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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
FIRST STEEL CABOOSE
EASTERN RAILROAD is A PlO-
NEER IN GOOD WORK.
Designed to Provide Greatest Possible
Safety for Freight Train Crews
Equipment as Perfect as Could
Be Devised.

In order to provide greater safety
for freight train crews as well as to
prevent property loss in wrecks and
comply with various state laws regu-
lating the comfort of railway EN-
ployees, an eastern railroad has built
and placed in service the first all-steei
caboose ever constructed, according to
Popular Mechanics. The designing of
this car offered several interesting
problems, as it had to be built as
strongly as the heaviest freight cars,
while providing accommodations ap-
proximating passenger grade. The
caboose is 81 feet long, and above the
floor has been constructed without
posts, the necessary rigidity being
achieved by means of sheet-steel bulk
heads. The equipment includes three
pairs of hunks, the lower ones serv-
ing as seats, for which the upper
hunks, when lowered, serve as backs.
A stove for heating and cooking, wa
ter cooler, washstand, refrigerator,
desk, and lockers and drawers for the
crews personal belongings, are also
provided. w.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
MANY LITTLE JOBS
FOR BUSY FARMERS
Landing Ewes Should Have
Proper Shelter-CIean Up
the Henhouse.

Sorry you did not fix up house for
the lambing ewes? May lose enough
lambs to pay for new one.
The spring pigs are coming along
now. Thousands die every year from
too much cold wind.
Get into the grape vines with knife
and pruning shears, if you know how
to prune. Otherwise keep out
Now is the time when the lice get
busy in the chicken house. At EN-
with the kerosene can and the white
wash brush.
What pity to let the baby chicks
perish in the cold wind for lack OF
shelter.
The spring crop of calves is coming
now. Dehorn them by using a bit of
caustic instead of saving them off
year later.
Do not give the sows nest too much
litter at narrowing time. Many pigs
are destroyed by a too full nest.
No nest ever made for hen beats a
half barrel laid on it's side, particularly
for March weather.
The bees will be taking spring
flight. Examine them after they come
back to ascertain if they have enough
food to last till the blossoms come.
A strong spring wind will dry all the
moisture out of the tree roots if left
exposed long while planting.
The climbing cutworm is working
away on the newly set trees and vines
these nights. Keeps out of sight in
daytime. Keep him away by strip
of stiff paper put around the plant and
pushed an inch into the soil.
Make fair written contract with
the hired man. Saves misunderstand-
ings.
An hour in the workshop repairing
now will save time later when it is
more valuable.
The heavy rains and strong winds
will push over the fence posts.
Straighten them up.
Potatoes will sprout now If given
light and air.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
RIGHT TREATMENT
FOR FENCE POSTS
Pile Neatly and Allow Them to
Thoroughly Season-PIan
for Charring.

When most farmers prepare to build
fences they set green posts and then
when they begin to rot off at the top
of the ground after four or five years
they grumble and fret great deal
about the trials and tribulations of
fencing. AS matter of fact, il the
posts are neatly piled in the dry and
allowed to thoroughly season, and then
are treated by charring the end which
is to be placed in the ground, and the
top, which should be slanting. is
painted with red lead and linseed oil,
they will last so or 60 years.
Here is the method for charring.
Build heap of logs 10 or IL feet long,
set it on fire, and when burning brisk
ly, lay upon the fire the ends of as
many posts as it will accommodate
crosswise. Turn them over a time or
tw0. and when slight coal has formed
upon the surface, throw them into a
pile and put on others. You can treat
four or five hundred q day and IL
practiced by every farmer when build
ing fence 1t would save enough in a
few years to build good roads in every
community
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
WAS NOT A FLORAL TRIBUTE
One, Though Certainly Some
what Embarrassing.

