The Help
O-.tr Cattle Give
lr IIHMIH ii yrrnt .Util >" the line
b*if support whmi we e-wi rinse the
of the beef we u»e Of course
tti r.-ii.onn* i -rableexp. t te sttached,
§11 ih m putttug up ti»y *ud § lii»e t“*
ivtQtor feeding, but it would bo ft
in m b greater expense if w •- h.id to
... pi.mi entirely for our supply on
t Lucn-d beet iind w* would have u much
inferior pr.xiuet thin that wo put up
I lllSSlV. »
T u? f. i we killed thro** cri’ters
ilu> wri^hell iu nil over 2000 lbs A
i rur 1 of thu meat was eaten while
fri g i. o? it. remaining two-thirds
i u" .»s corned, some was salted,
smoici'i md dried and the rest was
cm Kid The bones were crooked and
boiled and the stock thin obtained was
cin ted also.
The hides w*ne sold. (he best
price ,v * could got was d eft. per lb.
i i vever when wa need to buy leather
in repair shoes theie same holes tn ’he
of sole leather cos’s us $2.20 per
lt>. It I .>*s very much as if there was
,.. n»ii.-rable profiteering tn the leath
er b tsinejs
T ha best fat of the beeves is tried
on) ami n» d in cooking. The rest,
in)-* in to soap grease. We hs,-e made
!oinv pounds of excellent snap. Have
h Is < experiment* i in ibn roanofactore
use .iiriiig soup, using fine volcanic
it.jb of which thorn are thousands of
tons on the ground; * «• grind it s’ill
fiii T ni 1 tod it to the soap in process
f in ... 'iiir The result has exceeded
i ur expectetiixis being much cheaper
a n. I no it all inferior to the boughten
p.oiu t
i) m '.;i <o.v» fifrnish the tables
vi h milk and cream neatly all the
rear. Enough butter is made during
the summer for immediate use, also
the to tire supply for winter, which is
put. in brine. And s line years we sell
quite a quantity. We timki qu-iviti
ti«*« i f cottage cheese, have buttermilk
to drink ;ind use in cooking. There
is no doubt the milk the children have
is a gr- \t factor in their development
physically and mentally. A teacher
on a neighboring island writes of a
giri in the school who for some years
was uue of the Orphanage children.
“Her caliber is much superior to that,
of the others on account of t ie train
ing she reoeicved at the mission."
A Plague of Rats
For » v<*nr Wood Island h »8 been
distressed bj’ a plague of ruts They
were undoubtedly brought, h^re on
the l’. ri S Saturn and unloaded
with material and furnisbingsfor the
Radio Station.
i hey multiplied rapidly and noon
over ran the island They found their
way into the jiotato cellars and in
goii.e instances ate all the pofato*Rthe
natives had s»v*d for seed. They be
came a great pest in our warehouse,
barn, chicken hous** and about the
d v< Utng h *u8**9. The few cats on the
island »*er» .lnah e to make any ap
preciable decrease in there numbers.
Wt us*d traps of various kinds, and
dignr grre.tr n uium*rw int’iu '
thcv would not go near a trap. We
tried all kind* of rat pois ms, but
they seemed to thrive just the same.
They became so wise that they would
not touch poison. About half of our
small chickens were carried off by
them. They even went into the pota
to gardens and burrowed in the beds
for the young potatoes. By continu
ally keeping up the fight we begin
to see a diminishing in the uumbcrof
these enemies.