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The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
Tile Roof Provides
Protection From Fire

When the fire alarm awakes you at
midnight on a windy night, do you
calmy turn over and go to sleep again,
or does the dread Of fire, felt by all
those who sleep in infiammable build
ings, arouse you?
Even il the fire may be far away,
you are not at ease, not knowing what
progress the fire is making -whether
victory awards the fire fighters or
whether the burning brands borne by
the wind are flying toward your roof.
The fear of fire is a dreadful thing.
Fire, which is good servant but a
hard master, exacts it's heavy toll
year by year from those who fail to
provide against its hazards. The an
nual loss in the United States is eight
times as great as in England per thou
sand houses, it is said. Americans do
not insist on fireproof materials for
roofs and walls of homes like the Eng
lish.
The roof is the most vulnerable
point. Wood shingles are responsible
for an unbelievable amount of fires.
Often they are like finder. Flying
sparks from chimneys, from passing
trains or nearby bonfires will often set
an old, inflammable roof ablaze, and
when such fire is started it gets un-
der Roadway quickly and is hard to
stop.
The wind will lift firebrands of blaz-
ing shingles more than half mile
around If they fall on burnable
roof, another fire is likely to be
started.
Large CONGREGATIONS, such as the
Chicago fire, the San Francisco fire
and the Salem (Mass.) fire were spread
In this manner.
A fire loss amounting to more than
q million dollars annually is saved by
many Of the large cities in the United
States that refuse to allow combus-
tible roof within their corporations.
Modern conditions and modern pro-
duetion methods have made it pos
sible to have a permanent fireproof
roof over house of five or six rooms
at about $3.50 more than the cost of
perishable roofs. A home owner can,
for an investment of an addition or
8 per cent, secure a roof that is not
only fire resisting but permanent as
well as beautiful. 81.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
Value of Weanling Pig
In Proportion to Hog

The Oregon experiment station
throws some light on the value of
a weanling pig in proportion to the
finished hog by calculating the total
cost of producing a hundred pounds
Of market pork in terms of grain.
According to this data 1t takes
the value of 61s pounds of grain to
cover all the costs of producing 100
pounds of pork. OF this value IT is
estimated that 80 per cent is re-
quired to cover all the costs of
bringing a pig up to weanling age.
For example. the value of 1.236
pounds of grain would cover the
total cost of producing 200-pound
market hog. IF grain is worth one
and one-half cents pound, the
cost of the 2O0-pound pig is S1S.54.
OF this amount 80 per cent or $3.50
is represented In the cost of pro-
ducing the pig to weanling age.
One year with another, this repre-
sents fair basis for estimating
the value of weanling pigs. There
are some, however, who will always
want to gamble that the price of
market hogs. will 90 up.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
Floor Is Foundation
of Rooms in the House

What color or design to select when
purchasing a rug or carpet is a prob
lem that bothers many people. How
ever, if we remember that, just as the
floor is the foundation of the room,
the floor covering should keep that
feeling in relation to the other fur
nishings, points out Harriet w. Allard
in the Household Magazine, the prob
lem will seem much less difficult.
This authority on homemaking adj
vises darker tone of color for rugs
than for walls and ceilings, inasmuch
as this carries out the idea of a foun-
dation. However, she says, it is not
necessary to confine ones choice to
plain colors in somber shades, al
though carpets and rugs, in one color,
or with center of one color and bor-
der of another, have been. and still
are, popular. They give an appearance
of a firm, sturdy foundation.
Life and animation can be added to
room with plain carpet by using
colorful Grapes and wall coverings. If
the value of the color is comparatively
darker than the side walls, there may
be a deviation from a perfectly plain
covering. Designs in keeping with
those of other furnishings build char
acter and add strength to room. A
one-color carpet is lifted successfully
from the plain class by having a part
of the pile cut to form pattern. The
effect of light, as it is reflected across
the cut and uncut pile, gives varia-
ton which is delightful. This is called
the frieze weave.
The floor covering with a number
of colors in the design may be the
basis for the color scheme of the room.
1t can act in the same capacity that
a picture, fabric hanging or piece
of pottery does when the colors in
their decorations are repeated in the
other furnishings. If the pattern is in
harmonious and satisfying colors, it
becomes a safe guide to follow in Sc
lecting wall coverings, draperies, fur.
niture and bric-a-brac.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02

