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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1916-07-07, Page 4than is desired, and four inches deep. Two by four scantlings are then stak- ed in place and raised one inch from the bottom, to hold the concrete until it sets, then they should be removed. The cement and gravel should be thoroughly mixed before being placed in the trench: An iron or wooden block may be us.4d to pack the con- crete. A thin iron may be put across the walk every three feet to divide it into blocks. This can be removed when the concrete has set. Frequent -1 ly heavy iron is used to cut the blocks after they have partially set. Either. method is practicable. The expense' of a walk for the average farm is not great. When the distance is one. hundred yards, about eleven cubic yards of gravel, three cubic yards of sand and fifteen and one-half barrels of cement would be sufficient to put in a permanent walk. If the farm team. are used for hauling the gravel and sand, $1.50 per yard should be a fair price for that material laid down at the farm. Tho price of cement var- ies, but at $1.60 per barrel the total cost for cement, gravel and sand would not exceed $45. It would only cost a' few dollars to mix the concrete and lay the walls. The cost would be con- siderably reduced if no account was , taken of teaming. Many buildings are less than 100 yards apart, while. others are a greater distance. The, cost would be lessened or increased accordingly. Even if it does cost fifty; or` sixty dollars to put down a per-! xnanent walk that will keep the feet' dry and clean when going to and from the barn; those who have so invested their cash claim it was many well spent. A permanent walls may be a trifling thing, but it greatly improves the appearance of the farm home.— Farmer's Advocate. When Building Barns. Floors and Gutters.—Place layer of concrete 4 to 5 inches thick on well - drained cinders or gravel, and have the sub -base 6 inches thick. All stall floors should have a slope lry side and 16 inches to 18 inches wide. Finish all floors with a wood-' en trowel so that concrete will be left rough and there will be little longef of animals slipping on it. Cow Stalls.—Have dairy cow stalls 8 feet 6 inches wide, 4 feet 8 inches in length from edge of manger to gutter. Single horse stalls should be 5 feet wide and double length foa home stalls is 7 feet from edge of manger to enol of stall, Manger fo cow and horse stall should be 2 feet 6 inches to 3 feet wide. Box stalls for hospital or maternity are best if 8 feet by 10 feet or 12 feet by 12 feet, Feed alleys should be at least three feet wide, wider if possible. Silos.—Build to feed 30 pounds a day to each head. Make the height two and ane -half to three times the diameter. Builcl small diameter and high rather than wide and low. Pro- vide feed for at least 180 days. A silo 12 x 30 feet will hold 67 tons and feed 15 to 80 `cows 180 clays. A silo 14 x 36 feet will hold 114 tons and feed 35 to 40 cove 180 days. A silo 14 x 42 feet will hold 148 tons and feed 45 to 50 cows 180 days A silo 16 x 48 feet will hold 236 tons and feed 60 to 70 cows 180 days. Better Bodied Butter PAST CENTURIES ARE CLOSED SIR AUREL STEIN RE -EXPLORES DESERTS Discovers Copper Coins and Wooden Books Along Routes of Ages Ago. Sir Aurel Stein, who has just re- turned to England on the conclusion • of a two and a half years' journey through Central Asia, undertaken by order of the Government of India, says the London Express, made some fas- cinating discoveries in Eastern Turk- estanwesternmost China, the Pamirs, • Russian Turgestan and along the Perso-Afghan border, r• After crossing the Chinese Turkel» tan, Sir Aurel Stein made his way as rapidly' as possible toward the desert found the dried-up Lop Nor, visiting on his way a sand -buried old site in the Taklarnakan desert, Finds Ancient Orchard Among the discoveries at this des- ert site was a large ancient orchard, still showing with uncanny clearness the elaborate arrangement of fruit trees and vines carried over trellis, all dead. The settlement had been abandoned close to seventeen hun- dred years ago, and the river which once carried water to it now loses itself in the sand. Perhaps the most important dis- covery was the tracing of the ancient route of the Chinese, and of the numerous ruins along that part of it which lay through a dried-up delta. Tt was by this route that the Chinese, Li the second century after Christ, conveyed all their silk to Central Asia and the far off Mediterranean. The numerous pieces of exquisite Chinese silks and brocades found in the cemeteries will open up a new chapter in the history of textile art. Old Caravan Route In that part of the desert which was waterless in ancient times for a distance of some 150 miles he was able with accuracy to track the route of the ancient caravans by finds of coins and other small objects acess