Corvallis gazette., June 16, 1908, Image 4

Popular Refrain."
&ig a song of dollars
A pocketfull, we'll say
Everybody after them,
Chasing night and and day;
Running here and yonder,
Busy as a bee,
Through the alleys, down the street,
, Or even up a tree.
In the race for riches
High and lowly crowd,
Gentleman and beggar,
Humble and the proud,
Those that only grovel,
Others that aspire
After fickle fortune
Like a house afire.
Giving of their talents,
Giving of their time,
In transactions shady
Bordering on crime;
Spending hours in scheming,
Matching skill with wit,
Jnst to get the money
Safely in their mitt.
Sing a song of dollars;
Nee m'n 1 the tune,
Jnst so you keep singing
Morning, night and noon;
Though the neighbors grumble,
Let that cut no ice;
You can make them like it
If you have the price.
Exchange.
A Remarkable Wager.
A rather remarkable wager
has just been paid. A couple of
Albany men wagered $130 on
the result of local option, the
temperance man at the time
making the statement that if he
won, the money would be turned
over to the Good Citizens' League
for the prosecution of blind pigs.
This has been done and the
money is said to be in the hands
of the officers of the League.
When the wager was made an
other wager was offered by the
liquor man that the local
Option man had made a mistake
and $5 more was put up. This
money was to go for ice-cream.
It has been placed in the hands
of the Elite, and Saturday after
noon at 2 o'clock voters have
been invited, wet and dry, to
call at the Elite and have some
ice-cream. Lebr.non Criterion.
Administrator's Notice.
Notice i hercbv niven that the undersigned has
fteen dulv appointed by the County Court ol the
State ofOreeoti tin" the County of Benton as ad-
minisiraior m oic t.-.-,. . -
ceased, and that he has dulv qualified as such ad
ministrator. All pomms having claims against
aid decedent are herein- notified to present the
same duly verified, to me at my residence m
Con allis. in Benton County. Oregon, within six
month- of the date of this notice.
Hated at Corvallis, Oregon, this 9th day of Ap
ril, HloS. .
R. J. Nichols.
Administrator ot;the estate of Martha Nichols,
deceased.. 33"
Well Said.
An excellent as well as witty re
proof, which might be applicable to
gome politicians even in these en
lightened days, is accredited to the
celebrated Kichard Brinsley Sher
idan. , When his son, Thomas Sheri
dan, was candidate for the repre
sentation of a Cornish borough he
told his father that if he secured the
office he had a mind to place a label
on his forehead with the words "To
Let" printed on it and side with
the party which made the best offer.
"Very well, Tom," replied his fa
ther dryly, "but. if you do that don't
forget to add the word Unfurnish
ed.' "
Ruskin as a Boy.
Every precocious boy does not be
come a brilliant man, but 6ome bril
liant men have been precocious in
childhood. John Ruskin, the great
English essayest and critic on art,
as such a child. At the age of
seven he wrote verses in thyme and
iept a journal, or diary. This jour
nal was really a record of trips
through England that he took with
his father. His interest in the old
cathedrals and in the bits of 6cenery
that he saw during these journeys
betrayed the tastes that in later
years decided his career.
His Way Out.
A certain Irish member of parlia
ment, popular and a bachelor, had
been very polite to the daughter of
the house where he was visiting.
When the time came for him to go
the too anxious mamma called him
in for a serious talk. "I'm sure I
don't know what to say," she went
on. " Tis reported all around that
jou are to marry Letitia."
"Just say that ahe refused me,"
quietly advised the parliamentarian.
I A Bad Symptom.
"Has George ever hinted that he
tad thought of you as a possible
wife?" asked the anxious mother.
"No," replied the girl, a faraway
look in her eyes, "and I'm afraid he
never will."
"Why," said the mother, "I
thought"
"It doesn't matter what you
thought, mamma, dear," interrupt
ed the daughter. "Only last night
be complained of feeling drowsy
bJ it wasn't 9 o'clock." j.
GRASS CULTURE.
Forethought and Intelligent ; Super
vision Insure a Good Lawn. - j
; Great care should be taken by the;
gardener -with his lawn. It Is the can
vas upon which he will paint his flow
er bed pictures and landscape effects.
