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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1917 THE ASHEVILLE TIMES. PAGE SEVEN f&j&kffi BUILT I rffi? I 1896. i ' 'lRU'B6g'0'Pl It Building! tfgwrf kind In tvtrfillm I mud whh RV-HBR-01H Km- V tmd KU-i r.X-'JlU fihivlu. OTTIS GREEN ASHEVILLE, 'Si a tacky surface to catch dust. Renews varnish on carriages and : '.'' : automobiles. . Use Devoe Polishing Oil according to simple directions on the bottle. The less oil you use the better the results. You'll find Devoe Polishing Oil useful in many ways about the house. Get a bottle "- to-day. DEVOE & , RAYNOLDS CO Inc. NEW YORK - CHICAGO Th. oldaat paint manufacturers in tha Unitad Stataa. Founded in New York in 1754 WANTED 75 Cords Oak Wood, 6 feet long. Telephone 3000-Ask for Mr. Dickerson. GROVE PARK INN Outer Soil Like Skin of Body. Farm and Fireside, the national farm paper published at Springfield Ohio, says: "The outermost soil layer of Mother Earth has a close similarity to the skin which protects the human body. This soil covering of productive, well conditioned land is injured by an over plus of stagnant water, excessive dry ness, the bakinf? and hardening effects of summer's heat, and the heaving and teaching accompaning winter's frosts. "The skilled farm operator tile drains to take care, of surplus water end thereby also secures fuller use of the subsoil moisture remaining and the fertility It carries in solution. Further, the far-seeing farmer pro tects his soil surface from the Injuri ous baking effect of summer heat by means of an Insulating surface soil stratum of material rich In vegetable substance like decaying plant roots, stubble, stable manure, and green-manure crops. "For the grevzlng, heaving, blowing, and surface-washing of winter, he provides a fall-growing cover crop tos protect his land from wintor's liarHh usage. This growing cover, when partly killed, blankets the sur face and effectively prevents a wast Father , was right! Ten Fifteen or Twenty years from now Will your boys be able to say "Father used good judgment when he bought that roofing?" RU-BER-OID roofs have been giving lasting service for 25 years. Many of them still good have never cost a penny for repairs. Your roof will give YOU long life service if you use real RU-BER-OID the roofing with the "Ru-ber-oid Man" on the roll. Made in Slate Gray, Tile Red and Copper Green. Stop in and get prices. HARDWARE CO, N NORTH CAROLINA 3M0 Q 09FIN mm h Polish up your piano Remove finger marks; restore its lustre; make it look like new the easy, safe and economical way -with a few drops of POLISHING OIL It will remove grease and dirt from all varnished surfaces floors as well as furniture and leave a bright, new finish. Will not leave age of the precious plant food which still is held in the living root tissues of the cover crop, ready to be given up to the early needs of the spring sown crop."' now to Prolong tho Garden Season. A writer says in Farm and Fireside: ."I have tried several ways of ex tending the season of perlshnble gar den vegctnbles of late years with grati fying success, but old newspapers and burlup sacks are my main dependents. Newspapers are spread ov.er late bush beans, cucumbers, tomato vines, sweet peppers, eggplunt, etc. The burlap sacks are then spread over the papers to hold them in place and furnish ad ditional protection. When these easily frosted plnnts are saved from the Bret killing frost, it Is often quite easy to prolong the bearing season of these appetizing vegetables for a month or more to the great advantage of our home table, Thenmnin requirement is to save a generous supply of newspa pers and burlup sucks, then keep tab on the weather niun. Most of the vege tables mentioned can remain covered fui several days when cold weather threatens, until the cold vve passes," Help your friend win a TIMES car, Phono mi. E AS Reptiles Enemies of Rodents That Destroy Grain and Carry Disease Few Are Poisonous Washington, Oct. 13. Snakes are a valuable asset and there should be a campaign against killing them, writes Gayne T. K. Norton in the cur rent issue of the American" Forestry Magazine. The article goes on to showiwhAt the snake does for food conservation y way of killing rodents and insects the greatest enemies to grain that man knows. The public has become acquainted with snakes as never before, writes Mr. Norton, because of the thousands who have been engaged in the campaign for war gardens that has been conducted by the National Emergency Food Com mission. The work of the Dltmars Club of Newark, New Jersey, whose members go snake hunting is recited in detail. . "With this summer the millions of war gardens have given the snake popular interest a news angle editors must consider", writes Mr, Norton. The gardens brought outdoors many who ordinarily would not step from paving blocks. Tremendously in creased tillage has brought people and