“DON'T KNOW
HOW TO UVE”
We Have Not Yet Discov
ered How to Employ
Our Leisure
Prom C. E. M. Joad in Harper’s
Magazine.
How will mankind employ its
powers: what will it do with its
leisure? Up to the present men have
spent about three fourths of their
waking life in obtaining the means
to make life possible: they have had
only one fourth available for liv
ing.
To the art of life—the most dif
ficult of all the arts—they have
brought jaded energies and tired
brains. Consequently, most of us
are shocking exponents of the art
of life through sheer lack of prac
tice. Wo do not, for example, know
how to amuse ourselves, our notion
of entertainment being something
for which one pays; we pay other
people, that is to say, to do for us
what we can no longer do for our
selves.
On the whole we regard the art
of living as reaching its perfection
in different forms of rapid motion.
The activities of the rich American,
perpetually in transit across the
ocean, suggest that life for him con
sists of a series of escapes from
something unpleasant which is ever
behind him, waiting to pounce up
on him whatever side the Atlantic
he happens to be. The something
presumably is boredom, for bore- i
dom is the penalty we pay for fail
ure in the art of life.
It is boredom that turns the fam
ily holiday, if unexpectedly pro
longed, into the best imitation of
hell that earth offers: it is boredom
that raises the percentage of sui
cides among the rich to a higher
figure than it reaches in any other
stratum of society; it is boredom
that assails the retired millionaire,
compels him to exhaust his ener
gies in some particularly dangerous
and exhausting pursuit. Such as
mountain climbing or big game
hunting, in which he can only in
duce others to accompany him by
paying them enormous salaries, and
finally sends him back to his office
to make money he does not want
in despair of rendering life toler
able without the hard labor to
which he has been accustomed
The behavior of the leisured rich
makes it impossible to avoid the
conclusion that we do not know, and
never have known, how to live. Work
is the only form of occupation of
which we are capable of standing
more than a very limited amount.
Leisure is intolerable to us, and
servitude to the need for amuse
ment the worst form of slavery we
know.
THE ROAD TO ROME
Prom the Boston Transcript.
After a week of quiet abiding at
little Uzes, our road to Rome was
taken up, appropriately enough, at
Avignon, where in the 14th century
the popes lived and where for two
centuries more they reigned. Avig
non seemed so well suited to the
purpose of papacy, and the situation
of the popes in their fortress-palace
sc imperial, that, in looking on their
great old palace and contemplating
the superb region which it com
mands, I could not help speculating
as to what would have happened to
the world if the heads of the church
had remained there, and Avignon,
not Rome, were still the religious
capital. Influences would doubtless
have been felt there which have op
erated less powerfully at Rome. The
current of history would have run
in quite different channels. Avienon
would certainly have outgrown ";s
ramparts, which now it has scarcely
done. As it is, the little citv has
remained, at least physically, in the
16th century. Its ancient and mas
sive walls still face the world in
quaint and absolute defiance on ev
ery side. Its magnificent papal pal
ace looms over the city like a vast,
kindly cloud over a valley. Scores
of its tortuous streets have not
changed since Clement V and John
XXII came to Avignon to live. A
new and modern industrial and in
tellectual life is Indeed carried on,
but it lives and moves within the
ancient shell.
Avignon is very attractive to
American visitors, and no wonder.
Next to Cadcassonne. it Is the most
unspoiled bit of the Middle Ages
that they know anything about. It
is lovely in its situation and sur
roundings. with the rushing Rhone
plunging along beside its walls and
the blue forerunners of the Alps
brooding over the broad valley. The
great gray-brown man of the papal
palace is always there, like a bene
diction and a protection against in
trusive modernism. Its ancient
bridge of St. Benedex and the Ro
mans. running quite intact, with its
chapel poised above the tumultuous
stream halfway across and then
coming to an end in the air, is a
type of a romantic past thwarted
by the rush of impatient civilization.
