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Home My WebLink AboutThe Wingham Advance, 1913-08-28, Page 7[991ilieleelitilatellailifili.4140.0 Th� POULTRY WORLD ilideealleasibetberelhaselsaalidladala MIIK.EDrourfrar raonT413'0? William A. Lippincott, prefeseor of poultry husbandry et the Kansas Agri- oulturel College, !tided after extexusive experlinents that milk -tea eoultry is verg prentable if the market ire elms at andito that ehien s may be sold deem& They etienoebe elelivereci alive, the flesh le very tender and emulates stately, For the retail town trade niiik feickeno bring a bleier , price, and are alway* in greater demandithe,n them fattened. on any other ration. During tie fatteulag period -the birdie elsould be confined in slatted Orates Viet ere just large enough to hold them (fora- esertably and have room for the fowls to eau. to the front to eat. They 4°01 be fed, from a trough fast/encl., frout and on the outside of the crate. The bottora of the crate Should be -made of half-lech mesh hard,ware cloth, insuring clean feet aud plumage. The feed should. consist of two parte of buttermilk to one part of ground. grain. These ahould be mixed and fed es a sloppy ration, the births receiving no other food. Skim milk is nearly as good as buttermilk and may be used in It* place. The ground feed anay- be composed of corn meal, wheat, middlings and oat flour, because they are. easily digested.. The birds ehould be fed twice day, as nearly as possibleetwelve hours apart. The trough containing the feedlehould be left before the birds twenty or tivene ty-five minetee and then remowed. If food is left from the previous. feeding the birds will uot be particularlyliningry at the next feeding thite. The ebject is to have the birde hungry art each feeding time that Mier will eat more than they really want, thus fatteuing up teeter. The not profitable length of the feed. ing period is about two weeks. The birde should make a gain of 40 per cents to 60 per cent. in. weight hi this itnigth of time. Useally the greatest gain is make the first week, but the gain the seeond week ought to be large enough to make it profitable. The cost of the increase in weight amounts to from 7 to 12 cents a pound. When the fittenbag period is finisbed the birds abould be taken from the erates and killed and dressed at once. Care must be used when dressing them, ars the bones are very *little and break easily. Experiments show that the birds with strong vitality and plenty of maseuline characteristics make the largest gain. The auecess of the milk -feeding poultry depends tie much upon the eelection of the birds to be fed as linen the care they receive after being placed in the fat- tening Prof. Lippincott considers the Ply- mouth Rocks, Wyandottes'Rhode Island Reds and the Orpingtons to be especially desirable for milk feeding. • WINTER EGGS RESULT OF 0.ARE. Tbe question as to whetber or not breeders get winter eggs is really a test of what, was done the previous season. it i6. not so ranch how the birds are cared for as it is how 'they were cared for one mentli or six months ago. Win- ter eggs are not the result of special care at any one time, but rather the remit of continued care in all branclies of breeding and rearing the chicks. One must know both hew to reaa -chicks and how to house thern. A breeder ume be an expert in rearing chicks, an expert in feeding breeders or layers, an expert poultry house builder or a qualified judge of the points for a prolific liver, but still fail to get the eggs, for these qualities mutt all be the poesession of the one man if success is to be had. To get winter eggs, one must first have the stock. The goose comes before the golden egg. The original wild hen came from India, was as small as our bantam, and laid only at setting or two of eggs during the breeding season, as is tbe case with all wild birds. It is quite a step from the wild Indian hens to our large•lized 200 eggs a year hen, and the change has not come about by chance, but by selecting for 'breeders only the best. If one is looking for winter eggs, and all poultrymen certainly are, advantage must be taken of fen advances made by aelence and stock procured with genera- tions of prolifie egg producers back of it. Then, having ebieks front good stock, these muat be grown right. It should be a steady, everyday growth from the downy chick to the mature pullet. Such birds will have the vigor and constitu- tion to produce eggs and keep at it. The ehieks must never be allowed. 