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The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09
Feeding MILK Cows.

Milk contains water, fat, protein
(casen and curd), sugar and ash, and
these are all made from the constitu-
ents of the food. If sufficient protein,
fat and carbohydrates are not con-
tanned in the food given her, the COW
supplies this deficiency for d time by
drawing on her own body, and gradu-
ally begins to shrink in quantity and
quality Of milk, or both. The stingy
feeder cheats himself as well as the
COW. She may suffer from hunger.
although she Is full of swale and hay,
but she also becomes poor and does
not yield the milk and butter she
should. Her milk glands are wond-
erful machine, but they cannot make
milk casein (curd) out OF the eonstitu-
ents in coarse, unappetizing, indiges-
tible swale hay or sawdust any more
than the farmer himself can make but
ter from skim milk She must not
only have generous supply of good
food, but 1t must contain sufficient
amounts of the nutrients needed for
making milk. Until this fact is un-
derstood and appreciated, successful,
profitable dairylng is out Of the ques-
tion. Many forcible illustrations Of Its
truthfulness have been furnished by
the agricultural experiment stations
II. b. Speed.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09

did not visit public institutions, as in
these the officials of the establishments
were required to collect information
concerning the inmates Special expert
agents were employed to gather data
relating to manufacturing and mechan-
ical industries. City enumerators were
given two weeks in which to make
their rounds. Those in the country
were given longer time. When emu
merators had finished their work they
delivered their portfolios to the dis
trict supervisors, who in turn sent them
to the central office at Washington,
where a clerical force of 5000, helped
by the automatic punching machine and
the electric tabulatlng machine, pre-
pared copy for the printing press.
The four principal reports on popu
lation, agriculture, manufacturing and
vital statistics, when completed, filled
ten quarto volumes, 10000 pages Of
printed matter. With the special re
ports, which appeared LATER they sus-
tanned the claim that In this matter
of census taking the United States
leads in scope of inquiry, combination
of facts and cost incurred.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09
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EATING TOO MUCH.
Overnutrition Is just as Harmful a.
| MalnutritiOn.

Overnutrition Is just as Harmful a.
Malnutrition.
1t is an acknowledged fact that al
most every soul of us eats too much.
The digestive organs are constantly
oyertrained and finally weakened.
When wisely followed, the practice of
fasting can be most beneficial. An ex-
pert on the food question has said that
one should rise. from the table with
the feeling Of hunger, which is-ag ex.
perience knoTn to very few OF us. On
the contrary, thes majority .of people
leave the board with sense OF burden
which only an hours siesta can allie.
yiate. This is not so much owing to
the fact that the food is uncommonlv
rich, for the rule Of the simple life OBJ
tains now In the fashionable cnisina.
but 1t is the quantity taken. There is
large community at the present mo.
ment which fasts from breakfast time
till dinner at night. 1t Is a question
If 1t Is wise to leave the stomach
entirely without food during all those
hours, but there is no question that the
lighter the lunch taken the better viii
be the health of the Individual. By
light lunch In this instance is meant
what most people would not call
lunch at all-that is to say, few
crackers with cheese Ga much maligned
article of dietl, few nuts and bit of
fruit or cup of cocoa with dry toast.
Such feast" prevents the craving for
food and In no way taxes the digestive
organs. Overnutrition is Just as harm
full as malnutrition and Is far more
frequently the cause of maladies.
With judicious fasting the system re-
covers its lost tone, and mental work.
ers would find that the brain worked
with surprising lightness, for the brain
is one Of the chief sufferers from over
eating.-New Work American.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09
Quarter Crack.

This is one of the most serious trou.
bles with which we have to contend In
our dry climate, When crack ap-
pears It is difficult matter to bring
down the new growth of sound hoot
without firing aud blistering. so that
prevention is all important There Is
no need to cut out the sole or open
the heels, MS 1t is called The frog
and heels should be left absolutely
alone and they cannot be too we'll de
veloped, The sole will take care OF
itself, for nature exfoliates dead horn
as required Keep the wall rounded
at the ground surface, the toe short
and the frog prominent, and with few
exceptions horses win come through all
right.-Field and Farm.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09
Perpetual Youth.