To be successful he must prepare his
canvas welL
The first thing Is to grade the
ground, smoothing rough surfaces,
making proper level stretches and gen
tle slopes. If possible, the lawn should
slope from the house. The grading
should be done so as to distribute
evenly all surface water, avoiding the
formation of little runs which might
produce washouts.
The soil should be enriched with a
liberal supply of well rotted manure.
This is essential where the soil Is lack
ing in humus; otherwise bone meal or
other good fertilizer Is useful, and ma
nure often contains the seed of weeds.
The ground should be plowed or spad
ed not less than eight Inches deep, re
moving all the stones and similar ma
terial, and the surface made as smooth
as possible. Then it is ready for sow
ing. One of the best mixtures for the
lawn is four parts Kentucky blue grass
with one part of white clover, sown
not less than five bushels to the acre.
Equally good results are usually ob
tained by the use of redtop In place
of the blue grass or with equal parts
of redtop and blue grass and a little
white clover. When moisture is plen
tiful the blue grass forms a softer turf
than the redtop, but does not seem to
endure drought so well. In shady
places the blue grass mixture is best
Nothing but pure seed should be sown.
It is well to be liberal with the seed,
not to scatter it too thinly and to re
seed portions that come up poorly.
BRUSSELS SPROUTS.
Easy to Raise and Profitable if Prop
erly Marketed.
Brussels sprouts may be easily
grown In the ordinary home vegetable
garden. The plant Is a close relative of
the cabbage and cauliflower, but In
stead of producing a single head forms
a number of small ones in the axils of
the leaves, and these heads are called
sprouts and are the edible part of the
vegetable. The sprouts average one or
two Inches in diameter.
The seed should be sown in the open
ground as early as the weather per
mits. When the plants are three inches
high they should be transplanted or
thinned out into rows twenty-four to
thirty inches apart and about two feet
apart in the row. The plants must be
well watered after they have been
moved.
As the small sprouts begin to crowd
the leaves should be broken from the
stem to give the small heads more
room. A few leaves should be left at
the top of the stem where the new
heads are formed.
In warm climates the plants may be
left In the open ground all winter, the
heads being removed as desired, but
In more northern latitudes plants that
are well laden with heads are taken up
when frost comes and set close to
gether in a pit or cellar or a "cold
frame" or bed covered with glass.
With a little soil packed about their
roots they may in this way be kept all
winter, being used when needed. When
boiled or stewed with cream they are
delicious.
GROWING RHUBARB.
A Crop That Pays Well For Very Lit
tle Outlay and Work.
The best crop, counting expense of
growing and amount of land used, is
pieplant Procure some roots of the
Linnaeus variety that is early, tender
and, while growing very large, is less
acid than many otlgi' kinds.
Prepare the buueues by putting five
or six stalks in a bunch, tying It se
curely at the butts of stalks and again
around the leaves Just- above the
stems; then with a sharp knife cut off
a portion of the leaves, leaving about
a third of the green leaf on the stalk.
It will wilt less quickly with a part of
the leaf on than with the whole leaf
or where only the stalk has been left.
The rows should be six feet apart
and plants four feet In row. The only
work expended on it Is to cultivate two
or three times early in the season and
hoe it once. In the fall the rows are
covered with a mulch of strawy ma
nure. Pull it late in the day, tie and trim
the leaves, then pack it In sixty quart
berry crates. It does not wilt as much
If crowded in tightly.
Rhubarb may be made to yield about
$35 to $40 an acre per month.
Spraying Potato Vines.
The number of spraylngs.it will be
necessary to give potatoes depends
somewhat upon the season. If rainy
weather prevails it will be necessary
to spray more frequently than If it be
comparatively dry, not only because
the rain will wash the spray material
off the vines, but also because damp
weather Is favorable to the develop
ment of the disease. A good general
rule Is to begin spraying when the
vines are about six Inches high and
spray every ten days or two. weeks
throughout the season. W. X Green.
Alfalfa and Water.
To grow alfalfa we must first of all
provide a soil which Is dry by nature
or which Is underd rained. If we dig
a post hole four feet deep and find wa
ter we may know that alfalfa will not
grow there. There Is an old saying
which expresses this, "Alfalfa will not
grow with wet feet" Though it seeks
water in a deeper soil and the roots
penetrate very deeply indeed in an old
field, we must not expect It to grow
where the water rise t within four
leet of the surface. ... .
