Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1912 — Page 6

NOTES From MEADOWBROOK FARM

By Willam Pitt

Keep a spray calendar. Cut out the dead branches. i . . . '' Chickens relish fresh lettuce. Select your breed and stick to it. If you plant pear trees in rich soil you Invite blight It is work worth while to scald the calf’s feed pail every day. A peach tree will stand a heavier beading back than an apple tree. Do not allow the stock to run in the orchard during the winter months. Scatter the manure as you haul it, don’t put into little piles all over the land. Keep the feed troughs clean. It is a wasteful practice to mix manure with grain. Letting the calf suck the cow the first day or two lessens the danger of milk fever. If sows are expected to produce a fall litter, the spring litter should be weaned when abopt 10 weeks old. Five or six of the twelve or thirteen species of beetles attacking stored grains are found usually in farmers’ bins. If you are still so far behind the age as to be dairying with no separator, get one now, if you sell a cow to do it. An occasional colt or young horse to sell, even when one is not making a business of raising horses, is a help to any farmer. The litter carrier will do much to keep the barn clean, because it encourages the boys and men to do their work beter.

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Calves should have plenty of water as early as they want to drink it, but it is best not to let them have it right after their milk feed. ■; ZT Where from four to eight cows are milked the churn should hold from six to ten gallons. Better a little large than too small. Currant bushes must also be watched, carefully, and be thoroughly sprayed at least twice or you will find more green worms on your bushes than fruit. A vessel which would hold 1,000 pounds of water would hold 1,032 pounds of whole milk. 1.038 pounds of skimmilk, or 1,000 pounds of good cream. When you see the little ghost-like winged creatures rising like tiny elouds from your rose bushes, bfe sure it is the aphis. Get after them with the spray. Young climbing roses ought to be cut back to a strong eye, and the side shoots pruned as grapevines are pruned—that is, a couple of eyes from the stem. When cream foams in the churn ancF butter will not come, put in a handful or two of salt and a little water, slightly warmed. This usually remedies the trouble. Get some variety in the poultry ration. If the chickens are not eating heartily they may need a little change In their food to put their appetites back in tone. Not a few of our dairy folks are going to raise a crop of cowpeas as bay feed for cows this year. Cowpeas hay Is next to alfalfa and clover in milkmaking qualities. Eggs to be preserved should be perfectly fresh and be placed in the solution the same day as laid to obtain rhe best results, although eggs several lays old will keep very well. Washed eggs should not be used . With gravel and sand to be had on nost farms, the purchase of some Portland cement will provide the en:ire material for a root cellar, a drinking trough, a milk house and many it her convenient buildings which will ast for many years. Where there is hardly enough milk from a single milking to make separating worth while it may be set away antil next milking time,' when the tream should be thoroughly stirred tn and the milk warmed up before running through the machine.

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Board of Review Notice. Notice* is hereby given that the County Board of Review will meet in the room of the County Commissioners in the Court House in Rensselaer, Indiana, on Monday, June [3d. 1912. (This being the first 'Monday in June) for the purpose [of reviewing and equalizing assessi merits and to correct any list of valuation as they may deem proper. (The Board will hear complaints of ■ any owner of additional improveI meats or real ectate and of personal property except “Railroad Track’’ and “Rolling Stock’’ of railj roads; will equalize the valuation i of property and taxables made sub- ( sequent to the proceeding first day ; of March and add and assess omiti ted property in alh cases where [ deemed necessary. The duration of the session of i '-he Board of Review will not exceed 20 days. . JOSEPH P. HAMMOND, Auditor Jasper County.

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f’QRGrJZT'.' 7* ZUVP 1 - WE TAKE ORDERS OF ALL KINDS for Cleaning and Pre-sing, and I deliver them in a : highly satisfactory condition. I: makes no difference now delicate or dainty the fabric, 1 can clean i and without the’ - ightvst injury to the article. I call for and deliver goods and have them ready when promised. While I am a quick worker. I like time to do my work thoroughly, however. JOHN WERNER, Tailor Rensselaer, Ind. ;

The American. Home

WILLAM A. RADFORD Editor

Mr. VV llliam A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 178 West Jackson boulevard, Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply.

