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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-05

Mrs. L. l.. Martin will be hostes,
at this weeks meeting Of the Merr!
Danes club.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-05

Mr.. and Mrs. !. NJ. Hayner had as
their guest over sunday Mrs. Hayner'
brother. Mr. H. w. Cohenour of Mus
,kogCe.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-03-05

There has Just been placed on tho
shelves of the reference department
Of the public library a splendid sci
of - volumes of lIarts American
history, which IS q gift OF the loca
chapter OF Daughters of the Ameri.
can Revolution.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1917-06-28

All any home should expect of 9TH
ers is to supply those foods which
can not be produced effectively
by it's own members. The railroads
will be burdened with the trans
portation of staple foods and civil
and military necessaries from To-
calities of production and manufac-
ture to districts incapable of sup
plying their own needs. 1t follows
that all locally produced foods, con-
served by home methods, lessen the
winter pressure on transportation
agencies and also release similar
products of factories for other pur-
poses.
81 urge every household, there
fore, to can all surplus perishable
products for which they have con-
tainers and to dry and keep in pa
per any additional surplus suitable
for such preservation.
Canning calls for no special skill
and for little equipment beyond a
wash boiler and Jars Fresh pro
ducts, cleanliness and heat are the
chief requirements, as even sugar is
mot essential for canning fruits I'M
der modern procedure. Fruits and
vegetables, moreover, can be dried
efficiently in the sun, over a range
or gas stove, or before an electric
so JI.,, 10 CHI oil trnx nf
wood or heavy wire screen are the
chief equipment required. Drying is
d time-tried home industry; conser-
walton of food by drying is largely
"a matter of restoring to the home
great grandmother's method of see
ing that her family had good food
in winter as a relief from a mo-
nOtonous diet of root vegetables.
Canning and drying can be prac-
ticed as effectively in a city house
or apartment son a farm or in
suburban dwelling.
Canning, eof course, already is
"a profitable industry for women
and children in thousands of homes
and | trust will become almost uni
versal this season. To aid the home
conservation movement, the De
partment of Agriculture has is
sued a new Farmers Bulletin on
home canning, ad another on home
drying of fruits and vegetables.
These free pamphlets should be
read and followed in every house
hold which wishes to translate pa
triotic impulse into concrete ser
vice"
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1917-06-28

number of new backyard gardens
which have been planted this year
shortly will begin to yield their eX-
ira harvest of beans, peas, carrots,
beets, sweet corn and tomatoes. The
regular supplies also will reach the
markets and, as happens each sum-
mer, the local supply at times will
exceed immediate consumptive ca
pacity. Not to conserve much of
this surplusage of valuable food
would be sinful waste
''The present food and labor sit
uations are such that no household
is justified in looking to others to
release it wholly from individual
responsibility and constructive ac-
ton in saving and conserving food.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1917-06-28
ZACHRY SAYS Wife
SINGS ALL THE TIME.
She's as Bright and Happy
as a 16-Year-OEd Girl, and
Has Gained Is Pounds, :"
Says Dairy Farmer.

"My wife goes about the house
now singing and whistling all the
time, and no wonder she is so hap
by, for on just three bottles Of Tan
lac she has gained eighteen G8)
pounrs and she is like q different
woman altogether" said J. 3.
Zachry the weil-known dairyman
of Swords, Ga.
"Im here to get IA bottle to take
myself" he continueds ''for it's
helped her so much / am sure it
will be fine spring, tonic for me
to take.
"My wife suffered with indiges-
ton and stomach trouble for
long time, and was in a general
rundown condition. She reached
the point where she couldn't hardly
sleep at all, and her appetite went
down to almost nothing. She
couldn't take interest in anything,
was very weak and nervous and
seemed respondent all the time.
She lost a good deal in weight and
her strength was all getting away
from her.
"This is the very shape she was
in when she began taking Tanlac.
She has now taken three bottles Of
the medicine and the Indigestion
has been relieved entirely. She
hasn't a pain about her and feels
fine in every way She has been
gaining weight and strength ever
since she took her first few doses,
and weighs eighteen (18) pounds
more today than she did the day
she began taking Tanlac, She has
the biggest kind OF an appetite and
eats meats, hot biscuits and any
thing else she wants and everything
agrees with her perfectly She is
no longer nervous nor dizzy and
sleeps like baby. She goes about
her homework as happy as a SIX
teen-year-old gifl and smilessafT the
time. ..ssssT
Il have one hundred cows to
look after and my wife is helping
me more with my work than she
ever has in her life Taplac just
seems to have filled her with new
life, strength and energy, and you
don't know how happy we are over
her recovery It's just marvellous
the way it has acted with her, and
if anybody wants to know what we
think about Tanlac they can just
see or write me-"
Genuine Tanlac is sold by Har
desty G Lackey in Paragould; Mar
maduke Pharmacy Marmaduke,
chard, Ark, and Walcott Drug
Store, Walcott, Ark. (AdvtD
The Japanese make an imitation
of silk from the hemp of New Yea
land.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1917-06-28
Patriotic Auto Owners.

