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About The Montgomery monitor. (Mt. Vernon, Montgomery County, Ga.) 1886-current | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1920)
SPLENDID DESIGN FDD FARM DIE Nine-Room House Fills Needs of Large Family. HAS CHEERFUL SUN PARLOR Btx Bedrooms Afford Accommodations for Large Family—Conveniences to Lescen Work of House keeping. By WILLIAM A RADFORD. Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he Is, without doubt, the highest authority on all there subjects Address all Inoulrles to William A Radford. No. 1527 Prairie avenue, -Chicago. 11l and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. It often has been said, and statistic* seem to'bour It out, tlmt farmers’ fam ilies are considerably larger than those of city dwellers. For this reason, farm ers need plenty of room the one-room condensed apartment would he out of place In the couutry. A large family tails for a large home and plenty of bedrooms—the surrounding farm gives the children all the playground they need. In the final analysis some one hus to raise large families to offset the decreasing birth rate In the cities due mainly to congested conditions, and the fflrmer assumes the burden, lie has the compensating feature, however, of getting his children’s help when they have grown up. In the face of the ex isting shortage In farm help this fac tor becomes tremendously Important. In order to keep his sons on the farm ufler they have grown to manhood one of the first things he should do Is to make home life and surroundings as attractive as that of the cities. l or this reason lie should build a substantial, modern home. In this home he should Install as many of the latest conveniences and comforts as his means will permit. lie should build this home so that It. will be attractive both Inside and out. In the case of the farm home shown here with floor plans, that result has been foremost In the mind of the build gdg er. Certainly, anyone will admit, Miln fiirin liome 1m pleasing and Indicative of a true hospitality. It Is built of frame, with face brick foundation and silicon above ‘.tie first story. Instead of the usual full-width porch, part of tills spitce has been converted Into a cozy, cheerful parlor, II! feet It Inches by 9 feet 0 Inches. It has four good sized windows Hi the front and two on each side, thus shedding a wealth of warmth and light Into the adjoining living room. As the family spends most of Its spare time in this room It Is essential to have It ns pleasant as Dining rH joM g 17-SVIS CS’ |' 19'-9\t3'-0’ f - -H kk Lmhgßh I'ftl". cq f7 % v i*vrt ij OxVT HALL » 17-3x13 a 1 tel _r^J Imr First Floor Plan. possible,. IrU rooms always make for depression. A sunshine house is a happy house. Recessed under the same roof ns the sun parlor, and on one side of it, is the front porch, which leads into a small reception 1 all. A stairway leading to the cellar starts at the farther end of this hall. The stairway to the upper ttoor-ls found in the roar off the kitch en. Os identical size with the living room, and connected with it by an open doorway, is the dlfithg room. The door leading from this room into a narrow hall Is opposite the door leading Into the only bedroom located on the first floor. This room is very convenient for the hired man, who must get up first in the morning. In the rear of the house are found the kitchen and washroom. The kitch en is small, hut complete, 12 by 10 feet In dimensions. It is supplemented by a good-sized pantry. The washroom, i a convenience that should be found in every farm home, is 14 by 6 feet 6 Inches and has a toilet In connection. Modern farmers have running water and bathrooms because Miey cau be In stalled at a reasonable cost and are a wonderful convenience. The second floor has been divided Into five bedrooms and hath. Three of the bedrooms have windows on two sides and all are provided with ample closet space. While we have emphasized this house as particularly desirable for the farm It will also fit in excellently in stp Km. /‘aEufrrn l p? ...:.-ai I K ~j ___j i tolM. 'iMi tota. j I yo-y&ts | rt j; : , : L I 1 I II ItoOF j Second Floor Plan. any town or city scheme. In this case the washroom can be easily converted Into a laundry and equipped with a washing machine, dryer and electric Ironing machine. The extra bedroom on the lower floor, If not needed, can be used as a den or library. Eventually there will he little to dis tinguish the farm home from those of the city, because the farm home will be built along similar lines and contain all the conveniences which heretofore have been confined mainly to city dwellings. With the advent of running water and electric light the farm home has Jumped ahead with ustoundlng rapidity. Within the space of u few years farm home building has practi cally been revolutionized and improve ments along this line will not slop here. The Accepted Time. “Wlmt was the trouble with those two old men who Just went out grum bling?" asked the traveling salesman. “Them?” replied the lumllord of the tavorti at Grudge. “That's old Orrln Onderdonk anil old Hod Dornltt. They want to argue, hut won’t b’euz this ain't Saturday." “What difference does that make? There is no town ordinance against arguing any day in the week, Is there?" "Nope! But If they argue now they won’t get utiy particular attention, b’euz everybody in town is tired of their clack. But on Saturday, when our progressive little city is full of country people tha{ come In to trade, by standing in the middle of the side walk and wrangling at the top of their voices they can collect such a crowd thnt people who want to pass have to go clear out In the street to do so. By that means Orrln and Hod can make themselves pretty consider able prominent."