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Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27

Poultry raisers are all too familiar
with the common red or gray mite
which infestS poultry houses. In gen.
eral those who are making special
ty of poultry raising have compare
lively little trouble with mites, or at
least they keep them reduced to a
point where they are of little i'm
portance. On the other hand. farm
ers and others who raise poultry as
an incident to other operations fire.
quently find their chicken houses
oyerrun by mites.
Detecting Presence Of Mites
The attack Of this b1ood-sucking
mite Is of an insidious nature which
does not readily draw attention to
It's presence, and often the poultry
man is not aware of an 1nfeStatlon
until he is attracted to it by the
own body through coming in contact
with the infested coops. The pres
ence of the pest may readily be de-
termined, however. by, the detection
of small areas on the boards specked
with black and white as though dust
excrement of the mites, which are
hidden in adjacent cracks or rough
places. More careful 3 examination
will reveal masses of mites in hid
ing, together with their eggs and
the silvery skins cast by the young.
Iii ulOueIdI0ly lHlSSISu putty
houses the injury to the fowls is not
easily apparent, but the constant
blood loss and irritation are shown
by decreased egg production and the
poor condition of the fowls flesh. In
the heavily infested coops it is not
unusual for the chickens to become
drowsy and weak, with male comb
and Wattles. Sitting hens desert
their nests and thus ruin the eggs
or, as is more often the case, they
are found dead on the nest, being
killed outright by the attack Of thou
sands of mites. In extreme cases
considerable. number Of fowls sue,
cumb, even though not sitting and
all are so weakened as to be very
susceptible to various diseases.
Owing to the fact that mites feed
during the night and secrete them
selves in cracks and crevices during
the day, their presence is often over
looked until a very heavy infesta-
they should be attacked energ,etical-
greatest obstacle is the difficulty of
Teaching them in their hiding places.
Dust baths will not control them, as,
at most, only the few which remain
on the chickens during the daytime
will be destroyed.
stroy the mites is to get rid of
the hiding places so far as posi-
BILE. The roosts should be taken
down, and all unnecessary boards
and boxes removed. In heavily in
tested houses the mites are to be
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27
Bulletin Discusses
Purchase of Steers
In Winter or Spring

WASHINGTON, D. C.-Sim Bax-
ter's right leg was in temporary re-
tfrement under d layer of arnica-
soaked banda:.es. He regarded the
injured member With a CLINT of rue
>fEi humor and spake thus to a neigh
bor who had dropped in for chat
with the cheerful invalid.
Bert, tell me somethin'. How
can a felie1 tell when mean white
mule named Anarchy is goin' to kick?
l mean. how can he tell in time to
Human knowledge goes no fur
is always goin' to kick. Is that
the answer? Then let me ask you
in the fall or in the spring? Do
you make anything by feeding them
in the winter, and will you make
more if you let the other Teller feed
'em through? They cost more in
the spring than in the fall Is there
Sim admitted that the thing was
past his comprehension and con-
fessed that he sometimes did the
thing one way and sometimes the
other, but that he never knew just
Aow he was coming out.
No Hard and Fast Rule
In reality, as to the time to buy
stocst RS or feeders, there is no hard
and fast rule. The usual time is in
the fall. when they must leave the
grazing areas and go where feeds
have been harvested or stored for
cattle feeding. In the spring when
everyone with grass for grazing
wants them. cattle are higher than
in the fall, usually enough higher
to, pay for the winteringt However.
with d falling market, which no one
can foretell with any degree of GER
tainty, the cattle may not be worth
enough more in the spring to pay for
the winter feeding. Yet they have
there s no other market.
Consequently. what Sim and his
neighbor should know is how much
It costs to keep stockers through the
winter on various rations, how they
lose or gain weight, and how they
gain through the summer as a result
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27
Plenty; 4
of Potash