A few patriotic automobile own
ers have shown their willingness to
assist in the work of raising funds
for the Red Cross by conveying
speakers without charge to places
of meetings but, unfortunately,
the number to date has been very
few In many instances workers
who voluntarily abandon their bust
ness without compensation and visit
various sections in order to in
duce subscriptions have been forced
to pay out many dollars to automo-
bile owners to convey them to their
appointments, and the conveyance
charges have run as high as ten
per cent of the amounts collected
at these meetings.
The Red Cross campaign is a pa
triotic enterprise that should en-
list the interest of everyone. Auto
mobile owners should be glad Of
the opportunity to convey the pa
triotic workers on their missions of
mercy and make no charge for the
trips. The speakers are giving lib
orally of their time and money to
promote the cause TO a generous
success, and owners Of cars have the
opportunity to show their patriot
ism in an equal measure. Persons
who own cars are invited to assist
in the laudable work by rendering
the free use of their vehicles.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1917-06-28
LEMON JUICE is
FRECKL.E REMOVER
Girls! Make this cheap beauty lo'
ton to clear and white your skin

Squeeze tho juice of two lemons
into a bottle containing three
ounces of orchard white, shake well,
and you have a quarter pint of the
best freckle and tan lotion, and
complexion beautifier, at very, very
small cost.
Your grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces of orchard
white for a few cents. Massage this
sweetly fragrant lotion into the
face neck, arms and hands each
day and see how freckles and
blemishes disappear and how clear,
soft and white the skin becomes.
Yes! 1t is harmless. *tf
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1917-06-28
EVERY WOMAN IS
URGED TO HELP
Food Conservation Is Vastly Aided
by Canning Of Fruits and
Vegetables.

Washington, June ~" Every
housewife this year should restore
to her home the often overlooked
home industries of canning, pre-
serving, picking and drying of per-
ishable fruits or vegetables" said
David F. Houston, Secretary of
Arriculture. today. "rhe large
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1917-06-28
BRAZIL BACKS UP
UNITED STATES
Notifying This Government Of
Revocation of Neutrality, Ex-
presses Friendship.

Washington, June 22.-Adminis-
tration officials are highly gratified
at the status of relationship that
is existing between the United
States and Brazil as assured by
notes that have recently passed be-
tween the two governments. In
notifying the United States of the
revocation of neutrality in the
world war Brazil formally recog-
niZes the strength of the Monroe
doctrine.
Traditional friendship between the
two nations was expressed in the
exchange of the communications
according to the text of the notes
made public today.
John S. Wilson, age 101, of ROch-
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1917-06-28

John S. Wilson, age 101, of Roch-
ester, N. Y, has gone on record as
opposed to tag day.
The weekly soliphone. (Paragould, Greene County, Ark.) 1907-1918, 1917-06-28

The Japanese make an imitation
of silk from the hemp of New zea-
land.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03
DETERMINE AGE OF POULTRY
While There Is No Positive Rule to Go
BY There Are Certain Condi-
tions to Guess BY.

