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The Washington times., 1917-12-01
Paper Containers for Fat.

N saving fat for cooking one is usually at loss for little
bowls and cps to put It away in Try paper drinking
cup When YOU want to the fat peel off all the paper
or cut slice of the right size through the paper You
get al your fat and have no greasy cups to washrO"
Good Housekeeping.
The Washington times., 1917-12-01
By Arthur B. Reeve,

OrestoF u the @os1ig Kennedy"
1ystery StOESsa, which appear ex-
slasfvely lA CesnsDolitan lIaEazine.
The Washington times., 1917-12-01
The TaIIest Chinmev In the World.

THE worlds alles chimney has just been completed in
Japan It's $40 feet high and is erected on top of hill
45O feet above the copper smelter with which is connect
ed 30 that it discharges Its poisonous fumes 1000 feet
above the plant II Is Of reinforced concrete
The Washington times., 1917-12-01
VIM Don't Men Propose?

meets Arthur Johnson. twenty
eight. nno prinotple1. well able to
support . wife and altogether the
sort Of man Marion's best instincts
make her admire. there might wen
Be . pleasant little romance. There
ought to be but all too often things
gang agisy." And this IL what hap
penA
The circle banner., 1917-07-13
HANDLING MILK IN SUMMER
Whether Intended for Table, Cream
cry or Market, 1t Must Be Sweet
to Bring Best Price.

1t is no trick at all to keep milk
sweet in cold weather. 1t may stay
In the sun half a day in December
without any damage, but in June and
July it must be handled very care
fully. Whether the milk or cream Is
intended for the table, the creamery,
or the milk market, it must be sweet
If it is to bring the best price.
To keep milk sweet just two simple
things must be very carefully looked
after: (1) it must be cooled as COM
pletely and quickly after milking
as possible, and (2) absolute cleanli-
ness of pals, pans, and cows must be
secured. If this is done, thunder
storms will no longer sour the milk.
The warm, damp weather which we
have just before thunderstorms really
does tend to cause milk to sour If it
has not been properly cared for.
This souring takes place because lit
tie invisible plants called bacteria get
into it in dirt or by lurking in the cor
ners and seams of poorly cleaned pals
and cans. The remedy is plain. Keep
the bacteria out by using seamless
pals and cans and seeing that abso-
lutely no dirt or dust gets into the
milk in the stable or anywhere else.
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CBy C. P. HARTLEY, in Charge of Corn
Investigations, United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
1t sometimes becomes necessary to
do heavy work, such as hauling water
to put out fire, but what's the use of
hauling water from the cornfields to
the feed lot and hauling it back again
to the fields in the shape of uneaten
cornstalks? Very tall-growing corn
when sappy and immature is almost
all water, and so is wet cornstalk
manure.
1t used to be that many growers
prided themselves on the great height
of their cornstalks. The more sue
cessful farmers, however, have ceased
to haul water from the cornfelds to
the feed lot in the form of coarse
stalks which remain uneaten and haul
it back to the fields in the shape or
wet cornstalk manure. They do not
grow such tall stalks and often proht-
ably allow animals to gather the grain,
leaving the stalks in the fields to en-
rich the soil.
A few years ago silage was thought
to have a fixed food value. One cam
not take out of the silo any more food
value than is put in. Hauling and
siloing large sappy stalks is heavy
work and not as profitable as putting
q good, almost mature corn crop into
the silo. A somewhat larger and later
maturing variety of corn that will thor
oughly mature for grain can be used in
the Northern states for ensilage. Even
silage corn should be planted early
and given sufficient time to make its
best growth and reach the stage OF
maturity at which husks turn brown
and the ears become glazed.
A co-operator in the department.
corn work grows a high-yielding va
riety of corn the stalks of which reach
a height of about six feet, while his
neighbor grows a big, 12-foot variety.
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BREAD AS ECONOMICAL FOOD
Home-Baked Variety Was Always
Good, Say Government Experts

IF home-baked bread were uniformly
well made, it would be used more ex-
tensively than at present in place of
more expensive foods, say specialists
in the United States department Of
agriculture, and this would be q dis
tinct economy. From the standpoint
of nutrition it makes very little differ
ence whether breadstuffs are served in
the form of bread or in the form Of
breakfast cereals, side dishes with
meat, or desserts.
A man engaged in moderate muscu-
lar work can profitably consume about
threefourths of a pound a day CT
breadstuffs in any one of these forms.
This quantity is the equivalent of one
pound of baked bread. AS a matter
of fact, however, it is not probable
that in the average family this guam
tity is consumed and the deficiency is
made up by the use of more expensive
OF course bread alone Is
not sufficient for the maintenance of
health, but from both an economical
and hygienic point of view should be
used more extensively than it usually
Is, declare the experts.
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STUPID GOPHER is
SERIOUS CROP PEST
Animals Multiply Fast in Alfalfa
FieIds-May Be Poisoned or
Caught in Traps.

