The Washburn leader. [volume], September 02, 1910, Image 7

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THE DAIRY UPLIFT
MOVEMENT IN IOWA
Iowa is to be the scene of a dis
tinctly new und original dairy uplift
movement. The work is to be carried
on through the co-operation of the
United States department of agricul
ture, the Iowa State Dairy association
and the Iowa Agricultural college, says
Kimball's Dairy Farmer. The idea is
to develop a higher standard of dairy
ing along every line. E. B. Heaton is
a.to
be in charge of the movement. Com
*imnities that have not fully appreciat
ed the possibilities of dairying have
been selected as the point from which
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will be carried on.
The work is to be more especially
Valong the line of dairy production than
/along that of manufacture. Hereto
fore the majority of attention has been
given to the latter. Mr. Heaton will
go into one of the communities and
work with the idea of encouraging the
farmer to better and more liberal pro
duction through more careful feeding
and care of the stock, through the
.brooding of better stock and the elim
ination of tile unprofitable cows. In
this point the work is very largely sup
plementary to the work of the Cow
Testing association, but it is the plan
to go several steps further and to en
courage more advanced methods of
sanitation, feeding, breeding, farm
management and a higher tone of liv
ing generally upon the dairy farm.
It is to be virtually a dairy uplift—a
movement thai shall take the industry
out of the class of drudgery, to which
it has been relegated by those who
have been unsuccessful or who are lim
listless to carry on the business profit
ably and put it in the class of profes-
HTU DENTS TEST1NO MliiK IN LiAHOKATOItY.
sional work—work that, remunerates
the owner ami the workman, not only
with liberal dividends, but with satis
faction as well. Hotter care of the
milk will be explained and encouraged,
a general spirit of cooperation will be
developed, and in fact everything that
can lie done to bring about a better
condition of affairs will be undertaken.
In many parts of the state, especially
those places that will be most favora
ble to work of this kind, there is need
of more up to date knowledge along
the line of crops most suitable for
profitable dairying, it will be part of
Mr. Heaton's work to advise in this
line also. No small share of the cam
paign will be the encouragement of
dairy education through the means of
most approved dairy literature and
magazines.
Cost to Feed Work 'Horses.
Experiments were made at the
Michigan station (bulletin 254i to de
termine the cost of feeding work
horses during winter. Twelve horses,
averaging in weight from 1.230 to
1,300 pounds, were fed for ten weeks
The horses worked forty-five days out
of seventy. Six of the horses were
fed the regular feed of from eleven to
twelve pounds grain and eighteen to
twenty pounds of tlmothjw daily, in
addition to a light feed of bran once
a week. The average rations for tbe
otlier six horses were: Morning meal
oat straw, five pounds: carrots, four
pounds ear corn, three pounds Noon
feed—timothy hay. four pounds: oats,
two pounds. Night feed—shredded
cornstalks, eight pounds: carrots, fotii
pouuds: feed mixture, two—conslstini
of dried beet pulp, four oil cuke, one
The weight of the horses remained
unchanged. According to Michigan
prices of feeding stuffs, the average
dally cost of regular rations was -!H
cents, the other rations 17.7 cents
Rap* Valuable For Calves.
The value of rape as a food for
calves is uot well understood. If ft
were much more would lie .sown. A
•mall patch of rape growu on rich
II will furnish an enormous amount
food for calves. It may be fed by
ttlng and fea^lnR in the paddocks
or lots, or It may be grazed by the
calves. It makes the rape go further
^to cut It and regulaites: better tbe
^quantity to be fed. but It saves labor
to grace. Whether cut or graced, tbis
rape should be grown uot far distant
from the paddocks to effect a saving
'v In time. It Is best grown on land that
has been made very rich, but it, will
grow on any good soil.
k:',,Filth In the Hog Tpoufch.
Tbe experience and tbe observation
of the best posted In bog. raising are
of otie accord that one of tbe greatest
If pot the greatest of all seed beds ot
disease for tbe growing pigs lies In
ib* filth In the bog trough. There Is
but little exense for this when sani
tary troughs either of cement or cf
cast Iron are so near nt band and so
cheap. Thumpy pigs are often start
ed. with trough filth. Don't take tbe
risk. Uet a sanitary trough of some
indand keep It clean, fi
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SMOKELESS PEAT FUEL
New Method of Extracting Water
Makes Combustion Complete.
