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Some Practical Suggestions Well
Worth Knowing From the De-
partment of Agriculture.
FACTS FOR DAILY USE
FERTILIZER AN ESSENTIAL FOR
SUCCESS WITH POTATOES.
The second important essential for
success with potatoes according to
Sheldon W. Funk, farm adviser and
market gardening expert of the De-
partment of Agriculture, is plenty of
fertilizer. Last year Mr. Funk wrote
on the first essential, plenty of or-
ganic matter in the soil. In discuss-
ing the second essential he says:
“The next important essential is
plenty of manure or fertilizer. Where
manure is used, apply it in the fall or
some time in the winter, as results
are not as good when it is used just
before planting in the spring of the
year. The question is so often asked,
“What is the best potato fertilizer?”
Let me tell you there is no such
thing as a potato fertilizer. The fer-
tilizer which gives you the best re-
sults on potatoes may not be the best
one for your meigbor and farmers
should save their breath and not ask
this question so frequently.
“The only way in the world for a
potato grower to find out the best fer-
tilizer for potatoes on his soil is to
ry it out. This is not only true as
to analysis, but to the most profitable
amount as well. Try out several dif-
ferent proportions of nitrogen, phos-
phoric rock and potash, together wilh
different amounts per acre on several
rows in your potato field. Watch
these results very carefully for sever-
al years and then you will learn the
best analysis, together with the most
economical amount to apply.
“We are told that practically all of
our Pennsylvania soils need phos-
phoric acid aed I think every fertili-
zer should carry at least ten per
cent of this element. The other in-
gredients must be determined by ex’
periment. In my case I have learned
that my soil contains a high percen-
tage of potash, with the result that
during the last four or five years
we have not used nearly as much of
this element as we did before that
time. On the other hand I can use
a considerable amount of nitrogen
because we do not have a great gquan-
tity of manure and my fertilizer for
potatoes usually carried from four
to five per cent of nitrogen. Your
conditions may be entirely different
from mine, but try it out and see what
you need. :
I can’t give you any definite
number of pounds to use, but be sure
and use just as much as you can use |
se- |
economically. The extra yield
cured by heavier fertilization is
largely profit, because the other costs
fare practically the same. If you are
only using 500 pounds per acre, I pre-
fer to apply it in the row; where
more than that is used, apply it
broadcast. I have never tried making
a second application after the plants
are up, but it is practiced to large
extent in some sections and is worth
trying.”
DESTROY THE ANGUMOIS GRAIN
MOTH.
Several outbreaks of the angumois
grain moth have been reported to the
tate Department of Agriculture
from Lancaster county and the pest
seems to be traveling northward.
Thousands of dollars are annually lost
to the farmers of Southern Pennsyl-
vania, particularly in the southeast-
ern counties by the ravages of this
grain moth.
It is while in the larva or worm
stage that the damage is done. he
Department of Agriculture has been
receiving specimens in both wheat and
corn with the inside of the grain en-
tirely eaten out and only the shell
remaining. The adults emerge in
May, going to the wheat field where
they infest the growing crops. Steps
should be taken at once to destroy
those which are hibernating in grain
stored in barns and granaries.
The larva in the grains can be
killed by fumigating with carbon bi-
sulphide, using three to five pounds to
100 bushels of grain or 1,000 cubic
feet of space. The bin must be tight
to hold the gas generated by this
liquid coming in contact with the air.
It can be put in shallow pans or
sprinkled over the grain and then the
whole covered with wet blankets.
The temperature of the bin must be
about 70 degrees, if cooler than 65
degrees the carbon bisulphide is not
nearly as effective. Carbon bisul-
phide is very explosive and must be
kept from lights and fires.
In mills and similar places the in-
sect ean be easily and quickly
killed by heating to a temperature of
holding it at that
an hour
and
120
temperature for
degrees
about
OYSTERS
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene
By Dr. Samuel Dixon.
Oysters furnished food for prehis-
toric man as demonstrated in the
great Indian mounds of oyster and
clam sells in which are found ancient
implements of war and industries.
