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The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-03
s9i .0O0 IN STATE TREASURY
 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON

Little Rock, Nov. 2-There was about S94000 left in the general reve- nue fund in the state treasury yester- day afternoon. after the payment of the state house salaries Several in- stitution and all the circuit judge pay rolls are yet to come out of it, and there will be less than $75,000 left. Unless there should be wind-fall from some unexpected source. there will not be enough for the December pay roll, and the state will once more go on a scrip basis. Last year the last payroll was made on Sept. 1.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-03
PULASKI COUNTY FAIR
 ASSN CLOSING BUSINESS

Little Rock, Nov. 3.--The Pulaski County Fair Association is closing up the business of this year, and already making tentative plans for next year. There is a strong sentiment here in favor of developing this into a state fair. and the Pulaski County Quorum court has appropriated $1,O00 with that end in view.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-03
SOLDIERS RETURN
 IN EXCELLENT HEALTH

Arkansas soldiers returning from the border are in excellent health, and report that the climate agrees with them wonderfully well. Most of them have gained from ten to twenty pounds in weight.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-03
MYERS, REPUBLICAN, SPELL
 BINDER, RETURNS HOME

Little Rock, Nov 3.-H. H. Myers, Republican spell-binder, has returned from Oklahoma where he delivered a number of addresses in the interest of the Republican ticket He is not very enthusiastic over the prospects of the c. 0. r.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-03
( APT. ROGERS AT HOME ON
 FIFTEEN DAY FURLOUGH

Senator T. H. Rogers, captain of Co. F., Second Regiment, is at his home in Paris, on a fifteen days fur tough and will return to his command about Nov. 10.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-03
NEWPORT SHAVE COMPANY
 SURRENDERS CHARTER

The Newport Slave Company of Fl Dorado. of which James E. Murphy was president, and George o. Beebe secretary. has surrendered it's char ter.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-03
ROBINS FEN
 ROUTE TO DENYING, N. NJ.

Corporal Chas. F. Robins, of Little Rock. who has been taking an aviation course at Ithaca, N. Y., was in Little Rock yesterday en route to Deming, N. NJ, to rejoin Go. F. Later he will 20 to the aviation school at San Diego for a supplementary course.
The Prescott daily news., 1916-11-03

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The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01
Evening Gowns for Summer.

In the selection of evening gowns
for summer it is not easy to find q
fabric which will look cool and at
tractive and at the same time be
firm enough to stand the wear and
tear of summer activities.
Embroidered linens, tulles and chif-
fons are all right if one can afford
them, but they are very destructible,
and if they cannot be used, the choice
is limited. Some of the silk and cot
ton fabrics have proved very deSira-
bic, having much the same appear
ance as silk, but selling for much
lower price. Chiffon, silk and cotton
chiffon, crepe de chine and silk and
cotton crepe de chine, the two mar
quisettes and voile show the differ
ence in price rather than in appear
ance. SO if one feels unable to pay
50 a yard for material, she may buy
her gown for a quarter of that price.
The dress will be more durable and
almost as effective.
The chief feature of summer gowns
bows, bands and ruffies. These add
color and a look of quality to mod
erate-priced material, and there is no
country where ribbon may be bought
more cheaply and in such variety as
in the United States.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01

machinery and other equipment then
on the farm. The stock consisted of
three horses, so COWS, II head of cat
tie and few chickens. The ordinary
equipment was left on the place, to-
gether with some hay, grain and
roughage. About 80 acres of the farm
lie in the broad, level valley, the
remainder being on slope too steep
for cultivation, and on the top of a
hill nearly 800 feet above the valley.
About 80 acres of quite level and
easily tillaole land are on the hilltop,
but it is difficult of access. For this
entire property $4,000 was paid-sS,-
900 in cash and $4,000 as mortgage.
The land and buildings were valued at
$4,000 and the stock and other NOV
able equipment at $4,000.
The former owner had been in pos
session of the farm for 81 years. 1t
had been profitable 80 or 40 years
before, and had been recognized as
a farm of considerable fertility. In
the years Immediately preceding its
purchase by Mr.. English, it had not
paid expenses, to say nothing of the
interest on the investment, and the
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01
FLOUR AND OIL WILL
KEEP ALL RUST AWAY
Coating of Mixture Tends Largely
to Prolong Life of Machine
Not in Daily Use.
tBy L. D. GRAIN, Colorado Agricultural
College, Fort Collins, Colo)

