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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-05-29
OTHER GREAT WARS
SOME CONTEND THIS is NOT THE
GREATEST ONE IN HISTORY.
Civil War In the United States Rated
AS Greatest Effort That the Civilized
World Has Known-Decisive Battles
With Small Numbers.

Washington, May 29.-There IS dis
inclination among experts to agree that
the present war is the greatest Of all
wars in history relatively TO tine mum
Der of men engaged. That distinction
is being given to the war between the
states, 1S61-65. There are, OF course,
more men under arms now than ever
before, but mere numbers, it is pointed
out, are not of supreme Importance. A
man is not of greater prominence be-
cause he weighs 2SO pounds instead of
150 pounds.
NO nation in the present war, 1t is
claimed, is throwing into the fighting
line as many men, in proportion to its
population, as has been the case several
times in the past. The real test is the
effort a nation makes. and on certain
number of occasions in the past it is
said that those efforts have been great.
er than those of the present day.
The greatest effort that .ae civilized
world ever has seen was made on Amer
lean soil. Ma nation, neither France
nor Germany, and still less any other
ing into the firing line such a large
proportion Of its population as did the
north in the American civil war, and
as did the south The new Encyclo.
pedia Britannica is authority for these
statements.
When the civil war began the south
had population Of 100000, of which
ufffa11aaF EOn mn
not fight. In the course of the war,
during period Of three years and nine
months, the south placed on the firing
line total Of slightly more than 1000
900 men.
One in Nine of Population.
That was one in nine of her total
population, but If the negroes are ex
cluded, she put slightly more than L.
10000 men out of total OF 5,500,000
into her armies. In other words, about
men. women and children-entered the
ranks and fought.
This record of the southern states Is
said TO be without parallel in civilized
warfare. What makes it the more as
tonishing Is that the south, being entire
ly agricultural, was not prepared, and
that the northern blockade, stopping
the income Of supplies Of every kind,
was constant and serious handicap.
The population of the north in 1860
was 2l,00O,OO0. In the course Of the
war she put into the field 5000 900 mel.
This was one in seven Of the total pop.
ulation, number considerably greater
than any Of the European nations has
placed under arms
The war in Europe has now lasted
two years and nine months II II should
last another twelve months by which
time ii will equal the length of the civil
war;, large number Of additional men
will be called upon to do their bit"
as the English say, but II Is unlikely
that II will bring the figures TO one in
seven.
In order TO reach the proportion OF
one in seven Germany would have TO
place in the fighting line between O.
100000 and 1O.O00.OOO men: France ap-
proximately 100000: Russia 2iO0O.O 600.
Great Britain. from her snug little
islands. 100000. without counting all
received from her colonies and depend.
purfoe
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-14
Johnson Succeeds Deuel..

Harold F.. Johnson was elected to
succeed Mr.. Deuel. as county agri-
cultural agent at meeting of the di-
rectors held at Orleans Friday. Mr..
johnson is Vermonter, reared on a
farm in the town of Guilford. He
graduated frem the Brattleboro high
school and the University of YER
mont and state agricultural college.
While in college Mr.. Johnson spent
his summers in assisting in expert
mental work on the experiment sta
ton farm. Since graduating from
college Mr.. Johnson has been with the
extension service of the University
of Vermont and state agricultural
college where he has taken part in
various activities connected with the
service, such as extension schools,
county agent work, demonstrations
of various kinds, boys and girls
club work, and farm management
demonstration work.
Orleans county is congratulated on
securing a man so well-trained to
succeed Mr.. Deuel.. Mr.. johnson, al
though but Is years of age, has suf-
fcient practical experience, technical
training, good judgment, tact, en-
ergy, enthusiasm and a personality
such that he should soon be one of
ablest county agents in New
England.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-14

be Matched before May 1, so that they
will begin laying by the LIST of Novem-
Der. In the section of the country
north of the Ohio river it is advisable
to begin Matching not later than Mar.
1 and to continue Matching at intervals
through March and April, so that pull
let's of different ages will be coming
on, and the broilers will not all be
ready for market at the same time.
The American breeds, plymouth
Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Island
Reds, etc. should be Matched earlier
than the Mediterranean breeds, such
as the Leghorns, Minorcas, etc., be-
cause they take about one month long
er to mature. Pullets of the American
breeds will begin laying at about z
months of age, and those of the Med
iterranean breeds at about months.
It is often difficult to get enough
broody hens to set eggs early. This
may be partly overcome by setting the
earliest eggs in an incubator and put
ting those eggs under hens a few days
before they are ready to hatch. A hen
usually can brood from one and one
half to two times as many chickens as
she will hatch, so that additional
chickens Matched in incubators can al
SO be given to hens.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-14
Calf Feeding.

