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Evening star., 1915-06-06

lot adjoining my house. where nav
planted radishes, lettuce. cucumpeTs,
onions, beans, peas and tomatoes. Wy
family consumes great deai OF lettu'e
fore we have had to buy all tins from
the markets, getting stuff that often
was stale. wilted and poor. rms
spring We have had all the crisp. fresh
lettuce. radishes and spring ONIONS we
could use. and have given away guam
titles Later we shall have all the
beans. limas and peas we shall neeo.
as well as all our tomatoes nave
worked not more than an hour or SO,
morning and evening, on the garden.
The use of the land cost me nothing.
last year it was a forest of weeds ana
the owner had to pay man dollar
on each of four times for cutting ana
removing the weeds. 1t cost me SZ TO
have the place plowed and narrowed, a
load of manure cost 81 and the seeds
and plants cost s1.S5. Secondhand
tools-rake. hoe, etc-cost SO cents, so
the actual cash cost of the garden so
far has been little less than 50. At
market prices the lettuce. radiShes and
onions we have had from the garden
already have been worth few cents
less than ST, and we haven't really be-
gun to get results yet"
One of the firemen at No 20 engine
house says he expects to grow fifteen
to twenty bushels of potatoes on his
his family all next winter and spring.
If potatoes sell next fall and winter
for the same prices they brought last
fall this will mean a saving of SIS to
$50 for this fireman's family.
A government clerk who also lives in
the northwest section obtained the use
of small plot near his home, on which
he has set out 100 tomato plants, cost
ing $1.50. He has also planted eight
rows, each twenty-five feet long, of
potatoes, and has besides bed of let
tuce, another of radishes and large
bed of onions. This man puts in an
hour mornings and an hour evenings on
his garden, and no professional ever
had finer looking lot of plants.
Plenty of opportunities for this kind
of gardening exist in all sections of
Washington, and the man who really
wants to reduce living expenses can
find vacant ground which he may use
for little or nothing All that is re-
quired is an hour or so mornings and
afternoons, and the results will soon
show in the garden and in the house
keeping accounts.
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Free Range Is Ideal.

When allowed to roam over an ex-
tended area, the birds secure a large
quantity of food material in the form
of grub, insects and weed seeds. These
not only induce an excellent growth,
but also cut down the cost Of other
purchased feeds Furthermore, free
range furnishes sanitary conditions
which are essential to the best health
and development.
An attempt to mature pullets in small
bare Yards without free range will. in
the great majority of cases, result in
failure The poultryman will appre-
ciate that in all Of this work the ulti-
mate aim is vigor and natural in
herited strength and vitality. Unless
he is able to rear each year large
number OF pullets to replace the old
birds which are sold after they have
PASSED their usefulness for egg produc-
tiop his chances for success in the
poultry business are slim.
Vigor is insured. then, by healthy,
vigorous parent stock; by the early
separation of the sexes, that each may
be given every opportunity for devel-
opment and by the furnishing of proper
range during the summer range period.
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FLOWERS FOR SHADY SPOTS.
Plants Used With Good Effect in
Places Not Reached by Sunlight.

There are many opportunities for bor-
der gardening on city lots that are not
utilized for the reason that people do
not know of flowers that will do we'll in
shady locations. Yet it is possible to
have a succession of blossoms from May
to October, in most such locations, if
the right plants are selected and prop
erly cultivated
Most shade loving plants delight in a
rich moist soil with abundance of the
humus that comes from dead leaves df
other decaying vegetation. So dig out
the bed before planting and fill with a
mixture of soil and old leaves. strawy
manure or other material that will form
humus as it decays. Have the top of
good loam Then plant some or all of
these. as early in spring as possible.
For May blossoms plant the large
f1owered wake robins. the trillium gran
di1orum of the catalogues. In addition,
few of the beautiful painted trilliums
Will give interest and variety. Back of
these plant the beautiful perennial,
bleeding heart; or. if you can afford it,
some azaleas. Here and there along
the back put a cump of the fairylike
meadow rue. which will send up its
graceful stalks in early summer. Sweet
William will also do well at This time
and yield mass of bright blossoms
Bee balm will carry on the towering
period for several weeks after midsum-
mer. and If clumps of cardinal flowers
are scattered between the meadow rues
they will blossom through the late sum-
mer and early autumn. Throughout the
autumn the japanese anemones will
yield a wealth of flowers
Many of the lilies are lovers of shade
and one will do well to plan for their
stately blossoms here and there in the
border Most of these should be planted
in autumn.
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Poultry Yard Notes.

