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.
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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. PINK H AM 'S
VEGETABLE COM PO UND and
GO " flm lU ng T h r o u g h ,"
WNU—13
39—37
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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—
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