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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
WORTH KNOWING

Lions never run out of roars. Just
as soon as one roar is gone another
roar takes its place.
An electricaly-operated machine has
been invented for balancing quinine
pills on top of each other. 1t is thought
that this epoch-making contrivance
will solve the quinine pill balancing
problem.
All the energy needed to operate
new automatic thimble recently placed
on the market is one thumb power.
India increased its rice production
this year about n per cent, to a new
high record. although the average was
increased less than 1 per cent from
LAST year.
Aluminium is one of the most abun-
dant of metals and ranks third among
the elements which compose the crust
OF the earth. being exceeded only by
oxygen and silicon.
The real watch dog has st last been
found. one Fido. pet of Mrs. Leslie
Taylor of Cottonwood Falls. Kan.
Fido has won the title by finding and
retrieving his mistress gold time
piece recently lost il an alfalfa field.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
Three-Toed Horse Fossil.

A well-preserved set of teeth and
jawbone of an animal which Prof. J. O.
Jones of the Nevada State university
declares were the property of a three
tOed horse of the Upper Miocene age
have been unearthed in the Washoe val
ley, on the PedrOli ranch, by university
engineers.
Professor Jones says the horse prob
ably roamed the wilds of Nevada some
100000 years ago.
He says the horses of that date were
even smaller than the Shetlands Of
the present day, and. are classified as
the eOhippus. The specimens were
found in well which apparently pene-
trated a prehistoric lake bed. Teeth
of mammoths, fossil leaves and other
specimens of prehistoric ages have
been found in wells on the Pedroli
ranch. They are among the best in
the fossil collection at the university,
as they show clearly the age and CLASH
ficatiOn TO which they belong.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

oucli Aeeh senses mat they can keep the tempera-
lure DIT cIose TO loo degrees without referring to
thermometer, which instrument is never em-
ployed III
Custom Matching in this country IS unite an
Other matter, and has been made possible only by
the invention OF lncubators of the continuous
type heated from a coaburning furnace and
requiring only comparatively small amount of
attention 1t is Il line of work which farmers
wives and other women can follow with success
and to which farmers themselves, as welp as the
owners of large poultry plants, are turning their
attention. Men and women diving near the larger
towns and especially if close to the railroad sta
ton or on trolley line, are particularly well sit
uated to do custom Matching. for people keeping
few hens will come personally with their eggs
and aso call for the chckens-just as they do in
EgyD. by the way, except for the means of con-
veyance.
The initial investment need not be large. One
can start with single machine and increase the
size of his plant as business warrants. a little
advertising by means of circulars or better, in
newspaper, will bring the custom. 1t is first
necessary, however, to learn all about running
the incubator 1t would be foolish to seek Gus
toners before becoming thoroughly familiar with
artificial incubation and making several expert
mental hatchngs These be made in the fall
winter.
Along with custom Matching goes the sale of
day-od chicks This is another line which men
but little capital may begin in a small way and
increase with their business. The two branches
may we'll be combined also. If at any time there
be a dearth of discriminating orders the
chimes may be kept running just the same to fill
orders for newly Matched chickens. For Matching
chicks, charge based on the number of eggs in
an incubator tray is often made. If, for example,
the tray will accommodate IS eggs, the charge
may be 50 and upwards Just much time and
fuel are required for dozen eggs as for rs. OF
course if the eggs to be Matched for several
toners are received at the same time, they
be placed in the same machine, bat it will be very
difficult to decide to, whom the chicks belong when
they out of the shells.
If the hatcher is using single machines it is
wise to employ the Smaller sizes. The machines
which come in sections most satisfactory for
they can be added to like sectional bookcases
as ones business grows. OF the custom
hatcher takes no responsibility. He does his best,
and if the eggs fail to hatch, the loss is the Gus
toners The hatcher has means of knowing
that they were fertile, even until test at the
end of FIVE days is made Likewise, the hatcher
runs no open accounts, if he is wise. deposit
should be made when the eggs are left, and the
remainder paid when the chicks are delivered.
Day-oId chicks are best sold at flat rate, say
IL cents apiece, with delivery charges added.
Strongly made cardboard boxes especially de-
signed for shipping chicks are manufactured and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
SINGLE Comb Black Leahorns.

