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The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24

First, because the weeds which have
been started will be prevented from
seeding. and the weed seeds will be
brought near to the surface, where
they will terminate and be killed by
the frost before they have seeded In
the fall; and second, there is more
spare time for the work.
Late fall blowing is best for soil be-
cause:
l. 1t gives us the benefit of late sum-
mer pasture.
2. 1t is the best possible place to
spread the barnyard manure during
August and September as there is the
least danger of washing or teaching.
3. The ground can be much better
prepared and with less work than when
plowed in the spring.
4. There is less danger from damage
by cutwOrms and other insect enemies.
Spring Flowing Abused.
We often abuse our spring blowing
by turning the earth up to the sun and
dried winds to bake and dry out, de-
pending upon a shower to mellow the
ground before planting time.
With spring blowing it is a good rule
never to leave the field at noon or
might without narrowing the newly
plowed ground. In my estimation no
ground can be properly prepared, Civ
ing a good seed bed for corn, without
the use of the disk.
Deapth to PIow.
What is known as deep blowing is
not Advisable in the corn belt
There IL seldom any advantage in
blowing more than six inches deep. On
heavy soils the bad effects of too deep
blowing are often apparent for several
years.
Too Deep Planting.
Too deep planting is especially bad
when the seed is weak or the spring is
cold and backward. When the ground
is not well prepared or is very mellow,
there is danger of putting the seed down
four or five inches when two inches
would be better.
Dry, Mealy Surface Bed.
On the other hand, there is no more
serious mistake than shallow planting
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24

in lumpy, dry soil. The moisture is not
Of it sours or rots, and the remainder
comes up unevenly, with a large per
cent Of sickly plants. This condition
is most frequently found where the
spring blowing is not followed by the
harrow the same day or where the disk
was not used in preparing the seed bed
and especially when these two cOndi-
tiOns are accompanied by a dry, cold
May.
Cultivation.
Cultivation should be level and fire.
quent when the corn is small. It may
be deep at first, but it must be shallow
later.
Many assume that there is nothing
more to do after the corn is planted for
two weeks, or until it is up and large
enough for the first cultivation. There
are others who believe in narrowing
and even in cultivation before the corn
is up, but on account of the pressure of
work neglect it. Where ground is left
two weeks and often longer ii becomes
foul with weeds, which take up the
moisture and plant food and also make
it difficult TO work the corn. The
ground becomes packed by the rains
and baked by the sun until it is hard
and dry.
1t is especially important in the case
Of corn that 1t should not become
stunted when young, as it never fully
RECEIVERS even under the most favorable
conditions.
The time to kill weeds is before they
come up and before they have deprived
the corn of moisture and nourishment.
Where It is possible to do so IL is
good plan TO cultivate the corn once
before it comes up, following the culti-
vator with the harrow.
This practice of cultivating the field
before the corn is up following the
planter marks as a guide, is good
one, and especially on old and badly
worn ground or heavy clay ground and
land that has become foul.
1t is a common practice with some
to harrow corn after It is up, but pre-.
fer to cultivate and harrow as de-
scribed above, especially on cornstalk
ground. Even on stubble ground the
harrow does considerable damage to
the young corn.
It is a very common mistake to cult
vate shallow when the corn is small
and '1ay It by" with a deep cultivation.
The reverse will be more profitable.
There is little danger to the roots from
deep cultivation the first time and
there is great advantage going deep
enough to secure good mulch.
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24
DROPPING OF MIDDLE NAMES
A Two-PIy Title Found to Be More
Convenient Socially, Morally and
Financially.

This is the day of the two-cylinder
name, which fact has been proved by
cognomen connoisseurs who have
looked over every name at Harvard
and inspected the persons to whom the
names belong. They learned that
some extremely nice persons have no
middle names at all, and seem to get
on rather well without them.
1t is assumed that the ever-grow-
Ing trend toward efficiency is to be
blamed for the dropping of diversified
names, for 1t has long been understood
that person with a two-ply title need
not be especially embarrassed about it,
In the course of a wealthy mans life
Ii means the writing of about 10000
900 useless words if he uses his mid
die name on checks and Endorsements,
and these things have got to be con-
sidered.
The Porcelain club at Harvard, the
most exclusive organization of its kind
In the country, proves this year the
failing value of middle names. There
are fifteen members this year, and but
five of them are burdened with excess
sive nomenclature.
OF course George Washington and
Abraham Lincoln had no middle names,
but this evidence is considered as moth
ing at Harvard compared with the fact
that Theodore Roosevelt hasn't. That
one fact is almost enough To wreck the
complicated title system at the uni
versity.
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24
THE WORLD OVER

