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The Federal Trade Commission its recent report profits
stated that the five large meat packers have been rofteeng and
that they have monopoly of the market
These conclusions just of serious
only those engaged in the meat packing business but to
every other citizen of country
figures given profits misleading and the statement that
the packers have monopoly unsupported by the facts
The packers mentioned the report ready prove their
profits reasonable and necessary.
The business of the largest American industries
Any citizen who would amarze himself with its details must be
prepared for large totals
The report that the aggregate profits four large packers
were $14O,OO 900 for the three war years.
This compared with $40 100000 the average annual
profit for the three years before the war; making appear that
the profit $12OOO greater than pewar profit
This compares threeyear profit with oneyear prota mani
festy unfair method of comparison 1t only misleading
but the Federal Trade Commission apparently has made mistake
in the figures themselves.
The aggregate reeyear profit of $ was earned on
sales four and half billion dollars three
each dollar of fraction per
pound of product.
Packers profits negbe factor prices live and
meats NO Otner large business is conducted upon such small
margins of profit
Furthermore this very mporant-ony small portion of
this profit has been paid dividends The balance has put
back into the business It had to be- you realize when you
consider the problems the packers have had
quickly during these years.
To conduct this business times with higher and the
necessity of paying two three times the former prices live
stock, has required the of three working
capital The additional profit makes only fair this
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ain Facts About the Meat Business

and as has been stated the larger portion of the profits earned
has been huge stocks of goods and provide ad
dons and Improvements made necessary by the de-
mands of our army and navy and the Allies.
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SHELTER and DRY
BEDDING SAVE FEED
Food Used to Maintain Body Tempera
ture Cannot Add to Weight
Of Animal.

Shelter and dry bedding are impor
tant factors in finishing off hogs for
market. especially during these days Of
costly feed, according to e. Z. Jordan.
professor of animal industry, Louisiana
State University. II large percent
age Of food has to be used to maintain
the body temperature, there's somuch
less available for increasing the ami
mails weight. II the hogs are obliged
to lie in the mud during a period Of
cold rains, it will be impossible fol
them to consume enough food to main.
tain the body temperature. and loss
Of fat already deposited in the body
will be the result. Certainly no think
ing farmer will fail to realize what
this means, nor will he fail to provide
shelter and dry bedding for his hogs
when he considers that the value Of
these two factors may easily equal
one-half that of the feed. In other
words, ten barrels of corn fed to fat
tening hogs in dry, comfortable quar-
tiers will produce as much, and fire.
quently more, gain than twenty barrels
fed In mud and filth.
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IMPLEMENTS COST MORE;
REQUIRE BETTER CARE

One Of the biggest leaks in the farm
ing business is caused by the lack OF
care given farm implements and ma
chinery. according to E. B. Doran, as
sistant professor Of agronomy. Louis
lana State University. "The care OF
farm machinery" says Mr.. Doran,
means ~ protecting it from the
weather at all times: (2) seeing that
It il properly operated, well lubri
Gated, and doing only the work for
which 1t was built; and (3) making
sure that it is at all times in good
working order for the sake OF the
machine itself and to avoid loss OF
time in the field.
"The necessity for taking good care
Of farm implements is more vital now
than ever before. The prices are
high and materials are scarce even
though the war is over. And the
probabilities are that this condition
win continue for several years longer.
assist in the period OF reconstruc'
ton by conserving farm equipment.
Put money in your own pocket by TAX
ing care Of your farm implements.
Isn't that kind Of money making az
worth while as some other kinus?~
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STATE WIDE CAMPAIGN
FOR FOOD PRODUCTION
EVERY POSSIBLE AGENCY WILL
BE UTILIZED TO INFORM PEo-
PIE OF NEED FOR FOOD.
WOMEN MUST CONSERVE
improved Farm Machinery Is Expect
ed To Very Largely Offset the
Labor Shortage.

