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Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-14
, German gives Son to q. 9.

German Gives Son to q. g.
Yoakum. Texas, April 14.-Nava1
recruiting officers here forced to look
for an interpreter when q. Holmeg,
of Sinner, Texas. personally brought
in his 17-year-old son, Otto, for en-.
listment in the navy. Ho1meg, a farm.
er, was born in Germany and cannot
speak the English language.
Offers to Share With Nation.
Salt Lake City, Utah, April IA
Joining in the general desire to assist
the country while 1t is at war with
Germany, the Utah Metal and Tunnel
company of Bingham today announce
ed hat it would give free Of charge
to the government 3 per cent Of its
copper production, provided other
companies would take similar action.
Salvation Army Aids in War.
New York, April 14.-At q confer~
ence here Of Salvation Army leaders
from the United States, east of the
Mississippi, to consider special activi.
ties in view of war conditions, Com
mander Evangeline Booth announced
today that the organization as q unit
would take steps to meet the utmost
demands made upon 1t and would ex-
pend at least $4,000 for preliminary
work.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-14
Students Wait War Call.

Bloomington. ILL.,, April 14.-One
hundred and eighty-two men students
Of the Illinois Wesleyan university
enrolled today in four volunteer COM
panies and will offer their services to
Uncle Sam, II needed. The young
women, not to be outdone, also FORM
ed a company.
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Enough Reserve Officers.

Boston. April 14.-The enrolment
Of commissioned officers for the coast
defense class Of the naval reserve was
discontinued at the Boston navy yard
today upon receipt Of orders from
Washington stating that more than
the required number already had been
obtained. An appeal was made. how
ever, for seamen and petty officers.
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Harrisburg. Pa, April "A bill
providing for a bond Issue not to ex-
coed ~S2o.oo0.ooo for the purpose of
surrections and defending the state
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-14
Harvard Alumni Offers Services.

Cambridge, Mass, April 14.-Direc-
tors Of Harvard Alumni association
passed resolutions today declaring
their unqualified approval Of the po-
sition taken by the government of the
United States in declaring that a
state Of war exists with Germany. The
services Of the association were Of
fered to the government.
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in war;" wal introduced in the senate
today by Senator Ware, Philadelphia.
A bill appropriating a war fund of
100000 10 in process Of passage
through the legislature. %
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they will be candidates for re-elec-
ton.
So far no others have signined their
intention of entering tho race. u the
appearance Of oher candidates would
not be unexpected.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-14
Return from n

Return from Honeymoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Chalmers of
this city have returned from an ex-
tended wedding trip to points in I'LL
nois and other places in tho east.
They will reside on Front street.
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Herald Want Ads Brinr Results.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1917-04-14

II. ". Gregory,
ATTORNEY General
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.ae rev device.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02
HEN MANURE IMPROVES SOIL
and Mixed with Substances to
Preserve Nitrogen.

According to the Maine station. the
drOppings should be collected daily
and mixed with substances which will
O prevent loss of nitrogen. (2) add
sufficient potash and phosphoric acid
to make a better balanced fertilizer,
and go improve the mechanical con-
dition of the manure so that it can be
applied to the land with a manure
Spreader.
This can be done as follows: To
each 30 pounds of the manure add ten
pounds of sawdust, good dried loan,
or peat, 16 pounds of acid phosphate,
eight pounds of kainit. Such mix
'ture will contain about 1.25 per cent
of nitrogen, As per cent of phosphoric
acid, and 2 per cent of potash, which,
used at the rate of two tons per acre
would furnish 80 pounds of nitrogen,
1S5 pounds of phOsphOric acid, and so
pounds of potash. and Mt the present
price of fertilizing ingredients is worth
about $40 per ton. The mixture would
furnish n well-balanced stable ferti-
lizer, which. although not fine enough
to work well in drills, can be success
fully applied with a manure spreader.
The treated manure should be well
sheltered until time to apply to the
land-that is shortly before blowing.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02
PLANT SORGHUM FOR FODDER
Crop Is uninjured by Warmest Wealth
er of Summer, Ordinarily Making
Best Growth Then.

