Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 35, Number 115, 2 March 1910 — Page 7

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BARNARD BACKING PURE BREAD MOVE

State Food Expert Champions Plan to Have All Bread Wrapped. ENDORSED IN THIS CITY FEDERATED WOMEN'S CLUBS OF RICHMOND APPROVE OF THE MOVEMENT, BUT THE BAKER3 ARE NOT ENTHUSED. The movement for wrapping bread with oiled paper, which has been endorsed by the Federated Women's clubs of this city, is a popular one with all, excepting the bakers, who are ob jecting to the additional cost. H. E. Barnard, the state food and drug commissioner, has championed the cause of wrapped bread and has gathered many statistics which tend to prove that the cost is t small argument against the reform, while the sanitary conditions are so improved that it makes wrapped bread almost impera tive. An Indianapolis account of the move ment is as follows: Education Campaign. In the monthly meeting of H. E. Barnard, state food and drug commissioner, with his four field Inspectors It was decided that a campaign of ed ucation should be launched among the housewives of the state and among the bakers looking to the wrapping in suitable paper of all bread offered for sale. The question has been up for consideration a number of times, and has been taken up informally with bakers all over the state. The projected campaign which the Inspectors were instructed to begin at once is a result of scientific inquiry Into the relative merits, as to clean liness, of wrapped and unwrapped bread, with the finding leaning heavily In favor of the protected food stuff, According to Bert Cohn, who has spent two months in making a special study of the manner of delivering bread in Indianapolis and vicinity, bread, the, most common of the foodstuffs, is handled with less regard for cleanli ness than any other food carried from place to place for sales purposes. Mr. Barnard declared that the peculiar sticky surface of a loaf of bread makes it especially liable to catch dirt and dust, and, therefore, one of the most destructive carriers of disease. An Economic Value. "Some of the bakers," said Mr. Bar nard, have learned the economic val ue of wrapped bread, and have gone ahead of the state department and now wrap all their output. It is claimed, and the claim is substantiated, that wrapped bread will remain fresh for from three to four days, while unwrapped bread is so dry that at the end of twenty-four hours after delivery, it can not be sold, except as stale bread, for which there is only a restricted demand. Bakers who wrap their bread report a surprisingly low percentage or returned stock. Then again, these bakers place their trademark on the wrapper, and they report to rae that they consider the advertising afforded by the mark, and by the fact that their bread is wrapped, far more than repays the cost of wrapping. Wrapped bread is absolutely clean, however much it is handled, and this fact, the progressive bakers say, has added to their sales among the housewives who are discriminating. "The cost of wrapping bread, we have determined, aside from the item of labor, is about $2 a thousand loaves. This would not be a great deal more than the cost of using the stickers which are now found on almost every brand ol bread." The commissioner also discussed with his inspectors the advisability of an order requiring that all meat shops and grocery stores provide some means of covering meats offered for sale, but no decision was reached, other than that each of the Inspectors is to draw up a rule covering this point. The Bugges'ed rules will be considered in the next meeting " Births and Deaths. Assuming that the total population of the world is l.GOO.000,000 and the average annual death rate 20 per 1.000 population, the total number of deaths in a year Li about 32,000.000. This is at the rate of 87,671 per day. 3,653 per boor, 61 per minute and 1 per second. As the population of the world increases by about 7,000.000 per year, the total number of births must be in excess of the number of deaths, or about 39,000.000. This Is at the rate of 106,849 births per day, 4,452 per hour. 74 per minute and 1.2 per second. New York American. Poison Does It Itheamntlam Caased by Trie Arid sad Other Polaoaa. If you have Rheumatism, get rid of it; don't think you must suffer longrer, for Ijco II. Fine has a remedy that will free you fftm this poisonous disease or he will give you back the 50c j'ou ' paid for it. It never fails. It cured a Cleveland mau. Why should It not cure you. He says: For several years I was a terrible sufferer from Kheumatlsm In my back and hips, and was unable to get in or out of bed without assistance. A friend recommended Rheuma and It cured me completely." Elmer B. Clayton, 58 Center Are. Rheuma acts quickly. 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Tills matter must not be reprinted" without special permission. 80ME OHIO SPRAYING RE8ULTS. When the average orchard owner who lias not been spraying bis trees , la broached on the question of spraying. quite naturally one of the first points be raises is, "Does it pay?" With a view to giving an emphatic affirmative answer to this question a number of the state experiment stations have during the past three or four years conducted most instructive co-operative spraying experiments, in which tbj matter seems to have been given very conclusive demonstration. Of the above type of experiments were those conducted by the Ohio station In 1907. Twelve acres of an orchard near Amherst were selected for the experiment, the trees being twenty feet in height and having about an equal spread of top. A few trees were left unsprayed for purposes of comparison. At harvest time 2,500 bushels of perfect apples were gathered, a conservative estimate of the gain due to spraying being $1,4(30, or ovef $100 per acre, and this after the cost of spraying, amounting to $123, bad been subtracted. Set, as this orchard was, In the midst of many other unsprayed orchards, the demonstration was very convincing, and as a result of the showing made many orchardists of the state were convinced of the practical value of spraying and took the work up the following year. The average of picked sound fruit at harvest time on all the trees sprayed was 96 pes cent, while the same average for thmnsprayed trees was less than 58 per cent. The main fact proved in connection with this work is that if one has an orchard which is worth anything at all he cannot afford to leave it unsprayed,1 as so doing will reduce both the quantity and quality of his fruit below the point where he can successfully compete with the growers of clean fruit On the other hand, if the orchard is too far gone to justify the expense of spraying, it were better cut out and converted into stove wood, as It Is merely an Incumbrance on the ground. HOW IT WAS GROWN. When one reads of an exceptional yield of grain or corn an interest very naturally attaches to the methods followed in producing it. For this reason those who have read the previous reference in these notes to the authenticated yield of 184 bushels of corn secured from a single acre by John Sundberg will be interested in knowing how it was grown. The ground on which this fine yield was produced was second bottom Missouri valley soil which had been in clover pasture some five years preceding. It was plowed in the fall, and in th" spring it was given the usual thorough preparation for corn, including disking and harrowing. An acre and a half were chosen in the richest part of the field, one acre being laid out for the actual test. The grower figured out in advance just how many plants he would have to have to produce 150 bushels at harvest To this were added a sufficient number of kernels to make up for those that for one cause or another would fall to produce ears. He planted the corn early in May, using a drill and double planting, so that the rows were twenty-one Inches apart, the kernels being dropped eighteen inches apart in the row. The cultivating was done with a single horse and a five tooth cultivator, this being given at frequent intervals so as to keep the soil loose and moist At husking time an actual count showed 11.880 stalks with ears averaging in weight 14.4 ounces. The land was rerneasured and the corn weighed in the presence of a justice of the peace. The variety planted was Reid's Yellow Dent. It is interesting to note in connection with this yield that it was just about six times the average yield per acre for corn the country over. It is worth remembering, too, that, in addition to using the finest pure bred seed obtainable, the corn was grown on a very rich piece of bottom land and was given ideal cultivation. When corn growers will give more heed to the three factors here mentioned in the growing of their corn the yield of this great cereal will be materially increased. POES CLIMATE CHANGE? An inspection of meteorological records made in semiarid sections during the past fifty years seems to give little encouragement to the theory that the breaking up of the soil in those sections and the growing thereon of tilled crops tend to increase the actual amount of rainfall from year to year. The most that can be fairly said seems to be that tillage of the soil hi sections of short rainfall makes possible a maximum utility of the moisture that does fall, while there Is little question that mellow soil and growing crops serve to reduce somewhat the withering effect of hot south winds in that they tend to lessen rather than increase their capacity to absorb moisture. The Missouri legislator who left political life and embarked in the skunk business as a more congenial and savory occupation quite likely played the role of reformer for a bunch of unfeeling and unresponsive constituents. The feeder is certainly not living up to his opportunities in a progressive age who doggedly stuffs high priced feed into a scrub steer which will fetch $4 when he could just as well convert the same feed into grade or high grade beeves that would fetch from $8 to $9 per hundredweight A well known agricultural paper in a recent issue recommended, unquestionably as the result of an error or oversight on the part of the "deviT or managing editor, the sowing of from 100 to 200 pounds of clover seed per .acre. In view of the fact that ten pounds would be a superabundance of seed, the error will be detected at sight v.''"' There may be readers of these notes who would like information relative to the several irrigation projects which are being carried to completion "ndec .the annersJcion- of tto----in1

