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The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
DESTROYING MITES.
Do Not Let These Robbers of the
 Poultry Get the Start of You.

Mites in the poultry house are a great menace to profitable poultry raising. They do not go well with sue cessful results in this branch of farm ing. Getting rid of them, however, is more easily said than done The Mich igan experiment station says the best way is as follows:
 Clean coops perfectly, then apply thoroughly whitewash, or some other of the prepared insecticides. Be sure to fill the cracks and crevices, as these are the hiding places where mites will be found hiding during the day. Burn all the litter and add new. A spray pump may be used for applying the in secticide, as it drives the liquid into the cracks and crevices better than can be done with a brush. White wash can be applied with a brush, doing rapid and effective work Mites differ from the body lice in that they suck the blood from the fowls body, while lice have biting mouth parts and live on the skin and feathers, causing intense itching and annoyance. Mites live on the fowls body at night only, hiding in the cracks and crevices dur ing the day. They appear red when gorged with blood in their bodies.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
FLOCK MATING.
It Perhaps Is Good Method Under
 Certain Conditions.

Many breeders of pure bred poultry have eggs for sale from specially ma ted pens, and from yards where they practice flock mating, or where num- Der of hens are running with several males. Flock mating is all right, where the males are of good quality, if an egg machine or a carcass only is re- quired, but flock mating will rot as a rule produce fancy specimens for the show room. Flock mating on free range will give more fertile eggs than can come from hens confined to q small yard. In mating in this way, however, it is best to choose males as nearly uniform as possible; full brothers are best. Breeders frequently alternate males in a pen to secure best fertility, and we have heard it claimed that where the males are as nearly alike in shape, size. and color ing as possible, and carry the same blood lines, that better show bird is produced than is the product of the single mating with enc male We question this latter statement, yet we would rather run males alternately with the females than at the same time. The interfering attention of various males is sometimes a distinct drawback to fertility.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26

the ex-president's second son, Kermit who will be the official photographer of the expedition and, next to his father, the chief hunter.
 To Momhass Via Naples.
 MT. Roosevelt will go via Gibraltar to Naples, where he will board a steamer of the German East African line for Kilindini harbor, the port of Mombasa. At the latter place the party will be joined by R. J. Gun ninghame, an Englishman of long ex- perience in Africa, who has been en- gagged as general manager and guide.
 The party will spend a short time in Mombasa and then proceed by train on the Uganda railway to Nairobi. headquarters of the administration of British East Africa Protectorate, city of 13,514 inhabitants, of whom 579 are Europeans.
 On MacMilan's Ranch.
 William Northrup MacMillan, for formerly of St. Louis, owns a large estate near Nairobi and his big, lux urious farmhouse will be headquarters for about six months while the hunt CTS and scientists make trips of vary ing length in all directions. It is in this section that Mr Roosevelt hopes to obtain most of his specimens, for it abounds with animals of all kinds. The smaller mammals will be trapped.
 The supplies of the party are packed in tin-lined boxes. These boxes when they have been emptied will be used as packing cases for the various speci- mems. Many valuable natural history specimens have been spoiled by ants and other insects, it has been found from experience on other expeditions, and it is to guard against this that the tin-lined boxes are being taken along.
 Caring for Specimens.
 When the specimens have been pre- pared they will be carefully packed in the boxes and shipped to Nairobi, where they will be forwarded to the United States. One Of the taxider- mists will always be with MT. Roose- welt, and as soon as any big game is shot by him it will be skinned and prepared on the spot.
 Mir Roosevelt will be greatly dir- appointed if he fails to kill several specimens of the white rhinoceros. This animal is the same as the square mouthed-rhinoceros and is the nearest
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26

living ally to the type of the extinct Tichorine CT woolly rhincceros which lived in England at the close of the Glacial period.
 Jo, rney Acrces Uganda.
 Leaving Nairobi in October, the party vii proceed by the Uganda railway t9 Port Florence, on the shores of Lake Victoria NyanZa. where a short top will be made; then steamer will be taken to Entebbe, 150 miles away. There a caravan will be formed and the journey across Uganda t) the Nile will be begun. It is expected that the White Nile will be reached about the first of the year 1910. Lake Albert Nyanza will be touched lt Kibira.
 h a general way the course of the Nile will be followed to Gondokoro, and thence to Khartoum. At this city MT. Roo eve1t and Kermit will be joined by Mrs. Roosevelt and they will continue down the Nile slowly to Cairo, visiting many points of interest on the wGy.
 
