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I forecasting storms, frosts and floods
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OJCTBUCT. Colic. Dalmatian.
Mouji, rsrnr, dubbed"
Why. certainly, help your
mmlt. glad to know you. Ur.
or anything Use you wish.
Tbs: • shout what you would say to
uyoM who stepped up to you on
the ■tree' with a knowing air and de
-»er«d himself of the above quota
Uou There would he Just a chance
that be waa kidding if he pulled it
verbally, hat if he sent It to you via
■ !re!«aa- well, there would be but
oaa answer, "bughouse ”
At Mast that would be your nat
ural surmise, and you little know bow
•rung you would be For instance,
a,- government v earner bureau at
UashtY-gtoa receives ;ust such Bits
**gus ever, da? la the year And the
weather bureau met. know that these
apparently * dippy" messages are
r-e.ll an Important part at a great
and intricate system which Uncle
-'«» supports to tell the people of
the Ceiled States shat the day is
going to bring forth la the matter of
weather
Aa a matter of fact. "Colie. Dales
t-ex. etc., when transldted. signifies
that the steamer Monterey la saying
tuat at T tie a m on the seventh of
the ns nth she Is in latitude ZZ de
gre-» 12 minutes, that the barometer
u Sc *4. the temperature fid; that the
wind is aorthsaot. blowing 14 miles
an hour, and that the sky is clear
Rather aa original and nn.que way
at saying it. la b not?
it *» a m-ghty slick little organiza
tion. this weather bureau of the de
part men: at agriculture It keeps a
small army of experts busy from
seven a clock is the morning until
midnight every day In the year keep
ing track of Just what Old Mac
Weather Is up to. cataloguing all his
d»smrrasi*s and doping out what
new caper be is about to cut up.
Xe ghost of an atmospheric d.s
t a'baser no storm wraith or cold
wav# apparition can stalk abroad in
any cranny at the states, nowadays.
•Thong being .nstantiy pounced upon
by the nearest bureau, and it* would
be secret maneuvers spread broad
**»■• to other stations that they may
ex pert its coming and set in motion
th* r machinery for doping out the
exact ume of it# appearance It was
osj* comparatively recently that the
e£. .ency of the weather bureau wa*
cahnneed by aa arrangement between
the a* panment and many of the big
eieamebip ins to send semi-daily
■ e*tner repcr*» from vessels at sea
be*end a distac e of 7Z m.ies !roc
port
Maty peopk have an idea thai there
is something mysterious and occult
wfi'-fR the aork of the weather bureau
■- forecasting ;he c*.ruing of storms,
frost* and foods Not a few think
that the observers must neces
sarily get their data by reading the
tuns**, the stars and the moon A*
s matter of fact the forecaster of the
'• '•'*« *• retells the coming of dteturb
ai.c-s :» a businesslike wsy. very sim»
i_r to that in which a mac who has
ordered a shipment of goods would
asnmslo the date of its arrival
f uppoar a business man had or
dered a carload of pineapples from
the Hawaiian ...and* He would know
•he average time it would take the
si earner u make the trip to the J»a
«fic port the average ume for un
. and mg and Hading into refrigerator
cart and the average number of days
to be allowed these cars for their trip
acre** the continent to New York
His estimate, however would be rub
.wt to error, because the steamship
a. Ah be di laycd by fog. or the cars
might meet with an accident.
Storm* like pineapples, as a rule
do mot originate in the United States
They om« to us. some from the Phil
pptne*. Japan Siberia. Alaska. Cana
da or the Gait at Mexico The weath
er bureau gets cable telegraphic or
wireless notice of a foreign storm
ri* allot. after station, or vessel after
vessel report* the storms arrival in
-is nr gbhorhood. so that the general
dfrect aa and rate of progress can be
determined very early la fact, the
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arrival of some storms can be fore
told ten dayB In advance.
The forecasters watch for the re
gion of low barometer, which is the
storm center around which the winds
blow This whirl or eddy moves bod
ily f<-rward w ith tbe general eastward
drift of about 650 miles a day in our
latitudes As the lines of equal pres
sure < isobars i around the low center
crowd closer together, the winds at
tending the storm increase in force
Tbe forecaster determines the direc
tion of movement of the storm and its
velocity.
