Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 56, Number 18, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 February 1914 — Page 6

PROFIT FROM MANURE

GREAT ANNUAL LOSS IS CAUSED BY CARELESS MA'GLMENT. Welt-Kept Heap I Surest Sign of Thrift and Success in Farming Importance of Fertilizer Is Not Full Appreciated. Kvery crop removed from the soil take from it material which hare been used in building up the plant's ijssue. Soil with no fertility added and which annually bears a crop, must in t'.nir- become exhausted of Its store of valuable plant food, and unfit to bear further profitable crops. SubHfanros which are added to the soil A Manure Spreader Is Very Valuable on Any Farm. in order to replace the ingredients which have been removed by previous rps are called manures. The oldest, and most common form of manure Is the farm manure. Of all fertilizers this is the most popular. Karly Roman writers called attention to the fart that the addition of the excreta or larm animals to the soil resulted in in reaaed production, and from that me to the present the majority of farmers have placed ihelr reliance on this (lass of manures for maintaining Hie fertility of the land. A well-kept manure heap may be aafely taken as one of the surest indications of thrift and success in farming. Neglect of this resource causes losses, which, though little appreciated are vawt in SjattSJBA Waste of Bann re is both so common I I to breed todiff rence and so silent as to escape notice. According to recent .statistics there ar in the I'tilted F'at- -. in tound numbers, 2s3oU,n00 horses, mules, etc., 70.000.000 cattle I! .000,000 hogs and r7.Ruo ün.i Mhep If these animals Uej; in stalls or pens throughout Ui and the manure carefully .i i he ;i (pro m,e value of the fertilizing count H iiettt of the manure A Common Way of Losing Money Largs Losses of Plant Food Are Sure to Occur From These Piles of Manure. produced by euch Korse 01 mult' nidi a tin lull v In $:! ;. Iiv each head of stiie $20, by each hog $4, und i K hhri'i $2. It Is fair to assume hut at least one third of Ihe value nf lite ii uiiii. i-i .i iu i t!l Tout lliinilgh melc-tw methods of hillllllg, and 'Ills minie is oiiservatu c iveiiat thin nguro e have Ihe tremendous sum of 1126,700.000 as the annual Iohm in (he I'mi-'d States. This condition l the more unfortunate because practically II of If entllll prevent. I The great Importance of farm manure U not appreciated to its full extent liv mans tanners. A great ' - those engaged In agricultural iiutintH seem to have little realization f tlo immense loss Incurred through A Bad Way to Use Good Manure Above Is Shown a Practice All Too Common Below Is the Same Field, Showing the Result of Piling Manure In the Field The Manure Should Be Spread When Hauled or There Will Be an Uneven Growth of the Grain Crop. Oue to Localized Fertility. the naste of this Important product. '! ii.- beg, ud-o the time and labor re quired to remote it from the barn and feeding lot, and it Is not uncommon to see a man purchase commerrial fertilizers and Haste the manure produced by In stock. Hams are oftea erected on steep side hills, or even close to the banks of running n reams, which practice insure a most effective and wasteful lo ;f the valuable constituents of the tnanur heap. Cow Must Have Comfort. Keep a sharp lookout for the cow that is failing to pay for the unusual amount of care she require during the winter months, for the main tena:.(- of clean, comfortable qiur-t--. kf u for the -Kt ra p.als ! lim!' pr it ed -ne consume which is just a.- much as that eaten by your best cow buy Some Sheep A h not laves tittle rnori' in a few heep Yearloig will g ,ou he quirkeat and best results and will do roe 0094 but you mum tlrst do aOOd b iU:LU

