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PROPAGATING SWEET POTATO BY "SLIPS" | rA ,V AT % Wê m *9» r -V ts**--J & ■1 S' 5 *"' •* a, S' * A Y/ Sweet Potato Slip* In a Cold Frame, Ready to Be Pulled. ft 6 -A, Types of Sweet Potato Leave Vineless. B, Benson. Sweet potatoes are propagated by means of what are called "slips, slip is a sprout which develops from the invisible buds or eyes on the sur face of the sweet potato. The tuber is capable of producing a large num ber of slips, method of propagating sweet potatoes is by means of these slips, they can A While the common FEEDING COTTON-SEED MEAL Result of Tests Made at Arkansas Ex periment Station—Animals Are Affected Differently. The experiments were undertaken mainly to test the effects of various methods of treatment of cotton-seed meal in removing or lessening the toxic action of this feed, write R» R Dinwiddle and A. K. Short, Arkansas Station. Also to learn if any sub stance was removed from cotton-seed meal by simple methods of extraction with aqueous and acid solvents, or by cooking, which would produce in ani mals symptoms comparable with those produced by the untreated meal in corresponding amounts. It was found, in one trial, that "fer mentation" or decomposition of cot ton-seed meal for 48 hours at a tem perature of 20 to 28 degrees Centi grade did not lessen its toxic action when fed to pigs. Cotton-seed meal, from which 2 per cent, more of fat had been removed by extraction with gasoline, showed no diminution of toxicity. In two trials it w r as found that cold aqueous extraction removed from cot ton-seed meal no substance which éould be shown to be toxic for pigs. The extract similarly obtained by dilute hydrochloric acid proved non toxic in one trial. In a second test a temporary sickness occurred in one animal the identity of which with cot ton-seed poisoning was not established. The fluid strained from cotton-seed meal, after prolonged steaming, caused death with symptoms and postmortem changes of cotton-seed poisoning in one case. This fluid, however, was not a clear solution of matters extracted from the meal, btft contained much material in suspension. The meal it self. after such cooking and separation of the fluid, also proved toxic. In young cattle (fattening steers) symptoms of poisoning appeared after a consumption of cotton-seed meal (along with hulls) equal to from 76 to 108 per cent, of the body weight The anatomical lesion of cotton-seed pois of cattle is an interstitial ker on mg atitis which may end in complete blindness. In hogs there is a degeneration of the muscular tissue of the heart and of the parenchyma of the liver and kidneys, with extreme passive conges tion of all the viscera and fluid effusion into the serous cavities, especially the pleura. Hogs which have recovered and gained their thrift did not show, slaughter, any microscopic changes in these organs. It may be noted finally that the ill effet s resulting from the feeding of cotton-seed may be due to a prolonged abeorption of poisonous products gen erated in I he digestive tract by decom position or putrefactive , changes pe culiar to this feed. The problem, how has not yet been approached after ever, from this point of view. Introducing New Hogs. When the new stock sow or boar is received at the farm, put It by itself for a month or six weeks at least If at that time it seems perfectly healthy, and has been improved in flesh, it is safe to put it with the other stock. This is a safe preventive of the in troduction of disease on the farm. KILL SERUM-TREATED SWINE /x i Ten Da >3 Should Elapse Between Vac cination and Butchering—Care fully Note Condition. (By H. PRESTON HOSKINS, Assistant University Farm, St. Veterinarian, Paul, Minn.) "How long after a hog is vaccinated before it can be butchered for food purposes?" we are often asked. ieaet ten days should b© allowed between vaccination and mi to ü also be propagated from cuttings. The cuttings are usually taken from the slips which have been planted in the field and which have made a growth of four to ten incheB. These cuttings taken off and either rooted in a, favorable place or may be trans planted at once into the field. In order to get the slips it is neces sary to bed out the tubers. The corn method of bedding out the sweet are mon potatoes is in a cold frame or hot bed It has been found by many that on the whole better results are obtained from the cold frame than from the hot bed. In .the bottom of a cold frame a layer of sweet potatoes is placed and cov ered over with sand or very sandy soil to a depth of two or three inches. This is then watered well and a glazed cold frame sash is placed over the frame. Occasional sprinkling will be necessary to keep the soil moist dur ing the time the potatoes are sprout ing. Immediately after the first crop of slips is taken off, the sweet potato bed must be sprinkled over thorough ly and if any of the tubers