Success has followed planting on the
sandhills Of Nebraska. Jackpines
planted there by the government for
est service ten years ago now have a
height Of 10 feet and a diameter Of
four inches.
To protect Swiss railroad from fire.
Quent avalanches numerous snow re-
tanning walls have been built on a
mountain side at points from which
the slides start. to hold the snow until
IT melts.
An electric heater TO be placed In
bathtub after it has been filled to
raise the temperature of the water to
any desired degree has been patented
by an Ohio inventor.
A spark plug with two gaps, produc-
ing two sparks at once. is finding IA
vor in England, the idea being that
one gap is sure to work even If the
other becomes clogged by SCOT.
BY n series Of interesting expert
ments with chickens, beginning before
they are hatChed, Paris scientist has
demonstrated that bacilll are not nec-
essary to tie life of vertebrates.
Willis A. Callins of Abingdon, a
large chicken raiser, hired an expert 10
come from Boston to pick chickens.
The man arrived about 10 80 i'm the
morning, stopped to eat dinner, and
at five o'clock had 100 birds picked.
The efforts being made to educate
the public to the necessity of care in
the matter of fire prevention are bear
ing fruit as shown by recently com
piled figures. Fire losses in 1915 de-
creased $52,755,0 200. as compared with
the 1914 record for the United States
and Canada. The total losses by fire
last year were only S1S2,S36,000 as
compared with s2S5.591. 900 the previ-
Gus year.
DIR. N. p. Crooks, ship surgeon en-
ployed by the Pacific-Japan Steamship
company, has crossed the Pacific ocean
1913 times, covering in that time more
than 100000 miles.
The telegraph and telephone systems
of the United States and Canada re-
quire about 100000 poles a year for
renewals along old lines and the erect
Ing of new ones.
Commercial houses are urged by the
government to save their old CORE
spondence as material for the paper
mills One large house that formerly
burned about 500 tons of old letters
each year is now selling them.
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24
PREPARING SOIL FOR CORN

There are no "ironclad' rules which
may be followed blindly for the grow
ing of corn any more than in other
farm work.
There is no one best method suited
to all sections or to the different soils
of a section nor even TO the different
fields of the same farm. Frequently
two very different methods may give
equally good results.
"Have good ground, do the work on
time, and do it thoroughly" should be
the motto of every corn grower.
Nothing can make up for poor
ground. Too many are trying to raise
corn on old "wOrn-out" ground that
has produced corn, oats and wheat for
years. l met a man at an institute in
Illinois who said in all seriousness that
he YVES satisfied the seasons We're less
favorable for growing corn than they
used TO be, as he could get no such
crops as he used to raise. Inquiry de-
veloped that he had grown corn for II
years in succession on the same piece
Of ground. No wonder the seasons
were becoming less favorable"
Let us remember that it was but
few years ago that the farms of the
corn belt were broken from the virgin
soil, and that because we have been
able to crop the ground continuously in
the past, is no assurance that we may
continue to do so in the future with
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24

! 2. Unless the ground is dlsked early
In the spring there is loss of moisture
and n consequent firing" of the corn
during the latter part of July and Au-
gust, especially in dry seasons.
3. The fall blowing does not give as
good an opportunity to spread manure
during the late summer and through
the winter.
The soils department of the Iowa
State college has conducted many ex-
periments with fall and spring blowing
| in different parts of Iowa. and in every
case the yield OF corn was greater on
the fall blowing than on the spring
plowing.
The mistake is commonly made of
leaving the fall-plowed ground without
disking until time to plant The ground
has become packed by snow and rain
and should be disked or narrowed as
soon as the Oat seeding is over. This
will conserve the moisture and lessen
the firing of the corn in August, so
common to fall blowing.
Ground that is very rolling and like
~ to wash should not be plowed in the
fall.
Late Planting Bad.
One of the most serious losses to the
corn crop every year is due to late
planting. Experiments show that late
planted corn seldom yields as much as
that planted earlier, and the quality is
inferior. The ground becomes hard
and out of condition, the weeds have
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24

Profit. The fact is that the time is
near at hand wheT we must give great
er attention to the fertility of our soil.
What is needed is more clover, bet
ter use Of barnyard manure and less OF
the continuous cropping with corn, oats
and wheat.
Fall Flowing for Corn.
There is a difference of opinion re-
garding the merits of fall and spring
blowing for corn. Among the advan-
tages of fall blowing are the follow
ing:
1. The work is done at the slackest
time of the year, when both men and
teams would otherwise be idle.
2. Having the ground already plowed
In the spring gives us time to better
prepare the ground, and, what is Of
equal Importance, to get our corn in
on time.
8. A better prepared and a warmer
seed bed, and consequently q better
stand of corn.
4. Less danger from insect enemies,
especially in the case of sod ground.
3. Weeds are prevented from seed
ing and the seeds already in the ground
will mostly terminate and be killed by
the fall freezes before they have
seeded.
Some disadvantages of fall blowing
are:
1. Occasional losses from blowing
and washing on rullng ground.
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24
August 27, 1915.