'to stop growing at any stage of their de- velopment, 'but they must not be forced to grow at an unnaturally rapid rate, for pullets that have at any time been forced in development or been retarded will not Make the producere and breed- ers that the other bliels will. It is uselese to expect, eggs from weak pullets or from hens that have not en- tirely recovered from their moult, how- ever well they are eared for. Most heus will lay fewer eggs than they did. ati pullet, but should pay as large profits as in their first year, for they lay larger eggs and the eggs hatch better in the breeding aeatten. The enicks hatehad from hens eggs will alio grow inuch more quickly and. be far more vigorous aud hardy than those from pullet eggs. All this, goes to show that the poultry ntan b reeponsive to any propoeltion ad- vertised along the propet lines. We know of no elate of buyer's more reang to look Into the meritof all new deylees,foodo, appliances and aught else that the poul- try Men may hi in need of than the Americanpoultry nem hinnielf. They are always on the lookout for something new, that will either facilitate their way of tiolng biteinees or be of help to tbont in their dolly 'ahem. Certainly, with the country ao proeperous as it Is to -day, and with the poultry man at a general elves so well satisfied, and all of then doing SO Woll in their tesitteetive 'Dna, no man con make se mititeice In putting Is prepoeitien before them in the proper Manner by advertising liberally. The .ermidnuously•ativertistel talkie its the ghestpeet, quality tor quality.---Philadel. gide, Record. POULTRY NOTES, The introduction of freeli Woolf fro - squealer not only keeps up the etamina, etrength and muscle of the etoek, but enables the fowls to resist tacitness bet- ter than those not bred to any degree Of conetitutional exeellenee, or eelected for establishing any permanent quality. When the fanfare dieeovers the first eign of disease in his Bork, that is the throe to stop It, if Peeelble. A good rule for poultrymen to follow I* to give good food, peers water,sety 4yi ellovate, frts ventileinitga *d iserep GILLETT'S LYE When Will Moon's Rays Fall just Right in Chalk IN kt" EATS DIRT. Creek Canyon to Reveal Fabulous Spanish Treasure to Old Torn? "4,44 NAM PIII004.4414t, 91R14"04 -44k" LEtrik to knot Cfr' %4Ve,wDERID -.4713" tekit6ILLE,TT compAtoratTED _ the poultry houses clean, dry aud. coin- fortable. Pea bawls are veryeeoretive in their nature, and hide their nests sway eo seeurely as almost to defy detection. They generally lay from two to four eggs, and hatch out their young In twine snug place. Our grandfathers did not look for ewes in winter; they thought hens had their seasons, ljke wild birds and plants, and that cold weather hermetically seal- r. ed the „egg -producing organs until genial spring opened the pores of the earth. . It 'age vary commendable underteking ' for breeders to spend their time and ef- forts in trying to establish new breeds . of fowls which poeseee desirable and novel points or cluuneteristice, though ' it does not alwaga prove either profit- able or satisfactory. Of eourse some hens will sit too tight, not venturing off the nest for days.' This, too, is undesirable. The eggs muat bq ventilated, and after the Brat day , or. two if ehe refuses to eome off of her own amord gently remove her and let her haye a 'walk And admit after five, ten or fifteen minutes, mecording to the outside elements. There is nothing complicated about the modern incubator. It is simply made and. easy to operate. Don't hesitate to buy an incubator for fear of fire. You 'nave never beast of a single casie of fire from an inoubator. There is no more reason why an Mau- bator lamp should explode than any other. No one is afraid of a house lamp and an incubator lamp is just as safe, Raise more poultry. It costs a little' more to produce a pound of poultry than it does to produce a pound of pork, but the price of poultry is always higher than that of pork. Before entrusting the setting of eggs with the broody hen see that she is brooely. Do not be in tote much of a hur- ry. Let the lyroodery /ever hold her well In its grip and then if she seems ready' to sit tight, give her the eggs. The hen that tightens her wings on China eggs and grips the hand when Aced beneath her is the one to use. • Geese should have more friends than they have in this country. They will live and grow on pasture alone, and when It comes to fattening them foe market they respond at once. Geese are snore profit. able than pigs. Our Precise Artist '47 40.5H- 3omeoNeS D1kOTIE/1 A LAMP! ALIGHT BROKE UFONIIIM A LIGHT TRUST, How much do you pay for electric current? asks Wniter V, Woehlke hi September Technical World magazine. If you live tn a eity of two hundred thousand inhabitants or ieiore, you probable pay at least ten cents a kilowatahour; if you live in a, small town, our rate is likely to be consider- ably lower. Strange, ism't it, that rates should be higher the larger tke market? That is We fact, though, Pasadena, yith thirty-five