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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-04

A LARGE house in fine neighborhood,
 South Highlands, can be rented April 1, with present roomers 0O remaining, leaving three bedrooms vacant; on ac- count leaving city present tenant willing to sell part of furniture very cheaply, including fine piano; or would sell sepa- rately to private purchasers. Address O-66, care Age-Herald. 2-&-we-f fri-su- St
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do for the pigs. They also tell stories
of the baby beeves which the Texas
boys are now raising, and of the baby
beef clubs. The whole gives a promise
of a larger and better meat supply than
ever before.
And now as to chickens and eggs.
The bureau of animal industry of the
Department of Agriculture has aided
IN forming boys and girls poultry
clubs throughout the south. and they
are raising great numbers of pure-bred
fowls and marketing quantities of eggs.
Their product is far above that of the
grownupS of the neighborhood VINO
keep poultry, and their fowls are larger
and fatter when ready for sale. Full
information regarding poultry raising
can be gotten from the Department OF
Agriculture in Washington. and there
is no reason why tens of thousands OF
boys and girls in every state should
not add to our food supply In this way.
There are many of these poultry clubs
here in Texas. In Dallas they have
nine egg circles. which have marketed
$4,000 eggs in the past few months.
In Oklahoma eighty-five girls who have
made reports as to their poultry club
work now have a total of more than
1000 hens in their focks. They raised
LOO chickens last year and produced
more than 10000 dozen eggs. Each
girl made profit of more than SD.
In Mississippi seven counties have CO.
operative egg-selling associations. and
each member has on the average
twenty-seven chickens One girl raised
chickens worth SEQ, and another sold
12O dozen eggs. Virginia has go mem
bers enrolled in the poultry club work
One of them has cleared $16J from
thirty hens.
= ::
The best results shown by the girls
have come from the canning clubs.
Nearly 10000 girls were enrolled in
them in 1915. and they raised and put
up more than 100000 pounds of toma-
toes and over 100000 cans of vege-
tables and fruits. The farms of the
club members were each only one
tenth of an acre; but the average profit
from these small patches was over
s24, or more than $24O per acre.
These girls were scattered through
out the sixteen southern states. and. as
have said. there were more than 5000
o. them in Texas. One of the latter
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current prices 1t would be worth more
than billion dollars additional:
One thousand Texas boys belong TO
pig clubs, and last year they SOLO tneir
lars a head. Several of them have
started in raising fine cattle and they
have what are known as baby pee.
clubs. They are making more than 40
a head in that line of their work:
/ got these figures from Prof. car
ence Ousley, who is the director for
Texas of the farm demonstration work
of the Department of Agriculture az
Washington. They are an example OF
what some of the girls and boys are do
ing III every state of the south, and
they give one some idea of machine
that might be extended to the whole
country and increase our food supply
t2 an enormous extent. I have found
this work going on in every state Wis
tied. and have gathered some data
which will show you how important 1t
is at this critical stage of our history.
Take. for instance, the pig clubs.
They are being started all over the
south. and not only the states and
counties. but banks, business firms,
chambers of commerce and individuals
are interested in them. Many people
are loaning money to the boys of the
pig clubs as a patriotic work, and now
that the war is on these funds will be
greatly increased. The first club was
organized in Caddo parish. La. in the
fall of 1910, with a membership of
fifty-nine boys. 1t was an outgrowth
of the corn clubs of that region and
was started to give some of the club
members an opportunity of marketing
their corn through the pigs. That club
was success and other clubs were
formed in Louisiana. The work was
taken up in other states and carried on
in cooperation with the state agricul-
tura1 colleges. The agents interested
the bankers and others. and. by means
of lantern slides and pig club motion
picture films. showed the people what
might be done in improving the breeds
of the hogs and increasing the meat
and money supply. Some of the work
is now done in connection with the
schools, and it is gradually spreading
to such an extent that it will form a
big item in the pork of the future.
