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Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
Found the Man at Last.

Won Blumer-"I had the most sin
gular thing happen to me the other
day. Did you ever go into mans
place to pay bill you owed him, and
find him out?
Plankington (emphatically)-No, sir.
Did that happen to you?
ut did had notion, or rather l
nerved myself up to it, to settle up
some bills that owed. SO on my way
up from the office dropped in to
see my fishmonger."
"And he was out?'
Correct. Then l tried my grocer"
''He was out?'
Fright. Plenty of shopmen, but
no proprietor. OF course, | left word
that called in to settle up, but wanted
to see the proprietor first. Dispute
about bills. Do you twig?"
"Oh, yes, that strengthens your
credit"
Exactly. Then l called to see my
butcher, and I'll be hanged if he wasn't
out also"
"By Jove! but you were in luck"
mo, l wasn't"
"Why not?"
"When l got home I found them ali
waiting for me w-London Tit-Bits.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
MAKING MONEY OUT OF cows
Seven Fundamental Principles Of Sue
eessfuI DaIryIng-Weed Out All
Poor Animals.

There are ten rules for making
money out Of cows and they all begin
with milk good cows"
TO put the case In nutshell, or
rather to skim the cream from the
whole matter, let us admit that there
are, say, seven fundamental principles
Of successful dairying, about as fol-
lows:
1. Weed out the poor cows by means
of the scales and the Babcock test.
2. Feed the good cows plenty of
clean, choice stuff as close to bal
anced ration as possible.
3. Eliminate competition by prOduc-
Ing a better product than the other fel.
low and demanding a good price for it.
4. Head the herd with a high-class,
pure-bred sire.
5. Raise the promising calves from
the best cows only.
6. Develop market for your sur
plus bull calves and other stock.
7. Feed the mind Of the man behind
the COW.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
FEED DAIRY cows ROUGHAGE
Should Be Given to Limit Of Animals
capacity-soy Bean Hay Is
Ciassed With Alfalfa.

"Roughage should be fed to the limit
of the dairy cows capacity" says
Prof. c. G, Hayden Of the Ohio expert
ment station. Relatively, the rough
ages, like hay and corn and stover, are
much cheaper than grains and hay
is of unusually good quality. Rough.
age, Of course, should not be fed exclu-
,sively, as such feeding might lead to
compaction and death even in dry cows
and heifers. Some grain Is needed in
every dairy ration"
This dairy specialist also declares:
"Choice alfalfa hay at $40 ton is
cheaper than bran at $50. Our ex-
periments show that soy bean hay Is
in the same class as alfalfa, and clo-
yer Is third. With corn at 81 bush
el, clover hay should be worth about
500 ton, or $5 more than 1t is now
quoted"
Timothy hay Is recommended for
milking cows only in small quantities
to replace such grains as corn and
hominy. Leguminous roughages have
proved far superior in numerous ex-
periments to timothy for cows In
milk.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
EGGs VALUABLE FOR FOOD.

College Park, July 26.-Poultryman
Roy H. Waite, OF the Maryland Agri.
cultural Experiment Station, calls the
attention of poultry growers to the ad'
vertising value Of the high food value
of eggs. Mr.. Waite says: Recently
full-paged, colored advertisements
have been appearing in most Of the
leading women's magazines. tellias
how q certain kind OF baking powder
will take the place of eggs. These ad.
vertisements say nothing about the de-
creased food values. During the win
tor the newspapers Of the country con-
tanned many accounts Of boycott OF
eggs on account OF high prices.
"'Eggs contain considerable quaint
ties Of protein, and, II not too high In
price, have a wide. ETC.. etc. ETC. This
was quoted from 4 recent publication.
and is the way the value OF eggs az
compared with other similar food prod.
uots Is usually handled by writers on
the subject If not too high In price
What is high in prioo!
"A few years ago eggs sold at
very low price, and consumers do not
seem able to forget this price. II they
could only be made to appreciate the
full value Of eggs as food when COM
pared with other similar food sub
stances, consumers might look upon
eggs with a little different attitude.
They might consider them at their
true worth as compared with other
foodstuffs.
There has never been q campaign
made to teach the consumer the value
of this product. The only large or.
ganization devoted to the interests OF
poultry has almost completely neglect
ed this field. while spending ito
energies upon stimulating = greater
production.
Now that the poultry raisers are
being induced to show their patriot.
ism by raising large quantities Of poul.
try products, II Is only fair that some
attention be given toward educating
the public to appreciate the value Of
these products and an appreciation Of
what the poultry raisers are doing for
the country. In general, 1t may be
said that q dozen eggs are worth just
a little more than a pound and one.
half of meat; thus with beefsteak at
80 cents a pound. eggs would give an
equal amount Of nutritive material at
the same price when selling at 48
cents a dozen. A pound and one.half
Of steak would cost 4s cents and would
be equal in food value to one dozen
eggs. There are, however, other
things to be taken into consideration
here. Eggs can be prepared for use
much more cheaply. and they will go
further in serving.
1T is certainly time that consumers
learned the value of eggs SO that they
can give the poultry raisers their due.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
AN APOTHEOSlS OF COFFEE
"What Wife Can Fail to Admit the
Peace and Serenity She Owes to
YOUR Queries Writer.

