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THE FARMERS
COLUMN
Some Practical Suggestions Well
Worth Knowing From the De-
partment of Agriculture.
FACTS FOR DAILY USE
BIG WHEAT AND RYE
CROP IN PRO®PECT.
Prospects for a splendid wheat
and rye crop in Pennsylvania dur-
ing the coming season are indicated
in the reports of the crop correspon-
dents which were received April 1 by |
the Bureau of Statistics of the Penn-
sylvania Department of Agiculture.
Both wheat and rye were sown late
last year on account of the wet
ground and the grain has passed
through a fine winter, escaping the
Hessian Fly to a great extent. From
the reports from all sections of the
State it would appear! that both
the wheat and rye crop will be about
ninety-five per cent of the average
yield. Last year at this time the
indications pointed to a wheat crop
of about 91 per cent of the average.
From many sections glowing re-
ports are received concerning the con
‘dition of the wheat and rye crop and
little damage seems to have been
.done by heaving. From some sections
the report states that the crop looks
better than for ten years. It would ap-
pear that the early sown wheat
shows the most advancement, but the
general indications are that the late
sown will develop with warmer wea-
ther. The lack of snow in January
had some tendency to cause damage
to the grain in many sections, but the
March snows and rains were very
‘beneficial.
FRUIT CROP WILL
BE BELOW NORMAL.
Reports from wall sections of the
State through the 700 township crop-
reporters of the Pennsylvania Depart-
ment of Agriculture indicate that the
apple and cherry crop for the coming
season will be slightly below the nor-
mal yield while the peach crop will
amount ito about 63 per cent of a nor-
mal yield.
For a time it was feared that the
intermittent cold and warm weath-
er had seriously affected the peach
buds but reports of the crop report-
ers, who have made thorough inves-
tigations in their districts, indicate
thiat a splendid peach yield is in
sight unless frosts do damage after
the blossoms are in bloom.
The prospects for a normal yield
BRITISH OFF!CER WHO
SURRENDERS TO TURKS
Photo by American Press Association.
GENERAL TOWNSHEND.
A GENERAL SURVEY OF
THE VAR
After holding out for nearly five
months the British army unaer Major
General Charlies V. Townshend, which
has been bevieged by Turkish armies
at Kut-el-Amara, has been compelled
to surrend or because of the exhaustion
of supplies.
In the official announcement of the
surrender 1t is stated that Major Gen:
eral Townshend's
only 2,970 Pritish troops and 6,000 In-|
dian troops. It was generally believed |
that the British force was much larger |
than this.
To preventgthe Turkish forces from
capturing them all the British guns
and ammunition were destroyed before
General Townshend surrendered.
The surrender of a British army is
an event of very rare occurrence and
much sorrow was caused in London
by the announcement.
The British steamship Hendonhall,
from Portland April 7 and Louisburg, !
N. B, April 11, for Rotterdam, with
a cargo of wheat for Belgium, has
been sunk, according to a dispatch to
Lloyds. The crewgaas saved. Tle
British steamship Sucknow has also
been sunk. :
Several detachments of Russian
troops have been landed at Marseilles!
to aid the French. The number of th
troops has ‘been suppressed. :
army concisted of
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in the State on April 1 were as fol-
lows: Apples, 88 per cent; cherries,
85 per cent and peaches, 63 per cent.
Last year at this time the prospects
were: Apples, 90 per cent; cherries,
91 per cent and peaches, 86 per cent.
Last year there was an over produc-
tion of fruit and the present indica-
tions point to a better financial year
as far as the prospects of the fruit
grower are concerned.
GIVE THE HENS MATERIAL
TO PRODUCE EGGS.
Many farmers neglect to provide
the materials the hen needs in the
production Of eggs, allowing the,
fowls to exhaust their energies and
weaken their bodily powers in an ef-
fort to gather what their appetites
call for, draw from the stored up
energy of the body in an effort to
lay eggs. Egg production is a repro-
ductive process. The strength and
power to do nature’s work must come
from the. food supply.
Hens will lay no more eggs than
they can obtain the material to pro-
duce. If the amount of carbonate of
lime is limited, so will the number of
eggs be limited by the lack of shell
material, Phosphorus is essential to
all the vital processes of nature, vet
how many farmers furnish bone ~r
other phosphorus-carrying materials
All German drives at Verdun have
been repulsed during the week.
