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“MisskNmrias are a good deal de- j
rided end reviled since the World
war. Why try te convert the heathen,
people cry, when we’re still ** uure-
gonerate ourselves?
“A Methodist lutesiouary was travel
ing in * steamer along the west coast
of Africa Th* skipper kept making
ten of him. The idea of bls trying to I
better the boaxbon! Why not first bet
ter hl* own people—get them to stop
using poison gas and all that sort of
thing? Missionaries were no good,
anyway. An Ignorant, lazy lot
"Th* missionary stood a good deal
of this talk, and then one day at din
ner he said to the skipper:
" 'We missionaries are ignorant, and
you, of course, know a great deaL
Sailing theae African waters so many
years, I suppose you can tell me the
length of an alligator's tongueT
" ’Sure 1 can!' blustered the skip
per. 'Surest thing you know!'
“•Well then, whst is ltfr
"'It depend*,' said th* skipper, ‘on
the length <rf the alligator.'
“ 'All right Suppose the alligator
is 15 feet long?*
“The skipper looked around the
table. All the passengers bent for
ward, deeply Interested in this lingual
duel—this tongue battle, so to speak.
“ If the alligator’s 15 feet long,' the
skipper said, ‘it’s tongue will be three
feet long.'
"•Wrougl’ said the missionary,
calmly. 'I'm only an Ignorant mission
ary, but I know that alligators don’t
have tongues.’ “—Detroit Free Press.
OresweS W tta UaKs*
W AertesMi
Here is what it coats, la labor and
feed, to produce 100 pounds of market
milk in eastern Nebrataa: Winter,
six months—eooeeotrates, 4L2 pounds;
dry ronghag«, 96 J pnsnd*; silage
and other succulent raagbage, 934
pounds; bedding, 11.1 poaad*; human
labor. 2 hours, horn* JatKM, 0.06
boor; hauling and grindtag eonoeo-
tretea, 90.016; pasture, 90.108; total
costs, except depreciatieu en cows,
90-788; depreciation on cowa, 90.018.
Bummer six month*—Oeceo tratea,
11 pound*; healing and grinding con-
contratea, 90-004; dry roughage, 5L2
pounds; sflage and other succulent
roughage, 2B3 pounds; pasture, 90.663;
human labor, LB hours; bore* labor,
6.08 hour«; total costs except depre
ciation on cow*. 90406; depreciation
on cows, 90.084.
The work of determining the coot
of producing milk in this section
corer* two ooe-year period*. It was
begun by the bureau of animal indus
try, United State* Department of Ag
riculture, in co-operation with the de
partment of dairy husbandry of the
University of Nebraska, in September,
1917, discontinued at the end of the
first year, and resumed in September,
1919. TTie figures reported were baaed
on actual record* obtained by regular
monthly visits of 24 hours each to
eight farms for two years, and to 22
other farms for one year.
The requirement* for keeping the
average cow one year were: Concen
trates, 1,529 pounds, hauling and grind
ing concentrates, 90.60; dry roughage,
4,275 pound«; silage and ether succu
lent roughage, 3,593 pounds; pasture,
922.01; bedding, 340 posuds; human
labor, 113.6 hours; horse labor, 3.2
hour*; other costa except depreciation
on cows, $46.35; depredation on cows,
94.78.
During the first winter and summer
the average Incomes from milk were
not sufficient to meet the average
costa. In the second year the incomes
were above the average costs in both
iseason*.
The greater percentage of.
the year's Income was received in the
winter, but the feed, pasture and bed
ding eosts exceeded the summer costs
GOLD-PLATED
DOOR
KNOBS RECREATION AND WILD LIFE
Three hundred Park avenue. New
York, the new Sherry apartments Just
opened, is probably the most luxurious
abode of wealth in the world, says a
correspondent.
It has gold-plated
doorknobs, silver-plated chandeliers
and a separate set of elevators running
to each of the sixteen floors. The
apartments really are private homes.
The largest of thirty rooms has been
taken by Percy Rockefeller.
Th*
yearly rentals range from $10,000 te
$55,000. There are ninety apartments.
Among the leading “director tenants'*
are Rlchgrd T. Wilson, Gen. Coleman
du Pont, Col. B. B. McAlpin, Louis
J. Horowitz, F. C. B. Page, F. Colt
Johnson, Louis L. Dunham and L. M.
Boomer. In furnishing the apartments
Eurojte and Americg have been search
ed for ideas and materials. Louis
Sherry has installed 9250,000 worth
of Thirteenth-century tapestries in
his apartment.
Mr. Boomer sent
to Norway for the wood used in
apartment, Mrs. Boomer being a
tlve of that country.
Some of the walls In many of the
homes are huge canvases for paint
ings by noted artists. A magnificent
ballroom, a restaurant, a grill, a tea
room and confectlqpery shop occupy-
the first floor and mezzanine. If you
want to locate at “Three Hundred
Park avenue,” you must be voted
upon by the "director tenants,” who
are particular, very particular, indeed.
—Philadelphia Public Ledger.
