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FARMERS
COLUMN
Some Practical SuggestionsWell
Worth Knowing From the De-
partment of Agriculture.
FACTS FOR DALY USE
STARVED CATS KILL THE BIRDS
“There is nothing more cruel and
unjust to both cats and birds than
the absurd and superstitious notion,
to move a cat brings bad luck, said
State Zoologist H. A. Surface, of the
Department of Agriculture at his of-
fice recently. Professor Surface coa-
tinued to discuss the subject by say-
ing:
“The moving season is at hand,
Through very foolish and supersti-
tious notion about the possibility of
bad luck due to moving the cat, the
faithful house cat, or her kittens, may
be deserted, Under such conditions
whe starves and is forced to become
half wild, and is liable to be a des-
troyer of birds, Necessarily these are
the birds of the garden and orchard in
the vicinity that was home to her,
and this means that they are the ben-
eficial birds, which feed chiefly upon
the insects most destructive to fruits
and truck crops,
“We have already seen this year
several examples of persons moving
and leaving their cats behind. In some
cases other tenants were not to fol-
low scrn, ar {he cats Fave near'y
died cf stervation. In other cases
where the new tenants are to come
soon to the premises the cats are un-
familiar with these newcomers, and
if they act shy, it is too often taken
for granied that they are too wild, too
timid or too ferccious to he desirable
in the new home, and hence they are
stoned, dogged and prosecuted. The
rate of the cat at moving time is very
serious. There is no reason whatever
a TT ER SH FF WEF WMA nan B5KY
"MEDIATION PLAN REJECTED
FREE AMERIGANS,
CARRANZAIS TOLD
First Chief Gets Ultimatum After
Barrizal Fight
i
President Expected to Go Before Con-
gress In a Few Days With Mexican |
Situation—Morey Reaches U.S. Line |
This telegram has been sent to
James Linm Rodgers, special repre-
sentative of the American government
in Mexico City:
“Mr. Arredondo Saturday delivered
to this government the following com-
munication:
“‘l] am directed by my government
to inform your excellency, with refer-
ence to the Carrizal incident, that the
chief executive, through the Mexican
war department, gave orders to Gen-
eral Jacinto B. Trevino not to permit
American forces from General Pershe
ing’s column to advance further south
nor to move either east or west from
the points where they are located,
and to oppose new incursions of Amer-
ican soldie® | into Mexican territory.
These orders were brought by General
‘L.xviio to the attc:tion of G:neral’
FP. h.np, who a ..ot.wicdc 4d the re-
~t of the communication relative
{ ¢ 2to. On the 22nd instant, as your
«x. .lency knows, an American force
moved eastward quite far from its
base, notwithstanding the above or-
ders, and was engaged by Mexican
troops #t Carrizal, state of Chihuahua.
As a result of the encounter several |
rien on both sides were killed and |
weu dd and seventeen Americans |
were riade prisoners.’
“You ar: hearby instructed to hand |
to the wi ster of foreign relations of |
the de facto government the ai
ing:
“‘The government of the United
States can put no other construction
why the faithful Louse cat should not
be either taken along when moving,
the same as the dog, of be mercifully
killed, rather than permitted to starve
and run wild. If the fundamental
principles of decency and humanity
do nct prompt persons to give proper
heed to their cats when moving this
indeed beccmes a fit subject for the
attention of that worthy organization
known as the society for the Preven-
tion of Cruelty to Animals. There
should be a branch of this Scciety in
each county of the State. Those por.
sons who have no conscience should at |
least be made to observe the law con-
cerning cruelty or the infliction of
pain upon the lowly creatures. In
most localities in this State officers
of this society are available, and can
be learned by making inquiry of local
policemen.
“Aside from the feature of humane
treatment of the cat, this subject has
a very important economical bearing
upon the preservation of our birds.
As the birds roost in trees and the
cats are climbers, they can readly be-
come the chief enemies of our feather-
ed friends at this time of year. One
cat has been known to destroy eighty
birds within a year. This means the
removal of the natural control of
more insect pests than would be re-
quired to destroy practically all the
farm crops and fruits of any farmer
or fruit grower in the State. Let the
cats be preserved and fed, the birds
saved, the insects destroyed and bet-
ter and cheaper crops produced.”
