The Great Outdoors
Livestock,
D a iry Products. Berries, F ru it,
“ The F arm er Feedeth A ll.”
PALATABILITY OF
VARIOUS PLANTS
Grains.
leaves a solution o f'arsen ate o f lead
and hordeaux m ixture is effect!va.
BUSINESS BASIS IN
SELECTION OF FARM
Some Interesting Information
Many Serious Errors Made by
Revealed in Series of Feed
Young Men in Moving.
ing Tests at Beltsville.
SHO FERMENTATION STUDIED
W ild and Tam e 8unflow ert D e v u re d
Readily When Removed From-Si'o—
Cabbages W ere
Untouched
by C attle When Siloed.
(Prepared by the United State» Depart
m ent of Agriculture.)
A aeries o f experimental feeding
teats conducted by the United States
Departm ent of Agriculture at its
Beltsville (M d .) live-stock farm , re
vealed gome interesting information
as to the effect of siloing upon the
p ala ta h illty of various plants found
on a farm or range.
D u rin g the last summer and fn'l
about 150 different plants anti com
binations of plants were packed in
barrels in a silo. The purpose was
to study the effect o f the silo fe r
mentation upon the tiller, and other
features of the plants. I t was thought
possible that silage would overcome
objectionable
qualities
of
certain
plants, in addition to breaking down
the fiber of some which were too
woody fo r stock feed.
Test Palatahillty.
T h e various lots o f silages were
taken to Beltsville to test their
palatahillty as cattle feed. The tests
were not protracted enough to give
final conclusions, but a number of In
teresting results were obtnlned. Both
wild and tame sunflowers were eaten
readily when they came out of the
•Ho, although the peculiar flavor and
woody stalk of the form er make It
distasteful In Its natural state. Rus
sian thistle was eaten In the course
of about 12 hours, and the same wn«
true of ragweed, which cattle seldom
touch In the Held. Canada thistles
and castor bean plants without seed
were eaten quite readily. Jack bean
Tines and pods were eaten rather
reluctnntly. The cows ate siloed Aus
fra ila n salt bush, hut not the natlv>
plant. Siloed onion tops were fed to
fou r cows: two n*e them and two
refused them.
Buckwheat also pro
vlded a choice morsel.
Cabbage -
which in th eir natural state are
eaten avidly by cattle, were absolute
ly untouched when siloed, the prod
uct being In many respects similar
to sauer krau t hut w ithout the sail
Olant rye grass woe, u nto,id ed.
Cattle Fed RWjular Rations.
T h e cattle were not compelled to
eat any of the siloed products to
satisfy hunger, a« hay was ted then
i
A Silo F illin g Crew at Labor Gather
log Corn— Sled Type of Cutter Is
In Use and Corn Is Carried Directly
to Wagon.
Know Only One Set of Conditions
and Are Not Able to Weigh Ac
curately All New Factors
T hat Must Be Considered.
( P r e p a r 'd
by th e U n ite d S ta te s D e p a r t
m e n t o f A g rK u ltu rv .)
Many farmers, especially the youn-
er men In moving from one region to
another, make serious errors in select
ing far.us, not because their Judgment
is naturally poor, but largely because
they know only one set of conditions
and are not tibie to weigh accurately
all the new factors that must be
takeu into account, say specialists
o f the United Slutes Departm ent of
Agriculture.
Here the science of
farm management Is helpful, in that
from
the funu-iunnugement
vlew-
luilnt the farm Is put on a business
bads.
In doing this, however, the home
side of the question must always be
kept iu tuind. The farm home and
the farm business are Inseparable. A
desirable farm , from
a
business
standpoint. Is nevertheless undesir
able If it has no social or community
advantages. On the other hand, desir
able living conditions are of little or
no advantage unless accompanied by
a successful farm business.
A farm may have fine buildings,
good w ater supply, excellent roads,
and other such assets, yet I f the soli
is rocky, shallow, or naturally In
fertile, so that Its productive possi
bilities are distinctly lim ited, there
w ill be no adequate Income for en-
loying the other advantages.
