The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 30, 1911, Page 3

wossearee ‘ _@ans, are also discovered by this means New Rays of Light PAODUCING WINTER Ebt8 One of the most wonderful electrical | Spplance is ie X-ray which may te) NATURE OF THE STOCK KEPT IS us th in the treatment of various dis- | eases and in the diagnosis of many ob- | IMPORTANT FACTOR. scure conditions, With its aid the in- terior of the human body is no longer the sealed book it has been heretofore. Ab- norma! states of the bones, gall stones, stone in the bladder or in the kidneys, are shown plainly by what are known as X- | ray photographs. Internal tumors, and the enlargement of the deep-scated or- By Prof. H. L. Kempster, - Poultry Husbandry, University of Missouri. ‘ As winter approaches and the price of eggs becomes attractive, the farm- er turns his attention to the farm hen with the idea of so handling her as to produce winter eggs. Usually the farm flock is neglected during the summer and now especial care is ex- ercised to make up this neglect. The illustration is given to point out the causes for failure to secure best re- sults, Too many fail to appreciate the importance of foresight in the handling of the flock, for “winter care” is only one of the factors in- fluencing ‘winter egg production.” and in the diagnosis of tuberculosis of the lungs this agent has proven a most valuable aid, When applied to some of the less fatal chronic ailments of germ origin it has proven very effective as a curative agent. Another interesting proceeding {s the violet-ray treatment produced by concen- trating tho violet. or chemical rays from an are light with a specially prepared carbon upon any portion of the body that | may be the of pain, Sufferers from neuralgia, sciatica, rheumatism, strains, sprains, also from those obscure exhaust- ing pains (the origin of which cannot at times be accurately determined) frequent- | ly find immediate relief from a single treatment and usually with a little per- nature of the stock kept, whether it Egg production depends upon the; that the hen is induced to tuae w us eral amount of exercise, and this ca. best be accomplished by the use of a heavy straw covering on the feeding floor in which the grain can be buried deep. Ocvasionally clover hay is used as a litter, and when this is done the hens eat a large amount of the leaves, thus furnishing a substitute for suc- culent feed which is generally lack- ing in the ration unless supplied in the form of mangel wurtzels, cabbage, sprouted oats, etc. One can make use of the litter from the alleys in the feeding barns and material that is usually wasted can be converted ‘into a valuable poultry food by carry- | ing it to the poultry house. No grain | food, or combination of grains, is ‘suf- ficient, nor is it satisfactory .or eco-’ nomical ration. A common practice jis to have one feed each day com- | Posed of ground feed, and often ground food is kept before the hens }aH the time in hoppers, thus reduc- ing the labor. A mash consisting of bran, middlings and corn meal, each ;One part by weight, and beef scraps is a laying breed and strain, upon the; °Me-half part, is a very satisfactory | L | sistenco in the use of this aid, comfortable | health or perfect recovery is obtai The incandescent light bath, consisting of a cabinet in which the patient is bathed in the combined rays of many electric light globes, has Regd y in dia wonderful resul rheumatism, obe forms of kidy has also pro’ chitis, bror i diseases. A 1 hygienic me: its efficiency can scarcely be over-esti- mated. Those who have_been patients at Dr. Pierce’s Invalids’ Hotel, in Buffalo, N. Y., highly commend this wonderfully equip- pes Sanitarium, where the above men- ioned electric machines, high-frequency current, and other most modern and up- to-date apparatus are used for the cure of chronic diseases, The treatment of the chronic diseases that are peculiar to women have for many years been a largo factor in the cures affected at the In- valids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute. In erecting the Invalids’ Hotel, Dr. R. V. Pierce's idea was to make it a genuine home, not a hospital. Such cases as We ture, hydrocele and varicocele are usually cured in ten days, and the patient is able toreturn home. The terms are moderate and the rates at the Invalids’ Hotel com- aratively low. In the examination and reatment of patients the practice is divided into specialties.. Each member of the Faculty, although educated to prac- tice in all departments of medicine and surgery, is here assigned to a special de- partment only, to which he devotes his entire time, study and attention. Not only is superior skill thus attained, but also rapidity and accuracy in the diagno- sis of disease. . Specialists connected with this Insti- tute at Buffalo, are enabled to accurately determine the nature of many chronic diseases without secing and personally examining their patients, This method gf treating patients at a distance, by mail, as been so successful that there is wre searcely a city or a village in the United | States that is not represented by one or more cases upon the records of practice at the Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical In- | stitute, Such rare cases as cannot be treated In this way, which require surgi- cal operations or careful after-treatment, or electrical therapeutics, receive the ser- | vices of the most skillful specialists at | i the Institution. In medicine there has been rapid pro- SUrIAE recent years, ept up with the times by continually im- proving his laboratory by skilled chemists, and exercising care that the ingredients entering into his well-known medicines Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as wel! as the"Golden Medical Discovery” are ex- tracted from the best variety of native medicinal roots. These are gathered with great care and at the proper season of the year, so that their medicinal properties may be