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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
Tests Of Concrete Pipe

The need for standardizing the meth
eds of manufacture and the development
Of standard tests and testing equip
ment to determine the strengths of con-
crete pipes has resulted in the establish
ment of field laboratory by the; bureau
Of public roads, where equipment is be-
ing experimental with and tests have
been conducted. Field tests have also
been made to determine the tensile
strength, resistance to internal pr assure,
and the previousness of 40 kinds OF con-
crete pipe now used in irrigation. These
4nvestiEations have been prompted in
pArt by the high cost of iron and styei.
which has greatly enlarged the demand
8or concrete pipe to meet rigid conditions
A irrigation systems, notably where pres
gure pipe is needed to carry water .un-
der high heads. California alone now
has more than $50 concrete pipe manufac-
furers. and concrete pipe is being laid
1t the rate of many hundred miles a
year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

Seven bright, attractive girls from Mis-
sissipp who visited Washington with
two chaperones the second week in De-
cember awakened the interest OF all who
CHANGED to meet them. These girls from
the far south were no ordinary board
ing school bevy out for good time with
father footing the bills. Quite to the con-
trarS. Everyone in the group was a 1--WE
yonng business woman who had made a
snccess in her own line of work, al
though the oldest was only 49, and each
had earned the trip to Washington by her
own efforts. They met and were con-
graduated by high officials of the UMted
States department of agriculture.
The department of agriculture and the
state agricultural colleges in the past
decade have organized clubs in every
state in the union. These clubs have en-
abied hundreds of thousands of girls
who live in rural communities to learn
proper household, poultry and garden
practices, to have esocial enjoyment and
to make money for themselves. The
seven girls who came to Washington are
all members of Mississippi clubs, and
each holds the record in her district Ter
the largest project profit in 1919. Two
hold state championships. The Wash
ington trip was prize offered by some
of the business men and bankers of the
state to one girl in each district who
made the highest record in club work in
1919. i
Valerie Henning, one of the group, is a
16-year-old girl from Panola county who
has ben in poultry club work for two
years. The net profits from her flock
for the past year were $525.35. When Miss
Henning went into club work she por-
rpwed $3.50 from the local bank and
with it bought a pen of Barred Ply
mouth Rocks, consisting of four hens
and one cockerel Her profits for that
wear were 1914. At the beginning of tsI-
year her flock consisted of is hens and
two cockerels. The IS hens produced 2S4'
eggs from January l to October 10, 1913
Nearly all of the eggs frcn her flock
are sold for Matching purposes, but the
birds that she raises she sells for 81,
| to $40 a pen. Each fall the flock is culled
and all the culls disposed OF. Last fail
$40 worth of the culls were sold ana q
| new cockerel was bought for $3.50 'rrar
nests and leg bands are used by this cur
member to identify the sluggish layers.
! The money Miss Henning has earned
with her flock paid her way through ag
ricultural high school last year ana Is
having it again this year. She has also
bought from her profits Liberty Bonds
and War Savings Stamps. Her BIRDS
|haye won prizes at the county fair Dotf
, years.
In Lawrence county lives G~sgory Rus
sell, who is 10 years old and who ma
! Just completed her first year of poultry
club work. Her net profit for the ?Nal
was 1856. and this won her the Wash
ington trip. Miss Russell borrowed money
1 from her father to obtain her start II
poultry work. She invested in 100 ishod'
Island Red eggs which she procured iron
the State Agricultural college. Nine egg
/ v,are hrokan in transit and only 43 o
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
Must Label Borax

A. order signed under the control act
N the Secretary of Agriculture on de-
eefnber 6 and issued by the bureau OF
oils, provides as follows:
ssThat hereafter no iicersee handing
- dealing in fertilizers or fertilizer in
~reiients shall sell for application to
fhe soil any mixed fertilizer which con-
Seina more than one-tenth of 1 per cent
~ horon. expressed as anhydrous borax
s,nless the container thereof be married,
Snrred, branded or labeled so as to show
rlsinly and conspisuously, as part OF ens
snalysis, the percentage Of borax pres
mt
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
Around the Farm

