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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
ELAN SETS THE PACE

ELAN SETS THE PACE
ELAN and his bunch Of stars have set
the pace the entire season. They have
held the lead throughout the season, with
the possible exception of few days.
and then by the Pelicans. ELAN took his
clan to New Orleans, licked the Dobbers
on their home ground, and took back
their lofty perch. That was about six
weeks ago. Since that time ELAN has
cor tinued to set the pace. and now he has
acquired lead of seven full games.
enough to insure his league leaders of
the bunting.
New Orleans is the only team in the
league that has even the slightest chance
to out the Ellamites. The Pelicans have
So games to be played. while the ELAN
bunch has one more. To GUST the Vols
from their lofty perch, the Pels will have
to cop % out of the remaining So. while
the Vols are winning only 10 and los
ing IS.
If the Pelicans accomplish the % vic
tories, while Nashville is only getting 49,
or playing at .514 clip against New
Orleans turning 1914 performance for
the remainder of the season. the pennant
race will finish:
Club Won. Lost. Pet.
New Orleans .... 81 IS .591
Nashville .................., So IS .5S5
Nashville not only has safe margin,
but will have every advantage after Ell
lam plays the Pelicans three games this
week. He goes home for string of con-
tests. while the Dobbs crowd hits the
read. The fact that Nashville can lose
almost twice as many case as the Pels
and win a half dozen less, removes the
Pelicans' chance of landing on top. es-
pecially in view of the condition of the
players, a majority of whom seem dead
on their feet.
PELS APPEAR HELPLESS
The only way in which the Pels could
win is for Johnny Dobbs and his crew
to stage some George Stallings, Fielder
Jones or Johnny McGraw performance to
put the Birds in the running. The north
ern clubs will have a big advantage in
the final dash for the reason they have
12-game stay at home. New Orleans
might have a fighting chance were they
good road team, but the Pels are at their
worse while performing out of Hene-
mann park. The margin between the
leaders is seven games and even if the
Pels were to win the three games they
play the Ellamites the lead would still
be four games to the bad.
Leaving the Pels out of the argument.
if Chattanooga, the Vols second rival,
should win "a out of the next So games,
the Vols would only have to win II out of
50 in the same period to cop the bunting
over the Lookouts. The figures for the
Crackers would be practically the same.
On the other hand. it is entirely possible
for the Lookouts to make winning
squirt like the Crackers did in 1913-win
16 out of their last II games-and come
out ahead If the Vols can be losing con-
sistently as did the Gulls in that memoir
able season. The Mobile lead that year
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
Rain Helps Phillies

Philadelphia. August S-Rain stopped
play in Cincinnatis half of the eighth
inning today. and the grounds were
flooded. preventing the game from be-
ing continued, and leaving Philadel-
phia the winer, to l. Score
r. H. e.
Cincinnati ........ 600 900 IL
Philadelphia 1850. zoo loo 2-o
Batteries: Knetzer and Clarke.
Rixey and Killifer.
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SUMMARY
Three-base Hit-Jacobson
Home Run-Kirby.
Stolen Bases-Wares, Barbara, Jacob
son (2), Meusel
Double Play-Wares, Barbara to Cow
ington.
Sacrifice Hits-Covington, Derrick.
Base on Balls-Perryman 2, Black 1.
Left on Bases-Little Rock 5, Birming-
ham T.
Hit by Pitched Ball-Perryman Gov
iEgton).
Hits acknowledgements in s in
Rings.
Struck Out-Perryman H. Robinson O.
Time of Game-Two hours.
Cmpires-Morgan and Pfenninger.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
RACES POSTPONED

Pittsburg. August S-The
grand circuit races again were
postponed for today. A heavy
downpour that occurred an hour
before the hrst race was to be
run ruined the track Tor today.
The first days card Of races Is
expected to be run tomorrow.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
Browns Win Double Bill