Woman'sWorld
MRS. HARRIET C. ADAMS.
An
Intrepid Woman Explorer With
South America as Her Field.
There are few men explorers who
I re able to relate more varied and in
teresting tales of travel than Mrs. Har
riet Chalmers Adams, a native of
California, who returned to the United
States recently after a three years'
lourney through the uncivilized por
tions of Latin America. And not many
sould tell of the experiences in so un
affected and entertaining a manner as
Mrs. Adams, who is now giving in
various cities Illustrated lectures on
South America, Panama and the West
Indies. Her favorite subject is Peru,
and in describing the scenery and cus
toms of this marvelous country she
uses a series of pictures, some being
aatural colored photographs showing
the ruins from the time of the Incas
and present day conditions.
A trip to Mexico aroused Mrs.
Adams' enthusiasm for the south, and
when her husband's business required
him to make the three years' expedi
tion she Insisted on accompanying him.
They went by way of Central America
and Panama, down through Ecuador
and Peru and across the Andes to the
headwaters of the Amazon. Then by
winding route through other coun-
MKS. HABKIET C. ADAMS.
tries of the southern continent they
came back to Panama and up again to
the United Stated. Besides the dangers
from precipices and rivers and bands
of savages, they had sometimes to en
dure cold and hunger. They say that
they owe their lives to having met a
herd of llamas one night and snuggled
beside them for warmth when they
had failed to reach a shelter on the in
tensely cold plains of the "roof of the
world."
Mrs. Adams is a rather small wo
man, with a sturdy frame gained from
outdoor life and a pair of large dark
eyes. She inherited her fondness for
travel and adventure from her father,
who was a "forty-niner," one of the
pioneers who early penetrated to Cali
fornia. She is now a resident of the
east, but retains her love for her west
ern home.
In her longest jaunts, even where
there is no eye but a savage's to see
her, she has enough feminine pride to
dress becomingly. She says herself
that her "outing suit is "lovely." It
consists of knickerbockers and boots,
a corduroy skirt, a medium sized som
brero and a khaki coat with pockets.
That the effect is picturesque and that
the outfit is one which will stand any
amount of hard usage may be judged
from the accompanying picture of
Mrs. Adams.
Before Wash Day.
The preparation of plaited garments
for the laundry Is a matter of more
Importance than many women realize.
Almost every woman, however, knows
what it Is to send a chic looking skirt,
blouse or Jabot to the laundry and have
It come back lacking all style or shape.
This is a case where an ounce of pre
vention Is worth a pound of cure. It Is
much easier to baste down the plaits
In a wash garment before it is sent to
the laundry than It is to try to lend
style to a misshapen thing after it has
been pulled out of shape In washing.
The little Jabots should be basted while
the folds of the plaits are still distinct.
The same rule applies to washable
cravats, which must be basted down
the middle to keep the outer covering
and the lining In proper position.
When washing a skirt the plaits
should be fastened into place and a
second basting run around the whole
hem so that the edge will be even when
ironed. These stitches are left in until
the skirt Is entirely finished and ready
to wear; otherwise the precaution will
be Ineffectual. (
, It is a very clever idea when a chain
stitch machine is hanc'y to use It In
stead of hand sewing, for the work Is
simpler, and the chain stitch Is much
easier to pull out than the hand work
stitches. Of course, for any material
where the machine stitches would
show, such as stiff linens, the basting
must be done by ba:id.
The Art of Living Together.
There is a fine art which is much
neglected among ua, and that is the art
jof living together not so much the
1
art .of the. wife Uvto with her ana
band or a husband with his wife, bat
the art of being a smooth running
Wheel la -the1 great machinery r the
world the. art of not squeaking or slip
ping a cog or stripping the gearing or
otherwise disturbing the harmony of
the huge engine of human life.
Sor is it odd that this art is neglect
ed when yon come to think of it, for
most people are ignorant of the exist
ence of such a craft and if informed
of It declare it of no Importance. But
this is not so, for the man who studies
into its necessities discovers that it
covers the whole ground of domestic j
science. The man who is clever enough
to understand that unless he makes a
good citizen he cannot expect good
government will also be shrewd
enough to see that unless he makes a
good son he cannot expect harmony in
nis tatner s nouse. .
