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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-08-15
CRIMSON CLOVER
VS.. BURR CLOVER

We have been asked repeatedly
which do we prefer or which is the
best for soil improvement, Crimson
Clover or Burr Clover. Both are
good soil builders, but the Burr Clo-
yer has a slight shade of advantage
as a soil builder because of its lar
ger growth. However, we maintain
that Burr clover should be used on
a permanent pasture, because were
we to have a large acreage to ham
die, it would be impossible to handle
it successfully and prepare the seed
bed as it should be; Crimson clover
on the other hand, fits better into
our system and is more desirable as
cover crop because it can be ham
died more easily in the preparation
for spring planting, and for this rea-
son is a more desirable plant.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-08-15
Convenient Probes for Locating Pocket
Gopher Runs.

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Gopher Runs.
mails ruin gardens and lujure field
crops. Besides all this they kill trees
H. orchards and forest paintings by
gnawing of the roots.
Two practical methods Of killing
pocket gophers are always possible
trapping and poisoning. The first
method is slow, but very effective on
small areas or where but few pocket
gophers are present; the other is the
better plan on large fields and for CO.
operative work on adjacent farms.
While the ordinary steel Trap may be
used successfully for pocket gophers,
much better results can be obtained
with the special traps for these AMI
mails commonly on the market. In
irrigated districts, where water is
available, flooding the Land will drive
out the animals, and they may be killed
by men and dogs. FuIrdgation OF the
burrows with carbon b%isulphide or with
sulphur smoke, while often recon-
mended as a means Of destroying peck
ct gophers, has been found extremely
uncertain and costly.
Poison for Pocket Gtophera
To poison pocket gopheis, cut sweet
potatoes or parsnips into pieces whose
largest diameter lis less than an Inch.
Wash and drain four quarters Of cut
bats. Place in a metal pan, and from
a pepperbox slowly sift over the dam
pened bats one-eighth ounce Of pow
dered strychnine (alksIoid) and one
tenth as much saccharine twell shaken
together or ground together in a NOR
tar), stirring is to distribute the poison
evenly.
Tunnels Of pocket golhers, which
are usually from three to eight inches
below the surface Of the ground, may
be readily located by means OF a
probe. Any blacksmith can make one
by afi1ing a metal point to a shovel
or spade handle and attaching an Iron
foot rest about ID or 15 inches above
the point. By forcing this instrument
into the soil near the pocket-gopher
workings or @ foot or two back. OF
fresh mounds, one can feed the open
tunnel as the point bree lis into 1t. The
hole may be enlarged and its sides
made firm by pressing the soil later
ally with the probe. a. bait or two
should be dropped into the tunnel n
the probe hole covered. Care should
be taken to place the bats in the main
tunnels rather than in rhe short later
ais leading to mounds. Different forms
of probes have been used successfully
BY the biological survey! In its demon
stration work. Two Of the better Kinds
are illustrated.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-08-15
News for the Farmer
JNo. c. BARKsDALE, COUNTY DEMONSTRATORS

cellent crop to turn for cotton. 1t
does not interfere with the early
planting of cotton which under boil
weevil conditions will be imperitive.
Clover does not make sufficient
growth to enable you to get the cot
ton in early enough, and for this
reason, we recommend clover for
corn and abruzzi rye for cotton.
While we do not recommend clover
for cotton we cannot recommend it
too highly for corn. A single crop
of clover has been known to double
the yield of corn per acre and on
average lands it will enable you to
increase your yields per acre from
year to year, and to lower the
amount of fertilizer necessary to
crop production.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-08-15
LET'S PLANT SOME
CLOVER THIS FALL

