THE SEMI WEEKLV TRIBUNE. NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA.
Motorman's Goldenrod Almost Caused Trouble
WASHINGTON. It Is right enrly In the sonson for goldenrod, but thero
are always pioneers. One blossom, nnyhow, must bavo started In to
bloom ahead of olllclal fall weddings, for a motorniau had It stuck In his cap
ns he breezed his car toward the capl-
toi the other afternoon.
The yellow ot It caught the Inter
est of an oldish couple, who smiled at
each other, the way comrades do when
some trifle recalls associations that
belong to both. Also, the sprig passed
its talk-value on to a couple of young
fellows, one of whom must have had
experiences to go by:
"Ills girl gave him that."
Ills companion, being a trifle
younger and therefore a whole lot
wiser, knew better. "Botcher he stuck It there to make her believe his other
girl gave It to him. He knows how to make 'cm Jealous, all right. Oh, say,
olo man, did I show you the postcard LII sent me from Colonial Beach? It's
41 dandy."
The other responded with a suddenness which implied his right to be
considered When Lll's favors were being passed around.
"Let's look."
The younger fellow fumbled In his pockets and then remarked with mad
dening nonchalance that he must have left it In his other coat.
"Your other coat huh."
That was every word he uttered, but take it from dear Mercutlo
nough is always enough. There was no other coat.
The two foolish youngsters, Lord love them, grinned over the show down,
and tliat was all there was to It, unless unless -you have a memory of your
own for goldenrod all fringed around a cool spring, with big trees overhead,
the old Chesapeake swishing In and out across the beach and dear live
things flashing in the air and chirping In the bushes and .crawling under
roots and everything.
Read This and Learn Proper Name for Grapefruit
HE IS a nice man from 'way down south In Dixie. And he has a room In
tho home of an equally nice woman, who is helping to win the war.
With a kindly thoughtfulness which is one of the reasons that make people
a better reason, could you, seeing that
a grape?
If you notice, few discoverers get
of names, whether it be a Columbus, who founded a continent, or a Pomelo,
who provided It with something now In fruit but don't worry. It Is just
one of the little kinks in human nature that will be straightened out as soon
as tfie well-known millennium comes our way.
Mrs. Frank Leslie, formerly of New York and now of heaven, was a
prominent promoter of the popularity of pomelo In tho North, and frankly
conceded her share in renaming the fruit for the renson, as she explained,
"the big balls grow In clusters like grapes."
In the present wisdom to which she has attained, Mrs. Leslie doubtless
realizes the entire foolishness of robbing a man of what you might literally
call tho fruit of his labor wo have to go to heaven to see things like that.
Also, grapefruit tastes better when you call it pomelo. Try It once.
And the Women Simply
A RE Washington women gallant?
Jtl. question. All I want to do is sot
street car the other afternoon, and leave
you will. The car was one of these
middoor nffalrs In which Innocent pas
sengers are pricked to the tune of
"Plenty of room up front."
lie was an lnoffenslve-looklng
man with a large bundle In his arms.
The bundle, wrapped In paper and tied
-with string, had all tho seeming of a
windmill. In reality It was au electric
fan, as was apparent to prying eyes
from the fact that a bit of the brass
blade had penetrated the wrapper.
Now an electric fan Is pretty
heavy. And when two hands are required to hold and guard It that leaves
few hands to hang onto straps with.
cars, anyway. Tho best you can do Is grab the back of a sent, or let your
closely packed neighbors of tho moment hold you up by mere Juxtaposition.
Every seat in that car was occupied by a woman.
They were resting from their arduous shopping of the afternoon,
The man, who for lol theso twenty-some years, he told me afterward,
has boon rising from his seat and giving It to women in tho street cars,
thought that maybe this lime the tables
"These kind ladles," he thought,
with this thing and will take pity on
enough to get up nnd offer me her seat."
Ho eagerly looked around for tho "sport."
But all the women were looking out tho windows.
Zeal May Be Overdone, but the World Needs It
TWO woman clerks started to walk to work In the early days of car crushes
and have kept It up ever since going and coming without missing a day.
lso they have developed the crusading
good, honest, everyday people object
Q&ttFSk makes cue
their own choosing. For days and weeks growing into months he has cheer,
fully accepted their reformatory raids, but you know about that last straw
the other morning he settled them with
less considered original, but which Socrates got In ahead of him, and no tell
Ing how many others In eons gone before.
