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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-9-2, Page 6POULTRY'S PART IN BACK•TO- LAND MOVEMENT, By A. P. Marshall, Niagara Falls, Canada. If one could trace back the source 1f a very great many developed de- sires for rural endeavor ultimately re- sulting in lifework on $he farm of one sort or another no doubt they would reveal an important part played by the wish to produce and pleasure de- rived in the growing of poultry. This idea seemed to loom up on. ac- count scount of incidents following in close succession, that all seemed to imply the same thing. In the first place we ran across.a man, a barber by trade who of rural inclinations, keeping his garden and chickens, finally made the. break and in four years has one of the very neatest '7 • acre places we have ever seen. The chickens helped materially, but in this case are really only one of the products of his most successful place. Going through a thriving fruit sec- tion, we noticed one of the tidiest sort of places where several dozen children were . berry picking, and enquiry elicited the information that this was a back -to -the -land movement with the most satisfactory results. In evidence were the brooders and fairly large numbers of thriving chickens giving evidence that they were playing an important if perhaps not a major part in the good results obtained. The following day on the street of a neighboring city we met an old busi- ness acquaintance from whom we had bought quite a lot of a commodity he was then supplying. From one thing to another the present came under discussion and here we find another on solid walls of water, and forever shut a fruit farm as keen in the carrying off from the outer world—if indeed on of this as though he had been at that had survived. Sheets of water it for many years. Still in the same day we meet a very successful travel- ler and falling into conversation while watching a lively game of tennis, he too volunteers the information that he is going to have a poultry farm of about 80 acres. Much of his plans al - ,ready figured out, he is preparing to bow the subject in a way that will help him make less mistakes when he really tackles the serious endeavor to Make a living and a surplus along this line. what does this mean and what les- son can it have to any one who gives the matter any thought and has any inclination along these lines'? Re- flection could not but make us feel the necessity in each and every case for the years of apprenticeship as it were at a comparatively small cost or spread out in such a way as to be hardly noticeable. If every man or woman who has any idea of poultry farming or any other, in fact could do so in a comparatively small way for a number of years, they could at least :termine' if the inclination is still strong, even if this would not show what results might be expected. Much of school training seems to have lit- tle value or meaning to us and even in after life some of it seems to give us nothing that proves of use, but who can say any mental or physical effort was valueless if not in a practical, perhaps by the moral or indirect re- sult'ft might have had. Some have said that there is little difference in men, but this difference makes a big difference. Very often ability may be in favor of the one who fails, but knowledge, persever- ance,_i1nd a spirit that appreciates When one thinks seriously of the mat- ter of making a really successful career along any given line that it gives little more than time to acquire the knowledge and experience to make the best success. Any knowl- edge, therefore, acquired before its +imperative need is of the very great- est value and may save hundreds of dollars if not thousands when the real test comes. Many have through a passing interest in poultry gradually acquired the knowledge that enabled them to put in practice in a larger way what they had found best work- ing under limited conditions and with restricted possibilities. Many a successful fruit and poultry farmer has blessed the fact that his restricted poultry interest led him to learn many things that stood him in excellent stead in his new farm surroundings and enabled him because of the acquired habit of successfully specializing to take up the proposi- tion from a new angle and by his pe- culiar business qualifications build up a trade that means for him a splendid living and satisfactory work. If anyone therefore take a fancy for poultry work it seems as though it would be well to give this side of the subject due consideration. A lit- tle reflection will show that it would be very wise to study the subject in sucha way as to learn all that might be of assistance when the time comes to require to develop the poultry into a line that will bring a satisfactory living. --d' A cloud of very small drops of rain, one mile up, would take about seventeen