fo vr ri Sy be enough for a thousand mature hens THE FARMER COLU Some Practical Suggestions "Worth Knowing From the De” artmment of Agriculture. STARTING POULTRY RAISING Many requests from all sections of the State reach the Pennsylvanit De- -partmént of Agriculture for advice in ' starting in raising poultry and from | time to time the expert poultry men or ‘the “Department are called upon for their assistance. J. T. Campbell, one of the poultrymen in speaking of starting in the poultry business says: “If I were starting in poultry work I would make hardiness and strong vitality the leading consideration. Vi- gor is the cornerstone of permanent success, If you have strong, vigorous stock, treat them properly, and breed for vigor first and foremost, you will have freedom from disease and small loss from young chicks dying, which within a few years will amount to far more net profit than to follow the fool ideas which are popular. You may not get quite so many eggs frm a few individual hens, and not break any records, but what doth it profit a man if he have one hen that lays 400 eggs and a flock of really unprofitable stock that gives a loss of sixty per cent. of the chicks in raising. “If you want to succeed in poultry work and build on a sold basis it will be well to grow into it gradually. it is an entirely different pronositon to take care of a thousand fowls than to care for a hun.:--d. The little things you do for a hundred will be practic- ally impossible with a thousand, and if you attempt to bestow the same a- mount of time and care on a thous- and that you put in on a hundred, the labor ‘will consume all possible profits. “The best thing to do is fo start with some good, strong, vigorous breeding fowls, say a pen of fifty. If you buy these in September or October you will ‘get them cheaply as breeders sell a lot of good stock cheap at this time. From this pen you can raise what pul- Jets ‘you can handle and learn some- thng of the care of larger numbers during the first year. The next year you can make a futher increase grad- ually growing into the business as you learn to handle the-fowls successfully. “I think the big records made by the English stock can be accounted for by selection of indivduals for the contests and to change of climate, I! know of no American bred English stock masking any hotter in than FONP 8 1Aorigan, ed h have 16a during the ay to: produce weakly id AWe.corather have for breed-- je on pdt, vigorous hens that have not through the winter with plenty ‘of good fend, than yilicie or Jaevy laying hens. “ A i= YA sixty by: sixty foot fois will ac- <aommodate a thousand hens if proper- iy constricted, but you are likely to succeed far better with several small- | smilingly pay. 20c for . er buildings. acres of land will | However you will need range and clean land on which to rear young stock from year to year if you are to ;. in keeping up vitality and g heavy mortality. FOOD VALUE ‘OF MILK AND BEEF “There: is absolutely no explana. tion to the contrarity of filks,” says L. W. Lighty, Farm Advirser of the Pennsylyania Department of Agricul ture. groan and lament about the high price of beef and ask the “fawmakers to do something or othet to either make the farmers raise more calves or get at it themselves. “But the farmers will not and the lawmakers cannot, so ‘the consumer had better learn some of his diatetic ‘alphabet and know how to lve cheap- ly: and wholesomely. Dairy products will very largely take the place of meat and reduce the ‘cost of the food very greatly and at the ‘same time furnish’ a’ more digestibla- food. “We eat food to furnish material to ‘build body tissues and to keep us up and supply us with the needed ener- BY. Some foods furnish heat and en ®ergy largely while others furnish building material largely. Meat fis largely’ building material as the ani- mal that furnished the meat trans- formed vegetable growth in*o meat and we reconvert it into human mus- cle, The animal also converts the y ECONOMIC TOUR FROM Texas, mi "a | TEXAS TO DETROIT. | Three Children‘on Trip are Learning LE Ggbgrapt | First Hind. y nom, of Sherman, nto Detroit last week in her pet automobile, “Bill.” “Bill” is a Maxwell touring car with a fine appetite for the open road, but a very moderate thirst. : “He is ‘strictly temperance,” said | rs ‘O'Bannon. “I kept close track ion his gasoline consumption and it averaged 24 miles to the gallon on tha tone trip ‘from Dallas 'to Detroit.” Residents of her home town. are all wrought up over Mrs. O’Bannon’s long tour. She says ithe folks ame betting against her making a finished jeb of it.’ The men folks are particularly skeptical merely because she set out to show’ thie tour could be made with- out a ‘man ‘along. No Men ‘on Trip Besides Mrs. O'Bannon, there is her neighbor, Mrs. R. E. Minshew, and her three children: Allen, aged 13} Frank, 9 and Mary Grace, 4. Then there is a lot of baggage, bed: ding, cooking ‘utensils, ete., for the O'Bannon party is doing a lot of camping out along the trail. Altogeth- er the Maxwell is loaded down with | 1,000 pounds avoirdupois. “Since he hit the trail at Dallas, "HOUSE COMMITTEE VOTES 35 KNOWN DEAD IN “Bill has passed through Texas, Ok- lahama, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, In- , diana, Ohio and Michigan. Before he | takes his precious party back home, he’s going back to Ohio, thence to New York and finally he will take in Washington, D. C., because the chil- dren want to see where the president of the United States lives. ! A Matter of Geography. It’s all a matter of geography Mrs. O'Bannon. says her children have learned more about their country this summer than they could have ab- sorbed in five years of school. i “The old-fashioned way of learning geography was through books,” she says. “But there's no use dong tha: {when we have Maxwells. ‘Bill’ takes us wherever we want to go. We've ‘had no trouble. We've taken some ‘rough. roads, but ‘Bill’ thrives on pun- ishment. I've driven a car less than a year;-80 I'm still an amateur. J don't know any tricks about saving gasoline, But I have kept close rec- ord and we've averaged 24 miles to the gallon all the way through,”. Besides touring through the coun- | try the party has taken.in most of the ' large cities along: the way. Mrs. 0’ ! Bannon, in ‘spite of limited experience : at the wheel, had no trouble negoti: | ating the congested streets of Chicago ud Datroit. ; gd fortnight “give you as much actual notitiskent - as the entire animal body. In course of a year she will give you sixteen to twenty times as much | nourishment as her entire body would afford and ' she wlll continue to thus produce for eight or ten years. One pound of milk is equal ‘in food val ue to fourteen ounces of beef and you the beef and growl like a tiger when we ask’ you to pay only three-fourths of this for milk. And because you refuse to pay living prices for milk many dairy- men are changing from dairy to beef and thus the consumer by his foolish- ness boosts th high cost of living. When will the consumer use good judgment in purchasing food sup- plies? Echo answers, When.” MILK AN EXCELLENT PAIN KILLER “This is a remedy everyone should know, ” says Farm and Fireside, “first because it gives almost immediate re- lief; and, second, because milk or cream always available on the farm, whereas the medicine bottle is often- times found to be empty just when needed most. If a person or a horse should get tar in the eyes, put in a few drops of milk of cream. It will also afford relief if cement or a gnat should got in He eye.” Ponrarate with its ‘banner crop of 2,044,000 bushei~ last year ranked tbrvscath ame: the States in © the production ot peaches. A farmer in Crawford county writes the Department of Agriculture that he cut eleven large wagon loads of hay from a two and a half acre field that a year ago yielded but nine wag- on loads, same vegetable growth into milk of which we make butter, cheese and other marketable commodities and a large per cent of these if used for bushels to an acre would be improved food are converted into human mus- | | upon this season, cle. Therefore both dairy and beet | animals are kept to convert coarse vegetable products into human food, | grass as ‘making a wonderful growth, but the dairy cow does it many times |and many “are looking for a second hay ‘crop: TeaMy equal to the first. more economically, “After you feed the beef two years it is killed and eight hundred pounds of cured. animal § four to | she is a productive cow she will each meat s® ment during the month and present If you have a dairy cow you reports indieate start to milk her at two years and if estimate of yield over a ‘month ago. Reports of splendid wheat yields in all parts of the State would indicate that last year’s average yield of 19 Lancaster county farmers report Sd Oats Has’ ‘made wonderful improve- a greatly improved } : WAS