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Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
INVESTIGATION is
ESSENTIAL ON FARM
Good Yields From Crops and Live
Stock Are Necessary for
Paying Business.

(By 8. B. CLELAND. Minnesota Expert
ment Station.)
With each new era visited or old
area revisited by men doing the farm
management demonstration work 1t
becomes more and more apparent that
q good size Of business, good yields
from crops and from live stock and a
proper diversifcation of the farm
business are all essential to success in
farming. A recent demonstration
shows this in striking fashion.
The most profitable ten farms in a
certain locality were compared with
the average of some 60 farms visited
and in all respects mentioned were
found to be better than the average.
In the matter of size, whether consid-
ering total acreage, acreage in crops
or acreage in potatoes. these ten farms
averaged SO per cent larger than the
average Of the locality. In returns
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27

from live stock the ten farms showed
ten per cen more income from each
animal than the average. The crops
were better, especially potatoes, the
most important crop, which went 122
bushels to the acre, against an average
yield Of SO bushels. The farm business
was so arranged on these ten good
farms that every man and every horse
was able to cover from ten to twenty
per cent more ground than the aver
age.
AS a result Of these methods the ten
farms mentioned showed an average
labor income of nearly $1,4OO, while
the average man in the locality had a
labor income Of only $414. This Is all
the more striking when one considers
that a mans labor income Is not mere
ly what he makes above expenses, but
in what Is left as pay for his years
time over interest on his investment,
which, in the case Of the larger farms
Of the ten men mentioned, would be a
heavier charge than the average.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
The latter With HIM.

A worried looking man in a street
car was muttering over and over half
aloud, "Taupe. reseda, peanut, tan.
w~istaria, tcte de negre, sky, mais.
hello, peach, prunella. crow, flame
Here! What Is the matter with
you" finally demanded his seatmate.
Are you crazy"
Not exactly" replied the mutterer
MY wife cent me to a department
store to ask what colors they had In
silks. and | am trying to remember
to give her the information correctly
Kansas City Star.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27

Of the land for the season is not en-.
tirely lost.
If a nurse crop is sowed in the fall
the clover may be broadcasted on the
meadow the following February or
early in March on a frosty morning
when the ground is nicely honey
combed" with frost. With the soil in
in small cracks or %crevices and is COW
cred when the ground thaws. The
usual rate Of seeding the clover at
this time is about six or eight pounds.
Some prefer to drill the clover seed
with a disk drill, crossing the rows Of
wheat or rye at right angles. The seed
should be run into the main hoes Of
the drill, so it will be covered. Run
the disks shallow and the wheat or
timothy plants will not be disturbed
to any great extent.
Another method which is preferred
by some is to SOW the clover and tim
othy on the wheat after the ground
is dry enough to work and cover by
a light narrowing.
Timothy and clover may also be
sowed alone in the spring, but if the
land is foul with weeds. a light seed
ing of grain, to be cut for hay when
it is in the soft dough or milk stage,
will help to keep the weeds under on
troll.
These suggestions are more fully
discussed in Circular 6S of the Mis-.
souri, agricultural experiment station
at Columbia. The circular is entitled
The Seeding of Meadows and Pas.
lures"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
Even In mild climates poultry needs
some protection from the elements
during the winter season.
Eqq Catherine.

1t will pay to gather the eggs many
times during the day. If they are left
in tho nests until evening there is al.
ways danger that they will be broken,
and the hens will then eat them, thus
forming the %egg.eatlng habit. After n
hen once acquires this habit 1t Ia al
most impossible to break her of It, and
1t Ia better to kill her at once.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
WOMEN HELP TOWNS TO
CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP
They Have Done Much to Make National
Campaign for Civic Betterment
Successful Everywhere.

