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Mrs "Win. Clemenseu was shopping in Atlantic Thursday.

George Arnold bad business calling him to Atlantic Monday.

JaniesLarsen was calling on frieods at Atlantic Friday night.

Martin Esbeck, of Kimballton, had business in Bravton Friday.

Frank LRinbert, if Atlantic, was in Brayton one night last week.

Mrs. Elmer Green and Nora Larsen were Atlantic shopperB Snturday.

Sena Larsn, of Elk Horn, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nis Larsen.

Charles Cannon, of Cumberland, is visiting his brother Ar'.hur Cannon and wife. *.. ,.

John Hansen, of Lincoln, Neb was visiting her sister, Mrs. Chris Jessen, last week.

Mr. and Mrs. John Gray, of Casey, were guests at the I. P. Hallock home Thursday.

Kathleen Freeman'was visiting her grandmother, Mrs. J. J. Lewis, in Exira laat week.

Frances and Lillie Petersen, of Audubon, spent Tuesday night with Brayton friends.

Mrs. C. G. Thompson was an over Sunday visitor at the home of her son Arthur at Eik Horn.

Peter Doner returned to his home at Summit, S. D., Thursday, after an extended stay in this vicinity.

George Hard^ick and James Cannon came home from Gray Saturday to visit until after the Fourth.

MesdameB George and Floyd Freeman were visitors at the Will Woodward home in Atlantic Thursday.

Brayton and Wiota played a game of ball at Wiota Sunday. The score standing 9 to 10 in favor ot Wiota.

The game ot ball between Brayton «nd Exira the Fourth resulted in a victory for Brayton. Score 23 to 21.

Myrtle McVey, trained nurse at Atlantic, was the guest of Mrs. Arthur Cannon Sunday and Mouday. Miss McVey is ju3t recovering from an operation for appendicitis.

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Charles Freeman came l'r..u» Uee Moines and spent the Fourth *iih' his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fia.k Freeman.

Harry Miller has given up his position at Elk Horn on account of ill health and is at the home of his pareuts in Brayton.

The friends of Mrs. Perrv Lowers gathered at her borne in O-iktield on Thursday afternoon to help celebrae her birthday. She was the recipient of several nice presents.

Mr. and Mas. John Curry and daughter Mary and Misses Winnie Cornell and Irma Fudge, of AUamic, were over Sunday visitors at the I P. Hallock home. Mr. and Mrs. Curry and children will leave July 5th for a trip to Colorado.

Exchange

We have one of the beat quartereectione of land in Sully county, South Dakota to exchange for an 80 or 120 here. Every acre of this land ie perfect, fenced and cross fenced, about one-half under cultivation, light improvements, small grove, some fruit treee, 2V& miles to towo, 8 miles to Cojjnty Seat. This is as 6ne a quarter as there is in the etate and will make an ideal home. Will take Iowa land at its value and are willing to take whatthis land ie actually worth namely $47.50 per acre. This land will stand the very closest inspection. If this suits you, act quickly. Audubon County Journal

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A good farm, six miles from town, fine orchard and grove, every foot plow land, good five room bouse, and lots of outbuildings, an Ideal place to live. Terms easy. Enquire at Journal Office. tf

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We desire to call your attention to some of the good things for the farm.

Haying Time Will Soon Be Here

To handle the crop with ease we have the best Haying Tools on the market. The Dain, McCormick Common and Osborn Side Rakes have no equal. The McCormick, Deering and Dain Mowers are sums' ply perect.

In Hay Loaders, we have the Dain, New Deere, (fearless and Hawkeye. These machines are the best on the market and when you purchase either one, you will have the satisfaction of knowing there is nothing better.

A fine line of Manure Spreaders always on hand. Binding Twine and Machine Oils and everything in season.

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These mares are not particularly valuable. Two of them have w:re blemishes and one is blind from j.n attack of "pink eye." However, Uiey weigh from 1,450 to 1,700 each and are all of the roomy, long-barrelled type that when bred to a good draft stallion of around a ton weight, throw colts that if properly fed, grow to draft size.

We like to breed for as early co'ts as possible. A March colt is better than an April one, and an April toal beats one dropped in May or June. Not only does the mare work easier with the colt in the barn than when carrying it, but the youngster himself does better. He is grown to a big lusty fellow before the flies are had. At the same time he gets the

If the mares have not foaled before the season's work begins and the foaling date is not within a week, they also are put to slow and gentle work. Thev are worked up to the time the wax shows on the teats and sometimes even later than this. We find that the mare's udder is lupt reduced in better shape, and the foal comes stronger from the mare that is worked than from one that

MAKING A PROFIT FROM FARM: MARES

One Iowa Farmer Tells How He Makes His Work Horses PayLikes to "reed for as Early Colts as Possible— Extra Work That Is Profitable.

