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Helping the Neat and Milk Supply DISINFECTION TO PREVENUISEASE Several Weil-Known Substances Will Destroy Bacteria. CLEAN UP BARN THOROUGHLY Careless Work Is Worse Than None Because It Gives False Sense of Security ? Admit Abundance of Sunlight and Fresh Air. In any outbreak of infectious disease among animals on the furiu or in the neighborhood thorough disinfection of the premises is essential in prevent ing its spread. Certain substances such its l'reshly slaked lline, or un slaked lime in powder forui, ehlorld of lime, carbolic acid, corrosive sublim ate, formalin, formaldehyde gus, or a compound solution of cresol possess the power of destroying bucteria with which they come in contact. To make the use of such substances of value, however, the work must be done with the utmost thoroughness. Careless disinfection Is probably worse than none If it merely serves to give a false sense of security. In the disinfection of stables and premises the following directions should be carefully observed : Sweep the entire interior surface, Including ceilings, sld? walls, stall par titlons, floors, etc., free of dirt and dust Remove nil accumulations of filth by scraping, and if any woodwork has become decayed so that it is porous or absorbent it should be removed, burned and replaced with new mate rial. If the floor is of earth, remove four Inches from the surface and replace It with earth from an uncontaminated source; or, If Improvements are de sired, a new floor of concrete may be Iwld, which Is very durable and easily cleaned. All refuse material from the stable slid barnyard should he removed to a place not accessible to the stock and covered with freshly slaked lline. The manure spread upon the flelds should be turned under Immediately. The entire interior of the stable, especially the feeding troughs and drains, should be saturated with a dis infectant, as a 8 per cent compound solution of cresol, which would be 4 ounces of the compound to every gal lon of water. The best method of applying the dls lnfectant la by means of a strong spray pump, such as those used by fruit growers In spraying trees, or a amull garden sprayer may be used. All mangers and feed boxes which have been sprayed should be allowed to dry, and then be washed out with hot water to prevent poisoning the stock. The spray should be applied Immediately following any outbreak, and as a mat ter of precaution It may be used once or twice yearly. All stables, like houses, should have ample window spnce In order to admit a plentiful supply of sunlight nnd fresh Applying Germ-Killing Solution. ulr, In themselves among the most powerful disinfectants known. Most disease genus thrive In dampness, dirt, and darkness, and a clean, dry stable presents the most unfavorable condi tions for their development. For this reason g<?od drainage Is also essen tial In the stable and about the barn lot. t USE GARDEN SPRAYER FOR || !! DISINFECTING. $ . > <? In small buildings and prem | | lies the garden hand-sprayer can | | <? be used to supply the germ-kill- o Ing cresol solution or other dls " infectant. Such a sprayer pur- || I chased now for this purpose a ? ' ' would be ready for nntl-lnsect .. and disease work In the garden .. later. Compressed ftlr sprayers || .? of the hand type may be had In ?? galvanized steel at $3.50 to $5, || ? ? and In brass at $6.50 to $12.50. ?? || The smaller hand atomizer * sprayer can be b?>ught for 50 to + 1 1 75 cents. J | Take Care of the Milk. Here nre ten suggestions which milk consumers could employ, not only to conserve the supply, hut to guarantee a more wholesome product for the family : 1. Buy only the best milk obtainable. It Is cheapest In the long run. , 2. Consult the health department be ,fore selecting your milk dealer. 3. Buy only bottled milk If possible. Dipped milk Is often dirty and defl <ient in cream. 4. Take milk into the house as soon ,as it is delivered, and place it in the 'refrigerator immediately. Bacteria in creases rapidly In milk which stands ?In the sun or warms up, and such milk will sour quickly. 