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Why Rockefeller Keeps Out.

d, And fencing is only one of the minor
items of cost. When I came to figure
on buildings. with alright construc-
ton and double floors for brooder and
laying houses. I began to understand
why Rockefeller hesitates to go into
the chicken business.
But we have put our hand to the
pIow and we are not going to turn
h8ck. What we shall do is to cut costs
wherever 1t Is possible without sacri-
fcing efficiency. One thing Is certain.
We can't have a plant built on the
Elaborate lines we would like. After
studying the problem up one side and
down the other and across the middle.
we have adopted dollar per hen as
the unit OF costs. and we are going to
stick to it. come what may. In olner
words. we have decided to have
poultry farm based upon 1000 laying
Aens. and our entire plant. buildings.
-bences. incubators. hovers. implements
and tools must not cost over $1,000.
This does not of course. include the
problem is going 70 be hard one. It
would be a lot easier. and lot more
satisfactory. II we could make 50 per
hen the unit of cost: but such an al
lowance would mean the mortgaging of
a years profits, and we are in no
financial condition to warrant such
luxury.
II am planning to do most of the car
.pentering work myself. hiring a man
occasionally for day or two at
time to help in erecting the frames. Had
any one suggested year ago that
could plan and build a chicken house
myself I would have testified to his in
sanity. I had hardly ever in my life
used a saw, and I had about as much
experiences in driving nail as the
woman of the comics. But I must have
inherited from some ancestor a natural
talent for carpenter work. The thing
h4s seemed to come to me with sur
prising ease. and from the very first l
have liked work with lumber and tools.
Fencing Not Child's Play.
4 made a start on the fencing this
'wees. getting up two rolls. or 800 feet
-of the poultry wire. If ever a thing was
making a man "cuss." poultry wire 10
At Invariably one side wire is shorter
sthan the other. The bottom wire was
the short one the first roll put up,
elike the waves at sea. On the second
roll j got the short wire at the top, and
the bottom wire had slack that no in
genuity could take up The net result
WAS far from satisfactory from an es-
--thetfc standpoint. but so long the
fence confines chickens We will en-
,deayor to endure the outrage upon our
artistic senses.
have made deal with the owner of
Sunny Knoll that will save me a con-
half acre of woods on the place there
rs considerable chestnut. and scattered
over the partly -cleared acres there
are several dozen small locust trees.
gut posts wherever I like. paying 3
cents each for them eight feet long and
not over three inches in diameter when
they are straight and 1 ce': r-'S when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-29
Sod I couldn't Grow crimson clover
We without soil inOculation.

We without soil Ejaculation.
they are crooked. Posts running from
three inches up to six inches In dia-
meter are to cost me cents each.
Where ] will make the WORTHWHILE saw
ing Is on crooked posts. Chestnuts as
4 rule run straight, but a whole lot of
the locusts are as crooked as a dog g
hind leg. have discovered that by dig
cling the post hole large enough a post
CROOKED like the letter S can be made
to answer every requirement for poultry
.fencing. except that straight posts are
needed for the corners. Not even red
cedar will last longer than a yellow
locust post A straight locust post
thEee inches or over in diameter costs
as cents. I figure on getting out hun
Ared or more crooked ones at l cent
each That means a considerable saving.
80 . Fame With Crimson Clover.
I had Mr.. Brown over Thursday even
ing to inspect my crimson clover II
was the first opportunity of book
farmer" to hand one" to the regulars
All the regulars, Mr.. Brown include ed
said I couldn't grow crimson Clover
without soil incubation. Several
weeks ago ] bought seed and planted
1t, between rows. when 1 gave corn
Dina beans. etc, a final cultivation
because of the drought the seed had
lain dormant and l was about ready
to agree with my neighbors that il
couldn't be did" But the rains early
nhfs week gave the seed a chance to
terminate. and all over my garden the
-Toung clover is in evidence.
No one of my neighbors had at
tempted to deny the soil benefits that
would result from the growing OF
crimson clover The point they made
was that II could not be grown with.
out an expense in preparation tha
would more than Offset the benefits
The thing that gratified me most wa.
The announcement of Mr.. Brown thai
he purposed sowing crimson clover liz
Torty acres of late corn, which required
Another cultivation I have no doub,
that crimson clover will add consider.
ae4y to the fertility of my garden mex,
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and Lou Strayer. two newspaper CORE
spondents. sent in their cards to Rep
resentatfve Burke last Wednesday.
Back came the page with note.
Here's the very note:
IT regret to inform the delegation of
newspaper correspondents that ! never
leave the House floor while Congress is
in session. Yours very truly. James
Francis Burke"
Later he galloped out to discover
whether Bob and Lou could take q
joke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-29
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Look not for peace in family jars.