Of the house rather than an addition,
and the brick seems to be supporting
pillars.
While this home has the appearance
of Dutch colonial, it will be noticed
by the floor plan that it is slightly
different. At the front are the living
and dining rooms, but the central hall,
which marks the colonial design, is
absent. The house contains five rooms
and a large sun parlor with balcony
over the latter. Its dimensions are 26
feet, including the sun room, by %
feet deep. How the rooms are ar
ranged and the size of each are shown
by the floor plan.
, The use of shrubbery and flowers
around the foundation OF the house |;
the vines which are trained up the
brick work of the house or sun porch |;
the flower boxes which edge the ball
cony, and the awnings give this house
a very honey and pretty appearance.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
Mice and Rabbits Damage
Fruit Trees During Snow

The deep SHOWS of winter, bene-
fetal as they are in restoring to the
subsoil some Of the reserve of mOis-
ture which was depleted during the
long drought period, nevertheless
have brought about "a condition In
furious to the fruit belt in the east
ern states, says the Washington
Star.
Field mice and rabbits, unable to
reach their normal food supplies,
turn to fruit trees. especially apple
trees, for food. They gnaw through
the outer bark to reach the cambium
layer and inner bark and often cir
Gle the entire trunk in their search
for food. When this occurs 1t be-
comes vital that the trees be bridge
grated, else the trees will die.
Trees which must be so treated
need prompt attention. Scions to be
used in the grating should be cut
and held in cold storage until spring
when the grating should be started
at the first indications that the sap
is rising. In the meantime, dirt
must be piled up over the wound in
the tree to prevent drying.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
Homemade Brush Burner

A homemade brush burner, which
will burn orchard prunings as fast
as three men can pile them in,
solves one common orchard prob
lem for Clifton and Everett Derby
Of North Leominster. Mass. The
burner is large box, 10 feet by
feet by 8 feet deep. made of scrap
iron, salvaged from old iron drums
and sheet roofing, the pieces fas-
tened together, with, stove bolts.
Ventilation, which was found nec-
essary to keep the brush burning,
was provided by chopping a few
holes in the sides with an ak. The
box is mounted on skids and is
pulled through the orchard at the
end of the pruning season by trac-
tor or team, while men pick up the
pruned branches from under the
trees and pile them in the box.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
Floor Should Be of
Seasoned Lumber Only

Cracks in new well-laid floor are
the result of a change in moisture
content within the wood itself.
This change is due to improper pre-
liminary seasoning; improper storage
conditions at the mill or retail yard ;
delivery of the flooring during wet
weather or before the masonry or
plaster walls are dry; or it may be
due to the absorption of moisture
from the air within the building either
before of after the flooring is laid.
= The use of the heating plant may
be advisable, says the United States
forest service, to maintain a tempera
ture that will prevent excessive hH
nudity in the building from the time
the flooring is delivered until the
house is occupied. IL
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
LIVE STOCK HINTS

Root crops are excellent for the
cow. to take the place of pasture
and furnish succulence.
Stomach worms appear during
the summer months and cause q
loss of flesh and lack of thrift
among lambs.
Keep healthy sheep for good
wool. II is easy to make differ
ence of one to three pounds OF
wool by careful shepherding.
During the last season western
sheep men have sent many of their
lambs to market which they would
ordinarily keep in their fiocks.
Heavy cattle will consume as
much as 90 pounds of corn daily
while on feed. If they are fed chief
" on corn, cOttonseed meal and
hay.
MOlasses has proved its value
in giving bloom and finish TO ami.
mails putting on II large increase In
weight through long or extremely
heavy grain feeding.
Based on results secured In
swine feeding trials at the Mime.
sofa station, II Is not advisable to
feed ground rye as the only grain
for a period of more than about
sixty days.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
New York's Porkers
Make Good Showing
Hog Raising Among I'm
portant Industries of State.