thousand inhabitants and nine thousand five hundred electricity consumers,* pays four and five cents per kilowatt-hour for lighting current; and all around Pasadena a score of little towns gtt their current for eight cents. Yet ac- cording to the latest available reports, Chicago, Brooklyn, St. Paul, Phila- delphia, Spokane, Pittsburg, Portland, Providence, Washingteet, D.C., ;Rich- mond, Reading, San Antonio, and, a number of other large cities arat Pay- ing a base rate of ten tents and More per kilowatt-hour, Eleetric light rates in the majority of Anaerican cities are unquettionablY exorbitant. They are based, not on the cost ot the service, but on the long-eared patience •of the OOnSUrnere. Thie world-renowned, unfathomable4 patience of the American public rather than the value of the plants is the basis of the capitalization skillfully in- flated by the corporation promoters. It is their most valuable. asset. if it were not for this asinine endurance of .lones and Smith and Brown, the ten- eent rate Would long ago have sotight a safe refuge in the Archives of his. torical soeleties. An eeonoinically inetalled, honestly finaneed, efficiently managed electrie %tient can, hundreds Of them do, deliver current for lighting purposes, pity all legitimate expenses, set aolde ade- uate arriounts for depreciation and amortization, and leave a handitozne surplus for dividends—at a maximuta rate of seven eente for killowatt-houri THE UNBUSINESSLIKE FARMER. tatitigritots Wiest Itow mealy fanners are there Who eau take down the account book and toll Net how mut)) money thay heve invested in land and stock, now much their Income for the year should her in -oder to give s fair return on their investment and fair wage" for the mbar nerfr,rmed by them - levee and hoW tuuelt they have actually mode during the year? That la a hare question to answet offhand, but it le Mae to say that there are more who cart net then who ran tell whets they ought to stand and wore they actually 40 *tend. If they could, many ef them, it would. telltgligtettid Wet *tee to Mk. At bettor I •a (By W. H. Alburn) Strife Coresponden.ce Brown's Canyon, Colo. In "Colorado Ceeorgene" ca,bin, several miles to the east, hidden In a gulch between /steep moulotains, lives an old miner who belleve.s that he has the secret of a Spanish treasure greater than any ever carried by galeon acrosS. the Spanish main, It is a lonely place, tar from human habitation,. But Tom Summers, the present tenant, wants no company. At evening, .when the cliff shadows his cabin and the wild creatures of the hints' come down to drink he lights Ms lamp and sits for hours poring over a strange old parchment. Often he sits thus all night. And then, at dawn, he Shouldmis his pick and shoetree with a haversack of cof- fee, bread and bacon, and starts off on the long tramp to the base of Mount Princeton, southwest ot Buena Vista. But he goes there only when ,the moon is near the full. As long as his food lasts Summers moves slowly up and down the Chalk Creek Canyon, tapping rocks, digging away debris, peering Into caverns, 'sleeping by day and 'working by moon- light, and pausing often to consult his worn parchment. When he has found the locality indicated by the chart, the moon's rays, at a certain elevation, will fall upon the entrance of the secret cav- ern where the romantic "conquistad- ores" stowed their gold. But Sunalmers has not yet discovered the precise spot, or the time of the night, eolith or year when the moonbeams *Jake the proper angle to bring into relief the rudely carved figures of men and HUMAN WINDMILLS. tr,,R;Agbibtra44.izt..v. Man Swung Clubs for 107 Hours Without a Break. Tale wonderful record of, the world's champion cluleswinger, Tons Burrowe, who seine time ago acoomplished the feat of swinging Littler olubs weighing three pounds six ounces each. for 107 hours nrithout it break at the minimum rate of eighty revolutions a minute, once more calls attention to his Amazing stamina,. Burrows lute turned forty years of age, andehas been. giving club -swinging exhibitions and !setting up new records ahem he west fourteen. "The medical profession," he iseys, "both in. England Australia., say that I help.ed my heart during ray exhibitions by -working the clubs hi unison with the heart -beats, . and doctors tell ine that my life has not been shortened by clubenvisiging." The champion, however, ea an all- round athlete, and during an interview with. the writer eoine time ago he gave several interesting facts regarding his career. It was as a cricketer that lie first came into prominence in Australia, the land of his birth, and since then be haes achieved much success in various parts of the world as a wrestler, boxer, e.printer, swimmer anti cyclist. His ser- vices have been much Nought after as instructor and trainer in the boxing world, and among notable pugiliste he prepared Frank Slavin and. Tom Wil- liams, the boxing champion of Austra- lia, for many sensational contests,. Not leas 'remarkable thee his oen record is that established by Col. II E. Deane, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, who, in epite of his fatty -two yule-se/Mist:el a few diva age a twenty- four boar test at Aldershot, thus break- ing an amateur record. 