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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-04-27
NEWS OF THE DAY

Henry F. Lippit, United States SEN
ator from Rhode Island, and Mrs,
Thomas X. Laughlin, a sister OF Mrs.
William H. Taft, were married III
Washington yesterday.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-04-27

Frank White, Of Chattanooga,
Tenn, a lion trainer, appearing with
n circus at Olive Hill, KY, near Hun
tington, w. Va, was killed by one OF
the lions yesterday. White entered
the cage and was attacked from be-
hind by lion, which paved and
chewed him almost to pieces. the
trainer was decapitated.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-04-27

Dr.. Hicki, Japanese minister to
Pekin. has handed to the Chinese for
eign minister a note insisting on the
unconditional acceptance of the last
proposals transmitted from Tokyo
according to:a dispatch: from Pekin.
Notice was given that further delay
would result in the br&aking-off of
Negotiations. Instead Of the 100000
troops which Japan was reported to
have.sent to China, it is now reported
that 100000 have been massed on the
Shantung peninsula in anticipation OF
war with China.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1915-04-27

According to advices received IN
Paris, 10000 Serbians, Croatians, and
slavics have been hanged Or shot by Y,
the Austrians since the beginning OF
the war. Seventy thousand others
have been thrown into prisons. Among
the victims are great many young
and old women, nearly all of whom
have been attacked by the Austrians.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22
In Venezuelan Forests.

There we're many good rubber for.
ests in The interior of Venezuela in the
old days. and for several years was
engaged, sometimes alone and some.
times in partnership. in QUILTING
"grubstaking"-native rubber cutters,
and then buying the crude rubber upon
their return to my camps, writes an ex.
plorer. Ny own profit on the rubber
was about 500 per cent. but this did
not, as you may think. represent an
imposition on the natives. since my
own posts were far in the interior, and
had a lot OF trouble in getting the
product out to transportation. One of
my routes Of travel was by the many
lagoons and rivers which indent the
Venezuelan coast. by means OF which
men in canoes can penetrate far into
the interior of that wild region. The
Guawoona country was at the end OF a
considerable chain of lagoons, and
where the ground rose rather abruptly
into the hilly and almost inaccessible
forests. This was good rubber country
and. though the Guawoonas themselves
never brought down any rubber. they
were exceedingly jealous OF anybody
invading their chosen domain.
! had several bands OF halfbreeds
working for me who would hunt rub
Der as miner does gold. No chances
were too great II they promised a good
haul Of rubber. Several sanguinary
conflicts had occurred with the Qua
woonas. and almost decided to forbid
my men entering their territory, al
though there was little hope Of con-
trolling these resolute natives or
knowing where their trails would lead
once they plunged into the tropical
iungles.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22

Ing of the dairy COW, and l say un
hesitatingly that a rotation of corn
oats and peas. and clover-three-yeaI
rotation, will prove the most efficient
in a northern latitude. BY this TO
tation, 1t is possible to get along with
a minimum of grain foods, and that
only Of the highly concentrated sort
worth almost as much for fertilizer
as for food.
Corn ensilage is the cheapest food
for the dairy COW. Every man who
has fed dairy cattle knows that sue
culence adds -alue to the cows food,
and that there is no crop that will
afford this as cheaply as ensilage from
well-matured corn.
The advantage of crop Of mangels
or rutabagas is not SO much in their
nutritive value as in the fact that they
furnish succulence, when the cows are
being maintained on dry foods. While
root crops are very generally used
In England and Germany and are held
in high esteem as an appetizer and
conditioner in this country, their use
on dairy farms is quite limited.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22