Not many years ago this breed was little known
to breeders They have made rapid strides and
becoming very popular. The heavy Minorca
combs, high tails, very dark legs and purple instead
of black plumage have all been bred out and today
the Black Leghorns are as good in slope as the
other Leghorns. Their combs are equally as small
and neat as the whites browns. They carry
their tails low and well spread. Their legs show
a good yellow color together with a good green
sheen to the plumage.
Among many fanciers black is a desired color
and among these admirers and fanciers the Black
Leghorn, in many instances is replacing it's brown
or white sister. They persistent layers OF large
chalk-white eggs and there's reason why they
should lack popularity any longer.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
POULTRY NOTES
Selecting Pullets.

Not every poultryman can select laying hen
by her appearance. 1t is true students of poul
try husbandry are generally able 10 do this, but
few farmers and. pOultrymen are unless they have
given the subject some attention
The following suggestions should be of help to
you in enumerating some of the points in the
making of a good laying hen. But these points
Will need to be verified. That u.s. you must prac-
tice if you would become a good judge or at least
learn how to select your pullets for layers
And it will be necessary for you to know how to
select if you are to improve your flock.
Judging poultry is said to be finer art than
the selection of other farm animals, but the man
or who picks pullets with fine head
alert eyes and comb face and wattes of fine tex
ture, has taken the first step toward increased
egg production Good pullets should stand square
ON their feet with legs wide apart, with the front
end of the body slightly higher than the posterior
end, and with a long back and tail carried rather
high. The body should be wedgeshaped, yielding
ample room for the reproductive and digestive
organs.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

protect the chick from harm. If shipped soon
as dried off, no food will be required for a chicken
needs nothing to eat for the first two days of
its existence after leaving the shell, being nour-
ished by the yolk of the egg which it has absorbed
For that reason, people who complain that the
practice of Withholding food is cruel wasting
their Sympathies.
To just what extent these developments
will reVolutionize the poultry business of the
country, no can safely guess 1t is GER
tain, though, that hundreds of people who for
merly raised few chicks each with hens
will now either send their Matching eggs to a Gus
tom hatchery or buy day-old chicks The expense
is but little greater and hours of fuSsing with
broody hens eliminated. People living in the
cities may now keep hens in the back yard for
they will need roosters and thus avoid the COM
plants of neighbors and can keep breeds which
do not get broody.
One thing is certain, though If the egg pro-
ducers are going to make the most of their OPP
portunties, many of them will have to reform
their methods. The statement is made, apparently
with authority, that there is an annual loss of
$45O0O,000 because of the improper handling of
eggs. Much of this Loss can be traced directly to
the producers-the men and women the farms.
Such facts responsible in part for the present
much discussed high cost of living.
Many farmers let their eggs accumulate until
they get basketful, although it may takefseveral
weeks Fertile and infertile eggs are dumped in
the lot If hidden nest is discovered the
old hen is shooed away and the half-incubated
eggs are sold along with the Others This is the
reason why the average market egg is unreliable
Incubation has begun in fertile egg before it is
laid. In a few days traces of the embryo may
easily be discovered, even though the egg simply
be kept in warm room or allowed to remain in
the sun. Ordinarily the germ perishes and
then the egg is quickly added to the rotten-egg
class An unfertile egg may be kept for many
weeks without going bad although it may get
somewhat stale and consequently unfit for the
table.
Under the present system, the customer is pro-
tected to large extent by the big egg merchants
who examine the eggs which pass through theil
hands by means of a test known Gambling. This
Gambling is highly important part of the business
in most cities, and the care and expertness
with which the work is done depends the quality of
the product which the customer secures The men
who candle eggs become remarkably expert-so
expert that they can handle two eggs in each hand
and grade them at a glance as they ate passed
quickly before hole In tin shade placed before
a strong electric light.
Eggs from focks which contain no male bird
except in the breeding will keep longer and
be better than those laid by hens with which a
rooster is running. Many people still hold to the
Anticipated belief that hens lay better if attended
by a rooster This is pure fallacy. In point
of fact, the ROSTERS annoy the hens, and may
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
When Euos Are t1iuhest,

