OAPB MAY COUNTY TIMES, SEA IBLZ CITY, N. J.

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e” Signs Scarce Today at Washington N.—Thl» li anrthinc but the opei. aeaiton in Washlncton. Ill o pt lo aliuoat nnrn here. It'a a> eaay lor a came! to *o through a needle ti It la for the casual warfare, to effect an entrance Into

much of the local territory that used to have the "welcome" sljru out Tourlata hnd “tourlam.” as the French say. are balked at every point. The public must needs step gingerly nowadays. Tou must show your rtarrlagc certificate and your vaccination mark before you are admitted to most of the regulctlon sight-seeing places. John D. Rockefeller. Jr, and his family were among the last group of visitor* taken through the treasury before the doors of that building were closed to

public. It’s “no thoroughfare" for the past two month* throagh ’aouse grounds. Lonesome looking cope stand behind the tightly gazing out through the bars at their enrtwhlle gay company a wistful Charlotte Oorday aort of an expression. No pleasant r^fd! Just outside the gates the suffrage picketeme* picket sUll. Only the carefully credentlaled are ever admitted. -^Ushlng of a social call at the executive mansion during *■* of precautionary vigilance is accompanied by almost feudal We aren'! taking any chances In Washington these days. .«cky lady who had an appointment the other afternoon with one tlal ladles at the White House, not realizing the strict presentwas taken aback to find the gates barred agr.lnst her car. ive an engagement here!" she exclaimed; “what am 1 to dor arp Mrs. Blank." said the blne-«oated St. Peter, politely, “you are ease drive right In.” The gatea were locked Instantly behind of tea and a chat of an hour or so agreeably Imprisoned within '* followed. Upon her departure the gate was as gingerly ~ ln for the visitor’s exit, and as Jealously and promptly fastened

-mating back. The sensation was queer,

sionnl outsider who la able to read his title clear to admission overnmental department has hla Step* guarded closely after he

No free range Is allowed. The visitor is conducted lu and

t carefully and his intermediate activities supervised. All de-

■ provided with passes which must be renewed

A bandful at ■ Cast—It -4a Jaatl-. it la birth. It la naught—Ilia all sines tha am day of earth. ft la farm it la fortune, and laughter and tear*. And It ludhs a a V* my alary toat la lh* feats. A handful of dual.

AGE Of .THLCOMCOHP GRAPE JQ SET RID OF DRONES

employees i

to Enroll, but All Want Commissions of the bouv- of representatives said he had 3.000 letters from a district, all asking tat commissions in the army, and none of Imlug any military experience, relates Earl Godwin in the Star. - detailed the fact that h« D automobile, or had been a store, or had voted r hnd come from a’long fighters, or had read about the history of the Duo of the applicants e years old and desired - genera!, which Is as come In the army of the None of the applicants r lower than the twak Tou would think that jr two might lx* willing to start In as first arrgrant—but no. I heroes and patriots rash to anus In any capacity Involving ~ lar pay roU and high honoia. s of congress get letter* from prize fighters, lawyers, doctor*, dancing toaster*—all .•tiering their services to the country—and "eerultlng station at the carrier Is yawning. Some Jocund old rounding ••ut a century of sportively spent life announces to he la willing to enter the ranks and off era himself as the first time the public eheera. However the recruiting station Is ~ day ooe of these chaps who enlist through the medium of a II make some remark near a recruiting station and find himself And then he will have done mote for his country than all the

“ In the world.

'd 1* so ful! of colonels of the governor’s brand that we are .military decorations a ad parade properties, and now we need a thousand sllni-wsisted chaps tha! can do something besides talk r ancestors did at Banker 11111.