hours to sink to the earth. WREN IT RAINS IN PANAMA, Harry A. Franck and Three Comrades Had Awful Experience, Before us spread the reposing powerful, sun -shimmering Pacific. Across the bay, clear as an etching, lay Panama, backed by Ancon hill. In regular cadence the waves swept in on tit sands, Such was the scene de- scribed by Mr. Harry A, Franck in' "Zone Policeman 88," when he and three comrades went one day for a swim in the ocean. We dived in, keeping an eye out for the sharks, although we knew they never came so far in, and probably would not bite if they did, The sun blazed down white-hot from a cloud- less sky, The Lieutenant and Ser- geant Jack had not been able to come, but we arranged the races and jumps in the sand for all that, and went into them with a will and -- A raindrop fell. Then a few more. Then many more. Before we had fin- ished nished the hundred -yard dash it' was undeniably raining. Half a minute later "bucketfuls" would have been a weak simile, The blanket of water blotted out Panama and Ancon hill across the bay, blotted out the distant bathers, than even those close at hand. We remained under water for a time—to keep dry. But the rain whipped our faces as with thousands of stinging lashes. We crawled out and dashed blindly up the bank to- ward the sawmill, the rain beating on our all but bare skins. It felt as it might feel to stand in Miraflores locks and let the sand pour down upon us from sixty feet above. When at last we stumbled under cover and up the stairs to where our clothing hung, it was as if a weight of many tons had been lifted from our shoulders. The sawmill was without side walls, and consisted only of a sheet -iron roof and floors. The storm pounded on the roof with a roar that made the sign language necessary. It was as if we were surrounded on all sides by "Weih.l,10 the coming, speed the partint lest" is a ' misquotation., Pope, the outlier, wrote "the going guest." slashed in farther and farther across the floor. We took to huddling be- hind beams and under saw benches— the militant storm hunted us out and wetted us bit by bit. "The Admiral" and I tucked ourselves away on the forty -five -degree I beams up under the roaring roof. The angry water gath- ered together in columns, and swept in and up to soak us. At the end of an hour the downpour had increased some hundred per cent. That was the day when little harm- less streams tore themselves apart into great gorges, and left their pa- thetic little bridges alone and deserted out in the middle of the gulf. That was the famous May 12, 1912, when Ancon recorded the greatest rainfall in her history -7.23 inches, virtually all within three hours. Three of us were ready to surrender and swim home through it. But there was the Admiral to consider. He was dressed clear to his scarfpin—and Panama tailors tear horrible holes in a police- man's salary. So we waited, and dodged, and squirreled into smaller holes for another hour; and grew steadily wetter. At length dusk began to fall, but instead of dying with the day, the fury of the storm increased. It was then that the Admiral capitulated, seeing fate plainly in league with his tailor; wigwagging his decision to us, he led the way down the stairs and dived into the world awash. Wet? We had not taken the third step before we were streaming like fire hose. There was nearly an hour of it, splashing knee-deep through what had been little dry, sandy hol- lows; steering by guess, for the eye could make out nothing fifty yards ahead, even before the cheese -thick darkness fell; bowed like nonagenar- ians under the burden of water; stag- gering back and forth as the storm caught us crosswise or the earth gave way under us. The Admiral's patent - leather shoes—but why go into pain- ful details? The wall of water was as thick as ever when we fought our bowed and weary way up over the railway bridge. When we had gath- ered force for the last dash, w plunged toward our several goals. As the door of 111 slammed behind me, the downpour suddenly slackened. As I paused before my room to drain, It stopped raining. 4. Ages of Famous Soldiers. Napoleon was 45 at Waterloo and never reached the sixties. Marl- borough was 62 at Oudenarde, and by no means in his dotage at 65. Freder- ick the Great was 51 at the end of his great campaign. On the other hand, Moltke at 65 was only just establish- ing his name in world -history. Rag- lan was about 66 when he was ap- pointed commander-in-chief in the Crimea. Dadetzky, one of the few great soldiers Austria has produced, was 82 when he led the Austrians in their last successful war. ,Wolseley's last campaign was fought at 52, but Lord. Roberts began his last at 67, Sir John French will be 63 in Septem- ber. An. Alternative. Caller (at door of apartment house)—"What, no elevator! Must I walk up?" Janitor—"No; you may run, if you like." Yawning is due to a deficiency in