How to get eggs in late fall and early winter
when they are highest is serious problem with
most poultrymen.
Taking it for granted that the puiiets were
Matched early and have made good growth during
the summer season, we would get the entire flock
of spring pullets, yearngs and all into winter
quarters in September. That is we would have
the poultryhOuse and yards put in order for win
ter then, so there will be no Encouragement to
disturb the flock or in any way dsarrange its
daily routine habits during late October Novem-
Der and December, when most desire the eggs.
One of the principal factors for securing a high
egg production in the poultry flock is exercise. A
hen kept closely cooped will not lay as many
eggs during season; she will take on fat instead
and become unhealthy Give the hens plenty of
range-and then get larger basket in which to
carry the eggs to market.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

Fortunately for innocent nopcom-
batants watermelons don't have very
far to fall when they get ripe.
Outside of being hopper kangaroo
has no more hops in its repertoire
than frog, has. However, a kanga-
roo's hops are much more hOppish
than those of a frog.
The Bath (Me.) three-masted schoon-
er Maud II. Dudley, which was built
80 years ago at a cost of $4,000. has
recently been sold for $4,000, after
having paid her first owners $51, 464
in dividends.
The problem of heating open cars
in summer has been successfully COPIED
with in Kokomo, where they save a
lot of coal by letting the sun do the
work.
At the rate in which automobiles are
increasing shoe manufacturers will
soon have to hire pedestrians TO wear
out their shoes.
The wastage from the average
American family table of persons en-
joying a salary of 500, monthly up
ward would provide sustenance for a
French or Belgian family of the same
number of persons. according te sta
tisticians.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
Permissionaires in Paris.

At the Care de FEST you can see the
permissionaires come in by hundreds
They are of every age and grade
There are clean ones and very dirty
ones. They SLOUGH and they strut, or
they walk with that peculiar trench
walk, with the feet close together,
They hang about the station entrance
to buy post cards and aluminium rings,
which they give away to their friends
as presents from the trenches. Little
family groups are waiting there for
some of them or it may be just one
woman with a baby in her arms, or a
woman in mourning for the son who
will not come home any more. With
a fine contempt for such things as dust
and mud and the public eye, the per-
missionaire is embraced warmly by
his relations and they carry him off in
triumph on the train or in taxicab.-
Cartoons Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
ENGLISH RULE IN GREEN ISLE
Dates From Twelfth Century, When
Strongbow Invaded Country to As
sist King of Leinster.

Visitors to the historical places and
buildings of Ireland hear much talk of
StrongbOw. In the twelfth century,
when StrOngbow became famous, Ire
land was divided into many small
provinces, and each of these had its
petty king. Dermot MacMurrough,
who was king of the province Of
Leinster, was a very cruel and unDOp-
ular ruler and he was so disliked and
abused by his people and the neigh
boring rulers that he finally fled to
England, where he begged King Henry
II for help in subduing his enemies.
But Henry remembered that there
were many other kings in Ireland and
he refused to side with marlborough,
though he gave permission to any Of
his subjects who liked, to go to Ireland
and aid the Leinster king. A company
of barons, therefore, left their barren
lands in South Wales and crossed
over to Ireland to win themselves rich
lands there where soil was fertile. At
the head of this band of barOns was
Richard de Clare, earl Of Pembroke,
who was known as Strongbow. They
landed at Waterford, which city these
barons Straightway captured. Strong
bow made his claim even stronger
by marrying the daughter of DermOt
marlborough. Then, learning that
Dublin was just then struggling to
free itself from the rule of the Danes,
StrongbOw made all haste in that di-
rectiOn, and soon he had taken the
city by storm. Since that first land
ing and conquest by Strongbew and
the other barons the English have al
ways held more or less power over Ire
land.
An old historian, named Cambren-
sis, gives us the following quaint de-
scriptiOn of the warrior StrongbOw !:
1.-The earl was somewhat ruddie and
of sanguine complexion and freckle-
faced, his eies grei, his face feminine,
his voice small, and his necke little,
but somewhat of a high stature. He
was very liberal, courteous and gen.
tie; what he could not compasse and
bring TO passe in died, he would win
by good words and gentle speeches.
In time of peace he was more readie
to yield and obeie than to rule and
beare swaie. In all chances of ware,
he was still one and the same maner
of man, being neither diSmaid with
adversitie nor pulled up with pros
peritie," Il picture which hardly fits
such a twelfth-century conqueror.-
Christian Science Monitor.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
BRIEF INFORMATION