A food production campaign that il
expected to reach every nook and
corner of the state will be launched
next January by the Extension Divi.
sion Of the Louisiana State University.
This will be part Of nationwide eff.
fort to produce next year the largest
food and feed crops the country has
ever known. The necessity for pro
ducing every oWce of food possible
II more apparent every day, and moth.
ing will be left undone to get maxi.
mum acreage planted and a maximum
increase in live stock. Every agency
that can be utilized will be put to
work informing the people of the
great need for growing more food.
The press. the pulpit, the orator, the
schools, the motion pictures, the bank.
er and the merchant will be called
upon. Between now and January ev.
cry parish will be organized for the
campaign. All the factors that afrec.
food production will be taken in con
sideration and solved as far as posi-.
bic. Improved machinery is expected
TO very largely Offset the labor short
age. While the men are being urged
to produce. the women VIII be urged
to conserve. Facts and figures will
be presented that will leave no
shadow Of doubt in the mind OF any
one as to the necessity for his get
ting busy in the interest Of himself
and humanity.
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s y \ o PS s

CHAPTER ALBERT y. Depcw, author of
thc story. enlists in the United States Navy,
sarviDg four years and attaining the rank
of chief petty officer first-ciass gunner.
afisr h. IS Eonorably discharged from the
NaYy, ana he sails for France with Il de
termination TO enlist
CHATTER IIILIIe joins the Foreign I.e-
,-tcr and is assigned TO the drendnaught
t'ussard. where his Workmanship wins him
high henors
CHAPTER IY-Dcpcw is detached from his
slip and sent with Il regiment OF the L.
zion to Flanders, where he soons finds him
self in the front line trenches.
CHATTER Vie is detailed to the artil-
\ Fry and makes the acquaintance of the
4 81 Il, s, the wonds rful French guns that
I Fave saved the day for the Allies on many
s@a battlefield. Before seeing any action, he
ii ordered back to his regiment in the front
II fine trenches.
CHATTER NI-Depew goes 'over the top
and .gets" his first German in bayonet
Gght.
CHAPTER Willis company takes part
shorty aftcrwald assists in stopping a
1 flrrtc charge of the Huns who are moved
Gown as they cross No Mans Land.
CHATTER yIII-sent to Dixmude with
dis,sstt hes. Dcpew is caught in a Zeppelin
raid, but escapes unEurt.
CHAPTER IN-Ile is shot through the
4 thigh IN Il brush with the Germans and
Is sent to Il hospital, where he quickly re-
& toycrs.
ss CHAPTER N-Ordered back to sea duty
Drpew reioinS the Cussard, which makes
b SEVERAL trips to the Dardanellcs rs a cons
yer The tuSsard is almost battered to
sr!ftes by the Turkish batteries
CHAPTER N-The cussard takes part in
~ many hot engage ments in the memorable
/ taiilpoli campaign.
t,HApTEI NII-Dcpew is Il member of Il
landing party which sees fierce lighting in
&kfhe trenches nj Gallipoli.
CHATTER NliI-After an unsuccessful
trench raid Depew tries to rescue two
Wounded ncn in No Mans Land, but botl
s. de before he can reach the trenches.
q st.l.AprER XiV-Dcpew wins the Croix dc
&N(;utrrc for bravery in passing through Il
ssterrieic artillery fire to summon aid to his
y II tnmfades in an advanced post.
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raiding parties and small attacks from
enemy trenches.