When weather disturbances are re
ported. the forecasters know from ex
perience about how long it takes them
to reach our Pacific coast, and then
how long after they will reach the
Atlantic coast For example, if a
storm coming from Siberia drifts east
ward around the North pole and re
appears in Alaska, it should appear In
Washington and Oregon in about two
day> should get to tbe great lakes in
six days and to the Atlantic coast in
seven or eigh‘ days.
Unexpected conditions may delay
storms or divert them from the
straight track Just as a refrigerator
car may be thrown off its schedule or
be shipped by accident on a wrong
road Some of these storms deplete
themselves by running into regions
of high barometer which are of great
er magnitude and extent than the
storm itself Some of them, however,
travel completely around the world
To keep tab on cold waves that
come into the United States from
Canada and Alaska, the weather bu
reau studies tbe Canadian weather re
ports. England sends reports from
Iceland, the British islands and conti
nental Europe, and daily reports come
from St Petersburg on the conditions
m Russia and Siberia
The same businesslike system used
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in tracing the track of a storm is
applied in determining the arrival of
frosts.
Flood forecasts are made in much
the same way. Information as to the
amount of rainfall at the head waters
of streams that cause floods are cov
ered by telegraphic reports sent by
local observers. As this rain reaches
the main channel, the height of the
water in the channel is determined by
successive gauging stations. Past
records establish how much a height,
say of 20 feet at Dubuque, Iowa, will
produce at Davenport, another station
80 miles down the Mississippi. This
plan is followed all the way down the
river, and at each point full allow
ance is made for the effects of water
from tributaries, and from additional
and local rainfall. As a result of
these observations in the recent flood,
the people of Cairo had warning a
week or ten days in advance. The
Pittsburgh district can be given only
12 to 24 hours' notice, because a flood
is upon them within 24 hours after a
heavy rainstorm.
To carry on this work of,forecast
ing storms, frosts and floods, there
are established throughout the United
Spates 200 branch bureaus, each with
apparatus for measuring rainfall,
wind, etc., and with a circulating sys
tem of information between them that
twice every 24 hours swaps observa
tions, each with the other 199.
Briefly, forecasting of the modern
school is resolved into watching the
course of great disturbances and cal
culating their probable movements
and the time it will take them to
cover given distances. But then
| there is a good deal of the forecast
er’s work more subtle than this. For
instance, it recently has been discov
ered that there is a remarkable inter
play between atmospheric phenomena
in widely separated regions. The
state of the barometer in Siberia in
winter is found to be related in an
intimate way to the existence and
progress of storms in the United
States at the same Ume. And now
the modern forecaster* are reaching
out into other continents for their
storm warnings and prognostications.
LOTS OF BUYERS LIKE THAT
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Man's Complaint That He Never Gets ]
Suite What He Wants Is a Pretty
General One.
“I never buy what I want!” es
plained Traizler to his friend. Ebsan
Every time I buy anything, no mat
ter what. 1 hardly get borne before 1
think of something else that I need
wirse and that 1 could have bought
with the 6ame or less money. Some
times I can figure out three or four
■ t ings I really need that the same
money would have bought.
"There is the library table that 1
have needed so long. The time for it
never comes—yet I paid $18 for pho
tographs the other day. 1 could hare
bought the library table for that
money. I could have paid the laundry
bU! with that $18.”
"There is truth in what you say.”
murmured Ebsan sadly. “I went
without » phone in my house for
eight years and spent the money I
could have used to pay phone rent in
making monthly payments on an en
. cyclopedia! Can you beat that?
"Many a time I hurried over to the
neighbors phone in my bathrobe
and slippers when I could have had a
•hone right In my own bathroom,
and so could have gone along with
my ablutions while the boss com
plained over the phone about my
atest blunder.”
"In your bathroom!”
"Sure. 1 never took a bath In my
life without some one calling me on
some urgeut matter. So my phone is
in my bathroom now. I stopped pay
ments on the encyclopedia and had a
phone put in.
“But it has turned out now that I
need the encyclopedia w orse than 1 do
the phone. That’s the way it al
ways is. Every time I go to take a
bath now some neighbor is stricken
with paralysis or some other calamity
and the family has U, use my phone
instantly. So I have to don my dress
ing gown and duck into my room while
the family’s representative tells doc
tors, nuree6 and relatives about it."
