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The Yale expositor., 1914-05-14
NATURES CARPETS.

If you have ever been in the bad
lands of our own country, or the
grassless plains of South America,
you know the horrors of a land
without carpet. The slightest
breath of wind sends clouds of
strangling dust heavenward, and it
seems to penetrate to every corner
of the human body. The sun seems
twice as hot as it does anywhere
else, and its glare upon the poor
baked earth is unbearable to the eye.
Were these same CRASHES deserts
covered with a greensward, they
might be even pleasant places to live,
for our impression of any place is
largely governed by its appearance,
and nothing gives the impression of
comfort and plenty, SO much as a
wealth of growing green stuff.
The weather would not only seem
cooler but It would actually be
cooler, for all growing plants cool
the surrounding atmosphere by the
large volume Of water they give off
into the air. Nature covers the
naked soil with a green growing car
pet to hide the unlovely spots from
view and to temper the climate for us.
Upon the hills and In the valleys
the trees and grasses grow thickiy,
and form a heavy carpet that holds
back the torrential rains and melting
SHOWS of spring and fall, forcing
them to proceed toward the sea with
slower speed, thus preventing the
rapid washing away of the sur
face soil Of the farmlands near the
hilly regions. Let these carpets be
removed, as they have been in the
southern states, and the loss in fer
tility from the adjacent farms will
be more in one season than the to-
tai value of the trees whose removal
made possible the washing away of
this fertility. Think of what it
would mean II all of the lumber cut
in single season were thrown into
the Mississippi and washed out to
sea, and then ponder over the fact
that the rivers Of this country are
washing away fully the same value
in plant food from hillside farm land
yearly.
But let us direct our attention to
the outward carpets around our own
homes. The green lawns, the wild
flowers. our own flower beds, the
vegetable gardens, and all of the vari.
Gus things that nature uses to cover
the earth with, have uses and mean
ings that few of us ever realize. We
all appreciate the beauty of these car
pets, but how many know that II is
the growing green things that keep
us healthy and free from disease in
the humid regions?
Upon the surface Of the earth falls
a tremendous amount Of dead vege-
table and animal matter. and all
manner of filth This material de-
composes rapidly In a moist, warm
place, and II the products Of its
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together and at the same time In close
contact with the surface of the roots
movement of soil water is thus set
up and the food supply of the soil
brought Immediately to the use of the
plant. When the operation of trans
planting is complete, the plant should
stand ! or inches deeper than 1t
stood in the nursery.
The interest in fruit garden may
be greatly enhanced by growing IN
1t plants not adapted naturally to
the climatic region In which the gar
den is located, as, for instance. the
growing of figs as far north as the
latitude of Philadelphia. The sum
mers OF the region are sufficiently
long and warm to induce a strong
growth In the fig, but as the fruits
normally require a long period in
which to mature, the plant becomes
useless as fruit producer unless suf
hcient protection is afforded to carry
over winter the immature fruits set
the previous fall. This can be sue
cessfully accomplished in several
ways. Inc most hardy sort should
be selected, In addition to which the
fruiting shoots may be wrapped in
mating, covered with straw, and the
fruits thus successfully protected or,
If it seems desirable, temporary sheds
may be built over the plants. and
these matched with straw or fodder
sufficiently to protect them from
frost.
A coy summer veranda may be
covered by grapevines. thus securing
the double advantage of a cool, shady
nook during summer and a supply OF
fruit in autumn. The vines may be
utilized as a cover for walks and
drives or as a canopy over small
outbuildings.
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POULTRY DR0PPINGS
ARE OF BIG VALUE
According to Maine Station, COL
lection Should Be Made Daily
to Conserve Strength.

