14 SILAGE DEPENDS UPON METHODS Spoiling Can Be Prevented Through Proper Filling Methods, Agent Says "Almost all dairymen have at some time had to face the problem of spoiled silage, an annoyance whicFt usually can be prevented in the begin ning through proper silo-tilling meth ods," says Farm Agent Niesley's ■weekly letter. "The proper fermentation of silage can be secured only, when the silo Is airtight. The silage must be packed so as to preclude air from working through the mass, as this in turn causes improper fermentation. Im pioper fermentation is due to the presence "of molds and yeasts. "A silo ten feet in diameter requires two active men to thoroughly pack the silage. The silage should be well packed at the center and around the edge. To insure the proper mixing of heavy and light particles and an e\en distribution, the distributor or blower should be carried around the! inside of the silo. If silage is allowed to pile up at the center and is packed only around the edge, it is almost impossible to insure the exclusion of air and hence to obviate spoilage. Cut Fine "When silage is too dry to pack | well, explains an authority at the Pennsylvania State College,'it should be cut finer and some green corn mixed with it. Better yet, run a quarter to half-inch stream of water into the center so that the silage "will be wet enough to pack. If one does not have sufficient water pres sure, he may place a barrel,of water beside the blower in such a position that the water will be carried by gravity into the blower, "Decay of silage is usually due to the presence of air in the silo. The air may enter through the top or the walls. Placing immature material in the silo may also cause decay. Acid silage is usually the result of using Very green corn. "Blue molds are often caused by placing frosted or too mature corn in the silo, without supplying the right amount of moisture to permit thor ough packing. Molds of any kind are In most cases an indication of im proper packing due to lack of mois ture at the time the silo is filled or negligence upon the part of those who do the packing." First Year of War Will Cost U. S. 20 Billions; To Raise Larger Sum Washington, Aug. 28.—Details of the government's expenditures for all purposes for the liscal year 1917- 1918, and the method by which the money to meet these expenditures ■ will be raised, as roughly estimated] to-day by Chairman Kitchin, of the' house ways and means committee, are: EXPENDITURES I-oans to the allies. . $7,000,000,000 Current expenses of government 1,300,000,000 Expenses of shipping board 1,000,000,000 All war expenses.... 10,000,000,000 Totals $19,300,000,000 REVENUE Pending bond bill to cover allied loans.. $7,000,000,000 Ultimate amount to be contained In pending revenue bill 3,000,000,000 Amount raised by existing revenue laws 1,300,000,000 "War savings certifi cates 2,000,000,000 War bonds previous ly authorized and not accounted for in pending bond bill - 2,000,000,000 New bonds to be au thorized either at this session or next 2,000,000,000 Certificates of in debtedness already authorized 2,000.000,000 Totals $19,300,000,000 j A total of $2,000,000,000 in certifi cates of indebtedness will be authoriz-1 ed in the pending bill. Since the ] certificates are not intended as per- ! manent but to meet emergency j treasury conditions, they are not in cluded in the total amount of reve nue to be raised. TO BOOST MILK PRICE Halifax, Pa., Aug. 28. —The price of milk in Halifax will be boosted from eight to nine cents a quart on September 1, according to announce ment made by Frank Kitchen, pro prietor of the Halifax dairy. Several small oiilk dealers in town will in crease the price from six to eight cents per quart. FESTIVAL FOR VETERANS Mount Joy. Pa., Aug. 28.