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Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-06-11
(By w. M. KELLY.}

(By w. M KELLY)
The time when dairy cattle can be
turned out in the summer to shift for
themselves has passed. Under the best
conditions, the abundance of pasture
grass is certain to decrease after the
middle Of July, and it's quality also de-
teriorates
To sustain an even flow Of milk we
must be prepared to supply additional
food. A milk flow, allowed to decrease
at this time, cannot be fully regained
until the COW again freshens.
The cow that is giving milk, and
the growing heifer, suffer severe
shock, from which they are slow 70
recover if compelled to fight flies and
exist on semistarvation rations, in a
drought-stricken pasture
Many dairy farmers make the mis-
take of allowing the cows to shrink in
their flow of milk, before beginning to
feed the supplemental feeds.
Supplying these as soon as the pas
ture begins to fail, makes the change
more gradual and insures an even,
steady thrift OF the cows, which Is so
essential to sustaining large flow Of
milk.
Another very common mistake made
by many dairy farmers is that of feed
ing a heavy grain ration to the cows
when a bare pasture is their sole sup
ply of rough food. Such roughage is
neither palatable nor abundant enough
to produce good results.
On the modern dairy farm where
corn, clover and alfalfa thrive, it is
unnecessary to plan an extensive and
complicated system of forage crops to
supplement the pastures.
The supply may be obtained by hold
ing over ensilage.or by cutting clover
and alfalfa, and feeding them green
in liberal quantities.
Oats, peas, rye, barley and various
other crops, may be specially grown
for summer feeds, but none of these
crops will yield as much food as corn.
clover, alfalfa and oats and peas that
are raised in the regular crop rota-
ton.
The only real advantage of grow
ing the former feeds lies in the fact
that they may be sometimes raised on
land not used for growing the crops
in the regular rotation.
I believe it is generally unwise to
practice a complicated system Of
growing catch crops, when it is pos
sible to obtain equally good results
from the green feed supplied by the
regular field crops.
In actual practice l have depended
chiefly upon corn, oats and clover and
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-06-11

peas for soiling purposes during the
summer, harvesting as much of each
crop green as was necessary to bal
ance up the deficiency of pasture
grass.
The corn ensilage has the advantage
Of being at hand in case the drought
comes unusually early in the season,
when 1t is difficult to get soiling crops
to growing heavily enough. Corn is
both the best grain and soiling crop
This fact has been a stumbling block
to many farmers. In trying to save
grain and ensilage for winter feeding
they have allowed many dollars to
slip through their hands by under
feeding in the summer.
The same holds good when clover
and alfalfa are saved for hay, when
the cattle are suffering for succulent
food In no way can we realize
greater feeding value from these crops
than by cutting and feeding them
green.
1t is the height of folly to save
clover and alfalfa for hay and allow
it to lose feeding value from rain and
heat before feeding it to the cows, if
they are suffering in a parched pas
ture for want of this kind of food.
1t is common to see herd of dairy
cattle in the late summer stamping
dust from dried-up pasture, fighting
flies, and vainly endeavoring to break
through fence which holds them out
of luxuriant field of corn that
flaunts it's prodigious wealth of dark
green foliage before them.
1t is penny wise and pound foolish
policy to allow cows to fall away in
the milk yield and condition, when a
few rows of rankly growing corn
would keep them In good condition.
It is true that when corn is cut
green it has less feeding value than
when it is mature, but the ripened
stalk and leaves are largely wasted as
much of the crop is harvested.
When cut and fed green there is
scarcely any waste, for the whole
stalk, leaves and grain are eaten.
While corn in it's roasting ear stage
has less total nourishment than the
whole plant when matured, yet when
cut at this time 1t will actually give
better results than when husked from
the standing stalk and fed later after
the cattle have fallen away in their
milk yield and flesh condition.
More than one-half of the rundown
condition of dairy cattle during the
winter can be traced to a decline in
condition before they go into winter
quarters in the fall.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-06-11

