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Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
GOOD
ROADS
ROADS IN NATIONAL FORESTS
Allotment Made to Each State for In.
provement by Secretary Houston
California Leads.

Secretary Houston has announced
the amount allotted to each state from
the million dollars to be spent during
the fiscal year 1918 in constructing
roads and trails within or partly with
in the national forests. This money is
part Of the $1O,OOO,OOO appropriated
by the federal aid road act to assist
development Of the national forests,
which becomes available at the rate of
$1,00O,O0O a year for ten years.
The allotments as approved are as
follows: Alaska, $46,354; Arizona,
$5S,6O4; Arkansas, $9,8O3; California,
S140,9S8; Colorado, $62,575; Idaho,
S1OS,730; Montana, $70042; Nevada,
$19,296; New Mexico, $42,495; Ore
gon, $12s,111; South Dakota, 5000 ;
Utah, $41,167; Washington, $91 ,944 ;
Wyoming, $40,684. A total of $9,995
has been allotted to Florida, Michigan,
Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota
and Oklahoma. The group Of eastern
states-Georgia, Maine, New Hamp-
shire, North and South Carolina, Ten
nessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
in which the government is purchas-
ing lands for national forests, receives
sd, 120.
In making allotments, it is explained,
10 per cent of the amount available
for 1918 is withheld as a contingent
fund. One-half of the remainder has
been apportioned among the states in
amounts based on the area Of the ma
tional forest lands in each state, while
the other half has been allotted on a
basis of the estimated value of the
timber and forage resources which the
forests contain.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
GET EXPLOSIVE FROM FLOWER
British Scientists Discover That Bios
som of Mahua Tree in India Is
Rich in Acetone.

The munitiOn output of India has in
two years been increased thousand
fold, mainly through the discovery that
one of India's cOmmOnest blossoms, the
flower of the mahua or mhOwra tree,
contains acetOne in quantity. This tree
is widely known to all travellers in
Britain's Asiatic empire, but its use as
a base for explosives is at least one
thing new under the sun, says the
Scientific American.
When the war broke out, acetone,
which forms the chief ingredient OF
cordite, was extracted mainly from
wood, maize, and starch; and the Brit
ish admiralty erected great factory
for the process of acetone recovery
from starch. But fortunately two Eng
lish scientists in HyGerabad discovered
that the mahua flowers contained ace
tone in larger proportions than it is
found in any other vegetable substance
that this inoffensive bloom was ten
times richer in the material in Ques-
ton than any known wood. In fact,
the director general of ordnance for
India reports that the mahua is by
all odds the best source for acetone
known.
Manufacture on large scale is now
under way and it is whispered that the
abundance of munitions with which
the British forces in Mesopotamia ap-
pear to be blessed is to be attributed
to the new discovery,
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
FEED cows BEFORE CALVING
Practical Dairymen Agree That Prepa-
ration Has Much to Do With
the Amount of Milk.

Ry H. H. KILDEE, University Farm,
st. Paul. MIMI
The proper time to begin feeding a
dairy COW is six or eight weeks before
calving, and practical dairymen agree
that this preparation has more to do
with the amount Of milk and butterfat
which COW produces during the lacta-
ton period than does the feeding dur
ing any other period.
For cows calving during the sum-
mer or early fall most dairymen like
to have small pasture away from the
herd but with an abundance of grass,
and, in addition, they like to feed a
suitable grain mixture. Corn silage,
with clover or alfalfa hay and limit
ed grain ration of three parts ground
oats, two parts of bran and one part
of oilmeal is especially good for cows
calving during winter or early spring.
After calving the cows should be
brought slowly up to full feed and
thereby steadily to a higher produc-
ton.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
Then Silence.

They were dancing merrily, this
young man and the young woman, and
were talking Of nothing at all, when
suddenly the girl asked:
Have you enlisted?"
mo-" answered the youth.
Haven't you joined the Officers Re
serve corps?'
"No, not yet. I haven't thought
much about that sort of thing"
Haven't you done anything about
the WARP"
mo-" the youth replied.
Whereupon the girl stopped dane
ing.
81 wish you would take me to seat.
I don't think 1 want to dance with
you."-Washington Star.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
CHICKENS GIVEN GOOD START
siderable VaIue-Feed When in
Crumbly Condition.