DO NOT FEED COTTON SEED
MEAL TO POULTRY.
The Pennsylvania Department of
Agriculture wishes to call especial at-
tention of the poultry growers of the
State to the fact that cotton seed meal
fed to poultry as a source of protein,
or for any reason, is likely to do vast
ly more harm than good.
For many years the doctrine that
cotton seed meal was not a desirable
poultry food was generally accepted
and very little was fed. But a year or
two ago a propaganda advocating its
use was fostered and given wide pub-
icity.
The last annual report of the Unit-
ed States Bureau of Animal Hushand-
ry takes cognizance of this fact and
states that very unsatisfactory resuits
have occured at their poultry station
at Belsyille, Md., from feeding cotton
seed meal. The Maryland Station re-
‘ports the same thing and the Pennsyl-
vania Department of Agriculture has
had sever:l rerorts tending to show
that the continued feeding of cotton
seed meal will put chickens in very
bad shape and cause
bers.
death in num- |
Plans for the inauguration of work :
by the Somerset county farm burean
will be discussed at a meeting of the |
directors in the courthousee July 15.
C. C. McDowell, farm agent for Som-
erset county, and Mr. Weaver of the
agricultural department of State Col-
all shipments of arms
tion across the border
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upon the coamunication handed to
the secretary of state of the United |
States on the 24th of June by Mr. |
Arredondo, under instruction of your
government, than that it is intended |
as a formal avovwal of deliberately hos- i
tile action against the forces of the |
United States now in Mexico and of |
the purpose to attack them without)
provocation whenever they move from |
their present position in pursuance |
the objects for which they were sent
there, notwithstanding the fact that
those objects not only involve no uu-
friendly intention toward the govern- |
ment and people of M:xico, but, are
on the contrary, intended only to as-
sist that government in protecting
itself and the territory and pcople of
the United States against irresponsi-
ble and insurgent bands of rebel
marauders. i
“‘l am instructed, therefore, py my i
government to demand the immediate
release of the prisoners taken in the!
encounter at Carrizal, together witn
any property of the United States
taken with them, and to inform you
that the government of the United '
States expects an early statement |
from your government as to the course |
of action it wishes the government of
the United States to understand it has
determined upon and that it also-ex-
pects that this statement be made
through the usual diplomatic channels |
and not through subordinate military
commander-. ”
Mediation Is Refused.
Presiden. Wil-on expects a reply te
his demands within the next two or
three days. What its nature will be
is not known. If it is a refusal ths
president will lay the matter before |
congress and ask authority to take
whatever steps he may regard as
necessary.
Officials of the administration have
taken into consideration the DOSSi-
bility that Carranza may make his
answer's declaration of war; and the
concentration of Carranza troops in
the vicinity of Chihuahua City, where
the American troopers are being held, |
is regarded as ominous.
Latin American diplomats in Wash-
ington, following a conference between
Secretary Lansing. and the Bolivias:
minister, when the envoy was in
formed that before any consideraites
could be given to a proposal for me
diation General Carranza must releus-
the American troopers captured sr
Carrizal, have advised their gotT=rw
ments to urge the first chief ts com=z=
with the American demand.
Administration officials are expect
ing to have a force of at least 50,068
national . guardsmen on the border
within two weeks. If hostilities begi:
fit is planned to have the Americar
forces seize all railroads in northern
Mexico and proceed at once toware
Chiluchua City for the purpose . of
rescuing the American prisoners.
Following the raid on Columbus, N.
M., the government at Washington,
under cover of a decree to make sure |
that no munitions of war would reach
the Villista bandits, adopted the prac-
tice of requiring clearance papers on
and ammuuwi-
and from Amer
ubmitted to the
igation and ap-
delays it has
1 seaports to b
: here for inv
By convenient
happened that no arms or ammunition
to Carranza or any other comsigmee
lege, will be present at the session, | I? Mexico have been permitted te go
called by Secretary John S. Miller.
| through.
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SENTRY ON BORDER DUTY
WATCHING FOR RAIDERS
Photo by American Press Association.
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CARS CRASH IN FOG
Three Dead, Many Injured In Accident
on Harmony Interurban Line.
