THE FARMERS’ ~ COLUMN Some Practical Suggestions Well Worth Knowing From the De- partment of Agriculture. FACTS FOR DAILY USE FARM ADVISERS AT COMMAND. Hundreds of requests for the ser- vices of the Farm Advisers are on file at the State Department of Agri culture and these experts on farming maliters are now in the field in vari ous points of the State. ad The Department has carefully se- | i lected its corps of Farm Advisers | who are practical men in their partic- | ular lines and each one of them has | pv had years of experience in actual | farm management. The services of | these advisers are offered to farm-, ers, dairymen, poultrymen, garden- ers and fruit growers of the State who need help in planning their farm work and wish to receive practical: advice for the betterment of condi- tions and crops. ® Among the requests that have been received at the Department by Deputy Secretary of Agriculture C. E. Carothers, who is in charge of the work are a number from County Su- perintendents of Schools, asking for A night lectures in rural schoolhouses. i The school authorities report a great interest among the farmers in night schools for the development of Ag- riculture and the experts will give demons raticns in community work, breeding and market gardening and all classes of community buying and selling. The farmers desiring information on soils, farm crops, dairying, stock raising, poultry, drainage, water supply, house sanitation and house- hold economics should apply to tie Department of Agriculture at Harris- burg at once. a The service is entirely free and ; the demand is great. Early requests 4 will be scheduled and the work taken up with the farmers as soon as pos- sibie. : SEED CORN NEEDS TESTING Seed corn this year is plentiful but poor. Last fall much of the corn grown in the corn belt States was soft, and even the best seed corn, judging from outside appearance, is of certain germinating quality. P. CG. Holden, the noted corn expert, is- sues the warning. “It is surprising how low in germination this year’s seed corn is.” : If you've never tested your seed corn before, this is a good time to begin. The principle of seed corn testing is simple. All the corn on any ear is about of the the same ger- minating strength. Remove several kernels from different places on the ear and put them in a moist warm place, such as in moist sawdust, or wrap them in a damp cloth. Do this for all the ears you are going to use for seed. Number each set of ker- nels you are testing, and give the same number to the ear from which the kernels were taken. If the kernels sprout vigorously in a week’s time, save the correspond- ing ear. 1f they don’t sprout vigor- ously, discard the ears that such ker- nels came from. Seed corn testing costs you nothing but your time, and may save you the wasted labor of preparing for, planting and cultivat- ing a partial or runty crop. Do it NOW. A greater acreage in potatoes is reported from many counties. In Crawford township, Clinton county, five silos were erected during the past few months where there was only one before. Holstein cattle are reported to be the favorites. There is a general tendency among the farmers throughout the State to take more interest in milk produc- tion and there has been a decrease of almost fifty per cent in the gen- eral average of those fattening cattle for spring markeet. Many silos are being built, and the use of lime doubled according to re- ports from Crawford county. The campaign of education for the care of trees by pruning, spraying and fertilizing carried on by State Zoolo- gist H. A. Surface of the Department of Agriculture is causing more atten- the state. Reports from crop correspondents indicate a large crop of apples, cher- ries ‘and plums while the peach buds in some sections has been ruined and in others are reported in good condi- tion. For a mild, easy action of the bow- Doan’s Regulets, 25¢ at all stores. els, try a modern laxative. The jail sentences were suspended. tion to this work in every section of : ARIZONA SENATOR FOR : INCREASED DEFENSES || HENRY F. ASHURST. BROKERS PLEAD GUILTY Fourteen Get Fincs and Suspended 1 Sentences In Bucketshop Cases. Three alleged proprietors of Pitts- burgh bucketshops and eleven of their eniployees, caugit in the raid made by the Pennsylvania authorities some weeks ago, were arraigned in criminal court and pleaded guilty to informa- tions presented by the district at- toraey. An unusual procedure was adopted in the case as the deputy attorney |! general who presented the cases re- served the rights to try the cases in either the state or federal court. D puty Attorney General Davis ap- peared before District Attorney Jack- son and filed suits against each one of the defendants. These informations were then presented in open court by the district attorney. Three proprietors and eleven em pioyees were fined $100 and sen- tencced to serve six months in jail LOCOMGTIVE WORKS BUSY ‘ of the town of Guerrero, capital of More Men. Orders for locomotives totaling $1,850,000 were announced by the Baldwin Locomotive works of Phila delphia. This work will keep the force of 15, 000 men employed there and at Eddy- stone going