"That's tho worst of you good women. You never know when to let go."
For that time, anyway, the crusaders went down In c'ofont, but nil tho
same, brothers, what sort of a world would this be for tu md for all of us If
food women should leurn to let go?
TftV m SHOULD
nice, he brought the woman a bag of
fruit the other day.
It was a bulgy bag filled with yel
low balls that tho woman accepted as
grapefruit. But It wasn't grapefruit.
The man said so, and he knew.
"Down home, where this fruit
grows, we call It pomelo, in honor of
the man who Introduced It into this
country from the far Eust. Wo have
always called it pomelo, and we al
ways shall, because pomelo Is Its
proper name." And you couldn't ask
pomelo neither looks nor tastes like
the immortality duo them in the matter
Couldn't See Him at All
Now, I don't propose to answer that
forth something I saw happen on a
it to you to answer the question as
And thero nren't any straps on those
would be turned.
"will see what dlfllculty I am having
me. Surely one of them will Be sport
zeal of the reformer, nnd with the
loiuest intentions in the worm are
making life raspy for friends who pre
for to ride.
"It Is so much healthier, don't you
know, and look at what we save. If
you would only tako the trouble to rise
a bit earlier all it requires is will
power and all that and more.
But thero are always others. One
of them Is a man In the same olllce,
whom the crusaders have known years
enough to nag Into salvation, regard
less of tho world-old fact that people
to being made over by patterns not of
a masculine protest which he doubt-.
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IMPROVEMENT IN
GINNING COTTON
Organization of Growers and
Ginners Will Bring About Bet
terment of Staple.
RETAINING PURITY OF SEED
By Giving More Attention to Saws
Marketing Condition of Crop Can
Be Improved Compressing
Also of Importance.
(Prepared by tlio United Statos Depart
ment ot Agriculture.)
Any losses In the marketing of cot
ton due to careless and wasteful meth
ods are Indirectly passed back to tho ,
growers, and relief from these condi
tions must como lnrgely through tho
action of tho cotton producers.
Improvement of ginning practices
would materially bettor conditions.
nud through organization tho farmers
can induce the ginners to ndopt better
methods of ginning and baling cotton.
Tho present method of ginning seed
Baled Cotton in Warehouse.
cotton mnkes It practically Impossible
to keep each farmer's seed from being
mixed, with ho result 'that thero Is
a general ad. .lxturo of other varieties
or strains, mailing It practically Impos
sible to maintain tho quality of tho
cotton being grown. Ginners can re
turn to the farmers unmixed or un
contnmlnnted seed by cleaning out nil
gin heads, bins, and troughs, thereby
retaining tho purity of tho seed.
Attention to Saws.
By giving more attention to tho gin
ning of cotton the glnncr will again bo
able to Improve general marketing con
ditions for farmers. Tho adoption of
12-Inch saws In tho place of 10-lnch
saws will enable the glnner to reduce
tho speed of the saw shaft, thus reduc-.
Ing In a great measure mechanical dif
ficulties In connection with the opera
tion of his gins. A speed of 3S.' revo
lutions per minute on tho 12-lnch saw,
or 400 revolutions p t minute on tho
10-lnch snw Is considered to be good
practice. However, some gins have
been known to opernto at over fiOO rev
olutions per minute, nnd this results In
a positive damage to the fiber, especial
ly if tho seed cotlon Is not thoroughly
dry before ginning; henco the1 need
for careful attention to the speed of
tho saws, as well as the careful con
sideration of the qunllty and condi
tion of tho seed cotton being ginned.
Importance of Compressing.