What we need in houses is more pleasing exteriors and more convenient interiors. I like to notice the houses as I pass along a country rpad. Some look very comfortable and homelike, but there are too many of the other kind —bare, neglected-look-ing places, and uninviting, not because of cheapness, bue because they lack care and the inspiration born of refinement. In town and in the country I see both old and new houses that I would not care to enter, just because the outside appearance is not attractive. An architect can draw a good design and a builder can put it up in thorough workmanlike manner, but after it is finished and the family moves in, unless real good common sense moves with the family, the neighbors will be inclined to admire the fine house from a distance Then there are a good many freak houses, houses that are built to suit some one with a fad or fancy of their own. The fellows have been experimenting, which is very costly work. When a man decides to build a house he should remember that the modern dwelling as it is built today by the £est talent in the building line is the composite work of one inventor after another for thousands of years. A man must have an extraordinary opinion of his own ability who will deliberately step very far outside of the beaten path, worn as it is by such a succession of architects and builders. There is only One right way for a man who is unfamiliar with building

operations to manage, and that'ls to employ a man to draw his plans who has spent years in studying architecture and making house plans, a man who knows how to take advantage of materials and how to lay out the space to the best advantage. It requires a great deal of experience just to read a plan correctly after It is drawn. Plans are drawn to a scale that Is easy to understand, but there is not one novice in a thousand who can look at a plan and get a correct idea of the real size, dimensions and accessibility of the different rooms. He may know in a crude sort of way that a quarter of an inch on the plan

represents a foot on the finished work, but unless he is accustomed to a uniform exaggeration of that kind he is sure to feel disappointed in some particular when the house is built The matter of specifications is just as important as the drawings. There are a great many little things to specify in making a contract that a person unaccustomed to such work will never think of. A person might possibly find a contractor liberal enough to do all the thinking, supply all the brains and take a crude plan and turn out a satisfactory job. But it wouldn’t happen that way more <han one time In a million. Con-

tractors are In business to make money; that is all right enough, nobody objects to a contractor making i fair profit, what you want to guard against is an unfair profit. The only way of letting a contractor know exactly what you want is to have it specified both in the drawings and in the contract. A man may study a plan a long time and think he knows all about it, but while the house is going up he can always find for Improvement. This leads to altera-

tions, which are generally expensive. The house shown here is well Adapted for construction in the country on a large lot. It has a frontage of forty-one feet and a length of fiftysix feet and contains ample room for most any family. -On the first floor the noticeable feature is the large reception hall. On the right of this is the living room and also the sit-

ting room, in each of which is a fireplace. There is also a kitchen of large dimensions. On the second floor there are five bedrooms, each accessible from a central hallway. The closet room is also generous.

POE STIFLED HIS WELCOME

Mechanical Actions of Distinguished Guest Astonished Servant, Host and. the Other Visitors. Todd, who had opened the door silently and crept in, ..laid his hand on his master's shoulder. “Marse George, can I speak to you a minute?” he whispered. The boy looked as if he had seen a ghost "Speak to me! Why haven’t you taken my message, Todd?” "Yes, sah —dat is—can’t ye step in de hall a minute, Marse George—novp —right away?” “The hall! —what for? —is there anything the matter?" St. George rose to his feet and followed Todd from the room. Something, evidently, had gone wrong—something demanding Instant attention, or Todd wouldn’t be scared out of his wits. Several minutes passed: Again the door swung wide, and a man, deathly pale, erect, faultlessly dressed in a full suit of black, the coat buttoned close to his chin, his cavernous eyes burning like coals of fire, entered on St. George’s arm and advanced toward the group. Every guest was on his feet In an Instant.

