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A1- v."- POLK QOUNTY NEWS, RYON, :N C. j - a .-. -. :wm ERADICATE LICE AND i MITES Sodium Fluorid Makes 'an Effective , Powder and -Should Be . Used, Free- " ly Use Kerosene. J -' (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.): :; : ; The free use of an effective lice powder is always in order. ,. Sodium fluorid makes an effective lice powder. y.Jn applying the powder hold the fowl by the feet, head -down, and work . the pi- Dusting Chicken With Sodium' Fluorid a Most Effective Remedy for Lice and Mites. ; ; : ' powder well down' into the feathers. A dust 'battels essential in ridding, the fowls of lice. The free use of kerosene or crude petroleuml on the roosts and in' the cracks will exterminate mites. . Whitewashing) the interior of , tho house thoroughly once or twice a 'year' helps to keep it sweet and clean. FOWLS FOR BREEDING STOCK Health and Vigor Must tBe First Points, to Keep in Mind When ' Making Selection. Eggs may be perfectly fertile anc! yet hatch unsatisfactorily, and the. first consideration must be the produc tion of hatching eggs with strong, virile, well-nourished germs. This .can be done only by a careful selection, mating and management of the breed ing stock and affording the eggs the proper care after they are laid. Health and vigor must be the first points to keep in mind when selecting the breed ers. The rule that good seed must be used if one expects a successful crop includes the . chicken" crop as: well as those of grass and grain. The breed ing flock should include only sound, healthy, well-fed stock, and. all fowls that have at any time . suffered from any serious illness or show, any faults or defects, such as crooked back or breast, hawk-bill or stake-head, pale face, rattling in ' throat, foreign growths upon any part of the body, leg weakness or "string halt should be promptly discarded. V - CHILLING OF MUCH BENEFIT Wet-Packed Poultry Arrives at Des tination in Poor Condition -Slow Railroads ' Blamed, (Prepared by the United States Depart ent of Agriculture.) " The chill room developed -by 'the United States department of agricul ture for the preservation of poultry and eggs and to prepare them for transportation to marKet has proved of great advantage to small poultry pack ers. Packers who have had to ship in less than carload quantities have found that wet-packed poultry has spoiled in enormous quantities because of slow transportation resulting ' from conges tion on the railroads. Packers equip ped with the . small chill " room recommended by the departmerit have found that poultry dry-l&illed and properly packed arrived at Its destina tion in good condition, while wet packed fowls in the same car " were in bad order. It has been found alo that the method recbmmended by the government requires less Ice than the ice-packing process. LEAVES 'MAKE GOOD LITTER Not Advisable to Leave Them on Floor Too LongThrow Sweepings on ; Garden Patch. There is no litter better than leaves outside of clover or" any of the drier grasses, that . fpwjs find .; nourishmen in. But do not allow the leaves to 11' too long on the floors, as .the. fowh pick at them until they reduce man: to, almost dust. -Pack, away plenty ii barrels, ; as; yon TmustJ, be V sparing 6 higherprlced scratching material, an throw the leaf sweepings on the gar flen patch. , t j , mi 1 ' vtm- . ., . rliiji (Conducted by National Council of, the '"' '.. Boy Scouts of America.) ' .. WHr HE IS IN SCOUTING. - The question, "Why are you taking such an active part in scouting?": was asked of Medad E. Stone, president of the Tucker Tool and Machine company of New - York city, and Mr. Stone un hesitatingly replied: T am in. scouting today because of what the scout move has done for my sons and for. many other boys who are now wearing the uniform of the United States and nobly fulfilling their scout ; oath to . Mo their . duty to God and our country. ? ; came . Into scouting "because of what It promised to do for boys. That was seven years ago and the promise has .been abundantly kept. But the boys do not receive all the benefits of scouting. The ; men who give them leadership gain fully as much. I would urge every boy to join a scout troop. (, "If you want to understand scout ing, go with some scoutmaster on a . hike with his troop or to camp with " them some day Sit at their campfire, . watch them at work and play. You'll ; get a vision of what scouting means, and you'll want to have a share in it. f ; "And scouting needs men and " needs ! them now. You can do your i country the biggest kind of a good turn If you'll help to do the work of the ; many scout leaders who are over .'there -: .'