'Perhaps the mod astonishing feature of Ool. Deane's Vetoed is that hem -naked cigars freely when esvinging, ,ind ate many bard - boiled egg, end Chelsea bum, drinking A little milk. He swung to the strains of inueic and songs, foul at half-time began an exhibition of club -swinging in rag- time, /hailing with 180 revolutions a ntinute, twine the minimum rate pre.. scribed,, having made altogether 150,000 revolutione. While Ilurrowe holds the clideswinging clisitapionthip of the world, it might he ' mentlotied that the hammer -swinging record was established by Arthur Lan- . easter, who four eare ago„ at the Crys- tal Palueswung a blaeRemities ham- mer weighing elAt pounds for ttvelve hours toutinually. Lanctoster It known ea "ten isnot with the iron hands," and itts eirlg up this reniarkable mord _AMMer Wee twung in a complete . effete teen time, and not with the eetion of a pendulum. A etriking illstetretion of Lanemiter'S dexterity with the Meek- matth's hammer is afforded by the feet that he tum knook the etttnip of itaiger. ette, 114 /nohow tang, from the Month of hie sesiettehe while the hammer -head Is travelling in eirelse at the rate of font, mew An bout "HE LIGHTS A LAVIP AND SITS FOR HOURS PORING OVER A STRANGE OLD PARCHMENT. " aniraaIs that mark the cavern and are not seen by daylight. Treasure or no treasure, the can- yon is a wonderful place. The chalk cliffs stand as mighty warders, and at their base thousands of mysterious caves and channels wind far back into the bowels of the big mountain, • There were Spanieb explorers and miners in these "Mexican Mountains" long before Americans penetrated : the rich gulches—centuries before Crippee Creek and Leadvill. Evry- where traces at old mine *workings . have been found. And Summers' theory is that a band of them lia,d taken the easiest and richest pick - lags of the mountains and then, be- fore they could get back to Mexico were attacked by Indians and cached their gold here for safety. Only one e of them escaped, the story guns, bear- ' ing the secret, and Summers thinks • he bas the chart which that man - left The Househeeper To prevent fragile chime and glassware from breaking and becoming chipped. while being 'washed, place a clean Turk- ish towel in the bottom of the dishpan. Tine also will save enver from much scratching: The easiest awl quickest way to elean jewelry is in a ends of cestila soap. Rinse in diluted. alcohol with a few drops of ammonia edited and dry with soft eloth. Te,a Maine can be removed froru the tablecloth quite easily, if lam stained part 'is dipped at once into milk. To clean 'white and delicately colored plunge% itot badly tweed, rub them gent- ly in a •pen of equal parts of self and flour, To brigliten a carpet weep it with a broom dampened (not wet) lit salt water. Care should be token to shake the broom well after each dipping. To tient store staire and halls boil One pound of pipeclay with a quart of water and a quart of small beer, and put in it a bit of stone -blue, Wash with title mixture, and, 'when dry, rub the stone with a flannel and e brush. To prevent meet from becoming steep' when chopping, sprinkle It with flour and chop it In a cold place. To remove lime depoeit from a glass piteher or water bottle, fill the vend with good, etrong vinegar or sour milk, and let titand overanight, or until the lime is dissolved or loosened. Thenwash In the usual way. • WOULD YOU? tif—V „yot)Pc4t...,mv6#41PoRtioostlAu-ov2444aLAPet tk IX I large brain Is bstter than a foot. .iihm.i.lif,Aimili164...41111iiriailami4.1411iiiiiiimill,111,16*.]:: VERY The searcher is sure that some day n ill find the cavern and Its old wooeen cheats with rusted locks and. worm eaten covers, bulging with gold nuggets and the yellow stream run - taint in streams from the rotten sides. And with them, perhaps, will be Tare old coins and handfuls of precious Stones. And then the guest of centuries will be ended. For Summers is not the only man who has spent his life in this search. Many and many a miner has turn. ed back from the lure of gold -bearing rack to the lure of the Spaniel). Treas- ure. Residents hereabouts all know the tradition, in variousforms, and the way it touches mees'• minds in the lonely canyon. "There's a. gold sie.vil In these mountains," they say. "Coat steals miners' brains. His last viesim was an engineer from the Rio Grande rail- road. And after Min came Tone Sum- meis." HEALTH RULES. ann.