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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-05-25

AMATEUR BASEBALL

Fort Ward defeated the Railway
Mail Service team Sunday at Fort
Ward. . To 3. McCluskey for the
Mail Clerks. was knocked out OF the
box by the soldiers IN the sixth In.
ming, and was replaced by Nelson,
who Jared no better Rose. pitch
Ing for Fort Ward. was hit In the
face In the fifth inning by a thrown
ball. which broke his Jaw and broke
off two back teeth lie remained
In the box and finished the game,
an exhibition OF most supreme grit.
Rose struck out eight men. five Of
them after he WAS hurt Batteries:
Fort Ward. Rose and stack. Rail.
way Mail Service. McCluHkey. Mel.
son and McCabe.
South Park won a great uphill
game from Jaffe Sunday, playing
errorlcss ball.
Jaffe led up TO the seventh. 5.2.
then, by hard hitting, daring base
running and few errors. South
Park finished on the long end, 1916.
Barham pitched a great game for
the Parks. holding Jaffo hitless
from the third inning 20 the end.
Batteries: Frink and Lee. Bar.
ham and iAyine.
South Park will run an excursion
10 Olympia June 6 aud has chartered
the steamer Potlatch for the coca.
sion.
The Stacy Shown team gave an
excursion 10 the navy yard Sunday,
played tho All.Navy team. and
came back homo with the bacon by
score OF 10 3. II was n TO 0
score until the fifth. when Stacy
Shown made two runs and the Navy
made one. But In the sixth the jew.
elors got onto Harris pitching and
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-05-25

1 landed six runs lIenning replaced
Harris and held the jewellers safe
for the rest OF the game. Batteries:
Stacy shown. Wilson and IRONS.
dale. All-Navy. Harris, IIenning and
Sherman.
o'Brlen lost her first game this
neaHor 10 Kent Sunday by score
OF 10 !. Kent strengthened up by
getting Mclvor. Duncan and Smith
IN itB lineup, and the many errors
OF the O'Bricn team, account for
the defeat. Batteries. For Kent.
Mclyor and pickens. for OBrion.
Cochrane and Cochrane O'Brien
plays Shaner 4 Wolff az O'Brlen
next Sunday.
The Georgetown Cubs defeated
the Ballard Beavers Sunday. 10 90
X. The feature OF tho game was
the heavy hitting OF the Cubs. The
Cubs want games with fast out-of-
town teams averaging l6 TO is
years. Phone Carl Prato, manager.
Sidney Gao.
Sllverdale won her sixth straight
victory Sunday by defeating the
Charleston nine. 10 TO .. Batteries
--Silyerdale. Sibley and Mcdonald.
Charleston-Scott and Norman.
The Convey Wet Wash nine
pounded Buggart all over the lot
at Woodland Park Sunday. defeat.
ing the New System Wet Wash
bunch, Z TO 4. The game was fea-
tured by the heavy hitting OF Fine.
gold and Pettus and the fielding OF
Pettus for Coveys. Powers OF the
New System pulled off an unassist-
ed double. The batteries-Covey.
Ruth, Bllsbarrow and Finegold.
New Buggart and forge
son.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-05-25
HERE'S BOX SCORE
OF MONDAYS GAME

The box score OF the Spokane
Seattle game at Dugdale's park
Monday:
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1915-05-25
How They Stand
In the Leagues
NoHTuwEsTEHS LEAGUE RESULT.
NATIONAL IyAGI'g RESULTS

At Seattle Q. Spokane 2.
~ Victoria 90. Tacoma "a.
Al Vancouver Z. Aberdeen 2.
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~ Boston ]. Chicago ..
All other games postponed. rain.
Evening star., 1915-09-12

