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Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26
NEEDLESS WASTE OF
 FOOD A CRIME.
By P. G. HOLDEN.

During October and November thou sands of pounds of potatoes and other vegetables were dumped from railroad cars along the tracks near West Chi cago.
 It is reported that these vegetables spoiled in transit or before shipment. Wagon loads were carted away by hucksters and others and sold or taken home, but the vegetables saved were but a small portion of the whole.
 There may be a question as to whether any of these vegetables were fit for human food at the time they were thrown away, but it is certain that all of them were at one time good, and that carelessness of some one caused them to spoil It is equal ly certain that most of this produce could have been utilized as animal food or converted into glycerine, of which there is now a serious need.
 No matter who is to blame for this waste of food in these days of war and food scarcity, those responsible should be called to account by the proper of ficials and steps taken to put a stop to it.
 |. When we consider the human labor required to grow these vegetables the amount of land necessary for their production, the~ high cost of all food stuffs, and the great need of conservi- ing every particle of food possible in order that we may help win this war wholesale and needless waste is un- patriotic, criminal-IittIe short of vicious.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26
CATTLE LICE.
Now Is the Time to Eradicate-The 70 Cause of Much. Trouble

Many troubles can often be traced
 to lice on cattle. Lice can be found
 on cattle through the summer or
 through the entire year, but summer
 temperature and general conditions
 under which the cattle are living
 cause a variation in the number of
 lice. The time to treat for lice is
 now. Start before the coat of hair is
 so long and think that it becomes diff
 fcult to administer treatment Get
 the lice before the. cold wintry days start. Keep after them until they are
 gone Time will be we'll spent, and
 feed saved as we'll as enabling the
 herd to appear without the hairless patches and poor condition of the hair
 in the season when they need it most. Prevention in any case is better than the cure. Since some lice >are
 found at all times of the year, and in small numbers in summer and early
 fa1l it is logical to, start the control
 methods at this time. The week the
 cows are brought in from pasture is
 the time to start the control of lice. Professor Lamson of the Connecti- cut Agricultural Experiment Station
 has found the life cycle of lice on cat
 means that treatment to kill lice to-
 day. will have to be repeated Yhe fourteenth day-to destroy those hatch = ing from eggs laid previous to the first treatment and not matched at that time. Considerable trouble has been found in securing treatment that will not burn animals Some treatments are so severe that calves have been kill ed by it's application Professor Lam son found that a four and one-half per cent solution. of creoline would kill the lice, and in most cases cause no burning. The following formula should be followed:-
 Clip the hair from the back of the animal from the poll to the tail set ting; strip three to> four inches wide is sufficient. Lice are found to l inSest this area and the region of the | thighs and sthe- escutcheon more than any other parts of the body. Apply a
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26
WRONG TO SLACKEN
 PREPARATIONS FOR WAR
H. Charles Weeds Says We Should Disregard Gernnany's Peace Talk.

Boston. Dee. 25.-Secretary Baker is right iP stating that the German peace manoeuVers should rot for T moment induce the United States t5 sIacl1er their preparations for war in the opinion of H.. Charles Woods, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a recognized authority uron nrili tary matters in England, who is now in this city.
 Ir a statement today Mir. Woods pointed out that the exit of Russia from the war would remove one Of the great obstacles in the way of the realize = tion of the desire of Emperor Will jam and his advisors for domination from Hamburg to the Persian Gulf, m aref. of which they could maintain their position without saa power.
 ''Tf any proof were wanted" he continued that the Germans are ne gotiati1g peace with Russia have in view their future success in the east it would be in the personalities of the German and Turkish delegates"
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26
DISPUTE OVER VACANCY
 LEFT BY SENATOR NEWLANDS Contest Over Seniority Membership of Senate Interstate Commerce Committee.