snakes together. "Unless mush educational work is done the number of snakes that will be killed next year by the well-mean ing but misinformed gardeners will be very, large, Our snakes, and we ure rich in reptile life, are a national asset worth many millions of dollars Snake killing will never become a na tional Issue conserved as an econo mic factor destroyed as a menace vet the snake, particularly at this lime, should be conserved. The re lation it bears to successful crops is important more important than even the average farmer realizes. "Reptiles may not manifest friend ship toward us, few would welcome such a condition, yet they are not enemies. They never attack unless in self-defense. Of our 111 species but 17 are poisonous two species of Elaps, coral snakes, and 15 species of Crotaline snakes, the copperhead and Moccasin, the dwarf and typical rat tlesnakes. On the other hand the help they render is valuable. The pests destroyed each year, especially the rodents that injure crops and every communicable diseases, roll up a large balance of good service in their favor. "Kodents are destroyers of farm products, cause loss by fire through gnawing matches and insulation from electric wires and of human life. through germ carrying, particularly the bubonis plague. Before the war the United States Department of Agriculture placed the billat $500,000, 000 one fifth of which equals the loss of grain. With advanced prices this is increased. They also destroy eggs, young poultry, squabs and pigeons, birds and young rabbits, pigs and lambs. A loss to husbandry not estimated In figures but realized as extensive is due to the killing of friut trees by girdling or other injuries to the bark by species of wild rodents. Eminent medical authorities agree that many plagues can be accounted for by rod ents. As a destructive agency the rod ents have no rival. "The gross ignorance regarding our snakes causes slaughter of all things that wear scales and crawl. Farmers should protect and breed the harm less snakes rather than kill them Many European countries have pro tective legislation." PAGE BELIEVES PEOPLE WILL CONSERVE FOOD Tar Heel Administrator Takes Little Stock in Contrary Rumors Raleigh, 'Oct. 13. Word has come to the state food administration here that a number of persons, chafing at continued high prices of food pro ducts and provoked because the gov ernment has not fixed prices on food stuffs, have announced their inten tion of disregarding the suggestions of the food administration for the substitution of the plentiful products for those food products which are suited for export, and which are de sired by the government for the main tenance of its armies and the civilian population of the allies. This matter was brought to the at tention of Food Administrator Henry A. Page today. "This is a democracy" said Mr. Page. "Our people are free. They are privileged to eat whatever they desire if they have the price. But if all America continued to cat Its accustomed amount of sugar, the millions of French people would be compelled to go without even their war ration of sugar for two months. "If all America refused to substitute corn and other cereal products for wheat, and poultry, fish, game and other foods for beef and pork pro ducts the armies of our allies would bo reduced in their physical condition to tho point where hundreds of thou sands of American boys would be neaded above the number thut will be required if we do keep our allies' men in good fighting trim, and tens of .thousands of old men, women and children would die of starvation In France, England and Italy. "I can't believe t tha,t any loyal American will refuse to render that service at home which is so easy when the ralle that the failure to render such service will cost the lives of more of our own soldiers and of innuberable soldiers and of innumer able women and children on the other side. "The housewives of this state, and of the entire country, will bo given an opportunity during the week of October 27-November 4, which is food pledge week, to put down in black and white where they stand and I am looking for a 100 per cent enrollment I belelve our people want to know of every opportunity through which they they can buck the boys who are go ing to the trenches." MANY FARMERS EKPECTED TO TAKE SHORT COURSE Special Instruction Offered at State College, Begin ning October 30. Raleigh, Oct. 13. Dean C. B. AVil Hams of the state A. and E. College says that active arrangements are be ing made to put in final shape the short courses in agriculture for farm ers that are to satrt on October 30 at the State College, Raleigh, and continue for sixteen weeks. These courses have been especially designed to give those who come to the college for this short practical instruction, in formation along different lines ' of farming practiced in the state that may be put into use on the home farm by those who