Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1911 — Page 2

Winter Months on the Farm

How to / Than

State and city requirements as regards sanitary milk production are becoming so strict that it ill behooves farmers to continue the slipshod and disease-distributing methods so generally followed in housing the dairy herd. The time has arrived when milk produced tor human consumption must be tree from disease-producing bacteria, it must not be tainted with filth and therefore must be produced under sanitary conditions These restrictions require the general improvement of the dairy barn and stable, not only aa regards Its proper ventilation and thorough sheltering of the dairy stock, hut also as to the character of the stable floor, the elßctency of the stalls, the mathoda used in cleaning the bam. How is the termer who cannot afford to build aa up-to-date, sanitary barn to meet these difficulties? The Initial difficulty which must be corrected in the majority of old and even modem barns la the lack of proper ventilation. The King system of ventilation, devised by Prof. F. H. King, formerly professor of agricultural physics in the Wisconsin College of Agriculture, consists of two sets of fines, one of which admits fresh air while the other furnishes an escape for the bad air. The Inlet or fresh air fines should be placed not more than ten feet apart and located In the exterior walla of thq ham; tho greater the number the more effective the ventilation. since they enable the fresh air to displace the foul air more rapidly. The outlet may include one or more flues, but should be located aa to provide the quickest means of removing the foul air. Fresh Air Ventilators. In the location and construction of the Intakes for fresh air it should always be borne In mind that the air should enter at the ceiling of the stable. Then the fresh air entering

How to put frooh air Intake* Into an old barn. The opening, A, muet be at the surface of the outside ground and, B, at the eelling. Six-inch tile may be used. will mix with the warm air at the celling and become warned before It setties to the floor. The flues for this purpose should be air tight and may he constructed of galvanized Iron—--25 or 26 gauge Is preferable, or of matched lumber lined on Interior by a heavy grade of tar felt paper such aa la used for roofing purposes. Seveneighths inch lumber should be used and the Joints nailed as closely as practical. Then cover with paper followed by a second thickness of lumbar. This will insure an air-tight flue if care is taken to break all the Joints. Should drop siding or stock hoards be used, nail the paper on the aiding and then cover It with a thickness of seven-sixteen ths-lnch lumber. Foul Air Flues. Wrong construction of foul air flues baa led In some cases to the failure of the system. They should not be made like an ordinary boxed opening, aa some farmers have them, who later have condemned the method. The

Intakes A B, and bad-air chimneys, C D, In an ordinary stable.

Hum may be of either galvanised iron or of a combination of paper end lam' bar like the intakes. They should be sa straight ss possible, for every turn or bend greatly redaces the carrying capacity as it increases the friction of the moving air on the Hum. A good ventilating flue should have the same qualities as a good chimney. It should rise above the highest part of the roof, so as to receive the full foroe «of the wlndStable walls and ceilings should be practically air tight and non-oonduc-tons of heat and cold. Doors and windows should fit well. Fresh air Intalma should have the outside opening st least three feet below the Inside opening, with the inside opening at the ceiling, provided with a valve or shutter. Foul air flues should be air tight end non-conductors of heat and cold. They should have their lower opening about one toot above the floor level, and with ss low bends ss possible pee. upward to a height of at least 26

Improving the Stable How to Bo3d Sanitary Stalk, Concrete Floon and Otherwiee Make the Old Barn Mora Healthful By PROF*. C. A. OCOCK Wltcomlm Coils of jlgHcut!mm

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feet, and should always be two or three feet above , the 'ridge of the roof or of any near-by roof. In building these flues around a girt or plate they must be enlarged In proportion to the slse of the obstruction passed. Cheap, Yst Sanitary Stalls. There seems to be a prevailing impression among dairymen that a com-

The model sanitary cow stall on a concrete floor.

sortable sanitary stall or stanchion is an expensive factory product, while the fact is that any fanner who is handy with carpenters’ tools can build a stall which will secure as good results as any patented stall upon the market. The stall here described embodies In its construction all of the principles found in any of the patented stalls. The model stall is a home-made product and it is probably the nearest approach to a perfect stall of any in use at the present time. It Is constructed, as shown In the figure, so as to force the oow to have her hind feet between the cross-bar and gutter where standing, thus preventing the fouling, of the stall by her own droppings. When lying down she la brought forward and compelled to lie in front of the crossbar. The cow is forced to stand back from the hay rack when eating beeause of the position in which it is hung. The crossbar la adjustable and the stall will accommodate a large or small cow. . The chain or fastening is so arranged that as the cow starts to lie down she is drawn forward and will

