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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
BIG CROPS FOR new YORK
Western Portion of State Gives Prom
Use of Big Yield Of Potatoes
and Small Truck.

Buffalo, N. Y.-An early census in
the western New York agricultural dis
tricts shows there will be harvested
over 100000 bushels of potatoes more
than in any recent year. This is the
result of an organized effort to stimu-
late general crop production in larger
quantities than ever. Indications are
that the Niagara fruit belt will regis
ter a tremendous yield this year. Small
truck is being raised in heretofore I'M
heard of quantities. The great Chau-
tauqua grape belt is expected TO regis
ter another million-dOllar crop, with
grape juice and wine companies al
ready contracting for larger than usual
tonnage of grapes.
Early in the spring a great labor
shortage doomed up, but this has been
overcome in a measure by the farm
cadet movement, which sent hundreds
of boys into the rural districts.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
RED CROSS GROWING RAPIDLY
Patriots Barred From Armed Service
Find This Way of Doing
Their Bit.

Washington.-As result of the war
inspired patriotism the number Of Red
Cross chapters in the United States
has more than doubled in the past
three months. The number Is now
three times that of a year ago. More
new chapters were formed in April
than existed in the whole country last
July. Twenty-six new chapters were
organized in the month of February !;
"A in the month of March, while April
surpassed all records with 100 new
chapters, 81 per cent increase. This
brought the total number to 562 chap
tiers. as against 272 at the first of the
year.
Requests for chapters have come
from every quarter of the country,
from Alaska, Porto Rico, Cuba and the
Philippines.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
81, 50O,OOO,OC0 FOR ROADS
Predicted This Amount Will Be Spent
in Next Five Years on Highways
of United States.

at is predicted on good authority
that from $1,O00O00,OOO to S1.500,OOO,-
600 will be spent on the highways OF
the United States in the next five
years." says Lincoln Highway, the
organ of the transcontinental highway
association of that name. Herein lies
the proof of the general interest on
the part of all of-the people in road
Improvement, an Interest which went
soaring with the passage of the Bank
head Shackleford act allowing $4,000
COO of federal funds to the various
states for this purpose"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
EGGS FOR INCUBATION
Uniformity in Size and Shape Is
of Utmost Importance.
Smooth Shells, All White or Brown
Are Also Desirable-No Way OF
Determining Fertility Of Egg
Nor Sex Of Chick.

Eggs for incubation, either naturai
or artificial, should be uniform In
size. with smooth shells OF good tex
ture. according to N. L. Harris, super
intendent of the Kansas State Agricul-
tural college poultry farm.
Irregularly shaped eggs will hatcn
nearly as well as smoOth-shelled eggs,
believes Mr. Harris. 1t is not consld-
cred good practice, however. to set the
irregularly shaped eggs as there is
possibility that pullets Matched from
them will inherit the undesirable CHAR
acteristic of producing poorly shaped
eggs.
As rule it is not wise to place both
white and brown eggs In the same In
cubator, as the white eggs have q ten
! dency to hatch one or two days sooner
than those with brown shells. There
is nothing in the color of the shell
which affects the time of Matching, but
the small, quick maturing birds nearly
all Law white-shelled eggs. The EN-
brvo chicks of these breeds will de-
velop more rapidly than those OF the
heavier breeds.
Eggs that vary greatly in size should
never be set in an incubator as the
large eggs seem to receive more heat
due to projecting higher in the machine
than the smaller ones. Eggs with
shells of poor texture which appear
POROUS, allow the moisture to evapo
rate too readily and seldom. If ever
hatch.
There is absolutely no way of dc
termining the fertility Of an egg pre-
vious to incubation. nor is there any
thing in the shape of the egg which
will indicate the sex of the chick!
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
POULTRY RECORD is USEFUL
Breeder Should Know Definitely What
Fowls Cost and What They Pay
During Season.