Look not for peace in family jars.
One little peek-a-boo makes the whole
world peck.
1t takes a strong-minded woman to
hold her tongue.
Some people could write all they know
on a post card.
A mean rich man may jolly himself
into thinking that his means justify his
meanness.
Occasionally the unkindest cut OF all
Is handed us by butcher.
No. Alonzo 1t isn't the best man at
a wedding who Is roped in.
Woman may be the weaker vessel. but
man is more apt to go broke
The average small boy eats as though
fattening himself for market.
From his neighbours point of view II
is impossible for any man to be perfect.
All the labor-saving devices ever in
vented have failed to make the loafer
popular.
And lots of men in this world seem
to have been born to take the place of
punching bags.
Cartoonists have a mania for portray
ing Uncle Sam as an uncouth hayseed-
but they can't prove It,
However. the city chap who imagines
he could get rich raising chickens on a
two-acre farm may be perfectly sane
on all other subjects.
Anyway, you can't counterfeit a
sneeZe.
Wisdom is what others suspect that
you don't know
Occasionally man has soft spot
in his heart, but more often in his head
The average girl hasn't much time for
her kin until after she Is married and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-29
HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE
Bv Earl Goodwin.

who In his wonderful way. made q pro-
test against the fact that all stage vii
lains wore patent leather shoes. no mat
ter whether they were cowboys or dane
ing men. Since then, I think. patent
feature OF the modern stage In connec-
ton with the actors who depict the sons
OF the rich. II was Jerome X. jerome
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A Job for Mrs. Jarvis.

-.,mber of the association would be
neg Zane thinks some one like Mrs.
JAZZ me widow whose cottage burned
th,1 thinner and who is struggling to
rcs7 q family. should be engaged as mar
ket cserk at wages that would make it
WORTH while. but still would not cut too
deeply into the profits of members. The
duties of market clerk would not need to
interfere seriously with her activities as
n producing member of the association.
II would be necessary to hire driver for
the truck at weekly salary. and Jane
is now trying to devise some method by
which both the truck and driver could
be profitably employed on the days the
market was not open.
The plan contemplates an initial cam
paign of newspaper advertising. the ex-
pectaton being that after the project was
under way the lower prices and superior
quality OF the goods would make further
advertising unnecessary. Prices would
be established upon the basis of giving
half the saving In marketing costs to the
consumer and half to the producer The
consumer would get further advantage
she argues, In goods Of undoubted fresh
ness with an absolute guarantee OF
money back II they are not as repre-
scented.
There is not, of course. any way to
tell in advance whether such a plan
would be workable. There would have
to be degree of mutual confidence diff
hcuf to find in a large association of
individuals. For instance. here Is a
typical problem: Suppose Mrs Jones
and Mrs. Smith each consign fifty quarts
of lima beans. 1t chances that the whole
fifty quarts sent by Mrs. Jones are sold
to consumers direct, while only half of
Mrs. Smiths consignment is disposed of
in this manner, the other twenty-five
quarts going to a commission house at
lower price. How is the matter going
to be adjusted between Mrs. Jones and
Mrs. Smith in a manner satisfactory to
hOfh2
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A Problem in Eggs.

Or. suppose number Of customers get
it into their heads that the eggs packed
by member No. ~" are superior to the
eggs of other members, and insist upon
having them so long as the supply lasts.
The result might be that all the eggs
sent by No AZ would be sold at top prices,
while some of the eggs OF all the other
members would have to go to the COM
mission men at lower prices. Should No.
~ have the benefit of the preference his
eggs had created. or should all be lump
ed together and an average struck in
| the returns to members?
These are only sample problems. It is
| plain to be seen that others would arise,
some of them possibly even more vexa-
| tious. There would have to be some
| one to decide these problems as they
came up, and the decisions of that some
| one would have to be accepted as final
| and conclusive. or the association would
| go to an early grave. The hardest prob
| lem of all is whether there could be
found a hundred farm families with suf-
fcient mutual confidence to make the
thing go.
| But l admit as do all our neighbors
| with whom the matter has been discuss
ed. that the idea is big one with great
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-29