dentally dropped. In one place the direction in which a convoy had moved was clearly marked by hun- dreds of copper coins strewing the salt enerusted ground, which had reg' mained untouched for at least sixteen hundred years. The Huns Of Old During another portion of his travels Sir Aurel explored for a dis- tance of 250 miles a further section of the armed fortified border line by which the Chinese had endeavored to protect their westernmost marshes in Kansu against ancient Hun raids. From the ruins of watch towers found in continuous succession along the wall he recovered intact numer- ous written records on wood dating from the first century before and af- ter Christ. His travels involved more than eleven thousand miles of marching over mountain and desert. The people who buy the higher grades of butter are people who are familiar with the quality of food. They appreciate butter that will resist warm temperature and will hold it shape because it has a good body. The wants of the consumer should be close- ly ztudied by the producer, and when they desire butter of a particular tex- ture,. color or salt, the producer should immediately fall in with the sugges- tion as though he were an individual trying to increase his irasl,e by cater- ing to their demands. The sooner that the small cream- eries which are receiving good raw material awaken to this fact the bet- ter ib will be for them. If we are go- ing to accept this excessive overrun as one of the good qualities in butter- making, and let it be recognized next to flavor, we should then change the system of scoring, and instead of hav- ing the texture or body follow flavor, we should have overrun follow flavor, then to texture, color and package: This, to me, would be ridiculous, for the simple reason that the consumer deep not want any more water and salt in the butter than is necessary and he wants a good body. He is the final judge and must be pleased,—Ex- tract from address by P. H. Kieffer, Salting Hayem. As a rule when hay has been well saved there is not much advantage in salting hay, butif for any reason it is a little damp or has been much dam- aged by rain before being stacked or mowed away it is usually an advant- age to add salt to it. The salt has three functions: it checks heating, prevents the growth of molds and fungi, and makes bad hay more palat- able. A certain amount of heating in the hay after it is mowed away is desir- able as it is considered to make the hay more relished by the stock, but if it is improperly cured—the heating will be excessive and may result, in- deed, in spontaneous combustion. As a rule from 10 to 20 pounds of salt is used to every ton of hay. It the hay is a little damp when stored away or if it has been injured by rain salting is well worth considering. The pros- pects are that a lot of the hay -making will be drone this year in anything but suitable weather. Money also helps the man who tries to help himself. ., .641Vr.,1451g, S45.123,4 elst You will like its Fine Granu lation Buy your sugar in these neat 2 or 5.1b. cartons, which you can place directly on your pantry shelves. Just cut o„' the corner and pour out the sugar as you need it. ticug' Extra Quality Granulated conies also in 10and 20 -ib bags for house• wives who .like to bnyinnlarger quantities "The All-Puapose Sugar" 2 anti 5 -ib Cartons 10 and 204b Bags C.BLEMAN AN EXCITING PRESENT -DAV ROMANCE BY WEATHERBY CHESNEY CHAPTER :XVIII.-•—(Cont'd.) iL.1ti'a' my friend will go upstairs to the room "Not at all," said Varney, unblush- which he hires from you. I shall be ingly—he kens that his friend was trouble and it may save us all some chaffing him—"I've got a little capital trouble, if you show us the way," you know; my mother's money didn't As he spoke,he he moved towards a go in the smash, Mr. Davis says that small door in the side wall, and signed with a few more glass -houses for the to Varney to close up. pines, and an energetic mana:gere to This time it was the landlord who look after them, the trade with the laughed, and said: Covent Garden can be worked up in a ' "You can go up if you like, but he few years to something pretty big. isn't there. Are your friends of his?" I'ni going to supply the glass houses,' "I don't think we can claim that and fill the billet of energetic =nag- honor," said Scarborough. "But we er, on a partnership basis. There's are very anxious to meet him." nothing monstrous about that; it's a "So am I, Senhor," mere business arrangement, and the, Scarborough looked at him sharply. suggestion came from him. What' "He owes you money?" he asked at do you think of it?" ; a venture. "When is the wedding ?" was Scar-1"Sim, senhor—a month's rent of my borough's answer, room and other things. He left me Varney laughed. "You've put your suddenly three days ago, without pay finger on the weak spot," he said. ing his bill, sats! I have not seen him "We haven't settled that yet, because! since. We