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The citizen., 1919-03-13
AGRICULTURAL CLUB GIRL
History Of Onion Crop by Lillian
Lewis

I am native Of North Carolina.
My home, at present, is at Brodhead,
Kentucky. Rockcastle county. !
have been in this State since Dcccm-
ber 10, 1911.
One day last spring our County
Agent. Mr.. Spence, came 10 Union
school house. near Ottawa, Ken
tucky. and gave an address on seed
corn. fertilizer and Liberty Bonds.
He also told us about the club work
end | became Interested at once, for
| wanted to do some kind Of work
20 make money enough 10 pay my
way through school at Bcrca This
year. ] joined the club and raised
an acre Of onions.
My acre Of ground was not very
fertile, for corn had been the only
crop for some time. II had not
been cultivated very well and was.
therefore. very hard TO keep the
grass and weeds from getting tall
cr than the onions. II was on top
Of a hill. did not hold moisture, and
the onions suffered lot for want OF
rain, there being two dry spells
during the summer: one four weeks
and the other five weeks that il did
not rain any.
The first work I did was 20 re-
move thscorn stalks. I dug them
up and burned them. had the land
disked twice and broken mp six or
eight inches. and drag narrowed
three times. ! applied the fcriil-
izer by hand and planted the seed
with a small seed planter. The seed
did not come up well. transplant
ed them, but IL was so dry that the
transplants did not grow much. !
worked them by hand until July g.
then plowed them three times with
horse. The ground was SO hard
when IL was plowed with a horse
and there were so many clods that {
The citizen., 1919-03-13

had small drag harrow made 10 run
between the rows.
The onions were not ready TO
gather in September when I came
away 10 school. so ! left them for
father to gather and take care OF.
Mr.. Spence stopped at home one
day since came away and went up
TO see my onions. He showed father
how 10 grade them for market.
There will be several bushels that
are too small for market that will
be used at home. Mr.. spence has
The nice ones sold TO Bcrca College
at Sl.3S per bushcl. There are some
of them more than four inches in
diameter.
The citizen., 1919-03-13
CHICKS NEED CARE

What shall | feed my chicks for
quick growth?' is the cry Of many
women at this time.
The answer to that question does
not tell the whole story of rapid
growth at all. IL is both the what
to feed and the how to feed that are
important.
The What: PrOteins, for muscle
and blood building. found in sweet,
sour or butter milk and in meat
scraps.
Bone ash, for bone building, found
in ground bone and very slightly
in milk.
Carbohydrates and fats, for heat
and energy. found in corn, wheat
and oats.
Tonic is found in green foods,
charcoal and grit.
The How: Feed nothing at all for
forty 10 sixty hours. Nature has
provided in the yOlk all the food
necessary for this length Of time.
Any added food will only ferment
and purify causing Indigestion and
diarrhea. Feed very little at first
but feed often; five times per day.
Rapid growth is possible only with
1000 efficient digestion, and such
a digestive system must be very
carefully developed. Spend the first
week getting a good foundation
started. One careless over feed may
ruin the whole plan and make n
stunted chick just as any other
animal may be dwarfed through a
poor start in life.
See the county agent and get full
details as 10 feeding chicks.
The citizen., 1919-03-13
CINCINNATI MARKETS.
Hay and Grain.

Corn-No. 2 white S147a149, No. 3
white Sl45m1.47, No. . yellow Sl.H@
10. No. yellow S145M147, No. 2
iiixed Sl.46G As, No. 3 mixed Sl.44@
14I, white ear S1.43Q1.46, yellow ear
SA6G147.
Sound Hay - Timothy, per ton,
r29.j0n3l.25 and sound clover mixed
S267502S75.
Oats-No. 2 white 64k @65Hc,
standard white 64d6ilac, No. 3 white
631zQ Gio, mixed 63q 631sc.
Butter, Eggs and Poultry.
Butter-WhOle milk creamery ex-
tras SOC, centrslized creamery extras
57hc, firsts 5Shc.
Eggs-Prime firsts SOC, first 3Shc.
ordinary firsts 3Sc.
Live Poultry -Springers under 2
lbs, 40c; fowls, lbs and over, 3Oc;
do under 8 lbs, SOC; roosters. 22c.
Live Stock.
Shippers Sl341 1850. butcher
The citizen., 1919-03-13
BEREA BOY PROMINENT
IN BOYS AGRICULTURAL
CLUE WORK

