Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 47, Jasper, Dubois County, 27 August 1915 — Page 2

DESTROY LITTLE RED MITES SYMPTOMS OF HOG CHOLERA BUS WILDERNESS OF CANADA

Hen Is Powerlest to Protect Herself Among Other Thing Animal Will Lose

From Ravages of Vermin Egg- Appetite, Have Gaunt, Unthrifty

Laying Out of Question. Appearance and1 Become Inactive.

There Is no poultry parasite that if the animal has cholera theso

our feathered frionds are less power- other symptoms will follow within a 1088 to combat than the common red few hours or a few days, depending mite. The body lico can be kept in upon whether the disease is acute or check by the hen if she has her lib- chronic: erty. because she will frequently find Loss of appetite, partial or com- & good dusting place and proceed to plete. cleanse herself and make things very Inaction, the hog lying hidden in uncomfortable for the lice. But on ac- the tall grass or weeds in summer or count of her attachment to her home, staying in the shed or house in winno matter how poor it is, eIig will go ter. back every night to infested roosts a gaunt, unthrifty appearance and and allow the mites to crawl upon her roughened hair. and suck he: Ifeblood. Poor biddy is Labored breathing, commonly known powerless to protect herself and un- as "thumps if the lungs are affectless friend man steps in and does ed; also a cough. something for her she soon becomes Some diarrhea if the intestines emaciated and dejected, and egg-lay- are affected, but in many herds con

ing is entirely out of the question. The red mite is one of the most common causes of no eggs when there ought to be some eggs. Cleanliness in the coop is an important factor in the control of the mite, as it will hide under filth, droppings and litter, as well as in cracks and crevices of the roosts and nests. Clean coops, however, are not entirely free from infestation and may even become seriously infested if not given

treatment. Spraying is a common means of control, cresol sprays or kerosene emulsion being recommended. On account of b.sing unable to accomplish thorough vork by spraying it is necessary to spray frequently in order to keep the mites in check. Probably the most thorough method of control is by fumigation. The fumes will permeate every part of the -coop and kill all the mites, regardless of whether they are in the litter or on the roosts. As all of the mites are Ikilled the treatment will be effective for a long time, as it will be some time before a coop will become infested again. The fumigation method is the easiest one to control the mites. 'All that is necessary is to place the (proper amount of fumigant in an open jkettle, light it and close the doors 'tightly. When the doors are opened jsevoral hours later the coop is entire!ly bug'ioss. In order to get good refiults it is necessary to use a sufficient amount of good fumigant. The commercial article Is the most convenient to use and will assure good results if the directions are followed.

stipation with lumpy, hard excretions,

A Typical Cholera Pig. sometimes covered with mucous or blood and offensive in odor, though this may not be true in all cases. Discharge of pus from eyes and nose; eyes may be glued shut. A weak, wobbly gait, especially in the hind legs, the animal often reeling as it tries to walk. Dark red, blue or purplish discoloration of skin under the body, neck and inside of thighs. When the disease is acute, death may come in four to seven days. Sometimes, however, the attack is so virulent that hogs are found dead before the owner knows they are sick. At other times the disease takes on a chronic form, the animals dying at intervals through a period of several months.

QUALITY COUNTS WITH EGGS

Annual Loss Runs Into Millions Through Marketing Poor Article During Summer Months.

GOOD ROADS HELP SCHOOLS

"Quality counts, not sometimes, but always," and is as true with market

Improved Highways and Schoolmaster eggs as wjth any other commodity.

I Are Two Greatest Forces for

"V Advanced Civilization.

Women are keenly interested in the

Jschools. The country having good Toads nearly always has good schools. They go together. Where children are forced to cross fields to avoid mud holes in the highways the school is usually hardly worth keeping open. It

has been said that "the two greatest market price of good eggs.