Fruits and vegetables from your gar
den, which have been stored in boxes,
baskets, barrels and bins should be sort
ed over to remove decayed specimens
which may infect the rest.
A boy or girl who earns money in an
AGRICULTURAL or home economics club by
poultry keeping, gardening or canning
or who carries out home projects through
the vocational school, is learning thrift
IN a practical way. Such enterprises
must not interfere with school work or
good physical development, for these will
increase the earning power and happiness
5ater in life.
6ughly dried and ripened to keep well.
They should be dried from time to time
with cloth and kept, not on cellar
floor, but on a shelf and we'll separated
from each other.
The average weight per measured bushel
Of the oat crop of 1919 is 31.1 pounds, or
nearly ! pound below the standard of
50 pounds. No year since 1908 has had
q lower weight.
The average price of all leading crops
on November l was 81 per cent higher
than asyear ago and 6S,1 per cent higher
nan Iae average IOF the i've pTeCeuIiS
years. Tho average production is about
lO.7 per cent lower than last years aggre-
gate production and 1.S per. cent higher
than the average preceding five years.
fs13-1Sl7.
Cakes, cookies and bread should be
cooled after baking and before being
placed in other receptacles. The tin box
or earthenware Jars in which they are
kept should be thoroughly scalded and
aired. Every three days in damp, no.
weather is none too often. Portions of
. former baking should never be stored
with a new batch.
The spelling of bushel of potatoes. a
Dozen cantaloupes. basket of grapes. or
crate of oranges represents an abso-
lutte loss to the community. The loss
must be borne both by producer and con-
sumner and in many cases the distributor
must share the burden.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
Rabbit Sala d

To each cup of diced.cooked rabbit meat
add onehalf cup celery and one-quarter
cup salad dressing one-half teaspoon salt
and a few grains of cayenne pepper Mix
thoroughly and pour into salad bowl
lined with lettuce. Put one or two table,
spoons of dressing on top and garnish
with strings of green and red pepper
Either mayonnaise or a boiled dress
ing can be used for this salad.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
Good Cows Economical

The first reason for having good milk
sows on the farm comes from the fact
that they provide the cheapest, best and
NOSE wholesome food for the family
Their value is hard to estimate when we
consider the amount saved on the 0ilis.
Their produce is a superior substitute for
many foods necessarily purchased at high
prices. In fact, there is no economic way
of doing without plenty of good milk
COWS on the farm.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
MILK KEPT SWEET FOR DAYS

tanned in producing milk of such long
keeping qualities and low bacteria count
IS dine in q large measure to the educa-
tional value of the local milk and cream
contests which have been especially Pop
ular in cities of the. Pacific coast states
The bottles of milk. which We're Faced
in hoxes. and surrounded with crushed
ice. were kept at temperature from
% to "a degrees Fahrenheit at all times
The boxes were shipped In baggage cars
toSf,bicaro. and most of them were not
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
Seek Bug to Bite Borer

"The little bugs that eat our crops
Have other bugs to bite EN-.
The other bugs have lesser bugs,
And so, infinitum.
The old verse. somewhat paraphrased,
is recalled by the statement of the bu-
reau of entomology that the best hope Tor
control of the moth borer of sugar cane
now seems to be the importation ana es-
Establishment in sugar cane regions OF par
asites which exist in Cu.a.
Bureau experts have been sent twice
to Cuba for the collection of the para :
sites which reduce the effectiveness OF
the moth borers. The parasites have been
imported and every effort is being mace
to propagate them in the Louisiana cane
fields.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
Remove TB Animals

When tuberculosis already exists in
drove of hogs ali the affected animals.
whether hogs or cattle, should be removed
from the premises, says the department
of agriculture The hogs should be sent
to market fer slaughter at an abattoir
under federal inspection. The tuberculln
test should be applied to all cattle on
the place, and those reacting should be
properly disposed Of The pens all
stables should be thoroughly cleaned and
disinfected before restocking.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