handy homemade ireless brooder
for baby chicks. which has worked to
perfection for the man who built 1t,
is made as follows: The box is three
feet long, sixteen inches wide and
eight inches deep. Cleats were tackled
firmly around the inside OF the box
and ends, and a frame exactly one
inch smaller i'm each dimension than
the box was made Of Iath. This frame
was to be placed on the cleats. Across
the frame..the narrow way, laths were
tackled about three inches apart, and an
old piece of wool carpet the exact
width OF the frame. but about eighteen
inches longer. was fastened to the lath
carpet to sag" down between the lath,
the bottom of the sag" being about
on level with the backs of the chicks.
Wheat chaf was placed in the box to
the depth of two inches, at hrst.
though it soon settled down to about
an inch. On extra cool nights another
piece of carpet was spread over the
covered frame-the top of the brooder.
of course. being covered with lid of
boards with number of holes for
ventilation-and on really cold nights
a jug filled with hot water and wrapped
with newspaper WAS placed in the
box. This brooder. and several others
like it, were used inside the poultry
house. and chicks brooded In IT throve
wonderfully. The entire cost of the
material was less than twenty-five
cents. t-
At this time of year many OF the
hens become broody and poultrymen
are often at loss as to how to cure
them. 1T is an easy matter to break
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CITY LOT GARDENING.
Utilization of Waste Land in Fight
Against High Living Cost.

Gardening on vacant lots is more
noticeable this spring than it has ever
been before in Washington. In every sec
.ion of the city vacant lot gardens are TO
be seen, some of them of vest-pocket
size. while others attain the dimen-
sions of respectable garden plots. Ihat
these gardens are to be real Factors
in the struggle against the high cost
of living is an evident fact. and. while
the results fnay benefit only compare
lively few persons or families this
year. the example is certain to result
in more vacant lot gardens each year,
with more benefits for more people.
In many outlying parts OF Washing
ton il is difficult to walk half dozen
blocks without passing two or three
of these city lot gardens This is par
ticularly true in the northeast section.
where government clerks and other
employees have obtained PERMISSION OF
the owners of unimproved lots to cul-
tivate the land, and where scores Oh
nourishing gardens have been MADE.
In the extreme northwest part of the
city, along Wisconsin avenue partlcu-
larly, many such gardens are to be
seen. The men at No. 20 engine mouse
are cultivating about six acres OF
vacant land, some of il adjoining the
engine house and the remainder on
the opposite side of the street
These gardens are probably the lars-
est vacant lot gardens in Washington,
and in them are growing beans OF every
kind. peas, cabbages. tomatoes. sweet
corn. melons. cucumbers. pumpkins.
squa shes. potatoes. sweet potatoes and
practically every kind of vegetable
grown in this locality.
vacant corner lot far up 11th
street has been cultivated for the last
three years. and this spring it is again
being eardened. The ground is divided
into small plots which are rented for
a small amount for. the summer Per-
sons living nearby rent these plots and
grow what they please therein. The
crops most generally grown are beans,
peas. lettuce, radishes, onions and to-
matoes. \ public water plug at the
corner affords a means of irrigation
during dry weather.
In the southeast section are many of
these city lot gardens. some of them
occupying a quarter or half squire. di-
vided into smaller plots. each cultiyat-
ed and tended by some nearby resident.
one householder living In the north
west section said the other day.
II have a small garden on d vacant
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MAKING A COMPOST HEAP.
Most Valuable Aid in Bringing Up
Fertility of Garden Soil

several correspondents recently have
asked that directions for making COM
ost heap be printed in the country life
page of The. Sunday Star. AS big
heap of good. rich compost is perhaps
the most valuable aid in bringing up
the fertility of garden soil the numer-
Gus requests are here complied with
The foundation for a compost heap,
of course. is manure. If this can be OBJ
tanned from dairy or a COW stable so
much the better. If such material IS
not available. however. any kind of
strawy manure from horse stables or
even the droppings from poultry houses
will serve.
Locate the heap in place where II
will be convenient of access and where
material can be added to it from time
to time 1t is not necessary to place
the heap under shelter, but it should
he SO loc Ated that rain will not drain
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All Around the Place.

