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;'r' K T7T7" - VOL. 1 NO.7 r V ' EXCELLENT AS RO CUTTER Home-Made Affair Proves-Equal ly Ef . fcctive as Fancy Priced Implement How it is Made. - 1 I have a root cutter tliat I made wliich does the business just as well as one that would cost a fancy price says a writer in the Orange : Jodd Farmer. I can cut a bushel of" roots in less than two minutes.'. Anyoiie handy with a saw and; hammer can, make one like it. ' . :" ' --J f"-; - Slake a box, a, 8x10x12 inches. Fbr the slide, -b'? use.-. two pieces ;X)f .irich boards 1 inches wide and 28 inclies J Homemade Root Cutter. k long. Make the knife, c, out of a piece of sheet iron sharpened on both sides.' It '. should be two inches" wide and 8 inches long. Nail sheet iroln 8 inches wide on top of the slide frame and put the. Jknife in . place as shown. Fasten a bow made from the end of an: old buggy shaft,' as shown by d. Hinge it to. the slide and fasten it to the ' handle, e, with a bolt. Nail two cleats on the- side of the . legs; as shown by f. The slide will operate oil these, -"'"i ' , 1 "i WATERING COWS IN.THE BARN .Successful Dairyman able Tank, Large ; . Three Animals Rigs Up Port Enough for ), to. Drinks T A successful dairyman recently out lined to us his method ' of watering the cows in the barn, says, the Ohio -f- Farmer. He objected to using the long, continuous feed trough for jwa tering', his objections being that there will be in the process considerable '(evaporation into the atmosphere of the barn. Damp air in the barn - .means that it will be chilly.- The evap Aoration from the gutters and radia tion from the cows saturate the air more than it should be' without any further addition - f rom, the trough. ;. To overcome that objection and yet provide a means .of watering" in the 6tall he had rigged a trough on1 low wheels. This movable tank was so constructed that it would' run nicely above the continuous feed trough! - In that way the cows can be Watered in, a very ' short while without being loosened from their stalls? j The "tank was made long enough so that three cows could drink at a time. ; A: man may be sweeping the feedway ".-"at the samertime or doing other work while moving this tank cart from time to . time. Swat The Fly . These days mark the dawn of another ily ,season. r-tln iact, recent advice indicates Kthat an occasional fly has;' been sighted here and there. -.Swat hirnr 1 and do it now'vllemberv';so far, as the-f ly , question is i; con6erti6d, a swat m time saves nine. ; pme lias enthusiastic ' mathematician! figured but for us, that laibormg under perfect conditions,' a I Mrs.' Fly . will lay 120 eggs, ' which mature into flies Jin from twelve to fifteen days! 'Swat her. These in turn produce 7,200 grandchild ren twelve to- f if teendays later. Swat them.t The 'next genera tioh, we are told," reaches the enormous" number of , 43-2rC00, . to bo swatted. ' And so on, until-by f all-or late summer oiir v&phe ' matician: estimate ; thatthe grand total riumber of ' descendants of this - one original Mrs. ; Fly amount tb some ' i, 096, 181, 249, -810,720,000,000,000,000, or a mass having 'a cubical content greater than, the earth itself. . Top many to swat. A few ciphers more or less mean notning xo; us -S.uch figures are mathematics gone nine, . if not nipe, comparatively ; few descendants from-each successive generation of flies ftver live.to reabh matur ity or pid- age. . . A very ; few withstand the rigor of winter, and herein lies bur cue. .vl-f we can successfully"' combat these few - now, and I abolish"- . thei r breeding places, ; our lot for - the summer "will be easier. J ; C;. It . has -been well said that vA man's flies are they" of : his own household. '.-;We are fast learning that the number of: flies- in a house or community ; is an . ex cellent index to the sanitary con-' ditions or cleanliness 'i: q "that house .'