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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20
REn CRnss WORK NEEDED

| Peace has come. but this does not
 mean that the members of the Red Cross can stop working. The Bir-
 mingham chapter has undertaken ob- 1 legations, and must fulfill them. The
 orders for the November allotment
 have not been revoked, and by Decem- | Der 1, this allotment must be finished
 and sent to New Orleans. 1 Tn the knitting department the chap ter's allotment is for 5000 pairs of socks Of this amount only 500 have | been taken out. Will not every ono who can knit come and take at least
 one pair to make? The knitters of Birmingham have always done what was required of them. They have never failed before. Cannot the chapter re- i ly on them in this great emergency? While our boys are not in the trenches, 1 they will have to spend another win ter in France, and ill that damp, cold climate, woolen socks will be the greatest comfort to them. ! In the gauge department there are 11S5 extra pads to be made by De cember l, and all gauge workers are urged to come to headquarters and work until they are finished. Surgi- cal dressings will be needed for soms-
 time, as the hospitals abroad are full of " wounded men.
 Our soldiers still at home also need our work, and the Birmingham chap ter has been requested to darn S417 socks for the boys at Camp McClel- Ian. These socks must be finished by December 15. This will be fine work for the mothers and grandmothers who cannot we'll leave home, but can spare little time now and then to mend a sock or two.
 The sewing \units are always to be relied on, and it is only necessary to
 tell these chairmen that all sewed work must be returned to headquarters
 by November 27 to be packed on the 18th.
 Never yet has the woman's work department of the Birmingham chap ter failed. Steadily and faithfully they sent every allotment on time. All of last winter and spring, during the terrible heat of the summer with so many of their number away and the hardest of all, during the influenza epidemic, they worked ceaselessly, be- ing the only chapter of the gulf divis- ion that sent ite work on time that month. Will they fail now at the very end?
 Peace has virtually come, but our boys will need our help. If you feel worn out, think of how our boys felt bride will go to Albany to make their home.
 INORTHSIDE COMMUNITY HOUSE
 The opening of the Northside eommu- nity house will be an event of next Wed- nesday, the hours being Il to o'clock, at the home on Eighth avenue, north. At this time an appeal will be made for donations of clothes, old or new, money or food will be made, and it is hoped that the public will respond most liberally to this worth cause.
 PATRIOTIC PLAY
 On Thursday evening, December 5, the Junior Patriotic league of the city will give a patriotic play. Funds received will be devoted to paying for a Liberty Bond. Mrs. R. A. Preston and Mrs. c. M. Fox will be in charge, and all chair men are asked to call at Cable Hall on Saturday to receive tickets to sell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20

style-appeals to me tremendously, but I am glad to say that I did not follow my inclinations else would never have been cast for the clever comedy which The Boomerang undoubtedly is.
 When I went on the stage,'' MT. Con- ness said, "it was like a bolt out of q clear sky, for not one of my ancestors had ever been anywhere nearer the stage than seat in the orchestra. I had a granduncle who came nearer than any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20
MRS. MILLER IGNORED

The Camp Fire Girls Wahwahlaysee camp were at home Thursday at the home of Miss Margaret Mckinney in honor of their former guardian, Mrs, e. E. Miller (Miss Anne Mays) About 50 guests enjoyed the reunion and eX- tended Mrs. Miller cordial welcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20
MRS. MORTIMER JORDAN
 MAKES ANNOUNCEMENT

Mrs. Mortimer Fl. Jordan announces that the splendid committee of women
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20
PATRIOTIC PLAY

|PATKIUIIC PLAY
 On Thursday evening, December 5, the Junior Patriotic league of the city will give patriotic play. Funds received will be devoted to paying for a Liberty Bond. Mrs. R. A. Preston and Mrs. O. M. Fox will be in charge, and all chair men are asked to call at Cable Hall on Saturday to receive tickets to sell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20
NORTHsIDE PROMINENTLY HOUsE

bride will go to Albany to make their home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20

Miss Kate Earle Terrell is spending a few days in Selma with Mrs. Samuel Hobbs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE.