 Plans for the remainder of the ex. presidents two years tour have not been deciied upon definitely, but the time will be spent in Europe, and sev eral matters of importance have been announced. He will visit Berlin at the invitation of Emperor William and while there will deliver an address upon the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the University of Berlin.
 From Germany he will go to France and deliver an address at the Sor- bonne. It has not been learned how long MT. Roosevelt intends to stay in Berlin and Paris. After his visit in France, Nr. Roosevelt will go to Eng land, where a reception of great warmth undoubtedly will be accorded
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
NEW YORK STATE PRISONERS
 CONSTRUCT OWN DUNGEONS.
By Act of Legislature the Men in Stripes Are Ordered to Provide New and Larger Prison
 for Their Future Use.

When the New York legislature passed bill authorizing the employ ment of the state prisoners in the con struction of a new prison, a new de- parture was made in the employment of convicts. The provisions of the bill provide that the site of the new pris- on should be cleared, leveled, the eel lar dug, and the rough foundation walls built by convicts from old Sing Sing. Theoretically, this looks like good economy, so good that it is pos sible that when the legislature passes the bill for the erection of the prison itself the same provision may be in- cluded and the work done by convicts.
 The commission appointed to find a site for the new Sing Sing purchased 800 acres in the heart of the High lands of the Hudson. The prison it. self will be situated on a hilltop just to the westward of the state road. Just back of this hill. and included within the states purchase, is Bear mountain, whose scraggy and precipi- tous sides rise to height of 1 1,500 feet This eXpanse of apparently waste land was secured so that the state would control the watershed of Hessian lake. This lake is also on state property, and will supply water for the prison.
 Except where the Hudson cuts the mountains and opens a narrow vista to the north and to the south, nothing can be seen but mountains apparently tumbled down haphazard by the orig inal landscape architect.
 The site, however, was not pur- chased on account of its scenic beauty An unexcelled supply of pure water were the persuasive reasons.
 It was last July that Warden Frost began work on the new prison. Con- vict labor at Sing Sing is an old story; but hitherto it had all been done with in the high and well-guarded stone wall that surrounds the prison; to take a gang of convicts cut into ap open piece of mountain woodland was an entirely different story.
 Warden Frost selected about 70 con victs on the sleeves of whose gray prison uniforms were white stripes. each stripe denoting a years impris- onment with good behavior It is these men of the white sleeve stripes who make up the prison "trusties.''
 The convict population of the new camp numbers about S0 the keepers are seven.
 This is the order of the day:
 Up at a. m.
 Breakfast, 7:30.
 Called to fall in at s.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
GARDEN NOTES.
tainted.

The old orchard could be cared for so it would at least furnish an abun- dant supply of fruit for the family.
 Strawberries nearly always find a good market, so why not have some yourself this coming season?
 The nurse crops that may be used for grasses are various. They include all, or nearly all the small cereal grains; in some instances rape, and in others grains grown in mixtures for soiling food
 Dishonesty is a boomerang. It al ways comes back at the man who practices it.
 Clover seed is cheap this spring, compared with the price of everything else. This should encourage folks who have been farming land to corn too long to SOW more clover
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26

