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U DONt di . inji-wiiw"- I r-:..li without Mer. ! -fa Are t""""' &INna Either lncU ' p Diseases. bv the United State Depart- ment 01 ' i 1 , k occasionally made, in circu K issued by financially Inter Wllt . in other Ways, of fcF0,. inCort nnd disease con- nl or compounds In- L Wes boredjoto trees or U under the oars. uuucii.ui r tave been claimed in some to- WrYtOAPpiC lice ncauiuny riviii hiection Under earK ot uyania mix- ire. . Ices from such treatments, and e orchardists and numerous own- of a few yard trees have been in- led to have their trees "inoculated." e purpose of this paragraph is to rise fruit growers and others that 'h treatments are entirely without Lit in controlling insects and dls- les and are often decidedly injurious the trees treated. The illustration bws the injury to trees resulting 1a placing under the bark small ntities of a compound containing inrn cyanid, common salt, and cer- other Ingredients. GHT PLAff FOR MARKETING r Understanding Between Farnv ir and Commission Merchant Is Mutually Beneficial. Spared by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) Teamwork between the farmer and f agent, the commission merchant. clear up many a cloud of mlsun- irstanding that frequently results In kdless losses for which the middle- fen is held responsible. Me many striking cases have pen that too often there have been trayals of trust on the part of city piers to whom farm , products have m consigned, it is doubtful If It fn!d be demonstrated that all the fortcomings of the commission bus! ! as now conducted are the fault the merchant. Marketing farm f oducts through the commission house a partnership affair, and no partner UP can be a complete success unless fa partner does his best and Is "In? to make it possible for the Fner to work to best advantage. loo often the commission man is as a last resort and products un- praoie on the home market, either wse of their low grade or because eak market, are dumped on the market. For those who contemplate the use t commission men as marketing C 3 llie following suggestions are Know yur agent. Select one jMtow a reputation backed . by expe enc, an advantageous location and JPetent help, a personal visit will C ? we farmer In deciding these Know yonr market. From your airanf lanni Vl O '. JS Of the mnrlrof mc-i- ncli.nhlA tra. L? to raise, proper containers in I t0 nnob- otwI nnU nanlr ihinm 11 ulI1unts ana time ui Pftent, and loonl Make iKeni regularly supplied Uilthic .nl .m. i.i- xi -u funi ! win lane, uieieujr ,,.1 . ' " m il ujC luc u uoiuuoo you are both concerned. Keen Mrt-. j c- taef, i wilier miuniieu. ouu- lIUl Shinny . ... h , 1 i'o uiuKe irequent use oi h0ne ' "t' ui iimg-uisiance ueie , to keep agents posted as to m upments. The agent J also keep the shirmer informed L aa.y changes in requirements of Avoid frequent changes In OtS. . h-tain may "e wis nnder 7 th0 n(litlons to check one agent fm yL another, the most suc- ects an 'K"er is tne one who se- jthen sti gent with eat care and .s to hIm, co-operating in nizlrT Slble way and carefully scru- igent ,Q , Elements. The honest Wopir nis part in sucn letw " una welcomes the most ex- aiulnaon of his methods. I If" friends. Euripides. many SCORE OR MORE OF SANDWICH FILLINGS. Sandwiches are Just war breads as they were when wheat was plentiful. A few crumbs of roquefort added to French dressing with a piece of let tuce or a sprig of water cress laid between buttered slices of bread is a delicious morsel. Cottage cheese with chormeA oht IK E2d or slices of rich New Ynrk buttered bread will make a hearty' sandwich for the boy who goes fishing. Minced hard cooked eess and sor dines (skin and bones removed), sea soned with lemon juice. Tongue cut in thin slices with a thin sliced dill pickle on ton. between but tered bread. Chopped tongue with a mixture of mustard, salt and pepper. nopped dates and nuts with a little cream cheese. Equal parts of cold cooked ham nnd chicken, minced fine and seasoned with curry. Chopped mutton (cold roast or boil ed), seasoned with chopped capers and trench dressing. Chopped figs and peanuts with lem on juice; prunes and cottage or cream cheese.' Salmon, pickles and olives. Baked beans mashed and seasoned with onion and celery witb a dash of lemon juice. Minced hard cooked eggs, butter, mustard and a dash of salt and cay