5. Keep milk lu the original bottle In the refrigerator until the uioment of serving. Milk which has been poured 'from the bottle should not be returned to It. 0. Keep the botWe covered with a paper cap or an Inverted tumbler, to prevent the entrance of flies and dust, which may carry dangerous bacteria Inlo the milk. 7. Keep the refrigerator clean and sweet by means of proper drainage and frequent washing with scalding water and sal soda, since milk quickly ab sorbs unpleasant odors and becomes '.ess palatable. 8. Wash milk bottles as soon as emp tied, by rinsing first with lukewarm water and then with hot water. If there la an infectious disease In your house, do not return any bottles ex cept with the knowledge of the health department and under conditions which It may prescribe. 9 Beturh empty bottles promptly, and do not use them for anything ex cept milk. Remember that they are the property of the dealer and repre sent cash. 10. Remember that clean milk, prop erly cared for. Is one of the best foods obtainable. It Is nourishing, digesti ble and usually economical. TO REINFORCE MANURE PILE Acid Phosphate or Raw Phosphate Rock May Be Spread Over Fer tilizer While in Shed. Add phosphate or raw phosphate rock 18 commonly used In stiibles nt the rnt*> **f a pound dally for a thou sand pourd* lire weight of the live .trw-k It r ? r ? v also be gpread over manure In *he shed or at the time of hsndn;:. Ab< ut 40 pounds to the ton i>f iv nure I ih" cohimon rate.?- Ohio gvperfmt i '.I Station.'* Use Milk, but Save It. How oun the consumer help the milk supply? My judicious use, good care, nnd by utilizing It In nil Its forms. That half cupful of milk which was poured Into the sink today because It was allowed to sour ? It would have made a substantial amount of cottage cheese or could have been used in cooking. In muny households quite a little milk is wasted ? left uncovered In glasses ? regarded useless because the cream has been skimmed off, allowed to sour ? poured down the sink or thrown away. Half a cupful of milk ? whole, skimmed or sour ? seemingly a trilling matter, hardly worth the trou ble to keep or use. Hut If every one of the 20,000,000 homes should waste on the average one-half cupful dally, It would mean ; 2,500,000 quarts dally for the country ? 012,500.000 quarts a year ? the total product of more than 400,000 cows. It takes a lot of grass and grain to make that much milk and an army of peo ple to produce and deliver It. Maybe this estimate Is too high. Suppose that one-half cupful Is wasted in only one out of 100 homes. The waste which this would make is still Intolerable when milk is so nutritious, when skim milk can be used in making such wholesome soups and cerval dishes, when sour milk can be used In bread making or for cottage cheese. That we have the physical resources to win this war, If they are properly conserved, I rtitertaln no doubt ; that we have these In larger measure than any other nation in the world is a mat ter of common knowledge. ? Secretary Houston. Warm House Saves Feed. Warm houses, if well ventilated so that the air Is good, will help save feed by conserving the heat and energy of the flock. It will also assist in egg production for the same reason. REDUCE AMOUNT OF NITROGEN This Can Be Done Where Soil Is Rich in Organic Matter or Humus ? Grain Crops Lodge. Where a soil Is rich In organic mat ter or humiiN. or where there Is plenty of barnyard manure that can be put on the amount of nitrogen In the fertil izer may be reduced or entirely elimi nated where It Is to be used on grain crops. If there Is too much nitrogen I in the soil It Is llnble to result In mnk j Ing the grain crops ledge badly. FACE the FACTS LET us face the facts. The war sftuation is critical. Unless the Allies fight as they never yet have fought, defeat threatens. Hungry men cannot fight at their best; nor hungry nations. France, England, and Italy are going hungry unless we feed them. Wheat Savings ? They must have wheat. It is the best food to fight on. It is the easiest to ship. We alone can spare it to them. By saving just a little ? less than a quarter of what we ate last year ? we can support those who are fighting our battles. And we can do it without stinting ourselves. We have only to