, IS late molter; mas a req larse, sieeh'
pump comp, ana Whlte' tiln l,at shal :,
| The beak and ear lobes are white Whllei
the pelvic bones are thin, pilaple ana wiue
apart, and the skin is thln, loose anu
SHOWS no INDICATION r,a, ot marc ues ia and ne
end of the breast bone is wide. The breast
bone is soft, plianle and prominent.
] Shirker hens are characteristic by neat,
! clean plumage; early noting; pare.
/ small, shriveied comb; yellow, round
and full shanks; yellow beak; creamy ear
| lcbes; heavy, rigid and close-together pei
vic bones The spread between the PEI. ic
bone and the end of the breast bone Is
narrow, white the small bones on either
side of the breast bone are hard and
well covered with flesh The skin Is
thick hard and underiaid with fat
| In making physical examination OF the
fowls for production efficiency, hold the
[ hen with the breast bone in the PAIN OF
the hand, with the flesh part of the lees
| held firmly on either side of the fore
finger. The feeling of the breast bone
, in the palm of the hand will indicate the
quality of. the skin, while with the other
hand the examiner can measure the as
itance between the pelvic bone and from
| the pelvic bone to the rear end OF the
4 breast bone AS he holds the bird he also
can examine the plummage, comb, shanks,
ear lobes and thus accumulate accurate
information for his diagnosis of confor-
nation and production ability.
] 1t is essential that he consider all points
in respect to their importance and not
MACE too much dependence on one Or
lnkre prominent characteristics.
I
The hen that eats her full share OF
biqb-nriced feed and does not do her
mart bv LAYING eggs is facing an uncer-
ltain future in those localities where there
jare extension workers sent out by the
department of agriculture and the state
! agricultural colleges.
A flock of hens was flock of hens IN
wears past. If the hens did not lay. it
4 was their owners misfortune and poor
luck. The chances were that the ones
used for meat were faithful layers. but It
Nrodern no,,ltrv SPECIALISTS say luck does
not enter into the number of eggs flock
produces. They declare it is a matter
OF selecting hens which VIII lay ana sea-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
Samples for Road Builder

\ a special laboratory devoted to the mi
<roscopic examination and classification
~ road building rocks. maintained by
liz bureau of public roads. has exam
frSd 6s6 samples of material during the
uGot year, according to the chief OF the
6G6feau. This represents a CONSIDERABLE
1s;rrea Sc over the preceding year and
Lowe the pronounced interest in matters
. 4SIatine TO highway construction. OF ihe
sSSvnples examined, 249 were rock. Al Stag,
ri cravei,s 1ss sand IS clay and II m;sr.-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
Big Game Herds Increase

Big-san,e animals are increasing on the
four big-game reservations under con-
troll of the United States department OF
agriculture. The report of the chief
OF the bureau of biological survey shows
a total OF IS bison, .7f elk. a antelope
and 2l'deer. an increase in each species
over the number reported last year.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
Sell Robinson Crusoe's Musket

! London. December, 6.-The musKet
said to have been given to Alexander
Selllirk when he was put ashore on
the island of Juan Fernandez, 400 miles
off the Chilean coast, has been going
The rounds OF British museums u
was Se,kirk's adventures upon which
was based DeFoes famous story. Rob
.nsop Crusoue. The musNet is in
scribed with the name of ~. l.elkirk
Largo 1771." 1t was purchased by RAN
dolph Behrers for S6.29, but the owner
has insured it for $4,000.
Selkisk owned a tavern near Cha
pam, but died In lT2S al sea as a lieu
tenant aboard a naval vessel
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

re-iced along the route. An inspection OIL
the samples en- arrival at ChicfN,o showed
that of the various methods of packing,
the insulated. box filed with crushed ice
was the most effective. The bottles OF
milk in these boxes were entirely SUR
rounded by the ice. which was packed IN
as tightly as possible. One or two SAM
pies which We're packed in ice aud saw
dust arrived in a spoiled condition, due
TO the fact that low enough te-pera-
Eture had not ben maintained. he nee
i'm the insulated boxes lasted well. and one
box from Portland. Greg. which was
re-iced at Minneapolis on Tuesday. did
mot arrive in Chicago until the following
saturday. but was stili in good condi-
ton.
When milk Is produced ana haEc ed uf'-
der the right conditions it can be shipped
to almost any point in the United states
or to foreign countries. and arrive in
good condition. according to dairy spe-
cialists of the department of Agriculture.
Al present considerable quantities are be-
| ing shipped to Panama and are used on
ocean liners plying between this country
| and Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