* J'apanese Government's.Advice to the People. When japan was engaged ill Conflict with Russia, it was noted that the Jap- anese loss rront disease was the emallest ever known In any Wor. Investigation ehowed that this was due prineipally to the sanitary eonditions maintained and to the sensible, as well its selentific rules strictly enforeed in the care of the soldiers. Now the Japanese government has issued a list of rules for health' fur nee not alone by eoldiers, but by the en tire population and in peace as well as war. The l0 rules in question follow: "1. Spend as much time out of doors as possible. 13itsk mita in the sun and take pleuty of exereiee, Take, care that your reepiration is always deep end regular. "2. As regards meals cal meat only Once a day and let the diet be eggs!, cereals and vegetnirles, fruits - and fresh cown milk. Take' the hut named as much as poesible. Itesieti- cale you rfood carefully. "3. 'rake a hot bath every day and a steam bath once or twiee a week if the beart is strong emeigh to bear it, "4. Early to bed and early to rise. ".6. Sleep in it very dark and quiet room, with windows open. Let the minimum of sleeping hour's lee six or eix and one-half Ileum, hi ease of woman eight and one-half home is advisable. • "0.. Take one day of absolute rest etieh week in which you must refrain • from even readine or writing. "7. Try to avoid any outbursts of passion and strong mental stimulations, De not tax your bain at the oecurrenee of inevitable incidents or of coming event& leo not say unpleasant things nor lieten, if possible to avoid it, to dis- Agreeable things. fee Be married!' Widows and widow. erts ishoula be *Mania with thee the least pomible deg. "0, lie moderate in the tonsiump- • tion of eventea and coffee, not to say tObaeco and aleeliolie beverages. "10, .Avoid plaees that 'are too • warm, esepcially steam heated and linaly Ventilated rooms.° .........shese* • EVXTRADMON REFORM NEEDED. Mueller Mercury) A younit men was taken from Neat York on Thursday to Italy, to 8taral trial on a charge of having murdered his bride of One months in UAW In the sumrnor et 1010. It Is aliestea that after the deed, he threw her body In & lake. This man hat successfully fought ex. tradition ever since: If the evidence proves hint guilty of tire crime, JUstICe hats been elleated •Of" RS due for three yeara, There eeeine to be 110 reason why, itt muds a mute the laws of the land would not hand over the 111811 wanted, to *tend Ins trate rt elm readily be understood that oath enuntry is prepared to extend progietion to its ettizenti, but in the me cited it would Item that extradition has simply had the .0114-'1 et allowing liberty email to a man wbo eholait have had to face the erourta leu ago and give an limeOunt of bet keeetreOges of die dastardly stewit. MAKE TIIE STRAWBERRIES BAY. The ;strawberry erop is an important one in this section of the country. Thee berry has a wide adaptation to soil and climate, and mey be grown on any tied suited to the ordinary farm crepe. Commercial plantings ere genteelly lo- cated on u light or sandy se% which is mellow will "quiele." Sone of tide M- iura are chosen on account of their earliness and eine of cultivation, For Especial purposes such a soil, eyeu • though looking lertilitY, nuty he • more desirable than a heavier eoll of greater richness. Losate the path on the bigber lands • so As tA Arad injury from late amen; • froets. Berries will ripen their crop • several &tee earlier if given a southern exposure, where they have the lull benefit of the enn. Likewise, if it be- comea adyeutageone to lengthen the seam* sselect a northern aspect. Berries drew heavily upon the soil moieture in, mattering a crop ot fruit. Humue! is the great reservoir ot soil • moieties:fa holding water much • a* a • sponge. By turning under earnyera • manure or green crops we eventually add bumus to the soil. The improve- • molt of the fertility of the soil is elotie- • ly allied. to the problems of drainage and meisture. Humus Is quite tee nu - portent in bettering the one as the other. The Purdue Experiment Station ad.' ,vises to plow the land moderately deep; if in grass drew in the fall and plant to some clean culture crop the- first year. Sod land is likely to be Infested with • white grubs, which injure and. some- times &savoy strawberry plants by de. vowing their roots. The land, after plowing and harrowing, should be rolled ar dragged to eettle and pulverize the There are two systems e planting in vogue—the hill system and the matted • row. In the hillsystemthe plants are set in hills arid cultivated both ways, allowing no runners to develop. The growth all centres