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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01

MISS Sal0me Garnet gave two y0-
cal eIections-Waltz song and Creep
Little Closer. Do--accompanied by
Mrs. A. j. Hattiesburg (Miss)
News
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01
And Sticking the Furnace.

Please set our discordant household
Alright We have quarrel every
night over the question of a midnight
lunch. Is it right or wrong to take
light lunch before retiring?
Answer-For thin, anemic. nervous.
fraii. sickly or delicate people light
lunch before retiring is just what the
doctor orders. For stout, high living.
lazy, dyspeptie. bilious or overfed per4
sons the rule is to retire without that
indulgence.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01

u. ]. WEST, new moving picture
juvenile actor, speaks six languages,
boasts his press agent Well, what is
he going to do with them?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01

Flenna.-tCorrespondence OF the As
sociated Press Austrian soldiers sill
not suffer from cold weather if the
army adopts the new electrically heat
ed garments which have just been in-
vented by the professor OF electrolosy
at Innsbruck university. The essen
tial feature of the professors inren-
ton, according to the Austrian news
papers, is a method OF wearing cleo
trio heating threads into soldiers pants
and coats and then connecting me
threads with battery or supply wire
az distance OF from 100 yards 20 d
quarter Of mile. It is asserted thai
the current can be regulated so ihal
any Number of soldiers in the trenches
can be kept warm simultaneously.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01

JOHN C. jumper and Miss Maud
Elizabeth iiightoweT have been mar
ried at Saginaw. Mich.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01

London. - Correspondence of The
Associated Press. THE London Ga
zette, the most austere and formal Of
all English newspapers, is this month
celebrating its 25Qth birthday.
The vast majority of Londoners have
never seen the Gazette, and many live
in ignorance even of the existence of
such newspaper. For it is the Off
cial organ OF the British government,
and its circulation is limited to official
circles or to those who are willing to
pay the fixed price Of % cents per
copy
IN the ordinary course Of events, the
Gazette is published every Tuesday and
Friday, bat wher occasion arises spe-
cial supplements are issued at eight
cents each Since the outbreak Of the
war several Of these supplements have
been issued each week. and there has
occasionally been sufficient demand
from relatives Of those mentioned in
the Official dispatches 10 demand the
reprinting Of a particular edition
"Gaaeited' is an expression fire.
quentlY used in England to designate
that some official statement or action
has received the formal sanction i'm
piled by publication in the govern
ment's newspaper The Gazette is in
many cases prescribed by parliament
airy enactment as the appropriate me-
dunn for announcements OF official acts
and appointments Though the man in
the street rarely sees the Gazette. he
frequently reads its announcements in
directly for most of its valuable Off
cial information is Immediately repro
duced in the daily newspapers.
The earliest issue of the official jour
nal goes back 10 the reign Of Charles l.,
but there is little diversity Of opinion
as 10 the exact date. Some authorities
/ give it as Nov. Z. 1865. while others IA
vor Nov. II of the same year.
/ There are similar publications for
Scotland and Ireland. Published re-
( spectively in Edinburgh and Dublin.
The former was first issued in 1890,
and the latter in 17l1.
J London-Kirkwan where many OF
; the American merchantships have been
taken for examination by the British
patrol ships, may be said to have made
a sudden leap into fame-as far as the
/ average Londoner IS concerned-out OF
/ the pages of the latest American note
Probably few Londoners more than
suspected the existence Of Kirkwall
until they read about ii in the Amer
/ lean note. It Is rather obscure
Scotch town, although capital of the
island county OF Orkney, and its popu-
iation is less than four thousand. But
/ IT has magnificent harbor, in which
I! the $50 or so captive ships might all
ride safely at anchor at the same time
| Bui when it is remembered that Kirk
wall is located Is miles north OF John
o'Groats, which is the extreme north.
.erh point OF Scotland, 1t Is seen how
far the harbor Is from the ordinary
purposes OF trade
The American crews could find nc
better harbor in which TO spend en-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01

Is Taft out of politics." inquiries
the New York Journal Of Commerce.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01
Court Uses Horse Sense.

fF'rom the West Publishing Com
pany's docket.)-In the sos a Young
lawyer came into Ann Arbor from an
outlying town TO argue case in the
district court involving a colt, and in
the course OF his argument frequently
used the expression. Now. vour hon
or, when this colt was folded till g.
naiiy the court exclaimed: Mr. Blank.
| can't sit here and listen to that kline
OF talk; fooled don't spell folded. "
NJ. H. BRENNAN.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Exercise Before Redtima.