the air supply to the lungs, and is Nature's method of rectifying the de- ficiency, A Tremendous Offering of Peaches to the CANADIAN RE CROSS SOCIETY THE JORDAN HARBOR PEACH RANCH WILL COMMENCE SEPTEM- BER 1ST TO PACK AND SAIF :100,000. GALLON HOSPITAL SIZE SANI- TARY • CANS, EACH CONTAINING 6Y2 TO 7 LBS. OF• SUPERB BRAND PEACHES FOR DISTRIBUTION THROUGH THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY TO OVERSEAS HOS- PITALS IN BRITISH ISLES, FRANCE AND BELGIUM, This undertaking is of such magni- tude, representing fifty ear loads of FRESH FRUITS and the employment of over Two Hundred men and women dur- ing the PEACH SEASON, PACKING DAILY 5,000 LARGE HOSPITAL CANS. These peaches are peeled, pitted and halved, then packed in large HOSPITAL SANITARY CANS, in HEAVY SYRUP, then crated (six cans in each orate), to be forwarded to destination through the CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY. The total cost is FIFTY CENTS per CAN (50c). this charge includes all ex- penses. These fruits are packed EX- CLUSIVELY for the CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY AND CANNOT BE PURCHASED by the GENERAL PUB- LIC, as they are prepared and delivered to the CANADIAN RED CROSS SO- CIETY AT ACTUAL COST. By remitting 50 Cents through the CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY, or direct to the JORDAN HARBOR PEACH RANCH,.' JORDAN STATION P.O., Ontario, it insures one of these Large Cans of BEAUTIFUL SUPERBA BRAND PEACHES going forward to our sick and wounded soldiers. Don't delay in accepting this OPPOR- TUNITY. THESE FRUITS are UR- GENTLY NEEDED and will be much appreciated by our Gallant Defenders. All SUBSCRIPTIONS will be duly ac- knowledged, and should be completed by September 1st. Remit now. Contributions are being received from all parts of Canada. THINK OF OUR SICK AND WOUNDED DEFENDERS IN OVERSEAS' HOSPITALS. It's UP TO YOU TO "DO YOUR BIT" AT ONCE. WHAT IS YOUR ANSWER? WOMEN OF FRANCE PLAY NOBLE PART DOING EVERY KIND OF WORK AT PRESENT. Army Depends on Women To Make Ammunition—Teach French to Alsatians. When this year is over there will be but few crafts and fewer professions barred to women in France. A year of war has taught French women the tricks of practically every trade in which muscular strength is not a dominating factor. What suffra- gettes have clamored vainly for thorughout all the years of their struggle, twelve months of combat have brought about in France almost unconsciously. French women haven't yet achieved the vote as the result of the war, but they could have it in a jiffy if they asked for it, and they have achieved every other recognition save that of the right to fight in the trenches. Be- hind the firing line they are fighting —and every Frenchman will gladly concede it—quite as heroically and efficiently as the men. Their impor- tance from the military standpoint even can scarcely be over-estimated. To mention one instance, if the thou- sands upon thousands of women en- gaged in making shells and cartridges in France were to quit work, Gen. Joffre's entire strategic scheme would crumble away in a few weeks and the war might come to a disastrous con- clusion. In every field of endeavor into which she was pitchforked by the events of a year ago, the French wo- man has "made good." Every char- ity, from the Red Cross down to teaching the children of reeonquered Alsace the French language, depends upon her for success. Commerce would come to a standstill and agri- culture cease to exist if she had not shown herself capable to keep her husband's office or shop open and his land tilled in his absence at the front. Even the Bank of France might have to close its doors without her aid. In the Bank of France. This last statement is based on in- formation given by Mme. Julie Sieg- fried, head of the National Federation of Women's Suffrage Societies. "Of the number of employes of the Bank of France summoned to the col- ors," Mme. Siegfried said, "more than 25 per cent. have been replaced by women. The same is true to an even greater extent in the Somptoir d+Es- compte and the Credit Lwonnais. And most of the women thus engaged in work that is as essential to the Gov- ernment as the army itself were quite unfamiliar with such work before the war. The Governor of the Bank of France himself assured me that at present he is quite content with the accomplishment of his women employ- es, and that affairs could not be car- ried out more smoothly. "It is scarcely possible to enumer- ate the number of industries in which women play a necessary role because of the war. In the manufacture of munitions alone there is an army of A HOLLOW VICTORY • The Tluntcrs; Vnd afder all Ws cork only dee hollow log vos ours. Gott strafe der Eoarl —The Montreal Daily Soar: women enrolled. Their efficiency is unquestioned. Recently an officer of the general staff told me that women had been found to