Washington. Dec. 25.-Dispute over seniority membership of the senate interstate commerce f1bn1niititee be- tween Senator Smith of South Caro- lima and Senator Pomerene Of Ohio is expected to precfpitate a sharp fight when the committee meets 10 name a chairman in place of the late Senator NewIands who died at his home here last night Ia
 The present congressional 51irectory. it developed today. records Senator Smith as the ranking member of the committee, who,- according 10 pre- cedent. succeeds to the chairmanshfp. Examination of directories for previ- ous years, however, shows that Sen ator Pomerene was appointed to the i committee in 1912. his name first ap~ bearing in the directory issued in April for that year. while the South Carolina senator's mama did not ap- pear until the directory issued tone year latar.
 today and could not be reached. There was no inqica ton what attitude he would take. It is understood how ever. that Senator Pomerene will take the matter 1rp with Majority Leader Martin and if necessary with the son ate steering committee in an effort to have inc question of his seniority es- tablished definitely. @ The committee chairn1a nshin Is one of the most important now in the sen ate because of the supreme interest in transportation problems.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26

to soften and prepare gf1ages for the cud which the COW can regurgi- tate, and chew at will. The average COW can handle about four or five pounds of hay at time in this stom- ach. After it is in proper condition it will be e-chewed and passed on to the other stomachs. The repeated filling and emptying of this stomach, by the feeding of hay, supplemented with water of the right temperature, great needed for production from the cheap est source. It is entirely possible to reduce the grain needed by this prac- tice. Little grain is being fed at a cost of less than S5S to s60 a ton. A pound of clover roWen is nearly equal to a pound of woeat bran. Common hay is of less value, but is approxi- n1ately five -sixths the value of bran. Hay is generally plentiful. very handy and the cows are especially adapted to using it.
 Bran is near s4s per ton; the nutri- ents in it cost $3.45 cents per 100 pounds. Hay would sell on this basis a. slightly over $3o per ton. Is there better market for hay than to sub stitute it for grain to limited extent ? The only factor to limit this practice is the capacity of the cows. So much bulk is taken up by hay that for high records concentrates must be fed; yet much can be saved by the above sug- geStion-
 $ Another fact that makes possible the economy of this extra heavy hay feed ing at this time is that cows in gen. era1 have had little grain compared to past years and they are becoming 2 adapted to securing more from rough ages, but to get the best results ire quent feeding is necessary.
 It will be found economical to feed iiay in small feeds, as the COW will not consume hay after she has been breathing into it for some time un- less forced to do so. The practice here recommended will waste less hay and more hay per COW will be con Sumed.
 Accompanying this practice should Le that of furnishing warm water (55 60 SO degrees) either ad libitum or twice daily.-Kar1 E. Musser <Exten- sion Dairyman.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26
EDDIE EckERT, FORMER
 CIRCUS CLOWN. MURDERED
Shot by an Unidentified Man in Street
 in Kansas City.

Kansas City, Mo. Dec. 25--Eddfe Eckert. ged 25. formerly a clown with the Barnum & Bailey circus, was shot and killed early tocay by an un identified man who escaped. A motor car with drawn curtains stopped on a corner in the outlying section Of the city, the driver dragged Eckert from the rear seat to the .DaNenaent, stead jed him with some difficulty and shot him throueh the forehead with a revolver The slayer then re-entered the car and drove away
 Before the body was removed and while several persons were gathered about it: a car drove up and sthe oc- cupant alishted. Turning . fashlighr or the face of the dead man, he re- marked 'FWelI: I guess ISddie's dead, " witnesses Of the killing declared this man who hurried away again. was the slayer. The police believe the killing was due to an old Erudge.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26
BEEF IN CONNECTICUT
Gan Be Produced Extensively and at a
 Profit Il

