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The Irish standard., 1917-10-13
SUPPRESSION OF ANOTHER NUISANCE.


The CO jeremiah O'Leary promoter of the Truth
Society," made himself conspicuous in proGerman
activities for two before the and kept
after entrance into the has been suppressed along
with his paper.
Like his co-worker, "Tom" Watson, he reckless
enough into court to get injunction to restrain the
postmaster general denying his paper the postal
SERVICE confronted with from his
and letters written to his proerman propagandts
that showed him clearly be enemy of the United
States.
He didn't get the Injunction and the order of the depart
ment was more firmly nailed down-Cathoc Messenger.
ADMIRAL BENsoNs RETREAT.
Do not be alarmed unduy excited when you read the
headline in the newspaper:
Admiral in Retreat. The Retreat" referred
in this apparently sensational caption is not martial
but spiritual retirement and resorted to not for
strategic but for religious purposes.
1t staged at Overlook Seminary Philadelphia, and
the Rear Admiral, who devout Catholic, participated
its presiding officer in the absence of the president
The Admiral to the reteatants his confidence in
the function of preparedness for the high
obligations resting upon him in this hour of national stress
and trial.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29
Some Silo Facts

A 9oo-pound COW will ordinarily con- sume 30 pounds of silage a day; a 1D0-pound COW about 40 pounds Year lings will eat about one-half as much as mature animals; fattening cattle 9 to 5 pounds for each 1000 pounds live weight. A sheep will take about one- eighth as much as a COW. Horses should be limited to Is to 20 pounds daily
 In general, the depth of the silo should not be less than twice nor more than three times the diameter. The greater the depth, the better the silage, on ac- count of the pressure from above If less than q feet in height the quality of silage will not be the best. A very great height, however, is to be avoided on account of the excessive amount of into the silo.
 Corn, to make good silage, should be in the tough dough stage or glazed" This gives the best feeding value and good keeping qualities. IF the corn is moist, little water will be needed, but if dry, water should be used. The es- sential thing in keeping silage is to pack the Silage well as it Is being filled Water should be used to make it pack tight and prevent spoiled ensilage There will be no difficulty in keeping the silage if the silo be alright and the ensilage be packed around the walls and in the center. One of the greatest advantages in feeding silage is fine flavor and suc- culent character as a substitute for green food when there is none. Stock consume a large quantity and the silage fur nishes bulk and succulent material. Si- (age does not show very high percent ages in feeding constituents when ana- lyzed, but feeders everywhere and unuder any reasonable conditions know that it is a very valuable feed. The Indiana station found silage palatable in feeding breeding ewes The Ohio station found one ton of silage in feeding cattle equal to 4.42 bushels of corn, .03 tons of stover and .25 tons of hay. valuing corn at 50 cents per bushei. stover at 5 ton and hay at s10 per ton. the value of silage was $4.96 per ton. An acre of corn pro- ducing about 30 bushels of corn should yield about 10 tons of siiage. Analyses show the following as about the actual feeding constituents of corn silage: Water, 791 per cent: protein, IT per cent; fat, 8 per cent; nitrogen free extract, Ii per cent; fiber, per cent; ash, If per cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29
Epochs in Tick Fight

To many farmers in southern states that have been infested by the cat tie fever tick, December will be a day marking an epoch. For on De- cemberI l 65.520 square miles of south ern territory-the largest amount ever freed at one time--will be liberated from the federal quarantine placed to prevent the spread of cattle fever.
 But in the history of tick eradica- ton there has been another epochal day one that will remain epochal as long as diseases-lower animal and human--persist on the earth That day was when the true functions of the cattle fever tick were discovered soon after the bureau of animal in dustry of the United States depart ment of agriculture undertook in 1884 the problem of combating the dis ease
 The discovery that ticks can carry germs Of disease from one animal to another was the first instance in which the important role of insects as carriers of disease was ascertained From it arose new procedures in pre- ventive sanitation. Since then it has been learned that mosquitoes carry malaria and yellow fever; that the rat iiof' Ss.l iieS pupoHlc prague, and the house fly typhoid fever.
 Formerly no attention was paid to the carriers. Only treatment of the pa stients was considered necessary Now mosquitoes are screened out of build ings and exterminated, rats are killed, house flies are screened, starved or swatted. and the cattle fever tick, to which perhaps the world may owe d debt because it's ravages provoked the inquiry into which has been of inn mense importance in the fight against all diseases, is destroyed by arsenic treatment and starvation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29

