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The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26
REPORTED GERMANY WILL SUBMIT
 OUTLINE IF PEACE CONDITIONS

today, Premier Asquith having so far recovered as to be able to be ln attendance to listen to Yice-Admiral Sir Frederick-Tower Hamilton's re- port on the naval situation in the Dardanelles, where he was recently of his command in order to return to this city to make a state ment to the Admiralty of the pro gress of the investment and bonn bardment of the Turks.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26

Bob" McGiIliYray, the popular captain Of the steamship City of Seattle,>is one of the happiest salts on the Southeastern Alaska run. He has just received from Detroit a huge and very handsome silver loving cup, the gift of the "Detroit TweLty" band of tourists who en- livened ono of the summer excur- sion cruise of the City of Seattle last July.
 The Detroit Twenty" made the Alaska trip this year, and in 1914, and the party, which was composed largely of physicians from the Mich igan metropolis, made things hum while aboard the ship, and in the ports at which the steamer touched in Southeastern Alaska. On the oc- casion of their last voyage to Alas ka, Captain McGillivray did a great deal to make them comfortable aboard ship, and gave them honor
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26

London, Oct, 26-It is reported here that Prince Won Beulow will shortly submit to President Wilson and King AIphonse of Spain all out line Of tho conditions in which Ger many will agree to discuss terms of peace with the quadrupIe entente powers
 The British cabinet is in session
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26

SeryIan troops have withdrawn from their positions along the Dan ube and the Austrians have crossed the river and now have a free and unobstructed passage through
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26
4 CABINET CRISIS IN RUMANIA
 OVER INTERVENTION IN THE MAR

London, Oct. 26-There is re- ported to be a cabinet crisis in Ru- mania, owing to a difference of opinion between the members as to whether or not Rumania shall in- teryene in the European war.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26

Amsterdam, Oct. 26-It is esti- mated that the total German losses since the commencement of the European war have reached two million and twenty one thousand men in killed, wounded and missing and that the total losses of the
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26

Authentic adYices were received this morning of a second air raid against Venice by Austrian aviatOrs. The attack Is said to have been in effective and the damages inflicted but slight,
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26
GERMANS ADMIT CRUISER
 PRLNZ ADALBERT SUNK

Berlin, Oct. 26-It was admitted
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26

The French forces have retaken Cratsko, while the SerYian south ern forces have recaptured the entire left bank of the river Vardar, Tur- key in Europe.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26

by the German war office today that the cruiser Prinz Adalbert had been sunk near Libau and nearly all her crew lost.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26

Paris. Oct. 26 - The Italian steamer ScilIa has been sunk by a German submarine flying the Aus trian flag, according to a report received here today.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26
GERMAN AND CENTRAL POWERS
 LOSE OVER FIVE MILLION MEN

central powers, including Turkey will amount to five million men.
 Italian aviators bOmbarded Trieste on Sunday, but there is no report of any damage being caused either to property or to life.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26
CABINET
 AGAIN RESIGNS

Rome, Oct 26-It is reported to- day that the Premier Zaimas cab met in Greece has resigned.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26

King George has gone to France To visit the British soldiers on the battlefield.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26
BLASEb MARINER RECEIVES \
 SILVER CUP FROM DETROIT

ary command of the social depart ments of the "Seattle" A few days ago Mrs. McGillivary received from a Seattle express office a bulky package, shipped from Detroit. In the container was the loving cup.
 It is solid silver, lined with gold and engraved on one side, is: "Pre- santed to Captain R. D. McGilliYray as a token of esteem, by his De troit friends; Voyage July S-19' 1915. <.
 The names of the donors are as follows: !,
 Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Babcock.
 Dr. and Mrs. c 3. Burgess.
 Dr. and Mrs. c. B. Evans.
 Dr. and Mrs. E. W. Haass.
 Dr. and Mrs. L. c. Hanna.
 Dr. and Mrs. L. J. Hurschman.
 Dr. and Mrs. J B. Kennedy.
 Frederick fleming, Frederick J. Kennedy, Edwin L. Miller and Dr. Albert McMichael.
The daily Alaskan., 1915-10-26

Bulgaria from OrsOvO, where fifty and lighters laden with of war are assembled.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
MAKE GRAIN ELEVATOR
Cannot Be ExCeIIed for Prepare
ton Of Seed.
All Parts of Device Can Be Obtained
From Old and Discarded Maehln-
ery-TotaI Cost Is Not More
Than Five Dollars.

