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The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-08
NEARLY BILLION
BUSHELS WHEAT
Is the Forecast for the Unit
ed States in Year
of 1918
WINTER WHEAT is 1873
PER CENT. NORMAL
Spring Wheat Condition Was
95.2 Per Cent. of
Normal

Washington, ID. c., June s.-The seeon'
largest wheat crop in the history OF tn,
country is in prospect for this years har
vest. The department of agriculture yes
terday forecast total of 93l 100000
bushels of winter and spring wheat com
bined. That is only 69,0o0,0o0 bushels
less than the billion bushel crop the gov
eminent had hoped for, and a continue
ton of the ideal growing conditions such
as prevailed during the last month might
yet produce harvest of one billion
bushels.
Winter wheat condition was s3.s per
cent. of a normal. Spring wheat condi-
ton was 95.2 and the acreage %, 4S9,o 900.
Hay production, l07 100000 tons, con-
dition 500; pastures, condition OPS.
Apple production, 203 100000 bushels;
condition 6es.
Peach production, $4,000 900 bushels;
condition, $40.
Production Of oats was forecast at
100000 bushels, the acreage 44,475000
and the condition 93.2.
Barley production, $4,000, 900 bushels;
acreage, 9,l0s,0 900, and condition 90.5.
Rye production, 81 100000 bushels, and
condition $3.50.
Chief interest in the June crop report
of the department of agriculture to-day
conferred in the production forecast of
this years wheat crop
A forecast of $685. 900 bushels of
winter wheat was made last month from
conditions existing May j, when the re-
port showed the plant TO be 1914 per cent.
of normal Last year on June | it was
T0.9, and the crop was 4ls,000,000 bush
dition is sos and the production average
552 100000 bushels.
Spring wheat production last year was
233, 900, 900 bushels, and the condition on
June ! was 9l.6, while the ten-year aver
age is PSF 600 900 bushels and the condi- |
ton 937. Last years acreage was 49, |
81 900 acres.
Dat production last year was l,5s7 900 |
bushels, and the condition on June ! was
ss.s, while the ten-year average is 1906,
000, 900 bushels, and the condition S9.4.
Last years acreage was 1852 900 acres.
Barley production last year was 209,-
900 900 bushels, and the June ] condition
1913, while the ten-year average is 202,-
000,000 bushels and the condition 90.4.
Last years acreage was s,s25 900 acres.
Rye production last year was 6,l45,000
bushels, and the June | condition s43
while the year average is 4,500,0o
bushels and the condition 500. II
Hay production last year was 94,900,.
600 tons and the June condition SOL,
while the ten-year average is %, 100000 :
tons and the condition $50.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-08

view of the reasons for economy in the
use of certain foods suitable for over
seas shipments, he advocates strongly
the saving of foodstuffs as means of
protection against future scarcity in this
country as the war goes on.
Our united efforts" he further says,
twill constitute a mighty force in con-
serving the food resources of our eoun-
try. To do our part we should scrupu-
lousy avoid waste OF food of any kind;
every family should produce its own pro-
visions as far as possible; we should eat
no more than is required properly to
maintain our strength and working abil-
ity, and we should see that the rules and
regulations OF the United States food adj
minstration are carried out to the letter
in our households" Dorothy Dexter.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-08
Production of Aluminium Salts in 1917.

The output of aluminium salts in tho
United States in 1917 was las.452 short
tons, which is decrease of 2S per cent
from the quantity made in 1916. as re-
ported by the United States geological
survey. department of the interior. The
production Of alum decreased consider
ably, but the production of aluminium
sulphste increased. The price of these
chemicals shows considerable increase,
the average price Of all alum sold in
1917 being s5i60 a short ton and that Of
aluminium sulphate s32l5 short ton.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-08
TWO U. S. AvIATORS KILLED.
Lieut.. John Hegerty and Travers L
Halton Victims of Collision.

Lake Charles, La, June 7.--Lieuten.
ants John Hegerty and Travers Lee Hal.
ton were killed near Gerstner field 10.
day when their sirships collided while al
battle practice.
Haton was from San Antonio, Tex,
and Hegerty from New Jersey
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-08
IRISH CONSUMPTION
is NOT WITHDRAWN
Lord French's Recruiting Proclamation
Should Not Be Construed as Pro-
posal to Relinquish Principle.