Gladiolus bulbs planted during June
will furnish supply of gorgeous
blooms for late summer and early fall.
Make the soil as rich as possible by
the addition of quantities of well
rotted manure. digging to the depth of
ten inches or a foot. and mixing the
fertilizer we'll with the finely pull
verized soil. Set the bulbs Ave to six
inches deep. and cultivate with the
narrow -bladed hoe until the plants are
eight to ten inches high, keeping the
soil well stirred up and loosened 1t
is often advisable TO tie the flower
stalks up to strips of lath or sections
of cane stuck deeply into the ground,
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BROUGHT HEALTH TO ISLANDS.
American Work in Philippines an
Example to the World.
,nm the American Review of Reviews

From the American Review OF Reviews.
Perhaps it may be within bounds to
say that the worlds experience fur
nishes no other example SO striking. in
the field of health administration, as
that which we have presented in the
Philippine Islands. We ourselves have
done nothing else quite equal to 1t.
whether at home or abroad.
Our public health authorities. with
the aid of our laboratory workers in
ba neurology. have made great discov-
cries regarding the cause and cure of
infectious and parasitical diseases. But.
more than this, they have shown heroic
qualities of courage and self-sacrifice
in the application of their discoveries
to afflicted populations.
Thus they have transformed the Phil
ippine Islands, and have shown how to
make the tropics as healthful as the
temperate zones They have made pos
sible the construction of the Panama
canal. and have created the conditions
for assured progress and development
throughout Central America and the
northern borders of the South Ameri--
can continent
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Grain and Mash for Pullets.

The feed for pullets differs from that
given the cockerels in the fact that 1T
is not forcing and not designed pri-
marily for flesh growth. The pullets
on range can best be fed combination
of cracked grains and dry mash. The
cracked grains are fed broadcast twice
a day about the range, and consist of
equal pafts of whole wheat and crack
ed corn. dry mash which experience
has shown to be very valuable for
rearing pullets- contains:
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Skim Milk Broiler Mash.

The broilers which are being fed
these rations should be given plenty of
green food and plenty OF water and
should have rather restricted range.
Where the heavier cockerels are to
be grown to roaster age they should be
given during the summer plenty of
green grass range with shade. When
and two to three weeks before they
are to be killed. it will be found de-
srable to conf1ne them in crates or
small yards and feed them a special
fattening ration.
For such purposes the following ra
tion will be found very useful. 1t
should be mixed very moist, with skim
milk if possible, if not, water will
answer 1t should be fed in pans or
water-tight troughs. No water should
he given the birds to drink during the
finishing period other than what they
get from the mash, the mash being
mixed very wet:
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Wears Silk Hose
and Oxford Shoes

stockings 1O1
long tramps. Admitting her extrava-
gance, she prefers silk hose as being
more soothing to the feet and drying
more quickly if they become damp.
She wears ordinary Oxford shoes, with
broad, fiat heels of medium height.
She has found these less tiring than
high boots for her long tramps.
Being pre-eminently feminine per-
son. Miss Hill confesses to being afraid
OF the dark and also of dogs. There
are three different stretches upon her
course t,e. which will require her to wal, walk
nifty miles day in order to reach shell
ter by dark, but, as they do not occur
until after she has had time to become
we'll hardened, she feels confident that
she can make them. She has frequently
made thirty-five miles in a day, and the
average daily distance of her present
undertaking is only twenty-one.
Her route as planned passes through
Maryland. West Virginia, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri KAN
sas and Colorado. She will not go to
Denver but has chosen to pass through
Pueblo instead. going from there to
Salt Lake City by following as closely
as possible a railroad which passes
through scenery she has long wished
to view on foot. When seen through a
train window half it's beauty is missed,
in Miss His opinion.
Walking and mountain climbing as
sports have been neglected during the
past half century. except by a few per-
sons, but they are now coming promi-
nently into popular favor, despite the
growth of transportation facilities. The
Mountain Club. with head
quarters in Boston, has been organized
with the purpose of increasing interest
in mountain tramping 1t has a mem
bership of nearly 1000 men and wom-
en-. Each year new routes are marked
out. chiefly through the New England
region. Trails marked by the
clubs sign. an arrow bearing the let
ters "A. NJ. c. serve to guide hikers
into especially attractive localities A
large number of camps and cabins have
been erected in various mountain re-
gions. While designed primarily for
club members, they are used by many
other walkers each season.
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KEEP PULLETS GROWING;
FORCE THE COCKERELS
Early Separation of Sexes. Correct
Feeding and Free Range Secure
Proper Development.
Rations for Young Stock After Age
of Eight to Twelve Weeks Sug-
gested by Expert.
BY PROF. HARRY R. LEWIS.
copyright. l9l3.i

