The Syracuse Journal, Volume 16, Number 3, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 17 May 1923 — Page 6

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Local Leaders Help Extension Workers Ruth M. Dix, home demonstration agent of Hendricks county, reports splendid results with local leaders in the Millinery Project. A two day school was held in Danville last month, two women from each township home economics organization attending, These women agreed to return to their communities and give the same instructions to at least eight women. Within a month’s time, three leaders have reported 32 women taught to make hats. At this rate the thirty-two leaders present will have presented the work to 320 women at least —reaching more women than a demonstrator could possibly reach through a two-day school in the county. Home Demonstration Agent Helps Girls and Grown-ups Miss Bernadette Keller, home demonstration agent of Vanderburg county, is not only working with the women of the county, but assisting the girls—the future home makers. Local club leaders have been selected and 300 girls enrolled for this work. The canning demonstration team which competed in the state contest gave three demonstrations, before the Evansville high school and one before the students of Evansville college. A student doing practice teaching from the college saw the demonstration at the high school and asked that it be given before the college girls. -The team used a pressure cooker—many of the students had not seen this before. The members of the demonstration team were eight grade girls, and the college girls marveled at their organization of subject matter, manipulation and poise. Miss Keller chaperoned twenty club girls to the big club roundup held at Purdue University recently. Their happy faces, keen interest in the activities on the campus convince one that club work is worth while.

Harrison County Men Growing Many Chicks . There have been approximately 150 new brooder stoves placed in Harrison County this spring, County Agent N. T.” Chime reports. One man placed more than 70, another 30 while five others have sold brooder stoves. More than one one-half of these went into the hand of new operators. Calls for information on brooding chicks have come in from a very large percentage of the people. There is more than one fourth of a million being brooded in the county at the present time. Practically all of these, so far as they apply to any one farm, are one breed and one variety, with practically every breed and every variety of chickens represented. Farms brooding 1,000 chicks or more "are common. Brows County Poultrymen Find Purdue Way Pays Os the 88 egg record coopera tors in Brown County, 45 completed their records for the year, •ays County Agent R. E. Grubbs. Twenty-seven received an average of over 100 egs per hen. The highest average was attained by Lewis s Kelso, who received an average of 192.6 eggs per hen from his flock of 121 Rose Comb Leghorns. He was able to secure this record by feeding a good ration (the Purdue Laying Ration), culling out the loafers, and by giving the hens the best of care and attention. This co-operator believes in getting eggs during

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the winter months. He sold over 1,600 dozen eggs during January, February and March of this year. Purdue Jersey Sets New State Record Another state production record has been added to those already held by Jersey cows in the Purdue University herd. This is the record for senior three year olds and was made by the heifer. Lady Clarice Mae 343426. She produced in a year 12,530 pounds of milk and 716.16 pounds of fat and thereby increased the Indiana record for Jerseys of this age by over 48 pounds of fat. The former record for this class was 668 pounds of fat made by Sayda’s mariposa, owned by Henry Hellmich of Greensburg. Indiana. Not only does this Purdue heifer establish a new Jersey record but she becomes the highest producing senior three years old of any breed in Indiana, displacing the former holder of this record, Willormoor Miss Carston, an Ayrshire owned by The Gos<ard Breeding Estates at Martinsville, which had a record at this age of 714.96 pounds of fat. Lady Clarice Mae is bred to the junior Jersey sire in the Purdue herd, Fauvic’s Juggler, and is due to freshen in June, and at this time will quality for both the American Jersey Cattle Club •silver and Gold Medals. This heifer is one of the best individuals in the University Jersey herd and comes from some high producing ancestry. While she is. her sire’s first daughter to freshen, she at least gives indication that his other daughters should be high producers. Her sire’s dam has a yearly record of 14,492 pounds of milk and 853 pounds of fat. The dam, granddam and great granddam of Lady Clarice Mae were ill bred in the Purdue herd, and the former two are in the herd today. Her dam has a record of >3O pounds of fat as a three year >ld; her granddam produced 523 pounds of fat as a ten year old, md her great granddam produced 447 pounds of fat as a two year old. a state record at that time, and 504 pounds of fat as a five year old. It can be seen therefore that this heifer comes from high producing ancestry. This heifer was given good care and good feed during the year. Her daily ration was made up as follows:

10 pounds of alfalfa hay; 24 pounds of corn silage; 12-16 pounds of a grain mixture made of: Ground corn, ground oats, wheat bran, cottonseed meal, linseed oil meal and gluten meal. During part of the year she also received from 2 so 4 pounds of best pulp daily. The record made by this heifer is another example of what the three most essential factors for high production can bring about in the way of milk and butterfat records. These factors, good breeding, good feed, and good care, bring results in dairy production and without all of them maximum milk and butterfat production cannot be obtained. Simple Treatment Will Eradicate Cockroaches Cockroaches, roaches, water bugs, or croton bugs, as they are variously called; those brown or

