Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 59, Number 12, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 November 1916 — Page 6

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Poultry Keeping On Small Town Lot

By F. W. KAZMEIER, Poultry Husbandman. Texas A. and M. Extension Department. Tt certainly is true that poultry raising on a Änmll 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 enough 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 buck on. It Is true that city lot poultry keeping requires closor attention to details and sanltury measures than farm poultry keeping. It is also true that a Hock of chickens In a dirty backyard D D C C ( C U-UU 3 LJ a A OA 5 A. 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 ilock 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 ilock and such a flock alone will make It possible to have fresh eggs any and at all times. Fresh eggs arc in reality very hard to get, and unless you have a small ilock of hens you perhaps not very often get the real fresh eggs. The greatest difficulties in connection with back-lot poultry keeping are the prevention of contamination of the land nnd 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

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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. Ho 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. But as long as S Ww& 'thm fa ft r. An Occasional Pishing 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 has 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 has been a time when the cities did not reek with dirt and misery and

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sionally or by having the breeding stock each year reared under farm conditions. Most ail 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 the 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 n garden one year and the next year the other. This system if yarding keeps the ground sweet . 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 in. ? be used as a cockerel house. These yards should be cultivated when not in use or planted to some crops once n 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, itis..estl mated. . Strong Proof. "I thought you said Gllthers 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, evidently." "Quite so. When the drastic prohibition law wont into effect, what do you suppose he did?" "I can't Imagine." "Rather than fill his wine cellar with grapejulce and soda 4pop' he nailed it up and tied a piece of crepe to the door." A Quieting Effect. "Tills orator made use of a great ninny 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 n special leaning toward other business. 3. They become dissatisfied with their present surroundings. They see the difiiculties of the business in which they are engaged, but do not appreciaato 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. 4. No business in which success is so assured. o. 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 : s "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 laitf)r pleasant and remunerative, the Tuithority 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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BOASTFUL IGNORANCE By DR. SAMUEL G. DIXON Health Commissioner of Pennsylvania.

The boastful ness of ignorance is ordinarily not worthy of comment, but when It jeopardizes the health of other people, it Is perhaps worth while to take up the cudgels. There Is a class of Individuals who pooh-pooh all warnings regarding matters of hygiene, and 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 vlolute the laws of nature often meet an untimely death. Unfortunately, jiome 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 asis as a ynrt 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 as the 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 tranqullized 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 hoot-, ing three times like an owl." Sensible Girl. "What first attracted you to Miss Fllbbor?" "She seemed able to talk about moving pi cturo actors in an ordinary tone of voice without excessive emotion." "Well ! Well !" "So I thought a chap without curly hair and a dimple in his chin might hope to become popular with a girl like that." Mixing With One's Fellows. "Pretty soft for those millionaires who travel to and from their New York offices 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. Jobbles , fawns on Mrs. Grabcohi; the social leader." "It is, indeed, Every time Mrs. Grabcoin sueezes Mrs. Jobbins . 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 lie 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 mo 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 all the kinds of dope That cured your friends and their relations. Edgar A. Guest, in Detroit Free Press. Kcsp Cool. When angry words pass between two peopb, the one who keeps cool and controls himself is the one who has the advantage.

GOVERNOR WAS NOT ANNOYED

Reason Why Massachusetts Chief Ex ecutive Did Not Resent His Being Mistaken for Butler. Here's a good one that ex-Governor Walsh of Massachusetts told on him self at a dinner given to some of his friends in Washington recently. borne months ago, 'while he was gov ernor, Mr. Walsh was a guest at a re ception given by Mrs. Mabel Hunt Sla ter 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 morn ing Archie Roosevelt approached him and said: "John, will you please get me a nap kin?" "Certainly," Governor Walsh said, keeping a grave face, "in a minute, sir." The governor promptly found the napkin for young Roosevelt and smil ingly handed it to him. Something in the governor's smile made Roosevelt su.'.piclous. 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 fre quently 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 violon cello 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 sus pended a chalk point which is actuated by a slender wire attached to the musician's linger. At each pressure the tension vibrates along the com municating 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 0,414 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 191C have a father or a brother at the front. They live In an atmosphere of heroism. All the little folks -of the lycee, the connnon schools, and even of the kindergarten play soldier In the streets and in the parks. You see them at their war plays such as YVillctte has pictured at Rue St. Vincent do 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 is there ever any justice, even hero? 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 thej', 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 the 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 Eou mania?" "The idea of asking such a Ques tion. ' Go look it up in your geography, my boy, and then you'll remember it." Abundant Home Supply. "Is Bliggins susceptible to flattery?" "Xo. There's no chance for framing up a complaint that his own self-esteem will not have anticipated." Motive Enough. "What are the motives of Bingley's new play?' "He needs the money." Princeton Tiger.

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