‘ties” Have No Use for the Slacker

Will TOU

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t the capital have U-eti serving -erioutdy, ready to battle e lines If need comes. All slacker proposals oi marriage have iwn hard. A khaki akin will be the matrimonial shelter of no

coward. Just as last year. Mm George Barnett, the beautiful wife of the major general of the Marine corps, has been acting as commissary general, serving the minleuts about the same rations the Matin> corps men live on during their camp Ufe. The assembly hall where notable speaker* have been heard every day. was a donation from the widow of Admiral Dewey. It 1* called Dewey halL This pettlcoatcd Plattaburg is •-o a government reservation of 24 acres. A field bakery In-

e quartermaster's department of the army la teaching the girls

valutary preservation of foodstuffs,

i Clover, a petted child of fortune, la ruggedly serving as aids to the commandant; Miss Elizabeth Elllcott Poe. a close r poet Edgar Allan Poe. Mias Katherine Brooks, one of Washng young muMdahs, a great niece of the wife of President Hara nifty and efficient first sergerm. Miss Blanchard Scott, chief e army, is Inspector of the camp. Miss Natalie Summer Lincoln. 1 young Washington novelist. Is adjutant. She la also the new

P. A. U. magazine.

n nursing and kulUlng. wig-wagging and bandaging and diet d all the other departments hove l>ecn full to overflowing. Excluded From Government Buildings have you been ’magged?’“ l« » common salutation In r dayt. They’re “mugging" them in droves at the d navy buildings. From 25 to 50 In a row. the officials and clerhs, r , of all aexes an 1 cnlora.

ivwepapvr com-sjHindrats r holder* of permit posses he camera. The govg no chancy Every-

•lale, war and uavy, the treasury and the White House State Lousing was halted at the entrance to the White U ■r day. The policeman at the gate did not know him. Iw hrough without question, the officer u-xoropanied him I" for tdonttOcatloa. Mr. Lansing CMupUamaud the police cd to bavr Lis own face put on a pass card.

Where there are proper foellltles for keeping foods from our day to another. much time and labor may be saved by making a little more than la necessary for the meal for which It la Intended. Rice may he served in several ways so that a larger quantity may be rooked at one time. Stuffed Egg Salad.—Cook four egg* until hard and after shelling cut lengthwise into halves; remove the yolks and beat to a paste; add a tablespoonful of chili euuce. two tablespoonfuls of minced chicken and a trarpoonful of melted butter. When blended fill into the egg whites and arrange on a bed of crisp heart leave* of lettuce, pouring over a thick boiled dressing; garnish with caper* and slices of pickled beet*. Palatable Steak Ends^—Crop the tough end of a porterhouse steak rath er coarsely; cook It In a little butter with a sprinkling of pejiper and suit; odd two tablespoonfuls of milk, dredge with browned floyr. toss It In a fourth of a cupful of cream and serve with baked potatoes. Peanut Butter.—Shell and blow off the brown skins from the nuts; rubbing tlwm between two coarse towels will help the process. Dust them with salt and grind at cs.ce; park Into glass Jar* or tumblers, cover aud keep In a cool place. Four tahlespoonfuln of butter Is added to each pound of nuts by aonie. w ho consider It an Improvement. Rice Spoon Bread.—Take a cupful of corn, iwo table*poouful* of butter, a cupful of b<4led rlee and two-thirds fit a cupful of boiled water, a cupful of milk, two beaten egg*, one and a fourth teaspmmrula of aalt. and a trwat«>onful of baking powder. Beat well and hake in hot cm, I an! cups well greased. Hermit*.—S.uik a cupful of seedless ralslna o> might, then drain. Beat naif a cupful of butter to a cream and add gradually one cupful of brown sugar, ooe teaspoonful of milk, one tablespoiuifu'. of roolassef. two eggs beaten light, the raisins and two cupfuls of flour, a tcaspoonful of dnna,nn. half a teaspoonful of msce. two and a half teaspoonfnls of baking powder, all w-ell sifted. Drop from a spoon and beke in a moderate oven. More flocr should be added If the cakes spread In baking. And makM a sorry n If hr’a unmarried blrmaa hla lurk. And If ba a married blames hla wife. SUGGESTIONS FOR HOUSEWIFE. Every spot of ground available should be put Into things for the table this year, as we are constantly told to conserve every resource In these time* of stress and high prices. The weekly new* letter published by the United State* department of agriculture lias an article by D. F. Hum, ton the secretary of agriculture In whlrh he «ays: “Both for economic and patriotic rensona the American farmer should attire this year for the highest stand.,-! of effirlaacy It the production and c vi.otion of food. But |ir<-ductioc accomplished by wasteful methods does not make for efficiency. and careful thought therefore should he given to the stei« that need to be taken. Every vegetable not used for the table should lie canned for winter use. so that nothing be wasted. Even on city lot* a small hotbed may raise a large quantity of table vegetables, and a bed four feet square will raise herbs enough to supply the market with aage. mint, and vcrlous savory herbs, for some time. Vacau’ lots all over our cities -r* lying unused which should be put to work ml* Ing food for future needs. Dlfferru*. anils grow different crops kucceaafully Tbe soy bean Is a crop which la easily grown on poor soil aud the bean is i moat nutritious one. whlrh at much less cost *akea the place of the navy bean. It aeetns to Heed a little longer soaking and parboiling to * .ten the coat, but otherwise It la rooked and served as the navy bran. Our food experts tell us that the tiourishmen; la equally u« gi-xl a* that of the navy

