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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-18
LEGAL NOTICES

Street to South Seth Street,: South
seth Street from Park Avenue to
ID" Street.
Also the two (2) inch pipes as
shown on plans; all together with
the necessary gates. tees. crosses,
hydrants and specials.
Said installment may be paid on
or before June 18th, 1917, but IL
not paid on or before said date.
added interest, penalty and costs will
attach.
JAMES c. DRAKE,
City Treasurer.
May 1926. June 1, 1917.
LOCAL Improvement District No.
8S2.-Notice is hereby given that
in pursuance of Ordinance No. 5781
of the City of Tacoma. roll has
been placed in my hands for the
collection of the 3rd annual INSTALL
ment of the assessment levied for
laying cement concrete sidewalks
five 60 feet in width on Asotin
Street from South 10th Street to
Street from Sheridan Avenue to
Alaska Street and on South 53rd
Street from Sheridan Avenue to Aso-
tin street.
Provided that where cement walks
have already been constructed and
conform to line and grade they shall
not be included in this Improvement.
Said installment may be paid on
or before June 18th, 1917, but
added interest, penalty and costs
JAMES C. DRAKE,
City Treasurer.
May 1925, June 1, 1917.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-18
New Swimming Suits

New Swimming Suits
Every woman and girl
should take advantage of the
opportunity to learn to swim
offered by the various splen-
did tanks in Tacoma.
We have received a large
shipment of swimming suits
in all qualities.
Fine worsted suits in
navy, Copenhagen, red,
orange, green and black,
plain or neatly trimmed in
contrast at $500, $3.50,
$3.50 $500. &7.0J
Good worsted suits in
plain gray and navy at $3.50
anu $S.VO
Cotton swimming suits In
black and gray at -. $3.50
Swimming caps in all col
Ors at Zoe
Bathing caps in many nov
city styles in all the high
colors. ...... 35c to $1.OO
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-18
The Suits Fabrics
SUITS WORTH
$500 to $69.50
Half Price

PICNIC AND
| LAWN NEEDS
Special Picnic Pkg.
Containing paper table
cover 42x56 in, IL napkins,
II plates, In a sanitary car
ton, 15c value for .1Oc
Sc packages waxed paper
for sandwiches, 3 for 1Oc
Paper napkins, 100 for DC
Paper drinking cups, 10
Tor DC
Boy Scout Tents, COM
plete with poles, only few
left, choice ......... $40
Coldwell Lawn
Mowers =.
Ball bearings, 4 blades,
reinforced, 8 in. half spoke
wheels. The only accurate
ly adjusted line of mowers
on the market.
-14-inch size, worth $7.85,
special $500
-16-inch size, worth $S.25,
special $6.08
-1S-inch size, worth $S.75,
special ............ $7.35
Other mowers from $4.25
to ............... $12.75
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-18

khaki Kool Silk, Tussah
Silk, Sports Plaid and Stripe
Silk. Beautiful Novelty Plaid
Woolens.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1917-05-18
rhe Coat Fabrics

Wool Jersey, Velour. Burella
Cloth, Pompon Cloth, Serge,
Plaid Velour, Novelty Check
Coating.
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
Would Conserve Garbage.

The latest campaign to be launched
oy the department of agriculture Is
one for the conservation of garbage.
Conservation campaigns have been
cutting down the contents of the gar
bage pail as far as possible, but there
will always be n source of fats and
fertilizer material, both of which are
sorely needed all over the world. The
department hopes to induce every city
of any size to install a reduction plant
to recover these materials from the
garbage. An average load of garbage
contains per cent of grease and 20
per cent of tankage, which latter is a
valuable fertilizer. The food cOnser-
walton campaign, however, is showing
its results in reduction of the
amount of fatty material in the gar
bage.
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
PLATOON COMMANDS.

