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The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20
.COLORADO'S Big CROPS
ESTIMATES PUT s2s,e5o,747 VALUE
ON 52,515.75o BUSHELS.
Figures Compiled by Government Em
perts Show Good Gains over
Last Year.
weatern Newspaper unIon News serviee

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Denver.-The value of the crop OF
corn, wheat, oats, barley, potatoes and
apples raised in Colorado this year
is s29,650,747.50. according to prelimi
nary figures issued by the United
States bureau of crop estimates.
The total number of bushels of the
six crops named is given at 52,515, $50.
Against these figures are the final
estimates of the crop produced in
Colorado last year. which amounted to
51.S73.000 bushels. with a value OF
s34,479,740.
In apples, barley and oats Colorado
did not produce as much as last year.
and only in apples is the price greater
than on Nov. l, 1914.
The following report shows the pro
duction of crops named for Colorado,
and for the United States as a whole,
with the prices of each per bushel for
last year and this year:
Corn-State: Estimate this year,
11,700.000 bushels; final estimate last
year, i0,626,00O; price, Nov. 1, to pro.
ducers. so cents per bushel; year ago.
II cents. United States: Estimate
this year. 3,090,00O,0OO bushels; final
estimate last year, 2,673 100000; Nov.
l, price, 61.9 cents; year ago, 70.6
cents.
Wheat-State: Estimate this year,
12,16O,OO0 bushels; final estimate last
year, 11,S12,OOO; price, Nov. 1, to pro-
ducers, Sc cents per bushel; year ago,
81 cents. United States: Estimate this
year, 1,002,000,000 bushels; final esti.
mate last year, 100000; Nov. /,
price, 93.1 cents; year ago, 97.2 cents.
Oats-State: Estimate this year,
12,675,0O0 bushels; final estimate last
year, 13,O00,00O; price, Nov l, to pro-
ducers, 43 cents per bushel; year ago,
AZ cents. United States: Estimate
this year, 1.517 100000 bushels: final
estimate last year. 1,141 100000; Nov.
price, 34.9 cents; year ago, 429
cents.
Barley-State: Estimate this year
S,675,000 bushels; final estimate last
year, 3,966,000; price, Nov 1, to pro.
ducers, 80 cents per bushel; year ago
&C cents. United States: Estimate
this year 236,6S2,O 900 bushels; final
estimate last year, 1874, 4,953, 900; Nov
/, price, SOL cents; year ago, 517
cents.
Potatoes State: Estimate this
year, 1O,400,00O bushels; final esti
mate last year. s,76OO00; price, Nov
l, to producers, AZ cents per bushel
year ago, rs cents. United States
Estimate. this year, $4,000, ,OOC
bushels; final estimate last year
405,921, 900; Nov. price, CO.'S cents
year ago. SIS cents.
Apples-State: Estimate this year
$4,000 barrels; final estimate last
year, 100000; price, Oct. Is, to pro
ducers, S5 cents per bushel; year ago
so cents. United States: Estimate
this year. 76.7OO.OOO barrels; final
estimate last year, S4,40O,OOO; price
Oct. Is, TO producers. $214 per barrel;
year ago, $1.T9.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20
REVENUE TO BE INCREASED.

Washington.-It was stated that this
plan which will be submitted to Con
gress by administration leaders, tc
provide for the Inauguration of the
Presidents preparedness program and
to wipe out the deficit in the treasury
probably will be along the following
lines:
Double income tax, producing $50.
100000; tax freight receipts, 8 pei
cent, s60.000,OOO; tax of or 2 per cent
on gasoline, s2O,O00,0OO; reduction OF
the exemption on income taxes to $2,.
900, s10,000000; retention of the spe
cial war taxes least irritating to the
public, $35,000,000. The total that
would be raised in this manner is
$2O5, 100000.
The amount needed for the army
and navy program for the first year
is 100000, and the deficit, it is
estimated, will be a like sum, making
the total amount needed $210,OO0.000.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

Booker T. Washington has issued a
circular directing attention to the
claims on public generosity of the
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial in
stitute, Alabama, of which he is the
principal. The school, which was es-
tablished to educate Negroes. started
with one teacher and 80 students, and
now has 1,500 students from 33 states
and 18 foreign countries, officers and
teachers numbering 1913. The insti-
tuition owns 5000 acres of land, and
the entire value of it's property is ST.
$4,000. Training is given in aca-
demic studies, trades and religion, and
5000 graduates and undergraduates
have been sent out as farmers. me-
chanics, housewives, teachers, and
business men. The managers are
seeking help for operating expenses
and to increase the endowment fund
of the institution. Seth Low is chair.
man of the board of trustees.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20
Four Americans. One sritisher Slain

