The Washburn leader. [volume], March 02, 1917, Image 3

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GOOD ROADS HELP CHILDREN
Improved Highways of Great Benefit
to Them in Going and Coming
From Country Schools.
The rural population is more willing
to support better schools today than
at any previous time. It Is being re
alized that all educational activities or
agencies must be more or less cor
related, and, more than all else, that
they must be more accessible to the
children. In many counties where
bad roads prevail, most of the schools
are of the antiquated one-room va
riety. They are usually located along
t»ad roads which, during the winter,
•when the schools are usually in ses
sion, become so nearly impassable as
to make it difficult for the children to
Teach them. This condition causes
irregular attendance and restricts the
educational opportunities of the child.
Not only this, but it often impedes the
•economic consolidation of these small-
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er schools into larger, stronger graded
schools, with high school courses,
directed by a competent principal and
corps of teachers.
On the other hand, in counties
which have improved their roads, the
schools are easily reached, the aver
age attendance greater, the efficiency
largely Increased and economic con
solidation made possible. Regular at
tendance at school means consistent
and regular growth of both school
and pupil, and consolidation of schools
means a maximum of efficiency at a
minimum of cost. It Is also note
worthy that there Is a marked tend
ency for the consolidated school to be
come the social and Intellectual cen
ter of the community. Most modern
rural schoolhouses are so constructed
as to serve the community as gather
ing places for various kinds of public
meetings, and where vans are used to
convey the children to school during
the day they are frequently pressed
Into service to haul the farmers and
their wives to institute work, lectures,
or entertainments at the schoolhouse.
The consolidated school becomes a
sort of community center to which all
educational and social activities con
verge, and In order that It may pro
perly perform that function all of-the
highways leading to It should be so
.improved as .to render it readily ac«
cesstble throughout the year.
PERILOUS RAZOR-BACK ROADS
Miniature Mountain Ranges Should
Not Be Maintained in Center—
They Are Dangerous.
If you have ever ridden along a
country road which has been worked
to a peak in the center so that your
load tilted one way while you tried to
keep your balance by tilting the other,
you know what the wrong kind of road
dragging is.
Roads so dragged should be reported
to the road supervisor, or the county
engineer. Such roads are positively
dangerous.
Help the good roads cause by seeing
that the roads of your vicinity are not
made miniature mountain ranges.
ROAD VERY SIMILAR~TO LIFE
Rough Road Is Interesting, but We
Must Travel: Over It Slowly and
Quite Carefully.
How much a road is like life. The
sood road is like life at its best
smooth sailing, and enjoyable. A rough
road Is. like life at its worst. A rough
road Is interesting, but we have to
traverse It slowly and carefully.
Conserve 8oll Fertility.
V Soil fertility can be conserved" by
v the pse of good crop rotations which
Include the legumes, by feeding all
.• crops on the place where they are
grown by the capful return of all ma
nures to the soil.
Care for Farm Machinery.
•The farm machinery is only nsed for
a short period, but must work contin
uously- when being used.: Hence It
most be in good running order tod
properly adjusted.
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STAND FOR SPROUTING OATS
One of Simpler Forms of 8prouters
May Be Constructed by Poultry
man at Little Expense.
On the farm, where the poultry has
free range, they do not lack for green
food during the summer, late spring
and early autumn. In the absence of
a supply of roots and vegetables,
sprouted oats may be fed with splendid
results in winter. The egg production
of farm flocks given a feed of sprouted
oats daily during the winter will In
crease materially and the flock will go
Into the spring hatching season In
Oat-Sprouting Cabinet
much better condition than if green
food is not Included in the ration. The
hens never tire of fresh, tender sprout
ed oats, and of all green foods they
seem to relish this the most.
The simplest method of sprouting
oats which we have ever used is a rack
made about 30 inches square and 5
feet high, says a writer in Farmers'
Mall and Breeze. Wooden trays 2
inches deep and 30 inches square are
made to fit this rack and slide in and
out on cleats nailed to each side of
the rack. These cleats are placed
about 8 or 10 inches apart. In the
bottom of each tray we bore gimlet
holes so the water wiU drain from the
oats. We place the rack in some base
ment or cellar. We soak the oats in
water over night, and the next morn
ing these are placed in a tray and
spread out until they are about 1M»
inches deep. The oats are sprinkled
each day and no artificial heat is used.
In six or seven days' time the oats are
ready for use. Where we use no arti
ficial heat we are not troubled with
mold. This is a cheap and easy meth
od of providing green food if you are
properly equipped for sprouting oats.
VENTILATION OF HEN HOUSE
Open-Front Method of Construction,
Muslin Front and Wind Bafflers
Keep Out Dampness.
Eliminate the dampness by proper
ventilation and the house will be dry
and free from frost. This is accom
plished by the open-front method of
construction, the muslin front, and the
wind bafflers or shutters.
