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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11

Mr. Greenwich grows practically all
of the feed and food consumed on his
farm. He does not send money to
other sections of the country to pay
for corn, hay, bacon, lard, canned
goods, mules and horses and other
farm products. He stays out of debt
and it is not necessary for him to dump
his farm products on the market when
prices are low.
There is a large fertile garden just
back of the dwelling. The soil is very
fertile and plants are grown practical
ly every month in the year. As soon
as one crop is harvested, another kind
of vegetable adapted to the season is
planted in it's place. In cases where a
vegetable occupies the soil for con-
siderable time, the succeeding crop is
planted between the rows, or even be-
tween the plants in the rows.
He not only fully realizes the value
of a systematic rotation of crops, but
he also knows the great Importance OF
a rotation in the garden and the keep
ing of a supply of fresh vegetables all
the year round. The average farmer
gives little attention to the garden and
on many farms if the mother fails to
look after the garden, few vegetables
are grown.
Utilities Advantages.
He is fully aware OF the numerous
advantages his section has for the eco
nomical growing of live stock. He
utiIizes the many advantages to the
fullest extent. The land is compare
lively cheap and for this reason he de-
ponds largely upon grazing for the
necessary feeds for all live stock. He
has excellent pastures of clovers and
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11

orchard and rye grass. The clovers,
alfalfa, vetch, rape, wheat and other
crops furnish good grazing for about
ten months in normal years. During
six months of the year the pastures af-
ford all the grass his animals consume
and part Of this feed for four addi-
tional months. The feed for the bal
ance of the grazing period is furnished
by supplementary crops produced en-
other portions of the farm.
Purebred Duroc Jersey hogs are kept
on this farm. The pigs are sold for
breeding purposes and used for pork
and lard. Permanent pastures, graz
ing crops and about one-fourth pound
of corn per hundred pounds OF hog per
day keeps the hogs in the best possible
condition.
The poultry department supplies
eggs, chickens and turkeys for home
use and to sell. The turkeys contribute
their share Of the profits, but chickens
are considered the best money makers.
Mites and lice are kept off the chick
ems, clean, well-ventilated houses fur
nished and plenty of good feed sup
piled.
Several good milk COWS are kept on
the farm to furnish milk, cream and
butter for the family Good pastures,
clover hay and cottonseed meal are
fed tc the COWS. The manure is care
fully saved and applied to the poorest
spots.
Home Made Beautiful.
His home is the most highly valued
of all his possessions. 1t is his and
his loved ones castle. It shelters
those he loves most and is to him the
dearest spot on earth. 1t is not luxuri-
ously furnished. but comfortable fur
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11

the border, see that they are turned
once week, to prevent the roots
striking through the drainage hole.
Repot the Gala lily in August.
If you want cinerarias for Easter,
you must plant the seeds in August.
Prepare the seed bed carefully, and
sprinkle the dustlike seeds on the sur
face Of the soil. Then cover with a
piece of glass, which remove careful
ly as the seedlings appear Water
carefully and keep growing rapidly.
If you have never seen the snap
dragon of the present day and want
spikes Of beauty a foot long to glad
den you, SOW seeds of the improved
snapdragon.
When making your cuttings of
geraniums and the like, keep the slips
damp until we'll rooted, then pot.
Keep all buds pinched off. The ole
ander will root quickly if slips are
cut three or four inches long, put in
bottle of water and hung in shady
place
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11

The ones that were not strained
grew healthy from the start and are
growing well. The ones that were
strained grew nearly right the first
year and died the second year, and
the ones that l cut little of the roots
off lived in decline"
The roots, when planting, should be
spread out evenly in a broad hole, not
deep, the roots just barely covered.
Where some, or most people, perhaps,
make the mistake is in sticking the
roots in a bundle in deep hole.
Trees planted in this fashion are
bound to fail. At least it has been my
experience.
Some people give the trees pull
up after planting. With this method
l don't agree. There is no need of
any more handling.
1t is important to press the roots,
secondly, say after a month, because
if the air gets down alongside the
stem the tree is liable to fall.
1 have found always that the fall
was the best time for planting. When
they were put in later l had more fail
ures.
Another thing l noticed in planting,
if the young trees are any length Of
time pulled, they are pretty sure to
Ego under"
l always steep the roots in hole of
soft water the day before planting, and
| have found them to grow and take
root more quickly than if they had not
been STEPPED.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11
FEEDING THE LITTLE CHICKS
Mixture of Equal Parts Hard-Boiled
EGGS and Stale Bread Is Best
for a Starter.

