The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1910-06-16

not for the fact that her skipper, Capt.
Barr. is familiar with British winds and
waters.
The skyrocket and the Roman candle
have long had q recognized standing
apart from connection with the celebra-
ton Of tie Fourth Of July. Only now
has wireless telegraphy arisen TO super
,'ede them as signals at sea. But they
may continue to be useful on land after
their use on the water has been aban-
doned. Immense damage to crops has
been inflicted by wild geese on the Sand
born ranch, in Shasta county. California.
To kill off the geese wonld have taken
time and in these days would be likely
to arouse protest, for there is growing
sentiment In favor of immunity for wild
birds. The management of the Sandborn
farm, instead of killing off the wild
geese. decided to brighten them off. and
for that purpose laid in a stock of sky
rockets and Roman candles. Now when
ever a flock of wild geese is heard honk-
ing in the distance. skyrockets or Roman
candles are sci off, and the birds con-
clude to settle elsewhere than OH the
Sandborn ranch
In reply to an inquiry from st. Louis.
Consul General Frank H. Mason SAYS
household refuse in Paris is collected in
the early hours of the morning at cost
of S1OS0 annually for families in
flats. While in the collection boxes
and on the dock awaiting trans
portation to the incinerator, the rubbish
is exposed to the operations of junk gath
erers, so that there is little of value left
when the refuse arrives at the furnaces.
The residuum at the furnace is pulverized
and sold to farmers for fertilizer, which
contains so large a percentage of potash
that it must be mixed with stable refuse.
The ashes are sold at from four to six
dollars a carload of from six to ten tons,
a price which does not permit of ship
ment over long distances. Therefore the
fertilizer is utilized within a radius of
between thirty and forty miles of Paris.
The farmers who use this for soil enrich
ment purchase even the dust derived
from vacuum cleaners in stores, offices
and dwellings, regarding this material a
high-class fertilizer for which they will
ingly pay the equivalent of eight dollars
per metric ton. If people generally were
as thorough il their devotion to the small
economies as the French there would be
little waste in the world.
The government, through it's depart
ment of agriculture, is conducting test
of the nutritive value of foods. 1t does
not matter so much what value is in a
food as what value is assimilated in the
process of digestion. The test, therefore.
is made not by Analysing the foods but
by measuring their effect in the produc-
ton of human energy. This is done by
means of machine called a scalorome-
ter. In glass cage which is part Of
the machine sits a man who eats one
food at a time and whose energy is re-
corded automatically by the machine.
Around the inside of the calorometer,
which is a glass alright compartment
room, runs a system of pipes filled with
cold water. The temperature of the wa
ter is carefully noted, the heated gener-
ated by the body in the process of as
similating the food causing the water to
become warmer. Several months will be
spent in making tests.