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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
NEW FORM OF "coN" GAME.

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Two Inches of Butter Spread on Sand
Sold to Chicago Consumers.
Chicago, Ill.-A new form of conf
dence game, has been Gprac tised with
success here during the last few days.
Several storekeepers and hospitals have
reported to the police that they have
purchased from agents tubs purport-
ing to contain sixty pounds Of butter,
but have found when cutting into the
tubs that the butter extended but one
or two inches from the surface and
that the rest of their purchase was
sand.
The tubs were sold for as high as
$3.50, making the price of the butter
N the neighborhood OF 81 a pound.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
MORGAN ON PATROL DUTY.
Financier's Son Assigned to Ship.
Young lseIin Also Enrolls.

Financier's Son Assigned to Ship.
Young lselin Also Enrolls.
New York.-Junius Spencer Morgan,
son of J. p. Morgan, who recently re-
ceived an ensign's commission In the
naval coast defense reserve, was called
into active service and assigned to duty
on a coast patrol boat.
Ensign Morgan has always been in
terested in boats and sailing. Last
summer he shipped as an ordinary sea-
man on the U. S. S. Maine for the CT
william training cruise
Adrian Iselin 3D., son of G. Oliver
Iselin, who has sailed many cup de-
tenders to victory, enrolled in the naval
reserve as chief boatswain's mate.
Paul Nevin, son Of the late Ethelbert
Nevin, called at the naval reserve Of
fees to enroll. Mr.. Nevin came from
Tulsa, Okla. AS a member of the CT
william crew Of the Maine last summer
he made record in gunnery.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
DOUBLE DUTY
A Dairy Ration Has Two Main Uses
Life and Product.

- 'S 's~s'SH 'l0S s-"OSHeiu ooSoee
Life and Product.
National Crop Improvement Service]
A ration is divided into two larts:
l. The part needed to maintain or
keep the animal alive.
2. The part needed to make
stored up material like WOOL fat,
meat or milk. 49,
Milk is roughly in solids, one-third
each caseln (protein) fat and sugar.
The casein in milk can only be fur
nished by the protein in the food.
The fat and sugar may be derived
from either protein, fat or carbo-
hydrates. --~=-@ .--~-= ,
If a COW has the ability to give so
pounds of milk containing two pounds
OF casein, and only gets enough pro-
TEN to make one pound of casein,
then she will only give Is pounds of
milk. ~ ..sr
A balanced ration is one that has
just the exact amount of protein, fat
and carbohydrates that the COW
needs. Just what, this is we cannot
ever say exactly, because the amounts
vary from week to week and no two
COWS are alike, nor are feeds alike.
A practical ration is one that has
sufficient protein and enough total
food to make the greatest amount of
milk without the cow losing weight.
A commercially successful ration is
the one, that makes the most milk or
profit, keeps the cow healthy and en-
ables the use of the most roughage.
All the hay and ensilage :. COW can
eat will keep her alive and make
about Is pounds of milk. Any more
milk has to come from grain or grain
feed. =. \..~--
The farm can usually raise carbo-
hydrates cheap in the form of hay and
ensilage, and, outside of clover, peas,
etc., protein can usually be bought
cheaper than it can be raised.
The average price of protein feeds
with 20 per cent -digestible protein
was about $25 to $35 per ton before
the war, but the prices are much
higher now, while hay (clover) with
81 per cent digestible protein has
been rated at $40 per ton, so the pro-
tein feed at $40 would furnish protein
about the same as clover at SO.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
.FAvoRs DAYLIGHT SAVING.

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President, However, In Doubt 40 to
Necessary Legislation.
Washington. - President Wilson ex-
pressed his approval Of the daylight
saving plan to a delegation headed by
Representative Borland of Missouri
and Marcus Marks Of New York, presi.
dent OF the National Daylight Saving
association -
The president told them the only
question in his mind about legislation
to carry it into operation was whether
congress leaders would look upon It as
war legislation, to which they have.
facility agreed to limit the sessions ac-.
tiyities. The subject viii be taken up
with the leaders
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
METEOR LIKE sEARCHLIGHT.
Crashes Into Mountains and llIumi-
mates Whole Valley.


