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Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-04

WHEN YOU WANT to put your bus mess before the public. there ia no medium better than through the ad- vertising columns of The Bulletin.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-04

Miss Susan c. Hyde Of Washington street leaves today (Saturdayl and will attend the annual meeting of the W. B. F.. N. in@ Northampton, Mass. Later she will visit friends in that vii cinity for a few weeks.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-04

Mrs. H. B. Topliff of Wauregan was in town Thursday to visit her sisters, Mrs. J. O. Barrows of West Town street and Miss Freeman of Town street.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-04
OUR NATIONS CRISIS ]"

Subject of Housing By Theodore Roosevelt at Cooper Union, New York-Nothng to But Change Horses in
 Crossing Stream When Animal Balks and Lies Down
 No Criticism of Administration But What Has Been Accurate and Truthful - Need Man at Heln, Who is Straightforward and Courageous.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-04
DeIeqates to State confersnce.

At the nidweek service of the First Congregational church Thursday even-
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-04

which. in my opinion can scares be paralleled." Were Not the Men at Valley Forge
 Patriots?
Norwich bulletin., 1916-11-04

light. MT. Wilson now dwellS at Shadow Lawn. There should be shad- ows enough at Shadow Lawn; the shadows of men, women and children who have risen from the ooze of the ocean bottom, and from graves in for eign lands; the shadows of the help less whom MT. Wilson did not dare protect lest he might have to face danger; the shadows of babies gasping pitifully as they sank under the waves the shadows of women outraged and slain by bandits; the shadows of Boyd and Adair and their troopers who lay in the Mexican desert. the black blood crusted round their mouths, and their President Wilson had sent them to do @ task, and had then shamefully abandoned them to the mercy of foes who knew no mercy. Those are the shadows proper for Shadow Lawn; the shadows of deeds that were never done: the shadows of lofty words that were followed by no action; the shad- ows of the tortured dead.
 Cannot Obscure High Moral Standards.
 Tho Titantic War still staggers to and fro across the continent of Eu- rope. The nations engaged in the death wrestle still show no sign of let ting up. Sometime in the next four years the end will come, and then no human being can tell what this nation will have to face. If we were ready and able to defend ourselves and to do our duty to others, and if our abilities were backed by an iron willingness to show courage and good faith on behalf both of ourselves and of others, not only would our own place in the world be secure, but we might render in- calculable service to other nations. If we elect MT. Wilson 1t will be serv- ing notice on the world that the tra- dftions, the high moral standards, the courageous purposes of Washington and Lincoln have been obscured, and that in their stead we have deliberately
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plant at Greenford, near Harrow, where
the small supplies of the stuff which
We have turned out have been pre-
pared from peat brought from different
parts of the country. Il few tons from
here and ton or two from there. 1t
has therefore, been manifestly impos-
sible to keep trace of the sources of
supplv in the prepared article and so
determine what class of peat is most
suitable In the Manchester enter
prise the peat will he all of one kind.
and the Various departmental and other
experiments that have been arranged
viii be carried out with it. While
some of the prepared article Will he
at the disposal of the Manchester cor
poration for its small holdings, the
large proportion of it is, by arrange
ment to he reserved for experimental
purposes on wide scale.
THE board of agriculture and fish
cries, in addition to watching the de
yelopment in Manchester, has ar
ranged to conduct, from scientific and
practical points of view, a large num-
Der of experiments at Rothamsted.
The Irish board of agriculture has al
ready placed its plans of experiments
in the hands Of the county instructors.
each of whom is now getting his land
ready Before the end of the present
month the Scottish board of agricul-
ture will enter upon a series of eX-
tensive experiments up and down the
country Everywhere the keenest in
terest is heinE shown, and already We
have received over 3.0o0 orders for
humogen against the time when sup
niles will he available. This week a
question was asked in parliament re
garding the outcome of the Manchester
arrangements
"'Bacterized peat already has been
tried on some of the Prince of Wales
estates and if the Manchester expert
ment turns ont successfully we under
stand that the prince is prepared to
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mers Of ENGLAND to Test W0nder-W0rl1ng Peat

