The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1918-03-21

are asked to enroll your names now in
order that it can be known whom to
call upon among you to take the places
of those food producers and of those
now engaged the various other fields of
industry and labor who are going into
the fighting ranks. The Army must be
fed, the Army must have guns and
ammunition, the Army must be clothed.
and numerous other things the Army
in the field must have to make them
good fighters. A great many of those
now engaged in preparing these various
things needed by the Army the
American Army particularly - will
themselves be called upon to enter the
Army to fight your country's battles.
In such cases you. boys, will be needed
to take their places as fast as places are
vacated and carry on the needed work.
If farmers food producers-around
you must quit the pillow and lay down
the hoe, you will be called and assigned
to take their places. If machine shop
man now engaged in making machinery
/ for use in the war, be called upon to
! shoulder his army rifle and enter the
ranks, you will be asked and assigned
to take his place at the machines in or
der that the making of war machines
| may not stop. And so on of the var
ious other industries essential to war
supplies to help win victory to the al
! lies and to the American around you,
boys, will be assigned to whatever
places you may be best fitted for. AS
farmer boy you may be called upon
to labor in some corn field, in potato
| patches. or in some wheat field; in fact,
in some place where you can be food
producer. The Southern boys are
more than apt to be assigned to rails
ing feed stuff; the Northen boys will
probably take to mining and to wheat
raising and so on according to locality
We would say it is glorious privilege
to be allowed to do something, and
that something selected by our grand
President whom you should delight to
honor and serve in helping him win
victory to your country's flag. Arrange
ments are made or are being made, for
the enrolling of your names under the
call of the President. But you must
know that at your age-l6 to 20-the
President cannot force you to serve.
You must enroll your names and volun-
tarily serve, your parents not opposing.
You can, if you try, do mans part
in some phere of labor to aid in the
war. The President honors you by look
ing to you for the needed help. What
say you. you boys Is years and over,
of age? Are you willing to put your
name on the honorable roll of faithful
workers and helpers of your country?
or would you perfer to be called a
Stacker! If you would rather enroll
look out for the man assigned to the
duty of enrolling boys names for SER
vice as explained above.
We would again call the attention of
the Industrious housewife to an ar
rangement for caring for her smother
hens and chicks when the hatch is to
be taken off the nests. The arrange
ment is community COOP" in which
any number of hens their broods can
be housed the number being accord
ing to the lenght of the coop. One made
of Is feet by IL inches wide plank can
accommodate only 10 hens and family
of biddies. This length allows the in
dividual, or separate her room to be 18
inches wide by S It. long, the coop be-
ing 6 fit. wide and left. long. Such
coop can be of any Length desired. the
longer it is the more families" can
occupy it. For the great convenience
and for the safety of the chicks from
rats and stormy weather, as we'll as
saving the worry of running out in
rain and the dark to protect the chicks
such community coop is very cheap
convenience on a place where many
hens are kept. To build. a coop is #.
long it takes about II plank, Is. # long
for floor and side and about or plank
18 #. long for the ends and gables, 9 to
IL pieces of scantling averaging Aft.
are also required, for studding and
and rafters. The roofing will be a
matter of taste, requiring other lumber.
One half of this coop, from end to end,
is back gallery on the floor on which
the chicks are free to ramble, frolic,
feed and drink water from fountain
or other vessel. Besides this, if the
chicks are infested with lice. or mites,
or any other disease. the mistress can
step inside on the gallery floor and
pick up the sick ones and doctor them.
She does not have to run them down to
catch them. We will be glad to show
any carpenter who is to build such
coop. coop already in use, so he can
get the general plan.