Is 1T good plan to spend 10 min
utes at physical culture stunts before
going TO bed, or should one take the
exercise earlier in the evening?
Answer-It is good plan TO exer-
else before retiring. 1t is especially
good for sedentary people. brain work
ers who do not sIeen any ton well
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01

RT. Rev George William Mundeiein
is to be named by the pope to succeed
the late Archbishop Quigley at Chi
cage. Another Teutonic conspiracy?
CHICAGO woman has brought suit
for divorce because her husband is
toe pleasant towards the women
neighbors Nothing more cheerful
than a walking cadaver will suit some
wives.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01


imagine what this girl really needs
most Of all is q spelling book.
D. ]. WEST, a new moving picture
juvenile actor, speaks six Languages,
boasts his press agent. Well, what is
he going to do with them?
SPEAKING of thoughtlessness, what
is your notion Of a business man who
will have his stenographer call you over
the telephone, then let you hold the
receiver at the other end of the line
until you lose patience and hang up?
Or is it Just pure cussedness that
causes men to do such things?
LII Russell is writing an article for
the newspapers telling 10 ways TO re-
fuse a cocktail. Lii would score a
bigger hit with banquet fiends il she
would tell one way of getting 10 cock
tails at a single sitting.
Soucy is one Of the soberest heads
ION the Harvard football eleven.
"CARRANZA will stop Coffroth.' He
had better first stop Villa,
1T isn't possible you are neglecting
your a. m. cold plunges these days
Great stuff You might also try
a barefoot stroll in the SNOW.
And if the air is not fresh
enough in your sleeping room sit on
the back porch few hours each even
ing before retiring.
THE Suez canal opened As years
ago. Remember it? 1t was a besutI-
full day and the water was SO warm
that many of these present took a
swim
TOM Murphy cleaned up $4,000 in
following the ponies the past sum
mer, but he SAYS he is not satisfied
II Tom will keep after them he viii
be, eventually
MRS. Luyretia Roberts, sheriff Of
Santa Cruz county. Arizona, has been
to New Yorh, and she allows that there
are too many short skirts on the
women She must have missed the
Winter Garden show.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01

Cambridge, Eng.-(Correspunaenee
Of the Associated pressl The Cam
bridge university library has just ac-
qGired from graduate in China
volume containing the complete WORKS
Of the poet-statesman LII Tsung Yuan
The work is dated ll67, and is printed
from blocks, Ii il the earliest print
ed from blocks II is the earliest
printed book in the library being ~
years earlier than any book previously
preserved there.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01

MISS Eta Bean is resident of Bos-
Ton.
M. C.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01
THE ARGUS.
BIZ THE ]. ". POTTER co.

Rock Island Member Associated Press.
Pull Leased Wire Report.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01

Member Audi. Bureau OF Calculations.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01

MRS Luvretia Roberts, sheriff Of
Santa Cruz county. Arizona, has been
to New Yorh, and she allows that there
are too many short skirts on the
women" She must have missed the
Winter Garden show
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01

TOM Murphy cleaned up $S6,000 in
following the ponies the past sum
mer, but he says he is not satisfied
II Tom will keep after them he viii
be. eventually
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-12-01

THE Suez canal opened As years
ago Remember it? 1t was besuti-
full day and the water was SO warm
that many of those present took a
swim.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-04-03
GOOD MANURE
FOR THE
VEGETABLE GARDEN