Topolobampo, Sinaloa, MeX.-Mayo
Indians and Villa troops raided the
town of Los Mochis, eighteen miles in
land from here. Refugees arrived here
sought protection aboard the United
States gunboat Annapolis. One British
subject and four Americans were
reported killed. Thirty-three women
and children arrived here and we're
taken aboard the Annapolis. Others
were said to be on the way. Amer
lean civilians here Immediately organ
ized outposts and patrols to guard the
town.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20
RUMANIA WILL
join GERMANY
ENGLAND DECLARES BLOCKADE,
AGAINST GREECE to- FORCE
ITS HAND IMMEDIATELY.
GENERAL WAR COUNCIL
LEADERS OF FRANCE AND ENG.
LAND MEET IN PARIS TO
DEAL WITH CRISIS.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
London, Nov. 17.-Serbian resist
ance is almost crushed
Rumania is declared ready to join
Germany in December, while the atti-
tude of Greece is so uncertain that
England has placed an embargo on
ships landing at Greek ports.
The allies have practically admitted
the loss of Serbia. The Serb army is
surrounded on three sides; two lines
of retreat are open to it-one into AL
bania, where hostile tribes are ready
to harass the Serbians; the other into
Greece, where, it is feared, the troops
will be disarmed and interned
A Havas dispatch from Marseilles
says the government has ordered the
port authorities to accept no further
shipments of merchandise destined
for Greece.
England has issued an order in
council forbidding British subjects OF
military age leaving the confines of
the empire without special permit.
The permit will not be easily OBJ
tanned, it is announced
The French and British are barely
holding their own in Serbia and have
already prepared to cover their re-
treat into Greece. King Constantine
has intimated that his benevolent
neutrality" will mean the interning of
all troops who cross the Hellenic
| 10, - tI,ak
the allies are striving. England has
made it plain to the Athens govern
ment that Greece must either join the
allies at once or agree to extend hos
pita.ity to their retreating army. The
first move in this respect is the no
tice served on the Hellenic govern
ment that although ships now en-
to land, all others will be held up un-
til Greece defines its attitude.
The decision of Rumania to join the
Kaiser was announced by Premier
Carp 1t was a bolt from a clear sky
to the allies.
All leaders of the allied powers ad
init the great crisis of the war is al
hand. Italy has recognized the stu
alton and has, it is said, an expedi-
tionary force of 10000 men on the
way to the Balkans.
Last night in Paris the leaders of
England and France held their first
war council. They admit the serious
ness of their position but appear con-
fident that they will find a way Of
meeting the situation. The general
outcome, they say. will be for the best,
as it will result in a closer cooper
alton among the entente powers than
has so far marked the war. The Brit
ish prime minister, Mr.. Asquith; Da-
vid Lloyd George, and A. j. Balfour,
the French Cabinet, and Gen. Joffre.
the French commander-in-chief, were
at the council.
The main Serbian army which is
operating under Gen. Putnik in the
north, now encompassed on every side
but one, and being cut off from the
south by the Bulgarian advance be-
| yond Tetovo, must depend on the
rough roads through Montenegro ant
Albania for any supplies from the sea
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20
Insane Asylum Being Enlarged.

BY next July the state insane asy.
lum at Pueblo. through the erection
of four cottages now under construc-
tion, will be able to accommodate 400
more patients and thus relieve coun-
ties of the state that are now caring
for insane persons because of lack of
room at the state institution, accord.
ing to statement made by Governor
Carlson
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20
Mineral Citizens Ask Depot.

Citizens of Saguache have filed an
informal appeal with the state public
utilities commission asking that the
Denver & Rio Grande railroad be or
dered to establish depot at Mineral
Hot Springs near Saguache.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20
Warden to Be Paid Full Salary.

The mandamus suit for $625 salary
and 5000 damages. brought by Warden
Capp of the Buena Vista reformatory
against State Treasurer Mulnix, was
settled when Warden Capp agreed to
accept the salary and waive his claims
for damages.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20
Ramer Accepts Priest Recall Petition.

