Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 61, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 1 November 1918 — Page 2

Letter to a Country Mouse From Her City Cousin

Dear Mouse :- Well, here I am right in the midst of things and feeling exactly like a molecule. Lonesome? Well, I should say so. Why is it that city crowds make one feel so unnecessary? When you stroll out into the country, surrounded with the chickens, pigs, sheep, goats and cows and pigeons and thousands and thousands of tiny folks that go to make up the crowded country life, you feel that man is indeed lord of creation. But when you stroll out in the city and meet these same folk, just because they have put on human shape, you feel quite small and inferior and abashed. For they are all here, Mouse, dear, every single oneeven to Greedy and Grunty, my prize Berkshires. I lunched at the next table to them today. The only marked difference was that there was no pen around them and Greedy wore beautiful diamonds. Gninty made just as much fuss about his food. You would have thought Washington put on the sugar restrictions with no other purpose than, to annoy him, and as he guzzled and grunted and grumbled, his fat jowls, red and shaking, as he tried to stuff, and complain to high heaven at the same time about how terrible the food situation really was, I was tempted to yell "Spwey" and drive him and Greedy back to their pen. I don't believe he knr r cares to know that if he and his fat companion had not been except nerica could never have shipped SG.OOO.OOO pounds of beef products dm ? one month of March to our hungry allies over yonder. It means n lto thern that before we entered the war we exported to the allies 50,000,000 pounds of pork a month. When we entered the war tills had increased to 125,000,000 pounds, and in March of this year the amount of pork exported to the allies amounted to 30S,000,000 pounds, which is more than six times the normal and 50 per cent greater than any other month during the last seven years. This is what "porkless days" have done. So it's back to the pen with Greedy and Grunty ! , The old Dorninockec rooster had two pullets to lunch at the table just next to mine, and he was shaking his red wattles, flapping his wings, scratching straw and showing off generally. He was sixty, and a grandfather, if he was a day, and the girls could not have been over twenty-two and pretty as pictures. One was a stenographer and the other a bookkeeper in the same big office building where Daddy Dominecker heads a loan business, and believe me, foocL conservation meant nothing in their young lives, so long as daddy paid the bill. They ate straight through the menu card. I don't see

how they do it and keep their shape, goes without saying. They were built their years had gained much knowledge thc-ir system. Two good-looking young

60 one of them rvould engross Dominecker's attention while the other flirted with the soldiers. Then they would change about, and their team work was ßo perfect that poor old rooster paid the check, which would have bought

two five-dollar War Savings stamps and chuckled as he paid it ; then strutted off to smile "good-by" at the soldiers and moonlight, I hope, for youth should call blinds a man of sixty and a woman of kittenish they never fool anybody but

them and not with them? If the po olo rooster hadn't crowed so loud He mighfer passed for young in the barn-yard crowd, But, he drapped his wings and stepped so high Dat the pullets all laugh as he passes by. And he ain't by hisself in dat. No, honey, he ain't by hisself in dat.

Mouse, I have a nice juicy bit of

know how careless you are about leaving your letters about, and tins is en

tirely too risque to be read by modest

years, so I will postpone it. In the meantime, know that in the midst ot all

the exciting sounds and sights the heady experience of nibbling this strong city's cheese I think of you and love you. So, dear, out of the peace and