Its streets are beautiful in their old
age. It has three or four very good
hotels. On its principal street a
segment of the great French army
is quartered in a fine old convent
and the soldiers, to the sound of the
bugle, file out through the gates and
down the street every morning for a
hurried promenade. One long old
street, named after Joseph Vernet,
is devoted almost exclusively to the
sale of antiques. The people are po
lite. and the food and the wine are
good There is everything to attract
the Yankee tourist.
What a Relief.
From Pele Mele, Paris.
"You don’t look well.”
‘‘No, I have just been unconscious
for eight hours.”
Heavens! What was wrong?”
•'Nothing—I was just asleep.”
NOT NECESSARY
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
Insurance Agent—So you want all
your office furnishings Insured
against theft.
Manager—Yes, but you needn’t In
clude the clock. Everybody watches
that.
Q. Why is the Arena chapel in
Padua so called? D. S. C.
A. The name of the chapel is
Santa Maria dell’ Arena. It was
built by a rich Paduan in 1303, on
the site of an old Roman amphi
theater, hence its name.
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
CULI.ING FOR PRODUCTION
For the average poultryman,
farmers especially, the best plan is
to go over the flock once a year, (
handle every bird and give them a i
clean, thorough culling, removing
from the flock all the nonproducers,
slow moulters. sick and diseased
birds, hens that have outlived their
usefulness, and in general, every hen
that Is not paying for her board.
•fust when, then, is the best time
to give the flock this thorough cull
ing? The flock should, of course,
be watched daily for sick or diseased
birds and such birds should be dis
posed of immediately. But for the
general, thorough culling which they
receive once a year, the answer is
any time between June 15 and
October 15. That allows four
months in which the job can be
taken care of.
But why confine ourselves to these
dates? The hens have gone through
the winter housed up perhaps, with j
little or no green feed, no bugs nor
worms, and production has been
slow. Then comes spring with Its I
tender, succulent grass, plenty of
bugs and worms, warm sunshine and
free range and naturally “biddy”
gets busy and shells out the eggs.
Even crows lay eggs in the spring
time. No matter how much of a
cull she may be, every hen. If she
lays at all, will lay in the spring and
for that reason there will be many
birds which should be culled out,
but because they are laying, will not
be recognized as culls and will be
left in the flock. Therefore, for your
own protection, avoid culling the
flock too early in the spring.
In the fall of the rear the exact
reverse is true. "Biddy” has put in
a hard summer’s work and she
needs a rest so she stops production
and goes into a moult. It is her an
nual vacation. When she goes Into
this moult she takes on all the ap
pearance of a typical cull and. If
you cull the flock at this time, there
is danger that you will dispose of
many hens that really don’t deserve
such treatment at all.
The time to cull the flock, then,
is between these two extremes, af
ter the hens have cooled down a
bit from their first sudden enthusi
asm of spring laying aind before
they go into their annual fall moult.
By culling between June 15 and Oc
tober 15 you will be able to recog
nise each and every cull and both
you and your flock will profit by the
culling.
CROSS BEAD CHICKS
Last spring a fancier set some
eggs from White Plymouth Rock
hens which had been mated to Buff
Orpington cockerels. What color
would you guess that the chicks
would be? She expected to get some
white and some buff chicks, but she
didn’t. The chicks were almost pure
black.
It is difficult to explain why
black chicks would be secured from
buff and white parents. As a mat
ter of fact, after these chicks get
their feather growth there is like
ly to be a light reddish buff across
the saddle and wing bows of the
males and the tyff color mixed in
the breast and nock of the females.
The reason far the black color is
that the White Plymouth Rocks, in
spite of their white color, have an
cestors which were black as baby
chicks. Blood from these black an
cestors is “dominant” to the blood
of the buff ancestors in the buff
parent; that is, it determines the
color markings of chicks from such
crosses. For this reason these baby
chicks from such crosses. For this
reason these baby chicks were black,
in spite of having buff and white
parents. No one would suspect white
chickens of carrying the blood of
“black” or dark ancestors, yet this
is true. It is just such things as
this that make it impossible to pre
dict the colors that will result from
different crosses or to predict the
type or producing ability without
first trying out the proposed crosses.
