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The cold weather also ‘held back" the
spring poet.
Last call for eubscriptlons to the Y.
ML C. A. fund. ,
The Japanese treaty having been rati
fied, will Mr. Hobson please rest?
It is at least no fauk of Senator Luke
Lea's that his name is alliterative.
Where is the old-fashioned, punctilious
illiterate who pronounced it '‘furnltoor?"
This cold weather is doubtless part and
parcel of the Canadian reciprocity plan.
The back to the farm movement is no
dream. It is the automobile sulky plow
now. ’ ,
Why ere the magazines attacking the
Mormons? Are the Mormons necessarily
I Btdck-rakers?
It wasn't exactly August weather early
Thursday morning, but, then, the weather
man promises relief.
"Peach crop cut 30 per cent. - We hope
this isn’t true, but even if it were, 70
per cent hi some crop.
The new Japanese treaty is being held
up. Probably want to consult Hobson
about the probability of war.
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5 I/?wyem and doctors often disagree,
but tn the matter of fees they generally
are of the same uniform opinion.
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The • trouble with the average legal
holiday, as far as the average worker is
concerned. is that they are legal only.
H»s no one thought to make a raid on
f the possum preserves in anticipation of
the president’s visit to us next month?
A 90-year old man in Arkansas has
been admitted to practice law. Sage
counsel he should be and a sage coun-
The fact that Joe Cannbn opposes re
ciprocity makes the outlook for that de
parture rather more hopeful than it had
b *‘"
Bailroad securities persistently refuse
to decline very greatly, tn price, in spite
the railroads’ positive prediction that
they with
And to think that the harem skirt is
nothing more than the divided skirt.
And we had been expecting something
revolutionary.
Fresh eggs are so plentiful now that
they have ceased to be a novelty. To
think that we should ever have eaken
any other kind.
With all his faults, no one has denied
that Senator Bailey is oae of the ablest
men the United States senate has seen
tn many a day.
The per capita wealth of the United
States shows a reduction, and this In
H the face of these magnificent benefactions
from millionaire*.
The automobile is becoming more and
. more desirable. Here is a man who stole
a tire from a machine while the chauf
feur was eating supper. _
It la hard to see how Luther Burbank
could improve on the strawberry, as
ke prom'sea. unless he makec two grow
where only one grew before.
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The baroness who Is engaged to an
Ohio man named Hutt will marry no
poor man. although the name somehow
suggests the humble cottage.
Latest disturbance from the cost of liv
ing center is that plum pudding will ad
vance tn price. Oh, well, that won't
concern us until next Christmas.
And strange to say, none of the enter
prising yellow papers have thought of
E offering a reward for Miss Arnold. One,
though, has started a guessing contest.
The Mexican government announces,
through Minister Creel, that it has the
revolution well In hand, but it seems
more likely that the revolution is in the
bush.
It is denied now that J. Pierpont Mor
gan acquired a portrait of Philip IV. The
correction Is welcomed. People the world
over had been mislead into believing this
report. . -
Perusal of belated exchanges shows
that George Washington's portrait got
pretty fair space on the front pages, al
though Mias Arnold's Is still a live pic
torial feature.
“As to mural decorations, if you see
them tn the city hall, they're art," says
.the Indianapolis News. From which one
would infer that the city hall in In
dianapolis is not like other city halt a
“Mr. and Mrs. James Detrick, promi
nent members of the younger set in
Bellefontaine. proud-parented for' the
11th Hme last Monday. It's a boy of
1911 model, and with 10-older-sister
equipment'—Ohio State Journal.
"Proud-parented" is good.
A Friend in Need
When you have headache
Heartburn, coated tongue
Gas-belchlng, incipient cold,
Take Hood’s Pills
FOUR TEAMS FOR ONE.
A Thomas county farmer declares that in the future he will
be able to haul four bales of cotton to town with the same team
that a year ago could carry only one.
The mules and wagou and the cotton are unchanged but the
public spirit of his community has wakened to the meaning of
good roads. The highways themselves have been transformed and
that is why one team can now do the work of four.
