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Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
EASIER TO PREVENT
 THAN TO CURE ROUP
Most Satisfactory Method En- ployed by Expert PcuItrymen
 of Treating Disease.
By J. G. uALPIN, Wisconsin Experi-
 ment StationD

By J. c. uALPIN, Wisconsin Experi-
 ment Station.)
 An ounce of prevention IS worth a pound of cure.
 It's the old, old rule and it works as well with poultry as with anything else.
 Prevention, expert poultrymen tell us, IS the most satisfactory method of treating roup.
 This annoying and wastefui disease can be prevented by keeping the poul- try house dry, well ventilated and clean; by forcing the fowls to exercise on cold wet days in deep litter of dry straw; by breeding from strong vigorous birds; by feeding clean and wholesome feeds and by taking every precaution to keep the disease from the farm and flock.
 If any of the birds do develop roup or extremely bad colds, they should be removed from the flock and the houses disinfected with a coal-tar dis infectant or per cent solution of carbolic acid. Unless the birds are valuable it is advisable to kill and bury all sick fowls. With all birds that are worth the time necessary to give them individual treatment, the following method will prove success full
 Thoroughly clean the nostril and eye of all the cheesy material that has collected. Inject into the nostril with syringe a saturated solution of permangsnate of potash and dust bo- ric acid into the eye and nostril. This treatment must be followed several times a day until decided improve ment is noticed when the permanga- nate of potash can be omitted. The boric acid should be continued until the nostrils are dry and all enlarge ment of the eye has disappeared. It Is not advisable for most people to attempt to remove the mass that col lects beneath the eye by an operation and If taken in time the other treat ment will prove effective.
 The first symptom of roup is a Wa tery discharge from the eye and . thin, yellow discharge from the nos tril. The eye then becomes enlarged due to this material filling up the space around the eye.
 When the first symptoms of a cold appear. begin using permanganate of potash n the drinking water. Make up stock solution of the crystals and then pour enough of this in the drink ing water every day to give it vio- let or wine color.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23

dinary farm if bred to a good stallion should produce several good colts every year, besides doing the ordinary farm work. To secure the best results the brood mare that does the farm work must be given the best of Care and attention.
 The use of silage as a horse feed still is a debated question. Some horsemen have used 1t successfully and others have had disastrous results. All silage fed to horses should be sweet and fresh. Moldy or spoiled siiage also Is an unsafe feed fo. horses because of the danger of caus- ing collie. The silage should be made of fairly mature crops, and it shoul3 be stored in the silo properly.
 If you don't speak 10 the horse ev- cry time you pass behind his heels, you may wake up some morning with a skinned head or a broken bone. When 2 horse hears a racket behind him, sometimes he doesn't wait to see what it is, but whacks away at it with both feet.
 Be careful with the colt you are breaking this spring. Don't try to do 1t all in one day; If you do you may not only break him to work, but you may break his heart as well. Get him used to pulling gradually. It isn't reasonable to expect colt to go out in the field hitched to a disk CT blow and do as much as the old seasoned horse
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23

There Is nothing more profitable to the average farmer than the raising of a few good draft horses" says pr. C. ". McCampbell, secretary of the state live stock registry board. pro vided he has plenty of pasture and ac- cess to a good stallion
 If good stallion is not standing for service in a community. the man who has at least five or six good farm mares can afford to own his own stall lion and use him as a work horse. A coming two-year-old stallion can be bought for approximately si0O and, taken in hand at this age, he makes an excellent work horse
 The raising of draft horses is differ ent from that of any other live stock on the farm. Important factors are good food and attention. Good breed ing gives the possibilities, but good feeding is necessary to bring this out to it's fullest extent.
 IL is better for the man of limited means, believes Doctor McCampbell, to raise horses only as a by-produci, because the exclusive raising of draft horses for market requires consider able capital. The returns at first are slow, for draft horses must be six years old before they are ready for market. The man who has other cash crops 10 meet his expenses can afford to wait for the returns from his young draft horses.
 A few good brood mares on the or
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
FOREIGN

