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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-25
Two Navy Filters
Killed in Illinois

waukegan, Ills. Apri! 24-Two ma
val aviators, j. H. Green and H. r.
Cruikshank. were killed at the great
lakes naval training station today
when their seaplane crashed into a
tree from a height Of 1000 or $500
feet. Cruikshank formerly lived in
Grand Rapids, Iowa. Both were mar
ried
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-25
Bates Mfg. Co. of
Lewiston to Run on
4-Day Schedule

Lewiston, Maine, April 24-Begin-
ming today the Bates Manufacturing
Co.. will operate their cotton mills
here on a four-day schedule until
market conditions improve. About
1000 employees are affected.
The Barker mill in Auburn is spin
ming only three days a week, but the
looms are on full production basis.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-25
Boston Forecast

Forecast for Boston and vicinity
Generally fair Friday and Saturday;
not much change in temperature:
moderate to fresh northwest to north
winds.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-25
BRITISH PREMIER SENDS WORD
PRAISE FOR AMERICAN PRESS

Is Powerful Colleague in Main
tanning and Strengthening
Understanding Between
England Speaking Peoples
British Ambassador His
Mouthpiece at Convention Of
American Newspaper Pub
fishers Association
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1924-04-25

A majority Of prospective tenants
consider only such properties a. are
advertised. Not many people 40
about the city looking for "For Rent"
plaeards.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
Mississippi Girls Work
for Pure Bred Poultry

Pure bred poultry is receiving en-
couragement in Mississippi through
the interest Of leading merchant In
Laurel, Jones county, who gave TWEEN
ty settings of pure bred Rhode Island
Red eggs to twenty "4H' poultry
club members. These girls were re-
quired to raise as many as possible Of
the chicks Matched and keep all ex-
cept one pullet, which was returned
to the donor The twenty pullets
which came back were made into FIVE
pens, to each Of which cock was
added. The five pens were then given
tc five other girls in the county, who
were to own the chickens. Each OF
these girls, however, promised to
send in setting of eggs to be dis
tributed in turn to other girls.
Eighteen of the original girls sue
ceeded with the project, according to
a report received by the United States
Department of Agriculture. The two
who failed were allowed to try again.
This plan has proved an excellent
means of interesting club girls in the
production of pure bred poultry, and
many of their neighbors have also be-
come interested.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
Moonblindness Is Most
Peculiar Eye Disease

Horsemen have long recognized
In certain parts of the world disease
Of the eye Of the horse that comes
and goes several times before finally
producing complete blindness They
have many theories, bat no real facts
about this disease. 1t is safe to say,
however, that there is more super
stition than good logic in connecting
wolf teeth with this trouble. Many
mares have no wolf teeth at all, but
suffer from moonblindness just the
same, and many have had the wolf
teeth extracted with no noticeable
benefits. The wolf teeth do the horse
no good, however, and may be re-
moved if one desires. 1t is easily done
with good instruments. There Is
good deal of reason for suspectlng
that this disease is infectious, but it
has not been proved to be so. Affect
ed animals should be protected from
bright light by cloths over the eyes
and the discharge should be cleaned
up with two per cent boric acid
solution in water A solution Of one
part pyoctanin blue to one thousand
parts Of distilled water and few
drops put into the eyes twice daily
seems to long delay the final effects
Of the disease in some cases.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
Large Thrifty Litters
Basis of Swine Success

The litter and not a few outstand-
ing individuals should be considered
the basis Of satisfactory pork produc-
ton, according to G. G. Filing, swine
specialist at the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college.
''The cost of raising three or. four
scrawny pigs to the litter is nearly as
great as the cost of raising large
thrifty filters up to weaving time," Mr..
Filing added. "The overhead expense
of maintaining the boar and number
Of brood sows is best met if the litters
are large and thrifty.
"The thrifty filters narrowed down
in the timber or the successful filters
farrowed the first year that one has
hogs in new pens and sheds embody
practical suggestion regarding health
full conditions for small pigs.
sold hogs closely confined In yards
and sheds make very unsatisfactory
and unhealthful conditions for the
tender newly born filters. Small pigs
nursing, sleeping and living in such
quarters are attacked by lice, mango,
scours, worms, thumps and other
forms of small pig ailments which re-
duce their vitality"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
HIRED MEN BECOME
OWNERS OF FARMS