.TrTrkl
comprehended he will not need to be
told that to make a good husband will
insure the happiness of one woman
and totea gooa lamer wiu ruuuu ui .
his share of the responsibility in the
balance of the universe. He has earned
his right to live, move and have his t
being together with his fellow beings,
for he has successfully learned the dif
ficult art of living together. From
"Why Men Remain Bachelors."
Glories, Glooms and Others.
Are you a glory?
Or are you a gloom?
Or possibly are you a ball of fire?
Most young women, it would seem to
the visitor at Yale university these
days, -fall under one of these three
classifications. "Glory," "gloom" and
"ball of fire" are the very latest words
in the Yale man's up to date vocabu
lary. Just who invented them no one
knows. But their meaning Is clearly
defined and well understood, and their
use around New Haven is well nigh
universal.
If you are a very attractive young
person, you're a glory.
If you are not attractive at all. If you
are rather tactless and 111 tempered
and self conscious and disagreeable,
then, most unfortunately, you are a
gloom.
If you are utterly and irresistibly fas
cinating and pretty and clever and
sweet, you are 'a ball of fire.
"A glory," the Yale chaps explain
"a glory's a peach, you know. A gloom
oh, a girl's a gloom when she's a sort
of lemon, don't you know. And a
ball of fire oh, say, a girl who's a ball
of fire why, she's a regular pippin."
A Frozen Dainty Without a Freezer.
A delicious form of ice cream which
requires no freezer to make it is called
mousse. It is easy to make, and it has
the advantage over the plain cream
and ice in that it does not; need to go
Into the freezer at all, says the De--i
lineator. To make this boil a cupful
of sugar and a cupful of water till they
will thread. Beat stiff the whites of
three eggs and slowly pour the sirup
over, beating steadily. When it is all
In, beat till the whole is cold, then fla
vor, fold in a pint of whipped cream
and put it all in a covered pail and
bury it in a pail of ice and salt for four
hours. This, like the other ices, can be
flavored with coffee or fruits, or it may
be served as it is, with fresh fruits
around the mold, or crushed macaroons
can be put In, or nuts and coloring mat
ter can be added. A pale green mousse
flavored with a little pistache is very
delicate and attractive, especially if
served in glasses on a hot day.
For Insomnia.
The woman who is never tired and
cannot sleep ought to try the German
rest cure. It is a very simple method,
for she is made to work that is all.
If a patient has insomnia, she is set to
sweeping on tne garden waiiis, rasmg
up the cut grass, at all kinds of light
outdoor tasks calculated to make her
phvsically tired. And she does it all
cheerfully, because it Is part of an ex
pensive "cure." She could do it all
just as well at home, of course, but she
never would. So she takes her course
of labor because it is the thing to do.
she is told, and soon, to her great de
light, she finds herself ready for her
healthy sleep at night and generally
quite willing to take a nap in the day
time also.
.- Planting a Violet.
The most beautiful single violet is
the Princess of Wales. It Is large, a
lovely shade of blue and powerfully
and sweetly scented. The stem Is
about twelve inches long. It is very ro
bust and if only one kind of violet Is
planted in the garden choose the Prin
cess of Wales. It is almost as large
as a pansy. The La France violet Is
also a very good one, and some con
slder it equal to the Princess of Wales.
Rugs That Creep.
To keep an art square or Ingrain
rug smoothly on the floor place under
it an old carpet a trifle smaller than
the rug. Tack the corners of the un
der one to the floor if desired. The
upper one will cling to It and keep its
place much better than if laid on the
bare floor.
A Thought
Never permit yourself to comment
unfavorably upon a friend. If you
have a complaint carry It in person to
the Individual concerned. Loyalty is
the life breath of real friendship, and
if there were more loyalty there would
be fewer broken friendships.
A Salad Help.
In making 6alads do not chop your
meats and celery in a chopping bowl.
Cut into the desired sized pieces with
scissors. This is quicker, neater and
cleaner than the old way.
To Stop Hiccough.
For troublesome hiccoughs try a tea-
i spoonful of granulated sugar and three
f vinegar or lemon juice.
mm
notes
C.W.BARMTZ
UrVTRSIDE
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(CORRESPONDENCE
SOLICITED
CHOLERA,
"Chicken cholera" is as great a
liniment is a rural
from a
teller janders."
