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Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
DISEASES OF GARDEN CROPS
Much OF Trouble Due to Poor Soil Con-
dItIon-oood Drainage and Deep
Working Urged.

Many garden crops are attacked by
bacterial diseases due TO poor soil con-
dition and this is particularly true OF
old gardens. Good drainage and deep
and thorough working win aid much,
as win the application OF land plaster
or gypsum, or wood ashes, or other
alksline matter.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
NEED FOR INCREASED PORK PRODUCTION

Vrom the United states Department. Of
ARficulture)
A SOW Is good Investment. This
Is true even I'm these strenuous times
1 of high prices Of food concentrates,
Say specialists Of the Usited States
d<I,hrtment Of agriculture. The quo
tsNyhs. on these feeds are controlled
10 a considerable extent by the price
NJ which meat animals sell. Hence
coip'entrates usually command high
figure when hogs on the hoof at large
packing centers sell at more than 10
cents per pound However, record
prices for swine as well as feed con-
centrates have been a great incentive
TO farmers to cash in" all the hogs
available. That many sows have been
Included is evident from the fact that
on April the correspondent Of the
>nrveau Of crop estimates reported ap-
proxlmately three per cent fewer sows
on farms In the United States than a
year before. Further. this is the first
year that the supply has not increased
since 1918.
Many sows Sacrificed.
AT this time the marketing of a SOW
that can or has been bred is fairly
comparable to killing the goose that
laid the golden egg" Although the
fecundIty Of swine is well appreci-
ated by farmers, at times some are sac
rificed when little forethought would
cause them to be retained. Breeding
sows multiply FIVE or six times as rap
idly as other meat animals. They have
an average litter Of five or six pigs
and may be bred twice year, al
though three times in two years &C
cords more with current farm practice.
The litters increase In size, on the
average, until sows are Eve or six years
old, However, large proportion Of
me sows gre sold after PRODUCING 9Bf
81 two littefs, and before they have
kfashed the period Of greatest useful
negs. Occasionally sows are insult
able for breeding because Of their clum-
Eness, high condition, Inactivity, or
barrenness, and these, Of S66fse, 70
To market when of proper weight, but
the total sows Of this class is a mere
oagatene, Bess1-'-"
Hogs Utilize Waste.
In these days when labor is high
and also scarce on many farms, the
hog may AFFORD "a way out" Hogs
utilize refuse and waste grains. dam
aged grains. and garbage; garnered
grain behind cattle or shattered grain
n harvest fields, and utilizing slaugh-
sefhouse by-products and dairy by
products. They are also largely self
Feeders. The modern farm cafeteria"
gives a pig chance to make a hog
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
SHORT ORDER.

Persistent Salesman-Won't YOU
give me an order?
Business Man-Certainly. Get
out.-The Lamb.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
= RUDE lNTIMATIoN.

odd you take any. desperate meas
ures when you found the man was
90 ill?"
I've sent for a doctor, sir"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
SHE HAD HEARD 1T.

"Chauncey said | was the only
girl he had ever loved"
Doesn't he say it beautifully,
dear PACK o'Lantern.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
A MISREPRESENTATION.

"Miss Jaggs is very attenuated ia
her figure"
do you think SOP 1 would CALI
her real thin"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
THE MAIN POINT.

"This horse, I'll guarantee will 20
without a hitch"
"That's all right, but will he stand
without hitching?"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
BETWEEN GIRL FRIENDS.

"What foolish things a young man
will do when he's in love-"
"Oh, Mariel I'll bet Jack pro-
posed"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
ON A PAR.

81 hate to hear VIII and Jane get
into an argument"
"Why?"
"EIe's so dogmatic and she makes
such biting retorts."
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
AN EXCEPTION.

He-Do you think there is no
woman ! could make happy Z
She-0h, yes, there is one--yonr
widow.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
JUSTIFIED.

Jim-DOctor, / suspect my wife Of
putting arsenic in my soup.
Doc-Quite likely, Jim. I'Js seen
you eat soup, "a. sEAauzEs axa1uE
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
HIS THEME.

"The farmer we boarded with
penned stray article now and then"
Gan agricultural thesis?"
"No; a wandering pig"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
ONE EXCEPTION.

BrOther-YOung Jobbins is going
some.
Sister-YOn can't notice it wAsn
be calls here. -
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
COMMON PEOPLE FLEE.

