Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 17, Jasper, Dubois County, 13 February 1914 — Page 6

MME UlERRTS ADVICE PROFIT FROM MANURE FEEDING ROUGHAGE TO STOCK GOT HIS TELEPHONE FIXED CUTTING OUT THE LABORER

GREAT ANNUAL LOSS IS CAUSED BY CARELESS MANAGEMENT.

Well Kept Heap I Surest Sign of Thrift and Success In Farmini Importance of Fertiliser la Not Fully Appreciated. Every crop removed from the aoil take from it material which hare been used In building up the plant's nut Soil with no fertility added and which annually bears a crop, must in finie become exhausted of tts atore f valuable, plant food, and unfit to bear further profitable crop. Subi in ev which are added to the soll A Manure Spreader Is Very Valuable on Any Farm. in order to replace the ingredients vhi( h have been removed by previous rops are called manures. The oldest and most common form of manure is the farm manure. Of all fertilizers this is the most popular. Early Roman writers called attention to the fart that the addition of the excreta of farm animals to the soil resulted in increased production, and from that time to the present the majority of farmers have placed their reliance on this class of manures for maintaining the fertility of the land. A well-kept manure heap may be safely taken as one of the surest indications of thrift and success in farming. Neglect of this resource causes losses, which, thoigh little appreciated, are vast in extent. Waste of manure is both so common as to breed indifference and so siient as to escape not ie. According to recent statistics there are in the United States, in round numbers, 28.300.000 horses, mules, etc., 70.000,000 cattle. 4i.000.000 hogs and B7M M sheep. If these animal were kept in stalls or pens throughout the year and the manure carefully saved, the approximate value of the fertilizing constituents of the manure A Common Way of Losing Money Large Losses of Plant Food Are Sure to Occur From Theue Piles of Manure. produced by each horse or mule would annually be $27, by each head of rattle $20, by each hog $4, and by each sheep $2. It is fair to assume 'hat at least one-third of the value .if the manure is annually Tost through felew methods of handling, and this estimate is conservative. Even at this figure we have the tremendous sum of S2S,706,04 as the annual loss in the United States. This condition is the more unfortunate because practically all of it could be prevented. The great importance of farm mail ire is not appreciated to its full extent by mahy farmers. A great many of those engaged in agricultural pVIWitfl se.m to have little realization of th immense loss incurred through ri A Bad Way to Use Good Manure Above Is Shown a Practice All Too Common Below It the Same Field. Showing the Result of Piling Manure in the Field The Manure Should 3e Spread When Hauled or There Will Be an Uneven Growth of the Grain Crop. Due to Localized Fertility. the waste of this important product. They begrudge the time and labor required to remove it from the barn and Veiling lot. and it is not uncommon to see a man purchase commercial fert.Uzers and waste the manure produced by his stock. Harns are often erected on steep side hills, or even close to the banks of running .rrrui'.-s. which practice injures a most effective and wasteful loss of the valon stituents of the manure heap. Cow Must Have Comfort. Keep a sharp lookout tor the cowthat is failing to pay tor the unusual amount of care .lte require during the winter months; for the maintenance of clean, contfortable quarters and for the extra quality of highprk d feed .she consumes which is just as rnueh as that eaten by your I rv Buy Some Sheep Why not luvest a Utile money in a 1 feheep Yearlings will give you i quickes and best results, and will do you good, but you must flrst do

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Great Danger of Animals Overloading aad Seriously Impairing Their Digestive Systems. An oversupply of roughage in racks r manger means not only a waste f feed, but thre is greater danger of the animals overloading and sen ously impairing their digestive systems. It takes more feed for stock out in 'he open weather than in shelter since they must consume a sufficient quantity to maintain normal flesh and keep up the heat unnecessary for supplying their bodies with warmth Oilmeal is so loosening in its. effect that it is very easy to overfeed on this ration. While we would fee! only about one-fourth pint for ever one hundred pounds the animal weighs, there are cases in which this would be too much while in others ft would be sufficient When feeding it. watch the results closely and guage .-Mir future feeding by them. Don't get too enthusiastic in fending oilmeal. as It is a concentrated ration. One and a half to two pounds will be sufficient for the dairy cows, along with other rations daily. Hogs will p quin an atnoun in proportion to their size, and horses will need i only occasionally twice or three times a week as a sort of change from the bulkier feeds The proportion of live to dead weight in cattle and sheep varies according to the way in which the animals are fattened. It Is not often that a fat beast kilte over 72 per cent.