most reliable. These extracts are then made soluble in pure triple retined glycerine and bottled ina hygienic and scientitic manner, Thus the World’s Dispensary as established by Dr. Pierce is supplied with every known apparatus and means of cure, for its aim is to avoid surgical operations whenever possible. Great care is exercised not to over en- courage those who consult. the specialists of this institution that no false hopes may be raised. Many thousands are annually treated both through correspondence and at this Institute. Every one consulting by letter or in person receives the most careful and considerate attention, All communica- tions are treated as strictly confidential. No charge whatever is made for con- sultation, Write the Invalids’ Hote) and Surgical Institnte. Dr, R, V. Pierce, President, at Rodalo, N. ¥. WHAT THE BOSS SAID. _ Friend (consolingly)—So you've lost your job, eh? Well, don’t worry about ft. I reckon you was only wastin’ yer time in a place like that. Young Bill (sadly)—Yes, that’s what the boss told me when he sacked r. Pierce has | quality and vigor of the breeding | ®ddition to the scatch food, and the| | stock from which it came and also; Combination of the mash and scratch upon the care which it is given. Win-| food makes a suitable ration. Farm- ter egg production depends not only; @FS can substitute the commercial -upon these factors, but the time of; Meat foods with table scraps, skim hatching, manner of handling the| Milk, etc., but all rations unless they stock during the summer and winter! Contain some animal food seem to care play important parts in the se- lack some of the essentials of a prop- curing of satisfactory results. e den and a ema amount of ani- Bearing this in mind one can read-| Mal food can be used to an advan- fly see that now is the time to pre-! eer a et are lacking in lime, pare not only for this year’s winter| for the laying hen needs large quan- egg production, but also for the fol- | tities for the production of the shell, lowing winter. \ and lime in some form, such as oyster The nature of the stock kept is) Shells or crushed limestone, if kept largely important in the production | Where the birds have access to it, of eggs. There is no question but| will materially increase the egg yield that the smaller active breeds such as|®0d in cases where the range is Leghorns will produce a greater num- | restricted the birds should also have ber of eggs. They have been select-; 2ccess to sharp grit in some form: ed with that one purpose in view and} The birds should be kept active} their disposition is favorable to abun. | during the day, busy working in the dant egg production, the tendency of | Pens and yet should go to the roost the bird to become fat being absent! hen oie @ good fl crop and, if and less effort required to induce y are from a good laying strain, them to exercise. If egg production brought to maturity at the right time, ts the object to be attained, one would | re bias! Roupet ond peaperly cared | make a mistake not to keep breeds; fOr, better results can be expected of this nature, but where meat pro-| than where these precautions have) duction {s also. a consideration the NOt been observed. breeds such as Rocks, Wyandottes, | Reds and Orpingtons are especially desirable. The question of “what, breed” depends upon individual re- quirements, but one must not stop| with breed alone, for there is as great a diffagence between individuals of! the same breed as between breeds,|* drink ice-cold water during the and the careful selection of breeding! Winter. There are several good rea- stock can not be overemphasized. In| 8028 why this {s bad practice. the selection of breeding stock one| 1m the first place, the cow that fs should get some idea of what they| Producing a large amount of milk desire a chicken to be and what they, Must drink a large amount of water expect it to do, and then select their, OF decrease in milk flow. If there is stock with this purpose in view,|20thing but ice water available, the ‘using not only individual perform. | COW will take only a few sips and ance as a factor but constitutional| Will not drink deeply, as she should. | vigor as well, for fat, lazy hens make! Im this way her milk flow will be de- poor breeders and birds with strong, | creased. active characteristics give the best | If a cow cots happen to drink a | results. | large amount of ice water from the Winter egg production can not be; trough, she will be completely chilled expected from old hens. It is difficult} through for an hour or more, and to control the seasonable production | 80metimes for half a day. The cold , ot eggs, for the old stock does not, water stops the digestive processes complete its molting before winter sets | and may cause trouble in that way. ‘in and rarely begin to lay before | At aby rate, it stops the milk produc- Books and . Novelties WATERING THE MILK COWS | A. C. Page, College of Agriculture, University of Missouri. The cow should not be compelled South Side Square For the Right Present For the Right Person At the Right Price . Come Right to Us THE BAZ | February and March. Commercial | poultry farms, where a continuoys legge supply is especially desirable, | generally depend upon pullets for | their winter eggs. This is also an uncertain and difficult task. A bird (if properly raised will begin laying ' when five or six months old, depend- | ing upon the breed and the care given , during the growing period. bird lays in August or September | there is a tendency for her to lay a ‘few eggs and when cliinatic changes ‘occur, go into the molt, thus checking | egg production and rendering her useless as an egg producer until the , molt is completed. | Usually, however, if a bird does not ‘come into laying before winter sets in, it is difficult to secure eggs until | February or March. To raise the birds to maturity and avoid the fall | ‘molt isa task involving not only time \of hatching, but sebsequent care, for |a