enne. Thin slices of cucumber, covered with scraped onion, dipped in French, dressing. Sardines with olives and French dressing. Water cress dipped Id French dressing. Cooked liver chopped and seasoned with onion and celery. Thin slices of banana sprinkled with nuts and dipped In French dressing. Chicken chopped with a ft ew almonds and bits of celery. Almonds (salted) chopped and mixed with maple sugar and cream. Equal parts cf minced ham, celery and mayonnaise dressing. Chopped onions with French dress- ' fine sandwiches for Sunday night lunch, after church. When the wild plum blossoms in the lane "Its time for dulcet laughter and re frain, Time for airy fairy dreamlngs whis pered low By the woodland pixy people as we go. Time to loiter and make glad among the flowers Oh, Itjs a heartsome place, this world v of ours. DISHES DAINTY AND APPETIZING. Hot fried sardines served on a bed of water cress make a nice way of serving these small tid bits. fVlprv nnrf nnts rhon- 1-5 I ped fine and mixed with a little saiaa dressing make a good sandwich filling. Chopped apples, a few nuts and a chopped ereen Denner make a most delicious salad combination; serve with may onnaise. Cheese and Tomatoes. Cut round slices of bread, toast brown and on pnrh round Dlace a slice of tomato snrlnkle with a little minced onion and trrpon nermer. a dash of cayenne and a . thick layer of grated cheese, rat into th broiler and set under the gas flame ' mr-K-m until the cheese melts. Serve piping hot. Peanut Butter With Rice. Take two cupfuls of well cooked rice; while hot, sHr in n mnful of Deanut butter, a cup fni of rrflcker crumbs, a half cupful of milk, two beaten eggs and salt and paprika to taste. Shape In a rounding innf nnd nlnce In a well buttered pan; bake a nice brown and serve hot with .rmrslev. Walnut Loaf. Take a cupful of chopped walnut meats, four cupfuls of bread crumbs, one hard cooKea egg hnnr.ed. one beaten egg, one chopped onion, salt and sage to taste with suffl- Hnt milk, stock or water to moisten Rni until brown. Serve either hot or cold. Cheese Fingers. Beat the hltes of two eggs until stiff, then fold ip ngntiy a cupful of grated cneese. oetiKuu w fosto with salt and cayenne, spread or long crackers and brown In the oven. Serve hot or cold with the salad course. Baked Tooiatoes With Peas. Take mn sired tomatoes ; do not peel ; re mnroisnmo of the center and fill wltt JOflonpn nens. Put Into a baking dish and baste while baking with butter and water or a rich soup stocK. Keep covered the first part of the cooking. A Wise Bird. nsked the older robin tc one of his youngsters, "and how are , tni. An fl rr V you progressing in itws "J "Fine. "Can you do the tall spin yet?" uvcrln ; a tin from father i don't try It Leave all that rough kind of flying to humans In their macnmes. V . " ' I I ? L " ij toil mmm mi in n iiiui i j imm i iinnwiini mnn nii ill I nl I ilmilll Jn the Yosemite. I' you go to xosemite this summer, you should plan to visit the mon ster mountain climax of the na- uouai pars oi wmcn iviouni iyeii Is the chief. This Is no one-day hike with a luxurious public camp at the other end of it. It means taking enough camping-out equipment along to enable you to spend three or four nights In the open. But after all that Is no great matter, for it so seldom rains In the Sierra that tents will not be necessary ; comfortable sleeping bags, a coffee pot, a few tins, and a plentiful supply of food will be all that is necessary besides, of course, a good guide. ; All equipment, Includ ing guide and horses, may be got in the valley. The first night out from the valley should be spent In the celebrated Tuolumne Meadows where you may have plenty of trout for. supper for the catching ; the Tuolumne is a capi tal trout stream. Lyell's Inner Shrine. After an early trout breakfast, your outfit will travel up the river to the mouth of Lyell Fork, and, swinging around Johnson peak, will follow that beautiful stream miles up its long scenic canyon. Past Bafferty peak and Parsons peak on your right, and skirting long :Kuna Crest with its frothing cascades on your left, you will find yourself at lunch time at the head of the canyon facing lofty shelves of granite, far beyond which loom glacier shrouded peaks. These, as you will see presently, are Mount. Lyell, 13,090 feet, and its flanking giants, McClure moun tain on the north, and Rodgers