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Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17

the yearly American wool clip was
pooled by the growers. Four thousand
shipping associations in the North Cen
trail states send % per cent of all the
live stock sold in the terminal markets.
There are dozens of cooperative mar
keting associations for the handling Of
vegetables, poultry, hay, rice and
seeds. Recently a national sales
agency for selling fruit and vegetables
for the various local and sectional
associations opened Offices in III mar
kets. There are now Ii statewide
potato exchanges and plans for a ma
tional federation have been drawn up.
One-sixth of the 100000 pounds Of
rice produced annually in the United
States is marketed comparatively.
The past year eggs laid by ten mil
lion hens in dozen states were pooled
for market. Last year Pacific coast
poultrymen sent 1000 carloads of
white eggs through the cooperative
channel to New York.
Large Sums for Advertising.
Along with the expert statesmen the
farmer is hiring expert advertising
men to handle great sales campaigns
to sell producer-brands of raisins and
oranges and butter and ice cream and
prunes. Producers are standardizing
their products and advertising their
brands both nationally and interna-
tionally. In one year, 1922, four of the
cooperative organizations alone spent
over four million dollars on advertiS-
ing. Two and one-half million was
spent by the Sun Maid raisin growers.
During the past nine years over seven
and a half million dollars have been
spent advertising Sun Maid raisins.
The California Fruit Growers ex-
change, representing the citrus grow
ers Of the state appropriated over
100000 for advertising in 1922 The
appropriation for 1923 slightly ex-
ceeded this amount. The prune grow.
ers of California spent 100000 telling
the story of Sunsweet prunes. The
Dairymen's league of Utica, N. z, ap-
propriated $4,000 last year for adj
vertising raw and semi-staple milk
products.
It isn't easy to grasp the proportions
of the cooperative movement. In a
short decade these great corporations
have risen out of the yellow gold of
wheat fields, from the orange and
lemon and prune orchards of the West,
from the Southern fields Of tobacco
and cotton corporations whose men,
bers are the tillers of the field, the
keepers of the orchards whose billion
dollar business is managed by experts
and controlled by its farmer members.
In another ten years the American
farmer will be the merchant prince Of
the world. The security back Of his
million-dollar enterprises will be the
support of every man who tills the soil,
and the produce Of every acre that
stretches across the plains that lie be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
At last the farmer has perfected a
systematic method of collective sell
ing which gets results for him. He
will never rest until all his major
products are handled through his own
sales department.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17
Meat-Scrap Ration Safe
for Egg-Hatching Feed

Tests conducted at the Ohio expert
ment station show that the amount Of
meat-scrap fed in rations to laying
hens does not materially influence the
hatchability of eggs.
In separate rations which contained
approximately 2, 10 and "a per cent
Of meat-scrap, the hatchability of
eggs averaged almost 20 per cent
Even in the rattons which contain
much more meat-scrap than was nee
essary to produce the maximum num-
Der of eggs, the hatchability was high
er on the average than from hens re-
ceiving minimum amount Of meat
scrap.
Some poultrymen have held that the
eggs from hens fed heavily on meat
scrap would be inferior for Matching.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17
tuberculosis Infection
in MANY Parts of Body

prepared by the United States Department
OF Agriculture.)
A study of the obscure parts of the
body in which bovine tuberculosis Is
found shows that no important organ
or portion of the body is likely to re-
sist the infection. The skin, bones,
eye, heart, udder and other regions
where the disease is seldom looked for
may be the seat Of tuberculous infec-
ton.
According to the records of the bu-
reau of animal industry, United States
Department of Agriculture, LESSONS of
the disease have been found in 81 diff
ferent parts of bovine animals. So
called obscure LESSONS have been re-
sponsible in some cases for live stock
owners to doubt that cattle which re-
acted to a tuberculin test were actu-
ally diseased.
The increasing knowledge of tuber-
culosis and its eradication, however,
according to Department Of Agricul-
ture veterinarians, shows that the dis
ease is practically always present
when an animal reacts to the tubercu-
lin test. But it is difficult in some
cases to find the physical signs, owing
to the large masses of flesh and tissue
that must be examined to find the
proof. More frequently the disease is
plainly evident on the inside of the
body wall, on the liver, in the lungs or
tissues that are visible at the time of
slaughter.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17
How to XIII TermItes.