st. Louis, August s.-Plank and Groom
were invincihle. while Washington's pitch
ers were hit almost at will and St. Louis
won both games today, the first. to O..
and the second, to /. A double by Fos-
ter in the ninth inning of the second
game, after Williams had walked, spoiled
a no-hit game for Plank. In this game
up to the ninth not Washington player
reached second, while St. Louis pounded
Ayres for seven runs in the two innings
he worked, Borton driving the ball into
the bleachers for home run with two on
in the first.
In the first game Groom held the WISH
tors to four hits. while Ssler got home
run in the seventh and drove in Groom
with a two-base hit in the fourth. Scores:
First game r. II. T..
wa shington ... 900 900 900 D
ST. Louis ............... Oo0 100 100 IL
Batteries: Harper. Gallia and Henry;
Groom and SEVERED.
Second game r. H. q.
Washington - 900 900 001-1 3
ST. Louis ..... 612 900 OO*-9 10
Batteries: Ayers, Shaw and Ainsmith;
Plank and Rumler.
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There is not the slightest chance of
the Vols being overtaken. The ELAN
bunch has Rugged the top of the lad
der since the opening gun of the sea-
son was fired back on April Is. The
New Orleans Pelicans gave them their
only opposition and now that the Peli-
cans are practically demoralized there
does not appear the slightest chance
for any team in the league to overtake
the Ellamites.
That Roy Ellams victorious and valiant
Vols are never going to be headed is the
unanimous opinion throughout the cir
cult. The fans in Nashville can prepare
to give the ELAN clan some sort of re-
cepton or celebration as the rag winners
The race has been abandoned by all of
the clubs, and the fight now rests with
the remaining teams to battle for a
n edit Ia hla North
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South Atlantic League

At Charleston: Charleston /. Jacksons
Vile 8.
At Augusta; August 0. Columbus 4.
At Columbia: Columbia 10, Macon 8.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Games Today
Cincinnati at Philadelphia.
St. Louis at New York.
Pittsburg at Boston.
Chicago at Brooklyn.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
BarOnS and Travellers Divide
SPORTS
BARONS AND VELERS SPLIT
DOUBLE BILL OF WEIRD GAMES

Barons Play Poor Game in Opening Battle and
Present Travellers With Verdict Thrilling
Rally Converts Defeat Into Victory in Final En-
gagement- Barons Play Poorly in Field-Eddie
McDonalds Wallop Counts Mike Hauser is
Stellar Part
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Indians Down Yanks

Cleveland August S.-Neither Russell
nor Love could puzzle the Indians and
Cleveland defeated New York, 9 to 4, as
Gould kept New York's hits scattered.
Score: X. n. Il.
New York - DOL O1O O02-4 s 2
cleveland lVf VII VI IL
Batteries: Russell. Love and Walters;
Gould and Coleman.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-08-09
Athletics Set Record

Detroit, August s.-By losing todays
game to Detroit, to 0. the Athletics tied
the American league record for straight
defeats established by Boston in 1906,
with 20 losses.
effort. Cobb and Veach got seven safeties
between them Score: r. II. e.
philadelphia .......... 900 900 600 6 4
Detroit - 40 010 32+-9 II 0
Batteries: Majors and Haley; Boland
and Baker.
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DAILY DOPE
ON THE
SLUGGERS
iris
Ty and
Joe

Washington, August sly Cobb in
creased his batting average seven
points today by landing for 4 hits in five
times at the bat. Speaker made a gain
of two points with two hits in four
times up. while jackson held his own
The standing: ABB. H. Pct.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-07
PIG TROUGH is A NECESSITY
For Large Animals v-shaped Device
VIII Be Found Durable and Con-
venlent-kiow II Is Made.

The pig trough is a very necessary
equipment. For large hogs very
durable and economical trough is a
V-shaped one which can be made of
pieces 2 by 10 and by 8, but for the
younger pigs smaller pieces should be
used. Care should be taken in max
ing them. If they are too high the
pigs cannot feed conveniently. If too
low, the pigs will get into the trough
in order to get the feed.
The trough set in fence, parallel
to 1t, is a very satisfactory arrange
ment. A swinging panel can be hung
above the trough. A latch slipping
crOsswise at the center of the panel
makes 1t possible to swing it in and
fasten 1t, thereby shutting out the pigs
until all the feed is put into the
trough.
The pig trough should be kept clean.
A thorough scrubbing occasionally will
be an advantage to the animals health.
If the trough is set on cement feed
ing floor there will be less dirt and
filth.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-07
ROOT CROPS FOR LIVE STOCK
Big Tonnage Secured From Beets and
ManoeIs-Plants Draw Especial
ly Heavy on Phosphorus.

