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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
Evidence at Hand.

ut is said" remarked the boarder
who reads the scientific notes in pat
ent medicine almanacs, that the scan
ty garments worn by the savages ac-
count for their unusual longevity
Il don't doubt it," rejoined the old
bachelor at the pedal extremity of the
mahogany Just look at the great
age attained by our ballet girls
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
PREVENTION OF FROsT-BITE
Difficult Matter to Keep Long Watties
OF Males From Getting Wet
Treat With VaseIine.

Even in well-ventilated, comfortable
houses, it is difficult to keep the long
wattles of the males from getting wet
and freezing. A good preventive is to
keep the comb and wattles creased
wi tn vaseline.
If the mischief is already done, do
not take the bird to warm room
until the frost is out. Apply cold wa
ter or snow, handling very gently.
and when the parts are of normal
size, apply mutton tollaw, or Compton
ice.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
Lucky French Fishermen,

The French fishing feet off the
Newfoundland banks made during 1915
the greatest catch Of fish ever record
ed in proportion to the number of YES
sells employed The feet, consisting
of II steam trawlers and rs sailing
vessels, caught 23,294,42S pounds of
cod.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
FARM
RlIGXY
- -
PROBLEM OF RAISING GEESE
Goslings Should Have Tender Grass to
Eat From Start-Mashes Should
Be Dampened Slightly.

Goose eggs may be Matched under
geese or hens, putting from four to six
under the latter and eight to ten under
a goose. They require about 80 days
to hatch. Goslings should have tender
grass to eat from the first. Give them
a mash of bran, cornmeal and any
other ground grains that are fed to
chickens. Rolled oats, whole or in
parts, make best feed for the first few
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
Biz Returns From Capons,

The capon is gladdening the palate
and pocketbook of the chicken raiser
who had foresight enough to caponize
instead Of letting the matter go.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17

cooler in every passenger car on the
entire system must he thoroughly
sterilized once every week. This is
done by passing hose into the tanks
and forcing steam into them and
through their drain pipes. This both
cleans and purities the coolers and
keeps them free from contamination
After the operation has been per-
formed, each tank is marked so that
it shows when sterilized and who did
the work-Popular Mechanics Maya
zine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17

It's perfectly safe to loan money to
q man who promptly returns a bor-
rowed silk umbrella.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
Dust Bath and Powder.

Keep the hens supplied with dust
bath, and little insect powder mixed
with the dust will have it's good effect.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
Estimate Cost of Keen.

In estimating the cost of keeping
poultry it is best to allow one bushel
Of grain a year for each laying hen.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17

Copenhagen has prohibited the
wearing of unprotected hatpins by
women in street cars.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
An Obstacle.

did he swear a blue streak?"
81 really can't tell-on account of
being color blind
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17

ouarreIsome Cocks a Nuisance.
Quarrelsome cocks are a nuisance
On the farm or In the poultry yard.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
Corn In the Silo.

Corn in the silo is like money in
the bank-ready for use when most
needed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17

Have Charcoal Handy.
A box of charcoal should be kept
where the chickens can get at 1t.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
Yronortans 10 Mothers

The Bohemian 1915 hop crop is ,esti-
mated at 100000 pounds, 50 per
cent decrease compared to the crop
of 1914.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
FARM OPPORTUNITY
BETTER THAN EVER
City DWeIlers Struggle for Their
Meager Comforts.
GOOD FINANCIAL PROSPECT
Wisconsin Official Shows Why Young
Men and Women Should Stay In
Country and Help Make the
Nations Real Wealth.

By MATTHEW s. DUDGEON Of Wis
consin Free Library CommissionO
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1916-03-17
FARM SUCCESS SURE
Young Men and Women Should
Stick to Agriculture.
Country Citizen Has Advantages Over
His City Relative When II Comes
to the Real Opportunities.

tBy @. H. AFFORD. Extension Division
Maryland Agricultural College)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-12
SOLDIERS Got
RELIEF FROM
SORENESS
Boys on the Border Relieved
Their Pains and Aches with
S!oan's Liniment.

