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The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
All Warrants Paid and
Plant Stands Free of
circumference --Splen-
did Showing Made in
Last Four Years

Monday evening at the meeting OF
the city council the superintendent OF
the electric light and power plant
made detailed report that was most
gratifying to both the city officials and
the citizens.
This report includes everything con-
nected with the business, and in part
might be enumerated as follows:
Time Of operation of engines, gene;
rators, street railway unit, pumping
station and arc light. Also total cur
rent generated, current consumed by
pumping station, street railway and
street lights. Also total number of
cubic feet of water pumped by water
works. Total operating and maintsn-
ance expense including depreciation,
total valuation of plant, total disburse-
ment including what has been paid out
on outstanding new machinery war
rants, new boiler installation, plant i'm
provements, line construction, meters
and transformers, buildings, white way
improvements, merchandise, water
meters, street light maintenance,
pumping station maintenance and op-
Grating expense, water main and hyd-
rant repairs, Also total receipts and
net earnings of the plant.
The plant has been charged up with
all operating expense and maintenance
including insurance premiums, also a
5 per cent depreciation charge on a
valuation basis of $1O4, 1880, and on
this basis it shows a net gain on the
investment of $lS,O33.77 which is a II
per cent gain. Not making any depre-
citation charge the net gain will amount
to $23,2e6.0O.
The new boiler installation has
been completed and has furnished the
plant steam for the year. Comparing
the fuel bill for the year with the 1914
fuel bill there is a saving in this bill
of $2243.O0 and the electrical output
was increased 1850 kilowatt hours.
There is a gain of 76 electric SER
vices and 80 water services for the
year.
1t is given out that a material reduc-
tiOn in light and water rates is to be
made, to become effective April 1.
With the showing just disclosed, such
a reduction can be made and will be
very much appreciated, by power U.S.
ers, at least.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
Light and Power Plant
Announces Reduction
Of Rates Effective Soon
Cong. Young Gives Us
Post Office Information

In reply to an inquiry from the
Times-Record regarding the building of
the Valley. City federal building, the
following was received from Congress-
man George NJ Young:
House of Representatives
Washington, D. c., Feb. 7, 1916.
Editor Times-Record:
Herewith you will find check for the
Times-Record up to January list, 1917.
There is nothing new on the post
office building situation, but if any
thing new occurs in that regard shall
be pleased to keep you informed If
you desire it.
About the only thing which can in
terfere with the building of post offices
is Mr.. Wilson's preparedness program.
If congress should adopt his recon-
the treasury officials might
find it necessary to delay expenditures
upon post Offices while waiting for ad
ditional money to come in from new
sources of revenue.
With kind regards, remain,
Yours sincerely,
GEORGE M. YOUNG.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
North Dakota Leads
Way in Bible Study

Devils Lake, Feb. 9.-By introduc.
ing a course Of Bible study in the
public schools, successful work in
which is recognized by the high school
board with a credit equal to any 90
hour subject, North Dakota has blazed
a way in religious education.
I'm this respect North Dakota has
been put on the religious map of the
world declares Walter A. Snow, Sec
rotary of the State Sunday School as
ISOLATION, who is in Devils Lake MAX
ing arrangements for the 1916 con-
vention, which will be held here.
The undertaking is successful be-
cause the course of study outlined
avoids points of doctrine and all con-
troversial subjects. 1t has been &C.
cepted by Catholics and Professionals
alike. The course is optional. When
students desire to take it, they are
referred to Secretary Snow, who pro-
vides each with what he terms syl-
labus, prepared by Dean Squires Of
the state university, This is a con-
else outline, with references, of the
work to be covered. To these stu
dents the state board submits an ex-
animation, conducted simultaneously
over the state, in the same manner
that all other examinations are CON
Quoted.
Secretary Snow credits Dean Sauires
with having done wonderful work
in the syllabus, which has met with
great favor. So far as can be ascer-
tanned, not a single complaint has been
registered.
The North Dakota system, which
was entirely original here, has been
copied bodily by Indiana. In the
state Of Washington many cities have
adopted it. In Michigan such cities
as Grand Rapids and Lansing have
accepted it; in Ohio, Toledo and Tiff
fin. In North Dakota 500 students,
Professionals and Catholics, have re.
ceived high school credits for Bible
study.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
REPORT ON HULL-LEss OATS

