Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1915 — Page 6

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SAFETY FIRST.

A Senseless Waste of Life That Can Easily Be Stopped. In the ten years from 1901 to 1910, inclusive, the number of deaths from trespassing on the railroads in the United States was 50,025, while in the United Kingdom ii was 4,434. The. disparity between the injured is still more remarkable. •On our roads the total injured was 53,427, while in the United Kingdom it was 1,313. Moreover, the traffic density is greater in the United Kingdom, with 191.3 miles oUrailroad in a thousand square miles, against 70.3 miles in the United States. And yet the United Kingdom had only s.s per cent of our total dead trespassers and 2.4 per Cent of yrfir. injured. This is not a cas«-where the simple expedient of blaming it on the railroads suffices. It has nothing to do with level crossings. The condition and ratio .would not be cluing ed by elevating or lowering the tracks. The accidents here are the result'of creating a pedestrian right

of way where none does or should exist. It is justly pointed out py , the Railway Business Association, in a pamphlet on "The Deadly Toll of Trespass on Railways,,’ that this frightful total is due to causes well known to us in other directionslack of laws or lack of enforcement. One instance quoted is sufficiently significant. The law against trespass in enforced in Canada. A SSO fine there, with a possibility of two months in prisoit, had the result in the case of the \Vabash of three! deaths and three injuries on the Canadian part of that system, as against '94 killed trespassers and 135 niainled on the American portion. As Edward B. Pryor, receiver of the road, says: ‘‘The law in Can ada is very strictly enforced. The result is that we are not burdened with the trespassing evil in Canada.” In all politicians’ efforts to se- ; cure the safety of the public, will it / be believed that 35 states have no law specifically prohibiting persons from walking on a railway right of ! way? The state of Missouri, as the , Railway Business Association points out, even recognizes “The inalienable right of the American citizen to get himself killed or mangled.” In other words, does not bar him from claiming damages. - - T --- All but six of these states, those

having no sessions in 1915, will have the opportunity to put a trespass law on thelV statute books. Is it hoping too much that the legislatures will co-operate with the railroads in the matter of ‘‘safety first?” —Wall Street Journal.

Hundreds of health articles appear in newspapers and magazines, and in practically every one of them the importance of keeping the howels regular is emphasized. A constipated condition invites disease. A dependable physic that acts without inconvenience or griping is found in Foley Cathartic Tablets. •■ : I

A Plea for the Phagocyte.

Dr. Ewing, a St. Louis physician, has raised a voice of protest against the-surgical propensity of the use of the knife on the tinsils. For a long time it was the vermiform appendix which was only in the way, but lately, owing perhaps to a growing incredulity in the public mind, surgery has turned more to the tonsil as (lie superfluous thing which is capable of doing a great deal of harm anil absolutely incapable of doing any good. Dr. Ewing insists that the tonsils make a nesting place for the phagocytes, that class of good microbes which gets into the blood and fight" great battles there with the had microbes who infest our systems. The tonsils, says Dr. Ewing, are recruiting station at which the phagocyte armies are enlisted and from which they march away to fight for our lives. If we remove tile tonsils obt or the rising generation, tlie r/sing generation may be left without phagocytes to fight their battles for them, and will fall victims to the armies of evil microbes who will then attack them unresisted. Race suicide! •-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.

How This?

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Small Grains and Alfalfa for Hogs,

The growing of swine and the production of pork are industries that today are claiming increasing attention throughout the northwest. Experiments with grains which may take the place of corn for feeding purposes are of the greatest interest to farmers in this region, because the shiall grains are often grown in abundance and form the basis of all rations. A great amount of wheat, barley, and rye is fed in the form of mill products, and is of course ground. In common practice, also, these grains are ground more generally than corn, as they are, usually much harder. The greater liability of small grains to pass through the animal undigested shows the correctness of such practice. Best Results With Wheat-Chief among the small grains is wheat, and it,appears to be the food best adapted for long-continued hog feeding. The advisability of feeding wheat or any other grain, however, depends upon market prices and other economic conditions, it could hardly be regarded as economical to use wheat as stock feed at the 'high prices now prevailing. A bushel of wheat properly fed to reasonably well-bred bogs should produce, approximately. 13 pounds of gain in weight. The results of a number of feeding tests show that there is comparatively little difference in feeding valuer between .. wheat and corn : for

