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HENS GET BOTH HEAT Ml LIGHT Jersey Poultryman Reaps Prao i tical Benefit From Modern Luxuries for His Chicks. Comfort for the hens! And, al though they probably don’t realize it, an inducement to scratch harder, ex ercise more, lay a larger number of eggs in the dull season of the year. This is what has been accomplished on the Maplewood Poultry Farm of Henry M. Reeve, at Maplewood, N. J., by the use of electric lights and steam heat in the hen house. The hen house is 20 by 20 feet and provided with a •team radiator for use during th« Electrio Lights and Steam Radiator in Scratch Pen •arty spring brooding period. This prevents the newly hatched chicks from catching cold before they have begun to approach maturity. Mr. Reeve does not contend that bj using electric lights the egg yield of each hen is increased per year, al though this may be the case, but he does find that the egg yield is more evenly distributed throughout the year, so that at no season is he short of eggs. The lights are turned on beginning about October 1 and are continued every evening until about the middle of March. ' He keeps the hens on a regular twelve hour schedule by means of the electric lights. Whatever period of time the natural day lacks of being twelve hours he makes up with the electric lights. If there are only ten hours of natural light he turns on the electric lights for two hours. If day light lasts eleven hours, then he turns on the lights for one hour. The effect of the lights, he has found, is apparently to shorten the moulting period of the hens and thus prolong the egg laying period. Chick ens which would ordinarily be in a heavy moult by October 1 have con tinued laying eggs through December if placed in a hen house lighted by electric lights. Before making use of electric lights Mr. Reeve estimated his egg yield on January 1 of each year as about 33 1-3 per cent. With the aid of electric lights he estimates that his egg yield on November 1 is now about 40 per cent, which continues throughout the winter season, when normal produc tion would be low. If the egg yield In the summer remains normal, he se cures a certain increase in produc tion for the year and also a steady rate of production, the egg yield in jth« winter tending to approach that of the summer. The lights In the scratch pen con sist of two fifty-watt Mazda lamps with shallow dome porcelain enamel reflectors. MINNESOTA EXPERIMENT Trial Power Line at Red Wing Is Working, With Many Uses for Electricity. Engineers, educators and agricultur al workers who are backing the ex perimental farm transmission line ex tending from Red Wing, Minn., five miles into the country, are planning on exceedingly broad program of elec trical applications to farming, which will be studied by means of this trans mission line. The line itself is now in operation, and the investigation which it makes possible has just be gun. Several distinct phases of electrici ty on the farm are being worked out .under the leadership of Prof. E. A. Stewart, project director of the Uni versity of Minnesota Agricultural Col lege. The application to be made of electricity to poultry raising is typical «s to thoroughness. The investigators will attempt to [demonstrate electrical poultry raising by means of the electric incubator, electric brooder, electrically-lighted .henhouse and electric refrigerator. The program includes the application of electricity to preparing the ground, planting the grain and raising the feed for the chickens, as well as the har vesting of the crops and preparations ©f the grains after harvesting. The Northern States Power Compa ny, which has built the experimental line, has now built a second line in , South Dakota under a similar arrange ment and for the same general pur pose. The South Dakota co-operative ►committee in charge consists.of J. W. s Batcheller, president, South Dakota • Farmers’ Union; C. W. Pugsley, presi dent, South Dakota College of Agri culture, Brookings; E. W. Anderson, ;farmer, Clark county; John Frieberg, /farmer, Clay county; Dr. J. T. E. Din woodie, editor, Dakota Farmer; Ben ‘Mekvold, farmer, Minnehaha county: 'O A Rofelty. manager, Sioux Falls Division of Northern States Power Company. , WITH THE FUNNY Msf ; MEN M jj DESCRIBED | “I met a woman named Brown ' yesterday and wondered if she was your wife.” i “I don’t know Mrs. Brown — what is ? she like?” “She’s a woman of fifty who does not look more than forty, imagines she looks only thirty, dresses as if • she were twenty and talks as if she were ten.” Mum. Bill—ls it possible to confide a se cret in you? Phil —Certainly. I will be as silent as the grave. Bill—Well, then, I have pressing need for two bucks. Phil —Worry not, my friend. It Is as if I had heard nothing.—American Legion Weekly. By Low; 801 l High! Mr. Elchenstein returned home from his business and found his wife rock ing the baby and singing ‘‘by-low, baby, by-low; by-low, baby, by low ” “Dot's right, Sarah; you teach him to buy low and Til teach him to sell high.”