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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25
TOBACCO SECRET LEARNED
Discovers What Days Are Best for
Cutting to Preserve Oil.

Editor Of The Reformer:-
Fnrty-nlne years age ] began growing
tobacco. \ few years later | decided that
there we're certain days better than Others
on which to cut tobocco for il to cure m
nicely and have a lich waxy and heav,
body. TO find ont the wav To tell tbcs.
dates, and. to tell them ahead, has been j
nara job, but ! was finally successful. To
explain, let me say that tobacco has an oiEy
substance, which is its natural possession
It has sap (waterl like other vegetation
When the sap rises it runs the oil ont
through the pores Of the leaves. on the
/ principle that oil and water will not mix
and the oil being the lighter is pushed out
1 by the sap.
1 Tobacco cut in that state will be light
and 'chafty, as there is nothing but s3f
1 IN the tobacco, and when cured this san
IS gone. 1t eyaporates and leaves the 10
4 hacco light and worthless. But Ia cu
J tobacco when the sap is down and the 81
has tul sway, you can cure it lip nicely
and with heavy body; it will be rich an,
waxy. This happens because the tobacc,
IS tul OF OIL, instead Of sap, and the OF
can t evaporate and remains in the tobacc,
to make it rich and heavy
It has been my experience that w
must cut tobacco when there is oil in i
II we expect to have oil in it when cured
For instance, one may experience cuttn
one week and having excellent luck. am
then cut a few days later, probably off til
same piece Of ground and with ripper L
bacco, and have no luck at all
j ! shall be pleased To answer any co,
respondence from tobacco growers VIII
may want to write me, provided postage
sent for reply.
Yours truly,
ID. V. DAVIS,
Fork, n C.
July 20, 1917
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25

The oil situation, like the copper sit
natiOn, is receiving a great deal of con
sideration among the practical econo-
mists of various industries. The produc-
ers are Hliying on their fat drawing
upon accumulated stOcks-in order to
meet the demand, and this condition for
many weeks has been a source of concern
outside the oil trade. Western railroads
and manufacturers have Joined with
oil companies along the Pacific coast
in urging the opening of government
lands for development and the extra0r,
binary activity of oil drillers in the ex-
listing public fields has told Of the I'M
usual market. Although production fails
to keep pace with the efforts made tc
increase the number of wells, prices fol
both raw and refined petroleum have
advanced only gradually in the past
three months. Gasoline has remained
practically stationary since Jan. /. Pre-
sumably the producers have been con
tent with their profits without permit
ting the expanding demand to Impair
a runaway tendency to prices.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25
Member Of the Associated Press.

The RAfc-aier is on sale every evening
by the following news dealers:
Brattieboro, Brattleboro News Co.
C. w. Cleaveland, d. r. Cutler & Co
CEsteyvile), Brooks House Pharmacy
Aliens Depot Newsstand.
West Brattleboro, j. l.. Stockwsll
East Dummerston, NJ. E. Brown
Putney. NJ. G., Williams.
Newfane, n. NJ. Batchelder.
Townshend, G. w. Cutler. y
West Townshend, G.. II. Circuit
jamaica, r. j. Daggett.
South Londonderry. F. II. Tyler.
South Vernon, +. B. Burum.
West Chesterfield, N. r., Mrs, w
StreeteT.
Hlnsdale, NJ. H., W. H. Lyman.
Bellows Falls, VT, Depot Restaurant
Windsor, VT. Windsor Restaurant.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25

MOO, moo" said the Cow. And
Rowdy went shifting around TO explain
to the Farmer that the Cow needed
help.
Il understand, Rowdy, my boy" SAID
the Farmer, and then Rowdy sat down
and watched.
The Farmer took the Cows foot ana
gently, ever so gently, he pulled the
horrid thorn out. 1t had stuck quite
far in, and oh, how it had hurt the
Cow!
You're all right now" said the
Farmer. up YOU get"
The Cow got up rather slowly. 1heI
she stepped ON the foot, which ALREADY
felt 50 differently! And 10 her deligh
she found her foot was all, all well.
"Come along" barked Rowdy. Ant
the Cow ran as fast as her great, bl:
body would let her, after RoWdy.
The Farmer followed along, saying
Good RoWdy. my fine RoWdy.
And Rowdy understood and wa
glad in his dog way he could help In
Farmer and his Animals.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25
SEND MEAT BACK HOME.
German Soldiery Let the People of Oc-
pied Poland Starve.
Yours truly,
ID. Y. DAVIS,
Fork, n. G.
July 20, 1917.