There's no fun in automobiling
nowadays"
"Too many csrs?"
"No. Not enough pedestrians"
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
IN A 5ARkIs MOOD.

He-Will you be engaged tomor-
row evening?
Shot, will if anybody asks me BY
then. =
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10
THE WAY OF 1T.

Critic-How does your prima
donna find life?
Manager-0h, more or less of a
sing-song affair.
Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1917-11-10

RANT 1t is possible to carry breeding
sows on pasture alone. but the most
palatable hay viii not keep sows In
s0Ss sFss sS s sRs!I!Ss 4 fed alone.
sows at a Premium.
Breeding sows are at a premium,
and the demand for young stock is I'M
precedented: The hog buyers siate n
their reports that they are compelled
to take anything that looks like a
bog. The fpctqation In the number Of
hogs in the United States is subject
largely to the fluctuations IN the finan-
ciaf Condition Of the country. The
high prices paid lor hogs sEs-g big IN:
ducenient to farmers to Market their
hogs, and as stated before, the high
prices of corn caused them to cut loose
during the latter part Of the year.
The high prices paid for hogs and an
increasing export trade are the two
main factors which make the hog bust
ness especially attractive at the pres
ent time.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
FOREIGN

News was received at Paris con-
firming reports that the freight steam
er Maine had been sunk eight miles
from 'Dieppe.
Vienna is threatened with a short
age of grain, bread and other foods.
owing to transport difficulties, accord
ing to reports from London
The resignation of Premier Tuan
Chi-Jui. offered several days ago, has
been accepted. and Foreign Minister
Wang Tah-Sieh has been appointed
acting premier of China.
Gen. Sir Herbert Plumer, command
er of the Second army corps, which
has been in the thick of the fighting
in the Ypres battle, has been appoint
ed commander of the British forces in
Italy.
Baron Rothermere, chief proprietor
of the London Daily Record and Mail
of Glasgow and the Leeds Mercury,
has accepted the post of air minister
In the British cabinet. according to
the Pail Mali Gazette.
At Paris, under. the bold caption,
II Accuse M Caillaux," Gustave
Herve, in La Victore. charges former
Premier Joseph Caillaux with being
the center of the whole campaign for
a dishonorable, ruinous peace.
= The text of certain confidential
communications between the Russian
foreign office and foreign govern
ments were published at Petrograd by
Bolsheviki and social revolutionist
newspapers at the instigation of Leon
Trotzky, the Bolsheviki foreign min
ister
Creeping into Paris stealthily and
by devious routes, and "murmured"
into the ears of the French foreign
minister an alleged offer of peace,
now believed to be snare set by the
Kaiser himself, has just burst in polit-
ical circles at Paris as unexpectedly
and as explosively as a Zeppelin
bomb
A Petrograd dispatch from the semi
official news agency says that the
mayor of Petrograd has announced
that the Germans have declined to
receive the parliamentary representa-
| tives sent by order of the Maximalist
commissaries, declaring that peace
negotiations would only be conducted
with the constitutional government OF
| Russia.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
GEN ERAL.

A dispatch from Berlin says EN-
peror William has approved bills for
Prussian suffrage reforms and for
changes in the composition of the up
per House of Parliament.
At meeting of the board of trus
tees of Franklin and Marshall College
at Lancaster, Pa, Count Bernstorff's
name was stricken from the rolls The
degree of doctor OF laws was con-
ferred upon him in 1912.
German attacks in the near future
on American coast cities were pre-
dicted by Rear Admiral Robert E.
Peary in an address in New York be-
fore large gathering of newly en-
franchised women on the topic OF
aerial defense.
At Kitchener. Ont, hooting. peer
ing, Kissing and cheering for the op
position leader, a crowd of 5000 peo-
pie, some of them armed, howled down
Sir Robert Borden, prime minister of
Canada, when he appeared to set forth
in federal election campaign in the
case of union government and compul-
sorry military service.
With the aid of the French ambassa-
dor. NJ Jusserand, a reformation in
women's dress styles for 1918, which
will have a saving of 25 per cent in
the amount of material used. has
been effected by the commercial
economy board of the council of ma
tional defense. Mems clothing styles
also have been simplified and to a
great extent standardized, with a
saving of about 40 per cent in ma
terial.
Twenty-four militants of the Wom-
ans party, serving terms in the Dis
trict of Columbia workhouse at Oc-
coquan, Va, for picketing the White
House, appeared before Federal
Judge Waddill at Alexandria, Va, in
habeas corpus proceedings, through
which they seek their liberty. Illegal
conviction and transfer from the Dis
trict Jail to Occoquan prison, and
Occoquan authorities were charged.
The National War Work Council Of
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton announced at New York that the
grand total of the nationwide war
fund campaign is $49,209.411. This
exceeds by nearly $15,O00,OOO the $685.
600 900 goal set at the beginning Of
the campaign on Nov. IL.
Capt Frank e. Kleinschmidt, wide
ly known as an Arctic explorer. was
arrested in New York by detectives at
tached to the bomb squad" on the
technical charge of having violated
the penal law by having . revolver In
his possession.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
WESTERN.

Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor for
thirty-five years, was reelected. and
with him the other officers at the
Buffalo. N. Y. meeting.
The Rev. Lyn G. J. Kelly was ac
quilted of the charge of committing
the Villisca ak murders of 1912 by the
jury in his second trial in District
Court at Red Oak, Iowa
Ten persons were killed and several
injured when bomb, designed to de-
stroy the Italian Evangelical churcn
in the heart of the Italian settlement,
exploded at Milwaukee. Wis.
Tobacco prices reached top marks
at Louisville. KY, when a Louisville
firm disposed of 100000 pounds of
hurley at 80 cents a pound and 45O,-
900 pounds of Indiana dark, one suck
er leaf and lugs at an average of 1914
cents per pound.
Capt. Chapman Grant. son of Jesse
Grant and grandson of U. S. Grant,
twice President of the United States
and Americas most famous soldier
and Miss Mabel Ward of Globe and
recently of Chicago, were quietly mar
ried at Lower Miami. Ariz. Capt.
Grant is at present commander of u
detachment of United States cavalry
stationed at Globe.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
WASHINGTON.

The total amount OF war insurance
written by the Bureau of War Risk
Insurance in the Treasury Department
has crossed the 81 ,OO0, 100000 mark.
Operation of all railway lines east
of Chicago as one centralized system
was decided on by the Railroad War
Board, to obtain a maximum of eff
cheney in traffic movement.
Rear Admiral Frederick r. Harris,
chief of the Navy's Bureau of Yards
and Docks was named to succeed Rear
Admiral Capps as general manager of
the Shipping Boards Emergency
Fleet Corporation.
Convinced that danger Of a general
railway strike has been considerably
lessened, II not practically removed.
President Wilson initiated negotia-
tions to settle the wage dispute be-
tween the railroads and the brother
hoods of train employees.
In anticipation of huge returns next
June from income taxes under the
war revenue law, Secretary McAdoo
announced an issue of per cent
treasury certificates Of Indebtedness
of indefinite amounts due June 25,
1918. the final day for payment Of In
come taxes.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
SPORT.

Wisconsin triumphed over Chicago.
IS to 0. in the final game of the Big
Ten at Chicago
The Army wound up it's football
season at West Point, N Y, by beat.
ing Boston College 13 to 7.
James Henigan of the Dorchester
Club at Boston wrested the national
senior cross country championship
from Villir Kyronen of the Mill Rose
Club, New York.
The University of Denver team, the
only undefeated college eleven in the
state. will play the undefeated Utah
Aggies in Denver the second Saturday
after Thanksgiving if the challenge is.
sued by the Utah team is accepted
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29

Farmers Bulletin, "Swine Manage
ment," recently issued by the United
States department of agriculture.
Breeding stock does not thrive SO
well and Is not so prolific on an ex-
elusive corn diet as on varied ration
forage, at the same time, is becoming
more and more important in hog rails
ing. These facts are giving to the
South an increasing Importance as
hog producing section. In this re-
gion peanuts, cowpeas, soy beans, and
velvet beans may be had in abundance
for hog feeding.
The recognition of the fact that an
exclusive corn diet Is not necessary in
raising hogs is also emphasizing the
desirability Of increased hog raising In
dairy districts, where skim milk and
buttermilk are available; in trucking
sections, where unmarketable products
may be fed; and in irrigated regions,
where alfalfa may be used for forage
The bulletin points out that persons
taking up hog raising for tn e first
time will find it advantageous to locate
in a hog raising community where
they may profit by contact with hog
raisers of experience. 1t is also
pointed out that If hog raisers of
community can bring about the pro-
duction in their district Of certain
grade or breed of hog by all producers,
marketing difficulties will be greatly
lessened. The marketing of hogs. at
weights ranging from 25O to 800
pounds usually will bring the greatest
profit, according to the department
specialists.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
TIE LATEST IMPORTANT DIS.
PATCHES PUT INTO SHORT.
CRISP PARAGRAPHS.
STORY OF THE WEEK
SHOWING THE PROGRESS OF
EVENTS IN OUR OWN AND
FOREIGN LANDS.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
ABOUT THE WAR.