Farm employees in Wisconsin do not
always remain in the service of others.
Many Of them become farm owners
and employers themselves.
Investigations of farm ownership In
Wisconsin made unde-, the direction of
B. III. Hibbard, economist of the Wis
consin College Of Agriculture, show
that very considerable number Of
the present farm owners have been
at one time or another hired men, and
that the number Of such farm owners
is increasing. In 1882 the number OF
farmers who had been hired men
amounted to "a per cent; in 1922 this
had increased to 81 per cent.
According to. Hibbard, the number
passing from the farm tenancy class
to the farm ownership group Is also
increasing. Going back as far as
1872 only about IL per cent of the
farmers had passed through the ex-
perience Of being tenants, while 80
years later So per cent of the farm
owners. recalled such period in their
farm life. He also found that tenancy
which precedes ownership is becoming
somewhat longer especially in the old
er sections Of the state.
No longer is this the age when
young smen acquire farms. In 1892
the average age Of the men buying
farms was slightly over twenty-seven
years, while three decades later it ex-
eeeded thirty-two years. Z
1t is found that &C per cent of the
farms were purchased outright on a
business basis; that IL per cent were
acquired by purchase, but with some
other form of assistance: 5 per cent
were inherited; nearly per cent
homesteaded; and 2 per cent were
otherwise received as gifts. Results
show that farm ownership is higher
in Wisconsin than in any of the near
by states, the amount of tenancy
among Badger farmers not exceeding
II per cent.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
EIItl.. 6

Have one rest to every four or five
hens.
Glover seed of doubtful origin prob
ably will prove of doubtful value.
Too early pasturing may mean short
pasturing. Give the grass chance to
become firm.
Grapevines need a severe annual
pruning to keep on producing large
crop Of first-class fruit.
Be sure you are right about food
crops and feed crops, then go ahead
with cash crops.
Most Of the losses in farm animals
are due to carelessness and neglect
on the part of their owners.
Provide shade for summer. Hens
need protection from extreme heat.
Painting is the only method they have
for cooling off.
The first few days Of chicks life
is the most important time. Watch
the temperature of the brooder and
also your feeding methods
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
CHEESE FEDERATION
MARKED BY GROWTH

A four-fold increase In the number
of pounds of cheese handled Is the In
teresting record of the Wisconsin
Cheese Producers federation as re-
ported on the occasion Of the tenth an
niversary of its organization.
Starting in 1914 with a little more
than 100000 pounds received from
factories and marketed by the fedora
ton, the volume of business handled
steadily increased until in 1923 it
reached the mammoth proportions of
more than 24,O00,0OO pounds. During
the ten years of it's existence the fed
GRAFTON has marketed more than 1885,
100000 pounds Of Wisconsin cheese
valued at the handsome sum of nearly
$29OOO,OOO.
Nine warehouses have been added
to the original one in Plymouth, in
order to take care Of the expanding
business of the federation. These
storage places are at Spring Green,
Wausau, Green Bay, New Richmond,
Cumberland, Abbotsford and Neenah,
Wis. Pine Island, Mimi, and Chica-
go, Ill. The Neenah warehouse is the
most recent addition to the marketing
facilities of the federation.
Payment to factories for cheese
takes GIL per cent of every dollar
which passes through the federation
treasury. The records further show
that the work of the reorganization has
been done at the exceptionally low OPP
Grating expense of 2.21 cents on the
dollar.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
Cooperative Marketing
BY Live Stock Raisers

