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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
SUITABLE HOUSE FOR FOWLS
Hens Should Be Comfortable, With
Floor Space of 8 or 4 Square Feet
for Each Bird.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
The poultry flock should be comfort
ably but not extensively housed. A
house which provides a floor space of
3 or square feet per bird is ample for
the purpose, and fowls are often sue
cessfully kept with an allowance no
greater than 2k to 3 square feet.
Houses must be dry and free from
draft, but must allow ventilation.
Often there is an unused shed or small
building on the place which can easily
be converted into chicken house The
front of the poultry house should be
faced toward the south, if possible, so
that the sun will shine into it. Per-
fectly satisfactory houses can be made
cheaply from piano boxes or other
packing cases. Two piano boxes with
the backs removed can be nailed to-
gether and door cut in the end. These
boxes should be covered with roofing
paper in order to keep the house dry
and to make it wind-proof. A portion
of the door should be left open or COW
cred with piece Of muslin, so as to
allow ventilation. Similar houses can
be constructed of packing cases at a
relatively small cost. A small amount
of 2 by 4 or 2 by lumber can be pur-
chased for framing. The box boards
can be applied for siding or sheathing
and then covered with roofing paper.
Where there Is a board fence it is
sometimes possible to take advantage
of this by building the poultry house
in the corner Of the fence, and making
the fence itself, with the cracks COW
cred by strips or battened, serve as the
back and one side Of the house.
A cheap house s by 8 feet square can
be made by by finch pieces and r.
inch boards. The 2 by pieces are
used for stills, plates, corner posts, and
three rafters. No studding is required
except that necessary to frame the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
FEEDING YOUNG DAIRY STOCK
nomcaI to Supply Protein by
Use of Legumes.

prepared by the United States Depart.
ment Of Agriculture.)
1t Is a common practice among
dairymen to feed skim milk until the
calf is approximately six months Of
age. Usually the time Of weaving de-
ponds upon the availability and cost
of the milk.
When milk is fed In abundance it
furnishes the greater part of the pro-
tein necessary for the growth of the
animal. If no milk is fed it becomes
necessary for the protein to be pro-
vided from some other source. Prob
ably this can be done most econom-
ically by the use of some legume, such
as alfalfa, clover, soy beans, or cow
pea hay. When hay of this sort Is
not available it is necessary to provide
the bulk Of the protein through a grain
mixture. In either case, plenty of
roughage should be supplied to the
growing heifer at all times. During
summer, when good pasture is avail
able, the heifer needs no supplement-
III 1etu, ulllIOuSu lllLle nay anu
grain are sometimes advisable late in
the season to insure steady growth.
Part Of the roughage should be sill
age, If it is available, A heifer of
six months to one year of age will
consume from to Is pounds of Sill
age a day. The grain mixture used
may be made up of (D parts of
cracked corn, and 1 part wheat bran;
(2) or parts cracked corn, 1 part
wheat bran, and 1 part ground oats;
(3) or parts cracked corn, 1 part
wheat bran, l part ground oats, and
1 part llnseed meal; (4) or 4 parts
cracked corn, / part wheat bran, 1
part ground oats, and / part blood
meal. Either 1, 2, or 4, together with
all the alfalfa, clover, or cowpea hay
that the heifer will eat, makes a good
ration. In case no Ieguminous hay
such as that just mentioned can be OBJ
tanned, No. 3 is advised, because it
contains more protein. Another ex-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
HOW TO RAISE RASPBERRIES
Black and Purple Varieties Are Usual
ly Planted on Linear System
Top Young Canes.