irreat spaces in which you are moving, SAVE PITS AND SHELLS Needed in Making Gas Masks How Boys and Girls Can Do important War Work By tho U. S. Department of Agriculture. The war department has requested the boys' and girls' clubs of the country to help collect fruit pits and nutshells, the carbon in which is used in making gas masks. Contests have been suggested among the million club members by the United States department of agriculture and the state department colleges, which conduct the-club rork, to see which member, which club, which district, and which state can deliver the largest amo unt of material in the shortest time. Each member should try to furnish at least 200 peach pits, or seven pounds of shells enough material for one mask. Since more and better carbon is secured from the pits of peaches, prunes and plums than from other sources, boys and girls should make it their special business to see that every home in their communities saves the pits of these fruits. They should also visit community and commercial canneries, hotels, restaurants and baker ies. In addition, seeds should be col lected from dates and olives, and shell and whole nuts be saved from hickory nuts, butter nuts, English and native walnuts and hazelnuts. The material may be delivered to the local Red Cross headquarters, which are acting as central stations for collecting and shipping. Words of Wise Men I Choose the just man. The partial man may not always be g partial to you, but the just man j is always just. 5 The great man expects every- 5 thing of himself; the small man j expects everything of others. -S A man should never be asuamea to own lie ikis ueen m the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Denied a right to serve in the army, 100 Colorado Indians are doing their bit by working on the highways. They are building modern roads over the trails blazed by their forefathers. The Largest Cities. The cities with more than 2,000,000 Inhabitants by latest census are New York, 5,737,402; London, 4,522,90-1; iParis, 2,8S8,000 ; Tokio, 2,180,000 ; Chi;cago 2,185,000; Berlin, 2,071,000; (Vienna, 2,031,000.

for that they were easy to look at along leghorn lines, and in spite of

of barn-yard tactics. I had to admire aviators were just across from them, gone a long way on the third, and to get his hat and coat, leaving them make a date to meet them in the to youth. Mouse, what is it that forty to the fact that when they act themselves, and the world laughs at scandal that I would write you, but I brother John or Mollie of the tender send a quieting homey letter to ME. American Farmers Should Follow Scotland's Plan to Eliminate Food-Eating Rats The canny Scots of West Perthshire district are living up to their reputation. They have organized in an active campaign to exterminate rats and save the food and property which they waste. They have demonstrated that it is cheaper to kill than to feed rats. According to a report from the American consul at Dundee, which has just been received by the United States department of agriculture, a campaign to exterminate rats in the district mentioned, for which .$1,479.41 was appropriated, resulted last year in the killing of 100,000 rats. The board of agriculture appropriated S4SG.G5 for the campaign. It is said that one rat in the course of 12 months caused damage estimated at $2.43, and as there were approximately two rats to the acre, the amount of damage done was equivalent to the average amount of rent paid by the tenants of West Perthshire. The campaign has been so successful and the people so pleased with the results that community co-operation to exterminate rats is to be continued another year, according to the report. American farmers, who have long suffered losses from these food raiders, should follow the example set by this district and organize community campaigns to get rid of rats. In many sections of this country where similar campaigns have been conducted results always have been gratifying. Three National Forests Recently Added to the List Complying With Weeks Law The president has proclaimed the es tablishment of three new forests, the final step in carrying out the purpose of the Weeks law. The first, observes a -writer in Out look, is the White Mountain National forest. Its area of nearly 400,000 acres protects the watersheds, of the Androscoggin, Saco, Connecticut ana Ammonoosuc rivers. This watershed region has also long been famous as an important recreation ground. As its name implies, the Shenandoah National forest is on the watershed of the Shenandoah river, but it also protects a portion of the Potomac and James river watersheds. Its area is about 105,000 acres. On this area, and still intact, are the trench systems constructed during the Civil war under Stonewall Jackson's supervision. The White Mountain National forest lies mostly in New Hampshire, but laps over into Maine; the Shenandoah forest lies mostly in Virginia, but laps over into West Virginia. The Natural Bridge National forest, however, is wholly In Virginia. Its area is about 100,000 acres. The forest protects a part of the James river watershed.

