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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19

of o,OO0-bushel capacity. The
states rank as follows: Louisiana,
19,S94,OOO bushels; Texas, 10,476.O0O; ;
California, 3,S7O,OO0: Arkansas, 3,O79,-
600; Tennessee, 25O,000 South Caro-
lima, $4,000. The coastal plain Of the
two first-named states contains three
fourths of the rice milling and stor-
Ing capacity of the nation.
Mills in Louisiana.
Of the 69 mills reporting, just half
are in Louisiana the daily capacity
of all mills is 199,S00 bushels. Fif-
teen elevators reported, Il OF which
are in Texas, and they represent nine
tenths of the 100000 bushels capac,
ity of the elevators. OF the 253 ware
houses, Louisiana has 1873, storing 49,
$4,000 of the 36,529,000 bushels ca
pacity for this form Of storage.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19
SOUND POINTS ON BRoILERs
Skill and Capital Are Essential to Sue
cess-Good Eggs Are Needed for
Incubator.

No person can hope to be successful
in the broifer business without botn
skill and capital.
It must be run in connection with
good egg farm, as that is the only
way to procure good eggs for the in
cubator.
1t is, if anything more important to
have a good brooder than hatcher
A top-heat brooder may be all right
IN summer, but you won't want it IN
winter.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19
CAYUGA IS AMERICAN BREED
Smallest Of Al! Market Ducks and Is
Not Generally Acceptable &c Our
Poultryr:en.

The only breed of ducks that can
Law claim to being strictly American
is the Cayuga. but, strange to say, it
is breed that is not generally accept
able TO the American pOultryInan.
II is the smallest Of all market
ducks, but 1t natures early, and fur
nishes fine mea+ The objection is
that it is q blatkfeathered bird, and
in consequence, dressed carcass Is
very un2t;ractive. principally on ac-
count of the presence OF black pin
feathers.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19
URGENT FACTOR IN FEEDING
Bunch of Steers VIII Not Touch Dry
Corn Fodder While Silage
Is Before Them.

Place silage and dry corn-fodder be-
fore bunch Of steers and they will
not touch the latter until they have
entirely disposed Of the first. This is
an important factor in feeding, be-
cause palatability adds to digestive
qualities of feed, and the more a steer
digests the more fat he will put on.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19
Manufacturing Plant.

The farm is to be considered as q
manufacturing plant. The farmer who
markets ungraded products stops
short Of completion Of his part of the
manufacturing process and sacrifices
a portion of the profits due him. Il
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19

Beginning today and continuing up
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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19
COMFORTABLE HOGS PAY BIG
,iverx important to Breeder That He
Get Most Out of Corn Because OF
Its High Price.

@ake your hogs comfortable. Hogs
rare hfgh-priced now and so Is corn.
lit is very important, therefore, teat
-ssshe man who Is feeding hogs should
get the most out Of his corn; and Ia
~ssrder to do this he Iaust make them
comfortable.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19
HIGH MORTALITY IN PcULTs
Among Other Causes Responsible Is
Exposure TO Dampness and Cold
and Poor Feeding.

The high mortality common in young
poults is usually due to some Of the
following causes: Exposure to damp
ness and cold, improper feeding, close
confinement, lice, predatory animals.
weakness in the parent stock.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19
THE EED.tLD aND NEWS.

We told you few issues back that
We were going to print the best news
.cr his year that We have ever
printed, and that means some paper.
We have had Our troubles for the
past several months, and sometimes
the future looked gloomy. am op-
tiInistic by nature and can't help it,
ard don't deserve any credit for it,
though l am glad that am. During
the past several months my optimism
has been put to the severest test. 1t
looked one time that could not get
any help, and that I would be unable
TO print any sort Of paper. But [
feel that has now been settled, and
while we are not swifts or record
breakers. we are getting there all
the same and as soon as we catch
up and take a new hold, which will
re very soon. We are going to move
some.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19