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Big Draft Mares Will Do All the Farm Work and Profit Besides.

On the home farm where from eight to twelve horses are kept it is our practice to keep but one team of mature geldings. These are used for winter chores and for such emergencies as require supreme effort at times when a m^re heavy in foal would be injured by hard pulls. The rest of the work animals are brood mares and colts not yet mature enough for market. It is our rule to keep at least six regularly -breeding mares. In the last five years we have averaged four live colts per year at weaning time from the six mares. At three or four years of age these colts sell for around $500 a span.

tage of the first bites of grass,. Our mares run out during the winter days. They have access to some clover hay, all the oat straw they will eat, and usually they have the run r.f the stalk fields. They are stabled at night and fed a grain ration of oats and a couple of ears of corn night and morning. With this they get. more clover hay. The amount of grain fed depends on the size and condition of the mare. After spring work commences the mares are fed largely on oats and mixed hay with occasionally a little bran and oil meal.

After the colts are foaled tliev are started to eating as soon as possible. Each colt has a feed box besido his mother's, but out of her reach. Here he receives all the bran and oats lie will clean up three times a day.

ONE YEAR POULTRY COURSE

Iowa State College Offers Course for Those Who Wish to Prepare for Practical Work.

Without entrance requirements one may now attend Iowa State college and take a thorough going one year poultry coufse. This course has been arranged for those who wish to prepare themselves for practical poultry work and have but one year to devote to study or who may not be able to furnish the requirements for admission to the regular four-year college courses. The work will be given b-y the regular college instructors and will be as good in every particular as the work given the regular college classes.

The work will consist of twelve distinct courses grouped under the following general subjects:— 1. Poultry management which includes a study of poultry houses, the arrangement of buildings and yards, the planning of farms, feeds and feeding, breeding, judging of market types, killing and dressing, caponizing and sanitation. 2. Practice in Feeding and Manage ment. In this work the students are each given the entire care of a flock of birds and required to keep detailed accounts of feeds fed, gains made in weight, eggs produced and the calculation of profit or loss. 3. Incubator Practice. Each student is given charge of one or more incubators and required to make a careful record of the fuel consumed, variation, germs, chicks hatched and the cost of iucubation. A comparison is then made of all the different makes of machines used on the farm. 4. Brooder Practice is a continuation of work started in incubator practice. The chicks hatched are cared for in various types of brooders and results carefully recorded. 5. Poultry Judging. This work includes a study of the origin, history and classification of the various

Yield a Handsome

The foals are never allowed to follow their dams in the field. At first they grieve a bit over this. Suou they learn to stay about the barn lots where they eat a little grass. At night they and their mothers are turned on good blue grass pasture. With this treatment the foals o!' working mares make bigger, stronger fellows than do the colts of idle mares running on pasture without grain. They have also the added advantage of being handled, well halter broken, and used to the grain at weaning time. Weaning time, which usually comes in October, is scarcely felt. The colt eats more oats and clover hay, all he will eat of both, with a little corn if he shows a tendency to get thin, and he comes through his first winter in fine fettle. As soon as blue grass pasture is good he is shifted to this and gets nothing else till cold weather comes. Here again he grows like the proverbial weed. There seems to be something about good bluegrass pasture that was particularly meant for draft colts, for they come up in the fall after the first snow, fat. broad rumped, and doep-ehested. Their second winter is a repetition of the first, except that they eat a bit more feed. They have the yards and fields in the day time, with corn, oats and clovcr night and morning, and an open shed for shelter. They are all haltered and handled a bit each winter to make sure they have not forgotten their iirst lessons. When three years old they are broken and worked. The geldings are all sold at from four to seven years of age. The mares are either kept for breeding purposes or sold at similar ages.

Eighteen of the twenty foals produced by our six breeding mares in the past five years reached saleable age or are on the farm today. Three of these are being retained to take the places of mares growing old. 6ix have been sold for a lump sum of $1,450. Three three-year-olds are earning their board this season. Two two-year-olds and four yearlings are on pasture doing their best to grow into horses before prices go lower. During these five years we have sold for $1,300 seven others produced in the preceding years. The $500 per year returned by these mares asid'3 from the work they do, work that some sort of horses must do, is in large part profit. We consider that this is good pay for any extra work or inconvenience that the colts may cause, as well as for the extra feed and care that they require.

breeds and varieties, in accordance with the American Standard of Perfection. The more proficient students are sent out from time to time to judge country fairs or small winter shows. This course also includes instruction in show room management.

