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The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-07-13

By w. A. Watkins, County Agricultural Adviser
MAKING HAY

MAKING HAY
There is wide diversity of methods practiced
on lake County farms regarding the proper time
to cut our common hay crops. Our grasses differ
somewhat in the stage of maturity at which they
should be cut to make the best quality of hay.
TIMOTHY: To make the most palatable hay,
timothy should be cut just as it is coming into
bloom and when grown in combination with red
clover it is necessary to cut the crop early before
the clover becomes too ripe to make the best
quality of hay. Hay cut at this stage is best for
feeding cattle and sheep. Timothy should not be
cut when in full bloom, at this stage the hay be-
comes dusty and especially Objectionable for
horses. =.
To make the best hay for horses, timothy should
be cut while in the second bloom, which is
when the grass has about ceased blooming and
most of the blossoms have fallen except few at
the top of heads At this stage we get the great
est weight of hay and the most nutrients but the
hay is more woody and less palatable than when
cut at an earlier stage.
CLOVER: To make the most palatable hay of
the highest feeding value clover should be cut
when it is in full bloom with few of the bios
SONS turning brown. If cut earlier, the hay will
be washy and not SO desirable for horses. If the
crop is left until the clover is too MATURE large
percent of the leaves will be lost by SCATTERING and
ulC raves dlC TIC IIlOSI nutritious part OF the
clover plant as they contain almost two-thirds of
the total protein content
ALFALFA: Several experiments conducted
by the Kansas and Colorado Experiment Stations
have shown that alfalfa hay has higher feeding
value when cut just as the crop is coming into
bloom, than when cut at any other time. IF cut
at the beginning Of the blooming period, the next
crop starts Immediately and there is no check in
its growth. Sometimes the young shoots of al
falfa will start from the crown of the plant be-
fore the crop reaches the blooming period Care
must always be taken not to cut off these young
shoots or the next crop will be delayed IF al
lowed to become too mature before harvesting
large percent of the lower leaves are lost by
shattering. The leaves the richest part of the
plant in protein.
For feeding horses, it is usually recommended
that alfalfa be allowed to come into full bloom
The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1918-07-13
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Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-02
Novel Reading Public is Feminine.

W.. L.. George in-HarTsr's Magazine.
In England, the public of the novel is
almost exclusively feminine. Few men
read novels, and a great many nothing
at all except the newspaper. They say
that they are too busy. which Is absurd
when one reflects how busy is the aver
age omar The truth Is that they are
slack and ignorant.
They have some historic reason to de-
spise the novel, for it is quite true that
In the Nineteenth Century. witt a few
exceptions, such as Thackeray. JAM
Austen, Charlotte Bronte Nathaniel
Hawthorne, Dickens. Scott. George Ell
lot, the three-volume novel was trash.
Il dealt generally with some rhetorical
Polish hero. a highborn English maiden,
cfuel parents, and Italian skies. Right
zip to 1885 that sort Of thing used to ar
rive every morning in a truck at the
lending library, but if it still arrives in
truck loads. 1t should not be forgotten
that other novels arrive. too
That IL what the men do not know.
II they read at all you will find them
solemnly taking In THE "reminiscences
OF Mr.. Justice x. Y. E." o. Shooting
Gaxellss in Bulbulland." Political Dco-
nomice,' or Economic Politics," (t
Sometimes men do read novels. most
U detective stories, sporting or very
Scans much the same either way up.)
Al that sort Of thiny-that ffonR
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-02

dried up, elderly waggishness. that
shallow pomp, is mentally NUMEROUS.
sentimental tales. When observed. they
apologize and say something about rest
ing the brain. That means that they do
not respect the books they read, which
is base: it is like keeping low company,
where one can yawn and put one's
boot on the sofa. Now no company is
low unless YOU think il is. AS socn as
You realize that and stay. you yourself
grow naturali2ed to it. Likewise, il you
read Il book without fellowship and re-
spect for its author, you are outraging
if.
But mankind is stupid, and it would
not matter Very much that Il few men
should read novels in that shan1efaced
and patronizing way if they were not
SO open about it. If they do not apollo
eize, they boast hat they never read a
novel; they imply superiority. Their
feminine equivalent Is the serious mind
cd girl who improves her mind with a
book like Vicious Niscounts of Ven
ice" if she reads novels al all, she
holds that. like good wine, they improve
with keeping. and must be at least so
years old. BY that time the frivolous
author may AVE redeemed his sins.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-02
The Clothes Of a Spy.
George n. schrciner. in Haypers
Magazine.

