The Polk County post., November 21, 1919, Image 6

RED TAPE AMONG ALLIES AT VLADIVOSTOK
SECURE WINTER FUEL
FROM FARM WOODLOT
Town Markets Will Keep Active
for Several Months.
Excellent Opportunity Afforded to Inv
prove Woodland By Removing
Poorer, Lees Valuable Trees
— Let Good Ones Grow.
(Prepared by the United States Depart*
ment o f Agriculture.)
Many farmers now have their home
supplies of wood for winter fuel, but
the town markets will keep active for
several months, and thousands of
cords of wood will still be cut for
local use on the farm.
In cutting cordwood, an excellent
opportunity Is afforded to improve the
Receiving allied supplies at Vladivostok, Slheriu, Is truly a mutter of “ red tnpe." This is a specific example.
Japauese soldier guards the loud, a British soldier guards the horse, another examines the way bill, while the Chli
coolie stands by ready to do the work of unloading.
MIGHTY HUNTRESS
SEEKS NEW TRAILS
Lady MacKeiwie Plans Trip of
Discovery on Tana River in
African Jungles.
REGION OF DENSE FORESTS
Stream Broken by Rapids and Water­
falls and Abounding In Big Game
and Snakes— Land of
Big Animals.
New York.—Heading nn expedition
to Enst Africa, which has as Its ob­
ject the exploration of the Tana river
and the hunting of big game. Lady
MacKenzle, the woman huntress, is
In New York completing details of the
trip and arranging to dispose of tro­
phies obtained In two expeditions she
already has made to Africa.
Upon her arrival at Mombasa, A f­
rica, she will remain several days, su­
perintending the shipment of nine tons
of trophies she has stored there.
These Include many rare specimens of
heads and skins of animals, and will
be presented to the Bronx Zoological
museum, the American Museum of Nat­
ural History, the Bmlthsonlun Institu­
tion, and other Institutions.
One rare trophy Is the head and rkln
of a garnnak, an animal with u n~ck
and head like a giraffe, which Is sel­
dom seen In the open, according to
Lady MacKenzle, who shot the beast.
In her forthcoming expedition Lady
MacKenzle said she would he accom­
panied by F. Postma, who was with
her on her other hunting trips. Wil­
liam ( “ B ill") Judd, who was with
Colonel Uoosovelt's hunting expedition
In Africa; E. Shelley, one of Paul
Rainey’s hunters, and Pete Pearson.
The Tnna river, Lady MacKenzle
snld. Is one of the most treacherous
streams In the world.
It Is full of
whirlpools, waterfalls and dangerous
rapids.
At places along Its winding
course the forests are so dense that
tnycl Is possible only by literally
climbing over the tops of the trees.
The length of the river Is estimated at
from 2,000 to 3,000 miles.
Land of Big Animats.
“ I am returning to continue work
that was Interrupted by the war," she
said. “ In 1010 I was about to start
the exploration of the Tana, and had
established my camp at the Junction
of the Tutin and the Thokl, when I was
told I would have to stop.
"I appreciate the danger that lies be­
fore me, but I feci the discoveries that
will he nimln will he worth risking try
life for. What Is along that river can
only be guessed at. The Somalis and
the Wnnderohas have at times reported
‘too much elephant,’ meaning a great
herd or great herds of elephants. At
other times they have told us of huge
lions, great rhinoceroses, hippopota­
muses, and other great beasts. I want
to find out If their tules are true and to
get some specimens. I know that big
snakes are to be found along the river,
for I have seen them. They are what I
really fear.
“ After I have supervised the s .ip-
ment of the trophies, I am going to
visit the Masai. I want to take with
me a complete surgical and medical
outfit, Including a medical man and
his assistants. This race, one of the
most remarkable In Africa, Is aflllcted
with an eye disease that closely resem­
bles trachoma. Unless It speedily Is
checked, the tribe will become totally
blind In a few years.
“ I also hope to accomplish another
mission. The Musal women are practic­
ing a form of race suicide. They fear
that In time the whites will make them
and their children slaves and servants.
I saw only seven children In the tribe.
