Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 4, Jasper, Dubois County, 29 September 1916 — Page 3

BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY I

Great Need for Increase by Farmers in This Country. Department of Agricultural Has Been Trying for Yean to Show Thtm Comparatively New Product of Thlt Country.

Tho average American consumes 82 1 pounds of sugar each year ami only ton pounds of that ration Is now produced In this country. The farmers of the country should keep that money at home, In other words, put It lu their own pockets, and the department of agriculture has heen trying for 10 years to show them how and In

duce them to do ho. Sugar Is a product of manufacture mainly from tho farmers sugar cane and sugar beets. Incidentally some sugar Is produced from tho sap of tho sugar maple -the entire value of that product, both sugar and sirup, and the sorghum sirup, being only about $lfi,000,(XX) annually, while tho total valuo of the sugar beet and sugar cane Industries of this country totaled fUT.OOOXK). Ileot sugar Is a comparatively recent product of this country, and can scarcely bo said to bavo existed 20 years ago, Tho production during tho Sugar Beets. huolfth ponsiis -onr HSOfn nmounted to 81,720 short tons, while the 3912 ,1,,, ,.rtf,i TAn mil oirf fnns valued at $73,000,000. There are now in operation CG factories in 17 states, which used during the past season 5,0G2,333 tons of beets produced on 473,877 acres, and the industry has become one of the mainstays and chief supports of agriculture under irrigation in the semlarid states. Yet this industry produces practically only one-eighth of the home consumption. The importation from entirely foreign territory now approximates 2,000,000 short tons annually. A home beet sugar production sufficient to cut off this production would not affect the home cane sugar industry adversely, because that has so nearly reached its limit that any possible growth it may have from now on will not equal the anmial increase in the country's consumption, which has considerably more than doubled in the last 25 years, and now is greater per capita than any other country except England. With our present low average of one and one-quarter tons of beet sugar per acre, it would require 1,600,000 acres to produce the 2,000,000 .short tons now imported ; or, according to the acreage narvestea tne last year, it Beet Harvester. would need the production of 2,000,000 acres under beets to equal tho entire home demand. In the 19 states adapted to growing beets there are about 2,000,000 farms and 27S,719,G22 acres of improved land. Therefore, if every farmer in four of these states would plant a three-acre patch and give it the care that could readily be bestowed upon so small a plot, it would be unnecessary for us to buy foreign sugar. Two-thirds of 1 per cent of the improved land in the states adapted to sugar beet would accomplish this result, and more than that acreage lies Iclie, absolutely unused, every year, Any one Of the States Of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Zebraska or Ohio could produce all this sugar and then have the beets come only once In a ten-year rotation. USING VETCH AS COVER CROP It Does, an Expert Says, If Little Rye Is Seeded With it Crimson Clover Good. An experc says that winter vetch does best as a cover crop it a little rye is seeded with it. One bushel of vetch to one-half bushel of rye Is about right. In mild climates crimson clover can be used instead of vetch.