Sugar beets and mangels grown for
stock will produce big tonnages. Man
gels like a rather cool climate and
sugar beets are grown successfully In
about the same general latitude that
grapes are produced easily and some.
what north of that belt, says q writer
in Farm and Home.
Put your root crops In good fer
tile soil, plowed deep and well titled,
IL you expect a heavy tonnage. Work
up good seeded and If the land is
not already very rich put on some
well rotted manure after blowing.
Root crops draw especially heavy on
phosphorus.
Plant the beets in drills with the
rows far enough apart that cultlva-
ton is not difficult. Put the rows
20 to 80 inches apart. Plant about
complaining time. You win have to
hoe and thin them by hand.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-07
FOR SPRAYING APPLE TREES
Best Formula Is Concentrated Lime
Sulphur-Apply for Cooling Moth
About August First.

The best formulas for spraying APP
pie trees and any other fruit trees ex-
cept the peach, is concentrated lime
sulphur at the strength of one to forty
for apples and one to fifty for the other
fruits, and two and a half pounds Of
arsenate OF lead. The first spraying
should be made just as the pink of the
blossom shows. This should be fol-
lowed by another application as the
blossom petals are dropping. In about
two weeks the trees should be sprayed
again, and winter varieties Of apples
should have another application for
the second brood of codllng moth
about the first of August.
All fruit trees except the peach
should receive the first three applica-
lions. Plums should receive a spray
ing after that at intervals Of two
weeks, until within about a month Of
ripening time. No fruit should be
sprayed within a month Of ripening
time, because sufficient time should be
allowed for the removal Of all traces
of the spray material by the weather
before the fruit is harvested.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-07

dunn size, hardy and good layers.
They are easily cared for. and bear
confinement well, although any fowl
must have plenty of exercise.
For table use they are excellent,
their flesh being sweet, juicy and ten
der, making fine broilers and roasters.
They are extremely popular because
Of the absence of dark pin feathers.
AS layers they average well up both
for summer and winter production, If
some pains be taken to provide them
with comfortable quarters during in
clement weather.
To do this q fairly comfortable poul-
try house is necessary. This means
one which is dry all the time and so
arranged as to admit plenty of fresh
air and sunlight.
A house built with three sides tight
and left largely open on the south
side accompllshes this. A curtain, to
be drawn tight over the opening In
rigorous weather, will add materially
to the comfort of the poultry. This
does not exclude the fresh air, but pro-
tects against the cold.
This building can be conveniently
arranged without the cost becoming
very great, and 1t should be borne in
mind that convenience pays well.
Have all the interior fixtures of the
poultry house-roOsts, poles, nest
boxes, dropping boards, etc, easily re-
movable, so that every part within
can be reached and cleaned.
Twice yearly the house should be
thoroughly fumigated and then white
washed inside and out. For this pur-
pose a whltewash containing small
per cent of carboilc acid should be
used.
All fowls are annoyed and suffer
from insect parasites. This means a
loss to the raiser and effective means
must be employed to combat these
pests, as the birds cannot do this UNI
assisted. Provisions for dust bath,
any time. any day that the fowls de-
sire, will help, but in addition to this
the house. and fixtures should be
sprayed at frequent intervals with coal
oil or 2 per cent solution Of crude
carbollc acid. This spraying should be
done early In the day so that the
fumes win have nearly all evaporated
before the fowls go to roost.
During the summer the wide range
afforded by the farm solves the prob
lem as to proper feeding. But In win
ter when the fowls do not have insect
diet, meat food in some form Is nee
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-07

OF some live stock in advance of the
weevil invasion we would be better
able to stand the invasion.
No man who is unaccustomed to
handling stock is going to be as sue
cessful the first year as he might 9TH
erwise be. Livestock growing is as
big Job as cotton growing, and even
harder to learn. Then, too, the help
around place must be familiarized
with the job. II is a thing that ought
to be tackled with some caution and
on reasonable scale.
A man who is going into the cattle
business, who is to raise sheep or hogs,
and gradually change over from one
crop planter to farmer with diversi-
fed interests, had better do a lot Of
studying while he is getting his start.
He should read everything he can lay
his hands on that will tell him any
thing of the management of cattle un-
der southern conditions. He ought to
visit some farm in his home region
where stock is being successfully
handled. Seeing thing done is the
best possible training for doing it for
yourself.
Cattle growing is an industry that
should succeed in most of the cotton
districts. Rough feeds and ordinary
pasture will push a bunch of cattle
along toward maturity and profit. Hog
growing may be even better for many
planters. The average man knows
more about hog breeding and growing
than he does about the cattle industry.
Corn and cowpeas will furnish the
staple feeds necessary to make pigs
into home-killed pork or fit them for
the markets.
Along with the livestock growing
we should keep up the planting of cot
ton. Cotton Is our crop, and while the
weevil may whip us away from 1t as
the sole wealth producer, we should
keep right on with 1t, reducing the
acreage II necessary, the weevil-fight.
ing methods of planting, cultivation,
and cleaning. Live stock will help us
to weather a stormy time In the cot
ton-growing country, but that is no
reason why we should entirely aband
don the one for the other.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-07