ardized according to Fuller's scale to
determine it's acidity or alkalinity. Bac-
terra must be fed on the purest food
that can be prepared. Scientists must
take no chances on the quality Of the
media if they are to have results COM
parable month by month and year by
year.
So Miss Quirks is most scrupulous
utensils, which can be cleaned perfect
she uses distilled water.
Over 10000 test tubes of culture media
are used in this laboratory in a year.
1t is Miss Quirk's duty to fill each Of
these, clean them when the media are
discarded and put them in readiness
for the next use. In addition to this
work, she must keep a record of the
method of preparation of every jar of
culture media which she prepares.
Miss Quirk. has been trained for her
work under the tutelage of DR.. Smith.
She is a Washington girl who came
into the laboratory without previous
scientific training. Direct study with
the materials and apparatus she han
dies and outside study on the theory
of the work have given her a remark
able specialized training. She Is with
out doubt the most scientific house
keeper in the capital. In her office
hangs the motto of the laboratory,
which begins: BE not of your learn
ing vain" This is minor detail, but
it illustrates better than anything else
the magnanimous spirit which prevails
among these woman pathologists.
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HOW WOMEN THINK.
Usually It Is Like Their Sons or
Husbands Do.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
One of the women attending the con-
ference at The Hague, who had hoped
something might be started promotive
of early peace in Europe, declares that
| for every woman in England willing
to talk peace "a thousand are willing
| to accompany their sons or husbands
| to fight
The same observation might be made
| in other fields of discussion. Expert
! ence in politics indicates clearly that
| woman voters think and act, in the
| main, like their sons and husbands
Suffrage has wrought no great reforms
anywhere Evil f1ourishes. virtue tri-
umphs. the average excellence is main
| tanned, where women vote precisely as
where they are denied the ballot.
| And the fact may well be considered
an argument for, not against. the suf-
frage propaganda. Women should ask
| the ballot not on the plea that they
are superior creatures, ready to regen-
| crate the politics and the state, ano
| held back from the consumma ton Of
| that purpose by the mere accident tha'
| they cannot vote; but on the far more
| tenable claim that, thinking and acting
| like men and holding the same general
views upon problems settled at the
polls. they should be given full part
| nership in public affairs.
| Considerations of the present wal
| quite aside, it is rather fortunate that
| a thousand women out of thousand
and one "are willing to accompany theiI
| sons or husbands to fight 1t speaks
J well for the solidarity of the race that
F., the same set of facts compel the same
mental reaction in the feminine as In
, the masculine mind: that sequence
| which appeals logic to the one ap-
| pears no less logical to the other.
| The end of the war will come when
| men sand women alike are convinced OF
| it's futility fronSnbne standpoint or an
| other The end of corruption and in
! efficiency in public life, here an(
abroad, will come not through any spe-
! cial aptitude women may be supposed
| to have for the destruction of evil. but
through their willingness to cooperate
with sons or husbands" to that good
| purpose.
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scientists TO be employed by the gov
ernment might have been found in its
laboratories.
One of these-the laboratory of plaEt
pathology, whose chief. Or. Erwin F.
Smith. in 1856 initiated the practice
has developed to a point where with
three exceptions its entire corps of as
sistants is exclusively feminine. A
visit to this laboratory brings one into
the interesting atmosphere of modern
science Here the comparatively
Young study of bacterial diseases Of
plants is pursued by woman patholo-
eists class of workers which is a
distinct product of recent years.
Under the direction of DR.. Smith
these women-seven in numbeT-dlas-
nose cases of diseased plants from all
over the country. and by studying the
nature of the bacteria which cause the
diseases seek to prevent an annual
loss, aggregating many millions OF
dollars to farmers. horticulturiSts
and fruit growers. They are onlclan.
known as scientific assistants,
thoupb four have done independent re-
search while connected with the lab
oratory which has entitled them 10
publish bulletins under their own
names.
Miss Florence Hedges. who has been
attached to the laboratory stan longer
than any of the Others. has made a
special study of the diseases of grape
fruit. lemon, lime and orange trees.
Her bulletin on the subject contains
the first published 2ccount OF sumor
disease to which citrus trees are liable.
Miss Nellie A. Brown. another OF tie
assistants has done irnpcrtan, work IN
the study of bacterial diseases of let
tuce and sugar beets. and IN co1labora-
tion with DIR. Smith and Miss LUCIA
McCulloch. also of the laboratory, has
published an important bulletin on the
Structure and development of plant
: tumors.
Miss Mary Katherine Bryan, another
member of the staff, has recently COM
pleted a study of a bacterial disease of
nasturtiums. which has just been puD-
lished in the departments Journal of
Agricultural Research.
Mrs Ella NJ. Enlows. the latest ac
QUESTION TO DIR. Smiths corps of scien-
tific workers. has thus far done no in .
dependent research. To use DR.. Smith s
words she is now passing through h
three primary years of scientific
drudgery, from which she must grad
uate before she can pursue inde-
pendent line"
The two other women who onplete
this feminine staff of seven are Miss
Agnes Quirk. who has charge of the
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! Kitchen" and "commissary depart
ment' of this scientific menage, the
| laboratory where culture media is pre-
pared on which all the various micro
| organisms are grown and studied. and
| Miss Lillian c. Cash. who takes care OF
! the collections and does bibliographicai
work for the laboratory
The work which these women carry
on is of grave purport. The time which
they spent in preparation for it was
long and their training was arduous.
They are a corps of workers who have
specialized to the utmost in scientific
methods. Besides their regular courses
lat college, each has had at least two
years OF postgraduate training. They
are skilled Hnguists, deeming this ac-
compllshment a very necessary one, If
they hope to keep abreast of the new
discoveries being made in foreign lab
oratories. And last, mentioned at this
point not because it is least, for. in
deed. it is the backbone of all their
research and discovery. they have an
unbounded love of nature and interest
in all living things, which is the font
of their inspiration. With such scien-
tific and temperamental readiness for
their profession. as may be expected.
their work is carried on with a maxi
mum of. efficiency.
certain types of women to be especial
ly qualified for laboratory work in
science, provided they are willing to
give time to the required training.
They are deft with their fingers, he
says; are less restless than their
brothers, which permits them to work
in harmony with others, and have as
good brains as men. All of which
testimony, though not personal, puts
final stamp of approval on the feminine
personnel of the laboratory of plant
pathology and speaks favorably for
the status of feminine scientists in the
opinion of at least one OF their mas
culine co-workers.
mere statement of facts will tell
more specifically how we'll the women
of this laboratory are trained for their
work. They are assembled from col
1eges all over the country. Miss
Hedges is a graduate of the University
of Michigan, and has had additional
training a t the Michigan Agricultural
College: Miss McCulloch is a graduate
of the University of Florida, with addi
tional training at the University of
Wisconsin; Miss Brown has a B. A.
degree from the University of Michi
gan: has taught biology in the high
schools of Michigan, and has carried
on experiments in the subtropical
laboratory of the government at
Miami. Fla; Miss Bryan, besides being
a graduate of the Washington Normal
School, has B. s. degree from Leland
Stanford University. where she spe-
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vital contribution to knowledge of the
origin of cancer in man and animals.
done by the five university-trained WON
an assistants in this laboratory. But
to overlook the work done by Miss
Quirk ip her laboratory kitchen is to
ignore one of the most interesting and
important branches. She, with her
three assistants, prepares all of the
culture media for the bacteria and, be-
sides her duties as housekeeper and
purchaser, has entire charge of all
chemicals and apparatus.
Like the scientists in the la boratorie
she exercises extreme care in every
thing she does. All the culture media
which she prepares are sterilized in a
over 100 degrees is required, and stand
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Poultry Yard Notes.