A man occasionally complains that
he cannot find good cows and cannot
raise calves while selling milk. 1t is
very true that there is nothing so
good for calves as milk, but several
grain substitutes have been tried sue
cessfully at various experiment sta
tions.
Purdue university recommends a
mixture of equal parts by weight of
linseed oil meal, hominy feed, red dog
flour and soluble blood flour.
The Massachusetts, station recon-
mends mixture of % pounds ground
oat flakes, 10 pounds flaxseed meal,
pounds flour middlings, II pounds fine
corn meal, 1 II pounds prepared blood
flour, Il pound salt.
Another mixture recommended by
the Iowa station is: 80 pounds wheat
flour, 25 pounds cocoanut meal, 20
pounds nutrium, 10 pounds oil meal,
pounds dried blood.
1t will be noted that although some
are rather complex, linseed meal,
wheat flour and blood meals are con-
tanned in all in varying proportions.
In the Purdue and Massachusetts mix
lures corn meal or hominy make up
another large part of the ration while
cocoanut meal and nutrium are used
in the Iowa mixture.
These should all be fed at the rate
of one pound of grain to 6-8 pounds
water. The grain should of course be
substituted gradually for the milk I'M
til when the calf is four to six weeks
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-14
Orleans County Cow Testing Association Records

table the and the
milk the
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-14

are much less likely to become sick.
The late-hatched chicks are always the
first to catch cold and spread disease
throughout the flock. Chickens Matched
late in the year will not mature be-
fore cold weather and usually will not
lay until we'll into the winter, or even
toward spring. This means that they
will have to be fed and carried over
for several months at constant ex-
pense, with no return, and this at a
time when feed is at it's highest.
The early-hatched pullets can be de-
veloped to a large extent on range and
a saving in grain feed is possible in
this way.
The highest producing pullets are
those which begin laying early. To
get into the 2OO-egg class a pullet
must lay 60 or more eggs before Mar.
1. In order to do this, pullets must
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-14
Hatch Chickens Now.

The poultryman makes his greatest
profit from the chickens which are
Matched before May 1. The early
Matched cockerels are sold as broilers
when the broiler market is at it's best.
The flood of late-hatched broilers
brings prices down and congests the
market. The greater returns received
from early matched broilers go far to-
ward defraying the cost of raising the
pullets. These pullets in turn begin
laying when eggs are bringing the
highest prices and when there is the
greatest shortage of strictly fresh
eggs, says the Weekly News Letter of
the department of agriculture.
Still more important, early-hatched
chickens grow more rapidly than
those Matched late in the season and
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-14
THREE YEARS SUMMARY
Of the Work of the Agricultural
Association in Orleans
County.