When muslin is used, allow one
square foot of muslin placed on the
south side to every 15 square feet of
floor .. space in houses of 15 feet In
width. If the house is ten feet Wide,
use one square foot of muslin to 20
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Wind Bafflers.
feet of floor space, says Twentieth Cen
tury Farmer. In houses 20 feet in
width allow one square foot of muslin
to every 10 square feet of floor space.
The above rule also applies for the
installation of the shutter or wind-baf
fler.
The illustrated types of wind baf
flers have been found satisfactory for
poultry houses and may be made
from either galvanized Iron or wood.
In constructing the above bafflers
use l-by-4s and leave one inch space
between for circulation.
POULTRY NEED FRESH WATER
Permanganate of Potash Acts as Antl
ssptlo in Preventing Transmission
of Vany Diseases.
Chickens need a constant supply of
fresh water, according to W. A. Lip
plncott, professor of poultry husbandry
In the Kansas Agricultural college.
"Running water is best," says Pro
fessor Lipplncott, "but if this Is not
available, keep the water fresh. Add
enough permanganate of potash to
make It ai wine red This amount will
actasan antiseptic in preventing the
transmission of disease through the
water-and will aid also la keeping
down intestinal pafaaUan"
WATER ON THE FARM.
Important That Dairymen Provide a
Pure and Abundant 8upply.
Nothing Is of greater importance on
a stock farm than an abundant sup
ply of pure water. Few farms have
clear running water or live springs.
It is necessary to provide storage tanks
and pump water from wells, Bays the
Kansas Farmer.
On dairy farms water is of even
greater importance than on general live
stock farms. Milk cows drink more
water than do other animals because
a great deal of water is required for
milk production.
Cows form fixed he jits as to the
time of drinking water and are rest
less and uneasy unless they -can get
In the most important dairy
countries the Holstein breed has
met its rivals and has been de
clared by the majority of dairymen
after an impartial trial to be the
most profitable breed, writes a
correspondent of the Breeder's Ga
zette. The Holstein probably pro
duces more milk and butter than
all other dairy breeds combined,
and it has beep due to the Holstein
cow probably more than all other
causes combined that milk pro
duction in the various countries has
been so greatly increased in the
last few decades. The bull pic
tured is a pure bred Holstein.
all the fresh water they want at the
time they have habitually been getting
it. Fpr this reason there must be
great regularity in supplying the wa
ter. By far the most satisfactory plan
is to have tanks that can be kept filled
at all times.
A stock farm cannot be considered
fully equipped until it has a complete
water system with a* storage tank high
enough to force water wherever it is
needed. Probably no other Improve
ment saves as much labor as does a
water system. On farms where the
tank can be given sufficient elevation
on a hillside it can be built in the
ground of cement^ and the water will
be kept cooler than when stored in
tanks elevated above the ground.
Where an ample storage tank is built
the drinking tanks in the various
yards can be small. This insures the
water being fresher than when It
would be stored in large open tanks.
In addition to having plenty of wa
ter for the stock to drink, a dairy farm
needs water in the room where the
milk is handled and the diary utensils
are washed. There is a lot of drudg
ery in caring for milk and washing
the palls and cans where water has
to be carried. In fact, on a diary farm
one of the first things to plan for is a
water system that will put running,
water wherever-needed. Until this is
done caring for milk is bound to be
drudgery.
The source of the water supply must
be thoroughly dependable, and there
should be no question as to its free
dom from contamination. There is no
quicker way to spread disease than
through a contaminated water supply.
Soiled Razor iiuop.
To clean a razor strop, rub the strop
with a dilute solution of ammonia wa
ter till it is clean.
8slf Solution.
The only one who has never made
any attempt to solve the mystery of
woman is—woman.—Life.
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When you give us an
order for Job Printing of
any kind you take abso
lutely no chance of fail
ure on our part,
We have samples of
all grades and sizes, and
you can see just what
you are going to get be
fore a single type is put
Into a stick.
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THE WA8HBURN LEADER, FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 1917.
DAIRY and
CREAMERY
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Our Business Is
To Attend To
YOUR BUSINESS
with which you entrust us, with
the utmost promptness
We can keep your Coal
filled during all the cold
months of the year with
BITUMINA COAL
that has the best heating
qualities
There never will be such a thing as a
Goal ramine in Washburn
There is always plenty of
coal on hand in the mine
coal sheds and a number of
teamsters who will deliver
it to you on short notice.
it it it it
TEAMSTERS LOADED READY TO LEAVE THE COAL MINE.
Give your coal orders to C. A. Brummund, the Leader
office or a teamster for prompt service.
weather coming ar once
efilling
Write For Prices on Carload Shipments
We have the Quality and Quantity
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Edw. Kugler, Mgr. Washburn, N. D.
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