in the original moth- er pietas, mining them to throw out numerous lateral crowns at their own bees. This 18 1111 intensive system, and produces more fancy fruit, being wed suited to the snpplying of a home gar- den or a special local trade. VaTiettes which make few runners are to be pre- ferred for this system, as they greatly 1 educe the labor of cutting runners. The matted row is the rule among commer- cial growers. The plants are set 15 to 24 inches apart in rows three to- four feet apart. Work should be begun m the miring ne soon as the ground is fit. Plants set out early before they begin growth will sustain less shock in transplanting and make a beter start. Shorten tbe roots in to four or five inclies, and remove all - leaves but one or two. Set the plants so that the mote are well covered and the erowns are level with the surface of the ground. Frequent and shallow tillage the first geason is one of the secrets of suceess- fal bery growing. Cultivate often me ough to keep a continuous dust mulch on the surface to conserve the moist - tire; this will vary with the soil end - season, from twice a week to once every ten days. Decrease the cullevated area • between the rows as the season advanc- es, allowing the runners to set, malting a matted row ,14 to 20 inches wide. Then keep the runners cut. Of course head- . hoeing will be neceseary to keep the weeds and surplus runnere down. Blos- soms should be Rept pinched off, as it is• deeired that the plants put al Wier en- ergy into growth this first session. ' 4 mulch of two or three inches of some rather fine material, such as clean straw or inersh hay, shoul11 be applied to the patch in late fall as a protection againet alternate thawing and freezing. In covering a considerable area, the ! manure -spreader )s a most economical way of applyiog this mulch. It is advis- able to leave the mulch undisturbed during the frosty spring- to retard blooming and thus asold frost injury. • As growth proceedthe straw eau be raised in Mem where it is too heavy for the plants to pueh through, lettiag the millet, remain during the fruiting pagated by means of rimers and every season. Commercially, the etrawberry is pro - plant is Merely a cut-off or Somewhat digtantly iseparated portion of the orig- inal plant of that particular variety. A bed intended to grow plants for setting should expend ell its energies in the m mention of young plants and must not be allowed to fruit. In setting .out 'new patch it its ouly thee: young plants which should be need, They aro recap nized by their smaller crowns, and bright, fa:ions roots, etrawberriee are rarely profitable for more than 0110 erop. lf the paigh is to refruited, mow off the old vines after picking is over and bun them, and then plow out the old plants, leaving the run - Dere to renew the pateh. Subsequent treatment consists ot clean cultivation as for a new patch. Manure or green trope shoela be turned untler wnenever possible. Very heavy and frequent manuring is not de. sired, as it is not a /talaneed fertilizer, being deficient in pheeehorie acid. In conjunCtion then with 15 to 25 tone of barnyard manure per acre, acid phos• phate sliould be added at the rate at 200A toc 10n0p0i eat oe tilleidigeitucal fertilizer is of value on a poor (soil or ivbere an appliest- tion of immure was not given. The material's can be purchased separately and mixed et home in the following pro - mations: 134 pounds nitrate of soda and 250 polinde tankage. 572 pounds aeiti phosphate. 120 pounds murlate of potash. If the patelt is burned ever after liar - vesting the crap every year, rotated every two or tbree years'and varieties retested to leaf .spot planted, very little trouble from insects or (Beets() should be experienced. FARM NEWS AND VIEWS, overehurning, that is, ehurning until. the butter forme in litrge lumps, in- creases; the moisture on account ef the fact that a eobsiderabie amount of but- termilk is ineorpgrated. s This. buttermilk is uenally detrimental' to the keeping quality of the butter, ana dliould not by any meanie be aimed into the but- ter, Menne germs thrive in the filth of dark, damp laces. Sanitary /surround- ings nutlet, thereteee, be clean, well lighted, and dry. Such surroundings tend net only to prevent the epread of disputa, but also aid greatly in recovery front dieestee when onee eontracted, Lime is used for many purpoles on the ferns. It is the cheapest of all dissinfect- ants, and Is very Useful wben Applied as whitewash for tbe disinfection twit awestenIn ef eelland privies, barns, etablees, *poultry housee suel other build- lorow Maas* it can be kept from the air Y LOVES 1'1113 BATII CUTICURA SOAP No other keeps the skin and scalp so clean and clear, so sweet and healthy. 