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The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-09-04
Wheat and Flour.

No wheat thousands of years old has
ever been known to terminate, many
yarns to the contrary Notwithstanding.
Baking tests have also been made by
the department of agriculture, showing
a distinct inferiority Of the Alaska
wheat -four as bread producer.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-09-04
To Clean Marble

To clean discolored marble, first Of
all wash with soap and water, then
wipe dry and apply a paste made Of
powdered bathbrick and lemon juice.
Rub it well into the discolored parts
and rinse it of In clean cold water.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-09-04
On the Go.

Comfortable incomes today are rare
most Of them don't stop with us long
enough to make themselves comfort
able.-Boston Transcript.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1919-09-04
Too True. Alas, Too True!

If YOU would be classed as a good
fellow all you have to do is to ap-
plaud your fool Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
Meat Plentiful in South

Some southern sections have ceased to import meat and other food products and now are not only able to feed themselves but are in position to export these prod ucts from their farms. Cotton, of course, still has a prominent place in localities where the weevil is not too destructive, but diversified or safe farming is becom- ing popular, according to reports from many county agents The report of the agent in Sumter county, Florida, is an ex- ample. Recently this agent supervised the cooperative shipment of 23 cars of hogs On foot and three cars of butchered pork, and several cars of hogs have previously been shipped from other points in the county. He states that every family mas plenty of meat and lard at home.
 The county agent in orange county Florida reports that the live stock men are planting more feed crops than ever before One man who planted 10 acres oe corn and 75 acres of cabbage last year is planting S5 acres to corn this year. The farmers of Orange county purchased 249 tons of nitrate of soda from the gov ernmentment this year, with saving or ss707.
 The agent in De Soto county, Florida, reports that recently another Texas cat tieman located in his community and pur- chased 15,000 acres of land and is now fercing it preparatory to bringing in herd of cattle from Texas. To this he will add some of the best native cows and breed them up for better beef.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
Virgin Peanut Oil

Virgin peanut oil of domestic manu1ac- ture is on the market for the first tlme in considerable quantities. It IS one ol the most delicious of oils, especially me in flavor and, in the opinion of many consumers, equal in every way to the best virgin olive oil. The bulk Of the peanut oil that has been available was hot-pressed oil The virgin oil is cold pressed and no refining is required. The United States department of agriculture during the past two years has stimulated the production of virgin peanut oil, ana specialists of the department have CO., operated closely with producers.
 The virgin peanut oil, homemade rom a home product will come in competition with foreign oils. About 9S per cent of the olive oil consumed in the Unlteo States is imported. Olives are grown In California, but the bulk of the product goes to meet demands for olives In forms other than oil Department experts De- leve that virgin peanut oil. once the American people become familiar with it. will be as popular as any table oil thus far generally used.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
Auburn to Help

At the request of the state board of has agreed to take immediate steps to assist the agricultural interests of the various eleeymosynary institutions of the state.
 The work relates to the several state farms and to those institutions having lands. farms or gardens in connection herewith. The superintendent or other officer in charge will be given any help within the power of the extension service at Auburn. The plans contemplate gen. eral agricultural surveys and sympathetic cooperative work in horticulture, farm mana cement, animal husbandry, dairy
 ing, home economies. etc, and valuable economies are expected 10 result.
 Announcement has just been made by the horticultural department of the ex- tension service of the assignment to this work of Paul T. Schooley, assistant nor ticulturist. Among the subjects to which MT Schooley and others will give atten- tion are advice in the planting of orchards, laying out of gardens and grounds, construction of sweet potato storage houses and the adoption of a systematic programme of truck and fruit crops, so that each farm may grow the products for which it's soil and conditions are most favorable, and which are most largely purchased and consumed by the wards of the state.
 The director of the extension service has arranged for ]. r. Quinerly, dairy ex- tension specialist, to confer with the man agers regarding their herds, and for F. D. Stevens, farm management specialist, to hold themselves available for consult tation regarding field crops and soi@>, The state board of control hopes to great ly reduce some of the largest expense items in the food and feed bills of the state
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
Boy Does Own Canning

Seth S. Pope is a Barnstable, Mass, club boy who, in 1918, not only raised good garden but canned over POO quarts of the products himself. Because of his good work he obtained a place on the county canning team of three. Seth says in his report to the leader of the boys and girls club work in his county:
 'I just about canned my garden this year; that is, what we couldn't eat fresh Because I did. l am now able to enjoy at all seasons of the year the fruits of my labor. garden of my own made it possible for me to be sure of getting fresh fruits and vegetables to can.
 This youth has been one of the Barn stable canning team for two years. The first year the teams membership con- sisted of two girls and himself Last year another boy supplanted one of the girls, so the team in 1918 was composed of two boys and one girl They put on numerous demonstrations at meetings and fairs in Barnstabe county and won a number of prizes, both for individual and team work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24

