Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1914 — Page 2

Rtnsstlatr Republican BAX&T AJTO HMX-TIIXLI CTtr.w n wt.a»» PubHshars no nmAY xmvi x> bxgtoab ynni mmoi Semi-Weekly Republican entered Jan. L 1887, as second class mall matter, at the postoffice at Rensselaer, Indiana, under the act of March 3. 1873. Evening Republican entered Jan. 1, LM7, as second class mall matter, at the postoffice at Rensselaer, Ind., under the act of March 3, 1878. ■UBSCBIPTXOM MA.TXS Daily by Carrier, 10 Cents a Week. By Mail, $3,60 a year. in advance, Year, $1.50. Friday, October 30, 1914.

REPUBLICAN STATE TICKET

For United States Senator HUGH Th. MILLER Columbus For Secretary of State JUDGE ED JACKSON Newcastle For Auditor of State L NEWT BROWN Franklin For Treasurer JOB FREEMAN Terre Haute For Attorney General ELE STANSBURY Williamsport For Bupt of Instruction HORACE ELUS Vincennes Far Supreme Court Judge QUINCY A. MYERS Logansport For Appellate Court Judgoo First District LUCIUS C. EMBREE Princeton OA C. BATMAN Bloomington ■eoond Distriot M. A. CHIPMAN y Anderson U. 8. LEBH Huntington SHEPHERD J. CRUMPACKEB South Bond For Clerk of Supreme Oonot WILL H. ADAMS Wabash For State Geologist HARRY R. CAMPBELL Indianapolis

REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET.

For County Clerk, JUDSON H. PERKINS. For Auditor, JOSEPH P. HAMMOND For Treasurer, CHARLES V. MAY For Sheriff. B. D. McCOLLY. For Assessor, GREENLEAF L. THORNTON, For Surveyor, CLtFTON J. HOBBS. For Coroner, DR. C. E. JOHNSON. For Commissioner First District, HENRY WARD MARBLE. For Commissioner Third District, CHARLES A. WELCH. For County Council, C. E. KERSEY, S. T. COMER, WASHINGTON COOK, ; CHARLES MEADLE, H. W. JACKSON. E. E. PULLIN. GEORGE MAY. judicial ticket. 30th circuit, composed of Jaspei and Newton Counties: For Judge, Charles W. Hanley, of Jasper. For Prosecuting Attorney, Reuben Hess, of Newton. REPRESENTATIVE TICKET. Jasper and White Counties: William L Wood, of Jasper. CONGRESSIONAL TICKET. 10th District. Will R. Wood, Gs Lafayette. MARION TOWNSHIP TICKET. For Trustee, Harvey W. Wood, Jr. For Assessor, True D. Woodworth. Try a Republican Classified ad.

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LIVE STOCK

• BOVINE TUBERCULOSIS. Large Percentage of all Herds [lnfected with the Disease. A great many of our dairy farmers think that there are enough regulations concerning their business, but it is highly probable that further legislation in regard to milk will follow the statement Dr. V. A. Moore recently made in Ithaca that 72 per cent of all herds of cattle in the State are infected with tuberculosis. Dr. Moore is one of the staff of the New York State Veterinary College at Cornell, and consulting veterinarian to the State Agricultural Department. He believes that steps should be taken to probe the herds and eradicate the disease. During the last year the State Department tested cattle. Of this number 628 responded to the tuberculin test and were killed, The owners received for these condemned cows' a total of $6,819, which averages a little mor than $lO a head, the State law allowing the payment of forty per cent of the value of any animal killed by order of the State Veterinarian. This, it is claimed, is considered too small an amount by the farmers and often Induces them to cover up the condition of Infected animals. State Agricultural Commissioner Welting believes the owners should be paid a greater percentage, and that the’only safe way to eradicate the disease Is to kill off the Infected animals within a given period. To do this would require thousands or officials and an immense expenditure of money, but he is sure the State will eventually be forced to adopt the plan and will, in the end, be the better off for it. Discussing the question, Dr. Moore recently called attention to a very comnion error when he said: “You will see advertisements appear drink only Pasteurized or sterilized milk and avoid disease germs. Now the fact is that tuberculosis germs can not be killed under 210 degrees Fahrenheit. To heat milk to that temperature would change it to a curd like cheese. Raw milk is the natural food and the supply should be protected by the State at any cost.”

Breeding Crate for Sows.

Quite frequently a farmer has a sow that is Inclined to give trouble at time of service. She may be in condition to breed yet at; the same time either from fear or meanness will not. The cut herewith shows a cheap yet practical and effectual breeding crate in use by one of my neighbors. I have had the opportunity of using this crate several times and know that it will save a great deal of time

BREEDING CRATE MOR SOWS.

with sows that give trouble about breeding. The crate was constructed alongside a building in one corner of a small pen. It is 4 feet long by 20 inches wide. The entire frame work was constructed out of Inch material. About 12 inches up from the ground and 10 inches from the rear end of the crate a bar is placed. After the so w is driven into the crate this bar .is passed in front at the hind legs and under the flank. In ( ase of a very large sow and a young boar a small platform is laid down as illustrated. —Prairie Farmer.

