THE FARMERS’
~ COLUMN
Some Practical Suggestions Well
Worth Knowing From the De-
partment of Agriculture.
FACTS FOR DAILY USE
FARM HOUSE WATER SUPPLY
One of the most important improve-
ments on the farm should be a good
water system, supplying all of the
buildings with a sufficient supply of
good water. Charles G. McClain, wat-
er supply expert of the Department of
Agriculture says:
“In reading an article not long ago,
I ran across the following extract
from a speech by Governor Craig, of
North Carolina, delivered at the State
Fair, in which he was discussing rural
progress. He said:
«1f I were asked to mame what in
my opinion is the most desirable util-
ity in modern life, I would not name
the railroad, the telephone, t the elec-
tric light nor the automobile; I would
pame running water in the house.
«If a man on the farm wants all of
the improved machinery to help him
in his work, why should he not be
willing to put in some of the conven-
jences for the comfort of his wife.
The energy wasted in carrying water
from either spring or pump would, if
conserved, be a wonderful health pre-
server and maker for happiness in the
home.
“A home with running water and
all the conveniences is certainly a
home of comfort and pleasure, all oth-
er things being equal. A home fitted
out in this way with stationery wash
tubs, fitted for hot and cold water. and
drain pipes, relieves the women of
the house from a lot of particularly
heavy work. . Not only the housewife
has been benefitted by having ran-
ning water in the house, but the same
system can be extended to take in all
of the buildings and in this way the
men can be benefitted.
“The best system is a gravity sys-
tem, if the spring or source of water
supply is at an elevation sufficiently
above the buildings. If not, then some
mechanical system must be used, ei-
ther the hydraulic ram, pressure sys-
tem or one.of the direct pumping sys-
tems.
DE LA BARRA SAD OVER
TROUBLES IN MEXICO
“his is a good time of the year to
begin to investigate the springs for a
source of water supply. Locate them
and by watching them for a season,
the best ones can be drawn together
and generally in that way a sufficient
supply can be had. Sometimes there’
is one spring of sufficient strength to
supply all the water necessary. If a
mechanical device is necessary, other
improvements can be attached to
the same engine, such as a power
washing machine, cream separator
and in many cases a small dynamo is
also attached and electricity is stored
in a storage battery and used to light
all the farm buildings. In conclusion
let ‘me say to the farmer: Consider
the easing up of the work about the
house as well in the field and barn.”
PRUNE THE GRAPES AT ONCE.
Grape vines should be pruned at
once. Do not wait until the weather
has begun to warm up and the
growth takes placethen the vines
bleed and are weakened by the prun-
ing. :
Most grape vines are not pruned
severely enough. By careful observa-
tion, the grape growers in the Chau-
tauqua grape belt have found that to
produce an annual average crop of
the first class fruit, a Coucord vine
should be pruned back to 25 buds.
Iowa, Worden and Moore’s ¥a 7 De!
aware require shorter budding, eigh-
teen or twenty buds being sufficient.
Lady, Eclipse, Brighton, Brilliant,
Green Net and Niagara require mod-
erately long runirs;, about twenty-
five buds, while Jefferson, Herbert,
and Vergennes required somewhat
longer pruning of about thirty buds.
Where more buds are left than nec-
essary, more wood growth is made
and it does not ripen properly, so that
the crop for the succeeding year is
shortened. Bulletin No. 217 of the
State Department of Agriculture dis-
cusses thoroughly grape culture in
Pennsylvania. It can be had upon re-
quest to the department at Harris-
burg.
STATE AGRICULTURE NOTES
It is estimated by experts of the
Department of Agriculture that dur-
ing 1915 there were 330,000 tons of
commercial fertilizers, in bags, sold
to the farmers of the State at a cost
of $8,500,000.
Pennsylvania takes seventh place
for the number of dairy cows in the
United States and ranks twenty-sec-
ond for other cattle. Wisconsin and |
New York lead with dairy cows and |
Texas and Iowa with other cattle.
The fruit grower who pays close at
tention to the grading and packing of
his fruit will be the one to make suc-
cess of his business.
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FRANCISCO L. DE LA BARRA.