AFTER FIVE years OF Potash
"A famine there is now plenty of
Potash to be had at prices that
will permit it to be used at a
good profit.
When Potash in mixed fertil--
izers was sold at five dollars per
unit. everybody exclaimed that
the price WA "prohibitlve. .,
This was state OF mind. AS a
matter of fact. when the records
OF long continued experiments,
east. south. and west, were care
fully gone over it was found that
there were plenty of cases where
the crop increase from the use Of
Potash on corn. wheat. oats,
cotton, tobacco, potatoes, vege-
tables and fruit returned over five
dollars per unit, even valulng the
crops at prices current before 1914.
Now prices of Potash are less
than one-half Of these "prohibi-
tive prices, and prices Of farm
products are still high enough to
make the purchase OF the five to
ten per cent Potash fertilizers
very profitable investment when
yields alone are considered.
But this is not all. The shipping
and keeping quality of many of
our truck, fruit and special crops
has suffered from lack of Potash.
Plant diseases have increased
for the same reason.
Our best lands have been over
worked to the limit and need
restoration.
The fertilizer manufacturer
who really has the foresight to
understand that he serves his
own and his customers interest
best by furnishing what his COM
munity' really needs will return
to the formulas that were found
most profitable for his. commun-
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27

other Feeds. OF course some animals
ing but pickings from the woods and
pastures; but that is not the best
way.
1t is poor economy to neglect live
stock during these winter months, to
leave them to rustic for themselves.
So neglected and left to themselves
they will require more time and feed
next spring to get back to their nor
NAL health and growth. Professor
J. NJ. Scott, of the Florida Expert
ment Station, says that live stock
left to themselves through the win
ter will become stunted and can
never regain health and vigor thus
lost. It is economy to help live stock
through the winter. Feed used in
this way is money we'll invested.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27
Potash Pans

and after FIVE years of Potash fam,
inc it will pay better than ever.
1t takes time to produce and
ship Potash and large stocks are
not carried at Potash works.
Therefore it is imperative that
you notify your dealer at once
what brands of fertilizer you will
require and that you should not
be induced to change your order
on any claim that the right kind
of goods cannot be secured.
Stick to it and you can get what
you know you want.
SOIL AND CROP SERVICE
POTASH DICATE
n. A. HUSTON. Manager
az Broadway New York
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27
Care Of Live Stock
In Winter Months
Repays All Trouble

The most critical season of the
year for live stock is at hand. During
November, December January and
part of February our farm animals
suffer most. It is the coolest part of
the year. Feed is least plentiful, GER
tain kinds of feed. Pasture crops,
upon which many animals subsfst
during the summer months, are no
longer sufficient to maintain grazing
stock without being supplemented by
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27
Florida Club Boys
Have Good Exhibits

On November the annual boys
club contest for Liberty county was
held at Bristol. Eighteen boys made
exhibits of corn and four pig club
members had exhibits.
The boys and girls were much in
terested in the contest and came
from long distances to be present.
The corn exhibit was better select
ed than last year, showing that the
boys profited by last years expe-
riences.
The four pigs on exhibit were
good individuals and showed that
they had been given good care.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27
I&sMsas FERTlliTen eAMmo

ity before the Potash famine
upset things. Indeed this is put
ting the case mildly. for provision
should be made not only to re-
store the old high Potash formu-
las, but to use additional Potash
to restore the drain on the soil
during the past five years.
We never advised the use of
Potash on soils where we had
reason to believe it would not
prove profitable, and never shall
do so.
There is not a single crop on
which Potash has not been found
profitable on many types of soil
In the readjustment period
when farmers must use every
means to assure success it is OF
utmost Importance that they
should not be turned aside in
their effortss to buy fertilizers
with a reasonable five to ten)
ner cent. of Potash.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27
Print Paper Price
VIII Be UNCHANGED

NEW YORK, Nov. 26.-The Inter-
national Paper company's price for
print paper for the first quarter of
1921 will be IL cents per pound
In rolls. carload lots, it was an
nounced today. The price is the same
as that for the last quarter Of 1920.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27
Two Crop Estimates
Due in December

On Tuesday, December IA, the
bureau of crop estimates, United
States department of agriculture,
will issue a review Of crop acre
ages, production and values this
year.
On Friday, December IT,, an
estimate Of winter wheat and rye
acreage and condition will be is
sued.
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27

the farmers of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
West Virginia, Kentucky, North Car
DINA, Tennessee, and the adjacent
states. and for them, it does much
to answer the question that puzzled
Sim and his friends. The bulletin
may be had on application to THE
United States department of agricul-
ture, at Washington, D. c.
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It will be noted that the lot OF
steers fed on a winter ration of corn
silage, wheat straw and cotton seed
meal made the greatest gains and
that this ration was also the cheap
est.
The bulletin records feeding tests
that will be extremely valuable to
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27