Manger for concrete stable.

step In front of this crossbar to prevent an uncomfortable position. The door In front Is hinged at the top and opens upward when grain and water are given. Hay Is placed In the hay rack from the front The partitions are so constructed that It is almost impossible for s cow to step upon the udder or teat of one lying down next to her. This feature alone Is worth the oost of several stalls to the owner of valuable Individuals. A wooden mat Is laid over the concrete floor. This mat Is removable, permitting the cleansing of the entire floor whenever occasion demands. If It seems desirable the manger may be constructed of ooncrete the same as the floor, and where new stalls are being erected the manger and floors should be made at the same time. This construction will be more durable than separate construction. Cost of s single stall Is about six dollars. Concrete Floors Best. Concrete Is the best and most sanitary floor that can be used In a dairy barn and efforts should be made to have such floors Installed whenever a barn is being constructed. Stable florae should be laid with a elope or , pitch either to a common center of to rate end of the barn. < A slope of one or two inches In eight feet Is ample, and three-fourths to rate inch Is usoaly considered desirable for the average cow stall. In the figure are shown a good gutter design. The rail of a gutter should be about one Inch In 60 feet, but this may vary to meet conditions. If a cistern Is used for retaining the liquid manure It may be desirable to have more falL Mangers for Coer Stalls. Many questions arise aa to the type of manger to use when one Is building or remodeling a barn. In the figure is shown a design which la both sanitary and modern. This type is considered best alncea less work la required in keepink the walk in front of the cows clean. A oow. while eatlug. sometimes throws some of the grain and hay forward and out of reach, but with this construction It far a vary easy matter to return the feed to the manger. If It seems desirable partitions may be built between each manger. In many ways this is to be desired, especially where oows are In the habit of stealing grain from their nelgbbon.

SEEN AS A MENAGE

Sunday Schools as Now Conduct* ed Are Deplored. i ■■■—■— ~-irf Too Many Frivolous and Untrained Qirle as Teachers Know Little of Children end How They Should Se Taught. Atlanta, Oa.—‘The Sunday school as It is conducted today is a national, menace," declared Mrs. Frederick Bchaff of Philadelphia, In addressing the Georgia mother's congress today. Furthermore, she asserted too many of the teachers are frivolous girls who know little of children and how they should be taught. Mrs. Schaff, who is president of the national mother’s congress, urged a world-wide awakening of mothers to the fact that love and tenderness are not sufficient for the proper rearing of children. “It la the mother’s place," she declared, ‘to demand more of the Sunday schools.” "Love,” declared Mrs. Schaff, “cannot make a mother a good mother. It will make her well intentioned, but it will not give her the knowledge of what her children need. It will not give her the ability to train her children as they Bhould be trained. The thing we need is to arouse the mothers and Induce them to study their children, to know them, and not to bring them up simply by chance. "If we can only arouse the mothers to see that they can prevent crime, that in their hands lies the future of the world, we will accomplish the' greatest thing attainable. Mothers must be taught that as they sow, so shall their children reap. "The mother can inculcate in her children lessons that never will be eradfcatetd. She can make them good or she can make them bad. Many mothers leave the spiritual training of their children to the Sunday school and the church. But what can the Sunday school or church accomplish with only a few hours’ training a week, if this training is not continued at home? “If I could only reach all the mothers in this country with the stories that men in prison have told me of how they started wrong I could convince every mother of her responsibility. “A child is not always getting spiritual training at Sunday school or church. That depends on the surroundings there. Some preachers benefit children, others do not. You know the story of the little boy who didn't want to go to Sunday school. “ ’Why don’t you want to go?’ he was asked. “ ‘Well,’ he said, ‘my everyday teacher teaches me something, but my Sunday school teacher Just musses me up.’ ” At this point Mrs. Schaff was asked if the national mothers’ congress cannot take up .the question of Sunday Bchool and the training of Sunday school teachers. “It can and will.” she replied. “I believe that the Sunday school, as it Is, is an absolute menace, with frivolous, untrained girls acting as teachers."

