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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
A RAILROAD army
Will Build Up Lines of Traffic In
= France
NINE REGIMENTS CALLED.

They Will Be Part of Regular Force,
and at Head Of Each Regiment as
Colonel Will Be Engineer Officer of
Army-Construction Will Be Main
Work.
New York.-Need for expert railroad
mon tn rnnair tho limos In Enanoo Is so
pressing that an urgent call has been
sent out by the railroads war board to
the various roads Of the country for
assistance In organizing nine regiments
Of railroad men to 60 at once to France.
They will be part Of the regular
army, and at the head Of each regiment
as colonel will be an engineer officer
Of the army.
The plans of the board call for five
construction regiments, one shop or re-
pair regiment and three operating regi-
ments. Construction will be the main
work OF the men sent over, but the re-
pair and operating needs are hardly
less immediate. A notice sent out by
the railroads war board says:
"The French railways are badly run
down. They need more or less complete
rehabilitation. France has no men who
can be spared for this work. She wants
all her men at the front Before we can
train men to 60 into the trenches we
can supply Frances railroad wants,
and we can do it practically immed1-
ately. Any men we send over must be
soldiers, so it will be necessary for the
railroad forces to enter the army.
I'VE propose to make up five con-
struction regiments of six companies
leach to do this rehabilitation. Each
regiment will have an engineer officer
Of the United States army as colonel
and another officer from the army as
an adjutant. The other officers will be
made up Of railroad men, except that
the commissary will be provided by
the United States army. Each lieuten-
ant colonel will be chief engineer of
railroad or some one else Of similar
experience. The captains will be taken
from the engineers Of maintenance of
way, the lieutenants from supervisors
or road masters and the noncommis-
stoned officers from track and bridge
foremen. The privates will be track
laborers
"The pressing need just now IS for
officers for these regiments. They will
require five chief engineers, thirty en-
gineers of maintenance Of way, ninety
supervisors or road masters, sixty track
fore1nen and thirty bridge foremen.
Each company will have $50 track Ia
borers and fourteen bridge carpenters
as privates. :.
1.-THE next important requirement of
the French railways is for shop forces.
They are short Of men to repair their
locomotives. It is proposed to organize
shop regiment, to be made up the
same way as the construction regi-
ments, except that the lieutenant colo
mel will be superintendent of motive
power, the captains will be master me-
chanics, the lieutenants will be shop
foremen and the noncommissioned Off
GERS gang foremen. The rest of the
company will be made up Of boiler
makers, machinists, blacksmiths and
their helpers"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
FAv0RS DAYLIGHT SAVING.

President, However,, In Doubt az "a
Necessary Legislation.
Washington. = President Wilson ex-
pressed his approval Of the daylight
saving plan to delegation headed by
Representative Borland of Missouri
and Marcus Marks of New York, presi-
dent Of the National Daylight Saving
association.
The president told them the only
question in his mind about legislation
to carry it into operation was whether
congress leaders would look upon it as
war legislation, to which they have
tacitly agreed to limit the sessions &C.
tivities. The subject will be taken up
with the leaders.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
ST. 1872
TERMS USED IN FEEDING
Scientific Nomenclature Reduced to
Everyday Nc anings.


National Crop Improvement servicel
Stockfood consists briefly of three
chief parts or compounds, emitting
the water and minerals. They are:
Protein containing nitrogen), a
muscle former.
Fat (not containing nitrogen),
fuel or fattening substance.
Carbohydrates (meaning made Of
carbon, hydrogen and OXYGEN.
These three substances are called
organic matter, because they will
burn.
Mineral matter is called inorganic.
An animal can live on protein alone,
but would not under normal condi-
lions, because protein Cor albumen)
Is only found mixed with fat in the
case of meat and with fat and carbo-
hydrates in the case of plants and
cereals. Familiar examples of pro-
tein are white of egg, lean meat and
the gluten which can be chewed out
of wheat. Fat or oil we all know.
Carbohydrates include sugar,
starch, cellulose, fibre, gums, etc.
To keep alive and not lose weight
an animal must have small amounts
of protein and larger amounts of fat
or carbohydrates. They serve as
building material to replace WORKOUT
tissue and flesh and also to furnish
power (energy) to move, work, and
do all the inside work of the body.
The ash or mineral matter fur
nishes bone material and is also nee
essary but abundant in nature. A
growing animal needs plenty of pro-
tein and ash (bone food) and of car
bohydrates and f$s. A grown-up ami
NAL needs less of either the first two,
but plenty of the last two. A preg-
nant animal needs plenty of food for
it's unborn young.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
new FORM OF ICON" GAME.

