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Show - $ THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KA YSVILLE. OTA H INCINERATION IS BEST RIGHT ATTENTION TO COLTS Work Horaea and Mules Will Bring Remunerative Prices for 8everai Years to Como. Good Only Really Sanitary Way to Dis- pose of Dead Poultry. To TTi - $ s$- r tf .t f (J from time to time a greater or less number of deaths of chicks and adult fowls from disease or other natural causes The disposal of thesq dead bodies offers a problem to the poultryman, the correct solution of which may in many cases become a very important matter This Is especially true in the case, of death from contagious diseases The method usually practiced by The farmer and poultryman for the dead carcassea fs sanidjbpoiUlon-- ef To throw the tary In the extreme. dead bodies on the manure pile is to Invite the spread of the disease. Burying is far from being a satisfactory way of dealing with' the matter. Unless buried deeply, there is likelihood that dogs or other marauding animals will dig out the carcasses and scatter parts of them on the top of the ground The only really sanitary method of dealing with dead Dodles is to incinerate them. The difficulty of following this plan is that the farmer usually does not have any suitable source of heat ready at hand at all times. To meet this requirement there has recently been devised by the experiment station of an eastern state a small crematory, which in point of cost is within the reach of every poultryman or farmer. . This crematory is very simple in construction. It consists of a cement .base or fire box, bearing on its top 7&am vF'SZPJOTT - that historians have about the Fourth of Jul). 177G, an erroneous Idea of the happenings of that great day common heritage of has become the people of our land. Many an American considers It a part if a patriotic duty to musqupon the Imaginative picture entitled "The First Fourth ; July," which some historical writer has painted upon bis vision. In fancy he sees Independence hail in Philadelphia and the Continental congress with Its ruffisd shirts, long cloth coats, knee pants, silk stockings and low shoes sitting with dignity, but listening spellbound to a wonderfully strange and entirely. new document called "The Declaration of Independence." In fu&cy he even hears the popular acclaim of That is just what we all say I" and "It Is well worded, Mr. Jefferson." Then the mind pictures the various delegates to congress hastening forward, eager for the honor of fixing their signatures to a sheepskin document The scent) changes to the ringing of the great liberty bell, to the assembling of the people at Philadelphia who applauded the reading of this bill of rights and to the final closing of the day with every man, woman and child in Philadelphia happy because he is no longer a British object having become a free American in a ROM (By R PEARL) On every poultry plant and around every farm there Is bound to occur Ue TZM'ZZjY much written Ingle day. Such vislco pictures a heroic scene; but the true record of events does not affirm that these happenings took place on that memorable day. By blotting out the Imperfect details of the picture the Fourth of July is in no way robbed of any of its glory. An authentic account of what transpired at that time changes the meaning of the Fourth of July from one day to about sixty In which tho whole history of our national liberty Is told and the heroic heart throbs of the sordly tried colo- I t t- 1 I (9 I -- "n -g Horae owners cannot afford to give their colts indifferent care There ta every indication that good Throw Bodies on Manure Heap Is work horses and mules will bring remunerative prices for several years. to Invite 8pread of Disease The demand for army horses is taking 8mall Crematory la Within,. a large number of light weight aniReach of Poultry Man. mals out of the country. Most of . ,vmN Wto V j UU3 V I . MILEAGE OF OUR GOOD ROADS Department of Agriculture Gathering Information to Serve as Basis for Estimating Value. Prize-Winnin- Filly. g these will be replaced ultimately by heavier horses better suited for heavy farm work. The size and value of the mature animal depends to a large extent on the feed and care It gets during It pays to give the colt a chance to make the most of its inherited possibility of development, for an extTa 200 or 300 pounds make a striking difference in the selling price of a work horse or mule. The maximum development is possible only when the colts are handled carefully and fed well during the first two or three years of their lives. The United States department of ag. riculture Is now gathering information which, when complete, should not only give the total mileage of public roads in the United States jmd-the- ir cost, but should serve as a basis fer estimating the relative value of the dif. ferent kinds of highways. Some lS.nod sets ol inquiry blanks have already been distributed through the state highway commissions, and some of these are now beginning to come back to the department. Each Bet consists of four cards. - Of these the first &skg for informal tion on the mileage of different classes of roads in the county to which it is Bent The mileage does not include, of