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IDEAL TYPE OF COW FOR DAIR Y HERD.
The only reliable way to detect tu- j
berculosis In dairy cows is by use of i
the tuberculin test, according to Dr.
J. H. Burt, associate professor of vet- :
'erinary medicine in the Kansas State is
Agricultural college. I
"This test," said Doctor Burt, "can ,
hardly be administered by the average ,
person. It is well to call in the aid
of a competent veterinarian, or some j
other person who has had actual expe
rience in diagnosing the disease.
"A cow which is affected with tuber
culosis—especially In the more ad
vanced stages of the disease—will be
a poor feeder, may cough, and will
have a tendency to lose flesh, but
•these are not always sure symptoms
of tuberculosis. There may be other
causes contributing to the same con
dition. If a cow does show these symp
toms, however, It is udvlsable to have
tier examined.
"Tubercular cows should be shipped
to the packing houses having govern- ,
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FARMER'S CALENDAR
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1. If you suspect that your va
rieties of corn and cotton are
not the best for your section, get
in touch with your nearest ex
periment station, get the direc
tor's views, and then buy from
a dealer or breeder of known re
liability.
2. Save and apply to the land
every possible pound of manure.
Plant foods are too high priced
to be allowed to waste.
3. Give close study to your
crop and soil needs, and then
buy your commercial fertilizers
to fit these.
4. Keep the harrows right be
hind the plows every day, In or
der that the clods may be pul
verized before they get hard.
5. Clear out all foul fence
rows, ditch banks and thickets.
Such places are eye-sores, take
valuable land, and harbor harm
ful bugs.
6. Hold fast to your llve-at
home resolutions, for foods and
feeds are ruinously high for the
farmer who has to buy them.—
Progressive Farmer.
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GOOD ORCHARD CROPS
Most of Insect Pests Can Be
Controlled by Spraying.
tajurlou« Forma Can Be Reached by
Clean Culture, Pruning and Appli
cation of Insecticides—Plan
for Good Crop.
Most of the orchard insect pests can
he controlled by simply applying good
orchard management. One of the most
pathetic sights about a farm is a neg
lected home orchard which often be
comes so overgrown with weeds,
sprouts and briers and so clogged with
brush and other rubbish that it may re
semble second growth timber more
than a real orchard. In such a case
the orchardist's first Job Is to clean up
the orchard which will also eliminate
many of the Insect foes of the orchard.
In the orchard, broadly speaking, we
bave two groups of Insects ; those
which are beneficial. Including the
bees, and lady beetles, and those which
Are more or less injurious. The bene
ficial forms should be protected while
the injurious ones should be combat
ed. Of the injurious forms some are
controlled by general orchard manage
ment, Including clean culture, pruning
and cultivation, while others can be
reached most effectively by applying
«prays or other insecticides.
Some insects feed by extracting sap
with a piercing beak, as the scales and
plant lice, while others chew and swal
low solid material, as the caterpillars,
and beetles. Consequently two kinds
of insecticides are needed—those
which kill by contact for the sucking
types and stomach poisons for the
chewing types. Leonard Haseman of
the Missouri College of Agriculture
eays that the poison and contact solu
tions may be mixed and both applied at
the same time. Likewise a fungicide
ment inspection. Here are special
facilities for handling such animals,
The carcass is very carefully examined
: by the government Inspector, and if it
is found to be unlit for food, it la
I condemned and made into fertilizer.
, "If the diseased cow is an especially
, valuable animal, and it Is not deemed
advisable to dispose of her immedi
j ately, she should be separated from the
rest of the herd and cared for by a
special attendant. All precautions
should be taken to prevent the spread
of the disease.
"It Is well for the dairyman to test
his herd for tuberculosis and eliminate
all those animals that are diseased.
All animals that are purchased should
be tested before they are added to the
herd. All barns and housing quar
ters should be properly ventilated and
maintained In a sanitary condition
throughout. Only in this way can the
dairyman be reasonably sure of pro
, tectlng his herd against infection/'
for controlling the diseases of fruit is
combined with the insecticides "to kill
two or more birds with one stone.
If San Jose scale Is present In the
apple orchard a strong contact spray
should be given during the dormant
season. Commercial concentrated lime
sulphur diluted with about eight parts
®f water makes an ideal spray for this
pest and It also helps to destroy other
orchard pests. Spray thoroughly so that
each scale is soaked, otherwise those
escaping will reinfest the tree the next
summer.
