Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 61, Number 12, Jasper, Dubois County, 15 November 1918 — Page 2

Letter to a Country Mouse From Her City Cousin

Dear Mouse: Well, here I nrn right exactly like a moiecule. Lonesome?

city crowds make one feel so unnecessary? When you stroll out into the

country, surrouuded with the chickens, pigeons and thousands and thousands crowded country life, you feel that man you stroll out in the city and meet these put on human shape, you feel quite small

nre all here, Mouse, dear, every single one even to Greedy and Grunty, my prize Berkshires. I lunched at the next table to them today. The only

marked difference was that there was beautiful diamonds. Grunty made just would have thought Washington put on purpose than to annoy him, and as he his fat jowls, red and shaking, as he heaven at the same time about how I was tempted to yell "Sewey" and drive

I don't believe he knows or cares to know that if he and his fat companion

had not been exceptions, America could of beef products during the one month yonder. It means nothing to them that ported to the allies 50,000,000 pounds of war this had increased to 125,000,000

amount of pork exported to the allies amounted to 308,000,000 pounds, which is

more than six times the normal and 50 during the last seven years. This is

it's back to the pen with Greedy and Grunty !

The old Dominecker rooster had next to mine, and he was shaking his red ing straw and showing off generally. He was a day, and the girls could not have pictures. One was a stenographer and

big office building where Daddy Dominecker heads a loan business, and be-

lieve me, food conservation meant nothing in their young lives, so long as

daddy paid the bill. They ate straight how they do it and keep their shape, goes without saying. They were built their years had gained much knowledge their system. Two good-looking young

so one of them would engross Dominecker's attention while the other flirted

with the soldiers. Then they would change about, and their team work was

so perfect that poor old rooster paid 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 no olo rooster hadn't crowed so He mlcrht'er oassed for younjr In the barn , But, ho drapped his wings and stepped so -r-i. n.i i, i v, V.. ncc Kir And he ain't by hisself in dat. lyii L rue ij u i it: im iuukii : XT Imnmr Vo. o n'f t hietiAlr in Inf " J 1 . 11UUCJ HD Uli b tJJ ... Mmisp. T hnvp a nice iuicv bit of

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

tifely too risque to be read by modest

years, so I will postpone it. In the meantime, know that in the midst of 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 great spaces in which you are moving, send a. quieting homey letter to ME.

52 7 7 SAVE PITS AND SHELLS Needed in Making Gas Masks How Boys and Girls Can Do Important War Work By tha II. SI. 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 work, to see which member, which club, which district, and which slate can deliver the largest amount 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 bakeries. In addition, seeds should be collected 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 Hed Cross headquarters, which are acting as central stations for collecting and shipping. Words of Wise Men 1 Choose the just man. The partial man may not always be partial to you, but the just man & is always just. The great man expects everything of himself ; the small man expects everything of others. A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in S the wrong, which is but saying ex in other words that lie is wiser today than he was yesterday. Denied a right to serve in the army, 100 Colorado Indians are doine their bit bv workinir on S the highways. They are build ing 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 iYork, 5,737,402; London, 4,522,9G4; Paris, 2.8SS.000 ; Tokio, 2,1SG,000 ; ChiCÄgo, 2,185,000; Berlin, 2,071,000; Vienna, 2,031 ,000.

in the midst of things and feeling-

Well, I should say so. Why is it that pigs, sheep, goats and cows and of tiny folks that go to make up the is indeed lord of creation. But when same folk, just because they Jiave and inferior and abashed. For they no pen around them and Greedy wore as much fuss about his food. You the siigar restrictions with no other guzzled and grunted and grumbled, tried to stuff, and complain to high terrible the food situation really was, him and Greedy back to their pen. never have shipped 86,000,000 pounds of March to our hungry allies over before we entered the war we expork a month. When we entered the pounds, and in March of this year the ner cent greater than any other month what "porkless days" have done. So two pullets to lunch at the table just wattles, flapping his wings, scratchwas sixty, and a grandfather, if he been over twenty-two and pretty as the other a bookkeeper in the same through the menu card. I don't see for that they were easy to look at along leghorn lines, and in spite of of barn-yard tactics. I had b admire aviators were just across from them, the check, which would have bought 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

responsibility.