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government' or about public lands anywhere which are still subject to homestead entry. Inquiries addressed to the office ef public lands. Washington, D. C stating what Is wanted, will secure the information which Is sought The fellow who " has been dnpins folks In some of the eastern states through the sale of a dope which he claims will render poultry immune from the worst ailments that afflict them for the rest of their lives is first cousin to that other chap who operated in about the same territory a year or so ago with a spray mixture the application of which he said would protect trees from their several insect and fungous pests for a term of several years. That the sheep business bids fair to be a paying one for some time to come is indicated in figures which have recently been published showing that since 1873 there has been a decrease in the world's flocks of sheep of 93.000,000 bead, or more than 3,000,000 bead a year. The decrease seems to be In quite a measure due to movements of population which have discouraged the keeping of the large flocks of the past a tendency which means that the keeping of a limited number on the small farm would be attended with Increased profit At Rot ha ins ted, England, Is located a famous government experiment station where exhaustive experiments in soil fertility and crop production have been conducted during the past fifty years. On one field to which no manure and no plant food has been given the average yield of wheat per acre during this interval has been 12.9 bushels. Another field which has been heavily fertilized with barnyard manure has given an average of 35.5 bushels for the same period. A third field which has been re-enforced with commercial fertilizers has produced 37.1 bushels of wheat per acre in the same period. These English experiments should have a suggestion or two for some American farmers who are getting perilously near the twelve bushel yield as a result of continuous cropping to whe.it. The application of lime to land does not add to its store of fertilizing elements, but merely serves to correct an acid condition of soil, thereby enabling plant life to utilize the elements already stored there. Some experiments lately conducted by the New Jersey station showed that on sandy soils ground unburncd limestone gave better results than burned and slaked lime. In similar experiments conducted by the Florida experiment station the application of ground unburn ed limestone doubled the yield of beggarweed, a legume which is classed as the clover of the state. An interesting fact which was developed in connection with this test was that the liming of the soil resulted also to a large increase In the number and size of nitrogen nodules, upon which the value of the legumes as soil enricbers depends. This seirrice rendered by lime is one that those who are desirous of getting a start In alfalfa and some other legumes should keep in mind. Among the several elements of the soil that make the growth of plant life possible is humus, or vegetable matter In various stages of decomposition, consisting of the roots, stalks and leaves of the plants which have grown thereon In a wild state or the straw, litter and manures which have been mechanically, distributed. Not only does such decaying vegetable matter contain Important chemical fertilizing elements, but it gives the soil that friability and' looseness so essential to an easy manipulation of it with plow and cultivator and so favorable to a ready circulation of the soil air and moisture, indispensable factors In a rapid growth of plant life. In view of these facts the tiller of the soil should keep constantly in mind both the wisdom and necessity of maintaining this supply of humus in the soil and increasing it when occasion requires. A proper understanding of the matter should put a stop to the burning of stubble and straw, should mean the turning down now and then of growths of green manures and the raking and scattering of the largest possible quantities of stable manure. It is under a system of grain farming that the supply of humus in the soil is most rapidly depleted, and on this account the.Mystem is .liyrrul one and KKY OR BLADDER AND YOOR LAI Several doses will make your out-of-order Kidneys act fine. Hundreds of folks here are needlessly miserable and worried because of out-of-order kidneys, backache or bladder trouble. If you will take several doses of Pape's Diuretic all misery from a lame back, rheumatism, painful stitches, inflamed or swollen eyelids, nervous headache, irritability, dizziness, wornout, sick feeling and other symptoms of overworked or deranged kideney3 will vanish. Uncontrollable, smarting, frequent urination (especially at night) and all bladder misery ends. This unusual preparation goes at once to the disordered kidneys, bladder and urinary system, and distributes its healing, cleansing and vitalizing influence directly upon the organs