War Has Given Women Chance

To Show What They Can Do in Various Industrial Avenues After many years spent in demand ing access to various employments on the same basis as men, women are now being offered an unprecedented chance to show what they can do in industry, states a writer in New York Journal of Commerce. Abroad they are the actual operating force of many businesses, and it may lie expected that j like con dition will more and more come to prevail in the United States. The women of Great Britain have made a splendid record in the industrial world, and there is no doubt they will likewise here if the emergency requires. This state of things is usually present ed as an outgrowth of the war, and not a few women are quite frankly holding tbeir present places as a patri otic duty rather than as the result of a personal desire. Very little study, however, is required to reach the conclusion that in many cases there will be tendency and disposition to broaden the scope of women's employment after the end of the war, and, if de sired by the employers, to accept them as permanent factors in places heretofore held exclusively by men. The final outcome with reference to the industrial status of women will, however, depend primarily upon the degree of efficiency they are able to develop. If there are, as often alleged, large and increasing classes of women who desire permanent industrial opportunity on the same basis with men, their time to "make good" is now at hand ard will probably not soon come again. That there are many who realize the situation no one can doubt. It is equally clear, nowever, that there are many others who thus far are showing traits which not only disqualify them from competition with men, but will render them unacceptable in any capacity as soon as men are again available as employees. Of these traits the most serious probably are the lack of professional pride in work, the failure to regard it as a permanent occupation, and as such to be studied and perfected, and the tendency to lack of responsibility. Time may correct these traits and develop the women, of the country into an efficient, well-disciplined body of industrial workers. It will be necessary that they train and educate themselves for their tasks and recognize that retention of the new place already assigned them will be dependent entirely on the merit they are able to show. Platinum Mines of Russia Said to Afford the World's Most Profitable Dredging The most profitable dredging in the world can be done on the platinum placers of Russia, says the San Francisco Chronicle. The value of the metal recovered is often equivalent for considerable periods of operation to ?5 a cubic yard. When one remem bers that the gravels of the California gold-dredging fields yielded only about 10 cents to 15 cents a cubic yard on an average, and nevertheless paid well, the possible profits of platinum dredg ing become apparent. Before the war there were about 25 dredges at work in the Urals, operating two-thirds of the time of each working season of about 150 days, and averaging 500 cubic yards a dredge a day, thus working a total of about 1,250,000 cubic yards of material a year, and recovering annually 70,000 to 100,000 ounces of platinum. There is only one first-class dredge in operation in the Urals. They are mostly of antiquated design and of poor construction. First-class dredges working in material of similar characteristics dig several times as much gravel a day in other countries with similar climate. Working costs in the Ural regions are twice those in Montana, wThich has a similar climate, but where the auriferous gravel is much harder to dredge. 90lt9llt9tttlttlatlt I FOR POULTRY I GROWERS 5 Don't forsret that the hen is under unnatural conditions during the winter, and that summer is ideal weather for egg production. Try to imitate this condition as nearly as possible. Do jeverything within your power to make the bird comfortable. Don't merely house her ; give her a home and care for her. One reason why many poultry keepers fail to get eggs is because they fail to interest their birds. By that is meant they fail to give them sufficient litter on the floor and to feed them their grain in this, so as to keep them working for it all day. Keep their minds as well as their bodies engaged, and the hens will be happy, contented and will produce more eggs. The ideal method for feeding is to give them a little feed frequently in the litter, to keep them constantly alert and active. The feeding of a little stimulant, such as onion tops or occasionally a feed of hot, wet mash, or a change to some sprouted oats, fresh, green-cut bone, or in fact anything that the bird relishes, acts as an appetizer, and not only is effective in producing more eggs, but also actually develops the interest of the caretaker or feeder to the point that he will give his birds other care. Know the individuals in your flock and try to satisfy their needs. Remember, they are under artificial conditions during tho winter.

