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The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-12-19
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Harold Johnson was mustered out
;at Dunw woody and arrived here on Fri
day. He begun work at the j. sA.
Lynch hardware store, where he had
been formerly employed.
y. Miss Hazel Wicklund, who is teach
ing school "a Minnea polis, IS enjoying
9 ten-day vacation here with home
folks. I5s: 5l.. ...
Miss Englehart returned to her
home ct Ogilvie on Friday, after re-
covering from severe attack of in
fluenza. She was the guest Of Miss
Inez Harshrnan and was taken sick
while here. If 81 s: s III
Miss Mathilda Clayton OF Milo is.
spending this week with her sister,
,Mtlaude, who. is teaching school few
miles east Of Pease. Be
2. G. Lynch transacted business in
Foley on Saturday.
Joe Yerken came here from Camp
Dodge, where he was mustered out Of
the regular army. Joe was away
= -
about two months and he tells us it
seemed like much needed vacation to
him. He expects to resume his work
at the Farmers creamery in this vii
.lage.
Mrs. Mary speeder left for q two
weeks visit to relatives in Minneapolis
on Monday.
Miss Anna Lynch visited over Sum
day with friends in st. Cloud.
Miss Hazel Wicklund and Miss,
Hannah johnson visited school No. 8
on Tuesday afternoon.
Mr.. Jacquermart Of Foley was a
guest at the Thos. Joseph home over
Sunday.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-12-19
PEASE

John Kuperus of Iowa is here visit
ing his parents and relatives. He will
remain here over Christmas and New
Years day.
Ira starkenburg, Albert Nagel,
Frank Eldred and Charley De Rose
returned home from camp during the
past week. When Steven Kiel and
Nick Pluimer return all our boys on
this side Of the Atlantic will have
reached home.
u. A. Jetsinga and J. P. De Rose
went to Minneapolis on Wednesday.
Mrs. VIM. Jaspers and children of
Minneapolis came up on Monday and
visited until Wednesday with the E.
s. Starkenburg family.
Thirty five tubs Of butter were
shipped this week.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-12-19

no bridesmaids, no honeymoon, and no
festivity. Hindenburg's wedding gift
to his wife, which have seen many
times, consisted of an illustrated Bible
with gilt edges, costing eight marks.
The bulk Of the $3.50 was spent on a
wedding meal. s..5
The married life Of this strangely
assorted pair proceeded without rip
pie. Hindenburg never consulted his
wife about anything. She was his
slave more than his wife, and so long
as she prepared his meals and looked
after his home he did not trouble. But
she nevertheless lived in secret terror
Of him; she was afraid to have a
thought Of her own.
From the moment the kaiser re-
called Hindenburg from Hanover, his
wife has dropped entirely out Of his
life as though she never existed.
Through his lawyers he now makes
her generous allowance, but he does
not care a rap how she spends it
Parsons London w eekly. Il q 4ss
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1918-12-19

SheI wonder why men lie so?
He Because their wives are SO in
quisitiy,e.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09
AGRICULTURAL
nlEDUCAT1oNl
@-aS77~@"s.O SUCCESSOR t;ARInlN4
7ZSED ANDREW N SouLt

Ee examined from time to time to seq
that there is a sufficient amount of wa
Ter glass in it. If not, add some more
of the solution of the same strength as
was originally used
Only eggs which are nOnfertile should
be selected for preservation. This is
of the utmost Importance. After a SUI
ficient number of eggs have been OBJ
tanned for setting purposes, the ROSTERS
should lie kept away from the flock
Many people who preserve eggs that
are fertile naturally find them unsatiS
factory for eating and are inclined 20
attribute their failure to keep to the
fact that water glass is not good pre-
sentative. In this they are entirely mis-
taken. When preserved eggs are to be
boiled. 4 small pinhole should be made
in the large end before placing in the
water This is to allow the air IN
the egg to escape when heated. II this
is done il will not crack. There is no
reason why millions of eggs should not
be presel we'd by this simple and mex
pensive method in the south this year
and thu; provide a supply for food next
fall and winter when eggs will bring a
much higher price than now.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09
STOPPED HIS CHICKS
DYING, In "a HOURS
MIR. Schulz had lost 40 out of
100. Then he tried this easy plan

