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Prime Requisites for Good Summer Layers Are Shade, Water, Ail and Proper Peed.

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Now that the hatching season la pretty well over, the problem for the i poultry keeper, particularly for the back-yard poultry keeper, is to get the greatest number, of eggs possible from tho number of hons kept during the summer. Hens that are not good layers should Vie marketed. Unless the hens have already been carried through one summer, which is perhaps not the best practice for the back-vard poultry keepers, there is necessarily some difficulty in determining which are the rood summer layers. The fact that a hen has been a Rood spring layer does not prove that she will be a good sum«mer layer. Of course, no hen should be sold while she continues to lay, but a hen that has become broody may, after a brief period, begin laying again and continue through the summer. The condition of the comb will indicate some time in advance whether the hen .will beg4n laying again. If she shows no indication of preparing to lay. It would be wise to sell or eat her. The 'f time of moulting is perhaps the safest indication. Hens that moult early are not good summer layers, and it is good v practice to sell all. hens that begin moulting in June or early July.

The problem of summer housing is v 5 n o much less a serious one than that of winter housing. The principal requirements are fresh air, access to both »t shade and sunlight, dryness and room.

The matter of air properly comes first, j- and free circulation of air practically insures dryness. Air and sunlight are ti 'nature's best disinfectants and germicides. But hens are very susceptible ,' 4 to an excess of heat and it is equally necessary t$&1, they have plenty it shade.

The problem of a summer ration for the back-yard poultry keeper is much easier of solution than that of a winter ration. In most cases the neces/sary green feed can be supplied without buying anything. Beet, carrot and turnip tops, waste leaves from cabbage v./' and lettuce, onion tops, potato parings, watermelon and cantaloupe rinds, together with the clippings of grass from the lawn, will supply in most cases all tha green feed required by the backyard flock.

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Bread and rake crtrnib*. particularly if you can induce your neighbor who keeps no chickens to save hers for you, will go a long way toward supplying 4* the dry feed requirement. Meat scraps from the kitchen may be sufficient to meet the requirements of animal food, particularly if the hens have even a I little range in which they can scratch for bugs and worms. Such scraps are bast run through a meat grinder and mixed with three parts corn meal and i-ii-j. one part wheat bran. This should be fwd at noon or later. If any grain Is

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be the most suitable grain feeds. If i* hens show a tendency to get too fat, the grain ration should be reduced, as V, excessively fat liens are never good -layers. Some beef scrap should be fed

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THE TRIBUNEP0ULTRY

Producing Eggs In Summer

HOW SHADE: CAN BE PROVIDED FOR SIMMER LAYERS IN TkE SKNCK OF BACK-YARD TREES,

if enough meat scraps from tables can not be procured to meet the requirements of the hens. i*

Hens should have constant access to grit or stones small enough to be swallowed and to crushed oyster or clam shells,

A matter* of first importance Is that the water supply be always plentiful and clean. Laying hens require a great deal of water, and it should be fresh and clean. Do not place the water receptacle where litter can be scratched into it. Wash it frequently enough to prevent the accumulation of green scum on its inner surface. Preferably, for summer, keep it outside the house and the shade.

HOW TO CANDLE EGGS.

If you are going to put away some summer-laid eggs for winter use—as, of course, yoy are, it being both a patriotic and a personal duty—you will need to exercise considerable care that only good eggs are put in the waterglass or llmewater container. One bad egg is likely to destroy several others. By consistently gathering the eggs when they are fresh, most of the danger of storing bad eggs is avoided, but since it is necessary to hold the eggs until a sufficient number is accumulated to fill the container, and since some eggs are imperfect when they are laid, candling, where it can be done without too much trouble and delay, might well *be practiced. The United States department of agriculture has just issued a bulletin on "How to Candle Eggs." The text is brief and direct and is illustrated with colored plates showing the way in which an egg should appear before the candle together with the various ways it should not appear. The bulletin was written by Dr. M. E. Pennington, chief of the food research laboratory, assisted by M. K. Jenkins, bacteriologist, and H. M. P. Betts, artist. It should be of great use, not only to persons putting away eggs for home use, but, as well, for' all those who desire to establish or maintain a reputation for delivering eggs in perfect condition.

FA&Jt XABOBr—IT'S A PROBLEM.

The farm labor problem is one that affects not the farmer alone. It is one that the farmer alone can not sole—one that the farmer can not solve even with the aid of the department of agriculture, the department of labor and all such agencies.

It is a problem that affect! the city man and in the solution of which ttM city man must help.

Practically every business man in an agricultural region is dependent, in large measure, on the farmers. If they fail, he suffers. He owes it, therefore, to himself not le: s than to his country to give every possible assistance.