Lonicera ruprechtiana and bella can,
dida, RIDES aureum, rubus odoratus,
chokecherry, viburnums eight varie-
ties, partridge berry, Daphne Meier
cum, Buffalo berry. black locust for
quail; cercis canadensis, Eleagnus
four varieties, malus fioribunda, cat
nip sunfower, bachelor buttons, wild
roses, crataegua, Halls honeysuckle,
red Towering horse chestnut, privets,
hypercums, all native wild roses, poke
weed, box elder for evening grosbeaks,
and Diervilla hybrida
For summer food, the fruit OF the
redosier dogwood, Cornus stolonifera,
is eagerly devoured by soft-billed
birds like robins, catbirds and brown
thrashers. The mulberry furnishes
food for long time in summer and
is one of the best in the list.
For spring and fall, the mountain
ash and the Japanese crabapples,
malus floribunda, are eaten by robins
and cedar waxwings. All the honey.
suckles are excellent, but the two,
Lonicera ruprechtiana and l.. bella
candida, seem to be preferred. The
fruit of the Japanese oleaster, eleag.
nus multifora, is greatly relished by
many birds In summer.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22

reach Of the attendant. One advans
tage of hanging the sash from the CEN
ter is that high winds are not likely
to slam the sash, either open or shut.
The foundation OF this monitor-roof
dairy barn is Of concrete, the walls
having footings wide enough to make
them solid and deep enough to reach
down to solid ground. These walls
extend up two feet above grade. A
profile of the dairy floor conforms TO
the most approved plan worked out by
practical dairymen.
The concrete standing floor has q
fall Of one inch between the front and
hind feet Of the cows. This is to IA
cilitate drainage and for easy clean
ing. The hangers are two feet in
width, they are six inches deep at the
back and ~ inches deep at the front or
feed-alley side. The standing floor
measures four feet ten inches from the
back of the manger to the gutter. The
gutter is Is inches wide and drops six
inches below the standing floor. The
feed alley in the center is about seven
feet in width and the alleys behind
the cows are FIVE feet six inches wide.
The side alleys slope with a fall Of
one inch towards the gutter. This
makes a stable floor that is perma-
nent and satisfactory.
The roof may be supported in two
ways. II may be made self-supporting
so there will be no posts in the way.
This is done by running the rafters
from the caves clear through to the
monitor plates. They are crossed and
bolted at the crossings, and the whole
roof structure is made into trussed
roof by ties reaching across the build
ing from one side plate to the other
side plate. All monitor studding
reaches down and is bolted to these
cross ties and to the rafters, thus
forming very strong truss.
The other plan supports the monitor
studding or posts long enough to reach
from the rear wall of the concrete
hangers to the monitor plates. 1t is
customary to place these posts two
cows apart, and the monitor windows
are the same width as the COW stalls.
This arrangement provides one mon
itor window for each two cows.
The COW stalls may be two feet ten
inches between stall partitions, or
they may be three feet two inches, &C
cording to the size Of the cows the
stable is intended for.
Generally there is no ceiling in a
monitor-roof cow stable, for the rea-
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22

feed carrier to run through the center
feed alley, to carry silage from the
silo, or mixed feed from the little feed
room built in between the end Of the
stable and the silo. The same center
car track and carrier will bring for
age from a hayrack at the other end
of the building. In using a stable in
this way dairymen often prefer to cut
certain crops In the field and haul the
fodder to the stable to feed.
This plan OF feeding is not prac-
ticed to any extent in the North, but
there are conditions Of climate in some
of our best dairy sections where feed
crops grow late in the fall, and still
others are sown in the fall to mature
early in the spring, that may be fed to
advantage as soiling crops. All soil
ing crops are expensive to handle, be-
cause they are fed green. It has al
ways been a puzzle to dairymen how
to handle such fodder without pulling
their arms out Of the sockets. A CEN
ter feed alley built on this plan, with
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22
Madison Square Tower In Spain.

have kept the unique wonder OF
Seville waiting too long already for
my recognition, though in its 500 years
II should have learned patience
enought for worse things.
From its great antiquity alone, II
from nothing else, It is plain that the
Giralda at Seville could not have been
studied from the tower of the Madison
Square Garden in New York, which
the American will recall when he
sees II.
II the case must be reversed and we
must allow that the Madison Square
tower was studied from the Glralda,
we must still recognize that II is no
servile copy, but In its frank imitation
has q grace and beauty which achieves
originality.
Still, the Giralda is always the Cir
aida, and. though there had been no
Saint-Gaudens 10 tip its summit with
such hying-footed nymph as poises
on our own tower, the figure OF Faith
which crowns It is at least a good
weather vaae. and from its oficc OF
turning, gives the mighty bell tower
its name.
Long centuries before the tower was
q belfry It served the mosque, which
the cathedral now replaces. as a min
aret for the muezEin to call the faith
full to prayer. but IT was then only
twothirds as high.-Harper's Maya
zine.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22
EASY TO TEST SEED WHEAT
Piece Of eIottlns Paper and Two Or
binary Plates Are All the Tools
Required for Experiment.