The Italian cabinet has resigned.
 A Lusitanis relief fund has been opened in Liverpool. Lord Derby sub scribed E25O tsl.250l.
 The body Of Charles Frohman, the theatrical manager of New York, has been recovered and brought to Queenstown.
 The London Daily Mail asserts that the body of Alfred Gwynne Wander bilt has been found on the Irish coast and taken into Queenstown.
 The Temps, discussing a cabled forecast of the American note 10 Ger many, says IL is firm in tone and leaves no doubt of the attitude of the United States
 The Japanese foreign office is drafting treaty with China, based on the acceptance of the provisions in Japan's ultimatum. including the restoration of Kiao Chow.
 Premier Okuma is quoted as having stated that China's acceptance of Japan's demands has removed the roots of much trouble He voiced satisfaction at the success gained by diplomacy.
 American residents of Calcutta adopted a resolution expressing the opinion that the destruction of .he Lusitania was an act to be consid- cred with horror and indignation by every honorable person"
 This war was begun by Germany with a fragrant breach of treaty and il has been carried on with a pro Gressive disregard of convention and Of previously accepted rules of war fare" said Premier Asquith in the House of Commons in London.
 The sinking Of the steamer Lus- itania has aroused 10 a violent eli max the smouldering hatred and sus- picions of Germans living in England This animosity has found expression in attacks on Germans, principally upon their shops in the poor quarters of London and Liverpool. while there have been minor disturbances in Manchester, Birdenhead, Glasgow and other places.
 There is one incident the world will remember in connection with the sinking of the Lusitania," said the bishop of London while presiding al a meeting Of the Waifs and StrGys. When Alfred '. Nanderbil; was face 10 face with death he said 70 his valet: Come and let us saye The kiddies" Those words will run round the world in way TO millionaire's millions could ever do.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
EXCELLENT DRY FARM CROP
Success Is Attained by Deep Flowing Thin Planting and EverlastinsIy
 Working the Soil.

Potatoes make a good dry farm crop in the right place. but unless you are in a potato belt there Is nothing doing, and the only way to find out is to ask the neighbors or test it out by plant ing a few.
 The best seed is large fine potatoes. Occasionally small potatoes may be used but in buying them it is impossi' ble to tell how many generations of small potatoes are at the back of them.
 It would do no harm. to plant small potatoes from a good crop of large ones. but the continued selection of small sizes for two or three genera. tions would tend to reduce the aver age size throughout the crop.
 The potato crop is made by deep blowing. thin planting and everlasting. Iy working the soil until the tubers have made their growth.
 An acre of potatoes in growing has to move out of place from five to ten tons of earth to make room for the tubers and the more friable the soil the easier the work, the less material converted into energy, and the larger the potatoes
 Sod land deeply plowed and prop erIy worked is also good for potatoes
 They should be planted in rows three feet apart and about two feet apart in the row, one eye to each hill. One eye may send up two or three sprouts; this is our chance to adapt the plants to conditions. If the weather is dry pinch oil all but one; but if the outlook Is wet, two may be left on.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
LET SUNLIGHT INTO
 THE ORCHARD TREES
Nature VIII Take Care of Shade After Intelligent Pruning
 Has Been Done.

Cut o-t the u-elcss brush in your old trees and give the sun a chance to reach every part of them.
 Of course the fruit must have more or less shade, but nature will take care of that after intelligent pruning has been done.
 When the fruit buds come very thick, most people take 1t as sign of a big yield. but when fruit grows too thickly it must necessarily be very small.
 Experts have no conscience when it comes to thinning fruit. The way they pick on the buds-eften destroy ing four where they leave one-is enough to give an amateur the shivefs
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
WASHINGTON

Fifty men were killed in fight be- tween followers of Generals Antonio Barona and Juan Banderas, Zapatista chieftains. in Mexico City. according to a statement by the Carranza agency in Washington.
 Acreage planted to watermelons in North and South Carolina. Georgia Florida. Alabama. Texas and the I'm perial valley, California, this year, was s6.soO, as against 10s, 400 in 1914, the Department of Agriculture an nounced. Acreage planted to canta- loupes iH the same territory was i9.- 250. compared with 1850 last year.
 Secretary Daniels has designated the Right Rev. Julius w. Atwood. Episcopal bishop of Arizona. to offer the invocation at the launching of the dreadnaught Arizona at the New York navy yard. June l9-
 The United States government cabjed Ambassador Gerard for presen- ,a,ion to the German government a note calling attention "to the grave si,uation which has resulted" from violation Of American rights on the high seas, eliminating in the sinking of inc Lusitania with loss Of more than .6e American lives
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
4 Tale Often Told.