M ore
over. these physical lim itations are
enduring, while the needed Improve
ments, such as buildings and roads,
can be added as means are provided.
IDEA WOULD PLEASE UiCKENS
between siloed rations and they h a'1
the regular portions of grain.
Th
GAS TO FOIL BANK. ROBBERS
teats were not entirely conclusive
especially a t the quantities were so Contrivance Threatens to Make T ro u
small that the animals did not h an
ble for T h a t P articu lar Class of
an opportunity to get accustomed to
Society’s Enemies.
u nfam iliar flavors.
T he departm ent may make more
Bank robbers who make a specialty
extensive tests another season on of attacking vault» with explosives
« m e of the m aterials, as there wa- will do well to beware of a contrlv
no opportunity w ith barrel lots’ ,< ance newly patented by Richard C
gain any knowledge as to the her
Rceschel of Harrisburg. Pa.
and m ilk producing value of th
He proposes to provide a chemical
feeds.
defense for hanks In the shape of an
arrangement of glass tubes forming a
BEETLES ARE MOST HARMFUL sort of poison-gas battery It may he
made part of the gate Inside a vault,
Covering of Cheesecloth W ill Afford or may have any other structural re
Intlon to »he vaulta that la deemed
Necessary Protection fo r
desirable.
It may even h» portable,
Vines and Plants.
so as to be placet! In pm ltlpn at night,
The striped cucumber beetle and the and removable in the daytime.
The tubes are designed to contain
12-tpotted cucumber beetle attack cu
cumber, squash, and melon vine« benzyl lodid. tear-gas stuff, or any
other suitable chemical which, when It
through the East. T he best protec
tlon It to cover young plants with expands, 1» calculated to asphyxiate
cheeeecloth-coTered frames which roav the robher or at least put him to
he made on barrel-hoop arches. When flight. Bulbous expansions of the tube«
Q)S Insects actu ally get access to the furnish container» fo r th» deadly ma
‘ lagly tough ami durable.
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By placing
The robber h at only to »tart aome-
white Ume or fe rtiliz e r Is released to
i several thicknesses together a compar-
th ’ng hy setting off a charge of ex
i «lively thick d o h Is funned Tlo-s» outline the planted area T i e
Me a
plosives.
The cor-ussl on breaks the
pieces are sewn together tike au> or- cuuatrucied to u * « e u L.Uo.u< uti •
tubes: eat flows the lethal chemical,
1 dtaary d oth and made Into dresses. plowed field without damage
and the business of burglary Interests
Under normal conditions the "flying
The lace 1» light yellow In color natu
the nocturnal bandit no more fo r that
aower" has a oapaetty of (MO acfew In
rally. hut often dyed with the bright
occasloo.— Pittsburgh Dispatch.
color» ao popular In the tropics.— Boys' about six hour». The same area plant
ed w ith an eight -foot d rill traveling at
U fe .
Beat Them te IL
the rate of three miles an hour would
An Irvington mail plauted several
BONES OF HISTORIC RACE take a man tw enty-tw o and a h alf
hills o f bantam sweet core In an Iso
days o f ten hour», it la estimated that
lated part of hts gardeu to grow seed
l.tMX) acres could he covered In one
Anthrepelogiats
Intensely
Intaraated
in
for next year.
H e remarked to a
day by the alr-sower.
Discovery
of
Indian
Sksletcn»
neighbor woman about th è tim e that
in
California.
“the hlaekhlrds and sparrows had no
succeeded I d flndlug his seed corn thl-
New Indications that California waa
y e a r”
The second morning afte
ice Inhabited by a race of glgnntle
making this remark he found a ho:
Indians was furnished when «ewer dig
fo rty hlaekhlrds. near sunup, busily
devouring hla o®-ji
H e “shooed" gers on Ferry and Howard streets, in
I them away and that evening pulled the heart of the business district of
M artinez. Cal., uncovered an Indian
all the ears and put them away for
safe keeping. T he next morning he burial ground, w ith skeletons meas
l>3t. b> McL'.ar» SrasiMper 8» ndiCAl»- >
looked out to see w hether any black uring more than seven feet.