kitionas. similar H. SNOWDEN MARSHALL, Decision to drop impeachment prog ceedings against U. 8. District Attor ney Marshall, of New York, asked by Representative Buchanan, has been been reported to the house by the judiciary committee. TO DROP IMPEACHMENT ay The contempt .charges are still pending. AUTO ROBBERS GET $37,000 PAYROLL Bold Daylight Holdup In Detroit Stregi--One Shot Five desperadoes, armed with re volvers and rifies, held up and robbed the pay car of the Burroughs’ Adding Machine company, in Detroit, within full view of hundreds of people in the street, and escaped with $37,000 in cash, after shooting one of the Bur: roughs guards,’ Ruolph Cooper, and wounding him seriously. The bandits escaped in an automo- bile and at last reports were driving toward the open country to the north, | pursued closely | by, A test. driver: ix i powerful car and a companion, 8 number , of policemen are : 8. county officers from out state are ‘keeping close’ watch. The Bobbery probably was the ‘est ‘crime of its kind in the his or Detroit. It . avenue, ‘occurred on pany saw the holdup. . « The pay car containing the paymas- ter, Thomas - Shehgn, ‘was peturning to the Burroughs plant frem a bank, and it was followed, as is the custom, by another car carrying armed The guards said they were del their defense of the pay cag by the idea that the holdup was.a motion pic- ture scenario being staged and they did not attempt to interfere until it was too late. © As the pay car was passing the side ‘of the Cadillac plant om. Burroughs avenue a small touring car drew up and ‘a man stepped out and ordered Ww the driver and paymaster to “hold up their hands.” owned: Shoppers on Fifth avenue astounded by the seeming apparation of a man und a’ boy, long-haired and clad in a cowbinaticn of pajamas ard Sr., affects a Charley liughes bLvard of luxuriance and au- Nosh, Dern tine which he says has not heen under the shears since 1914. His 14- year-old son wears the whits ng Larefoot. In West Virginia. ' A'fal { crop is grit to have ¢hingéd hig call ; ing. i Along Gragk for 6 Miles RESCUE PARTIES AT WORK Survivors Tel Thrilling Tales of Loss of Homes, by Waters That Came In the Night—Death List=May Be 50. A revised list of dead reported from Blairs Creek, in the Barren creek re- gion of northern Tennessee, shows that the cloudburst which visited the sparsely-populated country claimed a total of 28 dead. Ten others are re- ported In the list ‘of dead are Robert John- son ‘and his wife, Mrs. D. C. Eld- monds, her four children ana two grandchildren, the Misses Minnie and Lillie Wiley of Monroe, Mich.; Bush Ferguson, his wife and seven children, ‘W. P. Zachary, his wife and five chil dren. The Wiley girls were visiting | I their grandmother. The: property damage, according to those familiar with the country, will pot go higher than $150,000. . Rescue parties returning from the ptricken district report the water 18 an over the little valley of Blairs creek and that apparently every home along the creek for a distance of six miles has been washed away. Some esti- mate. the death list when finally com- plete will total fifty, but others be- lieve it will be held to thirty, or thir- ty-five at the outside. The territory deluged extends about a mile in width and six miles in length from the headwaters of the Big Bar- ren creek due west to the Clinch river. Intermediary stream are terribly swol- len, thus adding to the devastation wrought by the flood. Rescue parties that went into the valley brought out a number who have being taken care of in Tazewell and in farm houses in that vicinity, These survivors tell thrilling tales of escape, but the majority are con- fined to simple statements that the water came upon. them during the night and that before they had time to flee their homes were fioating away. "An unconfirmed report is that about oe twenty miles “of ‘the "Middlesboro between Woodward: avenas fami) and’ Cass avenue. Hundreds of em: ployes of the Cadillac Automobile i ad "Rudolph Chester, the driver, grappled with the bandit and by the time he had been overcome the guards drove up from behind and were met by four shots from Win- chesters by the robbers. One of the bullets entered Cooper's hip and he fell. The men then seized five of the six cash boxes and made a hasty-getaway; driving rapidly north. Several persons had presence of mind enough to note the license num- ber of the bandit car. It was declared to be Michigan 31634 or 31364. 