Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 7, Jasper, Dubois County, 20 October 1916 — Page 3
BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY
Great Need for Increase by Farmers in This Country. Department of Agricultural Has Been Trying for Yean to Shew Them Comparatively New Product of This Country. The average American consumes 82 pounds of sugar each year and only ten pounds of that ration is now produced In tills country. The farmers of the country should keep that money t home, in other words, put It In their own pockets, and the department of agriculture has been trying for 10 years to show them how and induce them to do so. Sugar Is a product of manufacture mainly from the farmers sugr.r cane and. sugar beets. Incidentally some sugar is produced from the sap of the sugar maple the entire value of that product, both sugar and sirup, and he sorghum sirup, being only about $15,000,000 annually, while the total value of the sugar beet and sugar cane industries of this country totaled $1.17,000,000. Beet sugar is a comparatively recent product of this country, and can scarcely be said to have existed 20 years ago. The production during the Sugar Beets. twelfth census year (1S99) amounted to 81,720 short tons, while the 1912 product aggregated 700,000 short tons, valued at $73,000,000. There are now in operation 60 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 semiarid states. Yet this industry produces practically only one-eighth of the homo consumption. ' The importation from entirely foreign territory now approximates 2,000,000 short tons annually. A home beet sugar production sufficient to cut oiT this produc tion would not affect the homo cane sugar industry adversely, because that bus so nearly reached its limit that any possible growth It may have from now on will not equal (he annual increase In the country's consumption, which has considerably more than doubled In tlto lust 25 yours, und now Is greater per capita than any other country except Kingland. With our present low average of one and oiuwiuurtw tons of boot sugar per aero, It would require 1,000,000 acres to produce the 2,000,000 short tons now Imported; or, according to the neroago harvested the last year, It Beet Harvester. would need the production of 2,000,000 acres under beets to equal the entire homo demand, In the U) states adapted to growing beets there are about 2,500,000 farms and 27S.719.Ö22 acres of improved laud. Therefore, if every fanner 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 ceut of the improved land In the states adapted to sugar beet would accomplish this result, and more than that acreage lies idle, absolutely unused, every year. Any one of the states of Illinois, Iowa, Kainas, Missouri. Minnesota, Nebraska 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 Saye, If Little Rye Is Seeded With Jt Crimson Clover Good. An expert says that winter vetch does best as a cover crop if 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 b$ used Instead of vetch.
ASTHENIA IN POULTRY FLOCK
Not Much Use 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-ventilated houses; a grass run for the birds, and no moldy grain or litter for them to get into. The affected birds should be killed and burned. There is not much use in trying to cure a bird that has advanced far enough in the disease to be detected. The danger of such diseases Is that the condition of the bird in the first stages Is not known unless she is handled and her weight noted. A diseased bird that fluffs out Its feathers, as many do, Is a hidden menace to the flock. There is apparently less disease proportionately in a small flock than In a large one. We believe the reason for this is that the individual birds are known In a small flock, and their condition readily ascertained, while In a large flock a sick bird may not be detected until It has reached the last stages. FEED ALFALFA WITH SILAGE Particularly Adapted for Young Cattle Corn Must Be Fed to Produce Solid Fat. (By RAT A. GATEWOOD, Kansas Agricultural College.) Alfalfa when fed with silage is particularly well adapted as feed for young cattle. In the beginning of the fattening process, the cattle will consume from 15 to 30 pounds of hay and silage a day. Alfalfa hay fed alone does not produce the same effect on cattle that it does when fed in connection 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 economical fat producers if fed In correct proportions. CULTIVATING TWO CORN ROWS Implement Invented by 5owa Man With Two Tongues for Three Horses Sleeves on Yokes. Israel B. Hoxworth of Iowa Is the inventor of the gang cultivator shown here, recently patented. This cultivator has two tongues for three horses, two rows of corn, 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 