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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-07-23
Important Notice
To ALI Candidates
No. ID.

standing will appear again Thursday. The
last changes the vote standings Of the candidates
published n Herald Sunday July 9th,
and will therefore changed until the end of the
campaign, the announced, except
of correction of
Candidates who desire to publish portion of their
votes next Sunday. order to place their name in
good position, their votes in the
Campaign office BY 10 q m. Saturday The standing
as published Sunday will positively remain the
during the last week the campaign further
count made until final by the official
judges.
Every candidate must be entered in her proper dis
in the distribution
if know of candidate who is entered in the
wrong district, please advise the campaign manager
a Also that YOUR correct name and address
in the list that important mail sent
you promptly delivered.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-08
CROP REPORTS ARE COMPILED
BY A BIG STAFF OF EXPERTS
Statistics Washington Backed Up By FortytwO Sal
aired Field Agents Who Have Assistance of Thou
sands of Volunteer Reporters Who Scatter
ed Throughout the Entire Country

/ inquiry These field agents are
qualified by training and experience
for their work, are competent
judges of crop production, and IA
miliar with local conditions in their
states, and they are required to
travel over their respective states
Systematically during the crop sea-
son and personally to inspect the
crops and interview farmers and to
keep in touch with crop production.
Each agent enlists the voluntary
services of several thousand select
ed correspondents in his state, who
report to him every month regarding
the crops grown in the state. At
the close of each month the agent
makes up a detailed estimate on
the crops in his territory and for
wards it to the Washington office.
Ten Crop Specialists
"In addition to the field agents,
the bureau employs ten crop spe-
cialists for particular crops and
truck and fruit. These crop spe-
cialists are of the same high char
acter, experience and educational
qualifications as the field agents,
and each devotes his entire time to
investigating the single crop for
which he is responsible.
"a third class of reporters are
the voluntary county crop reporters,
$500 in number,
each Of whom reports for his coun-
ty each month on printed schedules
to the bureau. The county
reporters base their estimates upon
personal observation and inquiry
and upon written and telephone re-
ports to them from aids in different
portions of the county.
"a fourth source of information
S the voluntary township reporters,
one for each agricultural township
n the United States, approximately
1920 in number. These township
'eporters are nearly all practical
farmers and each reports on the
,rops grown in his immediate neigh
oorhood directly to the central Of
ice in Washington monthly through
tut the year.
Additional sources of informa-
ion exist in the bureaus special
lists of growers of particular crops
md in other lists of buyers, dealers,
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-08
PROFIT SHARING HELPS
KEEP LABOR ON FARM

Farmers who employ labor on a
profit-sharing basis have not suffer
ed from a shortage of labor, ac-
cording to j. Frank Harbert, farm
help specialist for Louisiana, in the
employ of the United States depart
ment of agriculture, cooperating
with the extension division, Louisi-
ana State University. The plan of
profit-sharing will solve the farm
labor problem, says Mr.. Harbert.
Give the tenant an opportunity to
raise hogs, chickens, etc., of his
own and he will take a real inter
est in his work and in the farm.
Then when he is offered five or
six dollars day for outside work,
he will refuse with the plea that
he has interests of his own to look
after.
The common method of profit
sharing in the South is for the land
lord to furnish land, teams farm
ing implements and house for the
tenant, while the tenant furnishes
the labor. The tenant then gets
of the crops produced.
Mr.. Harbert advocates firmness,
kindness and sympathy in dealing
with farm help and giusRg them an
opportunity to raise something for
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-08

