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■ROAD * BUILDING USE BURNED CLAY ON ROADS Sticky or Plastic Qualities Are De stroyed and Bears Traffic In Wettest Kind of Weather. (By OLIVER BBNNOCK. Colorado Ag ricultural College.) In some sections of the country the only material available from which roads can be constructed is clay. In such localities traffic is almost en tirely impossible during the wet sea sons, as the wheels of the heavy ve hicles will sink to the hub. In order to correct this condition, the United States office of public roads made the experiment of burning the clay. It was found that by burning the clay, even at a moderate heat, its Entrance to Ute Pass, Near Manitou, Colo. —One of the Best Examples of Mountain Road Building in West. sticky or plastic qualities are de stroyed, so that even in the wettest weather it will bear traffic. This per mits the firing of the clay along the entire length of the road, thus avoid ing the cost of hauling it, and at the same lime gaining the advantage of burning the foundation of the road as well as the material to be placed upon It. Good solid wood is laid at Intervals along the side of the road, about one cord for eight linear feet of roadbed, twelve feet wide. The road bed is first evenly graded and then plowed as deeply as practical. Furrows about four feet apart are then dug across the road and extended beyond the part to be burned on either side. The first course of cord wood is laid longitudi nally, so as to fire a series of flues in which the firing is started. From 15 to 20 of these flues are fired at once. The rest of the cord wood is then placed on this flooring and then the clay is placed over the whole struc ture as evenly us possible, In a layer of not less than six to eight Inches, This is tamped and rounded off, so that the heat will be held within the flues as long as possible. After burning, the road is graded and rolled until the road bed is smooth and hard. GOOD ROADS AID SANITATION If All Highways Were Improved There Would Be Appreciable Better ment of Public Health. Friends of good roads should add to their usual arguments one which is not so frequently used, but is very im portant—namely, that good roads are direct aids to sanitation. Weeds and other rank vegetable growths are prolific breeders of flies, mosquitoes and other disease-carrying Insects. Sound road building causes the removal of weeds and similar trash Weed and brush undergrowths by the roadside invite deposit of gar bage and offal. Good roads do away with these disease-breeding agencies. Good roads also prevent disease by providing good drainage. Many farms have no drainage except by ditches along the side of the road. Open ditches, clear of brush and debris, of hard surface and proper fall afford farms an opportunity to rid them selves of stagnant pools. Oiling of roads destroys insect lar vae. Dry, hard roads also enable pe destrians, especially the thousands of school children who, In country locali ties, walk quite a distance to and from school, to keep their Shoes and stock ings dry, thus preventing colds, and their frequent consequences, pneu monia and tuberculosis. Logical tracing of effects to causes leaves no ground for doubt that if all the roads in the United States were good roads there would be appreciable betterment of She public health Help From the Newspaper*. Civic workers in an increasing num ber of cities are coming to realize the value of the 00-operation of the local press in campaigns for municipal im provements. The willingness of many newspaper editors to assist in such movements for the public good is shown by the liberality with which their column* are thrown open to those who can write on such subjects with knowledge and ability, say* tho American City, editorially. USEFUL TOOL FOR PLANTING Utah 'Man Invents Inexpensive Imple ment Which Can Be Easily and ..Quickly Manipulated. The Scientific American in describ ing a planting Implement, Invented by N. P. Jensen of Ephraim. Utah, says: The Invention has reference more particularly to implements which com prise means for receiving the plant pud then setting it -into the desired place in the ground. The object is to v | Planting Implement provide an Inexpensive planting imple ment which can be easily uml quickly , manipulated, which will set the plant | In any desired position in the ground without injury to tlie plant. This Im plenn nt Is also intended for pressing the soil uniformly about the plant set in the ground. | VALUABLE HINT FOR FARMER ! Dropping* From 1.000 Fowls, If Prop- * trly Cared For Will Return Froi.t of S3OO Yearly, | The poultrynian or farmer can ma- I tcrially add lo the profit* of his husi- I in-ss by properly curing for the drop- I pings of his fowls. For example, It Is shown that the droppings from 1,000 fowls if pretervi d without needless loss are worth at least S2OO per an num, ami Gils estimate Is based on | the assumption that less than half of the droppings, or only 30 pounds per hen per year, can be collected. According to the Mqine station, the . droppings should be collect) d dally, 1 and mixed wiih substances which will (I) prevent loss of