Photographs From the British Coal Strike Regions
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BETTER PRODUCTION AND BIGGER
PROFITS FOR GROWERS OF WOOL
BACK-YARD FOWLS WILL PAY
St. Louis Woman Writes Department
of Agriculture o f Her Success
With Hsn Flock,
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(P rep a red by the U nited S ta tes D epar*
m ent o f A g ricu ltu re .)
New Field Museum Is Opened
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¡states I>epurtnieiit of Agriculture has
encouraged the keeping of u poultry
(lock in the city back yard as one of
the test menus of cutting the high
coat of living.
When |> ■ ;>• r care has la .si given
the Hock the results In most instances
h.iie
II Very g nlifj ng. A Woliiuh
living lu St. Louis recently wrote the
department concerning the success that
attended the efforts.
“I hear people say hen’s don't pay.
hut surely they cannot have kept ac
counts and records. I have had a small
Those seenos from the British coal Mock of 114 liens lu my city hack-yard
strike rrflona show recruits for the since the government urged us to get
citizens' defence force III front of u into the game three years ago. The
London barracks; striking miners I following are the results for the year
carrying the red (lug In a parade at ! ending October 31, llrgl): My entire
Castleford, Yorkshire, ami Lord Bled I feed hill, the grain being bought ut
soe nf work ns a volunteer stoker to retail, amounted to $(¡«.74.
keep the pumps going In a Gloucester
“My entire egg production was 3,603
shire colliery.
eggs, or 300% dozens, the retail mar
ket value of which, taken from month
to month, was $ 180.30. Deducting
RU LERS O F OUR NAVY
$60.74 from the above $189.30 leaves
me a net protit of $U£!.od for uiy
work and Investment.
“ We used all the newdy laid eggs
we wished for our own table aud the
balance went to our neighbors, who
are i ore thun anxious to get them
even ut top store prices. The last lk
monti s, when fi-ed was unusually
high, the cost of egg production aver
aged kl’ >4 cents per dozen, uml the
lowest market price for eggs was In
May and June, when they sold for 50
cents per dozen.
“ I will add that all our hens are
leg handed and trap-nested. The hen
house Is eight feet square and the
hens are confined nil the year round
to n run eight feet wide and 50 feet
long. Starting In August I begin
culling and killing the older ones and
the poorest layers which have a rec-
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The new mid henutlful home of the Field Museum of Chicago, In (¡runt
park, was opened recently, with alt the exhibits and collections properly In
stalled. The Illustration shows Stanley Field hull, the main corridor of the
lauseum building.
Gift That Touched Gen. Pershing
Secretary of the Navy Denby and
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt talking
In Mr. Deu by'a office In the new navy
building In l’otomuc park.
MISS BELLE SK IN N ER
Gratifying Results Can Be Obtained
From Small Flock if Given
Proper Care and Feed.
ord of 15 eggs or less per month, and
In October I renew the flock by add
ing one dozen nt>w spring pullets.
These pullets now. In November, are
nil laying mid will continue hiving
through the winter, while my older
tuns get through molting.
"Keeping the hens and surroundings
scrupulously clean and feeding a bal-
sneed ration at regular Intervals la
the secret of success with a hack-yard
flock.”
HOW TO BREAK BROODY HENS
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Confine Them In Small Coop, {laised
Off Ground, Preferably With a
Slatted Bottom.
■Id.eis who le.t their sight during Ihc World war, and who are now llv-
i an estate In Baltimore recently went to Washington to present General
lug with a hand woven hammock which they had made for him In token
r love and c m , cm. General I'crstilng was deeply touched by the prsaeti-
Chicago Family Has Close Call
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A family of seven fl*d In panic down a »hukj rear stairway on West Mad
ison street, Chicago, and c ..j . .1 death by a few aeevi ds As they reached the
back yard, the building they I d Just left collapsed. The building was I? two.
Story brick structure, l i e ra n 1« believed to have s o ft e n e d the ground be
neath the east wall o f the building where an ex nation had rx|M>sed It.
Miss Relic Skimiei •■( New York
photographed as she sailed for France
to supervise tin- reconstruction of the
ruined French town of Itntton chapel
The work, she says, will take about
two years. Miss Skinner was recent
ly made a tnetiilier of the French Le
gion o f Honor for her war relief work.
