Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 11, Jasper, Dubois County, 17 November 1916 — Page 2

Poultry Keeping On Small Town Lot

By F. W. KAZMEiER, Poultry Husbandman, Texas A. and M. Extension Department. It certainly Is true that poultry raising on a Small town lot can be made to pay. It may also lead to something better. Many salaried men realize that some day they will be too old to hold down their job. They will see some younger man taking their place. It Is then that many of these think of going Into the poultry business on a small scale, just large uiough to make a comfortable living. It Is easily understood how much surer these people would be of success if they had a little previous experience to fall back on. It is true that city lot poultry keeping requires closer attention to details and sanitary measures than farm poultry keeping. It is also true that a nock of chickens in n dirty backyard o D o D C C f C C LsJ. 3 a A OA IF OA DWELLING

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STREET A Movable colony brooder house and yard. B Laying pens. C Yards for laying pens, D Colony houses for growing stock. are not pleasing to look at nor very profitable. On the other hand, a purebred flock of chickens in a comfortable and sanitary house and clean yard are a beautiful sight and substantially profitable. They will turn much waste into dollars and cents. Such a llock nnd such a llock alone will make It possible to have fresh eggs any and at all times. Fresh eggs are in reality very hard to get, and unless you have a small flock of hens you perhaps not very often get the real fresh eggs. The greatest diflicultics In connection with back-lot poultry keeping are the prevention of contamination of the land and the keeping up of the vigor of the stock. The former can only be prevented by proper rotation and planting to crops. The latter may be

WHY DO BOYS LEAVE THE FARM? By JAMES J. WHITE

Man's idea of happiness has always been a city. In the "Pilgrim's Progress" Bunyan's hero was headed for a city. Heaven is pictured as a great city. Man is gregarious. He likes company. There Is something about the stir and rush of the big city that Attracts him and he goes there. After a while he finds out that the big city is unsatisfactory and mighty cruel to a large part of Its Inhabitants; that the happiest man in the long run is the one nearest the soil. Hut as long as r SCMMlf . .:w ...... w4 An Occasional Fishing Trip Helps to Keep the Boys Contented. human nature is as It Is now, the city will be attractive to the farmer boy, even though he does not leave the farm for the city. There never 1ms been a time when it was not really easier to make a living out on the farm than in the city, that is, for the average human. There never lias been a time when the cities did not reek with dirt and misery and

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done by Introducing new !)Iood occasionally or by having? the breeding stock each year reared under farm conditions. Most all city or town people have a few farmer friends that would be glad to raise some of their pure-bred poultry on halves. For a good arrangement of a town poultry plant see the accompanying figure. A shows the movable colony brooder houses for small chicks. The place used for garden one year may the next year be used to grow the chicks and the garden put where chicks were rhe year before. B shows laying house, 14 by 40, divided in two pens, each large enough to accommodate about 75 laying hens. It will be noticed that to each of these pens is attached two yards, C. This makes it possible to use one yard for a garden one year and the next year the other. This system of yarding keeps the ground sweet at all times, and makes It possible to grow wonderful garden crops without buying any commercial fertilizer. D shows the movable colony houses for the growing stock. One of these houses may be used as a cockerel house. These yards should be cultivated when not in use or planted to some crops once a year to prevent their becoming contaminated. A plant of this size properly taken care of can be made to bring in a profit over all expenses except labor, of from $300 to $400. After several years Improved breeding, gradually working into the breeding of high-bred stock, either for egg production or for the show, there Is no telling to what extent such a plant may be worked. Remember, to make a success on such a plant it is highly important to keep the stock healthy, strong and vigorous, and to prevent the contamination of the ground.

