Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, May 5, 1922, Page 4

Agent for LEWISTON LAUNDRY Laundry must be in by Monday evening. Will be ceturned Friday evening of each week. KEITH’S Confectionery LOOP LLOL POOR EDO OED SOPESSESSOSL ESS HE SOT ES DR. J. E. REILLY Dentist Office, Nuxoll Block Both Phones | DR. J. D. SHINNICK Physician and Surgeon Office over Cottonwood St. Bk. POPES EE SY | DR. WESLEY F. ORR Physician and Surgeon Office in Simon Bldg. | Both Phones DR. C. SOMMER Graduate License VETERINARIAN Deputy State Veterinarian Residence North end of town Both Phones SHSPPSIOSSOO SISOS POSSI GIES | KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ¢ Cottonwood Council, 1389 Meets the first and third ; Vednesday of each month. Visiting knights welcomed John F. Knopp, G. K. Barney Seubert, F. S. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS McKinley Lodge No. 38 Meets every Tuesday evening. Hayward Shields, C. C. John Homar, K. R. and S. THE AMERICAN LEGION Cottonwood Post No. 40 Meets Ist Monday of each month at I. O. O. F. Bert Schroeder, Com. Frank Albers, Adjutant FELIX MARTZEN Real Estate, Uoans, Fire and Life Insurance Insure in the Northwestern Mutual and save 26 to 45 pez cent on your insurance. JOHN REILAND CONTRACTOR & BUILDER Estimates furnished of «.. class of Work. Repairing promptly done. Rooke Hotel Has neat clean rooms at 50¢ and 75c per night or $3.00 to $3.50 per week. When you are in Cottonwood give us a trial. “Dad” Rooke, Prop. ooo Correct English And How To Use It | A MONTHLY MAGAZINE) $2.50 the Year SEND 10c FOR SAMPLE COPY | —— to Publishing Co. | EV. ‘ON, ILLINOIS ———————— eae Subscribed for the Chronicle. ee eererrcers | was | number of | its performance are simply incredible, | when | One horse power would be sufficient | to run 270 million watches. | dredths inches with each vibration— | concrete and asphalt? How is it able | selves weighed | its gentle and continuous pressure, the | | ligt weights big enough to crush things | American countries is divided into 24 | Stance, it is compulsory to use this 24 ,hour system in connection with any meme eeeseeenseeee HOW ALASKAN NATIVES MAKE USE OF REINDEER HIDE.— A new article of commerce is the reindeer carpet, made by Port Clarence (Alaska) natives. The material used in this unique rug comes from the Alaskan reindeer and each carpet, 12 by 14 feet, is composed of 900 pieces of the fur, alternately light and dark, cut diamond shape and sewed with sinews. The border, 10 inches wide, is also of the tiny squares, but nearly black. The lighter fur pieces are cut from the hide of the under part of the reindeer, darker gray being that over the back and flanks. Fur cut out of the hide from the head and neck furnishes the black squares of the border, Many reindeer have ston ored coats, with beards and a mane like buffalo growing down their breasts. Others are spot ted, Quaker gray and white, and the hair is short, soft and very thick. If the animal is Killed tn early fall, the fur is prime, and will not come out in tufts, The reindeer rugs sell readily at $100 each. Four native women of the Seward Peninsula district cun finish a rug in a week, The fur carpets when once laid, especially on waxed floors, will last indefinitely and may easily be swept and cleaned. ee ee errerer. . Gres seee wee sasessedé WONDERFUL PIECE OF WORK | Why the Watch Has Been Called the Most Delicate Machine That Can Be Constructed, It Is said that the watch Is the | smallest, most delicate machine that ever constructed of the same parts, About 175 differ- ent pieces of material enter into its construction, and upward of twenty- | four hundred separate operations are | | comprised in its manufacture, Certain of the facts connected with | considered in total. A black smith strikes several thousand blows | on his anvil in a day, and is glad when | Sunday comes around; but the roller jewel of a watch makes every day, and day after day, 432,000 impacts against the fork, or 157,680,000 blows in a year without stop or rest, or ¥ 153,600,000 in the short space of 20 years. These figures ure beyond the grasp of our intellects, but the marvel does not stop here, It has been estimated that the power that moves the watch | Is equivalent to only four times the force used in @ flea’s jump; cons quently it might be called 4-flea power. | Now, the balance wheel is moved by this 4-flea power one and 43 one-hun- 558% iiles continuously in one It doesn’t take a large can of oil to lubricate the machine on Its 3,500- | mile run. It requires one-tenth of a | drop of oil to the entire watch for a year’s service. But it has great need of that one-tenth of a drop. How Mushroom Exerts Force. How is a mushroom, so fragile and | feeble, able to force its way through to carry up with it huge stones which | have been cemented down? How Is it that a mushroom can split a stout brick wall?) The mushrooms in a gar- den at Beckenham did this some lit- | tle time ago, pushing out a block of | brick work and mortar weighing 170 | pounds, though the mushrooms them- | less than three and one-half pounds, It is the result of one of the wonderful forces of nature | which men can examine and explain and yet cannot cease to marvel at. By growing and expanding mushroom can a thousand times as strong as itself.