II had 100 White Leghorn chicks. and
had lost 40 of them from diarrhoea.
Then the Avicol arrived and "a hours
later 1 had lost only two droopy ones
and all the rest are doing fine."-August
Schulz, Route 4, Lena, III.
1t certainly is easy and simple to put
some Avicol in the drinking water, yet
that's all Mr.. Schulz did and e saved
his chicks. Will you try it, at our risk,
as he did? Here's our offer:
Use a package of Avicol. If you don't
find that it prevents and promptly cures
chick cholera, white diarrhoea, black
head in turkeys, and all other bowel dis
eases of poultry. tell us and your money
will be refunded by return mail.
Avicol shows positive results in AS
hours. 1t revives the dropping chicks
and helps them grow and develop rap
idly. 1t is easily given in the drinking
water, and is very inexpensive. Leading
poultry breeders everywhere use and in
dorse it.
Send so cents for a package of Avicol
by mail prepaid. Burrell-Dugger Co.,
$50 Columbia Bldg, Indianapolis. Ind.
(Advt)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09

WASHINGTON CITY OF MONUMENTS
w -; Tne1y'7oPA
szleAAlallS sE6IiG tYr5MHf eItdnN

" ASA1NGION CITY OE MIN y hhNIS
Baltimore has long been called the
monumental city, but Washington
should have the title. There are shafts
and statues galore. Washington'S shaft
was for a long time in state of incom-
pletion-but when the Civil war was
ended wasteful extravaganza begun.
like tidal wave 1t is pitiful to know
how the treasury has been looted with
utter disregard for the interests of those
who are unable to stop or even check
the current. Mr.. Lincoln had one already
in Lincoln Park at a cost of more than
100000. Also a monument in Judiciary
square, but the congress of 1911 appro-
priated nearly 100000 to build an
other monument in West Potomac park.
There are decayed politicians who are
supposed to oversee the work, who draw
princely salaries for the supposed atten-
ton. 1t was the insistance of these
decayed ones who wanted the positions
that prompted the immense appropria-
tion. General Grants monument, still
incomplete. will consume $240, 900. The
big army politicians have all colleagued
together to get monuments. Admiral
Dupont and Admiral Farragut have
monuments paid for by congress. Gen
erals Sherman, Garfield, Hancock, Lo-
gan, Mcpherson, Rawling, Winfield
Scott, Thomas Mcclellan, Sheridan and
others have such monuments.
Benjamin Franklins monument was
paid for by one admirer; Daniel Web
ster also, by same man. So it goes. The
effort is continuous to use politics to
worm out monument money from extrav-
agant congresses.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09

in your section of the state In prefer
ence to Sudan grass.
l do not see why Sudan grass should
not have yielded more grain in your
section of the state than you state you
have received. 1t may be that you had
a poor strain of seed and that the soil
and climatic conditions were not favor
able for it's cultivation. This grass
seems to have given it's best results in
the semi-humid regions of Texas.
FeteIita flour may be substituted for
wheat flour or it may be used in COM
bination with wheat flour on the basis
of 25 to so per cent. According to our
experience Feterita would probably not
be as well adapted for cultivation in
Georgia as the kafr corn White kafir
corn produces a good -four and makes an
acceptable food for both man and beast.
These crops are grown largely in
Kansas and Oklahoma, where the sea-
sons are frequently rather dry. AS al
ready indicated, we have grown kafir
corn with considerable success here on
the college farm and can commend it
20 YOU for cultivation.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09

do such awful destruction in France.
But we are being continually sur
prised with mysterious developments.
When 1 was horn there was not a rail-
road in Georgia. The first telegraph
for public use was exploited in 1874.
The effort made by Morse to finance
the first telegraph was pitiful to see
because he had exhausted all his re-
sources in getting it patented. If some
generous man had not been sorry for
the struggling inventor, some other
country would have claimed the inven-
ton.
L was more than forty years old when
the telephone was exploited for the first
time in Washington City. l talked a
little through the first one, stretched
from the capitol to the government
printing office-a mile distant. 1t was
a great mystery. l listened to the first
photograph when congressman and
senators talked into the machine and
the machine repeated what they said. I
remember the struggles of Cyrus Field
to place a submarine cable under the
waters of the Atlantic ocean. 1t was
often declared to be an impossibility.
1t was another mystery as great as the
undersea ships that sail under water,
and blow up giant ocean liners filled
with human beings l am too stupid
to understand how the wireless mes
sages go across land and sea-Marconfs
great discovery-but it is an established
fact, nevertheless. The airplanes are
still a. great mystery to me, but there
are thousands of them in constant use
in the worlds commerce and on battle
fields. So the mystery gun is not any
remarkable feat at last. If gun can
send a shell seventy-six miles and hit a
target, a more available cannon can
cover one hundred miles and more.
xepect to hear that the great Krupp guns
will attempt to bomb London as they
are already bombing the city of Paris.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09
ny BISHOP w. A. GAMBLER