Three men were killed instantly, five
were probably fatally injured and more
than a score of others were hurt when
a fast Pittsburgh, Harmony, Butler
| and New Castle freight car crashed
into the rear end and telescoped a
heavily loaded passenger car on the
Harmony line at North Sewickley, two
miles north of Ellwood City, Pa.
Mistaken signals and a heavy fog
are given a; probable causes for the
wreck, which was the most disastrous
in the history of that section.
The dead are: Joseph Runyan, aged
| fifty-five, North Sewickley, both legs
cut off; Samuel Adams, sixty-five
North Sewickley, body crushed and
cut, and Frank Daufen, North Sewick-
ley.
The injured are: Chris Haswell,
aged twenty-two, of Frisco, both legs
cut off; Richard Hall, Celia, one leg
cut off; John Collins, twenty, North
Sewickley, both legs cut off; Fred
Stitch, thirty, Cela, one leg cut off.
and Hiram Bingle, fiftv-five, Celia,
body crushed and bruised, internally
injured; all of whom may die.
The less seriously injured are: Al
bert Grass, Jacob Cole, Clarence Yahn,
Hilda Rader, Ellery Dunbar and
Motorman England. £ogd
At least fifteen other passengers
who are not listed among the injured
cuficred minor cuts, sprains and
bruises. :
JAPZNESE AFTER TRADE
New Zealader Saye Fiag ef Nippon
Is Evecrywhers an Pacifia
J. B. Clurkson, automobile manu:
facturer of New Zealand, in ow York
to sail for England, said that New
Zealanders sare watching ihe Jonenoce
very cicseiv. “met that we fear mili
tary aggression on their part, but be-
cause their activity in commerce and
in developing their merchant marin.
have been remarkable since the war
began.”
“They are rsaching out everywhere
for trade,” declared Mr. Clarkson.
“Their shipyards are congested with
craft enésr censtrmction. The Jap
anese flag is sighted everywhere in
the trading lanes. Their dommerce is
developing tremendous momentum.
We don’t believe in New Zealand that
Japan intends to go to war with
America. 1 offer the opinion modest
ly. But look out for them com:
mercially. They are not letting the
grass grow under their feet, as you
say in America. However they are
, handicapped by their cwa commercial
immorality. We have foané ast Heir
Fools ake Lui WP to sammie”
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Est ts recive ie Is
General Funston is &'7
urged that the Feansyive = -TrinTT
-among, the, first sent to him, e3 tay
have seen more field service. ta the
way of maneuvers, than theses ef iaor
states.
It is learned here on authority be-
lieved to be reliable that the first de-
tachment of Pennsylvania troops will
leave Tuesday for the border, and that
western Pennsylvania troops will
form the vanguard.
With the mustering of the men z:c
the service of the United States, the
First division, national guard of Penn-
sylvania, passed ot stence for
he next six years at least, It is now
the Seventh 4
‘ptroops.
ALL OF BUKOWINA
2,000 Austrians Captured at
Kimpolung
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SLAVS AT MOUNTAIN PASSES
Remnant of Francis Joseph's Army
Flees Into Carpathians, ‘Pursued by
Slave Toward Hungarian Plains.
The occupation by Russians of the
whole of the Austrian Bukowina, ren-
dered inevitable early last Friday by
the -eapture of three vital railway
intersections in the northwest, cente:
and south’ of the province, became
actually complete the same night with
the falling of Kimpolung, in the hilly
region of the southwest of the crown-
land. With the city and railway sta-
tion the victors captured 60° officers
and 2,000 men, the largest number of
prisoners taken by General Brussilofi
for some days.
The entire northwestern frontier of
Roumania is now lined with Russian
The Austro-Hungarian forces
avhose positions in the Bukowina be
came untenable with the fall of Czer-
ij now.1z, under the screen of stubborn
| rear guard fighting, have gradually re-
treai.d westward and are now well in
the thick of the Carpathian moun-
tains, once more face to face with
Muscovite onslaughts against the
mountain passes that form the doors
to Hungary. The Russian drive to-
ward these passes has already been
set under way, with the Czernowitz-
Kolomea an? Czernowitz-Kuty lines as
bases of operation. West of Sniatyn.
on the former railwey, the Russian
took two small villages, Kilikhof and
Toulchkof.
