Wisconsin School for the Deaf - Tattler Yearbook (Delavan, WI)

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number U stamped on the cap of each can. This prevents the different (trades of peas from becoming mixed. Defective can swell and leak. Swollen cans sometimes explode with a report like a gun, scattering their contents around. The bad cans must be discarded as thoir content spoil and become poisonous. Men who are working for the company that make the can inspect leaky cans carefully. The canning company is recompensed for defective cans. After the can huve been cooled, they are packed in paper cases by hand or by a packing machine. The cases are pilrd in block lot in a warehouse. A tag is placed on each lot to designate grade and variety. Con can be stored in the warehouse for everal years. When an order from a buyer comes, the cans are run through a labeling machine which puts on the label wanted. Having been labeled, cans are watched and the bad. leaky and swollen cons ore taken out; also the poorly labeled can arc run through the labeling machine again. The cases arc stenciled. The stenciling on the cases tells the kind, grade and brand of peas. After the cans have been labeled and inspected, they ure packed again in their cose . Then the case ore sealed by a machine and are taken to a frieght cor or a truck for delivery to the buyer. Millions of people buy canned peas as they are a common article of food now. They are used in restaurants, hotels, trains and ships besides in the home, and the canning of pea ha become one of the great industries of our state. WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A BOY SCOUT By Gerald H i r The Boy Scouts is an organization of boys in most nations of the world. It has won for itself praise by many different people. All boys between the ages of twelve and eighteen may join, if they want to. and have the opportunity for training in resourcefulness, self-control thrift and courage. These are important for good manhood and citizenship in any country. The first organization of this kind in the world was founded by Daniel Carter Beard in the United States in May, 1905. It was called “The Son of Daniel Boone—a Society of Ten-dcrfect and Boy Scouts.” The high officer had chosen as a title the name of a famous American pioneer, Daniel Boone. In 1910 the Wood Craft Indains decided to unite with “the Son of Daniel Boone to form a larger organization, called “the Boy Scouts of America. Meanwhile in 1908, Sir Robert Borden Powell had formed the Boy Scouts of England. He has done much to make the movement of interest to boy of all nations. The movement spread rapidly, through the world, until now there are Boy Scouts in fifty countries. In the United States alone there are about 700,000 Boy Scouts and in all other countries, there are about 900,000. In the summer of 1924 the Boy Scout's Jamboree in which 6,000 boy’s, representing thirty-two different nations took part was held in Copenhagen, Denmark. An American Troop won the World Scout Championship. Contest and games included camping, hiking, swimming, canoeing, life-saving and various forms of Scout Craft. Other School for the I eaf have branches. At the Wisconsin School for Deaf there Is an organization of Boy Scouts at present. Mr. Duncan Cameron formed the first Boy Scout Troop at the Wisconsin School for the Deaf in the year of 1924. The first year Mr. Cameron had a hard time arranging for mooting of the boys. Many young boys under twelve year old joined and learned the different rules, plana and the oath of the Scouts. Many of them gained knowledge through game and team work. That year in the spring time they had the first picnic at a place about three miles north of the State School on the Turtle Lake road. Some of the boys had learned to make fire without matches, making it by striking atones together. Mr. Cameron taught them to cook fish which some boys got from the creek; and how to cook other things, too. The boys had a good dinner. In the afternoon they played different games which taught them to be good sport and also taught them co-operation. The next year in May they had a camp. They used a two wheeled cart to carry the camping outfit. It was pulled west on the Janesville road about two miles. There they found a good place to camp and pitched their tent to prepare for the night. When darkness came, they all went to