Finally, the adoption of gin com
presses in certain particular communi
ties will have tho elTect of Improving
marketing conditions by eliminating
certain unnecessary transportation and
reducing tho demand for freight cars,
nil of which will result In reducing
transportation charges. A direct sav
ing would result by snmpllng tho bales
at the press box and compressing nt
tho gin. The bulky, poorly-bound "fiat"
bale Is perhaps one of the greatest
sources of loss In marketing cotton,
this halo being hard to handle, expos
ing the cotton to costly damage and
general deterioration. In order that It
may occupy less space In freight cars
nnd ships, It must bo shipped to a com
press point to be compressed In special
cotton presses before being shipped to
centrnl or export markets. This com
pressing is done hurriedly and Indif
ferently. Additional bagging Is used
Jo cover sample holes, and the six ties
placed on tho bale at tho gin are now
replaced by seven or eight ties. Theso
new ties nro not always securely at
tached, with tho result that they bc
como detached, allowing tho bale to
expand Into an unsightly mnss and
break open ; and tho cotton reaches Its
destination In poor condition.
It will bo of a great advantage to
. American cotton growdrs if organiza
tion can bo brought to bear to Improve
conditions at tho gin. When planting
seed Is unmixed, when lint is carefully
ginned, nnd when bales aro properly
pressed and bound, American cotton
will command greater consideration In
both homo nnd foreign markets.
Silage Not Deteriorating.
Animals fed silage aro no moro sub
ject to tuberculosis, do not lose their
teeth moro quickly, and are not short
er lived than animals fed other com
mon kinds of feed.
Value of Corn Silage.
Ono hundred and sixty-five pounds
of corn silage will replace 14f pounds
of shelled corn and 8-r0 pounds of hay
la producing 100 pounds of beef.
PRACTICAL HINTS
FOR TREE PLANTERS
U'reparcd by tlio United States Do.
partment ot Agriculture)
Don't plnnt on ground poorly
prepared.
Don't plant on raw, now, or
seddy ground.
Don't buy a poor grado of
stock. Consult several nurser
ies. Don't plant Into In tho Bprlng.
Early work gives best results.
Don't allow plants to become
dry.
Don't dig shallow holes.
Loosen up tho soil.
Don't dig small holes. Tree
roots must not bo cramped.
Don't put grassy , sods In a
hole. Air spaces will kill tho
tree.
Don't put manuro In direct
contact with treo roots.
Don't plant cnrclessly. You
are working for tho future.
Don't trim conifers whPn
planting.
Don't plnnt hardwoods with
out cutting back one-third of the
top.
Don't fall to cultivate thor
oughly. Don't let weeds grow. The
trees need tho moisture.
Don't rob tho plantation by
planting other crops In it.
Don't nllow any Btock within
the plantation.
Don't expect a large grove In
a year. Trees grow slowly.
PREVENT LOSSES IN
SHIPPING POTATOES
Scarcity of Barrel Stock Makes
Use of Sacks Necessary.
Care Must Be Exercised In Handling
to Prevent Bruising and Crushing
Complete Ventilation Must
Be Furnished.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Owing to tho scnrclty of barrel
stock, many shippers of early pota
toes will sack their product this sea
son. Care must be taken In handling
and loading sneked potatoes to pre
vent bruising nnd crushing, as early
varieties are particularly susceptible
to decay following Injuries. They
must also bo loaded In such a wny that
c6mpletq ventilation of tho shipment
will ,be Insured. In some parts of tho
country, sacked early potatoes nro
loaded on end one layer high, and tho
second layer Is loaded on end on a
temporary rack a few Inches above
the bottom layer. This rack is con
structed of three 2 by 4 Inch string
ers, lengthwise of tho car, at tho sides
nnd through the center, supported by
posts, a little higher thnn tho bottom
layer. Tho bottom nnd top Inyers aro
then loaded simultaneously nnd boards,
to support tho top layer are nailed
across the stringers as the sucks aro
Fine Potatoes, Even In Size and Qual-
,ty'
put In place. This has tho advan
tage of allowing sufficient space for
ventilation nnd preventing crushing
the potatoes In tho bottom of the load
by the weight of the sacks above.