doing away with breeding places OF
mosquitoes, flies or disease germs, the
planting and trimming of trees and
hedges. planting Of flowers, and the
liberal use Of paint on everything
that needs it.
In many instances last year the
planning and experimenting Of the
work has put entirely in the hands
Of some efficient women's organization
in the city or town. The files at the
national Clean Up and Paint Up"
campaign headquarters in st. Louis
are full Of records OF Just such cases.
Assistance in starting a campaign
in any community in the United States
will be given free OF charge by the ma.
tional bureau. Mr.. Clark explained.
uNon receipt Of a request from any
woman or wouleu's organization. Aid
can also be secured from Mrs. Clar.
ence Baxter. chairman OF the Won.
ems committee Of the national bureau.
or from any OF the other civic leaders
constituting the bureaus advisory
committee.
Be Perpetually at II.
Mrs. Baxter and Mrs. Seaseney are
helping women's clubs everywhere to
accomplish in their towns what was
accomplished in ST. Louis last year.
The women's clubs conducted the en-
tire campaign in St. Louis. Boston
and many smaller cities last year and
in thousands of other places they are
aiding the me effectively. The open
ing weeks in many places will be
only the beginning OF perpetual Clean
Up and Paint Up campaigns. They
will be of immense value" wrote Mrs.
Baxter recently, lin arousing civic
consciousness in practical sanitation
and conservation and in actual bust
ness activity in the community. Many
people spend hundreds of dollars fur
nishing their homes and only an occa-
sional caller gets to admire them. A
much smaller amount spent on a coat
Of paint for the exterior, a general
cleaning up of the premises and a few
flowers would give pleasure to thou
sands Of ~passers-by and their friends
as we'll"
Both OF these women are in daily
correspondence with leading club
women. in several thousand women's
clubs, in the effort to make the local
Clean Up and Paint Up" campaigns
the foundation upon which to build
and conduct various other community
betterment activities in which serious
minded club women everywhere are
SO interested.
Newspapers Give Help.
Editors of newspapers from coast
to coast have taken up this work of
the women and are aiding them in
both the news and editorial columns
and most of them are unanimous In
declaring that the chief value Of the
work is that it aims at permanent re-
form and continued effort.
Ministers are also aiding the women
in their work by preaching appro-
pirate m on civic cleanliness
and kindred topics. The wife of one
earnest, hard working clergyman in a
southern town, in which the campaign
was in progress. wrote in a letter to
the national bureau that If more peo-
pie were as sincere In their religion
as they are in this Clean Up and
Paint Up" movement the world would
be a much better place in which to
live.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
Temperance
l. NOfe5"
EXPERT TESTIMONY.
Conducted by the National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)

EXPERT TESTIMONY.
DR.. John Dill Robertson, Chicago's
health commissioner, has this to say
about alcohol:
In the city Of Chicago, where the
death rate is approximately 100 a day,
1t. is safe to say that at least 25 per
cent of these deaths are caused direct
ly or indirectly by alcohol.
"Sir William Osler, late Of Johns
Hopkins, professor of medicine at Ok
ford, McGill and Pennsylvania uni
versities and one of the worlds great
est physicians, says Of alcohol that 1t
produces acute Inflammation Of the
stomach. hemorrhage Of the p%ancreas.
heart disease. cancer of the stomach
Bright's disease. fatty liver, hardened
liver, inflammation of the nerves, cpl
lepsy, hardening of the arteries and a
multitude of other Affections Of the
body.
""Those are known medical facts.
Alcohol is truly a poison. 1t Is not
only the causative factor In the dis
eases and Affections have mentioned
above, but 1t invades the mental man
and produces insanity.
alcoholic pneumonia is known to
Gerry practitioner. In the past twen-
ty a in Chicago the death rate
from pneumonia was just twice what
it was the preceding twenty years.
Alcohol Is without doubt to blame for
a part Of these deaths, for In alcoholic
pneumonia the death rate Is tre-
mendous.
mo one can estimate the large num-
Der of people whose death certificates
are marked by a diagnosis which
seems to have no connection with al
cohol. Still, II the truth were known
It was the predisposing factor in the
death of them.
when I say that rs per cent of the
death rate is directly or indirectly duo
to alcohol, I do not ~exaggerate. Twen-
ty per cent of the mortality among in
fants is caused by their having alco-
holic parents. Alcoholic poverty-and
I believe this phrase needs no expla-
nation-is one of the great indirect
Causes"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
ASPHALT OIL BEST ON ROADS
Dean Says Tests Show 1t Is ST.
perior to Anything Else.