Every poultry breeder should keep
careful debit and credit account with
his fowls. He should know definitely.
not only that they pay, but how much
they pay. Such accounts need not be
elaborate. but ,hey should be accurate.
Charge the fowls with all that they
consume and credit them with all that
they produce; the balance will be the
profit.
Not all of the profit, for no one can
measure in dollars and cents the pleas
! ure that one gets from his flocks. and
that is a big item in the real profits.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
TAKE NEW "ANTITANK GUNS"
British Discover That German Invent
ors Have Devised New Form
of Weapon.

LOndon.-Germany's war inventors
have devised a new form of weapon
known as "antitank guns" These can
non are used against the huge armed
and armored monsters which the Brit
ish have been using with such ex-
cellent results on the western front.
The "antitank" gun is short-barreled
seven-inch weapon. hurting shell
with tremendous power. A number of
them have been captured by the Brit
ish forces on the Arras front.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
USE OF COLD STORAGE EGGS
When Carefully Handled They Are
Better Than Those That Have
Been improperly Handled.

Because fewer eggs are produced in
the most populous regions Of the coun-
try than are consumed there. and be-
cause the seasons have a marked eff
feet on the number Of eggs laid. city
housewives must use cold storage eggs
during some periods of the year If
they are TO supply their tables at all
with this food.
The fact that eggs have been held
in cold storage does not necessarily
mean that they are Of low quality.
Carefully handled cold storage eggs
often are of better quality than fresh
local eggs that have been improperly
cared for.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
TEN MILLION ARE SUBJECT TO THE DRAFT

answers to ~ questions. which will
embody all the information which the
government desires of each indi-
vidual.
Commercial travellers and others
within the ages of twenty-one and
thirty, inclusive, who happen to be
absent from their homes on registra-
ton days will be required to procure
cards wherever they may be on that
date and mail them to the county
clerks in their home registration dis
trictS.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
Remarkable Mobility of Britain's
Army Defeats Strategy
of Hindenburg.
TRACTORS THE Big FACTOR
German General Staff Failed to CAL
euIate Quick Repair Of Roads and
Immediate Advance of Light
and Heavy Artillery.
BY JUDSON C. WELLIvER,

Correspondent of the New York Sun.
LondOn.-All the world wondered
and nobody more than Marshal Hin
denburg-that the British were able to
keep instantly and constantly right on
the heels of the retreating Germans
after the recent evacuation of the ter
ritory back of the Bapaume-Peronne
line. The thing didn't fall out at all
as the German general staff had fore
seen. Those masters of the art or
war had carefully calculated that when
they yielded very little ground after
having first destroyed villages, blown
up roads and furrOwed the terrain with
trenches and shellhOles it would take
at least q series Of weeks for the British
to bring up their forces and prepare
for new attack. This was the whole
strategy of the establishment OF the
new Hindenburg line.
The weakness of Hindenburg's cal
culatiOn was that he knew too much
about the established and accepted
rules of war and too little about Eng
lish and American ingenuity In pro-
ducing the new types of war machine
which make it possible for an army
nowadays to move faster than 1t ever
could before.
Caterpillar tractors, as big as re-
spectacle locomotive, make it possible
to do things with even the biggest
bowitzers that were undreamed OF
even when this war began.
Tractors the Big Factors.
have seen a couple of these levia'
thans taking ten-inch hOwitzer over
road that had been theoretically de
stroyed" three days earlier, almost un
der the fire of the enemy and actually
within their own range of the nearest
enemy positions, at the rate of sever
or eight miles an hour. All the horse:
that ever were Communicated cOuldn'
have been harnessed to do that job
simply because they couldn't have go
themselves through the mud, to sa!
nothing of pulling something afte
them.
l studied for several days the meth
DDS by which one army was fairly leap
ing on the trail of another, and
seemed to me the greatest wonder tina
the war had developed. The stee
works Of Birmingham and Bethlehem
and Pittsburgh were doing 1t. But eve
before their giant contraptions coul
perform, the road must be ready TO
them. This reconstruction of roads |
lust plain, back-breaking, awfu
drudgery; but what magnificently OF
ganized and predigested drudgery
One would imagine that there mus
have been tens of thousands of hug
motortrucks just back of the BIRTHS
line, everyone of them loaded TO tn
last ounce of capacity with rock
graduated sizes, with massive timber
piles. steel bolts and nuts and spike
and hammers and sledges and ever,
thing else requisite for the road bull,
ing to the front. Nothing had bee
forgotten. and although the evacuate
region was n horror of mud and utt'
desolation, the evidence of absolu
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15