The elixir of youth lies In the mind
or nowhere. You cannot be young by
trying to appear so, by dressing youth
fully You must first get rid of the
last vestige of thought, of belief. that
yon are aging. As long as that is in
mind, cosmetics and youthful dress will
amount to very little in changing your
appearance. The conviction must first
be changed; the thought which has pro-
duced the aging condition must be rc,
versed
Ii we can only establish the perpet-
uai youth mental attitude, so that we
feel young, we have won half the bat
tie against old age. Re sure of this (.
that whatever you feel regarding your
age will be expressed in you. body.
1t Is great aid to the p9rpetua tion
OF youth to learn to feel young, how.
ever long we may have lived, because
the body expresses habitual feeling.
habitual thought. Nothing In the world
will make us look young as long as
we are convinced that we are aging
Nothing else more effectually retards
age than keeping In mind the bright
cheerful optimistic, hopeful, buoyant
picture of youth In all its splendor,
magnificence; the alluring picture of
th glories which belong to youth
youthful dreams. ideals. homes and oil
the qualities which belong to young
life.
One great trouble with us is that
our imaginations age prematurely. The
hard, exaetlng conditions of our mod
ern, strenuous life tend to harden and
dry up the brain and nerve cells, and
thus seriously injure the power of the
imagination, which snoufd be kept
fl eSh. buoyant, elastic -Orison SWEET
Marden, In Success Magazine
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09

When the trainers of the constitution
decided that population should be the
basis of representation, In the lower
house of Congress, provision for a sys-
tematic national enumeration of the
people of the country became a neces-
sity. The constitution ordered that this
enumeration should be made within
three years after the first meeting OF
the first Congress and within every sub.
sequent term of ten years, in such
manner as Congress should direct. Po-
litical necessity thus forced upon the
new republic the first national census
Of modern times.
Among the ancient peoples 1t is re-
corded that Moses numbered the tribes
In the wilderness and that Satan pro
yoked David to number Israel. The
word Census" comes from Rome.
where, long before the Christian era,
citizens and their property were regis
tered for the purposes of taxation. In
England, William the Conqueror, to
make more certain the collection of his
revenues, ordered great survey of his
new kingdom, the results of which were
embodied in the "Domesday Book" But
the census Of the United States,
taken In 1870, was the first of mod
ern times. The results Of the enumera-
tion were transmitted to Congress by
President Washingtt a Oct. q, 1871, in
A small report containing flfty-six print
ed pages. 1t showed a population of
3929,2l4. 1t cost the government $44,-
877 to learn that, with one representa-
tive for every $4,000 people, its lower
house would be composed of 105 legis-
latOrs.
AS early as 1910 an attempt to In
clude in the census information per
tanning to the manufactures of the
country was made, though it met with
little success The act of 1850. which
gave the census work to the newly
created Department Of the Interior and
a census board composed of the Secre-
tary of State, Attorney General and
Postmaster General, Increased the sub |
jects of Inquiry to include mines, man
ufactures and agriculture.
With each succeeding decade, writes
Il. B. Chamberlain in the Chicago Rec
Drd-Herald, the scope Of inquiry was
until the mass of information
gathered became too large to handle
md was out Of date before it became
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09

Exact information Is not one of Mo-
rocco's exports. That is no land OF
facts and figures. 1t Is country OF
traditions and superstitions on the one
hand; of dreams and rainbows, on the
other.
Language In Tangier forms curious
study, not because so many tongues
are heard, but because SO many Of the
half dozen that are spoken are used
by the same people. The mastery of
Arabic is life study, but vocabu-
larry Of few hundred words is ade-
quate for discussion with the natives.
When one is q loss 10 express himself,
he need only fill in the gap, 1t is said,
by "Allah is the greatest" "Allah, con.
found the Christians" or some such
pious phrase, the use OF which makes
his conversation more, rather than less,
acceptable
II Is worth While TO say word
about the system of surveillance under
which visitor in Mrgler lives, Theo-
retically he Is the freest creature Inn
aginable, but actually We is a marked
man the minute he Is spotted ON the
deck Of an arriving boat and there
after no Central Office shadpwlng could
be more effective. more bathing BY Il
system of wireless telegraply among
them, your comings and golngs are fol-
lowed, and you soon discover that Il
small army Of Moors knows where you
are from, what you are there for, how
long YOU expect to stay, ana more
about your life habits and affairs than
some of your most intimate friends at
home.
one is constantly running across
oddities that Illustrate the Oriental
character OF Morocco. Take the steam.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09
NaR0ccQ AzlND ~ 9
6A RzV80Nss-