—Kansas City Star. Bacteria for Sausage Skin. Sausage skins are usually made of entrails but parchment paper and de nltroted wood pulp have also been used. Now counts the proposal, re ported in Popular Science Monthly, to make them of bacteria. The particu lar spech-s of bacterium employed is called xilinum and is found In fine gar. Xilinum has been the dread of the vinegar-maker and manifests itself In un objectionable slimy scum. Some years ago a process was patented for ; converting xilinum bacteria into leath er. and now u Hr. Wuestenfeld would use them In the making of sausage skins. Xilinum skin is obtained, of course, only iu flat sheets. No one has succeeded In inducing xilinum to breed tubes. The sausage meat must be wrapped In the skin and thou sewn up. THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA. VIGILANCE NECESSARY TO KEEP CHICKEN HOUSE FREE OF MITES For Small Coops a Hand Atomizer Will Suffice for Applying Insecticides. Poultry raisers are all too familiar with the common red or gray mite which infests poultry houses. In gen eral those who are making a specialty of poultry raising have comparatively little trouble with mites, or at least they keep them reduced to a point where they are of little Importance. On the other hand, farmers and others who raise poultry us an incident to other operations frequently find their chicken houses overrun by mites. Detecting Presence of Mites. The attack of this blood-sucking mite Is of an Insidious nature which does not readily draw attention to its presence, and often the poultryman Is not aware of an infestation until he I* attracted to it by the irritation pro duced by mites on hls own body through coming In contact with the infested coops. The presence of the pest may readily be determined, how ever, by the detection of small areas on the boards specked with black and white as though dusted with salt and pepper. This is the excrement of the mites, which are hidden in adjacent cracks or rough places. More careful examination will reveal masses of mites in hiding, together with their eggs and the silvery skins cast by the young. In moderately infested poultry houses the injury to the fowls is not easily apparent, hut the constant blood loss and Irritation are shown by decreased egg production and the poor condition of the fowls’ flesh. In heavily Infested coops It is not un usual for the chickens to become ~ droopy and weak, with pale comb and wattles. Sitting hens desert their nests and thus ruin the eggs or, as is often the case, they are found dead on the nest, being killed outright by the attack of thousands of mites. In ex treme eases a considerable number of fowls succumb, even though not sit ting, and all are so weakened as to he very susceptible to various dis eases. Owing to the fact that mites feed during thi* night and secrete them selves in cracks and crevices during the day, their presence very often is overlooked until a very heavy infesta tion has developed. In such cases they should be attacked energetical ly. Although not hard to kill, the greatest obstacle Is the difficulty of reaching them in their hiding places. Dust baths will not control them, ns. at most, only the few which remain on the chickens during the daytime J will he destroyed. The first step necessary to destroy the mites Is to get rid of the hiding places so far as possible. The roosts should he taken down and all unnec essary boards and boxes removed. In heavily Infested houses the mites are to he found in all parts of the build ing, including the roof. Where they are less numerous the infestations usually are confined to the roosts and nests and the walls immediately ad jacent. For small coops a hand atomizer will suffice for applying in secticides as sprays, but for larger houses a bucket pump, knapsack sprayer, or barrel pump Is desirable. A rather coarse spray should he ap plied from all angles and thoroughly driven into the cracks. The floor also should he treated, as many mites fall , to the floor when the roosts are being j removed. In tests conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture during the last two years a consider able number of materials used ns sprays have proved effective. One of | the so-called wood preservers was I found immediately effective, and its I killing or repelling power lasts for i months. As this material Is rather i expensive (about $1 per gallon), and j Is too heavy to spray well, it is nd i vlsable to reduce It with equal parts ! of kerosene. Crude petroleum Is almost effec ' five, retains its killing power for sev ; eral weeks, and in most localities it is ! very cheap. It will spray better If j thinned with one part of kerosene to . four parts of crude oil. It has been found that one thor | ough application of either of these materials will completely eradicate the mites from an infested chicken ; house, but ordinarily It Is advisable | to make a second application a month after the first, and In some cases a . third treatment is required. These subsequent applications may be made with a brush, using the materials un diluted and covering only the roosts. thPir supports, the walls adjoining, and the nests If they are infested. This method of application is effec tive for the first treatment also if the houses are not heavily infested. Poultry should be kept out of the treated buildings until the material is well dried into the wood. Using Pure Kerosene. Pure kerosene and kerosene emul sion in double the strength ordinarily applied to plants will destroy all mites hit, but these substances have not body enough to destroy those mites which are in more protected situations, and several applications at ten-day intervals are needed to de stroy all the mites. Arsenical dip. such as is used to destroy cattle ticks, has been found fairly satisfactory for use against chicken mites. Several applications are required to eradicate the mites from poultry houses. SHOCKED CORN GOOD SILAGE Refilling Silo With Surplus Even