ASTHENIA ,N P0ULTRY FL0CK

Not Much Ue in Trying to Save Fowl Affected With Disease It Should Be Killed. Asthenia is the disease commonly known as "going light," and is caused by almost any condition which tends towards the wasting of the muscles, especially tuberculosis and worms, says a writer in an exchange. Avoid this disease by providing clean, dry, well-vcntllnted houses; a grass run for the birds, and no moldy grain or litter for them to get into. Tho affected birds should be killed ,and burned. There is not much use in trying to cure a bird that has advanced far enough in tho disease to be detected. The danger of such diseases Is that the condition of the bird In tho first stages Is not known unless she Is handled and her weight noted, A diseased bird that Huffs out Its feathers, as many do, Is a hidden menace to tho Hock. There is apparently less dlseaso proportionately In a small Hock than In a largo one. Wo believe tho reason for this Is that tho Individual birds aro known In a small flock, and their condition readily ascertained, whllo In a large flock a sick bird may not bo detected until It has reached the last stages. FEED ALFALFA WITH SILAGE Particularly Adapted for Young Cattle Corn Mutt Be Fed to Produce Solid Fat. (By RAY A. GATE WOOD, KnnoRS Agri cultural College,) Alfalfa when fed with silage Is particularly well adapted as feed for young cattle. Tn the beginning of the fattening process, the cattlo will con sumo from 15 to 80 pounds of bay and silage a day. Alfalfa hay fed alone does not produce tho same effect on cattle that It does when fed In connec tion with silage, because the latter is more succulent and more palatable than the former. As cattle approach the marketable point, corn must be fed In quantities readily consumed to produce solid fat. At this stage alfalfa and silage should not be fed in such large quantities as formerly, because the cattle do not need the extra protein. Taking all facts into consideration, alfalfa hay, silage and corn are the most economl cal fat producers if fed in correct proportions. CULTIVATING TWO CORN ROWS Implement Invented by Iowa Man With ' wo ungues Tor i nree norscs Sleeves on Yokes. Israel B. Hoxworth of Iowa is tho inventor of the gang cultivator shown 1;ero- TCCtt Patented. This cultlva tor has two tongues for three horses, tWO TOWS Of COm, Or Whatever iS tO be cultivated being cultivated at one time. Sleeves are journaled on the crank ends of yokes that are secured to Gang Cultivator. the tongues, bracket arms connecting the sleeves and the cultivator gang beams. An arm projects from each sleeve, a spring connecting one end of these arms and the ends of. the yokes. A crank shaft is journaled upon tho frame, ft spring connecting one end of the crank sliaf t and the gang beams. Farming Business. HENS MUST BE COMFORTABLE Ample Shade Must Be Provided for Fowls During Hot Weather as Well as Proper Food. Those who neglect to provide shade for their hens during the trying Slimmer months are likely to regret it. The fowls must have comfort as well as food. If the yard has no shade it will pay to provide It even though it takes some time and labor. Shade is regarded as one of the important items in the care of the flock for the summer. When the hot days come on many poultry breeders trazis;fer the hens and young chickens to the orchard or to n woodlot. Where shade is not available a temporary structure six by ten feet square and four feet high Is erected ; this is covered with burlap or canvas. An Ideal place for young fowls Is near the edge of a cornfield where they can have shade, scratching places and can find many Insects. P.HFRRY I HUSF IS ABUNDANT ft I t a a mmm 'W mmm - - - - - - - - Especially Thick on Tender Leaves To ward Tip of Twigs Sometimes Ruin Fruit Crop. The black cherry aphis often becomes very abuntfant at this time of the year, especially upon the tender leaves toward the tips of the twigs. Sometimes these lice become so abundant as to almost ruin the crop of fruit upon the trees. Often they are not noticed until they become extremely abundant

How to Show the Sights

NEW YORK. How to show rsew Yoru in a uay is a prooicm wmcn mis confronted mativ a resident of the city when his country cousins have appeared

unexpectedly "for a visit," but in reality

ed States, the guide leads tho way to a boat landing a few .paces away and the party spends an hour crossing to liodloe's Island, climbing part of the way tip

the Interior ofuhe Liberty statue, and

Whitehall street to tho new customhouse and Bowling Green park, Where

now stands a statue of tho one-legged

Hint leaden counterfeit of King (leorge HI, which, as every school book says, was turned Into bullets and sent hurtling after the Hoeing redcoats.

Turning east a block to Broad street, the guide points out tho remodeled

I'Vaunees tavern, where General Washington bado a tearful farewell to bis

officers. Going north to Wall street, treasury, the stock exchange, Trinity

of tho tallest skyscrapers. Then the guide leads tho party northward in Center street to "Little Italy," Chinatown and tho Bowery. Turning eastward

they proceed through the streets congested with folk speaking alien tongues,

After viewing the celebrated push-cart

street, they turn westward to Washington

carries thorn along "Millionaire row" on Fifth avenue, turning off at Flftysoventh street to Riverside drive and Grant's tomb.

