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V- FIX HIGHWAY ROUTE SUGGESTIONS FOR THE BOYS' PIG CLUBS SENATOR FALL SAYS LETS INTERVENE!" For Handu Bous and FORSYTH, DAVIE AND IREDELL COUNTIES CONFER AND REACH AGREEMENT. to Make and Do NEW MEXICO SENATOR MAKES HEATED ATTACK ON "HANDS OFF" POLICY. ERECT NEW STEEL BRIDGE Girls .vw r Hog Raised by a Pig OVppared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Farmers' bulletin of the depart ansent of agriculture has the following suggestion to members of the boys rig clubs and others interested in hog .production: The feeding and care are as Import - sit as the breeding in producing a good hog. Plenty of feed and good are may make a good hog out of a stmt, but lack of it will always make rant oat of a good pig To make pork cheaply a permanent pasture and forage crops must be 'Eised. Toang pigs must have a dry bed and plenty of sunshjfie. Begin feeding the pig as soon as he "will eat, and keep him growing until "&e is mature. Always keep plenty of clean, fresh vater where the hogs may drink at xmy time. Quarantine all newly purchased ani cnals for three weeks. Never keep a female for a brood sow, no matter how well bred she may be, if she will not produce more .than four strong pigs at a litter. The more milk: a sow will give the tester her pigs will grow. 3Lice prevent a hog from doing well. Always keep a mixture of charcoal. oo& ashes, lime, sulphur, salt and copperas before the hogs. FlTery boy who becomes a member f a boys' pig club is urged to do all within his power to learn, and, if pos COW FEED COMES VERY HIGH THESE DAYS 1 lwK i 1 ...! i 1 t: ft! .?w-- OFine Holstein-Frcslan Cows. A Good Dairy Type. "In all sections where dairying is be Iztg conducted cattle foods are each yva.r becoming more costly and every dairyman should make an effort to re duce the cost of his cow food. Instead of feeding hay that L. worth $15 a ton he should replace a large portion of it with ensilage which can be raised chiefly by machine labor. Instead of supplementing a poor "pasture with purchased grain foods, be should raise oats and peas, green ora and other green soiling crops. Instead of buying fattening foods like corn meal, he should buy milk producing foods like bran, cottonseed meal and gluten meal. When hogs are fed right, there will '"&e very little odor in the pen. If you want strong lambs give ewes wheat bran in the grain ration, o Keep the pigs warm. They will grow all winter if conditions are right. The breeding sows should have a "Combination of foods and very little orxu Some men's shoata and fall pigs are smaller In the spring than when winter 4Kts in. If the bogs are warm and comforta fefei it takes less food to keep them t&rffty. With bacon at twenty-five or thirty iest3 a pound it pays to keep pigs and beep them right. txok out that the fowls are not over Seshy. It is not good for man, beast or fowl to be too fat. Never give water or oats to a horse tjatii be has been In the stable an hour sad has had some hay. Sharpen and repair all garden tools. Inarch as e any new ones needed so as have them on hand. Club Boy In Alabama. sible, to become a winner in his club. To win a prize is not so great in it sdlf, but to learn and to do the work required to win a premium will be of inestimable value to him later. Each boy will be more skillful and compe tent because of a year's experience as a club member. The bulletin also contains the fol lowing advice for preventing -hog cholera: Do not have hog lots next to high ways, railroads, or streams. If your neighbor's hogs have cholera do not allow anyone from his farm to visit your farm, and especially your hog lot or pens, and keep away from your neighbor's hog lot, whether his hogs have cholera or not. Do not keep pigeons or allow them to alight on your premises. Keep away crows and buzzards. Quarantine all new hogs brought to your place until you are sure they are free of disease. Do not allow a patent-medicine man on your place, for you do not know bow recently he has visited a sick herd. Disinfect your wagon and your own shoes and clothes after hauling hogs to stock yards or railroad loading pens. Avoid every possible way of carry ing infection to your hogs. "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" is an old saying, but in this case it is everything. J J?. fe-i As a rule it is most profitable to buy the kind that will produce the most protein at the least cost. Make the business as self-suporting as possible by raising as much of the feed for the dairy as your farm and circumstances will allow. Many of the failures in dairying are due to the fact that farmers disre gard these points and go out and buy grain foods without discriminating judgment. To keep good cows and feed them good wholesome food in abundance and provide this food cheaply is abso lutely necessary if we are to make a substantial profit from the business. GOOD IN BUILDING UP LAND Cowpeas Should Be Given More Im portant Place In Agriculture Big Aid in Renovating Soil. The great value of cowpeas as a feed and as a soil-renovating crop should give them a more important place in agriculture. The short pe riod of growth also makes it possible to use them to great advantage as a catch crop