davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
BEST SIZE OF SILo TO BUILD
Not Advisable to Construct Reeep.
taeIe With Diameter over Twenty
Feet-Right Height,

In building a silo one should plan
well the width of the silo. If the silo
Is too wide for the number Of stock to
be fed from it daily. there will not
be a sufficient amount of silage taken
from the silo per day, especially in
warm weather, to keep the silage from
spelling.
A depth of 2 to 215 inches of silage
should be taken from the silo per day
during the winter months, and a depth
of three inches per day during the
warm summer months.
If the stock on n farm is equivalent
to from ten to fifteen COWS, the silo
should have a diameter of about ten
feet; If equivalent to fifteen to twenty
five COWS, a diameter of about twelve
feet; If equivalent to twenty-five to
thirty-five cows, a diameter of about
fifteen feet; if equivalent to thirty-five
to forty-five COWS. a diameter of six
teen feet; if equivalent to forty-five to
siXty-fve COWS, a diameter of eighteen
feet; if equivalent to sixty-hve to sew
enty-five COWS, diameter OF eighteen
feet. For herd of seventy-five COWS
or over the diameter can be from
eighteen to twenty feet.
1t is not advisable to build a silo
with the diameter over twenty feet. II
is a general rule not to make the
height Of the silo less than twice OF
more than three times the diameter.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
TO OBTAIN A GOOD
STAND OF CLOVER
Crop Will Not Succeed on Poorly
Drained SoiI-Lack of Fer
tiIity Reduces Yield.

Observations indicate that failure
to obtain a successful stand of clover
Is due to a number of different causes.
any one or any combination of which
may react very unfavorably to its
growth. The primary causes of clover
failure appear to be due to depletion
of the humus content of the soil and
soil "acidity. Glover will not succeed
on poorly drained soil. Lack of fer
tility reduces the yield in some Sec
tions. In the spring grain sections
thet nurse crop should be seeded from
one-half to two-thirds the usual rate.
When a full seeding Of, the nurse
crop is made, and this is especially
true of oats, the greater portion of
the soil moisture is used by the grain.
The clover plants thus become weak
ened and when the grain is cut they
are killed by the hot sun before they
have time to recover.
Alsike clover does well on soil
which will no longer grow red clover,
and where moisture is sufficient it is
recommended that alsike be planted.
Sweet clover or soy beans are very
good soil renovators, and they may re-
place red clover in the rotations until
the soil is in such condition that red
clover will succeed.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
VALUE OF BETTER HIGHWAYS
Man Looking for Location Is Likely
to Judge Nelahborhood by Kind
Of Roads II Maintains.

Are you doing anything for good
roads? Is your community doing any
thing? Is your county alive to the
value of rock roads, roads of a per-
manent type? If you are a farmer
you ought to be able to realize the
value of better highways more keenly
than any other citizen.
It is a fact that the chance visitor
ana the man who is looking for a
location are likely to judge a neighbor-
hood or a region by the kind of high
ways It maintains. Stretches of mud
holes blast a community's reputation.
Bad roads kill church life and choke
education. Churches and schools are
dependent very markedly upon good
roads. Where the roads are stretches
of mud in winter and dust and old
ruts in summer, neither schools nor
churches may flourish.
When you find a farmer who op-
poses good roads and fights a reason
able taxation for building better high
ways you will find a man who is a
drawback to his community.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
AUGUST SEEDING is
BEST FOR ALFALFA
Result of Experiments Made by
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
a 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 356 pounds without fertilizers.
At Staunton, in the Shenandoah val
ley, alfalfa fertilized with 15 tons of
stable manure, alone yielded six tons
per acre in 1913 and 21a 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
a good seedbed Is pounds should be
sufficient. A comparison Of alfalfa
seeded alone with alfalfa seeded with
other grasses or clovers indicates that
It is the best to seed it alone.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
GULL IN STRANGE MISHAP
Birds Life Endangered When Its
5eak Was Caught Between the
Shells of Clam.

