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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 15, 1920)
----- Sinn Fein Demonstration in Heart of London .::= = * = ♦ CARE OF C H ILD R EN 'S TEETH IS IMPORTANT ■ - - — ■. ■- ■■ ■ ■ HE examination, dental treatment and dally care o f the teeth are matters o f the greatest Importance for all school children. All decayed teeth, whether temporary or perma nent, should be filled or otherwise treated. Malocclusion (Ineffective m eeting) of the teeth should be reme died aiuf can he corrected In early childhood. It has been recently demonstrated that (In addition to dally brushing), the cleaning o f the teeth o f children every three to six months by a dentist or properly trained dental hygienist will prevent most o f the decay of teeth which takes place. It may be predicted with entire con fidence that In the near future ade quate dental care will be Insured to all school children In the country as well as In the cities. No Item In all the wonderful measures for the health enre o f the soldiers In the trenches of Europe was more significant than the treatment o f the teeth provided by the automobile dentist officer used In France and other countries. Many o f the cities provide dental service for their school children. Shall not our children In the country schools— fu ture citizens and If necessity requires, defenders o f our own republic— re ceive equally good dental care? The establishment of effective habits o f dally brushing and cleansing of the teeth Is one o f the most essen tial features In health teaching In the schools. Every child should have his own toothbrush, to be kept In a clean place and to be used Immediately aft er eating, at least once, or better, twice a day. For cleaning the teeth, a good tooth brush with bristles that do not easily break or pull out, should be used. The teeth should be brushed, not only up and down and across, hut also by a rotary or circular motion from the gums o f one Jnw over the teeth to the gums o f the other, and so round and round. T General view of the enormous crowd at Sinn Fein demonstration In Trafalgar square, London. ators addressed the multitude. * When the Serb Goes Shopping M an; fiery or MRS. WILSON’S GOWN -----------O----------- Don’t be afraid o f changing your mind. Everything changes; why, then, should your opinions remain the same? Think ing means development. Development means change. Without thinking you drift backward.—Lloyd. FARM POULTRY Device Does Satisfactory Work on Very Lumpy Soil. SUCCESS IN RAISING SQUABS Healthy, Vigorous, Properly Mated Birds Are Essential— Keep Rate and Mice Away. Begin with healthy, vigorous, prop erly mated breeders. Good quality foundation stock Is very essential to success. Select and keep only prolific breed ers which are also good feeders. Feed a variety of good quality hard grains, Including pens or peunuts. Use small whole corn ruther than cracked corn. Provide for the pigeons a pen which Is dry, well ventilated, and can he kept free from rats and mice. Tw o nests should be allowed for each pair o f breeders. Keep clean, fresh, protected drinking water before the pigeons and provide a separate unprotected pan o f water for bathing. Market the squabs Just as soon as they are feathered under the wings and about the time they are able to get out o f their nests, say poultry spe cialists in the United States depart ment of agriculture. Doughnuts. Take one egg, one cupful o f sweet milk, one cupful of honey, two ta blespoonfuls o f shortening, two ta blespoonfuls o f cream of tartar and one-half teaspoonful o f soda. Flour is added to roll and cut. Dust with salt and bake. Raisin Cake. Beat three eggs, add one cupful o f honey, four tablespoonfuls o f butter, one cupful o f sweet milk, one and one- third cupfuls o f raisins chopped, three cupfuls of flour, one-half tonspoonful o f salt, the same o f soda nnd two tea- spoonfuls o f bnklng powder, one tea spoonful o f vanilla extract I.ed by a marquis, whose nnme is withheld, mnle visitors to Marlakerke. near Ostend, Belgium, have revolted against the conventional garb, and are «ppeurlng on the walks attired In cool pajamas, as the photograph shows. Honey Cereal Coffee. Beat one egg. add one cupful of honey, preferably dark ; two quarts of wheat bran. Mix and stir until well blended. But Into the oven and strr until a dark brown, being careful that the oven Is not too hot. When prepar ing the coffee allow one heaping table- sponful to a cupful o f hot water, and boil at least ten minutes. M ay Be Home for the Shell-Shocked Tat Ryan, the powerful New York er, winning the hammer throw In the Olympic games at Antwerp. Something in a Name, After All. The Bishop o f Singapore Is not the only prelate who has dlstlngulshct' himself In the handling o f firearms. / former bishop o f Durham, with tin rather ominrus name o f Shute, va an excellent shot with the sportln gun. It was playfully said o f hh that he never troubled to get out i game license, as. If he were asked t. produce It. he used to quote the open Ing words o f his own license: “1 Shute, by divine permission.’’