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The Adair County news., 1918-12-11
CANNON AND CROPS CONSUaIE-.
THE SAME MATERIALS
Wartime Conditions Threaten FScs5s~
izer Supply.

Every cannon crash and every buEz<
ing bomb on the battlefelds os EursFN
uses up important fertilizer mateKnSas
A single skirmish may consume usks
potential plant food than would 3eFw
quired to feed the fields Of an s,xs1s
township, and the quantities burucsN
up during a real bombardment are 9-k-
mendOus. Last year more than a
900 tons of nitrate went to make, -
plOsives, in the United States aiecsz
Millions of tons of sulphuric acid -wae
likewise consumed.
Fertilizers and warfare bear & EsosF
intimate and most sensitive reSAtEgS
ship. War decreases the suprzE oA
fertiliZing materials and at the saZe
time increases the Importance OF ttzs1-
use. Food production takes on a1gz-
triOtic aspect. The farmers toofS 81
production become of Importance sec
ond only to the needs of the armT l.
self Yet when. Mars Is the, ar56eT
the preference on materials 1nnsc &
to the soldier rather than to the fa1z-
er. This accounts for the shortage&
materials from which fertilizers Ext
made.
But now a new danger threatens Tae.
spring fertilizer supply. The lsSea
supply has failed. The needs or Efse~
munition plants and the sf1fpyZrzfk
have been so great as to- seriously
drain the fertilizer factories NzzsI
plants have lost 80 to 40 per eens szS
their labor, and there is no prosFs-SR
for improvement by next spring.
In normal times spring fertiiIgr.r
are turned out by working the f11e-
tories at high speed during the. ixztE
winter and early spring months ESEEly
half as many laborers are employee D.
November and December as In FezK0z
airy and March.
With the present difficulty OF gscTktrs
labOrers, it can be seen how reaaeee Is
the chance of speeding up tos'ti6EsEkE
production next spring. There IL 6szs.S
one way to get out the fertilizer MA
mage needed for next years crops, 18d
that is to start in now and rum eSs<y
factory as best it may every. day GEzEE-
now until spring.
But manufacturing every day nhrzs
mean shipping every day. Fer1lEEes
factories do not have and eannets gsE
storage space for this. tremeu1ks2
bulk of goods. Finished goods mzsS
be loaded directly on the. cars zzse
shipped to the consumer
Here is where the farmer must hip
He must place his order immediaxzaS
and accept immediate shipment IL
no other way can the problems hka
solved.
The Adair County news., 1918-12-11
A SOIL FERTILITY PROPHECY

Editor Collingwood of the Rural
New Yorker says:
Gasoline leaves no organic matter
behind it. We have come to the time,
and we are rapidly going further into
it when there will be practically no
stable manure for people to buy and
put on their ground. And then people
will suddenly wake and realize that all
these years they have been giving to
stable manure a value it did not carry,
and that, with fertilizers properly ham
died and with cover crops, they will
be able, to get the same results with
less labor, with more profit and with
far greater satisfaction"
The Adair County news., 1918-12-11
ANOTHER
AMERICAN
QUEST
G0k
Baked Beans Have Made PIacss fta
Themselves in Europe.

Beansi Do you know themf BoA
ton baked! Red beans on toasEE Gu
just beans. Home and foreign END
sumption of beans has increased ER-
idly In the past few years. Tia r
has oiven thousands Of EurspsEuE
their first taste of real yankee porx
and beans" This "bean habit Wiz
linger, md beans will become uecey
sity on the European bill of fare. a.
it has on the American.
Possibly no other cultivated cr1p or
fers a quicker or larger cash rs.Ir-.
than does the field bean. In the TaSS
bean growing has been confnGs2 te,
comparatively small areas, but grow
ers have found out that there are va
rieties adapted to growth in most every
section of the country.
While beans have been looked aFgzs
by some as poor land crop" ctsss
do best on a fertile soil that is neatiSHr
extremely light and open nor too heavy
and compact. The bean Is. 4 legunas
capable by virtue of its root strucI1DsTf
of taking nitrogen from the air. buI
owing to its brief growing season tbs
nitrogen-gathering bacteria on dszs
roots have but short space of tine, II
which to fix nitrogen. Fertilizers EssG
on beans should supply nitrogen a.
well as phosphOric acid and potash
The rapid growth and early matlrit.
secured through the use of fertilizer,
are also valuable in enabling the cru5
to escape rust, blights or early frOScts
The Adair County news., 1918-12-11


