Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 57, Number 49, Jasper, Dubois County, 10 September 1915 — Page 6

DESTROY LITTLE RED MITES

Hen Is Powerless to Protect Herself From Ravage of Vermin EggLaying Out of Question. There is no poultry parasite that our feathered friends are less powerless to combat than the common red mite. The body lice can be kept in check by the hen if she has her liberty, because she will frequently find good dusting place and proceed to oleanse herself and make things very Tincomfortable for the lice. But on account of her attachment to her home, no matter how poor it is, &he will go back every night to infested roosts and allow the mites to crawl upon her and suck he: ifeblood. Poor biddy Js powerless to protect herself and unless friend man steps in and does something for her she soon becomes emaciated and dejected, and egg-laying 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, drop pings and litter, as well as in cracks and crevices of the roosts and nests. Clean coops, however, are not entirely J iree from infestation and may even ibecome seriously infested if not given treatment. Spraying is a common means of control, cresol sprays or kerosene emulsion being recommended. On account of being unable to accomplish thorough work 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 killed the treatment will be effective tfor 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 kettle, light it ana close the doors tightly. When the doors are opened '.several hours later the coop Is entire ly bugless. In order to get good results it is necessary to use a sufficient am'Dunt of good fumigant. The commercial article is the most convenient to use and will assure good results if :he directions are followed. Q00D ROADS HELP SCHOOLS Improved Highways and Schoolmaster Are Two Greatest Forces for Advanced Civilization. Womon are keenly interested in the chools. The country having good roads 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 forces for the advancement of civilization are the schoolmaster and good roads." Bad roads in this country are said to be responsible for a loss of a billion fioUTtrs a year. This affects the transportation, mercantile and indusjtrial interests as well as the purely agricultural- interests. This loss in dollars does not take account of tne ksolafion that is caused by the same reason. Many women in the country are practically prisoners in their homes tfor weeks at a time in winter because let the condition of the roads. They 'are unable to see to the marketing of rthe farm products. They are unable to take advantage of market condi.tions. Eggs that are a good price at the time when they are gathered are collected and held till the roads become passable. By that time a change in the market may have robbed them of several dollars that would have -been theirs had they been aoie to geu the produce to market. VENTILATING A SHEEP SHED Manner of Arrangement Shown in Illustration Gives Ample Supply of Fresh Air for Animals. The manner of arranging a sheep shed, as shown ki the illustration, furnishes the desired fresh air and prevents the storm, rains, etc., from get ting inside, where ordinary door ari i . -O -T ran gem en is are hol iuwuy auic j - Shed Ventilators. ing open with force frequently. Thetop of this shed may be left open the greater part of the time without harmJ.rg the flock at all. A Golt Ration. A. grain ration consisting of aix pounds of oats or corn, three pounds of bran, and oug pound of oilmeal is recommended for colts by the Ohio agricultural college. One pound of the grain mixture should be fed for each 100 pounds of colts, in connection with all the alfalfa or clover hay they frill eat. Weaken Bird's Vitality. Unwholesome feed and unhealthful nurroundinga quickly weaken a bird's riuiity.

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SYMPTOMS OF HOG CHOLERA .

