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FIRM HOBE UND * Cultivate for the Soldier at the Front. This question of conservation of food has become so agitated by those who have a knowledge of what it means in the preservation of life, who have made a study of the food condi tions, and the requirements of the country, that it is beginning to areuse the entire nation. The economist whose duty It Is to study the output and compare It with the consumption, sees a rapidly creeping up of one on the other, and, when the appetite of consumption gets a headway on the output, where will the nation beî It Is time the people were aroused, for there is danger ahead unless the In telligence of the people Is awakened to the facts. The crop of 1917 will be less than an average one, and see the work It has to perform. It has to feed the man producing it, and he Is of less efficiency today than a year ago. His strength has been reduced by the drawing away of the thousands from the farms, who are now In the ranks of the consumer instead of In that of the producer. There is an Inverse ratio here that can only be under stood when confronted with the ap palling figures presented by those In charge of the conservation work. The army has to be fed, dependents cared for, the navy has to have provisions, and we cannot sit idly by and see the women and children of the countries across the sea starve. There is ssch a great call for active participation in the matter of providing food, that those who are left at home in charge of this work have a responsibility placed upon them fully as great as has the man at the front who has gone out to protect the homes, the sanctity and the honor of those who are left behind. The producer should think only of this ; there should be economy, not only of labor. Every acre of avail able land should be producing. Ad vantage should be taken of every day light hour. It must not be a case of how much can we make. It must be a case of "fight" with those who have gone overseas, but in our way, fight to win the war. Where that spirit per vades will be found the spirit of the patriotic American. There is no diffi culty in securing land in any of the states. It may be rented on easy terms or purchased at low prices, and there should be little difficulty arranging with bankers to get the necessary funds to carry on operations. Should you not be able to get what you want In your own state, Western Canada offers an Immense wide field for oper ations at the lowest possible cost, and Americans are welcomed with open arms. Homesteads of 100 acres each may be had on easy conditions, and other lands may be purchased at low prices on easy terms. The yields of all kinds of small grains are heavy. The prospects for a 1917 crop are ex cellent, and it looks today as if there would be as good a return as at any time in the past, and when it Is real Ize*d that there have been yields of forty and forty-five bushels of wheat over large areas this should be en couraging. Now that the two coun tries are allies and the cause Is a com mon one there should be no hesitation In accepting whatever offer seems to be the best in order to increase the production so necessary, and which should it not be met, will prove a se rious menace. Particulars as to Cana dlan lands, whether for purchase or homestead, may be had on application to any Canadian Government Agent.— Advertisement. Some Grievance! The railroad official invited the stern citizen to communicate his troubles. "I want you to give orders," de manded the visitor, "that the engineer of the express which passes through Elm Grove at about 11:55 be res trained from blowing his whistle on Sunday mornings." "Impossible!" exploded the official. "What prompts you to make such a ridiculous request?" "Well, you see," explained the citi zen in an undertone, "our pastor preaches until he hears the whistle blow, and that confounded express was twenty minutes late last Sunday." —Lamb. DR. J. H. RINDLAUB (Specialist), Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat Fargo, N. D. A Test Required. "Johnny, It was very wrong for you and the boy next door to fight." "We couldn't help It, father." ' "Could you not have settled your dif ferences by a peaceful discussion of the matter, calling in the assistance of unprejudiced opinion. If need be?" "No, father. He was sure he could whip me, and I was sure I could whip him, and there was only one way to find out." An Early Instance. "We'd have got on all right If • that snake hadn't come along and taken charge of the apple crop," said Eve. "Yes," replied Adam, "this Is the original case of the ultimate consumer getting the worst of It at the hands of the middleman." When a woman plans to do anything out of the ordinary she always won derswh^^lmjielghborswlllsay^^ When Your Eves Need Care Try Murine Eve Remedy Rl SMitlBc —JdM By* Comfort. H hdu M OnnlM or maU. Writ* for rrao Bro Book. uvmittm ns bsmudi co„ ouosso RED SOX UP AGAINST PITCHING PROBLEM <*« A CAàO'ïlwà Sjçwç Shore A ■■ « :'C Sa :> 6 : ■ ; i,\ à m II A fiM} % I M w / ■ ■m ; 5 , A. ■: PITCHERS MANAGER BARRY MUST DEPEND UPON. \ % ill 7 i I ; MS il //, •r i A: - V\! I Bake Xuth Dutch LEONARD Babe Ruth and Dutch Leonard must shoulder the heavy end of the bos work if the Red Sox are to win the American league pennant this year. During the first seven weeks of the rnce Manager Barry depended almost entirely on these two pitchers to keep his club in the running, and they came through nobly. Ernie