Alarm Clock and Electric Lights 
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together, as inseparable as the Siamese twins. Not the price. It is often a great gamble, but there are 
only is this interesting as a case of freak grafting, always those who will take a chance. It is said that 
thousands of damage spits are brought every year 
I - |-| In parties who say they have been injured by im- 
pure food. In some cases "victims’* charge that they 
((9 I 3 ]) suffered colic or stomach ache from eating bad food. 
wS and they charge $oi> to $100 for the supposed pain. 
\ The restaurant men often pay such claims rather 
sty _ ; than take any chances on publicity. There are some 
^ / . 1 v ^ \ N . “professional claim bringers” who make a business 
Ss//V/y/j/j 1 / 1 1 of starting trouble of this sort. Some of them have 
y/ 's /lit 1 1 1 > '\\\ x been known to bring in insects or injurious sub- 
/ J / /j / J 1 j | \ \ \ N N -Oy stances and slyly drop them into the food, then mak- 
’’*y / / I / I J \ \ \ ing a great outcry and claiming damages. Such fel- 
' // / / / I | \ \ \ \\ \ V> x \% lows could do great damage to a restaurant’s busi¬ 
ness unless they are promptly bought off or exposed. 
' in mm All of this may seem strange to the fanner who 
^ U sits down in his pleasant dining-room while mother 
R and the gii’ls bring the hot dinner from the stove, but 
t it is one of the common things of this mixed-up 
and curious life in the city. 
I UNCLOSE diagram of alarm clod 
have installed to turn on the lights in my hen¬ 
house. I had read much about lighting your hen¬ 
house nights and mornings with electricity, but 
didn’t like the idea of getting up and turning on the 
switch at 4 a. in., so I took an alarm clock and have 
the lights come 011 automatically. C is the spool with 
one end whittled down to the diameter of the round 
part of spool, as I found the bevel edge of spool was 
too close to the setting stem of the alarm. Then I 
sawed the slot in spool just thin enough so it will fit 
real tight on the winder of alarm, as in B, and. in¬ 
stead of using a snap socket, use a chain pull socket, 
attaching a cord from the chain to spool, as in A. 
Put a shade with a mirror reflector on the socket, 
under side of shade. Then you get your light where 
you want it on the floor, where they can see to eat 
and scratch, I imagine a reflector out of an auto 
lamp would answer the purpose as well. All you 
have to do now is to turn the light off and keep the 
clock wound up. I feed my liens after the light 
comes on at night. Go out after they are through 
eating, scatter the grain in the straw, wind the 
clock and alarm, turn the lights off and forget the 
hours till morning, when I go out and turn the lights 
off. See Fig. 042. m. r. 
Hints on Starting a Milk Route 
1 . I am starring a milk route. a».\! would like to know 
when is the besr time to bottle the milk. I have tried 
to bottle it right after it is cooled but the milk has a 
disagreeable taste. Would potatoes give milk a special 
taste? 2. Do you know a special way to keep the cus¬ 
tomers’ milk account ? J. L. 
New Jersey. 
I T is a common practice for milk dealers to bottle 
milk as fast as if is cooled. The cooling process 
tends to drive off foreign odors so that cooled milk 
may be bottled best at that time. This is especially 
true wheu a cooler-aerater type is used. Odors or 
flavors that persist in cooled milk can¬ 
not well be removed. These flavor- 
may be absorbed after the milk is 
^ drawn, or they may be found in the 
milk as it comes from the cow. This 
?£\ latter kind of flavor Is due to strong- 
flavored foods which the cow has eaten, 
fit I dare say your trouble lies in the fact 
S& that your cows are being fed quite a 
ta few potatoes, and you are feeding them 
fjfr before u* at milking time. Try feeding 
H the cows directly after milking. At 
- S5pj any rate, do not let them have potatoes 
for at least two hours before milking. 
Do not let the milk stand exposed to 
gF the stable air for any length of time. 
Cool it and botfly..it in a clean, well- 
ventilated room as soon as possible 
after it is drawn. This room should 
not be used for other purposes. A 
kitchen especially is not a desirable 
place in which to handle milk. 