swine. In comparing various rations in which corn, wheat and rye were fed alone or in , combination with each other, it was found that drv 1 , ground wheat gave the greatest returns and required tile least amount of grain to make 100 pounds of gain. Wheat should be ground and mixed with some supplement, such as tankage, peas, or soy-bean meal. The results obtained from a number of tests have proven this to be a good practice. Barley Produces Best Pork—ln Great Britain and northern Europe barley takes the place of corn for pork production, leading all grains in producing pork of fine quality, both as to hardness and flavor. Considerable study in the United States has been made of the value of barley as pig feed, and the results have shown that it compares very favorably with, corn, but has & feeding value somewhat below that of wheat. What grain may lack in feeding value, however, it more than supplies in its effect on the carcass. As a high-grade pig feed it far sui passes any other grain, and this fact makes possible the production of pork of the first quality in regions where barley is produced abundantly. Ground or rolled barley is best fed in combination with wheat middlings, skim milk, roots, alfalfa, etc. Value of Rye-—Rye mgal ranks a little below corn and about equal to barley meal as ,a feed for swine. Rye produces satisfactory pork, especially when it is fed with other grains. It is an extremely heavy, concentrated feed and will usually give best results when fed not to exceed one-third of a ration. In many sections rye is much esteemed as pasture, especially where the soils are rather light, and in such instances ‘ hogging off" proves profitable. Alfalfa Pasture and Hay—Since, economical pork production depends largely upon the consumption of a great deal of cheaply grown feed, the pasture should be managed so that the forage produced will be clean, tender, and palatable. Many successful hog raisers prefer to use such 'crops as alfalfa and clover . for both pasture and liay at the same time. The number of hogs generally turned into a field is so limited that the usual crops of hay are made. The newer irrigated sections have thousands of acres in alfalfa which ma.y be utilized by pasturing with hogs. Alfalfa, while adapted to the same territory as clover, has a much wider range of usefulness, for it succeeds with less rainfall and on lighter soils than clover. Where the land is to be used continuously for hog pasture for a number of years, alfalfa easily stands first. An acre of alfalfa will keep frorir 15 to 20 pig's during the summer, and with grain in addition will make Very profitable gains and a high quality of pork. Alfalfa bay is often used for feeding to hogs in the dry lot. It-may be fed whole, chopped or ground. The results of five years’ work at the j Nebraska station indicate that for fattening hogs the way to feed alfalfa. hay mo.st satisfactorily is without grinding or chopping. While the cost of producing pork may be reduced, materially by the use of alfalfa hay, or alfalfa pasture, it is desirable to . feed other concentrated feed in addition. Alfalfa is too one-sided for a ration unless supplemented with grain. Mature hogs, however, are maintained in apparently satisfactory condition on alfalfa, alone. Amount- of Grain Fed With Pas-ture—-Hog growers differ quite widely regarding the quantity of grain that should be fed while on pasture. Some feed a full gain ration; that is,

all the hog will consume. Others feed a medium ration, one that is equal to about 2 to 3 per cent of the live weight of the hog. Still others prefer a light ration, one that is equal to about 1 percent of the live weight of the hog. No definite rule can he laid down, as the amount of grain which should be fed with green pasture depends upon! (1) the price of the grain, (2) the amount and quality of the pasture, and (3) the age at which the hogs are to be marketed. However, the feeding of 2 pounds of grain per day for each too pounds of live, weight will usually give satisfactory results. r~ When the supplemental grain ration is expensive there is great temptation to place the hogs upon an exclusive pasture ration. This seldom pays, because it takes as much concentrated feed in tfrfe end, and sometimes more, to fit hogs for market which have been on a pasture diet as is required for hogs fed grainwhile on pasture; however, mature breeding stock, or hogs .vliich are nearly grown, can be carried on good pasture until cheap concentrated feed can be supplied.

