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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-23
STATIONS RIVER.

W. II. Dean 5 people received cable
gram last week Thursday saying that
their son, William H., ir., was seriously
wounded. March 6, in France
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-23

Some women are SO changeable they
never wear the same complexion twice.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-23

Eat, drink and be merry. for tomor-
row YOU may have to 90 to the dentist
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-23

cayed vegetable matter Of any. kind
works on all soils IL Just the same way
as manure, so far as the effects de-
scribed are concerned, but the manure
contains much more plant food Even
the loans and sandy loans, those best
for gardening. can not be kept in good
physical condition without manure or
vegetation p!owcd down.
Commercial fertilizers can never
serve as a successful substitute for this
preliminary treatment, but they are a
supplement to it. and when organic
matter III the form of manure or veg
citation. and also lime if necessary, has
been added, the soil is in condition to
make the best use Of commercial fer.
filters if they are needed. The use OF
fertilizers and manures was discussed
in Article \ in this series
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-23

with a digging fork. Heavy clay soils
are made more porous if sifted coal
ashes are thoroughly mixed with them,
but there is no plant food or humus in
the ashes Lime makes clay soils more
granular and less lumpy After being
treated with one or more OF these
methods. If the soil is worked thor
ouehlv with a digging fork or rake un-
til it is fine and level and without clods,
il is ready for fertilizing and planting.
How Fertilizers Work
Unless applied in too large amounts
/ at one time. decayed manure holds
moisture like a sponge, and so Its pres
encc greatly increases the moisture
capacity Of the soil and greatly lessons
the danger from drought. On soils that
arc too heavy, manure, because of its
spongy character, holds the fine clay
particles apart 50 that they can not be
come massed together and form clods
while on sandy soils it fills the spaces
between the coarSer PARTICLES of sand
Thus it is evident that manure, by Civ
ing sandy soils more body in filling
the large intcrspaoes, and clay soil,
less BODY by making them more porous
IGreatly improves the condition Of boil
for the fine roots OF garden plants. De
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-23
Break Up Hard Ground.

The kind Of preparation that must be
given to the home garden and the
amount of work that viii be required
viii depend largely on the condition
OF the plot and its previous use. Ii the
garden ground has been made hard by
much tramping, as is often the ease III
back yards, considerable labor will be
needed to get It into proper condition.
When blowing with a team can be prac-
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-23
PROFESSIONAL CARDS

G. r. ANDERSON, Surgeon and Physician
Brooks House Is Main St Hours After
moons, 10 to ,, evenings. to 8. except Tues
days and Fridays sundays by appointment
nnLY- .Ihunr- .n
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-23

DR.. GRACE W. BURNETT, Physician and
Surgeon. Market block. Elliot ST. Office
ours, SO to 80 a. m, i.J0 TO 40, and
20 3 o m Telephone. Jaw.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-23

DIR. 4. p. GREENE. Physician aad Surgeon.
Dfice, Bank block Hours. go to 10 a. m.
I 70 ), and 20 .. ~. Residence, IS Green
e Telephone connection.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-23

Or. d HUNTER. Office al residence
West Brattleboro. Hours 8 10 a. M: 10
q and 90 70 p %. Telephone. lls
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-03-23

DR.. E. X. LYNCH. Surgeon. Once. Park
Bldg. rooms. ! aud 3. telephone, so. Office
hour, until M. 2 to ). and ? to y D. m;
Melrose hospital telephone 1l. to 10 a. NJ.
Residence, i4i Canal St, telephone, l7. Sun
hays by appoIntnent only.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04
Activity in Two States

As evidence of the fact that Savannah is being seriously considered by Henry Ford as location for his gigantic ship building plant, letter has been received from his secretary asking for data and information relative to Savannah, says the Americn .Lumberman. MT. Fords announced visit to Savannah is being looked forward to with much interest and expectation by the industrial men of the city. Savannah's advantages as a shipbuilding center have been clearly set forth in publications all over south Georgia in articles prepared chiefly by the Board of Trade, and these have pre- sented the situation so that 1t Is thought MT. Ford's visit here will result in this port being selected as the site for his plant.
 The largest single industry located in Alabama in the last year probably Will be the great lumber plant which is be- ing established at Sylacauga by the Wis consin- Alabama Lumber company. The government nitrate plant at Sheffield is perhaps the only industry established during the last 12 months eclipsing the lumber plant in size. The company is composed of Wisconsin lumbermen and owns 35.o0o acres of virgin timber The mill, according to w. c. Landon. the general manager. will be one of the best equipped and most modern in the entire country and will have a capacity of 2Io,- 900 feet day. Ample and substantial dwellings will be built to take care of the employees of this immense enterprise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04
Regarding Building Material

