Aurora observer., January 06, 1921, Image 2

MOST IMPORTANT TH AT GREATER
USE BE MADE OF CHEAPER FEEDS
CLEVER M A D A M HEN
HEN had not been tempt­
I F ed MADAM
to leave her nest that morning
last Night’s Dreams
"Some approbation now and then
'Works wonder with our little men;
And words of praise from lips held deal
Have often changed a girl’s career."
—What They Mean
D ID YOU D R E A M OF C LO T H E S?
T U N A F ISH D ISH ES.
play an important part
C LOTHES
in Dreamland, sartorial effects
This delicate turkey of the sea,
should be more appreciated. The fol­
lowing dishes are but suggestions, as
there are any number of combina­
tions making most delicious eating.
having their value even in the world
of shadows. To dream of clean, new
clothes means good luck; that you
are wearing good clothes, a long and
happy life. But to dream that your
clothing is old and dirty is not a fa­
vorable sign, though to dream that
your clothing is old but yet neat and
clean is not so bad—which is gratify-,
ing in view of the present necessity
of wearing our old clothes because
of the high price of new ones.
But be modest with regard to your
dress, even In the selection of dream-
clothing. If you have in your dream-
wardrobe a great quantity of clothes,
more than you know what to do with,
you will suffer through your own ex­
travagance—-the same law in regard to
this seeming to hold good both in the
land of dreams and the world of actu­
alities. Also, if your dream-clothes
are o f gaudy colors there is disap­
pointment in store for you ; another
point in which the two worlds agree
—that loudness of dress is bad form.
Where they most decidedly disagree
is with regard to the. stealing
clothes.
To steal clothes in your
dreams foretells great success in love
and business, whereas to steal them
outside of dreamland is frowned upon
by the law. Dancing-tights are en­
tirely out of fashion in Dreamland—
they indicate a temporary shortage of
money.
As a headgear, a silk cap seen in a
dream is a lucky omen. If you dream
of putting on any sort of cap be very
watchful in your love affairs; if you
take a cap down from a nail some­
thing concerning you which you would
rather have unknown is soon to come
out.
If a cap is presented to you
it means marriage. An old dream-hat
predicts misfortune, but a new one
great success in business.
To lose
your hat means vexations of a busi­
ness nature.
The less you dream
about trousers the better. As to
shoes, if they are old and want black­
ing, the signification is that you make
enemies by being too outspoken—cor­
rect your manners. To have your
shoes shined by a Dreamland boot-
black means prosperity and happiness;
new shoes, good news.
,ot
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THE ROMANCE OF WORDS
"GOB.”
UST as the American soldier
J against
lentered a vivid protest
being known as a “ Sam­
my” or’ any of the other
home-made terms which were
coined as synonyms, the Amer­
ican sailor has always objected
to “Jackie”—the name which
has been applied to him by a
number of writers whose knowl­
edge of the sea was gleaned
from an occasional glimpse of
the docks.
“Jack” is allowed
to
pass
unchallenged,
but
“Jackie,” being a diminutive
and smacking -of the effeminate
and childish, always causes the
sailor to wince. His own name
for himself is “gob”—a term
which dates back to the mid­
dle of the last century when
Perry made his Asiatic expedi­
tion.
It was at this time that the
orientals first applied the name
“gobshites” to the American
sailors, and when the Ameri­
can naval Asiatic station was
later established, the title per­
sisted to such an extent that
the sailors brought it home with
them,
gradually
spreading
throughout the entire navy un-'
der the shortened form of
“gob.”
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Tuna In Peppers.
Cut peppers in halves lengthwise;
remove the seeds and put peppers to
soak in very cold water. Beat four
eggs sfightly; add one cupful of milk,
two cupfuls of tuna, one cupful of
bread crumbs, salt and pepper to
taste. Pack the mixture into the pep­
pers and sprinkle buttered bread
crumbs over the top. Brown in the
oven and eat hot.
Tuna Salad.
Take three cupfuls of tuna, one cup­
ful of diced celery, one hard-cooked
egg, one green pepper shredded, one
cupful of thick mayonnaise, one-half
cupful, of French dressing, one-fourth
Of a cupfu l of chopped olives. I f well
made this salad Is more delicious than
the most inviting chicken salad. Sev­
eral hours before serving, mix the
tuna, egg, green pepper and celery to­
gether, adding the French dressing
gradually.
Just before ^serving add
the Chopped olives; toss lightly, put
into &. salad bowl and arrange a thick
mayonnaise over the top.
all would have been well with her.
Madam hen knew she ought to sit
on those eggs, for they were nearly
ready to hatch; but for one little run,
she felt, it would not matter; she
would not be gone long.