1t is a very simple matter to test
seed wheat.
Take an ordinary piece Of blotting
paper. put it on plate, fold it over
like book. wet II, and put in between
the folds one hundred seeds. Cover
over with another plate for about
three Days. being careful to always
keep 1t vet. At the end OF six or sew
en- day. you can tell just what per
centage win grow and Just how much
Is weak and dead.
This is worth a great deal Of money
to wheat growers.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22
PROVIDE BIRDS WITH FRUITG
Robins, catbirds and Brown Thrashers
Are Fond Of Fruit Of Redosler
Doowood and Mulberry.
By d. LANEY.)


II person wishes to make birds
paradise, not one of the plants and
shrubs in the following list should be
left out. 1t would be well If nursery
men would cut out this list and pre-
serve IT.:
Mulberry, red, Russian and white;
Mahaleb cherry, wild black cherry,
wild red cherry, wild chokecherry,
European bird cherry, shad tree, ma.
tive thorn trees, towering dogwood.
alternate-leaved dogwood, mountain
ash, wild crabapple, blackberry, buck
thorns, hemlock, staghorn sumac,
smooth sumac, larch and pine trees for
winter food for grosbeaks. crossbills
and pine finches; yellow, black, white
and canoe birches for goldfnches and
partridges; elderberries, seven varie-
ties Of Cornus, Berberis Thunbergi
for quail; Myrica cerifera for winter
birds; red cedar and all jumpers,
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22
ERROR OF MANY P0ULTRYMEN
Too Many Fowls Are Kept over Win
ter by Small Fanelers-should
Be Sent to City Markets.

Many poultrymen make the mistake
Of keeping too many fowls over win
ter. This is especially true of the
small fancier. Imagination looms up
to prodigious size, and he sees himself
carrying home from the post Office
order after order for fowls and eggs.
He persuades himself that he cannot
possibly retain too many fowls for the
late winter and early spring trade, so
his inflated enthusiasm lures him into
paths which lose him profit and defeat
the very purpose which he is aiming
for.
With this large idea in his head he
neglects to Gull his flock as severely
as he should and thus retains many
for breeders which should rightfully
adorn the city mans table-via the
huckster's cart.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22

are about the same size. shape and
color as gypsy moth egg clusters. but
the hairs are somewhat coarser. more
crinkled. the whole cluster more loose
ly constructed. and the eggs more ex-
posed. AS rule, also. the eggs are
deposited on network of silk on or
near the old cocoon, which il often on
a leaf which is also fastened to a twig
by silk threads. Gypsy moth eggs are
usually laid on q solid surface except
In case Of great abundance. There Is
a difference in the structure of the
eggs Of these two moths which viii
generally serve to az their identity.
but even entomologists have been mis-
taken regarding them.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22

an extra large feed carrier. comes
about as near solving the problem as
any system that has ever been tried.
Thirty.six feet in width is recog-
nized as being the most satisfactory
COW stable when machinery is used to
save hand labor. II gives room for the
different stable carriers, for milking
machines and for the necessary me-
chanical appliances to operate the diff
ferent labor savers.
In this stable the cows are headed
in for the same reason. Il Is cheaper
and easier to care for cattle when they
face each other. Also the many win
dovs Of the building admit light where
II Is most needed. AL Of the window
openings are fitted with sash that may
be closed during cold or stormy wealth
er. The monitor sash is hung with .
patent bracket. 50 that each sash
swings from the center in such way
as 10 easily open by means Of con
Meeting rods that come down within
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22

We read a great deal about the ne
cessity of keeping the dairy herd
warm and comfortable in winter, but
no one seems to pay much attention
to keeping the cows cool and comfor-
table in summer.
The monitor roof style of dairy
building is we'll liked in some sections,
especially where the summer is long
and hot. A dairy barn of this type
is shown in the accompanying illustra-
tions, which give the perspective and
floor plans.
This stable is open to the roof, de-
sign that Just naturally ventilates
itself when the windows are left open.
The building is SO feet wide by 81
feet in length and 1t contains stalls
to hold 20 cows, besides two box stalls
to be used as hospital stalls, bull pen,
calf pen, or for any other useful pur-
pose.
This plan is laid out for and is In
tended to use manure carriers sus-
pended from overhead tracks in the
side alleyways behind the cows, also a
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22
(copyright iSi5 By the Mcclure Newspaper syndcatel
DON'T ANTAeoNIzE.

