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Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12
The Hughes Campaign

The reason the country has gone to
the dogs is because the Democrats are
running the government. The reason
it went to the dogs under Roosevelt
and Taft was because the Republicans
were running it.
That's politics.
We believe in giving the devil his
dues, Democrats and Republicans
alike. With Wilson's leadership the
Democrats have done some tremend-
ously beneficial things for the coun-
try, but his opponents will not allow
him credit for anything. He has just
Numbered along making mistakes and
emitting folderol until the world rec
ognizes him as a weakling of the
direst sort.
When the type of Americanism that
President Wilson represents is ridi-
culed it is time to look for the sinister
motives behind it. The greatest OPP
position to the administration comes
from Wall street. The money III
terests cannot shape and twist things
as they would like. The finance kings
cannot longer manipulate panics to
their desires. They are beginning
already to tire of the Reserve Banks,
and now want a Central Bank CEN
tered in Wall street.
This is one of the reasons Wilson
is bad.
Mr.. Hughes is ramming things
down the public's throat this week he
should be 6SSnaea. e. H, = dis
'creditin america before the world
when he denounces the Wilson adj
ministration. He is playing exactly
into the hands Of the Central Powers
who do not like Wilson because he is
a man and an American and friend
of humanity. He has made them play
the game fairly, and for this they
have undertaken to belittle him.
Mr.. Hughes has behind him all the
German newspapers without an ex-
ception. We are compelled to doubt
Mr.. Hughes sincerity, because in at
lacking Wilson and rapping the ad-
ministration for not having used the
sword instead of the pen in dealing
with Germany's earlier contempt for
American rights and privileges, he is
not only fooling the American voter,
but deceiving the Germans into be-
lieving that if he were President he
would put an embargo on the sale
of munitions and the submarine would
be free to go sneaking around with
no inclination to recognize any of the
obligations to civilization.
Mr.. Hughes riding two horses
headed different ways. He will find
it very difficult feat. With his chief
supporters a smashbuckling ex-Presi-
dent, and such ex-Progressives as
Mr.. Roosevelt controls, and the full
German strength and backing, he has
some formidable and bitter oppo-
nents of Wilson behind him.
But will not the sober, right-think-
ing people see through this thin veil
of sham? Will they not stand be-
hind a man who kept the country out
of war both with Germany and
Mexico?
The New York Herald recently de-
clared the Hughes campaign weaker
now than at the start, and it looks
that way.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12
Wilson On "Americanism"

many and the few
mayhap, who submit herewith evidence that
defined Ameranism three months
beginning European On May 49, 1914
public address the occasion unwilling of monument
Fighting Jack" Barry, he said:
country by the thing that
has made love this counby the opportunity to live their
think their thoughts let their whole natures
mighty nation We have
appropriated them translated them
into the glory and majesty Of a great country.
ought this idea with that devoted
enabling America live her he to be the
ustest the honorable the nght
the world that touches honor
who stands the of the kind Of
himself
behind him whole and
compilation filled Of Revolution
himself afterward of
country enriched
We live her; she live by of u.s.
"undiuted Americansm" sought
established by Charles Hughes Priority strong
strange that such able Hughes
thought of the Sherman outlined campaign
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12

Can virtue hide itself? Go to,
mum, you are he; graces will appear,
and there's an end.-Buch Ado About
Nothing.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12

Some grief shows much of love;
But much of grief shown still some
want of wit.-ROmeO and Juliet.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12


inforced and drilled in the modern
method of leviathan cannon, are both
edging by inches against their Teu-
tonic foes, gaining one hour, losing
another. A battle of horn-locking
sees yards Of gain only-and that for
just immediate stretches. A battle
line four hundred miles long cannot
be hurt much by gain Of a few
hundred yards over length of mile
in lateral distance.
Whatever conclusions may come;
whether Germany will remain un-
yielding, or France and England still
determined to conquer or die, the fact
remains that trench warfare is al
most adamant in strength. The
worlds wizards in strategy have
matched wits in guns, gases and
genius, yet Teutonic bravery, French
dash and English pluck all remain
unbeaten.
When we think one day that Eng
land and France and Germany are to
be wiped out of existence, more hell
ish laundering of cannon beats back
a line of defense for one side or the
other and we begin all over again
in our surmises as to possibilities and
prospects of the ending of the war.
The whole upheaval has, however,
been educative to the American PEG
pie. It has made US think. But even
America is divided. An element knows
we need to prepare against attack;
another sees the futility of it.
There is reason in both views.
America may be safe against at
tack.
On the other hand, suppose she
should not be?
These thoughts are maddening to
the sensitive nerves. The world is
topsy-turvy with thinking over what
is best.
Certainly some evil genius has cast
spell over the actions of humanity
and upset faith, tradition and history.
Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1916-08-12

