THE FARMERS’
COLUMN
Some Practical Suggestions Well
Worth Knowing From the De-
partment of Agriculture.
FACTS FOR DAILY USE
HOW TO BUILD A SILO.
Now is a very good time to decide
on the silo construction you were
thinking about for several years. if
you are a dairyman, a beef producer,
or wish to successfully grow a lot of
young stock, you need a silo. Ex-
perts of the State Department of Ag-
riculture say that a silo will save
from twenty to thirty per cent of the '
cost of handling the corn crop inten-
ded for stock feeding.
You sustaln a minimum loss of
nutriments by silo curing. The en-
tire corn plant and ear is cut and ele- |
vated by power into the silo and the
corn harvest is completed in a few
days. The time to store the silage
corn is when the starch in the grains
has changed from the milky or
“roasting ear” condition to the
pasty or doughy condition, but the
grains have not become solid. At
this stage of growth you get a feed
that has many advantages. It makes
a very palatable, digestible and
wholesome feed and withall the
cheapest roughlage that can be pro-
duced on the farm.
L. W. Lighty, dairying expert of
the Department of Agriculture, in
speaking of silo building says.
“We may purchase the stave silo,
the tile block silo or the iron silo.
All of them have proven satisfactory
when properly coustructed and intel-
ligently used. Then we can and often
do build our own silo of convenient
material. In many section there is
an abundance of building stone and
we find many silos built of stone
proving entirely satisfactory. In
other places where sharp sand and
gravel abound, the concrete silo is
cheaply built and there is none bet-
ter. The wooden hoop silo, the
brick silo, the lathed and plastered '
silo and others are giving good sat:
isfaction.
“It is very important to locate the
silo conveniently for filling and get-
ting the feed from the silo to the
stock to be fed. The foundation must
be carefully laid and the structure
properly reinforced as the weight is
great ‘and lateral pressure con-
siderable. The proportionate diam-
eter of the silo is of the utmost im-
portance and many thousands of dol-
lars have been lost and silos con-
demned because the silo was improp-
erly proportioned to the number of
stock to be fed.
“If you feel for the need of assis-
tance in the location, planning, con-
structing, proportioning and other-
wise becoming possessed economi-
cally of a satisfactory silo, write to
the Department of Agriculture at
Harrisburg and your special preb-
lem will be considered and full infor-
mation furnished. If necessary a
representative will be sent to your
farm free of cost to assist voi to
economically get the best results at
the lowest cost.” This is only one
of the many services that the Denart-
ment of Agriculture is rendering for
the farmers of the state.”
WARNING AGAINST
FAKE VETERINARIANS
Farmers throughout the State are
warned by the Department of Agricul-
ture against persons who have been
representing themselves as versed ‘n
veterinary medicine and surgery and
against all other schemes connected
with the livestock industry.
Recently the State Livestock Sani-
tary Board received notice that a man
was fined $100 for practicing veterin-
ary surgery in an eastern county
where he was filling horse's teeth.
Ano‘her man collected thousands of
dollars from Pennsylvania farmers as
the representative of a cattlemen’s
protective organization. He has been
prosecuted by some of the farmers
from whom he collected money and
is awaiting court trial on a charge -f
false pretense.
The Department of Agriculture urges
farmers not to enter into any associa-
tions until they have been fully inves-
tigated. The new veterinary medical
examination law prohibits anyone
in prforming the functions of a re-
gistered licensed veterinarian. The Ii-
censed veterinarian carries a state
registration card which farmers
should always be shown, before they
allow any treatment to their cattle.
Hnrah nhveice react. weaken the
bowels. will lead to chronic cons’
Doan’e Regu'ets
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partion operaty
easily.
For baby’s croup. Willie's da!’~
cats and bruises, mamma's anr-
throat, Grandma's lameness—Dr
Thomas’ Electric Ofi—the household
KEYSTONE PARAGRAPHS |
Dr. W. A. McHugh, twenty-eight, a
physician of Uniontown, shot and
killed his brother, Leo McHugh,
twenty-one. The men were examining |
an automatic revolver and the weapon |
was discharged. The bullet entered .
the breast of the younger man. No
arrests were made.
