Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 138, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1918 — Page 2

Diving Bell to Raise Treasures of the Deep

Wonderful Submarine la the Invention of W. D. Simon, an American Engineer

Millions and possibly billions of dollars worth of treasures now lying on file ocean floor in sunken ships may be regained to the world by the “cannon ” The great diving bell has just been completed and is now being tested. It resembles a cannon ball, a giant sphere, eight feet in diameter. The shell is made of tough vanadium steel, one and one-fourth inches in thickness and weighs, with the machinery inside, six tons. The submarine works by maneuvering huge steel pontoons alongside a sunken ship, bolting the pontoons to the vessel and thus releasing the mechanism which pumps the pontoons free of water and raises thS sunken ship. The largest pontoons are 40 feet long and 15 feet in diameter, and have a lifting power of 300 tons each. Two operators form the crew of the diving bell and they work in normal atmospheric conditions because of an oxygen tank on top of the sphere. The air supply will last for 72 hours without being replenished. The supporting caMe and all electrical and telephone wires are carried In an insulated cable, which is strong enough to support 56 tons. Two propellers and a rudder give the ball lateral movement and two propellers send it up and down. These propellers push the ball through the water at two miles per hour. In front of the ball are four 3,000 candle power nitrogen lamps, covered with a steel net, and a two-lnch glass, to light up the hulls of the sunken ships, each light is a lookout lens four Inches in thickness. On the front are huge magnets, which draw the ball to the hull of the sunken vessel.

KEEP POULTRY IN BACK YARD

The department of agriculture has a campaign in full swing for the establishment of small flocks of poultry in bode yards of city or suburban dwellings. In every household, no matter how economical the housewife, there Is a certain amount of table scraps and kitchen waste which has feeding valve, but which, if not fed, finds its way Into the garbage palL Poultry is the only class of domestic animals which Is suitable for converting this waste material, right where it is produced in the city, Into wholesome and nutritious food in the form of eggs and poultry meat ’ Though the value of the product from each city flock is small of itself the aggregate is large. A small flock of hens, even as few as six or eight, should produce eggs enough, where owed economically, for a family of four or five persons throughout the entire year, except during the molting period of the fall and early winter. By the breservation of surplus eggs produced during the spring and early summer this period of scarcity can be provided for. The keeping of pullets instead of hens also will insure the production of eggs. Not only will the eggs from the home flock materially reduce the cost of living, but the superior freshness and quality of the eggs are in themselves well worth the effort expended. Eggs are a highly nutritions food and are so widely used as to be phnnwt indispensable, and an occasional chicken dinner is relished by everyone. Where conditions render it feasible ■nd cheap small flocks of poultry Should be kept to a greater extent than at present by families in villages and towns and especially in the suburbs of large cities. The need for this extension of poultry raising Is par j Ocularly great in those sections where dv» consumption of poultry products exceeds the production, with the result Suit prices are high.

Boy Scouts’ Duty in the Great War Garden Movement

The food production and garden campaign of the Boy Scouts of AmerIts- Is well under way, says Boys’ UAj, the boy scouts’ magazine. Every scout, and indeed every troop and every local council, according to reports, Is definitely interested in some way. This year every scout is asked to be responsible for securing one adult to agree to work with him on the scout’s individual garden or on the troop garden or on the local countfl garden. The adult might be a Knut's father, his brother or his sister's best fellow, his uncle, or indeed pay man who will faithfully stick to flbe job until the crops are harvested.

Home-Grown Sweet Corn Is Best—Good Advice on How To Grow Your Coasting Ears

To have sweet corn at its best, says the U. S. department of agriculture, it should be on the fire within 15 minutes after being pulled from the stalk. It loses quality very rapidly after being picked because its sugar changes into starch. This Is a fine argument for having this crop In the home garden, if space will allow. Those who wish to grow their own roasting ears will find the following advice useful: Corn does best in a fertile soil, but is able to adapt Itself to all textures from sand to clay. To grow It in sufficient quantities for the average family requires more space, however, than for most garden vegetables. It should not be planted until after danger of frostis past, The rows should be spaced not closer than three feet apart, and for the larger-growing late varieties the distance had best be three and one-half feet. Stalks should be thinned to stand from 15 to 18 Inches in the row. In planting, the seed Is covered with one or two inches of soil. Cultivation must be thorough, frequent, and shallow. It Is possible to use the ground occupied by early corn for a fall planting of such crops as spinach,' turnips, and kale. Large, late varieties of corn, however, will occupy the ground for practically the whole season.

Business Before Pleasure

Never before did so many Americans spend so much money In Europe, or for such a good purpose. Silence is usually the best asset of a good-looking woman. Wonder If the cannibals were Informed of the dates of meatless days. It is always hazardous for an unattractive woman to shoot her husband. The man who eats garlic can always attract attention if not fame.

