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Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-14
COURTS CONVENE :
LABOR PROBLEM.

Indications now are that the food
producers of the country will face a
very sreious labor problem the coming
year.
If another million OF young men are
taken as soldiers the labor supply will
become more serious than now. That
another million will be drafted seems
practically assured.
There would seem to be only two
ways to relieve the labor scarcity :
Improved labor-savIng machinery tor
the farm so that one man may be able
to do practlcally what two have done
before. The most intensive cultivation
possible of the best land by applying
all the available fertility to it.
The cry now Is that far more food
will be needed next year than this, but
1T IS PLAN that the labor to produce it
will be more scarce than now.
la the face of the pr sent outlook, it
would be no wonder if many farmers
reduced their acreage because of IN
ability to get it planted. cultivated and
harvested.
Farmers should seriously consider
that situation and do all the prepare
tory work possible this winter with the
idea of saving time when planting time
comes. Then bend every energy to
cultivate as rapidly as possible and be-
gin the harvest at the earliest possible
moment. Tex parte. are followed
it IS possihd9l7. food may be
grown neXEherage, was this, in
spite of the the Peace. &c that is sure
to exist. 49,
With the greatest diligence must be
coupled more and better machinery and
more horse power to each man.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-14
BOOKS WILL OPEN.

The Registration books for the cor
poration of Crossvllle will be opened
Novem Der 22, % and "a at the Regis
ter's office IN the court house tor the
purpose of registering all persons who
are entitled to register to do so. IT
you have not already registered you
must 90 so to entitle you to vote IN the
coming city election, December Is.
G. W. Davenport,
Geo. P. Burnett,
Election Commissioners.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-14
ON ANTWERP ROAD
Henry Van Dyke Paints Pen Pho
ture of Wars Horrors.
"Why Has This Thing Como Upon "
and Our chiIdrenr Question on
Lips Of Belgian Refugees.

Along the straight, glistening road.
through a dim arcade Of dropping
trees, a tunnel of faded green and
gold. dripping with the misty rain Of
late October afternoon, a human
tide was flowing, not swiftly but sure
ly, with the patient. pathetic slowness
Of weary feet and numb brains and
heavy hearts.
Yet they were in haste. all Of these
old men and women. fathers and moth
ers and little children; they were fly
ing as fast as they could, either away
from something that they feared or
toward something that they desired.
For that was the strange thing
the tide on the road flowed in two d.
rections.
Some fed away from ruined homes
to escape the perils Of war. Some fed
back to escape the desolation Of exile.
But all were fugitives, anxious to be
gone, starving along the road one way
or the other, and making no more
speed than creeping snai's pace Of
unutterable fatigue.
saw many separate things in the
tide, Henry Van Dyke writes in Scrib-
ner's.
A boy stralniug to push wheelbar-
row with his pale mother in it, and
his two little sisters at his side. A
peasant with his two girls driving
their lean. detected cows back to some
unknown pasture. A bony horse tug
ging at wagon heaped high with
bedding and household gear, on top Of
which sat the wrinkled grandmother
with the tiniest baby in her arms,
while the rest of the family stumbled
alOngside-and the cat was curled up
on the softest coverlet in the wagon.
Two painting dogs, with red tongues
hanging out and splayed feet clawing
the road, tugging heavy-laden cart
while the master pushed behind and
the woman pulled at the shaft.
Strange, antique vehicles crammed
with passengers. Couples and groups
and sometimes larger companies of
foot travellers. Now and then soil
tary man or woman, old and shabby.
bundle on back, eyes on the road,
Flooding through the mud and the
mist, under the high archway Of vel.
lowing leaves.
All these distinct pictures I saw,
yet 1t was all one vision-a vision Of
humanity with it's dumb companions
in flight-infinitely slow, painful, pitt
full flight!
I saw no tears, I heard no cries Of
complaint. But beneath the dumb and
patient haste on all those dazed faces
saw question:
"What have we done? Why has this
thing come upon us and our chill.
dren?"
Somewhere heard trumpet blown
The spikes on the helmets Of little
troop Of soldiers flashed for an instant,
far down the sloppy road. Through
the humid dusk came the dull, distant
booming Of the unseen guns Of con-
quest in Flanders.
That was the only answer.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-14

years, has taken pains to watch his
conduct and it is with much pleasure
that we have found him to be an hon.
est. clean and courteous gentleman
whom we feel is worthy of the conf
dence of :he people.-Ed. Chronlcle.l
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-14
SOME ZINC.