For this reason, if for no other, it
pays to stick to pure-bred breeding
birds, or at least to mate only birds
of the same breed, rather than to
attempt to cross-breed.
FEEDING COD LIVER OIL
Will cod liver oil take the place ®f
freen feed in the winter feeding of
poultry? if we consider only the
vitamin content of green feed, we
can probably answer the question in
the affirmative. Vitamin D, present
in green feed to only a limited ex
tent, is very abundant in cod liver
oil of most any grade. It serves to
increase the availability of the cal
cium and phosphorus in the ration,
and will prevent leg weakness in
growing chicks that do not have ac
cess to direct sunlight.
Vitamin A, more or less abundant
in green feed, is also found in cod
liver oil. Its value lies chiefly in its
ability to maintain the general
health and vigor of the stock. A real
deficiency of vitamin A will cause
a swelling of the eyes similar to
roup. The vitamin A content of
Cod liver oil is a variable factor,
however, as it is readily lost upon
exposure to the air.
To insure the quality of oil fed.
therefore, one should insists on us
ing a tested oil and this in turn
should not be mixed with the feed
for more than 10 days previous to
the time it is to be fed.
Vitamin C, found in green feed, is
not needed by poultry, so we do not
need to consider it, and the vitamin
B factor is supplied in sufficient
quantities in the grain ration.
In considering this problem, we
must also realize the fact that all
the so-called "green feeds” do not
carry the vitamins in equal amounts.
Mangel beets are valueless as a
source of vitamins, and germinated
oats Is not much better. Green
sprouted oats is very good, how
ever.
In many instances a ration sup
plemented with tested cod liver oil
would be better balanced in its vit
amin content than one supplement
ed with graen feed.
Green feed has other values, how
HAVE A FIXES PRICE
Too many breeders are said to be
"hard to deal with" because they
“jump” their price the instant they
have an opportunity to sell. Such
tactics serve to contract rather than
expand their business and thereby
often bring discouragement and dis
I content. The buyer usually "knows
! the market” and is ready to pay
market prices. So why should not
the breeder try to find a "trading
basis” when the opportunity to do
business presents Itself.
DON’T NEGLECT THIS
Keep a good dry mash in open
suppers every day in the year.
ever, that make it very desirable. It
seems only natural ij feed fowls
some succulent feed, . .id three or
four pounds dally per 100 birds Is
not objectionable. Fowl., of their own
accord will eat from 8 to 10 pounds,
but this amount is excessive and it
is mote economical to have the
birds consume more mash or grain
in place of an excessive amount of
green feed.
Then again, it is desirable to keep
the birds active dunng the winter
months and the feeding of a small
amount of greens dally serves this
put pose.
In general, it would seem best to
feed a limited amount of green feed
and In addition some tested cod
liver oil. One quart of oil to every
100 pounds of either grain or mash
would be enough. If used on grain,
the oil may be mixed daily. Ii used
with mash, the oil can be mixed
with charcoal and the charcoal in
corporated in the mash.
The oil may also be Incorporated
in a moist mash to be fed dally.
When this Is done, the amount to be
used should be one quart a day to
1,000 birds.
A MARKETING PROBLEM
Blind holding of grain crops gives
a slight profit over a long series of
years, but a policy of selling prompt
ly when prices are high and hold
ing when prices are low results in
material gains. The same principle
applies to oats. Over a period of
years, the average gain each year
from holding cheap oats was six
cents on a bushel while high priced
oats declined 11 cents.