course, streets in cities and towns. The roads are divided into ten classes Brick paved, concrete, as follows; macadam with the addition of some substance such as asphalt, oil, or tar, colt-hoo- V rJi- - -- Mitk PROVIDE BEES , Place , t WITH WATER Fountain Near the Hives-Ho- ney Secured From Goldenrod and Aster Is of Rich Flavor. (By B. L. PUTNAM ) rs "X AZt&r 7 Crematory for Dead Poultry. lasted over until the next, and so July 6 wo fid have become the birthday instead of July 4. Toward evening the discomfort of the assembly was Increased on account of the swarms of files which came from a nearby livery stable Into the hall of legislature. These pests were so audacious in assaults upon the statesmen that Jefferson said their annoyance helped bring the matter to a conclusion, and Harrison reported the declaration to congress as accepted, though In the minutes ofthat daythir declaration war at first left out on acount of the vengeance bLEfifc. nists are keenly felt The day Itself properly symbolises the for which the patriots of that time stood liberty to sacrifice their lives in order to launchready the United States as a national craft which should be anchored by no weight of foreign despotism It was a time of danger when brother, friend and neighbor became estranged bv reason of political opinion. Some colonists still hired the mother country with true English pride, while others were so embittered by the Injustice of the sovereign across the seas that they willingly gave their all to the cause of the people of the . a series of grate bars which are in turn covered by a cremating box or oven in which the material to be incinerated is placed. In building this, place in the excavation for the- base a quantity of loose stones and gravel to insure adequate drainage below the cement. The Inside dimensions of the fire box base are 2 feet, 3 inches by 1 foot, 9 - When you see the bees clustering around the watering trough just provide them a fountain near their hives. This will save time for them and there will be no more drowned bees and horses and other stock will not be stung as they come from the field, heated and perspiring a fit m&rk for the angry bee. Surround a board of convenient size with a narrow cleat an inch high, making the shallow trough water tight. Over this tack a piece of wire screen, being careful to leave no sharp edges that will hurt the bees. Fill with wat-- - and note the enjoyment withwhlch visitors flock and drink with no possibility of finding in it a fatal draft They will drink lots of water now, and if you do not furnish the pure stuff they will hunt out the nearest cesspool for moisture they must have. Do not worry if your fence, row is bordered with goldenrod and aster. You may not b8 Impressed with the esthetic effect admired by your city cousins, but, the bees revel in the sweets afforded and will, from the weeds, extract a supply of honey that will go a long way toward piecing out their winter store. Beside, goldenrod honey, when it can be secured in quantity, is food fit for kings, being of a rich amber hue and of superior the-wing- inches. - Theout--sid- e dimensions feet, 4 inchea.Jaw,. 3 TeelTB Inches. While the cement is land still soft, place across the top some Today .Independence hall, in the old state old grate bars, which form the gratv in Philadelphia, remains about as it was on that on which the material to be burned Is July 4, and so as Tar as the setting of the stage placed. The Incinerating chamber Is 27Z2Y,V the drama Is complete, but the drama Itself is made of galvanized iron length, 2 left' for us to supply. time Appointed a committee of five to prepare , feet, 2 inches; width, 1 foot, 10 Inches; a declaration of independence of the same pur-poAll that we have left of the record of that height, 1 foot, 6 Inches. In the top kb Lees resolution, In the hope that the memorable day is the text of the Declaration of is cut a round hole protected by a all new doctrine would be unanimously accepted Independence, and as that represents whatdowu hinged cover. The galvanized box to lay were when colonists ready American the in matter he has no bottom, but is placed on top should taken brave up again new land. July for and what should be handed down of the grate bars and held firmly in lives their During the latter part of 1774 George Wash Policy demanded that a southerner should to us and guarded as courageously as it had place while the cement is worked up ington himself wrote that no thinking man be chosen to write the declaration in order to been won. the Fourth of July has amply served around Its lower edges. In the back among the colonists wanted to separate from increase the probability of Us unanimous adoje its purpose and deserved its one monument of this box is an opening for a piece England, and Franklin ridiculed the idea tion Logically, Jefferson was the man to carry "The Spirit of Liberty for All." of stove pipe. When not in use this During the early days of the revolution the this work through, for the masterly style of his Whether or not the Declaration of inde- pipe mny be removed and stored inblueroats itever dreamed of separating from the pen was well known 'With such coworkeis, but pendence was signed on Julv 4. 