Faiding parties and small attacks from
enemy trenches.
We had no sooner got used to the
shell hole and were making ourselves
as comfortable as possible in it when
along came shell of what must have
BEEN the Jack johnson size, and we
were swamped. We had to dig three
of the men out, and though one. Of
them was badly wounded we could not
send him back to the hospital. In
fact, the Smelling was so heavy that
none of us ever expected to come out
of it alive.
So, it was like keeping your own
death watch, with the shells tuning
up for the dirge. 1t was impossible to
listen to the shells. If you kept your
mind on the noise for any length of
time it would split your eardrums,
am sure. So all we could do was to
lay low in the shell hole and wait for
something to happen.
Then they began using shrapnel on
us, and one of our machine gunners,
who got up from his knees to change
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officer had said aud l figured j would
or bring them back. Either way there
was not one chance In q hundred that
any of us would make it. Because
when got through it was really just
a miracle and nobody would have
thought it could happen.
Then the. officer told me to go back
to the beach, where our naval guns
were, and that was detailed to them.
Maybe you do not think was gladi
But there was rough work still ahead
of me, because when got behind the
third line saw wide open field that
was light gray from the shell smoke
hanging over it. and I could see the
flashes where the big ones were doing
their work, and I had to go through
that field.
fell time and again, sometimes
when thought a shell was near, and
sometimes when had no reason for
it-only was thirsty again. and was
shivering all the time, and was SO
weak I could not have choked gold
fish. I do not remember hardly any
thing about going through that fed,
and you might say the next thing !
knew was when / was overtaken by
dispatch runner, and got in tin
tub at the side Of a motorcycle and
was taken to the guns.
felt ready for a Rip Van Wrinkle
nap then, but the officer in command
would not let me. He said they were
short of gunners-the terrific Smelling
had killed off dozens Of theln-and as
he knew I could point a gun he had
ordered them over the telephone to
get me to the beach as fast as posi-.
BILE. He spotted the two warehouses
have spoken of for me and said IL
was up to us to put them out OF com.
mission. The gun was 14-inch naval
and that looked good to me, SO
bucked up lot. The warehouses were
about 10 or IL miles away, / should
judge, and about 80 or 40 yards apart
/ felt very weak, as / have said
and shivered every once in a while
so I did not think / could do much
cunning worth whistling at. But the,
loaded the old 14-inch and made ready
and we got the range and all was set
The officer told me to let her ride
So I said to myself, 'This is one fol
you, Murray, old boy. Let's go from
here"
So I sent that one along and sh,
landed direct and the warehouse wen
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EARLY GAINS ARE
MOST PROFITABLE
Pigs Making Weight Of IT'S to 226
Pounds at Eight o. Ten Months
Give Best Returns.

Feeding experiments prove that hogs
gain their first 100 or 200 pounds Of
weight much cheaper per pound than
gains made beyond these weights.
"A pig should never see his own
birthday. but he should weigh around
200 pounds and be ready for market
at eight or ten months OF age" says
]. B. Francioni, swine specialist, Live
stock Extension Service, L. 8. U. Mar
ket quotations show that hogs weigh.
ing ITS to 225 pounds command top
prices, and every effort should be
made to have pigs put on that much
weight at ten months. Growers should
keep in mind the advantages OF early
marketing. Gains are made at great.
er cost as the animal grows older,
therefore, to reduce the cost Of produc'
ton the aim should be to get the max
imum gains at the earliest age pos
sible."
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KEEP THE WEEYIL
OUT OF YOUR CORN
The Black Weevii Is Worst Enemy %
Corn From the Time II Natures
In the Field.

