DAIRY HOTDRUDGERY
Pleasant and Profitable Mien
Properly Handled.
Dairy Products In Most Universal De
mand Second Only to Com
mercial Crop In Importance.
By I. P. Whitney, former Dairymen, Waih
ington Experiment Station.
To thousands of farmers who are
dairying In a small way, the work
connected with the dairy Is classed as
drudgery, and they do It only because
they are forced to do so in order to
make a living for their ramiues. mey
liave no natural liking, for the in
dustry. Therefore, they give it only
such attention as Is absolutely neces
sary, and ninety per cent of them who
fail, or who keep on the margin De
tween success and failure should lay
the blame upon their own neglect of
the advantages offered by the indus
try, rather than to blame the Indus
try Itself.
In contrast to the many who are
unsuccessful, we find in every dairy
Bection a few dairymen who are en
thused with their work, men who
like- the dairy cow, and are willing
to give her a chance. They study the
problems which confront them and
meet them in the best possible way.
These men are always pointed out as
the sucessful dairymen of the com
munity in which they live.
It may be truly said that dairying
is a world-wide industry. No other
foods are used so universally as is
milk and Its products. In the United
States today it stands second to but
one other agricultural industry, the
corn crop. From practically nothing,
viewed from a commercial standpoint,
In thirty years time it has over
shadowed all others, and at its pres
ent rate of development, in another
twenty years, it will stand wltnout
a rival as the greatest of agricultural
industries.
While dairying has made such a
rapid growth and the gross returns
from the sale of dairy products has
increased wonderfully, figures thaw
would indicate the net profits or tne
industry would not be so flattering.
It is true that the price of dairy
products have advanced, tne same is
true regarding the feeds which must
be fed to the dairy cow in order to
produce these products, and at the
present time the average dairy cow
of the country produces only about
enough milk and butter fat to pay
for the feed she eats. This being
.the case, one may wall ask from what
'source are the profits coming to
cause the industry to develop at such
a rapid rate. In many sections of
the country men have robbed the soli
until it would no longer produce crops
at a profit Nature has compelled
them to find some method of restor
ing the fertility to the soil and almost
without exception they have turned
to the dairy cow. She has demon
strated her fitness for this purpose
and the farmer has been satisfied to
keep her for the manure that she
would produce providing she would
produce enough milk and butterfat to
pay for her feed. In other words,
the dairy cow has been kept prim
arily as a fertilizer factory and the
milk, in reality, has been a by-product.
It is then the indirect 'profits
that have caused the great develop
ment of the dairy industry instead of
the direct profits derived from the
sale of milk and its products. Un
doubtedly the dairy cow will always
be in demand for the fertility which
is found in her manure, but it should
not be an excuse for keeping an in
ferior milk' producer. A good dairy
cow will furnish as much fertility in
a year as will a poor one and at the
same time pay a handsome profit at
the pail on the feed which she con
sumes, while the average cow at the
present time, is paying practically
no profit from this source.
A good cow will produce at least
three hundred pounds of butterfat per
year. The average price is about 30c
per pound, 90 for butterfat alone.
Add to this 6,000 pounds of skimmed
milk at 20c per hundred, $10, which
gives $100 as the gross return from
the milk. Subtract from this $C0 for
feed and care, and we still have left
$40 aa Interest on the investment and
as profit. When the dairymen fully
realize the importance of keeping
only good cows and when they rea
lize the profits which may be de
rived from . keeping them, the dairy
Industry is bound to develop much
more rapidly than it ever has in the
past
NOTES FROM THE EXPERIMENT
STATIONS.
R. W. Thatcher, Director of the
Washington Experiment Stations,
eays:
"Corn makes a very profitable for
age crop in most of our northwestern
sections wherever the annual rain
fall is fifteen Inches, or more. If the
annual rainfall exceeds 18 inches,
corn can be grown in rotation with
wheat without seriously diminishing
the yield of wheat the succeeding
year. With less tnan is incnes oi
rainfall the moisture taken by the
corn usually cuts short the supply for
the succeeding wheat crop, a little.
With 15 inches or less, alternate sum
rnerfallowing would probably have to
be practiced with the corn crop the
same as is practiced with wheat
growing. The chief requisite for
successful corn growing under these
conditions is to use seed which has
been acclimated. Corn grown in the
central west states will not mature
here because of the shorter period
between chilling frosts and cool
nights during the summer. We have,
however, several strains of well ac
climated corn which we have devel
oped at the Washington Experiment
Station. Another requisite is thor
ough cultivation for the conservation
of moisture."
