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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-25
Potatoes Under Straw
BY j. It. ROSA, JR.

The practice of growing Irish potatoes
under a straw mulch is excellent Tor
small areas for home or market garden
use. Leaves. cornstalks, strawy manure
or grain straw may be used Tor the
mulch. TIE potato seed are planted az
the usual time in the usual way, except
that the seed are placed in shallow rows
two inches deep instead OF the usua
depth of four inches. The mulch material
is spread over the surface TO oepeh VI
five inches, about the time the potato
plants are coming through the SOIL. me
stems bush through the mulch and the
plants grow luxuriantly above it, while
beneath it the tubers are formed, parity
in the soil and partly in the straw Ihese
tubers are easily harvested, are peauti-
fully clean and healthy, and are excep-
tionally good keepers in storage
The mulch material serves TO protect
the roots and tubers and retains the
soil moisture so that the plants continue
to grow vigorously during not, dry
weather, when unmuched potatoes would
be either stunted or killed. This point
is worthy of consideration in the south
ern and central states, where dry sum-
mers are harmful to the potato crop. No
cultivation is necessary after planting,
so that the rows may be placed as close
as two feet apart. The decayed organic
matter from the mulch, which is WORKED
into the ground after the potato crop is
removed, improves it's physical condition
immensely, and puts it into far better
crop producing condition. The practice
of using straw or other cheap, Dulky
materials as a mulch around other gar
den crops, such as tomatoes and egg
plants, is very beneficial since besides
the advantages mentioned, the mullen
keeps the fruit from coming in contact
with the soil, so that a clean, healthy
product is secured. The mulch can be
placed around potatoes and other crops
after they have made some growth, but
the earlier the mulch is placed the bet
ter the results will be.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-25
Result of Campaign

What can be done to turn skim milk
into human food has been demonstrated
by the nine agents of the department of
agriculture working to induce creameries
to turn skim milk into cottage cheese
or condensed milk. During the period of
their operations the total quantity of
skim milk saved was 15,09o,000 pounds
making 100000 pounds of cottage cheese
and condensed milk equal in food value
10 26oO,OG0 pounds of meat. Had this
skim milk been fed to hogs, it would
have produced only 100000 pounds of port
so that there was a gain in human food
of lS50OOO pounds. The cost of this
campaign was $1,000, of 2i5 pounds of
product for each dollar spent apart from
the establishment of permanent produc
ton and sales. The work lasted -four
months,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-25

Beat one whole egg into cup of
sweet milk. Butter a small baking
dish and small bits of white bread,
pour over some of the liquid and cover
with cheese or grated cheese that Is
made from hardened bits. Continue ur-
til the dish is full. sprinkling cheese
over the top and few dabs of but
ter. Bake until light and brown and
serve quickly. This is good way
70 Use any piece OF bread
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-25
ALABAMA HEREFORD SALES

On the day that Judge Stokeley's sale
was held, a carload of Hereford steers
bred and raised on Marengo Farms were
sold on the st. Louis market for the high
est price ever brought by southern steers.
These steers were sold off the grass last
fall as 2-year-olds to Fits & Foster.
Tuscaloosa, at 500 around, and were
shipped to st. Louis by the Tuscaloosa
firm.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-25

Another big corn crop is needed. Last
years planting of 12O, 100000 acres yield
ed the largest crop ever harvested-3,-
1853, 494 900 bushels There seems to be
every reason to believe, in the opinion of
officials of the United states depart
ment of agriculture, that our own well
fare and that of the allies as we'll as
neutral nations, make desirable an even
greater production of corn in 1918 on an
acreage approximately equal to that
planted in 1917.
Increased production may be accom-
plished in a number of ways and in a re-
cent publication of the United States
department of agriculture, THE Agri-
cultural Situation for 1918: Part VIII
Corn" specialists of the department
make suggestions regarding better meth
DDS. The more extensive use of labor
saving implements will make it easier
this year to approximate the record
breaking acreage of last year, especially
when employed in sections where corn
is now grown profitably, but on a more
limited scale than is desirable, because
present methods require large amount
of man labor. The more general use
of recently developed and improved trac-
tors that are adapted to the uses of the
small farm as well as the large farm
would tend to increase the acreage and to
larger plows, harrows and other instru-
ments used in fitting the land would
make it possible to accomplish more work
per man. Similarly the substitution of
two-row planters and two-row double Gull
tivators in place of smaller and less eff
ficient implements would make it pos
sible to do the same amount of work with
less expenditure of labor.
METHODS OF REPLANTING
In some corn growing sections it is
the practice to replant missing hills as
soon as the corn is up to stand. FIRE.
quently this is done by dropping kernels
by hand and covering with a hoe. A
labor saving and quicker method would
be the use of small hand planters. These
could be used to advantage for the first
planting, also in sections where compare
lively small areas are planted and where
it is at present the custom to drop the
corn by hand and cover with the hoe.
1t is the practice in some localities
to plant a much larger number of
kernels than the number of stalk $
desired and to thin to the desired
stand when the corn plants are about
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-25
Work on the Tick

