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TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, 3IAY 12, 1918 S wnw Nmrgm War Bmtgga risk r.'1 kfe-) is I . hi -.b-' -. t?H l, -v i , .,-vt v- vj ; i li, ;i ? , - . - -- " II I r, . -1 Sos f on. Navy Yarcts W rASHI.VGTOX. IX CThU Utter U a story of Industrial sffl cUner. Hortonr It Is ths starr f irovsrnmsBt department at Wash- U (too. It Ktmi ths accomplishment f ths inposstbls- Ths department with which It is connected arldently realises this. At least It seems so, for Its business manager has a card w hich rsads as follows: : It Can't Be Pone? : : BUT HERE IT 131 : The department I refer to Is that of ths L'nlted States Nary. When ths war besan. most of ths branches of Uncle 8am's bis; machina wars so tied up with red tap that the wheels could more only so fast and no faster. Ths wheels of ths Nary began to buss as soon as ths power was turned on. and they -whined on like a dynamo as mors power was demanded. According to the report ot the subcommittee on com merco of ths House of Representatives, which haa been Ineestlsatlng the sub ject, the American Navy stands with out parallel in efficiency. a-d Ita sys tem organised In the Urns of peacs. la working equally well la thees times of war. This report st: tes that ths 100.- men and 110 ships now In ths service ars as promptly and as well provided for as were Iks tS.So men and the loe ships which ws had before the war began. It says that ths Navy is unjumij ciomeo. lea ana equipped, and that ths vast spproplationa made are being economically and wisely spent. It tells Congress that all la well with ths fleet sad that ths 111 de stroyers will be built in from one-third to ons-balf ths time prescribed by pre war conditions. Indeed. I doubt If a mors compllmen tary report concerning a government department has sver been mads by any congressional Investigating committee, and on the heela the committee on aval affairs asks for an appropiatloa for ths Navy ot l.i:S.0OO.a to be spent during the next fiscal year. Of and 111.09,000 for aviation alone. Thirteen, hundred and twenty-five million dollars to be spent In twelve months. That gives yon soma Idea of the enormous growth of our naval ea laoiisnment. The gourd which sprang up ta a nignt. by ths walls of old Nine vih, so that Jonah was able to sit In its shadow or ths beanstalk upon which Jack climbed Into ths heavens to kill the great gtant waa as nothing to ths expansion of our great fighting machine of the seas. It Is now a year since war was declared, and the civil ee ablleh- nent of ths Navy has Incrsased more than too per cent, while ths money spent Is considerably mors than 100 per cent. Thirteen hundred and twenty five million dollars! that means more than Il00.tf.ed a month. It means more than lJ.cee.eoe a day or mors than tl34.ee an hour, day and night an me year through. I have before me ftguree showing ths cost ot the Navy since Ueoree Wash tngton waa President down to the time ws entered the war Ths first records ars for 17)1. Ths total amount spent on ths Navy during that year was less than one-half as much aa we now epend la ens hour. In ths wsr of ISIS ws be came, famous as hsvlng ths most daring sea tis-ntsrs on earth. Under Capt. John Iaul Jones we defeated the British and our veesels of war becami the terror of Europe. Imrtng that war our yearly ex penses were never aa much as they win be In any threo days of ll. During the civil war the expenditures of the Navy began at a little more than Ill.Md.tOt per annum, and at Ita close ths yearly cost was not much more than we are sow spending each month. Our total appropriations for ths Navy during the whole war with 8pala was less thaa IU..N and that sum covered three years. Ws shall spend mors within ths gut five or sis weeks. And then ths slse of the Navy and the change In the shipping. The ves sels of ths war of the Revolution were not mark bigger than our harbor tugs now and their cannon were popguns la comparison with the It-Inch mon sters of ths present-day dreadnought The largeat ships we had In our war with Tripoli and those la ths Wsr of 1111 were aot half as big as the Ferris type of wooden ship we are now buiM Inc. and the largest ves0l of the Meal- raa War waa of only about 10 tons. Ths bea-lnnlng of ths armored ship datea back to the struggle of the ilonl tr and the Merrlmac during the Civil War. and tbe biggest battleship ws had daring ths wsr with Fpain was ths Oregon, of a little more than 11.00 tons, a pigmy in comparison with the Idaho, of !!. tons, or some of ths big battle cruWere now being built In our Navy. yarda The Navy of today is a big Navy In every mbm that the word Implies. When ths European war began it ranked third la the order of warship tonnage among the world's navies, although It dropped far behind that before we entered the wsr. Gincs then It has been growing at tele gTraphlo speed, and with the present programme end ths mighty expendi tures now making. It will be surpassed only by ths navy of Great Britain .when ths war cloaea. no trouble n finding