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Show THE WASATCH WAVE. HEBER CITY. UTAH SCOURGEOFCHRISTIANS IN PERSIA MAKE PASTURES A FEATURE to Conform to Soil Condq Use a Little Thought British Generals Speak in High Praise of Kitcheners New Soldiers. ASK FOR NO BETTER v TROOPS WHITF Are Wonderfully Intelligent and Acquire Remarkable Skill in Trench Warfare Hot Bath Every Ten Oaya for Every Britiah Soldier. LEGHORNS ARE BEST Men By E. ASHMEAO BARTLETT, International Sena Service Correspondent British General Headquarters, France. At tbe outbreak of tbe war almost everyone In England had confidence In the ltritlah email regular army, and felt certain that it would give a eplendid account of Itself on tbe continent. On tbe other band there waa widespread mistrust of the capabilities of the new territorial army, either for purposes of home defense, or for service abroad. I will give my own impression from what I saw during my visit to tbe front, and also the opinions of various generals without mentioning names, which is forbidden by the censor under whom they have served. The vast majority of the men who till the ranks of the territorial forces are drawn from a different class to those who enlist in the regular army. There are clerks frpm the London financial district holding good positions. There are men who come from behind the counter, and others who fill positions of a highly important and confidential character, such as secretaries, accountants and mechanical experts. Every branch of trade and Industry is represented in the ranks. They are men who have joined the force out of a sense of duty, because man they feel that every should play some role, however small, In the defense of his country. Many have been obliged to throw up employment which was bringing them in large salaries, and now support their homes and families on the king's shilling and separation allowances. Some of the battalions sent to the front had to meet their baptism of lire under the most trying circumtom-plet- able-bodie- d stances. Pullet Is Quickly Brought to Maturity and Soon Starts Laying White Eggs in Demand. EUGENIC BABIES "Why are White Leghorns good birds to own? I would say, that, profit being the aim of the commercial White Legpoultryman, the horn of good laying strain seems best to meet his need. The Leghorn pullet Is quickly brought to maturity, and if of good strain quickly goes to work for her owner. To be sure, if Bhe la hatched very early she may molt slightly, but she will have laid pretty nearly enough eggs to pay for herself by the time the molt comes, and with proper care she is laying again in a few weeks. White eggs bring the highest price Taat is and are in growing demand. well-bre- e One of tne Kurdish horsemen Persia near tbe Turkish border. who have been massacring Christiana in perlment of keeping the whole of this famous battalion behind the line, and training all ranks aa officers. As they reached a certain standard of progress and they were given commissions drafted to regular battalions. 1 made careful inquiries as to how this experiment bad worked out In practice. One corps commander told me be had received a large number of these new officers from the Artists Rifles, and that with extremely few exceptions they had turned out admirably. A love of cleanliness is one of the strongest traits in the Anglo-Saxorace. The best of troops speedily lose their pride and if they are obliged to live In filthy surroundings, amidst which it is Impossible for them to clean themselves, their uniforms and equipment. The conditions in Flanders throughout the winter have been about as bad as any troops have ever had to face. The army medical corps took the problem in band and has shown remarkable skill and Ingenuity in its solution. Bath Evtry Tsn Days. self-respe- French is Delighted. But Sir John French himself is delighted with them. A corps commander I consider the terrisaid to me: torial battalions under my command the equal of any of the line battalions. Let them send me out as many as they can. I can ask for no better troops after they had a few weeks of experience in the face of the enemy. A brigade commander spoke as follows: "My territorials are a wonder ful lot 1 never saw liner troops. The men are wonderfully intelligent. They are as keen as mustard, and are acquiring a remarkable skill In trench warfare. Take the case of a the "Artists Rifles. officers has been so John French decided Scattered over northern France and Flanders are many factories for making beet sugar and beer. These possess enormous vats such as most of us are familiar with in breweries at home. As their legitimate occupation. In the case of those situated close to the firing line, is now gone, they