Tennessee produced over So million
pounds of zinc in 1916. In the face of
pr esent war conditions the production
this year will probably be larger.
Crossville chronicle. [volume] (Crossville, Tenn.) 1894-current, 1917-11-14

Tammany is in the saddle again in
New York City. That means graft
and extotion will run riot in the me-
tropolis tor the time Tammany rules.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
Slices of Bread
ThroWnA Way are
4 Vicious Waste

A single slice of bread seems an
unimportant thing. In many house
holds one or more slices of bread
daily are thrown away and not used
for human food. Sometimes stale
quarter-or half-1oaves are thrown
out.
Yet one good-sized slice of bread
such as a child likes to cut
weighs an ounce. II contains almost
"a of an ounce of flour.
If every one of the country's 90
10000 homes wastes on the aver
age only one such slice of bread a
day, the country is throwing away
daily over 100000 ounces of flour
over $4,000 pounds. or enough
loaves a day. For a full year ar
this rate there would be a waste OF
over 319.0OO,OOO pounds Of flour
100000 barrels of four-enough
to make 100000 loaves
AS it takes 4 1-2 bushels Of wheat
to make a barrel of ordinary -four
this waste would represent the flour
from over 100000 bushels OF
wheat.
Fourteen and nine-tenths bushels
of wheat on the average are raised
per acre. 1t would take the fruit
of some 100000 acres just to gro
vide a single slice of bread TO be
wasted daily in every home.
To produce this much flour calls
for an army of farmers, railway
men, lour-mill people. To get the
-four TO the consumer calls for many
freight cars and the use of many
tons of coal.
But, some one says. a full slice OF
bread is not wasted in every home
Very well-make il a daily slice for
every four or every 10 or every 80
komes-make il a weekly or month
~ slice in every home-or make the
wasted slice thinner The waste OF
flour involved is still appalling-al-
together too great TO be tolerated
when wheat is scarce.
Any waste OF bread is inexcusable
when there are so many ways of us
ing stale bread TO cook delicious
dishes
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
Information for Farmers and Orchardists
An Ounce of Meat
Many a Miclde Makes a Muckle

An ounce OF edible meat-lean
meat fat and lean, suet or fat
trimmed from steak, chop. or roast
seems hardly worth saving.
Many households take just this
view Of the matter-do not trouble
to put such an insignificant scrap
into the ice box or soup pot-do not
bother to save for cookery a spoon
full or two of drippings or a tiny
bit of suet or fat.
Yet If every one of our 10000, 900
American families on the average
wastes each day only one ounce Of
edible meat or fat, It means a daily
waste Of 100000 pounds of animal
food-456, 700, 900 pounds OF valu-
able animal food a year.
At average dressed weights, il
would take the gross weight OF over
$4,000 steers, or over 5000, 600
hogs-bones and ALTO provide this
weight of meat or fat for each gar
bones and butchers waste are elm
mated, these figures would be in
creased to 10000 cattle and 81
700, 900 hogs.
Or, again, if the waste were dis
tributed according to the per capita
consumption OF the various meats
Excluding bones), il would use up d
combined herd of over $4,000 beef
animals, $4,000 calves, over 625,00)
sheep and lambs, and over 2,132, 900
hogs.
Millions of tons of feed and hay.
the grass from vast pastures and the
labor of armies of cattlemen and
butchers also would be scrapped by
this meat waste route.
But - every household doesn't
waste an ounce OF meat or fat every
day? Very well-make il one out of
a hundred families, but keep in mind
that all meat allowed to spoil and all
meat and fat rendered inedible by
improper cooking, scOrching or
burning must be counted as waste.
Make it an ounce every other day
or one a month. Such waste still
would be uncomfortable, when meat
is scarce and when fat is of such vi
tai food Importance to many nations.
Waste of meat or fat is inexcus-
able. Every bit of lean meat can be
used in soups, stews, or in combi-
nation with cereals; every spoonful
of fat can be employed in cookery;
every bit of drippings and gravy
can be saved so easily and used to
add flavor and nourishment to 9TH
er dishes.
The L. S. department of agricul-
ture. Washington, d. c, or your
state agricultural college will tell
you how TO use bits of meat to make
appetizing and nutritious dishes and
how to use leftover fat in cookery.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
SWEET POTATOES
NEGLECTEDFOOD
Can Be Made important and
Cheap Source Supply by
Proper Handling.