tho sleovuH and the cultivator gang beams. An arm projects from each sleevu, a spring connecting one end of those arms and the ends of. the yokes, A crank shaft Is 'journalod upon 'the frame, ft spring connecting one end of tho crank shaft and tho gang beams. Farming Business, HENS MUST BE COMFORTABLE Ample Shade Must De Provided for Fowls During Hot Weather as Well as Proper Food. Those who neglect to provide shado for their hens during the trying sifmmer months aro 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 transfer the hens and young chickens to the orchard or to a 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 j-oung fowls Is near tho edge of a cornfield where they can have shade, scratching places and can find many Insects. CHERRY LOUSE IS ABUNDANT Especially Thick on Tender Leaves Toward Tip of Twigs Sometimes Ruin Fruit Crop. The black cherry aphis often becomes very abuntfunt 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 aro not noticed until they become extremely abundant
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How to Show the Sights of New York in One Day NEW YQItK. How to show New Xork in a day Is a problem -which has confronted many a resident of the city when his country cousins have appeared unexpectedly "for a visit," but In reality to see the metropolis. After many years' experience one man has solved
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the best collection of fishes In the United States, the guide leads the way to a boat landing a few paces away and the party spends an hour crossing to Bedloe's island, climbing part of the way up the Interior of the .Liberty statue, and returning to Manhattan he proceeds up Whitehall street lo the new customhouse and Bowling Green park. Where now stands a starue of the one-legged Peter there stood In Revolutionary days that leaden counterfeit of King George III, which, as every school book says, was turned into bullets and sent hurtling after the fleeing redcoats. Turning east a block to Broad street, the guide points out the remodeled Praunces tavern, where General Washington bade a tearful farewell to his officers. Going north to Wall street, the party views the United States subtreasury, the stock exchange, Trinity church, and at the same time sees some of the tallest skyscrapers. Then the guide leads the party northward in Center street to "Little Italy," Chinatown and the Bowery. Turning eastward they proceed through the streets congested with folk speaking alien tongues. After viewing the celebrated push-cart markets in the gutters of Hester street, they turn westward to Washington square, where they board a bus that carries them along "Millionaire row" on Fifth avenue, turning off at Fiftyseventh street to Riverside drive and Grant's tomb.
Men of Sacramento Organize a Barefoot League SACRAMENTO, CAL. Harkening back to the days when man roamed carelessly across green pastures, unshackled by costly footwear, when cool, solid comfort met the naked foot at every step, and -when corns and bunions were unheard of, four prominent Sac-
ramentans known as have formed what is the Sacramento Barefoot league. There are four charter members of the league, and they are Dr. Robert E. Smith, James McCollough, L. O. Lumry and Steve Downey. The league was organized in quite an unintentional way. Which of the 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 Pithecantropus in the jungles. Several meetings of the league have been held at the homes of the charter members. The meetings are preceded by a walk upon the lawn of the host. As the evening becomes cool the members retire to the host's drawing room and are entertained with phonograph selections. 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 sJogan of tho league.
Mississippi Slights Memphis But Eats a Park 11 10MP1US, TENN. A great bar of mud and sand, half a mile long and an eighth of a mile wide, has formed along the Mississippi river front, preventing steamboats landing at the Memphis levee. Thousands of dollars are
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eventually cut ling It away and restoring navigation. Twenty years ago there was 00 feet of water whore (he mud bank now extends four or live feet above tho surface of the water. Tho 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, hack to the Tennossee sldo. A little farther down the river the channel has set hard against the Tennessee shore and Is eating its way Into heautlful Itlverslde park, a largo tract of bind ownet? by tho city. Already at some places the bunk has been washed away and tho highly Improved driveway has fallen Into tho water. When tho 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 whore only a few months before Holds of corn and cotton grew.