tomley went on 1T is notorious that
Great Britain lives from day to day
with a margin of but two months be-
tween her and famine. 1t is not true.
moreover. that English land is unsuited
for wheat growing. or that the great
percentage of the land is inferior to
that cultivated in France and Germany.
And yet the fact exists that whereas
the total acreage under cultivation IN
Germany is 100000. and that in
France $1,000 900, the cultivated land
in this island kingdom is less than as
100000 acres. There is a grave chal-
lenge also to British farming in the
fact that only per cent of our Guilt
waited land is employed in growing
wheat. opposed to 25 per cent in
Germany and so per cent in France.
These conditions have not always been
the same as they are today. and the
seriousness of the problem is empha-
sized more clearly by a further com
parison made with other countries.
During the last thirty years in the
chief European countries the total
acreage under cultivation has varied
little. but the attention paid to the
growing of wheat has enormously in
creased everywhere except in England.
where there has been large fall in
output. representing, in fact, no less
than 80 per cent. In contrast Germany
has increased her wheat production %
per cent, France : per cent and Russia
80 per cent. And all this time. in agri-
cultural produce, England buys from
abroad the enormous total of 1885,. 000.-
Geo worth of imported soil products A
value E133.00o.G0o greater than the to-
tai manufacturing exports. once de
duction is made of the cost of the raw
material imported in connection with
their manufacture.
The principal question in connec-
ton with humoeen,' the professor add
ed, is can we supply il al sufficiently
low rate? Manure is growing daily less
plentiful as horses are replaced by mo-
tor traction, and, consequently, is get
ting. more and more costly. In This
country the problem is becoming more
or less vital. The farmer has to keep
more stock than he wants in order to
get manure. I was told the other day
by one of the principal officials of the
London General Omnibus Company that
up to date they have replaced over
10000 horses. Figuring ten tons a year
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of w il os and dDary
while in compIct odcom
Photogr phed at the oyaI GardnsK Kew.

ting less plentiful and more costly. as
the horse is more and more largely
superseded by the motor. Particularly is
this true in Great Britain.
Now there are certain microscopic
bugs, or bacill. which the soil needs
more than anything else to make il
fertile The most important of them
all is the playful little Bacillus Radi-
cicola, as scientists have dubbed it,
which is found in the "nodules" OF
leguminous plants. Plant life most of
All needs atmospheric nitrogen, and
the power of the little Eadiccoia to
fix this variety of vegetable nourish-
ment is more pronounced than that of
amy other group Of hacil1i and upon
the number present in the soil depends
the natural replacement of the nitro
gen taken from the soil by plants and
drainage.
For many years the question has been
now best to 'inOculatc" the soil with
these and other little efficiency breed
ers tand the American experiments
along this line have been among the
most va luable in resultsD, but until
Prof BottomleE made his discovery q
really practicable means of doing this
had not been found. This discovery
was that the long sought medium could
he obtained by treating ordinary peat
IN laboratory. and that peat thus
treated with bacteria formed a fer
tlllZer twenty. thirty, perhaps even
fifty or sixty times more valuable than
animal manure. This is a rough-and-
ready explanation that doesn't pretend
to be scientific or complete. Another
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gen. or bacteri1ed peat. will be front
$40 to SIS a ton, but ii Will contain
twenty. thirty. even fifty times the fer
tilzing capacity OF ordinary manure. A
large grower of hops in Kent. who 10
about to experiment with our product.
tells me that he has used manure at tho
rate of twenty-five tons per acre. You
can readily realize the saNing-one ton
instead of twenty-five. Look at the
saving in labor alone. Consider. too.
the saving in the matter of feeding
stock
Prof Bottomley. who ha. occupied
the chair of botany at Kings college
since 1898. is ffty-three years old. He
was born at Apperley Bridge. Leeds. IN
1863. and educated trst AT the Royal
Grammar School at Lancaster, and later
at Kings College. Cambridge. He was
science tutor and lecturer on biology
at 81. Marys Hospital Medical School
from 1886 to 1891, and was Cambridge
University extension lecturer from thai
time until 1894 He has been inter
ested for many years in agricultural
cooperation, and is the founder OF the
Southeastern COOPERATIVE Agricultural
Society. and is honorary secretary of
the Agricultural Banks Association aud
of the English Land Colonization So
ctety. His multiple activities give HIM
little time for reCreations, but when he
has any he dabbles in photography and
bicycles in the country There isn't tn.
faintest suggestion of 'hapdoodle
about him. In discussing. with the
greatest modesty. hts wonderful dis
covery. he insists on keeping his own
personality not only in the background.
but out of sight He refused point
blank TO he photogra phed. and like
ness of him had to be obtained from
one of his friends who got it by stealth.
when asked what he considered The
most remarkable of all the results
which he has obtained with his hsc-
terized peat. he iustanced the com
paratiVe ones obtained on 4 tract OF
land treated, in different parts. with
mo manure" artificial and hacterized
peat. The result of this experiment.
WAS that potatoes grown with the "hu-
mogen' represented an increase Of 123
per cent as compared with those grow n
with no manure: - per cent as COM
pared with artificials. and 4 per cent
compared with farm dung. Beels
represented similar increases of PSI,
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EmbIematiC Beasts.

