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Middletown transcript., 1917-11-17

tion of stores, chiefly by providing /.
sufficiently high surrounding temper
ature.
| In mild climates, in which there are
frequent days when bees can fly and
rid themselves of feces, the injurious
effects of poor stores are less notice
| able, because the feces do not accu-
mulate sufficiently to cause abnormal
| activity The accumulation Of feces
| is to be considered as an irritant. caus-
| ing responses similar to disturbance
| by jarring or exposure to light.
Proper Insulation.
The exact method Of packing is not
especially important, provided enough
insulation is given on all sides. Colo,
MES may be packed singly in any sort
of box, or they may be packed in
groups Of four. Some beekeepers ar
range colonies in long rows and apply
insulation to the whole row. The plac.
ing of several hives in contact has
the advantage that the colonies insul-
ate one another. If arranged in groups
of four, two facing east and two west,
they may be left on the same stand
throughout the year and are readily
manipulated during summer. If in
long rows close together, summer ma
nipulations are impeded, unless the
hives are moved after the insulation
is removed. Placing colonies in long
rows is therefore not advisable. What
ever type Of outer case is used, it
should be tight, to prevent rain and
snow from wetting the insulating ma
terial.
If the bees do not have sufficient
stores, they may be given combs of
honey, but these should always be
given before cold weather, so that
proper cluster space may be formed
by the moving of honey, since bees al
ways cluster in empty cells Of the
comb adjacent to stores.
Feed Sugar sirup.
If honey in combs is not available,
the bees may be fed extracted honey,
but the usual practice is to feed a
thick sugar sirup made of two or two
and one-half parts Of sugar to one
part of water by volume. To this
sirup one ounce of tartaric acid should
be added for each 40 to 60 pounds Of
sugar while the sirup is being heat
ed to the boiling point to dissolve the
sugar crystals. The sirup should be
boiled Is minutes. The acid helps to
invert the cane sugar, thus retarding
it's granulation in the comb. IF there
is any question as to the quality Of
the stores, it is a good practice to feed
ten pounds Of sirup at the time Of
packing, in addition to the stores pro-
vided earlier, this being stored imme-
diately above the cluster. It is thus
used first, and an accumulation Of
feces does not occur so long as the
bees use only the sugar sirup. There
is, however, no better food in winter
than good quality of honey. AS was
stated earlier, honey-dew honey causes
a rapid accumulation Of feces, result
ing in dysentery. If this is present in
the fall, it should be removed and bet
ter stores given. Some fall honeys
are similarly injurious, but their in
furious effects may be reduced by feed
ing sirup at the time of packing.
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cattle in many sections of our country
right now, so that wisdom and fore
sight would suggest close scanning
Of the herd with view to the use Of
sires Of record that profitable produc-
ers may be obtained even from ordi-
nary producers.
Regardless Of price that may be OBJ
tainable for grain and hay, the soil
must not be robbed for temporary
gain. We must believe in the eternity
of things and keep up the productive
power of the soil, else starvation may
stalk the earth. There is no question
Of the inevitability of dairying in the
scheme of profitable agrieulture.-W.
e. Skinner, Secretary Of National
Dairy Council.
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MALES FIGHT MORE OR LESS
When Yarded Together There Is Sure
to Be Some Scrapping-Old Bird
Maintains Peace.

When cockerels are yarded together
they are sure to fight more or less
especially toward the natural mating
and breeding season If they haven't
enough vigor and vim to scrap they
aren't of much value as breeders.
On farm where many game chick
ems were raised the matured young
male, birds were .kept in small fiocks,
half dozen or so in each yard. To
prevent any serious injury an old male
was confined with the youngsters in
each yard. Ordinarily he didn't bother
them, but if they started trouble among
themselves he was in the midst in a
hurry.
He was simply bound to maintain
peace among them if he had to fight
for it. His action soon frightened
them out of their mimic war.
The plan would probably prove as
effective with other breeds If any
youngster had the temerity to dispute
the "boss" he would probably soon get
the conceit knocked out of him.
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FAULT-FINDlNG BAD HABIT
Is King of Indoor Sports But Causes
, Others Oispleasure and Gains
Critic Nothing.

