The patriot., October 18, 1918, Morning, Image 4

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« Prepared by the Uni tod States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
General farming and live stork rais
ing, "with a limited amount of dairying
«»1 a good crop rotation is, on the av
erage, the type most easily made proflt
-able on meat farms in the northern
edge of the corn belt. This is brought
oat in a study made by a farm man
agement specialist of the United States
department of agriculture, of 300 own
er farms and 153 tenant farms in Len
awee county, Michigan, \yhich is typical
-of southern Michigan, northwestern
Ohio and northeastern Indiana.
It was found that specialized dairy
farms paid better normally than dairy
and grain farms, but on the average
did not pay as well as the combination
of dairying and hog raising. Dairying
with hogs and grain usually yielded
better labor income than any other
combination. The outstanding advan
tages of this type as compared with
others are greater diversity of income,
« large percentage of receipts from
sale of live stock and live stock prod
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Cattle and Corn—A Good Combination
In Profitable Farming.
acts, and a comparatively small per
centage of the income from the sale
of crops, because for the most part the
craps are sold to better advantage by
feeding them to live stock. The types
-*f farming and the general conditions
which prevail in this section make the
size of a farm a very Important factor
bearing on the income, according to
the bulletin. There is also a direct re
lation between the amount of capital
invested and the labor income of the
operator. Generally speaking, the
larger the farm and the greater the in
vestment, the greater the percentage
or rate of income.
'The cropping system and the proper
-distribution of crop area, it was
learned, were Important factors in
profitable farm management On the
non profitable farms studied In this
^ te rritory, from 30 to GO per cent of the
'total crop area was in corn, an average
-of TO ,per «ent la oats, an average'of
J® per-cent in wheat, from 1 to 10 per
'■cent in barley, and from 20 to 30 per
i 3 «»t to fav
As a result of the study It was found
that the following rotation is well
adapted to conditions in this area:
First year, corn; second year, corn;
third year, oats and barley; fourth
year, wheat, and the fifth year, hay.
Alfalfa is a valuable addition to the
average cropping system and the bul
letin suggests au Increase In the acre
age of this crop throughout the region.
»CREASE NUMBER OF COWS
Atoiry Herds of All European Countries
Depleted to Appalling Degree—
We Must Help.
<By CARL VROOMAN, Assistant Sec
retary of Agriculture.)
: The dairy herds of the old world
awe depleted to an.appalling degree.
There is not a country in Europe
where the people have enough dairy
produces, and this process of depletion
Is going on every day, and every week,
and every month, and will continue to
go oh as long as this horrible war
When the war is finished, we will
-1M the world with a demand for dairy
products twofold, fourfold, tenfold
er than the supply.
■ope will come to us with out
ta, every country in Eu
to us: "We must have
; give us canned milk ; give us dry
give us butter; giTe us cheese;
\ dairy cattle; give us animals
[ up our herds again."
America has stimulated
of dairy products, has
eased her supply of dairy animals
x beyond anything in the past, she
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pc utterly unable to supply this
e will supply as much of this as we
they are going to be will
to pay practically any reasonable j
» for our live stock; and we will j
> much of It that our own re- !
be exhausted,
country wtU be withoai
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Dairying and Stock Raising Where
Good Crop Rotation Is Practiced
Are Recommended.
Theso American aviators are consulting maps Just prior to starting upon
a bombing expedition on Metz, the Alsatian capital.
READV TO START OUT TO BOMB METZ
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10,000 MORE HUNS
TAKEN BY ALLIES
HINDENBURG LINE NO LONGER
BARS PATH FOR ALLIES—ENE
MY COUNTER ATTACKING.
Paris.—The Hindenburg line no
longer bars the path of the allies.
The definite rupture of it was achiev
ed on the first day of the fighting in
the new development toward the
north of the great battle now raging
from the Escaut to the Meuse.
Nearly 10,000 German prisoners
were taken prisoner by the allied
forces in the fighting along the va
rious fronts of the battlefield, says
Marcel Hutin in the Echo de Paris.
The Germans, he adds, are hurriedly
evacuating the Argonne forest. The
battle is continuing.
German troops are counter-attack
ing very heavily on the Suippe Riv
er front in the Champagne and the
French have not been able to make
very much-progress. Our arm of the
trap which is closing relentlessly on
the Germans, that operated by Gen.