FARMER PATRIOT OFFERS
FREE SEED POTATOES

Morristown, Tenn---D. c. Wa
ters. a Cooke county farmer. Is
a patriot of the first order. He
is a prosperous farmer and last
fail he stored many bushels OF
irish potatoes. Recently buyer
from the East offered Waters
$3.50 a bushel for them. He de-
clined the offer. Then he mott
fed the neighborhOOd he had
plenty of Irish potatoes for seed
and that if any of his neighbors
did not have the money to buy
seed this spring he would give
them potatoes to plant without
making any charge. Now "po-
tato patches" are TO be found
everywhere in the community.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
Suffer for Honestv

New York.-Twenty-six Harlem mer-
chants are bemoaning they observed
the adage at pays to be honest" In
each instance a youth made purchase
for 80 cents. leaving fifteen cents
change on the counter. They chased
him and a confederate looted cash reg.
listers of SO to $40 In each case.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
of his brother. Lieut.. John w. Vanat-

of his brother, Lieut.. John w. Vanat-
ter. on the battle front in France, and
had gone driving In the hope of COM
posing his nerves. His machine
skidded on the road and turned over
Half submerged, he welded his
knife against the door until the knife
slipped from his hand and was lost
in the mire. Then he hacked away
with a piece of glass until hole was
cut big enough to let him out. Near
exhaustion. he staggered to a farm
house, where he was put to bed and
later removed to his home.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
CUTS WAY OUT WITH GLASS
Man Imprisoned for Five Hours IN
Mre Of Swamp With an AUTO
on Top Of Him.

yolnaraiso. Ind.-Imprisoned for
five hours in the mire of swamp win
an automobile on top of him, shutting
off his escape, Edward ]. Vanatter'
trainmaster for the Gary & 1nterurban
railway, cut his way to safety with
niece of glass from the windshield.
vanatter had learned OF the deatn
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
sINeLE-coMs RHODE ISLAND RED cocKEREL.

comb, which doubtless comes from the
Cornish blood used I'm originating 1t.
The hens lay brown eggs. In, color
Buckeyes are mahogany bay. which Is
slightly darker on the wing bows OF
the males. The flight and tail feathers
often carry black as well. The under
color should be red, except in the
back, where q bar Of slate Is desired.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
Road and BRIDGE Expenditure.

In 1904 the actual cash road anc
bridge expenditure in the United
States averaged slightly less than 500
per mile of rural roads. In 1915 the
cash road and bridge expenditure had
increased to an average of $1Oo per
mile of road.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
Retarded Age.

Darling" whispered Miss Winsum
to the victim of her wiles, will you
love me when / am oldT
Impossible situation" lie whisper
ed back, "you couldn't grow old, angel
on only one birthday in five years"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
prepare for Registration.

Acting on these figures. the war de-
partment began the distribution OF up
ward of nine million registration
blanks to be filled in at the polling
and other designated places by the
men who fall within the draft ages.
The blank cards contain spaces for
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
SHIPMENT OF YOUNG CHICKS
As Those Just Hatched Need No Food
for Forty-Eight Hours Plan ls
Quite Feasible.