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FEEDING ROUGHAGE TO STOCK

Great Danger of Animals Overloading and Seriously Impairing THeir Digestive Systems. An oversupply of roughage in racks or mangars means not only a waste of feed, but there is greater danger of the animals overloading and seriously Impairing their digestive ayterns. It takes more feed for stock out in the 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 feed only about one-fourth pint for every one hundred pounds the animal weighs, there are cases in which this would be too much while in others It would be sufficient. When feeding n. watch the results closely and guage your future feeding by them. Don't get too enthusiastic in feeding 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 require an amount in proportion to their size, and horses will need it 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 kills over 72 per cent. A Good Feed Rack. of its live weight, only show beasts may be reckoned to do that The priinest may kill to 72 per cent when cake finished A good average Ik OS per cent Mutton sheep newly shorn will kill about ;i per cent more than ea'tle If uiii u in ii In mi i iLii In m i it 1 1 1 v i 1 1 f I nu J niiii" mm "un- in " mi' I i en in. w'( I. ilesignateiT hs the RrenleHt. It Ik that or allowing the little felltms to run vsith the grown hI U I he i . 1 1 1 1 a i hunted abnut . h . i -I Of thtlr share ! Id and mud" to ittum! in the iiidhI ttBOOIIlfortabli parts or the mIomIm or barun MOLE WORKS IN WINTER lhallow Runwsyi Art Rapidly In tsnded In All Directions During the Mont and Msiny Soaiona. I he mole like Ihe poi kel gopher, Is mote or lean act In e at lilt seasons of the ear, hut it In dill lug the i itltty ptulod when the soil t moist, thai his work 1m pushed luont vigmomdi Hhullou i iiiivs avh ai " I lien i apidl) e v tended in nil dlrettions ntid old run W It M , N Io n a mole mal. i n up Ills mind to go In a cci lain duet I ion. nothing hut im i t or stone will stop him I lo strength or theMe Utile an! usls U mar elou;i Tlie.v s III le ave up tli sill face of a path trodden ho hard thai repeated i!ovh of a pi k vsill ! need ed to bn ak the n ust Onlinarih the mole maUes his v,ny (lirough the soil us a root docs, or a stake when driven h Ihe blovss of a I lejie The e;ilth IH Utt cXCUWlted. Imt simpl crowded aside When t ! round beioines vef hard, or course, the mole is obliged to excavate the passage w a s ami p.mh tle loose lirt out thiniiu the opening of the roof Of tl 1 i tllliUel The mole keeps at work all through the winter in plates where the ground is not froen too haul He works more freQU68tly In the morning aud even Ing ' lo very little harm to Hi" roofs of grata, fraSSCI or vegetables. XCepi In pushing t h soil aside, and thev li. pnm'pall.x on the white grub, earth worm .. 1 beetles. lie thus pn htanaelf to be a iriend to Mankind, because grubs ar the greifest scoiifp1 )f grass and 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 oor herd re ives quit a large check at the end of the month and he may fail to distinguish between receipt and net profit. This delusion has been the cause of mat. a failure. All over this country are individual dairymen whose success is noticeable. :.e dairyman loht a l-a re farm Ke "ping cows that producod tWQ to four cans of milk per day, hiring two men. His tuccessor on the same farm hired three men. kept t;; cows and pioduced :: cans of milk per day dur ing the fluah of the season, oue month's return being $84" This is an example of brain fertility and not soil fertility Many Rotten Eggs. I:nngthe twelve months ending July II, of MMM dozen ea;gs reaching New York city from 85 different shippers in nine different states, 35 per cent or more than onMhlrd. wara either dirty, cracked or rotlon.

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IHME MERKT S ADVICE!