come. The early farming in North Carolina under pioneer conditions of society was a comparatively simple operation out in tnis aay ana time, as farming has become a more complex and com mercial enterprise and when crons are raised on a large scale for com petition in world markets, the well informed and alert farmer, other things being equal, is the one who is going to make the most out of his farming operations. The courses, as arranged, will no doubt greatly aid those taking them to become more modern and business-like in their farming operations than they could otherwise possible'tiave been. Opportunity will be afforded to give the busy men on the farm, both old and young, to spend two and four mounths at the college studying the different brances of farming they have especial interest in and do so at a season of the year when work on the farm is least pressing. Those who come will be brought in close personal touch with the specialists or tne the college, experiment station and extension service and thereby be. given an opportunity to become ac quainted with the work that is being done in the state at the present time in the interest of those engaged in farming. Those attending the course should become beter fitted for taking up tneir life work by having secured a better and more intimate view of agriculture, in general and a higher efficiency and knowledge in their chosen fields of farming. Courses are to be offered in field crops, in live, stock including dairying nonicuiture, ana in poultry. Arrange ments have been made wherebv soec ial lectures on different phases of agriculture will be given by the dif ferent specialists of the college, ex periment station, and extension ser vice. Many farmers of this county and of other counties in the state should make every effort to arrange their farm work so that they can avail themselves of this splendid oppor tunity of visiting the collece and se curing practical information that is to be offered there- in the short courses in agriculture that have been arranged especially for the busy farm ers of the state. LESSON OF ECONOMY Necessary If U. S. Is to Com pete With War Discip lined Countries Washington,'. Oct 13. -America's place in the industrial competition of nations that will follow pence will no aeterminea in large part by the response that the American people make to the coming food administrar tion and is one of the thoughts that is spurring on its forces in their preparation for enrolling the fumiles of tho n.-ition In the cause of food conservation during the week of October 28 to November 4. "When this war is over," the food administrator declared recently, "Europe will find herself with a re duced standard of living, with a peo ple greatly disciplined in all directions and in a positions to compete in the world's markets in a way that they never have been able before. We shail also face a world with a reduced con suming power, and unless we ran secure some discipline in our own people, we will be in no position to meet that condition when peace comes." The Idea that the purpose of food saving is not alone the present one of feeding our army and the allies, is further developed by the belief of the food administration that wars are paid for out of the savings of the peo ple. It is pointed out that the de cision Is up to the American people right now, whether they are to help pay for the present conflict out of the savings of today, or after the war by mortgaging the future of the peo ple. A saving of six cents a day per person will amount to two billion dolars a year. Submarine Has Not Turned the Trick. Frank Simonds, the great war ex pert, has written an articlo for Farm and Fireside in which he says: "Half the advantage of superior German preparedness was swept away when the British fleet made it possible to transform America into the factory and granary of the allies. It will be the verdict of history that the defeat of Germany was made In tho United States, at least the Germans nlready attribute to American help the pro traction of the war. This Is the con tribution of sea power. "Against sea power Germany had devised the submarine, or rather she had relied upon the submarine. In her plans it played the part of the old privateer. It was a commerce de stroyer, and what it undertook to do was to prey upon commerce, upon the commerce on which depended ,the very life of Great Britain, since without imports she would starve to death. Yet despite all tho sensational suc cesses of the submarine, it has failed in its purpose. It has not Isolated Britain, it has not produced starva tion, It has not even Interrupted the flow of munitions or of supplies for the allied armies. It has sunk many merchantmen, but it will not be the deciding fuctor In the war," Wanted 750 Bushels of Potatoes for Cash Farmers having high grade Potatoes to bring to market this fall please call GROVE PARK INN and ask for Mr. Dickerson. We