The Office of forest insect investi-
cations of the bureau Of entomology,
United States Department Of Agricul-
ture, is frequently asked to give ad-
vice in cases where termites, or white
ants, have damaged the woodwork Of
buildings or their contents. A de-
structive species of West Indian ter
mite which breeds in dry solid wood
seriously damaged the woodwork and
furniture of a large hotel at Miami,
Fla. The termites infesting the furni-
ture were killed by placing it in the
attic directly under the roof, where
the suns rays beat down and produced
temperature from II to "a degrees
Fahrenheit higher than the maximum
temperatures recorded Dy the United
States weather bureau for that dis
trict.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17
Gobbler Will
Care for Fifteen Hens

If good gobblers are scarce there is
no reason why two neighbors cannot
keep their turkey hens on the same
farm until such time as they have been
served by the gobbler One service
from the gobbler is sufficient to fer
tilize all the eggs that will be laid at
a succeeding e9g-laying period. How
ever, when the turkey hens quit lay
ing another service will be necessary
before the subsequent eggs Of the Sec
ond laying period are fertile.
A vigorous gobbler will only serve
about fifteen hens.
1t would be somewhat less trouble
some to transfer the turkey tom rather
than the turkey hens. After one neigh
Dor is positive that the gobbler has
covered all of the hens on his farm
the tom could be moved over to the
other neighbours farm.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17
Essential Winter Feeds
for Average Hen Flock

Too many poultrymen rely almost
wholly on grain feeds during the win
ter. Green food, beef scraps, milk by
products and mineral matter are too
often omitted altogether or fed too In
frequently and sparingly. Oyster
shell, prepared grit and charcoal,
ready for the fowls at all times, pro-
vide mineral matter. Cabbage, beets,
mangles and sprouted oats make ex-
cellent green foods; hung an inch
higher than the head compels needed
winter exercise. Any fresh vegetables
even raw potatoes, are a whole lot
better than nothing Of the kind at
all.
For animal food, beef scraps serve
the purpose splendidly. Milk by-prods
ucts, when low priced, are used with
excellent results and probably with
greater returns, comparatively, than
when fed to farm animals.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17
NOTES

Thirteen eggs properly constitute a
setting, though many poultrymen pre-
fer fifteen.
Rather large comb and wattles for
the breed are considered another char
acteristic of good layer.
Expert poultrymen designate male
bird over one year old as a cock and
have no place in their vocabulary for
the farmyard name, rooster The
female bird of like age, of course,
is called a hen.
To have good laying capacity, hen
should have three fingers width be-
tween the pin bones, but If the bird Is
in good condition she should in no
event have less than two fingers
width.
A male goose is called gander, a
male duck q drake and male turkey
a tom. A turkey in its first year Is a
poult.
AS the weather becomes warm place
the drinking water in the shade as
cool water seems more appetizing to
the chicks.
A bird weighing two pounds or less
and from six to twelve weeks old is
called a broiler. When it weighs over
two pounds 1t is called spring
chicken.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17
When Fattening Mules
Feed Similar to Cattle

Fattening mules is somewhat differ.
ent from fattening horses. When
mules are being fattened they are usu-
ally turned loose and fed similar to
cattle. They are gotten onto full feed
and feed is kept before them all the
time. A ration of one-fourth to one
third oats and from two-thirds to three
fourths corn and good clover or alfalfa
hay. Toward the finishing period per-
haps a little oil meal or molasses
mixed with this feed would give them
a better coat. A mule in order to do
well must be able to roll
If you 90 not have clover or alfalfa
hay available, by all means feed the.
mules some oil meal.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17
STATUE OF CARRARA MARBLE
Shaft OF Adam and Eve, Made Of Fa-
nous Stone, to Grace the Estate of
Wealthy American.