The pocket gopher does more injury
to crops than any other mammal. Ex-
terminate it by using poisoned pota-
toes or apples or by trapping, advises
DR.. Lee r. Dice, instructor in zoology
in the Kansas State Agricultural col
lege.
alfalfa fields furnish almost ideal
conditions for the development and
multiplication of gophers as their bur-
rows are not broken up by plowing
and the root system provides an abun-
dance of food" said Doctor Dice.
"Gophers are stupid animals and will
blunder into almost any trap that is
properly set, and they can be poisoned
easily at little cost and labor
"The natural food of gophers con-
sists of roots and seeds and succulent
vegetation drawn down from the sur
face. Hence a substitute of poisoned
potato, sweet potato or apple can be
used effectively. A few grains of
strychnine inserted by means of the
tip of a penknife into such food placed
in the burrows will serve the purpose.
A sharp stick can be used to open the
tunnel. The agricultural college sup
plies at cost a prepared poison for
gopher determination"
Trapping is effective, steel traps
set in tunnels being recommended.
The light should be excluded by a
board, which will also serve to keep
the opening free from dirt. If this is
not done the gopher will come with
load Of dirt to fill up the hole. Other
traps are on the market.
Besides destroying the root systems
the gopher covers much vegetation
with mounds of soil. This often hinders
as well as covers the grain.
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VENTILATION OF DAIRY BARN
Better Health of Animals Is Assured
by Supply OF Fresh Air-kinq
System Described.

More of us every year are building
barns with ventilating flues or put
ting f1ues into stables already built.
Fresh air means better health in herds.
The system described by f. FL. King,
the Wisconsin authority on ventila-
ton, never has been outclassed. 1t is
the natural way.
In illustration, the movement of the
air is shown by arrows. The pure air
comes in above the animals and the
foul air is taken out through the out
take shafts which have their openings
down near the floor and extend up
through the roof or to the cupola.
Some builders run the shafts straight
up through the roof, others run thems
up to the roof and then over to- the
cupola, and some join the lower shafts
at the ceiling and then use but one
main shaft to the roof at each end
as shown here.
The galvanized metal shaft is pre-
ferred by most dairymen who have
used this sort of ventilating system.
The circle banner., 1917-07-13
WASHINGTON cow FEED TEST
Increased Milk Flow Secured by Feed
ing Beet Pulp Moistened With
Five Parts Water.

In an experiment at the Washington
station, cows fed beet pulp, moistened
with five parts by weight of water,
consumed the feed with considerable
relish and rapidly increased in milk
yield during a two-week period. AL
though 1t was difficult to accustom the
cows to eating the feed at first, later
they would eat from six to eight
pounds more Of the soaked pulp than
they would Of corn silage. The gen.
.ral condition of the cows fed the beet
pulp was comparable with that of
those fed corn silage, and there was
no appreciable difference in their
weights. Since their feeding value Is
about the same, 1t appears that the ex-
tended use Of beet pulp as substi-
tute for silage depends largely on the
relative cost Of producing and preserv-
ns vi the cost OF dried beet pulp.
The circle banner., 1917-07-13
USE PUREBRED SIRE
TO IMPROVE CATTLE
Whether Good or Bad He Is Halt
the Herd and Sometimes
M0re-Weed Out Scrubs.
(By S. T. SIMPSON,