The trying experiences of time or
war drive men to the consideration of
prayer and, as usual, some object to
prayer while thousands pray.
Objections to prayer are as old as the
time of Job. Then, as now, the ques-
tion was raised, What is the Almighty,
that we should serve Him; and what
profit shall we have if we pray unto
Him. dob xXi:15)
Nevertheless, men prayed then as
they pray now, and as they Will continue
to pray to the end of time The He
brew psalmist gives us to understand
that all men will approach God in
prayer because they believe that God
hears prayer. 30 Thou that nearest
prayer, unto Thee shall all flesh come
psalms lXv:2D
No valid objection to prayer can be
made, if we accept as a fact that there
is personal God. John Stuart Mill
candidly admits that if there is per-
sonal God a miracle is possible, and
the presence of the existence OF per-
sonal God justifies also the efficacy of
prayer. Atheism, and atheism alone,
iustifes prayerfulness. Fatalism ex-
cludes prayer because fatalism is athe-
ism.
As long as men believe in a personal
God, who is a wise. free and holy Be-
ing, they will continue to pray. And
when they renOunce such belief they
will degrade themselves y the doubt
which dethrones God. +--.crecore sang
Alfred Tennyson:
For what are men better than sheep
or goats,
That nourisb q blind life within the
brain,
If, knowing God, they lift not hands
of prayer,
Both for themselves and those who
call them friend;
For so the whole round earth is every
way
Bound by gold chains about the feet
of God"
While men will talk lightly about
God and prayer, as if God were nom
existent and prayer a superstitious per-
Torrance, few of them win dare live
in goddess world or a prayerless world.
Those who have not prayed for years
on years would reject with the utmost
energy a proposal that they pledge
themselves never to pray again. Who
among the children of men would sell
for any consideration his privilege of
prayer, even though he has not exercis-
ed it since he left his mothers knee?
To raise objections to prayer is really
to question the truth of Christianity;
ways to pray, and not to faint" duke
for prayer is enjoined by Christianity
in all it's sacred books.
Jesus taught that men ought al
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09
FOOD PRICES IN CONFEDERATE
WAR TIMES

l have on my desk as I write two
copies of the Augusta (Ga) Chronicle
and Sentinel, one bearing date of Sep
TENDER Z, 1864, the other October II.
1864, little over a month apart At
lanta was in General Sherman's hands
and the federal general was preparing
for his noted drive from Atlanta to
Savannah. Cotton was selling at 81
to $1.25 a pound in Augusta. Three
quarter sheeting sold at S2.25 per yard;
seven-e!ghths sheeting at s2.75; yard
wide sheeting at 1925. This was fac
tory cloth, manufactured in Georgia cot
ton mills. Flour $3.50 to $500 per bar
real; wheat S25 to $50 per bushel; corr
in the ear from wagons S12 so per bush
ell; peas, SIG; rye, $12; barley, $40; oats,
81 and So; bacon, So so to $4 coffee.
s12 a pound; sugar, Sc and IS; Liver
pool salt, nearly a dollar per pound;
lard, SO TO IS so; New Orleans molasses,
non; Florida syrup, $23 to $24 per gal
lon; nails, So. so a pound; corn meal, $14
and SIS a bushel; fodder, S12 per hun
dred bundles; black pepper, $40 a
pound; tea, So 5a pound; beef. IS cents
pound: pork, SO 80 per hundred; NUT
ton, SO to SO. so; chickens, 81 to $40
each; eggs SO to S.. so per dozen; but
ter, S. to Sc; Irish potatoes, SIS a bush
ell; apples SIS bushel
There were negro sales in Augusta.
A boy eighteen years old brought So, $50;
another at eleven, S4,10O; a woman.
twenty-five years, $685.; likely girl
sixteen year. brought $4,000; boy
twenty-one years, $1,000.
The Confederates had fallen back TO
Lovejoy's station, on the Central rail
road. Hood had evacuated Atlanta in
August.
In the paper of October IL beef was
selling at so a pound; eggs, 81 a
dozen; butter, 81 a pound; dry hides at
$3.50 a pound; -four 81 pound; sugar,
IS a pound; factory yarn, $35 bunch.
A negro sale in Columbus, Ga, one ne
gro boy, $500; one woman and child.
SO. 700; one woman and infant, $4,000;
old man and his wife, $1,000; one fool
girl, $75 house servants sold at $4,000
and 4O0) each.
With the bottom ready to drop out,
negro buyers were frantic for the pur-
chase Of slaves and at the very time
Georgia did not have single regiment
of we'll equipped soldiers to harrasS
General Sherman on his march through
Georgia
What fools those mortals (could) be!
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09