Bishop, Cal.-Illuminating the upper
Owens valley for half a minute like
searchlight in the skies, a meteor of
extraordinary size and brilliancy f1ared
across from east to west one night and
brought up against the high Sierra Ne
vada.
There was a crash that could be
heard for miles when the foreign body
hit the mountain side far above the
floor Of the valley. 1t sounded like the
impact Of projectile from a great gun
against fort.
Residents were startled by the pas
sage Of the mighty streak of blue-white
fire through the darkness and again by
the loud explosion that followed con-
tact with the granite range which
stopped it. Then followed a tumbl1ng
Of dislodged stones not far from the
camp Of the Round Valley Tungsten
company.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
BROWNS BATHING TOY.
Child Falls From cIaremont Boa,
Cluh'a Fiat

Child Falls From cIaremont Boat
Clubs Float.
New York.-In an effort to give her
Teddy bear its first deep water bath
Virginia Peterson, three and one-half
years old, toppled from a float an
chored off the Claremont Boat club,
One Hundred and Eighth street and
the North river, and was drowned.
The child was a prime favorite with
yachtsmen along the North river and
with her mother lived at the boat club,
where the latter Is employed as maid.
Robert Harris of POI Wet Twenty
sixth street recovered the body, but
resuscitation was impossible even with
Z pulmotor. ~
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
THE PRICE OFFEED.

lNatonal Crop Improvement Service]
Feed is handled on smaller mar
gin than coal, ton for ton. The retail
feed dealer who buys in Carload lots
can sell as cheap as the manufactures
can in less-than-carload lots, the diff
ference in freight rates being the
dealers gross profit. In nearly eyerv
instance, a group of farmers can or
der their feed, through dealer, in
carloads and make material saving.
The difference in freight alone viii
show a good profit.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
WHAT'S IN A MIXED FEED?

lNauonal Crop improvement Service]
a h1gh-grade mixed feed suitable
Tor any kind or breed of dairy cow
should have high protein content
with an exact digestible analysis. II
can be mixed with corn, oats, barley.
hay or other forage, which should b
grown upon the farm, provided the
mixture would save the farmer any
money. AS rule, the ingredients Of
the highest grades are corn, distillers'
grams gluten feed, cottonseed meal,
nom1ny meal, malt sprouts, brewers,
grains, linseed meal, pure wheat bran
and salt. The best grades contain M
cheap c'a nilers OF any kind and so the
1000 70 h1gnly concentrated and
roughage can be supplied at home
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
BARLEY PRODUCTS.

rc SAop Improvement Service.
fFo1. ). z. Street, in the Annual
report of the Connecticut Agricul-
tural Station for 1912, says: s'That
malt sprouts should receive more con-
slderatlon from dairymen, especially
IN comparison with many Of the pro-
prletary mixed feeds containing only
from one-third to one-half as much
protein as malt sprouts, prices being
considered" 80
He also states that dried brewors,
grams prices considered, in connec-
ton with the feeds high analysis is
one OF the cheapest high-grade feeds
on the market, -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
SALT FOR CATTLE

National Crop improvement Service I
Protessor Henry says that a COW
requires three-quarters of an ounce
per day per 1000 lbs. of weight and
slx-tenths of an ounce per day per 20
lbs. milk. Therefore, a cow which
weighs 1900 lbs. and gives 30 lbs milk
should have 1.8 ounce salt. : It must
be remembered, however, that salt is
generally included in high-grade dairy
feeds: It is well to give cows access
to extra salt. They will take what
their roughage demands.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
BUYING FEED INGREDIENTS
Difficult to Buy Proper Feed Staffs at
Random,


