Lincoln County leader., February 19, 1909, Image 2

Cheap and Simple Ire Ilouae,
All Icehouse is one of the simplest
of farm buildings ; in fact, many f arm
ors make a mistake In putting up too
elaborate a building, wli'ih fails to en
dure and to afford sulliclent ventilation
for keeping the lee. The simple build
ing shown In the drawing, which is re
produced from Farm and Home, was
put up with about one day's labor.
The framework was made of refuse
hard wood, some 2x4's and some 2xG's
SECTIONAL VIEW OF ICEHOUSE.
Second-rate pine boards were used for
Billing, which was nailed on the inside
of the frame. The roofing was nude
of similar material ns the skies, but of
a Hide better quality.
In filling, 11 space Is left between the
wall and the let', Jo be packed with
sawdust. The crevices between the
cakes are filled with fine Ice sharing:,
but no sawdust is used between or on
top of the layers of Ice until the filling
Is done, when about one foot of saw
dust Is placed on tn;.
Openings must be left near the peak
of the roof to secure ventilation, and
the sawdust filling at the sides must
be kept firm nnd solid while the Ice
Is being removed In summer. It is
Important to locate the Icehouse
where there will be good drainage.
Poor drainage at the bottom of the
lee or allowing air to circulate at the
top will quickly spoil the conteuts of
be house.
Light for (he Dnrti,
Light Is one of the great sanitary
conditions which promote vigorous
health. If the germs of tuberculosis
are exposed to the buu a short time
their vitality Is destroyed, but their
Infecting power can be preserved for
several months if kept In a dark recep
tacle. The State veterinarians who Inspect
dnlry accommodations now recomjiiend
plenty of light, and the new dairy
barns are featured with an Increased
number of windows. If possible the
windows of a dairy barn should be so
placed as to en use the sun at some
portion of the day to shine on nil parts
of the floor, as the rays will search for
disease microbes and destroy them
Sunlight nets ns n powerful disinfect
ant, nnd nothing Is cheaper nor more
effective in preventing dlsense than
sunlight.
Dark, underground stables nre now
condemned ns Insanitary nnd dlsense
breeding. Dark stables are often also
'amp, and present especially favorable
conditions for the evolution nnd propa
Ration of tuberculosis. Cnttle on the
plains, which live only under the shel
ter of the firmament, are Immune to
tuberculosis and many other diseases,
and barns for housing live stock should
be constructed with plenty of windows
to promote the sanitary condition of
their occupants. Goodall's Farmer.
Automntle C'hecae Preaa.
This form of cheese press maintains
a constant pressure for uny desired
length of time by means of a rope
wrapped around a pulley at the end
nnd over a small pulley on a beam
overhead. The 1-10-pound weight to suf
ticlent 10 Keep the screw pressed up
to the cheese. A close cheese Is ob
tained, free from any mechanical open
ings.
Heller Reaulta with Corn.
According to the estimate made by
the government a few weeks ago, the
average per acre of corn produced In
Texas this year Is only about five bush'
els below that of Iowa, one of the
greatest of the corn-producing States,
In the amount produced It was esti
IT 7- i TT"
mated that Texas would be fifth !n ttia
States of the Union. This Is a splen
did allowing compared with what It
was only a few years ago, and is ac
counted for by the fact that the Texas
farmer Is beginning to realize the great
advantage there Is In raising his own
meat and bread, and In the further fact
that the Texas Corn Growers' Associa
tion has done eome splendid work In
not only pointing out the blessings to
the fanner In growing corn, but also
in promoting the study of seed selec
tion and cultivation. Galveston News.
Home Value of Country.
Almost $:!,000,OCO,000 worth of
horses are owned In the United Stales,
according to the Year Hook of the De
partment of Agriculture,
e. It is prol-1
were'taken at
able that if the horses
their real value, Instead of their as
sessed value, this figure would be great
ly Increased. According to this report,
there nre l'J,!)!)2,()00 horses in this coun
try, with a value of $1,807,5:50,000, and
the average value per head is $93.40.