—Thirty years ago Winfield Scott Byerly Post of the Grand Army of Qu&rryville, had their first festival in that place, and for twenty-five years they held it annually. Five years ago they hand ed it over to the Sons of Veterans, who have been having it ever since and on Saturday evening they "held one on the lawn of C. C. Kirk. Resorts ATLANTIC CITY, S. J. CONTINENTAL Tennessee ave.. near Beach; always open; pri vate baths; running water in rooms; elevator; excellent table; white service; orchestra. Am iilan ; *2.60 up daiiy : #l2 to 920 weekly. Booklets. Garage. M. WALSH DUNCAN. I'Cndinc Iligh-l !n*s Moderate Rate Hotel ALBEMARLE to Beach,finest bath ing, etc. Coolest location; 4000 feet porches; 100 large cool rooms; elevator; fine table, fresh vegetables and sea food; catering to thoee seek ing high-grade accomodations without excessive cost. SIO.OO I1| Weekly; $2.00 no Daily. Booklet. Ownership Management. J. P. CCPE. H OTEL CHANNEL Illinois and Pacific Aves. Noted for Its excellent table. American plan sl.oo day up. European 50c up. Ca pacity 250. Bathing from hotel. 18th season. Garage. A. C. CHANNEL. BRUNSWICK U ST JAMESPLACE.! % HOTEL TENNESSEE TcDDCMrr Avenue und Beach Ocean view. Bathing from notel. Showers. $0 up weekly. $1.50 up daily. A. HEALY. HKADUtAKTKHS FOR 1 SHIRTS ! SIDES & SIDES TUESDAY EVENING, I OLD GOBIN EIGHTH REGIMENT, N. G. P., AT CARLISLE, THIRTY-TWO AGO nPn f T f h h^,! >^„?,^ Ure , ° f , Co ™ p * n y G - Eighth Regiment, taken In the year 1886. is of especial interest in the present war times. Manv men promt- Edwardwfttslnrt , CO " nty . a . re hown hero and many are dead. From left to right, they are: First Lieutenant William Speck, Captain o # t r*v i Lieutenant Augustus Gehring:. Other well-known men in the company are the late William Henderson the late Peter Muart, Charles Humrlch. Samuel Bentz. Corporil William Shump and Corporal Cyrus Spahr. enaerson. the late I eter CANTEENS TO BE SET UP IN FRANCE ' j Rod Cross Appropriates Large Sum to Furnish Hot Soups For Men in Trenches Washington, Aug. :>.—Canteens and ' rest stations for the French and j American troops will be established j at once in Prance by the American ; Red Cross. The War Council has been trying to flnd out just what the Red Cross j cculd do most effectively to hearten the French army and to Rive to I French soldiers a token of the fact | that America is with her ally with all j her power. The French army officers i have told the Red Cross that canteens j and rest stations would do more for ! tiie immediate welfare and content-! ment of the soldiers than anything \ else that could be done. Therefore, the problem is going: to be met thor- ' oughly and at once. The poilus come out of the trenches. ' to go home on leave, mud-stained, vermin-covered, reeking with infec- ] Hon. They are marched to the near- j est railroad station in that condition. I where, perhaps, they flnd a litle sta- I ticn with scanty accommodations for i a dozen passengers. The Red Cross Is going to put show- j er baths there, and laundries and I mending and disinfecting rooms, which ' will remove the menace of dirt and i disease which these men carrv to their I homes. Then there will be restrooms Dives, Pomeroy • _____ ' f j New Weaves in Cotton Dress ''-" Poplin, half silk, 36 inches wide, all the leading fall shades, rf 1 I /| / School Bells Will Soon ■ Ihe August t limit lire Sale ,afd pHn : s : lky . finish :. Mmp,t . ,e .! how . ing „d j-v j-j . . • Beach Cloth, 36 inches, solid shades, yard 29f Be Kinging TJn<\ On hi Thrpp T)n\i<? *££LT..^"r:"T~\T™.T™.. p :is . , , .... v/€-0 iCL CV ILI O X-/vl V O 29c Wash Suiting, fancy stripes. Special, yard 16 c \ acation days are almost over, and this the last week t/ . S . Dlves , Pom eroy & Stewart, street Floor before school opening, will find parents busv outfitting the 1\ /¥ J T~\ * iWOrg ro /twn New Lingerie and Waists fresh stocks complete with styles that arc new and inex- . If you need furniture now, or will require it in the near future, why buy it later and Fall shipments are fast arriving showing dainty styles at pensive. pay MORE FOR IT? The August Sale is providing the solution of the all-important moderate prices. r~ /- r • • , , , . . , Nainsook gowns in round and square necks, embroidery or lace S rhnnl question tnat arises in many old and new homes How can we buy eood, serviceable trimmed Si.oo, $1.25, $1.50, 5i.75 to ss.no u y° KJlsI 11/Ul Oitl/ to Cambric gowns, high and V-n.ecks, three-quarter and full length turniture Without incurring great expense ? sleeves, hemstitched ruffle or embroidery edge trims neck and sleeves, K and E. Blouses in solid colors and fancy stripes, in madras, ti. a c i • i • SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50 to $2.95 gingham and percale, fast colors, sizes 6to 16 years, August bale special prices answer this question. But commencing September 1 *; hernise . in . na | nsook '. ta,^. r „7 ( 1 , SV!K!Y£w?SM e to 60c- 75c $1 00 and $2 "5 furniture will cost you more. . Short skirts in nainsook, embroida.v ruffie trimmed 00c strinaj n.