~ uRIoUS, isn't 1t, how easily we | \ become identified with whatever
 we happen to be doing?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-20

Mir. and Mrs. Priestley Toulmin have returned from Montgomery where they spent the weekend with Miss Katherine Baldwin
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
To Make Smithfield Hams

The hams are placed in large tray of fine Liverpool salt, then the flesh surface is sprinkled with finely ground crude saltpeter until the hams are as white as though covered by moderate frost-or, say, use three to four pounds ot the powdered saltpeter to the thou sand pounds of green hams.
 After applying the saltpeter, salt im- mediately with the Liverpool fine salt, covering well the entire surface. Now pack the hams in bulk. but not in piles more than three feet high In ordinary weather the hams should remain thus for three days.
 Then break bulk and resalt, with the fine salt The hams thus salted and re- salted should now remain in salt in bulk one day for each and every pound each ham weighs-that Is, a 10-pound ham should remain 10 days, and in like proportion of time for larger and smaller sizes.
 Next wash with tepid water until tho hams are thoroughly cleaned. and, after partially drying, rub the entire surface with finely ground black pepper.
 Now the hams should be hung in the smokehouse and the important operation or smoking begun. The smoking should be done very gradually and slowly, last ing 90 to 40 days.
 After the hams are cured and smoked they should be repeppered. to guard against vermin, and then bagged. These hams improve with age and are in per- lection when one year old
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05

added must not exceed S4 inches. For example, a parcel F inches square GAS inches around) and 36 inches long would be just up to the limit, as would also 8 parcel 15 inches square eco inches around) and 24 inches long.
 MARKETING COSTS BY MAIL
 The expenses of marketing eggs by parcel post where two dozen size egg containers are used are as follows: For container and wrapping, cents for post age, g cents, or a total of IT cents, which would be 815 cents a dozen marketing cost Marketing a 5-dozen parcel would cost about B cents for container and wrapping and 14 cents for postage, or a total of 2 cents; 10-dozen lot would cost about p cents for container and wrapping. and 25 cents postage, or total of 47 cents. The current costs would exceed the above figures, which held true before the war.
 The farm flock owner who desires to utilize the parcel post as an aid to direct dealing with city consumers should em- phasize the use of attractive packages as well as punctuality in shipment, so that the eggs will arrive on schedule at the purchasers home. The farmer can develop a city trade by means of ad- vertisements in a city or town paper, by personal canvass or through the assist ance of the city postmasters who have issued lists of consumers who desire to buy eggs directly in the country. The reputation which a parcel post shipper makes with his first customer will very largely determine his success or failure
 in marketing by this method, and hence the new shipper should strive to satisfy his initial trade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
AGENTS VISIT THE WIREGRASS

The recent trip of the north Alabama agents through the wiregrass was one of continuous surprises. Entering through Pike and Coffee counties the party met dozens of wagons loaded with peanuts on the way to market. From Elba to Enterprise it seemed that the whole country had turned to peanuts, so completely did the continuous rows of peanut stacks cover the fields. At Enter prise probably 40 carloads of peanuts were found in the warehouses. The visi- tors declared that they never before real ized that there were so many peanuts in existence.
 Another object of interest at Enterprise was the operation of the city scale in charge of MT. Bush, the bonded weigher. As the numerous wagons drove on and off the scale, which registered the weights with unerring accuracy, the agents began to realize what it means for busy farming community to have it's weights so standardized that the farmer may send his crops to market with complete assurance that he will re- ceive fair and accurate weights.
 TYPICAL SCENE
 At Ozark, another typical wiregrass scene was witnessed when more than 400 hogs were sold on the regular sale day. MT. B. L. Andrews, sales manager, explained that these 400 hogs would sell for about $10,000. This was more appar-, ent when the bids were opened and the hogs sold for $1375. As the party had passed through other points where hogs were bringing s12.50 to SIS, they were quick to see the value of the sale day. Many of the agents are now planning sale days for their own counties.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Bad Year for Ticks