In time we hate that which we
often fear.-Ant0ny and Cleopatra.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
FALL SELECTION OF
POTATOES PAYS WELL
Farmer Can Get Good Idea 0
Uniformity Of Tubers Pro-
duced by Individual Vines.

By A. G.. TOLAAS University Farm, St.
PauI)
It pays to select next years seed po-
tato tubers from the field at digging
time, better than to select them from
the bin next spring. Here are reasons
why seed selections is more easily
taken care of now than when the p0s
tatoes are in the bin.
At digging time one can get a good
idea as to the type and uniformity of
tubers produced under individual vines
which cannot be obtained after the
crop has been put in storage. Seed
should be selected only from vines pro-
tlucing several uniform, average sized,
true-to-type tubers. Such selection
cannot be practiced when the seed is
selected out of the bin.
Tubers affected with scab, russet
scab, late blight rot, black leg rot and
brown ring discoloration due to wilt
should be discarded. To avoid the
possibility of getting tubers infected
with black leg rot or brown ring dis
coloration, the field should be thor
oughly inspected before the vines have
dried up Seed from infected plants
should not be kept; in fact, wiIted
plants, together with what tubers may
have been formed on them, ought to
be destroyed.
Plants affected with leaf roll, early
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
THOROUGH DRAINAGE
IS MOST PROFITABLE
increases Corn Yield Over Three
Bushels Per Acre-PayS
Interest on investment.

''Less than 5 per cent Of Iowa farms
are thoroughly drained" says M. F. 2.
Costello, agricultural engineer at Iowa
state college.
cit costs on the average Of $4,000 to
drain thoroughly G 160-acre farm. On
most of these farms where there is
any drainage at all only about one
fourth of this amount is expended.
The average farmer drains out the
wet spots from his land in order to
get a uniform tillage area and thinks
his drainage duty is over. It has just
begun.
Thorough drainage pays" main
tains Mr.. Costello. "Conservatively
speaking, such drainage will surely in
ctease the yield on corn area over
three bushels an acre, which increase,
itself, will pay the interest on the
amount invested in drainage on that
acre."
Draining even the rougher land is
also advised to prevent washing.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
IHITE PINE is IN PERIL
Heavy RaVages in
Timber.

The present Is a gloomy hour for the
forestry enthusiasts, especially in the
eastern states, where so much reli-
ance is being placed upon the white
pine as the tree par excellence for
quickly rehabilitating our shabby
woodlands. Last years discoveries in
Massachusetts Of the dread blister
rust Of Europe led other states to in
vestigate within their borders. The
active and well organized co-OperG-
tive effort that Is now being made by
the federal department Of agriculture
and the officers of the several states
whose timber interests are involved
indicates the seriousness with which
they regard the situation. Since their
work for the control Of the disease
began In the early summer it has be-
come apparent that while Massachu-
setts is beyond question dangerously
infected in certain sections, other
states, whose officers regarded their
territory as relatively free, are, in fact,
no better off than we. All New Eng
lduu Is OA the 10NcI lHt+pS uuu eHcu
Wisconsin and Minnesota investiga-
tors have lately turned up infection.
Hope for the successful control of
the fungus Is not forlOrn, consider
ing the plant pathOlogists who are con-
ducting the campaign. The greatest
need of the present hour, however, is
a nvelier interest on the part of our
woodland owners.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14

Where the Silo is well constructed
practically none of the feed is wasted
by spelling and the cattle clean up
every morsel of it. Some cheap
wet roughness can be placed on the
siIage after filing, thus preserving
even the top layers of the feed.
The cost of filling the silo is usu-
ally considered one of the expensive
items. However, much Of the ex-
penSe, which is heavy, is no more than
If corn harvesting time would be
heightened out, possibly over a period
of several months. Corn husking and
the corn-stalk problem in the barnyard
are eliminated, and when corn field
free of shocks at wheat-Seeding time
is also considered, the farmer can pay
the SIPS per hour for the engine and
cutter with his money well spent.
On the whole adverse criticisms of
the silo are forgotten when it's many
advantages are taken into account.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
CHINA WANTS OUR GOODS
American Manufacturers Are Meeting
Favorable Reception at Hands
Of OrientaIs.