The British steamship Industry was
sunk by a submarine and the crew was
left in open boats in the Atlantic, 120
miles from the nearest land. The
boats, with the entire crew, were
picked up by the American liner Fin-
land. 7
The British battleship Russel has
been sunk in the Mediterranean.
The, Russell was sunk by a mine.
Admiral Fremantle, the captain of the
Russell, 24 officers and 676 men were
saved
The capture of a German submarine
by British naval forces was officially
announced. The u-boat’s crew of
eighteen men were made prisoners.
WED IN WIFE’S ABSENCE
Surprise Fér Woman Coming Home
to Decerate Husband’s Grave.
Coming back from her girlhood
home in Australia, where she had
gone on a visit, to decorate her hus-
band’s grave at Fort Wayne, Ind.
Mrs. Sidney Ccilins learned, it is said,
that her husband had cabled her his
death under thie assumed name of an
attorney in Waterloo, Ia., so that he
could marry Mrs. Katherin Breedon
of Fort Wayne, widow of a railroad en-
gineer who lived in Garrett, Ind., be-
fore his death.
When Mrs. Collins landed at San
Francisco she wired the “attorney” :
Waterloo, but as there was no attor-
to the hens. Much of the disease am-
cng fowls can be traced to the weak- |
ened condition of the fowls body,
due to improper or incorrect ang in-
sufficient food.
DO NOT BUY CHEAP
GRADE OF SEEDS.
One of the worst abominations on
-~Rnsylvenia farms is the pernicious
weeds which abound in cheap seeds
and farmers who are buvirg cheap
~+ade seeds are only saving at the
gmt. LL. W. Ligh'y. crop expert of
the . « 'asylvania Department of Agz-
ricultur. warns farmers - to seri
off to a « sin :5 if they can
buy them o: +. dealer at homz,
who is responsibic and where one
can Z°° redress for any deceptions.
~, 1nokr. a*t a h=7 ¢! gross seed a
3 apes 0 Mr Lihty, It
Toning or am a
aN £2:
var Tre age
western 3 .
Seed. i was sold as nized alsiie and
timoiny, but an examination showed
seven kinds of seeds. They may all
prfectly harmless, but !
ave sown them for nar,
have ween
would not h
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mn bin
ney of that name the telegraph man-
ager called up Collins because of the
, signature and read him the message.
; Collins denied knowledge of such
woman as he was then living with
Mrs. Breedon, who supposed she wa
| his lawful wife. He disappeared th-
night and his location
known.
| TRIES TO CARRY OFF GIRL
!
i Madman V/hips Three’ Men Who At-
: tempt te Restrain Him.
i lime og ault and battery was
made ....' Blaine Redding of Tr
don, O., nirty-two, ai
rest whew. - alleg he tried to
{earry awa ! Springer,
seventeen, fi... ‘e in Fuller-
{ ton.
ter the charge was withdrawn
| and he was : lindgod to be insane. H
iwas a. roal.d aly after having
Lg na : + men who tried to hold
charge by a
Say UF 't his boarding house
when unce rayer.
“I will m Ethel Sprinmn- 7
ter wha » a
he left lat
lard and D Bd Lor Ney
{ having visited the university library
is st... unt
GET VILLA, WORD.
FROM CAPITAL
American Troops Wil Noi Be
Withdrawn Now
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CARRANZA ROT COOPERATING
Forcible Opposition of Carranza Would
Result in Quick End of His Regime,
as He Is Without Credit Elsewhere. *
Through four different channels the
United States has notified General,
Carranza that it does not desire at
this time to discuss a withdrawal of
the American iorces from mexico.
At the direction of President Wil-
son, Secretary of War Baker so ad-
vised General Scott, who is represent-
ing the United States in conferences
with General Obregon on the border.
After a conference with Secretary
Baker and Counselor Polk, Secretary
Lansing informed Elizeo Arredondo,
the Mexican ambassador designate, in
response to a pressing imquiry from
the latter, that the American govern-
ment would not be in position to
answer General Carranza’s formal re-
quest for a withdrayal of the troops
until the conclusion ef the Scott-Obre-
gon conferences.
On high official authority it may be
said that President Wilson has ne in-
tention of withdrawing the troops,
however 1nsistent Carranza may prove
to be, until the de facto government
of Mexico has demonstrated in a prac-
tical way its ability to contrel the
situation in northern Mexico and pre-
vent a repetition of the border out-
rages.
