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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
SUPERIORITY OF WIDE TIRES
1t Has Been Found by Actual Test
That Rroad-Tired Wagon Pulls So
Per- Cent Easier

Wide tires build up roads and save
horse labor, according to the depart
ment of agricultural engineering at the
University of Nebraska. They have
the same effect upon a country road
as a roller on a plowed field. On the
other hand, the narrow tire cuts up
road like a disk.
1t has been found by actual test in
this department that the wide-tired
wagon pulls easier in nearly all cases
than the narrow-tired wagon. In deep
mud on a country road the wide-tired
wagon pulls 6.2 per cent easier.
On a country road with a thin sur
face of mud or deep dust, however,
the narrow tires pull 4.9 per cent cas-
Ter. In a corn field the wide tires pull
30.5 per cent easier, in dry alfalfa
field IT. per cent easier, and on a dry
country road 1912 per cent easier.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
TO MAKE SMOOTH ROAD BEDS
Put Soil on in Layers, Not In Piles
Best Tool for Road improve.
ment is SpIltloe Drag.

The making of a smooth roadbed
requires that when the soil is put on,
1t be laid in layer and not in piles.
When dumped in piles some places
will be more packed than others and
there will likely be difference in the
density, while if laid on in layers this
will be avoided Each layer should be
narrowed, or better yet, disked and
packed before the next one is laid
down.
In this way a good roadbed is Sc
cured from the first, while II the soil
is just dumped on the road to be
leveled and packed by the traffic over
the road good roadbed will never be
secured.
The best tool for keeping the road
well crowned and the surface smooth
Is the splitlog drag. This tool should
be used soon after q rain. The soil
Is then loose and easily moved. The
drag moves but small amounts of soil
and smears it. on the roadbed in thin
layers, which is just what is wanted.
1t cuts of any projections and fills
any low places.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
BETTER ROADS IN MISSOURI
Movement Has Passed Boom Stage
and Become Fixed PoIicy-Good
Advertisement for State.

When the public roads bureau of
the department of agriculture made
its study Of roads covering period
which ended In 1913, Missouri did not
figure among the leading states either
in its mileage Of improved roads or
in progress made in road building,
while some of the southern states
with smaller resources in a financial
way showed striking evidences of
progress, says Farm Progress. They
had been building cheap.roads Of such
materials as were Immediately at
hand, and that is what Missouri is
doing today with such energy and en-
thusiasm that the next survey of the
road situation Is sure to tell differ
ent story. This will be a good thing
for state pride and as state adver-
tisement, but vastly more significant
is the direct benefit derivable from
roads that can be traversed at all sea.
sons with full loads. Every good road
that is built today and tomorrow and
every road that is improved will go
to make Missouri a better state in
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
Good Roads Day in Missouri.

which the people may live their nor.
nal social life, better state for the
school child, a better state in which
to spend a working life and live out
a contented old age. The good roads
movement in Missouri has passed the
boom stage and become a settled pol
Icy, finding its strongest reason for
being In the silent argument of good
roads already built It's goal is a state
in which every market shall be &C.
cessible to the farmers wagon the
year around and public sentiment in
favor OF good roads so strong that no
other condition will be tolerated.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
DESERT AUTO IS NO cANE
These Men Forget to Provide W,k
for Their Desert Ride and
Ones Dies.

Failure to think about eYaponSs
In an automobile radiator bruaE
death to one man and frighitul b
lures to two others, who arrived
Los Angeles from the desert and Il
of their sufferings. The trio--Jss.
s. Roche and John H. Welsh, str
neys, and James G. Clarke, 6 red /
tate dealer-left here Sunday b 1
automobile for Ell Centre, In ths b
perial valley.
Monday morning the car aoppdi
the sand. The radiator was empg d
they had no water. Roche and Wdi
started after a mirage which thgA
lieved was the Salton sea- Ci'l
waited a day, and then, belsIi
them dead, made his way to Nina
Springs, where he was resusatil
after falling himself in faint and =
ganized a rescue party. They Ton
Roche unconscious and Welsh dE
Roche said they drank lubricatag I
philadelphia Record.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
The Bonnie Conductor 'Lassie.