1. There have been more than
300 meetings held, to which 6CCO
persons have attended.
2. Feeds and feeding have been
discussed with the result that new
and valuable feeds have been intro
duced, such as hominy, beet pulp,
and dried distillers' grains. Cheap
and Improbable feeds have been
eliminated, and a uniform ration is
now fed among SO per cent. of the
members of the organization.
3. There have been valuable
demonstrations in growing clover by
the use of lime.
f. Introduction of alfalfa. Not
successful stand was found in the
county three years ago but there are
nearly so acres today. The acreage
is to be greatly increased this season.
5. Demonstrations of more sue
cessful varieties of corn, thinner
planting, improved and cheaper fer
tilizer.
6. Introduction of soy beans for
silage with corn.
7. Introduction of vetch with oats
for hay or silage.
8. Improved methods of potato
growing, increasing the yield 10 to
rs per cent. in different instances.
9. The introduction of chemicals
and adapting them to the use of each
individual farm, on $50 farms.
10. Spraying and pruning of
apple orchards demonstrate on so
farms.
II. Demonstration on the treat
ment of oats for smut.
II. The soil of $50 fields has
been tested for lime requirements,
and value of the use of lime demon
strated Two carloads were used
the third year.
10. Hay crops have been in
creased from SO to $50 per cent. on
farms by the use of chemical top
dressing, where there was not suf-
ficient stable manure to top-dress all
the fields.
IA. Demonstrating the value of
doing a cash business and making
use of bank credit.
Is. Demonstrating the value of
high-grade seeds.
Publishing of the prices being
paid in Orleans county for milk and
butterfat
II. Publishing a page in Moni-
tor every month.
Aside from the thousands of circu-
lars, the hundreds of personal letters,
the telephones, the office calls, meet
ings, the educational work such as
introduction of alfalfa, soy beans
and other crops, besides what all this
means at the present time and holds
for the future and the value of being
organized, the organization has been
directly responsible for an increased
income to farmers of over $4,000
l. I1c441@ TOD
among about 20 per cent of the far
mers of Orleans county.
Cooperation.
l. The success of the organiza-
ton itself, proving the value of or
ganization.
2. The organization of three cow
testing associations, the re-organiza-
ton of two others.
3. Stimulating the use of pure
bred sires, the grading up of herds
and increasing sales of registered
live stock.
4. Cooperating with the N. E. M.
T. A, and assisting in the efforts of
the farmers to get better price for
their products.
system of spraying fruit trees, 40
farms included.
6. Organization of the Farmers
Exchange which has meant a saving
OF $4,000 since cooperative buying
started.
z. The Farmers Dairy company
encouraged by the Agricultural as
ISOLATION.
8. The handling of maple prod
ucts is being initiated through the
organization.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-14

old he will be taking about one pound
of the calf meal when the milk may
be altogether removed. These mix
lures are cheaper than the commercial
calf meals and should prove satisfac-
tory when carefully fed. Do not over
feed, however.
For calves that have plenty of skim
milk, a mixture of two parts corn, two
parts whole oats, one part bran and
one part linseed, is good. If one part
cottonseed is added to this it will ac-
custom the heifer to this feed so that
the danger of overlooking with cot
tonseed later will be lessened Skim
milk alone will not grow and develop
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-14

official and Association are abbreviated
o. and A. in. the above table.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-14
Works That Way.

Works That Way.
1t is queer fact that even a bach
elor at the head of business prefers
married men for employees. But this
practice probably is no part of a
movement to promote matrimony.-
Milwaukee News.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-14

calves satisfactorily so for this reason.
grain should be fed literally. Re
member that the first year of the
heifer's life is perhaps the most i'm
portant from the standpoint of devel-
opment, the bringing out of her good
qualities.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1917-03-14

Agricultural page overflow will be
found on page three.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-15
MERCHANTS ENJOY
Big "DOINGS" HERE
Out of Town Dealers Royalty
Entertained at Dinners and
Theater Parties.
DANCE AT THE FoNTENELLE

When exactly 69l tickets were is
sued for the theater party of the
Merchants Market Week entertain
ment Tuesday night, it was clearly
shown that this is the largest attend
ance of out of-town merchants Omaha
has had in the few years that this
semi-annual market feature has been
carried out. OF course, not quite all
of the 69l were out-of-town mer-
chants, for lot of the local wholesal-
ers, hosts in the entertainment, went
to the theater with them At the
same time there were many out-of-
town merchants who did not take in
the theater party, SO it is clear that
the number of visitors here was ex-
ceptionally large for the second day
OF the week Preceding the theater
party they enjoyed a dinner given
them by the local wholesalers at the
Hotel Rome.
A Big Day.
Wednesday proved the biggest day
for the Merchants Market Week &C
tivities. 1t was the first -eally nice
day, and the morning trains brought
in many merchants who could not get
here earlier, or who remained away
up to this time on account of the
condition of the weather.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-15
WICK AND INMATES
ARE DISCHARGED
Place Not Disorderly When
Second Raiding Officer
Gets in the Door.
GETS ADVICE FROM JUDGE