To grow early, crisp vegetables the
ground must be deep, finely pulver-
lied and well filled with rich, rotted
manure. Fertilizers will not take the
place of manure Manure must be
used to furnish humus as we'll as to
ket gardeners and truckers use large
quantities of manure and fertilizers,
says a writer in Baltimore American.
The average dressing for an acre OF
land, where double cropping is fol
lowed, is to broadcast 20 one-horse
loads of manure and to drill in with
the seed 800 pounds of standard
bone fertilizer for each acre under cul
tivation. Market gardeners having a
limited number of acres mark the rows
eff 10 inches apart and use the hand
pillow and cultivator instead of horse
culture, and as fast as one crop is sold
off the land is again planted or sown.
By this method, two three and in some
years four crops can be grown from
the same land.
Truckers grow only those crops
which can be worked by horse culture
The manure and fertilizer are spread
in the drills or applied in the hill. For
spreading in the drill eight carloads
of rotted manure and 400 to 600
pounds of fertilizer is the average
quantity for each acre.
The main consideration just now
with the gardener is manure, which
will soon be needed for the hotbeds
and for the garden.
The manure should be hauled and
put in large heaps close to where il
is to be used Spread one peck of
plaster over each load as it is piled;
the plaster will prevent the loss of
ammonia. Cover the horse manure
there is much straw and litter in the
manure sprinkle each layer with wa
ter. If the weather is frosty use boil
ing water to start active fermentation.
Make large compact heaps; when the
heat increases so as to cause an issue
of stem from the heap it should be
forked over, all Jumps broken fine ard
again made up in a compact heap.
For garden crops the manure must
be rotted and fine so it can be we'll
mixed through the ground before the
seeds are sOwn.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-04-03
INCUBATOR
HINTS FOR
POULTRYMAN

When the incubator has been prop
erly heated the drawer is filled with
the eggs and placed in the machine.
The lamp must be kept burning stead
lily and the temperature maintained at
about l03 degrees. This is the correct
heat for incubation, and it should not
be allowed to vary more than one de
gree either way.
Night and morning the eggs must
be turned
The lamp needs daily attention. The
wick should be found to require trim
ming and the oil container will need
more oil.
Each day the eggs should be aired,
ten or fifteen minutes being allowed
as if more time is given it takes too
long to get up the proper temperature
again.
When the chickens begin to hatch
they should be left alone. They will
need no food for twenty-four hours
after Matching.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-04-03
GENERAL FARM NOTES

Do not drive a smooth shod horse
on an icy road.
Good care goes as far as good feed
ing with horse.
Let the sun in through large win
dows in the stable.
A well ventilated barn gives good
returns in healthy animals.
Hens make good use of milk. Give
them plenty of clean bedding
It's cheaper to fill the old we'll with
dirt than with three-year-old colt
The action of a draft horse is re-
ceiving more attention than formerly
Buckwheat straw is not good for
pigs, often causing an eruption or If
ritation of the skin.
Every hog on the farm will help
you to grow better crops if you save
every bit of manure.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-04-03
GET STAND" OF ASPARAGUS

Asparagus requires deep, sandy,
black loan soil, the deeper the better
subsoil of a porous nature and well
tile drained The item of fertilizer is
one of gigantic importance. Fertilizer
in some form must be procured in lib
cral quantities. Asparagus is not q
dainty feeder; it devours alike the fine
ground bone of commerce and the
dead cat picked up in the back alley
In starting a family asparagus bed
pillow the ground at least six inches
deep. The plants should be one year
old, set in rows three feet apart and
eighteen inches apart in the row. Dig
the holes for the plants large enough
to receive the roots in their natural
position, and eight inches deep; firm
the earth we'll over the plants. Two
hundred will supply good-sized fam
lily all they can use. Cultivate and fer
tilize we'll for two years before cut
ting and you will have plenty of good
asparagus.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-04-03
MORE THAN PAY
FOR KEEP IN NUMBER
OF EGGS LAID

