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The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-04-09
YOst.

Mrs. Margaret Yost, wife OF Richard
ID. Yost, died on Friday last at the
home on her son, Dr. NIL Mclean Yost,
at White Hall, Md.
Mrs Yost made her home at the
Westminster Hotel for four or five
years, and while here made many
friends.
Her funeral services were held AZ
the grave i'm Greenmount Cemetry,
Baltimore, on Monday morning.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-04-09
10 The Poultryman

Poultrymen's Headquarters NM lncuba-
tors and Breeders and Poultrymen's Supplies
of iii kinds. Chick Mamma, Developer and
Laying Feeds. Are your hens laying? If
not, consult our chicken expert JONES' -he
will overcome your troubles
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-04-09
To The Gardener I:

Field and Garden Seeds Of every des-
cription we use the greatest care In selecting
our Seeds---buying only from the most reliable
Northern Growers, and they are tested for
both purity and termination.
Your first want will Be Red Clover.
We have both Western and Nearby also
Sapling and Alsyke Clover. Your next want
will be Seed Potatoes---we have bought direct
from III Aroostock County (Maine) grower
car of Six Weeks SnowAakes, Cobbler and
Green Mountain which will b. ready for de-
livery a. soon as the ground illreceive them.
IF your Field Corn is not Yielding to
suit you try our Improved Longs Prolific Or
Large Golden Dent---both large yielders and
hardy.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1915-04-09
Long

Mrs. Walter Long, nee Hoffman,
daughter of MT and Mrs MN M Hon
man, died at her home in Union
Bridge, March 81, of tuberculosis,
aged thirty-three years
Funeral services at her late home
Saturday morning at tn o'clock ln-
torment in Linganore cemetery, IN
ionville. Mrs Long leaves one as
ter, Miss Beulah Hoffman and an IN
FAINT of a few months.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
SOUND HOG CHOLERA MAXIMS
Best Results Are Obtained Where Sc.
rum Is Administered Before Dis
ease Has Progressed.

If hog cholera appears in your
herd:
Treat your hogs Immediately with
anti-hog- cholera serum, after which
they should be kept on a light diet
and pure drinking water and confined
to limited quarters that may be
cleaned daily and sprayed three times
a week with one part of compound
cresol solution to 80 parts Of water
until the disease has abated in the
herd. To obtain the best results the
serum must be administered before
the disease has progressed in the herd.
To rid premises of Infection:
Remove all manure and saturate
with quicklime.
Burn all litter, rubbish and hog
troughs.
After the premises are thoroughly
cleaned, spray walls, floors, and other
surfaces with disinfectant Zone part
compound cresoI solution to 80 parts
water). Where hoghouses are small,
turn them over, exposing interior to
sunlight.
Wallow holes and cesspools should
be filled in, drained or fenced off.
All runs underneath buildings should
be cleaned and disinfected and then
boarded up.
Destroy hogs that do not fully re-
cover, as they may be carriers of chol-
era infection.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Chemical peIicacies.

The composition of the homely Ger.
man Wurst-palatable and pleasant
enough, whatever may. have been in
side twill henceforth rank as q
mere nothing compared with the
chemical delicacies German experts
are now offering to hungry public.
A firm in the Berlin Ritterstrasse
spreads great big advertisements
across the pages of the local papers
to announce that it has artificial ONE
let's, butter, honey, marmalade, cot
fee and milk for sale in any quanti-
ties, and guarantees that no one could
ever know that they were not absorb
ing the real thing.
A chemist in the suburb of Chariot
tenburg advertises egg-powder pen
ny-worth of which is sufficient to re-
place two real eggs. Another offers
a starch sirup-as agreeable as it is
nutritive.
Berliners are said to be thriving on
all these delicacies, which, taken with
K. X. bread, and washed down with
the new war beer, constitute a meal
fit for any patriot bent on eating
chiefly for the welfare of the Father
land.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Another One on Taft.

