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Usually most satisfactory results are
obtained with a three-horse team, and
sometimes four horses are necessary
when the corn is heavy or the ground
billy. In ordinary yields, one man op
Grating the binder will keep two men
busy gathering the bundles and shock.
ing them. These three men cutting
and shocking by hand would scarcely
cover more than four acres In a day
and 1t would be necessary to work
much harder than when the corn bind
CT is used, thus the machine recurring
less laborious work takes from one
half to two-thirds as long to cut a Civ.
en- acreage.
When the binder Is used for cut
ting corn for silage the labor of az
least two men will be saved as COM
pared to cutting by hand. One binder
will usually be able to cut the corn
as fast as a II or 14inch silage cutter
can handle II. A great deal of time
Is saved In unloading at the cutter.
because the corr is In bundles, which
enables a further reduction In the size
Of the harvesting crew.
A bundle elevator attachment to the
corn binder saves further labor. By
this attachment the bundles Of corn
are delivered directly to a wagon driv-
en- by the side of the binder. This
method eliminates another man In the
crew. When the bundles are dropped
from the binder to the ground two men
are generally required to hand them
up az fast as one man can arrange
them on the wagon. When an eleya-
tor attachment is used one man usual
ny arranges the bundles on the wagon
as they are delivered from the binder
and another man ar boy drives the
team.
The platform harvester Is the most
satisfactory machine when the acre
age In corn Is not sufficiently large to
justify q binder. This machine con-
sists Of an A-shaped platform on low
wheels two SIDES of which are equip
ped with knives. It Is drawn by q
iiorse, operated by Two men, and cuts
two rows at q time. The men gather
the stalks as they are cut, and when
the shock Is reached the horse Ia
stopped and the men carry the cut corn
to the shock. In cutting corn with 4
platform harvester for silare much
time q be saved ana efacient work
done * q wagon is driven alongside
the harvester and the corn placed on
y directly as II Is cut. BY this method
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shot, after the Germans had put out
their eyes and tortured them with
bayonets. Three others were brought
before their wives and children and
sabered.
The Belgian told me he was at Ma
muir when the Germans began Smelling
1t. The bombardment lasted the whole
Of August Fl and 20, 1914. They CEN
tered thelr'fre on the prison. the hos
pital, and the railway station. They
entered the town at four o'clock In the
afternoon Of August %. During the
first twenty-four hours, they behaved
themselves, but on the oath they began
firing at anyone they pleased, and set
fire to different houses On five Of the
principal squares.
Then they ordered every one to leave
his house. and those who did not were
shot. The others, about four hundred
In all, were drawn up In front of the
church. close to the river bank. The
Belgian said he could never forget how
they all looked.
81 car remember just how 1t was"
he said. There were eight men, whom
I knew very well, standing In a row
with several priests. Next came two
good friends Of mine named Balbau
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USE MACHINERY FOR
CUTTING CORN CROP
Binders and Platform Harvesters
Save Man-PoWer and
Energy.
Performing Task by Hand IL Hard,
D~isagreeabie Job-BundIe EIeva-
tor Attachment Eliminates
One Man In the Crew.

prepared by the United states Depart
ment Of AgFiculture.)
This year when fSrm help Is SO linn
tied, there is an urgent need for labor
saving machinery wherever possible.
One man with a corn knife by work
ing hard al cut and shock an aver
age Of Ia acres a day. Two men with
a platform harvester can harvest 4 or
8 acres In the same time and three
men with a corn binder in q ten-hour
day car cut and shock from Z to o
acres. Cutting corn by hand is a hard,
disagreeable task, the bulletin points
out, and the time when 1t should be
done is limited to a few days If the
full feeding value of the corn is to be
retained. Fall blowing, seeding for
winter wheat and digging potatoes
must be done on many farms at about
the same time. In such cases, the
timeliness and ease of accomplishing
the work are determining factors I'm
deciding the ACCESSIBILITY of using corn
cutting machinery.
The corn binder does the best work
when the corn is all standing upright.
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CHAPTER TX.
Laid Tn for Repairs.