"We have him at last!” cried St. George in his cheeriest voice. “A little late, but doubly welcome. Mr. Poe, gentlemen.” Kennedy was the first to extend his hand, Horn crowding close, the others waiting their turn. Poe straightened his body,. focussed his eyes on Kennedy, shook his extended hand gravely, but without the slightest sign of recognition, and repeated the same cold greeting to each guest in the room. He spoke no word —did not open his lips—only the mechanical movement of his outstretched hand —a movement so formal that It stifled all exclamations of praise on the part of the guests or*even of welcome.—Scribner’s Magazine.

THE BEST TIME TO ADVERTISE

By BERT M. MOSES,

President Association of American Advertisers. There is a popular saying that runs something like this: The best time to advertise is all the time.” i Like most sayings this sounds clever. This one is misleading and untrue. The best time to advertise is determined by weighing, analyzing, sifting, and finally adopting a method that cpmmon sense shows will fit nicely into your requirements. My business happens to be one which does not justify the use of large space. Two or three inches single column is about the limit of the present advertisement. A small space like that will show to best advantage on days when the fewest ads appear. So the first question I ask the publisher is this: “What days in .the week do the department stores use the least space?” , When I what these days are, I take the other days of the week.' This helps both the publisher and me.>

He is anxious to get copy on days when the advertising is light, and I get the best positions on those days. If you happen to have a seasonable article, the time to advertise it is when it is needed—that is so plain that to tell it here seems silly. Department stores, clothiers, hatters, and other merchants find it desirable to advertise most at that period in the week when the help in factories receive their pay. One of the fallacies which has become more or less fixed is the idea that it doesn’t pay to advertise in the summer. It would be just as logical to say people stop breathing in the summer time as to say they stop buying then. Hans Wagner, the great ball player, when asked the secret of his success in batting, replied: “I hit 'em where they ain’t.” So one of the good times to advertise is when the others are not advertising. The first mission of an advertisement is to be seen. Run your eye over this self-same paper, and note how some ads stick out, while others don’t.

This object lesson is under your eyes every day, and you can learn better by observing how others do it than I can tell you. Attention, however, isn’t the whole thing, because it must be favorable attention, or the reader will not stop and read.

The old idea of using a startling headline, or saying something outlandish and bizarre, has gone the way of other foolish things. A freakish ad. has the same effect as a loud vest on a man. Neither the ad. nor the man will make you feel like giving up your money. The best time to advertise has got to be figured out on the basis of common sense, and no one can tell you so well as you can tell yourself by trying out your own ideas. The best advertisement is that which is as plain and simple as you can possibly make it. Fine writing is not so effective as facts. Go right to the heart of the theme with the first word, get the thing said quickly, and then stop. Josh Billings told it all in this gem: "I don’t kare how much a man talks if he only sez it in a few words.”

Overlaudation Poor Advertising.

A. L. Gale, president of the Omaha Ad club, gave an interesting psychological lecture to that organization at its weekly meeting in the Paxton hotel the other day. He explained many magazine and local advertisements and commented upon them, explaining the good points and bad points principally from a psychological and visual viewpoint. He told how good advertising agencies sent their men into the various fields to study the proposition to be advertised and dwelt at length on the value of the advertiser’s first-hand information of the subject he is handling. - In advertising psychological terms he discussed negative and positive suggestion, showing how the positive and pleasant suggestion in an advertisement had the greatest power of appeal. The overlaudation of goods, he said, Is one of the most serious mistakes the ad writer can make.

Had Its Own Brain.

An inexperienced colored girl had just been installed as housemaid. Having eyed a patent bottle much curiosity for some time, she asked her mistress: “And what sort o’ thing is dat, ma'am?”. 1 “That,” replied madam, “is a bottle that will keep things either hot or cold.” “Land sakes, honey,” exclaimed the astonished darky, “how is it gwine to know whether you want to keep things hot or cold?”—Woman’s Home Companion.

Free Advertising Undignified.

Get rid of the notion that advertising Is undignified unless It is free, says E. W. Howe In his new Magazine. As a matter of fact that Is the kind that Is not dignified. Every setting sun sees a greater recognition of the dig nlty, Importance and value of paid ad vertlslng.