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and corrects their evil effects by me-
chanical handling. by the use of fer
tilizers and by other methods avail
able to the farmer.
The office OF Grain Standardization.
]. w. T. Duvel. Technologist, in
charge. Is one of the very important
divisions Of the Bureau of Plant In
dustry in war time. since its investiga-
'tions relate to the harvesting of grain
and its proper preparation for mar
ket. its handling. storing and grading
on the farm. at country elevators, and
the terminal markets. and its handling
by transportation companies. The Of
fee OF Cereal Investigations, with
Mark Alfred Carleton, cerealist in
charge. dealing with the culture. adap-
tation. Improvement and uses OF
cereal crops. is strong in Its encour-
agement of cereal cultivation as war
time staples.
Corn An Important Factor.
The food campaign In the United
States would lack materially In eff
fectiveness without the aid of the Of
fice of Corn Crop Investigations OF
the DePa' 'henl VI AsIcui'ure' Which
Is in charge OF c. d. Hartley. These
Investigations are planned to deter
mine the fundamental principles OF
corn improvement, adaptation, cul-
turo and use which influence the guam
tity. quality and profitableness of corn
production.
The office of Forage Crop investiga.
lions. Charles v. Piper. agrostologist
in charge. Is placing on the market
many new foods for human and animal
consumption which bear a direct and
favorable relation to food conserva.
ton and production.
One Of the most important divisions
of the Department Of Agriculture al
this season of intensive agriculture Il
! that of Horticultural and PomoloGica,
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shown how by substituting rs per
cent. of other grain to take the place
of -four in bread, millions of bushels
of wheat may be saved annually to the
nation.
The States Relations Service, OF
which DR.. A. c. True Is director, rep
resents the Secretary of Agriculture
in his relations with State Agricultural
colleges and experiment stations ana
extension work in agriculture and
homo economics; also In carrying out
the provisions of acts of Congress
making appropriations to this depart
ment for farmers cooperative demon
stration work, Investigations relating
to agricultural schools, farmers In
stitutes and home economics. Tho
active work of the various officials IN
charge of the several divisions OF this
office Is effectual and far-reaching IN
its beneficial effects to increase FOOD
production in time of war.
An Important Division.
The office Of Markets and Rural or
ganization Is one of the most import
ant divisions of the Department OF
Agriculture in time of war, since II
covers market conditions. demands for
specific crops, sources of supply.
Standardization. packing and shipping.
waste in marketing, profits in handling
farm products. with means for the
reduction Of those which are excess
sive, and other phases Of the cues
ton. DR.. Charles ]. Brand Is chief
of this office, and he Is aided by
staff of some twenty-five specialists
in charge Of the work of as many
divisions of the work. with over
hundred experts carrying it out with
full efficiency.
It is also of vital importance to the
agriculturist to know what to expect
In the way of weather conditions, and
the Weather Bureau of the Depart
ment of Agriculture has charge of the
forecasting Of weather; the issue ard
display Of weather forecasts and
storm, coldwave. frost and hood
warnings. the gauging and reporting
Of river stages, and the maintenance
and operation of the Weather Bureau
telegraph and telephone lines.
The chief of this bureau. which tells
the farmers Of coming temperature
and rainfall conditions Is Charles F.
Marvin. and the various divisions Of
the ONCE. in Washington and in every
section of the country. are headed by
scientists In rs~A+hsr predictions
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than that of any other three nations
Of the world combined.
"Onicers or The Commissary Army"