Nobody asks you to shelve your in.
dependence or to forget your indi-
viduality. You have right to gour
opinion, and there is no reason why
you should not express it and live up
to your convictions. There is vast
difference. however, between display
ing manly courage and carrying chip
on your shoulder.
II you are in business. your success
will be dependent. not wholly upon
your trading ability, but upon your
personality, and the way you treat
your customers and those with whom
you come in contact.
Millions of dollars worth of trade
has been lost because statesmen have
vented their spleen upon their custom
ers, have annoyed them in little as
well as in big ways, and aroused in
them a feeling of antagonism, which
is sure to react against the store, as
well as against the salesman in 1t.
A great many people will tell you
that they avoid certain stores and GER
tain salespeople, simply because they
are not treated with common courtesy,
and because the sellers do not seem
to be interested in them as buyers.
Few statesmen seem to realize that
courtesy plain and simple pollteness
lis one of the greatest selling assets
and that 1t contributes largely to sue
cess.
One may not be by nature a good
seller of goods, and he may be def
cient in many other respects; but, II
he is uniformly courteous, II he shows
marked interest in the customer and
is obliging, he is likely to sell more
goods than is an expert salesman who
fails to realize the importance of
courtesy.
The popular salesman not only
makes, but holds, customers.
Thousands of buyers will wait
quarter of an hour, or even longer, in
order to trade with their favorite
salesman. They feel at home with
him. He meets them with smile, and
is. or appears to be. interested in their
affairs, although he is not obtrusive.
The customer instinctively feels his
friendship.
Courtesy is valuable in every walk
of life, in business and out OF 1t. The
polite man or woman is always popu-
lar, provided he does not carry his
courtesy into fiattery.
The popular man is not always the
man of great intellect, but he knows
how to make friends, by charm Of
manner by kindness of spirit,
which is readily felt. by a real or ap-
parent unselflsh interest in those with
whom he is associated.
Popularity counts in business, and
counts nightly Popularity makes
friends, and friends in the mart OF
trade mean customers.
Those little things. which may seem
to be Of no account, frequently stand
between success and failure.
The great trouble with people now.
adays is that they look into the clouds
and prepare themselves to handle mat
tiers of Importance, forgetting that
things of consequence are but collec-
lions of little things. and that nothing
great can be accomplished until the
accomplished has perfected himself
In the small matters which collective
ly proodce the finished product.
Not what you do. II you are on the
firing line OF business. but how you
do II, counts.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22
FEEDING IN A DAIRY
Error Made in Giving Too Much
Cheap Concentrates.
Chief Problem Is to Furnish a Suffl-
Client, and at Same Time Not Too
Costly Supply Of the Best
Protein Foods.
CBy W. M. KELLEY

According to accepted standards, a
COW weighing one thousand pounds
will require about one pound Of pro-
tein q day in a maintenance ration,
and one producing from thirty to
forty pounds Of milk a day will re-
quire from one and one-fourth to one
and three-fourths pounds additional,
or total OF from two and one-fourth
to two and three-fourths pounds a
day. Our dairy business, especially
in the East, has been developed large
ly upon a basis of cheap protein
foods; and as a result many dairymen
have been buying ana feeding too
many protein concentrates, for the
purpose of stimulating large flow Of
milk.
Some dairymen are feeding each
COW daily from eight to ten pounds
of gluten and other highly-concen-
trated protein feeds; but 1t is my
judgment that they are making a mis-
take and cannot obtain profitable re-
suits in the pail or by added fertility
in the manure heap.
Our farm crops, clover and timothy
hay, corn and other fodder, and for
age, with oats, barley, wheat-bran
and corn for concentrates, and little
of the more highly concentrated pro-
tein foods form an ideal combination
to promote health and vitality. We
may get a little lesE milk, but our
COWS will breed more regularly, and
we shall have better calves.
The low percentage Of protein, and
the high percentage OF water in corn
ensilage makes 1t desirable to feed
with 1t an abundance of good clover
hay, which makes a better ration
than either alone, but one that is far
from perfect.
When feeding ensilage and clover
hay, liberal admixture Of home
grown grain foods should be added to
balance the ration with protein. We
should make constant effort to pro-
duce various kinds of proteinaceous
forage and fodder crops.
This brings up the question of ro-
tation of crops best suited to the feed
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22
ONE OF THE sUREST SIGNS
Get Lover to Talk About Himself, and
You Have Him Hooked, Is opln-
Ion Of Expert.