When the hogs arrive, they arc an- loaded, graded, weighed and driven into separate pens according te grade. Each farmers hogs are handled separ- stely. and receipt is given for so many pounds of each grade repre- sented. When ar are properly graded and weighed the entire lot Is sold at auction to the highest bidder Each farmer is then paid for his hogs and the hogs are loaded and shipped at the expense of the buyer.
 This plan was first put into operation at Ozark, Dale county. during the win ter of lsiS-iT. Since that time with the active operation of the market spe- eialtists of the Alabama extension ser vice. more than @ of the more impor- tant hog shipping towns in south Ala bama have organized a hog marketing association
 Representatives of all these towns met and adopted uniform methods of grading and marketing and established a regular schedule of sales days which permits the more important points to sell once every two weeks and the smaller towns once a month. The sales are so arranged that no town will con hfct with another and the schedule en- ables the buyers to go regularly, from place to place. knowing that they will find several carloads of hogs at each selling point.
 The grades established are as fol : lows:
 No. 1-Ail fat. smooth hogs weighing above 165 pounds.
 No. An fat, smooth hogs weighing from 135-165
 No. s-AH fat. smooth hogs weighing from 90-1S5.
 All stags and piggy sows to be docked 15 per cent in weight. and all rough hogs to be graded back or re- jected. All three grades to be sold to- gethen each lower grade selling for 1-eent per pound less than the next higher grade. = Southeastern Live Stock
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29
Tribute to the Cow

Prof. l. D. Graham assistant elmer or the live stock department of the Panama exposition, pays this tribute to the dairy cow
 Most potent of all single influences in the building of this, the mightiest na- tion in history, is the COW. Her sons drew the blows which first cultivated the land of the. new world. hauled to market the products of the field. and with slow energy moved the chattels and household goods beyond the moun- talns to new homes in the farther west They supplied the beef which is the food of the Anglo-Saxon. a race that was never conquered since history be- gan. They furnished the shoes of the pioneers who trod the unknown wilds and made of them the farmsteads and Cities of our present enlightenment. They have the clothes and robes to pro- tect the pioneer against the destroying blasts Of winter and made commerce possible before the railroad was. They
 cred the chair upon which he sat. filled the mattress upon which he slept. and glued together the furniture he used
 The old COW is mother of the whole
 
 human race. From the roadside weed she manufactured the most nourishing of human foods She is the real~ aid of the farmer, the pet of the rich man and the ever present help of the poor. She is the economist of the people and the conseryator of their resources. She partakes of the grass of the field and leaves the farmer the richer for her presence.
 As she helped to develop the farm from the wilderness and she ate of it's first fruits. so she will renew the life Of the soil and make still greater agriculture possible.
 In all our history the COW has been mans closest friend and benefactor. Upon her products are built the great business interests which center in the stock yards, the creameries. the shoe factories. the harness shops and the mills.
 Take away the COW and our banks would close, our graveyards yawn and the wheels of commerce would cease to turn. Foster and care for her and busi- ness flourishes. the fertility of the soil is conserved and she becomes the cus- todian of the nations prosperity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29
MARKETING HOGS IN ALABAMA

Cooperative marketing of hogs has been instituted with great success in southwestern Alabama, circuits em- bracing number of towns having been formed
 The plan which these towns are fol lowing is similar to that of the live stock shipping associations which have been so successful in Mississippi and the middle west. But there is one ins- portant difference. The live stock ship ping associations group their hogs in carlots on any convenient day, grade and weigh them according to the stan dards of the central markets. and give to each farmer receipt for his re- spective weights and grades. The hogs are then consigned to some commission house and the returns when received are divided among the farmers accord ing to their weighing receipts. Where direct railroad connections can be had with the regular markets this Is the most profitable method of selling hoss
 The plan being followed in Alabama, uses the same method of weighing and grading but sells the hogs at shipping point to the highest bidder. The ad- vantage Of this method is that it en- ables the farmer to see his own hogs graded. weighed and sold. so that he soon learns that it pays to produce good hog and to sell him only in good condition.
 The hog growers of each section form definite organization with a board Of directors and a sales manager, elected by the directors. A membership fee of s1 is charged to all who sell through the association. Improved pens are built at the railroad siding, with suitable arrangement for the rapid grading of the hogs into three separate grades Standard scales are installed in con. nection with the pens, and the weighing is done by bonded weigher few days before the sale, the manager, hay ing ascertained the approximate num- Der of hogs to be sold, notifies the rail- road agent that a certain number of cars will be needed on a specified dav
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29
ALABAMA FEED FOR TEXAS