Shore and Carl Mays, although both are good pitchers, cannot be classed with the first two mentioned, and the fact that Barry has not used them in a greater number of games indicates that he is not confident of their ability to "come through." Bader, the new member of the Bed Sox regular staff, is an experiment. Although he pitched several good games for the Sox, he PITCHER "BULLET JOE" BUSH One of the Outstanding Figures in Baseball Because of His Loyalty to Connie Mack. When Connie Mack promised the fans that he would get into the Ameri can league pennant race this year, he based his statement on the belief that some of his new pitchers would come through. Myers, Nabors and others gave signs of this last season, but their failure has been absolute. The result was that Mack was left with only Joe & 0 I ïi / r: : A' ' : ■ s / w. r s Joe Bush. Bush to fall back on. "Bullet" Joe worked hard, so hard, in fact, that he has put himself out of commission and the case of the Athletics now seems hopeless. Bush Is not only one of the greatest of pitchers, he Is one of the outstanding figures of baseball be cause of his loyalty to Mack. He Is more than Mack's pitching staff and right-hand man. . BARGER IS MANAGER AGAIN Pitcher Is Seventh Leader Team Has Had Since Mike Fin? Piloted That Organization. Pitcher Ezra Barger, who acted a« manager of the Memphis team In the latter part of 1916, when George Mo rlarity was stricken with a fever, la back on the Job again, having been put in charge of the team after Mike Don Hn quit last week. Barger Is the sev enth manager the Chicks have had since the 1914 season, when Mike Finn piloted the team. Brls Lord started in 1915. Dolly Stark started In 1916, and Donlln started 1917. Lord was the only one to last a full season. Morl orlty succeeded Stark in mid-season, Barger succeeded Monarlty, Donlln succeeded Barger, and now lt Is Barger <gaia until Brother change U made. I was used against the weaker teams, From indications it will be up to Leonard and Ruth to hold the fort against the White Sox, Yankees and Indians, or at least do 75 per cent of the pitching against these clubs. The heavy strain of hard pitching will soon begin to make itself felt in Red Sox ranks, and unless Mays and Shore round into the pink of form and are capable of holding up their end along with Leonard and Ruth from now till the wire is reached, look out for a pitching slump, which is very 11a bie to come. Ail things considered, a pitching slump is the one big danger in the path of the Boston club, yet Barry may solve the problem, big as it appears to be. | jT> Q A | J 5 TÖRIC 5 A double-header in the capital city is a warning, not an attraction. * Johnny Evers Is in the game, but he is not playing like the Trojan of old. * • * There Is many, a pitching corps that should be spelled with an "e" on the end. • • The Yankees are not out of the run ning for the American league pennant by any means. * • • Haven't had much rain In Washing ton this season, and they haven't had much baseball. * • • Pittsburgh critics are hailing Jake Pltier as the best double-play starter In the big show. « « Rube Schauer and Ping Bodie gre showing up well under the manage ment of Connie Mack. * I Red Sox made nine runs in one in ning the other day. Still they call the Sox a weak-hitting team. * Cincinnati won a ball game from New York, which shows that the day of miracles has not passed. * • • Pat Moran still says that Niehoff of the Phillies, Is the best second base man In the National league. * • • Conscription can do a lot of the teams some good if any of the regulars come within the drafting age. And some of the American league tall enders seem to think it is pinochle they are playing, not baseball. Watching the ticker from Shlbe park is getting almost as exciting as unfold ing the contents of a cream puff. * ♦ Even a good right-handed pitcher can't undo all the harm perpetrated by a team of left-handed thinkers. « * Crane, the Washington shortstop, Is kept on the team because the fans at home have soured on George McBride. * * There is some talk about giving the Washington franchise to some other city. Question is, "Who would wart It?' * • * The Pirates have gone to the Poles for recruits. Joseph Kowalski, a rigLt handed pitcher, who has been physical director with St. Mary's college, Is the new man. • • • Happy Feisch has not been hitting the ball as well this year as he did last summer, but It Is a little early for the Milwaukee German to get in his beat wallops. PREVENTING EROSION OF FARM LANDS 5 r % 'v w ei m - X//A c W * g i"«"/ r*e r CHEAP IMPLEMENT FOR THROWING UP TERRACE. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) All types of terraces are constructed originally In the same way. The work of construction should begin invariably with the highest terrace in the field and each terrace should be completed before work Is started on the one next below. The late fall and early winter Is the best time to lay out and build terraces. If one has not time to ter race his whole field well it is better to construct well the first few terraces near the upper side of the field than to terrace the whole field poorly, for a break in a terrace near the upper side of the field is followed by breaks in all below. The terrace embankment can be built up wholly with an ordinary turn ing plow. A large 10-lnch plow with an extra large wing attached to the moldboard for elevating the dirt, is an effective implement for throwing up a high