The only kind Of oil used in oiling
streets or roads, in the opinion Of
Dean f. J. McCaustland of the school
Of engineering Of the University Of
Missouri, should be an oil that con-
tains asphalt. OIL that contains paraf-
fin will evaporate rapidly and leave
a road muddy and sticky.
The engineering experiment station
here has analysed many samples Of
road oils sent to the university from
various parts of the state. Oil that
has an asphalt base will give almost
as much satisfaction as asphalt pave
ment, Is the opinion OF Dean McCaust-
land,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
GOOD
ROADS
GOOD ROADS ASSIST CITIES
Merchants In Town Reap az Much
Profit as Persons Living Along
Improved Highways.

Men who have been successful in
building up large enterprises. men
who have made a lifelong study Of con-
ditions of affairs where bad roads pre-
dominate. and men who have put their
best efforts into improving highways
are unanimous in n opinion-that 1t
is the duty Of big cities to help IN
building good roads that lead into
their limits" said a good roads en-
thusiast to q Washington Star repre-
sentative.
THE cities derive as much benefit
as, II not more than. the residents
along the route of the proposed i'm
provement.
1T has been proved time and time
again that farm lands with a hard
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
CIRCUS MANS VIEW.

The plans for booking the big cir
cuses hereafter is to play only dry
towns, with the exception of the large
cities. The manager Of the Hagen
beck Wallace circus says. as reported
by William Allen White in the Empo-
ria (Kan.) Gazette: 1--WE do a better
business in a dry town than in a wet
one. We noticed the difference in
Missouri; always the days receipts
were better in a town that had gone
dry under local option than in a town
where saloons were open. And bust
ness is better in Kansas than it was in
| Missouri.
II have seen this whole game up
and down and backward and r
and l want to tell you that all this talk
about a town needing saloons or gam
bling houses to stimulate business Is
the purest bunk"
Here is an amusement mans point
of view on BOOZE" comments Mr..
White. "Once again the verdict Is
thumbs down for John Barleycorn.
Poor old John! He can't mix with re-
ligion or politics or business. If he
can't mix with the amusements where
does he get in? And the answer is
that national prohibition Is Just around
the corner"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
Vacant Lot Gardens.

One Of our Clean Up and Paint Up
campaign committees should get per-
mission from owners to plant gardens
on vacant lots. Then organize chill
dren's garden clubs. which are so sue.
cessful in many cities, towns and vii.
lagos throughout the country. Offer
prizes for the best vegetables and
summer flowers.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
FEEDS NECESSARY FOR EGGS
Animal Food and Green Stuff Of Some
Kind Are Esse ntiaI-Good, Com
Portable House Helps.

Given the best grain ration to be
found, a hen cant make eggs without
other things. Animal food and green
foods are essential. And don't owe
look the fact that a good, comfortable
house is necessary, In spite Of what
some open.air advocate may tell you.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
Feed for Little Chicks.

During the season of the year when
you buy large quantities of feed for
your little chicks. always ask your
dealer for feeds that contain a large
per cen OF protein, as that Is the
stuff that produces large. healthy
chicks in the shortest length of time.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
Good Roads FIJI Churches,

The good road fills the country
churches. 1t stands for %neighborli.
ness. and, best of all, 1t leaves good
schools all along its line. 1t keeps the
country boy with 1t. The good road
Is a sign of the culture, knowledge.
and civilization in q county. a state,
or a nation. Does your community
stand the test?
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
TO REAL ESTATE MEN,

A suggestion made by Duncan G.
Miner in Chicago Daily News is we'll
worth passing on. Real estate men,"
he says. who lay out new additions
to the city could do much for the fu-
ture %well-doing of those who buy their
lots by making provisions in the
deeds against the Introduction OF
saloons. This plan has been often
carried out to the great gain Of the
owner. OF the land. People who buy
lots on which to build their homes gen.
orally prefer a %saloonless neighbour
hood.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27

