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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18

Mexico had no vice president until
1907, up to that year the secretary Of
foreign affairs was empowered to act
for the president in case Of the sud.
den illness or necessary brief alb
sence of the chief executive. In the
following statements the dates given
are to be understood as the beginning
Of the year: 1901 to l9OS-President,
General Porfrio DiaZ; Secretary of
Foreign Affairs Don Ignacio MarisCal
1908 to l9ll-Presdent, General Por.
iirio Diaz; Vice President, Don Ramon
Corral. October !, 1911, to February
10, l9l3-President, General Francisco
l.. Madcro, Jr.; Vice President, Lie.
Jose Maria Pine Suarez From the
murder Of MaderC, on the last named
date, to the recognition of Venus
tiano Carranza as chief executive Of
Mexico by the Pan-American confer.
ence, October 10, 1915, Mexico had
only provisional presidents: Vic
toriano lluerta. until July Is, 1914;
Francisco Carbajal, for four weeks af
ter that; General Eulalo Gutierrez,
Rogue Gonzales Cara and Francisco
Lagos Chazaro, successfully. none Of
them recognized as president of
Mexico.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
SIX-YEAR CABBAGE
TEST OF INTEREST
Practically No Difference Shown
in Yield Between the Small
and Large Plants.

When seed is sown either in drills
or broadcast, some of the seedlings
will make more rapid growth than
others. Because of the belief that
larger plants possess some inherent
characteristics which enable them to
cutdistance their neighbors, thus be-
coming superior, many cabbage grow
ers discard a number Of plants which
are under size.
An experiment, which has been con
Quoted for six years at the Pennsyl-
vania State college school OF agricul-
ture and experiment station to deter
mine the variation in yield and pro-
ductiveness between large and small
cabbage plants, showed that there
was practically no difference in this re-
spect, regardless of whether the grad
ing was done at the time of the first
transplanting or when the field plant
ing was made.
There was approximately an inch
of difference in the height of the
plants at the time OF making the field
planting, which soon disappeared.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18

most beautiful flowers in cultivation.
AL varieties are easily cultivated and
adaptable to most conditions, but in
soil deeply dug and well enriched
with fine old manure, their blooms are
the finest. Set from one and one half
to two feet each way.
Iris (feur-de-lis), the national
flower of France, is another perfect
ly hardy plant. They grow in any or
binary garden soil luxuriantly, and
bloom in June. The German iris
should be planted largely where cut
flowers are in demand, as it certainly
is the best of its class
Perhaps the most snowy and gor-
geous of the iris family is the Japanese
iris. The flowers are often ten inches
in diameter and bloom in July. There
are many beautiful colors among both
iris. White family tnged with Law
ender, light bronze, yellow and bright
blue, royal purple, grayish white, and
pure white are among the Colors
shown
PhloX, another plant on our list. can
not be surpassed for brilliant color
ing and continuous bloom. Sow phlox
out of doors in May, in a situation
we'll open to the sun. They will flow
err in July and continue until late in
the fall.
Old-fashioned Glove pink, and its
more elegant relation, the carnation,
flower so easily as an annual that it
has attained a most popular position
among garden plants. The beautiful
flowers make an attractive display
with their world of color, and are
greatly to be desired as a table deco
ration and also as a border plant
Pinks grow easily from seed and
come true TO color Sow out of doors
when danger from frost is over. II
the seed is sown early enough the
perennials will bloom the first year.
There are great many other plants
that are hardy and desirable, this is
but a mere beginning. Choose the
flowers you are fond of and the work
will be more successful and more
pleasant. But have garden now, no
matter how small.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
PLAN FOR FEEDING
MILK TO CHICKENS
Methods Employed in Connecticut
Egg-Laying Contest Are
Briefly Outlined.

SO many inquiries have been made
regarding the exact method OF feed
ing milk to hens that it seems hit
ting to describe briefly the plan en-
ployed in the Connecticut egglaying
contest. There are five experimental
groups. in each group two pens. In
each case the pen having the odd mum
Der is fed the regular contest ration,
the pens with the even numbers re-
ceiving exactly the same rations, with
the single exception that thick, sour,
leppered or clabbered skim milk is
substituted for the meat part OF the
mash The milk pens have water
Just as the others do, and in addi-
ton to this, all the thickened milk
they care to consume. 1t is found that
each ten birds will eat on an average
from one to two quarts day.
Storrs station has not only been
trying the use Of milk as a ration on
It's experimental pens in the laying
contest, but has also been using milk
FOR growing chicks for the past three
years. The data thus collected, with
results OF work done at other expert
ment stations, point to the fact that
milk as a ration for chicks and for
laying hens has a very definite feed
ing value.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18

