Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1917-09-07
Tip to Buckeyes,

can all you can't eat and eat all
you can't can. But there's another
way to conserve the products needed
in the war from truck and farm gar
dens:
''It's the old-fashioned method Of
'burying' vegetables and other food
enough 10 and 16
years ago, but almost forgotten now.
Here's how to store cabbage:
dig a trench about a foot deep.
Select sound plants and lay them in,
heads down. Then dig a narrower
and deeper trench on each side of
your cabbage row. This provides /
drainage. Cover the cabbage with
thin layer of straw and about IL
inches of dirt.
"a little freezing won't hurt the
cabbages, if they are allowed to
thaw out gradually. Cabbage also
can be kept nice and crisp for winter
use by trimming off stubs and outer I
leaves, wrapping closely in paper, |
packing in boxes or barrels and stor-
ing in cool place-a cellar, for in
stance, that has no furnace or is par
titioned Off"
Ohio Guards Strength.
Ohio's national army, as finally ac-
cepted for federal service, totals ap-
proXimately $4,000 officers and enlist
ed men, according to Maj. Leon J.
Smith, chief assistant mastering Of
f1cer. This is 5000 more men than
required for division under the new
organization plan.
The recent call and muster into the
federal service added approximately
| 10000 more Ohio guardsmen to Uncle
Sans national guard army. Approx
mately 5000 already were in the fed
eral service, not having been mus
tered out after the return from the
Mexican border.
| Ohio, therefore, will send approx
mately 81 400 officers and men in her
division to the Montgomery, Ala,
training camp. The Fourth regiment,
recruited to $500 men, goes with the
Rainbow division to France soon.
Ohio Won't Regulate Prices.
Ohio's plan of regulating coal
prices to consumers was given up
!
ment intends to do the regulating.
The state government had prepared
under the direction of Gov. Cox to fix
prices at which retailers would sell
locally throughout the state, believing
Washington would simply set the
prices at the mines.
Gov. Cox has just made public a
telegram to the federal trade commits
sion in which he said: Announce
ment that the federal government will
, fix retail dealers coal prices in addi-
ton to prices at the mines, makes it
impossible for the state of Ohio to
, proceed with independent action al
ready started"
Several weeks ago the state,
through the defense council, started
an inquiry to get lower coal prices for
consumers. When it was announced
federal regulation would soon be pro-
vided, the state then planned to fix
prices after arriving at the cost Of
!, handling and distribution, plus uni.
form profit to the retailer.
! There was gloom among coal oper
ators in Ohio. There were smoth
. cred grumblings over the prices estab
: lished by President Wilson at Wash
: ington and it is anticipated there will
be an appeal from the tentative fig
ures announced.
l. Coal operators now realize the
+ agreement with Secretary of the Inte
L rior Franklin K. Lane last spring fix
ing the price at the mine at a $3.5(
; maximum, really more than so cent:
f; a ton more than the operators expect
u ed, was premature.
l. Many retail and wholesale coal deal
:. ers are stocked up on coal purchased
q at higher prices under this Washing
3 ton agreement. They are now threat
;; ened with a loss unless the retail ant
J. wholesale prices take this into &C
j. count
l. There are six principal Ohio dis
= tricts in which the thin vein price o
t. $2.25 a ton for mine run will prevail
:; as set in Washington. They are Jack
|; son, Pomeroy, Crooksville, Coshoctor
1t Massillon and the scattered sub-dis
d. tricts in northeastern Ohio. Those il
al which the 81 price will rule are east
: ern Ohio, Cambridge and Hooking.
Atty. Gen. Joseph McGhee asserte
D. the prices established are entirel
<. fair and merely laughed at the sus
er gestion that mines will be forced ou
s. of business. The low level of price
ee may be disastrous to the wagon mine!
Id which have opened up in great nun
le bers under the stimulus of abnorms
ii prices, but McGhee did not believ
production will be curtailed.
How to Help Win War.
es Here is the latest tip from the Obi
ne defense council on how you can hel
I'D your country win the war:
ly Farmers, beware! The grassho
IS, per, army worm and chinch bug al
ed working overtime this summer to a
,ir the German submarines in their a
tempt to starve out Americas allies.
he "War on them is a patriotic duty
D. says N. E. Shaw, Ohio secretary
lr- agriculture. Hundreds of car loaC
Sc of grain, hay and other crops can
to rescued from grasshoppers alone by
of systematic campaign throughout IL
is. country.
OPIlfr bureau TOT 0lrISs
of Columbus women active in soci
TX and civic endeavor have formed {
ng ''uplift employment bureau" for gir
who are being forced from the Colu1
he bus vice districts by the federal an
ny vice ruling, resulting from the loc
ar, ton here of Columbus barracks al
Ca the aviation school at Ohio State III
ny versity.
he Commencing Aug. 27 bureau WI
it's opened to telephone calls from the
ry, girls, who can arrange conferenc
Dol with the workers, who will pla
les them in domestic and commercial r
sitions.
Says Farmers Are MisIed.
an Farmers are misled by choosil
he large ears of corn for seed when t
ro- excellence is due to unusually ferti
nd soil or thin planting. Previous COM
ng tions of growth cannot overcor
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