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If in the year $40 a loyal adhereut
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seen banner bearing an embroidered
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entered with the same assurance Of
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"eh ne "eiloiuS tHe same amman
on a transparency outside party head
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the ueNlceS CT several OF the noble
houses of Italy. but it was never very
nonular IN r,pci.,a 200, L.. -, =,
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the Tiger. YET the IainmanN tiger, old
est of party symbols, first used bv
''' - -'"u
ago might claim honorable kinship
with that tiger. the head of which
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ers Christopher and Richard Barker.
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beth.
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the democratic party. is too humble 10
have been generally accented in ia.
ber.1,li,. man, ,,.,.i., "a H.. -, ,,-,,
80 " ''ie P"S'' "Hei.-
ever he did appear. 1t was usually with
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bacillus called Azotobacter figures in
the cast of characters, and there is an
other plant food in the professors
'bacterized peat" namely AUX
mones.' which may prove to be the
most valuable property of all. This is
now. Prof. Bottomley says, being eX-
perimented with in his laboratory with
view to discovering its possibly great
value as an animal food. but that is
another story. 1t remains to be learn ed
from this scientists own lips what his
discovery means to the world.
This question was put to him.
BY using Imagination you can dis
try he replied. I'm Great Britain we
waited land, or more than the entire
cultivated area of Holland, Belgium
and Denmark. from which countries
we import so many food commodities.
] don't say that all of this land can
be placed in cultivation, but the great
er part of il undoubtedly can be. What
this soil needs to render it productive
is a fertilizer to enrich it and la Dor to
till it.
The first has now been found in
peat. of which there is an inexhaustible
supply in this country-in Yorkshire,
Sommersetshire and Devonshire, as
well as in 1reland-and the men
will be forthcoming in the SOL
dieFs who Will be discharged from
the army at the end of the war,
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special Correspondence OF Inc Star
LONDON, March 16. 1916.
Il YESTERDAY the writer sat and
w talked with short, thick-set.
sandy haired. jovial man, a
q real dynamo of energy and
with any amount of brains and imagi-
nation packed away in his Uranium
whose remarkable discoveries in con-
nection with the fertilization of the
soil promise to revolutionize agricul-
ture the world over. \ man who may
vet prove the literal Regeneration of his
country by rendering productive the
millions of waste acres throughout
Great Britain. and thus. by making this
country self supporting. instead OF 50
utterly dependent upon the outside
world for its food that only couple OF
months of complete isolation would
spell famine for its inhabitants. Danish
once and for all the ever-eXistent dam
ger of its being starved into subsection
by successful enemy.
This is not the first time You have
heard of Prof. William Beecroft BOT
tomley of Kings College, London, for
he is the famous dscoverer of the
process Of "bacterizing peat, when
renders this hitherto waste product
p fertilizer is ordinary manure, and by
It's use doubles or trebleS the produc-
tiveneSs of the soil with which ii is
mixed. You may have heard of the mt
tle-short-of miracles that he has
wrought with it. of how, using only
little moss, watered with "humogen.
as he calls his extract of bacterlzed
peat, he has grown potatoes in box
on the roof of Kings College in eight
weeks. OF how, i'll many cases. the size
Of plants has been doubled and trebled
by his treatment. of how radlshes and
tomatoes have even been grown in pure
and watered with the peat extract. of
y. tons grown in soil mixed with the
bacterized peat that weighed between
three and four times as much as those
grown in the ordinary way.
So Efficient, indeed. is this plant
