Evening star., 1918-07-21

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Owing to the fact that German sub
marines are reported from time to
time on the coast Of
American Coast the United States
-, there has been an
@3sA1eIy. unusual interest In
the Coast Artillery Corps and what
Uncle Sam is doing with the boys who
guard our coast.
| To meet the immediate needs for
filing vacancies due to casualties or
| other causes occurring in the units
In France. a coast artillery training
unit has been established. This unit
Is analogous to the depot brigades
now used by mobile army divisions:
that Ia. 1t is contemplated that the
coast fortifications shall be kept fully
manned and that the instruction shall
be conducted In an Intensive way In
each coast defense command. with a
view to providing a reservoir of train
ed personnel to supply all the de-
mands that may be made for filing
vacancies and In replacement Of the
casualties in the forces withdrawn
for duty in France:
| A fixed organization has been rec
| commended for the National Guard
Ecoast artillery. in order that vacan- :
cies occurring therein may be nlleo
| and organizations assigned to meet
best the demands of the service. II
| Is contemplated, 1t 10 understood. that
the National Guarh personnel shall
| receive intensive instruction with the
regular coast artillery at coast 1or-
| tifications. A schedule of such IN :
| sfrucfion has heen transmitted to
coast defense commanders.
| A schedule for heavy artillery IN
| struction, In addition to the oIne1
regular coast artillery instruction.
This calls for intensive instruction IN
i each coast defense in gunnery metnods
pertaining to heavy and railway artil-
iery in land service. Methods OF max
| ing careful corrections for WIND. at
mosphere. powder and dMerence an
employed in coast artillery gunnery;
and as they are being used IN almost
| ali artillery work abroad. 1t 10 seen
that coast artillery troops can ADAPT
themselves very easily to neaVy ar
tiIiery work when called upon to = 40
40 The coast artillery board has de-
vised a system Of nre-control snatIs mari
and devices for use OF heavy ana rail-
way artillery in land service.
The course which has been provided
for the sunnery schools by tne va
Department ofhcials includes neid
s,,rveyinr. railroad surveying. gun
merry methods. methods Of determin,
ing the actual range and bearing. ana
| in short. everything that will be In
any way useful to the artiierymeh'
either in this country or abroad.
| A training school for chauneurs anu
mended for Fort Monroe. Va. where
there is an excellent plant IN opera
| tion. It is estimated that the coast
Artillery Corps will need about 4.ooo
chauffeurs and 700 gas-engfne e1peres
to handle the motor TRANSPORTATION
pertaining to tractor-drawn artilieFs
for service abroad.
Several thousands of candidates Tor
commissions in the Coast Artiilefy
Corps have received intensive tram.
| ing at Fort Monroe and Fort Wfnneld
Scott, Cal. up to the present time: II
| is possible with the coast artillery
material on hand. 1t is said. to give
instruction in gunnery methods now
/ in use in the war zone and to anoro
students practical instruction IN ne!o
firing problems. Aeroplanes ana KITE
balloons are used for the purpose OF
adjusting fire. In order to qualify en-
listed men who are now In the Coast
Artillery Corps and civilians who en-
listed In the corps for the period OF
the war a certain procedure has been
adopted by officials Of the war De-
partment. This includes the chang
wear to three months of intensive
training. Subschools have been estab-
lished, and by sending men from the
tsubschools to the regular arullery
schools 1t 10 possible to assemble
class Of students who will be able to
complete the course with practically
no loss. Under tho old system 1t was
found that about Is per cent failed
to complete tho course.
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| Leghorns produce eggs cheaper than
hens of the general-purpose breed
| Plyfn m u h
Leehorns as Cheap Rocks. wyan-
dottes. Rhode
Egg Producers. Island reds and
orpingtons. This fact. which con-
firms tho belief and experience OF
commercial poultry farmers. was one
of the results obtained in a rather
extensive feeding test recently re-
ported by poultrymen Of the Depart
ment of Agriculture.
Because they lay as many or more
eggs, eat only about IS pounds Of feed
1 per head, as compared with 10 to S5
pounds eaten by the general-purpose
breed, and because their egg yield
very materially exceeds that Of gen.
erai-purpose breeds during their sec
ond and third laying years. Leghorns,
| the specialists say, undoubtedly are
more profitable to keep for the pro-
duction Of eggs only.
In this test the feed cost OF q
dozen eggs for one of the Leghorn
pens was 7.34 cents in 1918. while the
average cost of all the pens OF the
eeneral-purpose breeds was 10.6
cents. In 1914 the feed cost Of dozen
eggs for the same pen OF Leghorns
was ST. cents. as against an average
ing year Of the general-purpose pens.
During their third laying year the
cost Of q dozen eggs was ~ cent
compared to 1876 cents, for the gen.
leral-purpose fowls. The total value or
eggs per hen over feed cost In the
ierhorn pen for three years was $o.S4.
against 1880 for the general purpose
mans. The highest egg production on-
4 tanned in any Of the feeding experi-
1 ments up to 1915 was by a pen OF Leg.
horns which. laid 1876 eggs per men al
= feed cost OF 81 csnts per pr.SIar % egg.
than the general-purpose breeds, Ine
average weight OF the eggs OF pen
Of LeEhorns during the nrst laying
wear was 1.42 pounds per doxen y
II against 1.6s to 1.b8 pounds Tor .ne
4 other pens. However. Leghorns lay
Ing eggs weighing 1.6o pounds ,I.er Per
dozen or even more, the speciahsts 3.
| sav- have been. selected and ored py
many poultrymen. An examination IN
Nav. 1915, Of 500 eggs from three Leg
horn horn pens showed that 81 per cent
weiehed more than ounces each, or
$50 pounds to the dozen.
/ The value per dozen OF the eggs
nrodnced by the Leghorns was from
- 4 cents less each year than the