With the completion of heroic
statue of Adam and Eve, hewn by an
eminent sculptor to grace the estate Of
a wealthy American, what is said to
be the largest block of Carrara marble
ever brought into this country found
expression in one Of the oldest, and
perhaps the most influential of the
arts.
Since Roman emperors opened the
quarries more than two thousand
years ago, merchant princes of the
Middle Ages, monarchs and the mod
ern world have fashioned their archi-
tectural dreams In "Carrara" Only in
Tuscany, Italy, is it now to be found in
great quantities. More than one mill
lion tons yearly are being produced in
the Apuan Alps, where there is a
mountain Of gHstening stone five thou
sand feet high. And, despite the fact
that centuries Of building and art have
drawn upon these snow-white deposits
for their uncarved beauty, the supply
is little more than touched.
Michelangelo, whose sculptures are
among the glories Of the renaissance,
worked in Carrara marble, Celleni
used it, and, since before the birth Of
Christianity, the Quarries have been
shipping the matchless stone to all
parts of the earth. It is to be seen In
the ruins of the Roman forum, at the
still well-preserved Arch of Constan-
tine, and beneath the great dome Of
st. Peters cathedral in Rome.
In most places where marble de-
posits occur, it has become split up in
the earth and various substances have
filtered into the cracks, giving rise to
the colored veins which make 1t unfit
for statuary use. For some mysteri-
Gus reason the Carrara marbles have
remained for the most part free from
such disfguring accidents. In this
condition the ancients found them
Popular Mechanics.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17
Efficiency Of Flocks Is
Increased by Standard


Poultry keepers are finding that the
efficiency of their f1ocks is increased
by having standard to guide the
monthly egg production. A high pro.
duction in early winter may result in
heavy mortality and a long rest
period during the last of winter, and a
very low production will produce low
yearly average, resulting in small
profit.
An average of 100 eggs per bird per
year for the flock makes a good
standard. This is the yearly produc-
ton most egg-laying contests in the
country have averaged during the past
ten years, and records from successful
New Jersey poultry farms indicate it
to be an average attainable where
good stock is kept and good practices
followed.
The average number Of birds kept
each month should be known and a
record kept Of the daily egg produce
ton. By dividing the number of eggs
laid during the month by the number
of birds kept, the number of eggs that
the flock averaged per bird for the
month will be obtained. If this is done
for each month the yearly average can
be determined. Comparing the produc-
ton of the flock with the standard will
help in managing the flock to prevent
a winter mott, thus inducing better
production.
The standard of eggs per month
given by the State College of Agricul-
ture is: November, 8; December, 10;
January, 10; February, 10; March, II;
April. 81 May, 90; June, 10; July, 10;
August, 10; September. z; October, 6.
Total, 100.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17
Cloth Coverings Good
Against Mild Frosts
Heat Generated During Day
Is Conducted to Surface.

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Coverings of rather heavy cloth laid
directly over garden truck or other
low growing plants are effective in pro-
tecting against moderate frosts, the
United States Department OF Agrlcul-
ture reports. The heat from the ground
and the plants is thus conserved, and
the losses of heat by radiation from
the plant to the sky are cut off !; more
over, the air movement is so slight
near the ground that there is little
tendency for the cold outside air to be
forced under or through the covering
The temperature of the surface of
the cloth exposed to the sky is lowered
by radiation and may fall to low
point, but as both the cloth itself and
the air underneath it are very poor
conductors of heat, the temperature of
the covered plants falls much more
slowly. The heat that has penetrated
a few inches into the ground during
the day is slowly conducted to the
surface during the night and aids In
keeping the temperature under the
cover above the freezing point.
It is evident, therefore, that cover
ings Of this kind should be placed
early in the evening when frost is
expected, before much of the heat ac-
cumulated in the soil during the day
has been lost Tin cans or other metal
coverings should not be used to protect
plants from frost. Metals are good
conductors of heat and are also good
radiators unless very highly polished.
Therefore the temperature is likely to
fall nearly as low under covering Of
this kind as in the outside air.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17
Most Effective Ration
to Increase Egg Yield