Alabama farmers will have the first opportunity of supplying feeding stuff te the drouth-stricken district of Texas Hon sam H. Dixon of the Texas de- parttneut of agriculture spent several weeks touring Louisiana. Mississippi and Alabama in search of feeding stuff. He travelled quietly in Alabama for three weeks, accompanied by an official of the Alabama department of agriculture and industries. MT. Dixon reported to his state st meeting in Waco on Novem- Der IA, that he found the greatest sur plus Of feeding stuffs In Alabama and recommended that negotiations be opened nt once between the people of the drouth district and Alabama farmers and busi- ness men.
 Alabama people will get this business and supply the west with thousands of car loads of corn. hay and beans. If they wlll sell to Texas at the same price which home people@are paying. Remem- Der the freight rate to Texas is S10 to $l2 per ton in car load lots. Texas will pay cash for her stuff Alabama farm CTS will not be expected to deal with the people of the dry district in char itable way. but they are asked to re- frain from speculative interest and to price their products to Texas people at the same price that it can be sold at home. This kind of policy will get the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29
Profits From Mares

A brood mare on the farm is a source Of two profits. It is not uncommon to hear of some remarkable mare on a particular farm that, besides doing her share of the farm work, has raised many hundreds of dollars worth of colts. To obtain the greatest returns. nearly all the work animals maintained on the farm sfoula be mares of this character, says a new Farmers Bulletin s03, of the United States department of agriculture.
 Horses always are needed to do farm work says the bulletin, and generally they can be raised from farm mares more cheaply than they can be pur- chased, while the surplus, if Of proper breeding and liberally fed on suitable balanced rations, will find ready sale at good prices because they will have the characteristics that suggest the ability to do work satisfactorily and profita- bly,"
 It is pointed out that breeding working mares places double duty on them, con sequently they must be robust indiyid- uals properly conformed, and must be given good care and treatment. With two sources of profit from one animal, farmers can well afford 10 pay more for such stock, feed it more heavily and give it special attention The small farmer is most likely to get the best re- suits from such plan because he usu- ally works his own teams or is in position to watch them closely and see that they are not ill treated.
 The two outstanding requirements in profitable farm mares are that they be breeders and workers, says the bulletin. Any marc that is not at least of high grade should not be considered. The particular breed or grade would depend largely on local markets. In a locality where there is a local horse market it is generally advisable to breed the prevailing type, since by so doing, sales are more easily made and the services of high class stallions are practically assured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29

businsss amounting to thousands of car loads. If Alabama people quote specu- iative prices, the business will be lost to the state and go to Missouri and Kansas, where the freight is cheaper Alabama farmers can afford to compete for this business and are urged to do so. Freight cars have been made avail able for this purpose by the government It is no longer a doubt about the pink boil worm in Texas It is a conceded fact and some of the Texas papers pre- dict that it will probably cause damage to the extent of $250.000.o00 next year Alabama farmers are warned not to buy planting seed or cotton by-products from Texas on account of the danger of inn porting this destructive pest into our own state.
 From all indications at present Texas will increase her cotton acreage next year. The boil weeyii having done very little or no damage this year and the high prices this fall seems to have stirn- ulated keen desire for increased pro- duction. Farmers are destroying old stalks now as fast as they can get the cotton out. They are taking advanced steps to keep down the boil weevil dam ages next year. This years cotton crop for Texas will be about syuo,0oo bales.
 JAMES A. WADE,
 Commissioner of Agriculture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29
Thrift Thought

Spread the meat flavor over other foods. and SO economize on the quantity of meat consumed, says the United States department of agriculture. Here is one way to spread the flavor:
 Make stew from a cheap cut Of meat cut into small pieces, potatoes and such other vegetables as are desired. Thicken with little flour diluted with cold water. Serve with dumDlings made as follows:
 Mix and sift one cup of flour, two tea spoonfuls of baking powder, and one fourth teaspoonful of salt. Work in with the fingers one teaspoonful of butter; add gradually one-third of cup of milk. or little more if needed. Roll out one-half inch thick and cut with a biscuit cutter or in square pieces. The dumplings may be steamed; baked like biscuits, or cooked with the stew. In the latter case remove enough liquid to permit the dough to be placed on the meat and vegetables.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29
One Slice of Bread

If every one of 2o.0oo,eo8 American families (statistics say there are 22DOO,- Ooo) waste one slice of bread daily, 14.- Oooeoo ounces of wheat flour. or over S75.0oo pounds, or more than 100000 one- pound loaves of bread are tossed to the winds daily. More figures? We'll, this means sl9'0oo,eo0 pounds. or 1.5ee, 900 bar rels or wheat flour year, or 365, ,00O 0Oo loaves of bread. waste of >7,eeo. 900 bush els of wheat.
 How many farmers working from sun up to sun down have their labor put in the garbage can?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29
The Three B's

A two-line report of a Kentucky coun- ty agent to the United States depart ment of agriculture speaks volumes This is his succinct account of his work:
 Had a meeting at the courthouse. l talked on whipping Germany with three B's-bread, bacon, and beans.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29
Custard Sauce