"The price of building materials is not as high as many people believe,' said R. K. Whaley of Whaley Bros of Au- gusta. Ga, in an interview in the In- dustrial Index. "The advance in this line has not been near as much as the general advance in all commodities in the last year or two. There is an empress sion that within the last six months all building materials have radically ad- vanced very considerably, but careful analysis shows that this is not true. We sold to one of our local customers a day or two ago much of the material to be used in building a residence. At the close of last summer, in August and Sep tember, this same customer built res- idence and we supplied most of the items in our line. Through curiosity I checked the items, one by one, to see what ad- vances had been made since that time Lime was some higher and there was a slight advance in flue lining. but not a single other item had advanced in price in those five months
 MT Whaley was asked to the ex- perience of his firm in getting goods from the manufacturers. He replied that they, like many others, were having trouble in getting lime shipments through promptly, but that they were being sup piled in other lines. Whaley Bros have at present good stock of cement. plas- ter, roofing, paints. mantels etc.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04
Big Tomato Farm

A Brunswick Ga, special to the Indus- trial Index follows:
 Through a deal closed in this city, Glynn county is soon to have one of the largest tomato farms in the state, to be located 10 miles from this city on a tract of land purchased by the Mon mouth Seed company of Matawan, N. J., from l.. l.. Akin. several hundred acres being in the tract The closing of the deal Is the result of visit to Brunswick of F.. V. Crime, president of the big seed company, who made an investigation into local conditions looked over two or three desirable farm locations and finally decided upon that owned by Mr. Akin. which Is not only considered ex- cellent farm land. but Is located along the Southern railway and on the main automobile road between Brunswick and Jesup.
 Mir Crine's superintendent, accompa- nied by his family. has arrived in Brunswick, and he announced that he would at once go actively at work, as it was the intention of the company to raise tomatoes for this years use and hundreds of acres will at once be planted. A factory for the packing of catsup will he located on the site, a num- Der of houses for the farm hands and others will be built, and the establish ment means the settlement of many peo- pie in the vicinity in which the farm if located.
 The Monmouth Seed company is a largo and successful concern, which has been engaged extensively in the raising of to. matoes and catsup bottling in the state of New Jersey for several years.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04
Twenty Millions in New
 Ships at Jacksonville

Few people even in Jacksonville, says the Florida Metropolis, begin to appreciate the extent to which the government is going to build ships here The people of this city would be surprised to know that already the government has let contracts for the construction of vessels aggregating q value of s2O,00o,oOo. When work on all of these contracts is under full sway many hundreds of well-paid workers will be engaged and the pay roll will amount to many thousands of dollars a week. Contracts thus far let are limited to 16 months. In oth- CT words, in Jacksonville within the next year and four months. ships which will represent an expenditure of $20, 900, 100 will be built at Jackson vile. It is uthoritatively stated that at least one-half of this sum will be spent in labor.
 With the location of a military camp of great proportions at Jacksonville, and the carrying out of a large part Of the governments shipbuilding pro- gramme in the southeast at Jackson vile, in addition to various other en. terprises which are to be established here as result of the war, Jack sonville has become one of the real benefactors from the war. The people of Jacksonville have no reason what ever to complain. They have been treated well by the government. Ad- vantages which we have had to offer have been recognized. and we are ben citing and will continue to benefit. Now, don't you think, in view of these facts, you should heartily cooperate with the government in every way?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04
New Printing Plant

The Zac Smith Stationery company has recently installed a complete power printing plant on the upper floor rof it's stationery and office supply store on Twentieth street. The equipment is new and modern and the company will bid for all lines of commercial printing, embossing, ruling, binding, engraving, etc. The head of this company, Zac Smith. Sr., has been associated with similar business in Birmingham for more than 35 years, and the Zac Smith Stationery company has been doing business under it's present name about 15 years. It was for many years locat- ed on First avenue, and has built up a splendid trade. A recent reorgani- zation added Mir. Smiths two sons and W. J. Douglas to the firm, the latter a gentleman of wide experience in the stationery and printing trade being manager of the business as 1t now stands The new printing department. employing numerous skilled workmen, is a welcome and worthy addition to the citys ever growing manufacturing industries, and promises to grow as rapidly as has the company inaugurat- ing it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04
Shipping Speeding Up

