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8y JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN
s’lu II' —that of the
) Lg-d'oct!. Vail 1 of- the
{jp ihl \v.i,v in the air i;o
--[ ' fore the last snowflake
vvas out ik it. L'ots of
. us hail.our vacation days
all planned before the
curtains of the-'Old Fliv
*=• vj>r came off to; stay.
Nay, nay, l'auffiie! I’laii
niiiK time is hy.oi\ This is-doing time,,
fiflht along lrom now pn. And. yet
the port is 'llfti-fiTtJ - ' right lit - that'.
Tiie secret of a successful vaca-..
ti<m is largely in knowing what to
d<x Those of us to whom' the Civil
carries a clear message are Indeed
lucky.
Nowadays a good many of. us,, .espe
cially city folk, have got' into- the
way of playing not wisely hut too well.
We work like mad things. Wo play
like mad tilings. Our avocations are
*s strenuous as our vocations. And
tshc-re are abundant signs that the
American people are turning back to
Nature to rest up from both their, vo.
rations and their avocations. .There
wonts to he a general feeling that Old
Hot her Nature off el's a panacea for
the ills of our complex modern civiliza
tion. That’s why our through auto
mobile highways, this summer will
carry processions of the peopfc awheel
end headed for the wild’places.
from one point of view it is a joy
t© see the whole country hustling to
get ready for the people awheel; from
another it’s laughable. * S.uch a patch
ing: up of roads and a making of auto
vamps and a mailing of “literature"
•oil'll printing of display advertising!
The tribe of the automobile gypsy is
to increasing year by year that there
is no telling where it-w ill eml. In
Mlf) the various communities of tlie
Scenic West spent about $250,000 to
encourage travel in' vacation time.
This season Los Angeles alone is
spending $$00,000; San. Francisco,
fIOO.tKK); San JHego, $150,000; l’ort
huct, $150,000; Denver, SIOO,OOO, and
*> on. States like Maine, Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota are doing
their best in tiie way of setting forth
counter-attractions.
A most significant sign of the times
the development os*the auto camp—
free or with a nominal charge.
The auto camp had Its origin in the
Scenic West. It has spread eastward
'Uke an old-fashioned prairie tire at
fr as Chicago. There are few in tiie
Hast, hut the East will have to come
to ft. in the West no self-respecting,
itrtf awake community on travel lines
fc without It. The American Auto-
Mobile association has published a
tHwkiet containing a list of 1,000 of
eke best of these auto camps.
In other words, the gypsying motor
ist has forced the country west of Chi
cago to get started well In tiie work
•f caring for hint as he gypsies. Here’s
. . . . 'V
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# wlujt we’ll see in a year or-two every?,
where: Automobiles in '^privateiown
ership , will have a pasSbiiger trans
portation possibility of fcjlmost! half
of the population. No)-Community
will enjoy tiie- development to \yhlch
it would naturally he entitled "if. .if
does not see to its tfghway ap :
proaches and also furnish'd* tiie jauto
inohiie traveler an equivalent for the
union station, tiie informai-i'oti service,’
the dining car and tiie sipeper of the
railroad. . I ~.v.
The pressure of doliars ( jahd ceiits .is
already bringing this abotif; ; For the
gasoline gypsy on his travels j>ay% and
pays Trig. Maine, which lifw’an ijii-to
datfe publicity bureau, estimiites 000,-
000 tourists In 11)22 spent in the state.
$45,000,000. The Canadian depart
ment of customs reports for 1922 j that
017,285 people entered from ' the
United States for touring purposes,
and that the visitors spent $ 108-000,-
000. -Colorado for 1922, reports thus:
Visitors In 213 auto camps, 514,412;
expended by travelers, $42,000,000.
The national parks and monuments
had 1,210,378 visitors in 1922, of whom
approximately 75 per cent traveled in
their own cars. The national parks
have free auto camps. Some of the
auto gypsies'stopped at hotels; some
camped out; some did both, as occa
sion served. It is estimated that they
spent $200,000,000 In and about the
parks—ail of which was good Ameri
can money kept at home and in cir
culation. . ’
It Is estimated that somewhere
around 10,000,000 Americans are going
vacationing in something like 2,500,-
000 cars this summer. It is figured
that most of them will head for the
cool places where there are shade and
living waters—and fish. The people'
whose business it is to keep track of
the vacationing public say that the
national parks will set anew record of
attendance. Anyway, everything is
set for more than a million and a half.
The rail excursion rates are low, and
no strike threatens, as it did in 1922.