out how business Is dons. The oureaa of supplies and accounts, which haa to do with feeding and clothing the Navy, with the pur chase of all Its material and tbe psy Ing of all ths bills. Is under Her-Ad- mlral Samuel McUowan. who had held hla position ssveral years befors the war bea-an. and bad put the depart ment on a war basis. Secretary Dan Isls does not believe In one system rr oaece and arrbther for war, and Rear-Admiral McUowan (ays that peaeo-tlms Navy la like a policeman without a club. For this reason ths Nr has seen on a war basis ever since Secretary Daniels looa conns. Ir haa feean run on ths motif of John n. Calhoun when ho waa Secretary of War In ths Cablnat of President Mon roe. Mr. Calhoun said that his bust ness ws To get .ready, and tay ready all the time." voicing the sama spirit aa that of ths young officer in command of our first flotilla of de stroyers sent abroad last year. Lpon the arrival of the ships In England ths Kngllsh Admiral asked this officer when his chips would be ready to atart fighting the eubrasrlnes. He replied, "We ars ready now." This spirit waa la evidence a I went through room after room of the naval section In the big building of the State. War and Navy department. Business wss going on everywhere, and that without the red tape so oftsn com plained of as to other departments since our war with ths Oermana began, in fart the manacement of ths Navy business Is mors lilts that of a modern n.nnfjrKirlnr Institution than th otd-style Oovsrnment plant. The rooms of the naval branch of the State. War and Navy building have been thrown together and In order to glvs morSj rapW accesa from one .to anoiner. mi doors have been taken off their hinges, so that on can scan a long ssrles ot rooms at on glance. The business of ths Bureau of Sup pliss requires six tlmss aa many em ployes aa It did tsn months ago, and nsw buildings fcave had to be erected to accommodate the overflow. Tbe first of thsss waa put up within a few weeks after th war began. All of the de partments wer crying for mors room when Admiral McUowan obssrved the vscant spacs taken up by th court or hollow square around which the State, War and Navy building runs, us com msndeered a part ot the court and within 11 days built a frame structure called Sanda Court. It la about 10 feet eauar and four atorlea high. It was filled as soon as It waa completed, and the demand for more room waa not met. He then went to the other aide of Seventeenth strset and built what la now known as Corcoran Court, so called because It I on the ground and adjoin th Corcoran Art Gallery. This Is an artistic structure of two stories with several arrea of floor space. It was built within two or three weeks, and It Is ona ot ths roost comfortable of the many new office atructurea In Washing ton. ' Llks Sanda Court. It has long since failed to supply ths necessary room for clerka and at present a large part of the great ten-acre building in Henry Park, erected for the Ordnance Bureau, haa been tamed over to the Navy. Tbla also Is filled with clerks. and the demands ot the futurs ars such that an sntlrely new building for ths Navy Is to be constructed. Th money for this hss already been ap propriated, and th building will be coins; up by ths tlms this letter is pub lished. It Is to be situated in Potomac Park within a rifle shot of where th State. War and Navy building now stands. It Is Just below the white mar ble palaco.of the Pan-Araerlcan Union and under the shsdow of th Wash Ington Monument and the new Lincoln Memorial. It will be by far the largest o ft les b'ulldtng In Washington, cover ing more grouod than the combined areas of ths National Capitol and ths Library of Congrees. It will have about acrea of floor space. It la to be of concrete, and aa far aa posslbls It will be nreproot throughout. OK are 11,000 firms on '.he mailing Mat, and 21.000 bids were received for various articles last year. The old system of copying letter In a book has long since been thrown away. The new Navy has the most modern filing system and moreover much of ita filing is don by machinery. In Corcoran Court there are tabulat ing and accounting machlnea each ot which takes the place of a score or more clerks. Some of the machines. In the words of Rear-Admiral McGowan, can do everything except sing a song or chew tobacco. All that you have to do In recording the accounta of a great battleship Is to press a button or so like those of an adding machine and a card will be punched representing by hole the complicated figures of each Hera or special conditions. These punched cards form the code words, as It were, of the record, which when run through other machines are automatic ally sorted Into months and th other classification necessary to make a com plete record for the bookkeeping. After th card are sorted they go through other tabulating machines which print on shssts of paper about half th slse of the page on which this letter Is 77iese ers Wner Suffs- yon. fAa S7or ManZc.' printed th exact record of the opera tlons and make all the calculation and