tBy L. D. GRAIN Colorado Agricultural
College, Fort Collins, Colo)
Machines and polished parts of ma
chimes not in daily use, and subjected
to ordinary atmospheric conditions,
will soon rust, thereby rendering them
unsightly, and in time will cause a
very noticeable deterioration.
When machines are laid up for q
time, such as farm machinery, the
parts not actually painted should be
coated with a rust preventive. Such a
substance should have the qualities of
cheapness, ease of application and re-
mOval, and not be injurious to the sur
face coated.
A good and inexpensive coat may be
made by mixing flour with common
machinery or lubricating oil. This
mixture should have q consistency of
thin paste. 1t may be applied with a
paintbrush. The flour keeps the Oil
from drying hard, and the oil will
prevent the air and moisture from
coming into contact with the surface
Of the parts treated, thereby prevent
ing rust or corrosive effects.
This coating may be easily removed
by cloth or piece of waste satu-
rated with coal oil or gasoline.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01
FEED AND ATTENTION
TO GROWING CHICKS
Undertaking Is Less Harmful
Than Lack of Water-RatIon
for First Three Weeks.

(By HELEN WHITE, Washington Ex-
pertinent Station.)
GrOwing-that is the business of the
young chick, and be sure to keep him
at it. Underfeeding is less harmful
than lack of water, which should be
supplied, pure and freely.
A good growing ration for the first
three weeks of a chicks life may be
made up as follows: OF cracked wheat
or breadcrumbs and rolled or steel-cut
oats, feed equal parts by weight. With
every ten pounds of bran mix one
pound of beef scrap and one pound of
granulated bone for the first mash to
be fed dry after the eighth day. Chicks
may eat an excess of bran, which is
rather bulky for the nourishment it
contains.
Use judgment in not letting them
keep their crops crammed uncomfOrt-
ably full of dry bran mash all day
long. Note that the beef scrap should
be sifted through q screen City size),
and only the finer portion used for the
youngest chicks. Also note that the
granulated bone is pretty nearly a ne-
cessity for closely yarded chicks, car
rying, as it does, about % per cent
of protein and so per cent of lime.
Furthermore, it contains "a per cent
of phOsphoric acid, and we are COM
ing to believe the phosphates play an
important part in digestion,
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01

Land covered with stumps can be
quickly, easily, safely and economi-
cally cleared by means of a stump
puller. Dynamite may be used, but
this method is less rapid. Dynamite
is dangerous, and often large roots
are left in the ground. A stump puller
leaves no roots.
This has been the experience of w.
?. Blain, horticultural foreman at the
Kansas State agricultural college, who
for several years has had charge of
stump pulling on the college campus.
He has found that stumps pull better
when the ground is dry, as the dirt
iocsens more headily around the roots.
1t is not practical to clear land
without first chopping away the trees.
Longer bitches are necessary, and the
branches become entangled in the ca
bles, if the trees have not been re-
moved.
Mr.. Blain has found that old stumps
may be pulled Immediately after cut
ting away the trees. The pulling power
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01

There were three windows at each
end of the room, and French window
opened on the porch at each side of
the fireplace. SO the room was very
light, but somehow when we got this
far we were disappointed-it wasn't
the cheerful, coy room we had
planned
After studying the problem for
some time we decided that it was too
heavy looking and so much brown was
mOnotonous. 1t lacked living color.
We wished we had chosen a gay
chintz for hangings instead of the
plain brown. But as we hadn't
thought of it till too late we set about
bringing the rooms to life with the
remaining furnishings.
We bought two wide wicker chairs
and cushioned them with cretonne in
which there were old blues gold and
orange, with touches of black and
white. We bought a tail wicker floor
lamp-there is nothing that softens
a room like Wicker-and I put a lin
ing of the cretOnne under the shade
| made orange shades for the side fix
lures and bought two or three pieces
of the bright painted tin that is in
vogue just now, one a gorgeous yell
low watering pot for the flower stand
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01

