The Examiner-Review. (Navasota, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 21, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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VALUE OF CULTIVATION.
STABLE VENTILATION.
experienced orchardist
smooth log and sorape- of
all fat
to keep his orchard under cultivation
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striking hues as this year.
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ABOUT ORCHARD TREATMENT.
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FARM FACTS.
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A FEEDING METHOD.
satin or tulle give
yards in unstiffened
enough fullness at footline.
loose coat that can be slipped on over
several
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A light, useful and durable gate can
be made of sassafras poles and barbed
which has not been previously used for
cabbage culture. A field in which the
tem of ventilation, it is li
prevent cooking odors. I
easily controlled
the safe side cab-
be started in soil
liable shades, navy blue, garnet and to-
bacco brown, have been replaced by
colorings once deemed “old,” such as
taupe, grays like London smoke, faded
raspberry red, and even that peculiar
brown, known as Catawba.
These are enlivened by touches of
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bub a glory went
dresser.
“I can cure you,”
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For a baby the pure white is of
Keep Cows Comfortable.
Keep the cows comfortable at night
and when the weather is cold and wet.
In daytime, if they have pasture and
good water, they can care for them*
selves. •
FASHIONS FOR TOTS
Club Root of Cabbages.
Club root of cabbage is one of the
Shown by Investigations of Certain
New York Stats Orchards.
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airing is
Which is Best—Clean Culture or Sod
Culture?
FOLLOW CLOSELY THOSE CHOSEN
BY THEIR ELDERS.
some women to burn scented wafers
in their rooms in lieu of fresh air is
length loose coat of this black fur with
a velvet hat showing dash of flame
colrsor scarlet
Pony skin and caracul doth are also
used for children, but none of these
are as light and yet warm as the coney
sin. A fur coat for a child should be
very plain without fancy braid or but-
tons, etc. -
The navy blue chinchilla cloth, se
long a standard cloth for school coats,
reefers, etc., has been replaced this
season by gray chinchilla. ,
Broadcloths, especially those in two
tone effects and heavy weights, are
used for general wear, while the satin
finished fabrics eure suitable only for
the child who may have several outer
garments. Sensitive mothers of babies
in long clothes have two coats, an in-
ner and outer garment.
Our illustration shows a model suit-
able for a child from four to eight
the upper window frame a triangular
piece of board (b) with a cleat on the
edge against which the sash can rest
when open. This should be about nine
inches across the space marked (e).
This allows the air to come in at (e)
and pass over the cows.
It Is Made of Sassafras Poles and
Barbed Wire.
How a Canadian Dairyman Gets Good
Results.
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Onions and Carrots Recommended by
a Beauty Specialist
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Not long ago a woman whose hair
A Canadian dairyman who marketed
97,240 pounds of milk testing 3.5 per
cent., from a herd of but 12 Holstein
cows last year, tells of his feeding
method thus:
in the morning the first thing we
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most annoying yet
diseases. To be on
bage plants should
Kerosene and Eggs.
It must be remembered that in the
use of kerosene In the poultry house
none of the liquid must ever touch
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course preferable. For children of
three and upward it can be dyed gray,
brown or black. A very stunning com-
bination for a girl of six is a full
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front, it requires very little skhl to
make thia coat as It is cut in only two
pieces.
buttons and colorings,
seasons have children
A VBRY CHEAP GATE.
' parallel with the slope, and In the
rows a grass mulch, declares Prof.
Van Deman, in Orange Judd Farmer.
By this I mean that the grass, weeds,
etc., be mowed and forked under the
branches of the trees to serve as a
mulch. By growing cowpeas in the in
terspaces and letting the crop rot on
I the ground, or pasturing it down by
K bogs, much fertility (nitrogen) may
A be added to the soil at almost no ex-
pense. If potash in the form of muri-
ate or sulphate, and phosphorus in
some of the preparations of bone or J
rock phosphate, are applied liberally, |
there should be no dificulty in keep-
ing the soil rich.
National Apple Show.
kale, wild mustard, etc., since the
fungus winters over in the soil and
thrives on any plants of the brassica
family.
worn such
Those re-
fancy dresses. This especial model
ly has become the order of the day in
the poultry world. Mr. Fuller says:
A proper amount of light and mus-
lin to each cow is three square feet of
the former and two square feet of the
latter. The best muslin is "4%" mus-
lin—that is, 4% yards to the pound.
A heavy muslin has not sufficient
meshes and does not answer the pur-
pose as well as the one recommended.
If there are enough windows in the
barn, the best plan is to take out the
lower sash of every window or every
other one, according to the number,
and in place of the removed sash, tack
on the muslin. This is best done by
taking it on a frame which just fits
the window, or it may be tacked at the
sides, bottom and top of the window
and cleats put on to make it firm. Util-
ise the windows on the south side, by
preference.