Dublin June IA warning to Ireland
that Lord French's recruiting proclama
ton does not mean the withdrawal OF
CONSUMPTION, was made in statement
issued last night by the anti-conscription
conference, after four hour session at
Mansion house. The lord mayor of Dub
lin presided at the meeting and John Dill
lion, Joseph Devlin and other National
list leaders, as well as representatives of
labor and the Sim Fein, were present
The lord mayor of Dublin, it was an
nounced, will proceed to the United
States when the attempt to conseript
Ireland Is renewed.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-08
TROLLEY STRIKE ENDED.
Pending Adjustment of Dispute By La.
Dor Board

Newark, y. j., June s.-The trolley
strike, which for several days has slowed
down many northern New Jersey indns
tries engaged in war contracts. was de-
clared at an end yesterday afternoon.
pending adjustment of the dispute hv
the lzbor board. Both sides agreed 10
submit to the war boards decision.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-08
NEW LAUNCHING RECORD.
Seventy One HuIls Put Into the Water
During May.

Washington, June Ship launchings
in May, like deliveries, set new record
Seventy one hulls, totalling 344,450 dead
weight tons, were put into the water.
Thirty nine Of them were steel, with
capacity of 22s,750 tons, and 81 wood of
1890 tons.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-08
Not Endearing.

A girl can now have permanent wave
put In her hair and her cheeks enameled
so that the color will last for years
Dear me, the poet of the future will
sing of the enduring young charms
Los Angeles Times.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-08
Pennsylvania Railroad Presidents Ap
peal

This is a time for plain living, sound
thinking and hard working.
lite us be leaders in ordering our
everyday lives so as To help our coun-
try's cause"
These are the closing sentences of the
patriotic appeal for food conservation
made by Samuel Rea, president of the
Pennsylvania railroad system, to the
$50 900 employees of the organization.
In little pamphlet, stamped with the
insignis of the United States food ad-
ministration showing that the railroad
considers itself member Of this war
emergency organization, President Res
issues the message with view TO weld
ing together the entire force from the
highest officials to the least of the en-
ployes.
Declaring his belief that the vital i'm
portsnce Of conserving the nations food
supply cannot be over-estimsted. he
urges cooperation with the food admin
istration.
Here Is an opportunity he writes.
afor every one Of ms by little personal
self sacrifice and care TO aid directly in
winning the wal"
Giving a brief but comprehensive re-
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-06-08
Making This a Children's War.

Not since the historic chiIdrens cru
SADIE have the children played such an
active and important part in any war as
they are doing in the one to-day. They
are making Red Cross supplies, planting
gardens and helping very materially in
the nationwide campaign TO save food
for the soldiers, sailors and the allies.
In the interest of food saving the pub
lie school children of various states in the
union have made many posters and car
ICONS, and have written essays on food
conservation In the state of Washing
ton the essays have been distributed to
women's clubs throughout the state, and
have formed an interesting contribution
to the conservation propaganda which
most of these clubs are now conducting
The following sugar essay is a sample
of the work done there. 1t was written
by school girl in Chewelah, Wash:
HELP WIN THE WAR.
Remember this in your coffee;
Zone lump of sugar is patriotism, two
is slackerism, three is desertion, and four
is treason.
I'VE are at war with Germany, and
must win. 1t is the duty of every pa
triotic American citizen TO save sugar.
"Our boys in khaki and the allies are
fighting on the cold, wet battlefields of
France and need sugar. Sugar gives heat
20 the body. To our soldiers sugar is a
necessity. With plenty of it our soldiers
will be better able to fight and conquer
I'VE at home can save sugar by sub |
glucose, syrups and honey. Hon
" is more expensive than sugar, but it |
hould be our purpose to save sugar no
natter what the substitutes cost. Cakes
hould not be made very often. When
hey are made they need not be frosted. ~
Denver labor bulletin., 1918-12-21

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VOL. XIII.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-23
The Far Reaching PO0Uer
Of Our Merchant Fleet.