The destruction of birds costs this country .$1,000,000,000 a year, it is estimated. Strong Proof. "I thought you said Glithers was not an optimist." "So I did." "Nonsense,! He started out yesterday to m a k e a 'transcontinental trip in a secondhand automobile." In Mourning. A gentleman of the old school, evi dently." "Quite so. When the drastic prohibition law went into effect, what do you suppose he did?" "I can't imagine." "Rather rthan All his wine cellar with grapejuice and soda 'pop' he nailed it up and tied a piece of crepe to the door." A Quieting Effect. "This orator made use of a great many quotations from the classics." "So he did." "Do you suppose that has any effect on the average voter?" crime. There never was a time when the individual did not stand for a lot more out in the country or small town than in the big city. Why then do the boys leave the farm? There are several reasons: 1. This is an age of unrest. We do not stop to think that our present prosperity and happiness depend upon what our fathers and our grandfathers have done. Changes are looked upon as improvements. 2. Some young men have a special leaning toward other business. 3. They become dissatisfied with their present surroundings. They see the dlfliculties of the business in which they are engaged, but do not appreciaate the difficulties of those with which they are not acquainted. Here are several reasons why boys should not leave the farm : 1. Farming is the most independent life. Farmers are their own masters. 2. No business in which you get so large a return for the investment. 3. No business in which you find so many leisure hours. 1. No business in which success is so assured. ,"). No business in which there is a better chance to go. Not long ago the Farmers' Breeze published an article on this subject. The writer says: "We have three great, big, jovial. Industrious boys who are pining to get to the farm. One of them the eldest has just resigned an honorable and lucrative position in one of the largest banks in the South to go back to the farm. There is a reason, and it is this: The surroundings on the farm are inviting, the labor pleasant and remunerative, the authority supreme and comfort and plenty abounds. In the majority of cases the parent is at fault when the boy leaves the farm. It is always to his credit when he returns."

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By DR. SAMUEL G. DIXON Health Commissioner of Pennsylvania. r.oi - The boastfulness of ignorance is ordinarily not worthy of comment, but when It jeopardizes the health of other people, it is perhaps worth while to take ip the cudgels. There is a class of individuals who pooh-pooh, all warnings regarding matters of hygieneand usually end their assertions by informing you that their grandfathers never paid any attention to "such nonsense," and what's more they never have, and here they are alive and well to show for it. Statistics, however, show that these people who violate the laws of nature often meet an untimely death. Unfortunately, ;ome give an ear to such foolish boasting and run headlong into danger. The transmission of disease by germs is most frequently attacked by the Ignorant. Those people who accept without comment the statement that the world revolves upon its. axis as a part of the solar system, and thousands of other things which they are incompetent to work out for themselves, will bluster about the absurdity of germs causing disease. That typhoid fever, diphtheria, yellow fever, tuberculosis, anthrax, malaria and pneumonia are caused by germs has been proven, just as definitely asvtho fact that the world is round. Fortunately, exposure to disease, even of a communicable type does not always mean that the individual so exposed will contract it. This is the reason that the boaster "May boast and stay And live to boast another day." "I don't know, but it may have affected his hearers tonight in one way." "How was that?" "Well, you know quotations from the classics have a soporific effect on a great many people. Maybe those who were here went away so tranquilized and sleepy that they would rather go to bed than sit up and find fault with the speaker's arguments." Might Have Been Worse. "How did you enjoy your trip through the South?" "Oh, we had fewer hardships than I expected," replied the motor tourist. "While there was a woeful lack of roadhouses and most of the towns were 'dry I discovered out in the rural districts that 1 could get all the liquor I could drink by laying a dollar on a designated stump and hooting three times like an owl." Sensible Girl. "What first att r a c t e d you to Miss Flibber?" "She seemed able to talk about mov-ing-picturo. actors in an ordinary tone of voice without excessive emotion." "Well! Well!" "So I thought a chap without curly hair and a dimple in Iiis chin might hope to become popular with a girl like that." M M' ß Mixing With One's Fellows. "Pretty soft for those millionaires who travel to and from their New York oflices in private yachts." "Maybe so," replied the gregarious individual, "but I dare say you will find more real sociability on the rear platform of a trolley car." Sycophant. "It's ridiculous to see the way Mrs. .lobbies fawns on Mrs. Grnbcoln, the social leader." "It is, indeed. Every time Mrs. Grabcoin sneezes Mrs. .Tobbins is threatened with acute pneumonia." An Invalid's Request. When I am ill and sore beset With all the aches that flesh is heir to. When I must lib in bed and fret And swallow dose I do not care to. When on the table standing near Are powders, capsules, pills in dozens. I have no great desire to hear Of something that relieved your cousins. When as you sit beside my bed A violent coughing fit attacks me, And my pale cheeks turn fiery red And you behold how sore it racks me, In silence let me cough it out. In silence even let me smother. That's preferable beyond a doubt. To being told what cured your brother. If you can tell with just a glance (For all my symptoms plainly show it) That my disease removed your aunts. Just pass It by. Don't let me know it. Just bear In mind, I couldn't hope By passing up my daily rations To swallow a.11 the kinds of dop That cured your friends and their relations. -Edgar A. Guest, in Detroit Free Press. Keep Cool. When angry words pass between two peoplo, the one who keeps cool and COßÜ'Ols himself is the one Tvho has the advantage.