W. wish every farmer of the coun-
ty would take a day off and study
the system of farming adopted by
Mr.. B. H. Hodges, Hodges, S. c. Mr.
Hodges attributes his success as a
farmer to crimson clover. Many OF
US knew the Hodges lands before the
present owner began to build them
up by the use of crimson clover; we
know that it would not grow cowpeas
successfully and that it took from g
to 8 acres to make a bale of cotton.
Today with a decreased application
of commercial fertilizers these same
lands produce a bale of cotton per
acre and grow corn equal to bottom
lands. When we stop to hunt the
reason why we see that by the use OF
crimson clover Mr.. Hodges has IN
creased the fertility of his soil to
such an extent that his lands with
stand. drought and give a. larger
yield per acre with the guano used'
enabling him to grow larger crops at
a lowered cost of production. This
is good business and is a system that
many of us would do well to adopt.
It is not an experiment but an estab-
lished fact
A number of our farmers, accom-
panied by the County Agent, visited
Mr.. Hodges farm last week. There
are fine crops growing on the Hodges
lands-cotton that will make a bale
per acre and corn on uplands that
would do credit to bottom lands.
This is not an extra or flush season
on the Hodges farms; we have seen
Mr.. Hodges crops before and they
ALWAYS show up to advantage. The
time to see them is in September,
when all other crops have stopped
growing and putting on fruit, the
crops growing on clover sod is still
growing and fruiting. To hear Mr..
Hodges describe his method of crop
production on clover sod with scarce
ly no fertilizer seems like a dream
to us who have been accustomed to-
growing crops with a stimulus of
commercial fertilizer. We are not
against the use of commercial fer
t~ilizers; they are necessary to crop
production on our soils but we are
against their abuse or rather permit
ting them to abuse us. We pay out
annually a large amount of money
for commercial fertilizers when we
could grow a great portion Of the
nitrogen fertilizer right on u own
lands and effect an annual saving
that would soon spell independence
on the fertilizer bill. /
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-08-15
Look and Feel
.
Clean, Sweet and
Fresh Every Day
Drink a glass Of real hot water
before breakfast to wash
out polsons.

Life is not merely to live, but to
live we'll, eat well, digest well, work
we'll sleep well, look well. What a
glorious condition to attain, and yet
how very easy it is if one will only
adopt the morning inside bath.
Folks who are accustomed to feel
dull and heavy when they arise, split
ting headache, stuffy from a cold,
foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stom-
ach, can, instead, feel as fresh as a
daisy by opening the sluices of the
system each morning and flushing
out the whole of the internal poison
Gus stagnant matter. ...
Everyone, whether ailing, sick or
we'll, should, each morning, before
breakfast, drink a glass of real hot
water with a teaspoonful of limestone
phosphate in it to wash from the
stomach. liver, kidneys and bowels
the previous days %indigestible waste,
sour bile and poisonous toxins; thus
cleansing, sweetening and purifying
the entire ~alimentary canal before
putting more food into the stomach.
The action of hot water and lime
stone phosphate On an empty stom-
ach is wonderfully invigorat:ng. 1t
cleans outall the sour lamentations,
gases, waste and acidity and gives
one a splendid appetite for breakfast
While you are enjoying your break
fast the water and phosphate is
quietly extracting a large volume of
water from the blood and getting
ready for a thorough flushing of all
the inside organs.
The millions of people who are
bothered with constipation, bilious
spells, stomach trouble; others who
have sallow skins, blood disorders
and sickly compilations are urged to
get a quarter pound of limestone
phosphate from the drug store. This
will cost very little, but is sufficient
to make anyone a pronounced crank
on the subject of inside bathing be-
fore breakfast.-Adv.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-08-15
GROWING CORN AND
COTTON AND CLOVER SOD

By using clover as a fertilizer for
corn, we can "Move the Corn Belt
South" We have recently seen corn
gorwing on clover sod that was hard
20 beat-not a leaf fired and with
out a particle of fertilizer. Clover
can best be utilized as a fertilizer for
corr though i can be used eco
nomically fol cotton production.
However, we are Of the opinion that
clover sod had best be seeded to corn
and some other cover crop be uteliz-
ed for the cotton lands. Abbruzzi
rye when turned at the right stage
(from 6 to 8 inches high) is an ex-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-08-15
BEST PRACTICE Of MILKING
Where Cows Are Not Stripped Loss OF
One.Half Pound or More May
Occur at Each Time.

Milk each COW dry at every milking.
If the COWS are not MIXED dry it not
only dries them up, but it is found
that q loss of milk from such a prac-
tie may amount to ore-half a pound
or more at each milking. By strip
ping q herd Of ten COWS after n reg
uIar mixers, the owner may often OBJ
tain FIVE pounds Of milk at a single
milking.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1917-08-15
JELLY MAKING.