Several
skulls
and
one
well
pre
They were Just at that stage In the
birds were on hand. Sure enough an
served skeleton are to be given over
a ffa ir when other people were say
Immense flock was sitting on the
ground at the base of the now barren ! to the Investigators of the anthro ing : “ When do you suppose they’ll
1 stalks looking a t each other and pology department of the University
announce ItT" and they were saying to
The skulls and akele
ach other all sorts of sweet anrepeat-
around.
The puzzled look on their of California.
ihle things.
"countenance»,” he says, waa ludi tons are declared to be o f highly lm
crous In the extrem e.— Indianai>o' - porti,nt and scientific value
But. between you and nie, what he
Discovery of the burial ground h i
News.
«aid waa really quite conservative, for
revived an old Indian legend that an
he was Scotch. Added to this native
Immense treasure of gold nugget«
circumspectness was an undemonstra
Elevated to Bishopric.
was Interred w ith a laxly of a chief
tiveness fostered by a mother who
Seldom has there been discovered
of the ancient tribe of the g'nnt In
came from old New England stock So,
a more clever and effective device for
dlans. So convinced ate the resident»
because he Inherited a conscience and
spreading the gospel than that a r
In the truth o f this legend that great
old-fashioned Ideas, one o f th.’ things
ranged by wise old Bishop A m ator o f
crowd« have thronged around the
he had to whisper to hts girl was:
Armorica.
H e evolved a scheme
' sewer
diggers,
largely
hampering
“Phllble, dear. I wish you wouldn’t
which promised the linking of the
their activities, and more than a
put so much o f that red stuff »n your
church w ith the powerful state.
score of persons have applied to the
lips and checks. You really don’t need
Catching Governor Gerraanus In
municipal authorities fo r positions on
It, you know.“
church one day. the bishop slipped up
the city's sewer-digging crew.
behind that official. A pass w ith one
This was lust a mild protest. Rut,
According to the ancient Indian
hand and he bad snipped off the gu
as Phllble had no Scotch or Puritan
legend, the vast gold treasure was
bernatorial locks; a pass w ith the
blood In her vein«, rather quite a spir
burled In close proxim ity to « h e re the
other hand, and a bishop's robe was
ited m ixture of Irish and French, she
bones were recovered.
slipped over the tonsured dome
Be
replied w ith a mischievous toss o f her
Eight years ago ‘ W illia m Alfntan,
fore- the governor could say the Atnor-
bobbed brown c u rls : “How do you
curator of the museum In Golden
Icnn equivalent fo r “Jack Robinson."
know ’ Do you know If you've ever
' Gate park. San Francisco, declared
he was Inform ed that the Bishop Am»-
seen me w ithout It?”
that skeleton» unearthed near Con
tor had resigned and that he waa or
“H e ll, really now. aa you put It that
cord were the most valuable contri
dained In hla stead.
way, I couldn't exactly say.” Angus
butions to the scientific Investiga
sidled down, rather embarrassed, he-
tions o f the state's prehistoric In
tf cause he had only seen Phllb e 12 and
Tree» Furnish Cloth.
diana.
a h alf times. The h alf was when he
In the West Indies dresses are often
1 had first met her— In the paint and
worn made from the natural lacelike
Grain Sown From AIrpian».
varnish department of the Armstrong
cloth which grow« upon tree».
T he
Through an invention to sow grain
H a rd w a re company where Angus was
tree from which the hu e Is gathered hy airplane, a irc ra ft may he Haled ns
clerk
Phllble had given him quite a
has u curiously light hollow trunk
agricultural Implements.
The new
large order for white and green nnd
something like
bamboo.
