Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 6, Jasper, Dubois County, 12 October 1917 — Page 6

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fCATTLE It Is not necessary, to build elaborately orto use the most expensive material? in order to satisfactorily hoii.se dairy cattle, in the opinion of the author of Circular No. 109, of the Illinois Experiment Station, at Urbana, 111. "It is essential that the roof be waterproof, the sides vindproof, and the stable floor durable and sanitary." An adequate means of ventilation is also an essential. o o 9 DEVICE HOLDS GRAIN SACKS Three-Braced Legs Have Holes in Top Into Which Fit Prongs From an Iron Hoop. Any farmer will understand the accompanying cut without much explanation. The three-braced legs have holes in the top into which fit prongs running out from an iron hoop. The top of the Holder for Sacks. bag Is placed over this hoop, and the outside hoop is placed over it, writes C. J. Lynde In Fanners Mail and Breeze. By screwing up the nut on the bolt of the outside band the bag is held firmly in place. GOOD WORK OF INOCULATION That Legumes Are Benefited Is Shown by Several Experiment Stations Increases Growth. Farmers sometimes question the advisability of inoculating legumes. That legumes are benefited by inoculation has been shown by several experiment stations. The Wisconsin, Illinois and other stations have shown that inoculation gives decidedly beneficial results. In the first place, inoculation increases the total growth of the plant, giving greater yields of hay. In most test cases the hay crop has been increased about 20 per cent and in some instances it has been doubled. Not only is more hay produced, but the hay is richer in protein and consequently of higher feeding value, according to W. A. Albrecht of the University of Missouri college of agriculture. Cowpea hay from plants, inoculated at the Illinois station, contained 2G per cent protein while plants not treated carried but 15 per cent of this valuable food constituent Inoculation enables the plant to get nitrogen from the air In addition to that from the soil. This not only conserves the supply, but when the crop is turned under it increases the nitrogen content of the soil. Inoculation, then, is beneficial because It increases the yield and Improves the quality of hay and enriches the soil through the nitrogen of the air. These benefits justify the expense and trouble of inoculation. RYE SEEDED AS COVER CROP Planted In Cornfields It Frequently Can Be Utilized as Late Fall or Spring Pasture. Rye seeded as a cover crop in cornfields can frequently be utilized for late fall and early spring pasture, or can be allowed to mature and be hogged down with satisfactory results. At the last cultivation of corn, rye can be seeded nt the rate of six to eight pecks per acre. It will furnish nutritious pasturage by fall in favorable seasons. In the spring the crop may be used for pasture or plowing under, or hogs may bo turned into the field after the grain is ripe. Six pigs averaging 44 pounds in weignt were fed on a quarter of an acre of rye for 49 days at the Ohio experiment station. During this time they made an average daily gain of half a pound. While hogging down the rye the pigs were fed a fifth of a pound of tankage apiece dally. Rye as a general rule cannot compete with corn for hogging down, according to specialists at the -experiment station. It may be substituted economically for corn when it is difficult to harvest and thresh and when Its price per pound is about the same as that of corn. GOOD ATTENTION TO HORSES Animal Readily Responds to Real Horsemanship Supply Cool, Fresh Air and Sunlight. The necessity for efficiency in horse power calls for the proper care of the farm work horse, especially during the summer months. . The horse readily responds to real horsemanship. The right kind of horsemanship Includes a comfortable stable, good grooming, kindness, attention to the tooth and foot and proper feed. Some of the b;rt cared-for horsesarc found in an Inconspicuous stable. The horse appreciates n comfortable stall. A desirable horse stable has plenty of windows to admit cool, fresh tlr and sunlight.

HOUSING-'