The dinosaurus which is being
paraded over the country by the ultra
pacifists as an example of the fate
awaiting heavily armed nations, will
be followed in a parade in Pittsburgh
by a replica of a hornet’s nest, which
commands respect for obvious reasons.
Almost two acres of coal are mined
daily at the Vesta No. 4 and No. §
mines of the Vesta Coal company near
California. Approximately 6,000 tons
are being removed daily from No. 4
mine, while the record output at No. &
mide has been 5,423 tons in a day.
The body of John F. Mueller, forty, |
of Point Marion, was found under a |
railroad br.dge crossing Cheat river
there. The man had either been struck
by a train while walking across the
bridge or else had jumped from the
bridge to avoid being struck.
Miss Marie Lytle of Washington
has been awarded the valedictory in
the graduating class of Westminster
college. She had the highest grades
of the four-year course. F. Randolph
Moore will be salutatorian at the com-
mencement in June.
A sub-station, costing $150,000, to
take crre of all electrical require-
ments of the New Cas. le district, such
as light, pcwer and railway, will be
erccled in that city immediately by
the Mchoning and Shenango Railway
and Light company.
Claims aggregating $25,000, one of
the larges adjustments under the
worknia 1 s compensation act in cen-
tral Pe. n y'vania, were settled upon
the widows of eight miners killed by
the exrlo:zion at Robindale, Somer-
set county.
Scuffling with fellow workmen at the
plant of a coal mine near Masontown,
Jasper Hughes, seventeen, crashed
through the frail covering of a fan
which forced air into the mine and
was chopped to pieces by the blades.
Drilling under the direction of of-
ficers of Troop F, N. G. P., has been
started by the Independent Military
club, recently organized at New
Castle, made up almost entirely of
business and professional men.
Edward Malone, seventy-two, was
killed by a Baltimore and Ohio train
at a crossing in Pittsburgh. Mr. Ma-
lone had been a glassworker until
fifteen years ago and until two years
ago was a watchman.
|. Evangelist Luther K. Peacock and
party have concluded a series of evan-
gelistic meetings at Jeannette. Dur-
ing the course of the meetings, which
had been in progress for some time,
2,700 “hit the trail.”
Rev. Joseph C. Hamilton, for ten
years pastor of the First United Pres-
byterian church at Washington, left
for Long Beach, Cal.,, where he will
assume the pastorate of the Presby-
terian church. T |
R. G. Hixon, aged sixty-nine, of
Scottdale, was married to Mrs. James
Stahl, aged sixty-one, of Scottdale, iy
Rev. F. E. Staugh in the home of a
brother of the groom, Noah Stahl, in
that city.
Fire partly destroped the tipple and
fan house of the Prospect Coal and
Coke company at Dearth. The damage
was $4,005. It is thought the tiple
was set on fire by dissatisfied em-
ployees.
Feeney, aged sixty-
nine, of Pittsburgh, was burned seri-
ously on her legs, arms and body
when her clothing caught fire from a
gas stove near which she was ironing
clothes.
Miss Bridget
A mov ment to save the “Bob”
Jones tabernacle to Connellsville
failed when it was found that fire
regulations would not permit the
structure to stand. i
New Castle police officers will not
wear straw hats this summer, as has
been the cu fom. Mayor A. D. Newai]
ka= issued orders for the officers .
secure caps.
The smallpox epidemic
in Paint
township, Somerset county, where
there are sixteen cases. has spread
into Adams township, Cambria county.
While coasting over the curb on his
rol’ed skates Donald Shaw of Pitts-
burgh, seven years old, was run down
and killed by an au‘omobile.
The championship for fat sheep is
claimed by W. E. Mller of near Wash-
ington. He has sold a flock of wethers
that av raged 121 pounds.
John Miller, azed forty, was instant-
ly kill~d n he fell down a flight of
steps a: home in Ambridge. H's
skull was froctured.