"The practice of growing hogs on
alfalfa has been shown to be very
profitable. On alfalfa pasture of
good quality, at least 600 hogs could
be pastured on thirty acres. Alfalfa
seeded in the fall will not give a full
crop the following season, although
on irrigated land, fall seeding may
give a single fairly good cutting the
following season. Fall seeding is not
usually bo satisfactory as spring seed
ing. Young pigs can be grown suc
cessfully on Alfalfa pasture alone
but do not make as profitable
growth as they will if fed some grain
Under present market conditions the
best grain to feed in combination
with alfalfa pasture is a chop made
of equal parts of wheat, oats, and
barley ground together. Ten to 12
pounds of alfalfa seed per acre is
sumcLent, if sown with a grata drill.
If seeded broadcast, fifteen to eigh
teen pounds is usually, necessary in
order to get a uniform stand. Alfalfa
seed sells at 18c to 25c per pound,
depending upon the quality. Gener
ally the higher priced seed is the
cheaper, ' as it carries a much higher
percentage of good seed.
"Logged-off land in western Wash
ington and western Oregon is admir
ably adapted to pasture usage. It is
quite a common practice to seed the
ground between the stumps with
clover, especially white clover, and
in a few months have a splendid
pasture which may be used for a per
iod of years without removing the
stumps. There is considerable diffi
culty in seeding grain under such con:
ditions, however. The adaptability
of such lands to the growing of catr
tie, therefore, depends upon the place
which pasturage may occupy in the
growth of the animals and this in
turn is determined largely by the oil
matlc conditions. There is no ques
tion whatever but that such pasture
lands are admirably adapted to dairy
cows and growing young stock. It Is
my opinion that hogs may be very
profitably grown under such condl
tions, suplementlng the pasturage
with little grain which can be either
grown : or purchased. '
"Canada field peas have been culti
vated very successfully all over
eastern Washington where the rain
fall is 15 inches or more both for
forage and for green manure. It Is
possible to get a growth of as much
as three tons per acre of air dry
material to be plowed under as green
manure and field peas are much bet
ter for this purpose than alfalfa, be
cause they make their growth and
are ready to plow under within about
one hundred days, whereas alfalfa
requires at least two years to get in
good shape to plow under. Canada
field peas should be seeded at the
rate of about one and one-half bush
els per acre on dry land, the ground
being first plowed and well harrowed
then the peas seeded with a grain
drill in order to set them three or
four inches under the ground. They
can be seeded by sowing them broad
cast on the ground and than plowing
them under with a very shallow plow,
but this method does not conserve
the moisture as the other process
outlined."
FASHION HINTS
rfT" V
Black and white striped chiffon cloth
is used for this dressy 'suit" waist. The
special feature about it is the one-sided
revere of velvet, reaching from neck to
Waist. White chiffon cloth is used fur
vest and ruffle.
Fats of a Speeder.
Gunner Blgwood, the millionaire,
started oft for a banquet, and waa ar
rested for speeding.
Guyer Then he wasn't wined and
toasted.
Gunner No; Instead he waa fined
and roasted.
Automobile Lunches.
A man who detests what he calls
picnic food otherwise the cold food
usually eaten at luncheon time when
motoring; haa hit upon a plan by
which it is posalble to have hot
lunches when stranded far from home.
Glass Jars are Wled with hot soup,
coffee, chocolate, or any desired bev
erage, another contains hot chicken
terrapin, lobster newburg. creamed
crab, dried beef, or any dish that can
be prepared ahead of a meal.
The Jars are then put in by the en
gine of the motor, and when wanted
are found to be aa hot and delicious
Dressing a Fowl.
When you kill a bird for the family
dinner, place the care a? s after dress
ing In cold water, so as to allow the
animal heat to escape. Then put in a
cool place, allowing the muscles to
relax, and It la ready for culinary op
eration a.
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DOINGS OF OREGON
Salem, Jan. 28. Conspiracy on
the part of a number of members of
the house of representatives to pre
vent a session today was followed thia
morning by issuance of warrants for
the arrest by the sergeant-at-arms and
an assistant, of seven missing Multno
mah county representatives and any
others he might find in Portland.
The action taken this morning was
approved by'.the 37 members who gath
ered in the assembly hall and who
found that they lacked three of a
quorum. It is the first time since the
famous "hold-up ' session of 1897 that
such a course has been followed.
Good roads won a third victory in
the senate yesterday when the bill pro
viding the method for bond issues by
counties making effective an amend
ment to the constitution adopted by the
people last Novemer, was passed by a
vote of 20 to 8.