AS autumn advances and the season
of frosty nights approaches, heralding
| the advent of winter, poultrymen op-
Grating small or large plants may
profitably devote a good many hours
to repairs and replacement work
"tinkering' up the houses, recovering
roofs, making everything tight and
snug against the fall and early winter
rains. and generally preparing the
quarters of the fowls SO that winter
will find everything warm and COM
forta BILE in and about the laying quar-
terS.
Many poultrymen fail to realize the
| intimate relation that exists between
warm, comfortable, weatherproof quar-
ters and steady and profitable egg
| production. Hens quartered in drafty.
] leaky houses cannot and Will not lay
| as well as if their houses were tight
against leaks, and with all cracks COW
cred so as to prevent cold and chlillnS
drafts during frosty nights.
The hot summer sun plays havoc. in
| q great many cases, with the tar paper
| SO generally used for roofing purposes.
especially if the paper is the usual
paper itself helps to shorten its life.
black being an absorber of heat rays:
| SO that the summer sun dfleS out ana
| hardens the materials. causing 1t TO be-
| come brittle and cracked. and to curl
| up at the edges and draw away from
the fastenngs, permitting rain or pos
! sible melting snow to leak through the
roof and create dampness or actual
Wetness inside the houses.
The life" of the average tar paper
| roof made of two-ply paper is a SIN
gle summer After one hot season such
a roof usually will be found to be full
| of open places, through which the ram
will beat or leak, and the water VIII
| run down inside the walls, making the
litter and the entire interior damp,
clammy and unhealthy.
Fowls uuartered in such houses can
hardly fail to contract colds, and coldS
readily run into roup, which may ana
often does carry off the entire mock;
No precautions that may be taken VIII
keep hens housed in leaky, drafty,
damp quarters from developing such
| colds, and from such ailments to
chronic or acute roup is only step.
The way to avoid such epidemics is
to prevent them, and the way to do this
is to make sure that the quarters are
as dry and as free from drafts as they
can be made. 1t costs little, either IN
actual cash expenditure or in time, to
replace all tar paper roofs with new
roofng material; and the expense ana
consequent freedom of the layers from
diseases which inevitably cut down their
productive capacity.
The best way to repair a roof is to
replace 1t. Tear off the old, dry. brit
tie tar paper and replace it with new.
using either the two-ply paper, or,
What Is much better, putting on new
Evening star., 1915-09-12