Once upon time Norman Jones,
serving in the National Guard al Ell
Paso. returned to camp after siren
uous Is mile hike fOot-sore and leg
weary. He had not been long in active
service and his shoulders, back and
limbs felt the after effects of march
ing.
Remembering Sloan's Liniment
Jones applied it to the sore spots and
went to bed He writes: Il arose the
next morning feeling fine; in fact
had entirely forgotten about the hike
and went out for a four-hour drill in
the sun as spry as ever
Private Jones passed the experience
along, and many boy on the border
relieved the agony of sprains, stains,
bruises, insect bites. cramped muscles,
rheumatic twinges, etc, by the use of
Sloan's Liniment.
Easily applied without rubbing. At
all druggists, 25c,, SOC, and s1,00.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-12
FIRM MANURE
What 1t Is Worth to the Farmer

- Orono, Me-. Oct. 11.-(SpeciaD-Th
following was made public today by
Charles D. Woods. director of the
Maine Agricultural Experiment station
at the University of Maine:
In the first year of the sheep hus-
bandry experiment conducted by the
Maine Agricultural Experiment Station
at Highmoor Farm it was found that
at the end of the year the superin-
tendent estimated-on the basis Of
what he would have been willing to
have paid for it--that the value of the
manure from the sheep was for the six
winter months only twenty -four dol
lars. The food eaten by the sheep
contained plant food worth at ordinary
prices eight times this value. To see
where the losses were, and If they
could not be lessened. an experiment
was carried on in the winter of 1915
16 NTH a manure pit. The results of
this experiment will be reported and
discussed at a later time. The object
here is to discuss the worth of farm
manure to the farmer with the hope
that it may bring. by personal letter or
through press discussion, some further
information on this subject as viewed
by the practical farmer. For whether
the sheep were or were not profitable
in 1885 is largely question of the
worth of the rather more than thirty
tons of manure. In this discussion the
value of commercial plant food is
pla ced at normal prices ard without
regard to the abnormal conditions
brought on by the European war.
The Ohio Experiment Station has
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-12

answered his country'S call for volun-
teers. After the war he returned to the
Seminary and completed his preparation
for the ministry here. For over 80 years
he has been a preacher of the gospel In
Maine He conducted Monday night
chapel exercises
The faculty has decided to have r.
Southland. who is to pay his annual visit
on Saturday, read Shakespeare Twelfth
Night" as his selection.
Miss Hazel Merrifeld, a special in mu-
sic at the Seminary, has been appointed
as music editor Of The Breeze, the school
paper. The Breeze board has planned to
devote several pages departmental work
and will follow this policy throughout
the present year. The first Breeze will
be a holiday number and will be pub.
lished just before Thanksgiving.
A baseball diamond has just been. COM
pleted at Jersey lake by the proprietor
OF the boys camp there. It is claimed
that this field is the best in the State, no
expense having been spared to make It
such. With the possible exception Of the
Colby field this diamond Is without a r..
val. With the seminary diamond. this
makes two very excellent fields set aside
for the national pastime at Kent's Hill
This ought to add greatly to the interest
in baseball among the residents on Ksnt's
Hill and other nearby towns.
Miss Ellen Palmer, a graduate OF
kent's Hill Seminary in 1916. recently
visited her parents. Miss Palmer IL
teaching at West Mount Vernon
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-12