By John P. William. New York State
. College of Agriculture.
- F. WNU Service. -.
A gross income Of 81, 900 from
hogs places the porker among the
important farm industries OF New
York state. Census totals for Janu-
airy, 1890, show $4,000 hogs on
New York state farms, but June
figures, which would include the
spring crop Of pigs would increase
the total, he says. .--
New York state farmers market
large amounts of grain, hay, and
pasture through hogs. An acre OF
alfalfa, clover, or rape saves more
than LOO pounds Of corn, and about
400 pounds Of tankage when grazed
by growing pigs. In the dry lot 300
to 400 pounds of grain and concen-
trates make about 100 pounds OF
pork. A 4OO-pound brood sow eats
about 1000 pounds of grain when
she raises two filters, and 1880 to
1900 pounds when she raises one
litter year.
Most of the 1900 pure-bred hogs
in New York state are in herds of
from three to five sows. Chester
White is the most popular breed,
followed by: Berkshire, Duroc Jer-
sey, Poland China, and Hampshire.
Most of the grade cross-bred pigs
are sold at weaving time to buyers
who fatten one, two, or three pigs
for home-killing.
A few feeders feed from 100 to
200 pigs a year; they make a bust
ness of collecting garbage in cities
which do not have disposal plants.
Commercial pork production is not
considered profitable in New York
state, but a few pigs can be fed
largely on garbage that is wasted,
with some additional grain.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
Trapping japanese Beetle

The bureau of plant quarantine,
which enforces the Japanese beetle
quarantine, put out nearly 10000
traps last year. Covering territory
from Florida and Ohio to New Eng
land, the traps were moved gradual
ly northward as the season adj
vanced. They were placed in traffic
centers, so that the first appearance
of the insects in an uninfested re-
gion may be noted. In this way
plant quarantine officials receive
timely warning of a threatened out
break.
In certain sections, like the Dis
trict Of Columbia, where 1900 were
Installed this year, traps give veg
citation some protection by Turing
Japanese beetles from the flowers
and foliage on which they feed.
These traps are emptied once day.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
Agricultural Chaf

Ohio's roadside markets were "a
per cent farmer-owned in 1882.
Demand for boys to work on
farms in New Zealand is exceeding
the supply.
Three hundred and seventy mil
lion tons Of farm waste may be used
in the manufacture of drugs, per
fumes and explosives.
Farmers and others dwelling out
side of incorporated places paid 80
per cent Of the total road costs in
Ohio in 1881, or about $50, 500, 900.
This amount paid by farmers for
the support Of roads was a "a per
cent increase over what was paid
In 1925
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
Gains for Pigs

Growing pigs make better gains
when they are settled than when
they are hand fed. The reason for
this is that their appetites are rath.
er hard TO satisfy and they will
consume small amounts of feed very
often and make better gains.
Along with the grain should be
fed some protein supplement. either
tankage and oilmeal two parts TO
one. or a commercial mixture. The
buttermiIk can replace these If fed
in large enough quantities.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
!, FARM I
Ro()lTK Y
FINDS ANCESTRY OF
POULTRY IMPORTANT
Inherited Weaknesses Cut
Egg Production. =

Prepared BY Poultry Department Ohio
State University.-WNU Service.
The ancestry of chicks may make
them profitable additions to the
farm f1ocks or total losses, according
to G. S. Vickers Of the Ohio Poultry
Development association, who says
that among the factors inherited by
chicks are early maturity, tendency
to winter rest, broodiness, intensity
and persistence Of production, and
egg size.
1t has been shown clearly that
the birds laying first or earliest,
other things equal, are the best
birds and lay the most eggs. The
factor of early maturity in chick.
ems Is inherited and a chick is
Matched with certain potentialities
along this line, which no amount of
care or feeding can change.
Certain hens rest during the win
ter when eggs are high. They trans
nit this tendency to their offspring.
If it is present there is a cut in
egg production. Another factor in
herited by the birds is the tendency
to broodiness. Now with the help
of scientific Investigations, broodi.
ness is being bred out of certain
birds.
BY intensity is meant the num-
Der of eggs bird lays each month.
This ability of the hens to lay fast
or slow is of the greatest impor-
lance in determining profits. 1t is
Inherited. Chicks have it or they
don't have it, and nothing can
change their fundamental qualities,
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
BY w. A. RADFORD