Strictly speaking, there is no posi-
tive test for the age of poultry. How
ever, a close guess can be made un-
der certain conditions. For instance,
the size of spurs generally distin-
gdfshes tt twe-year- bird; yet the
writer has had young birds develop
SPURS that would have done credit
to older birds. On the other hand,
he has had two-year-old birds with
spurs that were as short and rounded
as those of a cockerel. To some ex-
tent the texture of the leg Is guide,
and so is the delicacy and freshness
of the skin of the face and comb. Yet
there will be occasional hens that have
a youthful appearance to remarkable
degree.
Probably a better test is the skin
Of the body, that of the older fowl
being coarser and drier in appearance
A pullet will show rose-cOlOred veins
on the surface of the skin under the
wings. Long silky hairs will also be
grown there; but after the pullet has
become year old these hairs and
veins will disappear and the skin Will
grow white and veinlesS.
1t is more difficult to determine the
age of water fowls than it is of other
poultry.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03
STRAW TOO PRECIOUS
TO BE THROWN AWAY
Nav Be Used in Feed Ration for
Horses, Sheep and Rougher
Cattle With SiIage.

(By F. w. Peck, University Farm, st
Paul, Minn)
Burn no straw this fall.
Every ounce Of straw Is always Of
value, and this year it will be OF
greater value than usual.
1t is needed for live stock, because
the roughage crop Is short.
Straw may be used ia the feed ra
ton for horses, sheep and roughel
cattle with silage and a small amount
of grain. This cheapens the ration
and saves good hay and grain for 9th
er uses.
Liberal bedding with straw, If 1t Is
plentiful, also increases the amount OF
manure to be applied to the soil. Less
Of the fertility elements in liquid
manure are lost and bedding with
more costly material is made unneces
sary. The stock are made more COM
Portable and hence more productive
The fertility value at normal prices OF
the fertilizer elements amounts to
about So q ton for wheat straw and
81 a ton for oat straw. At present
abnormal prices this is Increased sew
eral times. At least rs per cent OF
this should be saved by proper CON
servation.
Threshing straw in the barn or bal
ing it before unsettled weather comes
are excellent ways of preserving
Otherwise straw should be stacked
where it will be easily accessible for
winter use. Not an ounce of straw
should be burned this fall.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03
COOPS FOR FATTENING HENS
Object Is to Reduce Exercise and In
crease Consumption Of Fat-Pro-
ducing Materials.

Fattening rations are not compli-
Gated or need not be to bring fair re-
suits. The principle Of fattening Is
to reduce the exercise and increase
the consumption of fat-producing
food. If the farmer possesses a num-
ber of small shed-roOf brood coopS
such as are used for sitting hens with
chicks, these coops will be fine for fat
tening hens. Each coop will accommo-
date about five hens without crowding
and they will have little opportunity
for fighting or scratching. Feed them
three times each day from pan con-
tanning a sloppy mixture Of sour milk
and corn meal and allow the hens to
eat all they will consume. After each
feeding remove the pan so that any
remaining feed will rot become con-
taminated with dirt and cause the
birds to lose their appetites.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03

roots and is considered the best way
to use either manure or commercial
fertilizer.
Stock peas can also be used to help
in fertilization and to keep the soil
loose. They can be sowed broadcast
when the cutting season is over.
Salt is a good fertilizer for aspara'
gus, and if applied early in the spring
will not only assist in fertilizing, but
will greatly retard the growth of other
vegetation so that during the cutting
season there will be but little growth
of weeds or grass. A cheap grade OF
salt may be obtained for this purpose
In the fall all the asparagus tops
should be moved and removed from
the field. Then take the plow and
throw two burrows on the row after
applying the manure.
Cutting for market commences one
year after planting, and as soon as
the stalks are few inches high.
The cutting should be very light the
first year, and the season should not
be long.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03
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NATIONAL SYSTEM OF ROADS
Expert at National Capital IIIustrates
How Scheme Is to Be Brought
to Successful End.