— Londoi Morning Mall. The administration building o f the old United States weather bureau, above Itluemont, Va., Vhlrh was abandoned by the government about six years ago. The entire tract o f 81 acres with all the buildings, may be converted Into a government home fo r shell-shocked soldiers. If a favorable report Is trade by Surgeon General Cummings. Ha W a t Handicapped. Leslie had always been very much afraid of dogs. One day, after a struggle to get him to pass a large dog which stood i on the corner, hla mother scolded him for his unnecessary fear. "W ell, waa hla reply, “ you'd be afraid o f dogs If you were as low down as ( jta .’’ Plum Butter. Take four quarts o f plums after be ing rubbed through a colander. Let the mixture come to a boll, then add one quart o f honey, one quart o f sugar, or two quarts o f sugar, and boll until It crusts over the top when cool, or about 15 minutes. Stir frequently to keep from burning. Sandwiches. Cut bread as fresh as possible and spread with fresh butter, cream ed; then spread with honey, sprinkle with nuts and put together as sandwiches Pickled Grapes In Honey. Take seven pounds o f grapes on the stem and pack in a ja r without brais ing. Make a sirup o f four pounds o f honey, a pint of good vinegar, spices to suit the taste. Boll the sirup for 20 minutes, skimming It often. When boiling hot, pour over the grapes and seal at once. These will keep perfect ly aa the honey ts a preservative. (A 1*1*. V a l w i N *w i»M M r I’ s U iJ Illustration Gives Good Idea of Con struction of Implement W hich Can Be Put Together at Small Coat — It Kills Weeds. It sometimes happens that land gets very lumpy or full o f clods and, to get the best results, these clods should be mashed or ground up. To do this a home-made clod crusher will be found to do the work in a most sat isfactory manner. The accompanying drawing shows how such a crusher can be iimAe at home with but slight expense. It Is made by taking two two by eight GEESE UTILIZE WASTE GRAIN Grazing Stock Take Up Most of T h e ir Feed From O rdinary Grassei of the Pasture« Float or Clod Crusher. pieces eight feet long and spiking two by six pieces on the ends and also on top. T o save a little expense a sled Geese touch flanks with chickens In tongue can be used, and will answer utilizing waste grain about the stables Just as well ns to make one. A four and feeding pens. In a larger measure by four piece Is placed between the than chickens or any other kind ot floats and is held In place by lag poultry, they are grazing stock, taking screws In each end. This piece should their living In large part from the or have teeth Inserted Into Its lower side dinary grasses of the pastures. When which are made from five-slxteenths- the facts are taken Into consideration lnch round Iron, and should stick out that the .demand for geese is strong, about two nnd one hnlf Inches. Holes steady, and extended over practically should be bored Into the four by four, the whole year, not confined to certain slightly smaller than the iron, and holldny seasons, as the demand for should slant backward. A lever can turkeys largely Is, and that their value be bolted to this piece, which by mov as egg producers is considerable, the ing front or back will press the teeth Importance o f a few geese on a gen more or less Into the soil. There could eral farm becomes apparent. be a seat put onto it, but it Is better Geese, In common with ducks, are to stand up, as by so doing. If any rub utilizers of forms o f food confined to bish gets under It, a step forward w ill raise the hind end and let the obstruction out, says a writer In The Farmer. This machine Is also a fine thing to go over a corn field Just before the corn comes up nnd will kill more weeds than a drag. One or Mrs. Woodrow Wilson’s A shopping trip for the peasants o f Serbia means something more than most striking and becoming evening calling the corner grocery on the phone or a few hours In the town shops. H O N E Y D IS H E S . gowns, has been given by her to the Usually It consists o f a day's trip across country, a day of bargaining In the United States national museum, to be mnrUets and another day to return home. Towns are few and widely scat The substitution o f honey for sugar added to the historical costume collec tered and transport facilities are almost unknown. This photograph shows a tion o f trousseau dresses o f wives of Is not to be recommended, as the physi peasant on the way to market with the usuul equipment. presidents. This costume, worn by a cal properties o f honey are quite differ The follow ing are wax model. Is said to be one o f the ent from sugar. most beautiful In