loud ' - yard crowd, high I i I I scandal that I would write you, but I brother John or Mollie of the tender 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 demon strated 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 agricul ture, 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 ? X3KJ.JtJ IUI V-Cl liljjill JL.I IS I fv,Q nm-nacL nf 10 mnntiic Hill U lUb iU. Uli s VVUläC UlUU lliO I caused damage estimated at S2.43. and as there were approximately two rats to the acre, the amount of damage done was equivalent to the average amount of rent paid bv the tenants of West Perthshire. The campaign has hopn .fofni -inri nonnio 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 resuits always have been gratifying. Three National Forests Recently Added to the List Complying With Weeks Law The president has proclaimed the establishment of three new forests, the final step in carrying out the purpose of the Weeks law. The first, observes a writer in Outlook, is the White Mountain National forest. Its area of nearly 400,000 acres protects the watersheds of' the Androscoggin, Saco, Connecticut and

Ammonoosuc rivers. This watershed their minds as well as their bodies enregion has also long been famous as an j gaged, and the hens will be happy, important recreation ground. contented and will produce more eggs.

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 165,000 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 iaps 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 actu ai operating force of many businesses, and it may lie expected that a 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 ure quite frankly holding their present places as a patriotic duty rather than as the result of a personal desire. Very little study, however, is required to reach the conelusion that in many cases there will be tendency and disposition to broaden the scope of women's employment after the end or the war, and, if de sired by the employers, to accept them as permanent factors in places heretof ore 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 o women who desire permanent industrial opportunity on the same basis with men, their time to "make good" is now at hand and will probably not soon come again. That there are many who real ize the situation no one can doubt. It is equally clear, however, that there are many others who thus far are showing traits which not only disquali fy them from competition with men, but will render them unacceptable in any capacity as soon as men are again available as employees. Ot these traits the most serious probably are the lack of professional pride in work, the fail ure to regard it as a permanent occu pation, and as such to be studied and perfected, and the tendency to lack of Time may correct these traits and develop the women of the country into . 1 ' inniisrrinl wnrlrorc; Tr will hp n opoc- . , . - .v-wt enrv Ihnr thpv trnin nnd Prlnnnfo thorn v "I j -i -. övnto j-vjl uit;ii mono cii-iu. xcv.UqU1c that retention of the new place already assigned them will be dependent en "nay on me merit mey are auie to i 1 JY ! J 1 J show. Platinum Mines of Russia Säid to Afford the World's Most Profitable Dredging The most profitable dredging in the world can be done on the platinum nlacers of Russia, savs the San FranCisco Chronicle. The value of the metal recovered is often equivalent ior consiaeraüi penoas or operation to $5 a cubic yard. When one rememberk that the gravels of the California gold-dredging Heids yielded only about 10 cents to 15 cents a cubic yard on an average, and nevertheless paid well, the possible profits of platinum dredging 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 nlntinum. Thfire I ' j is only one first-class dredce in onera- ) - tion in the Urals. They are mostly of antiquated design and of poor con sstruLtion. First-class dredges working in ma terial of similar characteristics dig several times as much gravel a day in otner countries witii similar climate. Working costs in the Ural regions are twice those in Montana, which has a similar climate, but where the auriferous gravel is much harder to dredge. FOR POULTRY GROWERS Don't forget 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 nossible. Do everything 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 sufiicient litter on the floor and to feed them their groin in this, so as to keep j them working for it all day. Keep 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 durine the i winter.

TRAPS ARE GOOD RAT DESTROYERS Most Reliable for General Use Is Inexpensive Snap or Guillotine Device,

AVOID SHEET METAL BASES They May Be Placed in Great Variety of Favorable Places Around Farm mail Breeds of Dogs Are Most Valuable. (From the United States Department of Agriculture.) No opportunity to kill rats should be neglected 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 eflicient 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 and mice. 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 floor 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 proper height in the door of granary 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 applicable to rat holes in other 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, and 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 harrier, or fence, of light boards is placed about a stack, and dogs inside get all the rodents dislodged. In this way 500 or 600 rats have been destroyed from a single stack. Cats Destroy Mice. Cats are useful about farm buildings mainly because they kill mice. Sometimes they hunt and destroy rats but a cat that will kill an adult rat is rare. The chief ohjection to cats on a farm 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 nse of poisons, but there are situations on the farm in which poisons maj- be used safely and effectively. In the open fields poisoned grain may be scattered near rat burrows. In the poultry yard poisons may be exposed for rats inside darkened boxes. A small, rather shallow box containing the baits is set on the ground with a larger box inverted over it. A hole in the larger box will admit the rat to the food, while chickens will be safe. Strychnine is the safest poi son to nse where poultry run, because hens are immune to small quantities of this poison