should be set along a main mole runs
way that has been long in use. A mar
row excavation, deep enough to receive
the jar and allow its top to be some
what below the bottom Of the tunnel
should be made The sod may then be
replaced over the excavation so as to
bridge without obstructing the en-
trance to the jar. The animal in COM
ing along the tunnel falls into the jar
and cannot climb out. Success depends
much on the skill used In placing the
trap.
Repeated levellng Of mole ridges on
lawn by means of a roller not only
tends to discourage the animals from
making further incursiOns, but pre-
vents the soil from drying out and thus
injuring grass roots.
For further information about the
mole, its habits, and methods of con-
troll, the reader is referred to Farmers
Bulletin $50, "The Common Mole Of
the Eastern United States"
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-07
WET SPOTS MADE VALUABLE
Sogey Patches Can Be Drained and
Profitable Crops Raised-Few
Suggestions on Drainage.

Couldn't you turn into money-mak-
ing patches those soggy spots on your
farm-marshy spots where the young
corn turns yellow and has the
drowned out look? Such spots are
not only inconvenient to work around,
but are expensive as well.
Tile drains as rule have proved
to be the most economical form of
drainage, as they last indefinitely and
give satisfactory returns. Daniels
Scoates, agricultural engineer of the
Mississippi A. and NJ. college, offers
the following suggestions to farmers
who have drainage to do:
Use good tile.
Use an engineers level in putting in
your tile.
Use four-inch tile or larger for ordi-
nary purposes.
Have the size of your mains calcu-
lated.
Before you cover your tile test the
grade with q level to see that the
drain has the proper fall.
Protect your outlets against Gazing
bapss and burrowing animals.
Get assistance in putting in tile II
you don't understand how 1t is done.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-07

The feeling of panic that used to be
80 common when the boll-weevil terri.
tory was extended is not quite so com.
mon any more. We are not quite so
much In fear OF the boil weevil as we
were ten, or even five years ago,
writes Ed Bevier of Georgia in Farm
Progress. The United States depart.
ment of agriculture has helped us, the
state officials have been of great serv-
ice, but more than anything else, is the
growing conviction that even though
the cotton crop must go 1t will not
mean the end of the world.
Live stock possibilities are causing a
lot Of people to do a great deal of
thinking. When the weevils cut down
the yield and bring what looks like inn
mediate ruin to our one great industry,
there are some people who despair, but
more will accept 1t philosophically. We
have a great section for livestock
growing and all we need is a little
more familiarity with the caring for
and feeding of live stock.
Anywhere in the cotton country we
have short winters and long grazing
seasons. A man from the lower Michi-
gan peninsula was telling me last sum.
per of beginning to feed in October
and keeping the feed going into the
planagers till April 2, and even later. ]
don't know whether that is an average
feeding period there or an exceptional
one, but consider the advantages of
pasture that the grower in the cotton
country has.
The Mexican boil weevil has been a
sort OF mixed curse to some parts Of
the cotton belt. 1t has mixed Its de-
structiveness with sort of blessing,
for It has forced us to quit relying SO
entirely upon one crop. We are more
interested in stock peas, vetches and
soy beans, and the animals to which
we may feed these forages than we
were before the weevil came across
into Texas and started northeast.
If we could only start preparing for
a change In agriculture before the Vice.
vii really hits US we would be lot
better of. If we could begin changing
our plans so as to include the growing
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-07
DAMAGE BY MOLES
In Most Cases, However, Ami.
NAL Is Most Beneficial.
Use Of Specially Designed Trap Is
Most Effective Method of Freeing
Infested Ground-Three De.
vices Described.