A Good Feed Rack. of its live weight, only show beasts may be reckoned to do thai. The primest may kill to 72 per cent, w h( D cake-finished. A good average is 68 per cent Mutton sheep newly shorn will kill about 3 per cent, more than cattle. If any single mistake in winter calf raising could be designated as the greatest, it is that of allow ing ihe little fellows to run with the grown stock , .here they are bunted about, cheated ! of their share of feed and made to stand in the most uncomfortable parts of the sheds or barns. MOLE WORKS IN WINTER Shallow Runwavs Are Rapidly Extended in All Directions During the Moist and Rainy Seasons. The mole, like the pocket gopher, is more or les3 active at all seasons of the year, but it is during the rainy period, when the soil is moist, that his work is pushed most vigorously. Shallow runways are then rapidly extended in all directions and old run ways repaired. When a mole makes up his mind to go in a certain direction, nothing but concrete or stone will stop him. The strength of these little animals is marvelous. They will heave up the sur face of a path troddeu so hard that repeated blows of a pick will be needed to break the crust. Ordinarily the mole makes his way through the soil as a root does, or a stake when driven by the blows of a sledge. The earth is not excavated, but simply crowded aside. When the ground becomes very hard, of course, the mole is obliged to excavate the assagewas and push the loose dirt out through the opening of the roof of his tunnel. The mole keeps at work all through the winter in places where the ground is not frozen too hard. He works more frequently in the morning and evening. Moles do very little harm to the roots of grain, grasses or vegetables, except in pushing the soil aside, and they live principally on the white grub, earth worms and beetles. He thus proves himself to be a friend to mankind, because grubs are the greatest scourge of grass rind other valuable plant roots. DAIRYMAN MUST WORK BRAIN One Farmer Succeeded on 120-Acre Farm With Sixty-three Cows Where Another Failed With Twenty. A dairyman with a poor herd reeeives quite a large check at the end of the month and he may fail to distinguish between receipts and net profit. This delusion has been tho cause of many a failure. All over this country are individual dairymen whose success is noticeable. One dairyman lost a 120-acre farm kfoj-ing 20 cows that produced two to four cans of milk per day, hiring i m o men. His successor on the same farm hired three men. kept 63 cows and produced 30 cans of milk prr day during the flush of the season, one month's return being $840. This is an I .imple of brain fertility and not soil fertility Many Rotten Eggs. During h twelve months ending Inly tt, of Hdt000 dozen eggs reaching .Ww York city trom different shippers in nine different states, 35 per ent or snore than one-third, were either dirty, vrracked or rotten.

DUTCH SUPPER THAT IS AT ALL TIMES ENJOYABLE.

Appetizing and Not Especially Hard to Prepare. Even in an Emergency Choosing Partner for St. Valentne's Day. At this season of the year Dutch suppers ate very popular along with studio tea and all sorts of informal affairs. A Jolly c-owd received invitations like this not long ago: 'If you is frc-nt of urs Uftd like fi.n pretty much. Shust coino to our party Friday night I'nd help us down the I)ut h.' Thursday, December 12." The hostess had made quantities of ;aper tulips and by the help of crepe papers in windmill pattern she had transformed the room into a good imi lation of Holland. Dutch wooden shoes were the favors, tilled with salte.l nuts, and the prize for pinning a shoe on Cinderella's toe was a box of Dutch cocoa The following menu was written on shoe-shaped delft blue cards: Robgenbrod Schniitchen Weisbrod Schnittchen. Spanischer Salat. Kaese. Kaffee. Eis-Cremes. Nuss Kuchen. Teufel s Kuchen. It really means rye bread sand Wiehes, white bread sandwiches, salad, cheese, coffee, ice cream, nut cake, devil's cake. This Is the recipe for Spanischer salat: Take the yolks of three eggs and add one-half teacupful of salad oil. stirring it into the eggs slowly. To this mixture add a teaspoonful of mustard, two tablespoonfuls of tarragon vinegar, one-half teaspoonful of sugar and a saltspoonful of salt. Slice three apples, three pickled gherkins, two cooked beets and from six to twelve boiled potatoes, according to their size; then skin and bone twelve good-sized sardines and mix all the ingredients together in a salad bowl. Serve with lettuce and garnish with hard-boiled egs. sliced beets and lemon. For a card club this supper will be found most acceptable and somewhat different from the ordinary refresh ments. Choosing Partners on Valentine Day. Make hearts of red or pink and cut In twain, writing the half of a love motto on each, when matched part ners are found. Helow is a list of sentiments used at a recent shower; the couples mated ate refreshments together. It is a fine scheme for a card party; Love me little Love me long. The hweetest joy The wildest woe is love. Love is the lead stone Of love. Love is of heavenly )irth But tarns to death on touching earth. Love is blind And lovers cannot sve. Love is. or ought to be Our greatest bliss. The pleasure of love Is in loving. The sweetest thing In life Is love. Love What a volume In a word. Oh the heart that truly loves Never forgets. Love is the root of creation God's essence. Love will find Its way. For love Is heaven -And heaven Is lve. Love's reign -Is eternal. True love Is the nift Which God has given. MME. MERRI. Fur Collar and Cuff Sets. Fur-trimmed neckwear is modish. Fur ruffs with a narrow fringe of maline, flat fur collar and cuff sets and fur trimmed fichus are perhaps the most prominent types. NEW THEATER WAIST r This pretty waist is of black tulle Uld black lace. The upper part of the waist and the sleeves are black tulje ornamented with jet buttons. The lower part of the waist and the long basque are of the lace. The collar is of white Venetian lace, :he girdle is of bright red silk prettily knotted at the left side. Tariff Affects Price of Challis. The fine French challis which once sold at T" cents and $1 a yari are now 50 and 55 cents The domestic challis are even less expensive and nretrv. The matrials are a j . j - - -