Hogs feeding upoh require slightly less concentrated feed than when grazing upon lionleguminous pasture. When a farmer has more hogs than his pasture is capable of supporting, it will be more economical to feed a full grain ration, for the grain a «ftog consumes the less he will feed upon the pasture; To finish hogs for market when 7 to 9 months old it is necessary to give them about all the feed they ill consume, in addition to pasture in order to make them reach the.weight demanded by the market, 170 to 225 pounds. Hogs that are to be marketed when 10 to 12 months old can be maintained on pasture combined with a light grain ration during the grazing season and fattened later. Slow daily gains will result, but most of the growth will be made from cheaply grown forage. Crops for 'Hogging-Off—ln the regions where the small grains and alfalfa flourish it is also possible to provide crops that may be hogged off during several months of the busy season. The crops generally used for this purpose are wheat, field peas, corn and li&rley, By supplementing well-managed pasture with the proper grain rations and utilizing the ability of the hog to harvest grain crops for himself, the average cost of producing pork in the northwestern states may he materially reduced.— IT. S. Dept, of Agriculture Weekly News Letter. .

Cities With Nine Lives.

When the war is over we may be sure that most of the towns and cities destroyed by the Germans will like the Phoenix, rise from their ashes. The teaching of history is that a city is hard to kill. For instance, London has been decimated five times by plagues, in addition to visitations of typhus, cholera and other epidemics. She has been burned more or less severely several times. Paris has gone through eight sieges, ten families, two plagues and one fire which devastated it. Rome has -been swept by pestilence no fewer than ten times. She has been twice burned and six times driven to submission by starvation. Constantinople lias been burned out nine times and lias suffered from four plagues and five sieges,—London Chronicle.

IF MOTHERS ONLY KNEW. Mother Cray’s Sweet Powders for' children relieve feverishness, headache, had stomach, teething disorders., jjiovo and regulate the bowels and destroy worms. They break tip: colds in.2l hours; Used hy motbers for 2(i years. Alt druggists, 25c, Sample free. Address, A.- S. Olmstead I.eKoy, X. Y.—Advt. 83 —Head of .Stock- —K;} PUBLIC SALK. As we are going to quit farming we will sell at public auction 3 miles west of Motion and 2 miles south and 2 miles east of Lee, on Wednesday, February 21. 1915, commencing at 10 o’clock the following property, to-wit: 15 Head of Horses and Mules—! bay horse 5 yrs old, wt 1450;’ 1 bay horse 8 .yrs old, wt 1450; 1 sorrel horse S yrs old, wt 1 500; 1 brown mare 8 yrs- old, in foal to Garwood’s Belgian horse, wt 1 450; bay mart 9 yrs old, wt 1300; i bay horse 10 yrs old, wt 1050, broke to all harness, an extra good driver; 1- bay horse 5 yrs old, lady broke, wt 1100; 1 black mare coming 3 yrs old, broke, wt 1200; 1 bay horse 9 yrs old, wt 1550; 1 horse mules 7 and & yrs old, wt 2100; 1 brown mare, guaranteed lady broke, wt 1 250; 1 bay draft colt 3 yrs old, wt 120 o • i span*spring mtiles, • one black and one brown, got the makings of a good team.

40 Head of. Cattle-—-1 Hereford cow yrs. old, with two weeks’ old heifer calf by side: 1 red, Shorthorn cow 7 yrs old, heifer calf 4 days old; 1 red Shorthorn cow 5 yrs old, fresh in September, giving good flow* of milk; l red /ow 5 yrs old, fresh first of April; 1 black cow 5 yrs old, fresh last part of December; 1 onehalf Jersey and one-half , red Polled heifer, 2 yrs old, 3 week’s calf by side; 1 roan Hereford cow 7 yrs old, with a hue black bull calf by side; fi three-year-old heifers, red’s and black’s, fresh in March and April; 5 2-year-old heifers, fresh in April;’ 4 coming 2-year-old heifers, fresh this spring; -5 yearling heifers; 14 heaM of May and June calves, 1 6 bulls and 8 heifers. This stuff is all good color, good quality and carrying fair flesh.