County Farming Agent Maryland has
received from the Washington state
experiment station at Pulliam, Wash,
a report upon the variety Of hull-less
oats recently exhibited for sale by a
Washington solicitor. The report
states that tests do not indicate that
the hull-less oats will yield as well as
other common varieties, falling off
about Is per cent and adds "They may
have special use but we do not know
Of any demands for hull-less oats at
present"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
STEWART
= ++++$%$$ .

Mr.. and Mrs. Val Potter spent Tues
day at the Clancy home.
Bob Croft returned Monday from
Pittsburgh, Pa, and other points east,
where he had been visiting the past
month with friends and relatives. He.
will make his home with Frank Pot.
ter for the rest of the winter
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Potter Spent
Tuesday evening with the latter's par.
ents.
William Rohde spent Tuesday with.
his brother Louis Rohde.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Potter we're
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Will Potter
Wednesday evening.
Thomas and Peter Clancy drove to-
the Val Potter farm. on business Sat-
urday.
William Rohde drove to the John.
Froelich farm Thursday
Mrs. Val Potter spent several days;
last week in Valley City visiting with.
friends, Molly Potter returned home,
. with her, to spend few days before,
going to Medina where she. will visit
her mother. -
Conrad and Will Potter called at
the Will >Thiel home Monday morning
Where the former purchased COW.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. H. Miller and eon
Willie and Emma Schafer were guests
/ at the schafer home Sunday. The,
storm made it necessary for them to-
leave the children there, and return
home early in the afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob schafer spent
Saturday in Valley City.
Val Potter and Erwin Bergen drove
to the latter's farm Saturday where
Val went to purchase some stock.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Will Rohde and daugh.
ter Marian, Mr.. and Mrs. Will Potter
and son Lawrence, spent Thursday
evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Pot
ter. rF
A very pleasant storm came Sunday
and spent the day with us, there sure
was music in the air!
J, MI. and Mrs. Fred Rohde and Mr..
and Mrs. Will Potter spent Sunday at
the parental home. Mrs. Potter was.
compelled to stay over till Monday on
account of the bad storm.
Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad Potter, Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Potter, Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Rohde. Mr.; and Mrs. Will Rohde and
family and Louise Schafer spent Mon
day evening the guests Of Mr.. and Mrs,
George Dotting, the occasion being the
birthday of Mrs. Dotting's mother.
Mrs. Haupt.
Louise Schaffer who has spent the
past four weeks assisting her aunt,
Mrs Rohde, returned to her bone
Tuesday.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
Des Laos Boys Invent
Tractor Steering Gear

MlnOt, FeD. 9.-ROy Williams, son OF
T. Williams, and Herschel Wagner,
two prominents farmers living five
miles south of Des Laos, have invented
and patented a steering gear for plow-
ing tractors that bids fair to bring the
young inventors, who are only II
years of age, a fortune and at the same
time revolutionize the use of tractors
for blowing purposes.
The inventors have been offered
$4,000 for the Canadian rights for
their invention and they have receiv-
ed a number of inquiries from manu-
facturers in this country asking them
to name a price for their attachment
or to specify the royalty they will take
to have it manufactured. So far they
have not disposed of the invention in
either country.
The boys are young farmers and
have been working on the invention
for something like a year. Roy Will
liams was the real inventor of the
attachment. Herschel Wagner has
been operating tractor engine on
his fathers farm for some time, and
by giving the matter careful study,
had become considerable of an expert
in that line. The boys entered into
a partnership and the invention was
tried out on the tractor which young
Wagner was operating, and was thus
worked to a perfection which would
otherwise has been impossible.
The difference between the boys
tractor guide and those which have
been in use is that instead of the
two wheels running in span on the
same exile, they run tandem in the
furrow and are so arranged that both
grip against the BERN of the furrow
automatically. This gripping of the
furrow BERN guides and changes the
course of the front wheels of the trac
tor and makes the entire outfit follow
the lines of the furrow. Thus, if the
furrow is crooked, the old method fol
lowed straight course and the ma
chinery was not at once adjustable tc
the change. The invention of the boys
overcomes this defect, which was real
ly the purpose for which the invention
was intended. The wheels and their
connections are such that they buckle
automatically and the tractor is thus
guided without the use of a steering
wheel. But a steering wheel is pro
vided, which can be used to turn the
tractor in a remarkably small space
the buckling of the guide wheels and
connections carrying the front wheels
of the tractor itself in short but
perfect curve without the least skid.
ding. ~
The invention has been tried out
thoroughly on tractors of different
makes and has been found to work to
perfection under all conditions.
The inventors are farm boys with
brains, who have not given so much
attention to book farming as they
! have to farming with their eyes and
, ears open.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
cARRINcToN PLANS PAVING