This testimony might be gathered from scores of Georgia
counties where the good roads movement is being pressed. In
every portion of the state popular sentiment is growing stronger
each month for the development of highways. A number of
counties have issued bonds in order that the work may be expedit
ed. Every class and calling of the people are alert to the need
and the importance of this enterprise.
No one, however, is more interested in its advancement than
is the farmer. For to him the value of a good road is in practi
cal and continuous evidence. To him, it means the saving of mon
ey and time, the enhancement of his property’s value and the en
richment of his children’s opportunities. It brings him nearer
the market, the school, the church and the homes of his neigh
bors.
The fact is Georgia can never reach the full measure of agri
cultural possibilities until every county of the state is netted
with smopth and durable roads. Whatever enables one wagon to
*do the work of four and makes one trip to town a.ccmplish the
results of four will leave the farmer more money in his pocket
at the end of the year.
The good roads movement that is now so earnest and wide
spread in Georgia must never be suffered to lag. It should be the
constant concern of merchants and chambers of commerce in the
towns and the individual interest of every man in the county. For
upon the extension of this movement depend the whole state’s
growth and prosperity.
A SUPREMELY IMPORTANT CONVENTION.
It is deeply gratifying to note that the cities and towns of
Georgia are planning to send large delegations to the Southern
Commercial congress which meets in Atlanta on March 8, 9 and 10,
now less than a fortnight away. Every county should be well
represented, for a gathering of such magnitude and importance has
never been known in the south nor any other part of the union.
Georgia is fortunate and honored in having been chosen as the
seat of this great convention and it is the duty, as well as the op
portunity, of her people to give it their most cordial support.
Sixteen southern states will be represented in this congress by
their governors and by deputations of business and civic leaders.
Every board of trade and every citizen of importance in the sec
tion will send representatives. In addition to these, many men
of national and international note will be present. President Taft
and Governor Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, will be among
them; Secretary Dickinson, William G. McAdoo, of New York;
Chancellor Houston, of Washington university, St. Louis, Mo.;
Colonel Roosevelt, Hon. John Barrett, director of the Pan-American
union; Secretary James Wilson, of the United States department
of agriculture, and others distinguished in the world of industry,
agriculture, finance and education. ,
The attendance at the congress will not he less than five
thousand.
These facts afford a glimpse into the importance of the con
vention, an importance that springs from the splendid and timely
purpose it represents. To qificken the south's sense of the power
that is stored up in its manifold resources and to make the worid’s
estimate of the south a true one—these are the aims of the South
ern Commercial congress.
The approaching convention will be a rallying ground for new
ideas and new endeavor. Every man. no matter what his occupa
tion or interests may be, will find in these sessions keen inspiration
and practical help. j
OUR RAILROADS' PROSPERITY-
The railroads of Georgia are to be congratulated that their
net earnings for the past fiscal year show the substantial in
crease of two million, six hundred and eighty-eight thousand,
three hundred and seventy-one dollars. Better evidence of the
state’s sound and prosperous business could not well be found.
The reports just completed by the railroad commission are
rich in interesting details. For the year ended June 30, 1910,
the combined net earnings of the railways operating in this state
amounted to thirteen million, eight hundred and thirty-three thou
sand, three hundred and forty dollars. For the preceding year
their net earnings were eleven million, one hunded and forty-four
thousand, nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars. For 1907, then
considered the pinnacle year of railroad prosperity, their net earn
ings were only eight million, seven hundred and twenty-five,, thou
sand, nine hunded and ninety-seven dollars. Thus within three
years the net earnings of our railroads have advanced more than
five tnillion dollars.
It is noteworthy that this gain has been made despite an
appreciable increase in operating expenses. For the fiscal year of
1910, these expenses amounted to more than thirty million dol
lars while for 1909 they were about twenty-eight millions. This
fact serves to emphasize the gain in net earnings.
The record is not confined to one or a few but to practically
all the carriers of the state, the only exception being in the case
of one or two very short lines.
Such a showing is a credit to the management of the railway
companies and alsp to the conditions and the laws of the state.
It was once predicted that certain needed reforms in legislation
would discourage, or even injure the investment of capital in
Georgia. Time and results have most happily belied this ground
lesa prophecy. The state has never held out more golden or in
viting opportunities to honest business and those progressive
laws, far from intimidating capital, have but fortified and broad
ened the conditions finder which it may rightfully operate.