Among Other Things Animal Will Lose Appetite, Have Gaunt, Unthrifty Appearance and Become Inactive. If the animal has cholera these other symptoms will follow within a few hours .or a few days, depending upon whether the disease Js acute or chronic: Logs of appetite, partial or complete. Inaction, the hog lying hidden m the tall grass or weeds in summer or staying in- the -shed or house in winten f " A gaunt, unthrifty appearance and roughened hair. - r - Labored breathing, commonly known as "thumps," if the lungs are affected ; also a cough. Some diarrhea if the intestines are affected, but in many herds constipation 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 nther t.imfis the disease takes on a chn)nic form animals dying afc forvsilft thrnltp1l a nnrinA of several months. QUALITY COUNTS WITH EGGS Annua! Loss Runs Into Millions Through Marketing Poor Article During Summer Months. ''Quality counts, not sometimes, but always," and is as true with market eggs as with any other commodity. 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 0f 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 market price of good eggs. 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 fcy anyone. Arrange a common pasteboard shoe box to stand on end over a smali lighted lamp. Make a hole oiiprhtlv smaller than an exz in one Side of the box directly opposite the lamp flame and give ventilation to tbe iamp by removing the end of the box over the lamp and you are ready to candle eggs accurately. To produce good first quality eggs tne essentials are healthy hens; good, WÜOlesome food; clean nests; daily gathering of eggs and the removal of all majes from the laying flock, After this the eggs must be kept in a CQ0 most temperature. Given tkese conditions of production and uandling, with a careful candling before marketing, any farm poultryman may be certam 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. Potato bugs are very easily controlled by spraying your vines with arsenate of lead or paris green. You can obtain either of these materials I fvrm Hi r cfnrp in vfllir town, in which i - spraying materials are nanuieu. Mix the poison according to the directions on the package, or if a very small quantity is wanted, use about a teaspoon ful of the poison to a large bucket of water. Apply it with a sprayer of some sort, but if your patch is smali and you do not have a sprayer, sprinkle the poisoned water over the foliage of your potatoes with a sprinkling can, or even a broom. Saves Time and Labor. By having a stout pole lying right under the hay rack on the upper timbers in the barn for the hay to drop on when it is tripped from slings or forks, it saves a man in a mow. It also saves the hay from pounding down in the center which sometimes causes it to mold. As the hay drops on the poles it rolls to either side and spreads. The slings are a great labor and time saver. Regularity Is Urged. Regularity of work and regularity of feeding make long years of usefulness of the work horse. Sure. Death to Chicken. Don't let the chickens eat maggots, they are sure death to them.

BIG WILDERNESS OF CANADA I

Nobody Thinks of Going Into Region Northeast of Lake St. John Approach by Big Peribonka. The region northeast of Lake St. Jonn is off at one side where nobody thinks of going except a few trappers. The mining and timber have not seemed rick 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, äs 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 be tween 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 Snould go in from that quarter and come out by the new route 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 dea lies. Outing. WHEN YOU HANG A HAMMOCK Its Height Should Be Carefully Deter mined Must Be Swung Low Enough for the Children. 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 eaten ary, so that the lowest point in the curve shall not become tangent to the plane oeneath 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-

jy double. And if, on the other hand, working in the English cartridge facyou hang it with that contingency in tories are so fired with patriotism view, he may not come at all that aft- that some of them work thirty hours

ernoon. The head of tjie hammock should be 15 degrees higher than the foot. A clinometer may be used to determine the angle if necessary. 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 notYork Independent. -New 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 export. In capturing German trade, the es sential is an adequate supply of high ly skilled labor. Since the war be gan the Pianoforte Manufacturers' as sociation, in conjunction with the Lon don county council, have formulated an apprenticeship scheme combined with technical training, and as soon as conditions permit the council pro pose 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. United States Has 18,000 Libraries. There are in the United States IS,000 regularly established libraries, ac cording 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.S44 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 reporting 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 arouse the suspicions of a seatinel in Ver sailles and wrecked the plans of Miss Prance Bourgeois of Neuilly to be come a soldier. The girl was already in an automobile ready to start to tie front when found by an officer. She was reprimanded gently and sent back to an orphanage. 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 moro than the artists' or

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DESERT AUTO IS NO CAMEL

These Men Forget td 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 trioJames S. Roche and John H. Welsh, attorneys, and 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 i 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 unconscious and Welsh dead. Roche said they drank lubricating oil. Philadel phia Record. SELF SHAMPOOING With Cuticura Soap Is Most Comforting and Beneficial. Trial Free. Especially if preceded by touches of Cuticura Ointment to spots of dandruff and itching on the scalp skin. These supercreamy emollients meet every skin want as well as every toilet and nursery want in caring for the skin, scalp, hair and bands. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept XY, Boston. Sold everywhere. Adv. 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 of 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." The Bonnie Conductor Lassie. Edinburgh. Scotland, has two dozen women street car conductors who are a thorough success in the new line of WQrk other tramways are already recruiting girls and training them to be conductors. It is said that girls 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 0f England and in Scotland an Wales the men workers are being supplanted in the fields by women, Wu0 can he seen following the harrow 0r digging and hoeing. The best throw one can make with dice is to throw them away. or

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