—Everybody’s. Mother's Break. Little Girl (before statue In mu seum) —Mamma, who’s this? Attendant (after pause)—That’s Mercury, the messenger of the gods. You have read about him, no doubt. Mother —Os course she has. But, do you know, my little girl has such a very poor memory for Scripture. Strange. Teller —Sorry, but you haven’t enough money In your account to cash this check. Fair Customer —That’s strange. There was enough money to cash the last one I had, and this isn’t nearly as large. Willing to Oblige. *Tm sorry, but I really can’t find a place for you.” “But, senator, I can’t go back to my home town and tell the people there I failed to land a government job.” “In that case, shall I pay your rail road fare to some other point?” THE MYSTERY OF IT Mary—Does your husband enjoy golf? • Alice—Yea, but I can’t understand why. He gets so mad at himself •vsrytime he plays It. Exemplary. As a model of social politeness. Take the echo—it beats us all. You never heard of an echo That fariled to return one’s calL Domestfo. “For heaven’s sake, John, why are you spanking the baby? What has he done?” “Nothing, fur’s I know, Mary; but I gotta do something t’ keep him re* minded who I am around here.*’ Nice Hint for Father. It was the beginning of the wedding trip. “Dear,” the bride inquired anx iously, “in the excitement of leaving did you say good-by to papa and mamma?” “No,” he said, “I said ‘Au revoir.*” Safe Waters. First Angler—This paper reports an other case of a bather being bitten by a fish. Second Angler (after a blank day)— Ah, well, it would be safe enough bathing here! The Dividing Line. Hubby (driving the car) —I wish you would sit up here in the front seat with me. Wife (seated in tonneau) — Are you ashamed for people to know we ara tnarried? In the Movies. “Well, I see onfe of our superstars has written his own play, does his own advertising and takes all the parts.” “I have been advocating that for years.” Sample of Sweets. “Save me a sample of everything the patient takes,” directed the young doctor. “He took a kiss this morning,” fal tered the pretty nurse. Somewhat Embarrassed. The detective dropped a photograph. “Where is that scoundrel wanted?” isked a friend. “Um. That is my Identification Jtrd/^— Louisville Courier-Journal. FARMS USING RADIO NEAR 150,000 MARK Survey Reveals Its Value in Agri culture —Stations Broadcast Special Farm Information. The rapidUy with which radio haa spread in farming communities is re vealed by a recent survey made by the United Staten Department of Ag i riculture. County agents estimate i that there are approximately 40,000 radio sets in 700 counties. This is an i average of fifty-seven sets per county. Applying the average to 2,850 agricul i tural counties, a total of more than ; 145,000 sets on farms throughout the 1 country is, estimated. The surrey , covers every state the Union. Radio broadcasting stations, and there are now about 600 licensed sta tions in the country, devote part of their programs to the Interests of the farmer. WGY, the General Electric Company’s station at Schenectady, N. Y., reads daily produce market quota tions. weather reports and gives out other information of value to the farmer. During the month of July a i special harvest weather report was sent put each noon, and Arlington time signals are broadcast daily at noon. A new feature of Interest to farm ers has just been announced by WGY. On the last Monday evening of each month there will be a special talk on farm bureaus and farm information, which will be given from 7:15 to 7:45 o’clock, eastern standard time. This has been arranged in co-operation with the New York State Farm Bu reau Federation. That the farmers appreciate the broadcast reports is daily brought to the attention of the management of WGY through letters. H. A. Williams, living on R. F. D. No. 1, Bethel, Vt., re cently wrote as follows: “I beg to ad vise you that your weather forecasts are valuable to a farmer like myself, as they enable us to govern our har vesting movements more successfully than we could do if we did not have a general idea of Weather prospects. Your reports give us from 24 to 36 hours advance information. We ap preciate the benefits we receive in this way.” Lynn Brown, a farmer at Roseboom, N. Y., wrote: “We are farmers and greatly enjoy your program. We also like the weather report as it keeps us informed as to the weather for hay ing. This is especially important when help is scarce and the radio weather report helps out a lot.” FARMING BY MOTOR Churn Is One of Modern Farm Devices That Has Been Electrified. When grandma and grandpa started housekeeping on the old farm, young and lusty in years, it didn’t seem snch a terrible job to churn four or five gal lons of cream, working the handle of the churn up and down, with the cream getting stiffer every minute. But as time went on and the