Iona c. Fish who lives on a farm
near Bcrea and who has made a
splendid record in The Boys Agri-
cultural Club work is now a student
specializing in agriculture at Berea
College.
Iona Fish first joined the cluD
five years ago as it was organized
by the County Agent and Iona is a
splendid example of what club work
can do for a boy who will show
enthusiasm and stick-to-itiveness.
Iona was state champion among
the boys as corn raiser in 1916,
a champion in pig club work in 1917
and 1918 he was champion poultry
club member of the Boys Agricul-
The citizen., 1919-03-13
MOUNTAIN AGRICULTURE
Conducted Spence Farm Demonstration and Special
Investigator

Z. To better develop social inter-
est, citizenship and character.
/ I think that by the time a boy
has understood these objects he is
ready TO become a member. AT
least | was. But before becoming
member you must enter the same
as if you were going TO school, and
besides you must go by the club
rules. These ! will not take time Ia
mention, but will say you must be
between 10 and is years Of age.
The plan of the club work con-
sists Of three specific things:
I. Instruction and examination.
2 Agricultural practice.
3. Records. cost, history of crop
and animals.
As, to the instruction, the county
agent is responsible. He gives you
nine lessons a year for every year
you are in the club.
First year: nine lessons on soils.
Second year: nine lessons on
farm crops.
Third year: nine lessons on farm
animals.
Fourth year: nine lessons on farm
management.
This plan is a new one. so all the
members who were in the club last
year will take nine lessons on farm
crops this year, etc.
- At the end of each a final exami-
nation is held and all those passing
a grade of 1870 receives from the
State College Of Agriculture a GER
tillcate of merit which entities you
to one-half unit in high school.
These half-units are very valuable,
for example: | have a cousin over
in Rockcastle county who was going
to High School at Mt. Vernon and
at the end of the year he lacked
unit Of graduating. One
day while Mr.. Spence was over
there to see him, he told him about !
the value of the certificate of merit |
and he was somewhat surprised TO |
think 1t was going to save him an
extra term in school, but it did and |
he got his diploma with the other
OF course you have learned that
won the trophy cup as State
champion in poultry work for 1918.
Il is a mistake. | did not win tive
won 1.-THE club won it. got my
and information from
he club and of course couldn't help !
the cup. Mr.. Spence, our
county agent, helped win the cup.
He helped me win three for our
club. He is going TO help us win
)ne or two for 1919.
The only way to do this is to be-
come a member of the club and go
IN to win. Our county agent is a
'ticker and helps us to do things
we think we cannot do.
Join the club and let's all pull to-
yether in this work for 1919 and
win another State Championship.
We can do it.
Our club convention will come off
n July at Berea. We want at least
300 to attend this convention. En-
list as a soldier in the great pro-
sressive club movement and be
'Ome a better farmer, a better citi-
zen and the world will be better by
you having done so.
The citizen., 1919-03-13
MARSHALL E. VAUGHN, Berea, Ky.

steers, extra SI4615.50; good to choice
S12@14, common TO fair $7Q11.5O.
heifers, extra $125OQ1350, good TO
10, cows, extra Sl0011,O.
Calves-Extra SlSQ1S.25, fair to
good Sl5Q1S, common and large $40
IA
HOgs-GOod 10 choice, packers ana
butchers S1S75, medium and mixed
packers S1SalS.7j, stags Sl04l3,
common 10 choice heavy fat sows
S12Ql7.25, light shippers $3.50 17.2A,
pigs Ql0 lbs and less) Sl0Qi4.5O.
The citizen., 1919-03-13

The Red Cross Canteen menus
leave lasting impressionl A letter
written December 2s, by a Cleveland
(O.) boy with the Army Of Occupa-
ton tells Of his trip from camp TO
the front last spring. The Red
Cross gave us lemonade and cigar
cites at Parkersburg and at Wash
ington and Philadelphia they gave
us apples, coffee and sandwiches"
The citizen., 1919-03-13

The sixth A. II. C. supply train
% cars Of clothing. blankets, medi-
cines and other supplies valued at
s3s.OOO-has Just started across ST.
IBERIA TO relieve refugees and re-
turning prisoners along the way.
The citizen., 1919-03-13

The japanese Red Cross has more
than half million members, each
of whom contributes at least three
yen (about si.50l n year and enrolls
for ten years.
The citizen., 1919-03-13