Only one other good roads measure
is left pending in the senate. This is
the bill which provides for working
city and county prisoners on the roads,
senate bill 72, which was found to be
improperly printed and had to be sent
back to the printer.
Senator Joseph a naval militia bill,
which continues the organization al
ready formed and restains the present
officers in command, went through the
senate yesterday with 21 affirmative
votes and seven in the negative. Al
though Barrett of Washington made a
hard fight for his bill reducing the li
cense for country peddlers, the senate
yesterday turned down the bill by 16
to 11. The bill would have cut the li
cense for peddlers on foot from $25 k
$10, one horse and wagon from $100 to
$25 and made the rate for two horses
or auto $50, instead of $150 for two
horse ancLwagons and $300 for auto
mobiles. Salem, Ore., Jan. 27. With only
ten dissenting votes, the house to
day passed Buchanan's bill abolish
ing the whipping post. By the pro
visions of the bill, wife-beating is
made punishable In the same manner
as other aggravated cases of assault
and battery. The debate on the bill,
which was defeated in the legisla
ture two years ago, was brief. Bu
chanan argued that the law was a
blur on the statute books of the!
state, while its enforcement did not
deter any man from beating his wife.
Recommendations that the house
joint memorial to congress asking for
$250,000 for the Roseburg federal
building and a memorial asking for
the passage of Hawley's bill in con
gress for the support of the Indian
war veterans, received favorable con
sideration in the senate today.
A move for a joint committee be
tween Oregon and California to pass
on game laws and a re olution for a
statement of increasing and continu
ing appropriations were given un
favorable' consideration by the com
mittee.
The house today defeated Bige-
low's bill; authorizing the governor
by special proclamation to create
bird and .game refuges on state or
private lands. This measure was ob
jected to from fear that the game
warden, in recommending the crea
tion of these refuges, might trespass
too much on the privileges now en
joyed by sportsmen.
Civil war veterans will continue to
pay the required peddler's license,
the bouse today killing by indefinite
postponement Representative Jones'
bill exempting old soldiers from the
operation of this statute.
Salem, Or., Jan. 26. Place all con
victs on the roads when not needed
for other purposes at the State Pen
itentiary and create a State Highway
Commission. These are the moves
carried in two bills that passed the
senate this afternoon after a pro
longed fight.
Something of the conflict was pre
saged when McCulloch of Baker, ob
jected to creation of a State Highway
Commission, as Joseph's Senate Bill
N. 42 came ud for consideration.
This bill was passed upon favorably
by the sena.'e, Tuesday, while sitting
as a committee of the whole to hear
the pleas of men representing 300
leading Portland citizens. Then only
eight votes were recorded against it.
Passage of the measure was thought
to be comparatively easy today until
unexpected opposition appeared.
McCulloch declared that from the
sagebrush country in Eastern Oregon
there had come down the line the
word that they do not want the High
way Commission, and that he would
be compelled to vote against It.
Rigid and thorough investigation
of the affairs and management of the
Oregon State Insane Asylum was
ordered by both the senate and the
house in resolutions adopted today.
The senate adopted a resolution
providing for' a committee of five
members, three from the house and
wo from the senate, while the house
provided for a special committee of
ve of its own members to conduct
the inquiry.
Both resolutions instruct the Inves
tigating committee to make a report
of their findings to the legislature
prior to adjournment.
Unless the two houses get together
and decided on a joint committee it
Is possible an investigation may be
conducted by two separate commit
tees, i
Oil Painting of Two Asked.
Salem, Or, Jan. 26. Through the
adoption of a house concurrent reso
lution, introduced by the resolutions
committee, the house today approved
the purchase hy the state of oil
portraits of ex-Governor Benson and
ex-Acting-Governor Bowerman, to be
exhibited in either the huse or sen
ate chambers. The resolution (toes
to the senate for Its favorable ac
Iton' before the paintings will be or
dered.
STATE LEGISLATURE
Salem, Or., Jan. 25. Sale of the
state pilot schooner San Jose was au
thorized by the house yesterday af
ternoon. The bill presented by Leln
enweber of Clatsop, was unanimously
passed after the author had explained
that the ship was a dead weight upon
tne nands of the pilot commission.
Clatsop county now awaits only the
signature of the governor to sanction
the proposed two and a half mill tax
to raise funds for the Astoria centen
nial celebration. Senate bill No. 61,
authorizing the tax, was approved by
tne bouse, following: brief emlana-
tions by Representatives Lelnenweber
and Belland of Clatsop.