The swallow has a larger mouth in
proportion to its size than any other
bird.
New Zealand is said to have min
eral waters of far greater therapeutic
strength than any of the famous wa
tiers of Europe.
One of the new furniture conbina-
lions is dining table in which the
leaves slide into the top and are con-
cealed by it so it can be used as a
library table.
The "clean-up-and-paint- move
ment which was started in st. Louis
two years ago. is said TO have extend
ed to 5000 towns and cities.
Nearly S2,000O00,OO0 have been de-
posted in Russian savings banks since
the war began. Abolition of vodka is
credited with causing this prosperity
OF the masses in war time
William H. Blaisdell of Brockston,
Mass, is probably the oldest stitcher
in length of service in the. shoe trade
of Massachusetts. Mr.. BlaisdeI is
now seventy-three and has been in
the shoe business since he was thir4
teen.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

An automobile coal wagon has been
invented with four separate compart-
ments, so well balanced that they can
be dumped by hand.
A metal and rubber device that re-
sembles a mules foot in form has
been patented to be attached to the
ends of ladders to hold them firmly in
any position.
The percentage of urban population
in England and Wales has increased
and that of rural dwellers decreased
every time that a census has been
taken in the last half century.
A portable dark cabinet for photog-
raphers that has been invented con-
sists of a stand surrounded by a hood.
which is closed around the waist Of a
person using it.
The Brazilian government has de-
creed that products offered for sale as
butter must contain at least so per
cent of butter fat and not more than
10 per cent of acid content.
Laughter and tears, according to a
recent book by DR.. George W. Grille,
are two forms of the same mechanism
"a human safety valve to prevent the
results of emotion from injuring the
body.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
ADVICE BY HETTY GREEN
Told Girl Stenographer to Figure
in Pennies and Save
Them"

During one of the periods of her
economical living streaks the late Mrs.
Hetty Green was staying at a moder-
ate-priced boarding house, where a
jobless young stenographer came to
know her. The girl finally landed a
position for $12 week and told Mrs.
Green of it.
you've got to leave here" said the
old woman emphatically. "You are not
earning enough TO pay so much for
your keep. I'll tell you where to go.
There's a hotel for working girls |
know. l lent the man the money to
build it. There are Mushrooms there
and sewing rooms. Make your own
clothes and care for them. Get
roommate. 1t will cost you only 81
Save Sc out of your $12. Do not go
out nights. Watch your company. Do
what tell you and you'll get on. Any
body can. The trouble is, most people
don't know the value of five cents.
You are advised. Don't figure in dol
lars; figure in pennies, and save
them"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
Brace Up!
"Brace up .

bIdCt -Up'
You Who sit all day in one position,
square your shoulders and brace up"
THE 'consumptive stOOp' does not
make for health, so brace up"
1.-THE SLOUGH, the sag, the droop, the
slump are poor guarantees of fitness.
They endanger your health and your
job. Brace up!'
Don't bow your back and round your
shoulders as if the burdens of life were
too heavy. All loads will be lighter If
you brace up"
These are a few of the paragraphs
in circular sent out by the Chicago
health department.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
By Wav If SoIaca

'Of course" said the old friend,
Jon find that money does not bring
happiness"
Tanddly," replied Mr.. Dustin Stax,
anc just between ourselves, l find no
Scn thingH When engaged in bargain
Ilg ! made that remark from time to
une merely to reconcile the other fell
low to his losses"
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p,omnted Miss Ellen Terry.

Ms, Ellen Terry a few weeks ago
"a, giving Shakespearean recitation
q an entertainment in aid of a war
fund.- and large part of her audience
we're the girls from a widely known
Chelsea school. Knowing every line by
lar they were following the recital
With brpathIcSS attention. Suddenly
Miss Terry faltered and as often hap
pfns on the stage, the actress mind for
one moment brcame a blank. Then,
Just as the pause threatened to be-
neawsward. the small, ringing voice
&awpyc-yeur-oId schoolgirl gave the
rCpsSary WorlS.-LOndOn Mirror.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
FIERY RED PIMPLES
!:cthsd and Healed by Cuticura Soap
and Ointment. Trial Free.

