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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 9, 1920)
TOLEDO FOLK RIDE IN BUSES OR WALK NOWADAYS ATTENTION GIVEN TO FEEDING FALL PIGS Coyote Killing Resumed Improvement in Their Care Is Urged by Professor Evvard. B f d ttU .3 . Department oi Agriculhira System of Feeding ‘«Cafeteria” Stylo and Types of Houses Attract Comment— Pigs Are Pushed Along From Start to Finish. A t the Iowa agricultural experiment station at Ames, a great deal o f atten tion has been given to full pigs. Prof. John M. Evvard, chief o f swine pro duction, has been n leader in advocat ing an Increase in the number o f fall pigs and in the Improvement o f their care. His system o f feeding them “ cafeteria style” and his types o f hog houses have attracted much attention. Professor Evvard says: “ For a number o f years the animal husbandry section o f the experiment station has been feeding pigs that come in the last days o f August or during September. W e push them Citizens o f Toledo, either walk or ride in buses at 10 to 25 cents a ride these days, for they have no street from start to finish, until in April, and car service. They voted the franchise o f the company forfeited, and the concern at once removed all Its cars from It is not unusual fo r them to weigh around 250 pounds, not so bad fo r pigs the stute. of eight months o f age, fed right through the cold winter. Our fall pigs gain practically as well as our spring pigs. W e have had fall pigs return us RUSSIAN UNION WORKERS RAIDED IN NEW YORK A Coyote Photographed on the Western Plains. The biological survey o f the United States department o f agriculture, in co-operation with the North Dakota Agricultural college, has made arrange ments to begin work in destroying coyotes and other predatory animals in North Dakota. Chat the funds available may be expended to the best ad vantage conferences have been held at which plans o f procedure were worked out, and certain sections o f the region needing assistance most urgently were designated. The latest and most effective methods o f hunting and trapping wolves and, coyotes as developed by the biological survey wiii be employed in this campaign. Similar operations fo r the destruction o f predatory animals destructive o f live stock are in progress in Montana and other western states. CHILD LABOR IS REDUCED Pigs Getting Their Dinner at Self- Feeder. Dscrtua ol Mora Than 40 P it Celt Under New baw within five cents a bushel as much for the feed they ate as the spring pigs. These fa ll pig “ pointers” are offered out o f the experience o f the experi Child labor has decreased more than ment station: 40 per .cent since the child labor tax provision o f the revenue act went Into 1. Keep the pigs warm and dry. 2. Keep the pigs sanitary, killing off effect April 25 last. This act levied a tax o f 10 per cent on the net earnings the lice, worms and other parasites. 3. Feed them exceptionally w e ll; in o f plants employing children under 14 truth, feed them “ free-choice style;” years or between 44 and 10 for more Scene In the headquarters o f the 1'nlou o f Russian W orkers on Fifteenth street In New York after it had been give them a chance at corn and tank than eight hours In the production o f raided by the police. Two hundred and fifty men were arrested and tons o f radical literature seized. commodities entering into Interstate age in separate feeders. 4. Give them plenty o f water. It is commerce. Reports o f Internal revenue bureau not essential that you warm it, but a little warm water once or twice a day agents, It Is announced, indicate that alfo n so at verdun the greatest decrease has occurred In Is all right. 5. Believe In the fall pigs and have the cotton mill Industry o f the south faith In them and they w ill make good. ern states where. It Is said more than I f you do your part, they will. 85 per cent o f the mills now ure oper ating on a basis that exempts them from the tax. Marked reduction In VICIOUS B U L L S ARE SAFEST child labor also was reported, It was said. In the coal mining and canning Gentle Animal Is Cause of Most Trou Industries. Many plants, particularly ble, Because Little or No Pre cotton mills, have discharged all chil* caution Is Taken. dren under 16 years o f age, the report said, rather than adjust the operation The gentle bull has as many victims to an eight-hour day. as the gun that isn’t loaded, or the hunter who “ thought it was a deer.” It ’s the