The Sunday Oregonian., June 10, 1917, SECTION FIVE, Page 3, Image 61

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RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN
fCopyrlsht. 1917, by Frank G. Carpenter.)
Lake: charles. La. l & k e
Charles is one of the centers of a
new Industry that can do much
toward Increasing- our food supply In
this great war w'th Germany. It is
surrounded by thousands of acres of
-rice, fields, and the territory tributary
to it is now growing more than a mil
lion sacks of rice every year. Just
now the rice is standing- high out of
the water, like - countless emeralds
sprouting out of a basin of silver. There
are great beds of these emeralds all the
way from here to the Mississippi River,
and they extend westward and south
ward along the Gulf of Mexico to below
the Brazos River in Texas. They are
part of the great rice farm which runs
along the flat Louisiana prairies above
the Gulf of Mexico and extends far
down Into Texas.
The gulf strip of rice land Is 400
or 500 miles long and from 20 to SO
miles wide, and it Is now producing a
large part of the crop of the United
States. Its area cau be greatly ex
tended and can be made to Include
much of the land running northward
from here to Arkansas.
In the Arkansas prairies there are
Other rice lands which yield even more
to the acre than those of the gulf; and
within the past five years a big rice in
dustry has sprung up in the Sacra
mento and San Joaquin Valleys in Cal
ifornia. ' In 1912 the rice of California
had not yet come into the market. Dur
ing that year a strip of 1400 acres was
planted near ' Biggs, in - the Sacra
mento Valley. It succeeded so well
that in 1913 6000 acres were planted,
and they yielded more than 8000
pounds of rice to the acre. In 1914 the
area Jumped to 16,000 acres, and last
year it covered 69,000 acres. In 1916
the rice crop of California alone was
more than 100,000.000 pounds. It was
equal to one pound for every man,
woman and child in the United States,
or enough to supply 12 meals for each
of our citizens.
To show that this is not an extrava
gant estimate, I here give you some
figures; supplied by the "Manual for
Army Cooks," gotten up by. the War
Department for the troops in the field.
It contains directions for the rations to
fee supplied to the soldiers, and how to
cook them. Among the recipes are
several for rice. One of these tells
how to prepare & meal of boiled rice
for 60 men. The ingredients are
five pounds of rice and three gallons
of water. The recipe reads: "When
the water comes to a boil add the rice.
When the rice has grown soft enough
to be mashed with the fingers pour into
a colander and drain well. After that
each rice grain should be whole and
separate." The dish should, of course,
be salted to taste.
Five pounds of rice for 60 men! That
means &hi pounds for 102 men. It
means that 85 pounds would furnish a
meal for 1000 soldiers. At that rate
our new Army of 600,000 could be fed
on less than 43,000 pounds of rice, an
amount that could easily be stored in a
eingle box car. Four such cars would
supply a meal of rice for 2,000,000 men.
and the food would form the best nour
ishment we could supply.
This brings me to the food value of
rice. How warm will it keep the sol-
JTodem Poultry (Mure
Nothing Improves the appear
ance of a poultry house so much
as a perfectly white interior.
This article tells how to com
pound whitewashes that will not
rub off, and how to apply them
with a sprayer. The breeding
places of mitee and other para
sites are quickly devastated by a
good insecticide, which is easily
made at home. An antiseptic so
lution should be used to prevent
the spread of contagious dis
eases through the drinking water.
BT FRANK C. HARE.
Pouttry Husbandman, Clemson College,
South Carolina.
THH intelligent use of tested para
sitical exterminators is as essen
tial to successful poultry keeping
as Intelligent feeding. The reason why
so much more Importance is attached to
the extermination of parasites on poul
try than on domestlo animals Is that
the parasites affecting poultry, when
unmolested, quickly kill their host,
whereas the presence of parasites on
animals can do no more than worry
and annoy them. ,
In order to obtain the maximum ef
ficiency of washes and insecticides ap
plied to the walls and fittings of poul
try buildings, it is advisable to use
dressed or planed lumber, and to fit the
boards together as closely as possible.