... snv tw thirds of
neigabors when the other fellow.s
chickens are sick.
But listen. Cholera cannot exist with
frost, so there's your winter cry of
"cholera" done.
Cholera bacilli flourish best in heat
of 85 degrees to 105 degrees, and it re-
quires an exposure of 15 n unutes to j
140 degrees of heat to kill the germ
That's hotter than the red pepper
people prescribe for cholera, so there's
your cayenne cure knocked out. Hot,
I moist weather, corn diet and filth is
j the fatal cholera triumvirate. j
I What seems an epidemic of conta
! irn is not nlwavs so. for a whole flock
may die in a day ,f rom ptomaine poison
caused by eating indigestible or de-:
cayed food. !
Diarrhea, while somewhat like chol- I
era, is seldom contagious and may be
quickly cured if taken in time. Range
birds seldom get it The irregular
feeding and filth make it common to
yarded stock. Kemedy for diarrhea,
sulphocarbolate of zinc, twenty grains
to quart of water.
Tainted ground and lack of exercise
make yard birds easy targets. All
kinds of fowls and birds get the dis
ease, but fat stock are easy marks.
Barred Rocks and other big breeds go
down quick. Of fifteen Rocks and nt
teen White Leghorns exposed in experi
ment one Leghorn died to ten Rocks,
and the other fourteen were little af
fected. Why? Less fat and Leghorn
activity. Hot climate and sandy re
gions have much of the disease. .
SYMPTOMS.
Bird bows head, stands alone; wings
droop; comb changes to white, bluish
purple and black: ruffled plumage; bird
drags feet, becomes ball shaped.
Disease begins with yellow tipped
excrement; then follows Increasing
CHOLERA MICKOBE VICTIM.
diarrhea enveloped in mucus, later
greenish and bloody.
No appetite, full sour crop. Intense
pain, great thirst, temperature rises to
110 degrees.
Half a flock may die in one night or
disease mav run three days. Birds die
in stupor or convulsions.
Dissection shows enlarged soft liver,
red spots on internal organs, lungs and
blood vessels full of clotted blood.
TREATMENT.
Remove well birds to clean quarters,
feed lightly whole oats, mix one pound
Venetian red to the quart of drinking
water, and observe birds closely.
Venetian red is also used for hog
cholera in dose from tablespoonful up
hi milk.
It is nonpoisonous, composed of
Iron, lime and magnesia, and a half
pound kept in the drinking water
through hot months is fine fowl tonic
and sure preventive of cholera and
diarrhea. Keep stricken birds in old
quarters, which should be disinfected
with slaked lime and whitewash,
strong with crude carbolic acid.
Give red water for drink, and to
birds that do not drink give ten grain
capsules of the powder three times a
day.
We have also cured the disease with
operation given for hard crop.
Dead birds and droppings should be
burned. Cholera is often Introduced
by new birds, purchased eggs, by birds
and fowls carrying It in their feathers
and germ dust in the air.
It may be carried on the feet of rats,
cats and attendants and in dead car
casses dragged by dogs. It may be
taken from food, drink and droppings.
The disease may be local or it may be
national, as In 1830. 1850 and 1860.
DONTS.
Don't let your turkeys run in the
barnyard. It causes blackhead. Keep,
them on the green for the "long
green."
Don't aim too high. Too many chicks
hatched for your capacity will do you
both. Don't bite off more chicklets
than you can chew.
Don't expect to be in the limelight
of popularity if you don't use lime
lime for lice and bad smells; lime
water for that bad taste and big head.
Don't fall to get rid of surplus breed
ers and laying stock as the breeding
season nears the end aud slack laying
ana molting approach.
Quick sales,
less feed, more profits.
PREVENTION AND U. ' "
1 We c
once visited a poultryman who
v pointed with pride to a great accumula
tion of bottles, patent poultry nostrum
and prescriptions and exclaimed, "This
is my medicine chest!"
. But with all this his poultry were
always ailing. "' He ' may have been
long on poultry physic, but was very
short on prevention.
The man who is proficient In physio
and prevention need not make a drug
store of his birds. If s much easier
and more profitable to lead your fowls
safely round the precipices of disease
than to get them back after they've
gone over. And how er V) keep Sfcena.
well generally when t r is ft
disease are so well known. I ttaey
are in brief:
Filth, improper ffcjding, -rowdlngk
vermin, dampness, drafts, extreniesof
heat and cold, exposure and egg tonics.