First Street Lighting.

Gas for street lighting was first used in Pall Mall, London, 111 years ago. The first attempt to introduce the use of gas in America was in Baltimore, in 1816. The project was unsuccessful. In 1822 it was Introduced In Boston, and in the following year New York streets were lighted by gas. The system did not prove successful, however, until 1827. The use of gas spread rapidly in other cities in the United States and Canada. Rosin and oil were used for producing gas in America In the early days of the industry, but later Newcastle coal and the Albert coal at Nova Scotia, were employed. «r ;

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Fireless Cooker and How to Get Best Results From Use of This Convenience

(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The time which each kind of food should stay in the tireless cooker depends both on the nature of the food and on the temperature at which it remains inside the cooker, and before recipes for use with the fireless cooker can be prepared one must have some means of knowing how temperatures are preserved In it. Jn experiments made In the office of Home Economics a 6-quart kettle was filled with boiling water and put Into the cooker, the packing of which happened to be newspaper. The temperature of the water, which was 212 degrees F. when put into the cooker, was found to beC 172 degrees F. after four hours had elapsed and 155 degrees F. after eight hours had elapsed. This shows the advisability of the common custom of allowing food to remain undisturbed In the cooker for at least six or eight hours, or in some cases overnight. If a soapstone, hot brick, or other extra source of heat is used, less tigie win be required. Materials which are denser than water (sugar sirup as used in cooking dried fruit), and therefore can be heated to a higher degree, will keep up the temperature longer when put Into the cooker. Thus the density of the food material, as well as the amount and the length of time that the apparatus retains the heat, must be taken into consideration in determining how long different materials must be cooked In the cooker. The recipes for dishes to be prepared in the fireless cooker differ somewhat from those for foods cooked in the ordinary way, chiefly In the amount of water or other liquids called for. Less liquid should be put. Into the food to be prepared in an ordinary tireless cooker, since there is no chance for water to evaporate. The cook must be guided largely by experience In deciding how long food should be heated before being put into the cooker and how long it should be allowed to remain there.

JUST FOR FUN

Time Is Money. “You are charged with speeding. What Is your defense?” “My boss says that time is money. Tells me to hit ’er up.” “Time Is money," assented the judge. “Ten dollars.” Very Much Tried

What Detained Him. “You seem to be later every morning,” said the manager. “Yes,” replied the meek-looklng man; “my wife seems to add a few more buttons to the back of her waist every day.” Not for That Reason. The electrical expert was breaking in a green man. “Never touch the wires with your bare hands." “I see. Everything sanitary.” Charm of the Impromptu.

“What’s your mule’s name?” “He hasn’t got any reg’lar name. It sort o’ keeps us both Interested for me to think up what to call ’lm as the provocation arises.”

Half Started. June—Then you. think he hasn't the nerve to propose? Jane —Yes; asking pa’s Income and ma’s disposition and my age seems as far as he dares to go.

Accidents Can Be Avoided by Observing Safety Rules

Statistics show that in the United States during the year 1916 there were approximately 50,000 fatal accidents and 600,000 serious Injuries, says the Magazine of Safety. Onehalf of this enormous number have been classified as accidents occurring to employees of the manufacturing industries and public service companies throughout the country—so per cent of which would have been avoided If workmen had not been careless, while another 25 per cent may safely be attributed to thoughtlessness. Needless accidents can only be eliminated by everyone practicing the rules of safety at all time® and in all places.

Fecundity of Bacteria.

“Bacteria reproduce with almost incredible rapidity,” says George W. Hunter In “A Civic Biology.” It is estimated that a single bacterium, by a process of division called fission (dividing itself Into two parts) will give rise to over 16,700,000 others In 24 hours. Under unfavorable conditions they stop dividing and form rounded bodies called spores. These are exceedingly difficult to injure or destroy.—Popular Science Monthly.

Bacon Were you ever tried by a jury? Egbert Oh, yes; I served on one once, and none of the stubborn men would agree with me!

A Bird in the Hand

(Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.) PLANT WINTER GREEN FEED.

A Small Patch of Kale Adjacent to the Poultry Yard Will Go a Long Way Toward Keeping the Fowls In Condition Through the Winter.