Let me make my husbands coffee
and | care not Who makes eyes at
him!
Give me two matches a day
One to start the coffee with at break
fast and one for his cigar after din
ner.
And l defy all the houris in Chris
tendon to light new flame In his
heart!
Oh sweet, Supernal coffee pot.
Gentle panacea of domestic troubles.
Faithful author of that sweet nepen-
the which deudcnS all the ills that mar
ried folks ure heir to.
CHEEKY, gittcring, soul-soothing,
warm-heartcd. inunimate friend
What wife can fail to admit the
peace and serenity she owes to you?
TO you, who stand between her and
all the early morning troubles
Between her and the before-breuk-
fast Crouch
Between her and the morning-after
headache
Between her and the cold gray dawn
scrutiny?
TO you, who supply the golden nee
tar that stimulates the jaded mascu-
line soul.
Soothes the Shnky masculine nerves,
stirs the tagged masculine mind, in
spires the slow masculine sentiment.
And starts the sluggish blood A-tlow-
ing aud the whole day right.
Give me a man who drinks good. hot,
dark, strong coffee for breakfast.
A man who smokes good, dark, fat
cigar after dinner!
You may marry your milk fuddist,
or your anticOfee crank, as you will.
But l know the magic Of the coffee
pot Helen Rowland in the American
Grocer.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
GRATING CHERRIES IS HARD
Operation Can Be Performed Success
fully With Proper care-Best
TIme 10 Spring.

The tame cherry cannot be success
fully raised on wild stock. Sour and
sweet cherries do not make good
union when top.worked on the choke,
or the bird-cherry. They blow out;
that is, break off at the graft under
stress Of wind or load of fruit; at
least that has been the experience OF
cherry orchardists east Of the Rocky
mountains.
Small nursery stock Is prOpagated
by budding, but top-wOrking Of the
cherry is nearly always by cleft
grating, as that Is the only method
for large branches. The cherry Is
not as easily grated as the apple,
but can be done successfully with
proper care. The best time Is when
the buds are swelling. All cut sur.
faces should be thoroughly covered
with wax to prevent evaporation.
Owing to the nature of cherry bark
1t is necessary to cut down on each
side of the branch before the cleft Is
made or 1t will break In a ragged
edge.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
Knew Something About Rifles.

At Fort Myer one of the companies
OF Officers Reserve corps students was
receiving instruction in some phase Of
the army rifle. One Of the young men
impressed the instructor as being
bored to death with the talk, and, fur
thermore, he actually left the circle be-
fore the instructor had finished talk
ing.
"You did not seem to care for my
lecture" said the officer to the stu
dent little later.
"Oh, yes sir: am very much inter-
ested in the rifle. have shot great
many of them"
The army man was a bit sore.
"IIow many times have you fired
rifle In the past year?" he asked.
II couldn't say, but probably about
5000 times"
The army officer didn't believe him,
and plainly intimatcd 1t. A civilian
who had fred a rifle 5000 times in
year was unheard Of an impoSsibility.
"Where have you fired rifle any
such number of times?" he asked,
sharply.
"Why, it's this way" answered the
youth; "my father Is Lewis, the manu-
facturer of the Lewis machine gun,
and am In charge Of his tests. l am
q specialist in army rifles"
"Oh," said the army oflicer-and he
walked away.-Washington Star.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
Duty of Librarians,