the sword, he hurled himself into the
attacking ranks. They gave, and with
a cheer the defenders swept on into
the main street, Mark leading them.
How he fought that day he never
knew; long afterward he would see
visions of 1T in sleep, and battle pic
lures that forever eluded his waking
consciousness. Round the little vii
lage, the key to the days fortunes, the
tide ebbed and flowed. Company after
company came up on either side. Now
advancing, now driven back, the Amer.
leans fought from street to street and
back again. Machine guns opened fire
from unexpected places, hideous death
traps caught the unwary and venture
some, sometimes a street was filled
with a jostling mob, too packed to use
their steel, tearing at one another with
fists and teeth. There was no order,
and the command fell to him who
seized 1t. Through all that nightmare
Mark fought at the head of his com
pany, looking like mailman, as they
said of him afterward When he came
The Adair County news., 1918-12-11
THE WORLD SHORTAGE
of LIVE STOCK

A census Of cattle in France
reveals a decrease of IL per
cent in beef animals, 38 per cent
in sheep and 40 per cent in hogs
since December 81, 1913. Italy
has suffered a loss Of p per
cent of horses, Is per cent for
mules, and 8 per cent for swine.
No one can even guess what the.
decrease in Germany, Austria,
and Russia has been, but 1t must
be enormous. According to a re-
liable estimate the decrease Of
live stock in al Europe Is equal
to one-half the amount Of live
stock in America today. This
estimate places the loss at 100.-
100000 head.
The Adair County news., 1918-12-11


unwOunded, save for his bleeding arm,
from which the bandage had long since
fallen, and in command of battalion.
They had driven the Germans from
the last house of the village. The de-
lay had saved the day. The reserves
had come pouring in. On the ridge be-
yond the enemy was marshaling for a
last counter-attack.
Mark looked about him. Lieutenants,
captains who should have commanded
companies, mingled with privates and
noncoms, were following, as if hypno-
tized, this middle-aged private with the
red cross on his arm. AS Mark looked
his heart swelled with the conscious
ness and pride of leadership. And, at
his glance, roar went up that was
caught up from man to man and sent
echoing into the distance.
And Mark was swept away with un-
conquerable enthusiasm. 1t was his
day, the day of which every soldier
dreams.
"Come along, boys! Break them
upl" he shouted, and ran forward.
With one resounding cheer the lines
swept after him. A ripple Of machine
gun fire caught them, but could not
hold them. Over the fallen they
pressed on, cries Of triumph upon their
lips, the faces, set above the cleaning
bayonets, animated by a single pur-
pose. And now they were upon them.
Mark fought in the bloody swirl.
Blades thrust at him, bullets tore his
tattered uniform. Once he was down,
and he saw a giant rush at him with
dubbed rifle. He raised his arm, he
tried to drive with his sword, lunged
and missed. Then the uplifted rife
fell harmlessly beside him, and the
giant fell forward, dead, over him, pin
ming him to the ground, and covering
him with his blood. A bayonet thrust
had passed clean through his body.
And. looking up bewildered, Mark
thought he saw Hartley's face look
into his own.
Next moment Mark was on his feet
again, and Hartley had vanished. But
already the last tussle was over. The
Germans broke and fled.
Mark stood still, gasping. The men
were crowding all about him, waving
their helmets on bayonet points, cheer
ing him, shaking his hand. Across the
field two mounted men were riding.
They came up to the ridge, and one, a
white-haired old officer, leaped to the
ground and wrung Marks hand.
my thanks-our country's thanks to
you'll" he cried. "What is your name?"
Mark looked and saw the Generals
insignia upon the officers shoulder
straps.
'Weston," he answered.
And suddenly he remembered Flea.
nor, and, ashamed and Inundated, and
yet strangely elevated, he began to
push his way back through the crowd.
He turned into the street OF the Jail.
Dead bodies lay everywhere, and al
ready some of the ambulance men were
succoring the wounded. Broken guns,
rifles, haversacks, all the parapher-
MALTA of battle strewed the streets. The
debris of the Jail came into view. The
sun, dancing above it, indicated. to
Marks establishment, that hours had
passed, and that it was afternoon. Marx
felt suddenly sick, he trembled, and
with his last reserves of strength he
staggered forward.
Then he saw Colonel Howard with
in the orifice in the wall, and Eleanor
kneeling beside him. holding water
bottle to his lips. She turned, saw
him, and ran to him, folded her arms
about his neck and pressed her lips to
lis.
The Adair County news., 1918-12-11
OUR DWINDLING MEAT SUPPLY