Oysters have continued to be an arti-
cle of food much sought after by man
and beast. The oyster, however, has
become so high in price that on the
basis of food values it cannot be list-
ed as of economic importance.
Through its geographical range at
home and abroad this bivalve has be-
come fraught with danger from the
sewage polluted waters which now
reach many of the oyster beds from
our large municipalities. The thickly
populated communities are mostly
along. the streams owing to the fact
that man has always settled near
waterways and in the early days of
our history the industries depended
entirely upon water power for their
mills. As these centers of population
increased the disposal of waste be-
came a great problem resulting in the
building of conduits to lead it into
the pure waters nature has given us.
These flowing streams carried the
waters away from the doors of one
community only to poison the waters
for those living down stream and at
the same time polluting the waters
covering our oyster and clam beds
as well as driving away from our
streams valuable fish.
The raw oyster today is to be
looked upon with suspicion. Great
care should be observed in purchas-
ing them. The seller should be
known to be reliable and he should
know from what beds he gets his sup-
ply.
It is ‘hard to explain why the oyster
furnishes a fashionable dish when it
has become the custom to supply the
culls, which a few years ago would
|’ have been thrown back into their
, beds as being culls is almost nil and
| the taste so insipid that they are flav-
| ored with strong condiments that en-
tirely destroy what little natural flav-
lor the culls had; therefore, it can
‘hardly be said that these culls thrown
| out from the cookable oysters from
various beds, are pajatable. They are,
however, dangerous as they can and
do sometimes carry the germs of ty-
phoid fever.
Why, therefore, eat raw culls con-
taining little or no nourishment with
. little or no taste and yet not infre-
quently carrying germs of disease.
SPRING TIME.
“With the honk of the wild geese
' flying northward, the patent medicine
| remedy manufacturers seem inspired
anew, and there follows a wave of
spring tonic advertisements.
“The tonic which the vast majority
! of individuals need at this period of
| the year is fresh air, exercise and a
i simpler diet. Owing to weather con-
ditions many of our activities are re-
stricted in the winter time. There is
also a tendency to eat excessively of
meat and fatty foods. As a result
when the spring arrives with its
warm days, many of us are like a
furnace that has been so choked with
fuel that it doesn't draw well.
“You cannot buy relief from these
conditions at $1.00 a bottle. Medi-
cine will not make up for overeating
and under exercise. The high death
‘rate which almost invariably pre-
{ vails at this season of the year from
' pneumonia, tuberculosis and other
, respiratory diseases is largely due to
' the reduced physical resistance of in-
' dividuals, which makes them particu-
larly sensitive when the sudden
changes of temperature occur, which
are common at this time of the year.
Old people are susceptible, as they
are housed more closely
winter time than young folks
“Let your spring tonic prescription
, read somel'hing as follows:
| “1. Eat meat but once a day and
sparingly.
“2. Those not under the doctor's
care should take a glass of water be-
fore retiring for the night and one
an hour before breakfast.
“3. Get all the fresh air possible.
“4. Sleep with your windows open.
“5. See that your clothing is
heavy enough to protect you against
sudden changes of weather.
“6. Walk in the open air five or
six miles a day.”
JUNIATA COLLEGE REUNION.
The Somerset County Alumni stu-
dents and friends of Juniata College,
Huntingdon, will hold a reunion and
banquet in the Domestic Arts De-
partment of the Meyersdale
beginning at 8.00 o’clock.
All former students and friends of
the college in the county and else:
where are invited, but should notify
J. M. Gnagey, of Meyersdale.
Prof. I. Harvey Brumbaugh, Pres-
ident of Juniata College and the Rev-
J. H. Cassady, chaplain of the col-
lege, will be speakers at the ban-
quet
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REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES
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SENATOR R. M. LA FOLLETTE.
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE WAR
A dispatch from Copenhagen locates
a naval fight between British and
German squadrons at between
twenty-five and thirty miles from land
and fifteen miles south of the Gradys
lightship. Five German vessels, the
dispatch says, were seen to be on fire.