gentle bull that causes the Methods of Education Too trouble In most cases. “ The bull had Much a Cramming Process never before shown an ugly disposi Everyone admits that the methods tion,” snys one clipping. “ The bull had always been considered gentle,” o f modern education are far from per says another; nnd so on through the fe c t; that the whole system is too list. Because the victims thought the much a cramming process, too little bulls gentle, they took no precautions, that “ leading forth” o f the individual which lends us to say: N ever trust a mind which Is Implied in the etymol gentle bull I Better look down the ogy o f the word, declares a writer. barrel o f a rifle! “ Bulls, like cold- Too often the creative Imagination o f storage eggs, should always be consid the child Is not only not developed— It ered bad,” a friend wisely said the is deliberately snubbed and stifled. other day. W arning about vicious And even his critical faculty Is dis bulls is seldom necessary, fo r nobody couraged by the average teacher’s au thoritative attitude, which repeats day trusts them. after day; “ Your opinion Is o f no im portance; So-and-So (Addison, fo r ex CONCRETE FLOORS ARE B EST ample) has been admired by tw o cen King Alfonso of Spain, upon his re turies o f competent Judges, nnd It be cent visit to the historic battlefields, Conservation of Soluble Manure hooves young people like you to accept being shown by Marshal I’ etain through Make* Big Returns In Shape of their opinion.” a great network o f trenches near Ver Varioua Farm Crops. The Itnsuto chiefs who have been visiting In England were given a chance dun. to Inspect the German submarine Deutschland. The photograph shows the Woman Physician Asserts B y Increasing the value o f manure paramount chief returning to the deck. Garters Prove Injurious produced, concrete floors fo r feeding DAY TO KEEP IN MEMORY stables w ill return their cost In about H ere’s another theory o f a woman Particular Reason Why Civil W ar one year, as shown by tests at the physician. Savages develop a better Ohio experiment station. The extra Veteran Recalls Incident of His race than do civilized nations—because crop returns from manure kept on Military Career. savages do not wear garters. Dr. Au concrete floors Is due to the soluble gusta Rucker o f New York made this An Interesting story was told by the plnnt food In the manure; this seefis claim recently before the International away where earthen floors are used. ! veteran MaJ. George Haven 1‘utnam conference o f woman physicians, held The cost o f concreting floors gen In New York. She condemned chil during his visit In the city last week, erally amounts to about $5 per animal says the New York Times. dren’s garters and elastic shoulder In the ordinary feeding stable and the straps, at the same time nrglng looser MaJ. rutnam served In the civil war, saving in manure Is equal to this clothing fo r women, and thegabollsh- rose to be ndjntnnt o f the 170th Regt. amount o f every 1,000 pounds in live Ing o f pointed toed shoes and high New York volunteers, was captured weight o f steers or cattle fed fo r the heels. at Cedar Mountain and confined in year, as compared with animals fed Libby prison. on earth floors. ■SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSiSSSSiSSS»:'' “ 1 was a very small factor In the Concrete floors also make It easier army of the North, anyway,” said to provide better sanitary places fo r DO YOU KNOW THAT— MaJ. Putnam, "and my absence from animals. the ranks created no pnnlc and was The apple crop o f 1919 In the o f very little moment to anyone ex United States Is estimated at cept myself.” NITROGENOUS F EEDS NEEDED 25,000,000 barrels. The highest The major went on to say that one yield ever known was In 1906, afternoon while he was cnnterlng To Make Hog» Gain Rapidly and when It jumped to 60,000,000 along a dusty Virginia highway he Economically They Must Have barrels. passed a body o f Union troops at the Other Feed Than Corn. In northern China the food wayside Bnd their major saluted him. principally consists o f turnips, He was only 21 at the time and these Some nitrogenous supplement must potatoes, maize, rice and millet. attentions naturally plensed him. A be supplied to make bogs gain rapidly It Is considered a heinous o f little farther along he encountered an- and economically when they are given fense to ride a bicycle anywhere group o f troops and this time the run o f th j cornfield to do their