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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 1908)
Till; REAL BASEBALL. O'’. <nice me nw:e- from (he baseball game Where science is at t he bat, And the plavers play In a technical wav, Till a Itube can’t tell what they're at. Where ‘cores are highest when nothing at all. And nobody makes a base; Where nobody njakes Any sort of mistakes. 'And everything's just in place. W nere spectators keep on the watch for plays t_o close that it eives them a pain; And what ever's done In hit, catch or run. They scream to take off the strain. Oh, carry me back to the old-fashioned game That doesn’t know science at all; Where the sides go in With a whoop to win. And they don’t do a thing but play ball. Y\ here twenty or thirty or forty runs Are likely as not to be made; And the bags are hot From many a swat Tn games that are played as is played. Where the catcher don't look like an ar mored knight. And the pitcher is not so intense The batter can't hit ’Em a little bit. But bangs ’em clean over the fence. Where something is doing that stirs up the soul About every minute or so. With the home-runs made And double plays played. And the whole darn thing on the go. W r liere grandstand and bleachers are all of a kind. And are there because they are there To see a good game That’s good just the same. Though science be up in the air. Oh. take me away from the baseball game Where scientists have the call, And give me the play That lasts half a dav— Hurrah, that is ball: that is ball! —W. J. Lampton, in the New York Times. 4 A PifilsiNuisTEß. h I BIT WEEN IT CAMF, TO T tfIINTSS [ THE PROMISE FADED. I “She's absolutely perfect, Billy,’’ said Billy’s younger sister with en thusiasm. “She’s just the kind of girl I should love for a sister, but of course I don t expect you to appre ciate her at all. You haven't got a bit of sense about girls. I’m sure I don’t know what would become of you if I didn't watch over you a lit tle.” “Is she blonde or brunette?” asked Billy with lazy interest, for he and his sister had little similarity of tastes when it came to girls. “She's the dearest little blonde, with the most appealing face and big, baby blue eyes. There's this *bout her, too; she has a lot of good common sense and makes nearly all tier own shirt waists and she sings beautifully and her father owns a eteam yacht—” “That’s plenty about her, thank you. I’ve read all about that kind in books. You forget to mention that she is matrimonially incliued and is liable to try to capture a promising person like myself.” “Why, she wouldn’t consider you for a moment. If you will only be nice to her while she is visiting me it w r on’t be at all necessary for you to do anything more. Don’t neglect her, though, for 1 want her to like you.” Next day the little blonde arrived with much fuss and feathers. “Oh, she’ll pass in a crowd,” was Billy’s verdict a little later when his sister anxiously sought his opinion of her friend. “Please don’t be gruff, Billy. Be nice to her, for she won t be here long.” Billy gave the desired promise with an air of martyrdom. He kept his word beautifully during the next ten days and donned his dress clothes six nights out of the seven without a word of complaint. His sister felt conscience stricken at times, knowing how wretchedly bored Billy must be. The little blond visitor accepted Billy’s devotion, together with that ■of all the other men who crossed her path, as a matter of course. Billy’s sister felt a little piqued at such indifference, because if she did say it herself there were few girls who had as good looking a brother as Billy was. It was at the ghost party' that the visitor really forfeited the good will of Billy’s sister. It wasn't just be cause she committed the unpardon able social error of fainting at the appearance of the sulphur ghost, lor Billy’s sister really had been solicit ous when Billy carried the blond girl upstairs and hovered around until ®he opened her eyes just as he was bending over her. It was what the little blond girl did when she saw Billy there. Two little hands had caught Billy's face between them Impetuously and then had quickly dropped when Billy’s sister ejacu lated, “Oh!” “I don’t think Ruth need have up set the whole party the way she did last night,” complained Billy's sis ter to Billy the next day. "She is £oing home to-morrow and I’ll really feel relieved, for she is so hard to entertain.” “Poor little girl!” said Bi’.ly meditatively. “When'll she he back from the hair dresser's? She's been gone an hour and forty-five min utes." "ShF may stay there all day for alt r care,” remarked Billy's sister, indifferently. “I suppose you might taka her for a little ride in the ma chine when she -conics in, for we ought to he nice to her, even though we are so tired of her. We never will have her to visit us again, any how.” “You never can tell, though,” re marked Billy as he left the room. “I hope Billy doesn’t