The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-11-03
De taken very seriously, if at all.

n1ouI 8 DOCK on The Home Garden"
Country Life Press, 5Oc) we are tod
IN havesting cabbage, cut the head
instead of pulling it up by the roots.
A number of small, tender. delicious
heads will develop on the stump and
provide second crop in few days.
AS fast as crop natures clean up
the row and throw the vines and lit
ter on the compost pile
Leave parsnips and satisfy in the
ground until after one good freeze.
carrot, beets and turnips must no. be
frozen.
All root crops and cabbage can he
Kept for winter use in damp. cool
cellar or better still in a pit outdoors.
Potatoes, like apples. keep best in a
dark. not too dry, cellar, kept barely
above freezing; onions want dry,
cool shed or attic; and winter squash
needs dry warmth.
Don't let any crop go to waste. If it
can not be conveniently kept as above,
can 1t in tin or glass in accordance
with the simple modern methods to be
learned from number of free bnlle-
tins OF state and federal agricultural
departments. The products of a gar
den, like its opportunities and Joys.
should last all the year round.
Think Of all the interesting tales
man could tell who had lived in
tropic jungles, studying how wild ami
mails behave in their native haunts
who has rOamed the great plains of
several continents hunting for game
of all sorts, climbed mountain ranges
and worked his way through swamps
teeming with dangerous reptiles and
beasts. William T. Hornaday has done
all of this, and in addition has long
been director of the New York Zoolog-
ical Gardens. There he has studied the
effect of captivity and good care on
the different forms of wild life and has
helped to train for exhibition many
hundreds of animals and birds. With
this ricl background Of experience,
he has written remarkable book on
1.-THE Minds and Manners of Wild Ami
mails" (Scribners, S2.5G.j 1t IS illus.
trated with some thirty pictures, most
of them photographs taken to prove
various contentious. A huge bison is
shown numbering the herd bull;
Hymalayan black bear savagely guard
Ing his dead mate. There is Ivan. an
American brown bear, begging for food
by making with his forepaw the mo-
ton the keeper makes when throwing
him loaf of bread. Chimpanzees and
Orang-outangs are having tea parry
about little table, each seated prop
erly in his chair. Rajal, an actor
orang-outang is shown performing on
his velocipede, and tame elephants
helping to tie wild ones newly captur-
ed
The book impresses one not only
with the immense amount Of informa-
ton gathered together and assembled
In orderly fashion under appropriate
heads, but also with their absolute
trustworthiness of the sources CT in
formation. With all this scholarly
value, too, it is as interesting and en-
PERTAINING as the animal stories of
those popular writers who have been
dubbed mature fakers.'
Some New Books.
Joseph Greer and His Daughter. by
Henry X. Webster, (Bobbs-Merrill)
Woman of the New Race, by Mar
garet Sanger, (Brentanos.)
The Cowboy, by Philip Ashton Roll
ms, (Scribner)
Life of Donald G. Mitchell, by Waldo
H. Dunn, (Scribner's, $45O.)
A Daughter of Napoleon. translated
from the French of Princess de Chi
may, by Katherine Miller, (Scribners.)
The Man Who Lived in a Shoe, by
Henry James Forman, little, Brown
$1.9O.)
Boy Scouts on Special Service, by
Chas. Henry Lerrigo little, Brown,
$1.75)
Steel: The Dairy of Furnace
Worker. by Chas. Rumford Walker,
atlantic Monthly Press.)
The Next-to-Nothing House, by
Alice Van Leer Carrick, (Atlantic.)
The freight Fairy Book, by Henry
Brexton, (Atlantic.)
The Ladies', by e. Darlington Cat
lantic.)
Salt Lake, translated from the
French, by Pierre Benoit, (Knopf, So
The German Constitution, by Rene
Brunei (Knopf $500
Mary Lee, by Godfrey Dennis.
Knopf)
For Richer, For Poorer, by Harold
Fl. Armstrong, (Knopf.)