This pig club work is divided into
two sections-that Of fattening a hog
for home consumption or the market
and that of raising a litter of pigs
Each boy may take the branch he likes
best. but, in most cases, it is a COM
bination of the two.
The pig clubs are financed by the
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Copyright, 1917, by Frank C. Carpenter.)
HOUSTON, Tex.
E1 HIS letter Is to show how thou
sands of boys and girls in the
Ill United States can each do his
q or her bit for our country in
this great war with Germany. The
crying need is for more food. both for
ourselves and our allies. and every
boy who raises an acre of corn OF
brings UP a fat pig is helping in our
fight with the enemy. Every girl who
cultivates a patch of vegetables and
puts them in cans. or who has few
chickens and adds their eggs to our
food supply. is helping the nation in
this mighty struggle. If we should all
join together and each do his share
there would be no scarcity of food here
at home. and we should have vast sup
plies to ship to our allies in Europe.
Here is what 5000 little girls in Texas
have done within the past year. They
are taken from only thirty-two coun-
tics. and they represent only small
part of the state. Their work was done
TO help themselves. for no one knew
until now that we should have this
great war. Nevertheless, those 5000
girls put up about $4,000 cans and glass
jars of vegetables and fruits. They
had little farms of only one-tenth of an
acre. But there were more than a third
of million such farms. and the tomato toes
raised upon them weighed tens of thou
sands of pounds. One little girl raised $500
pounds of tomatoes on her tenth of an
acre. and the girls of one club raised
$4,000 pounds. In some places the girls
have gone in for fowl-raising. and in
one county last year there were nine
egg circles which marketed about half
million eggs.
The boys of Texas who belong to
corn clubs. cotton clubs. pig clubs and
baby beef clubs now number more than
5000. and nearly every one of them is
cultivating an acre of land after the
methods advised by our Agricultural
Department at Washington There are
more than 5000 of them in the corn
clubs. and the average yield of the
corn raised by them last year was ten
bushels more than the average raised
by their fathers and neighbors If as
good farming were done all over the
country, our corn crop would be bill
lion bushels larger than 1t now is, and at
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May Raise spomg@s From
CuttimgsThat Are Planted

fisheries. He has said that in four years
cuttings of sponges will grow to re-
markable size-say about eight inches
in diameter and one and quarter
ounces in weight-and that the sponge
thus grown on concrete is much more
valuable than wild sponge of equal
bulk, the bottom of which in most cases
must be cut away to remove red root,
coral and sand, this waste portion of a
sponge being frequently one-third OF
it's bulk. In addition to this. wild
sponges are often badly torn by hooks
in removal from sea bottom. Instead
of this loss the artifcially grown
sponges have a firm, felted, even bot
tom when attached to the discs, and
are quite clear of the aforementioned
impurities. 1t is explained that in
planting sponges cement disc is used.
and the small sponge cutting is at
tached to this by wire or cord and the
whole placed in the water. In few
weeks time the sponge is firmly at-
tached to the disc and at maturity,
when the sponge has been gathered
the disc can be used again.
The sponge which develops from tina
cutting should be and usually is like
the parent sponge from which
the clipping was made. Among the inn
portant points in the American sponge
trade are the Caicos Islands. which
form the southeaStermost portion of
the Bahamas, the group being separated
from Grand Turk by the Turks Island
passage. The bank in which the group
is situated is about fifty miles in length
by ten miles in breadth. The islands
of the group form the northern fringe
of the bank, the principal islands being
Blue Hills or Providenciales. North
Caicos, Middle Caicos. East Caicos and
South Caicos. The islands are inter-
sected and indented by creeks, some OF
which run far into the land and in
which the tide GIBBS and flows
In the disc system of culture the
fisheries bureau has mad computas
tions of the cost of planning the prob
able returns. 1t has been estimated
that the cost of planting in Florida is
s229.50 per square acre. but in the Cai-
COS Islands. owing TO cheap labor and
abundant supplies of sponges for cut
ting up. the cost is reduced to s145.20
per acre. Authorities on the sponge
have said the worlds supply of wild
sponges is rapidly diminishing and the
demand for Industrial sanitary and
domestic purposes is steadily increas.
ing The known banks have been large.
ly overfshed and cultivation appears
to be the only method of even approx.
mately keeping up the worlds supply Of
this necessity.