Though intended primarily to meet the urgen-
cies of war, the great fleet of ocean carriers
which America is building will prove no
less valuable investment for the affairs of peace.
The Shipping Board announced the other day the
letting of contracts for the construction of ninety
two army transports. While the lasts these
vessels will serve the invaluable purpose of NOV
ing troops overseas; when peace returns they
will be converted to passenger traffic. Likewise
with the hundreds of merchantmen which our
shipyards are turning forth. Every one of them
will be needed after they have finished their
original task of thwarting the Kaiser's sea
wolves and of keeping army in France and
our allies provisioned.
They will be needed not for our own COM
merce alone but for the worlds common service.
The loss of merchant shipping during the last
four years has left a huge gap which only pro-
longed and powerful labors fill. Germany has
destroyed many millions of tons of neutral as
well as Allied vessels. She has shown little or
no discrimination between the ships of her enc
mics and of those whom she calls friends. Her
main object has been to destroy all the ships
possible in the hope that at the end of hostilites
she might rush forth with her own carefully
husbanded merchant fleet and gain a virtual
monopoly of overseas shipping. In this as in her
land campaigns, she has been a murderous
sordid profit and power.
But her scheme of dominating ocean trans
portation after the is foredoomed to dsap-
pointment, thanks to the efficient energy of
American shipyards, together with those of Eng
land and Japan. At the rate are launch
ing merchant vessels shall be entirely indie
pendent of German service in the years
ahead; and more, with the added shipping out
put of our present allies the world will be en-
tirely independent of German sea service. The
nation that glories in Frightfulness, sinking hos
pital ships whenever it has the chance and muir
dering women and children the high seas, will
realize for many long year after peace returns
that dishonor is not the shrewd policy she sup
posed.
The beginning of this war found the United
States shipping than 80 per cent of its
overseas commerce in foreign bottoms. The end
of the war will find her fast approaching if not
actually arrived at the point where she can
handle all of her own sea-borne commerce under
her own flag and at the same time able to lend
helping hand to other nations. The keels we
are laying for war emergency will mean
strength and prosperity and serviceableness in
the decades ahead.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-23

witnesses agree that the German aviators flew
back and forth several times. They then shut off
their engines dropped within a few hundred feet
and let go their bombs after careful observa-
ton. Two bombs fell squarely tents, fell
several feet from another tent and the fourth
failed 10 explode"
Two United States wounded soldiers kill
cd in that raid. Nine United States hospital at
tendants. one nurse. wounded. In con-
trast that makes the blood boil comes this para
graph at the end of the dispatch The hospital had
until recently sixty German wounded prisoners
among its patients They had received exactly
the same treatment as the other patients and were
even given special Fourth of July delicaces"
Thus another notch is scored that shame
full German record beside which Hells own is
white That record includes sinking neutral
sells sinking Red Cross vessels summarizing hos
pitaI ships, drowning women and children, burn
ing and bombing hospitals, ravaging monasta-
ries maltreating women, numbering children,
crucfying their foes starving prisoners, poisoning
wells polluting streams, cannonading churches,
pillage, torture, bestiality wanton destruction.
The Kaiser and his people have been guilty of
the most savage revolving and damnable deeds
ever conceived or executed. They have been gull
ty of all of them, from the smallest insult to
the blacklist wickedness They have been guilty
of them as a nation and they have been guilty of
them by the thousand and the million individ-
uals. They have been guilty of them not once or
twice, but time and again, with methodic repeti-
ton. All the devils below could not have
passed such a record, had they been turned loose
unbridled on the world.
In the face of it, who bear the thought of
a truce, until the Hun is forced to expiate the
crimes which he has committed against the world?
The dead millions who their deaths to him,
cry out for payment. Let us, then, give it at all
COSTS
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-23
At Our Gates