The unprecedented demand for
purebred live stock will sooner or
later result in the marketing of many
animals eligible to registry, which are
inferior as individuals and which may
prove poor breeders. The present high
values afford all the better reason for
investing in only good breeding ami
mails, even though they appear high in
price. In this way only can the pres
ent high standard be maintained and
the Scrub purebred finally eliminated.
The use of the registered scrub can
but discourage the cause of purebred
sires and better live stock. The
breeder who markets such individuals
will ultimately suffer the criticism of
those who know good live stock, and
finally be Disseminated against in buy
ing and selling. The purchaser of the
scrub purebred can breed nothing but
inferior individuals so long as he per-
sists in buying the pedigreed with no
regard for individual merit.
The purebred sire is the best
means of live stock improvement.
Whether good or bad he is half the
herd and sometimes more. For this
reason the selection of the sire de-
mands equally as much attention as
the entire group of females, and 1t is
far more important to have a good
sire, both in individuality and breed
Ing, than to have one or two good fe-
males. If sacrifices must be made, let
them occur in the selection of the
females.
The circle banner., 1917-07-13

In helping each other shred their crops
the neighbor's tall-growing corn was
shredded first. The stalks were bulky
and high loads were hauled from the
fields to the shredder. When begin
ming the shredding of the competitors
corn, which that year produced over
100 bushels of dry shelled corn per
acre, the neighbOr put on the accus-
toned high load, and his team could
not pull it out of the field. He got
down off the load to make an examina-
ton, thinking the rack must be press
ing against the wheels. The competi-
tor told him he would have to take
off a part of the load, to which he re-
piled that he did not have on a big
load and was accustomed to hauling
larger loads. After being convinced
that it was the weight of the load that
stalled his team, they removed pOr-
ton and hauled the balance to the.
shredder, from which they obtained 40
bushels of corn, or almost a ton and
a half of ears.
What variety of corn should you
plant? Since there are thousands OF
sO-called varieties, it is not possible to
designate by name the variety you
should plant. Furthermore, with corn
there is very little in name. Two
lots of seed Of the Leaning variety
differ from each other more
than two varieties differ from each
other. An accurate test of two differ
ent lots of the Boone County White
variety resulted in one lot producing
IS bushels more per acre than the
other lot. Quality is what counts and
the varietal name does not designate |
quality. Plant variety that has made |
good in your neighborhood. Plant |
seed which was grown in your part |
Of the state and was properly field Sc
ected and properly cared for during
he winter.
The circle banner., 1917-07-13
Air Pressure Is Shown at D. D. Fore
ing Air in at B. B., and Out by Sue
tion at Top of Shaft A.

A general rule seems to be well tried
out that thirty square inches of out
take and intake area are about right
for each grown animal housed in the
stable. This being true, there would
be needed two shafts, each 10 by 10
for herd of ten cows. The intake
openings should be of the same area.
A damper in the ceiling at G can
be opened if the temperature of the
stable grows too warm. There can be
no regular circulation unless there are
as many and as large intakes as out
takes. Also, the intakes should let the
air in at the ceiling, or above the level
of the lower openings in the outtakes
or foul-air shafts.
The circle banner., 1917-07-13
DAIRY PRODUCTS IN DEMAND
Impossible to Buy First Glass Dairy
Cows at $50 Per Head-Breed Up
the Common Stock.

The great demand for dairy prod
ucts has caused the price of good
dairy cows to be very high. Reports
from associations of dairymen show
that it is impossible to buy first-class
dairy cows at even $50 a head. With
such a demand for cows in old dairy
districts, there will be few good cows
moved into new dairy territory. So,
the only way new districts can be sup
piled must be by breeding up the
common stock by the use Of good dairy.
bred bulls.
The circle banner., 1917-07-13
WORK TO ERADICATE WEEDS
Plants Are Traitors to Nation In Time
of War-keep CuItivators and
Harrows Busy.

Weeds are traitors to the nation In
time of war. They consume soil mois-
ture that should be saved for the food
crops and they choke back such crops,
causing enormous annual losses.
Growers Of corn and potatoes can
prevent much Of this waste by proper
cultivation, setting the shovels of the
cultivators to throw In little ridges
over the rows. Then the fields may
be narrowed crosswise frequently.
This will stir the soil over the plants
and kill any weeds that msy have
started. Narrowing can be &C ntinned
until corn or potatoes are several
inches high.
The circle banner., 1917-07-13
Earth Grows Slowly Now.