For the first three days chicks may
be fed a mixture of equal parts hard
boiled eggs and stale bread, Or stale
bread soaked in milk. When bread
and milk are used, care should be ex-
ercised to squeeze all milk out of the
bread. From the third or fourth day
until the chicks can eat wheat and
cracked corn, commercial chick feed
is a good ration.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11
COSTLY ITEM OF EQUIPMENT
Average Farmer Is Giving Close to
rs Acres of His Best Land to
Each Work Horse.

Statistics in Minnesota on a num-
Der Of farms indicate that the horse
is a costly item of equipment on the
farm. Assuming average state yields
CT grain and hay for the last five
years and considering the amount of
feed fed annually to a horse it is
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11
ALFALFA AND CLOVER CROPS
Supply of Cultures for incubation
May Be Obtained From the Bureau
of Plant Industry.

If you think your alfalfa or sweet
clover will do better by being inocu-
lated, you can obtain a supply of cul-
lures for this purpose from the bu-
reau IF plant industry at Washington.
Directions will be given for using the
material and blanks furnished for re-
porting the results.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11

giving close to As acres of his best
land to each work horse This is be-
sides the straw consumed and the
pasture, which also may be very pro-
ductive land Be sure the horse is
giving you back an equivalent. III pro-
ductive work on a sufficient acreage.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11
Distance Between Trees.

Too great distances between trees
or small fruit bushes are better than
too little, because there will never be
any danger of crowding and the
space between can be utilized for
other crops for longer period than
if the trees are close together
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11
THE WINDOW GARDEN
By / M. BENNINGTON

Pay strict attention to the potted
plants as regards water and shade, for
al plants require some shade during
summer, especially from the afternoon
sunshine.
If you have plunged your pots in
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11
Green Feed for TURKEYS.

Green food must be provided when
turkeys cannot have free range. They
are very fond Of raw onions. Pure
water and sharp grit are essential at
all times
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11
Watch Little Things.

Attend the little cares around the
want nothing A few hours spent in
this direction will save many at some
later date.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11

nishings neatly kept in order make it
attractive to its inmates. The boys
and girls On this farm will be i'm
pressed in early youth with high ideals
of rural life and will most likely be
contented tc live on the farm rather
than cultivate desires for the mere sur
face attractions of the town or city
The flowers, neatly kept yards and
fences always maintained in proper or
der are all that is needed to make this
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11

fertilizers, but he is not afflicted with
the notion that land can be profitably
or permanently built up with CONNER
cial fertilizers if the life of the soil
supply of decaying vegetable matter
lis lacking. His success as a soil
builder appeals to me. 1t would APP
peal to anyone who could see as l saw
the beautiful stretches Of tobacco and
pea meadows the splendid reaches OF
corn and the broad wheat fields
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11

and direction Of a spirit of progress on
Greenwich is doing this kind of work
and it can be done by thousands who
read this sketch-if not on the same
scale, at least with the same spirit and
to the same worthy end.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11

At a meeting of the Society of Fec
trical Engineers, DIR. Phillip Wechmaun
explained in detail that today practi-
cally no copper is used in the German
electrical industries, because excellent
substitutes have been found. These will
undoubtedly remain in use after the
war, as they are much cheaper than
copper The substitutes by which the
copper wires have been replaced are
mostly iron and zinc. The latter met
al is plentiful in Germany and does ex-
cellent service as an electrical con-
ductor.
Chancellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg
has announced that he indorses
speech by Philip Schreidmann, socialist
member of the reichstag. In this
speech the socialist member said the
chancellor was opposed to the annexa-
ton of Belgium and other pan-German
expansion plans. Doctor Won Beth
mann-Hollweg had been challenged to
deny what Schreidmann had said.
a majority Of the Berlin newspape
ptoprietors have decided to reduce the
size of their publications. from July /
owing to the increasing cost of paper
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-07-11

Information alleged to have been OBJ
tanned from a deserter from the TWEEN
ty-eighth German infantry is to the eff
feet that the German soldiers fresh
meat ration has been cut down from
375 grams daily to 200 grams, which
is just half of the ration of fresh meat
received by the French soldiers. The
German canned meat ration is also al
legged to have been cut down to $50
grams, as compared with the go grams
of canned meat in the French ration.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-18
Labor Stream Flows East.