During these months Of trial we
lost some Of our subscribers. I sup.
pose they thought it would not -
we'll 70 renew with us, and so went
elsewhere. At any rate, all who did
net renew and whose time was ouc
PRIOR to January 1 have been taken
from our list. We should have been
glad to have bad then remain, but
if they preferred to DO otherwise we
have no quarrel with them. There
are good many whose time is ex
piring in January and February
These We have not taken off. II
they do not renew when the first Of
February comes off they will go. We
want the fellows who stand by you
when trouble comes. They are the
friends who count. It is easy to be a
friend when everything goes along
smooth. but the testing time comes
when everything goes dead wrong.
But 7 have no quarrel or scolding for
any one.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19

Peginning next week We are going
to commence printing ''Over the Top"
by Arthur Guy Empey, an American
10y who got into the war two years
.nead of his country and mo writes
very interesting story OF his -xpe-
riences for year and half .ntlI
he fell desperately wounded in no
Me-'s Lond. He saw more actuai
fighting and real warfare than any
war correspondent. and more. prob
ably. than any other man who has
written about the war. His expert
ences are grim. but they are thrill
ing and their recital Is lightened by
a touch of humor-the same numor
that has enabled this boy to pass
through the scorching fires of war
and come out, wounded in body but
sound and sunny in spirit" And that
gives you fair idea Of his book.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19

IHAVB ATTRACTIVE prices to make
on cord wood. green or dry, for i'm
mediate, fall, spring or summer de-
livery Be sure to see me before you
SELL H. o. Long.
11-2s-tf. Silverstret, S. C.
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LOST-Pocketbook, either Exchangz
or Commercial Bank. Finder Will
please leave it at this office and re
ceiVe reward 2-S-ltp
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19

we will keep you posted on the pEit-
icol situation and all the happenings
in the county and State. E. II. A
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19

I read it and with great deal OF
interest. You will like to read it,
and We are going to print a few col
umns in each paper beginning next
week. You don't want to miss any
of this story, or rather recital Of the
experiences of one who has been
over the top and across No Mans
Land, and who has also been In the
trenches. AS our own boys are now
going across seas and will be call
ed upon to go over the top and out
into No Mans Land we will be more
interested in the war and anything
that tells Us about it will be read
with interest.
The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1918-02-19

Beginning next week We will also
publish page a week Of farm news
adapted to cur agricultural condi-
tio... and Innate.
The moral of this story is, get on
our list at once so that you will not
miss an issue, and if you are already
on get in good standing by sending
the dollar, so that you may remain
there Nuf sed.
E. H. Aull.
P. 81 forgot to tell you, but then
you know, how well our reporter
covers the local field and what good
readable editorials we write and that
The Idler, whose stuff is appreciated
by some of our readers, promises to
resume his ruminations. And then
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

SAID moment ago, to serve as .steplad-
ders for reaching his larger objectives.
Foch chose to attack the Amiens
salient rather than that in Flanders be-
cause even a small victory would restore
communications through Amiens, abol-
ish the threat to the unity between Brit
lsh and French armies and push the Ger
mans away from Paris. Further than
this, any considerable gain would have
Immediate consequences for the situation
between the Aisne and the Vese and
would probably compel a general Ger
man retirement between Rheims and
Noyon; that is, between the Disc and the
Vesle, just west of Rheims. We all saw
how the German success on the Aisne
Immediately forced the French to with
draw in the angle between the Disc and
the Aisne and allow the Germans to
come dangerously near to Compiegne;
Foch calculated that he could now re-
verse the order of events.
The salient Foch selected to attack
was in all respects comparable with the
Marine salient. 1t faced west instead of
south; this was the only difference. But
a blow from the south bank of the Somme
directed southwark at Chaulnes was
bound to have just the same effect upon
all the Germans in the half circle be-
tween the Somme and the Disc as Man.
gins blow toward Scissors, along the
Aisne, had had upon all the German
troops in the half circle between Rheims
and SCISSORS. More than this, Chaulnes
might be compared as railroad centre
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
Extent of Germans Retreat Alone
Remains To Be Determined
Is Within Reason to Hope They
Will Be Pushed to French
Frontier Before Winter