have be exposed they must be covered In ten or fifteen days another of slips Is ready for transplant come over. crop ing. After the second crop of slips is taken off, the sweet potato bed must be treated as before. From three to five crops of slips may be taken off If is taken of the bed. The general care practice is to plant in ridges from three and a half to four feet apart and transplant in the rows from 15 to 18 inches apart. DERIVE BENEFIT FROM PEAS Growing Leguminous and Non-Legumi nous Plants Together Adds Higher Content of Protein. It has long been known that some plants are benefited and some are injured by association. Association seems to be especially beneficial In case of leguminous plants (peas, clover, etc.) and cereals or grasses. Recent investigations, throw new light on the reasons for this beneficial ef fect. It appears that the leguminous plants not only gather nitrogen from the atmosphere by means of their root-tubercle bacteria and are there fore able to make a large growth, but that some of the nitrogen so gathered is passed on to the grain, grass, or other non-leguminous plant associated with it The result is a larger growth of the non-legume and also a higher content fn fk s %\ U I Excellent Length of Vine on a Crop Grown In Marinette County, Wla eonain. of protein, or nitrogenous material, which considerably increases its value as food for stock. Such benefit has been noted from the growth of clover and timothy, alfalfa and timothy, and oats and peas. Other combinations have not been studied. The Increased growth of plants in combination over that of single crops, together with the improved composition of the former, has resulted in some cases in an In crease of more than 30 per cent in the production of protein per acre. This increased value probably extends to the roots and stems left in the soil and means much in the production of food for stock and in soil improve ment. Absorbs Poisonous Fumes. If painting in the inside of a house, place buckets of water around; it ab sorbs the poisonous fumes from the paint which has arsenic in it, espe cially green paint. Cow Unlike a Machine. Remember that the cow is not ex actly like a machine or a mill. You can t put in a certain food and get milk of desired quality. The cow makes it in her own Individual way. butchering. If, at the expiration of this time, the hog appears to be healthy In every way, it is fit for food. If the hog shows any signs of sickness, no matter how slight, it would not be well to butcher it until fully recovered, and then the carcass should not be used if it shows any extensive alterations as the result of the previous illness. Fruit is a highly perishable product and the successful fruit grower is thr one who gives not less study to rm keting his product than to growing *MTOAN tKffi ; Xv v< / * gTpjgi ilii ■Ü gp m \y<> 11 ! I w : *-■ - - i & tvl ill rot aÆ A I Mr. William A. Radford will answer questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the subject of building, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he Is, without doubt, the highest authority on all these subjects. Address all inquiries to William A. Radford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago, 111., and only enclose two-cent stamp for reply. A house 36 by 40 feet is just about the right size when you want four bedroomB with good sized living rooms down stairs. It makes a great dif ference in the cost of building wheth er you have large rooms or small rooms. Many times architects are asked to design an eight-room house with no sizes stipulated, but it is intimated that large rooms are wanted, the plan is finished and the cost com puted there is an objection at opce on the score of expense and the archi tect is asked to reduce the size to come within the owner's means. This is a difficult task.. In the first place the owner has got his Ideas up to a rather pretentious house and he has decided that he wants four bedrooms, which, with bathroom, hall and stairway means that he must either have a house about the size of this one or he must cut down the size of the rooms considerably. The decision usually is to make the rooms smajler, but this often alters the ap pearance of the house until the gen eral effect is disappointing. If a person can stand the expense this eight-room %cuse plan is a good one; the proportions are right and the floor space is utilized to the very best advantage for convenience, sani tation and general utility, when con sidered as a home for a good sized family. A great -deal of time has been de voted to the stairway to make it one of the most complete house stairways ever built. It is easy to look at a stair when finished and admire It, but only architects realize how difficult it is to start with a naked plan and build a stair that will connect all parts .of the house, Including the cellar and the When ■ : : S: : > m :¥ M > m m m m I :#»:■ $ :->x SS -x : - - . i iM ■■ < f'& g ;x * ■ t m V M S* f: m ■' r^j V--: i n ft#; % s, </ /■.' : :• m ' - ? M ■y W. attic, in a neat, convenient combina tion that will not eat into the cubic space unnecessarily. This stairway is the product of the inventive genius of several genera tions of architects and it deserves very careful consideration on the part of the owner when he starts to build. There are many house plans in which the stairway 1» made to occupy a great deal more room than it should, while Interfering with some of the important rooms, but this stair more is fitted into a recess in such a way to take Very little room from the hoiise proper, but it looks well, is convenient of access from all parts of the house and the run is so easy that it will not tire a woman to death using it. In building a house the plan is on© of the first considerations and it is not one to be lightly considered nor quickly chosen. I often recommend intending builders to get a book of house plans and study It thoroughly as .vJÇ S < nrenv/mr mjul 1 ■ t '- -— y t- ■■.■■h First Floor Plan. before deciding on any plan or design. I find that it is necessary for people who are not accustomed to reading architectural drawing to study the subject in this way in order to get a clear Idea of what the plans, eleva tions and specifications really mean. The study of a book of house plans will often result in a building entirely different from the one first decided upon. There are so many different styles of roofs, for instance, and the roof has a good deal to do with the value of the house. If you like the roof you are almost sure to like the house, It is a sort of introduction from a > distance. It is the first thing you see when you approach home at night, and the last thing you see upon leav ing In the morning. A good roof has a good deal to do with the real value as well as the sentimental value of a dwelling. Some roofs are so made that snow piles up in the corners to melt and freeze and back up the water so you have to get up in the night and set pans and jpail8 around at different places to catch the drips. This happens with comparatively new roofs that are im properly constructed. There are • \f^ r. ±*0*00*4 *4-0 arg e *//•«* r® Ä no* 1 im€M not/ noo I s* •r+ J H41L f ttoo n oro *04*4 ±XO BOOM /»* i/4 4 /4 4 0* O Second Floor Plan. good many roofs in the snowy north ern states where considerable shovel ing is necessary after heavy snow The roof must not be too storms. plain, and it must not be too fancy. There is more in the general design than in the fancy features. Next to the general plan and de sign the conveniences for doing the house work are very important. A person builds a house once and lives in ii for years usually. If the range, kitchen sink, pantry, outside doors, cellarway and other working con veniences that a woman uses every day are so placed that she takes a few extra steps each time, the amount of unnecessary labor entailed when multiplied by every day in the year amounts to a great deal in the aggre gate. Every* one likes to see a house look well from the front, but really the most Important thing is the cuii department and the accessories nary thereto. In this plan these important fea tures have received a great deal of consideratfon. They are homely sub jects but we have formed a national habit of eating about three times a day, and that foots up to ipore than thousand meals during the year. Women usually are not adepts at fig ures, but these facts will appeal to who has managed a a every woman house as large as this with a family numerous to fill it Roman Emperor Warred on Flies. The original "swat the fly" man has been discovered. He was Domitian, Roman emperor from SI to 96 A. D. History records little good of Domi tian, but it does say that he antici pated the anti-fly movement by more than 1,800 years. Maltreating the buzzing pests was his favorite amuse ment, it is recorded, but he was not animated by a desire to save babies' lives or avert epidemics. One biographer says of the old Ro man that "one of his favorite pastimes was hunting and killing flies," and Suetonius, the famous historian, wrote thus of Domitian: "In the beginning of his reign he used to spend daily an hour by himself in private, during which time he did nothing else but catch flies and stick them through the body with a sharp pin." Gives Benefit of Doubt. Miss Janet Scudder says that, given the same amount of talent and educa tion men could produce as fine statues as women. She is herself a sculptor, and this remark quoted Is her little sarcastic answer to Brander Matthews, who said that women should have a hall of fame of their own, as he did not believe they could do the same kind of work as men, and consequently could not be classed tfi a hall of fame with them. coin. > Beggar—It is i RARE. peggar—Say, mister, gimme » dime? Mr. Krusty—Why don't you go to work? Beggar—I am wèrklng. I'm a col lector of rare coinî. Mr. Krusty—But k dime isn't a rar# atN Approached by Viaduct Over Two Miles of Breezy Sea. Dwelling Place of the Doges Has • Kept Its Medieval Aspect Albeit its Comforts Have Kept Pace With Modern Progress. London.