sHE United States is entering up
on an era of vastly improved liv-
ing conditions, both physical and
moral. due almost entirely 10 the
efforts Of women workers in the Ma
tional Clean Up and Paint Up" cam.
paign. according to Allen ". Clark,
chairman of the national campaign
bureau. in st. Louis.
1t is estimated that during 1915
more than a million women took part
in the campaign for civic progress and
human uplift which frightened the
lives and homes OF millions from Ban.
gur, Me. to San Diego, Cal. The
growth and development of the ma
tional Clean Up and Paint Up" cam
paign. has been in leaps and bounds
since its Inauguration he said.
Individual w"r,en wonen's clubs
and women's organizations OF all kinds
for civic and moral improvement have
joined forces in this great work which
reaches into practically Yer phase
Of life. Letters have poured in by
the thousand at the bureau headQuaT-
tiers from ONE inQui-ins how TO
start the work in their communities.
Many of these indicated that the old
fashioned "parlor' variety Of woman
civic worker was dying a sure and
natural death. and that serious-minded
women we're coming to realize more
and more every day the big work that
is before them.
Women Led the Way.
II don't believe We realized the far
reaching extent of the work we had
undertaken until the women showed
u.s." said Mr.. Clark. The permanent
features of the Clean Up and Paint
Up" idea were what seemed TO gain
their immediate Endorsement. Their
old idea of a spring housekeeping,
which | believe, originated in New
England, seems to have been dropped
entirely. and the women's organiza-
tons of the New England states are
among the very hardest workers for
ar all-year-round policy"
1t would be an impossible task to
name in person even a small percen-
tage Of the women who have done &C.
tive and efficient work since the ma.
tional bureau inaugurated its system
in the spring of 1913. Some few Of
them, however. are such women as
Mrs. Clarence Baxter Of Kirksville.
Mo. vice chairman of the civics de-
partment of the National Federation
Of Women's clubs; Mrs. E. T. Sen
seney. chairman of the pure food COM
mittee OF the Consumers league of St.
Louis; Mrs. ". R. Chivvis, president
OF the Missouri Federation OF Won
ems clubs; Mrs. Philip n. Moore of
St Louis, past president of the Ma.
tional Federation of Women's clubs,
and Mrs. Thomas Sherwin. chairman
Of the department of streets and al
leys of the Women's Municipal league
Of Boston.
Much Work This Year.
The work Of the bureau as planned
for this year will be more comprehen-
siye in its scope than before. 1t will
include everything that will beautify,
improve sanitation and tend to the
health Of the community. Some of the
things to be done are the cleaning Of
streets. alleys, front and back yards,
cellars ard stables. removal Of ashes,
carting away of tin cans and all rub
bisb from vacant lots. burning or
hauling away all garbage. filing in or
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
UNKNOWN.

A woman physician grown to ma.
turity in the state of Kansas recently
remarked: II never saw n drunken
person where | was brought up. There
were no saloons. 1t was not good form
to drink. Nobody who was anybody
drank at ALL"
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
FUTURE.

"There are about 10000 %bartenders
in the United States. What will be-
come Of them when the saloon Is
abolished? What Is 1t that makes a
successful bartender? 1t is his ability
as a salesman, and a mar who Is a
good bartender will make a good
clerk or salesman in practically any
other kind OF business. Furthermore.
1t requires many more people to sell
5000. 100000 worth of bread and cloth
ing, for example, than 1t does to sell
liquor of the same value. And 1t Is
more than likely that at least as many
salaried employees, such as travelling
statesmen, bookkeepers and stenog-
raphers, will be employed.-Charlea
Stelzle.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
Important Chick Feed.

Milk, whether It is sweet or sour, Is
an important feed for young chicks.
Milk has the property, when fed early
enough, Of increasing vitality and in
directly Of strengthening resistance to
disease.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
SWEEPING VICTORIES.

When in March the province OF
Manitoba, Canada. voted dry (by q
majority of more than two to one).
It added PSI 1882 square miles to the
prohibition territory Of North Amer
lea. The dominion of Canada is rap
idly going dry. Alberta, Prince Ed
ward island, Newfoundland and Nova
Scotia with the exception of Halliday
have outlawed the liquor traffic; Sas-
katchewan has abolished all bar and
club licenses until after the war, the
residue of the traffic being under con-
troll Of the provincial government;
New Brunswick has prohibition in
ten out Of fifteen counties; about two
thirds of tho territory Of Quebec is
dry; in Ontario and in British Column
bia q plebiscite will be taken this year.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
Use for Trap Nest.

You should use a trap most Of some
those that lay the most eggs. Try
this n few seasons and your egg yield
Will be increased.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
CLEAN UP AND PAINT UP!

