CARE AND ACCURACY DEMANDED
IN WEIGHING HAY FOR MARKET
C !2 P O TA TO E S W hfcN
SOIL IS QUITE DRY
Tubers Are Matured When Vines
Begin to Drop Off.
Care Should Be Taken to Avoid Spear
ing or Cutting Them— Store In
Cool, Dry and Well Ventilated .
Cellar or P it
(P r e p a r e d b y th e U n it e d S ta te e
o f A g r i c u lt u r e . >
Accurate Weights Can Be Obtained Only It ihe Wagon Scales Are ir Hroper
"W o rk in g Order and the Load Is in Proper Position Upon the Scales.
(P r e p a r e d
b y th e U n i t e d S ta te e D e p a r t m e n t
o f A s r t c o lt u r e " )
A great deal of trouble and mone
tary loss sustained by producers and
shippers In marketing hay has been
found by the bureau of markets and
crop estimates, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, to be due to
careless weighing.
Weighing by the Bale.
In several sections of the country
It Is the custom to weigh hay by the
bale at the time for baling and to note
the weight upon a tag made of card
board or other convenient material at-
tached to the bale beneath one of the
bale ties. When weighing by this
method great care should be taken to
weigh the hay accurately. During the
rush of baling operations sufficient
time is frequently not allowed for the
scales to come to a balance and there
may be as much as ten pounds dif
ference between the actual and the
catch weight.
Special care should also be taken In
writing the correct weight upon the
tag, say the bureau’s specialists. It
Is the common practice in some sec
tions to use only numbers ending In
0 or 5 in recording the weight, and
to give or take from the actual weight
a sufficient amount to make a number
with such an ending. For example,
the weight of a bale weighing 67
pounds Is written as. 65 pounds and
that of one weighing 68 pounds as 70
pounds. The tendency, however, Is
“to take” more frequently than “to
give,” so that It is a better practice
to state the actual weight upon the
tag.
Another practice which is often
charged back to the producer In low
er prices or in weight claims, dlspro-
portlbnate to the actual loss, is the
use at a much later date of tag
weights placed upon the hay at the
time of baling. Unless hay has been
thoroughly cured and has been in
the mow or stack for a considerable
time there is likely to be a loss in
weight while hay is In storage after
baling, due to additional loss of mois
ture. Each purchaser desires, and has
a right to obtain, the actual quantity
of hay for which he pays. If bales
are short of the weight specified upon
the tags there are grounds for a claim,
either In the form of a price conces
sion or of a weight claim In either
case the adjustment of the claim Is
likely to be less economical to the
producer than the actual rewelghlng
of the hay. The producer or shipper
should be prepared to prove that the
weight of the hay at the time of sale
CAREFULLY CONSIDER
DIVERS ENTERPRISES
Hasty Conclusions Should Be
Cautiously Avoided.
ig correct and as indicated upon the
tag.
Careless weighing on wagon scales
causes as much difficulty as careless
weighing hy any other method, tine
of the principal causes of unsatisfac
tory weights upon wagon scales is lack
of proper care of the scales and of
the necessary attention to keep them
In repair aud in good working order.
Accurate weights cannot be obtained
on scales that are out of repair.
Wagon scales should be Inspected fre
quently by a competent inspector and
care should be taken to see that they
are In proper adjustment and bnlance
before weighing any lot or load of
hay.
Care must be taken also to see that
the load is in proper position upon
the scales. The load should not bind
upon the scale box or building, and
if the team exerts any effect upon the
load it should be unhitched.
When obtaining the tare weight the
weigher should be certain that the
wagon contains the same equipment
as when the gross weight was ob
tained. A good rule is to remove ev
erything but the necessary equipment
from the load before weighing.
Keep Bale Check When Loading.
If the producer or shipper loads the
hay directly into the cars care is espe
d aily necessary to compute the total
weight correctly. Loads ure frequent
ly distributed in two or more cars
because of the variation in the qual
ity of the hay.
If the bales are
tagged, a careful record should he
kept of the hales placed in each car.
If not tagged, the part of the load
placed in each car should lie weighed
separately. A careful check of the
total number of hales placed In eacli
car should also be kept so that the
shipper may have the proper data
upon which to base a claim should
any loss occur while the hay is moving
to market.
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The following suggestions, If fob
lowed, will greatly assist In eliminat
ing some of the troubles caused by
improper weighing methods:
When using tag weights record the
actual current weight.
Have wagon scales In proper adjust
ment and balance.
See that wagpn contains same equip
ment when weighing both the gross
and tare weight.
When loading two or more cars
keep careful record of hay loaded In
each car.
