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About The Springfield news. (Springfield, Lane County, Or.) 1916-2006 | View Entire Issue (May 19, 1921)
V THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS PAGE THREE URGE BEST EGGS FOR INCUBATING Those From Vigorous Breeding Stock Necessary in Order to Get Strong Chicks. FREE RANGE OF IMPORTANCE On Vigorous Mala Will Take Car of From ta 12 Hana of General Purpoa Class and 12 to 15 of 8mallar Breads. (Prepared by tha United Btatee Depart ment of Agriculture.) Fertile eggs from vigorous stock ara essential Id good liutctilns. They are obtained only from atock properly mated and kept under the bent possi ble condition to secure lienlth and vitality. Egg from overfat breeding atock do not usuully prcduco many strong chicks. If breeding birds ara confined, they ahould be fed a varied aupply of groins, meat, and green feed. The green feed helpa to keep fowla In good breeding condition, any poultry specialists of the United States Iepurtinent of Agrl culture. Free runge la usually Impor tant In the production of hotchoLle egga, aa It la much eaHler to keep up the vitality of atock handled In this manner thun In birds that are yarded. From 8 to 12 femnlea of the Amer ican or general-purpose claas and 12 to 13 of tha Mediterranean clnsa ran The Right Kind Ara Uniform Egg. he mated with one male, depending on Ms age and vitality and where the fowls are yarded, but this proportion may bo Increased where the birds have free range. Good ventilation In the lioune Is a great help In keeping the stock In good breeding condition. Should 8lct Uniform Eggs. Abnormal, small and poorly-shaped eggs should be discorded. Do not wet eggs which have thin or very porous appearing sheila. Eggs should be set when fresh, If possible, and It la not advisable to use eggs for hatching which are over two weeks old, al though stule ones frequently hatch. Selecting uniformly large eggs of the same color Is one of the quickest ways to secure uniformity In the offspring and Increase the size of the eggs. It Is well to clean dirty eggs by rubbing lightly with a damp cloth, taking care not to rub off any more of the natural bloom of the egg than la necessary. Duck eggs usuully require washing, which does not appear to Injure their hatching qualities. Kggs for hatching should be collect ed two or three times a day In frees Ing wenther to prevent chilling. I! rood y liens allowed to sit on eggs In the laying nests all day may hurt the hutching qualities of the eggs. For convenience In handling, eggs, In large numbers, are generally kept In a cabinet or turning rack, In a room IMPROVEMENT OF WINDMILL Mesne Provided for Constructing and Connecting Bladsa With Oper. ating Mechanism. The Scientific American In describ ing an Improvement on a windmill. A Vlsw In Side Elevation With Cer tain Bladea Removed for Clearness. the Invention of O. Olsson of Ord, Neb., suys: r , f 5,"" : where the lemperolurt la between bo and 00 degrees F If possible, al though they will stand wider variation. It Is not necessary to turn eggs kept only for a few days, but this should be don dally with those over a week old. Various commercial turning de vices are aold by poultry aupply com panies, or the eggs may be kept In cabinet drawers and snuffled about with the hands by removing a few eggs from the trays. Commercial egg cases sometimes are used fof holding tha eggs for hatching. Kggs from different varieties of the same class of poultry may be Incubat ed together, but It Is not advisable to mix egga from the Mediterranean or egg breeds, such as foghorns and Mlnorcas, with Plymouth . Hocks or Orpingtons, as . the eggs from the smaller breeds often hatch a little earlier than those from the larger breeds. Neither the hen nor the In cubator will hatch strong chickens from weak germs or from eggs which have not received proper core. MILO VALUABLE FOR FEEDING ALL STOCK Rapid Increase in Acreage in the Past Few Years. Best and 8urast Way to Improve Crop la for Each Farmer to Select Seed and Give Plant Good, Clean Cultivation. (Prepared by tha United States Depart men l of Agriculture.) Mllo has long since passed the ex pcrlmental stage as a farm crop In the southwestern United States, accord Ing to Formers' bulletin No. 1147, re cently Issued by the United States De partment pf Agriculture. This Is shown by (he rupld Increase In Its acreuge und value In tho punt ,19 years. From approximately J3,000 acres lu 1801), valued at f-'OU.OOO, the crop had Increased lu 1018 to 1JU5.0U0 acres, talued at ILM.'WO.OOO, neurly fifty-fold In acreage and more than one hundred fold lu value. The Increase In acreage In the ten years from 1000 to 1U14, IncluHtve, lina been rapid