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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03
LAMB RAISING PAYS
FARMER QUITE WELL
Sheep Industry on the Average
Farm is Considered Side
Issue.

The farmer who will pay close at
tention to his breeding stock and
raise native lambs OF uniform size
and breed, feed them intelligently and
market them at the right time can
make more profit from his flock than
from any other farm Investment As
q rule the native" lambs sent to the
markets are so badly mixed, both az
to breed and feeding, that they are a
torment to the buyer and Of little prof
1t to the owner.
This is one of the reasons why the
western range lambs find great favor
In the big markets. They the more
uniform in size as they are fed In
large focks and go to market prac-
ttcally in the same condition. Only q
small portion of the native" lambs
that are sold In the eastern markets
can be called prime, and his fact Ia
entirely the fault Of the farmer.
As a rule, sheep-ralsing on the av-
erage farm is merely side issue and
little attention is given to 1t. The
REMEDY VI INC pIeseuI COhuitioh Vi tn0
native lamb market lies entirely with
the men who produce the lambs.
Whenever the farmers are engaged
in the producing of prime lambs for
market at any season Of the year, the
business has proven highly profitable.
OF course the best markets are just
before Christmas and in the early
spring; at this period the prices are
always high.
America is becoming a great NUT
ton-eating nation, and II the farmers
will improve their fiocks and their
methods of feeding there is no reason
why the native lamb market should
not prove more profitable than that
controlled by the range district.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03

involved In that single establishment.
Many factories in the fatherland had
Joined in this international effort to
find an artificial process by which
rubber could be built up syntheti-
cally from raw materials readily
available, but to the Elberfelder Far
benfabriken belongs the distinction Of
priority in the solution OF the problem.
DR.. Fritz Hoffman, director in charge
at Elberfeld, gives his own story Of
the pursuit OF the elusive key.
by mere chance my attention was
called to this question Of synthetic
rubber through lecture delivered In
London about six years ago by Prof
Dunstan. AS pharmaceutic chemist
In a dye factory my work did not take
me in the direction of rubber, but the
problem fascinated me.
II found on reading up the subject
that caoutchouc was based on iso-
prene, and / tried to prove 1t. To do
that had to have isoprene, and, what
was more, had to have synthetic iso-
prene and not the kind obtained by a
dry distillation of rubber such as had
hitherto generally been used. | had
task before me.
To the organic chemist coal is an
ideal mother substance. and l chose
1t as my basic material. In this we
were justified, and in March of 1909
Carl Coutelle and l succeeded in OBJ
tanning the FIRST large quantity OF
pure synthetic isoprene-several
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03

troll and that the synthetic rubber fac
tory would be located where 1t could
reach easily its raw materials and its
market for the finished output.
Climatic and geographical conditions
have prescribed the zones in which
the rubber plant can be successfully
grown, even though its cultivation be
subject to scientific methods and are
free from the haphazard ways Of the
rubber hunter
In England the present discoveries
are hailed by Sir William Ramsay
and his fellows not 30 much as prom
Use of commercial advantage but as
a professional achievement which
puts the British chemist ahead of his
rivals across The Channel. That the
Germans have good reason to be salts
fed with their own accomplishments
in this very field is undoubtedly true.
The Germans claim that they have
now a method for making rubber
alphabetically which will soon be ready
to compete with the output of the
tropical forests.
Back in the SOS Tilden, an English
man, gave long study to the problem
of making synthetic rubber, but aban-
doned his work finally because he did
not believe the attainment practicable.
The individual was powerless to cope
with so gigantic problem and his
resources were unequal to the task.
Capital was necessary as well as the
united efforts OF many men. In fact
in one factory alone in Germany there
were 800 college bred chemistsconcen-
trating upon the technical researches
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03