JUST TO SHIPPERS AND THE ROADS, TOO.
In only one narrow little nook of this whole country is there
any real cause for'uneasiness over the action of the interstate
commerce commission in forbidding an increase in freight rates by
the eastern and western railroads.
That nook is Wall street.
The carriers themselves, the practical railroad men, will soon
adjust themselves to the conditions entailed by the commission’s
decision. As suggested by Louis D. Brandeis, the attorney for
the shippers, the roads will learn to look within, instead of with
out, for relief. They will avail themselves more earnestly of those
modern economic methods whereby manufacturers and other in
dustrial interests have grown and prospered. Earnings will be
applied to the needs of transportation service rather than to the
capricious greed <rf speculators and high financiers who know
nothing and care less about the real business of railroads.
And so, while certain interests in Wall street may have cause
for anxiety over the commission’s ruling, the railroads themselves
will, in the long run, find it truly beneficial.
The New York World comments aptly i
The chief function of a railroad is to be a common carrier and not
to aerve as security for new issues of stocks and bonds. Rates are not
to be raised whenever a financial group in control of the property wants
more money. The necessity for the advance must be proved and it must
be an operating necessity, not a atock-ticker necessity. The shipper ;s not
to be mulcted until reasonable processes of economy and intelligent man
agement have been exhausted.
The American public wants to see the railroads prosper along
with all other lines of legitimate business. But the public doesn’t
want to bear the burden of Wall street speculations. Our carriers
must be allowed a reasonable return upon the cost and value of
the service they render. But they should be perverted to the
exigencies of games in high finance. It is to the interests of the
railroads as well as the public that this just and stable principle
should have been emphatically set forth by the interstate com
merce coitifliission. _.
THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1911
Is Christianity True or False
The Real Issue in Missions
Bt. Augustine says, "He who conceals
a useful truth Is equally guilty with the
propagator of an injurious falsehood.”
The proposition is self-evident; for the
concealment a truth, which, if publish
ed, would dispel error, shows that he who
conceals it is not deeply devoted to truth
nor profoundly opposed to falsehood.
Buch a person lacks both faith in truth
and love for truth. He does not regard
it as ah indispensable thing to be sought
at all cost, nor does he esteem it as a
sacred thing to be defended with all
courage. He does not look up to it as
having a sovereign right to occupy ex
clusively the whole domain of human in
telligence; he is ready to concede certain
areas to falsehood for occupation by er
ror. In his Inmost soul such a man really
has no reverence for truth, nor aversion
to falsehood.
These principles are applicable to truth
of every sort in all its forms. There Is
no useless truth nor useful error, and a
truth-loving soul stands for the truth
in all fields and opposes error every
where. But some truths are higher than
others; some are more indispensable to
life than are others, and more influential
iu shaping human destiny. Mathematical
truth, for example, is important; but
there are mathematical truths of which
men may be ignorant without impairing
their characters or imperiling their wel
fare. This, however, is not the case
with moral truth. In the region of moral
and religious truth there is not a prin
ciple of which men may be ignorant
without Injury to their lives In this
world and in tne world to come. Moral
and religious principles concern our rela
tions to persons, both divine and hu
man, and Ignorance of them or indiffer
ence to them is fatal to life. To with
hold moral and religious truth from those
who have It not, is, therefore, treason
to God and Inhumanity to man. It is to
deny to human souls the vital atmos
phere without which they can not breathe
and live. It is to allow suffocating false
hood to do its deadly work of stifling vir
tue and smothering hope.
In the consideration of these princi
ples we find the basis of the work of
foreign misions, and in them we dis
cover the nature of the issue involved
in that work. It proceeds on the theory
that the Christian religion is true, and
that the faiths of heathendom are so
far false that they mislead and destroy
men. If w« doubt the truth of Christian
ity, or if we accept pagan cults as true,
we can have no interest in the work
of foreign missions. At bottom, therefore,
the real issue in foreign missions Is
whether Christianity is true or false, and
the great enterprise of foreign missions
is bringing this issue home to the hearts
of professing Christians as never before.
It is a testing issue which reveals the
very inmost thoughts of men as to the
religion which they profess to believe.