BY obtaining a belt from someone
who owns a threshing machine you
can easily make an elevator for ham
ding loose grain from one bin to an
other or for sacking. The use of this
machine cannot be excelled when the
time for cleaning seed grain comes,
writes George Bersaw of Mora, Mimi,
in Missouri Valley Farmer. With it
one man can furnish a steady run of
grain into the tanning mill while the
other runs the mill The elevator also
is handy for loading grain in wagon
box. One man can easily load 100
bushels with it in less than an hour.
To make this elevator you will need
four boards s feet long. planed on
both sides; one secondhand drive belt
8 inches wide and IA feet long; two
3 or A inch pulleys with shaft II
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
EVERY FARM NEEDS A HOIST
Many Little inexpensive Contrlvances
Can Be Built for General Use
Around the Farm.

There is lot of heavy lifting about
farm work There are, however, many
little inexpensive contrivances, some
of which it is necessary to buy and
others of which can be homemade,
which will save a great deal of very
hard labor. One of the things which
should be on every farm is a light
hoist costing So. or possibly a little
more, the cost depending upon the
lifting capacity, A hoist 1000 to 1000
capacity is the most satisfactory size
for general farm work
With a good hoist you can do all the
heavy lifting without calling your
neighbor or interrupting the hired man
in his work. 1t is surprising the great
number Of jobs on which hoist can
be used, at a great saving of time
and labor. A hoist will lift stones,
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29

or large boxes should be placed where
they can find them, preferably on the
ground so that the hen may walk into
the nest; IL she has to jump down
into the barrel or box the chances are
some eggs will be broken. Seclude
these boxes or barrels by partly COW
ering them with brush or straw. After
the hen begins to lay, remove the eggs
each day, placing one or two hens
eggs in their place.
II the hen lays more than fifteen
eggs, give all over that number to a
chicken hen, but when the eggs are
Matched, give all to the turkey hen.
After the hen has been set shut her
In safely from anything that might
harm her, but let her off the nest each
morning very early, shutting her in
again when she returns
Some claim that the chicken hen
makes the best mother, but If those
who claim this will notice when feed
ing young turkeys with chicken hen.
they will see that often the turkeys
will, after eating a few mouthfuls go
off in search of an insect until called
back by their unnatural mother and
encouraged to stuff themselves with
unnatural food
They do not wish to eat much at one
time and when being fed, should, at
the same time, be supplied with wa
ter; but when allowed to roam they
do very well if watered night and
morning, but, If they come in from
the field during the day it is because
they want water.
Nature has taught them to eat in
sects almost exclusively when young,
while the same teacher instructs the
turkey hen to take her brood where
such food is abundant, allowing them
to secure it for themselves.
The hen scarcely ceases her watch
long enough to secure the necessary
food to sustain herself, for she seems
always to have her head in the air to
see that the coast is clear.
The turkey crop Matched previous
to June should attain good growth
by the last of November, the cock
birds reaching ten to twelve pounds.
The turkey is not fully matured
until two years of age, and in his
prime at three years, and nearly as
good at four years old. 1t is. there
fore, mistake to sell off all the older
birds and retain the young ones for
breeding purposes.
Young turkeys are of a delicate
nature until they are fully feathered |
and have thrown out a red on their |
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
BEST FEEDING FOR PROTEIN
Necessity for Giving More Than One
Grain--Wheat Bran, Corn and
Slower Make Good Ration.