™i. au. nu „ ' ' A .n. ... c • ... Short skirts trimmed with bunch tucks and lace trimmed ruffles, Striped percale shirts with military collars and pocket 59c What the furniture economies are like— ' 75c Woven stripe madras shirts with military collar and pocket 75c ..... . Black satine bloomers, 50c and SI.OO p e ' c $19.50 golden oak beds, 4-6 'size. Q *7l! 19 50 porch settee August Silp a% a v™ wnm Percale shirts with soft coiar and cuffs 59c August Sale Price $9.75 Price, . . . . . $4.75 NEW WAISTS Dark and light colored percale blouses with soft collar and $16.50 Mahogany Bed, 4-6 size. djC OK $7.50 porch table. August Sale • fco cufTs" l^ . ~ n. ."^! e . 8 .'.?° n y ert ' ble °° llar ' Fr r£- cuffs o We August Sale Price, ...' Price wu./u Batiste waists in semi-tailored styies. flat collar, coliar and cuffs Blue Amaskeag Chambray shirts with military collar with but- Sale 1 PHce^ o^. C . hl ! r °. n,el ;.. AUK " St $9.75 Pr |® e °° porch table ' Au * ust Salc $3.00 pVari' buttons, 'sls tons and pockets 50 c ... . • * • Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Second Floor School caps in neat patterns J SOo ™. ."""'512.50 $4.25 ' Oolt cap. [or .chool JS C 125.00 BJrd.y Maple Chlltonier. *. 950 " iM mnhoeany china cloaet. >, 7 .a T?ir Q VM- W o^forl Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Men's Section. Street Floor August Sale Price wlfc.UU August Sale Price 517.50 V ofy W cHILCO. "V $12.50 ro]nr c hown in fCh) School Hats For Girls **lM $9.75 „ ltn , „ . H7R\ „ . , . - .. . ... , *. Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Third Floor Git & V 01OU.I* 113.tS (r 'Ml / \ Neat serviceable school hats in felt, In navy, black, Copenhagen, >A|\ / I \ and rose * % 49c _____ _ Blues from light to deep 1 Tarns in corduroy at $1.50, and velvet at ~1.98 ' 1 * A Ci 1 1 shades, greens in many vari- Felt hats with rolled brims in all colors, VTIiIS 98c, $1.25, $1.50 and $2.50 O / chartreuse, brown, rose, wines, /ff, J Felt hats in mushroom shapes, many shades $1.75 to $2.50 "TXT*II TTT rm -w- -v • combinations all the shades /j fj vlwerilr wUhVibbonband.' 7.'.'. $2.25 to AVill W Rllt TIIGSG KilXlOllOS ;^ ion h s , and shapes from natty little high crown turbans to big P\ U-JV Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart. Second Floor. Front sailor cffects wUh wide floppy .. 3/11(1 PettlCOatS matchless showing—felts at Children s School Shoes $ 195 to s3.sa-v e iour S it $3.95 Children's gun metal button shoes, sizes 8 H toil $1.75 ' A of new fall st >' les in bunging robes and silk and cotton petticoats. Girls who t0 9G ' 9i) Misses' gun metal button shoes, heavy soles, sizes IXV, to 2, are packing school wardrobes will be # cspecially interested in these fine new things that are Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Second F oor, ront Girls'gun metal bdtton shoes with low heels, sies 2V4 tost?; 00 stylish and moderately priced. ~ , „ . . ' 2 ' so Silk lined Corduroy Robes with sailor collar and I Corduroy Robes in Empire style collar and 01 O Iy\ sill CfQ V IPSI Boys' gun metal English shoes with Textan soles and leather kimono sleeves with turn back cuffs, Copenhagen. sleeves trimmed with silk fringe con.ir na UUCLlttllJ 111 OUliiCllj ICd heels, sizes Ito 5V4 $3.50 "miklS '" u' Boy,' gun metal English shoes, size* Ito 5(4 $3.00 and belted , t^es B elf trimmed or^mbrolScrcd* raspberry, ro^^ope^^lg^grey" tan a^a?^^' Boys gun metal blucher lace shoes with wide toes, sizes Ito $7.50, $8.50, SIO.OO and $12.00 y ' $2.95, s!.sofs£es $B?00 to SIO.OO RllQ U01166 5, /b $2.50 •11 i • ■tan an,, Machine, • Sen,,, .