German advance northeast Of
Brest-LitoVsk drove Russians
nearly to kobryn.
Austro-Germans broke through
the Zicta Lipa line in Galicia.
italians developed great move
ment against Trent and Trieste.
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24
Far Behind the Times.

PenelOpe-Marcella is years and
years behind the times.
Percival-What makes you think
that2
Penelope-Just now she wanted to
know if her hat was on straight.
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24
Candor.

in one respect she's like all other
women"
Meaning she thinks she's so differ
ent."
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24

drawn upon the moisture and available
plant food, the crop comes to the dry
spell in more critical stage, the pro-
portion of barren stalks is greater and
it natures more slowly, contains more
water and is much more likely to be
caught by the frost.
Every year thousands of farmers
lose heavily from late planting. Many
of these are good farmers, but are I'M
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24
August 26. 1915.

Brest-Litovsk captured by Aus
tro-Germans.
Germans took BiaIystok.
Reims again shelled by the
Germans.
British aviator Bigsworth
sank. German submarine with a
bomb.
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24
August rs, 1915.

Allies on GaIlipoIi peninsula
advanced on 12-miIe front.
German cruisers bombarded
signal stations near Riga.
Austrian aeropIane bombarded
Breseia.
Sixty-two French aViators at
tackled DiIIingen. Rhenish Prus.
STA.
Sixty allied areopIanes sheIled
Mont Huest forest in Belgium.
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24

tect of his own fortune than TO be
the builder.
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24

A merchant can get along without
advertising and so can n wagon with
out grease, but IL goes slow.
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24
August "a, 1915.

Germans crossed the Narew
river.
Germans planned to invade
Serbia via Bulgaria.
Austrians attacks checked by
Italians.
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24
A Qualification.

you go TO church more frequently
than you used to-"
"Yes. And apart from the instruc-
ton / derive a great deal of satisfac-
ton from my attendance. It's a great
comfort to be where people sing and
play fine music without anybody's
spelling it by putting in ragtime words
or wanting to dance"
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24

Accurate Information.
as woman really the weaker ves-
SELF"
"Only wnen she is unnamed"
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24
Sold.

Sold.
ave sold our pup?"
"What ffor?"
"Why, er-he bit holes in the car
pet."-Punch Bowl.
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24

expectedly delayed with the spring
work, by a combination of bad weather,
sick horses and scarcity of help.
II is generally advisable to pillow
stubble ground early In the fall.
The Yale expositor., 1916-08-24
THE EUROPEAN WAR A
YEAR AGO THIS WEEK
August p, 1915.

August p, 1915.
Germans advanced on Osso-
wetz.
Russian fleet defeated German
fleet In Gulf of Riga.
British submarine F-t3,
aground on Danish island,
shelled by German torpedo boat.
Great Britain and France de-
clared cotton absolute contra
band.
Venizelos accepted Greek
premiership.
August p, 1915.
Severe artillery fighting in A..
ras region.
Italians gained ground in the
Carso front.
Two French torpedo boats
sank German destroyer off o.
tend.
Russians retired from the ME-
men and Bobr line.
August %, 1916.
Ossowetz captured by the Ger.
mans.
Italians evacuated heights OF
Monfalcone.
Austrians repulssd Italians
east of Polazzo.
British fleet Of 80 vessels
shelled zeebrugee.
The Keota news., 1916-02-11

than I ever was and recommend =
remedies 70 all my friends. "-lnia|
WYNN, 2sl2 E. o Street, Riehnalt|
While Change Of Life is Z mot =
ieal period Of . woman's existeaa q
annoying symptoms which seeuslI !
It may b controlled, and normal ~
restored BY the timely use Of Ly4l|
Pinkham's Vegetable COMPOUND
Such warning symptoms ass IN
Of suffocation, hot flashes, hesdsds
backaches, dread Of impending IL
timidity. sounds in tho ears, pslpaat
Of tho heart, sparks before hs gu|
irregularities, constipation. varisAq|
petite, weakness and inquietude, d
dizziness.
For these abnormal conditions b :
fail to take Lydia E. Pinkhami vi
table Compound.
The Keota news., 1916-02-11
WESTERN.

