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About The Springfield news. (Springfield, Lane County, Or.) 1916-2006 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1921)
I THE SPIIINGFIELD NEWS PAGE THREE MISDIRECTED LABOR OF MAN AND HORSE REDUCES FARMER'S PROFIT DAISY ROBINSON wss, rm v. -"y FOX'S IlICAIril HINTS SAID Mr. I'ojt oiifl night as o rnn over Hut Mil to Die farm, "Those chicken do not know what l K0"' fr their health nnil 1 nniHt toll them." Now, I ho chicken wcro living In a Iioiiko jf themselves i.ml Mr. Fox knew right well they were foolish and not olil enough to know anything shout him, no Iim crept up to tlio win dow nml looked in y standing on hi hind leg. "You poor Utile dears," ho said In louil whisper, "It In a sin nnl a nlmme Iim way you are treated." The chicken were all light sleepers and open emtio their eye nt once, bikI Micro stood Mr. Fox smiling In the tnoNt friendly manner, nnd how were "rot u wJvrret'fe they 10 know liu wiiii not a kind an he looked? Tccp. peep," cried all the chlckB. "We want Home uiiimIi. "Of course, you do, you poor little dcnrN." Mild Mr. Fox. "hut don't make such a tioUn for all the old hens will out It all up; now he quiet." The little chirks stopped at onre, for they well knew that the old hena ofteu ate all their dinner when no one was looking. "You are bndly trented, Indeed," nld Mr. Fox. "Here you are shut up IUOTTA plentu trouble other day ullu rijiht. 1 heen veeslt da con gress and senate tree, four day and he no go to work yet. So 1 d eel da cef 1 uo ahow up one day mebbe he toppa da speech nnd stnrta da Job. You know, 1 come decsu place Wash, Uultcda State, D. U. for see da con gress work and 1 no gotta more ua ten or twelve yenra to atay. Anyway, 1 gottn Idee atay way from dnt pluce and ace rreadent Wcelson. Oue time 1 vota for heem so 1 tlnk inehho he would he glnda for see. He dunno 1 am een town bo 1 decldu maka leetle surprise 1 aku poleeccmnn where du l'rea leeve nnd he tellu me een du White House. 1 usk wheccha white house and ho tlnk 1 am craze. Well 1 tlnk ho was a leetle craze, too. You know 1 bco ten, feefuteen white house een deoxn town one duy. So how he tlnk 1 know wheocho one where, da l'rea leeve? 1 tlnk da Proa wns pretty well ac quaint here. 1 nsku streeta car man nnd ho telln rlghtn quceck. Hut 1 gottn trouble ho noon 1 reacha pluce where MeeHter Wcelson leeve. One guy tdopptt me den other one stoppa ine nnd pretty aoon win beega crowd uskn too many question. One guy sku wot for w-nnta seo du l'rea. I telln heem I vota for Mees tcr WeelHon, one time but wot for 1 wnntn see eca contldensh. Hut 1 no gottu chanco for Bee dn 1'reM. 1 gotta too inoochn trouble reiu-hu da house. Hut 1 decldu getta even. Kef MeeHter Wcelson know 1 votu for heem one tlmo nnd 1 hava trouble mnkn du veeslt mehbe he fire dn whole bunch wot no lotto me een. 1 wrltu heem letter nnd eef dut bunch wot stoppa mo loosu du Job servo dem right. I no enre. Wot you tlnk?. Language Ha Understood. A retired cnptnln, expostulutlng with his pretty daughter, exclaimed : 'Thin is a One tlmo. to bo coming home after nulomoblllng with thut lubber I" "Hut, duddy," explained liU flaughter, "we wero becalmed. The wind died down In ono of the tires und we hud to wult for It to spring up nualu." $rrr"rM 1 rllll iIiIm very unhenlthful place while nil the old hen live In a nice, bjg Li Mine. "Von all want to live to be big horm or roosters, don't you? I know you do." he Mid, without walling for an uiiNwcr. "Now, I will tell you what to do tomorrow when you are out. Just you nil creep under tint grito by the road und run an fur away from the burn yard n you can and I will an re you from thin unlienlthful place and take you wnr you ran grow up big and fat I mean big and atrong." The next morning after breakfast all the chirks ran for the gate nnd some of them crept under It and ran down the road, hut most of them were aeen by I ho older tiena and made to come back. "We wont to live te grow up big and atrong." peeped the chlcka that were brought back. "We can't grow In that unhenlthful plnce we aleep In." "Who told you that allly atoryr naked Mra. Old Hen. "Oh, a nice, kind animal who came to our window lust night He want to aave ua nnd we were going to live In a nice place he linn, I'ecp, peep; we want to grow up." "I think you will And that It will bo better for your health to live here," said Mra. Old Hen, "for If I am not mlHtuken thnt was Mr. Fox who visited you hut night and gave you health hint, and those chlcka that got away thla morning will never come back." The next night Mr. Fox returned to urge the other chlcka to run away the next day. "Your friends are In a more healthful place, my dear," he aald. "1 want to see you all happy aud well cured for." ."We have decided that thla place la healthful enough for ua," aald the chicks, grown wise tdnco the nlghl be fore, "but It will be very bad for your health If you do not run away at one.. I'eep, peep, peep," they all cried bo loudly that Mr. Fox did not stop a aoeond. "Now, who has been giving them health hints beside me, I should like to know," thought Mr. Fox as he ran for home. (Cptrtsht) BEAUTY CHATS By