, The incubators 1 am using I have had for years, and they will be just as good 10 years hence as they are today. And the reason is that I bought good ones to start with.
 now have 400 chicks of various ages running about in warm rooms and an other incubator full coming off. With one more incubator of 250 eggs at work, this will be all I will hatch this season. From this bunch of White Leghorns l expect to get about $50 bullets, and if they lay like their ancestors-about 75 per cent it will be flock of the best layers have ever owned Every bullet on my yard has a record of 135 for her first SIX months of laying. And when bullet goes through a year with a record or 20 to 27O eggs she has made you clean $o plii
 Don't buy your eggs from any one who has the breed you want. Investigate ana find out what the flock has done Tn way of average That's what counts 1T you can buy the class of eggs you want near to where you live, so much the better. For the expreSs company doesn't handle a shipmeut like it would dynamite 30 don't blame the breeder you buy rom IL the per cent of hatch is not Just what YOU thought it ought to be. It may not be his fault at all
 Shocking of these wickless blue flame brooders. I mention the fact that the government has installed them in all theii experiment stations; also the different state colleges. They can be bought In Va rio1rs sizeS-to hover from loo CHICKS .o 1000 chicks-at prices ranging from $I.9o to s22 first-class incubator can De bought from s6 for a 5O-egg machine to $13S for a 1000-egg machine. And they "i.i | last for a hundred years if taken care or. There is just one way to play this game Land that is the modern way. Just ike modern machinery is placed in all large manufacturing plants, so should mooern conveniences be used in raising all kinds l of poultry. Get a good incubator ana hatch off strong, healthy chicks and you are half started Then get the right kiiio | of feed and breeders and you are on the last Ian in the right direction. Whatever
 you do, buy the best Anyone wishing information and adVlce 1 in raising poultry will gladly sNe my experience and offer any suggestions that may be needed at my home, S135 First ave- nue, opposite East Lake park
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
JAROR-SAVING METHODS
Work of Country Children

In Waldo, Columbia county, Arkansas, the home demonstration agent gave talk to the school children in which she ex- plained the value of domestic science lab oratory work in school. Twenty-Five or the children who heard her were so anx- ious that their school should have kltch- en equipment, which might be used for hot lunches and for the teaching of do- nestle science. that they agreed to raise money to furnish a laboratory. They d1- vided the janitor work of the school among themselves and used the money paid them for equipment. The kitchen in the Waldo school is now we'll furnished and the benefits from it have been even more satisfactory than the children an ticipated. A strong domestic science course has since been added to the st hool.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
Calhoun Cooperating

Calhoun county farmers also are en- tering the field of cooperative marketing. There has recently been organized in that county a Boys Pig club, which has selected the Duroc as it's breed, and has placed cooperative order for wire and fencing. It is planning co-opera- tive order for bred gilts and will follow the same method in marketing the prod uct this fall. The club will affiliate with the two leading associations of the OK ford district, the Choccoocco Valley and the Oxford Swine Growers association, also recently organized. More adult as- sociations are planned for Piedmont, Jacksonville and other places in the county Boys clubs are being placed also at Ohatchie, Wilmington, etc The Ala bama extension service is assisting the efforts of l.. G. Prentice, county agent and ]. C. Ford, pig club agent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
IFLABOR ISSHOR'T, ,LETLIVE STOCK GATHERTHE CROP
The American Farmer

Perhaps no branch of the public ser vice is in position to recognize so prompt ly and appreciate so fully as the bureau of crop estimates what has been accom- plished by the farmers of the United States since the breaking out of the world war, says the annual report of that bu- reap. From the reports of it's thousands of voluntary crop reporters and it's field agents who travel over each state and report weekly and monthly their observa- tions, the bureau is in constant touch with the progress of crop production from month to month and year to year. It has seen the supply of farm labor steadily de- crease from heavy drafts made upon it by other industries, especially since the be- ginning of the war, and it has noted the decrease in the supply of commercial fer tilizers. It has noted also the steady rise in farm wages. and in prices of farm machinery and everything else that farm CTS have to buy. With an unbounded faith in the patriotism and determination of farmers to do their utmost to help win the war by maintaining the production of food and raw materials, it nevertheless has marveled that the farmers of the United States apparently have accom- plished the impossible by continuing to plant larger areas and to harvest larger crops in the aggregate with each year of the war in spite of the difficulties of, securing farm labor, supplies machinery and other necessary articles.
 'The planting and cultivatng of 52,000, GOO acres more in 1917 than in 1914 by the farmers of this county is comparab ble with anything that has been accomplished by any other industry This production of good crops on an enlarged scale. at great
 y increased expense of time, effort and labor and by fewer men, steadily and without publicity or the inspiration that ccmes from large bodies of men working together has done as much to insure the winning of the war against the military Gespotism of Europe any other one factor From Weekly News Letter, United States department of agriculture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
Working on New Feed