Edinburgh, Scotland, has two dozen
women street car conductors who are
thorough success in the new line of
work. Other tramways are already
recruiting girls and training them to
be conductors. It is said that girls
working in the English cartridge fac
tories are 80 fired with patriotism
that some Of them work thirty hours
in a stretch without any rest. Miss
Elizabeth Lister has been appointed a
stationmaster in South Wales, the first
woman to act In that capacity. In
the north of England and in Scotland
and Wales the men workers are being
supplanted in the fields by women,
who can be seen following the bar
row or digging and hoeing.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
GINGERBREAD OF OLD DAYS
Was Luxury That Filled an "Aching
Void" in the Down
East Boy.

What memories this reference to the
five-cent ginger cake Of commerce will
arouse in the minds of men approach
ing or past middle age who passed
their boyhood in the country!
At all public gatherings where con-
cessions were given for the serving or
refreshments it was the chief feature
in the order Of the day down to a
period of much later than half a CEN
fury ago. And then it seems to have
disappeared, suddenly and mysterious
ly, after the manner Of the disappear
ance of the bootjack and the passen.
ger pigeon, and like them probably
never to return.
Who among us whose hair has grown
thin atop or disappeared altogether
cannot recall the bill Of fare of the
refreshment vendors in those earlier
and simpler days at fairs, town meet
ings and Fourth of July celebrations!
The assortment was not elaborate, hut
it was filling and satisfying, and one
got good deal for his money, says
the Biddeford (Me.) Daily Journal.
Most conspicuously displayed were
those ginger cakes, everywhere To-
cally known as bakers gingerbread"
to distinguish it from homemade gin
gerbread, which lacked the delicate
color, the spicy fragrance, the work
manlike finish and pleasing regularity
of the imported article. Then there
were coffee served in big mugs; crack
ers and cheese, baked beans and
brown bread, not infreQuently home
made doughnuts, and always raw oy-
sters.
The gingerbread and the oysters
were the things that took with the
crowd; for only on such occasions
were these viands readily attainable.
What country boy has not watched
some older person order saucer Of
raw oysters, cover them with vinegar
and cayenne pepper and then absorb
them as to the manner born, with
out admiring the grace and nonchal-
ance with which the trick was done
and wishing for the time to come
when he might venture to give such
an exhibition?
His consolation lay in a sheet" of
that famous bakers gingerbread, and
if he was particularly we'll fixed ftnan-
cially, piece of cheese to go with
it. Those were, indeed, happy days,
when piece OF gingerbread and a
hunk of cheese at total expense of
six cents, would fill an aching void
which in these degenerate days is
hardly satisfied with a six.course din
ner.
1t may be assumed that the men
who made that famous gingerbread
are not all dead. Here and there
throughout the country there must be
several survivors who retired for we'll
earned rest after long service in the
best interests of hungry humanity.
This being the case, t is barely pos
sible that the recipe for those ginger
cakes Is not irretrievably lost.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
MAKE HORSE STAND QUIETLY
Halter Twitch Is Great Aid in Han.
ding Unruly Anlmals-ordinary :
Halter and Tie Rope.

To handle the feet of horse that
VIII not stand still or that kicks, a
halter twitch is a great aid. This
witch is easily applied and needs
only the ordinary halter and the rope
Pass the rope over the horses head
just behind the ears; raise the upper
lip and put the rope across the gums
above the teeth, run the rope through
the loop made by passing the rope
over the horses head. The rope should
be tight from the halter ring, over the
head, under the loop and through the
loop. A few good pulls on this rome
should make the horse stand quietly,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
HINTS FOR SWINE BREEDERS
squeallng Hog Is Improbable, Con-
tented One Grunts-GiVe Pigs
Plenty II Exercise.