HUMAN MAKEUP TOO COMPLEX
And That I* Why People Hava to 01«,
Says High Authority Presumed
to Know.
Food for Dairy Cow* Should Bo Care
fully Weighed.
by a greater percentage than the win
ter receipts exceeded the summer re
ceipts.
Although the figure* obtained show
what was required to produce milk for
the Omaha market under the system
of dairy management found in the Mo
tion studied, and probably approxi
mate the requirements in similar lo
calities, it is pointed out by the de
partment that they, of course, <lo not
npply to dairying in sections where
different conditions and methods of
management prevail.
Additional details of the record and
work are contained In department Bul
letin 972, “Unit Requirements for Pro
ducing Market Milk in Eastern Ne
braska," recently Issued by the United
states Department of Agriculture.
Copies of the bulletin may be had by
addressing a request to the depart
ment nt Washington, D. C.
MOLD REPORTED IN SILAGE
Trouble Occur* Only Where Air la
Ptssent, Generally Caused by Lack
of Water.
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The usual number of complaints are
coming in regarding the presence of
mold in silage. Mold can grow only
when air Is present.
Air generally
get* In as the result of the silage be-
lag too dry when put into the silo. If
water was added, not enough was
used.
Poor packing may cause the
same trouble. Mold around the door*
and against the wall is the result of
poor construction of the allo which
allows air to enter. Nothing can be
done now to remedy the condition. At
the next filling time special care shoold
be taken to see that the corn contain*
enough moisture and that It Is well
tramped. It is always safest to reject
moldy silage especially for horses and
sheep, although for cattle there seems
to be little danger.—C. H. Eckles,
•hief of the division of dairy husband
ry, University Form.
IMPORTANT FOREST ITEMS
New York Apartment Hotel Wottid
Outdoor recreation ranks today as
Seem to Bo Last Word In
Height of Luxury.
one of the major resources or utill-
“Why do we diet’ This question
has been asked of the editor of the
Journal of the American Medical As
sociation, representing "all the doctors
in the land,” iy< the old saying goes.
“We die because we are so com
plex," says the editor.
So that is the reason that the lay
man must accept. The Literary IMgest
intervenes to say that it long has been
believed by blob-gists thut death is
not due to any natural property of the
protoplasm that makes up our bodily
cells. Primitive cellulur organism*
that propagate by division may thus
live Indefinitely. The higher organ
isms, we are told, die because their
structure is a complicate^ one.
There Is a very delicate state of bal
ance, and it is easy to disturb it so
that the whole structure falls. This is
the price that we pay for the multi
plicity of our functions. Would you
ruther be a protozoan and live for
ever; or a man. and die? This is, in
effect, the alternative that nature
holds out to us. Most of us probably
will be disposed to be glad that we are
what we are. even if our enjoyment of
the multitude of aptitude* and abili
ties with which nature has endowed
ua is to be brief.—Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
Big Forest Nursery,
The forestry nursery at Saratoga
Springs, which is in the course of
organisation at this time, will be th*
largest In th* world at no distant date.
When completed It will have an output
of 10,000,000 tree* per year and some
idea of th* scope of this new nursery
may be gained from the fact that
during the transplanting season last
spring the employee* of this nursery
severe! times transplanted mor* than
125,000 white pine* in a single day.
Seven transplanting tablos word L>
operation at one time. It is at thee*
table* that the transplanting boards
are filled, by which fifty young tree*
are planted In a row simultaneously.
The beds in which these plants ar*
growing present a very attt'actlv*
sight the tree* being all th* earn* sis*
and planted tn faultless rows.
ties of the National Forests, accord
ing io Col. W. B. Greeley, Chief of
the Foret Service, who states that
this is not because of anything the
Government has done to facilitate
or Increase this form of use, but be
cause of the demonstrated belief of
several million of people that the
Forests offer a broad and varied
field of recreational opportunities.
According to figures
received
from the forests justs compiled,
there was a total of 973,652 visi
tors to the National Forese of Ore-
gon and Washington during 1921.
The Washington national forests
had 550,460, while the Oregon for-
ests had 423,192.
The Forester emphasizes
the
fact that the presence of large
numbers of people on favored rec
reation areas creates problems of
sanitation, of public health, and of
protection of public property which
can not be safely ignored. He says
that counties, municipalities, for
est recreation associations and oth-
pr semi-public organizations and ia
some cases Individual citizens are
doing much by generous dona
tions and constructive planning to
relieve the situation.
They have
installed toilets, fireplaces, shelt
ers, sources of water supply, tables
and benches, refuse depositories,
parking places, and other almost
indispensable facilities.
“After the fullest possible coop
eration has been secured, however,
there will remain many important
recreation areas where action by
the Government will be necessary
to preserve public health and prop
erty.
The Government should in
stall necessary sanitary and pro
tective facilities upon the comp
grounds where other means of im
provements are unobtainable. The
estimate submitted of $10,000 to
meet the cost of work of this kind
during the fiscal yea’- 1923 is
a tithe of the amount needed,
it will provide for a few of
most urgent cases.