. -I'V '' V FRENCH BOY SCOUTS BUSY. j A letter from former Scoutmaster Geoffrey W. Talbot now in France, says : , ; . " ' j "I was with the French army, and I found that scouting in the f large cities in , France has a big hold on the people and that the French scouts are very like our scouts. I went to a splendid scout rally in Paris, and must confess they put Cn an entertainment even better than any I have seen our boys do. ' " "Every Sunday I used to see patrols of scouts starting on hikes out in the country near Paris, and they were a fine looking lot of. boys. Practically all the messenger boys 'of the Ameri can Red Cross were French boy scouts, and the only good messengers we had at the YV headquarters were scouts, so you see scouting does good' to the French, boys, as well as to ours. HELPING THE OLD SOLDIERS. Veterans of Past Wars Appreciate As ! H sistance Given by Scouts. J : GIRL GUIDES OF ENGLAND. In England, when the success of the: boy scout movement had completely; won the public to the program devel-j oped by Lieut. Gen. S. S. Baden-Powell, a demand arose for a similar or ganization for the girls of the coun try. ' ' s Calling Lady Baden-Powell to the leadership, those who were interested began the development of a i program as distinctively ; feminine as the boy scout movement Is masculine. Avoid ing even the terminology used in the boy ; scout movement, the leaders adopted for the new organization the name "The Girl Guides of England. The membership of the organization comes from all classes. The largest and most exclusive, private schools In Engand were among thefirst to take up guiding, and from their rapks have gone out girls who are now commis sioners for large areas; The girl guides are no less plucky than the boy scouts and they are living up to the highest and best principles too. The member ship Is now, over seventy thousand and Is growing rapidly. , ; . The main activities of the guides are those connected with,, building, handicraft, service ' for others -T. and health. . ,;K';;;:VK;--r:;' ' ;'' -s -: j - ' . ; !.- 'DOINGS OF THE SCOUTS. The scouts are good at salvaging. The' boys -of Troop No. 177 In the Bronx, New York city, are collecting tinfoil and lead and also fruit pits. hf Hos- nf all they are Catherine all the short pencils for the sick, soldiers In the base nospitaiinere.j r. The boy : scoats of. Auburn, ' Wash, are :very .prowl to be given the honoi of ; belonging- to the fire department ind are anxious for some kind of ,i conflagration to occur that they ma; iave a real tryost , -1 1 J The Bull Hotel; IWEFORE the days of Pickwick, presumably the Bull; hotel at 2 Rochester was merely a com i fortable roadside coaching Inn between Dover and . London, with no claim to fame other than that of being a i favored resort of , the military from the adjacent town ofChatham. It is true that Queen Victoria then' but a princess was compelled, - because of a mishap to the bridge across the Medway and the stormy weather, to stay in -the inn with her mother, the duchess of Kent, for One night only. They were on their way to London from Dover. The event happened on the 29th of November, 1836, and caus ed a flutter of excitement in the city and inspired the proprietor to add the words "Royal Victoria? to the inn's name, and to justify the adornment of the front of the building with the royal coat of arms, writes B. W. Matz In the Christian Science Monitor, . But It remained for the Pickwick lans to draw the' inn out:: from the ruck of the commonplace and to spread its fame to, all corners of the globe; and the fact that it once had royal patronage is nothing In compari son to the, other fact that It was the headquarters of the Pickwickians on a certain memorable occasion. That is the attraction of it ; that- is .the im mutable thing that manes its name a household word wherever the English language Is spoken. Indeed, that was ; the one notable event in its history which filled the proprietor with pride, and in his wisdom, in order; to lure vis itors into its comfortable interior, he could find no more magnetic announce ment for the signboard on each side of the entrance, than the plain unvar nished statement : "Good House, Nice Beds. Vide Pickwick." j Was Familiar to Dickens. It may have boasted a history before then; it is; difficult to say.; It existed in 1827 when Difkens housed the famous four within its hospitable walls; and he doubtless knew it long bfore then when, as a lad, he lived in Chatham ; anyway, it was always a favorite of lu. and furnishes the scene of many incidents in his books, in addition to the part it plays in the early portion of the "Pickwick ' Pa pers;" it no doubt is the original of the Wlnglebury Arms in I "The Great Winglebury Duel" in "Sketches by Boz" and Is certainly - the Blue Boar Of "Great Expectations." He