be superior to men in the making of certain parts of a shell because their fingers are more supple than men's as a result of long hours with the needle. "Transportation by underground railway or surface cars would be im- possible in most French cities nowa- days were it not for the feminine guards and station attendants. The Paris 'Metro' runs without a hitch, yet all its subordinate employes are women. They are holding only the jobs left vacant by their husbands or brothers or sweethearts, of course; but isn't it likely that those whose menfolk are killed or permanently disabled will continue in the same capacity after the war? Have Learned Self -Reliance. "With all its evils, the war has be- stowed upon France two lasting bene- fits—it has taught French women self-reliance in the struggle that goes on outside their own homes, and taught Frenchmen esteem for the abilities of their women. There are many thousands of women who for the, past year have conducted the businesses of their husbands in the market or on the farm, and among them, alas! are those who must con- tinue to do so when peace comes. These women in this c'.readful year have learned to know the world of af- fairs, and so have their sisters of the poorer classes, doing man's work in the factory or the fields. "The same knowledge has come to the rich women of society, for the administrative talents they have re- vealed in conducting the vast philan- thropies arising from wartime misery can never again be submerged be- neath social frivolities. "We French women don't prize the franchise so highly as our sisters in England and the United States. What we want first is equality in work and wages, and that I am con- fident we have shown ourselves to be entitled to, and will receive when the war is won." The Government allows the wife or woman dependent of a soldier 25 cents a day, plus five cents a day for each ing, extending over several months, child. Living rent free because of cost some hundreds of pounds. An the moratorium, it is perhaps possible action for damages against the cul - in the country districts for a woman grit rival establishment resulted in to keep herself and her children alive swinginng damages, the celebrated on this allowance. In the eity it is K.G. who led for the plaintiffs em - out of the question. There are nu- phasising the costliness of the shad - morons charities, designated under owing that had to be done. .Perhaps the lccshommops,onwhich head olfhelp des"outivrtutoirs,e"wives or ono ofthe strangest reasons for hav- ing a person shadowed was revealed to earn a living in addition to. their in the course of a law case in which Government income. But, as Ga'.. one society beauty was the plaintiff oriel Hanotaux, one of the "humor- and a rival beauty the defendant, It tale" of the Academie Francaise, re- was complained by the aggrieved lady eently pointed out. in an article on- that the defendant had had her shad- titled "Tine Work of the Women," it owed in order to discover the beauty is their own initiative and.adaptabil- shop where the jealous one obtained ity which chiefly has kept French- ;artificial aid with respect to her com- women and children from want, piexion. Nr, � An income tax means an outgo Not a Desirable One, cheque:' First Grad—"Have you found an All mon are equal the day they are born and the day they are buried. NEWS FROM ENGLAND NEWS 13Y MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE, Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Comner- • cial World. Many of the London hotels are eX-, perienoing a run on cider. In Manchester recently 1,273 mon joined' the colors in one week. A few weeks ago 70 unmarried members of the Brighton police force enlisted. I Fifty nurses from New Zealand have arrived in London in addition to a party that has proceeded to France. About 600 municipal officers and teachers in Liverpool have made an offer to the Board of Agriculture to spend their holidays farming, Bereft of his coachman by the war, the vicar of Crawley now rides to his church at Worth every Sunday on a Motorcycle. The youngest soldier in the British army is said to be Sam Brouily of Cheetham, Manchester, who recently enlisted at the age of 13. There are 163 girl clerks in the Bank of England now. Every bank in the country is now throwing open its doors to women workers. Thousands of people lined the streets at Southend recently on the occasion of Queen' Mary's visit to the Palace Hotel to wounded soldiers. More than a thousand elementary schools have been commandeered for military purposes since the war be- gan. In England alone there have been 987. The Isle of Wight bee disease which has baffled scientific investigat- ors for many years, has now practic- ally cleared the districts around Lon- don of bees. Owing to the increase in the price of material and the decreased demand for wooden shoes, master doggers in Bolton and