stiles in our East combined. On the
same page of the catalogue there were
mentioned 4S modern schools for all
purposes one could well think Of
military. commercial, surveying, draw.
ing, naval, police, polytechnic, prison
reform. law, normal, language, silk
worm and mulberry, theological, Bibli-
cal. with many that indicated special
studies and industries for girls.
Most of these. are established in
good modern buildings in parklike in
closures, with lawn grass, trees and
flowers, and rooms equipped and set
apart for their especial work. The
Chinese are given to vocational train
ing. They have an elaborate system
of division of labor. They do not be-
lieve In man of all work.
Confucianism and Idols.
We hear {. great deal about the
superstition and idolatry of the Chi
Eese. We we're astonished to find in
Marking, and indeed everywhere we
went, the Buddhist temples either
grown up in weeds, the idols in many
places covered with dust and broken,
or the idols thrown away and the
buildings transformed into modern
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-06-11
AUGUST SEEDING IS
BEST FOR ALFALFA
Result of Experiments Made 10y
Virginia Experiment Sta
tion-Seed 1t Alone.

A report has been received by the
department of agriculture of the re-
suits of experiments made by the Vir-
ginia station, in cooperation with the
department, with alfalfa. The report
shows that August seeding is prefer
able to spring seeding Lining is usu-
ally necessary, even on limetone soils.
Acid phosphate and basic Stag have
given the most marked results on al
falfa Of any commercial fertilizer, es-
pecially when used in connection with
liberal application of stable manure.
At Williamsburg, in tide water, a
plat seeded in September and ferti-
lized with 10 tons of manure and 400
pounds acid phosphate per acre yield
ed at the rate of six tons per acre in
the following year, as against two
tons $50 pounds without fertilizers.
At s,taunton, in the Shenandoah val.
ley, alfalfa fortified with Is tons of
stable manure, alone yielded six tons
per acre in 1913 and 21s tons the first
cutting in 1914 The use of inoculat-
ing soil is strongly recommended over
any other method. Pure cultures are
less desirable, but practicable sub
stitute.
The experiments on rates of seed
ing, using from 10 to 80 pounds per
acre, gave very little difference be-
tween light and heavy seedlings. On
good seeded Is pounds should be
sufficient A comparison OF alfalfa
seeded alone with alfalfa seeded with
other grasses or cIovers indicates that
il Is the best to seed ft alone.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-06-11

~A NE Oh The most SCrlhluS Illus
~ Ia trations, to the stranger, of
81 the awakening of China is
Wv seen in the contrast between
the fine new buildings of the
University Of Marking and the old ex-
animation halls, In ruins.
For many generations these halls
represented to the Chinese their high
est culture. They are located in the
old part of the city and cover a large
space. They were built in the four
teenth century, by the Ming emperor
Hong WI, great patron of learning
He codified the laws, and established
schools in all the chief cities and
towns, write DR.. Vachel T. and Cath
crime F. Lindsay in the Illinois State
Register.
These halls, in general appearance
made us think of stalls for animals on
some county fair grounds, only there
were more of them. They were in
long brick sheds, the cells separated
by partitions, and about five feet
square, the slanting roofs being made
Ol Tie. Iu0y were luL0uu0u W dCCOiu-
modate about thirty thousand students.
Each line of cells was open to the
south. A narrow board on the floor
of the cell, answered for bed at
night, two boards across at proper
heights for seat and desk, inches in
the wall for food basket and candle.
Each student was expected to pre-
pare an essay on the books of Confu-
cius, Mencius and their disciples and
commentators. No original ideas or
personal experiences were to be in
troduced.
There is high tower near the CEN
ter Of this Enclosure from which the
long lines of tile shed roofs are seen,
many of them in ruins, all overgrown
with high weeds, wild vines and moss.
In looking through "a Guide to Nam
king" we found one mention of these
honored halls in the descriptions of
"Most Noted Places" formerly the
equivalent in China Of all the univer"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-06-11
Thinking.

