The Sentinel.
Entered u Kcond rlaaa Matter tt the rouoffit la
Calneaboro, Ten., ander AcU cf Congm 1S79
FRIDAY, FEB. 11, 1916.
A Hard Proposition.
A young man visited his doctor and
described a common illness that had
befallen him.
"The thing for you to do," the phys
ician said, "is to drluk hot water an
hour before brealtfast every morning"
"Well, how are you feeling," the
doctor asked a week later. "Did you
follow my advice and drink hot watei
an hour before breakfast?"
"I did my bent, sir, but I couldn't
keep It up moro'n ten minutes at a
tretch." Tit-Bitu.
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a Ralph Peters
On Railway Mall Pay
One demonstrator reports an aver
age yield of 64.84 bushels of corn per
acre over thirty-three acres. He also
reports that he haa eighteen acres yet
to harvest that was planted later and
cultivated under demonstration meth
ods, the same arthe thirty-three acres,
and anticipates nn average yield of
seventy or seventy-five bu3hels per
acre. An outside farmer had such a
poor yield on ten or flrteen acre that
he did not attempt to harvest It Iq
tiS same tract he had other corn that
iro roughly estimated that his maxi
mum yield could not possibly exceed
thirty bushels per acre. This man vol
untarily admits hU failure and says
that his entire farm muBt be worked
uuder demonstration methods next
year. E. S. Roburds, Hardla county,
November 28,
DRESSING PERCENT
AGE GOVERNS PRICE
(JJy C. D. Lowe, Division of Extension,
University of Tennessee.)
The price paid for meat producing
Bflmals on foot, is almost entirely
governed by the amount of.( edible
product that Its carcass wjll yield.
Many times the animal costing tha
jnoet per pound on foot yields the
cheapest meat for example a thou
sand pound steer dressing 50 per cent,
ells for 6c per pound Eucrh a carcass
gives 500 pounds of beef at a cost of
$00, or 12c per pound. Another 1,000
pound steer dressing 60 per cent, sells
for 7c per pound and yields 600 pounds
of meat at a gross cost of $70, or 11 Vic
per pound. Thus tho 7c steer was able
to furnish beef td the killer at a less
cost per pound than the ono bringing
Be per pound on foot.
The dressing yield of cattle varies
all the way from 40 to 70 per cent of
their gross weights, depending upon
several factors. The yield, almost al
ways goss up with Increase in age, un
til maturity, unless the animal Is stuat
d during its development, and the it
Is always low. Condition also baa Its
influence usually the fatter the ani
mal the higher the dressing percent
age. Form and finish are two impor
tant influences animals with com.
pactnass of form and of low, blocky
type, properly finished, will most al
ways produce the highest yields of ed
ible product.
Slaughter losses come most largely
from the following: tho paunch and
Intestines and their contents, together
with the blood, makes up about 25 per
ceat of the waste; the head, pluck and
feet make up another 8 per cent; and
with ether parts, such as liver, tongue,
bide, tail, etc., average about 40 per
cent of live weight of animal. ; It la.
evident that these ratter parts are not
omplete losses, and It Is often said
that the utilisation of these byprod
ucts by the packer Is his only source
of profit
When your neighbor Is able to out
sell you on his stock, stop and consider
whether the buyer has not seen more
real meat in his lot and wa thereforo
able to pay accordingly.
A controversy has been raging in the columns of the
press between the railroads and the Federal Post Office
Department over the question of proper compensation
for handling the United States mails. Mr. Ralph Peters.
Chairman of the Railway Mail Committee, when asked
to state the railroad side of the controversy to the
American farmer, said in part:
"The railway mail pay question will be settled and
Bejtlcd permanently and with Justice to all concerned
as soon as the American people realize that the whole
subject, while seemingly com plicated-and technical, bolls
down to 'a few simple points of fair business dealing
which no one need bo a rate expert to understand.
"The first is that the Post Office Department, weighs the mails, and re
adjusts the pay of the railroads, only once in four years. This compels the
railroads to carry the increase in the mail tonnage during the intervening,
years without pay manifestly an injustice in the case of a rapidly growing
business. One consequence haa been that last year the railroads carried fully
half the parcel post for nothing.