When the company is in line, to form
columns of platoons, the command is,
''Platoons right Qeft)." This is exc
cuted by each platoon as in the school
of the company.
The right flank men in the front
rank of each platoon face to the right
in marching and mark time. The other
front rank men oblique to the right,
place themselves abreast of the pivot
men, and mark time. In the rear rank,
the third man from the right in each
platoon followed In column by the
second and first) moves straight to the
front until in the rear Of his front rank
man. Then all three face to the right
in marching and mark time. The re-
manning men of the rear rank move
straight to the front for four PAGES,
Obllque to the right, place themselves
abreast of the third man, cover their
file leaders and mark time.
Before executing this movement with
platoons, the captain makes it point
to see that the guides on the flank
toward which the movement Is to turn
nre coveriag-that is, are In straight
row, so that the pivot men, whose po-
sitions are governed by those of the
guides, will also be In a straight row,
which will bring the platoons Into a
precise column. This is effected by
previously announcing the guide to
that flank.
Following the command, "Platoons
right (left), MARCH," the concluding
command is to the company as a
whole-"Forward, MARCH," or "Com-
pany, HALT"
Being in columns of platoons, to
change direction, the command is, "Col-
umn right Qeft), MARCH" At the
preparatory command, the leader of
the first platoon turns to the right on
a moving pivot; then its leader com
mands. Forward, MARCH" at the
completion of the turn. Rear platoons
march squarely up to the turning point
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
MEN HAVE QUEER AvERSIoNs
Cases Have Been Related Of Some
Who Would Faint at the Mere
Sight of Roses.

A case is related Of n monk who
would faint on seeing a rose and who
never quilted his cell at the monastery
while that flower was blooming. An
other authority tells us of how Vim
cent, the great painter, would swoon
upon going suddenly into a room
where roses were blooming, says Lon
don Tit-Blts.
Valtaid tells us of an army officer
who was frequently thrown into vio-
lent commissions by coming in contact
with the little flower known as the
pink, while the same authority also
tells of the case of lady who, IL
present when linseed was being boiled
for any purpose, would be seized with
violent fits of coughing, swelling Of
the face, and partial loss o. reason
for the ensuing "a hours.
Writing of these peculiar anti
pathies and aversions, Montague re-
marks that he has known men of I'M
doubted courage who would much
rather fs.ce a shower of cannon balls
than look at an apple. In thinner
mann's writings there is an account Of
lady who could not bear to touch
either silk or satin and would almost
faint If by accident she should hap
pen to touch the velvety skin of
peach.
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30

There was a time when treating seed
for smut was somewhat OF tiresome
and laborlous process, but IT Is no
longer so, Heretofore most farmers
who have been disinfecting their seed
wheat used the dilute formaldehyde
method, but now there is a way Of
making the job even simpler. This new
smut remedy is known as the "concen-
trated formaldehyde method" first de-
vised by Cornell university.
With this treatment the formalde-
hyde is used just as 1t comes from
the drug store, that is, without being
diluted. The seed wheat is simply
spread in long heap on the barn floor.
Then one man sprays the grain with
the concentrated formaldehyde while
another shovels II over, turning 1t from
one pile into another just as you would
cement. The spraying can be done
with small hand atomizer of pint or
quart size. One pint Of formaide-
hyde Is used for so bushels of grain.
Where smaller quantities than 30 BUSH
els are planted, CORRESPONDENCE small
er amounts Of formaldehyde are used
"a half pint for % bushels, or quar-
ter Of pint for ten bushels.
After the grain is thoroughly spray
ed, 1t should be covered with blankets
or canvas for four hours-no longer
and then spread out thinly for an air
ing. After this the grain is ready for
planting.
Last fall, under the direction of
County Agent Smith, a number OF
farmers In Kent county tried out the
new method. They secured perfect
stands and perfect smut control at
cost of not more than two cents
bushel.
OF course the man who doesn't care
to use the concentrated formaldehydc
remedy can still do the job in the old
way by using dilute of formaldehyde.
The difference between the new way
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
KEEP BEST ANIMALS
FOR MEAT PURPOSES
Big Mistake to Send Breeding
Stock to Butcher on Account
of High-Priced Feed.

(By r. H. WILLIAMS, Animal Husband
man. Arizona Agricultural Experiment
Station.)
Owing to the high price of feeds,
scarcity of labor and the unusually
high prices ruling for meat animals,
there Is tendency to send some OF
the best breeding stock to the BUTCH
er. This is big mistake, for IL is
certain that the best animals should
be maintained. This is the time, how
ever, to inspect the fiocks, herds and
studs and eliminate all inferior or or
binary individuals. On the other
hand, stockmen would do well to main
tain all their superior breeding stock
for they are certain to be needed In
the future. There is a growing ten
dency to decrease the number of live
stock in the country. This portends
meat shortage unless public-spirited
stockmen or those gifted with long
vision check the present movement.
There is no doubt that many farmers
will be discouraged with the live stock
business and sell their animals OUT
right. Something should be dooe tn
remind the farmers that all these ami
mails are needed and the hest should
be retained for future usa
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30