(From the United States Department Of
Agriculture.)
Nearly always the black raspberries
and the purple raSpberries now under
cultivation are planted on the linear
system, and as they do not send up
suckers from their roots, their train
ing is much simpler than that of the
red raspberry. The young canes
SHOULD be topped. in order to make
them able to stand erect when bearing
a heavy fruit crop. Black raspberries
should be topped at height of II to
30 inches, depending on their vigor, 10
inches being the most common height.
Purple raspberries should be topped at
height of 80 to SO inches, as their
growth Is more vigorous. The topping
may consist in cutting off the ends of
the canes after all have reached the
desired height, and usually it is done
just before picking.
Topping also may be done by pinch
ing off with the fingers the ends of the
young canes as soon as they reach the
proper height. In this case it will be
necessary to go over the plantation sew
eral times, as the new canes do not all
reach this height at the same time.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
Calves Should Be Encouraged to Eat
Good Roughase at an Early Age.

cellent grain mixture, to be used when
such hay is lacking, is composed of
2 parts of cornmeal, 2 parts of lin
seed meal, and l part Of bran.
The quantity Of grain to be fed de-
ponds very largely upon the individual
animals growth and condition, as we'll
as upon the price of the grain. Some
feeders desire q rapid growth of the
young animals, and for this reason
feed heavily with grain, while others
are satisfied with a slow growth and
try to carry their young stock largely
on roughage. Either extreme Is I'M
wise and a medium course between the
two Is advisable. A safe rule to fol-
low is to feed one pound Of grain for
the first hundredweight Of the heifer
and one-half pound for each addition
al hundredweight.
After the heifer reaches one year
of age, the following rations are sug-
gested: Cornmeal, fed according to the
rule just mentioned, together with all
the alfalfa, clover, or cowpea hay that
the animal will consume. If no leg
luminous hay is available, grain COM
posed of 2 parts cornmeal, l of bran,
and 1 of linseed meal, gluten meal,
or cottonseed meal, and 10 to 20
pounds of silage, together with all the
dry roughage that the animal can con-
sumo, will be found to be adequate.
Under ordinary circumstances a gain
Of at least a pound day from the
time of weaving to the time of first
calving is a good average for a dairy
heifer.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
Home Town
!2!ZtlglpsA 2
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BIRDS PROTECTION IN PARKS
Town Authorities in all Sections
of the Country.

In many eastern cities, where the
winters are most severe, the park
officials maintain feeding stations for
wild birds. Even as far up in "the
frozen north" as Minneapolis a num-
Der of such winter feeding places are
found in every park of their extensive
system. Theodore Wirth, the super
intendent of parks, says: "We have
a long severe winter and find 1t neces-
sary to feed birds regularly every day
for months if we are to hold them in
our parks for the summer. We have
also built and placed large number
of nesting boxes or bird houses which
are well populated. We protect birds
in every possible way and the local
Audubon society is doing excellent
work. A good many kinds of birds
which we're rarely seen here a few
years ago are now found in large num-
bers, and many which formerly left In
the fall now stay with us over winter"
We have, in many parks, sufficient
shrubbery for cover, we are not trOu-
bled much with cats, yet park men
should be required to kill all found
within the several larger parks and to
keep none except single cat In each
storehOuse. Encouragement should be
given In every way to the increase Of
native birds and those of bright plum
age and sweet song from other lands
should be introduced The country,
not the city, should perform the office
of introduction of new kinds. In
climate so mild as ours there should be
a thousand-fold as many birds as we
now have and the parks should be
filled with them.-Los Angeles Times.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
Contrariness.

Speaking of the kaisers contrary
or arbitrary attitude in this peace
talk" says a well known legislator,
reminds me of the Kansas farm
er who was elected to the state
legislature few years ago. The farm
er was called to the chair during a
session to act as speaker pro TEN. A
motion was made to lay certain res
olution on the table. The speaker put
the motion like this:
All those who want the resolution
to lay on the table say aye! All those
who want to be Contrary say no."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
Good Type of Poultry House.

door and window space. The boards
are run up and down and add suffi-
cient stiffness to the house. They are
used also for the roof and covered with
roofing paper. The back and sides of
the house also can be covered with
roofing paper, or the cracks can be
covered with wooden battens or strips
~ to 3 inches wide. In the front Of
the house there should be left win
dow or opening which can be closed,
when desired, by muslin screen or
curtain which serves as protection
against bad weather but allows venti-
lation. In the side door should be
provided which will allow entrance. A
shed or single-slope roof is best be-
cause easiest to build. A height of 6
feet in front and feet In the rear is
ample. If desired, the house may be
built higher, SO that it Is more convent
ent to work in; the increase in cost
will be slight. The ventilatOr in the
rear is not needed in the northern part
of the country, but is desirable in the
South, where summers are very warm.
Such house would be ample for
flock of 20 to % hens. 1t can be built
quickly and easily and Is cheap in
construction.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
Berries Planted on Linear System and
Trained to Wire Trellis.