near Constantinople. an officer o f considerably higher rank own harvesting. A t least part o f this It takes three men six months dhl the saluting. supplement may be In the form o f a to make a cashmere shawl, Later on the young adjutant dis roughage such as alfalfa, clover or which requires ten goats’ fleeces. covered that the major was William soy-bean pasture. I f provision has not Porridge In the cool season In McKinley and the officer o f higher been made to have clover, alfalfa or Burma Is almost as popular as a rank was Brig. Gen. Rutherford B. rape pasture In the field adjoining the breakfast food among Europeans Hayes. corn or If soy beans have not been as It Is In Scotland, but the oat It was a good deal later, however, planted In the corn or In an adjacent meal used to make It Is Import The sultan o f Turkey, though he has not officially abdicated. Is taking a before he found ant that he had heea Held, then It Is essential to feed some ed from Europe. “ vacation" In Asia Minor at the suggestion. It Is said, o f raprenenmtJves o f the saluted twice In the same afternoon nitrogenous supplement such as tank- allied nations In Constantinople. The photograph shows him arriving at the by men who were to become presi ige, linseed oil meal or middlings. | foreign office to receive what amounted to his deposition. dents o f the nation. BASUTO CHIEFS INSPECT DEUTSCHLAND SULTAN TAKES ENFORCED VACATION KING Communism W as Tried Out Centuries Ago by Little Republic in Central Asia In the heart o f Asia centuries ago Manchu merchants discovered three barge auriferous regions which the Pe kin government immediately claimed by forcing thousands o f laborers to work the mines. Most o f these men, when possible, fled nnd hid In the mountains and forests surrounding them. As the government kept refill ing the deserted ranks the colony in the hills also grew and formed it self Into a federation, whose leaders w ere to protect the lives and supply the means o f livelihood fo r the rest. This little republic was founded upon the shores o f the R iver Centunga, and Is the earliest communist experi ment known. A11 the fruits o f labor and production w ere fo r common use. It was absolutely prohibited that any one withhold from the commune any part o f the gold which all w ere occu pied in mining; R was placed to the credit o f the whole colony and depos ited with fhe association, to be used fo r anyone In need. Everyone had to work to his utmost capacity, and char ity or begging was unknown. Any disobedience to the laws was punishable by denth. This sentence was pronounced by a committee o f twenty-five, elected by universal suf frage, as well as two judges and the two presidents o f the commune. ART THOU THE S A M E ? A rt thou the same, thou sobbing winter wind? The same that rocked the cradle of the May, That whispered through the leaves of summer noon. And swelled the anthem of the full- grown year? Art thou the same, thou piteous, moan ing thing. Beating against the pane with ghostly hands, W alling In agony across the waste— Art thou the same— the same? Art thou the aame, thy poor heart bruised and faint. Treading thy way along through tw i light gloom? Art thou the same that sang to greet the dawn, Caroling In the eunllght like a bird. Too glad for speech, too glad for aught but song? Art thou the same that prayest but for night, . For night to come and ease thee of thy pain— A rt thou the same— the same? Thou winter wind that wallest through the night. Thou broken heart too crushed to moan or cry. There w ill be rest even for ye, poor thing. And more than rest—a Joy new washed Ih tears; For through the portals of the fading year U e sunny hills and fields fresh-clad In green. And after night who knows what day may bring? And ye unchanged, the same— the same? — Frances Dorr (S w ift) Tatnall. Declares Superman on Moon. According to Prof. W illiam H. Pick ering o f Harvard, who recently made a study o f the moon from an observa tory In Kingston, Jamaica, there are evidences o f the existence o f a race o f superior beings on the moon. P ro fessor Pickering asserts a careful study reveals vegetation In spots on the moon’s surface. Artificial Coffee. A young Japanese In Hyogo Is im ported to have Invented artificial cof fee almost equal In every respect to natural Brazilian coffee. It Is said that the goods now manufactured by the young Inventor are more whole some than the natural bean, while re taining all Its flavor and quality.