„„e,' and „. M NOV Si PettiCOOlS 25 lb S . SUghr with other groceries for $2.25 Boys' tan Scout shoes with Rinex soles and rubber heels, sizes _ Diamond Creamery Butter, Elbow Macaroni. S lbs. for 85c 11 to 13 H $2.50 son ntvy' Boys' black button an.d lace shoes, sizes 10 to 15 two-toned effects and black, ' ' plaited and trimmed flounces, 50c Llpton's Yellow Label Hoffer's Best Flour 80c $1.50, $2.00 and 2.50 $3.95, $5.00, $5.05 to SIO.OO SI.OO, $1.25, $1.50, $1.05 to s2.9i> Tea .|3c Pound of 50c black and green Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart. Street Floor, Rear • ( flou'nce^.'^^^.'? U> iaW t t .,C^.so,, nsl!6? coHee.' 3',^for"'69c sTgTr'! for .! .T. \ Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Second Floor Dives, Pomeroy & Stewart, Basement " I* where they can read and write and Play games, to make the transition to | civilian life easier, and small stores i where they can buy tinned delicacies, ' iwiioco and odds and ends. : Similar canteens will be opened at j the railroad Junctions where the men ! must wait en route.' At some of them now these men, still trench-stained, i have to lie on station platforms all ; night. There will be dormitories at ; such places, and lunchrooms at all ]of them where hot meals can be i bought at a price just above cost. Nearty fifty thousand soldiers are | passing Jhrough eleven of these sta tions every day. They will have a convincing proof of American friend liness when they flnd American worn j en—the Women's Bureau is now re j cruiting fifty of them for such serv \ ice—ready to help them. Just behind the firing line the Red i Cross will put field canteens. Extend j ing the work already begun by the j French Red Cross, we shall see that j every corps of the French atmy, and ! ultimately our own. has one of these 1 stations, which will supply hot and celd drinks to the men who are fight ! ing. Many of them now have nothing ; to relieve their thirst except their ] day's ration which they carry in con | tainers which may be smashed at any i minute. | The canteen is placed in or near i the second line, and refreshing drinks are carried right into the front l trenches. Each station can keep i about lio gallons of hot drinks at the i boiling point, and has several thermos I ccntainers holding six to twelve gal ! lons apiece. Four thousand portions ! —coffee, tea, cocoa, boullon, lemon j ade, mint—are sometimes served from | one canteen in a single day. j Here, too, American workers will be ' frund. The "conveyor" in charge of I the canteen will be a Red Cross man, J with French soldiers to help him. / \ HARRISBURG TELEGKXPH Many of the poilus will get their first glimpse of the American uniform in! this way. Just the cup of coffee, or the cold drink, may make all the dif ference between sagging morale and spirited fighting. To carry out these plans the War Council has appropriated about $700,- 000, which will serve to establish the canteens and maintain them for about three months. Much of the original equipment will be supplied by the French army. At Last! a 'Bulldog' Story Worth Reading San Antonio, Tex.—Mack, the fourteen -year-old registered English bulldog owned by H. C. Flint, of No. 316 West Evergreen street, first ac quired city-wide fame several months ago when he prevented a burglar from robbing his master's house. He has long been a neighborhood ce lebrity, however, his many less spec tacular performances gaining him friends among pfeople of all ranks of life except burglars. Aside from being an efficient watchdog, as was demonstrated when he seized the burglar, who was escaping through the window with a bag full of silverware and cut glass, he has many other accom plishments. He herds chickens as a collie does sheep, he brings in wood in the evening and brings in the newspaper and the mail. When all the members of the fam ily are too far away to hear the telephone he calls them to soon as it rings, and on one occasion he saved the house from burning when he called his mistress into the room where the rug had.caught fire from the grate. Moreover, In spite of his age, Mack is an expert mouser. Dual Personality * Revealed by Death Toledo, Ohio.