Nineteen die and twenty towns
swept by Arkansas noods.
Relief for the 1000 flood sufferers
in the lower Arkansas river bottoms
was sent from Little Rock.
The theft from Mrs. Clara Baldwin
Stocker of a necklace reported to be
worth between $4,000 and $4,000 be.
came known at Los Angeles.
The name OF Charles w. Bryan,
brother Of former Secretary Of State
Bryan, was filed as a candidate for
the nomination Of governor Of Ne
braska, subject to the Democratic pri.
mary. q @# ...-
The candidacy Of United States Sen.
ator L. Y. Sherman Of Illinois for Re.
publican nominee for president was
indorsed by the Illinois Republican
state central committee.
Cicero. ILL.,, citizens provided a
trained nurse and baby's wardrobe
in triplicate when triplets, all girls,
were born to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Fovel Of that village.
Twelve United States cavalry
mules. each laden with 200 pounds OF
The Keota news., 1916-02-11
SPORT.

The Golden High school basketball
SQUAD at Golden. Colo. defeated tho
University Of Denver Props by score
81 IS to Is.
Johnny O'Lcary. Canadian light
weight champion. outpointsd Otto
Wallace of Milwaukee In = ten.round
bout at st. Paul. Mlnn.
Ths first Of . series OF annual chat
lenge cup rifle matches conducted by
tho Denver City troop was won by the
squad representing Troop c. The
final score was 452 to Az. Troop B
thus losing by five points.
Henry Hall Of lshpeming. Mich.
won first place in the national ski
tournament which closed at Glen
wood, MINI. with total Of 2S5 points.
Raxnar Omtvedt OF Chicago was sec.
ond with 2S1 20 points. and Carl
Hall, Steamboat Springs. Colo. third
with 275 % points.
Tho suits Ut Mr.. and Mrs. John F.
Coffey against James G. McGil. In
which the former captain Of the Den.
yer baseball team and his wife each
seek to recover $4,000 from Mr.. NC
Gill. owner Of the team. for an al
legged attack of Mr.. McGill upon Mrs.
Coffey. probably will be tried At the
March term of the District Court In
Denver.
The Keota news., 1916-02-11
FOREIGN.

The cabinet crisis in the Duchy OF
Luxembourg appears to have assumed
a more hopeless aspect than ever.
King Georges coronation gift tc
Emperor Yoshihito is beautiful bay
horse which arrived q few days age
at the imperial stables from India.
The Bulgarian government has
voted to erect marble monument al
Nish to commemorate the meeting
there on Jan. 18 Of Emperor William
and King Ferdinand Of Bulgaria.
All rumors Of the ill.health of EN-.
peror Francis Joseph of Austria are
unfounded. according to Information
received at Zurick from what is de.
clared to be an unimpeachable source.
Viscount Bryce, former ambassador
to the United States. speaking at Bed.
ford College, London, condemned the
policy OF reprisals against Germany,
which, since the last Zeppelin raid,
has gained many advocates.
The American ambassador to Con.
stantinople. Henry Moygenthau, who
arrived in Berlin on his way to the
United States. said in ar interview.
that the situation in Constantinople
at present was almost normal, and
there was no scarcity Of food.
The Balkan agency has a dispatch
originating in Vienna saying the Aus.
trian governor Of Belgrade informed
the American consul there that Ser.
oia. having ceased to exist as an inde
pendent state, the Austrian military
authorities were under the necessity
Of asking him to leave.
The Keota news., 1916-02-11

supplies. started from San Diego. CAL.
for the back country which was Dc
vastatod by tho recent severe floods.
Robert r. Briggs. 81 years old. IN
charge OF tho United Stctes weather
bureau at Phoenix. Ariz. died follow
ing five days illness. During the 70
cent storm and floods in Arizona he
was constantly at his poSt.
The Keota news., 1916-02-11
OF MOST INTEREST
KEEPING THE READER POSTED
ON MOST iMPoR RTANI
CURRENT TOPICS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Russians continue pursuit Of Turks
in Caucasus region.
In northwest Russia aerial raids
have been carried out by both sides.
Zeppelin sinks in North Sea with all
its crew after being fired on by
Dutch.
Spies burn big aerodrome In suburb
Of Berlin. Several aeroplanes de-
stroyed.
Four hundred and seventy buigars
killed and 200 wounded by French
aeroplanes in recent attacks on camp.
French and British artillery demol.
ish portions of German trenches on
west front. British advance repulsed
near Neuville.
About 14.900 German troops from
West African colony crossed the
border into Spanish territory and
were disarmed and interned.
1t is asserted by Petrograd newspa.
pers that the Turks have evacuated
Erzerum, one Of their principal strong
holds in the Caucasus front.
Apparently authoritative reports in
Washington are that the United
State will accept Germany's latest
suggestion for settlement o; the Lusi.
tania case.
Austrian troops are sweeping
through Albania. while the Montene.
grin troops and the Serbs have ee'
fected a junction at Durazzo, the chief
Albanian seaport.
Two Greek soldiers. five refugees
and seven workmen were killed anG
fifty civilians were injured by the in
flammable bombs dropped from the
Zeppelin in tho Saloniki raid.
British warships are combing the
seas for the raiders while the diplo-
matte branch Of the government Is
crying piracy" and demanding that
the United States restore the Appam.
the Teuton's prize, to Britain.
The Keota news., 1916-02-11
WASHINGTON.