Several roads have put on additional
trains. Much “good roads’’ work lias
been done. There are improvements
in the way of additional trails and
new rest houses and nature museums,
new auto camps and new and enlarged
hotels and hotel camps. A bulletin by
the Interior department, giving the
angling situation in detail in each
park, predicts “one of tiie biggest fish
ing seasons on record.’’ Incidentally
this bulletin states that 11.2C9.500 trout
THE DANIELSVILLE MONITOR, DANIELSVILLE, GEORGIA.
the \vnter§ Glacier, Mount Rainier,
'.Rocky Mountain and Yellowstone. •'
The'national park system offers 1 all
vai'ie’ties of inspiring scenery and cli
mate from Grand Canyon to Mount
McKinley. season varies a little,
(according to 3 Grand Canyon
is officiallyjan “all-th£-year”<park.’ So
is Rocky ylouqtain, which has as many
visitors ' as ‘ Yellowstone,' Yosemite
and Glacier combined. So is Yo-
Abhiit§, • hi though- '. the 'spectacular
‘.Tioga., -road; the 1 gift .of'- Director
.Mathgr of tiro national.park service,
and. Julius Rosenwald, will not be
open through the Sierras until early in
July. Mount ’ Rainier, ptobaGly the
“snowiest of them all, should be in full
blast.by July 1. Mount McKinley, in'
Alaska',’is still practically inaccessible
to the general, public, although the
government railroad that passes close
to one corner has been completed.
There is only one trouble with our
national park system—it offers so
many different kinds of attractions
that it’s hard to choose among therm
Grand Canyon is one of the wonders
of the \vorl4. Yosemite's mountain
valley is one of the loveliest natural,
beauty spots on earth. Yellowstone
Ims its geysers and other freak vol
canic exhibits. Rocky Mountain is
a bewildering combination of granite
peaks and beautiful valleys, perched
on the top of the Continental Divide.
Sequoia has its “Big Trees,’’ the
largest and oldest living things of
earth. Crater Lake, deep and darkly
blue, in the great crater of an extinct
volcanoi is unique. Mesa Verde is
the ancient home of a prehistoric race
of Americans. Glacier has glaciers,
marvelous rock formations and vivid
colorings. Zion's deep gorge uncovers
colored strata which make it a blaze
of color. Mount Rainier, the “Moun
tain that was God,” is one of the most
majestic peaks of earth, snow-clad on
top; flower-clad next and forest-clad
on its lowest slopes. And so goes the
list, each with its own attractions.
The best thing about our national
parks, which have increased in num
j per to nineteen since the Yellowstone—
| the first national park in the world—
was established In 1872, is that the
American people have now seized upon
them as a part of their conception of
the greatness of America. They are
passionately resolved to defend them
from commercial invasion either under
public or private control.
IBYBMS
UKUSUfILFEATURES
Attractive Building Houses 36
Cows and Their Feed.
MANY PREFER GOTHIC ROOF
Sarn Is of Frame Construction With
Concrete Floor and Foundation—
Labor-Saving Equipment
Provided for.
Ey 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 work on the farm, 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 these subjects. Ad
dress all inquiries to William A. Radford,
No. 1527 Prairie avenue, Chicago, 111., and
only inclose two-cent stamp for reply.
Dairymen who erect modern barns
to house their herds and the feed for
the animals also want attractive look
ing buildings. Good buildings add to
the value of the farm and there is no
reason wiry beauty should not be com
bined with utility. > ■ '•
Outside of their roof lines and the
materials of which they are con
structed dairy barns are very much
alike. Whatever materials are used in
the buildings the two‘types-of -roofs —
gambrel and . -gothic— ‘are suitable.
Some prefer onp .and. gome the.other.
Adherents of the gambrel' roof argue
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matter of fact there is no material
iifference in the capacities of either.
Shown in the illustration is a good
•sample of the gothic roof barn. The
.raceful roof lines of the gothic are
■hat make it popular and as fewer of
cut are erected than'’ of the other
type, it is more unusual
quently more attention a ’rr2 C ° ns *
This barn is of frame 1
with a concrete floor and f I ‘ struct ion
the walls of the latter
about four feet. The buildm ° g Up
feet long and 84 feet g is *
tains stall room for 80 CO w * COn '
pen and a bull pen. H ow ?\ a
of the stable is arranged aS"?
equipment it should contain U the
on the floor plan. am are! shown
An unusual feature of tld a k
the driveway through one end rfV 3
doors on either side ad 4 e ?'
With the load of hay, which iJ I g ° n
underneath doors to the i oft S Vea
The tackle carries the hay
where it is carried on a track to dlj,
ent parts of the mow. m r '
The cow stalls are arranged so that
the animals face a central alley
driveway which extends from double
sliding doors at either end of th
building. The stall partitions are of
steel, set into the concrete, while the
manger is built in when the floor is
laid. Metal manger partitions mav be
installed.
At every other stall head there is
shown on the plan an individual drink
ing cup, which is accessible to two
cows. This, of course, is connected to
the pressure water system and sup
plies the animals with a constant sup
ply of fresh water. Ikir.litng tn (S]
At the rear of the stalls and along
the walls are litter alleys, over which
is a carrier track. The litter carrier is
run along the track and the litter car
ried to the pile or shed outside. This
makes the work of cleaning the stable
comparatively easy. The carrier track
also runs over the feeding alley and
to the feed room between the two silos
at the rear of the barn.
The stable is ventilated by the sue-
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tion method, the foul air cti „ 9
connected with the suction
on the roof. Fresh air intal- • • Q
the pure air. Constant ■ , !1( j
maintains an even tempera-
eliminates moisture that ac* ]
on the ceiling, especially and " . j
weather, when a ventilating
vet used.