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where stock raising and dairying can take its place. "Sufltcient nntu aay is tae evil thereof should net be cosstrued as a Scriptural excuse fer a fellow failing to look ahead in testing his seed corn. Bather sbeuld one be guided by that secular admonition, "The Lord helps those who help themselves." The number of bushels of apples ruined annually through codling moth infestation the moth responsible for the apple worm is placed at between 20,000,000 and 25.000,000 bushels, or nearly one-third of the total crop marketed during the past two or three years. Here is a leak, a leak of the biggest kind, that orchardists ought in good conscience to put an end to. If cement Is used as a stable flooring a generous supply of bedding should be used. This .will serve to protect the floor and the horses' feet and will offset the harm that might come from the tendency of such a floor to gather dampness. The saruo principle will apply In the use of cement as a floor for the henhouse, particularly duriug the months when the hens are closely confined therein. To any one who is interested in the project of earning a livelihood by the Intensive cultivation of a small area of land a little book lately come from the press of Macmillan & Co., New York city, will prove both entertaining and Instructive. Its title is "Three Acres and Liberty" and its author a Mr. Bolton, who was assisted in its j preparation by some of the leading agriculturists and horticulturists of the country. The raising of more bushels of grain and tons of hay to the acre from a given piece of land serves only to j aggravate the matter of an exhaustion I of soil fertility unless along with the ! harvesting of the larger yields there ' goes the adoption of such methods of i culture as will enable the soil to main tain its supply of fertilizing elements nothwlthstanding the heavier draft placed upon It. This Is a point not often referred to and yet one that may well be kept In view. Ohio and Mississippi valley farms are slowly but surely being' threatened with the same fate which has overtaken all too many eastern farms and southern plantations through a long continued and ruinous system of cropping which has had no thought for a maintenance or restoration of soil fertility. The only course that can prevent such a calamity from being fully realized in the sections mentioned is the adoption of rational methods in the handling of the farm, crop rotation, dairying and stock raising and in general ceasing to employ thirty dollar methods on. land that is worth from $80 to $160 per acre. In Connecticut and some other new England states the laws which have been in, force for some years past having in view the protection of deer have resulted in such an increase in their numbers that the animals have become a positive source of injury to gardeners and orchardists. One case reported lately in an eastern agricultural journal tells of the destruction of 500 young apple trees by them, the trees being virtually stripped of all their smaller branches. An agitation is already afoot looking to a repeal or such modification of the law as will result in reducing the number of the deer and keeping them in their legitimate haunts, the unfilled meadows and timberlands. A. recourse at hand for those who occupy positions which they feel are economically oppressive as well as of uncertain tenure is the taking of the steps necessary to secure a small tract of fertile land. This cannot be done in a moment, but once it is taken as an object for achievement and worthy of one's best efforts a long step toward the desired goal is made. A home on the land and a living exacted from the few acres adjoining mean hard work, but they carry with them a guarantee of health, contentment and economic self respect Were this movement, of population from the cities to the soil to become at all general it would effect a cure of the worst ills, social, economic and moral, that folks suffer from today, while it would mean better wages and more considerate treatment for those who remained in industrial pursuits. The decadence of many a small town of. a thousand, Inhabitants or Jgss may MISERY GOES BACK FEELS FINE. and glands affected, and completes the cure before you realize it The moment yo ususpect any kidney or urinary disorder, or feel rheumatism coming, begin taking this harmless medicine, witb ' the knowledge that there is no other remedy, at any price, made anywhere else in the world, which will effect so thorough and prompt a cure as a fifty-cent treatment of Pape's Diuretic, , which any druggist can supply. Tour physician, pharmacist banker or any mercantile agency will tell you that Pape. Thompson & Pape of Cincinnati, is a large and responsible medicine concern, thoroughly worthy of your confidence. Only curative results can come from taking Pape's Diuretic, and a few days treatment means clean, active, healthy kidneys, bladder and urinary organs and you feel fine. Accept only Pape's Diuretic fiftycent treatment from any drug storeanywhere in the world.