Generally it will be much better to
pinch off the ends rather than to cut
them back.
Side branches called laterals will
grow from the buds along the cane
which has been pinched or pruned
back. These laterals will grow to a
length Of several feet by late summer.
In early spring, before growth starts,
they should be shortened according to
the vigor Of the plant and the habit
of the variety. The fruit is borne on
the growth of the current season, which
starts from the well-developed buds on
the laterals, and the amount of fruit
can be controlled by the number of
buds left on them in the pruning. Va.
rieties differ in the location of the
buds and should be pruned according
ly. Sometimes the buds start very
near the base of the lateral next to the
main stem and sometimes at distance
from the base. The laterals in the
former case should be ,pruned shorter
than where the buds are borne at
distance from the base. Usually the
laterals on black Saspberries should be
8 to II inches In length, but those on
the purple-caned varieties should be
IL to Is inches long. If the laterals are
left too long and too much fruit is al
lowed to develop on them, the new
canes will be weak and sometimes none
will grow. Thus the extra fruit is Sc
cured at the expense Of the crop for
the following wear
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
SHIPMENT OF DAIRY CATTLE
Long Distances Except in Fast
Express Cars.

Do not ship fresh cows long dis
tances unless in express cars under
particularly favorable conditions. The
expense involved naturally limits such
operations to valuable purebred indi-
viduals. Time and time again, as a
result of being shipped shortly after
freshening or so as to calve in transit
fresh cows have been ruined so far
as the next lactation has been con-
cerned.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
Trees Must Have Room.

In order to insure symmetry of
growth, trees must be allowed unre-
stricted area for development. At
least 40 feet should be allowed be-
tween trees intended to occupy the
ground permanently. Quick-growing
temporary trees may be planted be-
tween the long-lived ones to produce
immediate results, but these should
be removed as soon as they interfere
with the development of the perman-
ent plantations
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
INSURE CHICKENS AND EGGS
Farmer Who Hatches Early in Spring
Seems to Have Best of Argument
Lay in Winter.

An essential part of the endeavor to
insure more chickens and eggs is con-
tanned in the maXim-hatch early. The
farmer who matches early in the spring,
either by incubation or natural meth
DDS, seems to have all the best of the
argument When chickens are Matched
early in the spring they mature in the
fall and lay eggs in the winter. Then,
In the spring, they are ready to hatch
early. Late-hatched fowls are late In
maturing, do not lay in the winter,
and do not sit until late in the follow
Ing spring
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
PREPARE FOR HOME GARDEN
National Health, as Well as conserva-
ton and Patriotism, Demand
Planting Of Many This Season.

The home garden this coming season
will mean more than 1t did last year
or ever before. 1t is not only a means
Of national conservation and patriO-
tiSm; measure of national health
lies within it. The man who can and
who fails to put in home garden
next spring will be a Stacker. The
government stands ready to help in
the garden, and government bulletins
on garden subjects may be obtained by
writing to the Division Of Publications,
Department of Agriculture, Washing
ton, d. c., for list of publications
available for distribution. Many Of
the state agricultural colleges, too,
have garden bulletins for free distri-
button.
Sometimes, in many states of the
Union, there is chance to pillow the
garden early. When that chance
comes the garden should be MANFRED
and plowed. Barnyard manure is a
source of weed seeding, but it is the
most satisfactory fertilizer usually OBJ
tainable. A spot four or five feet
square should be selected at the low
est, wettest spot in the garden for a
compost pile or pit, if not too much
trouble to dig shallow pit. Into this
pit throw all grass cuttings, leaves,
vegetable tops and pea vines and to-
mato plants. They rot in year or
two and form valuable source OF
humus for the garden soil.-Country
Gentleman
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
IlIimitable.

Tommy, bound Siberia"
Cant be done"
"Why not?"
"The geography particularly speaks
of the boundless plains Of Siberia"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
Her ParadoxicaI Position.