Inan tnat OF any Otner tHree nations
of the world combined.
"Onicers or The Commissary Army"
For the past dozen years this great
agricultural machine has been grow
ing to meet the demands of rapidly
expanding nation, and this interna-
tional crisis finds 1t throwing Its full
power into the problem of producing
food for this nation and for Its allies
in the world war.
President Wilson has called the
American agriculturists of today the
army of the commissary; and the men
who are scientifically directing the
food campaign of the nation during
the war might we'll be termed the
officers of the army of the commits
sary. These men are fully alive to
their great responsibility and are
working with might and main to make
their great machine as fully effective
as any military organization.
There is little which the people of
a nation eat and few things which
they wear that are not the fruit of
agricultural effort. The men who are
digging the agricultural trenches in
the country and the men behind the
guns aimed at the common enemy of
food scarcity. waste and unemployed
labor, with. those who are directing
the efforts to feed not only this coun-
try's hundred million citizens. but
England. France and Belgium as well.
! are worthy of acquaintance.
The directors of the great army OF
the commissary are comprised In sew
eral hundred officials, scientists and
| experts Of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture who might be
compared to the staff officers of the
regular Army. with several thousand
Investigators. field inspectors and
specialists who might be likened to
the line officers in military organ
lzation.
Houston And Vrooman As Leaders.
David s. Houston, Secretary OF
Agriculture. is the general command
ing the great army of the commissary
Of this nation. having general super
vision and control over the affairs OF
the entire department; and upon him
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Investigations. L. C. Corbett. horti-
office includes, beside many other
lines Of work. miscellaneous investiga-
lions bearing on the development. Of
the fruit industry and truck crop in
vestigations and potato Investigations.
Professor Corbett has lent himself to
assiduous endeavor in the encourage
ment of gardening for every man and
woman, and his expensive corps Of CO.
workers have given time and effort to
meet the situation at the proper time.
The division of Foreign Seed and
Plant Introduction has done a valiant
and successful part to meet the food
shortage OF the time by introducing
new seeds and plants of high economic
value to take the place of and to sup
plement the supply of scarcer domestic
commodities.
Deals With Vital Food Questions.
The Bureau Of Chemistry. of the
Department OF Agriculture. whose
chief is DR.. Carl L. Alsberg, has a
corps of officers whose scientific aid
in the food campaign has been very
valuable, as some Of the divisions OF
this bureau bear directly on the vital
food questions Of the day.
The Dairy laboratory is one of these
Its chemist In charge Is g. f. Patrick
and a large part Of its work at pres
emit Is In the line OF examination OF
interstate samples of milk, butter
cheese, and other dairy products. to
determine questions as to their adul'
terations.
The Fruit and Vegetable Utiliza-
ton laboratory. H. c. Gore IN charge
Is investigating the utilization OF sur
plus and Gull fruits and vegetables BY
various processes. which include theii
conversion into syrups and methods OF
drying as a means Of war time con
servation. At present, apples and po'
tatoes are receiving the greatest share
OF attention.
One of the most valuable lines Of
war work emanating from the Burea,
of Chemistry comes from the Plan
Chemical Laboratory. DR.. J. A. Le
Clerc Is chemist in charge of THU
work, and his studies of the chemica
changes taking place in grain durini
termination. mailing and storage, al
we'll as in milling and breadmaking
have made for material advantage II
the production Of the staff of life. B!
recent experiments In breakmakinl
lDr. LaClerc ana M AaAlakants hav'
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which studies the breeding and feed
ing of farm animals and poultry. and
passes upon the pure breeding of ami
mails imported into the United States;
Biochemic laboratory. NJ. Dorset.
chief, which carries on researches in
many lines relative to animal dis
eases, meat and meat food products;
Dairy division. B. H. Rawl, chief.
which collects and disseminates In
formation concerning dairy farming;
field inspection, r. A. Ramsay. chief,
and Meat Inspection division, with R.
P. Steddom. chief
Plant Life And Agriculture.
The Bureau of Plant Industry,
whose chief is William A. Taylor and
Assistant Chief Karl F. Kellerman,
studies plant life in all Its relations
to agriculture. The scientific work
of this bureau Is divided into thirty
one distinct groups, over each OF
which is placed a scientifically trained
officer. who reports directly to the
chief and assistant chief of the bu-
reau.
The work of the Bureau of Plant
Industry is conducted on the project
plan. the Investigations under each OF
the offices being arranged by group
projects consisting Of closely related
lines of work. These group projects
are further divided into sub-pro1ects
the entire personnel Of scientific work.
ers undertaking important work In
plant Industry numbering many hun
dreds
A division of the work especially
prominent in war time Is the Office
Of Crop Physiology and Breeding In
vestigations, Walter T. Swingle, Ply
siologist in charge, which investigate.
the physiology Of plants with view
TO determining the limiting factors
which control their successful culture
and the breeding and testing of new
varieties.
The office Of Soil and Fertility In
vast,pations, with Oswald Schreiner
biochemist in charge, is particularly
active at this time. since 1t studie'
the causes of and remedy for infer
tiiity in certain soils. 1t separates
identifies and studies certain organic
substances found in unproductive soils
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Copyright. 1917. by The International
Syndicate.

