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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
KEEP YOUNG CALVES THRIFTY
Ration Consisting of Cracked Corn.
Whole Oats, Bran and Oil Is
Considered Excellent.

A very excellent ration for keeping
young calves in good, thrifty, health
full, growing condition is one con-
sisting of equal parts cracked corn,
whole oats, bran and oil meal. This
fed regularly and literally in conjunc-
ton with clover hay will make them
thrive well. The cracked corn fur
nishes carbohydrates In sufficient pro-
portion to keep the calves in excellent
flesh and it furnishs heat for warming
their bodies in cold weather. Whole
oats are very excellent for imparting
bone and muscle-growing material ;
also stamina in young calves. Cracked
or shelled corn and whole oats will be
digested just as readily and efficiently
by calves under one year as will these
grains when ground, and calves seem
to prefer them unground.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
The Editors Thanksgiving

What's that7 You bet I'm thankful; don't
you see this two-bit smile7
Why. things for me look brighter than they
have for quite while.
OF course, it peeved me when my print got
stewed and broke the press
And pied the forms, but can get things
Strengthened up, | guess.
That libel suit nigh got my goat; but why
should repine1
| haven't got cent, and so they can't COL
lect the fine;
And then my wife a-leaving me - that gave
me quite jar,
But am glad that things amt any worse
than what they are.
My mortgage will fall due next month. but
don't grieve nor fret;
They say they'll sell me out, but then they
haven't done ityet;
And tho licked seven times today. you'll
never hear me squeak;
I'm still alive and put the little dope sheet
out each week.
These ginks who always kick and squeal.
they ought to have nurse,
I've hit some rocky roads myself, but then
they could be worse;
And so | still retain my poise and wear my
two-bit smile,
And things to me look brighter than they
have for quite while.
Earl H. En1nlons in the Publishing Field.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
SEND COCKERELS TO MARKET
Only Comparatively Small Per Cent
Will Be Fit to Retain for Breed
ers-Fatten Others.

The cockerels should be closely
culled now, as no matter how good
the stock, only comparatively small
per cent will be fit to retain as breed
ers, but do not put the surplus on
the market without first putting them
In good condition.
The best method would be to crate
feed them, but at any rate they should
receive special feeding in close con-
finement for two or three weeks and
then offered to special trade at an
advanced price. Better still, If they
have been caponized, that they might
be held over for the higher prices
that will prevail after the holiday sea-
son.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24

mash was measured into the trough
and green feed was often given at the
same time, especially during the win
ter. Two or three times a week the
fowls were made to eat more Of the
mash by mixing the dry mash with
some liquid to make wet mash which
was fed at the rate of handful for
every four birds.
At night, scratch feed was given
again and the birds were given all they
would eat to send them to roost with
full crops. This method of feeding
keeps the hens busy all day, gives
them good appetites, and supplies all
the feed they will use. They should
eat about twice as much grain or
scratch feed as mash.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
FOR OLD AND YOUNG
But More Especially for the Old
Is the Season of
Thanksgiving.
TN NEW England the saying Is
christmas to the young, Thanks
1 giving to the old"