The farmers' annual loss through the marketing of poor eggs during the

summer months mounts into the millions in the aggregate and is wholly

unnecessary. Because of the presence of so many spoiled eggs coming from the farms the buyer is compelled to

pay lower prices as the poor eggs are sorted out by him and must be

disposed of at figures far below the

Nobody Thinks of Going Into Region

Northeast cf Lake- St. JohnApproach by Big Peribonka. The region northeast of Lake St

John Is oft! at one side where nobody

thinks of going except a few trappers. The mining and timber have not seemed rieb enough to draw the white man. The main avenue of approach is the Big Peribonka, the largest of the Lake St. John rivers. The real wilderness begins in the neighborhood of Lake Tchotogoma, 60 miles up the river. Beyond that stretches a vast region, as fresh and wild, &ä natural and primitive as anything discovered by Columbus and with fewer human tenants. In the last fifty miles of its course the Big Peribonka comes down from its high plateau roaring through defiles of ragged rock and making necessary ten or more portages, several of them in the perpendicular style of architecture. Of late years a rude wagon road has been extended through the burnt-over country between the village of Mistook, near Lake St. John and the Shute McLeod, the last but one of these Peribonka falls. The necessity of climbing up a steep river has thus been largely eliminated. Lake Tchotogoma may be reached from the other direction where the means of access have also been improved; and one coming up from Quebec by the Saguenay boat Should go in from that quarter and come out by the new roate down the Peribonka. The outfit is carried from Chicountimi, at the head of steamboat navigation, up to the foot of rough water in the river, a distance of seven miles. Then comes a wagon journey of 22 miles northerly to the Lac des lies. Outing.

WHEN YOU HANG A HAMMOCK

Its Height Should Be Carefully Deter

mined Must Be Swung Low Enough for the Children.

forces for Hie advancement of civili

sation are tho schoolmaster and good roads." ( Bad roads in this country are said to be responsible for a loss of a billion dollars a year. This affects the .transportation, mercantile and indus

trial interests as well as the purely

agricultural interests. This loss in

Why should not the farm producer first endeavor to produce good eggs and then sort them himself and know positively that he is selling only first quality eggs? The candling of eggs is the final test and can be easily done by anyone. Arrange a common pasteboard shoe box to stand on end over a small lierhted lamp. Make a hole

A delicate point in the hanging of a

hammock is the height. It must be

swung low enough that the children

can get into it without falling out

and breaking their worthless little

necks. It must not be so low that father, who has to put two pennies

into the slot machine to get weighed.

will bump the ground in his swing.

To get the height right involves the

solution of the formula of the caten

ary, so that the lowest point in the

curve shall not become tangent to the

plane beneath whatever the weight

and however it may be distributed.

For it is embarrassing to find too late

that the hammock is not fixed to car

ry double. And if, on the other hand, you hang it with that contingency in

view, he may not come at all that aft

ernoon.

The head of the hammock should

be 15 degrees higher than the foot. A clinometer may be used to determine the angle if necessaiy. Within reach of the higher end place a chair with something cool to drink and a magazine or two. Select for this purpose a magazine with a pretty girl on the front cover. Then it won't matter whether you read it or not. New York Independent.

DESERT AUTO IS NO CAMEL

These Men Forget to Provide Water for Their Desert Ride and One Dies. Failure to think about evaporation in an automobile radiator brought death to one man and frightful tortures to two others, who arrived in Los Angeles from the desert and told of their sufferings. The trio James S. Roche and John H. Welsh, attorneys, $.nd James G. Clarke, a real estate dealer left here Sunday in an automobile for El Centro, in the Imperial valley. Monday morning the car stopped in the sand. The radiator was'empty and they had no water. Roche and Welsh started after a mirage which they believed was the Salton sea. Clarke waited a day, and then, believing them dead, made his way to Mineral Springs,

where he was resuscitated after fall-; ing himself in a faint and organized a rescue party. They found Roche un-!

conscious and Welsh dead. Roche said they drank lubricating oil. Philadelphia Record.

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WILL AEROPLANES STOP WAR

Orviile Wright Is Moved to Say He Likes to Think So, Anyhow.

