THE FARMERS”
COLUMN
Some Practical Suggestions Well :
Worth Knowing From the De-
partment of Agriculture.
FACTS FOR DAILY USE
DON'TS IN BUYING HOGS
AT PUBLIC SALES.
From now until the middle of April
the order of the day in rural dis-
tricts is the public sales of farm im-
plements and livestock. It is seldom
that a tenant farmer moves from one
premise to another or 2a farmer re-
tires without holding a public sale. In
many cases the men who hold these
public sales gather up cattle and hogs |
during the winter with the view of '
putting them out at profit at time of
their sale. In this way stock which |
may come from premises where hog
cholera has lately been prevalent, or
other transmissable diseases have
been present may readily spread dis-
ease.
Dr. C. J. Marshall, State Veterinar-
jan of the Department of Agriculture
sounds a warning to all farmers who
attend these sales to take proper pre- |
cautions to see that the livestock, and
especially the hogs, have not been
lately taken from any premises where
any livestock has recently died or
where there has been any transmiss-
.able disease.
Dr. Marshall has laid down
follow.ng list of “Don'ts” which should
ne closely observed: |
Dont buy hogs and pigs without
careful inquiry in the community. Tr
you find that person desiring to se:l |
hogs has recently lost one, two or |
more animals, don’t purchase, but re-
port the matter to the Sate Livestock
Sanitary Board at Harrisburg.
Dont buy exceedingly cheap hogs
.and pigs unless you know positively
that owner has not recently lost ani-
mals, but has some other good reason
for sacrificing animals.
Don’t buy hogs from several differ-
-ent people and put them all together
on your own premises ro allow them
tc come in contact with your own
hogs and pigs. Keep each lot to it-
|
Lie
self until two or three weeks have
passed and then put them in their per-
manent quarters only after being sure
that none are showing any signs of !
sickness.
Don't go near a premise were there
are sick hogs and don’t allow any oae
from a premise where there are sick
hogs + to visit, your hog pens or hog
lots.
Don’t go in or around hog pens at
public sales or stockyards unless you
want to purchase hogs. If animals are
purchased, keep them separate on
your premises, as indicated above,
until they prove ‘to be free from dis
ease. Your shoes, at least, should be
washed with a disinfectant after at-
‘tending a public sale or stockyards
before you enter your own hog pens
or hog lots.
Don't take chances with a sick hoz.
Isolate any animal that shows any
signs of being sick. If. two or more
animals develop ‘the same symptoms
call a qualified veterinarian. If your
hogs are affected with hog cholera the
sooner this fact is known the better
chances you will have to save some
of your animals. Hog cholera serum
will not cure sick animals, but wi'l
protect well animals.
Don’t waste money on patent medi-
cines, hog cholera cures ete. For ud-
di‘ional information write Dr. C. J.
Marshall, State Veterinarian, Depait-
ment of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa.
FOUR ESSENTIALS FOR SUC-
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CESS WITH POTATOES.
For the benefit of potato growers
“of Pennsylvania and for those desir-
ing to become successful potato
growers, the Depariment of ‘Agricui-
ture has aranged for a series of four
articles by Sheldon W. Funk, farm
adviser and market gardening ex-
pert, who says:
“In growing potatoes it has been
my experience that there are four
great essentials that go to make a
good yield. First, plenty of organic
matter in the soil; second, plenty of
fertilizer; third, good seed; fourth
--constant cultivation. It is true that
there are many other things that
must be attended to properly. but I
pelieve that these four essentials are
snost important.
“The first of these, plenty of oI
ganic matter or humus in the soil, is,
I believe the most important of all
Humus is a wonderful thing in the
soil and if every farmer in Pennsyi-
vania realized its value, what an ia-
crease in yields of all crops we wou'd
have in this state. It is absolutely
necessary for the production of a good
crop of potatoes, and I think that
any man who tries to grow them
without a goodly supply of this ma-
terial in his soil is indeed ® foolish
man.
«Humus pesides all the other
things that it does, greatly ir.creases
the walter holding capacity of your
soil and when you do not have plenty
. Annie Kurtz at Ridgeview.
! safe in saying both are earnest and
ADDISON.
March 1«--Miss Delia Kurtz of
Swissvale 1s visiting her mother Mrs.
Mrs. Maria Stlark is confined to her
bed from a very severe fall recently.
Miss Jessie Risheberger and Miss
Mintie Turney were calling at Ridge-
view on Saturday. .