With the changes that have taken place in the distribution of beef during the past 3e or 40 years, New England farmers turned to dairying, fruit the exception of bologna cows, few cxen and steers and very young calves our beef has been shipped from the west and foreign countries.
 As the western range land has been cut into smaller farms. the conditions have changed until with tha enormous increase in population and manufac- lures prices have increased until there produce beef at a profit It is diff : cult to get very definite figures to prove this statement, but several cara full farmers have demonstrated to their own satisfaction that this is a fact. The small margin of profit often real ized in dairying. the difficulty in se- curing labor and the large amount of concentrates necessary to successful dairying and poultry raising are also factors that are increasing the inter est in beef cattle which can to quite an extent be produced on roughage.
 Beef, sheep and swine have grad ' ually been regaining lost ground with the eastern farmer. but conditions brought about by the war have brought us face to face with the prob fem from new angle and we are now studying every possible means of con serving our concentrates and Ia Dor, at the same time utilizing roughage and waste products. That these problems are receiving the careful attention of our leaders is evidenced in the fact that several of our manufacturers have taken steps to secure beef cattle from the west and have them carried on farms that have for recent years been practically dile- There is no need to argue the desir- ability of livestock for the improve ment of our farms nor to explain that to a large extent the reduction of
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26

was not allowed up again for three or four days, when I was given a com plete set of hispital clothes.
 As soon as I was strong enough I made a tour of inspection of my new home. The hospital contained about five hundred beds, mostly occupied by Russians. There were about fifty Eng fish patients and the same number of French. The wards were full and the corridors on every landing were clut- tered up with beds to accommodate the overflow.
 The building was of four stories, and constructed in the shape of the letter 'I There was small paved court yard in the center, inclosed on two sides by the hospital. and on the other two big high brick walls in the rear of private houses. In this courtyard, and against one of the walls, was small stone buildings used as d mortuary. It nearly always contained the bodies of one or two patients awaiting burial Almost every day we would see a stretcher covered with a white sheet carried across to the mortuary.
 A Bit of Graft
 In one corner of the yard was a pig pen and chicken run. This was the private property of the inspector o1
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26

czabulary was very limited. Schwester Edelberta was very religious and did not believe any one could tell a lie. Gray used to hold conversations with her on all sorts of subjects but usual ly religion His German was terrible but that didn't bother him in the slightest. He went right ahead mak- ing the most glaring mistakes in gram mar and inserting words where he did not know in German. A great deal of gesticulations and pantornime helped her to understand
 One day he told her that he was Buddhist or some such thing and that part of their religious rites involved the burning of bones. He invited her to be present one day at this ceremony.
 She went away very much impressed. leaving Gray rolling on his bed with laughter. I think in a years time he would have absolutely shattered that woman's faith.
 It was a big day when I was allowed up. put my feet on the floor and then knew nothing more until I fould my self back in bed. Watkins and Hallam had been, standing nearby and caught me as I tainted. Later on in the day I sat up for ten minutes, but had such a high temperature at night that I
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26

the hospital, who used his government position to great advantage. The stench arising from the pig pen made this corner of the courtyard almost un- inhabitabie. We had no other place to take exercise. and between the pigs and the Russians we preferred to stay inside.
 In the basement was a room used for the storing of clean hospital clothing and bed linen. On obtaining q written order from one of the doctors articles of this naure could be secured from q little red-headed German named Loef- elsind, who was in charge. He also kept guard over the store of Methy lated spirits for hospital use. He was not averSe to making a little money now and then. and we used to secure q bottle of this precious liquid for our little stove at the price of a mark. We would send Watkins or Hallam down for a clean sheet or pair of trouS- CTS. He would carry the empty bottle down wrapped around with the dirty clothes to be exchanged for the clean ones which would hide the bottle on it's return trip.
 Near this was the parcel room which was the most interesting for the pa tientS.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26