Consular Agent John B. Brewer of
Weisbaden furnishes the following in
formation concerning the invention of
a German engineer which, it is claim
ed. will tnake peat "the ideal fuel:"
At a time when the superiority of
oil as fuel for seagoing vessels is
eagerly discussed and tested there has
come to my notice an invention re
garding the production of a new fuel
which seems destined to play an equal
ly prominent part in industrial as well
as in domestic life and to form an im
portant chapter in tbe problem of thi
preservation of tbe natural resources
of tbe United States.
A civil engineer, having his experi
mental plant in tbis district, has found
and patented a very simple process for
extracting at little expense all water
from peat, of which inexhaustible
quantities are found the world over
inexhaustible because of the continu
ous and steady growth of new peat
formations after exploitation of the
old.
Knowing that millions of dollars had
been spent in the past for the purpose
of completely extracting water from
peat on a large scale by powerful
pressure as well as by electricity, my
attitude toward the new claim was
rather skeptical for some time, and
therefore I hesitated to report thereon
until I had consulted scientists and
experts and until the experiments and
tests made before me personally had
convinced me of the value of the dis
covery.
The briquets made from the ma
terial so treated furnish a fuel which
appears far superior to the best coal,
as to caloric power, low price, small
specific weight and absence of all
smoke and ashes during and after
combustion.
The freedom from water is accom
plished by the admixture of peat coke
to tIn? peat before pressing in the pro
portion .of one to fifteen. As no ex
traneous substance is used, there is
complete independence from other in
gredients. The pressing proper is done
by specially constructed and patented
machinery of a simple kind. As the
three main elements of peat are car
bon. hydrogen and oxygen, the process
of combustion leaves hardly any ashes
and must seem ideal, since peat con
tains neither sulphur nor phosphorus
nor any other Ingredient to which tbe
ordinary smoke nuisance is due.
HOW TO COLOR STEEL.
Method of Making Permanent Black
Free From Rust.
To insure success tbe steel articles
must previously be polished and freed
from grease. When this is done pre
pare a bath of 1.000 parts of hot wa
ter and dissolve the following cliemi
cals in it: Five parts of caustic pot
ash. ten parts of cyanide, five parts of
potassium chlorate, one-fifth part of
white arsenic and twenty parts of
Schlippe's salt (sulph-antimoniate of
sodium).
Use the batb with zinc contact. If It
is of moderate temperature the color
will range from pearl gray to gray
black. By adding about twenty parts
of copper heinisulphide it will become
deep black. It is advisable previously
to mat tiie article with the steel mat
ting brush.
The second process is to be applied
cold and without any contact. Coat
the articles b.v means of a brush with
a solution consisting of two parts of
hydrochloric acid, two parts of water
and one part of tin salt.
After about fifteen minutes coat
with a copper solution of one part of
vine vitriol In sixteen parts of wa
ter. with the addition of sufficient
aqueous ammonia to dissolve tbe blue
deposit which has been formed to a
clear blue fluid. Wben the article Is
dry after this process wash It well
with water and place it for a few min
utes in a diluted solution of potassium
sulphide. Then remove It. rinse it
well witli water and dry it. A dead
gray black color will be obtained
by tbis process.—journal der Gold
schmledekunst.
Talking Lighthouses.
Wonderful possibilities are claimed
for a Swedish invention called the
photographoue. by means of which It
is said hat sound waves can
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tered ou a sensitized plate. The nega
tive is developed In tbe ordinary way
and the sound curves transferred to
ebony plates, from which the sound is
reproduced as by the gramophone.
The photographone records can be re
produced ad infinitum, and if tbe orig
inal uiuslc or song should uot be strong
enough to All a large concert ball the
sound can -be Increased as desired. On
account of (be immense volume of the
sound tbe Inventor prophesies that tbe
pbotograpbone will replace fog sirens
In lighthouses. Instead of tbe Inartic
ulate bowl wblcb tbe sirens send out
In the night the pbotographonlc fog
horn will call out tbe name of tlit
lighthouse for miles over the ocean.