Washes mixed with milk are of
considerable value in giving the
chickens good start in life. The
mixtures should be fed in a crumbly
mash and not in sloppy condition.
Johnny cake composed Of the follow
ing ingredients in the proportion
named is very good feed for young
chicks: One dozen infertile eggs or
one pound of shifted beef scrap to ten
pounds of cornmeal; add enough milk
to make pasty mash, and one table
spoonful of baking soda, and bake IN
til done.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
FLOCK OF PUREBRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

extending over the shoulders and back,
the hackle and saddle striped with
black. The rest of the body plamage,
including the main tail feathers and
sickles, is black. The wings when fold
ed show a bar of black extending
across below the shoulder. Below this
the wing shows white, due to the white
on the outside of the secOndaries. In
the female the general trend of color
is gray, with delicate, distinct, cOncen-
trio penciling of dark on each feather
except the hackle, each feather Of
which is silvery white with black
center, showing a slight gray penciling,
and the main tail feathers, which are
black, with the two top feathers show
ing some penciling. The color of the
plumage is practically the same as that
of the Dark Brahma.
The Partridge Plymouth Rock is al
so one of the newer varieties of this
breed. The coloring of this variety is
very attractive and is practically the
same as that of the Partridge Cochin
and also of the Silver Penciled Ply
mouth Rock, except that the white Of
the Silver Penciled is replaced by red
or reddish brown.
The Columbian Plymouth Rock, a
variety of comparatively recent origin,
is very attractive in coloring and has
proved quite popular. In general the
color is white, the hackle feathers be-
ing black with narrow edging OF
white and the main tail feathers black,
the tail coverts being black with dis
tinct white lacing. The wings also
carry some black on the primary and
secondary feathers, which is almost
hidden when the wings are folded. The
color of this variety is practically the
same as that of the Light Brahma.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
Fish kre Mtsnamed.

Apparently every popular name Tor
fish is a misnomer. There is a fish
plentiful on the coasts of Alaska
known as the atka mackerel. The bu-
reau of fisheries patiently points out
that it is not a mackerel and nothing
like a mackerel. But it is an excel
lent food fish, and can be shipped salt
ed. Alaska canneries have been en-
couraged to salt this fish, which will
be known as the atkafish, and it
should make it's appearance in our
markets in the coming winter.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
ManteII's Ghost Story.

Robert Mantell tells of barnstOrm-
ing company in the West in the old
days that made a try at Shakespeare.
Considerable complaint was heard rela-
tive to the efforts of the man who es-
sayed to do the ghost in Hamlet"
One day a dramatic man on local
paper said to the leading man:
"That fellow who plays the ghost
does not suggest the supernatural"
81 should say not" assented the
leading man with alacrity, 'but he does
suggest the natural super. Every
body's Magazine.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
CONCRETE FLOORS ARE BEST
Poor Economy to Replace Worn-0ut
Floors With Wood, Says Mime
nesota Highway Commission.

1t is poor economy to build bridges
with wooden floors or to replace
WORKOUT floors with wood, the Mime
sofa State Highway commission says
in a late bulletin issued to county
boards and district engineers.
1.-THE department is frequently re-
quested to inspect old bridges and de-
termine whether it is feasible to re-
place wooden floor, because in a ma
jority of cases the old bridge is found
to be dangerous when carrying trac-
ton engines" says the bulletin. 1T
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
WATCH YOUR SKIN IMPROVE
When You Use Cuticura-The Soap to
Purify and Ointment to Heal.

On rising and retiring gently smear
the face with Cuticura Ointment. Wash
off Ointment in five minutes with Cuti-
cura Soap and hot water. Continue
this treatment for ten days and note
the change in your skin. No better
toilet preparations exist.
Free sample each by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L,
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
EvanoeI Of Good Roads,

The automobile is the evangel OF
the good roads movement. Every sale
of a five-passenger touring car with
tires subject to sudden and disheart-
ening puncture means better roads and
more of them. Therefore, everyone
should buy touring cars because he
will then become a good roads advo-
cate
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
Both Appropriate.

Longmore- former clients of
Smith, the divorce lawyer, who died
last week, are going to do nice thing.
Short-What?
Longmore- their appreciation
by erecting q monument to his men,
ory.
Short-Have they chosen the design?
Longmore- yet. A number Of
them want something among the lines
of the Statue of Liberty, and the 9th
ers favor colossal granite cleaver.-
The Lamb.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
Didn't Need to Be Told.

Katherine. age six, had been going
to school about two weeks when she
said to her mother one day: Mother,
l am the incest and the prettiest and
the smartest girl in our class" Her
mother, very much elated, exclaimed ::
why! Did the teacher tell you that,
dear?"
"Oh, not" said Katherine. Il just
found it out myself
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
WHY SHORTHORN is FAVORED
CIaim-Dairy Cattle Breeders Have
Good Argument.

One reason why the milking Short
horn is being called to the attention of
corn-belt farmers who must come in
evitably to dairying, is that the corn
belt is committed to beef and cannot
easily give up to dairying exclusively.
The farmer who takes dairy bull
calf to market and gets So or 81 for
it, is likely to feel cheated, be-
cause he will remember the beef calf
that grew into a likely steer and
brought good profit.
Of course, the dairy cattle breeders
have their arguments good ones.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
GOOD SLOGAN FOR DAIRYMAN
Corn SiIage and Other Roughage Have
Value That Cannot Be Overesti-
mated-Have Purebreds.

