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The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12
BUSINESS RECORDS NECESSARY
TO SUCCESSFUL FARMING.
Dairy Production Much Increased In
Hartford County Herd.
G. E. WOLCOTT,
Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station.

The dairy farmer Is a producer and
a manufacturer. He produces the raw
material in the form Of feed; and from
ne feed manufactures finished prod
uct. The finished product may be milk,
cream or butter The producing end
of the business may be successful;
that is the farmer may grow the crops
cheaply enough so that the market
price will show a profit over the cost
of production. However, il business
methods are not used in changing the
raw material into the finished product
enough may be lost to wipe out the
profit from growing the, crops. The
crops when turned over to the dairy
cow should be charged to her at their
market value; and system of records
should be kept to determine whether
she is using the feed so as to return
a profit The manufacturing end of
dairy farming should be profitable as
well as the producing end.
The individuality Of the COW and
the method of feeding her are the fac
tors which, to great extent, deter
mine whether or not she Is profitable.
Where no records of production have
been kept, there are sure to be some
COWS that do not return profit for
their feed By disposing of these
COWS. the average production Of the
herd will be increased. Some cows
are fed more than they require; others
are fed less than they require. If the
feed, if adjusted so that each cow Is
receiving the feed she requires, the
production and profit will both be in
creased.
The advantages that may be ex-
pected when records of production are
Hartford County Cow Testing Associa-
ton, which has completed three years.
work in record keeping. The first
year the average cow produced 4,786
pounds of milk, 234 pounds of fat, the
profit above the cost Of feed amounted
to $685. During the first year the
lowest producing cows were sold.
Better methods Of feeding and absence
of the poorest" cows increased the
production the second year to, 5,24S
pounds of milk. 264 pounds of fat.
The profit above the cost of feed was
s68.38. The production the third year
was still further increased, the average
being SITS pounds of milk, 276 pounds
of fat, with a profit above the cost of
feed amounting to $3.50.
These records clearly show that the
production and profit may be increased
from year to year by using business
methods in the manufacturing end of
the dairy farming industry.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12

THINNING WAS NEEDED.
ming, it is not the only benefit to be
derived By reducing the tree crop
this year. there is more likelihood of a
good crop next year. Much Of the So
called habit Of alternate bearing in
apple trees is due to their overbearing
one year and recuperating the next.
Many broken limbs could be averted
by proper thinning. and much labor
saved in propping.
For the best results the thinning
should commence Immediately after
the June drop. It Is natural to expect
that the sooner the remaining fruit
has the entire support of the tree, the
better the results will be. Broken
limbs may be prevented if the thin
ming is done in August, but the other
benefits will not be SO pronounced
In other words, less Of the trees
energies will be thrown away and more
turned to the remaining fruit II the
thinning is done early in the season.
AS to what extent the fruit should
actually be thinned is very largely .
local problem. It depends upon such
conditions as soil, age OF trees, var1.
cites, cultivation and pruning.
Generally thinning the fruit to .
minimum distance OF to 6 inches,
gives satisfactory results Trimmed
fruit is larger and usually better col
ored and favored than unthinned
fruit, and the yield Is just Is large
in bulk and sells at a higher price.
The fruit must all be picked some
time and the culls are more quickly
and more easily removed at thinning
time than at harvesting time. The
average cost of thinning Is about loo.
per tree"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12

become sick In other outbreaks tho
disease runs q chronic course, hogs re-
naming sick for many weeks, and
finally recovering. Even in the acute
outbreaks some of the individuals may
show this chronic form of the disease.
But in these chronic cases where re-
eovery does finally occur the animals
are never thrifty. If they were young
when they were affected they remain
stunted, if they were full grown when
attacked they never fatten properly.
It is to be recommended that
there should be as little communica-
ton as possible between any place
where hog cholera is known to exist
and all neighboring places.
The disposal of the carcasses of all
hogs that have died of hog cholera is
also a most important matter. Every
hog cholera carcass should be burned or
deeply buried, and in the latter case
the carcass should be thickly covered
with quick lime before the dirt is
shoveled in the pit. But burning is
the most etiicacious and is easy TO do.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12
Hicks for November