1776, by any con- side the box. A large wooden box flavor. beloved land of their ancestors, in fact, such a though, it cannot he supposed that he alone waa Continental the of Remember that honey must ripen as should be kept over the galvanized llancowk, president course would have been condemned by Amerithe author of the resolution, for the responsiis a matter box, when the crematory is not In use. before it is ready for market. When as secretary and Thompson, gress, cana themselvea as treason. Jefferson declared bility had been assigned to all five Jointly, and first made it is thin and watery but of doubt, for the journal entry records "signed to protect it from the weather. that prior to April 19, 1775, he had heard no whisthe counsel and advice of all were necessary Jefferin behalf of congress two or three weeks it acquires and of after order by per of the disposition of anyone to stand from However, (lie credit of the phraseology is given the consistency necessary to the first-clas- s son htmself made conflicting statements regardPLAN under the governmental-pow- er SUCCESSION OF CROPS of Great Britainr to Jefferson, while John Adams is Bald to have product. ing this question. The Inevitable, however, came with the spring given close attention to the revision and the informalmet . Conversely, if kept in a damp place Some contend that the delegates of 1776, when local assemblies begad formal dis- ' amending of the resolution The entire commitdocu- Not Advisable to Have Second Plantit soon gathers moisture and becomes ly qn the morning of July 5 and signed the cussion regarding the liberty of colonists These tee helped perfect the documents by making it the ing of Same Crop Follow the afwere or not the damaged. A cool, dry closet seriously Whether signatures ment bodies legislative possessed but little power,-hu- t First Keep Land Busy. In allowing the subject of critical analysts on that official was to. the cellar for storing. act is 4, on preferable fixed congress July they did a great part In crystallizing the sent! Declaration of independence to be ready before of Independence Deelaratiou Jeffersons that day ment for Independence In many quarters and Its assembly on June 2S congress preceded its In planning the location of crops, was acceptable to every colony. And so forcing those opposed to the idea to declare schedule LONG LADDER should be given to the WELL-BRACE- D consideration sent he should ' Inimical attitude throughout it resrved that copies of matter Satisfied that all were acquainted with Its con succession, in order that formed nw repubtie tho The good work of these small legislative bodies tents, the legislature then laid the bill on the The general assemblies, conventions, councils, the land may be occupied as large a Weak and Dangereua Feature Over-- J .was reflected and magnified as soon as the rfete table nnttr it should come up for discussion by come by Wire Brace Strength It is of safety and the commanding officer) part of the time as possible. committees gates were sent to the Conttnentai congress . congress sitting as a committee of the whole to advisable have a not second Added at Little Expense. o informed plantbe to had of the Continental army Then the spirit of liberty permeated the very at Bv trial vote Fulv t only nine colonies voted of the United States. Thess ing of the same crop or a closely rethe independence as favorable to the resolution. mosphere of the national assembly and minv an lated crop follow the first. Cabbage F'armers who have occasion to use copies were signed by Hancock and Thompson individual received the courage to align hinvseif Final legislative action was therefore deferred 19 shows thal should not follow cauliflower, Jbrus-sel- s long ladders often find them weak and RerortLof The July Congressional with the new cause until the next dav f That July 2. was probablv sprouts, mustard, or kale, for dangerous when set up af the proper a resolution was Introduced in the national as the most memorable of all dates of our national It, June 7, 1776, then, nad - bWn an "extra sembly to the effect that the declaration should many of the same diseases and Insects angle. This can be overcome by a Mstorv paper" to have Informed the public of the late, Tomatoes. wire brace. Get a blacksmith to make During the stormy debate at that time be engrossed on parchment and presented for the affect all of these crops. s the declaration was both attacked and compolitical news one might have read the flaring and peppers should not fol- two of every member on August 2. irons, and fasten them signature headlines Richard Henry Lee ,of Virginia the mended in some sections to the side sills with small bolts. Bore This fact, therefore, serves as authority thal low each other. Man of the Hour, for it was he who on that dav When the vote of the dav was taken tt was found the parchment copy signed on that day in August, three or four crops can be grown on small holes through sills at each end tatted the Fourth of July. It was this souththat the declaration had been unanimously Inafter it had been compared with the fair copy the same land each year, white In otherner who introduced the first declaration of dorsed bv all of the thirteen colonies and