A
long, “flying grain sower." says the New
hlack nnd red paint.
She and her
smooth section la cut and soaked In
York Sun, w ill plnnt a strip o f 36 feet
mother were fixing up the little house
w ater until the hark Is softened. The wide traveling at the rate of 40 miles
they had bought with part of dbar
tacellke cloth Is dow ly packed to ao hour. The seeds are expelled hy
papa's lnaurnr.ee money.
They had
gether, forming the shell o f the traa. a ir pressure from a perforated metal
never ' ad a real home before because
When carefully pulled apart a lace- tube w ith sufficient velocity to drive
like fiber la found which Is aurprta- them deep Into the ground. At the I they I d traveled around w ith pans
end of each wing a thin stream of
F irst Free Children’s Lib rary in Eng.
land to Be Opened in Old Home
of NovelisL
T here Is to he opened soon the first
free library for children In England In
a building In which that lover of d ill
dren, Charles Dickens, spent several
eventful years of his own childhood,
it Is an Idea so appropriate and fitting
that all supporters of the scheme must
wish for Its success, rem arks the
Christian Science Monitor. The house
hl question Is S3 Johnson street, Som
ers town, and the DIokeiisTatnlly lived
here a fter they left Chatham , being
tenants of, the house for five years.
From this house Dickens, the father,
was taken to the Debtors' prison, the
Marshalsea, an Incident which a fte r
ward supplied his son w ith "copy" for
two of Ills most famous hooks. "The
Pickwick Pupcrs” and “L ittle D o rrit."
Dickens is a striking example of how
much can he accomplished by a case
of real genius under adverse condi
tions, and it Is he himself in “David
Copperfleld.“ who tells us what help
and enlightenment he got In his
wretched surroundings from the few
books which made up his father's tiny
library.
Though small, tliul library
was a rl 'h treasure trot » to a clever
child. Don Quixote and O il Bias—
each of these m asterpiece» Is com
posed o f many stories— and from
Fielding. Smollett. Goldsmith and De
foe. D ie le n s must have learned the
music of word*, and the grace and <Jlg
nlty of a tale of life tw e ll told.
I f hi« old house now becomes the
home of a free library for children
who. like him. may have a chance to
forget the hnrd facts of tlielr lives In
the works of great authors, everyone
who has the w elfare of children nt
heart, must rejoice.
AU G U ST 11
lerlal.
B YLLE8B Y & COMPANY
Fiscal Agent«
Engineering and Management Corporation
Engineers and
Managers
—
,
who had been an anim al tra in e r w ith
Buys Sinko circus.
It « a s tula euvlrvuiuaut which was
reaper «(hie fur Ph’lherta'» pernldonS
practice of rouging.
Thou, «» lovers alw ays do at least
once, they quarreled. H e even went
«■> fa r .»« to say th a t he didn't » a n t
to kiss her any more tf she smeared
that «tuff oa. because hie llpe never
touched hors— they Just tasted that
paint
At first Phtlhle waa furious.
“I
guess you'll never gel the chance
again, a fte r that," she filing at him .
Angus toofc his cue and his haL
But the an’ntal trainin g Instinct, which
«he had in h e r it^ from her father,
made Phllble atop him when hts hand
was on the knot» of the screen d<x»r.
“ Angua." «he said. " I won't put It
on any more." And she meant It. be
cause she «aw the tru th In hla hrutnl
s,xxx-h
She wanted him to kiss her
now, quick •
He turned and saw her there rub
bing furiously at her lipa w ith a h it
of a handkerchief.
But because he
» a s Scotch he did not gather her In
hla anus and cover the red on th»
handkerchief as « e ll as her lips w ith
penttent kisses, as a movie lover would
have doue. Oh. no. Recuse he w-ns
Scotch, he said: "You w ill promise
me, Phllberta. never to use or have
In your possession again thia disgust
ing red ointment."
Phllble meekly promised, "Teo," be
cause Just then he kissed her.
