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The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24
Miscellaneous Suggestions For Ken
lucky Farms.


1-Some good brood sows.
Feeding balanced rations.
"a dairy association.
4-Clean. attractive farmsteads
1.-Two good live stock books.
Gull out all inferior animals
Improved barns and fences.
S-Plant shade threes for your
live stock.
ga state stallion registration
law.
10-Learn how to judge live stock.
Membership in a state live
stock association.
12-Community cow-testing assoc
iations.
13-Better sanitary surroundings
for live stock.
IA small flock of sheep on irri-
gated lands.
15-The best agricultural paper in
the United States.
16-A complete set of farm &C
count books.
IA week at the farmers short
course at the University.
1S-A few gallons of crude oil to
kill lice on live stock.
19-Sell scrub sires and purchase
registered ones.
20-CO-operative live stock mark
citing associations.
21-A little special care and atten-
ton given the young animals.
Maintain the fertility of your
farm by keeping live stock.
ga trip to your county and
state fairs TO study live stock.
24-Community ownership OF good
stations, jacks and bulls.
25-A holiday to visit your most
successful neighbors.
ga post card to your agricul-
tural experiment station for advice.
27-One hour every day figuring
out methods to save steps, make the
work more efficient and more prof.
table.
2S-GrOwing crops especially suit
ed to produce feed for your live stock
29-Adapt your system of farming
to suit soil, climate and stock,
3O-Making the boys partners in
the farm by giving them lamb or
pig.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24
Lady Walnut Hill May Pass Worlds
Egg Mark.

Lexington, Ky, Aug. 1S.-Three
hundred and ninety-eight eggs were
laid during the forty-frst week of
the national egg-laying contest clos
ing on the 10th, a decrease of sixty
seven eggs from last week. The four
leading pens for the week produced
twenty eggs each. A Rhode Island
White pullet was the only one to
produce a perfect score of seven
eggs.
Lady Walnut Hill, OF Louisville,
a candidate for worlds record hon
ors for the years production, laid
five eggs. She has laid 254 eggs to
date and has eighty-three days left
in which 10 bring her record up TO
1915 eggs, 10 pass the worlds rec
ord,
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24
bright Future For Mule Producers.

fright Future For Mule Producers.
Kentucky was the pioneer state
in mule production. The American
Jack was developed largely in Ken
lucky, which made the State so great"
" interested in breeding mules. Grad
ually the Kentucky jack stock be-
came distributed to neighboring
states and the use of heavy mares on
the corn belt farms made the pro-
duction of mules an important indus
, try of other states.
The mule is so superior to the horse
IS farm power that he is used in the
South almost exclusively, while the
middle and western states are calling
for him in ever increasing numbers.
Eventually he will be on almost
every farm of the country and in the
Use for draft purposes in the cities OF
the north.
Draft mules are now in unusual de-
mand at prices ranging from $500 to
$500 per pair. The L. 5. Army is in
the market for classes that can be
bought from $50 to 1886 each. The
small and billy farms as well as the
mines call for the S00-lb. to 95O-lb.
mules.
These demands make the outlook
for mule breeders very bright. There
is a market for almost every tpye OF
mule. but the better classes are more
in demand and will pay better.
II brood mares can be used on the
farms for work and at the same time
1ruduce mule colts each year, the
greatest profit will arise. At pres
ent uyices of feed it will not pay to
keep mares for mule production alone
The brod mare to be profitable must
40 at least work enough to earn her
hoard and interest on her cost. The
colt will be profit. If kept on the
.ayn. the mule colts can be brought
TO the two-year-old form on the
coarser and cheaper feeds. Usually
they can be broke at this age and
made to earn their keep from this on.
If this be the method of breeding
and feeding mules, they can be
brought to the market age so as to
realize a profit.
The demand promises to increase.
The production in Kentucky has been
falling off due to the scarcity Of
brood mares. Brod mares are not
being replenished year by year as
they should be. Breeders are not
mating their mares to stations be-
cause the prices of horses do not re-
turn to them the cost of their produc-
ton. The scarcity of brood mares is
certain to be reflected in the high
price of mules. 1t would seem to be
the part of wisdom to conserve and
mate al high grade mares to jacks, as
mules are sure to be in very geat
demand so long as this present war
lasts, and many years during the re-
adjustment.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24
The InConsiderate Mice.

a more kind-hearted and ingenu-
Gus soul never lived than Aunt Bet
sy, but she was a poor house-keep-
err. On one occasion a neighbor who
had run in for a "back-door" call
was Mortified to see a mouse run
across Aunt Betsey's kitchen floor.
"Why on earth don't you set a trap,
Betsey?" she asked.
We'll" replied Aunt Betsey, 81
did have a trap set. But land, it
was such a fuss! Those mice kept
getting into it!"-The Youths Com
panion.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24
Spra,ns And Strains Relieved.

