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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24
SWEET CLOVER GOOD
TO RENOVATE SOILS
One of Best Crops Available to
Improve Land-MakeS Fine
Green Manure Crop.

There are few plants which VIII
put rundown farms into condition for
producing crops as quickly as the once
despised sweet clover.
Because of it's nitrogen-gathering
habit and the fact that its deep tap
roots bring large quantities of min
eral plant food up from the subsoil
it is one OF the best crops available
to improve land. If plowed under 1t
makes fine green manure crop.
Sweet clover is biennial plant and
may be used with profit in the rota-
ton of crops. 1t is being used more
extensively each year as forage crop.
1t makes excellent pasturage for
horses, sheep, cattle and hogs. 1t may
be pastured early and late, and live
stock learn to eat it more readily IL
they are turned into it early.
There is little danger of bloating
stock on sweet clover, but to be safe
avoid pasturing when the clover Is
damp.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24

was the route traversed by hundreds
or perhaps thousands of destructive
eruption clouds, still lie drear and
desolate, because the soil was COM
pletely swept away by the blasts,
and the material left behind as well
as that added by the eruption is too
porous for the retention of the water
necessary to restore it to fertility.
Furthermore, the rainfall of the west
side of the island is much less than
on the east side, and the region is
dried by the rays of the afternoon sun.
From Martinique Doctor Hovey pro-
ceeded to the Island of ST. Vincent,
where more than three weeks were
devoted to the study of Soufriere,
twelve days of the time being spent
in camp on the volcano. Here, as in
Martinique, the vegetation has re-es-
tablished itself more thoroughly on
the windward than on the leeward
side of the mountain, the windward
side being that which receives the
greater rainfall, and the leeward side
not only receiving less rainfall but
also suffering from the heat of the af-
ternoon sun. Considerable portions of
the Soufriere received immense de-
posits of gravelly ash from the recent
eruptions, and these are largely bar
rem at the present time. Other areas
received a finely comminuted ash
which retains water better than the
coarse material, and suffers more rap
id decomposition. This fine ash is
now coated more or less thickly with
moss and lichens, and often bears, in
addition, bushes, trees, and tree ferns.
The outer limits of the original zone
of humiliation showed merely a de-
struction of the vegetation then coat
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24

On the ranch where wheat and 9TH
er small grains are grown, the straw
from the crops can be made to serve
some useful ends. The best way to
preserve straw is to blow it into a
barn or similar shelter at threshing
time. On the special grain farm,
where but few animals are kept, there
is usually much more straw than can
possibly be used and on such places
no attempt, as rule, is made to save
this by-product. On the general farm,
where a relatively large number of
domestic animals is kept, the annual
crop of straw is valued highly as
rough winter feed and for bedding the
animals, writes j. F. Harris in Denver
Field and Farm. In many cases all of
the straw is placed under shelter in
either loose or baled condition to be
used economically in many ways. On
the small tracts where chickens are
made a large issue, straw is valued
highly as litter material for the hen
houses, where the fowls scratch for
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24

~ r EDMUND OTIS HOVEY,
curator of the department of
geology and invertebrate pale
anthology of the American
Museum of Natural History, has re-
turned from a three months expedi-
ton to the Lesser Antilles. He spent
most of his time on the islands of
Guadeloupe, Martinique and st. Vim
cent, where he continued the studies
of the active volcanoes of the West In
dies, which he began in 1902, during
the great eruptions of Mt. Pelee, Mar
Unique, and the Soufriere OF st. Vim
cent
Doctor Hovey spent 16 days on the
island of GUadeloupe, three of which
were spent on the summit of the Sou
friere, where temperature observations
on the fumaroles were made and sam
pies of escaping gases collected. These
fumaroleS have been active, with va
rying degrees of strength, during all
the historic period of the volcano. A
marked increase of discharge of sui
phurated steam took place at the time
or the eruptions Of Martinique and
st. Vincent, and an area several acres
in extent was then added to the active
region. The vents maintain the force
OF their discharge, but the temperature
does not in any case exceed 100 degrees
G. (212 degrees FL. The eastern mem
Der OF the twin islands forming Guade
loupe is sedimentary in origin. Doctor
Hovey spent much of his time study
ing its geological relations with refer
ence to their bearing on the general
history of the Antilles.
On Martinique he devoted most of
his time to Mt. Pelee itself, and the
ruined city of st. Pierre, and spent
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24