BY w. A. RADFoRD
ar. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to
practical home building. for the read
srs Of this paper. On account of his
wide experience as editor, author and
manufactures, he is. without doubt. the
highest authority on all these sub
Jeets Address all Inquiries to William
A. Radford, No. 407 South Dearborn
Street, Chicago. ILL.,. and only inclose
two-cent stamp for reply. - l.s r.:
Some very fine effects are secured
In the home building design illustrated
by using combinations Of different
types of building materials. Brick and
tile give the appearance of stability {;
lumber is perhaps the more flexible
of the building materials that go into
the construction of house.
An example of what may be done
when a combination of brick and lum-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
POULTRY FACTS

Drafts In hen houses cause roup
and other Ills.
Not more than twelve turkeys
three weeks old can feed at one
time from 2-foot feed hopper.
The hen that lays $50 eggs year
Is worth three times as much as q
hen that lays 80 eggs, according to
Minnesota report.
Montana poultry farm demon
strators have an average annual egg
production per hen about double
that of the average for the state
The secret Is record keeping.
It is imperative that droppings
from the fowls should be regularly
removed from the dropping boards
and properly ,layered with dry soil
to prevent the escape Of ammonia.
Hens that shed their feathers In
October or November are, as a rule
good producers. Such birds are re-
ferred to as late molters; they drop
their old feathers and grow a new
coat rapidly. = .~,
Dry mash should be fed In hop.
pers and kept continually before
the birds so they can eat at will
Thirty-six linear feet of hopper
feeding space should be allowed
for every 100 birds. Hoppers should
be so constructed that they can be
cleaned easily. t-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02

HAPPY little girl, just bursting
IL with pep, and she has never
tasted a "tonicr'
Every child's stomach, liver, and
bowels need stimulating at times,
but give children something you
know all about.
Follow the advice of that famous
family physician who gave the
world Syrup Pepsin. Stimulate the
body's Difal organs. DR.. Caldwell's
prescription of pure pepsin, active
SIENNA, and fresh herbs is a mild
stimulant that keeps the system
from getting sluggish.
If your youngsters don't do well
at school, don't play as hard or eat
as well as other children do, begin
this evening with DR.. Caldwell's
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02

Syrup Pepsin. This gentle stimulal1I
viii soon right thingsl The bow WEI.
will move with better regularly
and thoroughness. There wont ~ N
so many sick spells or colds. Io YOU
find it Just as wonderful for aoui&
too, in larger spoonfulsl
Get some Syrup Pepsin; prolten
your household from those blllous
days, frequent headaches, ana tna y
sluggish State of half-health tnas
means the bowels need stimulating.
Keep this preparation in the ne pa.
to use instead of harsh catharuTS
that cause chronic constipation !
taken too often. You can always
get DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin y y
any drug store; they have u "
ready in big bottles.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
New Drain Plug for Tub
Fits Old Chain Hole

Old lavatories and bathtubs with
rubber plugs and chains may be mod
ernized with a new type of metal
drain control that fits any lavatory or.
bath. The water seal is made by a
metal stopper which seats firmly into
the body of the drain-there is moth
ing TO wear or get out of working or
der. The units are made so that the
heads may be obtained with nickel or
chromium. 49, -a~8
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
OUR BIG
Department Store

The stores of our town, whole, but the big de-
partment store of the metropolitan center COLLECTIVELY
they offer every trading advantage enjoyed by the peeps
of the large cities. The only difference that all depart
ments are not under roof ownership. Inc
variety is here, the convenience is here the reliability
here and always have plenty of time to nvesn
gate purchases Take advantage Of the service
our local merchants. @..
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02

of 1913 Mason ST. II took some some ~ u
DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discover
and DR.. Pierce's A-nuric Tablets ana
now l feel like a different man. / AM
feeling fine at present"
Sold by druggists everywhere.
N. II for free medical sdviss.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02

struction or what is known as veneer
brick construction. The latter means
that instead Of board siding one
course of brick is used and tied to the
frame of the house. In this house the
use of brick is happy because the sun
porch appears to be an integral part
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
First Floor.