- —The dual person ality of a woman who for the last three years had posed as a man while engaged in the profession of an op tician with a lucrative business was disclosed Thursday in the finding of a body di'essed in men's clothes iloating in the Maumee river here, j The body was identified as that i of a man known as Dr. Samuel Ack erman. The discovery that "Dr. Ack. ernian" was a woman was made at a morgue. Nothing is known here of her real name nor whence she came. Attached to the body was a heavy iron weight. Police are working on the theory of suicide. Suicide Left Will of Only Four Words Hagerstown, Md. —On a table in I j the kitchen, where his body was' j found with a bullet through his brain, David Hawk, of Franklin { county, Pa., left a will written on the back of an enevelope taken from a letter he had been carrying in his coat pocket. On the letter was writ ten. "Maggie, everything is yours." Maggie is his young wife". Ho did not sign the paper, but it will be ac cepted as his will. This is the short est will ever filed for record in Franklin county. It disposes of a goodly estate, farm, home and some vnluanle personal property. HOW TO CARRY GARDEN THROUGH TO SUCCESS Work You Can Do and the Crops You Can Plant Now to Save and Increase the Plant Food in Your Garden to Get Better Yields Next Year Reader's Coupon This coupon, when properly filled In, will entitle any reader of the Harrisburg Telegraph to one copy of the Mid-Summer Garden Book. Mull to AV. Atleo Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Name Address St. or R. F. D ——-——/ By F. F. KOIUVWEIJIJ Author of "Around the Year in the Garden," "Home Vegetable Gardening," etc., etc. , Copyright, 1917, By W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Seed growers, Philadelphia. The old saying that "You cannot cat your cake and have it, too," does not altogether apply in the garden. Or, to put it differently, if you handle your garden in the right way in the fall you can get a lot of the raw plant foods which it contains "cooked-up" ami ready for your crops to use next season; and also save the next season's use of "left overs" that otherwise would go to waste from the plant foods you ap plied this year. The plant food in the soil exists in two forms—called "available" and "unavailable." This simply means that the plant food that is termed available is in such forms that the roots of growing plants can make immediate use of it, while that termed unavailable is in such con dition that it has to undergo chemi cal changes before the plant can take it up. To make the matter plain for the beginner, we may say that the unavailable plant foods in the soil correspond to the materials of various kinds which the cook may have in the kitchen cupboard—flour, rice, lima beans, spaghetti, etc. These are all "foods," but not available for human use until after they have been changed by cooking. The paral lel may be carried a step farther in that after they have been prepared they cannot be kept indefinitely, and unless made use of a large percent age of them will be lost or wasted. How to Keep Plant Food During the fall, winter and early spring a great deal of the plant food in soil that is left bare is carried away in the surface washing and in the drainage*.water resulting from rains and from melting snows. In the case of nitrogen, which is the most valuable of the three plant foods most likely to be "short" in any soil—nitrogen, phosphoric acid AUGUST 28, 1917. and potash—further loss Is occa sioned by its passing off into the air. of "je gardener's most impor tant problems, therefore, is to save what there may be left of these available plant foods at the end of the season lor another year. And, ike the surplus foods in the kitchen, they may be saved by "canning." m ,? jr at . fi , rst K'anco seem a rather difficult problem to can an invisible something hidden away in a foot or so of garden soil which it would take an expert chemical analysis to find. But In'reality it is much easier than the kind of canning you do in the kitchen. By planting a crop that wii grow through the winter and early spring available foods will be stored up in the roots, stems and leaves of the growing plants, and when these are plowed or spaded un aer in the spring and decompose you get your plant foods back again ready for use by the vegetable mat ter, which i 3 almost as essential for the healthy, vigorous growth of your plants as having plently of plant food in the soil. Humus keeps the soil broken up and porous