Since the subject of espionage is vsyr
much TO the fore these days. J VII ~
briefly into thc theory and pYacfkco AZ
espionage, combining myself IN what -
known to an general stats AZ "'sAeuek
field intelligence" T%his polite tcFm -
given by a general staff only to rs evp
agents; the agents Of the otter side an
known as spies. This is & iiftis incSe-
~S!stent, Of ccursc.
Whether an intelligence officer 10 . suv
or mere scout depends entirely On k01
he is dressed al the time. II ia snlEapsn
he becomes a prisoner OF war whes ea0-
tured. and az a rule he * confinra IN =
fortress. " he has assume, dlsxrle -
faces the firing squad ncXl niosninG
The fact that an officer nag sph,A upsm
the enemy in civilian claiming t1es no
make him the less hcnorc>l aIfos,s Nd
MISUNDERSTANDING. Dn the contrary. be&na
selected for tho Secret field lntellleeS1n
service" is looked upon by the moro 4Ae-
ing as a rare distinction. a
would be court martiaiel n II heeanAo
known that he had failed IL araN himself
for reasons cf honor" Of impaitahe infer
nation brought in by his agents and AaA
for that reason mismanaged an zcttGsk
Espionage is "A necessary adjuncj - Say
military establiehmcnt-so nrcessaxy< N
fact, that the spies OF the Antagonist ~
done to death when caught.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-02
Why japan Is Crowded.
Waite, e. Wcyi. in Asia.

When we grasp the smaiincss Of Janxn
and the size of i;s population wc readily
understand Why the land is 20
Japan proper is "a narrow and dim5nnesv,
country. Its area OF roughly l5l.yyy aGtfAso
miles. is somewhat smaller than ihat 81
California, while its population IS 70 finsgp
AS great. Moreover. like Italy. Japan =
shiefly a country of mcnntains an6 ~
irable lard under cultivation an.asulp -
only some $500 square miles, a farms Ssea
less than half that Of the single s1afS =
Iowa. IT follows that Jaran liz the canuslo
tAnd Of intensive agriculture. lz dv2xe
farms are not really farms at Az in aue
sense Of the word. but gardens. TheNA
are no pastures, no b~arnyards, but mesear
little squares Of land. now covered WI
water. now Tiled with mud drying in -
run. and now wildly green with the 49,.
:iful rice plants. These little patches =
terraced and irrigated land have nsfnflf
in common with our 16D-acre farms -
Japan the average agricultural TT
land there are 6.661.00O OF thernl oee1Y
only two and t~hrce-quarter Acres e1
Only one family In 10 has AZ much ~ -
ceres 1.-TWO cho) and over one-th.rd e
rural families nave farms o. less tl
sHs and o~ne-quarter acres. II IL m1seiA
Me0t carried 81 , tragic a~barSd!ty
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-02
To the German People.

Each to his taste: il you prefer
Tho kaiser's whip across your flamkSs
If YOU enjoy tho bloody spur
That rips your cannon Folders rankat
If to his boots you still adhere,
kissing en- az you've always kissed 'eN
Why, Who are We to interfere
With your internal Teutcn sysiesM7
If from your ,nds you know quits va1
You might, this moment. find release.
Changing, 1T will, your present hsIl
For Liberty heaven OF lasting pcAess
If yet. for habits sake. You choose
This reign cl steel, this rule OF terror
It's not for us TO push oWr views
And point YOU cut your silly error.
That your affairs are yours alone.
Though, Toy myself, L should kavu
thought
They had 81 bearing on my own:
Have ! no RICH! to interposc. a
Urging on you "A free autonomy.
Just as your U-boats shove their rAse
In my inter!or economy
I'm told VIC have no quarrel, nuTpe.
With YOU as Germans. That's aIrsnnA.
Myself, ! hate all sorts of Hun,
Yet will I say one kindly word.
III, still refusing Freedoms part.
You keep The old TotsGam conneealan.
With all my sympathetic heart
L wish YOU JOY Of tina collection.
Sir Owen Seaman. In PuAek.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-02
Clothing the Army.
'N
Edward Hungerford, in Haiper's
No0uyina