It Is only n question of a short time
before tills race becomes extinct, un­
less they are made to understand the
white people no longer make slaves of
black people.”
How Germans Prepared In Africa.
Illustrating some conditions she will
face on her trip. Lady MacKenzle told
of incidents of her expedition In 1916.
She gave nn Interesting sidelight on
how thoroughly the Germans In Ger­
man East Africa had prepared for the
war. She snld:
“ We were hunting lions on the Ger­
man East African border when one
day we saw a party of blacks rnnneu-
German Shells Reveal
First Reims Cathedral
Paris.— Students of history
are greedily digging for every
scrap and shred to piece to­
gether another chapter of by­
gone days as a result of the re­
port of the archaelogical mis­
sion planning tho reconstruc­
tion of the Reims cathedral.
It states that German shells
which ripped open the floor of
that twelfth century church
havo disclosed another cathe­
dral built by the Franks which
has contained the tomb of King
Clovis for 1,419 years.
It Is expected that further ex­
cavation will reveal the whole
foundation of the older cathe­
dral built by early Frankish
architects.
TELLS HORRORS OF SITUATION
American Red Cross Nurse Writes
Pitiable Story of Conditions She
Personally Observed— Lack
Hospital Facilities.
Tokyo.—In a letter from Omsk, Si­
beria, Miss Charlotte Boardman Rog­
ers, of New York city, who was on
the western front when the Kolchak
armies recently evacuated several cit­
GRANDDAUGHTER OF PREMIER ies, writes a pitiable story of the hor­
rors of typhus which she personally
observed as a nVirse of the American
Red Cross, She says:
"I have spent twenty-four hours In
hell. Our train was stalled nt the rail­
way Ftatlon at I’ etropavlovsk, Far
Western Siberia, and somewhere to
the west of us the Red armies were
coming on.
"To the right of us, left of us, rear
of us, were typhus fever trains, box
cars, passenger cars, twenty-five, thir­
ty, even thirty-five cars to a train,
and all loaded with men from the
front and from the evacuated hos­
pitals, with thousands of patients dy­
ing of the dread disease.
"No nurse waited on them, no doc
tors administered medicines to stimu­
late tho action of tlielr weakened
hearts. They lay on rough board
shelves erected around the sides and
ends of the ears, or on the floor where
even cattlemen would have placed
straw If animals were to be carried.
No sanitary conveniences were sup­
plied ; the patients’ clothes were stain­
ed with filth and blood; their feet
caked with mud and manure; their
bodies alive with little gray typhus
lie#—the plague of Serbia.
Little Miss Margaret Carey Evans,
"Cheek bones protruded through
daughter o f Mrs. Carey Evans, daugh­ their yellow skin, eyes sunken Into
ter of Premier Lloyd George of Eng­ their sockets, hands like birds' daws
stretched out with cups for water—
land.
Forestry Is a new science, compara­
tively speaking, and so It is not sur­
prising that its leading exponents have
Just reached the point o f perfecting the
language In which its work is ex­
pressed. Every profession has Its pe­
culiar vocabulary; in some cases the
“ lingo” Is the most impressive feature
o f the profession.
One o f the first steps taken In ele­
vating and dignifying the language of
forestry Is the banishment of the good
old word “ woodlot,” says the Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle. It was more
in use in New England than anywhere
else and possessed a distinct meaning
there that was well understood by the
natives. One forestry expert says that
"woodlot" does not mean anything lu
sections of the country where a tract
of forest may embrace thousands of
acres. “ We have nothing In the West,"
says Professor Cheney of the Universi­
ty o f Minnesota, “ that corresponds to
this eastern expression.”
It Is quite possible, however, that
the real secret of the offensiveness of
the word to professional ears Is better
explained by State Forester Holmes
of North Carolina, who boldly declares
that “ to me ‘woodlot forestry’ sounds
perfectly ridiculous.” So it has been
decreed that “ woodlot” cannot be tol­
erated In learned society. Removing it
from the common speech of New Eng­
land Is another matter.
Mother’s Cook Book
I t Is not the revolution that destroys
machinery, but the friction.— H. W.