natures rubber and delivering 1t at
the factories.
Fermentation is an action set up by
various kinds of germs, and Prof.
Fernbach found the germ that would
convert certain plentiful starchy mate
rails into fusel oil, and from this fusel
oil he obtained cheap isoprene. It
was this isoprene which Dr. Matthews
learned by accident how to turn into
rubber by means of sodium. Sir
William Ramsay and his associates
believe that rubber can be made In
this way at cost of about "a cents
q pound. From 20 to % cents a
pound is what 1t costs now-to collect
rubber In the far east and amid the
forests of the Amazon. The heaviest
after expense ia involved in trans
porting the raw material to manufac-
turing centers, and also in purifying
this rubber so that 1t shall be at to
go into the finished products.
The rubber hunter mixes the Juice
or latex Of many trees, and the raw
stuff is seldom uniform and is fire.
Cuently filed with foreign substances.
and even pebbles, the latter hidden
away in the gum to increase the
weight. The cost Of getting rid of
these things is heavy. and this fact
must be borne in mind In giving prop
er value to any process for the syn.
thetic making of rubber. 1t is natural
to suppose that a chemical produc
uon would be subject to perfect con.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03

| whole milk at the start and skim
milk later, with some roots, and
when he goes to market he Is about
as toothsome morsel as can be found
anywhere. Englishmen are very fond
Of this kind of meat, and price cuts no
figure with them.
There Ia no reason why our dairy
men should not increase their profits
materially by feeding their calves;
and 1t has always been a source of
wonder to us why they so neglect this
part OF their business.
The fact is, the American public, to
large extent, is 80 prejudiced against
veal, having read gruesome tales
about bob veal being too often mar
keted, that thousands are afraid to
buy veal Of any kind. If better sys-
tenn OF feeding calves were adopted,
and the business systematized, we
would have In few years line OF
choice meat that would sell readily at
very high prices.
The first thing to be done would be
to amend the laws, to prevent the
railroad and express companies ship
ping veal under four weeks of age.
The amount of immature stuff that
goes to market every day Is appalling.
and we believe that 75 per cent of 1t
| is unfit for food. How 1t gets past
the inspectors is something no man
can find out.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03

words, the structural atoms are differ
emily arranged, and the body or sub
stance thus differs from another Of
the same chemical get up but with
its tiny units otherwise distributed.
I'VE soon recognized that the poly
merizing power Of heat could be
furthered by numerous chemical ad-
mixtures, but we soon found that
there are many more substances that
work in opposition to this end. In
August of 1909 l obtained the first
rubber polymerized by heat in the
laboratory Of the Elberfeld works. In
September OF that year l submitted
sample of this material to DR..
Gerlach. He was the first to confirm
that our product actually contained
caoutchouc. A month later Harries
tested our synthetic material with
his ozone method, and by this means
was able to establish that our heat
polymerized isoprene was veritable
india rubber"
DR.. Holman frankly admits that
should the extensive rubber planta-
lions cultivated under English direc-
ton in the Malay Archipelago meet
expectations synthetic rubber will not
be SO necessary in supplying at a
more reasonable rate the present
market However, he says that the
synthesist has so adjusted conditions
that he can compete with his ware in
price and quality with the natural
nnnduct
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03
NEED OF MOISTENING
CORN WHILE IN SILO
Excellent Time is When Crop Is
Too Ripe or Severely
Frozen

Ordinarily corn cut at the proper
time does not need any water added
to make good silage. There are
times, however, when 1t is necessary
to add water to the corn In filling the
siIo. The corn in the silo at the
time of filling should feel moist. II
not moist, water should be added.
Under any OF the following condi-
lions water should be added to the
corn when filling the silo: First,
wien the corn is too ripe, and the
leaves and part OF the stalks are dried
out to such an extent that they will
not pack well. Second, when the
corn is severely frozen before 1t has
reached the proper degree OF matur-
ity. liberating the moisture and leay-
ing the leaves and stems dry. Third,
when refllling the silo late in the fall
with shocked corn 1t Is always nee
essary to add water.
There are two ways to add water.
First, put a hose in the silo and thor
oughly saturate the dry portions, es-
pecjally around the walls. Second,
where the blower cutter is used. run
an inch stream OF water into the
blower when It is at work This will
add sufficient amount Of water to
insure good rOsultA
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03