T has been said. many times and
in many different ways. that the
war will be won through the
wheat fields; and that how soon
1t will be won depends very largely
upon what the American farmers will
do toward this end.
The farmers of Europe are In the
trenches; the farmers of America must
raise the food to keep them there as
we'll as to help to feed their families
at home.
Can America do her part in this
respect?
She has the land and the natural
resources and she has the labor. What
her people most need at this time is
q full realization of their RESPONSE
bility; and with this practical realiza-
tion on the part of the American
publ, the duration Of war can be
materially shortened.
Beside her land and her natural
resources and her labor, the American
people have at their command to help
them at every stage of food produc-
ton the greatest establishment In the
world for working out agricultural
, problems. For the United States De-
Ipartment of Agriculture Is greater
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A Short Sketch Of the
Flags Of Different Pc
RODS Of History Seen
In the Treasure House
of Relics AT the Nation
al Capitol.


~ UR national emblem stands for
american ideals and ideas-it Is
not the flag OF a family or a
" house, but the flag of the whole
people. 1t is the emblem of liberty
and freedom, being indicative of in
dividual independence and yet SYM
bolic of a united and closely bonded
people. Far from being merely paint
ed and dyed cloth 1t represents the
constitution and government of hun
dred million free people, 1t stands for
the people themselves and records the
history of their nation"
Today millions of flags are waving
in the breeze all over our spacious
land telling the world of the deep,
dignified and everlasting patriotism Of
our people and Of their determination
to stand by the President" in these
troublous times when men are fight
ing for the rights Of humanity and
civilization. These flags f1uttering in
the wind recall many incidents in our
national life and lead one to delve
into the history Of our emblem as
found in the old flags now preserved
in the National Museum at Washing
ton, which is the depository for so
many American relics. That our flag
is the most beautiful in the world is
unquestioned, but its meaning was
made even more beautiful by Wash
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H02 .2.(E01S5xa1.
c1SC. aS~NIxT2U~ee

Like the Staff Of a Regu-
lar Army, Uncle Sam s
Agricultural Scientists
At Washington Are
Mapping Out and Oper.
ating the Campaign To
Fight the EnemyWit
Food" Some of the Of.
ficers and Their FORK.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-08-24
TAKE SALTS TO
FLUSH KIDNEYS
East less meat if you feel Back
achy or have Bladder
trouble.

Meat forms uric acid which excites
and overworks the kidneys In their ef-
forts to filter it from the system.
Regular eaters Of meat must flush
the kidneys occasionally. You must re-
licve them like you relieve your
waste and poison, else you feel dull
misery in the back or sick headache,
dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue
is coated and when the weather Is
bad you have rheumatic twinges,
The urine is cloudy, full of sediment;
the channels often get irritated, oblig-
ing you to get up two or three times
during the night.
To neutralize these irritating acids
and flush off the body's urinous waste
get about four ounces of Jad Salt
from any pharmacy; take o table
spoonful in glass Of water befor'
breakfast for few days and your kid
neys will then act fine and bladder
disorders disappear. This famous
salts Is made from the acid OF grapes
and lemon juice, combined with lithia
and has been used for generations tt
clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys
and stop bladder irritation. Jad Salts
is inexpensive; harmless and makes
delightful effervescent lithia-watel
drink which millions of men and
women take now and then, thus avoid
ing serious kidney and bladder
diseases.
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pelmonico Cream Roll Potatoes.

Here are two Delmonico potato
recipes: Pare potatoes and cut then
into bits the size of a pea. Keep then
in cold water until all are ready. Fol
each scant pint Of potatoes make .
pint of white sauce, seasoning with
onion juice or celery salt. Stir the po
tatoes into the hot sauce, turn into 9
well-buttered agate sauce pan and cook
in the oven until the potatoes are ten
der and the sauce is absorbed, with
the exception of just enough to hold
the bits of potatoes together. Fold one
part over the other as an omelet ant
turn onto a hot dish. The potatoes
should not brown above or below. Il
necessary, set them on the crate ant
cover the pan.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-08-24
TO CLEAN SILVER
GOVERNMENT EXPERTS TELL OF
BEST METHODS.
Directions for Preparing Cleansing
Material That Has Much Virtue
Must Be Applied With Care
and Thoroughness.

