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NEXT SUMMERS ICE SUPPLY
Material Stored This Winter VIII Be
Greatly Appreciated During
Hot Weather.

Thoughts of ice cream, lemonade and
cold drinks are apt to start shivers
along the spine at this time of year.
But ice stored this winter will be
greatly appreciated next summer when
the temperature climbs toward a hun
bred.
The old ice house Is likely to need
some attention mt a good man. folks
would like to make any necessary re-
pairs before the weather becomes too
cold. II no house is available, an in
expensive M can be constructed. A
house double-walied, well rooted and
properly insulated throughout, is
worth the extra cost, because 1t will
keep the ice better However. a very
Inexpensive building in which the Ice,
Is properly packed will save about
two-thirds of the supply, and where
lie farmer desires to make only tenn
porary storage or where 1t Is neces-
nary to economic, On inexpensive
building will surve.
, 1922-12-27
MORE EGGS SECURED
BY ELECTRIC LIGHT
Yield Increased in Winter Months
When Price Is High.
An Average Day Of From IL to 10
Hours Gives Best Results and as
General Rule Only Profitable
to Use Mature PulIets.

prepared by the United States Department
Of Agriculture.)
Although the use of electric lights
In the poultry house does not greatly
increase the total annual egg produc-
ton Of hens, says the United States
Department of Agriculture, it does
increase the yield during the winter
months when the price is high and
is therefore profitable. In expert
ments carried on by the department
during the fall and winter of 1920 and
1921, lights were used from November
l to March 20.
Each year a flock of so pullets was
used. The first year. during the pc
riod when lights were used, the light
ed pen produced so dozen more eggs
than the same number of pullets
in a unlighted house. The second
year the pullets in the lighted pen
laid more than 60 dozen eggs in ex-
cess of an unlighted flock of the same
size and quality. One 75-watt light
was used for the so Pullets for 2h
hours daily for 40 days. 1t was
turned on at 4:30 in the morning and
allowed to run until daylight, being
turned off by the poultryman when he
came to work. 1t was turned on au-
tomatically by an alarm-clock device.
An average length of day of from
II to IL hours gives the best results.
Adding the extra lights in the morn
ing is the most convenient method, al
though some p~oultrymen use lights
both morning and evening. The hours
added to the hens working day should
be the same in either case. Making
the day longer than 13 hours forces
the birds too much.
When lights are used In the evening
some arrangement for dlmming them
is required so that the hens will so
to roost before they are turned out
entirely.
When artificial lights are used the
hens must be fed more. In fact, the
object of the plan is to give the hens
an opportunity to eat more. with the
result that they will be forced TO
lay more eggs, provided they are of a
laying strain. Dry mash should be
available at all times and scratch feed
! should be used in deep litter to make
them exercise. A feed of grain should
be put In the litter at night so that
the hens can go to work as soon as
the lights go on In the morning.
Ii is important to have plenty of
fresh water handy SO that the hens
can get 1t whenever they are eating.
In the winter when lights are turned
on automatically in the morning some
provision must be made to keep the
water from freezing when il Is kept in
the house all night. The department
uses an electric light with a carbon
bulb immersed in the drinking water.
The bulb is tightly covered with a
4 piece of cloth, so no light is thrown
into the pen.
AS a general rule 1t Is only profit
able to use artificial lighting on pull
lets, and the best results are obtained
on ~well-matured pullets. Hens to be
used for breeders should not be forced
for z production with electric lights
during the period just preceding the
breeding season, as forced laying at
that time is apt to cause poorer
matches and produce weaker chickens
than would be obtained from hens
kept under normal winter conditions.
, 1922-12-27
RIGHT ELEMENTS
FOR DAIRY COWS
Lime and Phosphorus Have
Much to Do With Milk Pro-
duction and Unborn Cali.
BEST RESULTS FROM FEEDING
Not Profitable Practice to Neglect An
imals When They Are Running
Low in Milk Yield and When
They Are Dry.
prepared by the United States Department
OF Agriculture.)