Society is just now afflicted with a new species of bore.'
 Still another?"
 Its the young woman who tells everybody she meets how the war iD Europe prevented her from finishing her musical education"
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
Not eskino Much.

So you are ambitious to have a little garden?"
 Yes
 You ought to get lot of pleasure out of it."
 T don't expect 10 get any pleasure out of it, but if can get a few beets and turnips in return for great deal of hard work I'll be satisfied"
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
Feed for Geeee,

Clover and alfalfa are good for the geese when pasture is scarce and ducks ~ill sometimes eat it when mixed with ground grain or cooked vegetables but most like bran the best It should be steamed or scalded.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
Accounting for Tastes.

Bacon-I see expert French butter tasters claim they can perceive the flavor of the soil over which cattle feed.
 Egbert-Must have sort of a taste of shrapnel now,
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
GENERAL

ibsuf dhCt on iHe i>uSlIdUid, II was said in New York, amounted 10 s. 5O0,0O0. The vessel was valued in round figures at s10.00O, 900. The worth Of the cargo she carried was estimated at s735. 900.
 The 1900 striking weavers a. the cotton cloth mills of the Fall River. Mass. Iron Works Company voted to accept the terms of settlement of fered by the mill management and return to work.
 Former President William II. Ta.t urged patience and calmness in the present international situation, and try to stand by President Wilson, in an address at the Union League at Philadelphia
 At Atlanta, Ga, Leo N. Frank was re-sentenced to be hanged on Tues day, June g. for the murder of Mary Phagan.
 The trial of William Barnes suit for libel against Theodore Roosevelt en- tered into its fourth week In the Su- preme> Court at Syracuse. x. Y.
 The Boston Opera Company. which produced grand opera in Boston for six seasons. filed voluntary peti- tion in bankruptcy. The schedule shows liabilities of s.ie.00O and as- sets cf s7s.0o0.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
Attention to Sudan Grass.

Experiment stations are turning their attention to sudan grass in many instances and the results are usually most satisfactory.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23

While the average man would like to be ahead, he is pretty we'll satisfied if Ne catches up.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR.
 EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
polNeS AND HAPPENINGS THAT MARK TIRE PROGRESS
 OF THE AGE.
ABOUT THE WAR

The British steamer Queen Will himina of Hartlepool was torpedoed and sunk by Q German submarine off Blythe. Time was allowed the crew 10 take 10 the boats
 The latest available figures of the Lusitania disaster show: Dead pas sengers and crew. l,150: saved. pas sengers and crew. 767. Of the latter 4e5 were passengers and 3O2 were members of the crew.
 According 10 dispatches from Con stantinople, the Turks have lost in Killed and wounded during four days in the Dardcnelles nearly 5O,OOO men. not counting those in smyrna, which was bombarded.
 Iaqui Indians. attacking a colony of sixty-five Americans. including women and children, near Esperanza. south of Guaymas, have killed three and wounded several others. accord ing to information received by Fred. erick Simplich, American consul at Nogales.
 The British battleship Goliath was torpedoed and sunk at the Oar danelles by Turkish destroyer. with the loss of about 500 lives Official announcement to this effect was made in London. together with the state ment that two Turkish gunboats and a Turkish transport had been sunk.
 At kinsale. Ireland. the coroner's jury which investigated the deaths at tendant upon the loss of the Lusi- .enia returned the following verdict -The jury find that this appalling crime was contrary 10 international law and the conventions Of all civil ized nations. and We, therefore charge the officers Of the submarine and the German emperor and the government of Germany, under whose orders they acted. with the crime of wilful and wholesale murder"
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
WESTERN