Men of Sacramento Organize a Barefoot League

SACRAMENTO, CAL. Ilarkenlng back to the days when man roamed carelessly across croon pastures, unshackled by costly footwear, when cool,

solid comfort met the naked foot at were unheard of, four prominent Sac ramentans have formed the Sacramento what Is Barefoot known as league. There are four charter members of the league, and they are Dr. Kobert E. Smith, James McCollough, L. O. Lumry and Steve Downey. The league was organized In quite . -V Y V i an unintentional way. wnicn oi tne four was the originator is not known. But it is intimated that Doctor Smith,

for several years advocate of the Coatless Summer League for Men, had something to do with it. The requirements of the league are these : No member must be too modest to display his bare feet. He must be without pedal covering in attending meetings. He must be willing to do, and enjoy, walking on his lawn before the assembled multitude, including his wife, unshod. He must be willing to step into his neighbor's house In his bare feet and walk across his neighbor's hardwood floors as nonchalantly as though he were IMthecantropus in the jungles. Several meetings of the league have been held at the homes of the charter members. The meetinirs are preceded bv a walk unon the lawn of the host.

As the evening becomes cool the members retire to the host's drawing room nnf1 nrn nnfnrhilnnfl with nlimirtcrrnnli enlnnfirmo

Despite serious objection to the league on the part of the better halves In some of the homes, the organization has grown and is now reaching out for congenial spirits. "Keep cool and comfortable and cure your corns" Is the slogan of the league.

Mississippi Slights Memphis But Eats a Park II EMPHIS, TENN. A great bar of mud and sand, half a mile long and an

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eighth of a mile wide, has formed along the Mississippi river front, preventsteamboats landing at the Memphis levee. Thousands of dollars are

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ing navigation. Twenty years ago there was 90 feet of water where the mud bank now extends four or live feet above the surface of the water. The channel has veered off from Memphis, swinging to the Arkansas shore, where it runs swift and deep. It will probably cost the government a half a million dollars to induce the channel to swing back to the Tennessee side. A little farther down the river the channel has set hard against the Tennessee shore and is eating its way into beautiful Riverside park, a large tract of land owned by the city. Already at some places the bank has been washed away and the highly improved driveway has fallen into the water. When the channel of the Mississippi decides to make a change, nothing, apparently can stop it. It will begin eating into the soft earthen banks and such obstructions as trees of giant proportions do not stand in its way. At some points the river has carried away a Quarter of a mile of land in a single highwater period and steamboats run where only a few months before fields of corn and cotton grew.

Gotham's Cold Storage N EW YORK. "Cold storage" will be you most of the time when you "Cold storage" will mingle with your your scrambled eggs will have been stamped "cold storage." There are only 650,000,000 eggs in cold storage in New York and thereabouts. Doubtless they are good eggs, but it is extremely impolite to ask a cold storage egg its age. So John J, Dillon, state commissioner of foods and markets, ruled recently that every such egg must have stamped on it the words "cold storage." The truly important question is "Who, in obedience to Commissioner Dillon's order, will stamp the eggs?" insist that the retailers, the little identify every one of the 650,000,000 consumer.

Perhaps the families of the delicatessen dealers and the growers would find

great happiness and enjoyment in imprinting "cold storage" on all such eggs.

Besides, the practice would teach the younger members of the family delicacy of touch. The imprint must be made gently, very gently. Otherwise there would be need in the case of some eggs, or in some cases of eggs of gas

masks, and gas masks are expensive. They are in much demand "somewhere" in every country that is lighting in Europe. The manufacturers of gas masks are making as much money as the capable and industrious hens are earning for not tho farmers but the commission merchants and the retailers.

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of New York in One Day to see tho metropolis. After many years' experience one man lias solved the riddle and now when his third cousin comes to town ho transforms himself Into the manager of a personally conducted tour and in that way wins not only a profusion of thanks, but fervid Invitations to spend all of next summer at his guests' homes in tho country. Resolving himself Into a guido of es'.arllke authority, the city cousin takes his party down to the Battery to the Aquarium. After viewing the best collection of Hshos in the Unit returning to Manhattan he proceeds up Peter there sood In Revolutionary days the party views tho United States subchurch, and at the same time sees some markets in tho gutters of Hester square, whore they board a bus that every step, and when corns and bunions being expended to remove the obstruction to navigation. For six months there has been n race between the dredgeboats pumping out the sand and the current of the river, which has been throwing the sand and mud toward the shore. The current won, but the government engineers have worked out a plan whereby a channel will be cut to let the current of the river flow against the mud bar from another point, eventually cutting it away and restor Eggs Must Be So Stamped the appetizing words that will confront order three soft boiled" for breakfast. omelet; the shells from which emerge Commission merchants who deal in eggs dairymen and delicatessen dealers must eggs that come out of cold storage to the