In the early days of its history the
earth grew rapidly by the addition of
meteoric matter. 1t is still growing in
the same manner, scientists say,
though scarcely to an appreciabie ex-
tent, for the mass of meteOric matter
added yearly is reckoned to be only
10000 tons. In the course of ages the
larger planets have swept up practic-
ally all the fragments of the original
disruption, and the only available
source of supply Of meteoric matter
seems to be brought by comets.
The circle banner., 1917-07-13
Regulations to Govern Work of
Exemption Boards Made
Public.
EACH CASE ON ITS MERITS
HBe Fearless and Impartial" Is Final
Admonition of President Wilson
Mo Glass Exemptions Will
Be Permitted.
MEN WHO ARE EXEMPT

Officers of United States,
states, territories and District of
Columbia.
Ministers of religion and stu
dents of divinity.
Persons in military or naval
service of United States.
Subjects of Germany and all
aliens who have not taken out
first papers.
County or municipal officers.
Customhouse clerks and work
men in arsenais and navy yards.
Pilots, merchant marine sail
ors.
Married men with dependent
wives or children.
Sons of dependent widows,
sons of dependent, aged or in
firm parents, or brothers of de-
pendent orphans under sixteen
years of age.
Men morally deficient.
Members of recognized reIig-
ious sect existing prior to May
16, 1917, whose creed forbids
participation in war.
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ALFALFA FAVORED FOR COWS
Amount Of Protein Necessary to Feed
In Form Of Expensive Concen-
trStes Is Reduced.
(By PROF. J. c. KENDALL.)

(By PROF. J. c.. KENDALL)
Where alfalfa is available for dairy
cows the amount of protein that Is
necessary 10 feed in the form OF ex-
pensive CONCENTRATES is materially and
profitably reduced. For cows that do
not give large yields of milk, a bal
anced ration can be made by feeding
alfalfa hay and Nensilage. This makes
a homegrown ration that can be pro-
duced cheaply, very important factor
In the economlcah production OF dairy
productA
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troubled with cramps and feel like .
different woman. / cannot praise
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound too highly and am recommend
ing it to my friends who suffer as l did.
Mrs. GEORGE R. NAYLoR, Box r.
Marysville, Pa.
Young women who are troubled with
painful or irregular periods, backache,
headache, dragging.down sensations,
taIns1g taRa Igvdpp ipes E PnRhaggs Veeetab.
Compound. Thousands have been re-
stored to health by this root and herb
remedy.
Write for free and helpful advice to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (con-
fidentiaD, Lynn, Mass. Only women
open and read such letters.
The circle banner., 1917-07-13

WaShlngt0n.-The drafted armies OF
the United States will be drawn will
'the least inequality and persona
hardship"
President Wilson, in issuing regula
tions for the working of the draft
urged upon every member of every
draft board impartial and fearless per
formance of the delicate and difficult
duties intrusted," in order that "our
armies at the front may be composed
of men free from sense of injustice in
their mode of selection"
To Fix Date for Board Meetings.
In the near future date will be set
lby Brig. Gen. Crowder, provost mar
lshal-general, for the meeting and or
Eganization of the boards. At the same
time it is expected that the selection
regulations will be promulgated so
THAT the process may be put under way
without delay. The present intention
IFS to call the men selected to the col
ors about September l.
All Forces on Equal Footing.
President Wilson's statement fol-
lows:
'"The regulations which l am today
causing to be promulgated, pursuant to
the direction of the selective service
law, cover the remaining steps of the
lplan for calling into the service of the
United States qualified men from
those who have registered; those Sc
llected as the result of this process to
f1rta with hn tha
National guard and the navy, the fight
ling forces of the nation, all of which
forces are under the terms of the law
placed in a position of equal right,
dignity and responsibility with the
members of all other military forces.
'The regulations have been drawn
with view to the needs and circum-
vide q system which it is expected will
work with the least inequality and per-
sonal hardship. Any system of select
ing men of military service, whether
voluntary or involuntary in it's opera
Ition necessarily selects some men to
bear the burden of danger and sacri-
fee for the whole nation. The system
'hCAC piONidCN PidtCo dli lncu VI lhiii-
itary age upon an even plane. and then,
by a selection which neither favors the
one nor penalties the other, calls upon
the requisite number for service.
Urges Boards to Act ImpartiaTIy.
'The successful operation of this |
law and of these regulations depends |
necessarily upon the loyalty, patriotism |
and Justice of the members of the |
boards to whom it's operation is com
mitteG, and I admonish every member
Of every local board and of every dis
trict board of review that their duty
to their country requires an impartial
and fearless performance of the deli
cate and difficult duties intrusted to
hem. They should remember as to
zach individual case presented to them
hat they are called upon to adjudicate
he most sacred rights of the individ-
lal and to preserve tlntarnished the
lonor of the nation.
"Our armies at the front will be
and sustained if they be
Composed Of men free from any sense
# Injustice in the mode of selection,
nd they will be inspired to loftier ef-
orts in behalf of a country in which
he citizens called upon to perform !
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Wasted Time.