The American Red Cross has
established continuous sled SER
vice between its base at Archangel.
Russia. and places where the Yanks
are stationed.
The citizen., 1919-03-13

Through the Chautauqua circuits,
thirty or more Red Cross nurses
will spread the gospel OF public
health throughout the country this
summer.
The citizen., 1919-03-13

Other articles written for this
week are held over till our next
issue for lack Of space in our col
umns this week.
The citizen., 1919-03-13
9th Door-Berea College

This The the whole Institution and provides standard
in all advanced subjects.
Temporary Raise Board conditions For
the board the
situation which the whole country
impossible
PAYMENT MUST BE IN ADVANCE incidental
by the board the half Instalments
The citizen., 1919-03-13
RED CROSS NEWS GRENApEs
The Red Cross now has 6,O77 work
crs in France alone.

Fifty one-story portable steel
buildings have been provided by the
Red Cross for the earthquake vic
Tins in Porto Rico.
The citizen., 1919-03-13
4th Door-Berea's Normal School

This the best training for those who expect teach
Courses arranged that teach through the
fall school through the winter and
thus earning keep right their OF study
Read Dinsmores book How 10 Teach District School,
The citizen., 1919-03-13
5th Door r-Berea' Preparatory Academy Course

This The Straight road 70 C0cgebes training Mathematics
Science, Languages History subjects The
Academy Berea's department
The citizen., 1919-03-13
3rd Door-Berea's English Academy Cours

For those who goins
thru College and desire general education gives
the best education for those who wish good start IN
study and carry il by themselves.
The citizen., 1919-03-13
End Door-Berea's Foundation School

General Education for those not far advanced combined with
vocational training No matter what advancement
with others like yourself and chance foe
most rapid Improvement
The citizen., 1919-03-13
SIX DOORS
FOR ASPIRING YOUNG PEOPLE
lst Door-Berea's Vocational Schools

Training that adds TO learning power combined with
general education
FOR YOUNG MENAsric,tue Carpentry. Brklayins Print
ing. Commerce and Teegraphy.
FOR YOUNG LADIES - Science Dresmaking Cooking
Nursing. Senography and Typewring
The citizen., 1919-03-13
Live Stock

Shippers sls@l65o. butcher
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SINGLE TURNED INTO HOMER
Funniest Play in Experience Of John
McGraw of the Giants Hap
pened at clean, N. Y.

John McGraw, manager of the
Giants, says the funniest play Of his
experience happened when he was the
kid third baseman of the old Clean
IN. " team, the club with which he
started his professional career.
The play was the climax of an ex-
citing 14-inning Fourth Of July game
between the Olean team and its most
hated rival, Bradford, Pa. With the
score standing tied at 3 to 3 in the
fourteenth with two out, Arthur Egan,
the pony pitcher of the Olean team,
dropped a single into left field. Owing
to the holiday, crowd surrounded the
field.
AS the Bradford left fielder was
about to pick up the ball, playful
spaniel left his master in the crowd
and, picking the ball up, ran with it,
the left fielder in pursuit. He caught
up with the dog and tried to pull the
ball out of his mouth, but the dog
held.
While they were having their little
tug-of-war in the outfield, Egan was
dog trotting around the bases and
scored home run, winning the game
for Olean, to 3.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-23
EXCELLENT TIP FOR
BASEBALL MAGNATES
Better Results Obtained by Ex-
hibiting More interest.
When Ray Chapman of Cleveland In
dams Was in Rut He Went to
Owner Dunn and Was Helped
Greatly by Advice Given.

Baseball magnates might, on many
occasions, obtain the greatest results
from their players by exhibiting bit
of personal interest in the men. A
striking example of the manner In
which this system works out is the
tase of Magnate Dunn Of the Cleve-
land team and Ray Chapman, the peer
less shortstop.
In 1916 Chapman was deeply In the
dumps. His batting average shrunk
way down, and his work in the held
was at times quite rusty. He seemed
10 be working hard in every game, but
he could not get results to satisfy him.
self. The jinx was on his trail, TOO.
md during the season he suffered sew
erai injuries. Rumors were around
that "Chappie" was to be sold or
traded.
Being a sensitive lad. he went to
Magnate Dunn and explained that ne
was in a rut. Dunn did not bawl him
put, or threaten him in any way. he
took the youngster to one side and
talked to him like father. Among
other things he told Chapman he could
rest assured he was a fixture on the
Cleveland club, and that he had all
kinds of confidence in him. He ad-
Vised Chapman to keep on working the
best he could, and the jinx would get
discouraged and leave. Chapman left
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Umbrella Improvement.