have been utilized for the purpose of washing the British army. This experiment of cleaning every man in an army several hundreds of thousands strong once In every ten days has never been tried before in war. Yet so complete is the organization that, except under exceptional circumstances, every man and officer crack corps, like Is sure of his hot bath every ten days. Our losses in A battalion comes off duty and heavy that Sir marches to rest in Its billets, the men on the novel ex- - snd their uniforms covered with mud. Above ail, it is necessary to change their shirt snd underclothes. Let it not be supposed that the only BETROTHED enemy our men have to face is found in the trenches. There is another. IRISH ' who carries on a horrible form of guerilla warfare In closer proximity to you after a few days spent in the mud. ills pertinacity and vitality Is amazing. He requires ten times as much killing as any German, but our medical service has proved equal to the task of circumventing his wiles. The battalion is paraded and marched to the nearest bath. Often this is under shell fire, and the Bhrapnel is screaming overhead. Ilut no one heeds such trifles as these. Each man strips and throws his shirts, underclothes, and socks into a heap. His uniform he takes off, and ties to it hlB tin identification disk. At a word of command groups of fourteen nude forms with a wild howl of joy rush into each of the steaming tubs. From these arise a chorus of screams and chaff as the men eoap or duck each other in aoap nerve-rackin- g suds. Clothes Steamed and Washed. Meanwhile the uniforms are placed In another vat, and steamed for ten minutes. The heat is so great that no evaporation takes place, and they come out perfectly dry. Each man as he emerges from the bath after his alloted span is handed a towel and a fresh set of underclothes. He then dries himself, puts his new garments on, and claims his uniform, recognizing It by the Identification disk. The underclothes, which be took off are then boiled or steamed In great vats, and then handed over to tbe washerwomen who are employed for this purpose at four francs (80 cents) a day. They are then carefully inspected and if found perfectly clean are made up Into sets, and are available for the next battalion which comes to be washed. I was present when a territorial battalion was having its turn. A young printer's clerk said to me: "This is the day we all live for. It helps you to get back your just when you feel you are sinking to the level of brute beasts from mud and dirt. 1 dont believe one of us would surrender his turn for a fiver. Dublin. A band of the Irish guards, which even a few mouths ago would have received an unfriendly greeting anywhere In Ireland, arrived here on a recruiting tour and was enthusiastically cheered as it marched to the Mansion house, playing SL Patricks Day There was another remarkable scene here when John E. Redmond, the Irish nationalist leader, reviewed 25,000 of the Irish national volunteers and in a speech said that of the nationalist and Ulster volunteers, who had organized to fight one another, more than 50,000 were now fighting side by side on the continent, or in training to go there. Perhaps for the first time in Irish history such scenes have been witnessed, and certainly there has been a change from the days when an Irishman who joined the army was shunned by many. BLAMES CAT FOR SHIPS LOSS Captain 8aya Feline on Schooner Was Cause of Collision Off Hatteras. Newport News, Va. CapL Roland F. schooner Quillen, whose William J. Quillen, was sunk off Cape Hatteras. after a collision with the Norwegian steamer Laly, never again will take a cat to sea. He attributed the accident, which nearly cost his life and the lives of the eight members of his crew, to a Cray cat which he had aboard. I've shipped for 25 years, and always have taken along dogs. Captain Quillen said. "Just before I started from Baltimore for Mayport, Fla., somebody stole my dog. So I got a cat, a gray cat. Cats are bad luck, I guess. This was my first accident The cat was lost. three-maste- d Cotton fabrics are wonderfully diversified in weave and coloring this year. Any sort of fabric, from the sheerest laces to those resembling corduroy in surface and weight, may be had in cotton, and therefore its usefulness is increased. But the standard weaves are unaffected by the new ones, so far, when it comes to quantities used. Ginghams, chambrays, dimities and lawns make up tbe bulk of wearing apparel for children. Ginghams and chambrays, in everyday wear for children, deserve all their popularity. The plaids and stripes have been most tastefully wrought out. They seem to have lent some inspiration to those who design dresses for the