bean.

Skim milk has lost very little of' It* protein and may be used In the place of whole milk In numberless dlslscv at ti great saving In cost. For the use In bread biscuits cuke*, milk toast, cruetu soups, vegetable chow i ders and various other dishes which will occur to the thinking housewife, i skim milk may take the plaee oi whole ,

milk.

When one 1* making a fruit or ap..-v ’ rake stewed prune Jnlee may be mw-d j | for the wetting and some of the fruit |

Oldest Vina In Existence Is Leas Than Seventy Years Old—Catawba la

Fifty Years Oldar.

Bom* things seem to have existed | from the beginning of time, simply liecause we have always beer, accus-tomi-d to seeing them. One of these Is the Concord grape. This grape Is probably more largely Brown In America than any other variety though Its predominance Is of comparatively recent •late. Tl.e oldest Concord grape vine j In existence Is ranch younger than , ninny prraons now living. It la. In I fact. less than seventy years old. The j eatav ha grape Is nearly fifty year* ! older, brt It never attained to the Concord's popularity. The grape, however. Is not an Isolated case. When we begin to Inquire Into the history of almost any of our varieties of fruit, we find that all are of comparatively recent origin. The varieties In cultl- ; vatlon one hundred years apr> were j seldom up to the standards we hold at present. Probably the fruits of anI other generation will la their turn exI c« l those which we regard so highly.—

I American Botanist.

Perforated Zinc Trap or Guard Is Put Over Entrance.

Care Must Be Exercised That Queen Is Not Excluded or Killed—Working Bees Are Permiftsd

to Pass Freely.

To get rid of drones, which may become too numerous, a guard or a drone trap is put over the hive entrance. Perforated zinc Is the usual material used, the perforation* UIng Urge enough to permit workt.- bees to pass through, but too small for drones. Sometimes the frames arc shaken In front of the hives so all the drones can be kept outside. Care must be exercised t > sec that the queen Is not also excluded or killed. For safety she should first be found and cunflued

PUCE SITTING HEN ON NEST Fcwl Should Be Dusted Thoroughly i With Insect Powder Each Week

Clean Material.

f When it Is noted tha

MILK SUBSTITUTE FOR CALF Many Experiment Stations Glad to Furnish Farmer With Formula— Car* at Weaning Tima. The ealf raising season Is now here, and with the present high prices of milk and vral. and the InrreaKfng value of both dairy and beef cattle, we cannot impress upon our readers too pointedly the advantage* of using a milk substltuts In raising their calves. There are some excellent milk substitute* on the market and. If a farmer wishes to make ooe hlmse f. there are many of the experiment stations that will be glad to furnish him with various formulas for ao doing, i it ha* been proved time and time "gain that while the results secured , from milk substitutes are not a* easily obtained as those produced by a milk ration. If proper care Is taken after weaning time, the final devclop- , meat of the heifer raised upon the ' best milk Substitutes will be almost equal to the milk-fed individual.— Farm and Ranch. HANDY SEED POTATO CUTTER Four Pieces Prepared at Each Slicing by Device Made of Plank—Sharp Knives Co the Cutting. This device prepare* four pieces at each slicing, and la made from a plank two fret long and seven Inrhes wide. It has a bole by 0 Inches In the center. Two sharp knives cross each

Seed Potato Cutter. other at right angles In this opening. The cutter Is placed over a potato crate or a barrel, the potatoes laid on the knife, one at a time only, and the handle let down.