SUCCULENT FEED BEST FOR FOWLS

Poultry Keepers Should Make Preparations for Winter Supply of Green Feed. GRAIN RATION IS LIGHTENED Rye Is Particularly Good Because of Hardiness and Furnishes Excellent Spring Pasture—Other Crops Suggested. The time has arrived when poultry keepers shbuld begin making provision for a supply of winter green feeds. While such feeds contain only a comparatively small percentage of actual food nutrients, they are Important because of their succulence and bulk which lighten the grain ration and assist In keeping the birds in good, condition. By taking thought far enough ahead many back-yard poultry keepers even can produce most of the green feed needed and thus avoid a considerable expense. Double-Yard System. If you have enough ground the double-yard system Is advisable for supplying green feed during the growing season. By this system the birds are confined In one of the yards while the other Is planted to some quickgrowing green feed Into which the hens are turned when it attains a height of three or four Inches. This system, not only furnishes green feed for the birds but freshens and purifies the yard. Among the best crops for this purpose are rape, rye, oats and barley. Rye is regarded as particularly good because. In most sections, it will live through the winter and furnish’ an excellent early spring pasture. There are various other crops adapted to different sections. The proper sea-, son for planting varies according to the locality. Feeds for Storage. Of stored feeds, cabbages, mangel wurzels, clover and alfalfa are the feeds most commonly used during the winter. Cabbages and mangels may be either grown at home or bought in the fall when prices are low and stored in the cellar. Cabbages do not keep as well in ordinary cellars as mangel wurzels, and where both of these feeds are available the cabbages should be fed first. The best method of feeding is to suspend the cabbages In reach of the birds. Mangel wurzels should be split and stuck on nails on the wall or fence. Clover and alfalfa may be fed as hay, cut In the lengths of an inch or less, or they may be bought In the form of meal. For use as poultry green feed, clover and alfalfa should be cut while slightly immature. This Is one of the points that the poultrykeeper will need to look to In making provision for a supply of winter green feed. Sprouted oats constitute an unfailing source of winter green feed when no other feed is available, but Involve more labor and expense in preparing and feeding them the vegetables or hay. They should not be relied upon exclusively. Oats may be sprouted at any time of the year and are therefore a dependable reserve. Importance of Green Feeds. Too much emphasis cannot be placed upon the Importance of growing some green feeds at home. If there is not enough space in your own lot, both to keep the flock and grow a few cabbages, an arrangement might be made with a neighbor who keeps no fowls to allow the use of a bit of ground for late planted cabbages. For use as poultry feed, it If not necessary that ,the cabbages reach full maturity or that the heads be as perfect as for table use. Even when a cabbage plant is composed almost wholly of the large green leaves that would have to be thrown away If used for table purposes it makes good poultry

feed. The poultry branch of the bureau of animal Industry, United States department of agriculture, has devoted a great deal of attention to winter green feeds for poultry, and asserts that a full measure of success cannot be attained with hens unless adequate provision is made in this regard. Where only a few hens are kept the kitchen waste will largely take the place of green feed even in winter.

GREEN FEED FOR HENS

Hens must have green feed all winter If they are to pay for their keep In eggs. A little forethought and effort will enable most poultry keepers, even in cities, to meet the need without much expense. Grow some green feed at home. Now Is the time to plant It will save a good bit of money next winter.

Infertile Eggs for Market. The loss in the United States from improper methods of producing and handling eggs amounts to millions of dollars a year. Probably one-third of this loss is due to the partial hatching of fertile eggs which have been allowed to become warm enough to incubate. This annual loss of good food can be prevented by separating the* hens from the male birds after the hatching season is over. The male bird serves no useful purpose in the flock during summer, fall and winter and should be cooked, sold or confined Immediately after the hatching season is over. Teach How to Preserve Eggs. To teach city people how to preserve eggs with water glass, extension workers of the poultry division of the United States department of agriculture are holding demonstrations in large department stores in a number of cities. Demonstrations have been held in Washington, Chicago and New Orleans, and the plan is to extend the work to other large cities. Similar demonstrations have been held in rural schools and at meetings attended by farmers.

Record for Hauling' Eggs. The first commercial truck load of eggs from Vineland and Millville, N. J., into New York city—about 140 miles —arrived recently with not one egg broken. Delivery from the shipper to the wholesaler was made In 15 hours, which Is faster time than that made by express shipments, and establishes a record for motor haul of eggs, according to the bureau of markets of the United States department of agriculture which arranged for the demonstration. The five-ton truck carried 150 crates of eggs weighing nearly four tons, the rest, of the load being made up of crated glass. It left Vineland at about 11 a. m., and arrived in the wholesale district of New York city at two o’clock the next morning.

Poultry Wheattess Rations. Wheatless rations for commercial or coop fleshing of young chickens for market offers to commercial feeders singularly efficient and economical rations for rapid gains In weight In tests conducted by specialists of the United States department of agriculture, a report of which has been public bed in a professional paper, Bulletin 657, a ration composed of cornmeal and fresh buttermilk, fed again and again throughout the whole feeding season, produced In 14 days* coop feeding an average gain of a pound for every 888 pounds of wet feed consumed. Still better results were obtained with distillers' grains. In the tests the highest and cheapest gains were made by birds having an initial weight of two pounds or less.