(By ]. F. NICHOLSON, University of
Arizona.)
Sown any time from April to the
end of July, Club-head and Amber
sorghums usually give heavy yield of
fodder. The saccharine sorghums also
when planted in rows and cultivated,
produce a fair quality of sirup. For
age sorghums are quite easily cured
in this climate, but are often fed as
they stand in the field. Seed does
not terminate promptly and the young
plants grow thriftily, however, until
April of most years. Little is gained
by planting before the daily maximum
temperatures begin to be So to 90 de-
grees and the minimum temperatures
are over 40. They are uninjured by
the warmeSt weather of summer, or
dinarily making their best growth then.
They are all killed when the mercury
falls below 80, this usually occurring
during November. A good crop may
be. secured ordinarily by planting any
time from April TO July. If the mois-
ture supply is sufficient under dry
farming, the earlier planting is best:
if it is not present sufficiently to
bring the crop up, the later planting
is to be recommended, for the Summer
rains usually begin then and will carry
the crop tqDnaturity.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02
PL0W IN PROPER CONDITION
Something Wrong When Farmer Must
Bear Down or Lift Up Handles
Study Is Necessary.

A plOw in proper condition runs
smoothly and at an even depth, with
very little effort on the part of the
plowman. When pillow does not run
smoothly, when the plOwman must
bear down or lift up on the handles, or
must constantly hold the pillow either
one way or the other to keep it from
tipping over, something is wrong with
1t. The point tips down or up too
much, or the cutting edge of the share
is dull or slants down or up too much.
A good plOwman must know how a
good pillow should work and when; 1t
does not go right should know what
is wrong with it. To know. these things
requires as much thought and study
and mental and mechanical ability as
to understand telephone or a tele-
graph instrument.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02
USE FOR EVERY ACRE
Importance of Utilizing Waste
Land Cannot Be Questioned.
Fat Hogs and Prime Beef Cannot Be
Made Without Good Feed-Means
for Farmer to Add Materially
70 Meat Supply.

With prices for fat hogs quoted at
S14 hundred pounds on the Jackson
vile market, and prime cattle at $40
and SD hundred, the importance of
putting every available acre into use
csnnot be questioned. The fact that
n Compound hog is worth $2S, and an
SOO-pound steer is worth nearly 800,
less he has the stock to sell, says A.
L. Spencer of the University of Flori-
ia extension division.
Prime beef cannot be made without
good feed, and as there are thousands
of acres of waste land in Florida that
at some time have been under cult
walton. these lands can now be put to
practical use.
The cost of blowing and preparing
the land for velvet beans should not
exceed SO an acre. A peck of bean
seed can be had for 40 cents or less.
If the crop is planted in good condi-
ton the beans should yield from u to
u bushels per acre, which if pastTed
off by cattle will feed two steers for
80 days and put them in fair condition
for killing, or will fatten one steer into
prime beef. There is an opportunity
for every farmer in Florida to take
advantage of this means of adding to
the meat supply and at the same time
to make a profit from the beans and
to improve his land.
Each year thousands of cattle on
Florida ranges die from lack of feed,
says Mr.. Spencer. This condition can
be overcome by the increased acreage
Of velvet beans that can be planted
this year.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02
DADDYSEV[NDN(
ARY TALL eli
DOCTOR BIRDS.
. MARY GRAHAAlM'.l. BONNER

"a little boy named Peter" said
Daddy, chad been very i'll. His mother
and daddy had been so worried about
him that they had decided he needed
a change of air. So his mother had
taken him down South, far, far from
his home.
"All Peter could do was to lie in the
warm sunshine and think. Sometimes
he would doze off but his dreams
would be troubled and not so very
pleasant because he was ill and he
wasn't resting a good healthy rest.
Poor Peter! How long the days
did seem sometimes. Often he would
ask his mother the time, and he would
be so surprised to hear that the morn
ing had not half gone. And often,
how he would long for school-in fact
every day he longed for ii, and Satur-
day he wished for his playmates and
the games they would have after the
errands had been done.
"School would have been the most
glorious thing in the world compared
to being i'll, he had thought so often.
In fact he thought so most of the
time. He did not think he would ever
again mind doing his lessons, because
there was so much else that was Won
derful about school. There were all
his friends, all his playmates. What
good times they all had had.
"Peter would think of the games
they would be playing at just such q
time-and oh how much longer the
afternoons seemed than the mornings.
sand when he would raise his legs
and try to imagine he was back with
the boys, ready for races, sports and
pranks. But his legs felt so weakl
His head got so tired. How wretched
1T was to be i'll.
"The doctor had told his mother
that half the reason he took so long
to get well was because he was so un-
happy.
"'If he could only get interested In
something said the doctor. He would
then get well twice as quickly. Doesn't
he like to readT
Eyes said his mother, but he II
lonely for his friends ~
But one day on the ledge, of the
little sleeping porch Peter had, came
a small bird. Peter spent his days In
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02