The proposal to construct a bridge
across the Columbia river at Portland
to connect Oregon and Washington,
which was killed at the last session,
has been revived. BIgelow of Mult
nomah presented a resolution in the
house, appropriating $5000 for an in
vestigation by the state engineer to
learn whether or not the project is
feasible. The bridge would form a
connecting link for the proposed Pa
cific highway between the two states.
Peterson of Umatilla withdrew
house bill No. 49, permitting any per
son to serve summons in a legal ac
tion. Members of the revision of
laws committee refused to aprove it
on the grounds that it might be used
as a medium of fraud by unscrupu
lous persons.
House bill No. 142, making oral evl
dence admissible In a case of obtain
ing money on false pretenses, was
killed, following an unfavorable com
mittee report.
BIgelow of Multnomah presented a
resolution asking the five Multnomah
county circuit judges to appear be
fore the committee on judiciary and
discuss the bill to increase the bench
to seven.
Abrams of Marlon would have, the
government set aside 30,000 acres in
the Klamath Indian reservation and
Crater Lake national forest for perm
anent use as grounds for maneuvers
of the United States troops and mil
itia. Salem, Or., Jan. 24. Although both
houses of the legislature worked In
dustriously this morning, little was
accomplished, beyond the passage of
a few bills of little .general import
ance. The good roads enthusiasts will
have their innings in the senate this
afternoon, the bills on that subject
being made a special order.
A new resolution calling for an in
vestigation of affairs at the state in
sane asylum was introduced by Dim
Ick In the senate and went to com
mittee. It directs particular inquiry
as to the number of employes and the
necessity for their employment and
gives power to compel attendance of
witnesses for taking of testimony on
all phases of the situation.
Verbal clashes of rival interests
came last night in committee meet
ings over the sailors' boarding house
bill, the eight-hour bill and the naval
militia bill. The latter will come
from the senate committee with a
provision retaining present officers of
the reserve in office.
The senate passed one bill and kill
ed another this morning, but the ses
sion was featureless. Committees are
slow in reporting out their bills. The
house passed four bills.
The legislature was stormed today
by 300 Oregon advocates of the Good
Roads movement. Two-hundred came
from Portland ujglng that Multnomah
county, by the terras of the five high
ways bills framed by the Oregon
Good Road3 association, i3 presenting
the state with road making funds for
the direct benefit of every other
county but with indirect benefit, only
to -business interests.
Salem, Jan. 23. Numerous bills to
hedge in officials at state institutions.
resolutions calling for investigation
of state establishments from separate
Investigations of the asylum and the
office of Insurance commission to a
resolution, sweeping in its nature
and covering all of the state institu
tions and officials, were features In
both houses today.
They marked a continuance of the
sentiment which has been expressed
forcibly that lavish expenditure and
extravagance have marked the con
duct of affairs at the asylum and
that there is a possibility of further
instances of this being unearthed at
other institutions.
Senator Wood introduced several
bills covering state institutions.
They have as their end in view the
complete elimination of possibility of
future deficiencies and would change
the present system of expending pub
lic money for public institutions.
Dimlck introduced a bill requiring
that the secretary of state shall make
a personal inspection of every vouch
er drawn and every warrant paid and
that such shall be signed by him per
sonally.
One of Woods bills makes it un
lawful for any trustee or officer of
any state institution to allow a de
ficiency to be created. Such de
ficiency, the bill recites, must be re
paid personally by the trustee re
sponsible or by his bondsrten. An
other of Woods bills provides that
no warrant shall be drawn by the
secretary of state unless an appro
priation has been made therefor, nor
shall any account bo audited and or
dered paid unless the appropriation
covering the same has not been ex
hausted. To Reform Judicial System.
Salem, Jan. 24. Planning compre
hensive reform of the Judicial system
of the state, which Is generally re
garded as having been made easy by
the adoption of sweeping amendments
to the constitution at the last elec
tion, Senator Wood has introduced a
bill for the appointment of a com
mittee to devise a new Judicial act
to cover the entire field of Jury sys
tem and courts. The bill calls for
a commission of 30 members.
COAST APPLE MEN COMBINE
Growers, of Northwest Meet at Port
land Committees Named.
Portland. Representing an aggre
gate capital of $50,000,000, invested in
apple orchards and an output of 10,-
000 cars yearl, having a value of
from $6,000,000 to $8,000,000, more
than 100 applegrowers from Oregon,
Washington and Idaho gathered In the
Y. M. C. A. auditorium for the pur
pose of forming a National selling
agency of sufficient breadth and width
to control and dispose of the apples
produced in the three states men
tioned.
