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The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
Rhuharh.

How few rhubarb plants one sees growing and how nice that old-fash toned spring tonic is! Considering the fact that it costs practically noth- ing to plant it and the plants come up year after year, there is no reason why we should not, all of us, have all of the pieplant pie that we can eat every spring. Half dozen hills will supply an average family.
 Harvest time for rhubarb is the spring and early summer, but we ire quently get a second crop in the fall.
 Sandy loam is best for this plant, but it will grow well in any rich, warm moist soil. You cannot get the soil too rich for rhubarb and it does not stand drouth very we'll
 Do not try to grow the plants from seed if you can secure root cuttings from a good, strong old hill. Each cutting should have two buds or eyes. Plant them in rows three feet apart, with the eyes an inch below the sur face. They will begin to grow at once and, if planted early, few stalks can be pulled the first year.
 As fast as seed stalks appear cut them off. If very fine, large stalks are wanted, and why not have the best, thin out all but the center buds, so that the entire strength of the plant will feed these.
 After the leaves are cut back by frost in the fall cover the plants with four inches of straw or manure. This prevents freezing and makes the next years crop earlier.
 While the plants will start early at the same time the leaves will not push through this covering until after danger of spring frosts is past, hence it should not be removed too soon. Many commercial growers keep the round in order to keep weeds down and hold moisture without cultivation. Cover the plants in the winter any way. It will avoid disappointment and increase the plant food.
 Every three or four years it is ad- visable to dig up the plants, divide them and replant in another spot If this is not done, the plants run out and the stalks grow small and pithy Division and new location start them off again as good as new.
 Any surplus can always be sold in the spring at good price as we seem to have natural craving for the fresh green acid qualities of this old-time pie fruit Eat lots of it. Eat it raw and cooked, in pies and out of pies, put up all you cannot eat and save it for winter, but grow it yourself if you have two by four patch of ground where the sun shines. It costs noth- ing to raise and it tastes lots better when it comes out of your own patch. And, furthermore, it is a much better spring tonic than sulphur and mo- lasses, or sassafras.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
Chicken Farminq.

There is no agricultural subject of greater interest to all classes of peo- pie than poultry keeping in some form or other.
 Overy eighty out of a hundred farm CTS, large and small, the country over, keep hens. About forty per cent. of the householders in small towns and villages keep backyard fiocks, and the number of flocks in the great cities is positively astounding.
 Almost every man you know has at.some time been possessed with the idea that the easiest way on earth to make living is with chickens. If you doubt it, ask the next man you meet what he thinks about the chick en business.
 Go to few poultry shows next win ter, after having industriously read the monthly issues of a couple of good poultry journals this summer, and by the time the incubator salesman gets in his work it will take a straight jacket to keep you from starting to keep chickens. And really, it is very fascinating occupation.
 
 No one need be ashamed of being a chicken crank in these days, because the poultry industry of the country is assuming such vast proportions that 1t bids fair to overtop any other sin gle agricultural product in value at the time of the next census. Further than this no other product can equal it for net profits to the producer, be- cause the investment in stock and equipment is exceedingly small com pared to the returns The labor, land and building investment represented by one dairy COW would take care of enough hens to bring in three times the profit.
 Now then can man of ordinary in telligence, no experience and small capital, hope to get rich by raising and that is, that he may hope to, but he will not make good.
 The writer is personally acquainted with prominent poultry men in nearly every state in the Union, and while many of them are we'll to do, not one is rich, even from the farmers stand
 
 point.
 The poultry business offers the hard working, thoughtful man, a good liv- ing, steady joy and an assured home.
 The production of eggs is the safest and easiest field for the beginner and where this is to be the speciality, the White Leghorn breed is pre-eminent for large flocks, outside of New Eng land and other districts demanding brown-shelled eggs.
 In order to be successful, the start must be made in small way, and the ideal plan is for the prospective own CT to work on some successful poul try plant for at least six months or preferably a year, in order to learn the business from the inside. Do not
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
Teaching Agriculture.

believe it would be to the interest of all agricultural people in every sin gle town to have an agricultural de partment attached to the high school. I would have the teachers so prepared to teach agriculture that they could also teach it in the common schools to a certain elementary degree, says a writer in an exchange. l have found that of the farmers boys and girls brought up on the farm very many cannot tell even the name of the most common weeds that grow in their fathers fields. It seems to me that the time has arrived, especially in az ricultural education, when we should take this matter up and begin, as we have already done in limited way, to establish these schools.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
Five Hour Day Is Asked Workers
 in Massachusetts.
To Lead Country Again IF Measure Pending in the Legislature Is Passed-Other States
 Aid Reform.