o. G.. Sonneck of the Library of
Congress, writing in the Art World
on the specific subject of music in pub
lie libraries, has this to say in refer
ence to books in general:
"A librarian ought not to content
himself with giving to the public what
1t happens to want, but ought to help
create demand for what the public
needs; no self-respecting library can
afford to be without certain cultural
documents whether they be consulted
frequently or seldom; the needs of
one solitary scholarly specialist should
weigh with librarians just as heavily
as the wants of hundred general"
and generally superficial and unpro-
ductive readers.
"After ALL" he adds, ut is not the
frequency of use that counts, but the
use to which book Is put A costly
and rare book consulted only once In
ten years, but then by man Of far
reaching research or codification of
research, has justified it's acquisition
just as much as an inexpensive COM
monplace book consulted every day
for more receptive information"
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
ORCHARD
GLrANINGy
EARLY VARIETIES OF APPLES
Should Not Be Overlooked In Making
Selection for Home Use--MaIden
Blush 10 Excellent.

The early varieties Of apples should
not be overlooked when varieties are
being selected for the orchard suitable
for home use. Even where the local
market Is to be supplied with fresh
fruits early apples will generally be
profitable.
Among the reliable early varieties
are Red June, Red Astrachan, Yellow
Transparent, Sweet Bough, Maiden
Blush. These varieties are excellent
cooking apples and are relished as
eating apples. As rule the trees
bear soon and are comparatively hardy.
Red June is a very attractive apple,
IT being deep red in color, firm, juicy
with enough acid to make the flavor
desirable. The fruit will keep well
for early varieties, that Is, 1t bears
shipping and handling reasonably well.
A few trees of Red June should be
included In orders for nursery stock
this fall.
Red Astrachan is generally a little
larger than Red June; has attractive
stripes as markings; flesh not so firm
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
PLAN TO DESTROY CUTWORMS
Paris Green Mixed With Bran Is Rec.
commended by North Dakota Sta.
tion-Spread In Evening.

North Dakota Agricultural College Bull
letn.)
Cutworms eat off the young plants
at the surface of the ground, and they
do this In the night. In the daytime
they can usually be found buried an
inch deep and only short distance
from the last plant eaten. Plants that
are transplanted can be protected by
wrapping paper around the stem, COW
ering it half an inch above and below
the surface Of the soil. The cutwOrms
can be poisoned with the following:
One-half pound paris green mixed dry
with 25 pounds bran, then add one gal
Ion water and one quart molasses and
mix thoroughly. The set time to spread
this is In the evening, or late after
noon.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
SPRING BEST PLANTING TIME
Very Few Nurserymen Grow Seedlings
In This Country-Mostly I'M
ported From Europe.

Spring is considered the best time
for the planting Of apple seeds for
the purpose of growing seedlings.
There are very few who have grown
apple seedlings in this country, on ac-
count of the cost of producing them
and the uncertainty Of results, should
they be left to grow until bearing age.
Hitherto the nurserymen imported
their apple seedlings from Europe,
where they were grown very economi-
cally on account Of the low cost Of
labor. Should you desire to propagate
your own apple trees, buy or make root
cuttings from which to grow your
grating stock.
Root gall does not often kill apple
trees, but usually greatly interferes
with their normal development, espe-
cially If young trees are infected. Old
trees are often vigorous enough to
withstand the effects of the gall.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
SILO OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
Hugo Receptacle Means Saving OF
From 8 to 10 Cents In Cost Of
Producing Butterfat.

Practical dairymen who are silO
users say that the silo on the farm
means a saving of from eight to ten
cents pound in the cost Of producing
butterfat. Beef feeders say that ensi-
lage saves from 81 to $1.50 per hun
dred pounds in producing beef.
Feeding experiments bear out these
statements. On this basis ensilage un-
der normal conditions Is worth $4 a
ton. With an increase Of so per cent
In feed prices it is worth So per ton.
Reports from farmers show an av-
erage cost of 1915 ton for corn en-
silage, including all factors incident
to its production. The inadvisability
of doing without q silO seems to be
more important than the question Of
whether to build one.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
PLAN FOR CONVENIENT BARN
No Better Way to Keep Young AMI.
mails Than to Provide Pens In
Which They Can Run Loose.

By C. C. HAYDEN, Ohio Experiment
Station.)
There Is no better way to keep
calves or yearlings than to provide
pens in which they can run loose in
small groups. Managers and stanchiOns
should be provided along one side Of
the pens, in which the calves can be
fastened while eating.
The accompanying sketch shows a
simple yet convenient plan. The d.
mensions are 80 by 40 feet. A space
10 feet wide is taken across one end
to be used as feed room. The re-
mainder is divided into four pens, two
on either side, each 12 by IA feet. A
feed alley feet wide runs through
the manger with six stanchiOns to
pen.
The stanchiOns as shown are two
feet apart which Is sufficient for even
u yearling II fastened only while eat.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
No Countrymen Of His.