-E. --- N 1872 TE"
One night. after ! had been at Dix
nude for about three weeks, we made
a charge In the face OF a very heavy
Gre. Our captain always stood at the
parapet when WI were going over, and
made the sign of the cross and shouted,
For God and France" Then we would
20 over Our officers always led us.
but ! have never seer q German officer
lead a charge. They always were be-
hind their men, driving Instead Of lead
Ing. do not believe they are as brave
rs they are said to be.
Well, ~ vent sTer tshss time, end
the machine guns were certainly going
1t strong. We were pretty sore about
the chaplain and the Swiss and all
that. and we put up an awful fight, but
we could not make II and had to come
back. Only one company reached the
Boche trenches and not a man of it
came back who had not been wounded
On the way and did not reaea the
trench. They q Just wiped out.
The captain was missing. too. We
thought he was done for, but about
two o'clock In the morning, he came
back. He simply fell over into the
trench, all In. He had been wounded
four times. and had lain In a shell
crater full OF water for several hours.
He would not 20 back for treatment
then, and when daylight came. 1t was
too late, because we were practically
cut Off by artillery fire behind the front
line trenches.
When daylight came, the artillery
IRE opened up right on us, and the
Garmana had advanced their lines into
ONE trenches formerly held by us and
hardly forty-five yards away. We re-
ceIved bombs and shells right In u
faces. A Tunlsian In our company got
crazy. and ran back over the parados.
He ran q few yards. then stopped and
looked back at US. I think he was
coming TO his senses, and would have
.sss Than the .acA
waere ne had been was empty. and q
second later his body from the chest
down fell not three yards from the
parados. ] do not know where the
top part wsut. Tint ssrIe Hell cut q
groove In the low hilltop before It ex
ploded. He had been hit by a big
shell. and absolutely cut In two. 4
have seen this happen to four men. but
this was the only one In France.
About seven o'clock, we received re-
endorsements. and poured fresh troops
over and retoOk the trench. M sooner
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Before beginning the use of disin-
fectant 1t is essential that certain pre-
liminary work be done In and about
the stable that is to be treated. The
various surfaces. such as ceilings,
walls, partitions, floors, etc., should be
swept until free from cobwebs and
dust. Any accumulation of filth
should be removed by scraping and
scrubbing, using for this purpose a
wire Or other stiff brush and warm
water with a liberal quantity of
washing soda. In some cases the
woodwork may have become softened
and so porous as to be a good me-
dunn for the absorption Of disease
germs. Such woodwork should be
removed, burned, and replaced with
new material.
Remove Refuse Matter.
All refuse. manure, etc.. from sta
BILE and barnyard should be removed
to a place inaccessible to live stock
and, IL possible, be burned or. thor
oughly mixed with a solution of chlor-
ide of lime I'm the proportion of six
ounces to one gallon Of water. If
the floor Is of eartk, II will doubt
less have become stained with urine
and contaminated to a depth of sew
eral inches. In such cases four inches
or more Of the surface soil should
be removed and treated as suggested
above for refuse and manure.
Having made ready the field opera
alton, the next consideration should
be the selection and preparation Of
the ~disinfectant. The fact must not
be overlooked that many agents used
for the destruction Of bacteria are
likewise poisonous to animals and
a In fact, some drugs, although
powerful as germicides, are SO pol
n as to preclude their general
use In the work Of d~isinfection.
Among such, as previously stated, is
b~ichlcriae Of mercury. which pos
sesses the power Of destroying not
only bacteria, but spores as well. 1t
Is therefore essential In deciding upon
az agent to select one having q known
germicidal strength, properties of sol
utility, and at the same time possess
Ing a reasonable degree Of safety to
animals and man.
Method Of Application.
The efficiency and economy Of the
work win depend In a great measure
upon the method of applying the dis
lnfectant. Economy requires that the
dis~infecting solution be applied rap
idly; efficiency requires that It be
not only spread In such manner as
to cover the entire surface requiring
d~isinfection, but that SUFFICIENT guam
tity and force be used to drive the So
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and Guillaume, with Balbau,s seven.
te~en-year-old son then two men who
had taken refuge In a barn and had
been discovered and blinded; then two
other men whom / had never seer be.
fore.
was awfu: &c 6 the wS the
women were crying-'Shoot me too
shoot me with my husband"
1.-THE men were lined up on the edge
Of the hollow. which runs from the
high road to the bottom Of the village.