Gourand, has secured important re
sults in the teeth of desperate resist
ance. While attacking the Suippe
line frontally, Gen. Gouraud is turning
it by marching on Machault and Juni
ville and has arrived close to the for
mer place. Consequently there is ev
ery probability of his reaching the
Brunilde line at the time when its
westers continuation, the Handing
line, is in danger.
To complete the day's work Frau
co-American forces moved up on the
right flank of the Meuse, wog back
places famous in the Verdun strug
gle and got in line with the Ameri
cans on the left bank, who are thus
relieved of the galling flanking fire
which had prevented them moving
forward.
The blows which Marshal Foch has
delivered in rapid succession m the
Champagne sector have not only
wrested from the German most import
ant positions which they have, held
since 1914 at an inestimable sacrifice
of men and material, but appear to
have thrown gravest apprehension in
to the ranks of the enemy. A Ger
man soldier found in a ruined village
surrendered trembling with f«er.
"What are you afraid oft" hie cap
tor inquired. "We are not going to
harm you."
With the acrid smell of blackened
masonry in his nostrils, with smoke
still rising from a village fired by his
companions in plain sight and with
puffs of blue smoke from German
poisonous shells marking the line of
the Suippe a little further back, t:
captive rejoined:
"But what will the French soldiers
do when they get into Germany?"
His interrogator merely remarked
that it was noticeable that the Ger
man soldier who has fired a French
peasant's home after taking shelter
in It for four years has no word of
sympathy, excepting for his own peo
ple to whom the war is coming nearer
and nearer.
With the crumbling line along the
Aisne Canal north of Rheims and the
line along the Vesle to the east, the
Germans abandoned Nogent-la-Av
besse, to the east of Rheics, and Bri
mont to the north. These points have
been the jailers of Rheims for four
years.
Will* Improve Army Camps.
Washington. — Construction of ad
ditions and improvements in army
camps to cost 1949,417 were authoriz
ed by the War Department.
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British Gun Boat (tank.
London.—Fifty-tnree men are miss
ing as a result of the sinking of a
British torpedo gunboat In a collision
with a merchant vessel September
30, according to an official statement
issued by the British Admiralty.
Alsatians Are Removed.
Geneva.—German military authori
ties have begun to remove the inxnth
itants of Alsace, according to the
Démocrate, in expectation of a Fran
co American attack on the frontier.
5-MILE HOLE CUT IN
HINDENBURG LINE
ATTACKED ON FRONT BETWEEN
CAMBRAI AND ST. QUENTIN
MANY VILLAGES CAPTURED.
London.—The Anglo-American of
fensive on a seven-mile front in the
St. Quentin sector has resultea in an
advance at some places of four or
five miles, according to the Standard'3
correspondent. Many villages and
prisoners have been captured. On the
right of the new advance Essigny.aud
other villages have been taken. Many
prisoners were captured.
The battle, which began at dawn
resulted in a serious defeat for the
enemy.
The British and Americans and
French have advanced everywhere,
smashing through the last lines of
the Hinenburg system and driving the
disorganized Germans before them.
In some places, and espeically at
Premont, which appears to have fal
len to the Americans, the fighting :J
lied troops penetrated the German
lines for a distance of more than
three miles and still are advancing.
Premont is more than four miles
northeast of Beaurevoir and only
three miles from Rohain.
American troops attacked near the
point where the last line of the Hin
dun burg system already has been
smashed. Progress was made despite
stiff machine gun opposition.
Simultaneously the Third British
army attacked on the front from Cam
brai south along th-a continuation of
the Masnieres-Beaurevoir line. There
was a frontal attack on this line and
ot the same time an effort to turn it
at its northern extremity.
The attacks of the two armies were
converging operations, the general di
rection of the thrusts being northeast
ward. The assault was accompanied
by one of the most terrific bombard
ments of the war, the massed British
cannon firing wheel to wheel.
It had been necessary to'assemble
the assaulting waves to the east of
the Hindenburg line and to get the
masses of men in through the intri
cate and battered trench system in
the dark. It was a task of extraordi
nary difficulty, but it was accom
plished well before the zero hour.
Comparatively few tanks were em
ployed. In fact, this was a night sur
prise, and it must have minimized
alike their opportunities and the nec
essity for their assistance.
The Anglo-American attack was
launched at 2:30 o'clock in the more- j
ing. In the darkness of the hour of s ;
quiet moonless night 20 miles of gun3
suddenly crashed forth in a hideous
dissonance.
The enemy's artillery response was
weak. This confirmed the Idea that
the Germans steadily were withdraw
ing their guns.
