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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
cial provisions, the State College has
for the past two years kept Sparks pret
ty steadily at work among the stumps.
Spaiks commenced his investigations
J. L. Ashlock, of the Washington State College, Gives Much
on the theory that the process he had
HE month of June will no doubt be
seen succeed in the Yount clearings at
Valuable Information.
a very eventful one. On the first
Woodland, was approximately eorreet
Huerta will eliminate himself long
for
the
particular
soil
and
climatic
con­
IIAT is the poor man’s way of re­ en gravel will thaw and fall down, thus
enough to take another drink. Villa
moving stumps! In the Pacifie keeping the fire lightly covered all the ditions of that locality. He therefore will take time to shoot a few hundred
Coast states, in the states flank­ while. In burnt-over clearings it is a learned thoroughly the method used by federals, while on the fifth Teddy will
ing and including the lioeky mountains, common sight to see here and there a the Woodland people, expecting to in­ relegate all the disbelievers of his river
frnin the Lakes to the Uulf, and from stump which for some reason had burn­ troduce it into other regions with such story to the Ananias Club. The moon
variations as the changed conditions
Maine to Florida, there are people who ed down into the ground.
will be full on the seventh and Huerta
want to know.
Bach of the cases cited is an example should justify.
will be full on the eighth. The balloon
Method
of
Burning.
And yet, since men commenced the of fire working precisely in the way it
ascension at Portland will take place on
Here is the way they did it in the the eleventh. Congress will adjourn on
practise of felling whole foreets where works when burning underground in the
Yount clearings:
ever it was convenient to do so and the roots of a big stump.
the thirtieth and go in search of the
Chop the bark from the lower part Monroe Doctrine and votes for re elec­
law did not forbid, numerous ways have
Twenty years ago a settler in the
of
the
stump.
Take
some
dry
wood
been devised for getting rid of stumps. western part of Oregon allowed a con­
tion.
Homes, oxen and niul<>g have been used siderable amount of litter to collect in broken in 18 inch lengths or nearly so,
June this year, according to all s gna,
to drag them out ofthe ground. Kuginee a pile near his barn, which, during a and stand the pieces around the stamp, will be warmer than January. There
have been similarly used, either uproot­ dry season, caught fire and burned. The placing the finer and more combustible will be considerable rain if it stays
On the windward cloudy. During this month the col­
ing the stumps by direct pull, or oper­ man noticed that where the litter had sticks underneath.
ating lifting cranes. Blasting powder been piled around an old stamp the fire side of the stump, leave a place for an leges will turn out graduates resembling
has been employed to split and loosen continued to barn for several weeks. opening in the covering over the wood, mushroons, who will go forth and teach
them in order that they may be lifted His curiosity was aroused, and upon in­ by placing against the pile two pieces of the younger generation how to tango
or dragged out.
vestigating he discovered that the bark or wood with the upper ends meet­ and smoke cigarettes properly.
stump
had been transformed into a bed ing and the lower ends about 12 inches
Yea, verily, the mouth of June will
But none of these methods dq for the
apart on the ground. In the triangle
poor man; and generally it is the poor of charcoal. The largest roots had been thus formed, pile fine chips and shav­ be eventful.
The Sunday schools bold picnics out
man who seeks the stump bound iron consumed in this way several feet un ings for kindling—a little pitch is
in the leafy wood, the children stuff
tier for the purpose of making a home. derground.
However, much of the force of this good. Arrange it so that the pitchy their systems with everything th a t’s
Because he is poor, to do his work he
kindling leads into the interior of the
must at first resort to primitive means. lesson was lost for the time being. Men pile. This will secure a quick start good, the minister gets mushy with the
leaders of the choir, until the yaller
in
that
neighborhood
who
saw
what
had
These in the case of logged-off land
when the fire is lighted.
jackets puncture his sacred tire. The
to bo cleared are his bare hands, fire occurred later attempted to fire stumps
Having arranged the wood as indi teacher of the infant class gets daubed
by heaping straw, brush and other in­
and his ax.
flammable material over them, and cated, take some soil (that containing with deviled egg, while a horrid, hun­
An ax of some sort, though bat a
a good percentage of clay is prefer­ gry wood-tick burrows in her tender—■.
club weighted at one end with a wedge their endeavors failed qnitp naturally, able) and cover the pile clear around limb. In June the rose is flinging all
since charcoal burning is not effected
shaped stone, has been obtainable by
the stump with tho exception of the its fragrance on the air; the turtle
men in all kuown ages. Fire is for the by an open flame.
triangular space where the fire is to be doves are eooing and a wooing every­
Taught
by
a
Sea
Captain.