of 1912 into effect. can any voter In
1916 ignore the following array OF cold
and icy facts?
The Democrats said in 1912 that they
would reduce the cost of living. All
necessities and staples are now higher
than ever before. We do not blame
the Democrats for high prices. We dc
blame them for continually making
! idle promises.
For instance, how about the definite
promise to enforce economy and trim
down appropriations? They have been
in the pork barrel up to their elbows.
The Democrats tinkered the tariff
and hard times followed. The present
abnormal prosperity has resulted from
a flood of European war orders. The
war will end in 1917 or 1918. Europe
desperately in need of money, will
make an unprecedented fight for for
eign trade. The United States will
need a protective tariff as never be-
fore. Does any fair-minded voter with
memory a foot long believe we will get
it if the Democrats are in power?
The Democrats have yielded to
temptation and become sectional. They
have shattered political appointments
and public funds on a small percentage
of voters living in the South. The
present administration does not repre-
sent the centers of population and pro-
duction.
Mr.. Wilson has given us a shoddy
cabinet He has put small caliber men
in big caliber jobs. Two of his ap-
pointments have been national calami-
~, ~ Of
will command respect at home and
abroad.
Finally. | am back in the Republican
camp and working for Republican sue
cess this year because | believe the
Republican party, since the recent
house cleaning and REIMBURSEMENT OF
internal control, is much better quail
| fed than the Democratic party to take
| charge of governmental affairs and di
, rect them sanely and safely. ] have
not surrendered any former beliefs
and | am reasonably sure that the
world is going to get better every year
! instead of relapsing to the bow-wows
! When man has just one round OF
ammunition to shoot. he can't afford to
stand off on a hillside and shoot into
I the air. Progressives must recognize
the fact that this year there are only
| two contending parties and every voter
must either make a quick choice or re-
tire to the deep woods. This is nc
time for grieving over what might have
been. The thing for every Progressive
| to do is to look pleased and vote for
! Hughes.
GEORGE ABE.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-12
GEORGE AIDE
DECLARES FOR
CKAS. {. HUGHES
Was a Progressive Four Years
Ago, but Now Sees Many
Good Reasons for Preferring
Hughes to Another Term of
Wilson


Chicago, Oct. George Ade today
made the following signed statement
as to why he preferred the election of
Hughes TO the reelection of Pres.
Wilson,
This year l am going to vote for
Charles Evans Hughes as against
Woodrow Wilson for a good many rea-
sons. Four years ago | was Pro-
gressive. 1t is true that my cnthusi-
asm for some of the planks in the
Progressive platform was so moderate
that | had no trouble in controlling it.
| was not scared to death by the pro-
posals made in the platform, as some
of our Republican friends seemed to be.
but | had my reasonable doubts.
liked the spirit and makeup and
leadership of the Progressive party
and | tried to be loyal to the organiza-
ton two years ago, but it was evident,
even then, that the very structure of
the party was beginning to crumble
The Progressive party had to keep
growing or go out OF business. The
logic Of events restored the Republican
party to it's honored place as
principal corrector of Democratic mis-
management
The Progrcssives must not figure
that they have made a losing fight.
Why, even the Democrats are now
talking tariff commission with a
hybrid sort of protection as an Incl
dental and unavoidable side issue) and
they have passed Il child labor law
which is a poor imitation of the one
that will be passed very soon. And
the Republicans have nominated for
President Il candidate who was simply
made to order for the Progressive ele-
ment.
| marched with the Progressive
party until it became dwindling mi
nority of bleeding martyrs, and | would
have continued to march ii there had
been a probability of our arriving
anywhere. l liked my travelling com
panions and the scenery but n man
cannot continue journey which offers
no terminus.
I believe the first duty of every good
citizen this year is to Join the move
ment to change Washington from a
word factory to a deed factory. For
one. | have had enough alpaca coat,
and Chautauqua, and college rhetoric
and the oleaglnouS Josephus to last me
for a hundred years.
Col. Roosevelt did the sensible and
patriotic thing last January when he
indicated that he was ready to jump in
and support any good Republican who
could defeat Wilson.
THE Colonel saw what was wrong IN
at Washington from the very start. Mr..
Wilson means to be sincere and he
wants to do what is right, but he was
brought UP on college campus. He
was accustomed, for years, to be dog
matte and oracular before a lot of col
lege boys who couldn't talk back. He
finally came to believe that Whenever
he said a thing, it was so.
Accordingly. when Tampico crisis
or a Lusitania crisis or railway strike
crisis confronted the good doctor. he
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-12
MOther-Made, Quick
Acting Cough Syrup
Should he Kept Handy in Every
Home-Easily Prepared and
Costs Little.
+++********************+3