The most effective ration efor feed
ing hens and pullets as found at the
Ohio experiment station consists Of
mash, ground corn, 6 parts, bran 8
parts, meat-scrap parts, by weight.
In addition scratch ration of shelled
or cracked corn is fed so that the
fowls will consume twice as much of
the grain as mash.
This ration decreased the cost of
feed per dozen eggs more than 20 per
cent as compared with other rations
and increased the production per pull
let more than 90 per cent. The tests
were made to determine the amount of
meat-scrap laying rations should con-
tain.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17

by the Agrculture)
United States including anday,
100000 miles according bureau of public roads Of the United States
will
This believed
consists of the resufang Of roads reported surfaced at the
beginning 1922
In public located
0 limits incorporated and cities:
Mileage outside Cities
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-01-17
FARM
COOPERATIVE
SELLING
By GLENN C. HAYES

C-DOVDDO7o-NO7OT)-
90, 1924, Western Newspaper Union.)
Evening star., 1924-07-20

grew slack. The BARRIERS retired to a
pench, stuck things in their eyes and
bent over another form Of toll
we repair Watches" said my bar
Der, between times. That way we
always keep busy"
That's a new idea, combining watch
repairing and hair-bobbing ct al.
went into a saddlery shop uptown,
having In mind consoling the saddler
Tor the decadence of the times
Not much leather work now, I
Horses going out of print. Fewer
people ride and fewer yet drive 1t
Is too bad. 1t is grievous to witness
the decline Of a great industry. l
remember-"
He did not wait to find out what /
remembered, thereby cheating himself
out of a treat. He said that he was
perfectly satisfied. II he made fewer
saddles and harnesses he got more
money for them. He did not need
SO many workmen, but the workmen
were better. Those who remained
were the artists in their line and
stuck to leather because they loved it.
Once you get the smell of leather
In your nose" said he, Its like a
drug. Hard to quit"
Between times, he said, he made
enough leashes for little fuzzy dogs
and leather disguises for f1appers and
handles for canes and one thing and
another to keep him as busy as he
wanted to be. And he observed that
more leather is being produced and
sold than ever before in history The
saddlery trade. he said, hasn't ex-
pired. 1t has merely altered.
Copyright, 1924
Evening star., 1924-07-20
MANHATTAN DAYS AND NIGHTS
BY HERBERT COREY

NEW YORK, July 19-We like to talk
about our nerves in New York. It's a
matter Of pride for a New Yorker to be
nervous. When he tells about it he
always wrinkles his forehead in a
pathetic frown.
This frightful strain" he be-
gins.
That's all wet that story. New
Workers have the best nerves of any
people in the world. They stand pa
tiently, herded together, under con-
ditions that would drive a Kansas
City man loco. They wait for hours
They clot on street corners until the
trafi1c cop mods his head. Then they
drift across in close-packed regi-
ments.
They grin at annoyances that would
put Sioux City dweller in a padded
room. They do not hear the noises
that would lshatter an Atlanta mans
nerves in jigtime. They stand in
and do not even snarl at the occa-
siOnal skate who pushes in ahead
Dynamite explodes under their feet
and taxicabs miss 'em by inches and
they don't worry.
It's only when they get out in the
get nervous.
Pretty girl stopped friend driving
car across Brooklyn Bridge. That is,
she vamped him.
Going as far as Forty-second
street." she asked, as she got in.
Only to Lafayette," said he.
At Lafayette she got out and
thanked him prettily for the ride.
Then she confessed, shyly, that she
had unaccountably left all her
money on the grand piano that morn
ing, and asked him to loan her a few
pennies so she might get through the
day.
Yesterday" said he. one of you
little hussies got a dollar from me
the same way. Nothing doing"
We'll" said she. lit usually works"
Must be the new style in panhan
ding.
Dropped into barber shop on
Forty sixth street to have the Abb
SALON reduced to order. Several bar
bers hard at work bobbing female
heads, marching female glories, oc
casionally cutting males hair. Trade
Evening star., 1924-07-20
HOTEL Lorraine

