The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1911-07-13

Mites In the henhouse are hard
proposition, but persistent warfare
against them will win out.
A child should be taught not only
how to do a thing thoroughly, but
bow to do it in the quickest and east.
est manner possible as well.
The hen that does not have grit of
some kind in her gizzard is in about
the same pickle as the fellow who has
lost his own molars and has not had
them replaced by set from the
dentist
While the incubator has many points
in it's favor as a substitute for old
Biddy. the days and nights of the one
who is having first round with one
of the machines are likely to be long
and somewhat full of trouble, espe
cially if the incubator is one of the
cheap on the market" kind
Owing to the heat, inSanitary con-
ditiOns and impure milk supply, 90
per cent of the babies born in the city
Of Manila do not live to the age of
one year. 1t is a tangible evidence
Of the worth of American civilization
that where it gets a foothOld cOndi-
lions such as these are soon cor
rected
1t has been ascertained by careful
scientific investigation that one out of
every twenty-6vef typhoid fever pa
tents continues, even after recovery,
to be a typhoid carrier. This germ
reproduction sometimes goes on for
years, and the fact noted is doubtless
responsible for many a seemingly in.
applicable typhoid fever epidemic
II plans afoOt are carried out the
school children of Kansas City, Mo-,
will assist in the planting of 100000
catalpa trees on Arbor day, which was
instituted by ]. Sterling Morton,
former secretary of agriculture. This
planting will have value not only be-
cause the trees need planting, but be-
cause the little people will thus have
a greater interest aroused in very
practical and helpful form of conser-
walton.
The Price-Campbell cotton picking
machine, which was operated sue
cessfully on a number of southern
plantations last season, is said to
possess an almost human ingenuity,
it's steel fingers selecting the ripe from
the unripe hollis and reaching beneath
the branches and getting bolls that
are hidden. A comparison Of the
hand and machine picked cotton at
the mill shows that the latter con-
tains less waste than the former,
while in the field the machine picks
as clean as the average negro help.
In amount the new picker does the
work in a day Of from twenty to
thirty hands
Until a few years ago the bulk of
the worlds supply Of sulphur was
got, from the vicinity Of the Italian
volcanoes, but today the greater part
comes from beneath the prairies of
Louisiana, and only hot water and
compressed air are used in the mining
process. The Italian sulphur in it's
natural state contains so per cent Of
impurities, but the Louisiana product
tests 90 per cent. Boiling water is
forced down the space between the
ten and six inch pipes which extend
to the bed This turns the sulphur
to liquid, and it is then pumped up
through the smaller pipes by means
of compressed air and flows into watts
$50 feet long. $50 feet wide and 40
feet deep. Here it cools and hardens
and when desired for shipment is
broken up with hand picks and
shOveled into cars like coal. Some Of
the wells in the section mentioned
produce 500 tons daily.
There is probably no product or by
product Of the farm that furnishes
protein in a more palatable or valu-
able form than skimmilk. Especially
is this the case when considering ra-
lions for calves. pigs and poultry. 1t
is because of this fact that dairying
has so much to commend it as type
Of fsirp,ipC or,6 xvbv hoo roicipr doro-