'Used with Cuticura Oint- ment, it soothes irritations which often prevent sleep and if neglected become chronic disfigurements. Millions of mothers use these pure, sweet and gentle emollients for every purpose of the toilet, ,bath and nursery. Cutteurs SOAP tad Olattiellt are 504 throughout the world. A liberal sample ot eaeh, with szitase booklet on the care and treatment ot the shln and eealp, sent pest -free. Address Potter Drug 4. Chera. porp,, Dept. 2112. Boston, U. S. At. lime wash should be made up fresh be- fore using. Air -slaked lime le of no value as a disinfectant. The New York College of Agriculture reports that in a survey of the business of 573 farmers covering several town. ships the fanners who have been to col- lege earn 30 per -cent. more on an aver. a.ge than those whose schooling stopped at the high 'school, and three times as much as those who went no farther than the distrMt sehooL All clover is rich in protein or muscle - forming foods. and it is one of the best kind e of food& for growing pigs and for brood. sows. --gee There is uo definite rule that can be laid down with reference to the time at which winged Insect pests of the orchard deposit their eggs, Some are night fly- ing insecte and deposit their eggs at night; others are active only during the day, and deposit their eggs- during that time.. The coddling moth is one of the night flying insects, and begins to de- posit eggs late in the evening, just about dusk, and continues most active throughout the early part of the night. The cumuli°, on the other liand, is most active during the day, remaining inactive during the night. The same holds true • with refereuce to the general activity of insecte. As a rule the moths fly only at night, while sonic of the beetles are most active at night and others during the day. Bees and fruit go well together. The bees gather honey from the blossoms and In Teturn fertilize them. The hum of these industrious workers he the or- chard foretelle rich narvests. Under the trees is a good place for the hives. WANTED ALL ENJOYMENT #11 • ki) • • Ma—(going for the seaside trip)— Willie, have you packed your tooth- brush and Comb and brush and soap? Willie (disgustedly)—Here, ma; stop it! I thought we were going for a holiday to enjoy ourselves, • t A DARING SCOUT. ii•••116••••••1• Quick Wit Fooled Federals and Saved His Neck. Wat Bowie, a scout for the Confeder- ate army, was a young Maryland law- yer at the tirae the great confliet be- gan. After Months of successful work he was captured and taken to Wash- ington and sentenced to be hanged. He made his escape, and in "On Haz- ardous Service" W. G. Beymer tells of the weeks that he was follevved by se- cret service men and small details of Federal cavalry and how by his very audacity and quick wit he escaped re - He blundered Into a camp of them one morning at dawn and saw instant- ly that retreat was impossible; they were ready n dy to open fire with a doze iiv Without hesitation he strode uP to the met and ehouted in- dignantly: "You make mighty free with my _ rails! With al this wood round you did not need to burn my fences." He - seemed vera angry. "Who are you?" a corporal stam- mered, "The owner of the rails, of course!" And then, apparently sainewhat Mot - lifted, he went on; "Well, well! War Is war, but don't do any more damage than you can help, boys." He sat • down with them at their breakfast and chatted with them pleanantly. One of them asked if he had seen Wat Bowie . and described hint accurately. At the destription they all stared at hint and moved uneasily, in doubt as to what was to be done. Ile tallied with the description in every respect. But his insolence in walking up to them and upbraiding them for burning "his" mile made them doubt their own eyes. "Why, yes." lie drawled. "Wat Bowie was In thesis parts last week. I know hiin 'well. They say he has gone 10 the north part of the county, where he hallo from.. I don't know, though, asTthoeitiharita.'1'14 and stretching himself he looked down into their doubt filled eyes and laughted at them -laughed in their very faeee --And said: "I'm glad you all met me on 111' eWle land. You might have made trouble for me elsewhere, for they all say 1 look like him a lot. tioodby, tau Wed Ina!" ROUND THE ISLES British Aviator • Hawker Makes Second Attempt, So Far Lucky in Flight for Big Prize. . . elontbanipton, Eng.