All the parcels and letters for priS- oners in the Hospital were censored at Wahn or some similar place on the Dutch frontier. Those for prisoners in camps were not opened until they ar arrived at the camp in which the man parcels generally took from two to four weeks, so that parcels coming from England or Canada were any where from one to three months on the way.
 The Parcel Room.
 The parcel room was in charge of a German Unteroffizier (noncommission- ed efficer) who had on his staff five or six English and French soldiers and one Russian sergeant major. One or two members of the staff, accompanied by a hospital orderly, would go to the station with small handcart and col lect the parcels when their arryial was announced. Word soon went around
 the hospital that certain number of
 parcels had come, and the excitement was intense until the list was sent round giving the names of all the win
 ners. In the meantime the serial mum = beTs which were stamped every parcel when it was censored were en- tered in book oppositae the name of the recipient. The parcels were then opened and the sealed tins extracted On each tin was printed in ink the hos pita1 number of the man to whom it be = fonSeo ana then IL was paced m snall' room used for the storing ot foodstuffs belonging to prisoners.
 When this work had been completed the men were allowed to enter the parcel room one by one and take away the packages and unsealed tins to tl1eil wards. Every man was notified of the l number of sealed tins that had beer | placed to his credit. When he required | one of the latter he went to the base. l nent carrying with him plates, cups | or any other container he could ge hold of. The tins were opened anG 1 dumped into these receptacles. Tht l regulation was enforced to proven 1 prisoners receiving compasses or othe articles of use when escaping in tn, | false bottom of a tin. By means of : l little diplomacy and sleght-of-hand W, l were very often able to get an un ] opened tin to our room without bein; | detectied- l tucked many 8 tin int, l the broad sling which supported m, | plaster cast and thus got it past tn l watchful eyes of the Germans. In tn 1 parcel room were also the rocks Whicl held the bundles of clothes belonginl 1 to the patients. Each bundle bore 1 tag with the name of the man to whom l it belonged When a party was due t 1 leave for camp there was great excite 1 r1aent in the parcel room sorting Ou l the clothes for the men who were go l ing. Very often it would be found tha 1 some very necessary articles wer 1 missing, and hurried attempt woul l be made to substitute these from bun I dies belonging to men who had die l or of those still in the hospital. w used to imagine the day when the wa | would be over and the last man wa 1 to leave. We wondered whether h , would wear more clothes than Adam. l fConfiuued Torpayrnw1
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26

This solution may be applied with a sponge or a spray pump.
 Do not rub the solution the ami malS or it will burn.
 g If the weather is cold a Nigh wind blowing, blanket the animals un- til dry.
 Make all measurements of liquids accurate, as too small a quantity of creoline will not kill the lice, and too much will burn the animals. - Repeat the treatment in fourteen days, and once every following six weeks until no lice can be found. Since it is practically impossible to kill all Hce,, and since they lay from fifteen to seventy five eggs each 1t is neces- sary to continually use preventative measures.-Kark B. Musser, Extension Dairyman.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26
AVIATION DEPARTMENT HAS
 INCREASED A HUNDREDFOLp
At Beginning of Wa- There Were Only 200 Planes and 75, Pilots, Now There Are 22,o0o Planes and 10000 Pilots