November, month of elections and
Thanksgiving according to Prophet
Hicks, will hand us some disagreeable
weather before time for Chistmas
shopping. The first reactionary storm
period was central on the 4th and 5th
and will dissolve into warm weather
with rain. as it passes into the first
regular storm period, which extends
from the 9Th to the 18th. What the
prophet outlines for US at this stage of
the game is. in the language of the
poets, 'a-plenty." The second reac-
tionary storm period is central on the
18th, 10th and 18th By this time, if
we have lived through the preceding
disturbance, we will have some Indian
Summer weather, with "cloudiness
rain, wind and thinder storms" But
not for long. The barometer will rise
and "much cooler weather will bring
up the rear of these storms from the
west and north
The second regular storm period is
central on the 22nd. For the first few
days of this storm period the prophet
schedules warmer, fair weather in the
Eastern portions of the country, fol-
lowed by falling barometer. cloudiness
and storms of autumnal rain and wind
and the next thing we know we shall
have something approximating No
vember blizzard''-in italics, too, at
that. Then is the time for every man
to come to the aid of his furnace, for
the poor. inanimate thing seems likely
to prove inadequate to the task ahead
of it. The third reactionary storm
period will wind up the month with
rain end heavy .sleet.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12
Friday, November II. 1915
INCREASE FOR DEFENSE.

The administrations defense
plans have been embodied in a
program presented by t n e
secretaries Of war and the navy
for discussion by the COMPRESSION
al committees in advance of the
regular session of congress. The
campaign for the adoption OF the
program will be opened by Pre-
sident Wilson in a speech before
the Manhattan club in New
York on November 4. The pro-
gram for the first year of a five
year period of naval construc-
ton calls for two dreadnaughts,
two cruisers, twenty-five coast
submarines, five seagoing SUBJ
marines, twelve detroyers, an
increase of 5000 in personnel
and an augmentation by 25O OF
the naval academy student body.
Secretary of War Garrison's pro-
calls for the recruiting training
and equipment before 1922 of
the following forces: Regular
or standing army, 125, 900; stand
ing army reserve, 10000; ir-
regular or CONTINENTAL army
of volunteers of six months
training, 100000; continental
army reserve 1000 state
national guard organizations,
1880 Total 100000 men.
Commodore J. Stuart Blackton.
author of the photo-play The
Battle of Peace, " which is being
shown at present in View York,
Chicago and Boston, and later,
will tour the country in the
peace by preparedness" cause,
says the estimated increases will
cost abou sl5O,OOO,OO0 more
than was expended last year,
and that with the cost of new
tasks imposed on the state
governments and other branches
of the government by reason of
the European war, the amount
Of expenditures will tn e
augmented to 81, 24O, 900, 900.
Commodore Blackton will devote
his time, money and talent to
the preparedness movement un-
til congress takes some definite
action following the warning
which is so wildly set forth in
"The Battle Cry of Peace"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12
Horses Going Up