made years ago, when broadcast SOW
ing was the rule. Recent correspond
ence shows that drilled grain is practi-
cally safe from injury. -
Weed seeds are by far the largest
single component (63.9 per cent? of
the food of horned larks, and over 10
per cent of the LISA birds examined
had eaten them, no fewer than 206 in
dividuals. having fed on them, exclu-
sively. Conspicuous among the weed
seeds eaten are those Of the fOxtail
grasses, smartweeds, bindweeds, anna
ranth, pigweeds, purslane, ragweed
and crab and barn grasses. Horned
larks are among the most efficient
Notwithstanding birds.
The insect food of these birds in
cludes such pests as May beetles and
their larvae, the white grubs, leaf
beetles injurious to strawberries, cab
bage, melons and sugar beets, clover
leaf and clover-rOot weevils, potato
stalk borers, nut weevils, bill bugs and
the chinch bug. -Grasshoppers are a
favorite food; cutworms are eaten
freely.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02

No branch of live stock farming is
more productive of satisfactory results
than the raising of well-bred swine, if
conducted with n reasonable care, ac-
cOrding to the specialists of the bu-
reau of animal industry, L. 5. depart
ment of agriculture. Hogs fit into the
modern scheme of farming on nearly
every farm. and are one of the most
important animals to raise both for
meat and for money. They require
less labor, less equipment, and less
capital, make greater gains per hun
dred pounds of concentrates fed, re-
produce themselves faster and in
greater numbers. and give a quicker
turnover of money than any other
animal except poultry. Farmers of
the South and West particularly have
awakened TO the merits of the hog and
are rapidly increasing their output of
pork and their bank accounts.
The hog has no rival rs consumer
of by-products and numerous unmark
etable materials which but for him
might be wasted. Kitchen refuse, not
only from farms but also from hotels
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02

and restaurants, when cooked before
being used makes an excellent feed.
The value of skim milk as hog
feed is known on every farm though
not always fully appreciated. In the
neighborhOOd of many large diaries
pork production is very prominent
and lucrative supplement to the dairy
industry.
To. prevent tuberculosis, all milk
and milk products should be cooked
before being fed to hogs. To control
hog cholera. use sanitary precautions
and anti-hog cholera serum treatment.
Give your hog every chance to be-
come meat.
The hog is also large factor in
cheapening the production Of beef.
Hogs are placed I'M the cattle feed lots
to utilize the corn and other feeds
the cattle have failed to digest and
which otherwise would be wasted.
Hogs following steers in many cases
have increased the profit per steer by
from Sc to 50. Hogs should not be al
lowed to follow dairy cattle unless the
cattle are tuberculin tested.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02
ABOUT PLANTING SEED.

If you soak your seeds in water for
few hours, preferably warm water,
they will germinatS more quickly.
Some seeds require this treatment.
Large, hard-shelled seeds like Gamma,
require careful filing to break the
tough, outer cover. but extreme care
must be taken not to injure the germ.
The sowing of fern spores on q
brick. covered with just sprinkling
of earth, is an interesting garden
study. BY keeping the brick in Il pan
of water sufficient water is supplied.
Cypress vines will stand quite warm
water poured over the seeds l. hours
before planting.
1t is scarcely profitable for the am
ateur to raise most of greenhouse
plants or similar delicate ones. though
gcrahiumS and number of the larger
seeds are as easily managed as pansy
or an aSter, and one car get Il good
variety ~ Il small cost.
\ good rule is to plant seed twice
its own depth. and in case of small
seeds it is essential To have the ground
finely pulvcriZed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02
GERANIUMS ORNAMENTAL.