It uncovers shams and hypocrites In
that it shows through their opposition to
foreign missions their utter lack of faith
in Christianity. The doubt which they
have disguised to friends and neighhprs
is disclosed by their unwillingness to
have the religion of Christ propagated
throughout the whole world. If they real
ly believed In their hearts that Christian
ity is true, they would desire its speedy
proclamation in all lands and its prompt
acceptance by all souls. Nor would they
stickle about “preaching the gospel at
home first before going to other lands
with it” A man who believes that he
has In his possession an important
truth, never seeks to hold it within geo
graphic limits. A statesman having an
economic or governmental truth, which
he genuinely believes, will not tarry in
HOW TO RAISE CHICKENS-THE CACKLE CLASS
Lesson I—A1 —A Start in Hen Business
It pays to raise chickens in the city.
There’s nd doubt about it.
For a long time it was the generally
accepted theory that a hen needed about
180 acres in which to roam and scratch,
a-nd that a big barnlike house was need
ed for just a medium sized flock to
roost.
Wrong.' One well tested system gets
excellent results both in eggs and meat
by confining chickens in very close quar
ters. In little back yards of city lots a
flock of hens will grow and ( lay, and
fatten for the market or your table
just as if they were on the farm.
If the largest plot you can give to
chickens 'is only eight feet by four,
that will do for a half dozen hens and
a rooster, and with right care you ought
to get 50 dozen eggs a year.
Multiply that by more space and more
hens and see how it will cut down
your cost of living. Olso it will make
you free of the cold storage product,
and what is almost as good to the city
man, the larger the productio nos eggs
and poultry the less the demand for
pork, beef and mutton, and correspond
ingly lower prices for all mea'ts.
Any one who has tried it will tell
you that it’s mighty nice to go out to
the nests in your own back yard and
get some fine fresh eggs, eggs that are
eggs.
Maybe the klddiee won’t like those
fresh eggs! Maybe they won't take
to those chickens! And maybe the wife
won’t enjoy the baby chicks and the
fluffy grown up brood!
In succedlng articles a study of the
chicken raising business will be made
from the standpoint of the individual
who wants to raise them in the limited
space most city people have. •
Now, before you decide upon any plan
or anything in connection with chicken'
raising, let this sink deep into your cra
nium: Don’t have scrub chickens around
the place. Get good chickens, good
breeds. Os course, that will cost a lit
tle more to begin with, but they will
pay and pay you well, while with the
scrubs you will make a failure nine times
out of ten.
There are many good breeds of chick
ens. Many poultry fanciers like the Leg
horn best, and both white and brown
Leghorns have their advocates. They say
that the Leghorn is the best layer and
that being small they require less room,
less food, and produce more eggs In a
year than any other breed. But there
isn't much flesh on the Leghorn and
as many people like a chicken dinner
once tn a while, a larger fowl is bet
ter.
For meat alone the Brahmas ar e good.
.For good, all-round layers and meat pro
ducers. Orpingtons, Plymouth Rocks,
Wyandottes and Rihode Island 'Reds each
have their admirers. Personally, I like
the Orpington best. It's a .big chicken,
lays well during the cold weather, can
accommodate itself to limited space.
Anyway, whatever breed you select, the
big part of chicken raising comes after
wards. For the novice it would be best
if he starts small. Every expert poultry
By Bishop
Warren A.
Candler
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BISHOP WA.BREM A. CAMDLEB.
Georgia until every Georgian accepts hW
views before he goes to other states to
proclaim his political doctrine. On the
contrary, by spoken word and printed
page he will seek to bring the iVhole
nation to his way of thinking. In this
he acts as every Christian should act
who really believes that Christianity is
the only true religion which all mankind
should accept. The men and women, who
profess to accept Christianity, but who
would confine it to any one land, in
their heart of hearts do not believe it.
They would have Christ to be a provin
cial deity of a fraction of a world,
whereas he demands for Himself domin
ion over all the earth. To offer him a
provincial kingdom, instead of universal
knlghtshlp, Is to dishonor and Ineult
him. It Is to put, as did his cruclfiers, a
mocking reed in his hand for a scepter,
and a crown of thorns upon his head. In
the end the people who seek restrict
his sovereignty to their own reduce
him to the level o# a mere household
deity for the sole use and benefit of
their own family and in their souls offer
to him dally that prayer of infinite and
infamous selfishness which he prayed
who said,
“Lord bless me and my wife, my son
John and his wife; us four and no more.’’