Jelly making is not an ART tnaC can
only be mastered by long practice
and experience, but can be success
fully made by anyone if a few SIM
pie suggestions are followed.
In making jelly a fruit juice con-
tanning pectin and acid in proper
pr oportion is required. Pectin is a
gummy substance having the ability
to form jelly when extracted and
cooled. 1t is found chiefly in the
Feelings and cores of fruits, and for
this reason this part of the fruit in
preference to the flesh of fruit
should be used. Oranges, lemons
and grape fruit are particularly rich
in pectin. Pectin has not matured
well in green fruit, and has begun to
decompose in overripe fruit. It is
in prime or best condition just as
the fruit becomes ripe.
When fruit is lacking in pectin
combine with another fruit juice con-
tanning much pectin or add orange
or lemon pectin, using 1 cup pectin
to 1 quart of fruit juice, pour in
pectin. If fruit is lacking in acid,
lemon juice may be added.
Sugar is not necessary to the for
nation of jelly, but is always added
for flavor. There is usually some
doubt about the quantity of sugar,
that you should use. This should be
proportional according to the
amount of pectin the juice contains.
A pectin test may easily be made by
pouring one teaspoon of grain alec.
hol into one teaspoon of the cooled
juice. If the juice congeals into a
large lump, pectin is present in sufi-
cient quantity to warrant the use of
equal portions of sugar and juice,
If it shapes in globules, use three
fourths as much sugar as juice. If
the solid portions are only in flakes
only one half as much sugar as juice
should be used. g
For extracting juice, put clean
fruit in kettle and add a cup of wa
ter to every 4 or 5 quarts of fruit.
Cook slowly until muss is soft and
easily crushed. Turn hot material
into jelly bag, which has been wrung
from hot water, drain without
squeezing until all juice has dripped
out.
Put the juice in a saucepan and
bring rapidly to the boiling point.
Add sugar slowly so as not to lower
rate of cooking. Do not skin during
boiling. Continue boiling rapidly
until material sheets or flakes from
spoon. Skin and pour Immediately
into clear sterilized glasses. Chop
pieces of parrafin in bottom of glass
and pour in hot jelly. This melted
parrafn rises up thru the jelly, takes
up air bubbles and forms a covering
over top to exclude air and bacteria.
Failures in jelly-making are due
to lack of pectin and acid in fruit;
too much sugar; too long cooking or
too short cooking.
The most desirable fruits for Jelly
making are currants, crab apples, ap-
Piles, ounce, grapes, blackberries,
raspberries and plums.
If a mint jelly is desired, remove
the leaves from mint stems, using six
good sprigs for, IL glasses of jelly.
crush leaves; tie in cheese cloth,
place in kettle with apples to boil. If
mint leaves are not available, add 6
drops of mint extract to each pint of
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-09
American Housewives Told
How to Aid in Food Saving

Washington July s-A million women
signed pledges follow food directions
All enrolled
administration and from will instructions
hold Within the three weeks the administration
enroll virtually in the United States.
The list OF today posted
kitchens who have the administration They follow:
One wheatess meal day Use oatmeal barley bread
breakfast foods Order bread twenou hours advance
baker will beyond his needs Cut loaf the table
required Use stale bread for cooking Eat less cake
and pastry.
Beef pork than daily Use freely vegetables
and fish At the meal smaller portions and instead OF
steaks,
Save the milk Children have milk Use buttermlk and
milk for cooking and making cottage cheese Use less
essential for the health children Use butter
table usual but cooking Other fats good Reduce
fried foods Soap Do Make your washing
at home ont of the saved fats.
We today three times much
allies for all reasonable
Use less candy drinks Do stint putting
fruit and jams. They will save butter
fuel Coal from distance and railways
hauling Help running
Fruits and vegetables abundance As nation
green Double their and health Store
and other and they will keep Begin
all surplus garden products -t
producer Distance money Buy perish
neghborhood thus
General Buy smaller portons preach the Of
the clean plate don't fourth meal don't limit the plain food
cdren watch the commun full garbage pals
America dinner pals in America and Europe the
will avoid than they need
the high Of living problem of the less fortunate will be solved
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-09
BoyIes College Has
Day and Night School

The great demand for ofilce help
due to the war is causing Boyles col
lege to exert special efforts to meet
the unprecedented call for competent
office help. 49,,
college is going TO do its part. 1t IS
right now running a day and night
school. making it possible for STU
dents to enter whichever is most con-
venient for them. 1t is also enrolling
lew students all the time now, start
ng new classes every Monday.
"Few people realize the great de.
.1and there will be for office help OF
every character in the next few
months due to the war; With nearly
?.O00,000 places in the business ranks
,f this country vacated on such short
notice, it will require extraordinary
Efforts to anywhere near fill the gaps
The opportunities for ambitious
Young men and women to enter the
business world were never as great
as they are today"
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-09
MANCHU EMPEROR
AGAIN ADVOCATES
PEACOCK THRONE
Dispatches to London Tell Of
Defeat Of Monarchists and
Second Dethroning of
Boy Ruler.