Some of the heavy breeds of fowls are very hard to break of sitting when they once get “in the notion,” and extreme measures are often practiced upon the poor erring ones.

SPORTING BLOOD

By JACK LAWTON.

(Oopyrisht. IMB. hr Wwtern NewapaDK Cntoa.) When the girl had climbed to the nook in the Cliff, she drew back at the appearance of an old man ensconced on tl>e rock which was her favorite resting place. A us “I beg your pardon,” she said; * thought no one was here." The old man smilingly waved his hand. “Well, I’m just no one at all, he replied, “so make yourself comfortable, and don’t mind me." Janey hesitated, but as he returned to his absorbed contemplation of the scenic panorama, she sank down upon a lower rock, and was evidently soon lost in troubled thought. A deep sigh at last escaped her. “Only the aged should sigh,” the old man remarked pleasantly. Janey turned 'to look into his shrewd eyes beneath their grizzled white brows, and all at once she felt an Impulsive desire to confide in the possessor of these same kindly sympathetic eyes. As though reading her scruples, the old man bent down encouragingly. “Well?” he asked. The girl laughed. “It’s about Billy,” she answered, the words seeming to say themselves. “When a young woman sighs," her - odd companion responded, “it usually is about Billy, or Jack or Tom! Has he been called to war?” Janey shook her head. “Not yet,” she said. “Billy is just a little above the age limit. That seems.to be his fault; he is always just a little out of —everything.” “And this particular thingy in which he fails?” the man persisted. ?

“I am strangely moved to tell you all about It,” Janey said slowly, “though I am sure I don’t know why.” “Most people are moved to tell me things,” he assured her ; “sometimes I am fortunate enough to help them; sometimes not. In this Instance—- “ Billy and I had decided to marry,” Janey said. “Father places an obstacle.” The old man nodded. “My father would like me to marry his own business partner,” she said; “a very promising young man.” “But you wouldn’t like It,” her companion supplemented; “so what is father’s obstacle in Billy’s case?” “Oh! It’s mean,” the girl cried out indignantly, “and it’s unfair! Years ago father sold a cumbersome house and barns on the hills to some stranger who agreed to carry the estate, along and make payment when he could. Father was glad, then, to have the taxes taken off his hands. But the man who bought the place went away (he was some sort of a sporting man) and he left the house with caretakers, the barns filled with his horses. Then one day the estate came back Into father’s hands. The sporting man was bankrupt, they said. He had paid nothing on the property, and house and barns were all out of repair. They really had abused things shockingly, so father sued for damages, just enough to put the place In selling order again. But his lawyer could get nothing. The sporting man was clever enough always to arrange his affairs that way, they said. And now —» Janey threw out her hands despairingly, “this is father’s insurmountable obstacle: Billy must make good by collecting those damages. Father knows this is impossible. And Billy—” A tender smile hovered about the girl’s mouth. "Oh, Billy is so confident of everything." “I like a man who is sure of winning,” the old man told her. Janey laughed. “That is the way Billy was sure about me, n she confided. He really Is poor, you know, and father is quite rich. Yet Billy came boldly courting, and you see,” her tone was wistful, “Billy won me.” The old man nodded. “Yes,” he answered, "I see. And what was the name of this unscrupulous man who purchased your father’s hpuse to destroy It?” The girl arose. “It was an Irish name,” she replied, “Jerry Sullivan. And perhaps he did not know how> badly the place had been used; he was away, you know. But at any rate,” she sighed, “no one can collect from Jerry Sullivan; that’s his reputation.” Her companion chuckled; • then- with old-time gallantry he turned’ to assist her down the cliff. "Now If they’d sent you to him,” he said, “they might have had a different story.” “I wonder,” said Janey, with a parting handclasp, From below she waved up to him, then turned to run Into her arms. “Just hunted you up,” s’STd Billy, “to tell you I'm on the way to Sullivan’s office; he’s In town.” “Billy.” cried the girl, “will you sue him today?” The young man shook his head. Any eyes but Billy’s might have been discouraged by the shabby appearance of Jerry Sullivan’s office. Surely bankruptcy, even poverty was evidenced here. But when he had stated his case, the old man In the chair before him pushed forward pen a»d paper. “Write out your claim, young man,” he said, “and we will settle the thin/ right here. And now," he added, when that feat had been accomplished with astounding ease, “now, I want you to take a message for me to that girl you are going to marry. “Tell her that she met Jerry Sullivan on the Cliff today, And Jerry’s •porting blood wouldn’t let him ss» ( the other fellow win."