It is the little things which make
for perfection, we are told. An inven-
tor has perfected a device which GER
tainly. shows a taste for perfection.
No one is unfamiliar with the strip of
tape with catch which is used snugly
to wind up closed umbrellas. When
the umbrella is open this piece of tape
bangles and pendulates in way that
undoubtedly is offensive to the dignity
of some. The inventor in question has
made an invention which provides
means of slowing away the pendant
into the interior of the opened um-
brella by means of a swapping device.
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Only One Foundation.

hen best prove their right to right
by. making good in little things. Rights
are those things that grow out of uni
versal justice. In the last analysis
they are beyond price. Some folks
say they have bought the right to
certain things. That is only because
custom has commercialized them. Such
rights SAVIOR of monopoly and are as
unstable as the dollars with which
they are purchased. Right that rests
upon divine law may seem very tame,
but after all it's the only right that
abides amidst the, rise and fall of en-
pires and the changing customs of
men. To such rights every man is
heir.-EXchange.
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COULD NOT SEE INTO FUTURE
Men of Genius Had Little Idea What
Their Inventions Might Mean
to the World.

IT appears that it is not infrequent-
" the case that great inventors do not
comprehend the significance of the
things they have produced. Here are
two examples:
When Hertz first began to obtain
satisfactory results from his now ia
nous researches into the possibility of
transmitting electric waves certain
men of science suggested that some
day similar vibrations might serve to
transmit messages through space.
Hertz laughed at the hypothesis and
assured all corners that his expert
ments were for laboratories only. Now,
after few short years, it is hard to
fnd single issue of daily newspa-
per that does not record some note
worthy example of the use of wireless
teleSraphy.
Levasser was the great engineer
who sketched the automobile with
slith skill that his design has not been
SDaterially changed to this day. After
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GREEN'S AUGUST FLOWER

has been a household remedy all over
the civilized world for more than half
a century for constipation. intestinal
troubles, torpid liver and the generally
depressed feeling that accompanies
such disorders. 1t is most valuable
remedy for indigestion or nervous dys-
pepsia and liver trouble, bringing on
headache, coming up Of food, palpita-
tlon Of heart, and many other symp-
toms. A few doses of August Flower
will relieve you. 1t is gentle laxa-
tive. Ask your druggist. Sold in all
civilized countries.-Adv.
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already had court astronomers VINO
could predict eclipses. Later it was
called Ya-chou, in the Chou dynasty,
marked by the western wars waged by
Mu-Wang against the DOG Barbara
ans" thought to be ancestors of the
Huns. Tientsin dates back st least
to the fourteenth century.
Immense Salt Industry.
The salt industry in the neighbor-
hood of Tientsin is prOdigiOus. WING
mills are used to pump salt water into
the fields along the Halo river, where
the widely-known Chang-lu salt is
made Before the war nearly 10000
tons were produced annually. But
Tientsin is important commercially In
many respects. 1t is a rice market,
and Siberia's tea formerly was shipped
through here. Exports were as varied
as the needs of the dozen or so nations
which had separate settlements along
five miles of the river front, and its
imports were as diverse as the COIN
modities those nations had to eH-
change.
The PeihO and HunhO rivers con-
verge ut Tientsin. From the latter to
the Yangtsze- Kiang extends the Grand
canal, that remarkable specimen of
ancient engineering, mentioned by Con-
fucius, which originally was more than
1000 miles long.
Tientsin has more people than Bos-
ton. 1t is the principal city of Chin
Ii. and is SO miles southeast of Picking
by rail.
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Levassor accomplished his historic
trip from Paris to Bordeaux and re-
turn at the dizzy speed of about IL
miles an hour his admirers gave him
banquet. During the toasts one of
them, stirred by the spirit of the oc-
casion, rose and enthusiastically called
on the assembly to drink to the APP
preaching day when carriages should
travel at the speed of 60 miles an
hour. Levassor turned to his nearest
neighbor and asked in a quick under
tone:
"Why is it that after every banquet
some people feel called on to make
fools of themselves?"
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Really Had Something Coming.