“Even so, why do you need the en
cyclopedia?"
“To fill up the bookcase that Fncle
Hitbottle gave me for Christmas."
Banded Against Napoleon.
One hundred years ago Great
Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia
concluded the treaty of Chaumont. so
called after the French town where
the allied sovereigns then had their
headquarters. Fearing the disputes
might break up the coalition when its
object—the overthrow’ of Nopolean_
was all but accomplished. Lord Cas
tlereagh, the British plenipotentiary,
proposed to conclude a treaty among
the four great powers which should
bind them solemnly to one another,
at first until the conclusion of the ex
isting war, and then for 20 years after
ward. The treaty of Chaumont, how
ever. was soon after succeeded by that
of Paris, signed April 11, 1814, by
which Napoleon renounced his sov
ereignty.
EXTRAORDINARY DISHES
Mn Das Cranford. »bct* book.
Tk tain* Black " baa created consid
erable caatroeeraj. mentioned some
-srracw dinar? Central African ' dishea'*
la the course of a recent lecture
Tl.es* .beaded stesed elephant's
trunk, roast rtiBoceroa foot boiled
hippo iuscw I stew ed 48 hours to
make M tender), roast wild donkey,
. st*»«d monkey, roast aater rat
b-ad. tail and all. and the luscious
I
j morsel, which a chief provided as a j
state delicacy, of a mess of thou- j
.-tands of white ants, frizzled in their
j own fat, like a sort of Central Afri '
car. whitebait. Also there was a spe
cial dish, much favored, of starchy
boiled prass, ‘green and glutinous”
Mrs. Crauford also told of the Ceu
! tr»l African "knuts." The young 1
bridegroom wore a necklace of teeth i
and hairs of the elephant's tail, and j
a fur boa. which any West end lady
would envy, of squirrel skins, gray and
w hite, the toilet being completed pos
sibly for all European garments
were fashionable—by one of Mrs. Dan
Crauford's skirts specially lent for the
occasion.
Underworld Assurance.
“We have a number of blue laws in
this town, said the police officer,
warningly.
l>lue. exclaimed the elegant crook.
"My favorite color!”
WH* Wu Daffy Down Dilly? J
Mother Goose, like all world poets,
tffrr tdd half the UtiP* Poetess
laureate of the English speaking
naruery her mo*' complete achieve
meets in rhyme are yet of an ineam
ptei-r.es* that insures us sgainst
■aiiei 1c these shreds and patches
of verse, those isolated couplets and
■juaimlni suggesting so much and say
ing ao little, we perceive the promise
of that perfected art foreshadowed in
the unfinished tales of a Dickens and
a Steseasoa Rndyard Kipling, delib
_
**rately fashioning metrical fragments
for preludes to his Indian tales, struck
a note seldom sustained in his com
pleted compositions.
Who mas Daffy-down-Dilly. and what
did she do avhen she came to town?
Was Jumping Joan flesh, fairy or
symbol? Would me laugh or cry did
we understand the fantastic appari
tion of Banbury Cross? Why did
Margery Daw sell her bed and lie upon
■tram-, and was there not something
behind the appearance of her purely
eccentric depravity?—Century. '
Returned to Life in Coffin.
To be buried alive in the cemetery
of Hocbwald, In the canton of Soleure.
was the fate of an elderly Swiss lady.
After the burial ceremonv the grave
| diggers were about to fill in the grave
when they heard knocking in the cof
fin. Instead of rendering immediate
help they fled in terror to inform the
doctor and the priest. When the doc
tor arrived at the grave the coffin
was opened and it was found that the
woman, who had turned over, had
, died.
WASTHEOLD STORY
By HAROLD CARTER. -
"William," said the farmer's wife
gently, coming up to where he sat and
placing her arm round his neck, "what
are you going to do about Bessie and
her little girl?”
The old man looked up angrily.
"Do?” he repeated in a dull, mechan
ical way. "What do you suppose 1 am
: going to do? Nothing."
"But we can't let her starve, dear.”
"She would have let me starve." an
| swered William Ives, staring into the
: fire. "If there hadn't been minerals
I on that piece of land I owned and
sold, Mary, where would we be now?
| In the poorhouse. 1 gave my best
' years to her and now—no. let her
earn her own living."