We must bear in mind that we can-
not afford to sacrifice the light tor the
ventilation; and that any window that
has the muslin sheet is not so light as
where it is all glass. If thre are not
enough windows in the barn to justify
using half of each for the muslin, and
TANNING HIDES AND SKINS.
How the Work Is Done and Good Tan-
. ning Formulas.
do is to milk the cows; then the roots
At the National Apple show which; and meal are fed, after which the
has just closed at Spokane, Wash., straw or hay. The water is always
prizes were awarded to exhibitors < before them. At noon we give them a
from various parts-of the United States , feed of cut corn, in the evening, nay
and Canada. Exhibits from the east- five or half-past, we again milk, and
ern and southern states were spoiled the roots and meal are again fed fol-
in transit and were not put on exhibi- lowed by straw or chaff. This diet
tion. Apples of all sizes'and varieties is continued until about the first offeree in
were exhibited in the highest state of । March, when hay is fed in place of i
Better baked beans paid for .than
roast beef on trust.
Where your .fight is your heart ought
to be. If It is not—give up the fight!
Some of our readers report the
worst consequences of a drought-
ground frozen before sufficient rain
fell, to fill wells or springs.
You wouldn’t from choice buy water
for fuel. That is what you do when
you buy coal in a wet time. In some
cases there are 200 pounds of water in
a ton of wet coal. You make that
much in buying dry coal.
It is easier to keep breeding sheep
in condition than it is to put them
into condition after they have once
run down.
Feeding the fodder out in the pasture
is a good practice in dry and pleas-
ant weather. It spreads the manure
where you want-it and saves hauling.
it is a wooden barn, cut holes through
the sidewalls of the requisite dimen-
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which expert packing can produce. In mixture of barley and/oats,
addition to the fruit exhibits, there I When necessary to supplement this I
disease is found should for i______
years be kept free Ot cabbage, turnip.
There is considerable interest in
the minds .of fruit growers about the
question regarding the * comparative
value of the two systems of orchard
treatment, clean culture and sod cul-
ture. Some very careful experiments
under the supervision of the state sta-
. tions, especially In Ohio and New
York, have been conducted. And there
are some practical fruit growers giv-
ing these plans the test of actual
trial in a business way. So far there
have been some rather conclusive re-
salts that others would do well to ob-
serve. t
One of these is that on steep land
• It to very hazardous and often. very
wasteful at the fertility of the soil to
practice clean culture. The waste by
wash is too great. In such cases there
can and should be some method of
culture used that will prevent the soil
waste, and only strips should be cul-
tivated at moot. These can be al-
ternated so as to have the soil loose
from tillage between rows running
The effect of tanning is to make
the soluble gluten compounds of
which the skin is composed into in-
soluble leather. If the akin is hard
and dry it must be soaked in warm
water and worked until soft. The
hair or wool can be cleaned of
grease and dirt by adding a table
spoonful of soda to three gallons soap
suds and washing repeatedly. -
Place the hide upon a round.
; eggs Intenaed tor hatching. It is •
; < eath to the embryo within. Even a
drop or two will ruin an egg for hatch-
ing. When coal oil is used in the
henhouse for exterminating lice, first
gather al) the eggs. If a setting hen
and her nest become Infested, remove
the eggs to a clean nest, paint and
burn the inside of the nest box with
kerosene and refll with clean nesting
material. To remove, lice from a set-
i ting hen insect powders or dust must
be used, but never any oil or grease,
as it will get on the eggs and cause
them not to hatch. •
FRESH AIR IN THE HOUSE.
than in sod, but not so with many
orchard owners, who persist in trying
to raise two good crops on the same
soil. This of course cannot bo accom- |
pllshed to advantage and the sooner,
the farmer and small grower find it
out and manage the operations accord-
ingly the better it will be from a
profit-making standpoint. The Now
York experiment station has recently
completed an orchard survey of one of
the counties of the state which pre-
sents some Interesting and significant
data with regard to the value of culti-
vation.
The results show that orchards tilled
ten years or more yielded 327 bush-
els per acre with an income of $182;
those tilled five years or more yielded
‘274 bushels, with an income of 3133;
those tilled over half of five years 225
bushels, with an income of $113.
Sod treatment for over half of five
years yielded 222 bushels, with an in-
come of 3107; sod five years or more
yielded 204 bushels, with an income of
3108; sod ten years or more yielded
176 bushels, with an income of 387.