George has told US how the gaps in the
army caused by the April and May de-
feats had been filled, how the lost ar
tillery had been replaced A British
army, burning to avenge its defeats of
the earlier days and emulate French and
American achievements on the offensive
in the Marine fighting, was now ready to
step out of the lines to which it had
been driven three months before
In a measure the situation recalled
the conditions of June and July in 1916.
Then the Germans had gambled on four
months Of immunity from British inter
ference while they reduced Verdun Now
similar period had been gained for
them by their successes against the Brit
ish in the spring. They had put the
British out of the reckoning for period
within which they had expected to dis
pose of the French, giving small heed
to any American contingents, But the
end of the three months saw their failure
against the French in Champagne as
complete as had been their failure before
Verdun two years earlier, while the
Americans were already playing real
part in the game.
1t was always certain that if the Ger
mans failed to dispose of the French be-
fore the British recovered from their de-
feats the result would be dangerous for
Ludendorff. He had gambled on a de-
cisive victory against the French and
his gamble had turned out badly; he was
now to pay the price of his unsuccessful
risks, a price that he must have fore
seen when he decided to stake all on
single blow, but price which was bound
to be a tax upon his already greatly
strained resources.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
The Third Battle
OF the Sornme

Now, TO understand the development
OF the Foch offensive in Picardy, which
will undoubtedly be known as the Third
Battle of the Somme, it is necessary to
90 back for a moment to the progress of
the campaign In this region. On March
Il the Germans struck at the point of
junction between French and British
lines along the Disc and thence north
ward to the Scarpe, with the obvious in
tention Of driving wedge between the
British and French armies routing the
former and rolling them back north of
the Somnle. Thus defeated and con-
tanned behind the Somme, the Germans
calculated that the British would be
eliminated from the campaign and their
own hands would be free to dispose of
the French.
The blow was delivered by Hutier, who
used upward of forty divisions and
scored the greatest victory on the West
ern front since the warfare of positions
began. But his success fell just short
OF being decisive. Coughs Fifth Brit
ish Army was practically destroyed;
great gap was opened between the Brit
ism and French armies; but owing to the
rapidity with which French troops were
brought up and the skill with which they
were handled by Fayolle the gap was
closed and the German thrust came to
an end east of Amiens, but near enough
10 the city to interrupt railroad com
o'unication and cripple Allied communal
cations.
A subsidiary attack in Flanders led
70 an unexpected success, due to the col
'apse Of the Portuguese on the line, and
placed Ypres in peril. But again the ar
r'Vai Of French forces at critical mo-
mens averted disaster. Ludendorff now
calculated that he had disposed Of the
british, just az Napoleon, after Lgny,
regarded Bldcher and the Prussians as
OUT Of the campaign. AS Napoleon
turned against Wellington, Ludendorff
now directed his attention against Pc
tsin and the French armies and present
y won his great victory on the Aisne
winch carried him to the Marine. Not
Until his fourth offensive, that directed
a. compiegne, did he encounter any real
disappointment, but even this partial
failure netted him certain amount Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
Ludendorff's Exposed Position in Hi
Three Salients Gave Allies Their
Chance to Attack-Germans
Have Suffered a Paralyzing
Defeat, Their Worst of War
By FRANK II. SIMONDS
Author of 'SThe World War;" "They Shall Not Pass