to him. He has accepted an invitation to deliver the Romanes lecture at OK ford university and in all probability the honorary degree of D. c. L., which Oxford has bestowed on Emperor Will fam, will be conferred on Mir Roose- welt.
 The versatility of MT. Roosevelt will be shown by the fact that he will speak German in his address before the students of the University of Der lin, French in his lecture at the Sor- bonne, and English in delivering the Romanes lecture at Oxford.
 Pays His Own Expenses.
 MT. Roosevelt will defray the ex- penses Of himself and his son On the African trip, but those of the scien- lists and the cost of preparing the specimens and shipping them to Amer ica will be paid out of fund secured for the purpose by the Smithsonian institution.
 One of the objects of MT. Roosevelt in taking this trip is for the purpose of collecting material for writing sev- eral books regarding his experiences. During last summer he contracted with Charles Scribners Sons, of New York. giving that firm all the rights for the serial and book-form publication of whatever he might write on his visit to Africa. It is said that the contract price agreed upon is S1 per word, but this never has been verified.
 No Slaughter of Animals.
 Even if the British colonial govern ment should offer to throw open to MT Roosevelt and his companions the Af- rican game preserves under it's con trol, the eX-president will refuse to take advantage of this opportunity. Like other true sportsmen, he believes that the utmost protection should be given to wild animals on reservations and that permission to kill them should not be given or accepted under any circumstances unless, possibly, when predatory animals are becoming too numerous.
 Moreover, the killing of animals for sport is not the main object of his trip. Mir Roosevelt hopes to send back "a the Smithsonian institution two adult specimens, one of each sex, and a specimen of their young, of animals he meets with on the Dark Continent, Beyond this the killing will be linn. ited to the demands of the eommis sary.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
LONDON'S PAUPERS'

live permanently in this great
 for the poor, have extra accoma ton in the form of special locker, E K. their scanty belongings. No sSa
 Ill separate part of the bund1ne{l are several rows of wash roomsf3 where, also free of charge, plenty oP hot water is provided. as well asf cilities for washing clothes in enameler tubs. Special drying arrangements ar. also on hand, and it does not take ar expert "dosser" long to do his week. washing which, as rule, seldom ' cludes more than one or tV pieces of underclothing. Anv-r having his boots in a bad fix
 clothes tattered and tGrn, Is es ample supply of material an
 ances with which to make the sary repairs.
 So comfortable and commodious i. this ''tramps' palace" that quite number of persons who are not tramps at all have taken up their abode with in it's precincts. Not few bachelo, clerks, making fair salaries, prefer to live here. They are near theil busi- ness and can get all the house room they require on 70 cents per week.
 This institution is under private control. It has proved such a success from financial point of view that the London county council has within recent years erected several similar hotels.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
ATTENUATION.

)" said the spruce bachelor, } to seek your hand!" l." returned the upright but widow, although you ap- erous, energetic, and open Jar that you are an unrelia- t among your -fellow-men." " hy be so."
 IT,, although you seem of temperament now, that |: moment you are sunshine hess, the next you are
 nd gloominess itself!"
 4ome truth in that"
 the most of your prom
 hold water; that your con- uSas variable as the barom-
 ], they tell me that you
 sistent and as changeable oY Yer!"
 al me time, madam, I'm in 9 Pf the government, at a
 O0."
 aps I was a little harsh oui but, before I shall give le sr, is there nothing more ,liDI in extenuaticn of the ii. 10 acquired?"
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
PLACE WHERE THEY CAN FIND
 COMFORT AND WELCOME.
Great Institution Where One Thou sand Down and Outs" Find
 Lodging for Ten Gents