needed decreases almost one-half in
one year from the time the tree is cut
Also, the longer the stump, the easier
the pull. Large stumps should be left
longer than the smaller ones. A stump
three feet long gives much more lever
age than one a foot long. Small
stumps may be used for wood if de-
sired. 1t is best to remove the roots
from the stump at the edge of the hole.
All dirt and small roots may then be
used for filling the hole. Large stumpS
should be piled and burned.
Stumps of apple trees are easiest TO
pull. Ash and maple are fairly hard
to pull, and elm and oak stumps hard
est. Oaks have long, heavy, tough
roots, and elms have many long,
fibrous roots. Each root holds a GER
tain amount of dirt, requiring that
much more power in pulling.
Anyone who has a large number of
stumps to pull can afford a stump
puller. The different sizes cost from
S75 to $3.50.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01
Wells FIND FAVOR
WILL BE SEEN IN PROPULSION AT
SUMNER RESORTS.
Many Novelties Are Offered For the
Delight of Fair Women-!IIustra-
ton Shows One of Those
Best Liked.

Wells of all sorts will play an impor-
tant role this summer at the fashion
able seaside resorts. For example,
the long floating veil which is thrown
completely over q wide-brimmed hat
ana then turned back in front, jeweled
pins being used to hold it in place. Or
the quaint little flounce veil, which is
attached to the brim of a clOse-fitting
turban and which reaches only to the
tip of the nose.
l have illustrated one of the latest
summer wells. This smart veil is
made of bronze tulle traced over with
silver threads, writes Italia de Vii
lers, Paris correspondent of the Bos-
ton Globe Both Paquin and Lewis
are making these, which come under
heading picturesque" The model
was created by Georgette and the
charming little toque was made of
raspberry-pink taffeta, with picot rib
bon in the same color circling the
crown and tied in large bow in
front. The veil, which was very large
and fragile, was made of dull blue
shadow lace.
1t was thrown over the crown of
the toque and allowed to fall careless
~ over the left shoulder. Wells of
this order are effective when made of
fine shadow lace in such colors as Chi
ese blue, heliotrope, myrtle green,
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01
POISON WILL HOLD
CUTWORM in CHECK
Mixture of Bran, Paris Green or
ArSenate of Lead and Mo-
laSSeS Is Effective.

(By J. s. GARDNER, Missouri Agricul-
tural College)
II cutworms prove troublesome in
the garden or corn field, they can be
held in check with q mixture of %
pounds of bran, half a pound of paris
green or lead arsenate and a quart of
molasses. The lead arsenate is now
cheaper than the paris green, and
whichever is used should be dissolved
in two gallons of water, to which the
molasses and ground pulp of two lem
Ons or oranges should be added.
This poison mixture should be scat
tered in the evening in order that it
may stay moist as long as possible as
the worms refuse to eat it after it has
become dry. The addition of the or
ange or lemon juice is important In
making it attractive to the worms, but
it is likely to be attractive to the chick
ems and some other farm animals also,
with fatal results.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01
Goes With Summer Frock.

Have you noticed that everybody
carries a bag? Of course, you have, II
you keep your eyes open. For the bag
is one of the earmarks of the summer
frOck.
Not the ordinary handbag is this bag
of 1916. No, indeed. 1t is new sort
of bag with a very quaint and time
worn element in its makeup. For 1t
is a bag modelled on the charelaine
bags worn by medieval ladies, a bag
modelled on the little puffs of silk and
velvet that hung from the high waist
line of Napoleonic beauties
Very often the bag is OF the same
material as the frock. There IS the
taffeta frock, for instance, with the lit
tie shirred taffeta bag on draWsrings
of ribbon. There is the frOck of stripes
in Palm Beach cloth or linen. with
matching bag of striped material.
There are parasol and bag sets, too.
Some of them are of cretonne, and
sometimes there are sets of bag, skirt
and hat of cretonne, and sometimes
there are sets Of hat and bag. These
are for beach or mountain wear.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01
every Department OF FARM MUST
bEWELL ORGANIZED FOR SUCCESS
New Yorker Works Out Profitable Solution of Farm Problems His
Region-Staed Enterprise Without Previous Experience to
Aid Hn-Auays Weighed Advice Carefully and Meas
ured 1t on Basis of His Own Conditions.