Beds of Ceraniums are exceedingly
ornamental. provided they are kept
in tidy condition. This san be done by
keeping all flower trusses picked OFF.
If the faded flowers are allowed 10
remain, | know of no plant that can
take on a more unSightly, slovenly
look.
OF course all the buds in truss
do not develop at the same time. and
one does not like to destroy undevel-
oped flowers. but the clusters can be
made TO look clean and attractive by
pulling away from them all flowers
that have passed thar prime and
taken on that bedraggled look which
so detrnctS from the slightly appear
ance of everything else in the bed.
Unless one has Il great number of
plants, this can be done in a short
time.
Ii will be found much easier than
going over the bed and cutting out all
the faded flowers, as is sometimes ad-
viSed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02
NOTES

Make notes this year TO guide you IL
next years planting plans. If you see
flower or shrub you admire, find out
the name and variety if possible.
Keep all the fence corners cleaned
ont. More vermin are harbored there
than anywhere else on the place.
Give japanese iris plenty of water
TO insure good blooms.
With nearly all plants it is neces
sary TO keep the flowers cut to pro
long the bearing season. This is es
pecially true of sweet peas.
Flowers that are not making salts
factory growth may be stimulated into
activity by liquid manure.
For late flowers of gladiolus plant
bulbs not later than July 4. Put In
some tuberoses also.
Always keep on the lookout for pos
sible mosquito breeding places-rair
barrels, upturned cans, low places In
roof cutters, and liquid manure tubs
Drain off or apply kerosene.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02
ABOUT PRUNING SHRUBS
BY L. Nj. BENNINGTON.

In pruning shrubs ii should be re-
membGed that there are two classes !:
One produces the flowers from buds
formed the previous season. Another
class from buds on the new wood of
the present seasons growth.
Wcigelia, lilacs, syringas, golden
bell, honeysuckles, deutZias, dOgwoods
privets, viburnums, rhododendrons.
kalmiaS, azaleas, daphnes, and the
towering currant, peach and crab, an
dromedas, Japan ounce, and hydran-
yea are some of the most generally
used shrubs that flower on the last
seasons wood, and in pruning any of
these ut this season the following buds
will be cut away.
Roses, burning bush. altheas, hyperi-
cum, hydrangeas grandifiOra and pani-
culata, amOrpha or false indigo, ge-
neSta, colutea and robina all flower
on the present seasons growth and in
most cases they will flower more free
ly if severely cut back.
In pruning, be careful to make the
cut CLOSE to the trunk. To prevent in
jury TO the tree first saw through
large branches from below, six or
eight inches away from the trunk ;
then saw from the top a few inches
nearer the trunk until the limb falls.
Then make Il new cut close to the
trunk. This will prevent splitting and
possibly tearing away part of the
tree.
In pruning small limbs and shrubs,
make the cut just above the bud.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02
PROPER WATERING OF HORSE
Expert of North Dakota Experiment
Station Suggests Water Be
Given Before Feed.

The proper watering Of the horse is
important. Mr.. Peters of the North
Dakota experiment station makes the
following suggestions. A horse that is
thirsty should be watered before being
fed hay or grain, rather than after.
The reason for this is that the stomach
of the horse is comparatively small,
and If he eats a heavy feed Of grain
or hay or both, and then drinks large
quantity of water, a portion Of the
feed will be washed from the stomach
into the intestines before it has been
sufficiently acted upon by the digestive
fluids of the stomach, and collie is like
ly to develop. The regular practice
should be TO water before feeding.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02