.' or- community; Some day, soon,. we will consider the bedbug. In fact itr is already, but we don't know it yet. To a very large extent our freedom from flies for the summer depends on the effec tiveness of bur.firstattacks dur ing ..the- next few months, r r Five or ten-cent investments in wire cloth fly swatters placed in the hands of small boys and girls yield excellent returns. . Their enormous amount of exuberance and youthful enthusiasm may be put X& good purpose 1 in this manner, instead of letting it run to waste, under the name of - mis chief. In the meantime, if all possible breeding places, such as manure piles, night soil garbage, J and . filth of all kinds ."are effec tively destroyed, a removed, ' or buried, the result so. far as .flies and disease are concerned will be well worth the effort. Let's Body Found itr River. v Washington,- April , 5. The body of Mrs. F. Roberta Greev er, wife of a Lutheran clergy1 man, R. H. Greever of Colum bus, S. C, who disappeared from this city February 17, while suffering from a nervous breakdown, Was discovered to day in the Potomac river near Mount Vernon. The finding of the body ends a country-wide search for Mrs. Greever. Her husband accompanied her to this city and placed her in" a sanatarium. On the night of February 17 she, eluded her nurse and until the discovery of the body today-no trace of her had been found. She was 44 years old and was daughter of the late Rev. G. A. Bruegel, a Gutheran clergyman. All Are Delighied. "Washington, D. C., April 7. .The following was issued by the national Roosevelt committ to- night: y . .;'-"' ' . , "Nine counties in North Caro lina have voted thiis far in the election of delegates to the State convention and every one has gone overwhelmingly for Roosevelt- Guilford county elected delegates Saturdoy," 26 for Roosevelt and, 2 fbr Taf t. Sampson, Catewba, Pasquotank and Davidson counties , send solid Roosevelt delegations . Stokes, '.Gaston, Mitchell p;; and avery -counties had previously elected solid Roosevelt , dele gations;" A; ': :-' :' :- --;:;-S . Friday Dickens' Lucky Day. :'" Charles " Dickens was not one of those ' who are superstitious concern ing ; Friday; It was on Friday "that many of the good things bame to him, 'and it was on that day that he enter ed upon; paid the price and took pos session ' of Gads v Hill, the : one I thing he cherished more than all of his oth er possessions.' f it was Gads Hill that he had gazedVupon when a wee bit of a boy, with a hope then giving little signs ; of ; fruilJonthathemight?live ;tp' own. it. some day ;and Jtlvvas jGads Hill JvlicewaUs lie-covered . -OTir in almost Oriental ;magiiifiQence. swat in; tijne ;.sa Ttres s'i: SAFETY I N BLACKlAND; WHITE Matter of Colors May Be Eliminated From the Minds of Wom)WfiUo J Fashion "Lasts. , -. Surely: a 'woman does not liave' to worry much, about colors' thls winter. It is sheer waste of time to. look In the mirror with the sunlightand the electric light sl different times . to see whether a piece of purple or green or: blue or brown,; placed under the chin; reflects a becoming; glow on ; the. skin. The : stores show dozens iof colors, and the dressmakers otter them to you ; in a half-hearted way, but If ypu.;know what's what-in the-world of l fashion you will brush them all , aside and go" in heavily for. black and whitev ,- Thre.was soine sense In struggling against this edict last summer, be cause here vand there barbaric and Byzantine colors darted their heads up into, sight like asps in. an urnbut the urn . of. fashion is now, given over to the. two sharply, contrasting colors. You must not wear all , white, , and you must not Vear all black, but you must Juggle with - the ' two until your skill draws applause. -You may "think the wearing of black and white Is monotonous; that it lacks variety ; but when you, hear an: expert talk on the subject you feel as if you were at a food exposition lesson where a cook ery teacher ; describes one thousand and one different ways in which eggs can be used. ; '- 'r: "'- -' ' ' DAINTINESS: IM THE BEDR00WT Little - Touches That Prove the Occu . pant to Be a Woman of Truo ; Refinement. - A slab of clear glass, exactly the size of the bureau top and beveled at the edges is often laid over the hand some lace or embroidered bureau cov er, needlework and dainty color effect showing, clearly through the glass, and' cover r being protected from dust and soil. xThe most faithful maid cannot be trusted to dust a bureau.,! She will prhisk dust clotli or feather duster over the bottles, jars, photographs and toil et belongings rather ihan lift each one I -i ... 