At first thought it is hard to imagine
how a clam could endanger the life of
a bird. That such a strange circum-
stance is not impossible is shown by
the following incident.
A settler on one of the small islands
near Vancouver was returning to his
home by way Of a beach of hard sand,
when he beheld an unusually large
flock Of seagulls gathered in a
compact mass and beating with their
beaks and wings upon the said. Evil
IDENTIFY they were attacking some en-
emy. Overhead dozens of gulls
wheeled and screamed in evident ex-
citement.
The settler was almost upon the
fighting birds before they burst apart
and flew, chattering, toward the
clouds. One, however, lay Tapping
upon the ground, and the man saw
that a monster clam held the gull's
beak in a viselike grip. 1t was too
heavy for the bird to fly away with,
and for all the gull's frantic strug-
giles. 1t could not loosen the CLAIMS
tenacious grip.
With his hunting knife the man
pried open the shells and freed the
captive. The gull was exhausted from
its desperate efforts, and at first could
only stagger like a drunken sailor
toward the water. Finally, however,
it flew away, and soon returned in
the van of a cloud of gulls come to
inspect the enemy that had trapped
one of their tribe.-St. Andrews Bea-
con.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
(By w. M. KELLY

CBy 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 a severe
shock, from which they are slow to
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 Sc
essential to sustaining a large flow oi
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 tc
supplement the pastures.
The supply may be obtained by hold
ing over ensilageoor by cutting clover
and alfalfa, and feeding them greer
in liberal quantities.
Oats, peas. rye. barley and variou!
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 tha'
are raised in the regular crop rota
tion.
The only real advantage of grow
ing the former feeds lies in the fac
that they may be sometimes raised OF
land not used for growing the crop
in the regular rotation.
believe it is generally unwise Il
practice a complicated system o
growing catch crops, when it is pos
sible to obtain equally good results
from the green feed supplied by tn,
regular field crops.
In actual practice have depended
chiefly upon corn, oats and clover ant
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12

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 it 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, II
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 a dried-up pasture, fighting
flies, and vainly endeavoring to break
through fence which holds them out
of a luxuriant field of corn that
flaunts its prodigious wealth of dark
green foliage before them.
It is penny wise and pound foolish
policy to allow cows to fall away in
the milk yield and condition, when q
few rows of rankly growing corr
would keep them in good condition.
1t 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 il
scarcely any waste, for the whole
stalk, leaves and grain are eaten.
While corn in its roasting-ear stage
has less total nourishment than the
whole plant when matured, yet when
cut at this time it will actually give
better results than when husked from
the standing stalk and fed later aftel
the cattle have fallen away in theil
milk yield and flesh condition.
More than one-half Of the rundown
condition of dairy cattle during the
winter can be traced to decline IN
condition before they go into winter
quarters in the fall.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
MUST BEGIN AT THE BOTTOM
First Thing to Do Is to Improve Bad
Dirt Roads-Money Required ls
Astonishinqly Small.

The dirt roads are the real high
ways of commerce. Without them
you would have little use for macadam
roads or other highways of like char
acter. In the road fabric we must be-
gin at the bottom. AS the dirt roads
are improved year by year, by process
of evolution, when necessity requires
a certain percentage of them will be-
come trunk lines and be converted in.
to rock, macadam, concrete or roads
of like character. This will come
about when the betterment of the dirt
roads has so improved agricultural
and other communities through which
they pass that the wealth and popula-
tion and commerce justify it.
We cannot make all the roads rock
macadam or concrete roads, but we
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
Harmless.

The commuter was plainly excited
He pounded the seat cushion In front
of him as he spoke, and his voice rose
high above the rattle of the wheels.
mo matter what my earlier views
were," he exclaimed I've changed
radically. I'm for the Reds now
against all comers"
A timid little man across the aisle
edged quietly out of his seat and
sought the conductor.
"It's an outrage" he exclaimed. "AR
avowed anarchist like that fellow
ought not to be allowed to ride in .
public conveyance"
Hes no anarchist" said the con
ductor with a grin. He's a chicken
raiser. Just now he's expressing his
views on the merits of the Rhode
Island Reds, the best little layers in
seven states"
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
Pennsylvania Nature Story.

Arthur Neefe Of Sweden, Bradford
county, set a trap in the woods, and
on account of the SHOWS was unable to
get to it. Last week it was visited
and a lively fox found therein. The
captive had been sustained by his fel-
lows during the imprisonment. Within
reach we're a gray rabbit, a white
rabbit, four mice and a woodchuck,
some of them partially devoured. Inn
prisoned, he had been visited and
nourished by his own tribe. He was
taken into further captivity, and
other than the loss of the foot by
which he had been held in the trap.
appears none the worse for his expe-
rience.-Philadelphi Record.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
vlntima Of Circumstances.

prisoner, you are charged with loi.
tering about town in a very suspicious
manner, and with not having any visi-
BILE means of sustenance. What do you
do for a living?"
Prisoner wiped a tear from his eye,
and turned haggard face to the mag
istrate.
Your worship" said he. 81 am en-
gagged in manufacturing smoked
glasses for viewing eclipses-an in
dustry that entails protracted periods
of enforced leisure"
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
Practice Makes Perfect.