"K. w." on recent visit home, told
a story about a trainload of British SOL
dlers who stopped the engine and took
the hot water from the boilers to make
tea. The Pittsburgh Chronicle-Tele-
graph prints a Scotch version of what
Is apparently the same story, wherein
the testy engine driver explained to the
Scot commandant that they were not
on the way because "a lot of whisky
drinkin' Scotchmen had sneaked all
the hot water from the boiler to make
grog." "They Gamma be countrymen of
mine" replied the commandant skep'
tically, cor they'd nae bothered about
til water."-Kansas City Star.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
GUARD ALL ALFALFA LEAVES
Two.Thirds Of Feeding Value Of Plant
Is In Leaves-Rake Into Wind
rows Before Dry.

Two-thirds of the feeding value of
the alfalfa plant is in the leaves. If
the leaves are lost in curing only one
third Of the feeding value remains.
This fact Is regarded as important by
farmers who advocate that alfalfa hay
be cured so as to save the leaves. This
means that the alfalfa must be raked
into windrows before the leaves dry
and fall off. Raking can be done two
hours after cutting, thus saving the
leaves and preserving the green color
and desirable flavor.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02

ing. The width Of the manger, the
spacing Of the stanchons and height
of the stanchions can be varied in diff
ferent pens to suit sizes Of calves.
The partitions between the pens
should be about four feet high and a
gate provided so that both pens can
be thrown together. Gates can be
placed at each end of the mangers
giving easy access to all pens from
the feed alley. The stanchions, parti-
tlons and gates may be made of ! by A.
inch stuff.
Ventilation should be provided the
same as in any dairy barn,
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
Her Idea Of 1t.

The sitting-room carpet was being
taken up preparatory to houseclean-
ing, and little Dorothy, age three, was
watching the operation with great
deal of childish curiosity and interest.
Taking up carpets evidently was some
thing new to her infantile mind. Fin
ally after some hard thinking on the
subject, she looked up at her mother
and asked: Mamma, Is you goin' to
let the floor go barefopted?"
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02

as Red June, but Of good quality and
a good seller. The trees usually bear
heavily and are hardy.
Yellow Transparent Is a yellow ap-
pie, soft, crisp flesh. thin skin, mellows
we'll, and is fine cooking apple. 1t
does not ship well, but is liked as an
eating apple.
Sweet BOugh ripens later than the
others named. 1t has rich aromatic
pdOr, fine flavor, 1t being sweet and
delicious. Maiden Blush is also later
than the other varieties mentioned.
The fruit has ''red blush;" 1t is crisp,
tender and of good flavor. The fruit
will bear shipping well and is one Of
the best market apples of the early
varieties.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
REASON GIVEN FOR THINNING
Makes Trees Live Longer and Produce
More Fruit In Course OF Time
Saves Vitality.

Thinning makes trees live longer
and produce more fruit in the course
of time. The overproduction of seed
(not of fr'iiD exhausts the vitality OF
n tree arl is the chief cause OF short
lived trees. Thin hard and Keep the
trees alive and productive.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
CUTTING BLADES ON MOWERS
Finger Bar Arranged in Which Alter.
nate Cutters Rotate In Different
Directions.

In illustrating and describing fn-
ger bar for mowers, invented by c. A.
Johnson, 3O10 Upper Stockton road,
Sacramento, Cal, the Scientific Ameri-
can says:
"Ths invention provides an arrange
ment Of cutting members which cor
rectly strike the grass or vegetable
matter to be cut and without in any
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
What Our swamps Could Do.

Some swamp land at the mouth Of
the Mississippi is being reclaimed,
which is In size equal to the three
states of Indiana, Illinois and Ohio.
and 1t is ten times as big as that lit
tie garden patch which we know as
Holland. The soil of our swamps Is
also ten times as rich as that of The
Netherlands. Nevertheless, Holland 10
now feeding almost 100000 people.
and at the same ratio our swamps
could feed 6O,OOO,O 900. or 10000, 900 more
than half of all the people In the coun-
ry today.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
BREEDING FOR HEAVY LAYERS
Two Hundred-Egg Hen ls Possibility
When Attention to Essential
Points Is Given.