Two Inches of Butter Spread on Sand
Sold to Chicago Consumers.
Chicago, Ill.-A new form of conf
dence game has been practised with
success here during the last few days.
Several storekeepers and hospitals have
reported to the police that they have
purchased from agents tubs purport-
ing to contain sixty pounds of butter,
but have found when cutting into the
tubs that the butter extended but one
or two inches from the surface and
that the rest Of their purchase was
sand.
The tubs were sold for as high as
$3.50, making the price Of the butter
W the neighborhood Of 81 a pound.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
THE DAIRY RATION
Feeding Tables Hard to Follow on
- Account of Variation of
-, INGREDIENTS
National Cron Imnrorement ssrrice I


. National Crop Improvement service]
For many years feeders have en-
deavored to use so-called standard
tables showing the theoretical num-
Der of pounds each of so-called d.
gestible protein, fats and carbohy-
drates: These methods are fatally
defective for the following reasons:
First, the tables call for so much
.digestible food. If there was such a
thing as digestible food it might fur
nish a basis to go by, but digestible
food is really apparently digestible
food, in that it disappears in the body.
Just what use is made of it is not al
ways clear. \SQme of it turns into gas,
some is converted into heat, and much
Of it is used in the labor of digesting
and handling the food. In the case
of straw and similar material, nearly
all of it's energy is used up in the
labor of digesting it, leaving little or
no net gain. Straw should be re-
turned TO the soil. Take two samples
Of dried barley grains, each contain
ing the same amount of digestible
food, and one will give twenty more
therms or heat units than the other.
One hundred pounds of digestible
food derived from roughage is about
equal to eighty pounds derived from
grain, so if we add together things
which are unlike, we get no tangible
results. 1t is like adding so many
pounds to so many gallons So, the
digestible basis of figuring rations is
very inaccurate. The correct way is,
first, to ascertain how much protein
and energy a COW needs to sustain
life and keep weight. You can get
this from your experiment station,
and ascertain how much is necessary
to make one pound of milk of a GER
tain fat test, and then feed her as
much protein and energy as is needed
to maintain her and supply food for
as many pounds of milk as she can
make.
This is very difficult problem
and few can do it, and we challenge
any two men to tackle the same prob
lem under the same conditions and
arrive at the same result
We cannot tell unless we try to find
out that cow will not give more
milk on more feed, or maybe as much
milk on less feed. So feeding is large
ly experimental, as no two COWS are
alike.
However, the law of averages will
hold, and the feeder can save all this
trouble and much loss by feeding
ration which his experiment station
has in most cases made, say three to
four pounds of milk for each pound
of mixed feed.
There is one thing certain. The
more solids and fat in the milk, the.
more feed needed per pound of milk.
So, a good mixed feed which is prop
erly combined and all the roughage
she will eat will greatly simplify your
feeding problem and very little ex.
perimenting will soon show you how
much concentrates each cow needs to
produce maximum yield
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
BARLEY PRODUCTS.

National Crop Improvement Service1
Pror. }. +. Street, in the Annual
Report of the Connecticut Agricul-
tural Station for 1912, says: "That
malt sprouts should receive more con-
slderation from dairymen, especially
IN comparison with many of the pro-
prietary mixed feeds containing only
from one-third to one-half as much
protein as malt sprouts, prices being
considered" =
he also states that dried brewers
grams, prices considered, in connec-
ton with the feeds high analysis, is
one of the cheapest high-grade feeds
on the market.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
THE MANURlAL INGREDIENTS OF
FEEDS

National Crop improvement service.1
nitrogen is the most important and
most valuable fertilizing element sun
piled by feeds, and it is in this ele-
ment that they show the greatest
variation.
The Connecticut Experiment Sta
ton states that it was found that the
average mixed fertilizer contained
295 per cent nitrogen and showed in
a table that eighteen of fifty-two diff
fersnt feeds contained 1893 per cent.
Among this list is cottonseed and lin
seed meals, gluten seed, middlings.
brewers and distillers' products, and
a few of the feed mixtures. It is OBJ
vlous, therefore, that wise selection
OF feeds enhances the value of the
manure and consequently plays an
important part in farm economy.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
WHAT'S IN A MIXED FEED7