You have no doubt become accus-
toned to meatless days, but secretly
you are probably waiting and hoping
for the day when you can again eat
a good steak without feeling unpa-
triOtic.
But do you realize that the average
meat supply per individual, even be-
fore the war, had fallen off nearly one
fourth since 1900? To be sure, each
of US had nearly as much meat to eat
The Adair County news., 1918-12-11
THE IRISH POTATO THE FOOD
OF THE PEOPLE

The Irish potato is a staple Of
American diet. Enough potatoes were
consumed in the United States in 1915
to allow one eight-ounce potato a day
throughout the whole year for each
man, woman and child.
Truly, the potato Is the food of the
people. The portion of the American
meal made up by this vegetable, alone,
consumes over 3OOOOO,OOO bushels an
nually.
Intensive methods make it possible
to grow crops yielding from $50 to 400
bushels per acre, and at the same time
to decrease the cost of raising each
bushel. The big expense in potato
growing comes in the preparation of
the land, the purchase of the seed and
the attention given the crop through
out the season. But it costs no more
to prepare ground, plant, cultivate and
spray 300-bushel crop than it does
150buShel crop. Harvesting will cost
more, but the big overhead expenses
are practically the same. Obviously
the thing to do is to insure large
yields by supplying an abundance of
available plant food that will give the
crop good start and force it to early
maturity.
Fertilizers should be applied at the
time of planting, and in order to make
certain that this material may be on
hand when needed it is especially i'm
portant to order early this year.
The man who has his fertilizer
stored in his own barn is the only one
who can be certain Of supply when
needed. A big potato crop will be
needed next year whether peace comes
or not.
The Adair County news., 1918-12-11
AVOIDING SOFT CORN LOSSES
Corn Crop to Get Ahead Of
the Frost.

An ear of hard corn may break, but
1t never bends. An ear of soft corn
bends easily, but it never breaks.
Sometimes water may even be wrung
out from such corn.
''soft corn year" is disastrous.
The corn can't be stored. and can't be
sold. 1t must be fed at Once-with the
result that hundreds of carloads of fat
The Adair County news., 1918-12-11
lobe continued next week.

I keep on hands a full stock Of
cofins, caskets. and robes. I also keer
Metallic Caskets, and Steel Boxes and
two hearses. We keep extra large
caskets. Prompt servics night or day.
Residence Phons'ss, Of1,os phone les.
45-lyr J. F Triplett.
The Adair County news., 1918-12-11

Soft Corn (above) Full Of Water, Hard
Corn (below) All Corn.
The diamond drill., 1918-01-19

TOWNSHIP 4S NORTH OF RANGE
Pt Of
section 11t2 0l0
point Of hegnnng known lot block uncorded
tai Falls Wo0dcnwnre,
reservation .....,..20 aa8 1929 1b7 100 5214
ne OF l-2 la a
line Of section 1892
beginning know
lot block
era reservation ...-.29 1900 302 102
ADDITION.
Lot 221,
Lots 23f
Al geservaton :........a li2n 1864
Lots 2i0 and 2il
Al rsssvaton .,s;.... 7scs 2O4e leo iOs2
Lots 252 253 25i
The Washington herald., 1918-07-08
DRYS GET ADVANTAGE
In SENATE MANEUVER
Sheppard Procures First Considera.
ton When Upper Body Meets.

In the hurly-burly of the Congress
sional situation Saturday night, Sen
ator Morris Sheppard, the champion of
national prohibition, put his cause in
a most advantageous position. The
Senate voted by 81 to IS to take up for
consideration the food stimulation bill.
At the time the vote was taken. this
move meant that prohibition would be
ready on the calendar for considera-
ton when Congress returned to Wash
ington August u.
As It now Is, Senator Sheppard Is in
position to force discussion on the
measure tomorrow. The Senate has
little to do. The telegraph and tele-
phone bill will be considered in COM
mittee and will not reach the floor for
some time.
The food stimulation bill Is the
measure to which is hung the various
prohibition amendments. It was to
this bill that Randall, of California,
affixed in the House his bone-dry
proposition. The Senate Committee,
however. substituted for this an
amendment by Senator Norris, of
Nebraska, which. gives beer three
months yet to live in this country
and wine and whisky one year each.
The time extension is allowed for the
reason that liquor manufacturers have
convinced the Senate Committee that
they would lose millions in property
by immediate extinction.
Prohibitionists are absolutely con-
vinced that IL they obtain a vote, they
will be successful.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-08
TWO MORE CONVICTION
D. c. MEN ARE SAFE
D. G. McDufie and Stoker Hayden
Land in France.