Write to the department of agriculture, Washington, D. C., for a copy of "The Farm Labor Problem—Manpower Sufficient if Properly Mobilized by Cooperation and Community Action."

Study the problem as it applies to the farming communities on which you and your business depend for the largest measure of success.

And get busy helping with the solution. That Is a business duty you owe yourself and your customers, patrons or clients. It is equally a patriotic duty you owe your country.

"BON'TS" FOR RTTWMT.P

Don't Jceep cocks through the summer. It is a waste of feed and a menace to good eggs.

Don't keep early moulting hens through the summer. They are certain to be poor layers and to consume feed for which you will get no returns.

Don't fail to provide the laying hens with plenty of clean water, plenty of fresh air and plenty of shade. •.

Don't allow vegetable culls to be thrown in the garbage can. Feed them to the flock and convert them Into egga.

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Don't' fail to put. the chickens grown at home on the home table. Give the family the benefit of good eating and pav* easily transportable meats for the armies overseas.

Don't fail to preserve at least one case—thirty dozen—of i summer-laid eggs for home use this, winter, when egg prices will be high/-

HENS AND THE HOME.

What do you do with table scraps? Don't let them go to waste. They make fine feed for fowls, and fowls make fine food for you.

Farmers bulletin 889, "Back-Yard Poultry Keeping,** tells how. Free on request.-—U. S. Department of Agriculture.

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In one way or another, directly or indirectly, it gives you a large part, probably the bulk, of your business.

Without Its contribution of food, neither your home nor your business house could continue in existence.

That is what the farm means and has meant to most city men. You will know best just what it means to you.

Now, having thought it over, remember that the farm is in such dire need of labor as it has never known before.

And get ready to do what you can toward repaying the debt you owe the farm—not repaying it so much to the \farm, either, as paying it to your country in a genuinely patriotic service.

FINE BARNS NOT NECESSARY.

As they trekked down the lane from the barn to the pasture, "Pled" may have tossed her horns and sung to "Bossie," "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls." But that dream, built up for dairy cows by a lot of elaborate designers of fine barns, is dissipated by experts of the United States department of agriculture in a bulletin entitled "The Four Essential Factors in the Production of Milk of Low Bacterial Court." It gives the results of a series of experiments in which milk of low bacterial count was produced in an experimental barn under conditions similar to those on the average low-grade farm. The three essential factors were found to be: Sterilized utensils clean cows small-top pails. A fourth factor, necessary to keep the count low, is holding the milk at a temperature of 50 degrees Fahrenheit or lower. All of these factors, it is pointed out, may be operative in an ordinary barn just as much as in the "marble hall" type.

ONLY 1 EGG IN 100 DAMAGED.

An eggshell is not quite th« most fragile thing in the world—workers in laboratories know of a few things more fragile—but it is the most fragile thing with which the average individual has to deal. To transport a hundred eggs a distance of 1,200 miles in a freight ca,r and to have the shells of 99 of them perfectly intact at the end of the journey is something of an achievement. Yet the United States department of agriculture has done a little better than that. In a series of tests, covering a period of two years, in which the average haul was 1,200 miles, the total damage, including "checks," "dents'* and "leakers," was less than 1 per cent,

Tf shippers of eggs in carload or less than carload lots will study and apply the methods of the department of agriculture in packing and hauling eggs, a long step will be taken toward conserving the food supply.

WATCH STOCK FOR FLY INJURY.

To prevent fly pests of live stock from causing serious injury, the stock should be carefully watched and when the presence of maggots Is discovered in wounds or tn soiled w«ol, appropriate remedy should be applied. Chloroform is the best remedy to kill maggots in wounds. As the wound is cleansed, some effective fly repellent such as pine tar should be smeared over the wound and about its edges.

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THE FARM AND THE CITY MAN.

Spend Ave minutes thinking over what you owe the farm. Very likely it gave you the stamina and strength of character that has made yoii a success in the business world. Certainly, it has given those things to some of the men upon wnom you rely for maintaining that success.

TERRE HAUTE TRIBUNE.

PET ST0CK

I.AND GARDEN DEPT.

FARM LABOR SHORTAGE REACHES ACUTE STAGE

Opportunity for City Men to Repay to Nation Debt They Owe tbs Farm.

Suppose you close your store next Tuesday—lock it up and go away all day—how much will you lose? Something, certainly. But euppose, tomorrow morning, yott displajr placards over every counter telling your custo-. mers that the store will not be open Tuesday, that the entire sales force is going to put in the day fighting for the freedom of America, and ask them to buy on Monday what they need for Tuesday. How much Tfrould you lose then, even if your competitor on the next corner should keep open all day and hustle for business? A little, possibly. But don't you think it would be bread upon the water, that would return to you, and after not so many days, at that? Don't you believe that, for every customer of yours who went to trade with your competitor during the day you were closed, three of his would come to trade with you within the week?