the collection. The tried recipes: material Is black velvet trimmed with Cream Cookies. jet and lined with electric blue silk. Take one cupful o f extracted honey, pint o f sour cream, a tablespoon RYAN, HAMMER THROWER one ful of soda, flavoring to suit the taste, and flour to make a soft dough. Chill well before rolling. Tennessee Cookies. M elt together one cupful each of honey and lard or butter. When cool add one-third o f a cupful o f sugar, a pinch o f salt, a tablespoonful o f soda and an egg. Add flour to make a stiff dough, roll and cut as usual. HOME MADE FLOAT OR CLOD CRUSHER HANDY IMPORTANCE OF MALE BIRDS Exert Much Influence In Producing Qualities of Offspring— T w o Classes of Hens. Toulouse Goose. Doctor Pearl, formerly of the Maine experiment station, makes mention of the fact that among the high produc ing hens there are two classes, one clnss having the ability to transmit their high laying qualities to their daughters and the other class being poor breeders. It sLnply amounts to the selection by means o f the trap nest o f the high layers. These In turn are mated to sons o f high layers and the progeny of the mating Is again tested as to egg production. It Is agreed by the most careful observers that the male bird exerts a very important In fluence in the producing qualities o f the offspring, and that a good hen mated to a poor male would likely give very Indifferent results. ponds and streams, but they are In that particular excelled by ducks. On farms where ponds or streams are available ducks will convert Into meat and eggs great quantities o f water In sects and various aquatic forms that would not be utilized by any other kind of poultry. Ducks, while they consume much grass and other green stuff, are more partial to animal feeds and are very energetic In patrollng Q uality Is Influenced to Considerable the branches, creeks and ponds as Extent by Manner in Which sources o f food supply, say poultry T h e y Are Dug. specialists In the United States depart ment o f agriculture. Whore conditions The table quality o f potatoes Is In are favorable they will provide for fluenced to a considerable extent by their own food needs In a measure the way they are dug and stored. that will make them highly profitable. Potntoes should be dug if possible, on a clear day, when the soil Is not wet enough to cling to them, ndvises the college. They should he left In General Purpose Breeds Lay and Molt the field only long enough to become dry, then stored In a place which Is at Same Tim e, Slowing Down or. cool and rather moist, and as dark as Egg Production. possible. Under ordinary home storage condi The hen with a natural tendency to lay usually postpones the molt until tions, because of the danger of decay, her production is finished regardless It Is not wise to have the potatoes more o f the time she started. This applies then two and one-half or three feet more particularly to the egg breeds, deep, either In a pile or In a box, says as the general purpose or meat breeds an agricultural college potato man. DAY FOR DIGGING POTATOES LAYING HENS LATE MOLTERS sometimes lay and molt at the same time. In such cases the feathers are dropped and replaced slowly and the egg production also slows down but may not entirely suspend. FLOOR OF PORTABLE HOUSES It Should Be at Least One Foot From Ground, Open and Free— Cement Baffles Rata. MAKEUP OF POULTRY MASH Floors of portable poultry colony houses should be at least one foot from the ground, and the space under neath should be open and free. Per manent brooder houses should have Hens love mash. Usually, ground cement floors, and the doors and win feeds, such as cornmeal. com chop, dows should be screened with one-inch com and cob meal, gluten meal, ground mesh wire fencing. I f such precau barley, cottonseed meal, linseed meal tions are taken, rats and weasels usu gluten meal and alfalfa meal are used ally do little damage. In the mash. Sometimes charcoal Is added to guard against digestive trou bles. Among Ingredients Are Com , Alfalfa, Barley and Gluten— Charcoal Aide Digestion. SALT PREVENTS INDIGESTION FEED FOR GROWING CHICKENS When About Eight Weeks Old Give Supply of Cracked Corn and Other Small Grains. As soon as the chickens will eat the whole wheat, cracked corn, and other grains— usually In about eight weeks — the stnall-slzed chick feed can be eliminated. In addition to the above feeds sour milk, skim milk or butter milk will hasten the chickens’ growth. Used by Experienced Shepherds in Changing Sheep From Old Pas ture to New. Many experienced shepherds mix salt with air-slaked lime, a little more lime than salt to prevent Indigestion and bloat when the sheep are changed to new pastures. On some farms to bacco stems are dipped In a strong salt brine and no additional salt Is given to the sheep. This helps to con trol parasitic Infection and Is benefi cial to the ewes and lambs.