London, July s.-The dispatch
from Peking early this morning an
nouncing the abdieation of Hsuan
Tung, the young emperor who was
put back on the throne by General
Chang Hsun, is corroborated by a
cablegram received today from
Reuters correspondent there. 1t ap-
pears that General Chang Hsun, de-
pressed by the failure OF his attempt
to restore the monarchy, rendered
his resignation to the emperor, who
thereupon issued an edict announe-
ing his abdieation.
The republican forces occupy
strategic positions in the southern
and western outskirts of the city,
and there is every prospect OF a
peaceful settlement.
Announce the Abdication.
A Reuter- Limited dispatch from Pc.
king announces that Hsuan Tnng, the
young emperor, has abdicated.
Hsuan Tung, the son of Prince
Chun, for the second time has abdi
Gated the throne of China, He frs
became emperor December ?, 1908
under the regency Of his father. Or
December 6. 1911, Prince Chun abdi
Gated as regent and the youthful EN-
peror abdicated the throne Februar,
II, 1912, and the Chinese republic wa,
established. From then until las
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-09
Conditions for Entrance /. .
Into Bishop 0'Connor Hall

Conditions for entrance to BIS lop
O'Connor Hall were made puohc
Sunday by Archbishop Harty IN a a
letter to the clergy and laity 'ot the
Catholic diocese of Omaha. It states
that the institution is home tor stu,
dents who aspire to professional ana 9
commercial life and who wish to avaii
Themselves Of the advantages ottered
them in Omaha, especially by ereign-
ton university. , =
Entrants must present letters OF
reference, must have ability to take
UP high school or college work and i1
must have a good will which VIII
manifest itself in obedience to the
rules necessary for the government
Of the house. Twenty dollars TOR
board, lodging and washing Will be
required OF every entrant monthly
The Benedictine Sisters will be N
charge Of the hall. The director OF
the hall will be Rev julius Hettwer.
Applications may be made to him at
the hall, Twenty-ffth and Cass
streets,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-09
General Pershing Denied
Sunar and Cream in London

Correspondence of The Associated Press>
London, June 16-Major General
Pershing, commander of the Ameri-
can expeditionary force in France.
seated for tea on the beautiful
Thames Terrace of the House OF
Commons with Colonel Astor as his
host, had an experience in England's
war rationing when he found that he
could not have sugar in his tea and on
his Strawberries as well.
you may have only one portion of
sugar, two-sevenths of all ounce the
waitress informed him with a quaint
air of preciseness, and the general
chose sugarless strawberries, remark
ing that the sun, as though anxious to
compensate, had sweetened the straw
berries so well "that sugar was not
essential. -r
In the bounteous times of peace the
House of Commons mattresses used
to trip about the Terrace during the
fine June afternoons with big bowls
Of white powdered sugar and lavish
jugs of cream. Now the sugar is
strictly rationed, and the amount OF
cream that may be used is limited to
one small measured portion for each
person.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-09
PERSHING PLANS
FOR PERMANENT
TRAINING CAMP
American Forces in France to
All Be Established Behind the
Firing Line Within An
other Week.