Boise. Idaho. is exempiifying the get-together spirit in promoting even ing meets in the schools.
 Al Milwaukee. James Morrison Oar nell, a Kenosha, Wis. minister. was found guilty of violating the Mann while slave act
 Laurence Scanlan, bishop of the Salt Lake City diocese of the Roman Catholic church and a pioneer mis- sionary of .ke West, died at Salt Lake after long Illness.
 The Southern Sociological congress at Houston, Tex, adopted resolutions indorsing President Wilson's stand 'in the present critical situation" and expressing confidence in him.
 United States army border patrol reports the killing of Presciliano Medina, an American citizen and resident of Fl Tigre. Texas, by Car ranza soldiers a few miles above Fl Tigre. on the Rio Grande.
 Two are dead and two others are in a critical condition from burns as a result of a collision of an automo- bile at Fresno. Cal, with a power pole whose wires, carrying 60,00O volts of electricity, fell upon the car.
 Maury l. Diggs and F. Drew Cami- netti was granted a stay of eXecu- tion of their sentences under the Mann act at San Francisco by the y-pi,ad States Circuit COurt of An peals to permit appeals to the United States Supreme Court.
 Opposition to the worldwide move ment known as the Baraca and Philathea classes for young men and young women respectively was voiced in the report of the Sunday school board at the opening session at Hous- ton. Tex, of the Southern Pacific convention.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
Aftention to Orchard,

The orchard should receive a part of the farmers attention during the winter.
Tombstone epitaph., 1915-05-23
SPORTING NEWS


Little Sister won the s2.GO0 de butante stakes for Gallaher brothers at Louisville. Ky.
 Anthony F. Wilding. the New Zea- land lawn tennis champion, has beer killed in the allied attack on the Dar danelles.
 Gunboat Smith had the better Of Dick Gilbert in their tweIve-round bout which opened the National Ath. letic Club in Denver.
 At St. Louis. Earl Hamilton. left. handed pitcher Of the Browns. was fined $500 and indefinitely suspended by President Rober, Lee Hodges for failure to get into condition.
 Jose R. Capablanca, of Havana, captured the first prize without the loss of a single game in the chess masters tournament in New York. Frank J. Marshall, United States champion, took second prize, likewise without the loss of a game.
 The marriage of Wilbur s. Beal. star football player of the University of Denver team. to Miss Mona Sky hawk. a pretty East Denver High school senior, on Jan. 15, became known when the marriage certificate was discovered in a dresser drawer at her home
 Women will be barred fom Wiscon- sin boxing contests in the future. ac- cording to q ruling of the boxing com mission. announced at a ten-round contest between Knockout George Brown and Fighting Billy Murray at Kenosha. Many women in the au- dience showed disappointment at the announcement.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-27

Selling death" is the new term
applied to the sale OF arms and mum.
tions OF war to a belligerent Nation
by a neutral Nation. Germany claims
the United States is violating her
neutrality in selling arms. to the enc
mics OF Germany. Germany should
reflect that she did not place such
construction upon II when she sup
piled Spain with arms during the
Spanish-American war. Il is true
morally that a neutral cannot supply
belligerent with arms without parti-
cipating in the struggle TO that ex'
tent, yet on the other hand, as long
as the Nations OF the world permit
wars to exist, the market places OF
neutrals cannot be closed. Germany
complains that the United states sells
only 20 the allies. to which the Phila'
delphia American replies that II Ger
many will send her ships to our
shores she can get anything she
wants. arms, food, clothing or any
thing else. Herein we suspect lies
Germany's greatest grievance, she
has not control of the seas.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-27

And kissed her and she kissed me,
Oh, sweet, my sweetest llfel
And begged her TO tell me then
II she would be my wife.
II.
She blushed and smiled and nothing
she said,
But leaned her head on my breast
And kissed her again, oh, a thou.
sand times,
And then she whispered at last:
Il love you, dear; you are my all;
without you viii dead be my life"
And kissed her agaln-ten thousand
times,
My princess, my darling. my wife.
REFRAIN.
SO please don't stay single all your,
life,
Get busy and hurry and get you a
wife,
Thou bad is dead bachelorhood;
Let's steady whisper that song in
your ears:
Bachelorhood is so lonesome, so
fierce,
And a girl 10 kiss Is so good.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-27
IN ITALY
IS WEARING OFF
Withdrawal Of Funds From Postoffice
Banks Checked and Much
OF Il Returned.