We don't miss the little here and the
little there. Yet In year the amount
of time wasted is enormous. Learn
ing that he was always called to din
ner several minutes before the dinner
was really ready to eat certain man
started and wrote book In the spare
minutes between the call and the ac-
tual dinner time. 1t only shows how
we waste time. If you want to be
among earth's benefactors you will
begin now to conserve your time and
nse it to prodt. Exchange.
The circle banner., 1917-07-13

WOulQ nave TO stay
in bed several days
every mon tn. !
tried all kinds Of
remedies and was
treated by doctors,
but my trouble con-
tinued until one day
l read about Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound and
what it had done for
others. | tried It
and now / am never
The circle banner., 1917-07-13
War Spirit CONTAGIOUS.

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was
more than once placed in a perplex-
ing position by the loss of members
of his cast during his tour through
out Canada and the United States.
No less than ten members enlisted,
including two ladies for service In
war hospitals. One humorous incl
dent occurred after the engagement
of a deputy" in the United States.
She was not very much interested in
the war prior to her appointment.
but the talk behind the seen es among
the company bore so frequently on
the loss of relatives at the front that
she felt one night impelled 70 volun-
teer as a nurse, was eventually ac-
cepted, and her place had to be filled.
The circle banner., 1917-07-13
THOSE AWFUL
CRAMPS
Suggestions that may save
Much Suffering

Marysville, Pa.-''For twelve years
1 suffered with terrible cramps. I
The circle banner., 1917-07-13

In the case of divorce the key to
matrimony becomes shift key.
The circle banner., 1917-07-13
Rare Case.

Hare Case.
"This criminal has a streak Of hon.
esty. anyway"
"Eh?"
"He says he's sane and guilty."
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-11
.AMERICUS boy REACHES
FRENCH PORT SAFELY

John D. Sullivan, Jr., of this city,
who recently enlisted in the United
States navy, along with several other
young men from this section. has ar
rived safely in a French port, the
rame of which is not given out in the
dispatches announcing the arrival of
the collier Neptune in France.
Young Sullivan was member ot
the crew of the Neptune, which is en-
gagged in transporting supplies to the
Allied troops in France. His relatives
knew that he was aboard the Neptune,
but were apprised of the fact that the
vessel had sailed for the war zone. The
first intimaton received by them of the
young mans departure from the Unit
cd States was the press dispatch an
nouncing that the Neptune had docked
in a French port.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1917-06-11
BRILLIANT EVENTS
AT EMORY COLLEGE

OXFORD, Ga, June 11.-Commence-
ment exercises for Emory College, the
school of liberal arts of Emory Uni
yersity, were continued this morning
with the annual literary address by
kev. E. B. CappelI, of Nashville, Tenn.
Tonight the alumni address will be
given by Dr. NJ. NJ. Parks, of the Glass
Of '92, who is now president of the
Gergia Normal and Industrial college
at Milledgeville.
Preceding the literary address this
morning there was meeting of the
hoard of trustees.
The commencement sermon was de-
livered Sunday morning by Bishop
William B. Murrah, of Memphis, who
preaching ON 1.-THE Supremacy of Spir-
itual Principles Over Material, AS
Illustrated in the Life of Moses" made
an eloquent plea for the adaptation OF
spiritual faith to the regulation of hui
man life. not only in the present times
OF stress, but in all times. At the
close of the sermon there was an in
spring scene when the graduating
class received their benediction.
Bishop Warren A. Gambler, chancel-
lor of the University, preached Sunday
evening from the text Heaven and
Earth Shall Pass Away, But My Word
Shall Not Pass Away" his argument
being to show that ChTist,s words car
never be outgrown by the human race
no matter what the disquietude of the
times.
The annual award of the Freshman
defamation medal was made to T. E
Byrd, of Broxton, Ga; the Sophomore
medal to B. F. X. Mullins, of Green's
boro, Ca, and the Junior oratorical
medal to Wilbur Harwell Hamilton, OF
Paris, Tenn. The graduation exercise
will be held Tuesday.
There is note of hopefulness in the
air of the University and optimism for
its increasing success on all sides. The
commencement attendance is good, not
,withstanding the war.