"But the board won't appoint a mar
1 r!ed woman as a teacher when she
has a child, even if her husband is
dead. William," said the anxious
i mother. "Won't you help her?”
"No," said her husband finally.
Everyone In Locust knew the story,
j Commonplace enough, it was yet es
sentially one that fluds its yearly
equivalent in a thousand homes. Wil
( liam Ives and his wife had scraped
: for years, impoverishing their scanty
resources, to put their child through
■ college. When she had secured an
appointment as teacher she was to
: repay them by helping support them.
Five years had passed since Bessie's
graduation, and for a few months she
| Mad contributed to the family income
Then—she had given up her position !
to marry a poor writer,
i John Turner was consumptive when
j Phe married him. and soon the dis
ease had him in its full grasp. He
took his wife and baby west and died
there. Bessie had come back to Lo
cust to secure a position as teacher,
i But the new board had passed strin
gent rules, born out of the over-supply
I of teachers, and under these Bessie
was unequivocally debarred She had
hot gone home: she was staying with
an old-time friend who had taken pity
on her and the little girl and given
them temporary shelter.
"It isn't as if I had wanted to send
her to college." muttered the old
man. "1 ain't hard I meant to treat
the girl well, and when She pleaded
“Oo! You Speak Like a Big Bear,
Grampa."
and pleaded I couldn’t resist her. But
what gratitude did she show me?"
“Dear, it was to be expected.” said
his wife. “Every girl thinks of mar
; riage, college or no college."
"Let her starve.” answered the
j farmer shortly.
But he slept little that night and
; sighed next morning as he went out
' to his fields.
The mother had seen the daughter.
| She had visited her without telling
her husband. 'William Ives labored
hard under his grievance. He was
difficult to turn. The mother's heart
; was bleeding, but she could do noth
ing
“If only he could see little Minnie
he might feel differently," she mused,
kissing the child.
“Where do oo live, gramma?" in
; uuired Minnie, clutching at the old
woman's skirts. v
"In the big white house over yon
, der,” answered the old woman sadly.
“Then bymeby me an’ mamma
come to see you," said little Minnie
gravely, and the farmer’s wife turned
her face away.
Days passed. She had not dared
renew the discussion with her hus
band. All the village was talking
about the situation; most blamed the
father, but a few thought he was act
ing rightly. This was the conserva
tive element, the older folks who were
still unreconciled to the higher educa
tion of women.
It was about a week after her con
versation with her husband that Mary
Ives heard him calling angrily from
the front porch, on which he sat after
his supper, to smoke and read. She
hurried out of the house, to see the
old man glaring at the child.
‘Oo! You speak just like a big
bear, grampa.” lisped Minnie.
“Take her away!" shouted Ives in
exasperation. “You can't fool me by
any such trick as that, Mary.”
“What do you mean?" faltered his
wife. ,
“You know what I mean. You
hatched this scheme with that girl
that used to be mine. Thought you
would soften the old man s heart by
patching up a clumsy, worn-out trick
like that, didn't you?" he sneered.
•Well, I tell you it won’t work—see?”
"Oo-oo-oo!” mocked the child.
“Speak like a bear again, grampa!”
She stood in front of him, gazing
up into his face with childish rapture.
Evidently she mistook the old farm
er’s angry tones for playful growls,
and was mightily amused thereby.
“Come here!” said the old man,
looking at her ferociously. “Who told
you to come here to me?"
“Me told me,” said little Minnie.
“Gramma said ‘oo live in the big
white house. Me come.”
The man smiled bitterly. “So your
grandmother put yon up to this trick,
did she?" he asked. “Do you know
who I am?"
“ 'Es. 'Oo grampa,” said the child,
nestling confidently against his knee.
William Ives was bewildered. In
spite of his hardness and of his reso
lution a new tenderness was creeping
into his heart. The little creature
was singularly like his daughter, as
she had been at that age. He could
picture Bessie perfectly in his mind's
eye whet she was four. He used to
sit out there on the same porch, smok
ing his pipe and listening to her child
ish prattle; but how different had
been his thoughts then! How high
his hopes had been! Bessie was his
first-born: there had been a boy. but
he had died and all his pride had cen
tered in the girl after his son's death. :
"What are you going to be when
you grow up?" the old man asked the
child He spoke in a mechanical
wav. hardly knowing what he said,
because he was lighting hard to keep
back the flood of tenderness that
brimmed over within him.