ing the mountain slopes and did not
suffer destruction or deep burying of
the soil.
Palms and tree ferns have regained
their pristine development and beauty
in this region, and forest trees are
growing. On the east side of the
mountain the sugar cane plantations
are now largely restored to cultiva-
ton and present a heavier growth of
cane than before, while on the west
side the peasant proprietors are al
ready taking up provision ground"
on the lower slopes of the volcano it.
self.
Soufriere Crater Is Beautiful.
The great crater of the Soufriere is
beautiful enough to repay the lover Of
scenery for special trip to the island.
1t is about nine-tenths of mile across
from east to west and three-quarters
of a mile wide from north to south,
and lake approximately half mile
in diameter now occupies it's lower
portions as it's predecessor did in the
DAYS before the eruptions which
changed the whole appearance of the
mountain. In 1923 there was little
pool of muddy water in the bottom OF
the bowl through which disturbing
columns or puffs of steam were con-
tinually rising. In 1908 the pool was
much larger, was yellowish green IN
color, and was not disturbed by any
eruptive discharges, but did not I'LL the
bottom of the crater.
Now the lake is apparently some
hundreds of feet deeper than 1t was
then, and occupies the entire bottom
of the crater, rising well up on the
vertical walls in most places. Doctor
Hovey was able to make careful meas
urements with the theodolite which
established the surface of the lake as
being 760 feet below the point where
the trail from the western side OF
the island reaches the rim OF the era
ter, or approximately 2,140 feet above
the level of the sea.
The interior walls of the crater are
coated with moss and tufts of grass
wherever there are slopes of volcanic
ash, and tree ferns and bushes are re-
establishing themselves in the ravines
cut by the rains while the vertical faces
of the old lava beds making up large
part of the mountain add tones of red
dish and ye.,owish gray to the color
effect
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24
1t Held a LeveIed Revolver.

while l am not. Perhaps it's good
thing for me. though he added in
geniously, for I was leading an
idle, motiveless life"
And now just at this moment Lura
half hidden by the thick verdure of a
tall Towering shrub, stood gazing pen
siveIy, almost sadly at Clyde Rawson
lying fast asleep in hammock. She
had always admired his frank, chival
rio character. She had quite cherished
certain tender words he had spoken
to her. Lura was going back to the
hard dull grind of a little red school
house within two days. She wondered
If they would ever meet again-more
than that, if she could ever forget
him!
Even as he slumbered, the newt
able sunny smile of perfect love FOL
the world and all it's creatures lin
gered upon the handsome face. Lura'
heart beat faster, as she noted that
he wore in his buttonhole a dainty
little straw flower she had given him
the day previous. Then she drew
back, for there was a rustic in the
opposite shrubbery. She flushed hot
ly at the thought of anyone discover
ing her regarding thus raptly the OBJ
iect of her interest. She seized the
tennis racket she carried in one hand
more closely, and was about to ny
when her face grew deadly pale. She
uttered a quick gasp. Then, with an
inarticulate cry she sprang clear o.
her ambush.
A form had become vaguely out
lined in the opposite bush. A hano
was thrust forward. It held leveieo
revolver and it was pointed direct al
the sleeping man in the hammock
For an instant only Lura caught sigh
of a dark sinister face behind the
weapon. She braved all.
Cracki-a quick, terrifying repor
rang out, but not before Lura hae
reached the side of the hammock
She was on her knees then, her arms
about the sleeper, shielding him. Sh'
felt a singing contact on one cheek
Then whirling about, she prepared Il
scream for help, when she noted tina
the affrighted would-be assassin wa
speeding for his life away from thu
spot
Lura was Keeling with the reaction
from the great strain or excitement
she almost collapsed. Springing Z
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24
.PULLETS FOR EGGS
IN SEVERE WEATHER
Fowls Need Especial Care When
Transferred to Quarters In
tended for Winter.