t.auonal crop improvement Service.]
:. nlgh-grade mixed feed suitable
Tor any kind or breed of dairy cow
should have high protein content
with an exact digestible analysis. It
can be mixed with corn, oats, barley.
hay or other forage, which should he
grown upon the farm, provided the
mixture would save the farmer any
money. AS a rule, the ingredients Of
the highest grades are corn, distillers,
grains, gluten feed, cottonseed meal.
hominy meal, malt sprouts, brewers,
grains. linseed meal, pure wheat bran
and salt. The best grades contain no
cheap filters of any kind and so the
food Is highly concentrated and
roughage can be supplied at home
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
ARMY NEEDS GENERALS.
Promotions Expected to Be Made Only
Upon Merit Basis.

Promotions Expected to Be Made Only
Upon Merit Basis.
Washington.-The new national army
will require about Twenty-Five new
major generals and more than 100
brigadier generals, according to oc-
Acials of the war department. There
will be total Of thirty-six divisions,
each of which will have one major
general and four brigadier generals.
The army act empowers the presi-
dent to appoint general officers at his
The belize prevails that the
president and secrethy Of war both
are determined only upon merit and
special fitness This policy would CO.
incide exactly with those Of France
and England, which are advancing
younger men to the higher commands.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
READJUSTS NOAH'S ARK.

Little English Girl Moved by Ono Leg
1ed British Officer.
London.-A small English girl was
introduced at tea to an officer who had
lost leg in action. After observing
him carefully and thoughtfully she
went to her nursery and, returning
with her Noah's ark, dumped the me-
nagerie on the floor and proceeded to
break one leg of each animal.
When she was asked why she did it
the little girl replied: LEGS are awful
~ useless things. The animals all have
one too many"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
TOY GUNS POPULAR.
Modelled After Anti aircraft Weapons
Used by ZeppeIins.

Modelled After Anti aircraft Weapons
Used by Zeppelins.
Washington.-Teddy bears and mini
allure anti-aircraft guns are by far the
most popular toys in Great Britain,
says Consul Wilson in report from
London to the United States bureau of
foreign and domestic commerce. Ted
dy bears have always been more or
less popular, but recent events seem
to have created greatly increased de-
mand for this toy.
The toy. guns are modelled after the
anti-aircraft guns which were brought
into prominence by the visits of the
Zeppelins.
Toys that find the most ready sale
are those Of military character.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
COULDN'T SCARE SAILOR.
Officer Told Threatening U Boat Cap
tain to "Shoot AWAY"


tain to "Shoot Away"
London.-Douglas Duff, the fourth
officer and the only survivor Of the
steamer Thracia, sunk by German
submarine on April q, says in deposit
tons that three hours after the ship
was sunk the German submarine ap-
preached the capsized boat, the stern
of which had been blown off, to which
he was clinging, and asked him the
usual questions regarding the Destroy
ed steamer and her destination. It
was II o'clock at night and very dark.
The submarine commander first
threatened to shoot Duff, says the
fourth officer, who quotes himself as
replying, "Shoot away" The COM
mander then said, according to Duff,
that he wouldn't waste powder on an
Cnglishman and left Duff to his fate.
He was picked up twelve hours later
by French fisherman.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
BUYING FEED INGREDIENTS
Difficult to Buy Proper Feed steffs at
Random

Random.
National Crop improvement Service
There are not dozen feed stores
in the country that carry in stock all
the ingredients Of first-class mixed
feed at all times and at reasonable
prices, and usually they do not carry
feeds of the same high quality used
by the mixers who work scientifically
through a laboratory. This is human
nature. Competition compels dealer
to sell the cheapest quality. The best
quality of feed is seldom carried, be-
cause the average buyer will not pay
the highest price. A good many ex-
pertinent stations in a general way
Will advocate that a farmer mix all
his Own feed, burt they are hTman IKE
the rest of us and they will use recog-
nized brands in their own feeding
operations rather than go to the trou-
bic and take the time to follow their
own advice
There are a good many herds at
experiment stations which are kept as
sort of a clinic for professors to prac-
tice theories upon. The poor brutes
are used good deal as guinea pigs
in hospital practice. On the other
hand, at the experiment stations are
to be found many of the finest ami
mails ever bred.
The mixed feeds of the first grade
can be fed alone or in connection with
homegrown corn, oats or barley. To
do this widens your ration, and it is
correct to do so if it will reduce your
cost OF feeding. Mixed feeds, there
fore, are largely a matter of arith.
metic.
You can usually get the result for
less money than by feeding more ex-
pensive grains separately.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
STRAW SHOULD BE SPREAD.