In the whirligig of world activi-
ties in this twentieth century, there
is a growing and constant demand
for dependable statistical data and
particularly for agricultural Stats
tics. Crop estimates which are re-
liable and unbiased are important
not only to agriculture but also to
all these industries which depend up
on agricultural products. Public
appreciation of accurate crop reports
is increasing, owing to improved
methods Of marketing and distribu-
ton, and to wide public interest
in food and feed matters.
I'm view Of this" said John S.
Dennee, Louisiana field agent for
the United States bureau of crop
estimates, sit may be interesting to
the public to know a few of the es-
sential facts regarding the organiza-
ton Of the bureau, its sources of in
formation and the accuracy of its
crop estimates.
Systematic care and scientific
thoroughness characterize the prepa-
ration of the government crop re-
ports, but these would be useless
without an efficient organization
and dependable sources of informa-
ton. The central office Of the bu-
reau, at Washington, has approx
inately 1876 employees, most of them
statistical clerks, computers and
trained statisticians experienced in
handling and interpreting agricul-
tural facts from whatever source
they may be gathered.
Field Organization
distributed over the country are
forty-two salaried field agents, one
in each state or group of small
states. These field agents are in
the classified civil service and are
appointed only after passing rigid
civil service examination to test +
their educational and statistical
qualifications. Before they are per-
nitted to take the civil service ex-
animation, they must show that they
have had at least five years prac-
heal experience in farming, an edu-
cation equivalent to a four-year
course in an agricultural college, or
1t least three years responsible
practical experience in work involv-
ng statistical methods or statistical
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-08

mills and elevators, producers and
shipping associations and other agen-
cies engaged in handling, manufae-
turing, transporting, storing and dis
tributing crops. The total number
of voluntary crop reporters is ap-
proximately 10000.
Preparation of Reports
"The returns for each class of re-
porters are tabulated and averaged
separately as a check one against
the other. The county totals are
weighted; that is, a county which
produces five times as much of a
particular crop as another receives
five times the Importance or
| weight of the other county in de-
termining the average for that par
ticular crop.
Every possible precaution is TAX
en- to prevent the totals for any of
the so-called speculative crops, such
as corn, cotton, wheat, oats, ETC.,
from becoming known to any indi-
vidual prior to the date fixed in adj
vance by the secretary of agricul-
ture for the issuance of the crop re-
port. Even the tabulators and COM
puters who make up the totals do
not know the states to which the to-
tails pertain, and the final telegraph
ic reports and comments of the field
agents relating 20 the speculative
crops are kept locked IN the office
of the secretary until crop repSRt-
ing day, when they are turned over
to crop reporting board and the
entire board is Immediately locked
in until the minute that the report
is issued to the public, guards be-
ing stationed at the doors and all
telephones disconnected.
"The data supplied by all sources
is considered by the crop reporting
board, composed of. the chief of bu-
ACdu aIAA HIS dluSg GWO STATISTICAL
and one or more field
agents called to Washington from
different states for the occasion.
All these men are expert judges of
crops and have had many years ex-
perience in analyzing, interpreting
and summarizing crop data. The
members of this crop board are un-
biased because they, as well as all
other employees of the department
who have anything to do with crop
estimates, are prohibited by law,
under very severe penalties, from
specializing in any product of the
soil, from giving out any informa-
ton in advance of the official crop
report and from knowingly compil-
ing or issuing any false statistics.
Acreage Estimates
ever since the bureau was or
ganized, fifty-seven years ago, it
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-08
MEDICAL SOCIETY
INSTRUCTS PUBLIC
Over Three Million Pamphlets
Distributed Throughout
the United States