But Madam Hen knew not of the
dangers that awaited her. For Mr.
Fox had left his home that morning
with the intention of bringing back
for his dinner a nice plump hen, and
Madam Hen was very plump.
Mr. Fox was hiding right back of a
clump of bushes near the moist place
where the worms were, and hardly
had Madam Hen begun to scratch
when, pounce! Mr. Fox had her and
into his bag he put her, head first.
But when Mr. Fox came to a stream
he had to cross he sat down to rest
end then he heard something about
Ordinary Wiro Fencing Used to Reinforce Concrete Construction of a Silo.
chickens and listened.
“ What Is that about fine chickens?”
To assist farmers ànd stockmen in cattle on them to clear them up com­
he asked.
feeding beef cattle economically dur­ pletely before severe winter and snows
Madam Hen told him then o f the
ing the coming winter, specialists of come.
beautiful white eggs In a nest where
the United States Department of Agri­
Protect Contents of Silo.
culture point but the need for a lib­
The most important roughage, so
eral use of roughage. The meat sit­ far as economical beef production is
uation in the United States'requires concerned, is yet to be mentioned, and
a maximum of efficiency in feeding if that is silage. Silage is no longer a
production Is to be maintained in the cheap feed, but in the strictest sense
face of high costs for feed and labor. of the word there is no cheap feed.
Recommendations of the department Silage is worth at the present time
follow :
from $10 to $13 a ton, depending upon
Economy should be the keynote in local labor conditions and upon the
production. However, discretion must quality and yield of corn. Even at
be used so that economy will be con­ these prices it makes one of the most
sistent with good gains.
A ration economical cattle feeds. More cattle
might be so economical as to merely can be handled on a given farm area
maintain the animal, but this would where the silo furnishes the bulk of
not be economy, when gain In weight the roughage.
More feed can .be
was the object sought.
stored per cubic foot of space than by
Greater Use of Cheaper Feeds.
any other ineans. Cattle can be fat­ no one would find it and she knew
At the present tinie, when grain and tened on silage, Supplemented with a her eggs would spoil. If only she had
concentrates are so expensive, It Is all small amount of a highly concentrated time to hatch them she would not
the more important that a greater use protein feed, such as cottonseed or lin­ feel so badly about going with Mr.
be made of cheaper feeds. The cheap­ seed meal, and a little dry roughage, Fox. “But I have neglected my duty,”
er feeds are those raised on the farm such as oat straw. Stockers and feed­ she told him. “I should not have left
the nest this morning.”
and consist primarily of roughages. ers can be wintered on silage alone.
"I’ll tell you what I’ll do,” he said.
Then, greater economy will depend up­
“If you will take me to the nest I’ll
on a greater use of roughages, proper­
ly balanced with some grain or protein LARGE VALUE OF OAT STRAW let you go. Of course I am to have my
pick of two of the chickens when they
concentrate.
It should be borne in mind that a Superior to Timothy Hay for Feeding are hatched.”
Dairy Cows Because of Larger
Madam Hen waited a minute and
balanced ration is not necessarily the
Amount of Protein.
most economical. A ration having a
nutritive ration of 1.6 might produce
the greatest daily gains on a two-year-
old steer, yet, it might show better
judgment and more profit to feed a
ration with a ratio of 1.8, produced by
utilization of a greater amount of,
cheaper roughages, and a lesser'
amount of high-priced concentrates.
The practice of feeding high-priced
feeds, and not making a full use of
roughages, is quite general throughout
the com belt. In some of the middle
western states, very little straw is
used for feed, but practically all for
bedding. Quite often the* cattle are
allowed to run around the straw stack,
resulting in a waste of at least 50
Tuna Chop Suey.
~per cent of the straw. Straw, as dry
Take one pound of fresh pork, one roughage, forms a very prominent
cupful of tuna flaked, one cupful of place in a ration for cattle, either in
diced celery, one cupful of 'chopped the fattening lot or when fed to stock1«
onions, one cupful of chopped peanuts, ers and feeders.
one can of mushrooms, one table­
In some sections of Indiana oat
spoonful of butter and salt and pep­ and wheat straw make up the entire
per to taste. Put the butter into a dry roughage for the greater part of.
deep frying. Cut pork in small pieces the feeding period. In certain parts
and cook in the frying, pan with cel­ of Nebraska, where alfalfa is pro­
ery and onions. Cover with one cup­ duced abundantly, the straw is used
ful of water, the mushrooms and the only for bedding. Even where alfalfa
liquor; simmer one hour. Add pea­ bay is fed, cattle will eat more or less
nuts, tuna, seasoning, and cook half of good straw, Jf they have access to
an hour longer.