Serious losses In potatoes now held
In common storage can bo largely re
duced If growers npd shippers tako
noccssary precautions 1n tho manage
ment of their storngo houses. All
ventilators and doors should bo kept
closed during the daytime and storngo
rooms ventilated nt night, when tho
minimum outdoor temperature pre
vails. Allowing tho doors to remain
open during tho day while grading or
loading potatoes may result In grad
ually raising storage temperatures, per
mitting tho rapid development of de
cay, and grently Increasing tho losses
from shrinkage. To maintain suitable
temperature and humidity conditions
In potnto storago houses during tho re
mainder of tho present season requires
the closest attention of growers nnd
shippers In tho .nnnngement of their
houses. The trnnsfcr f common stor
age stock Into cold storago In order
t avoid excessive losses duo to un
favorable storago conditions. Is a prac
tical means of reducing storage losses,
whore such a practice Is feasible
Capacity of a Silo.
A silo 14 feet in diameter nnd .12
f'"t high will hold 100 tons of silage,
Tills amount will feed 25 cows 40
pounds of eilaj;e per day for 200 days.
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USES FOR DIFFERENT FOWLS
Poultry,. Other Than Chickens, Have
Important Psaco In Increasing
.Needed Food Supply.
(Prepared by tho Unltod Statea Depart
Inent of Agriculture)
Tho hen, flrst nnd Inst, Is tho main
dependence for Increasing, tho supply
of white ment and eggs, but sho re
quires the aid of turkeys, guineas,
geese, and ducks, Just as, on a dairy
farm, the cow requires tho aid of pigs,
sheep, and goats. Tho setting of tho
standard at 100 hens per farm is safe,
but no such arbitrary standard can
bo set for the other kinds of poultry.
Tho small farm, with grain fields of
neighboring farms In proximity to tho
barn nnd doorynrd, would, perhaps, bo
better without turkeyB. The farm
through which no streams run and
which has no largo pond would per
haps be better without ducks. But
tho circumscribed farm on which tur
keys would bo a disadvantage may bo
well supplied with streams and ponda
so that ducks would bo unusually
profitable, nnd tho farm that has no
Streams nnd ponds may havo largo
rnngo for turkeys. Each farm family
will havo to detcrmlno for Itself what
poultry can bo profitably kept In ad
dition to 100 hens, bearing In mind
always that an adequate number
should bo kept of all tho kinds for
which free rnngo. can ho found.
Turkeys, ranging farther afield,
proy upon Insect forms that escapo
tho hens. From tho time tho young
nro old enough to begin foraging for
themselves, perhaps early In Juno, un
til near frost, turkeys tako the bulk
of their food from field Insects, de
vouring millions of grasshoppers and
other Injurious forms In meadow nnd
pasture. In regions where wooded
areas are still fairly extensive, mast
Is an Important Item In tho diet of
tho turkey. When the insect stores be
glu to fall, the mast larders aro be
ginning to be lined, f eeding on
ncorns, chestnuts, beech nuts, nnd tho
like, turkeys will go a long way toward
fattening themselves for tho Thanks-
giving or Christmas market and will
not require much feeding of corn or
other grain to finish them. Generally
speaking, turkeys will require a larger
feeding of grain than chickens to fit
them for market, but, as they uttllzo
forms of waste that hens and their
broods would not rench, tho keeping
of n fair number of turkeys Is good
economy. 1
Guinea fowls utilize still other kinds
of waste that would escapo both hens
and tiVKoys. Taiting n wider rnngo
than chickens nnd yet not qui to so
Wide na turkeys, keeping largely to
thickets nnd weed patches, nnd com'
mlttlng fewer depredutlons against
field and garden than either chickens
or turkeys, requiring llttlo feeding at
any time, being prolific Inyers, during
their season of eggs that arc thought
by mnny to havo n richer and finer
llavor even than,hen eggs, tho guinea
fowl is nn economic necessity on nny
farm whero n serious effort Is mado to
convert all waste into meat and eggs,
Geese hold still nnother sector In
tho line of tho poultry finny that
makes war against wnste. They touch
Hanks' with tho chickens In utilizing
wnsto grain about stables and feeding
yens. In a lnrger measuro tjmn chick
ens or any othor kind of poultry, they
aro grazing stock, tilkln their living
In largo part from tho ordinary grasses
of tho pastures.
Tho ono kind of poultry of question
able economic status on farms Is tho
pigeon. Almost exclusively a grain
eater, tho pigeon renders no notnblo
Bcrvlco as a conserver of waste, ex
cept It might bo shattered grain In tho
fields, and that In largo measuro would
bo taken up by other poultry and by
pigs. The pigeon has Its economic
placo In tho scheme of urban poultry
production, hut, except in isolated In
stances whero conditions nro peculiar
ly favorable, Its production on general
, farms may not be desirable.