DANCING FROCKS IN VARIETY Brilliant Effects Mark Those Most Upto Date Beads and Floral Bands Both Largely Used. Fashionable frocks call for light garnitures of gra and brilliant effects. This brings into use bands, motifs, tassels and such shapes as corsage girdles, tiny yokes fitting around a low neck, jacket and tunic shapes, and so on. These are all of crystal, pearl, rhinestone and Jet effects, and many pendants are seen. Fringes are used very effectively and are of beads in crystal, pearl, silk and beads, chenille, ribbon, fur and other material. Pendants and tassels of beads are of every size, shape and color, and are used wherever one can be placed, either for use or for ornament. Some of these tassels measure 27 inches and are of rhinestone. crystal and pearl. Black and white net bands are embroidered in beads and silk and in the rich but subdued Persian. Turkish and Chinese colors and designs. Cascade effects on bands and flouncings are also of beads. Steel Is used with jet. Floral bands used on net dancing frocks have larger roses of satin or chiffon and smaller forget-me-nots. These trimmings used to keep to one color, but now several colors are combined, and these bands are used on flounces, top of the neck, lower edge of sash ends and sometimes a row around the girdle. Some net embroidered bands are 12 inches wide and reproduce Persian rug and cashmere shawl designs.

MADE UP IN PLAIN MATERIAL Morning Blouse an Attractive Garment. Made Up With the Latest Styles in Trimming. Here we show a suitable stvle for a ' plain material; it is simply made and has a prettily-cut right front, with a large velvet button sewn In the tab . above waist. The deep collar and wrist bands are embroidered at the edges; upstanding frills of fine lace give a touch of smartness to the sleeves. Materials required: Three yards 30 laches wide, one button. Harmless Deodorizer. A harmless and effective perspiration deodorizer can be easily prepared at home from the following ingredients, which are to bo had at any druggist: One part salicylic acid and three parts boric acid. Mix thoroughly and put in a flat powder box. Use a wool puff or a piece of absorbent cotton in applying it. It is quite harmless and may be used as often as necessary. Bloomer Tip. Bupy mothers make the little girls' bloomers out of lightweight black galatea instead of sateen. They look better, cost less and it is hard to wear them out, says the Christian Science Monitor. v. id w ide and no great amount would be needed for the pretty overdresses . hieb are going to be so popular, and remember that the day of the "composition ' garment is rt hand, and two contrasting fabrics will be found in clmost every gown. Figured skirts with white overdresses, jackets or tunics, or the reerse, will be seen Wherever "fashion s arts decoy.'' UNUSUAL BAG FOR EVENING Paisley. Combined With White Satin in Rectangular Shape, Forms a Pretty Accessory. A most attractive and good-looking evening bag could be made with a piece of Paisley, combined with white satin. Make the bag in a rectangular shape, a trifle longer than it is wide, and also slightly w ider at the bottom than the top. Iess than one-half of the hag and the envelope-shaped flap are made of white satin, while the Paisley form the remainder, extending up the sides to over one-half the depth of the bag. The bag is lined with white satin and finished all around the edges with a white silk cord, a knot of white silk cord also covers the fastening of the flap. The handle of the bag is made of the white cord braided. The Paisley carries out the effect of the Oriental coloring and the bright, rich tones now so much In vogue. Any one possessing a small piece of Chinese or Japanese embroidery could combine It with a harmonious pi.'c of satin, after the manner described above, making a very richlooking and unusual evening bag.