ATTACK ON WILD OATS IDEA

Dr. Nathaniel Butler Declares Young Men Cannot Sow Them and Reap Desired Good Results. Chicago.—The idea that every boy must sow his wild oats was attacked the other day by Dr. Nathaniel Butler of the University of Chicago in an address on "Some Important Aspects of the School” before the Cook county Teachers’ association In Fullerton hall. "You can’t sow wild oats and reap the desirable results,” he said. “It Is Just as easy to form good habits as It is to form bad habits, and it Is just as easy to break bad habits as It Is to break good habits. "Everything a child does becomes a part of him; he can’t help It. It is being registered on his nervous system."

LINGUIST STUMPED AT LAST

Man Knowing Beventy-B*ven Languages Dlaoovers He Muet Learn One More—Others Understand. New York.—“Do you know, I thought, with my linguistic equipment." said a man who speaks 77 languages, “I really thought that I could understand almost any tongue I might hear spoken; and as matter of fact in my rambles around the world, which have been somewhat extensive, I have very rarely met with anybody with whom I could not converse, at least sufficiently for mutual understanding; but I have been stumped at last, and that right here in New York. "Riding uptown last night on the elevated when we came to a station the guard opened the door and said: “ Orlxel blix fllx floct!* "And surely I wondered what language that was; it was some tongue that I had never before heard spoken, and I was etlU wondering over It when we came to /he next station, where the guard looked in again, saying this time: “’Qrooty noo sooros blewt!’ and that left me more In a fix than ever. "What tongue could he be speaking? I got more of It at the next station: ‘“Nagah, blah, yahlah glewk!* and then I gave It up. "He was an American, the guard, a nice, lively, intelligent-looking man.

ANKLE SNAKE LATEST FRENCH FAD

THE ANKLE SNAKE

KNOY/N as the Sara Bernhardt in France, where it originated, the latest fad takes the form of a snake of gold worn around the ankle. It has already become fashionable among society young women in this country. Sometimes a clinging monkey takes the place of the snake, but the latter, is the more popular on account of its adaptive form. The short skirts lhat are worn nowadays enable the snake to be seen at discreet Interyals and. if the wearer happens to be possessed of a slim and shapely ankle, the piquancy of the adornment is enhanced..

KEEP PINK LAMPS LIGHTED

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett on Cheerfulness —Greatest of Qualities Except Love. Boston. —"Forget your devils and keep your pink lamps lighted. A pink lamp always makes everything look lovely. I am the disciple of happiness. Be happy and you will be good. Unhappiness is the world’s greatest evil. Unhappiness Is indecent.’’ So said Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burness,'the novelist, In talking her religion of cheerfulness. "Cheerfulness,” she said, “is the religion of which I am the apostle. It is the greatest of qualities except love. Love Is the biggest thing In the world. “People should forget their devils and keep their pink lamps lighted. That Is a little word among my friends. So we’ll tell each other all the nice thlngß whenever we can. You must sacrifice everything to happiness. If you are happy you know you are bound to be good, for you can’t be happy unless you are good. “People who believe in an Inferno for evildoers do not belong to this age. They don’t belong to the time

but the tongue he spoke was, I found, wholly unknown to me, though It seemed to have a system to It, and plainly Its significance was clear to at least some of the people In the car, for at each of these several stations n number of people got out "Evidently If I am' going to atay here long I shall have to add one to my stock of tongues; I shall have to learn the guard’s language, and then I shall know seventy-eight.”

New Tango Dance in Paris.

Paris. —A new dance become the fashion In the drawing rooms of Parla this winter. It comae from Buenos Ayres, and la called the "Argentine Tango." The music la a kind of habanera, and the dance Itself, which is extremely graceful, Is an Improved version of the Berlin polka, with ten varied figures. A roomful of people dancing the Argentine tango looks extremely pretty, and there ia little doubt that the new dance will soon find lta way to the United Btates.

Sport for Sharks.

Havana. —Sharks are taking great Interest In the torpedo practice of United States vessels off Media lhn» Cay, Cuba, and seem to think the ships are doing It for their benefit. The big fish take off In a bunch after every torpedo that ia discharged, bat none of them has yet been able to overtake one of the shells.

when people walk on two legs. They ought to go back to the days when the men on earth went about on all fours. “There’s fine power In suggestion. Just keep thinking lovely things about your personal devil and you’ll come out all right Every time your belief in a devil gets uppermost in your mind, why, say there Is none, and keep repeating it You will find it a splendid practice and you will Boon convince yourself." Mrs. Burnett then digressed to fcersonal habits and said, on the subject of cigarette smoking by women, that the question was a personal one, and each woman must decide for herself whether she wished to smoke.