When lions become broody they
Should be "broken up" ns quickly ns
possible. The sis.tier this Is done, the
sooner they will resume laying. To
break a hen of broodlneaa, she should
lie confined to a small coop raised off
the ground, preferably with a slat bot
tom. Give her plenty of water to
drink; she may be fed or not, as de
sired. Not much difference will t>e
found In the time required to break
her of hroodlaes», whether she Is fed
or made to fast, say poultry special
ists of the United States Department
of Agrlt ulture.
Usually from three to six tlsys' con
finement will break her. but some hens
require ten to twelve days. The broody
hen will ly re 'VtiDed by 1 er Inclina
tion to stay on the nest at nlglit, the
ruffling of her feathers and her picking
at anyone who approaches her, and by
the clucking noise she makes. The fact
that her broodiness has been “broken
up" can be recognised by the disap
pearance of these symptoms.
To Make It Even.
In a front-line trench, not many
yards from the German lines, a dusky
doughboy with a mighty grievance and
two African flcldpleces was Just start
ing to reach a distant point In the
shortest length of time when hauled
hack by his sergeant.
“ Yon a "i< to i le boy?" Inquired
the latter. "Whah you all gwlne whl
■ letiv «havin' regaliaT”
“ la-ave me be sergeant," retorted
the doughboy. “ Ah'a gw Ine back to
find dat big Unmmnn what hit me In
le ha Id whl a Iron potato and Ah'»
gwlne to cut h'm down to mnh atre— AVOID ROUP-INFECTED EGGS
den bus' him In de motif—dat's all."—
American l egion Weekly.
Select Eggs From Flock Which Has
Not Been Infected Wherever It
Distant Acquaintance.
Is Possible.
"Handle that horse! Don't let him
handle yon !" bellowed the sergeant ts
It Is not advisable to set eggs from a
the cavalry rookie Ju«t receiving hit flock that has been infected with roup.
first les«en "Give him your spur*. If at all possible, by all nicana select
hatching egg» from another flock which
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"I can't get close enough to him!" has not been so Infected or from hetia
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Keeping tha Fleece Intact Is One of the Thinge Graders for Co-Operative
Pools Have Emphasized With the Growtrra.
(P rep a red b y the U nited S ta tes D ep a rt
m en t o f A g ricu ltu re.)
of their fleeces were thrown into the
burry class. But In each case the
grader has been able to show them
by careful examination that the con
demned fleeces contained large num
bers of burs—sometimes 50 or 60.
Every such experience has sent the
grower back to his farm resolved to
“clean up those burs.” “ Next year
you'll see an Improvement in my
wool," more than oue man has told
the grader.
It Is experiences like these that are
making wool growers In nuiny sections
of the country realize that they have
not been getting the full returns for
their product. They see that the co
operative system not only lessens the
cost of handling, ami so benefits both
buyer and seller, but that the grading
which Is an essential feature of the
system permits them to better meet
market demands. “ It Is a case of ‘how,
when, and where,'" say the market
ing specialists. The system which has
had such a promising beginning In
Missouri and other slates enables the
producer to grow the kind of wool
most desired and to sell It In the
form desired; It enables him to hold
his wool until the best marketing
time arrives, and through a large or
ganization he Is able to sell his wool
to the buyer who makes the most sat
isfactory offer. He Is not at the mer
cy of any one buyer.
The bureau o f markets Is prepared
to furnish Information to any person
Interested In learning more about co
operative wool marketing as well ns
co-operative marketing In numerous
other fields In which success has been
equally pronounced.
They are being “ shown” down In
Missouri—and they like It.
For the first time the wool growers
of that state have been marketing
their wool co-operatively, and the plan
Is proving u great success. At 70
centralization points the wool has
been brought in from the country for
pooling. All told, several thousand
growers have shared In the big co
operative movement and wool amount
ing to millions of pouuds has been
handled. In each case It has been
graded as the growers brought It In,
an expert grader supplied to the hu-
renu o f markets. United States De
partment of Agriculture, classifying
the fleeces. The work of the grader
Is part of an Investigation being car
ried on by the bureau In connection
wlrh a study of the tentative wool
grades which the Department of Agri
culture hus recently established.
It Isn't so much the Immediate In
crease in money returns resulting from
co-operative marketing that Interests
these growers—although they promise
to fure as well or better than the aver
age In this year's market, which ts far
from normal—hut It is the benefit they
expect to derive next year and the
years following from their experience
of this season.