G. Anatomy and Physiology of Poultry takes up study of form and functions of the various organs of the fowl's body with reference to feeding and digestion, egg production and caponizing as well as disease 7. Marketing of Poultry Products includes the study of the market classification of poultry, eggs and feathers, methods of dressing, packing, shipping, and selling, requirements of different markets, poultry and egg boards, cold storage of poultry and eggs. In connection with these subjects work may be taken in fruit growing, stock judging and grain judging.

The aim in mapping out this course has been to fit men for going into poultry farming for themselves. For men who who have had experience along poultry lines and who also have the advantage of a year of college work there are excellent openings as superintendents and managers of poultry farms. Further information may be secured from the Poultry Department, Ames. Iowa.

DRY MASH

By Wm. A. Uppincott, Iowa Agricultural College.

A chicken yard without shade is like a h«n without feathers, a bare proposition.

It is hard to make a nest cool It is not hard to provide cold water for the hen when she comes oft the nest.

Manure Is a mite breeder. Keep the dropping boards clean. Feed the scratching food early so the hen can rest In a shady spot during the heat of the day.

Still remember that a two hundred egg hen will have a two hundred egg appetite even if it is hot.

The hen is just human enough to want a variety.

Simplicity in Dress

As the ordinary man was smiling genially while getting into his overcoat after breakfast the little woman deemed the moment propitious for making casual mention of her need of a check. So she spoke briefly on thjit interesting subject.

The genial smile faded instantaneously from the face of the ordinary man. He halted in the midst of buttoning his glove to remark witheringly: "If there's one thing I'd like to know It's where you throw away your money."

The little woman remained meekly silent. This action on her part, since it gave him no fuel for his wrath, made him doubly angry. "There's Day's wife," he exploded. "She could wear diamonds to your glass beads, according to the difference in Day's income and mine. Yet what does she wear? The plainest, simplest, neatest looking outfit on the street! But you must have braids and laces and frills—and I must pay for them!" The vials of his wrath being thus emptied, he paused to recharge them.

In the silence thus created the little woman made a timid suggestion. Couldn't the ordinary man get away from the office Just a little while to help her find a suit that would meet his views of simplicity?

The ordinary man looked at her shrewdly. He did not like to be taken in and his suspicions were aroused by this unusual request. Her face, however, was so patiently guileless as he had ever seen it, so he accepted her suggestion. "Hustle and get ready, then," said the ordinary man, "and I'll help you get fitted out In half an hour."

So the shopping tour began. "Shall we look at suits first?" questoned the little woman, as ahe led the way to the suit department where you can buy them ready made.

The ordinary man gave his assent. "Something simple, dark and not too high prioed," requested the little woman. The ordinary man nodded his approval.

The saleswoman brought out half a

dozen suits. "Do you call those simple?" inquired the ordinary man, wonderingly, almost sarcastically. "They're the simplest we have at that price," returned the saleswoman, politely, as she removed the offensive suits without displaying them and went in search of others. "Those were $35," murmured the little woman thoughtfully.

The ordinary man said nothing, but in his mind he was busy figuring an approximate cost of the trimmings and of the labor of putting them on and deducting the whole from $35. He nodded his head wisely.

The saleswoman brought -another armful of suits. She held them up to view. They were simple, but not of the Mrs. Day simplicity. They had velvet cuffs and collars and light colored linings and the cut of the coats was of the most extreme pattern. Still, they had none of that offensive and expensive braid and

Tho meditations of the ordinary man were cut short, for his wife whispered softly, "Those suits are $45, dear."

It staggered him to think of the price of velvet. Enough only for collar and cuffs, it seemed, was worth $10 over and above the price of braid with its application! He shook his head in disapproval. Then, in well controlled exasperation, he requested tho saleswoman to be so kind as to let him see just a plain, simple, unadorned suit.

The saleswoman understood. She hurried away and soon returned with a single suit, held carefully on a hanger. "That's something like!" exclaimed the ordinary man, appreciatively, as his eye took in the simple lines of the outfit, with its mannish finish, its cloth collar and cuffs, its heavy, good wearing quality and its all around common sense appearance. "That's what we've been looking for," he commenced as his wife slipped into the coat. It fitted perfectly. Everything was satisfactory. "Charge this suit and send it out," he said briskly. "And the price?" queried the little woman, as she and the ordinary man turned to go. "Eighty dollars," responded the saleswoman, easily.

She was busy making out the check, so didn't see the look on the face of the ordinary man.

The little woman was possessed of much tact. She bent quietly over an odd garment displayed near by until the ordinary man had recovered. Then they walked silently to the elevator.