between the regular crops in the rotation, either for hay. for pas ture or for turning under. They are,1 therefore, especially suited to the man who wishes to build up land rap idly while he is at the same time se curing a return from it in feed. The crop is one which will undoubtedly become of much greater importance as the land is farmed more inten sively. ? Improve by Fences. Next to tiling, woven wire fences are perhaps the most profitable im provement that can be made on the farm, outside of the barn yards. They make it possible to give little pigs the run of the farm, a good share of the time and to raise sheep without leaving part of their wcol hanging on the fences. Good Anchor for Posts. A disk from an old pulverizer makes a good anchor for holding the end post of a wire fence, provided it la well weighted down and greased. No. 9 , wire is needed to connect it with the post. New Highway Will Be of Modern Con struction, Built of Sand-Clay and of Uniform 30-Foot Width, With Proper and Sufficient Drains. Winston-Salem. A meeting to per fect plans and select a route for the Central Highway through Forsyth, Da vie and Iredell counties was held at the court house in this city . recently by .representatives of the three counr ties. C. A. Hartman and Attorneys Grant and Bailey represented Davie county, J. B. Roach, V. L. Mathison and R. F. Gaither represented Iredell county, and the highway commission with P. H. Hanes as chairman, with many interested citizens, represented. Forsyth county at the conference. It was recently announced from Raleigh that 120,000 had been allotted to these three counties for the highway and this amount will be increased to $60.- 000 by the counties interested. The route decided upon will begin at the Guilford county line and run thence through Kernersville and Win ston-Salem to the Davie line on the Yadkin river at the point where the new steel bridge is to be built, run ning thence via Farmington to Melts vine, thence by way of Callahan to the Davie and Iredell line at a point called County Line, thence on to Statesville to the Catawba line at the Buffalo Shoals steel bridge. The pro posed route runs 26 miles through Forsyth county, 27 miles through Da vie and 26 miles through Iredell. It passes through all the important cities and towns of these three coun ties and accommodates more rural mail routes than any other route suggested. It shortens the distance from Winston-Salem to Statesville and Charlotte considerably. The new highway will be of modern construe tion, built of sand-clay and of a uni form 30-foot width, with proper and sufficient drains. The highway, of which the above is a part, is to extend the entire length of the state. The road is practically complete from Goldsboro to Greens boro. Following the meeting Chair man Hanes telephones the result tc Governor Craig, who was free in hi& expression of gratification at the work done in these three counties. Negro Held For Lyerly Murder. Salisbury. Sid Finger, a negro al leged murderer of L. Preston Lyerly at Barber's Junction February 4, was captured by ex-Chief of Police J. Frank Miller of Salisbury, Deputy In surance Commissioner W. A. Scott of Raleigh and Deputy Frank Tolbert of baasbury a few days ago. The capture was made on the farm of Scott Shoaf, six miles north of Sal isbury, where Finger was employed While stoutly protesting his inno cense at first and attempting to im plicate another negro before reach ing Salisbury, Finger is said to have made a partial confession of ,the crime to Mr. Miller and the other offi cers who assisted' in the arrest. The keys, watch and other articles identi fied as belonging to Lyerly were found in Finger's possession when arrested. A matter of precaution by Sheriff McKenzie Finger was rushed off to Raleigh in the care of Deputy Tolbert. Hospital For Mount Airy. Mount Airy. The Junior Order of American Mechanics has decided to erect a modern hospital here, and steps have already been taken to that end. For some time a committee from the local council has had the matter in hand, taken an option on a splendid and beautiful site and felt the sentiment of the various councils in the county with a view to the erec tion of a public hospital that will supply the wants and needs of this entire mountain section. This com mittee reports that the Juniors all over the county are ready and will ing to co-operate in this movement whenever called upon. Operating Package Cars. Charlotte. Of interest to business men generally here is the fact that the Pennsylvania Railroad and the N. Y. P. & N. Railroad are now operat ing daily package cars between Pittsburg-Buffalo territory and Norfolk, Va., at which point they connect with Norfolk Southern daily package cars Norfolk to Charlotte. The service from Norfolk via Norfolk Southern Railroad gives second morning deliv ery in Charlotte, which will prove a benefit to the merchants all along the Norfolk Southern. Cabarrus Builds Road. Concord. The Board of County Commissioners has instruoted the su perintendent of roads to open and construct the part of the,. National Highway from McClure"3 crossing at Harrisburg to the Mecklenburg coun ty line cccarding to the survey adopt ed at the February meeting of the board. This