The private gets his uniform thrown in
with his food and some other things;
otherwise we might have an army Of
bankruptcies. But Uncle Sam gives no
clothing for his boys. He pays about
Sl3 to SIS for the ordinary uniform of
coat and breaches and about SI2 to $4 for
an overcoat-and they are good coats ana
good breeches and good o%vercoats.
In the first place, he buys his own
cloth-meltcn or serge for the most part.
With the exception OF the ovcrcoats this
case OF the ovcrcoats-the blankets as
well-he permits the in~troduction Of 80 per
cent reworked wool. No, not shoddS.
Shoddy is a child Of rather uncertain par
entage. His father may have been a horse
blanket. But reworked wool comes en-
tirely from the many tons of clippings
that are thrown out from tho cuttings of
hundreds of thousands of uniforms. Ii Is
wool that has never been Worn as cloth
ing. And its use to give body TO heavy
weight cloth is not only legitimate, but
most efficient.
The uniform cloth as it comes from th.
loom at the factory is given most minute
inspection by the army's agents. Undcr &
powerful glass 1t is counted as TO the lines
Of thread of warp and of welt and is cor
stantly matched and rematched with thu
color standards. These last rave beer
harder to enforce than those Of the fiber
our dye making is a lost art being re.
vived, and our American dyesnakers to
day ard trying to follow the efficicn
methods of the Germans in using the syn
lhetic colo!ings rather thar the vegetab',
ones-with rapidly improving success, bu
not as yet complete. But the colorins:
are far better than they were even three
months ago. And Khaki has become a
more definite standard.
When the cloth. properly passed and In
spected, comes from the wooden mills 1t
goes to one Of the numerous Quartermas-
ter depots which nave sprung up in the
country, particularly in its northeastern
section, which in turn rapidly allct and
deliver it to the manufacturers who AVE
received the contracts for making uni
forms for the United States. And il one
would appreciate once again the volume
Of all this, understand that the quarter
master generals department at Washing.
ton made a contract last August with a
single WOODEN mill concern for the deliver,
Of $50 Ol eco worth of WOODEN cloth be
tween that date and the end Of the pres
ent year and incidentally at far better
prices than it could make such q contract
today. This cloth is o going to 1870 fac
tories for manufacture into coats and
breeches and overcoats. And up to l'ebru-
airy 9 these factories had delivered 3 l75.0O
overcoats. 5,54.MO breechcs. and 2,77+.c)
undcrcoats. all OF WOOL; IN addition to
S.S12,OO pairs of cotton breeches and .0@l.
80 cotton coats-tlcse last designed. Of
course, for summer wear. And early in
February New York city's daily output
vas 10000 wool coats, 5000 wool brooches,
M,O0O winter undersliirts, and $4,000 pairs
Of winter drawers.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-02
Code Tattoed on a Spy.
From Llcyd's News. London

From Milan Il correspondent sends
story that parallels Mr.. Nelson's
Viii" always considered one of Rider
%.agsard's most fantastic efforts.
Twenty-siN years g a young girl
niger OF bewitching beauty, destined
. worldwide am thereafter, mad her
ebut at the costanZi opera house in
come in The Huguenots."
She was billed alongside the celc.
rated tenor, Marconi. Her name was
lena T%eodorini.
Though Rumanian by birth she had
been brought UP in Italy. At the Very
outset of her career she took the Rom
an musical world by storm, by force Of
the qualities Of her voice and her dra-
matte Interpretation. Soon her talents
were being competed for by impressar-
los in most of the great European cen.
tiers and in cities beyond the Atlantic.
Shortly before the outbreak Of war
she babe h may prove to have been
ia final professional adieu to Europe.
Then singing again in company with
Mariconi. at a gala performance in the
italian capital, this time in the role of
Lucretia Borgia, she said goodbye to
Rome. and 50 disappeared across the
seas.
Nothing more was heard of her be
You'd press reports of big success in the
United States and in the big cities Of
South America until some three months
ago. Then rumors spread in Italian
operate circles of her arrest as u spy
in the pay of Germany.
During her s~ojourn In the Argentine
republic h famous prinaa donna.
Elena Tcodorini, seems to have been
caught in the tolls of Count Luxburg
and his gang and thereby to have be
come involved in the alleged conspiracy
for the undo!ng of France with which
the name. Of ex-Premeir Calliaux has
since been connected.
According to information collected by
the "Corrierc della Scra," Teodorini had
by the American authorities been lon
suspected of espionage. These suspi-
cions We're intensified through her in
cessant tripping to and from New York
and Buenos' Aires. and yet, so far, all
efforts to establish any guilt were
October 9 Oh the Spanish transatlantic
boat. Queen Victoria Eugenia. the
American police wireless the Anglo
French watchers, telling of their grave
misgivings that T'eodorini was, perhaps,
bearing confidential dispatches to Ger
many's secret service agents in Spain.
Some distance off Cadiz a British de-
ordered the Queen Victoria Eugenia to
follow her. 1t was boarded by English
officials, who. having produced war
rants. asked pointedly after Signorina
Elena Theodorini.
On being old that they were to ran
sack her baggage. Signorina Teodorini
turned deadly pale; but, quickly recov-
ering herself, she assumed q more
naughty demeanor. demanding why
mine more than anybody else's7"
She assisted at the search. maintain.
ing m attitude OF apparent tndlffer.
soee.
Some amusement was caused among
0ystandeE1 by the ~seisure. among other
articles, ct Q bulky roll Of cufl papers,
TIE .Fsa0psF ef which was still intact.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-02
Beavers Dam City Ditch.
From ;le Rocky Mountain News.