-—Venice is the dream cit} of the world. You cannot imagine it before seeing it and after leaving it I think it must be hard to believe in its existence. Traveling, while probably the best brain stimulant and mind en larger known, Is apt to spell disil lusion most of the time. Foreign places, after all, are amazingly like home; foreigners seem to be just plain human beings doing common place things in queer ways and the "wonders" we have anticipated with excitement from childhood dwindle dolefully oh being visited. The only scenery I have found which exactly coincided with my pre vious fancy is in the Highlands of Scotland, and the only city thus far Which has surpassed my fondest ex pectations is Venice. In these days you usually enter a town by that most depressing of back doors, a railroad yard, hemmed about with dingy traffic and squalid build Venice is approached, not ings. through desolate wastes of "Improved real estate," not through the grime of manufacturing suburbs, but by a viaduct, across more than, *wo miles whose horizon of breezy sea, on seems to lie some fair mirage in the form of a city—a jewel city, set clean cut in water and light. Suddenly the sea Is blotted from about you by a wall. You are in a railroad station. "Just like other railroad stations," you say cynically to yourself, and drift toward the exit to find a cab. You step forth and, presto! the dream begins—or at least it did for me. Of course, I had heard there Were canals for streets and gondolas for transpor tation in Venice, but without just real izing what this meant Here before me was a beautiful sweep of green water which I knew, by the handsome stone fronted buildings that bordered it opposite, must be the Grand canal. Here at my feet was a fleet of the most graceful small boats ever de signed, long and black and narrow, each with the scimitar like sword of medieval Venice decking its prow, each with a sunburned, picturesquely dressed oarsman at its stern. Quietly, with none of that clamor usual In Italy, I was motioned aboard one of these fairy craft, my baggage was stowed forward and I was pro pelled in silence through shadowy laneB of limpid water to my hotel, mm É ; X ; , I m . 11 I# v::- - mg'* m X mM V ■ ' y ■ Wê m SS. : : ;>■■■ £ / m m Piazza del Signori. Into the front door of which I stepped right from the gondola. For the ar rival of a stranger in a strange city, it was all preposterously lovely. And I may say at once thaf" after nearly a week here I am still tranquilly dazed with the beauty of the place. In practically all respects, save that of comfort, Venice has kept its medie val aspect This is due to the absence of horses or of wheeled vehicels of any kind. All traffic passes through the waterways In barges or gondolas. The narrow streets which interlace between the canals are used only by pedestrians, and are spotlessly clean, somewhat like strips of courtyard of American flat building^, save for the bright display of merchandise and the endless passing of the crowds. To walk about in these streets is a pleas ant mystery. They wind ceaselessly, and just when you think you surely coming out somewhere near the spot you were foolish enough to aim for, you are brought up abruptly by a canal with no bridge, and have to ad venture some long detour. Your recompense is that the jump ing off place at which you emerged was likely to have given you one more of the inexhaustible variety of pic turesque views which will never cease to draw artists to Venice as long as the sea tides wash the canals and th« stones of the palaces sta nd . Very Intelligent Sparrows. Columbus, O.—Matt Booth, an en gineer, asserts that he has often seen sparrows place corn on the rails be fore his engine so that It might be crushed and more easily eaten. are Dooms War Dirigibles. Paris.—A new French invention, the "Incendiary arrow," dooms war dirigibles. This steel arrow contains gasoline and on contact with any hard substance explodes. Woman Police to Protect Women. Rutherford, N. J.—Following com plaints of Insults to women and girls, Mayor Gunz appointed Mi%. Agnes V. Goetchius, fif-jr, a marshal with full police authority. Wedn on Death Bed. Camden, N. J.