CDR. J. H. COFFMAN. Idaho station)
Keep the pens clean and dry to pre-
vent disease among your hogs. Don't
let drafts blow on the hogs-drafts are
fatal to them, causing pneumonia,
rheumatism and various other all
ments.
If your hogs are sick or not doing
well, find out what the trouble is. 1t
will pay. A squealing hog is not profit
able-a contented hog grunts. Don't
keep them in too small pen. Exer-
else is essential to health Give small
pigs plenty of exercise, it may pre-
vent thumps.
Give the SOW and pigs plenty Of
room on the sunny side of a building.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03

Colony houses for brood sows are
more sanitary than a central house.
If your little pigs are troubled with
scours change the diet of the SOW. Do
not feed dirty, spoiled or sour feed
Thoroughly cook all meat scraps.
If hard bony engagements form on
the hook joints of your small pigs,
the chances are that they have ricketts,.
Introduce some new blood into the
herd and feed your pigs per each 100
pounds weight a mixture of calcium
phosphate pulverized, nux vomica two
ounces, artificial carlsbad salts ten
ounces
For worms give five grains calomel
and ten grains santonin per each 100
pounds, followed in about six hours
by a bran mash or give ten grains
santonin and 20 grains areca nut after
e 24-hour fast.
Follow some of your hogs to the
packinghouse and see them inspect.
cd. It will pay in case they are tuber.
cular.
Use plenty of whltewash around the
vans.
ISOLATE all sick hogs. Burn all dead
es,
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
Soldiers and MexIcans Elaht.

Brownsville, Tex.-More than 800
shots were exchanged Wednesday be-
tween Mexican bandits on the Next
can side of the Rio Grande and Amer
lean soldiers on the Texas side of the
river near Mercedes. A horse be-
longing to trooper was killed. The
shooting occurred at the same point
where Is bandits attacked group of
soldiers few days ago, killing pri-
vate and wounding Lieutenant Roy
Henry.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
ITALY AT WAR WITH TURKEY.
Evidence Gathered for Many Weeks
Show Italian Subjects Wrongly
Treated by Ottoman Empire.

acknowledgements Di Garroni, ItaI.
ian ambassador to Turkey, Saturday
handed to the porte note declaring
Italy considered herself in a state of
war with Turkey and demanded his
passports, according to an official tele-
gram from Constantinople received at
Amsterdam.
The reasons given in the note for
Italy's declaration of war were the
support given by Turkey to the revolt
in Libya and the prevention of the de-
parture of Italian residents from
Syria.
Although Italy declared war on Aus
tria on May "a and hostilities between
the two powers began Immediately,
there has never been any declaration
of war between Italy and Germany,
the ally of Austria, while until now
Italy and Turkey, the ally of the CEN
trail powers, nominally have been at
peace.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03

cording to directions on thu 5a.s'' y
she is cured of this trouble, n. Y
all run down when she STAR. Wv " =
the Compound and her periods ~ w. !
come right: She was 50 poo, y ' '
weak that l often had to helm p N.Y.
herself, but now she is regular !, y !
growing strong and healthy y y "
MARTIN HELv1G, plover, Iowa y
Hundreds of such letters s,,,,,.
gratitude for the good Lydia { M
hams Vegetable Compound ha. ~
plished are constantly being rss'Ss
proving the reliability Of this gsSsI
remedy. '"S
If you are i'll do not drag slopu
continue to suffer day in and dsyaat
at once take Lydia E. Pinkham', W w.
table Compound, a woman's rensa, 1
woman's ills.
II you want special advice vrh,I
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine ca. lsS|
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your lett,,, 's
be opened, read and answered MI
woman and held In strict eOpfdas|
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
A Matter Of Surprise,

Don't you think women ought to
Vote?" asked Mr.. Meekton's wife.
We'll, Henrietta, there's no doubt
in my mind that you ought to vote.
But If your opiuion of some of the
other women is correct, l don't see
why you should want to intrust them
with such responsibility"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
PROVIDE SHELTER FOR PIGS
Digestive Disorders Particularly Fatal
Among Animals Kept on Alfalfa
Without Protection.