were talking of him when we didn't feel justified in doing so ' you entered, as possibly the senhores without consulting Muriel on the sub- may have gathered from the fact that jest first. I'm pretty sure she likes Pedro"—he indicated the loafer who me, but she's got to swallow a lot of had laughed—"was amused when you prejudices, whieh she thinks are grin-! mentioned the name of Manoel Ber• ciples, before she can be expected tc': garde. I said I had a good reason marry a fellow like me. I haven't', for not telling you where you could dared to ask her yet, and Davis thinks find him; the senhor sees that I had; I had bettetr wait a bit." t I do not know myself." "He has swallowed his prejudices, it I Scarborough stepped back from the seems." !little door, and came nearer to the "Oh, he hadn't any, Curiously en- pedrao. ough, I'm rather a favorite with. him.1 "It would be to your profit to Anyway, he's keen on the scheme; but , know?" he asked meaningly. • of course if Muriel says no, it won't! "Certainly, senhor, I should present come off. That's down in our agree -1 my bill. The few things he left in his sent." ( room will not repay me for what 1 "You've got an agreement already!" spent on his meals. He had a dainty "Yes, in black and white, Now,' stomach, and would not dine on bacal- about you, old man? When's your hao and beans as we do. I had to buy wedding coming off ?" ; chickens and fresh meat for him "I don't know," sai,i Scarborough. ' daily," complained the pedrao, indig- "Like you, I haven't dared to ask yet. nantly. That's our yenta, I think." I Scarborough represented a simle. It They had arrived at the wine -shop 1 amused him to learn that the the - which Mona had described. Through ological Scotehman was something of the open front they saw a long counter an epicure, and refused odorous salt running across the breadth of the cod and lupin beans; he hated them shop; behind it were half a dozen both himself. Also it gave him an ad - great barrels and leaning in picbur- ded respect for hi esque attitudes against the red wine of,,, the, diatrieteand. smoking maize - husk cigarettes. "Walk on a bit," said Varney, "Don't go in yet." They- went on afew yards, and then Varney said: "I fancy I have met your Scotch - man. Can you describe him?" Scarborough gave him the descrip- tion which Mona had given before Varney came in, and added: "You came across him during the "Certainly, Senhor. It is just as he time he was Carrington's clerk, I sup- left it." pose?" The room was almost exactly as "No, I've met him in the island. It i Mona, had described it, bare save for was your speaking of John Knox a . a litter of books on the table, and a while ago that made me think of it. 1 pile of English newspapers on a chair I won't waste time in telling you; by the window. But almost as soon about it now, but if we don't find our • as they entered, Varney smothered an friendupstairs studying theology, I; exclamation and pointed to a thing think I can give a guess where wed that was hanging on the hook behind can put aft hand on his shoulder. Let's i the door. It was a long blue cloak, go back and ask for him. Got any - 'and near it on another . chair was a! thing in your pocket, in case there's I large stiff hood. a row?" Scarborough turned to the padrao. "My fists," said Scarborough. "Did these things belong to Senhor "I'rn pretty handy with mine„ too." Bernardo ?" he asked. ( said Varney, "but if Miss Carrington "No, senhor, they are my wife's." 1 is right, he's the sort of chap who "How do they come to be here?" might carry a gun fur emergencies., "Senhor Bernardo was interested in 1 She was enxinus that you shouldn't I the national costume, and the padrona get hurt, and I feel absurdly respon- , brought these for him to see. I do not Bible for see'ng that you don't. Noth-1 know why they have not been re- ing to do with me, of :ourse; but I:moved." do." I "How many days is it since he ask - "I don't believe there's the slight- j ed for them?" est risk," said Scarborough. 1 "Seven or eight, senhor." "Anel if there is, we've got to take' Scarborough turned to Varney, and it? Right you are! Come on." din a low tone of excitement, said in CHAPTER XX.English: "We've found our hooded • woman, Phil!" And then again in The two young men went into the Portuguese to the innkeeper: "Did venta. An animated discussion, which Senhor Bernardo ever wear these?" was in progress between the proprie- "The capote and capello?" said the man, laughing. "No, senhor; he would have been mocked by the chil- dren in the streets if he had." "Nevertheless he did," said Scar- borough to himself, and then added aloud: "There is one thing more. Does Senhor Bernardo speak Portu- guese well?" "Yes, senhor." "Well enough to be mistaken for a native of the islands ?" "No, senhor, not well enough for that, When he came to my house first he knew only his own English tongue, an'd Spanish, which he said