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should be selected as the healing agent, because of its soothing properties. 

 Pain Lotion also softens the parts, as does Conkey's Healing Salve. Salves 

 should be used purely for surface treatment, never in deep cuts or sores, 

 f a part is exposed to irritation always use the dry dressing, Conkey's 

 Healing Powder, which is perfectly antiseptic. Many surgeons favor dry 

 healing entirely. 



SHOO FLIES! Horses and cattle should be protected from trouble- 

 some flies, not only from the standpoint of humanity 

 but because it is unthrifty abuse of stock to let cattle devote good energy 

 to swishing flies instead of grazing and producing milk, or gains in beef. 

 Similarly horses lose flesh and spoil in spirit when exposed to the torment 

 of flies. It is a waste of flesh, animal vigor and good feed. It is impossible 

 to over-estimate the torment to cattle in warm weather from pestiferous 

 flies; and the loss to owners, both in quality and amount of production. 



Conkey's Fly Knocker abates the nuisance and keeps the flies from 

 annoying stock. It is a positive boon to dairymen throughout the coun- 

 try. It keeps the dreadful buffalo fly, or gnat, of southern sections from 

 accomplishing its purpose and cattlemen in these sections save thousands 

 of dollars annually, simply by spraying with Fly Knocker. Wherever used 

 it prevents lice and grubs on cattle, and bots on horses, from egg deposits 

 of the gadfly. Besides this, many infectious and dangerous diseases are 

 communicated by ordinary flies and they spread infection from carion and 

 refuse of every sort. Prevention is the watchword use Conkey's Fly 

 Knocker. 



BED RIGHT Often too little attention is given to the quality of bed- 

 ding used in stables and barns. Animals should be well 

 bedded with something that will keep them clean and dry and give them 

 comfort while lying down. It should be free from irritating substances 

 and absorb moisture readily. Straw, coarse hay, fine shavings or coarse 

 sawdust all make good bedding. When straw or hay bedding is used see 

 to it that it is bright and clean, free from mould or fungus growth. 

 Bedding should be cleaned out each morning. The cleanest may then be 

 dried and used again, and the balance saved with the manure. 



GETTING MOST Part of the production you pay for as owner of live- 



VALUE OUT OF stock is manure. One of the tests of management is 



MANURE the attention you give to, the use you make of this. 



Managing the farm, like managing a factory, calls for 



thrifty use of every bi-product. The elements in manure you have 

 paid for pound by pound in your feed bills. These elements have a sound 

 commercial value, but rightly used they have even more value on your own 

 ground. "Livestock raising is the soil's salvation," is the slogan of today. 

 That fertilization is necessary to successful farming is known to most 

 farmers, but few realize the importance of handling farm manure so as to 

 get the full value from it. The manure from one horse or cow for a year 

 is said to be worth as much as $25.00, but with the usual methods of hand- 

 ling, it is quite safe to say that by the time the manure reaches the land it 

 has lost half its original value. To obtain the most plant food value, the 

 manure should be spread on the ground where it is to be used as soon as 

 possible. By hauling manure to the fields daily there is practically no loss 

 from leaching, that is, draining or washing away. It should be spread uni- 

 formly over the land and not piled in small heaps, which is wasteful in 

 fertilizing material. A good manure spreader will soon pay for itself and 

 should be on every farm. They are not only a great saving in labor but bv 