Plans for the paving Of several OF
the principal streets Of the Caring
ton business district are being consid-
cred by property owners, and soma
definite action with that object I'M
view is anticipated shortly.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
GUNDER OLSON IS
AvoWED CANDIDATE

Grafton, N. D., Feb. s -Gunder Olson
is out with his announcement that he
is candidate for the position Of Re.
publican national committeeman from
North Dakota. and will seek the cleo
ton at the coming primaries. Mr.. o.
son was at one time state treasurer
and is one Of the best known men in
the state.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10

Bismarck Tribune: Miss Elizabeth
Richards, Of Fingal, N. D., arrived here
yesterday on No. 8. Miss Richards has
accepted position in the Lucas store.
She is former employee Of the store.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
CALL CONVENTION OF IRISH
TO BE HELD IN NEW YORK

New York, Feb. 8.--A call for ma
tional convention of men and women of
the Irish race in America to make
known to the world that Ireland has
not been and cannot be absorbed into
England" was issued here today over
the signatures of 500 men of Irish
lineage of prominence in different
parts of the country.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10

Ticket Collector (after heated argu.
ment)-"Well, you'll have to pay for
him; he isn't under three"
Mother-"No, but II he hadn't got
new suit on, he'd be under the seat"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10

jamestown, Feb. 9.-North Dakota
state dairymen in session here today
elected c. E. Batcheller of Fingal,
president of the organization; James
Cooper of Fargo, vice president; Peter
Miller of Bismarck, secretary, and w.
Stegel Of Medina, treasurer.
The selection of a city for the 1917
convention was left with the board Of
managers.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10
Gray sDepartmentS Store

should he? But he will do this in con-
nection with his dairying, look after
regular farm chores (if he has time)
keep the horsebarn clean, also pig and
chicken houses, make and attend the
garden, and keep the premises slicked
up generally and what is nicer to be.
held, and more restful to the eye than
a we'll kept farm?
do you know it's actually danger.
Gus to drive on to many farm premises
for fear of running into gang plows,
mowers and the like, not only this but
it seems sort of custom to have
Dukes mixture) all about, pigs, geese,
calves, chickens, machinery and what
not. If any of my hearers are guilty
of this mixture, when you get home
and the weather permits, right about
face, and clear a patch about your
farm premises, at least large enough
to set a cream can without it's upset
ting or being upset by some wandering
vagabond whose place should be in
some enclosure. r
"Now just a work regarding eff
cheney; breed up your herd. If you
cannot afford to buy pure bred COW
and a sire, purchase a pure-bred sire,
just as quickly as possible. And, by
the way, look up the records Of the
animal before you make the purchase,
by getting an extended pedigree to at
least to. the fifth geenration back and
ask for the milk and butterfat tests
to be inserted in the pedigree, as it
is not sufficient that you get the pure
bred animal, but you must have in
this animal an ancestry that has
shown efficiency, for many pure bred
dairy COWS are just borders that's
all. And while you are casting about
for COWS and sires, better get busy
with the breeders Of North Dakota.
There is just as good stuff right at
home as elsewhere, and no chances to
run, practically, of contracting dis
eases. during transportation.
"The following statement ought to
keep farmers milking cows:
with every ton of grain marketed,
yielding from $1S to $50, is marketed
from s6 to So worth of soil fertility
r1d with every ton OF butter market
Ell, yielding from 5000 to $500, is mar
keter but so cents of soil fertility"
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10