MORE WHEAT SEED REQUIRED Tendency Among Farmers to Sow Too Lime Rather Then Too Much, Says Ohio Station. The quantity of seed wheat to sow to the acre should be varied according to size of kernel, condition and fertility. From six to eight pecks per acre gave the-best re*ul’.s lu expert meats total lag 33 years ut the Ohio,, Kentucky. Indiana. Illinois, Kansas and Oklahoma experiment statiuna. The tendency among roost growers is to use too llttie rather than too much

seed.

The Ohio experiment station says: “We have commonly found the better quality of grain where tb- amount if seed required to produce the maximum crop had been used."

Alley Drone Trap. safely till the shaking Is over, and then returned to the frame*. Tindrones may safely l>e fed to chickens, as they have no stings. A simpler, less troublesome method Is to use a trap such as shown here with. The lower part Is oj>en freely at Its rear to the entrance of the hive. The front (Incorrectly drawn) consists of parallel slats or wires between which the worker bees cun iiass freely. The drones cannot so escape, but make their way upward through cones of wire cloth Into the upjier part of the trap. The cones arc open at their apices, which reach nearly to the top of the trap. Very few drones •tave sense enough to find their way back Into the hive. Any workers .ha. chance to get Into the trap can easily escape. It Is not likely the queen will get In the trap unless at swarming

time.

The best time to use the trap Is between nine and four o'clock In want. *unny weather when the drones feel like flying. Unless It Is desired to carry the drones to some other yard, the npper part of the trap need not be used. The cones will be sufficient, as the drones will huddle outside the hive until removed for chicken feed or for destruction.—Orange Judd Farmer. FIGURES ON SEED CORN COST If ft Was Paid Per Acre It Would Buy the Very Best Kind That Can Be Obtained Anywhere. Five dollars is s good big price for M-ed corn, so big that the must of tu will not pay It. But come to figure It down to acres It does not sound so large. Counting one bnshel will plant seven acres, the cost Is only 72 cento. Seed oats cost at I re* l 50 cent* a bushel any season mfler they have been -leaned. Counting two and onehalf bushels |>er sere. It costs i 1.25 to seed one acre. There Is no i*nslt>le way of getting out of outs M-**hng for less than II i-er sere, even If bln oats are seeded without rh-muing If |1 was paid out for sn-d corn |h-i- srrv. It would buy the very best kind that can be obtained.

ited that a ben kKh on

I the nc*t for two or three Right* la succession, she Is ready to be truua. fermi to a uesb which should be prepared for her beforehand. This nre( should be In a box und lomposed of straw, bay. or chaff for Destine mate* rial. Dnst the hen thoroughly with Insect powder each week while idu- la sitting. In applying the powd-r bold ' the hen by the feet, head down, work* ; Ing the powder well Into the feathers. giving special attention to regions 1 around the vent and under the wtnga, 1 The nest should be in sutne quiet, , out-of-the-way plaee on the farm, | where the sitting hen will not be- di». , turbed. Move her from the regular | laying nest at night. 1*01 n china rg( or two In the nr*t where she I* to alt und place a Ixiard over the opening ' m> that she cannot get off. Toward evening of the second day Intve soma fii-d and water and lot the ken com* off the nest when she Is n-adjL Should she return to the newt after , fis-dlng. remove tie- china egg or eggr and put under her those that are to 1«- Incubated. In cool weather It la Ih-si to put not more than ten eggs under a ben. while Inter In tin- si •ring . one ran put twelve to fifteen, according to the size of the hen. If eggs become broken while the ben Is sitting, ; replace the nest with new. clean material and wash the egg* In lukewarm water ao as to remove all

material from them.

ARRANGEMENT OF TRAP NEST. Device, Cheap in Construction and Act curate and Serviceable, Made

From Old Crate.

