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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16
OSTRICH FARMING
VERY PROFITABLE
Department of Agriculture
Is DevOting Attention to
Breeding Birds

Observations Oh ostrich farming are to
be started by the department of agricul-
ture. A small appropriation was made by
Congress last year for this study and
after sending a man to Arizona to look
over the ground the department received
a visit few days ago from Oscar Evans.
the largest ostrich breeder in South
Africa.
Mr. Evans came after infornatio on
cattle breeding, but he found the de-
partment in such a receptive frame Of
mind on the subject of ostriches that the
chances are he gave more information
than he received.
There is unusual interest in ostrich
farming in this country just now 1t is
q paying business when properly run, and
with the present movement to protect
vigorously all sorts Of pumage birds it
looks as though the domesticated ostrich
would be one of the fe sources of supply
for millinery manufacturers. This, the
officials of the department think, argues
for an increase in price for feathers, says
the Washington Star.
Those who have made a study of the
business in the department comment, too
on the fact that it is the one form Of
live stock breeding where there is no
blood spilled In getting the profits of the
business. The feathers of the domesti-
Gated birds are not pulled, but clipped.
and the quill roots are left In several
months till they are dead, so that when
the yare pulled the operation is entirely
painless
Mr.. Evans has ranch with about 1000
birds. They are all pedigreed stock and
their breeding has been developed into a
fine art. He says that while the ostrich
farms he visited in this country We're
good the breeding methods were careless
In the extreme. This agreed with the OBJ
servations the department had already
made, as some of the Arizona farmers had
been selling feathers for $50 pound and
did not know which of their birds the
plumes came from.
The breeding records on the African
farms, Mr., Evans said. are very closely
kept. Some of the birds still bearing
plumes are from wild stock that has been
in captivity 35 or 40 years, and there is no
telling how old the gird was when 1t was
captured There is no authentic record
to tell how long an ostrich will live, but
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there is reason TO believe they grow to
gerat age. Authentic records of parrots
swans and geese show them to live from
50 to 100 years and the breeders think os-
triches may come in the same category
Ostrich breeding in this country was
started in southern California several
years ago, partly with wild stock and
partly with birds imported from South
Africa. Since the business has been ex-
tended to Arizona, the breeding stock
has come from the California farms
and from European ZOOS. No more birds
can be imported from South Africa,
as the government theer has put pro-
hibitive export tax on both ortriches
and Angora goats.
Officials of the department of ag-
riculture say there is no doubt of the
superiority of domesticated ostrich
plumes over those from wild stock. Tho
three points on which plumes are
Judged in the market are length, width
ana closeness Texture. In all OF these
the best domesticated plumes are fhead
of the wild ones.
Mr. Evans agrees with the Depart
ment that for some years at least there
will be as much or more money in rails
ing ostrich chicks than there Is In SELL
ing feathers. A pair OF birds will raise
not more than eight or 10 chicks a
year, and these sell for $3.50 at six
months old. The chicks are something
like turkeys In that they are very deli
cato and hard to raise during the first
few months, but after that 1T is almost
impossible to Kill them. They eat prin-
cipally alfalfa and grain. but will eat
almost anything.
While they are a tropical bird, they
seem to have wide range, and winter
in the open as far north as Pennsylva-
MIA. 1t has not yet been determined
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16
Thirteenth Century Sun Dial

The stone sun dial probably OF the
thirteenth century, which has Just been
placed in the south wall of the chanee
of West Clandon church. is likely to be
Of considerable interest to antiquaries
The dial. which has unfortunately lost its
gnomon, was till recently built into tho
western end OF the buttress,' having ap-
parently been regarded as a piece OF
stone OF no value, says tile Guardian
The stone on which the dial IS cut is
OF chalk, and the dial is about a foot
across. The engraving of the lines On
the face is deep and sharp, the stone
being ma good state of preservation, ana
the hole in which tho gnomon had been
fixed Is wide and deep. AT each OF those
positions on the face of the dial which IN
clock would be called the quarters, foul,
dots are engraved, but the dots are en-
graved in different positions. sun dials
such as that at West Clandon, are not
at all rare, and at one time they were
probably placed on every church Indeed
at Saltwood, In Kent. there are three
closetogether, but particular interest at
taches to the specimen at West Ciandon
from the fact that it is much nearer
perfect than is generally the case.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16