The curtain was rung up for the
third time, and Margaret Blake
stepped forward and responded to the
prolonged reclamation of her admiring
audience. She spoke with graceful
modesty that charmed, then gathered
her floral tributes. Was it the intense
excitement or the binding array of
footlights that dazzled and confused
her?
Quietly reposing on q lower box
rail by the proscenium she saw a mag
nificent bunch of wholesaler favorite
fower-ostensibly placed there for her
by sweet-faced, darkhaired lady be-
hind them.
With applause still ringing in her
ears, Miss Blake leaned forward and
took the lovely bouquet. acknowledge
ing the gift by pretty bow.
The sweet-faced, dark-haired lady
reached after her with a strange and
sudden haste.
Give me back my hat" she cried.
Historically.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
MAKING MONEY IN
PORK PRODUCTION
Quality Is More important Than
Size in Breeders-Avoid
EIephantine Animal.

1t is mighty hard work to correct
your lack of ability as feeder by
buying a coarse-boned breeding boar.
The best type of swine have been
evolved from the experience of breed
ers and packers.
Quality is more important than size
In selecting the breeding stock.
We are at the beginning of pc
riod' of enlightenment concerning the
possibilities of hog farming.
Heavy feeding does not always pro-
duce proportionate gains.
At five months of age, the pigs most
valuable asset is about one hundred
and twenty pounds of bone and muscu-
lar development, aided and supported
by keen and natural appetite.
Avoid the elephaptine hog or steer
they are freaks that cannot be re-
lied upon to give a carcass of great
value or weight.
The liberty of pasture affords the
growing pigs the exercise necessary
to produce perfect health and body
development.
Get farm, young man, and raise
good hogs,
1t is mistake to think we can
find profit in buying milk feeds to
supplement our corn crop, and neg
lect to provide pasture and forage
crops.
Coarseness indicates low vitality,
sluggishness and slow-feeding quail
ties.
The ideals of the breeder and pack
er are coming more and more toward
one common standard. The demands
of the packers are the reason for
show-yard excellence.
When farmers recognize the posi-
bility of exclusive pork production as
specialized branch of animal indus
try, and evolve systems of farm man
agement adapted to the business, it
will become attractive as a business
proposition, and herds of well-bred
hogs will become common in many 10.
calities where few good hogs are now
seen.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
True Christian Spirit.

Notwithstanding all that have suf
fered, Notwithstanding all the pain and
WEAKNESS and anxiety and sorrow that
necessarily enter into life, and the in
ward errings that are more than all,
j would enter my record with devout
thanksgiving to the great Author of
my being, profound gratitude for all
that belongs to my life and being
for JOY and sorrow, health and sick
ness, success and disappointment, vir'
tue and temptation, for life and death
because l believe that all is meant
for good.-Orville Dewey.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
PHONES ON RAILWAY TRAINS
Advantages That Are Soon to Be De-
rived by the Man in Pull
man Car.

at will be only short time until
the passenger on a Pullman car can
telephone to the dining car ahead and
order his meal, and not have to wait
in the bread line as is now the case"
remarked H. A. Chappelle, a railroad
man of Chicago, at the Raleigh, &C
cording to the Washington Post "The
experimental engineer of one of the
large western railroads has developed
an apparatus whereby complete sys-
tenn of communication will soon be in
stalled on overland trains. With this
system it will be possible to talk
to a moving train one hundred miles
away from a station it is said. The
train can talk back to a station, or the
passengers can talk from car to car
"It is claimed that by investigation
and experimentation, the mistakes that
might be made in trying to put an Or
binary ship wireless apparatus on a
train have been avoided. Storage bat
teries will not have to be depended
upon, because the electricity used on
trains is supplied by generator in
the baggage car.
Gone big advantage will be that an
operator will be able to reach whole
right-of-way at any time whether the
wires are down or not, and it will be
possible to talk to a passenger train
at any time, whether the train is in
motion or at a standstill. 1t is said
that the cost of equipping a train will
be only nominal"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
BUCkWKEAT is BEST
GRAIN, FOR POULTRY
Chickens and Turkeys Allowed to
Harvest Crop - TrampIing
Down Does No Damage.
(By A. J. LEGG.)