If the Kaiser believes that misery loves company, he should have brother Iy feeling for the cattle fever tick. This year has been a bad one for Kaisers and ticks.
 This is why it has been a bad one for the ticks and why December l, 1918, should be 8 memora ble day in the south ern states.
 An area greater than ever before freed in one year from federal quarantine will be released on that day.
 The drive of the antitick forces will have sent a broad wedge of free terri tory through the tick lines to the At lantic ocean, just as last year wedge was driven to the gulf. "@ Of the 72S656 square miles of infested area in 1906, 63 per cent will have been pronounced clean.
 Farmers will be free to ship their cat tie to the great markets for competi- tion on their own merits with other cat tie, and not under the quarantine hand icap which requires sale at buyers prices for immediate slaughter
 Cattle will increase in value, weigth, milk production, appearance, health pro- ductivity and length of life.
 Farmers in the freed areas will be able to bring to their farms better stock and thus raise the standard of their herds. The southern states will have taken big strides toward their position as great cattle-raising country, to which their natural advantages entitle them,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Breed Better Horses

According to reports received by the United States department of agriculture, the situation in the horse breeding in- dustry reveals the fact that there are many nondescript and plug horses glut- ting the markets. This condition, it is believed, affects the horse industry in general. The real good animals are still commanding satisfactory prices, but the misfits are being sold for considerably less than the cost of production The saving of additional feed bills Is said to be the motive which prompts the pro ducer to dispose of this class of horses, regardless of price,, One of the con- clusons which the department of agri- culture draws from the preesnt situation is that indiscriminate breeding of horses is an unproftable enterprise. It is es- sential, the department specialists add, selecting the proper type of stallions with which to mate their best mares and thus materially aid in producing only efficient horses which are capable of giv- ing the service required of them and which consume less valuable feed for the amount of work performed. Such horses have a ready market and always bring good prices It is imperative that the breeder who proposes to compete with the domestic and foreign demands after the war should begin now to stock up his stables with desirable better bred horses.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05

At Newton the party was met by a delegation of Dothan business men who escorted them through the beautiful than they visited the peanut and velvet bean mills. the new potato canning plant, and the power syrup mill. One of the contrasts of the trip came when they drove from the power syrup mill, turning out hundreds of gallons of syrup per day, and stopped at an old-fashioned kettle mill with a capacity of 40 gallons per day, and were told that the owner had made syrup on 1t for 30 years In- cidentally, the juice was excellent.
 The latter part of the trip included a visit to the modern farm of Spann Bros, near Dothan, with It's tractors and im- proved farm machinery, followed by a visit to Black, Alabama, where more than 1000 of Texas steers were fed last winter on velvet beans and peanut hay at profit of $1S,0O0, the final stop being made with the inspection of the pack ing plant at Andalusia.
 Everywhere the party was received with marked cordiality and interest, and there was general regret that more points could not be visited. On a few points the party was disappointed, espec- ially with the geenral lack of improved farm machinery, but more especially with the poor methods of handling the peanut crop, and the practice of leaving peanut lands bare through the winter instead of protecting them with cover crops On the whole, the impression was that if the wiregrass could combine with it's splendid soil and diversified farming the intensive cultivation of the Tennes- see valley the prosperity Of its people would know no bounds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Buy a Bull

No dairy farmer should hesitate now
 to purchase a pure-bred dairy bull Im-
 proved blood has always been splendid
 investment, but the worlds shortage of dairy products and the increasing de-
 mand for good dairy cows makes the
 yer informs us there is a world short age of fats and milk The shortage of
 fats amounts to 5000, 100000 pounds. and
 production of POO pounds of fat per cow
 Der year, to produce that amount of fat.
 There is no question but that the de-
 mand for improved cows, cows capable
 of producing 250 to 300 pounds of fat in
 a year, will be in larger demand in the future than they ever have been in the
 past. Cow testing associations are in-
 creasing rapidly and these organizations are revealing to the farmer the fallaey of keeping poor cows. The farmer who is raising high grade cows will find a ready market for them and at good prices Good grades now are selling for S150 to S225 apiece. Further, the grade herd is returning a larger profit at the pail. A farmer who has not purchased a pure-bred bull to head his herd is losing money and will never be in a position to take advantage of grade COW market. Nondescript cows will not sell within $50 to $10O of as much as the grade.
 For an absolute sure investment and a large rate of interest, nothing can beat pure-bred dairy bull.-Hoard's Dairyman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
It Pays to Spray