it. It is a good idea to keep sòme
straw before them. Let the cattle
Tuna in Timbales.
pick it over and use what is left for
Cook two eggs until hard. Cream bedding.
three tablespoonfuls of butter and
Waste No Straw.
add yolks; when blended and smooth,
Now is a good time to look at your
add the juice of one lemon, salt and straw stack. Trim up the stack by rak­
pepper to taste; two cupfuls of flaked ing down the sides and properly top­
tuna, one-half cupful of cream and ping so as to shed the fall rains. By
two well-beaten eggs. Cook over hot spending a day on your straw stacks
wafer until well cooked. Fill the tim­ now you will save many a ton of
bale cases and cover with parmesan straw which can be used in replacing
cheese. Brown in the oven.
considerable expensive hay next win­
If the fresh fish is used in any of
ter.
the above recipes, of course it must
In some states most of the corn ig
be cooked before using. These recipes
cut, shocked, and husked out by hand
call for the canned tuna. Salmon may
later in the season. Why not let a
be substituted, but it is not as desir­
shredder do the husking and have a
able because of its oily" fishy taste,
roughage left, the greater part of
which is almost lacking in tuna.
which will be relished by the cattle?
The shredded fodder, which is refused
by the cattle, makes one of the very
best bedding materials.
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Com fodder, while it is a good
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roughage, is not an economical one.
There is a very large waste id
militant
handling. A large percentage of the
leaves are lost, and the corn itself is
Ive-sent-
about all the cattle get from the en­
tire com plant.
Run your fodder
through a shredder, feed the ear corn
separately, and the greater part of the
corn plant will be utilized. Corn fodt
der, however, can be used advanta­
geously at the beginning of the feeding
period in the fall or early winter.
Range cattle that have never seen corn
or grain of any kind can be put on
feed more rapidly by starting on green
or cured com fodder. This kind of
cattle will begin nibbling at the leaves
and gradually get to eating the corn.
On the other hand, If ear com was
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placed before them it would be days
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before they would begin to eat it.
Even Without Words.
The use of legume hays, Nvhere
Jane—I’m not so crazy about Harry grown on the farm, will obviate the
use of high-priced protein concen­
any more.
trates. Good hay, however, is high
Lizzy—Why not?
Jane—Because he knows so many priced and should be fed in such a
way as to avoid any waste.
naughty songs.
Lizzy—Does he sing them to you
Com stalks in the field, after the
Jane-r-No, he just whistles the com has been removed, should be util-
■ lzed by turning a sufficient number of
tunes.—L ife
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HAPPINESS!
According to average analyses, 100
pounds of oat hay will contain the
following digestible nutrients; 4.5.
pounds of protein, 38.1 pounds of car­
bohydrates, and 1.7 pounds of fa t; or
a total of 46.4 pounds of digestible
nutrients. This hay will ‘ be superior
to timothy fo r feeding- dairy cows be­
cause it contains over one-third more
protein. This will hold particularly
true where protein feeds are high in
price and difficult to secure. Ordi­
narily carbohydrate feeds, such as corn
and barley, are relatively cheaper in
price than protein feeds, such as
gluten and oil meal, which are neces­
sary to supplement rations of corn
silage and timothy hay.
Clover and alfalfa hay are superior
to oat hay, but mixed timothy and
clover is practically the same in feed­
ing value as oat hay.
To obtain the best quality of hay,
the oats should be cut when in the
flower or when the grain is In the
early milk .stage. If left until a later
stage, the stems and leaves become
somewhat more indigestible and are
less palatable. Also the protein con-
-tent is somewhat less where the grain
is allowed to practically reach matur­
ity.
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By EDNA KENT FORBES
NOSE T R O U B L E S
HERE is comparatively little
one can do to beautify the nose
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—except to keep the skin absolutely
perfect and keep it clean and healthy.
This means to correct a tendency to
nose bleed, to have all adenoids r e ­
moved and to keep the nasal passages
in such condition that they will not
harbor diseáse germs.
Disease enters through the throat
and nose. Many serious affections
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Crop Can Be Grown In Nearly All
Sections of Country— It Is Impor­
tant as Catch Crop.
\ BIG
CROP OF POTATOES
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1. Have well-drained, fertile
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2. Prepare a deep seedbed.
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3. Plant seed free from dis-
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5. Keep seed from sprouting
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6. Treat all seed for disease.
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Cultivate thoroughly.
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8. Spray for bugs and blight
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HOW DO YOU SAY IT?