1 2. There are several ways in which 
to keep record of your sales, it is hard 
to advise which is most suitable to your use. because 
you do not state the size of your business, number 
of patrons, etc. Some use the milk ticket method 
and sell books of tickets, each ticket being good for 
one quart in trade. This does away with the loose 
money being placed iu empty bottles, a practice not 
to be recommended- Again, a book record may be 
kept, whereby each customer 7t listed, and note 
made each day after the customer’s name of the 
amount of milk delivered. The weeks’ total is then 
put onto a bill, and on a certain day each week the 
milkman collects from each customer the amount of 
the previous weeks’ delivery. If the business is 
large enough, a collector is employed, but the com¬ 
mon practice is for each deliveryman to make bl¬ 
own collections, lie is responsible for such collec- 
Light for the Henhouse. Fig. 64~ 
but in its way it is also a sermon in co-operation. 
These apples were bruised or injured before they 
could be driven to unite. In self-defense against 
Here is the plan of time clock I have arranged to insect and fungus injuries they formed a co-opera- 
turn lights on in a henhouse here. The clock is of tive group. Farmers are usually individualists so 
the Big Ben type and the arrangement may be used long as they are prosperous and self-supporting, 
wherever one does not have to pass the underwriters’ Under such conditions it i.s hard to make them 
inspection on his wiring. The diagram is self- realize the profit and value in surrounding part of 
explanatory, I think, except that if the time-wind key their individuality to a group association. When 
is not in position to stop the point of the spik<> it hurt by outside influences which control markets 
xx -111 always stop the head end of the 
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it w.iiind up; c.'iintvi the tup "f this 9 
-lii-k. bv means of a cord, with the 
middle of a longer and much heavier 
stink, bolted loosely at the bottom and 
tilted a "little to the left of vertical, so 
that u very slight pull of the cord will ^ 
cause it to fall to the right and strike 
and close a switch as it nears the end of An. Apple "Freak"—Tiro Ben Davis Self-grafted. Fig. t 
its quarter. The etui of the stick should 
be beveled to strike the switch effectively. The great and money farmers may come together and form a 
advantage of this device, apart from its cheapness, is solid union. If it is a fine graft like that shown in 
that the force necessary to throw the heavier stick out the picture it will stand all the assaults of time and 
of plumb is very slight in comparison with the force competition, 
of the blow delivered by the descending stick. The 
switch must, of course, be nicely adjusted so that 
the blow is sufficient to close it: if left too wide open 
greater force is required. Fig. (*44. r. d. miller. 
Ma ryland. 
Insurance Against Poisoned Pies 
T HE following is part of an advertisement re¬ 
cently published in the New York papers. It 
shows the limits to which insurance is going: 
Self-grafted Apples 
O NE of our Virginia friends sends us the "freak” 
apple pictured at Fig. 643. Ir represents two 
Ben Davis apples self-grafted or grown together. 
Apparently these two apples grew side by side, and 
POISON TIE INSURANCE 
PROTECTING 
all those engaged iu the Manufacture. Pro¬ 
duction. Sale, Distribution or Serving of 
Foodstuffs, or other Commodities intended 
for human consumption. 
The point about this is that a few weeks ago. in 
New York City, a large number of people were 
taken-violently sick at noon time. Several of them 
died and many more were seriously ill. The trouble 
was finally traced to a certain restaurant where it 
was found that a batch of blueberry pies contained 
arsenic. There was enough of it in this food to kill 
a small army. How it got into the pies is still a 
mystery. In such restaurants the food must be 
handled with great care. The lunchers are a tickle 
crowd, and any suggestion of danger or unsanitary 
conditions would drive them instantly from any eat¬ 
ing house. This new form of insurance i- a fair 
illustration of the chances business men are willing 
to take in securing themselves from loss. Just bow 
an insurance company can guarantee pure pies is too 
much for the ordinary mind to figure out. but if has 
come to pass that practically everything under the 
sun can now be insured if you are williug to pay 
l not her Clock Plan. Fig. 64 4 
i:t some way the points on the skin where they 
touched were bruised or wounded. Held together 
in contact these apples united much like the scion 
and the graft. It was not unlike wliat happens 
when one limb rubs or chafes against another until 
the bark is bruised. Then if the limbs are held close 
together a union is formed and a natural graft re¬ 
sults. Starting from a small union of tills sort the 
tw i apples shown in the picture have grown closely 
tions. gets a bonus above a certain amount of trade 
for the week, and is thereby stimulated to get new 
customers or increased sales. The best system to 
follow could be ascertained by talking the matter 
over with some successful milkman in a nearby com¬ 
munity. Try to find a man whose business com¬ 
pares favorably with yours in size and other condi¬ 
tions. j. w. B. 