Birds that were almost black were
not uncommon among Silver Laced
Wyandottes in the early days of that
variety. In 1885 an Ohio breeder mated
a pen of his darkest birds. and by con-
stant selection he and others produced
the Black Wyandotte. which was rec
ognized asa pure variety in 1898.
Black Wyandottes are excellent lay
ers, grow fast and make excellent
broilers and table fowls, being plump
and compact, with rich, yellow skins.
They mature early and begin laying
probably sooner than any other Wyan-
dotte. They do well in small space.
and are eXcellently adapted to the
backyard poultry plant. Their bril-
liant greenish-black plumage does not
show the dirt and soil of confinement.
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and the fowls always present a good
appearance.
The hens are strong foragers and
this, combined with other good quail
ties, makes them profitable farmers
fowl. while, on the other hand. they do
well in confinement, as do all Wyan-
dottes. This is in favor of their use
in the small backyard flock where
the hens will keep the table supplied
with eggs, and if chicks are reared you
may have table poultry at any time
from broiler size up.
Their splendid plumage. yellowish
legs and red comb and wattles make
them favorites with some fanciers. The
standard weights demanded in this
breed are 61a to ~ pounds for females
and 7k to S1a pounds for males.
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cialized in botany; Mrs. Enlows is the
only Washington-tr trained member Of
the staff. She was graduated cum
laude from George Washington Uni
versity.
With the exception of the work of
Miss Quirk and Miss Cash, an ex-
planation of the scientific methods fol-
lowed by one of DR.. Smiths assist
ants tells what all are doing.
In searching out the parasites which
destroy plant life by causing disease,
they work in most careful and
scrupulouSly exact manner. Charac-
teristics of the different kinds of bac-
terra are studied to find out their life
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They should be two months