—Although told that he had less than twenty-four hours to live, Howard Schemley was married to Miss May Connelly. m ■M & aster Ceremonies of Today and of the Past I ^ ITH the coming of Eastei interest is always aroused in the ancient belief, ceremonies and observ ances that pre brought together in the celebra tion of the modern festi w These include such things as val. eggs, cakes, flowers, presents and tb» Easter hare, to say nothing of other items obsolete in our times. Individual notings of one or another of the cere monies or observances have there been, but it is by no means easy to lay hand on any assembling of them. Authorities agree that the remote ancestor of Easter was a ceremony of pagan worship. Distant as are the origins of the old religious forms and intertwined as are the threads, con necting them with the present, it is not now easy to disentangle them, so that it may be said that Easter ob servances among the people include remnants of the ancient worship of the sun, the moon and fire and water*, The keynote of the festival has been from the very beginning resurrection, the re-awakening of the vernal world. The name is that of a goddess of spring, and certain of the emblems have had a co-relatlon that is remark able, and through thirty centuries they have come down to us together, preserving the early significance of resurrection, although the faith that originated the ideas had ages ago been forgotten. The idea of Easter sprang truly from a tomb; that tomb was, however, the tomb of winter. The strong angel that rolled away the stone from the door of the sepulcher was the April sun. Although Lent has the claim of Christian origin, there are antiquar ians who aÿsert that it is of far more ancient origin. It arose, as nearly as has yet been determined, in the fast ing that was customary among the Babylonians, whose worship formed the starting point of Easter. The fast was one of sympathy with the goddess of reproduction, who mourned her con sort, and the period was marked by fasting and an abstinence from mirth and social festivals. Fasting has been a widespread custom, Humboldt not ing fasts in Mexico, where, curiously enough, the invading Spaniards found the natives practicing baptism, with invocation to Cioacooatl that "the sin which was given before the be ginning of the world might not visit the child, but that cleansed by these waters it might live and be born anew." Easter was at first a continuation of the Jewish Passover and came on the fourteenth of the month Nisan. When the revulsion of feeling in the church, against the Jews occurred it was changed and deliberately fixed that it could by no possibility fall on the same day as the Passover. This matter was settled In A. D. 326. Easter was set for the first Sunday following the full moon that comes after March 21. This relation to the vernal equinox brought it to the time of the pagan festival of the goddess of spring, dating back to the Astarte worship of Babylonia. The name, Easter, is comparatively modern, but the principle of the story and the emblems and observances are of this ancient date. Easter fires continue even now In northern Europe," wrote Grimm a generation ago. On the Weser a tar barrel was tied to a fire tree and lighted in the evening and the men and the maidens sang and danced about it. There was a fire on every hilltop. There were processions to these fires and hymn singing and the bearing of white rods were features. The people liked to carry the fire home with them ; It was a sacred fire and embodied elements of the old fire worship. It was produced by friction, a natural method, and to kin dle it two boys were selected who knew nothing of the vanities of the world. Within a quarter of a century in Hildesheim the Easter fire ha» been struck with the steel. Here the people take the fire home to rekindle their extinguished hearths. The old sacred fires were lighted by natural means, some of them by concentration of the sun'B rays through mirrors. an SO . • If V V tf Mfrre net for lack, trnc warn prop to our faifh tna future t % % lif. Sul ( Beans « I« Bretonne. Soak two cup» of dried beans over sight and boll until tender In salted water. Drain, press through a sieve and add two tablespoonfuls of butter, a tablespoonful of lemon juice or tar ragon vinegar, salt and pepper to sea son and enough stock to moisten. Serve with roast lamb. Chicken Broth. Take the first and second joints of » chicken, boil in one quart of water till very tender and season with t very little salt and neaner. ' fm DOES ALL OF HER OWN WORK And is Glad to Do So, as She Was Denied this Privilege For Two Years. Richmond, Ky.—Mrs. N. V. Willis, of this place, says: three years with womanly trouble, and tried many different treatments, but none of them seemed to do me any good. I had almost given up to die, when a friend of mine begged me to try Cardui, the woman's tonic. I got a bottle, and began to feel a great deal better after the nrst few doses. I then got four bottles, and after tak ing these I was cured. I don't know what a female pain is now, do all of my work, eat anything I want, and feel like a 16 year old girl. I never expect to be without Cardui in my house as long as I live, as I firmly believe it saved my life, and I will praise it to all of my suffering lady friends. Cardui is a purely vegetable remedy, containing no harmful mineral prod ucts. 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