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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1913.
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Georgia’s Opportunity
in Cattle Raising.
Predictions that the price of beefsteak will go
to a dollar a pound have brought forth divers sug
gestions for increasing the production of cattle. The
simplest plan yet proposed is that every farm in
the country raise at least two beeves a year. This
enterprise is particularly commendable to the South
where every natural circumstance is favorable to
the live-stock Industry. (
The climate and soil of Georgia are ideally suited
to cattle raising. The temperate winters reduce to a
minimum the cost of housing and feeding. Open
pasturage is available the year around. Forage of
the finest quality can be grown more easily in this
section than in any other part of the Union. There
are thousands of acres now idle which could be
used for this purpose \?ith rich profits to the indi-
; vidual owner and immeasurable benefits to the State
| and country as a whole.
If three hundred thousand Georgia farms pro
duced each year two beef steers valued at a minimum
of seventy-five dollars a head, the State’s annual out
put would amount to forty-five million dollars; or,
if each farm produced five a year—and that could
easily be done—they would yield more than one
hundred and twelve millions annually, at the low
estimate of seventy-five dollars a head.
The sustaining and stimulating effect of so much
additional wealth would count wondrously for the
independence of the farm and for the progress of
all other Interests. It is calculated that Georgia
now lacks some thirty-seven million dollars a year
f of making enough money out of Its cotton crop to
pay for its food supplies purchased in distant sec-
i .tions. If the plan suggested were followed, thic
^enormous deficit would at once he wiped out and
' leave a handsome balance of trade in our favor.
- Cattle raising conducted in this manner would
not encroach upon agricultural concerns; on the con-
. trary, It would strengthen all the interests of the
farm. It would make the State self-supporting in
stead of dependent upon other territory for its food
supplies. The continual increase in the price of
• beef, due to a decline in cattle production, consti
tutes a grave national problem.. Georgia and the
- South have a rare opportunity to serve their own and
; the common Country’s interests by utilizing their
fe natural resources for cattle raising.
. The average schoolboy probably wishes that there
-a was a total lack of seats.
The incoming cotton wagon makes many a man
long for the return to the farm.
The Franco-Spanish Alliance.
The long-predicted Franco-Spanish alliance now
seems fairly on the way to consummation. President
Poincare is soon to return King Alfonso’s recent
visit, doubtless with a view toward a complete un
derstanding between the two Governments. The peo
ple of both countries are said to be heartily in favor
of a compact for mutual aid and defense and Eng
land’s attitude is altogether friendly.
The direct and, perhaps, the larger advantage of
such an alliance would fall to Spain. That nation
is now peculiarly isolated in European diplomacy,
a,condition which has untoward as well as fortunate
aspects. Its military and naval strength is almost
negligible beside that of any of the Powers; its
treasury is beggared and at the same time is bur
dened With a debt of some two billion dollars; its
interests in Morocco are sadly in need of attention
but without moral and financial support it can make
scant progress in that field. In these circumstances,
the sympathy and aid of France would be inval
uable and' Spain could well afford to join her rich
neighbor across the Pyrenees on any reasonable
terms.
The advantages, however, would not lie wholly
with Spain. France, as one writer declares, would
have “a valuable buttress in an allied Spain by
reason of her geographical position, not only her
land frontier but also her Mediterranean seaboard,
the absence of causes of rivalry between the two na
tions in that sea, the necessity of their co-operation,
in Morocco and the tie of their mutual friendship
with Great Britain.” A French statesman has de
clared that in the event of war between France and
Germany, two or three Spanish army corps thrown
across the Pyrenees, “might entirely alter the face
of the war.”
A Franco-Spanfsh alliance would be particularly
significant In its hearing upon the international pol
icies of Europe as a whole. It would distinctly
strengthen the Triple Entente, so much so indeed, as
to tip the balance of power in favor of England,
France and Russia as against the group of nations
headed by Germany.
Make hay while the sun shines, but shuck corn
on damp days.
Elderly females claim that the lack of wrinkles
on a woman’s face shows weakness of character.
The South’s Textile Industry.
Noting the fact that thirteen of the fourteen
Southern States, which grow cotton are also spin
ning cotton, the Manufacturers’ Record presents an
interesting table of figures to show the wonderful
development and the still more wonderful possibil
ities of the South’s textile industry.
In 1S80 the mills in these States consumed one
hundred and seventy-nine thousand bales, only three
and a tenth per cent of the cotton crop of that year
and only ten per cent of the amount taken by the
mills of the entire country.