The British liner Minneapolis was
sunk in the Mediterranean by a sub-
inarine, according to Captain Biddy of
the British steamer Leicestershire,
which has arrived at Marseilles from
Rangoon.
Three of five British aeroplanes
which took part in a raid on German
airship sheds in Londern, Schleswig-
Holstein, are missing. Two German
patrol vessels were sunk and a Brit-
ish destroyed, the Medusa, is believed
to have been lost.
Lloyds reports that the British
steamer Genay Bridge has been sunk.
The crew was landcd.
A dispatch from the Exchang-
Telegraph company from Copenhagen
says the German armed trawlers sun
by the British outside Sylt harbo:
were named Braunschweig and Otto
Rudolf. a
Another Danish steamship hits been
sunk, the Christiansand, 1,017 tons.
Her entire crew of twenty-two wa:
saved. The British steamship Fulmar,
1,270 tons, also has been sunk
Eighteen of her crew were rescued.
The state department received a
joint reply of the entente powers, re
jecting the recent proposals by this
government for the disarming of ali
merchant vessels.
After violent artillery excnanges ir
the Verdun region there were hand-
to-hand encounters near Fort Douau-
mont, resulting advantageously for
the Germans, the war office statemen*
says.
Development of a Russian offensive
on the Dvinsk front, which has taken
the Germans by surprise, has during
the past week resulted in a consider-
able advantage by the Russians over
two of the most important sectors—
at Jacobstadt, which protects the
northern flank, and in the Namoc?
Lake region, which defends the south-
ern positions.
At neitb-r point, although they
brought all available reserves into
action and contested the onslaugi
step by step, were the Germans able
to stay the Russian advance.
A split in the German Socialist
party, as the result of the political
situation c.cated by the submarine
warfare controversy in the reichstag,
has occurred. A new party, consisting
of eighteen Socialist members, was
constituted by the Radical wing afte™
a Socialist .aucus had decided to ex-
clude Deputy Haase for a breach of
discipline.
PIECED 2,500 QUILTS
“Grandma Bailey” Averaged One a
Week for Fifty Years.
Mrs. Alice Bailey, aged ninety-one,
of Washington, Ind., familiarly know
to her many friends as Grandma
Bailey, is d~ad.
Mrs. Bailey was never idle. Twenty-
five hundred quilts pieced by Mrs.
Bailey in the last fifty years and dis-
tributed aniong her friends and the
friends of aer children in all parts
of the Unit-d States are proof that
Mrs. Bailey was industrious. She be-
gan piecing quilts when she was
{ about forty vears old, and her daugl
High *
School on Friday evening, March 31, !
ter, with whom she has lived, declare
that she av-raged a quilt a week for
the last fiftv years.
BIBLE VERSES NO CHARM
Fail to Prevent Arrest of Man on
Chicken-Stealing Charge.
Bible verses which, it is alleged,
Weinbert Wallick of York, Pa. car-
ried in his pocket as a guard against
arrest when stealing chickens, appar-
| ently failed to give the protection
he credited them.
He and tiree companions were ac-
cused of robbing the hen roost of
George C. Kochenour.
VILLA INFLIGHT,
CLOSELY PURSUED
Americans Pleased With Co-
operation of Carranzistas
ARMY 14 FINE CONDITION
Only Aero Service “Falls Down” In
Test Under Actual War Conditions.
Trail of Bandit Marked With Dead.
Pancho Villa is moving south-
west and making for the foothills of
the Sierra Madres. The American
cavalry is in hot pursuit, hoping to
force the bandit into a battle and
bring the chase to & sudden end, ac- |
cording to a news dispatch from the '
front.
The further south the Americans
assistance in pursuit of Villa on the
part of the forces commanded by of-
ficers of the Carranza government, a
circumstance very favorably com:
mented upon by officers of the Ameri-
can expedition.
Never in the history of the army of
the United States has every branch of
the service, cavalry, infantry and ar-
tillery, given better evidence of its
mobility, stamina and preparedness
than on this expedition.
Since leaving Columbus, March 15,
the army as
branches has reached a point 200
miles southward, every mile of which
of the ronghest country in the re
public of Mexico.