"Me go to college.” lisped Minnie.
"Me go to mamma's college!"
William Ives let his pipe fall from
his hand and his eyes became sudden
ly dim. So it was tl}e old story all
■over again, and the younger genera
tion was dreaming the same dreams
and hoping the same hopes when his
old life was broken.
“iiiliiam!" said his wife appealing
ly. "Send her home. then, but don't
be angry with her, poor little mite.”
"You hear that?” asked the old man
of the child. "You go home now and
—and tell your mother supper's wait
ing for her. Do you understand, my
dear?" lie continued, taking her in his
arms and kissing her in a shame
faced manner. i
The child toddled away happily, j
But the old man sat very silently
upon the porch.
”1 guess I’ve been wrong, mother.” I
he said at length, huskily. “We've j
had our day and we musn't expect the i
younger people to think about us. I
guess—I guess we can afford another j
college course, w hether we live to see
it through or not—eh. mother?”
(Copyright. 1914. by W. G. Chapman.) j
OWE THEIR RICHES TO LUCK
Stories of Fortunate Miners Who Have
Gathered Wealth From Supposed
ly Worthless Claims.
It is strange how often the miner
makes a fortune out of an abandoned
or almost abandoned claim.
There was such a case at Waarn
Yarra. in Australia, In May, 1903. Two
Kingston miners bought an old claim
for a soAg. and found it in such bad
condition that it needed timbering all
through. One wanted to give it up.
but the other suggested that they
might try their luck for a day or two. j
So they took some props down and set 1
to work.
The first man stuck his pick into j
the clay roof to make a hole for a
prop, and down fell a large stone al
most on his head. But it was not a
stone. It was a nugget of pure gold
weighing US ounces.
The richest copper mine in ' the
world is the United Verde, in Arizona.
It was originally found by a couple
of ranchers, who sold it for $10,000 to
two men named Murray and Trimble.
They worked it and found little, cop
per, and were absolutely at the end of
their resources when they struck a
pocket, not of copper, but silver ore,
which netted them a sum of $SO,000.
They came to an end of the silver |
and abandoned the mine as worthless.
Another man came down from Mon
tana and bought the old claim for a
few hundreds. He struck the real
vein of copper, and within ten years it
made him one of the richest men in
the world. In a single twelvemonth
he took out copper valued at $12,
000,000.
This calls to mind the even more
famous Mt Morgan gold mine. The
first owner of the land was Donald
Gordon, who grazed his flocks above
untold and unknown riches, and sold
the land for $5 an acre to two broth
ers named Morgan.
They set to work, and the quartz
panried out up to S00 ounces of gold
to the ton. In 1SS9 $5,000,000 was dis
tributed to the shareholders. One
shareholder left a fortune of $11,- j
555,000.
Gradually the gold quartz petered i
out, and the Mt. Morgan mine was
supposed to be dead.
Then some clever mineralogist, pok
ing about the half-deserted works,
realized that there was more eopp>er
than gold. In 1906 the mine was
reborn as a copper producer, and a
new process was discovered for ex
tracting gold from the copper. Today
Mt. Morgan is still going strong.
Musical Truism.
Walter Damrosch recounted to an
orchestra leader the theme of a new
opera that he thought of writing. ;
“Such au opera would be beautiful,"
said the orchestra leader, "but I'm
afraid it wouldn't go in New York"
"Why not?" the composer demanded.
“Because, with that plot your first
and last acts would contain your finest
music. Well, you know the New York
er never sees the first act of an op
era because he arrives too late. Neith
er doe# he see the last act because
he hurries out long before the curtain
goes down. So, unless you can put
all your most effective music in year
second and third acts, you won't suc
ceed in Ne* York."
Italy's Trade Balance.
According to recent statistics just
issued Italy's total imports for the
year 1913 amounted to $727,654,118
and the exports to $500,782,724. While
imports have diminished exports have
increased and by comparing these fig
ures with those for the previous year
an improvement of about $36,000,000 I
is noticeable in Italy’s commercial
balance daring the last year.