Mothers, you'll never know what you
are missing until you make up this in
expensive, quick-acting cough syrup and
try. it. Children love its pleasant taste
and nothing else will loosen q cough or
chest cold and heal the inhamed or
swollen throat membranes with such
ease and promptness It's equally as
good .or grown-ups as for children.
This splendid cough syrup is made BY
pouring 2h ounces of Pinex $50 cents
WORTH, into a pint bottle and filling the
bottle with plain granulated sugar
syrup. This gives you a full pint-a
family supply-of much better cough
remedy than you could buy ready-made
Tor S2.5O-a clear saving of 50.
The moment it touches the inflamed,
cold-congested membranes that line the
throat and air passages, the healing be-
gins, the ,phleQm loosens, soreness
leaves, cough spasms lessen and soon
disappear altogether, thus ending q
cough quicker than you ever thought
p'.ssible. Hoarseness and ordinary
coughs are conquered by it in "a hours
or less. Excellent for bronchitis, whoop-
ing cough, spasmodic Group, bronchial
asthma or winter coughs.
Pinex is a highly concentrated COM
pound of genuine Norway pine extract,
combined with guaiacol and is famous
the world over for its quick healing
eject on the membranes.
Beware of substitutes. Ask YOUR
druggist for "23a ounces of Pinex" with
directions and don't accept ANYTHING
else. Guaranteed to give absolute satis-
faction OF money refunded. Tho Pinex
Co.. It Wayne. Ind.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-12

| porch chairs as in the milk that has
been handled with infinite care from
milking time till it reaches your kit
| chen.
And what precautions We take when
an epidenmc of disease is abroad. We
won't ever let the children touch an
| envelope in which a letter = arrived
! from the poStman's hands. We won't
! let them see the newspa pers for fear of
the chance germs that might be hidden
| in the printers ink or the folds of the
papers and of course we won't let them
! play with other children on the block
unless we are quite sure they are as
we'll cared for as our own. And in
! some ways we are so careless.
| Look, for instance, at most women S
cellars
If it is fact that many forms of
contagious disease are carried by in
sects that infest rats and mice and
other household pests we really ought
| to think just a little more about the
underpinnings of our homes, through
which most of the pests of the house
| hold make their entrance. We all
| learned in school that hot air rises and
| if we could see the air as it goes in
! currents through our houses we would
see that there is quite a current of air
| always rising from the cellar up
| through the cracks of our floors and
the open doors. Fortunately for the
| peace of mind Of many housewife
air is invisible.
Suppose, for instance. that the re-
Gently much discussed infantile paraly-
sis germs We're carried by means of
rats as was sugsested-and we know
that ether diseases, rarer, to be sure,
are carried by these rodents-could we
| be sure that oul cellars We're entirely
| free from these inha bitants and that
there was nothing there to attract
them Whether We live in private
| houses where we have the care of the
cellar or otherwise we ought to make
| it 2 duty to see that conditions are as
good below the ground floor as above
/ it,
/ To make sure that Your cellar is not
a harborer of bad conditions, be sure
/ that it contains no rubbish, except such
! rubbish as may accumulate between
! collectionS--such as ashes, papers and
I OLD boxes. Papers in which meat and
other foods have been delivered ought
never to be left with the refuse papers
/ in the cellar but disposed of with the
kitchen refuse daily. There ought to
he no damp places in the cellar. 1t is
up to you to see that the floor of the
cellar is cemented SO that such damp
places need not exist and then 20 keep
| it free from them by regular investi-
cations. E-ery week or so you should
ven:ilate the cellar thoroughly by al
lowing the air to blow through every
window. If the windows are not SO ar
ranged that there can be a direct
draueht through the cellar from end
to end and from side to side, it is a
simple matter to have another window
| so arranged.
The best of all tests is this. Are there
! flies in your cellar? DO the flies buzz
around the cellar door when you open
it? If they do something is wrong for
these pests can be controlled by clean
! Illness. dryness and proper screening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-12