and the old is simply this-in one case
the pure, concentrated form0ldehyde
is used just as II comes from the
drug store; In the old method the di-
luted solution is employed. BY us
ing the concentrated formaldehyde all
the bother of splashng around in a
lot of water and waiting for the grain
to dry afterwards is done away with.
1t is the formaldehyde that kills the
smut In both methods.
If there is any doubt at all about
the way to apply either treatment, the
thing to do is to get in touch with
your county agent, or write direct to
the Michigan Agricultural college. But
regardless of whether you prefer the
new method or the old, one of them
should be used. 1t is the duty of every
farmer now to insure his wheat crop.
No matter how clean the seed may
be, and no matter how highly recon-
mended it comes from the seedman,
treatment is the only sure means Of
safety.
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30

OF the leading platoon and turn at the
command of their leaders.
When a company is In column of
squads, and IL is desired to form
line of platoons. the command "Pla-
ICONS, column right (left" is given.
This is executed by each platoon as
already described for the company.
The leading squad of each platoon exc
cutes right turn and four parallel
columns of squads advance In line of
platoons.
When the company Is In line. to form
line of platOons, the command may be
either, Squads right Qeft), platoons,
column right Qeft), MARCH," or "Pla-
toons right Qeft) by squads, MARCH"
The first command is explained by ref
erence to the preceding paragraph.
while the second is executed by each
platoon separately as Fright (left) by
squads" in the school of the company.
Being In column of platoons, to form
the company line on the right or left,
the command is as follows: "On right
Ceft) into line, MARCH" "Com.
pany, HAITI" At the preparatory
command, the leader of the first pla-
toon gives "right turn" At March,"
the platoon turns to the right on q
moving pivot. The command "Halt"
is given when the leading platoon has
advanced the desired distance. At the
"Halt" its leader commands Fright
dress" The other platoons march ex-
actly as though they were squads when
this order is given to the company in
column of squads.
"Platoons, right Oeft) front into
line" is executed as described by
squads in the school of the company.
The dress for "Platoons, right front
into line" would be on the left squad
of the left platoon.
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30

Did Richland farmers possess immune
seed? Not at all. The smut had sim
ply been killed through treatment of
the seed before planting. In the other
district no such precautions were OBJ
served.
In Michigan as a whole the losses
from smut this season ran all the way
from 5 to go per cent of the crop in
the different districts. If we place the
average loss in the state at five per
cent of the crop, and 1t was all Of
that, 1t means that smut destroyed at
least 100000 bushels of grain, or
enough wheat, If placed in bushel
sacks, and arranged in row, to ex-
tend all the way from Kalamazoo to
Detroit, or from Saginaw to Muske-
gon. The financial loss to farm
ers was at least $1,500,000. This
sort of thing, particularly when the
world is begging for every possible
kernel of wheat produced, should be
guarded against.
Smut isn't an unavoidable trouble.
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
PLAN FOR RENEWING
WORKOUT PASTURES
Sweet Clover Is Valuable Soil
Renovation and Makes Excel
lent Forage for Stock.

From the United States Department OF
Agriculture.)
"GrOw sweet clover" is the answer
for poor soil or WORKOUT pastures
which no longer support live stock
profitably, according to investigators
of the United States department OF
agriculture, who have found that thou
sands of acres Of sweet clover are fur
nishing annually abundant pasturage
for all kinds of stock on soil where
other crops made but little growth.
In many portions of the middle
West sweet clover bids fair to solve
serious pasturage problems, according
TO Farmers Bulletin $40, "Sweet ClO-
yer: Utilization" just issued. Native
pastures which no longer provided
more than a scant living for a mature
steer on four or five acres, when prop
erly seeded to sweet clover, will pro-
duce sufficient forage to carry at least
one animal to the acre throughout the
season. Dairy cattle, horses, sheep
and hogs all do well on sweet clover.
Land which is too rough or too depict
eu LOT CULTIVATION OF permanent pas
lures which have become thin and
weedy may be improved greatly by
drilling in, after disking a few
pounds Of sweet clover seed per acre.
Not only will the sweet clover add
considerably to the quality and guam
tity of the pasturage, but the growth
of the grasses will be improved by
the addition of large quantities of hui
mus and nitrogen to the soil.
Sweet clover has proved to be an
excellent pasturage crop on many OF
the best farms in the North Central
states. In this part of the country
tits often seeded alone and pastured
from the middle or the latter part OF
June until frost,
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
NO LETUP IN EDUCATION
Colleges Will Open as Usual, Despite
War and Its Handieaps.