surrounding districts are raising the price for clogs. Appeals to householders to destroy all rubbish are being suggested by many borough councils, in view of the shortage of labor and the conse- quent accumulation of refuse in dust bins. Princess Mary and Prince Henry of Battenberg, white motoring at Fresh.: water, I.W., collided with a motor- cycle ridden by a military officer. Fortunately they were not injured. THE GOSPEL OFHATE. The Prime Minister has announced that the total number of men that Germans Dislike of England Has Parliament has authorized should Increased Tenfold. be raised for the army in the present Some politicians, mostly of an ob- financial year is 3,250,000. scure type, have at times endeavored The Lord Mayor of London presid to persuade the British working men ed over a' conference of leading hotel that they have no real interest in this keepers, when it was decided to pre- war, and that the triumph of the Ger-, pare a scheme for the training of man arms would not adversely affect English waiters to take the place of their fortunes or materially change the course of their lives, writes Earl Cromer in the London Spectator. foreigners. Sub -Lieut. F. S. Kelly (R.N.V.R.), the famous Oxford oarsman, has There cannot be a greater error. It been reported wounded in the Dar - is no exaggeration to say that a com-' dandles. He was a member of the plete German victory would exercise Dark Blue eight in 1903 and also a profound effect on the political stat- won the Wingfield Sculls.. us, the material wealth, the social While on mounted drill,'Private A. condition and the surrounding moral J, Payne of the 15th Hussars, of Glou- atmosphere of every individual sub- nester, was thrown from his horse, ject of King George V. A partial via- which bolted back to stables, drag - tory would produce changes in pro- ging him in the stirrups for over a portion to its extent. Let it not be male. He was dead when picked up. supposed for one moment that " any Of the 2,210 old Etonians serving in degree of statesmanlike generosity the army and navy, 321 have been would be extended to the vanquished. killed in action or died of wounds, 20 Englishmen have been slow to recog- are missing, 432 wounded, 21 prison- nize the extent to which the old Ger- ers, and 261 have been mentioned in many, with its really noble aspire- despatches. tions and high standard of morals, has - -' passed away. Its place has been talo- A TALK WITH THE BOYS. en by a Germany one of whose prin — cipal national characteristics is ex Some Good Advice By the Late Robert treme vinveolJ. Burdette. capacity fordictihatingness, otherand nations. Acic- "Remember, my son," said Robert cording to the testimony of all corn- J. Burdette, "you have to work. Whe- petent observers the hatred for Eng ther you handle a pick or a pen, a land which existed before the war wheelbarrow or a set of books, dig - exceeded anything which we could ging ditches or editing a paper, ring - have believed possible. It has, of ing an auction bell or writing funny course, now been increased tenfold. things, you must work. If you look around you youwill see the men who r TRADE SECRETS. are most able to live the rest of their lives without work are the men who Costliness of the Shadowing That work the hardest. Don't be afraid of Has to be Done: killing yourself with overwork. It is beyond your power to do that on the How trade secrets become the pro- sunny sideof thirty. They die some- perty of rival firms is the cause of a times, but itis because they leave vast amount of shadowing of suspect- work at six p.m., and don't get home ed employees. Such secrets are re- till midnight. It is the interval that sponsible for a large portion of the kills, my son. The work gives you private inquiry agent's prosperity. In an appetite for your meals, it lends the case of a celebrated fashion firm solidity to your slumbers; it gives a the leakage of secrets with regard to perfect and grateful appreciation of a new designs caused half -a -dozen shad- holiday. There are young men who Owers to be employed; and the traek do not work, but the world is not proud of them: It does not oven know their names; it simply speaks of them as 'old So-and-So's boys.' No- body likes them. The great, busy world does not know that they are there. So find out what you Want to be and iclo, and take off your coat and do it. The busier you are the less. harm you will be apt to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the bright- er and right-er'and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied will all the world bo with you," 3 Correct? opening yet, old man?" "Carl," said the teacher, "can you tell.. me what an inebriate is?" "Yes, ma'am," replied Carl. "It is'. an animal that does not have a back, bone." There are 40,000 muscles in an ele- phant's briink, and only 527 in a man's body. Second Grad—"Yes, I'm in a halo,"1 I