For the control of tree and fruit in
sects during the summer a regular sys
tem of spraying should be given. For
instance, in the apple orchard a poison
spray Including two pounds of arsenate
of lead paste to 50 gallons of water
combined with a fungicide such as one
and one-half gallons of concentrated
lime-sulphur to 50 gallons of the in
secticide solution should be applied
when the bnds open. This is known as
the cluster-bud spray. Repeat it again
within a week after the blossoms fall,
again In about two weeks.
This spraying system in the apple
orchard, If thorough applications are
made, will practically insure a clean
crop of fruit when unsprayed orchards
produce almost no marketable fruit
This applies to .the small home orchard
the same as to the large commercial
orchard. We must spr$y and other
wise combat the Insects and diseases
of the orchard If we are to expect any
returns. The day has passed when an
orchard will take care of Itself and pro
duce crops of fruit free from worms
and disease.
FIGHT ON RUSSIAN THISTLE
Land Worked Early and Thoroughly
Seldom Gives Trouble, Says Spe
cialist of Kansas.
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The Russian thistle can be combat
ed as easily as ordinary annual
weeds, in the opinion of G. E. Thomp
son, specialist in soils and crops In
the Kansas State Agricultural college.
Land worked early and thoroughly
seldom gives trouble when planted to
some cultivated crop. The weed
should never be allowed to go to seed.
The thistle is more harmful than the
ordinary weed because it Is drought re
sistant and thrives when many other
weeds are dead.
If left to stand after a small grain
crop has been harvested, the Russian
thistle decreases the moisture in the
ground and leaves It In poor condition
for seeding fall wheat. This pest does
not ordinarily give trouble in pastures
that are not overgrazed.
PLANTING SUDAN GRASS CROP
Row» May Be From 20 Inches to 3 y t
Feet Apart, Depending on Dry
Land Conditions.
Dry-land sudan grass should always
be planted In rows. The rows may be
from 20 Inches to 3% feet apart, de
pending upon dry-land conditions. This
will permit cultivation of the inter
vening spaces between rows, and will
produce a larger yield than broad
casting, with the u»e of less seed.
The crop should always be drilled in.
A grain drill mny be used by stopping
up the requisite number of holes in
the drill to produce the distance, de
sired b'etween rows.
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SPLENDID UNITED STATES
PUTS TO SEA, READY TO MINUTE
Gouverneur Morris Visits a Fleet of American Warships "Some
where in American Waters'' and Gives a Vivid Picture of
Life Aboard a Fighting Ship — Men and Ships
Fit to Meet Any Foe.
By GOUVERNEUR MORRIS.
(International News Staff Correspondent.)
Somewhere Near America.—On Fri
day, May IL 1 received permission to
visit a fleet of United States warships,
was told where to find it. how to reach
It, and that until Thursday, the 24th
of May, I must not convey to the news
papers which I represent any of the
impressions that it should make upon
me, nor ull of the impressions until
the end of the war.
It inay be of interest to the public
to know that the fleet which I visited
is somewhere In American waters, and
that, backed by the proper authority,
it may be reached in several ways.
More than this I am not permitted to
say, nor may I give the composition of
the fleet, nor the names of the ships
composing it, nor of any of the officers
governing those ships.
I must deal in impositives. If I saw
faults or virtues I must not particular
ize. In short. I must tell about the
fleet without telling about it, and give
a general impression with most of the
impressions left out
Battleship a Man.
I shall deal, then rather with the
humanities of the fleet than with its
mi'chanlcs; with its aspects rather
than its potentialities. And with one
particular ship rather than with
many.
It has been said that a modern bat
tleship is a machine. It Is not. It is
a man. His eyes may no longer have
the vision of youth, but he sees
through a hundred pairs, whose vis
ion is twenty-twenty magnified many
diameters by lenses exquisitely ad
justed ; his hands may not be large or
strong, but they have within them
ulmost a god's power to destroy.
It is as if his brain had multiplied
his eyes and made telescopes of them,
had increased his body to an ominous
and beautiful ubomination, displacing
80,000 tons, and had lengthened his
arms and strengthened his hands un
til they could reach out clear away
over the rim of the world, and there
smash and crush and tear and kill.
It was twenty years since I had set
foot on a battleship. There was some
thing familiar about him and some
thing strange. R was like meeting a
promising friend of your boyhood af
ter he had grown into a man. (I will
not beshe warships, nor be-her them.