One Of them was leaning on the shout
ders Of an old priest, and he was cry.
Ing, i am too young-I can't face
death hrayely.
II couldn't bear the sight any longer.
I turned my back to the road and GOV
cred my eyes. / heard the volley and
the bodies falling. Then some one
cried. Look. they're all down. But q
few escaped"
This Belgian had escaped by hiding
-he could not remember how many
days-in an old cart filed with manure
0A0 AoODA1-&s LC haO NurWCQ Olu uiut<
for food, had swan across the river
and hid In q mud bank for almost q
week longer. and finally got to France.
He took 1t very hard when we talked
about Dixmude. and I told him that
the old church was just shot to pieces
He asked about a painting called the
Elaboration of the Magi." and one OF
the other prisoners told us 1t had been
saved and transported to Germany. II
that Is true. and they do not destroy
II meanwhile. we will get 1t back. don't
worry
My wound ri just q clean gunshot
wound and not very serious, so, al.
though It was not completely healed,
they let me 30 after three weeks. But
before I went, I saw something that
no man of MS will wei forget. Some
Of them took VOWS just like the men
Of the legion / have told about.
One OK the patients was q German
DOCTOR, wio h6d been picked up In Nc
Mans Land. very seriously wounded.
He was given the same treatment as
any Of "a that Ia. the very best, but
finally. the doctors gave him up. They
thought he would die slowly. and that
It might take several weeks.
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PRACTICAL WORK
OF D|SINFECTI0N
Thoroughness in Performing 0p-
Grafton Is important for Sc
curing Best Results.
WORK NEEDED
Various Surfaces Should BE Swept
Clean and All Refuse Matter Re-
nioved-seIection and Prep
aration Of DisInfectant.

From the United States Department of
Agricultural
"A a
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In the practical work Of dis
Infection there r. three sen
tials:
L. A preparation Of the
building that will facilitate
reaching organisms Of disease.
2. A d~isinfectant which upon
contact can be depended upon to
destroy such organisms.
B. A method Of applying the
~disinfectant that will assure the
most thorough contact with the
bacteria.
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DEEPEN is WOUNDED IN FIERCE FIGHT WITH GERMANS
AND GOES TO HOSPITAL

synopsis-Aibert n. Depew, author of the story tells Of his service
In the United States navy, during which he attained the rank Of chief
petty officer, frst-class gunner. The world wa starts soor after he
receives his honorable discharge from the navy, aud he leaves for
France with q determination to enlist. He joins the Foreign Legion and
Is assigned TO the dreadnaught Cassard, where his Workmanship wins
him high honors. Later he is transferred to the land forces and sent to
the Flanders front. He gets his first experience In u front line trench
at Dxmude. He goes "over the top" and gets his first German In a
bayonet fight While on runner service, Depew is caught In a Zeppelin
raid and has an exciting experience.
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troops, In small groups-what was left
of squads and platoons and singly.
Our captain had got IL "a fifth time,
meanwhile, but he would not leave us,
as he was the ranking officer. He had
a scalp wound, but the others were In
his arms and shoulders. He could not
move his hands at all.
But he led our charge when we ran
for the woods. We carried some ma
chine guns with as as we went, and
the gunners would run a piece, set up,
fire while we opened up for them. and
run mn again. Some troops came out
Of \ trench still farther to the right
and helped us, and we drove the Ger
mans out OF the woods and occupied X
ourselves.
From there, we had the Germans In
our old trench almost directly from
the rear, and we simply cleaned them
out. J think all the vows were kept
that day. OF else the men who made
them died first.
was she. through tho thigh some
time or other after the captain got
back. 1t felt just like a needle-prick
at first, and then for a while my leg
was numb. A couple of hours after we
took our trench back. I started out for
the rear and hospital. The wound had
been hurting for some time. They car
ried the captain out on a stretcher
about the same time. but he died On
the way from loss Of blood. Fresh
troops came up to relieve us. but u
men refused to go, and though official
ly they were not there In the trench,
they stayed until they took the cap
tain away. Then. back to billets-not
bullets. this time. i believe that we re-
c5ev5a al s-Sy c!t=tlcs Ger that piece
Of work. but / do not know, as I was
In the hospital for a short time after
ward. / do not remember much about
going to the hospital except that the
ambulance made an awful racket going
over the stone-paved streets Of Etaples,
and that the bearer who picked up one
end Of my stretcher, had eyes like dead
rlsn 1oaring ON water Also, Inat there
were some clvvies standing around the
entrance as we were being carried In.