the latter destroyed, is the copy of the Dec er sections two crops ape all that can in congress declaring the American The. vote in favor of the declaration was not laration of Independence which was considered be grown to advantage. When a crop sufficient to make the adoption of the new resopeople free for so many years the original draft of the great is harvested early In the season and Good judgment dictated the caution of omit lution complete, for the next day congress sat as It is said it is not practicable to plant another hill of rights of the American people John Adams name from the minutes, as" a committee of the whoto to consider the bill. At ting even this signing was entered into with "fear vegetable for two or three months, the that Ladder Braced With Wire. the second to thar motion, yet the fact is known" 'that time slight alterations were made." certain " and trembling" land may be planted to cow peas or clauses censuring Englvnd were omitted and today, when there is no army of redcoats-wai- t Satisfied that the signed parchment was a crimson clover. For example, after a Take two pieces of No. 9 wire and otheis regarding slave trade were left out while ing to seize patriots as rebels evidence of the birth of the new nation, crop of early cabbage it may not be fasten to the sills at one end by passlasting other amendments were added Too much praise cannot be given to the Intook no further official action regarding desirable to plant another vegetable ing through the holes and fortntng a congress On Jul) 4 congress assembled again and imtroduction of Lees resolution, yet it was to the the instruments itself until January, 1777. crop until late summer or autumn. In lock by turning the end back through credit of the Continental congress that action mediately resolved itself into a committee for the By that time the new republic .began to feel Its this case it would be desirablejo sow theholesoversmalJLirtm- - pins, then was not forced, upon such an important measure , consideration of the Declaration of Independence drawJtrengtlu and congress decided to promulgate cow peas or crimson clover, to be pass the wire over the at that .time. It could not have surreeripfi until. the names of the signers of the Declaration of In- turned under in preparation for he ing them tight with a lever and fasten an-objections had been silenced, all fears of gress, resumed the chair, Mr Harrison, great at the other ends In the same way. dependence by ordering that printed copies of the fall crop. England's success allayed. until all were con grandfather of our former president of the Unite 1 This brace .will more than double the document should be made, with the names of the sclentiously convinced that the cause of liberty States, reported that his committee had agreed Calf Deficient Ration. added. strength of the Udder and add but signers was Just It was imperative that all should took to the declaration, which they- - desired him to of the calves in the West are little expense. a Many Katharine .Mary who woman Goddard, car the Goddess of Liberty squarely in the face with rejort ned on the printing business on Broadside, Bal fed a ration consisting of corn stover, a devotion to follow where she should lead What followed this announcement is large! v a tirnore, probably never heard of woman's rights, prairie bay and sometimes some corn LEG WEAKNESS 0E CHICKENS As no agreement could be reached on June ,7 matter of surmise, despite the fact that the devet it so happened that it became her right to as a grain ration. Such a ration is dethe resolution was laid over until the next dav, bate lasted all through the warm dav, when delethese copies of the American bill of rights ficient in protein, and the animals will Generally Makes Its Appearance In print when it waa again postponed for qofisideraUen ungates eithc trlked or listened swathed in heavy, From these copies numerous others were soon not do well on iL But if good clover , ciose-fittln- g Flocks Ranging From Three to til July 1. stocks made, until before long every home boasted at hay is substituted for some of the Six Months of Age. In order that the cause of liberty should not if it had not beeu for jueJnungiy trivial incl-der- t least one cory of the original document which roughage in this ratioq. the animals be retarded during this wait, congress at that the debates of that day might probably have will make good gains at a less cost gave life to our republic. n Leg weakness in a flock of chicks is due to several causes. HOUSE MAY NOT BE HOME structed out of matter, a home is such can have numerous houses, It generally maks Its appearance tn Approach of Foaling Time. he can obtain treatment for those stufT as dreams are made of A house have requiring With the approach -- f foaling timq flocks, ranging - from three to six but one home Womanls Home it. Moving pictures, lectures. lantern the grain ration-o- f the mare should months of sge, and the cockerels are Wide Difference, Between,. the Two ia four. walls- - w n h sTwstvst bonva-t- s- a t ffdes'txhTbrtsrtncU3W special lecturWords Is a Matter Not Always be decreased. Use feeds such as bran more apt to be affected than the pul-letof complex memories and associations ers will