Anyliody knows that has tried to buy
horses of late that the average per
head Is too small, for even an ordinary
work horse Is worth more than that.
However, the showing is very encour
aging. In the last ten or twelve years
the number of horses In this country
has almost doubled, nnd. Instead of
there being too many horses, there urn
not enough to do 'nil the business that
is required, nnd if it were not for the
use of nutomobile trucks In the large
dlks t'.ie merchants of this country
would be hard pressed for methods of
transportation for their goods. With
business Increasing, ns every sign Indi
cates, there will be a greater demand
than ever for horses during the com
ing year. In view of this, breeders
can go on Increasing their business,
with every confidence that all the
horses they can produce will find a
ready sale at a good figure. As for
good trotters, horses cnpable of going
out and winning ill their class, the de
mand Is greatly In excess of the sup
ply. Auction sale managers complain
that there are not enough of the good
ones to supply the gentlemen who nre
In the market for likely prospects. The
coming yenr will be n banner one in
Ihe horse business, especially In th?
breeding business.
Making; I'xe of the liog.
This sketch shows ah nrrangement
for making use of the dog for enrrylng
water. It simply consists of a wheel,
a, 8 ft lu dlnmcter and 18 In. wide,
with room enough Inside for the dog to
walk around, where he acts ns a trend
D00 POWER FOR PUMPING WATER.
power, which causes the pump, e, to re
volve. In southern California there are
D00 POWER FOR PUMPING WATER.
a number of these dog-power pumps,
which cost less than $15. A good-sized
dog can easily earn his living lu an
arrangement of this kind. Farm and
Home.
Winter Poultry Pfotea.
When your hens sing know then that
they are feeling good nnd will lay.
Hens will not lny well or thrive un
less they have plenty of sunlight. Keep
the windows' clean.
Don't fuss nround your heus too
much. Like some people, they want to
be let nlone at times.
Take the chill off the wnter. Hens
will not lay ninny eggs If they nre
compelled to drink Ice water and eat
corn mixed with snow.
Get rid of te useless cockerels nnd
old hens. Stuff them and they will
grow fat and tender not too tender
but enough to grace a boarding house
table. '
Throw some rusty nails In the drink
ing trough. The hens need the Iron ns
a tonle. But do not let anything else
besides cleau water go in with the
nails.
Dressed fowls, wrapped In clean,
white paper and packed in new boxes
will bring enough more to pay well for
the trouble. It Is not hard to get top
prices by a little thought nnd work.
Green bone Is the thing that brings
the eggs In winter. V'ou cannot afford
to do without It- It contains all the
food elements necessary to make eggs.
As It is a highly concentrated food It
should be fed without clover or bran.
It Is a sad mistake to feed laying
hens or any other kind red pepper or
any sort of stimulating food. That la
one of the old-fashioned theories that
do more harm than good. Do not do It
because It acts like whisky ou n man.
The reaction Is sure to come and leave
the birds lu worse condition than before.
Nine-tenths of the world's annual
production of 2,000,000 tons of sugar
comes from the sugar cane.
Every English family has at least
one weak-minded member, according to
a London medical magazine.
The so-called Chinese cement for
Joining wood, earthenware, glass, etc.,
is simply a solution of shellac lu alco
hol. The wood of the ailanthus tree, de
spised because of Its odor, resembles
white ash and is capable of receiving
a high polish.
At an altitude of 8,500 feet 25 per
cent of the power of a gasoline motor
Is lost, owing to the decreased atmos
pheric pressure.
The name "torpedo" for under-wnter
explosives was chosen for nn invention
In that line by Robert Fulton, of steam
boat fame, In 179". '
In 1907 7,501 short tons of crude
nutgnessite, worth $:? per ton, were pro
duced In the United States, almost en
tirely In California.
Of the 1,100 diseases to which the
human body Is liable, according to a
German physician, there are forty-eight
peculiar to tue e.ie.
The seeds of the parasitic plant jin
kungo, n native of Mozambique, yield
an oil that is said to be superior to the
salad oil of commerce.