American aviation units have moved up to stations immediately behind the front in Franco. The vanguard of the new army Of the air for which uuer is about to join the forces of land and sea in action against the Ger mans.
 The navy has tripled in size since the war began. and the army has multiplied itself by thirteen. These are rapid increases. But the first year plans for tine air service call for an increase of more than q hundred fold.
 Last spring the aviation corps had less than 200 airpIanes of all degrees of serviceability. Now fleet of 22,- GOO planes is being built. When war began there were 75 aviators. A force of 10000 aviators is cling train flying corps, ground workers as well as hiers was 2,OO0. The total per sonnel of the new flying corps is 100,- GOO.
 Before any real fighting planes could be turned out new American industry had to be created. This is the great task that has been quietly accomplished in the last five months. When the aircraft production board started it's work only two companies eration in America, and the machines they had been making for the allies were of a type serviceable only for practice flights.
 The first move of the board was to stop negotiations for the use of ex- isting patents. and to set men at work designing a new airplane engine which should comprise as many Of the good points of the different pat entS as those men cared to use. In a week twenty experts working toeeth- CT had evolved the Liberty motor. which Secretary Baker has called the greatest achievement of the war so far. ....
 The Liberty motor is a model of standardization. It is built with four cylinders, or with eight. or with twelve. and the same parts are inter- changeable for. all three of the differ factories in the world have been pro vided with the machinery necessary for turning out these motors-the fac tories that have supplied the United States with it's 4.oo0,0o0 automobiles when all the rest Of the world gets along with only 100000
 It has been necessary all along not to interfere with the supply of raw materials, particularly spruce, and of certain completed aeroplane parts, to the flying forces of our allies
 In return for those materials the allies are giving us the rich bene- fit. of their experience. For months young Americans have been in. train fields of England and France. On a dozen and more of new flying fields ill America veteran fiers from the western front are helping in the pre- hminary training of our new av1a- tors. e As to whether the war can be won in the air there seem to be two opin- ions. At any rate the aviation sec- ton is not leaving any stones unturn- ed.
 The Bolshevists have dissolved the
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26

One of the greatest Messinss woman can have is to be possessed or fine, fair skin. indicative of sound digestion. \ little attention now and then to the stomach with Stu arts Dyspepsia Tablets will ac- complish this result. Women are great sufferers from stomach and digestive troubles and their coin plexions suffer in consequence
 Most women are not strangers i" dyspepsia bad breath, gastritis ca tarrh of the stomach, pains in bow els, nervousness, heartburn, belchins, bloating, etc.
 Get a 50-cent box of Stuart's Dys uepsia Tablets at any drug store- They are the key to beauty, to sound digestion. And they give relief at once.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26
PORTLAND MAN KILLED
 ON THE. BELGIAN FRONT
cabiesrzvn --cI's ef c4Ats, cf Joseph
 Fitzgerald.

Portland. Conn. Dec. 25.-Word was received here today by Mrs. William J. O'Brien of the death in battle Of her brother Joseph Fitzgerald. 4 caDIegranl from the eefaI5fain of the regiment to which Fitzgerald was at November on the ReleiaR front No further details Were given. He had tried to enlist in the ESlited States army but was reftnrsd Hetause of eve TwentiethSs Casla dian Battalion at Windsor. OfstsysgTlafs is tlFe first death to come to a Bortlands boy in the world wars brotl1er, q William. is now at CannS Davens. sal;2 vineSA been called under the draft. e
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26

When thev ran out of yarn SC vera 1 North Dakota women did not .Szeop knitting but shearea the Wool4afrom their own -sheepsl aD lsSesf tlsS ' { 4estf<ied and spun and kept on with theii knitting for the soldiers.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26
By Lieut.. J. HARVEY DOUGLAS

Canadian Mounted Rifles Fell iIntoth Hands
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26

The Bolshevists have dissolved the Petrograd municipal council and there will be new elections next Sunday.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26

four and one-half per cent. solution of Creoline.
Norwich bulletin., 1917-12-26

Continued Tomorrow
Baxter Springs news., 1917-09-27

and station grounds to induce
the company to come here. We
need better freight service and as
the city grows we shall need a
competing line more and more.
The Katy will likely come here
of its own accord, but it would
do no harm if the Baxter business
men should get in touch with the
company officials and see what
can be done right now.
It is true, the company is in
the hands of a receiver at the
present time, but even that
would not prevent the extension
to Baxter Springs in case the
inducements were made sufficient
" attractive. Promise the Katy
the bulk OF the freight business
in this town for a term OF years
and it is pretty sure to talk busi-
ness. Big corporations are just
like the small people in business.
they are cut after the money.
It is now time for the business
interests of Baxter to demand
good service all around and in
any case where a company Is not
willing to give it, invite COM
petitor to come in and promise
that competitor the business of
the city as an inducement.
When that is done, The News
will gamble, the companies now
operating here will find a way to
improve their service.