• Computations taken from the above
records show that the five-year aver-
age yields of orchards that have been
tilled ten years is 86 per cent, larger
than that of those that have been in
sod ten years or more, and those tilled
five years gave 34 per cent, better re-
sults than those in sod for five years.
These figures include all orchards
examined. As most tilled orchards
are accorded better attention than the
ones left in sod there is a greater
, difference in favor of tillage. Because
of this fact the station makes a sec-
ond report of results found in which
the neglected orchards are not consid-
ered. Under this kind of consideration,
orchards tilled ten years or more
yielded 337 bushels, with an income of
3189; tilled over five years yielded 296
bushels, with an income* of 3148;
tilled over half of five years, yielded
234 bushels, with an income of 3121.
Sod over half of five years yielded
242 bushels, with- an Income of 3118;
tod over five years or more yielded
. 258 bushels, with an income of 3134;
asod ten years or more yielded 232
bushels, with an income of 3117. t
years of age. This is a model of a
। was seen evolved in heavy French
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perfection.and with alltheadvantages. straw. The meal consists usually of a of gray ana gilt frogs trimmed the
many barns ventilated In this way,
and th3 results are astonishing. I have
seen it beneficially used even where
the King system was installed, in
parts of the barn where it was damp.
I have seen it in stables in the depth
of winter where the thermometer went
40 degrees helow zero, and yet water
did not freeze in the barn. It makes
the barn dry, maintains tan even tem-
perature, keeps the air sweet, removes
noxious gases and is a great aid to the
health of the cow.
If your windows are built with twe
sashes in one casing (d) and it is
necessary to open either the upper or
lower sash to get more air into the
barn, you will find that it often causes
a direct 'draught on the cows. A bet-
ter plan is to hinge the upper sash (a)
so that it will fall inward from the
top. Have fastened at each ride of
flour or ground wheat, which brings I
the mixture to about the same weight
as the barley and oats. The milking
cows receive of this about a gallon
each, twice a day. I find that even
yet my cows are not fed to their full
capacity, as when given a feed of
meal at noon it makes a considerable
increase in the amount of milk.
were demonstrations in spraying, some bran is added, together ’ with
packing and measuring machines, something stronger, such as low grade
rider presses and nursery stock.
doubly necessary should there be
smokers in the family.
Each bedroom should have the win-
dows flung wide open until after break-
fast. If this is not done for the sake
of daintiness, it should never “1)0 for-
gotten in the interest of health.
In a family sitting-room there should
be some arrangements made by which
there is a constant change of air with-
out draft. It can be managed in no
other way, the window should be
i aised a few inches and a screen placed
in front of it.
There is no surer sign of bad house-
keeping than a house which has an
odor of any kind, and the custom of
with a dull knife. Then take the
brains of the animal and work them
thoroughly into the hide, which will
render it pliable. Now cover the
skin with powdered alum and a lit-
tle saltpeter and fold up with the
hair out Leave it for three or four
days, then hang up to dry, and as
the skin dries work it until dry and
soft.
Another formula recommended by
Farm and Home is as follows: Dis
solve two ounces alum and two ounces
salt in one pint boiling water, and
when cold put the skin in and leave it
for 24 hours, then hang up to dry.
This quantity must be varied to suit
the size of the skin to be tanned.
When nearly dry stretch the skin
out and nail it hair side down. Then
rub in a mixture of equal parts alum
and saltpeter until the skin will not
take any more, and keep on rubbing
it periodically for three hours. Take
out the nails, fold it up with skin
side together and hang it up for two
or three days, rubbing fresh salt and
alum in every day. Then rub the
skin down with pumice stope and
comb out the fur. This process is
especially suitable for-, large skins,
such as sheep skins.
To take the hair off bury the skin
in wet' wood ashes or soft soap for
two or three days until the hairs
start, or it may be soaked in lime-
water. Then clean off the hair, wash
well and proceed to tan as before.
Following is a tanning liquor for
large skink: Mix four ounces pulver-
ized alum, eight ounces salt, due quart
The experienced orchardist does .... .
not have to be told that It pay. better Undoubtedly the King pystem. 0
, ventilation is the most perfect, but in
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Best Methods of Getting Fresh Air tt
the Stock.
said the latter, "If
you will follow my directions. Mas-
sage your hair well night and morning,
rub in crude petroleum at least ones
a week, have your hair shampooed ,
every three weeks, as it is oily, and
follow carefully the following diet:
“Eat a roast onion each night before
Matter of Much Importance That la
Too Frequentiy Neglected.
During cold weather, when houses
must necessarily be kept closed most
of the time, extra precautions should
be taken to keep the air pure.
No matter how low the temperature,
the windows and doors on the first
floor shouid be opened for at least 18 .
minute* the first thing in trie morning.
