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EIGHT "BACK TO THE FARM” II. —Restoring the Balance. Back to the Land. By C. V. GlfcttGOßY. clatlon.) WE have seen how the high cost of the necessaries of life and of foodstuffs par ticularly In the direct re sult of the townward trend of popula tion. The same cause is responsible for the terrible congestion of popula tion In some parts of the grout cities, with the attendant disease and misery. Such conditions are deplorable, the more so became they are unnecessary. There Is enough food In the world for ell, enough shelter for ull and enough room for all. Men will come to learn —indeed, they are already learning— that they are paying too high a price *er'- a roMKonrAßiiE faiim home. for tlie privilege of living In (lie city. The netting of tlio tide of population toward the city begun when the city possessed some real advnntnr’.es that were not found in tile country. To day thin condition in reversed. Tin current still flows cityward only in* cause of hubit. There is a tremendous amount of Inertia to be overcome be fore the direction of the flow of hu man beings will be reversed, leit tin day of •‘about face” Is coming. You may travel for hundreds of miles through the west, where broad arable fields stretch out on every aide, with a population of not more tliiin four to the square mllo. Even In the fertile Mississippi valley there are lmt twenty live people located on etu h square mile. In the east the country population is more dense, hut her there are thousands of quarter see ttons and eighty acre tracts of laud so fertile that ten acres properly tilled mean pros|»erlty. Contrast this with New York clt\ with 12,r>7S jteople to the square mile or Chicago, with IMtH. The cities boast of their size and greet each add ed thousand As wel. might a sardine eat? ask to be packed more tightly. The rlty Is calling sot men that It does not need, for which It bas no work at living wages and c room without crowding some one elst • little closer. The country Is calling for men—call ing with tlie voice of opportunity. There la room for all and to spare There la a good living for all and n surplus besides. The decentralisation of the cities, the movement to tin country, means saner, cleaner living. There 18 leas of strife and sordid self ishness out In the n|>cn country, where the grass Is green and the twitter of song birds replaces the city's din. Chll dren raised In the haytleUla make the men of brains and brawn for which the world Is calling. Out In the coun try It Is possible for every man to have a home The humblest laborer can be covered at night by his own cottage roof. The future of the na tkm depends upon the preservation of ■ pure and healthy home life, and no where can this be so surely attained as In the country. A higher standard of living Is possi ble to the man In the country. He can build a bouse for the price of two or three years’ rent In the city. He can have fresh vegetables and fresh meat and fresh eggs on the farm that make the canned and cold storage products of the city a disagreeable memory Forty cent eggs mean doing without to the average city dweller To the countryman with a small flock of poul try they mean prosperity. The mao with his own cow doesn't complain of the high cost of milk and butter, sot grass la always cheap. In the country the everlasting strug gle to keep up appearances Is not felt so keenly as In the city. The useless extravagance that makes the Mil for Clothes the heaviest drain on the rlty man's porketbook Is larking. Men and women are taken more for what they are worth and less for what they seem to he. The man who Uvea beyond his Income In an effort to appear more than he really la la looked upon with disapproval In the country the stand ard of 1 ng as It applies to the real things—food, clothing, shelter, books and papers—ran he maintained much higher than It can on an equal sized income in the city. The temptations to reckless extravagance are much leas, and the margin for saving la con sequently much greater. From the standpoint of the average individual and for a great many who are above the average country life at present is much more desirable in al most every way than city life Bome of tbs more specific advantages will be taken up in later articles. From the standpoint of the nation an li> crease In the number of people who READ HERALD WANTS {,’ll the aoll or who live close to It is absolutely necessary. We might And temporary relief by letting down our tariff harriers to the wheat of Cutindu nnd the cattle of Argentina, but sucli relief would be only temporary. The inflow of cheaper meat tfYid bread would but accelerate the growth of the cities. When the limit of the pro duction of Canada and Ko'lth America was reached we would face atiothei crisis of high prices, (bis time much more serious than we are undergoing at present. The only way the price level can be permanently adjusted and lasting prosperity assured is by In creasing the proportion of country dwellers. At present there are too many drones In the hives of Industry. The unearn ed increment, the rapid rise in real estate values for which community growth is responsible, has placed hun dreds of thousands of people where they can live from the proceeds of rents live without working. They are granted u perpetual tax upon the In dustry of others -on the necessity of people to live. Legislation that will put a heavy tax on this unearned in crement will in a large measure right this wrong nnd force tbo property owners Into productive labor. The decentralizing of the cities will force down the abnormally high rents nnd help to thin the ranks of the people whom excessive renls have allowed to remain in Idleness. Aside from