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 |
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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.
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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
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