Further confirmation Of repeated reports
to the effect that while people Of occupied
Poland are suffering from food short
age and real famine the Germans in con
troll there are sending large quantities OF
foodstuffs to Germany is found in series
of articles describing his experiences on 4
recent trip through Germany. written fol
the Zurich newspapers by Theodor Ieh
mann, Swiss engineer In giving detail.
of general food conditions in Germany
Mr.. Lehman writes:
But about one point that at present i.
of the greatest interest we learn a great
deal about the army's food supply. II
most cases the good appearance of the mer
Immediately furnishes the answer to thi
question. OF course there are some pal,
and sickly looking faces among them-bu
how could it be otherwise? The lucky on,
who had returned from the advanc,
through Rumanla seemed to have lived yer,
we'll 81 many of the little Rlmanian vii
lagos the people did not seem to know
whether to regard the invading Germans
in their strange uniforms, as friends o
foes. AT all events the natives did not hav
much to say IN favor Of the Russians, VIII
had passed through just before.
'+The army in Poland must also cnio
abundant nourishment A lady was able t
tell of regular shipments of meat that sh
received from her father, who was in sery
ice there. That such shipments from til
front to the folks at home were the rul
rather than the exception | was able t
verify later. Now it is worth almost a
much to have good friend at the from
as to have one in the country
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE
BY LEE PAPE
The Boy Who Yelled Wolf.

4 Play
Scene mp hill.
Boy. G. | wish ] had suntmng 10 do
besides mindmg these sheep. Wat fans
mindng sheep No fun | wish | was L
fireman Or a cowboy OF man that climbs
up clectrick lite poles or deteoktiye
or sumthing
The sheep Baaa
Boy. | wonder wat those men down there
on the farm wood do if I yelled wolf. |
got good mind to yelht and find ont
Wolf! Wolf! Wolf, Help Wolf,
Men. trimming up with their pitch
forks Ware: Ware?
Boy. It wasent a wolf, it was a little
dawg. made mistake la Ina la!
Men going back to werk @ heck.
Boy That's 4 good one on them, Al
| rite think III Try it agen Help! Wolf,
Wolf.
Men. trimming UP egen) Ware? Ware?
Boy. No ware | made anuthcr mistake
1t was ony a ant. la ha,
Men going back to werl) II that li,
| thinks hes funny, hes the ony one tina
| thinks 50.
Wolf Ierray. Sheep,
Boy. (limbing up tree c. Help. Wolf
Hay. Wolf!
Men. keeping on werllingl You cal
fool some Of the people all OF the time
but not us
Wolf. These are pritty good sheep
Boy. (still up a tree Darn it.
The end
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25

Private Edmund Howe, who lett his
studies al Dartmouth several weeks ago
to enlist in Company !, possesses good quail
iIications rs a recruiting officer While
at his home in Bennington on a suIough
for the week end he looked around for
young men who might be induced to vol
untcer, with the result that he was in
charge ot five recruits when he started
back to Font Ethan Allen yesterday morn
ing.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25
WEDNESDAY, JULY p, 1917.

Parents are counting the days in
Montpelier. Yesterday was the 18th
consecutive day in which no new eases
of infautile paralysis have been report
ed. The entire state joins in the hope
that the stringent quarantine estab.
lishcd has resulted in checking the ter
rible disease which is battling even tC
the medical men.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25

The Pennsylvania railroad still leads
the country in up-to-date methods. The
Pennsylvania was the first road that but
the ban on drinking engineers and train
men for efficiency. Now it blazes the
way for the better and more economical
handling of small freight shipments.
The Penn road like other roads. has re-
celved freight amounting to less than a
carload Unfortunately, at all stations.
at all times of day and for all destina
tons. The result has been the slow
accumulation of these small lots at trans
fer points, costly and damaging rehan-
ding Of them, the transportation of half
empty ears, and the tying up of rolling
stock needed for through commercial
carnage. Now definite shipping davs
VIII be named, on which ears will de.
part from various points of origin foI
specified destinations; freight will be ac
Ieepted on these days only. This is simpIC
/ enough at small stations. In large cite,
/ 1t IS planned to lay out shipping zones
each embracing several stations ano
shippers will be informed of the ear,
for small freight leaving each station
The railroad 5 preliminary study of tn,
plan leads it to believe that at leas
1000 box cars day can be .saved
east of Pittsburgh.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