The importance of this advice is ap
parent, because, if the lumber is rough,
and there are many open cracks and
crevices in which the parasites can
hide and breed. It is extremely diffi
cult, if not impossible, to eradicate
them. The simplest way to overcome
euch a condition is to cover the walls
of the house with rosin-sized sheeting,
or lightweight plaster board. The in
terior can then be whitewashed over
. the paper and an attractive and depend
able job results.
Some Whitewashes Do Not Come Off.
Here are two recipes for whitewash
mixtures that will dry quickly, adhere
strongly to cement, brick or wood, and
will not rub off on the clothes. - The
first is a cement whitewash. Slake
one-half bushel of lime with boiling
water, adding the water slowly and
stirring constantly until a thin 'paste
results. A five-foot piece of three-quarter-inch
iron pipe makes a good
utensil for stirring. The lime will be
lumpy if the water is added freely and
the mass is not properly stirred. Now
add one-half peck of salt to the lime
paste, and stir thoroughly. Then add
water to bring the whitewash to the
proper consistency. Throw a good hand
ful of Portland cement In each pail of
whitewash, and a teaspoonful of ultra
irine blue. Add the cement and the
blue powder just before the whitewash
is to be used, stir la well, otherwise
dlers In the trenches and how much
work can one do on such a diet? I
have been in Manchuria in Winter. It
is bitterly cold, and there is nowhere
that one needs more food to keep warm.
Nevertheless, it was upon a diet of
rice and fish that the Japanese soldiers
endured all their, hardships and suc
ceeded in defeating the meat-fed Cos
sacks from Russia. Every soldier in
the Japanese army bad a little lac
quered tin case about as big as an old
fashioned cartridge box. This con
tained a pound or so of raw rice, and
that was sufficient to sustain his life
and fighting strength for two or three
days. The rice could be cooked any
where that a fire could be made and
water obtained. It was used both in
the camps and on the march.
As to the value of rice for oar people
at home, it is equally good. It forma the
chief bread of Asia, and about half of the
people of the whole" world make it
their principal food. The Filipino keeps
fat upon rice, and. the Chinese coolie
works 12 hours a day upon bis scanty
supply. I have had Japanese jinrikisha
men carry me over the country at six
miles an hour, running all day, on
nothing but rice, and I have seen
Corean porters carrying loads of 600
pounds on the same food.
Our Department of Agriculture says
that, pound for pound, rice ranks high
er than corn, wheat or oats in the
amount of nutrition contained, and that
it has three times as much food en
ergy as the same weight of potatoees
and more than twice that of fat beef.
It has a higher heat-producing power
than rye, barley or wheat, and far
more than white bread or beefsteak.
Dr. Atwater, one of the chief authorl
tiees on the chemistry of foods, says
the ideal ration is rice mixed with
chicken, beef or veal in a stew.
Morcfover. rice can easily be digested.
It is out of your stomach within an
hour after you eat it. It takes two
hours to digest oatmeal, three hours to
digest potatoes and your stomach has
to work four hours on meat.
Rice has gone up in price with other
provisions, but it is still about the
cheapest of foods. I have before me a
cookbook prepared by the Southern Pa
cific Railway, which runs through this
rice territory. It has 20 pages of
rice recipes and gives much informa
tion concerning the cereal as a food.
It states that one cup of raw rice will
expand in boiling to about four cups
of cooked rice, and that this amount
in combination with a dish of meat or
with beans or peas will make a meal
for a family of four. It estimates
that one pound of rice is equal to three
teacupfuls, and that even though rice
costs 10 cents a pound the amount
mentioned in the above recipe should
the whitewash will be streaked. The
cement makes the whitewash stick,
the bluing counteracts the grayish color
of the cement and results in a white
appearance.