London's biggest lodging house has been dubbed "Paupers' Paradise" It is the largest institution of its kind in the world. The English metropolis has the reputation of doing more for it's poor than any other place on earth. Alien "hard-ups" from all over Flu rope flock to London for the reason that even the English workhouse is better than many of their squalid homes in their native lands
 The particular poor mans Elysium here referred to is situated near to London bridge, not five minutes walk from the Bank of England. Though there are many common lodging houses in London, and the palatial mansions put up by Lord Rowton have earned an international reputation for themselves, the great institution here described offers advantages unsur- passed by any other lodging house in the world Here, for the extremely modest sum of ten cents a man is pro- vided not only with a nights snooze in good, comfortable, clean bed, with real sheets and blankets, but he can enjoy the benefit of free cooking, free tailoring and free bathing in hot water.
 This huge building accommodates no less than 750 men at night, each of whom sleeps in separate bed in a special compartment, but in the day time the great dining room affords fa- cilities for more than 1000 "dossers'- that is, tramps and the unemployed generally. Here, on cold winter days men congregate, bringing with them pieces of meat, vegetables and other catables which they proceed to cook over the great roaring fires, II of which are kept constantly going. All cooking utensils are provided free of charge as are knives, forks and other necessities Some men, not included in the floating population, and who
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done, the men in the barIS
 one big room, and after dinner play checkers or dominoes or talk the spirit moves them. &
 Only four of the seven keepers companied the convicts to their VI for the simple reason that of the u, that remained one was needAd guard the eonvicts who renaiusa the barracks to do the cooking d other household work, and the ots two were needed for guard duty night. An old barn with wire nett on the windows does not makM oyersecure prison. ~
 Forty acres of woodla \ cleared. Then in the miCda8 cleared space work was startts
 large barracks that would ho&f men. This is only a temporarJ
 ing. To prevent interference witfF construction of the new prison, barracks have been placed on ", will ultimately be the parade grou
 These barracks have as yet O reached the skeleton stage, an a structure of beams and joists. C
 Eentirely surrounding these racks, and marking out a huge squa is line of heavy posts. These are be sheathed with thick boards { topped with barbed wire, the wh, forming a stockade 16 feet high.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26

Before we go to this performance" said the man who was stepping for a few days in New York and trying to entertain the wife of one of his busi- ness associates, "I feel that it is my duty to say that it is not such an en- tertainment as I would care to have my sister or my daughter witness. Fur thermore, the best seats could get for tonight are in the nineteenth row.
 Let us not go. Perhaps you can get better ones for tomorrow night cago Record Herald.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
WHERE WILL SPEED CF THE
 OCEAN LINERS END?
Last Record Run of One of the Mon ster Leviathans Exceeds the
 Swiftness of the Average Train

A study in comparison between the Ipeed of the great ocean liners and he average railroad train is interest ng. and not at all to the embarrass- nent of the former. First one big boat makes a record run across the lcean and then another one trims that fme down until it would seem as fhich might be made The latest and lest time is by the Mauretania, which hade 671 knots-773 miles-in a 24- Jour run, an average of 3018 an hour. This is distance further than from lew York to Detroit Why, there are pts of trains that are not making as ood time as that The fastest train ut of San Francisco for Ogden takes T14 hours to go thirteen miles further han the Mauretaaia went IL 24 hours But how long is this sort of thing eing to keep up? When IS the time 1oing to come when a man in New .Iork who has a friend coming from ,urcpe whom he does not want to see an figure with certainty that if he cts out of town at certain hour rle other fellows passage money will 3 burned?
 The opulent sea-going public will ave to answer these questions for rlemselvea. The Mauretania will not the last word in brine boiling un-
 ss her patrons want her to be- It's sl matter of money. What the sci ltific gentlemen denominate as "the
 Iw of diminishing returns" makes s(ery additional knot of speed come
 gher, but there are few knots left
 he Cunard people themselves, how Ter, will tell you frankly that they npect these knots to be left on the
 elf unless the Mauretania can pull
 lwn one or two, which she is ex- iscted to do.
 SHere are the reasons:
 First, the increased cost of trans.
 rtation which would follow in- peased speed. It is a big question )yether there are enough persons who
 ant to be put into steel shell and
 ot across the Atlantic in less than lrlr days and who have the money )n pay for being fired to make such
 fps pay. Steamship men say there
 9 not
 Greater speed means mora coal SFned. more room to carry coal, long
 ships, deeper ships, longer docks,
 eper water-money, money, money. Pho wants to spend it?
 speed proposition sinners
 VII to this:
 As hulls are now designed six pro-
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
Left Mayor to Pay Bill.

Politicians are sometimes the vic tins of queer tricks. One of the friends of Mayor Wittpenn of Jersey City visited his honor's office one day and invited him to luncheon. In the course of their talk, while eating, the visitor made it known that he would like an appointment, which the mayor said he was unable to provide When luncheon was over the visitor hurries ly departed, leaving the check for mayor to pay.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
Poor Breedinq Unprofitable.