Smear the affected skin with Cuticura
Ointment on end of finger. Let it re-
main five to ten minutes. Then wash
Of with plenty Of Cuticura Soap and
bot water. Dry without irritation.
Nothing like Cuticura for all skin
troubles from infancy to age.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
ADDRESS postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
BOSTON. Sold eyerywhere.-Adv.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
Sinners Own Fault.

Here is good story going the rounds
of the press: An old negro preacher
was taken to task by member of his
congregation who insisted that the pas
tor had meant him in one of his siz-
zling sermons. "Brudder," the preach
er replied solemnly, when shoots
aims straight at de debil, and it's only
when somebody else gets in between
me and de target dat he gifts hurt"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

laid it on the block. and chopped
off its head. Quite different is the
process now, especially in the West
and in Canada, where fattening
poultry has developed into more of
a fine art than in the eastern states.
There is a difference of from
three to seven cents a pound in the
price paid for well-fleshed or fat
tened birds and that paid for poul-
try just off the range. AS this
means a difference of from Is to
80 cents on five-pound chicken,
it is we'll worth while to fatten the
fowls.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
Missouri Gets 10000 Quail.

Ten thousand quail that have been
brought from Mexico to Missouri,
where they will be used to restock de-
pleted covers, will not suffer from the
change of climate, because they were
caught in the Coahuila mountains, and
their former home was just about as
chilly in winter as their new one.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

TO keep pace with the Supply-ln Iact, HlIio
ahead of it, it would not be found profitable to
import eggs from China, as was done a year or
two ago.
All over the country mammoth poultry estab-
lishments are sprnging up. Not far from Chicago
is a large plant made famous by its White Plym-
outh Rocks and White Indian Runners. There are
16O acres on this farm, and houses are scattered
all over them. The man who owns this big plant
sells much of his stock for breeding purposes. and
values some of his birds as high as $4,000. That
sounds like an unbelievable figure to be sure but
the very lowest price for which one can buy
fowl at this farm is S. The owner has made a
fortune, is bank director and business man
who can take rank with those who manage the big
industries of the city.
One thinks first of eggs in connection with the
poultry business, but growing and fattening
chickens for the table is almost as important a
branch of it as egg farming. Formerly no one
thought of specially preparing chickens for the
slaughter. The farmer simply went out into the
IxOls1
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
He Believed 1t.

Bacon-Lead-pencil manufacture in
the United States is consuming 73O00.-
600 feet of lumber annually, of which
about one-half is estimated to be
wasted in sharpening or throwing
away short ends,
Egbert-I can't believe there can be
as much waste as that.
"You can't? Say, did you ever see
woman try to sharpen pencil?"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26

,..r,s Vegetable Coinpouiiu' -
PnIh'I 5o1g gf it and the next month l
p't:i 1 SsIy that I worked all the month
~ 70. % We: :tsring at home a day; l am
G5'13's s.I3l" now and have told lots Of
goa 1i nS1i + Miss CLARICE NORM
e. 5l s.sl' Street, Taunton, Mass
Ir.,1.,pds Of girls suffer in silence
la'- -sortb rather than consult a ply
G ' D-I Ifrrls who are troubled with
gan 3D. ~ = Irregular periods, backache'
Fl 3,.s ., drsgging-down sensations,
l ...3.r .'oeIls or Indigestion would take
t2.Is Pinkham's Vegetable Com
Lg5 cafe and pure remedy made
Pall, mt, and herbs, much suffering
- u. be a7oided.
~ Wit, 70 Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine
y ,'I P2nn ., Mass. CONFIDENTIAL for free
w. ~. which will prove helpful.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-09-26
Economies.

"Why don't you wear some of your
last years clothes?" inquired NJ.
Growcher.
"Why. fatheri" exclaimed his daugh-
ter; didn't 1 have my last winters
furs made over and wear them all sum-
mer7"