A recent bulletin of the Maine ag-
ricultural experiment station shows
that the poultrymap or farmer can ma
terially add to the profits of his bust
ness by properly caring for the drop
pings of his fowls. For example, it
is shown that the droppings from
1000 fowls if preserved without need
less loss are worth at least $500 per
annum, and this estimate is based
on the assumption that less than half
OF the droppings, or only 80 pounds
per hen per year, can be collected.
According to the Maine station, the
droppings should be collected daily
and mixed with substances which will
Q prevent loss of nitrogen; (2) add
sufficient potash and phosphoric acid
to make a better balanced fertilizer,
and 90 improve the mechanical con.
dition OF the manure so that 1t can
be applied to the land with a manure
spreader.
This can be done as follows: To
each 80 pounds of the manure add ten
pounds of saWdust, good dried loan,
or peat, 16 pounds of acid phosphate
and eight pounds Of kainit Such
mixture will contain about l.20 per
cent of nitrogen, As per cent of phos-
phoric acid and per cent of potash,
which, used at the rate of two tons
per acre would furnish so pounds of
nitrogen, 1S5 pounds of phosphoric
acid and so pounds Of potash, and at
the present price of fertilizing ingre.
dents 1t would be worth about $40
per ton.
The mixture would furnish a we'll
balanced stable fertilizer, which, al
though not fine enough to work well
in drills, can be successfully applied
with manure spreader The treated
manure should be well sheltered I'M
til time to apply to the land-that is,
shortly before blowing.
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ERUPTION ON CHILD'S BODY

Il. i. ID. No. 2, jackson, Mo.-"Our
daughter who is ten months old was
suffering from an eruption all over
The body. In the beginning they were
small red spots and afterwards turned
10 bloody sores. We tried all sorts
Cf ointments but they did not procure
L..y re!iei for Our child She cried
almost Cay and night and we scarcely
cCc!d touch her, because she was COW
cred with sores from head to foot.
1--WE had heard about the Cuticura
Soap and Ointment and made trial
with them, and after using the RENE
dies, that is to say, the Soap and the
Ointment, only few days passed and
our child could sleep well and after
one week she was totally we'll"
(Signed) August F. Bartels, Nov. 25,
1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample OF each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. l., Boston. ADV.
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6HeDkEKYARD
FARNERs
y PROF JMHLARD DOJTT
SHADE TREES AND THEIR CARE
wright, Western Newspaper Union

The main factor Of beauty in any
landscape is the shade tree. 1t is con-
sidered above all other picturesque
features when we select a location for
our own homes, and If there are no
trees growing on the land naturally,
our first thought is to have some
planted. Yet with all of this care in
securing nice trees, we give them
practically no attention.
Shade trees need care just as much
as do fruit trees. A beautiful elm or
maple which it has taken fifty years
or more to grow may be absolutely
ruined within couple of years by
neglect. In the eastern section Of
this country whole counties have been
practically denuded of live ornamen-
tai trees through the ravages of I'M
comfortable pests before the inhab-
itants of the territory fully realized
what was upon them.
Perhaps the most needed and the
easiest care to give to most trees is
regular pruning. This should be done
every two or three years.
In cutting off limb there is only
one right way to do 1t. The greatest
caution must be exercised to avoid
tearing the bark below the limb. Use
a sharp saw and make a good deep
cut on the under side of the limb be-
fore cutting on top. Make the cut
as close as you can to the trunk, make
1t smooth and parallel to the trunk
BY SO doing the scar will be smooth
and the bark will grow over it and
heal it up tightly, so that there will
be no chance fo1 decay to set in. The
scar should be painted at once to pre-
bark grows over.
If there are holes in the trunk of
the tree, clean them out we'll, remove
all decayed wood, paint the inside of
the cavity and fill it with rich mix
ture of cement.
Should any of your trees show a
tendency TO split at the crotch, run a
heavy galvanized bolt entirely through
each of the limbs that are separating,
and fasten the bolts together with a
chain or heavy wire, to take the split
ting strain off the crotch.
If there is any danger of your trees
being attacked by foliage eating cat
erpillars or other insects, you should
paint each tree with wide band of
tree tanglefoot, or some similar sub
stance, and the time to do it is before
the parasites get up into the tree. OF
course you must bear in mind that
your precautions will be useless if
your trees are too close to other trees
which are not so protected. Should
any serious pest appear, communicate
at once with the State Entomologist
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breaking up were permitted to escape
unhindered they would soon make
the region about them exceedingly
unhealthy. This can best be ex-
emplified by thinking of a large city
going without having it's garbage
and sewage removed from the vi
entity of the homes for five or six
months.
Nature has provided against any
such deadly conditions in the coun-
try by covering the soil with plants
that eagerly absorb all of the pro-
ducts of decomposition, and the live
plants eat up the dead plants and
animals as rapidly as they die. Then
more animals eat the live plants,
and, dying in turn, are eaten them
selves by other animals or live
plants. depending upon the place and
manner OF their going. 1t is n
sort Of Endless chain that never
ceases. Natures carpets keep US
healthy, as well as happy. and from
the uncarpeted hills, the wealth Of
our descendants sweeps merrily away
to the bottom of the sea.
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Spiritual.