want about 750 bushels of the best and smoothest potatoes running as even as pos sible in ; size. v We will also want to buy from three to five hundred live turkeys. Telephone Number 3000 Asheville GROVE PARK INN OFERHA UL B UILDINGS IN PREP ARATION FOR WINTER 'S WORK Poorly-Housed Poultry Must Consume . To o Much Food to Keep IF arm Leaky Roofs Mean Cold, Wet Quarters and Mucky, Filthy Litter . ' By Robert Armstrong Eipert Foultryman and Writer October may seem to he an unimpor tant month in the poultryman's calen dar, but in reality it is a period of vital consideration. It is the terminus of a year's work, so to speak, and the begin ning of another season. It is the time when last year's pullets graduate into the yearling class. When their aver ages are summed, and those with poor laying records are culled for market. This weeding process is the beginning of a selection of next season's breeders. October is the month in which to clean and overhaul the buildings and make preparations for the winter's work. AUTUMN Is tha season that tests tho real ability of the poultryman, his patience, and sometimes his pocketbook as well. With most of the yearlings out on a strike, by reason of the molt, and the pullets not a9 yet lay ing to their full capacity, egg receipts are often uo higher than the feed bills. Experienced' breeders understand that these circumstances are bound to pre vail at this season, because it is be twixt and between the going and coming of the old and new flocks. The novice who started chickens in the spring and i3 approaching his first winter, is very apt to feel a bit dis couraged or perplexed. Put such feel ings aside. Cheer up! If tho young stock was properly hatched and brooded, fed sufficiently on a well-balanced ra tion, and given clean, comfortable living quarters, though they may seem to be but "marking time," they will soon strike up a lively gait anil be laying before you know it. Thanksgiving Day should find them "shelling" a 30 per cent, yield at least, and by Christmas they will be standing in lino for a nest. Always boar in mind, however, that. winter eggs are more or less an artificial production, consequently, fowls require more or less artificial care. By artificial cure I mean that the favorable condi tions of tho spring, which is the normal period for egg production, should be imitated as closely as possible. Overhauling the Buildings Fowls with any degree of stamina will shift for themselves under almost any circumstances. Unless snow is on the ground they are capable of foraging for enough food to keep them going. But they are not capable of caring for themselves and at tho same time pro ducing a profit for their owner. To bo profitable they must bo cared for by others, especially during the fall and winter months. The hen must have the raw materials from which to manufacture eggs, and she must have nheltercd quarters in which to make them. Poorly housed poultry must necessarily consume a great deal of food in order to keep them warm from tho inside. It is more economical to warm them from the out side, by giving them dry, well-ventilated houses, l'roo from drafts, and capable of being flooded with sunshino. Tho above paragraph is not petty ndvice. Tt is tho very essence of suc cess vnt'j chickens. Time and again it hns been proven that a great deal more food in required to maintain the body temperature under damp, drafty and uncomfortable conditions than in a dry, warm, suitable building. In the latter ease tho greater part of the fowls' nour ishment is available for making fat, flesh and eggs. No class of livestock responds to good housing more readily than poultry. All poultry buildings should be over hauled before cold weather sets in. The best time for this work is during the period of culling the old stock for mar ket, and starting tho new pullets in the laying houses. Once tho pullets have commenced to lay it is most unwise to disturb them or move them elsewhere. To do so is likelv to check their laving. TIMES 11 M 1 BLACK Il'Y.l.XDOTTES Birds that were almost black were not uncommon among Silver Laced Wyan- dottes in the early days of that variety. In 1885 an Ohio breeder mated a pen of his darkest birds, and by constant selection he and others produced the Black Wyandotte which was recognized as a pure variety in 1893. Black Wyahdottes are excellent lay ers, grow fast and make excellent broil ers and table fowls, being plump and compact, with rich, yellow skins. They mature early and begin laying probably sooner than other WyandottCB. They which may not be resumed for a month or more. The following is a good rule to establish, .sever move layers unless it is absolutely necessary. Beware the Leaky Roof By all means look after the roofs of tho buildings. Nothing is more trou blesome than a leaky roof. It means cold, wet living quarters for the fowls; mucky, tllthy litter, and will soon con vert the