multitude When Electricity Makes the Butter ol other farm chores piled up the churning frequently became one more muscle-acher, the prospect of which didn’t always bring smiles. There are farms today where hand churning is never known. Butter Is produced in large quantities and in quick time, with unfailing regularity, but no muscles feel any the stiffer for it. The secret lies in the presence of that little black motor that takes care of all the muscle work and never grows tired or feels used up after hours of work. The electric motor has entirely al tered the aspect of this particular chore, as it has also done in the case of many other farm duties, some of them much heavier than that of churn ing. The electrified farm can take full advantage of this ingenious ar rangement, which helps to save time, and thereby make the farm family a family of leisure. And someone has defined leisure as being simply “time to live.” GOLD-PLATED DOOR KNOBS Ntw York Apartment' Hotel Would Seem to o>c L.v.t ■ »'ord In hn ■* ot Lcmury. Thre* {!•:» t. i i!.- ; avenue, New Yor i .. artinents just open. ■ i i >st luxurious ’ a vorld, says a eorrt. . It uus gold-plated doorkii.' .s. .< iver-piated chandeliers ami u .'■■. i'iiniu et of eu-vators running to each of rhe sixteen floors. The apartments rally are private homes The largest of thirty rooms has beeD taken by rerev ktockefeller. The yearly rentals range from SIO,OOO to $55,000. There are nineiy apartments. Among the leading “director tenants” are Richard T. Wilson, Gen. Coleman du Pont, Col. B. B. McAlpin, Louis ■ J. Horowitz. F. C. B. Page, F. Colt Johnson, Louis L. Dunham and L. M. Boomer. In furnishing the apartments Europe and America have been search ed for ideas and materials. Louis Sherry has installed $250,000 worth of Thirteenth-century tapestries in his apartment. Mr. Boomer sent to Norway for the wood used in his apartment. Mrs. Boomer being a na tive of that country. Some of the walls in many of the homes are huge canvases for paint ngs by noted artists. A magnificent ballroom, a restaurant, a grill, a tea room and confectionery shop occupy Tie first floor and mezzanine. If you want to locate at “Three Hundred Park avenue,” you must be voted upon by the “director tenants,” who •ire particular, very particular, indeed. -Philadelphia Public Ledger. HUMAN MAKEUP TOO COMPLEX And That Is Why People Have to'Die, Says High Authority Presumed to Know. “Why do we die?” This question ftas been asked of the editor of the Journal of the American Medical As sociation, representing ‘‘all the doctors in the land,” as the old saying goes. “We die because we are so com plex,” says the editor. So that is the reason that the lay man must accept. The Literary Digest Intervenes to say that it long has been believed by biologists that death is not due to any natural property of the protoplasm that makes up our bodily cells. Primitive cellular organisms that propagate by division may thus live indefinitely. The higher organ isms, we are told, die because their structure is a complicated one. There is a very delicate state of bal ance, and it is easy to disturb it so that the whole structure fails. This is ; the price that we pay for the multi plicity of our functions. Would you rather be a protozoan and live for ever; or a man, and die? This is, in effect, the alternative that nature holds out to us. Most of us probably will be disposed to be glad that we are what we are, even If our enjoyment of the multitude of aptitudes and abili ties with which nature has endowed us is to be brief. —Philadelphia Public Ledger. Big Forest Nursery. The forestry nursery at Saratoga Springs, which is in the course of organization at this time, will be the largest in the world at no distant date. When completed it will have an output of 10,000,000 trees per year and some idea of the scope of this new nursery may be gained from the fact that during the transplanting season last spring the employees of this nursery seveiml times transplanted more than 125,000 white pines la a single day. Seven transplanting tables were in operation at one time. It is at these tables that the transplanting boards are filled, by which fifty young trees are planted in a row simultaneously. The beds in which these plants are growing present a very attractive sight, the trees being all the same size and planted in faultless rows. A Poor Outlook. ‘‘When a man gits so mean he carn’t spen’ a nickel widout figurin’ hit’s 5 per cent on a dollah,” said Eph, ruminatively, “he ain’t provin* nothin' t’ nobody ’ceptin’ he gwine live pore an’ die rich.” —Rich- mond Times-Dispatch. : WHY LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS HAVE) MADE GOOD "I | By WARREN S. STONE v .. *' r ' Chief of the Brotherhood ((T HAVE often been asked: ‘Why did the Brotherhood go in! I for Banking?’ To which I reply, ‘Why not?’” j “For more than fifty years the Brotherhood of Locomotive ! Engineers has been in business. Its 92,000 members were pioneers I in ‘thrift’ long before systematic saving became a national move-j ment. Its insurance and pension funds run into millions of dol-f lars annually. It owns and operates a 14-story office building in> Cleveland and is building another of twenty-two stories. The I entrance into the banking field, therefore, is not so much a novel» as a logical development. “After all, in the fundamentals of character required the engi neer and the banker are not so far apart. Both are professions of the utmost precision. The engineer, bringing his train into the station on the scheduled second, utilizes time; the banker balancing millions to the fraction of a cent employs money. Like the banker, too, the engineer must make decisions every day vitally affecting the lives of others; if in doubt he must proceed cautiously and err always *on. the side of safety. Both deal with realities from differ ent cab-windows, one hand on the throttle, the other conveniently) near the brake.” - y GET POWER WITH HIGHWAY LIGHTS - 111111 ; Electric Service for Farmers Might Follow Road Lighting Anywhere, as in New York. Electric service tor farms is usually unavailable without special on the part of the farmers unless there is an electric light and power company with electric distribution lines running within reach of the farm. Yet the ex* perience met with in territory near Buffalo, N. Y., suggests a method of automatically securing the extension of the necessary power lines so that farmers who desire the advantages of electricity con be connected up. This possibility is bound Up with the Installation of high intensity roa£ lighting units. The illumination of many country highways In the towns of Amherst and Tonawanda, outside of Buffalo, has caused distribution lines to be run along roads which pro . viously were without them, and the • benefit to the farming district has been two fold In consequence. The farmers have had a finely lighted road, and they have been able to secure electric service on their farms. The Installation Is not yet com pleted In theae towns, but as far as t! has goat every farm house along ths roads illuminated has been wired for electric lights as well as outhouses. A number of these farms are dairy farms, and these agriculturists have put in electric motors, by means of which they are operating milking ma chines, feed cutters and grinders. All this work, therefore, is now be ing done by electricity on these farms. And the dairymen are jubilant over the situation because it has solved at one stroke a most serious problem. They had been finding it almost im possible to secure sufficient hired help. It was coming to such a pass that many dairymen were worried day and night over it. Now they are worrying no more. They have made an expendi ture for electric wiring and electric' motors, and the work is being done, hired men or no hired men. But it could never have come to pass had not the township been con vinced of the necessity of illuminating the highways. The highway lighting plan calls for the lighting of a hun dred miles of roads with the General Electric Company’s new Novalux unit, carrying 250 candlepower Mazda lamps. This unit has excited a great deal of favorable comment wherever put in, for it lights the roads so that i they are perfectly dear for miles. inm Holidays aren’t the only times when folks enjoy good fruit cake. If you &U haven't made up a good fruit cake yet this year, it isn’t too late to make one now. Cousin Luella tried a new recipe last month which she says is just about the same as the darkies used on the old plantation only this one’s mors economical. Here’s the way she gave It to me: 1 Cream a pound of butter and add to it a pound of brown sugar, beating 1 thoroughly. Separate the yolks from 9 eggs and beat until thick; then beat , whites until stiff and dry and add to mixture. Add two tablespoons of sweet ( milk and then two pounds of seeded, chopped raisins, one-half pound blanched j almonds and a pound of sliced citron; preserved orange and lemon peel are j good too. Next sift a pound of self.-ris ing flour and add this with two tea- j spoons each of mace and cinnamon to j the mixture. Put in deep, well buttered pans, cover with buttered paper, steam j three hours and bake one and one-half hours in a slow oven. It takes longer in a very slow oven. Everyone is sure to enjoy this delicious fruit cake and 1* will keep a long tim*» r ' s A <*- joy it too well t , DEEP RIVER COAII Greensboro News. The ambition to know 1 lrna no doubt persists and gZw he who is lighted in the S® of knowledge about the statVfff torch of enthusiasm will be Jiff lay hand on the Deep River J® re P°rt<. the essential conclSff which were given in a d.snaS® Chapel Hill, published f® morning. The work of Messrslff be l and Kimball i s contain,;® volume of 95 pages, with a ‘lff tail map, and is illustrated *ss® erous drawings and photograiff is essentially a geological touches also upon engineering Iff of the subject, and contains „.f ff er, all the historical facts obtalff pertaining to the mining ei Tiff this region, which has been d® termittently from early tn-iff recards, although by no mill haustive go back for 150 S!ff A basin of standstone and the tnassic age (millions of® ago, according to the geoloim® matter which is left to them™® lundamentaiists) contains these ■ beds. The triassic basin extend. M about the South Caroiinl &ff irregular northeast line to a ~1 Granville County; the city !n 1 ham is about the center of it iff east to west The coal area i® near the center of the basin * southwest to northeast, and M ten miles wide by something like?