Many persons are of the opinion
that bantams, because of their small
size, are valuable only for ornamental
purposes. They are mistaken, how
ever, for while they are rather too
small for table use, they will more
than pay for their keep in the mum
Der of eggs they lay.
For those who do not have much
room for poultry bantams are excel
lent chickens. They thrive we'll in
close confinement; flock of 4 dozen
can be kept in yard ten feet square
and good-sized dry goods box will
serve as a house.
They are small feeders, yet the fe-
males will produce on an average 100
eggs each year, and the eggs are al
most as large as those laid by some
strains of Lcghorns.
Don't let disease of any kind get q
start in your flock. As soon as any
disease appears, isolate TIE affected
birds in coop kept for that special
purpose, or, if the cases are very bad
and the birds are not of special value
use the Ratchet and destroy the bodies
An ailment will spread rapidly
hence better sacrifice a few fowls IL
the start than run the risk of losing
many. Disease is sometimes intro
duced into flock of birds that have
been purchased at other places, so
care should always be used in purchas-
ing additional stock.
Everyone who has ever had expert
ence with poultry knows that cleanli-
ness is absolutely imperative if the
Hook is to prove profitable
Fowls will do something toward bal
ancing their own rations, and they will
take more or less exercise if they have
the chance. But they cannot rid their
quarters of filth and vermin. No
doubt, however, but that the fowls
on many farms would be glad if they
could perform such work. 1t would
be done then.
The development of the cold storage
business in eggs has made it difficult
for city people to secure fresh eggs. or
good quality eggs, therefore there is
good business for the farmer.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-04-03
VENTILATE HENHOUSE
TO INSURE THE
HEALTH OF FOWLS

A tree is the natural home of the
hen. She was not intended to live in
a house.
In housing hen so that she will
produce eggs during the winter, we
have confined her in home as tight
and stuffy as our own. But unlike
most humans, the hen wants fresh air
more than she wants warmth.
In providing a home for the hen we
should protect her against storms and
cold winds but we should take care
that we do rot exclude fresh air and
light
One of the best systems of ventila-
ton, according to ]. G. Halpin, Col
lege of Agriculture of the University
of Wisconsin, is cioth-covercd win
dow which will allow air to pass slow
ly back and forth without draft. The
cloth should be stretched on hing ed
frame so that the entire window may
easily be opened. The window should
be placed when possible on the south
side of the poultry house. 1t will need
to be open large part of the time,
being closed only during storms and
ON the coolest nights.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-04-03
THE CARE
OF THE
YOUNG CHICK

The care of the young chick, from
the time it is Matched until il is sold,
is bound up in the one word com
fort" The normal amount of heat,
clean quarters, good. fresh air with
plenty of room and eXercise-these
are the essential requirements, and
they must be supplied. Good breeding
has more to do with healthy chicks
and normal growth than good incuba-
ton, Many persons can hatch large
numbers of chicks, but comparatively
few can raise them successfully. The
experienced breeder begins long be
fore the Matching season to prepare
for the management of his growing
stock, by the careful selection of
breeders.
Labor and feed will avail little or
nothing if the chicks do not inherit a
strong, vigorous constitution. This
quality is entirely dependent upon the
age and condition of the breeding
stock. Discouragement and failure are
sure to follow where immature pullets
diseased hens, or hens of low vitality
are used as breeders Only strong,
vigorous hens which have passed their
first year as layers should go into the
breeding pens The eggs from such
hens which have been mated to large
healthy cockerels, should be gathered
carefully and kept in a temperature Of
not more than 90 degrees, and 50 will
not do any harm. The sooner the eggs
are incubated after being laid the
better
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-04-03
CARING FOR BROOD SOW

As the breeding season approaches
it is necessary to have the sows in the
best Of coidition Animals intended
for breeding purposes should be ma
tured but not fattened; if immature
animals are to be used at all, they
should be at least eight months old
before being bred.
During pregnancy, sows should have
abundant exercise and a variety of
feed. During the winter months, un-
less extra care betaken, brood sows
are particularly liable to lie in their
quarters and become inactive Effort
should be made to induce them to
exercise This may be accomplished
by having them travel around the
barnyard for feed, or by housing them
some distance from their feeding
place, or by making them root for
grain scattered under litter on
barn or shed floor. They should not
be given too much of any one kind of
feed. If excessively fed corn is par
ticularly Objectionable.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-04-03
WORKING NOTES
ON THE
POULTRY YARD