The House passed tho Keating child
labor bill.
Public lands committee heard west
ern men on 640.acre grazing home
stead bill.
The Senate passed bill appropriat
ing 100000 for flood relief In Missis.
sippi valley.
Senator Works attacked President'i
defense campaign before the military
committee.
Judiciary subcommittee decided tc
hold open hearings on Supreme Court
nomination of Louis d. Brandeis.
Lieutenant Governor Eshelman Of
California pleaded for relief Of oil
prospectors before the Senate public
lands committee.
Relative retail prices Of the prin.
cipal articles Of food in the United
States decreased per cent during the
first nine months Of last year.
Senator Thomas submitted resolu.
tion denouncing destruction Of Cana.
dian parliament building AZ "incen.
diarism."
Governor Goethals of the canal
zone asked appropriations OF SIS. 9.3OO..
900 for completing the Panama canal
and $S.230.000 for further fortifica-
tions.
lndia's cotton crop this year. accord.
ing to the third forecast, is estimated
at 3,6S7,000 bales Of 400 pounds, a de-.
crease Of 26 per cent from last years
crop.
The House ways and means com
mittee Democrats formally chose
Representative Humphreys Of M,s
sissippi as chairman Of the new House
committee on flood control.
President Wilson was attacked az q
lingo" and his campaign for pre-.
paredness as an ''unwise attempt to
scare the people into q program they
do not want" by Senator Works be.
fore the Senate military affairs com,
mittee.
The Keota news., 1916-02-11
GENERAL.

Henry Ford. the Detroit manufac
turer who sent q peace ship to
Europe. has a new peace plan.
German submarines have sunk fifty.
eight allied ships Of an aggregate ton.
mage Of 215.159 In the Mediterranean
since the Balkan campaign began. &C.
cording to the German newspaper
Weserzeitung Of Bremen.
Charges that Spanish fishermen
were being employed by the Germans
to lay mines off French ports were
made by Ship Surgeon Ponez. who ar.
rived in New York ON board tho
French liner Chicago from Bordeaux.
The United States steel corporation
10 to build a group Of $500 by-product
coke ovens at Clarion. near Pitts.
burg. Pa. The total cost will be 315..
100000 and 1t is claimed that when
completed the group will be the larg.
est Of the kind in the world.
Nineteen days of ceaseless vigil for
the short-handed German prize crew
aboard the former British liner Appam
ended at Newport News Va, Thurs.
day night when the last of more than
400 British prisoners climbed over the
ships side to liberty on American
soil. All British subjects and the one
naturalized American. G. A. Taglie.
ferri. quit the ship. leaving the prize
commander with his crew and the
twenty Germans who had been made
prisoners on the Appam, including
three women.
In some parts of the snow bound re-
gion of northeastern Arizona there
has been no freight for four weeks
and people are feeling the lack of the
necessaries of life, according to Ken.
meth Meeker of the Phoenix United
States Weather Bureau.
Mrs. Elizabeth F. Mohr was &C.
Quilted by a jury in the Superior
Court o. a charge Of having instiEated
the murder OF her husband, Dr. C.
Franklin Mohr, at Providence. r. L
c. Victor Brown and Henry Fl. Smell.
man. negroes. accused OF the actual
killing, were found guilty.
Shooting Of some OF our feeble.
minded jurymen" was suggested at
Los. Angeles as a remedy for too fre.
quent acquittals Of women charged
with shooting men by Judge Frank p.
Dunne, when, jury in the Superior
Court freed Mrs Malcerta Dyott, tried
lor the second time. for an assault on
her husband: Samuel Dyctt, a Los An.
Eeles real estate dealer,
seventy'three suits against three
railroads were instituted by the Cir.
cult Court at St. Joseph, Mo-, uller.
ing violation Of the maximum freigh,
rate statute.