Uncle Joe" Cannon tells this tale
on ex-President Taft, though he is al
ways careful to assure his hearers
that he will not vouch for the ac-
curacy of it:
1T was when the president was
merely Mr.. Secretary and was visit
ing Japan on his famous trip through
the far East. Mr.. Taft was caught
fast asleep in hammock by NOV
ing-picture man, and this interesting
film was being shown at a county fair
in my home state, Illinois. The mo-
ton picture was being reeled off to
the great amusement of the rural
spectators, when huge flaw line sud-
denly darted across the film and the
screen went dark.
Land O. mercy, Hiram gasped an
old lady in the rear of the hall, what
was that?'
"'Hush up, Mirandy,' croaked the
husband. Don't yew ask so many
questions. I reckon that's where the
hammock busted"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture
The pens and yards where pigeons
are confined must be kept clean.
There is very little chance of making
money from squads unless the pigeons
can be kept comparatively free from
diseases and insect parasites. If
healthy breeding stock is secured, the
houses and yards kept clean, and care
full attention given to the birds, dis
eases and parasites should not be a
material factor in squad raising.
(Only good, sound grain should be
fed)
The following advice as to keeping
pigeons well and curing their diseases
is taken from Farmers Bulletin No.
6S4, SQUAD Raising" The stock
should be carefully watched and any
sick birds removed from the breeding
pens. The house should be kept dry,
clean, we'll ventilated and free from
drafts. The yards should be kept
clean either by scraping the surface
and adding fresh sand or gravel or by
cultivating the land and planting it
to grain if possible.
The nests, nest boxes, and pens
should be kept clean, but it is not adj
visable to disturb the nests which con-
tain eggs or squads any more than is
actually necessary. The pens should
be sprayed frequently with whitewash
containing a little crude carbolic acid,
or with coal-tar disinfectant, and the
nest boxes and perches should be ex-
amined for mites especially in hot
weather, and sprayed with kerosene
oil or some commercial preparation
which will kill mites. The nests or
nest pans should be cleaned out and
the nesting material removed after
the squads are marketed or leave the
nests.
Canker.
Pigeons are subject to many of the
diseases which affect poultry and may
be treated in the same manner. Canker
and the disease or condition called
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
NOT EASY TO PUT ON PAPER
Many Lovers Entirely Unable to Ex-
press the Tendencies of Love
With Pen.

In the confession of a certain ia
nous man it is recorded that during
his engagement to the woman whom
he afterward happily married, he
never once ventured to write to her
except on postcard.
Emma would have heard from me
frequently" he says, according to a
writer in the Cleveland Plain Dealer,
"but that had morbid fear that she
would expect what is called love let
ter l am capable of conveying some
account of my affairs by the pen, but
l cannot, and never could, enlarge on
the subject of my emotions. ] am not
sentimental, or at any rate, am not
sentimental on paper"
l wonder how many women realize
this masculine popularity and make
adequate allowance for it? There is
convention between betrothed cou-
pies that an ardent correspondence
should contain some assurance of af.
lection. 1t is a custom which bears
very hard on some male tempera-
mentS.
The happy young girl listening for
the postman's knock and hoping for
Just scribble" from her fiance, lit
tie knows how considerable has been
the labor of producing that scribble.
Precisely because he has had diff
Guilty in composing it its punctual ar
rival testifieS to his fondness. The
writing of the scribble has been real
sacrifice of time, as we'll as a consider
able struggle for ideas. Nevertheless,
the essential quantity of the lovers
"scribble" is subtly absent. For the
"scribbled' or not, is that 1t should
be spontaneous.
To be fluent writer Of love letters
is given to few men-professionala u-
thors apart-and the girl who has be-
come engaged and who enforces rule
that she shall receive perfervid out
pouring Of epistolary art at regular in
tervals from her future husband Is
conceivably making a profound
psychological mistake. For she is
causing him to be untrue to himself
for her sake.
Not that his fond speeches, when
he and she are alone with each other,
are untrue. But for him the putting
of similar fond speech on paper is
untrue, inasmuch as he is Of those
who have to think out what they write
and such things, when spoken, are
not thought OUT" they come spon-
taneously and that is their beauty.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
EXCLAMATION.

