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About Beaverton times. (Beaverton, Or.) 191?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1915)
COATS GAIN IN FAVOR Within Last Few Yean Industry "" Has Assumed Prominence. Animate art Useful for Several Pui poses Skins Used for Leather Flna Hair of tha Angora la Known aa Mohair. - Angora goats were Introduced Into this country from Turkefabout 1850, nd have been bred ever since In different parte of the country In mall number. It 1 only within the v laat tew years, however, that the goat industry has assumed especial prom Inence. According to recent census statistics on this subject, there are 1,815,000 goats In tha United States. About 00,000 of these are Angoras. , the remainder being common goats. Goats are useful tor several pur poses. Their skins are used In the manufacture ot leather, or for rugs; . the fine hair ot the Angora Is known ai mohair, and is need in the manu facture ot the various dress goods and plushes. The demand for mohair in manufacture in the United States is much In excess of the supply which can be obtained from goats in this country, and a good market for this product may be expected for a long time to come. The meat ot goats, especially An goras, is eaten to a large extent, be ing commonly sold under the name Of mutton, and more recently , bearing the name of Angora venison, or An gora mutton. ' It tha goats are well dressed it has perhaps a more de licious flavor than mutton, and seldom haa aa much fat In certain localities the meat is at present sold under tha name of Angora mutton, tor prices slightly higher than those paid for cheap mutton. The meat of the An . gora is preferable to that ot tha com mon goat A venlson-Uke flavor Is given to goat meat when the animals Champion Angora Buck. - browse upon various wild shrubs. This gamy flavor, however, la not so noticeable when the animals are ted upon cultivated plants. ; Very little use ia made of the milk of goats In this country, but analyses show it to be of high nutritive value, and it can toe used In the manufacture ot cheese. The presence of Angoras or other goats in bands ot sheep Is aald to be a source of protection to the sheep, since goats will defend themselves nd tha entire herd against attacks of dogs or coyotes. .-...- i ISP-, 0 .! A Cool-Weather Crop. ' Buckwheat Is very sensitive to cold end is killed by the first heavy frost It Alls bast in cold weather, however, and so the sowings are deferred to allow only time for the crop to ma ture before frost occurs. By seeding in early July it is most likely to es cape injury from hot weather, which, siwitlr,'4rytag,vtads'' and hot1 11 olghtsv -causes the flowers to blast and tail ft produce GRANARY AMD SCALE HOUSE Loose Grain May ia Dumas Prni wagon inta Bin or Crib Desire- Cest la Not Croat (Br J. O. BHAWVKlt.1 ;i A convenient granary la ,32x32x14 feet to the eaves. By using a sling carrier it ia very easy to raise a wagon bed of loose grain and turn it around and dump it in any bin or crib de aired and the scale makes it possible to know the exact amount ot grain handled. ;. . This is also a help to the tanner selling stock, tor by using tour gates hooked together he readily has stock scales. -..! The floor of the granary, should be concretewith a thin coat ot cement also a low wall of the aame and then plank frame above. - Anyone desiring to make it handler about loading a wagon can do so by raising the floor up to about four feet CORN A Scalee and Grain Hc.ses. and this provides good feeding pens for hogs or sheep or even small calves. The cost of construction is about $200. POISONS OF JOHNSON GRASS All Fodder Planta Related to,, tor. ghum Must Be Used With Dlaere- ; . tlon aa Feed for Stood (By O. H. GLOVER, Colorado Expert' ment Station.) Johnson grass is closely related to sorghum. Poisoning ot cattle from sorghum and kaflr corn la well known. After chemical analysis ot many plants Brunnlch gave the following advice: "All fodder plants related to aorghum muat be used with discretion in either the green or dry state and should not be given In large amounts to animals which have fasted tor come time." The poison In these plants is hydrocyanic add. Poisoning usually occurs when the plants have made a stunted growth from drought and are eaten in large quantities, when the animals are very hungry. Animals poisoned in this way usu ally die within halt an hour and some times live only a tew minutes. Hydro cyanic acid la the most deadly of poi sons and in large doses kills almost instantly. Animals usually die sud denly from paralysis of respiration and before medical measures can be thought of or prepared for use. FRESH EGGS ARE VALUABLE Safeat Plan to Market Only Those Taken From Regular Nests Store . In Cool, Dry Place. (By J. O. RALPIN, Wisconsin Experi ment Biauon. To have the eggs fresh market only eggs that are gathered from regular nests. Usable eggs now may not be usable by the time they reach the city market, and all eggs of this sort should be kept at home and used at once. Do not hurt the sale of your good eggs by including eggs gathered from stolen nests, extra small or ex tra large eggs. The latter are like ly to get broken and sou the good eggs m the case. Gather eggs daily, and as soon as possible after they are luUr etore s -oeean, dry, eeel piece, tree frosri bad odors, until ready for market 1 , . L M "" MAN AHIftl imJ RAFFLES LOST FINS CHANCE Mr. turfler "Some local Raffles missed the op portunity of his lite the other night" said a young Philadelphia traveling man Just returned from a trip to tha middle West "As you know, I was married laat April, and have Installed my bride In a pretty suburban cottage. "Now, I never realised to what ex tent my customers appreciate me until their wedding presents began to pour in. And these gifts, being shipped tab, Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland or some other distant city, the parcels invariably made up in value tor what they lacked in else. Meanwhile my family and that ot my bride had not been idle, and my Arm always does the handsome thing; consequently the result was a collection ot which any married couple might be proud. "By making close connections this trip I was able to reach home a day or two ahead of schedule, being some what disturbed by accounts In the Philadelphia papers ot a daring rob bery in the very next block to that in which 1 live. It was nearly X a. m. when I entered the house, and, great ly to my surprise, spread out in full view on the big table in the haU were numerous Jewelers' boxes, large and small, containing our cheriahed and expensive wedding gifts. The little woman has been show ing her presents to visitors, and must have been too sleepy to carry them upstairs again,' I mused aloud. 