terrace bank. For broad terraces furrows are thrown toward the center line from each side for a strip 15 to 20 feet In width. Then, commencing at the center again, the strip is plowed in the same manner as before. This pro cedure is repeated until the terrace has reached the desired height. Many farmers allow the loose earth to be settled by a rain between plowings so that the dirt will turn better. How the desired height at the start for. If terrace, ever, it Is safer to build the terrace to a heavy rain, sufficient to overtop the comes between plowings, much of the original work is undone and considerable damage occurs from erosion. A disk plow can be used suc cessfully to throw up loose dirt, and the ordinary road grader Is employed often, and Is adapted especially to such work. The most commonly used and cheap est implement for throwing up a ter race is a wooden, V-shaped drag. After the first three or four furrows have been plowed on each side of the center line of the terrace, the drag is used to push the loose earth toward the center and thus build the terrace higher. The plowing is resumed and the drag used again, and this Is done repeatedly until the terrace has at tained the desired width. If the ter race is not built sufficiently high the first time, the work Is started again at the center and the plowing and dragging are repeated. The longer side of the drag Is hinged so that for the first few furrows the hinged por tion is allowed to swing loose. As the terrace Increases in width, and It Is desired to move the loose earth a greater distance, the removable brace Is set In position and the hinged por tion Is brought into use. The short side of the drag Is made to follow the HOUSEJCLEANING IN BARN IS ESSENTIAL lust as Important for Farmer to Have Periodical Bout With Dirt as for Housewife. (By GEORGE H. GLOVER, Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colo.) Every housekeeper, who deserves the name, has a general houseclean ing at least twice a year. The car pets come up and the curtains down, and everything from the roof to the floor in the furnace room is either dusted, scrubbed, varnished or palnt With the farmer's wife, spring and fall houseeleaning Is looked upon M. ns a duty is kept inviolate. But who ever heard of a farmer having even an annual barn clean ing? True the manure is hauled out, usually in the springtime, in order to make it possible to get the horses in and out the door, but that is all. If farmers would make it a regular job to clean the premises once or twice every year, infectious diseases among farm animals could be con trolled, and the mortality of 6 to 10 per cent from calf scours, hog cholera, blackleg, contagious abortion and other diseases might be reduced to the minimum. RIGHT CULTIVATION WILL HELP ALFALFA Benefit to Crops Comes in Va riety of Ways, but Greatest Is Destruction of Weeds. Practical alfalfa growers have long known that alfalfa In the corn belt greatly appreciates cultivation. Many a pioneer grower has delighted to tell the story of how he disked his alfalfa until the neighbors thought he hud completely ruined It, and then how the $eld greened up In a few day« and open furrow ; this holds the drag In the proper position. The piece to which the hitch is made should he set at a vertical angle with the shorter side, and also at a horizontal angle. The former tends to keep the short side parallel with the bottom of the furrow and the latter keeps the point pressing slightly against the edge of the furrow and prevents a tendency of the drag to Jump out. Graded terraces commonly are built with a plow and drag scraper. A strip is plowed, as heretofore described, and loose earth on the up per half of the strip is scraped up and deposited on the lower half. By this method a channel is constructed for the flow of the water, and the earth used to build up the embankment. Maintenance and Cultivation. A newly built terrace is susceptible to failure until it becomes thorough ly settled. For this reason it is not advisable to cultivaté the terrace the first year. It should be sown to some sort of cover crop. Breaks in ter races In the first year tend to discour age a novice in the use of terraces, but unless the embankment is built to an abnormally large size breaks occur often in newly made terraces. After the terrace has been established per manently. the soil should he thrown toward the center at each plowing of the field, at least once a year. This will increase the breadth and main tain the height of the terrace and the field eventually will assume an ap pearance of a succession of prominent waves, all of which may be cultivated easily. In cultivating a terrace as much of the soil as possible should be thrown toward its center. The best results are obtained where the rows are run parallel with the terraces. At first, usually one row is planted on the top, hut as the terrace grows broader sev eral rows are planted. These rows in variably produce a greater yield than do those on the land between the ter races. Where large machinery Is used, and It is difficult to follow the terrace line, the rows may be run at an angle across the terraces, where the land is not very steep. To do this, the ter races must be broad and must be thrown up at least onee a year to maintain their height. Where the rows between two ad jacent terraces are to be laid out par allel with the terraces, the same num ber of rows should be run parallel with each terrace. Owing to the vari ation in