The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current, June 28, 1914, Section One, Image 10

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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTXAXD, JUNE 28, 1914. majority of the hens lay their eggs before noon. If gathered then they can be stored In a cool place away from TRAIL TO PEAK OF MOUNT RAINIER WILL BE OPENED BY MAZAMAS PRIZES FOR HOME GARDENS AWARDED BY PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION Hoffman and Peninsula School Boys Each Win $10 Nine Other Students Get Books From Superintendent Alderman and Irvington Girl Receives Special Award for Beautiful Flower Plot. the heat of the afternoon and from the molestation of broody hens. Eggs laid in the afternoon can be gathered again. Gathering the eggs in this manner they present a clean and attractive appear ance. A dirty egg knocks down the price and actually interferes with the Portland's Famous Mountain-Climbing Club Flans Ascent by Carbon-Winthrop Cleaver on Slope Overlooking National Park Section Attempt Over Different Route to Be Noteworthy August 2 Is Date for Start. keeping qualities. Dirt is a sign or decay the world over. m m m The poultryman or woman who knows his or her business has many advan tages over the one who does not know it. but let no one imagine they Know so much that they need not learn any thing more. Provide yourself with the best books, papers and magazines. Keep posted on what the other fellow is doing. The laggard must lose. More than three-fourths of an egg Is composed of water, so you can see how necessary it is that the fowls be supplied with an abundance of fresh 10 I - ".a;,-,!,- -'r- . ' water. OF . r -iwwusix y-71 ILf 11. THE two $10 cash prizes offered by the Parent-Teacher Association of Portland for the best home Crardena grown by public school pupils have been awarded as follows: First, best garden grown by pupil 13 years old or older, Gordon Wiltshire, of the Hoffman school; second, best garden grown by pupil less than 13. years old, Earl Rosser, of the Penin HOT WEATHER HINTS FOR POULTRY KEEPERS GIVEN Infertile Eggs Recommended for Summer Sale and Cry of Cleanliness Im pressed on All Chicken Fanciers. BY W. LTOWIO. TO PREVENT mites keep the house clean and paint the roosts and In terior of nests every two weeks with kerosene and crude carbolic acid. Re member that there Is no reasonable excuse for a house being Infested with mites. If the house is kept clean, sani tary and properly sprayed they will never appear. A "mitey" henhouse Is always the sign of a careless poultry man. See that the young chicks are kept growing every minute of their exist ence. Give them as much variety as possible. Green feed must be supplied liberally and a limited supply of an imal food. An extra feed of stale bread soaked in milk will help to bring along the late brood. We should sell or kill at once all hens with constitutional weakness, the broken down and abnormally . fat. We must head our flocks with male birds from known heavy egg producers, and cull, cull, cull the growing chicks. This will lessen the cost of production, and In a short time Increase the amount of profit. Poutry products must be got on the market In good condition and In neat, attractive packages, to bring the best prices. The poultry producer must use the best methods In fattening and dressing his birds so he will have a good grade of poultry to put on the market. If the producer will always put a uniformly, good product on the -H-wv -Af' "tJh ;J-S sula school. The competition was close in both classes. About a dozen fine gardens were found. Superintendent Alderman has donated books as special prizes for the others. Each of the following pupils is asked to call at his office, 405 Courthouse, and select one: Miss Alva Gutknecht, Peninsula school; Ralph WInchell, Washington High School; Walter Schnuelle, Woodlawn market there will always be a demand for it, no matter whether he is cater ing to a wholesale or a retail trade. Charcoal is one of the best prevent ives of disease. Keep it constantly before the young and old stock. . Breeding stock should be so fed as to be kept in robust health, be well nourished, neither too fat nor too lean, so that when the breeding season be gins they will be in proper condition to perform all the functions of breeders. - Fresh air night and day is vital to poultry, but drafts are fatal. . Now Is the time to buy your breeding birds for next season. Better value can be had now than later because the breeder has more to select from and will .not have the additional expense of feeding .until later. Never use wood ashes as a dust bath, as they are strongly alkali and will irritate the skin and bleach the shanks. Road dust is preferable for a dust bath, but