Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-09-02
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Alum, according to Adele NJ. Field.
is perfect preventive of the ravages
of moths among woolens. While living
in China she gave this method of pro-
tecting clothing thorough test. The
articles should be soaked in a sat
urated solution of alum for several
hours. The fabric is not injured and
the colors are not changed The alum
does not evaporate, and the articles
thus treated remain moth-proof for
years. 1t is suggested that a pound
of crude alum in four quarts of water
would make an effective solution for
employment by manufacturers of wool
en- cloth, rugs and carpets.
The debt of industry to science has
often, and very properly, been pro-
claimed; but now the reverse is an
nounced. The National Electric Lamp
Association has established at Cleve-
land physical laboratory, which the
director, DR.. E. P. Hyde, declares has
for its object the development of sci
ence rather than the Improvement of
an industrial commodity In this re-
spect 1t differs from the many labora-
tories that have in recent years been
established in connection with large
manufacturing concerns. Among the
objects of research will be the laws of
radiation and the radiant properties of
matter, and The effects OF light and its
attendant phenomena on the eye, the
skin, and microscopic organisms. A
corps of investigators is being formed.
A female alligator four and a half
feet long. species Alligator Mississip-
piensis, was recently captured in CEN
trail Oklahoma, in bayou of the South
Canadian River. H. H. Lane, of the
University of Oklahoma, believes that
the animal had Travelled up the Ar
kansas River to the mouth of the Ca
madam, and thence to the point where
1t was found, distance of some $50
or 400 miles west of the Arkansas
Oklahoma State line. The Canadian
River is not navigable, and during
most Of the year is only small mean
dering creek in wide valley. The
alligator had been in the neighbor-
hood at least three years before its
capture. Its skeleton is now in the
university museum, where the lone
traveller is also commemorated by
life-like model
There are three black fox farms near
Atherton, Prince Edwards Island,
where these animals are raised for
their skins. These farms contain twen-
ty, twenty-five and thirty foxes re-
spectively. The skins are sold in Lon
don at prices ranging from $500 to
$1,000 each, according to quality. The
fur is used for ornamenting the cloaks
of royalty, as It Is the only fur to
which gold will cling. One farm is on
an island, another in a rough, broken
woods country, where the animals are
confined by heavy woven-wire netting.
The wire is set in the ground two or
three feet, in order to keep the foxes
from burrowing under, and is about
eight feet high above ground, with
curve inwardly at the top of each post
of another three or four feet Of wire,
in order to keep them from climbing
over the fence. They sleep in the open
the year round, in hollow trees and
in hollow logs. They are fed princi-
pally on oats and milk and bread and
milk, with a small quantity of cooked
meat once day at noon, the amount
of meat being lessened during the sum-
mer. These animals are very wild,
and no one can get near them except
the keeper and he only when he brings
them food.