addition required in connection with th accounts. Th machines are ao constructed that they cannot make a mistake, and If there la an error all that Is necessary Is to go back to the man who first punched the card and see if his work was done correctly. After the papers leave the machines they are bound Into books, which con tain the full reports of the business and that without the scratch of a pen. Moreover, the work Is so condensed that it requires only six or seven vol umns of this kind to record in detail all the expenditure of the Navy for one year. The same work formerly took an enormous number of books which were kept in pen and ink, every calculation being subject to tbe math ematical skill of the clerk and having to be checked again and again to know that they were correct. And then the addressograph and the machines for making the stencils for the thousands of addresses and ac counts to bs kept. There are 100,000 men m tbe service or the Navy, and by the present system of allotments and war risk Insurance th hundreds of thousands of the families of .the men on the seas have to be corresponded with. month. Each of these with whom the Navy does business Is represented by a stencil made of aluminum, in which is stamped, by a machine like a linotype, many others in Its proper order in the machine, which prints the names upon checks or cards or upon ths envelope in which they go out through the mails. There are also machines for signing the checks, 90.000 of which go out every month. One of these machines consists of a table with a framework above it holding 10 fountain pens. The frame work is so adjusted that each pen rests on a different check, so that the cashier can sign 10 checks at one time by mov Ing the penholder .connected with the framework. The work Is done so fast that 1000 checks are signed in 10 min utes, and each bears the actual auto graph of the man who does the signing: Even the cutting apart of the checks is done by machinery. The machinery will cut eight or ten at a time, running off thousands a day. As I went through the various rooms I learned something of how the pur chases for the Navy are made. The articles bought include almost every thing under the sun there are 10,000 different items and they come from all parts of the world. The Navy has men who keep track of the changes and con ditions of the business. It deals direct with the manufacturers, and in many cases it goes to foreign markets for certain supplies. Much of the work is done under contract, and there is a chain of cost-inspection officers' which covers all the purchases ot the 17 shipyards which are building new vessels, and with the 60 yards doing repair work, as well as the manufac turing plants making the ordnance. The contracts are so worded that no and, in some cases, checks sent every decrease is made for war profits and Income taxes, and on certain fixed con tracts reductions amounting to millions of dollars have been made after going over the manufacturers' cost items. For Instance, take some of the sav Ings. I have a list of certain Hems bought in 1918 which show a saving of more than 12,000,000. Of this 120,000 came from buying tin at Singapore, near where the tin mines are located. Sixty thousand .dollars was saved by going to Chile for nitrates, and 1100,000 was saved In the New York Navy-yard on the scrap of brass and some other metals. The scrap heap had Just 1.000, 000 pounds of this stuff and it was worth Just 10 cents a pound. During the same year almost a mil lion pounds of material was saved in making castings from scrsp, and some thing like 1200,000 was saved upon coal. The Navy has been making money by buying its hemp for its. rope in the Philippines and using the naval colliers to carry it home. It buys its shellac from Calcutta and makes thousands of dollars a year over what the same would cost in this country. The Navy saves a good deal on doing its own business in feeding and cloth ing the soldiers. It has its own cloth ing factories, and it is through them that it has been able to keep its men supplied, notwithstanding the enormous demands of the war.' The prewar plans called for clothing for 90,000 men. but, as soon as war was declared, out fits for 200.000 were needed. The cloth ing factory at Charleston was then put on a double shift basis. It was In creased in size and the great factory recently established at New York was strained to its utmost. Additional clothing was gotten from outside sources, and the whole was so speeaea up that there has been practically no shortage whatever. Between the first of April and the 15th of last December about 200,000 blankets were Issued and 40,000 more blankets were ready. Among the other items on hand wero 890.000 pairs of cotton socks. 