sifted soal ashes answer the pur pose quite well. If there is no natural shade, such as trees, bushes and the like, be sure to provide it some way. Chicks just love to crawl under the bushes during the heat of the day or to loaf behind some building out of the sun. It Is cruel to attempt to raise chicks In an open space without providing shade. How would you like to stand around In the hot sun all day and drink water school: Harry Kinnear, LJewellyn school, best in LJewellyn school dis trict; George Dunn, Richmond school; Henry Shafer, Richmond School; Sher man Powell, Arleta school; Herbert Birmingham, Arleta school, and Joe Huffsmith, Ockley Green. Miss Madeline Shaw, a pupil of the Irvington school, la also awarded a special prize for a beautiful flower garden. that Is almost up to the boiling polnt7 Many a prize winner or an egg basket filler Is ruined during the heated sea son Just because the operator is lazy or indifferent, and It Is just these small but Important things that put so many on the shelf as poultry raisers. . Weed out the crippled chicks and don't try to rear them. They never amount to anything and spoil the looks of the flock. We have noticed time after time breeders hanging onto a few scrawny runts and cripples, hopping along on one leg, and surely one is at a loss to know why this Is done. A runt will eat more as a rule than a healthy chick. , Poultry raising on the farm In the past has been dreadfully neglected. Poultry raising In the future Is going to be considered a necessity on the farm, but is going to receive Just as much attention or more than any other line of arm work. Caponizlng your surplus cockerels should bring you a handsome profit. Do not let the pullets and cockerels run together. Separate them when eight or 10 weeks old. The pullets must be kept growing and developed for early laying to bring the most profit. The first yearbook of the Depart ment of Agriculture published under the new Secretary has just left the press of the Government Printing Of fice. It contains special articles by the department experts and the usual in formation concerning experiment sta tions and agricultural societies. The yearbook Is distributed solely through Senators and Representatives, to whom application for copies should be made. The more the hen exercises the more eggs she will lay. So keep her scratches- The demand for strictly fresh aggs ia tnnrpitaiitz'- The Tiublic Is demnnri- jing lu uatner tne eggs irequenuy. Tne Government experts estimate that 5 per cent of the eggs marketed have developed chickens and that 3 per cent are rots due to the embryo decaying. All these losses could be avoided by keeping roosters out of the nocks, thus having only infertile eggs produced. If breeders would follow this plan they could save millions of dollars annually. Infertile eggs produced by flocks in .which there Is no male are the only kind that can reach the consumer in good condition during the Summer months. Remove the straw or nesting mate rials monthly. Always keep the first nest filled with fresh and clean mate rials. If the' methods you have adopted are bringing you good results, stick to them. Success assured Is Detter man uncertain nromised results. Let well enough alone. -a . .... jau, tn Vf i a urti. t-1 On Thftt riflV swat tne rooster campaign wa o- gun Dy tne larmer, Dreeuer, uujdi mu nm.ltw nrnHiirta who con fined or killed their surplus roosters on mat aaie. i&iniuno wi uuuaia " " - In., AanK maa ann o TlH mtkAlk ' I C6BB absolutely unfit for food because the eggs were fertilized, and the germ j j . j i 1 w grows ana aeveiopa uuiiuk iuv, weather. An egg doesn't have to be in place. The temperature In the average living-room or ins aeiaso uu.iLi j store is high enough in hot Summer . v. . l. aPt(la unfit fnr food long before that egg reaches the consumer, farmers snouia now exer cise care and save this loss in wasted trrm onH r-rpii t more confidence on the nart of the consumer in market eggs ana tnus increase consunipuuu. The United States Department of Agriculture, after conducting tests lor a period of five months, has marketed eggs successfully Dy parcel post, in the course of these experiments the de- Dartment shipped 9131 eggs in 466 lots. Of these 327. or slightly less than 3.6 per cent, were broken, but only 209, or sllarhtly less than Z.5 per cent, were ao- solutely wasted. The others, though broken, could still be used. Better prices for the producer and a fresher article for the consumer nas oetn uem- onstrated. BRITISH ARTIST IS HERE K. W. CHRISTMAS, OF LOSDOS, HAS PICTURES ON DISPLAY. From Now Until Opening of Sao Fran cisco Fair Northwest's Scenle ' Beauty Win be Depicted. E. W. Christmas, of London, a mem .fea Pal nritinH ArtifttS. is diS 1. 