East Lansing, Mlch.-Despite the
announcement of radical changes
made by number of Eastern educa-
tional institutions under the spell of
the new conditions brought on by the
war, Michigan will, during the coming
year. continue its educational work as
usual. At least this is the announce
ment coming from the Michigan Agri-
cultural college, and there are signs
that other of the states schools OF
higher learning will follow M. A. C.'s
lead.
Some of the seaboard schools will
open on October 1, or even later In the
fall, and close earlier In the spring,
but at NJ. A. G. the term will begin on
September "a in all four divisions OF
the college-engineering, agricultural,
home economics and veterinary medi-
cine.
"rhere is at present no reason why
our schools should begin making
changes" said President Kedzie In a
recent public statement. IF 1t be-
comes necessary, decisions to shorten
courses and terms can be arrived at
over night and put into effect almost
as quickly. We propose to proceed as
we would normally until IL becomes APP
parent that changes must be made"
Recent inquiries made by M. A. G.
Indicate that practically all M. A. @.
students who weren't called out for
military duty will be continued at the
college, so that boys desiring to ac-
auIre military training along with their
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
Are We Living Too East7

Life in the great centers of the Unit
ed States has gained such impetus
that 1t makes few pauses In its rush
toward its own destruction. II hur-
ries us along In its current of excite
ment, battering us against jagged
rocks that jut across 1t from all an
giles, poisoning us, poIluting our blood
with emotions that eat up red corpus.
Giles, and draining our sensibilities Of
their natural responsiveness.
Waste of physical energy is scarcely
worse than waste of mental forces.
Life ceases to be enjoyable that mo-
ment in which we leave Off wondering
at IL, when II no longer surprises US
when II no longer has unexplored Wis
tas, unexpected romances and adven-
lures, when our jaded palates are cal
loused beyond the possibility Of antici.
pation.--Exchange
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
IMPROVED POULTRY HOUSE
Right Interior Arrangements Help
Welfare Of Chickens.
BY c. X. BURGESS,
Dept. Of Poultry Husbandry, Michigan
Agricultural COLLEGE,


East Lansing, Naturalization to
the interior arrangement of poultry
houses Is not out of place, and mention
of few points which we have found
to be of practical value In our work,
therefore, may be worth while:
Drinking fountains or vessels should
be at least 20 inches above the floor.
This will prevent the water from be-
coming contaminated with straw and
litter. If mash hopper is used
plans for good one may be had from
the Michigan Agricultural college on
application-it should be hung on the
wall and should be so constructed that
the fowls cannot scratch or scatter the
feed.
Allow one nest to every six or seven
birds. For Leghorns give them nests
10 by 10 inches In size. and larger birds
IL by IL inches. Place roosts from "a
inches to 80 inches above the floor and
allow an S-inch space per hen. No
dropping board need be used. Box the
front of the roosting quarters In such
n way that the litter cannot be
scratched into the dropplngs. White
wash the interior Of the house once
year and use kerosene oil upon the
roosts once or twice a month during
the summer to prevent mites.
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
SUMMER CULTIVATION
OF ORCHARD NEEDED
Three Methods That May Be
Practiced Are Explained by
Kansas College Expert.

Summer cultivation of the orchard
is necessary If a profit is to be made,
In the opinion of f. s. Merrill, assist
ant professor of horticulture In the
Kansas State Agricultural college.
''Three methods may be practiced
In the cultivation of an orchard" said
Professor Merrill. "The first of these
is the sod mulch system. This is prac-
ticed on bottom land or land high in
fertility. Orchards on fertile land are
likely to produce a heavy growth of
wood, which prevents the formation of
fruit buds. In order to overcome this
a grass crop should be sowed In the
orchard. The grass crop is moved
when necessary and allowed to remain
on the ground.
1.-THE second method, often used,
consists of sowing a grass crop In the
orchard and harvesting the hay. This
system Is injurious to the trees and re-
duces the size and value of the fruit.
''Where the topography and slope of
the land will permit, clean cultivation
is advisable. 1t kills the weeds and
conserves the moisture. Orchards
cultivated in this manner will produce
larger fruit than under other systems
of cultivation.
Clean cultivation will keep down In
sect pests by destroying their hibernat-
Ing places and food supply. The buff
falo tree hopper Is less injurious In
clean, cultivated orchards. because Il
removes their food supply"
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
Concentrated Formaldehyde, M.
A. C. Specialist Says, Effec-
lively Protects Wheat
From Disease.
ITEM OF COST IS SLIGHT
Spores Can Be Killed at Expense OF
Less Than Two Cents Per 8usheI
of Grain Sprayed.
BY DR.. G. II. cooNs,
Plant Patholoeist, Michigan Aerieul-