"A second point is this: In addition to carrying1 the mails, the rail
roads are required to operate many traveling post offices for sorting and
distributing the mails while in transit But the Post Office Department pays
for such post offices only where they occupy whole cars, and pays nothing
In the many cases in which it merely requires the uso of post office apart
ments in combination cars, although such apartments differ from the full
railway post office cars only., in Bize. More than 4,200 apartments of this
character have been fitted up, and are maintained for the exclusive use of
the Post Office Department. Failure to pay for them has been an especial
.hardship to the smaller roads on which the Department does not find.it
'accessary to utilize whole cars.
i "One last point: In thpusands of instances (though not in all) . the. Post
'Offla Department requires the railroads to carry the mails back and forth
Ibotwcen railroad stations and post offices, but pays them nothing for this
I extra service bevond the rates covering the rail transportation. The tall-
loads have no choice but to perform this additional service gratis, or refuse
to carry the malls at all . ..-.
"tfow.for the remedies the railroads ask: They do not ask-to have the
malls weighed daily, or to have each shipment weighed and paid for sep
arately, as is done in the case of private shippers. They merely ask to
have the mails weiehed. and the cay of the railroads adjusted, at least once
a year, instead ?( opce In four yea,rs. They also ask that apartmont post.
omce cars ne nam ior. at reasonaoie rates, Becoming 10 bi&j. uaou, mcj
lasit that the Post Office Department cease to require ol thera free messenger
! service between stations and post offices, and either relieve tnem 01 mis
1 service or pay fairly for It. These are the reforms the railroads ask of Con-.
I wess. They gladly lay these reforms before the public, confident that they
I will appeal to the common sense and fairness of American voters."
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BOYS SELECTING EXHIBITS.
Much care rhould b taken in tha
selection of exhibits. Snlect .ears cyl
indrical in shape, all stout the sr.r.ia
lewglh, depending upon the variety;
uniform in clrcumfereuw . -' Itb
straight rows; the kernels, sasuld ba
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Peter Radford
On Church and State '
The recent action of one of the leading churches of",
this nation, in annual convention, demanding that the !
laymen vote only for candidates for office whoso views '
coincide with- thjose of the clorgy on one of the leading I
political issues, and direct and Indirect efforts of other :
church organizations to Interfere with the freedom of.'
the ballot, make one of the greatest perils of this age, and,;
present a problem that should receive thoughtful con-.'
elderatlon of both laymen and citizens.
Suckling babes may well squirm in their cradles '
when ministers in convention assembled release the !
hearts of men and grab them by the throat,, for Chris
tianity has broken down, religion has become a- farce and
the pulpit a failure. When tho church substitutes force
Ifor persuasion, command for conviction and coercion for reason, the sheriff
had as well pass the sacrament, plain-clothes men take charge of the altar
and policemen bury the dead, for why a church?
i It is as dastardly a crimo against go eminent for a minister to under1
take to deliver the votes of. his parishioners to a candidate, as it is for a ,
'ward heeler to dellvor a block of votes to a political boss, and both ought
to be prosecuted, for the law should be no respecter of persons,
i It is as objectionable for a convention of ministers to seek by canonical
law to control the votes of church members as it would be for a convention'
of manufacturers to issue orders for their employees to vote for a certain
candidate. Such conduct is offensive to decency, business morals and a crime
against society. Any convention, whether composod of saints or Blnners,'
irlch or poor, white or black, that seeks to prostitute power and coerce con
science ought to bo broken up by the police and its leaders' arrested for
treason..
; A crime by any other name is a crime Just the same. An ecclesiastical
robe cannot sanctify treason, authority to preach does not carry with it
license to-become a political ringster, or the right to teach us how to pray
give a permit to tell us how to vote. No man in Joining the church should
eacriflco hi citizenship, forfeit his constitutional liberties or subordinate his
duty to tho state. The earth many times has been drenched witl the blood
Of our forefathers fighting to throw off the ecclesiastical yoke from the state,
and the suggestion of a return to these medieval conditions with their hqrror
,and their torture should not bo tolerated for a moment,
j LawB should be parsed prohibiting any preacher, or combination of
preachers, from delivering or attempting to deliver their membership or
congregation to any candidate for office, and suitable legislation should bo
passed preserving the sanctity of the pulpit from political vandalism. It ia
as much a menace to church and state for a politician to occupy tho pulpit
as for 11 min inter to preach a political sermon. He has no more right to
preach hit politics from the pulpit than a teacher has to teach his politics
to his pupils. A preacher cannot make political trickery righteous by usage
f.ny more than he can rcako profanity respectable by practice. It la one
of the ironlns of fato that a preacher may become a scandal as well as a
Eiory 10 civilization.
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