This explains why the opponents of
foreign missions do nothing for the
work in the home land about which
they prate so much. They care noth
ing for Christ's kingdom at home or
abroad. They do not believe that Chris
tianity is a system of truth which Is
indispensable t 0 mankind. They are not
concerned for the welfare of humanity
nor jealous for the honor of God. In de
siring to withhold from the world the
knowledge of Christianity, they proclaim
their own religion to be a quack nostrum
compounded by a secret formula.
If Christianity is true it must be
preached to all men. If it is no more
true than Buddhism or Confucianism or
Mohammedanism, it is not worthy of be
ing sustained in any land—our own land
or any other land. It should, If it is
false, be abandoned. •
The real and ultimate issue In the
matter of missions is whether Christian
ity Is true or false. Let all parties
face the issue fairly and squarely.
If Christianity is the final and full
truth about God and deity and destiny,
It Is such a truth as constrains us to
give it to all men. If it is not true,
let us have done with the empty delu
sion. The time has come for all men to
have It or ?or all men to renounce It.
raiser will preach that to you day and
night. And there’s a reason. You must
get practical experience, must have your
failures and successes before you can
think of making money on a large chick
en farm.
One other thing to remember is when
you start with a particular breed stick
to that breed. If they don’t come up to
snuff as layers, change the strain, but
keep to the breed of which you have al
ready learned something. More will be
said about layers in later articles.
Before you get the chickens get the
house for them to live in. The size of
that depends altogether upon the size of
the flock you will wunt to keep, and upon
the space at your disposal.
The main things to be remembered in
building chicken houses are these: They
must be dry, well ventilated, both winter
and summer, and room enough for each
fowl; roots need not be more than 18
inches from the floor; plenty of light is
also necApsary.
Every effort must be made to prevent
drafts, therefore*place the roots near the
back of the hopse, and except on real
cold nights burlap coverings for doors
and windows are enough. Fresh air can
get through while drafts cannot.
The house need not be expensive. A
boy handy wih hammer and saw ought
to be able to put up a good one. Rough
wire netting can be used to enclose a run
way where the chickens can have their
needed exercise.
Nbw having built the house and decided
upon the breed, the next thing is to be
gin. This you can do with eggs, young
' chicks, or with hens.
If you decided to buy young chicks the
problem of incubation is removed, but
: if you intend to keep that chicken house
1 in active operation for years you will find
it to your interest to learn how to hatch
' your own chtcks.
Jn tomorrow’s Journal the writer will
discuss natural and artificial incubation;
matings, and how to get the best layers.
Every one of us to a certain extent has
a responsibility of some sort, and the
fact that one is not married does not
make it a foregone conclusion that there
is no big-hearted, clear-brained Christian
gentleman to whom she cannot go with
out embarrassment and talk over her per
plexities. I know one man in Atlanta
that is never too tjusy to help any woman
who really needs his advice. I have two
cousins right in this city, as different
in their dispositions as it is possble to
be and it never strikes me that they are
not delighted to smooth mjTpath. Their
wives are as thoughtful as they are and
I have never felt the “unprotected” con
dition that old German proverb, “He
who gives gets” 1% applicable here. Give
love, give your time, give your substance
if you have any, and as sure as the sun
shines you may expect to find love and
the lesser gifts.
Sell all the scrub fowls and put the
money into pure bred roosters —no mat
ter if you do have to pay from 115 to
125, . ,
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HXXiPFUL BAXBT MOTHS
On the dairy farm a short system of
crop rotation removes old fields, puts
all crops nearer to the manure and fer
tilizer used, increases the variety of the
feeds, adds to their value through an
increase In their protein content and to
their palatabillty and ease of digestion.
Food and food production for the dairy
lies at the foundation of successful dai
rying. Unless the foundation is well
laid the business will be a failure.
Dairying today is the leading branch
of farming, bringing to the farmer the
most money and leaving the land In the
best possible condition to continue its
production.