prepared by the United States Department
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toilet. The 'beaux," and candles"
and "gallants' attired themselves In
their best and started out early in the
morning. calling first at the houses
where matrons received, and afterward
upon the younger ladies. The drinks
that were offered at every house of
any prominence were ardent and d.
verse.
1t was not until about the middle of
the century or Whereabouts that the
abuse which finally led TO the Gus
toms decline began. For years the
handles rivaled one another in the
length of their calling lists, and the
calls soon came to be nothing nor
than hasty ~gorgings of cake and gulp-
ings of wine.
Then the ladies-the matrons as
well as the young women-began to
vie with one another in the number of
their callers. This led to the most
extraordinary practices. Callers were
recruited. drummed up. Cards an
nouncing that Miss This-or-That would
be sat home on January L were SEM
out almost indiscriminately. The Sun
Gay newspapers began to print lists of
those who would receive, and the
houses of those mentioned in the lists
were sure to be besieged by numbers
of men whom the ladies had never met
or heard of and desired never to meet
again.
Men would go calling in couples
and parties, and eveL in droves of 80
or more, remaining as short a time at
each stopping place as possible, and
announcing everywhere how many
calls they had already made, and how
many they expected to make before
they finished. At every place they
drank. The result was a most ap-
palllng assortment of 'jags" long be-
fore shutdown, and a crowding of the
police stations at night.
This New Years observance finally
became so abused that it was called
n national evil" and was attacked by
reformers everywhere and ministers
Numbered against 1t from the pulpit.
Finally fashion set its face against II
and it died a gradual death.
Its place was taken after a while by
eating and drinking in the restaurants,
and by the street carnivals.
If Croesus himself had come back
to earth and had visited New York
or any big city in the country-ln 1908,
he couldn't have got a seat in any
restaurant of note after ten O'Clock the
night of December 81, for all his
fabulous wealth. In fact, he probably
couldn't have got inside the door.
Every table was engnged-at big
prices and long in advance. Diners
had to get out at nine o'clock and
, 1922-12-27
BREEDERS FOR NEXT SEASON
Farmer Trying to Breed Up High.
Laying Strain Cannot Afford to
Use Whole Flock.

The farmer who is ~endeavoring to
breed up a high laying strain of poul-
try cannot afford to breed from his
entire flock of hens and pullets. II
pays to make up a special breeding
flock each spring using yearling hens
or other birds In the flock. 1t is cas-
Ter to pick these birds now than it
Will be In late winter or early spring.
One way of doing this is to go over
the flock just as 1t is done for culling.
, 1922-12-27

Clever, but the Latin says 1t more
forcibly: Crowned-with-laurel Horace.
what you say is true: Flies than the
southeast wind faster time the devour-
er of things.
And the second quotation above
neatly supplements the first by say
ing: Times change and we are changed
in them.
All of which suggests most forcibly
that time has destroyed the old-fash-
Toned method of observing several OF
our American national holidays; that
the times have changed and we in
them.
Now, there's the Fourth of July, for
example. The old-fashioned Fourth
is so entirely gone that we don't quite
know what TO do with the day. In the
old days we used to twist the Lions
tail when we didn't know what else
to do. but since we fought side by side
with the British in the Great War,
that seems as out of place as do fire
crackers and the casualty list of small
boys.
And it's just about the same with
&NCM 1tdt > lay. ADOul iii llltl ,
left us is to listen TO the whistles blow
ing at midnight and to make good res
olutions. And what changes the day
has seen since first Americans began
its celebration!
Americas celebration Of New Years
Day owes nothing 10 Puritan New
England. In the North New York, be-
fn~ nYrfAh .Y-a- th- aAn%4u 20 No.,
Years gayety. The South, being Eng
fish, but not Puritan, also celebrated
enthusiastically. The custom of max
Ing calls probably is as old as civilized
man; it is likely that it originated
independently in almost every cline.
Old-time European chieftains used to
set New Years" apart Is a day on
which they would condescend to re-
ceive substantial tributes from their
underlings. Queen Elizabeth re-
ceived New Years calls every year,
and there was always much rivalry be-
tween her ambitious courtiers as to
the quantity and value of the gifts
they should bestow upon the virgin
sovereign. 1t was on a New Years Day
that Sir Walter Raleigh gladdened the
queens heart with a memorable pair
of silk stockings-the first ever made
and worn in England.
In Holland the custom of making
New Years calls had been general
long before the settlement of New
Amsterdam, and the natives of the
Netherlands who came to live in the
New World brought the practice with
them. And. of course, they had
plenty to n and drink-for who ever
heard of Dutchmen who did not take
good are of their stomachs?
Up to the beginning of the Nine
teenth century the typical New Years
observance was a nelghborly custom.
Then it became an observance decreed
by fashion and was observed in every
city of any size in the country.
The younger women of such house
holds as had daughters were the host
esses, and great was their rivalry, one
with another, in respect of richly load
ed r~efreshment tables and elegance OF
, 1922-12-27
Wings of Birds and Fishes