Farmers and others in this country
having horses to sell have not been
gratified by any marked increase in
prices, but the National Stockman and
Farmer claims that the demand in
other sections is good and rates ad-
vancing.
Probably half million horses, says
the Stockman and Farmer, have been
bought by the French and British gov
ernments for exploration and less than
i0 900 of those are still unshipped. At
this date, however. these warning ma
tions seem just as anxious to buy
cavalry, artillery and transport horses
as they were, especially the French,
who have just placed new orders which
admit of unlimited contracts being
made by the favored brokers in New
York with the dealers in the West, who
undertake to supply the animals.
There are no less than six or seven
different French inspection crews OPP
Grating in Chicago and others in St.
Louis, Kansas City, Omaha and at
other points.
In line with predictions made in The
Stockman prices for commercial grades
of horses have struck the upgrade and
are doing very neat stunt of holding
their own. Be it known that all
through the breeding districts the sup
ply of horses above the army grades
is not by any means large, probably
smaller than it has ever been before,
and with both the export and the do
mestic dealers demands to be met,
prices are doing very nicely indeed. 1t
costs not far from $12o to land horse
in London. England, shipping, say from
Chicago. If the British dealers can
afford to buy even few at that rate
of expense, what will they do when
even freights and insurance charges
shall have fallen, at the close of the
war. to their normal levels?
Good chunks, weighing from 1900
pounds upward, wagoners from 1900
pounds and expressers from 1900
pounds up are all going to be as dear as
they ever were before many weeks
have passed. and big horses weighing
1900 pounds or more are bringing with
in $25 or less of the topmost figures
they ever reached. The man who has
horses to buy will save himself money
by buying them now. The man who
has horses to sell will get his price if
he only holds for it within reason Of
course, just now, as in all revivals of
such demand, the buyers are extraordi-
narily exacting, so that it takes full
age, considerable flesh, plenty of quail
ity and perfect soundness to bring full
prices, but even along this line exact
ions of the Eastern buyers are diminish
ing somewhat.
All summer long the army demand
has dominated the trade all over the
country. Neither the city nor the
Southern dealers were in the market
at all. Now both are getting back in
and finding conditions far from what
they had anticipated. They had been
led to believe that good horses were
dirt cheap and very plentiful, but they
are finding out that conditions are
practically the very reverse. There is
nothing in sight to justify holding mean
or inferior horses for a rise but all
good sorts should be marked up materi
ally and held stiffly.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12
coy BEANS WELL SUITED TO
MARYLAND.
Excellent YieIders OF Both Hay and
Seed-Plant After Corn.
NICHOLAS SCHULTZ,
Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station

In Maryland the soy beans are just
beginning to receive serious considera-
ton as a general farm crop in few
locations. They are well adapted to
Maryland climate and soil. They Will
grow anywhere corn will grow, and
like corn, thrive best on rich, loan
soils. 1t is, however, on soils too poor
to grow corn profitably that soy beans
will bring the greatest net profit. On
soils of this character, when 1noculated
and fertilized with little inexpensive
fertilizer, they will produce nearly as
much forage and as much as or more
seed when grown on rich land.
Generally speaking. soy beans re-
quire the same kind of preparation OF
the seed bed as corn; and, as In the
case of corn, it is better to thoroughly
prepare the seed bed before planting.
than to have 1t poorly prepared and
depend upon cultivation for getting
the soil into proper condition.
Where seed production is the object,
soy beans should be planted in rows
"a to So inches apart to allow for Gull
tivation When planted in this man
ner, one bushel of seed is enough for
2 or 8 acres. The planting may be
done with a corn planter or with
wheat drill regulated for planting 2
bushels of oats or cow peas per acre
and having the proper number of seed
holes closed so as to give rows the
desired distance apart. The aim
should be to get the plants about Z
inches apart in the row. The cult1va-
ton and the implements for doing this
are the same as for corn.
For hay production the beans should
be sown broadcast at the rate of "
bushels per acre, and for this purpose
there is no implement better suited
than the wheat drill The seed should
never be covered more than inch
deep except in very sandy soil. where
it may be covered inches.
Soy beans may be planted from any
time after corn planting is finished
until July 18th, depending, of course.
upon the variety, location and for the
planted From June LIST to goth Is the
ideal time for planting. For hay and
seed 1t Is best to plant the forepart Of
June to insure good curing weather
for the hay and to insure plenty OF
time for late varieties to mature seed
before frost. For late fall hog-pasture
and for turning down as a green
manure crop they may be planted as
late as July 18th. II an early variety
Is used.
Few Maryland soils are naturally in
oculated for soy beans and since these
beans will not thrive well, without be-
ing inoculated. except on very fertile
soil, it is necessary to inoculate when
ever planting for the first time. To
accomplish this, 2 or hundred pounds
Of soil taken from field which has
grown them successfully should be
broadcasted over the land before seed
ing the soy beans and narrowed in i'm
mediately. Inoculating with artificial
cultures has given but little success
when the material is applied and the
beans allowed to dry for sometime
afterward. Much better results are
secured when the beans are planted
before the inoculating material is dry
on the seed.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12
How to be Efficient.