Books and Bangs. John Kendrick Banks, author of "A Houseboat on the Styx," and "Coffee and Repartee," who is spending the summer at his camp in Maine, said in an interview last week: "People should own and read books just as they should seek friendships, and try to understand their friends. A book that one has come to know, and to love, is one of the truest öf friends. In my library in Maine are not many books, but none the less Lincoln walks there with me; Emerson is my friend; Balzac and Dumas are permanent dwellers at my side; I frolic with O. Henry, and I play boyish tricks with Aldrich and Penrod ; I fence with Montaigne, and the great spirits of "The Spectator."

jilollars does not take account of the slightly smaller than an egg in one

Isolation that is caused by the same siue oC the box directly opposite

hreason. the lamp flame and give ventilation

J Many women in the country are to tne iamp by removing the end of practically prisoners in their homes tiie over tne iami) an(i you are (for weeks at a time in winter because rcaciy to candle eggs accurately. W tho condition of the roads. They To pr0(iuC0 g00d first quality eggs are unable to see to the marketing of tne essentials are healthy hens; good, Jtho farm products. They are unable wholesome food; clean nests; daily to take advantage of market condi- gathering of eggs and the removal tions. Eggs that are a good price at of all maics from the laying flock.

'the time when tney are guuieiuu uiu After this the eggs must be Kept

collected and held till the roads be

come passable. By that time a change Iii the market may have robbed them fof several dollars that would have been theirs had they been able to get the produce to market. VENTILATING A SHEEP SHED Manner of Arrangement Shown in illustration Gives Ample Suppl-y of Fresh Air for Animals.

in a cool, moist temperature. Given these conditions of production and handling, with a careful candling bofore marketing, any farm poultryman may be certain that he is offering only a first quality product that may command the best prices.

KEEPING DOWN POTATO BUGS Spraying Vines With Arsenate of Lead or Paris Green Will Prove Entirely Satisfactory.

' Tho manner of arranging a sheep

-w oe wvn in 1 he illustration, fur- Potato bugs are very easily con-

nishes the desired fresh air and pre- trolled by spraying your vines with vents tho storm, rains, etc.. from get- arsenate of lead or paris green. You inir inside, where ordinary door ar- can obtain either of the materials

raiiKemcnts are not always sure, fly- from the store in your tovn.in which

spraying maienais are uiiuuieu. Mix the poison according to the directions on the package, or if a very small quantity is wanted, use about a teaspoonful of the poison to a large bucket of water. Apply it with a sprayer of some sort, but if your patch is small and von Hn not- hnvfl n. snraver. snrinkle

tho poisoned water over the foliage of

your potatoes with a sprinkling can, or even a broom.

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English Piano Trade Booms. There is quite a boom in the English piano trade. Manufacturers have

been inundated with orders from abroad, and in some factories fully 75 per cent of the orders being executed are for expoTt. In capturing German trade, the essential is an adequate supply of highly skilled labor. Since the war began the Pianoforte Manutacturers association, in conjunction with the London county council, have formulated an apprenticeship scheme combined with technical training, and as soon as conditions permit the council propose to establish a polytechnic in Kentish Town, one branch of which will be devoted to pianoforte construction. Meantime a half-time technical school has been established at the

Camden School of Art, Camden road, to which apprentices are sent from the factories for half-time each week. London Chronicle.

The Bonnie Conductor Lassies Edinburgh, Scotland, has two dosen women street car conductors- who are thorough success in the new line' of work. Other tramways are already recruiting girls and training them to? be conductors. It is said that girlsworking in the English cartridge factories are so fired with patriotism' that some of them work thirty Ivours in a stretch without any rest. Miss Elizabeth Lister has been appointed a Stationmaster in South Wales, the- first woman to act in that capacity. In the north of England and in Scotland and Wales the men workers are being supplanted in the fields by women, who can be seen following the harrow or digging and hoeing.

Did you ever stop to think that there is a very definite reason why the present war in Europe has dragged along for a year with neither side gaining much advantage over the other? The reason, as I figure it out, is aeroplanes, Orviile Wright writes in Collier's. In consequence of the 'scouting work done by the flying machines, ech side knows exactly what the opposition forces are doing. There is little chance tor one army to take another by surprise. Napoleon won wars by massing his troops at unexpected places. The aeroplane has made that impossible. It has equal

ized information. Each side has such complete knowledge of the other's movements that both sides are obliged to crawl into trenches and fight by means of slowr tedious routine rather than by quick, spectacular dashes. My impression) is that before the present war started' the army experts expected it to be- a matter of a few weeks or, at most, a few months. Today it looks as if it might run into years before one sikJe cain dictate terms. Now, a nation) that may be willing to undertake a war lasting a few months may well hesitate about engaging in one that will occupy years. The daily cost of a great war is of course stupendous. When this cost runs on for years the total is likely to be so great that the side which wins

nevertheless loses. War will become prohibitively expensive. And the scouting work in flying machines will be the predominating factor, as it seems to me, in bringing this- about I like to think so, anyhow.