The shipping of day-old chicks has
come to be quite a business. As they
need not feed for the first 48 hours,
this plan is feasible and those having
no facilities for Matching and yet de-
string well-bred chickens are glad to
avail themselves Of the opportunity.
the usual price being about ten cents
each.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15

a moderate cost-merely enough to
pay for the use of materials in the
laboratory. Some time ago the expert
ment station issued bulletin giving
complete information on the quality
of various materials throughout the
state for road-making purposes. This
bulletin is still in print and will be
sent free. Its title is Investigation
of Road-Making Properties of Missouri
Stone and Gravel"
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15

81 appeal to the bakers of the United
States to quit making pastry during
this emergency.
"I appeal to the housewives OF
American to stop buying pastry of
bakers who do continue to make IT..
And appeal to housewives TO stop
making pies, cakes and cookies in their
own kitchens"
This is the plea of DIR. Curl Mellen-
thin. who has just started nation
wide propaganda against the use OF
nastrv rs n means of conserving flour
for the needs of our allies as wen us
for our own use.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15

Something like a reversed periscope
is a new implement to help a railroad
construction foreman to inspect newly
laid rails to see If they are level and
In line.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
sreat Your Gown Gently.

Dairy cows must be kept quiet and
never hurried or worried. Rough
treatment. loud talking. ard chasing
by dogs will diminish beth the flow Of
milk and its richness.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
Mnney for Rural Roads.

Under the federalism road act.
within the next five years $160,00OOOO
will be spent by federal and state gov
ernments in improving rural roads.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
Reduce Cost of Hauling.

Good roads reduce the cost of haul
ing produce TO and from the farm as
much as % cents per ton-rnile.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
Reautisx Roadsides

Why not plant parts of our roadsides
with suitable native shrubs or peren.
mails?
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15

The Buckeyes are an American breed
of comparatively recent origin. In type
they approach somewhat to the Corn
ish. being erect and broad-breasted.
The standard weights are: Cock. nine
pounds; hen. six and one-half pounds;
cockerel, eight pounds; pullet, five and
one-half pounds. This breed has pea
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-14

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The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-14
APPRAISER HUBBARD
TELLS OF FEDERAL LOANS


Ontario, Aug. BOD. r. Hubbard
of Boise, government appraiser for
Idaho and eastern oregon under the
Spokane federal land bank, while here
Tuesday in line OF his work stated
he is appraising an average OF 400
farms month. that the federal loans
made average $4,000 each, or a total
of about $4,000 month.
From here Mr.. Hubbard lett for
Council, Idaho. where he will spend
the balance OF the week appraising
20 farms.
Mr.. Hubbard stated the NATIONAL
rural credits law became operative IN
May OF this year, and that he has
been in the employ of tile govern-
ment as land appraiser since that
time. The demand for government
money, he said, is great and, IS con-
stantly growing. In spite apprais-
ing an average of loo farms a month,
he said he was behind in his work,
Mr.. Hubbard said The applications
Tor government loans under the rural
credits law coming to the department.
at Washington total an average Of
s1.000,o00 day For the month oE
July the government leans 70 farm-
ers under the new lav;.tlt1lld a4i-
600. 900.
Mr.. Hubbard stated the mana cement
of the Spokane federal land eank
takes q deep personal interest ir the
work. and is as careful Of details N
each loan as though ii We're q person.
al matter with those in Charge tie
said there is less red tare in seeur-
ing government loan than, in getting
loan from the big loan companies
or insurance companies, who fof
years have been loaRing money q
farmers. Where farmer has spec
ial need for hurrp-up loan, says
Mr.. Hubbard, the federal land banB
makes a real effort TO accommodate
him.
Mr.. Hubbard has already done init
ial work as federal land appraiser 4
Emmett. Weiser, Midvale. Cambridge
and Standpoint in Idaho, and At Bait
er City, La Grande. Imbler. Elgiu ane
Ontario. in Oregon.
Mr. Hubbard is not onis- a ahil
farmer and land owner but hesalso i
a thorough business man. In seeuFinl
the service OF Mr. Hubbard as lanS
appraiser the government acted wise
ly and well.---Gapital News.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-14
FIELD HOSPITAL CORPS
TAKES MERIDIAN BOYS.