A brilliant whitewash in use by the
Federal Government is made as follows:
Slake one-half bushel of lime with
warm water. Cover it during the
process to keep in the steam. ' Strain
the liquid through a line sieve. Add
a peck of salt previously well dissolved
in warm water; three pounds of ground
rice boiled to a thin paste and stirred
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laTER SEA BRIGHT BANTAMS.
This beautiful little fowl Is a monu
ment to the life work of an English
fancier. Sir John Seabright. He spent
years of breeding in an attempt to pro
duce the handsomely laced plumage of
the Laced Polish on a small hen fea
thered bantam. His efforts were so suc
cessful that others became interested
in the work and a specialty club for its
advancement was formed in 1820. Then
began radical changes which pointed
toward a positive and identical shape
with color of plumage and legs, droop
ing mugs, erect carriage and hen fea
thered males, all of which have been
Jealously guarded to the present time.
This vaaiety of.' bantams baa bean
THE SUXDAT OKEGOXIAN. POETLAXD, JUXE
EOOD CROP OF
not cost more than S or 4 cents any-
where In the United States. Even at 4
cents the cost would be only 1 cent
per person for this part of the meal.
The fact is, that our people have
never appreciated the value of rice. In
most parts of the country they use1 it
as a pudding for dessert and not as a
cereal or principal article of food. In
many sections the people do not know
how to cook it; and, on this account
the Association of Rice Oroweri here
have been considering the sending of
trained cooks to the Army to show
how it should be prepared for the sol
diers. As to our rice supply, we are still
Importing several hundred million
pounds every year, but if the people
do their duty in extending the rice
farms they can increase the crop five
or six fold in this region alone, to say
nothing of the possibility of new rice
lands in California. In the central part
of the latter state they have been
growing rice at both ends of the Sac
ramento and San Joaquin valleys. This
region la more than 400 miles long and
from 20 to 60 miles wide, and a great
part of it can be irrigated. The two
valleys contain about twice as much
land as Massachusetts. They have nine
or ten million acres in all. and, as I
have said, there are now only 70.000
in rice. The great prairies of Arkansas,
which last year produced about half
again as much rice as California, have
less than 122,006 acres in that crop,
and Louisiana and Texas alone could
probably supply five or six times their
present output. Our total rice yield
at present is less than 1,000,000,000
pounds.
Rice cultivation as It Is carried on in
these lands is the triumph of modern
economy and efficiency as far as mak-r
ing and handling the crop are con
cerned. I have watched them raising
rice all over the globe, and everywhere
except in the United States the crop is
grown almost altogether by human
labor. In Asia the grain is first sown
in a seed bed. and barefooted and bare
legged men and women wade through
the fields and set out the plants in the
mud with their bands. In Japan and
China the rice canals are often kept
full by men who lift the water up from
the streams in buckets or tight bas
kets, or in wheels worked by the feet
somewhat on the principle of the old
fashioned dog churn.. The grain is cut
by hand and threshed by pulling it
through iron teeth like those of a saw.
In Japan the labor needed is such that
one man can do little more than take
care of an acre of rice. It costs the
Japanese something like $50 per acre
In boiling hot; half a pound of pow
dered Spanish whiting, and a pound of
glue that has been dissolved over a
slow fire. Add five gallons of hot water
to the mixture and stir well. Cover
the barrel to protect it from dirt, and
let the mixture stand for a few days.
This whitewash should be applied hot.
Coloring matter, as Spanish brown,
yellow ochre, red clay, etc, can be
addedSlf desired. The addition of crude
carbolic acid, or cresol, is not recom
mended. Such washes tend to darken
with age and become unsightly. If you
carefully bred in America by a number
of our most expert fanciers. The qual
ity of the American-bred Seabright Is
rarely equaled by the highest priced
imported specimens, and the interest
and rivalry in producing' these little
beauties is still Intense.
They are very small, weighing 20 to
26 ounces each. The hens are excellent
layers, good mothers, and It is not un
usual to raise two generations in one
season.
They have bright red rose combs,
narrow, straight, red faces, lobes and
wattles, blue legs and beak, and a beau
tiful silvery white plumage, each fea
ther of which is narrowly edged with
a rich valTetr black.