The first thing they do In the hos
pltal Is to take of your old dirty band
ages and slide your stretcher under a
big electric magnet. A doctor
In ands places his hand wei your
wound. and they let down the magnet
over ms hand and turn on lire juice.
II the shell fragment or bullet In you
is more than seven centimeters deep.
you cannot feel the pain. The first
doctor reports to the chief how deep
your wound Ii. and where 1t Is situ-
ated. and then q nurse comes up to
you, where you lie. with your clothes
stu On. and asks you to take the
pressure"
Then they lift you on q fourSwheeled
cart, and roll You to the operating the
aters They take or your clothes there.
/ remember I liked to look at the
nurses and surgeons; they looked 90
good In their clean white clothes.
Then they stick hollow needles into
you. which hurt q good deal. and you
take the pressure. After q while, they
begin cutting away the bruised and
maybe rotten flesh. removing the old
cloth. pieces Of dirt. and % forth, and
scraping away the splinters OF bone.
You think for sure you are going to
bleed 20 death. The blood rushes
through You like lightning, and II you
net 4 GfQhf az voureelf vou ran fooI
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Ex-Cunner and Chief Petty Officer. us
Member of the Foreign Legion of FRI


anything else picked up along the
front.
When they are getting well. the men
learn harness making. mechanical
drawing. telegraphy. gardening, poul-
try raising, typewriting. bookkeeping
and the men teach the nurses how to
make canes out Of shell cases, and
rings Of aluminium, and slippers and
gloves out Of blankets.
The nurses certainly work hard.
They always have more to do than
they ought to. but they never complain,
and are always cheerful and ready to
play games when they have the time,
or read to some poilu. And their work
Is pretty dirty too: / would not like
to have to do 1t. They say there were
lots OF French society ladies working
as nurses. but you never heard much
about society. or any talk about Lord
Heipus, or Count Whosis, or pink teas
or anything like that from. these
nurses.
A few shells landed near our hos
pital, while I was there, but no patient
was hit. They knocked a shrine Of Our
Lady to splinters, though. and bowled
over a big, crucifix. The kitchen was
near by, and 1t was just the chefs luck
that he had walked over to our ward
to see a pal of his, when a shell landed
plumb In the center of the kitchen,
and all you could see all over the bar
racks was stew.
That was a regular eatless day for
us. until they rugged UP bogies and got
some dixies, and mixed up some
cornmeal for us. The chef made Up
for 1t the next day, though. The chef
was a great little guy. He was q
"blesse" himself. and / guess his stom-
ach sympathized with ours.
There was a Frenchman In the bed
next to me who had the whole side OF
his face torn Off. He told me he had
been next to a bomber, who had just
lit a fuse and did not think Ii was
burning fast enough. so he blew on 1t.
1t burned fast enough after that, and
there he was.