New M6ssachusetts will again lead the country in one part of it's child labor laws, according to the national child labor committee. if the bill to reduce the hours of work for all under sixteen years becomes law. Massachusetts now has a ten hour day for workers under sixteen, which it is proposed to reduce at one step to a ffvehour day, with the re- quirement that all child workers un- der sixteen shall attend a part time day school.
 Other states, meanwhile, are won dering if they can establish the eight hour day, and definite campaigns for this end are on in Arkansas. Cali fornia, New Hampshire, Pennsyl- vania, Texas, West Virginia and else where
 The committee points out that the bills which have already been intro duced in Pennsylvania, Delaware and Texas all include the regulation of street trades provided in the uniform child labor law
 This allow, no uewsboy under twelve years and no other street trader under fourteen, It also forbids all girls to engage in these occupa- tions before they are sixteen years old.
 New York, under the recommenda- tion of the state factory investigating commission, is considering bills not only to prohibit child labor in can
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
BACK YARD FARMER.
Interesting Pointers on Garden ing for the City Man or
 Suburbanite.
WHAT TO PLANT AND WHEN
Advice by an Expert on Agricultural Matters-rHow to Plan the Garden For the Chicken Raiser
 Grow Rhubarb.
By PROF. JOHN WILLARD eoLTE.

By PROF. JOHN WILLARD soLTE.
 We are frequently asked to give sug- gestions regarding the best way to utilize the ordinary city back yard for gardening purposes. Space does not permit of our answering such a com prehensive question for each inquirer and we tase this opportunity to cover the subject in detail
 Let us suppose that your back yard is about 25 feet wide and so feet deep. It is fenced in and is pretty sunny most of the day. There is a back gate and a walk leading from the house to the gate. How shall we lay out our garden to get the greatest amount of returns in fruit and at the same time secure the most beautiful effect
 In the first place, give fruit and vegetables the right of way, using grass and flowers to fill in the odd cor ners. Most of our fruit bearing shrubs and trees are as beautiful as any flow ering shrubs, many of the fruits them selves are highly decorative, and our anticipation of harvest time lends a very tangible interest, which is lack ing in merely decorative plants.
 Plant row of dwarf pear trees flat along the south side of one wall and train them in the espalier, vine like, form on a trellis. Use Dwarf Seckle and Bartlett pears. Along the wall facing east plant dwarf peaches (Craw- lords are fine) and train them in the same way. Plant from four to six feet apart and allow from four to six main branches to grow.
 Dwarf cherries or dwarf apples may be planted against the other walls, where they will take up very little plants near the north side of any wall are far enough away to get some sun shine.
 A very satisfactory plan for the walk is to cover it with a latticed pergola and train grapes over it. Della ware grapes on the shadier side and Concords on the sunny. Grapes make a fine screen for any small buildings. ash boxes, etc, in the yard.
 A strawberry bed 10 feet by 20 feet, close to the pears, and three rows of 20 plants each of blackberries,. rasp- berries and entrants will fill up the half of the garden next to one long side and the balance can be devoted to vegetables and flowers.
 Wt'Srefer dwarf fruit trees to the full sized ones because they come into bearing very early, require much less care, and produce fined fruit in very good quantity. Dwarf pears are very satisfactory. Prune and fertilize and spray properly and your dwarf fruit trees will bear heavily every year.
 By planting them against the sunny side of wall and training like vines, the fruit natures earlier, the trees decorate the wall and they take up much less room than if planted in the open. The amount of edible fruit pro- duced will be nearly as great Try some dwarf fruit trees yourself this year.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

underestimate the importance of this as this business is the most detailed and intricate of all the agricultural in dustries.
 The returns are very satisfactory when the plant is intelligently handled Thousand hen plants may be equipped with an investment of from four to six thousand dollars and the net re- turns are from dollar per hen up to the high figures secured by the fancy stock breeders.
 We knew three men in southern New England, one making $500 from thousand hens, another making $5,O00 with only four hundred hens, and the third spent hundred thousand dol lars on his poultry plant and lost it all. The first two started small and grew slowly. The last one started big and ended small
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
Cold Storage for Fruit.