It Is the aim of ths management to
secure efficient service IN the delivery
Of the paper each night, and It solicits
the cooperation OF subscribers to that
end. Prompt reports should be given OF
each failure TO receive the paper on the
morning following the omission, in per-
son, by telephone or postal card, thus
enabling the cause OF the error to be
promptly and accurately discovered and
the proper remedy Immediately applied
II Is only by this method that the pub
Usher can secure the desired service.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25

1t is strange that automobile drivers do
not stop to consider the fact that the
great majority of accidents on country
roads take place on curves. 1t is the
duty Of every automobiles to slow down
his car and sound his horn on approaching
a sharp turn The most reckless driving
we have ever seen took place yesterday
afternoon on the Guiford road when
a powerful runabout came around a curve
at such high speed that the car went al
over the road and for an instant seemed
on the point Of turning over. If any cal
going in the opposite direction had been
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25

1t is the irony of fate that Goethals,
who built the Panama canal should be
come mixed up in a bitter controversy
over the question of ship-building at a
time when the opponents of autocracy
should have every possible means at
hand quickly for crushing the U-boat
menace. If the German submarines can
be curbcd the war will not last long
Now that Goethals and the compare
lively obscure creature who blocked hi,
work are out of Office it is to be hoped
that the shipbuilding program will b,
rushed as rapidly as possible.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25

JoscPhus Daniels, secretary of the
navy, stands by George Crcel s Fourth
of July story Of the encountsr, between
American naval We sseIs G onyoyfhg trans
port ships with the German U-boat fleet.
His approval leads to the expectation
that MIR. Crecl S imagination will not be
checked by official restraint, if eircum-
stances should arise calling for the ex-
crcisc of vivid and graphic narration
even if the story is not founded on facts
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25

Tolstoy, who predicted this world war
with substantial accuracy, said that out
Of it one man would emerge as a great
leader. kerensky may be the one who
will be added to the list of the world S
immortals. He has big task to per-
form, but clothed with arbitrary pow.
crs and the means to enforce them he
may make Russia a potential factor il
the settlement Of the war and the great
est republic Of Europe after the term,
Of peace have been settled.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25

within four rods of the curve head-on
collision could not have been avoided
S'uch driving is criminal, as it endangers
the lives of persons who take all due pre-
cautions while travelling over the high
ways.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25
TO ADVERTISERS,

Transient advertising-Run of paper.
so cents an inch for first insertion: Z
ticn. Limited space on first page at
,uble rates.
Space rates on application
Classified advertisements Five cents
a line first insertion with 80 per cent
discount for each subsequent Insertion,
without change OF copy.
Reading Notices - Ten cents per line,
first insertion with 80 per cent discount
for each subsequent insertion without
change OF copy.
Position 10 per cent extra
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25
Maine
Potatoes

We offer for delivery
Monday about 200
bushels nice old Maine
Potatoes at $50 per
bushel, delivered any
where in the village.
Here is real value
tor your money and
are much better eating
than the new.
Telephone your orders
to 1876 Monday
e. CROSBY g. CO.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25
Those Smart Looking Shoes

you see on well dressed men and women
may not be new at all. They may be
footwear that we have repaired. Every
day more smart dressers are learning
how our repairing machines make old
shoes new in looks with the comfort of
old ones. Send us a pair of your own
las a test. Then well have another
aegular customer
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-07-25
FRANK p. MANCINI


Best in town Can and see them. Nice
stalky, healthy plants-75c and 81 per
hundred.
Remember us when in need of flowers
-as our designing and floral work
pleases everybody that knows what
good work is. Remember it is not en-
tiroly the flowers that are used, but
tho arrangement as well. No one can
trim MS in this line. We always
have the best of flowers
Call on us.
c. ~. BOND, The Florist
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-06-01
Tokyo's Prolific SIums.