To Fly to Peking.
The Russian government has au- !
thorized the French aviator Janoir,
now in charge of organization of Rus
sian military aviation, to attempt a
St Petersbnrg-Peking flight in May.
The distance is 11,000 versts. He will
travel alone on a Russian machine
of 80 horsepower and hopes to do the
journey in a month.
PRACTICAL HINTS PICKED UP IN HOG YARD
Fine Matured Sow—The Right Sort for Breeding.
(By HENRY G. GROWN.)
For many years I have followed the
method of allowing my pigs to run j
with the sows as long as the sows ;
will permit them. My theory is that
sows are made for that purpose, and
1 see no reason why young pigs should
be taken away from their mother as
long as she has milk for them The
more milk the pigs get, the better it is
for them.
I use matured sows for breeding,
and try to have them in very good
flesh at farrowing time, but not fat.
They do not get too thin from suck
ling, and very often come in season in
time to breed for fall litters, before
pigs are weaned.
Another thing: I feed my pigs near
ly all the corn they will eat. although
1 know this practice is condemned by
many hog raisers. When they are
very young. 1 give them a little slop
made of shorts, water and a bit of oil
meal.
1 feed the pigs in an inclosure by
themselves, and never give more at
one time than they will clean up. I
feed them a little slop all through the
summer, ai\d give them a free run of
the pasture. 1 take care that they
have all the sweet grass they can eat, j
clover and alfalfa.
They root up the alfalfa slightly, but
I did not believe they would do any
permanent damage to it until the last
year or two. when I became convinced
that it would not do to pasture alfalfa,
and 1 now keep my pigs out of it I am
satisfied that pasturing alfalfa to eith
er pigs or hogs will cause it to run out.
1 begin to feed oats to the pigs as
soon as harvest comes on. They eat
it with a relish, and I find it one of
the best foods I can use to give the
pigs stamina and start them on the
road to fattening.
When the corn is past the roasting
ear period. I begin to feed them that
very lightly at first, gradually increas
ing the ration, until the late corn is
ripe 1 always feed some oats or old
corn along with the green corn, and
have never had any trouble from
thumps.
I consider it very important to feed
the pigs in dry warm quarters, and
never allow them to stray out in the
cole, wet rain. I have good shade in
the pasture under which they can lie
dur.ng the very hot weather.
1 spray my hog houses regularly
twice a year, and keep them white
washed inside and ont. and have never
beea troubled with lice on my place. I
raise from 50 to 75 hogs every year,
feeding them what I raise on the farm,
and always manage to make a profit.
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KEEP ALL STRAW
FOR STOCK FEED
With Siiage. Roots or Grain It
Makes Good Ration—Also
Valuable Fertilizer.
Many farmers do not realize to
what extent straw is valuable, or
how to make the best use of it. Large
quantities of straw have been burned,
in the past, as the easiest method of
disposal, but from now on it will be
used to a great extent with silage,
roots, grains and the iike. In using
it with silage it serves a double pur
pose—it helps keep certain kinds of
silage from spoiling in the silo, and
it is a good filler for stock feeding.
Straw is especially poor in crude
protein and fat. and rich in cellulose,
or woody fiber. This makes it par
ticularly useful in the winter time for i
horses and cattle, as it requires a
great deal of energy-! to masticate, di
gest, and pass it through the body,
thus keeping the animal warm. Wheat
straw is being used at the Hays ex-1
periment station at the present time.'
along with other feeds. The cattle
are eating quite a large amount of
this straw and have gained in weight.
Oats straw is far more nutritious than
wheat straw and is much preferred by ;
stock.
After stock have been allowed to'
run to a straw pile, the straw will soon i
decay and contain a considerable
amount of droppings from the animals,
which makes it valuable as a fertil
izer. Wheat straw makes excellent:
bedding material, as it does not break
up badly, and will absorb more mois
ture than either oats or rye straw.
Wheat straw is often used by manu
facturers for packing purposes. It Is
aiso used in the paper Industry. If a
farmer has a large amount of straw
and has good shipping facilities, he
may be able to dispose of it at a profit
WHITEWASHING IS
EXCELLENT HABIT
One of Old-Time Customs Which
the Present Generation Might
Profitably Follow.