Buckwheat is the best grain crop
that we have ever tried to furnish a
foraging ground for poultry.
| SOW late in July and allow the
chickens and turkeys to harvest it.
They are all the better for the exer-
else and the only cost is for the seed
and work of preparing the soil and
sowing 1t.
Late in last July l sowed about one
acre where the chickens and turkeys
could have free access. They began
to work on it as soon as the grains
were filled and were at work on it for
nearly two months.
If it is trampled down on the ground
the grains will not damage unless 1t is
warm enough to sprout them. Buck
wheat will lie on the ground all win
ter and grow in the spring.
A buckwheat stubble makes an ex.
cellent feeding ground for poultry dur
ing pleasant days throughout the fall
and winter season and the poultry en-
Joy the exercise.
Our hens, pullets and September
Matched chicks are all in fine condi-
ton, largely due to the buckwheat
to which they have free access.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
DESIGNS A NEW LOCOMOTIVE
Latest Type of Freight Fuller Proves
Both Powerful and Eco
nomical.

To build an engine with pulling ca
pacity and yet without a too healthy
appetite for coal is the problem Of
the locomotive designer of today, OBJ
serves the Travel Magazine. The Bur
lington system is just now boasting
some freight pullers that seem to have
come near solving this problem. They
are tremendous engines in the first
place, each weighing with its tender
and ready for service nearly 300 tons
-576,5S0 pounds, to be exact. The
length over all for each of these en-.
gines is SO feet 915 inches, which
brings it within the limitations of
most of the big ninety foot turn tables
along the system.
While these engines are not of the
extreme size of some of the giant
pushers along the Erie & Santa F'e,
they have begun to make service rec.
ords out along the Burlington One
of them has already drawn a train OF
81 cars over a division 1876 miles long
and possessing maximum and steady
grades of three-tenths of l per cent.
This performance was accomplished
while the locomotive consumed 6.64
pounds of coal to the 100 ton mile at
IS cents a ton, equal to nearly thirty
cents worth Of coal for 10000 ton
mile Put the other way around and
reduced to actual figures, this lusty
little boy on the Burlington hauled
10000 gross tons of freight one mile
for 29.70 cents. No wonder that the
"stove committees" out in the round
houses along the Burlington's busy
line-those shrewd old fellows who or
every road know more about its run
ming than all of the executive heads
put together-forget to brag about the
engines of yesterday and begin tc
grant an ungrudging praise to this
newcomer among the motive power
units.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
Change Gears According to Speed.

Though speedometers are used to as
certain the speed at which the car is
being driven, there is another use, |. e.,
to determine the exact moment when
it is time to change gears. OF course,
the time when gears should be shifted
will vary slightly. according to the
conditions under which the gear is be.
ing driven. 1t may be taken that
when the speedometer hand points to
ten miles an hour a change to second
speed should be made. Thus the en-
CINE and the car will be saved the
unnecessary racking when the engine
commences to labor
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14

by JAMES G. FULLER, Wisconsin Ex-
pertinent Station.)
Sow patch of rape. 1t will furnish
the growing pigs with a wealth of pal.
atable green feed, and if given
chance to come back" will produce
crop after crop of excellent succu-
lence.
The most satisfactory method of
growing this crop for swine is to pro-
vide three yards of about equal size
and seed them three weeks apart with
one and one-fourth bushels of oats and
five pounds of rape to the acre. The
first lot, of course, is generally sown
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
Effective Economy.

The saving of small things has been
followed by a material reduction in
orders for new equipment. Last year,
on a prominent line, the retrenchment
in orders for small supplies decreased
nearly 10 per cent. Perhaps the per-
sonal responsibility of the employees
also reduced the number of break.
downs and ordinary mishaps in shops
and yards, which would amount to as
much as the actual saving of small
things.-Sunday Magazine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
Russia Building Railroad Lines.