peak on the south. Scrambling up the granite shelf and over Donohue pass, your horses carry you through a vast basin of tumbled granite encircled at its majestic cli max by a titanic rampart of nine sharp glistening peaks and hundreds of spear like points, the whole cloaked in enom mous shrouds of snow. Presently just how you do not khow, so breathless is your gaze ahead the granite spurs inclose you. And presently your horses scrambling over Impossible walls and shelves, looms above you a mighty glistening wall which apparently forbids further ap proach to Lyell's inner shrine. But even this the; agile horses surmount and you find yourself in the summit's very embrace, facing glaciers and a lakelet of robin's-egg blue. This is the Sierra's climax! Thousand Island Lake. Passing south along the John Mulr trail you cross the Yosemite boundary and in a couple of hours camp at Thou sand Island lake in the shadow of Banner peak. ; Your day's ride has been seventeen miles, and, at day's close, you find yourself at a spot so extraordinarily wild and noble that you vote it worth the trip a thousand times had there been no Lyell on the way. For Banner peak, with its 12, 075 feet of altitude and Its remark able beauty and personality, will re main a vivid memory to your dying day. Leaving Thousand Island lake the next morning you may return as you came four days; three nights. Or, far better, .if you can spare the time, you will linger ah hour or two in front of Banner before starting, and, again, an hour or two in Lyell's inner shrine; you then may camp at the bead of Lyell canyon, spend the next night at Tenaya lake for the sunset and the early morning, and jog leis urely back to the valley five days; four nights. Thus will you taste, In addition to the stirring beauty of the incompar able valley, the glory of the ; High Sierra in its noblest expression QUEER CUSTOMS IN BORNEO Norwegian Explorer Writes of Some of His Experiences In That Island. Quaint customs in darkest Boruet are described by Dr. Carl Lumholtz, Norwegian traveler. Doctor Lumholtz says, in part: -ij," We met six- natives who hadi been hunting the rhinoceros In the . west. The horn of the animal when' pow dered Is In great demand by th Chi nese as a medicine, and fetches a high price. Such an expedition may last for two months. The hunters carry no pro- visions, and live on sago and what animals they can kill. When tere is a scarcity of food they frequently go three or four days merely on water, and stay the pangs of hunger with tobacco. I was told that a man would tackle a rhinoceros with a : spear single-handed, though the beast Is very difficult to kill. One day we were surprised by the arrival of a Saputan chief with two companions in a boat. They brought with them a dog, a blowpipe for darts, and a recently killed pig. Not far from the Muller mountains we camped upon the Upper Kasao river, which is inhabited by Saputans. They are a crude, friendly people, who, a hundred years ago, were mere cave-dwellers in the mountains to the. east. ; - At Saputan I had the good fortune to take a cinematograph picture of the ceremony of the piercing of a x:hief s ears. It is their privilege to wear a tiger's tooth inserted in a hole ;in the upper part of each ear. , The chief was seated and a board was placed behind his head. Friends, and supporters assisted in the opera tion, which consisted of an empty rifle? cartridge being forced through his ear. Blood streamed down, and the man, apparently of a very robust type,; seemed to be near fainting., A medi-j cine man was hurriedly sumjponed.i and he clapped his hands over the eara and then, opening them, produced a email stone. This he threw ito the,' river. I ' I was told that this stone as the supposed cause of the chiefs illness. The scene was brought to a dramatic conclusion by the exhausted chief be-, ing ignominiously carried a ways on the, back of a young man.' During he aft ernoon more pebbles were produced by the same sleight of hand, anf a pig was killed in order to appease jthe bad spirit which? had caused the chief's ill ness. ii'. The Dyaks of the Upper Mahakkan are friendly to strangers, and 5 as the great rapids down . the river form a natural barrier they seldom jreceive visitors, and are little changed by out side influence. The Mohammecjpn ' Ma lays, for instance, have never been able to extend their Influence abov the rapids. 