The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1912-09-11


lsad the passerby in the morning 10
think that he might have tried to stow
away hay at night and had mistaken
the house for the barn and couldn't
find the hay hole.
Out in Colorado they vary the monOt-
ony of agricultural toll by beet thin
ming contests. In one Of these held
recently three men from Missouri thin
ned an acre Of beets in nine hours.
while twelve hours were required by Il
trio of Rocky Ford (COlO0 boys for do,
ing the same job.
The appearance Of all too many girls
with their hair in pigtails and some
older girls whose hair is not In pig
tails would seem to Indicate that both
they and their mothers are sadly lack
ing in sense, mOdesty and dress goods.
And girls in town seem to be shorter
Of dress goods than girls in the coun-
try.
A field of turnips sowed for the pur-
pose of giving the fattening steers a
succulent change in their ration is well
worth while. The value of such tur-
nip ration does not come from the food
elements which the turnipS contain,
but is due to their increasing the ap-
petite Of the steers for the regular
grain ration. -
y flower bed the writer has arranged
this year and finds very satisfactory
has salvias in the middle, next to these
three cOlOrS Of cOleus alternating and
lastly a border of dusty millers. The
finely divided and whitish leaves Of the
last named plant set Off to good ad-
vantage the bright red flowers Of the
salvias and the variegated colors Of the
foliage plants.
The beneficial effect on the health fol
lowing the use of buttermilk as a bev-
erage is due, according to scientists
who have made a study Of the matter.
to the fact that it contains forms OF
bacterial life that reduce or destroy the
bacterial life responsible for putrefac-
tive processes in the intestinal tract,
which are said to be the direct cause OF
senile decay and early death.
Many an OverwOrked housewife has
some grounds for honest doubt as to
the wisdom of mending for the fifth
or six+b +ip,a SOcL-S that CON no orOt for.
from Is to % cents a pair. 1t doubt
less is risky for a man to suggest It.
but the institution of darning socks
must have developed on the theory
that woman's time is worth little or
nothing. it being a harmless Occupa-
ton that would keep her oct of mis-
chief
That Americans have a sweet tooth
and that it is getting all the while
sweeter seems to be indicated in the
census reports on candy production,
which show that there was an in
crease in the value of candy products
in the five year interval from 1904 10
1909 OF S47,700,000. The increase In
candy production i'm this period was
90 per cent. while the increase in pop
ulatiOn in the same interval was but 5
per cent.
When the LEAKAGE of the orchard tree
is heavy. thus exposing a large surface
to the wind. and when the fruit car
ried is gaining rapidly in weight it il
a good idea to go over the orchard
carefully and bolt through any serious
cracks in limbs and trunks and, If nee
essary, prop up fruit laden limbs. The
doing of this job now may mean the
saving of many a useful tree that
would otherwise be ruined from the
causes mentioned.
Rope hOrseshoes have been in use
for a number of years in portions Of
Germany, and it seems likely that they
will be introduced into this country in
view of the large mileage in paved
streets. The rope portion of the shoe
Is inserted in a metallic body or frame,
and provision is usually made so that
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new one inserted in its place. Some
times the rope is tarred and has wire
or other reinforcing material woven
with it.
Chemists of the University of Penn
sylvania have succeeded in producing
animal life artifcially. Female guinea
pigs were impregnated with solution
containing so per cent of water, u per
cent of salts and per cent of an acid
akin to the malic acid found in certain
forms of vegetable life and in due
time gave birth to young. one of which
still survives. This may be interesting
from a scientific standpoint, but it
seems to be a pretty poor substitute
for the method provided by nature.
Fly killing contests are getting to be
quite popular over the country, and ii
must be admitted that they have much
20 commend them from the stand
point of cleanliness and the public
health. Recently one Of these con-
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