road has been a bone of contention for years and three separ ate boards of commissioners rastled the matter before it was gnally locat ed. Superintendent Burrage plans tc begin work in a short time. SPEAKS FOR THREE HOURS Senator Shively of Indiana In Animat ed Speech Defends the President's Course in Mexican Affairs. Mexi can Outrages Are Enumerated. Washinfrton. The lid of secrecy regarding Mexican affairs was lifted in the; United States Senate by sena torFali. Remiblican . of New Mexico. who urged armed intervention for the protection of Americans and other foreigners In the stricken republic The ealleries were crowded to overflowing and remained so for hours until Senator Shively of Indiana had spoken for the administration, ex pressing regret that the subject had been, discussed in open session and averring that no adequate solution had been offered fo rthe problem. Senator i'all in a lengthy, narra tion of Incidents of outrages to Americans in Mexico, held the inter est of the senate and galleries for more than three hours. Assailing the administration policy as inadequate and declaring President Wilson knew nothing about real relations and had been mistaken in every act of his .administration toward Mexico, the New Mexico senator pleaded for inter vention for protection to avoid inevi table war. iL,mpnasizing the danger of war with a great foreign power unless something should be done speetlily, Senator Fall referred to comments in the German press over the killing of the British subject, Benton, by order of General Villa's court martiaL, and declared: "When the German official press says that should a 'German citizen be murdered in Mexico, Germany would not acquiesce like Great Britain, then I say unto you, senators, there is im minent danger of a conflict between the United , States and this country with which we should always be at peace. "I believe the American people can be left to handle any critical condi tion, provided they are informed on the subject. I am not one who be iieevs it 'incompatible with the public interest' to send to this senate details of outrages on American citizens. I am not one who believes the Constitu tion should be pushed aside and one man allowed to assume the executive and legislative powers of the govern ment." Senator Shivley, replying, as acting .chairman of the , foreign relations committee, declared Senator Fall's policy would mean actual armed in tervention, and that- Intervention meant war. ' Ha deplored that the situation thus had been discussed in the open senate declaring it would have harmful influence on the atti tude and .temper of the Mexican peo ple. 6,000 Bales Cotton Burn. Waco, Texas. The Exporters and, Traders Warehouse containing 6,000 bales of cotton valued at S420.000 caught fire during a high gale. The city's whole fire fighting equipment turned out, but the fire sDread to th entire warehouse and platforms laden with cotton. The ". warehouse is in East Waco. Customer Shoots Clerk. Spartanburg, S. C Efforts of H. W. Eason, a salesmen in J. D. Co1lins' store on East Main street, to sell . a pair of small boy's trousers tn w v J. Brown, a farmer who lives near Landrum, resulted, in Eason getting noi in three places and Brown's throat and face being severely slash. ed. Thirty-Five Die in St. Louis Fire. St. Louis, Mo. That from 30 to SB quests cf the Missouri Athletic Club unshed in the flames that duxtrnveA -he building is the belief of nffirprtt nf the club. Drive 1,700 Men Out of City. Sacramento, Cal. Three nilit'n companies stood cuard to that "General" Kelley and 1,700 unemploy ed men obeyed orders when a special train was made up to carry them out of the city.-' It was planned to ship mem iack to San Francisco. Th marchers, who left San Francisco last week for the purpose, it was announn. ed, of going to Washineton. TV fl have been camped on Southern Pacif- ic property. The situation at the "army" camp was both ludicrous and threatening. Frank's Lawyers t Work. Atlanta, Ga. Lawyers for Leo f Frank,' under death sentence for the murder of Mary Phagan are busilv engaged in the arrangement of new evidence which will be submitted to the superior court with nn extrdordi nary motion for ( a ntw trial. The newly discovered evidmce is said tn include several affidavits which have not bevn made public. There apparently is little probabil ity that Frank will be executed on April li, the date recently designated by Judge Hill of the superior court (Copyright By A. NEELY HALL. A TOY WINDMILL. No mechanical toy is more interest ing to make, nor more interesting to watch when in operation than a min lature windmill. It is a very simple toy to construct, and all of the ma terial that it requires can usually be round at hand, which are two reasons why It Is one of the most popular of home-made toys, and why nearly every boy at one time or another builds one. Figure 1 shows a small model which may be constructed auicklv, You will notice by the detail lllustra tions that the hub of the windmill is a spool (Fig. 2), that the blades are cut out of cigar-box wood, shingles, tin, or cardboard, and are fastened to the side of short spoke sticks driven into holes bored In the spool hub (Fig. 3), that the hub turns on the rounded