Who can ten why the cOruauut has
three eyes, Luther Burbank explains
It this way
Cocoauuts usually grow az the edge
OF The yea or rivers The nuts are
surrounded with thick husk with q
waterproof covering $50 that when 'hoy
drop INTO the wafer they vail hoal
in foauug the three eyes are always
on top
Once in the water nature gets busy
From one uf the eyes there comes a
shoot which develops broad leaves
like sails. The wind catches he sails
aod wafts the cocoaum ON journey
sometimes many miles long AS 1t
SAM the other two eyes develop roots.
which al FIRST grow among the hbers
or the woody husk
IN good season the cocuanut IL
swept upon another shore. perhaps Oh
another island The roots imbed
themselves in the soft earth, the sail
becomes the trunk, and cocoanul
pain is growing where none grew be
fore.
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Vcrdun.

Nerdun is the last of the great for
tresses with which France has sought
to defend its northern frontier.
There, in Sf3, Charles, Louis and
Lothaire, the sons of Louis /, the deb
onair" divided the empire of Charlie
magne, brought France and Germany
into existence and began the modern
map Of Europe.
Awarded to Germany then. it came
back to France under Henry IL in
1852
From that day, the junction of the
Dad that runs down the Meuse to Bel
GUM and the road that goes straight
from Metz to France, has been a great
,ortress A l}encdictine abbey was de
stroyed to put "A royal keep on its foun-
latons Around it is an encrcling
ing Of forts.
It's plateau rises a steep 400 feet
above the valley of the Meuse on the
west, and on the east has short pitch
of 200 feet above the plain.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
OXFORD BIBLE WIDELY KNOWN
From Thirty to Forty Copies Are
Printed by the University Press
Every Minute.

The oxford Bible is widely known,
but few persons are aware of the ire
mendous scale on which it is produced.
The Bible publications of the OK
ford University press have been is.
sued for 300 years, and can be pub
lished in $50 languages and dialects.
Every year fully six hundred tons of
paper are used for this purpose alone.
Orders for 100000 Bibles are quite
common, and the supply of printed
sheets is so great that an order for
h:lf million copies can be readily
flied. On an average, from thirty to
forty Bibles are furnished every min.
ute. and this number can readily be
doubled.
There are no fewer than 10 differ
ent editions of the oxford Bible in
English, varying from the magnificent
folio edition for pulpit purposes to the
brilliant Bible, the smallest edition
or the Scriptures in the world. or the
revised version, II editions are pub.
Ii6hed. More than one million copies
Of the revised New Testament had
been ordered before the day of publ
cation in May of 1881, and it is
claimed that the workingmen of the
establishment refused a bride of some
$4,000 to furnish a copy of the book
before the day of issue
At banquet held at the four hun.
drcdth anniversary celebration of the
beginning of the art of printing in
England by CaXtOn, Gladstone took
into his hands and exhibited to those
present a copy of the Bible which had
been printed and bound entirely since
midnight Of the preceding day. The
preparation of the India paper" used
by the oxford University press is
business secret Of great value. AL.
though frequently initiated, it has
never been equaled. The largest folio
Bible printed in oxford measures 10
by IL inches, and no erratum has as
yet been found in it. The Brilliant
Text Bible measures 3% by 2s
inches and is quarters Of an inch
thick, and, bound, weighs less than
three ounces.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
Pure Accident.

When David r. Francis, recently
appointed ambassador to Russia by
President Wilson, was governor of
Missouri he was nightly interested
In the negro population of Jefferson
city the state capital. lie knew much
Of what there was to know about the
colorcd man. having been born and
raised in Kentucky himself, and had
a number of good stories about an old
darky whom he called Hot Foot, be-
cause he was SO deliberate Hot Foot
had a stereotyped reply to the gov
ernors morning salutation
Good morning, Hot Foot" the gov
ernor would say. How are you to.
day"
sober by chance, boss, sober by
chance"
And the governor never failed to
laugh.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
COUPLE OF REASONS
FOR GROWING SEED
From S1.25 to $3.50 Per Pound
Saved-ChanCe to Cultivate
Own Variety.

