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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
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t» n
a v y , even
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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.
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Thursday, April 21, 19.32
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In v e n t o r * In c r e a s in g
The number of applicants from
women for patent papers has In
creased greatly In recent years.
When the last detailed analysis was
made, women were applying for pat
ents at the rate of about 5tM) a year,
but It is known to have Increased
considerably, since recently a lurge
number of women have entered In
dustrial life. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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T h e fo o d tested is one unique in in
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A recent test at the Mitchell, Ne-
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milk and butterfat cheaper hut the
total value of the product above feed
cost was less than with cows which
got ggraln In addition to the rough-
sge. James A. Holden, who conducted
the test, sums It up by saying that
the cows receiving grain paid more
than the market price for It. He adds
hat farmers having cows capable of
producing over 300 pounds of butterfat
for a year
silage and hay alone
will find that It pays to add a good
grain mixture at present feed prices
—Successful Farming.
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