The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-04-10

The average of prices received by
producers of the United States for sta
pie crops increased 0.3 per cent from
March l to April /, which compares
with an increase of 60 per cent in the
same period year ago and an average
increase of 81 per cent during March
of the past five years. On April |
prices of staple crops averaged about
Is. 8 per cent lower than on like date
of 1912, 81 per cent lower than in 1911
1872 per cent lower than 1910 and 1870
per cent lower than 1909, on like date.
Mr.. Jos. Wanda of Gibson was call
er at the PILOT Office Wednesday.
The following from outside attended
the funeral of Mrs. Nj. II. Murphy:
Capt. and Mrs. James Flynn and Capt.
George Flynn, Henry Pentoney, Rich
ard Nyhagen, Mrs. Eleanor Born, Chi
cago; Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Schmitz, Mr..
and Mrs. Roland Schmitz, Mr.. and Mrs.
Otto Kahlenberg, James Walker,
Lawrence Conway, Mr.. Briggs, Jay
Greeley, of Milwaukee; Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles Kelley, Miss Edith Mahoney
of Green Bay; John Brennan, Oshkosh;
Mrs. Fred Decker, Sheboygan; Miss
Harriet Mccarthy, Marinette; Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Murphy, Mrs. B. Brennan
and Leo Murphy of Cato.
At the annual meeting of the "Saen-
gerbund" held last Thursday the fol-
lowing officers were elected for the
coming year:
President Henry Detjen.
| Vice president DR.. O. G. Wernecke
Secretary Henry Strohbach.
Treasurer H. A. Schmitz.
Librarian Louis Borst.
Color Bearer Gus. Thielen.
Trustee Arthur Schuetze.
Director Geo. Urban.
At the close of the present month
six members of the society will be
made honorary, G. A. Fehrs, Louis
Schuette, George Urban, August
Schmidt, Emil Baensch, John Kellner.
The honorary membership is conferred
on persons who have been enrolled as
members for twenty-five yeare.
"Silk goods that have been weight
ed with metallic salts so as to make
them seem heavy are easily detected
by burning small sample" says Miss
Annabell Turner of the Home Econo-
mics Department of the University of
Wisconsin.
sit is rot necessary to wait until the
silk dress has been made up and goes
to pieces before finding out that the
goods have been aduterated. Any
woman can secure sample of the cloth
that she intends to buy, and can burn
it. If the sample burns quickly it is
pure silk, but if it burns slowly and re-
mains in the original shape, only blac-
kening, this is sure sign of adultera-
ton.
"The price is not always an indica-
ton of quality in silks. Often high
priced materials have been found to
be heavily weighted The soft silks,
such as foulard, charmeuse, messaline,
crepe meteor, and crepe de CHEN have
never been found to be weighted"
That silos should be two and a half
times as high as they are wide is the
reply Of Prof G. A. Ocock, of the de-
partment of agricultural engineering
of the University of Wisconsin to re-
cent question as to whether or not it is
practicable to build concrete silo,
ten feet in diameter and fifty feet high.
GAS rule we do not consider silo
fifty feet high and ten feet in diameter
to he we'll balanced" writes Prof.
Ocock. "Better proportions would be
twelve feet wide and thirty-eight feet
high, if silo of about eight tons capa-
city is desired.
Should silo as narrow as ten feet
be built in order that the silage for a
small number of cows may be fed fast
enough to keep it from spelling, speci-
al attention must be given to reinforc-
ing the walls properly"
Bulletin pa, issued by the College
of Agriculture of the University of
Wisconsin, gives complete directions
for constructing silos, with tables
showing the amount of reinforcement
to be used in silos of different heights.