And directly we feel a yearning to
talk about ourselves, our hopes, our
fears, we are weak and tractable. II
is sure sign. Brother, when you find
yourself expanding conversationally
to the young woman. and she shows a
disposition to listen amiably, 1t is q
dangerous symptom.
We notice it ourselves. AS sure as
young woman is interested in us,
considers us with q certain amount OF
admiration, she invariably starts In to
tell US the story of her life. We may
feel bored but we can also safely fat
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22
GETTING A BETTER POSITION.

The stagnant pool is useless and a
menace to health. Its water is unfit
to drink. and its sluggishness will not
turn water wheel. II either dries
up or 1t remains blot on the land.
scape.
The man who stays where he is,
without thinking Of lettering his con.
dition is like the stagnant pool, for
sooner or later, unless he attempts to
create current, he will, like the
pool, dry up or else remain an unwel-
come member of society.
Conversely, however, there is al
ways as much danger In attempting
to rush as there is in remaining placid.
The mountain torrent, although act
i've, does not have the body or the
quantity of energy necessary for util-
ization.
However profitable your position
may be, you have a right to consider
advancement, but when you carry this
consideration beyond the lines Of or
binary caution, and plunge, leap and
run, you are likely to dash yourself
to pieces and to be no better off-per-
haps worse off-than you would have
been had you remained at stand
still.
Do not be dissatisfied with your lot
to the extent of making yourself mis-
cradle. Be dissatisfied only in so far
as 1t will encourage you to look ahead
and to attempt, with the use of your
common sense, to better your condi-
ton.
Do not make a move until you are
reasonably sure that 1t will lead to
Improvement; and, further, do not
take undue chances.
II you have a family or others de-
pendent upon you, you have no right
to jeopardize their interests and your
own by taking speculative chances.
Plant yourself firmly upon the rock
of your present position. Reach out
into the unknown with both your
hands. Look for opportunity. When
you think you have found 1t, subject 1t
to every reasonable test, for half of
that which masquerades under the
name Of opportunity is no firmer than
the idle wind which seems to come
from nowhere and to go nowhere.
Half of the failures of the world
are due to stagnation, to placidity, to
q refusal to move when opportunity
suggests 1t, and the other half is made
up OF those men who are forever dis
satisfied. discontinued, and over-ambi-
tious; who, without thought, Jump for
the first line that bangles before them,
without waiting to see whether the
other end is firmly fastened.
Thousands of young men have
thrown up present positions because
something else ceemed better. They
knew how badly off they were where
they were, and they lid not investi-
gate the future or attempt to analyze
apparent or real opportunity. They
plunged ahead, leaving a good founda-
tion, that they might reach what APP
peared to be higher ground. and many
of them floundered In the quicksand
between.
Keep your feet firmly planted upon
the foundation OF the present. always
looking ahead and upward. But look,
and keep on looking, for days. and
weeks, and months, and years. before
you allow this looking to influence
your action, o. until you have reason
able proof that what seems to be is q
reality.
The ship without an anchor is as
unsafe to navigate as one with torn
and battered rigging.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1915-10-22
Floor Plan.

ter ourselves that she has cast favor
able eye upon US.
But how do you know he is inter
ested in you?" asks mamma. when
daughter makes q tentative conf
dence.
"oh, he talked about himself the
whole time" answers daughter art
lessly-and mamma mods understand
ingly and puts him through Bradstreet
Exchange.