Mrs. Annie Kurtz is spending the
week with her son George at Humbert
We have been hearing some com-
plaint about the children in the Addi-
son schools not learning just as they
should. Well, I would make this
suggestion: Let the parents of such pu
pils visit the schools and when they
see how careful the teachers are and
how hard they try to make the schol-
are learn, they would change their
minds. Mr. Paul M. Ross has charge
of the primary room and Mr. W. F.
Null, the grammar room and we are
censcientious teachers. The old adage
says that you can lead a horse to
water but you can’t make him drink
if he don’t want ito; so it is with child-
ren in school. Some will not learn no
difference what the teacher does. We
sincerely hope this suggestion to par-
ents will be sufficient.
Mrs. E. G. Augustine, who under-
went a very serious operation last
week at the home of her sister, Mrs.
S. Mitchell, is getting along finely. |
Drs. Franz of Confluence aad Grezg
are the atteding physicians.
Mr. Crist
DeHaven and wife of
: Springfield, 0. were summoned here
| las week by the serious illness of the
former's sister, Mrs. Laura Duckworth.
Mr. G. Strawn, of Butte City, Mon.
is Irere visiting. This is Mr. Strawn’s
second visit to Addison in thirty
years. |
Mr. C. H. Bird, who had the mis '
fortune to have three fingers cut oif
in a corn shredder, is again ready for '
work. His hand is healing nicely.
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POCAHONTAS. |
March 14- Austin Friedline i
again in our vicinity over Sunday. :
The institute ait Pine Grove Friday
night was well attended.
Fred Durr was a business caller in
Meyersdale recently.
The ladies of the Sunshine Club will
hold a bazaar in the basement of St. !
Mark’s Reformed Church on April 8.
Everybody cordially invited to attend.
Frank Albright is now living in the
vicinity of Boynton, having movad
this weck from the home of his fath-
jerinlaw, J. 8. Hostetler, where _he
jan been staying.
Irvin Bittner was a welcome call-'
Lar at Mrs. S. J. Miller's last Sunday
evening.
{ Mrs. S. J. Miller is on the sick list
fot this writing.
| ~ Mrs.Aug.Sass and. Mrs. J. C. Mil
ler are again on the mend.
Charles Durr was again seen in
our vicinity after a siege of chicken:
POX.
Mr. and Mrs. Adam Dietle were the
guests of Millard Steinley over Sun-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Barmoy spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Aug. Sass.
The Order of Owls will hold a festi-
val and entertainment at Deal, Pa.
on Marcht 25th. Everybody invited to
attend.
Pennsylvania ranks sixteenth among
the States for the number of horses
and twentieth for the number cf
mules it possesses. Iowa and Illinois
lead with horses and Texas and Miss-
ouri with mules. , 5
In North Heidelberg township,
Berks county, it is reported that
thirteen per cent. of the farmers are
disposing of their stock and will re-
tire.
of moisture you cannot expect many
potatoes.
“We have three principal methods
of getting this organic matter. First
by turning down good heavy sods;
second, by making heavy applica-
tions of stable manures and third
by the judicious cover crops. The po-
tato grower should have at least
two of these things and better still
all three.
“If you are making potatoes your
money crop, or in other words your
speciality, I think you should adopt a
potato rotation so as to supply this
needed organic matter. The best ro-
tation that I know of for this purpose
in Pennsylvania is potatoes, wheat
and clover. With this rotation hand-
led properly you can not only get good
yields of potatoes, but your land be:
comes more fertile the longer you
farm. Where you are using corn in
the rotation and plant vour potatoes
on corn stubble. by all means use a
cover crop in the corn. T prefer a
mixture of either fifteen pounds hair-
y vetch and one and onehalf bushels
or rye or eight pounds of crimson clo-
ver and the above amount of rye to
an acre. Sow either of these mixtures
jnst before making your last culti-
vation in the corn. In plowing down
this clover crop in spring, dom’t let
the rye get taller than about twenty
inches and don’t turn your furrows
upside down or your results will not
be nearly as good.
' despair of depriving Germany of the
PEACE RUMORS
BOUBTED HER:
Belligerents' Views Too Far
Apart, Washington Thinks
NEITHER THIRKS OF DEFEAT
Each Side Is Predicting Peace “Be-
cause It ls Plain That We Have
Won.”~—-Wall Street Prices Drop.
Nothing is known in Washington
about the latest crop of peace reports
and official Washington is inclined to
believe they are simply an aftermath
to the statement made by Alexandre
Ribot, minister of finance, on Satur-
day in the French chamber of depu-
ties that “the end of the war is at last
in sight.”