'm .- m mm only a laundering that will scrub out its beauty will render it clean. The slab-of glass may, of course! be wiped clean. and clear. at any time without disturbing the spread beneath. c A careful housekeeper protects also her handsome silk down bedquilts by spreading them over the bed and cov ering them with a dotted swiss, ruffled bedspread. The colors "and pattern of the silken quilt show through very daintily and the ruffled swiss counter pane gives a pretty 'finish-"' tb the bed. Squares &l the swiss, also ruffled, are laid over the pillows. TWO GOOD STYLES OF SKIRTS Simple and Effective Garments4 That Follow Closely the Prevailing ' - ' Fashions. w Two simple but effective skirts are shown here.' The first is in cashmere with panel at front, but not at back; a wide band of material is carried right round from panel, each end of wxich is' trimmed: with buttons and; 'braid loops. . ' ,"'":. ' '; '" ' Materials; required: yarxis; 4S inches wide,. 10 , buttons. :.' :' : f The other one ' is intr fancy feralard!,, slightly eased into , waist h sMesrandL backi h A." wide.; band :l of plaim: ssbt off the prevailing color of the- fancy trims the foot. ' ' ' " Materials required!. ITS&K tsMxA4Z Inches 'wide fancy, 9i yard '42 iackeai wide plain. - -v;:.;-:''- -- " ' w- Z ;v;r saitTa polite? salesman tol'a girl rom the country7. - ' : Yes sir, said the blushinc damsel, "that s XlrZ :' "ZTZZ. tions broke into the rooms of order, :tne lattery havn-i7 weD-tcfea : m : ,. myfeller6utsidei lIHa -ttuldnt come uu - - ; . T- - : Verdict of , Jury. ' ; . ;tGaffney, S. Cr; April; 5. the ; lynching of . two negroes which ocbured at : Blacksburg a week1 ago convened this after s' wit-. noon at ?4 o'clock. Not a hess was swornv and r no further testimony introduced. . The jury rendered thev following verdict i 1 "We, the jury, find that Frank Whisonant and Joe Brinsoh came to their, death at the hands of parties unknpwn to us.4 Con- t.sidef able interest is being mani fested m the case . but others than thgpff icers of theflawi do not seem -to be making any de cided effort ' to get information as to who composed" the crowd that-did the lynching. y y ,' 'J :;Ivi AycockSMemorial -.' . Raleigh, N. C, April 9.-Plans are being- ,: worked out for a , great mass meeting of the people of Raleigh in the Audi toritrin on the ni gh t of April 1 2," th4cate on which form er Gover nor Aycock was. to have deliver- d the speech opening his cam paign for the United States Senate, the meeting to take the form of .a memorial service in honor of the deceased citizen, patriot and statesman.. It. is ex pected that at this time Raleigh will make her subscription to the fund that Is being raised ;by popular subscription to provide status of Aycock in Capital Square. Raleigh has formed an Aycock Monumenff Association, following the example - set by Goldsboro Friday night. Gov. Wilson Robbed; t Chicago, April 7. Thieves ap. Gov. Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey at a dpwntown hotel late today and stole a suitcase 'full of private correspondence arid pap ers belonging to Governor Wil son. v ' . '- The. robbery occurred while Governor Wilson was at the rec tory of St. Mary 's church 'lunch ing with Rev. P. J. O'Callag en and other priests of the Paul ist order, " 1 'he theft was discov ered when Governor Wilson re turned to his hotel, v Just before departing or Syr acuse,, N.' Yi , .tonight Governor Wilson made the following state ment regarding the robbery; " The-robbery will greatly in convenience me. - But " whoever obtained the papers and corres pondence will be greatly disap pointed. While the correspon dence is of a nature which nec essarily should be considered Irivate between the writers and myself, there is nothing but what-may