rounded three sides Of his suburban
home; the end which commanded a
view of the little valley which lay
between the house and the woods be-
yond. Not that The Man cared about
the view. He had no time for views.
He propped his feet comfortably on
the railing which runs around the
edge of the porch, and sat for an hour
thinking of his scheme. The moon
peeped up over the edge of the distant
trees, but The Man did not notice.
Little by little it climbed the heavens
clear, and round, and full. It's light
chung to the valley which lay between
The Man and the woods-a veil Of
silver white, and the trees beyond
projected fantastic shadows out upon
it's soft and wondrous beauty.
1t was like a prayer Of quiet praise
to the God Of The Man, and Of the
world in which he lives. Gradually it
touched the consciousness of The Man
himself, sitting alone on the porch
scheming how he might become the
possessor of wealth.
1t invaded his soul, and The Man
was not pleased at the invasion. He
wanted to think and scheme, and here,
where he had thought to be able to
best concentrate his thoughts, he
found them driven from his mind by a
silly thing like moonlight which
wrapped the little valley in it's mystic
light.
1t so impressed itself upon The Man
that he forgot that for which he had
asked to be left undisturbed Gradual
ly it was borne in upon him that it
was something more than moonlight
this thing which chung in such won
drous beauty to the little valley-and
he was quickened in his spiritual be-
ing into the rebirth without which we
cannot enter the kingdom of God.
"The kingdom of God is here and
now, and the how every man must
work out in his own SOUL" he said, re-
iterating the words of the clear-eyed
friend which had sounded like so much
nonsense to him the day before.
He was suddenly filled with a sense
of strength; a sense of the love of his
wife and children of which he had
hitherto taken so little time to think;
a sense of personal possession in all
there is Of beauty in the whole wide
world; the peace and holiness of the
moonlight by night; the radiance Of
the sunlight by day; the blue of the
skies; the refreshment of rain; the
loneliness and fragrance of flowers;
the possession Of everything there is
in the world worth single human
thought-his without price and price
less.
Prayer-the first word of gratitude
that had ever gone from him to his
God-wents out from the heart of The
Man and mingled with the Spirit in
the moonlight, and as it went, all
there was of greed, of envy, of hatred,
and of bitterness slipped away from
him like weighted mantle, and peace
as infinite as that which held the var
ley in its thrall entered his soul for
all time.
And when those who had known
him heretofore could not, upon occa-
sion. suppress all they felt of wonder
concerning his Transformation, The
Man explained with some such phrase
as miracle of moonlight" which of
course they did not understand in the
least.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-06-11
Test Seed Grain.

The business farmer OF today tests
his seed grain. In farming, as In
every other business, elements Of
chance are being removed as fully as
nossible.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-06-11
Weaninu Younu Pics.

Pigs can be weaned without check
in growth, but not on corn and water.
They must have good, rich protein
slop and a moderate amount Of corn.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-06-11
Appetite for Mutton.

One thing which opposes the de-
velopment of an appetite for mutton
is our ignorance of the best meth
DDS of cooking it.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-06-11
MIRACLE OF MOONLIGHT

From his youth up greed had been
an inherent quality of The Man. The
son of parents in moderate circum-
stances, he made up his mind early in
life that the only thing worth while
was money, and occupied his thoughts
with the time when he should become
man and begin acquiring it.
When he began his adult life the de-
termination to attain great wealth had
become SO strong that 1t dominated
The Mans life. He was energetic
and honest, and life returned him a
just reward, but he was neither salts
fed nor happy.
When he had begun his business life
he took certain very rich man for
his standard, and made up his mind
that life should yield him just as
handsome returns, so that the COM
fort which his hard work had earned
for him and for his family seemed Of
such small consequence that it never
occurred to him as being worth a
word of thanks to the God who had
given him health of body and mind to
make his own way with comparative
ease in the world
( AS the years went on, and he was
still very far from being a man of
wealth, he looked upon the rich as liv-
ing in a charmed circle, and there
came to accompany the envy and greed
which had always lived in his heart
a feeling also of bitterness.
He declared that everything worth
having could be obtained only with
money, and so completely did he ig-
more the returns which accrued to him
from his own hard work that it came
a. out that he considered them no re-
turns at all, and a greater bitterness
yet took possession of him.
One day a clear-eyed friend who saw
the way The Man was going pointed
out to him that he was making a fool
of himself
''You are so obsessed with the idea
of wealth that you are blind to your
blessings, man." said the friend.
seek We first the kingdom Of God
and his righteousness" quoted the
friend.
The Man looked at him In disgust.
'The kingdom of God" he shifted
"Bah!"
But when he was alone the memory
of the words haunted him. He had
heard them in his childhood days, but
they had been tucked away in some
remote corner of his brain for 10, these
many years. And now one of the few
friends who seemed to understand
him. in these, his money-mad days,
threw them into his teeth.
The next day he wheeled suddenly
around in front of his friend
Where, when, and how is the king.
dom of God?" he demanded to know.
Here, now" answered the clear.
eyed friend. Gas to the how, every
man must work that out in his own
soul"
It was evening. The Man was SO
restless that he could not stay indoors
All day he had been evolving schemes
In his mind for making money. Tell
ing his wife that he wanted to think
out some business matters in quiet
and did not want to be disturbed, he
pulled a comfortable chair to the far
end of the large porch which sur
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-26