® times as long. There is but on,® er area in the state in which coall cuts, the Dan River field, c'vel portions of Stakes and Rockin.® Counties. Another geologist of® United States geological full W. Stone, in 1914 published a dew I of *6 latter field, which J After a thorough and careful e * mation of the triassic beds in the I River fieid the conclusion is rea c that there is no reason to exp e( ? fi*d commercially valuable coal i in this district.” * The report estimates the amount ! coal m the Deep River field and! senbes its quality. There have J numerous coal mines and prose J worked at different times. It does! appear that, strictly speaking,?] be said that any of them has J been a success. The Egypt shaft J sunk in 1852 near where the AtlaJ | and Yadkin and Norfolk Southern J ways now cross Deep River. \\ Houghton and Brooks Harris soldi property, it changed hands sevj times more; it was acquired in 18541 Governor’s Creek Steam Transpoifl ciom and Mining Company, opeiail through the war of the north and t] £>outh by this corporation, then M name was changed to the Egypt (| Company; aiter the war owners! continued to change frequently; 1 1 vvhile nobody made any money in I it is improbable that any great su I were lost, for small capitalbatll seems to have been the der which the successive adventuil sought fortune in the old Egypt. M disastrous gas explosions occurred] it; the tragedies of its history are] derstood to have been the main m on for eventual abandonment oft name “Egypt.” As the name t thus lost, it may be as well to inch he history of its acquirement. Pet I Evans owned the land in the gri bend of Deep River, and is report! o have begun coal mining in 19 The settlement on this plantation vff called La Grange. Meeting Pe! Smith, Scotchman, one day, Peter J ans. asked him where he was goifl Smith answered that he was going “ the land of Egypt” to get corn; whiaj tickled Peter Evans and he orderl a gift of com to Peter Smith sos after changing the name of the si tlement and his plantation to “Egypl The Egypt mine was closed in 18| and remained flooded until 1888, tlill operated until 1902, and was thf -- 'dosed again and remained under i 1 ter until 1915. The Norfolk Souther I acquired the property, rehabilitated 1 under the name of Cumnock Coal coi; I oany, and operated it in a small w; I the output being used for firing °omotive and stationary engines il the railroad company until Septemb| 1922, when the place was bought! the Erskine Ramsey Coal Company! The reports refer to the prevaltj idea that the coal of the vicinity is poor quality, or small in quantity, 1 the mining difficulties practically pi hibitable; but it is also set forth as 1 important circumstance that mini® has never been done on a large seal I with an abundant capital, and that has been usually done by persons ha I ing but a limited knowledge of til industry. This coal also has the pi pular reputation of being objection ably high in sulphur; but the sulpha occurs, in part, in “balls” or nodule of pyrite, and these are all removal by hand-picking. If the great quantity of coal exi ad in quality and formation ti would have permitted of profitable! ploitation under existing conditions seems reasonable to suppose that would long ago have attracted sus ent capital and enterprise to rem® it from the earth. The assumptff is that under conditions that have® isted these deposits have had little i no value. The revival of interest® the deposits is no doubt clue to mod® development in industry. The ideal the scientists clearly is that l® combustion in the creation of eledl cal power with coke, tar and chemtfj I as valuable by-products, is entrfl feasible and that modern method® utilization can readily, and with j® profit, transmit this coal into gold. ® gather that it is undesirable for or® ary steaming and domestic P ur f;® since it breaks up into fine par l -® in handling. Vice-Consul James E. American embassy at Pari?, is ■ ing John W. Gilliam, postmas Sanford. He is a native county and was formerly a m out of j Man’s Duty to His Fel,o^ s 1 A man without visible support comes under su?P (1 _ adays more qr’ckly than > e 20 did. The reason is that met ■ not contribute to production right to take from it.—Grit.
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