Gotham's Cold Storage Eggs Must Be So Stamped NEW YORK. -"Cold storage" will be the appetizing words that will confront you most of the time when you order "three oft boiled" for breakfast. "Cold storage" will mingle with your omelet; the shells from which emerge your scrambled eggs will have been
stamped "cold storage" There are only C50.000.000 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?" Commission merchants who deal in eggs insist that the retailers, the little dairymen and delicatessen dealers must identify every one of the 650,000,000 eggs that come out of cold storage to the 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 tho 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 the fannersbut the commission merchants and the retailers.
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the riddle and now when his third cousin comes to town he 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 the country. Resolving himself into a guide of czarlike authority, the city cousin takes his party down to the Battery to the Aquarium. After viewing being expended to remove tho obstruction to navigation. For six months there has been a race between the dredgehoats pumping out the sand and the current of the river, which has been throwing the sand and mud toward tho shore. Tim current; won, but the government engineers have worked out: a plan whereby a channel will be cut to let tlin (MllTOnt ()f Hin Hvrit' flrnv iimilnul tho mud har from another point,
IMPORTANT AID TO INDUSTRY
Much Good Work Done Through Industrial Fellowship in Educational Institutions. The industrial fellowship of Dr. Robert Kennedy Duncan, initiated at the University of Kansas in 1907, was adopted some years later at the University of Pittsburgh, where it has developed into the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, which now has a new building and special equipment costing nearly $350,000. 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 specialist, and the research carried out both promotes American industry and aids the investigator. At Pittsburgh the first fellowship was founded through a grant from a baking company desiring to improve its product. In .the five years following the establishing of the first fellowship, 47 distinct interests have endowed about 105 one-year fellowships, contributing for the investigations ?30,400, and expending in addition more than $300,000 for constructing experimental plants, besides awarding $21,300 in bonuses to fellows successful in solving problems submitted.' The university itself expended about $175,000, besides the investment in the new research station. About seven out of ten of the problems assigned have been worked out to the satisfaction of the donors of endowment; many fellowships have been renewed; 25 patients have been granted to holders of the fellowships, while as many more are pending, and about 20 new processes evolved are in actual operation on a commercial scale. TAX' ON WAGE EARNERS DUE Many English Workers May Escape the Income Assessment Recently Levied. Our civil service correspondent writes, according to the London Telegraph : "The first quarterly income tax assessment on wage earners is now due, the period according to the finance act of 1915, under which the rate was imposed, having commenced on April 1, this year. Only those earning wages above 130 sterling ($G50) a year are liable. It is estimated that about 900,000 workers will come under survey, but after the usual abatements and reliefs are given a large proportion of those will be exempt, and it is as yet impossible to say how many will become actually liable to the 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 ma,y 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 bo largely availed of." Mammy Wasn't Educated In Law. "Mammy" Washington seemed very 111 at ease In court. She admitted to the Judge that It was her first lime on "poleeceman ground." Considerable difficulty was experienced in making her answer quest Ions. Slip would go Just so far and then stop, all aftuster. The Judge hit upon a scheme. 'There Is no need for you to be excited, Mrs. Washington," ho Bald, with a smile. "Tm Just a Judge and you are Jus!: you," At: last tho old negross found her tonguo, "Dat's Jos' hit, sub," she cried, explosively, "I la me, but yo' Isn't you, In dem spec's, and wld dat. crokay nudlet In yo' ban'. Ef yo' could fix hit for to taljc dls over In a kitchen, I'd be all i'ight, Jedgel" Case and Comment. Record of Peruvian Invention. According to a report made by the mlnlsterlo do fomento to the Peruvian congress In August, 1015, tho number of trade marks registered for the year 1914-15 was 2S0, as against -10 for the year 1913-M. Notwithstanding this decrease, the number of marks emanating from the United States increased not less than 00 per cent. The number of patents granted during the year was 95, a record number, as against 51 for tho preceding year. More than 40 per cent of these were for Improvements invented in the United States. Has Woman Bank Cashier. WaU street has a woman cashier I 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 tho high cost of living," exclaimed the agitated citizen. "I 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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