For the first time within the knowledge Of the
State Labor Commission, Eastern railroads are
COmbing Missouri and Kansas for laborcrs to re-
enforce their construction gangs. In primary
times, the commissioner states there is likely 10
be excess OF rough labor in the East due to
the steady stream OF immigration, and these men
make their way West to hnd work. The reversal
IOf the stream is doubt due primarily to the
stoppagC of immigration by the war. together
with the increased emigration arising from the
same There must also be a pressing dc
Imand for labor in munitions plants largely con-
centratcd in the East and that would tend to
force the railroads into fields for the labor
supply.
Nobody can be sorry that the laboring man
lis getting a share OF the war prosperity but
there likely to be some incidental inConven-
icnces in the West before many weeks. Out
door work the farms and in the cities will
soon be calling for men. and the ad-
vanccs this part OF the country is not unlikely to
find itself struggling against a labor shortage
which will not relax until rc-Cstablishcd peace
has been followed by return to normal Cordi-
tionS
Just what the next year has in store for tho
United States is, Of course, largely matter Of
speculation, but whatever happens is likely to be
abnormal. and the perception OF this perhaps
may account for the noticeable silence Of those
who crying, not many months ago, for
laws which would exclude from this country a
large part OF such labor was then coming
here to find useful work.-St Louis Republic
The Washington herald., 1916-05-18
NAVAL ORDERS.
MnyEMENrs OF NEssEL.

MOVEMENTS or VESSELS
Florida arrived AZ southern DrI Gr0uds Ns-
Is; New HsmrshTe arrived a. Zsmtos0Ss Ma r
New Hampshire arriysd al Brstou Ea-1. Ma, .f.
San Francisco sailed frr \cVIou N. is Jran
arrived "A Cares Of the CheSreskr. MAY Is.
The active division. OF the t.l1.du r.HIls At
lautic Fleet. har" bccu rrorgauizri as GLOW.
Fifth division q 'Fricn FarnInE Janis. JenkIDs
Warrington. and PsuHrnE
sixth dniSon- adsuurtb Casln. Cummings
E-icsson. McDuugal and WINSTON
Seventh division Rach. Allvlu. Cushing. Ben
ham. NiChoE0n and Mccall.
Eighth divirlon Cnuy nghaTn. Tucker duncan. ia
cob JCnes Wainwright. and Porter.
ORDERS TO OFFICERS
Commander iceland Davis. placed on retired hst
q Officers q the from May - 1915; 10 home.
Commander +. y. Olmstrd. to ,ommaud Salem
navigator.
Lieut. Commando T. J. johnson. to Command
Dubuque June T. 1915.
Lieut.. Commander G. r. SNYDER. to Naval War
College Juh J. 1916
Lieut. Commander H. c. Cooke. to Delavare a,
navigator
Lieut. Commander L. r. Sargent. to West Viz.
Einia as eEec1.'iyc ofi0A August J, 1916.
Lieut.. Commander RobC1 Henderson. to Ala.
lama as executive OflcCT.
Lieut.. Commando Il W. Osterh0u-e IN Arkansss
navigator. June %. 1916
Lieut. Commander r. R. WyGaut tn command
Tucker
Lic,, Commander = T. Evans. to Naval War
C0llcgJ Newport T. l.. JuIy l. 1915
Lieut. W. r. Van Auksn. to Bureau Of Ordnance
NaVy DCparmrn'.
Lieut. X. ". Ee,-lgr. TO salem
Lieut. 4. l.. Pence, 10 Texas a. ginnrry oGicrr
Lieut. r. 5. rulT To St. Lolrs.
Lieut. ". y, Drckcr 10 salem.
Lieut., Commander 5. W, BHEut 70 Bath Iron
The Washington herald., 1916-05-18
Germany and the Presidency.