and ab sorbs the surplus moisture, storing it up for the future needs of the grow ing plants during dry weather. For these reasons you can readily see that the sowing of winter or cover crops on every square foot of your garden left uncovered before freezing weather is not merely a liobby, bust just about as important as putting manure on your garden in the spring. In latitude north of Philadelphia, the best crops to sow for this purpose are rye and winter vetch. South of Philadelphia either these or. crimson clover may be used. Both the vetch and the clover are "legumes" and not only conserve ,Plant food as described above but gather nitrogen from the air, actu ally enriching the garden soil on which they grow. The earlier these can be sown the more growth they will make before the ground freezes up. The best way is to have enough seed on hand and sow each patch of ground as soon as it is available, in stead of waiting until you can clear off all of the garden. Next spring the parts which were sown last can be left for late crops, such as melons and beans, so that the cover crops will have more of a chance to grow. The clovef can be sown any time up to the first week of September, and the rye and vetch until early frost. Clean Garden Up Now Too many gardeners make the mis take of leaving all the cleaning up there may be to be done in the gar den until spring. Dead vines, bad fruits, brush, tomato poles, etc., are left where they are. This not only makes a disreputable looking garden through the winter and early spring but furnishes the very finest kind of a winter resort for every bug, beetle and blight spore on the list that requires special quarters for "wintering over." Make the slogan I of the last weok's work In the ga den out-of-doors before freeiin weather comes "Clean up an burn." Don't be tempted, as It sometimes advised, to use the leave weeds and refuse from your garde for the compost heap. It Is true the will help make humus but they ma also help malce trouble. Pieces of so' fallen leaves afcd material of thi kind may be rotted up with manui if you have it to increase the fei tility of your garden next spring, b* burn everything which by chant may carry over trouble for anoth< year. There is another opportunity 1 make your garden for next year be' ter by giving it. an extra deep spadin up this fall. If it is a small one an usually spaded or forked up, yo can go over it now and dig it se\ eral inches deeper than usual t throwing the soil out of the first ro and then digging up the soil belo' that, turning it over and breakln it up where it is. The soil from th next row. If thrown on top of thi will leave another strip of the suV soil uncovered so that it can IJ broken up. "This trenching" or sul soiling of the garden not only glvi more room for the roots of yoi plants to gather their food in bi also makes it possible to "work" much sooner in the spring, as tl improved drainage enables It to di out more rapidly. LEMONS BRING OUT THE HIDDEN BEAUTY Make this lotion for very little cost and Just see for yourself. An attractive skin wins admiratio In social life and in business the grt or woman whose face and ham show evidence of constant care et joys a tremendous advantage ovi those who do not realize the vail of a healthy skin and a spotless con plexion. At the cost of a small jar of ord nary cold cream one can prepare full quarter pint of the most woi derful lemon skin softener and con plexion beautifier, by squeezing tl juice of two fresh lemons into bottle containing three ounces orchard white. Care should be tak to strain the juice through a fit cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, th( this lotion will keep fresh fi months. Every woman knows thi lemon juice is used to bleach ar remove such blemishes as freckle sallowness and tan, and is the ide skin softener, smoothener ar beautifietr. Just try it! Get three ounces i orchard white at any pharmacy ar two lemons from the grocer ar make up a quarter pint o,f th sweetly fragrant lemon lotion ar massage it daily into the face, net arms and hands. It naturally shou help to soften, freshen, bleach ar bring out the roses and beauty i any skin.
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