Must Leave Bulgaria.
Amsterdam. — Bulgaria notified
the powers with which she had been
allied that l bey must quit Bulgarian
territory witkin a month, says a Sofia
dispatch to the Berlin Tageblatt.
Most of the Austrians have left Bul
garia, the dispatch adds, and the Ger
mans are leaving.
Hospital Bombarded.
Paris.—Many French soldiers were,
killed or injured when a German air
plane bombarded a hospital at Chal
ons on the night of October 1-2. At
the time of the raid German prison
ers were being sheltered in the cellars
of the hospitals.
10,500 Prisoners Taken.
Havre.—In the operation in Flan
ders since September 28. the Belgian,
British and French forces have taken
10,500 prisoners, 350 guns and 600
Zmachine guns, Bays the official state
ment from the Belgian war office.
Germans Man Russian Ships.
Amsterdam.—All of the ships for
merly constituting Russia's Black Sea
fleet are now manned by Germans, it
was learned from German and Ros
si an sources.
"If one were to ask a native of Wei
hai-wei what were the characteristics
of British rule that he most appre
ciated, one would perhaps expect him
to emphasize the comparative freedom
from petty extortion and tyranny, the
obvious endeavor (not always success
ful) to dispense even-handed justice,
the facilities for trade, the, improve
ment of means of communication. It
was not an answer of this kind, how
ever. that I received from an intelli
gent and plain-spoken resident, to
whom I put this question," R. F. John
ston says in "Lion and Dragon in
Northern China."
"'What is it we like best in our
British rulers? I will tell you.' he
said. 'Our native roads are narrow
pathways, and very often there is no
room for two persons to pass unless
one yields the road to the other. When
our last rulers—the Japanese—met our
small-footed women . . . along such
a path they never stepped aside to let
the woman pass by . . . An Eng
lishman. on the contrary, whether
mounted or on foot, always leaves the
road to the woman. He will walk de
liberately into a deep snowdrift rather
than let a Chinese woman step off the
dry path. We have come to under
stand that the men of your honorable
country all act in the same way, and
this Is what we like about English
men.' "
WHAT APPEALED TO CHINESt
Consideration Accorded Women by
British Authorities Evidently Made
Deep impression on Natives.
WHY THEY ARE "DOUGHBOYS"
Origin of Nickname Applied to United
States Infantrymen Traced to
Mexican War.
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The term "doughboy" as a nickname
for the American infantryman is a
very old one, dating back to the Mexi
can war of 1846. In that year the
United States regular soldiers first
made acquaintanceship with the
houses of mud-co!ored, sun-dried
bricks that are seen everywhere, even
today, in New Mexico, Arizona and the
southern part of California.
These bricks are called by the Mexi
can adobes (pronounced "dobies"), a
term also applied to the small, squat,
flat-roofed houses built with them.
When the American invaders en
tered what was then Mexican terri
tory, the infantrymen found these
dwellings—mostly deserted by their
panic-stricken Inhabitants—handy as
billets, and promptly occupied them as
such. But the cavalrymen, who had
to be near tlieir picketed horses out
on the open prairie, were unable to
avail themselves of similar accommo
dation.
Partly in envy, and partly In good
natured chaff, these christened their
more fortunate comrades "dobic dodg
ers," afterwards shortened to "dobies,"
a good, ronnd-sounding nickname that
was bound to stick, and which in
course of time became corrupted into
"doughboys."
John Burroughs' Rabbit.
In July the woodchuck was forgot
ten In our Interest In a little gray rab
bit which we found nearly famished,
writes John Burroughs. It was so
small that It could sit in the hollow
of one's hand. . - . We had tc
force the milk into its mouth- But In
a day or two it began to revive, and
would lap the milk eagerly. Soon It
took to grass and clover, and then to
nibbling sweet apples and early pears.
It grew rapidly, and was one of the
softest and most harmless-looking pets
I had ever seen. For a month or more
the little rabbit was the only company
I had, and It helped beguile the time
Immensely. In coming in from the field
or from my work, I seldom failed to
bring It a handful of red clover blos
soms, of which it became very fond.
One day It fell slyly to licking my
hand, and I discovered It wanted salt.
I would then moisten my fingers, dip
them into the salt, and offer them to
the rabbit. How rapidly the delicate
little tongue would play upon them,
darting out to the right nnd left of the
large front Incisors, the slender paws
being pressed against my band as if
to detain it.
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Tri-Color Not of Equal Proportion.