MAKE WAR ON INSECTS

Campaign to Teach Every Farmer and Keeper of Foods. Reduction of Only 5 Per Cekit of Present Losses Would Result in Saving Millions of Bushels of Important Crops. (From the United States Department of Agriculture.) In an effort to reduce the enormous - annual loss of food caused by attacks of insects cm growing crops, stored food supplies, audlive stock the bureau of entomology of the United States department of agriculture, in co-operation v.ith the extension services of the states, is .to begin a vigorous campaign to teach insect fighting. Covering the country as effectively as possible with emergency funds made available in the food production bill just enacted by cpngress the entomologists will deal with every pest of Important crops. Should the campaign planned result in a reduction of only 5 per cent of present losses from insects an amount aggregating millions of bushels it is estimated would be saved. It is expected that an effective campaign would result in even a larger saving. Specialists will give demonstrations tto small groups of farmers, fruit growers and others in regions where their services are most .needed. Wherever it can be done persons in the community where the demonstration is being conducted will be asked to assist in preparing spray mixtures, emulsions, poisoned baits, dips, washes and the like. These persons, so far as practicable, then will be requested to assist in the application of these and other measures in order that each community in which demonstrations are given will have one or more persons acquainted with methods of assembling and applying insecticides and in the use of other remedial measures. Specialists in rice insects will visit rice fields. Men familiar with the insect pests of the orchard and vineyard will be sent to those states where fruit growing is an Important industry. In the large trucking areas of the country and elsewhere specialists familiar with the insects of truck crops will be detailed. Men familiar with the insect i pests of cereal and forage crops will work in states where these crops are of most importance, and will give special attention to such important pests as the Hessian fly, chinch bug and joint worms. In case of serious insect outbreaks men will be available to concentrate effort in the infested territory, to prevent, if possible, further spread of the pest. It is planned to give attention also to demonstrating and disseminating information about methods for the prevention of insect losses to stored grains, flour and other products, in mills, warehouses and granaries, and for the reduction of losses to other stored food products. POST-PULLING MADE EASIER Most Convenient Implement Shown in Illustration Given Herewith How It Is Operated. The most convenient post-puller I ever used Is this one, writes Lester Mayfield in Farmers Mail and Breeze. On a base 2 feet long, two 2 by G uprights, 28 inches long, are bolted. The lever is a 2 by C, about 0 feet long. Eighteen inches from one end, a hole Handy Post Puller. is bored, and a bolt is passed through uprights and lever. Two strap irons are bolted to the outer end of the lever, as shown, with a hook on one side and a piece of chain on the other. Raise the lever, put the chain around the post and hook, it, then bear down, and up comes your post. PROCURE BEST MILK SUPPLY Bacteria Which Enter With Dirt From Cow and Unclean Pails Are Cause of Moat Trouble. Milk sours and spoils because of the bacteria which cAtergwith dirt from the cow and iroiir palls not thoroughly washed. Keeping these bacteria out of the milk and preventing their growth by keeping the milk cool, are easy and efficient means of producing the best of milk from the family cow provided she Is free from disease. REMOVAL OF SURPLUS HONEY Select Warm Day and Be Careful Not to Smear Honey About Hive or on the Ground. (By L. ITASEMAN, University of Missouri Collcßö of Agriculture.) To remove surplus honey select a .warm day and work rapidly as possible so as to avoid exposing the honey to robber bees. Also be careful to avoid spilling or smearing honey about the hive or ground as it always encourages robbing, the most undesirable trait of bees. Above all, remember to remove only surplus honey and leave the brood chamber strlrtlv ton

Teaching Food Conservation Methods

Community food demonstrations have beer, given on the public school grounds and other public places in Vashington. The picture'shows volunteer workers in the uniform of the food administration conducting an open-air demonstration.

Animal Resources of the Arctics May Relieve Meat Shortage in United States As war's drain on food resources continues to grow more acute new reservoirs have to be tapped. Already reindeer meat from Alaska is replacing beef on the Pacific coast, and Christian Leden, the missionary-explorer of Greenland and Hudson Bay, sponsors a plan for mobilizing the food resources of the Arctics, the Boston Globe says. It appears that the Eskimo, believing animals are sent by the great spirit to be killed for food, conceives It to be his duty to kill all he sees. Enormous quantities of most valuable meat are thus wasted meat which the Northern tribes could, Mr. Leden thinks, easily be induced to save and sell to the people of the lower altitudes. The German army, from the very start of the war, has been fed largely on dried meat. One pound of dry meat is equal to five pounds of fresh moat, and it is, in addition, far easier to transport. The Eskimos are especially skillful in drying their game, which would make a resort to this source of food 'supply all the more feasible. The Arctics arefar richer in animal resources than we of the temperate zone suppose. Caribou, walrus, salmon all are proline of foodstuffs, not to mention the by-products of leather, furs and oil. It is the explorer's computation that the Arctics, even moderately exploited, would yield enough meat to feed 70,000 men for a year. He assures us that caribou makes the best venison, and that the walrus, being himself fond of oysters, makes good food. Something New Under the Sun. For lighting fires in cellars or the holds of vessels a revolving nozzle has been invented that can scatter 1,400 gallons of water a minute oyer an area 125 feet square. To make badly broken bones reunite more rapidly an English surgeon has invented a system of screws to be passed through the fragments and then pressed into position. English experimenters have at least partially discovered Ihe secret processes used l(n the manufacture of German and Dutch decolorizing carbons for the sugar Industry. Above and beneath the alrchamber in an automobile lire of French invention are sections filled with elastic strips, which come together and support the tire when punctured. The phonograph and telephone are employed In a South Carolina inventor's automatic fire alarm that calls up a central operator and tells her just where a blaze is starting. Vessels that are lined with metal Vary the Potato Dishes. When potatoes are plentiful and cheap, vary the form in which they are served, says the United 'States department of agriculture, and so bring about the eating of more of the tubers. This will furnish starchy food in a good wholesome form and at the same time reduce the drain on wheat. vTry preparing your left-over potatoes In the following way : Potatoes With Cheese Sauce.' Season two cupfuls of cold diced potatoes with one-half teaspoonful salt, and one-quarter teaspoonful pepper. Iteheat In a double boiler. Prepare a cheese sauce in the following manner: Mix two tablespoonfuls offiour, three-quarters teaspoonful of salt and one-quarter teaspoonful of pepper to a smooth paste with three tablespoonfuls of cold milk. Add this and one-quarter cupful of grated cheese to one cupful of boiling milk, stirrinj constantly to prevent lumping. Place the reheated potatoes in a serving dish and pour over them the cream sauce.