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blackish, active insects which commonly infest kitchens, cellars and bakery shops, and which hide by day and run about at night, are so easily and thoroughly controlled that their continued presence in dwellings is hardly excusable say Purdue University entomologists. Cockroaches are normally scavengers and feed on almost any dead animal matter although also eating cereal products and food materials of all kinds. The damage they do, is not so much to the products actually consumed, but in the soiling and rendering nauseating everything with which they come in contact. The most effective, and at the time simplest means of destroying cockroaches, say the Purdue men, is by using sodium fluoride, the same material now so commonly used for poultry lice, which is obtainable.at most drug stores. Sodium fluoride is a white powder to be applied liberally in the parts of the house frequented by the insects, especially the dark corners ,of closets, pantries, under sinks, nround dark places, behind baseboards, or in cracks where they may enter rooms. For convenience in applying, a small dust gun or blower, such as is obtainable at drug stores is useful. More several applications, probably once a week for two or three weeks. Sodium fluoride is slightly noisonous and care be taken that the dust does not come in contact with foods to be eaten.

SHIPPING BOARD CONTRACT QUESTIONED The Shipping Board recently let a contract for reconditioning the steamship President Buchanan. Representative Black of Brooklyn, charges that the award was made to a private concern at a figure greatly above that submitted by the navy yard at Brooklyn. He says: “Maybe the difference of $1,000,000 between the bid of the x private concern and the bid of the Navy Yard “looks small to the Chairman of the Shipping Board, but I doubt that the head of a family paying a substantial income tax will agree.” The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce has taken the matter up and the subject has been laid before President Harding who promises to investigate. Taxpayers are after at a loss to know where their money goes, and if this charge is true it should not only be "nipped in the bud" but somebody—some "hire man” has been dishonest and should be properly punished. o TRIBITE Viscount Shibusawa. Japanese statesman, who has made several visits to the United States, was asked what he liked best in this country. After admitting he found many strange and delightful things here, he said: “The thing that stays with me and that I dream about even yet; the thing that impressed me most in all my visits, was the unbelievably sweet voice, the constant sweet nature and the extraordinary resourcefulness of the typical American telephone operator." o NATURAL SOAPS Chile has a berry that serves as soap and Peru a tree the bark of which can be used for the same purpose.

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The Stipulations A story in seven parts by P. S. NIELSON (All rights reserved.) „ V. A Discovery Several days after the stranger had so mysteriously appeared at Mrs. Lowell’s home, and asked direction to find the Schultze farm, the mail carrier brought a letter directing Mrs. Lowell to appear at the county seat at the court house at a date within three weeks as a witness, to tell what she knew or had any knowledge of in regard the matter of Mr. White as the guardian of the property belonging to the late Mr. Schultze. The court of the county had at the death of Mr. Schultze appointed Mr. White as a guardian and a trustee of the property, but since Mrs. Schultze’s weakness of mind, Mr. White had not been able to get the warranty deed to the farm, neither with her signature nor any oi the children’s. It was some hindrance which Mr. White, no matter how he had planned and scheemed, had been unable tc overcome. If he had approached Mrs. Schultze immediately after the death of her husband, perhaps things would have been more favorable for him. Now he realized that opportunity would never come, he would not be able to get a title from her or her children, as their whereabouts were unknown. Only the court could grant the legality of the title, and the court refused to give a deed until all means of locating the heirs were exhausted. Still Mr. White knew there would have to be an accounting and«he had figured his service for taking care of the farm for six years, would be about what the farm could be sold for, so now he would go before the court with his expense bill, and demand from the court payment of the bill, or he would claim ownership. It must be said to Mr. White’s credit, he had taken good care of the farm. The house with its furniture, rugs and complete furnishings was in same condition as when Mrs. Schultze was taken away. If Mr. White had misgivings in his conscience not to take away or change any of the house costly interior furnishings, we can not say or if he simply would keep it intact until he as the legal owner could take possession and enjoy in full, what now he would possess with doubt and fear. These thoughts have been, no doubt, delved into from every angle, and argued; but we must admit, the trait of acting rightly as he self stated he did, nevertheless, bore some aspect of doing the right in this case. And as Mr. White had not in any way been implicated in the murder of Mr. Schultze, as far as evidence could prove, the care given the estate even brought him some admiration from the otherwise not too tructful neighbors. He gained prestige, which was what he was seeking to gain the full legal ownership. But now the court had given

