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Middletown transcript., 1916-09-16
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PROPER PLANNING OF CITIES
Method Has . Deeper Significance
Than the Mere Laying Out Of Hu-
man Dwelling Places.

81 am very glad to hear that among
the objects Of the American Civic as
sOciation is that of getting rid of the
impression that city planning has
mainly to do with the large cities of
hundreds Of thousands of inhabitants,
and indeed that is not solely concerned
with these cities, but that one of the
main functions of city planning is to
deal with the small town and even
with the small village community" so
said Mr.. Thomas Adams, the we'll
known English town planning expert,
now civic. adviser to the commission of
conservation Of Canada, in opening an
address at the convention of the Amer
lean Civic association on the subject,
"The Economic Basis Of City Plan
ming"
Continuing, Mr.. Adams said: ''Town
planning does not deal with the beau
tificatiOn Of the town but town plan
ming, 1 should rather like to put it,
includes the establishment of the ex-
ternal features Of the town both in
regard to its public buildings and in
regard to its transportation. But these
matters are only part of what should
be properly regarded as city planning.
And when we come to analyZe the
fundamental things in city life we find
that really we ought not to begin with
the establishment or with the beauti-
ful in the city, but that after the route
of civil life, the two things that matter
are the industrial and the residential;
are the factories and home life. You
want not only to look forward for the
next thirty, forty, or fifty years in re-
gard to your park systems, but you
want to make sure that in the next
forty, fifty or sixty years every per-
son who builds a new home will be Sc
cured against disease which may be
created by anything that can be pre-
vented. You want to make sure that
the conditions shall be healthy in re-
gard to housing as well as in regard
to the general civic aspect of the city"
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For City improvements.

The College Of Forestry connected
with Syracuse university has exam
lned and outlined methods of improve
ment for public shade trees in 26
cities and towns in the state of New
York. 1t has been found that in the
cities there are 10000 miles of streets
Of character capable Of sustaining a
growth of 100000 shade trees which
can be made worth $1OO,OO0,OOO in in
creased property value. Buffalo is
thoroughly alive to the possibilities of
the situation and spends annually
about $4,000 for the planting and
conservation of shade trees along its
public streets.
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pon,ts for HomebulIders.

If you want to prevent trouble and
inconvenience after you have moved
into the new home, observe these
"don'ts" while building:
Don't cut down any trees on the
building site until you are ready to be-
gin building, and then only enough to
provide room for the house. This pre-
vents unnecessary sacrifice, and after
the house has been lived in for
while, one can easily determine what
others must so.
Don't, with a white interior trim,
have other than quartered white oak
floors.
Don't when finishing the interior of
the new house be unmindful of the
quality of the paint used thereon.
Paint serves two ends, it protects and
improves the appearance of the house,
and The one ingredient in its compost
ton necessary to the fulfilment of this
purpose is zinc.
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This is not profitable dairying. Yet
farmers cannot greatly increase dairy
production unless they apply the scales
and Babcock test to their individual
cows and find out the cows that pay
for their feed and those which do not.
The cooperative cow-testing associa-
tion enables all the dairy farmers Of a
community to test all their cows. With
an average Of 25 members the cost Of
such an association usually amounts
to 81 to $1.50 per COW per year.
Benefit Of the CoW-Testing Associa-
tion.
According to Iowa bulletin No. 13
1850 yearly records from III different
dairy herds have been completed in the
five cow-testing associations in Iowa
which have been organized in the state
since 1909.
The average COW in the testing asso-
Citations produced 217 pounds Of butter
fat per year at net profit Of $32.77,
after paying for the feed at market
prices less the cost of hauling.
If the 100000 milk COWS of Iowa
produced as much butterfat per year
as the average COW in the cow-testing
associations, it would mean an In
creased production for the state of
115,5O0,O00 pounds of butterfat per
year, worth, at 80 cents per pound,
$34,65O,OOO.
The most profitable COW returned
her owner a net profit of SIPS, while
the poorest COW lacked $25.92 of pay
ing for her feed.
The cOw-testing association is the
best method of detecting the loafers In
the herd. 1t puts dairying on a busi-
ness basis, arouses the interest Of the
owner, his boys and hired man in the
COWS, stirS up local pride by bringing
the people Of the community together
to talk over their business and helps
to make farm work enjoyable and in
teresting.
Some people think that it is a hard
job to milk cows and care for stock,
but we will find it just the opposite if
we will take an interest in the work
and get our heads in the game. All
work is drudgery unless we like it
put the best we have into it, and use
The COW has lifted many
a mortgage and saved the home.
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cow IS GREATEST PRODUCER