During the summer months the sue
cessful poultryman makes every eff
fort to keep the young stock growing
rapidly. From the time they leave the
brooder the chicks should not be sub
jected to any check in their growth, for
such a check retards development and
makes them of small size and possessed
of less Vigor.
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Fattening Mash

Three feelings day of the above
mash, il only small quantities are
given. SO that the birds are allowed to
get hungry between feelings. will re-
suit in a profitable increase in weight.
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Separate the Sexes Early.

AS soon as the pullets and cockerels
can be distinguished. it is essential
that they be kept by themselves for
the remainder of the growing period.
The pullets, when running by them
selves. make a better growth. and fur
thermore can be fed to secure normal
slow development at smaller cost than
would be necessary If they were to be
put into condition for market. The
cockerels, on the other hand, must be
fed special fattening rations in order
to put on high quality of flesh in a
minimum of time.
In the case of Leghorns. the surplus
cockerelsN should be disposed of as
broilers in most cases at about twelve
weeks of age or when they weigh
about one and one-half pounds. With
the heavier breeds. such as Plymouth
Rocks and Wyandottes, most of the
cockerels can be kept to the roaster
age and marketed in the fall when six
to eight months old.
Evening star., 1915-06-06

The value of walking as exercise is
recognized by every physician. DR..
Dudley A.
Value of Walking sarg ent,
n;,ol n... director of
ph-ys cal
culture at Harvard University, gives
the motto Walk and keep well" to all
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Ration for Cockerels.

The following ration has proved very
desirable for finishing cockerels which
are to be sold as broilers 1t should be
fed mixed with skim milk and in
crumbly. not sloppy condition. Equal
parts of cracked corn and wheat should
be fed morning and night in addition.
Evening star., 1915-06-06
WALKING As A SPORT.
By Frederic J. Haskin.

A revival of walking as an outdoor
sport is now going forward Many peo-
Pile are planning a walking vacation
for this summer. Some of these intend
to walk a part of the distance to San
Francisco. and one woman pedestrian
will undertake to make the entire dis
tance across the continent On foot
Miss Minnie Hill set out from Wash
ington last week upon the long tramp
which she expects to complete in two
hundred days. She will have to do sc
in order to avoid the SHOWS in the
mountains which lie between her
starting point and her goal. She was
several months in making careful plans
for her trip, and has allowed for each
stop along the route. She will walk
only in, the daytime, and will spend
the nights either in the hotels of the
towns through which she passes or at
farmhouses in the more sparsely set
tied regions. In order to avoid dan
gerous localities, as well as to be sure
of shelter at night her route is con-
siderably longer than it would be 9TH
erwise. 1t will cover about 4,200 miles
while the width of the continent is less
than 5000.
Miss Hill is the first woman to under
take this tramp. She has had walking
experience of fourteen summer vaca-
tions spent in long tramping trips, and
knows her own powers of endurance
She is confident that her present un-
dertaking will not overtax them. She
is making the journey alone because
she could find no other,>woman whose
endurance was equal to her own.
Her outfit is simple, including only a
change of clothing, and the simplest
toilet articles, carried in a waterproof
leather bag. Experience has taught her
the tax even few ounces may be upon
the endurance required for long days
tramp. She can secure any needed ar
ticle in the towns through which she
passes. Her clothing consists of an
ordinary dark wooden skirt of mod
crate length and colored silk waists
In lieu of coat she will carry a
sweater, which she can tie around her
waist when she does not require it's
warmth.
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Honeysuckle, which is one of the
easiest plants to grow. makes fine
screen for porch or for a fence. Cut
tings of honeysuckle taken from vines
growing beside the roads almost any
where around Nv Washington will root
without any trouble if stuck into the
ground and watered a few times.
Evening star., 1915-06-06