The black weevil. with which every
Louisiana farmer is fully acquainted,
is the worst enemy of corn from the
time 1t begins to mature in the field
until disposed Of by feeding or selling
on the Market" says A. F. Kidder,
professor Of agronomy, Louisiana State
University. This insect will attack
the corn in the field. consequently one
must use measures that will reduce
such damage. The only method Of les
SEEMING the field ravages is to field
select the corn in order to be sure Of
getting ears with tight shuck cover.
ings. The ends of the ears should be
especially well covered. Field. infest.
ed corn should be harvested earlier
than other corn. BY pulling 1t with
the shuck on many Of the weevils may
be removed. Such corn can be fed
very early. or 1t may be placed latter
shucking) In very tight bin and
treated with carbon bisulphide to kill
the weevils.
Carbon bisulphide Is z liquid which
passes into a gas very quickly upon ex.
posture. The gas is inflammable. 20
keep lights and fires away from it. 1t
is heavier than air, hence II shallow
dishes containing the liquid are set
upon the corn the gas formed will
pass down through it. 1t is necessary
that the gas come in direct contact
with the weevils for at least forty-five
minutes to kill them. This makes II
necessary to use one pound Of bi.
sulphide for every 100 cubic feet Of
space in tight bin, but II 1t is slight
ly open the amount to use should be
two and one-half to three times a.
much. This fumigating should be done
on a warm still day, as the weevil be
gins to hibernate at temperature
slightly below 20 degrees Fahrenheit
All buildings should be well ventilated
twenty-four to forty-eight hours after
fumigation. There is no danger Of In
juring the termination Of the corn
provided it is dry, even by using still
greater amounts than mentioned
above"
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up In fire and smoke. felt good then,
and laid the wires on the other ware
house and let her go. But she was too
high and / made clean miss. Then
/ was mad, because had sent that
one over for myself. So / got the cross
wires on the warehouse again and,
said to myself, "This is not for any
body, just for luck, because sure
have had plenty Of 1t today"
Then the juice came through the
wires and into the charge. and away
she went, and up went the second
warehouse. That made two directs out
of three, and guess it hurt the Turks
some to lose all their ammunition.
The officer kissed me before / could
duck. and slapped me on the back and
/ keeled over. ! was just oil in.
They brought me to with rum, and
they said was singing when ! came
to. When they tried to sing, to show
me what song 1t was, figured 1t was
"Sweet Adeline" they meant. But !
do not believe / came to, singing, be-
cause I never sang Sweet Adeline''
before, that / know of. or any other
song when anybody was in range. But
! heard it lots Of times, SO maybe ]
did sing it at that.
Then went to sleep feeling fine
The next morning the detachment
from the Cassard was withdrawn, and
saw some Of the men who had been
In the two trenches, but ! was moi
near enough to speak to them. So
do not know how they got out.
You never saw a happier bunch III
your life than we were when we pilet
into the lifeboats and started for the
Cassard. The old ship looked prett,
good to US, you can bet, and we sait
II we never put our hoofs on that place
again it would be soon enough.
We we're shelled on our way out Il
the Cassard, and one boat was over
turned, but the men were rescued
Two men In the launch was in wer,
wounded. But we did not pay an,
attention to that sheiling-the Turk
! might just as well have been BLOWN:
! peas at Us through soda straw 70
! III we cared.
noticed that when we came nea
the Cassard the other boats held u
/ and let our launch get into the lead
/ and that we circled around the Ca,
sard's bows and came up on the stal
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people are looking at one show they
always want to tell you how good some
other show is. and that was the way
with the sergeant.
"You should see what they did to
us at st. Eloi," he said. "rhey just
baptized us with the big fellows. They
did not know when to stop. When you
see Smelling that is Smelling. you will
know 1t, my son."
"Well, if this is not Smelling, what
the devil is it? Are they trying to
kid us or are you, mon vieux?" which
Is French expression that means
something like "old timer"
my son, when you see dugouts
caved in, roads pushed all over the
map, guns wrecked, bodies twisted up
in knots and forty men killed by one
shell-then you will know you are
seeing shelling."
Then one of our men sat up straight
against the parapet and stared at us
and began to shake all over, but we
could not get him to say anything or
move. So we knew he had shell shock.
And another man watched him for a
while, and then he began to shake,
too. The sergeant said that II we
stayed there much longer we would
not be fit to repel an attack, SO he
ordered US into the two dugouts we
had made in the hole, and only himself
and another man stayed outside ON
watch. n
The men in the dugout kept asking
each other when the bOmbardment
would end, and why we were not rein
forced, and what was happening. and
whether the Turks would attack US. 1t
was easy to see why we were not rein
forced-no body of men could have
got to us from the reserve trenches.
The communication trenches were
quite a distance from us and were
battered up at that. Some Of the men
said we had been forgotten and that
the rest of our troops had either re-
tired or advanced ,and that we and
the men In the trench who had tried
to signal us were the only detachments
left there.
Pretty soon another man and
relieved the two men who were out.
side on watch, and as he went down
into the dugOut the sergeant shouted
| to US that he thought the Turks were
afraid to attack. He also ordered one
of us to keep live eye toward oul
rear in case any Of our troops should
try to signal us. When looked
through little gully at the top o.
the hole, toward the other trench, al
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board side, which was unusual. But
I did not think anything OF 1t until !
came over the side. There were the
side boys lined up, and the Old Man
was there, with the ships steward
beside him.
He took the log book from the stew.
ard and showed 1t tc me, and there
was my name on 1t. Now when you
are punished for anything you are
logged, but I could not figure out what
l had done to get punished for, 50
was very much surprised. But the
Old Man slapped me on the back and
everybody cheered, and then l saw II
was not punishment, but just the op-
pOsite.
When people ask me what I have
received my decoration for (Croix de
Guerre). l tell them ] do not rightly
know, and that Is. fact. do not
know whether it was for going back
from those trenches or for destroying
the storehouses. So I always tell them
I got it for working overtime. That
Is what the Limeys say, or IL they
have the Victoria cross they say they
got 1t for being very careless. Ask
one Of them and see.
All Of us were certainly glad to be
aboard the Cassard again. and IL any
place ever looked like home to me II
was the old ship. Our casualties were
very high and we were therefore or.
dered to put back to Brest. We had
a great little celebration that night
and next morning weighed anchor and
started back, after clearing for action
I was still pretty blue about Muir
ray. but very much relieved as to the
safety Of my own skin, and ! figured
that after the Dardanelles and my last
day there they had not made the right
bullet for me yet. The rest Of US fell
about the same way and we were sing
ing all the time.
TC0ntinMed in merit iceek's Bonner.
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CHAPTER xiv.
The croix de Guerre.