The Chinese are beginning distinct
ly to favor American goods and re-
gard America as a model from a man.
ufacturing as well as governmental
viewpoint. according to Maurice Ben
jamin, general manager Of the Oliver
Import and Export company, Shang-
hal, China. In spite Of the famine in
freight, he says, American manufac-
turers are not only gradually finding
their way into China, but are being
sought by the Orientals.
"The tremendous disturbances il
Europe have not failed to leave trace,
in China" he said. "In this the high
freight rates have played no small
part. China wonders why so large a
nation as America should have no
mercantile marine. In some lines
where only SO per ton was paid be-
fore the war for transportation from
the United States west coast to
China, as much as $40 per ton has re
Gently been paid.
Il believe the day is not far dis
tant when we will see a new China.
When the 4O0,0O0O00 people there be-
gin to want machinery, railways and
other requirements of civilization.
America will benefit. It is a common
error to think that the Chinese are
too inveterately conservative to adopt
Western civilization. The cost of liv-
ing Of Chinese in towns where there
are Europeans has probably doubled
in the last few years"
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
Meudon In Wartime.

Meudon, the gay MeudOn Of trysts
and moonlight prOmenades, has been
transformed into a military camp. The
station platform is crowded with uni
formed soldiers of all branches; men
on furlough in their suits of faded
blue like dirty water, showing with
pride holes torn in their coats by rifle
balls, cOnvalescents wearing the old
red pantaloOns, used only by those be-
hind the fighting line, often with one
leg folded up; Zouaves, whose baggy
trousers, formerly blood-red; have now
changed to an earthly color; Belgians
in long brown coats, who never smile,
end British Tommies spick and span
as if they had just stepped from a
bandbox.
The women, in passing. glance at
the war crosses and smile.-Mme. Ber-
nardini-Sjoestedt in Cartoons Maga-
zine.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
HEAVY FROSTS WILL
IMPAIR TERMINATION
One Factor That Regulates True
Value of Seed Corn Of Any
Class or Variety.

Ry c. P. BULL, University Farm, st.
Paul.)
Seed corn that does not germinate
go per cent or better is not fit to be
planted for the production of ears.
termination is the one factor that
regulates the value of seed corn of
any class or variety. Even fodder
corn seed ought to have high germin-
alton testing power. A false impress
sion prevails that fodder corn does not
need to have a high termination rec
ord, like ear corn seed.
Killing frost on standing corn is al
most sure to impair the termination of
the seed. It is better to cut too early
than too late. If cut and shocked when
about 80 per cent Of the ears are just
well dented, the kernels will fill out
properly in the shock and the germina-
ton viii be preserved. A killing frost
while the corn is standing may almost
destroy the terminating power. The
injury will be relatively larger as the
crop is less mature.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
DAIRY FARMER LOSES MONEY
Raises Most Of Feed and Buys Very
Little MateriaI-Herd Helps Keep
Up Fertility of Soil.

How can a dairy farmer lose money
on his cows and still make a living?
The answer is easy. The farmer raises
most of his feed and probably buys
very little material not raised on the
farm to assist him in feeding appetiz-
ing balanced rations. He has the herd
to assist him in keeping up the fertil-
ity of the soil and spends little if any
money for commercial fertilizers. 1t
results in a small profit on the farm,
but profit is made on feed raised and
not on the dairy cattle that consume
it.
The farmer who is losing money on
dairy cattle, but yet making q living
on his farm might possibly make more
money if he sold the feed, used fer
'tilizer to keep up the fertility of his
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
BALANCED RATION FOR CALF
Separator Milk Is Liable to Cause In
digestion, capricious Appetite
and D:arrhea.