4j Luckily for the Dyaks, and Incident ally for -ethnology, these natives pos sess a fine muscular development. The women are well formed and nibye with grace and freedom. The headhunting part of the native religion hs been practically suppressed by Dutcji influ ence, and so far as I could ascertain the last case of the kind in this legion was at least fife years ago. if RAVAGES OF SHEEP KILLERS Dog Owners Can Greatly Lessen Men ace to Industry, Aiding Produc tion, of Animals. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Owners of dogs can help prevent the ravages of the sheep killers whose on slanghtes have been: found to be one of the greatest evils preventing the up building of the wool and mutton indus try in this country. The dog rightfully holds a strong place in the minds and affections of men. The owner of a good dog finds in him a most faithful friend, but it some times happens that the dog most high ly esteemed is also on5 that kills and worries the most sheep and Is the most cunning in obscuring the evidences of his guilt. A well-bred dog's habit of lying innocently asleep in the front Wool and Mutton Are in Great De ments Don't Let Dogs Worry the Sheep. yard during the daytime is no proof that the same dog does not kill sheep at night. Because of the economic loss oc casioned by sheep-killing dogs, and be cause such dogs bring the whole of their kind Into bad repute, the true ad mirers and friends of this animal should help to further any steps likely to result in the limitation of the ac tivity of these discrediting members of a noble race. One of the 'most prac ticable methods of accomplishing this result seems to be to place upon dogs such a tax as will reduce the number of superfluous ones and result in fewer j being kept by persons who cannot or! will not give them the attention neces sary to prevent the formation of habits and associations that lead to sheep killing. INCREASED NUMBER OF -HOGS Pork Is Mainstay of Laboring Men and Soldiers Need for Fats Is Rar- j tkularly Acute. ' ' - ! (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) An increase of at least 15 per cent of the number of hogs during the year 1918, to provide pork, which with wheat Is classed as a leading war f oodj Is rec ommended in the supplementary food production program for 1918 just is sued by the United States department of agriculture. Pork, the program points out, constitutes more than one half of all the meat produced in the United States and it is the mainstay of the ration of laboring men and sol diers. The need for increasing the sup ply of fats is particularly acute. Ani mal fats can be increased more quickly by increasing the number of hogs than in any other manner. An increase of from 5 to 50 per cent' in hog production in 18 states is indicated as especially desirable. The following measures are recommended for increasing pork pro duction, i t The increase in the number of hogs In the Northwestern states should be large. In the New England, states, where only about two hogs are kept per farm, the increase also should be great. :'t Pork production will be increased economically by breeding for two lit ters a year, by saving through better care a larger number of the pigs far rowed ; by growing pasture and forage crops; by using wastes, especially town and city garbage; by proper pac tions of concentrated feeds; by the use of self-feeders ; by pasturing alfalfa and other legumes and other forage crops ; by hogging down grain sor ghums and corn; by finishing hogs to heavier weights up to about 275 pounds, and by preventive measures which will keep hogs free from cholera, tuberculosis, other diseases, and para sites. ' - ! BALANCED RATIONS IN NEED High-Priced Grain Makes It Necessary for Farmers to Grow Mpre Roughage Crops. ; (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.)' j With the presenfnigh price of grains It is hardly necessary to call attention to the need for growing more nearly balanced roughage rations, by planting Canada peas In oat& and soy beans in corn for silage, or by planting the crops separately for hay or seed. If soy beans are planted . for hay, the , fine-stemmed varieties are preferable. At present it jis profitable to grow the crops for seed, and even if the price of seed should go down, they-will pay as a substitute for cottonseed meal In the ration for dairy cattle, as the pro tein contents of thee crops Is even higher than that of cotton seed. If soy beans are used for feed they should be mixed before grinding with some less oily grain, aa corn of oats, or with hominy or bran. SUITABLE SHELTER FOR HENS House of Appropriate Size, Wit Nests, Roosts and Feeding Appli ances Is Needed. 