Some Of the imaginary blessings we
haven't would probably make us un-
happy IL we had them.
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you will remember. that Jane obtained
her order. Mrs. Brown, though making
no attempt to hide the fact that she was
pleased. dared Jane to do anything Of the
kind. Lots Of other women. she contend
ed. made just as good apple butter for
their own tables, but that 1t remained for
Jane to realize its commercial possibfli-
ties and to put that realization into
execution
I don't know what to think Of Jane.
She is developing some surprising at
tributes. She has plan under her bon
net now that may make her the real
leader Of our community She kept me
up until long after midnight a few
operative selling association. Modest as
she has been under her own laurels, there
is nothing modest about James proposed
association. She wants to organize a
hundred or more farm families Of our
neighborhood to deal directly with Wash
ington housewives.
Plans Washington Store.
Here is the program, SO far as she
has worked II out: She would rent a
storeroom in some central location and
have three market days q week. Tues
days. Thursdays and Saturdays. The
requisites would be low rent and the
minimum of investment in equipment
An goods would be sold under a general
association label with the addition of a
serial number for each member. Stand
ards in quality and in packing would be
insisted upon. Such staples as eggs
dressed poultry. butter. vegetables and
fruit would be received on consignment
the theory being that any of these goods
remaining unsold at the end Of the mar
ket day could be disposed Of through the
regularly established trade channels.
Then, In addition, orders would be taken
for anything members had to dispose OF.
such as jellies and preserves. homemade
sausage, country cured hams and bacon,
cottage cheese and all the fnnumerable
things that are produced on a farm.
Jane has conferred with officials of the
trolley company, and they have assured
her that they would be glad to have a
freight car left at our station the even
ing before each market day. Members
would be expected to bring non-perish-
able goods the evening before and per-
ishable goods early In the morning Of
market days. The car would have to be
loaded in time to attach to the first reg
ular passenger train leaving for the city.
about $50 o'clock in the morning. At
the terminal Jane would have 1t met by
the associations own motor truck. a
truck large enough to carry the contents
Of the car to the storeroom in about four
trips. All goods would be in the store
room and on display by o'clock. The
market would keep open until pm, and
I'll: purchases over a certain amount
-rc's.d be delivered free later in the day
:. re motor truck
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Unwelcome Visitor.

From the Boston Transcript.
There's nothing to detain me-" said
the young woman who was lust goin 3
out when q dude called.
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possibilities, both to the producer and
the consumer. And SO Jane has become
quite a parsonage in our community. A
meeting Is to be held at the schoolhouse
one night next week, and Jane is to make
a speech. I know you'll pardon me If for
a moment I drop into slang. The thing
gets my goat" year ago Jane was
so timid that her voice was rarely heard
even in our circle of intimate friends.
Next week she is to stand on the teach.
ers' rostrum at the schoolhouse and
make a speech to a hundred or more
people. Do you blame me If rub my
eyes and pinch myself to be quite sure
I'm awake?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-11
BLEASE'S FLOOR LEADER
BADLY INJURED IN FIGHT
lie Declares Encounter Cnused by
Insult, md lie C0naiders 1t
Personal Affair.

Spartanburg, $. G.. June 10.-With a
deep cash In his forehead. Cecil G.
Wychc. Il young attorney, floor leader
for Governor Cole Blcascs supporters
in tho House OF Representatives., ap-
pcarcd In dazed condition at hos
pital hcre early this morning. When
his wound had been dressed, he de-
sired 20 leave. but ne was 80 weak that
the physicians prevailed on him 10 re-
main in the hospital for few days
Mr.. Wychc Haid he had been struck
by man armed with brass "knuckles."
IL. admitted that he knew the man.
but declined 10 give his name or tell
where or when the assault had been
committed Throughout the day he
persistcntly refused to answer any
questions, but tonight he made the
following statement;
Tho affair last night was nothing
more or less than "A plain, ordinary
fight which was caused ny an Insult.
consider u personal private affair.
and for that reason ! refuse to make
anv further statement"
Mr.. Wyche visited - newspaper Of
nce here on Tuesday and made threats.
I, IS alleged. aKa!ns; an unidentified
person, who had given the newspapers
letter from MIR. Wychc. directing
plans FOR a sccre; meeting OF Gov
crnor RIease'a licutenants. This was
recalled In connection with tho assault
upon him las: night.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-11
SETTLEMENT PREDICTED
UiE Fire Insurance Companies Expect
Cd Nciucn To- u entu ucE>

