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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-03-14
HIGH COST OF ooD PRODUCTS

After an earnest and careful In
vestigation in this State relative to
the high cost of food products--the
necessities Of life-the basic cause
can be placed upon the fact that the
farmers of Kentucky during 1916
failed to plant and produce suffi-
cient amount of food products, not
alone to supply the local demand
but an inadequate amount for their
own family consumption, and are to-
day buyers in the open market for
such. The citizens of the cities and
towns are not expected and can not
plant and produce these necessities,
thus relying upon the farmers, and
when both country and city people
become competitive buyers in the
open market for these products, It.
is no wonder that prices soar to the
present unreasonable proportions.
The first duty the farmer owes to his
family is the production of a suffi-
cient amount of food products to sus-
tain and feed the members of that
household. This being done they
are Independent. Then conserve the
products at hand. At this time
there are many efforts being put
forth to teach the need and advan-
tage of conservation of home pro-
ducts. 1t is done through organized
work, through bulletins and through
teaching and fortunate is the farmer
who has learned this lesson of pro
duction and conservation" In this
way he will be surprised to find to
what an extent this larger produc-
ton and caring for the surplus pro-
duct will mean in money in his
pocket and sustenance to his fellow
beings.
II is for this reason that l call
upon the farmers of Kentucky to
increase their planting,
this year, so that a surplus may ac-
crue which when placed upon the
market will reduce the extremely |
high cost of living and drive perjury |
and want from the many hungry |
families of this Common
wealth. Sincerely,
MAT S. COHEN,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
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The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-03-14

bands. Use small top milking pail.
This helps to keep foreign matter from
the milk.
Immediately after milking remove
the milk TO a separate room from the
barn TO be strained and cooled. Cool
the milk to as low temperature as
possible without freezing. Forty or 90
degrees +. retards growth of most
germs and particularly those that cause
milk TO sour quickly. --------.
In summer keep flies out of the barn
and milk room. One fly may carry as
many as 10000 germs to the milk.
These may be disease germs. Manure
should not be allowed to accumulate
around the barn. 1t is breeding place
for flies.
The number of bacteria in milk de
ponds largely upon cleanliness of milk
ing and handling, temperature at
which milk is kept and age of milk.
Therefore clean milk, quick cooling and
prompt delivery are very important
factors in producing pure dairy prod
ucts.
Lime is a good disinfectant and
should be used literally in the dairy
barn.-V. Il. Jones, Dairy Husbandry
Department, South Dakota State Col
iege.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-03-14
GROWING TURKEYS.
Abundance of Food and Room For Elk
srciso Necessary to Success.

oTStSV tNSSSSSo'J " SSSN~S
Every precaution should be taken in
turkey raising to obtain strong, vigor-
GUS stock. Do not imagine that size
is the main point of excellence, says a
poultry expert. y medium sized COB
bier weighing about twenty-five pounds
will usually render more satisfactory
results than an overheavy specimen.
In all fowls remember that size is
largely Influenced by the female, and
the color and distinguishing character
istics by the male. The hens should
be well matured, weighing not less
than fourteen pounds, intelligent and
tame, as distinguished from wild and
unduly eXcitable birds, and of pro
nounced constitutional yigor.
\ safe rule for mating is to have a
tom for every four to six hens. Good
fertility is reported from matings of a
male TO every twelve females, but we
are inclined TO think this is unusual.
On farms where the flocks are yarded
it is customary to keep two cocks for
every eight or ten hens and to alter.
nate the males about twice a week,
keeping one penned aloof while the
other is with the flock. When turkeys
are given unlimited range, which is the
most successful method of raising
them, they naturally divide into flocks
1t is said that the real secret of sue
cess in rearing turkeys is exercise
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-03-14

