Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1915 — KEEPING PET ANIMALS^ [ARTICLE]

KEEPING PET ANIMALS^

Doctor Baya Too Much Care Consol Be Take*. Dr. Ziegler, director of the Philadelphia department of health and charities, has Issued a warning to the effect that too much care cannot be exercised in keeping pet animals. He cautions particularly against a cat that snifles because the animal may carry germs of wheeling cougJf and diphtheria. Cats,- borkes, dogs* wolves and even skunks, ‘he points out, can cause hydrophobia through at bite.—Pathfinder. About Nuts. About three fourths of the nuts produced in the United States are grown in California, almonds taking the lead. Almonds are a native of western Asia and Morocco, and are produced in large quantities In Syria and Palestine. They are exported largely from Malaga In Spain. The walnut is a native of the mountains of Greece and Armenia, add the northwest Himalayas in India, and Is largely cultivated in most temperate countries. Walnuts * in the United States are produced almost exclusive ly California. In nuts, California products practically the whole of the almond crop In the United States. The water chestnut, or horn chestnut (Trapa blsplnosa), an aquatic plant, produces a seedi or "nut” which somewhat resembles two curved horns united in one, the kernel of which is largely used as a food by the Inhabitants of Asiatic- countries. This»socalled nut 1b also* on sale In»the United 1 States, but chieflly In Chinese shops.! Another water plant (Eleocharls t«berosa) Is also known as the water chestnut, but in this case It Is the corn or bulb that is eaten. It is not unlike a chestnut in shape, and has a tough brown skin. This Is grown in Asia, but is imported by Chinese in America. A pointed nut or seed somewhat like a pecan in appearance, the pit of the Chinese olive (Canariiun sp.), is also on sale at Chinese shops in the United States. The kernels are oily but palatable, resembling the common American butternut (Juglans cinereal in flavor. Closely related species of Canarlum nuts are also imported to some extent for general trade, though they are by no means common. From time to time new nuts make their appearance on the market. A nut which seems to be growing in popuarity, though still uncommon, is the Paradise nut of South America, which resembles a Brazil nut in appearance and flavor. Still less common is the South American cream nut though it is sometimes shipped to the United States. The choicest member of the Brazil nut group is the true "butternut” of the tropics, which is very seldom found outside that region. Its flavor is very delicate and delicious, but it does not keep well; and even if it would bear shipment successfully the available supply is at present very small. The cashew not of tropical regions, which many consider one of the moat delicious nuts grown, has long been known, but, has never become common. It is sold to some extent and brings high prices. Cashew nut candy is also sold in a limited way in the United States. This nut must be roasted before it is eaten. The Kingsland chestnut was almost unknown a few yearsVago, but is now being cultivated in California. It somewhat resembles a filbert in appearance and is not a true chestnut. The tabebuia (Talfairia pedata), from Zanzibar is a nut eaten roasted, which has been grown in a very limited way at the Porto Rico agricultural experiment station, and is almost unknown, except in the region where It is native. The so-called nuts are the seeds of a pumpkin-like fruit, and the oval, rather flat, and much larger than pumpkin seeds. The flavor Is oily and fairly palatable. The use of such seed as a nut is in line with the common use in Russia of the sunflower seed, which is rich in oil and not unlike some of the common nuts in composition. The rawsunflower seeds are eaten out of hand at all times and by all classes. In China watermelon seeds are eaten In the same way.—Reno Gazette. Cleverness of Ponies. Will some naturalist explain wh7 ponies, as a rule, are more Intelligent < that big horses? There is no doubt they are, and the fact receives new proof in a story that comes from Maine. A farmer who owns a horse and a, pony was told that if he put good-sized stones In their feed boxes they would be obliged to eat slower, and would therefore digest their food * better. He tried the plan, and it worked well with the horse, but the pony picked the stenes out one by one, and' dropped them on the floor, and he did this just as often as they were' put in the feed-box. Bees Have No Common Bense. Henri Fabre, the “Insects’ Homer,” as Maeterlinck calls him. asserts that bees have no reason, only instinct, and gives many proofs of his assertion. For example, he opened the bottom of a cell hi course Of construction, but the bee that was bnildißg it kept right on with its work, building up the cell and storing honey in it, quite unconscious of the fact that the food for the future generation was oOzing out, and finally laid its egg and sealed tap the top of thq ceil, never paying any ] attention to the hole in the bottom. 1