TN NEW England the saying is
christmas to the young, Thanks
1 giving to the old"
The saying, like most bits of
folk lore, says the Delineator, has it's
roots in common fact of living. Youth
does not tend toward gratitude. 1t does
not tend toward introspection. 1t does
not tend toward a sense of proportion.
And it is these tendencies that must
unite to make the thankful heart.
Not that young people do not love
Thanksgiving. They do. And country
children love it more than city chill
dren, and children Of servantless fam
lilies love it more than those of the
well-tO-do. The reason is obvious.
Thanksgiving day to a child is feast
day, and half the joy Of feast is in
its preparation.
What simply reared, country bred
grown-up would give up the memory
of Thanksgiving day at home, for all
the present comfort of French cook
and an elaborate menage?
First, there was the business of the
turkey. A turkey was no ordinary,
every Sunday in the winter bird in
those days. Turkey twice a year was
the rule, on Thanksgiving day and
Christmas; on New Years day, goose
or duck.
The turkey was chosen anxiously,
WhiIn nathan TNnlyaI 9th e.
their commented on the length and
color of the pinfeathers. The after
noon before Thanksgiving school al
ways "let out" early, In time for broth
er to fly into the kitchen and SINCE
the turkey and for sister to break up
the bread crusts carefully saved for
weeks. Mother stuffed the turkey. Sis
ter threaded the darning needle that
sewed in the stuffing, brother carried
the bird to the cellar to await tomor-
rows oven.
Then there were the first cranber-
ries of the season, the first nuts, the
first pumpkin pies.
Thanksgiving day was always cold
and cloudy, and about mid-afternoon
when one had reached the state Of
coma from overeating, it began to
snow.
Mother always asked schoolteacher
to dinner, and always some bachelor
/ of the neighborhood. And always some
dear neighbor or friend, or once, grand
mother, and once, little sister, had died
during the year, and one noticed it
more than ever at the Thanksgiving
dinner.
After dinner all the women folks and
the girls gathered in the kitchen to
wash dishes, and the men folks and
the boys went out to look at the
stock.
1t is for memories like these that
older people are thankful, for these
and other blessings. For the simple,
homely facts of living; for the oppor-
tunity to serve with hand and mind
those that we love; for happy yester-
days spent with those who loved us
and are gone; for strength to see and
hear and think and work, and for an
occasional bit of leisure In which to
dream; these make our older Thanks
giving day.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
REGULARITY is GOOD HABIT
Unequal Periods Reduce Quality and
Quantity of Milk-AnnuaI Out
put Is Much Less.

In all things regularity is a good
practice, but in milking it Is impera'
tive. AS rule, the COW is MIXED at
about five o'clock Of mornings in sum.
mer and at seven or eight o'clock in
the morning In winter. The evening
milking is done very late in summer
and very early in winter. The unequal
periods are made for the cow by this
sun-to-sun milking, and as a conse'
quence the quality Of her milk and the
quantity of the same, as well as the
length of her annual period of milk.
giving, are reduced.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
BLESSED ABOVE ALL
Special Reasons Why Americans
Should Be Grateful to God
This Year.
Y r CUSTOM had not dictated nor
time hallowed the setting aside of
4 q day for a national recognition


time hallowed the setting aside of
q day for a national recognition
of Divine blessings, the situation
in the world today would of itself have
instinctively brought about the senti-
ments in the hearts of Americans suit
ed to the spirit of thankfulness.
Yet there is no occasion to resort to
the elements of contrast afforded by
the pictures presented here and in
other countries at this time. Our peo-
pie are determined to assert the ma.
tons rights as operative at all times,
and DESTROYS of defending them as
part of the heritage received from an
cestorS who feared God, but had scant
respect for persons or nations when
these ignored the principles of liberty
for which they were unyieldingly set
in defense.
1t is beyond and outside of the field
of contrast that the country bows to-
day in acknowledgment of a Provi-
dence that has preserved it from the
ravages Of war and given it to partake
richly of every form of prosperity for
which a people might justly yearn.
The crops are excellent. Labor in
practically every field of endeavor is
giving employment to the many. The
distribution of material wealth is thus
being effected in such manner that
plenty abounds, and no table so poor
that it cannot present evidences of
good cheer on this festive occasion.
Mingled, nevertheless, with the con-
seriousness of our own happy state
must be the SOLDERING sentiments that
take cognizance of far other conditions
elsewhere. For the war-worn nations
it Is wished that they may soon find
an honorable way back to permanent
peace. AS these sentiments take form
and logical order in our own minds,
they cannot but suggest our own re-
sponsibilities, present and future. And
among these the necessity of being pre-
pared to assert and defend the princi-
plies for which we stand and to the
preservation of which thus far in our
political history we are, under the
goodness of God, indebted for our
present peace and prosperity, must
have its recognized place.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24

calves being from a good registered
sire and from selected cows, it will not
take many years to build up a first
class herd. You can only know your
best cows by continuous weighing and
testing of the milk, and keeping rec.
Ords of each individual so that some
information may be secured as to the
cost of production, which is growing
more important as the prices of feed
stuffS and labor advance.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
POULTRY RELISH SOUR MILK
Experiments Have Demonstrated That
1t Is Valuable Article in Ration
of Chickens.

