The Sunday Oregonian., June 18, 1916, SECTION FIVE, Page 3, Image 61

TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLANU, JUNE . 18, 101G.
DEVELOPMENTS THROUGHOUT WORLD ARE TOLD, BY PICTURE
Young Women of New Jersey Preparedness Camp Found Well Able to Take Care of Themselves Jury of Women Convicts Mexicans of Highway Robberj-.
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THE Emergency Service Corps, a'
preparedness school for young
women. Is encamped at -Erskine,
N. J. The girls surprise visitors to the
camp by their demonstrations of ability
to take care of themselves in the open
and to be prepared for all emergencies.
Jlany of the most prominent members
of society's younger set are members
of the camp and have proven very capa
ble in camp life arts.
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A French field piece which has seen
erood service at; the front is one of the
many relics of the war brought to this
country for exhibition at the allies'
bazaar. New York.
A jury composed entirely of women
convicted four Mexicans of highway
robbery in a Superior Court in San
Diego, Cal.
Since California women have been
piven the ballot they have served on
juries frequently, but this is the first
time that the entire jury was composed
of women. Court authorities declare
that this is the first woman jury ever
sitting in a felony case in the United
States.
The Dolly sisters, well-known dancers,
were among those who invaded the
"Wall-street district to sell tickets for
the allies' bazaar.
Mrs. Chester F. Williams, an aerial
performer of Melbourne, Australia,
flew" over Broad street, Newark. The
performance was a part of the six
months' celebration of Newark's 250th
anniversary. While suspended 100 feet
in the air she addressed the crowd be'
low and then threw down little munici
pal flags.
A statue of George Washington was
Unveiled recently at West Point.
The statue was unveiled by Miss
Charlotte Delafield, and was accepted
for the Government by Colonel Clarence
P. Townsley, 'Superintendent of West
Point. The donor was described only
as a "patriotic citizen, a veteran of the
Civil War."
The gift of the statue was the result
of a conversation between the donor
and Colonel Townsley, in which the
former, learning that West Point pos
sessed no statue of the first President,
offered to gve the academy one of any
model that the Colonel would suggest.
The statue stands with its back facing
the river and the figure's outstretched
hand is lifted as if in benediction)
toward the whole academy.
WAR MAKES BOY PROBLEM
lligli Wages , for Young AVorkers
Lead to Shiftlessness.
LOXDOM, June S. A new boy prob
lem brought about by the war has cre
ated a. field for male experts in social
work in England that of acting as
supervisor for the thousands of boys
employed on munitions work through
out the country. The sudden rise in
the economic value of the boy, the com
petition for his services and the high
wages he is paid, have made many of
liis kind less amenable to discipline
than ever.
The Workers' Welfare department of
the ministry of munitions, which has
been studying the boy problem in its
new phases, finds that the chief com
plaints are these:
Feeling certain of easily finding an
other job a boy readily leaves a work
shop because of some slight misunder
standing or seeming injustice: high
Wftre tnri to make him independent
BY G. R. SMITH.
Author and Practical Poultryman.
THEKB must be standing room.
Cramped quarters are a serious
handicap with poultry, as in any
business. The "one-man plant" must
be no diminutive thing. The little back
yard laying-house is necessary If we
are to get the most out of life: but
neither 15 hens, nor 50, will make a
business for any one man.
Five Acre or More.
There should be a farm of at least
five acres. Every foot of this ground
should be available for instant use
every day of the year. Ttoom is of
supreme importance in poultry culture.
It Is so important that, instead of
five acres. 50 would be better even
for this one-man farm.
One of the most common blunders of
the novice in the poultry business is
that of selecting a plot of one or two
acres only as a basis of operation.
Most wild birds live from Labrador to
Central America, according to the sea
eon. Domestic fowls are only wild
birds tamed, confined within controll
able limits. The less space they are al
lowed, therefore, the more the deepest
Instincts of their natures are antago
nized. Surely there is room enough between
the oceans for every poultryman to
have all the acres he needs to make
his business the greatest possible suc
cess. Not less than five acres; 50 if pos
sible. as the basis of operation.
The buildings and yards should be
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of home control, extravagant and
thriftless.
It is proposed that the supervisor
shall look after the general working
conditions so far as they affect the
health and comfort of the boys.
WIDOW AWARDS SUSTAINED
Interesting Questions Raised in Two
' Compensation Cases.
HARRISBURG. June 10. Commis
sioner Scott, of the "Workmen's Com
pensation Board, in an opinion just ren
dered, sustains the decision of Referee
William B. Scott in the case of Mabel
Equi vs. the Koelle-Speth & Co., of
Philadelphia. Two intersecting ques
tions are raised in the appeal of the
defendant company from the award al
lowed Mabel Kquir widow of AVilUam
Equi, by the referee.