TRAPS A

BE GOOD

RAT DESTROYERS Most Reliable for General Use Is Inexpensive Snap or Guillotine Device, AVOID SHEET METAL BASES i hey May Be Placed in Great Variety of Favorable Places Around Farm Small Breeds of Dogs Are Most Valuable. CBVom the United States Department of Agriculture.) No opportunity to kill rats should be neglecteö. on the farm. Traps, dogs, cats, and poisons may be useful. The first need is traps and a knowledge of how to use them. The most reliable traps for general use are the inexpensive snap, or guillotine, traps. Many efficient kinds are on the market, but the cheaper ones are rarely to be recommended for durability. Those that have sheet-metal bases are not desirable, as rats fear and avoid them. Snap traps should be set so that they will spring at a slight touch. They may be placed in rat runs, at rat burrows, behind boards leaned against the wall, and in a great variety of other favorable places. Dry oatmeal (rolled oats) is recommended as a bait for both rats andimice. Place a few grains on the trigger pan or under the trigger wire, with a few grains near the trap. Useful Wire Cage Trap. The wire-cage trap, if substantially made, is useful on the farm. Coarse bait is required, and may be hung from the top of the trap by a light wire. Set the trap on a lloor or on a board, lay a short board on top, and cover the whole with an old cloth or gunny sack, leaving only the trap entrance uncovered. The trap may be baited and left open for a night or two until rats learn to feed inside, after which a good catch may be expected. An excellent plan for using the cage trap is to bore a hole two or three inches in diameter at nroner height in the door of gran ary or feed room. The hole may be covered with a metal slide when the trap is not in use. Set the trap inside the granary with its entrance fitted to the hole and cover and bait in the usual manner; any rat entering the granary is caught. The same plan is appncaDie to rat noies in ouier situations, and it has been used effectively between connecting rooms of cold storage warehouses. The small breeds of dogs, especially terriers, are valuable as rat killers or the farm. They are easily trained Guillotine Trap With Wooden Base and Trigger Plate. nnd are always available when needed. Wherever rats are routed from nests or harbors these dogs are eager for the fray. When shocked or stacked ! grain is moved or thrashed they kill , many rats. Sometimes a barrier, or I fence, of light boards is placed about ! a stack, and dogs inside get all the rodents dislodged. In this- way 500 or G00 rats have been destroyed from a single stack. Cats Destroy Mice. Cats are -useful about farm buildings mainly because they kill mice. Some times they hunt and destroy rats but a cat that will kill an adult rat is rare. The chief objection to cats on a fann is their persistent destruction of song birds. A good cat is valuable when her killing propensities can be confined to rodent pests, but the majority of felines are worthless or actually injurious on the farm. Great caution should always be observed in the use of poisons, but there are situations on the farm in which poisons may be used safely and effectively. In the open fields poisoned grain may be scattered near rat bur rows. In the poultry yard poisons

may be exposed for rats inside dark- ment of Agriculture.) ened boxes. A small, rather shallow Changing the kind of wheat grown box containing the baits is set on the should be done only for the purpose of ground with a larger box inverted over getting a proved better variety. It Is it. A hole in the larger box will admit often desirable to do this, provided it the rat to the food, while chickens will is proved beyond question that the bo safe. Strychnine is the safest pol- new variety is better for that localson to use where poultry run, because ity. So-called "new" varieties, exhens are immune to small quantities travagantly advertised at fancy prices, if this poison, should be disregarded completely.

VERY IMPORTANT TO FILL SILO PROPERLY Cut Corn When Kernels Have Passed Milk Stage. Keeping of Silage Depends Upon Thoroughness With Which It Is Packed Fine Fodder Is Most Satisfactory. (Prepared by tho United States Department of Agriculture.) Cut corn for silage when the kernels have passed the milk stage and

are beginning to dent. At this period the greatest amount of food material can be obtained and the best quality of silage made. The cutter should be adjusted to cut the corn in short lengths, with threefourths of an inch as the maximum length. In general, the finer the fodder is cut the mote easily and more compactly it can be packed and, in consequence, the better the quality of the silace. Too much stress cannot be laid upon tbe necessity of thoroughly packing i Cutting Fodder for Silo, the fodder in the gUo g0 as to esclude lhe air ag mudl ag possible. It ls upon thig Qne m that the keeping of gilage largely depends. A device pnnsistinfr nf n ,n:ntpr! nlne or some variatlon of it attached to the top of h hTmvpr ri ; nf rP.opnf. in use for distributing the cut corn fodder in the silo. By the use of this distributor it is possible at the same time to scatter the cut corn evenly and at the same time tramp it Without' the use of this devi.ee it is necessary to have at least one extra man in the silo to fork the material over so that it is evenly packed. Besides the saving of one man's labor, the distributor does away with the nuisance of having the loose material flying Ground, thus annoying the man in the silo, and also lessens the danger of being struck by some foreign object that may have passed through the blower. Oftentimes the corn fodder is so dry when it is cut that it is necessary to add water to make up for the deficiency in moisture and provide for the proper packing of the silo. ' This water is most easily added to the blower when the corn is being cut, and it is also more thoroughly mixed with the cut material in this way. For the top layer of the silo it is good practice to use heavy green stalks from which the ears have been removed. This forms a heavy layer that packs well and at the same time contains a smaller amount of food material so that the minimum loss is sustained if it spoils. Various methods and materials have been used for covering the top of the silage to prevent its spoiling. None has given complete satisfaction, but the one mentioned above has given as good re sults as any, especially when the top layer wras thoroughly wret down and I ucked firmly by tramping. The best practice is to commence feeding as ?oon as the silo is filled, in which case there will be no loss of silage through decay OATS PREFERRED FOR FOWLS In Nearly All Parts of United States, Under Normal Conditions, Corn Is Cheapest (Prepared by tho United States Department of Agriculture.) Under normal conditions corn is, in nearly all parts of the United States, the cheapest poultry feed. But at times like the present oats are to be preferred. When corn is worth $1.50 a bushel oats should be 75 cents and barley $1.20 a bushel to give the same value for the money when fed to poultry, as corn. CHANGING VARIETY OF WHEAT Should Be Done Only for Purpose of Getting Eetter Kind for Certain Localities. (prenared by tho United States Depart-