One of the apparent inconsistencies
that battles and perplexes a man is a
woman's painfully keen perception of
his faults when affairs are going
smoothly with him, and her passion of
love and pity for him when he is i'll
or in trouble. Some people explain
this popularity of the gentler sex by
saying, and with truth, that woman's
love is idealistic. When a husband is
well and careless and a bit cross, he
falls short of her ideal, and she is dis
appointed in him. When, however, he
is suffering physically or mentally, or
Is in danger, she Immediately idealizes
him.-Good Housekeeping.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Christmas Presents Any Boy Can Flake
By A. NELLY HALL (copyng by a NeeIyE

Copyright by A. Nicely HaIl)

TT is high time to be making Christ
i mas gifts, nd the little articles il
Illustrated below are so simple that they
can be completed in almost no time
at all. They are inexpensive 20 make,
too, requiring only bits of cardboard,
and some pieces of silk and ribbon
from mothers scrap-bag.
The pretty heart-shaped needle-book
shown in Fig. has pair of covers
made of two pieces of cardboard meas
uring three and one-half inches each
way, and four leaves of the same
shape and size cut out of white or pref
ty colored flannel Place the flannel
hearts between the covers, and pierce
two holes through both covers and
leaves each side of the center of the
top. Then pull piece of narrow rib
bon through the holes and tie small
bow. Fasten pieces of ribbon to the
lower points of the heart, both front
and back, by which to tie the little
case shut when not in use. Mark
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
WHY cows GIVE MORE MILK
Breeds Improve the Things for Which
They Are SeIected-Noted Increase
Made in Germany.

A contributor to Farm end Fireside
explains why COWS give more milk
than they used to:
Cattle used to be bred chiefly for
work. Therefore the COWS did not
give much milk. Breeds improve the
thing for which they are selected.
I'm 1890 the work COWS of Germany
gave an average of pint and half
day. Interest in milk increased, and
by 1900 the average yield was a quart
and a half. Breeding went on milk
ward, and in 1910 the German cows
averaged two quarts of milk each per
day. In 1920 three, in 1880 four-and
there the gain stopped for 80 years.
But in 1860 the production had in
creased to six quarts and by 1870 to
eight"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Sunday-Hovs Spend III

4 little extra rest Saturday night to
prepare for Sunday.
A complete shaking OF OF the
shackles OF labor.
use of the day in friendship
sweet of books and men and God.
Gods own word OF revelation "a
we'll as of nature allowed to speak
to the hungry and sentient soul.
A part taken in congregational wor.
ship In song and prayer and orderly
waiting on the means of grace.
A little done for someone else In
kindly word or kindly deed.
sincere effort TO set one asy IN
seven apart for the growth and sus.
tentation Of that part Of Us which we
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07

going light" seem to be more preva-
lent in pigeons than in the domestic
fowl. Canker appears as sores or
cheesy patches in the mouth and
throat and can usually be prevented
by providing good sanitary conditions
and feeding only clean, sound grains
and clean water. 1t may be treated
by swabbing the mouth and throat
with undiluted creolin or with a solu-
ton of equal parts of hydrogen per-
phur. Enough potassium permangan-
ate may be added to the drinking wa
ter to give it wine color. Various
remedies or preventives of disease
are used in the drinking water by
pigeon breeders whenever the stock
appears to be in poor condition.
Among these are carbolic acid epson
salts, copper sulphate, and venetian
red. Ulcers sometimes appear on the
head, around the bill, eyes, mouth, or
in the throat, and pigeons thus affected
should usually be killed.
Going light" is more or less pc
culiar to pigeons and is difficult to
cure 1t may be brought about by
feeding filthy or unsound grains, by
filthy conditions, and by any factor
which tends to destroy the vitality of
the pigeons. The symptoms of this
condition are a gradual loss of flesh,
frequently accompanied by diarrhea.
The practical method of treatment is
to remove the cause. Pigeons in this
or in any other diseased condition will
often get well If allowed their free
dom. Tonics are used by some pigeon
breeders, especially during the molting
season, but their constant use is not
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
POSTSCRIPTS