1nrdsandS Upon Thousands OF ex.
periments have thus been brought to
a crystallized knowledge which makes
1t possible and practicable to embark
upon the manufacture of rubber syn
thetically from available cheap mate
rails. The plantations in the far
east have been developing over
period Of fully thirty-tive years, and
in a sense they have the start of the
artificial product in a cumulative
estimate, but this advantage will not
continue If the chemist manufacturer
can make rubber alphabetically as
cheaply as DR., Holman predicts.
In 1910 and 1911 the world produc-
ton of india rubber reached q total
Of about $4,000 tons and the world
consumption of caoutchouc was in the
neighborhood Of $4,000 tons, Figur-
ing the cost of this rubber at an aver
age of 81 pound the total value Of
the production reaches $160, 100000
Synthetic rubber, it is believed.
would make 1t possible to widen the
field Of application OF rubber. Make
shifts and substitutes of one sort or
another are now used in many direc-
lions, because natural rubber Is too
expensive. Therefore, the public 10
interested in the artificial product
first because it will add stability to
the price of the rubber from trees, and
next 1t will make 1t possible to apply
it in many ways now prohibited by
price and the relatively limited out
put of plantations and the wild
growth.
Whether the basic isoprene be made
from a starchy substance after the
English process or from a product OF
coal, as DR.. Hoffman, has chosen,
there will be immense quantities OF
by-products which will be part OF
the systems employed in making iso-
pref, and in converting 1t Into coun-
terpart caoutchouc in either case. 1t
would be financially prohibitive to
neglect these by-products In concen-
trating upon the manufacture OF arti-
uClal TuDUeI.
DR.. Hoffman, says that II rs per
cent of artificial rubber could be pro-
duced from every pound of basic mate
rial, then a factory turning out half
million pounds day would require
z, 1000, 900 pounds of the mother sub
stance, three-quarters of which would
accumulate every twenty-four hours in
the form Of by-products. This gives
an idea of what the chemist-manufac-
turer has before him, even though the
secret of synthetic rubber has been
solved. With characteristic thorough
ness, the Germans are working away
at this end of the question.
So far as is known the German
synthetic rubber has met all the ex-
acting tests and analyses of other
German chemists. On the other hand,
It is said that the English artificial
rubber Is not chemically Identical In
it's atomic makeup with natural caout-
chouc, and the critics declare that this
artificial substitute will not meet all
of the requirements. 1t seems that
the artificial rubber contains one
atom of carbon less than natures
caoutchouc, and whether or not this
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03

litres of it. This showed us that we
had the right formulate, the scientific
execution of which was no longer
questionable. But with the making
OF isoprene our troubles we're not
ended; on the contrary, they were but
beginning.
We were confronted with the pro-
blem of converting this liquid into
that tough, elastic, plastic colloid
which was to be successful substi-
tute for rubber, In truth its very
counterpart. theoretically the task
was easy, because, as Beilstein says,
isoprene is converted into caoutchouc
by treating it with muriatic acid. OF
course, we tried that at once, but for
our pains we got nothing but oily
chlorides-not trace of rubber. We
were apparently defied.
We tried all sorts of likely and
imaginable physical and chemical
mediums in connection with isoprene,
but the wilful stuff refused to thicken.
Finally discovered the power to per-
form this miracle hidden away in
heat. There was nothing new in
heating isoprenes but the result we
obtained thereby was new. Other
authorities had tried heat, but all they
got was either an oily or at best a
resinous substance.
Polymerism in chemistry is that
property peculiar to some compounds
by which they differ In their mole
cular weights and also in their chemi-
cal properties even when formed from
the same elements and combined In
the same proportions. In other
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03
Summer School.

Particularly significant IL the
growth of summer schools in the
Carolinas, where the movement start
ed comparatively late. At the Uni-
versity Of North Carolina there was
an attendance Of $50 this year. just
double last years enrolment. At the
normal school at Greensboro. North
Carolina, a session Of eight weeks was
held, the FIRST in the history Of the
institution, and 200 enthusiastic teach.
ers were In attendance. At the sum-
mer session Of the Winthrop Normal
College, Rock Hill, South Carolina.
particular attention was paid to prob
lens of Industrial education and rural
schools, and men Of national promt
nence participated in the work.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03
CHEAPEST HAY FOR
FORAGE IN WINTER
Second Crop Clover Is First Class
Feed for Cows and
Sheep.