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There was never n time when tho saonnces and the help of won. on were more appreciated than at the present time. Women should learn war-nursing and nursing at home. There is no better way than to study the new edition of tho "Common Sense Medical Adviser " with chapters on First Aid, Bandaging, Anatomy, Hygiene, care of the Sick, Diseases of Women, Mother and Babe, the M&rriage Relations to be had at sorao drug-stores or send 50c. to Publisher, 654 Washington Street, Buffalo, N. Y. If a woman suffers from weak back, nervousness or dizziness if pains afflict her, the best tonic and corrective is one made up of native herbs and made without alcohol, which makes weak women strong and sick women well. It is the prescription of Dr. Pierce, used by him in active practice many years and now Eold by almost every druggist in the land, in liauid or in tablets. Send Dr. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y., 10c. for trial pkg. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are also best for liver and bowel trouble. Laporte, Ind. "When approaches middle lifo I suffered severely. I had never beforo suffered with any sort of womanly weakness &nd I was very much afraid that it would ro hard with mo, but ono bottle of Dr. Pierce's Fnvonte Prescription completely removed my psins and the critical tirao passed so easily that I was scarcely conscious of it. It is fifteen years since I took that or bottle of 'Favorite Prescription and I am just as streng and well as can be and have never had th least sign of weakness since. I think xt the mon wonderful medicine for women and would adyu its use by ail women at the critical time oi life. AM. S. J. Baker. 916 Scett St. CARTER'S ITTLE IVER PILLS. For Constipation Carter's Little Liver Pills will set you right over night. Purely Vegetable Small Pill, Small Dole, Small Price Carter's Iron Pills Will restore color to the faces of those who lack Iron in the blood, AS most pale-faced people do. Cuticura Soap is Easy Shaving for Sensitive Skins The New Up-to-date Cuticura Method Consolation. He Mr. Cadby refused to recognize me today. Thinks, I suppose, that I am not his equal. She Pddiculous. Of course you are. Why, he's nothing but a conceited idiot. Boston Transcript. "Cold Id the Head" is an acute attack of Nasal Catarrh. Persons who are subject to frequent "cold in the head" will nnd that the use ot HALL'S CATARRH . MEDICINE will build up the System, cleanse the Blood and render them less liable to colds. Repeated attacks of Acute Catarrh may lead to Chronic Catarrh. HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE is taken internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System. All Druggists 75c. Testimonials free. $100.00 for any case of catarrh that HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE will not cure. Ä. , F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio. The eye of the master -will do more ork than both his hands. Franklin. The silent partner in a firm always has a lot to say. iii)fii!in!i(iiiniiiiinii(!ii!innis First Aid for Laundry Troubles If every "wash-day is ß day for tha "Blues" the right blue Trill send them scuttling away Rad Gross Ball Blue if the secret of successful washing; PuroYThite, dazzling clothes that leaves the happy smilo of satisfaction at the end of day of hard wort 5 Cents. At Your Grocers Children's Coughs may be checked and more erfous conditions of tho taroat will be often avoided by promptly riving the child a dose oi so PISO'S

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