Little Ivy little-drop by drop.
That's the ticks insidious method.
The hide of every infested steer or COW
is so ounctured by little blood-sucking
ticks that the animal has no show to
be fat and thrifty.
We don't see the blood-all We see is
the effect-thin scrawny cattle-dead
cattle-dnl big, fat, nauseating ticks.
And at a time when every pound OF
meat is precious as a fighting food,
Dip that ticl5.-united States depart
ment of agriculture.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-25
Lime Increases Yields

Corn has been increased in yield nine,
and one-half bushels per acre, oats six
bushels, wheat two and four-fifths bush-s
els and hay 3010 pounds by an applica-a
ton of two tons of ground limestone oncet
in five years on the farm of the Ohio
experiment station at Wooster. five-f
year rotation of corn. oats. wheat. Glow
er and timothy is followed on this land.a
The limestone is spread on the land afterH
the blowing for corn in the spring.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-25
MISCELLANEOUS

Old FALSE TEETH WANTED-Don't
matter IL broken; we pay up to SIS per
set; also cash for old gold, silver and
broken jewelry; check sent by return
mail; goods held 10 days for sender's
approval of our offer. Mazer's Tooth
Speciality. 1oo7 8. 5th IT.. Philadelphia,
p
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-25
NET MANY DISASTERS

We have met so many disasters in the
past decade that great progress has been
made in the direction of a better ball
anced agriculture Comparing the years
1909 and 1871 for example, the cotton
acreage in the south has increased A 6S
per cent, and cotton production SAP per
cent, but the increase in food crops has
greatly exceeded that. The acreage in
corn has increased 2sS per cent. while
it's production has increased 47.9 per
cent; the wheat acreage has increased
143 per cent and production 1872 per cent
the oat acreage 81 per cent and produc-
ton 1873 per cent; the hay acreage 105
per cent and the production 1903 per cent;
the acreage in Irish potatoes 46.5 per cent
acreage in sweet potatoes go per cent and
production 81 per cent.
Compare the years 1916 and 1917 and the
cotton acreage decreased per cent while
the corn acreage increased ID per cent;
hay acreage II per cent potatoes 81 per
cent. sweet potatoes % per cent, peanuts
I94 per cent. velvet beans 179 per cent
and grain sorghum 16 per cent.
Before the war in Europe it was esti-
mated. from reliable sources, that the
southern states imported nearly $6)0,000. :
600 worth of food and feed which they
might otherwise have produced. Great
changes have taken place and the south
ern farmer has been aroused to the
necessity of producing his own food and
feed. Yet in the year 1917, the south
produced only 30 per cent of the corn of
the entire country, IS per cent of the
wheat, less than Q ner cent of oats, SIS
Ger cent OF the ne less tam per cent
OF h harlc a lit oNFr T. or cen
of tbs ulei. wheat, $50 pei cen. of tbs
rice, less than per cent Of the white G
saw beans n per raN' -.e 60
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23
LOAN DRIVE TO
BE CONTINUED
THRU THURSDAY