TEUTONS FOR HUGHES
Bunds Think Supreme Court Justice
Would Be Neutral.
Alphonso G. Koelble of New York,
president of the United German
societies, whose name has been
mentioned frequently in connection
with the German propaganda, declared
that the Teutonic societies in this
country have fixed upon Justice
Charles E. Hughes of the supreme
court as their candidate for president.
“They are unanimous for Hughes,”
he said. “They are absolutely opposed
to Theodore Rocsevelt or Elihu Root
and would support Woodrow Wilson
in preference to either.
“Some time ago Professor Munster-
berg declared he believed that Ger-
mans in th's country would support
Colonel Roousevelt. My advice to him
is to keep l.iis mouth shut. He doesn’t
know what he is talking about. He
is not a citizen.
ject of the kaiser to meddle with the
affairs of this country or to tell Amer-
icans what to do.”
INK SHORTAGE THREATENS
Embargo on Freight Shipments May
Affect New York Papers.
A shortage of news ink which may
affect New York newspapers has been
caused by freight congestion, accord-
ing to a number of large ink manu- |
facturers. The manufacture of news- |
paper ink is dependent upon the
supply of carbon black, most of which |
comes into New York from West Vi -
ginia over the Baltimore and Ohio |
railroad, on which there has been a
general freight embargo since Feb. 11.
Ink makers so fear the possibility | The
It ill becomes a svh-
CRISIS HALTS THE
CONGRESS SS DEBATE
al Factions Squa Squarely Behind
President In Mexican Trouble
DEFENSE PLANS FACILITATED
Senate Considers Government Armor
Plate Plant—House Debates Army
| Bill and Free Sugar
.Repeaier.
What the efforts of the administra-
tion had been unable to do in con-
gress has been accomplished by the
sudden appearance of the Mexican
crisis. Debate on foreign relations
has stopped.
The vain effort to give official warn-
ing to Americans against travel on
armed merchantmen of belligerents
had turned the congress from its regu-
lar course of business and there were
fears of another outbreak to further
clog the progress of legislation when
Villa and his raiders committed the
murderous assault at Columbus, N.
M., but the prompt action of the ad-
ministration has served as an efficient
check thus far upon congressional
' agitation with regard to Mexico and
no legislation on this subject is now
contemplated unless there should
' arise entangling developments with
the de facto government in MeXico.
With these issues apparently out of
the way congressional leaders hope to
make rapid progress with important
' domestic business at hand, particular
ly the appropriation bills and the na-
tional defense program. Within ten
, days at least the house expects to
have the army reorganization bill be-
fore it. The senate already is at
| work on the government armor plate
plant bill and will have the senate
army reorganization bill before it be-
fore many more days.
That the military activity in Mex-
' ico will serve to hasten the comple-
| tion of the defense plans of the ad-
ministration is admitted, even by tke
| staunchest pacifists, in congress, n.r
| does any one deny that it will win
| votes for preparedness. Champions of
the administration measure are not
| overlooking their opportunity to uti-
lize the situation. Chairman Hay of
the house military committee is
anxious to get the calender cleared
promptly so that he can lay his bill
before the “ouse for action. Before
| it is taken up, however, the repeal of
| the free sugar provision of the tariff
law, and the immigration bill with its
modified literacy test, must be dis-
posed of. Both probably will, be
passed this week.
senate having passed | the
of having to shut down some of their Shields water power bill and cleared
plants that they have written to tho | the calender of many small bills is
!
interstate commerce commission sug |
gesting that carbon black for loca’
use be put in the class of perishable |
freight, in the privileged class, so that
there will be no chance of the news-
papers being affected. Railroad men
scout this suggestion, saying that
there could be no such discrimination.
BURGLAR WOUNDS CUNDIFF
Second Attack In Two Weeks on
North Braddock (Pa.) Man.
Professor L. B. Cundiff, physical di-
rector at the gymnasium of the Brad-:
dock Carnegie Free Library Clubhouse ;
building, was shot twice by a burgaar;
in the hallway of his home in North
Braddock.
It was Professor Cundiff’s second
early morning battle with a night
prowler within a fortnight. He fired
several shots at the first intruder and
is believed to have wounded him.