Lambs and the Self Feeder.

We all differ in our methods (la feeding lambs. Some of us '“get there’’ much better than others, and succeed in fattening the lambs. A man that can not make them fat, does not long continue in the business. I never tried the self-feeder, for the simple reason, at first, that the evidence of the experiment stations was decidedly against the practice. As experience comes to me, I am more strongly against the practice. Station work says that gains by the use of the self feeder are more costly than gains otherwise made. Any one that has ever fed lambs, knows, or should know, that a lamb will not leave a feed that he likes till he is full and in too maay instances, too full. Then he stands off until hunger impels him to feed again. If the other lambs have “blown” upon the feed that he must eat, he will not touch it till very hungry, and then he eats too much again. This “see-saw” way of feeding must belong to the self-feeder. Then another objection to the ►elffeeder is, the corn must be s>«ll .d, which entails a great deal of b_rd labor unless a man has a power sheller, which adds muchjto the expense and care of the plant. In my experience, I have found it much more easy to pick the cqbs out of a rack than to feed th* ears into a corn sheller While the other fellow turned the crank. —John M. Jamison in the Ohio Farmer.

*■ As a general rule a man’s hair turns gray five years earliar than that of a woman.

THE EVENING REPUBLICAN, RENSSELAER, IND.

Next U. S. Senator From Indiana

Hon. Hugh Th. Miller, Republican Nominee For U. S. Senator

, (Batesville Triuh^e) Hugh Th. Miller, Republican candidate, for United States Senator, is a man possessed of those stealing qualities that inspire confidence and win respect. In all his relations in life he has PRACTICED rather than preached the doctrine of the “square deal.’’ 4 The writer served two terms in the State Senate while Mr. Miller presided over that body. No fairer prending officer ever held the gavel or decided parliamentary questions in that or any other body. A Republican -in the strictest and best sense of that term, he never took advantage of his position to discriminate jagainst a Democrat or to favor a Republican because of his political affiliations. Every Democrat in the senate respected him for his impartiality and acknowledged his ability as a presiding officer. Should Hugh Th. Miller be elected to the United States Senate by the voters the people will have an able representative in the highest legislative body in the world, a man of clean life, public and private, a scholarly gentleman, fearless, honest, upright', broadminded and true to his conceptions of right. Mr. Miller deserves the confidence and merits the support of the voters of Indiana.

SUN’S RAYS CAUSE MANY FIRES

Reflections From Metal, Edge of Fish Bowl and Bubble In Window Pane Start Flames. " Topeka, Kan. —Harrison Parkman, State Fire Marshall, is trying to teach the people of Kansas the part the sun rays play in starting many of the costly flres, both on farms and in the eity. He says many fire* would be prevented if the people were educated to the fact that the sun. i* a dangerous agency in starting blazes, and would use care in eases where the sun rays shine through glass or on bright metal. Out in Rawline County the other day a woman put some matches on the window sill in the kitchen. It was bright and sunshiny and a few minutes afterward the woman returned to the kitchen to find ,the whole side of the room on fire. The sun rays shining through the window pane had set these matches on fire and they had set the building. At Holton a building was found to be on fire. It was almost new, and no cause for the fire in a corner of the roof could be found until someone discovered that a piece of tin had not been painted and the sun rays on it had set the roof afire. A bubble in a window pane of a home in McPherson County concentrated the sun rays on a spot on a lace curtain and set it on fire. The sun shining upon the heavy rolled edge of a glass fish bowl in a home in Mitchell County set a table runner on fir*, and the home burned. ‘lt is not unusual to hear of grass being set ajire by the sun shining upon bright metals. The peculiar thing about the fires caused by the sua rays is that they happen at any time of the year. It would ordinarily be supposed that the sun rays would not be concentrated mto enough heat upon a cold winter day, but some of the fires caused by sun rays came in January and February and one in December. Another seemingly impossible fire cause is electricity generated by friction. The wind whipping blades of grass against wire fences has caused many prairie flres. Special* investigation by electrical experts in Western Kansas are said, to have demonstrated that the high winds and constantly blowing tall grass against wire fences produced sufficient electricity to cause a spark an inch long and of sufficient brilliancy to set the grass on fire. About 30 prairie Are* which resulted in loss of hay and several homes and barns are said to have been the direct result of thl* sort of flame generator.

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More Truth Than Poetry.