Instructions received at local Lib.
erty Loan headquarters indicates
that those in charge of the cam
paign have grave doubts as to the
complete success of the loan nation
ally. The instructions come direct
from the headquarters of the Tenth
Federal Reserve district to f. L.
Slusher, Grady county chairman, di-
recting that every effort be brought
to bear that will swell the total un-
til the closing date, which is Thurs
day night.
Acting upon these instructions,
We are advising all banks in the
county to keep up the good work,
regardless of the fact that Grady
county is over the top" said Mr..
Slusher. Subscriptions for bonds
to the fourth loan will be received
by all banks up to the close of bus
mess Thursday night"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23
ANGLO AMERICANS MAKE PROGRESS IN NEW ATTACK

I l am leaving the proposition up to
/ the people Shall we maintain him,
or let him go as matter of history
in Grady county?
/ am sure that the farmer that
makes business of visiting the fairs
| and informing III present that he
has better products at home than is
on exhibit, and then stops at your
farm to borrow enough gasoline or
oil to run his machine into town,
does not need a county agent.
But | am not aiming this letter at
them-it is the honest-to-goodne
business man that | am talking to.
At the present we can't hold a meet
ing of any kind, due to the "flu" ep-
idemic. After the influenza situa-
tion is put under control | am go
ing to call a meeting of the fair as
sociation and resign the presidency
of same. After that, ! will take my
teams and build a travelable. road
from my place to Chickasha, and give
my entire time and attention to my
own farm an down business as the
merchants of Chickaslia are doing
l wish you could visit Pontotoc
county and see what Mr.. P. A. Nor
ris state fuel administrator, and the
county agent has executed in that
county in the way of Boys and Girls
Pig club Mr%Norris and ! sold over
one hundred sows and gifts to the
poor class of farmers children Il
am sure that collected every cent
that was due me on the transaction.
Mr.. Norris told me sometime ago
that he had all his notes from the
sales collected.
| wish some Chickasha banker
would write to a bNiker-friend in
Ada and ask him about the Chill
dren's Pig club accounts
Don't think for m{ {ment that you
can work this schems without the
assistance of a cound agent. We
have authored a larget scheme than
that; it is the handlirs Of the com,
ing wheat crop, registered cattle and
hogs.
l am not going to sell my farm or
Shorthorn cattle if you people dis
pose of the county agent--for know
that Grady county is the greatest
county in the state, and above all
things, should maintain farm agent.
beg to remain,
AS ever,
Dave C. Hybarger,
President Grady County Free Fair
Association.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23
HOLDS OUT
FEW HOPES
FOR COTTON
County Agent Owens Sees Proba-
bility of Frost Cutting Crop
Before New Growth Can
Reach Maturity.

Holding out little hope for in
creased production OF cotton as the
result of rains late in August, j. w.
Ovens, county agricultural agent to-
day gave out a statement of the
growing condition Of cotton as he
has found it after visiting the fields
and talking with the cotton growers.
He declares that in many places the
cotton is being moved where wheat
has been planted in the field, the
farmers having given up hope of a
crop worth picking.
have yet to see field of cot
ton or a farmer who knows anything
about, or has formed an opinion re-
garding the present or future pros
poets of the present crop, which
would lead one to believe that there
is a possibility for increased pro-
duction at this time" said Mr. Ow-
ems. There was practically no
change in the condition Of the crop
throughout September because the
rains the latter part of August came
too late to enable the crop to recov-
er by putting on a second growth
and new forms in time to mature
prior to the average frost date.
There is every probability that frost
will come early enough to destroy
everything cotton has put on before
it can possibly mature 1t is too
often the case that we are prone
to base future prospects on our
hopes, but the cotton situation, with
its various uncertainties ought to be
handled in a way, fair to producers
and buyers alike, so that local in
formation, or mis-information, will
not tend to make a more uncertain
marketing condition than we now
have.
"lt would not appear that there
was future prospect to many fields
of cotton, or the farmers would not
be using the moving machine after
the field had been sown to wheat
This can be seen in all parts Of the
county where there was a fine plant
growth, plenty of blooms and young
forms"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23
SPEEDERS MUST
THROTTLE OLD
BOAT TO LIMIT