Phllble was very bu»y finish,ng th»
dressing up of the little house, be
cause. on the afternoon o f a certain
red letter day. ten of her best girl
friends were coming to a tea party.
And then one day. a week before
the date set fo r the p arty. Angua
called In the morning when Phllble
was no, expecting him. H ts call waa
very Inform al.
H e almost had her In hla arms, and
ben, down— hu, he did no, klas her.
H e had seen her face. T here waa a
red blotch on each cheek.
He stared at her so long that P h ll
ble asked In a troubled voice: "So
early In the morning I W h a , do you
w an,?"
"Nothing, now." Angus cut off the
words w ith cold finality. Then, as an
a fte r regret, atid w ith deep reproach
In his voice: "You said you w ouldu't
put It on a g a in !"
“ What?" asked Phllberta. And be
cause she looked a t the can In fro nt
of her. she put both hands to her
cheeks. Thereupon she began to laugh
an ever Increasing crescendo o f gur
gles and trills. F in a lly, she struck liar
already »lightly discolored Anger Into
the can before her. and w ith I, sho
touched each o f Angus' cheeks
T hat outraged gentleman had stood
In
motionless
amazem ent at
her
m irth, hu, now he cautiously pu, up
one of hla own Angara to his cheek.
It felt we, and ra th e r sticky.
Ho
looked at tils finger, smelled n f the
red smooch, and than ho, too, began
to laugh. When a Scotchman Anally
does see a Joke on him self, he can
appreciate It.
"W h a , the deuce were you doing,
anyway?" Angus asked.
"Oli, Just trying to pain, up those
two old card table« to look ocleutul,
like some lacquered ones I aaw In
town
W o n t the glrla think they're
sjiorty when they aee them on the
veranda next Thursday?"
“Oeorgel W ha, a capable little w lfo
you're going to m a k e !” and Augua
laughed aoine more.
The laugh did no, Ina, aa long as It
might have; It was very soon amoth-
cred aguliist a daub nf red on an other
wise smooth, pink cheek.
Yea, An
gua not only klaaed the pa Ini on Phll-
herla'a cheek, but he h ln rs d f trans
ferred some of II to the plnco where
he luifl en Id It waa moat especially
tabooed.
FIND SHELLS CENTURIES OLD
Belief That R»llca Unearthed by W ork-
men In Oregon W are U«ed aa
Ornaments by Indiana.
Sea «hell» about six Inches aernaa
were uricoverixl hy w orker" recently at
j Rig Eddy, ti'-ar T h e Dallefi, fire.. K ing
a, the lienila of Indian skeletons,
j They » e re ib'eayed and crumbled when
touched. These "hells showed Indica
tions o f having been used as ear o rna
ment»
They are of the species of
»hell flah commonly called "cohogs" on
the A tlan tic coast, according to p er
son« who have observed them, and
do no, grow to the size of those found
on the Pacific roast.
W onderfully perfect apear and a r
row-heads, made o f obsidian, a rock
found no nea»«r than C alifo rn ia, also
were unearthed. A ll o f the chipping
on tha arrow points found appenred
to he much finer than la te r Ind ian
work, local am ateur collectors da-
d are d .
•
T he relics found by highw ay w o rk
er» a, Rig Eddy are an accum ulation
of i-enturlea, In the opinion of D. L.
Cates, d ry recorder, who haa lived In
and around T he Dalles fo r more than
•W years
lie points out th a t In ths
Hill« hack of Big Eddy tra ils w om In
the roefc may be ssen. evidence o f the
a c t, v|,lee of Indiana wtin uaed these
trail» for hundreds o f years.
M r.
(Nites asya that at Rig Eddy ths In
diana find finer ealinon fishing than a ,
any other place along tha riv e r and
have been making tha trip to that
pla'-a annually pr«hahiy a»ar •»«<« aaB
iqo « hagan ru h n d y i i j flfa A uluiB
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