There may seem accidental causes
where diseases are introduced by
strange birds, originate in heredity oc
from floating germs.
But every stranger should be quaran
fined. Only strong stock should be bred
from, and "birds In health and sanitary
environment offer little encouragement
to germs seeking lodgment
Yes, my friend, you are wise to be
prepared for war.
. acquire a
You should accumulate a library or
edge of the symptoms of every known
fowl disease, and you should by your
study, observation and experiment be
able to detect the first symptoms of
disease and make a correct diagnosis:
and have the remedy right there to
cure or the wisdom to see the incurable
and to end it with the ax.
But what does it amount to if you.
Mr. Chicken Doctor, have not learner!
the old lesson that "an ounce of pre
vention Is worth a pound of cure?" A.
physician depends for his living on doc
toring people who are sick, but baa
nothing to do with their getting sick.
A poultryman depends for a living on,
keeping his fowls well and has every
thing to do with their being In health,
or sickness.
If through ignorance of the require
ments his birds are afillcted and he
meets with loss be Is to be greatly i
pitied, but If he sins against knowledge
he deserves no sympathy ana only con-,
demnation.
FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS.
German experts have tested the wai
ter glass egg preservative ana flnai
eggs keep well four years.
You should make a truck for hauling-
your brooders and colony houses from
place to place. The wheels may be
found on a foundry scrap pile; the rest:
you can make yourself.
There is nothing in the statement
that soft feed brings infertile eggs. We
fed one pen nothing but oats, cut bone
greens and soft mash of bran and mlds,
and their eggs were highly fertile.
Your early chicks must not only be
fed well, but they must be kept out of
the wind and rain. We use heavy mat
ting on the wire pens to break the
wind, keep out rain and the hot sun.
If your watchdog went to roost with
the chickens and got the distemper it
certainly shows the scratching litter
was damp enough. Maybe when local
option comes your way you'll keep dry.
Homers in good health carry the
head erect, have a bright clear eye,
and the feathers cling tightly to their
plump bodies. When pigeons loaf and
puff up their feathers, get the louse
gun.
When a thunderstorm threatens to
catch those chicks in a hurry simply
have a piece of raw meat handy. Our
chicks pile over each other for it. and
we gather up a thousand in a few
minutes.
At one time a fresh egg was equal to
a pound of meat. Now scientists say
four eggs do the stunt. But you never
see a gilt edge sign to this effect in
meat markets, and their storage eggs
are equal to anything.
The real causes of leg weakness in
chicks are heavy wings and running on
board floors. To prevent it get them
out on the ground soon as they are
gape proof and clip the wings. Do not:
pull the wing feathers. It is cruel.
When you get brain fag take time
off or you may serve up stale ideas or
have a brain storm. Fresh air and
garden spading, chickens and cherry
tree climbing are preventives. What
are the symptoms and sensations of a
brain jag? Is yours chronic?
Ireland is not only organized for lib
erty, but for poultry culture. Fifteen
thousand dozen of thoroughbred eggs
were distributed last year. The appro
priation for some counties reachea
$5,000. Women are employed to lec
ture on chickens at $45 a month. These
women certainly can lecture.
Los Angeles has the largest pigeon,
plant In the world. Fifty thousand
pigeons, mostly white, are housed
In cotes and a large shed building.
They eat three tons of wheat a day.
What a fluttering and flapping of
white wings as they rise for flight
What a tremendous stir when they re
turn. Your customer kicked on your last
shipment because the dressed chickens
were dark and had a bad odor. Yes.
of course they were fresh and yellow
when you shipped. You cool them too
quickly. By putting them at once
Into ice you drive the animal heat into
the crop and entrails and they ferment
Gradually drive out the animal heat by
three changes of well water before
using ice.
"I am going Into the poultry busi
ness to be my own boss," says one.
Don't get gay, my friend. You'll pad
dle your own canoe against a rock, and
It might be a Plymouth Rock poultry
farm too. The poultryman not only
gets henpecked, has no holidays, can't
blow in money at seashore resorts, but
the business. If done rigth, is the most
exacting boss. A tew atdv issues put
on the varnish.