BIG PUBLIC SALE! The undersigned having rented his farm, will offer at public auction at said farm 2 3-4 miles south and 1 mile west of Rensselaer, commencing at 10 a. m on MONDAY, FEB. 22, ’ls ■ - ■——r—- * 13 HEAD HORSES AND MULES. Consisting of 1 sorrel mare 7 years old, wt. 1450; 1 bay mare 8 years old, wt. 1400; 1 grey mare 7 years old, wt. 1250: 1 bay horse 4 years old, wt. 1200; 1 bay mare 7 years old, wt. 1200; 1 grey horse 11 years old, wt. 1200; 1 bay 'horse 11 years old, wt. 1200; 1 black horse 3 years old, wt. 1100; 1 bay colt coming 3-year-old, roadster bred, wt. 800; 2 black horses coming 6-year-old, wt. 1450 each; 2 black mules 5 years old, wt. 2400. —_— 35 HEAD OF CATTLE Consisting of 12 good milch cows, 2 with calves by side, others fresh later; 6 steers coming 2-year-old; 7 heifers coming 2-year-old; 6 coming yearlings; 1 good 2-year-old Durham bull. 7 HEAD OF HOGS. ( onsisting ot 1 nearly full blood Duroc brood sow, an extra good one, will farrow about April 1; V> shoats weight about 100 pounds each. 10 to 15 acres of shock corn; some oats straw; 1,000 to 1,100 bushels “Fourth of July” seed oats; 400 bushels late seed oats, all clean and nice. IMPLEMENTS, WAGONS, ETC. . Consisting of Kentucky wheat drill, new, a good one; manure spreader; gang plow, 14-inch; walking plow; 2 riding cultivators; 2 Tower gophers; new 3-section wood harrow; steel land roller; Milwaukee binder; 3 farm wagons, 1 almost new, triple boxes, wide tires; 2 buggies, 1 brand new top buggy, 1 runabout; 3 sets work harness, one brand new; new patent feed rack; fee2' etc. TERMS —Ten dollars and under cash in hand; on sums over $lO a credit of 10 months will be given, purchaser executing note with approved security, with 6 per cent interest from date if paid when due, but if not paid at maturity 8 per cent interest from date. 2 per cent off for cash. No property to be removed from premises until terms of sale are complied with. Cols. J. G. Culp and W. A. McCurtain, auctioneers. C G. Spitler clerk 1111 l I 11001/CD Gus Grant, hot lunch V|f|v|| || HUUVII|" Ex-Sheriff Jasper Co.