Sweet potatoes can De made an
important and cheap source of food.
say specialists in the L. s. depart
ment Of agriculture. It is quite easy
TO increase the acreage enormously
and the adoption of better methods
of handling and storing would i'm
prove the product to such an extent
that the demand would be greatly
stimulated.
Storing sweet potatoes has always
| been a more difficult problem than
producing them. A large part of the
southern crop is kept in pits and
banks, with the result that prob
ably 80 per cent of the potatoes de-
cay and even those which are fit to
put on the market do not keep we'll
| Moreover. the pits and banks can
not be opened during wet or rainy
weather without risk Of injuring all
the stock in them, so that il is not
| uncommon for growers 70 be I'M
| able, because of weather conditions
to get out their potatoes at the very
time that the market demand for
| them is greatest.
Storage Houses Needed.
These difficulties can be done
away with to a great extent by the
use of sweet potato storage houses,
the management and construction of
which are discussed in detail in
Farmers Bulletin 54S Of the de-
partment of agriculture Records
covering the storage in such build
ings of 22S,31S bushels of potatoes
for an average period of 124 days
show the average decay 10 be only
2.45 per cent. If they were to be
adopted generally by growers in the
south, il is estimated that at least
S1O,OOO,OOO would be added to the
value of the crop each year.
The sweet potato is. however, like
practically all other crops subject
to disease in the field as we'll as TO
decay in storage. Black rot, scurf
and soft rot are found wherever the
crop is grown. Stem rot, foot rot
and other diseases of minor import
ance are severe only in isolated cen
ters and,>with the exception or foot
rot. all the diseases do more dam
age in the north, where the crop is
grown intensively, than in the
south. In the north the loss from
disease is estimated at from 10 TO
40 per cent of the annual crop; in
the south. including storage dis
eases, at from 10 10 90 per cent.
The best methods for the control of
the various diseases are discussed
| in Farmers Bulletin ia.
Hard to Resist Disease.
Partly because of the difference in
! their ability to resist disease and
partly because of market demands
more attention should be paid to the
variety of sweet potato grown. For
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
REDUCING ANIMAL
AND INSECT PESTS
Government Throws Light on
Use of PoiSonS to Combat
Enemies of Corn Field.

Animal and insect pests OF corn
prairie dogs. ground squirrels. goph-
ers. hlackbirds. crows. cut-worms.
earworms. wireworms. chinch bugs.
grasshoppers-soon will open thJir
spring campaigns OF destruction.
Many Of these pests can be effective
" combated. according to special
lists in the L. s. department OF agri-
culture. who describe measures that
may be employed.
For cutworms. Jumps OF poisoned
bait, made by mixing about so
pounds Of bran or corn meal with
two pounds OF Paris green. six fine
ly chopped oranges or lemons. and
enough cheap molasses TO make a
stiff dough. should be scattered along
the corn rows at planting time or as
soon as injury from cutworms is
noticed. Information as 10 these
poison bats will be furnished on
application 10 the bureau OF ento-
mology
Treating the seed with coal tar
will usually repel attacks OF birds
and, in some cases. those OF burrow-
ing rodents. a teaspoonful OF tar
is enough for a peck Of corn. Nix
the tar with a quart Of boiling water.
After the mixture has cooled some
what but is still hot. stir I'm the corn
until every grain is coated. and then
spread it out 10 dry before planting.
Corn may be immersed several min
utes in moderately hot water without
affecting termination. The tar treat
ment does not repel mice or ground
squirrels
Destruction of corn by ground
squirrels. prairie-dogs, pocket poph-
ers, or mice is best prevented by poi
soning the animals a few days be-
fore the corn is planted. Strychnine
is the best poison in all cases but 20
obtain satisfactory results a special
formula is needed for preparing the
poison for each kind OF animal such
formulas have been worked out by
the bureau OF biological survey and
special instructions will be furnished
strychnine are poisons and should
not be placed where children or
domestic animals can get them
Yearbook Separate no. 7eS. DE
stroying Rodent Pests on the Farm"
contains many formulas and may be
had free until the limited edition is
exhausted.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
WHEAT SUBSTITUTE CAN
BE MADE OF FIELD CORN
To Plant Corn Is Most Effective
Remedy for Wheat
Shortage.