We have demanded Of Germany an abandon
mcnt OF her submarine warfare against mer-
chantmen; the most that she has offered in
return is suspension.
We therefore do not agree with the Prcsi-
dent that Germany has acquiesccd in our de-
mands; and we also therefore believe that even
on the ground which he himself has stated Ger
many has given good Cause for breaking off
diplomatic relations with her On this point
we believe public opinion in this country will
remain divided
On one point, however. public sentiment will
.bc Overwhelmingly with tho President In its
reply to Germany our government states, in
effect, that the United States cannot allow Ger
many to SHIFT to Great Britain responsibility for
herman misconduct Whatever dispute VIC may
nave with Great Britain is our business, not
"erinanyS, The neutrality of the government
OF the n1ted States is in its keeping. The
ntcd States cannot allow Germany to make
the safety OF American citizens against German
outragcS conditional upon what some other
nation may do.
As the situation now stands, VIC are just
about where we were before. At ahv time
Germany may resume what she calls her Com
pIctc liberty Of action German submarine
may attack a. peaceful merchantmen, American
lives may be lost. viii that mean the severance
OF diplomatic relations will ii mean more in
vestIgatonS and more notes.
The German government has been carrying
on war upon noncombatantS. What the Ger
man government now proposes in its reply is
an armisticc There is no doubt in our mind
that the reason for this armsticc is that the
German government is watching the course Of
the Presidential campaign. If the political stu
alton favors Mr.. Wilson. the German govern
went knows what policy it will pursue. If it
iavor> Mr.. Root it will pursue different policy.
II the political situation fayors Mr. Hughes. it
will pursue another policy. And if the political
situation fa>orS Mr. Roosevelt the German
government, which knows Mr. Roosevelt will
pursue policy different from either OF the
others. The German government has managed
to maintain itself in outwardly friendly relations
course OF Cycnts.-Thc Outlook
The Washington herald., 1916-05-18

Thoughtful public men saw that the
business interests of the country rem
dcle it imperative that by statute, if-not
by constitutional compulson, specie pay
ments should be resumed by the govern
ment. the redundant currency Of the
country contracted. and money transaC-
tiOns put once more upon foundations
that would hold fast.
Gold nad been made the single standard
of value in the United States by an Act
of Congress passed in 1888. That Act
had said nothing about the silver dollar
OF the earlier coinage. because 1t had in
fact passed out of circulation. The Act
Of 1873 had simply recognized that fact
and dropped the AZ l-2 grain silver dollar
from the list Of coins.
An Act OF January Il, 1873. had provided
for the resumption OF specie payments
by the government on the lst of Jan
Iary. 1879. E-ery promise Of the govern
ment was Oh and after that date TO be
redeemable in gold
BY 1876 an extraordinary fall had taken
place in the value Of silver. II had been
coming in augmented quantities from the
mines; Germany and even the states OF
the Latin Union. associated by treaty
for the express purpose OF maintaining a
stable ratio between gold and silver in
age Of silver; the demand for it had
greatly fallen on at the very time that
its quantity had increased. and the price
Of silver bullion fell as it had never
fallen before.
The real functions Of money. the real
laws of its value the real standards of
its serviceability. its real relations TO
trade and to industry have always been
hidden from the minds OF men whose
thought in such matters has not been
trained by the actual experiences OF the
open markets Of the world. in actual eN-
change, or in the actual direction Of the
financial operations OF governments.
The coincidence Of high prices ana
eager markets with floods Of paDer
poured from the Treasury Of the United
States. coupled with the indisputable fact
hat the return to Stacker demand, lower
prices, and a greater scarcity of money
had been accompanied by A considera Bile
contraction Of the redundant currency
and by laws which were soon to bring
about A return to spe, ie payments, 4
turning back from cheap" money to
The Washington herald., 1916-05-18
BoY-Ed'S Decoration.

We have said several times that Boy-Ed
served his country in the ncd States with en-
thusiasm and devotion. He put his heart into
his work, and while the limitations OF his Off
cial station robbed him OF the opportunity to
risk his liberty and his life for the cause to
which his talents were given, he contributed
libetally to impcrilling the lives and liberties of
others, We have never, known, among all the
men who eagerly subscribe to projects cndanger
ing the comfort, property and persons OF others
less fearful Of consequence or more con-
tcmptuOus of possibilities.
The circumstance that Boy-Ed's activities did
grave injury to his principals is not to be cited
against him He followed the course superior
command dccrccd, and on it, not on him, rests
responsibility for the l-fcclrng and suspicion
Roy-Ed was the immediate irstru ncnt OF arous-
ing in the United States He carried out his
orde's with racial efficiency that Left nothing
to oc desired. 1t is true that he was caught in
the act and ignominiously expelled from the
country in which his work done; but his
recorded contempt for the individuals therein
domicilcd leads US to believe that even this dis
concerting incident was not without its compcn-
Sations.
So Boy-Ed earned his decoration; and we
glad that he is in Germany to receive it
New York Sun.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-18
The Herald's Army and Navy Department
Latest and Most Complete News Service and Personnel Published
in Washington
: Department