bed on the sleeping porch too, for the
doctor said the air would make him
well and strong so much more quickly.
"'Twit-twit,' chirped the little bird.
"HellO,' said Peter.
''The little bird cooked his head on
one side as if to say he wasn't at all
sure what Hello meant, but he
thought it sounded rather nice. So
he burst into a song. Such glorious
song! How Peter loved 1t. He smiled
and he even laughed at the little bird
who seemed to sing as If he would
burst his tiny throat.
"'What beautiful voice. said PEI
ter.
"'Twit, twit,' answered the little
bird. 'Chirp, chirp. tweet,' which was
his way of saying he was so glad Pc
ter liked 1t.
"Then the little bird looked about
him for crumbs or something to eat.
He moved his beak and tried to pick
up things he thought he saw. They
did not turn out to be good at all.
Mother called Peter, may have
some crumbs for this little bird? He
has sung for me and has been here to
call on me-
Peters mother came rushing out
with a bowl of bread crumbs and then
she brought out some clear, cool wa
ter. The little bird looked so grateful
and pleased, and he went off singing
gaily. That morning seemed very
short to Peter, and that afternoon the
doctor said that Peter seemed very
much better. The next day seven
birds came and sang and had q deli
cious repast. And the following day
a flock of birds came-all of many
colors and they all had lovely voices.
Peter grew steadily better.
"Spring was just about to arrive
when Peter suddenly thought that the
birds would leave him. Sure enough
they began to grow fewer and fewer,
but his first little friend was the last
to leave.
"'Oh,' said Peter, you've made me
well. How hate to seeyou co. Peter
was walking around now, but he al
ways spent his mornings In the sleep
ing porch where the birds came. And
Peter waved beautiful blue silk
handkerchief he had. 'GoOd-by little
bird friend he called.
"But that afternoon when the doctor
came he told Peters mother that Peter
was well enough to go back home, so
Peter went back with his friends, The
Doctor Birds as recalled them"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-11-02

THE AMATEURS GARDEN.
BY ELIZABETH VAN BENTHUYsEN

DO not begin by planning a larger
garden than you can possibly care for.
Gardening is great joy. but ii entails
much hard work and ii should not be
contemplated in light vein, for while
the results are worth all the effort
given TO it, many back-aches are the
portion of the young and ineXperi-
enced tiller of the soil
There is, fortunately, class Of an
nuals which might well be called
''standbys," the kind which bloom well
under almost any condition. These
are the kind would advise the anna
teur to work with.
Early sowing of seed enables the
plants to get Il good root system.
Have n large bed of naSturtiumS.
They are easy to grow. Petunias are
also beautiful and easy of culture.
The petunia may be made To renew
itself by going over the bed in Au-
gust and moving off the top of every
plant.
In a short time new shoots will be
sent up and from these, during the lat
ter part of the summer, you may eX-
pect flowers quite as fine in all re-
spects as those of early summer. In
order to keep nasturtiumS blooming
throughout the season, do not allow
seed To form.
1t is often advisable with nasturti-
ums to cut off good many leaves in
tn triUn hnn N
display themselves.
Do not use too much fertilizer in the
cultivation of this plant, as rich soil
induces the development of luxuriant
growth rather than the production of
large quantities of flowers.
The garden that is without the an
nual phloX is missing a great Oppor-
tunity for the display of beauty. This
plant is one of the very best we have
for massing. 1t is rarely satisfactory
when grown in small quantities or as
n single specimen.
Exquisite in combination are the
soft yellows. pinks and white varieties.
If you are fond of ribbon gardening
effects. thi<plant lends itself to it adj
mirably. There are other colors. red,
scarlet, lilac, all good by themselves
but not effective when used in CON
junction with the more delicate tintS.
Cosmos, were il not for its late-flOw-
ering habit, would be one of our most
popular flowers. But unless it is pro-
tected, 1t is pretty apt 10 be injured
by the early frostS. If you are wiling
to protect it around about September
20, by all means plant il.
For cutting, these flowers are SUI
perb. In the long spell of pleasant
weather, which So OFTEN follows the
early froStS, il is Il most desirable ac
QUESTION to the flower kingdom.
For Il hedge, there is nothing more
handsome than ZinniaS. These grow
to height of three and four feet;
they branch freely from the ground
up, and every branch will bear flow
ers by the doZen-largc, small and
medium-and few flowers in the gar
den will give such combination of
color.
one of the strongest arguments to
urge for the selection of this plant is
It's easy culture. 1t will grow as read
lily rs cabbage.
In planting for a hedge, let the
plants stand about Is inches apart.