fre quented it himself and the' room he occupied on these occasions Is known, as the Dickens room and Is furnished with pieces of furniture from his resi dence at Gad's Hill. We know, too, that he conducted his friends over it, on these occasions when he made pil grimages with them around the neigh borhood.; ' ' The house has been slightly altered since those days, but it practically re mains the - same as when Dickens de posited the Pickwickians in its court yard that red-letter day in 1827. Its outside is dull and somber looking, but its interior comfort and spaciousness soon dispel any misgivings which its exterior might have created. The' entrance hall is as spacious as It was when Dickens s described 4it, In The Great Winglebury Duel," as or namented with evergreen plants ter minating in a perspective view of the bar, and a ' glass case, in which were displayed a choice variety of delica cies ready for dressing, to . catch the eye of a newcomer v the moment he enters, and excite his appetite to the highest possible pitch. 1 "Opposite doors," he says, "lead to the coffee' and commerciar rooms ; and a great wide rambling staircase three stairs and a landing fou stairs and another landing one step and another landing' and so on -inducts to galleries of bedrooms and" labyrinths of sitting rooms- denominated , private,' where you many enjoy- yourself as privately us ytm 1 can In any place; where some bewildered' being -or other.-walks? into your room every five minutes by mis-i cake,, and then walks -out againP tor apen all the doors' along the gallery lfl lie finds his own," : v -.;v!v':i:v ' Rochester And so the. visitor finds it today, al though the interior of the coffee room may have been . denuded of Its com partments i which the interview be tween Pip land Bentley Drummle.in "Great Expectations" suggests were there on that occasion. . It was in this i room thatl?the Pickwickians , break fasted and! awaited the arrival of the chaise to take them to Dingley- Dell ; and It was;oyer Its blinds that Mr. Pickwick sarveyed the passer-by in the street and before which the ve hicle madef its appearance with the very amusing result known to all read ers of thbook. , I t Has Not Been Much Altered. -: ' The commercial room is across the yard, over, which on one occasion Mr. Wopsle was reciting Collin's ode to Pip in "Great Expectations" with such dramatic effect that the commercials objected and sent up their compli ments with the remark that 1t. wasn't the Tumbler's Arms." 1 From ther hall runs the staircase upon which took place' the famous scene between Doctor Slammer and Jingle, Illustrated so spiritedly by Phiz. Those. who remember the inci dent and '.who does not? can visu alize It alt again as they mount the stairs to the bedrooms above, which the Pickwickians occupied.- They re main as Dickens described them, even in some cases to the very bedsteads and furniture, and are still shown to the: interested visitor. ' " "Winkle's bedroom is inside mine" is how ifrv Tupman put it. That Is to say the one led out of the other, and they are , numbered 13 and 19; but which is Which no one knows. Number 13,j by the!. way, is the room the queen slept in on the occasion of her visit, eiiht mohths after the appearance of the first'part of Pickwick. ' Number; 17 Is claimed as Mr. Pick wick's room, which' is'! also the 5ne Dilckens occupied on" one occasion,' and the one ; in Seven ' Poor " Travelers," frim which the occupant assures ns that "after the cathedral bell struck eiiht I could smell the delicious savor ofjturkey ;and roast beef rising to the wipdow Of my adjoining room, ' which locked down into the yard just where the lights tof the kitchen reddened a massive fragment of the castle wall." Assembly Room Still There. ; An Important feature in those days, and presumably today, Vas the ball room, "the elega nt . and commodious assembly rpoms to the . Winglebury Arms.". , i In the ."Pickwick, Papers" Dickens ithus describes it : "It was a long rom, with crimson-covered benches, -and wax candles in glass chahdelifrs. The musicians were se curely cjonfined ; in an elevated f den, and . quadrilles ' were being systemati cally go through by two' or three sets of dancers. Two card tables were made up in the adjoining cardroom, band twef pair of old ladles and a cor- responding numoer or - sioui genue men wee executing whist ; therein." j ,The rfom itself is unaltered. There hang still the glass chandeliers, t and at the end is the veritable, elevated den where the fiddlers "fiddled. . Al though' to(lay it is not used as a danc ing room on account of the military and naval demands of the town there may come a time when it- will revert to Its old glory i and tradition. . , , But the. pleasant fact remains that the Bull inn .exists today and the; Dick ens tradition clings tolt still. ' One jto stinctivily; goes there " ag the center of Dickensian atmosphere with which the old1 city of Rochester Is permeated. "v?hts next- house," which Jingle infrit d his friends was "Deaiv-very deai ; Mif a crown in the3 bill if you look11 at the waiter," may Miavei been, more f afnous and more pretentious an inn than the JBull in the old, old days it was known as the Crown; dated back to 1390 and associated with Henry VOL and Hogarth but Its fame is a thing of thev past and doesn'tcount : '! - : AiX ' ' , yl .... ; tr ; ;.'