compromise himself with her,” said Billy’s sister to her mother a little later as she waved her hand at the couple depart ing in the machine. “Why, you were so fond of her and so anxious that he should fall in love with her,” said her mother with a puzzled expression. “I think she is sweet.” ‘She is a snippy little cat and so weak and washed-out looking,” stormed Billy’s sister. “She is so impudent and independent and or ders Billy around under my nose. If Billy becomes engaged to her I shall feel it my duty to break off the en gagement and open his eyes as I did with Esther.” When the little blond girl and Billy returned that night his sister was waiting up for them and met them with a worried frown. “What a naughty girl to stay out so late without a chaperon!” she said playfully. The little hloijrfl girl and Billy looked at each other and then laughed. “Go ahead—tell her,” commanded Billy. The little blond girl put up a lit tle hand on which gleam-d a new gold hand ring. “We—we’re married,” she stam mered, blushing. Then she threw her arms around her new sister's neck. “Oh. I just n»ver ran love you enough! Billy told me how you wanted me for a sister from the very first ar.d we owe it all to you!” “I suppose it is all for the best,” soliloquized Billy's sister later as she mentally reviewed the situation. “BFsi'des, it is nice to have a steam yacht in the family.” Chicago News. IIIC; SI MS IN ROYALTIES. Amounls Received by Nikola Tesla From ll is “Fundamental Patents.” The expiring fundamental patents of Nikola Tesla have been the means of supplying the inventor with a great deal of money in the shape of royal ties. None but the parties immedi ately concerned know just how much this amounted to, but it is said to be a very large amount. The expiration of the patents wilt be the means of cheapening the price of motors some little, but this business will suffer no radical changes by reason of the ter mination of the period of protection. It is stated by competent authori ties that the bulk of this money re ceived has been spent in the wireless experiments which Tesla has been carrying on for some time. The tower at 'Wardencliffe, L. 1., which was a very expensive construction, was built with the aid of these funds as well as money supplied by J. Pierpont Mor gan. George D. Seely, the veteran elec trical examiner at the Patent Office, looks for no great stir on account of the expiration of the patents. ‘‘There may be some little excitement,” he said, ‘‘but it will not be an earth quake by any means. It will have the effect of lowering the market price of electric motors some, and probably some manufacturers not now manufacturing electric motors will put them on the market.” The field thrown open by the dying out of the patents is not so large as would appear at a first glance. W4iile the three fundamental principles are absolutely necessary to the construc tion of an electric rotary motor, the improvements which have been made from time to time enter largly into making the motor of the great com mercial value that it is to-day, and the patents on the impritvements still stand good. The Westinghouse people hold the greater number of these subsidiary parents, and they announce that they will fight any infringements. Woman Tougher Than Man. Although men as they run are per haps muscularly stronger than wo men, their inability to withstand the elements and their reliance upon clothes places them considerably be low the so-called weaker sex in the matter of unclothed toughness. Wo men wear clothes for ornament; men use them as a protective covering. A group of men marooned clotheless on an island in the temperate zone mignt be expected to die off in a month from draughts and colds and rheumatism. The health of women similarly placed would suffer little from the enforced exposure. The fact appears to be, therefore, that in everything but muscle —in. vitality, ruggeduess, char acter, disposition, brain-power, etc.— woman is the tougher, not the weak er, sex.—New York Globe. PRACTICAL ADVICE ABOUT DIVERSIFIED FARMING The Poultry Yard. If it smells sour or musty around where the chicks eat or hover, get the spade to bury some of them. Keep it handy, for it will be needed often. If it is desired to breed up the flock for vigor and early maturity do not make the mistake of selling all the early, quick-maturing pullets; but rush the early cockerels off to market. One hen may hatch all her eggs, the next may hatch none, the third may hatch part of hers; and the gen eral average Is far from a 100 per cent, hatch. Do not expect the incu bator to do more than hens. Rush the marketable young stock toward the pot just as early as large enough. During the season that poul try meat is scarce, a small bird may bring more than it ever would again for market purposes, and the expense of caring for and feeding it is stopped. Chicks need tender grain feed when a few days old. It aids in keep ing the bowels in good order and in other