They must have an abundance of food.
and TO maintain the necessary health
TO assimilate large quantities of food
they must have an abundance of exer-
else. This idea is entirely logical. Tur-
keys are large birds, semiwild by ma
ture, possessed Of rowing disposition
and fully capable OF taking care of
themselves. To coniine them Is TO i'm,
pose feeling of cOnstraint and worri-
ment. over which they never cease to
fret. To do well turkeys must have
range. Only few should be attempted
in a confined space, and even then they
will require painstaking care.
Much of the so called bad luck" In
turkey raising. infertility, soft shelied
eggs and impaired yigor is due TO bn'
proper feeding. Avoid having the
breeding stock too fat. II they have be-
come so during the winter season en-
deavor 10 reduce them to medium flesh
before the mating season. Oats are one
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-03-14

Even the wolf in sleeps clothing
may have the wool pulled over his
eyes.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-03-14
SAVAGE DISCIPLINE.
The Way unrvly Indian Boys Were
Punished In Former Days.

inc way Onrpiy indian BOYS were
Punished In Former Days.
My grandmother had twelve chill
dren, ana one uncle undertook to teach
me the art of worship. He used to
lead me to the sandbanks of the Mis-.
souri, river. where lie would set fire
to a pile Of driftwood, and then, TAX
ing me by the hand, sing sacred songs
to the fire and river. In the mean.
time he threw into them offerings Of
tobacco, red feathers. and sometimes
oak twigs. never knew the meaning
OF these offerings, but | always felt
that some living thing actuated both
the fire and the river.
Another uncle came TO visit us peri
odicaly, and every time he came my
brother or | suffered at his hands.
Sometimes he would rush 10 the
spring, carrying me horizontally under
his arm and would plunge my head
into the water until | almost su1o-
Gated.
His common form of discipline was
10 let me hang by my hands on the
cross poles OF the wlgwam until my
arms ached. My body wrlthed before
I dropped. This uncle seemed 10 Ike
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-03-14
Public Streets.

Under the Roman-Dutch civil law
the title to public street was in the
sovereign. and this rule obtained In
New Netherlands until the country
now comprising New York city was
taken over by the English in 1864.
The English common law. on the
other hand, left the title to a public
street in the owner of the adjacent
laud, with only "the right Of passage
tor the king and his. people. New
York Times.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-03-14
AROUND THE FARM.

Packing apples attractively helps to
sell them for more money.
Lime-sulphur spray gets peach leaf
curl Apply in fall or winter or any
time the leaves are off.
Shrubs that attract birds by theii
fruit are worth planting around the
farm home.
Painting farm implements and vehi-
cles is good odd job for winter. OF
course they are all under cover.
Snow is said to be the poor mans
fertilizer. and it is-in the sense that
any man who depends on 1t is bound
to he poor.
Systems of drains in land that has
been titled. but that was more or less
wet. have usually paid for themselves
in four or five years and often in much
less time.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-03-14
How's This2

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
Cor any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Halls Catarrh Medicine.
Halls Catarrh Medicine has been taken
by catarrh sufferers for the past thirty
five years, and has become known as the
most reliable remedy for Catarrh. Halls
Catarrh Medicine acts thru the Blood on
the Mucous surfaces, expelling the Poi
son from the Blood and healing the dis
eased portions.
After you have taken Halls Catarrh
Medicine for a short time you will see q
great Improvement in your general
health Start taking Halls Catarrh Medi-
cine at once and get rid Of catarrh. Send
for testimonials. free.
F. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by all Druggists. 75c.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-03-14

best to command my older brother to
tie my hands and feet with a rope.
Then he would order me to resist
an ordeal that would make us both
cry. In the winter he would also
sometimes roll us In snow naked.
The punishment Of Indian children
is usually in the, hands Of some uncle
rather than the parents. Our punish
ments were inflicted generally because
we had disobeycd grandmother by
failing to get wood at evening, had
resisted fasting. had fought some In
dian boys or had cried without suf-
flcient cause.-Southern Workmen.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-03-14
ouInins Not q Preventive.