trhe views expressed by me here are my
ptrsonal opinions. and have no reference
10 the report OF the American commits
Hon on rural credits, which will be made
public by them at some later date.)
Agriculture is the industry about
Ehich all others revolve, and by which
|uture Americans shall stand or fall
~. J. HILL"
|ree. Agriculture Is it's root, manufac-
bring and commerce are it's branches and
IS life. If the root is injured, the leaves
|all, the branches break away and the
ice dies. SENATOR JULES MEIANE.'
French Minister of Agriculture.
Tho farmer of Alabama, one of the
|reat cotton states, which helps annually
b bring credits from foreign lands of
|ver $500, 100000 to our country should, in
by opinion, be entitled to better and
hsier way of borrowing money.
My observation of this matter dates
|ssE to 1876, when. after arriving in
bis country. I cleEked in country store
|ancing to the farmers; l also observed
hem paying fees of from $50 to $50 per
|lousand, in addition to the regular
Ter cent interest for loans. What better
|vidence could be offered of the possi-
|lties of farming in this state than the
|ict that our farmers have been able
p exist under this handicap, and be as
Iyer as our financial methods have i'm
|-oved in later years and as our farmers
lave become more able to finance them
Dives, the number of the advancing
erchants has decreased.
|While, however, our present financial
|lethods are a great improvement over
hose of the past, our present system
III banking naturally favorss the manu-
Il cturing and commercial interests be-
|huse the loans are short and 1t is be-
|bming more evident every day that some
lew system will have to be devised 10
leet the needs of the farmer.
Hin my opinion, thrc are two systems
Failable to meet this demand. First
| ort or personal credit. Second, land
lortgage or long credits.
|IUnder the first system l desire to COM
Iiehu tilh pitu du'dHceu ny SSiiutoi L ~
Iloody at the meeting of the executive
|Emmittee of the Alabama Land con-
Hess in Montgomery in last January,
|lhich is briefly this: For example, q
| lrlner needs $500 to finance his cotton
Hop. Suppose he were able to go to
lis bank and make three notes for 800
Heb, payable, say on October 10, Decem-
10 and February Is, instead of the
I ual single note falling due October 10,
. fich has the effect of forcing him TO
Irvest his crop in haste. and to throw
| 5 cotton ON the market. at once, re-
rdless of what the price may be. Sup
|Ise, by the longer time afforded him
this plan, he We're able to hold his
hton for an advance of even / cent per
lund. This would mean on a basis of
crop of a million and a half bales a
lying Of seven and one-half million dol
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lars to the farmers of this state. or
course, IL such a system of credit were
extended to the farmer, 1t would necessi-
tate the extension of a similar system
to the merchant by the manufacturer OF
rlows, wagons and farming implements,
etc
As to the second system, land mortgage,
or long credit. This has been brought to
its highest development In the older coun-
tries of Europe and is exemplified by
the credit foncier of France, which is,
however, more complicated than the Ger
man system. 1 find that the German
system, and especially that of Prussia
Prussian State Central bank, which is
endowed with state capitaD is decidedly
the best, and to those who desire to go
more fully into. the details of the Raf-
feisen and Schulze-Delitzsch systems, L
would recommend an article, Every
Farmer His Own Capitalist" by John l..
Matthews, in Harper's Magazine of Sep
tember last which contains a very clear
exposition of the subject. 1 seriously
question, however, the adaptability of any
such system to our conditions In this
country, cooperation being the founda-
toin OF the foreign loan system, While
cooperation among our farmers has been
tried often, and, according to my obser-
Vation, to no great success. In Germany
every thirteenth inhabitant is a member
OF one OF IDeSe alUuaIeu ASSOcldIlODS
and while all rural banks accept deposits
from everyone, they will only lend to
members who ae properly indorsed by
other members. Savings accounts in both
France and Germany far outnumber those
in this country, and the rate of interest
paid is about per cent. 1t IS easy
to see the source of the money loaned to
the European farmer, while III this coun-
try, with it's vast opportunities for specu-
latlon, our people, in a large measure,
prefer to do their own investing in land
where the possibility of large returns are
SO attractive.
In this connection, however. while L
am glad to be able to say that the saw
ings accounts in this country have grown
enormously. yet they do not compare with
those of Germany or France, which lat
ter has more savings accounts than any
country, hence the term Banker Nation
OF the World. In spite OF the fact that
interest rates were higher last year in
Europe than for many years past on ac-
count of the Balkan war, l still found
that the farmers in Italy borrowed money
at as low a rate as per cent while the
commercial rates in Rome We're 5ts per
cent for u period of three or four months,
and as high as per cent for q period
of six months, and nearly the same con-
ditions obtained i'll Germany and France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16

