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Page 4 TIMES. WILLAMINA. OREGON IDEA OF ARMORED VESSELS IN 1861 Naval Official* Quick to See Possibilities. Proper Insulation Will Put Stop to Nuisance. A subscriber complains that mois ture collects on the celling of his mllkroom, which Is built as an addi tion to bis dairy stable and with a self-closing d<»or. He asks how he can plaster the celling and walls. The moisture condensation Is due to lack of insulation and lack of ven tllatlon. A layer of good sheet Insu latlon on top of the celling Joists would take care of the Insulation of the celling pretty well. Then you should have about a 10 by 10 ot 10 by 12 out take flue starting at the ceiling and going up through the roof and capped with a regular barn ventilator. This should have a valve at the bottom op era ted by a chain, so that It can he partly or entirely closed, as may be necessary to keep the temperature where you want It. Also your walls probably need In snlatl.ig before you plaster. The pat ent plaster board helps a good dea but an extra sheet of Insulation If the walls are of blocks, or the extra sheet with the studding spaces filled with dry sawdust or shavings If ot frame construction, will mid a lot to the warmth. But If you Insulate the ceiling and put In a ventilator you probably will have no furthe* trouble.— Wallace Farmer. To Feed Grain Properly One Must “Know” Herd Feeding grain economically to cows requires In the tlist place that «1 know what each cow in the herd 1» producing. This. In turn, means that we must weigh the milk from each cow at fairly frequent Intervals and have samples of the milk tested for butterfat. Granted that we know the production of each cow, a rough and ready rule Is to feed one pound of grain to each four pounds of milk pro duced by Holstein cows testing around 3.5 per cent fat. Extra good produc ers— say cows producing 50 to 60 pounds of milk dally—will require a larger proportion of grain than this and cows near the end of lactation period and giving 15 pounds or less will not require as much. There will never be a rule so good that the feeder will not have to rely somewhat on his own judgment. An Ayrshire cow, giv ing richer milk, might have a pound of grain to three and a half pounds milk, a Guernsey one to three and a Jersey one to two and three-quarters pounds. One of those Interesting minor notes on naval history was supplied In a Lowell lecture at Boston when Professor Baxter, of Harvard, traced from a re-examlnatlon of the original documents, the development of the navy's Ironclad program at the be ginning of the Civil war— a program of which the Monitor was merely the most celebrated product. Mr. Baxter, according to the Bos ton Transcript, has annihilated the charge of obstructive traditionalism sometimes leveled at the Navy de partment In connection with the Monitor. Capt. Liddell Hart's dic tum that war offices always begin a war at a point somewhat behind that which they had reached at the end of the preceding one apparent ly did not apply to the navy in 1861. Even before the fall of Sumter the navy was considering the first of a flood of proposals for the construc tion of Ironclad men-of-war, and the chief of the bureau of construction and repair was soon to advocate not one hut a whole fleet of these radi cal Innovations. Many people— Donald McKay, the creator of the great clipper ships, was one— were advocating armored vessels, and the idea of turret mountings for the guns had already- been advanced by a British naval of ficer the year before. The Navy de partment went to work In a method ical fashion suggestive of World war days; it convened a board which studied the proposals and by Sep tember was able to recommend three llfferent types for experimental con struction. One of them was the es pecially radical Monitor. She had the luck first to meet the test of battle and to pass it magnificently, and after that the construction of the large fleet of double-turreted mon itors went on rapidly. The navy was able to take the very latest Ideas available, study them, adopt and test models and then go Into “quantity production” for the winning of the war. The story Is not without its mod ern application. It Is an earlier In- rtance of the “time lag” essential in he development of any new weapon ’or war service— a phenomenon re cently pointed out by a British w rit er, Victor Lefehure, ns a possible means for arriving at scientific dis armament systems. Another point ■ a i the iiv K iv i n id i m t» n a v y , even VM U 1 with w iin Is fact that the navy, this prompt and Intelligent handling of the situation, got what was uc- tunlly rather a poor weapon us the result of the hastes of working un der war pressure. The Monitor's victory In her one battle was to Influence our uaval construction down to Spanish war days; actually, however, the ruft Idea, which was Ericsson's essential contribution, was not a sound one. The turret stayed, but the raft was not copied In other navies and Anally disappeared In our own. But mis takes are unavoidable when a new type hns to be built In large num bers all at onee.— New York Herald Tribune. W o n ,.» Thursday, April 21, 19.32 DON'T MISS HIM! ■ I UESDAY aHO THURSDAY NIGHTS A » ^MWUOOKA uJw H e ’s dum b. H s'a funny. T h e wom en love h im no le st than th-j m en. Y o u ’ll laugh w ith h im . Y o u ’ll c ry w ith him. Y o u 'l l lo v e h i m ! 