BAFF’S SLAYER CONVICTED
Murder Crew Out of Fight For Csn-
trol of Now York Poultry Markat.
remedy. 25 and B50c.
Giuseppe Arichiello, who got $100
for shooting Barnet Baff in West
Washingion market, New York, in
1914, was convicted of murder in the
first degree before Ju:ztice Shearn in
the supreme court, criminal term.
: forest preserve in accordance with a
| campaign instituted by the Benevo-
OPPOSES GOVERNMENT
MUNITION PLANT BILL
Photo by American Press Association.
CHARLES M. SCHWAB.
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THC WA.
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The hardest fighting of the war,
with appalling losses on both sides, is
now, accerd.ng to telegraphic reports,
taking place before the French citadel
of Verdun, where for fifty days the
Germans have been balked in the at-
tempt to take the fortress. With the
evacuation by the French of the vil-
lage of Bethincourt, on Saturday
night, the Germans began an offensive
which for ferocity is unequaled in the
history of warfare, ancient or modern,
The French reports declare that these
assaults have been repulsed with ter-
rific losses to the attacking forces,
while Berlin claims slight gains.
Submarine activity in the last few
days has entered upon a stage here-
tofore unknown, from four to eight
vessels being reported sunk daily, bel-
ligerent and neutral suffering alike in
the campairn. Norway, Denmark, Hol-
land and Sr~in have lost ves 8, and
the Dutch, at least, have made & eho:
of resentment, the whole army’
Netherlands being mobilized. Hol and’ ships of the gruelling rides after the
is credited with having an available,
force, fully equipped, of 400,000 men,
and her entry into the war at this
stage, small as is the country, might
easily spell victory for the side whose
cause the plucky little nation should
espouse. For, be it remembered, Hol-
land controls the meuth of the Scheldt
river, thus nullifying the military val-
ue of the German conquest of Ant-
werp.
The systematic bombardment of the
city of Rheims was resumed three
weeks ago and continues with increas-
ing intensity.
Shots were exchanged by French
and German cavalry detachments
along the Macedonian front, says a
Havas dispatch from Salonika. 4
German field pieces fired on French
trenches aloug the front without ef-
fect, according to the correspondent;
who says that the cannonading recent-
ly reported has diminished in intensity
in most seciors, but that minor en-
gagements are taking place all along
the front from Gievgeli to Doirar.
Railway communication between Bul-
garia and Greece, he adds, has been
suspended because of a movement of
Bulgarian troops.
A success®ul attack by four German
seaplanes o. a Russian aviation sta-
tion on Oesel island, at the entrince
to the Gu!’ of Riga, is announced in
an official ‘terman statement.
The Koelnische and Frankfurter
Zeitung putlish apparently communi-
cated articles condemning what is
termed the folly of the allies in not
regarding as serious the peace terms
submit. ed lagt Wednesday by Chan-
cellor vor Bethmaun-Hollweg in his
reichstag s;2ech. The article adds:
“All hopes of the allies are now
shattered. Germany alone can mak=
her own terms.”
One engi cer and eight Lascars of
the crew of the steamer Chantala
were killed when the vessel was sunk
by a submarine. Ninety-two survivors
were rescued and landed at Malta.
They declare they had no warning.
ELK FREED IN PARK
Fifty Animais From Yellowstone Have
New Home In Adirondack Forest.
Fifty elk {rom the Yellowstone park
have been ilberated in the Adirondack
lent and Protective Order of Elk of
the state and the state conservation
commission for the protection and in-
crease of elk in the Adirondacks. The
elk were received by express from
Gardner, Mont,
Fifteen years ago sixty-seven elk
were liberated in the Adirondacks and
some of their desceadants are still in
the mountains.
VILLA IS LOCATED
AT LA BOQUILLA
U. S. Cavalry Gloss on Trail
of Fleeing Bandit
TROOPS LIVE OFF COUNTRY
Americans Miles From Supply Base,
Spreading American Money—Rela-
tions With Carranzistas Amicable.
Francisco Villa has been definitely
located at La Boquilla in a code mes-
sage received from Torreon, Mexico.