National Crop improvement Servce1
There are not a dozen feed stores
In the country that carry in stock all
the ingredients of a first-class mixed
feed at all times and at reasonable
prices, and usually they do not carry
feeds of the same high quality used
by the mixers who work scientifically
through laboratory. This is human
nature. Competition compels a dealer
to sell the cheapest quality. The best
quality of feed is seldom carried, be-
cause the average buyer will not pay
the highest price. A good many ex-
pertinent stations in a general way
Will advocate that a farmer mix all
his own feed, but they are human like
the rest of us and they will use recog-
n1zeds brands in their own feeding
operations rather than go1to the trou-
Die and take the time to follow their
own advice. -
There are a good many herds at
experiment stations which are kept as
sort OF clinic for professors to prac-
tice theories upon. The poor brutes
are used a good deal as guinea pigs
in hospital practice. On the other
hand, at the experiment stations are
to be found many of the finest ami
mails ever bred.
The mixed feeds of the first grade
can be fed alone or in connection with
homegrown corn, oats or barley. To
do this widens your ration, and it is
correct to do so if it will reduce your
cost OF feeding. Mixed feeds, there
tore, are largely a matter of arith.
metic.
You can usually get the result for
less money than by feeding more ex-
pensive grains separately. ...
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
ARMY NEEDS GENERALS.
Promotions Expected to Be Made Only
Upon Merit Basis,

Washington.-The new national army
will require about Twenty-Five new
major generals and more than 100
brigadier generals, according to oc-
fcials Of the war department.. There
will be total Of thirty-six divisions,
each of which will have one major
general and four brigadier generals.
The army act empowers the presi.
dent to appoint general officers at his
discretion. The belief prevails that the
president and secretary Of war both
are determined only upon merit and
special fitness. This policy would CO.
incide exactly with those Of France
and England, which are advancing
younger men to the higher commands.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
CONCENTRATES FOR RATI0Ns
Taken From an Article by e. S. Saw.
age, Professor Of Animal Hus.
bandry, New York College
of Agriculture,
National Crop Improvement Service,

National Crop improvement service]
A good rule to follow in all rations
is to have at least three plants repre-
sented in the ration. There are seven
factors which should be considered:
CD Bulk, GU Digestibility, (3) Rela-
ton between the digestible protein
and carbohydrates and fat, "a Vari-
ETY., CD Suitability of the feeds to the
animal and product, 60 Palatability,
CD Cost. . -
AS an example, choosing the cheap
est feeds relatively, considering ma
nurlal values, suitability and all, we
would recommend the following mix
ture OF grains as suitable for dairy
COWS at present. prices: -. =
500 pounds distillers dried grains
81 4OO POUNDS gluten feed. -
3o9 pounds wheat bran or brewers
4OO pounds hon1iny feed. ---- e
3OO pounds cottonseed or oil meal.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
TOY GUNS POPULAR.
Modelled After Anti aircraft Weapons
Used by ZeppeIins.

Modelled After Anti-aircraft Weapons
Used by Zeppelins.
Washington.-Teddy bears and mini
allure anti-a1rcraft guns are by far the
most popular toys in Great Britain,
says Consul Wilson in a report from
London to the United States bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce. Ted
dy bears have always been more or
less popular, but recent events seem
to have created greatly increased de-
mand for this toy.
The toy guns are modelled after the
anti:aircraft guns which were brought
into prominence by the visits of the
Zeppelins.
Toys that find the most ready sale
are those Of a military character.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
A RAILROAD ARMY
Will Build Up Lines Of Traffic In
France.
Nine REGIMENTS CALLED.
They Will Be Part Of Regular Force,
and at Head of Each Regiment az
Colonel Will Be Engineer Officer of
Army-construetion Will Be Main
Work.