If the cook or maid be instructed to
do this as soon. as she arises, the
house will be nicely warmed again by
the time the family is down.
After each meal there should be an-
other thorough airing of the lower
floor. No matter how perfect thesys-
Little Difference in Materials or Cut
—Garments of Striking Hues
Are Everywhere Worn by
the Children.
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Midwinter fashions for the young
people of the family follow closely the
rules laid down for the dressing of
their ilders.
The furs worn by the mother in her
30’s or 40’s appear in miniature for the
small daughter in the kindergarten
and the year-old babe tn the
nurse’s arms. The empire back or di-
rectoire rever of mother's beat wrap
are closely followed in the develop-
ment of the coat made for the girl not
yet in her teens.
The same may be said of trimmings,
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some cases it may*
prove too elabo- >
rate or expensive. I
Mr. V. E. Fuller’s I
“diffusion system’’
is recommended
strongly in the
Practical Dairy-
man. This is on
the order of the
muslin front of
the poultry house
—and that certain-
bions and tack on the muslin. Bear in
mind that, whatever you do in1 provid-
ing- this ventilation, you must have
three square feet of glass and two
square feet of muslin per cow. If
your barn is a bank barn and you have
no other means of getting ventilation,
cut the holes in the ceiling and tack
on your muslin. Of course you will
not want it to run up Into your hay.
A great many barns are ventilated
by taking the air near the ceiling up
into the hay loft and distributing it
through a chute into the hay mow,
thereby very often saturating the hay
with noxious gases. If the cows are
suffering from some contagious dis-
ease, such as tuberculosis or abortion,
the germs,are carried into and lodge
on the hay fed to farm animals.
The muslin window system will not
cost more than from two to three
cents per cow. I have seen a great
retiring and three times a week have
creamed carrots for dinner and on the
other days have them' roasted or.
dressed in butter.
“You hate both vegetables? No mat-
ter, eat them anyway; there is no bet-
ter blood purifier than both, and the
carrots especially act as a general
tonic. I have used them successfully
for a number of years and find their "
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new milk and one pint prepared
starch with four gallons soft water.
Put in the skins and air them often
by hanging over a stick laid across the
tub, so they will drain back Into it.
After a few days of this treatment
. remove the skins and add one-half
teacupful sulphuric acid to the liquor,*
adding very carefully a spoonful at a
time and stirring well’
Replace the skin and stir often
for an hour, after which take them
put, wring and rinse in lukewarm
soft water. Hang the skins up in a
cool place to dry, and when they be-
gin to turn white work and stretch
them unti they, become dry. Very
large and thick hides should be kept
in the liquor three or four days.
1 After skins find hides are dried out
the flesh side should be dressed down
with pumice stone. This dressing
will soften the hide, when it may be
trimmed as desired.
so scanty as to make it anything
to a noted hair
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not always this wide, but the two
use heightens the effect of the tonics ■
and rubbing.” •
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Keep the Garters Crossed. * sv ,
Some French corsetieres are advis-
ing their customers to cross the gar-
ters which extend from the eg
front of the corset This is a
prevent the corset's wearing
at the sharp point of the front i
which sometimes happens wM
garment is perfectly good in otl
spects. The crossing of the garl
no way intereferes with the or
use of the/limbs in walking, especially
in these days of narrow skirta. I"
each garter has two elastics, the onto
ones may go down straight in th
usual way, the inner ones /erossin
to the opposite leg and fastening t
the stocking an inch beyond the os
garter.
Spotted Nat^Jabota.
If a giri to makingjabpts at ho
for herself or friends, she would
well to use the spotted, ringed not
stead of the plain mesh. The ef
Attractive Wrap for Child.
For the bullion braid frogs and tassels
have quite generally replaced those of
silk on very dressy garments.
A word about fur coats. These are
an excellent Investment in a fam-
ily whore there are several children,
for they can be handed down one size
to another as the children grow.' In
climates where the winters are severe
they are especially desirable. For the
baby in short clothes who still rides in
a coach, a favorite skin is coney, which
is very much like soft white rabbit
is much prettier. The jabot at once
gains in character.
To its edge to attached an inch or s0
of cluny lace, although valenciennes.
may be used. ______ A
TN Width of the Skirt. . A
The dressmakers have decided that
about the best width fov‛1the modem
clinging skirt is two yards or a few
inches over. Street skirts cut above
the ankles, made of rough fabrics, are
Pole and Wire Gate.
wire as shown in the cut Set a
strong post four feet in the ground in
the middle of the gateway and balance
the gate on It The lower rail, ex-
plains Farm and Home, is made of
two forked sassafras poles securely
nailed together so as to work around
the post. ,
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