The besfc throw one can make with dice is to throw them away.

The Invitation. "Hello, Mabel "Oh, hello, George!" "How are you, Mabel?"

"Same. Say, Mabel, let's go through the park this afternoon. What say?" "Well ah-ah ahem I I ah I'm kind of well, I'm kind of tired. George." "Then you won't go?" "I'm so sorry, but, George, you understand just how it is, don't your George, dear?" "Yes, 1 guess so. I suppose I'll hava to ride with someone else, then.". "Rider "Yes; my new eight-cylinder road-, ster came this morning." "Oh, George! Did it really? Im't that just splendid? Say ah George,. I guess I'm not as tired as I thought I was." "Well1, 1 wouldn't take any chance if I were' youv Maxell It doesn't pay. I'll take someone els1." "But really, dear, I'm not tnred a bit. Honestly." "It's sweet of you' to say that, but I don't want to take advantage of your kindness. Good-by, Mabel." Mabel slammed the receiver viciously on the hook. "Darn it!" she muttered. "Why didn't he say so in. thefirst place?" Michigan Gargoyle-.

Sympathetic Turn. "The first time Cholly took Iiis auto out it turned turtle." "No wonder; he's such a lobster."

A deaf-mute is always ready to take a hand in an argument.

Family Days. Family occasions ought to be celebrated frequently, even if the celebration is the simplest form of little festival. Bringing the family together helps to promote affection. Whatever the event, birthday or wedding anniversary or a welcome home from journey, it ought to mean something1 to every member of the family, and can be made an occasion that will remain bright in memory when the family circle is broken.

These United States. The United States has 3,000,000square miles of territory, 1,903,000,000 acres of land. There are S7S,000,000 acres of land in the farms of the country, but 478,000,000 acres of this area are unimproved and unproductive.

Shed Ventilators.

Saves Time and Labor.

Ing open with focce. frequently. The By having a stout pole lying right top of this shed may be left open the under the hay rack on the upper tiinroater pnrt of the time without harm- bers in the barn for the hay to drop Ii g tho flock at all. on when it is tripped from slings or

forks, it saves a man in a mow. It

A Colt Ration. also saves the hay from pounding

A grain ration consisting of six down in the center which sometimes poundi of oats or corn, three pounds causes it to moid. As the hay drops of bran, and one pound of oilmeal is on the poles it rolls to either side and nscoinuiended for colts by tho Ohio spreads. The slings are a great labor

agricultural college. One pound of and time saver.

the grain mixture should be fed for oach 1G0 pounds of colts, in connection with all the alfalfa or clovor hay they will eat.

Regularity Is Urged. Regularity of work and regularity of feeding make long years of usefulness of tho work horse.

Weaken Bird's Vitality. Unwholasorae feed and unhealthful nurroundings quickly weaken a bird's vitality.

Sure Death to Chickens. Don't let the chickens eat maggoty they are sure death to them.

United States Has 18,000 Libraries. There are in the United States IS,000 regularly established libraries, according to the recent report of the bureau of education in Washington.

In these are 75,000,000 volumes, an in

crease of 20,000,000 since 190S.

Of 2,S49 libraries containing 5,000

volumes or more 1,844 are classified

as "public and society libraries" and

1,005 as school and college libraries. Of these 1,446 are free to the public.

Libraries reputing 1,000 .to 5,000 volumes number 5,453. Another group of still smaller libraries contains from

300 to 1,000 books. A grand total of

70,000,000 borrowers' cards are report

ed in all libraries of the country.

Sentinel Too Watchful.

The smooth face, soft voice and

hands, and the neat kid buttoned

shoes of a French volunteer arouaeä.

the suspicions of a sentinel in Ver

sailles and wrecked the plans of Miss

France Bourgeois of Neuilly to be

come a soldier. The girl was already

in an automobile ready to start to

tjie front when found by an officer.

She was reprimanded gently and sent

back to an oiphanage.

Miss Bourgeois is fifteen years of age and the daughter of the French author of that name. She declared

that she felt the country she loved

needed her more than tho artists' or.

phanage at Neuilly.

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