580,000 cotton undershirts and hundreds of thousands of woolen socks and heavy clothing of one kind or another. The Navy has been delivering its clothes right along. It had 170.000 enlisted men to outfit last . year and the . articles needed ran Into the hundreds of thou sands and there are thousands more under contract. The Idea now. is to keep on hand' at the Navy-yards a six month supply of clothes for all of tho ships, and in addition 100,000 complete outfits. And then the food. It has been often said that our Navy is better fed than any other that sails tha seas. Neverthe less the cost of the feeding in these times of war has increased much less than the coat of food prices in the mar kets on shore. In 1916 the average ra tion was 37 6-10 cft-.ts. and last year it rose to a little more than 6 cents high er. It is now under 50 cents. If tho increase in the cost of the ration had been proportionate with the Increase in the cost of food, we would have had to pay 11,500,000 more to feed the Navy than we actually did. That means a saving of more than 14000 a day, and this was accomplished by prohibiting the purchase of patent and proprietary foods, by making such things as pies. cakes and ice cream on board ship and by watchinsthe leaks in every possible way. Matters of this kind are figured out to the one-tenth of a cent, and even before the war a saving of a half cent on a meal meant more than liooo a day year in and year out. That saving was made in 1916. Nevertheless, the surgeon-general says the Navy is the best fed body of men In the world. It I not many years ago that th farmer and poultry keeper with a small flock depended al most entirely on the broody hen as a means of renewing tha flock from year to year. To some ex tent this is true today, but with the wonderful progress made In artificial incubation and brood ing, tha hen has been largely discarded as a mean of hatching and rearing chicks. r u i 11 Jn rdr to tall you how this 'big aval eatabliahment Is managed, and kow the enormous expenditures are Bandied. I have spent some days in go ing throua-h ths various bureaus. Th department la wide opea and. thcr i These new building of th Nary are nothing Ilk th old-time office atruc turea of Waahlngton. where rooms wer set apart for one. two or a half dosen clerks, who plodded away as It wer un disturbed, la what might almost be termed solitary confinement. They wer famoua places for goaslplng and for the leisurely red tap method of trans acting business. The present rooms ara all large. Soma of those of Corcoran Court will cover at least half an acre and the hun dred of clerks work away side by side at long lines of desk that run parallel throughout the room. Th whole room Is In view of th chief and there la no chance to puj your feet on th tab! and read the morning newspaper with out attracting attention. Indeed, there la no temptation to do so, for the busi ness Is so speeded that th man who lax bids fals to be run over, and the spirit of getting things don and "doing it now' Is contagious. There are no letter baskets for files and papers on the desks of th clerk. Th principle Is that everything must be done a It goea over the table, and th mall must be answered aa It comes in. ' Throughout tha room above each deeV ta a little sign showing Just what bus'.nesa la don there and It is pos- ille to find your way without asking. If you want to know about tha atael which th Navy la buying, you go to the department marked with that aign. ana II you are iniereatea in food, dotti ng, munition or any of th thousand and on other article which make up the supply It Is no trouble to find Just where such matter are handled. There BY CHARLES I OPPERMAJf. formerly State Poultryman of Maryland. our 10th century puoltry keep ing th extensive commercial hatch eries ara taking the place of "old biddy. Th progressiva farmer and poultry keeper are finding It more profitable to purchase baby chick or have their eggs hatched at these es tablishment at ao much per hundred. thua doing away with the trouble and Inconvenience of fussing with a lot of sitting hen. Such a plant not only gives the busy poultry keeper more time for other work, but It also make It possible to keep the hens at work producing eggs. Instead of wasting, several weeks of their valuable time In hatching and rearing a brood of chicks. Our pres ent day efficiency calls for breaking up the broody hens as quickly as pos sible and getting them back to laying. Time Lost la Broodlnesa, How important this is from an eco nomic standpoint can he readily ap preciated when we atop to consider that the average hen waBtes at least two months in hatching and caring for her chicks. If she Is taken in hand as soon as she shows signs of broodi ness and treated with a view of break ing up this tendency, her production can be increased at least two dozen eggs. Figuring on the basis of 10 cents a dozen for eggs, the possible saving from 10 broody hens properly broken as soon as they manifest a tendency to sit, will be sufficient to purchase 50 baby chicks. Further ar gument should not be necessary to con vlnce the progressive poultry keeper that it pays, and pays well, to break up the 'broodies.' Braoaj Heaa Arc Heavy Producers. A very interesting relation between the number of times a hen goes broody and her egg production has been es tablished by our egg-laying contests. rose: coxb white bastams. HIS Is on of th smallest of the bantam family, standard weights ' calling for 10 to 22 ounces for fe male and 22 to ! ounces for males, although roost of th best specimens exhibited ara well under these weights. Rose-comb bantam, both black and white, ar bred in large numbers In England. Canada and tbe United States, although the best specimens appear to be produced in the former country. whence many ar Imported each year. Rosa-comb whit bantams were origi nated In England, and they have reached their best perfection during the last 25 years. This variety is a diminutive Hamburg in general shape, with rose comb, whit earlobe and a big, well-spread tall, carried low. Like all bantams, 'it Is a good layer. But like all other bantam th rose comb white is strictly an ornamental fowl, it cannot be reckoned with as a utility proposition, for its eggs are smslL The young fowls themselves are good to eat. being so small that they pass for quail. They may be Jcept In a very small house and eat so little feed that the amount consumed 1 hardly noticeable. The average of five contests conducted at the Missouri state experiment sta tion showed that 5301 hens went broody on an average of two times for each hen. All varieties where the hens averaged going broody four or more times averaged 132 eggs per hen. The . varieties showing no broodiness averaged to lay 125 eggs each. All varieties going broody from one to four times produced the highest averages of eggs. This practical data, which is based on the performance of sev eral thousand hens, is a strong recom mendation for the assertion that It pays to break up the broody hen. To illustrate the absurd methods that some people practice to break up broodineea in hens I will cite an inci dent that came to my attention last Spring. Mrs. X, who keeps a small flock of hens, read or heard somewhere that by ducking the hen in a tub of water and holding her there for a few moments the desire to sit would quick ly vanish. Sh immediately proceeded to put the plan into action, with the result that the two hens treated will never sit again. They are dead. It seems that she got mixed up on her time and held the hens unt!r the water a little too long. As practiced by Mrs. X. this plan will give positive results, but it Is rather expensive. There Is no need to resort to cruel or extreme measures In curing the broody hen, since we have simple, practical meth ods which have long since proved their value. How to Discourage Broodlnesa. Confining the hens to a slatted crate Is probably the simplest and most prac tical method of eliminating tha broody tendency. For the commercial flocks of several hundred layers, the best plan Is to have one of these slatted crates in every pan. A good location is at one end of the dropping plat form. A practical size for commercial plants where the layers are kept , in flocks of 100 Is a crate 4x6 feet and It Inches high. The floor and sides of the crate should be made of slats bout li Inches wide, placed two Inches apart. The top can be made of plain inch lumber. Tha crate can be hung from the celling or allowed to rest on cross-pieces supported by the dropping platform. For the farm flock a similar crate minus the bottom can be employed, i The crate can be kept in the henhouse until the weather permits its removal out of doors. It should then be trans ferred to the orchard or some good grass plot and moved as often, as the ground under it becomes foul. For the backyard noctc a coop two feet square' and 16 inches high will an swer all purposes. This size Is large enough to accommodate about four av erage size hens. If space Is available the crate should be kept out of doors as soon as the weather permits. Object f Slatted Coop. The essential point In breaking a broody hen is to keep her from a sit ting position, and the slatted crate ac complishes this trick with little or no trouble. From three to four days is generally sufficient to break up the ablt in the average ben, while the more persistent sitters will usually suc cumb in six or seven days. While the hens are In the coop they should receive the best q attention. Pure water, feed and grit should be before them at all times. For this pur pose small galvanized-iron cups, such as are used in the poultry shows, will be found very satisfactory, as they ca be easily fastened to the outside of the crate. By feeding the nens lioerau while they are confined In the brood coon thev do not lose flesh, but remai In Kood condition ana are ready to r sume laying in a few day's after they are released. HOUSEBOAT ON THE STYX (Continued From First Page.) a banner in the Kaiser's face, in scribed: "Behold the fate of the despoiler of woman.' "And as a grand finale to this show, said Richard Coeur de Leon, "I have Just one suggestion to make. Finish It off with a haunt by the dying Herod despised of all, suffering from a loath some disease, frustrated in his at temnt at suicide, and saying in his last breath: "I, too, have murdered little chil dren .' "I decline to serve,'" said Herod. "Absolutely. No