A press report from Galveston, Tex.,
stating that a Galveston shipping firm
had received word from London that
“immediate peace was in sight” de-
nied explanation either at the White
House or at the state department.
The last reliable information which
President Wilson has received bear-
ing on the question of prospective
peace came from Colonel House upon
the latter's return from abroad.
Colonel House emphasized his beiiel
that the respec’ive viewpoints of Be~
lin, Paris and London were so d:
vergent as regards the possible peace
terms that there was little prospect of
any definite move at present.
Germany, however, predicts peace
at no distant date. According to Ber
lin, peace is in sight because the
entente allies are beaten and mus’
fruits of victory. According to Lon
don ahd Paris, peace is near because
Germany is beaten.
Market Reflects Rumors.
Rumors of an early peace sen
prices tumbling on the. New York
stock exchange. Every stock tha!
is In any way aifected by the war los!
from 2 to 6 points and many of those
not known as “war brides” were
thrown on the market.
The downward plunge was led bv
Crucible Steel, which showed a nc.
loss for the day of 6% points. Bal
win and American Locomotive wer
similarly affected, the former losin;
53; and the latter an even 5 point.
United States Steel, Airbrake and
Westinghouse registered losses cI
from 2 to 4 points.
Shipping men evinced a lively inter-
est in reports from Galveston that
tonnage arrangements had been ga
celled there by the receipt of a able
dispatch from a prominent London
chartering firm, which gave as its re?
son that “immediate peace is in
sight.” Members of large shipping
firms said, however, that no word o:
a confirmatory character had been re-
ceived in New Yerk and that no ean-
cellations had been made. Insuranc?
brokers, who handle marine risks, also
said that they had received no intima
tion of the step reported.in the Gal:
veston dispatch.
WIDOW THREATENED
Writer Says Murder and Arson will
Follow Refusal of Demand.
Mrs. Mary niichart, a widow 0!
Smithfield, O., received a letter de-
manding $1,000, under threat that she
would be murdered and her house
ang, barn burned unless she complied.
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MARKET QUOTATIONS
Pittsburgh, March 21.
Butter—Prints, 40@40%c; tubs, 39
@391%c. Eggs—Fresh, 23c.
Cattle — Choice, $9@9.25; prime,
$9@9.25; good, $8.50@8.90; tidy
butchers, $%.25@8.76; fair, $8@8.25:
common, $6@7; heifers, $6@8.25;
common to good fat bulls, $5@8;
common to good fat cows, $4@17.50;
fresh cows and springers, $36@76.
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$5@9.25; good mixed, $8.40 @8.85:
fair mixed, $7.50@8.25; culls and com-
mon, $450@5; lambs, $7.60@11.75;
veal calves, $11@11:60; heavy and
thin calves, $7@8.
Hogs—Prime heavy, heavy mixed
and mediums, $9.90@9.95; heavy York-
ers, $9.85@9.90; light Yorkers, $9.25
@9.40; pigs, $8.66@8.75; roughs, $9@
9.25; stags, $7@7.50.
Cleveland, March 21.
Cattle—Choice fat steers, $7.76@
8.50: ‘good to choice butcher steers,
$7@8: fair to good butcher steers,
$6.50@7.26; goud to choice heifers,
$6.26@7.26; good to choice butcher
bulls, $6.50@7.26; good to choice
cows, $6@6.50; fair to good cows, $b
@6; commen cows, $4@6.
Sheep and Lambs—Good to choice
\ambs, $11@11.50; fair to good, $9.50
@10.50; good to choice wethers, $8.60
@9; good to choice ewes, $8@8.50;
mixed ewes and wethers, $8.26@8.60;
culls, $5.50 7.50.
Calves—Uood to choice $11.25@
11.75; fair to good, $9@11; heavy and
comincn, $6@9.
Hogs—Hezvy Yorkers, $10@10.05;
light Yorkers, $9.90@10; mediums,
$10@10.05; pigs, $8.76; stags. $7.50:
roughs, $9.
Chicago, Marcin 21.
Hogs—Bulx, $9.50@9.65: light, $9.10
@9.65; mixed, $5.256@9.65; heavy,
$9.20@9.66; roughs, $9.20@9:40; pigs,
$7.60 @38.69.
Cattle—Native beef steers, $7.50@
9.80; stockers and feeders, $6@8.20;
cows and heifers, $3.80@R8.70; calves,
15.
Wheat—May, $1.093%.