The past two weeks have seen one of
tho most momentous changes in the
whole history of the World War. Hav-
ing exploited his victory between the
Marine and the Aisne to its full meas
ure. but wisely declining to repeat the
old blunders of the Somme and Of Elan
ders. Marshal Foch on August shifted
his field of action to the familiar battle
ground of the Somme and opened the
first Allied offensive of the campaign of
1918. By this blow he definitely indi-
Gated that he regarded the time as come
when the balance had shifted to the
Allied side, and that the hour was over
when inferiority in numbers and of ma
terial condemned the Allies to the de-
fensive on the Western front.
Fochs attack in Picardy resembled in
many ways his counter offensive between
the Aisne and the Marine, but in a mill
tary sense it was quite different thing.
In the earlier operation Foch struck to
bring to halt and throw back a dan
gerous German offensive, and his blow
was directed at the flank Of a German
army engaged in an operation organized
and planned by Ludendorff. His stroke
was defensive blow, and it had ex-
hausted it's possibilities when it had COM
PEELED the German to evacuate certain
area of ground, part of it taken in the
operation which was still in progress,
part of it taken in any earlier offensive
designed to prepare the way for the later
undertaking.
But in Picardy Foch was acting not
to block German operation, but to take
advantage of the situation in which
earlier German operations had placed
the foe. His hands were free; he could
attack where and when he chose; and the
Reorganization of the enemy due to the
recent defeat gave him that security
against a German counter blow which
has not been possessed before this year.
He had, moreover, the great advantage
of having used far fewer troops in the
Second Battle of the Marine than his
enemy. He had needed much smaller
numbers to take advantages offered by
enemy laundering. Ludendortf had been
compelled to draw troops from the north
to aid those in the south, but Foch had
not been compelled to make correspond
ing drafts upon the British, and as a re-
suit he had the British army intact for
the new effort, while the American con-
tributions had enabled him also to save
certain French reserves for the Somme
attack
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
Germans Were
Expecting Trouble

1t was clear in the first days of Au-
gust that the Germans expected trouble
along the Somme, for they drew back
their front lines from positions west of
the Avre and the Ancre and endeavored
to strengthen their positions behind both
of these little streams, while at the same
time they executed similar withdrawal
in the point of the Flanders salient.
These signs were sufficient evidence that
Ludendorff recognized that the offensive
had passed to Foch and that heavy
blow was coming between the Disc and
the sea, but how heavy he could not
foresee.
On the morning of August 8 the Brit
ish all the way from Albert, north of the
Somme and just east of the Ancre, to
their point of junction with the French
below tie AmiensSt. Quentin highway,
the famous old Roman road, steppe' out
of their lines and began an offensive
This operation was made by Rawlinson
commanding the Fourth British Army
as ne had commanded the same army in
the First Battle IF the Somme To the
south French army under General
Debeny attacked astride the Avre, from
the British flank to the vicinity of Mont
ddier.
There was no preliminary lombard
ment, only creeping barrage, which
preceded the advancing British Ca
nadians and Australians on their rush
for the German lines. A complete sur
prise was the result, and in the next
few hours the German lines were broken
on a front ola dozen miles and a huge
number of British tanks were pouring
through the gap, smashing German nests
of machine guns and points Of support,
while cavalry made it's first general op-
GRAFTON on the British front of the whole
period since the trench war began.
Again it was demonstrated that the
element Of surprise, restored to The war
fare of positions by Hutier's method, was
the prime requisite Of success. Once
more, as at CambraI surprise gave the
British an immediate gain, but unlike
Cambria the new operation was one
which had been carefully prepared with
a clear view. TO utilizing any gains,/ AS
a result the British advance was for
three days unchecked. In that time
more than dozen miles were covered,
and by Saturday, August 10, British and
French cavalry were ranging the terri
tory behind the old front of the first
days of the Somme in 1916, and the Brit
ish troops had reached, and even at points
Nightly passed, the lines on which the
Germans had stood on July / of that
earlier year. Chaulnes was at least
temporarily occupied by the cavalry
patrols.
Meantime, the French to the south met
with sharper resistance at the outset, but
by Saturday had pushed east and north
of Montdidier and turned the Germans
out of this extreme eastern point in their
line. At this moment still another
French army, under General Humbert,
took up the offensive from Montdidier to
the Disc and began to push north and
east over the ground which had seen the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