31634 is ‘a car’ Doemling, 674 Field ave! found at his hoine. “Na."31364 is a éar' stolen: ‘from William i sev: eral days ago. f 4 ~‘Spectators; deriared that fhe young: est robber might have been -no more than 18 years old and the oldest not over 30. WARNING OF WARMER DAYS West Virginia Prophess Parade Negligee in Pittsburgh Streets. Jonas I and -son Jacob, known to their West Virginia neighbors as John B. Nash and his son, now trying to save Pittshurghers from yet warmer days to come, are in Pittsburgh. {by George e, and was weather. to the costume of his father minus the hanging gardens, and both pound Ale The pavement is quite warm these summery days. Before propheting, Nash, or Jonas, is #aid 12 Lave run a ginseng farm ure: of the the crops, farmers about Canonsburg say. ‘Wages of $2.50'and $3 a*d@ay and | board are offered. ee h, of the Southern railway is un ad heb teen bodies have been recov- 28 are. known m Iy 3 eight - igeina, ne scene e disas- ea Tor t Claiborne county, near En Tenn, WHIPPING F POST ADVOCATED W. Va. Judge Thinks Publicity Good | AntidBte for Wife Beating. The whipping. post for wife beaters was advocated. by - Judge H. D. Rum- mel, of the common pleas court, at Charleston, W. Va. During the hear-| ing of a divorce case Judge Rummel said; : "We need a whipping post in this state. In the many cases coming be- fore me in which extreme cruelty is ed against defendant husbands a ping post is needed, not because a few stripes administered by the sheriff across sa naked back in public would be, sufficient punishment for beating ‘and choking a woman, but that the public might know of the of- fenders’s brutality and avoid him as one would a snake.” LAKE SATLORS GET RAISE Carriers’ Association Makes Horizon. ‘ tall Advance of $10. The bord of directors of the Lake Carriers’ Association, operating steam- ers on the Great Lakes, has deckded to: mdke a horisoptal advance ‘of $10 ‘per month in the wages of men aboard ships below the grade of licensed of- ficers, effective Angust 1. It was also recommended that the question of additional remuneration for licensed officers be taken up at a méeting of vesdel owners and ‘that hf Just recognition be given them for thelr ‘marked efficiency under’ the strain of a’ heavy freight movement and durlig the unusual period of hot This recognition will probably take the form of a distribution of earnings among the licensed officers at the close of the season. GIRL COMES FAR TO WED Colorado Miss Is Bride of Logan (W. Va.) Man. Miss Dora Segelke, a pretty girl of Union, Col., where her father owns a cattle ranch, is the bride of Frank L. Perry of Logan, W. Va., after travel ing 2,000 miles for the wedding. The marriage was performed by the Rev. J. A. Smith, of the Washington Avenue Baptist church, Huntington. Perry met Miss Segelke while visiting inthe west. Farm Hands Scarce at $3 Per Day. A scareity of farm labor has serious- ly interfered with the harvesting of been made homeless, and these are! 1o:be dead and a, Stantoh: Anna M. Hoover is named Teese Foe (Every Houss Washed Away i EB ‘bad— isa 2 ver gomnon aestion that you are well in every respect? If so you are EXTREMELY FORTUNATE—Eye defects cause conditions that make you feel EEE AR RORRe Can you say’ tl our Eyes are sick I can help you by pn Proper Glasses—Come to see me. _ Rew ¢ GUARANTEED, MARRIAGE LICENSES Clerk of the Orphans* Court Charles . Shaver has recently issued mar- dre licenses to the following parties: W. J. Silarski, of Detroit, Mich., and Julia M, Vincek, of Boswell. George both of Windber, Vercenzo Di Battista and Caterina Spinonse, both of Windber. Warren Spencer and Annie F. Os- walt both of Paint borough. Splvester W. Fetner and Carolina Elizabeth Crissey, both of Listie. Joseph Kojichak and Anna Skrobak both of Boswell, Clarence Heaters of Jerome, Mary E. Edmergon, of Elk Lick. H. D. McFeaters and Edna Vought, both of Johnstown. Winfield Scott Romesburg of Kingwood and Nellie Edith White of Markelton. Cloyd W. Welker and Gladys L. Crowell, both of Boswell, John H. Reiber of Salisbury and John W. Barron of Somerset town- ship and Bessie I. Ankeny of Milford township. WILLS PROBATED. By the terms of the will of Irwin M. Hoover, late of Hooversville, a life in- terest in his property is left to his widow, . Anne: M::- Hoover, at: whose ¥ has not ‘made a statement, “' death the same is to be divided am- ong the following: William P. Hoo- ver, George E. Hoover, Mary J. Hoo