Man Divulges Method, pn Which There Is No Patent, for Bringing the Company to Terms. Apropos of the failure of the recent promotion of a telephone trust, Jerome s MeYYade, the millionaire ociolotrUt. said in Chicago: I am glad tuey.didn t form a trust. With things as they are. ife hard enough dear knows to have your phone kept in order. My phone was once ou? of order for a month. The company, for all m applications, neglected to repair it. i put my wfti to work, md the next time I was celled up I seid: M Hello!' Hell).' said a voice is this Mr McWnefer ' No.' said I. very pleasantly. Tm Smith, the ironmonger.' '" 'Oh, excuse me. (Toodby. "Hanging up the receiver. I went on with my sociological work, and a few minutes later a girl s fresh voice.

t li o ovrlianpp cr r-T a vnirp with a surprised inflection: No 42-11, you are Jerome S MrWade, are you notr No.' sali I, Tin Hetheringtott. the Insurance broker.' M 'Bet isn't y ur number 4?-tlTr No, indeed-k's 17-03.' w Oh!' 'i resumed my work again, and pretty soon a man's voice, the grim, determined voice of the hustlinf telephone manager was at my ear. ' Hello, hello! This Mr. MeWade No. 42-11? M N ). indeed.' said I. 'this is the Cri terion Theater.' "'Oh goodby. (Toodby: "Ten minutes later." Mr. Mr Wade concluded, "a foreman with nine assistants, armed with all manner of batteries, keys and tools, poured into my office, and in just one hour my telephone was in better condition than I'd ever seen it la my life before." Used Ancient Remedy. An Ancient Remedy for an imaginary disease In horses was mentioned at Enfield (England I petty sessions recently, in a case In which Percy Manning, a farrier, was summoned af the instance of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for burning a horse's mouth. David Hale, the owner of the horse, was summoned for allowing its mouth to be hurned. He bad noticed that the horse had sw dien gums and could not eat, so he took it to Manning, who treated the animal for 'iampass," which was a purely imaginary disease. Manning burned the horse's mouth, a practice which died out 20 or 30 years ago. as it was found that the disease did not actually exist. Mr. Davis, a veterinary surgeon, who was called by Mr. Hale to see the horse, said he was horrified to find a large red patch across the roof of the mouth. The proper course of action for the disease, which was inflammation of the gums resulting from indigestion, would have been to apply seme lotion. Dog's Costly Play. A story which reminds one of Samson's exploit of sending his firebrand foxes into the standing corn of the Philistines occurred last autumn in the Midlands of England. A local gentleman, who lived alone in the country, was in the habit of taking a lantern to light him along the dark lanes when he went abroad at night. He was almost invariably attended by a dog, which he had taught to carry his lantern. But disaster put an end to this pleasant plan. Whatever it was the dog spotted, whether a stoat or a hare, his master never knew, but he set off in mad pursuit with the lantern still in his jaws. Had he dropped it in the lane all would have been well. But he didn't. He dropped it near a haystack, and before his master could reach the spot the stack was in such a blaz that nothing could stop it until it was reduced to ashes. "Darkest Hour Before the Dawn." The adage The darkest hour is just before dawn," is only mataphorically true, and this exact saying is very difficult to trace to its original. The same idea is expressed in many forms, such as "When things are at the worst they soonest mend,'' ' When ball is highest boot is nighest." ' The longest day will have an end." "After a storm comes a calm." The Wench put It, By dint of going wrong all will come right." the Italians 'ill is the eye of well." the Persians "It is at the narrowest part of the pass that the valley begins to open. and the Jews "When the tale of bricks is doubled. Moses comes." Missionaries Must Study. Ignorance on the part of a missionary will not long hold the Intellectual respect of the Oriental student, declares Prof. Charles R. Henderson of the University of Chicago, in uring better training of missionaries. "The young men who are to command attention and hold influence in the mission fields today must have a long and thorough discipline in science and experience. This training should begin in the secondary schools, extei.d through college and be specialized in graduate studies." Probably Not. MSo you hope to visit Paris?" MYes. I'm prompted by a very natural curiosity." "Want to see if It is really a gay town, eh?" "Well, not particularly. I merely want to see if French waiters in Paris are anything like the French waitera in musical coined?."