Much interest is being manifested in some experiments just completed at Au- burn by the animal husbandry division of the Alabama experiment station to deter mine the best proportion of peanut meal mixed with corn as fattening alton for hogs. In order to determine the influence upon the carcass, varying amounts of peanut meal have been fed different lots of hogs in a series of experiments at Au- burn, conducted by Prof. George S. Tenn pieton, animal husbandman, extending over quite period of time.
 One series of these experiments has now been completed and the hogs have just been shipped to the Birmingham Pack ing company for slaughter and marketing. Careful examination and inspection of their carcasses will be made by Professor Templeton, Professor Duggar, director of the experiment. station, and representa- : ] tlves of the packing companies, whose i'm
 terest and cooperation has been secured. This completes the second year of exper-
 | iments along this line by the Alabama
 experiment station, and it is probable that
 a bulletin will be issued the subject
 | in the near future. As peanut meal is
 I a comparatively new feed, but few ex-
 perimentS have been made on this sub
 l ject, and the results of the Birmingham
 inspection will be awaited with a state
 wide interest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
Boys Long for School

Three boys last summer walked 8 miles to take the train to attend the snort course at the Russellville Agrlcultural school in Pope county, Arkansas. The course given there was popular with boys and girls, and the results were sat isfactory to the teachers of various phases of agriculture and domestic science. Those enrolled were members of the boys and girls clubs organized by the state col iepe Many of the students at Russell vile made unusual efforts to attend. Some walked from 10 to s miles, and one man brought his children 45 miles Tn a wagon. Altogether S69 boys ana slris ,ooI, advantage of this opportunity to learn more of the best ways Of doins farm and home work. At a short course at the Jonesboro. Ark. Agricultural school o 800 boys and girls were enrolled, "niie 4o' attended a course offered at Magnolia. Tn the coming summer more Of these short courses will be offered to the am bilious young people of Arkansas
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
MoIasses in the Ration

There is quite an interest displayed by breeders and dairy1nen ali over this coun. trv in molasses as supplementary feed. There is no question but that it's use on the farm is spreading in such proportion as to make it interesting for our read CTS to know something about the feed ing value of molasses, it's effect on the live stock, etc.
 First of all. it must be born in mind that nnoIasses may be divided into as many classes as hay. Simply to say mo- lasses is not saying much. There seems tu be very little of beet molasses used in straight form as a feed for live stock as in the case of sugar cane molasses. If seems that beet molasses contains too much ash and it acts as q purgatiVe. There is also sugar cane molasses which does not quite come up to standard of a feeding molaSses. There is the reboiled nolasses with a good deal of sugar eX- tracted There is the domestic molasses with sulphor dioXide marked on bar rel IL seems that the safest molasses is the pure sugar cane molasses. A good rcolasses should test over 52 per cent ugars and not over 6 per cent ash. The flavor of the molasses is also important. II may often happen that the same test ing molasses is not the same tasting.
 It would seem that the most important use of sugar cane molasses is in connec- ton with the disposal of roughage on the farm Ii is surely the most practicable way of making feeds palatable and diges- tible The usual method is to thin the mo- lasses with water so that 1t runs as free Iy as cream and to pour it over dry corn fodder straw, old hay, etc. A sprlnkHng can with the holes enlarged often proves very handy. Some find 1t well to grind up their reughage and mix the molasses with roughage and grains. This IS the hest method for besides the grains which may be substituted pound for pound 10 that of molasses the roughage also re- places much of the grain.
 ', Of course the handling of molasses IS different from that of other feeds and for that reason a number of live stock owners refused to feed it, but those who are aware benefits can be derived through the judicial feeding of molasses Will soon find a convenient method of feeding it and will not be without it.
 About three pounds a day is the aver age amount prescribed for cows Horses are fed from to pounds per day accord ing to the amount of energy or work re- ouired from them. Swine benefit on A pound per day per 100 pounds of live weight Calves are fed from F to l cup ful per day. | 4 good molasses will please the animal and make it more fit for maximum pro- duction. whether it be flesh or work It uill keep the bowels in good order and nrevent ailments due to indigestion. It produces a sleek coat. A progressive live stock owner should always have some on hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
Preparedness OfSeparator