But in the year ended August 31, 1913, Southern
mills purchased two million, nine hundred and sixty-
nine thousand, five hundred and fifty-nine bales, the
equivalent of twenty and nine-tenths per cent of the
cotton they produced and fifty-four and four-tenths
per cent of that taken by all the mills in the
United States.
In the following table, reproduced from the Rec
ord’s interesting survey, is presented a comparison
of the hales raised and the hales taken by mills in
each Southern State during the past season.
Alabama
Arkansas... ... ..
Florida... ... ...
Crop.
1,390,000
820,000
62,000
Takings.
. 302,000
10,000
Georgia.. ......
... .. ..1,920,000
655,000..
Kentucky
3,000
27,000
Louisiana.
390,000
16,000
Mississippi.. ... .
1,042,000
34,000
Missouri ... ... ..
62,000
24,000
North Carolina .. .
946,000
876,000
Oklahoma.. 1 . .
1,051,000
8,000
South Carolina ....
1,281,000
782,000
Tennessee.. .,. ..
313,000
83,000
Texas
.. .. ..4,862,000
61,000
Virginia... .. ....
25,000
92,000
Total
14,167,000
2,970,000
It will be observed that Georiga, ranking second
among her neighbors in the production of cotton,
ranks third in its manufacture. Her mills used six
hundred and sixty-five thousand bales, or slightly
more than one-third of her crop. North and South
Carolina lead in the manufacture of cotton, though
in its growth they are considerably behind Georgia.
The time will come in Georgia, as in all Southern
States, when the great bulk of the crop will be man
ufactured in the region of its production. That is
the unmistakable tendency shown by the figures
quoted and, furthermore, it is the result to he
expected from natural and economic laws. Cotton,
can he manufactured more easily and more cheaply
where It is grown than in far-away sections. By
every circumstance the South is the destined center
of this great industry.
Once the world’s series is out of the way, the cur
rency question will be settled all right.
Even a lazy mat. will nustle when he sees a
chance to work an easy mark.
Huerta’s High Hand.
Huerta seems determined to make the most of
his waning opportunities for oppression and intrigue;
Ha has dissolved Congress, thrown a hundred" or
more of its members into prison and constituted
himself dictator of the capital police. These high
handed strokes, dealt one upon the other In a few
tours succession, have left Mexico City trembling
with expectancy and have set the entire country
guessing as to the i surper’s underlying motive.
Early this month Dr. Belisaro Dominguez, of the
Mexican Senate, delivered a scathing attack on Huer
ta’s policies. The story goes that a few hours before
making this speech, the Senator drew his will, bade
his family good-by- and declared that he expected to
pay for his course with his life. Interestingly enough
he did drop out of sight some days later and the
only information which a lommittee appointed to
investigate his disappearance could obtain was the
statement from the missing Senator’s little son that
a policeman had taken his father from a hotel.
Members of Congress naturally became suspicious
and a large grou; of Liberals pasted and signed
resolutions of warning to Huerta. It is they who
have been arrested and imprisoned and from these
incidents, have sprung the latest arbitrary acts of
the so-called “Prov'nional President.”
October the tw-nty-sixth next has been fixed as
the date of the Presidential election. Huerta thus
has only a fortnight left in which to exercise his
power, if the election is held as ordered. What he
may do in that brief period, however, is beyond pre
diction. The method, by which he gained the post
he now holds rhow that he lacks conscience or scru
ple. Thwarted in his personal ambition for continued
authority, he would only be following his natural
bent if he tightened the reins of his distatorship to
the utmost and went the limit of possibility to even
up his old grudges.
Getting a husband is an art, but keeping him is a
science.
Colonel Roosevelt was probably too much over
whelmed by that tariff to stay at home.
The Volturno’s Fatal Deficiency.
The Volturno disaster will revive world-wide in
terest in the ever-important subject of safety appli
ances for steamships.
The Titanic’s dreadful lesson brought many re
forms. Both the American and the British govern
ment conducted searching investigations and estab
lished stricter requirements for vessels within their
control. The result has been a distinct increase in
the security of ocean travel.
It seems, however, that England still has grave
need of raising its standards in this respect.
The Volturno, which sailed under an inspection
certificate given bj the British Board of Trade, was
conspicuously deficient in fire-fighting apparatus. She
is said to have carried three steam fire pumps, each
less than, a cubic -oot in size, two hand pumps, only
four hundred and fifty feet of hose, and no hand ex
tinguishers. Under American standards, a vessel of
this tonnage would have been required to have twenty-
five hand-extinguishers together with many other
safeguards against fire.