An ex-corporal of the regular army
wanted a job in the park spearing bits
Of paper and other debris with sharp
stick.
DO have to take civil service
examination" he asked the district
leader.
81 guess not" said the man of infiu-
ence. Just bring me letter from
your captain stating that you are pro-
f1cient in bayonet drill. That ought
to convince the commissioner that
you're qualified for the job"
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
PLAN FOR DEHoRNINe CATTLE
Illustration Shows How the Head of
Animal Is Held While Operation
Is Being Performed.

In reply to an inquiry as to the best
method for dehorning a COW a sub
scriber of Hoard's Dairyman submits
the following plan:
Il inclose you a tie for holding
cows head at stanchion while dehorn-
ing. l think it the best tie l know.
send you a small model to show how
to use it. When cows head is fast in
stanchion. the rope is dropped over
cows neck, the loop is caught on the
under side and the rope doubled is
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12

can make ell our bad dirt roads good
dirt roads. We can make the rock,
macadam or concrete roads in certain
sections and communities where coun-
try growth, wealth, population and
volume Of heavy traffic demand and
justify it. The amount of money
really required to convert bad dirt
road into a good dirt road by the use
of modern road equipment is astonish-
ingly small.
Where the roads from the farm to
the railway station are partly bad dirt
roads, partly good dirt roads and part
ly rock, concrete or macadam roads,
the farmer must gauge his load not
by the good dirt road, not by the good
macadam road over which he passes
a part of the distance, but by the bad
dirt road he must travel. What We
should do is to improve the road,
gauging the load the producer must
haul. If he has to struggle with bad
dirt roads, he is the man we wish to
serve. These roads are the arteries
of the commerce of the soil, and our
very life, credit, prosperity, education,
church and future interests depend up
on them.
The closer We place the producer to
the markets the lower will be our cost
of living. The roads which serve the
producers today are the dirt roads,
roads of the people, roads reaching ev-
cry community, and SO years from
now the great majority of the roads
serving the producers will still be dirt
roads. We must deal with things
real, not ideal!-Gov. Major of Mis-
souri,.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
The spIlt.Loo prao.

The split-log drag has contributed
more toward the economic mainte-
nance of public highways than any i'm
plement of modern usage. 1t does not
require special acts of the legislature,
bond issues, nor expensive educa-
tional campaigns to make it available,
as usually precedes construction work.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
Maklno, War impossible.

''I shall yet succeed" said the in
Tentor, "in producing a weapon so
deadly that war must cease"
Il shouldn't be surprised" replied
Miss Cayenne. "A few more engines
of destruction may kill off people un-
til there won't be enough to conduct
q battle.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
Aid In pehornIns.

put through loop and placed around
the nose up far enough to not shut of
her breathing, and then pull the rope
back to a post at side of stanchion,
and one turn around post. A man can
hold the end, and by placing his
weight On rope hold the cows head
quite solid while her horns are re.
moved. The rope is quickly removed
by taking off nose and pulling same" )"
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
neteet Preserueh Enna.

The albumen of eggs that have been
preserved in water glass solution is
very watery and the yolks are slightly
darker than in fresh eggs. Yolks of
lnfertile eggs change less in color than
Of fertile ones. Usually a deposit OF
water glass can be detected on the
outside of the shells.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
RETAIN ALL THE GOOD COWS
Dairyman Should Not Hesitate in Dis
posing Of Any Improbable AMI
NAL In Herd.

Have no hesitation in disposing Of
the improbable COWS. They are
mistake. Let somebody else have
them. They may be good for him
they certainly are not wanted BY you
Retain only the good ones and make
a start toward putting your business
on q profitable, money making basis
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
Couldn't Put That In Prlnt.

Doctor-That last case has made me
miss the big dinner this evening to
the distinguished Professor Jay. It's
too late now.
His Whichever mind. dear; the
speeches will be published.
Doctor-Yes, but the dinner won't.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
Those Holland Bulbs.

Bacon-I see British marines in
termed in Holland are receiving ten
cents and noncommissioned officers 25
cents a day as pocket money.
Egbert-Why, that's hardly enough
to keep 'em in bulbs!
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
DAIRY
INVESTMENT IN POOR COWS
Milk Producer Must Stop Guessing
and Be Certain of Results-Much
Money Is Wasted.