Mobile special to the American Luin- herman says:
 In accordance with the request Of the government that cities refrain from mu- nicipal development during the period or the war, the city commission of Mobile has announced that it will undertake no other municipal improvement during 1918 than the construction of the Airing ton docks, at a cost of S600000. Bids for the construction will be opened Febru- ary Il.
 Shipbuilding is being speeded up in Mo- bile and the Alabama Drydock and Ship building company will begin construction of its new 10,000-ton dock within the next few days. This will be constructed on Pinto island, across from the city, along side the present 50O0-ton dock of the company; it will require an expenditure of $600.000.
 Since opening it's boarding houses for employees, the Chickasaw Shipbuilding company is speeding things by leaps and bounds. Additional land for the site of ing of the railroad has been pushed. This will connect with all railroads en- tering Mobile. with branches to all the important points to be reached on the site. All available rail sidings are kept constantly in use and much lumber and other material Is arriving daily. The com pany has awarded a contract to the l.. Moore Dry Kiln company of Jackson vile. Fla, for supplying dry kilns at Chickasaw.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04

fact that Birmingham, including it's environs, has more than 300 manufac- turing plants outside of the pig iron and steel makers. o. l.. Bunn secre- tary of the Traffic association and aux Hilary of the Chamber of Commerce, gives the total numbers,o of industrial concerns in the immediate Birmingham district as something like 360; this after careful survey.
 B. Steiner who was sone of Birming- hams pioneer citizens, and who was president of the Commercial club in 1s9S-99, but who is now and has been for several years a banker in New York, remarked the other day while a visit here, that a great deal of this city's recent growth and thrift could be attributed to the increase in it's varied industries.
 People here do not begin to realize how many manufacturing plants of the smaller class are established here" said Mir. Steiner. "Birminghams de- velopment in this respect. as in many others, has been marvellous"
 It is safe to say that by the time the next quinquennial census of manu- factures is taken in 1919, the Birming- ham district will show a wonderful gain as compared with 1914. There will be little or no Tagging for the duration of the war, and after the war is over business will still hum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04
Improvement at Beaumont

The expected improvement in ina car shortage situation has begun to ha fa,t Tn the lumber trade al Beaumont. Tex. says the American Lumberman, and dur ing the last few days a number of lum- per manufacturers reported having re- ceived sufficient cars to take care of their shipments. the first time in several months that they were able to secure enough cars The improvement. it is said. was due largely to the new policy adopted by the government of routing war supplies through southern ports. The fact that the cotton crop has been moved also has had bearing on the loosen ing up of the car shortage it is said. At any rate. cars are more plentiful and with the demand for lumber increasing manufacturers of the Beaumont district are very optimistic. They look for heavy demand this spring and there seems to be no logical reason for break in the market schedules this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04
Building Material Exhibit

An Atlanta special to the Indus trial Index says:
 The Atlanta Builders exchange will open in the Rhodes building, on Msyi- etta street, February l, perhaps the largest and most comprehensive ex- hibit of building materials ever as- sembled under one roof in the south for the purpose of permanent display.
 The exchange has rented two large stores on the ground floor of the Rhodes building and also space on the second floor which will be used for offices. The exhibit space on the ground floor is 40x100 feet and will be divided into 70 booths. each of which will have a fvontage of five feet and a depth of eight feet.
 These booths are being rented fof the display of building materials and specialties by the manufacturers and distributors of such materials, and many of them have already been rent ed without any especially active can vass having been made. The exhib- itors are not confined to Atlanta peo- pic, and exhibits can also be made by nonmembers of the exchange. It is OK pected that as a matter of fact ex- hibits wilA ke made by good many out -Of-tOWn manufacturers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04

For nearly century Tuscaloosa s growth has been held in check, not for lack of effort on the part of her ciu- zens, but because her resources were not fully realized. Only during the past few years has any noticeable growth been ap- parent. But change is imminent.
 While surrounded with manufacturing plants, drawn here by the abundance of raw materials and unlimited natural ad- vantages, it is certain that as soon as the government takes over the Warrior and begins the construction of 'barges and boats here on an enlarge scale, which will insure sufficient floating stock to keep industrial plants in supplies, and get their finished products to market, ad- ditional plants will be erected here on a scale more rapid than ever dreamed of.
 IL is now proposed to construct con- crete barges here, In addition to those of steel and wood.
 Coal, coke, iron products and merchant disc of every description are now being transported over the Warrior at the rate of thousands of tons monthly, and when the government Improvements are com pleted and the floating stock is avilable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04

Municipalities are large consumers of pipe, and as they can sell bonds to pay for improvements, no matter how slow ordinary trade may be, the plants have usually been kept busy when smoke stacks all around them were idle or works were running on half time or less. But now that the country is en- gagged in war, the government does everything to discourage the manufac- ture of such things as are not needed in the work of preparedness. Iron pipe companies, like all other industrial op- orators. are patriotic and 1t requires no urging on the part of Uncle Sam to induce them to accept the situation in good spirit. Likewise, city governments are examples of patriotism and they hold in abeyance all improvements that are not absolutely necessary.
 With the single exception of the cast pipe plants, all the manufacturing con cerns of Birmingham and the Birming- ham district are prospering greatly. Many of the socalled small industries those employing from 50 to 800 men are making money now for the first time in several years
 And, by the way, it is an encouraging
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04