~ studying the wing structure Of
flying fish, an authority on the flight
Of birds has found that their wings
are some four or five times as efficient
for soaring flight a the wings of
birds. He attributes this to the fact
That the fin rays formed projected
edges on the under surface Of the
-'ngs. BY experimenting with models
I hioned on similar lines, he found
the hr .ay caused a sheltered
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many removed to the banks of the
Ohio, where he became the great
sachem of his tribe, and acquired a
wide reputation for wisdom, frmness
and moderation. According to tradi-
ton, he signed the treaty with VIII
liam Penn, and VS. chosen by the
troops of Washington as patron SAINT
in place of st. George. His prlncI-
pal maxim was "Unite. In peace for
mutual happiness; In war for mutual
defense" For what reason he was
called saint" does not appear in any
Of the literature about him.
, 1922-12-27
GIVE CATTLE GOOD SHELTER
Windbreaks OF Simple Sheds Are Bet
ter Than notwithstanding
Herds Need Care.

Simple sheds or windbreaks of some
kind are better than no shelter at all.
Protect your breeding herds. The
breeder who is V e. fortified with the
necessary feed and shelter, enabling
him to give the proper are to his
cattle from the time the snow begins
to fly until all signs of frost have dis
appeared in the spring, never expert
ences the dread of an approaching
winter.
, 1922-12-27
LIVE STOCK
FACTS
Idle Work Horse

The idle work horse will live
through the winter and remain
i'll GOOD condition on roughage
alone, If of good quality. One
half of the roughage should be
composed of clover or alfalfa.
while the other half may be corn
slower and straw. If no legume
hay is available and timothy and
other carbohydrate roughages
must be depended upon for the
horses feed, he should be given
a small amount of oats, say from
five to seven pounds a day, 9TH
erwise his strength and vitality
will suffer. With these nom
legume roughages one should
not feed corn in place of oats be-
cause the former lacks protein.
While oats are not rich in this
constituent, they are neverthe-
less much better than corn.
, 1922-12-27

with the wrinkled type. at the same
time 1t has sufficient fineness to make
a very salable wool. The choice lambs
produced by these sheep. together with
the gain in the length of staple and
gain In net yield of clean wool, more
than offset a slight sacrifice in fineness
of wool. and promise to make the
Delaine sheep more popular in most
sections than his wrinkled cousin.
, 1922-12-27
"salnt mman

st. Tammany. the tutelary genius
Of the famous Tammany Society of
New York city, was n famous In
dian chief, about whom many fancied
legends have gathered. He is said
to have been n native of Delawaie.
After attaining his majority, st. Tam
, 1922-12-27
Fall Flock Management.