full speed and any addi- tional orders of considerable size, it is predicted, will result in an increase of several thousands of workmen. Twenty-five of the locomotives, which are of the heavy freight Mikado type, will be built for the Pennsyl- vania railroad and a similar number of the same sort of locomotive will be constructed for the Great North- ern railway. The average cost of a locomotive of this type is today about $37,000. GERMANS SWIM FOR LIBERTY Escape From Ellis Island, But Are Caught In Jersey City. Johann Roudin and Hans Winkler, Germans, facing virtual imprison- ment at Ellis Island uiitil the end of the war, made a desperate attempt to escape. They were captured in railroad yards in Jersey City after escaping from a third-floor room by means of a rope of bed sheets and swimmip to the Jersey shore. The pair came over here as stowaways on a Dutch freighter March 2. Because of war conditions the immigration authori- ties are not deporting German sub: jects. MAN SHOCKED TO DEATH Attempts to Remove Tangle of Elec- tric Wires; Grasps Lightning Rod. Washington Christner, aged nine- teen, of Garrett, near Rockwood, Pa., was killed by electricity at his home. Young Christner climbed onto the barn to untangle two electric wires which had crossed above the barn door. Grasping the lightning rod with one hand, he endeavored to untangl the wires with the other and was shocked to death. More Becoming Citizens. Their patriotism aroused by the war in Europe and the Mexican situa- tion, fcreign-born persons who made their homes in this country years ago but never went to the trouble of becoming full-fledged citizens, are now applying, in large numbers, for this privilege to the federal naturalization authorities. 1916 APRIL 1916] [SUN¥: ED * “UE WEDTHUIFRY [SAT] t qr 1 345678 “ - (2 | 'S | | | S IG 1121315 1617 1819202122 Pl 242526272829 mere VILLA SURPRISED AND DEFEATED Bandit Army Caught After a Drunken Garouse at Guerrero rr ——— 60 MEXICANS ARE KILLED Few Americans Wounded, None Killed. Large Amount of Supplies Captured. Villa, Wounded Escapes in Carriage. Francisco Villa was decisively de- feated, sixty of his men killed and his force of ou.laws broken up in the first battle between American troops and Villistas at Guerrero, Mexico. Villa, with a broken hip and a wound in the leg, with a few of his followers is fleeing toward the moun- tains with American cavalrymen close at his heels. His capture or death is regarded as certain. The American cavalrymen were | outnumbered two to one by the Mexi- cans, 250 troopers attacking 500 Mex- icans, but only four troopers were slightly wounded and none killed. Colonel George Dodd commanded the American forces. General Elizeo Hernandez, Villa's second in ¢ommand, was killed. Pablo Lopez, Villa’s third in com mand, was wounded. : . The battle took place in the edge the district dominated by Villa in the days when, s a bandit, he defied the forces of Poriiro Diaz for years. Villa was taken from the field in a carr.age limping and swearing, according to re ports of the United States officers with Colonei Dodd, confirmed by Mex icans made prisoners by the Amer: cans. Theze Mexicans claimed te be Carranzistas, whom Villa was holding as prisoners for execution. They are held for investigation, as the Ameri can officers believe some of them be long to the bandit band. All the pris onern are to be turned over to the nearest Carranza commander, Wwhc will identify and dispose of them. The American cavalry dismounted as it dashed up within firing distance of the camp of the bandits and leaving their horses in charge of details, crept upon the Villistas from arroyos and other shelter. This accounts for the execution among the Villistas and the small number of American wounded. wa As the Mexicans fled the Americans’ horses were brought up and pw was given, the American caval ne charging oa the heels of the re STUDIES WAR PHASES IN BRITISH COLONIES ing bandits as long as they Kepjg ‘the open country but giving up UB chase when the Mexicans took to thé mountains. m2 This is the system Villa used in his fighting according to the American scouts’ reports several days ago. In the event of a battle his men are in- structed to scatter, to meet again at some previously appointed place. Guerrero had been the last rallying place. Villa was surprised at daybreak by the Americans. He had just capturea the town from the Carranzistas the night before and was resting when the American forces, composed of tne Tenth cavalry (negro) and the Seventh cavalry, the famous Custer regiment, swooped down upon his band and began to pour a rain of lead into their ranks. Villa’s retreat was toward Chihua- hua City, according to the reports. Hi: band scattered and took to the hills, making pursuit temporarily impos- sible. First news of the battle came to the Carranza officials in Juarez, followed shortly by confirmatory advices from General Pershing himself, who had left his base at Casas Grandes and re ported from San Geronimo ranch, north of Guerrero. For ten miles the American troops followed the fleeing Villistas, bring: ing down many of them in the flight and capturing most of the supplies used in the battle. The