boat service between Tangier and
Gibraltar as an instance. 1t sounds
the height of progress when you hear
that there are three companies, each
with three sailings a week, but upon
further Inquiry you discover that the
boats of all three go on the same three
days and at the same hour.
Morocco is country of many Sab
baths. Friday is tie Mohammedan
Sabbath, followed by the Jewish Sab.
bath--the Hebrew element In Tangier
is considerable. and strict in religious
observance Then comes the Christian
Sunday. Subsequent comparison, how
ever, revealed little difference between
any days of the week On the Mohanl-
medan Sabbath a black flag Is hoisted
ON the .minarats at the prayer Of dawn,
instead of the white flag that an
nounces the time of devotion on other
days. 1t remains up until the middle
of the forenoon, BY which time every
body is supposed to have found out
what day it Is.
When you (Allah lengthen thine
age.) 80 to Morocco, you will hear
about some of the men you've read Of
in a way that viii upset previous
ideas. There is Raisulu, for instance,
whom Americans remember as captur-
ing Ion Perdicaris, and who more re
Gently held for six months Sir Harry
Maclean. an Englishman and drillmas-
ter of the Sultan's army.
A bold, bad grigand-that's how Raj
sull is painted abroad. At Tangier, on
the contrary, he is rated as patriot
whom the Sultan misused when he de.
posed him from the goyernorship OF
the surrounding province. In any event,
1t is true. at least, that he cares moth
Ing for money, but only seeks to regain
his position. Such ransoms as he nus
secured have been distributed among
his followers. ii Is said. and as yet the
100000 given up for the release of
Maelean lies to Raisuli's credit I'M
touched IN the State Bank at Tangier.
Looked at in the large. Morocco is a
wonderful country. still largely un-
kao,yn AT this time of war and fer
ment II Is possible only to skim the
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09
Profit from Poultry.


Poultrymen estimate that it costs l
cent apiece to produce an egg. The
estimate is based on the fact that the
hen lays 120 eggs in the year. In other
words, where the fowls are confined to
runs, and the feed must be purchased,
1t costs 10 cents a month or $1.20 a
year to maintain a hen. If the hen is
an Indifferent layer and gives but sixty
eggs in year, her eggs cost the poul-
tryman 2 cents each.
An experiment conducted by the Cor
nell experiment station in 1902 showed
that the average cost Of feed for a
dozen eggs was % cents, or about u
of cent an egg, The cost for each
hen for the year was 90.G cents. At
that time wheat was sold at $l.45 a
hundred pounds, while at the present
time 1t is 81; bran sold at $1.35 hum
dred pounds and it Is now $3.50; and
meat scraps cost $2.l5 a hundred
pounds and now we pay $40. SO at
the present increased price Of feed,
the cost Of feeding the hen is easily
20 cents year more than it was in
1902.
TO make poultry profitable on the
farm 1t is necessary to breed for bet
ter laying. This is done by installing
trap nests In the henhouses, and each
year picking out the best layers and
breeding only from such. The farmer
must grade up his stock. He must
get rid of the mongrel birds; he must
drive out the drones, and must encour-
age the workers. The farm must pro-
duce better poultry and more of it.
There are advantages on the farm
for poultry raising that the poultry
man does not have, and If the latter,
In many ways handicapped, can maize
poultry keeping a successful business,
the farmer should at least make the
work a valuable adjunct to his in
come. Properly managed poultry can
be made the most profitable crop on
the farm-investment, expense and
labor considered.
1t Is argued by some farmers that
their hens cost them practically moth
Ing, as they have free range and can
gather all the food they need. There
is some truth in that, and there also
is some truth in the fact that farm
ers' hocks seldom yield profit COM
pared with stock in the hands of reg
ular poultryman.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09
snItInE Down Meat.