Dairymen who are on short al.
lowance in the matter of grain natur-
ally wishs to keep down the expense
bill, and make the mistake of feeding
one grain only. For example, a cor
respondent asks which would give
him the best results, corn or wheat
bran, when, as a matter of fact, he
should feed both to get anywhere
near balanced ration, and they
should be fed in the proportion Of
one part of the wheat bran to six parts
of the corn. This, with corn stoyer
as roughage and with an occasional
feed of oil meal or a change to some
of the concentrated feeds like gluten
meal. will supply fairly balanced
ration and not costly one. Those
who have to do with farm affairs are
coming more and more to figure out
these problems instead Of guessing at
what they should do or working on
the same plans they followed years
ago, when conditions were, perhaps,
much different. This is going in the
right direction and the ultimate ~
suits will not fail to be satisfactory.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
PROPER RATIoNs FOR LAMBS
No Animal Capable Of Giving Better
Returns Than sheep-Good, Warm
Sheds Are Essential.

AS economical consumers of rough
age and homegrown grains, no animal
is capable Of giving better returns
than the sheep. Many farmers have
found lamb feeding a profitable bust.
ness. Feeding range lambs seems es-
pecially adapted to many farms where
labor is available during the win
ter, and where one of the chief ends of
stock feeding is the resulting manure.
On such farms band of range lambs
will clean up the fields in the fall,
utilize the farm roughage, and leave
q large supply of manure, besides pay
ing profit for their food and attend
ance
Good lambs, bought early in the fall,
and started to pasture and fall for
age, may gain from eight to twelve
pounds per head at very low cost.
such lambs are in much better condi-
ton to put on full rations of grain, and
Will make better gains than those pur-
chased later and put on full feed at
once.
The lambs should go into the feed
lot before the weather is cold and
changeable, What they will CLEAN
from the fields after the first stormy
weather will hardly Offset the losses
from exposure and dampness Good
warm sheds that open toward the
south are best.
During the full feeding period they
will thrive better if kept in punches OF
forty or fifty. In order to do this, the
shed may be subdivided Yards and
sleeping quarters must be dry and
clean. Foul air and dampness are two
things that sheep cannot stand. The
feed troughs for grain should be fast
ened securely to the racks to prevent
waste. Succulent feed adds to the eff
ficiency of the ration. Roots and corn
silage are the best for conditioning
lambs at this time of the year
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
POULTPYNOTES
lANaGSss u 81 aaco ]

Stronger fertility is secured from
birds on range.
Allow the hens free range. Wire
in the garden, not the hens.
Spray the brood icoops once week
with some good solution and move to
fresh ground.
Be sure and feed the table scraps
to the fowls. Milk is one of the best
feeds for egg production.
See that there is absolutely no draft
in the poultry house. The birds can
stand much cold. but drafts will kill
them.
A flock of chickens will level a pile
of sand or chaff as often as 1t is
raised for them The exercise thov
get in this way is the best sort for
them.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Dairy THE TINES Livestock
PAGE FOR THE FARMER
crops Hints

heads, which usually occurs at about
three months Of age. After that they
are hardy, and may be allowed un-
limited range at all times.
To fatten turkeys for market they
should be confined in pens Of about
ten feet square and from six to eight
birds to the pen. The quarters must
be warm and dry, and the birds must
be protected from the rains and storm.
A good fattening food is a mash of
two parts bran and shorts, one-fourth
ground wheat, mixed with a little
water. Whole corn and wheat is also
an excellent fattener, and they may be
given as much of this as they will eat.
A little beef fat, finely chopped. given
once or twice week, is relished and
has good effect. Skim milk should
be kept before the birds always
Turkey raising can be made very
profitable business, particularly in the
West, where all kinds of grain grow at
small cost
1t will pay well If only the regular
markets are used, but if a private
trade is worked up, which is easily
done in any part of the country to-
day, the profits can easily be increased
from 25 to so per cent.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
THICK CREAM GAINS FAVOR
Colorado State Dairy Inspector An
swers One of Most Common Cues
tions Bothering Dairymen.