ver, Mrs. Martha Hamer and Fred H. executrix. The will was witnessed by Thomas Crissey and N. W. Hoff- {man and dated April 28, 1904. ‘Newton Berkebile, late of Berlin, bequeathed all his property to’ his widow, Matilda Berkebile, whom he ‘appointed executrix. The will was da- ted Feb. 26 ,916, and witnessed by C. J. Baker and J. S. Cable. Judge W. H. Ruppel in an order made Monday sustainéd the action of the Somerset county commissioners in requiring a two ' thousand dollar bond of the anti-saloon men before proceeding with the inquiry into the election contest on behalf of Jno. P. Statler of Somdrset, candidate for ‘the Republican nomination for assem- bly at the recent primary. The coun- ty commissioners had muled that the contestants must file a bond of $2,000 to cover the expenses of the proposed inquiry. Dr. whose resighation was asked for by the - Agricultural Commission, deman- ded a hearing which was given him behind closed doors. The Zoologist but it is reported that he will be suceeded by Prof.J. G. ‘Saunders of Wisconsin, $1.8C POPULAR EXCURSION | PITTSBURGH Stopping at McKeesport and Braddock Sunday, Aug. 13 Special Train in Both Directions Leaves Meyersdalo 8:35 A. M. Returning, Leaves Pittsburgh 7:00 P. M. Arrives Meyersdale 10.24 p. m. ROUND TRIP Low round trip fares from Intermedi- ate Stations. Sea flyers-Consult Ticket Agent Western Maryland Railway pend a day in “The City Powerful” Vine arm -~ i Children a -EOR. FLETGHER'S CASTOR! Onufer and Ilona Vasily, | and | Elsie M. Berkey of Somerset township. | Surface, the State Zoologist | { { { THE OPTOMETRISF Eye SightiSpecialist Meyersde le, Pa. 16-DAY EXCURSIONS TO NORFOLK COMFORT VIRGINIA $8.50 kot" TRIP BE GOOD PULLMAN or ™p to Destination * OLD POINT August 10 and 24, Sept. 7 GOOD IN COACHES ONLY FOR $2 00 ADDITIONAL TICKETS WILL $ SHLLuAN CARS, WITH The Route 1s Rail to Washington or Baltimore apd Delishiful Steam- Full Information as Ticket Office Aug, 8-5t. I BALTONORE & 0Hi0)] NF rd . vos Re Grace United Evangelical Herman P: Refber Miss Elsie M. J. J. Cloyd W. Welker, Rice. RECENT COUNTY WEDDINGS. Jacob Stufft, son of Mr, and Mrs. James Stufft, of Jenner township, ‘and | Miss Annie Moore, daughter o Mrs. Mary Geisel of Somerset township, were married at the parsonage of church, Somerset, by the Rev. G. A. Solitna. ; John H. Reiber, son of Mr.'and . and Mrs, Nicholas T. Berkey, of Somerset TT were ® Jailed. ut Someirsét Hy the! Hey! J. hiner, { pastor of the United’ oe ‘élurch.. H. D. McFeaters, son of Mr, and’ Mrg. R. M. McFeaters, and Mrs, Bd-- na Vought, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidle, both of Johnstewn, were: jmarried at -Sosmenset; by the: Rey; T -| Hess Wagner, © =, son of Mr, and Mrs. Thomas Welker, and ‘Miss Glad-- ys L. Crowell, daughter of Mr. angi Mrs. J. H. Crowell, both of Boswell, were married at the Jennertown Luth-- (eran church by the Rev. Elmer P.. oO of ammu ition for Our, dead 80 were for dying like Heroes service. Later, terference. officer. flag.” that Huerta must go.” From Mr. Acceptance. O— ———————— Fine sale bills printed here. TRUE INWARDNESS OF THE VERA CRUZ INCIDENT. In the spring of 1914, occur- red the capture of Vera Cruz. Men from one of our ships had |: been arrested. st. Tampico and had been diccharged ‘with an apology. But our admiral de manded a salute. which was pe fused. Thereupon ‘the president went to ‘coupress.! asking ‘au thority to use: the armed furces of. the United States, ' Without | waiting. for: the passage of-the |i resolution, Vera Cruz was seiz ed. It Hiv that a shipioad a was: }. abolit to ‘enter that port. There was ‘a datifal opposition to this invasion and- a ‘Battle occurred in which nineteen Americans and over a ial, Mexicans ‘were CoRiTRe, WAS War. gre praised a war of from Vera Crug, aD a noble warfare. We had not obtained the salute which was demanded. We had not gbtained reparation for affronts. The ship with am- munition which could not land at Vera Cruz had scon landed at "another port, ‘and Ms 'eargo was delivered to Huerta’ without in- Recently the naked truth ‘was admitted by a cabinet We..are now informed that “we did not go to Vera Cruz to force Huerta to salute the ‘We are told that we went there “to show Mexico that we were in earnest in our demand That is, we seized: Vera Cruz to depose Huerta. The question of the salute was 8 mere pretext.— Hughes’ Speech of ell =. to | w BC ~~ He
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