“The presence of game,”
forester point* out, “adds to the
tractivenes« of the National For
ests not only to hunters but to
residents generally, and anything
that contributes to the abundance
and variety of game increases the
value of the Forests for public pur
poses.
One of the outstanding re
quirements for the perpetuation of
the game resources of the National
Forests is a considerable number
of small, well distributed game
refuges, within which the rapidly
diminishing
stocks of
valuable
mammals and birds may rear their
young free from molesttntion, thus
maintaining upon the surrounding
lands a normal overflow or drift to
supply the hunter, naturalist, and
lover of the wild.
The National
Forests contain many areas remote,
inaccessible, and largely unsuited
for the grazing of domestic stock,
which might advantageously be de
voted to this purpose- The dedica
tion of such areas to the protection
of game would be purely a func
tion of land
management, the
State’s control over the game being
unaffected.
Several excellent bills
*re now pending in Congress.
A
law of this kind, generally applica
ble to all National Forests, should
be enacted.
"Supplementary to the establish
ment of suitably located game ref
uge* would serve as breeding plac
es. there should be,” declare* Col.
Greeley,
"definitely
formulated
plan* for wild life administration.
Tire animal life of the forests—
that is, their native population,
beast, bird, and fish—should be re
garded and bandied in precisely
ths same way as their plant Ilf*
forage
their tree growth
Under skillful manage
growth,
ment the quantity produced can be
Increased, its kind regulated, and
its most desirable utilization se-
Unregulated use means its
cured,
impairment; intensive use, often
its eventual destruction as a re-
source.”
SPREAD WARNING OF STORMS
Stockmen Notified of Coming Unfa-
vorable Weather Condition* In
Tim* to Take Precaution*.
Cold waves, heavy snows, high
winds and blizzard* vitally interest
the stock growers of the great range
states of the West. The weather bu
reau of the United State* Department
of Agriculture, in its endeavor to as
sist the stockmen, Issues warnings of
these unfavorable condition* which
are dangers to farm animal* and to
those who graze on the range. These
warning* are widely distributed by
telegraph and telephone to large cen
ter*, but further dissemination de
volves on those interested. The prob
lem has been largely solved in some
of the states, particularly Missouri, by
telegraphing the warning to one cen
tral point in each county, where ar
rangements are made to telephone in
formation of the warnings to each
community interested.
When a warning 1* received stock-
men arrange to graze their stock near
shelter, or in such a direction from
shelter thgt the stock wlU drift to
Coast Oysters Injured.
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Cold, freezing weather has injur-
ed the native oysters up on the
Washington coast. Complaints have
been registered from several oyster
centers.
Since the freeze, low
tides have ruled, which have left
the beds exposed, doing great dam
age to the shell fish. The "Oyster
cocktail” which originated at New
port, Oregon, was first concocted
by a cook at that placet and soon
became a great favorite with al-
most everybody.
It did not fur-
nish the "kick,” so called, If the
upper coast beds are injured, there
probably has been damage done to
the Netarts beds, which have suf
fered from the same cause on form“*
occasions.
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A Nees 9*r Trade.
An Auburn (Ma.) merchant nam*g
Myers decided to quit business and:
offered to sen hi* stdek to a boon trad-*
•r of the neighborhood named Merri
weather at what It Invoiced. $1.900.
”1 won't take It at that,” said Merri
weather. “TU give you 25 cents ter
every article and package in th*
store.” Myers thought of his big line
of slate and lead pencils w*rth « <Mt
apiece and agreed.
Two men were
hired to help check up. Slate pencils,
clothespins, package* of chewing
and pcpern of pin* were listed si 25
cent* each, ao were automobile tir«,
barrel* of sugar and coffee. An egg'
was worth a* much as a 50-yard belt
of cotton. The result was that Merri
weather bought the stock for $1,S66J5,
or just 638.75 leas than It invoiced^—
Capper's Weekly.
Made Quite Bure.
An enterprising company in Q*
Sudan had decided to lay a railway
Into the wilds, and many black« w««.
employed in it* construction.
One day the telegraph clerk at th*
nearest clvillxed spot received a tele
gram from the negro foreman of the
railway constructors: “White be*
dead. Shall I bury him?“
“Yes,” wired back the clerk. “Bat
first make wire that he Is quite dead.
Will send another white boss tomor
row.”
A few hours later another tele
gram came from the foreman: "Burled
bos*. Made sure he war. quite dead.
Hit him on the bead with it shov«!'“
TAX ON TOILET ARTICLES
TO RE DISCONTINUED
Clyde G. Huntley, Collector of In
ternal Revenue, calls attention to
the fact that commencing on Janu
ary 1, 1922, th*e stamp tax on toilet
and proprietary preparations will no
longer be in effect. • White this is a
small tax it has been a source of an
noyance to dealers and pcitrons alike
and it repeal will be generally ap
proved.
Collector Huntley suggests that
dealers restrict their purchases'ot
proprietary stamps between now
and December 31, to actual immedi
ate needs in order that they may not
tie up funds unnecessarily and b«
required to file claims for refund.
Rainer—Standard Oil Co. to erect
warehouse.
Astoria to Install arc lights.
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