Sloan's Liniment quickly talses the
pain out of strains. sprains, bruises
and all muscle soreness. a clean,
clear liq-id easily applied, it quick
ly penetrates without rubbing. Soan's
Liniment does not stain the skin or
clog the pores like mussy plasters or
ointments. For chronic rheumatic
aches and pains. neuralgia. govt and
lumbago have this wellknown rem
edy handy. For the pains of grippe
and following strenuous work,it gives
quick relief. At all druggists, 25
cents. 2
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24

There are invisible in every sire as
many traits as there are visible. He
transmits both.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24
Have You Any Attractive Picture'
Made On Your Home Farm?

The Extention Department of the
College of Agriculture, at Lexington,
would be glad to have a few Ken
lucky farm pictures for various uses,
mainly for lending to agricultural
journals to be published.
To be of sevice pictures should
show some animal of merit, barn or
other structure that has especial ad-
vantages, crop scenes of unusual in
terest, farm operations in progress
and in some instances an exception
ally attractive landscape would serve
good purpose.
Pictures to be really useful must
be accompanied by full particulars.
as they might have very little mean
ing unless explained.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24
farm Department

When the trouble occurs with COWS
giving heavy flow of milk and under
heavy feed, improvement follows a
marked reduction of the ration. A
change of stall may give good results
If it allows a COW to obtain better
position and avoid uneven pressure on
the udder while lying down. Cows
with long, heavy udders should be
driven slowly and should not be driv-
en- over high stills.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24
Exercise Care In Harvesting Pota-
f-r-.rl toes

Exercise Care In Harvesting Pota-
f-r-.rl toes
Harvest potatoes when the plants
bagin to show signs of maturity.
Where the plants are dead, harvest
at the earliest possible time.
Ii the weather is dry and hot, the
potatoes will bake in the soil and
subsequently rot when stored or
planted for a second or fall crop.
Should the weather be cool and
rainy, the potatoes in the ground may
make a second growth if the vines are
not entirely dead. No doubt small
growths, which frequently look like
"nubbin" potatoes, have been noticed
on Irish potatoes. In preparing such
potatoes for cooking purposes there
is an unnecessary waste.
Store potatoes in a cool, dry, airy
place if possible. If you have a
cellar, cave or dugout which meets
the above requirements, take adyant-
age of it. The potatoes may be spread
on the floor to a depth of a few in
ches. Slated crates or Slated shelves
may be used. \ swinging table in
the cellar would economic space and
at the same time get the potatoes
out of the way.
A cool, dry barn or barn loft may
answer the purpose. A little morning
and evening subdued sunlight Will
not cause the potatoes TO rot.
There are several successful ways
of storing seed potatoes for the Sec
ond or fall crop. Where the hrst-crop
seed is properly matured, and it is
not the proper planting time, the seed
may be placed on moist straw or
leaves under a wide, shady tree.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24
Various Causes of Bloody Milk.

Bloody milk is more Objectionable
perhaps, as a matter of appearance
than as a menace to health. Hem
orrhages may occur within the udder
as a direct result of bruise, caused
by rapid motion, by bad position
while the COW is lying down, by the
tread OF a COW in an adjoining STALL
or because of the breaking of a tiny
blood vessel or the escape of red cor
puscles through thin vessel walls,
Heavy feeding may also produce
bloody milk.
The remedy is careful milking and
light feeding with laxative foods and
repeated small doses OF mild physic'
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24

Sell cockrels as fast as they come
to the proper weight.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24

Sprinkle air Stacked lime around
the yards.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24
Re-enforced Concrete.