use asking me." "I hardly thought you would," said Richard contemptuously. "Birds of feather flock together." "On the contrary." said Herod, "thl Is a time when ona of the birds would lose his feather rather than flock. was a fairly tough customer in my day, Richard, but I do draw the line some where, and I refuse to associate with Bill Hohenzollern even in his dreams. The babies I killed at least irad chance. Bill's have none." "I wonder if the scheme would work." said Bonaparte. "It worked when I rose up at Phillipl and threw the fear of retribution into the heart of Brutus, eh. Brute? said Caesar. "Nothing of the sort not at all, said Brutus. "Well I notice you shivered some and threw fits all over youn tent the minute I pointed my oozy thumb at you. ssld Caesar. "That." said Brutus coldly, "was not fear, but a sudden attack of chills and fever it was a very malarious region." "Well, It may not- cure the Kaiser, said Aesculapius, "but it would at least drive him mad." Which," said Macchiavelli, "is my reason for doubting Its efficacy. Will iam the Second is already mad. What Is really needed is something that will drive him sane. If we could give Bill Just one single moment of sanity we could drop the task of destroying him." "For that moment?" said Napoleon. "No forever," said Macchiavelli, "for If Bill were ever sane for a moment. Boney, he'd destroy himself. NEW CONDITIONS IN GOTHAM (Continued From First Page.) ation to stick to the ship until the crash came is but a continuation of the tenacity which made the great or chestra the triumphant power that it has been all these years until it suf fered at the hands of the world- wrecker, as has everything else which came under the curse of that hand, by blood or by-sympathy. Major Higgln son, after 37 years of control of the orchestra, retired as its sponsor and the future of this orchestra will lie in charge of nine trustees who have al ready filed papers for what will be known as the Boston Symphony Or chestra Company, Inc. These are Frederick P. Cabot, Ernest B. Dane, M. A. De Wolfe-Howe,. John E. Lodge, Frederick E. Lowell, Arthur Lyman, Henry B. Sawyer, Galen P. Stone and Bentley W. Warren. Aa ardent patriot and pro -ally. was. heard to say the other night following; the remarkable performance for the Brahms second symphony under tho baton of Gabrilowltsch, "Thank Heaven that Brahms Is dead!" which in plain English means that otherwise Brahms, too, would have been relegated to the shelf until "after the war." It is to be commended that Gabrilowltsch re moved from his third and last pro gramme of this season the offending Richard Strauss number originally an nounced and it is to be hoped that next season the different orchestras of the country will give themselves to the building up of the tastes of their pub lio salong lines that will enable them to hear the beauties in music from France, Russia, Italy and especially America. In no field has the Teutonic Idea that might Is right been shown so relent lessly as In music, where the propa ganda in its behalf has met with such results as to crowd into practical desuetude the large works of all other countries. The Boston Symphony Or chestra was compelled to make a show ing of catholicity of tastes. Frederick Stock Is noted throughout the entire world for his devotion to the cause of American compositions, the New York Philharmonic had its barriers broken down when the list of visiting conduc tors came and a few of these, such as Cononne, Sir Henry Wood, Safonoff, made it Imperative that other works find a place on our programmes, while Walter Damrosch saw the path open. for one who waa not sworn to a cause as some others may have been. McAdoo Likes Man's-Sized Chance. After addressing 3000 young aviators at the California station, Mr. McAdoo expressed his intention of making a flight in an aeroplane. As he was about to enter the car Admiral Grayson forced his way through the crowd about the Secretary and buttonholed him long enough to enter a fervent plea of pro test; the element of danger, the import ance of his service to the country. As well try to stop a stampeded herd of buffalo with a wave of the hand. He went up. I have a boy In the aviation service," said the Secretary, "and I want the youngster to know that he hasn't any more nerve than his ratner, and be sides I am going up to see what it ia like up there; I am going to have a try at the same sensations that my boy experiences in his work. If he will take a chance, then I will, too." From "McAdoo Administrative Dynamo, by Richard M. Wlnans in Physical Culture. If Bobby doesn't like his cereal with ilk, serve it to him with a little syrup, lly or fruit and never whisper the fact to him that it was cooked in milk stead of in water. Skim milk may often be used for cooking cereals and any of them will absorb many times their own volume when cooked In this way. The Mothers Magazine. To SAVE LITTLE CHICKS and help them to gror into big, -tronjj, healthy birds, FEED II Diamond Chick Food Ask for Poultry Supply Catalogue and "Buckeye" Booklets.