A gain Of $1.23 per head was recent
ly made by the members of co-opera-
tive live stock shipping association in
one of the Southern states as a result
of shipping single load of sheep and
lambs comparatively instead Of selling
to country buyers. A report to the bu-
reau of markets and crop estimates Of
the United States Department Of Az
riculture shows that the load of sheep
and lambs brought $475.47 more on the
market than local buyers bid for the
stock.
The total cost Of shipping amounted
to $208.02, resulting in a net gain on
the carload, consisting of 229 head. Of
$267.45 or $1.23 per head. This. of
course, does not take into account any
profits that may have accrued purely
as matter of production. The fol-
lowing tabulation shows the transac-
tion in detail:
Market weight. 1865. pounds. 1925
Home weight ........... do. 1881
Lambs, at $500, brought. .$2.213.57
Loca. buyers, at $50, offered. :. 1880
Total cost, freight. commission,
and man going with car. 20S.02
Gain on carload ........... S267.45
Gain per head, average 229. .... 1.23
Net home per 100 pounds. ..... 1853
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
FARM NOTES:

If you are dissatisfied with your lot,
grow a garden on it.
Don't guess at the moisture condi-
lions of your land Bore into it and
be certain.
Marketing eggs by barter is rapidly
giving way to the new-fashion method
of cooperative selling.
Failure to treat oats for smut the
last few years has cost growers at
least three and aThalf bushels an acre.
Song and game birds are friends Of
the farmer. Protect and encourage
them and they will reduce the losses
from insects.
If you wish to improve the quality
of your flock without serious expense
the best thing to do is to Gull out a
pen Of the choicest birds and hatch
their eggs.
Seeding alfalfa without a nurse crop
in the early spring is often a risky
proposition, particularly if the ground
has not been worked over as much as
It should have been
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
Cropping System Helped
by Growing Soy Beans

Soy beans as soil building crop
which would also furnish an econom-
ical protein feed supplement have
been given thorough trial by Black
ford county Ind.) farmers on the adj
vice of theirs agricultural extension
agent. The rapid increase in the acre
age planted to the crop in the county
indicates that they found it val
liable addition to their cropping sys-
TEN. Five years ago., according to re-
ports to the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, only few farm
ers in the county grew soy beans, but
in 1923 approximately $3.50 acres
were grown with corn and 500 acres
were grown alone for seed and hay.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
Cream and Milk Must
Be Of Good Quality
Federal Standard Is Placed
at Is Per Cent Butterfat.
prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.) #

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture)
Because cream is sold in smaller
quantities than milk is no reason why
less care should be given by inspect
ors in insuring a safe supply of good
quality, says the United States De
partment of Agriculture. 1t is just
as desirable for cream to come from
tuberculin-tested cows or be properly
pasteurized, or both, as that milk
should. Heavy cream for whipping
purposes is often sold raw and Its
quality should be above suspicion.
Cream from old or returned milk OF
poor quality is not desirable.
All cities need carefully defined
grades for cream, according to the de-
partment, with a fixed minimum for
light, table, or coffee cream, which Is
the usual cream Of commerce. The
federal standard for cream which goes
into interstate or foreign commerce
is IS per cent butterfat, and in differ
ent cities it varies usually from 18
to 90 per cent Sometimes what is
known as double cream Is sold, and
when that term is used the cream
should contain twice as much fat as
is required in ordinary cream, usually
from SO to 40 per cent of butterfat.
"Whipping cream" may contain less
butterfat than double cream" but
according to ruling by the bureau
of chemistry, cream thus labeled, II
shipped interstate, must contain at
least 80 per cent butterfat.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
Apparatus Separates
Parasites From Soil
Ingenious Flotation Device
of DR.. Cobb Us Valuable.