Der Is used is shown in the home
building design illustrated here. The
walls of the home illustrated up to
the second floor are Of face brick
which may be either solid brick con-
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1933-03-02
COUGH, NERVOUS,
SLEEPLESS

= Portland, Oregon
Last winter l had 4
cough and was All
rundown in health.
had no appetite and
was so nervous. I
slept scarcely any AZ
night. / was miscT.
able for two month";
Evening star., 1933-03-02
Get Your Radio
Working Topnotch
For Inauguration

All new tubes, in the
original boxes, and carry the
full factory guarantee. Bring
your old tubes in to be tested
at no cost to you.
Evening star., 1933-03-02

would happen to me If didn't behave
were made. r
DAY after day. 1t was the same
just sitting there, my eyes swelling and
my wrists burning.
How the time finally passed do not
know. I spent hours listening for the
slightest sound which might indicate
where was being held, but without
results.
my captors told me little. I Judge
it was about midnight Tuesday that
the men put me in the car again and
began to drive.
I'VE drove all that night and all day
Wednesday up to about Z pm.
"On the return trip we stopped for
gasoline three times. the same as we
had on the original trip and was
forced to lie In the bottom of the car
each time"
With his son safe, the elder Boettcher
early today talked guardedly OF the
case.
This is the beginning, not the end Of
this case" he declared. II might say
that this is the end of one story and the
beginning of another. What the out
come of the second story will be remains
to be seen."
He had previously vowed to devote
the rest of his life and his fortune to
punishment of the kidnapers If they
harmed his son. The Boettcher family
also has been urged to head Denver
secret six to combat kidnapers and other
criminals here.
Evening star., 1933-03-02

cellor's right-hand man in the cabinet,
in another speech, sought to allay ru-
morS that more severe repressive
measures were planned this week end
against Communists and Socialists. He
said their lives were not endangered II
they kept strictly within the law.
Capt. Goering, as commissioner for
the Prussian interior ministry, has or
dered police in that state to take
ruthless" action to suppress demon
strations of opposing forces.
Two Jewish clerks were held by po-
lice after a raid last night on quarters
of the Jewish Citizens Central Union
where documents were seized. Raids
and seizures continued to be carried
on against Communists, with more
than 500 arrested throughout the
country since the burning of the
Reichstag Building. The fire was
blamed on Communists.
Appeals to Catholics.
Vice Chancellor Franz Won Papen
made an appeal for Catholic support
of the Hitler government in Bavaria,
home state of both himself and Hitler.
Baron Won Papen, who was formerly a
leader in the Catholic Centrist parties
which are strongly opposing the pres
sent regime, declared he could not
Imagine the reconstruction of a new
Reich" without inclusion of Catholic
conservatives.
Despite threats Of Hitlerites to over
throw the Bavarian state government
Evening star., 1933-03-02
RAIL OFFICIAL PROMOTED

CLEVELAND, March 2 R.-Lynne
L. White yesterday became vice presi-
dent and assistant to President G. T.
Denney Of the Erie Railroad. Pre-
viously he had been assistant to tie
president.
White, who began railroading when
he was is, has been connected with
the Erie since 1918, when he started
as chief clerk to the general manager
at Chicago. Before then he was con-
nected with the Chicago. Rock Island
and Pacific.
Evening star., 1933-03-02
HITLER PROMISES
HELP TO WORKERS
Holds Benefits to Exceed
What Communism Can
Offer Labor.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March "A promise by
Chancellor Adolf Hitler that he would
do more for the workers of Germany
than they could expect from Commun-
ism was before the electorate today.
Addressing the National Socialist
workmen last night, he said he
planned to mortise the pillar of labor
in the structure of state so labor would
not be separate entity. In one of
the few specific Celebrations he has
made upon his four-year plan for
workers, the chancellor said his COM
pulsory labor program would wipe out
"class antagonisms" with "ennobling
manual labor" for all.
Capt. Hermann Goering, the chan
Evening star., 1933-03-02

the chancellor said he still adhered to
the federal form of government In
which Bavaria Is q free state and
deprecated excitement caused by the
threats.