St Charles Place. one door from Beach En-
trely redecOrated and refurnished. Rooms
overlooking ocean: running water in all rooms
sea water in baths. open all year. Same
ownership management THE DUDLEY.
Hennsylva mia Avenue. Bus meets all trains.
Evening star., 1924-07-20
HAYNES LAUDS CHICAGO
DRY ACT ENFORCEMENT
Prohibition Commissioner Denies
Middle West Stats Will
Be Changed.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, July 19.-With the issu-
ance of a statement lauding the Chi
cago police for their prohibition en-
forcement work and denying that
changes were contemplated in any of
the enforcement staffs of the Middle
West, Prohibition Commissioner Roy
A. Haynes closed a one-day confer
ence with several mid-Western aides
here today.
Some hours earlier Federal officers
had poured 71,140 gallons of real beer
into the sewers and a United States
court had affirmed permanent injunc-
tions closing two breweries.
Mr.. Haynes refused to comment on
the report that Bert Morgan, director
of prohibition enforcement in Indi-
ana, was to be removed or be trans
ferred to make way for Frank Row
ley. Angola, Ind.
He stated positively, however, that
Percy owen, who holds the same
position in Illinois. is not about to
retire, adding that Director owen
was performing the important duties
of director to the entire satisfaction
of Washington.
Evening star., 1924-07-20

King George has been presented
with a set of sharks teeth by two
chiefs who have arrived in LONDON
to celebrate the fiftieth year OF Brit
ish rule in Fiji
Evening star., 1924-07-20
ORKNEY SPRINGS HOTELS

washington's Big Mountain Resort
300 feet elevation. A northern climate
amid southern hospitality.
Where you can play golf, tennis. ride horse
back. dance. swim. etc. And enjoy the best
of foods for what ii costs you at hame.
Booklet. f. l. Cockrell. Pres, Orkney
Springs, Va.
Evening star., 1924-07-20
COLONIAL BEACH. Va
ORKNEY SPRINGS. VA.
THE BEAUTIFUL
7
NAHANT- MASS

TALLEISHEN4 7 NOUN I AIMS.
After you have visited Bryce's Hillside Cot
tages, near Orkney Springs. Va. 'the Swiss
Alps of America" where they have from 2
room bungalows. with inclosed sleeping porches
to 12-room cottages. the finest home grown
vegetables. they serve tsJ daily: plenty milk
and cream. from their own cows: butter. eggs
and chicken; everything so tastefully cooked
and served; all for $3.50 or sl5.0 90 per week
and you've seen the lovely Shenandoah Valley
and the wonderful caverns, you'll decide
trip to the balance of the world isn't worth
while" Mr.. and Mrs. William r. Bryce, own
ers. Orkney Springs. Macanie. Va.
Evening star., 1924-07-20
GERMAN TARIFF FEARED.
American Packers Worried by
Threat of Duty on Food.

BERLIN, July 19-Representatives
in Germany of meat packers of North
and South America are studying
closely the draft of the government
bill which would reimpose the food
duties which existed before the war
and which already has been approved
by the federal economic council.
The draft does not specify the
exact duties, but authorizes reimpo-
sition of the prewar rates on live
cattle, hogs, sheep, meat bacon. rye,
wheat, barley, oats and potatoes.
Officials of the food ministry con-
tend that the measure has no poll
tical significance and merely is de-
signed to restore protection which
is considered indispe nsable to Ger
man agriculture. The Social Demo-
Gratis, however, are protesting vigor-
ously against the bill, which it is
expected will be presented to the
reichstag within d few weeks.
Some of Germany's noted health
resorts have shown a decrease in
business in recent years.