‘won. If ever 1 sa' rapture in the eyes of any man I saw it in Jim’s. He asked me to give him the money, and as I placed it in his nerveless hand he whispered, T always could beat Sam at any game,’ and died as peacefully as any saint ' “Jim had a sister, and the money went to her, with some jewelry of slight value.”

Wealth In Long-Submerged Logs.

Probably the most peculiar lumbering operations in the world are being carried on tn the Bay of Qulnte, on the northern shore of Lake Ontario, forty miles from Oswego, N. Y., where powerful engines are hoisting valuable oak and walnut logs from the bottom of the bay. Some of them are fifty feet long and sound as the day they were felled, though many of these logs have been submerged for twentyfive years. Long ago the lake was surrounded by magnificent forests of oak, pine and black walnut, and when the logs were felled and run into the lake for shipment, great numbers of the heaviest sank through their own weight or because they were covered with snow. Divers recently ascertained that the bottom of the bay was full of logs, and barges equipped with engines and grappling hooks are now hoisting them for commercial purposes. Hundreds of dollars* worth are raised dally.

Her Only Way.

“Can /you tell me how to be beautiful?" “Certainly.” . “Then tell me.” “The same way a man succeeds In entering the kingdom of heaven." "I don’t quite remember —” ’.’Except a mar be born again be cannot— Ouch! Leggo my hair!"Houston Poet.

PROTEST OF HEW ZEALAND

Land of Radical Legislation Objects Because Its Premier Has Accepted a Baronetcy. We have, as 8 nation, been inclined to look on the New Zealanders as a queer lot. -But at last, though we have hardly been able to understand their government of strongly socialistic tendencies, we are able to understand one protest they are raising. Joseph Ward is the premier of the country. When Dick Seddon was running a “pub” and working in the mines in the north Island, and HallJones was a carpenter, Joe Ward —if our memory does not fail us—was working as a telegraph operator somewhere around Christ church or Dunedin. Then came that revolution, which followed the great maritime strike almost twenty years ago, with the result that the old Tory party of land monopolists was thrown out bodily, and the butcher, baker and candlestick maker moved into the old rattletrap frame parliament building at Wellington to run the country. With plain, burly old Dick Seddon and old Scotch farmer John McKenzie at the head of the machinery, New Zealand started in on the most radical legislation that the world has seen for a long time. It was well suited to New Zealand and New Zealand was well suited to it and though there have been great failures at certain times and points, the sum total has -been good. In the meantime the character of the New Zealand people has changed. People who, when they were landless and homeless, were radical enough, are out-and-out Conservatives now and are ready to denounce any radical legislation that will affect their acres or holdings Likewise have the butcher, baker and candlestick maker changed. Dick Seddon died true to his start—a rough miner—but Ward soon blossomed out as Joseph Ward, and then, four years ago, he was knighted. Sir Joseph and Lady Ward did not, however, sit well with the New Zealanders. At the recent colonial conference Sir Joseph accepted a baronetcy. This was just beyond the limit for democratic New Zealand for noy? the title “Sir” became* hereditary. New Zealand has kicked out a hereditary land monopoly and now y it Is up In arms against a hereditary aristocracy. According to the dispatches Sir Joseph’s political sun Is sinking. New Zealand prefers to accept Gladstone and Seddon, who refused such honors, as her examples.

Mrs. Grundy.

“What will Mrs. Grundy say?” This query occurs in an old play called “Speed the Plough.” The author of it was one Thomas Morton, a forgotten playwright. First acted in 1798—the year of the Battle of the Nile, and the Irish Rebellion—this play had then a “run” of, forty-one nights and subsequently it was much revived. A farmer’s wife in the play, Mrs. Ashfield by name, Insistently refers to her rival, the wife of a neighboring farmer, whom she calls Mrs. Grundy. This second woman does not appear on the stage. It is the ruling passion with Mrs. Ashfield to have everything superior to what Mrs. Grundy may possess. In the keenness of feminine rivalry Mrs. Ashfleld is controlled in all her investments in personal apparel, when selecting her new gown, her bonnet, her jewelry, in all she does, Indeed, by the determination to “spite” her rival as expressed in the exclamation, “What will Mrs. Grundy say?” From Morton’s “Speed the Plough” came to us the invisible yet übiquitous Mrs. Grundy. By a curious transfer of symbolism, however, Mrs. Grundy passed with time inte a concrete and personal equivalent for the public opinion which supports the proprieties, the respectabilities.