and substantial, totaling about 1)00.000 acres, with on added value of SIS, 400.000. Mllo has not yet reached Its econom Ic limits In either acreage or produc tion. These, It Is said, should In crease still further as the value and the oduptatlun of tho crop ore more generally understood. Many acres of lund In the district where mllo Is adapted that are now used or devoted to other less protltuble crops may be used to advantage by growing mllo. The best and surest way to Improve the crop Is for each farmer to select hl seed, prepare a good seedbed, and give tho crop good, clean cultivation. Mllo Is used for feeding all kinds of stock. It tuny be used either as a grain ration or a roughage ration for horses and cattle. The use of the crop for slluge Is Increasing. The grain Is also used as' food for man, mllo meal being said to equal corn meal either for separator use or In combination with wheat flour. Detailed Information concerning the varieties of mllo and their proper cul tivation, harvesting, storing and uses, ore contained In a new bulletin, which may be bad upon request of the United States Department of Agri culture at Washington, D. C Best Rotations. Rotations making use of a gross crop offer grain, with a cultivated crop following the grass, continue to give best results. Advantage of Cowpeas, Cowpeas furnish a pasture crop dur ing a period of the year when tuch forage can be used to the best ad vantage. An object of the Invention Is to provide means for constructing and connecting the blades or vanes of a windmill with the operating mechan ism. A further object Is to provide means for perventlng the windmill from becoming forced out of operatlou by a sudden blast of air. The wind mill Is so mounted as to obviate the necessity of o regulating vune, aud Is entirely automatic In Its action. HELPS BLUE GRASS PASTURE Drilling In Mixture of Red Clover, Al aika and White Clover Seed In creases Yield. In the case of rough blue grass pas ture lund which has always been In pasture and which should never be plowed, It Is possible to get a little more feed per acre by going on the land In late March or early April with a disk drill aud drilling In n mixture of red clover, nlsike and white clover seed. In some cuses It helps a greut deal to go on with a disk harrow and tcaf the pasture up thoroughly. I HTOLIJN FRUIT TV THIS next yard to where Mr IMg A lived with her five plggle children was an orchard and on the ground the Ave piggies could see when they peeked through tho cracks In the fence heaps of apples, and though their mother told them they were green and not fit food for even a pig the piggies looked at them with longing eyes. Ill 11 jr IMg was smarter than his brothers, and so more often got Into trouble, for his brothers were content to eat warm porridge or their dinner and then go to aleep with their mother, but Hilly rig was not He always slept with one eye open. and aa soon as his rootner and broth ers were sound asleep he would open the other eye and Jump up. Then oround he would look for something to do which he couldn't when his mother was awake. He had often looked through the cracks In the fence at the apples In the next yard; but one day, to bis surprise, he found he could squeeze himself part-way through, far enough to reach the fruit It did not taste quite so nice as he hod expected It would, but oil piggies think Stolen fruit sweet and after be had eaten one or two he began to like the green apples. There were plenty within bis reach, HOW DO YOU SAY IT? B; CM Lcuria Common Errors in English and How to Avoid Them TO RAISE" CHILDREN. KAMUAUIAKS generally ore VJ agreed that It Is not correct to apply the term "raise" to the rearing or education or bringing up of chll dren. The verb "raise" Is applied with propriety only to crops or cattle, never to human beings. "She raised a fam ily of eight children," says a charity report; It should have said, "She reared" or "she brought up." The Standard dictionary ridicules the ex pression, attributed to a Southern county, "She raised thirteen head of children." The term "brought up" Is the more modern of the two ; the term "reared" Is older. The misuse of the term "raised" Is a colloquialism that Is com mon In some of the Southern and Western states. Some authorities criticise the use of tho verb "grow" In connection with crops, asserting that we should not soy, "We grow wheat on our farm, but should say, "We raise wheat" (Copyright) -a- 1M? r I fit Y rfCfct 1 mm od lie ate and ate, never thinking of topping until his mother, awakening from her nap, saw bis hind legs, and Jumped op with a grunt Then Billy pig tried to Jump, too, but to his surprise, though be wiggled ant squirmed, he could not