Urban people have got to do some fighting for freedom in the furrows this spring, summer and fall. They have got tp help the country win the war by helping the farmer produce food—which means that they wit! be helping themselves most of all.

With the exception of a few mining and manufacturing centers, the villages, towns and cities of 100,000 or less are mainly dependent for their success on the prosperity of the farming communities around thenw They have good times or hard times in proportion as the farming operations in their trade territory succeed or fail. In normal times, even, sensible self-inter-est prompts the business man to encourage and aid the farmer. Now, in the stress of war, the prompting to fiel^ the farmer comes hardly less from good business judgment than from patriotic impulse.

Here is the situationThe farmers will need additional labor to help cultivate the harvest the crops they have planted. This situation can not be met by legislation. The task imposed upon the Israelites by Pharaoh to make bricks without Btraw, was an easy Job compared with the task of making labor by law, In large measure, the needed labor must come from the people in towns whose business does not have to be kept humming every minute.

Men Who Were Farm Boyr. You know, a very largo proportion of business men have been farm boys. Just make a mental canvass of the men in your block or your building. You remember when they came in green from the country, sunburned and hard as hickory. The fact that they are now among the best business men in town does not prove that they couldn't still do good farm work. Why, not so long ago, 'when Bill Brown rushed irf to get a few balls of binder twine, and to pijt a little extra money in the bank and chaffed you about the ease of yonr job and how soft you were, yoTT probably boasted that you could still shock wheat or walk between the plow handles with the best of them. Of course you could—and of course you can. Maybe you can't hold it as long as some of them, but you can do it as well. All right. The time has come for you to do it. You never made a boast that you couldn't back up, did you?

If your town falls down 6n this matter, the country will suiter—a littre. It will not suffer a great deal, because most of the towns are not going to fall down on it. But if your town falls down on this matter, your town will suffer more than a little. .You know what happens to trade when the farmers all around are short on crop« and have barely enough money to scrimp by with.

Commercial Clubs Shouttf Act. Take the matter up at the next meeting of- the commercial club or board of trade. Or, better still, call a special meeting. You have influence enough to do it or have it done. Here is what Clarence A. Ousley, assistant secretary of agriculture of the United States, says about it: "To render this assistance to the farmer and to the nation, the local commercial club or business men's association should appoint a labor representative or a small and active committee on farm iabor. This labor representative or committee should make a canvass of the business men, clerks and others in the town who have had farm experience and who are willing to close or leave their places of busi-

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ness on certain days or afternoons, or for long periods, and go out on the neighboring farms to help. This labor representative or committee should either get in touch with the farmers themselves or with an agent representing the farmers, such as the master of the grange, president of the union, the manager of the co-operative creamery or store, or the county agricultural agent, and ascertain Just how many men each farmer can use to advantage during good Heather and particularly during certain 'rush periods in planting, cultivating or harvesting. With this information on the farm labor needs and the number of workers available, the committee can assign the men who have volunteered to help in this emergency to the various farms in the neighborhood.".

WAS UNLUCKY DAY.

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Drivers Face Hoodoo Friday, With Unfortunate Results. An automobile driven by James Hale, driver for the T. H., I. & E. Traction company, collided with a machine owned and driven by William Nenknm of 1044 North Eighth street, Friday night, at Seventh and Mulberry streets. Neither of the drivens were injured, although both machines were considerably damaged.

Clinton Foote, a jitney driver, struck a smill boy on a bicycle on North Eighth street Friday afternoon, and wrecked the bicycle, leaving the boy uninjured. Foote told the police that the accident was unavoidable, and that the boy had ridden In front of the automobile.

Walter Poe, 21 years old. 24i5 Liberty avenue, was arrested Friday night when he ran down William Norcross, of 1908 Washington avenue, at Seventn street and Wabash avenue, Norcross was not hadly injured, and Was taken to his home in a jitney bus. Poe was examined by Captain Jones and released to appear in City Court Saturday morning.

SAILOR PLEADS GUILTY. Naval Recruit to Face Trial In the Civil Courts.

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Lakes training station, who was charged with the theft of an automobile belonging to James Costins, entered a pica of guilty, and was bound over to await the action of the grand Jury. He is also suspected of passing bad checks while in this city aJid in Paris, and the officials are making an investigation.

The authorities at the Great Lfikes training station have wired the officials here that it will be satisfactory for the law to take its course, and have permitted the civil authorities to decide the matter in any way they may choose.

INEXPENSIVE GARDEN TOOLS.