Nothing saps the vitality like kidney
trouble. 1t causes bachache, headache,
stiff joints, sore muscles. always tir-
ed' feeling. rheumatism and other ills.
To be efficient, you must be healthy.
Foley Kidney Pills strengthen the kid
neys, help them do their work of filter
ing out from the system the waste
matter that cause the trouble.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12
HOGS SHOULD BE PROTECTED
AGAINST ATTACKS OF HOG
CHOLERA.
S. S. BUCKLEY,
Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station.

Hog cholera is highly infectious.
After it once gains entrance into
herd, very few if any escape infection,
though all may not die. For the out
breaks are not of equal virulence; in
Some Of them all or nearly all of the
hogs that are attacked die Of the dis
ease, while in others comparatively
few OF the hogs die, although all may
become sick. There Is also differ
ence in the length of time hogs linger
with the disease, in some outbreaks
the disease Is very rapid in developing
and runs very acute course, the ami
mails dying in q few days after they
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12
COST OF THE WILD OYSTER.

One of the problems in finance
which the 1916 Legislature must
work out arises from the enact
ment by the 1914 legislature of
the general oyster law. For a
half century every Maryland
legislature, with scarcely an eX-
ception, has made some kind of
enactment, and, at most sessions,
several kinds of enactments,
affecting the states oyster in
dustries. These oyster proper
ties some time ago ceased to be
a source of revenue. The state
receipts from oyster taxes, from
licenses and from every other
revenue source connected with
the oyster industries are not
sufficient to defray the cost of
policing-to pay the maintenance
cost of the oyster navy. The
enactment by the last legislature
of the Shepherd Law was a prac-
tical abandonment of effort to
tame the oyster bring it un-
der cultivation as a systematical-
ly farmed product. It was a
reputation of the leasing law
and reputation of the contracts
which the state had made under
the law passed in 1906 and
amended in 1912.
From present indications the
legislature that is soon to as
semblc will have the everlasting
oyster problem put up to it in a
more complicated and far more
embarrassing form than any in
which it has ever before been
presented. If the 1916 legisla-
ture could only wipe the Shep-
herd Law off the books, restore
the amended Hannah Law and
restore the general oyster situa-
ton to the status that existed
when the repudiating Shepherd
Law was nassed-that would he
a comparatively simple and easy
way out of the trouble. But
that, apparently, is an impossible
way, or, at least, a way involv-
ing too many technical difficulties.
What other way is there open?
Must the state pay the enormous
damage claims which, it now
seems in prospect, will evolve
under the conditions imposed by
the repudiating Shepherd act?
In one of the ten oyster counties
ousted lessees of oyster bottoms
have been awarded by the Cir
cult Court damages against the
state of over s25O,OOO. This is
but a beginning. The repudia-
ton of the leasing contracts may
involve the state in enormous
cost. What in the 1916 Assemb-
ly going to do about this problem
in finance?-Baltimore Ameri-
can.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12
THINNING FRUIT is A PAYING
PROPOSITION.

Should Be Done Early In the season.
Extra Cost Ia Little.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12
HERMAN BECKENSTRATER,
Maryland Agricultural College.

Present indications point to heavy
fruit crop the coming season. Culls
will be plentiful and worthless. There
fore, prevent culls by thinning now.
You will not then have to pick them
this fall, when the good fruit should
receive all your attention.
Although the increase in the current
rear's crop is ample reason for thin
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12
Went To The Hospital.