VIA AIR TO LONDON
New Corporation Hcpes to
Thirty Hours Cover Trip.
“New York to London in thirty
hours,” will be the slogan of the Amer-
ican Aero company, incorporated in
Wilmington, Del., with a capitalization
of $5,000,000, to operate a transatlantic
air and water passenger and mail
service beginning, if present plans are
carried out, next October.
The hydroaeroplane, which will be
manufactured near New York, has been
patterned after the lines of the se:
gull insofar as air resistance is con
cerned, and will be propelled by fou:
300-horsepower motors. It has been
estimated that the machine will d=
velop a maximum speed of 150 miles
an hour.
Make
Ford to Hold Jobs Open.
Two hundred employees of the Fors
Motor company who answered the cal
to arms in the Michigan national guard
were assured by factery officials tha:
their jobs will be open for them whe
they return from service on the Mex:
can border. Officials of the eompany
however, knew nothing of any plan t
continue pay to any employees durin:
their service in the guard, or to pro
vide for their families.
MARKET QUOTATIONS
Tis Pittsburgh, June 27.
Butter—Prints, 32@321%c¢; tubs, 31
@31%ec. Eggs—F'resh, 26a
Cattle—I'rime, $10.50@10.75; good
$9.756@10.25; tidy butchers, $9.75(
10.25; fair, $8.25@G9; common, $6.75
7.75; commor .. gow A. Wils, 354
8.26; common to good fat cows, $4@8;
heifers, $6@9; fresh cows and spring:
ers, $40@60.
Sheep and Lambs—Prime wethers
$7.50@7.76; good mixed, $6.75@7.40.
fair mixed, $5.75@86.50; culls and com
mon, $3.50@4.50; yearlings, $56@9.25
spring lambs, $7@11; veal calves,
'$11.50@12; heavy and thin calves, $6
99.
Hogs—Prime heavy, $10.10@10.20:
heavy mixed, $10.06@10.10; medium:
and heavy Yorkers, $10@10.05; ligh
Yorkers, $9.76@9.85; pigs, $9.50.
9.78; roughs, $8.60@9; stags, $7@7.25.
Cleveland, June 27.
Cattle—Choice fat steers, $9.50@10:
good to choice butcher steers, $8.75
852; fair to good butcher steers, $8
8.75; good to choice heifers, $7.5¢@
8.50; good to choiee butcher bulls, §.
@7.76; Bologna bulls, $6@7; good to
choice cows, $7@7.58; fair to good
cows, $87; common cows, $4@5.75
Calves—Good te choice, $12; fair tc
goed, ESS: 78; Reavy amd common,
$70@9. ;
Sheep and Lambs—Good to choice
springers, $18.56@11; fair to good,
S2B0@18.25; goed te ckeice yearlings,
89358: mead 9 ehoice wethers
EES Tn Tm me, 366
6.66; missd ewes 238 wemmers, §6.50@
6.75; cmils, $4@8.59.
Hogs— Mixed, $9.76@9.89; Yorkers;
$0.75; ,, edin——=, eozEm00g. Lips
$9.25; stags, $7.50; rcughs, $8.65.
Chicago, June 27.
Hogs—Bulk, $7.756@9.95; light, $9.30
@9.90; mixed, $9.50@10; heavy, $9.35
@10.05; roughs, $9.35@9.55; pigs,
$7.60@9.20.
Cattle—Native beef cattle, $7.50@ |
11.40;
stockers and feeders, $5.75@
COWS $3.76@9.75
and hoifare
ang. heifers,
719
Sheep—Wethers. $7@2: fambs, $7.51
i's 5, $8@11.65.
$1.01. Corn—July,
RUSSIANS TAKE
SOLDIER BIDS FAREWELL
TO GIRL HE LEAVES BEHIND
A GENERAL SURVEY 0F
THE WAR
The activities of commanding im-!
portance in the war in Europe are tne
moves of ihre Russians on the east
front. Witkin the past two weeks the
Slavs have recaptured Czernowitz and
overrun far the greater part of Buko-
wina, cutting off a section of the Aus-
trian army in the southern part of the
crownland, and the belief is expressed
that this division of Francis Joseph's
army will be compelled to surrender or
starve. The strength of the unit is
estimated at 80,000 men.