Second crop clover is first-class
winter forage for cows and sheep'
Glover, when cured without being dam
aged by rain, is the cheapest and best
hay for cows in milk and ewes with
young lambs. Owing to the shortness
of the hay crop throughout the country
the young clover and foxtail and rag
weeds growing in the wheat stuDDles
should be cut and cured before the fall
rains set in. Second crop clover Is
worth too much as feed to pillow under
for manure. Save the crop for reed
and pillow under the stubble this rail-
and lime for corn in the spring. AS
food for poultry, when bulk Is needeu'
poultry men say that no other clover,
except 1t may be alfalfa, Is equal 10
second-crop red clover, cut and cured
free from rain and stepped In boiling
water during the night for feeding the
next day. Use the water In which the
clover was STEPPED In for mixing with
bran and corn chop, which, with the
clover, makes one Of the best winter
foods for laying hens during the WIN
ter months.
In the graln-growlng districts the
second crop is usually cut for SEED
II the first crop is cut early and the
stubble dressed with 200 pounds OF
plaster to the acre good crop OF seed
may be grown II the season is favor
able. Bees are great help In dis
tributing the clover pollen. After the
seed is harvested the stubble Is plowed
for corn.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03

s the world on the eve
of another commercial
revolution due to an
accidental chemical
discovery? Is synthe-
tic rubber going to
take its place upon
equal terms of COM
petition with the Juice
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03
Growth Attached to Il.

You've been sleeping in the tele-
phone booth, l believe" said the
manager Of the summer hotel
"Yes."
II can give you a billiard table now.
II you like"
mo; I'll stick to the booth. rath-
er like the room. It isn't large, but
it's cosy"
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1912-10-03

III
tk III discovery? Is synthe-
E@1:M tic rubber going to
take its place upon.
equal terms of COM
- petition with the Juice
of the trees and plants which SO long
have supplied the rubber commerce?
Just at the present time English
and German chemists are disputing
over their claims to precedence IN
finding way to create from certain
raw materials a chemical counterpart
of natural rubber. The world at large
is not directly concerned in the deter
mination of this question Of priority
but 1t has very deep interest in the
commercial practicability of these dis
coveries.
Two years ago DR.. F. e. Matthews
of England, then associated with
other distinguished chemists, among
them Prof. w. H. Perkin. Sir William
Ramsay and Prof. Fernbach, was seek
ing to perfect cheap process for the
manufacture of synthetic rubber and
by chance left some isoprene and
metallic sodium In contact for a
period of about two months, going of
In the meanwhile for his summer out
ing. Upon his return DR.. Matthews
was amazed to find that the isoprene
had in the interval been converted
into solid rubber. The long sought
key to the riddle was thus uncovered
by an accident.
Isoprene is an oily, volatile hydro
carbon. It was obtained by distilla-
ton from caoutchouc fifty years ago
by Williams, and the analysis of iso-
prene showed that 1t was chemically
Identical with the oil of turpentine.
The problem since that day has been
twofold; first, to derive isoprene from
abundant raw materials, and then to
effect its conversion into rubber
through the medium of plentiful and
cheap reagents. In order to compete
with natures product it was neces-
sary that artificial rubber should be
made in large quantities and at
cost which would put 1t on a par at
least with the expense of gathering
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-09-05
COLONEL AT MANCHESTER
Whole Countryside Turns Out II
Greet Former President.

Manchester. Aug. 29--rheodore Roose-
Welt arrived here about one hour behind
his schedule at a little after one O'Clock
and spoke for 20 minutes to an audience
which complimented him by its numbers.
The whole countryside turned out but It
was evident that curiosity rather than en-
thusiasm ruled the crowd On his ar
rival there was general handclapp!ng
and here and there a shout but he did
not have TO wait one minute to begin his
talk in which he assailed both demo-
cratic and republicans as boss-ridden with
Archbold and Penrose as the arch-flends
In reference to his letter which WILL
be made public on Monday next, he
wondered II the papers in general would
print 1t and in this connection referred
TO Vermont papers and characterized the
Burlington Free Press as the "unfree
press" In general Mr. Roosevelt's talk
here was 10 the effect that the Progress
sive party stood in its platform for Ameri-
can prosperity and that to vote for him
was to vote against the Archbold -Penrose
crowd, while to vote either the democratic
or republican tickets was to vote for the
Archhod -Penrose crowd.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-09-05