That Chickasha speeders will be
required to throttle the old bus
down while in the city limits, or be
ierked before Police Judge Cane
man, was the statement of Police
Chief o. G. Linn in issuing a warn
ing to auto drivers today.
They are driving too fast and
must cut it out" declared Chief
Linn. "The speed limit in the bust
ness section is eight miles per hour
and in the residence district Is
miles. 1t is not the purpose of the
police force to work a hardship on
anyone, but this speed limit must be
observed l take it that this warn
ing is all that is necessary. We are
going to pick up anyone exceeding
the limit, from this time out and it
is going to cost them from five, up
for each offense."
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23
GRADY BOY HAS
A WHIRL WITH
THE BOCHE GAS

Mrs, 0. G. Linn has just received
a letter from her brother, Virgil Car
ter, who is with the American forces
in France, in which the young soldier
states that he is just recovering from
the effects of gas raid on the Amer
leans by the Boches.
He is in a base hospital, having
been confined there some weeks. The
letter was written on Sept. % and
he states, To-day is the first time
have been able to talk I thought /
had lost my voice as a result of the
Boche gas, and the doctors thought
so too, but | guess I am coming
around all o. K, as can say a few
words now"
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23
ACTION OF
AUSTIN Is
APPROVED
College President Receives Letter
from State Superintendent deal
ing With Views on Local
Quarantine Situation.

The head Of the state educational
department approves the action tax.
en- by President G. w. Austin of the
Oklahoma College for Women in en-
forcing the rigid quarantine at the
college, keeping the boarding stu.
dents on the campus and not allow
ing the students boarding in town
to attend school, during the quaran-
tine because of the Spanish influen.
"a epidemic.
This information was contained in
letter received this morning by
President Austin from State Super.
intendent Wilson The letter is as
follows:
Your telegram sent to me under
date of October 10Th and your letter
of October 21st have been receiy,
ed, and have noted with much sat
isfaction the arrangement which you
have made to carry on the school
work and give the girls now in the
dormitory all the advantages possi-
Bile during the time which the school
is under quarantine. In this. /
think you have pursued the only
course which you could have pursued
In justice to the patrons who are
boarding the girls in Nellie Sparks
Hall, and | am sure that the State
Board of Education and everyone in
terested in the welfare Of the school
will approve of your action and that
the citizens of the state will COM
mend you for what you are doing.
Il fully appreciate the situation of
the young ladies who live in Chick,
asha and attend the O. c. w, and [
am glad to know that you are max
ing good and just provisions to as.
sist them in keeping up with their
work and when they return to school
! am sure that ali the teachers in
the institution will be patriotic
enough to do their full duty in helm.
ing those girls who Soard outside the
dormitory to catch up with their
classes / regret that any student
must be inconvenienced, but this is
time when all the schools are hav-
ing to undergo similar inconvenien-
ces."
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23
TWO CADDO MEN
CAUGHT IN LAW
TOLL OF GRADY

], o. Gray and G. o. White, far
mers of Caddc county, living near
Cement are in the Grady county jail,
charged with subordination Of per-
jury, following Investigations into
the marriage of w. j. Park and Mona
Swami of Cement, which occurred
here Sunday The preliminary hear
ing is set to be held before Justice
Bunnell, October 81.
The state expects to show that
Gray and White, both married and
having families, paid money to No
ma Swami and w. ], Park to be mar
ried, that both the marriage con
tracing parties are under the pre-
scribed ace, that the defendant in.
duced both to swear that they were
of age.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23
CAPTURE BRUAY ON
SCHELDT NORTHEAST
VALENCIENNES LINE

II; missing in action, 20. Total, 545
The list includes the following Ok
lahomans:
Died of disease: Privates Sylvia
Hensley, Boswell, Okla; Charles l.
Merchant, Prague, Okla.
Wounded severely: Private Jo
seph j, Zawisza, Harrah, Okla
Wounded degree undetermined :
Privates Wheeler V. Henderson
Caaddo, okla; Joe Rudisill, Ida
Okla; Charlie d. Gibson, Washing
ton Okla; John Byrl Wallace
Hooker Okla.
Wounded slightly: Privates Devi
z. Landlord, Lone Grove, Okla; Mar
tin e. Robinson, Norman, Okla
Missing in action Edward M
Higginbotham, Sentinel Okla.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23
NO WORD AS TO
ARREST OF MAN
WANTED in GRADY
Officers Search for Treasurer
Tabler Township; Checks up
Short; Charge is Embez-
element.