Autumn management of the flock Is
quite an outstanding part of the sheep
raising business. Next years profits
Will depend largely on the care and
management from now until winter.
, 1922-12-27
suceessfuI stookman.

A successful stockman must under
stand feeding. breeding, buying and
selling, as well as the science of crop
production.
, 1922-12-27

area to appear back of the ray when
the model moved through the air. His
conclusion is that this sheltered area
acts as a force to drive the wing
ahead when soaring.
, 1922-12-27
Ground Rone for Hoes.

Experiments show ground bone fed
to growing pigs results In much strong
err skeletons.
, 1922-12-27
Ration for Work Horses.

During the working season when
performing heavy work horses need q
literal ration of grain and rorgliage-
, 1922-12-27

guards at the doors saw that none eX-
cept those with credentials got in. Dur
ing the last hour of the Old Year the
people feasted, and at the first stroke
of the New Year everybody in every
restaurant arose, ~wine-glass in hand,
and drank Il health to the New Year..
1t was comparatively quiet indoors,
but the people in the streets made
noise enough to scare. young 1906.
Every sort of noise-making implement
known to mar except cannon and dy-
Mantle bombs was in active use.
Get your horns and ticklers y was
he prayer roared by thousands of
takers all evening. Trucks and
wagons were halted at the curb, load
cd with tin horns and thin sticks with
a bunch of hackle-feathers at the tip.
If you were Il real devilish New
Years humorist you proceeded like
this: First, tickle some stranger N
der the chin with the feathers; then,
as he turned to protest, you blew the
horn in his face.
A universal custom of New Years
of those days was the carriers New
Years address. This was often in
rhyme if the carrier or any of his
friends could string the juggling
lines together or find an old carriers
address 10 copy. Such verses as these
were popular:
This day devoted now to mirth.
To open house and social hearth,
New friendship mounts on airy wings
And gives her tuneful harp new strings.
While plenty spreads a festive board,
OF wine and food and ample hoard.
In idleness and laughter gay.
To spend the hours this happy day.
All save the carrier, whose snowy feet
Still must pace up the snowy street.
So give to him a moments heed,
Since he alone this comfort needs,
And to your ample. jovial store
Let him not find a closed door, ETC., etc.
By 1914 there were strong indica-
tions of a saner celebration of New
Years. The feasting in restaurants
New Years Eve was still in full blast,
with singing and dancing added. But
most of the large cities had ordered
the police to enforce a sane" celebra-
tion on the streets. In consequence
there was less noise and rowdyism out
of doors. Chicago, for instance, for
bade horns, confetti and ticklers.
Cleveland probably had the "sanest"
New Years Eve in 1914. That city
gave the New Year a community
greeting in keeping with the spirit
of community Christmas celebrated a
week before. Twelve bands, with $50
musicians, were massed in the public
square. To an audience of thousands
they played hymns and patriotic airs.
Announcement by the police that the
midnight closing law would be en-
forced rigidly cut hotel and restaurant
festivities down markedly. In Gin
cinnati the police had the promise of
every hotel. cafe and saloon keeper to
close promptly at midnight. Similar
conditions prevailed in Detroit and
indianapolis.
Then came the Great War. And
then prohibition.
SO at present the celebration of New
Years Eve and New Years Day is be-
twiXt and between.
What will it be ten years from now?
And wha IA century hence?
, 1922-12-27

but pick out the best birds rather than
the poorest. These hens can be marked
to go into the breeding flock next
spring.
Many farms still have a larger num-
Der of cockerels on hand than will be
eaten or can be used for breeding pur-
poses. In most cases the cockerels
take up more room and feed which
should be given to the pullets than
they win pa for In extra weight or
price II held.
, 1922-12-27
Tempora mutantur ct nos mutamur in ILLS.
BY JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN

and forceful way of
putting things. Now,
the first quotation
above has been rem
dered in f~ree-and-easy
style:
Old Man Horace. sprigged
with bay
Truly thou dost say. sir.
Time speeds faster on its
way
Than the swiftest racer.
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
ARRIVED.