The petition to recall Judge II. p.
Burke and District Attorney Irving
Van Bradt of the Thirteenth judicial
district, in connection with the setting
aside of verdict in the recent trial
of Catholic priest, was accepted as
sufficient under the law by Secretary
of State Ramer
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20
Guard Ordered at Death CROSSING.

The State Public Utilities Commits
sion has ordered the Denver & Rio
Grande and the Santa Fe railroads to
station watchmen from o'clock each
morning until IL midnight at the West
Mexico avenue crossing in Denver,
where four automobilists were killed
by train a few days ago.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

Expert to Examine Phone Co. Books.
All books and records of the Noun
tain States Telephone e Telegraph
Company containing information as to
rates and regulations of the company
in this state are ordered thrown open
for inspection of the state public utili
ties commission in a resolution passed
by the commission
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

Rev. DR.. Weston Bruner. formerly
of this city but for some time past at
the head of the department of evan
gelism of the home board of the South
ern Baptist convention. is now en-
gagged in work for the evangelization
of the entire South, and has already
inaugurated series of meetings in
nearly a hundred cities and towns of
ths South, these meetings including
both white and colored Baptist
churches.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

THE Star of Ethiopia" was the name
of pageant held by colored citizens
in celebration of the fiftieth anniver-
sary of the adoption of the thirteenth
amendment to the Constitution. The
American League baseball park was
the scene of the celebration.
Mrs. Quincy Shaw of Boston and the
Misses Lewiston of New York and
others furnished the fund with which
this pageant is given. The colored
citizens of Washington guaranteed an
additional fund of $1,000.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20
Ranehman Killed in Runaway.

Fairplay.-John e. Radford, so.
prominent rancher of Park county,
was killed almost instantly in run.
away.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

Charles C. Hopkins, clerk of the
supreme court at Lansing, Mich. is
the oldest employee of the state in
point of continuous service. having
held his present position 33 years.
Clerk Hopkins is also the only clerk
the supreme court has had since the
court was given power to appoint its
clerk.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

The rivers of the United States are
wearing down its lands at rate OF
about foot in 9.120 years.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

The popular conception OF the devil
is that OF male adult adorned with
hoofs and forked tail. But the devil
people really dread is old age.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

Boulder Armory Contract Approved.
The State Military Board approved
a contract for the construction of the
new armory of the Colorado Nationa'
Guard at Boulder.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

In communities large enough to sup
port more than one newspaper there
always are two sides to every ques-
ton.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

How the Tuskegee Normal and In
dustrial institute is teaching Negroes
and whites of the South to raise their
own food crops; how it is establishing
rural schools, largely through dona-
tions from Mr.. and Mrs. julius Rosen-
wald of Chicago, and how it is estab-
fishing farm colony for graduates
are some Of the things disclosed in the
annual report of the principal, DR.,
Booker T. Washington.
In the report is made an appeal to
the public for funds to carry on the
work of this institution for the benefit
of the Negro race.
Seth Low, chairman of the trustees,
announced the annual deficit is about
$4,000, and Doctor Washington says
there is needed 100000 addition
to the endowment fund; $50,000 each
for boys and girls dormitories.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

When an aged man recovers from a
severe illness the neighbors make the
best of it. But they never are able
entirely to conceal their disappoint-
ment.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

British Columbia reports the discov-
cry of extensive gypsum deposits.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

Redditch is where all British
needles are made.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

Maxim Gorky is fighting as a volun
teer with the Russian army in Galicia
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

Twelve hundred Chicago Negroes
have banded together and purchased
about eleven hundred acres of land on
the shores of Crook lake, just outside
Baldwin, Mich, and the islands which
dot the lake, and are perfecting form
Of government for the colony to be
transplanted to the new city the first
of next May.
At meeting a committee was ap-
pointed to draft constitution, ar
range for an election of officers by
postcard ballot and make preparations
for building a clubhouse on an island
in the lake, which has been rechris-
tened Lake Idlewilde.
The new city is to be called Idle
wilde.
Negotiations are being conducted by
a syndicate of Chicago Negroes look
ing toward the purchase Of the Draper
Hall summer resort in Oconomowoc.
Wls.-Chicago Herald.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-11-20

pers, but as self-supporting people.
Such happening would almost daze
the good bishop, when Immediately
the vexing character of the new prob
lem would dawn upon him in all its
fullness.
Under the legislation which is pro-
posed, the solution would be quite
easy. and prove a great triumph for
the church. and the cause of Christian
unity. The clerical and lay deputies
in the general convention from the
North are not wise in treating this
question as pertaining to the South.
Southern Negroes are constantly
focking to the North, and when they
go they carry themselves. They have
the same desire in the North that they
have in the South. They want their
own convention, and their own bishop.
Sooner or later, there will be trouble
in the white camp If the black saints
of the household are "snubbed."
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-08-26
How Little Joe of Chicago Lost His Fine Graf