Safety is the leading feature of new
motor omnibus which cannot be started
while the entrance door is open. while
the door cannot be opened while the ve-
hicle is in motion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

Many additional sugar mills are being
Sfo6 ia the Philippines, especially in
i ~ where the milling capacity will
~ rrdetically doubled
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01
Fight Grape Mealybug

January has been found to be the best
month for attack against the grape
nealybug. says the bureau lof entomol-
ogy Eumigaton with cyanidS of soda
and with sulphur fumes has been salts
factory in the dormant season at night,
but sulphur is considered the ee>fer.
Spraying has proved less effective than
fumigation. a campaign among grape
growers has been begun to secure their
cooperation in restr;r'ing the spread OF
the pest on picking Jokes and in other
ways
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

The worker hen-the fowl that produces
persistently. and economically-usu
usually carries ragged, worn plu.-Sge;
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

The average weight per measured bushel
Of the oat crop of 1919 is S1.1 pounds, or
nearly ] pound below the standard of
50 pounds. No year since 1908 has had
q lower weight.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1920-01-01

Fruits and vegetables from your gar
den, which have been stored in boxes,
baskets, barrels and bins should be sort
ed over to remove decayed specimens
which may infect the rest.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
Poet as Editor
Before Civil War
By CLEVELAND ROGERS.

THE GATHERING OF THE FORCES.
BY Walt Whitman. Edited by Cleve-
land Rogers and John Black In two
volumes. q. P. Putnam's Sons.
Any judgment of mine on ''The
Gathering Of the Forces" may be
marred by my enthusiasm. Not that
/ regard the material as great litera-
ture. 1t falls far short of that, but 1t
seems significant that so much by a
man of Whitmans Importance should
have escaped serious attention from
his biographers. There is one import
ant exception to be made in this con-
nection. Prof. Emory Holloway of
Brooklyn has long been familiar with
Whitmans work on the Eagle and has
prepared copy on q book which Is to
give excerpts from Whitman's early
writings, not only in the Eagle, but in
some thirty magazines and newspa-
pers.
This, with the material in 1.-THE
Gathering of the Forces" should pave
the way for much more comprehen-
sive biography of Whitman than has
yet appeared, and Prof Holloway, it
seems to me, is the man to write It, 1t
Is curious that Whitman has for so
long been neglected by Americans. He
has been much written about, but no
one. with the exception Of Prof Halo
way, so far as / know, has done any
extensive research. work covering the
earlier years of Whitman's life. The
new psychology shows the increasing
Importance of studying an Individual 8
early life before forming any estimate
of his matured character. Some one
should psycho-analyze Walt without
delay.
The peculiar value of 1.-THE Gather
ing OF the Forces" it seems to me, lies
In the fact that here we have the most
complete record of Whitman's early
and formative years in the words of
whitman himself. John Gould Fletcher
has recently written of Whitman as a.
Puritan. Everything he said might
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
The Manhattan
He Prophesied
BY JOHN BLACK

The Woolworth Tower against a
sunset skyl OF all my varied memo
ries relative to the unearthing Of the
material in 1.-The Gathering of the
Forces that picture is. 1 think, at
once the most vivid and the most
enduring. They were rare days-days
of communion with the beloved Walt;
days of thrills and revelations and
enthusiasms. And the memory is a
marvellous composite of a sunset view
from seventh floor windows: of musty,
weather beaten old files; of RELYING
with Whitman the editorial ups and
downs; of firing up angrily because
of Horace Greeley's editorial yester-
day about the Whigs-and Of watch
ing the irrepressible young America
grow.
Simply to say 81 read the files" may
not be impressive. Would it occur to
any, one that this was a task, the
memory of which a man could want
to cherish as long as he lived? That
this was task, the memory of which
decades hence would make the pos
SCISSOR envied among mankind? Yet
that is the simplest and baldest way OF
putting it. For these two volumes.
which represent the research and
editorial work of my collaboration, Mr..
Cleveland Rogers, and myself, are
not the entire output during those two
years. 1t was in the nature of things
that much matter be left out. The
whole might be near half million
words; as 1t is. we have included about
10000. We took what we felt to be
the best, most representative and
Characteristic Of Whitman. And,
therefore, the vivid, erect personality
that thrusts itself upon the reader in
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
From Original Camera Study of Frederic Villers
BY DORIS u. JAEGER