in reducing the number of pops. This
material will prove beneficial to this
crop for several reasons,
1t is, of course, not good practice to
grow peanuts on the same land year
after year, as there is danger of intro
ducing various plant diseases which may
prove destructive. Their growth and
development in the soil can be avoided
by rotating crops, hence the suggestion
that you do not grow peanuts on the
same land continuously.
AS to fertilizing this crop, it should
get the nitrogen it needs from the air.
We would advise the use of a minimum
of 200 pounds of acid phosphate per
acre.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09
s<ssss
SUITABLE SUMMER FoTSAGE CROPS
FOR HOGS

G.. F., Savannah, Ga, writes: What
would you recommend to plant for sum
mer pasture for hogs: How would Sudan
grass dOI They grabbing on oats
and rye pasture, and want to plant some
thing we can put them on about June l.
For summer grazing purposes Tor
hogs we would advise you to plant IN
your section of the state, about April
list, early maturing varieties of cow
peas and soy beans. These will prob
ably not be ready to Craze before the
first of July and there are few salts
factory crops which you can use in the
interim. 1t is not difficult of course,
to have grazing crops available for
April, May and June provided you plant
them the previous autumn. We think
every one attempting to raise hogs on
grazing crops should have small area
of alfalfa and should plant cereals in
the late fall and early spring. These
could be sown with vetch to advantage
If handled in the manner indicated they
will provide a succession of food until
the legumes mentioned are ready for
grazing. For late summer and fall graz
ing we advise the use of cowpeas, soy
beans and peanuts planted in succession.
We consider peanuts one of the most
valuable of crops to be used for the
purpose indicated. If seeded as advised
they can be grazed for several months.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09

The bacteria about which you inquire
are probably either furnished by the
United States department of agriculture
free Of cost to farmers for experimental
purposes, or you can obtain them from
the commissioner of agriculture's Of
fee in Atlanta, Ga. The state makes a
small appropriation to the commissioner
of agriculture for the manufacture and
distribution of cultures of the character
you mention at cost. l suggest that
YOU write to him Immediately, stating
your needs and seeing if he cannot aid
YOU in the manner indicated.
AS rule ii has not seemed essential
to use inoculating materials on peanuts
They belong. as you know, to the family
of legumes They have a large nut and
apparently are we'll supplied with the
inoculating bacteria. In our experience
IL is ONLY the small seeded legumes that
as a rule respond to the use of tnoculat-
ing material From what you say, your
land is evidently deficient in lime, and in
order to grow peanuts with the greatest
success lime should be applied to your
soil at once. We advise that you use
at least 900 pounds OF the crushed raw
rock If you are so situated that you
can obtain this material at reasonable
cost. say $3.50 or $3.50 per ton deliver
ed. we would advise you to put on 1000
mounds per acre. In all the peanut
growing sections the use of lime has
been found to be advisable and helpful
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09
USING NITROGEN CAFETERIA UN-
DER PEANUTS.

J. l.. F., Brinson, Ga, writes / see
where nitrogen bacteria will be furnished
to Georgia farmers at 20 cents per acre.
| am going TO plant 80 acres to Spanish pea
nuts for the market and | would like TO
get the bacteria right away. My soil is
sandy loan with some lime rocks in it, but
there are a lot of pops among the peanuts
Will 1t pay to use 100 pounds of 16 per
cent acid with the bacteria
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09
THE GIGANTIC GUN

1t was hard to understand or believe
that any sort of gun could carry ball
seventy-six miles and could be able to
throw the shells into Paris from GER
many's battle line for the destruction
of Partisan houses and people.
But the fact remains that cannon
did throw shells with accurate direc-
ton the aforesaid seventy-six miles
and that it is constantly employed to
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09
THE PLANT-FoOD VALUE OF
GROUND PHOSPHATE
ROCK