Chief obstacles in successful dairy.
ing are lack of well balanced, in.
tensive methods and not applying bust.
ness principles. The milk producer
must stop guessing and know for sure
what the results will be and adopt the
ways of most profit.
Large sums of money are invested
in many acres of land. extensive and
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
ro Remove odor Of rohaeeo.

Here is a formula that will remove
the odor OF tobacco and sweeten the
breath; ChIorate Of lipae, 7 drachms;
vanilla sugar. 3 drachms; gum arabic,
8 drachms. Mix to paste with warm
water. roll out and cut into lozenges.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12

expensive buildings, costly horses,
tools and machinery, high-priced feed
and labor, and all of this outlay turned
to raising crops that do not yield any
thing like the amount of digestible
nutrients per acre that should and
could be obtained, and to feeding and
poorly caring for herd of poor COWS
utterly unable to return a profit.
The same expenditure Of money and
labor bestowed in an intelligent man
ner upon the same farm and an eff
cient dairy herd would return a hand
some profit.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
A sIiont Mistake,

WAS it the Goodchild ranges tho
Russians have been driven fromy"
There's no such place as the Good
child ranges"
Il mean the Beskids-same thing"
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
His Wav.

"Old General Putnam would be a
good man to have in the emergen-
cies of this war"
why so?"
Because he knew how to jump into
a hole and get out of one"
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
drawback il Idlsnsas.

The opportunities and perplexities
Of business are softness and luxury
compared with the incessant cravings
Of vacancy and the unsatisfactory ex-
pedients Of idleness.-Dr johnson.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
AnnetIta for Mutton.

One thing which opposes the de-
velopment of an appetite for mutton
is our ignorance of the best meth
ods of cooking 1t.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
Weanlnn Ynunn pins

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.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
Phase Of Beef sunnlv.

The slaughter of young calves is
one of the serious phases of the prob
lem of the maintenance Of our coun.
try's beef supply.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12

When a mans salary is raised he
joins another club and his wife buys
new furs and a party gown.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
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
possible.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
Sow Onion Seed.

Sow onion seed thickly to make sets
for fall planting. Homegrown sets
are generally more reliable than 9TH
ers.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
Art - cuItlvatIor.

Irrigation is the art OF cuitivating
the soil so thoroughly that a mini
mum amount Of water is required for
The proper growth Of the crops.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12

A man may be a little soft physical
ly, but his opinions always are strong
and well developed
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
HANDS LIKE VELVET
Kept So by Daily Use Of cutleura
Soap and Ointment. Trial Free.

On retiring soak hands in hot Cuti-
cura soapsuds, dry and rub the Oint-
ment into the hands some minutes.
Wear bandage or old gloves during
night. This is a "one night treat
ment for. red, rough, chapped and
sore hands" 1t works wonders.
Sample each free by mail with S2-p.
Skin Book. Address Cuticura, Dept
KY, Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv:
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12

When you dislike anyone. isn't it
fact that you dislike his laugh more
than ANYTHING about him?
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12

The rule is that those who shave
themselves hear less baseball.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12

II you wish. to attract crowd see
to it that your performance is pre-
ceded by a parade.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12

He's a poor actor who can't get any
one to take his part.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
Time for Road praa

As soon as the mud begins to dry
up. the road drags should be put to
work.
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
The Idea.

The Idea.
How was it that Hamfat was
queering the act?"
Il believe it was by acting
queer"
Middletown transcript., 1915-06-12
Glen tha wan.

When did the wen OF the eistern gst
It's last clsaningi -
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1915-11-26
SING As L00NS ARE CLOSED
Cast Grand Forks Citizens See Pass.
ing at Liquor Industry Valued at
3 $4,000 Annually.

East Grand Forks, Mimi, Nov. a.
Song and hilarity marked the closing
;Df East Grand Forks saloons, and the
passing of liquor industry valued at
100000 annually. Polk county was
voted dry in the option election May
"a last.
The revelry lasted far into the night.
On the streets, throngs of sight-seers,
many of them women and their es-
eorts, passed to and fro, while to their
sars came the shouts and cries OF men
inside the saloons.
Bargain seekers in liquor made their
way from place to place, and one
wholesale firm Is reputed to have dis
posed Of more than $4,000 worth of
Liquor In the two last days.
M II p. m. most of the saloons
closed their doors.