1 V. ...'J . . - ---- . playing 21 of his paintings at a local studio, rne pictures are in oum wi colors and oils, and reveal Mr. Christ- ao a rinhA tpnttor whn records the scenic splendors and beauties of all parts of the world in a weaitn oi vivm Mr. Christmas has been literally . ,i .hA mnrl H pnH hanlc acrain1 with his brush and palette, and wheth er it be a peaceful English farmyard . v--. t,A n.inr nr- thn mas-nif icent mountain guarded barbor of Rio de Janeiro, he nas painieu icenusiy sympathetically. ie nas no ior i u aa ha that Nature's color lavishness, if well and truly por trayed, cannot oe overaono. i f v- i .- ..ia ii 1. a luMti r n m from i ; u in -I.-v. nra hA hm oainted sev eral pictures of the mountains and the sea. He will exnimt at mo ruui-i-clflc Exposition at San Francisco, and . ; 1 !... .fmA will AMIIDT h i IT1 H ' 1 f ill painting - the scenery of the Western North American coast. Ho is enthusiastic over what he has M,r-..,..rn HpAcnn nnr) declares that nowhere ill the world are there finer cloud effects than In tne uoiumDia Valley. He believes that they are due o,-t inn of sudden sunshine on the great atmospheric moisture. THEN and NOW. Prosress of Deaf Mutes. irlftv va-rs 1KO to Today the 11,000 day the first college deaf mutes m the in tne wona to oner collegiate education with honorary de grees to deaf mutes was inaugurated at Washington. D. C. It 'United States have recourse to more than 100 institutions at which education of deaf mutes Is made a specialty. was on tms rano day that the degree of master of arts was conferred upon the deaf and dumb American artist. John Carlln. This was the first degree conferred by the col lege, and is said to be the first granted to a deaf mute In the world's history. It bore the signature of Abraham Lincoln, the ex-officlo patron of the college ac cording to the act of Congress which es tablished the institu tion. The college was given the name of the National Deaf Mute College. It pos sessed two little brick buildings, neither of which had cost more than arwin n.. waji built The pioneer college at Washington, how ever, still remains the only college In the world for deaf mutea Its name is now Gallaudet Col- lege, having been changed to perpet uate the memory of Thomas H. oallau det, the pioneer. It Is now located on an 100-acre campus known as Kendall Oreen. On this commence ment IS professors make un the faculty that Is Instructing the 111 students of both sexes. The graduates from the college, as well as those of the public and private deaf mute echools of the country are earning their livelihoods In more than 100 dif ferent trades, pro fesslons, Industrie! and lines of bust by an appropriation from Congress, and the other at the ex pense of Amos Ken dall, who seven years before had founded the Colum bia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, out of which the college grew. Among the speak ers of the day was tha 27-year-old col lege president. Dr. Edward Hiner Gal laudet. He was the son of Thomas H. Gallaudet. who was the "founder of the education of deaf mutes in America." The college opened with seven students, "one fully matricu lated and six pre paratory." The fac ulty consisted of one professor beside the college president. ness. There are scores of deaf mute ministers and In. structors in all etates of the Union. One Is practicing as a lawyer before the United States Bu- p r e m e Court. A deaf mute conducted the defense In a famous murder ease In a New York court. Several mutes are acting as ed itors and reporters on magazine and newspaper staffs; some are earning ex cellent salaries and commissions as trav eling salesmen and Insurance agents; one has achieved fame as a sculptor, while another Is capably filling the position as bank cashier. The British Columbia labor commission has recommended a Saturday half-holiday lor ail stores P It -rv-rr - : 1 -jrv "yCA . j ' " r - -ifMnmn- itiiininiii BY JOHN H. WILLIAMS. Author of "The Mountain That 'God.'" etc. ACOMA, Wash., June 27. (Spe cial.) The most notable event In American mountaineering sched uled for the present Summer is the proposed ascent of Mount Rainier by the Mazamas, Portland's famous mount ain club, over the north side "cleaver between Carbon and Wlnthrop Glaciers. This project Is of considerable Impor tance In relation to the development of the Rainier National Park, and of great Interest to mountaineers and nature lovers generally. The path proposed Is difficult, but probably auite practicable,- and if opened It will afford a valuable route to the summit of America's greatest snow peak. This will be the first or ganized attempt to conquer the moun tain from the side nearest the cities of Tacoma and Seattle. Like many moun tains that have been deeply gouged by glaciers, Mount Rainier presents its