SUCCESS WITH SUDAN GRASS
Sudan grass is being successfully
grown in nearly all parts of the Unit­
ed States. It does not serve well eith­
er as a “money crop” or a soil im­
prover, hence it may never find a per­
manent place in regular crop rota­
tions. It has, nevertheless, a very im­
portant place in the farmer’s second
line of defense as a catch crop which
can be planted to give satisfactory re­
turns when conditions have brought
failure to other hay crops.
Sudan grass is replacing millet as
the premier catch crop in many locali­
ties because of its ability to produce
a fair yield and a high quality of
hay under conditions of low rainfall,
its rather short growing season, and
its ability to thrive on a wide range
of soil types. Large yields of Sudan
grass are obtained only on good soils,
but the grass fails completely only
on cold* poorly drained land.
then she said she would agree to do
this if Mr. Fox would take her back
to the place he found her, “for my
nest is in some hay not far from
there,” she told him.
Mr. Fox should have known that a
mother would give her own life ta
save her children, but as he was a
bachelor he knew nothing about such
things, so he took up the bag and
started back.
When he reached the place where
he had found her he let Madam Hen
out, but he took good care to hold
her by one leg while he tied a string
to her before he let her go.
“If you make a sound,” he told her?
“ off comes your head.”
But Madam was not thinking of
making any noise. She had another
plan, and if it worked off would come
Mr. Fox’s head perhaps, so she led
him quietly back of the barn to an
opening and let him look in.
Sure enough, there was the nest with
the eggs. “ Go in,” said Mr. Fox, and
in she went and hopped on the nest.
Mr. Fox saw an opening at the other
end of Madam Hen’s hiding place
but he thought nothing of that. All he
noticed was that the place was filled
with hay, so he held the string and
told Madam Hen he would wait right
there until the eggs were hatched.
He did wait for a few minutes and
then as he poked in his head again to
see if she were safe Mr. Fox saw
crawling through that other opening
Mr. Dog. Mr. Dog saw him and right
through the place he came, pushing
Madam Hen in his hurry nearly off
her nest. Out he bounded, and after
Mr. Fox he flew, for Mr, Fox had
dropped the siting fastened to Madam
Hen’s leg and ^forgot all about the
chickens.
Madam Hen had made her nest in
Mr. Dog’s house at the very back,
where the old boards had broken away
and a hole in the fence made another
door to his house, so no one but Mr.
Dog' knew her secret, and, feeling he
must take good care of her, he looked
in many times during the day to see
that all was well.
Madam Hen knew if once she could
get back on the nest she was saved,
and her plan worked out just as she
had expected it would.
Errors in English and
. -.. How to Avoid Them
“WHO," “W HO M ," A N D “W H IC H ."
HE relative pronouns, “who,”
T
“whom,” and “whose” should be
used only in speaking or writing of
persons; when reference is made to
animals or inanimate objects, the
proper usage requires the use of
“which” and, “of which.”
(But,
“whose” may be used instead of “ of
which” when the use of the latter ex­
pression makes the phrase or sentence
awkward or harsh.)
Do not say, “ Those which say so
are mistaken.” Say, “Those who say
so are mistaken.” Do not say, “ He
has some friends which I know.” Say,
“He has some friends whom I know."
It is curious to note that Dr. Sam­
uel Johnson, the famous English
writer of the eighteenth century, and
compiler of the standard dictionary of
his time, was guilty of this error. In
his novel, “Rasselas,” h e.said: “Fre­
quently every fowl whom nature has
taught to dip the wing in water.” In­
stead of “whom” he should have writ­
ten “ which.”
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A Denial.
Sunday School Teacher—Always tell
the truth, my boy. You’re top young
to tell lies.
~~ New Scholar—Who?
Me?
Not
much. I’ve told' ’em till I was so sore
I couldn’t sit down.
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The Nose Is Liable to Infection and
Should be Kept in Good Condition.
can be caught and stopped by using a
nose and throat spray with some
simple disinfectant like diluted perox­
ide, salty water, or some solution with
pine in It. Adenoids, by clogging the
passage where air enters, Induce
mouth breathing with its consequent
disfigurement of the mouth and stupid
expression of the face. Catarrh, indi­
gestion, deafness, and other ills de­
structive to beauty, follow this.
Nose bleed is an annoying affliction,
and Is due frequently to an over­
abundance of blood. Doctors fre-
qu 'tly let a little blood now and
tht % In people troubled by frequent
nose bleed. It Is also in some cases
a danger signal of trouble in the
heart or lungs—enough so that people
troubled with irregular and irritating
nose bleed would do well to be exam­
ined.
If the cause is in misplacement or
enlargement of the veins inside the
nose, a doctor can cure the trouble.
Temporary relief comes from pitting
a piece of Ice on the spine, or stop­
ping the nose with cotton for a time.
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