Headachss From Silk Hats.
Trench physician and scientist
who long has wondered at tbe warmth
of his head tinder a hot sun has taken
temperatures luside tbe glossy black
tile which so long has lieen worn by
humanity. He discovers'that when an
outside thermometer registers SX) de
grees iu the shade the air content in
side the hat Is at 108 degrees at only
tiS degrees outside the silk hilt bore
registers MS degrees. From this wide
difference of temperature he has rea
soned that- headaches and various
forms iif. nervous disorders may attack
«hp wearer.
MAIL CATCHING DEVICE.
Delivers and Receives Mail Bags From
Moving Trains.
A new mail catching device which
not only delivers mail bags to fast
moving trains, but receives them as
well, handling two or more bags as
easily as one. is being installed on tbe
Freeport division of the Illinois Cen
tral railroad.
The unique feature of the catching
device is the baggy steel chain nets,
which operate in the following inan-
DEVICE IN OPEliATIVE POSITION.
ner: Attached to the outside of the
mail car is a square steel frame, to
which fhe chain net is attached. This
frame is made to swing on hinges at
tached to sliding bars so as to permit
the device to be quickly shifted from
one side of lie car door to the other,
according to the direction in which the
car is moving. Attached to the lower
outside corner of the frame is the one
end of an iron rod. with the other end
traveling on a bar attached to the car
side containing a set of spiral springs
so adjusted as to bear b.v compression
the shock resulting from the frame
and net catching the mail bags. On
the same outside corner of the frame,
below where the rod is attached, is a
hook or finger for the attachment of
the bags to be delivered.
The roadside device, which acts in
conjunction with the one attached to
the side of the car. is similar in all re
spects. except that the bags it delivers
to tbe train are hung above the re
ceiving net. while with the car device
the bags hang below the net.
The illustrations show clearly how
the device operates. One of them
shows the car approaching the road
side catcher, with two bags in position
to be delivered to the station and one
TBE MAIL EXCHANGED.
bag in position to be delivered to the
train. The devices meet as lie train
rushes past, and the exchange is made,
the force of impact being absorbed in
the slack of the chain net and by
spiral springs. The reflex action of
the springs throws the frames and
chain nets back, as shown in the lower
illustration, with the mail bag sur
rounded by tbe nets.—Popular Me
chanics.
Revolution In Gasmaking.
By use of vertical retorts an Eng
lish inventor has so improved tlie sys
tem of gastnaking that Ids work prom
ises what is practically a revolution
in this industry. By constructing re
torts that are fed from the top and by
providing for new circulation of hot
gases the desiguer has lessened tbe
cost of production and raised the qual
ity of all the products of tbe gasmak
ing process to a wonderful degree. The
principal feature of his improvement
is the continuous carbonization of coal,
which he has secured in place of the
older intermittent process. Instead of
constant fresh drawing and changing
of retorts, requiring the labor of many
men. lie has accomplished an unbroken
feed of coal and ejectment of coke
without waste, with little handling
and without any of tbe extremely un
pleasant accompaniments of former
processes. He has produced gas at a
cost of only a fraction of former costs
and has increased the volume and tbe
ease of manufacture for space and
capital Involved.
Paint Ore of Pennsylvania.
Beds of "paint ore," an iron carbon
ate containing 33 per ceut of metallic
Iron, are found In southern Carbon
county. In Pennsylvania. In au east and
west strip that ranges In width from
half a mile to two miles and Is about
twenty miles long. Tbe ore occurs iu
a two foot bed that lies between a ce
ment rock and a clay bed. It Is mined
at two places. The paint made from
it Is free from grit. Is very .durable
and requires no drier. It Is mixed
with boiled Unseed oil and usfed for
painting ships, railroad cars, tin roofs
and other metal surfaces, ami also as
A filler for oilcloth and linoleum.
