The courier-index., November 30, 1917, Image 2

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HOTELS AND CLUBS_
MUST GET LICENSE
FOOD ADMINISTRATION AGAIN
CALLS ATTENTION TO PROCLA
MATION—LAW APPROVED BY
BAKERS.
Washington. Nov. 24.—It has been
Called to the attention of the United
•tates food administration that man
agers of many hotels and clubs that
bake their own bread are not plan
ning to apply for license, as required
President Wilson's recent procla
mation on the subject. These man
agers have thought that they do not
feed to apply for license, because
j&ey do not manufacture bread "for
gale.” their interpretation of the
phrase “for sale” being that it ap
plies only to those who sell or dis
pose of whole loaves of bread and
does not cover the cases of restaur
ants, hotels and clubs who bake
bread and sell it In their cafes and
dining rooms.
The food administration points out
that this interpretation is not cor
rect, but that the ruling applies
epecifically to the above class of
bread manufacturers. The paragraph
in the president’s proclamation which
applies to these cases is as follows:
"All persons, firms, corporations
and associations who manufacture
for sale bread in any form, cake,
crackers, biscuits, pastry or other
bakery products (excepting, how
ever, those whose consumption of
any flour and meal is less than 10
barrels a month in the aggregate)
are hereby required ti procure a li
cense on or before December 10,
1917. This includes hotels, restaur
ants, other public eating places, and
dubs who serve bread or other bak
ery products of their own baking.”
Informatfon received by the United
Mates food administration from mem-!
bfers and officials of the Associated
Jtyjwter Bakers of the United States,
fdllowlng the promulgation of the
%nking regulations, demonstrates that
KaItam AAti airlno 4Vi no a roornlotlAna i
reasonable and (air.
A chart issued by the bakery in-!
duatry shows the increase in the
«fst of flour and other ingredients
•hmpared with the increase in the
price of bread covering the period
6v>m July 1, 1916 to October 1, 1917.
This chart shows that during this
period the price of bread advanced
K per cent. On the other hand the
price of flour had advanced 249 per
pant, but on the other hand had
declined on October 1 to 128 per cent
above the July 1916 price. The av
erage cost of other bread ingredients
advanced 194 per cent during this
time, but on October 1 bad declined
Util they were but 119 per cent
higher.
The increase in the price of short
ening was 102 per cent, fuel 65 per
^aent, and sugar 32 per cent. Dur
ing the same period feed advanced
102 per cent, hut on October 1 had
declined to 88 per cent above the
1016 price.
The chart was made by Jay Burns
• #f Omaha, former president of the
National Asociation of Bakers and a
member of the war council of the
industry.
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The reclamation service in Wash
ington has succeeded in restoring to
cultivation about 800.000 acres of
land and 20,000 farms, practically
in the west. In New England, it is
believed. 150.000 acres could be re
claimed. in the east there is often
the difficulty of too much water, in
the west of too little; methods of
treatment therefore differ. The
World's Work says tnat “a system
of water control would bring under
cultivation 10,000 acres of the finest
arable country along the Concord
and Sanbury rivers, while the county
of Plymouth, according to a survey
made by the federal department of
agriculture, contains 22,000 acres
which are now useless swamp, but
which, under proper control, would
yield a large income to market gar
deners.”
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(By Herbert Kaufman)
How much ef his body does a man
need to earn a living in this year
of wheels and wires—1917? For in
stance: Legs are not requisite at
the cigar bench; expert typewriters
never look at the keys; the watch
ful eye of the supervisor is not
hampered by the absence of arms.
What with telephones, elevators, mo
tor cars and like couriers and car
riers, a respectable remnant of the
human frame can overcome most of
the handicaps of mutilation.
if the head stays intact a missing
feature or so isn’t necessarily a
sentence to dependency. Common
sense is a general servant, and with
a little coaching can learn to sub
stitute for any of the missing five.
We are to have so many disabled
folks that the problem of their
autonomy will perforce direct unpre
cedented attention to reclamation
and re-education of industry as well
as military blesses.
Employers will cooperate with in
stitutions and put thcf maimed of the
republic on a preferential basis in
such special occupations as they can
demonstrate parity with normals.
Our streets shan’t ring with the
whine for alms—the hat-holders and
cup-bearers already there reproach
enlightenment. We should have help
ed them to their feet long ago. The
remarkable achievement of retinker
ed European soldiers indicate that
the only hopeless cripple is a de
liberate shirker.