From The Rocky Mountain News.
Among the many varieties of wild
North American animals. few, if any,
possess as Interesting habits as does
thai four-footed artisan, the beaver.
Like most of the Wild animals, he is
nocturnal in habit and for this reason
is seldom seen by human beings, but
unlike other animals the evidence of
his Industrious activities may be found
along many OF the Colorado streets. In
some places h entire topography of
mountain valleys has been changed by
beaver Jams slowly filling with sedi-
ment. thus DETECTING the channels of
streams and forming flat fertile areas
where once there were rushing rocky
torrents.
Denver is probably the only city OF
its size in the world that can boast Of
wild beaver within its corporate limits.
The Platte river offers an ideal en-
vironment for the animals and evil
dences of their activity may be found
in abundance along this stream from
the southern city limits north. In fact,
more than two Years ago there ex
isted a beautiful beaver dam INC a per
fectly constructed beaver house within
a stones throw OF the Alameda avenue
bridge. All about the dam and along
the stream above 1T may still be seen
large numbers of trees cut down by
~ - Nv Nv stIPdIu LdIlHS are
h~oneycombed with their burrows.
The beavers propensity for work
sometimes gets then into trouble with
their human neighbors. On several oc.
casions the Denver Water company has
been compelled to secure permits from
the state game n fish commissioned
10 trap over industrious individuals
who worked havoc with the supply
bitches and headgates. They also APP
pear to have a prediction for enaw-
ing down fence posts to the disgust of
the exasperated farmer. and a tele-
phone post was once seen which was on
the verge of tipping over. as a result
Of their activities.
on the whole. however. they are
harmless and altogether fascinating
animals. They do no damage to crops,
and the trees they cut down are for
the most part small cottonwoods or
aspens Of nc commercial value.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-02
WIDOW OF GENERAL
MAuDE REMEMBERED
King George Asks Parliament t.
Make Her Special Grant }
of 1925, 900. -
BY Associated Press.

London, sby mail).- There va> =
stir in the House of Commons tbs oslAep
day when Tic Prime Minister. Dayin
Lloyd George, suddenly appeared -
he floor Just before the closo with ~
important looking, document IN -
hand. Instantly members besan -
speculate as TO what might bs tIh3 SUBJ
ject of The announcement ho vas -
make.
The premier started talking conf1e
ientially With II OF the under wan
ministers as 500 as he had taken III
Seat ON The treasury bench. and ft vaa
Immediately inferred by observers that
the subject was military, possibly the
military situation in Ireland or soma
development on the fighting frouts.
Other members noticed that Mr.. Lloyd
George was in good spirits and bo.
gam Whispering about the likelihood. %
a great victory somewhere. or perhaps
good news from the Irish convention.
Then The prime minister arose. Lid
message was n signed document from
The king, asking. the authorization al
parliamen. for. grant OF $1z5.o00. u
Lady Mautic, the widow OF General
Frederick Stanley Maudc. who CONF
manded the british expedition that CAPE
tured Kut and Bagdad. The general
after a WONDERFUL career OF victory, died
n poor man, leaving hardly more thar
enough 10 pay his funeral czpense6
The kings request Was referred 20 NJ
proper committee and it Is expected
that the grant will. in due cOurss. ~
made.
The habit 90 recognizing great vfo<
tories by public grants of lone Is al
Did one in England, and most OF the
great British soldiers of the old waE4
benefited by it.
Wellington received three different
grants. amounting in all to $3,569.eeA
Lord Roberts received 100000 in 1897
and Kitchener received s400, Geo for Ai9
work In the Soudan and South Africa
Lord Nelson received a pension Of >zt.>
coo a wear. charged against th0 fADa1
of the pOStoffice.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-02