"a vessel is different in one way
from anything else"
"What is that?"
at is when she is tied up that she
can't make any knots"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
Don't Breed SIackers.

Do not breed from slackers wheth-
er they are poor layers or those which
are inactive, go to roost early, come
off the roost late.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
All But.

Grandma-He'd make you a good
husband by all accounts.
Bessie-All accounts but bank ac-
count.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
Food for Chicks.

In order for chicks to grow the best
1t is desirable to have food Of some
lind before them all the time.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12

Builders OF air castles are spared al
worry about labor strikes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12

No, Herbert, you cannot have your
boss arrested because he fires you.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1918-04-12
Basis of Feed.

Bran and corn should be the basis
of poultry feed in consideration Of
present prices.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-05
Germans Face Withdrawal;
May Be Driven From France

Such a retreat would open the eyes
of even the German home follsf to
such an extent that the higher com
mand will not dare to face it unless
forced to do 50 by the allies blow. The
Germans will sacrifice additional
legions before they begin such a
crawl They may vet be forced to
save themselves by retreating from
the H indenburg line as they did OF
old There is reason to believe that
the Germans hope to snatch the initia-
tive from the allies before the end Of
the seasons campaign by rapidly with
drawing the bulk OF their armies to
the Hindenburg line, leaving their
picked troops and a screen of heavy
artillery to prevent the rapid advance
of the allies.
is argued that they might have
sufficient divisions rested to form a
reserve for use az storm troops these
to attack at the precise moment when
the allies come in contact with the
Hind nburg line. when the Germans
might believe them tired and disorgan-
Ted But instead Of stopping when
they reached the Hindenburg defenses,
Foche sent the British tearing
through. completely smashing any
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-05
Chicago Federal Building
Bombed; n People Killed
(By United PRESS

Chicago ILL., Sept 5The federal building Bombed yesterday
afternoon shortly ater3 clock killing people
Whether party responsible bombing the bni
1eg exfeeted 4a
recently sentenced nearly hundred A W. conjecra
There however who will believe that destruction
wrought the Of members of the order notwithstanding
William Haywood known the uncrowned king Of order
is quoted as saying:
It IS indeed unfortunate that this thing happened this time
We all know that the W NJ will be blamed
IN my own heart that man OF organization
nected with the matter. @
Haywood at the time the building the wreckng having
been done little after o'clock yesterday comforting his
lawyer He the eighth floor.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-05
BY JOSEPH sIIAPLEN

/ Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
/ New York, Sept s. RI voiutipns are
as capricious as d pretty woman.
They can throw people into obstacles
of joy and fits Of despair They bring
out the noblest and basest in man.
That is just exactly what the Russian
revolution has done to THE Russian
people.
When one arrived in Petrograd last
January he found mobs Of civilians
and soldiers smashing and robbing
wine cellars and getting beastIy drunk,
The Iinldndest cut of all dealt by the
revolution to the old court ca1narilla,
suppose, must have been the lOoting
of the wonderful wine cellars Of the
winter palace. They were wild, danger
Ious mobs that worked In Petrograd in
those December and january days.
They showed particular preference for
wine and chanpag ne stored by the
Rornanoffs for the entert Eminent 81
the Rasputins, But that would not
have been half 20 bad, The bolsheyilri
handled the n1obs on this score quite
easily Though in one case, rernerli.
Der, there were no less than 1876 calls
for help received at Smolny at one
day, the day when the wine uellat
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-05
BY WILLIAM PHILLIP STMAIS
United Press Staff CORRESPONDENT.

x Paris, Sept. The German gen
eral staff today. is facing the possibili-
ty of a vast new withdrawal which
would entail their giving up practical
lys all the remainder of France under
the Teutonic heel
4 1t is practically certain that the
plans of Hindenburg and Ludendorf
owing to the British blow In the
Sensee valley, which as I cabied, has
Brought the allies to within six miles
Of DouaL While important railway
communications between Douai and
Cambria as well as the highways and
comm nications generally between
these two cities are themselves dom
mated Rs
Unless the Germans can stop the
advance Of General Horne, the whole
system OF the Hindenburg defenses
must crlinble and. beyond this there
appears to be nothing until the lire is
reached running from Nieupport on
the Belgian sea coast past Lille and
Mons, from there:st TO Mesieres Charles
vile through the valley OF the Meuse
and Joining M with the old line az
Ponamoussorl
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-05
GERMANS. CIRCULATING
PEACE PROPAGANDISM