Beecher.
Clean Up the Woodlot and Get a Sup­
ply of Fuel for Winter at Same
Time.
8ome Main Dishes.
With the main dish sufficiently fill­
ing and satisfying the dessert may be
light and the meal will be well bal­
anced.
FOI SUCCESS ill
WINÏEOING BEES
Some of Best Apiarists Place
Honey Gatherers in Cellars
or Special Repositories.
A L L HIVES ARE PROTECTED
Provide Abundance of Stores of Good
Quality and Shelter From Wind
and Cold— Of Great Impor­
tance to Have Good Queen.
(Prepared by the United States Depart­
ment o f Agriculture.)
Bees in the more northern parts of
the United States for many years have
been placgd by some of the best bee­
keepers In cellars or special reposi­
tories during the coldest parts of the
winter. There has been a growing feel­
ing, however, that if outdoor winter­
ing is practicable, in most cases it
gives better results, and there has been
a decided change from cellar wintering
to outdoor wintering within the past
decade.
The difficulty seems to be
that the methods o f cellar wintering
practiced have not been satisfactory
and It seems probable that if as much
attention had been given to the per­
fection o f the methods of cellar win­
tering as has been given to an improve­
ment of the methods of outdoor winter­
ing, there would not have been as great
a change to the outdoor methods as
has taken place.
The placing of bees In a cellar Is
only another way o f putting Insulation
about the hives, the only difference
being that In the cellar all of the hives
are protected alike and the protection
is placed about the apiary instead of
around hives in groups or singly. It
follows that the principles Which ap­
ply to successful outdoor wintering
apply equally to the protection o f the
bees In the cellar.
Essentials to Success.
As in the case o f outdoor wintering,
the essentials to success in caring for
a normal colony of bees from the end
o f one season’s honey flow to the be­
ginning of the next lie in providing
three things In abundance: (1) Stores
o f good quality, (2) protection from
wind and cold, and (3) room for the
Baked Fish With Parsley Butter.
Split open and bone a white fish,
woodland by removing the poorer, less spread with soft butter and dredge
valuable trees, leaving the better ones with flour, salt and pepper. Bake in a
to grow. Many farmers who have hot oven from twenty to thirty min­
never before given this subject a utes, according to the weight and
verlng. We could not rcnke out what thought are taking a real Interest, thickness of the fish nnd serve prompt­
they were doing until they crossed the because they see how quickly nature ly with lemon as a garnish.
border. Then we thought they were responds in better growth when given
Parsley Butter.
going to attack the British Africans. a little guidance and aid.
Cream four tablespoonsfuls of but­
Things looked very serious and we de­
The kinds of material to be re­
cided to move camp. The rapid ap­ moved for firewood Include trees un­ ter, add the Juice of a small lemon
proach of the blacks forced us to leave suitable for lumber, crooked trees very slowly, mixing well a teaspoon­
hurriedly, but we were able to hide crowding out straight ones, badly dis­ ful of minced parsley salt and cayenne
nearly all of otfr supplies and Equip­ eased and decaying trees, small trees to taste. Heap in the shell of half a
lemon and serve with the fish.
ment.
overtopped and stunted by larger and
“Three weeks later we reached Nai­ better ones, dead trees that are mostly
Supreme of Chicken.
robi and reported what we had seen. sound, tree tops left from former cut­
Run through a meat chopper the
The British authorities sent out run­ tings, and trees of the less valuable
ners to learn what was going on. They kinds, where others of greater value breast of a large chicken, beat into It,
reported that the German Africans had are present which need the room and one nt a time, three eggs; season
seized all the water holes and were will prove faster money-making trees. well with salt and paprika, a speck
occupying other strategic points. This Handling farm woodlands rightly is of nutmeg and one and one-third cup­
was four weeks after we had report­ an indispensable part of profitable fuls o f thick cream. Place In butter­
ed molds nnd steam for thirty minutes
ed. A day or so later news renched
farm management.
or until firm. Serve with a white
Nairobi that Germany had declared
I f lists of manufacturers or other sauce made with chicken stock and
war. Thus you can see the blacks in
Africa had had orders from Germany Information are desired regarding cream, adding two beaten egg yolks.
to act more than seven weeks before portable wood-sawing outfits, and
wood-splitting and tree-felling ma­
Mock Duck.
wnr was declared.”
chinery, the forest service of the de­
An Inexpensive dish (or less expen­
partment of agriculture will be glad to sive) of lamb can be made by buying
furnish such material upon request.
the shoulder Instead of the leg. Have
the bone removed and make a mock Interior of Bee Cellar With Hives in
Piles of Four.