A fve-second delay in arrival OF
other witnesses for the police at Gus
Wick's place last Friday gave inmates
a chance to quiet down." according
to Morals Officer Paul Sutton.
The result was that the state
lacked evidence TO corroborate SUIT
tons testimony that the place was
disorderly, and so Police Judge Fitz-
gerald discharged Wick and the
twenty-eight men and women ar
rested as inmates.
1T would be popular for ME to fine
you," the judge told Wick, but there
is insufficient evidence of either I'M
lawful acts or disorderly conduct.
would, however, advise you to get rid
Of the bar in your place"
Morals Officer Cunningham, who
raided the place with Sutton, was
twenty feet behind his partner, and
when he reached the Wick place all
was quiet and orderly, he testified
Sutton testified Tuesday, at the first
hearing of the case, that he had
raided the place because he heard and
saw disorderly conduct.
After all his clients had been dis
charged, Attorney Richie asked
Judge Fitzgerald # it would be safe
for them to patronize a certain dance
hall, recently mentioned in the
cleanup" crusade, whose calendared
advertisement was hanging on fhe
wall of police court. The Judge
laughed and said he guessed it was
safe to patronize.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-15
WELSH SAYS FLOODS
ARE TO Be EXPECTED
Ice on Rivers Thick and Snow
on the Watersheds is
Deep.
is NOW ALL UP TO OLD SOL

UNLESS we arc very fortunate, in
deed, there will he floods in the Mis-
souri, valley this spring, says Colonel
Lucius Welsh, government mctcorolo-
gist.
The recent snow and rain has been
a big boon to the agricultural see
ton" continued the weather man, but
it has its dangers also, There are for
ty-two inches of ice on the river up
North Dakota way and ice at Sioux
City measures thirty inches. Snow is
plentiful and deep on the watersheds
up north and long, continuous thaw
will melt that ice and snow and send
it sweeping down the valley i'll Il
flood,
"Our best hope is that there will be
intermittent periods Of thawing. Now
the present temperature is good
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-15
Ed is Peeved When Clyde
Calls Him His Brother

Arraigned in police court as pool
hall suspects, Cyde and Ed Parker,
Oxford hotel, nearly got into a fight
at the bar of justice when Ed resented
Clyde's statement that they were
brothers.
Don't you call me no brother Of
your'n," Ed shouted, so that all in
court heard.
While Clyde was recovering from
his surprise at the situation, officers
ushered both men back to cells,
where they will be given a day or
two to adjust their alleged relation
ship. I'd asserted he was no relative
OF Clyde's and had only known him
a short time.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-15
SARATOGA SCHOOL
PARENTS IN COURT
Seek Injunction Against City
Physician and School Board
in Quarantine Fight.
TWO KINDS VACCINATION

The battle Of Saratoga has been
taken into the courts.
1t is the Saratoga school fight be-
tween parents OF pupils and City Ply
sician Cornell over vaccination.
Several parents have filed suit in
district court against the city physi-
clan and the twelve members OF the
school board, seeking to enjoin them
from prohibiting children with certi-
iicates of accination-which in this
case show the internal method-from
attending school.
The plaintiffs, Charles {. Haynes,
H. S. Simpson, Thomas Carroll and
Ezra w. Field, parents of children at
tending Saratoga school, also ask that
the city physician be restrained from
ordering smallpox signs tackled up on
houses. They further ask that he be
restrained from encouraging and
maintaining the dump at Twenty-sec-
ond and Meredith streets.
Want, Dump Removed.
It is alleged that the dump has the
approval of the city physician, is a
public nuisance, places the children in
danger and causes contagious dis
eases.
The petition of the parents asserts
that their children would be in at
tendance at school except for the
wrongful acts Of the defendants"
The plaintiffs say that the court ac-
ton is brought on behalf of 200 other
children besides thei. own who are
denied the opportunity and privilege
of attending school,
Allegations are made that the men,
bers OF the school board permit the
city physician to take entire charge
of the matter; that the children of the
plaintiffs have been properly vaccin-
ated; that there are no cases of small
pox; that the smallpox signs have
been tackled up because they declined
to adopt the method of vaccination
ordered by City Physician Council.
The parents allege that the city ply
sician openly stated that "he would
wreck the school and throw the par
ents and pupils in jail unless they
complied with his vaccination orders"
A. L. Sutton is attorney for the
parents,
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-15
SCHOOL PROGRESS
IN SOUTH AMERICA
Bishop Stuntz Tells of Great
Educational Advancement in
Argentina, Uruguay, Peru.
EXCHANGE OF PROFESSORS