Sir President Polk. London Dec =. Cher.
hohrr ID and Queenstown jth. 10 the United
states Lines. with 100 cabin and 32i third
class passengers. mails and nidse. Went 10
pier 8, iIoboken.
Str ROMEO tfirl. cardiff Nov "a. to Nor
ton. Jiily & co. In ballast Went 10 National
Ury Dock. West Brighton. staten islnnd
/. Str scnndia DAM. Nyborg Nov q. 20
Robert l. liasue. In ballast Went to pier
;, Bayonne NJ.
SIR CITY Of sparta lDf), Calcutta Oct "a.
Colombo Nov !. Perrin 9th. Port Said isth
and Boston Dec II. to runch. Edye 4 60,
with riidsr. Anchored OFF Tohpklnsyilie.
STR East Cape, Calcutta via philadelphia
Str suruea. Shanghai Aug ~, Hong Kong
21tb, Manila Sept 4, lioilo i6ih Kobe Oct 7.
pcc nnd Boston I'm. to Barber 4 Co
with ndse. Went TO New York Dock Cos
's, s,r ifoanois. barahona bee 5. san Domingo
City 9th. Sanchez 7th. Puerto Plata and
Monte Christi sth and Turks Island 9th. to
the Clyde Steamship Co, with ii passengers,
malls and rndsc. Went to New York Docli
Cos pier %. Brooklyn.
str q II Grove tBr,, Tampico Nov "a and
Key West Dec Z. to the Warner Qulnlan Co
with crude oil. weht 20 warner. MI.
Str Limon. Tela Nov es. cAxtiiia 30h
Porto Coftez Dec I and Porto Barrioe stQ
70 the United Fruit Co, with 3 passcnscrt
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
TRANsPAclFIc MAILS.

The connecting mails close at the General
Post Office and City Hall Post Office, New
York. at 5 PM. as follows:
Hawaii III, Samoan Islands. Australia and
specially addressed mail for New Zealand
Via SAN Francisco; also parcel post malls for
Samoan Islands ard Australia. str SoNeMA.
Dec II. .... s.-...- Ia,
dressed only Via san francisco. str sIBE-
RIA Iapan. NARY ccreS pfo and af china especially
GsHs dyssSsd pes esiYI via Seattle str PROTEST
Hi AawSaii vi III tt5 ~ Via San Francisco also par
eel post mails for Fill Islands. str WIZ
5hlMlNe 5apan ecres pee china siberia French Indo.
China. Netherlands East Indies. Straits Set
clements. Brunei, Malay states North, Bor;
neo, sara@ak and 90 Philippine ISLANDS va
Seattle: also parcel post mails for Japan
corea. China. slam. French Indo-Ghina
Brunei. Labuan. Malay States, North Borneo
sarawak and Straits Settlements. str PRESl-
Ne New Zealand and Australia especially ad-
Sei si1Se post mail mails for New Zealand and Austria
Ia: str ,WAIMARINo; Dec r.: s,s-,s
Frsisef ihao, ,cRSina. Nethsflanda East indies
stralts settlements. Brunei. Malay, States,
North Rorneo. Sarawak and ~ Philippine
;ndaHs for Japan, Corea. CHINA: Slam. French
F-fnde China. Brunei. .Labuar. Malay States.
North Borneo. sarawak and Straits Settle
plents. str PRESIDENT CLEVELAND. Dec
Hawaii ID. Eli Islands. New. Zealand and
Australia via Vancouver and Victoria. BE-
str MAKURA. Dec 81 tJ.
sOrdnary (urregistered) letters mailed up
to PM the next day WIN. provided there Is
no delay In the overland transit. reach Seat
tie in tins for connection with the steamer
mentioned. ,.,....,.. -
tAli classes of mall. including domestic
parcel post. M
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
SHIPPING NEWS FROM ALL PARTS OF THE VIC