Sour milk should not be left out of
the feed of growing or laying fowls,
winter OF summer, if it can be secured
at any reasonable cost. 1t is usually
much cheaper and easier to get on the
farm than beef scrap or any other sub
cept buttermilk will give as good re-
suits.
Sour milk for production was
given very careful test for year
recently when three 25-bird pens Of
White LeghOrn pullets were fed in al
most exactly the same way except that
one pen received sour milk, another
beef scrap, and the third no meat or
animal food whatever. From the sour
milk pen the station got 1925 eggs at
A profit of $2S.26; from the beef scrap
pen, 2,66S at a profit of $19.7S; and
from the nO-meat pen, 1873 eggs at
loss of 81 on the pen for the year.
On many farms the nO-meat pen
would not have been regarded as los
ing money because the chickens live
mainly on waste grain about the barn
lot but on these farms the profits
would be so much greater If butter
milk or sour milk could be fed that
large possible profit is being lost if the
chickens get only the grain and grass
they can pick up. They may pick up
insects enough to keep them from be-
ing on an absolute no-meat ration but
part of the farm business that can
return an average Of $122 a farm
should be Systematically fed on the
right kind OF food.
During the experiment only ordinary
good pOultry-feeding methods were fol-
lowed. A little scratch feed was sprin-
killed. in the straw litter deep enough
to make the chickens take exercise
IN getting it. Water was given in clean
vessels and pan of sour milk kept
in the sour milk pen. At noon, dry
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
GOSSlPING OVER THE PHONE
Many Women, in Their Enjoyment of
Friendly Chat, Forget the
Rights of Others.

Women do not meet and mingle to
the extent that men do. At work or
at home, they do not have the oppOr~
tunities for visiting. Housewives, es-
pecially, suffer from bOttled-up social
instincts. The most affabe husband
cannot be engaged in serious CONVERSE
ton on many topics which are of as
much interest to wife as q bowling
score, the home teams pitching pros
poets or behavior of the real estate
market, are to man and his cronies.
So the habit of prolonged gossiping
over the telephone brings about a
serious problem in service. The tele-
phone company has arranged cal
culating supervision of telephone con
versations, inStructing operators to
break in on those that monopolize
party-line systems which other sub
scriberS are squirming to make use of.
An important male, trying to sum-
mon a cab to catch a train, overhears
fragment of after-dnner telephone
conversation between pair of estim-
able maidenS ar matrOns and becomes,
for the moment, a violent antagonist
of the movement for woman's equality.
The telephone company, seeking to
justify its demand for heavier tolls
and to answer bitter criticism of its
service, decides to strike at the heart
to-heart communications which vibrate
over the wires for many precious mo-
ments while the matter-of-fact public
CRASHES its teeth.-Detrot News.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
COLONY HOUSES FOR WINTER
More Convenient Than Large Building
II Hens Can Run at Large Con-
siderable Part of Time.

In ordinary seasons hens can run
at large during a considerable part of
the winter. In this case the colony
house Is much more convenient than
the large permanent house. The build.
ings are moved to spot somewhat
sheltered and banked with meadow
hay, straw or coarse horse manure.
When this is done the hens are just
as comfortable as in the big house, in
fact, we believe more comfortable In
most cases. If the little buildings
have been properly built they are
warm enough.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
Robbery by the Strong.

Bees are proverbially busy, but some
In Il Pennsylvania town broke the rec
ord when hOneycomb Of nine feet
In length was discovered in large
hollow pine. The perlls and uncertain
ties of abnormal industry were also H.
Illustrated In the fact that the giant re-
suit of this Insectivorous labor was i'm
medlately confscated by superior
power.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
True Spirit Of the Festival.

In recent years there has been a
broadening conception of the spirit of
Thanksgiving day. Besides acknowl-
edging Gods manifold blessings &C
cordlng to religious formulas, the true
spirit of the festival will manifest It,
self in deeds of benevolence. The poor
will be remembered and the needs of
humane institutions will be supplied.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
SAVING BEST HEIFER CALVES
Keep Record of Each Individual Cow
and Save Offspring of Best Pro-
ducers for Herd.

(By G. W. BARNES, Department of Agri-
culture University of Arizona.)
You cannot always buy good cows,
but another way to get good herd to-
gether is by keeping records of the
production of each individual COW in
your herd and saving the heifer calves
from the larger producers. These
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
Fair Harvest.