The establishment of national Sys-
tenn Of highways is greatly facilitated
by the federal aid road law, which
compels all the states that would share
in it's benefitS-and that means all OF
the states-to equip themselves with
state highway departments. With these
state highway departments devoting
their attention to the building of state
systems of main, through-line high
ways, every condition is favorable for
the next and crowning act-the estab-
lishment of a national system Of high
ways.
BY way of illustrating how a ma
tional system of highways is about to
be evolved by easy and logical stages.
an expert at the national capital made
the following statement:
"Gradually the state has made itself
a compelling factor in the handling of
local road problems and, as a logical
sequence, the federal government, first
through educational activity and later
by the financial aid provided by the
federal aid law, has made itself q
powerful factor in the working out Of
the state highway problems. The next
logical step follows the same course
which has been pursued by the state
governments, namely, the broadening
Of federal participation to provide for
the establishment of Il system of ma
tional highways.
"This policy can be put into effect
without disturbance Of existing organ
izations, without providing new means
Of finance and with but little change
in existing laws. The process would
logically take a course somewhat as
follows:
81. The state highway departments
and the federal office of public roads
would make an initial selection from
existing state highway systems of
those highways which are of interstate
Importance.
so. A system thus selected would be
approved by congress, with the re-
uuirement that federal funds be ap-
piled only to such system on and after
a specified date.
"3. The federal aid should be ex-
tended to maintenance as well as con-
structiOn, as the national system OF
highways should have for all time
close relationship with the federal gov
ernment.
"SOme of the states already have
made plans for utilizing the aid grant
ed by the federal aid road act on roads
which could not properly be included
in national system. But this need
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03
Quality of knowledge Counts.

What is needed to elevate the soul
is, not that a man should know all
that has been thought and written in
regard to the spiritual nature-not
that a man should become an ency-
clopedia; but that the great idea, in
which all discoveries terminate, which
sum up all sciences, which the philos-
opher extracts from infinite details,
may be comprehended and felt, quotes
William Ellery Claiming. 1t is not
the quantity, but the quality of knowl-
edge, which determines the minds dig
nifty. A great mind is formed
by few great ideas, not by an infin-
ity of loose details. have known very
learned men, who seemed to me very
poor in intellect, because they had no
grand thoughts. The illumin
alton of an age does not consist in the
amount of it's knowledge, but in tho
broad and noble principles Of whicl
that knowledge is the foundation and
inspirer.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03
ASPARAGUS THRIvES
IN ALMOST ANY SOIL
Planting Can Be Done Any Time
in Fall, Winter or Spring.
PIoW Land Thoroughly.
(By W. w. THOMAS.)


Asparagus will grow and thrive In
almost any kind of soil so long as it
is well drained. 1t can be, and is,
successfully grown in the North and
South, East and West. Planting can
be done any time in the fall, winter
or spring, when the ground can be put
in proper condition with good har-
row.
The land should be plowed thor
oughly and deep, and put in proper
condition.
Rows should be marked off with a
two-horse plow 4 feet apart, going
twice in the same furrow, making it
as deep as possible.
There will be several inches Of loose
soil in the bottom of the furrow on
which to place the plants, the crowns
of which should be or 6 inches be-
low the level Of the ground.
The plants should be set from II to
18 inches apart in the row.
They should be covered with about
/ inch of soil when planted in the early
fall or the spring, and as soon as they
commence to grow the dirt can be
worked to them with a cultivatOr un-
til the ground is level.
If planted in the late fall e. winter
it should be covered with two burrows
with one horse plow.
The ridge thus formed should be
worked down very early in the spring
with disc or cutaway harrow, going as
deep as possible but not deep enough
to injure the plants.
One year old roots should be used.
The practice of planting two, three
and four year old roots should be dis
couraged, as it has been thoroughly
demonstrated that the one-year old
roots are superior to others in start
ing an asparagus bed.
1t should do equally as well planted
in the fall as the spring.
From experience I find late fall
planting very successful. I would.
however, advise the planting at what
ever time best suits the planter. A
field when once established will last
for years.
l know of many fields from which
asparagus has been cut for 30 years,
and they are still producing good
, crops.
After the field has been thoroughly
worked with the disc or harrow in the
spring, as described above, use the
cultivator as often as necessary to
keep the ground in good, loose condl'
ton, and keep all the weeds out OF
the rows with a hoe.
The cutting season will last about
two months, during which time the
field should be cultivated often.
Asparagus should be well fed with
manure or commercial fertilizer which
can be applied at almost any season
of the year.
Manure is either spread on top OF
the row late in the fall and covered
with a plow, thus leaving ridge until
spring, or is applied in furrow close
to the row, either in the spring, sum-
mer or fall.
This gets the manure close to the
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03
WHY FAMILY MOVED TO TOWN
Compelled to Make Change Because OF
Poor Schools and Bad Roads
Remedy for Poverty.