PARROT GUARDS A COAL BIN

Learns Value of Black Diamonds on Chilly Trip North —Grows Morose and Raucoua Boston. —A parrot wan custodian of the Ikarla’s coal hod when that frelgher reached port from South American ports. The parrot looked very cold and had been complaining about the steadily falling temperature ever since the freighter reached port from South had been fastened to the bird’s left leg, the other end of the tether attached to the stove In the Ikarla’s cabin. Somehow, the parrot divined that the black lumps in the coal hod were precious and every time the steward dug Into the receptacle to replenish the fire the parrot shivered and protested at the apparent lack of thrift Ordinarily a soft-voiced creature while In warm latitudes, this parrot grew morose and raucoua at the approach of arctic weather, and nearly went into frenzy at tight of snow. The mocking birds from the Weat Indies also felt the cold. Their cages were suspended from the ceilings, close to the stove. The Ikarla brought 2.006 tons of cargo, mostly hides. Captain Robertson reported an unusual activity erf golf stream currents. During a snowstorm off Nantucket the ship was forced almost 60 miles from her course.

Seek Coons, Bag Wildcat.

New York. —William and Walter O’Brien of Newton, N. J., have a wildcat skin Which they are elhlbltlhg as proof of a night adventure they had near Mucks haw pond. They were out with a dog gunning for coons. A wildcat dropped out of a tree on their dog. tearing his skin severely before he conld get out of the way. The eat spring for a tree trunk, and as he went up the men fired, killing the beast. Tbe body weighed forty-taro pounds.

JJJ I JL / Minin' y \ jj»>'' aSB^I ovk There was a hill so far away It seemed the shadow of a hill: It melted into cloudy gray Or loomed against the sky all still— And many/ times we felt a thrill Of marveling, when on the breeze There came faint music, in the trill Of birds and lazy hum of bees. For well we knew that further on Beyond the hill there ttas a land Of magic—and the line was drawn To show where mortals might not stand. Some necromancer’s cunning hand Had wrought aJ spell, that none might go z* To where the pSlaces all grand Stood in a great, majestic show. And we knew, too, of magic streams Which rippled through that fair domain Where were the marvel gold-o’-d reams And jewels flashing in a chain, And blossoms that could never wane. And fairy folk who worked their charms— Yet though to see this we were fain. The path was hedged with* dire alarms. There was a hill—a far, far hill, Beyortd which mysteries were kept And when the nights were clear and still We dreamed upon them as we slept. But those who with all caution crept Above that hill to spy the land Came back—"lt is not there.” they wept. So we could never understand But now we know. Grown old and wise We know why it would vanish quite, Why it was hidden .from our eyes, This land of magical-delight; ‘ For now we dream by day and night Of gladness that may not be found And, as In youth, pray that we might Set foot on the enchanted ground.

A Simple Parlor Trick.

The Magical Eggs—For this feat you require half a dozen eggs, which you may provide yourself with before beginning the performance, if you wish. In that event, the eggs may be deftly palmed in the left hand until the moment when they are wanted. It lends more finish to the trick, however, if you borrow the eggs from different ones in the audience, thus convincing them that you do not require any special brand of eggs for the trick. Showing the eggs to the audience, ask some young manyto come to the platform. When he stands beside you, entertain your audience with some merry chatter about the price of eggs and the lackadaisical attitude of hens toward the exigencies of existence. Meanwhile, break each egg .swiftly, and allow the contents to drop into the different pockets of the young man. Push the shells in also. Now make a few mystical passes and utter some calabistic words and then take the eggs out whole. If you do this properly It will greatly surprise the beholders. Should you make a mistake, ask the young man to stand aside while you distract attention by beginning another clever trick.

His Ambition.

"Young man, it should be your aim at present to get a good start In life.*’ “I don’t know, air. Wouldn’t it be better if I laid my plans so aa to be sure of a good finish?”

His Reputation.

"O, Mr. Proqeigh, are you going to tell us a story? My papa says you tell some dreadful stories.” "Why—er—ah—now, Miss VlnnJ#— I —ah —.” “That wasn’t all he said.” “No?” “No. He said there were dreadful long.’’ t-

Well! Well!

“Mrs. Jlmton always selects her husband’s neckties.” "Who for?” . “For him, of course, allly.” "I know he wears them, but ] thought maybe she selected them for some poor blind man.”