rugged constitution, however, and had
been brought up on hard work, so that
he was not afraid of it. To the college
and the agricultural press, and espe-
cially to the personal help and inter
est of one college professor, he as
cribes all the success he has ever
made. These forces stirred him to
study his business and to use in every
way possible the agencies at hand
which would help him and which
would aid him in obtaining better
knowledge of the principles Of farm
ing. He had observed that rapid prog
ress was being made in every line OF
industry but agriculture, and he took
a new interest in everything pertain
ing to better farming. Yet he never
made the mistake of taking advice
wholesale. 1t was always weighed
carefully and measured in the light
Of his own conditions.
When Mr.. English took stock Of his
resources he found that his income
was practically confined to one source
-dairying. Some COWS were making
a good profit; others were causing a
daily loss. The fertility Of the soil
was maintained by the use of manure
alone, and this went to produce feed
crops for the cattle. Very little hay
was sold There was no systematic
plan of crop production or rotation
or definite method of soil improve
ment.
System Had Faults.
Such a system had several faults,
the correction of which was early rec
ognized as essential to success. I'm
profitable COWS were destroying the
profit of the better ones. The limita-
ton of the income to practically one
source put upon that factor the entire
burden of the farm expenses. Labor
was poorly distributed and was of ne
cessity frequently employed on unpro-
ductive enterprises in order to hold it
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01

when the LABOR was not fully and prof
itably employed. The distribution OF
labor was so poor that the men could
not be given steady employment by
the year, and some difficulty was ex-
perienced in getting satisfactory labor.
So this farmer wanted to add to his
income without cutting down the in
come from milk, and by this means to
secure a better distribution Of labor.
Sugar beets were first tried, as
factory was then in operation at Bing-
hamton. 1t was found that an aver
age Of from 10 to 20 tons of beets
could be raised per acre, which
brought S. per ton. An average in
come of at least SIS per acre could
thus be obtained, besides saving as
many tops as there were beets sold
These were of considerable value as
g succulent feed for the cows.
Potatoes Were Ne,t.
The next crop tried was potatoes,
and it proved to be so good money
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01

by @. H Afford, State Demonstration
Agent, Maryland)
The purpose of this article is to en-
phasize the following facts: 1t IS
not enough to raise good crops or to
secure large animal production; these
must be economically secured. This
Is only accomplished when capital and
labor are so adjusted to existing con-
ditions that maximum yields are OBJ
tanned at the lowest cost. To farm
successfully every department must
be well organized and must be CO.
ordinated with the others. Labor
must be fully employed, capital must
be well utilized, both quantity and
quality of products must be secured,
and the products must be well market
ed. All these things come as the re-
suit Of close attention to and de-
tailed knowledge of the business.
The reasons and at the same time
the justification for recounting the ex-
periences and the methods of any indi-
vidual farmer, however successful he
may be, lies in the fact that a definite
illustration brings out the underlying
principles most clearly and effectively
To most practical men the concrete
appeals more strongly than the abb
8tract Especially is this true in the
teaching of better farm management
because it is a comparatively new
method of attacking farm problems
which is not yet clearly defined. 1t is
because Mr.. L. ]. English of Bing-
hamton, n. Y, has worked out prof
table solution of farm problems in his
region that his success is worthy Of
telling and of reading.
Had No Experience.
Mr.. English purchased the farm in
1897. He had no previous farm expert
ence to cid him in starting the enter
prise. His new possession consisted
of 162 acres of land, more or less"
with good buildings and all the stock,
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01