substitute another food just as good. The Com of Plenty ? Com is that food,. There's a surplus of it. Providence has been generous in the hour of our need. It has given us corn in such bounty as was never known before. Tons of corn. Train loads of corn. Five hundred million bushels over and above our regular needs. All we have to do is to learn to appreciate it. Was ever patriotic duty made so easy? And so clear? America's Own Food ? Corn It is the true American food. The Indians, hardiest of races, lived on it. Our forefathers adopted the diet and conquered a continent. For p. great section of our country it has blong een the staff of life How well the South fought on it, history tells. Now it can help America win a world war. Learn Something ? Corn! It isn't one food. It's a dozen. It's a cereal. It's a vegetable. It's a bread. It's a dessert. It's nutritious; more food value in it, dollar for dollar, than meat or eggs or most other vegetables. It's good to eat; how good you don't know until you've had corn-bread properly cooked. Best of all, it's plentiful and it's patriotic. Corn's Infinite Variety ? Hr n much do you know about corn? About how gc^d it is? About the many delicious ways of cooking it? And what you miss by not knowing more about it? Here are a few of its uses: There are at least fifty ways to use corn meal to make good dishes for dinner, supper, lunch or break fast. Here are some suggestions: HOT BREADS Boston brown bread. Hoecake. Muffins. Biscuits. Griddle cakes. Waffles. DESSERTS Corn-meal molasses cake. Apple corn bread. Dumplings. Gingerbread. Fruit gems. HEARTY DISHES Corn-meal croquettes. Corn-meal fish balls. Meat and corn-meal dumplings. Italian polenta. Tamales. The recipes are in Farmers' Bulletin 565, "Corn Meai as a Food and Ways of Using It," free from the Department of Agriculture. WHEATLESS BISCUITS. Parched cornnioal Is the fenfire of these excellent wheatless biscuits. First, the eornmeal ? one-half a cup? Is put in a shallow pan placed In the oven and stirred frequently until it is a delicate brown. The other Ingre dients are a teaspoon of salt, a cup of peanut butter and one and a half cups of water. Mix the peanut but ter, water and salt and heat. While this mixture Is hot stir tn the meal which should also he hot. Beat thor oughly. The dough should be of such consistency that It can be dropped from a spoon. Rake In small cakes In an ungreased pan. This makes 16 biscuits, each of which contains one sixth of an ounce of protein. WHY IT !S NECESSARY TO EAT LESS WHEAT BREAD. France, Great Britain, Italy and Belgium must now import 60 per cent of their breadstuffs, instead of the 40 per cent which they import ed before the war. America must supply the greater part of this need. To send them the least that they can live on, we must increase our export of wheat from 88,000,000 bushels to 220,000, )00 bushels. We have already exported the whole of the surplus of the 1917 harvest, over and above the normal demands of our own population Therefore, all exports of wheat fi'om now forward are limited en tirely to the saving made fcy the American people in their consump tion of wheat and wheat products. HOW YOU CAN HELP. Have at least one meal a day without wheat bread. L^se instead corn, oat. rye, barley, or mixed ce real breads. Eat less cake and pastry. Order wheat bread from your baker at least 24 hours in advance, so that he will not bake too much. Cut the loaf of wheat bread on the table. Use all stale bread for toiist or cooking. Th? appropriation for air-craft last iT.r was $ ;>40,000,000. Now General ]uur, the chief sifrnal officer, is ask r.g for a billion dollars for this year. War is an awful expensive business. The Voice. The human voice is a wonderful thine: and capable of remarkable de velopment. Some voices are natur ally better than others, of course, but a great many bad voices can be made better by careful cultivation. Listen ing to Dr. W. J. McGlothlin as he ad dressed the Convention from day to day, we were struck with the marvel ous capability of the human voice. Like William J. Bryan, Dr. McGloth lin rarely speaks above the conversa tional tone, but always with perfect clearness and