1t is truly said that the COW is mans
greatest benefactor. Hail. wind,
droughts and floods may come, destroy
our crops and Danish our hopes, but,
from what is left, the COW manufac-
lures the most nOurishing and Afe-sus-
tanning foods.
For 1000 years she has shown her
allegiance to man, sharing alike In his
prosperity and adversely, responding
20 all that was done for her, until
through her development she has be-
come indispensable as an economic fac
tor in our national progress.
Dairy communities are rich COM
munities. The COW produces the most
and best food at the least cost; she
brings in a steady income; she con-
Serts cheap roughage into profit ;
makes the farm worth more; builds
big red barns and good homes-means
living on the farm.
Cow Makes Farm Worth More.
There is always an air of perma-
aence and prosperity about a well-man-
aged dairy farm.
A man feels Independent when he
knows his income is steady. The dairy
Business is a cash business. It calls
for intellectual activity. The success
Of the man engaged in it depends upon
Dis using his head, developing his judg-
nent.
Dairying builds up the farm. It re-
quires fewer acres to produce a good
living, and consequently leads to closer
Aeighbors and more thickIy-settled
communities.
AS land, labor and feed increase in
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gether one-half of the complete car
cass, and is not in any sense an esti-
nation Of the composition Of the car
casS.
Princess Carlotta produced proteins
sufficient for more than three steers !;
nearly fat enough for two; ash enough
to build the skeletons for three, and
in addition, 920 pounds Of milk sugar
worth as much per pound for food as
ordinary sugar.
It is because Of this economical use
Of food that the dairy COW and not the
steer is kept on high-priced land. When
land is cheap and feed abundant the
meat-produclng animals predominant,
but when the land becomes high in
value and feed expensive the farmer
turns to the dairy COW.
Duchess Skylark Ormsby is the
worlds champion butter producer. The
results of her 65-consecutive-
test, conducted by the Minnesota Agri-
cultural college, shows that she pro-
duced 27,761 pounds of milk, nearly Ia
tons, or over % times her own weight.
The butterfat contained In this years
milk yield weighed 1,205 pounds.
At 35 cents a pound, she produced
about $500 worth of commercial butter
in one year. To her credit Of $500
worth of butter must be added over
10000 pounds of skim milk and butter
milk, about IA tons of manure, and
calf, which pay for her feed and care,
making the $500 a net profit to the
owner.
Dairy Products Second In Value to the
Corn Crop.
There are about 22,OOOOOO dairy
cows in the United States, and the an
nual value of their products reaches
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the enormous sum Of nearly 81 100000
600. Only the corn crop exceeds the
dairy products as a source of income
to the farmers Of the nation.
Neither the production of butter nor
cheese has kept up with the increase of
population. In 1910 there were 90
625,OO0 dairy COWS in the United
States, an increase Of about 100000
head in so years. This wonderful
growth in dairying and cheese manu-
featuring has added enormously to the
material wealth Of every community
and state where these pursuits are car
ried on. It has also been a wonderful
aid wherever it has been conducted in
telligently in conserving the fertility
Of the soil. This one great advantage
to the wealth of the nation can hardly
be computed in dollars and cents.
In 1870 practically all of the butter
and nearly all of the cheese, except in
the older states as New York and Ohio,
were made on the farm. The average
price of farm butter was about Is cents
and nearly all of it was sold or traded
for dry goods and groceries at the
country stores. The export market for
cheese governed the price in New York
and Ohio, which practically were the
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price, the COW will more and more dis
place the strictly meat-producing farm
animals. She produces human food
with greater economy than does the
steer, sheep or pig. The United States
census for 1910 shows an increase of
about 20 per cent in dairy stock while
the total number of all cattle has de-
creased.
'1t is interesting to learn that Lady
Oak, a Holstein COW, now owned by
the Minnesota experiment station, in
one day produced in her milk an
amount of human food equal to a calf
weighing lis pounds. In a years rec
ord this COW produced 993 pounds of
fat, 631 pounds of protein and 1852
pounds Of carbohydrates. This product
was equal to 266 calves weighing 125
pounds each, or 142 calves weighing
200 pounds each, % yearlings weighing
500 pounds each, or steers weighing
400 pounds each. These figures indi-
cate the wonderful efficiency of the
dairy animal as an economical pro-
ducer of human food"
Princess Carlotta, a COW owned by
the dairy department Of the University
Of Missouri, in one year produced more
AuElan food in her milk than is con-
tanned in the complete carcasses Of
four steers weighing 1850 pounds each.
This statement, impossible as it seems,
1s not only true, but does not even do
full justice to the COW. The solids in
The milk, which are completely digesti-
Nle, are counted against the entire car
eass of the steer, only part of which is
edible.
The total amount Of dry matter in
the milk was 2,21s pounds, all of which
Is edible and digestible.
The steer, with live weight Of ], $50
pounds, contained SO per cent Of water
N the carcass, leaving total of 548
pounds of dry matter. In this dry mat
ter of the steer is included hair and
hide, bones and tendons, organs Of d.
gestion and respiration, in fact, the en-
tire animal, a considerable portion Of
which is not edible. The analysis Of
the steers carcass was made from
samples taken after grinding up to-
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Bears the
If ONLY.