DUTCH SUPPER THAT IS AT ALL TIMES ENJOYABLE. Appetizing and Not Especially Hard to Prepare, Even in an Emergency Choosing Partners for St. Valentines Day. At this season of the year Dutch suppers are very popular along with, studio teas and all sorts of informal affairs. A jolly CTOWd received invitations like this not long ago: "If you is frfcnt of urs Und like fun pretty much. Shust com1 to our party Friday night Und help us down the Dutch.' Thursday, December 12." The hostess had made quantities of paper tulips and by the help of crepe papers in windmill pattern she had transformed the room into a good imi tation of Holland Dutch wooden shoes were the favors, filled with saltcc nurs. ami the prize for pinning a shoe on Cinderella's toe was a box of Dutch cocoa. The following menu was written on shoe-shaped deltt blue cards: Robgenbro.l Sehnittchen. 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 or mustard, two tablespoonfuls of tarragon vinegar, one half teaspoonful of Ftigar and a saltspoonful of salt. Slicn thrp apple, ihreo plekled gherkin., two cooked beets and from six lo twei boiled potatoes, according to their size; then skin and hone twelve good sized sardiues and mix all the ingredients together in a salad how I Borve with lettuce and garnish with hard-boiled ggs. sliced beets Ulld lemon For a card club this supper will le found most acceptable and Moniewhat different from the ordinary refresh mnts. Choosing Partners on Valentine Day. Make hearts of red or pink and cut In twain, wilting the half of a lo' medio on mich, w hen mah bed p u t ner are found Itelow Im a lint of neu Milien! lined at a icrent shower, the upli i. mnhd nie i e rctfhmnnt lo gnthei It U a hue scheme for a card part) Love me Hille Love lue long The M werte I Jov The wildest woe Is lo e Love Is (he ead slone (if love Love is of heitveuh birth Mill tarns In death on touching earth. UOVi is blind And lovers cannot e Love in i ought to be Our ureal ast bliss The pleasure of love Is In loving Ihe Mwretesi thing In life Is love I o W hat i volume In a word Hi I lie heart that lrul lovei Nsver forgets Love Ih the root ol elation (lod's eSHclUe Love will find Its way I'm love Is heaven nd heaven Is lova'. Love's relgn Is eternal True love is the gifl Which (fad ban glcn MME. MERRI. Fur Collar and Cuff Sets. Fur -trimm d neckwear is modish. Fhr ruffs with a narrow fringe of maline, iiat fur collar and hull et ami fur l rimmed fichus are perhaps the most prominent types NEW THEATER WAIST Tins pretty waist is of black tulle l black lace. The upper part of the snJll and the sleeves are black tulle ornamented with buttons The lower part of the waist and Urn long basque are of the lace. The collar is of white Venetian lace, '.he girdle is of bright red silk prettily snot ted at the left stde. Tariff Affects Price of Challis. The tine French challis which one sold at XI cents and $1 a yard ar now 50 and 5." cents The domestic challis are even leh i xpensive and are very pretty The matrlals are

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 fnay and brilliant effects. This brings into use bands motifs, tassels and such shapes as corsage girdles, tiny yokes flttinc; 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, rhenille, ribbon, fur and other materials. 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 or these tassels measure 27 inches and are of rhinestone. crystal and pearl. HIack and white net bands are embroidered in beads and silk and is the rich but subdued Persian, Turkish and Chinese colors and designs. Cascade effects on bands änd 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 rowaround the girdle. Somenet embroidered bands are 12 inches wide and reproduce Persian rug and cashmere shawl designs. i MADE UP IN PLAIN MATERIAL Morning Blouse an Attractive Garment, Made Up With the Latest Styles in Trimming. Hare we show n suitable style 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 (!-"p collar and wrist bands hp embroidered at the edges; upstanding frills of line laet give a loneh of NltwrtlieHH lo Ihe glee Maierinl: requited Thtee n r d h .0 Im hen wide one button Harmless Dsodoriisr. fcftrmltsa ami tfftotlvi ptftptrav lion dendorlxer an be easil) prepared ni home Hum the following Inglfdl enih. i blök .'i I 10 be had at an Ii Of glHt One pari salicylic arid ami Ihree pints horie add Mi lhoroughl and put In ii Mat pow der .x i 'se .i w ... puff oi a pieee of abnolhenl cotton 111 applying it. It is quite harmless .uid v be used as ntleii as n e.-Ns.tr Bloomer Tip. Musn mothers make the little girls' bloomers out of lightweight black k latea instead of sateen The? look bitter, cost less and It Is hard to sriar them out, says the Christian Science Monitor yard lidl and no grail amount would he needed for the pretlx overdt -mwhich are going to be so popular, and r member that the day of the componn' garment Is at hand, and two contrasting fabrics will be found in almost every gown. Figured skirts with white overdresses. Jackets or tunics, or the reverse, 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 whits satin. Make the bag In a rectangular shape, a trifle longer than it is wide, and also slightly wider at the bottom than the top l.e ihan om-ha!f ' tin bag 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 d pth of the bag. The bag Is lined with white satin : and tlniahed all around the edges with a white silk cord, a knot of whit silk cord also covers the fastening of the Hap 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 piece of satin, after the manner described above, making a very richlooking and unusual evening bag.