Plant PathoIoelst, Michigan AerIeuI-
turaI College.
East Lansing, Mlch.-Practlcally all
Michigan farmers who have ever
grown wheat know the meaning and
the smell Of sinking smut, though
their intimacy with it varies with diff
ferent communities. Kalamazoo coun-
ty affords an object lesson. In and
around Richland, in this county, where
there is a community of agricultural
live wires, the losses this season from
smut were slight, but not dozen miles
away is another group of growers
whose grain, when threshed, gave off
smut clouds worse than the SCOT from
a factory chimney. The smut losses
In the latter instance ran as high as
% per cent and more of the crop.
Why the difference in the amount
Of smut damage in two communities?
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
ACCOMMODATING QUALITIES OF cURRANT

Until fully acquainted with this small
dating qualities II
The healthy
a
the whole bush of foliage Spray vwhte heoe
touching undersde
off
carefully picked handled
the
that is the picking
Put them For private pack
distant in five eight pound baskets
/
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
AVOID BIG LOSS TO
MELONS IN TRANSIT
SuIphate-Starch Paste Has Been
Found to Prevent Trouble
Called Stem-End Rot.
from the United States Department of
Agriculture.)

from the United States Department of
Agricultural
The application Of copper sulphate-
starch paste or bordeaux paste to the
freshly cut stems of watermelons has
been found to prevent the stem-end rot
that has causd heavy losses to melons
In transit in previous years.
This treatment was recommended in
Farmers Bulletin No. S21 recently is
sued, and has been demonstrated at
loading stations by agents of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture.
The treated melons have been prac-
tically free from stem-end rot, where
as shipments sent from infected dis
tricts without treatment have given
much trouble. In one case, two cars
arrived in a Northwestern city on the
same day. One, untreated in ventilat-
ed car, had % per cent of decay, while
the other, which had been treated, al
though in an ordinary, unventilated
box car, had only 2 per cent of decay.
Several large shippers are now in
sisting that this treatment be given
all melons they buy. and 1t appears
likely that the departments method Of
control will quickly come into general
use. The results secured in Florida
and south Georgia justify the adop-
ton of the treatment in districts now
shipping.
Detailed directions are to be found
In Farmers Bulletin No. S21, sent free
upon application to the department of
agriculture.
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
Growth of United States.

During the 30 years from 1850 to
1900, the United States increased in
area from 2,997,119 square miles to
3,026,7s9; in population, from 23,191,-
S76 to 75,994,575; in farms and farm
property, from S3,967 ,343,5S0 TO $780,
10000 .164; in manufacturing estab-
lishments, from 123,025 to 207 ,514; In
value of manufactured products, from
S1,019. 1O6.616 to $11, 406,926,701; In
number of depositors in savings banks
from 251,364 to 6,107, 033; in miles of
railway operated from 9,021 to 1884,
go.
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
Gas Fires New Gun.

In a new gun the propelling agent is
compressed carbon dioxide. The carbon
dioxide is contained in a small case
that fits into the gunstock, and that
holds enough gas for from 100 to 800
shots. Pulling the trigger releases the
requisite amount of the gas to propel
the shot from the barrel. With small
shot the gun has range OF about SO
feet; with bullets a range of about 130
feet
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
The Dog Forgot.

Victim-Confound your dog. mad.
ami It's nearly bitten piece out of
my leg.
Owner (distressed)-I am truly sor-
ry, sir. Naughty little Daphnel After
all my efforts to make Wednesday your
meatless day.-Punch.
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
Her Testimonial.

A bride who was deserted fort.
night after her marriage has exhibited
n letter from her husband, explaining
that he married her to escape the army
and has now joined the army to escape
her.-Providence Journal.
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30
Window Garden.

"Got back yard?"
"Nope. live in fiat"
"Doing your bit?"
Eyes. I'm raising a couple of onions
In tomato cam"
The Yale expositor., 1917-08-30

regular work in agricultural studies
will be given an opportunity to do so.