Bowl" as Prof Bottomley himself
calls it. that when it is stepped in wa
ter liquid fertilizer is obtained in
which plants will grow. 1t has been
said that by its use wheat could be
grown on railroad track, and when
asked if this were true, its inventor S
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looking down from a little ba lcony up
there. He just aimed and shot the
baker dead. ! saw it. Those first bad
days. ! couldn't see much. because
was hiding in the cathedral. After tW o
days my employer sent word TO me to
return to my work, and that | would
not be in danger. SO went back, The
house was fun of German officers, TO
cook for"
When you quit the cathedral, what
did you see"
The Germans were thick in Noyon.
They had pillaged everywhere and
broken furniture, emptied bottles, vast
ed groceries. Uttered the streets.
Nearly all the front doors were smash
ed in and the doorways boarded up.
The mayor had said. Let them do what
they please. or they Will kill YOU"
This surprised me. The idea has
spread at least in neutral countries,
that they pillaged only deserted,
empty houses. so ! said.
They pillaged the empty houses
Yes replied Blanche, and occu-
pied ones, too Most everybody had
hid in their cellars. or else fed 10 the
old Subterraneau vaults of the Red
CroSs--au ancient convent where they
halls. All Noyou was completely
closed those first days. There was not
house that was not closed"
And those who hid in their own Gel
lars;' / suggested.
They heard their doors burst in. and
ransacking upstairs. A hurried tramp
ing Of feet. No soldiers came to the
cellars hunting wine those first days.
They had all the wine they wanted
IN the cafes and big shops, especially
J. 10
sands OF bottles. and set fire 10 il
afterward."
We're things quiet when you went
back to work as cook ''
The fret day went hack to work
they shot "U OLD lady in the Rue de
'hauHy, because she had no beer. Com
plant was mad" to tho kommaudan-
fur. ana IL was answered that the sol
der would be punished
Bat you cooiled for German officers 80
Yes. iH = Few days ! was easy in
my mind ours was the most beauti :
ful house Of Noyon and the officers
We're content there"
W ere they polite
They w"r" iusupportable They puf
the master OUT. They put my patron
IN tn" cellar. A colonel wanted his
bedroom. You, the cellar they said,
but he fought for his rights and oh
tanned TWO mite back rooms for him
SELF aud family. They took all the
rre wines from the cellar aud forced
me to get up at = O'Clock IN the morn
ing 10 ma ke coffee for them. As lone.
az there was champaign" IN the Gel
lar they sang. danced. fell down the
STAIRS and made the fete TIL daylight.
They were grOssier 10 Ins patron,
Jostied him when they passed him
they were bad for all the rich but
GOOD Tor servants and children. Once
! asked the major for butter. He told
ms orderly to give il to me You,
yes, he said. but nix for the patron"
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paid his first visit to Prof Bottomley,
the thing may be explained in an I'M
technical fashion. AS everybody knows,
peat hogs exist the world over, and
until now have been little better than
waste land There are vast tracts in
the United States, and even greater
ones in Canada. Most Of all, however,
we connect peat with ireland, where. so
Prof Bottom1ey told the present writer,
there are more than 81, 900 600, 600 tons
of it, In ireland. Of course, they dry
the peat and use it for fuel. but other
wise utilize II practically not at all And
while the worlds peat supply has thus
lain idle the search for an ideal sub
stance with which to enrich the world 8
cutivable soil has gone steadily on. ever
since Adam and Eve began practicng
husbandry in the original garden.
The earth's soil contains organic mat
ter which scientists call "humus," that
feeds vegetation. and II also contains a
myriad Of influitesimal creatures known
as bacilii which also help things along.
and for years upon years tilIers of the
soil have experimental with animal and
chemical substances susceptible of caus-
ing these native properties of the soil 10
speed up'' and get buster. Up to now
animal manure has been the best
fertilizer known. Chemicals have been
largely experimental with, but have not