pullet must arrive at the proper stage for her development at the ex- i act time. In addition to these factors, win- ter egg production depends upon the thousing, feed and care given. The | Poultry house should be dry, well | ventilated, free from drafts and abun- dantly lighted. Dryness is secured {by having the floor higher than the | surrounding ground, drains where /necessary and efficient ventilation. | The popular style of ventilation is ithe use of muslin frames in part or jas the entire window, a combination | of the two preferable, and when used lin the proportion of one square foot of glass and an equal amount of mus- lin to every sixteen square feet of floor space, it will afford well lighted and ventilated quarters. One can usually regulate ventilation by _ob- serving the interior of the pen. If moisture is present on the windows or walls, there is too little ventilation and more fresh air should be admit- ted. By placing all openings on the If the} | {ng processes for some time, and puts | the nervous system of the cow in poor | condition. Water that is used in the body must ; be heated to the body temperature |in some way. If the cow drinks it | cold, the food that she has eaten must supply the fuel to heat it up. If it is heated before she drinks it to a mild temperature which will not give her a chill, a few blocks of wood or a shovelful of coal will do the work. Actual experiments have | shown that it is much cheaper to heat the water outside than to make the cow heat it with the food she eats, A small water heater for the tank is not expensive, and itgis scarcely any trouble to operate. It will pay big returns. KEEP MANURE HAULED OUT Do Not Let Great Pile Accumulate to Lose Its Value. Outside of the feeding of the stock, no one thing is of greater importance in improving the farm than the haul- | ing out of the manure from the barne, | Tests have shown that it pays in dol- lars to haul the manure from the barn to the field regularly instead of letting a great pile accumulate to j lose its value under the sun and rain. In Germany and other European j Countries they have learned much more about soil management than we have in this country. Prof. M. F. Miller of the University of Missouri, who has been in Germany for a year, says that they haul out the manure and plow it under shallow, and then later come along and plow it under deeply. They have cheaper labor there and can afford to do this. We could scarcely afford to practice that method in Missouri. However, many average farmers do not even try to get the manure hauled ont at all. One of the great values of the manure spreader, according to Pro fessor Miller, is that it reminds the farmer that the manure should be hauled out, and keeps him interested The Poultry Yard. Winter eggs and exercise go to- gether. Do not neglect the laying hens’ exercise. Judge not a hen by her beauty, but by the way she does her duty. You may feed all the food your hens can possibly use, but if you are shcrt of grit, the results will not be satisfactory. It is not good for hens to dust in coal or wood ashes only, some folks claim, but we find that a few ashes lightens up the dirt. Noon is a good time to supply the stock with some green stuff, such as cabbages or roots of any kind. The latter can be cut in half, and the hens will then pick them to pieces. Have the floors of the houses well bedded with some light litter, so that the biddies will be induced to scratch, and thus warm up their bodies these cold, frosty mornings. Drafts in the chickens’ home are more dangerous when the fowls are quiet on the roost than when they are stirring around during the day; but a cold air current sweeping through the house is a bad thing at any time. As the cold winds come in ‘the fall, itis noticed that the flocks do not take so wide a range as they did in milder weather, but, instead, congre- gate in the corn-fields and along the stone fences in the pastares,~ Where they can get the benefit of thie warm sun, and at the same time be shielded from the raw winds. ait Poultry feeding has been much im- proved and simplified by the intro- Brings Rain With Dynamite. Chicago, Ill., Nov. 25.—Charles W. Post of Battle Creek, Mich., says he has demonstrated repeatedly on his 204,000 acre farm in Texas that rain can be produced by explosions of dynamite, i “Proceeding on the theory that after a battle it rains,’ said Mr. Post, “we made a battle last spring to ben- efit suffering crops. We exploded 250 pounds of dynamite, It brought rain almost at once. “After this rainfall, which we in- troduced on July 10, there was not a dcop of rain through the middle of August. “On August 23 we decided to have a real battle. Three thousand pounds of the explosive was distributed along a line at intervals of one-eighth of a mile. At each point two pounds of the explosive was placed. Fancy Goods China and Novelties BUTLER,{MO. “At a given signal the ‘battle” started. The charges of dynamite were. exploded at intervals of a few seconds apart. After a few hundred explosions the rain began falling and | kept up steadily for more than twenty- | four hours.” The crops were in an exceptionally poor condition because of the pro- tracted drought, according to Mr. Post. The benefit reaped through the simple experiment was almost in- calculable, and he says the total ex- pense was not more than $1,000. New Depot Occupied. The new Mo. Pacific depot in this city was opened for business Friday evening, the furniture and fixtures having been installed Thursday and Friday. ‘The passengers of the south-" ~ bound train were the first to be let off the trains onto the new. platform. ~ Toilet Sets Manacure Sets Cloth and Hat Brush Sets Hand Mirrors -Dressing Mirrors _Hand Bags A Few Suggestions on —, Christmas Presents For Ladies We have all these and many more itenis suit- able for young or old folks. ‘ United Drug Company Perfumes Fancy Stationery Comb and Brush Sets Glove Boxes ; JeweBoxes Bragg’s Chocolates