Alabama that could pay the cost of the
land in food products in few years,
We have the soil, the climate and an
area still untouched to feed population
of % times the size of our present one
The unoccupied area available for culti-
walton in our great western states is now
limited to the possibility of irrigation.
In the south we have a copious rainfall;
a crop failure through drought has never
been known. The fulfillment of the slo-
gan of the Southern Commercial congress,
lust adjourned, "for greater nation
through a greater SOUTH can best be
secured by the bringing to the south
that great expansion of agriculture which
for tho last two generations has consti-
tuted the history of the advancing west.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16
.Ope For Bald
Heads
I'll Known Politician Nearly Baid
Now Has Heavy Growth of Hair
Tells How lie Did Ii

western politician, well known on dc-
mt of his badness and his ready wit
'prised his freinds by appearing with
heavy growth of hair; many of his
ends did not know him. and others
ought he had wig. on being asked
" he did it, he made the following
tement: 'I attribute the growth of
hair to the following simple recipe
lch any lady or gentleman can mix at
ne: To half pint of water add OF.
|bay rum, small box of 3arbo Com
Ind and Ia OF. of glycerine. Apply
the scalp two or three times n week
h the finger tips. II not only pro-
ties the growth of the hair, but re-
YES dandruff, scalp humors and pre-
is the hair from falling out. 1t dark
streaked. faded, gray hair and makes
hair soft and glossy. These ingre-
nts can be purchased at any drug
re at very little cost and mixed at
ne"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16
EATING MEAT REGULAR CLOGS THE
KIDNEYS. THEN YOUR BACK HURTS

any good drug store here, take a table
spoonful in a glass of water befors
breakfast for few days and your kid
neys will then act fine. This famous
salts is made from the acid of grapes and
lemon juice. combined with lithia, and is
harmless to flush clogged kidneys ana
stimulate them to normal activity. II
also. neutralizes the acids in the urine 50
ii no longer irritates, thus ending bladder
disorders.
Jad Salts is harmless; inexpensive;
makes a delightful effervescent lithia-
water drink which everybody should take
now and then TO keep their kidneys clean,
thus avoiding serious complications.
well known local druggist says lie
sells lots of Jad Salts TO folks who be-
lleve in overcoming kidney trouble While
Ii is only trouble.
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whether the cold weather of the north
ha sa beneficial effect on tho feathers
as cold is known TO have on fur-bearing
animals.
Mr. Evans says that one OF his OBJ
servations pointed to an advantage
America has for ostrich raising. The
BIRDS do not seem to be subject to any
dlsease' and this is not altogether true
OF the domesticated birds in Sonfh
Africa.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16
Flush your Kidneys Occa-
siOnally with a tablespoon
full of Salts to Avoid
Danger

Most folks forget that the kidneys. like
the bowels. get sluggish and clogged and
need a flushing occasionally. else we have
beckache and duh misery In the kidney
region, severe headaches, rheumatic
twinges. torpid liver. acid stomach. Sleep
lessness and all sorts OF bladder dis
orders.
You simply must keep your Kidneys
active and clean, and the moment you
feel an ache or pain in the kidney region,
get about four ounces of Jad Salts from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16
RURAL CREDITS IN ALABAMA
AND SOME AGRICULTURAL
FACTS AND POSSIBILITIES

f
. RI edn oeaa Countries
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-11-16
Offering for the First Time the Free Sewing Machine No 5 the
Personal Invention otMr Free oRockordM Ill

After Deciding Months Ago to Add Sewing Machine De-
partmen Loyeman Joseph Loeb Have Chosen the Free
Sewing Machine Above All Others and Add Their Unqualified
Recommendation of This Machine the People All the South
The Washington times., 1913-02-12
Extensive Schedule
Prepared for Brown

PROVIDENCE, R. l., Feb. 1.-THE
Brown baseball team will play twenty
three games the coming season accord
ing to the schedule made public tonight
The schedule follows:
April 5. Providence at Andrews Field
April 8. Providence at Providence: April
12, Trinity at Providence; April 1S.
Wesleyan at Providence; April 10, Col
gate at Providence; April %, New
Hampshire State College at Providence
April &c, Princeton at Providence; April
80. Vermont at Providence.
May 8, Yale at Providence: May Z,
Princeton at Princeton; May IA. Rhode
Island State College at Providence: May
II. Amherst at Amherst; May 81, Yale
at New Haven: May "a, Amherst at
Providence: May 28. Holy Cross at
Providence; May 80. Harvard at Pyovi-
dence: May 81, Colby at Providence.
June 4, Tufts at Providence; June q
Harvard at Cambridge; June 13, Penn
sylvania at Providence: June IA. Holy
Cross at Worcester; June Is, Alumni a,
Providence.
The Washington times., 1913-02-12
IS
BEING CELEBRATED
At TENP|N TOURNEY
Old Dominion BoWlers Roll To-
day in Intercity Matches at
Palace Alleys.
By KIRK C.,MILLER.