Corn—May,
MAY SUCCEED HOLLWEG
AS GERMAN CHANCELLOR
PRINCE VON BUELOW.
| Italians.
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR
Five French double motor aeroplanes
bombaried tae Gorman balloon sta
tion at Meiz, the ammui.iion depots
near Chateau Salins and the acro-
drome at Dieuze. Thirty shells cf
large caliber were dropped during the
course of this expedition of whic.
twenty fell on the station at Meiz.
The Prince of Wales has arrived in
Egypt on appointment as staff cap-
tain to the general commanding the
Mediterranean forces.
Vienna reports that the hospital
ship Elektra, in the Austro-Hungarian
Red Cross service, bound from the
North Adriatic to Soutr Dalmatia, was
torpedoed by an enemy submarine.
The steamer is stranded. One sailor
was drowned and two Red Cross
nurses badly wounded. Elektra was
not unknown to the enemy as a hos
pital ship and was provided with prc
scribed visible marks.
The German drive at the Verdun
defenses has again shifted its direc-
tion. Strong assaults were made bj
the Germans on the lines east of Ver
dun, five successive assaults in the
Vaux region being repulsed by the
French, Paris announces.
The heavy fighting in the last few
days has been to the northwest of the
fortress and Paris reported massed
attacks by the Germans, who drcve
at the French position at Dead Man’s
Hill, only to be forced back eastward |
toward the Corbeaux woods, suffering
heavy losses. Although a bombard
ment has been continued in this re
gion the infantry attacks have. not
been renewed.
Important operations .
veloping along the southern part of |
the Russian front, as Vienna reporte |
increasing activity by the artillery on 1
both sides. In Galicia the Russians |
have attacked along the Stripa, bu: |
without success, the Austrian war ct
fice declares.
The Italian offensive along
Isonzo is commanding increasing at |
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may be de
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tention, although Vienna's latest re
port on the situation declares the af
‘tacks on the Austrian lines have dc¢
creased in violence. The curren
statement by the Rome war offic »
records counter attacks by the Aus- |
trians on positions newly won by the |
These are declared to have |
been repulsed.
Dr. Von Bethmann-Hollweg, the im-
perial chancellor, may follow Admire?
von Tirpitz into retirement, accord-
ing to a dispatch from Geneva to the
Daily Express, quoting Berlin re-
ports, which also state that Prince
Bernhard von Buelow, the former
chancellor, will soon leave Lucerne
for Berlin.
A message from Berne says tha’
Naby Bey, former Turkish ambassa-
dor at Rome, is reported to be en-
deavoring to negotiate a separate
peace for Turkey with the allies.
‘Forty-four German ships of from
12,000 to 20,000 tons in size have bee
seized by the Brazilian government,
according to a dispatch from Liver-
pool.
LAST OF THE ALLENS KILLED
Shot !n Dispute Over Courage of For-
mer Comrade.
Jack Allen, lone survivor of the Al-
len clan of Carrell county, Virginia,
died in a mountain cabin near Mount
Airy, N. C.
The clan terrorized the country-
side by murdering judge, prosecutor
and several other persons when their
jeader was pronounced guilty of a
minor offense in Hillville county
court ‘March 14, 1812.
Allen died avenging what he cor-
sidered :an insult to the honor of the
clan. .He had stopped on his way
home at the cabin of Mrs. Robert
Martin. Will McGraw, a neighbor,
came in. During the conversation Mc-
Graw said that he did not think Wes-
ley Edwards, who helped the Allens
in the attack, was particularly brave.
Allen drew, but McGraw was quicker
and killed the former.
Just to. Show His Abllity.
As Robert Manning, a “dip,” left
the train at Ossining, N. Y,, to serve
two years in Sing Sing he handed the
sonductor his watch. Manning hag
picked the conductor’s pocket despite
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SCHOOL CENSUS BEGINS JUNE 1.
Starting June 1, an attendance
census of all children of school age
from 4 to 6 years and 6 to 16 will be
‘taken and the records turned. over
to the school boards as required by
state law. Separate lists will be kept
of the children in the 4 and 6 year
class and those ranging from 6 to
16 years.
When parents or guardians of
children refuse to furnish the names,
age, address and school attended by |
the youngsters, the officers are em-|
powered to prosecute under misde-
meanor charges for which a minimum
fine of $6 and costs are prescribed.
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able to strictly enforce attendance of |
all children whether in regular class |
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Institutes held in York county, being |
an average of nearly 1,000 persons a |
day. York county farmers attribute |
much of their success to the institut- |
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