The American Medical Association,
in its work of instructing the public
on matters pertaining to health and
hygiene, has distributed more than 3d.
100000 educational pamphlets dur
ing the last five years, according to
DR.. Frederick R. Greene of Chicago,
ILL.,, secretary of the council ON Health
and Public instruction Of the associa-
ton. DR.. Green, who is in New Or
leans to attend the convention of the
American Public Association, is MAX
ing arrangements for the convention
of his association, which will be held
here next April.
'The American Medical Associa-
ton has IT'S own printing plant in Chi
cago and turns out a vast amount of
educational literature for the benefit
not only of physicians but of the gen.
eral public" said DIR. Green at the
Grunewald Hotel Saturday. "These
pamphlets, which are doing much to
instruct the public in hygiene and the
prevention of disease, cover a great
variety of subjects, such as the con-
servatiOn of vision, school hygiene,
sex education for children, pure
foods, proper care of children and
many others.
"The pamphlets are distributed
through individuals, state boards of
health, and institutions of different
kinds. The National Educational AS
ISOLATION, made up of the school
teachers of the country and the Unit
ed States Bureau of Education, dis
tributed 100000 copies of our
booklets on Rural School Hygiene
and The Health of School Children
These are considered the standard
works of the kind by educators and
the state health boards.
MANY of our pamphlets are int0n-
ded to help mothers in the proper
care of their infants. Such articles
are sent broadcast through the coun-
try by mothers clubs, women's clubs
and child welfare associations. We
also have instituted baby health con-
tests in which prizes are offered to
encourage mothers to exhibit their
children. But the primary idea of
these contests is to teach mothers how
to keep their babies strong and in
good health.
"A great deal of our literature on
prevention diseases reaches a large |
public through the state boards of |
health. When large quantities are
ordered we charge nominal price to
cover the cost of printing, but the
pamphlets are sent to individuals free
Of charge"
Besides these pamphlets, the Amer
can Medical Association prints a
weekly journal with a circulation of
$4,000, the largest of any medical
journal in the world. DR.. Green said
hat because of the fact that 10000 II
members of the association were in
active service in the medical depart
nents of the army and navy, the work
# the association was interrupted to
! great extent during the war but
hat between 1000 and 5000 medical
men are expected to attend the con-
,ention here in April, as only about
1000 are still in army work, out of
he $4,000 members of the associa-
ion.-New Orleans Times-Picayune.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-08

campaigns and to administer his
credits; and the manufacturer to
foresee the likelihood of getting
what he needs in the shape of raw
materials; and the railway managers
to anticipate car requirements to
move the crops when harvested"
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-08

The windy" man is more noisy
than brainy. So, also, is a pig.
Man works eight hours and calls
it day. His wife works day and
night and is never through. Call
strike!
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-08

This life contains many a hui
manized diamond in the rough; and,
likewise, many a highly polished
piece of glass.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-08

That flying parson" has one
great advantage over his fellows
he knows how to pray when
squall rocks the boat,
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-11-08
VaIue % Crop Estimates

Government reports are of es-
pecial value to the farmer, if he
will only read them and be guided
by them. They keep him informed
of crop prospects and prices outside
of his own immediate district. and
they act as preventive against the
circulation of false or misleading re-
ports by spectators and unscrupu-
lous agencies who are interested in
controlling or manipulating prices.
If the government crop estimates
should be discontinued, the farmer
would have no dependable informa4
ton concerning the crop prospects
except in his own immediate neigh
borhood, and for crop prospects in
other localities, he would have to re-
ly upon such information as inter
ested spectators and dealers might
choose to publish in the newspapers,
which might or might not be correct.
The reports are indispensable also
to the merchant. They enable him
to map out intelligently his selling
The Monticellonian., 1919-06-06
FOREIGN.

Allies are to have full charge of the German dye factories for the next five year, directing distribution. etc.
 Klondyke is going dry, but the vets are 10 seek an election on the subject right away.
 band of bandits on the Tehuan- tepec railroad in Mexico dynamited train and killed IA federal soldiers.
 Spanish authorities have decided to recognize the republic of Poland
 Irish veterans of all wars have or ganized at Dublin to fight for the inde- pendence of Ireland.
 The German counter proposal re- fuses to give up the kaiser and will pay only nominal damages.
 The German official whose duty in cludes signing the treaty declares he must have some guarantee before he signs up.
 Petrograd is said to have fallen into the hands of the Films, who in com pany with Let's and Chinese. are ov- errunning the capital.
 The allied nations may have to abandon the plan 10 feed Russia as the Bolsheviks keep up their outrages.
 A German writer in a prominent paper declares that his people are planning q revival of militarism as soon as the pressure is released.
 The allies shave under consideration a plan to lombard Berlin if the Huns refuse-to sign the treaty.
 An epidemic of typhus has broken out in Moscow and an exodus is in progress.
 Japan will not willingly relinquish any claim to sea power that may be heFs. and has added 25 vessels to her navy
 A building used as barracks in the occupied region of Germany was burned and 40 French soldiers per ished.
The Monticellonian., 1919-06-06
DOM ESIlC.