GOT HIS TELEPHONE FIXED Man Divulges Method, on Which There Is No Patent, for Bringing the Company to Terms.

Apropos of the failure of th recent promotion of a telephone trust, Jerome S. McWade, the millionaire sociologist, said in Chicago: I am glad they didn't form a trust. With things as they are. it's hard enough dear knows to have your phone kept in order. My phone was once out of ordr for a month. The company, for all my applications, neglected to repair it. 'I put my wits to work and the next time I was called up I said: Hello' ' " Hell V said a voice. Is this Mr Sic Wade?' " Wo,' said I, very pleasantly, Tn Smith, the ironmonger " 'Oh, excuse me. Goodby. "Hanging up the receiver, I went on with my sociological work, and a few minutes later a girl's fresh voice, the exchange girl's voice, said with a surprised inflection: "No. 42-II. you are Jerome S. McWade. are you notT "NoV sai l I, I'm Hetherington. the Insurance broker. But isn't ur number tttlT " No, indeed It's 17-03 Oh!' " I resumed my work again, and pretty soon a man's voice, the grim, determined voice of the bustling telephone manager was at my ear M Hello, hello! This Mr. McWadeT No. 4MP No. indeed.' said I, this is the Criterion Thvater.' " Oh goodby. Goodby Ten minutes later." Mr. McWade concluded, "a foreman with nine assistants, armed with all manner of batteries, keys and tools, poured into my office, and in just one hoür my telephone was in better condition than I'd ever seen it In my life before." Used Ancient Remedy. An Ancient omed tor an imaginary disease itt horses was mentioned at Enfield ( England I petty sessions recently, in a case In which Terry Manning, a furrier. w,s summoned at the Instatiee of the Uu.val Society Uu the PreYt&tlOfl of t'riidl tO A in mall Tov unlug a horse's mouth. has id Hale, the owner of horse, wan summoned for allowing it mouth to be burned lie had notice.! thai Ihe horse had mw dien gums and eould not eat. ho he tool It t" Manning. Wbl treated the animal for "lampass," whlrh was a purely Imaginary dls ni Manning burned Ihe horse's mouth, a practice which tiled out 2U or '10 veins ngo. as It wnn found thai Urn dtMtoM "", Mill 1 1 ett. Mr tls. a veterltmiN surgeon, wie n as i tilled h M i llllle lo see the horse, said he was horrttlod t Hud a large red pateh across ihe roof of Ihe mouth The proper course of ae lion for the disease, which was Inflam (nation of the gums resulting from in illgestlon, would have been lo apply some lotion Dog't Costly Play. A ioi which reminds one of Samens tiploif t4 sending his firebrand roves into the standing corn of th Philistines occurred lusi autumn In tM Midlands or Kuglnud. A local feitll man, w ho lived alone in t he mail i was in tin- habit nf taking a laulein to light htm along the dark lanes when he eenl ibTOad at night, lie was almost invariably attended h a dog, which he had taught to carry his lantefn Hut disastei put an end to (his pleasant plan Whate er ii w an t he dog spot ted. whether a stout or a hare, his master ver knew, hut he aet off in mad pur suit with the lantern still in his jaws. Und he dropped it in the lan. all would have been well Hut he didn't. He dropped it near a ha sia k. and before Ins master could reach the t.pot the stack was in stub a blaze that nothing could stop It until it was t duced to ashes. "Darkest Hour Before the Dawn." The aiage The darkest hour is Just before dawn,'' is only mntaphorically 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." 1 The longest day will have an end." "Attn a storm comes a calm " The French put it, Hy dint of going wrong all wlM come right." the Italians ill is the eye of well." the Persians it is at the narrowest part of the pass that th valley begins to open.' and th lews W hen the tale of bricks is donbled. Moses comes." Missionaries Mutt Study. Ignora ice on the part of a missionary VtH not long hold the intellectual respect of the Oriental student, declares Prof. Charles It. Henderson of the Cnlversity of Chicago, in uring better training of missionaries "The young men who are to com mand 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, extend through college and be specialized in graduate studies."

Probably Not. "8o you hope to visit Pari "Yes 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 axe anything like the French waiters in musical comadf."