The new minister in a western par
ish was making his first calls, and
when he reached the home of the
Peevys he said to Mr. Peevy:
Il don't think that ! have seen Mr..
Peevy at church yet, have |, Sister
Peevy?"
We'll, no. you amt" replied Sister
Peevy. THE fact is, Peevy likes to
lay abed late of a Sunday morning,
and time he gets up an has his break
fast and gets through the Sunday pa
pers an does his Sunday Shawn an
mebbe an hour or two of tinkerin'
around the house that he allus puts
off 20 do OF Sunday, an then has a
smoke an mebbe cuts some O. the
children's hair or beats rugs for me,
or even mops up the kitchen if I'm
hurried-time he's done all that it's
too late for church. Fact is, Peevy ain t
real spiritual-minded man nohow-
at least not the same as / am. New
York Saturday Evening Post.
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MAKING THE CITY FLOCK PAY.

Many people keep chickens, but few
make them pay. Some of these few
get the chicken fever seriously and
go into the poultry business on a
larger scale and then even fewer make
1t pay.
The city flock of hens can be made
to pay and pay well, but they cannot
be fed and housed like pigs if they
are to produce profit.
Anyone can make hens pay if only
enough are kept to eat up the table
scraps, but when feed must be pur-
chased 1t costs too much to feed a
hen three months in cold weather and
two months during molting without
getting any eggs.
Local conditions vary, but the fol-
lowing general rules must be OBJ
served in making the city flock pro-
titable:
Rules.
l. Hatch the chicks before April
18th, so that the pnllets will start to
lay before cold weather.
2. Don't board any ROSTERS. Buy
your Matching eggs. It's cheaper
g. Furnish shade in summer AID
sunshine in winter.
4. Half of the south front of the
hen house should be entirely open or
covered with cloth only. This keeps
the air fresh, the house dry and the
hens healthy. Only healthy hens lay.
5. Never let louise or mite
live overnight. Furnish a dust bath
in sunny place, Change the bedding
and nest straw every month, and
spray nests and perches with lice
paint every two weeks.
6. Don't doctor a hen that is really
sick. Kill her
Z. Give the hens. meat food and
green food at least three times 6
week.
8. The chicken yard must be kept
fresh and sweet. Spade it up at least
twice year, turning under some
slaked lime to correct the acidity OF
the soil. Sow rye in the fall for
spring green feed and to sweeten the
ground
8. No hen is worth enough merely
as layer to be kept through her
second mott. Kill her or sell her be-
fore she starts to mott.
10. Don't feed too much and don't
feed too little. Grain morning and
night is enough, particularly, if dry
mash Is kept before the birds and the
grain should be fed in deep litter
There is great satisfaction in a flock
of chickens if they will do their duty
when 1t will have the greatest effect.
Winter is the time when eggs are
highest and fresh ones scarcest, and
the biggest factor in getting winter
eggs is to hatch the pullets early. A
combination of healthy early Matched
pullets and lots of nourishing food
always makes winter eggs, but few
people seem to have recognized the
factors of this simple equation.
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MENDlNG THE LAWN.

In many localities the green grass
is covering the bare brown places.
You may not be surprised that your
lawn is not in as good condition as
1t was last fall, for the past winter
has been a hard one in many To-
calities, and plenty of grass was win
ter killed. This always occurs to a
certain extent, and particularly when
there has been very little snow to
protect 1t from the cold.
AS soon as the snow goes II is
time for you to look over the lawn
and lay Your plans for mending the
worn places. If the grass is thin,
or the soil bare in spots, the thing
to do is to scratch the ground there
very thoroughly with an iron rake,
and SOW grass seed and some good
mixed fertilizer or bone meal very
thick. This may be done early, the
earlier the better, as grass seed will
weather, and the seedlings will COM
mence to grow as soon as the warm
sun strikes the ground. After cow
ing the seed, rake 1t in so that the
moist soil will come into close con-
tact with the seeds and the wind
cannot blow them away. Then go
over the newly planted spots with
roller.
The lawn roller is almost as i'm
portant an implement for good
lawn as is the lawn mower. There
are number of good kinds, and
any heavy. smooth roller is good
one II it is used well and often. The
newly planted lawn should be rolled
as soon after planting as possible
Every lawn, new or old, should be
rolled several times in the spring,
while the soil is soft, to smooth the
surface of the soil, make better
connection with the soil water below,
and cause the grass to thicken up by
sending out more shoots. A very
good plan Is to roll the lawn after
every rain throughout the summer,
and the results will pay well for the
effort.
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Green Manure Crops.