be published without doing me bartn. - : . ! f -A great deal of correspon dence deals with, the campaign I -am waging, as. do the other documents which were stolen LBUY STOCK FOR SPRING NOW Some of : the 'Advantages of Buying June Bred Poultry, at Present Time -Breeder Is Thinning Out.; , '' If you are contemplating starting in the fancy poultry., business next spring ;don't , wait till that , tiine to buy your stock. So many wait till the last mo ment before buying their stqck that it la an annoyance, to themselves as well as.. the breeder to be told that he has no stock for sale. Here are some .of the advantages of -buying une . bred, poultry at the present time: . . 1. The breeder has a larger stock on SaiDdl ifiam he will have in the spring. f : Sf - FT tasr more hirda than ha can vrxmerfr acamimffldate new, and .will ijtMnicuat a sacrifice. . . V . ;i S. As. biusKcs fs dull wtli the poul try fkncfer at tMa time of the year, he la ekjt amxtep&to, seU and will dto letteir: by: jtHZiri .?' :V;; 1? 4L Iff i &e Isrv eompelled to keep . his stock orer till springi. he will add the extraexpenae to; thet bdsr and if eggs for, hatching , are- in demand, he yrill notjseli atiany price. x t - 45; Eh; file spring -tl;pp aret mated upland the careful bied Improved Roads in TfHe : U. S. - Rhode Island, the smallest State in the Union, with "an area of only. 1,250 square miles, ranks first of all the States in its . per centage : of j improved ;( roads: Under tne'directioe of Secre tary Wilsoa, a very ; comp rehen si vestatisticalf investigations of the mileage and cost ; '6f v public, roads in. the United .' States has recently been cympleted by - the Office of Public roads, : ; U. S'. Department of , v Agriculture. r; This document " reveals' many interesting; i 'acts Thus, appar enflyp it is not because of -her, small size teat? Rhode-; Island Us able ts boast pi 49.14per cent of improved roade, ; for r Delaware with ah area of 2,050 - square miles has onls ; 6.22 ' per ; 6ent of improved road. ; On the other hand, : Massachusetts " with " an area' ofS; 31 5 square miles has 49 per cent of her roads imprpved, 6r very nearly the samepercent age as Rhode Island. The size of the State, therefore, seems to have little or no effect on the percentage of improve roads. ; The investigations urther show that there are 2,199,645 miles of public roads . in continental-United States. ' Of , this vast mileage, only 190,47$, or 8.66 per cent, are classed as im proved. . : ' , . .. : As stated above, Rhode Island' leads with 49.14 pea cent of im proved roads r while vMasskchus etts is second with .49 xer . cent. Indiana follows with 6.7 Iper cenV Ohio, -Connecticut, New Jersey, Kentucky, Mermont, and ner cent of improved roads. The states of Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, U t a h, Tennessee, South Carolina, Main and : Miehi-1 gan range in the order given from 16 to 10 per cent. C Alabama; Dele'ware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and Oregon have between 5 and 10 per cent of their roads, improved. Of the twenty-two States with less than 5 per - cent of improved roads, North Dakota stands at the bot tom with only 0. 23 per cent. Secretary Wilson, arid Director Hage, who is in charge of the Office of Publico Roads, are eyer at work on the problems which confront the road builders throughout the land rSespecially those problems which are: most frequently confronted by eom mudities in which road improve ment has made- but little' prog ress. ' . : . . ' ':; ", r A man who does not advertise simply because his' grandfather did., not,, ought to -.' wear, knee breeches and a queue. PLAIN WORDS ON BIG QUES- ' .. . ' :" tions. : Extracts from interview-of Os-- car TV. Underwood, reportiedl in . ' caff correspondence of the " lieyr York World, editorial sec-. tlon. Dec 3, 1911J I r,'-:-- v''.;';': '. ' 5There has" been no attempt on the part "of the. mahufacttrrers to give labor Its share of the bene fits derived! from the tariff. They hare kept all the profits." -. ' v- ;;;-! ,:-t-: - "To protect profits is to protect inefficiency and ' to v strangulate -! rather than to develop industry." v ' "T prefer ttf lower the tariff wall by taking bricks off the top . of the wall rather than by dyna- ' . raiting' the structure" at the boK ' torn." .