President Wilson said one day, dur
Ing his Princeton presidency, to an
athlete who had fiunked:
my, boy, it's too bad you do so
wretchedly in the lecture room and so
well on the gridirOn! All, my boy,
my boy, If people only hoped up and
cheered US when we quote Greek the
same as they do when we score touch
downs, eh !"
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PraIsIng Poverty.

When a man argues from his per
sOnal experience that poverty has made
him what he Is, he erects on a some
what wObbly basis q somewhat Ques
tiOnable idol. Were all small boys de
ported at an early age to the North
pole, it is probable that those VINO
managed to get back to Philadelphia
by foot would have had another deep
and full experience. But the story
would not be complete unless it in
cluded a choice collection of bleaching
bOnes.-New Republic.
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Xersatlle.

A lady stopping at a hotel on the
Pacific coast rang the bell the first
Of her arrival and was very
much surprised when a Japanese boy
opened the door and came in.
81 pushed the button three times for
a maid," she said sternly, as she dived
under the bed covers.
eyes," the little fellow replied. me
shau
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KEEP CAREFUL TAB ON FLOCK
Observation Of Droppings Will Prove
Of AdVantage-Indicate Condi-
tion of Health.

It does not need careful handling
and examination of each fowl during
the week to keep tab on your flock as
to condition of health. The droppings
will convey to you much if watched
each day. If you are feeding your
fowls too much meat, the chances are
the droppings will show traces of
blood. Cut out the meat for a while
if the above is noticed. If the drop
pings are not shaped up and of whit
ish or watery condition, the mashes
are likely to be too wet. Better make
the mashes dry for a while. If the
excrement is yellow or light green, Of
soft watery nature, lock out for chol-
era, or bowel troubles approaching
that stage.
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EXPLAINED.

Patience-And you say he kissed
her several times while she was at
the piano, singing?
Patrice-Yes.
"But did her father notice the in,
terruptiOn"
There was no interruption"
"Why, how in the world could she
keep singing when he kissed her on
the mouth?"
"Oh, she always sings through her
nose, you know"
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Standard Maple Slrup.