This is Richmond Day in the Inter
city Tenpin tournament which is now
in progress at the Palace Alleys. and
all the true Southern chivalry of the
Old Dominion will assert itself upon
the alleys.
President Williams, of TIE Richmond
Tenpin Association brought his coterie
Of bowlers to Washington early today.
and at BIS p. m. the first ball thrown
from the hands Of Virginia contest
ant will 90 laundering down the alley;
and no doubt the air will resound with
the dull thunder Of ball coming In con-
tact with maplewcod pins
Much disappointment is being ex-
pressed today at the character of the
scores rolled in the second night of
the tournament Mcintyre. who was
entered in the second squad of singles
in Glass b. made tie highest score.
He spilled total of 23S pins.
The first prizes that have been
awarded since the beginning Of the
tournament We're given last night to
Brosnan, of the Commissioners; Field,
of Agriculture: Milovich, of G. P. ,. {;
Whitney, of Track and Roadway:
weikers, of the Engineers. and Hart
man, of SchuInanns, for rolling the
best sets in the five-man competition
The prizes amounted to 81 each.
Following is the schedule for Rich
mond day:
The Washington times., 1913-02-12
Every Georgetown
Athlete Will Enter

Coach Jimmy Mulligan of the George
town track team sent the following en-
tries for the Hopkins games TO Baitl-
more today. Every man in the squad
is included III these entries:
One hundred-yard dash-Eller, Nc
Grath. Horter. Barrett, Golden, Costel-
10, Pollard. McNally, McNuity' Amy
22O-yard dash-Terwilliger Eller, Hor-
ter. McNulty, McNally. and Brewer.
440-yard dash-Stebbens. Mahoney'
Dyne. Hamilton. Terwilliger, Gailash-
er. Horter, SuTran, and Crawford.
SSO-yard run - Gallagher, Bates,
Rowles, Cook, Landen, Lawler, Don
nelly, Devlin, Hamilton, Surran' and
Ono-miIe run-Gallagher. Chapman.
Landen, Lawler. Bates. Rowles, ana
Pole vault-Harry Weidman, Harry
Costello. and w. Robertson.
10O-yard low hurdles-Eller, Blackis-
tone, McNulty. Gordon, and McNally.
Running high jump-Lowe, Weidman.
CampaZzi.
Shot put tsiXteen pounds)-Eller, Bar
risullo, and Chapman.
The relay quartet of Georgetown Uni
yersity will compete with the fours
representing Yale, Pennsylvania Co
lumbia. Syracuse, Cornell and Prince
ton next Saturday night at the Column
bia games in New York city. If the
plans now held by the West EE.! man
a2ement materialiZe.
II arrangements go through as has
been planned Eddie Horter, Johnny Gal
lagher. Ed Stebbens. and Bob Terwilli-
ger will journey to Gotham on Satur-
day while the rest of the squad, under
the charge of Assistant Manager Hugh
Carter. will take In the Johns Hopkins
meet
The Washington times., 1913-02-12
Americus Primed
To Meet PardeIIo

Americus, the heavyweight wrestler
who meets Leo Pardello at the Lyceun
tomorrow night in the first heavyweight
bout Of the season in this city arrived
from Baltimore. his homo. today. primed
for the bout.
He has been training hard for the
past month. getting in shape at his
country home. Twin Oaks, in q suburt
of Baltimore.
The Baltimorian has met Pardello be.
fore and knows well what to expect OF
such a worthy opponent as the italian
heavyweight. and is earnestly working
so as to be in the pink of condition.
Americus has had quite a time making
away with Pardello on the other occa-
sions when they met, and the wrestling
public Of the Capital City will be treat
ed to a furious bout Friday night.
The Washington times., 1913-02-12
Whitman Is Confident
Of Leagues Success

READING. Pa. Feb. 12-William Abb
bott Whitman, president of the United
states Baseball League. which is to be
revived this year. issued a statement in
which he declared that the organization
is not dead by any means, and that IL
will be found very much alive early
next spring He returned home from
a visit to Richmond. and says that that
city will be represented in the league
by a strong team. Hugh MacKinnon,
secretary -treasurer of the leagne, says
that the organization will have suffi-
cient fiDancial backing TO carry 1t
through this season. 1t is not certain
whether this city win be represented in
the outlaw league or not.
The Washington times., 1913-02-12
Carroll Announces
Date for Long Race