ways, but green feed should not he relied on too much. Grain gives them something to develop on. \ ' * THE AMERICAN CARRIAGE HORSE. The Figures on the Lines Are the Ideal Measurements in Inches. Why not extend the poultry work on the farm by adding ducks, geese or turkeys to the flock of chickens? Ducks and geese, particularly, feed differently from the way chickens do; and will use some things for feed that chickens will not. That old cat that would let the chicks peck her when anybody is about sometimes eats the same chicks when she thinks no one is looking. It seems unkind to accuse the old family pet, but it very often pays to make sure of what she is really doing. Those who use incubators should see that the air about the machine is pure and free from bad odors—es pecially from the fumes of the lamps. The air can be kept pure without hav ing drafts. The unhatched chick needs pure air about as much as one that has been hatched. Birds worth SIOO are not sold foj sl, and the inexperienced should not expect to get top-notchers for a trivial sum. It costs something to breed a choice bird, a prize winner; and it will not be sold for sl. When this is more generally .realized, there will he less dissatisfaction on the part of inexperienced buyers. Breeders, climb up the ladder of advertising, to success, if you have birds or live stock that are worth ad vertising. Buyers will not hunt you up, unless you first give them to un derstand that you are worth hunting up, that you can sell what they want. Some strains of ducks lay a large number of eggs and the eggs are so big that their food value is much greater than that of the same num ber of chicken eggs. There are poul trymen who think ducks quite valua able for the reason that their eggs supply so much food for man. Yet, most poultrymen imagine that ducks are good only for the meat they pro duce. When hatching duck eggs in an Incubator, remember that they are thicker than chicken eggs, and that the top is therefore higher in the in cubator and warmer, since the tem perature is higher farther up. Pos sibly this will explain to some why they have not had the same success with duck eggs in the machine that they have with chicken eggs. This much is certain—a rttion-that Is about all starch will not keep chicks’ bowels in good order nor help them to make rapid growth. Corn is little more than starch, yet some times almost the only food that chicks get. They may pull through by find ing bugs or worms to add to then corn ration, but too much of a strain should not be put on them by with holding less starchy feed.—Pro gresslve Farmer. Directions For Planting Trees. When received, the trees should be heeled in, the fine dirt being well worked in around the roots. If dry, they should be well watered. In moving, they should be covered with wet burlap or something to pro tect them from sun and wind. Holes should be dug four to six inches deeper than tree goes down; this space filled with fine surface soil. All bruised or broken roots cut off with a sharp knife, leaving a smooth, , sound end, cut from the lower side up. Set the tree one and one-half to two inches deeper than it grew in the nursery. Set with a slight lean to the southwest, straighten the roots and work fine dirt under and between the roots, packing firmly. When all the roots are covered, pack the whole firmly with the feet, then finish with loose dirt. Cut off at least two-thirds of the.. season's growth of branches. Head the trees low and as near as prac ticable to a uniform height. In spring, leaVe the ground slightly dishing toward the tree. In fall planting, mound up the earth four to six inches above the level, packing closely to the stem. Sheep Produce More Meat. Professor F. B. Mumford, of the Missouri Experiment Station, in pre senting a summary of all the work that has been done at the experiment stations on the feeding of sheep, showed that sheep produce more meat from a pound of grain than any other of farm animals. In fact, it was shown that a pound of mutton can be produced from about half as much grain as a pound of beef. Even the mortgage-lifting hog requires more grain to produce a pound of human food than the sheep. With the com bination of corn and hay for food, and dry shed for shelter, sheep will always give a good account of them selves, and respond readily to the care given th<-~\ Keep Farm Books. Certainly you expect to be a better farmer in 1 908 than in 1907. Begin to-day. Work, but think; consider your mistakes of last year and avoid them this year. You should keep some kind of a farm record, a diary, a notebook or an account. Find out from the record what you did with the field that failed. Did you plant too early or too late? Did you plow too deep? Did the seed you bought turn out well, or do you know? Farm life employs all the energies of a full manhood. There Is so much to think about the farmer is apt to talk littU. —Home and Farm. Rotate the Crops. Plan to rotate the