Several men have reported their
pigs dying Of digestive disorders. This
ailment has peen particularly fatal
among hogs that are kept on alfalfa
pasture, with little or no shelter at
hand.
Pigs are particularly liable to diges,
tive disorders under such conditions,
especially if cold rains occur. They
should at all times be given a dry
bed free from dust into which the
sun can shine. II they get sick It is
well to consult a veterinarian.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
EdIson,s Ewes Endanoered

West Orange, N Thomas A.
Edison, while at work in one of his
laboratories at Silver Lake, near New
ark, Wednesday was painfully though
not seriously burned about the eyes
by the accidental splash of potash
solution.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
Another Little Bedtime Story.

Good gracious!" cried Peter Rab-
bit" what is the cause of that uproar
going on up in the air? There! That
was the S. o. S. call! Somebody must
be in trouble, and"
"Oh, that is old Doc Stork," replied
Sammy Jay. He is carrying twins to
the wildcats house, and the dear lit
tie strangers do not wish to Co.,
Kansas City Star.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
A Good Roads Advocate

Aren't you in favor OF good roads?"
OF course l am" answered the toll
gate keeper.
But this road of yours is miser.
able"
Maybe. But Pm in favor of good
roads. If the road hadn't been pretty
good this far you mightn't have got
here to pay your toll"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
Gil Anderson Wins.

Elgin, Ill.-Gilbert Anderson, driv.
ing Stutz, Saturday won the sixth
annual renewal of the 3O1-mile road
race for the Elgin National trophy.
His time was 3:5S.25, an average of
TT.25 miles an hour.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
Transportation in Calcutta.

To compete with Calcutta's present
street railway system company has
been formed which will place 100 mo-
tor buses and 400 cars for freight In
service within year.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
First Bale at Trinity.

Trinity, Textile first bale of new
cotton arrived in Trinity Friday
raised on Bell brothers farm near
Trinity The bale weighed 500
pounds and classed middling.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
Some Jealous,

Patience--ls she jealous Of hala
band?
Patrice--Is she? Say, she's iAa
If he finds a hair In the butta "
isn't hers!
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
mother Of
SCHOOL CA.
Tells !5 How Lydia pipkb,,.
Vegetable Compo,,n1 :
stored Her Dausb.'
ter's Health,
Pl0 9v Iowa. :" From a .,r., i
my Is year old daughter ~ a ~ d

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s about tit it and %s'
not ), help BE-, y (,
lydia E. pinIIh's'I
Veg, g.
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The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03

If there is anything more misleading
than the average guaranty, we would
glady give up nickel to see a NOV
ing picture Of ii.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
For Breeding Animals.

A small field Of rape near by the hog
yards, and a few rods of woven-wire
fencing, viii prove Of great value IN
conditioning the needing animals and
young
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03

On the whole, 1t is better loi y
small boy to soil his fingers win fl
mas jam than to have them Olosaa
by the cannon cracker.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
Its Kind.

Il see where they have little Thin
bic theater In New York. What kind
of plays have they?"
Oh, l dare say, they are sew, sew"
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
Road prao an Aid

The great farm builders are live
stock, alfalfs and silage, aided by the
manure spreader and tie road drag.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03

Even after a man swears off he is
apt to keep right on swearing.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03

The hest throw one can make with
dice Is to throw them away.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1915-09-03
GREAT BRITAIN STAMPS
COTTON AS CONTRADAND
Measures to Relieve Depression That
Might Follow Such an Order
Will Be Taken.