There are a couple OF reasons for
raising your own onion seed. Onion
seed costs from 81 25 to $3.50 per
pound. 1t could be saved with very
little trouble. One has chance to
cultivate a variety of his own and es-
tabish a reputation as a seed producer,
which, in years to come, may bring
more ready money than the onions he
raised
AT screening time in the fall, pick
out the most solid, globe.shaped, deep
" colored onions of whatever varieties
you want for your next crop. Large
or medium-sized ones are best EST.
mate the seed required to SOW your
crop. 1t takes AZ to ) pounds to the
acre and one bushel of onions will pro-
duce three pounds of seed on an aver
age Always SOW a few more for
safety.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
STRAW VALUABLE AS
A SOIL Fertilizer
Farmers Are Urged to Make
More Extensive Use Of 1t as
Bedding and Feed.

A large amount of straw is shipped
from a county in Missouri to near
by paper and strawboard factory. This
straw brings the farmer about 80
cents per ton.
A county agent recently found a
pile of about 1000 tons at Sikeston
ready for shipment. He computes that
as fertilizer this straw is worth $3.50
peS ton, in addition to its value as a
means of adding organic matter to the
soil
He is making a campaign Of the
county in an attempt to show the in
advisa bility of the farmers selling
their straw and u.-,ing its more exten.
sive use as bedding in stables and feed
lots.
Straw used as top dressing on fall
wheat has been found to practically
insure a good stand of clover on lands
where clover is otherwise grown with
great difficulty.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
Fine Type for Dairy Herd Head.

There are yet many who wholly mis-
effect feed fed to cows has on the
quality of milk produced. BY quality
we mean the amount of butterfat,
says a writer in an exchange. Some
feeds affect the flavor of milk and
possibly to slight extent its col
or. Feeds rich in protein. it is long
known, have a tendency to increase
the percentage of fat in some animals
but not in others.
The milk-producing function OF the
cow is to a large extent under the con-
troll Of the nervous system. Anything
that disturbs the quiet or normal con-
dition of the animal, whether it be
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
SHEERNESS IS A WAR PORT
Estuary Arc Protected by Mighty
Fortifications.

ShccrneSs, the pivot point in ths
control of all the Channel waters, stu.
atcd behind a powerful shelter OF for.
tlliCatiOn on the southern shore OF the
Thames estuary The garrison town
and seaport are situated on the Isle
OF Sheppcy whore the Midway cstu.
airy Joins with the Thames 81 mites
east Of London, and joined with the
metropolis by the Southeastern and
Chatham railway Thrown around
the port are chain Of formidable
modern fortiiicatuus, opposing such
armament az would make attack by
an enemy fleet almost impossible
There arc also extensive barracks
here, and acres Of warehouse space
piled high with naval stores Resi-.
dcnces for the admiral Of the home
fleet and other naval officers cunsti.
tutc the most important part of the
city
The backward and works VI Sheer.
ness equipped for the carrying ont OF
all kinds o, naval repairs, cover about
sixty acres including three basins and
large modern docks The harbor is
q spacous and excellent ono sheer
ness les primarily a war harhor. with
I,no importance as a place Of trade
II las fallen once before the attack
of hostile Hcrt but that was before
tN.t Iutg. gf form ltI I, ,rI,..t.g
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
APPLY INSECTICIDE
MATERIALS AT ONCE
List of Efficient and Dangerous
Combinations Prepared by
New York Station.

Now that one has to fight the cod
ling moth. the San Jose scale canker
worms, plant lice and other insects
besides the apple scab and other fun
gous diseases it is advisable to apply
two or three materials at the same
time. Certain materials can be mixed
together with safety, while others in
due to chemical changes, or they may
prove injurious to the tree. 1t is i'm
portant, therefore, to know what ones
can be mixed safely. The following
list has been prepared at the New
York experiment station:
Better results are obtained by mix
Ing paris green or arsenate of lead
with bordeaux mixture than by apply
ing them separately.
Properties are not changed by mix
ing lead with tobacco or bordeaux,
lime sulphur with tobacco soap with
tobacco or emulsions.
Efficient and noninjurious are lead
with lime sulphur. soap with tobacco.
Inefficient, but noninjurious are lime
sulphur with soap, acids or emusions.
Safe and efficient triple combina-
tions are lime sulphur, lead and to-
bacco; bordeaux, lead and tobacco.
Dangerous combinations are paris
green with lime sulphur soaps or
emulsions; arsenate of lead with
soaps, emulsions, or alkalies; emu!-
sions with lime sulphur. zinc arsenite,
or arsenite of lime with lime sulphur,
soaps or emissions; arsenate OF lead
or paris green, with soda or potash
sulphides, soaps or emulsions.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
PLANT YOUR HARDY GARDEN
NOW
BY E. VAN 8ENTHUYSEN.