Kqui died as the result of injuries re
ceived February 16, 1916. in a building:
being constructed at Ninth and Cum
berland ntreeta, Philadelphia, and one
of the questions raised is whether he
was an employe or an independent con
tractor. The other question raised is
whether Equi at the time of the ac
cident was in the, course of his em
ployment for the company. He was a
concrete worker and testimony showed
he used materials furnished by the
company. '
Commissioner Scott also affirms the
findings of another referee, Paul W
Houck, in a similar case, that of
Frances Poluskiewicz, whose husband
was killed while working for the Phil
adelphia and Reading- Coal & Iron
Company. The company appealed, say
ing the man was not in its employ at
the time of the accident.
CHILD-WIFE POSES AS BOY
Pair Found Destitute Trying to Beat
AVay on IXailroad.
KANSAS CITY. June 8. Sitting on a
log beside the railroad track half
mile south of Dodson, the police early
today found Charles Willis and his la
year-old wife. Willis had just finished
clipping his wife's hair with a pair
of shears. She -was dressed in boy's
clothing.
To patrolmen Willis explained he
had had his pockets picked of $44 at
a Billy Sunday meeting and had
planned to "beat his way back to
Arkansas with his girl wife.
They were married when the bride
was 13 and Willis was 29. Willis is a
fisherman. Their home is Wrights
ville. Ark. The police took them to
headquarters. The welfare board is
planning to send them home on a train.
WATER SANDPAPERS SKIN
Professor Declares Hard Water
Lowers Value of Food.
MADISON, Wis., June 9. The water
in Madison should be softened, but it
is a project not to be thought of, be
cause the people do not and will not
realize the necessity," Professor D. W.
Mead told a class in health and disease
at the university in an illustrated talk.
"The water is too hard, and seriously
injures the value of foodstuffs cooked
in it," he continued.-' "A person feels
almost as if' he had been sandpapered
after taking a bath in Madison city
water.
The "one-man poultry plant is
now a pretty clearly defined
institution. It has not yet passed
fully out of the experimental
stage, but its conditions and its
limitations, as well as its pos
sibilities, are fairly well fixec.
Thousands of our young men
are interested. They are burning
for a business opportunity. A
little light thrown over this
phase of the rapidly growing
modern industry of poultry cul
ture may help solve & man's
problem of life on the vitally
important side of dollars and
cents.
arranged acconding to an exact sys
tem. Efficiency and convenience are
to be the- foremost objectives. The
poultryman must never forget that he
is dealing with a great number of
small things. He must handle one
chicken 50 times as easily as he handles
one cow. Otherwise his lack of ef
ficiency will fatally handicap him.
Every poultry-house on the place
should be within a short reach of the
proprietor's living quarters. Compact
ness and convenience in the arrange
ment of the buildings will mean an
immense saving of time and time will
be the deciding factor in this one-man
business. Steps by thousands will be
saved. This can be done by close and
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quick connections between the differ
ent parts of the plant.
An incubator cellar with a capacity
of several thousand chicks is one of
the chief features of the place. The
"cellar" bottom should be four feet be
low the surface and the ceiling should
be eight feet high. Colony brooder
stoves, with capacity of 500 to 1000
chicks, should be used. These ' also
mean' a great saving of time over old
methods. These stoves cost from $18
up to $35 apiece, according to size.
One man " in the famous Vineland, X
J., poultry district showed me a
brooder-house 14x28 feet with one
colony stove. The previous season he
ran 4500 chicks through that house
with a loss of only 6 per cent.
The laying-houses should be from
16 to 20 feet wide and any length de
sirable. In order to economize time,
layers must be kept in large, flocks.
Usually from 100 to 250 birds are kept
in each pen.
The one-man plant must have the
most modern equipment. The aim is
to eliminate as far as possible the ex
pense of hiring help during most of
the year. This can be done only by
the most scientific management and
therefore the most skillful use of mod
ern labor-saving devices. These are
numerous and constantly Increasing.
The poultryman who does not make the
most of them will be the loser in that
same degree.
Poultry culture is no child's play.
The man who thinks it is "plum easy"
to win out in this .business better
move cautiously. Hundreds of one-man
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plants are now being operated success
fully; but the "one man" in each case
has a business personality. He knows
what "dead reckoning" means. He
knows the value of an exact system f
bookkeeping. He keeps close tab on the
prices of everything that he buys or
sells in his business. He knows the
exact time to sell surplus eggs and
where to sell them at the largest finan
cial advantage. He counts the cost of
buying tons of feed at retail prices,
and computes the profits of purchasing
by the carload. He has the courage to
venture and the' caution to keep closely
to the 'safety-first" principle. He's an
all-round business man.