3repared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Every flock of hens needs a suitable shelter a coop or house of appropri ate size, furnished with roosts, nests and appliances for feeding And water lng. A flock that is to be used for breeding should also have a yard where the birds can exercise, on the ground and in the open air. Hens kept only for eggs for the table may be confined to their house continuously for as long a time as ordinary hens are profitable layers. It is better to give them aa outdoor run, but when space is limited it can be dispensed with. Small flocks need a little more floor space per bird than large flocks, and birds confined constantly to the house should have a little Inore floor space per bird than others. A coop for six hens should allow five or six square feet Of floor space for each; a house for twenty to thirty hens, three or four square feet to each. Yards are usu ally planned to give not less than 29 square feet of land per hen. Small coops which 'can be cleaned without entering them may be built only three or four feet high. This height Is most comfortable for the hens. Coops for flocks of more than six or eight birds must be of such height that a grown person can-move about in them. In a low coop the same opening will answer for door and Win dow. In high coops with larger wall j- ijgr iV.wW,wS t-'-'W A Boy's Backyard Poultry House, Buitt by Himself. surfaces a full-sized doof and one or more windows are needed. Roosts are commonly made of small scantling or narrow strips of board, about eight or ten Inches length at roost being allowed to each f owL la small, low coops the ; roosts should be placed bout twelve to fifteen Inches from the floor. In larger coops wide boards, to catch the droppings of the birds, are generally used under the roosts, the droppings board being from twenty to thirty inches from the floor and the roost a few" inches above the droppings board. " The simplest form of nest is a boos a little over a foot square and not less than five or six Inches deep. Wheat space Is limited the nests should be at tached to the wall, the bottom of the nest being a foot or more from the floor. For flocks of five or six hens two nests are needed ; for larger flocks one nest for each four or five hens. The feeding, utensils required are: Hoppers for dry mash, trough for ta ble scraps or moist mash, small hop pers for shell and grit, and drinking pans or fountains. For flocks contain ing not more than 30 birds one of eadt kind of utensil,' if of appropriate size Is enough. . HOW TO BREAK BROODY FOWL Confine Hen Jn Small Coop With SUB Bottom and Give Her Plenty of Water to Drink. When hens become broody and it It not desired to allow them to hatch chickens, they should be "broken up" as ,quickly as possible. The sooner this ! is done the sooner they will resume laying. To break a hen of broodlnest she should be confined to a small coop, preferably with a slat bottom. Give her plenty of water to drink; she may be fed or not, as desired. Not muck difference will j be found In the time required to break her of broodinesc whether she Is fed or made to fast Usually three to six days of confine ment will do the work, but some heme require ten to twelve days. The broody hen will be recognized by her Inclina tion to stay onthe nest at night, the ruffling of her feathers and her de ilre to pick anyone who approaches her, and by the ! clucking noise she makes. Habits of Turkeys. Young turkeys usually remain wltfc the mother hen until about October or November, when the males ordinar ily separate from the temlex an range ny tnemspives. - CORN ALONE IS INJURIOUS Diet Many Hogs Receive From One Year's End to the Other .Lessens . Vitality of Anlmat (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) The straight corn diet, which many hogsreceive from one year's end to the otHeirTlessens vitality. The researches of the Wisconsin experiment statios have sLown that this Is probably brought about Jby retarding tne devel opment of the vital 'Organs. Stilly 1 fr ::U:' I li f u '- is- "