that will conduct electricity to heat liquids as they are poured from one to another have been patented by an inventor in -Pennsylvania. Norway expects to produce 100,000 tons of peat for fuel this year and Denmark 500,000 tons, the former country having 216 machines at work as compared with 55 last year. An Oregon inventor is the patentee of a sanitary drinking cup to he mounted on a faucet so as to be swung out of the way when the faucet Is used for its usual purpose.

Let Child Act for Himself, Is Advice Given Parents The men and women who make good in this world are the ones with originality and initiative. After an idea has been presented there are hundreds of people who can finish it out or follow it out. but the one who thought the idea and presented it is the one who is the most valuable and who is the so-called "one in a hundred." Parents often crush out individuality in their children. The fathers and mothers who rule with a kaiser's iron rod and who think""aud act for their children are nothing short of criminals, says an exchange. Children should be taught to rely upon themselves, to think for themselves to be sure, with prudent advice and to carry out their own ideas and plans unless they are radically wrong or preposterously ridiculous. On the other hand, it is just as criminal to let children take the bit in their mouths and run away or to be so free-willed that the parents mean nothing at all but meal and room tickets as it is to bring the children up in a militaristic fashion. Strike a golden average. How Gas Smothers Plants. From an investigation of the poisoning of park vegetation near gas works, it appears that the green coloring matter in plants is affected and gradually disappears. With the soil charged with ga"?, asphyxiation, through lack of oxygen in the roots, checks assimilation and the formation of new substance in the plant cells. The first change to be noticed is a drying of the edges of leaves and other green parts, and the lessening of transpiration thus caused gives an accumulation of water that tends to x rot and kill the stalk at the base. Investigators In Bavaria have found that the more bread schoolchildren eat the better the condition of their teeth. Recalled the Circumstance. She Tom, do you remember the night you asked papa for my hand how fortunate you were? He Perfectly he asked me to lend him $10 and I didn't have it. Putting Her Right. She I tell you, Billy, I won't stand for being treated this way. Now that we are engaged He Oh, i f0r. got to tell you. That stuff's all off. This Sometimes Happens. "She married a diamond in the rough, I'm told." "Yes. It was a most unfortunate marriage." "How so?" "She lost her own polish trying to give him one." Few Do. "That after-dinner speaker seams to know a lot" "Yes, but one thing he doesn't know." I "What's that?" "When to quit"

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Send Letters of Cheer to

Soldi er If you have a hoy at the front or In a training camp where Uncle Sam's armies are heing prepared for service in the trenches, write him. cheerful and encouraging letters. Keep out of your letters anything that might cause him worry or grief or make him dissatisfied with his lot. This is the pica of an officer to the mothers and fathers and sisters and sweethearts of the men in his command. Upon those at home, he declares, rests much jf the responsibility for making efficient and courageous soldiers out of their boys. "You who wait at home with aching hearts, have not discharged your full duty by merely giving your sons and loved, ones to the cause," declares this officer. "In his new experiences, in a strange land, away from relatives and friends, exposed to the immoral influences that too often invade the camp, weakened by homesickness, nervous from viewing or contemplating the horrors of war, exhausted by the burden of work, your boy will need your help most, your love and gentle words of encouragement. As yoiV love him and desire him to be brave and true, you must write and encourage him, and do all you can to help us speedily mold him into a 'first-class fighting man.' "You now can splendidly serve your country by writing encouraging letters to your boy. A good letter from you will greatly influence your hoy's life, and improve his work. You must write no gloomy forecasts, nothing that would cause dissatisfaction or worry or grief. He will have all he can bear of this at the front. All letters should radiate love, cheer, courage and hope. Don't let the shadow of your own sorrow, however great, fall upon the letters you write to your boy. "Every mother should know that efficiency is the best protection for her son ; that skillful men who have studied their part, whose minds are clear, not only contribute more to the success of the organization but stand a far greater chance of escaping injury, both from the enemy and disease, than the man who is not efficient. "Inspire your boys. Make them feel that you at home are 'rootin' and 'bettin' for the home team. Urge them to do all they can to become their own ideal of the best soldier and the best man. Encourage them to honesty, sobriety and morality. Tell them of your confidence in their strength, character and courage." Animals That Never Eat. Have you ever realized what a number of scientific appliances have been named after animals? And can you furnish an explanation? A mechanic puts his work upon a horse, or buck, and he punches or bends it by a convenient bear. Hoisting is done by a crab, a convenient cat is part of the outfit of a shop crane, and a kit of tools is ever at hand. A crow helps to straighten work, a jack to lift it; a mule pulley helps to drive machinery which a donkey engine turns. A fish connects parts end to end, shells are used all over, while a worm does quiet but: powerful work. Extra Large Size. "There goes Miss Bullion, the heiress. It is said that a German duke once drank champaign out of her slipper." "Possibly so," answered the caustic young woman. "Some of those jforoign noblemen have an astounding ca pacity for wine." Impossible. Dolly At last I have met my ideal ! Kind-hearted, modest, patient, selfdenying. But, alas, married ! DaisyDon't worry! No woman will live long with such a freak. You'll get a chance at him. 1 No Words. "Mrs. Gabfest is an incessant talker." "I don't see how her husband ever gets In a word." "He doesn't try. His part of the conversation is confined to grunts, lifting of eyebrows, shrugs and nods." Complication of Diseases. "I understand you have all been sick up at your house and had to have the doctor. Who was the sickest?" "Pn, when ho got tho bill." Growing Old Together. Creditor I shall call upon you every week until you pay this bill! Hardlelgh Then there seems to be every probability of our acquaintance 'ripening Into friendship.