The seed that once In sorrow
We cast into the ground,
On this fair harvest morrow
In Joy and strength Is found.
That which men deemed hat persisted
The unkindly soil beneath
Hath sprung, In secret cherished.
With tenfold life from death.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24
WEED OUT PROFITLESS cows
As Result of Work Of Testing Associa
tons Many Inferior Animals Are
Being Replaced.

Contrasting associations are in
creasing In number all over the coun
try and innumerable profitless cows
are thus being weeded out and re
placed by cows that pay their way ant
an interest on their value.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24

Cairnslde, Scotland, has a novelty
a woman blacksmith.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24

A costive habit weakens the resistance
of the system against disease. Garfield Tea
overcomes costiveness. Adv.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-11-24

December is the wheat harvest
month In New South Wales.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-06-17
Fifteenth Wedding Anniversary

Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel E. Keen enter
tanned a number of friends at their
home near Rising Sun on Saturday
evening, in honor of their fifteenth
wedding anniversary. Mrs. Keen re-
ceived a number of pretty and useful
gifts of crystal, linen and silver After
several hours of reunion of old friends
and social intercourse. delicious re-
freshments were served by the host
and hostess and their young friends.
The guests departed at seasonable
hour, wishing the bride and groom of
fifteen years many anniversaries of
their wedding. Those present Satur-
day night who were among the ORR
ginal wedding guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. Daniel E. Keen, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Cooney. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
Brown, Mr.. and Mrs. Alvin Brown, Mr..
ard Mrs. Luther Hindman, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. Kirk Brown, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
d. Keen, Mr. and Mrs. w. F. Keen,
Mr. and Mrs. John Keen. Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis Brosius, Mrs. William M. Full
ton, Mrs. Lucretia Brabson. Mrs. Mer-
Gle NJ Kirk. Mrs. Margery Brown, Mrs.
Annie c. Keen, Mrs. Murray Ewing,
Mrs. Frank Mckinney, Misses Phoebe
L. Coates, Abbie Keen. Miss Ruth
Keen. Robert K. Wood, Henry Hind
man, w. Atwood Montgomery. Other
guests present were Mr.. and Mrs.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-06-17

lation which seeks the good OF all. and
which knows no party line. was total
stranger to its councils. Nor was IT
Democracy of the old Jefferson type.
1t left all of its former anchorages AID
became absorbed in a political person.
atty. 1t wore at all times the Wilson
label.
gress met with the disfavor of the
gress met with tn edisfavor of the
country. Its tariff law proved dis
NAL failure from every point of view.
1t neither protected the American
producer nor produced the revenue NE
cessary to meet the expenses of the
Government. 1t was law that neg
lected the great fact that you cannf
buy an article from Europe. and at
the same time buy the same article
from America, and that if bought
from Europe it means the employment
of European, not American labor. The
very purpose of the law was to open
the American market to the foreign
producer, on the ground that such
would lower prices. But the prices
have not been lowered.
Having relieved the foreigner from
paying the tariff tax, Congress placed
a new tax upon our own people. In
der the name of war" it was tax to
make up the deficiency in tariff reve-
nue.. 1t enacted business legislation
that had as its basis pronounced ard
well-defined antagonism to American
enterprise. 1t was constructed on the
lines of opposition to business success
and persecution of those who achieve
success. At best, it means the heck
ling of the business of the country,
and without sufficient cause or reason.
Rigidly enforced, it means business
handicaps that will put an end to all
new enterprise.
1t is not surprising that the Demo-
cratic campaign managers endeavor
to put aside the record that Congress
made. They have learned of the opin-
ion in which it is held by the people
of the country. They know that on
that record the voters would render an
overwhelming adverse verdict. So
they seek to cover it with silence. But
in this they will not succeed. The re-
cord of Congress was made by order
of the President. 1t is the record of
the Administration. 1t is the legisla-
ton which the White House desired.
Congress is not the culprit and this
fact the people know. 1t but did the
bidding of President Wilson, and the
responsibility rests at his own door.
And this legislative record will be
very live issue in 1916.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-06-17