Railroad surveys are being pushed
ahead in Russia Notwithstanding the
war. The cabinet has recently al
located credit of $1,6O0,0OO to the
preliminary works for the construc-
ton Of a railway from KEN to Kola,
on the Arctic ocean. 1t has also au-
thorized credit for the preliminary
works in connection with the build
ing of lines from the region north
of the Archangel-Vologna railway
to a point which will be selected as
a port in the government of Arch
angel.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
Held Not Negligence.

Where a railroad engineer APP
preaching a private stock crossing
gave stock signals, and could not rea-
sonably expect that COW would re-
main on the track until the train was
too close to be stopped, the killing of
it was not Northumberland vs..
Chicago, Burlington C Quincy Rail-
road Company, Missouri III S. w. 10.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
Record for Locomotive.

The fastest time on record for dis
lance of over 440 miles was made
by the Lake Shore & Michigan South
ern railroad, from Buffalo to Chi
cago, in June, 1906 The fastest long
distance run less than 440 miles was
on the New York Central railroad
September II, 1895, from New York to
Buffalo, 1861 miles, in 407 minutes
actual time. Average speed. GA IL
miles an hour, with two stops and %
slowups, and on January 1, 1903, from
Albany to Buffalo, 302 miles, in 295
minutes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
Hint for Starting Motor.

When starting an engine better
mixture may be obtained by not open
ing the throttle too wide. Two or
three turns with the spark off and
a single turn with the spark on will
give the best start. Spinning the mo-
tor should never be done with sse
spark on. The object of spinning"
is to fill the combustion chambers
with an explosive mixture, and this
can be done with safety only when
the spark is off. After the chambers
are filled single pull upward will
secure all the results of the spinning,
and eliminate danger from Blackjack
ing.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
Crews Called BY Movie Screens.

Through an arrangement between
the railroad authorities and the mo.
tion picture theaters at Sayre, Pa,
freight crews are regularly called for
their runs by brief notices flashed on
the screens at the theaters. When a
given crew is wanted, this fact is sim
ply telephoned to all the theaters, and
the notice is flashed on the screen in
some such form as James Brown
Thomas Jones, William Black, and
John White boarded for 10 p. m
This means that the men are seized
uled to take out a freight train at
the time given, but other details, OF
course. must be found out by the men
from the regular train board at the
railroad offices. The plan was origi
mated with the idea of permitting the
men off duty to seek recreation about
the town without running the risk OF
being missed by the call boy when
wanted-Popular Mechanics.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
SO ENGINES for Burlington.

An order of so locomotives for the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
has been received by the Baldwin Lo-
connective works at Philadelphia. It
calls for the expenditure of more
than s1,0O0,000 and the work will be
evenly divided between the shops
there and the branch at Eddystone
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14

as soon in the spring as the ground is
dry enough to work.
The pigs can be turned on to the
first lot as soon as the rape is from
IA to IS inches in height, and as soon
as they have eaten it down to four or
five leaves to the stock, the pigs are
rotated from one lot to the other
throughout the summer.
If well supplied with satisfactory
forage during the summer months,
pigs can be finished for market and
fattened off quickly as soon as the
crop natures.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14

SOAAA AAeAo NCAAO
more for me than
anything else, and I
had the best physi-
clan here. l was so
weak and nervous
that l could not do
my work and suf-
fered with pains low
down in m y right
side for a year or
more. l took Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14

Decorated With One When He Left.
"Uh-well yo' honah," explained
Brother Stimmerjohn, de gentleman
come to muh house and 'gunter norate
loud and coas bout fou' dollahs, and
-"
"Oh, he had a bill did he?"
"Nussah! He never had no bill
when he come dar-he des had COM
mon ev'yday nose. But-uh-yaw! haw!
haw! haw!-yo' ortuh seed it when he
left; sassah, yo' dess ortuh seed ill.,
Kansas City Star.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
IMPORTANT TO Mothers
Unreasonable.

Your board bill is two months in
arrears, Mr.. ballroom. Can you give
me something on account?"
Good heavens, woman! Do you
suppose I'd stay here if / had money
enough to pay for my board?"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
Doubtful Assurances,

do you think they approved of my
Easter sermon?" asked one of our
well-known ministers.
eyes, l think So" replied his wife;
"they were all nodding"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
oh. he had a bill. did he?"
This VIII Interest Mothers.