ROOFED SILO IS PREFERRED duck of the meat. Cook In a moderate
oven, basting occasionally. Serve gar­
rearing of brood at appropriate times.
Helps Prevent Freezing of Silagei nished with parsley.
These factors must not be lacking at
Keeps Out Snow and Protects
the right times, and If any one is omit­
Scalloped Meat.
Walls of Silo.
ted it may prevent the bees from gath­
Lamb, mutton or chicken make nice
ering the crop of the following season.
scalloped
dishes.
Chop
fine,
removing
(By R. L. P A T T Y . South Dakota Expert*
These three factors do not apply equal­
ment Station.)
all gristle and bone; season to taste.
they lay nil day in the sweltering heat.
The old notion that It Is unnecessary Have ready as much bread crumbs as ly throughout the period of relative
“ We tried to look away, but all day
inactivity, but as certainly as anyone
long we heard them moan or call foi to roof the silo was wrong. Experience meat. Put into a buttered baking
of them is decreased, Just so certainly
shows
that
a
silo
roof
helps
to
prevent
dish a layer o f meat, then a layer of
their sanitary attendants.
the freezing of the silage, keeps out crumbs, bits o f finely minced onion will next year’s crop be reduced.
Need of Hospitals.
In practicing cellar wintering it Is
snow, protects the silo walls when and n few spoonfuls of gravy or stock
“Our trip from Omsk to the extreme
empty, and thereby adds to its life to moisten. When the dish is full, unnecessary to leave so much honey
front and back again at a time when service.
sprinkle with milk and bake half an with the bees during the time that they
the Siberian government armies were
hour In a moderate oven. Serve with are in the cellar, and It Is not neces­
The
roof
Is
necessary
on
a
stave
silo
falling hack before the Reds lins re
to give It rigidity in addition to protec­ a plain lettuce salad with boiled or sary during that period to leave room
vealed In all Its pitifulness the tre­
for the rearing o f brood. During the
French dressing.
mendous need of Russian hospitals, tion. I f the roof Is put on after the
coldest part o f the winter the bees
silo
is
filled,
no
inside
scaffolding
Is
sanitary trains nnd dressing stations
need especially protection from cold
necessary.
for every kind of supplies.
and wind, although enough good stores
Common types of silo roofs are
“ Although the Amerlcnn Red Cross
must be in the hive to keep them
shingled, concrete, light hollow brick,
has been sending train after train tc
through that period in good condition.
prepared roofing on tight sheathing Bolshevism Is Not New
Western Siberia, so vast Is the need
Probably a large part of the failure
and metal. The roof should match the
that many more trains are necessary
Excepting in the Name of beekeepers In practicing cellar win­
silo. I f one builds a fire and wind-
to meet even the most primal neces
tering comes from the fact that be­
proof silo, he should by all means put
sttles. Yet those of us who have seen
There Is nothing new In bolshevism fore and after the bees are In the cel­
on a fire and wlndprooof roof. The roof
the Immediate Improvement In hos
should be made to last as long as the excepting the name, writes Gustavus lar the Important factors o f stores and
pltals and sanitary trains where Amer
Myers, in the Review. The essentials breeding room have not been adequate­
lean Red Cross supplies have com« silo. A short-lived roof should not be of It, he says, were spread broadcast ly supplied. Before the bees are put
put on a long-lived silo.