he had learned to help him in his busi- ness in London. But a Portuguese gonist; for to insist on getting his daily chicken or steak in a place like this must have meant a struggle, Scar- borough knew. Moreover, he had not even paid for them. It was a small thing, but it indicated that Andrew Gillies was a man of some force of character. "We also are anxious to find him," he said to the defrauded and indign- ant padrao. "Take us upstairs and show us his room." helped ane more than you know, and I hope you will get your money." The man bowed, with the natural politeness which is instinctive with the islanders of the Azores +in all ranks of life. "I am happy to have been of ser- vice," he said. "If the senhor finds Senhor Bernardo, perhaps, in the course of conversation on more imper- tant things, he will remind him that my bill is still unpaild." "I will if I g t o theh ' id c ince, sa Scarborough, laughing • When they were in the street again and on their way back to Montagu's house, Scarborough said to Varney: • • "Now, Phil, you don't understand the linI h li h 1 4 ,.r.H A Cement Walk to the Barn. On the majority of farms no provi- sion is made for a dry walk from of one-quarter inch to the foot. Feed- ing floors 1 inch to 50 feet, Gutters should be 8 inches deep house to barn, although the distance, next to cow, 4 inches deep on the al - whether it be long or short, must be traversed many times a day. On sandy soil it is possible to make and go, so s a ave to to 1 you what keep a fairly satisfactory earth walk, the padrao and I were talking about. but in the clay districts the walk cute But first --where did you see Gillies? up every spring and fall and is slop - "In the geyser country, near Fur- py after every rain. No one parti- nas," said Varney. culaxly desires to tramp through mud "How and when?" when going to work or coming to The day before yesterday. I was meals and yet thousands of families there with Muriel and her father." living on the farm must do that very He went on to explain that Davis thing, Blocks of wood or old boards are sometimes thrown down to walk sec the geysers of Furnas, which snake on but at best they are only a tem-' one of the show places of the island of porary arrangement and soon break San miguel. They had taken food with up or get displaced. A permanent them, and made a day of it, and it concrete walk is within reach of most and his daugther had taken himto wa h 1 th e were 1 unc bin um er s w f e y g a farmers. The gravel can' ue nausea tree by the roadside that Gillies had in the winter when the teams are not passed. He was riding a donkey. in busy and experts are not required to the universal fashion of the islands, lay the walk. Any handy man could perched, sideways, and holding on to mix the gravel and put it down in a the cross bars of a great wooden short time. framed saddle, which rested on two On a farm recently visited there straw pads. He dressed like a peas- was a three-foot concrete,, walk from ant of the country, in a blue blouse house to barn and in the or `.fmation and tight trousers; and, with a maize of the writer it added many dollars husk cigarette between his lips, and a to the value of the farm, One could pillow covered with a piece of bright -carpet under him for a seat, he look- ed the part to perfection. Davis hail- ed him with a "Viva!" as he passed, go to the milk -house or barn in corns fort, even in the wettest seaeon.-The walk also aided in keeping dirt from being carried into the house on the and was answered with a surely men's boots. The walk was about five "Bonas dins, senhor." inches thick. The bottom four inches But there was something in the ac- rs made of one part cement bo eight cent with which the words were spo- ken parts good gravel and the top inch was that made the pine grower say suddenly: one part cement to three parts sand. "That man isn't what he pretends to be. I'm going to speak to him. I'm interested in human curiosities." • He got up and followed the man, and was away for about half an hour. this can be largely overcome by good When he returned he told them with drainage. In building a walk, a great glee that he had met areal ori- ginal. trench is dug about four inches wirier "I thought the fellow wasn't an Azorean," he said. "He's a Scotch - man, though what he's doing masquer ading in that get-up, I can't imagine. If he were an American or a journalist I should say he was studying the habits of the people with a view to writing a book, and had *opted na- tive costume and was so as to get a closer view; but! don't think he's eith- er. What do you think he and I have been talking about?" (To be continued.) It was blocked off in three-foot squares, except where the wagons crossed and there it was in six inch squares. There is always a danger of frost heaving a concrete walk, but MUNITION MAKERS SUFFER Handling of Explosives Gives Rise to Diseases. The high pressure under which