Green manure crops may be in
furious the first season In exhaust
ing the soil moisture If they are per.
mitted to grow too late in the spring
before being turned under. II too
much green manuring is practised, it
may be detrimental to the ground,
since 1t will cause acid conditions.
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haphazsrd Method

There are many men in the cora
belt who consider themselves GOOD
farmers and who are today shovelins
hundreds Of bushels of corn into thei,
teed lots every month without know.
ing whether they are feeding II al L
profit or a loss.
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FIGHT PLAGUE IN THE ORIENT
American Anti-Tuberculosis Society
Has Been Active in Movement for
Health Preservation.

tuberculosis is one of the most Sc
rious public health problems of the
Orient. Active organizations TO fight
this disease have been formed in
Japan, the Philippines, India and Aus
tralia. A movement is on foot for
national organization in China and in
a number of cities local work has been
started. While no accurate figures
are available, those who are in po-
sition TO know claim that consumption
takes annually from 100000 to 1.000,.
lives in China alone. In India the
death rate is fully as high, and on ac-
count of caste distinctions and native
superstitions, the problem of proven
tion and treatment is peculiarly diff
cult. The Japanese government has
taken a hand officially in the control
Of tuberculosis, and is cooperating
with two well-organized private asso-
Citations. The death rate, while very
high, is lower than in China and In
dia. Under the direction of the United
States public health service a move
ment for the prevention of tuberculo-
sis in the Philippines has also been
organized
The National Association for the
Study and Prevention of Tuberculo-
sis, with headquarters in New York.
although organized especially for work
in this country, has been largely in
strumental in the establishment of
anti-tuberculosis movement in most
of the oriental countries, as well as in
Africa and South America.
The Yale expositor., 1914-05-14
Cars TO Have Noise,ess Brakes.

A brake shoe having a strip of as
phaltum let into the surface has been
adopted for use on street cars in New
York recently. The new brake is said
to be practically noiseless, while hav-
ing good wear-resisting qualities.
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Appropriate.

What would you recommend in
bouquets for an April bride?"
why not carry a shower"
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Smile on wash day. That's when you use
Red Cross Ball Blue. Clothes winter than
snow. All grocers. Adv.
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Putnam Fadeless Dyes make nc
muss. Adv.
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combined. Don't forget that fuel saw
ing soon makes up the price of the
stove. That a cool kitchen makes
cooking easy, especially when striking
q match gives you your fire.
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In France one man in twenty is en-.
tiled to wear a decoration.
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Doing beats wishing, but it's moro
like work
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ABoon to the Farm Housewife

NEW PROJECTIONS come in 2, 8,
and burner sizes, which your dealer
can show you. Ask him to explain tho
special burner construction, how the
broiler broils on both sides at once,
and about the patented fuel reservoir,
refilled without turning off your fire.
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Be sure and see tho
latest model with the
n c W TIL Err MOS
oven, an invention
thatgivesyou arrange
and fireless cooker
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New REJECTION
Oil Cook-StoVe

Hue; 90 sInOKe, no door.
Note. in the picture, the cabinet top,
the fine, big oven, the shelves and the
towel racks. Roasts, bakes, toasts and
broils to perfection"
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The kitchen loses its terrors with the
NEW PERFECTIONW Wick Blue Flame
cook stove. Does exactly the work of
the coal range without the terrible ex-
hausting heat and the dirt and trouble.
Burns clean, convenient, economical
oil; almost saves its cost during the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-18

pleted it's work last night EstimateF had been submitted to the committee by the board of engineers calling for appropriations aggregating $53, ,OO0, GOO. The bill laid before the House carries
 a little over $14,eOoO00 more than last years appropriation which was for
 maintenance of work on existing pro- jects Although number of propos- als designed to change the present sys- tenn of making appropriations for wat erway improvements had been sug- gested including that of Senator New lands for creating commission to control all river and harbor expendi- lures, the committee took no action on them.
 Chairman Sparkman explained that no new legislation had been considered because the committee had worked under pressure in order to carry out the general plan for speeding up the bill for the completion of the 1eEis- lative program before March 4.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-18
CUT $2O,OOO, 900
 FROM HARBOR BILL