free use of every man who can find
started. Lay each shovelful very care­ where. The maiden hannts the ham­
Fortunately a man heard of the oc­ fully against the wood, placing the first mock, while her lover lingers nigh, while
fuel, which is generally plentiful in for
est clearings. Hands are a part of man currence who knew eomething of the bottom tier around the stump quite her mother from the window watches
himself, hence are his nearest by and behavior of fire when burning under­ loosely. Bo not permit the earth to with suspicious eye, the summer
most dependable means of doing things. ground. He was an old sea captain, B. sift down into the wood and shavings. girl is wearing her most trans­
So these three resources are within C. Cruse by name, and is now living Put the upper tiers of shovelfuls on very parent dress, and as to her anatomy,
roach of every able-bodied man, rich near Castle Bock, Washington. Cruse, compactly. The “ collar” around the one doesn’t have to guess. The hens
or poor; and the question is, “ Can any after a great deal of experimenting, stump should be made especially tight. take a vacation and desist from laying
Light the fire in the triangular open­ eggs, and the girls who go a-swimming,
man in the single lifetime that is his succeeded in firing stumps. He taught
remove stumps from enough acres of Harry Yount, of Woodland, Washing ing already described. If the directions all strive to show their—skill. The
ton, how to do it. Others learned tne just given have been carefully followed, lightning bugs and army worm, the
land to make a good sized farm !”
trick, so that two years ago there were the fire will burn into the pile, at first, currant slugs and such, have seized the
Results of Investigation.
in northwestern Oregon and western consuming the chips and kindling under vegetables and hold them in their
Investigations that have recently
Washington perhaps a dozen men who the larger sticks, then spreading to all clutch. The ants are In the cupboard,
been made in the logged off districts of
knew fairly well how to kindle a fire the wood around the stump. When the and they revel in the jam, while the
Washington and Oregon promise a way
which would burn a stump root and fire is burning clear around, and smoke roaches cock their noses np and don ’<
of removing stumps which is within
base.
is issuing from the pile, close the trian­ seem to care a—cent.
reach of every man, rich or poor. In
A singular fact is that np to the very gular opening with.loose earth. As the
Tn June life is one glad sweet song
deed, (he method is more than a prom
recent development of the method, not fire continues to burn slowly, the pile for the farmer boy. He arises from his
ise, and has passed the ex .ernnental
enough interest eonld be aroused to in­ settles evenly all the way around. downy couch when the first faint
stage; for bulletins are now in posses
duce neighbors of the few successful Where breaks occur in the covering, streaks of dawn appears in the east. He
sion winch in the immediate future will
men to learn the process and use it in
goes out and bears the morning stars
be sent far and wide throughout stump their own clearings. This lack of in­ close them with more earth. When the
smoke issuing from the cover is blue, singing together. He wakes up the
doni, explaining how, by a simple pro­
terest was certainly not dne to any lack ton much air is reaching the fire, and rooster perched on the plow handle and
cess of burning, the roots of a big
of stumps.
the charcoal is being consumed, which is makes lum salute the flag. Then he
stump can be turned inte charcoal. That
In the summer of 1 {*00 II. W. Sparks, undesirable, so put on more eover. When whistles the Mrery Widow waltz as
finishes the stump so far as its obstruc­ who had just been elected supervisor of
the smoke is white and steamy, moving be hustles to the barn to curry the
tion to farming is eoneerned.
demonstration farms or the State Col­ upward in a sluggish way, charcoal is mules and anoint their sore shculders
In the idea of charcoal burning there lege of Washington, was on a tonr being made of the stomp, which is the with ax’e grease. His soul is full of
is nothing new. For many centuries through the timbered counties e f west­
sunshine when he remembers that John
desired thing.
the production of charcoal has been ern Washington, and while in Wood
From this point on, the fire, if prop­ D. Rockefeller, Woodrow Wilson and Ty
understood and practiced among laith land saw Harry Yount burning stumps. erly controlled, will work Into the base Cobb were the sons of the knighted ‘
civilised and uncivilised people.
In Sparks like many other men, bad al­ of the stump. Where a big root is en­ farmer and danced the tango behind a
Sweden it is made from rectangular ways believed that fire is the natural countered, the fire will first bum wooder harrow and stubbed their toes
piles of wood, the process being regu means with which to destroy stumps. straight through it, and, upon striking on last year’s corn stalks when they
lated bv the careful sdmissiou of air Bnt he had never been able to kindle a the soil on the opposite side, follows were boys on the farm.