Washington.-Re to cot
ton shippers that their cargoes for
neutrals will not be Confiscated If
they come within the normal con-
sumption under the recent decree Of
the allies that cotton is Contraband,
was given in statement issued We'd
nesday at the British embassy as fol-
lows:
1T Is a misapprehension to suppose
that the declaration of cotton to be
contraband will further restrict those
consignments Of cotton to neutral
countries which are proved to be ex-
ClusiVely destined for the normal con-
sumption of those countries. The
embassy has no authority however,
to give any assurance as to the i'm
munity of particular shipments, but
under the procedure Of international
law relating to absolute contraband,
evidence Of ultimate enemy destina-
ton will be necessary to the condem-
nation of cotton as a lawful prize"
London.-Cotton has been declared
absolute contraband by Great Britain
according to a statement issued by
the foreign office Saturday.
The statement declares that the gov
eminent proposes to initiate measures
to relieve depression which might
temporarily disturb the cotton market
because OF the contraband order.
1t was learned upon inquiry at the
foreign office that the French govern
ment is to issue a similar notice.
The announcement follows:
His majesty's government has de-
clared cotton absolute Contraband.
While the circumstances might have
justified such action at an earlier
period, his majesty's government are
glad to think that local conditions of
the American interests likely to be
affected are more favorable for such
a step than they were year ago, and
moreover, his majesty's government
contemplates initiation of measures to
relieve as far as possible abnormal
depression which might temporarily
disturb market conditions"
The declaration making cotton con-
traband is effective from Saturday
A royal proclamation concerning the
subject was published in supplement
of the London Gazette. It is very
brief After a preamble citing pre-
vious proclamations concerning con-
traband, it says:
Nov, therefore, we do hereby de-
clare, by and with the advice of our
privy council, that during the continu-
ance of the war, or until we do give
further public notice, the following ar
ticles will be treated as absolute con-
traband, in addition to those set out
in our royal proclamations aforemen-
toned:
Raw cotton, cotton linters, cotton
waste and cotton yarn.
"And we do hereby declare that this,
our royal proclamation, shall take ef-
feet from the date of its publication
in the London Gazette"
The proclamation was signed Satur
day by King George.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-05-17

Athens, April 2s.-A correspondent
with the British expeditionary force
at the Dardanelles, although not al
lowed by the censor to give the name
of the seaport where he is stationed,
sends the following description of the
town and the picturesque force ga
thering there:
1--WE have been lying for four days
in a land-locked harbor, where the
French and English troops are con-
centrating for their campaign against
the Turks The war has brought a
weird transformation TO some of these
sleepy Mediterranean towns, a trans
formation that will mean permaAent
changes to most of them. They will
be modernized in many respects, and
the road building and dock making
and general house cleaning which the
soldiers are doing will work almost a
revolution in the towns and their in
habitants.
This place is most interesting Just
now, with its prosperous garrison OF
French troops-chasseurs d'Afrique on
their superb Arab horses, Senegalese
infantry as black as my hat, and
Frenchmen in their blue tunics and
red trousers. The Senegalese have
odd little tents dotting whole hill
side, each eight feet long, four feet
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-05-17
RAIDING YAQUIS
Are CHECKED

Washington, May 17-Raiding va
qui Indians who killed several Amer
leans during a recent outbreak in the
Yaqui valley in Mexico have been
checked; Admiral Howard reported to
the navy department. yesterday and it
now probably will not be necessary to
land marines and bluejackets, from the
cruisers Raleigh and New Orleans at
Guaymas.
Mexican state troops which at first
had declined to give battle to the In
diana, finally went into the fighting,
Admiral Howard. reported and check
ed the raid. The dispatch did not
mention further loss Of American
lives and said the situation was en-
couraging. 49,. ....@
The Carranza- agency here announ-
ced the receipt of dispatch from
Vera Cruz stating that railway pas
senger traffic, discontinued for. two
days to facilitate troop movements
had been resumed today. Railroad
communication between Vera Cruz
and General Obregon, at Leon, was
intact, the dispatch added.