ONE THING MISSIONARY KNEW I “ « this Hard Shell to Crack I ___ ________ aald tbs ether day: | “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 ! 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. . •• 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. ■w 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 «