Villistas fled at the first volley from the Ameri- cans, ‘although portions of the Villa command made stands in the town itself and fir~d at the attacking Amer- jcans from the protection of the low squat adobe houses. Many Villista wounded were left ip the flight of the column of bandits. These were made prisoners and given first aid treatment by the Americans. They, like the prisoners, were sent to the nearest Carranza command. The American command rode all night after the Villistas, after learn- ing that they had attacked and taken Guerrero from the Carranzistas, and made the attack just at daybreak, catching the Villa forces asleep after a night of celebration. Food ricis, in which at least 1,000 women and children participated, oc men and a ldren participated, oc : curred in Torreon on March 28. ac cording to information reaching Juarez. Crowd: rushed through the streets erying for corn. The corn meal was only obtainable at fabulous prices. From the demonstration the riot grew into general looting. Soldiers were called out but they refused to shoot into the crowds of women and chil dren. No one was killed during the rioting but many buildings were badly dam- aged. The government took steps to distribute corn and has ordered sev- eral carloads sent te Terreon amd vi- cinity. Som rr r————— | cesstal The seizure at Kirkwall of all the SIR H. RIDER HAGGARD. A GENERAL SURVEY OF THE WAR Malancourt, on the western side of the Meuse, pounded to pieces by com- tinued German artillery fire and sur- rounded by the Germans on three sides, was evacuated by the: French after an extended battle. The charge at Malancourt was only one of three operations against the Verdun stronghold, which the Ger- mans have put into motion within tne space of a day. Northeast of the for- tress they twice attacked at Douau- mont with liquid fire, but according to the French war office, were both times beaten off. The Gerrans before Verdun have occupied the village of Vaux, and, ac- cording to a Berlin statement, have cleared 1,000 yards of French trenches northeast of Haucourt. They took 781 prisoners in the battle of Vaux March 31. The only mention of fight- ing around Verdun April 1 tells of the repulse of a French counter attack after a terrific artillery bombardment near Vaux. The Germans developed renewed ac- tivity on the edge of the Woevre plain, beginning a drive against the French right flank and attempting to take the fortification east of Haudic- mont, about nine miles southeast of Verdun, Here, too, they were unsuc- Paris Weclares. mail on the -Scandinavian-American line steamer Hellig Olav, consisting of 800 sacks, is reported in a wireless dispatch from Berlin. This is the first time that all the mail on a Scan- dinavian-American steamer, including letters, has been seized. The Hellig Olav sailed from New York March 17 for Christiansand. Six German aeroplanes were brought down or were forced to make hasty descents Sunday in the Verdun region, and a seventh was brought down by anti-aircraft guns in the Bois le Pretre in the Woevre district. A dispatch from Athens says the populace has pillaged the buiiding of the Servian legation at Sofia. Bul- garian authorities arrested the jmen left in charge of thé building. The American minister at Sofia pro- tested to Premier Radoslavoff, who justified the action of the people on the ground that, Servia having ceased to exist as a nation, the legation build- ing belonged to Bulgaria. Five steamers, three British and two Norwegian, were sunk with a prob- able toll of fourteen lives, according to Lloyds. The cause of the disasters is not known, but it is supposed the vessels were the victims of either mines or submarines. Three Zeppelin raids were made on Bngland within forty-eight hours. The third of them was made Sunday night, the airship visiting the Scottish coast and the northeastern and southeastern counties of England. Constantinople dispatches say that the Turkish troops on the Caucasian front have received reinforcements and that the Russian offensive has been checked. Germany has apologized to Switzer- land for the bombing of the Swiss vil- lage, Porentruy, by German airmen, last week, says a Reuter dispatch from Berne. The Holt liner Achilles has been sunk by a submarine without warning. Four of her crew are missing and be- lieved to have perished. Her com- mander and sixty-two others have been landed. The 653-ton Glasgow steamer Perth has been sunk with a loss of six lives. It was stated that she carried no armament. : Dunkirk, the northernmost town of France, is a strongly fortified port on the straits of Dover. During the war in their effort to advance, | THINK OF ; THE CONVENIENCE "UNDER } SUPERVISION MEMBER BANK UNDER FEDERAL RESERVE ACT = pe When there is interest due on a note; a bill to be paid; or an insurance payment due. no i: need to come to town to settle it if you know ki the amount and have your check book at hand. You ean open a check account in this Bank with a small sum, and the convenience of it 3 alone makes it almost necessary to the modern 3 farmer. wit Besides the conyenience, there is the safety of it to be considered. 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