EDNA KENT FORBES THE IIAIIl A LUXURIOUS head of hair will make even a homely face lovely, und will redeem an otherwise hope lessly plain woman. It wetns curious that so small a percentage Inquire about the hair. Its bad arrangement can spoil a face. Its good arrangement make a plain ono attractive. When people emerged from a state of savagery, hair be gan to be something more than a Abaoluts Cleanliness la Needed for Pretty Hair. protective covering. In biblical tlmea It was a disgrace to bo bald, and the word "baldhcnd" wns a term of re proach. Tho Ancient Hrltons were bo proud of their blonde flowing hair that tho worst punishment they could devise for an unfaithful wife was to cut off her hair. It Is written that Caesar's most cherished privilege wns thnt of wearing his luurel wreath all the time, ns he, poor man, wns bald I Every woman cun possess beauti ful hulr. It is merely a matter of absolute cleanliness and of proper care. The hair should never be treat ed hnruhly, It should bo brushed gent ly, to spread tho natural oils. After brushing, a pleco of absorbent cotton put on the brush nnd rubbed over the surface of tho hulr, will produce a ... : ( AV i Oalay Robinson, the "movie" star made hr debut aa a child on ot the fairies In the production of Petsr Pan, Later aha played Juvenile roles In a Brooklyn atock company, when she was taken over by a large motion picture producing concern. She has appeared with some of the leading film playera. She declares she likes comedy best O Hnw lb 5 fori Ed I && 1JLJ1! P08TAGE-STAMP8. TUB first stamp for letters as a revenue-producing agent was In troduced Into Great Iirltaln by Sir Rowland Hill In 1840. For a while the stamps were simply bits of paper, which bad to be pasted on the letter by the purchaser. The first adhesive stamp was the English "one-penny black." It was not until 1854 that perforated stamps came Into use. Be fore this all stamps had to be cut opart. (Copyrlht) natural brilliant gloss, without the aid of any artificial remedy. This will also clean off much djist that the brush cannot take. 1 fCoprrlsht) O HOW DO YOU SAY IT? By C N. Lurie Common Errors in English and How to Avoid Them "IN" AND "INTO." Tnn distinction between the uses of these two words, "In" and "Into," can be expressed best by giv ing examples of proper and Improper usage. Therefore, compare the two sentences which follow: "The man walked In the house" and "The mnu walked into the house." In the first case the action wus confined entirely to the house; that Is, the roan was In the house, and he walked therein. But In the second cuse, the man was outside the house, and ho entered It "In" shows state of being, or position; "Into" denotes action, movement, ten dency or direction. Do not sny: "I fell In the "wuter," but say, "I fell Into the water." Fol lowing Is a cuse In which the two words are used correctly In one sen tence: "I threw the stone Into the house, and It lies In the room." "Come in the house," says the moth er to the child. She should say: "Come Into the house." (Copyright.) o . A LINE 0' CHEER By John Kendrick Bangs. BEAUTY. WAN and haggard was her face. Clone was evory hint of grace. But a Hash deep In her eye Told of Inner spirit high That to those who walked In stress Spoke of truest loveliness Heauty of the rarer kind, Iieauty of the heart and mind. Unto service given she Held the Soul of Sympathy. (Copyright.) .0 -4 The present year marks the four hundredth anniversary of the death of I'once de Leon, the discoverer of Florida. ' ' ' ' . V " , f V tf A & .&itt Soft's ' Vegetable Culture Requires More La (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) "Jimmy hi too contented," declared James Henderson, Sr. "He'll work 16 hours a day here on the farm and never stop fo wonder why be doesn't get more money than one of those sllck-hsired soda clerks in the drug store. Something Is wrong with our farm system. I think I know what It Is, but ItH do Jimmy more good If he finds out for himself. I want to teach him to think." Perplexed by Losses. He was right about bis farm sys tem, but he was wrong about his son. Jimmy, In his own quiet way, bad real ized long ago that a business which required from 14 to 16 hours of steady effort dally, should pay more than he received as his share of the farm profits. He had Indulged In all sorts the mental gymnastics In an effort to locate the trouble, but bad never reached a sound conclusion. He knew that certain crops produced a profit, while others probably Involved a loss, now was one to know one from the other; the difference between poor farm practice and good farm prac tice? He found the solution In a bulletin which came to him from the United 8tates Department of Agri .ulture. "A Method of Analyzing the Farm Busi ness," was Its title, and Jimmy real ized, after a glance at the pages, that he had the secret of success so far as the Henderson farm was concerned. He devoted a good many evenings to studying the bulletin, then finally sought the elder Ilenderron on the farmhouse veranda one night and sur prised him by remarking that their farm system was as full of holes as an old boot Once launcned upon the subject the