On the basis of information obtained
from the same source the inference is
drawn that if the Carranza authorities
attempt to back up any threats by an
actual attack on the American forces
in Mexico the administration is pre-
pared to invade Mexico in force and
take such further steps as may be
necessary for the establishment of a
stable government in that country.
Intervention, Washington officials
point out—and they do not appear to
be as averse as formerly to discussing
privately the possibility of interven-
tion—would mean the collapse of the
Carranza government. Already threat-
ened by the ambitions of rival leaders
within and without the constitutional-
ist party, and lacking funds at home
or credit abroad, the Carranza regime,
it is explained, could not exist long if
the United States withdrew its sup-
bort or bent itself to: t & «ask of
cleaning u exico. ; . x
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CHURCH SERVICES "UPSET
Chambersburg, Pa., Has Shiver Over
Smallpox Case.
Church arrangements in Chambers-
burg, Pa., were upset when the health
board ordered the closing of the Meth-
odist church because Calvin Sites had
gone to Sunday school direct from
his home, where his son Russell was
suffering from a well developed case
of smallpox.
The elder Sites attended tie Bible
class taught by former Assemblyman
David Speer, acted as usher and dis-
tributed the singing books. In the
class were seventy-six men from every
walk of life in Chambersburg.
The first order from Dr. B. F. Royer,
state health officer as Harrisburg,
through local Health Officer John H.
Kinter, was to close the Sunday school
and detain all those who were there
This order was later modified to a
temporary quarantine and time given
each attendant to go immediately
home, change clothes, submit to fumi-
gation and get vaccinated.
SLIGHTLY IMPERFECT
Wisconsin Student, Finest Physical
Specimen, Imperfect Mentally.
Emmett Bradley, a senior in North-
western university, Chicago, who re-
cently was found to he the most
perfect male specimen, physically,
in the university, has Peen found
lacking otherwise. Ee iz accused of
for some works or scorcomisa and of
having taken with nim =2 eouple of
small magazines, welu-3 2° °§ cents.
It being agaipst the r+ tec remove
eertain =agazines, of hich these
were a part, Bfadiey " 3 been jy na-
li= ” be Being refused ©
clas
diploma ith
s3g snd éenled estrance ir any
etic affairs.
Cult.
district
court im . Ti, PO
turned & verdict o. Es
of George Wsteon =
(W. Va.) merchant, agm..
more and Ohio Railroad :
the loss of his left arm ».
ailicau moses Damar
A io to TTnites =
‘ny Io
ep in-
‘uen §
iran struck a- sobre
A Aine
juries suffered Sept. 3, 1°
passenger
in which 1
ata rail
Wages ila. es Announced
Announcement was made by
Burton Powder company at
Castle that all its employees +
given a 15 per cent increase i-
| >7-re tha: 500 men will be } defiten,
: Car Foundry company, Ell-
ivead City, informed its 900 employees
of an i: "res, The smallest |
iis 20 ce T ha
RE-ELECTED PRESIDENT
OF ASSOCIATED PRESS
Photo by American Press Association.
FRANK B. NOYES.
Frank B. Noyes of the Washington
Star was re-elected president of the
Associated Press at the meeting of
the board Sf direciors and was also
made a director, his term expering in
1917.
KAISER APPEALS TO
CERARD FOR PEAGE
eet sn
Calls Misunderstanding ‘Tech-
nical;” Note Decided Upon
Kaiser Wilhelm, in his talk with
Ambassador Gerard, did not talk the
merits of submarine warfare. He re-
gards the disagreement as a technical
interpretation. The emperor sent for
Mr. Gerard to appeal through him to
President Wilson not to align the
economic and military forces of the
United States against the fatherland
in its struggle for existence.
The emperor is understood to re-
gard war between the American peo-
ple and the German people as an ‘“un-
thinkable calamity.” He emphasizes
the years of unbroken friendship
which have happily characterized the
relations of the two peoples, and at
the same time jcontrasts the conse-
quences which would result from a
diplomatic break over the submary
issue, which he regards as not of vi
interest to American citizens. The
emperor is loathe to believe that a
mere misunderstanding over Ameri-
can interpretation of Germany's rules
in conducting a war of self preserva-
tion against “enemtes designing to
crush her” could be made the basis of
involving the United States in the
conflagration.