Experts are fighting in the east over the amount of alcohol in intoxicating liquor No conclusions announced
 Governor Stephens of California has vetoed bill giving women more say so in the exercise of property rights
 T. A. Scott, of New London, Conn. is to succeed Bainbridge Colby as a member of the federal shipping board
 The United States has forbidden Mexican armed forces to come across the Rio Grande in their search for Villa
 The war department has at last de cided to sell its surplus stock of canned and cured meats and has in yited bids.
 Fourteen American women are now practicing medicine in the various Balkan countries.
 The Ozark region gives promise of the largest fruit crop for the last sey- eral years.
 Announcement is made by the war department that our troops at Arch angel are being withdrawn.
 A big Boston drug firm is to build a $3,000,000 plant in St Louis. em- ploying 2,000 people.
 Ohio went dry Monday night, but few saloon men paid s305 for the last days license.
 Truxten~ Va, a government built city, with PA homes, originally intend ed for munition workers, has been set aside for negroes.
 All army authorities have united to give the Y. NJ c. A a clean bill of health as to usefulness and import ance.
 The war department announced that e2,000 were rejected from the army because of tuberculosis.
 The steel corporation is to be in. vestigated as to the excess profits Proceedings instituted by Attorney General Palmer
 Shines for tan shoes in Chicago are 15 cents. Other cities are to take the hint
 Our army, distrustful of German good will. is prepared to meet any emergency.
 Secretary Lansing declares that fur ther aid to so-called Irish delegates is impossible, as they offend the Brit ish.
 Mrs. Wilson, wife of a professor at the normal school at Bloomington. H., is suing a student for s10.0o0 for alienating the professors affections.
The Monticellonian., 1919-06-06
PERSONAL.

A new record for altitude has been made by Adjt. Casale. French avia- tor, at Paris. He went up 31, 1000 feet.
 Mrs. T. J Preston, formerly Mrs. Grover Cleveland, is first vice presi- dent of the New Jersey ti-Suffrage Association.
 Merle T. Lewelling of Salina. Kan, the first man to be drafted and sent to Funston, was killed the last day of the war
 Uncle Levi Calvert 115, oldest man in western Kentucky, is dead at flick man.
 Eddie Rickenbacher. famous aviator. has been stricken with a nervous breakdown and has cancelled speak ing. engagements
 Jan Christian Shuts will probably be the next ambassador to the United States from Great Britain.
 A long list of Jewish atrocities com mitted in Turkey and other benighted countries. has caused President Will son 10 declare for their protection.
 Lausanne, Switzerland, has made President Wilson an honorary citizen and he has accepted the honor.
 Sergt. Alvin York, hero of heroes, greatest soldier in history" is wor- ried because his girl hasn't written in three weeks.
 Gov. Allen of Kansas still insists that congressional committee should make a thorough investigation of his charges against war officials.
The Monticellonian., 1919-06-06
CRIMINAL.

Leena Fertis, r, high-sehool girl Of Chicago, declares she would rather die than have her sweetheart, a con fessed bank robber, go to jail.
 Sam L. Bitler, federal convict at Fort Leavenworth, sent up for mur- dering woman. has made his es cape
 Eugene Bullard. Chicago negro, a member of the French foreign legion, was killed in brawl in a Paris cafe.
 John Deiricks, convict serving his second term at Jefferson City for burglary, hanged himself last Monday.
 James Logan. 19, admits participat ing in the robbery of the Halsted Street Bank in Chicago in April when $50, 900 was purloined.
 Roger N Baldwin of St. Louis and New York is on the program as a speaker at big child reform move ment at Atlantic City, but he is in the New York State prison.
 Miss Ethel Loar, a waitress, is under indictment for having written dyna- miting letter to the governor of Cal ifornia
 Every one of 280 convicts at the Wy oming State prison went on strike when Warden c. l.. Martin was re- moved
The Monticellonian., 1919-06-06
SHOOK WITH
 NERVOUSNESS
A Lady Was Flat On Her Back With Terrible Spells, But Her Husband Got Cardui,-
 And Now She Is
 Grateful.