Work.
New York.-Need for expert railroad
mon tn Eanair thu Limos In Enazoo Is so
pressing that an urgent call has been
sent out by the railroads war board to
the various roads Of the country for
assistance in organizing nine regiments
Of railroad men to 60 at once to France.
They will be part Of the regular
army, and at the head of each regiment
as colonel will be an engineer officer
of the army.
5 The plans Of the board call for five
construction regiments, one shop or re-
pair regiment and three operating regi-
ments. Construction will be the main
work Of the men sent over, but the re-
pair and operating needs are hardly
less Immediate A notice sent out by
the railroads war board says:
Ehe French railwaysHare badly run
down. They need more or less complete
rehabilitation. France has no men who
can be spared for this work. She wants
all her men at the front. Before we can
train men to 60 into the trenches we
can supply Frances railroad wants,
and we can do it practically immedi-
ately. Any men we send over must be
soldiers, SO It will be necessary for the
railroad forces to enter the army.
I'VE propose to make up five con-
struct1on regiments of six companies
each to do this rehabilitation. Each
regiment will have an engineer officer
OF the United States army as colonel
and another officer from the army as
an adjutant. The other officers will be
made up of railroad men, except that
the commissary will be provided by
the United, States army. Each lieuten.
ant colonel will be chief engineer of
railroad or some one else of similar
experience. The captains will be taken
from the engineers of maintenance of
way, the ieutenants from supervisors
or road masters and the noncommis-
stoned officers from track and bridge
foremen. The privates will be track
labOrers.
"The pressing need just now Is for
officers for these regiments. They will
require five chief engineers, thirty en-
gineers Of mainte nance ge way, ninety
supervisors or road masters, sixty track
foremen and thirty bridge foremen.
Each company will have $50 track Ia
borers and fourteen bridge carpenters
as privates.
1.-THE next important requirement of
the French railways is for shop forces.
They are short Of men. to repair their
locomotives. It is proposed to organize
shop regiment, to be made up the
same way as the construction regi-
ments, except that the lieutenant colo.
mel will be superintendent of motive
power, the captains will be master me.
chanics, the lieutenants will be shop
foremen and the noncommissioned Off
GERS gang foremen. The rest Of the
company will be made up of boiler.
makers, machinists, blacksmiths and
their helpers"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
DOG ADOPTS COYOTES.
Takes Four Into Her Charge on a
Ranch,

Ranch.
Santa Ana, Cal.-Four coyote pups
have been adopted by a mother dog on
the ranch Of Arthur Pefey, north of
Santa Ana.
The coyotes were found in the foot
hills back Of Ell Modena by Virgil Prit-
chard, a high school boy, whose dogs
fought off the mother coyote while
Virgil got away with the little coyotes.
Clarence Pefey had dog with two
puppies.
The four strangers were put on the
ground near the mother and the pup
pies, who were busily engaged in par
taking of meal. Rather bewildered,
the coyotes crept to the mother dog.
The dog eyed the coyotes, then when
they approached she began licking
them, and soon the coyotes We're just
as busily engaged in eating as were
their cousins. -.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
COULDN'T SCARE SAILOR.
Officer Told Threatening U Boat Cap
tain to "Shoot Away"


tain to "Shoot Away"
LondOn.-Douglas Duff, the fourth
officer and the only survivor of the
steamer Thracia, sunk by a German
submarine on April 81, says in deposi-
lions that three hours after the ship
was sunk the German submarine ap-
preached the capsized boat, the stern
of which had been blown off, to which
he was clinging, and asked him the
usual questions regarding the destroy
ed steamer and her destination. It
was II o'clock at night and very dark.
The submarine commander first
threatened to shoot Duff, says the
fourth officer, who quotes himself as
replying, "Shoot away" The COM
mander then said, according to Duff,
that he wouldn't waste powder on an
Englishman and left Duff to his fate.
He was picked up twelve hours later
by French fisherman.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15

National Crop Improvement Service.
The human element in dairy feed Ia
important. Two men may have the
same equipment, one make good
money, the other fail, while both are
supposed to be feeding by the same
system and the same tables.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15

National Crop Improvement sersics.l
Starchy feeds like corn and oats
often sell as high as protein feeds be.
cause of the demand for them for
horses and other work animals.
Starchy feeds are also good to fatten
steers. That is why they are often as
high in price as dairy feeds, which are
strong in protein.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15
CHARLES P. TAFT I'D ENLlSTS.
With Nine Yale Students Enters Artil-
lery Service.