„eug. er. flawing, the Engligi aviator, started at lialf-paet 5 title morning en Ids (100- 03111 attempt to make the tour of the, English Rua Scottish coasts in a hydro - aeroplane, lie is the sole partieipent in the LOW mile flight, open to all Brit- ish machines, for a prize of $4,000. The flight met be completed within 72 hours, during whieh descentit may be. mule on the water only at the control stationat Ramsgate, Yarmouth,. Scar- borough, Aberdeen, Cromarty, Oben, Dublin, Palmontle and the finighing point et Netley, near Southampton. Hawker restehed Ramsgate, the first control etation, at ten ininetes past el, having taken 160 minutes to fly .the 14$ save frinn Southampton. Yarmouth, Aug. 25. ----Hawker, who left Ramsgate on the second stege of his long journey at 11 minutes past -9, arrived at Yarmoigh at 10.40. He flew the distance of 90 miles in 89 Minutes, There was ft engin; inlet over the water dining the entire flight, but tlie. sea was smooth. Greet crowds of speetators in small boats awl coast %teatimes eheer- ed Ilawker 08 bie journey. After' it rest for melt, whien he took in a motor boat, lfaweer left 'Vermouth at Ileitt ou the third stage 4)1 his flight. Whiell takes him to Searborough, tho !itse=otr'lot'ugellti 1AZ.s2i; 31.1: atoiing l!'lrteets.e;1 • ed Searborough et '2,43, flyimt the trance of approximately 150 ndies from Yarmouth in 183 minutia. He ime now flown 090 miles .eioee he started from• . Soetbampton at an average flying rate • of over 50 intles al thottr. 'MINE FATALITIES Three Men Died in the Cobalt District. victims. -Cobalt, Aug. 24e—Within 24 lours the mines of the Cobalt camp claimed three Early yesterday morning Willima Brigden, and a foreigner named Le- hi:let. were instantly killed while slop- i n g 01.1 a lower level of the Coniagas. The two wete working on it drill alone, and it ie believed a premature explosion of dynamite caused their dath The shift going on yesterday morn- ing found the two mangled bodies lying in the drift, This is the Bret fatality which has occurred in the Conieges since the mine began operations. Saturday afternoon an Italian, 3. Gui- seppe, 40 years of age, !dipped, while try- ing to help another man to Islam an ore car on the tratet at the surface , of the Kendall shaft of the Nipiseing. The heavy car fen on him, crushing him fearfully about the hips, and he died at the mines hospital. He leaves a widow hi Italy. THAT BIRTII STRIKE Socialists Differ Over the New Weapon. Berlin, Aug, 24, --The Socialists !Id A meting Saturday to discuss the position they should take against the proposed birth strike Ot Socialist women. Rosa Luxemburg and Clara aetein, the two most famous women leaders of the Social- ists, strongly °posed the birth strike of the proposition to make the questioIl. one of the big topics on the programme of the party convention whieli is to be held on September 4. Miss Zetkin declared that the ream - tion of cannon food for the government would 8180 effect a reduction of the num- ber of revolutionists. It individual faro - flies decide to 111111t the number of child- ren ,she said, It was a personal matter, but she was opposed to making it a party policy. • Dr, Moses came out in a vigorous de- fence of the birth strike. He held that it would be the quickest, most effectual and more conservative way of raising the stating of the working classes. tie told of attending working mothers who had 15 or 18 children, while 10 or 12 children in the family of a working wo- man were numerous. He declared that leaving out 'of eonsideration the PhYsical ruin of mothers, no workingman could ever hail way rear, feed and educated Sptile('slienat enOtnii&bteinrng0. children under the TO OUR CONFERENCE. Australian Coming on Naval Defence Matters. London, Aug. 24.—A Sydney des- patch says it is officially stated that Australia will be represented at the Imperial Defence Conference, which Is to be held in Canada at the end of the year. The delegates tvill be chosen later, and will include either Premier Cook, or Mr. Millen the Min - toter of Defence, probably the latter. -The date and place of the conference are now the subject of negotiations. Mr. Millen, referring to a suggestion that the dependencies should supply the nucleus of an eastern ferce for the defenee of the Etnpire, suggests that the matter sheuld be referred to • the forthcoming conference, adding that "anything that will tend to es- tablish in the raCifiO that naval power vvhich we thought wits secured by the • agreement of 1909, twist be agreeable to the Australians." • .* TROUSLE OVtR mANoet.. London, Aug. 215. --The fact that Queen Alexandra has sent it wedding preoent to Manoei of Portugal inscrib- ed "To my dear Itmatioel, Xing of Por- tugal, from his affectionate aunt, Alexandra," and that the Xing and Queen IViary sent a present very sim- ilarly inscribed, caused much com- ment this week, and a good many people are still contending that Matt- oel should not be openly styled Xing in a tountry that reeOgniZea the Por- tuguese Republie, and precedents are -Med. One of the tiewmpapers goes so far no to may: "Perhaps Sir lealWard Grey will oblige with a hint." lean t 1 newt tin - elms you k t it% a Mane around the neck of each WM