move. He bad eaten wo many apples be could not get back through the bole, and though his mother poked and pulled, he was held fast Such squealing and grunting never was heard. The brother piggies did the squealing, though none of them could outsqueal Billy I'lg, and Mra. Tig granted until the farmer came running to see what had happened. He tried to pull Billy Pig out by the hind feet but it was no use, and he had to call the hired man to belp before the boards could be pried apart and Billy Pig set free. Such a scolding as his mother gave him he had never had before, and he waa glad to creep Into his bed without his supper, but he did not sleep, for green apples are not good for even pigs to eat. Just as his mother told him, and Blly Pig had such a pain and cramp that be never again want ed to eat green apples. (CopfTlcbt) BEAUTY CHATS By EDNA KENT FORBES AVOIDING CATARRH A WOMAN wrote to me recently and A said she bad suffered from ca tarrh tor many years an3 was getting gradually deaf. She wanted some remedy, and asked If catarrh was cur able. I gave her all the advice I could, but such coses of course, become too serious to be handled by one whose specialty Is general health and looks. and I told her to go to o physician. For catarrh Is curable, end onyone who suffers from the least trace of this annoying affliction should start at once to cure themselves. If possible, they should go to a high or dry cli mate ond live where fir and pine trees grow thick, since nothing Is more ef fectlve than breathing the pine-scent ed air every day. If for any reason this Is Impossible, they shculd plant Keep the Throat Nose and Mouth Clean and Antiseptic. their yards full of pine trees, and put up window boxes filled with dwarf pines and firs, so the air coming through the windows bears the healing scent. For city dwellers this Is es peclally good. The nose and throat should be sprayed twice dally with some anti septic solution, preferably one given by o doctor who understands the case, Anything with pine In it is sure to be effective. This treatment will cure any mild case of catarrh, advanced LIBRARIES. THIS forerunner of the modern li braries were the collections of mnnuscrints and cluv tablets wlit.h the ancients made. The llterarv u. brary' of Ashbrutmnlpal at Nineveh ... a rAA v . . . dotes dock it ooo-oo u. u. . uther libraries ana collections or Archives have been discovered at N'lPDur. Rub v. Ion, Larsn, Kvech, und other lost ci ties. Some of these seem to date back to almost J!000 B. O. (Copyright.) Votaries Attend to That History reneuts itself, but posain - - doosu't have to. Bostou Transcript Hdw ItfStiiried Marguerite Armstrong - x"''XJ'"'. X i h l ' " Jl Marguerite Armstrong la regarded as one of the most charming women- In the "movies." She Is an unusually dainty blonde, and well liked because of being of the especially refined and pretty type. She has been playing the leading role In a recent popular pro duction. -1 cases need a different form of treat ment Though living among the pines will cure anyone, they say. The principle Is to keep the throat end nose clean, to kill the poisonous formations, ond so, to build up a stronger throat. (Copyright) o A. J USA between you and me no for spreada round I gotta leetle sug gest I tella you somatlng bouta wot ees go on een deesa Washington da capital U. S. A. place. I tella one my frlen bouta hard time I gotta for see da Pres. He say da Pres was gonna start speaking tour and mebbe was too busy for see me. I asko my frlen wots matter ees da Pres gotta trouble weeth Mrs. Pres and no speoka to her. You know, I no Ilka dat way and I feela sorry eeC he gotta trouble weeth da family. My fren say, "Wot's matter you, Pletro, da Pres' he no gotta trouble weeth da family. Wot for you tlnkt" I say, "well you Jusa tella me da Pres was gonna start speakmg to her so how you tlnk I know wot for eea da quarrel." You know, I unerstonda goods Eng lecsh so moocha my frlen, but be say I was meestake. He tella da Pres was gonna starta speaking tour. I tella heem eef I was Pres and I gotta trouble weeth da wife I starta speak ing to her Jusa for general principle. You know everybody gotta trouble somatlme weeth da wife. But I tlnk da Pres gotta righta idee deesa time. Wot you tlnk? O - A LINE 0' CHEER By John Kendrlck Bangs. THE OASIS. TIET say the World baa gone to pot Because of all Uh saffron lot Of Bolsheviks And other tricks That keep ua aU In water hot But as for me. I'll not despair Despite Earth'a burdena and Its care While 1 ran hear" The laughter clear Of little children everywhere. (Copyright.) JUST THAT. What has ha been doing since h e graduated from college? He has been trying to find -out what he learned. ; , O