For the benefit Of those who have
the care Of silver, the office Of home
economics at Washington has made
a thorough study of the electrolytic
method of cleaning and has published
the results of their work in United
States Department of Agriculture Bull
letin No. 449
After discussing several types OF
commercial cleaners and giving the re-
suits Of various analyses, they suggest
the following method as being cheap
and satisfactory:
"An enamel or agateware dish
should be partly filled with cleaning
solution Of one teaspoonful Of either
washing or baking soda and one tea
spoonful Of common table salt to each
quart of water and placed directly
on the stove to boil. A sheet Of alumi-
mum or clean zinc should then be
dropped into the dish and tarnished
silver placed in contact with the metal
1t is best that the silver be entirely
covered with the cleaning solution and
that the solution remain at the boiling
temperature. AS soon as the tarnisf
has been removed the silver should be
removed, rinsed in clean water, ant
wiped with soft cloth. Zinc may be
used In place of aluminium, but 1t be
comes corroded and inactive In mucf
shorter time"
The electrolytic method cleans PLATED
or sterling slverware without loss Of
metal, giving, however, a satin finisf
rather than FURNISHED appearance
and has the additional advantages Of
being both clean and labor-saving.-
Clara Glidden, Colorado Agricultural
College, Fort Collins, Colo.
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oId-StyIe Mincemeat.

One and half pounds stoned raj.
sins, three-quarters pound currants
one-half pound sultanas, half pound
mixed peel, one pound apples, two
pounds of brown sugar, two pounds
suet, one heaping teaspoonful Of
mixed ground spices, one-half tea
spoonful of mixed ground ginger and
nutmeg, one gill brandy. Mix the
chopped or grated suet and the well
cleaned and dried fruit together witt
the sugar, spices and the candied pee
shredded and chopped fine. Mix fol
several minutes, then add the brand,
and pack tightly into clean, dry Jars
Seal thoroughly, so as to keep out thu
air, and store in a dry place for a
least week before using.
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HISTORY OF ALFALFA PLANT
Records Show It Was Carried Into
California From Chile In 1854
Spreading Eastward.

Alfalfa is very old plant. 1t was
taken from Persia to Greece by Xerxes
and his army, 500 B. @. Three hun.
dred and fifty years later the Romans
carried it from Greece to Rome. Pliny
the Roman naturalist, who lived the
first century after Christ, tells Of Its
value.
1t was probably taken from Rome
to Carthage and the surrounding ter.
ritory,, and from there to Spain about
700 A. d. From Spain 1t was carried
to France, to Belgium and England
1t was esteemed in England when Co
lumbus discovered America. Corte2
brought it to Mexico, others took 1t to
Peru and Chile, and to New England
In 1854, we have record of 1t be-
ing carried to California from Chile,
but at that time 1t had been grown
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Silver Cake.

Beat whites of four eggs stiff, one
and one-half cupfuls sugar, one-half
cupful butter, one cupful cream or rich
milk, two and one-third cupfuls flour
two teaspoonfuls cream tartar, one
teaspoonfth soda or two and one-half
teaspoonfuls baking powder, one tea.
spoonful scant of salt, flavor with
lemon. Cream butter and sugar to-
gether. Add egg whites, then milk, al
ternately, with flour in which baking
powder and salt have been sifted foul
times. Last add one cupful coconut
If liked. Frost with cream frostine
made as follows: One and one-hali
cupfuls powdered sugar, two tea
spoonfuls butter and sufficie.lt cream
to make Of right consistency t.
spread. No -favoring, as butter ant
cream flavor 1t. Beat hard five min
utes and spread on cake.
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YES! MAGICALLY!
CORNS LIFT OUT
WITH FINGERS