After exhaustive reseaTcl@.
Paris, a famous French sc-e1is
recommended a diet equally "
between meats and vegetables >
best for working people
Rings instead Of balls .aatI u
chinery bearings invented Dy -
man.
Storm curtains to protect t1'
pants of a motorcycle sidsoa'
been invented. -,
With an annual rainfaA e1'.
500 inches southern Assam =
worlds wettest region. a
A combination ladder, step Z
and staging has been invented'
to aid in picking fruit. a
BY using finely powdered
ents and great pressure csI.,
ticles have been made 10 10
porcelain. .,,
BY treating them with ceI.41
a Frenchman has succeeded - /
ing eggs fresh for months.
Pressing the button that
the current also operates a =
ter In a new electric cigar i
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07

spoons and other tools which it will be
required to hold.
The appearance of the rack will be
improved by planning a bevel on the
face edges of the hook strip and the
end blocks, as in the illustration. Use
brass screws or galvanized nails for
hooks, and screw a screweye into the
top edge of each end block to hang
the rack by.
The bottle rack in Fig. 2 will hold
your mothers bottles of extract, catch
up, sauces and dressings, and elimi-
nate the possibility of upsetting bot
ties when reaching for the one wanted.
Narrow strips should be used for the
division strips of the rack. to save
space and make the rack light in
weight. Laths planed smooth on all
sides will do for the side and center
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07

on which to set the crock. Hinge the
end of the bracket strip A to one end
of the shelf supports, or else set In
an upright piece between two shelves
TO screw the hinge to. Use a me-
dium-sized T hinge for this bracket
In the same way that the swinging
shelf eliminates the lifting of the
sugar crock, the platform shown in
Fig. saves the lifting of the scrub
pail from place to place while scrub
bling. as it Is provided with casters
so it may be pushed about.
Fig. shows how the castors are
screwed to the platform. and how
strips are nailed 10 the edges, form
ing a rim that prevents the pail from
sliding of
Either paint or shellac each article
after assembling it, and If you have
done your work carefully. mother will
have something to be proud of.
Copyright. by A Nicely HaH)
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
CHRISTIAN HOME ABOVE ALL
There Alone Can the Highest OeVeI-
opment of the Virtues Sc Said
to Be Attained.

a Christian home-why is il such
a fine AMI precious thing? Because it
is garden of the Lord. a nursery for
human lives to grow in. Its rich fer
tile soil furnishes the very best field
for the development OF the virtues
which we most need. Its seclusion.
its shelter. its wise and careful cul-
ture are invaluable to growing souls.
and nothing can make up for the lack
of them.
The home is the God-appointed edu-
Gator OF mankind. We have q multi
tude Of institutions which we call
schools, but the real schools, where
the real lessons Of life are learned
are the homes OF America. We hear g
great deal about the higher education.
but there is q higher education still
the highest that can be had. IL Is
found in the lofty lesson OF self-con
troll and self-sacrifce and subliros
faith and splendid trust which homs
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Squire Would Stand,

Squire Perkins bought a calf one
day and endeavored to lead it home
with short rope. For greater safety
he tied the rope around his own body.
The calf got frightened and dragged
the worthy squire through a few
bramble bushes, a couple of fences
and various other articles of scenery.
Finally some interested spectators
cornered the pair and started to loos-
en- the rope from the squire's waist.
He was so nearly out of breath he
couldn't say anything for a moment,
but he finally managed to gasp out:
Unite the calf; never mind me, I'll
stand. "-Everybody's Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07

Needles" upon the front cover with
ink or water colors.
Fig. shows a book-marker made
of one and one-fourth yards of No. Z
white satin or grosgrain ribbon. Cut
the ribbon into two pieces. one piece
measuring II inches and the other "a
inches, and pull them half way
through a little brass ring such as is
used in crochet work, fastening them
in place with a few stitches. To
complete the marker, letter the follow
ing upon the ribbons with black ink or
water colors, placing one line of the
stanZa on each ribbon end:
Not mine to tell
If the book is good;
But l keep my place
AS a marker should
The riangular-shaped book-marker
shown in Fig. is cut from a piece
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Cannot Turn Over.

On some of the French military lor-
ries there are affixed rods which, if
a vehicle be tilted at a severe angle
on a high-cambered road, swing out,
so that should a disposition to over
turn be evinced, the tendency is i'm
mediately arrested by the feet on the
ends of the rods, for these prop the
car up by making an easy contact
with the ground. The action is pure
ly automatic.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Supplement the Pastures,

The dairy farmer who keeps his
COWS too long on pasture in the fall
suffers a loss. Pasturing too long
causes a decrease in milk production,
and recovery is not secured by sup
Elemental feeding later Supplemental
feeding-with silage, if available
should begin at once. This will keep
cows up to their best in milk yield,
not only for the immediate future but
through the winter.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Quiet JOYS.