CUTTING OUT THE LABORER

About Every Day Science Dev. Some Means to Do Away With Hard Work With Hnö: Kvery day science knocks th tools out of an additional number of laborers' hands. For years yon have seen the long train loads of coal come into the Philadelphia yards during the winter, w hitened w ith snow. When these car that look as if they had come fron, the home of old Boreas himself are taken down to the great shipping piers the coal in them is often found to he frozen into one solid chunk. To dig this coal loose so that the cars might be hoisted and their con tetts dumped into the holds of ships was a tedious job. It waa much too slow for science, which has now devised a new method of doing the v. or. Science built a concrete and nearly air-tight house at (Greenwich Point, into which 21 loaded coal cars may backed at one time - like so many piee in an oven. Here, in a temperature of 150 or more degrees, the solid contents of a car is thawed loose from the sides, just about as you put a warm cloth around a can of ice c i to release the contents. In 40 minutes or so. the c joking pr resa being complete the cars are taken from the oven and hoisted over the ship, when the coal runs out easily. That hot air can do to 21 cars in 40 minutes what it took WO men a day to accomplish. That's how science, when aided by m little capital, is steadilv decreasing the amount of work which our hands have to do.--Philadelphia Ledger Hit Wife Knew It. A Cleveland lawyer tells ;i story about a woman from the country who wanted a divorce When the case got into court the nidge, disregarding for the moment technical grounds, tried to And out the real reason for th lady's desire to be separated from th man she had lived wi:h for so many years. The man himself was in court with a lawyer and if looked as if he was going to light the Mm. Dash.'' said the Judge 'tell me what fault you have to Und with your husband He Is a liar, a brute, (hier and a brainless fool'" answered ihe lady promptly "Tut, tut!" exclaimed his homo with Wilson lan emphasis. 'You could hurdly pflOffl sll that Prove It ' Whs everybody knows H you knew it h did yon muri v Mm 1 didn't know It befor I msrrled Mn " ThMi the husband spoke for ihn hrt Mine ' Hhe Otd. too ' he shouted London's Playing FlstJs. Avoiding lo a return Issued In th" park and open spie es commute r ih,. I ( c i i vn, games of bowl tis:j games of cricket. 1,1 1J games of croquet. 16, M 4 games of football. 1.M37 games of hoeke. f;: game of lacrosse l H fill! games of lawn tenuis and S.Ofdl games of quoits wen- pla.vd In Ihe council's parks and open pn e during the v-.o ended on September 3A. Other games for which facilities ,n e pro Ided ;( Main places .n e golf. Itugby uetball, badminton, baske'bail. hurling aud shint I nder an arrangement with the education commit lee about W.nuo organized game played at 4ti parks and open spaces during the year, as against K,moo games at 44 plates during W12 I tondou I i ine Married to Kangaroo. At the recent church congress in England a speaker eomplaincd t tin, lack of information respecting the em pire at home He said he hud read of a or woman who. when shown a kangaroo at the zoo and told that It was a native of Tustralia. replied. "Good gracious, ami my daughter fs married to one of then ' Thi reminds us of the story .f the Irish emigrants who went to the V Indh'M. They got n no well that a year or two later they sent and Induced more Irish folk to emigrate. When the second batch arrive 1 they ware greeted by a crowd of blacks, who greeted them with such hom words as ' Megorrah. " and so en "What! black already." was the amazed comment of the newcomers" Vlceroy'e Elephant. Tlmonh is the ttame of the big el pliant who bore the viceroy of India and Lady Mirftnge at the time of their attempted assasslration and who. despite his w muds, did not move in the excitement. He has been officially pensioned by the Indian government. The pension will suffice for "food and attendance" the first iten probably being the larger for an clepha t 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 I the world's oldest pensioner Multitude Best Forgotten. Stat sticians tell us that $80.001.0011 was disbursed In charity throughout the Cnited Stat.-, during the past year, but as to the number, variety and magnitude of the sins the vast ma jority of it was designed to cover the public Is left to form Its owu estiriat. Norfolk Virginian Pilot. Deterred. "Crabson rushed to a telephone the other day for the express purpose of telling another man what he thought of him. but changed his mind " "Hid his better Judgment prevail P Nc He struck a pay station and hated to spend a nickel

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