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Machinery has been invented for
shredding waste paper into an ac
ceptable substitute for excelsior.
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The longest novel in the world be
longs to Japan. Its author is Kiong
Te Bakin. It was commenced in
1852 and published volume by vol
ume, as it came out, over a period
of fiftv years. There are 106 vol
umes, 106,000 pages, 3.180,000 lines
and about 38,000,000 words. A com
plete copy weighs 130 pounds.
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The South Manchurian railway has
more than doubled its operated mile
age, becoming one ot the greatest
railway systems in the world.
SALTS IS FINE FOR
KIDNEYSJ UIT MEAT
Flash the Kidneys at onoe when Back
hurts or Bladder bothers—Meat
forms uric acid.
No man or woman who eats meat regu
larly can make a mistake by flushing
the kidneys occasionally, says a well
known authority. Meat forms urie acid
which clogs the kidney pores so they
sluggishly filter or Btrain only part of
the waste and poisons from the blood,
then you get eick. Nearly all rheuma
tism, headaches, liver trouble, nervous
ness. constipation, dizziness, sleeplessness,
bladder disorders oome from sluggish kid
neys.
The moment you feel a dull ache in the
kidneys or your back hurts, or if the
urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sedi
ment, irregular of passage or attended
by a sensation of scalding, get about four
ounces of Jad Salts from sny reliable
pharmacy and take a t&bleepoonful in
a glass of water before breakfast for a
few days and your kidneys will then set
fine. This famous salts is made from
the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com
bined with lithia and has been used for
generations to flush clogged kidneys and
stimulate them to activity, also to neu
tralize the acids in urine so it no longer
mnees irritation, thus ending bladder dis
orders.
Jad Salta is inexpensive and can
not injure-, makes a delightful effer
vescent lithia-water drink which all reg
ular meat eaters should take now and
then to keep the kidneys clean and the
blood pure, therebymvoidicg serious kid
aey complications.
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FARM MACHINERY
LOSS $8,000,000
Through Neglect Farmers Are Per
mitting Tools and Machinery
To Depreciate.
By V. H. Kern, Specialist in Farm
Machinery, Extension Division, Uni
versity of Arkansas.
"The average annual loss in Ark
ansas on farm machinery alone is ap
proximately $8,000,000 and is increas
ing with alarming rapidity in spite of
the tremendous advance in the prices
of everything used in producing crops.
Our people fail to realize that there
is a serious shortage of material and
they may not be able to buy Imple
ments in the near future even if they
have the money to pay for them.
Through neglect and improper care ;
, they are permitting their toola and :
machinery to depreciate hi value as |
much aa SO per cent a year. Wag
ons and implements that should last
eight to 10 years are worthless after i
being used three or four seasons. Our j
people should take care of what they j
have and buy more and better ma
chinery with their savings. Too many ;
of our farmers are now' seriously han- j
dicapped because they are not proper- !
ly equipped and cannot produce crops :
economically and with aa great a !
profit as the men who have the imple- ;
ments and take care of what they ;
have. !
Farm Machinery a Necessary
Investment.
From a business standpoint, farm
machinery must be considered a nec
essary investment. Economy means
management without less or waste
and eniy when the most strict econo
my is practiced will the highest pos
sible dividends be obtained from the
machines used on the farm. Length
ening the life and efficiency of the
farm machinery is the most practical
method for increasing this dividend
per dollar investment. Improper cars
of farm machinery cuts down the
farmer's yearly savings by reducing
the efficiency of his machines and in
creasing the piles of discarded imple
ments throughout the country. Weak
ened part of implements, due to rust
ing and rotting, break when a strain
is placed on them and as a result the
repair bill is increased to say nothiag
of the time lost and farm work de
layed while repairs are being sent for.
Arkansas Climate Hard On Im
plements.
‘ Sun, rain, and snow all combine
forces to rust and rot machinery and
as chomieal action takes place faster
at higher temperatures Arkansas1
conditions are such as to cause rapid
deterioration of uncared for im
plements. Since this is true, best pro
tection can be obtained by housing,
painting and oiling each tool.
implement Shed Pays.
An implement shed can be built
cheap and durable of wood at such
a cost that the farmer will be
saved four to six times the cost of
the shed. Kept well painted, it will
last almost indefinitely.
mow io tare cor iviacnmery.
If it is impossible to house the ma
chinery, it is especially necessary that
liberal coats of paint and oil be ap
plied at the close of (he season's work.