The old-fashioned New England habit
of whitewashing everything, from the
front yard fence to the stable, at least
twice a year, was a most excellent one,
and is one of the old-time customs
which the present generation might '
well adopt.
The following Is the recipe for mak
ing whitewash published by the United
States department of agriculture:
Slake half a bushel of unslaked lime
with boiling water, keeping it covered
during the process. Strain it and add
a peck of salt, dissolved in warm wa
ter; three pounds of ground rice put
in boiling water and boiled to a thin
paste; half a pound of Spanish whit
ing, and a pound of clear glue, dis
solved in warm water. Mix these well
together, and let trie mixture stand for
several days. Keep the wash thus
prepared in a kettle or portable fur
nace. and when used put it on as hot
as possible with painters' or white
wash brushes.
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Mineral Matter for Flock.
Scientists tell us that there is often
more mineral matter removed from a
fleece of wool than is contained in the
sheep'e entire body from which the
wool is clipped; hence the necessity
of a ration with plenty of mineral mat- j
ter in order to supply material for this,
superior wool growing.
Avoiding Scaly Leg.
Don’t allow your chickens to have
scaly legs. Clean and apply a good
disinfectant, then rub in plenty of
good grease.
ALFALFA PASTURE
FOR LIVE STOCK
Has Higher Feeding Value When
Cut at an Early Stage—Bet
ter to Feed Than Sell.
Alfalfa is invaluable as a pasture
for live stock. For hog pasture it
is especially so. Ten pounds of green
allalfa produces one pound of pork.
Figuring on this basis, an acre of
green alfalfa, weighing 20,000 pounds,
wil! make 2,000 pounds of pork which,
at five cents a pound, is worth $100.
This estimate is true when corn and
alfalfa are fed together.
Alfalfa has a higher feeding value
when cut at an early stage of maturity,
aiicut one-tenth in bloom, than when
out in full bloom. It contains more
nutrient value, pound for pound, than
any other forage crop, being almost
equal to wheat bran In digestible nu
trients. Alfalfa compares favorably
with cottonseed meal, soy beans and
wheat bran in amount of digestible
p-otein. Since the price of these con
centrates Is higher than the price of
alfalfa, it is cheaper and more profita
ble to feed alfalfa.
The best way for the farmer to
market alfalfa hay is in the form of
horses, hogs, %beef, mutton or dairy
products. Such product^ are easily
taken to the market, and the ma
ture, which may be returned to the
soil, is almost equal in value to the
hay itself. Under all conditions, it
is better to feed alfalfa to live stock
than to sell it as a marketable prod
uct. It is advisable for the fanner to
sell his hay only when he has more
than enough to feed his live stock.
BUILDING A RACK
FOR HAULING WOOD
Use Two Pieces of Very Strong
Wood and Have Blacksmith
Make Standard Sockets.
(By W. H. UNDERWOOD.)
Take two 4 by 5 pieces of very
strong wood not less than eleven feet
long and not more than twelve and cut
a notch so as to fit down over hind
bolster of wagon to prevent rack from
slipping backward or forward. Use
four or sis standards on each side and
the same number of cross pieces and
at the same places make sure that the
standard in going down through the
standard socket catches and pries
against the end of the cross piece.
Make standards three and one-half
feet long. They may be afterwards
cut off if desired. Have a blacksmith
make standard sockets from old
wagon tires to admit a standard one
and one-half by four inches and with
bolt holes for one-half inch bolts. Holt
all cross pieces firmly. Have wagon
nearby when making rack and have
the rack go as far forward as possible
so that when it is turned so that front
wheels strike the side rail on one side
and the other wlieel will just miss the
front end of the other side rail, and
also the front standard pocket. Boards
may be used on the wagon to get
these measurements.
New Bird Reservations.
During the past year seven new
national bird reservations were estab
lished by the United States govern
ment. making a total of 63 to date.
The new ones are as follows; Chamls
so island, in Alaska; Pishkun, in
Montana; Desecheo island, in Porto
Rieo; Gravel island, on Green bay In
Wisconsin; Aleutian islands, in
Alaska; Walker lake, in Arkansas, and
Petit Bois island, in Alabama. These
new reservations are important breed
ing sites for certain species of wild
birds. »