Service-Miss Clara Barton. In two
weeks Dr. y. A. Wood will conduct a
similar service with Samson for his
subject.
East Mortified people will be inter
ested to know of the marriage of Miss
Barbara Brothwell. only daughter Of
Mrs. Brothwell Of Highland avenue, TO
Marion Allen Reynolds of Sherman
Pa, on Saturday, Jan. Is IT 1870 p.
IN. at the Universalist parsonage IN
Brattleboro by Rev. Delmar L. Trout.
Mr.. and Mrs. Reynolds remained in
Brattlebcro. until Monday and then
visited Mrs Brothwell here a few
hours on their way to Springfield.
Mass. Mrs. Reynolds is q graduate
nurse from the Springfield hospital, but
previously spent several years here.
where she has many friends. Mr.
Reynolds is in the brick business.
I The mid-winter Northfield Young
| Women s conference is now in session
at the Mortified hotel Nine Young
women arrived Saturday and fully d
on Monday. Mrs. w. r. Moody, chair
man of the executive committee, Is
presiding. The first session was held
Monday evening. Other members O
the executive committee are: FRS
vice chairman. Miss NJ L. Howard Of
Hartford: ID vice chairman, Mrs
Stephen Baker of New York city
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-26
WEST BRATTLEBORO

Mrs. George c. Harris is i'll with
grip.
j. L. King on the Bonnyvale road is
very i'll with heart trouble.
Robert Hull went to Boston yester-
day for few days vacation.
William Reardon of Concord, n. H.,
is visiting Mrs. Reardon at DIR.
Hunter 5.
Linn Thaycr, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ifervey Thayer, is i'll and unable to be
at school
Mrs. NJ. j. Stebbins is caring for A.
c. Walker, taking the place of Mrs.
Guy Tudor, nurse, who has gone to her
home on Highland street.
Robert Williams celebrated his 18th
birthday anniversary Saturday Jan. %,
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. G..
+. Convey. IN the evening n birthday
party was given him, also a birthday
cake from his son and wife. Cards
were played and refreshments of lee
cream and cake were served. Mr.. Will
Hams also received Il shower of about
% postcards.
| d. A. Winchester has sold to l.. Z.
/ Copeland about 10000 feet of lumber
from his lot in the extreme west part
| of the town. James Stark has the con
tract to cut and draw it to Mr.. Cope
land 5 mill and has Lewis Fletcher and
+. d. Winchester of Marlboro helping
him. Mr.. Stark hopes to finish the
Winchester job soon enough to cut ant
draw some this winter for Mrs. George
T.. Whitney, from her lot near Mr.
Winchester S.
Mrs \. J. Bracket of Clark stree
was operated upon today at the Mel
rose hospital for gall stones. DIR. Ham
ilton assisted DR.. Lynch in the opera
ton. William III. Smith of Clarl
street. who was injured at his work d
the S. A. Smith Mfg. Co. 5 factory
had one Of his fingers amputated q
the hospital Saturday evening by Dl
Lynch. Mrs. Thomas Winu of Elm
street, who is receiving treatment Il
the hospital, is improving.
IN the annual meeting of the Ladies
Aid society Of the Baptist church tn
following officers were elected: Sec
Mrs Minnie Fits; treas, Mrs. HerbeT
Thurber. The society is divided int
Eve sections with the following leader
for each section: Mrs. d. 7. Perry
Mrs. b. S. Miller, Mrs. J. S. Morse
{ Mrs. /. NJ. Compton and Mrs. Leonar
Taylor. They are planning to have
} sale OF aprons and fancy articles be-
fore Easter. The women will NEE
{ Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. j.
Morse to make arrangements for thi
! sale.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-26
DECISION AGAINST
THE COERCION LAW
Right of Employer to Require EN-
ployes to Renounce Union
Affilation Upheld.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2G.-The con
stitutional right of employers to re-
quire employees to renounce their union
affiliations as condition of employ
ment was sustained yesterday by the
supreme court in a decision far-reach-
ing to organized labor in which the
Kansas so-called coercion statute was
declared unconstitutional. Associate
Justice Day, joining a dissenting opin
ion with Justices Hughes and Holmes,
| declared that he believed similar laws
| in Is other states and i'll Porto Rico