La Boquilla is fifty-five miles south-
east of Satevo and about an equal dis-
tance north of Parral.
The information came from General
Luis Guiterrez, commanding the Car-
ranza troops in Chihuahua, and re-
ported that his forces on April 4 had
engaged Villa’s read guard at Ciene-
guilas, a small place just across the
San Pedro river from Satevo, and that
two of the prisoners captured by the
Carranzistas reported that Villa's per-
sonal command, reduced to 200 men,
was less than a day ahead. Villa had
left fifty men behind at Cieneguilas to
protect his retreat. The Carranzistas
killed ten of these and took two others
prisoners. The other thiry-eight scat-
tered to the hills in small bands.
Advices from General Gutierrez and
also from American army sources re-
port the American army south of
Satevo and pushing further south on
the trail of Villa. The Americans
have long ago cut loose from their
supply base in the hard ride and have
little to eat but fresh meat, except
when they encounter American mining
camps able to supply meat, flour and
bacon from their commissaries.
The advance guard of the American
forces is still in command of Colonel
Dodd, closely followed by the com-
mand of Colonel Brown, Tenth cav-
alry, who last week met and almost
annihilated a Villa band in San An-
tonio canyon near Ojo Calientes.
Colonel Brown fought these Villistas
near Bachiniava, but had to fall back
to Cusi because of the exhaustion of
his supplies, it is explained. He was
reinforced there by other cavalry ea-
corting a provision train and again
took the field, riding south after the
Dodd command.
The country into which Villa has
passed is extremely rough but well
watered, and Americans acquainted
with the region assert that there
should be considerable pasturage for
horses at this time of the year. Many
of the horses of the different com-
mands have succumbed to the hard-
bandits, but the large number still
serviceable is the subject of much
comment from cavalrymen and fron-
tiersmen alike.
Carranza troops, concentrated at
and near the city of Chihuahua when
it was feared that Villa might attempt
to strike at the state capital, are now
being sent southwest into the moun-
tains after Villa, co-operating with the
American forces, according to the ad-
vices to Consul Garcia.
So far as can be learned there is
apparently no more friction today be-
tween the American and Carranza
forces than the day the Americans
entered Mexico, and, while the Ameri-
can column has penetrated over 400
miles into Mexico, the Carranza of-
ficials apparently are evidencing no
alarm at the length of the stay of the
Americans. The Carranza forces gen-
erally accept as settled that the Amer-
icans are after Villa and nothing more
and that they will retire when the
object is accomplished.
Reports of this character are
brought by Americans from Chihuahua
City and by those returning from th
American column who have met and
talked with Carranza officers. While
all Mexican developments have come
as suddenly as the unexpected raid
of Villa upon Columbus, and there is
nobody who can say when a clash
may occur between the American and
Carranza forces, or when the Car-
ranzistas may begin insisting upon the
retirement of the Americans, there is
at present no surface indication or
anything but friendliness between the
Americans and the Carranzistas.
OHIO HAS POISON PEN CASE
Anna Gemmell Arrested at Salem, Ac-
cused of Mailing Objectionable Letters.
A sensational climax to a “poison
pen” case, v hich has rocked the very
foundations uf Salem, O., involving a
dozen of the most prominent families
there and causing a split in the con-
gregation of the First Christian
church, came with the arrest of Anna
Gemmell, a Salem stenographer,
on an indictment returned by the fed-
eral grand jury.
Miss Gemmell, who is aged iorty,
is charged in the indictment with
sending objectionable matter through
the malls.
The indictment charges the sending
of twenty objectionable letters, post
cards and valentines to Salem people,
including Mrs. M. J. Grable, wife of
the minister of the First Christian
church.
Will Give Home For Nurses.
Mrs. L. E. Hamsher of Bradford.
Pa., has announced her intention of
giving the Bradford Hospital associa
tion a commodious nurses’ home.