bronze or pearl gray. In some cases
the edge of the veil is worked over in
picot stitch, with gold or silver
threads.
The latest hatpin has a mushroom
head covered with multicolored bead
embroidery. The Partisan milliners
have brought bead embroidery to a
high state of perfection; indeed, many
of the bead trimmings seen on the new
hats and tOQueS are beautiful enough
to deserve place in the glass case OF
q museum.
The mushroOm-head pins have outer
rims of fine paste, and they are so dec
Orative in themselves that no other
trimming is needed.
Very large sailor hats covered with
crepe de chine and lined with fine
straw will be popular at Biarritz in
the months of August and September.
And it is said that the "clou' of the
PLACE season will be the tricOt Sweat
err richly embroidered with metallic
threads and lined with printed silk.
The Parisiennes have gone quite mad
on the subject of sweater coats.
These bright-cOlOred sweaters look
charming over white linen or muslin
dresses. And it must be admitted that
a well-cut sweater is exceedingly be-
coming to the average figure. For
early morning wear the sweater must,
however, be severely plain.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01
Put Life Into Living Room.

We spent weeks and weeks after
we had got our new home on paper
il planning the color scheme and the
wall decorations, and in deciding just
how we could make our old furniture
fit into its new environment, remarks
a writer in the Houston Post. We had
started out ten years before with mis-
sion furniture-it is so satisfactory in
living room when there are growing
cI,ildren-and so we shut our eyes to
the delight of the colonial mahogany
and white paint, and built our room
around the old things.
We had the woodwork stained dark
brown and q brown paper with light
er brown figure in it put on the walls.
The fact curtains were cream scrim
and the overhangings were brown
easement cloth.
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01

for the dairy work, and this was
unsatisfactory both to employer and
men. No definite system Of crop pro-
duction was in use to provide the right
proportion of each crop with the.
proper distribution of labor. The
maintenance of fertility was expensive.
All these things it was determined to
remedy.
The first step to be taken was the
improvement of the dairy. The per-
Torrance of each cow was studied
and the Improbable ones disposed Of.
The next important step was to in
crease the sources of income by grow
ing such other crops as the labor nec
essary for the dairy could handle with
out extra expense, or, in other words,
to diversity the farming The third,
but by no means the least important
step, was to be the development of a
rotation that would improve the soil,
furnish the maximum feed for the
stock and provide a cash crop.
These were taken up and carried out
as rapidly Is possible.
A herd of 90 fairly good COWS was
purchased with the farm, and at the
start dairy products were about the
only source of income. Gradually this
has been changed, and at present,
even though the dairy Is an important
part of the farm, attention Is given to
several lines. A purebred sire was
included in the farm purchase. 1t has
been the policy at all times to keep a
purebred sire of good quality in the
herd. The heifer calves from the best
producing cows were grown and test
ed out for dairy production, the best
being kept and the others discarded.
In this way the quality and the pro-
ducing power of the cows have been
constantly increased. The herd today
is uniform and able to produce results.
Several COWS have produced so pounds
or more of milk a day and have main
tanned this record for continuous peri
DDS Of from four to six months.
Limiting Factors.
Mr.. English found that with this
method the cows were the limiting
factors in the profit. No matter how
large the crop or what it was worth
| in the market, it's value was measured
entirely by what the cow could make
out of it. If the price of the milk was
low, so was the price of the crop. II
| TIE cow was a poor one, the price
| Of the crop was still lower. Moreover,
there was much time on this farm
The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1916-08-01
ERADICATE SOME OF
STRAWBERRY PESTS
Use Lead Arsenate Spray for
Leaf Rollers and Flea Beetles
Pillow for Grubs.

Gy T. J. TALBERT, Kansas Experiment
Station.)
Strawberry leaf rollers: The larva
rolls the leaf and feeds upon it. Spray
the plants with lead arsenate and burn
the fields as soon as crop is harvested.
Strawberry flea beetles: The adults
eat holes through the leaves. Spray
the plants with lead arsenate before
the fruit is half mature.
Strawberry crown borers: The grub
tunnels and feeds in the crowns of the
plant. Practice crop rotation. Burn
over infected fields in fall.
White grubs: The larvae of June
beetles damage grass, corn, strawber-
ries and other plants by eating off the
roots. Practice fall blowing to expose
the insects, and harrow thoroughly be-
fore planting.