Boys

NOTICE TO

SICK WOMEN

Positive Proof That Lydia E. Pinkiiam's Vegetable Compound Relieves Suffering. Bridgeton,N. J."I csnnct speak too highly of Lydia E. Pinkham's V&getaoie compound tor inflammation and other weaknesses. I was very irregular and would have terrible pains ao that I could hardly take & step. Sometimes I would be so miserable that I could not sweep a room. I doctored part of th time but felt no change. I later took Lydia. E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and soon felt a change for the better. I took it until I was in good healthy condition. I recommend the Pinkham remedies to all women as T have -used them with sucH. good results." Mrs. Milford T. Cummings, 322 Harmony St, Penn's Grove, N. J. Such testimony should be accepted by all women as convincing evidence of the excellence of Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Co'mpound as a remedy for the distressing ills of women such ai displacements, inffamrnation,ulceration, backache, painful periods, nervousnejt and kindred ailments. TTHEf ORISINAfTlCHEHICAlf indoor lioset 30. 000 SBtS FIFTH YEAR More Comfortable, Healthful, Convenient Eliminate tho out-houee, open vault and ceu pool, which aro breeding place for germs. Hive a vara, ranitary. odorJes toilet right in your houoo. Uo colas oat in cold weather. A bona to invalids. Endorsed bj State Boards of Health. ABSOLUTELY ODORLESS Put It Annvhero In Tho ITouee Tho germs are killed by & chemical process in water in the container. Kmpty once a month. No more trouble to empty than ashes. Closet absolutely guaranteed. Ask for catalog and pr ce. ROWE SANITARY MFG. CO.. 1351 Q Gth St.. DETROIT, MICH. Ask about the Ro-San Washstand Hot and Cold Banning Water Without Plumbing. Progress. "Are you interested in food control?" "I have gotten away past it. What I'm interested in now is appetite control." Soja Beans. Never used much In this country until the packers of Alice Pork and Beans discovered how to put them up. Now everybody wants them. Adv. Rat Deadly Disease Carrier. The Spanish war developed the fact that the mosquito was Uie carrier of yellow fever," writes E. W. Nelson In the National Geographic Magazine. Another type of mosquito is known to be the carrier of malaria. The European war has brought to almost universal public knowledge the fact that body lice are carriers of the deadly typhus and many diseases are known to be carried by other Insects. Among these deadly carriers of death and destruction none equals the house rat in its tremendous drain on the prosperity of nations by its destruction of food and other property, while at the same time it is the deadliest of all to mankind as a disease cahhler. Within historic times it has caused the death of untold millions of human beings through Its dessemlnation of the bubonic plague. More Expensive Trimming. Halefeller (wildly) What? Do y mean to tell mo, woman, that It cost $80 to get that hat trimmed? Jumping Jupiter! But that milliner's game Is the limit! Mrs. Ualefeller (sweetly) Keally? Why, I understood it costs nome men more than that to get trimmed in a poker game. Hits the Bullscyc. Flattery will always puncture the bullseye when other shots go way below the target. , , . The turkey buzzard is nearly as large as an eairlo. dull black, soars almost ronstantly. often In large curves. POSTUM has been adopted as the table beverage in many a home because of its pleasing flavor and healthful natuve

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