When we had been on the shore
Tor about three weeks we found our
selves one morning somewhere near
sEedd-el-B ahr under the heaviest fire
81 ever experienced. Our guns and the
Turks were at it full blast, and the
noise was worse than deafening.
A section of my company was lying
nut in shell hole near the cOmmu-
spication trench with nothing to do
I but wait for a shell to find them. We
we're stiff and thirsty and uncOmfort-
s1ble, and had not slept for two nights.
In that time we had been under con-
liant fire and had stood off several
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PRODUCES
OWN FLOUR SUPPLY

L. o. Boughton, q Richland parish
farmer, produced this year more than
Is bushels of wheat per acre on nve
acres planted to this crop, according
to the Richland Beacon-News. He
was able to thresh less than one-third
Of his grain owing to lack Of facilities,
out managed to get enough threshed
and ground to make more than 1,2Oe
pounds Of -four, of excellent quality.
Mr.. Boughton Is highly pleased witt
his experiment and urges the plant
ing Of wheat not only as a profitable
crop but as matter Of patriotism.
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0SUON0s
I could see was barbed wire and
smoke and two or three corpses. 1
began to SILVER a little, and was
afraid would get shell shock, too.
So began to think about Murray and
how he looked when they took him
off the wall. But that did not stop the
shivas.ing. so thought about my grand
mother and how she looked the last
time saw her. was thinking about
her, I guess, and not keeping a very
good lookout, when man rolled over
the edge and almost fell on. me. He
was from the other trenches. carried
him into the dugout and then went out
again and stood my watch until the
relief came. We were doing half-hour
shifts.
When I got into the dugout again
the man was coming to. He was just
about as near shell shock as. I had
been-by this time / was shivering
only once in a while, when did not
watch myself. He said four men had
been sliced up trying to get to us be-
fore he came; that they had lost
IL men out of their 80, including the
sergeant major in command and two
corporals; that they were almost out
of ammunition; that the trenches on
both sides of them had been blown in
and that they were likely to go to
pieces at any moment. He said they
all thought the Turks would attack
behind their barrage, for he said the
curtain of fire did not extend more
than hundred yards in front Of their
trench. What they wanted us to do
was to relay man back with the
news and either get the word to adj
vance or reti',, or await reinforce
ments, they d1 not care which-only
to be ordered4o do something. There
was not q commissioned officer left
with either OF the detachments, you
see, and you might say we were up
in the air-only we were really as far
in the ground as we could get.
The man thought there were other
Of our lines not far behind us, but we
knew better; SO then he said he did
not see how any one could get back
from there to our nearest lines.
did not see either. Then we all fig
ured we were forgotten and would not
come out of there alive, and YOU can
believe me or not, but did not much
care. Anything would be better than
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The trouble department az the
Home Service Bureau Of the American
Red Cross IN italy Is called, Il receiv-
ing allotment checks at the rate OF
...,,,UOO d month.
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40 For Is display
the sixth Is cents The holds good
Finch and including
than six weeks Pinch ad longer than four weeks the
rate much less The field
cost much to advertise it. Why advertise
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lllIlllllllsS
1918, by Reilly and Britton Co. Through
Special Arrangement With tho GeoRg0
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