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NEWS EVENTS COVER WIDE RANGE FROM SPORTS TO WAR
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Curling Becomes Popular Winter Sport Americans Present Swiss Soldiers' Home Hawaii Has Large Japanese Population Battleship Nevada Commissioned Palm Beach Has Society Play.
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ONE of the favorite sports of Win
ter and one 'which la growing in
popularity, la curling-. It origi
nated. In Scotland, but It is now in
vogue to a. limited extent in the United
States and it is much played in Switz
erland, where conditions for it are
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Alexander Blair Thaw is a brother
of William Thaw, who is with the
French army aviation corps. Alexander
is an aviator also. Recently he was
trying- to fly to Governor's Island, when
his engine went wrong, and he was
obliged, to make a perilous descent in
Central Park, where his machine was
wrecked. The aviator and his me
chanic escaped unhurt.
Mrs. John Jacob Astor uses the horse
and buggry as a mode of travel in and
about Aiken, S. C. fihe drives her own
horse and carriage from the Aiken sta
tion. Mr. and Mrs. . Allan Appleton
Robbins, of Xew Tork, are guests of
Mrs. Astor at this new and favorite
resort.
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Japanese in Honolulu gave three
"Banzai3" for their Emperor on the
occasion of a recent celebration. Ha
waii has a very large Japanese popu
lation, which is thought to be com
posed largely of war veterans, ready
at a sign of trouble between the United
States and. Japan to take up arms for
Nippon.
George W. Guthrie, the United States
Ambassador to Japan, calls frequent
ly on the Emperor. The automobile
has not yet replaced the state coach
in Japan, though there are many
"devil wagons" in use there.
The royal palace at Caserta, Italy, is
where the aged King of Servia, an ex
ile from his own country, has taken
refuge. 1
The battleship Nevada has gone into
commission at Boston this week. She
was built at the Fore River works, in
Quincy. The ship made 22 knots an
hour on her official speed trials.
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The postoffico at Columbus, N. M.,
was wrecked by the Mexican raiders.
The postmaster was killed.
German Zeppelins recently swooped
down on Liverpool and after they had
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retreated a number of dead and wound
ed were left to testify to the success
of the raiders. A number of dwellings
occupied, by workingmen were demol
ished by bombs dropped by the raiders.
Mrs.
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Gurnee Munn. of Washington,
is the heroine of the society
play, "The Isle of Happiness," the en
tire action of the play being- laid in
and about Palm Beach. The cast is
composed of well-known men and
women of society wintering there. Ten
thousand feet of film have been taken
of the scenario. After its appearance
on the screen in the dining-room of the
Royal Poinciana Hotel it will be de
stroyed. A part of the proceeds will
go to the American Ambulance - in
Paris. ,
Minister Pleasant A. Stovall. at
Berne, recently presented to the Swiss
army, on behalf of the American col
ony in Switzerland, a home for sol
diers to be known as the Wooflrow
Wilson Soldiers' Home. Like homes
were given before in the names of
Washington and Lincoln. In accepting
the Woodrow Wilson Home Colonel
Wildbolz. commander of the Third
Army Division, said it was a valuable
testimony of the friendship of America
for Switzerland and that it. would make
the name of Woodrow Wilson forevw
remembered in that country. The home
has been taken to the Swiss aviators
headquarters at Uubendorf. The threa
homes presented by the American coL
ony cost $6000.
odemPouhry Culture
SHE has proved her worth. She has
the goods and can deliver them
This astonishing performance
makes plain the wealth of possibilities
in every man's dooryard flock.
The expert tells us that there are
more than 7000 latent eggs in the
normal hen. One individual has shown
that she can lay hundreds of these
hidden, dormant, potential possibilities
in a twelvemonth. If one can do it,
then others can. No one expects 7000
ggs from any hen, however long she
may live. But every one knows now
that he need not go round the world
to find his "Acres of Diamonds." One
American hen has shown us that there
is as great economic value in her as
can be found, weight for weight, in
any animal in the world.
What then? Simply this: It is up to
tts to make the most of the domestic
fowl. She has the eggs and she is
riever happier than when laying them.
The hen that can lay 200 eggs in a
year has become common. Her dis
covery is of recent date, however. A
dozen years ago there were few who
Relieved that such a producer could be
bred. Today the 300-egg hen has been
discovered in various parts of the coun
try. The evidence is so overwhelming
that millions -of the American people
are challenged to dig for the diamonds
that are hidden away in the common
Jien. Yes! The producing power is in
the little hen not a ehadow of doubt
remains. What are we going to do
(bout it? She is able and willing: are
.we willing and able?