The story of how an orchard demon- station begun in the face of much criti- ism in a locality where modern orchard practice was unknown and how it opened he eyes of the entire neighborhood to the possibilities of fruit growing is told by a state fruit specialists. The local county agent wanted the orchard demon- stration, but the state specialist believed that it would be a waste of time to hold one in that particular community. Fin lily, he consented, after persistent ,urg- -ng on the part of. the county agent. An apple orchard was pruned, sprayed, and otherwise cared for according to modern orchard practice. while the aeighbors of the owner of the orchard
 idiculed him for mutilating his trees md wasting time and money spraying
 hem. As the season advanced and the demonstration orchard was the only one Tn the entire section which produced a ,rop of fruit. the neighbors who had at first sneered began to inquire how it had been done. After paying the suc ,essful grower s2.5O a bushel for their winter supplies, the neighbors are now agreed that it pays to spray
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Seed Grain Loans

The United States department of agri. culture announces that up to November 2, 1G,640 applications for seed-grain loans for fall planting had been approved. This called for total of g, 396,1 160, di- vided between New Mexico with s16,193; Kansas, s943, ,147; Oklahoma, s773, ,271; Texas, s292. .651; Montana, $300,919; North Dakota, s65,6 ,644; and Washington, &355. These fig ures are taken to indicate that farmers have appreciated and taken. advantage Of the governments offer of assistance in meeting losses of crops caused by drouths. The balance of the Presidents s s5,0O0,00O special fund for seed-grain loans Is to be loaned for spring wheat on the basis of 5 an acre, with 100 acres as a maximum.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05

ported from Raleigh, opened and oper-
 atcd diet kitchens, cooperating with
 the Red Cross in furnishing proper
 rourishment to the sick, while agents come cted with the department ot agriculture in other counties have sup piled hot broth either directly or by Boy Scouts under Young Mems Chris tian as. sociation direction.
 A nome demonstration agent fo, Caharrus county, N. C., writes: q came to Kannapolis this morning to 1 turn our cannery building into sour kitchen. It is ideal for the purpose
 There were over 500 people absent i from the mill today, which will show you how our efforts are needed. The Young Mems Christian association di- rector III having our soup distributed 1 hy the Boy Scouts, and we are sending lit out in glass jars, fitted into the pasteboard hoxes in which they were
 bought. This keeps the soup hot
 | The central district agent Tn North Carolina is nursing in the emergency
 ward at the state college of agricul- 1 ture and engineering; the eastern dis. for members of the extension service sick in Wilson; a specialist is in charge 1 of the diet at the same institution and | is in close touch with the local Red Cross chapter which supplies many form of nourishment
 | Emergency diet kitchens have been established in the domestic science derar rtment of the high school at Ash 1 vile, and in the courthouse at White vile. Washington, N. C., also has a
 kitchen operated by home demonstra-
 ton county agent who reports: "We I keep open until far into the night, and we have been able to fill real need.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Roots Supply Succulence

The chief function of roots in cattle feeding is to supply a succulent feed. Under general farm conditions the quan- tity of nutrients grown per acre in root crops is small in comparison to the cost of production. These root crops. how ever, can be preserved during the win ter equally we'll whether large or small quantities are fed each day, and there- fore have special application when only a few cows are to be fed Of the diff ferent root crops, mangel-wurzels fur nish the greatest yield per acre. Other kinds of beets and turnips and carrots may be used. Turnips. however. should be fed after milking rather than before, as they cause a bad flavor in the products if fed immediately before milking. Car rots impart a desirable color to the milk.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Regulars preparing for the