TELLOW CITIZENS: Let Us get together and
make this town Of ours the most hcalthfUl and
most inviting in the State. To do this We must
work. Other cities and towns throughout the United
States are finding the efforts along these lines are
bringing excellent results.
If We would have a healthful town We must clear
cur attics. cellars. stables. sheds, yards, streets. alleys
and vacant lots Of trash, dirt, junk, filth, garbage,
rags, cans, bottles and weeds. We must empty toilets,
cover manure heaps. drain barn lots, fill up mudholes
and Shiny, ill-slneIling ponds, open cutters, repair
streets and burn rubbish.
Then We must use soap and scrub brushes, brooms,
rakes and shovels. We must throw lime freely about
toilets and stables. Why: Because disease germs
and gern-carrying insects, especially flies and NOS
quitoes, breed in filth and spread typhoid and con-
sumption when they enter our living rooms, allght
on our food, or bite Us while We sleep.
After the dirt is gone we must repair our buildings
and fix our fences-and then lay on the paint!
Paint everything that needs it, inside and out, for
paint is the best known preventative and its brighten
ing influence will make the dullest town in the world
look spck and span.
Of course when we buy paint and lime we put
money into the paint-dealer's and lime-dealer's
pockets. But if we get sick and die the doctor, drug
gist. undertaken. sexton and tombstone man take our
coin. Most folks would sooner spend theirs on
paint and me-tak your choice.
Come on, now, folks. Let's call a meeting, form a
Clean Up and Paint Up Club composed Of men,
women and children, and get on the job! The prize
is worth it-health and happiness,
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27

sALOONKEEPERS EXPECTATIONS.
The liquor traffic takes our dollar.
hands us back a few cents-together
with a lot of crime, misery and de-
gradatlon-and then expects US to sit
UP and say, Thank yUu!'
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27
E~CUAOORiAN RICE.

ECUADoRIAN RICE.
Rice is the principal article Of diet Of all Ecuadorians, rich n poor.
The country produces excellent rice in limited quantities. and imports largely.
The crp is harvested in May, by stripping the grains with te hands, the
averape weld being twenty bushels per acre. The rcegrowing lands are
rented to small farmers, who sell the harvested crops to town merchants.
n latter in turn send the grain to the rice mill, exchanging 100 pounds of
no unbuled rice IL of good quality, for 100 pounds oft huled product; IL
~, ,nteJor trade n Iarger toll is taken. This includes stOrag for six months.
SOME of the very small growers hull their rice with a fail and "innow it
Win the wind. The husks are thrown away, but the remaining waste is fed
70 the horses.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27

Maintenance Of Roads.
The first and last commandment In
the maintenance of earth roads Is to
keep the surface we'll drained.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1916-04-27

Damascus In Syria is the Oldest OF al e''S'ng c'uea
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GENERAL OBREGON
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carry them up 10 May Is at least In
addition. the lines Of supply leading
10 the big market Centers from tho
border are so we'll established that
every emergency can be met PROMPTLY
by the quartermastcr's department n
- understood also that arrangements
have been completed 10 suprlv the
cavalry commands beyond the border
with additional mounts during tho
period OF reCuperation which BIS 10 rof.
low redispositlon. Officer here said
me cavalry mounts were badly worn
by the long chase southwark
Await Conference.
There viii be no further develop
ments In the situation until after the
conference between Generals Scott
and ObregOn unless the trOons are
ordered 10 take some action because
Or attacks upon them. The whole
matter or the pursuit Of villa or with
drawal or the American troops De- al
complete Ftandstill temporarily
n r. believed here that General on.
RECON viii BE- given the impression
that the American troops are prepared
20 make long stay on their new lines
rs an outpost guard for the border.
lie VIII probably carry back 90 Mexico
city tho conviction that they arc 10
remain In Mexico until tho danger OF
hoGier raids e. definitely removed
either by Joint action I'm policing tho
doubtful area or by tho demon afrafrd
ability ~ CarranZa troops 10 take caro-
~ tho situation Whether the capture
or death NJ villa himself will Do fixed
a. ono ~ tho elements Loo such a dem
Orrfrafiun Or not known