the people who do not work, there Is a vast army of nonpro ducers who are supported by the men who work at productive labor. Our system of getting goods from producer to consumer Is needlessly expensive and cumbersome. There are too many middlemen on the way, who through custom have come to think they have a divine right to an easily earned share of the consumer's dollar. Much of this awkward aystem of dia trlbutlon has been made necessary by the concentration of the manufactur ing Industries in large cities and by the location of these cities without ref erence to the markets for their manu factured goods or the source of their food supply. II has been ostlmated that If Philadelphia were located close to Its food supply the cost of living in that city would be reduced 20 percent. The time has come for a rndlenl re adjustment of the aystem of distribu tion. The consumer and the producer must be brought closer together and a large share of the energy wasted In duplication and rehandling of products turned Into productive Ittiior. As an example, there are nearly 100,000 com merclal travelers in this country. These men are well fed nnd well paid The cost of selling goods through them 1s enormous. The consumer pays this cost in Increased prices. The plan of selling all sorts of goods In small quan titles by personal solicitor* is n rem nnnt of tho old days of cutthroat com petition. It has little, If nny, place in modern business. Today business him been put on a scientific basis. Consol idation Is the keyword of efficiency Consolidation hns reached Its highest development In manufacture. Trans portntion Is not far behind It. It is time that eoinpetltton the kind of competition that fosters Inefficiency, duplication Hud excessive cost is ellm lnntcd from the unproductive Indus tries. In the very nature of tho raso there must always be a class of unprodue A 1* & - if! THE "liHKAIt LINE** JH NEW YOHK. tlve worker*. It 1* for the best good of the nation to limit this class as much as possible The future prosperity of America, then, depends upon the deceutrallaa tJon of the cities. Large cities are eco nomtcally wasteful, and they will have to go. The manufacturing cities of the future will be located with reference to food supply as well as with refer ence to the market for their product*. In recent years the farmers of the hog raising districts of lowa are com ing more aud more to ship their hogs to local packing houses for slaughter, thus eliminating the long freight haul to Chicago. A plan la under way to establish a terminal elevator at Cedar ltaplds, where the bulk of the lows grain cau be cleaned and graded and •hipped direct to the consumer. In this way the toll of Chicago, with Its heavy terminal charges aud Its army of middlemen, will be almost entirely eliminated. One of the chief factors In the way of thts enterprise and many others of like nature Is the discriminatory freight rates which the railroads give to the large cities. Hut this Is a mat ter that will be remedied In time. The era of the open country and the conn try town Is dawning. The great city hua Its place, a place which it will con tluue to bold, hut It cannot l*e the dominating force In American life, nor can It much louger attract the flower of young manhood and young woman hood from the country districts. READ HERALD WANTS POULTRY PICKINGS. i’lnn to get a good supply of chicks next spring from the very best of stock you have Keed your poultry well on good wholesome feed, but see that there Is no waste Because feed la liigL do not think for a moment that good results can be obtained from un derfeeding. Tbe common grains of the farm are the best feeds for poultry. The dropping boards should he cleaned frequently, at least twice a week, and a good absorbent like gypsum or dry loam should be frequently sprinkled over tbe dropping*. Meat cracklings with the grease well boiled out and tbe crack ling* pressed well afterward Is a food relished by bens, and they do well ou It KILLING AND DRESSING DUCKS FOR MARKET When ducks ore to be killed for mar ket the heads should be left on and not disfigured In any way. Tho large cities demand dry picked ducks, and all intending to ship ducks to city mar kets should acquire the art of picking them dry. They should bo killed with u pointed knife, sharp on both edges. This may he thrust into the roof of tlie mouth so as to pierce the brain and then turned so ns to cut the ar teries and cause profuse bleeding. A rap on the head with a short club be fore sticking will stun the bird and prevent much fluttering. The secret of successful dry pick ing is to get the feathers off while tbe bird is dying, for ns soon as the duck Is dead the muscles contract and hold the feathers tight After killing the duck may be hung by the feet at a convenient height or laid on the lap with the head between the right knee nnd the feather box. Which ever way is adopted the most Important thing is to strip off the feathers at the utmost speed, with a pall of water near by, into which tbe right hand should occasionally be dip ped in order to make the fenthera stick ' 7; ' » .*Vv ’* 'e.