Always keep a hale record, together
with a weight record, of each car.
fo rth from one crop* to another is
illu s tra te d ba the man who plowed
up his hops a few years ago he.
cause the price was low. When
they went tipj he hrd no hops, but
he planted again. Now they are
low and he w ill plow them up
again before I hey Itear a crop.
The departm ent of agriculture
says :
No Receon for Assuming All Aetiv-
In making use of the results of a
year's cost accounts for the purpose
Itioa of Farm Should Bo Devoted
I of perfecting tlie organization of the
to One’ Big Money C r o p -
! farm, hasty conclusions should not he
Study All Angles.
D e p a rtm e n t
Potatoes require HO to 100 days after
planting before any will be ready for
use. The tubers are not fully matured
until after the vines die, or at least
ripen and sited most of their foliage.
Lute potatoes in the Northern and
Northeastern states are frequently,
caught by frost before the vines ripen,
so should be dug just about the time
frost first strives tlieui. potatoes
should be dug when the soil is reason
ably dry. so that it will not adhere to
E x te rio r o f W e ll-B u ilt P o ta to S torage
House.
them. A spading fork or a potato hook
Is best for digging them and great care
should be taken to avoid spearing or
cutting them In digging. Only a small
quantity should be turned out at once,
as they will become sunburned if ex
posed more than an hour or two.
Store potatoes In a cool, dry place
where they will get plenty of ventila
tion and be In the dark. Potatoes must
not be allowed to freeze either before
they are dug or while In storage. A
good, cool, well-ventilated cellar or
gtorm cellar forms a suitable storage
place for potatoes and under proper
conditions will keep through the win
ter and Into the early summer. An
other method Is to bury the potatoes
In a pit outdoors and cover them so
that frost cannot get to them.
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The lo lly of jum ping b»ck and
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Rock. Rhode
HA USE Y ENTERPRISE
Islnnd Red Wyandotte or Orpiugtun,
or beyond tlte.r third laying year tf
of the lighter breeds such as the l.e<
uua clothes ure Lcvun rg more ding-
lag and more graceful and les» ¡>-u
Jected to rigidity of line. The reu-
horn.
sons for this state of affairs are
many, and It Is Interesting to ascer
taln Just why women in general are
cleaving to the softer type and neglect-
tng those "hard" creations, which
were anything but flattering to lutiate
femininity.
Not In Batbriggan Class.
American women, as one clever de
signer put It. “are not In the balbrtg-
Knickers and Soft Chiffons Are gan class.“ Through the cold months
of the year they ride In motors, step
Among the Latest Fashion
ping. hy this means, from warm apart
Offerings.
ments to warm hotels or shop*. They
are bounteously supplied with furs that
would keep out the chilling blast dur
ing any transition state, and therefore
they cau wear »'hat they will. And
they will to wear soft, flowery* lines
most appropriate to their beauty. Hut
Capes and Beautiful Coats W ith Wide
these soft satin and silk and chiffon
and Flowing Sleeves; Linings Are
gowns are not the dressy things that
Rare Combinations of Ele
once they were, being designed for
gance.
occasions surrounded by formality.
No, they are as plain as plain can he,
Vast extremes of preference are be and ure only for one part of the day.
ing exhibited by the American woman
In her choice of clothing. And, ob
serves a prominent fashion writer,
who can say that she is not showing
a degree of originality hardly expect
ed from her by some of the more skep
tical? There are the knickers once
confined to mountain climbing, and
only among the courageous few at
that. Now they are agitating the
question of wearing knickers for all
business occasions. The bobbed-haired
girl and the short-skirted tnlss are
con'4'letely cast Into the shadow for
all radical purposes when it comes to
this suggested departure.
In the Fur Wesf, where mountain
climbing and horseback riding are the
usual things for women, the knlcker
suit has found much favor, and there
the women in their colorful tweeds
with woolen stockings are numerous.
Of course, the sporting goods stores
have been selling kulckers for some
time past, and with a degree of suc
cess, hut they hardly anticipated they
were setting* the style for city clothes
Nor cau It he said, as yet, that this is
a fa c t; but there Is a real tendency In
that direction, for women have be
gun to agitate the idea, and when thal
lias happened, there is no telling
where or how the controversy will eud
It was so when the short skirt started
Its career.
SOME EXTREMES
IN NEW STYLES
SOME EGG SHIPPING ‘DON’TS’
Department of Agriculture Offers Few
Practical Hints for Benefit of
Poultrymen.
Here are some “dont's” offered by
the United States Department of Agri
culture that many times mean the dif
ference between a loss or a profit In
shipping carload eggs:
Don’t waste time and labor by using
cheap cases ; time and labor are pre
cious.
Don't save pennies by buying poor
fillers and flats when you lose dollars
in broken eggs The saving of one egg
would pay for the extra cost of a set
of No. 1 fillers.