The state Of New Hampshire has
adopted standard for maple sirup,
and all that is sold in or sent from
that state must now conform to the
following:
Maple sirup Is a sirup made by the
evaporation of maple sap or by the
solution Of maple concrete, and con-
tains not less than 35 per cent of wa
ter and weighs not less than II
pounds to the gallon"
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only cheese-producing states in the ma
ton.
In 1875 there was a great awakening
the coming Of the refrigerator car
No Benefit 70 Gown

The mich cows are not benefited by
a walk Of mile or two to pasture
each morning and evening. Occasion
ally arrangements can be made so as
to have the young stock in the furth-
ermOst pasture and the milch COWS
in pasture nearer home.
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Winter Dairy Prices.

Bear in mind that dairy products
are higher in price during the winter
than during the summer, and that dur
ing the winter there is more time for
milking. Try and have the COWS drop
their calves in the fall.
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Klno eeorue,s Collection.

King George Of England is making q
collection which may some day prove
very valuable. 1t is a complete set of
the trench periodicals that are being
issued for private circulation by the
men at the various fronts. Many Of
them are extremely curious.
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Respite.

"Poor Mr.. Grimes next door is laid
up with rheumatism"
'"That so? 1 thought 1t was funny ]
hadn't heard that darned old player
piano Of his for the last three or -four
days."
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Preeautiona In orehard.

Muzzle the horses when plowing or
cultivating the orchard. Yes, and pad
the whifhetrees. These precautions
will prevent much damage to trees.
Another hint: Pad the outer edges Of
the harrow.
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In seeking game fish japanese fish
ermen use lines made Of wild cocoon
silk, which Is translucent and prac.
tically invisible in the water.
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non,t Plek Met nerrIes.

Don't pick wet berries for market; !;
endeavor to wait until they dry of.
Wet berries are soft and do not ship
veil.
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Benefit Of EaII plo,urnn

Wheat on early fall blowing yielded
five and four-f1fths bushels more per
acre than wheat on late fall blowing
at the Edgeley substation, North Da-
kota.
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PeonIe Mhn Mani Rest

There are people who want the best.
regardless Of price, and they are the
very ones it pays to deal with every
time we have a prime article.
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cherishinn q Sentiment

'tDo you ever bet on a horse racer"
mo. I'm fond of horses and don't
like the i'll feeling that betting on
them is sure to create"
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ITO hold "its place in the sun, is the avowed purpose
the sum- is the object Of every business in the great
fight for industrial and commercial supremacy.
To be able hold ts place in the sum- the supreme
test of an asphalt roof 1t the sum- not rain or snow
that plays havoc with roof it can resist the drying
out process of the beating down upon it, day after
day, the rain will not affect it except to wash
it clean and keep it sanitary.
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Tractor Won't DispIaee Horse.
The tractor will not displace the
good drafter, but 1t will send many
. ''rat'' to the boneyard.
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Sites, Granulated Eyellds, Sore and InnameA
Eyes healed promptly by the use of ROMAN
EYE BALSAH.-AdV.
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saIt Is EssentiaI.

Salt is as essential to a horse as
Gand is to a man.
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lnnnnr4ana "a Aan.ha-a

important % MOtn0F0
Examine carefully every bottle Of
CASTORIA, q safe and sure remedy for
infants and children, and see that it
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INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAlSOON
LESSON

By q. o. SELLERS, Acting Director Of
the Sunday School Course of the Moody
Bible Institute, Chicago.)
Copyright, 1916, Western Newspaper Union)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
IContinued GU Page 81
Next Welfare Meeting
to Be Held at Pittsburgh

Lancaster, Pa. Oct. %. - Pitts
hurgh was selected to-day by the
PENNSYLVANIA conference on Social
Welfare for next years meeting. This
mornings session was devoted to these
subjects: Efficient Administration of
the Mothers Assistance Fund" and
Meeting Social Needs in the Smaller
Community" Miss Anna Davies. of
Philadelphia, leader in college settle
ment work, criticised the Ineffective
ness of the administration of the
mothers assistance fund, owing to tho
lack of cooperation between the var.
ious county boards.
Children in the farm house may be
more exposed to disease than the city
street urchin," declared Miss kather-
Inc Tucker, superintendent of the Vis-
iting Nurse Society, Philadelphia.
Social welfare workers have peculiar
opportunities and responsibilities in
rural communities she d, continued.
Sanitary conditions there are not so
good nor methods of. safeguarding
against illness so effective. The coun-
try child, figures show is > to 20 per
cent. more defective than the city
child. As means to meet these con-
ditions Mss Tucker urged the EMPLOY
ment of public health nurses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
GOVERNOR WOULD
MAKE NIT. GRETNA
PERMANENT CAMP
Asks Adjutant General Stewart
If He Will Take Up Sur
vey Question
WILL ASK FOR MONEY
Believes Legislature Will Look
With Favor Upon Appro-
priation