In many sections close to Washington
crows are proving serious pests where
chicks are permitted to range at will.
The black marauders pick up and carry
Off the chicks sometimes, by repeated
visits, capturing an entire brood and
often making heavy inroads among the
chicks The only way to frighten the
crows away with the assurance that
they will remain at distance is to
shoot a few of them and suspend the
carcasses where their companions can
see them. The other crows soon take
warning and avoid a place where two
or three dead crows are seen dangling
from high poles.
Purple grackles. or blackbirds, as
thew are commonly called. have been
proven to be carriers Of the germs of
white diarrhea, disease fatal to
Young chicks. The birds become in
fected with the disease by visits to
infected poultry yards. and in turn
carry the germs to other yards pre-
viously free from the scourge. Experts
Of the bureau of animal industry. De-
partment Of Agriculture. discovered
several years ago that the blackbirds
were the cause of a serious outbreak
OF white diarrhea among the chicks in
the southern part of Montgomery coun-
ty. Md. A shotgun used effectively
in the hocks Of blackbirds, soon drives
them away from the place and keeps
Them aWay
Evening star., 1915-06-06

When you buy a dollars worth of
vegetables you pay toll of between
so and rs cents to middleman and
grower The same amount of vegeta-
bles home grown would actually cost
you % to so cents for seed, fertilizer,
plowing, tools and such items outside
your own labor. In many cases the
market stuff is burdened with three
or four separate profits.
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Spray the peach and plum trees to
destroy the insects that deposit eggs
on the young fruit which hatch grubs
that eat their way in to the stone and
destroy the fruit.
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A few dollars for brass hand spray
er and insecticides are well spent The
sprayer is handy for use in the chicken
house as we'll as in the garden.
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Liquid manure applied at intervals of
about a week, or sometimes less, ac-
cording to the richness of the soil, will
do wonders in increasing the produc-
tiveness of cucumbers and melons of
all kinds. Tomatoes fed with liquid
manure also bear more and finer fruits
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to keep them from bending or break

Early tomatoes are likely to run
out" by the-end of July or the first
part of August-that is. the plants will
cease to bear after t3at time. To have
a supply of tomatoes until frost, and
plenty of green tomatoes for picking,
etc, set out a new planting during
June. Select plants which have one
or two blossoms on them. Ponderosa
is one of the very best varieties for
general household use.
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I.s9 9Th 81. Sc.
POODLE-WbiIe. French: 3 mos old female
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At this time of year many OF the
hens become broody and poultrymen
are often at a loss as to how to cure
them. 1T Is an easy matter to break
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The youngster who has not seen
things grow and helped in the process
has missed part of his or her educa-
ton. A garden is a child's paradise.
and every child should have bit of
one for it's individual use. The care of
a few plants, is an antidote for the
movies and the tendency to run wild.
The average lawn is "a vain show, the
tennis court is often delusion, but a
garden is a substantial blessing.
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Miss Hill does not agree with Edward
Payson Weston, the celebrated pedes-
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Poultry raisers in France, Belgium.
Germany and other European coun-
tries use potatoes much more largely
as a ration for poultry than is the
custom in the United States. The po-
tatoes are, of course. the small ones
and culls, and are boiled and fed as
a wet mash. with the addition of bran
or meal
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Turnips should be grown only on
ground that has already produced one
crop. and they should never be highly
fertilized. A crop of turnips sowea
where the earliest peas or beans have
grown, without any additional ferti-
lizer, will make a good crop for use
in August and September. If sown in
new ground or given much fertilizer
the turnips will be strong and rank.