produced equal results. Infor1 unatcIy,
however, the world over, manure is get
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and to settle whom on the land big
government scheme is al present being
worked out Incidentally, of course,
this means a new industry for Ireland,
whose vast tracts of peat now repre-
sent marketable commodity.
1T is hardly necessary to dwell on
the desirability of increasing Guilt
walton in this country" Prof. Bot
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per horse this means half a million
tons less of manure for the owners of
the market gardens around London.
Where are they going to get their fer
itlizer from AS time goes on?
In Hampstead, the other day. I was
charged 50 for one ton Of manure The
price generally, | believe. ranges at
about $50 ton. our price for humo-
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CCENTlST Who Discovered How Turn Ordinary Bog Peat Into the Most Wonderful
Fertilizer Epoct-man
Soils Poductvn and Works Miracles Upon Plant and Vegetable CowMy Make
Sef-spporng
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They ate jam on roast mutton. No
French gentleman would do that
Were the ducks shot near the firing
line, too?"
Ducks from our poultry yard" re-
Piled Blanche. They ate up every
thing, ducks. geese, IA bbits. pigeons,
hens, till there was not an egg left for
my master when he fell sick. They
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Special Correspondence Of The star
PARIS. March is, 1916.
LANCHE LEMOINE is the sister
ID of my concierge.
In She is grand cook. The war
O. caught her at Noyon, fifty
miles north of Paris, engaged as cor
don bleu with the local magnate, Du
rand. whose mansion. in the Rue du
College. was Immediately occupied"
by high German officers as self-invited
guests when their great armies ir-
rupted.
The Germans are still at Noyon,'
II is ClemenceaU's war cry. They over
flowed Noyon. spreading southwark
beside Paris. were driven back in the
battle of the Marine. but always held
Noyon. the occupied city nearest to
Paris. High German officers always
remained the DIrands' guests, and
Blanche continued the grand expert of
the kitchen. AT times we had ffteen.''
she says. They put up beds in the
psrlor, library, Cardroorn, anywhere,
They were always good TO me. beca use
] was the cook. They were always
cluttering around the kitchen. coaxins
Make me this"
Two weeks ago nay concierge receIy-
ed a telegram from Blanche. dated the
Swiss frontier: Arrived in France.
Claim me" A week later the tri-
uuphant cook was with her family in
Paris She had taken advantage of the
German evacuation on account of
growing food scarcity.
On the dead quiet she obtained her
papers and slipped out Of Eoyon. along
with twenty other women. at . O'Clock
one morning on the appointed train.
FOR Switzerland VIA Germany. The nigh
oftcers were TOO nigh 10 Know about q
servants plans She got her papers
from the kornfuandautur, "a coiumdr-
dsnt OF artillery forty-hve years old
severe but just What the high ones
thought when they found their French
cook gone We do not know what Sh..
thinks Of them III tell YOU
Remember. have known Blanche
t.emoine ten years. She is truthful,
skil!ful. hard-w orkIug. God fearing
married woman. Her story begins win
the arrival OF the German troops 81
Noyon on August 90. 1915
II hid in the cathedral with eleven
other women amt the Beaudon. Every
BODY tried 70 hide. because We had
heard that they were behaving awful
ly. In effect they we're bad They killed
men. omen and children "
Did you see any children kiiIcd e.'
asked.
No replied Blanche. but saw a
man killed AZ the Hotel de VILE lie
vas peasant from alongside. who
Just happened TO he there. Twelve
German soldiers without an officer
rushed up and asked him. Where's
The mayor? The peasant answered
Z! don't know And they shot him
without orders. He rolled hundred
Yards and left a track with his brood.
Did you see him shot / asked.
No. but l saw him right afterward
Nobody had a right 10 touch him
saw a baker. thirty years old. shot
father OF two children, by the name of
Richard. He was our baker and 7
knew him well. This | saw. He was
standing In his doorway. A German
soldier, high up in The cathedral, was