It isn't a matter of a particular breed.
There are a dozen breeds of fowls that
can be depended upon for the high
economic values if rightly handled. The
egg-laying contests in various parts
of America, as well as in Australia,
prove that most of the common breeds
of fowls have marvelous possibilities
in egg production when handled right
ly. While the heavier breeds may be
slightly inferior to some of the smaller
breeds in average agg production, they
have points of superiority in other re
spects that make them of equal value.
The man behind the bird is the deter
mining factor.
Proxrtas Made In Ekk Production.
"Lady Eglantine," with her 314-egg
record, has set the whole continent in
searcn of poultry possibilities. Practi
cally everybody outside the large cities
keeps fowls. This amazing year's work
fe? one hen has been heralded from
ocean to ocean. It will mean a power
ful stimulus to the movement already
widespread to make the most of the
utility value of the backyard flock as
well as of the tens of thousands of
birds herded together on the million
egg farm.
The average yearly yield of the farm
flock is about 70 eggs for each hen.
This is the finding of the Department
of Agriculture at Washington. We
write it and read it with shame! It is
purely a long, long way from 70 to 311!
The world is on fire today over "eco
nomic efficiency." Most certainly the
figures that are before the American
people today will mean a mighty stride
forward in egg production. Otherwise
we prove our economic deficiency.
A farmer told me the other day that
he keeps 75 hens and that they "eat
their heads off two or three times a
story to that of another farmer who
kept 400 layers last year and reports a
profit of $1100 above the cost of their
feed.
The man who can't get paying results
from a flock of hens today must hold
himself responsible. If he does not re
sort to every possible method to in
crease his egg production, he must con
fess that he is- not interested in poultry
culture, or that he is hopelessly sunk
in the ruts of a former generation.
What splendid stimulus we have in.
these record birds! Why may not every
one of us start an egg-laying contest
right at home with the purpose of in
creasing our egg yield, by spotting the
mere boarder and breeding better birds
for the filling of the egg basket? A
liberal estimate of the cost of feed for
one hen for one year wuld be $1.50.
Allowing a yearly production of only
120 eggs, there will still be a profit
above her feed of $1.50, with eggs at
30 cents a dozen. An increase of SO
eggs a year to the fowl above this
would mean an average of only 150
eggs for each layer. But It would
mean an increase of $1R00 a year proflt
on a plant carrying 2000 layers. This
average would still be less than half
the record of the top-notch bird.
Here is where the American people
can cut "the high cost of living" by
half a billion dollars -a year, namely, by
increasing the average- egg yield of the
common hen from 70 a year to 140 a
year.
Poultry National Industry.
The modern high-record hen should
mean this "unquestioned recognition."
Poultry culture has come to stay. We
are forced under the circumstances to
rank it with dairying, wheat and corn
production, lumbering, manufacturing,
or any others of our great National
industries.
Two decades ago men made merry
with the "poultry business." There
was good cause for this in many cases.
It was the day of beginnings in the
building up of the modern egg ma
chine. At present there are plenty of
plants handling thousands and even
tens of thousands of birds. I visited
one farm last Summer where more than
40,000 fowls more than three months
old were then being cared for. The
same farm has an incubator cellar with
a total capacity of 48.000 eggs. I vis-
BEARDED GOLDEN POLISH
THESE races of Polish fowls were I as well as a producer for the table, the
first known as the Crested Dutch, golden Polish will be found both pleas
n i rH v,f ,o r. I urable and profitable. The hens are
Italy to the Netherlands, thence to
Western Europe, aad later to America.
The first of these varieties was the
white-crested black; and from these
the Dutch breeders obtained the silver
and golden Polish, some with crests
only, and others with both crests and
beards. The golden Polish, as shown
above, are of the latter variety, and
they have immense crests and beards
which almost hide the eyes. Their plu
mage is generally golden tan in color,
each feather laced or edged with bril
liant black.
The hens are excellent layers of large
non-sitters, hence their eggs must be
hatched by other hens or by artificial
means. The chicks are rather delicate,
unless kept dry. Damp ground or damp
coops are fatal to young Polish. They
should never be reared in large open
spaces, as their crests prevent them
seeing the hawk in time to avoid cap
ture. In size these fowls compare with the
Leghorn and weigh about the same.
They are very fine boned and carry a
larger proportion of desirable meat.