otherwise ideal house into a death trap. I f there arc any shingles off, or any unsound or torn spots in the patent roofing, repair them before they "grow worse and cause the framing and sheath ing lumber to warp and deteriorate. Where patent roofing is used, which is the most common form of roofing for poultry buildings, the nails securing the seams and laps frequently work out of the lumber a quarter or a half -inch, due to the swelling and contracting of the fibers of the wood. These nnils should be gone over and rc-driven. Hut do not drive them too deeply into the roofing, so that they break or cut the fabric. It is also a good plan to paint the seams with asphalt rooting paint, unless the whole roof requires painting. Remem ber, that a root or questionable integ rity may shed rain satisfactorily, but snow and slush are likely to penetrate it. . As soon as tho outer coating of patent roofing commences to wear it should be painted. And if these roofs are painted once a year they will last al most indefinitely. If repairs to patent roofing are put off until cold weather, in walking over tho material when it is cold and brittle there is danger of breaking it. The middle of the day, when the sun is shining on the roof, in the best time to work. If possible wear rubber-soled shoes, or if leather ones, don't turn on your heels. Be Sure of the Ventilation It is presumed the hen bouses faeo the south, which is tho proper exposure, hence the north and end walls should he mado absolutely draft-proof, especially in tho way of the roosting quarters. If they could bo hermetically sealed on these three walls, so much tho better. At least nail wooden battens (lath is a convenient and economical material) over all cracks and crevices, and under tho eaves. Because tho lumber is tonguo and groove material does not insure ftio wall against cracks. Matched lumber covered with single-ply patent roofing makes one of tho best and cheap est walls for poultry houses. This con struction is in use on many of the larg est commercial plants. ADS BUILD BUSINESS I u LJ do well in small space, and are excel lently adapted to the back-yard poultry plant. Their brilliant, greenish-black plumage does not show the dirt and soil of confineihent. The hens are good foragers and this, combined with other desirable qualities, makes them a profitable farmer's fowl. They do well in confinement, which is in favor of them as a back-yard flock. The standard woights demanded in this breed aro 6V4 to 7V4 pounds for females, and 7y2 to 8 pounds for males. Perhaps a certain building was damp or insufliciently ventilated the preceding season. Do not take another chance on it this year. Uemodcl the house if nec essary; install more curtain frames in the south wall. About one-third of the area of this wall should consist of cur tain frames, or openings in. which cur tains can be fitted in times of driving storms. In southern climates, where there is very little snowfall, curtains aro not necessary, but tho houses should havo open fronts. Do not install too many glass windows. They are all right to admit sunlight, but too much glass makes the house cold. One-third glass, one-third curtains, and one-third solid partition is a good proportion for houses having the latitude of Philadel phia, Chicago, Omaha and Denver. litter and Buttinor Material If you have not already done so, Oc tober is the last chance to lay away a stock of litter or scratching material for the winter, also road dust or dry dirt for the dusting boxes. Better stock up now wiine straw is in aounuance ana prices are reasonable. Later on, when the farmers have depleted their straw stacks, the dealers' prices will soar. Home breeders use dry leaves for litter. From my experience they are not worth much. They soon break up, and what is worse, they are likely to contain a leaf mold, which sometimes affects the fowls ' eyes. rlaner shavings make a fairly good material for litter, though there is noth ing equal to straw. h.xeel8ior is an ex cellent stuff for tho nests, and it is cheap. 'Replenish the nesta ofton 'and thus avoid soiled eggs. If you want a good way to dispose ol your conl ashes, put them in a box in the hen house. The fowls win pi them over, dust in them, and eat some of the particles for grit. They are good grit and will contribute some of the material for eggshells. Wood ashes make a nice dust bath, except that they destroy the gloss to the plumage. They will serve a moro useful purpose in the garden. If used on the dropping boards as an absorbent, wood ashes tend to liberate the ammonia in the droppings, and thus reduce its fertilizing value. Few poultrymen know as much about the development of 'the egg at they should. This it a highly im portant subject, for it it the real ob ject for which all chicken raisert art striving. Next wcek't article piU have to do with this topic,
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