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children
for Eeverishness, Headache, Bad Stomach,
Teething Disorders, move and regulate the
Bowels and destroy worms. They break Up
Colds in "a hours. They are SO pleasant to taxa
children like them. Used by mothers for 20
years. All Druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Ad.
dress, A. s. olmsted, LIE Roy, NJ Y.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14

A man who is pound foolish may not
be penny wise.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14

Matrimony may cure loves blind.
ness.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14
FARMERS Wife
TOO ILL TO WORK
A Weak, Nervous Sufferer
Restored to Health by Ly-
dia E. Pinkhan's Veg
etable Compound.

Kasota, MINI. 81 am glad to say
that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1915-05-14

OF course marriage is failure If
the liabilities exceed the assets.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03
SLAvONIAN CATHOLICS WILL
 HAVE TWO DAYS CELEBRATION
 OF SILVER JUBILEE OF PARISH
NAVAL RESERVES
 TO BE INCREASED
 FOR US. DEFENSE

Washington, Sept. 3.-Publication of President Wilson's letters to Secreta- ries Carlson and Daniels calling upon them to prepare for him definite pro- grams for strengthening the army and navy brought the question of national defense to the forefront again today. The President will submit the propos- als, together with his recommendation to Congress at it's forthcoming ses- sion.
 Another angle to the question of na- tional defense is the announcement by Acting Secretary Roosevelt of the plans for he building up of an ade- quate national reserve in addition to the existing state militia and the reg ular reserve created by the last Con- gress through mobilization of yachts men and powerboat owners and their craft with navy reserve ships in training squadron.
 The Presidents letter although writ ten last month has just been made public. In it he asks Secretaries Gar rison and Daniels to get the advice of departmental experts and submit plans formulated in very definite terms.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03
JAPANESE ENVOY,
 SERIOUSLY ILL,
 LEAVING MEXICO

Galveston, Sept. 3.-The first direct news from vera Cruz since the recent hurricane broke the Mexican cable, was received early today in a cable gram which stated the Japanese min ister, Adatchi, had left Mexico City and was en route to Japan. Illness caused him to break his journey at Orizaba last night, but his secretary, Senjiro Ohashi, continued to Vera Cruz.
 'NThe situation has been horrible in Mexico City until recently Ohashi said, but due to the constitutional administration and the sterling quali- ties of General Gonzales, matters are rapidly improving and normal condf- tions soon will be restored. The people were disposed to be unfriendly and hostile to the Carranza government in the beginning, but now they are con- vtnced that he is the only man to save the country. They are waiting his ar rival to greet him with enthusiasm"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-03
WIPE, ACCUSED OF SHAVING HUSBAND,
 DIRECTS FUNERAL
of Burial of Husband For Plotting Whose Death She is Held-Lawyer Says Dead Mans Estate Will Total Over Half a Million

in check the inquisitive spectators, other officers of the city force and Bristol county detectives were search ing a brook near the scene of the mur- der on the Nayatt Road in Burlington. According to the story of one of the three negroes who accuses Mrs Mohr of having hired them to kill her hus- band, the revolver with which Dr. Mohr was killed and Miss Emily G.. Burger, his secretary and companion on Tuesday nights automobile ride, was wounded, were thrown into this brook after the shooting.
 Arthur Cushing, Mrs. Mohr's attor- ney, who succeeded in obtaining Mrs. Mohr's release last night only by of fering his own property as part secur- tty for bail bond, said that he would begin a search for the doctors will as soon as the funeral was over.
 He had full charge of the books and papers of the doctor, he said, and he expected to make a careful search for valuable documents within the next few days. He could not estimate the value of Dr. Mohr's estate, but friends of the physician who knew the extent of his practice said that the property would be worth $5OO,OoO. They esti- mated that Dr. Mohr'S income during the past IS or 20 years from $50,ooO to $75,0O0 a year.