nitrogen, (2i mid , sufficient potash and phosphoric acid to make a better-balanced fertilizer, and (3) Improve the mechanical con- j dition of the manure so that It can be applied to the land with a manure spreader. This cun be done us follows: To ! each 30 pounds of the manure add 10 - pounds of sawdust, good dried loam, c r peat, 10 pounds of acid phosphate, ] and 8 pounds of kainit. Such a mix . lure will contain about 1.25 per cent of nitrogen, 4 5 per cent of phosphoric acid, and 2 per cent of potash, which, i used at the rate of 2 tons per acre j would furnish 50 pound of nitrogen, 185 pounds of phosphoric acid, and 80 pounds of potash, and at the present price of fertilizing Ingredients Is worth about $lO per ton. The mixture would furnish a well-balanced stable fertil izer, which, although not fine enough to work well In drills, can be success fully applied with a manure spreader. The treated manure should be well sheltered until time to apply to the land —that Is. shortly before plowing. DOES NOT CAUSE SOIL ACID Doubtful If Small Amount of Land Plaster Generally Applied Ha* Any Serious Effect. The fear that the application of land plaster makes soils add, is un founded. At least It Is doubtful if the small amount generally applied has any serious and Immediate Ip- Huence upon the acidity of the soil. This is the belief of E. 11. Hart of the College of Agriculture of the Uni versity of Wisconsin, who from tln*o to time has carried on numerous ex periments to determine the Influence of applying land plaster, rock phos phate and other fertilizers to fields upon which various crop rotations were followed. The theory that land plaster ap plied to soil would make it acid, is based on the assumption that -the plants remove from the soil more calcium than sulphur, thereby leaving behind a greater proportion of the acid part of the land plaster. On the contrary, It has been shown that the common cereals, wheat, oats, corn, barley and such other plants as the turnip, rutabaga, cabbage and onion, make positively greater demands for sulphur than for caiciutq and appli cations of land plaster for such crqps will tend to make the soils alkaline rather than acid. Such plants a* the meadow grasses, clover, alfalfa, sugar beets and tobacco, use more calcium than sulphur and In their case the application of land plaster would have a tendency toward devel oping acid soil. Potatoes use about equal amounts of calcium and sul phur, and land plaster could not pos sibly influence soil reaction In this case. Cattle Scarcity. A world wide cattle scarcity exists and If American consumers are to en joy anything like an adequate suppl) of the qualitied article the domestic market has afforded for 25 years past, It must be produced within the United States. I Pctrographer Wanted. The department of commerce I* vainly trying to find a man to take a place as petrograpber, although all a pelrographer has to know la chemis try, physics, mineralogy and all about stones and their suitability for com structtonal purposes. Thus we are re minded again that there are men whe do not care for money'. SCHALK IS STAR CATCHER l||i Ray Schalk, the catcher of the Uhl cago club of the American league, was born ueur Litchfield, 111., In 1822. Ho began his professional can er with the i Taylorvllle club of the 111 noli Mis-soarl j league In 1911. From that 1 club ho ; was secured by the Milwaukee (Aliter j lean association) club in mid season and at once became noted lor h s splendid work. In 1912 he attracted the attention of many major club- and was finally purchased by the < hicago club In August, 1912. He made good with the White Sox at once ui d is now one of the star catchers of the American league. Miller Huggins' Cardinals look like a pretty fair ball club just now. Hug gins says he has got rid of a lot of trouble makers. * • • Nicholas K. Young, president of the National league for 19 years, is now forced to remain in his bed, being too feeble to be about. • • • A Washington man says that to be a good polo player one lias to be able to hit backward. Gee, several hall play ers would make good polo players. ♦ • • Tho veteran catcher couch, Joe Sug den, says he never met a man with sounder baseball theories than Man i uger Branch Hickey, of the St. Louis Browns. • * • ' Manager Frank Chance, of the New Yorks, is vtry much delighted with the spirit of his players ami believes ho ! will have a real ball dab before the end of the season Jimmy Callahan says Sam Crawford 1 has eight years more of good bast b II | left in him. Evidently Sam must have shown Callahan something on that trip around the world. “Old Cy" Morgan, former Philadel phia American heaver, Isn't all in by 1 any means, Cy heaved a three-hit I game for Kansas City against Colum bus the other day. SPORTING WORLD Colts by Lord Revelstoke, 2:l2ti, are the sensation of the spring season at Vienna. • • It does seem strange that no Eng Hshman ever called golf "nothing but glorified shinny." • * • Abe Frank's stable which Is to go through the grand circuit will be trained by Bert Shank. Ben Whitehead will bring a rather formidable string from Tennessee to the Michigan short