Plans for making Mount Gretna the
finest military camping ground in the
United States are n part of legislation
10 be recommended for consideration
at the next session. In a letter to-day
10 Adjutant General Thomas J. Stew
art on the subject Governor Martin G..
Brum baugh suggests immediate steps.
He says:
1T has come to me from a number
CT sources that the tine has arrived
when 1t would be well to make Mount
Gretna tho finest military camping
ground in the United States, and |
believe that the Legislature at this ses-
sion, now that our troops have been
so splendidly organized, have rendered
such important duties and conducted
themselves so commercially, would
look with favor upon an appropriation
10 carry out this work
Il am writing to ask whether or not
you would be willing to take up with
some important army engineer of the
United States the matter of coming
here and making a careful survey of
that tleld, with view to giving us Just
the data we need TO appeal to the
Legislature to rehabilitate that entire
camp and make it what we both want
it to be.
IF YOU think we'll of this, I should
be very glad to have you proceed ac-
cordingly. or If YOU so desire, see me
at your convenience"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27

Washington, Oct. 81. - War and
state Department officials refused to-
day to disclose the source or specific
nature of the information on which
Secretary Baker last night issued
statement charging that a bandit at
tack on American troops in Mexico
or on American border towns has been
Planned to discredit the governments
MeXlcan policy. They said the chan
mel OF information through which the
report came was so valuable that
nothing would be given out that might
injure its usefulness.
Both Secretary Lansing and Secre-
tary Baker day laid stress upon the
statement that no consideration of
domestic policies led to the issue of
the announcement that such a plot
had been discovered.
The obviously appropriate COM
ment of the Secretary of State" Secre-
tary Baker said, referring TO the ex-
planauon by Secretary LANSING last
night that no American was IMPLICATED
and that desire to prevent the carry
ing out of the plans had prompted
Secretary Bakers statement, ''pre-
cludes the possibility that any such
construction or understanding could
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
Harvard to Have Course
in Police Instruction

Cambridge, Mass, Oct. 81. - Har-
ward University is to extend its in
struction to police officers 1t became
known to-day that plans for a course
in the duties of the officers were un-
der way and would be instituted within
a month.
Raymond B. Fosdick, of New York.
regarded as aan expert in some
branches of police methods, has been
invited to become the first instructor.
His teaching which will be in day and
night classes to allow members of all
police shifts to participate will. deal
largely with the matter of organiza-
ton, keeping stationhouse records.
identification systems and to some ex-
tent with psychology as it relates to
me Interrogation of persons arrest ed.
The police of this city will form the
first classes. Harvard having decided
to inaugurate the course at the sug
gestion of Mayor w. d. lockwood.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-10-27
President of School Board
Answers Five Vital Ques-
tions Asked by Voters
in Statement to Newspa-
pers
fIECESSITY POINTED
OUT TO CITIZENRY
Amount and Purposes, Ques-
tion of School Tax Rate In
crease and Possibilities of
Other Solutions Are Dis
cussed

Five vital questions dealing with
Harrisburg's proposed new high
school loan which will involve the
authorization by the people Novem-
Der for floating loan for S1,25o,00
were fully and graphically answered
to-day by A. Carson Stamm, presi-
dent of the school board, in state
ment to the newspapers.
The amount and the purposes of
the loan, the necessity for the pro-
posed building program, the question
of school tax rate increase, how it will
solve the grade problem, and the
possibilities of some other solution,
were the questions.
President Stamm answers each in
turn and he does so in a way that any
intelligent voter or taxpayer can
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