WASHINGTON, May 19.-The
most effective way 10 remedy the
probable shortage in the wheat crop
is 20 plant corn, says the United
States department Of agriculture.
Ordinarily the quantity Of corn
produced in the United States is
from three TO four times the quaint
ity Of wheat, but only a very small
portion of the crop-from 10 10
per cent-has been used for human
food This amount may be esti-
mated in normal times at about
200, 100000 bushels a year. Not over
per cent has been exported in
peace times. a relatively slight in
crease in the corn acreage, there
fore, will place may millions of
bushels more of human food at the
disposal of the world without inter-
fering in any way with the feed
needed for the support Of live stock.
In the past with an abundance
of grain Of other kinds, corn has
not been in great demand for hu-
man consumption. But with other
grains no longer abunCant, circum-
stances will compel more general
recognition of the value of corn as
human food The department is
urging strongly the wider use Of
corn in the diet. 1t is the best sub
stitute for wheat that We have s9d
can be utilized in breads. mushes
and a variety Of other ways. We
should make every effort to avail
ourselves of il.
PLANT corn" then should be the
motto Of every farmer in q section
suited to the crop.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
LOANS ON FARM LANDS.

Loans bearing interest at the low
rate Of 5 per cent will be made by
US on good productive farms which
meet with our requirements. II you
expect to borrow money soon. ar
rangements should be made without
delay so that you may take advan-
tage of this offer.
All loans will be made for a term
Of five years. with the privilege OF
paying the principal, or any part
thereof, in even hundreds Of dollars
at any interest paying date.
Further details can be secured by
a letter or we shall be pleased TO
have you call at our office.
THE STRAUSS BROTHERS co.
-Advt. L.gonier, Ind.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
STOCK-RALSING

example, Yellow Jerseys. Big stem
Jerseys. Nancy Halls and Early
Carolinas are particularly suscep-
tible 10 stem rot, whereas most Of
the other commercial varieties are
more or less resistant. on the 9TH
er hand, the yellow and the Big
Stem Jerseys. which are dry and
mealy when cooked. suit the north
ern consumer and are the varieties
commonly sold 70 him.
However the markets OF the cen
trail west ard west Will take the
semi-moist varieties such as Nancy
Hall and Dooley If they are prop
erly graded and packed. The high
est price paid for carload lots OF
sweet potatoes on the Chicago mar
ket in two successive seasons was
for southern grown Nancy Hall In
the south. a moist feshed potato is
preferred A knowledge of such
facts is essential to profitable mar
keting of the crop, but at the pres
ent time most producers. especially
in the south. grow a mum Der OF diff
ferent varieties in the same field
and store them miscellaneously to-
gether. The result is unprofita bic
confusion.
Valuable as Truck Crop.
Even as it is. sweet potatoes are.
in point of value, the second most
important truck crop in the United
States, being exceeded only by Irish
potatoes. The production, however.
10 s-n~aoca1 a1v a r-HF
ly for there are millions of acres
of cheap cut-over lands in the south
well adapted 10 the crop. BY adapt
ing the improvements suggested the
demand can be increased proper
tionately, for an attractive product
can then be placed on the market
throughout the year instead of for a
short season only, as is now the case
in many sections.
1t must be remembered. too, that
the value of sweet potatoes as feed
for live stock is not yet generally
understood Three 20 four bushels
are the equivalent of a bushel OF
corn for hogs and in connection with
rich concentrates the potatoes are a
good feed for cattle. on light soils
that produce from 20 to % bushels
Of corn, the same care and attention
will return 100 10 200 bushels OF
sweet potatoes. Finally, il is not
unlikely that by artificial drying a
product may be obtained which will
keep as long as is desired and. be-
cause of its reduced bulk. may be
shipped long distances at a COM
paratively low cost. Government
experiments along this line, how
ever. have not been carried far
enough as yet to recommend dry
ing on a commercial scale.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19