About Every Day Science Devi Some Means to Do Away With Hard Work With Hands.

Kvery day sHence knocks the tooU out of an additional number of laborers' hands. For years you hare sen the Ion 'rain loads nf coal come into the Philadelphia yards during the winter, whitened with snow When these can that look as if they had come front the home of old Boreas himself ar taken down to the great shrpping pier the coal in them it often found to frozen into one solid chunk To dig this coal loose so that the cars might Im hoisted and thir cootents dumped into the holds of sh ps was a tedious job It was much too low for science, which has no devised a new methorf of doing the work. Science built a concrete and nearly air-tight house at Greenwich Point, into which -1 loaded coal cars may b backed at one time like so man-. ; In an oven. Here, in a tener rature of 150 or more degrees, the solid con tents of a car is thawed loose from the sides. Just about as you put a warm cloth around a can f : h cream to release the contents In 10 minutes or so. the e joking process being complete, th- ears are taken fron the oven and hoisted on r the ship, when the eoal runs out easily. That hot air can do to li cars in 40 minutes what it took 100 men a day to accomplish. That's how science, when aided by a little capital, is steadily decreasing the amount of work which our hands have to do. Philadelphia Ledger His Wife Knew It. A Cleveland lawyer tells a story about a woman from the country aneo wanted a divorce. When the case got into court the judge, disregarding tor the moment technical grounds, tried to find out the real reason for tlm lady's desire to bo separated from tie man she had lived with for s many years. The man himself was in court with a lawyer and it looked as if he was going to fight the case Mrs. Dash. ' said the judge, "tell me what fault you have to find with your husband." He is a liar, a brute, a thief and a brainless fool!' answered the lady promptly. "Tut. tut!" exclaimed his honot. with Wilsonian emphasis. You could hardly prove all that 4 Prove it? Why, everybody knows it" If you knew it why did you marry him0" I didn't know it before I married him." Then the husband spoke for the first time. "She did, too!" he shouted. London's Playinp, Fields. According to a return isued hy Ike parks and open spaces committee of the L.. C. C, 124,8y6 games of bow is 22,182 games of cricket. 1.912 games of croquet, 15,514 games of footba 1,837 games of hockey. ;: games of lacrosse. 144.642 games of lawn tennis and 3,050 games of quoits were played in ;he council's parks and open epaces during the year ended on September 30. Other games for which facilities are provided at certain places are pi Rugby netball, badminton, basket ba.l. hurling and shinty. I nder an arrange ment with the education committee about 19,800 organized games wpp' played at 46 parks and open ipajMi during the year, as against 15.800 games at 44 places during IS 12. -London Times. Married to Kangaroo. At the recent church congress in Fmgland a speaker complained of the lack of information respecting the em pire at home. He said he had read of a poor woman who. when shown a kangaroo at the zoo and toM that It was a native of Tustralia, replied, "Good gracious, and my daughter ts married to one of them This reminds us of th atney if A Irish emigrants who went to the West Indies. They got on so well that a year or two later they sent and induced more Irish folk to emigrate. When the eecond batch arrived they were greeted by a crowd of blacks, who greeted them with snch homeiy words as "Begorrah." and so on. What! black already." was the amazed comment of the newcomers." Viceroy's Elephant. Tfrmooh is the name of the big ei. phant who bore the viceroy of India and Lady Hardlnge at the time of their attempted assassination and who. despite his wounds, did not move In the excitement. He has been officially pensioned by the Indian government. The pension will suffice for food and attendance." the ßrst item probably being the farger for an elephant in a country where food Is scarce and the population great As Timouh is only thirty and as elephants are long-lived, he may become j the world's oldest pensioner. Multitude Best Forgotten. Statisticians tell us that $80,OOC.otn was disbursed in chanty throughout the Tnited Sta luring the pas: year, but as to the number, variety and magnitude of the sins the , t ma. jority of It was designed to cover thf pub'.:c is left to form its own estimate Norfolk Virginian Pilot. Deterred. Orabson rushed to a telephone tJe other day for the express purpose et telling another man what he tbouaM of him. but changed his mind." -Hid his better Judgment preva Nc. He struck a pay station nd bated to speud a nickel

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