Curing meat for future consumption
is one of the annual jobs on the farm.
In some sections OF the country, says
the Journal of Agriculture, the prob
lem of sailing down meat is a serious
one because of the heat. In sections
of the South there are winters when
there Is very little cold weather and
1t is not until late that hogs may be
slaughtered, Here is recipe which Is
said to be a good one: For 1000
pounds of meat take ten quarts of salt
peter, pound of pepper and pounds
of yellow sugar. Mix well, put In n
tub or some suitable vessel, and then
apply the mixture well to the meat.
This Is said to be the most success.
full method of sailing meat there is,
both from standpoint of purity and
flavor.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09
Preserving MIX

A German patent specification de-
scribes process for preserving milk
by removing all dissolved oxygen by
means of the addition of a small guam
tity of ferrous carbonate. The process
Ia based on the fact that freshly-pre-
cipitated ferrous carbonate In the pres
ence OF oxygen Immediately assimllates
oxygen and evolves an equivalent
quantity OF carbon dioxide One part
Of ferrous carbonate is sufficient for
10000 parts milk, and the properties
of the milk are not altered In any way
by the addition, which should be made
before the milk is boiled.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09

Tie twelfth census was taken under
the act Of March 3, 1899, under which
the director of the census, w. r. Mer-
riam, was given entire control of the
work When he took charge Of the
work all that he inherited from the
eleventh census was typewriter,
horse, wagon, cart and some scat
tered papers and records. His was the
first census staff to be given building
of its own. His pleadings for the pres
ervation Of the plant which his work
necessitated undoubtedly helped the
passage Of the act of 1902, establishing
the census bureau as permanent part
Of the governmental organization. A
later act, approved Feb. /, 1908, trans
ferred the census office from the De-
paftment of the Interior to the Depart
lnent of Commerce and Labor. July /,
1908, by order of the secretary of the
latter department, the name Bureau
OF the Census was adopted.
The bureau of the census is charged
with the duty Of taking the decennial
censuses, of collecting such special sta
tistics as Congress requires, including
the collection In 1906 Of the statistics
of manufacturing establishments con-
Quoted under the factory system, and
the annual collection of birth and death
statistics, statistics of cotton production
and cotton consumption, and statistics
Of cities of 10000 or more inhabitants.
Great Britain and France were the
first European countries to follow the
example of the United States. Each
took Its first census in 1901. In many
of the European countries they have
a one-day enumeration. In Great Brit
ain and Wales schedules are left in
each house Saturday evening and are
called for Monday morning. The coun-
try is divided into permanent districts
for the purpose of registering births
and deaths and the registrar general IL
the census superintendent. In Ireland
the royal Irish constabulary and the
Dublin metropolitan police are the
agents for distributing and collecting
the schedules. In Germany the count
covers the period between sunrise and
sunset and the police are utilized as
In Ireland. In Russia the count be-
gins at midnight. The British govern
ment makes provision for the cost of
the census taking, but in France and
other European countries the expense
is borne by the municipality.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09
work Hours of Farmer..

Professor Boss, of the Minnesota
Agricultural College, says that statls-
ties OF the actual hours of labor ON the
farms investigated show that farmers
work nine hours day In summer and
between four and five In winter, Pro-
fessor Bailey, of the Farm Life Com.
mission, tells the story Of the school.
ma'am working from to 4 until she
married farmer and had to work
from to 8. Moral, schooma ans
make good wives for farmers.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09

edges. The interior, with the civiliza-
'tions of Fee and Marrakesh, the life
of the mountains and plains, 1t is i'm
possible for the dog of Christian"
to see. Some day, perhaps, he may re
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09
A balanced Ration,

Corn and clover pasture forms a
nearly balanced ration, and there will
be little danger of injuring the breed,
Ing qualities of the pigs II they are
allowed plenty OF corn and the run Of
q good clover pasture,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09
Fond Hopes.

