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broiled, roasted or stcwed, and it is estimated that one ostrich is equal to two hundred chickens. All these things are much more palatable than the average person imagines.
 Price Of Eggs.
 Ostrich eggs for eating sell at about s2.5o each and weigh from three and one-half to i've pounds each. If you will drain these eggs through 9 smail hole you can get dollar for the shell if you can find museum that needs one. However, if you are going into the ostrich farming business and want eggs for breeding purposes you will have to pay five dollars piece for them It may interest the prospective ostrich farmer to know that the. statistics on ostrich raising show that in twenty-nine years one pair of birds were the parents of over four hundred and fifty ostrich chicks. The big birds have voracious appetities and are al- ways ready to eat, whether it is oranges, sugar beets, alfalfa or some body's scarf pin, they grab 1t with q savage eagerness. They are greedy too and will swallow oranges as fast as they can be handed up. At times the writer has seen a half dozen oranges passing down the neck of an ostrich while he was begging for more As the bill opens fully four inches the bird has little difficulty in swaI- lowing the fruit. When the keeper comes with a wagon of alfalfa the visitor begins to realize that one might as well start a cattle ranch as begin an ostrich farm, However, should the Government take up the matter of ostrich raising it will develop into a science and the birds will be fed on; food which will aid in sweetening the meat and a study will De made ofhows to make the largest production Of eggs.
 We shall probably learn more of he value Of the o3trichs as food In the near future when the Government finally takes up the problem of ostrich raising. Truly the high. cost of living is changing ones idea as to the proper diet for mankind
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-28
to attract the female of his choice h,

to attract the female of his choice he struts about the pen spreading his wings and displaying his beautiful feathers. If she fails to notice him he begins to kick pebbles to attract her attention, and as the kick of an ostrich is equal to that of a horse the female bird suffers considerably from stone bruises. After they finally decide on their choice of mate the pair are given a pen to themselves and they set up housekeeping.
 The ostrich makes a devoted hus- band although he expects his wife to do her duty as well. After the nest is made by digging a hole in the ground and the eggs are laid the male bird covers them at night if the fe- male will do so during the day. This fact was discovered by one of the at tendants on a Western ostrich farm. One of the female ostriches after lay ing the eggs sat on them for a few days and the male bird took care of them at night. After time she began to gad about the pen and look over at the other birds refusing to cover the eggs except for half an hour at a
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-28
for another. and the plan may be adopted by the Nation.

for another. and the plan may be adopted by the Nation.
 Revealing the activity of this mode of intercommunication and coopera- ton between the States comes a re- gently made report which presents a most interesting, withal minute, ac- count of the organization ofseach State council of defense, with a record of the results of work sent in by each to headquarters. Such a record of con- crete accomplishment must be of in calculable value in the way of sug- gestion to every State council of de fense receiving it. This report men tions the fact that some fifty-two bull letins and information circulars fur nishing details and instructions con- corning as many branches of war work, have been sent out from the national headquarters
 Nearly every State reporting a full list of their committees to headquar- ters has military committee of some sort. In several States there is more than one committee dealing with mili- tary affairs. As an example, Massa- -chusetts has the following committees with military functions: Recruiting, naval forces. land forces, military equipment and supplies, mobilization and concentration camps, horses trucks and motor cars.
 The Massachusetts council has also rendered valuable service in organiz ing under the Navy Department a naval reserve force and a naval re serve flying corps. Maryland reports a military census and a preparedness committee; and the State of Maine likewise.
 New York is another State strong in it's military preparedness. Train Boys To Be Master Marines. Previous to the war both New York and Massachusetts had we'll organized nautical schools and nautical ship These schools take healthy boys be l tween the ages of sixteen and twenty years and give them a complete course in the various subjects relating to the navigation of a merchant ship. The boys on graduation are able to qualify as master marines and chief engineers Rhode Island is one of the State: reporting an effort to provide adequate facilities for transp orting men anc supplies through their States. Little Rhody' is intensely active in it's wa, work, and as a transportation item it has listed and enrolled the automo piles and auto truck of the State ant their organization, so that they may
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be called upon at short notice for emergency service and to transport troops at any desired point
 Vermont and Arizona have made something of special study of their transportation facilities for troop nov ing and both have recommended i'm provements in cars. Both have de vised a seemingly practicable and simple scheme of converting day coaches into comfortable sleeping | quarters for the troops en route. | The defense council of the State of | Maryland has gone largely into the matter of transportation, the three principal railroads in the State each contributing a first class coach equipped and manned through the ef- forts of the Baltimore commission on transportation. This State has also completed the equipment of a hospital train. In connection with the trans portation of food. fuel and other re- sources, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Utah have made special Investigations and sent many valuable reports to headquar- ters.
 | To Help Dependents Of Soldiers. | Michigan and New Hampshire are two among several States which have passed statutes providing aid for de pendents of soldiers and sailors. A considerable number of the State fear ing danger from alien enemies or law breakers at time when the entire organized militia is drafted into Fed
 eral service, have undertaken to sup plement the protection of life and property afforded by the regular police force by volunteer guard.
 The question of food supply and
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-28