or the salient with Scissors and Rove
as q highway centre with Fere-en-
Tardenois in the Marine salient The
chief difference in the situation lay in
the fact that in the Marine salient
great army had been collected for an
offensive, while in the Somme salient
there were only the ordinary holding
troops, which would make the German
problem of retreat simpler.
British Reorganized
And Ready for Blow
1t was now obviously the turn of the
British to take the lead and bear the
burden of the fighting. The last con-
siderable British engagement had taken
place on April 20, when the German
effort in Flanders had been definitely
checked. For more than three months
Haig's army had been refitting and re-
organizing after the terrible experiences
of March and April. It's losses had been
replaced, its divisions brought up to
full strength. Not less than nine
~ Ol'lSlOHS Will! HuHleIlCdl oCIeIlHtH OIL
close to 100000 men were available,
the strongest force Britain had put into
the French field during the war.
More than this, for the offensive which
was now to come the preparations had
been going forward for many weeks.
The Canadians and Australians, who
were to be the point of the wedge, to be
the "shock troops" had been for a con-
siderable period back of the line and
training for the great operation. Lloyd
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18
Hes entoy md
Picrdyba

strategic calculations, but it may turn to
the advantage of the Allies.
"The reason why the general reserve
army of the Allies has not yet inter
vened is probably that it has not yet been
fully constituted. General Foch knows
better than any one else how to utilize
be careful not to throw it into battle I'M
til he is certain there will not be another
German attack somewhere else; he knows
enough to wait until the enemy's reserves
are used up in constant effort and until,
little by little, his troops have been dec-
mated by long effort. So the day he does
send his reserves into action may mark
the beginning Of a great victory
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-08-18

desperate fighting of the German ad-
vance toward Compiegne in June of the
present year
by Sunday the Germans between the
Ancre and the Disc were practically on
the old Somme front; their line ran fair
ly straight from Albert to Ribecourt.
with Chaulnes changing hands at fire.
quent intervals and Roye and I.assignv
becoming hourly more in peril By this
tlme 56,o00 prisoners and 500 captured
cannon were proofs of the extent of the
German decentralization. Eleven divisions
mad been smashed and there had been
general advance on forty-mile front
Tor some ten miles, with an extreme adj
vance of upward of fifteen miles toward
the north. The Montddier salient was
gone; the question was still unanswered
as TO where the Germans could stand.
out 1t was becoming clear that they must
eventually retire behind the upper
oomme on line from Arras through
Sapaume, Peronne and Ham to the high
ground above the Disc and between
Noyon and Chauny.
AZ tins moment the Allies had def
nltely abolished the menace to Paris con-
stltuted by the Montdidier salient. the
Oise avenue, like the Marine route was
not only barred, but doubly barred. They
mad cleared the Germans away from
Amlens, lnsuring the union between the
BRUSH and French armies, reopening all
the Vital railroad lines which meet at this
city and, above all, the main Paris
Amlens-Calais line, which had been cut
by indirect fire ever since the March of
1enslve. This was a gain connarahle
with the clearing of the Paris-Chalons-
Nancy railroad as result of the Marine
counter offensive. Together these tri-
umphs restored the two vital lines of
railroad, which had been cut by the Ger
man offensive. The gain was incalcu-
liable, both with respect to the future Sc
curity of the Anglo-French commun;ca-
tons and the greater efficiency of Allied
transport. On the larger side the onlv
serious consequences of the German
gains of the spring and early summer
were now abolished; what remained was
to measure the extent Of the injury the
Germans were still to suffer.
BY the second blow Foch had definite
~ wrested the offensive from Ludendorff:
he was now calling the tune and it was
his foe who was doing the dancing. The
whole character of the campaign had
changed. 1t was no longer a question
OF whether the German advance could
be checked, but how far the Allied Of
fensiVe would sweep and what disloca-
tons of the German front between
Rheims and Arras were inevitable.