. The U-boat attack on tug and four barges
just off Cape Cod is interesting chiefly an in
dication of what the Huns would do to if
they could. This lone adventurer from the
Kaiser's pirate pack, sneaking along our Atlantic
coast in search of prey, fell upon the first
American craft that appeared. The fact that
the tug and her barges were of no military con-
sequence whatsoever and that three women and
five children among those aboard the YES
sells, made shadow of difference to the U-boat
commander and his crew Shells were rained
and torpedoes were hurled upon the peaceful,
work-a-day craft if they had been men of war
The Hun makes distinction between fighters
and noncombatants, none between fortified strong
holds and placid villages far from the battle zone
none between soldiers fully armed and helpless
women and children. The Hun, in short, has
abandoned the code of humanity and defed the
usages of civilization. He is approaching the
fifth year of his deliberately planned pillage and
murder The only reason he is not visiting upon
our shores all the atrocities that he has heaped
upon our allies is the fact that he is impotent
to do His U-Boat ravages at our doors are
reminder of his hate for
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-23
Georeia as a Meat Producer.

Touching the rapid growth of live stock in
dustries in South Georgia, the Albany Herald OBJ
serves that while those to the manner born are
beginning to appreciate the extraordinary re-
sources of that region for stock raising and are
giving more attention than ever before to the i'm
provement of their herds of hogs and cattle, ex-
perienced stock raisers from other sections as
well are coming in with ample capital for de-
veIopments on a extensive scale. Further,
The writer was told few days ago by a
practical farmer who has had experience in
the live stock business in Illinois, and has
recently purchased one of the best farms in
DOugherty county, that he had found that he
could raise hogs here at about one-third Of
what it cost to raise them in Illinois Hav-
ing had experience in raising both hogs and
cattle, and being a practical business man,
he has kept up with the cost of feeding his
stock and says that he has been surprised at
the little cost of taking of his hogs and
cattle here compared with what his exper-
fence had been in Illinois.
Some years ago experts from the National De-
partment of Agriculture declared after ex-
tensive study of the problem of meat supply that
the South was the part of the country, with
the possible exception of certain portions of the
far West in which beef could be produced cheap
ly. This condition is more pronouncedly true now
than then, and in part of the South is it
more conspicuously true than in Georgia This
State with its mild winters, abundant pasture
age, cheap lands and accessibility to great market
centers, is certain to become of America s
great meat producing centers.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-23
THE LETTER FROM HOME
BY DR.. Frank Crane

BY DT. FRANK Crane
One Of the most vital forces that go to put
courage into the hearts OF the boys at the front
IS the letter from home.
Never until you are three thousand miles away
from all your own folks, and in a strange lanG,
with people all about you chattering in
known tongue, do you realize what Loneliness
means.
When to distance you add danger, hardship
and unaccustomed and racking toll, you have the
ingredients for a mighty inconsistencies. You
remember when in times of peace you were trav-
cling abroad, how you eagerly watched and waited
for letters, and the thousand absurd but the
less distressing suspicious and conjectures that
fomented in your mind when the mail was delayed
well, it's infinitely worse in war time
So don't fail to write him Over There.
And note these hints.
Remember that the postal service abroad
none too good in peace times, and it's worse now;
hence, write three letters when you want to
reach him.
Write some every day Make it part of your
days routine. And send your letters off twice
week or oftener.
Be sure to get the address exactly right Go
to your postmaster the nearest army station
write to the war department and find out how to
address your letter so that there shall be no mis-
take.
Print the address on your envelope. Don't trust
to script. Make it foolproof.
Tell him details all the little happenings. Tell
about the baby and the and what the neighbors
are doing. Chat. Don't preach. Just talk. Don't
give advice.
Make every letter cheerful You'd as well fill
your letter with typhoid germs with pessimism.
Don't worry him about money matters. You
will get along somehow, and annoying him will do
good.
Don't quarrel. Save your misunderstanding
until he gets home
Don't be afraid of being too sentimental. He
may not have seemed to care much for the little
arts of affection when he was with you, but, be-
Iieve me, he will eat hungrily every loving word
you send him now.
Tell him you're loyal, that you love him, that
he's the only man in the world, and all the other
blessed protestations you can think Of.
Clip little articles from the papers and maya
zines and enclose them things that have interested
you.
Send otographs-unmounted, pictures or
everything and everybody he knows, of grandma,
and the grocery store, and the dog, and the chill
dren and yourself, and Bill and Jim and Tom and
Susie and all the rest. Little snapshots you take
yourself are best.
No matter what he writes you, do not allow
Yourself to be hurt worried; keep up the cheer;
by the time he gets your answer he will have for
gotten what he said; he will only see the bright
ness you send him.
Every letter you write, say to yourself 1t may
be the last will get, and you will want to make
il the kind that will put smile in his soul
And keep on writing, whether you get answers
or not So you will be doing your bit, for him and
for your country You will be putting pep into
soldier of humanity.
Copyright, 1918. by Frank Crane.)
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-23
The Tractor As a Weab0n.