home of the rattlesnake and cactus plant, might be utilized for this pur- pose.
 Must Be Raised In Herds.
 Ostriches thrive on alfalfa and in ad. dition like fruits, particularly oranges, which they swallow whole. The orange can be traced all along the neck as it passes from the bill to the stomach. A little ground glass or some equivalent to gravel must be added to the food to aid in the bird' s digestion. At least once each month they have a ration of broken bone or other gritty substances. They also like vegetables, radishes, turnips, beets, carrots and will eat spinach as they do alfalfa. They are mischiev- ous birds and should their keeper be mailing boards on their pens he must keep his nails hidden or he will find an ostrich making a meal of them. Stories are told on the Western ostrich farms of the birds picking out gentle mems scarf pins and swallowing them without the slightest inconvenience This diet does not seem to disturb the bird in the least which, perhaps, has led to the old saying of "he has a stomach like an ostrich"
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Porter and His Work.
Copyright, 1917. by The International Syndicate.

a man of wide experience and success in large business interests and with a vision so broad and generous that in his home town of Chicago he has labored abundantly not only for the civic prosperity of his fellow citizens but also for a wider national knowl- edge and appreciation of art in its best and highest sense. The Govern ment has made no mistake in its se- lection of MT. Porter as director of the Section of Cooperation with States, many in authority say, for he has brought to bear upon the great na- tional questions of the day the same sound judgment and wise management as made him successful capitalist in private life.
 It was a spirit of patriotism which prompted MT. Porter to give up his many-sided private interests and come to Washington to do his part for his country. It was the same motive which impelled the other members of this section of the emergency war work Ito lend their assistance in the great cause.
 The other members of the Section on Cooperation with States of the Coun- ell of National Defense are: William B. Hale, of Chicago; Elliott D. Smith, lawyer, Chicago; Walter E. Meyer, lawyer, of New York City; Frederick
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-28
Can Be Hitched To Light Carts.

The big birds soon learn to know their keepers and will come at call. Many of them have been trained as racers and work we'll when hftched to light vehicle. They have a long stride and have out-distanced many fast horses. Their gait is sort of swing and is very graceful. It is quite the thing at the California farms for women and children to enjoy ride behind an ostrich racer. They may also be ridden like a horse, but as one must ride bareback it is difficult to keep seated. One of the peculiar things about the ostrich is that when you want to hitch him you simply drop a cap over his head and he will stand, perfectly still until 1t is re- moved. This cap is used when the feathers are to be plucked or at any time the keeper wants the bird to keep quiet.
 Takes But One Mate.
 The ostrich only takes one mate during his lifetime. When the birds are about three or four years old they are put in the "courting pen" and they pair off. The male ostrich is a very proud bird and when he wants
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-28