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As might be expected, the highest percentage of Inventions of the number studied a few years ago confined themselves to domestic devices, but a great many applica tions are now from the realms of metallurgy and other higher tech nicul fields. 57 V arieties” C O L U M B IA C O A S T - TO - C O A S T 4 N IT W O lt t TRUTH ABOUT POEM "BEAUTIFUL SNOW ” The story that the fnmlllur poem 'Beautiful Snow" was written by a young woman who committed sul- ?lde In Cincinnati Is a romantic yarn that hns tagged after u poem for years. It Is entirely untruo. Bur ton E. Stevenson, In “Famous Single Poems.” Is one writer who explains the source of the story. During the Civil war nn unldentl fled young woman died In the Com G r t w i o m » D e a th W a t c h mercial hospital In Cincinnati, and Paralyzed by fear, an old woman among her effects was found a utunu- of Bayeux, France, lay In bed and s script of this poetn. It was sent to watched her husband hang himself. Enos B. Iteed, editor of the Nutlonnl Even after he was dead, when she Union, who printed It and credited found sufficient strength to get up, its authorship to the dead girl. she did not cut the cord, hut lit two But It developed when the vers vs candles, one on each side of the began to be copied among the news body. Finally, neighbors, anxious at papers that the lines had originally not seeing the old couple, entered appeared In Harper's Weekly of No the house and found the old woman vember 27, 1858. some gears before on her knees before the body sus the death of the unknown glrL pended above her In the candle light. The poem was published originally unsigned. It was written by John P r e p a r a t io n Whitaker Watson, who was born In Mrs. G ib b — Have you made any New York in 1824, graduated at Co special preparation for the bridge lumbia university and studied medi party tonight? cine, but entered Journalism and de Mrs. Gabb—Yes, I ’ve picked up veloped Into a writer of sentimental several delicious bits of gossip. verse and sensational serials. None of his other poems ever achieved the A large percentage of everything ' notice of this one, and because of Is wrong. But don't think so much |th e attention It attracted, he used about IL Its name as ths title of a book of verse whlh he published In 1MB.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. R om an A lte r Found A delightful find bus been mad* near Newcastle, England, on the Uns of the old Homan wall. It Is a Ito man ultar In a good state of preser vation, with Its inscription still sharp and clear after all the centuries that have streamed uway since Britain was a Homan colony. The altar was dedicated to mothers by a detach ment of the First Cohort of the Ver- dulll. The altar was found near Matlent Piers by the North of Eng land excavations committee. It Is a great treasure that they huve dis covered. A lm ig h t y D o l la r S o ld At an auction of antiques In Lon don a United Slates gold dollar piece hearing the date of 1853 was sold for seven shillings, which Is about 81.75 at par. “Oh, n o F said the auctioneer when somelaidy bid five shillings for the cola "The sov ereign is up seven shillings. Surely the almighty dollar Is worth mors than that.” I f a hoy Is not noisy, that boy'* mind Is likely to he working—ant he Is likely to have a good one. A false minor gaina currency quicker than tne average man. Raise Only Good Calves Healthy calves are advocated as a sure source of healthy, producing dairy cattle. Dairymen who add to their herds by purchase frequently Increase their troubles., according to Dr. J. P. (verson, chief ot the California division of animal Industry, because It rarely happens that healthy, producing cows can be bought cheap. Doctor Iverson ■tresses that only good calves from cow» of known production anl good type should be raised. Such calves, he says, when segregated soon after birth and fed milk, pasterized. or known to be from tuberculosis-free cattle, be come desirable dairy cows, free from disease. lr To every mother who can’t nurse Feed Mpre Grain study of market prices give« a lot of food for thought Just now, es pecially for the dairy farmer who buys a lot of his feed. A couple of years ago nutrients could be purchased most cheaply In clover hay, while tim othy hay was fourth on the list at 113 per ton. Now, according to com putations of a contemporary, timothy Is the most expensive of feeds and red clover Is a more expensive feed than oats, wheat, al.alfa hay, barley, gluten feed and shorts. The change In price levels means that farmers can profitably cut down on the amount of hay fed and feed grain more liber ally. A W h e n a m o th e r’s m ilk fails, n o th in g is m o re im p o rta n t th a n th is — to be sure that the fo o d th a t goes in to her baby’s b o ttle gives h im just w h a t he needs to m ake h im ro sy and healthy n o w , and b u ild h im * firm founda tio n fo r future health. Test m ade w ith fifty babies R ec e n tly , tw o physicians — special ists in baby d ie t — conducted a test w ith fifty average babies, to th ro w n e w lig h t on this subject. T h e fo o d tested is one unique in in fant feed in g history. N e x t to m o th e r’s m ilk , it has raised m o re babies than any o th e r fo o d in the w o rld . O v e r a p e rio d o f 7 5 years, it hasgiven m illio n s th e ir start in life . T h ro u g h o u t A m er ica, there are healthy babies, c h ild ren , g ro w n -u p s, to prove the value o f this am azingly d ig estib le food. 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