Washington, Dec 1s-Big cuts in army engineering board estimates for existing waterway improvement pro- jects throughout the country-in some instances more than 50 per cent--are made in the annual river and harbor appropriation bill as reported to the House today. The committee on rfv- CTS and harbors Topped off nearly $20,- 000, GOO from the army boards recon mendatfons and brought in a measure appropriating 34,13s, ,5s0. No provis- ion was made for projects, the bill providing only for continuance of work already undertaken.
 The committee had been preparing the bill for several weeks and com-
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-18
SEEK THOUSANDS TAKEN BY AUTO BANDIT WHO IS
 KILLED IN POLICE DUEL

Cincinnati, Dec. 1s-The police today are searching for $1s,1o0 obtained by Frank G. Hohl, automobile bandit, from the two banks he held up and robbed yesterday before he was nor- tally shot in a pistol duel with three police officers.
 Patrolman Edward Knau1, the po- iceman shot by Hoh1, was operated on early today and the attending phy- sicians held out very little hope for his recovery.
 HohPs body still lies unclaimed at the city hospital. His wife, Mrs. Der tha Hoh1, who was arrested last night declared she would not claim the body.
 She denied knowing nything about the robbery, saying that she even was ignorant of the fact that Hohl had
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-18
SERBS SAY AUSTRIANS'
 LOSSES ARE VERY BIG

Paris, Dec. 18-In a despatch from Nish, Servia. a correspondent of the Havas Agency says the Seryian au- thorities have re-established them selves in the vicinity of Pedrini where the Austrian troops surrendered to them. Prisoners affirm that the Aus- trian losses in recent agements, in killed and wounded have been very large and that they exceed the losses in prisoners. Heavy casualties are shown by the unnumbered unburied bodies of Austrian soldiers found on the line of their retretat
 Loznitza, where there has been no fighting recently, was burned by the Austrians.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-18
PARLIAMENT MEMBER
 SUSPENDED FOR INSULT

Melbourne, Dec. 18-During a stormy session of the federal house of rep resentatives the speaker cited Joseph Hume Cook, leader of the liberal party and aformer cabinet minister, for gross insults to the chair.
 In reply Cook, amid liberal cheer ing, said the party declined to sit under a tyrannical speaker and the op- position thereupon left the House in a body.
 Following their departure a motion apologized for his actions in the Ho,lse The clash grew out of a debate on tha commonwealth bank bill
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-18

been in the city. Mrs. HohI said her husband left her more than, a year ago because she would not take an ac- tive part in his career of crime.
 Mrs Hoh1 said that she was mar ried to Hohl in Harrisburg, in March, 1911, a. few days after he had been dismissed from the eastern peniten- tfary at Philadelphia Her maiden name was Bertha Holtzman
 Hohl was sent to the reformatorx at Huntington, Pa, when he was but IT years old,s' she said. ''He got out Of the refornatory by forging the name of 8 Harrisburg man to the re- lease papers for which he was later arrested and in connection with several rcbberies was sentenced to the eeastern penitentiary for an 1ndeterminate term of from one to five years. He served
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-18

IS months and returned to Harris burg where we were married.
 After that we came to Columbus, O., and about 14 months ago he brought me to Cincinnati. He left me. saying he was going to Chicago and the next time heard of him he had married Ivy Ormsby, 20 years old, of Salem, O., at Harrisburg, in 1913, un- der the name of Frank wilson,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-18
AFRICAN REBELS
 ARE ROUTED. SAYS BOTHA

Cape Town, Dec 18.-Genera1 I,o,,is Bofhas prenier of the Union of South Africa, considers that the rebeIlio,7
 apart from the rounding up of a few stray bands, is at an end. Accordine- ", he has gone for a short vacation on his farm before. undertakiie- . campaign against German so,1f I,,s7es-+ Africa. 'AA " est