— New York Herald. How South America Divides Day. The official day in many Latin- hours, numbered consecutively from 1 a. m. and ending at midnight. The midnight hour is sometimes designat- ed as zero instead of 24. Thus, 4 o'clock in the afternoon is 16 o'clock, according to this scheme, and 9 o'clock is 21 o'clock. In Argentina, for in- public document, such as a theater program, contract, mortgage or judg- ment of a court, and the old system Is prohibited, excepting that in the the ater programs it may be used concur- rently with the 24-hour system. Why They No Longer Speak. | While at boarding school I corre sponded with an old schoolmate who | at one time had gone with my chum, | They had quarreled and Bill began to write me, I answered, but was | to concen! the whole proceeding from | Katherine. One day she asked if she shouldn't get my mall when she went for her own. As I was not expecting a letter from Bill I gave her my key | and thanked her for thinking of It In a few minutes she returned with | a letter for me, bearing Bill's return address in big letters xchange. Why Rats Are Public Enemies, It was formerly considered that It cost $2 a head to feed rats. The lat est, and probably more nearly correct estimate is $7.50 a head. Even this estimate does not take into consider ation the rat as a menace to health $$$ — ar a r- STAR AND UNDERSTUDY | the fittest. | alted they may be. For every star there is an under- | study, no matter how high on the lad- der one may be, just below him is an- other, ready and waiting to take his place, says the Sioux City Journal. | Both are -stimulated to effort by the knowledge that one Is above, the other below. The star must exert himself to retain his best hold upon his place, | knowing that if he shall slip he fs lost. The understudy must be ready to step into the star’s place at a moment's no- tice. It is a case of the survival of Life is filled with stars and understudies. A star Is no sooner set than another rises to take its place. Always some one is in preparation for the high places in life, however ex- No man is so in- dispensable that another equally capa | ble cannot be found to fill his place when he drops out of the play. Thus dves the world revolve in its orbit, pursuing its ordered way, undisturbed by the constant ebb and flow of hu- man life. If a man’s home is his castle, says ‘the Baltimore Sun, his bathtub should certainly be considered outside the sphere of governmental control. It is therefore with some suspicion that |one reads the pronouncement of the federal bureau of education to the effect that each good American should bathe at least twice a week; but, | fortunately, there is no intimation that the government will set inspectors on | the track of those who refuse to adopt this standard of cleanliness. As it stands, this official rule is only a | recommendation, and there seems some chance that Americans will observe it in view of the bureau's failure to specify the temperature of the water which constitutes the bath. One hears quite frequently that a dally tub of | frigid liquid provides a mental and moral stimulus which cannot be ob- tained In any other way, but in spite | of its much-heralded virtues, the cold plunge still runs a poor second to the | old-fashioned weekly ablution. It would go hard with the birds if their case were left to be decided upon argument alone. But robins are their | own best advocates, says the Detroit Free Press. They come in the spring —vandals that they are—and start a deeply planned campaign to cultivate everybody's friendship. The deep woods know them not; they never skulk in the bushes, nor flee the pres- ence of man. Instead they choose the lawn for a hunting ground, build their nests even on porches and window- | sills, and never let the sun go down without a song delivered from the | most conspicuous perch on the place. The robin's cheerfulness is irresistible; his neighborliness compelling. It is absolutely impossible not to like him when he offers such convincing proofs every day that he likes men. Re thankful for bard times. They are making the nation sober up. Noth- ing except depression could solve the intricate problems which Americans have been creating during the last dec- ade. An eastern preacher says this. In many ways, he ts right. Boom times make people wasteful, careless, indif- ferent to the future, negligent of their fellow men’s problems and welfare. Then providence sends us hard times, to bring us back to normal—to sanity. In hard times we learn to solve the “unsolvable problems.” We also learn that man has no problems except those he creates himself. A sweeper of the municipal free bridge in St. Louis reported to police that an hour earlier he saw a man and woman leap from the bridge tnto the Mississippi river. Asked why he did not report sooner, he was quoted as saying that he wanted to finish eat- ing his