The “ showing” In Missouri—and
elsewhere—has consisted in demon
strating the value of grading as car
ried on under the co-operative plan.
The growers have been quick to see
their mistakes and propose not to re
peat them. As a result, the entire
wool Industry Is to profit by a gen
eral raising of stundurds among the
growers.
ACCOUNT OF FARM BUSINESS
Amazing Variety of Wrappers.
The seemingly incidental—but real Memorandum of Various Items Will
ly very Important—matter of wrapping
Prove Valuable When Calculating
the fleece Illustrates the benefits of co
Profit and Lose
operative wool marketing. Due of the
regulations which must be observed, If
In making n record of the farm
the wool grower Is to suffer no penal business, the Item of labor Income
ty when his wool Is graded. Is thut [ cannot be determined accurately with-
each fleece shall be wrapped in pa j out some system of accounting. Rome
per twine or a hard glazed twine. If farmers will require accounts showing
other twine Is used fibers from It are the amounts expended for labor, oth
almost sure to become mixed Into the ers on the amount paid for feed, and
wool and may cause serious trouble still others on the amount received for
iti the spinning machinery, or If these crops sold. A memorandum of such
fibers are woven Into fabric they be Items will prove valuable when the
come conspicuous owing to the fact time comes to calculate the year's
thnt they take the dye differently than business. The matter of farm ac
the wool fibers. This often results In counting. according to the socialists
the doth having such defects as to be who have studied the problem for the
almost worthless.
United Slates Department of Agricul
Many wool growers had never un ture, Is not dependent upon any par
derstood this until It was explained to ticular form or blank book—the real
them by the grader, consequently some secret of success lies In knowing what
of the lots of wool brought Into the accounts to keep and how to make
warehouses were done up In ways use o f them. Farmer's Bulletin 681
that would lm\e been amusing had it suggests the sort of accounts most
not meant considerable financial loss needed.
to the uninformed growers.
Some
used hinder twine und sisal, others
RULE FOR BORROWING MONEY
bark, smooth wire, and 1strbed wire,
and still others cotton rugs torn In
Farmer Should Make Sure That Pur.
strips. The majority, of course, had
pose Will Return Greater Re
their fleeces tied with the proper
turn Than the Deb*.
materials.
It . id* .daily the bureau 5f markets
Farm credit Is a good agency la the
explains that Missouri Is not alone In
hands ot mose farmers who know how
the matter of lielng “shown," since
to nan It. but it Is a dangerous element
wool growers In all sections of the
i of farm business if Its nature and
country have discovered that they
h - e * en followii ; practices that ! purpose Is not fully understood. An
[ unproductive enterprise Is not a safe
often seriously penalized them.
basis on which to borrow money un-
“ No More Wet Wool for Me."
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Rut the use o f proper wrapping ma portant that the enterprise shall be
terial Is not the only thing which the productive than that the rate of ln-
co-operative wool growers are learn I terest at which one can borrow money
ing. “ Shear the sheep when the wool I he high or low. Farm-credit speclal-
Is absolutely dry,” say the Ib-partment | irts of the United States Department
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■>f Agriculture lay down one es-entlal
where. Rut many growers apparently j rule to he followed by the farmer who
do not know of this requirement. One proposes to borrow money : Make sure
grader In Missouri was amazed to find ' that the purpose for which the bor
all of the wool In a certain lot thor rowed money Is to be used will pro-
oughly soaked. Dressed for an ex j duce a return greater than is needed
planation the grower admitted that he to pay the debt.
did not know that moisture made any
difference In the grade, but realized
that moisture added to the weight. DRILLING RYE FOR PASTURE
When asked how he could account for
the condition of hi.« fleece, he admit Practice Not Generally Followed Be
ted that he had allowed hla load of
cause of Poo^ Reeu'te— Fallen
wool to stand In the creek all night
Corn Often Impedes
When he discovered that this was re
sponsible for his wool being, rejected
Theoretically, the drilling o f rye In
he took the decision smilingly and corn for late fall and early spring pas
with a “ Never again!" drove away.
ture should glTe very good results.
Burs Cause Trouble.
Biit as a matter of practice this plsn
One class of “rejects" In wool grad Is very little followed. Perhaps it Is
ing Is known a« "burry." Many farm ! because the corn Is oftentimes down
ers have become Indignant when some 1 so badly that drilling Is difficult
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