-. . ' r i:' y The people have lost faith In' i he Republican party ; because t'. lias not kept .faith with them."" A J- . :Vr--'n:.-.'-- , j'If it (the Sherman- act)" is en- forcedl as a criminal statute it, is an efiicientu instrument, for, pre; venting and punishing monopoly;..' ! and restraint pi. iraoe. ; , -"tr""--'- iiH" lip j jpl h FOWLS FOR EGG PRODUCTION Good, Strong, Vigorous Birds Are Re- quired and Should. Not Lay Many' i"-';'V; fv:.f-? Eggs in- .Pullet Year. :-'tv. ' Good strong vigorous birdakre, elr sential ; for egg-production. "The slm-: ? ? plevfaot that a hen, has laid, 200 :or . ; more eggs in hen Pnet year Js, not sufficient' ta .warrant rher : being.used as- a breeder. I have seen a number.. . -i . .... 200-eg hens, -with - long,, narror . : VI. Single Comb White- Leghorn.' ;.' . :- u -: .. . . . ' , - ,k. heads and sunken eyevvhich Indicate low vitality, and, moreover, have tested a number t of them as, breeders, and have ' yet to see one that was; worths while breeding from, judging from tbe performance and living pdwerl of her offspring, 'ays a writer - in an . exr , Change. ;-''-j";.v. ,v A hea used for breeding, especially : for' the producer of males to head the" breeding pens- the next season, should ; - not only "be, expected' (to layv, a. large f number of eggs per year,', but these; eggs should be high in hatching power Of and the chicks, should live, and, furth- '- ,' ermore, they should develop into good-' 'y- sized birds ; quickly . and. the . pullets . ' -well.. Perhaps it-might be " C - :iw here tnetbodhIr?.- used by us" in breeding from selected. ' layers. ;'. .s-;i: ' l't-C The nen Is required to be ' a good winter layer and ,to lay at; least" 150- r; ; eggs in her pullet year. The next re- . ; quirement is; that her eggs hatch '..'welt- r : ,r , : that is, It" is expected that over 80 per cent,", of . the eggs win be lertne and 90 per cent, of the fertlle eggs will hatch. It is then required that 90 per eent. of the chicks will live; to fiver months of age and that the cockrels at' this age be well developed and - weigh . ijt from general purpose breeds at least six pounds each, and; finally that the pullets be good layers. ' If the jpuK lets lay "well during the fall, " then I consider, holding their " brothers , ' a breeders. We try as far ' as possible?: to test' the males ajong similar lines,, as to producers' of plenty of strongs pullets and lay welL Tnere 'lfl prob--ably as much difference between maleaL' as there is between females.'-- '; HANDY RACK FOR WATER PAlfc One Shown In Illustration WIir Found of Great Convenience In l:rr,-:. tne Poultr.Yard. v As seen in the illustration herewith l a handy rack for a water -pall may he' made out-of a few odd pieces of :: lumber and nailed with . a brace - bei Water Palf Rack ' neitth to the wall. ; It wili beV fo'unt : very convenient' In the poultry - yardf or elsewhere.' rA hook in the wall : tc: hold the handle may be needed wherof the, fowls are likely -to "upset the paiL j : Big Trade In Frozen Mat ' ' '"'i.-.f v.',- i' r Argentina supplies 90 per cent .Of '- I the; frozen ; beef -and frozen - mutton fJ .1 consumed Jn Shefileld,'; England.. Aus ; ' . I, traliar and tNew Zealand provide, the i :.' :--.; remainderi Its use is constantly in; I V- creasing. Frozen meat Is"neyer sawed :rvy'o . f butit chopped ; with. a cleaver. ;'Tli jSSz retailers N receive ; the V meat -ln- quar- , v 4 T ters;: which they . chop into anguiai1" l . ' blocks, from' which' the quantities de ;:':. :',) -l 'sired by customers' are cut, - These.'--.. . ' -'-'V-. blocks afford "material for fine window; " - , ; ;. ; displays, and the . winddws. of frozen v .. ' : ; ! - wljtii - '"iall ."isZi6efi.''aiii4' 'chapes of solid. reti-; - ! . " '' ? Vv-r;. if: i :'. ..Villi ' ,.;n- ; ...... Ky y -V-v r . break up nis..j2iatxag.s. ( . ;
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