The 200-egg hen is possibility when
selection and breeding are given the
necessary attention. The few who
took up this line of breeding. with
such startling results, soon created
spirit Of emulation among other fanc-
iers. Now there are great many
flocks of pure-bred fowls that have
been line-bred for egg production for
years.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
MuzxIe the Sneezers.

Persons who go about without hand.
kerchiefs or the sense to use them,
coughing and sneezing in public places,
are the distributors Of colds, Ia grippe,
headaches, fevers and sometimes OF
pneumonia and death. Sneezing In
street cars without using a handker.
chief to protect others stamps per:
son as filthy creature, and ought to
be a misdemeanor, under board OF
health rules.-Chicago Examiner.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
CAUSE OF BULLS UGLINESS
Confinement In Small, Dark Stall
Makes Animal UnruIy-Give
Him Daily Run in Yard.

No wonder bull gets ugly when he
is shut up all the time in small, dark
stall.
Give him daily run in good-sized
yard, and you will have bull that
Is kind and gentle and sure stock
getter for many "ears.
1t Is foolish to sell bull after
seasons use unless he Is Il poor one.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
Edward's Taste.

.Can any little boy" asked the new
teacher, "tell me the difference be-
tween q lake and an ocean?"
II can," replied Edward, whose wis
dom had been learned from experience.
Lakes are much pleasanter to swai-
low when you fall n."-Christian Reg
lister.
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
In 2017.

"What are you reading about?"
"Ancient customs in 1917. 1t seems
the ancients used to find food very
cheap as compared with us. They had
dollar dinners"
"Some of these stories about the an
clients we have to take with grain
of salt. There Is even tradition that
they had free lunch"
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02

"An aversion to labor creates con-
slant WEAKNESS and one would think
should make experience itself bur-
den. The indolent man descends from
the dignity of his nature and makes
that being which was rational merely
vegetative."-Sir Richard Steele,
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02

way interfering with the remaining
parts of the device. 1t provides fin
ger bar In which the alternate cutters
rotate in different direction, the posi-
tion of rotation Of these cutters being
such that one cutter will overlay the
other cutter during the cycle of rota-
tiOn though never coming in contact"
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
Stacks.

Unstackable coins create just mild
fpple, but stackable cards are sure
forerunners Of ructi0n. Buffalo TimsR
Catoctin clarion., 1917-08-02
Or Much Of Anything

BY never taking the initiative, one
can often avoid doing something fool
ish.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-21
winnioa Back French Territory.

The Entente Allies had since the
battle of the Marine and prior to the
battles around Saint Quentin !jber-
ated about 20 per cent of the French
territory invaded by the Germans.
With the advance of the British
troops east Of ROisel and east of
Croisille. the department of the Somme
was entirely liberated and the occu-
pied territory in the Pas de Calais re-
duced to ten per cent. -
The French are. wearing down the
Germans hold on the department of
the Aisne. having reduced it from leo
per cent at the time of the battle of
the Marine to 56 per cent at present.
The territory invaded in August and
September. 1914. was 8 40 per. cent
of all of France: at the beginning of
this year the Germans held s 7-10 per
cent of the whole. Since the 18th of
March they have relinquished more
than 10 per cent of their holding.
In proportion as the occupied terri
tory is liberated the magnitude OF the
damage becomes more apparent. 4
technical commission. basing its fig
Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1917-04-21
A Map in Rare Stones.

In the days when the Franco Rus
sian alliance was founded, cx-Czar
Nicholas gave the French nation a
map of France which admirably illus
trated the underground wealth of his
far-f1ung dominions. The ground work
of the map is polished Jasper of every
color from pure white to bright red.
The eighty-sevep departments of
France are SO arranged that the color
of one never clashes with the coloFs
of it's ncfghbors. The sea board is a
whitish grey marble and the parts of
England, Switzerland, Belgium. Ger
many, Italy and Spain are of slate
colored jasper. The cities. and towns
of France by percious stones; Paris
by a blood red ruby; Lille by piece
Of phenakite, Bordeaux by an aqua
marine and 'Rouen by a sapphire. The
names of the cities. seas and islands
are OF solid gold and the rivers of
polished platinum. Every part of the
map was mined from Russian soil. Its
value is estimated at $1,c50,00o. 1t has
been kept in the old vault where
French crown Jewels were kept. Now
that the car has disappeared from
the seats of the mighty, the French
government may perhaps sell or pledge
it to an American millionaire. for five
million francs. t- ~~---s