By June 30th we expect Hi H ill’s
through holes in the coverings over the fire so that it would destroy a stump down the under side ef the root, grad
wood. In China charcoal is prepared in root and all. Many times he had seen nally working to the upper part which it broken bones are to be mended enough
pits, préférai ly in day soils. In most a fine follow a piece of timber far un­ finally reaches. In this slow way the to allow him to issue a proclamation on
countries where wood is abundant, derground, but it had never occurred base of the stump and the big roots for the latest and correct wr.y to tango and
charcoal burning in carried on by fir to him that snch timber eonld as well several feet underground will be turned also calling on the Loyal Sons of the
Great Tyee to attend the Potlatch, but
ing conical piles of billets of wood from bo, so far as the fire was concerned, the into ehareoal.
poor Oregon is bound to suffer while
a central bole or chimney.
biegest root of a stnmp. Bnt tho idea
When the base of the stump is en­ Gov. West and the state militia go to
Charcoal is used as a fuel, and as a dawned upon him with fores when he tirely consumed, the upper part falls
California to close op Mt. Lassen which
reducing agent in metallurgy
It is naw what Harry Yount was doing.
over. The break in the covering thus is on another rampage.
used in the manufacture of filters, and
made is lightly covered with earth.
Legislative Appropriations.
Yea, verily, the month of June will
may be administered as a medicine in
Burning will continue in the roots un­ be eventful.
The
eleventh
session
of
the
Washing
some rases of dyspepsia. On account of
til they are pretty well destroyed. Then
the resistance of rhareoal to the action ton legislature met dnring the winter if it is desired to eonsnme the charcoal,
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of water, stakes for wet soils and the of 190», but instead of appropr iting the eover is opened, and total combus­
Beautiful
College
Pennants
tends
to
the
state
agricultural
experi
inside of seek s are charred previous
tion is speedy and complete. The soil
to use. Chickens eat charcoal and most ment station (which is an arm of the next to the stump and the roots is not
po'.dtrvmen know its valus for main State College of Washington), for the injured by the fire, except a small spot Yale and Harvard, Each 9 tn. x 24 -3,
Princeton, Cornell, Michigan
puqvose of investigating the logged off just under the crown of the stump
taming the health of their birds.
Each 7 in. x 21 in.
Ho charcoal is a well known produet, land problem, passed Senate Bill 146. where the excessive heat sometimes
AH best quality felt with felt head­
having value for many different pur which anthorized the U. 8. Bureau of causes the forming of a “ clinker.”
ing, streamers, letters and mascot ex­
p o ses and the methods of its production Plant Industry to spend as much as
(To be continued.)
ecuted in proper colors. This splendid
»5,000
for
this
purpose
from
funds
of
are well known, and have been known
assortment sent postpaid for 50 cents
for many centnriea. But in all that the Slate of Washington, imposing the
The New York state forest nurseries and 5 stamps to pay postage. Bend now.
time the fact that charcoal burning condition that the Bureau should dupli­ have a capacity of 28 million young
HOWARD SPECIALTY CO.
Could be used to destroy stumps as big cate the amonut thus expended by ex trees a year.
Dayton, Ohio.
penditures
from
its
own
congressional
as they grow, was «vorlooktsl
appropriation*
The twelfth season
Underground Fire*
convened dnring the winter of 1911 and
Manifold are the illustrations which failed to make any appropriation what
many of us have seen, indicating plain ever for logged o ff lands. The indif­
R er*7ii wdYcrti«ing i t tho firs t w e h a re ftbt
ly that fire will burn under the ground ference thus exhibited probably pro
don«, a t lfx » l doreanda from thoaa who know
if properly controlled. Engineers have reeds from the same streak of human
of a t and oar work, ha t takon our on tiro a tte n ­
often bserved that logs which have nature which Yount and Cruse and oth
tion
Tho unprecedented demand for catalogs
from tho<e teeing <>«r reeent t d t htw .n tir e ïy
been laid down in swampy land for the era had contended with when they
e ih a n tte ri o a r «apply. hat the p rin te r i t new
first bed of a railroad will burn under sought to indnee their neighbors to
at work on a larger a «1 more cxa p le te catalog,
which we w ill toon he able te m ail yo® Rend in
the grade when the protruding ends dry come and be shown bow to rid their
your name at ones. hut de not get im patient If
out sufficiently to catch .ire in dry sea lnnd of stnmpn by a poor man’s meth
there are a few days' delay ia getting the book.
■on* In Alaska, old logs which are im od.
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bedded in the froten {ravel are burned
However, in one wny o- another, part
Ready Built House Company
W e fa m i «h a a y number e(
by building a little fire against the ex of the time by working in co operation
rvB'fnt and
designa yew need.
990 Broadway.
Portland. O rs in o
Send for catalog
po-ed end of the log and regulating the with the V. S Bureau of Plant Indus
burning no that as it proceeds the l e u try. atid part of the time making sp«
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