davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The herald., 1915-12-30

is made entirely OF Hudson seal. and
seal also trims the pockets. The brim
of the pretty skating cap is or seal.
with fur ball. The suit is shown in
brown. green. navy or wine.
ANNA MAY,
The herald., 1915-12-30
CRUELTY DECEIVED.

Weary Pete-Say, dem city crooks
ought ter he arrested | seen an ad
In de paper last week that said fer "A
dollar they'd teach you how to make
butter out o grass. | sent in de dollar
HE last-an' they wrote back an
said. when You get the grass ready
feed it to COW an then churn the
milkr-PittSburgh Press.
The herald., 1915-12-30

hem of this frock is also Of tulle. The
upper part of the bodice is silver EN-
broidered net and the lower part is of
taffeta. Bandings Of silver spangles
trim the tulle edges. and an apron Of
tulle adorned with silver banding min
giles with the soft folds of the tunic.
ANNA MAY.
The herald., 1915-12-30

HIS suit is very appropriate
style for skating. To give a win
Try touch the suit is fur trimmed.
and high fur collar and wide belt are
modish details. . The skirt is made
with wide. full swing and Is simply
finished with wide hem. The collar
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
In TURNING CORNERS
where MoToRIST SHOULD ExER
cISE MUCH CARE.
Statistics Show That Majority of Acct
dents Occur at Turns and Bends
of the Road.

The motorist who has safely round
ed the bend in the road with which he
is very familiar hundred times . is
apt to think the next experience will
be as free from danger as the others
have been and that there will be no
obstruction. But, sooner or later, the
unexpected happens when nothing
save great skill and alertness will
avert a bad accident. And while it is
true that in every instance and at all
times a motorist upon the road is de-
pendent not only on his own actions
but on the actions of others, this IS
especially true of corners.
The conservative driver never takes
a right-handed corner at anything ap-
preaching a fast speed, and he always
treats curve of any kind as if there
might be an obstruction of some kind
at an awkward point just out of sight.
He approaches the corner at a speed
which will enable him to pull up be-
fore the center is reached.
The best method of taking corner
is more easily demonstrated on the
road than in writing, but the rule of
reducing the sharpness of the turns as
much as possible by going wide on the
outside of the approaching and the
leaving should never be forgotten.
Another point which should be re-
membered about corners is that the
most dangerous are not necessarily
those which are most acute, and so
those that are often called Every bad"
corners-that is, bad from the acute
ness of the corner-are not really
the most dangerous because an abrupt
right-hand turn compels traffic to slow
down for reasons other than those con-
nected with the chances of meeting
oncoming vehicles.
Most accidents occur at corners
which are neither very acute nor other
wise extreme, for a gradual turn al
lows unimpeded vision some distance
ahead, whereas a very acute corner
compels moderation in speed.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
SPADING Up FEEDING PLACES
Practise Tends to Purify Ground and
Encourages Exercise on Part OF
Fowls in Flock.

On most farms feed for the flock Is
scattered about on the ground, and
the chickens ere continually fed with
in a small space. The surface Of the
ground soon becomes foul with the
droppings OF the flock. True, sunshine
acts as a germicide, and If the space
is at all sloping, the washing Of the
rain helps some, but generally the
spot is level and often muddy.
The ground quickly becomes con-
taminated with the continual tramping
of the flock, and if there be one sick
fowl the whole flock may soon become
infected. This is especially true with
small chicks and young turkeys.
The spading up of the feeding place
once or twice a week will bring good
results, 1t will tend to purify the
ground. 1t will induce exercise on the
part of the flock, which is always de-
sirable. Especially is this true when
the flock is confined in yards, and
green feed, so necessary, is difficult
to obtain.
II grain Is scattered as one spades
lid the ground, much will be buried so
deep that hens will not scratch it out
and it will be thrown up at the next
spading with green succulent blades
that are greatly relished by the flock
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
K ARE0 !
R0()lTK y
HOPPER FEEDING THE SAFEST
Saves limo and Avoids Upsetting Dr.
gestion of Fowls-Mash Mixtures
Used by Breeders.
r. z PARKINSON. Farm Manage