be employed in making every- and roots, as they aPe valuable. A ' Recognized. and affections. A house is built by , , Toothbrush Day. thing pertaining to the care of the roomy box stall or an open grassy lot a One home the causes is the overfeeding of gold, is built by love A small Mondn was toothbrush" clear teeth and to them. The Is day. home? a And what It is, of and shabby homh may be set np inide remarkable Is almost Imperative. After foaling of fat producing foods, the weight of rue. quite different from a house a spacious and costly house. We have the beginn ng of "dental hygiene campaign was arranged by Dr. C. the mare should not be worked for the body being increased to such an week in the , savs the Ward Crampton, director of v from ten to fifteen days, and then extent the legs are unable to something which is put inside a all jieen guests in places where'we properly fpt New York Tfrnos. Seven hundred training in the public schools, physical It is a building not made with there was more house than who has but lightly.. home On thousand children heard some of support the extra weight thus created. been convinced that neglect of the to the things which the other hand, a leng Poultry raisers bent on saving time to palatial home may be reasons why 2,000, OOrt of their teeih the teeth has been an viBe is a product of erected inside a important factor Good Pasture for Cow. ,A house can cottage. bring their flocks up to broiler weight ore in bad condition, and by the end of illness affecting children and the a home is a crea-- - be built in a The dairy cow should have a goo ofjen overdo the forcing process year T build a home of the week they will know to A house is con- deevery consequent attendance pasture. no merely an exercise such a degree as to cause is the work of many seasons. A man . such tail of how to preserve the others and at school. unsatisfactory 'nche&by.lfoot, h it 1 3 ,,s. SC ed -- Egg-plant- " -- half-grow- -- f s. 'i' - Macadam Road Treated With Asphalt Binder. plain macadam, gravel, shell, other hard surfaced roads, sand and clay mixture properly graded and drained, ordinary earth roads pFoperly constructed, and, finally, unimproved roads. The second card asks for information in regard to the tax rate for the roads and the amount of work and money expended on them. The third blank Is concerned with the names of local road officials, and the fourth with facts in regard to the bond, issuer and the Indebtedness of the counties for their road systems. As there are approximately 3,000 counties in the United States, in many of which the mileage has never, even been estimated. It is hardly probable that this preliminary survey will be exact. The department, however, will be able to detect any excessively inaccurate reports for the road mileage per square mile of territory does not vary excessively. Except in desert or undeveloped country less than half a mile of public road to every square mile of territory is rare, while, in the most thickly populated rural sections the maximum i& no more than two and or three miles. Thus, in France, there is an average for the entire country of 1.76 to a square mile. In Italy, however, this has fallen to .86, possibly on account of the mountainous character of mBch of the peninsula and of Sicily and Sardinia. In America the average is approximately 80 miles, which, in view of the fact that much of the country is sparsely settled seems unduly high. An explanation, however, is to be found in the fact that in many states the law provides that each section line shall be a public road. Thus, for example, there are in the state of Iowa alone more than 104,000 miles of legal high ways, manifestly a much larger mileage than is required by traffic. When the information in regard to the existing roads which the department is now seeking is complete, it is the intention to continue the Inquiry year after year in order tb ascertain the durability and economy of the various kinds of highways- The data thus collected should be useful to road engineers all over the country and it is hoped that county agents and others interested in improvement of agriculture will do their best to facilitate the collection of the desired one-ha- lf - Shorttns the Distance. There is nothing that shortens the distance between the farm and the market as mnch as good roads. Its the greatest economy the farmers can have. Wide Tire to Stay. The wagon haa come to stay. On our common earth roads 50 per cent more and in the field load can be pulled on a wagon than on one with narrow tires; then, again, the wide tires help in packing the road, while the a arrow tires make the ruts. wide-tire- d wide-tire- d Should Not Grumble. t The dairyman, whose products ere particularly perishable, should be the last man on earth to grumble about paying money for road improvement. Changing. Locations. , , When one is contemplating a change of location. It is worth while to consider the good roads because a hard paved road means getting to market or to town at any time desired. n public-schools- -- ground. ' d.s-ease- J Most Essential Thing. One of the most essential things to the prosperity of a new section is good roads. 1 For Bacon Pork. Skim milk is unexcelled in the |