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put up 1.730 cans of tomatoes and
peaches, and 200 glass jars of berries
and other products. She made a profit
therefrom of S242.
Willie Haworth, another Texas girl
of fifteen years. won the first prize
for her crop of canned goods at the
state fair at Dallas. She rented her
tenth of an acre from her father for
81. a rental equal to SO per acre. and
paid a boy of the neighborhood $3.50
to plow it fourteen inches deep. She
planted her seed in a hot-bed in Feb
ruary, and set out the plants on the
10Th of March. She had her first ripe
tomatoes June .. and from then on they
kept coming until she had 143S pounds
in all. She put up from them more
than a thousand cans of tomatoes. and
in addition. from her fathers orchard,
:;1S cans of peaches. In her canning
exhibit at the fair she had also seventy
eight quarts of berries, twenty-eight,
quarts of cucumber pickle, six quarts OF
beets, six quarts of plums. eight quarts
of peach pickles. one quart of onions;
also peppers. grape juice. tomato cat
sup and other things. This was the
work of one child. Think what thou
sands of such children could do in sup
plying vegetables, sauces and dainty
tidbits for our troops in the field Willie
Haworth sold out her entire stock at
good prices, and her net profits were
several hundred dollars.
!: !.
Full directions for growing tomatoes
and other vegetables on these one
tcnth-acre farms may be gotten from
the Department of Agriculture at
Washington, or from the farm DEM
onstrators who are now working
throughout the southern states. One
tenth Of an acre is not more than two
small city lots. 1t is equal to a strip
ahout forty-three feet front and 100
feet deep. and there are enough vacant
lots in our towns for growing hun
dreds of thousands of such gardens. 1t
would be a mean farmer, indeed. who
would not allow his little girl one
tenth of an acre rent free for such
purpose if she was ready to use it.
The government also gives directions
for canning and preparing the vege-
tables for the market.
Since the war declaration a home
canning campaign has been inaugu-
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possible for them to work. and be-
sides, Bede and Miller on the same
platform were a great attraction. SO
spectators came in droyes. The church
was crowded and hundreds were stand
ing outside it when Miller, who arrived
first. Started to speak.
Miller spoke for an hour or so. rip
ping most OF the stars out OF the sky
and all that sort of thing, and was
ready to drop from st-poisoning
when Brde appeared. He was JUST home
on a late train from a chautauqua trip.
mighty dry. and mighty dusty. and
mighty fun of speech.
AS he worked his way through the
crowd To the platform, great cheer
went UP lie was popular. Pleased
with the demonstration. Bede reared
back and prepared to fay thes demo-
Gratis hip and thigh for running the
country He advanced to the edge of
tue platform. threw out his chest and
demanded.
What is the matter with this conn.
try?"
Waiting a moment before beginning
on the democrats, Bede waited too
lons, for deep bass voice from the
rear seats made answer:
IT Is too derned dry!
Ihat almost broke up the meeting
Whlle in Arizona campaigning for
me national ticket last fall. Miller
met the prize campaign manager of
me world. he thinks. He is a young
Ghap who acted as advance man for
rom Campbell, republican candidate for
governor.
One night. while trying to cross
swollen river with nothing but the
chart supplied by a native to guide
MN, me front of his auto suddenly
dropped out of sight and the rest of it
began to disappear. Turning to a
stranger whom he had picked up ON the
trail. the young fellow asked:
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III to develop the funny bone. It's
" a rare day in a congressional
campaign. particularly where
the candidate knows almost every one
in his district, that some excruciating-
y comical thing does not happen.