Three systems of cold storages are commonly used for fruit-the ammo mia system, carbonic acid gas and cal cium chloride-says the New England Homestead All are chemical stor- ages; but in region where natural ice can be obtained cheaply, the cal cium chloride gravity system seems to be much cheaper than the two first, and equally good The ammonia sys- tenn has to be pumped at pressure of 200 pounds to 400 pounds to the square inch. Both these require expensive duplicate machinery and high-priced engineers night and day, while the cal cium chloride uses cheap machinery and ordinary help. G. H. Powell, for merly with the United States depart ment at Washington, says the calcium chloride gravity system is the best for northern localities.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

A Massachusetts happiness expert advises wives not to complain that their hair or gowns are mussed when their husbands caress them. She might have added that with gladstone receptions ef the mussing caresses new gowns may be tactfully extracted from the same.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

Austins pupils brought disreputable- said he had picked up in a pawnshop He tested it and discovered that the bass had rich tone, while the treble was decidedly squeaky
 He threw it to one side as hopeless, and for months it lay in the junk heap.
 T. A. Daly, widely known poet and humorist, took an interest in the in. strument because of it's ancient ap- pearance, and advised MT. Austin to take it to William Moenning, a skill ful 'd' ctor" of sick musical instru-
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
OLD CELLO PROVES A PRIZE
Philadelphia Musician Discovers a Hopeless lstrumeRt Is a Barbe
 and Merely Out of Repair.

Philadelphia.-B Bertram A. Austin, musician, of 1856 Rubicam avenue, Germantown, has discovered that an ancient cello, which has lain neglect ed in his studio for many years. is a "Darbe,' and worth $1,000
 About four years ago one of Mir
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

broke the American passenger carry ing altitude record.
 Starting from Fairfax park. the ma chine reached it's highest altitude of 5,009 feet directly over the heart of Los Angeles
 The record, however, will not be considered official. because Gilpat- ricks previous record of 4,660 feet was not exceeded by 500 feet, as re- qured by the rules of the Internation- al Aeronautical federation.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
Flowing by Artificial Liaht.

New South Wales has adopted the California idea of blowing at night, For this purpose two powerful acety. lene headlights are attached to the traction engine which draws the blows, and the ground is so well and brilliantly lighted that the operator can work over the field quite as well as by daylight.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
Matter Easily Explained-

Two lawyers met on the street. I've been wondering about you said one. What were you wondering about me?" Well, I've heard you address a jury and l thought that you were the most eloquent man in Cleveland Then I've heard you make an after-dinner speech at q banquet and you were pardon me-prettv rotten. Now. how is that?' I'll tell you When I'm talking to a jury my dinnef deper4s- on my speech. When I'm talking to a bunch of diners I've already had my dinner"
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
Italian Marriane Brokers.

In Italy marriage brokers are a regular institution. They have poclz. etbooks filled with the names of mar. riageable maidens in various ranks of life, and go about trying to arrange matches. When they are successful they receive a commission, and very likely something extra as a voluntary gift from their customer.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

sides of fine sole leather to be shipped to London
 This tanned leather is for the use of the manufacturer who supplies King George, and is for his exclusive use and for the supplies that are need ed for the current year for the royal family and it's household.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
Dish for the Gods,

Liver and onions, artistically blend ed produce a fragrance that waited to the summit of Olympus, would cause the jovial love to kick over the ambrosia kettle and come laundering down the craggy steeps in quest of new dish for the gods.-Kansas City Star.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

A Chicago court bailiff has a scheme to attire himself in bright green uniform. figuring that the advertise ment of the victims delinquency ob- tained by the public spectacle of the bailiff's squatting on the doorstep will encourage prompt payment. Or hur- ry call for an ambulance.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

ments. Mir. Austin acted on this ad- vice. He was astounded when Moen- ming showed him this inscription in- side the case, "J. Barbe. pere: Paris, 1790."
 MT Moenning found that the treble soundpost was three inches out of place, being close against the bass bar. lie repaired this difficulty and all of the rare sweetness of tone has been restored to the instrument
 Barbe was one of the most famous makers of violins and cellos of the eighteenth cer
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
DAY OFF PLAN FOR DOCTORS
Berlin Physicians to Try Scheme to Gain Rest-onIy Few Are
 on Duty.

Berlin.--A scheme, which has long been considered by Berlin physicians. is to be tried out, in the Moabit dis trict, when certain doctors will be ap. pointed to answer all calls between noon and midnight on Sunday.
 It is planned to have different phy- sicians serve each Sunday to the end that others may have a rest one day in the week. If it works out well it will probably be extended tc the whole city.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

A movement is to be started to make the war on flies worldwide. Up to date the flies have very much the better of the exterminating crusade, so the movement evidently needs more concentration than expansion just at this stage.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

The minister of education of Wur- temberg inveighs against the chang Ing of spelling of German names in American schools, but then the educa- tor has never been inside a Yankee learning institution in his life.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
AMERICAN HIDES FOR KING
Pennsylvania Tannery Gets Rush Or ders for Sole Leather to Go
 to England.

Warren, Pa.-A company has issued an order to a tannery at Clarendon to rush work and put on all the men that can be obtained to complete within forty days a special order for 1,200
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
FLYER SETS NEW AIR RECORD
Aviator Gilpatrick, With Feminine Passenger, Reaches 5,oo9 Feet
 Above Los Angeles.