carried extensive comparative expert :
ments with farm and commercial ma :
nures for many years. Recently Di-
rector Thorne wrote: after more than
twenty years work in the comparison
of manure and chemical fertilizers on
many crops, the Station is not able to
credit manure with any value beyond
that of the nitrogen. phosphorus. po-
tassium and lime which it carries"
when manure costs more than two
dollars per ton spread on the land 1t
is wiser to use the chemical fertilizers
mentioned than to buy manure"
In addition to the nitrogen. phos-
phoricsacid and potash which farm
manure supplies it also carries a large
amount of organic matter which is
important in increasing the productive
ity of the soil. AS this vegetable mat
ter breaks down in the soil the acid
products thus formed help to dissolve
and make available to plants some of
the otherwise insouble plant food in
the soil. Farm manures TEEN with
bacteria of various kinds which cause
chemical changes not only in the
manure, but in the soil itself convert
ing insoluble plant food into forms
available for the use of crops. The
humus formed from the organic matter
of farm manure improves the soil tex
ture, helps retain moisture and is
valuable in many ways. It's plant food
is not so quickly nor so completely
available as in the better forms of
chemicals. But after much balancing
of the pros and cons it has become
, generally accepted that the commercial
value of the plant food contained is the
only definite thing about a farm ma :
nure by which we can measure its
agricultural and commercial value.
The sheep manure together with the
straw bedding as worked over by
swine at Highmoor Farm carried IA
per cent. nitrogen, 20 per cent. phos-
phoric acid and 1.04 per cent potash.
The mixed manure and bedding from
three horses and two cows also work d
over by swine carried AS per cent.
nitrogen. 10 per cent. phosphoric acid
and so per cent. of potash. At the
commercial values placed upon chemi-
cal fertilizers in 1914 the plant food
carried by ton of the sheep and
swine manure was worth SAG and in
ton of the mixed manure so44
Assuming that two men and one
double team can load, draw to the mot
too distant field and spread eight tons
of farm manure a day it would cost
about IS cents a ton to apply the
manure to the land. Deducting the
cost of application a ton Of the sheep
and swine manure had a value at the
barn Of about $40 and of the mixed
manure of $1.70 per ton. Each of these
lots weighed about $500 pounds to the
cord. Therefore the sheep and swine
manure was worth about $500 a cord
and the mixed manure about $500 a
cord at the manure pit
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-12

Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
How we housewives strain at gnat
and swallow camel.
We spend all sorts of time day ster-
liking baby's milk and cleaning his
bottles, and then when he affectionate-
ly starts to suck the knob of porch
chair with that rosebud mouth Of his
all we do is to express a mild NO, no,
baby dear" and 60 on chatting with
the next-door neighbor without really
troubling ourselves to see whether
baby dear is still at his germ feast or
not. For if there are any germs surely
they are just as apt to be in the dust
from the street that settles on the
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-12

didn't tackle it according to the meth
DDS of old fashioned statesmen.
brought up in the school of hard
knocks. f-fr
No he collected a LOT of pretty ad-
jectivas, symmetrical phrases, choice
metaphors and high-gEade SMILES and
mixed them in a silver bowl with
frankincense and myrrh and maple
sugar and touched of the whole thing
and then. as the smoke arose. he set
back and saw things in the smoke.
They say he has vision. He has SO
much vision, he secs things that
amt.
He is d perfectly nice man who be-
lieWes he can solye problems by talking
about them.
When | recall what has happened to
this country during the past three
years, l. pity all the good men who are
sitting around benumbed by repeated
insults and bcwildered to learn that
their native land is regarded by the
rest of the world as "a joke but the
large share Of my pity is reserved for
the poor historian Of fifty years from
now who will have to explain away our
shame SO that school children will be-
love il.
OF late Mr Wilson has been talking
preparedness, but his voice doesn't
sound natural Why did he have to
wait eighteen months after the Euro
pean war broke cut TO discover that
we needed regular army and navy?
He did not speak out on the prepared
ness issue until Democratic politicians
had worn path to the White House
telling him what he had better say if
he wanted to be reelected.
= Making all due allowance for the
Democrtaoc effort to put the platform
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-12
HOUSEWIVES DAILY
ECONOMY CALENDAR
BY Frances Marshall.
Your Cellar.

Copyright, 1916, by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate)
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-10-12
KENT'S HILL NOTES

Rev. George r. Palmer and Mrs. Palmer
are passing a few days at the Hill. Mr..
Palmer is an afumnus of the Seminary.
having completed his course just after
the Civil War. 1t seems that Mr.. Pal
mer had partly completed his course
when the great struggle broke out and.
with other members Of the old school