shit) circuit. • • Gunboat Smith has practically agreed to box Ceorge Carpenlier in London. June 28, for a purse of $25,- 000. • • * The policy which Princeton will pur sue in coaching the IDI4 fooiball team will be to develop the open game of kicking and passing. • * • Don Johns, defeating a field of eleven riders, won the recent 100-mile motorcycle race at Phoenix, Arlz. His time was 1 hour 36 minutes 50 2-5 sec onds • • • Young Kansas, the Buffalo feather weight, has jumped his manager, Allie Smith, and has gone to New York with Frankie Erne, former lightweight champ. • • • President Fitzgerald of the Western Skating association has asked tho Amateur Athletic union to include roller speed skating In all national and International events. ♦ * * Yale university has raised $366,919 of the estimated $500,000 required to complete the bowl shaped stadium which it is hoped tc have ready for the big football game with Harvard imxt fall at New Haven. * * * Work has been started on the new Palmer Memorial Stadium at Prince ton. Every effort v 111 be made to complete the structure j n time for the Yale game next November. The plans call for a seating capacity of abu <I,OOO persons. Assistance. “Is your boy, Josh, any help on the farm 7” “Yes," replied Farmer Comtossel “He has told me a whole lot abotil runnin' an automobile that'll be a great help when 1 get one ” Children Cry FOR FLETCHER’S CASTORI A NOTES meadowbrook fyli FARM Be careful In feeding rape to cows. * • * Pigs suffer from the heat and hot sun. |• • • Don't put the sheep out In a wet pasture. • • • Cool cieam to churning temperature as soon us ripe. • * * Always select the best heifers for ' breeding purposes. • • * There is many a farmer who sells | caeam and buys butler. * * * Raise and finish beef cattle op th® same farm when possible. * • • tVatch for any kind of vermin on chicks, especially head lice. ♦ * • The pig Is not filthy because ha wants to be. Just try and see, • • • Rape is better for sheep and hog pasture than for any other stock. • * * Moldy litter should never be al lowed in a brooder or brooder house. • * • Begin feeding a pig as soon as it will eat and keep It growing until mature. • • • Black leg Is a disease that will very | seldom affect cattle over two years : old. • • • Ninety per cent of the farms of this country are said to he without any sheep. • • Some men whip their horses be cause they are in a bad frame of mind I . themselves, • • • In case the sow produces only one Utter per year she is liable to be a poor breeder. • • it Is best to feed young calves three times a day. They relish their dinner the same as you do, • • • Pse Hie horse much us you would a human being and the treatment will not bo much astray, • • • Feeding a Utile linseed meal occa sionally to stock Is beneficial, keeping [ the system regulated. * • • Animal husbandry Is sure to be profitable in years to come, on account of the high prices of meat. * * * The best site for a poultry house In any location is one where good water and air drainage are available. • • • Some farmers believe in cutting al- j falfa hay before it is one-tenth in bloom, although this is not common. t • • Frequent rubbing and handling of the udder at calving time is beneficial to the cow and profitable to the owner. • * * If we count the fertilizer value ol good rich manure at the market price one ton of manure Is worth $2.50 to $3. • • • The German farmer keeps more live stock and makes a better use of all other sources of plant food than we do. • • • Look well after the early chicks They will pay well if given good treat- | incut, otherwise it is best to not have any at all. • • • • The feeder of any variety of stock Should never neglect to feed u variety of feeds when it is at all possible for him to do so. • • • Don’t use strong powder to dust a hen with a young brood. Such prac tise often results In killing the chicks along with the lice. You feed your cattle and horses and hogs from the products of the fields— yes, and your fa Hilly, too. What are you feeding your land? ... | Practical farmers and truckers use the two-horse manure spreader—the | manure Is thoroughly cut up and spread evenly over the ground. ... At this season of the year hundreds of thousands of day-old chicks are shipped right from the incubators to polnte up to one thousand miles dis tant. ♦ • • When weaning the pigs use the creep which admits the pigs but ex eludes the sow from the pen where the slop is constantly available for (he youngsters. • . Truckers and gardeners apply eight to ten tons of rotted manure spread broadcast on top of the ground and well harrowed in. and then drill the seed in with about 400 pounds of fer tilizer to the acre. .. - . Sheep and lambs are often decep tive to the eye. A short legged, short bod|cd sheep Ik often heavier and will produce more wool than one that looks to be twice as large. As a rule great coarse looking sheep are not desirable. ... The time for cutting alfalfa varies with the use for which it Is Intended, If the purpose Is to get the larges! tonnage, the best time to out the crop is w hen It Is about one-tenth In bloom, or when the young shoots are begin ning to show