Russian peace proposal, accepted by
Germany.
British forces force wedge of six
miles into German lines.
Sickness in camps is officially re-
ported by the government.
British continue consolidating gains.
though the Germans fight desperately.
Number of German prisoners taken
by the British reaches the 5000 mark.
Berlin claims that attacks on Inchy,
/, Banteux and Moeuvres were repulsed.
Arrival of American troops in
France has been proceeding as per
schedule
In Palestine the British are closing
in on Jerusalem. The site of the an
cient Mizpah. some eight miles west
of Jerusalem, was carried by storm
Capture of 1900 Austrians who
crossed the Piave river y announced
in a message from Gen. Diaz, the Ital.
ian commander-in-chief, to his army,
received by cable.
The Italians claim to have repulsed
many attacks of the Austro-G Germans
between the Brenta and Piave rivers.
Venice reports that the bursting Of
shells has been heard there.
The Bolsheviki Press Agency Of
ficially reports from Petrograd that
all of Premier Kerensky's troops have
surrendered and that the Bolsheviki
also have gained complete victory
at Moscow.
. The British have won another
smashing victory near Cambria. cap
turing the village of Bourbon and
most of Bourbon wood after sangui.
nary fighting. Press reports tell OF
the terror cast over the German ar
tillery ranks as a mass of tanks
crawled on toward them. The British
airmen aided the infantry in their ad
vance.
Near Verdun the French have cap
tured first and second line trenches
from the crown princes army, and
have taken prisoner more than SOC
Germans and won several deep dug
outs.s This success followed several
attempts of the crown prince to ad
vance. The Petain forces in large
numbers suddenly burst into the Ger
man trenches.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
SHEEP and HOGS
EASY TO MANAGE
Really Require Little Capital,
Equipment. or Labor-Con-
sumo Much Waste.
SHEEP NEED LITTLE GRAIN
With Right Kind Of Hay They Can
Be Carried Through the Winter
Without Any-Resuits From
Experiments.

Sheep can be successfully wintered
with a smaller use of grain than Is
needed for other live stock. If in good
condition at the beginning of winter
and given the right kind of hay they
can be carried through the winter
without grain unless the lambs are to
be dropped before going to pasture.
All depends upon the kind of hay or
other roughage used.
Legume hays stand at the forefront
as rOughage for sheep. No other ap-
proach them in feeding values. The
coarse-stemmed hays like timothy, red
top and blue grass, have very few
leaves, and therefore are poor sheep
feeds. Hays having large amount Of
timothy In them also are undesirable.
Not only is timothy unpalatable to the
sheep, but it causes serious cases Of
constipation. The dry timothy heads
works into the wool, causing irritation
to the skin, lessening the value Of the
clip and making shearing difficult.
When timothy or other cOarse-stemmed
hay is fed to sheep In winter quarters
1t becomes necessary to use some sup
Elementary feed to keep the sheep in
condition.
If any non-legume hay is fed, sup
Elementary protein feed is needed.
Linseed meal is good, since in addi-
ton to furnishing protein 1t counter
acts the constipating effect Of timothy
hay. From one-quarter to one-half
pound of llnseed meal per eve daily
should be used, depending upon the
size and condition of the animal and
the other feed used.
In an experiment conducted at the
Missouri station the relative values Of
clover and timothy hays for wintering
ewes were determined. Fifteen ewes
fed 20 pounds timothy hay and 0.35
pound grain per head daily lost 7.6
pounds each during the e'same time that
another lot receiving the same weight
of graiE and clover hay gained 6.5
pounds. The fourteen ewes fed clover
hay dropped 16 strong lambs, while
those fed timothy dropped II strong
and five weak lambs. The lambs from
the ewes fed clover hay gained more
rapidly during the first 30 days than
did those from the ewes fed timothy
hay.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
Save the Sows.