Further north the armies of the czar
have occupied a large part of Galicia,
pushing the Huns back toward Lem-
berg, the capital. German reinforce-
ments coming te the aid of their broth-
ers in arms have materially slackened
the Russian advance, but, as Berli.
says, an advance is an advance, nc
matter how slow, and the Slavs are
still pushing forward.
In the next few days the important |
thing to wa‘ch is the situation of the!
two flanks of the Austrian armies |
frcm Pripet to the Carpathians. Ii
the Russians get Kavno, then. it is
clear that the whole eastern fro: will
be compromised and the Germa ': will
have to draw in to the Bug. If the
Russians get round to the south of
Lemberg, then the Austrian line will
have to retire to the San and surren-
der all of eastern Galicia.
Meantime the Germans are sending
new masses of troops down the rail-
road from Brest-Litovsk to Kovel to
attack the northern flank of the ad-
vancing Russians; they are sending
troops east along the Lublin-Kov:1
railroad for the same purpose, and
they are making a concentration at
Vladmir, Wclynski, south of Kovel and
considerably east of the Bug. Away
ts the south the Austrians are making
« «~#W concentration east of Stanislau,
between the Dniester and the Car-
pathians. Finally, thev are success
*=lly holding back the Ilussian cent ?
west of the Sereth, al‘hsugh there
are clear evidences that they will very
seen have to go back behind the Zlota |
Lipa and probably ultimately behind |
the Gnila Lipa.
Fighting in the west has been heav-
with small gains before Verdun for
the Germans, at tremendous costs.
Paris reports agree that the violence !
of the last few days’ fighting before |
Verdun has been unsurpassed through-
out the operations and that the in-
tensity of the German onslaught sug-
gests a final supreme effort as an
alternative to abandoning the enter-
prise.
One hundred thousand Germans on
a three mile front is the estimate of
the strength employed against Thiau-
mont while before the infantry assault
was delivered the artillery deluge is
stated to have eclipsed anything wit-
nessed previously, even at Verdun.
The French steamship Herault has
been torpedoed im the Mediterranean.
Thirty-five members of her crew were
saved.
The destruction by a submarine of
the Italian auxiliary cruiser Citta di
Messina and the French torpedo boat
destroyer Fourche has been an-
nounced by the French ministry of
marine. ;
As a result of the yielding of King
Constantine of Greece to the demands
of ‘the allies, the diplomatic represent-
atives of the allied powers have rec-
ommended to their governments the
immediate raising of the blockade of
Greek ports.
Fay Goes to Atlanta Prison.
President Wilson ignored the appeal
of Robert Fay for deportation to Ger.
many, where he was an army lieuten-
ant, rather than be taken to the federal
penitentiary at Atlanta to serve hls
eight years’ sentence for conspiring
to destroy steamships carrying muni-
tions of war to the entente allies,
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UNCOOKED FOODS
Little Talks on Health and Hygiene
By Dr Samuel G. Dixon.
During the het. weather fruits and
vegetables ore » neco~car— part of the
diet. Many of those are nisre appetiz-
ing whn e on raw. Le: r.2s, radishes,
onions and salads appear regularly en
the ment it this scison and have
their value as food.
Care should be exercised in the pre:
paration and serving of green foods
however, 78 they are subject to much
handling between the garden and the
table. Unless the hands through which
they pass are absolutely clean they
are more or less contaminated. In
many market gardens the gathering of
the produce is intrusted to a class of
labor which is not any too cleanly and
care is seldom exercised to . insure
cleanliness.
Food exposed for sale in markets
is also often subject to indiscrimin- |
(¢
ate handling by prospectve purchas-'.
ers and is seldom properly protected
from dust and dirt.
As a protection berries and food-
stuffs eaten raw should be thorough-
ly washed before being served. It is
far better to risk a slight impairment
of the flavor
unclean foods.
Nightsoil should not be used for
fertilizing gardens from which ‘the
produce may be eaten raw. Water-
cress + should not be gathered from
streams which are polluted by sew-
age. Many cases are on record where
typhoid fever has resulted from fail-
ure to observe this precaution.
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