at the base of the plant. ATTENTION TO CHICKS WARM BROODER AND PROPER RA TION ARE ESSENTIAL. Egg® Should Be From Carefully Se lected Stock, Well Fed and Housed to Prcduce Sturdy Stock —What to Feed. (By DR. SANBORN. Holden, Mass. Copy right, mu.) There Is less fuss In rearing of chicks than a few years ago. A warm brooder, some fine litter, cracked grain and grit, with perhaps a mash con taining ground grain and animal food, and you should raise 90 per cent of the chicks. Every chick deserves to be W'ell hatched, of sturdy ancestry and prop erly reared. The eggs should be from carefully selected stock, well housed j and fed, to produce chicks that stand j adverse conditions. The hen or incu i bator should do its part well, as many : - a slip is made between the laying of the egg and the hatching of the chick, j I prefer the lamp heated brootfer to j either the hen or the bealkss brooder, \ for while somt hens do good brooding ! ; and in some seasons you can raise i good chicks with the tireless brooder, ; yet for easy, successful brooding of 50 chicks my preference is for the j heated brooder. The chieks, when dry, are taken from the hen or machine and trans- | ferred to the well warmed brooder. 1 prefer It should be fully as warm un der the hover as was the Incubator, then, if too hot, the chicks can be spread out Into the less warm part ol the brooder floor, or If at any hour the temperature drops the chicks can retire to a warmer place under the hover. . What to Feed “hem. At tlie start the chicks g< t cool wa ter to drink and only the food that is ■ j in the barn waste is used to cover the I brooder floor. Really they need no 1 food, and w hat they find in the wusto ! is plenty. When a few days old they i need light feeding of cracked wheat, j good fish or beef scrap (personally 1 i have found nothing better than a good grade of fish scrap) addi d at eight days of age and finely cracked, dry corn at ten to twelve days. It is im portant that all chick feed be sound, j sweet and clean. Avoid musty corn, | scrap that is fit only for fertilizer, ] and stale drinking water. Unless I there Is some grit in the barn waste that Is used for brooder door tt should l bo supplied- Chicks need a whrm place to retire to when cold, an open room to get out Inio and exercise, as well as a' grass run to range over when two weeks old. Close confine ment to hot brooders tends to give leg weakness. As the chieks grow In age the heat of the brooder can he reduced to about 80 degrees. Too many chicks are hatched that are doomed to die because from weak i stock or incubated wrongly, but the blame is usually laid on the brooder Yearling hens make the best of breed ers. OVERFLOW FOR BARREL-TANK Pipe Can Be Removed if Desired and Water Level Changed by Taking Out One of Corks. Deeming it unnecessary to add an | overflow to a barrel section which I had fitted up for a tank and not ear ing to remove any of the attached pipes, I slipped a piece of rubber tubing over the end of a piece of pipe so as to make a water-tight fit, and in serted it in the outlet In the manner |m f Vrggffl I psj ‘ iV——— I 1 T’ 1 ! [) [] 'YJiaxßnzjxnr r* ;| Detachable Overflow. shown, writes Janies M. Kane of Doylestown, Ba„ in Popular Mechanics. Holes were drilled in the pipe at in tervals and plugged* with corks. The water can be made to overflow al any height by removing a cork in the pipe at that level. The rubber tubing can be discarded and the pipe threaded to fit into the waste nut at the bottom. Continuous Problem. I “We sent Gladys Ann to cooking school to get her mind off her piano I playing,” said Mr. Cumrox. "Did the plan succeed?" “Yes. Now we’re trying to persuade her to study political economy so as to get her mind off the cooking.” Confused. "1 don’t believe Henrietta will read any more of iter speeches to me," said Mr. Meek I on. “Why not?" “Yesterday I applauded at the place where her manuscript was marked ‘laughter’ and laughed where it was marked applause.’ ’’ Did Not Retire. “What made you retire from poll tics?" “I didn't retire," replied the states man who is not working Just now. "The word ’retire’ suggests voluntary repose, 1 lapsed uncon sciousness by' being sandbagged.” Measurement. "1 had to pay sl7 for a ticket to Chi cago," said one woman. "It seems expensive." commented the other. "Terribly. And there wasn’t more than a yard and a quarter of the ticket, at that.” Children Ory FOR FLETCHER’S CASTO R I A Children Cry for Fletcher's The Kind You Have Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has homo tho signature of /f and has been made under his per //* sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. AH Counterfeits, imitations and “ Juwt-as-good ” are hut Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless siihstitnte for Castor Oil, Parc gorle, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Kareotlc substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys AVorms and allays Feverishness. For more than tl I.ty years it has been iu constant use for tiie relief of Constipation, Flatuleney, A* ind Colie, all Teaching' Troubles and Diarrhma. 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