The ark in which Moses was placed
I'm the bulrushes, we are told in the
second chapter Of Exodus, was an ark
Of bulrushes daubed with slime and
with pitch. This is probably the first
recorded instance of REINFORCED con-
crete structure.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24
Very Farsighted.
"Dorkins is a wonder. "

"Dorkins is a wonder"
Eyes, he's a farsighted chap. What
has he done now?"
Hes gone and patented a carbur-
eter that will burn air and has ii all
ready in case the supply OF gasoline
should give out. "-Everybody's
Magazine.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24
Preparedness.

"And what does your boy expect
to be come when he leaves college,"
"A banker, | believe"
"But has he had any training for
it?"
We'll, my check books show that
he's handled al OF OF money since he's
been in college. Exchange.
The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1917-08-24

In matters Of conscience first
thoughts are best: in matters Of pru-
dence last thoughts are best.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-02

much attacked on one hand, much defended
on the other, much applauded and much
hissed. | am we'll satisfied with the result,
and will not alter single word for the sub
sequent representations
81 was there, very quiet and even quite
cheerful; for though people say and believe
that an author must feel overpowered with
apprehension and agitation, did not expert
ence any such feelings, and the incident
seems very absu 70 me The only sad side
Of it is the observing how coarse and cor
rup. public taste has grown 20 be. ! never
thought that my piece was fine; but / will
always persist in believing that it is thor
oughly moral, and that the sentiments de-
veloped therein are pure and delicate.
bear philosophicaly with contradiction; !
have long understood the times we lived in
snd the people with whom we have TO deal.
Let them talk; we should have nothing more
to do were they not what they are.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-02
Kreis]er Retires, His Bow Stilled by Attacks

tion." "The New York World saw IN
the episode a case of popular hysteria
that has banished from musical art "one
of It's foremost figures" adding that the
cost TO music lovers cannot be estimated
"The Baltimore Sun" recognized in Mr..
Kreis'er zone whom his art has enno6led,
and hoped that after the war he may be-
come an American citizen, saying we
should be glad to annex him as one or
The finest indemnties Austria could pay
us for the war"
"The Philadelphia Inquirer" called his
retirement graceful but admitted that
he had "done the right thing" in discon-
tinuing his appearances. "The Spring
field Republican," while deploring the
crusade against him, also saw in him a
victim Of the "black record of fasehood
and perfdy made in this country by the
official representatives of Austria-Hun-
gary and Germany; and found in this
record the reason why many seem little
inclined to believe his explanations of the
use he had made of his money.
There remained, however, the feeling
that during The war America can best
get along without German art There
+. a stirring of mass sentiment" said 'The
Brooklyn Eagle" speaking Of this case.
against even art that is Teutonic in ori-
gin" And "The Portland Oregonian" re
marked:
There are other signs that the American
people are inclined to think that loyalty and
national service are the supreme considera-
ton of every citizen, and that even art must
bow TO them"
The Tribune, after expressing sym
rathy with Kreisler personally, neverthe-
less pointed out that the matter Is of some
moment and that German art can best be
left in the background for the present,
summing it up thus
"The man who devotes time and energy to
being meticulously neutral in his artistic
emotions when his country is at war and her
life threatened is the sort of man who would
wait to part his hair in the middle and write
a letter to The Evening Post before going
to the rescue of his wife attacked by burg
lar Such man may be noble work of
art. but he is even more a great friend of the
burglar
Mr.. Kresler's case is but one of many
that have arisen since the protest against
DR.. Muck and the Boston Symphony Or
chestra started the movement The
Metropolitan Opera barred German music
and cancelled contracts with German
singers. In retaliation Frau Ober brought
suit for $4,000 damages, although she is
an alien enemy. If the New York courts
allow her to proceed similar actions will
be begun by other singers.
Chicago omitted all German operas
from its winter opera programme. In
many cities German conductors have been
New-York tribune., 1917-12-02
Early Railroading in Japan