Paris, July S.-Major General John
]. Pershing, commander of the Ameri-
can forces in France, spent today con-
ferring with his staff, concerning
plans for the permanent training
camp in France and American partici-
patton on the fighting front. The per-
manent camp has been established and
one battalion is undergoing intensive
training. 1t is expected that the re-
mainder of the first expeditionary
force will be in camp behind the fight
ing lire within a week.
General Pershing expected to confer
this week with Field Marshal Sir
Douglas Haig, the British commander
but because of the pressure of other
business, he was compelled to send a
member of his staff to British head.
quarters. General Pershing will visit
Field Marshal Haig later.
Pershing Issues an Order.
The general has issued the follow
ing order to his troops:
"For the first time in history an
American army finds itself in Euro
pean territory. The good name oi
the United States of America and the
maintenance Of cordial relations re-
quire the perfect department of each
member of this command,
1T is of the gravest importance
that the soldiers of the American
army shall at all times treat the
French people, and especially the
women, with the greatest courtesy
and respect. =,
"The valiant deeds Of the FrencA
armies and the allies, by which they
together have successfully maintained
the common cause for three years
and the sacrifices OF the civil popula'
ton of France in support of their
armies, command our profound re-
spect.
Urges Uniform Courtesy.
"This can best be expressed on the
part of our forces by uniform courte-
sizes to all the French people and by
the faithful observance of their laws
and customs.
THE intensive cultivation of the
soil in France, under conditions caused
by the war makes it necessary thai
extreme care be taken to do no dam
age to private property. The entire
French manhood capable of bearing
arms is in the field fighting the enc
my, and it should, therefore, be a point
of honor to each member of the
American army to avoid doing the
least damage to any property II
France. Such conduct is much more
reprehensible here. Honor them al
those of our own country" -
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-09
FACTIONS MAY
GET SWEEPING
VOTE REFORM
Significant ReaIignment of
Various Parties Noted, Which
May Result in Change in
Electoral System.

Berlin, Saturday, July 7 (Via Lon.
don, July S),-Unless all present indi~
cations fail in the course of the next Z
few days, the German empire is OH
the eve OF momentous, If not his
torcal, parliamentary upheaval.
Developments in. the last forty
eight hours point TO significant re-
alignment OF various factions in favor
of sweeping electoral and parliament-
ary reforms.
Although the sessions of the main
committee and the constitutional
committee have been of an executive
nature, press comments permit the
inference that the discussions of vital
subjects OF governmental policy fire.
quently reached the boiling point.
That they have been Of gravely sig
nifcant import is indicated clearly by
the sudden decision to postpone the
Saturday plenary session, which was
to have marked the opening OF the
general debate and the expected
speech of Chancellor Won Bethmann-
Hollweg.
The absence of the chancellor from
the sessions of the main and coHst;ta.
tional committees in the last few DAYS
has caused general comment in parlia-
mcntary circles as exceptional in view
of the confidential character of the
discussions.
To Be Memorable Session.
Monday will mark the Inauguration
OF what promises to be one of the
most memorable parliamentary ses-
sious in the history OF the empire. All
the Reichstag factions. remained in
session ihsindividual groups until late
last night to decide what action might
be taken.
The Zeitung Am Mittsg says that
dcputation of six members frcm the
social democratic party in the reichs-
tag called on Chancellor Won Beth
mann Hollweg Friday to impress the
gravity Of tire situation on him.
The delegates insisted that the
chancellor make an unequivocal dec
laration that the government was pre-
pared at any time to enter into peace
negotiations cn the basis OF the status
quo.
Demand for Reforms.
The deputaton also demanded I'M
, mediate introduction of parliamentary
and electoral reforms, urging the ap-
pointment of leading reichstag dep
uties to secretarial and ministerial
posts.
There are rufnors that Professor
Adolf Won Harnack. one of the most
intimate advisors of the emperor, is
slated to succeed Herr Won Trott zu
Solz as Prussian minister of educa-
ton. The present minister is said to
be opposed to sweeping electoral re-
forms.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-09
First Battalion of Russ
Women Leaves for Front
(By Associated Press.)

Petrograd, July s. Under COM
mand OF Lieutenant Mile. Vera Butch
Kareff, the wemen's war battalion,
fully armed and equipped as infantry,
today left for the front. Before their
departure the women soldiers ap-
peared in military formation before
the Kazan cathedral where solemn
religious service was held. The Amer
lean ambassador, David X. Francis,
was among the ofhcialsypresent.
An officer representing the COM
mander Of the Petrograd military dis
trict wished the women soldiers glory
in their struggle with the foes of Rus
sian freedom. Large crowds Of citi-
zens gave an ovation to the battalion
as it marched to the railway station
and a committee of the League for
Equal Rights for Women bade fare
we'll to their sisters under arms.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-07-09
Pathfinder to Be Opened
On First of August

Fremont, Neb,, July 8.-(Special
Telegram 1.-THE new 100000 Hotel
Pathfinder, will be opened to the pub
lie about August |, according to an
announcement made by Landlord R.
D. McFaddan. 1t is planned to spread
the formal opening over the entire
week, beginning July 80. A banquet
will be given each evening to various
organizations of the city, including
the stockholders, Commercial club
and other bodies. Every room in the
hotel has been reserved for tractor
week, August E TO 10,