The legs are blue, or, in old specimens,
white; the skin is white, and each fowl
has a round protuberance on its skull
ited another farm which had a produc
ing capacity of 250,000 baby chicks a
year. Such extensive plants usually
handle 10,000 or more layers. From 50
to 300, and sometimes as high as 700,
birds are kept in a flock.
Smaller plants for intensive egg pro
duction are numerous and multiplying
rapidly all over the land. A "one-man
farm" is supposed to handle from 1000
to 2000 laying hens, the "one man"
requiring an assistant during the busy
season of incubation and brooding.
These intensive and extensive plants,
taken in connection with the tens of
thousands of people on the farms and
in the towns who keep fowls In smalK
flocks, lift poultry culture to the rank
POULTRY SCIENCE CONTRIB
UTES TO WONDERS
OF AGE.
BY G. R. SMITH,
Author and Practical Poultryman.
Copyright, 1916.)
This is an age of miracles.
You can sail on the sea, under
the .sea, or above the sea. You
can sit in an easy chair in New
York City and talk with your
friend in San B'rancisco. The
"wireless" pulses your message
through 5000 miles of ether as
quickly as you could dictate it
to a stenographer. Our modern
wizards of progress are perform
ing greater wonders than the
ancient masters of the "black
art" ever attempted.
The feats of science are' equal
ly astounding in the animal king
dom. Minnesota announces that
one of her Holstein-Friesian
cows. Duchess Skylark Ormeby,
has produced an average of more
"than four pounds of butter a day
for 12 consecutive months! And
now we have the amazing out
put of a three-and-a-half-pound
Leghorn hen 314 eggs in 365
days. What does it mean?
Let us see.
white-shelled eggs, so that for a home I from which, the feathers of ten crest
of any of the great industries of the
country. The 300-egg hen puts her seal
of certainty on the proposition. If one
can lay 314 eggs in 12 months, there
should be millions in America that can
lay 200 eggs apiece.
Scientific Methods Advocated.
This is not least. In fact, it is pri
mary. Without scientific methods in
breeding and care, we would never have
known of the possibilities of the hen.
The trap nest, the balanced ration, the
line breeding for high egg production,
the most skillful care-taking day and
night. Winter and Summer In fact,
"scientific management" in its purest
and most approved form, must go
along with this business, as with the
building of locomotives, ocean lin
ers or 16-inch guns, if the largest re
sults are to be achieved. Given this
scientific management, with all that it
means, and put behind it the right kind
of a personality, combining above all
things a heavy business caliber with a
keen and forceful initiative, and every
reasonable hope inspired by the high
record bird will be realized.
White diarrhea is the "plague"
among poultry, and, although not gen
erally known, it has its origin in the
mature fowl. In next week's article
Professor James B. Morman discusses
this dreaded disease in all its aspects,
and offers many valuable suggestions
for its prevention and cure.
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COQUILLE DAIRY RANCH
IS FOUND AMONG BEST
Addison Bennett Describes Building of Industry From Land Developed by
Hard Labor Equipment Alone Costs $10,000.
' BY ADDISON BENNETT.
MARSHFIELD, Or., March 23.
(Special.) While I was in Ban
don I learned that George P.
Laird, one of the solid, substantial citi
zens of that city, was "making" a
dairy ranch about 15 miles up the Co
quille and that he was starting with
some of the best Holstein cattle to
be found in the country. As I have
learned by long experience that it is
the policy of The Oregonian to lend
its assistance to any enterprise that
tends towards building up the country,
I concluded to seek out Mr. Laird, who
was at that time in Bandon, where he
has been in business for many years.
So he came along with me and to
gether we looked over the place. He
has 106 lucres lying on the north bank
of the Coquille River, almost opposite
Rlverton, about 15 miles above Bandon
and about ten below Coquille. About
100 acres of -the placa is on the bottom
that overflows occasionally when the
water reaches an unusual stage, and
25 acres, partially in timber and brush,
that lie3 on the second bench far above
the reach of floods.
Mr. Laird bought the land about a
year ago. At that time there were no
improvements on the place worthy the
name and only about half of it had
been cleared of brush. As soon as he
took possession he began cutting the
trees and slashing and grubbing the
brush and now the SO acres on the
bottom is all cleared and plowed and
more than half of the hill land Is also
in a plowable state.
Fine Cottage Is Erected.
On the bench he has built a fine cot
tage, a nice cheese manufactory build
ing, nice hog sheds and an A-l barn.