Cows for market are as much a prod
uct of our dairy business as milk and
butter, and many farmers are finding
good profits in growing and selling good
dairy cows to their brother dairymen
who are not in a position to raise their
own cows. »
PLAHTHTG AMD TBANSFLAHTTHTG
The best method of- handling young
plants is to transplant them to two
inch flower pots at a very early age,
keep them in a protected place till set
tled warmer weather, then transplant to
the open garden. In this way, the
young plants are not affected by the
change.
The ball of earth from the pot com
pletely binds all the roots together so
that there is no drying out no? any
check In growth. Transplanting from
small flo#er pots may be done at any
time of the day, clear or cloudy
The pots are good for a or till
broken.
Improvised, pots of various kinds may
be used for starting and transplanting
young planta The best of these is a
wooden quart berry box. With It, box,
plant, and all may be set In the perma
nent garden space, the box soon rotting
away.
Tin cans with the ends melted off and
the seams unsoldered make fairly good
transplanting pots. A string is , tied
around to hold the can together while
the plant is growing and removed at
time of transplanting, allowing the cyl
inder of earth to easily slip out. Sim
ilar results may be had by making pots
of card board of of heavily oiled paper.
—H. H. Shepard.
FEEDING AND CANING FOB GOS
LINGS
As soon as dry our goslings are plac
ed-in brooders. When 24 hours old they
are fed four times dany “by measure”;
Bran 1 part, rolled oats 1 part, corn
meal and shorts 1 part, blood meal 1 tea
spoonful to each quart of food. This
ration is dampened with skimmed milk
or water until it will crumble. Green
food, grit and water are always before
them. Water is given in fountains, so
they caWhot get into it. Heat in brood
er is gradually reduced from 90 degrees
until they need no heat, when they are
removed to other quarters and fed three
times a day by measure: Bran 1 part,
rolled oats and shorts 1 part, blood meal
1 tablespoonful to each quart of food.
Corn meal and cooked vegetables are
added frequently. This ration is mixed
with skimmed milk or water until it
will crumble. Grit and water are before
them alwaya They are not allowed In
water until they are full feathered.
Their quarters are kept clean and well
littered with straw.—F. D. Fowler, Car
linville, HI.
IN TM® SNEEFFOLD
Keep the sheep pens clean. Dirt and
foul odors affect sheep quickly.
It is the farmer who keeps sheep for
a number of years that finds them most
profitable. Some years they win return
a much better profit than others and it
la hard to sell and buy at just the right
time.
Feed that will keep the bowels open is
the best for this time of the year. Wheat
bran helps to do it.
| Sheep will dig pretty close to the grass
roots In the early spring if you give
them a chance. They like a taste of
something fresh. If you feed them plenty
of turnips this will help to satisfy their
appetites.
VENTILATE THE SHEEP-SHED
A building devoted to sheep should be
arranged so as to give the desired fresh
air and prevent the beating rains from
getting inside. Ordinary door arrange
ments will not afford this protection.
Windows or the upper part of the
building may be fixed with strong
hinges so as to be pushed out and prop
ped open, allowing the fresh air to enter
at the bottom of the opening. The top
of this kind of a shed may be left open
the greater part of the time without
harming the flock at all.
Damage to trees by rabbits gnawing
th4 mark can be stopped in the follow
ing way: make a thick whitewash,
slacking the lime overnight improves it.
To each pailful of the whitewash Ttdd
three tablespoonfula of Paris green
and paint the trees with it. Stir fre
quently when applying it.
Statistics indicate a great development
of the canning and preserving of fruits
and vegetables in Hawaii since the
islands were acquired by the United
States. Ten establishments, giving em
ployment to 553 wage earners, were re
ported for last year.
Big Money in Raising Fruit
You ougnt to make big profits on your fruit crops by pro
R ducing perfect and pretty fruit, free from worms and other
defects, if your spraying is thoroughly done and you have '
been otherwise attentive to your trees. To increase your
yield per tree or per acre of fine fruit
Use
Virginia-Carolina
High-Grade
Fertilizers
at the rate of ten or fifteen lbs. per tree, spread around the !
tree and thoroughly worked into the soil around the roots. i
Ask your dealer for a copy of our handsome this season’s
FARMERS’ YEAR BOOK or almanac, or write us. The
book is worth many dollars to any farmer.