lunch. This indifference to human Ife is a natural consequence of four years of war, when people read of dally slaying of thousands of human beings. Every man who obtains money wrongfully—except the hold-up thug— has in mind the idea of some time paying it back, “when his ship comes in”; but, alas, the ship always ts wrecked before she reaches port. It is a delusion, of course; but many of the offenders really have the belief. Two young men have been sent to prison because they told the police they were held up, but later confessed that they bet the money on the races. Many who have bet on the horses hold that the young men weren't far out of the way in their original story. Radio !s capturing the boys In greater numoers than any other of thelr enthusiasms since the early bi- cycle days, except war. It Is raising up a generation of young scientists and the results are bound to be tinpor- tant to the whole human race. It is feared that the banning of poison gases in warfare may have a bad effect on the dye industry. Its effect on the die industry is the im- portant thing, however. We read that a Frenchman ts able to make gold from lead. That is noth- ing. Any plumber cap do that. ——S 7 ae COW-TESTING ASSOCIATIONS Small Group of Michigan Farmers First Entered Upon Experiment Considered Doubtful. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Fifteen years ago a small group of farmers in Michigan entered upon what many of them probably consid- | ered a very doubtful experiment. It wus the organization of an association ¢ for testing their cows, in respect to how much feed they ate and how much milk they gave; an association such as | the farmers of Denmark had originat Cow-Testing Associations Have Proved | Big Success. ed about ten years before, and which various other European countries had copied, The experiment, as studied by the United States Department of Agricul- ture, proved a success, however, and now the number of such associations | has grown from 1 to 452, It is notable that some states which took up the | idea at an early date have stuck to | the movement and organized more and more associations, while others con- tinue with only a few. Most states increase the numbes of their cow-test ing associations as time goes on and the Department of Agriculture is fos. tering the work. The lack of testers during the war | caused a setback to the movement, but recovery from this has taken place, and the number of associations in the country is now much larger than It | was before the war. | AMOUNTS OF FEED FOR COWS Upon Capacity of Animal Depends Quantity of Daily Portion of Grain and Roughage. | The quantity of silage to feed a cow depends upon the capacity oe the animal, She should have as much | as she will clean up without waste | when consumed with the grain and hay, is the advice given farmers by the United States Department of Agriculture. A good cow should be | fed just short of the limit of her ap- | petite. The smaller cows usually eat | from 20 to 30 pounds of silage a day, and the larger animals 40 pounds or | more. The hay needed ordinarily ranges between 5 and 12 pounds per cow a | day, or 0.8 pound per 100 pounds of | lve weight when fed in connection | with silage. Silage should be fed in | the proportion of about 2.5 to 8 pounds per 100 pounds of live weight. Con- centrates should be fed according to size of animals and richness of milk. One pound is required for each 2% to 4 pounds of milk produced. Although corn silage is one of the best feeds, particularly for dairy cows, there are some milk producers who use it too freely. It is not a complete feed; neither is it a food that will give best results with only leguminous hays as alfalfa or cowpeas. Since cows cannot consume enough of these rough feeds to produce the best results under ordinary conditions, it is necessary to feed concentrates in addition, particularly when the price is not high, as is the case this year. Farmers’ Bulletin 578, “The Mak- ing and Feeding of Silage,” contains much helpful information on feeding | when silage is the basis of the ra- | tion. WARM WATER FOR MILK COWS Animals Will Not Drink Necessary Amount From icy Tank—Heaters Can Be Provided. Cold drinking water given to dairy cows will result in reduced quantity of | milk, A cow which yields a large quantity of milk must drink lots of water; she won't drink much from an | icy tank, Water tanks can be provided | with heaters, or hot water can be | poured into the tank, Winter Dairying Held Back. Winter dairying has been held back for many years, largely through the failure of cow-keepers to provide com- | fortable barns properly equipped, Give Much More Buitterfat. Cows sired by purebred bulls give much more butterfat than those sired by scrubs. ice Water is Expensive. Feed can never get cheap enough to make it profitable to give the cows ico water todrik | — . Cottonwood Garage An Opportunity To Brighten Up Brightening up the home it one of the chief pleasures of the housewife. A bright, cheerful home makes for contentment and comfort. 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