One of the bullets from the burglar’
«revolver grazed Professor Cundi’'s
left side, leaving a painful abrasion
and the other grazed his right hand.
The North Braddock police believe
the man who fired the shots was tic
same whom they think the physical
director wounded about ten days ago
and he returned for revenge.
AMERICAN U-BOATS BEST
So Thinks Norway, Who Will Build
cn Our Designs.
A decision of considerable im
portance to the United States was
made by the Norwegian government
when it decided hereafter to use only
submarines built along the lines of
those used in the American navy .
The German type of submarine, :
which has peen used up to this time !
by Norway, was regarded as inferior
to the American product.
Details of the contracts for these
submarines and for warships which
Norway inieuds to build have just
been annownced. They indicate that
Norway is taking another importar
step to ini‘iaie a great ship building
industry ard that in the future this
little natio~ will no (onger purchase
submarine: and torpedo boats from
Germany and cruisers from England.
INTERURBAN CAR KILLS BOY
l.eonard Schwartz Run Down While
on Way Home From Library.
Leonard Schwartz, aged fourteen,
was run down and killed instantly by
a New Castile, Butler and Harmony
street car in Pittsburgh.
The boy was returning home fron
Carnegie library, where he had se-
cured a book. As he was crossing
North avenue the car made the turn
into North from Federal. He fell and
the trucks of the car passed over his
body. The body was taken to the
morgue.
getting ready to vote on the Tillman
| government armor plate plant bill
March 21.
Henry Gassaway Davis Dead.
Henry Gassaway Davis, former
United States senator from West Vir-
ginia, and father of Mrs. Stephen B.
Elkins of this state, is dead in Wash-
ington. He was ninety-three years
old.
‘Borough’ to Celebrate Centenary.
The borough of Bentleyville, locat-
ed in the southeastern part of Wash-
ington county, Pa., will be 100 years
old in July. Citizens are planning to
celebrate the event.
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Pittsburgh, March 14.
Butter—Prints, 39@39%c; tubs, 28
@28%c. Eggs—Fresh, 23c.
Cattle—Ctoice, $9@9.26; prime, $9
@9.25; good, $8.50@8.90; tidy buich-
ers, $8.25@ .75; fair, $6@7; common,
$6@7; heifers, $6@8.25; common to
good fat bulls, $5@8; common to good
fat cows, $4@7.50; fresh cows and
springers, $25@75.
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$9@9.25; good mixed, $8.40@8.85; fair
mixed, $7.50@8.25; culls and common,
$450@5; lambs, $7.560@11.50; veal
calves, $11@11.76; heavy and thin
calves, $7@8.50.
Hogs—Prime heavy hogs, $10.35;
heavy mixed, $10.30; mediums and
heavy Yorkers, $10; light Yorkers,
$9.50@9.75; pigs, $9@9.25; roughs, $9
@9.50; stags, $8@8.50.
Cleveland, March 14.
Cattle—Choice fat steers, $7.756@
8.50; good to, choice butcher steers,
$7@8: fair to good butcher steers,
$6.50@7.25; good to choice heifers,
$6.25@7.26; good to choice butcher
bulls, $6.50@7.25; good to choice
cows, $6@6.50; fair to good cows, $b
@6;: common cows, $4@5.
Calves—Good to choice, $11.60@
11.75; fair to good, $9.50@11; heavy
and common, $6@9.
Sheep and Lambs—Good to choice
lambs, $11@11.15; fair to good, $9.50
@10.50; zood to choice wethers, $8.50
| @9; good 10 choice ewes, $8@850:
: mixed ewes and wethers, $8.25@8.50
! culls, $5.50@7.50.
riers, $9.85@9.90; medi-
mixed, 85@9.90; pigs,
ot Slag $7.25; 1« 18, $8.75@9.
Chicago, March 14.
Hogs—BEu!! 8079.95; light, $9.40
@9.95; mixed, $9.55@10.0214 ;
$9.45@10; roughs,
$3@9.10.
Cattle—Native beef steers, $7.50@
heavy,
$9.45@9.65; pigs,
9.95; stockers and feeders, $5.90@
8.10; sows and heifers, $3.70@8.70;
calves, $8 Cd 11.26
ers, $8.25@8.86; lambs,
Corn—May,
COMMANDS AMERICAN
PUNITIVE INVASION
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GEN. FREDERICK FUNSTON.