When the influenza epidemic made 1t kind, the home demonstration agents all over the country, in response to the cali for trained, intelligent help, went to the rescue and have been doing yeoman service throughout the fight to gain the upper hand of the flu"
 Particularly valuable has been these women,s knowledge Of foods and diets. Vast quantities of broth, egg lemon ; ades, custards and other good things have been made ready for the sick by the energetic agents and workers. or much importance in aiding to com bat any disease are nourishng and proper foods.
 Six hundred and sixteen pounds of beef and chicken were, in a short time, in the kitchen of the States Relations service of the department of agricul- ture Tn Washington, turned into broth. Dozens of eggs and gallons of milk went from the same kitchen to the hospital in nourishing guises Volun- teeIs aided those on the staff
 The entire charge of the food sent those Ill from the influenza, iom one of the emergency centers in Washing ton, snd nurses there, was under the direction of the States Relations serv- ice kitchen.
 Another particularly valuable kit chen was one established in Tampa, Florida, for the relieving of influenza patients there. In Texas conditions became so serious at the extension headquarters that all the home demon stratIon agents were called in to as sist in fighting the epidemic.
 Agents in several counties, it is re-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Be Careful What You Kill

The federal migratory bird treaty
 Iact regulations prohibit throughout the United States the killing at any time of the following birds:
 Band- tailed pigeon; common ground doves and scaled doves; little brown lsandhill, and whooping cranes; wood
 duck swans; curlews. willet, upland
 plover and all shore birds (eXcept the black -bellied and golden plovers, Will son snipe or jacksnipe, woodcock, and
 the greater and lesser yellowlegs); bob
 Iolinks, catbirds, chlcadees, cuckoos,
 flickers, flycatchers, martins, meadow larks, nighthawks or pull-bats, nuthat-
 ches orioles, robins. shrikes swallows, swifts, tanagers, tit-mice, thrushes, vir- eos warblers wax-wings, whip-poor-
 wills, woodpeckers, and wrens, and all
 other perching birds which feed en- tirely or chiefly on insects; and also
 auks, auklets, bitterns fulmars, gam nets, grebes, guillmots. gulls, herons,
 jaegers, looms, murres, petrels, puffinS. lshearwaters and terms.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Trend of Prices


 The composite price of meat animals received by producers reaches its high est point in September. according to the records of the bureau of crop estimates, beginning with 1910 and the lowest point in January.
 The mean index number for January 15 which is 66s. rises to 7.59 in April, followed by fall to TAT in July, and by the highest rise to 77S in September. after which month the decline is to 7.S2 in December and 6.6s in January The composite price for important crops received by farmers is high rom May 1 to September 1. Beginning With the index number. 1919 in January, the lowest of the year. the number increases to 157s in June, remains nearly the same, or 1870 in July. rises to los.2 In August, the highest point of the year, and falls to 145.1 in December and lSis in January.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Hogs in West Alabama

Auburn, November 2S.-(Special.)- )-West- ern Alabama is beginning to realize that money can be made from hogs, says l. T. Wells of the Alabama Extension serv- ice who has recently returned from this section, where he attended several hog sales days Much of the territory in this section that formely grew only cotton as a money crop is now receiving excel lent returns from hogs as a cash crop. A recent cooperative shipment of hogs from Reform in Pickens county brought very satisfactory returns, the price rang ing from s15 to $17.50 per hundred pounds. The car consisted of all sized animals from 90 pounl pigs up to 375 pound bar rows. All of the hogs were nicely fln- shed off on corn.
 In a sale recently held at Thomasviile in Clarke county, S76 hogs were sold, the proceeds amounting to nearly ss0o0. A decided improvement was noticed in the quality of the hogs offered for sale over those sold at the same place last year. In the recent sale more than one-half or the animals offered graded No. l. In a similar sale last year less than one third of the animals offered were in this grade. Other sales and shipments in this section are expected soon. and all mai cations point to a prosperous growth or the hog business.