appeared. The Republican party was
not in existence and Vermont was
true to Its history throughout the
past and was one of four States that
cast it's vote for the old WING party.
Shortly after that It became evident
that the WING party was dead; that
Its usefulness had passed; AMI Yer
mont's loyalty to the party as long
as 1t was alive did not extent to be
ing loyal to It when IT was Heal In
1856 Vermont led the way in casting
Its vote for the then new party of
progress, for the Republican party.
Now. friends 7 ask that Vernon
follow the same course now
II have been saying for some tim ,
that we are bitterly opposed by the
alliance between crooked politics and
crooked business. ] have been dwell
ling upon that fact and IL has been
denied, and now Messrs. Archbold
AMI Penrose tramp up 10 say that Is
true 7 want to call your atter-
ton to the significance OF their action
Penrose. we hal It ont with in the
primaries last spring IN Pennsylvania,
he had the machine he had every
thing. most Of the press and every .
thing else with him. and we whipped
him out of the ~ delegates We got
6S, took it right away from him. He
has not chance Of carving Pennsyi
vana for the Republican party, 10
knows it, and all he Is trying 10 do
is to beat the Progressive party IN
the interest Of the republican me
chine. the machine politicians and tho
big financiers with whom they arc
allied"
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-09-05
Talks to Vermonters in Towns
from Bennington to
Burlington.
TWO Big AUDIENCES HERE
Candidate for Presidency Gives
His Reasons Why Voters
Should Place Him in
White House Again.

At the end of most strenuous day
in the course of which he ad dressed
more people than were probably ever
before addressed in one day by one
man in the state of Vermont Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Bur
1ington Thursday night and closed the day
by speaking to at least 1900 hearers
in this city At all of the stops along
the route to burlington the Colonel
was delayed and he was nearly an
hour and half late in reaching Th
Strong theatre. where his first speec
IN Burlington was delivered.
The Colonel reached his first stop
ping place at North Bennington, where
a crowd Of 200 were gathered to sec
him. He only showed himself but Went
on to bennington. where he was greet
Ell by about 5000 people. He addressed
them in an outdoor speech of about
an hour and at II o'clock left foI
Rutland. En- route he spoke at Wal
lingfori and Arlington and took lunct
at the Equinox house in Manchester
A speech here delayed him still NOR,
and he reached Rutland at 4:30, jus
the time scheduled for Mlddlebury.
The party. in five automobiles. jr'
not leave Rutland until after five
o'clock AMI arrived at Middlebury 4
$40. In the Colonels car were A. ]
Cooper of Bennington, who donate'
= the use Of the car; Secretary McGrath
- c. H. Thompson. who has charge o
, the campaign in this state, the Rev
Fraser MetzFer and Ernest Kelley n
Middlebury. The other cars brough
-
press and others
The first automobile reached Bur
iington at nine o'clock and the mat
party came a few minutes later. Col
onel Roosevelt stopped five minute
at the Hotel Vermont. and then mad
for The Strong theatre. His speecl
there continued until 1910, when h.
went to an overflow meeting at tn
armory, which was crowded to tn
street.
It had heen planned to spend tn
night at the home of DIR H. Nelso,
Jackson, but because of the fatigu
Of Mr. Roosevelt, 1t was decided :
stay at the Hotel Vermont. where tn
Colonel was served with his much le
1ayed dinner shortly before midnight
ARRIVAL AT THE STRONG
i've always regarded myself as
pretty good exponent of the strenuou
life declared Theodore Roosevelt las
evening as he faced Burlington audienc
after long day of campaigning, but yo
Nermonters have taught me n lesson"
The members of the local Progressiv
club, augmented by additions from Rich
mond and other places had formed pro
cession which reached for nearly tw
blocks and marched from headqua rter