Fault-finding is perhaps the king Of
indoor sports. Or should it be cata-
logued as the queen? 1t is one of the
simplest of pleasures. There are mil
lions of people who think they can dis
play their superior taste or knowledge
ty finding fault
The coffee is not right. NV taste
about coffee, therefore. is superior and
more delicate than that of others.
There is something lacking in the deco
rations or the furniture. My judgment,
therefore, is somewhat superior to the
other mans.
This habit of fault-fnding is most
dis"greeahle one-one, too, that grows
unless effort Is made to overcome it.
declares il writer in the Milwaukee
Journal. 1t never appears to occur to
fault-finders that they themselves
may be lacking in taste or ability.
What, is the need, anyway, of damp
ening the pleasures of others in their
possessions or actions? One almost
always can find something to COM
mend. And if Glaere is nothing what
ever one would be well to be gentle in
criticism, or elsI say nothing. There
are countless litle things we may wish
were different, fpt it is not good to
keep pointing thc}n out Silence about
trifling things that one does not like Is
a virtue.
Let us guard Dur tongues against
useless fault-finGng. Let us trim our
selves to the best model we can find
and remember we are not responsible
for the conduct or the works of the
world at large. The world may be
wrong sometimes. But it may fre-
quently be right when we think it
wrong. And we ourselves have no
claim to perfectness in judgment or
taste.
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Twin Oak and Pine

There is in Stevens Point, Wis, a
pine tree and an oak tree growing
from the same stump. Both are 15
feet or more in height. Apparently
the trees are branches growing from
a common root and one Of the pecul-
iarities of the combination is that the
bark of the pine does not appear
normal. 1t appears to have been i'm
pregnated with some of the qualities
of the oak.
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PREPARE DUCKS FOR MARKET
Weight Confine Them and Feed
Fattening Rations.

When the ducks reach two pounds
In weight or over if you wish to sell
them as broilers confine them for a
week and feed them all the corn meal
mash or wet cracked corn they will
eat. One can ship them alive or
dressed, as he prefers. Usually
u,ore money is realized in selling them
dressed.
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Adams Ale as a Beautifier.

Of course, you know that you never
will have clear white skin unless
your diet is right. 1t is most impor-
tant to drink plenty Of water, from
six to eight glasses at intervals dur
ing the day. You should avoid rich
pastry or sweets, and see that your
diet consists as much as possible Of
simple, easily digested foods. Fresh
air and exercise will also help to i'm
prove the complexion Exchange y
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BOX USEFUL FOR TRAP NEST
IN Arrangement Shown in Illustration
Gate Is Raised Slightly as Hen
Is Entering.

Poultry raisers find a trap nest use-
full, and one can be made quickly by
lifting an old packing box with suit
able sliding gate In the arrangement
shown, the gate is raised slightly as
The hen enters the nest box. releasing
he spring and causing the gate to
drop, writes A. J. Call of Hartsville.
Mass, in Popular Mechanics Magazine
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PULLETS GIVEN FREE RANGE
Worms They Must Be Given Sue
cuIent Green Food.

If the pullets are given free, range
they will gather bugs, worms and
green food and get sufficient exercise
to keep them healthy, but it is Sc
rious mistake to think that because
a young chicken picks up great deal
while roaming about the farm it does
not need other food. Animal foods
and succulent green food must be
supplemented by some form of grain
to produce satisfactory results.
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FARM HORSE WORKED
TO UTMOST CAPACITY
Wise Use of Animal Is of Vital
Concern to Farmer, Says
Agricultural Department.

(From the United States Department Of
Agriculture.)
The horse that works 1000 hours a
year and costs $1OO for feed, shelter,
ETC., is cheaper than the horse that
costs but $75 for keep and works but
500 hours. The former costs but 10
cents per hour worked, while the lat
ter costs Is cents. Wise use of the
farm horse to his fullest working ca
pacity is thus Of vital concern to the
farmer, according n linked States
department of aa IN 5o0,.
Horses and q NJ.
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D AllRY
DEMAND FOR DAIRY ANIMALS
Time Has Never Existed When Greater
Profit From Dairying Was at
Hand Than Now.

While it is useless to preach "save
your cows and heifer calves" when 1t
Is impossible to do so, yet the time
has never existed when greater profit
from dairying was at hand than now,
and the owners Of profitable produc.
ing cows must reap a reward. There
Is an unprecedented demand for dairy
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Calves Nibbie Hay.

When only few days of age calves
will begin to nibble hay if it is within
reach. It is preferable to feed timothy
for the first two or three months after
which alfalfa or clover hay viii give
SETTER satisfaction. 5,S
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Lonq Distance Cry.

Marnma-Now be good little girl
and stop crying.
Ruth (three years old)-Me won't
stop crying till papa hears me.
Mamma--But he can't hear you; he's
in New York.
Ruth-Den nell dest have to cwy
frou re telefome.
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For the Fed Calf,

Two pounds of grain when fed with
skim milk or buttermilk will take the
place of one pound of butterfat for
raising calves. A pound of butterfatS
viii sell for 80 cents and two pounds
Of grain will cost about or 4 cents.
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MATING Turkeys.