MARKING CHICKS MADE EASY
Toe Punch Method Enablos Poultry
man to Distinguish Hens From
the Young Pullets.
(Prepared by tho United Statea Depart
ment or Agriculture,)
Toe punclj or mark nil tho chickens
before they aro transferred to tho
brooder or brood "coop, so thnt their
igo and breeding can bo readily deter
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Chicks If This Plan Is Followed
Age of Fowls Can Easily Be Told.
nlned after they uro mulured. Fnrm
trs frequently keep old hens on their
'arms and kill tho younger hens and
Juliets, because they aro unable to
llstlngulsh between them after tho
lullets have matured.
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WAR DEVELOPING OUR ROADS
Ono of Most Important Benefits will
Be Distribution of Farm Products
by Motors.
"One of tho most Important benefits
of tbo war to America Is going to bo
the development of transportation of
form products to markcta by means of
motor trucks," remarked B. O. Watts
of St. Louis, highway engineer, whllo
In Washington tho other dny. "If any
ono had told us flv'o years ago that mo
tor vehicles would bo utilized for mov
ing products nnd machinery ns they
liuvo been used In tho last twelvo
months, ho would have been thought
crazy, yet Charles Schwab, tho now
head of tho fleet corporation, la giv
ing n practical demonstration of how
to do things by transferring a largo
part of his ofilco equipment to Phila
delphia by motor trucks. The high
ways of the country hnvo been taken
over by tho pcoplo for hauling goods
which could not ho hauled during tho
period of congestion by tho railroads.
In tho wholo history of transportation
tho highway has been the patient
drudge, but suddenly tho motor (ruck
has como to tho front and supplied for
tlio roads what tho steam engines sup
ply for tno railways, nnd this has
brought about mnny now conditions,
which will develop Into many other
new nnd mnrvelous results.
"To my mind, tho most Important
will bo tho distribution of farm prod
ucts by means of motor vehicles. Wo
know that the farmers havo always re
lied upon tho railroads for tho move
ment of their products long distances.
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Loading Eggs Into Motor Trucks.
For tho short haul, of course, they util
ized tho wagpn and In later years the
autoihoblle. But for hnullng any grcal
quantity of products they relied en
tirely on tho railroads. Tho employ
ment of tho motor truck has demon
strated Its practicality, and hereaftei
when things becomo normal wo shall
soo thousands of great motor vehicles
huullng farm products to market. It
Is going to result, moreover, In a won
derful Improvement of tho rouds all
through this country."
INCREASED VALUE OF FARMS
Motorcar Opens Every Acre of Ground
and Brings It Nearer Center
of Population.
Tho railroad opened up a few roads,
but tho motorcar opens ovory aero ol
ground and brings It nearer the center
of population. Tho products tho
inotorcnr increased those values still
moro by marketing them quicken
Whllo the telephone put the farm lo
communication with tho city tho motor
car doea that and more It puts the
farmer and his family In physical and
mental communication with tho mar
kets and tho social life of tho city.
SOLUTION OF ROAD PROBLEM
Hard-Surfaced Highway Is Best Wher
ever Traffic Will Warrant Nec
essary Expense.
Bonds must bo built to suit tho en
vironment both physical and finan
cial. Earth, roads aro tho only ones
somo communities can afford, whllo
other sections mny require gravel or
broken stono surfuces. But wherever
tho trulllc will warrant tho expense, an
economically designed and carefully
constructed hard-surfaced highway Is
tho only satisfactory solution of the
rond problem.
Plan Cmprehenslvely.
To bo efllclently done, rond and
street building roust bo planned com
prehenslvely and under tho careful dl
rectlon of one whoso knowledgo Is
bused on both ywrs of curefui thought
nnd practical vrpwlence.
Highways In Mexico.
Tho government of Mexico has com
mitted Itself to tho policy of construct
ing nt tho earliest posslblo tinio a oys
tern of modem highways that shall
connect all tho principal cities and
worts of tho country.
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