Joe although scarcely
tax
OF Madison and Dearborn
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-08-26
WIDE TIRES ASSIST HAULING
Do Not Cut Deeply and Make Better
Tracks on Roads Which Are Trav-
eIed While Soil Is Soft.
By F. A. WRIT. Kansas Experiment Sta

(By F. A. WRIT. Kansas Experiment Sta
tfon.)
Wide-tired wagons pull more easily
than narrow tired ones 80 per cent of
the times when they are used Pro
fessor Writ has just completed ex-
periments with wide and with narrow
tired wagons.
Narrow tires pull harder than wide
tires because the narrow tire cuts
deeper into the top soil. The wide
tire does not cut so deep and makes a
better track on roads which are
travelled while the ground is soft. The
wide tire packs the surface into firm
roadbed.
The tests show that in corn fields,
plowed fields, field lanes and on pas
ture and alfalfa land, the draft on the
wide tire is considerably less no mat
ter what the condition of the soil.
In places where the mud is deep and
rolls up on the wheels, in ruts made
by narrow wheels, or in a surface of
mud with a hard ground beneath, the
narrow tire will pull more easily. The
narrow wheel fits the rut, on the hard
bottom Of which it runs, and it col
lects less mud than the wide tire.
Were only wide tires used, however,
this condition hardly could occur.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-08-26
What He Meant.

Many years ago there was an Ameri-
can missionary located among the In
dams in the far West who was of a
hospitable turn of mind He always
kept hard cider on the premises. If
any one of his widely scattered flock
of Indians CHANGED to call upon him,
he would bring them forth a jug of
it. One day strange Indian called
one whom he had never seen before
evidently an unconverted heather, so
far as Christianity was concerned
but converted to the consumption of
alcoholic beverages. He, as it turned
out, had been coached after the man
ner of a student at a university. His
acquaintance with English was linn
tied. He opened fire upon the aston
ished missionary thus: Abraham, ia
cob, Jonah, Job, Satan, Beelzebub."
and then paused, evidently expecting
a reply. What on earth do you
mean?" asked the missionary, he not
having been christened after any of
them, drawing himself up in a digni-
fed manner. The Indian pithily re,
piled: 81 mean cider"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-08-26
CRUDE OIL GOOD FOR SWINE
scurVy, Contracted by Animals Run
ming in Pastures Wet With Dew or
Rain, Can Be Cured.

Quite often when pigs are running
in tall pasture which is frequently wet
with dew or rain, an irritating effect
is produced on the skin and a sore
condition commonly known as scurvy
is the result. This is particularly true
when hogs are pastured in rape which
is more likely to have this effect than
other forage crops in which the pigs
may be pastured.
The remedy is to apply crude oil or
some similar substance which will
heal up the sores and protect the skin
from further irritation. Where this is
not done stOppage of growth and
sometimes the loss of the pig is the
result. Often this will be neglected
unless some special provision is made
which will permit the hog to treat it
self. Sometimes burlap sacks are
wrapped around a post in the pasture
and kept saturated with oil. Better
and more economical are some of the
modern automatic devices which will
apply oil in suitable quantities when
ever the hog rubs as he will do against
any object when his skin is irritated
from any cause.
This will be just as effective in sub
DUNG lice which often prey upon hogs
where attention is not given to their
eradication. 1t is attention to little
details of this kind which makes for
efficiency in farm management and
satisfactory profit from every depart
ment of the farm production.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-08-26