By GEORGE H GLOVER, Colorado
Agricultural College, Fort Collins.)
Separator milk is not a balanced
ration for calves. On this feed alone,
and the way it is usually given to
them, they are liable to- get indiges-
tiOn, as shown by bloated condition,
capriciOus appetite and diarrhea. Most
of this trouble can be averted by add
ing handful of oilmeal, cornmeal or
cottonseed meal, to supply, in way,
the fat that has been removed in the
Skimming. The milk should be given
to them warm and never when it is
frothy. Never allow a calf to drink
all Of the milk that it wants at one
meal. 1t is bad practice to allow sew
eral calves to drink out of one
trough, some of them will get too
much. Care in feeding calves is of
vastly more Importance than "cures"
for calf Scours.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
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TO PREVENT WHITE ScoURS
Pennsylvania State Experiment Sta
tion Outlines Some Suggestions
to Prevent Disease.

White scolirs is q germ disease,
hence it's suppression lies in the pre-
vention of infection. The Pennsylva-
MIA state experiment station outlines
the following suggestions for the pre-
vention. of this disease:
The COW should be permitted to
drop her calf upon a clean bed of
straw in a thoroughly disinfected
stall. Immediately after birth of the
calf, the umbilical cord should be
soaked in 2 per cent solution of
some standard dip. A wide-mOuthed
vessel will be the most convenient
container for the solution, as it may
be held close to the body and the cort;
folded down into the solution.
To prevent contamination the cord
should not be touched with the fin
gers. After soaking, both the cord
and an area three inches in diameter
surrounding it should be painted With
iodine, by means of a small piece Of
absorbent cotton. A drying powder
of equal parts bOric acid, powdered
alum and flowers OF sulphur should
then be busted on the cord twice daily
until it has dried off. The powder
should be applied with a busting can.
Additional precautions include the
rinsing of the cows udder with dip
solution to destroy germs on these
parts before the calf is sucked, and
thorough cleaning of the stable, in
Guiding disinfection Of the walls and
floors.
If the calf is very valuable, dairy
men are advised by the Pennsylvania
station to inject a serum prepared
from number of organisms found in
calves with white scOurs, as pre-
ventive. This should be done as soon
as the calf is dropped.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
ASCERTAINING HOW
MUCH SOIL WEIGHS
Acre-Foot Varies From $780, 900
to 100000 Pounds s-KnOwE-
edge Is Valuable.
CBy ]. D. MARSHALL, Colorado Agricul-
turaI College, Fort Collins, Colo.)


(By J. D. MARSHALL, Colorado Agricul-
turaI College. Fort Collins. Colo)
The common method of expressing
the weight of soil is so many pounds
to the acre foot. BY an acre foot is
meant the volume of soil one acre in
extent and one foot in depth. The
weight of any soil is governed largely
by the composition Of the soil, its
structure, and the amount of organic
matter present. The weight Of az
acre foot varies from 3,500,000 to
100000 pounds.
The value of knowing the weight of
soil lies in the possibility Of cal
cuIating the amount of water, humus
and plant in the soil and through this
it is possible to compare two soils as
to their cropping powers.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
Japan WILL HELP CHINA
Will Float Big Loan Chinese Finan'
clers Failed to Get In This
Country.

Japan Is preparing to lend $3O,OOO,-
600 to China. This is the result Of the
failure Of China to float a loan in
New York. Like ourselves, the jap
anese have made money out Of the war
and are able to extend credit to other
countries. This loan will strengthen
Japan's influence in China, but we
have no right to object. We would not
help China. Those who say japan will
dominate China and that trade will
follow money are probably right. We
can learn something from Japan.
Just as China is within Japan's
sphere Of influence SO is all Latin
America within our sphere Of in
huence. We have no designs on our
heIghbOrs other than our desire to
trade with them and to have peace in
this hemisphere. Most of the Latin
American republics need money quite
as much as China does. We have more
available capital than any other coun-
try, perhaps more than all other ma
tons combined. The United States is
the only place where sufficient money
can be found at present to meet the
requirements Of Latin America. If we
invest money we win secure trade just
as we expect Japan to do IN China. In
stead of weeping about lost Opportuni-
ties in the Orient let US improve our
own in the Americas. No cOmplica-
lions with other Great Powers about
open doors and spheres of Influence
need be feared in this hemisphere and
our exporters will find fewer difficult
ties in the languages and trade Gus
toms. Losing a chance in China Is
good reason for not losing others in
the Amerfcas.-NewY York Commercial.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14