steepest face to the north, where the heaviest glaciers have done their work, and this side is as yet unsealed. Hitherto ascents have been made chiefly over the route discovered bv General Hazard Stevens ana r. ts. Van Trump on their pioneer climb In 1870. This leads up from Paradise Val ley, on the south side; crosses the knee of Gibraltar Rock, climbs the Ice flume west -of that huge remnant of the mountain's original surface, and gains the summit over the upper snow fields of Nisouallv and Cowlitz Glaciers. Al together several thousand persons have followed this route, which is likely to remain the most popular, as it Is the easiest way of reaching the top. The ascents made over all other routes havei Included little more than 100 cumbers. A few parties, mostly small, have climbed the long Ice slopes of the White (now officially called "Emmons") oia- cier. on the east side. Several expert climbers have scaled the ridges be tween NIsaually and Tahoma Glaciers. and some years ago Van Trump and Ballley made the summit over the Ta homa Glacier. Trail Most Be Built. On the north side one or two unsuo cessful attempts have been mad by individuals, but tha routes attempted were west of Carbon Glacier. In 110 the Mountaineers, of Seattle, studied the Carbon-Winthrop cleaver with view to an ascent, but gave It up as a bad lob. Going far around to the east side via St Elmo Pass, they camped on the south wing of Steamboat Prow, and. climbed over wnite oiacier. in mil the same club again planned an ascent bv their route of 1909, but the shifty White Glacier . proved unexpectedly dangerous, and only seven persons got to Columbia s Crest. Now comes the Portland climbers, friendly rivals in these difficult but desirable undertakings, and propose an assault on the mountain by the route which the Mountaineers rejected in 1909. In deciding on the Carbon-Winthrop ridge for their 1914 ascent, the Ma zamas acted on the belief of experts that this cleaver, though steep, can be climbed. Among these are the United States geological survey men who recently mapped the National Park. Another expert who holds that belief is Asahel Curtis, the Seattle photographer and climber, who urged the Mountaineers to adopt this route in 1909, but was overruled by his fellow members. The Geological Survey men did not themselves climb this rUge, as they bad previously established the elevations for the summit points by their surveys from the south side. But their work took them above the niche in Carbon cleaver known as "Ava lanche Camp," where they measured the steep rock slope which extends up from that point, and which is called Russell Peat- Here an elevation of 1700 feet has to be gained in less than half a mile of distance, and at an average grade of 46 per cent. While tnat is a stiff grade, it would mean little to trained climbers but for the fact that much of it is to be made over loose rocks. ' rr' - s J? it. i rniimin v - Route of the Mazamas' proposed ascent of Mount Rainier. The larger pic. ture. No. 1. taken from the Slulsktn range, shows Moraine Park below, where the club will have Its permanent ramp, and the great amphitheater of Carbon glacier, more than two miles wide, beyond. The Mazamas will climb the Carbon-Winthrop cleaver (left), which ends In a steep rock slope railed Rus sell peak, leading to the upper snow fields of Wlnthrop glacier, seen In the distance. The small picture. No. 2. Is a near view of Russell peak, aa seen from Avalanche camp, a niche In the cleaver, where a temporary camp may be established at an elevation of more than 10,000 feet, preparatory to the ascent. (Photos by Asahel Curtis). where a trail must be built. This short slope offers the only possible difficulty of the route, but once It Is passed the Mazamas will have comparatively easy climbing over the broad summit snow fields nnd up the west slope ot tne crater to the actual top of the peak. 14.408 feet above the sea. The rocky slope of Russell Peak forms the northeastern sky-line of the mountain as seen from Tacoma. as the Mazamas work up toward the cliff that must be rounded at Its top, the scene unfolded will well repay the struggle. On the east across Wlnthrop glacier, rise Steamboat Prow and tn Sourdough Mountains. On the other side, the climbers will look down near ly 2000 feet to the great Ire cascades of Carbon glacier. That glacier fills a basin or "cirque" more than two miles wide the largest smpltheater now occupied by an active glacier south of Alaska. At Its head Is "Wil lis Wall." which rises 4000 feet at an angle of SO per cent too steep to hold Ice or snow permanently on Ita slope. Above Willis Wall, a snow-cap some hundreds of feet thick form the mar gin of the snow-field that also feeds Wlnthrop glacier. This huge snow bank drops avalanches