In the initial stage of the japanese rail.
ways all the constructive work was UNDER
taken by English engineers, and the loco
motives in use were imported exclusively
from England. That country long main
tained place as the guide Of railroadins
in Japan, monopolizing the supplying Of
equipment for many years. From 1887,
however, motive power of American and
German manufacture began to come in,
and toward the close of the period under
review the locomotives made in America
claimed a far greater proportion of the
whole stock than those of England. A few
engines were also imported from Switzer-
land, while others were built in workshops
in Japan.-From The Railtcay Age Go
zette. f.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-02

tions upon the comparative affluence of the
modern poet:
Poets have raised $4,000 for an ambu-
lance fund, and hope to raise as much more
for needed upkeep after the first year OF
war. The shades of Marlowc, Villon, Ger
vantes, Chatterton, Keats, Coleridge, Poe and
Paudelaire will rustic, like autumnal
leaves whirled in the wind, at this report.
They never had enough to feed themselves
withal and line their threadbare hose.
Golden times assumed, as matter Of
course, that genius, unlike every other hui
man faculty, throve in proportion to the
meagreness Of its diet. Like Lafcadio
Hearn's japanese cricket, which never sang
so ecstatically as when starving to death,
so poets rhymed best on an empty stomach.
Times have greatly changed. Writer'S,
from being a rather despised class, to be
placed below the village schoolmaster, just
above the servant table, have become rec
ognized guild. Tennyson, Browning, Swim
burne, Barrie, Anatole France forestall the
sneer that earnings do not measure talent.
They do not, of course"
New-York tribune., 1917-12-02

" He retirement Of Fritz Kreisler
from the concert stage, which fol
IA lowed objections 20 his appear
ance in Pittsburgh and other large Penn
sylyauia towns and threats of trouble if
he tried to keep his engagements in
Springfield, Mass, and elsewhere. has
been generally regarded as a painful in
cident; perhaps inevitable, as The Tribune
in particular pointed out, but to be re
gretted. : very bitter attack upon him
from DR.. Hills met with little sympathy
in the press, in view Of Mr.. Kreis, er's own
dignifed response Yet the residuum Of
public opinion was that he did well to
cancel his future dates.
Fritz Kreisler has been called "the
greatest of living violnists.' But, Of
course, it is likewise true that he is an
Austrian citizen and an officer in the Aus
trian reserve army. Early in the war he
served in the campaign against Russia.
After his return to America, and up to
the entrance of the United States into the
war, he is said to have forwarded large
sums of money to Austria. These facts
formed the basis of objections to his fur
ther appearance in this country. As the
storm Of criticism rose Mr.. Kreisler solved
the difficulty by voluntarily cancelling his
contracts to involve loss to him
of at least 49,, 5,OOO.' By way of explain
ing the move he issued the following
statement:
"Bitter attacks have been made upon me
as an Austrian and because at the outbreak
Of the war | fought as an officer in the
Austrian army at the Russian front.
- therefore am asking all concerned TO
release me from my obligations under exist
ing contracts.
"My promise will be kept TO play without
compensation for those charities TO which |
have already pledged my support
81 shall always remain deeply sensible of
my debt Of gratitude 20 this country for past
kindness and appreciation OF my art.
FRITZ KREISLER."
New-York tribune., 1917-12-02
Cotton Makes
A New High
Record

TIME rise of cotton December deIv.
ery) TO 301a cents pound on t.
New York Cotton Exchange q.
Monday was the highest price ever 70.
corded here. It registers a movement q
enormous Importance, economically, for
the South. Not only has the fbu
reached a phenomenal level, but cotten
seed also is selling at prices that actually
give greater value to that commodity than
the cotton crop itself had several yesa
ago.
A few comparisons will illustrate ins
striking way what the present prices II
cotton and cotton seed mean for the SoutA.
According to the secretary Of the New
Orleans Cotton Exchange, the total valus
of the 1916 crop, including seed, was H.
412, $50, 900, as compared with 1858 zoo.
900 for 1915. Last years crop was given
by the Department Of Agriculture as H..
1890 bales, as against ll,l92,0OO for
1915.
The departments last estimate Of the
1917 crop, made at the end Of September,
was a little more than 100000 bales,
but the cotton trade assumes that The
yield will be considerably smaller, say, H..
100000. Now, if we assume that the
average price to the farmer will be only
q cents for the whole crop, its aggregate
value will be 81 ,542, 100000. Now add 10
this the value of the seed, the total valus
of which may be estimated at 1856, 900 900.
This would give total of nearly $780,
100000 as the value Of this years crop
fibre and seed. This denotes gain Of about
$4s8 100000 over last years total. By
that sum, at least, the South will b.
richer this year than it was last year.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-02