One of the most effective weapons employed
against Germany is the American farm tractor
Since 1915, upwards eight thousand of these
chimes have been sent to England, where they
have revolutionzed agricultural production. THE
days of horse-plowing in the United Kingdom
seem to be over" writes a correspondent, land
when several thousand additional tractors are
available, it is probable that the country will be
made practically seIf-sHpporting." Hitherto, the
island depended imports Cor the greater por-
tion of it's food supplies.
How important part the tractor has played
in this transformation is witnessed by the fact
that England now has under cultivation eight p;il-
ton three hundred thousand acres, increase
of than two million since the year 1916
This great expansion of the food-producing area
made possible through the tractor, for farm
labor in England has been critically short during
the last two years.
This increase in the English output of food
aecessares has contributed notably to the frustra
ton of the U-boat campaign, of the prime
detectives of which to starve England into
captulation. Further the more of her own food
supply England produced, the more shipping she
released for military needs. An authority esti-
mates that by this means between and a half
and two million tons of shipping will be saved
this year.
These achievements and conditions all make
for the defeat of Prussian piracy and for the
sense therefore, the farm tractor may be account
ed one of the most effective weapons have
directed against and the worlds enemy
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-23
"OUer There" and Over Here

For the part you playing in this you
are answering not alone to yourself and to your
government and your fellow citizens, but you
answering as we'll to all-mportant other-the
American soldier lover there" And be sure that
he knows and will remember the part you
playing just as surely you know what he has
done at Chateau Thierry and at Cantigny and
the Marne
There is abundant testimony that the eyes of
the American Expeditonary Force in France are
on America with all the searching eageTness that
the eyes of America France. They look for
every letter ard newspaper from home and they
read them threadbare.
Captain Robert Warwick who was movie
actor before he went to France with Pershing,
tells us that the favorite pictures with the boys
are those showing activities at home AS you
cheer the film showing American lads trudging
down a muddy road in Picardy, so those same lads
cheer the pictures of Red Cross work and ship
building and Liberty Loan parades lover here"
Some day these lads coming home-the
greater part of them, all hope. And when
they do they will not ask you, What did you do
while | was fighting for you?" They will not
have to ask They will know.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-23

The dreadful toll of crimes which Germany is
rolling up and for which the Hun must answer in
the day of reckoning, shows indication Of
diminishing either in number or horror. They are,
if anything. more deliberately fendish than ever.
as witness the recent bombing of an American hos
pitaI at Jouy by two German airplanes.
The dispatch descriptive of this latest Hun
atrociy says There structures of any kind
near the hospital and the RAILROAD is three
kilometers away. In addition to the usual Red
Cross markings. a large cross 100 feet long was
in position on the lawn. Photographs taken re-
Gently from airplanes show that the cross was
visible several thousand feet in the air. Seven
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-07-23
TRAVELETTE-By Niksah

stepped, typical of the Trinity. The entire mono
18th is covered with legendary characters signih-
cant of the struggle between good and evil.
That good is triumphant, is represented by the
triquetral emblem of the Three-in-One, which
forms the graceful cross-head.
Within the tiny church the Fishing Stone
Cross unearthed in 1S43, and all that remains
of third cross, which probably stood at the
foot of the grave of some Morse chieftain, who
had been converted to the Christian religion.
The quaint sun dial just outside the church
was set up on the ruins of still another cross,
which also bears evidence of the newly-con-
verified Norsemen of ancient times.