By e. K. PARKINSON, Farm Manage
ment Expert. Copyright, 1914)
The two principal objects Of hopper
feeding are to save time and avoid up
setting the digestion Of fowls from
careless feeding.
On large commercial plants-in fact,
on any farm where poultry are kept in
considerable numbers-time Is money
and must be saved, so by degrees the
hopper has come to be used univer-
sally. The usual materials are fed in
it, but mixed in bulk and put into
hoppers dry in sufficient quantities to
last several days. There are some who
object to hoppers, fearing they attract
rats, mice, sparrows, etc., and that
fowls eat less freely of dry mash and
consequently do not lay as we'll. The
first of these objections is overcome by
using metal hoppers with lids. These
may be purchased from any poultry
supply house. The second objection Is
true, but the slight loss Of eggs is Off
set by saving in the time spent In feed
ing.
There are, of course, those who have
made great success with poultry
feeding cooked mashes, and in such
cases it is inadvisable to change. But
where feeding is done by hired man,
who Is apt to be careless in keeping
feed troughs clean and we'll scalded or
allowing the mash to stand until sour,
upsetting the digestion Of entire
flocks and causing loss in the egg
yield, the change to the hopper meth
cd will prove beneficial
For those who think Of changing
from the old to the new method per-
haps a few of the dry mash mixtures
used by successful poultry breeders
may prove helpful. A we'll tried one
consists Of coarse wheat bran, 200
pounds; cornmeal, 100 pounds; ground
oats, 100 pounds; gluten meal, 100
pounds; middlings, IS pounds; feeding
-four, % pounds; fine beef scraps, 80
pounds, and fish scraps, 80 pounds. For
Leghorns the following has been found
good: Cornmeal, 60 pounds; wheat
middlings, go pounds; wheat bran, 80
pounds; alfalfa meal, 10 pounds; oil
meal, 10 pounds; beef scrap, so pounds,
and table salt 10 pounds. The Maine
experiment station. recommends wheat
bran, 200 pounds; cornmeal, 100
pounds; middlings, 100 pounds; gluten
meal, 100 pounds; linseed meal, 100
pounds; beef scrap, 100 pounds. A
breeder of Plymouth Rocks has had
good results from the following:
Wheat bran, 200 pounds; wheat mid
dlings, 100 pounds; cornmeal, 100
100 pounds; gluten meal, 100 pounds,
and beef scrap, 100 pounds. Every 9TH
er month so pounds OF linseed meal
are added.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
Warninu Device for Auto.

A mechanism for Indicating to the
driver of a following automobile which
way the car ahead is to turn has been
placed on the En- ylish market recently.
The device, is of course, attached
to the rear of the car, and provides
four Illuminating spaces besides the
regulation lamp. Located on the steer
ing wheel are two switches, each Of
which operates an electric lamp on the
appropriate side of the device, and
the pressure of a thumb on one
switch turns on the current in the
corresponding space at the rear OF
the car These spaces are Of ground
glass and have white arrow on a
red background, the illumination thus
showing which way the driver intends
to turn.
The "slow" signal appears when
ever the clutch is thrown out or the
foot brake is set; the stop" signal
shows when the emergency brake Is
applied.-PhiladelDh Record.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07

he SiIkie, Called the "Nurse Maid"
Hen of Japan, on Account Of the
Way She Mothers the Baby Pleas
ants-Large Exhibits Were Shown
at the Recent Poultry Show in the
Grand Palace, New York.
very unpleasant for chicks. They are
miserable in the chilly air and on the
damp ground, and don't feel like
working and following the old hen.
A hen with chicks should have a
little brooder house just the same as
If she were an artificial brooder The
room where the chicks might work
and scratch ought to be sunny and
dry and warm. The old hens CON-
pany is not warmth to the chicks
when they are out from under her;
and they must be out from under her
a great deal of the time if they are to
make large thrifty birds. A little
brooder house or large sunny coop
with artificial heat in 1t will save
many of your chicks this spring.
Keep in mind that comfort fer the
chicks is 6: eat thing.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
WINTER KILLING OF
COMMON RED ANTS
Dig Out Heart Of Mounds, Pour
on Water and Let Them
Freeze to Death.
(By G. II. GLITZKE.)