You would think the manufacturer
a fool who would feed cotton into his
mill and expect silk goods to be woven
from it, and yet the hen is simply a
machine.
Given the proper material she will
lay eggs, but you can't expect her to
do it with just corn, when corn is only
a t-producing food.
Give your hens variety Of the prop
er food, and keep them comfortable
and busy and they will be like the hen
the little boy heard cackling-after
listening moment to the fuss the hen
was making, he remarked: Huh, you
needn't be so proud of laying that egg.
You couldn't help it."
Save the droppings from the poultry
houses. Fertilizer of equal value, if
bought in the market, will cost you $50
a ton.
For the easier gathering and han
ding of this fertilizer platform OF
boards should be placed under the
roosts. This platform should be
scraped clean every day, or at least
twice week
After cleaning, air-slaked lime and
ashes should be sprinkled over the
boards This makes the boards easier
to clean and is also good disinfect-
ant and vern1in killer besides addino
value to the fertilizer.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-04-03
STARTING THE
PEACH ORCHARD
PROPERLY

FNOF r NL
Going to start a peach orchard this
spring? Consider where you will get
the trees, look over the ground, no
tice draining necessities and study
up how you will prune and head them.
Also consider mulching and cultivat-
ing question.
In planting a peach orchard it is
well to set the trees 20 feet apart
each way. One acre set 20 feet will
require l0S trees. The land should
be well drained SO water will not
stand near the surface
The soil should be well cultivated
before the trees are set, if possible.
and the places where they are to
stand thoroughly dug up for a space
of three feet.
A little bone meal-about one pint,
worked into the soil for each tree is
advisable
Do not set the tree too deep, and be
careful to spread the roots and cir
culate the soil well among them. This
can be done by giving the three lit
shake up and down.
Only good top soil should be placed
under or around the roots. Pouring
a pail of water into the half-filled hole
will serve TO settle the soil about the
roots, besides giving the moisture
needed by the trees
After it has settled away, fill up the
hole and cover with leaves or straw
for mulch Before transplanting, al
ways cut back. severely all the
branches, and the top of the main
stalk should be taken off
Train the trees by pinching off the
ends of the new growth occasionally
during the first season, if they do not
seem to be growing compact enough
to make a well-formed tree.
After the tree begins to show new
growth apply the fertilizer, which
may be one of the commercial fer
tilizers for growth (not for fruit, or
it may be ashes or cotton seed meal
or well-rotted manure.
The mulch may be used again after
the trees have been fertilized and
will serve to properly conserve the soil
moisture.
Peach orchards should be well cult
waited during the growing season. Bor-
ers are often troublesome. but if care
is taken to pull the dirt up around the
trees early in the season and allow
it to remain Until quite late in the fall
and level it off until the next spring.
there will be very little damage done
Each year during the winter the
trees should be pruned, cutting back
one-third of the new growth. When
they come into bearing, thin the fruit
while small to improve the quality
ard help the tree.
Yerington times. [volume] (Yerington, Nev.) 1907-1932, 1915-04-03
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE
To O. G. Burke. w. E. Harris and Ierrv
O'Rourke:-

To O. G, Burke W. E. Harris and Jerry
O'Rourke:-
You, and each of you are hereby notified
mat |, the undersigned, Co-owner with you in
the Queen No. |, Queen No, 2, Queen No 3,
HUI Top and Starlight No. / Lode Mining
claims, situated in the Mason Mining Dis
trct, Lyon County, Nevada, have expended
Five Hundred (S500) Dollars for and as the
annual assessment work on said claims for
the year 1914.
Reference is hereby made to book IN" of
Mining Location and Assessment Records of
Lyon Sounty, Nevada at pages IS, 10, 20,
p and p respectively, for the specific de,
scription OF each of the above named claims.
located by yourselves and the undersigned.
Under the provisions of Section 1924 Re-
vised Statutes OF the United States and the
several Statutes and Acts of the Legislature
ned 10 contribute your proportion of said sum
OF SoUo, expended for assessment work, towit
The sum of SIPS EACH total $375, to your
co-owneI, the undersigned, at Yerngton, Ne
this notice on you, or of the publication of the
same, together with the costs of this publ-
cation. or your undivided three fourths go
interest in said above described claims will
co-own r. who has. made the expenditures
required by law, and to which you have thus
far failed to contribute.
Prepared for publication in the Yerington
iimes, newspaper OF general circulation, the
day IN the caption set out and forwarded to
your last known address on January g. 1915
the date and day of the first publication of
this notice.
P. E. BRADY.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
End day OF January 4; D, 1915.
-, Recorder of Lyon County, Nevada.
First pub, Jan. 9, 1915.
Last pub. April g. 1915