You corn-pestered men and women
need suffer no longer. Wear the shoes
that nearly killed you before, says this
Cincinnati authority, because few
drops of freezone applied directly on
tender, aching corn or callous, stops
soreness at once and soon the corn or
hardened callous loosens SO it can be
lifted out, root and all, without pain,
A small bottle Of freezone costs very
little at any drug store, but will posi-
lively take off every hard or soft corn
or callous. This should be tried, as
1t is inexpensive and is said not to
irritate the surrounding skin.
If your druggist hasn't any freezone
tell him to get small bottle for you
from his wholesale drug house. It Is
fine stuff and acts like a charm every
time,
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-08-24
GOOD ROADS ASSIST FARMER
Striking Example Shown In Spottsyl'
vanIa County, Virginia Big In
crease Made In Shipments.

The value Of good roads to tn.
farmer is strikingly shown in the ex-
perience of Spottsylyania county, Vir-
ginia, from an investment of 100000
to improve 40 miles Of road. Two
years after completing this road the
railroad shipped from Fredericksburg,
the county seat, during a period of IL
months, 1900 tons Of products of the
soil, hauled over the improved highway
to that town. Before the improvement
had been made the total was only 29,-
900 tons annually.
Results equally startling were shown
in the quantity of dairy products. In
1909 these amounted to ia, ,S15 pounds
in 1911 they had risen to 253,O2S
pounds-an increase of practically 14O
per cent In two years.
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TAKES OFF DANDRUFF,
HAIR STOPS FALLING
Save your Hairl Get 25-cent bottle
of Danderine right now--Also
stops itching scalp.

Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy
hair is mute evidence Of neglected
scalp; of dandruff-that awful scurf.
There is nothing SO destructive to
the hair as dandruff. 1t robs the hair
Of its lustre, its strength and its very
life; eventually producing feverish-
ness and t',4ing Of the scalp, which
If not remedied causes the hair roots
to shrink, loosen and die-then the
hair falls out fast. A little Danderine
tonight-now-any time-will surely
save your hair.
Get a 25-cent bottle Of Knowlton's
Danderine from any drug store. You
surely can have beautiful hair and
lots of it If you-will just try little
danderine. Save your hair! Try it!
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in some of the valleys of southern Cal
ifornia for hundred years. Just
when or how 1t spread over the West
is not clearly established, but 1t gained
a foothold in Utah, Montana, Idaho,
Colorado and the semiarid states, and
from there is spreading eastward.
Some farms in the Carolinas, New
York and Pennsylvania have grown 1t
ever since these sections were settled,
and its value is known there, so that
1t is strange its cultivation has not
become more general, but there is very
little grown in the eastern states.
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RemovIno An Excuse.

"Aren't you going to be uncomfort.
able when prohibition hits the town.
NO." replied Col. Stilwell, Il con.
fess that l have a liking for good
liquor and / want to see it given a
fair chance"
"How will prohibition give it a
chance?"
ut will bring these chaps who let
you believe they would be wonder
fully Industrious and clever If they
didn't drink to a showdown"
ington Star.
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MILK AT BEST TEMPERATURE
Fifty Degrees Is Desirable for Several
Reasons-Baoteria Won't Multiply
SO Readily.

1t is desirable, where possible, to
cool the milk Immediately after milk
Ing. A temperature Of 80 degrees is
desirable for several reasons. The
bacteria present In the milk will not
multiply so readily as in high temper
ature, and an increase In bacterial
number will sour the milk rapidly.
We can readily see that quick cooling
and the maintaining of low tempera.
ture will prevent or at least delay
souring for considerable time.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1917-08-24
10 CENT "cAscARETs"
FOR LIVER AND BOWELS
Cure Sick Headache, Constipation,
BIIlousness, Sour Stomach, Bad
Breath-Candy Cathartlc

No odds how bad your liver, stom-
ach or bowels; how much your head
aches. how miserable you are from
constipation, indigestion, biliousness
and sluggish bowels-you always get
relief with Cascarets. They imme-
diately cleanse and regulate the stom-
ach, remove the sour, fermenting food
and foul gases; take the excess bile
from the liver and carry off the con-
stipated waste matter and poison
from the intestines and bowels. A
1O-cent box from your druggist will
keep your liver and bowels clean;
stomach sweet and head clear for
months. They work while you sleep.
--Advt.