. v George ' Stephensons engine; ' ?The Rocket," weighed four and a halftons, while a modern engine weighs as mud1 ta 100 tons. , ' : , . THr BULL SNAKES. ' "It's a shame," said the fbull snake, "the''ay people don't, like snakes." v,. f You, . don't mean to say they - don't like us ?nt asked Mrs. Bull Snake-L , l "That's Nrtiat I mean", sad o relate," said MrrBull Snake. "i - Midhat; might the reason! ber asked Mrs.:.Bull Snake. wen, in tne very nrst place oi an people; don't like snakes. There Is no special i reason for . this. To be ; sure, there ?are many dangerous, ! bad snakes, but lots Jand lots "Of people don't like any snakes iviv .' "Even .when wecare; nice, gentle. helpful, Indly-; snakes?" asked Mrs. Bull $nehissihg; in surprise, v "Kven then,1, said Mr. Bull Snake. ''Thattohe unfairness , bf It all. If they1 -didn't like dangerous snakes IS wouldn't 'mlrid, but when they say they don't, like 'bice friendly -snakes they hurt . my ;poor feelings ". : ; . ; "They hurt mine too' said Mrs. Bull Snake'k, ' ' .-- -j -;; : "Well, don't i become - down-hearted, Mrs. Bull !Snake, for I have pleasant hews , and 'cheerful tidings! for you." "Dear mei dear me," hissed Mrs. Bull Snake, as she wriggled af little in the "People Don't Like; Snakes." ' -; : ' v : .- ;l,--!v,.;,v. . . long grass, "you are so smart that your talk is far' beyond me." "Didn't I make you hear?" asked Mr. Bull Snake In a louder lone ,of voice. "Oh yes, I heard all right," said Mrs. Bull Snake,- "only you talked so wise ly"' y.o' f-':'.'-."i - "When you said my talk was far be yond you I thought you meant you hadn't heard it and that it had gone off in the distance somewhere." "No, I meant it was far beyond my. intelligence; not far beyond my hear ing," said Mrs. Bull Snake. ' ' "What" would you have explained?" asked Mr. Bull Snake. ; -. "I don't know what It is to be down hearted," Mrs. Bull Snake answered. "I don't know just what It means. I would like to have that explained." "When you are down-hearted you are sad, and I was afraid you were be-; coming sad hearing so much about folks who didn't like us." v 'Oh, now I see." said Mrs. Bull ; Snake. "Well I won't become down hearted then because yiou said you had pleasant news for me.L But what are cheerful tidings? I know what cheer ful means, but how about tidings? Do, you mean something good to eat?'' '"No," laughed Mr. Bull Snake, "cheerful tidings are about the same as good news and' I.Will tell you the pleasant story I have to tell you, right away, v; ; Mrs. Bull Snake wriggled in a com fortable position and said, "I am ready to hear, Mr. Bull Snake." So he 'com menced: "I have been feeling sad for some time "over the way folks didn't like snakes. It seemed to me rather hard on the snakes as I've said be fore. There are so many harmless snakes and we shouldn't suffer for the bad ones. 1 . : f':y " '. .- ' : - -'; -. - "Well, J" was becoming sorrowful, mmirafnl and depressed (and all of those words mean the same as sad), when I heard of a' farmer near here who wrote a letter to be publi shed In all the papers round these parts." Pa pers, my dear Mrs.! Bull Snake, are things people read Where they learn what is going on In the world they read the news, In short. ; v 1 'Now this farmer wrote to all the papers and he said that folks 'shouldn't kill the bull snakes j in these parts be cause we did a lot Of godd in destroy ing the gophers and jnilce which would hurt the alfalfa. You know, the alfalfa is the grass or clover or whatever they call it which is all about us and which Is fed to the animals. It is very dell clous, the animals 'think, and it Is very good - for them. We protect this food for them and the farmer Wrote l that we should be protected too." He also said that we were good well-behaved snakes. Isn't it fine to have someone appreciate us?" f -'!';'iSv;-- ' ''Splendid' said jMrs. Bull Snake, "and it makes me feel like working all the harder - to -protect the alfalfa or clover for the good, kind farmer who said such nice, things about us." v , a And they both" went to sleep, dream ing sweet dreams of the kind farmer who i liked them.' - j " .,". tCopyright, 