h"I5 pieces IN .s far in the courso or
the war The French G7o-miInmrrer
h"WilZef. it Is stated Was under study
when t"' War broke out. and Is ,om-
UaauyelN simple Iu construction. The
TRIALS have given most satisfactory re-
suits
At tn" outbreak Of the Ua~ the. mobile
artillery OF Franc consisted sGbsIantral-
N OF the %'-milllmelcr t-.E.-lnrnl noun
tam. .5-miI.imrIcr t-g2-nchl field gun.
and tn" l55-mlllimetcr Is l-inchD rapid m r.
EimailhO -UD. About one month urfore
The outbreak Of tn, war siN regiments of
N|-miIlimeter a I4-inCh1 guns were au-
thor zed. hut the guns were NOT ready
fol issue at tho outbreak Of the war
sim" then these regiments have been
furnished these and other CaIhers have
been introduced. Eg-mlnmetor ,6-in, hr
schneider rapid fire howitzers. o7,-wilIi-
meter N"5-in.h howitzers. S1-millimc,Cr
d--moh' navy gun. mounted ON railway
carr lag. #n-mIllImeter rI&.N-.n,hI navy
gun. mounted on railway carrra-s.
The memorandum reier- tn the cfIer-
uv,u,>S of the German 3--oentimeter
guns. and adds uhsr III Is -Iaimrd that
me krurn Company has nov perfected
the a-cont'mter t-1 .3'-In hD gun. with a
Iau-' of thirty eight mics eth Ausirl-
ans. t.ynrdrnS to a report Guulcd in tn"
Wa COLES" document. are usinE their
largr guns up to the 45-contimeter type.
t-aIu~l reid works. field guns storage
drpotS. railway stations and Ni'a-,>
where troops are quartcred. and to dee
story entanElemcnfS
These uses" SAYS the rop"rt. are
made because the guns are available
Tn, writer has seen the effect Of fire Of
tn. 3U5-rentim,ter and }5-CeutiTet,r
murtars on SEM permanent earthworlz~
The -raters on the NIL i'm the rear ol
the line Of works were twenty feet d',.
and thirty feet i'm diameter"
The Washington herald., 1916-05-18

earnings The only law against spending is that
OF not having the money to pay the price Neither
the prohibitionists nor the opponents Of other
extravagances change this old rule of life
In the beginning of the European war, we
heard much about how England reducing
the drink bill by prohibition laws but now we
arc informed by the British Weekly, a church
paper in London, that the drink bill in Great
Britain was $0oooo,ooo, greater. in 1915 than n
the year before the prohibition laws went into
effect. So it has been in this country The
States that have prohibition laws complain that
the people still. buy and consume liquors. The
only cure for these extravagances OF the people
so far found is hard times, and not even the
Prohibitionits favor that remedy.
The Washington herald., 1916-05-18
The Naval Wine Mess Order.

Admiral Flskcs Suggestion IN his letter 10
Secretary Daniels about the wine mess, Of pos
sbe danger from cocaine not altogether
because there wasn't any real danger
that naval officers would take to cocaine But
neither was there real danger from the wine
mess II our naval officers were men Of so
little sclf-control that they were not safe with
wine on the table, then they would indeed have
been in danger from cocaine il deprived OF wine.
The Dith of the objection to the abolition OF
the officers wine mess Cbncsely stated
by the admiral when, observing that what made
most for efficiency in the navy was the spirit Of
the service, he went on to say:
without this spirit no amount OF regulations
can avail. To hold our officers up to the coun-
try as a body of men lacking in the sclf-control
necessary for the performance Of their duty,
which would be done by making an order Of the
kind suggested. would be to strike directly at
their dignity as men and lower their pride in
themselves and their calling "-Lifc.