I'VE must depend on well-matured
pullets for the bulk of our egg supply
in cold weather" says c. E. Brown,
poultryman at the Northwest expert
ment station, Crookston, in Bulletin
No. 81 issued by the extension divi-
sion of the Minnesota College of Agri-
culture.
Pullets of the heavier breeds that
have been Matched between April 1
and the middle of May, and those OF
the lighter varieties Matched between
the middle of May and the middle OF
June, adds Mr.. Brown, will be mature
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24
ILLUSTRATING the Idea.

A school inspector was examining a
class in grammar, and trying to eluci-
date the complex relations of adjec-
tives and nouns by a. telling example.
Nov, for instance said he, what
am II"
That was an easy question, and all
the children shouted:
"a mani" and then looked round
trsumphantly.
Yes, but what else?" said the in
spector.
This was not so easy, but after a
pause a<boy ventured to suggest:
"a little man"
Yes, but there is something more
than that"
This was poser, but at last an in
FAINT phenomenon almost leaped from
his seat in his eagerness, and cried:
Please, sir, l know, sir-an ugly
little mani"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24
Copyright, 1915. by w. G. Chapman)


With a rude shock the gentle cur
rent of an ideal girlhood life was alb
ruptly changed into the fierce, raging
torrent of tragedy. 1t came about to
Lura DeniSon on slumberously
peaceful June afternoon and in gar
den redolent with the swaying odors
of violets and roses.
This was the situation: She was one
of party of friends visiting Els
dene, the pretty summer resort at
Crystal lake. Lura was only a school
teacher and dependent on her own
employment for living. She was one
of coterie however representing ex-
clusiveness as to wealth and social
position. She could not dress as rich
ly as her cousins, the Worthingtons,
but her garb was neat, tasteful, her
figure perfect, her face beautiful and
her manner full of sweetness and fas-
cination.
To the power of those kindly mag
netic eyes Clyde Rawson had paid full
tribute. He was a favorite with every
body, needless, impulsive young fell
low avowedly at the end of his re-
sources, but enjoying his "last dash
of folly as ne termed it, before go
ing forth to grapple with the practical
issues of life.
From all Lura had learned he had
recently been discarded by a rich
uncle 1t was not that Clyde was dis
sipated, but in his independent way
he had gone contrary to the wishes of
his mandatory relative. There had
been a tiff, and Clyde had left home
with the announcement that he need
depend upon John Griffiths for no fur
Their financial help.
tits sort of rough to have your ex-
pectations cut off all of sudden"
Clyde confidentially told Lura, but
q certain half cousin of mine is will
ing to truckle and lie to Uncle John,
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24

several days in camp on the old sum-
NIT plateau of the volcano, which is
450 feet above the sea, and which for
merly bordered the pool of fresh water
known as Lac des Palmistes. The new
cone, which stands as the enduring
monument of the great eruption, near
ly fills the old crater adjoining the
plateau, rising some 600 feet above 1t.
The famous spine, or obelisk, which
rose some hundreds Of feet further in
to the air, disappeared entirely nearly
ten years ago through disintegration,
and the cone, as viewed from the sea,
presents a fiat top, whose apparent
smoothness does not prepare a visitor
for the actual ruggedness of surface
which he finds on climbing the noun
tain.
Nit. Pelee Quieting Down.
At the time of Doctor Hovey's last
previous visit in 1908 the new cone
was scanned with assures which dis
charged great volumes of steam and
gave temperatures as high as 500 de-
grees c. 600 degrees FL. The present
expedition found considerable steam
still issuing from these vents, but no
temperatures exceeding 100 degrees c.
(212 degrees F.) could be found.
On the east or windward side of the
volcano the vegetation has re-estab-
lished itself to the summit of the noun
tain, and even the forest is beginning
to reassert itself. The whole aspect or
this side of the volcano is verdant and
peaceful and gives no indication OF the
devastation of thirteen years ago; even
the rocks of the new cone are more
or less thickly coated with moss, while
the side and top of the old cone are
covered with grass, ferns and bushes,
in addition to the moss and lichens. On
the summit plateau the campers found
an abundance of red raspberry bushes
bearing flowers and green and ripe
fruit.
Sugar plantations ON the west side
of Mt. Pelee have been reinstated as
far as the Roxelane river, within the
border of the original zone of annihila-
ton, while the ruined city of ST. Pierre
now contains about thirty new build
ings OF durable construction and res
ident population OF between two and
three hundred people.
One Side Still DesoIate.
The zones stretching down the south
west side of the volcano lying between
the Seche and Blanche rivers, which
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24