Williams You must expect to work
II you are going to be elected to public
office.
Walters-0h, yes, expect to work
to get elected. But after that won't
have to do much of anything. Somer.
vile Journal
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09

Panels are 10 feet long, made of l.
inch board solidly nailed together
After this fence is once put up, sheep
are not likely to oyerturn it. A fence
3la feet high win turn most floeks-
Farm and Home.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09
what She Loved.

He If You don't love me. and if you
will not listen to me, why do you al,
ways take my boxes of chocolates?
She-I love chocolates. Meggendor.
fer Blaetter.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09

One of the best portable fences for
use in soiling sheep is made In panels
with supports, as shown In the sketch
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09

Lady-You look robust. Are you
equal to the task of saving wood?
Tramp Equal isn't the word. mum.
I'm superior to It. Good mernin'.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-04-09

Some people believe a party is not
success unless the guests make great
deal of noise.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-10

And this is not prophecy that jeff
will be whipped. 1t is simply an OK
preston of individual opinion TO the
effect that Johnson is not d Weakling
physically compared with the Jeff of
the present day.
The Johnson Jeffries affair seems to
have aWed all other boxers into
condition of inactivity. Usually No
vember is a month of big matches in
the various fight centers, but the pres
ent November doesn't seem destined to
be marked in red letters on the Queens
berry calendar.
Stanley Ketchel, who is depressed
over the death of his able adviser, Will
lis Britt. hasn't the heart to talk fight
to any one at present, SO that aspiring
middleweights may challenge him
without fear of reprisal. But Nelson
has honestly avowed that he doesn't
care for ring work until he finds him
self in better condition, and Abe At
tell and a few of the smaller fry in
the championship class are not talk
ing fight so that they can be heard.
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-10

On Friday afternoon of this week
the Whitman varsity football team
will meet the strong team from Whit
worth College of Tactoma on Ankeny
field This will be the last inter
collegiate game which Whitman will
play this season with the exception OF
the game with Washington State col
lege in this city on Thanksgiving day
Whitworth is known to have one OF
the strongest teams in her history
Not being a member of the big SIX
conference the Tacoma college does
not have to live up to any conference
rules. and therefore is able to play
many athletes who under conference
rulings would be declared Ineligible.
Whitworth has played only one
game so far this season and that was
a game with the University of Puget
Sound in which Whitworth won easily
by the score of 33 to 0.
WhitWorth had a game scheduled
with the University of Washington but
a dav or so before the game was to
have been played. the University call
ed off the game unless Whitwortn
should play only men eligible under
conference rulings. This WhitWortn
refused to do. 1t has been strongly
rumored among sporting circles in the
Northwest that the reason why Coacn
Dobie did not wish to meet Whtworth
The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-10
Whitman and WhitWOrth
Clash Here On Fr1dQu

was because he realized their strength
and was afraid he would have to I'M
cover his best plays in order to win
the game This he did not care to do
on account of the approaching game
with the University of Idaho.
All the conference colleges with the
exception of Whitman have refused to
meet Whitworth. Believing that the
football fans of Walla Walla would be
glad to see the game played in Walla
Walla the contest was scheduled by
Manager Lloyd Hawley of the Whit
man team.
Since the return from Seattle the
Whitman players have been put
through some hard signal work by
Coach Blanchard Last night the line
men were grouped by themselves and
the coach took the bacl. field and the
ends and gave them the hardest prac-
tice which they have had this year.
The Whitman men are still a little
bruised and sore from the Washing
ton game, Lewis is still troubled with
a bad hip, Belt is nursing a sore back.
while Morrow has the shoulder which
he injured in the O. A. c.. game again
put out of commission at Seattle.
These injuries while painful are not
serious and will hardly prevent the
ment from getting into the game Fri
day