By A-l I mean it is about as good a
building as I ever saw called a barn.
It is 52x98 feet. 40 feet high and
equipped in the best possible manner
running water, drinking fountain before
each cow, electric lights, manure and
feed carriers, cement or 3-inch plank
floors, stalls have Porter equipment,
storage room for 300 tons of hay and
as many tons of roots and grain well,
well, well it is sure a beautiful barn.
And what is more to the point he
can raise hay and grain enough each
year to fill it and the two 110-ton silos
he is now building at the west end of
it. And he will have one of them filled
with vetch and oats before midsummer
and the other filled with corn before
the November frosts come. (Speaking
of corn reminds me that I am going
to have a lot to say on that subject
before I get done writing about Coos
County. Where the corn area is en
larging as rapidly as it is here, where
they can raise 100 bushels and over of
matured corn to the acre and of as
good quality as can be raised any
where that is something to brag
about and something worth printing.)
Equipment Costs $10,000.
However, it was not to tell how Mr.
Laird expended $10,000 in equipping
his place that attracted me: it was his
start in creating a herd of Holsteins
and a "flock" of Jersey Duroc hogs.
So about the first thing I had pointed
out to me was the little herd of cows,
jtad tba iuU. la stasia tha feajTu.
First let me say that Mr. Laird was
Wise enough to know that a herd of
fine cattle is seldom brought to the
top notch by hired labor. So he looked
around and found a man who was a
good cheese maker, a man who has
had many years' experience with fine
stock and a worker.
His name is Lutsey, who learned the
business thoroughly in Wisconsin. And
what means more is the fact that Mr.
Lutsey hud money enough to become
half owner of the herd. Besides that he
has a lovely wife who is not afraid of
work and two lovely children.
They purchased six pedigreed and
registered Holstein cows, two heifers
of the same stock and the famous Hol
stein bull. Sir Segis De Kol America
112,950. I will not give the names and
rtumbers of the cows and heifers, but
I saw the-papers of each one.
Then in the hog barn we found a
brood sow, boar and seven pigs, all
registered Duroc Jerseys about as
fine animals of the variety as I ever
saw: Aside from the pedigreed stock,
there are 15 head of grade cows on the
place and 30 head more to come; then
the cheese business will be pushed and
the herd built up on the foundation al
ready laid.
Isn't that doing something worth
while? Is not Mr. Laird to be envied
as well as prajsed? And he and Mr.
Lutsey will gain fame and lucre. Sure.
And what a place Mr. and Mrs. Lutsey
have for bringing up the little Lutseys.
There on the bench close to the fine
Coquille, with the whistles blowing
for steamers passing up and down
every hour, a fine wharf to land on.
with the lovely mountains back of
them and across the river, with a fine
home are they not to be envied?
type of harem veil for thn beach. Sha
wore a wisp of green chiffon over her
face, covering all but her eyes, but in
stead of yards of the material trail
ing from the back of her hat the veil
was neatly folded under her chin and
drawn up and fastened in a tight knot
on the back of her small round hat.
Her sweater was also quite new. It
was of green jersey cloth and had a
deep pleated cape and a long full skirt.
Miss Helen Simon, daughter of Frank
lin Simon, of New York, took a dip and
wore one of the most striking bathing
suits of the season. It was a jockey
costume, with black silk bloomers, a
very short skirt, belted with white
under her arms, siik stockings with
white boots and ballet slippers strapped
with black. She wore a black-and-white
jockey cap tied under her chiri.
BARONESS WILL MARRY
Mme. Von Andre's Engagement An
nounced in New York.
NEW YORK, March 15. Mrs. Chaun
cey M. Depew informed her friends in
this city today that her sister Baroness
von Andre, is to become the wife of
Baron F. H. H. Wedel Jarlesberg, Nor
wegian minister of finance. The an
nouncement of the engagement also
was made today in London, where Mme.
von Andre is at present. The wedding
probably will be celebrated soon in
London.
-Baroness von Andre, or Mme. von An
dre, is well known in society in New
York, London and Paris. She passed
the early Winter here and was seen fre
quently at the opera and at private en
tertainments. Her first husband was
the late Baron Adolph von Andre, a
Belgian nobleman.
NEW HAREM VEIL APPEARS
Jockey Costume Bathing Snit Also
Seen at Palm Beach.
PALM BEACH, Fla., March 15. Mrs.
El&AsxlsH J-ewlsoUn intrfiduced aew
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