crop. 1t is worth baled all the way
from 81 to Sc ton.
Ny dwelling and barn are located on
ground much higher than the field on
which the straw stack stands and on
which the wheat crop was grown.
Threshing the wheat and stacking the
straw on the lower ground saved haul
ing it up steep grade to the barn and
stock lots. An open straw shelter and
fenced lot have been built for calves
and colts for the winter months. They
communicate with large pasture in
which the animals Craze practically
all the year The calves and colts
can come to the lot and shelter when
ever they desire to do so. When the
ground is covered with snow they are
confined in the lot about the straw
stack all the time, being watered and
given extra feed besides the straw.
The shelter is well covered with
straw and has three tight pole and
straw sides, making it thoroughly COM
Portable in cold and stormy weather.
Although there is room in the barn for
all the animals this calf and colt shell
ter relieves the congested condition
of the barn when all of the farm ami
mails are to be sheltered, and utilizes
the straw for roughage so as to re-
duce it to manure during the winter.
By keeping some of the farm animals
here through the winter they get
k1,r
straw and by the time spring comes
the straw stack will be reduced to
good manure.
Many farmers thresh their small
grain crops away from their barn
grounds to save hauling the wheat a
long distance, yet in so doing the
straw stack is in such location that
it cannot be economically used. 1t
stands out in the field for several
years, gradually rotting down, but al
ways occupying valuable field space.
In the end practically no good has
been derived from the straw. The
good farm manager who realizes the
possible value of straw will arrange
to feed it as soon as possible after
threshing, or use it for bedding or
for some other good purpose. 1t is
better to spread it back on the land
or use it for filling gullies than to al
low it to stand in the stack and slow
ly decompose for three or four years.
Straw makes an excellent temporary
animal shelter; it is ideal bedding ma
terial and it is fairly good roughage
for winter feeding of horses, cattle
and sheep.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24

the grain feed for exercise, especial
ly in cold weather.
With every year straw gradually
grows more valuable. Only a few
years ago here in the big West it was
considered worthless and almost a
nuisance. Large grain growers fire.
quently stacked it out in the open to
rot and be wasted, while those who
had no unused spare places to stack
it simply burned it to get the stacks
out of the way of the pillow. The waste
full and thoughtless custom of burn
ing straw is even practiced now to
some extent in some districts. How
ever, there is now market for bright
baled straw, and many are baling and
selling the product as staple farm
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24
Load Evenly.

In loading a wagon place the load
evenly over the front and hind wheels.
If any difference is made it should be
on the hind wheels. They are larger
and hence do not sink in as deep az
the smaller front wheels. The fact
that the load is farther front from the
team does not increase the draft ON
the wagon.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24
His Wee Witticism.

II made a-er-h'm!-pun yester-
day." boosted skinny little Mr.. Meek.
My wife bought from an agent a
book entitled The Truth About the
War; and believe after she got it she
was sorry she had done so. Perhaps
she supposed until she examined it
that it was a suffrage book, although
/ am not sure about that part. Any
way, said: The truth is smiley and
will prevail'-ee-he! he!-just like
that. And she smote me on the head
with the volume. was so proud of
my wit that really the blow did not
hurt much
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24
His Early Training.