The Lizard Fog Bell,
The British government has placed
a submarine bell off the Lizard. It Is
suspended from' a heavy tripod, which
was lowered to the bed of tbe ocean
at a point about two miles from land.
Tbe bell Is connected by cable with
tbe lighthouse, from which It is op
erated. It is anticipated that, since
steamers passing np tbe channel all
approach the Lizard. tbe bell will be
of great assistance to them, particular
ly In time of fog.
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To Improve Sbldsr.
The addition of cadmium to soft
solder composed of tin and lead lowers
Its melting point qnd Increases its
strength.
THE GROSS GRAZE
IN BREEDING,
Those who are unvoted with the
cross eraze, whether in bogs. cattle or
horses, should select the breed that
suits them best. As a rule, the best
breed for any one is the breed lie likes
best or of whicb lie can secure well
bred sires with the least trouble and
expense, writes W. II. Underwood in
Country Gentleman. If a man likes
Poland-Chinas and can get good sires
of thai breed he should by all means
breed I'oland-Chinas: if the Chester
Whites, lie should select that breed.
TYPICAL, HEAD OK GALLOWAY HULL.
If he likes Tamworths for the good
they can do. especially if lit.- has bis
pigs come in May and .June and keeps
them through the year, then lie should
get the Tamworths.
Then, in selecting males, always
have the breeder give an extended
pedigree—that is, a pedigree that will
show the breeding for at least four
generations on each side. Note bow
often it goes back of some particular
sire. Running back two or three times
would nor be objectionable, possibly
would be desirable, but one should be
sure that lie is not breeding so close
in line as to injure the vitality of the
herd. The same law that applies to
hogs applies to other live stock and
to plants as well. Every corn breeder
knows that if he plants two kliuls of
corn in close proximity and uses the
resulting crop for seed purposes, no
matter how carefully lie selects, he
cannot have corn of a uniform type.
Some cattle breeders make the mis
take of crossing breeds tor the pur
pose fit combining the excellencies of
each breed. I have known men to use
Jersey bulls on common niws or
grades with the idea that mey would
secure the milking qualities of the
Jersey and the beef qualities ot the
Shorthorn or Aberdeen-Angus, as the
case might lie. The probability is that
the progeny will not be particularly
good for beef and not worth anything
for milk.
It is not uncommon to see horses
that have trotting bred legs and draft
bodies or draft legs and trotting bred
bodies—the worst mongrels that could
possibly profane good grain and grass
by eating it. There are so called
breeds so closely related that crossing
is not objectionable—for example, the
Clyde horse and the Shire, which are
simply types of the same original
breed, the variations being caused by
local environment
How to Relieve Impaction.
When a sick horse lies down and
doesn't struggle, but raises its head
and looks anxiously at its tlauks and
refuses to eat. it isn't colic that ails it
it is impaction, or failure of the bow
els to move, says Kami and Kireside.
Some quacks begin to dose with strong
medicine, but tbe only common sense
method i« to drench with raw linseed
oil and inject a gallon of warm (uot
hoti soapsuds, made with pure castile
soap, being careful not to puinp too
hard.
If this falls—and it sometimes does
grease the hand and arm to the lion I
der with lard, insert in (lie large Intes
tine and claw out the obstruction with
tbe hand. It is not a nice Job. imt
there are plenty of soap and warm wa
ter In the world, and the' life of a.horse
is of more value than a little overclaim
tlness.
Dairy Cleanliness.
No milk utensils will keep sweet un
less thoroughly washed and scalded
every time tbe.v are used. The milk
adhering should first be rinsed off wito
cold or lukewarm water Then wasli
thoroughly with hot water to which
wilsoda or some good washing powder
is added Avoid soap for cleansing
m!lk things. A brush will frequentiy
looseu dirt wblcb. a clotb will not re
move. Scald thoroughly In boiliug wa
ter Simply hot water will not de
stroy tbe bacteria. It must be boil
ing. Dralu ou a sunny shelf and let
tbe sun dry and purify them still fur
ther. Dash cold water over them to
cool liefore using.
The Sheep a Fertilizer.