Two more members Of the crew of
the Covington, the transport that was
sunk by German submarine July 1,
who were reported among those saved,
are former residents of Washington.
They are Acting Chief Petty oficer
Daniel G. McDuffie,, of 10 North Caro-
lima avenue southeast, and Stoker
Aubrey Hayden, of 2e2s z street south
east. H-.
The other man from Washington
was Lieut.. George E. Fowler, Of 23
C street northeast. .5
The Navy Department has an
nounced that all of those aboard the
ship were safely landed in France,
except six of the crew.
McDufie was on his way home when
the ship was torpedoed.; He had been
granted furlough and expected to
visit HIS folks in Washington.
Hayden was in: the, stokehofd of the
transport. He was formerly employed
by Lombard & Ludwig. decorators,
and has . brother Earl and sister
Alice and bis rarents living here.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-08

Hotel clerks who are entrusted with
the neyer-ending job of forwarding
mail may consider that they are the
most harassed men in town. But they
have life Of ease compared with the
clerks of an army camp where men
and officers are being constantly or
dered from post to post at a very
few hours notice. At the camps the
mail clerks must. in many instances.
make an index card system which
will give ready access to the names
and addresses of at. least 10000 men,
the number representing the force in
camp and those who have gone over
there"
Although mail is often returned to
senders because Of failure to locate
the person whom the mail is ad-
dressed to, the reports Indicate that
that in most instances the mail clerks
have been unable to make delivery
because insufficient or faulty informa-
tion was given.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-08
BALES OF MAIL IN ARMY
CAMPS BEWILDER CLERKS

Figures compiled by the army show
that the American soldier is the
champion letter writer Of the world
He may be forced to go on the double
quick, much OF the time, to keep pace
with his schedule of duties, but he
always manages to find time to let
the folks know something of his new
experiences.
Nor Is he alone in using the mail
wagons of his Uncle Sam. The folks
back home are not permitting him to
lose touch with the gossip OF the
neighborhood- One vessel recently
carried 2,0O,0oo letters to France 1t
Is impossible to estimate the amount
Of mali which Is being sent to and
from the 100 branch post Offices at
the military camps in the United
States, The mail clerks at the larger
camps handle about 10000 letters
daily and fifteen tons of parcels post
and second-class matter.
The Washington herald., 1918-07-08
COTTON FIELDS OF IS.
MENACED BY PINK HUNS

San Antonio. Texas. July 1.-The
|, Pink Hun is raidIngth United states.
The drive Of this new: enemy has
reached into hundreds OF thousands
OF acres of southern Texas. Farmers
and government officials, State and
federal are cooperating In repefling
The Pink Hun drive. A thousand la
norers are crawling over cotton fields
hunting for infested cotton bolIs.
Mountains of cotton plants are beins
torn up, soaked In oil and burned.
The Pink Hun is the name Texas
farmers have given to the boolworm.
In Mexico they call II the Pink I'm"
1t Is pink in color and absolutely the
most hungry insect that preys upon
farmers. For many years 1t has in
Tested Mexican cotton fields, but was
held beyond the Rio Grande This is
the firs< year it has come across
1t is believed that German plotters
succeeded in smuggling infested cot
tonseed across the border and sowing
1t in Texas fields. II Texas farmers
had not recognized the bollworm Inn
medtately and had neglected 1t. the
whole OF Texas would have suffered,
and the Pink Hun would have trav-
eled all over the South by summer.
The bollworm is unlike the boil
weevil, in that it oan live and gorge
itself upon cotton in dry and wet
seasons and may be transported in
side the cottonseed.
The boil weevil causes millions of
dollars. of loss. each year., The boil
worm is worse pest. and when once
it gets firm foothoId is much harder
TO get rid of than the boil weevil.'
Many Texas farmers believe that
German agents during last winter
were quietly at work distributing cot
tonseed infested with boilworms, and
that they hoped to ruin all or much
OF the American cotton crop this year
and next
Cotton experts say that II the Pink
Hun spreads over the cotton-produc-
ing area OF the United States Ameri-
can farmers will have TO quit raising
cotton and turn their fields to other
The Washington herald., 1918-07-08
KAISER RMAIMS'l
GOD PARTNER
SAYS BISHOP
DR.. MacDoweli at Ellipse
Service Urges4o Hold
Fast.