Beat the yoiks of three eggs and then add them to the stiff whites of two eggs. Mix them win a cupfull of rich milk and put them in double boiler. Cook, stirring all the time. until it is thick and smooth. Remove immediately from the fire. add half cupful of sugar and any desired flavoring and serve.
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-17
TURN ENGINE OVER T..
A FEW TIMES WITH
YOUR SWITCH OFF

How seldom one sees a private
owner start his engine with the
switch off, though the professional
driver may often employ this pro-
cedHre when his motor is cold. The
average owner floods his carburetor.
or pulls the choke switches on. and
presses the starter button Intellectual
ly five or six times Then he opens
the bonnet, perhaps, floods the car
buretor again and at last gets an ex-
plosion. -: ........
1t is obvious that the idea of flood
ing the carburetor is to obtain a tenn
porary enriched mixture, but the value
of the flooding is lost if it be done
when the cylinders and induction pipe
are full of mixture, any petrol vapor
left in this overnight having long
since evaporated If the engine be
turned over a few times with the
switch off, the air is expelled, and
thin mixture of air and petrol inhaled
in its place Flooding then gives
temporarily rich mixture in the cylin-
ders and the engine will start at the.
first trial.-ChPster s. Kicker, NJ T..
in American MotOrist: ~ H..
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-17
KEEP FULL CHARGE r.. =. -. !. "
TN BATTERIES, is
III. i. EXPERTS ADVICE

The only way to get the most out of
a storage battery in service and in
length of life is to keep it fully
charged, according to Harry Henry
of the local Willard service station.
by far the greater number of re-
pairs that we do on batteries" says
Henry, ARE necessary because the
owners do not seem to have realized
the necessity of keeping their bat
teries fully charged. 1t stands to
reason that a half-eharged battery
cannot do the work that requires the
power of fully charged battery and
do it without some injury, any more
than one man can do two mems work
and do it regularly without hurting
himself physically.
A battery that is constantly half
charged loses part of its capacity for
renewal The plates become hardened
and no treatment will bring them
back again to their first satisfactory
condition. >... ......... i
Keeping the battery undercharged.
then, affects the owner in two ways.
First, he does not get the satisfactory
service from his battery that he would
if it were fully charged and, second.
the Dattery lasts much less than half
as long as fully charged one would.
In other words, the owner is out in
service and in money. =.......
THE remedy is right in the car
owners own hands He must have
definite means of knowing whether his
battery is being kent fully charged or
not. This means that as regularly as
he fills the battery with distilled
water he must test it with hydro
meter syringe. If he does this every
two weeks at the outside he knows
enough about. the condition of his bat
terry to be able to have any trouble
corrected In good season.
For instance. if he is running hB
car under. conditions that call FOR
many stops, a great deal of energy for
light and short runs, the battery is
Immediately affected. for it must sup
ply power for the cranking of the en-
gine and for the lights, but the gen.
orator does not get chance to return
sufficient power to the battery to off
set this. drain. ..-.. =
IF the car owner does not make
frequent tests of his battery he does
not know this, and in short time his
battery is dead or so exhausted that
it is no longer able to perform its
duties.'' ..... =: 49,. *
Honolulu star-bulletin., 1917-03-17
new AIRPLANES
|. FOLLOW Lines OF
FINE AUTO TYPES
They Are SumptuousIy UphOls.
tered and Said to Be
Absolutely Safe

WICHITA. Kans.-If you have from
$4,000 to $4,000 lying idle in the
bank. and if you have desires TO ex-
plore the unknown Western atmo-
sphere, e,nsyour wish may now be grant
ed in almost perfect safety.
c. " Cessna. aviator. who has just
returned from a weeks trip TO New
York City and other Eastern points,
buying material for his new two-pas-
senger. monoplane which is being
erected in the Jones Motor Companys
factory in North Wichita, says that
the growth of the aeroplane industry
has been great during the past IL
months. f.. ... 49,. - ~:
looking" airplanes and tells of some
that are absolutely safe" Among
the seasons sensations in the aero
nautical lines is the popular sedan.
= Fancy designs not unlike those seen
in automobiles daily. in $4,000 limou-
sine types, and those resembling the
larger motor buses recently brought
forth. are now the rage with the air
plane men.
and driven by 2O0-horse power i'm
ported motors, Cessna says the new
1917 model aeroplanes are much class
ier than the best automobiles
Machines capable Of carrying 10 pas
sengers and those which will lift Is
tons are among the creations of 1917,
says ~" Wichita birdman. II
IL an Eastern aeroplane manu-
facturer if these models are safe,' says
Cessna, "and he will tell you that
there is absolutely no danger what
ever. They are said to he even. safer
from dangerous difficulties than any
of tn cold models OF Diplanes and mon
oplanes. j. ....... . III.
1T looks to me that the new model
aeroplanes are far superior to the best
on the automobile markets.