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Meyersdale, Pa.
ou know
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JURORS FOR MAY TERM
The following grand and petit jur-
ors have been drawn to serve at the
regular May term of Quarter Sess- |
ions Court, beginning Monday, May |
15, 1916: _ |
Grand Jurors. |
John Kriss, farmer, Conemaugh |
Lawrence Spiegel, farmer, Jenner |
township. i
S. H. Miller, retired, Windber
Oliver Seese, clerk, Windber i
Russell G. Lambert, farmer, Shade :
Alfred Knepp, farmer, Larimer. ;
Wm. Barndt, carpenter, Meyersda'e
Jeff D. Glessner, farmer Stonycreek
Daniel Eshrick, farmer, Quemahoning.
Franklin Wialker, farmer, Brothers-
valley.
Chas. F. Baker, laborer, Berlin
F. L. Ferrill, cashier, Boswell
Samuel Meyers, baker, Conemaugh
J. B Davis, merchant, Ursina
J. R. Ebaugh, farmer, Summit.
John#Nelson Miner, Garrett
H. F. Bell, farmer, Jenner Twp.
H. E. Keim, farmer Conemaugh
Jno. Trostle, laborer, Quemahoning
E. J. Blougs, merchant Hooversville
Theo. M. Hook, merchant, Somerset
Samuel A. Deitz, gent., Windber
Wm. M. Walker, farmer Somerset
township.
Petit Jurors.
Parks, George, laborer, Windber
Kepp, Leis, farmer, Larimer
Clouse, J. W. contracor, Confluence
Shaulis, S. A. farmer, Jefferson
Beabes, Harvey, salesman, Somerset
Harned, J. B. farmer L. Turkeyfoot
Tannehill, F. G. farmer, Black
Sharp, Wm., miner, Windber
Kimmell, H. E. farmer, Jefferson
Good, Harry, farmer, Somerset Twp.
Black, Frank B., farmer, Summit
Keefer, Herman, farmer, Greenville
Lohr, Tobias, farmer, Conemaugh
Cook, Harry, jeweler, Meyersdale
Bell, Leonard J. farmer, Jenner
township
Grove, R. R. carriage maker, Somer-
set borough
Hemminger,
maugh
Austin, farmer, Cone-
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Ickes valid for all regular trains and good
returning 10 days including date of sale.
PERSONALLY CONDUCTED
ALL EXPENSE FEATURE
TICKETS, including 5 Days Board
in Washington, Side Trips, ete.,
may be secured upon payment
of $20.50 additional.
SECURE BOOKLET AND FULL IN:OR-
MATION FROM TICKET AGENT
Felix, L. G., farmer, Stonycreek
Shaffer, Daniel, laborer, Hooversville
Wagner, Silas A., laborer, Salisbury
Nitch, Adam, farmer, Conemaugh
Struck, A. E. grocer, Paint Boro
Geddes, Paul, laborer, Windber .
Griffith, Burl, carpenter, Jennertown
Butterbaugh, D., merchant, Windber
Emerick, John F., farmer, Fairhope
Hanna, N. B,, civil engineer, Salisbury
Walker, R. E., farmer, Milford
Mills, Theodore, plumber, Windber
Dull, I. P,, retired, Hooversville
Tedrow, John, farmer, Milford
Blubaugh, Hiram, farmer, L. Turkey-
foot.
Bittner, S. W., butcher, Meyersdale
Jeffreys, Charles, farmer, Addison
township ;
Dickey, E. J., clerk, Meyersdale
Horner, Ed H., butcher Somerset
borough
Brendle, Charler G., carpenter, Som-
erset borough
Younkin, J. C., laborer, Confluence
Shultz, C. L., merchant, Meyersdale
Burtt, Jackson, engineer, Windber
Wiley, H. B., druggist, Rockwood
Maul, Freeman, tairor, Meyersdale
Sembower, J., operator, Rockwood
Jackson, John, farmer, Larimer
Miller, W. H., farmer, Fairhope
Friedline, J. E., farmer, Jenner town-
ship
Ringer, Samuel J. farmer, Elk Lick
Smith, J. W. Jr. farmer, Quemahoning
Snyder, Edwin F., clerk, Rockwood
Deeter, Z. A., carpenter, Berlin
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