Whenever there is the suehtesi
victory for German arms. the kaiser
grabs the opportunity 10 felieftat,
with his sidefar;ner Gott." said
Bishop W. p. MacDowcI. Of thu
Methods: Church. at the Vssper serr-
ice on the EIlipse yesterday after
noon. A good MAN. PeoI-e .iavc' had
their faith distuTDec. and have won
dered at this propaganda whether
God is really on the side Of the Ger
man people in this war.
Surely the God Of Jesus Christ
could not have instigated the sinking
OF the Lusitania. tie execution OF
Kdith Caveli, the murder OF innocent
women and children. the ravasing Of
northern France and Belgium. Surely
he could not he on the side OF those
who have outraged truth and all those
principles we have held 10 be right a.
Right h Right.
Right is right as God is God-to
doubt would be disloysl and not only
disloyal but sinful.
America hold steady. Do not let
yourselves get nervous or depressed.
DO not let the enemy md US war
weary because OF a sugar shortage
or crowded cars.
We have a long. dreadful task be-
fore US. We must hold steady and
not allow ourselves TO become either
pessimistic or too hopeful as the for
tunes Of war reach our ears"
The Washington herald., 1918-07-08
PIRRIE:, POOR RIRIsHLAD, NOW
: ENGLAND'S BIC SHIP BUILDER
Born in Quebec, Lord William Rises to
Mastery of Marine Construction
by Fabrication. .gssas
ny FLOYD MAC GRIFF,
/. N. q. stn6 COrrespondent

london (by maiD.-Upon Lord Will
lam James Pirrie. who was born in
Quebec in 1s47 Of poor Irish parents.
and who. through his own efforts.
rose to be shipbuilder and owner of
some $4,000 tons Of shipping, rests the
responsibility of saving Great Britain
from peril by building more merchant
ships. And those who know Lord
/ Pirrie say:
The ships will be built and built
quickly"
Lord Pirrie, now one of the worlds
richest men. got his knowledge Of
shipbuilding first hand. He entered
the shipbuilding firm of Harland q
wolff, at Belfast. when Is. He was
an orphan. The ship construction
firm was then only a small affair and
practically unknown. It had no real
advantages as a builder Of ships, for
steel and coal had to be imported.
A Draushtsman.
{ But Pirrie learned to be a draughts-
man and at % was designing vessels
of a new type-vessels that were eco
nomical both in construction and
operation. The firm grew, and at
- hS was u JuniOE pdElneTs he Is
now the principal owner and has
established yards on the Clyde and re-
pairing establishments at South
Hampton and Liverpool. His slips
have been turning out about half OF
the country's merchant tonnage. His
present plans call for turning out a
completed ship in eighteen weeks.
Although n. Lord Pirrie has an un-
usual amount Of energy. He is alert.
slightly below middle height, with
bushy beard. keen eyes and gray
hair. He is a genius at organization
and Is known as a master Of men. !"
Mayor Of Belfast.
Some years ago he was Lord Mayor
OF Belfast. He was made a privy
councillor OF Ireland and eventually
received his peerage. He has no chill
dren.
Lord Pirrie narrowly escaped death
on the Titanic-a ship his firm, built.
His passage was cancelled at the last
moment for business reasons.
! One of the first results of Lord Pr
The Washington herald., 1918-07-08
ALEXANDRIA HEALTH
PUT In CHARGE OF
STATE OFFICIALS
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE

service, and he added that they ex-
pect to make a report next Wednes-
day.
The meeting was presided over by
Robert L. Payne. president of the
Chamber OF Commerce, and ]. T.
Preston, secretary OF that organiza-
ton, acted as secretary.
Order II Enforced.
The military police here are seeing
that the orders issued yesterday by
Lieut.. Col. Park are strictly carried
out. All soldiers give eating houses
and places where soft drinks are sold
wide berth at great Inconvenience
to themselves. Each outgoing train
carries large numbers to Washington.
Lunchrooms and soda fountains thus
far are the principal sufferers.
Thousands Of dollars worth OF otheG'
business also is lost to the merchants
as a result Of the order.
Just how long the order will remain
in force is problematical. As stated
at the meeting this afternoon by Mai.
Brewer. 1t is entirely dependent upoa
the progress made in cleaning UP the
city and remedying existing condi-
tons