The sheep is tbe fertilizing friend of
tbe farmer. It returns to the soil SO
per cent of what It consumes in tbe
way of fertility: It will eat what other
animals will not touch It is a browser
«nd bites close It will cbew weeds and
fraste right down to tbe roots and In
new country will eat off young scrub
us fast as It makes Its appearance.
All tbe while it is engaged In tbis
good work of fertilizing tbe land and
putting It Into condition to yield Its
increase tbe sheep is piling on wool
mid making muttou out of tbe weeds
and rubltlKb and thereby returning to
the farmer a little on each ksnd.
"Ills Soul Is arching On."
The dedication of .lohn Brown park
covering the Osawatomle battlefield,
with Colonel Roosevelt delivering the
dedication address, furnishes an exam
ple of the way the tree of fame some
times grows. At the time of his death
in 1S59 Brown was held in slight es
teem. Ills tragic end made a pro
found stir, it is true, but few were
heard openly to defend him. He was
executed as a criminal, and the great
mass of people, even in the north, re
garded him as a madman. Yet a scant
fifty-one years have passed and a for
mer president of the United States
makes an extended journey to dedi
cate a park in his honor.
What has produced the change? The
•war and,its outcome, of course, affected
the world's opinion of I'.rown, as they
did that held of all tbe abolitionists.
The song •Molm Brown's Body" per
haps had a more potent charm. The
mellowing touch of time has also been
at work. But has there not been a.
more subtle force behind it all? The
man's bravery, his deeply religious
character. Ills tender heart and gener
osity and, greatest of all, his deatli
for what he deemed the right, all of
these appeal to the world's heart and
imagination. The fame of the early
martyrs was made up of just such ele
ments as these.
Osawatomle exhibits various stages
in the evolution of John Brown's fame.
Thirty-three years ago a monument
Was there dedicated to him. .lohn
Haines Iugalls was the orator. Four
years ago a semicentennial was cele
brated with Vice President Fairbanks
the chief speaker. Now comes the cli
max with the chief citizen of the re
public making the address. Is the
despised "madman" becoming one of
the immortals?
,1. A. EUCEKTON.
What a pity that some of the fertil
ity of invention that expends itself in
devising war materials cannot be util
ized in fighting forest fires!
The fiction that liens are being fed
small hardware tilings to make their
eggs weigh more should be promptly
nailed.
•If the census discovers any city that
has gone back in population race sui
cide will get the job of explaining.
It's astonishing what a big hole it
makes in a city to have just two or
three nice girls go away from it.
The new Lincoln cents have strange
ly disappeared. Stop your hoarding.
Titles For Sale.
There recently appeared in the want
ad. columns of a New York morning
paper the following "personal:"
Will sell a title of French marquis dat
ing back to 1400. For particulars addrsss
A. Uruchaut, a Lnrsente. par Condom
(CJers). France.
The world has long believed that
titles were for sale in Europe. The
prices varied, and the actual transac
tions were more or less veiled. In
some cases the belief has become cer
tainty as the actual transfer for cash
lias been apparent. It has long been
rumored about England that baronet
cies and peerages were given as a re
ward for campaign contributions,
somewhat as offices are—or at least
were—parceled out with us. In other
countries there are other methods, but
the results are the same. All of this
takes no account of tbe titled mar
riages with American heiresses, to
characterize which is unnecessary,
aud to do it adequately Is perhaps im
possible.
The "French marquis" who offers
this advertisement is therefore follow
ing a common custom. He is only a
little bolder about it and does not beat
the devil about the bush. He bas a
title to offer at auction and frankly
says so. Aud wb.v not? Other trin
kets and baubles are put up for sale.
Besides, everybody is convinced that
there Is a traffic in titles. Why not set
It forth baldly in its true colors?
If New York restores the King
George statue which was destroyed in
the revolution. London should recipro
cate b.v setting up oiie of George Wash
ington. It doesn't want to be behind
Paris.
Tbe maharajah of Mourbhanj is
worried about the bears in bis country,
which kill 200 of his subjects every
year. That's nothing to what the Wall
street bears do.
Tbe food expert who tells us that
sand may be eaten with benefit does
wrong to add to tbe temptations of the
sugar business.