the kindness you can. Above all, do
everything in your power to set them
in love with the country life. Now,
Ned, do spare enough time from your
athletics and fishing to pay some at
tention to these good people"
Mother, mine" responded Ned with
sunshiny alacrity, I'll do just that
thing, and as to the fishing-why, I'll
have this Miss-Miss-'
Miss Edna PurtelIe."
yes, Edna a member of the An
glers' club inside of a week."
Don't be too forward, Ned" warned
his mother.
That evening two big vans loaded
with furniture arrived, and nearly all
night long their drivers we're putting
up shades, laying down rugs and get
ting the house generally in order.
1t was not until after dusk the next
evening that two members of the Pur-
telle family, mother and daughter. ar
rived. Ned was away fishing at the
time, but his mother informed him of
the circumstances upon his return.
The father must be detained in
town on business" surmised Mrs. Per
kins, for he did not come with
them"
Ned was up bright and early. He
paced around the garden, and then
hearing swish beyond the fence, man
high, that separated the two rest
dences, moved towards it. AS he tip
toed to look over, an eager, curious
faced girl likewise tiptoed, with tiny
feet resting On the inside stringer
She lifted to him a rosebud vision of
beauty.
You was peeping, I was peeping-
oh, dear!" exclaimed the little maiden
breathlessly, jumping down in confu-
sion.
Then we must be interested in one
another" suggested Ned.
"Oh, know" futtered Edna, they
told me boy lived next door"
"Boy!" began Ned resentfuIly, and
then audaciously: 81 am the boy next
door. little girl"
Edna pouted charmingly. She was
plucking at rambler rose vine that
covered the fence, reached over it and
dropped in great fragrant clusters over
into the next yard
"Oh. dear" she gasped. q mustn't do
that"
Why not?" he inquired.
They're your roses"
Not at ALL" declared Ned unbIush-
in CIV "Tha law On Dar+jrio0 fa1ooc
out here in the country, is that half Of
it belongs to each adjoining tenant
and all that hangs over it,
Then l can pick all the roses l
want?"
Why. certainly, and come over and
get as many more from our side
''Oh, couldn't do that without ask
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-08-26
NOTES OF THE SHEEP FLOCK
Animals Fit Nicely Into Modern
Farming-EarIy Maturity Is I'M
portant Point to Consider.

AS the country ages and the fertil-
ity of it's fields becomes exhausted its
appreciation of the sheep will in
crease.
Early maturity is an important quail
ity to consider in selecting sheep.
Whether you are keeping sheep for
pleasure or profit, your desires will
be fully met if your flock is of supe-
rior quality.
A strong sheep does not absolutely
need to be large one, in fact ma
iority of the strongest sheep are me-
dunn sized.
Sheep do not interfere with, but
fit nicely into modern farming.
Sell the aged ewes to a butcher be-
fore the pastures dry up.
Sell the fat lambs as soon as they
are fit, and give those left a better
chance.
One or two gentle ewes should be
left with the lambs to keep them gen
tie.
Sheep that are in any way diseased
should never be retained for breeding
stock, no matter how good fleece or
lamb they may produce.
Good lambs are money-makers.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-08-26
WHEN TO WEAN LITTLE PIGS
Many of Best Hog Men Take All
Young Animals Away at Same
Time-Good Plan Outlined,

Should the pigs be geaned at six to
eight weeks Of age, or should they be
allowed to run with the sows until
the sows wean them?
Sows which raise two filters a year
had best wean their spring litter at
six to eight weeks Of age Some farm
ers who keep sows only for one litter
are in favor of early weaving so that
the sows may be dried off rapidly and
fattened.
If the pigs are to be weaned early,
they must be taught to eat grain long
before they are weaned. Two or three
weeks old pigs will learn to nibble a
little A good grain mixture is so
parts of corn, 30 parts Of middlings,
10 parts of tankage or wheat meal
parts of oats and 5 parts of oil
meal. If skinned milk may be had
1t should certainly be fed, especially
just after weaving time.
Many of our best hog men now wean
their pigs early and Wean them all at
the same time. The day before wean-
ing they put the sows and pigs to-
gether in pen by themselves and give
the sows little or no food that day,
The pigs are allowed to drain the
soWs' udders and the next day the
pigs are put in a good pasture by
themselves and given a nutritious "a
ton, skim milk being fed if it is
available. The sows are put on short
pasture and for the first day or two
are given plenty to drink but little to
eat In short time they are dried
up completely and they may be given
good ration to get them in condition
for breeding or for market
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1915-08-26

brought by relatives of those who had taken
discovered that solution
means the clean wash brought them
OF starch in washing and ironing the shirts
AS
obtaining
tiers and no end of washed clothing had been
This is development of
this innovation following
This called
he hal
a men in