Rome, April 81. - Correspondence
of the Associated Press The panic
which seized depositors in the post
office banks in Italy at the outbreak
Of the European war is plainly wear.
ing or" according to the report Of
Signor Riccio, Minister of Posts and
'Telegraphs. From July to December
last there were Withdrawals acE.s~-
ing to a net loss Of lS9,OOO.00O Ere
Approximately SS7,lOO,OOW, or a re-
duction Of SS3 per cent OF the de.
posits Of the first part OF the year.
The postoffice repositories, how.
ever" says Signor Riccio, "regained
the confidence of the people by the
system of paying on request, without
having recourse to the moratorium.
have raised the interest on deposits
from $50 to 2.Ss per cent, which
makes it higher than any banking
concern. In time ] intend to intro.
duce the system of checks. In this
way we hope to save our thrifty
working classes from the clutches of
dishonest private banks. Even with
the storm of 1914 the total deposits
in the postofiice banks represent
more than one.third the sum deposit.
ed in all other Italian Institutes OF
credit. An extension of the postoffice
savings banks, for the receipt of the
savings of emigrants, is contem-
plated
From 1909 to 1913 the deposits in
the postoffice banks rose from 1,5S2,'
100000 lire to 2,O91, 100000 lire, with
an average addition of 127,OOO,OOO lire
every year. The high point in July,
1914, was 2,139, 100000 lire.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-27

About half a million dollars worth
of farm machinery that was allowed
to stand out in the fields of Fannin
County all winter has now waited
until 1t is needed for use. Then the
bills for repairs will be in order
Bonham Fayorite.
It is strange that a man will buy
a piece Of machinery and after using
IL a while, let It stand out in the ele-
ments and rust, but It is a fact and
can be seen in any county in Texas.
-Brenham Bannsr-Press.
Our fields are so big it is too much
trouble to go out and gather them mp.
When We get our farms cut down to
five and ten acres, when we intensity,
when we diversity, when we begin to
make every edge cut, when we get
away from our loose methods, when
We get the saving habit, therell be
no rain and rust on our pillow tools
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-27
Peach Leaf Curl.

Within the past three weeks many
cases OF peach leaf curl have been re-
ceived at the office OF Frederick II.
'BTugett, plant pathologist and ply
siolGgist al the Texas experiment sta
ton AZ the A. a. N. College This
peach curl Is a cool weather trouble
and is more severe this season than
usual on account OF the cool. wet
March. But the spores Of the fungus
were present on the twigs and about
the buds, or even the unfavorable
weather would not have had the ef'
feet seen. Only the oldest leaves
those which first unfold from the cen
ter of the bud, being clean and nor
NAL. No spray can reach the fungus
and the danger Of leaf injury by
spraying would make It unwise to ap'
ply any solution at this time.
The only treatment possible is to
prune out and burn the twigs which
are most badly infested, then during
the coming winter to spray with
freshly made lime-sulphur solution or
with good Bordeaux mixture to kill
the spores which will collect upon the
surface of the twigs and about the
buds ready for their opening next
spring.
Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1915-04-27
Fertilizers for sorohums.

Sweet sorghums respond proiitably
to fertilizers containing nitrogen, and
II the soil is more or less sandy the
application of some acid phosphate is
advised, says DIR. J. o. Morgan, pro
lessor OF agronomy at the A. a NJ.
College. The following combination
Of fertilizers per acre usually gives
good results when applied to
sorghumss
Two hundred pounds cottonseed
meal.
one hundred and fity pounds acid
phosphate.
In case the soil Is very sandy, sew
enty.nye pounds OF murIate OF potash
should be added to the acre.
With reference to the application
Of nitrate OF soda to corn after II Is
mp and growing. DR. Morgan says th-'
this material should be added when
corn is about six or eight inches high.
II may be drilled In six or eight inches
from the row or II may be spread
broadcast between the rows and IN.
corporated with the soil as the crop r.
cultivated.