This is one of the old breeds of
poultry in Holland. whence il was in
troduced TO England. Germany and
America. The first specimens made
their appearance in this country
about a dozen years ago. The LAX
envelder is thought to be of Cam
pine origin and shows similarity in
shape. head and in the leg color.
which is slaty blue.
Like all small bodied breeds OF
poultry the Lakenvelder is a good
layer. II produces a large number
of eggs. which are described as be-
ing OF porcelain whiteness.
The Lakenvelder is not recon-
mended as a table fowl, though,
like all Mediterranean varieties,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
BAD COUGH? FEVERISH?
GRIPPY2

You need DR. Kings New Dlscov-
cry 70 stop that cold. the SOOTHING
balsam ingredients heal the irritated
membranes. soothe the sore throat.
the antiseptic qualities XIII the germ
and your cold is quickly relieved.
DR.. Kings New Discovery has for
as years been the standard remedy
for coughs and colds III thousands
OF homes. Get a bottle to-day and
have IL handy in your medicine chest
for coughs. colds. Group. grippe and
all bronchial affections At your
druggists. soc. Adv.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
PRIVACY" \ GROWING FACTOR
IN AMERICAN LIVE.

we have on our statutes laws
which authorize US TO consider our
houses as castles, which we may
lawfully defend against intrusion, E"
says the editor of Farm and Fire
side. the national farm paper pub
lshed in Springfield. O. This gives
the stamp OF legal approval TO the
privacy Of the home. We are COM
ing also &c believe in the separate
privacy OF each one in the family.
In the ideal home the children have
separate rooms. the father has his
office or den and the mother is
gradually being upheld by public
opinion in her desire 10 have a room
where she may rest an hour or so
during the day. undisturhed by the
children and the demands OF the
household"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19

such as Leghorns. Anconas and
Campines. it is excellent for the
production of SQUAD broilers.' to
be sold at from ga TO one pound
weight
The fowls are hardy, active. ex-
cellent foragers and small eaters
and are of a rather wild disposition.
They do better on free range than
in limited quarters. In fact it is
difficult TO raise them successfully in
small yards. In size and shape they
resem BILE the white leghorn. In
both sexes the body color is white,
while the neck. tail and saddle
hackles are jet back. This colOring
is a continuous breeding problem
with the fancier.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
GOOD STOP FOR ANY WAGON.

When pulling a heavy load up a
steep hill" says a writer in Farm
and Fireside, 1t is often necessary
10 rest the team. Here is a simple
device that will hold the wagon
while the team rests. Take a stout
piece of wood four inches square
and about 20 inches long. Fasten a
chain at the center. Put other end
Of chain around the rear axle so the
block will drag about two inches be-
hind the wheel.
When YOU wish 10 stop, let the
wagon back a couple Of inches and
the stop is always ready 20 block
the wheel. This device is extensive
" used by lumbermen in Oregon"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
RRFAKs WITH GERMANY.

international News Service:
WASHINGTON. NAY 1s.-Hon-
duras has broken diplomatic rela-
tons with the imperial government.
This information was conveyed 70
the state department this afternoon
in a cablegram from American
Minister Ewing at TegucigalDa.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19

BOYS WANTED - why don't YOU
start earning some real money
by selling papers on the best cor
ners I'm town. Morning or evening.
See Grip at Newsstand. Corner Wash
lngton and Michigan. -Advt.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19

The very name white diar-
" rhea strikes terror TO poultry
. mon Every year thousands OF
o baby chicks are stricken by this
o disease. il is one OF the most
d. destructive forces in poultry
culture. The best way 20 COM
. bat u is by preventive measures.
which are proven highly sue
cessful. Learn about these
measures in next weeks ar
ticle.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19

Or. Axtell. Dentist. SIS Union
Trust Bids. Adv.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
An Ex-Governor and Journalist Said:


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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
AGRICUL TURE|
CARE NECESSARY FOR THE
SETTING OF HEN AND RUNNING INCUBATOR
BY G.. II. smith.

Author and Practical Poultryman.
The sitting hen IS still a big fac
tor in poultry culture Most people
who keep hens make use Of her
more or less She is a cheap and
very efficient Matching machine for
thousands who have not enough
business 10 warrant the use Of the
artificial method.
When comparatively few chicks
are needed TO replenish the flock.
and on many farms where time and
help are lacking. the sitting hen
should be carefully studied and used
10 the best advantage.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-05-19
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