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to raise his crop, or more than a dollar
a bushel. In Arkansas they are now
raising rice at a little over 25 cents a
bushel, or about one-fourth of Its cost
in Japan.
In the United States everything is
done by machinery, and in irrigating,
planting, harvesting and preparing the
grain for the market.' the labor item la
kept down to the minimum. The hold
ings are large.- In Houston there is
one company that controls 30,000 acres,
and many of the rice farms of Texas
have a thousand acres or more. ' It is
the same in Arkansas and also in Cali
fornia. In traveling through Southern Lou
isiana you can see how machinery is
doing the work. Rice canals have been
"built all over the country, which are
kept full from the bayous and rivers
by pumping stations. These canals
are built on the top of the ground by
throwing up two embankments from
60 to 100 feet apart. The dirt is taken
from the middle. The water is thus
carried above the surface of the
prefer to add a germicide to the white- I
wash, you will find a combination of
lime and sulphur efficacious. The for- !
mula for such a wash appears later.
l.lqvlds for Sprayers Stralaed. -
These whitewashes can be applied by
spraying or brush. However, when a
sprayer Is used, it is well to strain the
liquid In order to prevent small par
ticles of grit getting into the valves
of the sprayer and interfering with its
proper operation. With thin, smooth
whitewash no difficulty will be experi
enced. A thorough application of white
wash is an effective way to eradicate
mites. Remove the roosts and nests
for painting with an insecticide. Re
move the litter. Sweep the walls, and
whitewash thoroughly. The Interior of
every poultry house should be white
washed once or twice a year for sani
tary reasons, even if there are no para
sites present.
Iaseetleidea aad Bow te TJse Them.
Coal tar Is one of the most depend
able insecticides. It is a thick, black
syrup with an exceedingly penetrating
odor. A good louse fumigator can be
made by painting the inside lower half
of a barrel with coal tar and placing
a piece of heavy paper on the bottom.
One or more fowls are oonflned In the
barrel and the open end Is covered with
tar suffocate the lice. The fumigation
is watched and the fowls are removed
if they appear overcome with the
fumes. The Hoe on the paper are
thrown Into a pan of kerosene. -
The usual way of applying coal tar
Is to dilute it with kerosene. Add a
cupful of cottonseed oil or melted lard
to one gallon of kerosene to-increase
its covering power, then mix in one
pint of coal tar. This insecticide can
be strongly recommended for painting
roosts and roost supports. It remains
effective for a month or more, and, after
a few applications, the wood is so thor
oughly saturated with coal tar that
mites will not remain on It. Apply with
a brush.
Cresol, a derivative of coal tar,' Is
probably the best base for insecticides
that are to be sprayed around the
roosts, dropboards and nests to exter
minate mites, and under houses and
other places for destroying the breed
ing haunts of fleas. One part of cresol
Is added to from 20 to 80 parts of
water. There are a number of mite
paints on the market of similar com
position that can be recommended. It
is only necessary to dilute any of these
concentrated solutions with water and
spray the affected parts.
Lime-Snlphar la Good.
Another reliable insecticide for use
inside of poultry houses and - brood
coops Is the lime-sulphur wash advo
cated by horticulturists for painting
the trunks of fruit trees in Winter. It
is made in the following way. Shave
three pounds of laundry soap and dis
solve in three gallons of boiling water.
Mix four pounds of sulphur into a paste
with water and add it to the-soap solu
tion. Slake 20 pounds of lime in hot
water, stir well, then mix In it the sulphur-soap
solution. Add water to in
crease the mixture to 25 gallons. Ap
ply with a brush. This makes a snow
white wash that will take the place of
regular whitewash. It will not rub off.
The above insecticides are painted or
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- I snade and hovel
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Straw if - Blown oiri
ground. It-4s let out through' flumes
near the top of the banks into the
fields or lateral canals, and gravity
does the work. These canals are often
from 20 to SO miles long. 100 feet wide.
and five or six feet in depth. Including
the laterals, there are enough canals
already built. If placed end to end, to
reach from Boston to San Francisco.