Evidently it was the lack of sufficient protection
in this regard that was chiefly responsible for the
Volturno’s terrible fire.
Life’s as brief .ove at sight; some joy, some
griei, and then—good night.
oo many young couples never think seriously
about marriage until after it happens.
A man may boast that he is complete master of
himself and not have much to boast of at that.
China’s First President.
The election of-Ilian Shi Kai as President of the
Chinese Republic has evoked world-wide approval.
European Powers are assured that under the guid
ance of this seasoned statesman the new government
will develop that measure of stability necessary to
protect their interests; and the United States proved
its confidence by extending official recognition months
ago when the government headed by Yuan was still
in a provisional stage.
Conditions in China are now transitional. Though
the empire has vanished a a political institution, the
customs and ideas it bred are still to be reckoned
with. A country so vast in area as China and a
people so diverse in speech and thought as are its
inhabitants cannot be revolutionized within a year
or a decade. The first violent shock that overthrew
the Manchu dynasty has left the nation groping to
find itself. A tremendous change has come to pass
but the problems of today are intertwined with the
problems of yesterday; and any government that
serves its purpose must work in the light of what
has gone before as" well as what is to come.
Yuan Shi Kai is peculiarly *well fitted for this
difficult task. He was closely Identified with the old
order, yet he is thoroughly sympathetic with the
new. He was a valued adviser to the empress
dowager. “It was his cleverness,” says a biographer,
“that prevented a general massacre of foreigners dur
ing the Boxer rebellion and, In the opinion of many
students of the Chinese problem? prevented the parti
tion of China.” He knows the politics of his country,
past and present, better perhaps than anyone else,
and is better qualified to avoid or, if need be, meet
and master the future dangers that may arise.
As. Provisional . resident, .his administration has
been at once prudent and progressive. He has neither
dashed ahead with radicals nor lagged with reac
tionaries. To his firm grasp on the machinery of
the new government < has been due very largely the
comparative peace Cuina has enjoyed since the great
revolution. His eiect,ipn by the Parliament was ail
but unanimous, He is evidently a popular choice,
so far as China has a really popular will to exert.
The Public’s future under his leadership Is most en
couraging. ■ “-= f'
Necessity is the mother of Invention, and these
days we have a sporting event for every season.
Five Hundred Saved by Wireless.
Terrible as was thp loss Of life on the steamship
Volturna, which was swept by fire and tempest in
mid-ocean, the consoling and wonderful fact looms
out that more than five hundred of her passengers
and crew were saved through the miracle of wireless
telegraphy., :%
Without the timely Yilce of "the wireless, the dis
aster would have be^n tenfold. more dreadful.
A distress call-, from ^ the fated vessel reached the
Carmania seventy-AighUiniles away and the latter,
crowding on full sieam, turned from its course and
in the teeth of a gale'Sped td the Volturno’s aid.
Other calls were sounded and before night fell ten
giant liners were riding within view of the flaming
ship. ' ■
One life boat after another was wrecked or driven
back by the storm, but' over five hundred people
were rescued from the Volturno’s decks. On a calm
sea every passenger and .member of the crew would
probably have been saved.: ^ - ?
Gen. Huersa seems,, exercising a recall of
his own, ■ . - T
Highway Supervision
In inaugurating a system of State aid and super
vision for highway work in the various counties,
the Prison Commission has rendered invaluable serv
ice to the cause o, good roads in Georgia. On Jan
uary the first next,, it will employ a civil engineer
experienced in road building, whose advice and as
sistance will be at the disposal of county author-
ities. ,,, ..
It will be impossibly, of course, for one engineer
to meet the demands of the entire State; in time
there must he a ■ Corps of’Engineers' ready to answer
promptly the call of every county. But the Com
mission has made • the best beginning its available
funds permit. It has taken the first step in the
right direction; and as the value of the new plan
becomes manifest, we may be sure that money for
its extension will bo appropriated.
When a young man takes a girl for a buggy joy
ride and she insists upon taking the reins, he
ought to he able to guess what she is driving at.
“Porterhouse steak at a dollar a pound.” Which
has an ominous meaning," at least until the arrival
of the new Georgia fried chicken crop.
• V 4.:.
Every Day a Special Day.