DR.. z. Halford Ross in letter to the
London Lancet ridicules the attempt to
prevent malaria by administering qui-
nine. This cures malaria, but does not
prevent 1t, Just as diphtheria is cured
with antitoxin. but not prevented. He
cites the utter failure Of five years Of
1uinlne administration to prevent ma.
laria in Egypt and Of the marked re.
duction in the disease that Immediately
followed the enforcement Of anti-mos
quito measures.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-03-14

When preparing for a successful
hatch of TURKEY eggs It is almost
impossible to take too many pre-
cautions. Only when turkey hens
on free range steal their nests can
the best results be obtained by a
policy of noninterference. Even
under such circumstances 1t is usu-
ally well to take some precaution-
airy measures. The nest should be
found and, If necessary. protected
from the weather by A coop that
has at one side an opening sufi-
ciently large to allow the turkey
hen TO enter easily. Picture shows
turkey on stolen nest.
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-03-14
Liue Stock
And Dairy
PRODUCING GOOD MILK.
Cleanliness and Proper Feeding Main
Essentials In Dairying.

Essentials In Dairying.
Cows must be healthy and kept clean.
The barn should be kept clean, well
lighted and ventilated. The barnyard
should be kept clean and properly
drained. Utensils should be thorough
ly washed and scalded or steamed and
kept in n clean room.
Cows should be fed good wholesome
food and pure water.
Mixers aud attendants who come In
contact with the milk should be healthy
and clean.
Cows should not he fed at milking
time or Immediately before Dust from
feed falls into the milk and contami'
mates IL with germs.
Wipe the uddcr and side of COW with
q damp cloth and milk with clean. dry
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27
Clear, PeaChy Skin
Awaits Anyone Who
Drinks Hot Water
Says an inside bath, before break
fast helps US look and feel
clean, sweet, fresh.

Sparkling and vivacious-merry,
bright, alert-a good, clear skin and
natural, rosy, healthy complexion
are assured only by pure blood. If
only every man and woman could be
induced to adopt the morning inside
bath, what gratifying change would
take place. Instead of the thousands II
sickly, anaemic-looking men, women
and girls. with pasty or muddy COM
plexions; instead of the multitudes Of
nerve wrecks" "rundowns," brain
Tags" and pessimists we should see
virile, optimistic throng of rosy
checked people everywhere.
An inside bath is had by drinking
each morning, before breakfast a glass
of real hot water with a teaspoonful
of limestone phosphate in it to wash
from the stomach, liver, kidneys and
ten Yards of bowels the previous days
indigestible waste. sour lamentations
and pOisons, thus cleansing, sweeten-
ing and freshening the entire alimen-
tary canal before putting more food
irto the stomach.
Those subject to sick headache, bill
iousness, nasty breath, rheumatism.
colds: and particularly those who have
a pallid. sallow complexion and who
are constipated very often. are urged
to obtain a quarter pound of limestone
phosphate at the drug store which
will cost but a trifie, but is sufficient
to demonstrate the quick and remark
able change in both health and ap-
pearance, awaiting those who practice
il ternal sanitation. We must remember
that inside cleanliness is more import
ant than outside, because the skin does
not absorb impurities to contaminate
the blood while the pores in the thirty
feet of bowels do.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27
A CALL TO ARMS

Preparations for eventualities likely
TO terminate in war are being made on
gerat scale in the United States, the
movements being unlike anything ever
be fore conducted by our country. Tie
various branches of the army ami
navy are being distributed and enlist
ed to form the preliminary work III
preparing our nation for whatever the
result might be.
President Wilson has ordered that
the United States Navy be increased
to $1,000 men which is the maximum
for this service under our laws. The
president has exerted his full power as
commanders chief of the navy.
The press of the nation are alive TO
the situation, and they desire to bring
the people face to face with the neces-
sity for prompt service. The reserve
ships of the navy are being manned,
while the full compliments are desired
for every vessel afioat in the navy.
And almost daily, under the rush
orders" of Washington. new ships are
being placed in commission.
Secretary of Navy Daniels telegraph
ed the es-Recorder Sunday night,
urging an appeal to the people to
ansew the call of the navy. The move
ment is close akin to the call for VOL
unteers, common to declaration of
war. The government desires to be
ready for the act of congress on April
End.
The naval branch is interesting and
educational Furthermore, it is an
honor to be a member of the finest
body OF sailors of any nation on earth
man for man and ship for ship the
American navy has no equal.
The Times Recorder urges the young
men of this section to give close study
to the DELEGATE situation which the ma
ton occupies-and if in your breast
pulsates a patriotic desire to return %
your government and the people the
obligation which you owe, join the
United States navy. If it's action y1l
want, you will get it first in the navy.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27
CARNEGIE CORPORATION
GIVES $4,000 FOR LIBRARY