( Rome, Sept S.. Italian newspaper
correspondents in Switzerland advise
that the German agents are daily
circula ting reports that Germany is
ready to conclude a peace.
This peace they report would be on
IA basis of the evacuation Of France
and Belgium. Germans are said to
be against paying an indemnity and
are willing to accept the British
laborites' viewpoint regarding Assace
and Lorraine, which provides that il
the inhabitants of these provinces vote
TO decide their own fate they too do
so under German supervision. The
German agents ignore the Italian
aspirations.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-05
DESTROY RAILWAY BRIDGES
AND YARDS; ALL AMERI-
CAN BOMBING PLANES SAFE
BY LOWELL MELETT

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
With The Americans In France,
Sept. 5.-The German batteries at day
light bombed Fraptell, firing three>
thousands shells during the action and
using gas. No infantry action followed
the barrage of several hours.
American bombers Tuesday destroyed
Contains -Briey railroad bridge and have
blown up the junction of Metz Con
fans and Briey railroad and yards,
round house and buildings at Domlary
and Baroncourt. All the American
planes returned. Ten German machines
attacked Americans without any
success. @
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-05
AND FRENCH
SWEEPING VESLE, NOW
HALF WAY TO AISNE
By Fred Ferguson
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent

With the Americans in France, Sept 5The
French who the Ves wide 'front.'
practically half to the Asne At points the Franco
Americans are holding the heights dominating the Asne
The falling Chemin Des
sons being steadily followed The advance is steady
impossible outline present location the troops
Americans gradually increasing.
The first crossing of the Vee by patrols occurred last night
followed by crossing when large bodies
marched at different points.
At last reports the Americans beyond Banz
and Baseu2 Bazohes and Fsete have fallen the
hands through thanking movement.
The Germans also withdrawing general
st Quentin according of German officers
The has established defense line which
through Ham Berlin Court Dampour Juss Chauny
fere flames
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-05
Says Kaiser's Dynasty at Stake
(By United Pressl


Amsterdam, Sept 5Telegraphng the municipality Dresden
the Kaiser said according advces received
The German people understand difficulty
cve battle against enemy filed with hatred jealousy de-
sructive will and they unanimously to devote all their
strength to defend their sacred soil and kultme Z
German Chancellor Herring, speaking meeting the con-
tuon committee the Prussan upper house. declared the
dynasty is stake and it therefore necessary carry
to umen Of the royal pledge regarding the Francsh
SAID Hertng Moreover it be saeguared prevent our
political life being made radical
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-05
RUnAuIANS IN
OPEN REVOLT
SEIZE GRAIN

b United Press Staff Correspondents
Rome, Sept. $ The Rumarian
farmers are openly revolving against
the Germans as a result Of the latter's
eonfiscation Of the Rumanian crops
According to recent dispatches, via
Switzerland, German soldiers are often
killed by the reyoiting farmers and the
uprising Is growing. Near Bucharest
the peasants attacked a train carrying
grain to Germany. killed the guards,
and carried off the grain.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1918-09-05
FRENCH REACH HEIGHTS
DOMINATING THE AISNE::
MAKE STEADY ADVANCE
Additional Troops Cross Ves hmecy Bray and Missy Asne
in Hands Of French. Impossible TO Outline Pres
ent Location Of Foremost Troops.
(By United Press)

Paris Sept 5-Cosng in Hail. and striking eastward to flank
the German positions above V and advancing norhward
from Vesle pursuit of the reeatng enemy the French
gained steadily last night according to the office
Americans and the French advancing north
and have reached the edge Of the heights dominating the Asne
Additional French troops reported have crossed the Vese
between and Jonche Between the e and the
Ane the French have also made further advances have taken
Clancy Braye and Missy Asn The advance
steady that impossible the reports outline present
location Of the foremost troops