ed to Return 10 kentucky.
Louisville, Ky, June l0.-Scttl"ment I
Of the kentucky Arc insurance tangle
caused hy the wholesale withdrawal
from the State OF foreign Insurance
com panics. following enactment by the
last Legislature Of the Glenn -Grcenc
Amendment to the Xorn Law providing
for more str aiscnt State supervision
and taxation OF premiums, was predict
ed to-day as a result OF conferences
hero between representatives of scv-
cral large insurance companies and
State officials.
a proposition submitted by the IN
Surancc representatives. is declared by
members OF the conference 10 he sat
isfactory 10 the state officials. except
I'm q few minor details. and probably
Viii receive official approval. Under
this proposition. the Insurance compa-
uics agree TO the principle Of state reg
ulation. and Will return TO the State
at once.
Tho state officials ar" 20 suspend on
Grafton Of tho new law and refrain
from putting certain heavy expenses
euiailcd hy the law upon the compa
mics. = tost Of thc constitutionality
Of tho measure will hc made
: commission viii be named 10 frame
"A no~ bill TO be introduced at the next
Legislature to take the place OF the
Ioru law and tho amendment. Ons Of
the three commissioners VII. be ahmed
by Kentucky business organizations.
another by Tho state Insurance Board
aui the third h. tho Insurance com
paui.s.
Tho companies also agree - make
certain reduction in rates in accordance
with orders issued by the State RHitns
'.UtIl.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-11
HEAT WAVE CONTINUES
TO SWEEP OVER SOUTH
Maximum OF 0S.3 in Lynchburg Is
New Record for Virginia
Town.
RELIEF PROBABLE To-DA
Weather Forecast for Southern
States Indicates Unsettled COndi-
tiOns, With Local Rains in Many
Sections.

Atlanta. Ga, June 10.-Tho heat wave
which has GriDped the South for sew
eral days continued to-day. Columbus,
G;t. reported the highest temperature
inc mercury there rising TO 100 de-
Grees Bristol, Virginia Tennessee had
= temperatures of 90 degrees and
l.ynchhurg Va. recorded a maximum
OF sS.3. The latter was a new June re-
cord for Lynchhurg. The temperature
here reached SO degrees. three lower
than yesterday
Southern States tomorrow indicate
thnt heat conditions might be some
what relieved by local Thunderstorm
ers Unsettled conditions. with prob
able locality rains was indicated for
Virginia. North Carolina. South Caro-
lima. Florida. Louisiana, Alabama. Mis-
SisSippi and Eastern Texas Fair and
continued warm weather was forecast
for Tennessee. Kentucky and Oklahoma
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-11
MESSAGE FROM CARRANZA
MOTT NECEINED DURING DAY

WashinGto d. c., June 10.-To day
brought little change In the Washing
ton end of the Mexican situation.
General CarranZas message OF in
structions TO Rafael Zuburan. his rep
resentative here, on which the reply
of The Constitutionalists to the me-
dlators will be based, did not arrive.
Nows came that the steamer Antilla.
with it's cargo OF war stores, would ar
tive Mt Tampico tomorrow. instead OF
to-day. All indications were that the
United states would not Interfere with
the shipment.
The mcdlators and American dele
gatcs at Niagara Falls, Secretary Bryan
said. were engaged In give and take
discussion of suggestions for the new
order In Mexico. He said he knew of
no deadlock"
Mr.. Zuburau received during the day
a message from General CarranZa in
which the latter announced his ar
rival ut Saltllo The message con-
tanned no reference to the appointment
OF const;tutionalists delegates to Nj
agara Falls, Mr.. Zuburan said. and ne
still WAS uncertain as to when Gen.
eral CarranZa's long awaited message
of instructions would be dispatched.
WILL MAKE NO STATEMENT
OF THE AMERICAN POLICY
Although department officials de-
clined TO make definite statements of
the American policy In regard to the
strongly intimatcd that the vessel
would be allowed to debark tho muni-
tions undisturbcd.
Secretary Bryan made It clear that
full embargo on the shipment of
arms and ammunition from American
ports 10 Mexico was in force. but would
say nothing regarding the Antilla-
Count Bcrnstroff. the German am
bassador. called at the State Depart
ment TO discuss the fines imposed upon
the German steamers Ypiranga and
bavaria In connection with the land
ing of arms at Puerto Mexico. No
formal protest against the fines was
filed.
Relief for some OF the battlesh1ps at
Vera Cruz was announced at the Navy
Department. a division consisting OF
the New Hampshire. Michigan, Ne.
braska and Utah Will start north next
week for homo ports. and their places
Will be taken by tho Delaware, Rhode
Island and Kansas.
The written report OF Vice Consul
Silliman, covering his treatment by
the Federal commander at Saltillo. the
forced entry into the safe OF the. Amer
lean consulate there and confiscation
of the copy OF the State Department.
Code, was filed during the day. Mr..
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-11
DESTROYER OF PORTRAIT
COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.