end of a stick shaft (Fie. 4 that , the square end of the shaft is slotted to receive a fan-shaped tail (Fig. 5), and that the shaft is pivoted to the top of a clottres-post, or a post put up for the purpose (Figs. 1 and 6). Use a large ribbon-spool for the hub. You can get one at any dry goods store. Locate eight holes around the center of the spool, at equal distances from one another, and bore these with a gimlet or bit. or cut them with your jackknife. Cut the eight blades 6 inches long. B inches wide on their wide edge, and 1V2 inches wide on their narrow edge. Prepare the hub sticks about y2 inch by inch by 4 inches in size, and whittle one end pointed to fit in the hub (Fig. 3). Fasten the blades to the spokes with nails long enough to- drive through the spokes and clinch on the under side. Glue the spokes in the hub holes, turning them so the blades will stand at about the angle shown. The shaft should be made of a hard wood stick about inch by 1 Inches by 14 inches in size. Cut the round end small enough so the hub will turn on it freely, and punch a Bmall hole through it so a brad may be driven through It to hold the hub in place. Cut the slot Jn the square end with a saw. Make the tail about 5 inches long, 4 inches wide at its wide end, and 2 inches wide at its narrow end (Fig. 5). The windmill must be pivoted to the post support at its exact balanc ing point. Pivot the shaft with a 8BLAM5 Like this out or Ocak-box wood, Smincles. Tin. VS Tail, NA1L- SPOOL HUB WASI1ER-. SHAFT long nail. Bore a hole through the Ehaft a trifle larger than the nail, so the shaft will turn freely. Place a washer between the nail-head and the shaft, and another between the shaft and the post support. Figure 6 shows how the power from thg toy windmill may be utilized to operate a toy Jumping-jack, by sup porting the jumping-jack on a bracket and connecting its string to the hub of the windmill. Cut the upright of the bracket (A) 14 inches long and the cross piece (B) 7 inches long. Nail A to B, and nail the Jumping-jack at its center to the end of B (Fig. 7). Fasten the triangular block (C) to the lower end of A, and then nail both A and B to the edge of the shaft at a point that will bring the string' of the jumplng-jacfc a trifle beyond the wind mill blades. Fasten a small stick, having a brad driven in one end,' in notches cut In the hub's flanges (Fig. HOWTftE WINDMILL may bp-Made -to ,-Opeeate A-TOY-Jumpimg-Jack- 8), and connect the brad and jack's string with a piece of "wire or strong string. Thea as t3e windmill re-, vplves it will operete tS-toy as hv (Heated in Figs. 6-aJdfV. l MAY DC SlILT QUICKLY TmM?Cut 1 pi. f VI X-SPOKE MOW -THE J '"A , JUMPING-JACK 'jZJljS L j UPPOETEDr- 0 e Si 2 v tt! . . i by A. Neely Hall) By DOROTHY PERKINS. BERRY BOX FURNITURE. Has it ever occurred to you girls what pretty pieces of doll furniture may be made out of the little berry boxes so plentiful at this season of the year? Several of the easily made pieces are Illustrated below. All the material you need to make these are Swinging -Seat- z -Sofa- various shapes and sizes of berry boxes, a sharp knife, and a bottle of glue. The little swinging seat in illustra tion No.. 1 is made from the bottom and two ends of a square pint box. with the ends tapered off with a knife. A strong linen thread, knotted on the end and run through holes pierced in four places, provides "chains" to hang it by. It may be suspended from a chair round. Illustration Na. 2: shows a sofa that is made out of a long shaped quart berry box All you have to do is re move one side of the box down to the bottom, then carefully cut away the end as shown, to form arms, and the sofa is completed: The chair shown in illustration No. 3 is made of two adjoining sides of a pint -box, which form the back, seat Chair-Footstool- 5 Library-Table- and front legs, and an extra piece which forms the back legs. One side piece forms the chair back, and the other side is scored along its center with a knife, and bent down to form the Beat and front legs. The rear legs are made of the extra piece, which is glued to the chair back. The little footstool shown in illus tration No. 4 is quite simple to make. One side of a pint box is used, and it is only necessary to score the piece one-half inch from each end, and bend down the ends for legs. The library table (Illustration No. 5) is made out of a pint berry box, with 5ed Cupboard one-half of the height of the sides re moved all around, in one niece, and the piece removed fastened edgewise inside ofthe box for the base. In illustration No. 6 is shown a very comfortable little doll's bed, made from a quart berry box. Split down each corner half-way. Then, leaving one Bide of the box whole, for the head of the bed, cut down the oppo site side about one-half, for the foot, and trim down the other two sides for the sides of the bed. The cupboard in illustration No. 7 is made out of a quart berry box, with shelves cut from the sides of other boxes fastened inside with glue. Hang curtains made of scraps from the rag bag across the front. The berry box wood may be stained a pretty brown by using the coffee left over from breakfast Iff If . , 1 6 7
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