He takes the position, it is under-
stood, that neither the Germa people
nor the American people want war,
and that it is the solemn duty of those
in charge of the destinies of these
peoples to avert “such a calamity.” He
furthermore gives Mr. Gerard assur-
ances, it js understood, that the im-
perial government is ready to. end the
world conflict any time the allies are
ready to abandon their campaign of
“crushing the fatherland” and he ex-
pressed the belief that the end of the
wor io aidendy im aight unless the con-
flict should unfortunately be broadened
in scope and thereby lengthened.
NO COMMENCEMENT AT MINGO
School
v
Board Cancels Plans For
Graduation Exercises.
Mingo Junction, O., is all agog
with excitement over the action of
the’board of education and high school
faculty in dispensing with commence-
ment exercises this year, depriving
twelve graduates of the honor they
think is due them.
The action was taken, it is said, be-
cause the 1915 juniors refused to sign
a pledge not to resort to any class
tricks while the commencement exer
cises are in progress. There was
trouble last year when the junior
class, now the seniors, launched a toy
balloon, carrying their colors, in the
auditorium during the exercises. The
graduates refused to continue until
the colors came down and almost a:
hour was lost before Superintenden
Frank Linton
with an =~ 7.
BALDIT BROTHERS K!' LED
@klalioma Sheriff's Posse Runs _ «..
. Outlzves,
Lr unsne, nad LL . Renton o
a 3 , sus1ed Joe auu Nave
Smith, outlaws, in the hills near Gorse,
Okla. ,
The Smiths carried safebreaking
tools. The posse was following the
<-ail @” ~t"~~ handits when fired upon.
70 mem. were in-
amit
ne slain mic. "es x of
“wpamous” Smith, notorioiw. 0
territorial days.
Juag:r
Finkel
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ror f
necessities of life.
more.
with you.
A SSNS
COMMANDMENTS FOR
your own.
Don’t plant tomato cans and rub-
.bish on unused land. Their fruits are
withered civic pride.
Don’t allow yourself or your city
to create dumps. Waste can be made |
to pay for its own destruction at 2
profit.
Don’t allow tumbled down buildings
fio stand on valuable land. They are |
| financially wasteful. They create |
filth, invite vice and are a menace to
life.
A fence that has ceased to be a
fence and has become an offense
should be repaired or destroyed.
Unregulated advertising on unused
land pas for the maintenance of a
public nuisance.
Two gardens may grow where one
dump bloomed before.
School gardens are valuable ad
juncts to education and recreation.
They can be cultvated on an open lot.
Let the children play on the unused
land, so thy may become strong and
keep out of the hands of the law.
Let not an inch of land be kept in
idlenesss. It hias a divine right to bear
fruit and flowers and ever serve the
highest interest of man.
WILLS PROBATED
“Shanksville, * which
was probated last week, shows that
he added a codicil to the will twenty
years after the will was written. Un-
der the will written in May, 1892, he
gave his wife the use of the farm and
household goods for life and directed
that after her death the estate is to
be equally divided between Mrs. J. Q
Hill, Mrs. James Landis, Mrs. Edward
Miller, Rose, Kate, Grace, Charles
and Robert Baldwin. Robert and
Chas. were named executors. The
codicil provides that Kate Baldwin
shall receive $250 more than any
of her brotherss and sisters for car-
ing for her father. .
The will of John H. Judy, late of
Jennertown, was probated a few days
ago. He left his en ire estate to his
wife, Martha Judy, w..: is appointed
administratrix. Th: wi" was dated
June 1, 1906, and wtuc.:: hy. Jd. B,
Stabley and Rufus Rauch.
Magdalena Klingaman, late of
Greenville township, bequeathed her
property to Joel M. Yutzy, who is
named executor. The will was dated
February 26, 1015, and witnessed by
A. E. Baer and George Albright.
shot down the balloon ' f
William J. McKee, late of Somerset
township, made the following cash
bequests: Thomas McKee, $5. John
i McKee $5; and Esther McKee,
One third of the balai ce of the estate
wias left to his daughier, Elizabeth,
wife of James Willian: and two-
thirds to his daughter. [+1 ‘e. Jennie
McKee is named as execu’. Te will
was dated August 30, 1915, wit-
nessed by F. U. Daughtery and Hou. -"e
Arden.
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The first, is the DESIRE or INCLINATION.
Every one has a wish for money—it 1s human na-
ture, for it takes.money to possess the comforts and
The second requirement is ONE DOLLAR or
The first deposit need not be large, and
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