There was a Belgian In one of the
other wards. whom l got to know pretty
well, and he would often come over
and visit me. He asked many ques-
lions about Dixmude, for he had had
relatives there, though he had lost
track of them. He often tried to de-
scribe the house they had lived In, so
that ! might tell him whether 1t was
still standing or not, but / could not
remember the place ne spoke or. Dur
ing our talks. he told me about many
atrocities. Some Of the things he told
me I had heard before. and some of
them I heard of afterward. Here are
some things that he either saw or
heard Of from victims:
He said that when the Germans en-
tered h ST Onentin. they
started firing into the windows as they
passed along. First, after they had oc-
cupied the town. they bayoneted every
workingman they could ind. Then
they took about half Of the children
that they could find. and killed them
with their musket butts. After this,
they marched the remainder Of the chill
dren and the women to the square,
where they had lined up a row Of male
citizens against a wall. The women
and children were told that II they
moved. they would all be shot. An
other file of men was brought up, and
made TO kneel I'm front of the other
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-12-16
BRITISH VESSEL
STRANDED NEAR
CANADIAN COAST
Steamer COrinthian Strikes
Northwest Ledge Near
Mouth Of Bay Of Fundy and
is Being Beaten to Pieces,
~ soss,sa ,oupsAl e,seiAl ll.ssD w,ssj

NbbNthd JCUPNAl SPbCiAL LkbSEp WtRHl
st. John, n. b., Dec. l5.-The Brit
ish steamer Corinthian, which struck
on Northwest ledge at the mouth of
the Bay of Fundy yesterday a few
hours after she left this port, for
Glasgow with a valuable CARGO. was
reported today to be pounding to
peaees in heavy sea. All her COM
pany of eighty seven, under command
of Capt. David Tannock, are safe. She
carried no passengers. A few of her
crew are reported to have reached
Westport, n s.. and Freeport, n. s.,
in ships boats The rest, including
Captain Tannock, have been taken
off by the patrol boat Festubert and
the Canadian government steamer
Aberdeen, which left here yesterday
in response to n wireless call for help
Owing to the heavy weather they did
not reach the scene of the wreck un-
til this morning.
It is believed here the vessel struck
the ledge five miles off Brier island
at low water during thick weather.
The Cerinthan carried valuable
cargo under British government or
ders. 1t included 10000 bushels of
wheat, large quantity of airplane
timber, deals, apples, condensed milk
lard, nails and heavy consignment
of boxed meats She is owned by the
Canadian Pacific Ocean Service, Linz
tied, but was built in Belfast, ireland,
in 1900 for the Allan line.
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REVOLUTIONARY
TREND Of |. v. ".
To Be SHOWN UP
ry .o.s,.e .ou..., s..e,.. LEASED wr..,

Sacramento, Calf, Dec 15.-By in
Producing published articles at the
trial of forty-six alleged Industrial
Workers of the World charged with
conspiracy to hinder war work, the
government. it was announced to-
night, expects to show early this
week revolutionary principles as the
basis of the l. w. w, organzation
Against this background. officials
said, evidence touching upon specific
acts of the defendants IS to be pro-
jected.
Tomorrow the government is ex-
pected to complete presentation of
evidence to identify the defendants
as l. w. W. members. Correspondence
files, one for every defendant are
being used in the Identification pro-
cess, dozen having been accepted
temporarily by United States Judge
f. II. Rudkin pending ruling on the
objection of the defense against their
introduction.
Witnesses from Chicago and the
Pacific northwest have arrived here
to testify as to the connection of the
/. w. w. groups in California with the
central body and with organizations
in washington, Oregon. Idaho and
Montana.
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BRITISH CAPTIVES
TORTURED BY FOE
Copyrigh, 1918, by the Press Publish
ing Co

Copyrigh, 1913, by the Press Publish
ing Co
Especial Cable Dispatch to the World
and Albuquerque Journal)
London, Dec l5.-Appalling stories
of the torture of prisoners of war at
the hands of the Germans are told by
the correspondent Of the Daily Ex-
press in Copenhagen, who has visited
the camps established at Sandholm,
ten miles from Copenhagen. for repat-
rated British soldiers.
One man from DoberitZ, seen by the
correspondent, produced strip Of
rubber ten inches long and of triple
thickness, which he had smuggled out
of Germany. He said;
with this weapon the German cook
knocked man after man senseless, if
to get a second helping at dinner. The
cook slashed prisoners across the face,
the jaws and the cars Victims were
carried outside and cold water was
dashed over them to revive them"
While the man was speaking Brit
ish sailor came along and confirmed
the account, showing how the instru-
ment had been used on the Jaw and
neck. He said the Russians were
treated with special barharity, being
forced to kneel for hours with their
hands behind them. now and then
raising their feet from the floor, while
the German sentry, carrying his rifle
aslant struck the Pussians in the
chest and face with the butt II they
did not hold up their feet as long as
pleased him.
TnA other cases the wrists Of Eng
lishmen were lashed to stakes, their
toes just touching the snow-covered
ground, and they were left there for
an indefinite period. Many so strung
up were proddad with bayonets. These
punishments were inflicted for such
offenses as refusing to be worked to
death, the correspondent says.