(By r. McCANN, State Dairy Inspector,
Colorado Agricultural College)
One Of the most common questions
arising among cream producers and
handlers of cream is that of how thick
cream should be skinned, when the
came Is to be used in butter-making.
Cream skinned SO as to test be-
tween 35 per cent and 40 per cent is of
the most desirable thickness. Thick
cream keeps better than thin cream,
there is also not the waste in handling
a smaller bulk of cream than there is
of larger amounts in the way of
hauling and express charges, more
over the skim milk is kept on the farm
for feeding calves and pigs. If it is
too thick, there is loss in some Of
the cream going over into the skim
milk and also considerable waste
from the amount of cream that will
adhere to cans and utensils.
A uniform richness of cream may
be obtained at each separation.
1. BY using the same amount OF
waste or skim milk when flushing the
bowl
2. By keeping the cream screw the
same.
8. BY running the separator at the
same and at uniform speed
A. By having the temperature of
the milk the same each time.
5. BY keeping uniform inflow to
the bowl.
6. BY washing the separator thor
oughly after using.
Exactly the same butterfat test
cannot be expected every time from
the observation of the above. as there
are other factors entering affecting re-
suits, but a close following of the six
named checks on variation will work
wonders toward getting a uniform
thickness of cream throughout the
season.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Farm Derrick.

logs, sacks of grain to loft. pull stumps
and small trees, lift pump pipe from
wells, bind loads Of hay, lift windmills.
change wagon boxes, etc.
A hoist hung in the wagon shed will
pull the hay rack or wagon box up out
of the way when not in use Drive
into the shed, attach the hoist TO the
hay rack, put it up and drive out from
under it, and when again wanted on
the wagon, back the wagon under the
rack and let it down onto the gear
A hoist can be used to good ad.
vantage when butchering for lifting
the carcass 1t enables the man to
swing up 300-pound hog where it
would otherwise take two or three
men on a dead lift
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Handy Grain Elevator.

inches long and two sprockets from an
old binder, one inches and the other
as large as you can get it for easy
drive, say 10 or il inches. Put a
crank handle on the larger sprocket
If the elevator is to be run by hand,
or If by power arrange for a small
pulley. The drive chain to work over
the sprockets should be feet long.
Also bracket irons will be needed for
placing the drive pulley on and for at
taching the entire elevator to the
grain bin. The cost of this will be
about IS in ALL For clippers use to-
mato cans, or anything suitable.
The S-foot boards are used to make
the hopper spout through which the
grain is carried. The pulleys are
placed inside the hopper spout, about
8 inches from each end. and the con-
veyor belt runs over them The
sprocket wheels are outside of the
hopper spout. The small sprocket is
ON the shaft of the lower pulley, and
the power is thus trapsmitted from
the large sprocket wheel to the pulley
belt, to which the carrier cans are at
tached. A pointed stick at the lower
end runs into the wheat and holds
that end solid. A pointed piece IL or
16 inches long at the lower end keeps
the hopper working straight down into
the grain. The triangular frame is
used to keep the larger sprocket wheel
on. This frame is fastened to the
hopper by bolts and is shaped to fit on
the grain bin.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
BRIDGES Should Be Painted.

Recent investigations of the Illinois
state highway department indicate
that few highway steel bridges in that
state are painted after their final COM
pletion and acceptance. Very serious
corrosion results and is illustrated in
a number of cases, says the En-
cheering Record. A serious factor
in the corrosion of iron and steel is
the use Of salt to clear the roadway Of
snow and ice. This was considered
at least partly responsible for the bad
condition Of truss members in
bridge fifteen years old.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Reflex KICKING strap for the Cow.

kicking COW is an aggravation about
the dairy and the defice referred to
has been recently patented and is a
simple means of educating her to be
good. 1t will be quickly seen how
the device is applied to the hind leg
of the bovine and also how any pres
sure exerted upon the device, as in
an effort to kick, the energy thus
expended will give her sharp re-
hinder that she is not to have it all
her own way.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
MidwInter Hoo Feed.

The most economical food for pigs
farrowed in late summer to be mar
keted in midwinter. is millfeed and
wheat-bran slop, in connection with
grass and clover pasture. When the
pasture fails, pour the slop over fine
cut clover hay, mixing in a few hand.
fuls of flaxseed meal; this makes a
rich and nourishing food. In cold
weather scald the hay. The last feed
ing month give ear corn after the
slop is eaten.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Doc Not Always at Fault.

1t is not at all unlikely that the mas
ter of dog is more to blame for his
sheep-killing propensities than the
dog himself. Whenever dog is half
starved, he is apt to take up with the
first plan that enters his head for Sc
curing a little something to eat. In
this state he makes his first visit to
some sheepfold or pasture and hence
forth is a ruined canine.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Distinguishing cobblers.

