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Thursday, September 30, 1937 THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON Way Back When F arm T o p ic s about Our National Bird. Old Ben pointed out that the eagle was a robber and a tyrant and was the emblem of va- r i o u s European monarchies, where as the turkey was not only our largest and gamest wild bird, but a native of America. To be sure, young turkeys aren’t so smart. They love to get their feet wet so they may die from it. In dry sections, Irvin S. Cobb young turkeys have been known to jump down an arte sian well 90 feet deep in order to get their feet wet. But the adult turkey is wise and wily, a noble spectacle in the woods and popular in a cooked state, owing to his mag nificent bust development and his capacity for holding stuffing or in sertion, and his superiority when worked over into turkey hash. But if we are going to make a change in emblems, why not choose the worm—the humble, dumb, un resisting worm—as typical of most of the present populace? It could be a one-sided worm, too, which would save costs in modeling, be cause so many of us are the kind# of worms that never turn. CORN IN SILO IS A GOOD WINTER FEED Crop Makes More Succulent The Sucker Crop. DARLIAMENT, next month, will 1 pass statutes to curb stock mar ket tricksters, fly-by-night brokers, and bucket shop operators who, it’s estimated, are fleecing the British public to the tune of $25,000,000 an nually. We’ve tried it and it doesn’t work. As Barnum stated, a sucker is bom every minute — and sometimes twins. But the crooks who prey on the sucker crop, like the Dionne quintuplets, come along in batches. That breed spawn close to shore and the young all survive. Thus is the rule of supply and de mand balanced. In good times, there are just enough suckers to go around. In hard times, the suckers grow scarce, but, when one comes along, the crooks raffle him off and the winner takes all. Anyhow, legislation won’t save a sucker from himself—at least not in this country. He’ll break through the law in order to prove he’s a sucker in good standing in the suck ers’ lodge. By the way, brother-member, how many degrees have you taken? • • • Restrained Statements. A WAYFARER in Oklahoma, who claimed to have starved him self for forty-one days, on being asked how he felt, replied that he felt sort of hungry. Investigation showed the stranger had been cheating now and then to the ex tent of a clandestine beef stew or a surreptitious stack of wheats, but wasn’t it a magnificently restrained statement? For underemphasis, I can think of but a single instance to match it. In my youth, we had a policeman in our town with a nervous manner ism of killing folks. One night, I was passing Uncle Tom Emery’s saloon and snack- stand for colored only. A group of subdued-looking customers fetched out the limp remains of a dark per son who had been bored thrice through the heart. “Uncle Tom,’’ I inquired of the proprietor, “isn’t that Monkey John?” “Sho’ is suh.” “How did it happen?” I asked. “Well, suh,” said Uncle Tom, “It seem like he musta antagonized Mr. Buck Evitts.” Smoked Glasses for Snakes. Q N THE way here, I attended this year’s snake dance. The snake dance has become indeed a strange sight—for the snakes. If the tourists don’t modify their ward- robes by next year, I expect to see the snakes wearing smoked glasses. Veteran snakes that have taken part during past seasons are show ing signs of the strain. The bull snakes still hiss—as who could blame them?—but the rattlers no longer rattle freely, evidently fear ing it might be mistaken for ap plause. The commissioner of Indian af fairs wants the Navajoes to grow fewer goats. The Navajoes are balk ing. Goat hair is a profitable crop; goat meat makes good eating—for an aborigine stomach, anyhow—and goat smell is agreeable for Navajo noses. It seems to neutralize some of the other perfumes noticed dur ing shopping hour in ■ reservation trading post. IRVIN S. COBB. tion. Corn made into silage pro duces more succulent roughage per acre than any other known crop. The trench silo is the very thing for small farms where large up right silos would be impractical. Trench silos, inexpensive and con venient, are also being used more and more on farms where large herds are kept. There is a growing tendency to ward silage in preference to dry hays. Unfavorable weather at har vesting time is less serious for si lage than when hay is being cut and cured. Silage is succulent and keeps cat tle in good condition through the winter. Silage production requires less acreage and, therefore, permits the use of soil-building crops on land that would otherwise be needed for growing hay. The construction of