lNat1onal Crop Improvement Service.1
The feeding value of straw being
comparatively low, and the fertilizing
value being high, all straw should be
spread upon the fields and not burned
or wasted. The use of straw to pre-
vent winter-killing of wheat is now
we'll established.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
BIG RUSH TO AVOID
RAISE IN HAIR CUTS

. Greensburg, PA recent Mon
. day held the record for hair cuts
o in Greensburg. On wash day
o 5000 men went to the BARRIERS
Q and told them to cut their hair
. according to certain styles. This
o rush came through the fact that
. the BARRIERS raised the price for q
q hair cut to 35 cents and Monday
Q was the last day for the quarter
o rate. 1t is estimated that $3.50
o was paid for hair clipping, with
o a total of $500 saved to tha ulh-
o mate cuttees.
.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
SPRING DIET RIVALS ZEPPS,
Substitute For Spinach Kills One, In.
lures Several.

jures0 Several.
London.-England is badly in need of
green spring foods, and all kinds of
suggestions have been made, some Of
which have had disastrous results. One
enterprising discoverer wrote to the
newspapers the other day that rhubarb
leaves, thoroughly boiled, made an ex-
cellent substitute for spinach.
A coroner's inquest was held over the
body Of man who sampled the SUBJ
stitute. Another victim was preacher,
whose family is seriously i'll. Similar
cases are reported from all parts of the
country. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04
TABLES0F DIGESTIBLEN UTRl.
ENTS AND ENERGY VALUES

Compiled From Henry e. Morrison,
1915 Edition, Massachusetts, 1911
Annual Report, Pennsylvania
Bulletin ia.
National Crop improvement Service.l
d-Armsby Corrections.
k-Kellner.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1917-08-04

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Meade County news., 1917-03-15
Diet, Exercise or Death !

An eminent medical authority writes
that most of our city folks die Of thick
ening of the arteries or of kidney dis
ease. The kidneys become clogged and
do not filter the poisons from the blood,
and one trouble follows another, high
blood pressure damages the heart, arteries
and kidneys. Usually its danger signals
are backache, pain here or there, swollen
feet or ankles, rheumatic twinges or
spots appearing before the eyes.
"The very best remedy is this: Eat
meat but once day, or not at ALL Plenty
of outdoor exercise, and drink pure
water frequently. Before meals take q
little Anuric, the great uric acid neu-
tralizer that is easily obtained at the
dEg store. When you have dizziness,
chiils or sweating, worry, or dragging
pains in back, try this wonderful enemy
TO uric acid, which DR.. Pierce of Buffalo,
N. Y, discovered and named Anuric
Anuric, more potent than ithia, dissolves
uric acid as hot water does sugar."
Meade County news., 1917-03-15
CASH IN DAIRY AND POULTRY
State Agricultural College Train to
Demonstrate How $1,000 Can Be
Cleared Every Year.

Dairying and poultry farming, as
method of adding $1,000 year to the
net profits of the average Kansas
farm, will be urged by speakers on
the Santa Fe railways demonstration
train,' for extension of those two in
dustries, which will be run in eastern
Kansas, March 6 to 81. The itinerary
includes 106 cities and towns in that
part of the state. H. NJ Bainer, agri-
cultural and industrial agent for the
railway, will be in active charge of
the train. Speakers from the Kansas
State Agricultural college, which is
cooperating with the railway COM
pany, will be aboard. They include
the heads of both the dairy and poul-
try divisions of the institution. The
time they will be on board follows:
Poultry-Ross NJ Sherwood, acting
head of the poultry division, March 6
to II, and Prof. F. e. Fox, instructor
in the poultry division, March 10 to
81.
Dairying-A. S. Neale, specialist in
the dairy division, March 6 to 10;
George S, Hine, state dairy commits
sioner, March IL to II; Prof. ]. B.
Fitch of the dairy division, March 10
to "a, and Prof. o. e. Reed, head of
the dairy division. March 26 to 81.
These experts, and those from the
Santa Fe and other institutions, will
explain, in practical way, to those
visiting the train, the proper methods
of feeding, buying caring for and rails
ing COWS and chickens. Several speak
ers will urge winter dairying in order
that farmers may realize some of the
profits from the high prices Of such
products in that season. Professor
Sherwood asserts the average farmer
can double the profits from his poul-
try flock if he will handle his hens
so they will lay in winter.
Besides other equipment the train
will carry three meeting coaches,
car of live poultry exhibits, selected
from the best flocks of the state, and
car of dairy cattle, the pick of the
agricultural college herds. In the lat
ter car will be Canary Bell, the cham
pion milk and butter producing COW
of the state. She is an Ayrshire. Last
year she produced 17,407 pounds of
milk and 7S0 pounds of butter. This
is shown by the official records of
the agricultural college and by her
owner
Meade County news., 1917-03-15
HIGH COST OF LIVING