Champ Clark, the eloquent representative from Missouri, is a stanch champion of his state. "You people out in Missouri,” said a New York man to him, “are all right, but you are too provincial.” "Provincial?” snorted Clark. "Provincial? Why, let me tell you, sir, the shoe is on the other foot. Nobody in New York knows anything about Missouri, but everybody in Missouri knows all about New York.”

Soldier Something of a Hoodoo.

John Ross, the British general who led the force that burned Washington, was killed in a battle with the American army at North Point, Md., near Baltimore. The Americans were defeated. Ross fell into the arms of Capt McDougall, and the same officer caught Gen. Packenham in his arm* at the battle of New Orleans. »

Tumor Bigger Than Patient.

A surgeon in China recently removed a tumor weighing 169 pounds from a woman who after the operation weighed only 77 pounds. The woman recovered.

Poor Opinion of the Students.

The average student 1* about a* well qualified to judge of the influence of his professor’s l teaching as is the little child to judge of the qaullty and quantity of candy he should eat

For Memorial to John Bunyan.

Negotiations for, the erection of a memorial to John liunyan In Westminster Abbey, supported by peers, bishops, statesmen and literary persons,, have Issued in a proposal by the dean and chapter that the tribute shall take the form of a window to be placed in the north aisle of the Abbey. The archbishop of Canterbury promises to preside over the committee.

An Ironical Disposition.

“Women love to cry at the theater,” said the observant person. “Yes,” answered Mr. Groucher, “I wish somebody would write a play about a man who had to mind the children and get hh own dinner because his wife was at a matinee. I wonder if my wife would shed tears of sympathy when she saw It?”

A Convenient Disinfectant.

A handy disinfectant for household use Is made of chlorate at lime moistened with vinegar and water in equal parts. It may be kept in the cellar all the time, and in case of sickness a few drops scattered about will purify the air in the room.

New York’s Costly Fire Department.

There Is a difference between the Are departments of London and of New York city. The London department costs ten cents a year for each inhabitant, while the department of New York costs SIJ7S for each New Yorker.

The Search for Wisdom.

In seeking wisdom, thou art wise; In Imagining that thou hast found it. thou art a fool.-—Confucius.

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POULTRY

FARM TURKEY RAISING. A Paying Business When Conducted With Intelligence. Turkeys need but little attention If kept away from fowls and ducks. Turkey farming pays best by itself. They lay their eggs in a secluded spot. A cement barrel laid op its side, with a brick each side to prevent from rolling, and a branch of a tree partially its entrance, is all they want to encourage them. It is best to permit the eggs to remain in the ndSt. The hen is usual—ly very cautious on entering and leaving the nest, and seldom breaks an egg, unless she has not had sufficient shell formers in her diet. See tnat she gets burnt dry oyster shells. Always provide the hen with an inviting spot of plenty of green grass for the nest. Too dry a nest often causes trouble from lack of moisture. Give the hen an opportunity to dust herself in a damp f spot; she will* get it , if-possible, and there will be little fear of dead chicks in the shell rnless breeding from immature birds is months is not the best. He should be at least two years old; likewise the hens. Above all, introduce fresh blood every second year. This is of great importance in raising turkeys for profit. Of one thing there can be no doubt—turkeys dJ best in fresh air and will not stand coddling. The adult birds usually find much of their own food; yet It is an absolute necessity to feed the flocks when natural foods are not available. When insect life is scarce, grass is of a poor quality and is also usually wet, the consequences is they scour and often die from the effects. Corn mdal and bran, one part each, with a fair amount of chopped-up boiled meat and, when available, a few slices of raw onions, all mixed with the ineat or other animal food has been boiled, should be used. Mix dry as possible. Turkeys do not thrive on slops. Curded milk is much relished and* is a spllSidid flesh former and a whitener of flesh. Nothing is more objectionable than a fat breast. Too much corn feeding or a constant supply of wheat will not improve the color of the flesh. Oats are by far the best grains to assist in keeping down fat. Always provide fresh clean water daily and keep the vessels out of the sun. Neglect in this regard will cause losses by disease, Add charcoal in case of bowel disorders. It is an absolute necessity in successful turkey raising. They must have an unlimited amount of grit, without which they suffer from indigestion. Small pebbles, coarse sand and broken crockery and smashed up burnt bone all aid in digesting their load. This is especially required,, previous to their going to roost. There is no necessity to boil any grain; they are better without it and prefer the hard food to that of a sloppy nature.—American Poultry Advocate.

Separate the Sizes.

It does not pay to let chickens of different sizes run together as the larger ones will always domineer over and torment the smaller ones. If you have no yards then put them in different parts of the place. If they absolutly cannot he separated then make a feeding coop that the big chickens can not get into.

Remedy for Roup.

The homeopathic remedy for roup with its characteristic cough, tenacious mucous about -he beak, with difficulty in breathing, is to give aconite. Put one drop in a gill of water and give this to the, sick bird to drink. The treatment will have a marvelous effect.