every Summer day to Carbon glacier below. These avalanches will fall far to the right of the Mazamas, climbing ridge, but still near enough to stun the climbers with their roar and shake the around with the rush of thousands of tons of ice and snow and rock. Bcemle Redo Fasaows. Across the Carbon smpltheater, on the west, will be seen the minor peaks, valleys, lakes and flower fields, that form Spray Park, between Carbon and North Mowlch glaciers. This Is the most famous scenic region on the mountain, snd viewed from an eleva tion of 12,000 feet, its glories will be even more impressive tnan wnen seen in detail, near at hand. Looking northward from Russell Peak, the Mazamas will see below them Moraine Park, whence they have climbed a beautiful hanging valley once occupied by a feeder of Carbon glacier. North of Spray and Moraine parks Is the Imposing range through which that great glacier has cut Its way. throwing Sluiskin Mountains to the east. Mother Mountains to the west. Beyond, still other ranges rise in huge. deeply forested waves, a sea of moun tains that seems to flow north snd west to meet the distant sea of Puget Sound; while far away, banked by a narrow rim of green farms that parts the blue water from the purple forest, lie the cities of the Bound Seattle. Ta coma and Olympia and still beyond, ghostlike In their distant whiteness. Mount Baker and the snowy summits of the northern Cascades, and west ward, the lovely Olympics. All these on a fair day are clearly seen from that wonderful Carbon-Winthrop clea ver above Moraine Park. Thus the ridge by which the Mazamas propose to scale 'Mount Dig enow commands the noblest scenery of the National Park. Its outlook across the carbon amphitheater alone would make their undertaking worth while. Hero Is the mort stupendous picture to lie een in our. country, of nature at wor ua a J V v i grand scsle, sculpturing landscapes with the mightiest of all tools, a mon strous river of Ice that Is dally cutting back toward the heart of tha peak, and digging deeper Into Its bed of volcanic rock. Everything In sight valleys, ranges, lakes and flowery meadows tells the fascinating story of glacial action In the past, and the splendid landscape Interpret the work f the glaciers still remorselessly eating Into the vast peak. Tablle latere Draws. Public Interest In this side of tle National Park will follow the Mazamas In their ascent with hearty wishes for their success. For this Is the section which Congress Is st last about te open with a road up the Carbon River from the northwest corner of the park. Connecting there with county reads from Tacoma and Seattle ar4 the Northern Pacific Hallway st Kalrfas, skirting the Carbon up te Ita iscler. and climbing thence to Pprer Park w the west and Moraine Park on the east, this picturesque snd Wing-needed highway will cut off Is miles ot dis tance between the Puget found cities and the mountain, as compared with the existing south side road te Para dise Valley. It will bring those cities within two and three hours' ride re spectively of the snow line. No other of the world's Important snow peaks with such resources of delight and recreation Is so nesr to cities of eo'ial size. The opening of this road, with good hotels on the adjacent uplsnda. and connected by good trails with the pressnt south side resorts, will greatly Increase the value of the National Park to the public and no doubt multiply tourist travel to It. with profit te te entire Northwest. Our great scenic re sources have no value until made ac cessible. Ksrly 111 July the Marsmss outing committee will send a pioneer party Into Moraine Park to selct a camp sll and go ovi-r the route of the rroi',e'1 ascent. The main body of the rluh will go to the mountain en August 2. via Tacoma and Fslrfss. where they win exchange the Northrn Pacific trail for the trail. Tramping tip the rarbun csnyon, tner win maae ine.r ii- nent csinp In Moraine rare, in wni'ii an old bridle trail will have been re opened by io-nperatlon with Park Ku- perintendent Allen. tne rrprnm- tstlve of the Interior Depsrimeni, which Is working zealously for the de velopment of the National Park. Mr. Allen Is naturally much Interested In the outing snd will be sble to con tribute grestly to Its success. The Mazamas hav undertaken a ail of mountaineering that combines prsc. tical value with enough of difficulty to make It Interesting. Whether the succeed In opening this Iniportsnt Ira. I or not. their courage In nttempting It III add to the prestige of their nr. ganlzatlon. Society ComnillU-fs Urmal Smmr. At a meeting yesterday of the Abra ham Lincoln Memorial Hi.clety standing committees for next year were name.l. No chances were mncle In the person nel of the committees aa they have ex. lsled duilng the last year.