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 It Most Satisfactory. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Cut corn for silage when the kernels have passed the milk stage and are beginning to dent. At tills 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 more easily and more compactly it can he packed and, in consequence, the better the quality of the silage. Too much stress cannot be laid npon the necessity of' thoroughly packing .J 1 X-...-. . Cutting Fodder for Silo. the fodder in the silo so as to exclude the air as much as possible. It is upon this one thing that the keeping of silage largely depends. A device consisting of a jointed pipe, or some variation of it, attached to the top of the blower pipe is at present in nse for distributing the cut corn fodder in the silo. By the nse 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 device it is necessary to have at least one extra man in the siloato 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 around, 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 out material in this way. For the top layer of the silo it is good practice to use heavy green stalks jiuxn wiiiun tue ema uuvt: uecu icmoved. This forms a heavy layer that packs well and at the same time ccntains 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 lias given complete satisfaction, but the one mentioned above has given as good resuits as any, especially when the top layer was thoroughly wet down and lacked firmly by tramping. The best practice is to commence feeding as soon 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 the 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 thtj present oats are to be preferred. "When com 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 Better Kind for Certain Localities. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Changing the kind of wheat grown should be done only for the purpose of getting a proved better variety. It is often desirable to do this, provided it is proved beyond question that the new variety is better for tbat locality. So-called "new" varieties, extravagantly advertised at fancy prices, thould be disregarded coiaplet.

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There was never a time when the sacnnces and the help of women were mom appreciated than at the present time. Women should learn war-nursing and nursing at home. Thero 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 Marriage Relationsto be had at somo 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 tonio and corrective is one made up of native herbs and made without alcohol, which makes weak women strong and sick, women well. It is Üio prescription of Dr. Pierce, used by him in active practice many years and now sold by almost every druggist in the land, in liquid 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. Laportt, Ind. "When approaching middle lifo I suffered severely. I had never beforo suffered with any sort of womanly weakness and I was very much afraid that it would go hard wilh rnc, but ono bottle of Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription completely removed my pains and tho critical time passed so easily that I was scarcely conscious of it. It is fifteen years since I took that or bottle of 'Favorite Prescription nnd lam just as Btrcng and veil as can be and have never had tha least sign of weakness since. I think it the rno wonderful medicine for women nnd would adyu It3 use by all women at the critical time of life. Arj. S, J. Baker, 916 Scott St. i Carters ITTLE IVER PILLS. For Constipation Carter's Little liver Pills will set you right over night Purely Vegetable Small Pill Small Doie, Small Prica 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 Catlcura Method Consolation. He Mr. Cadby refused to recognize me today. Thinks, I suppose, that I am not his equal. She Ridiculous. Of course you are. Why, he's nothing but a conceited ldloL Boston Transcript. "Cold In the Head" ! an tcute attack of Nasal Catarrh. Prons who aro subject to frequent "colds In tho head" will And that tho use ot HALL'S CATARRH MEDICINE will build up the System, cleanse the Biooi 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 acta through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of th System. All Drujfgrlsts 75c. Testimonials free. J100.00 for any case of catarrh that HALL'S CATARRH, MEDICINE will not euro. F. J. Cbeney & Co,, Toledo, Ohio. The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. Franklin. The silent partner in a firm always has a lot to say. liiniifliiiiiiiuiinuiiiifliiiiiiMi First Aid for Laundry Troubles If every wash-day is a day for tho 1 'Blues" the right bin will fiend thesa scuttling away Red Cross Ball Blue is the secret of successful washing ; Puro"Vhite, dazzling clothes that leaves tho happv imile of satisfaction at th end of a day of hard work. SCents At Your Grocers' Children's Coughs niay be checked and more eetfoaa conditions of the throat will b often avoided b' promptly civ&sr tho chüd a dost of safe

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