Enormous waste of grain and much
 loss of time result every thrashing sea son, because of the inefficient vcrk oi threshing machines that have not been thoroughly repaired and put in working condition before the beginning of the working season. Defective parts are over looked or neglected in the hope that they will last through the season. When they sail in the midst of the thrashing season serious losses often result before repairs can be made. In or just before the sea : son new parts are difficult to get prompt ly. because of the rush of orders from many who have procrastinated
 As soon after the close of the season as possible the separator should be over hauled necessary repairs and adjust ments made and needed parts ord ered This not only will prevent loss of time and money during the next working sea z son, but Will lengthen the life of the machine.
 A bulletin has just been issued. as No { in the series on Care and Repair of Faria implements, giving detailed instructions as to how to Hay by" grain separators The discussion of every part of the ma chine is minute, constituting a hand book for the overhauling and repair of grain seperators between seasons. It is a contribution from the bureau of public roads and is issued as Farmers Bulletin l036. Taken in connection with Farm CTS Bulletin 99l, which treats of operat- ing adjustments, it is believed to con stitutc complete thrashermans guide.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
By MRS. JOHN C. MOSES

By MRS. JOHN C. MOSES
 At the roulette wheel you lay your money down with the odds against you You may hit ''O0'-and then you may not. Chances are for the latter
 It's the same game of chance in the poultry business. If you place your money right at the start the game can be beaten But if you get off wrong-good night!
 If you buy pair of shoes with paper soles you do not discover the defects until after the first rain.
 If you buy poor incubators, brooders and other apparatus when you start Tn this poultry game you will be an early quitter But if you buy the best, even though the cost be greater, chances are greatly in your favor.
 If you will glance over the classified pages from time to time you see differ ent ads where starters have gone into the game from the wrong side. They have a second-h hand incubator or brooder for sale. And when you go to inspect these machines you invariably find cheap make with no reputation behind it
 So take it from me, if you start in the poultry business-start right Buy the best of incubators and best and most modern of breeders, which IS the pfue flame wickless variety.
 The old-time hard coal burners are pass ing. They were a nuisance Ii ever any outfit was such in the poultry industry. Half the time there was no hard coal available. and the other half you spent in cleaning out the small pipes which carried off the exhaust Many night l have fought these old-style breeders with the fire running low and then high, all depending on whether had hard coal or was trying to save a thousand baby chlcks with some substitute. But never agaIn for me. I now use the most modern blue flame wickless breeders. All there is to do is fill the tank and keep 1t hiieo- The automatic controllers do the rest. It's pleasure to get up in the morning g and find your flock lively and warm ana eager for breakfast, because they nave enjoyed a good nights rest ana nave kept comfortable all night.
 The accompanying illustrations sho" this simple new device, picturing the hun dreds of baby chicks lying about the outer edge of the canopy. The other i1u l1us'tho tho tion shows the simple parts with the capony lifted off
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
Interest Keen in Gardens

The high cost of living received a body blow last year when approximately 5000 war gardens were grown in Washing ton, D. C., and vicinity. These gardens were conducted under the direction of the garden committee of the council of national defense and the specialists from the United States department of agri- culture. There were 31 organized garden clubs in all near the national capital, the largest of these being the Potomac Garden club, which cultivated 12S lots, each 40 by 100 feet in size, in East Potomac park These gardens were very successful and added materially to the food supply of Washington.
 This year the Potomac Garden club has been greatly enlarged and 2SS plots are being assigned to individual garden CTS in order that they may supply them selves with vegetables and keep up the fight against high prices. Many of last years garden clubs are recognizing and some new ones are being formed. Just recently a club was formed, known as the West Brookand Park Garden club. with about 30 active members. The de- mand for garden plots is greater than ever before, and the prospects are that there will be not only more gardens but better gardens in Washington this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
Food Value of Milk

| One million small charts showing graphically the food value of milk have been sent by the dairy division of the United States department of agriculture to city milk distributors. creameries cheese factories and other dairy interests, which are distributing them to consum- CTS. The chart compares the sohds or milk with the solids in edible portions of A number of vegetables, pineapples and oysters. Milk, according to the chart, averages 1S per cent of solids Onions and beets have little less than this per sentage, while tomatoes, asparagus, let tpce. celery and cucumbers have less than half the solids that are contained In mix. The wide distribution that is being gwen fhis chart the dairy specialists say, should stimulate the use of milk in the home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-24
Beekeepers at School

The fourth of the series of extension schools for beekeepers was held by api- culturists at Ames, Ia., April IA to 19. As at the other schools held in California, Colorado and New York state, the course was designed to interest commercial bee keepers. Fundamentals of bee behavior during different seasons of the year were discussed by pr. E. F. Phillips and G. s. Demuth of the federal department, and other subjects of interest to commercial beekeepers were treated by state college officials and leaders in honey producers associations.