proper emphasis. He never gets red in the face with wild gesticulation bawls at his audience. The students at our seminary have the opportunity to learn a great les son if they listen closely to this mas ter in Israel. Some of them spoil otherwise excellent sermons by their frantic outcries. It i3 a very errone ous though a common notion that j force means noise; and some speakers) imagine they have failed unless they j can be heard a block or two away in the delivery of their sermons. Law- j yers, especially young lawyers, suffer and their hearers more, from this mistaken notfon. We have heard \ young fellows in the magistrate's court bawl as though the court were stone d^af, though his worship had keen ears and was only two feet from the speaker. As a rule, the leuder a man speaks the less he says. We heard of a man who was deeply disap- 1 pointed in John A. Broadus because! he did not split the air with thunder- 1 ous sentences, but spoke in an easy ! conversational tone. A rasping and . discordant voice, especially, should be ( carefully modulated and restrained. Eloquence is not noise. A mocking bird outclasses a pea fowl but the ! | latter can be heard three times as far. j -Charity and Children. War Demand on Cotton. It takes a half bale of cotton to make the powder for one discharge of a twelve inch gun. A machine gun uses up a balo of cotton every three minutes. In the naval battle off Jutland more than ten bales a minute were consumed by each active warship en gaged. It takes 20,000 bales a year to pro vide absoibent cotton for the wound3 of the injured in the hospital camps of the Allies. Or.? change of clothing for all the troops now engaged in the war repre sents more than a million babs. ? Exchange. BOOKS L' ok over the list of Books below, and come and get your selection before they are picked over. We have lots oi good books not in this list to select from. SOME LATE NOVELS. Wildfire, by Zane Gray. Red Pepper's Patients, by Grace Richmond. Heart of the Sunset, by Rex Reach. When a Man's a Man, by Harold Rell Wright. Salt of the Earth, by Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick. Polly and the Princess, by Emma C. Dowd. The preacher of Cedar Mountain, by E. S. Thomp son. In Happy Valley, by John Fox, Jr. The White Ladies of Worcester, by Florence Bar clay. Anne's House of Dreams, by Eleanor H. Porter. Rab: A Sub Deb, by* Mary Roberts Rineheatr. The Ranks of Colne, by Eden Philpotts. Changing Winds, by St. John G. Ervine. The Three Rlack Pennys, by Joseph Hergeshei mer. ROOKS OF POETRY. Robert Rurns' Complete Poems, $1.00. Mrs. Browning's Poems, 75c. Shakespeare's Works in one volume, $1.75. W illiam Cullen Bryant's Poems, $1.50. Keats' Poems, Padded Edition, $1.25. Mrs. Rrowning's Poems, Padded Edition, $1.25. Robert Browning, Limp Leather, $1.75. Robert Burns, Limp Leather, $1.75. SUNDAY SCHOOL HELPS. Peloubets' Select Notes for 1918, $1.25. Arnold's Practical Commentary, 1918, 60c. Torrey's Gist of the Lesson, 25c. A large number of Books for Children from 4 to 12 years of age, titles too numerous to men tion. BOOKS AT SIXTY CENTS EACH. We have in stock a choice lot of novels which we are selling at 60 cents each ; by mail, 65 cents. Here are some of them: By Harold Bell Wright. The Shepherd of the Hills. The Winning of Barbara Worth. The Eyes of the World. The Calling of Dan Matthews. By Thomas Dixon. The Traitor. The Clansman. The Leopard's Spots. The Sins of the Father. The One Woman. By Gene Stratton Porter. A Girl of the Limberlost. Freckles. The Harvester. Laddie. At the Foot of the Rainbow. By Winston Churchill. Richard Carvel. A Far Country. By Well Known Writers. The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come. Prudence of the Parsonage. Red Pepper Burns. Empty Pockets. The Heart of the Hills. The Southerner. The Valley of the Moon. White Fang. Rebecca of Sunny brook Farm. Eben H olden. David Harum. Overland Red. My Strange Life. Heart Throbs. More Heart Throbs. The Way of the Strong. The Four Million. And Many Others. Herald Book Store SMITHFIELD, North Carolina (Special Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture )
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