Tuscaloosa, February 3. = Especially While efforts of her citizens looking to the further development of Tuscaloosa have met with more or less disappoint- ments in the past and while the city's growth has been more steady than rapid, present indications are that the Druid City is now about to take her place in the foremost ranks of the manufacturing centers of the south.
 Emerging slowly from the days of the horse car to those of the modern cleo trical street and interurban railway sys- tenn, and from the days of dirst roadways to modernly paved streets, lined with white ways, Tuscaloosa is at last on the verge of a rapid transition into a modern metropolis.
 And this Is to be brought about by the development by the government of possibly, the states greatest asset. the Warrior river, which is destined to soon become the nations greatest inland water course. with the possible exception of the Mississippi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04

this tonnage will be increased an hun dredfold.
 For nearly half a century ore has been mined in the Tuscaloosa district in ever increasing quantity, until in places the very hills have been moved from their foundations. An inexhaustble supply of coal Is to be found. Dozens of mines are now in operation, and aside from supplying her own industrial plants, hun dreds of thousands of tons are sent to other parts of the United States. not so fortunate as Tuscaloosa, over the War rior river. This coal is usually shipped on steel barges, constructed in Tusca- loosa, each of which is capable of carry ing load of 1000 tons.
 These barges are self-propelled. being equipped with economical gas engines, and ply between Tuscaloosa and New Orleans.
 Verify, Tuscaloosa is on the verge of new era of development, after years of gradual growth. And she will owe this new prosperity almost entirely to the opportunity offered by the Warrior river, and which opportunity has at last been grasped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04

Anniston, February S.-(Special.)-one of the foremost of the community work CTS in Anniston has observed that the c,tv of today that cannot rely in one way or another upon Uncle sam TOT sup port Is in a rather bad way, ana "lth this idea in mind, the manufacturers or Anniston have been busy for sometime trying to land war contracts.
 The plant of the Anniston Ordnance company Is still shut down, and It IS understood that some eastern influences have opposed the awarding of shell con tracts here, but despite this fact an agent of the government was in Anniston re- gently and it is believed contract Will be let to the local plant which Is well equipped to begin work at once.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04
Admission Going After
 Uncle San1's Business.

The plant of the Kilby Car and Foun- dry company is working night and day on war orders MT. Ailby having rendered his shop to the government at the out break of the war Local pipe manufac- turers are out after war orders to tide them over the slump and some of them are landing. in addition to which nearly all of the seven cotton mills in the city are working for Uncle Sam.
 The furnaces are also being, kept busy. The steel furnaces and the ferro-mangan- csc plants, as well as other allied indus tries operated by electricity, and the big plant of the Woodstock Ironworks, with a monthly make of 5000 tons, are in fine condition.
 Anniston's great asset just now, how ever, is the camp and local citizens are doing all in their power to make this asset permanent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04
Florida Lumber Market

The Jacksonville, Fla.,. lumber market last week was in a state of demoraliza- ton. due to the suddenness of the Gar 1eld fuel order and the uncertainties of its operation as regards sawmills says the American Lumberman. The condi tion among the mills was one bordering upon panic, and until final interpreta- tion of the order affecting the lumber industry was given out by the Florida fuel inspector Monday morning. permit ting sawmills burning their own waste for fuel to run. practically every mill Tn this district was shut down. The fuel inspectors ruling was telegraphed at once to all members of the Georgia Florida Sawmill association and the mills were at once placed again in opera ton. WG
 So far as orders were concerned. these like the thermometer. showed a rising tendency. During the week inouiries came in to the shippers throughout the territory in such volume that it would seem that price was not the slightest ob- Ject 1T the stock were available and cars were available to ship it in But from the shippers point of view these fancy price offerings might just as we'll be dia monds in the sky, for the embargo has been tighter than drum-head all week. and even the cars consigned to the gov ernment were caught in the embarro So far as domestic business was con cerned, 1t was not possible to accept or ders with any guaranteed shipment at tached.
 While domestic demand continues to he brisk there Is no diminution in the vol ume of government business. which has the first call fire in one of the can comments will call for lot more lum- Der, and this week came the news that Camp Johnston at Jacksonville Is to he greatly enlarged. great deal of the lumber that is being manufactured In this immediate territory is going to the aviation camp at Arcadia, Fla Filling for government shipbuilding plants and navy yards Is in great demand and is being moved rapidly in government bottoms as well as by rail. A continuous brisk for eign movement is also noticeable here.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-04
As Good as Ten Strong Men

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 Conveying systems which are very costly to install become good invest ments when there is a shortage of labor An example of this is the long overhead monorail erected in Toledo. Ohio, plant. The electrically operated crane is handled by but one man. It carries boxed automobiles from the plant to the flat cars on the siding. where the turning on of the electric motor lowers them into place. Formerly 1t took 10 hands, with trucks and gangways. to accomplish the same labor. The work does not require a highly trained man. A woman can do it.