from the United States Department OF
Agriculture.)
The common garden mole, which,
because of its insectivorous habits, is
in most situations much more benefi-
cial than harmful, is a decided nuis-
ance when 1t invades a well-kept lawn
or newly planted seeded. Many re
ports Of its damage to lawns are re-
ceiyed by the department, and also fire.
quent complaints Of destruction of POI
tatoes, bulbs, and plants which is
wrongly attributed to the mole. DAM
age to plants and tubers is generally
the work of pine mice or meadow mice,
usually the former. The burrOwing
habits Of pine mice closely resemble
those of the mole, and they frequently
use mole tunnels to reach growing
plants. Pine mice may easily be
killed with poisoned grain, but as
moles will seldom take poisoned bats
of any kind, the main dependence for
destroying them is traps, and consid-
cradle experience and judgment are
required to use them effectively.
The ordinary traps intended for rats
and other rodents are useless for tax
ing moles. Special mole traps, of
which there are on the market three
general types, are required. These
may be designated as the harpOon, the
scissor-jaw, and the choker types,
marked a, b, and c, respectively, in
the accompanying illustration. Har-
poon traps are intended TO impale the
mole in the soil by sprlng-drlyen
spikes. Scissor-jaw traps are to be
set astride the runway to grasp the
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-07
FINE FLAVOR OF VEGETABLES
Improved or Impaired by Fertilizers
Employed-Too Much Nitrogen
Makes Strawberry Soft.

Aside from considerations of mellow
soil and sufficient moisture, the flavor
and other qualities of vegetables are
improved or impaired by the fertilizers
employed. The peculiar processes With
In the soil or within the plant itself
which produce these conditions OF
flavor are difficult to understand, but
1t is fact that varieties Of fruits and
vegetables will show such Improvement
under favorable conditions Of fertiliza-
ton as hardly to be recognized.
Hog manure used alone sometimes
gives an unpleasant flavor to celery
and root crops. 1t also taints tobacco.
An excess of phosphates helps to give
tomatoes a sweeter flavor. Salt Is
very helpful to the quality Of aspara-
gus, onions and celery. 1t makes the
potash In the soil active. 1t Is used
at the rate of 200 pounds to the acre.
Pigeon manure helps to develop
melons Of fine flavor. Beets grown on
soil fortified with poultry manure
and ashes develop a fine, sweet flavor.
Poultry and barnyard manures Inn
prove the quality Of onions. Fresh
barnyard manure lmpairs the ship
ping qualities of strawberries. Too
much nitrogen makes the fruit soft
er but unleached wood ashes with-well-
rotted manure improves the quality of
the berries. An excess of nitrogen
has peculiar effect upon the Stone
variety Of tomatoes tending to make
the blossoms drop. 1t also tends to
make them sterile.
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-07
7y16EMERAL.
5EARM5y0TES
Spraying gets the clean fruit.

Spraying gets the clean fruit.
The garden can be a money-maker.
Remember that poultry respond &C
cordtng to the care taken Of them.
II machinery displaees men and
horses it demands more care than
ever.
The balanced ration is highly i'm
portant, but 1t takes little gumption
to balance 1t.
Every farmer should run an experi.
ment station of his own II not more
than q rod square plot.
A wheelbarrow, moving machine. or
farm wagon looks well in its proper
place-but not in the front yard.
The farm garden can be made the
most productive acre on the place.
Have It rich. mellow and NEEDLESS.
II Is about as bad for a farmer to
spend too much money for buildings
and farm equipment as It Is for him
to spend too little.
Pasteurixation Of cream for making
butter Is best accomplished at o tenn
perature not lower than 1e5 degrees
nor higher than ITO.
No one can AFFORD to have q door
yard devoid Of trees or sh-.bbery. Il
you sell your place win bring lea tog
Tie lack OF ornanenGation. -
The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1916-07-07
BEST POULTRY BREED
For Eggs Alone, LeghOrns Are
Favored by Many Farmers.
White wyandotte, White or Barred PLY.
mouth Rocks or Rhode Island Reds
Cannot Be Exeelled for Dual
Purpose Fowls.

What is desired in the way of ulti-
mate results must be considered when
determining the breed of poultry one
should raise. For eggs alone the Leg
horns are by many regarded the best.
1t is not 50 good an all-purpose fowl,
however, and for those breeding for
meat as well as eggs, other strains are
to be preferred.
For the farmer having not more than
hundred or two chickens, the White
WyandOtte, White or Barred Plymouth
Rocks, or Rhode Island Reds cannot
be excelled.
The White WyandOttes are Of me-