Allen, formerly editor of a Well-knoWn magazine; Carl L. Buehl, secretary and treasurer of mining company. Chicago; Arthur w. MacMahon, of Columbia University, New York.
 ''It is like a pyramid" said one of those officials in a recent talk about this division of the National Defense work. "The broad base is formed of the hundreds of thousands of Ameri- can people working individually, or in small organized local units, municipal and county councils. These are spread all over the country, superim posing stone upon stone to make a founda- ton of solid masonry for the great State organizations engaged in emer. gency war work, and these form a uniformly solid base for the apex which is the Council of National De fense" Uncle Sam's Fine Work.
 America is the only nation on the globe which could so quickly and eff ciently have organized her civilians without the use of Government com pulsion for definite, voluntary en deavor in the way of raising an un prepared nation to war strength. consider the bringing into harmonious cooperation with one another of the forty-eight States and the District o1 Columbia one of the most romantic and interesting features of the whole war work"
 It has been the province of the Sec ton on Cooperation with States to dea, with organizations for defense all over the country, to make recommendations and requests for action to each of the States, and. in turn, to receive and either act upon or refer to the proper body, suggestions, information and re quests for information. It has served
 moreover, as a clearing house between the States; and it endeavors to keer in easily accessible form all available data on activities completed, under taken or in prospect in all the States | from which it constantly supplies loca'
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and national official and voluntary bodies with reports on special re- quests for information.
 Various Committees Handle Big

and national official and voluntary bodies with reports on special re- quests for information.
 Various Committees Handle Big
 Enterprises.
 The organization of the State coun- ctls of defense in general follows in the lines of the Council of National Defense. Like the National Council they are sub-divided into committees dealing with various branches of de- fense work-military, transportation, finance, food. publicity, industries and labor min erals, medical science, legal, educational. Many of the State so- cieties issue their own periodicals, and publicity is maintained by the circu- lation of reports and bulletins and the aid of many public speakers.
 In the nature of things many of the individual activities of the various States are of necessity to themselves alone; but in number of cases they have been found a most effective agency for the co mp1etion of plans of nationwide importance. Thus, the War Department has benefited by the cooperation of the States in the mat ter of recruiting; the Treasury De partment counts largely upon the State councils of defense for help in the Liberty Loan; the Department of Agriculture benefits largely by the working out of some of their own knottiest problems by the individual States; and the Department of Labor has been materially enriched by CO., operation with State organizations
 AS an agricultural instance of how the Section on Cooperation with States serves as clearing house of ideas and suggestions, take the case of Rhode Island. That State estab- lished as an emergency measure a loan-fund of fifty thousand dollars which was placed at the disposal of it's farmers for the purchase of seed. If it is found that this investment re. turned corresponding surplus in its harvests the Section on Cooperation with States will pass the idea along to every other State for its considera- ton in connection with next springs planting.
 Vermont's Novel Scheme. | An instance which relates to troop conveyance is provided by the trans portation committee of the State Council of Vermont. This committee has devised a scheme for providing comfortable sleeping quarters in day coaches for troop transportation. Ii this idea is feasible for one State it is
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An Intimate Sketch of the Habits of the Big Bird Which May Become a Part of Our Food.
< Copyright, 1917, by The International
 Syndicate

H7 ITH SAN FRANCISCO eating
 whale steaks and New York AA restaurants deciding to put
 W sea COW stew on their menus 1t is not surprising that the United States Government is considering plans by which the flesh and eggs of the ostrich may be added to our daily bill of fare. Several New York hotels offered ostrich meat as a novelty on last New Years Day and those who partook of the broiled steaks declared that 1t was delicious. Epicures even went so far as to pronounce 1t superior to turkey or venison. Western people discovered its tastiness several years ago and occasionally on the menu cards of some of the large hotels in the far West and Southwest one finds .broiled ostrich" listed.
 The female ostrich too can be made to help out the hen for one ostrich egg Is equal to more than thirty hens eggs and has the same nutritive value as the hens egg with the same rela- five proportion of yolk, white and albuminous matter only on a much larger scale. They make an excellent omelet, one egg serving twenty peo- Die. Ine egg mas a. slightly richer taste than that produced by the hen, but is quite palatable. The female ostrich averages fifteen eggs annually which is equivalent to 450 hens eggs Of course. one cannot keep ostriches in the back yard as they do chickens and besides 1t cost as much to keep the big bird as it does to keep cow. They must be raised .on ranches or ostrich farms. Some of the ground in the far Southwest. which is now the
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-11-28