Porter "Got in Wrong."

A new porter was being inducted into office at the Ritz-Carlton and had been the butt of all sorts of fun, good natured and otherwise. Therefore when an important man from Boston telephoned downstairs to know when the Merchants' Limited would get in the porter chortled with glee as he thought this was the time when he would get even with somebody for the Indignities put upon hini. "It gets In after the engine, you boob!" he shouted into the receiver. It took a lot of diplomacy to smooth that Bostonian down and keep the porter's job for him.—New York Sun.

Their Friend

She was always sitting there when Serene went by, leaning back iu the wicker hour-glass chair. Sometimes a book or magazine lay open in her lap, but more often it had slipped unheeded to the floor. Serene's first impression of her was that she was the loveliest woman %he had ever seen her next that she was the weariest looking.

Serene was very young. It was hot in the central telephone office where she worked and the hours were long and the pay meager. Serene had worked there since she left school. She lived with old aunt who did dressmaking and had always acted the part of a mother to her.

One Sunday afternoon when Serene went by she had Dave with her. Dave had been devoted to Serene all through her school days and since. He was a big, gentle fellow, all ambition and vim and sound purpose, who meant when he had learned his trade to make a little home for Serene. Serene suspected this intention, though he had not mentioned it to her yet.

Before another Sunday arrived a new girl came into the office. She was a showy, handsome girl, who always had an answer or a pert little laugh ready.

Serene shrank from association with her and the girl perceived it.' Consequently when Dave came that Saturday afternoon to wait for Serene and to accompany her home the new girl tried to discomfit Serene by flirting with him. She asked him to read the numbers while she "plugged"' at her switchboard, and Dave, uncon« scious of any wrongdoing, complied. Serene was angry and went home alone as fast as her feet would carry her, a very much disturbed little girl. Next day when Dave called her up she gave him over tHe 'phone a spil6 ited reply and hung up the receiver. When he came to call she would not see him.

She was so miserable that on a certain afternoon when rain menaced she walked to work without her umbrella. There was none at the office she could borrow, so she had to walk back through the drizzle, which suddenly became a downpour, just as she reached the veranda lady's house. She had started to run In dismay at getting drenched, when a voice called coolly, commandingly: "Come here. I want to see you."

The veranda lady had come to life and had spoken. Serene ran with all her might to the proffered shelter and sank into a chair.

They sat a moment: watching the rain. "I have seen you go by every day since I have been here," said the veranda lady in her slow, sweet, tired way. "I'm glad this rain came so that we could get acquainted. You work, don't you?"

Serene told her how and where she worked. And she told a great deal more than her words conveyed, for the lady was reading the meaning of her wan little face and miserable eyes. "I'm not happy," blurted out Serene. "I'm—" And then she told the veranda lady the whole story. 'Oh, my dear!" said the older woman. And she put up her white hand and brushed back her hair. There was gray in her hair, Serene saw. And on her finger was a great red stone like a bit of fire. An engagenfent ring. "Oh, my dear! You were jealous— jealous! Of that dear boy! You see, I can tell he is a dear boy. And you are a dear little girl. But you will wreck your life if you aren't careful. It's very lucky for you that you can still make up. And when you have made up stay so."

Splashing through the rain, laden with raincoat and umbrella, came a tall young figure. It was Dave and he was coming straight for her house, Serene knew, looking for her. She caught her breath. "Why. there he is now!' said the veranda lady cheerfully. "Coming to bring you an umbrella. The dear boy! Call to him—Call to him, quick!"

Serene called. And Dave heard. His face was very bright as he came to the veranda, and though the lady In the hour-glass chair was wonderful to see, he had eyes only for Serene, whom he helped very proudly into tho raincoat. A very contrite, humble little Serene she was, too. "You must come and see me together some evening," said the veranda lady, as they were going away. "I want to know you both better. I'll make you something nice in the chafing dish and sing for you some songs I know you'll like." "Oh, we'll come," cried Serene. "And thank you a million times!'

Next day as Serene was passing she ran up to the veranda railing to speak to her new friend. "We've made up," she said, radiantly. "And I'm never going to be a bit jealous of him again as long as I live. He didn't care for that Ethel Slater. I should have known. It was horrid of me not to trust him. And you did It all, you dear, sweet, beautiful thing, you!" She picked up the lady's baud and kissed it. "I'm so glad you made up," she said. "We didn't, you see—he and I. I was •jealous, too. And when I came to my senses it was too late—" She looked away. "He had got over caring?" breathed Serene, tragically. "Oh, no!" The veranda lady caught her breath. "He just died," she whispered, miserably.