Selling brood SOW at this time, ae-
cordfng to the United States depart
ment of agriculture, is like killing the
goose that laid the golden eggs.
When pork is selling at 1s cents or
more a pound on the hoof, the hog
breeder may be tempted to turn into
cash all that he can sell; yet the de-
partment points out that the value of
brood SOW which will produce such
high-priced offspring is proportionately
increased and she should be kept as
the source of further and future prof
its.
Breeding stocks are being depleted,
and the department says that the situ-
to become very serious X the country
continues to be drained of its meats.
Hogs furnish meat more quickly and
cheaply than other stock can; the
meat shortage, therefore. can most
readily be met by swine production.
It has been calculated that the possi-
BILE increase from one SOW Is 1,OO2
pigs in four years. on the supposition
that all litters consist Of six pigs. that
all live, that half are females, and that
each gilt should farrow at one year
and every six months thereafter.
Another cause of the depletion OF
breeding stocks is probably in the high
cost Of feeds. While concentrated
feeds have gone up, the department
says that some of the expense of car
rying breeding stocks may be cut
down by the use of green fall forage
crops, pasture, alfalfa or clover hay.
Brood sows may be maintained in fair
condition at comparatively little eI-
pense by. the use Of such feeds. In
brief, the department strongly recon-
mends a campaign to save the sows
as one means of helping to meet the
threatened meat shortage.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
Denver Bank Robbed Of $4,000.

Denver.-Unmasked and armed with
revolvers, two bandits drove up to the
ltalian-American bank at 1884 Fif-
teenth street at 1 O'Clock Friday, en-
tered the bank, lined a number Of
patrons up against the wall. ordered
the bookkeeper. Carlo Di Iullo, the
only employee Of the bank present. out
OF his cage and took from the drawers
between $1,000 and 5000, mostly in
bills. They escaped In an automobile.
Both Of the robbers seemed to b
mere boys.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
Trim Bones Out Of Beef.

Boneless beef is now being shipped
from the British colonies for army
supplies and effects considerable saw.
ing in ocean freight. The bones are
trimmed out Of the beef before ship
ment, reducing the weight 20 per cent
in some cases, permitting more com
pact slowing in the coolers, and leav-
ing the bones near districts where beef
animals are raised, to be used for fats,
fertilizers, and other bysproducts.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29

The dual-purpose cattle are popular
with the small farmer who keeps but
few cattle and must depend on them
to produce all the milk and butter
needed for the family and, at the same
time, raise calves or steers which will
sell readily for slaughtering purposes.
They have not been popular with the
ranchman or farmer who raises large
numbers Of cattle.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29

Fattening steers on grass and cot'
tonseed cake is nearly always more
profitable than grazing them without
feed. The use of small amount Of
corn In addition to the cottonseed cake
has proved profitable.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
Alleged Auto Thieves Arrested.

Del Norte-With the arrest and al
legged confession Of one man here and
the detention at Amarillo, Tex, of
three others, the district attorney be-
lieves he has discovered a gang of
automobile thieves, perhaps fifty in
number.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29

There is no section of the country
which can produce cattle more cheap
ly than the South, for the lands are
still cheap, the grazing is good, the
pasture season is long, feed can be
produced at a minimum cost, and in
expensive shelter only is required for
the animals during the winter months.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
Nearly $500, 900 for Y. M. C. A. Fund,

Denver.-Both Denver and Colorado
over-subscribed their apportionments
in the Red Triangle war relief fund.
Denver's grand total was reported as
$187,12S.58 at a luncheon of the
workers. Reports received at state
headquarters were that the states ap-
portionment of 100000 had been over
subscribed $4,000.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
Dreams Man 10 Dead; Finds Body

Pueblo.-A dream led Mrs. Charles
Shaw of Independence, Kan, to hurry
to Colorado in search of her husband,
who had gone to Cripple Creek. She
found his body in the insane asylum
here, where he died. In her dream,
she says, she saw him lying mur-
dered, beaten to death.
Cheyenne record., 1917-11-29
Aliens seino Registered.

Pueblo-Samuel ]. Burris, United
States marshal, came here 70 register
alien enemies. Thirty-five were reg
istered the first day Of the 200 who
are said to reside in the county.