On being subjected to a special acid
test, however, these papers appeared to
be covered with curious hieroglyphical
writing.
The searchers confessed tina tho
cipher surpassed their undertaking.
After am English stewardess had been
fetched on board to replace Teodorini's
maid orders were given to get the ves-
sci again under way.
While British officers could still be
see tackling their task of decipherment
with all the patience of enthusiastic
psychologists, the passengers, on their
part. were beginning to forget the Incl
dent in the fond imagination that they
We're at last nearing their port of desti-
nation.
Instead of that. they suddenly. found
themselves alongside a French cruiser.
Then Miss Teodorini's artist a%cquaint-
ances learned that the suspected spy
had been stripped as for the bath. when,
10! and behold, inscribed on her shout
ders was discovered n complete key to
the mystic writing on the roll of curl
papers.
Thus was delivered into the hands of
Britain's ally Signorina Teodorini, now
accused of REASONABLE communications
with the enemy.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-02
THAT extinet NN,e..Y
From Life.

Years ago it was quite a common thing
to hear the word yes used in general
conversation. With the passage of time,
however. that excellent and refined voca-
bic has become as thoroughly extinct as
the Dodo bird and the tree toed Megaso-
pholus. Today. alas! the nearest in sound
to the original affirmative are "yeh,"
YEP" ''yup'' or ''yippy." Other current
synonyms are "uh-iuh'' and. in New En-
sounds something like "um.' This DISTRESS
ing aversion Z the use OF yes has given
rise. In tho inventive American mind, 10
. number OF phrases whish mean the
Jams thing. but which will not permit one
to Accuse the speaker ~ having uttered
the short word. Such ars the elegant
you said IT, Amt II the ruth "You
said . bsGeful." "You kciw It" and
ANY others too sumerous : mention.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-02
Navy SLANG cataloaed.
From tho Nov, York :

From the New York Tribune.
Angel cake and wiue-brcad and water.
Ballast-hash.
Iattiewagon-battleship.
Before the stick-cali"d before the cap
tain.
Black gang fireme,, and engine room
men.
Boio -mcn-warrant officers.
Boot--a recruit.
- Brie-prison.
Buddy-shipmato.
Charley Noble-smoNe stack.
Chow-food.
Dream S-ack-iiammock.
Flat foot-sailor.
First l~uff-cNccutive officer.
Galley-kitcilen.
Galley rat-cook.
Gear-equipment.
General caTgo-SUnday Aight supper.
Jack o tho observation-disclosures.
~Java-coffce.
Jimmy Observation-Disclosures.
kiyi-scrub brush.
Leather neck-a marine.
Niger ice~fsteak-livcr.
Rise and shine get up and work.
Schooner on the r~ocks-stew.
Scullery NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Observation-Disclosures. -
Spig-foreigner.
Spit kid-sman eur9oat.
TeYder-Depper.
Turn to-set TO work.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-05-02
5oy-Ed Writes on U. S.

from the London Times.
Captain Boy-Ild. the notorious German
naval attache al Washington. is now
openly described as president of the
News Bureau and ot Press Department
of tho Admiralty STAFF He delivered
a lecture 4 few days ago at Munich on
Tn United States ana the Submarine
War in Which, he DECLARED that the iu-
tervention of America c2lld not possibly
have been prevented, unless Germany
mad been ready definitely 10 abandon az
prospects of victory.
Captain Boy-jIl admits that the in
crease in American ~shipbuiiiins has been
"inmenso." but lie says THAT wooden
Ships have been proved 10. be uleconom-
lcal. that the necessary coal and steel
arc lacking for the construction Of steel
ships. and that there is difficulty in train
ing workNnen, and that there is also diff
Guilty Ill manning sie ships. Captain Boy
Ed still asserts that the Americans desire
merely to maintain a balance betweea
England and Germany. aud he says that
1t is impossible for America 10 check tho
steady reduction Of allied tonnage.