• There 1* probably no breed of domestic fowl that hns gained In popular favor within the past few yeere ee much as the Runner duck. There are nt li-aet three reasons for this grsat Increase In popularity. It Is claimed for the Indian Runners that they will lay mors sags than bens, that they are hurdler nnd easier to raise, that the profit la surer and quicker The Illustra tion shows an Indian Runner duck of pure breeding. to It The fingers can get a better grip on the feathers than when dry. The left luwd should hold tbe carcass, and when necessary pull the skin taut to prevent tearing us tbe right hand pulls off the feathers by tbe haudful. Much of the down can be nibbed off by the wet-bond. Tbe long flight feath ers of the wlugs are uaually left on, as are those for au tndi or more from the head. The latter is not removed. Any tears of skin should be sewed up. As soon us all tbe feutbere are re moved tbe carcass should bs put at one* Info cold water, and after It Is washed thoroughly to remove all blood from tlie body uud dirt front tho feet It should he put Into colder water—ice water If iHMidble. if tbs ducks are to be ehtpped to large markets they should be carefully iwepured by fold ing the bend uuder one of tbe wings and then t.vtug « string or tape around tbe body to hold tbe bead and wings In position COLORADO TROOPS GO IF STATE ACTS Washington.—President Wilson will withdraw federal troop* from the Col orado strike sone ns soon as he re ceives official word from Oovvknor Ammons that the state Is ready to re sume control. The president reiterated today that the commission mimed by him Sunday would have nothing to do with the present strike, but wa* appointed to he of service In settling differences which might arise tn the future. r - )SO de AT THE MODJESKA THEATRE. THE AUGUSTA HERALD, AUGUSTA, GA. r TOMORROW Ws » SUPOttA At The Modjeska Theatre Farm and Garden DISCARD ROBBER HENS. Unprofitable Fowls Should Be Elimi nated From the Flock. IPrepared by Cornell department of poul try huebandry.J This winter when the prices of grain are soaring It is well to consider wheth er there are hens In the flock thut are consuming more feed than the return- In the egg basket wnrrant. Frequent ly 25 to 60 per cent of the birds have been eliminated from flocks by mem here of the department of poultry bus bandry at Cornell without reducing the total daily egg yield. Tbe blrd> that were eliminated were robber ben* because they reduced the profits fron the remainder of the flock, whici ■r ~KA WHITE TiEQHOTtN HRN9. would have required less labor, lea feed and less bouse room. The thin to select hens for breeding purposes Is In the full rather than in the spring At this time only the more productlvi Individuals are laying, and the charac teristics that distinguish the produc tlve from the unproductive are more easily seen. These characteristics an the condition of the molt, the shape 01 the body, the size and color of tin comb, the color of the shanks and ttn actions of tbe birds. A study of tin three year trap nest records of man) White Leghorn fowls at Oornell show;- that the most productive fowls, If se lected at tbe end of tbe first year's lay ing, will be llkoly to lay au uverage production equal to fbe average egg yield of tbe entire flock iu tbe first yetir. These; records also show that a wtse selection of the most deslrabli Individuals at tbe end of tbe secom year will lay on the average us man) eggs per bird as the entire flock din per bird in the second year. Kspedal ly high producing individuals of the first year are likely to lay more egg in the third year than they did in tin second year. When farmers realize these facts a great many robber hen* will be used for Sunday dinners It is Important that tbe best Individuals should be select**! nnd kept for ne>t less than two or three years. These older fowls have proved to be most de idrabie for breeding purposes. The) lay larger eggs, are iu better condition for breeding In tbe spring than pullets and show by their ability to lay and to remain vigorous that they have Inher ite*d a tendency to long life and vital! ty. These are seune of the character tstlcs that must be perpetuated In breeding hens for high egg production The selection of males for breeding puriKwe-s is of ns great importane-e as the selection of females. Not more than two or three males out of ever) hundred reared usually need to be re tultied for breeders. Mules differ as widely In vigor and breeding value as do females. Tbey can be graded for quality a* easily and as accurately as pullets or bens. Pullets that fall to lay before late winter or early spring should be discarded as breeders. CHICAGO WILL BAR THE GIRL USHERS Chicago,—-Girl ushers in Chicago theatre* have encountered the disap proval of the Municipal Bureau of Fire Prevention. An ordinance requiring all theatre* to employ men ushers was sent to the council last night at the Instanc of John C. McDonnell, chief of the bureau. '“Girl ushers are not equal to men In times of emergency such as fires and panics.” said McDonnell. A num ber of Chicago theatre* have employ ed girl ushers for several years. THE WISE DRY GOODS CO. Are you helping your organization win the $300.00 cash prizes offered by us? Each has a Registration Day, entitling them to 50 free votes for each person registering on their day and spending as much as 10 cents. Monday, November 30th, Children’s Home. Tuesday, December Ist, Daughters of Isabella. Wednesday, December 2nd, Mary Warren Home. Thursday, December 3rd, Mt. St. Joseph. Friday, December 4th, Salvation Army. Saturday, December sth, Woodlawn Baptist Church. Monday, December 7th, Woodlawn Methodist Church. Don’t forget the day of your choice, and ask your friends to come in and register and count 50 free votes for them. The one securing the largest number of registrations on their day will be given 5000 votes free. The time is getting short, so don’t delay. The $300.00 will be a nice Christmas gift for someone. In addition to this, we are offering some great values in Christmas goods as well as staples in Dry Goods. See center tables strewn with sub stantial suggestions for Holiday Gifts. Nice Juicy Florida Oranges at, each lc Fine Juicy Sweet Apples at, each l-2c Try Wise First, It Pays THE WISE DRY GOODS CO. 555 Broad St. Augusta, Ga. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1