distance between terraces it then will be necessary to fill In with short rows, generally known as "point rows." These rows are run in pairs so as to facilitate the work of culti vation. I produced a wonderful crop in spite of I drought. Both the spike-tooth and the j spring-tooth harrow also have been j used with splendid results. The bene fit to the alfalfa comes in a variety of ways, but in the majority of the eases the greatest benefit Is the de struction of weeds, and especially of bine grass. Alfalfa, with Its long tap root, can withstand almost any kind of harrowing or disking, but the or dinary grass or weed may easily be damaged by this kind of treatment. The Iowa experiment station at Ames recently received reports from nearly a thousand alfalfa growers, con cerning the effect of cultivation on yield. The 234 men who reported disk ing secured an average yield of 3.9 tons; the 44 who reported harrowing secured an average yield of 3.8 tons, while the 653 who gave no cultivation to their alfalfa, reported an average yield of 3.4 tons. A few years ago certain people ob jected to the cultivation of alfalfa on the ground that the crowns would he split thereby, and become dangerously diseased, thus eventually weakening the stand. Investigations made a year or so ago by the agronomy department of the Iowa experiment station indi cate that there is absolutely nothing to this fear, that the cultivated alfalfa is Just as healthy in every way as that which has not been cultivated. EASY CURE FOR SOREHEAD Disease Is Highly Infectious and Spreads Rapidly—Individual Treatment Required. Yellow spots on comb and wattles Is a skin disease, commonly called "sorehead." It Is highly infectious and spreads rapidly. However, it Is easily cured, but requires individual treat ment. By immersing the head twice dally fectlve\cure may be brought about In a week'll time: Forty per cent alco r cent glycerin, 5 per cent id and 3 per cent water. An the following solution an ef hoi, 15 i boraclc a other satisfactory method of treating this disease is by the use of tincture of Iodine. toils is applied by touching the spots wl)fh a little of the solution twice dally. Lysol applied lo ■ «luv liar manner, also works weU. Don't take chances Si this year J Use GOOD UICK RED RUBBERS , They Fit A U Standard Jan Experts leaching "cold pack" canning use GOOD LUCK rubbers because they won't "blow-out" during ster i liza t i o n nor harden, shrink or crack after the jar is sealed. 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The thing being explained to him, he took a couple of eggs and put them in his trousers pocket, intending to startle his wife with them. Arriving home, he waited till the family were seated at dinner and then banged one of the eggs at the new wallpaper. But the smile quickly faded from his face. The egg had thawed. FOR ITCHING, BURNING SKINS Bathe With Cuticura Soap and Apply the Ointment—Trial Free. For eczemas, rashes, itchings, irrita tions, pimples, dandruff, sore hands, and baby humors, Cuticura Soap and Ointment are supremely effective. Be sides they tend to prevent these dis tressing conditions, if used for every day toilet and nursery preparations. Free sample each by mail with Book, Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept, L, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Deceptive but Effective. Tobias Knowal peeped through the window of his office, then tiptoeing to his desk, put a flannel bandage around his neck, put his arm in a sling, ran hks hands through his hair, and limped to the door. "Mr. Knowal?" inquired the caller. "Y'es." groaned Knowal. "What can I do for you?" "You appear to be far from well," said the caller. "Appear to be?" exclaimed KnowaL "Do you think I'm doing this for fun? But what can I do for you?" "Oh— er —I won't trouble you now," said the caller, hurriedly. "Any tim^ will do." And he departed. trouble. \ murmured \ Knowal, pulling off his bandages. "But it's really the quickest way to get rid of these life insurance agents. That one won't trouble me again, anyhow 1" It's some Matter of Sex. Ella Wheeler Wilcox said at a lit erary luncheon In New York ; "The poet must be accurate. The loftiest flights of poetry become ridic ulous if they contain mistakes. It's like the town girl in the country. "A town girl in the country said to a farmer friend; •"Oh, look at the adorable little cowlets in the poppy fields !' " 'Them ain't cowlets,' he said. "Them's bullets.' " Local Color in Monkey Game. Marian's mother frequently played games with her while doing the morn ing's tasks, thus amusing the little one, without interrupting her own work. One morning after a visit to the zoo, Marian asked to play "monkey," and her mother laughingly answered, "Ail right, I'll be the monkey while I dust. Now what shall I do?" "Oh, no. I'll be the monkey," said Marian, "and you has to go buy pea nuts to feed me first." Gets His Boyhood Wish. When a boy in New York John D. Rockefeller, Jr., used to drive his pony to a knoll near Dyckrnan street and enjoy the view. Often he spoke of a desire to own a large streich of the scenery. Not so long ago lie became owner of 50 acres of it, and he has donated it to the city as a park. The land is valued at about $5,00),000. Who Saw the Gentleman? "Lost stick by a gentleman with an Ivory head."—Boston Transcript. Walking Advertisement : True patriotism Is not always loud mouthed. B*** 0 o Always fresh and crisp ! Post Toasties are real corn flakes ' r "-'V