One Of the most thrilling revelations in
Mrs. Fiske's portrayal of George Sand is
the maternal in Georges relationship with
her lovers-a sentiment which could, how
ever, with electric swiftness, give way
20 a flash Of love passion. This, in the
play at the Criterion, is poignantly ex-
pressed in the scene between Nine. Sand
and Chopin in the last act. Her first i'm
1ulse toward him is one Of pure service.
But later her caressing Of ''his poor tired
head" develops fashingly into a kiss Of
swift, hot passion. Thus it was with her.
But the maternal instinct was insistent.
She is said to have retained the friendship
of her lovers when they had ceased TO be
lovers In many Of her letters this is also
manifest.
New-York tribune., 1917-12-02

Another thing brought out in her letters
is the great fund of buoyancy and courage
which enabled her 10 outride so many
Storms-storms which must so often have
vanquished her less sturdy lovers. In a
letter addressed to NJ. Calamatta in Brus-
sells, Nine. Sand gave evidence of this Gu
rious blend of enthusiasm, defiance and
fortitude. ,She wrote:
Dear Carsbiacai-
az have been hissed and hooted down as I
expected Every word liked and approved
b. you and my friends provoked rosrs Of
laughter and storms of indignation. The
whole audience denounced the piay Co
s'maN rs immoral. and it il not certain that
the government will not prohibit it, The
actors, disconnected by such a reception. lost
their heads and played very badly The
piece was, nevertheless, played to the last,
New-York tribune., 1917-12-02
I he Rise Of
" ON en-
Playwrights;

NNE might as we'll make room in his
new version Of things for the
- woman playwright, thinks Anna
Steese Richardson, writing in the Decem-
Der issue Of "McClure's.' Time was, ac-
corGing to the author, who writes with
the experience Of press agent behind
her. when the Office boys iob depended
on his ability to tell lady playwrights that
the manager was not at home to ladies
bearing manuscript. But to-day, with
suffrage in New York at chat, IT Is quite
other matter For.
To-day the lady bearing plays has as good
a chance as her maze competitor.
The eason OF 19l7-ls presents the most
promising ray.of women dramatists in the
history Of the American stage. And this ap-
rlics not only TO the quantity, but the quail
its. OF their offerings.
Perhaps this is because they have become
hardened 20 managerial snubs. Perhaps be
cause this Is the day when men watch the
progress OF women with tolerant amusement,
little dreaming that instead Of smiling they
might well be up and doing II they are not
20 be outstriuped But more likely the lady
playwright is coming into her own because
she has learned how to write good plays
particularly for her own sex.
To-day. the woman playwright comes
nearer presenting life as most Of US live 1t,
because she knows life. Her mind is indi-
y,dual. not a mere reflection Of the books she
reads ind the man TO whom she happens TO
b, married. Moreover. experience, sometimes
l,.tcr. has taught her that men prefer plays
and women that entertain. They do not
Tatronize plays which, like some women, take
themselves too seriously
Consider the successful plays by women
TINS season
'Marys Ankle improbable but delectablc
farce by May Tully.
Maytime,' exquisite sentiment with deli
cate humor, book By Rida Johnson Young.
The Land Of the Free comedy with an
occasional catch in its voice, by Fannie Hurst
AID Harrie, Ford.
Another conglomeration Of nonsense for
Fred Stone by Anne Caldwell.
a brittle comedy for Emily Stevens By
Fanny and Frederick Hatton.
Three comedies by Clare Hummer, A Sue
Cessful Calamity Good Gracious Annabelle,
and The Rescuing Angel for Billie Burke
The Brat comedy by Maude Fulton. pro
duced in New York last winter and now on
tour.
"a comedy by Rachel Crothers written for
Cohan & Harris and said 10 be 3 worthy
successor Of her delightful hit of last season,
'Old Lady 81
"The single exception. the one deadly Sc
rlous play. offered so far this season from
the pen Of woman is 'Daybreak,' by Jane Cowl
and Jane Murfr But then what can one ex-
rect from the fair lady who wept her way
through Within the Law and Common
Ciay'?'