The common red ants do a great
deal of damage to the alfalfa fields in
some sections Of the country. The
spots where they kill the alfalfa are
usually only about a square yard or
two from where they build their
mounds, but a great many Of these in
the field count for quite large patch
where no alfalfa grows.
Some people try to destroy them
by sinking bottles into their mounds
so that the ants fall into them.
This system is not always effective,
as it is hard to trap them all, and as
long as a few remain the trouble will
continue.
There is nothing quite so effective
as the winter killing, which consists
in digging out the heart of the mounds
in the winter, and then pouring water
into the excavation thus made, so it,
soaks into the ground, and freezes
those that may still be living.
This method usually proves very
Satisfactory. OuL Ol large uelu
where they were killed in this way
during last winter only a very few OF
the many ant hills had any ants re-
naming in them by spring, and it is
quite evident that if the work had been
done more carefully every one of them
would have been killed
The work should be done very thor
oughly. It does not take much dig
ging at each mound, but it should be
done in the winter time, so there is no
chance for them to rebuild, and the
weather is so cold that they must
freeze.
Where other methods have failed
this has done the work.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
BROODER FOR LITTLE CHICKS
Light Place, Dry and Warm
Comfort Is Great Thing.

The hen with early chicks Is given
the poorest chance in the world for
caring for her brood. She is gener-
ally confined with the little ones for
a few days in coop with bars where
they can run out and in. The coop Is
only a small thing, rather dismal and
dark. She is hardly ever given a nice,
well lighted place, dry and warm,
and with chaff and straw on the floor
where the chicks can scratch and
work without freezing the life out Of
them. Some folks will say that the
hen IS always there to warm them up
when they want warmth; but what
would you think Of an artificial sys-
tenn of brooding that would keep a
close little hoover in reach of the
chicks all the time, but without any
warm place where the chicks might
work and eat?
Every year you see the old hens
clucking around the place with the
little brood with her, crying and
cold, and begging the old brooder to
stop. In early spring the weather is
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
PROFIT FROM SMALL FLOCK
Wool Buyer Says 1t Costs Practically
Nothing to Keep Administrator
Brings Higher Price.

For the encouragement Of the farm
er who thinks keeping sheep would
be a fine thing If he could carry on
an extensive business, as is done on
the big western ranches, we quote a
Texas wool buyer, who says: at would
be great thing for the country If
every farmer owned small flock of
sheep. I buy a great deal OF wool
at points where there are no ranches
near, the produce being grown BY the
farmers who keep small flocks. have
been often told by such farmers that
it costs practically nothing to keep
sheep On a farm. They require very
little feed. They eat the weeds in
the fields and at the same time they
enrich the land. I find that the own
ers of small flocks, as rule, keep
a better grade of sheep and the ami
mails are healthier than are those of
the large ranchmen, the woods from
the farms always CHASING higher than
ranch WoOls."
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
HANDY SLING FOR
HANDLING FODDER
Troublesome Task Made Easier
by Use of Device Described
Herewith.

In hauling shocks of corn, fodder
and all, to the barn to shuck it Oh
rainy days, it is sometimes trouble
some to handle.
An open sling will help, in which
the boards are three-fourths by four
inches, four feet long, with three
quarter-inch hole two inches from
each end for one-half inch rope.
The ropes in each sling are long
enough to inclose a shock of fodder.
To load the shocks the sings are
placed one by one on the wagon, the
boards lying crosswise, and the ropes
laid back and forward. When one
shock is loaded the ropes are brought
together and looped, then another
sling is loaded, as before until SIX
shocks are on the wagon.
The load is driven to the barn, the
hay carrier hooked to the sling, and
the shock is lifted at oace to the
barn.
The corn as it is shocked is assorted
and clean well-shaped ears are thrown
into one crib; the "nubbins" are
thrown into the bin next to the
crusher and ground for the COWS, the
fodder is cut up on the large cutting
box. The cutting box is run by gaso-
line engine in the pump room.
The fodder, nice, bright and sweet,
is moistened with hot water. mixture
of wheat bran, oil meal, crushed oats
and gluten feed; sufficient salt is
added in season. The pile is forked
over thoroughly and let lie over night,
or from morning to night
The pith of the stalks that the COWS
do not eat is used for bedding, and
is one Gf the best absorbents we have.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
Calls Auto Safer Than Horse.