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order, on a certain day evidence would be heard and testimony taken in the case, and to have the estate settled and Mr. White’s expense bill paid. All neighbors had been notified to appear and give testimony, who in any way knew or would give evidence in the matter, and Mrs. Lowell as such received the notice. When the stranger left Mrs. Lowell’s house, a few days since after having obtained the information regarding Schultze’s farm, as he was seeking, Mrs. Lowell and Jeannette decided they would themselves take a tour of inspection and look over the place. Not that they expected to discover things of consequence, not that their visit would add in solving the mystery that for six years has been unsolved. So now, Jeannette and her mother have arrived and are walking over the concrete walk leading from the rear porch entrance, into the flower garden, which garden is beautiful as imported sweet smelling plants make a feeling of enjoyment expressed in “there to well to be.” Flower is a life by itself, in the universe of life. Flowers appeal to the eye, to the smell, to the emotion of the soul. “Give the feeling of love to your mother, to your loved one, to your best friend, and nothing will be so pleasing as flowers. Even the last token of friendship, before the coffin is covered beneath the sod is expressed in flowers. And it is well. Flower is the artistic, the beautiful in life.” Between two large walnut trees on the edge of the flower garden, where it runs into the fruit garden, is a rustic bench, large enough for four persons. The bench is partly shaded from the overhanging branches of the trees, but enough open space is left to give a rather comprehensive view of the fruit garden and its diversified fruit trees, all in bearing with bountiful delicious fruits. Jeannette and Mrs. Lowell being tired of walking turned their way toward the bench for rest and conversation, as under the circumstances they both found more to engross their minds since they arrived than they could converse out, but at last some opinion to mutual benefit could be secured by conversation. In leaning over the top of the bench to look behind the arm with the twisted twig of a branch of a tree, Jeannette’s eyes fell upon something white like paper or a letter, which had dropped in the small space where the arm of the bench join the first piece of the seat itself. Being so close to the great walnut tree and with the shade from the overhanging branches, the location where that white appeared could never be noticed except by peculiar examination of the seat itself. Jeannette arose and walking around to the back of the bench, using her hairpin to pick out the paper from its location found to her surprise and—consternation it was a letter from to

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his wife, the former Inga Schultze. How has that letter become entangled in that crack of the rustic bench? Her mother with amazement shared Jeannette’s surprise, and with her more quick reasoning power exclaimed: "That letter must have been lost by the stranger who visited here lately.” Exitedly, they both decided to avait the reading of the letter and find out the contents until they had arrived home and could pursue the reading with more composure. (Continued)

POISON GAS AS LIFE SAVER Through experiments with chlorine gas army chemists have established the fact that epidemics of influenza, grip or colds may be checked almost instantly, it is stated, through the introduction of weak concentrations of the gas into the rooms occupied by those who are to be exposed. The mustard gas is a specific for tuberculosis apparently has been demonstrated by the experiments conducted under the direction of Lieut. Col. Edward B. Vedder, of the army medical corps. Guinea pigs inoculated with tuberculosis germs and with a certain concentration of mustard gas apparently were rendered immune by the gas and all failed to contract the disease. At the same time, an equal number of guinea pigs inoculated with the tuberculosis germs, and not subjected to the mustard gas treatment, all contracted the disease. As a result of experiments in the burning gas known as Lewisite, army chemists have evolved what appears to be an efficacious remedy, if not an infallible cure, for paresis and locomotor ataxia. Lewisite is a burning gas composed of arsenic and acetylene gas. Dr. Lovenhart, of the University of Wisconsin, has the records of some forty-two cases of persons committed to hospitals for the insane with paraesis. Os that number twenty-one have been entirely cured and have left the hospital and taken up lucrative employment, and seven' bid fair to soon be discharged as cured. Judging from the above it is possible that poison gas, one of the horrors of the late war, may ultimately save more lives than it has destroyed or ever will destroy. It may, indeed, prove to be a great blessing to humanity, and especially so if war, which gave it birth, can be abolished.

CORAL AIDS IN BUILDING The fossil coral of the Fiji islands is the best building stone in the world. When first cut it is almost as soft as cheese, but it solidifies in the air until it is almost as hard as granite. o The Journal 52 times a year for $2.

SILENT LETTERS Statisticians point out that 12 percent of the letters used in printed English are silent, and then carry their statistics ahead to show that if all silent letters were eliminated from printing and a phonetic language perfected there would be a decrease of $37,500,000 to the world in the printing bill each year, in time and paper printing, to say nothing *of the time saved for the readers of the printed pages, as phonetic spelling would save not only money alone but mental effort so great the statisticians have no way of estimating it. — Ohio State Journal. —o People who “go the pace” usually arrive—and stay. They do not have steam enough left to get back.

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