the production of munitions has had to be performed in Great Britain has brought with it destructive maladies. These are particularly noticeable in connection with the manufacture of high explosives. Thus in handling trinitrotoluol after a prolonged period 1 one becomes drowsy, suffers from frontal headache, loss of appetite and 'may even become afflicted with a dis- tinctive eczema. Uuless the operative takes a rest in time jaundice may supervene, with decided danger of life. In a few instances death "has been directly traced to the handling of the explosive. Tetryl throws off a slight dust, which, unless timely precautions are taken, leads to troublesome eczema. Another medium inimical to health is the varnish with which the wings. and bodies of aeroplanes are treated. Tetra-chlorethane enters largely into the preparation of this varnish, and this throws off a noxious vapor which. produces drowsiness and loss of ap- petite, and if work is persisted in ultimately jaundice, liver complica- tions and coma. In this case an al- ternative varnish has been discovered which is free from the evil consti- tueiits ; but it has not come into general use for the simple reason that there are insufficient supplies of the necessary ingredients to meet de- mands, • tor and three men, who were leaning over the counter, was broken off sud- denly at their entrance. Varney stayed near the door, to watch the street, in case the inn had some other exit, which the man they were seeking might think it prudent to nxake use of euddenly.. Scarborough went to the counter and asked in Portuguese for the Senhor Manoel Bernardo, the name which lalona had been botld to use. One of the loafers laughed, arsi the landlord frowned heavily. "The Senor Manoel Bernardo," he repeated, sullenly. "What do you know of him, Senhor?" "Very little," said Scarborough, eau understand Spanish if it is spoken smiling, "But I have come to improve slowly, and can make himself under- stood in return; so we were able to converse. The Senhor Bernardo is clever, however, and very soon he was able to speak Portuguese without making it sound like Spanish; but no, not as well as a native of the islands." Scarborough nodded, and, then held out, his hand. "Many thanks for your courtesy, Senhor padrao," he said , "You have nay acquaintance, Will you tell me where I can find him?" "No, Senhor." Scarborough shrugged his shoulders. "Doubtless you have a reason for re- fusing," he said quietly. "I have. A good one," said the Pe- drao, and the loafer who had laughed before did so again, "Than," said Scarborough, "1 and Grain for Hogs on Pasture The pig is a pork -producing ma- chine, and like other machinery, is meet profitable when run at full capa- city. A pig's stomach is so small that it will not digest enough alfalfa alone to make a profitable growth. Pigs cannot produce the best gain when -on pasture alone or when on pasture supplemented by only a small amount of grain. Tests show clearly that two and one-half to three pounds of grain daily per 100 pounds of live weight of the pigs produced net only the greatest gain but the greatest pro- fit, The higher the price of grain, the smaller the profit in favor of the heavier ration. The best sermon is the one that goes over your head and hits the other chap. SIGHT FOR THREE MONTHS Operation Will Enable Blind Soldier to See for Short Time Only. An Australian soldier, blinded in the war, has beentold by his doctors that they can perform an operation which will restore his sight, but that the effects of the operation cannot last more than three months, when he will become totally blind for life, says London Opinion. The soldier is hav- ing the operation performed, and meantime he has mapped out every hour of the three months during which he is to enjoy his sight. There are certain relatives and friends in Australia he has planned to see, also certain places chiefly associated with his boyhood days. The .time con: sumed in the voyage hos-for the operation must be performed there— he bitterly grudges, but he has grown accustomed to accepting the inevit- able, however poignant, He says his first glance will be at the face of the nurse by whom he has been tended, whose appearance has been minutely described to him. I think this gallant fellow's brief respite from blindness, with its possibilities, and the remorse- less advance of the doom of darkness upon him again., is as moving and tragic a story of the war as I have heard. It seems to me I'd like to .go Where the bells don't ring nor the whistles blow Nor clocks don't strike nor gongs don't sound And where there's stillness all around. Not real stillness but just the trees' Low whispering, or the hum of bees, Or brook's faint babbling over stones In strangely, softly tangled tones, Sometimes it seems to me I must Just quit the city's din and dust And get out where the sky is blue And say "How does It'seem to you." --Eugene Field.