In are Immensely encouraged, know­
In the United Stated 90 years ago. Into the cellar they must have room
ing that every pound of absorbent cot­
Industrial communism, free and easy for breeding and stores In abundance,
ton. every ounce of drugs, every ynrd PORK REQUIRED FOR WINTER marriage and divorce, children the and after they are taken out these two
of gauze can be used In Western Sibe­
property o f the state, abolition o f re­ factors must be present In greatly In­
ria to save a life."
Farmers Who Raise Hogs, Kill and ligious Instruction, etc., were all pro­ creased abundance.
Cure Their Own Meat Save Coat
posed here during the years 1826-34.
Necessity of Strong Colonies.
of Marketing.
The bolshevism o f that time, like that
As In the case o f wintering outdoor».
FIND BONES OF 32-FOOT GIANT
of today, became an acute public ques­ It Is wasteful to attempt to winter
Porkers ought to be grazing in tion with astonishing suddenness, but weak colonies. It Is difficult to set
Natives of Mexican Village Who Cling fields and pastures getting food to the approaches were gradual and could
standards o f colony strength at this
to Ancient Traditions, Guard
transform Into pork for your winter be traced to the French revolution and season, bnt it is unwise to attempt
Remains as Sacred.
meat supply. I f farmers do not raise the antl-rellglous campaign headed by to winter colonies that are not strong
Then came Robert enough to have brood sufficient to fill
enough hogs for their own meat who Thomas Paine.
Mexico City.—The fossilized remains will I
Dale Owen, with his gospel o f perfect three or four Langstroth frames two
of a giant measuring 32 feet 10 Inches
Some one must supply farm homes social and Industrial equity.
months before the first killing frost.
In height were, according to report with pork, bacon, lard and sausage.
If the colonies in the apiary are not of
recently discovered by workmen near Those who buy from the stores are
the proper strength. It is wise to unite
the little village of Nanacaiuilpa state likely to find the cost of handling ex­ Silk Reeling Discovered
until the proper strength is reached.
of Vera Cruz.
in China Year 1700 B. C. It Is o f the greatest importance that'
cessive. But those who raise the hogs,
The natives, who still cling to many kill and cure their own meat will save
every colony have a good queen in or­
of the traditions of their Indian an the cost o f marketing.
In the garden o f Hoang-Tl, emperor der that brood rearing may continue
cestors, declared the giant was re­
of China in 1700 B. C., Si-LIng-Chl, the (n the fall and may then again proceed
lated to the gods of their forefathers.!
empress, gathered the cocoons o f the rapidly in the spring. Usually It Is
WATCH
FOR
NOXIOUS
PLANTS
They erected a catafalque In the plaza,
silkworm and discovered a way to rrel
best to requeen at least every two
on which the giant rested In state for
the silk. From this she learned to years, but If good wintering Is prac­
many days, covered with flowers and Mak# Sure That None Go to Seed and weave marvelous, shimmering fabrics
ticed the colonies will come out of win­
Prevent Spreading of Root Stalka
at night carefully guarded.
o f silk. For many years the secret of
ter quarters so strong and will build
o f Perennials.
The discovery attracted the atten­
the source of silk was guarded with
up so rapidly in the spring that the
tion of scientists here. Manuel Oamto,
the death penalty by the emperors of
queens will soon wear out, making It,
In
looking
for
quack
grass
it
would
director of anthropology at the Na­
China. However, this mysterious cloth
tional museum, expects to leave soon M well to watch also for other nox- was exported to many countries. And safer to requeen every year. To get
for Nanacmmllpa to Investigate. He ous weeds, making sure that none go even to this day Sl-Ling-Chl Is wor­ the best results from requeening, all
la Inclined to believe the fosall Is that to seed and that the root stalka ot shiped in China as the "Goddess ot yonng queens should be Introduced so
that they begin to lay about two
of a prehistoric vertebrate not human. perennials are prevented from spread* the Silkworms."
months before the first killing frost. I
Ag as mucù aa possible,
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TYPHUS CARRIES OFF
MANY SICK RUSSIANS
Thousands of People Are Dying
of Dread Disease in
Siberia.
Modem Forestry Turns
Against Word “ Woodlot”
in Professional Lingo
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