The pumps used are of the most mod
ern make. They are driven by com
uound Corliss engines, .which lift tens
of thousands of gallons per hour. In
Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, there is a
single pumping station which has a
total capacity of 824,000,000 gallons in
24 hours, or about as much as the
water supply of New York City. The
canal which carries that water feeds
more than 25,000 acres of land, said to
be worth $60 an acre.
The rice fields here are easily made.
The country is flat and all that is nec
essary is to take a ditching plow and
throw up a low bank of earth around
the field in the shape of a wall. The
bank is then tamped on the inside with
sprayed over the roosting quarters and
nests every week in warm weather and
once a month in Winter. This treat
ment will completely exterminate mites,
and the louse flies that are sometimes
found in the South. To get rid of fleas,
either prevent the fowls coming in con
tact with the breeding ground of the
fleas, or else clean out the filthy place,
dig up the ground and spray thorough
ly with a 2 per cent cresol Insecticide.
These insecticides should also be regu
larly applied to brood coops and brood-
The normal chick doubles Its
weight in six days, and under
favorable conditions can be made
to weigh two and a half pounds
In 12 weeks, which is more than
25 times its original weight.
Here Is proof that the chick Is a
very highly organised being, and
that it must be fed heavily,
though Judiciously, which Is the
subject of next week's article.
ers. and to colony houses, while the de
veloping chicks are using these shel
ters. Once a week is not too often to
spray out these houses for the young
sters. Mites will work greater havoc
on young chicks than on mature fowls.
Antteeptle Solution for Drinking Water.
The most popular antiseptic to pre
vent the spread of contagious diseases
like roup canker or sorehead through
the drinking water Is potassium per
manganate. A few crystals of this
bright, purple-colored salt are dissolved
in a pint of. water to form a dark pur
ple stock solution. A tittle of this so
lution is added to the drinking water
for mature fowls or chicks when they
have colds or diarrhea to color, it pink
the exact shade of color being Imma
terial. This antiseptic not only pre
vents the Infection of healthy birds
through the drinking water, but It is
beneficial in overcoming ths disease.
SURGEONS GO TO ENGLAND
Vast Number of Bone Operations
Swamp Hospitals.
KANSAS CITY. Kan., May 10. With
19 other leading orthopedlo surgeons
from as many different American cities.
Dr. C. B. Francisco, director of ortho
pedic surgery at Mercy Hospital, left
the other night for England.
Dr. Francisco and the 19 others go as
part, of America's contribution to the
cause of the allies. Their work will
be to assist the hard-pressed English
surgeons in saving wounded soldiers
from becoming cripples.
So many of the wounds Inflicted by
modern warfare are chiefly bone in
juries that the abilities of the English
orthopedlo surgeons have been taxed
to the utmost. Recently a call was
sent to America for 20 orthopedists to
assist In the war hospitals of London
and Liverpool.
Several hundred ' men who could
qualify for the position were listed
la ths medical division of the Officer'
iCnfe: In HI
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JBERANK G. CARPENTER.
keep It from
ing.
In preparing the ground for the crop
it is plowed Just as for wheat and oats.'
and the crop is cultivated after much
the same manner as grain in the North.
On the larger plantations the plowing
Is done with gang-plows, each drawn
by a team of four horses or mules, or
by steam or gasoline tractors. Five
or six inches is the average depth of
the furrows. The rice is put in with
drills, as in ordinary seeding, and there
is none of the back-breaking work of
setting out the sprouts in the mud with
the hand as in done in Japan.
The water is not let into the fields
until after the rice has sprouted and
come up so that it partially shades the
ground. After that the country seems
like a great series of lakes with the
green stalks rising above them. The
roots of the plants are embedded In the
water to a depth of two or three Inches
and the ground is a great sponge with
the water washing the lower parts of
the plants. In some sections each acre
has to have 15,000 gallons of water
every 24 hours to provide for the plant
growth and evaporation, and keep the
supply where It should be.