" OLD WOMAN far off in the
 fastnesses of the Kentucky
 mountains first heard the story v U of the war from a woman sent out by the Government to preach food conservation. With tears in her eyes she made response that she could and would save the lard with which she had been in the habit of lighting her kitchen fire.
 "I never knew before that the Gov ernment could want me to do any thfngI" she repeated again and again. And the case of that old woman exemplifies to some degree the scope of the far-reaching operations of the Section on Cooperation with States of the Council of National Defense. The organization in every State in the Union of a State Council of Defense similar in nature to that of the Ma uonal Council of Defense was brought about some six months ago.
 The object was to promote and CO., ordinate the war activities of every State and bring each one of them into Cooperation with the Federal Govern ment and the Council of National De- fense.
 The Hand At The Helm. z3 The man chosen to direct this divi- sion of the Governments emergency var work was George French Porter,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-22
PASSENGERS DEPARTED

Per Matson liner Manoa, left at l
O'Clock this afternoon for San Fran.
cisco: M. Allen, Miss NJ. Andrade,
Miss Elizabeth Andrew, J. H. Barnes,
Rev: NJ. E. Carver, Miss Mary P.
Campbell, Fred Cooke, Paul Chris.
tian, Mrs. J. A. Drake, Mrs. W. E
Dodd, Miss Ruth Edmands, Miss El1z'
abeth Jones, Mrs. ]. P. Kahlhaum,
Miss A. Kragh, 1t. ]. W. Lewis. Mrs.
J. w. Lewis. Miss Mary Lay, Miss H.
Lyle, Miss F. Music, ]. F. McCorkle,
Mrs. J. F. McCorkie, Mrs. P. A.. Mac.
Caughey, Mrs. NJ. S. Miller and two
children, Robert Menarg, c. H. Mos
sawin, N. r. NOVEL;, Miss E. D. Nu-
gent, Miss Jean Porterfield, Mrs. P.
s. Pell, Mrs. C. B. Reynolds, G. D.
Russell, Mrs. G. D. Russell, Miss J..
Russell, Miss NJ. Samson, Miss Halle
Samson, H. H. Story, Mrs. T. G. Scott,
A. E. Shelley, ". H. Smith, Mrs. W.
H. Smith, Robt. Scott, Miss Charlotte
Teggart, Miss C. H. Uecke..
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-22
.APMYsNWY
ARTILLERY GETS
NEW COMPANIES

Three new coast artillery com
panies in the Hawaiian department
are to be formed from date OF July l,
according to an order that has been
issued at department headquarters. OF
these three one will be a headquar'
tiers company at Fort Kamehameha.
Recruits who arrived recently from
the mainland will be used to build up
the new companies, which are formed
by virtue Of the increase in the reg
ular army through the Presidents
calling for four increments at once.
Besides the headquarters company,
the new companies are to be the 4th
Company, Fort Ruger. and the 9Th
Company, Fort De Russy. The head.
quarters will receive 81 recruits, the
9Th Company 3S recruits and the 4th
Company IL. Enlisted men to be
transferred will make up the remain
ing portions.
All materiel officers not now as
signed to companies will be assigned
to the new company at Fort Kameha-
meha.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-22
VALLEY SCHOOL
ILSDHIGHT
With BLUEB|RD'