Fifteen turkey hens can safely be
mated to a vigorous tom. If % or 80
xaens ere kept, two toms should not be
: allowef to run with them at the same
time, put one should be confined one
day aid the other the next.
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Keep the Hens Busy.

Keep the hens busy where you want
hem to be. Dig up the ground, give
hem dust heap TO revel In. sand
heap to scratch in, and food for the
working for it.
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A Eib.

The pupils in an Alabama school
were asked to construct a sentence
containing the word "amphibious.D AS
quick as fash boy gave out the.
following: "Most fish stories am hhi-
GUS"
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-17

"Stop at the first
subway station"
instructed Warren,
as he sprang into
the cab and slam
med the door
after him.
"Oh, If we'd only
got off before that
phone rang! I'll
feel so awkward
going there alone"
Helen drew her
evening W ra p
closer about her
are shoulders.
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Best STORAGE for AppIes.

About the same conditions for sue
tessfully storing potatoes in winter
will answer for apples, though apples
may be kept nearer the freezing point
without injury than potatoes can.
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Gains From Charcoal.

Experiments with fattening fowls
md turkeys have shown that those
having charcoal made much greater
gains that those not receiving 1t.
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Higher Authority.

''Mr. Brown is outside" said the new
office boy. "Shall l show him in?'
mot on your life!" exclaimed the
Junior partner. 81 owe him ten dol
lars
Show him in," calmly said the SEMI
or member of the firm. "He owes me
twenty-five dollars. ."-Harper's Month
ly.
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SBroiler :,epe erlence,

Marketing broflers to the best ad;
vantage requires experience. They
should be plump. This calls for extra
care in feeding prior to, the time Of
selling.
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Daily Success.
prynesJ Is Essential.

To make dair3ing a success we must
make it of interest to the boys.
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Male birds are not necessary for the
lock to continue egg.laying.
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If your eyes smart or feel scalded, 'Ro-
man Eye Balsam applied upon going to bed
Is just the thing to relieve them. Adv
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Dryness is more essential than
warmth in the frc-housA
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WIRE TplcCEQ

Gate and spring can be adjusted to va
-ious sized breeds of poultry. The
two grooved uprights can be cut from
flooring and the other wooden parts
made from laths or wooden strips
The trigger is made of wire.
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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-28
"WeepiI- Proof Cotton.

The Albany cald vouches for variety
of cotton which, far experiments have been
carried, is repelant to the boil weevil wool
cotton" it is called, is described having locks
from three to five inches long and lint which
holds together surprisingly we'll. 1.-THE staple is
short but remarkably strong, and white driven
snow; the seed are small, and owing to the length
and strength of the locks, picking is easy Most
interesting of ALL however, is the statement that
the dread boil weevl passes this cotton by. Says
the Herald:
Reports from test patches in at least two
widely separated localities to the eff
feet. In one instance weevils were placed on
plants of the variety, but did not remain.
In the other although neighboring cotton
fields were infested with weevils, the wool
cotton was not molested. 1t remains to be
seen whether the boil weevil will not attack
wool cotton at ALL will do only whether
other varieties not available"
The work of outwitting and overcoming the
boil weevil has gone hearteningly forward in Geor-
gia Through the able efforts of the State Depar-
ment of Entomology, in cooperation with progress
sive planters effective methods of raising cotton
despite weevil conditions have been evolved. If
to the early-maturing, wilt-resstant varieties of
cotton thus developed is added one that &C
tually repes the weevi there will be cause indeed
for satisfaction.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-28
X x x
By Frederic j. HaSkin.