'Rather risky business with burglars in the neighborhood!' Just then I noticed a large paste board card tilted In a conspicuous po sition against the lamp. On It in my rite's handwriting, was inscribed the following: 'Mr. Burglar: These are all the val uables in the house. Take them and welcome, if you will only please to leave us unharmed upstairs."' - Machine Slays by Wireless. An electrical machine Invented by a St Paul man may be used by Ger many In killing enemies with wireless, acoordlng to a St. Paul dispatch to the Philadelphia Record. The machine waa first developed to kill rabbits in North Dakota. Charles P. Billows. aided by electricians, perfected the machine, which flashed rabbits and dogs to death at a distance ot 107 feet Electricity for experiments was obtained from a Thomas street trolley wire. When the present war broke out the Inventor realised Its possibilities. Eng lish and French officers were sounded as to its availability, but they refused. The machine then was turned over to Germany, where it was accepted for experimentation. I believe it was used In the present Russian campaign," said Billows. "The possibilities of the machine are un limited. With a large voltage there is no reason why human beings could not be flashed to death at long dis tances. I believe Russian powder sta tions were set off by our machine." Breaqulng It Gently. We begin the publication ot The Roccay Mountain Cyclone with some pbew dlphphlcultles in the way. The type phounders phrom whom we bought out outphit phor this printing ophphlce phalled to supply us with any ephs or cays, and it will be phour or phive weex bepbor we can get any. We nave ordered the missing let ters, and will have to get along with out them until they come. We don't llque the loox ov this variety ov spell ing any better than our readers, but mlstax will happen in the best regu lated phemllies. and iph the ph's and the c's and x's and q's hold out we shall ceep (sound the C hard) The Cy clone whirling aphter a phashion till the sorts arrive. It Is no Joque to us It's a serious aphphalr." Every body's. . REAL yALUE OF SUGAIj ONI OF QRIATttT HILPS IN COUNTERACTING FATIQUI. 1 Tired Shopper Can Gain Strength Quickly by Sating Candy Value la Recognised by Armlea In Europe, It we all understood the proper duty and function ot sugar we ahould prob ably be a healthier nation. The trouble with sugar Is that most ot us eat It in such, a way and at such a time that It spoils our appetite tor more substantial food. But sugar, In spite ot all the harm that it does when eatea in excess, should be recognised aa one of tha greatest helps In counteracting fa tigue. ": It Is so recognised among the armies at war In Europe. Sweet and milk chocolate are supplied liberally to- the soldiers as much tor tha sugar as tor the chocolate. And vari ous sorts ot sugar candy are given to them. And some women, desirous to help the soldiers to the best ot their ability, heard ot thla demand tor sweets and turned their attention from knitting needles and worsteds to candy kettles and sugar and turned out homemade fudge by the pound tor the soldiers. All ot us who have heard a certain leoturer on mountain climbing tal': know how often she pauses to say that at Just that point she stopped to nibble a cake ot a famous brand of milk chocolate. At the boys' and girls' camps throughout the country a cake of chocolate Is the usual accom paniment of a hike, and it Is tha sugar as well as the chocolate that Is useful. For sugar gives quick results In en ergy. It you are very tired, and nibble a bit of sweet or milk chocolate, or eat a couple of lumps ot sugar or eat any sweet candy, you will feel within very few moments noticeably re freshed. And the tired shopper who has not time to stop for luncheon could gain strength tor the rest ot her work if she would eat a cake of choco late or some sweet candy and sit still for ten minutes. How to Fight Fleas. Now the department comes forward to the relief of flea-Infested mankind. To keep the fleas oft the person, It says, the surest way is to tie sticky fly paper around the ankles and to sleep in beds that are Isolated by wa ter pans or fly paper from the sur rounding terrain ot the flea-flghtlng ground. Washington having virtually exterminated the flies by swatting and trapping, sticky paper has not been much In evidence for a season or two, but this prescription by the depart ment of agriculture will doubtless cause a return to the commodity, and perhaps In a short time expert advice will be given by the fashion censors as to the best and most artistic ways ot wearing fly paper protectors. It is painful, however, to contemplate the result when humanity is closely assem bled. Has the department anything to offer In the way of a preventive Of publlo agglutination t Washington Star. Paying Dirt One advantage Nicaragua has In the operation of gold mines Is the liberal mining law that allows with each claim a denouncement of 250 acres ot agricultural lands, thereby ' enabling the exploiter of mines to raise large part of his foodstuffs In the neighbor hood of the place where mining Is car ried on If ha so desires. Then, again, the wages of native Nlcaraguaa miners, aa oompared with the seals of miners In the United States, are much , lower, and, Inasmuch aa tha cost of labor Is one ot the largest items In running a mine, this tact la favorable to the exploitation of mines to the republic.