A committee of 15 was appointed
at the close of the day's work to
prepare a working plan for the con
sideration of the convention tomor
row morning.
Leading apple culturlsts from the
three states took part in the proceed
ings. Ex-Governor Miles C. Moore, of
Washington; Judge Fremont Wood,
of Boise, Idaho; Miles Cannon, of
Welser, Idaho; E. C. Benson, of Pros-
ser, Wash., ex-president of the Wash
ington State Horticulture Society; C
E. Whisler, of Medford, representing
the Rogue River Fruit and Produce
Association; H. C. Atwell, c-f Forest
Grove, Or., president of the Oregon
State Horticultural Society; J. N.
Stone, of Milton, Or.; H. C. Richards,
of North Yakima, Wash.; A. P. Bate-
man, of Mosier, Or., and C. H. Sproat,
of Hood River, Or., were among the
more active spirits of the enterprise.
The only opposition to the plan
proposed came from the pessimistic
tone that prevailed through the tais
of E. H. Shepherd, editor of Better
Fruit, published at Hood River. Al
though the discussion lasted through
out the day and the speakers were
numerous, Mr. Shepherd could' not
see the light as advanced by the
more hopeful in the plan of creating
a central distributive agency for the
output He maintained that there
was no way for an organization at
least he had heard of no plan which
would equalize the values between
the apples produced In the various
districts. He was certain that there
was no chance for over-production.
That he regarded as a bug-a-boo cre
ated by the railroads and the press.
All Government statistics," said
the speaker, "that I have been able to
get hold of, all the information that
I have gathered and all of the inter
views with old-time nursery men go
to show that over-production is im
possible, in apples at least. There is
no such a thing as over-production In
this country in any food product
There may be faults of distribution
for a continuous number of years
that 'has never occurred and cannot
occur in any known food product."
Regardless of Mr. Shepherd's views,
the applegrowers continued in their
deliberations and appointed the fol
lowing committee to draft a plan: H.
W. Otis, of Wenatchee, Wash.; H. C.
Sproat, of Hood River; H. C. Lamb,
of Milton, Or.; John Forbis, of Port
land; C. F. Whisler, of Medford, Or.;
A. P. Bateman, of Mosier, Or.; Miles
Cannon, of Weiser, Idaho; C. L.
Smith, of Lewiston, Idaho; Will F.
Ritz, of Walla Walla, Wash.; W. M
Nelson, of North Yakima, Wash.;
George C. Eaton, of Granger, Wash.;
C. H. Clark, of Wenatchee, and G. H.
Sprague, of Cashmere, Wash.
The convention was called to order
by President Atwell, of the Oregon
State Horticultural Society, Frank W.
Power, of Portland, was made sec
retary. A committee on credentials
was selected and they made a report
in the afternoon. The call of the
convention specified that the object
of the meeting was to form a co-oper
ative Belling agency and to provide
some means for apple box legisla
tion. Suggestions were tendered as
to the best plan of procedure and
discussion disclosed the fact that the
appointment of a committee should
be made to work out a plan,
C. E. Whisler took the lead in the
debate and contended that the diffi
culties of the undertakine were, first.
f the method of establishing grades
and, second, what should be done
with regard to the division of the re
ceipts of the selling agency. Should
there be a "jack-pot" created, as the
speaker called it, in which all should
be given an equal share of the pro
ceeds, or should values be placed
upon the apples of each district and
division of the receipts be placed on
this basis? In this debate George
Aggers, of White Salmon; A. F. Hell
Inwell, of White Salmon; J. G. Tate,
of Hood River; C. B. Clark, of Wen
atchee; J. N. Stone, of Milton; W. K.
Newell, of Gaston; C. L. Dick, of Sa
lem, and others took part
Jap Socialists Hang.
Toklo. Disregarding a stream of
protests from all over the world, the
Japanese government wiped out by
means of the gallows tie lives of
Denjiro Kotoku, his mistress, Surga
Kanno, and 10 other Japanese Social
ists convicted in secret sessions of
the court, of having conspired against
the life of the mikado. The hanging
of the 12 victims of .the government's
fear of. Socialism began at 9 o'clock
In the morning in the central prison
and the trap was not sprung for the
last one until 1 p. m.
Nation to Hide Paroles.
Washington. Men who have their
paroles from Federal prisons here
after will step back into the world to
begin life anew unadvertised and
without the limelight of publicity.