Two or three weeks before the crop
ripens, which here Is in late August,
the water is turned off to allow the
land to become dry before harvesting.
Then the reapers are turned in and the
grain is reaped and bound by machin
ery made for the purpose. A single
machine will reap and bind from six to
II acres per day. . The laborers follow
the binders and shock up the rice. It
remains in the shock about three
weeks before threshing.
The harvesting scenes are similar to
those of the wheat regions of our
Northwestern states. The. rice turns
yellow and the sheaves look like wheat.
The threshing is done in about the
same way. The machines go from farm
to farm, and a single thresher will
handle as much as 2000 acres per day.
In the threshing the paddy, or rice
grain in the husk, flows forth at the
side of the machine, while the straw is
blown out through a pipe at one end.
The paddy is caught in bags, each of
which holds about 200 pounds, and It is
In this shape that It Is carried on wag
ons or boats to the warehouse or mill.
Nearly every town in this part of
the world has Its rice mill. I visited
one In Beaumont. Tex., which has a ca
pacity of 25,000,000 pounds of cleaned
rice a year. The mill covers an acre or
so and It has five floors, through which
the rice drops from one process to an
other on its way to the market.
The machinery Is much like that of a
Reserve Corps. From them ths 20
were chosen.
At Mercy Hospital Dr. Francisco has
straightened the deformed limbs of
hundreds of child victims of poverty
and neglect. Ia England the work
will be the same except that the
patients will be men and victims of
war instead of social ignorance.
Dr. Francisco said he did not know
the length of time the services of the
20 surgeons would be required, but
imagined it might be for the dura
tion of tha war.
Wj are acting under Government
orders," he said, 7'and only the future
can reveal how long our services will
be required. Particularly will this be
true In case the war continues long
enough to make It necessary for the
United States to send a larga expedi
tionary force abroad."
TAN BARK WILL BE CUT
Woodsmen to Make as Much M M
Day This Tear.
WARREN, Pa.. May 10. Within two
weeks hundreds of men will be at work
In the forests of Warren, McKean. For
est and Elk counties, where thousands
of cords of chemical wood and bark
will be cut this Summer. Ths bark
peeling season has arrived.
This Summer the men are offered tS
a cord, which will enable many of them
to make as high as 19 a day. This Is
more than double the amount they
could make five years ago.
Leather manufacturers, who use the
bark for tanning, are also paying the
highest price in history. Only a few
years ago they could buy hemlock bark
for from S 5 to $6 a cord; but today they
are compelled to pay from $10.60 to S12.
The price of chemical wood also has
advanced. The value of the hemlock
bark and chemical wood which will be
cut in the surrounding forests this
Summer will be In excess of SLO00.0O0.
Old Deed of Sale Uncovered.
MILES CITY, Mont., May 80. The
other day, when lambs were selling at
820 a hundred weight and more on sev
eral markets, workmen tearing down
an old house here came across a bill of
sale In which. "In consideration of
8539," there were transferred a half
Interest in a ranch, an unlisted num
ber of cattle, four horses, a quantity
of chattels, 124 ewes and "240 lambs."
The document was dated February 7,
1888. H. A. Smith. Its maker, still is a
resident of this city. At the figures
named, the lambs would bring 82750
or more now.
Probated Girls Keed Farm Home.
NEW YORK, May 80. A farm colony
is necessary, but the need for a house
of detention for young women who
have never been convicted of crime, for
witnesses-and for women who may be
discharged or released on suspended
sentence Is mors imperative. This is
the assertion in the eighth annual re
port of the New York Probation and
Protective Association, made public re
cently. Tha report states that for, ths
flour mill. It takes the paddy as It
comes from the fields and tears off the
outer husk. Machines remove the coat
of bran, which is next to the husk, and'
grind off what is known as the polish,
and others sort the grain and take out
the broken pieces and grade them.