It is now proposed that Congress designate the
first Sunday in June as “Fathers’ Day” and also
officially sanction “Mothers’ Day,” which popular
sentiment inaugurated some years ago. Would It
not be well, in order td keep any member of the
family from feeling slighted, to establish an “Un
cles’ Day,” too, and by -degrees extend the pretty
custom to nieces and cousins?
The time will come, if we may judge from present
tendencies, when every day of the three hundred and
sixty-five will have its special name and significance.
Already we have “Fly Swatting Day,” “Mosquito
Killing Day” and recent dispatches announce that
November the twenty-first has been set aside as
“Shellfish Day.”
All these observances are admirable in purpose
and, doubtless, wholesome in effect. But it will
not be amiss tp remember that;
If all the year were keeping holidays
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Editorials in Brief
“The Declaration of Independence states that all
men are born free and equal, I believe?”
“Something of the sort.”
“Then why do you hold yourself so aloof?”
“My dear man, I’m descended from one of its
signers.”-—Kansas City Journal.
Radium is certainly a most wonderful element,
and we can confidently hope that it possesses ex
traordinary curative powers in human diseases with
out believing that it is “the source of life,” or even
without accepting the conclusion that it rivals the
sun in warming the surface of the earth. The plans
now under way both in Europe and this country to
industrialize its production are highly significant of
its manifold wonders and growingly recognized im
portance.—New York World.
Co-operative Housekeeping
BY DR. PRANK CRANE.
(Copyright, 1913, by Frank Crane.)
The one institution in which progress lags In Ameri
can cities is The Home.
Notwithstanding its being our bulwark, palladium
and so forth, we do not seem to be able to apply to it
the modern improvements suggested by advanced ec
onomics and municipal science.
The plan that suggests Itself as being most up-to-
date is some sort of co-operative housekeeping, where
drudgery could be reduced to a minimum, waste, elim
inated and comfort secured with economy* But most
co-operative schemes go to pieces upon the rocks of
personal independence. We would rather have an ex
pensive and ill-managed household than one in which
somebody els© interferes.
In the Garden City of Letchworth, England, they
have been conducting interesting experiments which
have created a discussion in the British press. Some
twelve or sixteen homes are grouped into a house
keeping unit. The most costly consists of two* living
rooms, three bedrooms, with bathroom, 1 etc., and rents
fof $350; the cheapest, a bachelor apartment, with
sitting room, bedroom and bath, $200. In a central
building is a dining room with separate tables, and.
rooms for reading, tea, smoking and the like. Three
good meals a day come to 70 cents. The average bill
at the restaurant for two people is $9 a week. By
paying a small extra sum one can have meals sent to
one’s own home.
A family of three persons can thus live, in the
neighborhood of London, in a comfortaole dwelling,
for from $850 to $1,000 a year >*nd have none of the
trouble attendant usually upon keeping houjse; rent,
rood, heat, light, cleaning and service ar© Included in
the price. *
Why do not our builders -try more experiments
of this kind among us?
Tha difficulty, of course, is nicely to balance the
two opposing demands; First, the demand for abso
lute privacy when we want It, including the privilege
of going out and coming in when we please, dressing
to suit ourselves, and generally minding our own busi
ness without the assistance of interested and officious
neighbors; and, second, securing the pleasures of a
common dining room and social life when we are so
disposed, together with the manifest advantages of co
operation.
It does not seem an insuperable problem. And if
the English can solve it, they the most individualistic
of people, why not we?
GETTYSBURG
By Prof. Joseph T, Derry
Some of the Confederate veterans object to going
to Gettysburg, because so many regard that battle
field celebration as a kind of • glorification of the d©*
feat of the south.
There are some of us, however, \ ho do not take
that view, and 1 am one of them. Gettysburg, so far
as the fighting went, was a . drawn battle. On the
first day victory perched updn the southern banner.
We had a little the best of tli© fighting on the second
day. On the third day Pickett pierced the Federal
line, but could not hold the point gained, because the
supporting divisions had not been able to go in with
him.
The Federal army had been so shaken that it was
in no condition to follow up Pickett's repulse by a
counter charge.
The Union commanders were perfectly satisfied to
let Lee alone and allowed him to retire at leisure.
Even when the Confederate army could not cross tho
Potomac on account of the swollen condition of that
river, when Meade came up and found Lee ready and
willing to receive him, he did not attack, but fortified
his own^Unes, for fear that x^ee might attack him.
Then he very politely sat down and waited until the
Potomac subsided and allowed Lee’s army to cross.