A delightful Interpretation Of Mae
terIinck's "Bluebird" was given at the
Laniakea theater this morning by the
pupils Of the Valley School. who
charmed their large audience as they
trfpped through the five acts in gay
costumes and with perfectly learned
parts. More than 80 little boys and
girls took part and the presentation
formed a fitting close to year OF at
tentive school work.
The play was in five acts as fol-
lows: Act ]. the wood-cutters cot
tage; Act II, hall in fairy's palace;
Act III, land of memory; Act w, king
dom of the future; Act v, the wood
cutters cottage.
Following was the cast:
Mytyl, Annie May Young; Tytyl,
William Love; Mummy Tyl, Vivian
Lane; Daddy Tyl, Vincent Darford;
Fairy Berylune. Irene Campbell.
Hours: Virginia Bishop, Eleanor
Bechtel, Edna Buss. Bernice Bell,
Dorothy Cunha, Mercedes Chung
Hoon, Alice Dodd, Yvonne Patterson,
Elizabeth Rath, Virginia Rowland,
Mildred Taveres, Rosalie Young.
Tylo, Teddy Ireland; Tylette, Mary
Louise Love; Bread, Mani Kirkaldy;
Fire, Frederic Morong; Water, Helen
Ireland; Milk, Male Haley; Sugar,
Margaret Locker; Light, Virginia
Watson; Granny Tyi, Joseph Swezey;
Night, Hueneme Berggren; Cold-in-
the Head, Frank Fullaway; Father
Time, Edwin Fernandez.
ard Campbell, Edwin Chung Hoon,
William Chung Hoon, Paiea Chung
Hoon, William Fullaway, Alvin Haley,
Thomas Kiakona, Alexander Mackin-
tosh, Thomas Miles, Richard Nelson,
Adolph Pieper, Harry Rath, Cenric
Wodehouse, Louis Rutherford.
Madame. Berlingot, Lydia Dodd;
Her little girl. Betty Gliding.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-22
Drill features
II, N. A. EXERCISES

One OF the features Of the COM
mencement exercises Of the Honolulu
Military Academy yesterday was the
competitive dkill. General Johnston
and Captain Browning acting as
judges awarded the honors to Cadet
Parker Of Co. A and Cadet Olsen OF
Co. b. Presentation Of awards was
made By Governor Pinkham. Fully
$50 guests were In attendance at the
exercises. The graduates are Cadet
Capt. Searie, Cadet Capt. Young,
Cadet Lieut.. Canario, Cadet Lieut.
Garvie, Cadet Lieut.. Hansen, Cadet
Cpl Knott. =
The program consisted Of glee selec.
lions BY the Juniors and Seniors I'm.
der the direction Of Prof. Bode; the
presentation of the trial scene from
the Merchant Of Venice, an address
by Chaplain Fealy, competitive drill
and battalion parade. Those takins
Part in the Merchant Of Venice play
let were James Garvie. Clarenc6
Searle, Parker Widemann, Gilbert
Canario, Hans Hansen, Wentworth
Clinton, Reuben Campbell, Francis
Bottomley, Richard Shelton, John
Bonamy, Robert Browning, Donald
Young, George Kimball. The part OF
Shylock was ably interpreted By
Wentworth Clinton.
At the conclusion refreshments
were served.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-06-22
WIDOW OF ACCIDENT :.
VICTIM COMPENSATED

The Industrial accident board met
yesterday afternoon and awarded
compensation to Mrs. Annie Kaimi,
wife of the late James Kaimi, an en-
ploye of the At:sn & Robinson Lam.
Der Company who died in the Queens
hospital April Is, following a fall
April 2. ..,s.~
Although II was shown that Kaimi
died OF pneumonia the board awarded
the widow compensation of $23.15 4
month, to be paid for six years, and
$1s.S9 a month after that time until
the youngest and unborn child shalt
have reached the age Of Is years.
There are two children, the other be-
ing Kalei, d fiYe-year-old girl.