With Nine Yale Students Enters ArtiI-
Iery Service.
New Haven, Conn.-Charles P. Taft
"a, son Of William Howard Taft and a
junior in Yale college, enlisted for the
artillery branch Of the regular army
with nine other undergraduates. All
he enlistments were of students who
we're under age for the reserve officers
training corps Of the university and all
had consent Of their parents. The
squad will go to Fort Myer, Va.
The students who were enlisted with
Taft were John NJ Anderson, Jr., Gin
.innati; Robert T. Cairns, Overlook,
Pa: George H. Ennis, Jr., Derby, Conn. !;
John r. Fasick, Altoona, Pa; Francis
T. Mcnamara, Clinton, Mass; Cyril B.
Mosher, East Greenwich, r. l.; Albert
il. Stackpole, Harrisburg, Pa; 81. s.
Porter, Higganum, Conn; Carl M.
Thomas, st. Louis.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15

National Crop Improvement seryice.l
Homegrown grains can often be prof
itab1y traded for protein feeds. While
oats are generally demanded for horse
feed, they are nearly always too ex-
pensiye for dairy feed Oats by-prod-
uets, however. are. very useful Tor
bulk.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15

e. Only that part of the feed that d.
gest is of use-the rest is mostly fer
tilizer material.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15

GIVE COWS PLENTY OF WATER.
~ National Crop improvement Service Il
When COWS are in full milk they re-
quire plenty of water. 1t is stated
authoritatively that cows in full flow
of milk will consume SO per cent
more water than when dry.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15

No protein-no casein; no casein-
no milk; not enough protein-not so
much milk; also not enough feed-not
so much food.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15

Foods with the highest protein and
highest analysis are usually but not
always the cheapest to use. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15

Take the chill off the drinking water
in cold weather and cows will drink
more and produce more. =
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15

Cows won't make milk out of water
and air.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15

Don't figure too fine on .rations.
Be liberal but don't overfeed. You
can kill all Of your profit by feeding
more than the COW can assimifate.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-09-15

Poor feed, sells to poor feeders.
The sun., 1917-04-04
TEUTONS PLANNING
MORE PEACE TALK
High Austrian Soon to Visit
Germany-Seek to Put
Burden on Allies.

LONDON. April 3-The Berlin Lokdl-
dn-eigers article concerning the pro-
posal Of the Austro-Hungarian Foreign
Minister that a peace conference be held
by the belligerents, as reproduced by
the Rheinischc Westfalische Zeitun1 of
here, says:
THE standpoint taken by the Berlin
and Vienna governments Is shared also.
Il need hardly be said. by the governing
circles OF Sofia and Constantinople, and
will shortly be given fresh emphasis by
a visit TO Germany OF highly placed
parsonage from the dual monarchy.
More unbroken and more firmly we
stand OH all fronts and more conscious
do we feel OF our power to persist TO the
end. Better are we able with head erect
TO offer our enemies peace worthy for
all parties for the immense SACRIFICES they
have made in this war.
Should our enemies show themselves
now unwilling TO grasp this opportunity
for preparing to end the bloodshed and
for restoring peace 10 the people of
Europe. they will act on their own re-
sponsibility. We are prepared to con-
tinue to hold out. On that there is only
one opinion in our Quadrup!e alliance"
An Exchange Telegraph despatch from
Amsterdam says 4 is reported there
from Berlin that the German Govern
nlent contemplates sending 10 all neu-
trails protest against the expected
American declaration that a state OF war
with Germany exists. 1t Is hoped In
Germany. the despatch says. that the
protest will influence South American
republics. as 1t will denounce President
Wilson's policy as perious to the neu-
trality of those republics.
The sun., 1917-04-04
2 AVIATORS ATTACK
AND CAPTURE A SHIP
Russian Flisrs, Crippled by
Cunfirs, Escape.

PETroGRAp. April Son the Black
Sea on March 81. during a raid by our
seaplanes on Derlsas, one Of them was
hit by the enemy" says to-day's War
Office statement. ''The petrol tank being
punctured. the machine was compelled
to descend.
''The aviators. Lieut.. Sergeev and sub.
Lieut. Tur. seeing q Turkish schooner,
attacked II by opening machine gun nre.
The crew thereupon left the schooner.
Our aviators. having sunk their ma
chine after taking from II the compass.
machine gun and valuable belong ings,
boarded the schooner and set sail for our
shores. They encountered heavy storm
during their adventure. but arrived with
the schooner at the Duarlidatch Penin-
sula. west OF Perekop. on Sunday. From
this place our avators returned to Sc
bastopol on torpedo boat. The only
provisions available on the schooner
consisted OF few pieces Of bread and
p ,ittlc fresh water"