Don’t nail braces to sides of car
against an Incomplete top layer; they
seldom hold In place and often are the
cause of damage. They Injure the ef
flciency of the car insulation. The use
of smnll under-case brace» will prevent
all of this.
Don’t waste Ice and refrigeration by
stowing the load so as to make air cir
culation In the car Impossible.
Don't tie up your money In freight
claims because of a loose load. Tie up
the load and leave the money loose to
work again.
IMPURITIES IN CLOVER SEED
LOVELY WRAPS ARE DESIGNED
VAGE
ioft are they. A wrap lining this year
«I » T h rever-
thing to he
ence, It being no simple w aiter, but
a combination of silk and chiffon, and
gilt edgings, and bits of lace—an.v-
thing that will ndtl to an ei « tiihle to
make that »rap look as though it
»-ere designed to snuggle around tlie
shoulders of a fairy princess.
The
colors mid tlie materials vie with each
other In adding a modicum of chanu.
For street and restaurant wear there
are tints of dust, and sand. ami taupe,
and dark gray, and putty color and
any of thtwe tones, even unto ele
phant's breath, which defy description
as to Just what shades go to make
| them distinguished. They are back
grounds of beauty, so to speak, rather
than adornments of that same fem
inine characteristic.
Brocaded Silka Ars In Favor.
Brocaded silks are milking ihe great
est hit with tlressiniikers designing
new frocks. They are all In one tone,
the figure being woven in satin
threads, while the background Is de
vised from less lustrous strands. Or
the Idea can be reversed ; the material
turned the wrong side and you have
a material that has a satin background
with Its pattern woven in crepe
threads. Tlie advantage of this ma
terial Is that it Is all silk, and Is
possessed of the greatest amount of
weight, which, for these newer dresses.
Is a really necessary attribute. They
must cling, while plentemisly full;
and, added to all this, they must pre
sent the appeurance of being quite
straight-lined In character.
If veil
consider, this Is not a smnll order, but
one that Is being accomplished hy our
lending designers In a manner truly
beautiful and greatly to bo honored
for the art that fashions It.
The chemise dress has evolved, anil
Is now a long-walsted affair, or some
times, be It known, an extremely
short-walsted affair, according to the
figure of the wearer, and is made on
ample lines.
It has full s ie v e s In
stead of little, scanty tight ones, end
Is In every way a much more volum
inous affair than It was a year ago.
F. M. GRAY,
Drayman.
A ll work done p ro m p tly
reasonably. Phone No.
and
Knickers Made of Homespuns.
The smartest of the knlcker suits are
made of those rough-and-ready home
spuns which have been worn anti loved
for a season or more. The bright col
ors, and the inure somlwr ones, are
used to make the suits with trousers
Instead of skirts. The knickers reach
below the knees, where they are full
anti blonsy, looking akin to golf trou
sera, and are met by very "splffy’
looking woolen stockings. The more
fashionable ones among them are sup
plied with suit coats, but there are
others made with capes for accompanl
ment—modest capes that can be
»rapped about the figure, almost If
not quite disguising the fact that
knickers are there at all. They are
severely plain In tailoring and cut
md they are so loose and unfitted In
heir style that they suggest sweet
and retiring things compared with
the scant dresses to which our eyes
have become accustomed on the sutn
uier streets. There Is nothing un
womanly about these new outdoor cos
tume«. hut some one will declare them
unbecoming. Then will another fash
Ion fight be staged, which will he ex
tremely good for the fashion, but ob-
teetors cannot realize the fact.
In contrast to this mode of mannish
tailoring there are the soft, clinging
styles which have forced their subtle
way upon us until they have become
In Recent Purchase North Carolina
Farm er Finds Weed Seeds of
Various Kinds.
A farmer'In Rowan county, N. C.
was about to purchase some clover
seed last spring from one of his neigh
bors, preparatory to seeding down his
wheat acreage. He noticed that the
seed was somewhat Impure, and was
reminded of the warnings to frequent-
ly given hy the county agent In re
spect to pure seed. He asked to have
n small sample tested for purity by
the state seed laboratory at Raleigh
The sample was reported on merely
as "No. 9." Each pound was found to
contain approximately 65,062 buck
horn seeds. 2.282 dodder. 2,622 wild
carrot. 2.208 black-seeded plantain.