High-priced dairy feeds of last win
ter should teach the dairy farmers two
things, according to the animal hus-
bandmen at Cornell. The first is that
good corn silage and other roughage
have a value that cannot be overesti-
mated; the second is that there is q
greater need for good cows than ever
before. This is no time to be feeding
poor producers, and the man who has
purebreds is getting double value for
his feed. The dairyman's slogan for
next year should be purebreds, silo,
and clover or alfalfa hay.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
FLOCK OF GEESE IN ORCHARD
Big Returns Assured From Fowls So
Pastured-They Will Clean Up
All Fallen Fruit.

A large flock of geese pastured in
an orchard of any kind will bring big
returns. They will clean up all fruit
which falls and the droppings are
very valuable about the trees.
In an orchard of ten acres, flock
of four or five hundred might be kept
very probably.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
Shorthorns on Kansas Farm.

But the fact remains that the farmer,
generally speaking, will be hard to
wean away from the beef type. The
Shorthorn's reputation as a leading
beef animal will appeal to the farmer,
for he still can have his beef along
with his milk.
This argument may apply to other
dual purpose cattle, perhaps, but it is
especially good with beef animal that
can perform well in the dairy.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
Marital Consideration.

A considerate man who really wants
to make his wife happy will look de-
jected and miserable at the station
when she is leaving for the summer.
She carries q heavy heart with her if
he happens to be brutal enough to
look as if he were anticipating a hot
old time.-Houston Post.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
Foresight.

"When one of those musty thrones
topples over in Europe do you suppose
there is much dust?'
"Not as much as you might think.
Most monarchs are crafty enough to
put their dust away in a safe place be-
fore q revolution starts"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
Insure Strono. Healthy Calf.

Feeding the COW well before calving
insures a strong, healthy calf. The
best time to wean the calf is after
it takes the first milk. Early weaving
makes it easier to teach the calf to
drink.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
SHAKE INTO YOUR SHOES

Aliens Foot-Ease, the antiseptic powder to be
shaken into the shoes and sprinkled in the foot
bath. It relieves painful, swollen smarting feet
and takes the sting out OF corns and ounions.
Used by the British and French troops at the
front. Aliens Foot=Ease Is certain relief for
tired, aching feet. Sold everywhere-Adv.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
Preventing Mold.

Placing butter tubs, covers and lin
ers in water heated to $50 degrees
Fahrenheit or above for few minutes
previous to packing is about the cheap
est and most effective methcl IF pre-
venting mold.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16

takes a strong bridge to carry con-
crete floor, but we find that after the
original floor has been replaced twice
with wood, on a light truss, the ex-
pense is as great as it would have been
to build a concrete floor bridge, with
heavier steel, and any further expense
is q clear waste of money"
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
Road Must Be Maintained.

Be not deceived. Building road
does not mean having a road. 1t must
be maintained. And for this the King
road drag is an all-important tool.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16

Roman Eye Balsam is an antiseptic oint-
ment, applied externally and not wash"
Its healing properties penetrate the in
famed surfaces, providing prompt relief.
Adv.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
Enthusiasts in Rainy Season.

There are more good roads enthu-
siasts during the rainy season than
at any other time of the year.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
Wanted for Nothing.

Good roads, according to Howard
Ram, are something which everybody
wants for nothing.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
For Home Guard Drills

THE CITIZENS HAND BOOK OF THE
UNITED STATES ARMY
with rudiments of Military Instructions used
at Federal Training Camps, Signals and Codes,
etc, IS cents. $500 per hundred. BOYER
BROTHERS. 1884 Brandywine ST., Philadelphia, Pa.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build LIN The System

Take the Old Standard GROVES
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what you a1r taking. as the formula is
printed on every label. showing it is
Quinine and Iron in a tastcless form. The
Quinine drives out malaria. the Iron
builds up the system. 50 cents.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
Good in Any State

The King method will work in any
state, on any sort of soil, on any aver
age mile Of road.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16

DR.. Peery's Dead Shot" not only expels
Worms or Tapeworm but cleans out the
mucous In which they breed and tones up
the digestion. One dose sufficient Adv.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16

A man is never such bOnehead that
he can fool himself by lying to himself.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16

Pittsburgh has measi red telephone
service.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16

This year the potato is king" Then
God save the king.
Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1917-06-16
New Varieties.