. Young gobblers may be distin-
guished from the females by being
heavier, more masculine in action and
appearance, feathers more shiny, more
carunculated on the head, develop
ment Of the 'tassel'' on the breast A
little experience viii enable one to
readily distinguish the sexes.
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
EGG COLLECTOR is UNIQUE
Series of chutes Arranged, All Lead
Ing to Same Padded Pan--No
Danger of Breaking.

Hens need dark place to lay in;
so 1t is convenient to build small
house for them within barn or shed.
But it is always difficult to get the
eggs out of such laying coop, If it is
built economically. To overcome this
obstacle | have arranged series of
chutes, all leading to the same padded
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29

ers,' and who are known in the neigh.
borhood as bad men to have trouble
with"
Most of our dirt roads are SO abused
in winter that they have to be par
TALLY rebuilt in the spring. This eats
up the road tax and the days of road
work that might be expected to make
the roads Of this year better than those
Of last. Late fall, winter and early
spring are the seasons when the roads
should be guarded against abuse. Why
not try policy of road conservation"
in your neighborhood this year?
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
ROAD /.
BULL. Ding
GUARD AGAINST ROAD ABUSE
Some Punishment Should Be Melted
Out to Those Who Deliberately Cut
Up Highways Built for Public.

You bought and paid for the road
that runs by your doorway and the
other roads in your township and
county. That is, you paid your part
in building the highway, If you are a
property owner you paid that part
directly In SO many dollars and cents
of road and bridge tax. If you are a
renter you are not escaping. You are
paying in rent and indirectly.
The road is your road. If it is cut
up by the hauling of heavy loads on
narrow-tired wagons you will have to
stand for the trouble and discomforts
of next winter, when the ruts are hub
deep. II you permit heavy rains to
scour out the foundations of a wooden
culvert and that culvert finally falls
in or is washed out, you, as one of the
daily users of that road, will be dis.
commoded.
Most Of our roads are dirt highways,
writes II, S. Sullivan of Missouri in
Farm Progress Only a small, a very
small, percentage of the highways of
this country are hard roads" One
hundred years from now we may have
the beautiful metal highways such
as are found in the older European
countries, but this is a big land of
ours. 1t is country Of magnificent
distances, and the rock and concrete
roads are going to be built very
slowly.
1t is the dirt highway that suffers
from carolessness. Two or three men
in a neighborhood can spoil more miles
of highway than the remainder of the
community can build. They are abus-
ers of what other men build. They
will pile on the heaviest load it is
possible to pull and they never use
the wide-tired vehicles that might help
the wagon track stand up under the
big loads.
Good or bad weather is all the same
to them if they have something they
want hauled, The sensible man knows
that the use of dirt road for heavy
hauling in bad weather win spoil the
highway. He won't do any team
ing that he can avoid, but the road
butcher will go right ahead. He will
spoil his own roads and the roads of
others.
There ought to be some punishment
provided for the man who will DELHI
erately cut up the roadway built by the
community for the use of the whole
community and paid for with the pub
lie money. Some states have laws
providing punishment for the man who
Overloads, who uses "skidding logs"
who fills mudholes full of old rails,
chunks and poles, and who will pile a
Wheelbarrow full of rocks in a rut,
to become a menace to all vehicles as
soon as the road dries off.
But these laws are seldom enforced.
Not from any lack of offenders or from
the lack of knowledge as to just who
the offenders are. Good people are
afraid to complain against such men.
They are found in every neighborhood
and they go along for years in dom
ineering, overbearing manner, working
all manner of injustices because they
have their bluff in. ON the commu-
nifty. They are the gentry whose cat
tie are rogues, whose fences are al.
ways bad, whose dogs are sheep kill
The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1915-01-29
Novel Egg Collector.

pan. Each nest is connected to the
main chute and each has hole in the
bottom of 1t and when an egg is laid
it rolls down to the "egg-room" of my
laying coop. A small door into the
"egg-room" can be opened and the
eggs taken out without trouble. If
the chutes are carefully made there
need be no danger of the eggs break
ing en- route.--Technica World.