Tourists In Ireland.

The world is always willing to give every renaissance a chance, and we have ours now. Are we going to take it? This matter of tourist organization may seem,'at first sight, to be a small one. But our attitude towards it will be regarded, and rightly regarded as a sign of our whole attitude towards the things that the modern world of business considers most important. If we take no pains at all to preserve and garner the golden harvest which is open to us in the tourist traffic, we shall be set down as hopelessly incompentent in practical affairs. If our visitors are bored or cheated, if they are allowed to go away In ignorance of the best views, the finest scenery, if they do not find the facilities that they have a right to expect, the damning rumor will spread abroad that Ireland is “pretty, of course, but so dirty and uncomfortable/* Not only will our tourist stream dry up, but every Irish product, from lace to butter, will have to fight against that vague, intangible prejudice against Irish goods and Irish methods as being dirty and unbusinesslike.—Weekly Irish Times.

Truely Appropriate.

The organist was not lacking In patrotism, says the New York Sun, yet he rebelled when requested to play “The Star Spangled Banner,” at a wedding. “It la not appropriate," he said. “Ain’t IL” said ike bride’s father. "For this wedding it is the most appropriate thing you can play. Cut all the rest of the program if you like, but stick to that I had the hardest kind of a fight to keep Belle’s mother from marrying fier off to a foreigner. Between Belle and me we won out for an American, and if this isn’t the time for *The Star Spangled Banner,* I’d Hke to know what is."

FASHIONS FOR GIRLS

COMFORT AND PRACTICALITY ARE RULING FEATURES. Color and Style That Sult the Youthful Wearer Given 'Close Attention —One-Piece Frocks in Two Dainty Designs. Happliy for the peace of mothers, none of the eccentricities of adult garments pervades little wardrobes. In all departments children’s clothes are sensible, all wear for everyday use being made up with an eye to comfort and practicability. At the same time, however, a good deal of attention is given to the color and style that suit the small wearer, so whether the little garment is bought ready made or is made at home much consideration is given to suitability, And, after all it is this quality, the right line and the right color, which makes up that subtle essence called style. A juvenile shop is an excellent place In which to study up effects for home sewing, for these stores engage the best designers and makers and the small garments are simpler and better made than elsewhere, to say nothing of the superiority of their material over the usual thing. School and everyday clothes in these delightful places—for they are as interesting in some departments as doll houses—run largely to soft, dark wools with white or bright touches, Scotch plaids, being as always, much favored. Some of the newest plaids, though, are made in olny two colors, the pattern showing a double line crossing in a square check in different sizes. These pretty stuffs, and others of,the plaid family, are much used for trimming a plain goods—the patterned material showing in a deep sailor collar, or in an edging for this and the cuffs, and in bands used elsewhere. A dress entirely of the plaid may be made up with a bit of silk in one of the dominant tones of the goods. Red and black and green, blue and black and white, and brown and white are some smart color combinations in these ever-stylish and gay materials. Other stuffs for growing children from the kindergarten are up to eight likewise run greatly to a pattern of some sort, as it is found that the such textures stay clean longer than the plain ones. Soft wools with mottled. dotted and striped effects are all seen, and if the frock is very simple it is trimmed only with a plain wool The two small girls in the Illustration wear regulation one-piece frocks In the styles suited to four and six years old. The dress of the bigger girl is of a broken-check plaid wool in red and blue; plain red serge forms the 'collar and cuffs, which are outlined with a little red soutache. This little frock is very compact and' sensible, but at the same time the style can be used for a more dressy one with a cut out neck and short sleeves. All the textures hitherto mentioned are suitable for the model, .which In a good material and with some smartening of trimming, is also adapted to the girl’s best bib. The second frock In this picture is a very plain effect adapted to wool or a stout wash material, and in some of the shops the mode! Is called the