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Reason Why Massachusetts Chief Executive Did Not Resent His Being Mistaken for Butler. Here's a good one that ex-Governor Walsh of Massachusetts told on himself at a dinner given to some of his friends in Washington recently. Some months ago, while he was governor, Mr. Walsh was a guest at a reception given by Mrs. Mabel Hunt Slater in Boston. The governor arrived late and was not introduced to all of the guests because of their large numbers. Some time in the early hours of the morning Archie Roosevelt approached him and said: "John, will you please get me a napkin?" "Certainly," Governor Walsh said, keeping a grave face, "in a minute, sir." t The governor promptly found the napkin for young Roosevelt and smilingly handed it to him. Something in the governor's smile made Roosevelt suspicious. A well-trained butler does not smile. "Aren't you the butler?" he asked, doubtfully. "No, my name is Walsh; I am governor of Massachusetts," was the rePly. Roosevelt apologized profusely. "Oh, that's all right," Walsh said. "I can understand your mistake. I frequently have noticed that the butler is the best-looking man in the room at a Back Bay party." Boston Post. CELLO PLAYING HARD WORK Experiments Show That Four Tons of Energy Are Necessary to Play Single Selection. A simple air played on the violoncello calls for a total expenditure of energy equal to two and three-quarter pounds per note or more than four tons of energy for the single selection, notes Popular Science Monthly. This is vouched for by Prof. Poffenberger of Columbia university, who made some experiments in his laboratory with the aid of the famous Dutch 'cellist Michael Penha. A special apparatus is necessary to conduct the tests. Against the surface of a revolving carbon cylinder is suspended a chalk point which is actuated by a slender wire attached to the musician's finger. At each pressure the tension vibrates along the communicating connection and records the energy expended. At a recent test Michael Penha at times raised the point to a distance equaling three pounds in weight, that being the record of the forefinger. The pressure alone required to produce the characteristically luscious tones of. a simple Bach aria averaged two and three-quarter pounds per note. The total energy expended amounted to 9,414 pounds, or more than four tons. This same amount of energy would be sufficient to carry a laborer through his entire day's work. Yet it took but five minutes for the artist to exert the same amount of force. War-Time Games in Paris. Nearly all the kids of 1916 have a father or a brother at the front. They lire in an atmosphere of heroism. All the little folks of the lycee, the common schools, and even of the kindergarten play soldier in the streets and in the parks. You see them at their war plays such as Willette has pictured at Hue St. Vincent de Paul corner much to our delight, ingenious plays in which it is hard to take the part of a Boche, and in which justice would demand that each in turn took that detested part but ie there ever any justice, even here? Ah, the tiny ramparts and trenches that have been built by boys and girls this year on the glistening sands of the beaches, smoothed by the receding tide, only to be leveled when the tide came in! The girls in these war games usually 'serve as Red Cross sisters; they care for the wounded and nurse them with jam and make-believe bandages. Or !else they are godmothers, writing jolly letters to the brave boys at the front. But there are some, however, who are never satisfied unless they, too, can .carry a toy musket and take part in :the play-fighting. Cartoons Magazine. Shaped Hot-Water Bottle. Many are the hot-water bottles on the market, but the newest is a peculiar one shaped exactly to the small .of the back. It is made of aluminum, and is oval and curved so that it fits either the back or face when one is suffering from neuralgia or toothache. Water can be heated directly in he bottle by using the bottle as a utensil ,on the stove. It comes fitted with a thick eiderdown cover. Not So Easy. "Papa," said little Harry, "if I promise to ask just one more question, will you answer it?" "Yes, my son. What is the question?" "What are the boundaries of Rou mania?" "The idea of asking such a question. Go look it up in your geography, any boy, and then you'll remember it." Abundant Home Supply. "Is Bliggins susceptible to flattery?" . "No. There's no chance for framing Jup a complaint that his own self-es-jteem will not have anticipated." Motive Enough. i "What are the motives of Bingley's 'new play?" "He needs the money." Princeton Tiger.

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