Grady county officials have not
had a reply to their telegram to the
officers of Newton county. Missouri
instructing them to arrest NJ. w
Goosetree, former treasurer of Tab
Ter township of this county on an
embezzlement charge.
The issuance of the warrant
through the office of County Attor-
ney d. NJ Cavaness, came as the re-
suit of the auditing of Goosetree' S
books by Arthur Jones of the state
examiner and inspectors office, in
which the report showed a shortage
of $72211. The charge however,
deals only with one specific item
of 500.
Information in the hands of the
local Sofficials is to the effect that
Goosetree is now located in New
ton county, Missouri
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23
WOMEN ARE WANTED
FOR OPERATIVES

Notice has been received by the
local office of the Federal-State En-.
ployment service, that 100 women
are wanted at once to work in the
powder plant at Nashville. Tenn
The work is in the operating depart
ment, handling box-making and mail.
ing machines. Successful applicants
are given two weeks schooling at
Nashville, receiving nominal pay,
after which they are paid according
to the quality and quantity of work
turned out.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23

By United Press.
London October 3.-Valenciennes,
the great communication center
which forms the principal western
defense Of the Maubeuge portion of
the next German line of resistance.
has been penetrated by the British
and announcement of its complete
occupation is expected hourly.
North of Valenciennes the British
penetrated deeply into the great
Raisemes forest and also drew near.
er to Tournai, advancing north Of
the city and practically surrounding
it from the south by reaching the
Scheldt
Progress was made by the Belgians
and French on practically the whole
front between the Dutch border and
Journal The Belgians cleared tho
entire west bank of the Barenberg
canal with the exception Of Cover.
brock.
The French advanced nearly two
miles south of Defnzc, crossing the
Lys.
The French pushed the Germans
back again in the Serre valley, clear.
ing the south bank of the river as
far east as Mortieres.
Fierce fighting was resumed on
the region east Of Vousiers. Czecho.
Slovak forces, cooperating with the
French, re-captured the village OF
Terron-Sur-Aisne, four miles north
of Vouzieres.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23
HOLD SERVICES
OVER BODY OF
CHICKASHA MAN

The funeral services OF William
Fraser, aged man who died in 10.
cal hospital Saturday. October 10,
as a. direct result of a fall down 5ae
stairway of the Elk's building, were
conducted by the Masonic lodge in
the undertaking parlor Of Claycomb
and Anderson this afternoon at 3
o'clock. w. a. Fraser, of Omaha,
Neb., sovereign commander of the
w. o. w. lodge, and Horace Fraser,
of Dallas, nephews Of the deceas-
ed, we're the only relatives present
at the funeral.
Interment occurred in Rose Hill
cemetery.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23
TEXAS DRY
LAW VOID
By United Press.

By United Press
Austin, Tex, Oct. 23.-The Texas
statewide prohibition law was de
clared unconstitutional today in a
decision handed down by the state
court of criminal appeals.
The decision will permit the re-
sumption of the sale of liquor in only
limited territory as the ten miie
zone law and local option bars it
from the large cities of the state
The zone law, although superseded
by tht statewide law when the lat
ter became effective, will now come
back into effect.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1918-10-23
Is Substantially Same as Sent out
by German Wireless; to Dis
cuss Situation with War
Associates.
NO REPLY IS DUE
FROM CHIEF TODAY
Prince Max Says Enemy at Our
Gates" Declares German Peo-
pie Have Spoken; Assume
Posture Defense.
BY United Press.

Washington, Oct 23-The official
German note was delivered TO Pres
ident Wilson at 10 o'clock this morn
ing by the Swiss legation. A curso-
ry reading Of the communication
shows that it is substantially the
same a that sent out by German
wireless.
1t was stated at the state depart
ment at II o'clock that probably no
reply to the note would be forthcom-
ing from the president today.
1t was explained by member of
the cabinet that the situation has
I now reached q stage where It is not
only necessary but also an act of
courtesy to discuss with our associ,
ates in the weg al Gestions reiatIyc
to the next step in the negotiations.
He said the country could depend
upon it that no fruits of the sacri-
fees of or soldiers will even be
risked by the president.
At noon President Wilson called
Chief of Staff March and Secretary
of State Lansing into conference at
the white house and it is assumed
that the German note was discussed.