The Introduction of Japanese hnnd
looins Into China promises to greatly
Increase the importation of foreign
yarns by that country.
A Massachusetts man has been given
a patent on a spring clip with which
new seats may be attached to chairs
with a minimum of labor.
About 2,500 acres of abandoned
fainis In New England have been
planted In trees this year ns a part of
n general reforestation scheme.
Prof. II. C. Wilson shows that the
conditions In which Ilalley's comet will
make it appearance In 1910 are similar
to those which existed In 10(50, when
It was an object remarkable grnndeur.
The comet Is expected to cross the
orbit about March 1, 1909. Efforts will
bi made to discover It by photography
next winter.
Count Zeppelin's fifth air ship is to
have a balloon made of gold-benters'
skin. The envelope will comprise six
layers, and it is estimated that the
skins of 000,000 cattle will be required
before the work is finished. The ma
terial is very strong and light, and by a
secret process the skins are so Joined
that no seams are visible. The balloon,
divided into 15 sections, is to have a
en pa city of 000,000 cubic feet. The en
velope Is to be made at Highbury, In
England.
Prof. W. Phillips read recently, be
fore the Royal Sanitary Institute in
England, a paper detailing his observa
tions on the limit of school children's
capacity for attention. He concludes
that two intervals of rest of 10 minutes
each dining an ordinary school session
are more useul than one of 20 min
utes. The attention wanes more rapidly
In the afternoon, and consequently the
studies which most serevely tax the at
tention, like mathematics,, should be
I'oiilincd to the morning hours. Profes
sor Phillips concludes that gymnastics
is not ef necessity a mentally recuper
ative agent, if the teacher Is .1 strict
disciplinarian In gymnastics, the fa
tigue exhibited by the Children may be
of a pronounced character.
PERIL OF "ONE MAN" BANKS.
Moat Imiireaalre Leaaon of the Hone
ton vie) ion la Thla Fact.
By far the most Impressive lesson
of the Morse-Curtis trial nnd Us out
come, apart from the terrible warning
that It projects to those who would
achieve financial influence nnd leader
ship through any but the old-fashioned
straight nnd narrow paths, Is that con
veyed by the testimony concerning the
I cnrelessncss or the indifference., or
both, of the ofllcers of the National
Hank of North America other than
the two whose conlctlon on serious
( criminal charges has been reached.
j From the outset it must have been as
: plain as a pikestaff to anybody hav
ing to do with tlu conduct of this in
stitution, even In the most subordinate
capacity,' that Morse had It completely
within his own personal control ; and,
that being apparent, It ought to have
been equally plain and 110 doubt was
that the sole purpose of this control
wns his own Individual benefit not
that of the bank or of nnylnxly or of
anything else. Still, with this full and
early knowledge of the situation ond
with n complete understanding of
Morse's business methods, practices and
ambitions, they permitted the Punk of
North America at the very beginning
of his connection with it to be a "one
man" bank of the most' pronounced
one might well say the most vicious
type,. for the influence of any such "one
man" institution, even when opera Fed
with no shadow of wrongdoing, is some
thing Inherently vicious.
In this instance, however, the very
fact that practically the only use that
the "one man" had for the bank was
to borrow Its money or to employ It
in any way that he saw Jit, ought to
huve constructed a danger signal at
the very outset. And it is not a little
remarkable that among all the officers
of this institution with authority to
act and to take a stand that would
put a stop to the thing, not one except
Curtis so much as raised a finger iu
protest or did anything to prevent .the
outcome that must have appeared to
be something almost Inevitable.
MAPPING OF GREENLAND
COST EXPLORERS' LIVES.
The completed map of Greenland,
the largest island )n the world, has nt
last been published. About forty years
ago Dr. A. Petermann spread the view
that Greenland probably extended
across the pole and down the other side
of the earth to the neighborhood of Be
ring Straits. Then, in 1905, the Duke
of Orleans pushed over 100 miles to
the north of Cape Bismarck, but fog
prevented him from making a satis
factory survey of the coast line. Mean
while Dr. Mylius-Erlclisen formed the
plan of making a complete, survey. He
started on the steamer Denmark from
Copenhagen on June 25, 1900. Ou
March 28. 1!N)7. the treat sled'.'e jour
ney was begun.