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SWINGING PEED TKBODGH FOB
POULTBT
Take two pieces Ixß inches, three feet
long, two the same width, one and a
half feet long; nail them together for
the sides and ends. Put on a bottom of
matched boards, make a frame of Plaths,
cut in one-foot lengths. Make the frame
fit the inside of the box. Put on a. cov
er of poultry nettting, and attach a
strong wire to e-.h corner. Swing this
from the rafters and adjust to hang
about two inches from the floor. Ar
range the netting so one side ms.y be
raised to put in the food.
WOMANLT WISDOM *
V» ish rushing winds and gloomy skies
The dark and stubborn Winter dies;
Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries,
Bidding her earliest child arise;—
March!
Potpie will never be heavy of yoi put
in two tablespoonfuls of cornstarch with
the flour.
When you are in danger of getting
rattled, just stop and think that it :> the
empty kettle that rattles most
Add a large onion to a pot of cooking
cabbage. It will take away the gat and
any ill effects of th* cabbaga
Have you ever tried an old paint brush
with which to blacken the stove? If
you haven’t, you have a joy coming.
Think every day of beautiful tilings.
If you do not you will soon get so that
there will be no beautiful thlmt* to
think of.
Make some crack and crevioe filler by
mixing glue and fine sawdust F«t it
in soft and warm, spread down well with
a knife and let it get hard. It will be
all right
Nearly all cooks have a cake fall
sometimes. Don’t worry. I know a
young man who won his wife by say
ing when her cake fell: “I always did
like cake that had fallen.”
Better buy one good book for the fam
ily than three or four cheap story pa
pers. Boys and girls acquainted with
great thinkers of great thoughts will
not seek the society of loafers or read
the frothy, enervating novels. ;
Whenever you bring a wet umbrella
into the house always set it to drip han
dle down. It dries more quickly that)
way; otherwise, which is more important I
to consider, the collected rain-wa*eri
rusts the hinges and rots the cloth or 1
silk.
Some think they must have the oven'
!"zling hot when they put bread tn toj
bake, and then they wonder why a thick
crust comes on the loaves, while the:
middle is not at all well baked. The
best way is to have the oven just hot)
enough so that the loaves will take on a
nice brown in, say, 10 or 15 minutes.
Don't be in a hutry to take them out too’
soon, either. An hour is not too long to I
bake bread t have it just right.
When you pack away hams and should
ers for summer use, be sure that they!
are well smoked and thoroughly dried:
out. Powder each piece with pulverized
slip it into a paper flour sack,,
tie each sack tightly, then pack, nc< too.
closeiy together, into a bin or large i
tight box filled with oats. We pack'
them each year in this manner in our.
as we use the meat. No worms, mag
gots or other pests attack our meat sup
ply.—From March Farm Journal.
AMEBICAN POTATOES IN PBASCB |
The shortage in the French i>otato
crop has created a deficit which is being I
filled by large importations from other i
European countries, notably Great Brit-1
ain, Austria, Germany and Belgium.
Importations of potatoes from the I
United States to France had been pro
hibited since the decree of 1875. which'
was inspired iby fear of the Colorado
potato bug, until that wan an-1
nulled on October 15, 1910, opening the
French markets to potatoes from the
United States, provided they are clean,
free from the soil in which they were
grown, and the packages in which they
are shipped contain no stems or, leave*
of the potato plant
As a result of this long prohibition
American potatoes are practically un
known in France, and French impor
ters have no acquaintance or establish
ed relations with American exporters <
which would enable the trade to be
promptly taken up since the withdrawal
of the prohibitory decree. Partly for
this reason, and partly because many
French people havs still a lingering
dread of some possible disease In Amari- , i
can potatoes and do not even know that
the prohibition against them has been.
withdrawn, they have nnt yet appeared in
any appreciable quantity on the Paris >
market.—Consul General F. H. Maaon. •
To get rid of the red spider, dust the
leaves of fruit with powdered flowers',
of sulphur after moistening to mate the
powder adhere.