crops, and whea the time comes in 1908 to do the planting see to it that these plan* are well carried out. The fertilizing of the soil needed can thus be kept in the right place and used an re quired. Note the proportion of ele ments required by the different crops and so do the planting. It is also the fact—and it is very important—that one crop may bq, used to help the ground for another. A big use can ba made of the cow-pea in this way. The Fertilizer Question. Study the fertilizer question in all of its aspects. Save the manure on the farm and the leaves from the woods. Find out what your soil lacks and what your crops need. Learn about potash and all it means. Con-* siuer the difference between a large product per acre and only an average crop and know the large crops come from mixed fertilizers and soil with leaves. INTEREST i Rj _ YTO Tf-AEr EARNER. STICK TO ONE BREED. If you have started out with one pure breed, stick to it. Do not be led off by a foolish desire to cross it with some other breed or to intro duce scrub blood into the flock. If a change is to be made, get better blood of the same breed as the one nc*v on hand. KINDNESS OF HORSES. With the balky liorse try kindness. Take a hammer or stone and tap the bottom of each front foot. Give each nail a light tap with a smart tap on frog of foot. Drop foot quickly and in most cases the animal if spoken to will start quickly, his attention hav ing been diverted. —Farmers’ Home Journal. WEED INFESTED HAY FIELDS. Too many mowing fields are in fested with various weed pests which appear rather to be on the increase. In part this must he ow ing to the use of inferior grass seeds, and allowing meadows to remain in grass too long before plowing and reseeding. All such fields should be harvested early in order to prevent a more ex tensive seeding to weeds. Those fields that produce little but white daisies and weeds should be marked, “To be plowed another fall,” and should go through a thorough prepa ration of cultivation and fertilizing, that will fit them to produce abun dant crops of good hay in a rotation of reasonable length, say two to four years.—Farmers’ H Jcumal, t 7 SOWING GRASS. A reader in Warrick County asks; “When is the best time to sow grass seed?” If there was only one kind of grass the question would be easy to answer. If timothy is meant, early in tiie fall is the better time, so the grass can get a good start to enable it to stand the winter. Sow blue grass as early in the spring as possible. Or chard grass should be sown in March and red top in April. A good rule would be to sow when weather and soil are in suitable condition. Barnyard manure is a great help to grass of any kind, and ,you are not likely to apply too much, especially if it is well rotted and pulverized. A liberal spread of such manure will double the crop of hay, or will pas ture double the number of stock on blue grass. Break the ground or eight inches, and harrow thorough ly for best, results. Sow twelve pounds of grass seed to the acre, twenty-five pounds of orchard grass and three pounds of red top.—ln diana Farmer. TIIE MARKET END. The producer who looks into the market situation of the great cities is always impressed by the great mar gin between the price he receives for his goods and the price paid hv the consumer. His first view is that the middlemen are looking for too much profit at h's expense nd that of the retail buyers, but when he looks more closely into the business and notes the various losses and draw backs and incidental expenses of the jobbers and retailers he feels less cer tain regarding the rights of the ques tion. The middlemen, especially the re tailers, do not seem to be especially prosperous. In fact, failures are rather numerous in that class. Their losses in the shape of bad bills and produce which spoils before it can be sold, or which has to be sold at a sacrifice, are evidently large. Eut after looking over the situation the producer will probably feel that the margin might be cut down if only a better system of distribution could he arranged. The whole subject of handling produce in the large market centres is worth a great deal more attention than it has received from official sources. The Boards of Agri culture and also the Interstate Com merce Commission might look into the matter to great advantage. The producer would like to have his views cleared on what constitutes a reason able margin between the wholesale and retail price, including various jobbing prices. It would aid him very much in forming a plan for pos sibly handling produce in a way that would place it fresh without loss or damage in the hands of the-consumer. At present it is hard to arrange such a plan without putting other people and other sellers in the place of the legion of wholesalers and retailers. Tno working out of a more practical plan for the distribution of farm products will be one of the agricul tural advances of the future. —Amer- ican Cultivator.