Carroll Institute has announced the
date of its ten mile scratch race as
February -, and has secured the sane
ton OF the A. \. U. to hold the event.
4 number of prizes will be awarded
successful individuals while a team
prize goes to the first four men o. any
club to cross the finish first. Three
gold medals. as many silver. and four
bronze medals will be given to the men
in order OF their finish.
The course of the race Will be an
ncunced by the Carroll management
within week. Entries must be in the
hands of Prof. Maurice Joyce, manager
of the run, not later than o'clock on
February Is. \ fee of 80 cents will be
charsed each contestant
The Washington times., 1913-02-12
GRIFFITH WILL Be
!. ASKED TO REFEREE
G. v. INDOOR MEET
Virginia and Hopkins May Con-
test Mile Relay in Field and
Track Games.

When Manager n. q. slarrow oe the
George Washington University track
teams returns from New York, where
he went last Saturday to secure Ofym-
pic stars to participate In the q. w.
meet on the night Of February - he
will ask Clark Griffith. manager OF the
Nationals, to act In the capacity Of
referee at the big games.
Griffith has rendered his services TO
several of the athletic organizations
about town. in various capacities. and
it il hoped. he win favor the @. w.
meet to the above extent.
Virginia and Johns Hopkins may pos
sibiy match. their relay teams in the
mile even. n the George Washington
indoor games. The Baltimore fnsfi-
tuition has asked Manager Slarrow. OF
the ioca; university TO match them
with some capable quartet. and Siarrov
has wired Pop" Lannigan to ask Il
the virginians are willing to Be
n atched with Johns Hopkins. A rSriy
Is expected some time today.
Richmond College. of Richmond. Va.
has asked the George Washington mar
sgement to match its one-mtfe team
with Washington and Lee, II possible.
Last year the Old Dominion squad
raced against the Lexington four. the
former winning by but a few yards
The Richmond team believes II can re-
peat this performance, and hopes II
can lengthen the distance by which the
race was Won
Following are the entries received for
the George Washington meet yester-
day: SSo-yard senior relay. Twinins
Athletic Club Is. Sheridan, ". Warren.
C. Rose. E. McGlarney. and o. Mcade,.
Fifty-yard scholastic hurdle race. II.
S. Brsmer: 50-yard dash. for novices.
G. l.. Jones; one-mile relay for boys
sixteen years OF over, (H. 8. Bramer.
G. L. Jones, A. c. Jeffcoa;, and A. p.
Thuai,.son), all Of Brfariy Hal. Acad-
erny: shot put, John T. Fletchal. Bri.
aYly Hall Academy
Ninety-pound relay. George Dsrfey,
Charles Keller. George Riggs Dressed.
and Edward Blanchard, ST. Andrew
School; 1.oo0-yard run, Norman S.cnz.
Washington A. A: 50-yard dash. scsoi-
astic. H. G. Shinn. L. Y. Davidson. and
R. G. Clark: 44o-yard South Atlantis,
Championship, S. j. Leanard: 1,ooc-
yard run, open, E. o. Barr. al OF
Eastern High School; 44o-yard dash.
South Atlantic Championship. Lenarj
boswell, Theological Seminar.
The Washington times., 1913-02-12

Connie Mack In counting on Bender,
Coombs, and Plank to win his pennant
this year-if he wins a pennant.
Hans Wagner's basketball team has
won forty-six games this winter.
Al Elawltter. the Tiger recruit, has
had a lot OF experience. In five years
of professional ball he has worn the uni
form of eight clubs.
Chief Bender, of the Athletics, is
the only twirler who led his league two
years in pitching.
It is reported that Johnny King will
lead the Topeka club this season.
Owner Navin., of the Tigers. an
nounced that twenty rockies VIII ac-
company the first squad to Gulfport.
Miss.
There are but nine men in big league
baseball who played in every scheduled
game last season.
Shortstop Wood. Of the Helena club
of the Union Association. led the short
fielders of his league in making bob
lies. He made 100 errors.
Pitcher Harry Camnitz, brother of
Howard Camnitz, of the Pirates, has
signed his contract 20 pitch for the
Louisville Colonels.
The Columbus American Association
team will do its spring training at Hop
kinsville. Ky.
Pitcher IIurles Johnson who worked
for the Binghamton club last year, has
signed with Jack Dunns Baltimore
team.
Bob Bcscher, the Cincinnati speed
king. has now led the National League
in base running for four successive
years.
Roy Castleton, who pitched FOR the
New York Americans q few years ago.