They are men.) He had grown older,
wiser, grayer, stronger, broader, tall
er and swifter. And though neither
of us had forgotten the best, nor the
worst of those things which we had
once had in common, he eyed me
askance, and I»felt embarrassed and
shy.
Warship Now More Kind.
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The officer of the deck spoke to a
seaman. And by the tone of the voice
I knew that friend battleship had not
only grown stronger and greater, but
so sure of himself that he could af
ford to be more courteous and more
kind. Things happened. A meal came
and went One threw dice for the ci
gars. One lost One listened and one
talked, and one began to associate in
the back of one's head this face with
the rightful name of its owner and
that insignia with the office of Its
wearer.
No two faces of the uniformed men
around the long, narrow table of the
ward room mess were alike. But
they were all fine, clean-cut faces of
rigorously educated men in the pink
of phylscal condition. Like all trav
elers, they were broad-minded, and
like all men who have been brought
np among true values, they were
without uffectation of any kind.
I have said that a battleship is a
man. It is not. It Is a city.
That it is a walled city, defended
by terrible cannon, every man knows.
So I shall not here and now speak
of the magic eyes with which it sees
the approach of the enemy, the thick
armor with which it repels his blows,
nor of the terrible cannon with which
It returns them.
The government is the flagship.
The admirals are the governors of
states and the captains and com
manders are the mayors of cities and
towns. It is a complete civilization,
a floating country, to which the de
votion of its seamen and firemen is
as necessary os that of its admirals,
captains and commanders.
But to return to our city. It dif
fers from land cities in that it recog
nizes neither night nor day. There
are more people awake in the day
time than at night ; but the city's eyes
are never closed. And during each
minute of his waking hours each citi
zen knows what he must do, or what
he may do.
Our Ships at Sea.
One day I learned that on the fol
lowing morning we were "going out."
Close to my room was one of the
steel tubes through which the anchor
chains slide, and very early I was
wakened by a sound that was as if, on
a dozen adjoining alleys, giants were
bowling and making ten-strikes. A
little later I felt the first revolutions
of the engines. I did not need to
look at my watch. The captain had
said that we were going out at 5:15,
and I had learned by now that when
the navy saya 5:15, it means 5:15 to
the second. i
I breakfasted at eight and went on
deck. There was nothing to be seen
Dut water and blue sky, a close-up
battleship which resembled ours as
one pea resembles another, and sev
eral far-off battleships that looked us
if they had been cut out of cardboard.
All the time that we were out I
kept away from charts and com
passes. Only the sun by day and the
stars hy night gave me any notion
of our whereabouts.
It was a restful feeling.
We were moving at the rate of !•»
knots an hour. There was noth
ing vague about tiiis. That was our
speed to the inch and second. It was
also the leisurely rate maintained by
the close-up battleship, and his dis
tance from us at the end of a given
hour was within Inches of what it
had been nt the beginning.
A marvel of battleships is the pre
cision with which they move and keep
their distances and mind their man
ners. It is only less marvelous than
the mobility of their turrets and their
great guns. A turret revolves with
out a sound. It may be turned so
fast that If you got in the way the
business end of tire gun would knock
your head off, or it may be turned so
slowly that to the eye it i9 not turn
ing at all.
Thut day I attached myself to a
group of boys who were learning to
be a gun crew and who that after
noon would hear a gun fired for the
first time in their lives, would fire
one and would try to hit a target.
Although I did none of the hard work.
I think that I shared as an equal in
all their mental processes and I know
that I suffered just as much as they
did when, after rehearsals and dress
rehearsals, the gun finally and very
suddenly and horribly went off.
Learning to Shoot.
First, they were taught how to
load. For this business a short dum
my gun with a genuine brush, screw
box and plug is provided. I am not
now speaking of great turret guns,
byt of lesser guns, whose bark, how
ever, is much higher pitched and less
tolerable to the ears, eyes, nose,
spleen, liver, toes, spine and scalp.
I am speaking of a gun which has
the highest muzzle velocity of any
gun in the world, and much the most
disagreeable voice.
This is how you load It: The plug
man with his right hand swings a
lever, the plug swings out of the
breech or screw box, and to one side.