All working parts should be cleaned
and oiled, and plow bottoms, cultiva
tor shovels, disc barrow blades, plant
er And grain drill furrow openers
should be painted to prevent rusting.
A good combination is made by mix
ing axle glease and lubricating oil
until a thick paint is obtained. A lib
eral application of this keeps moist
ure away from the metal wearing
parts and prevents rusting. When
paint iB knocked from the. wood or
metal parts it should be repainted.
In the implement shed, disc har
rows, the discs of the grain drill, and
planter furrow openers should be
placed on boards. During the early
Vinter all implements should be look
ed over for defective parts, loose or
lost bolts. A few minutes devoted to
repair work at this time may save
many dollars the coming spring.
It is useleea to attempt to do effi
cient work with dull tools. The plow
■hare must be sharpened properly and
kept that way; the same with the disc
harrow’. Sharpen the latter at least
once a year—better still, when It
needs it. Transportation trucks may
be obtained and placed under the disc,
moving it from place to place without
unduly dulling the blades when not In
use. Align the mowing machine if
necessary. Each ledger plate of the
sickle bar should work in close prox
imity to the sickle section. A sharp
sickle and good adjustments result in
lighter draft and more efficient work.
Sharpen the teeth of the section
harrow to a point.
Graphite, instead of lubricating oil,
may be best for the smoothing roller
if it squeaks and oiling is difficult.
If a commercial fertilizer is used in
the grain drill, clean thoroughly when
finished to prevent corroding.
Keep cultivator shovels sharp to do
good work.
Keep the spreader repaired. Keep
its working parts clean. Do not al
low too much accumulation in winter
when freezing takes place.
Proper care, housing, paint, oil and
grease are essential to long, life and
efficiency of farm implements.
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S. D. . 0: VSTON
WHOjLESALE DEALER
All kinds of feed stuffs, flour and meal.
The stock of groceries, case and shelf
goods, cigars, etc., of the Marianna
Wholesale Grocery Co., for sale until all
closed out at bargain prices. Special at
tention given to selling car loads of hay,
grain, flour. Mixed cars shorts, bran,
chops, mixed feeds, oats, etc. Give me
a chance to figure with you.
TERMS: -CASH
S. D. JOHNSTON
VALUE OF FERTILE FIELDS ,
Until recent years southern farm
ers, as a whole, seemed to give no j
thought to the state of their soil
fertility. They continued to grow
cotton with or without commercial
fertilizers, and without any thought
for the fututre of the soil. They
were able to do this longer than any
other one-crop farmers were ever
before able to do so, because cotton ;
is the best poor land crop known and [
responds best to the use of com
mercial fertilizers.
But at last the southern farmer
was rudely jolted out of his indif
ference to the state of his soil fer
tility. Anmong other things which
served to awaken him to something
like a due appreciation as to just
how poor most of our soils had be
come and the importance of a rich
soil if his farming was to continue
to support himself and his family,
was the coming of the boll weevil.
When it became necessary to gTow
other crops, the poverty of his soil
revealed Itself to him in a light
which he bad never seen before.
He had gone to the very edge of the
precipice of destruction, through his
absolute disregard of the care of his
soil; but the boll weevil, while
sending many over tthe precipice
also stopped many a man from going
over and down to destruction. Land
that had produced cotton enough,
when fertilized, to give a bare living
absolutely refused to give living
yields of corn, oats and other crops.
It is said that every people who go
onto virgin soils deplete them, some
times to the point of near starvation,
before they begin to sufficiently ap
preciate the importance of a rich
soil to cause them to do those things
necessary to even maintain, much
less build up. soil fertility. There
is no denying the fact that the boll
weevil had much to do with arousing
southern farmers to a realization of
the extent to which our soils had
become depleted and started many
of them to restoring as rapidly as
practicable their worn Bolls, If at
unfortunate that some of these Mrs
been sorely disappointed, hecstn
of the slowness with which their
soils have come back. This is hot
really due any fault of our soils
f6r they respond to good treatment <
amazingly fast; but it la rather doa '
to the fact that these farmers ex
pected too much and failed to real
ize that what it had taken maty
years to destroy could not be re
stored in a year or two. Our soils
may be made fertile; more fertile
i than they ever were; but it will taka
i time and effort, or money to do so,
I and very much money to do m
I quickly.—The Progressive Farmer.
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Experiments are being made t#
determine the value of pulveriied
I coal for fuel on the railroad in Brt
i zil. An American pulverizing plant
has been built, and with American
coal the tests were successful. Bra
zilian coal will be tested In the near
future.
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