schoolgirl. The plain colors are liked for little girls and boys alike, and many combinations are notably good in which plain colors are used to decorate the plaids or stripes, or this is reversed and the body of the garment is of the plain fabric with the trimming of the In the striped patterns the figured. management of the stripes is cleverly contrived to make trimming effects, so that the garment is all of one kind of ever-prese- goods. A very excellent model in striped gingham, trimmed with a plain color, is shown in the dress for the little miss, which appears here. It Is a frock, very plain and easy to bodice faslaunder. The tens down the front under a plait made of the gingham with stripes running crosswise. The skirt is laid in a shallow double box plait at the front and back and hemmed with a four-inchem. r The sleeves are length, finished with turnback cuffs of plain chambray. This is decorated with a narrow flat braid in white. There is a small sailor collar to match and a narrow band at each side of the waist of the plain chambray. Instead of a girdle there is a set-opiece of the chambray cut In two points at the front and straight across the back. This is furnished with two very practical little pockets. The dress fastens with small buttons and buttonholes set on under the front plait. But flat pearl buttons, In groups of three, make the neatest of finishing touches, placed on the front of the plait. Single Comb White Leghorn. long-walste- d h three-quarte- n a big factor in favor of the Leghorn, writes Temple Smith of Eglantine Farms, Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia Ledger. We have trap-nerecords showing juite a number of our birds laying a hundred, or more than a hundred eggs, within twelve months from date of being hatched. I recall one that laid her one hundredth egg the day she was eleven months old. Such birds are pretty safely and well in the class. Please do not take me as saying that any large flock of layers averages 200 3ggs. Nor are all Leghorns even good With Leghorns as with any layers. pure breed, the result depends quite as much on the strain as on the breed, but all the eggs a Leghorn lays are white, hence worth most. So the Leghorn would still lead. Much, too, depends on comfortable housing and proper feeding and attention, whatever breed is kept 200-eg- g YOUNG CHICKS NEED WARMTH Utmost Care Should Be Exercised to See That Little Fellowa Do Not Some incubators have a space around the egg tray for the purpose of letting the newly hatched chicks drop into it, off the tray. If we had an incubator of this kind, we would stuff tbe opening with flannel rags, or newspapers crushed lightly and arranged to permit circulation of air, and keep the chicks on the warm tray until ready to remove them, says a writer In an exchange. If it becomes overcrowded, better take out the thorchicks. Into oughly dry, a flannel-lined- , warm basket, and close the door quickly. There is a difference of from five to nine degrees in temperature between the tray and the floor of the nursery. In some machines the floor has opend ings for ventilation. Imagine a wet chick tumbling down from a temperature of 103 to 105 degrees, into one of from 90 to 96 degrees. It will fluff out and apparently be all right; but nine times out of ten it will die before the tenth day. Babies and chicks need warmth: flannel for the chicks is about as necessary as for the babies. Sometimes the little miss Is bonnetbefore Easter arrives and sometimes she takes her turn after the more insistent older girls have settled matter of new spring the millinery. Usually she is prepared to meet the arrival of May day In a newly acquired bit of headwear in which she takes a most delight. It is safe to say that there never was a spring In which so much thought has been given to childrens hats as in this particular season. The variety in shapes is about unlimited, but the public has shown a decided preference for Miss Justine Johnstone, a those with round crowns and narrow model and show girt has been drooping brims, of which three good pronounced the most beautiful girl in examples are given here. America by several artists for whom At the right Is a hat of chiffon and she has posed, and is referred to aa tuscan straw which Is childish in dethe typical American girl. Her pho- sign and good looking. It has the adtograph won the 15,000 prize at the ditional merit of very moderate price to recommend It. For trimming, a photograph show In New York. wreath of silk conventional roses. In a light tint of pink, is set close to the A tourist without money is a tramp, crown. A bow of wired ribbon Is and a tramp with money is a tourist ed whole-hearte- d well-know- n . ten-doll- perched at