fell by the decision.
| Under the Kansas statute it was UNI
| lawful for any individual or corpora
/ ton to coerce or influence any person
| to enter into an agreement not to Join
or remain a member of a labor organ
| ization as condition of securing or
continuing employment. The case yes
terday arose from the conviction of #.
B. Coppage, a division superintendent
Of the St. Louis and San Francisco
railway system, for threatening A. r.
Hedge, a switchman, with dismissal
If he did not withdraw from the
switchmen S union of North America
Ehe substance of the opinion of the
ajOrity of the court was in this para
lgraph: "Just as labor organizations
have the inherent and constitutional
right to deny membership to any man
who will not agree that, during such
membership he will not accept or re-
tain employment in company with non
union men; and just as union man
has the constitutional right to decline
proffered employment unless the en-
Iployer will agree not to employ any
I
the constitutional right to insist that
THE employee shall refrain from affilia-
tion with the union during the terms
of employment The contention of
the dissenting justices is expressed, in
the main, in this paragraph of Their
opinion: could an employer not be
) forbidden from demanding agreements
that an employee should not Join the
national guard? Could not the state
, strike down agreements not to Join &
certain political party! Why not labor
unions whatever members of this cour'
+ may think Of these unions3"
/ Other laws which, according to Jus
tice Day, are invahdated by yester
| dag 5 opinion are those of California
t Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Massa
+ chusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire
p New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma
) Oregon, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin
and Porto Rico.
: Justice Pitney i'll announcing tin
!. ma jority's opinion, made it clear tina
: he did not consider "actual coercion
! rs beyond the power of the states t
i prohibit. lie declared that the deci
, sion was not only based on reason. hu
{ was supported by the decision of tn
: court several years ago in the Adai
j Tease. in which the federal act of 1895
prohibiting AN interstate railroad from
e diseharging an employee because he be
y longed to a union, was annulled as un
p constitutional. Justices Day an
il Hughes held there was an element o
i coercion in the switchman' cas-
y which distinguished the two ease,
It while Justice Holmes was in favor o
Y Overriding the Adair decision.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-26
CHESTERFIELD. N. H.

Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Post spent las
week in Spofford, owing to the illness
and death of his father.
\ very large harvest of ice has been
taken from the lake. The ice is of
fine quality, - inches in thickness.
Mrs. c. W. Porter, who spent last
week at the parsonage with Rev and
Mrs. y. l.. Porter. has gone to Grove
ton, y. Fl.
Richard Henry of Watertown,
Mass, spent Sunday at the Jackson
Hill farm, looking after the business
of his father, the late J. S. Henry.
Mrs. Truell, who died in Spofford
Saturday, was a resident of this VIZ
lage until year ago, when they sold
their farm and moved to Spofford. Sin"
had many friends and will be missed
Miss Marcia Ware of Westmoreland
has been guest of her sister at W
X. Wares. Mrs. Barrett S daughter
Mrs. Peasc, a trained nurse, has come
| to care for her mother. Mrs Barrett
has been very i'll three months, but il
gaining now. ...,.
Ralph Dick. who for the past nine
years has made his home in the family
of Walter Barrett, viii leave there fol
| Burlington Jan. 90. Many of has
! friends met Saturday evening at the
! town hall aud gave him Il party Sew,
eral gifts were presented, including {
! dress suit ease, wearing apparel and !
sum of money, the presentation being
made by 3. C. Thatcher. Refreshments
of coffee and cake were served, fol
lowed by dancing and games.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1915-01-26

Out OF a total coinage of So, SO0, 900
produced by the Paris mint last year.
$47, 100000 was in gold.