After the return to Virginia Lee had so little fear
of what Meade could do to him that he did not hesi
tate to send Longstreet with half of his corps to Geor
gia to help win the great victory of Chickamauga,
whose fruits, if promptly reaped, would have com:
pletely neutralized Vicksburg and won back all that
we had lost in the west. As it was, the Federal gov
ernment was so alarmed that it called Grant and
Sherman from Mississippi and two corps from Meade'fl
army to rescue the army that had been defeated at
Chickamauga and was now beleaguered in Chatta
nooga. Lee then advanced against Meade, who re
treated nearly 100 miles.
What? The victors of Gettysburg retreated be
fore the advance of the Confederates, whom they
claimed to have decisively defeated at Gettysburg?
That is what they did.
The only effort that Meade made for another ad
vance against Richmond until May, 18-64* was his
Mine Run fiasco.
The Gettysburg campaign kept back the tide of In
vasion in Virginia longer than any. other campaign ex
cept that of the first Manassas.
It was glory enough for the north to have rolled
back at Gettysburg the high tide of southern victory,
which threatened to dictate peace from Philadelphia.
But notwithstanding their success on the third day of
the battle, they could show no such brilihnt exploits
as the charge of Gordon’s brigade on the first day or
the charges of the brigades of Wright, Hays and Hoke
and of Edward Johnson’s division on the second day,
and of what northern writers are fond of calling
“Pickett’s immortal charge,” on the third day*.
It was not Gettysburg that turned the tide against
us, but Vicksburg and Chattanooga and Atlanta.
There is no battle of the war so appropriate for a
peace celebration as that of Gettysburg, where each
army won such nearly equal honors.
JOSEPH T. DERRY.
ThB cost of living high was never proposed to be
lowered by the present tariff.
We have unbounded confidence in the country’s
prosperity—as soon as the series is out of the peo
pie’s thoughts.
Here's hoping the new tariff will have a down
ward effect on the high-price of Christmas presents.
HOO’S HOO
BY JOHN W. CAREY.
Who’s chairman in the lower house on banks and
currency and says his system of finance will bring
prosperity? Who’s
framed a
which catalogues
his notions one
and all—a talk
ing fest for con
gress for the bal
ance of the fall?
Who’d make the
nation’s currency
elastic and all
that and take the
panic specialist
and pin him to
the mat? Who’d
take the golden
shekels from the
keeping of the
few (a plan in
which we promise .'g
jim support from
me and you)?
Who’s wise to all
the money facts that ever came to pass? (And he a
journalist at that: 1 ) Shake hands with Carter Glass.
Contests in Egg Production
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.
1
Egg laying contests are the latest innovation in
the poultry world. The first one, which has been In
progress at the state agricultural experiment station
at Mountain Grove, Mo., has recently closed its rec
ords and a second is to open in a few weeks. Hens
from all parts of the country took part in this con
test and one pen of fowls was shipped from England
for the purpose. Some of the records seem incredible,
but they are vouched for by scientific records.
...
The champion hen of the nation for unremitting
egg laying, is a buff Wyandotte who produced an
egg a day for thirty consecutive days: A pen of buff
Wyandottes, containing ten hens, produced 240 eggs a
month, an average of twenty-four eggs to each hen.
Three hundred and sixty hens, inspired by the con
test into special activity, made a record of over twen
ty eggs each for a period of thirty days. One par
ticular record was kept for five and a half months.
The honors in this were won by an English white
Leghorn hen who laid 141 eggs. A huff Wyandotte
from Vermont laid 13o. A Missouri hen of the same
breed laid 135 eggs to her credit, while a black Leg
horn of Missouri came next with 133 eggs, A white
hah ©f purest Plymouth lineage established a record
of 263 eggs throughout the entire year..
• • •
These records shows that Dame Partlet Is a much
more valuable and productive creature than men have
recognized. They prove that the number of hens
capable of a 200-egg annual average is much larger
than had been supposed., Borne comment was excited
because the pen of English hens made better records
for certain objects than the American birds. This is
partially due to the fact that their owner had them
in better condition to begin laying immediately after
their admission to the contest than were most of the
hens from this country. Those who were in bharge
of the contest do not admit any superiority to the
English breed, although they acknowledge that most
English poultry raisers know better how to care for
their hens than do the Americans. The contest also
indicated that no particular breed can be relied upon
to excel in egg production. It is the individual hens
and their condition which make the records.
...