C. E. Blanchard, postmaster, Blanch-
ard, CAL, writes: Il had kidney
trouble so bad | had to go to the hos
pital. Foley Kidney Pills completed
cured me-" Men and women testify
they Danish lame back, stiff Jointly
sore muscles and sleep disturbing blad-
der ailments.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12
n Office TO CREprrons

NHIS is to give notice, that the I'M
L dersigned has obtained from the
ORPHANS Court of Prince Georges
County, letters testamentary up,n
the personal estate of
THOMAS H. PROCTOR,
late of Prince Georges county, deceas-
ed, All persons having claims against
said deceased are hereby warned to ex-
hibit the same. with the vouchers
hereon legally authenticated on or be-
fore the 1st dav of May, 1916. or
they NAV otherwise by law be excluded
from all benefits of said estate All
persons indebted to said estate are re-
Quested to make immediate payment.
Given under my hand this 18th day OF
October, 1915.
FANNIE nj. PROCTOR.
THOMAS HOWARD PROCTOR
Fxecut RS of Thos. H Proctor, de-
ceased. Oct 10Th.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1915-11-12
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The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-06-17
-s.E OKLAHOMA eooK.

A very Interesting and timely pub.
iieation for free distribution at the
International Panama-p Pacific exposl
ton al San Francisco is in process Of
compilation.
Mrs Rebecca L. Finch, who is well
knewn TO all our citizens, is the origI-
naior and compiler, and has associat-
ed 9'ih hel in this large undertaking
Mr ( L. Berry Of pawnee. who IL
the inventor Of the Insignia System Of
Education.
From 5000 to 10000 Of these books
VIII p issued in the first edition
wh5eh win be followed by a second
edition to include the first Of like
number The distribution viii be
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-06-17

from The Oklahoma building. and the
first edition viii probably be ready by
July ~ which is Oklahoma day at the
fair. This book will be written in a
fay interesting manner different
froiI It's predecessors in moi being III
statistical form. but descriptive and
in narrative style. embellished with
haif tone pictures Anyone interested
in securing copies or being represent
ca in "Thc Oklahoma Book address
No S27 W. Main, Mrs ReDecea l..
Finch.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-06-17
BILLY SUNDAYS
STANDBY QUITS
and THREATENS.
PIANIST ACkLEY MAY lex.
POSE INSIDE WORKINGS
OF PROPAGANDA

Philadelphia, June 17.-Bentley d.
Acklcy. who became widely known as
Billy Sundays right hand man. sec
retary and pianist in the recent re-
viyal here. has resigned fronr the
Sunday forces and announced in this
city today that he will expose d lot
OF unpleasant inside stuff Of the
eyangelistic system which he helped
to direct.
The financial side OF the revival
system as 1t was operated here viii
probably be the basis OF Mr. Aakley's
charges. II Il understood that billy
Sundays former secretary will also
tell Of bitter personal jealousies and
chickering's which ragged in the party,
and finally split II with the discharge
CT the Rev. Edward II. EHmttt the
advance man OF the party, and the
resignation Of Mr.. Ackley himself.
Mr. Ackley composed the music for
some of the most popular hymns sung
at the Philadelphia tabernacle, and
It II reported that his resentment be-
gan when these hymns published and
sold by Homer Rodeheaver the sing
er Of the party, at a large profit.
brought him only $40 each.
Mr. Ackley, at his home, $50 South
Fsfty-eighlh street. West Philadel-
plia. admitted today that he had re-
signed after eight years association
with Billy Sunday md his work, and
said he had quit because he found
conditions in the Sunday party In
tolerable.
Mr.. Ackley began his cvangcIistic
career in August, 1907. with Robert
e. johnson, an evangelist, in Mimi
eapolis. He had previously conduct
ed missions in this city since 1904.
Mr.. Ackley said today that he had
made Up his mind to sever his con-
nections with the Sunday party while
In Paterson He said Billy Sunday |
cane to him and persuaded him TO |
continue until the end Of his cam
paign and later nrged him to remain
with him for another year.