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
In studying the nemas which exist
in the soil and which, in many cases,
cause diseases Of plants such as root
knot and certain rots, there has been
much difficulty In separating the or
ganisms from the soil. Most OF these
threadlike parasites are extremely
small and cannot be picked out by
ordinary methods; neither can they
be washed out readily. However, DR..
N. A. Cobb of the United States De-
partment of Agriculture has devised
an ingenious fiotation apparatus
which affords valuable aid in remov-
ing nemas from a sample Of soil.
The apparatus consists essentially
of a hollow cylinder several inches In
diameter and three or four feet high,
tapering for about foot to small
opening at the bottom and provided
with spout near the top. This cyl
inder is fastened to circular rotat-
ing table or frame which is turned
at moderate speed by motor white
nema-free water is run in from the
bottom by turning a graduated tap.
The soil sample is mixed with a small
quantity Of water and then poured
quickly into the rotating cylinder when
it is about quarter full of water.
The rotation destroys any disturbing
up-and-down currents which might In
terfere with the separation, as In some
ore separating machines.
Nemas sink very slowly. and the
rise of the water is SO regulated by
the tap that it will little more than
counteract their fall AS result the
soil particles which are heavier sink
to the bottom and the nemas are lifted
to the top. When the rising column OF
muddy water reaches the upper open
ing it is spouted with the contained
nemas into vessel set on the rotating
table to catch the overflow. When all
the nemas are collected in this yes
sci they are allowed to settle to the
bottom. The water Is drawn off and
Shiny mass containing the nemas
in much greater concentration is found
in the bottom. They may then be re-
moved and examined under the micro
scope. By this method also the num-
Der of nemas in given quantity OF
soil may be estimated.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
[)(uIrRY
R6Es$S9
RAISING CHICKS FOR
BEST EGG PRODUCERS

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture)
Arrangements must be made to raise
chicks to replenish the poultry flocks.
Pullets are the most profitable part Of
the laying flock, and a well-balanced
laying flock should consist of at least
half pullets; which allows careful Gull
Ing Of the hens during the summer and
fall before the pullets are matured,
according to the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture.
Baby chicks need especially careful
attention in breeding and feeding dur
Ing the first weeks Of their lives, which
should be followed by careful and reg
ular attention throughout their grow
Ing period. Early Matched chicks are
by far the most profitable whether
grown to maturity for laying or sold
as poultry flesh.
The brooder house and stove heater
which are used for caring for the
chicks during the first few weeks Of
their lives, must be in working order
before the chicks arrive. The most
common style Of brooding is the use
or stove brooder in a colony house,
keeping from $50 to 500 chicks in a
flock in each house, and placing the
houses about $50 feet apart on good
grass range. A house 10x14 feet
makes a suitable colony house which
can be easily moved If built on rum
ners. Chicks brooded in the winter
will do better in larger house, about
10x2O, partitioned so that one side is
used for brooder stove and the other
for cool exercising room. Wire net
ting should be placed in the corners of
the brooder house to prevent the
chicks budding and crowding in the
corners.
Chicks should not be fed for the first
SO to 48 hours, after which they should
be supplied regularly foul or five times
daily with easily digested feed which
contains little waste material. They
should be fed sparingly until about
the fifth day; then they can be put
on full ration. An excellent feed can
be made Of infertile eggs taken from
the incubator, boiled for Is minutes
chopped and mixed with dry mash Of
equal parts Of cracker meal, bran and
cornmeal, using a sufficient amount OF
the grain to make dry, crumbly
mixture. Middlings can be, used In
place Of the cracker meal. Dry rolled
oats are excellent for chicks and can
be used as one feed, the other two or
three feeds being the commercial chick
grains.
At two weeks of age the chicks can
be given dry mash, in hopper, con-
gisting of 4 parts by weight Of rolled
oats, 2 parts bran, 2 parts cornmeal,
/ part high-grade meat scrap, 1 part
middlings and " part dried buttermilk.
Commercial chick feed should be fed
three times daily in addition to the dry
mash.
Milk is an excellent feed for chicks
and should be provided either as
liouid or in the dry form to secure
best growth. If liquid milk Is avail
able the dried milk can be omitted.
When the chicks are one month old
they should be fed coarser or inter-
mediate chick grain, and at about two
months Of age the scratch feed can be
changed to equal parts Of wheat and
cracked corn. This should be fed two
or three times day.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
Concrete Floors Avert
Dampness in Quarters