1918. Western Newspaper Union.) : - The Girl Who Laughs." : The girl .who laughs, because she fs sunny-hearted and finds things to en loy as she goes aldhg adds enjoyment to .others as; they go along. There is something in a smile that calls; out a smile, and spontaneous laughter is the most catching, thing In the world, No one Is likely; to scowl when a free; Joyous laugh Is heard. Girl's Com panlon. . - . . CHEAP RATIONS "FOR KOIiSES Animals Performing Hard WoHc Caty Be Given Straw' and Corn Ct5ver . In Limited Quantities, - . (Prepared . by the United Status ment of Agriculture.) Cheap feeds, such as straw and staver,?have a place in the horse ra tion. For growing colts and thoxaa doing hard work these roughages may be fed in limited quantities, supple mentary to amore nutritious1 ratkra. A caution is timely in regard to feed ing bulky roughages' low in nutrients. Horses have comparatively ?smaEl stomachs and their dlgestiyeanatomy is in no way suited to handle a great bulk of feed. Little nourishment) Is derived from a pound of 'such rosk age, and In maintaining a- hard-working animal .too great va bulk of feel would necessarily be , taken : intb; tbai body. It is therefore desirable, tol cara bine with a limited, quantity of shiver or straw sufficient legume hay. grahs. or other:nutritious feed to. meet the la dividual requirements of the7 horse. A small portion; of some laxative feed such, as silage, roots, bran, or klfalfa. may well Jie included in a ratloa coj- taining a . large proportion of -stover or straw; v , X Cottonseed meal' has met 'with siderable disfavor among horse feed ersbut It may be fed In limited fna titles if due'care is exercIsecL: It is Character, Soundness and Good formation. 4t a very heavy protein concentrate &c Is not particularly laxative la chaise- ter, and is quite likely to produce tffr gestive troubles . unless , tbei quantUy fed is limited. Its proper use is a supplement to a carbonaceous tion, one-half pound daily behig osxal ly sufficient, although la some parts tX . the South several pounds daily, have been fed, with success. The more ' vorable results have come from, feed ing it In , connection with grains tstH blackstrap molasses. . Cottonseed E&esl is not palatable to horses. In, nosft cases not more than two pounds daCy . per animal should ever be. given, and before that limit Is reached specte2 note should )be taken of Its effect. XlesS horse feeders prefer the . use . of tod meal. The following rations are con gested for horses: 5 .. . . .- Maintenance Ration for 1,000Pctd '. ' ' .. Idle Horse. ;-;'-i ( Ration 1: ,:'.:,::---;- v; ;X(: : ... ." Corn stover .................... dpoimdk ( Alfalfa, hay .................... 3 pounds Corn on cob.i........i. ......... 6 pooutfs - Ration 2: .f :.r . . - , ? ' - Oat straw . ; Alfalfa ........................... SpoaaAi. Cane molasses 3 vmamM : Daily Ration for 1,000-Pound Here c2 . '.: ; . ' :- :; i ' . '-. Light Work. - Corn stover .'....v.................. Spotmfis Bermuda hay .......... Cottonseed meal ....... ............ posad. Cowpeas ....,..... 3 porniSs Shelled corn ii....... ......... Spotto&i Daily Ration for 1,000-Pound Horss s2 'J.-.;.. .-.Severe work.-,;.. Corn fodder .......... ,... Alfalfa ,f .M.M..12 porads. Soy beans (ground)................. 1 pound Shelled corn ;J2poanCs ; --, -. '"'"v-.v-:. - -- . Daily Ration for 1,250-Pound ; ta "."- 'i Horse; ''';:v:.'-f-i ' nation 1: '"':';.';?:'--:V -'y-:.' - -Corn stover ..............M;.M41pminfii Alfalfa Spovnfis " Ear corn ....A. 4pons Ration 2: 'i;.rT: -r.' . Oat straw ...... ........ ..l...Mpon2j Pea hay 4 pounds Common beets or other roots - (or silage) 4 porofis Oats ............................. 4 pounds Daily Ration for 1,250-Pound Horsed Light Work. r Barley straw Cptnmls Alfalfa hay ...................... . pounds Rolled barley ...................... Spoonds Dally Ration for 1f50Pound ICa W':' ' ' JV Horse.;-; ?"' ' Corn fodder (with ear8)...........JXpoima Alfalfa Sponnda GROUND SOYV BEANS FOR PIGS Found to Be About 10 Per Cent Supe rior to Wheat Middlings In Test ,at Wisconsin. 1 ' .''As a supplement to , cornmeza f & growings and fattening p!g 2ie. Ti3 consin station .found that greend soy ' beans ' proved aboutf 10 per cent scpe- rior to wheat middUng figuring tta cost of the feeds as the same,. , The Jzt diana station compared rations of tw parts' of cornmeal ;and ; one.paxt: ct soy-bean meal rwith cornmeal and what : middlings in equal proporticsa and with five parts of cornmeal , ixfl -one partof tankage for pork prodsc tionTha. soy-hean: ration. produce3 the. largest dally gains, and this with the smallest quantity of feed corcwrsrfl for each pound of grain. , ' -:h Cos).
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