Butter fat .................lS liz, $50 900
Butter made 20, 725 900
Cheese made ..,..... 67,608
Received by Producers $5,64S,O0O
Gain over 1914 pounds in
cream Observation-Disclosures. 8,914,O0O
Gain over 1914 pounds in
butter fat ............... 3,O64,O
Gain over 1914 pounds in
butter made ............ 4,O8O, 900
Gain over 1914 pounds in
cheese made ............. 1923
Gain over 1914 in milk ..... $4,000
Gain in number of COWS ..... 2O,O31
Gain in dollars in milk,
cream, etc. .........$1,o63,o 900
Average butter per COW in
1914 "A lbs. butterfat.
Butter made ........ 80 lbs,
Average butter per COW in
1915 81k lbs. butterfat.
Butter made minimum. SO lbs.
Gross income per COW, 1915, price at
27c per lb.-$26.73.
1T is astonishing to know that
farmers keep cows producing so small
an income, and gross, at that, as
$26.73 each. I dare not attempt to OBJ
tain the net results, fearing there
would be no semblence of the COW.
The old saying we have the hide and
tallow left, so let us thank the Lord
for this.
, However, we should not become
disheartened or discouraged over these
conditions, as it's these very expert
ences we are now passing through that
are going to produce efficiency in the
dairy cow And I apprehend we are
going to realize to a marked degree
this efficiency which will be largely
caused by uprbreeding. The hundreds
OF pure bred sires which have been
purchased by our dairy-breeders and
shipped from other states during the
past three years are going to amaze
us as to results of production: within
the next decade, we will not have,
then, yearly average Of 100 pounds
OF butter per COW. It will not be a
safe venture fer ! leo pound COW to
show her face through the barn door.
Not the 200 pound COW likewise and I
sincerely hope it, will be dangerous
for 300 pound cow, for if this should
happen, amagine see them tangoing
toward the packing house.
THE saying that the dairy industry
can not be maintained largely by the
reason of inexperienced labor, and
further, that the average farm hand
will not milk cows is somewhat over
drawn, although true to some extent,
but there are hundreds of ads. in our
farm papers and leading dailies bear
ing ads every day from experienced
men asking for positions as dairy men.
or mixers. Young men are making
this study in our schools and col
leges and expect to make this their
life work. These young men are not
among the rif-raff class that flood our
state; they are of higher type and
must be sought. They are there and
you can procure them, but you must
get into communication with them; it
costs very little; worth it; try it.
Il have learned by experience that
dairyman will not hold down his job
If required to go into the field and do
the regular work Of other mem why
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10

Perhaps you have noticed that it
doesn't take much of Splinter to run
for office.
The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-02-10

Phone il 70 the Tlmes-R Record. No. 1.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-03-22

of phosphoric acid in hen manure to
six in barnyard manure; Il pounds
Of potash to 10 in barnyard manure
and 81 pounds nitrogen to II in
barnyard manure. This analysis is
based on a ton each Of hen and barn
yard manure
It is CON -on to call all poultry
chickens" but strictly speaking, 5
chicken is a young fowl, generally
under six months Of age, and a fowl"
is one over that age. On the same
basis, young male under one year
of age, or young female Of the same
age, are known as cockerel and pullet,
respectively. They become cock and
hen after that.
Referring to the value Of coal tar,
Hotchkfss says that If it is put in rat
holes, runs, etc., rats, mice, minks
and weasels will desert the premises.
It is equally effective y lice, by coat
ing it on the roost- the latter it
may be thinned with soline, if de-
sired and applied to p ch and walls
Of the poultry houses with a whisk
broom once year. The writer has
found gas tar an excellent remedy for
scaly-legged fowls.
One application is generally sufi'
c;ent to clean off the scales. Give the
legs good coating, allowing it to
wear of, and the chances are the
scales not only drop of, but the leg
is in finer condition than by the use
Of grease.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-03-22
for Dry EeedHpper Oyster Device