22 Head of Hogs—l tried Duroc sow, bred to full blood Duroc boar, due to farrow in March; 1 Chester White sow, due to farrow in'April; 1 black sow, with 7 nice pigs; 4 Duroc gilts, bred to full blood boar, wt 175; 1 biack boar, one year old; 1 Duroc boar, wt 175; 6 Duroc shoats, wt 75 pounds each. Implements—l Weber wagon, with triple box, broad tire, good as new; 2 old wagons, with double boxes; 2 8-ft solid wheel discs, tongue trucks complete, used one season; 1 Rock Island corn planter, with J. I. Case fertilizer attachment and SO rods of wire, used one season; 1 RockIsland plow, 12-inch gang, gOocT as new; 1 P. & O. gang plow, used two seasons; 3 3-section harrows, good as new; 1 I’2-disc wheat drill, with fertilizer and grass seed attachments; 1 6-ft, Deering binder; 1 Deering mower; 1 McCormick mower; 1 riding, cultivators, good as new ;, 1 1 4-in. Janesville walking plow; 1 Prairie sod breaking plow; 2 new harrow carts; 1 hay rake; 1 good Klondike buggy; 1 £ood spring wagon; 2 sets of gravel boards; 5 good sets of work harness, used one season; 50gallon coal oil tank: feed troughs; hay ladder; water barrels; scoops; shovels; blankets, many other things not mentioned. Terms of Kale—slo and under cash; a credit of 10 months will be given on all sums over $lO, drawing 5 per cent, interest from date, purchaser giving bankable note with freehold- security. 5 per cent off for cash. No property to be removed until settled for. JOHN F. KERRY, ERZIE MI DEE PL j H. T. Cain and E. R: Wright, auctioneers; C. G; Middlestadt, clerk. Runch will be served by Radies' Aid of Ree. BIG PUBLIC SALE. The undersigned will sell at his residence on the James Yeoman farm in Newton tp., 4i/> miles west and 1 mile north of Rensselaer and 3 utiles east of Mt. Ayr, the following property commencing at 10 a. m., on Thursday, February 25, 1915. 12 Head of Horses—Consisting of 1 black mare . 5 yrs old, wt 11.00, sound; 1 black mare 10 yrs old, in foal to the D. S. Makeover Jack, w r t 1650, good work, mare; 1 bay horse 5 yrs old; wt 1340; 1 bay mare 8 yrs old, wt 1 370, in foal; 1 bas horse 4 yrs old, wt 1300, sound; 1 sorrel driving horse, wt 950 or 1 000, 8 yrs old, a good one; 1 bay mare- 4 yrs' old, by Acrobat A, wt 1 220; 1 team of mules 10 yrs old, wt 2020, good snappy workers; l roan horse 3 yrs old, wt 1000; L bay colt. 2 yrs old; 1 black colt 2 yrs old. 10 Head of Cattle—Consisting of

2 red Shorthorn cows 4 yrs old; 1 red Shorthorn cow 8 yrs old, calf by side; 1 red Shorthorn cow 5 yrs.: old; 1 spotted cow 8 yrs old; 1 full blood Jersey cow 4 yrs old in spring,, a good one; 9 head of spring calves; 5 heifers, 2 bulls and 2 steers. 50 Head of Hogs—Consisting of 5 good brood sows, farrow in April; 10 bred gilts and balance* shoats, weighing from 90 to 135 lbs. These hogs are cholera immune. Were vaccinated 6 ..weeks ago. 15 Head of Good Hampshire Ewes will lamb in April. Terms —1 0 months credit will be given on all sums over. $lO with the usual conditions. 6 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit. J. M. YEOMAN. Fred Phillips, auctioneer: C. G Spitler, clerk. Hot lunch on ground. BIG PUBLIC SALE. Having sold my farm, I will offerat public auction at said farm 5 miles? northwest of Whoa Hi eld and 3 miles north of Stoutsburg, Ind., commencing at 10:30 a. m., on Friday, Feb. 20, 1915. 5 Head of of, 1 team -of Percheron mares coming 1 years old, well broke and sound, wt 1100 and 1150 lbs; 1 gentle Hamiltonian driving mare, sound! and with foal by John C.reve’s Hamiltonian horse, wt 1100 lbs; 1 team of general purpose farm mares, with smooth mouths, wt 1150 lbs. 22 Head of Cattle—Consisting of 1 4 cows and heifers, some fresh now and the .rest to he fresh soon, one a full blooded Jersey cow; 1 2-year-old Durham bull; 4 good yearling steers: 3 yearling heifers. Poultry—-12 Bronze turkey hens; 3 Bronze goblers. . Implements, Wagon's, Etc.—Consisting of 1 top buggy, good as new; 1 J.- I. Case 14-inch gang* plow; 1 1 6-inch J. I. Case sulky plow; 1 endgate seeder, iiracttpally new; 2 corn cultivators,' one a Tower surface cultivator, the J. I. Case; 1 iron harrow: . 1 talking breaking plow'; 2 mowers; 2 bull rakes: 1 2-horse Deering hay rake; 1 bale rack; 1 grindstone.; some lumber; scoop board; 1 canoe; 1 set work harness: 1 set single buggy harness; some household goods, anji other articles too numerous to mention. Terms—lo months credit will be given on all Sums over slo.with the usual .conditions; 4 per cent off for cash where entitled to credit. E. E. BURKHART. Col. O. S. Burkhart, auctioneer. Hot lunch on ground.