That is what makes the corners of
most representatives mouths turn up
ward and enables them to perform such
duties as walking eight miles after a
horse book or twenty-five miles to in
vestigate a pension claim, without be-
coming Disguised and throwing their
whole ding busted job, $500 a year
and perquisities. right up in the air.
Chances are that If campaigns came
every year, or semi-annually, instead
of every two years as they do, Con-
Eressmen's funny bones would bulge
SO that they would have to take on the
leg-o-mutton sleeve.
Few representatives look for funny
things. Legislation. particularly at
this time, is serious business. But HUI
morous situations will arise and. re-
gardless of how firmly public servant
has his eyes set on his duty. he will
see them. Here are a few that have
come to the notice of some present
members of the House.
~
EoR many years Adam Bede of Min
L nesota was regarded as the fun
NEST man in the House. His huraor put
him in Congress, it was declared: IL
kept him there long time and then.
some say, it helped put him out. ANY
how, Clarence Miller succeeded Bede.
and he has had about as many funny
experiences as Bede used TO say he had.
One of them. the dry" side of a wet
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number twenty-six have produced more
than 200 bushels per acre. and that at
an average expense of from cents to
~ cents per bushel Estimating the
average for the United States at the
highest il has ever been, which Is
thirty bushels to the acre, had all of
our farmers done as well as these 1851
boys our corn crop would be three
times what it is. or the enormous
amount of eight or nine billion bushels.
Its value would almost equal the bill
lions of dollars worth of bonds we
have issued to carry on the war.
And now let me give you the records
of some Of these boys who have pro-
duced such large crops of corn. They
are little fellows and they come from
all parts of the south. Jerry Moore of
South Carolina, has grown 22S bushels
on one acre, Eber kimbrough of Ala
Leath of Georgia more than PA bushels.
Bonnie Beeson of Mississippi grew 227
bushels OF corn on his acre, and Walker
Lee Dunson of Alabama has grown
232.1 bushels at n cost OF 10 cents a
bushel. The cheapest corn in point of
production was that of Junius Hill of
Alabama. who grew 212 bushels on his
acre at cost of Sc cents per bushel.
Corn is now more than dollar
bushel and at that rate the acre OF Ju-
MUS would bring in something like
5000
From money standpoint many of the
boys have done even better than this.
Their corn has been so good that they
have been able to sell it for seed, and
some of them have gotten SO per bushel
and upward. A demonstration agent
tells me of boy in Oklahoma who won
first prize, which was a weeks free
schooling at the State Fair School in
Oklahoma City. He also won a gold
watch for the corn he sent to the in
international wheat show in 1915. and
later $3.50 scholarship at the Agricul-
tural- Mechanical College. This made
his corn famous and he sold the crop of
10 bushels for So per bushel, or more
than $500.
Another boy made enough to buy an
automobile through his work in the
corn club. His first crop gave him
enough profit for a bicycle. and the
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or California. who used to sing but
now he only speaks.
nell could not speak, but he can. out
in western Indiana, they say, 5. X ~
tickets are issued every time he is
announced. No graduation exercise,
old settlers picnic, church. bridge,
schoolhouse, town hall or court
house dedication is complete without
him. He is on the wing SO fast at
graduation time, it is said, that ne
sends trained carrier pigeons home TO
show he is 0. X, not having time be-
tween jumps to catch the mails with
letters.
hut it was not always thus. Back
some fifteen years ago, when the pres
ent representative was just "Silo sam
Purnells boy, he was not flooded with
speaking engagements, nor was ne a
how wonder as an orator. The picking
was a little hard, and Purnell, anxious
to break into public life, accepted
every invitation gladly.
One of his first invitations came from
his old friend. Bill Campbell, promi-
nent lodge man up around Rob Roy.
Ind. to speak at fraternal memorial"
exercise in church. This looked good
to Purnell and he Immediately set
about the passed and gone forever
members of Campbelrs organization.
He pied up lot of nice things about
them.
These heroes who lie under the sod
ana all of the old standbys were right
on his tongues end He even figured
out the number of dead at forty, and
for two days thumbed ready reference
books to find some fitting verse about
forty men taken by death, volleyed and
Numbered, or something like that.