A hardy garden is the garden for
and be delight to her and to her
neighbors with a very little care.
Take a careful survey of your re-
sources and make a study of your own
individual problem. Book taught
gardeners may be all right up to a
certain limit, but one seasons expert
ment along your own lines will give
you an insight into plant life that,
aside from being a most Fascinating
study, will teach you more than
years of reading.
Those who wish to plant roses and
not bother with them more than to
prune and fertilize annually and keep
the ground mellow about the plants
should plant hybrid perpetual roses.
The hybrid perpetuals are the hardi-
est Of roses and will stand more cold
weather than any other species.
The following are desirable speci-
mems: Anne de Diesbach, bright car
mine; Baroness Rothschild, an ox-
quisite pink; La France, blooms all
summer; Frau Karl Druschki, snow
white, has splendid buds and immense
flowers, four to five inches across, and
is delightfully."- fragrant; General JAG
queminot, popular rose Of brilliant
red Paul Neyron, lovely dark pink ;
Gruss an Teplitz, a strong, vigorous
IF rrhoct cri inc
both pink and white, are hardy. and
Mrs. John Laing, rose of delicious
fragrance and of rich satiny pink
color.
This list could be extended indefinite.
ly, but these are all tried and true va
rieties that will give you a world of
bloom and be a picture worth looking
at
hardy border that is a triumph of
beauty and has been enjoyed for
years contains hollyhocks, phlox, lark
spur, foXglove, iris, columbines, pinks,
and sunfowers. 1t is not so expensive
figures up about six cents per square
foot, but arranged according to size
and color makes a wonderful show
ing.
Hardy roses require ordinarily good
garden soil, well enriched with we'll
rotted manure. They must have an
open, sunny position clear of the roots
of all trees and shrubs. 1t is we'll to
prepare the bed a few days before
planting to allow for settling Ever
blooming roses should be planted Is
inches apart and the hybrid perpetu-
ais two feet apart. Roses should be
planted with the roots diverging and
at least nine inches below the surface
of the ground the soil made firm about
them and then should be literally wa
tered.
IIollyhocks succeed best in rich,
well-drained soil, and should be light
ly protected during the winter months
with coarse straw or spruce boughs.
Larkspur seed sown in the open
ground early will produce Towering
plants by the beginning Of July, and
will give a continuous succession If
bloom from then until frost. 1t is ex-
cellent for cutting and very orna-
mental. 1t produces in great vari-
ETY. of forms and colors some of the
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18

rough usage. extremes of temperature,
or aught else, will have its effect upon
the quality.
On the other hand, plenty Of the
right kind of feed increases the guam
tity of milk until the animal reaches
the maximum production. We have
yet to hear of any feed or system OF
feeding that so improves the quality OF
milk as to make a given quantity of
milk produce more butterfat at one
time than another. OF course, the
greater the quantity Of milk, the more
cream there will be.
1t is simply common sense to know
which cows are profitable. Testing is
the only way to find out
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18

As par OF the regular school cur.
ricuum seniors in the high school Of
Knoxville, Tenn, arc to make a syste-
matte survey of the occupations and
industries OF that city. The survey
will cover condition OF workers maxi.
mum and minimum wages chances
for promotion and any other inrorma.
ton that will serve to throw light on
the character OF the specific vocation
A study of the social. civic and eco
monte conditions of the city will also
be made.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18