The silo takes the corn crop away from
the field mouse and the crow it keeps
it away from the rats and mice, and
also the human thief, who otherwise
could steal the corn from the crib.
The silo also does away with the
shocking Of corn in the field, and the
grinding of it for feed if it is to be
used through the winter to balance
some ration. But the main advantage
is the matter Of economy, Of dollars
and cents.
No Room for Argument.
A silo brings in so much greater re-
turns with so much less work, be its
contents fed to cows, stock, cattle,
hogs, or even chickens, that the room
for adverse argument has disappeared,
and even in our hill section where
silos are most needed, the absence Of
a siIo from the feed-lot is fast getting
to be the exception rather than the
rule.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14

land, and spent the time used in car
ing for the cows in some form of in
tensive farming which would make
him at least wages for his time.
It is a fact that you cannot make
money on a losing proposition and it
follows that the man who is losing
money on dairy cattle is not making
a Iiving-by selling dairy products. He
is making his living because of the
crops produced on the farm plus the
fact that his living expenses are not
large.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
CALVES FED IN sTANcHIoNs
Practice Prevents Them From Getting
Into Each Others. Feed
Also Protects Ears.

Feed the calves in stanchions. This
keeps them from getting each others
feed and also helps to keep them
from the habit of sucking each other.
Heifers often have their udders in
jured by being sucked.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14

1t is reported that the kings grape
vine at Windsor, in the gardens near
Cumberland Lodge, is doing well thia
year and is likely to yield more than
500 punches. Planted in 1775, it is 12e
feet in length and 20 feet in width.
The most remarkable vine in Europa
however, is the famous vine at HamR-
ton Court, from which this is a cut
ting. This was planted in 1768 and
still yields abundantly.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
+. Chauffeur 20 Jo,,


The POilu, a lively little newspaper
produced In the French trenches
prints this Joffre story:
The generalissimo's chauffeur
Il, was chatting with some sol
diers.
'Well." they asked him, ''what does
the general sayT'
"oh, not much; he talks very lit
tie"
''But yes"
'WeH, the other day, for instance
in getting into the car, he said;
Things all right, L-r Yes, gen
eral,' I replied"
"And was that all he said2"
another time he said to me, You
have a very pleasing appearance
l. Yes, general / replied"
"But does he never speak about the
warP"
"Oh, not often. But yet-the other
day he did say to me, 'Ah, my brave
l., when is this war going to
endY"
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14

dwarf and mosaic should be destroyed
and no tubers saved from them. Al
though these diseases do not cause
any visible injury on the tubers, the
use of infected seed win reduce the
yield and finally cause the potatoes
to "run out"
The diseases are described in detail
in Minnesota Station Bulletin No. 1853,
which can be obtained on application
to the Office of publications, Uniyer.
sity Farm, st. Paul, MINI.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
Out Comes the Truth.

II suppose" said Singleton, that
you were deeply touched when your
wife presented you with this easy
chair on your birthday anniversary" !"
Il sure was," replied Wedderly, sad
ly. 81 was touched for fifty dollars
to pay for it"
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
Dark Accusation.

did you see where a man some,
where accused his wife in court of
lighting the gas with two-dOllar bills?"
"Well, don't blame him for getting
mad, If she made light of his earnings
that way"
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
MIsuuided Optimism,

"Bhggins' wife is an Optimist."
'cHow do you known
"Bliggins told me. When she heard
there was going to be a street railway
strike she congratulated him because
he wouldn't have to catch car"
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
Satisfied With Results

1 have been selling DR.. Kilmer's
Ewamp-Root for six and one-half years
and my customers are always satisfied
with the results obtained from the use
Of the medicine and speak favorably re-
garding it. have used it for pain in
the back" and bottle or two put me in
good shape and made me feel Ga.e-sgain.
believe Dr.. Kilmer's Swamp-Roo will
cure any cases for which it is recommend
ed if they are not of too long standing.
Very truly yours,
FRANK JENKINS, Druggist.
Pilgrim, Texas.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
PRUNING Shade Trees

Newly set elm and other shade trees
need only enough pruning to keep
them s4aped and growing in the way
we VIZ at them to grow.
Middletown transcript., 1916-10-14
Had II Over WASHINGTON

First Thinker-There's one way l
have 1t over Washington.
Second Thinker-Pm your friend, so
I'll listen to 1t.
First Thinker-He couldn't tell lie.
can.