NASHVILLE, Tenn. March 27-At
meeting of the Board of Trustees q
George Peobody College for Teachers
held in Nashville last Monday, Presi-
dent Payne announced the gift of
$4,000 for a library building from
the Cernegie Corporation of New YORK.
At the meeting Monday the trustees
provided for a permanent annual eX-
penditure upon the library of $4,000.
1t is the purpose Of Peabody Teachers
College to establish one of the best Ii
braries for teachers in the United
States. With this splendid gift from
the Carnegie Corporation and the an
nual contribution of $4,000 form the
College Trustees, together with the
$4,000 volumes which were accumulat-
ed at Peabody Normal and the Uni
versity of Nashville for the past hun
bred years, now the property of Pea
body Teachers College, it is assured
that the very greatest teachers IL
brary in the South, will soon be
housed at Peabody Teachers College.
1t is not generally known that the
library which was transferred to Pea
body Teachers College by Peabody
Normal and by the University of Nash
Vile was for many years the oldest.
largest and best teachers library m
the American continent. 4.
With these $4,000 unusually rare
books to begin with Peabody teachers
library will within a few months be-
come the mecca for the teachers and
school administrators of the South,
Middle West and North Central states.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27
FOR THE FAIR HERE.

This is the planting season and the
farmers are urged to bear in mind
that the Third Agricultural District
Fair will be held in Americas on No
vember 12-17th. The fair must be an
ticipated for months if it proves a sue
cess. The farmer must plant various
food-stuffs in order to have excellent
exhibits at the fair.
The plans for the fair are being
mapped out daily, but it is for the
farming interests of the district to
make Of unmake the fair, and it is to
this strong class of people whom We
speak in behalf of the exposition here.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27
STOP CATARRH! OPEN
M0STRILS AND HEAD
Says Cream Applied in NOstrils
Relieves Head Colds at Once.


If your nostrils are cloggeu and your
head is stuffed and you can't breathe
freely because of cold or catarrh, just
get small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm
at any drug store. Apply little of
this fragrant, antiseptic cream into
your nostrils and let it penetrate
through every air passage Of yoIr
head, soothing and healing the inf1am-
er. swollen mucous membrane and you
get instant relief.
All how good it feels. Your nostrils
are open, your head is clear, no more
hawking. snuffling. blowing; no more
headache, dryness or struggling for
breath. Elys Cream Balm is just what
suffers from head colds and catarrh
need. It's delight. advt.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27
THE WHATCHAMA COLUMN
By George Martin
The Mustache.

The mustache is the movable feast
Of mans upper lip.
There are five stages-and some
times only five hairs-to every mus
tache.
1t is first a Bold Idea. That comes
when the prospective grower smites
fist on palm and calculates: III dc
ill.,
In a couple of days the mustache S
a Suspicion. Then it develpoes into a
Rumor. Next thing we know it is a
well-grounded report; and finally, il
the perpetrator doesn't weaken, the
mustache becomes an established Fact
But in all stages, from Bold Idea to
Fact. it is land we say this under
pain of peeving Pete Yoder) an Abom-
nation.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27
THE PRESS CENSORSHIP.

The press of the United States is
now being conducted under a mutual
censorship SO far as the United States
government is concerned in it's prep
erations for possible war. The news
Papers know full well the necessity,
still the public is prone at times 10
ask for more than is good for them
and the country.
The rules governing conditions at
present have been published and the
pnblic is requested to familarize them
selves with these provisions so they
can readily understand the position i
the newspapers.
A forcible and legal censorship may
be necessary in the United States, but
it will come because of thy
patriotic journals. Should the govern.
ment be forced to command a strict
censorship, possibly through cOnfsca
ton and arms, it will be because o.
yellow journals" and sensational
sheets who think more of a few pen
MES gained from circulation than the!
do for the welfare of the country.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27
SeabOdrd Air Line
Tbe Progressive Railway Of the South