The joys that are bought with money
are worth nothing compared with the
joys that, though sweet and gentle and
unassuming, are yet deep, enduring
and quieting; the joys that enlarge the
heart instead of diminishing it. and
which we too often pass by-some-
what in the manner of those peasants
whom one sees in an ecstasy over the
fireworks at some fete. and who pay
not the smallest attention TO the spleD'
dor of a summer night.-Sabatier.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
PANTRY SWlNGlN SHELF

strips, also for the cross strips The
ends must be about three inches
wide.
The swinging shelf shown in Fig. 4
Is an excellent provision for the sugar
and salt crooks. as it makes it possible
to swing these out from between the
pantry shelves, then back into place
after using. without lifting them.
Fig. shows how the swinging
bracket is made of a strip two inches
wide and ten inches long (A). with a
block two inches wide and six inches
long nailed to each side of it at one
end (BJ, and how to the top of this
bracket a cake tin is screwed or nailed
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Explorer Rescued.

Even today inland New Guinea is
one of the worlds darkest spots. The
country is a nightmare of gigantic
precipices, huge ravines, great
swamps and soaking forests. In 1901
the Danish explorer Petersen. with
three companions, dived deep into the
heart of this unknown country. They
were captured by a tribe OF savages.
who killed their carriers and made
them prisoners. For long they were
believed to be dead. Then, to every
ones Amusement, letter In Peter
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07

Of white writing paper seven inches
square. Fold the square in half, dag
Onally, am cut along the folded line
Then take one-half and fold it in half
again. The dotted line in Fig. In
dicates where to fold. Punch holes
through the folded piece near one open
end (these holes are indicated on the
unfolded piece, and with narrow rib
bon lace the edges together. and tie
the ribbon ends in a bow. Cut a pic
ture from a magazine and paste 1t
upon the front. This little marker
slips over the corner of the page you
want to mark
The pin case shown in Fig. re-
quires two pieces of cardboard each
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07

My dear" said Hawkins the other
evening, looking up from his paper,
here's an article from the pen of an
eminent physician to the effect that
sleeping in the daytime is very in
furious" We'll, that's Just like man, "
rejoined his wife. They are always try
ing to trump up some excuse for stay
ing away from church on Sundays"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
generally advised under normal condi-

generally advised under normal condi-
tions.
Dead squads may be due to va
riety of reasons. The cause of the
mortality must be found and removed
if profitable results are to be Sc
cured. Some of the possible causes
are extra males or minated pigeons
in the breeding pens, rats or mice in
the house, and lack of vitality in the
breeding stock, caused by the use of
improper or the lack of sufficient feed,
filthy conditions, or careless inbreed.
ing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
SUCCESS With Hons.

Success in hog raising is determined
by intelligent daily, sometimes hourly
care, attention to many smaller de-
tails and good judgment When a
farmer decides to become a hog raiser
he should plan to stay permanently in
the business
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Demand for Sheen.

The demand for sheep at high fig
ures is unprecedented, yet old sheep
men have trembled with fear for fifty
years lest the tariff be removed from
wool. 1t is most gratifying to see
more farmers taking advantage of "the
golden hoof"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Sources Of Nitroaen.

Manure and legume crops are Of ire
mendous importance as economic
sources of nitrogen. Glover, alfalfa
and other legumes are usually profit
able crops to raise for feed and seed
and thus the nitrogen which they Sc
cure from the air may cost nothing.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Stock Furnish Market.

1t is an important function of live
stock on the farm TO furnish a market
for the crops grown, enabling farmers
to convert the grasses, forage crops,
legumes and so on into higher-priced
finished products and to return to the
soil the plant food taken from it.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1915-12-07
Poor Outlook.

1--WE want to keep business out Of
politics." said the reformer. Well"
replied Senator Sorghum, you've TAX
en- all the pleasure out of it. If you
take all the business out of it, too,
don't see what's going to be left
Washington Star.