in Middle of Winter Is Most Eco nomical Practice. “Corn cut at the proper time and put into the shock can be made into good silage, even in the middle of the winter,” says Alvin Kezer of the agron omy department of the Colorado Agricultural college. “Os course, such silage will not be as palatable as when siloed early and there will be more mechanical waste of leaves and other > parts of the corn plant because the shocked corn had been stored for part of the winter, either in the shock or In stacks. But if this dry fodder is run through a silage cutter and the proper amount of water run in with it, it will make good silage and a much more palatable feed than the dry fodder, which will be eaten by the stock with less waste. “Sometimes, shocking the surplus corn after the silos are filled and re filling from the shocked corn is a very economical practice, a practice worth remembering, especially when the capacity of the silos is not great enough to take care of the entire crop. It is a good way of improving a valu able feed.” VERMIN CARRY HOG DISEASES Lousy Animal Will Consume More Feed Than Clean One, According to Many Experiments. A hog affected with lice can’t make as profitable use of his feed as one that is free from this pest. No suc cessful hog man will dispute this statement; yet, judging from the con dition of some farmers’ hogs, it is doubtful whether all realize that it really costs money to feed lice. How ever, feeding experiments have been conducted from time to time which show plainly that a lousy hog con sumes more feed per pound of gain than a clean hog. This loss of feed, however, is not the only reason for keeping hogs free from lice. Lice are also disease carriers. They will carry Infection from one hog to another and that, perhaps, is as strong a reason for holding lice in check as any other. VENTILATION FOR POTATOES Tubers Tend to Sweat Upon Being Put Into Storage and Air Is Needed to Dry Moisture. I.nrge piles of potatoes should have ventilation channels provided, either by lattice work or by rows of crates. Potatoes tend to sweat upon being put into storage. Ventilation is nec essary to dry this moisture. Only a general rule can be given, but potatoes should be kept as dry as possible, yet avoiding shriveling, and should be kept i as near the freezing point as possible, i yet avoiding freezing. WILL AID WATERMELON CROP Little Sandy Spot 10 by 40 Feet Fer tilized Now Will Prove Quite Profitable. If you have a little sandy spot on your farm measuring 10 by 4,. feet, put on a little fertilizer now. Those wa termelons will grow so rapidly next summer that you will be amply re paid. GOOD ROADS BUILDING OF BETTER ROADS Highway Educational Work Extending Its Scope in Various Sections of the Country. The extent to which the people of the United Stares are committing I themselves to a definite policy of high way development is shown by reports reaching the federal highway council from all sections of the country. In the face of high cost for both ma terials and labor, and the fact that in some states construction programs must be altered somewhat to meet ex iting labor and material conditions, there is no tendency upon the part of the people to slow down in their plans to place the nation’s highways upon a higher plane in the country’s transpor tation system. Tersely stated, “they are sold to the heels” on the proposi tion to construct highways that will relea.se rather than restrict traffic, and they are dismissing labor and material problems with curt instructions to their official servants that it is up to them to deliver the roads. A curious fact in connection with construction problems at the present moment is that the building of roads is seriously hindered by the same evil which they are designed to remove — lack of transportation. According to authoritative information, production is halted to a greater degree by inade quate transportation facilities than by labor shortage. At least this is true, it is claimed, in the production of ma terials for road building. Highway officials—state and county as well as national —are facing their duties with patience and tact, and out of a maze of trying situations con struction is going ahead at a fairly sat lsfactory rate. But as Paul D. Sar gent. state highway engineer of M° !r, e X i £ 1 ' ■' «!»- " ' " - -.V. ■ . % >?«?’;■ . ■ ■ " yO • ' ... % > • v •> - V * - Good Roads Enable Farmer to Market His Crops With Least Possible Ex pense. and presiflent of the American Associ ation of Highway Officials, pointed out in a meeting at Philadelphia recently, when the people finally decide to au thorize the development of any particu lar road project, tney are prone to ex pect the work done almost overnight. WHAT GOOD HIGHWAYS MEAN Enable Farmers to Get Their Differ, ent Crops to Market at Least Possible Expense. “Farmers are business men and In order to conduct their farms in a businesslike way and cope with other business men in the state they must devise ways and means of reducing the expenses of operation,” said L. E. Birdsail in submitting a resolution to the Illinois Agricultural association, lie added: “In no way can the ex pense of farming he reduced as com pletely as by securing good roads run ning by the farms which will enable the delivery of crops to market with the least possible expense.” That is good sound sense and com ing from a practical farmer It shows that farmers are keenly alive to the need and value of improved roads. Mr. Birdsail lays further emphasis on the need of selecting the most com petent men for highway officials so that the best talent may be available for road building and repairing. ROAD DRAINING AND GRADING Highways Out of Commission but Few Days in Year When Cared for by Good Patrolman. The first step In road improvement Is to grade and drain the dirt roads thoroughly. 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