"Why don't they go on to farm?"
Is the question with which many men
dismiss from their minds the story Of
some pOverty-stricken family. The
chances are five to one that that same
family was induced to move to town
because of poor schools and poor roads
in the country. The remedy for much
Of the poverty now in our towns Is
good roads and good schools in the
country. Why should not country
schools be given the same attention
given city and town schools? Why
should not the children be permitted to
go to them over good roads with dry
feet, instead of wading through mud
and water? Good roads will make the
country better place in which to live.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03
KEEP SEED CORN SAFE DURING THE WINTER

tight room, bin, box or barrel for 48
hours, The liquid bisulphid should be
placed in shallow dishes on top Of the
box or barrel holding ten bushels or
less. The fumes from the bisulphid
are heavier than air and gradually fall
to the bottom Of the receptacle, per-
meating the whole mass. Oae pound
of the carbon bisulphid is enough for
a room or bin ten feet in each &nen-
sion.
After fumigation the ears must be
thoroughly aired, whereupon the un-
pleasant odor disappears. Great care
should be used with carbon bisulphid; ;
it's fumes are quite as inflammable as
those from gasoline. To prevent the
entrance of weevils and moths, the
ears may be stored in comparatively
alright boxes or barrels with one
pound of moth balls or naphthalene for
each bushel of corn, which Is not In
jured. Ten pounds will protect enough
seed to plant 60 acres.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03
RINGING SELF-SUCKING cow
One Plan Is to Put Brass Ring in An
imaIs Nose-Gets Ring Instead
Of Her Teat.

A number of methods Of preventing
a cow from sucking herself have been
suggested, among them being the one
of putting a brass ring in the cows
nose large enough that when she opens
her mouth to take hold of the teat
she will get the ring. If large ring
is used two small ones can be linked
into the one that goes in the nose
which will answer the same purpose.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03
CALVES ON SEPARATOR MILK
Poor Practice to Pour Liquid Into Dir.
ty Trough and Let Animals
Drink Their Fill.

If we are ready to admit that a
cows milk is too good for a cows
calf and that it is economically profit
able to rob the future COW for the
sake of present gains. then it IS quite
necessary to know how to raise calves
on separator milk or other artificial
and unnatural foods, says writer.
The usual practice is to pour sepa-
rator milk, sometimes cold, into a
large trough which is never cleaned,
and allow the calves to drink until
they are satisfied. This method means
potbellied, runty calves, that never
make the growth they should, even
though they fortunately escape the
ravages Of Indigestion.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03

(From the United States Department Of
Agriculture.)
Seed corn may be left on the racks
where the ears have been dried. But
1t is generally preferable. says the
United States department of agricul-
ture, to store the ears in mouse-proof
barrels, boxes or crates during the
winter. In any case they must not be
exposed to dampness or they will abb
sorb moisture and be injured.
After hanging in the drying shed, or
lying on the racks where there is con-
stant circulation of dry air for the first
two months after they have been Sc
lected from the stalks in the field, the
seed ears should be bone dry and con-
tain less than 10 per cent of moisture.
Some farmers place the thoroughly dry
ears in the center of wheat bin and
then fill the bin with loose, dry wheat.
Destroy WeeviIs and Moths.
If signs of weevils or grain moths
show, the corn should be inclOsed with
carbon bisulphid in practically air.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03

the meantime the disturbance shows
it's effect in the milk supply. If the
manager of herd has nothing to offer
in the way Of kindness or love to his
animals he can do infinite harm. He
may apparently lose control Of himself
at times and feel justified in delivering
severe beatings; but such actions are
not good as an excuse. Forbid any
kicks in the bellies or any striking
over the rumps or backs with clubs.
Cases are on record of serious harm
being done to cattle by those who do
not take some forethought on how to
manage with reason.
Middletown transcript., 1917-11-03
FANCY PRICE FOR BROILERS
Around Holiday Season There Is Al.
ways Big Demand for Chickens
Hatched in Fall.

Chickens hatched in early fall
should bring fancy prices as broilers
There is generally great demand for
fryers or broilers at that season and
those who have them usually are for.
tunate.