"The automobile is the safest vehicle
that travels our highways today"
states the general manager of a popu-
lar auto concern. "Our automobiles
are so perfectly controlled that they
are even safer to the public than the
old family horse, who is apt to run
away any time.
"Some excited people declare that
the automobile is a mena"e to the life
and limb of the nation.
"Other pessimists presume that
swift-moving vehicles propelled by
gasoline and driven by lbloodthirsty
villains are killing and manning people
on a wholesale scale. These people
have never looked up the facts"
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
AYRSHIRE Cow Lucy, First Prize Win ner

and smell. In cold weather complaints
of trouble in churning are most num-
erous. Many who consider themselves
expert butter makers occasionally
meet with a refractory batch Of cream
that defies all efforts to coax forth its
golden treasure.
Ordinarily there is no cream so hard
to churn that it is not amenaDle to
proper treatment. 1t is possible to
make the best of butter with the old
dash churn and butter bowl, but the
labor involved is out of all proportion
to results. IF the butter fails to come
il is due to one or some combination OF
the following causes:
First, the churn may be too full.
Second, the temperature is too high
or too low.
Third, the cream is improperly or in
sufficiently ripened.
Fourth, there is too small percent
age of buttcrfat, probably because
there is too much skim milk with the
cream.
The churn should never be. more
than half-full. 1t will often save time
and temper to divide the churning, es
pecially if the temperature is little
low; when churning commences the
air and cream are mixed into foam
which fills the churn so full that no
motion of the fat globules toward each
other can occur, and it is Impossible
to churn frothy mass. In such case
part of the cream must be drawn oil,
the temperature raised little and the
butter will soon come.
To have the temperature just right
is a matter Of the greatest Importance,
and next TO a good churn the thermom-
eter is the most important apparatus
in the dairy. For the making OF uni"
formly fine butter it is Indispensable.
The kind to get is a glass dairy Their
mometer that sells for fifteen cents
and up.
About So degrees in summer and 60
degrees in winter is usually the de-
sired temperature. The object of
churning is to bring the invisible fat
globules that are suspended in the
cream in contact with each other. Ii
they are just soft enough they will
unite under steady stroke of the
dasher, the process going on till the
butter comes. If too hard or too soft
they will not do this, and that is why
temperature is so important.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
Tire No Lightning Protector.

There is no reason to believe that
any protection is afforded against
lightning by the rubber tires on the
ground. If bolt of lightning is head
ed for the car the rubber tires will
never stop it. AS far as rubber tires
being an electric conductor is con-
cerned, if you will stand on the ground
and touch the ungrounded magnetic
electrode the shock you will receive
will readily convince you that the cur
rent from the magnetic has no diff
fculty in passing from the frame of
the car to the ground through tires
and then through your body and back
to the framework again.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
SAVING All the Oil.

1t has remained for the motor car
industry to take lesson from the COW
and her rural owner.
- AS nearly every person knows, the
farmer has separator to take the
cream from the milk.
Here is the way the automobile in
dustry has taken a lesson from the
farmer and his cream separator:
In every big factory hundreds of gal
Ions of oil are used while various parts
of the motor car are being drilled.
The oil streams over the tool as it
bores through the metal, aiding in the
work and keeping the metal cool.
Consequently much oil sticks to the
metal shavings al dust.
At many motor car plants the shaw.
ings are scooped into the cream sep
arator." The oil is separated from the
metal and used again, effecting a big
saving during a year.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
By r. B. RUSHING.)