414 curled dock, 276 Venus looklnc-
glass. 138 each of crag grass and green
foxtail—a total of 83.140 weed seeds
In each pound. This would, no doubt
he sufficient to seed the man’s land
to these pests for tlie next decade
Although this sample was the word
of any tested through the county
agent's office, on casual Inspection It
Indicated only" ordinary Impurity
j a laboratory test Is
check even
on the purest farm seeds.
drawn Sometimes a positive decrease
in profits may ensue if un eut.rprlse
be dropped, because, taken alone, It
Register advisee th a t in seeking has failed to pay. Cows, for Instance.
im m igrants to
Oregon
regard j
not be showing a net profit, hut
should be had to the clim ate and if all the cows were sold there might
be no other way of using up the
the character of crops w ith which roughage and It would become dead
the newcomer is fa m ilia r. A m in loss Labor devoted night and morn
from the upper Mississippi valley Ing to milking and feeding cows and
is lia b le to meet m any failures be charged to them would he entirely
fore be learns to anticipate th e ’ logt if th<; roWs were «old and noth-
vagaries of our clim ate, which d ip ' ing supplied to fill In the time
fer so m a te ria lly from th a t to w h ic h j The fBCt ,hat the hogs or the corn
he i t accustomed. Nine times in crr)p bring m the most net money dur-
ten he leaves in disgust before he tag the season Is no reason for sssnm-
learns w hat crops and method« i ing »hat »11 ____________
the activities of the farm
tn*the"futnre should be devoted solely
w ill succeed here. The Register
to hogs or corn. It may be that the
gays, in effect, Bring ’em from keeping of cows Is partly responsible
C alifo rn ia, where land no hetler
h^ ,
profitable. or RETAIN ALL GOOD PRODUCERS
than ou rs c o sts tw o or th ree t i m e * | h<| (he |frow1n< o f wheat, clover, or
as much and c lim a tic condition
fh(>r crop,
rotatlon with
-'*■ corn
con. Relatively Few Hens Will Prove
. . - r- jn
in rotation
makes the latter crop much more prof
Profitable After Their Second
are nearly the same
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The recent disasaetrons inarm- tfRble than It would have been If
Laying Bsaaen.
gration of 8« peoplg from New grown alone
Hens showing indication of having
Similar conditions will be met with
Y o rk c ity to Idaho farms was s till
worse than th a t of the mid-lie on all farms, and therefore, no sud been good producers throughout the
westerners, for the New Yorkers den changes should be made on the year should be retained for the next
of what a single year's accounts ,.par regardless of their age, but rela-
were ignorant of farm ing require, hast«
may Indicate
All angles of the »a- I flvely few hens will prove to bo proflt-
merits not o nly in Idaho hot ever •erprlse should he taken lato consld- ahle producers beyond their second
ywhere else
»•ration.
Igjluf year
the fceariv btwels.
In a recent num ber the Eugene
oh
Frocks of Heavy Silk Craps Draped
and Slightly Fitted.
They could not be used by the hardy
business woman when pattering about
the streets—and this chiefly because
their peculiarly soft and flowing lines
would not adapt themselves to ordi
nary wear and tear.
See all the gowns that the American
designers are making for daytime
wear. They will astonish you by the
beauty and simplicity which are their
alluring characteristics. I)o not think
that they take little material They art
<lra|ied and folded so uilraculouslj
that one falls to see where all the
long plicatures are hidden. One plall
Is piled upon another, and altogetliei
they are drawn Into draping» anti
folds conveying the Impression they
represent one plain and simple line
Upon examination, one finds that lay
ers upon layers make up this effect,
and accomplished In so artistic aud
workmanlike a manner that, for th<
magic of necromancers, It has any
previous sleight of hand trick wlpet
off the map.
For the coming season the America!
woman has chosen to be chlffony and
slinking In her general appearance
and anyone who follows this general
rule will not he going far »stray. If
she cannot afford furs, the loveliest of
wraps have been designed for her
oui side covering There are capes and
beautiful coats with wide and flow
ing sleeves that cannot be distin
guished from wrap«, luxuriously Inter
lined, and the visible linings are
tilings to conjure with, so colorful anti
Shell Rimmed Glasses
are comfortable to wear
and distinctive in ap
We handle
pearance.
them in all the latest
styles.
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H U N T IN G S E A S O N » «
ami every
body is trying to got a bird, hut many ate
getting skunked. t
.
So will the farmer that has not the proper tools
to put his fall crop in with. . You »'¡m
them at the G. W. Mornhinweg Implement store J
a . 1 C lip p er F a n n in g Mill, in first-class sh ap e, tor
i
d
t
sale. Have von a good milch cow to trade
for new machinery ?
G. W. Mornhinweg Implement Store
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The Exaggerated Sleeve Carried to Its
Farthest Limit.
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MAYBERRY&
M c K inney
a distinct part of our dressing. All
s( that tmrdnms and that "steel con
struction look Is being slowly but sure
ly ellmlnared. and If you want «vi
Highest prices paid for Beef. Pork. V e.l and M utton . H ub U .
gour e of this all you need to do Is to
visit any of the «mart places for lunch
Halsey phone 17U.
Browneville phone 3.c51,
—Just to appreciate the fact tbatfwocn- j before you sell
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