birmingham. Eng, June 10.-Aliss
Bertha Ryland. the suifragcttc who
yesterday destroyed with Il butchers
cleaver George Romncy's Portrait of
n Soy" In the Birmingham Art Gal
lCry, to-day was committed for trial.
DHi ing the hearing she shriekcd with
ont cessation and quoted scripture. She
used the text IL came not to send peace.
but n sword" as justification for her
act, and she declared that the mill
tants were working with divine guild
ancc for purity and righteousness"
"No surrender was her parting cry
rs she went to her cell.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-11
HERSHEY is LIKELY CHOICE
baltimore Lawyer Being Talked of for
Federal Reserve Board.

washing Ton, June IU.--Omcr +. Her
shey. Il Baltimore lawyer. was being
alked of in official circles to-day AZ
a likely choice for membership on the
Federal Reserve Board. The President
is expected to send in the reserve board
nominations in day or two.
The New York Federal reserve dis
Warburg; the Atlanta district by ".
i. g. Harding, and the San Francisco
district by y. G. Miller while ii Is
generally expected that t.. G. Simmons.
will represent the ST. Louis district.
This leaves the Boston, Richmond.
Cleveland, Dallas. Kansas City. Mime
apolis. Chicago and Philadelphia dis
.ricis from which the fifth man can
be chosen.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-11
Spreads Into East.

Washington. June lO.-The terrific
neat wave that has caused many deaths
and intense suffering in crowded cen
tres OF the central Valleys since tho
hrst OF the week spread to-day into
the East. In Portland. Maine. the otii-
ciai temperature reached Il maximum
Of go degrees. Boston swcltcred with
the mercury at IS, and Washington
and New York had temperatures of 50
ana SO. y few places in the Central
West temporarily were relieved How
ever generally throughout the interior
conditions to-day were as bad as on
the two days preceding. with tcmpera-
lures ranging from 90 to 9S.
There was small chance OF immcdi-
ate relief, weather Bureau officials
stated tonight.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-11

GENERALLY FAVOR MEASURE
Business Men Vote Relative to Pro-
nnsah TrnNr (Onl isHinn nIIL.

Washington. June l0.-Thc Chamber
of Commerce Of the United states to-
day sent 10 every member of the House
and Senate n letter containing an
analysis of the referendum vote. re-
Gently taken by the chamber relative
to the proposed Interstate Commerce
Commission bill. An analysis of tho
whole vote shows that business men
stinu s%mTTini of hScr aSc vo,e ' shows Srn bnwcvor
that there Is a wide divergence Of
opinion between the organiZa lions of
different localities.
The analysis by States shows the
Eastern states voting 40 in favor and
S4 against tho commission. and tho
Southern States 81 in favor and .
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-06-11
DR.. GEORGE P. COLER CALLED
offered ProfcSSOrShip of Biblc mt Nir-
Einia Christian College.
LSncCluI 20 TIC TlncS DlspNtch.I

Lsnchburg. Va. June l0.-The trus-
tees OF the Virginia Christian College
yesterday called DR.. George T.
Colcr for nineteen years occupant of
the Bible chair at the University of
Michigan, To similar work here DIR.
colcr has been a the college for sew
eral days, and the board is confident
the call VIII be accepted. The mem
bcrs OF the board chosen today are
w. w. Walsh. Of Lynchburg, succeed
ing l.. IL. Vaughan, and the following
qe-clections: Rev G.. w Kcmpcr and
H. NJ. Kent, OF Richmond: j. y. Ilar-
.nan. Of 1azewcli and Rev. Ritchie
Ware. of IynchhurE.
Announcement shows $4,000 en-
dowment was raised for the college
in two months.