young man displayed an Interest that caused his father to set tle back In his chair with a sigh of content. "We've never made money here be cause we spent too much," Jimmy as serted. "We haven't spent money e actly. but we have spent things that are equivalent to money time, labor and farm acreage. If we permit Jack, the hired man, to put In a day's work on a Job which Isn't profitable, we've spent the amount of his wage and, In addition, the amount of profit over and above his pay which his work should have earned for us. We've wasted his labor Income. "We've spent a good deal of horse labor Income, too. Thafs our sore spot, I guess. We have 12 horses fine ones, I'll admit but they're eat ing up profits In the barn. I've made some calculations based on the figures contained In this bulletin. Arranging the problem to suit our crop rotation and the size of our farm. I find that we've Just work enough for eight of these horses. Eight horses would pay us a profit, but four more will elim inate x that profit In food and care." IT PAYS TO SHELTER ALL FARM EQUIPMENT Winter Is Proper Time for Mak ing Needed Repairs. Careful Inspection of All Implements Should Be Made and Everything Got In Readiness for Farm Op erations In Spring. (Prepared by the United Btates Depart ment of Agriculture.) Much of the loss and annoyance caused by breukage of furm equipment may be avoided by careful Inspection and repair of weak parts before the season's rush begins. The proper time for making repairs is during the winter and at times when the regular farm' work is not urgent, specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture suy. bor From Man Than From the Horse. "Where did you get all this Informa tion, son?" queried his father. "From a farmers' bulletin," con fessed Jimmy, unabashed. "Humph I" grunted James Hender son, Sr., In no wise displeased. "May be the bulletin can tell us how to get out of the holer "Yes, sir! We've been paying Jack good wages the year around Just so we'd be sure we had him for the sum mer's work. We've lost most of his la bor Income during the winter months. Our dairy Is small. If we build up a larger dairy It will give us an oppor tunity not only to employ Jack's la bor at a profit In the winter season, but It will also use up some of our ex cess horse labor. Similarly we can plan crops .that will require more horse work and less man work. The fundamental Information we need has already been obtained for ns by the Department of Agriculture, and a good bit of It Is In this bulletin. "They've studied a large number of farms and calculated to average so a farmer can tell more accurately Just the amount of labor be will need to plant, cultivate and harvest any par ticular crop. For Instance, one cut ting of bay on the average farm re quires a 10-hour day for one man and one horse for each acre. Corn for tne silo costs three days of man labor and five and one-half of horse work. Po tatoes will use up eleven ten-hour days, of man work to the acre and ten horse days. According to these tables vegetables require much more man labor than horse work. Onions, for In stance, need 1.490 hours of work by a man and only 100 hours by a horse to the acre. Basis for Estimates. "Naturally, these figures will not fit every farm they're average estimates but they will furnish a basis from which any farmer can make bis own calculations. The specialists say that careless handling of the labor Item Is one of the principal Influences in re ducing farm profits. He paused. "There's one thing I'd like to know why the Department of Agriculture sent me this bulletin. I didn't ask for It didn't even know they had It." The wise old man In the chair glanced up at his son with a gleam of merriment In his eyes. "No, son." be replied. "You didn't but I did." TRACTORS ARE TIME SAVERS First Impluse of Purchaser Should Be to Obtain Fullest Information Re garding Machine. Farm tractors are time savers for the average farmer. After a farmer gets a tractor his first Impulse should be to get all the Information possible about it and then manage It to get the full benefit from that informa tion. As the season advances, Implements which will be needed for the next farming operations should be gone over and given any attention required to make them ready for Immediate use. If the farm ninehineTy Is not properly housed during periods of disuse, it is all the more important that It should be given a careful overhauling. Af ter Inspecting the Implement, tighten ing bolts, strengthening weak parts, and renewing broken pieces, the nec essary painting should be done. Fre quent applications of durk metallic paint, consisting either of red lead or Venetian red nnd raw linseed oil, not only Improve the appearance of farm implements, but add greatly to their durability. This Is an age when appearances count, and n farmer's standing in the community frequently Is governed by the appearance of his farm equipment. The man who spends his spare mo ments In the repair of fences and gates and maintaining a nent appear ance of the entire furm has a better chance of becoming a leuder In his community than the man whose farm hns h slovenly appearance.