No tourist crosses the Sumida river
unless it is to visit the great amphi-
theater for a wrestling match or a
chrySamthemum show. yet there Is
where tie real secret of Tokyo's fu
ture Les, it is the factory and slum
sections of the city, and the population
there has increased in the last decade
ten times as fast as has the population
in the district of Kojimachi, which
surrounds the palace.
In the last generation the population
of the five greatest industrial and COM
mere ial cities in Japan has increased
by 314 per cent as against an increase
in the whole empire of 10 per cent
The trend in Japan is cityward, and
the visitor TO Tokyo. seeing the streets
crowded with people. does not realize
that in the suburbs the growth in popu-
lation has run from $50 to 500 per cent
in the last decade. Herald.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-06-01
PREVENT DISEASE
IN FARM ANIMALS
SUPPLY PLENTY OF CLEAN FOOD
AND PURE WATER.
HEALTH MOST IMPORTANT
Keep Stables and Yards Clear of
Trash and Filth.

College Park, May 31.-Under pres
ent conditions the need of preserving
the supply of farm livestock is most
urgent. The spread of disease in any
community would seriously affect its
fcod supply and make it a burden on
other sections that are now taxed to
the limit to meet the demand for
meat Maryland farmers are urged
by s. S. Buckley, specialist in animal
industry for the State Agricultural
Extension Service, to take every pre-
caution to prevent the spread of dis
ease and maintain the healthy growth
of all livestock grown for meat. In
contribution to Successful Farming"
he says: ITO maintain the health and
productivity of your animals, the fol-
lowing rules must be observed:
81. Feed only sound, wholesome
grain and fodder Supply pure water,
plentiful in amount, and frequently.
"2. Supply salt regularly. Rock
salt contains the necessary minerals
for body wants.
"3. Charcoal may be given occa-
sionally with benefit and may be fed
with the salt
"a. Feed with extreme regularity,
and according to the requirements of
animals, in quantity and nutrition
value.
"5. Developing or growing animals,
females with young, pregnant females,
males for breeding purposes, work
animals and animals not at work re-
Quire different feeds, in quantity and
quality.
"6. Animals at pasture require at
tention. Pasturage may be adequate
or it may need to be supplemented
with additional feed.
"7. Make all changes in rations
gradually. Add any new addition to
the ration in small and successfully
mixture is secured.
"8. Unwholesome food is frequent
Iy proRuced on farms, and, being I'M
marketable, is kept for feeding pur-
poses. Such foods may be fed safely
if proper methods are employed. Any
dirty, damaged, rotten and apparent
ly unwholesome grain is readily i'm
proved by passing once or twice
through a grain fan.
80. Keep stables, pens and yards
clear at all times. Put the manure
on the fields where it is needed and
burn all trash. Drain any low places
that collect water, and make stagnant
pools impossible
40. Use plaster on stable floors
to dry them and white wash on walls
for the purifying effects.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-06-01
Argentina's Military System.

Every native or naturalized citizen
Of Argentina, at home or abroad, on
reaching the age OF eighteen years
must be enrolled The federal eXecu-
tive power takes charge of this nation,
al enrolment. which serves at once as
registration of voters and national
defenders \ given Individual, if at
home, is enrolled in one of the five
military districts into which the four
teen states and ten territories of Ar
gentina are divided If he resides
abroad he is enrolled in his consulate,
for the government follows him with
precision wherever he may wander,
With the exception of these consular
registrations abroad the general en-
rollment is entirely in charge of the
military authorities. who are counted
upon to get more thorough results than
a civil census provides Worlds Work
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-06-01
Vacation Guides.

The approach of the summe-
'eason brings thoughts OF the vaca-
ion. Those contemplating trip to
he seashore, the mountains or a
axe resort will be interested in two
Illustrated folders just issued by the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Forty beaches of New jersey" and
Mountain and Lake Resorts" The
Forty Beaches of New Jersey" fold
er gives detailed description of the
escorts along the coast of New Jersey
rom Cape May to Long Branch and
Of resorts near the water in Della
ware, Maryland and Virginia, and sor
Long Island. The Mountain ant
Lakes" folder gives a description %
resorts in the Pocono and Allegheny
Mountains, Mt. Gretna, Chautauqu;.
Lake, the Finger Lakes of New York
Ind Sodus Bay, with complete list
Of hotels at each resort. Copies of
these folders may be had for the
asking of any ticket agent of the
'ailroad or on application to passen
ger Department, Pennsylvania Rail
roaG, Philadelphia.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-06-01
PROFITABLE ONION GROWING