The annual increase In egg production In the
United States has been much fostered by the depart
ment of agriculture within the last decade and the
results have Justified the effort. Especial attention
la continually being given to the care of laying hens,
the handling of eggs and the methods of preserving
them for the market. At present studies in feeding
hens are in progress at the experiment farm of the
department near Washington, D. C. The object of
these studies is to find out what food will produce
the greatest number of eggs, and also what food will
produce the cheapest eggs. It has been Indicated that
some of the foods producing the highest number of
eggs are so expensive that cheaper foods, producing
fewer eggs, will be more economical.
...
The egg industry of the country now amounts to
fully half a billion dollars of annual value While
for centuries past close study has been given to the
breeding of catttie and horses, the breeding of hens
has been notably neglected. Now the commercial
value of the hen has been so demonstrated that the
farmers are attempting to breed hens with reference
to their laying qualities. The 200-egg hen has be
come the slogan for all breeders, it has been dem
onstrated lately that the 200-egg hen is not herself a
good breeder. The average egg yield from pullets
hatched from hens having a record exceeding 200 /
eggs annually has been found to be considerably less
than from pullets hatched from eggs of hens whose
records ranged from 150 to 116.
* * «
wlille the 200-egg hen is the one most popular foi
commercial purposes, egg raisers do not find that suoh
heavy production Is necessary to making poultry rais
ing profitable. An average of 150 eggs, having s
value of from (4 to »6, may. if properly distributed
throughout the year, be made as profitable as an av
erage of 200 eggs from some hens Oven If that yield
can be depended upon.
• * m
The enormous value of the egg products of the
country has recently created additional Interest in
conserving them. It Is claimed by the department of
agriculture that the loss to the farmer from bad meth
ods of producing and handling eggs amounts to over
345,000,000 annually, uch of this loss could be
avoided by a thorough system of conservation for this
valuable food product. Egg conservation requires
greater care of the hens while laying, of the nests In
which the eggs are laid, of the temperature of the
plane in which the eggs are stored before taking them
to market and also a proper system of handling them
for the market.
• • •
The care of tho hens Includes proper feeding and
shelter. The care of the nests requires that the eggs
be preserved from dirt of every kind. While It is bet
ter to wash soiled eggs than to send them to market
in a stained or disfigured condition, the application
of water removes the natural bloom of the egg there
by destroying its fresh appearance. It also removes
the gelatinous coating from the shell which keeps out
air and helps preserve the contents. Nests should be
built with special reference to the facilities for clean
ing, and eggs should be gathered as soon as possible
after they are laid. Fertile eggs are also Inferior In
tnelr keeping qualities. Consequently, the removal of
the male birds from the range of laying hens means
better eggs and more money.
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"It’s the rooster does the crowln’.
Wears the plumes and yellow legs.
Wants to bests the whole creation;
But the hen, she lays the eggs.”
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The temperature at which eggs are kept after be
ing gathered has much to do with their keeping quail-
ties. They should be kept where it Is cool and dry.
The pantry opening off a hot kitchen or a damp cel
lar will hasten egg deterioration. The farmers’
wives of Kansas, for a number of years, have been
keeping their eggs In the cyclone caves, of which there
are thousands scattered over the state. These are
lower In temperature than the house and have been
pronounced next best to an Ice plant for keeping eggs
In good condition. Experiments conducted by the de
partment of agriculture published a few wefeks ago
commend the cyclone cave for storing eggs.
Much of the egg loss sustained each year is due to
cracking and breaking in handling. It is claimed that
In New York City alone last year 137,804,768 eggs,
over a million and a half dozen, were lost In this way.
This enormous breakage naturally tends to keep the
price of eggs higher than would otherwise be neces
sary. A number of organizations are now co-operating
in experiments In shipping eggs with a view to secur
ing some means of lessening the loss from breakage.
The railroads claim that their damage looses are os
heavy tjiat the carrying of eggs Is an unprofitable
proposition.
The utilization of these cracked eggs is also re
ceiving Increased attention. A laboratory has been
established by the department of agriculture at Seda-
11a, Mo., to study methods of such utilization. The
method most In use at present consists pf canning the
contents of the eggs and preserving them by freezing.
The excess supply of eggs of summer and spring, as
well as of the eggs with soft or damaged shells can
be conserved for food purposes by this means.
T
Out of the Mouths of Babes
Visitor (lifting little Irene)—“Goodness, Irene, but
you are solid!” t, ••
Little Irene—" ’Course I am. Did . you think I was
plated?” ’
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Small El^le was standing at the window when it
began to hall.
“Oh, come and look, mamma,” she exclaimed. “It’s
wainin’ pills!” % . .