Poor breeding tells why farm stock is of such poor grade. We actually have mongrel stock without uniformity in any special respect. This applies to all classes of farm animals in all parts of our country. For horses the farmer needs draft horse that will weigh from 1,60o to 1,s00 pounds. All inferior mares should be gelded, and nothing but pure-bred stallions of fine quality used.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
ECTRIFlCATlON OF RAILROADS
 PROBLEM NOW FACED.
Ility and Economy of the New Pow CT Being Tested Out Before Radical Changes Are Made,

iust where officials of the great roads stood 40 years ago in ref jnce to radical changes in railroad fpment, do those of today stand regards adoption of a new equip It. Then it was a question of the of steel rails from England. Now 5 a problem of the identification he roads.
 he New York Central and the , hsylvania have both made some ,lminary attempts at the adoption .uch power, but complete equip waits on the perfect demonstra- upon it's complete practicability z; e;economy. The New York Cen IL nay we'll be considered the pion- n this matter of testing out the motor as practical substi-
 or the steam locomotive, and the
 ;ylyania promises to be close II ? in the matter of trying the 3 Equipment.
 hg public has had some hint of it,
 ter all no good understanding
 intense thought the greater 's managers are now giving to ngs yet undemonstrated problem. epder, it is not a question as to
 r electricity can be so con-
 and harnessed as to provide IS sufficient to operate railway Pal i3 go far as power is concerned, r O5 or better than the locomotive
 does. So also it was not a
 with President Thomson of reansylvania whether or not the abstractly considered, dopt furnish more adequate rail-
 vice than the iron rail or the
 trap rail.
 F dirg was inevitably the center ay to oich radiated the first far Poy aeveiopneht or railway way
 although for different req .hildlhe centre whence will radi-
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
IS THERE A LIMIT?

pellers can probably be placed to work to advantage. With an increase of 50 per cent ill the number of propellers larger engines would be required, more coal would have to be carried and the ships draught increased, which would necessitate dredging out the docks some more And for this tremendous
 When the Mauretania last year
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broke one of her propellers she un- hooked the turbine from it's mate and swan back to Liverpool at 20 knots an hour. This she did easily. When she came back last week with four engines humming she obtained for her doubled volume of power only a little more than six knots of additional speed.
 Behold the operation of tbe law of diminishing returns. And f two more propellers and 35,000 more horse pow CT were to be added how much more speed would she gain? Not as much as she did when she doubled from two to four propellers. Steamboat men say she might get two or three more kI cts.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26

nail seven 2x2 strips feet long for the roosts. Beginning at the top, nail them 15 inches apart as indicated at B.
 Fig. A shows the end section with the support, which is a piece of 2x3, 3 feet 4 inches long, and the stay brace, which is piece 1x2, feet f inches long. It also indicates how one side can be raised when the floor is cleaned.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
Disparaoement.

That statesman says it would ba useless to approach him with an offer of money for his inf1uence'
 Certainly" answered Senator Sor. ghum; that man never had ten dol lars worth of influence in his life."-- Washington Star.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26

Prairie Farmer, use four pieces of 2x3, 5 feet long for the frame. Cut each end at an an- gle of 45 degrees
 and hinge over the top with s inch strap hinges. On these frames
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
Cat Fosters Rabbits.

At Woolbrook, Sirmouth, England, tame rabbit had six young ones. The mother was killed accidentally. The house cat has since fostered and fondled them, and is bringing them up as if they were her own kittens.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
Ships' Sixth Sense,

It is superfuous to comment on the beneficent possibilities of the sunken bell, which, in effect, endows ships with the sixth sense" that fish are supposed to possess-the ability to sense. in the deep sea, the fact that land is near.
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
Unequal Distribution.

The head waiter at the banque in towering rage.
 They paid that word singer ss half an hours talk he fumed all l got was $695, mostly in nieke Chicago Tribune. "
The Green Forest tribune., 1909-03-26
Misannronriation

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his eighbor.-Quintililan