a trench silo is fairly simple. A narrow trench should be dug on farms where only a few animals are to be fed. A cheap roof placed over the silo will help protect the feed from bad weather and keeps the walls from caving in. FORMER MAXOR WAS A SONG WRITER "THERE were twelve children in * our family and it was necessary to have a pretty strict rule about being reasonably quiet in the house and at the dinner table. My father repeated so often, “Children are to be seen and not heard” or "Silence is golden” that just to think of those old adages brings back the echo of his voice. I can’t agree with the principle of those sayings. Chil dren who are encouraged to join in the conversation are likely to have more self-confidence and to be more social minded. In some cases, their very talkativeness may be golden. Take Jimmy Walker for instance: James John Walker, who later be came mayor of New York City and was one of the most popular men ever to hold that office, was born in New York’s Greenwich Village in 1881. When still a very small boy, he was nick-named “Jimmy Talker” because he could not be Orphan Chicks Best Raise your day-old chicks away from home, if you want them to grow up to be healthy layers, is the advice of Ohio research poultry- men. Isolation of young chicks from older birds, but allowing them use of range on the experiment station farm, resulted in a mortality rate oi 56 per cent. In an adjoining pen, other pullets, hatched from station eggs but which had been grown to laying age away from the station, had a mortality rate of only 24 per cent. This experiment caused the Ohio scientists to point out “the need for a new phase of specializa tion in poultry raising, the produc tion of livable ready-to-lay pullets. The brooding of chicks and the growth of pullets in the future may largely become a commercial en terprise in the hands of specialists.’* —Country Home Magazine. HINTS FOR FARMERS There are, as a rule, ten eggs to a pound. • • • A total of 5,035,000 motor vehicles « • “sed °n the farms of the United States. • • • A good orchard fertilizer contains readily available nitrogen. Nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, and cyanamid are common forms that meet this requirement. • • • Canada was the leading exporter of honey to the British Isles in 1936. • • • A cellar with a dirt floor is bet ter for potato storage than one witb ■ cement floor. • • • The 1937 lamb crop is estimated by the bureau of agricultural eco nomics at nearly 31,000,000 head. • • • Eggs whip to a larger volume and beat more rapidly if they are at room temperature than when they are chilled. kept quiet. His father was run ning for alderman at one time, and Jimmy was sent to explain that he could not be present at a polit ical rally because of illness. The crowd called for a speech from the young boy, and he did so well that his father was elected. Jimmy Walker went to school In New York City, and studied law; but for a while it looked as though he might be a professional song writer instead of a lawyer or a politician. He wrote several songs which were published and made a national hit by composing “Will You Love Me in December As You Did in May?” None of his other songs enjoyed the popularity of this one, however, and Jimmy decided upon a more conventional career. He went to work as a clerk for the Union Surety Guarantee com pany and with his earnings re turned to law school. He estab lished a fine law practice, and be came more and more prominent in politics. In 1925, he was elected mayor of New York City and en joyed more mass popularity than any mayor of recent times has known there. • • • INVENTOR RAN BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP 1 style program? We hope to tell you 1 Fact is, the college-faring and the school-going (from kindergarten to high school age) girl that fails to make a right smart showing of plaid in her fall ward robe simply is not “in it” when it comes to swank in dress. There’s no doubt about it, colorful, youthful practical plaids fit into the campus, the office and the great outdoor scheme of things sim ply perfect. All sorts of plaids are on the au tumn fabric list from high-tone dressy plaids of silk velvet and handsome wool weaves down to the most utilitarian, practical, washable types—the kind that go bicycling along dusty roads and then come out “fresh as a daisy” after each tubbing. Bicycling is a fad so important nowadays designers recognize they must create fashions tuned to the sport. The new sturdy washable plaids are proving most likable for outfits of this sort. The girl on the “bike” as shown in the group illus trated is fashionably and sensibly frocked in a dependable completely shrunk washable plaid that gives this rider the look of being keenly style-minded. The schoolgirl centered in the picture is likewise alertly fashion conscious in that she also selects plaid for her voguish blouse, and it’s safe to say she will be getting a lot of wear out of it besides enjoy ing that feeling of confidence it brings to be appropriately clad for the occasion. Another way to subscribe to the plaid rage that is now featuring in every phase of fashion is to wear a true clan plaid skirt and necker chief with your new fall sweater as shown to the right in the group. HE seed of success is ambition, and Orville Wright was ambi tious from early boyhood. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, in 1871, the youngest of five children, and as they grew up Orville and one of his older brothers, Wilbur, became in FASHION STRESSES separable. A highly respectable FABRIC ELEGANCE mid-western family, the father was a bishop of the United Brethren church and later publisher of a re By CHERIE NICHOLAS ligious newspaper; but the family Fabrics play a most important never had a lot of money. Or part this year, and by their rich ville Wright started to make money ness explain the apparent simplicity of the styles which are the great est challenge to the dressmaker. Velvets, lames, brocades, laces, tulles are all in the picture. Lace becomes a happy medium for day dresses, almost severe in their simplicity. These may be re lieved by rich belts, patent trim mings, etc. Lighter laces in silk or rayon are combined with a colored fabric lining for day dresses or two tones used in combination as Worth has done. Lelong takes a heavy white wool lace for a hip-length top of a dress which ends in a sim ple black velvet skirt, with four rows of the velvet used at the side front from the high waistline to the hip. Patou offers rosepoint collars, cuff or bodice trim with severe dresses—but real rose point. Schiap early in life, going about the neigh arelli makes lace of gold cord for borhood and collecting old bones to three huge medallions on the top sell to a fertilizing plant. When he per of a two-piece effect black maro- was fourteen, he published a school cain. While dresses are simple In paper with a toy printing press. Lat effect, fantasy goes into the head- er he made a press of his own and gear. Wilbur improved it. Next he invent ed a paper folding machine for his Style Sobriety Stressed father's print shop. He quit school for Chic Daytime Costume in the third year of high school and, with Wilbur, started a weekly news At the height of the vogue for ro paper which lasted only three mantic fashions, mutinous mur months. They then turned to Job murs are echoing from the ranks of printing and later started a bicycle style leaders who favor simple gar repair shop. ments for wear before the sun goes At about this time, they became down. interested in aviation and proceeded "Sobriety of the best quality” is to construct the first heavier than the formula advanced by a leading air machine large enough to carry French couturière as the prime req a man. As in their previous activi uisite of daytime chic. ties, Orville was the creative gen “Wear tailored suits snd little ius, Wilbur the perfecter. Their sweaters,” she advises, “but have first successful flight was at Kitty them fitted by a good tailor and Hawk, N. C., in 1903. and the suc made of the finest wool. See thst cess of aviation was assured when each accessory is equally first Orvills mads a flight lasting 62 min grade, for one inappropriate gadget utes and 15 seconds, in 1908. can spoil the entire costume." T WNU Service Anything but Work “Cutwork without bars?” Ex actly—and that’s the very reason this lovely Wild Rose design for doilies or buffet set is so easy to do. The delicate shades of pink would be most realistic, of course, but the pattern is no less lovely if worked in thread to Pattern 5503. match your linen. A refreshment i table set with these would be most tempting! In pattern 5503 you will find a transfer pattern of a doilie 11 by 17% inches and one and one reverse doilie 6 by 9 inches; material requirements; il lustrations of all stitches used; color suggestions. To obtain this pattern, send 15 cents in stamps or coins (coins preferred) to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept., 259 W. Fourteenth St., New York, N. Y. DLAIDS on autum Liberal Fall Feeding of Cows increases Profits Liberal feeding of early fall fresh ening cows and of all cows during the dry period will materially in crease the dairyman’s income, ac cording to E. A. Hanson, extension dairyman, University farm, St. Paul. Too often the early fall freshen ing cow is underfed because pas tures are low, and to many dairy men it seems too