The officers who have ridden ove"
the various fronts now maintained i
the state of Guerrero, where Villa fd
when the United States exped’tion
crossed the border, have found numer
ous indications that Villa miscalcula‘
ed completely when he predicted thar
his Columbus raid would cause a gen:
eral uprising against Americans.
1
Villa is retiring conti ually south-
ward, trying to force recruits into his |
ranks. His men are feeling the pinc™
of hunger and are hoping for an early
summer to shield them against the
cold of the mountains, where they
have retreated somewhere south of
Namiquipa.
Three aeroplanes are at El Va!
and will b» used in scouting as soon
as the high winds that have been
sweeping that part of Mexico for a’
most a week subside. These winds
according to General Pershing, have
made effective assistance by the aero-
Of the eight ma- |
chines that went into Mexico two are
planes impossible.
still out of commission. They were
damaged in the flights from Columbu=
to Casas Grandes.
Herrera Has Not Revolted.
American Consul Letcher at Chi-
hughua reported there was no tru’ .
in the reported revolt of General Her-
rera and the Carranza garrison at |
Chihuahua.
Commancr Marshall of the gun-
hoat Machias at Tampico reported by
wireless that conditions in the vicinity |
of that Mexican port were unchanged
Dispatches received previously from '
Commander Marshall said the excite |
ment produced at Tampico when f{'
American troops crossed the borde
had quieted, but American citizen
still entertrined some anxiety.
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Pittsburgh, March 28.
Butter—Prints, 40@40%c; tubs,
@39%c. F ;gs—Fresh, 22@22%ec.
Cattle—Prime, $9.25@9.60; good,
$8.66@9.156 tidy butchers, $8.50@9;
3»
fair, $7.65@8.40; common, $6.50@7 50 |
heifers, $6.50@8.50; common to good
fat bulls, $5@8; common to good fat
cows, $4@' .75; fresh cows and spring:
ers, $40@750.
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers,
$9@9.25; grod mixed, $8.40@8.90; fair
mixed, $7.50@8.25; culls and common.
$4505.50; heavy ewes, $8@7.50°
lambs, $7.50@11.76; yearlings, $ @
10.50; veal calves, $10@10.50; heavy
and thin calves, $68@7.50; clipped
sheep, $4@7.50; clipped lambs, $6@
9.75; sprin. lambs, $10@16.
Hogs—Prime heavy, $10.20@10.25:
heavy mixed, $10.10@10.15; mediums
$10.05@10.10; heavy Yorkers, $10@
10.06; light Yorkers, $9.25@9.60; pigs,
$8.76@9; roughs, $8.75@9.15; stags,
$7@7.50.
Cleveland, March 28.
Cattle—Choice fat steers, $8@9;
good to choice butcher steers, $7.607
8.25; fair to good butcher steers, $6."
@7.50; good to choice heifers, $77
7.76; good to choice butcher bulls. $7
@7.60; bologna bulls, $6@7; good :o
choice cows, $7@7.60; fair to good
cows, $6@7; common cows, $4.50
6.50.
Calves — Good to choice, $11@
11.50; fair to good, $9@11; heavy and
common, $6@9.
Sheep and Lambs—Good to choic~
lambs, $11.25@11.60; fair to good, $9.50
@10.50; geod to choice wethers, $3.60
@9; good to choice ewes, $8@8.50:
mixed ewes and wethers, $8.26@8.560;
culls, $56.560@7.80.
Hogs—Mixed, $9.85; light Yorkers,
‘$0.76; mediums, $9.80; pigs, $8.50@
8.75: stags, $7.80; roughs, $9.
Chicago, March 28.
Hogs—Bulk, $0.80@9.95; light, $9.50
@10.10; mixed, $9.66@10; heavy, $9.55
@9.95; roughs, $9.66@9.78; pigs, $7.50
@8.65.
Sheep—Wethers, $8.60@9.35; lambs,
$9.85@11.75.
Wheat—May, $1.09%.
7814c. Oats—May, 43%c.
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