With his left hand the pluginan slips
into its chamber in the plug a primer
(possibly a .44-caliber blank cartridge)
to replace the exploded one which has
been automatically extracted. Then
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OFFERS HOME FOR HOSPITAL
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Mrs. Margarete Sauer of Tompkins
ville, Staten island, has offered her
house to the government for a Red
Cross hospital and herself as a nurse.
Mrs. Sauer came to Manhattan the
other day, and at the ferry entrance
at the Battery asked a policeman to
direct her to someone whom she could
offer her services and her property.
She told him that her husband had
volunteered in the navy, and she did
not feel like allowing herself to be out
done by him. Mrs. Sauer was referred
to Col. Jefferson R. Kane of the Amer
ican National Red Cross society and
she immediately wrote a long letter to
him.
The house In which Mr. and Mrs.
Sauer live and whtch she has offered
to convert into a hospital, has a 30
foot front and is nearly double that in
depth, and has grounds running back
to the next street. Its rooms are
large, light and airy, and there is a
large cupola on top resembling the up
per part of a lighthouse with large win
dows all around, and commanding a
view of New York harbor. Mr. and
Mrs. Sauer are both Germans and have
twelve-year-old daughter living at
Dresden, Saxony,
i Photo shows Mrs. Yargaretbe Sauer.
his h"
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the pluginan su
and closes the breech of the gun.
That is what the pluginan does.
While he is doing It five other
men are doing other things of equal
importance. The moment the gun is
open the trayman slaps into the form
box a metal contrivance which pro
tects its fine gears and edges from
being injured by the sharp point of
the heavy wheel, and which guides
the shell Itself into the bore of the
gun.
The brush being open and the tray
in place, the first shellman with all
his might hurls into the opening the
shell that he has been holding, the
first powderman hurls after it a bag
of powder, and then even as the
tray comes out and the breech closes,
the first shellman has turned, without
using his feet, and received from the
second shellman a fresh shell, and
the first powderman has turned and
received from the second powderman
a fresh bag of powder.
That is how the gun is loaded. It
is a matter of seconds. In practice
the shell and the powder bag (omis
sion by censor?) to keys the juration
of two lines that cross each other at
a right angle on the exact center of
the bull's-eye. A third pointer does
the same tiling with another pair of
crossed lines, but the wheel elevates
the muzzle of the gun end or de
presses it. And of all the men in
the compartment of that particular
gun he is the luckiest, for he is the
only one who knows the exact mo
ment when the bang is coming. Ho j
causes It by pressing a button. At
any moment while a certain buzzer is
buzzing, and the crossed lines are on
the bull's-eye, lie is at liberty to fire
the gun.
Blast of the Gun».
We steamed slowly down the range
a number of times, and ail the com
partment guns on our side of the
ship swung slowly from left to right,
as the pointers kept the crossed lines
on the bull's-eye. And we all got a
line because we knew that each prac
tice run brought us nearer to that
real run when the awful blasts that
we anticipated would have to be en
dured somehow.
We turned and steamed slowly to
ward the range. We were in the
compartment, the gun crew and the
officer in charge, myself and twenty
or thirty fledgling seamen, who were
there to pick up what they could by
eye and ear.
I have never in one time or place
seen so many forced smiles. One of
them was mine. We had been served
with absorbent cotton and had plugged
our ears. The cotton made men's
voices sound numb and far-off. It had
no effect whatever upon the voice of
the cannon.
The steel doors of the compartment
had been closed and locked. There
was no escape.
The range came over the speaking
tube. The first pointer repeated it
and made an adjustment There
come a voice, even through cotton, a
bellowing voice : "Coming on the
range ! Coming on the range !" There
was a dead silence. Then low, clear
and insistent like the deadly rattle
of our most Infamous native snake,
the buzzer.
I hud forgotten about the gun in
the next compartment. I shall never
forget it again. It went off.
Lifted by the Concussion.
I was sitting at the moment and
my feet were swinging clear of the
deck. I had nothing to jump into.
But I rose in the air and came down.
Then our gun went The flash was
brighter than sunlighL It was of an
lntoleAble brightness, and all but in
tolerable was the bang that went with
it. The assault was less upon the
body than upon the soul. My ears
did not suffer at alL
I went out to see how many shots
were fired. I dAd not get used to it
I know that, for not once did I see
the gun recoil and go back into place.
Try as I would, that white, hot, deaf
ening flash 6hut my eyes tight for me.