It is evident from the appearance
of the French flag as a pictorial dec
oration that many artists are unaware
that the tri-color does not consist of
the three colors, blue, white and red,
in equal proportion. When the famous
flag was adopted in the year that gave
the United States its Constitution,
1789, It was complained that due to
nn optical Illusion, the white, in the
middle, looked narrower at a distance,
than the bine, which Is next to the
staff, and that the red, on the fly end
of the flag, looked narrower than the
white. After numerous experiments,,
the proportions of the colors were or
dered to be. as they are now, "in every
100 parts, blue to be 30, white, 33 and
red 37."
Ladies Shave in Japan.
There are many things the Japan
ese do differently from onrselves. For
Instance, ladles sit with their hands
folded palms upward in Japan. They
all shave. They never brush their
hair, but only comb It. For the Eng
lish "a thimbleful" the Japanese speak
of "a sparrow's tear," and Instead of
talking of putting a thing on the fire
to cook, the Japanese speak of putting
the fire through it A man never wishes
his wife good morning first—a truly
oriental touch. She greets him and he
replies. A woman never speaks of her
husband as such, She sneaks of "ths
house."
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ANIMALS
FATTEN CALVES FOR MARKET
Tests Conducted by Bureau of Animal
Industry and the Alabama Exper
iment Station.
^Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
In cattle feeding contests conducted
by the bureau of animal industry of
the department of agriculture and the
Alabama experiment station, covering
a period of five years, the fattening of
grade calves for market proved profit
able in every test nmde.
Cottonseed meal, cottonseed hulls
and alfalfa hay proved to be an excel
lent ration and a profitable one for
fattening calves. Cottonseed meal and
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Advantage to Take More Pains to
Find Out Needs of Their Animals
and Feed Them Accordingly.
cottonseed hulls proved to be a good
fa'toning ration for calves for a short
feeding period.
When fed in conjunction with cot
tonseed meal, corn silage of rather
poor quality produced the same daily
gains on calves as did cottonseed hulls
nnd cheapened the cost of the daily
gains.
The substitution of two-tldrds of the
cottonseed meal in a ration with corn
did not prove profitable when corn cost
70 cents a bushel and cottonseed meal
$26 a ton.
In one test It was profitable to re
place one-third of the cottonseed meal
with corn-and-cob meal, but in a sec
ond test nothing was gained by the in
troduction of corn-and-cob meal. The
first year the calves which received
corn-and-cob meal made slightly larger
dally gains and sold for more than did
the calves which received cot f onseed
meal as the sole concentrate. The sec
ond year the addition of corn to the
ration did not increase the size of the
daily gains, nor did the calves which
received corn sell for any more per
pound than the other calves,
In a third test 52 high-grade Aber
deen-Angus calves fed on a ration of
about three pounds of cottonseed meal,
two pounds of cowpea hay and as much
cottonseed halls as they would eat
made dally gains at a cost of $5.55 per
hundred pounds and returned a net
profit of $3.50 each.
In a fourth experiment 34 calves
which were fed for 112'days in the dry
lot and then fed 89 days on pasture
made good doily gains, bat the profits
were cot as large as they would have
been if the calves had been sold at the
end of the winter,. The gains made
during the summer were good and
were made cheaply, but the price of
calves was so much lower in the sum
mer than at the close of winter that
the continued feeding into the summer
months was not profitable.
NOW FREE OF TUBERCULOSIS
Pnre-Brcd Herds That Have Success
fully Passed Annual Tests Are
Placed on Accredited List.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
One hundred and seventy-one herds,
representing 6,250 cattle, were quali
fied June 1 for the accredited list of
pure-bred herds of cattle free from tu
berculosis which the department of ag
riculture is developing to insure dis
ease-free sources of pure-bred stocks.
In order to have his herd accredited
the owner must comply with uniform
rules approved by the United States
department of agriculture and adopted
by nearly mil of the stales, which re
quire that every animal pass nt least
two successful annual tuberculin tests.
In addition to the number of herds
mentioned, more than 600 others have
passed one successful test Id prepara
tion for accrediting. One of the many
advantages of having accredited herds,
which is proving popular with breed
ers, is that the owner may make inter
state shipments accompanied by a cer
tificate at any time within one year
without subjecting the animals to fur
ther tuberculin tests.
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Parasites Are Troublerome.
External parasites are extremely
troublesome on live stock. They do
most injury when the animals are low
in condition, for strong stock can re
sist them better than the weak ones
Hogs Must Have Water.