The First. Idaho field hospital
corps left Boise Tuesday for Camp
Green. Charlotte, North Carolina.
They expect soon to sail for France.
The field hospitals are located some
five to seven miles behind the line OF
battle. They receive the wounded
from the regiment hospitals. Through
the field hospftals-'pass the more ser
iusly wounded to the base hospitals
located farther back. The duties OF
the men enlisted are to care for the
wounded. transporting them from the
field hospitals. The term OF enlist
ment is said to be equivalent to a
years work in medical college.
Among the members OF the corps
were Fred Fenton and Jack Estes, Of
Meridian.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-14
LIGHT FRosTs WILL 10
No HARM, SAYS GRAHAM
Owing to Latencss of Idaho Crops II
Is Hoped They viii BE
DELAYED.

Owing To the lateness OF all the
southern Idaho crops the growers are
ia hopes the frot will Keep off until
about September 25. Light frosts
have been experienced in the hills
hnt as yet nothing in this vicinity has
been touched.
According % Guy Graham, state
horticultural inspector. il is not un-
usual to experience light rosts iii this
valley Is early as August. a light
frost would really do no harm. he
says. In fact ii would give color 10
the apples and hasten the ripening of
tha peaches, while il is not likely
Il Mould eYen -inIpTe heans Or mel
on vines.
These are usually the first to be
touched by frosts but it is Inspector
Graham's opinion that the melon
vines are tough enough now TO with
Stand the first frosts. Light frosts
always improve the pruEes, he said,
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-14
II. W. BIaBY's SHEEP
60 TO CALIFORNIA.

Saturday, Sept lit. vi WI Bisby
brought the remnant Of his shrop-
Eshire flock to Meridian, consisting of
sixty-fiye pure bred rams. They were
bought Dy an old sheep and wool
dealer AL Mclnnes. OF san Fran
cisco, and shipped to Sacramento.
where they will be shown at the
State Fair oil California.
Att McInnes bought and paid the
mosey for the sheep before he ever
saw them Of Mr Bisby, buying on
representations of the latter
Mr. McInnes bought two cars Of
rams at the big ram sale at Salt Lake
last week. where one ram sold at
$1,000 and after seeing those prize
rams. when the first time he saw
Mr Bisby's rams, he pronounced
them fine and was we'll pleased with
his bly
/ Ia the past nine years Bfsby &
son have attained an eaviable rep
lutation in breeding only pure bred
/ Ishropshires at the Lone Tree ranch
three miles northwest Of Meridian.
Starting with small flock Of value
of about $500, they have sold OF
sheep and wool nearly $4,000 worth.
Last year Mr.. Bisby sold all OF his
ewes and eve lambs and the rams
just sold is the last OF his flock.
Mr. Bisby viii resume writing fire
insurance, which he began in Iowa
Iin 1852.
Ada county is becoming the home
OF the shropshires. There are more
breeders OF Shronshires than OF any
other breed. and many of our best
breeders in this state have decided
that the Shropshire is the most prof
itahle sheep for the small farm, and
with pasture eight months OF more
each year. they can be kept as
cheaply as any section that we know
Of anywhere in the United States
II Farmers here should learn to not
sell hay int to feed it to their own
stock, ana no doubt they could By
10 doing realize S25o0 per ton o.
Eeven more.On small farm the owner
can keep nice little flock OF sheer
on d small pasture. and in winter
Ithey will eat all kinds Of forage be
sides clover or alfalfa hay.
Small farmers. get a few good sheer
land follow the trail 70 wealth.
The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1917-09-14
MORE COAL STORED
THAN LAST WINTER.

The Meridian country will not silf-
fer from a coal famine this winter.
Last winter taught valuable les
son, and this year one Meridian
dealer alone reports 13 carloads pur-
chased of him and stored against
two carloads last summer.
The schools are supplied and this
will mean that the smaller buyer
will have a better thance, and no
families need go~withont coal if they
have the money to pay for it.
AS the government has restricted the
price, it is probable that the people
will not pay more than $500 or
$3.50 a tom The government has
fixed the price at the mine OF 1929
a ton and the freight to Meridian is
about $39 per ton.