Anvil from a Steel Rail.

An old railroad nail 2 or 3 feet long can be used in the construction of a handy farm anvil similar to that shown in accompanying illustration. Use pieces 2x3 or 2x4 for the stand-

STEEL RAIL FOR ANVIL

ards to receive the rail', as indicated. Use an iron bolt to hold the top of the legs together, tightening the nuts until the rail is held securely. Pieces of Ix 3 boards brace the standards near the foot. Drill holes through the flange of the rail for punching. —O. F. S., Riverside, Cal.

Dampness and Disease.

Dryness when we have heavy showers, is an important requirement in the poultry house. Diseases often originate through dampness produced by a leaky roof. When the fowls are confined in a close, wet apartment, It Is impossible to keep them in a healthy condition.

Weight for weight pine wood Is stronger than steel. /

SKUNKS ARE WORTH $3,000,000 A YEAR

Government Reports Show* Skunks Are Worth Fortune Annually. POLECAT FARMS ADVBBEB Game Law* of Thlrtesa State* Now Protect Boasts Loofl Called Pest*. Washington, D. CL — The skuaOi brings annually to the trapper* at th* United States about $34)00,000. IV stands second in importance only to the muskrat among our fur-bearing animals. The value of a skunk skin is the raw fur market averaged from about 25 cents to $3.50 and usually runs higher. Althougn this fur is not very popular in America, Europeans favor It because it wears well and ha* a luster which makes it rival the R**< sian sable in appearance. These facts are emphasized in a new farmers’ bulletin now being sent out by the Unit ted States Department of which may be had free on application by those who are interested in th* “Economic Value of North American Skunks.** Thirteen States now protect th* skunk by game laws, and a fulle* understanding of the economic vain* of these creatures to agriculture, ai well as to commerce, will no doubt result in protective measures In other localities. The earliest legislation for the protection of these little animal* grew out of appeals from hop grower* in New York, because of their value in killing the hop borer. This was in 1893, and stuce then laws "have been passed for their protection in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Nerw Jersey, Delaware, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Kansa* and North Carolina. The closed season for the skunk varies in the different States, but in th* opinion of the author of thl* bulletin it should be extended to at least nina months in every case, for at present there is a of fur animals and the increased demand for furs has put’ a higher premium on its pelt. Unless given more adequate protection, it cannot long survive a high premium. In advising this close season-it should ba understood that the right of farmers to destroy individual predatory skunks should always be reserved. London is a great market for American skunk skins. Although only a small percentage of pur skins are now dressed and made up here, we have received in years past a good number of them back after they have been made up abroad, and many American ladles who would scorn to wear a skunk skin have been proud of their imported “black marten” or “Alaska sable,” which was merely the American skunk fur more attractively lab, eled. The process of dressing the skunk skin and removing any lingering odor has been improving year by year, and meanwhile the fur has been gaining popularity. The present extreme scarcity of Russian sable because of a law what forbids the taking of that fur favors the foreign market for ths use of its skin is increasing. The recent high prices for skunk skins have led to a discussion of th* subject of skunk raising on a commercial basis. Although some breeder* have encountered difficulties, on the whole, there are good reasons for bet lieving that a profitable industry may be developed. Skunks are less wild! than other members of the family to which the more important small-fur bearers belong, and their diet permit* a good deal o's latitude in feeding, whereas the harten and the mink require a diet almost exclusively of meat The problem of provldilng pens tor rearing them is also less complicated in the case of the skunk. An Inclosure for skunks should occupy a well-drained, sandy hillside, partly shaded by trees, and partly open land covered with grasses. An acre will afford room for about fifty adult skunks. A 3-foot fence made of poultry netting and having an overhanging barrier at the top is sufficient to confine the animate. The wire should be of No. 16 gauge, and th* netting of 1-lnch mesh. This tow fence, however, is not sufficient to keep out dogs, unless the overhang is very large and extends on both sides. Many breeders prefer a tight fence of boards or sheet iron or even a stone wall. The fence should penetrate th* ground to a depth of i or 3 feet tq prevent the skunks from digging under It Besides the general Inctosare, a sap. arete breeding pen tor each Carnal* should be provided. Cheap boxes with wooden floors will serve every perpose, but they must be dry Inside, Contact with the soil improves the fur, but dampness must be guards against Meat fish, insects, bread, oooked add even raw vegetables, and rip* traits are included in the great variety of foods which skunks will eat Table scrape win keep the animals in good eondttkm, and the food tor a large skunk ranch may often be procured tram hotels when usually It win cost nothing but the labor of removing It Hup on tally to be recommended ar* sakes and mosh made of corn meal and bits at meat, fresh milk, cooked gseen oom and hominy. Little mor* than the amount of food required for a oat win supply the wants at * staauk.