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IMPORTANT AID TO INDUSTRY

Much Good Work Done Through In dustrial Fellowship in Educational Institutions. The Industrial fellowship of Dr. Robert Kennedy Duncan, initiated at the University of Kansas In 1007, was adopted some years later at the University of Pittsburgh, where It has developed Into the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, which now luu a new building and special equipment costing nearly ?;i50,000. The fellowship Is a kind of partnership, In which, for the study of some problem, an Industrial concern places a given fund or endowment against the services of a scientific speclallst, and the research carried out both promotes American Industry and aids the investigator. At Pittsburgh the tlrst fellowship was founded through a grant from a baking company desiring to Improve lis product. In tho live years follqwlng the establishing of the llrst fellowship, 17 distinct Interests have endowed about; 105 one-year fellowships, contributing for the IuvenilKatlons if.'UVlOO, ami expending lu addition more than $1100,000 for constructing experimental plants, besides awarding $21,1100 in bonuses to fellows successful In solving problems HUbmltted. Tho university Itself expended (d)out $175,000, besides the Investment In the new research station. About seven out of ten of the problems assigned have been worked out to the satisfaction of the donors of endowment; many fellowships have been renewed; 25 patients have been granted to holders of tho fellowships, while as many more are pending, and about: 20 new processes evolved are In actual operation on a commercial scale. TAX ON WAGE EARNERS DUE Many English Workers May Escape the Income Assessment Recently Levied. Our civil service correspondent writes, according to the London Telegraph : "The first quarterly income tax assessment; on wage earners is now due, the period according to the finance act of 1015, under which the rate was im posed, having commenced on April 1, this year. Only those earning wages above 130 sterling ($G50) a year are liable. It is estimated that about 900,000 workers will come under survey, but after the usual abatements and reliefs aro given a large proportion of those will be exempt, and it is as yet impossible to say how many will be come actually naoie to tne tax, or what amount may be expected to be received. "When the abatement of 120 and the relief in respect of children (25 each) and the deductions for life insurance are taken into account, it Is believed that the actual number of wage earners who will pay income tax will turn out much smaller than is popularly supposed, unless the high wages due to the war may upset previous estimates. The tax may be paid by weekly installments by means of post office stamps where the amount of tax for any quarter exceeds six shillings. This is a concession which will greatly facilitate payment, and no doubt will be largely availed of." Mammy Wasn't Educated in Law. "Mammy" Washington seemed very ill at ease in court. She admitted to the judge that it was her first time on "poleeceman ground." Considerable difficulty was experienced in making her answer questions. She would go just so far and then stop, all afiustef. The judge hit upon a scheme. "There is no need for you to be ex cited, Mrs. Washington," he said, with a smile. "I'm just a judge and you are just you." At last the old negress found her tongue. "Dat's jes7 hit, sun," she cried, ex plosively, "I is me, but yo' isn't you, in dem spec's, and wid dat crokay mallet in yo' han Bf yo' could fix hit fer to talk dis over in a kitchen, I'd be all right, jedge!" Case and Comment. Record of Peruvian Invention. According to a report made by the ministerio de fomento to the Peruvian congress in August, 1915, the number of trade marks registered for the year 1914-15 was 2SG, as against 40G for the year 1913-14. Notwithstanding this decrease, the number of marks emanating from the United States Increased not less than 50 per cent. The number of patents granted during the year was 95, a record number, as against 51 for the preceding year. More than 40 per cent of these were for improvements invented in the United States. Has Woman Bank Cashier. Wall street has a woman cashier! Woman cashiers in stores and business houses are not uncommon, but a woman cashier in a Wall street bank establishes a precedent, because women have been believed to be uneducated in the ways of high finance. The new cashier is employed by the Bank of Cuba in New York, and her name is Lillian Jones. Miss Jones has come up from the ranks, having been a stenographer. Economic Phenomena. "Look at the difference made by the high cost of living," exclaimed the agitated citizen. 4I can't see as much difference as you do," replied the man who refuses to worry. "It seems to me that I knew of just as many people going broke when living was less expensive as I do now."

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