the left side in the same color as the flowers. In the center a pretty little chip Keep your hens and your hens will hat Is shown, the pressed shape showing a helmet crown and prettily curved keep you. brim. This is made In light brown Stronger fertility is secured from king's blue and other colors rather birds on range. deeper than usual in hats for little people. It Is trimmed with a scant Well-brepoultry is better than wreath of grasses, occasional wild flowera and berries and finished with mongrel stock. broad ties of ribbon. Your bens may require different Very much like models made for hat at the food than your neighbors. larger girls, the left is adapted to tha little miss by A pullet that is very broody will be its odd and childish trimming. It is a pure white chip trimmed with narrow more so when she is older. faille ribbon in black. A single strip Feather pullers j-- almost invariof ribbon extends across the crown from front to back. At the edge of the ably found in crowded pens. back brim it falls in two loops and two Hens require animal food, which long ends that reach to the waist line. Four small clusters of red cherries, they can get when on range. set in their leaves, are placed about The lowest egg production reported the crown. per year is 0. and the highest, 304. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Hate Without Trimming. The newest small hats are quite without trimming save for hatpins thrust In from the front, and often these pins are dispensed with. Many hats are made entirely of black satin with upturned brims narrowly piped with black, and their smartness lies in the shape and in the angle at which they are poeed on the head. Recently half a dozen of Itjb diminutive hats turbans and tricorns were counted at Clro'a. Vogue. Try and market as much of your products direct to the consumer as possible. poultry pearl-heade- The light breeds are usually considered more economical egg producers than heavier breeds. Various forms of green food, especially alfalfa and clover, has a tendency to add color to the yolk. Break np all broody hens as soon as discovered, by placing in a coop for the purpose, and feeding a well laying ration. of some of us who call places pastures that have been used for forty years and never known the planting of a single seed from the hand of the owner. We can have most excellent pastures If we only use a little thought and make them. A few acres of good, pasture will furnish more and better feeding than can be gathered from a quarter section of much of the ground that we dignify In Us unbroken state by the name of pasture. There are many places where there Is a fair natural sod, but is very seldom those places cannot be immensely Improved the native grasses by by a few seasonable seedings of domestic well-mad- e grasses. Why leave these things all to the Lord? He has done a great deal for us. Let us do our share and make some pastures. HARM DONE BY OVERSEEDING Failures May Great Many Be Attributed to Practice Rate of Planting. : Get Chilled. MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL KING that the greatest amount of good can be gained when water is applied. Then, if a proper variety of grasses is selected, a sod can be produced that will stand a wonderful amount of tramping and for many years furnish feed for several animals to the acre during four to five months of the year. That is what a pasture really is. Our swamp lands and our rocky hillsides are misnamed, when we call them pastures. I dont think Its much to the credit two-piec- e New Bits of Headwear for Little Miss Skirts Are Short. future ruler of Belgium disclosed his At the time of the accident he waa Skirts seem to grow shorter and From this city he went to passing through a yard with a Identity. shorter. Many of the new trotteur New York, where he had no better pig in a sack on hla back. The Belgium Ruler Wae Turned Down by tuck. frocks on the avenue these days reveal a pig gave and the old on squeal sow, Two New Orleans City the buttoned boots above the ankles, hearing it. Jumped for the sack, tear- and Editors. dancing skirts are even shorter. off it Flocks ing back. She then made SOW RESCUES PIG FROM SACK for Flock, who ran for the fence, but The buttoned street boot has a light New Orleans, La. King Albert of before he could reach it he waa bitten welted sole and a curved beel, but this RanchBelgium waa turned down by city Tears Bag From California heel is broad enough at the base for in the leg. twice man's Back and Bites Him editors of two New Orleans newspacomfortable walking. Dancing boots Twlca in Leg. pers when he applied for work aa a are exceedingly dainty, with thin, If he would rather contribute a turned soles and high curved