Attorney-General Wickersham and
Robert W. Ladow, chairman of the
parole board, have decided that pub
licity In -such cases helps to defeat
the object of the parole law.
Gaynor's Foe In Prison.
New York. James J. Gallacher.
who shot Mayor Gaynor and Street
Commissioner Edwards on a steam
ship on a dock at Hoboken last Au
gust was taken to the New Jersey
3t tHon to serve 12 yean at
hard labor. ,i . A
T FOR PEOPLE
President Tafl Takes Firm Stand
For Cheaper Living.
Absolute Silence Is Hia Only Answer
To All Pleas For a Change
Of Attitude.
Washington. Embarrassed is a
mild word to define the predicament
in which members of Congress have
found themselves since President
Taft submitted his proposition for a
reduction in the cost of living through
the medium of reciprocity with Can
ada. High protectionists, confident of the
sympathy of the Executive, have not
hesitated to go to the White. House
with predictions that the party will
be disrupted if the program is in
sisted upon. Insurgent Republicans,
many of whom have become unac
customed to visit the White House at
all, have been uursuing a policy of
silence.
While some of them are ready to
admit that the proposed agreement is
in line with the tariff arguments,
thtey fear to adopt it lest they bring
upon their heads the wrath of agri
culturists.
President Taft Is said to be about
the only one who is showing no con
cern about the situation. He is said
to have met all arguments against
the agreement with a determination
to disregard mere political objec
tions, whether they come from stand
patters or insurgents.
He believes that what he has rec
ommended is right, and he has maae
it clear that so long as he continues
so to believe, he cannot be dissuaded
from using every force at his com
mand to promote legislation to put
the agreement into operation.
That President Taft realized fully
what arguments would be advanced
by protectionists against freedom of
tariff realatlons with Canada is prov
ed by the ways and means committee
of the house, or the finance commit
tee of the senate, was apprised in
advance as to what articles would be
affected by the agreement.
His consultations were had exclus
ively with the Government trade ex
perts and only such of those as were
believed to be beyond political influ
ence. In nothing he has done since
he has been President, has Mr. Taft
displayed so independent a spirit.
Progressive Republicans are de
riving some comfort from the fact
that Senator Aldrich and Speaker
Cannon and others of the "old guard"
apparently were as much in the dark
as any one else about the President's
plans.
RATS MAY PROVE MENANCE.
Physician Sees Danger of Plague In
Rodent-Infested Ships.
Chicago. "Until all ships coming
to the United States from plague
infested China are stopped outside
the harbors of ports of entry and the
rats aboard absolutely destroyed.
America will continue to be in grave
danger of a death-dealing plague, in
every way as bad as that now raging
In the Orient."
This warning is sounded by Dr.
G. Frank Lydston, professor of gen-ito-urinary
surgery at the University
of Illinois, well known writer and
one of Chicago's best known phy
sicians. Dr. Lydston personally in
vestigated the second epidemic of
bubonic plage in Australia a few
years ago, and is one of the best in
formed men on the subject in the
country.
"The rat flea plague of all types is
essentially a Chinese disease," said
Dr. Lydston. "If the plague is of a
particularly virulent type, as I un
dertsand is the case in this present
Chinese plague, and if the resistance
of the victim is low, the victim dies
before the glands, which are really
protective barriers against poisons ia
the blood, have a chance to react.
This accounts for the lack of visible
bubonic symptoms in this Chinese
plague."
Strike Halts Passover.
New York. The output of un
leavened bread, eaten over all the
world by orthodox families during
the feast of the Passover, is tied
up by a general strike of the Matzo
bakers here.
The strike went into effect ai or
ders were pouring in from distant
cities for the passover supply. New
lork is the center of the Matzo
trade. Strike leaders say 1000 bak
ers are Involved in the strike which
is for higher wages.
Floods Block Trains.
Los Angeles. Traffic on the Coast
line of the Southern Pacific la ser
iously offected as the result of flood
conditions in the northern part of
Santa Barbara County. The reports
received at the local offices of the
Southern Pacific are to the effect
that the tracks have been covered
with debries at the Mud flats west of
Gaviota. The track is reported to
be intact but it wjll take Beveral
hours to clear it
Jamaica Wants 1915 Fair.
Kingston. Jamaica. The Jamaica
chamber of commerce Is directing a
proposal to recommend to the Gov
ernment the holding of a big exposl
tlon here in 1915. coincident with the
formal opening of the Panama Canal.
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