College Park, May 31.-The need
of growing staple vegetables to main
tain the food supply of the country
is becoming more and more apparent
daily. Probably no vegetable offers
better opportunities for profit than
the onion owing to its scarcity and
it's food value. To supply the many
demands made Of the Maryland Agri-
cultural Extension Service for infor-
nation regarding onion growing, S.
B. Shaw, specialist in horticulture,
has prepared special circular on the
subject. Mr.. Shaw says in part:
Onions may be grown from either
seed or sets. A great many growers
are now raising their crops direct
from seed in asingle season. The seed
Is sown thinly in drills IL to Is inches
apart, as early in the spring as the
soils can properly be prepared. From
to 5 pounds of seed are required for
planting an acre. The young plants
should be tended carefully and kept
free from weeds, and when we'll start
ed should be thinned to stand 2 inches
apart in the row.
"If onion sets are planted it will
take about 5 bushels for one acre.
The sets are put in inches apart,
in rows the same distance apart as
for seed.
"As soon as the young seedlings
start sufficiently to show the rows,
cultivation should begin. This is i'm
portant for two reasons. First, to
destroy all weeds when they are small
and most easily killed, and second, to
establish a mulch of surface soil that
will conserve moisture.
Onions need plenty of moisture for
their development. Water in the soil
rises slowly to the surface, and if the
crust formed after rain is not
broken, the moisture evaporates and
passes into the air. Cultivating after
each rain breaks this crust and forms
a mulch of fine, loose soil which
checks evaporation"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-06-01
Baker Eddy Memorial Auburn Cemetery Cambridge Mass

to lower platform at the lakes edge.
The scheme has no prototype and is
merely a screen Of columns open to the
sky. inclosing fower-grown circle.
The material used for the memorial
is Bethel white granite. the inscrip-
ton in the frieZe and upon the top of
the pylons being of white bronze set
deep into the stone work. The detail,
which on account of the size of the
reproduction is only indicated, is en-
tirely floral in form and free in treat
ment, the wild rose and the morning
glory being used as the main motives
1t is interesting INTELLECTUALLY to note
that, while it is extremely free in treat
ment and not at all conventional it Il
generally very classic In feeling. The
extreme width of the memorial is about
fifty feet, and the colonnade is eighteen
feet in diameter. The columns them
selves are fifteen feet in height and are
similar in general character to those In
the Clepsydra Of Andronicus of Cyr-
rhus. The large pylons were exhibit
lecture in New York short time ago
and experts pronounced them the finest
pieces of carved granite ever executed.
The architect is Egerton Swartwout
Of New York City, who designed the
new George Washington memorial, the
new Missouri state capitol and the new
Federal building in Denver.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-06-01

Aluminium and Oxygen.

Aluminium is in many ways Won
derful substance, albeit in the natural
world most of it is oxidized and turned
to clay. Its avidity for oxygen is one
Of its most salient characteristics. 1t is
said that one never sees the metal, di-
rectly, in air, but always and only
through a veil of superficial oxide
which forms on its free surface with
marvellous rapidity. 1t is stated that if
a fresh surface of aluminium be pre-
pared by scraping with a knife the
oxygen of the air runs in as fast as the
scale Is peeled off and keeps close be-
hind the knife blade.
If 1t were not for this superficial
scale of oxide, which acts as barrier
to further action, the metal would burn
up or defagrate in air. The large
amount of heat developed by thermit,
a mixture of powdered aluminium with
oxygen giving substances, bears wit
ness to the activity of the oxidizing
process when Washington
Star
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-06-01

Wherever possible, means should be
provided for ranging chickens, especi-
ally growing chicks, in the corn field.
This is especially true this year when
feeds are so high, for the chickens
will be able to get a considerable
amount of nourishment from the bugs
and worms and green stuff that thsy
will be able to pick up. Furthermore,
during the hot weather, the shade of
the corn is an excellent thing for them,
and the chickens do very little dam
age and considerable good to the corn
field.
Precautions, however, should be
taken against hawks, crows, and other
enemies, if the corn field is situated
where they are troublesome.-Roy H.
Waite. Poultryman. Maryland Agricul-
tural Experiment Station.