A crowded church greeted Purnell.
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6F3 HERE Is a call for the conserva-
ton of the sponge and dispo-
sition to demand a halt in the
destruction of the sponge by reason
of the wasteful and wanten manner of
filing the worlds need for that par
ticular commodity. 1t Is said that,
owing to the destructive methods en-
ployed by those engaged in the fisheries
and to the absence of restrictions and
regulations for the conservation of the
natural sponge beds. the output of the
industry has become practically sta
tionary. and the productiveness threat
ems to decrease every year. The sponge
has won for itself such favor in the
world that it has come to be a neces-
sity. and, because of the waning sup
ply and other factors, much effort has
been EXPENDED toward the production
of a satisfactory substitute. But it
is said by those persons interested in
this branch of trade that no adequate
substitute has been found for sponges,
loofah and rubber not possessing their
absorbent and resilient qualities,
The United States government.
through the bureau of fisheries, is in
terested in sponge culture. The col
Letting of wild sponges has long been
an industry of profit to many persons
in the southernmost part of Florida
and among the Florida Keys. and now
the cultivation of sponges is being
entered upon with satisfactory results
and with future that promises much
profit
Many papers on the sponge have
been published by the United States
bureau of fisheries and by government
offices with similar aims in other coun-
tries. The earliest of the American
governments offering in this line was
1879, when the fisheries bureau is
sued a paper written by f. Won Maren-
teller on The Raising of Sponges for
Cutting" In 1883 there was issued, as
bulletin. an essay by Edward Potts
on Fresh Water Sponges: What.
here. When and Who Wants Them"
This was followed the next year by
paper by Richard Rathbun on the Nat
ural History of Crustaceans. Worms.
Radiates and Sponges." and Mr.. Rath-
bun in 1887 also wrote bulletin on
The Sponge Fishery and Trade" ].
G. Ruge has written of the sponge
fisheries of Florida. and H. NJ Smith
wrote bulletin in 1897 on The Florida
Commercial Sponges." In that year
there also appeared bulletin ION the
Feasibility of Raising Sponges from the
Egg" written by II. V. Wilson. and in
1900 Mr.. " ilson prepared report on
THE Sponges Collected in Porto Rico
in 1899 by the United States Fish Com
mission Steamer Fish Hawk" In 1908
and 1910 the fisheries bureau issued
br letins from the pen of Mr.. Wilson =.
the development of SponScs from lis
Parent" and on the development of
So nges from Dissociated Tissue Cells"
One of the American authors who has
written numerous studies on the
sponge and sponge culture in Florida
is DR.. n. F. Moore OF the bureau OF
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Can you swim''
Not a stroke" replied the terrorized
stranger.
Well. you better learn tarnation
into the raging waters
The stranger swan like sixty to the
opposite bank, 200 yards away.
Ia VERY time Representative Jimmy
Gallivan of Massachusetts passes
pickle sign, he doffs his hat, and for
a very good reason. He had fifty
seven managers during his first cam
paign for Congress.
Gallivan always was one Of the boys"
in South Boston. First he was a high
school base ball player. Later, he
played second base on the Harvard
team that Representative Winslow, also
of Massachusetts,. coached. When Rep
resentative Curley of Boston resigned
his seat to accept the mayoralty, then
fifty-seven of the boys" got together,
took out Gallivans nomination papers,
appointed fifty-seven committees, and
put him in Congress.
There never was another campaign
committee like that in the world"
Gallivan explains. The Sullivans, the
ORourkes. the Murphys, the Devitts
and all of them were out whooping
it up.
They were enthusiastic. for a fact.
Just to show you, I'll tell you about
now Johnny Dewitt got out a crowd
for me to address,
Johnny went out to a hall in Dor
chester one night to tell them how
should be sent down to Washington,
and for some reason only the janitor
turned up. After waiting an hour for
some one else to appear. Johnny start