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR
The Germans in infantry attacks,
launched with huge effectiveness, buf
with losses described as beyond all
proportions to the objective they
sought, according to a Paris report,
have reoccupied a part of the Cor-
beaux wood, to the west of the Meuse,
and northwest of Verdun.
German attacks to the west of the
village of Douaumont and against the
village of Vaux were put down by the
French.
Capture of the Albain wood was an-
nounced by German army head-
quarters.
French retook village west of
Meuse in Verdun battle.
Germans captured section of Bois
des Corberux to west of Meuse at
Verdun.
A Havas dispatch from Havre says
that the French line steamship Louis
Anne has been sunk. All were saved.
It is presvmed that the vessel was
sunk by a submarine.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Coquette and torpedo boat No. 11
have been sunk by striking mines.
The announcement says the number
of casualties was forty-five.
The Norwegian bark Silius, from
New York for Havre, has been sunk.
Three members of the crew were lost.
The French bark Ville du Havre
has been sunk. Two of the crew were
lost.
Russian troops have landed on the
Black sea coast of Asiatic Turkey and
the occupation of Trebizond is im-
minent, according to a dispatch re-
ceived from the American embassy at
Constantinople.
. The state department also was ad-
vised that the American consul at
Trebizond had taken over the arch-
ives of the German consulate there,
the German consul having left.
Athens reported wounding of Enver
Pasha by an assassin in Constan-
tinople.
The Moewe, German raider, slipped
into a German port with $250,000 in
gold captured from enemy ships.
Zeppelins raided England, killing
thirteen.
German warships cruised off Hol
land and found no English squadron.
New Russian army landed at Atina,
on Black sea coast, for drive at Trebi-
zond.
Relief force in Mesopotamia were
compelled to fall back from within
seven miles of Kut-el-Amara to Tigris
river.
Mines on east coast of England
sunk two small British warships.
Rome dispatches state that Rou-
mania has confiscated 50,000 carloads
of cereals which had been sold to Ger-
many. The grain seized is part of the
100,000 carloads recently contracted
for by Germany. The grain will be
used for the Roumanian army.
Italian artillery threw a hail of
shells into the southern quarters of
the town of Gorizia on the Isonzo
front, according to the official report
given out at the Austro-Hungarian
army headquarters.
General Joffre, commander-in-chief
of the French armies, presided over
the council of war of the entente
allies, which reassembled.
It was officially announced at the
British adr ‘ralty that the mercantil»
fleet auxiliary Fauvette, of 2,644 tons
gross, has veen sunk as the result of
striking a mine off the east coast of
England. Fourteen members of the
crew were lost.
German’s declaration of war on Por-
tugal has called forth expressions of
sympathy iu various quarters in Brazil
with the cause of the entente allies.
There were enthusiastic demonstra-
tions in the streets of the capital.
Telegraphing from Dvinsk, a corre-
spondent reports that a mutiny has
taken piagce among the men of the
German garrison at Shavli, a town in
the Baltic provinees, owing, it is said,
to insufficient food.
The mutiny was suppressed by cav-
alry, the correspondent adds, after one
officer and three soldiers had been
killed and a large number of men
wounded.
Condensed Statement
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK
OF MEYERSDALE, PA.
At Close of Business March 7th, 1916.
(COMPTROLLER’S CALL)
RESOURCES
loans and Investments... ....s.vvivsncrrsnss ... $727,760.50
U.S Bonds.......... Se easel Casi 75,000.00
Banking House...... HE tea Se 29,300.00
Due from Banks and Reserve Agents..... ....... 126,026.79
Cash...... rea eo Ji...... b1,658.92
Total. $1,009, 746.22
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock ......... gr RL. $ 65,000.00
Surplus ..... ........--.......... saa. t 100.000.00
Undivided Profits..... ........ as easiness. 00,350.84
Cireulation .. ....... . i... ..5, chee aa .. 65,000.00
Deposits .............. craven sateen ceivaesv.. 745,888.38
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