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The Texas rungcr of today nre one of the hardest fighting and cleanout organisations In the United States. These jolly fellow come flapping uluiijt on their liin mount with roch a carefree appearance. They are instructed to protect Jill property on their aide of the Rio Grande. The e rancor who roam about trying to keep order in the wilderness are Just plain Texas cowboys. who shoot and ride with the best. Texas is proud of the history of her rangers, these cleun-souled fellows, who hate anything that is against law and order. She knows that fewer robbers, cattle thieve and other outlawn will seek refuge there if she keeps these hard-riding, adventure-seeking fellows to guard her welfare. PEA CANNING IN WISCONSIN By Lawrence Heagle Wisconsin is tho leading state in the canning of pea and cans about fifty per cent of the entire pack of the United States. There are about one hundred and ten factories in Wisconsin. Six million cases of peas are packet! annually from seventy thousand acre of Wisconsin land. The seed pea are grown in the state. Instead of canning the pens when they nre at the eating ntnge they are allowed to ril eii and later threshed. These pen ure used for need the next year. The factory contracts with farmers for a certain number of acre of pea to fill the warehouse. There nre two different kind of peas: curly and lute. Karly peas are canned about the third and fourth week of June; late peas in July. Pens nre sown by a seeder or drill just like wheat, oats or other grams. It is not necessary to cultivate the growing peas. In fact they are planted so thick it is impossible to do so. A man is sent to Inspect the pea fields. He reports to the factory so it will be ready to can the peas at the proper time. The factory notifies the farmers when it is to start, its run and they begin cutting the pea . Mowers ure used to cut the Vines Just like they cut hay. Having been cut, the pea vines are put in a pile and then thrown on a wagon with a fork. As soon a the wagon Is filled with pen vines, it is token to a vining station. Several vining stations are placed in the surrounding country by the factory. The farmers save time in bringing pea vines to the vincr if it Is nearby; besides, the peas nre fresher. The vine' are thrown from the loaded wagon into the vincr. or green |M a thresher, with fork . The machine separate! the peas and vines. The peas run into wooden boxes. The vinca from which the |teas huve been separated go to a stuck or into a silo. The wet green vines form pen silage. This is used for feeding cattle and sheep. The silage that spoils in the stack is used for fertiliser. The boxes filled with peas nre brought to the cunning factory by trucks. In the factory the peas are cleaned by a machine and then run into a tank with water and salt in it. After their salt water bath the peas go to the uppermost part of the building where a large perforated cylinder, that revolve back and forth, separates them Into different site or grade . The cylinder has five sections each with different sixes of hole . Number one and two come first and the small, immature, and broken peas fall through them. The best, medium sixe pea fall through number three and four. The large, over mature pea go through the last section and are graded number five. Because they are the best grades, number three and four command the highest prices. The pea which have been separated by the cylinder are run on wide belts at which women sit and pick out the bad ones and any foreign articles. The good peas go through a large pipe leading to a cylinder cooker on the floor below. Sugar and salt are mixed with them. Women again inspect the pea at they come from the cylinder and pick out bad ones if any. The pea are then run into a filling machine at the bottom of the building which pours peas and water into tin cun . The cans go on a track to the scaling machine which caps and seals them. The cans nre then run into a cage or iron basket which is pushed into the steam cooker. After about forty-five minutes cooking, the cage with its cans is taken from the cooker and run into water so the can will cool. There are four different sixes of can : No. one, No. One and one-half. No. Two, which you usually see on the grocer shelf, and No. ten which weighs more than six pound . A grade

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sleep. Some of them didn’t dNp very well because it was chilly and it rained a little. The next morning they woke up early and madr pancakes and fried bacon for breakfast. After that, some went (tithing, come studied nature, and some went for a hike. They learned a lot of different thing which were most interesting. In time for dinner, they met again and cooked dinner with Mr. Cameron’ help. Then they played games and had a good time until four o'clock when they came back to school with the cart. They reported an enjoyable camping trip. Now every year our Boy Scouts camp in rented cottages at some lake. In our school we have one troop consisting of four Patrols. They are the Eagle Patrol, the Pino Patrol, the Tiger Patrol and the Bear Patrol. There aro about the thirty-two Boy Scouts or eight boy in each patrol. Every year new members join the troop to lake the places of some scout who have gone. The new members promise to obey the Scout Laws and to be brothers to us. The purpose or aim of the Scout organization is to learn scout-craft. This includes life saving, tracking, signaling, cycling, nature study, swimming, rowing and other accomplishments. Much of this Scoutcraft is learned though games and teamwork. These nut only give ex- cellent physical exercise but also give a splendid opportunity for nature study. The boys must know the Scout's oath, which declares: “On my honor I will do my best— (1) To do my duty to God und my country, and to obey the Scout Law. (2) To help other people at all times. (8)To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake and morally straight.'' This Scout Law demands honor und loyalty to our parent and to our country, helpfulness toward each other, friendliness without snob-bishnesa, courtesy and kindness to animals and pooplo, obedience to Scout-master and officers, cheerfulness and trust worthiness. A Scout should be helpful to old people, and to be brave, clean, reverent and thrifty. The young Scouts should learn these laws so they can become good Boy Scouts. In order to become a second class Scout a boy must know certain thing about Scoutcraft. In order to be a first clam Scout n boy must know all scoutcraft. The Aim of the Boy Scout of America is to train boys for citizenship. One of the most important of the Boy Scout laws is the motto: “Be Prepared. If you are once a Scout, you will always remember to act like a Scout, 1 have been a Scout for six year and I have enjoyed this opportunity very much. THE SHENANDOAH COMMUNITY WORKERS By Orrell Jensen To a quiet little valley between the Blue Ridge und Shenandoah Mountains, long before the Revolutionary War broke out. came a little band of “Pennsylvania Dutch settlers. After a long hard struggle In getting across rugged mountains, these people drifted to what is now known a Shenandouh Alum Springs. On the rough hillside some adopted farming. Yearn of hard work, trying to get the land to yield n living, proved a failure. The soil on the hillsides was poor and the “bull pines constantly choked out their crop . Others worked at forges and ns carpenters, and fashioned quaint furniture patterned after that which their parent had. Almost three hundred year of ■trugfUng to keep the wolf from the door punned, and the descendant of these sturdy pioneers ■till lived in much the same way as their ancestor had. Several years ago a Philadelphia manufacturer who had known the place all his life and heard about the skill of their fore-father conceived a plan which he thought would help these people to help themselves. An old workshop wm remodeled and, under his management, plans were laid to make antique furniture, metal work and other kinds of hand craft. The wood which grew in abundance on the hillside would be used und the worker would share in the profits. The valley folk were very much interested in this community enterprise as they always had had a hard time finding work. Now they hnd the chance to use the skill of their mountaineer ancestors, not for the profit of a few men. but to help the entire community. Many of these mountaineers hnd furniture in their home which hnd been used in Colonial times and handed down from generation to gen-