W. NJ NJ. willard Ca, writes: | en-
close ANALYSIS of phosphate ! would like to
know YOUR opinion about. Would this make
\ coed fertilizer used in combination with
cotton seed meal on sandy soil with req
clay subsol:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09

To produce a bumper crop in 1918 we
suggest that you proceed as follows:
Lay off your land in to 4 D foot rows,
using a turning pillow and going twice
around each row. Put in each row as
much yard manure as you can obtain.
Five hundred pounds per acre should
be the minimum amount to use. In
lieu of barnyard manure you may use
rich. well decayed vegetable matter
from the woods. Next put in the bot
tom of the furrow 500 pounds of a
mixture consisting of acid phosphate
and cottonseed meal. Run through with
a bull tongue so as to mix the ferti-
lizer we'll with the subsoil. Draw two
burrows together and make good ridge
on which to plant the cotton Let the
ground stand for a few days. When
it is firm rake off the top of the row
with a scantling and plant the cotton
in drills.
Use carefully selected seed of a
variety which is calculated to set on
fruit rapidly and mature early. For
your section one of the best varieties
would be a good strain of Cleveland's
Big Boil. You could, of course, use Col
lege No. 1, Sunbeam, Poulnot, Culpep-
per. Cooks, Browns, Mexican and va
rious other well established strains. 1t
is important that you obtain Variety
Of cotton as free from disease as pos
sible
AS soon as this cotton is out of the
ground we would chop it out so as to
leave the plants IS inches apart in the
drill. If you have no trouble with the
boil weevil we would use two plants in
each place In case the weevilS are
bad use only one plant Then we would
give light, rapid and frequent shallow
surface civilizations. If there are
weevils in your county you should go
over the cotton each day from the time
it is out of the ground and pick them
as they appear. In this way you will
destroy millions of weevils which would
otherwise develop and eat up your
crop.
You can, of course, use any form of
fertilizer you prefer to that suggested
above. We believe this the cheapest
and most desirable to use under the
circumstances. We do not think 900
pounds too much TO use under the drill
row If you prefer to use this amount.
In our experience it has proven as good
to put under the drill row at the time
Of planting as to use it as side appli-
cations. This applies to land that has
been well fortified and in good physi-
cal condition.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09

The material about which you IN
nuire is what is known as pulverlzeo
or finely ground raw phosphate rock
when a quantity of this material is
used with an equal amount or sui
phuric acid the product known as acld
phosphate is obtained. This constitutes
The acid phosphate of commerce, ana
ordinarily about Is per cent of avail
able plant food. This is one or the
NOSE desirable forms in which we can
apply phosphoric acid to our SOIL De
cause the phosphoric acid contained IN
acid phosphate is readily available 10
growing lants. The value or phos-
phatic fertilizer, of course, depends on
IFS availability. In the case of the ma
terial about which you write, you VIII
observe that even the manufacturer
does not claim that any of the phos-
phoric acid is available. OF course, as
this material is not used with sui
phuric acid they can sell II cheaper
proportionately than the treated rock.
When YOU put this material on your
land. however. you will have to wait
considerable period of time for results.
If applied to land very rich in VeSe-
table matter, or if used in connection
with yard manure it becomes more
uuiclxly available. On our rather thin,
poor soils which are devoid of Vege-
table matter to a large extent, we
could not advise it's use. According
to our experience and observation, when
quick results are desired it is still bet
ter in most instances for our Georgia
farmers to apply what is known as the
acid phosphate of commerce. When
they can wait for several years and
can enrich their land materially they
can use the natural raw rock such as
YOU describe to some advantage.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09
Planting Cotton for a large Field.

W. J. NJ, Temple. Ga, writes: ] would
like detailed instructions concerning a cot
ton crop. The land is broken about ten
inches deep. How wide should the rows be
and how far about in the drillf What kind
of fertilizer would you prefer? am think
ing cf using GOO pounds Of a 1922. How
would il do to put half in when planting
and half later on?
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-04-09

Sudan grass has not done as Wei mere
at the college as we have been led to
believe it would from the reports which
we have received in regard to 1t. Neither
in yield nor in quality has 1t met our
expectations. We have not been able to
see that II is as valuable or desirable
for cultivation i'm Georgia as the sor-
Ehums and kafir corn.
Both of these crops are well adapted
to our soil and climatic conditions. We
cannot only obtain a large amount of
silage' from the aforementioned crops,
but considerable yield of grain as well.
They constitute two of the best crops
which can he made into silage. We
would certainly advise their cultivation