time he came, and his thumb nail
word pictures will be part of our city's
story and help in the future por-
traiture Of many of our leading men.
He has seen Sherman vince when a
certain famous air alluding to Georgia
was played; dined at Del's with Mans
field in a CHEEKY celebration of the
dismal failure of Richard the Third" !;
met Booth and Dana Gibson at the
Players, and found a roasting night
at the Lambs quite good fun.
He sat with Edison one night while
the incandescent lamp was "a-borning'
at Menlo Park, and made by it's
struggling light a Rembrandt portrait,
which was reproduced in the London
Graphic and purchased later for the
Art Gallery Of Adelaide, South Aus
tralia. He was introduced to the de-
lights of the chatting dish by a
poetess. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and
opines from the way she spoke Of
shivering in London that the Birth
of the Opal" would never have been
written in that chilly environment.
1t needed steam heat. Rather fun
nily. too, Villiers's very first chapter
is headed with a reference to the
Kearsarge and Alabama, but there is
nothing about them In the text Was
it expurgated?
When we note that Queen Victoria
liked to examine Villiers's sketch books
herself with pretty talent with the
pencil, and that his drawings were
often sent to her Immediately on re-
ceipt from the front, 1t is to be de-
plored they are so poorly represented
in these volumes-scarce as needles in
a prairie wheatfield. Perhaps a COL
lection is making, like Verestchagin's.
Always adventurous. even in art, VII
liers was the very first, 1t Is believed,
to try out the movie" camera on the
battlefield
He should have stuck to the crayon:
and there is weird humor In his
confession that when he turned up,
hot-footed. in Paris. with his precious
films of Albanian atrocities and scenes
of carnage taken at the risk of more
than his neck. nobody cared a hang
about them. Takers with fraudulent
films. made in a suburban atelier. had
easily beaten him to it,
The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-12-19
1Wat Whitmans Brooklyn Prose Issued as New Book

THE Gathering of the Forces" came
to me five times more accumulated,
more immediate and appealing in the
files themselves.
o! but | rejoiced when revealing
in Waits superlatives that this was
no machine made product That a
man could write exactly as he felt!
And as eloquently as he felt! There's
no retreat behind the immobile mask
OF an institution in Waits editorship.
And / felt it all right In my finger tips
as 1 turned the sacred pages Of his
cocky little paper.
/ referred to sunset and the Wool
worth Tower at the opening OF this
article. They will always be associ-
ated by me with the work Of digging
up the Whitman material. Through
the winter months Of February. March.
April, this year. I sat in solitary state.
porting over the chip-on-h is-shoulder
w. w. My desk faced lower Man
haitian and the bay. First my tired
eye, after five hours continuous read
ing. would strike the extremity OF
Brooklyn Heights, where Whitman's
Eagle office was located; then it would
travel across the dark, lustrous river
to where the skyscrapers in all their
glory were throwing jeweiled glamour
over the darkening sky. The contrast
between the America that faced me on
the printed page and the America that
flung it's arrogant force and egotism
and achievement at me from across
the river was a sharp one! I'd read
a few lines of Whitman. boastfully
predicting a greater New York,
greater America, as evidenced in the
arrival of a handful of immigrants
on a sailing ship, then lift my gaze
to the whirling modernity Of this
colossal city!
These are the principal thoughts
worth recording that come to me as
1 look back upon that glad task.
feel as though I had been under the
personal tutelage of Walt Whitman
for three months; as though by some
magic he had come back to give me
for presentation to the world the story
OF his youth.
And 1 am properly grateful