Mckinney. Texas.-Mrs. Mary steph- enson, of this place. states: About year and half ago l was down in bed for six weeks. not able to sit up. was flat on my back and had ter rible spells Why, it looked like I would dle. At times I didn't know anything. I would get nervous, 1 couldn't bear anyone to talk to me, T would just jerk and shook with nervousness across my back was so sore and aehed me all the time. I would have a dizzy feeling. Ny limbs aehed me and I would get numb and feel so weak I said to my husband l knew Cardui was good and I believed I had best try it.
 He got me a bottle of Cardul. and when I had only taken one-half bot tie Of Cardui I felt stronger. I took a half dozen bottles altogether, then in two weeks after I began takiag was up, In three was doing my work. praise Cardui for I believe it saved my life and I am grateful"
 For over 40 years CarduI has been helping weak, sick women back to health and strength. Try it.-Adv.
The Monticellonian., 1919-06-06

supplying the fowls with all available 5o to 75 cents Il year per fowl for grain and other feeds. A good egg laying ration should consist of the following: Three parts corn meal and one part beef scrap mixed together and fed in a dry-mash hopper to which the fowls will have access at all times. In addition to this a scratch ration consisting of equal parts cracked corn and oats should be fed twice daily. When no table scraps are available it will take about one quart of scratch grain daily for twelve to fourteen fowls. However. this can be reduced when table scraps are fed and q cer- tain amount of natural green feed, such as grass, is available.
 In providing the fowls with a suit able house if should be remembered that the essentials of such building are fresh air dryness. sunlight and sufficient space so that the fowls will not he crowded Usually each fowl should be allowed four square feet of floor space. If available, scrap lum- Der from dry-goods boxes, etc. can be utilized to construct such house. The cost will be considerably less than when lumber is purchased If suffi- cient lumber is not available for the entire house a rough framework well covered with ordinary roofing or tar paper will answer the immediate needs
 When the heavier fowls Plymouth Rocks, Nyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, etc) are kept all females should be disposed of at the end of their sec ond year. inasmuch as in most cases they will cease to be profitable at the end of that time. The lighter breeds Ueghorns, etc.). however, can he prof itably kept as long as three years. By disposing of the hens in this way part of the flock must be renewed each year. Consequently. considering that the percentage of cockerels and bullets is usually about the same. and that a certain percentage will die before reaching maturity. it is customary to hatch more chicks each year than there are hens in the flock.
The Monticellonian., 1919-06-06

Overfeeding kills more chicks than underfeeding.
 Little and often is a good feeding rule for newly hatched chicks.
 
 Eggs of some fowls will keep in matching condition longer than others. Ducklings should be ready for the green duck market at from ten to fourteen weeks of age.
 This is the time of year when poul- try quarters need to be made safe from rats.
 good. well-regulated incubator will hatch eggs with far more certainty and dc it more cheaply than can be done with hens.
 Eggs for incubator matching should be fresh. the fresher the better.
 
 Chickens must have dry floors in order to do well Apparently this ground needs to be drained.
 Geese are good grazers. and except during the winter months, usually nick I'D most of their living. Provide a box partly filled with road dust or wood ashes so as to give the backward hens an opportunity to take d dust bath.
 Nnch of the trouble often found in hrooding chicks is due alone to feed inc too early. or in excess during the first few days.
 Scales on chickens legs are caused hv 2 mite. This mite can best be con trolled and disposed of by the use of heavy black crude oil.
 
 Tn the location of the poultry house, if if is impracticable to select soil that is naturally dry it should be made dry by thorough underdrainage-
The Monticellonian., 1919-06-06
- Condensed NecUs Items E SHORT STORIES TERSELY TOLD FOR
 THE BENEFIT OF BUSY READERS

The Illinois house has voted. 102 to l. for a constitutional convention on January 6, 1920
 President Wilson in his Memorial Day proclamation declares that the celebration this year marks the liber- ation of the world
 Wilard-D Dempsey fight at Toledo on July may be called off as the gov ernor is being urged to do
 Patients at army hospital No. 21. Aurora, Colo, have filed complaints ranging from bad food to strait jack cts. with the war department
 Commercial course. including short- hand. typewriting, bookkeeping etc, is most popular with soldiers in the army schools
 Massachusetts Democrats held a meeting and urged President Wilson to do something to lower the cost of living