ginning. They should be two months
old before they receive an entire feed
of table scraps. BY table scraps" is
meant the left-overs of meats, bread.
pies, cake, etc, potatoes, cabbages and
other vegetables. This also includes the
trimmings of meat, lettuce. potato peel
ings and the like. These should be
cooked together when fed to young
chicks, but for the older hens they may
be chopped fine and given raw.
When not enough table scraps are
secured to feed the flock. the scraps
may be cooked and mixed with equal
parts of bran and corn meal, and this
mixture fed to the fowls three times a
day. When a wet mash is fed this
way it is better also to give the hens
light feeding of grain early in the
morning and late in the afternoon.
Three Ways of Starting.
There are three ways of getting
started with a small flock as outlined
above.
First-Secure Matching eggs and an
incubator If the incubator is correct
ly handled, and the hatch turns out
satisfactorily, this method is doubtless
the cheapest, but a beginner will fire.
quently overlook some important de-
tails of incubation and thus make his
investment Improbable.
Second-Buy baby chicks. These usu-
ally cost double the price of Matching
eggs. While the beginning does not
have the trouble of incubation, there
are difficulties raising the chicks, and
this way of starting-like the buying
of eggs for hatching-may be followed
only in the spring.
Third-Buy laying hens or pullets,
preferably pullets, because they usual
ly lay the heaviest in their first year
This method costs more at the start,
but is probably the safest for the be-
ginner, and can be used at any time
of the year. especially in the fall and
winter when the demand for eggs is
heaviest.
Get Standard Breeds.
In the selection of breeds it pays best
to get what is known as standard bred
varieties; that is. those that have been
bred for a definite purpose like egg pro-
duction, or a combination of egg and
meat production They are more at
tractive, being uniform in color and
will produce both eggs and meat more
satisfactorily than mixed lot.
For eggs alone, the Single Comb
White Leghorn is one of the leading
varieties. If it is desired to produce
both eggs and meat. the Plymouth
Rocks. Rhode Island Reds, Orpingtons
and Wyandottes all are valuable and any
of these will prove profitable as dual
purpose" fowls.
Poultry raisers who are operating on
small scale often make the mistake
of attempting to carry too many fowls
or expecting too large a profit on a
small number of fowls. especially at the
beginning. A beginner should remem-
ber that he will make errors in feeding
and caring for the fowls and that his
profits will be small until he learns to
| manage them. But as an offset against
this will be the satisfaction and pleas
ure of keeping the fowls himself and
of being able to raise his own prod
| ucts-products that he knows are high
in quality.
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Simple Construction Best.

Make the poultry house as simple in
construction as possible. Fancy fix
lures, elaborate mess boxes, etc, add
nothing to it's efficiency, but add con-
siderably to the cost.
Opposed to this system of keeping
many fowls in one house is the col
ony house system, which is used sue
cessfully by many poultrymen. The
colony houses are seldom more than
8x12 feet in floor area and they are
generally built on slsids so that they
may be hauled from place to place.
These cost more per fowl than the
larger houses, but have the advantage
of being easily movable and by being
serviceable in the spring as brooder
houses, in the summer as homes for
fiocks of young stock and in winter
for housing laying fowls or breeding
pens.
Adult hens may be fed entirely on
table scraps, but young chicks should
not be fed table scraps from the be-
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~ NE of the most interesting
m " angles from which one may
II W view the scientific profession
" today reveals its growth in
feminine interest. During the
last decade science has become one
of the most allurng fields for the eff
forts of an increa asing number of am
bilious woman workers. and nowhere
is this fact more aptly demonstrated
than in Washington.
The Department of Agriculture. with
its manifold branches of scientific re-
search, has long held out Il pechoninS
finger of encoura cement to woman
scientists. In fact. the first woman
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POULTRY, DOGS, PET STOCK.

ORPINGTON. white Kellerstrass. Miss Cary
Peggy. hens. pulets and cockerels: price. ST.
average for quick sale: some pullefs wrighin-
8 to lbs: must be sold at once. 1861 18th
ST. NV. Phone Col. S3S.
BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS-50 pullets
hatched March IL. 81 each: % hens, 81
rooster. $3.50: : cockerels, $50 each: I
sanitary International hover, Sc; 1 Cyphers
incubator, 144-egg size. SIS. II. A. Marsden
ArdmOre, Nd, =. o. Landover, X. F. ID. No. .
BELGIAN HARE-See W. II. Caslow. f. Nido.
Va. Great Falls and o. d. z. r. Post once
address. East Falls Church, Va, Il. F. d.
No. ]. 15s
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Government Laboratory
Employs Only Woman Scientists

Pathology They Are Especially Qualified for Work.
Studied Efforts Being Made
Fruit GrowersCge Women Who
Have Scientific knowledge Their SuAn Important
Expenm NovB BenngK Watched.
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MISS MARY KATHERINE BRYAN.

MISS MARY KATHERINE BRYAN.
certain kinds of plants are held in the
soil from year to year. In this case
resistant or other crops are recon-
mended, and soil which might have
been a continual failure is converted
into a success.
Or, to cite another example illustra.-
ing the scope of the laboratory's re-
search, it may be wondered if plapt
bacteria will cause disease when in
oculated into animals. To ascertain
this fact. the laboratory staff is work
ing at present with small collection
of fish and salamanders which have
been inoculated with bacteria taken
from plant tumors. These experiments
are watched with extreme interest, for
their outcome, II positive, will be .