mails and mdse. Went to pier ". East
River .
SIR Nordamerika (Dan), Santa Lucia
Cuba, Dee 4, to the American Metal Trans
port Co Went 10 Chrome, NJ.
Str FL Occdente, Galveston Dec :. 10, the
Southern Pacific Co, with mdse Went 10
pier 81. North River ca.
Str El Estero. New Orleans, to the south
ern Pacific Co, with ndse Went 10 pier o.
North River. .,,-
tom to the Clyde Steamship Co, with passe n
gers and mdse. Went TO pier ~ Norlh
River -
Str City of Montgomery. Savannah, TO the
Ocean Steamship Co. with passengers ana
,ildse Went TO pier 80. North River.
Str Carlsholm (sw), Norfolls, to Funch'
Edge 4 Co.
Str Eastern Grown. Norfolk.
Str Freeman. Norfolk, TO the Pocahontas
Fuel Go, with coal Went to foot OF l32d
street East River -
Str Wnhilo, Norfolk and Phfladelphia for
san Pedro, 10 the Williams Steamship Co.
with mdse. Went to New York DOCK co ;
Str Port Antonio (Nor,. Philadelphia, to
the United Fruit Co. Went 10 pier To- East
River.
Cable str All America. from sea eepairng
cabe) to the All America Cable Co Went
TO foot of 23d street. Brooklyn. ,
Motor ship Hjelmaren tswl, Plfiiadeiphia'
to Furness, Witty & Co. Went TO pier "
Bush Docks. Brooklyn. ., -,
Schr George w Truitt. Jr, klkepny. va'
70 Emory Sexton Co. with lumber. An-
chored OF Red Hook Flats, Brookiyn.
Continued on Following Page.
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
BIG WESTERN POTATO
WILL TRY LUCK HERE
Idaho Product to Compete
With Long Island Spuds.

The famous giant potato Of Utah and
Idaho soon will make its appearances in
local markets, II plans laid by Western
shipping agents and steamship lines aye
successful. c. A. Lockhart. Eastern
traffic agent for the port of Portland,
Ore, with offices at 900 Broadway, has
discovered that as a result OF the drastic
cuts in intercoastai freight rates II Is
possible 70 ship Idaho potatoes East via
the Panama Canal very cheaply. and he
has succeeded In interesting his princi.
pals on the coast.
H. L. Hudson. manager OF the Joint
port traffic bureau OF Portland. has just
completed nm Eastern trip TO- look into
the possibility OF potato shipments. II
Is planned TO selec, only the finest bak-
ing potatoes OF Western origin box
them as California fruit Is toxed. and
sell them In New, York IN competition
with tho humble Long Island spuds, or
email potatoes
The New York herald., 1922-12-14
PHILIPPINE SERVICE
RECEIVES HARD RAPS
Moniiu Shippers Say Amer.
ican Vessels Are SlotD.,

Further criticism of American ship
ping services TO the Philippines is made
by the American Chamber of. Commerce
In the Philippines in a statement just
issued. The. chamber is fighting the
movement to extend the. coastwise nayi-
CATION laws TO the. Philippines, which
would bar. foreign vessels from trade
between the United States and the
islands. -: Y :. = ~
In response to earlier criticisms of the
slowness. OF american shipping service
from Atlantic ports the Shipping Board
has allocated the steamer Elkton 10 the
Barber Lines for direct sailing from
Now York TO Manila. at the same time
stating that the showing OF this
steamer will no doubt prove to us
whether or not we are getting the sup
port OF shippers"
Issue is taken with this statement by
the Chamber OF Commerce. which says
that more than one sailing will be re-
quired to restore tf~ confidence OF ship
pers in the American service, II. de-
cares that American ships on the av-
erage have been twenty-four days
slower than their foreign competitors in
making the voyage, and in addition have
stsyed in port eight 10 thirty-ttree days
beyond their sailing dates.