While there Is a little profit In
holding wheat year after year, prices
show that In certain years large
profits may be made. Apparently,
when wheat has a high purchasing
power, or the value of a bushel of
wheat is comparatively high in terms
of other products which It would
buy. there is little risk in holding,
and when It has a low purchasing
power there is a good chance for a
profit from holding.
The most profitable policy for
marketing potatoes and cabbage is
the reverse of that for grain High
priced grain normally should be sold
promptly, but high priced potatoes
and cabbage are likely to pay for
holding. Cheap grain Is likely to
pay for storage, but cheap potatoes
and cabbage rarely do. When the
cabbage crop is large and prices are
very low, prices advance but little
during the remainder of the crop
marketing period. When cabbage Is
high In the fall, it is likely to be
much higher later._
avoid crowding birds
One need only visit a limited num
bei of poultry houses on the farm in
order to see that the fundamental
principles of quality farm poultry
production are being violated to the
nth degree. For example, we find
a farm flock of 250 to 300 hens in a
henhouse that would probably ac
commodate 125 birds. At the same
time, when we examine the nests,
we find that there are probably four
or five nests for the 300 hens. These
nests are of a make shift nature and
often times filth and dirt accumu
lates on the eggs, directly at the
source, namely; the nests in the
poultry house. One can safely say
that a great percentage of our dirty
eggs originates at the source of pro
duction.
This condition can be coriected
and the losses incurred from this
source can be reduced tremendously
if we will place an adequate number
of clean, roomy nests in the poultry
house. We should construct at least
one nest for every five or six hens.
The nests can be made with a wire
bottom so that if any dirt accumu
lates in the nest It will be shaken
from it as the hen makes use of it.
Clean straw and litter is absolutely
essential in the poultry house espe
cially during rainy seasons.
MILK IS ESSENTIAL
Milk in some form is essential for
best success with growing chicks. It
promotes rapid growth, aids in pre
vention of coccidiosis. often lessens
mortality and is probably the best
general tonic there is for chicks.
Skim-mllk or buttermilk—liquid,
powdered or condensed—can be used
to practically the same advantage.
The liquid products are used as a
drink instead of water. The dried
forms are mixed in with the mash
at the rate of 10 to 15 per cent. Con
densed milk is mixed with water—
from one to two pounds to each
gallon—and fed as a drink.
If you want to compare the cost
of the different forms of milk, this
can best be done on the basis of to
tal milk solids contained in each
form. The dried-milk products con
tain about 90 per cent, solids: the
condensed milk about 30 per cent.;
and liquid skim-milk or buttermilk
about 9 per cent. Given the price
for the dried product, the corres
ponding price for condensed will be
one-third, and the liquid one-tenth,
as much.
BREED FOR LARGER EGGS
There are a number of breeds
that lay smaller eggs than others
Sometimes this condition manifests
itself within strains of a distinct
breed. Nevertheless some breeds nat
urally lay smaller eggs than others.
A breed that lays a high percentage
of small eggs, all other factors con
sidered, should be eliminated from
the farm and supplanted with a
breed that will lay a good-sized
egg.
Breeding must be considered at
all times when we consider size of
egg. If we continually select breed
ing stock that is inclined to produce
small eggs the result will be the pro
duction of a great portion of small
eggs This factor is vitally Important
to the farmer. Breeding from stock
that produces a uniform egg of gTSBd
size averaging around 26 ounces to
the dozen, means a greater propor
tion of No. 1 eggs.
DRAIN WHEN NECESSARY
When soil is thoroughly drained,
the plant roots are able to grow
deeper and secure a large part of
their food from the subsoil. A well
drained soil makes conditions right
for the growth of the millions of
micro-organisms that play an es
sential part in preparing food for
crop plants. When a soil is water
logged the air is prevented from
passing into it where it is needed
for the respiration of these organ
isms. Wet soils are too cold for the
best growth of plants and prevent
the decomposition of organic matter
and the formation of humus. This
keeps such a soil in a poor physical
condition.
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