This is serious matter with house
keepers as food prices are constantly
going up. To overcome this, cut out
the high priced meat dishes and serve
your family more Skinner's Macaroni
and Spaghetti, the cheapest, most de-
licious and most nutritious of all foods.
Write the Skinner Mfg. Co., Omaha,
Nebr., for beautiful cook book, telling
how to prepare it in hundred different
ways. It's free to every woman.-Adv.
Meade County news., 1917-03-15

in regulating and assisting all her
natural functions, and In putting in
perfect order every part of the female
system. 1t lessons the pains and bur-
dens, supports and strengthens weak,
nursing mothers.
It's an invigorating, restorative tonic,
soothing and bracing nervine.
Castor oil is good for children or adults,
and especially good for aged people. A
pleasant form OF a yegetabl ble laxative that
Is to be had at any drug store, was In
vented by DIR. Pierce, who put together
May apple (podophyllin), aloeSe jalap.
Ask at any drug store for Pleasant Pei
let's" and they can be had for little money.
They contain no calomel and are of veget-
able constituents, therefore harmless.
Meade County news., 1917-03-15
Encouraging Example.

"When you begin to think this coun-
try is not democratic, stop n moment
and study the average traffic police
man."
"But whyT
"You will discover that the dusky
George Washington Jones, driving a
dray, gets exactly the same treatment
from him that is received by million
aIre reclining In his limousine"
Meade County news., 1917-03-15
Super Energy.

Little Jane and Josephine were bus
lily engaged in helping mother dry the
dinner dishes.
"But, Jane, you didn't get that plate
dry" objected her sister.
"Yes, l didr' exclaimed Jane eager
ly. 81 dried it so hard that it per
spired."
Meade County news., 1917-03-15
Both DISQUALIFIED.

Old Lady dnquisitive and plain, to
young Civvy)-Young fellow, why
aren't you in khaki?
Young Civvy-For the same reason,
my good woman, that you are not in a
beauty show-a matter of sheer, alb
solute physical unfitness.-London Tit
Bits.
Meade County news., 1917-03-15
Hard-Lookinu Man.

II saw hard-looking man little
while ago." said the homeward-bound
citizen.
"You did?' came from the interested
officer. (Which way?"
'Down that street, officer"
"Well, come show me. He's the fel-
low we're looking for He's the Ossi-
fed man who escaped from the mu-
seum."
Meade County news., 1917-03-15

Mrs. Singer-This paper says that of
all animals dogs seem to evidence the
keenest musical susceptibility.
Mr.. Singer-I guess that's all right.
"Yes, haven't you noticed how our
log tries to sing when do?"
"Oh, I've heard him make noise,
but thought 1t was in the form of a
protest.
Meade County news., 1917-03-15

When an authors books are popular
enough for paper covers he can afford
to cover himself with broadcloth.
Meade County news., 1917-03-15
He is anything but good barber
who cuts an acquaintance.
COVETED BY ALL

but possessed by few-a beautiful
head of hair. If yours is streaked with
gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can re-
store 1t to Its former beauty and lus-
ter by using LA Creole" Hair Dress
ing. Price $1.00.-Adv.
Meade County news., 1917-03-15

THIS is THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger if you
darken your ugly. grizzly, gray hairs by
using La Creole" Hair Dressing
Meade County news., 1917-03-15

How it tickles a mans vanity when
he is asked to settle disputed point /!
Meade County news., 1917-03-15

The pessimist never bores US with
his alleged funny stories.
Meade County news., 1917-03-15

Wash day is smile day if you use Red
Cross Ball Blue, American made, therefore
the best made. Adv.
Meade County news., 1917-03-15

Rainbow chasers get at least run
for their money.