There is also machinery to give the
rice the pearly white gloss which It
has In the stores. This gloss Is made
by coating each grain with glucose.
which comes off in washing the rice
before cooking. The coating is of no
value except to make the rice please
the eye of the customer. I give this on
the authority of Mr. W. P. McFadden.
the president of the company owning
the mill. He ssys that the glucose may
have a sanitary value in that it her
metically seals each rice grain and
keeps (fcut the germs, but that the
statement often made that unpolished
rice contains more nutriment and la
more healthful than polished rice is
not true. They both have the same
food value. It may be different wHh
rice which has some of the bran or
polish left on or that which is eaten
just as it comes from the hulls, as Is
done in some far-away places.
In this letter I have said nothing of
the rice fields of the South Atlantic
Coast. It was there that rice was first
planted, and until within a very short
time ago Nofth Carolina and South
Carolina were looked upon as among
our chief rice-raising states. Today
these two states and Florida, Alabama
and Mississippi altogether produce only
about 50,000 bags of rice per annum out
of a total of almost 10,000,000 bags.
Their Importance has been swallowed
up by this new rice country of Louisi
ana. Texas and Arkansas, and lastly
by California, which in 1916 produced
almost half again as much as the states
above mentioned.
The first rice of the TJnlted States .
was planted in 1694. In that year a
ship from Madagascar was driven by
a storm into the harbor of Charleston.
The captain" had some rough rice on
board, and be gave it to one of the
farmers, who found it grew well. A
few years later Carolina rice was being
grown in large quantities and was
shipped to other parts of the world.
Later the planters began to raise
patches of rice along the Mississippi
River, and after the Civil War the
people commenced to plant rice in the
delta. The war had shown them Its
value as a foodstuff, and It may be
that the present war will so increase
our consumption of rice that It will
become one of the staple foods of the
people.
first time girls were given farm life
on HUlcrest Farm. Connecticut. This
was made possible by the generosity
of Mrs. Herbert Scovllle.
MARINES GAIN RECRUITS
Prospects of Immediate Service
Oanse Jump In Enlistments.
WASHINGTON, May 20. An imme
diate jump in volunteer enlistments In
the United States Marine Corps is ex
pected by officials of the corps as a
result of the sending of a regiment of
"soldiers of the sea" to France with
ths first expedition and the assurance
that further contingents will be sent
as rapidly as transportation can be pro
cured. Many young men who had previously
not wanted to enlist wltb a probability
of being kept In this country an Indefi
nite time and perhaps never getting to
the firing line will, it Is believed, now
enter their country's service as "sol
diers and sailors, too."
The Marine Corps expects to reach Its
full war strength of 80,000 men by the
Fourth of July. t
Convicts to Farm 1000 Acres.
SANTA nj, N. May SO. Governor
Llndsey. Land Commissioner Robert P.
Erveln and Warden Thomas Hughes,
of the state penitentiary, recently se
lected about 1000 acres of land In
Northeastern Torrance County to be
farmed by convicts from the state In
stitution this Summer and the work of
preparation for cultivation already is
under way. The convicts planted every
available foot of the penitentiary farm
at Arroyo Hondo, near here, early this
Spring.
WHY SOCIETY WOMEN
WASH THEIR OWN HAIR
They do. not because It Is a fad,
but because they wish to obtain the
greatest possible hair beauty and be
sure they are not using anything harm
ful. They have found that In washing
the hair It Is never wise to use a
makeshift, but Is always advisable to
use a preparation made for shampoo
ing only. Many of our friends say
they get ths best results from a simple
homemade canthrox mixture. You can
use this at a cost of about 2 cents a
shampoo by getting some canthrox
from your druggist and dissolving a
teaspoonful in a cup of hot water.
This makes enough shampoo liquid to
apply to all the hair Instead of Just
the top of tha head as with most
preparations. Dandruff, excess oil and
dirt ars dissolved and entirely disap
pear In the rinsing water. Your hair
will be so fluffy that it will look much
heavier than it is. Its luster and soft
ness will alts dsUgAt you. JLdv. .