Harry G. Bicknell, Mercie Bicknell. Ell
wood Bicknell, Mr.. and Mrs. Amos
Whiteman. Mabel Whiteman, James
G. Gibson. Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Bull
lock, Mr.. and Mrs. B. E. Mason, Mr..
and Mrs. William West. Mr.. and Mrs.
A. 7. Reynolds, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Nields, Misses Louie and Cora Boyd,
Alice B. Brabson, Mabel Stauffer, Har-
riet Fulton. Mrs. Robert Wood, Mrs.
John McVey, Victor Nields, Howard
Coates. Murray Ewing. Frank Nc
Kinney, Edgar Fulton, Helen Ewing,
Virginia Mckinney, Delilah Brown,
Leon Brown, Lottie Brown, Anita Wa
son, Doris and Marian Cooney, Alvin
CooneY. Genevieve and EliZabethKee
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-06-17
Palm Beach Suits

will be the thing this summer.
We have them in every size and
the best makes.
Sc and So
Regular, 81 to SO chest.
Shorts, "a to 81 chest.
Stouts, sc to AZ chest.
Sims. SO to AZ chest
Extra sizes. 40 to AZ chest.
Norfolks. "a to AZ chest.
Odd Trousers. $3.50 and So.
Blue Serges. Grey Serges, Thin
Worsteds. Homespuns, Mohairs,
and all the new and best thin ma
terial for summer wear.
Straw Hats, 81 10 SIS
Panamas, SIS 10 $40
Tennis Shoes, sl.l5 10 $3.50
Everything in Soft Shirts, IN
derwear, Fancy SoX. Neckwear
and Furnishings.
MULLINS HOME STORE
Wilmington
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-06-17
FINE!

The Chicago Convention, with dele
gates "uninstructed" and "unbossed",
did the wise and right thing in nomi-
mating Charles E. Hughes, as the Re-
publican candidate for President. Mr..
Hughes put forth no effort to capture
the nomination, made no deals, even
refused to issue a statement. All OF
which was both becoming and wise.
No statement was necessary; Mr..
Hughes great public record, the whole
career and character of the man con-
stitute a better Statement" than any
thing that could be put into words.
Every man is more or less than his
verbiage. What man is counts for
more than what he says. Charles f..
Hughes is known to the American peo-
pie and was demanded because known.
In the light of his distinguished
achievements in his public career, in
the light of his unblemished charac-
ter and superb equipment, no man
can have any valid excuse for refus-
ing to support him. Wherefore the
very weight and worth of the man
himself have achieved what political
conferences failed to achieve-the re-
union of the Republican party and its
rededication to high governmental
service. The naming of Hughes has
removed the last vestige of reason for
the endurance of the Progressive
party, as a party, and they themselves
are in large numbers confessing it.
Roosevelt's declination of the nomina-
ton has been followed by the tiocking
of MANY influential Progressives to
the Hughes standard. 1t is generally
believed that Roosevelt himself will
be an active and potent factor in the
Republican ranks.
Al! of which simply means that the
present incompetent Democratic adj
ministration will retire on March 4th,
1917. This country is normally Re
publican by heavy majority. 1t
only "fops" occasionally into Demo
cratic hands, when something has
seriously disturbed the average poll
teal conditions-and it never stays
Chopped" there long. Hence the utter
indifference of the public to what
happened at St. Louis this week.
The real, important, worthwhile
thing happened in Chicago last week,
when the Republicans nominated
Hughes and Fairbanks and thereby
assured a Republican victory in No
vember.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-06-17
Baseball

The game scheduled last Saturday
between Chestertown and Elkton, on
the latters grounds, had to be called
off because of the wet weather.
The game will be played today Sat
urday) if the grounds are fit. and
ought to bring out a big crowd of
rooters. Chestertown has a strong
team and wants to get Elkton's scalp.
Will they do it? Let US see.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-06-17

and Margaret H. Lum, of Chesapeake
City.
Ernest Day Foster, of New Castle,
Del. and Anna Elizabeth Mahoney, of
Leeds.
Frank R. Davis, of North East, and
Ellen S. Clifford, of Rising Sun.
Louis w. Morris, of Philadelphia,
and Isabel F. Miller. of Cherry Hill.
Walter w. Marshall and Violet f.
Touchton, both of Sylmar.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-06-17
Bilious Attacks.

When you have bilious attack your liver
fails to perform its functions. You become
constipated. The food you eat ferments in
your stomach instead of digestng. This in
flames the stomach and causes nausea, vomit-
ing and terrible headache. Take Chamber
lains Tablets. They will tone up your liver,
clean out your stomach and you will soon be
as well as ever They only cost quarter. For
sale by all Dealers advs