There's a great business opportunity
in poultry culture, but the same busi
ness ability that is demanded in other
callings is necessary here. It is sim
ply a financial proposition from begin
ning to end. like any otner ousiness,
from making mns to building dread
noughts. The man who has a fair de
gree of organizing ability, a vision that
can see vividly 12 months ahead, the
capacity and the patience to handle
successfully many small details, and
who loves the rearing and care of beau
tiful fowls will find a large opportunity
awaiting him on the one-man farm. If
hi lacks these things, or any one of
them, he had better move slowly toward
this new calling. If he knows nothing
of fowls and nothing of country life,
he has the whole system to learn. This
will take time and more time than
most men think.
Tklan That Make for SneeeM.
1) Stock with native stamina You
can't make an oak keel out of white
pine. You can't startwith soft tin and
make a Damascus steel blade. If you
finish with steel you must begin with
steel, or with a metal that has the
nossibilities of steel within it.. -This
one-man farm must have as its founda
tion stock birds that have toughness
of fiber, eyes that gleam like diamonds,
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muscles and nerves and bones capable
to resist the utmost testing. The weak
ling must be given no quarter. Na
tive stamina, first.- last and all the
time, must be sought in every breeding
bird. Nothing short of a 100 per cent
mark In vigor should pass a bird, either
male or female, into the breeding pen.
This is of primary and utmost impor
tance among the things that make for
success.
(2) Mastery of the minutest details
of the business It's .the small thing
that beats the poultryman. A laying
hen is like a delicate musical inctru
ment. It requires but a slight influ
ence to get her "out of tune." Two
thousand laying hens out of tune from
'It would seem as though chicks
were heir to ever . disease on
the calendar, and yet most of
them can be corrected by very
simple means if the tronble is
taken in time. Next week's arti
cle describes the symptoms of
these ailments, their causes and
their treatment.
one slight neglect once a week may
mean the loss of hundreds of dollars
during the year. Dairymen know the
meaning of such ilk as this. The ra
tions, times of feeding, exercise, milk
ing, etc.. of the cows must be as regu
lar as the ticking of the clock. The
poultryman who wins is on his Job
with the same exactness in every daily
and minute detail. So in the care of
the eggs, the sorting of them into claa
allocations as to size, etc.. marketing
them at the right time, to the right
customers and in the right manner. So
in the care of the . incubators and
brooders. Every ess is valued at its
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possibilities, every fluffy little chick
at what It may become. "Betails" is tne
magic word in practical poultry cul
ture. (3) A vision of largrer thinits The
best data to date must be studied. iM
newest schemes must be considered.
The train of progress In this business,
as in other businesses, is moving
rapidly. From 1&00 to 2000 fowls can
be handled by one man. if he's on his
Job. with the aid of one cheap helper
during; the hatching and breeding; sea
son. But a. true American will culti-
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recognized authorities, is a fowl roasting chickens: and tne wnite va
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report that it is to be found in its
purity in the Langshan district of
China, and is there bred in all the col
ors with which the American fanciers
are. familiar white, black, blue and
mottled. Importations have been made
by fanciers in England. America and
Australia. Although like all Asiatic
varieties, the Langehan is noted for
heavy weight. it has also made
enviable records as a layer. A pen of
Black Langshans won the first place
in the egg-laying competition in Aus
tralia, which was a noteworthy per
formance, inasmuch as - they were in
competition with 99 pens of all varie
ties of poultry.
There is no question but that the
Langshan is a most-valuable breed for
economic purposes. It Is very tame and
adapts Itself to confinement or free
range. The fowls are active, and their
eggs are usually very fertile. Like all
Asiatics, the chicks make a strong,
vigorous growth and are slow to
feather. IVmales weigh from six to
eight pounds, and the males eight to
ten pounds. These are the weights de
manded by the standard for the breed,
although many specimens exceed theoe
weights. When crossed with lighter
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vate a vision of larger things. Ten-man
farms, and 20-man farms, may be found
in large numbers now. The right sort
of vision, with well-grounded success
to back it up. will add a man to the
business now and then! Such an out
look will "make for success."
Marklnnc Islsnd. one of the country's
Bhow places, ha, lost its famous Mayor. CoL
V. E preslon. who has served 17 Intermit
tent terms, beginning bark In 1ST7. Colonel
I'reston was ill at the recent election, ana
some one beat him out. but he expects to
fight his way right back there another year.
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varieties, the progeny maxes excellent.
of the absence of dark pin feathers,
which are objectionable on prime table
stock.
The White Langshan should be pure
white; its comb face, and wattles blood
red, the legs and bill pinkish white and
the skin white. Its legs are long and
shanks sparselv feathered.
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