As Mylius-Erichsen nnd his two com
panions emerged from Denmark Fiord
they met Lieut. Koch and his party,
who had pushed directly on to Peary
Land across the sea lee and had not
only connected their surveys with
Peary's at Wyckoff Island, but had also
resurveyed the coast as far north as
Cape . Bridgnian. Koch and his men
had done everything they set out to do
and returned to the ship in safety.
Myllus-Erichsen and his comrades
determined to risk everything to com
plete their survey of the mainland
coast. At last, however, they joined
their surveys with those of Peary.
COMPLETED MAP OF GREENLAND.
They had completed the mnp of Green
land. The precious survey sheets were
put Into a bottle and thus they were
preserved. Then they pushed south to
Denmark Fiord again. "
When they lacked all other food,
dogs were killed to supply a meager
ration Tor men and animals. On Oct.
19 the sun disappeared beneath the ho
rizon and still they stumbled south
ward in the semi-darkness. Two of
the men never reached this goal. Ha
gen died on Nov. 15 and Myllus-Erichsen
ten days later. Broulund reached
it In the moonlight, nnd when the
spring search party this year found
his body there it was evident that he
had lived for severnl days after his ar
rival. With trembling hand he filled sev
ernl pnges In" his notebook with a de
scription of their wanderings and suf
ferings and told where his comrades
had died. He and his comrades now
lie on the great Island whose mapping
they completed.
It was wonderfully fortunnte that
the bottle containing the survey sheets
was found slung around the neck of
Rronlund. Perhaps the great result of
this exploration would never have been
known If It were not for this fortunate
circumstance. It is thought that Myllus-Erichsen
probably did not venture
to enrry hM diaries and collections over
the Inland Ice with him, but left them
In some safe depository at Denmark
Fiord, where, they may ultimately be
recovered.
Self-Conarloua Knitllahmen.
The ordinary Englishman hates to
be suspected of anything but the mat
ter of fact. The more deeply he feels
the more Intent he la on slurring It
over with n Joke or a bit of useful
slang. Truth.
If you can make your scheme good,
you are a very unusual man.
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This little boy will be king of Italy
some day. The picture Is a very recent
one and shows the youngster lu' the
uniform of a colonel of the guard. The
i prince, who is the only son of King
Humbert nnd Queen Helena, is a robust,
merry child, who delights In donning
his various uniforms and "playing sol
dier" with his. little friends He was
born Sept. 15, 1004 and rejoices In the
name of Humbert Nicholas Thomas
the first after his paternal grandfather,
the second after his maternal grand
father, the ruler of Montenegro, and
Thomas after the Duke of Genoa, his
father's cousin
When the dimpled baby's hungry, what
does the baby do?
It doesn't lie serenely and merely sweetly
coo;
The hungry baby bellows with all its little
might
Till someone gives it something to curb
its appetite.
The infant with the bottle which stills its
fretful cries
A lesson plainly teaches : It pays to adver
tise. The lamb lost in the hillside when dark
ness closes round
Stands not in silence trembling and wait
ing to be found ;
Its plaintive bloating echoes across the
vales nnd meads
Until the shepherd hears It, and, .hearing,
kindly heeds,
And when its fears are ended, as on his
1 brenst it lies,
( The Iamb has made this patent: It pays
IO UUVITUSU.
The fair and gentle umidon who loves th
bashful boy
Assumes when in his presence a manner
that is coy ;
She blushes and she trembles till he per
ceives at last.
And clasps her closely to hira and gladly
holds her fast,
And as he beads to kiss her and as she
serenely sighs,
This fact Is demonstrated: It pays to ad
vertise. -Chicago Record-Herald.
Confunlnw IOiiKllsh.
"I see one of our battleships report
ed fast In the mud."
"Well?"
"I was Just thinking that n ship fnst
In the mud ought to be a record break
j er cu the open sen." Plck-Me-Up.