The cultivation of a home garden requires very little expenditure in tools. A spade, a hoe and a rake, representing a total cost of considerably less than $5, are all the bought tools necessary to be used. Everything else can be improvised. A garden line can be made with «. piece of twine tied to two sharpened sticks that serve as stakes. A thin piece ot board or a shingle can be made into a serviceable trowel. A good scratcher and weeder can be made by driving about three small nails through the end of a piece of lath. A heavier weeder can be made from a piece of hoop iron, with one end sharpened, bent into a loop.

MORE FOOD PRODUCTS.

3. W. Bates, general agent of the C. & E. I., has been informed that Flora Rose, of the federal food administration, has been assigned to work with the farmers and food producers along the C. & E. I. railroad in the interests of the government's effort to increase the food supply this ye-sr.

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WILEY HIGH SCHOOL HAS 116 GRADUATES

Tlnee Members of Senior Class Now In Service—Dr. Woodburn Talk» On War Ideals.

The sixty-sixth commencement exercises of Wiley high school, held Friday evening at the Grand theatre, at which 116 young men and women were awarded diplomas, was marked with features accentuating the present war conditions. One member of the class now in service was at home on a furlough and was handed his diploma to the accompaniment of cheers from an audience witnessing for the first time in Terre Haute the scqpe of a soldier graduating from Wiley high school. Fred Tetzel. of the United States aviation corps, was the soldier thus honored Two other members of the class, RiChard Hagen and Richard Hits, are in the navy and were unable to be present. Five members of the class, while in their junior year, enlisted in the army. They are Thomas Enlow, Raymond Harris, Paul Justus, Joseph Manson and Jim Tom Williams. Sergt. Raymond Harris of A Company, 113th United States engineers, a former football captain of Wiley, is home on furlough and attended the exercises.

Following the presentation of diplomas, Miss Velma Housman played a piano solo, and a trio of members of the graduating class, Misses Angela Hicks and Nellie Cole paton antf Sterling Pitman, sang "A Boating Song." The exercise was closed with the singing of the class song, the words composed by Miss Lucy Radtke, a member of the class, to the tune of "Keep the Home Fires Burning."

The graduating class was seated on a stage decorated with flowers and greenery in front and the red and white of Wiley hanging above with the red, fl^iite and blue of America. The diplomas were presented by John R. Harkness, president of the school board, following an address by Dr. J. A. Woodburn, of Indiana University, and a musical program consisting of a vocal solo by Miss Mary Johnson, orchestra numbers, a violin trio, "The Dawn of Love." by the Misses Marjorie Laatz, Verna E. Thomas and Ruth Pitser, and twt) piano selections by Miss Florence Harris.

Dr. Woodburn said he believed it was fitting at the present time to discuss on such an occasion the situation of the world war. He said the present war is more of a world war than any preceding it in history, and compared the number and size of the nations engaged in it to the size of ths "world" conquered by Alexander the Oreat and the Roman empire.

War Won By Morals*

"In wars of the past," Dr. woodburn continued, "a military genius like Marlborough could march small army miles into ths enemy's country, win a battle, a war and a dukedom, but this war is not to be won by battles or irjilitary genius. This war is to be won by morale, the nation which holds out the longest, which has the best morale, will win this war. With

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our Ideals, which are at stake In thl» war. our morale should be the best. "Let us consider what those ideals are. Our IdeaJ of liberty is at stak*-# the Ideal which existed In this country before the penning of the Declaration of Independence, for that is what th« founders of this country were in search of—freedom of worship. In addition to. religious liberty and civil liberty wsp have established in this country lib* erty with the law."

Dr. Woodburn explained bis meaning of "liberty with law" as meaning that our liberties were In accord an oe with law. He told how the Snglish people had insisted that the law be put ahead of the rights of every man, to the ex« tent of beheading one king and exiling another who believed that they were the law. In illustration of the respect -for law which democracy necessitates, he contrasted the behavior of George Washington and his soldiers at th« close of the revolutionary war in lay« ing down their arms and waiting fop their reward, instead of taking It, wltfe the behavior of the German military powers.

Dr. Wood bum named as other !deaJ» of the American people, national unit* and human peace and brotherhood. Ia speaking of national unity, he calleif a e n i o n o e e a n s i o n o e n a tion across the territory included in the Louisiana purchase, which he said Thomas Jefferson had predicted would afford the people of America room for expansion for a thousand years, anri w i i s n o w a a n a i v e a o country. "Abraham ttrtcoln stood for ait fh*ternational peace, he continued. Lin* coin said at the close of the civil war/ Xet us make for ourselves and for all other nations a lasting peace."

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HIGH SCHOOL BOYS!

That many high school boys are ex» pected this week to close their school' work and take up productive work or* the farms. The boys' working reserve has already placed—seven boys in the state.

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