men who have anything the matter with their feet.
There are foot DOCTORS" somewhat learnedly
known chiropodists, who can usually set right
the ordinary foot ailment.
Very very cases-surprisingly few-of cancer
and tuberculosis, or any other of the serious
diseases have been reported by the medical exami-
ners, at least far it known at army headquar-
tiers. Many bad cases of defective teeth and eye-
sight are durable, and a word from the physician
would put the young man right on these scores,
to future
Opinions of other individual medical examiners
from various other parts Of the country-at least
as indicated in newspaper reports-confrm these
general deductions. However, it will probably not
be until the full and complete report of the various
boards is made up that it will be possible to make
scientifically accurate differences for the country at
large.
A great deal of latitude was permitted the ex-
aminers. The army regulation governing physical
examinations says on this point:
"Any of the physical deficiencies mentioned
above must be present in such degree to clearly
and Enthusiastically disqualify the man for military
icient and not physically qualified for military
service
Certain interesting points were brought out by
the tests in the District of Columbia. Although
there was wide diversity of opinion among the
aiming physicians to the meaning of the results
of these tests, 1t was the general tetimony that
very large proportion of the reflections in the dis
trct were due to Observation-Disclosures the
variation permitted by the regulations. The fact
that this decided underweight defect characterized
the young men of the district emphasized by
the confirming fact that other young from
other sections who had their transferred for
final settlement to Washington did not show such
underweight. The explanation which seems most
reasonable is that the vast majority of young men
in the District of Columbia lead sedentary life.
They are clerks, and generally speaking, do not
take enough exercise The lesson they will get
from the examination Is to move about more in the
open air and improve their muscles.
But few of the young men who were examined
and found physically defective would ever have
asked for a test to their health. Now they have
received from Uncle Sam, without cost to them,
services of surgeons, physicians and other health
specialists of inestimable value to them.
Suppose that peace should come tomorrow!
Suppose that, by far the greater number Of the
young men between twenty-one and thirty-one
throughout country, never get any further than
the examining surgeons offce-or at most the
training camp. Even in that event the building up
of an American army of millions Of our youth will
have been a great benefit to the country at large
perhaps a greater blessing to those who were re-
jected than to those who passed and marched of
to camp as the fortunately chosen ones. The ma
tions manhood, at its usually needless age will
have been literally compelled to take thought OF its
health.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-28
THE SOAP BOX
By DR.. Frank Crane

A good deal of uneasiness has been expressed
the activities of soap-box orators in various
American cities. soap-box orator has come to
mean an individual burning with desire for
self-expression who, being unable to crowd into
the newspapers, hire hall, or secure pulpit
upends a box on the street corner and sprays his
ideas over the heads of such of his fellow citizens
may have the leisure and find the inclination
to stop and listen.
The chosen themes of these unattached apos-
ties usually those that are unpopular or con-
sdered for one reason or another dangerous, as
all the platforms, pupits, and other elevations
suitable for public speaking, where the conven-
tional and popular themes treated, seem to be
occupied About the only place left for the earn
est soul who believes that women should wear
trousers, all banks turned into lunch counters,
all tramps pensoned at the expense of the
wretches who work for living, is the soap box.
Let him have it. The soap box is of
palladiums. 1t is necessity and a good thing
1t ranks along with the freedom of the press and
the United States senate
For the reason that it is the escape valve for
generate in 'the body polite If gas keeps on
forming, and there's outlet, something is going
to break.
If any man believes this war is wrong that
the kaiser is right, that CONSUMPTION is wicked
that it is perfectly proper to sink Lustanias, bomb
hospitals, and ensave Belgians, and on, 1t is
infinitely better that he stand up in the street and
say so out loud than that he smother it in his
bosom until he becomes fit instrument for poison
ing policemen or burning an orphan asylum.
Most of the present trouble makers expatiate
on the crimes of England But they've been at IT
since 1 can remember, and respect for Great
Britain has been growing in this country steadily
1 don't believe the England baters ever did any
harm. Quite the contrary.
Let 'em alone! 1t is to laugh. No gains
by sitting the voice of the cursor This is free
country and overwhelming, solid public opin-
ion is not to be gained by suppressing the minority,
but by giving it rope enough to hang ITSELF
Of course no one should be allowed to incite
to crime, to resisting the law, or to menacing life
Copyright, 1917 by Frank Crane)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1917-09-28
ChemiStry's Part in the War.

The foregatheling of hundreds of scientists
from every part of the United States for the an
nual convention of the American Chemical Society
at New York draws attention to the potent part
that chemistry is playing in the war, both on the
military and the industrial side. The explo-
sives which have almost revolutionized certain
methods of attack and defense, the German gas
wave and the antidote to its poison the onslaughts
of liquid fire and the means of combating it are
all the outcome of the crucble and retort. The
suggestion that future historians may refer to this
as the chemical war" is not altogether fanciful.
1t is in matters OF industry, however that
chemistry has rendered its highest service to the
United States. At the beginning of the European
almost entirely dependent on Ger
many for dyestuffs, that when exports were cut
off textile mills and other manufactures re-
quirng dyes were in a most distressing plight But
American chemists met the emergency with their
usual resourcefulness and today this country is
making virtually all the dyes it needs and bids
fair to compete successfully in world markets This
is but among well-nigh innumerable instances
of chemistrys invaluable contributions to the ma
tons material interests.