early to start barn feeding only a few cows. All CTA records, however, show that fall freshened cows, well fed from the beginning, lead in year-round butterfat production. During late summer and early fall months, alfalfa hay will serve as a pasture supplement if pastures are sufficiently heavy. If pastures are poor, fresh cows should receive full feed of hay and grain twice daily in order to maintain high pro duction. Silage may be fed to ad vantage immediately after the silo has been filled. At this season of the year, fall freshening cows are being turned dry, and others are rapidly going that way because of poor pastures. Good dairymen aim to give their cows a dry period of about 6 weeks. Cows thin In flesh when turned dry should be fed a fattening ration dur ing the dry period. Cows in good condition at freshening time will al ways start the lactation period giv ing more milk daily and continue at a higher level for a longer period than cows that have a short dry period and freshen in poor condi tion. ------------- By CHERIE NICHOLAS By JE A N N E AS VEGAS, NEV. — Those Roughage Per Acre. folks back E ast who’re agi tating to make the turkey our By P. R. Farnham, Dairy Specialist, North national bird are late. Benja Carolina State Colege.—WNU Service. Comparatively few farmers take min Franklin had the same no full advantage of their corn crop in tion 150 years ago. producing feed for winter consump L Plaids Outstanding in Fall Modes Cutwork That Is Trans-Siberian R. R. This most commendable outfit is sure to prove an inspiration to the schoolgirl. It was shown at a re cent fall style clinic held in the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Viewing the new fall fabrics one becomes fully convinced that plaids as a fashion “must” are definitely here. It is interesting to note that the more classic plaids are labeled each with its clan name. Also the many smart ways to wear plaids makes them all the more intriguing. In enrolling as a plaid enthusiast we suggest that you line your jacket to match your plaid blouse, or wear a plaid dress matched to the lining of your coat, or top a pleated plaid skirt with a bright velveteen jacket, or enliven your fur coat or your fleece coat with a stunning plaid lin ing. They are showing in the stores daring coals In forest green; radiant autumn browns, and the very new deep sapphire blue with bold plaid linings in giddy contrast. Plaid velvet dresses to wear un der fur coats is another outcome of the present craze for plaids. You can also find cunning jackets of plaid velveteen. Some are bolero versions with plaid belts to match. If it is just a touch of plaid you favor, buy a dozen or so of the new plaid composition buttons and let them go marching down the front of your dark velveteen dress or coat. You can get all aorta of plaid accessories. There are en sembles of beret, bag and belt. There are belt and triangle-scarf sets to be had in plaid. © Western Newspaper Union. BE PENCIL-SLIM By CHERIE NICHOLAS The Trans-Siberian railroad covers a distance of 5,550 miles across both European and Asiatic Russia. The work of building it was begun at Moscow and was rapidly extended. Orenburg was reached in 1877. In 1880 the bridge over the Volga was built and the section connecting the Volga and Obi river basins was begun. In May, 1891, the first work on the real Trans-Siberian railroad was begun. As a single-track line it was completed in 1902. The cost was $175,000,000. From Moscow to Port Arthur the entire system was cheaply built. Constant improvements have had to be made. HOW LONG CAN A THREE-QUARTER WIFE HOLD HER HUSBAND? OU have to work a t marriage to make a luocvw» o f It. Men Y may be eelllih, unsympathetic, but that’s the way they’re made and you might a s well realise It. When your back aches and your nerves scream, don't take it out on your husband. Ileca n 't possibly know how you feel. For three generations one woman has told another how to go “smil ing through” with Lydia X. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. It helps Nature tone up the eystem. thus lessening the discomforts from th e fu n ction al disorders which women must endure in the three ordeals o f life: 1. Turning from girlhood to womanhood. 3. Pre paring for motherhood. S. Ap proaching “middle age." D on't bo a three-quarter wife, take L Y D IA X. 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D EN T O N ’ S your new frock must feature the pencil-slim silhouette that fashion demands this season, such as this gown so correctly defines. The hand some firm silks of quality kind that are so characteristically a product of this season’s looms have been found ideal for achieving the new pencil-slim styling. S tr— t Addr— ....