Be UteVetsut"of seemXacty lnevitaoie economic coaditioas. agricultural and Industrial, but it ia -worth while citing the fact that this lease seems coincident with the amassing of enormous fortunes by big mail order houses in the large cities which bear none of the burden of taxation imposed ia the small towns notwithstanding the fact that they are sapping their very lifeblood. Some day farm dwellers will wake up to the fact that their lands have shrunk in value, or at least failed to advance to the point that they otherwise would, as a result of this trading away from home. There can be no otlier result. The only reason why land is worth more near a town of 5,000. 10,000 or 20.000 ieopIe U not because it is more fertile or productive, but singly owing to the fact that Is lies adjacent to a good town. A grain elevator, stockyards and postoffice are necessary adjuncts to every towu, but they do not in themselves serve as a

flaming advertisement suited to attract men ef energy or business enter prises of real value. TART NEW SERVICES Local Western Union Branch to Send Out Night Wire Letters. LOW RATES ARE OFFERED Announcement is made by the local office of the Western Union Telegraph company that it is now prepared to handla long night messages at the rates customarily charged for ten-word messages. The Western Union has a large un employed mileage of wire at night which is not earning anything. These wires must be maintained in any event to take care of the regular day busi ness, and it is apparently the idea of the new interests in the telegraph company to let the public have the benefit of them. The announcement states that "a special night letter service has been established for Richmond. The charge for this service will be the standard day rate for ten words, for the transmission of 50 words or less, and one-fifth of such standard day rate will be charged for each additional ten words or less." To be taken at these rates "night letters must be written in plain English language, that is to say, code words or communications written in foreign languages win not be accepted. The messages will be taken at any hour up to midnight and transmitted at the company's convenience during the night for delivery the following morning. For the present, the new service is confined to Western Union offices in the United States. The tariffs charged for "night letters" are so low it is expected that the new service will be largely availed of by business concerns and others to quicken their correspondence by using the telegraph instead of the mails. A "night letter sent by telegraph will reach Its destination at the opening of business hours the following morning, thus saving as much as three or four days when long distances are involved. PERKINS IS IMPROVED. John Perkins, manager of the Richmond Light, Heat and Power company who has been suffering from a severe attack of grippe and tonsilitis, is able to be out.

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