Pat recently dined in one of the
smartest hotels in the city Of Dublin,
selecting the best of all that was good
and expensive on the menu, and then
he prepared to leave.
"Shall bring you your bin, sir?"
asked the waiter, putting himself in the
way.
"Begob, an We needn't" returned our
hero. II intended payin' with the pearl
! expected to find in the oysters, but
bad luck to the wan could I find in
thin at all. So We may go to the
divil," and he moodily passed out"
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THIENTSIN, called the panorama
81 city of China, came into pub

hTHIENTSIN,c called the panorama
city of China, came into pub
Is lie notice again recently be-
cause of disorders in which
Americans and Japanese were involv-
ed. To walk about TientSin is to trav-
ed. says d bulletin of the National
Geographic society. An afternoons
stroll from the native to the British
French, Italian, Russian and other for
cien quarters gives the sensation of a
tnagic tour through Picking, Londcn,
Paris, Rome and Petrograd. And the
windmills among the salt mounds just
outside the city add touch of Holland.
This panorama city has had tenn
peStuOuS history. There a group of
American and other foreign residents
Herbert c. Hoover among them-de-
fcuded themselves for a month against
the fanatic boxers in 1900.
Since then the native city has been
known as Cheng-li. or "TOwn Without
Wallis" because the ancient barriers
were demolished during the siege. OF
the 500 doughty foreigners more than
aifty were killed and many others
wounded before military aid came.
Tientsin was the scene of another
famous siege, that of the TAPPING reb-
els in 1853. Followers of Hung Sin
Tsuan. who had professed Christianity
and set himself up in Marking as the
"ueavenly King" marched toward
feking. But the Waterloo of the "long-
haired rebels" so called because they
would not plat their queues and thus
signify loyalty to the Manchus, came
al TientSin. .... ..-.
"Chinese" Gordon's Victory.
The success of the campaign against
the revOlutiOnists was due principally
to the gallant Chinese" Gordon, Gen.
Charles George Gordon, and his "ever
victorious army" But the fact would
not be suspected from reading the i'm
,perial edict issued by the former con-
canine who had elevated herself to
Empress DOwager. The edict set forth
that 'thiS glorious victory is entirely
due to the bountiful protection of heav-
en-. to the ever-present help of our an
cestOrs and to the foresight of the en-
press regent" A tribute is paid to the
Chinese generals, "whO have been
combed by the wind and bathed inathe
rain" and one of them was awarded
the decoration of the double-eyed pea
cocks feather.
Commanding the native force at Tien-
,tsin was Seng-ko-lin-sin, Mongol gen.
erai. who later distinguished himself
Jess creditably. In 1860 he sought to
defend Tientsin against foreign eX-
,pedition by erecting an immense mud
rampant outside the city. Tientsin
twas captured and held for two years
by the British and French and the
Crude defense is known in the foreign
quarters as "Seng-ko-lin-sin's folly"
The region about Tientsin was
known as Chi-chou, under the Hsia dyn,
TASTY, whose rulers, 1000 years ago
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the conference light-hearted and de-
termined to give up the best he had
for the Cleveland owner.
Chapman's record shows clearly the
result Of that conference with his boss.
He was easily right among the top
notchers on the shortstop job and he
has remained real star ever since.
Chapman swears by Magnate Dunn,
and cites his little experience as tend
ing to show what little heart-to-heart
confab will do for owner and player.
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Animal Diseases.

Animal diseases, such as hog chol-
era, the foot-and-mouth disease, etc.,
are costing the farmers and the gen.
eral public an enormous sum each
year, although agricultural leaders
have been waging an effective fight up
on such epidemics. Ultimately the
farmers will be enjoying the use
of about $2OOOOO,OO0 which they now
lose each year through these causes.
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Napkins.

Table napkins were in use long be.
fore some Of the other accessories
which we consider indispensable to-
day. Before forks came to be known,
men had to use their fingers in pre-
pairing their food; hence the ancient
common habit Of frequently passing
the basin Of water and its accompany
ing napkin for wiping the hands. II
now seems incredible that forks were
not customary until the seventeenth
century,
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1919-05-23
EXHIBITION GAMES PAY WELL
tween Cubs and Scale Drew
10000 Paid Admissions.

The Chicago Cubs in their exhibition
games in California with Coast league
clubs drew better attendance than for
three years past. They take it to
mean revival in baseball interest
but maybe 1t was because the Coast
league teams generally were swatting
the Cubs hip and thigh The final ex-
hibition game in San Francisco be-
tween Cubs and Seals drew nearly TO-
600 paid admissions.