When | speak of the care OF milk
and making of butter on the farm
speak from the standpoint of ordinary
farm conditions.
Experience has taught me that II
good. pure, healthful milk and butter
are expected the work must begin at
the base of the usiness-closer even
than the COW stable-pastures and
meadows must be free from noXlous
weeds. The water supply must be
pure and plentiful.
If on dry feed, supply good clover
hay. Also good sweet ensiiage, and
salt where COWS can help themselves
at will, as they are very fond OF a
change of diet.
Much less corn than is usually fed
should be given and no oats nor oat
straw if good results are expected.
The straw reduces the flow OF milk
and gives an unpleasant favor to the
butter.
Milk will take up a foreign odor
with surprising Quickness, so keep as
far from all communicating substances
as possible Immediately after strain
ing separate the cream with a cream
separator. But if a separator is not
available, the following plan will give
satisfaction:
During the cool weather let the milk
set in shallow pans about twelve
hours, then set it in the reservoir or
back of the stove when fire is low and
raise the temperature to that Of new
milk; then let it set y hours longer
in a low temperature before skimming.
In this way the yield of cream can
be almost doubled and is in a firm
sheet and easily skinned, and keeps
longer without getting Old than any
other way. When cream is scarce 1t
can be safely kept four or five days
just above the freezing point. Then
when you have enough for a churnInS
add a good starter of sour cream and
bring it to a temperature Of 90 de-
grees to ripen.
1t is almost impossible to add wa
ter directly to cream without injury.
This is done by setting cream buckets
in hot water and stirring cream often.
Cream so treated churns quickly,
yields more and better butter and
keeps the skim milk sweet longer than
any other plan. Properly ripened
cream is glossy on top, is thicker than
ordinary cream and has an acid taste
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
Points for Repair Men.

In using the impulse tire pump the
engine should not be run very fast.
AS the suction of the retreating pis-
ton serves to draw the pump to it's
momentum, it cannot act as rapidly
as the engine pistons. Some pumps
have springs to return the pistons.
1t is quite common for a patron to
be surprised at the size of a repair
bill, and to go away sore" This
causes him to shun the shop in the
future, and also to tell his friends
that the repairman is unfair. 1t would
be better policy if an estimated price
could be given for the work before
taking the lob. L
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
Liuhts on All Vehicles.

Once more in the New York legisla-
ture an effort will be made to pass a
statute requiring all vehicles to carry
lights at night On several occasions
this measure has met with chloroform-
ing in the committee and has never
emerged for test vote.
Both New Jersey and Massachusetts
have laws requiring all vehicles to
carry lights, and while the statute has
not been thoroughly observed by
horse-drawn vehicles in the two states,
the fact remains that in case Of acct
dents the burden of proof would be
placed upon the owner of the unlighted
vehicle.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
FEED-TROUGH FOR CHICKENS
Efficient Receptacle May Be Con-
structed Out of Piece of Tin
Keeps Food Wholesome.

A simple and efficient feeding
trough may be made by lacking
piece Of tin about 31a inches wide
along the edge of half-inch board
so that the tin projects about an inch
and half on either side of the board,
bending the tin so as to form shall
low trough, and fastening the board
to blocks which raise it from the
floor. The trough may be from one
to three feet long. 1t is within easy
reach of the chickens and so narrow
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
Feeding Trough.

that they can not stand upon the
edges. Food placed in such feeding
troughs can be kept clean until who'll
ly consumed.
As one of the difficult problems for
the amateur poultryman is to devise
some means for feeding little chickens
SO that they can consume all of the
food without soiling it, this trough
will prove a great help.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
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Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
Keep Out Surface Water.

Dig ditch about the outside of the
poultry house and bank the extra soil
against the bottom of the wall to keep
cut surface water A dry floor is es-
seatial for a healthy flock in winter.
Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1915-05-07
Quality OF Market Lambs.

The quality of the market lamb de-
ponds largely upon the first four
weeks of its life. Give it a good boost
then he will, with reasonably good
care, prove very satisfactory at mar
kct time.