T HE great province OF kwanG-
ung, third in size of the eight
cen political divisions OF emma
proper. in modern times has
been the center Of many OF the putit'
zeal activities which have disturbed
the Celestial empire, and 1t is not sur.
prlslng that its people should D"
among the first to declare thoIr indr'
pendencc from the national govern.
ment, says a bulletin Of the National
Geographic so'i'iy.
II was III inns province that th'
young 'hlilH movement Hdu 'tS DiTlh
III 1880 ne sr'It' societies OF an
ION. lHc capIlai' Piac0ralIy ihauceu
'hh fe'o utloh "llch followed result
ing seventeen years la'ef IN the over.
th'"" Oh 'hh Mdhchu dynasty ana VI"
ESTABLISHMENT on republic win DOC
loI 9u" lals'h az 'u' I".l pr"sIdohl
Doctor sun himself came IRON Can
loi ana was lHo hist graduate OF inc
'o'eRs oI Nroi'ile az liohEhnhB.
me cantonese nave been an IN
SplTdll"h L" phfasrihahr'a Iur years
because OF thtir Gili Tor political or
Rahlzatl"h 'hel nav" been called the
lrlSh OF emma while tncIr penchanl
lot poii'i'a' unrest mas caused them
70 DC DUBBED the feb'IIloh makers IN
ordinary 10 tHe ,hlne7e pee PIE. ms
'o''""S see d" STRIKING analogy De
'"e'" '"i''o'' RELATION !" 'he I'm
,'''o ration =, ''I- ana ,nal ol lar''
w p''''i''''' r''"'' III l'o'.
reputation Is very Dense.
MANY iac'orS nave contributed "a
''e unrest III 'he province OF h"ahg
Jung one OF 'he most important be
ing inc struggle lor sheer existence
III state "hIch with an area equal to
''""'" i''N"'a "'S ~ support PoP"'
'"''o" my ZINES az great
anton ''Sr'i Is a cry OF seeming
humanity WIN streets 50 mario" mat
o'''y eoo.'eS Ga" DC 'hlpl"yeu as
''oStS Oh burden a large percent.
age 81 tne people I'VE III small boats
WHEN lo'"l ''oai'iIs moor on the
u'''h "al'rS u 'He rear river. 80
precious y space IHdi ihe SHOPS are
rauuoeH 10 mere DoA'7, so close is the
margin OF pI""' ana so small the pur.
'"'S's lha' oehis anu peanuts are SOFA
hl 'hdiFloNaI count
geographically the two provinces
rl kWaUR 81 ana kWaug .tuug are cut
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
PERENNIAL LARKSPUR

One of the plants which has bene
fitted much of late years from the scien-
;iic attention of growers is the del
phinum, that perennial larkspur'
which gives such a grateful bit of
shaded blue when grown correctly.
A bed or border of delphiniums will
often remain in full flower over a
period of three months, and they form
one of the small but gallant band of
plants that will endure much of bad
weather
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18

More than hundred years later the
English arrived and met with a hostile
reception on account of recent rup-
ture in the friendly relations between
the Portuguese and the natives. 1t
was not until 1855 that the emperor
finally sanctioned trade relations with
Great Britain, naming Canton as the
only port OF entry.
Few oreigners in Canton.
OF Canton population, yariOusly es
timltcd at from 5000 to 100000
only about 400 are foreigners most
Of whom reside in the Sha.mcin set
Element, an artificial island reclaimed
by the British for Just such purpose
from an extensive mud fiat
Although characterized by Caucasi.
an observers as suIlcn in their politi.
cal antipathins the Cantonese are a
cheerful, Industrious and Intelligent
people in their daily lives. They ac-
ccpt philosophically their many hard.
ships and receive with stoical forti
tude the yisitations of pcstiIcnce
which from time to time remove much
Of the surplus population.
Perhaps it was the scarcity of food
which caused the Cantonese to in.
Clude in their menus many deli
racics" not SO classcd by western PEG.
pie For example, there Is a breed OF
dog which Is fattencd in this great
CITY and murn uriypd nv those WIN
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
SWEET-SMELuING PLANTS

There is long list Of sweetsmell-
ing plants and some of the flowers that
have the most exquisite perfume are
of course first of all. the rose. Other
sweet-scented blooms include hello
trope, wallfower. lily-of-the-valley,
alyssum, auricula, iris, mignonette,
scilla, stock jasmine, evening prim-
rose, sweet pea, sweet william, aqui-
legia. carnation, fuchsia, hamerocallus.
hesperis. lilium, scabiosa, verbena and
violet Honeysuckle, azalea, syringa,
daphne. deulzia and forsythia are
other sweet-scented vines and shrubs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
OjI.proof Cement.

a cement which will not be affected
by oil Is made by mixing glycerine
and litharge TO the consistency OF a
thick paste. This will be found very
handy in repairing cracked oil reser.
yoirs or in making an otl.tight Joint
between two metal plates. The cement
should be applied as soon as It il
mixed, since II hardens very quickly.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
Bosom Farm Friends.

Dairying and maximum farm fertil-
ity are bosom friends and the farmer
is wise who keeps number OF good
cows and inteligently uses the ma
nure to enrich his grain and alfalfa
fields and meadows
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-05-18
Not Good for Orchard.

Close pasturing all Of the season Is
not good for an orchard. Tho tramp
ing of animals about the trees, espe-
cially in wet time, is harmful to
the orchard