MANY farmers who in former years
lost money in poultry raising are now
making it success, all because they
are learning that clean, dry quarters
for poultry keep the aocks healthy
and result in larger egg production
and better birds for the market.
A chicken coop with floor that
is likely to become muddy in wet
weather and to become source OF
dust in dry weather is not conducive
to healthy poultry.
Concrete floors are now being laid
In chicken coops in increasing num-
bers. The farmer has found that
these floors save his flock IN many
ways by prevention Of mud and dust
and by checking the rat menace. Con-
crete floors prevent rats burrowing
under the coops if the floors are sur
rounded by low concrete wall about
IS inches high. And If rats do enter
the coops through the doors there Is
no chance for them to burrow into
the ground to build nests. Exclusion
Of rats means a great saving Of eggs
and young chicks.
A good, practical hen house floor Is
one two inches thick, made of a
erich" concrete mixture, in which three
parts Of sand are used to one part of
portland cement. This floor should be
well smoothed over with trowel.
Before laying concrete floor a sat
isfactory base should be made TO give
adequate provision for drainage. An
eight-inch fill of coarse crushed rock
or cinders makes a good base for q.
concrete hen house floor.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
Better Baby Chicks Is
Slogan Of Poultryman

Strong, healthy, vigorous chicks,
given the proper kind of feed in sani-
tary quarters, free from dampness,
comfortably warm and with ample
ventilation, will develop properly and
grow into profitable mature birds, ac-
cording to J. II. McAdams, poultry
specialist for the Kansas State Agri-
cultural college. Chicks that are
stunted through lack Of vitality used
in the breeding stock, or chicks that
are stunted by crowding or from
scanty feeding. will not develop into
vigorous breeding stock and good lay
ers, Mr.. McAdams says.
A chick ration to bring about the
best results should contain those ele-
ments that furnish body heat and
energy and build up bone and muscle,
McAdams points out. These feeds
must at the same time be provided
with respect to the ease with which
they can be handled by the chick.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29
Historic "Husking Bee
Is Feature of New Film

The historic "husBing bee" and the
old bone-husking peg, as well as the
newer thumb hook and the "bang
board" have their part in the new
United States Department Of Agricul-
fure educational motion picture, "The
Corn Belt Derby"
This film treats of the economic
phases of corn husking and eliminates
in the perturbation of an interstate
husking contest in which husking
rises to the dignity of a major sport.
The slow-motion camera reveals the
technique employed by the husking
champs to speed up the operation.
Scenes introduce the old peg, that
played an important part in the con-
quest Of the new world, and immor-
talize the "husking bee" a major farm
social event of generation ago.
''The Corn Belt Derby" will be cir
culated through the educational film
service of the department and the CO.
operating state institutions. Copies
may be borrowed for short periods, or
may be purchased at the laboratory
charge.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-29

their FARMS" continued this soils work.
er. .''These farmers are the ones who
receive the greatest service from the
limestone grinder. They can haul their
lime from the quarry when their time
permits and when the roads are best.
Demurrage charges on cars not un-
loaded by specified time do not
worry them. Agricultural limestone is
really worth much more to the farmers
when piled up for them in a near
by quarry than when it is lying in a
freight car at the railroad siding"
Richards points out that the portable
lime-grinding machine can be of great
est service to farmers only in COM
munities fortunate enough to have
quarries containing high analysis lime
stone. These quarries are the most
valuable when evenly distributed over
the area so that farmers will not be
obliged to haul their limestone more
than four miles.
Grinding Possible in Many Counties.
Lime grinding in the past has been
largely in Rock, Dane, Green, Iowa,
Green Lake, Lafayette, Grant and
Walworth counties. These areas have
a wide and even distribution Of good
limestone quarries that are also ac-
cessible The portable lime grinder
will operate just as surely in Door,