p,,;d st-;d.s r,do - ,rhl;, oduo,
4 - wv, Nv, a1e ~ p"'" e'",a
ZION IN oou'h America during the
scant fifty years since its introduc-
ton, were pointed out by Bishon
uo,or e c,,,,. - ,ou. =, hoI,,;
-' ''0''~ :" " 'a'" "' Wv o"'
vefsity CLUB at noon Argentina and
Uruguay have reduced the percentage
of illiteracy from II to 50 per cent.
Peru, the latest to introduce a pub
lie school system, has yet an 80 per
cent iliteracy.
Buenos Aires now has d thriving
university of 5000 students and Uru-
quay, one of 1900, though prior to
1869 there was no educational sys-
tenn in South America except that OF
the church.
THE mission schools furnished the
impulse for the introduction OF pub
lie schools said the bishop. For
fifty years before the mission schools
were paving the way for the later
schools. The Methodist missions alone
have 1000 enrolled and other de-
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-15
Mrs. Vaudeville
Dies Suddenly On
Tuesday Evening

After shoveling snow from his
walk Tuesday evening, r. c. Mander-
vile re-entered his home, 24l6 North
Seventeenth street, and found his
mother, Mrs. Mary A. Manderville,
gasping on her deathbed. She ex-
pired a moment later, supposedly
from lung or bronchial trouble, with
which she was afflicted. She was &c
years of age.
She had retired early, as was her
custom, the son said. Although a
chronic invalid and not SO well as
usual Tuesday evening, she was not
supposed to be in serious condition
when she retired.
The funeral will be held Thursday
at 9 a. m. from Sacred Heart church
and burial will be in St, Mary's Gene
terry.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-15

omen. The thermometer dropped to
% above, which will stay the melting
for while. What is wanted is to
thaw the snow and ice a little at a
time. To do this before the spring
frcshet sets in will prevent gorgins."
Colonel Welsh urged the farmers
not to be unduly alarmed by any pre-
mature news of impending floods.
1--WE can't tell what will happen.
Just now the weather is the best it
could be to iorcstall a serious flood
The prophecy is for unsettled weather.
The only thing to do is to sit back and
wait to sec what the weather does to
the country north OF Omaha
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-15
DR.. Cornell Has the Police
Department Back of Him

Following a conference with the
health commissioner, Superintendent
kugcl of the department OF police,
sanitation and public safety, said he
would back DR.. Cornell in his present
smallpox situation.
The health commissioner related an
instance of three children attending
Saratoga school SIX days after their
mother had broken out with smallpox.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-15
Smallpox in Stella School.

Stella, Neb., March l4.-(Special.) y
School was dismissed today for a
two-day vacation while the building
was being fumigated. A small boy
broke out with disease in school yes
terday, which the doctors say is small
pox in a mild form. The boys fam
lily has been quarantined and all due
precautions taken to prevent the
spread of the disease.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-15
City Paying Only SIS
For the Old Arc Lamps

I. W. Zimman. contracting agent
for the Omaha Electric Light and
Power company, explained to the city
council that his company is charging
the city on the basis of SIS a year
net for the old arc lamps until such
time as they are replaced by the
new type of lamps being installed
under the hve-year contract recently
approved. The question was raised
whether the company was charging
SIS a year under the old contract,
but this misunderstanding was
cleared up by Mr.. Zimman. Some Of
the new lamps have been installed
and others are being placed as fast
rs the company can do the work.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-15
Hist! Maloney's
On the Trail of
"Snookums'" Thief

Upon recovery of his priced dog,
"Snookums,' Chief of Detectives Ma
loney Immediately made plans to ar
rest and prosecute the man who is
said to have stolen the pet.
81 don't know whether to arrest
him for kidnapping or grand larceny"
the chief said
Fred Palmtag, Missouri Pacific de-
tective and friend of Maloney, found
the dog in possession of a woman
living in the north part of Omaha,
who asserted the animal was brought
TO her by an eXpressman. Shook
mns" greeted Palmtag with bark
of friendship and followed him away
from the Woman's home.
Omaha daily bee., 1917-03-15
New Hotel to Be Built at
Shelton, REPLACING Landmark

Shelton, Neb., March 14.-(Special.)
Local capitalists have bought from
J. J. Harmon the old Commercial
hotel building and grounds. They will
soon start the erection of a fine fire.
proof hotel. replacing the landmark
The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1917-01-24

r. Virtue is its own reward. so don't
look In the Lost and Found columns
for II.