The Silver Penciled Plymouth Rock
Is one of the new varieties. Its plum
age is distinctive and very beautiful.
In general, the plumage of the male
consists of silver white top color,
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-06-15
COMPEL LAND SPECTATORS TOPAY
THEIR PART OF THE COST OF WAR

their property the time may not b.
far off when our national needs will
require confiscation and govern
ment cultivation. No one is en-
titled to that which he does not
use.'"
Good, Mr.. Secretary. But why
not lust now confiscate for use the
millions of acres held by specula-
tors all over our broad land? In
Minnesota, North and South Dakota
and Montana, there is idle land
enough held out of use by specula-
tors to feed an empire. Every loyal
farmer will gladly join in the cam
paign to Feed the Nations; but it
rather grinds on him to farm his
quarter section industriously, and see
three quarters of spectators land
lie idle alongside of him. Not only
does it lie idle, but it is a breed
ing ground for all manner of pests
to destroy the crops of the indus
trious farmer.
"The day of speculation in food
supplies must come to an end, and
at the same time let us bring to
an end all private ownership of un-
used land, so that not only our ma
ton, but the nations of the earth
may be fed as becomes toiling
people. No greater menace to the
rights and liberties of any nation
can be dreamed of, than that one
man or set of men may be permitted
to hold out of use productive land
purely for speculative purposes,
while millions of men, women and
children go to bed hungry every
night, that these land hogs may prof
it off the industry of those who till
the soil.
at is relic of the old feudal
days, and has no place in our mod
ern economic ideas of justice.
"This campaign for greater pro-
duction is all right. But why not
seize the idle lands and put them
to use?
81 beg to express the hope that
this will not end in suggestions
The people are anxious for action
along the line indicated by the edi-
torial quoted above. What they want,
and what they are looking to those
in power for, is action along the
lines suggested.
81 am, respectfully yours,
&c. B. KEGLEY,
master Washington State Grange"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-06-15

der that employees may purchase a
liberty bond. The Twin City La
borer says that the management
admitted its employees were unable
to buy a bond on the installment
plan and that a living wage was
not being paid.
"The Wells company" continues
this paper, "is one of the concerns
that fought the workers year ago,
and was member of the Menomi-
nee River Manufacturers Associa
ton, which attempted to show by
half page advertisements that the
men were receiving living wage and
did all in its power to break the
organized labor movement on the
Menominee river. After the men
increased wages so cents a day
through their organization the com
pany now admits it is still paying
wage which does not insure a de-
cent livelihood and does not provide
for the workers in case of sickness
as they are unable to save S. a
month"
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-06-15
DEVELOP CHEERFULNESS
NOT CUSSEDNESS
(By the Rev. Charles Stelzle.)

(By the Rev. Charles Stelzle.)
Some men have skins as tough as
that Of the rhinoceros. They are
absolutely Indifferent to whatever
may be thought or said about them.
But most of US are finer bred. We
do care. And it is right that we
should.
Not that we are swayed from the
course which we know to be right
because of the adverse opinions of
our fellows, but it seems more hu-
man to please than not to please.
Because this is true-and most men
are of this opinion it is passing
strange that so few of us regard it
in our dealings with others.
Perhaps the most trying expert
ence in many a workingman's life
is the consciousness that a bunch
of his fellow workers are ridiculing
him. There may be some little pc
culiarity about him, to which he has
become notwithstanding that
he eats at lunch hour, something that
he wears, the way that he goes about
doing a particular job-any one of a
dozen things, which bring upon him
the ridicule which makes his sensi-
tive soul shrivel. And for the re-
mainder of the day he is unhappy.
One of the most heartless bits of
brutality that you and | encounter
is when two or three chaps get to-
gether. and, with amused glances,
riddle with their looks another fell
low who is unconscious of the ma
ture Of the criticism which they are
making of him. 1t would be easier
to bear and more honorable to de-
fend if they should all set upon
him with fists or clubs. But the
cowardly gossiper in the shop
wouldn't dare face the man whom
he is holding up to ridicule.
One of the finest evidences of
culture and good breeding is the
passing over or ignoring of another's
mistakes or failings. Let's develop
more of it in the shop. 1t will
make life very much brighter to the
man whose burdens, if we were car
rying them, might drive us to de-
spair. Let's be boosters instead of
knockers. 1t pays all around.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1917-06-15
IN MEMORIAM

WHEREAS, it has pleased AL
mighty God in His infinite Wisdom
and Mercy to summon from this life
the beloved Father of our esteemed
Brother, j. F. Mcdonald; therefore
be it
Resolved, that we, the members of
Local 265 extend to our Brother and
his family our heartfelt sympathy
in this their hour of grief and sor-
row; and be it further,
Resolved, that copy of these res
olutions be spread on the minutes of
our association and copy sent to
the Labor Journal, also the United
Association Journal for publication.
VIM. j. SMITH,
j. B. MONCUR,
JNO. WATSON.