heels. reporter here in 1898 under the name Harris. A. Tbe Cal. C. a for Yreka, George Flock, of authority promiBoth street and dancing boots show opinion than two dollar this statement ia Antoine Alost a nent rancher near Yreka. was badly in cash, he's a regular lawyer. the top o! contrasting material. restaurateur of this city, to whom the bitten by a sow with a litter of pigs. Galveston Nawa REPORTERS JOB DENIED gL Lay-ln- g self-respe- FOES JOINED BY WAR rs shal-lo- Nationalist and Ulster Volunteers Are Fighting Side by 8lde In the Trenches. Unless there is serious objection by one or both later on, little Alene C. Houck, pictured below, and WUliam C. Flynn, above, both of whpm have won many prizes and are eugenic babies, will be married when they grow up. Alene Houck is seventeen months old and William Flynn is thirty-sevemonths Old. Each has won first prize in three successive baby shows in New York and this has caused the parents to plight their troth. m certair neighborhoods if lh had pastures. The idea these 7 is !te"d 'Y0nve-generally the cropped and that th no low land too wet or high rough to crop. ,a th,r good people do not know what ture is. They have misinterpret!1 Lord s intentions when too boggy or too hilly for oulUvaSf An ideal pasture should . number of grasses and iov-- contain In Its turn some one of those or clovers is coming its b week during the pasture season Ben R. Eldndge In Utah Farmer Th. variety of grasses planted in a should also be selected so that iTthere 8 a variety of soils or of soil cond tions in the pasture there will besoic variety of grass especially to each variety or condition of adapted the soil. Some grasses, for instance, provide excellent feed in the spring. They lie dormant In the warmer weather of summer and make another very excel lent growth in the fall, and these grasses are excellent In their way but should be planted with other varieties that are dought resistant and grow fairly well during midsummer. Some grasses do well on soil; others require low land where the soil Is continually damp and where the surface water is at a depth below the ground level. off permanent pastures the ground should be built up; that is, well fertilized, laid off If It Is to be irrigated so JAMES D. MARSHALL. Colorado Experiment Station.) One of the most important problems associated with dry farming is the determination of the rate of A great many seeding per acre. failures in dry fanning may be atTbe one tributed to overseeding. limiting factor of crop production on dry lands Is moisture, and It is largely because of Its deficiency that care must be exercised in the rate of planEach plant In the soil takes ting. out large quantities of water wbicb (By are evaporated into the air through the leaves, consequently when a thick stand is obtained exceptionally large amounts of water are drawn from the soil. A thick, luxuriant stand In the spring or early summer Is no indication of s good harvest, as the probabilities are that such a heavy stand will deplete the soli of moisture and prevent complete maturity of the crop, while a thin stand would be able to withstand the dry periods and yield fairly well when harvested. Thin planting does not of necessity mean a thin stand. Whenever the moisture conditions are favorable the plants will stool or branch out and make a stand that will warrant a satisfactory yield and at the same time be heavy enough to shade the ground and reduce the losses from excessive evaporation. When plants are crowded very little, if any. stooling occurs and the plant is unable to adapt itself to its immAs a general rule ediate conditions. the rate of planting for dry lands is what just a trifle more than half of would be used on Irrigated lands. Moisture for Hatching. The amount of moisture required in the hatching of eggs in our low altitudes Is so little that a saucer coin the ntaining water and a sponge set eaucer to absorb the water and make the air humid is all that Is necessary. If the incubator in eet In a cellar good hatches. In fact the best, are often made without any more moisture given than the air of a cellar. Even n basement room will often supply enough. Farmer Who Prosper. The men who have stuck to hogs and sheep, improving their breeds and method of feeding and marketing, have come into great prosperity Tbe the quitters in bad times have been only losers. Dirty House Expensive. The man who neglects to keep hi henhouse clean has to act as under taker for some of his fowls every ones in a while. Necessary Implement The milk scale is one of the necebarn, ssary implements In tbe dairy but It should be used to weigh th feed as well as the milk. The principal thing in regard 1 care Is making poultry pay ng. |