CAMISOLE AND UNDERSUP

Dainty Combination That Will Appeal to the Woman of Good Taste. This is a dainty camisole for nainsook. cambric or jap silk; it has a “V” shaped opening at neck, outlined with insertion and lace; strips of Insertion are taken over the shoulders to basque back and front; this Is connected to upper part by a •narrow

beading. Small tucks are made each side of front. The little puff sleeves are set to beading edged with lace frills. Materials required: yards 35 Inches wide. S yards Insertion. 2 yards lace. The underslip would be made tn sateen, batiste, silk or satin, to be worn under laoe or thin blouses; It Is quite plain, fastens down front and la drawn up at waist by tape threaded

The HOME DEPARTMENT

“Nancy.” The design is merely a long-bodied blouse, opening at the front, and attached to a skirt no more than frill length. The cut is very suitable for the child who needs a number of frocks, and plain as the dress is It can be made of anything from gingham to velvet In fact a black velvet dress made In this way, and topped at the shoulders with a broad Irish collar, would be 4 the height of magniflcance, as the richer the material for little folks the plainer the style. Now a word as to mother economies for these small costumes, or any finer ones. Has mamma—the mam-

ma who Is to do all the sewing-* looked over her old materials lately? If so, she must have found something which can be used again, a soft light wool that would dye nicely, a yard of new silk, satin, or a quantity of good silk braid in an impossible color. All of these things can be turned to account for a whole gown, trimmings or touches, for a good wool and braids dye beautifully, and when bought new they are high priced.

Large White Revers.

There is a growing fashion for Large white revers on all kinds of coats. The top wraps of rough English suitings have collars of white Shetland wool or mohair or serge. These are very wide at the back and are differently shaped in front; some run down in wide points to the waist, others are short and Square, and others are scalloped. They give an effect of ail white from the waist up, which is augmented by the addition of huge white cuffs to match. . ,

Poke Bonnets With Velvet Crowns.

The Georgia poke'of narrow brim drooping at the sides and rounding up a little at front and back is often allied with very high crowns In.draped silk or velvet, or in silk, velvet, beaver or felt, trimmed high. Bandeaux of feathery egrets ospreys or other fluffy plumage may entirely encircle the crown, giving great height or pointed wings may be used In a similar war, or finely plaited tulle cut in winglike points and closely pressed may be placed around the crown of a velvet hat with admirable effect.

through a slide. The plain sleeves should be either short or long, according to blouse worn. Materials required: 2 yards 35 Inches wide, 4 buttons.

KEEPING THE FACE CLEAN

Considered Old-Fashioned Now to Be Afraid to Give Face Good f Scrubbing. The face Is a part of our body which needs the utmost attention, because It is also the part which Is most exposed. Some persons are afraid of using anj> but the gentlest motions upon the face, yet we are told that scrubbing the (ace Is a very good thing as an occasional treatment, that it opens the pores In a way such as they cannot otherwise be opened—that It takes out accumulated dirt, and best of all for the pale people. it brings about a healthy circulation aad a rich glow to the cheeks which is an attractive addition to most complexions. A small brush such as one uses tor the hands, called a -nail brush.” Is good as an instrument for this scrubbing process, and there should be some elbow grease applied here as well as In other domestic cleansing processes. It is considered quite old-fashioned now to be afraid to give at least one good scrubbing a week to the face.

Windows In Umbrella.

An umbrella with windows Is the latest In Paris. The reason given for the innovation Is the difficulty of getting about on account of the danger caused by traffic, especially tn we* weather.