Cblua is said to be substituting cig
arettes for opium. China should learn
to accept
iio
substitutes.
Tbe next session promises to be so
Interesting I bat Uucle Joe Cannou
would bate to miss It.
Now we begin to understand why the
colonel needed that year's vacation.
The farm vote Is more apt to vote as
It reap* than t|s It sows. ..
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NfcWS UK KUTht) PERSONS
President Tat't. in a letter to Lloyd
C. Criscoin, chairman of the Now
York county Republican committee,
declares tnat he never took any part
in a committee cabal to defeat Colo
nel Roosevelt for temporary chairman
oi' tile New York licpublicaii state
convention. On the contrary, he ex
plicitly deplored the result of the com
mittee meeting which chose Vice Pres
ident Sherman he rebukes tin party
leaders who "have permuted it to go
abroad uncontradicted that the presi
dent. was behind their lactioua! pref
erences he insists that at every op
portunity he advised the fullest con
ference with Colonel Roosevelt and In
explains that he has been pained by
the "columns of unfounded assertions
in the newspapers concerning my atti
tude in respect to the New York sit
uation."
Theodore Roosevelt was given a
typical Western welcome at Cheyenne.
Wyo. The thousands who gathered
at the station to meet his train were
not there to greet a former president
of the I'nited States. 'I'hey assem
bled to cheer Theodore Roosevelt, the
cowman who ran a brand on the Lit
tle .Missouri years ago the former
broncho "peeler" and Dakota deputy
sheriff, anil to greet him as a comrade
of the range.
When congress convenes in Decem
ber I'nited States Senator Cummins of
Iowa expects to propose the enact
ment of a federal primary law yiu-
OwyritTht.. bv American
Press AKSO,.'Siit ion.
SENATOR CUMMINS.
viding for the nomination of candi
dates for president and vice president
at nationwide primary elections.
The Middle West gave former Presi
dent Roosevelt a warm greeting. The
people gathered in crowds at all places*
at which he stopped. They slood ut
roofs, climbed telegraph poles and
scrambled on top of cars on the sid
ings to see him when tile crowds on
the ground grew so large that there
was no other way. They began tftc-ir
welcouie before Colonel Roosevelt was
out of bed and kept it up until after
dark.
Colonel Roosevelt avoided any for
mal reception during a stay of a little
more than au hour in Chicago, but in
stead spent half an hour the guest of
the newspaper reporters at the Chi
cago Newspaper club. The rest of the
time, while his car was being switched
to the Chicago and Northwestern de
pot. he spent in an automobile ridtr
about the city.
Mayor Caynor has been removed
from St. Mary's hospital in Hobokeit
to Deep Wells, bis country home at.
St. James, L. 1. lie bore the trip well,
but his insistent plea to be aR-uwed
to walk unaided resulted in several
distressing incidents.
By a special agreement authorised
under an old Missouri law the cfrcuit
court of .lackson county granted the
application of Mrs. Jack Cudaby ut'
Kansas City for a divorce on the*
ground of general Incompatibility.
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
Careful though unofficial analysis of
the returns from the thirteenth censuir
on cities thus far announced reveals
the fact that the increased rate or
urban growth for tbe past decade over
that of 1890 to 1900 has been confined
largely to places having a population
of less than 50,000. While universally
there has been a healthy increase, iit
a large majority of cities exceeding
50,000 the rate of tbe previous decadt
has not been maintained.
Beginning Sept. 1 all passenger
travel in Arkansas will be at tbe rar*
of 3 cents a mile. An announcement
to this effect Is made by the several:
railroads which agreed to give a 2%
cent rate a trial some months sguu
The agreement will expire shortly
and notice is given that the 3-cei.:
rate will be re-established.
That the financial world, or at len
that part of it represented by Whit
street, regards Colonel Roosevelt a
a menace to business and a danger
ous politician, was the declaration or
R. C. Du Val, a New York stock broker
and banker.
The population of the stat« of Micb
igan is 2,810,173, an increase of 389,
191, or 16.1 per cent, as compared with
2.420,962 in l»00.
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