The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1908-10-16

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| Roadside weeds are not only an eye
| sore to the passerby, but if left uncut
through the winter are likely to prove
prolific source of drifts and chucky
roads. If the weeds have not been cut
between July Is and Aug. 15, as is re-
uuired by law in number Of states,
they should at least be cut for the
above reason before snow flies.
A whole lot of dismal marital fail
ures seem to be traceable to an over
looking of the fact that something be-
sides chairs, tables, pictures and rugs
are necessary in the building of a
home. 1t is the folks rather than the
furniture that are the determining
factors. Where they are white and
considerate happiness is pretty likely
to reside
The notion is pretty well outgrown
that a frost works any real good to a
field of immature corn in the matter
of helping to ripen it. A heavy or
killing frost means death to the leaves
and hence death to the stalks. Fol-
lowing this, the juices in the stalk
turn sour and thus render little or no
assistance to the ears in the CONVEX
sion of the starch which they contain.
The parent who has the real welfare
of son or daughter at heart will take
pains to see that there is as little in
terruption as possible in the school
work at the beginning of the year.
While keeping the pupil from school on
almost any pretext should be discour-
aged at all times, it is especially i'm
perative that the work of the first few
weeks after vacation should be prose-
cuted with the least possible Interrupt
ton.
Every ear of corn intended for next
years seed should be gathered and
hung in a well ventilated place to dry
by Oct. Is. If you are dilatory in this
matter and wait until Nov. 20 before
to this most important bust
ness, you needn't lay it off on the Lord
next spring if the seed you have saved
doesn't terminate Good horse sense
and Providence go hand in hand in
good many instances, but in none more
than in the matter of q selecting and
saving of seed corn.
A number of town boys we know
have this year spent the major part Of
their summer vacation working on
nearby farms and have as a result Of
their industry earned from $40 to $40
apiece. In addition to this financial
gain they have acquired a knowledge
Of different kinds of farm work which
is both practical and useful and will
come in handy at some future time.
When these same boys attended the
county or state fair they had the sat
isfaction Of knowing that they had
earned a vacation as well as that the
money they spent was their own.
Having spent the summer thus, these
boys are in a mood to take up their
school work with interest and zest and
will get much more good out of it.
Figures given us recently by the rep
of a leading lightning rod
manufacturing company show that a
barn 40 by so feet and so feet high at
the gable can be equipped with three
effective rods and the wires necessary
to ground them properly for $41.50.
the fact that the insur-
ance rate on farm buildings thus pro-
tected is considerably less than on
those not protected and in view of the
large number of barns which are burn
ed to the ground every year, with their
contents of hay, grain and live stock,
protection of property at the above cost
would not seem to be matter Of ex-
but one of good business
judgment. 1t goes without saying that
to be worth anything the job Of rod
ding building should be carefully and
done, but when it is so
done there is as nearly complete pro-
lection from loss by lightning as can
we'll be-
A Chicago health physician u short
time ago issued a bulletin in which
he warned the people of the city
against the danger of the spread of
scarlet and typhoid fever, diphtheria,
and other contagious dis
eases by means Of the common house
fly He recommends as an effective
method of exterminating this omni-
present pest plan discovered by Dr.
Delamare. a French army surgeon,
who has found that if one part Of
formcl (also known as formalin or
is mixed with nine parts
Of water and put on plates which are
to be set wherever the flies are likely
to congregate they can easily be ex-
terminated. The insects seem to be
attracted by the mixture as if it were
sugar. Even the emanations of the
mixture are deadly to them. In one
large room in which the doctor tried
this method the number of flies killed
averaged 1000 day.
Following a prOtracted dry spell
which has been characterized quite
generally the country over with nu-
merous forest fires and parched pas
lures. there will be tendency to stuff
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