Leave Americas for Cordele. Ro-
chelle, Abbeville, Helena, Lyons, Col
Inns, Savannah, Columbia, Richmond,
Portsmouth and points East and South
1891 p m.
$3.50 m
Leave Americas for Cordele, Able
vile, Helena and intermediate points
5:11 p. m.
Leave Americas for Richland, At
lanta, Birmingham, Hurtsboro, Mont
gomery and points West and Northwest
3:OS p. m.
Leave Americas for Richland. Col
umbus, Dawson. Albany and interme-
date points
10000 a m
Seaboard Buffet Parlor Sleeping Car
on Trains l3 and IA arriving Americas
from Savannah 1925 D. M, and leav-
ing Americas for Savannah 2:30 a. m.
Sleeping car leaving for Savannah at
2:30 a. m, will be open for passengers
at 11:40 p. m.
For further information apply to H.
p, Everett, Local Agent, Americas.
Ga; C. w. Small, Div. Pass. Agent,
Savannah, Ga; c. B. Ryan, G. P. A,
Norfolk. Va.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27
HOST FOR !. @. o. +.

The grand lodge o fthe l. o. o. F. :.
Georgia will meet in Americas in May
and already plans are being formulat-
ed for entertaining this large body n
men coming from every section of the
state Like the strong characters
which they are and remarkable in their
work for the good of humanity, Amec-
icus will take keen delight in having
the 1. O. o. F. as her guests.
The cooperation of the people of
Americas is required in entertaining
the odd Fellows. 1t will tax the fac
ilities of the city-but hospitality is
Astounding.
Although the Odd Fellows will come
as the guest of the Americas lodge Of
the order. they were invited by the
city.
Much must be done. and the people
should be ready when they are called
upon.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27
PROVINCE GOVERNOR COLLECT
ING SMALL CASH BRASS COINS

CHENGTU, Szecheuen Province.
China, March 27.-The Szechuen prov
incial government is collecting small
cash, or brass coins, and melting them
down preparatory to coming ten-cash
pieces. By minting the brass into
coins with greater face value, the
provincial government will realize
handsome profits.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27
THIRTY FOUR MEN KILLED BY
GAS EXPLOSION IN MANCHURIA

TOXIC, March -Thirty-four men
including an engineer graduate of the
Imperial University of Toxic, were
killed recently by a gas explosion in
the Fushan coal mines in Manchuria,
The dead included Taro Nakamura, the
two other officials of the COM
pany, seven Japanese and "a Chinese
coolies.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27

Charles Estes. SO years of age and a
pioneer in Augusta. has passed away
He was active almost TO the day of his
death, and many friends join in deep.
est sympathy in the loss of this venev-
able Georgian.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27

There is such thing as man be-
ing too proud to fight" according to
President Wilson, but in this instance
the president thinks this is not one Ct
the times, in which all loyal Amer;-
cans heartily agree
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27

A new dreadnaught in the navy will
be the New Mexico, which by-the-wa
is in honor of Mexican property, &C
cording to Herr Zimmerman.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27

In the death of Judge H. D. d.
Twiggs, the Tar Of the state loses one
o. its strongest advocates. He is well
known and his ability places him in
the history of Georgia's legal lore for
years to come.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27

The American people needn't think
that the American liner St. Louis scar
ed the German u-boats just because it
was armed. Don't crow too early.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27

Another Georgia sheriff has been
shot in the performance of his duty.
!! seems that brave men always pay
the severe penalty.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27

The secrecy around which the move
ments of American ships are guardei
is shown in the American liner, s.
Louis. which was the first armed boat
to cross the zone. 1t sailed on Marca
18th and reached her European des-
tjnation safely.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27

Secretary Lansing writes 3 little note
to Germany this time about the old
treaties which has punch TO it. t
may offend the twelve senator's and
wimjaybrine.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27

Everything will be in readiness for
word.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27

Secretary of the Navy Daniels went
to the newspapers to wake up the
country. and they'll do it.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-03-27

The American troops can smash that
American front to the tune Of Dixie, %
and Teddy knows it full well.