Los Angeles, Cal.-With Miss Mar garet Stahl of Jersey City, N J., as a passenger in his De Perdussin mon- oplane, John Guy Gilpatrick. the youngest aviator in the world, again
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
STRAUS, OIL MANS NEIGHB0R
Former American Ambassador te Turkey Buys Farm Near Tar
 rytoWn, N. Y.

Tarrytown, N. Y.-Oscar s. Straus, former ambassador to Turkey and recently the progressive candidate for governor of New York state, is to es- tablish Himself here as a close neigh
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

A western COW, having lost an eye dropped her product from eight quarts to four. but being equipped with a glass eye, now gives ten quarts. This ought to boom the glass eye industry among the dairying interests.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

A saitor, seeking to impress a girl by "boldness," lost her when he claimed to be a train robber He might have experimented progressive ly, beginning with petty larceny
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

Being a grand opera song bird at $2500 a night is o.4e thing; being in the grand opera chorus at S2.50 is something else For all singers life is not one grand sweet song
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

bor to John D. Rockefeller. He has bought the Horton farm, between here and Pleasantville, which is one of the oldest estates in this section. It con- sists of about eighty acres, for which Mr Straus is said to have paid $55,- 0O0 MT Straus said he was going to build a simple summer home.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

Every time the unloaded pistol trag: edy is repeated we are convinced afresh that the fool killer needs an able bodied assistant or at least a caddy to carry his tools.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

Two Los Angeles chauffeurs stole thirty-one automobiles within seven months It is sad to contemplate just what would happen if they were turn ed loose in an auto plant.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

Now that it is established that the American eagle is ben, some of our obstreperous neighbors to the south will begin to complain of being hen pecked
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

A Chicago judge holds that wife should not ask for money, but that the husband should hand it over without being asked Usually it is the hus- band who does the asking.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

France is all excited over a device just invented which makes the cap sizing of an aeroplane practically i'm possible We wotfld like to see it in operation--from the ~~ound
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

To keep from snoring specialist declares the best method is to keep ones mouth closed. Incidentally, the same method will keep one from many other afflictions.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

demonstrating car in Philadelphia dent damages. After a demonstration like that it's value seems to be prob lematical.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

If woman could have her real wish she would desire nothing more than to visit the 27,00O department stores in the United States
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

China now has full fledged agri- cultural department where chop suey ingredients are given official atten- tion
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

Over $173, 3,0O00o0 worth of property changed hands in Chicago last year, not counting the cash gathered on the highways
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

It is not lawful to beat an umpire in Illinois. but baseball fans will give this no thought until the occasion arises
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

In the name of humanity, why not start a society to provide early worms and hot water bottles for the presea- son robins?
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

Some Americans are eccentric enough to lrefdse to pay money at box. off1c <e>>Ior the sake of seeing an actor who has been divorced ever so many times
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

But for all that, no pampered aristo- crat of an effete monarchy has any thing on the American ball player in his spring training
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

Many baseball players would se- cure prettier photographs if they would lay aside their quids while look ing into the camera
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

China wants good-sized air fleet with French officers. The new repub- lie is strictly up to date with all the modern improvements
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

Japan's new minister of finance ig Baron Korokiyo Takahcashi, very appropriate name indeed.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

London. always noted for curiosi- ties, has tramp who inf1ates his throat just like the humps and spends glorious times in the infirmaries.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28
Like an Ola Fool.

Sillicus-What is t4e age of disere- ton?
 Cynicus-There isn't any. I know a man over seventy who married his fourth wife the other day.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

A Milwaukeean has failed at four attempts at suicide He may be en- dowed with as many lives as a cat.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

In Mongolia, women smoke and ride astride, but leave the husbands trous- CT pockets unmolested
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

At this time of the year every base ball team is a pennant winner
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

Red Cross Ball Blue eives double value for your money. goes twice as far as any other, Ask your grocer. Ady.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

It has been at least a year since the government has advertised for an xylomotist. Still no response
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

Ho' annoying it is when the mer- cury practices the scale on the ther- mometer!
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

When some men get interested in politics they forget all about labor.
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

FOR WEAKNESS ND LOSS d
 TITE. The Oid Standard general strongly ~ GROVES TASEEI4BSS chill TONIC I %Sa lara and builds up the system. A crli. 60 sure Appetizer. For adults and chPdreIkS a
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

'How did yo' all get yo' nose bust ed?"
 T done slipped down an plumb lit on my back"
 But, name O goodness, sah!-yo' nose isn't located on yo' back
 'No, sah; an needer was Brudder Jones'"
The Green Forest tribune., 1913-03-28

One touch of weather mad whole world sit up and talk I