Owing to the nuralier of inquiries wo have received for plans of a trap nest, we herewith deserilie one of tin- mo«t practical homemade nests, says Twentieth Century F”finer. This nest la best made from tha common lemon or orange crate; It le cheap In construction and accurate and

Trap Nest. serviceable. The trapping device consist* of a door held up by n wire trigger. As the bird enters the oral It U forced to climb over .he step r.nd thereby lifting the door allows tin- trigger to drop buck, and thus the door Immediately swings down and cioses the bird In. The button on the outside trf the nest prevents the bird from escap-

ing.

REGULAR FEEDING FOR CALF Substitute Skim Milk as Soon as Practicable and Continue It for a! Least Six Months.

time* n day. .

At first, the calf Is fed whole milk, the quantity being gradually Increased. Skim milk Is substituted a* soon as practicable, and Is continued

until the ealf Is six months old.

Ordinarily, the maximum quantity of skim milk that can be fed economi-

cally 1* 20 pounds a day.

When the calf i» two weeks old, grain and fresh, clean hoy should be I tncrvaW as the appetites of the

GOOD ANTI-KICKING DEVICE Harness Breast Strip Can Be Arranged to Cure Unruly Cow—It Will Prove Efficacious. To break s cow of kicking when being milked, take a haniese breast strap and six Inches back from the buckle rivet ooe rod of a strap aoout four Inches long. Slip an Iron nug over the breast-strap beneath this short strap, then rivet down the other end of the short strap. When in use the long end of the breast-strap Is passed through the ring. The ring Is to divide the legs of the cow. und the short strap keep* It lu place. Buckle the strap around the legs above th< hock Joints. The short strap should be on the Inside, so It will not hurt

the cow.

LITTLE CHICKS IN BROODERS Young B.rds Should Be at I-east Thlrv ty-Six Hours Old Before Taken From Incubator. «'hicks should not be put In lb« brooders until they have been out oC the shell nt least 3B hour*, and -M hours is still better. When first Intro-duo-d to the brooder they should bn put under the hover and maoe to stay then- by setting boanb- up elnoo around It for a few hours that they may rest and grow warm In their new quarter*. Then they should be let oat a few minutes and shown the way buck again. During the first day or two they must not be allowed to remain ont of the hover long enough to get chilled,’ and when the attendant Is ssray it la best to prt boards up close around ths hover (hut not close enough to cot off the air) to make sure that the chlrka do not ktrsy out and become chilled in

her

LIME OF GREAT IMPORTANCE Hen Must Have Matcr.al With Which to Build Egg Shell—Oyster

Shells Meet Demand.

Li-nc in the ration of the laying he Is very Important. She must hat the tuat.-rlal with which to build tb

RAISING. SOME BABY BEEVES Farmer With Pasture Land Can Make Good Profit Without Big Outlsv

—Silo Is Needed.

Every farmer who has pasture land could raise a few baby beeves profitably without greot exiwiiM-. In sddi tion to the pasture a olio w1l be need'll and u silage crop. It may 1m- adI visable In addition to plant soiling I crops to suppienu nt the silage and I pasture, game hay should be svallaMe and enough grain to finish the

| calves for market.

LESSEN LOSS FROM ANTHRAX I Government Advocates Proper Vaccination and the Burning of All

Infected Carcasses.

Pr»|Hf vacrinatloQ and the burning •d cnrciiHsc* «•/ Infected animal* utv I fhe mean* advocated by the : wra- I ..lent of l< -senlag the loss.* tr..'u su- J

NUMBER OF FOWLS IN FLOCK Under Ordinary Conditions 300 Is Considered About Right for the

Average Farm.

One of the most Important thing* j to consider In the poultry business ; from the viewpoint of profit Is that of keeping the proper number of birds tu the farm flock. Under ordinary conditions. It Is held that 300 fowl* trpns sent the best numlier. It ahould lx* large enough in make I the producer Imb-tx-tubiit cf the local market and yet not be *o large aa to i Interfere with more profitable enterprises. Three l undred fowls take little more time or "quipment than WO. RATS IN THE CHICKEN YARD Save Time and Fowls by Getting R'«| of Them Before Young Chicks Hatch—Poison Is Best.