profitable sent to market. There are
at times good hens in the third and
even the fourth year, but the average
limit is two. Old hens are more likely
to contract diseases than the younger
ones.
It is q good plan to have awnings
or hoods Of cheap muslin or boards
Sygo over the windows Of the hen
house in summer to keep out the sun
and thus keep the house cooler. It
is not advisable, however, to have
these awnings up during the winter,
as the sunlight is needed in the house
to purify it.
When the leg is bent the bird can
not open its foot. That is why 1t does
not fall of the perch at night when
asleep. When a hen is walking it
closes its toes as it raises the foot and
opens them as the foot touches the
ground
The imports Of the products OF
poultry culture into this country from
foreign countries show that the field
is still open to a large increase Of the
industry in the United States, and that
the opportunity is waiting for those
with sagacity and industry enough to
take advantage Of it.
Compared with well-rctted barn.
yard manure, there are 1850 pounds
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-03-22

will better control the codling mosa.
The first one is given as mentioned
above within seven days after the
bloom falls; the second in about two
or three weeks and the third usually
early in July, or about six or seven
weeks after the bloom falls.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-03-22
Piles Cured in s to il Days

Your druggist will refund money If PAZo
OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itching,
Blind, Bleeding or Protrudirg Piles in eto "a days.
The frst application gives Ease and Rest. SOC.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-03-22
TO DESTROY GRAPE INSECTS
Fiea.Beetle and Leaf.Hopper as Adults
Spend the Winter Under Old
Trash and Fallen Leaves.

Several grape insects winter among
the fallen grape leaves in trash IN
vineyards and much may be done to
destroy them if the trash be raked
together and burned.
Such work will be Of value against
the grape-berry moth and the grape
leaf folder. which hibernate IN the
pural condition in the fallen grape
leaves.
The grapevine fea-beetle and the
grape leaf-hopper spend the winter as
adults under trash of all kinds in and
about Vineyards, and the destruction
Of trash as indicated will expose them
to adverse climatic conditions.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-03-22

rels of Apples, s7.s Per cent Mar
ketabie.
surfaces OF the leaves near the fruit
and at times on the stems of the
young fruit. The eggs hatch in few
days and the larvae Of this first brood
usually crawl to the blossom end OF
the apple and eat their way in. When
the larva (worm) is full grown it eats
it's way out Of the apple and goes into
the pupa stage under any kind OF rub
bish or rough bark. The tdult
emerges, giving US the second BROOD
beginning about six or seven weeks
after the bloom falls.
The best spray for codling moth is
arsenate Of lead. Arsenate Of lead
paste should be used et a strength OF
about two and one-half pounds to SO
gallons Of water. Since the insect
eats it's way into the blossom end, it
is very important that the calyx (olos-
som end) be filed with the poison.
The parts Of the calyx close over the
calvx tube about seven days after the
bloom falls, so it is very important
that the calyx tube be filed with the
spray before this time since it wou'o
not penetrate afterwards. The thor
oughness Of this spraying will largely
determine the effectiveness Of our sea-
sons work. In some states a single
very thorough spraying is all that is
used on the apple orchard in one sea-
son, though it has been found in this
section that two or three sprayings
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-03-22
Observation-Disclosures e.

Many people cough aud ccaeh-from
the beginning of Fail right through to
Spring. Others get cold after scold:
Take Dr. Kings New Discovery Can
you will get almost immediate re!lei.
1t checks your cold, stops the racking,
hesping, tissue-tearing cough. heals
rub Inflammation, sootheS the; raw
tates. Easy to take, Antiseptic and
Healing. Getas50c bot1le OF DR.. Kings
New Discovery and keep in the house;
eIt is certainly a great medicine and
keep bottle of it continually Oh hand >
writes ". C. Jessemao, Franconla, n
Il. Money back if not satisfied but II
nearly always helps-Adv.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-03-22

Cures Oh Sores, Other Remedies Won't Cure.
The worst cases, no matter Of how long standing.
are cured by the wonderful, old reliable Or.
Porter's Antiseptic Healing. Oil. 1t IeEeveS