I watched a second run from the
bridge. It wa9 pleasanter. The bang
sticks were even farther off and you
could see the tall, white splashes of
the ricoehetting shells. I got so thut
I could keep my eyes open.
I have said that a battleship is a
man. I have said that it is a city.
It is neither. It is a romance. 1 re
call searchlights that searched the
heavens and the face of the waters,
that crossed and crisscrossed ; the
starry calls of the bugles and the
sea-salt numes of things. Have you
lived in Arcadia? Well, I have lived
In the "Junior Officers' Country."
I remember a night of firing of
shells that gave off fire so that you
could watch the long, lovely curves
of their flights ; and of searchlights
which spoke to each other as easily
and as freely as a man speaks to a
man.
But what is best in our navy is not
the machines, nor the drive», nor the
controls, nor any of the death-dealing
or life-saving appliances. It Is the
spirit of these men who, through dis
cipline and self-sacrifice, have learned
to And the true values of life and the
true meaning of that flag for which
at any moment they are ready to lay
down their lives.
I speak not only of admirals and
captains, of wardroom officers nnd
junior officers, but of the boatswain's
mate and the enlisted men.
Fearing Onion Shortage, He 9tide.
New York.—Having visions of tint
Germans capturing Bermuda and rut
ting off the onion supply, Diaries Fox
of New York city, sixteen years old,
curried home a sack of the liiscluus
vegetable, $1?» worth. Tin* onions
weren't his and he was ssut to Jail
WEEKS
IN HOSPITAL
No Relief—Mrs. Brown Fin
ally Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Cleveland, Ohio.-"For 7«*« J
fered §o sometimes It seemed u^though
I could not »tana
It any longer. It
wu all In my lower
organs. At time» I
could hardly walk,
for If I stepped on a
littlo «tone I would
almost faint. One
day I did faint and
my husband w a •
sent for and the doc
tor came. I was ta
ken to the hospital
and stayed four weekB but when I came
home I would faint just the «ame and
had the same pains.
A friend who is a nurse asked Ae to
try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound. I began taking it that very oay
for I was suffering a great deal. It ha»
already done me more good than th
hospital. To anyone who is suffering
aa I was my advice is to »top in the first
Bö 1 v* tu -— • _ _ j - n
drug-store and Fet a bottle of Lydia R
j PinkhamJ. VegeUWe^mpwnd befor
you go home.
2844 W. 12th St, Cleveland, Ohio.
A Forlorn Hope.
"What did you do when you found
your husband's case was hopeless?"
"We sent right off for the doctor.*
HEAL ITCHING SKINS
With Cuticura Soap and Ointment—
They Heal When Other« Fall.
Nothing better, quicker, safer, sweet
er for skin troubles of young and old
that itch, burn, crust scale, torture
or disfigure. Once used always used
because these super-creamy emollients
tend to prevent little skin troubles be
coming serious, if used daily.
Free sample each by mall with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept L,
Boston. Sold everywhere—Adv.
Eliza's Ambition.
"I'm eatin' my peck o' trouble an' no
mistake !" exclaimed Mrs. Skewer to
her friend, Mrs. Dobbs. "fi ot wiv
Jimmie jest 'ad measles an' my 'usband
down why skyattlcker. I've got quite
enough worry wivout Eliza wantin' to
leave 'ome."
"You don't mean to say so!" ex
claimed Mrs. Dobbs, sympathetically.
"Does she want to go out to service?" -
"Service! No, that she don't!" re
plied Mrs. Skewer. "She's got quite
a different idea in 'er 'end."
"Factory?" suggested her friend.
"No, it ain't the factory she's after!
I may as well tell you. she's perspir
ing to the stage. That's wot she is !"
emphatically exclaimed Mrs. Sweker,
"an' I won't 'ave it !"—London Tit
Bits.
Answered.
"Pn. wliat Is a fund of informa
tion?" asked the kid who could ask a
thousand dollars' worth of questions
per fiscal month.
"Oh, it's merely a little collection
taken up occasionally to provide the
benighted heathen with school books
and other superfluous paraphernalia,"
responded pa.
Home From the Lake.
Stude—See that chalk on my shoul
der?
Roommate—Yeh.
Stude—Well, that ain't chalk.
Illinois hunting clubs mny raise
food crops tiiis year on their es
tates.
n
A Wise
Move
is to change from
coffee to
POSTUM
before the Farm
is done.
'There's a Rr ison'