Hogs must have water to drink, and
If they cannot get fresh clean water
in the trough or fountain they wir
drink wherever they find water, re
tardless of its condition.
LIFT OFF CC
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Drop Freezone on
corn, then lift th:
off with finge
Doesn't hurt a bit! Drop a little
Freezone on an aching corn, instantly
that corn stops hurting, then you lift
K right out. Yes, magic! No humbug!
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A tiny bottle of Freezone costs but a
fëw cents at any drug store, but Is suf
ficient to remove every hard corn, soft
com, or corn between the toes, nnd the
calluses, without soreness or irrita tiom
Freezone is the sensational discov
ery of a Cincinnati genius. It ie won
derful.—Adv.
Hospital Nurses.
An orderly was on duty in an op
erating room for the first time and
was to witness an amputatious He
wondered whether he would get nerv
ous. He also noticed a bright-eyed,
rosy-cheeked nurse, and he wondered
if she, too, would blanch under the or
deal. Following the operation, he ad
mitted to the nurse that it had been
his first operation. She congratulated
him on having borne up so well.
"What did you feel like during your
first operation?" he asked the nurse.
"This morning was my first opera
tion," she said. "But I didn't know
that men could stand those things as
well as women."
OLD PBESCRIPIiGÜ
FOR WEAK KIDNEYS
Have you ever stopped to reason why
it is that so many products that are ex
tensively advertised, all at once drop out
of sight and are soon forgotten? The
reason is plain—the article did not fulfil
the promises of the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to a medicine.
A medicinal preparation that has real
curative value almost sells itself, as like
an endless chain system the remedy is
recommended by those who have been
benefited, to those who are in need of it.
A prominent druggist says, 'Take for
example Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a
preparation I have sold for many years
and never hesitate to recommend, for in
almost every case it shows excellent re
sults, as many of my customers testify.
No other kidney remedy that I know of
has so large a sale."
According to sworn statements and
verified testimony of thousands who have
used the preparation, the success of Dr.
Kilmers' Swamp-Root is due to the fact
that so many people claim, it fulfills al
most every wish in overcoming kidney,
liver and bladder ailments, corrects ur
inary troubles snd neutralizes the uric
acid which causes rheumatism.
You may receive a sample bottle of
Swamp-Root by Parcel Post. Address
Dr. Kilmer ft Co., Binghamton, N. Y., and
enclose ten cents; also mention this paper.
Large and medium size bottles fur sals
at all drug stores.—Adv.
Forewarned.
Little Dorothy adored her oldest
brother John; in fact, was his abject
slave. But one day John was guilty of
some misdemeanor for which- his fa
ther thought a spanking was the only
adequate punishment, and proceeded
to administer it.
Dorothy witnessed It with her little
hands tightly clenched; then she turn»
ed to her mother, and between sobs
exclaimed : N
"Oh, mother, I'm so sorry that cross
man is going to be the grandfather of
tny children."—Harper's Magazine.
DONT BE FOOLISH
and buy an imitation ; get the original
VACHER-BALM.
It Is better than any of the snbstl
tute "Balms" for quickly relieving
; Coughs, Colds, Croup, and aH kinds of
hurts and soreness.
The many imitations are proof that
it is an unusually good thing.
The price Is only 25c per Jar or
Tube. Surely it Is worth that to get
rid of a Cough or Cold, or your child's
Croup. If your druggist win not sup
ply you and we have no agent in your
locality, write for the agency.
Every family needs Vacher-Balm.
and we supply samples Free, to start
the demand. E. W. VACHER, Inc.,
New Orleans, La.—Adv.
What Governs. j
Dawson—The facial features plainly
Indicate character and disposition. In
selecting your wife were you g6v
erued by her chin?
Spenlow—No, bnt I have been ever
since we were married.—London Tit
Bite.
... JK® Wo««»* I« ■ Healthy Child
All children troubled with worms have an OB*
healthy color, which indicate« poor blood, and as a
rale, there is more or less stomach disturbance
O novas tasthlubs cbm TOmcjp^irSm&Sy
for two or three week« will enrlcb the blood, lm
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prore th« dl*«wtlon, and «et U a (Jouerai Strength
ening Tonic to the whole erstem. Nutorewlll the*
throw off or dispel the worm«, and the Chi ld w)U ha
In perfect health. Pleaaantto take. «Bc per botli«.
United States in the first three
months of this year produced 50,384
pounds of metallc magnesium.