"a two-cent stamp, please" said the
lady at the stamp window of the post
Office.
Yes, ma'am," replied the new clerk
who had just graduated from depart
ment store viii you take it along OF
have it sent?"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24

enough by the first of October or No
vember to begin laying, and, if they
are properly cared for, should be good
egg-producers.
Special care is needed when pullets
are first transferred to their winter
quarters. If the chickens have been
roosting in the open air through the
summer and are suddenly transferred
to close and stuffy quarters, they are
almost sure to contract colds or even
roup. The windows and the door OF
the chicken house, therefore, should
not be closed too tightly at night url-
til severe weather sets in.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-12-24
Make SURE of Pediaree.

II you are not sure of stations
pedigree make his owner prove 1t In
black and white from the Official
records.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-09-03
Businessmen Fight
Great BloOdIess Battle

American Lake, Wash, Sept 3-Busi-
ness men of the northwest, receiving
instruction in three weeks camp here
from regular army Officers, fought n
terrific battle today. 1t was a blood.
less affair. Not one of the participants
was even scratched
The men were divided into two
armies.
Perhaps it would be better to ca
them boards of strategy.
In tent was spread military may
of Gettysburg, Little colored pins were
stuck into it two long lines One side
came into the tent and figured out q
method of attack They then moved the
pins and retired.
The other side then entered and
without being told what the "enemy"
had done, moved their own pins to meet
the situation.
Captain A. p. Hyde, senior instructor,
acted as referee.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-09-03
UNITED STATES
DIFFERS FROM OTHER
NATIONS REVEALED

whom the president will ask intermin-
able questions 1t is little wonder he
grows grey and little thin. OF those
who come from Europe he will ask:
"What are the people of France
thinking9 What are the people of
Germany thinkingl'
He doesn't ask what armies are do,
ing, or what governments are doing.
The question is:
"What are the people thinkingl"
1t is this same question he asks,
whenever the opportunity affords, in
regard to the American people. But
there is no ruler in Europe today ap.
parently who cares what the people
think, so long as they fight. And
there is no country in Europe where it
is safe for a man to say what he thinks,
providing he thinks against his gov
ernment
About the White House you see news
paper men in throngs. They don't see
the president every day; it ism neces'
sary. But they are in constant and
daily touch with the presidents S repre-
sentatives. What the president does
what he thinks; what he trying to do
they know it all. This is not said
to boost Woodrow Wilson. Any man,
in the president 5 place, would have to
do the same thing. This thing of the
government keeping in touch with the
public is one of the wonderful points
about the United States which you dis
cover, after you return from warning
Europe.
1t doesn't seem wonderful to Amer
leans. But after you We seen millions
of citizens ofvarious nations in Europe,
marching to death, willy nilly, without
being consulted, without even being re-
quested, only under orders, you begin
to appreciate the marvel of there be-
ing nation on the earth where the
opinion of the people counts.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-09-03
PRUNES PROMISE TO
Be OF GOOD QUALITY
IN THIS SECTION
Sunshine Adds Sugar and
Weight to Prune Crop For
Season of 1915

Although the first picking of the sea.
son is y poor indication of the average
quality, the prunes now coming in to the
Salem Fruit Union point to first class
product for the 1915 season and larger
than the average prune. The total
crop for the northwest is variously esti
mated at from 100000 to 100000
pounds to as high as 30000,000 pounds
but those who estimated at the higher
figure are now beginning to think they
/ have sold short and are scurrying to
cover in many instances.
Most of the prune growers are pick.
ing Petites though there are-somc ltal-
ians coming in which indicate good
quality Of large size. The summer sun
which has been particularly generous
this season is making the prunes heavy
in sugar which is the element that
makes the weight in prunes AMI con.
tinued sunshine for two or three weeks
will make the Willamette valley pruucs
rich in sugar this year.
The prune market is inactive at pres.
ent and no stable prices are being
maintained, This is due partly to the
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