! of the way they have been wintered.
Being in better position to carry
on feeding experiments to answer
these questions than the cattlemen,
| the bureau of animal industry, CO.
, operating with the West Virginia ex-
pertinent station, conducted series
of feeding tests in Greenbrier coun-
ty, West Virginia. The experiments
began December %, 1911. and COW
cred period of four years, the re-
suits being now published in de-
partment Bulletin $40.
Details of the Tests
In brief, thirty yearling steers
into three lots of ten steers each.
When the lots were carefully equal
lied, the average weight of the ami
mails was 663 pounds each. The
steers were on winter rations an
average of $50 days, and on pasture
The tests proved that an average
daily ration of 1913 pounds of silage,
five pounds of mixed hay, and 20
pounds of wheat straw during the
winter would maintain these steers
without loss of weight.
An average daily ration of 23.l
pounds of corn silage. 40 pounds of
wheat straw and one pound OF cot
ton seed meal would give each steer
an average gain of sixty-two pounds.
"A daily ration OIL liz pounds oll
mixed hay and Al pounds of wheat
straw fed throughout the winter will
not keep the animal in good condi-
ton. This ration was responsible
for a loss of thirty-five pounds per
steer. Corn silage gave better re-
suits than dry roughage alone. and
the steers that had silage as part
of their winter ration made greater
total gains than those fed on hay
andl straw.
The cost of feed averaged through
out the four years was as follows:
Corn silage ..............$ Soy
Mixed hay ............... 1S.OU
Rye nay ..'.s LOW
Soy bean hay .:.......... 1900
Wheat straw ............ 1.0O
Cottonseed meal .......... 5000
The bulletin gives an interesting
summary of costs and gains:
Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1920-11-27
Hog Ranching Opportunities in
in Georgia

L. S., Herkimer, N. Y, writes:
Would like some information in
regard to hog raising in Georgia;
also price of land suitable for
same and best location.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-23
Canadian War Veteran
Strangely Missing Here
Captain Cerow Left Imperial
Hotel for Philadelphia on
Feb. 2; Foul Play Feared

Captain Stphen P. Gerow, Canadian
overseas veteran, has been missing
since February 2, the management Of
the Hotel Imperial, where he had been
stopping, notified the police yesterday.
Captain Gerow was in the United
States to purchase portable houses for
reconstruction work in England.
On February 9 he left the hotel, say
ing he was going to Philadelphia
where he expected to receive fifty tons
of building material from Chicago for
shipment to Liverpool. He planned to
put up at the Hotel Walton, Philadel-
phia, but never reached there.
When he left, Captain Gerow had
$1,000 in currency and several valuable
articles of jewelry. He left his trunk,
containing clothes and important
papers at the Imperial, where he was
expected back Saturday.
Captain Gerow is about forty five
years old, slightly under medium
height and weighs in the neighborhood
of ITO pounds. He was wounded,
gassed and shell-shocked in the war
1t is feared he has met with an acci-
dent or foul play.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-23
Suicide Kills a Woman
And His Daughter First
Providence Jeweler Commits
Deed After Three Had Re-
turned Home From Church

PROVIDENCE, Feb. ga double
murder and suicide occurred here to-
night when Sylvanus Thresher, forty
seven, of 1880 Westminster Street, shot
and killed Harriet Holland, thirty four.
OF lO44 est1ninster Street, and his
eleven-yearold daughter, Gladys. Of
Buzzards Bay, and then himself
The three had been to church early
IN the evening and after the services
MISS Holland was invited to accompany
Mr.. Thresher and his daughter to the
rooming house where he lived on fine
third floor.
The daughter had been visiting with
her sister at 104Q Westminster Street.
having come here few days ago from
Yarmouth, Mass, with her mother.
where they had been iiving together
since the parents separated several
years ago. Mrs. Thresher at the time
of the shooting was living at 1881
Westminster Street
Lodgers who occupied nearby rooms
declared the three had not been in the
building long when they started to 90
out again. AS they reached the lower
floor four revolver shots were fired
Joseph Gaffney lives on the first floor.
He heard the firing and when he
reached the hallway he found the three
bodies on the floor, all apparently
dead but Thresher, who was diving.
Ihresher was jewelry worker and
mad the reputation of being a peaceful
and industrious man.
temporary mental arrangement is
believed to have been the cause of his
action. Miss Holland was cmnloved
as Il clerk in coal office
New-York tribune., 1920-02-23
Leaving No Clews,
Policeman's Slayer
Is Still at Large
of Henry 1rn1nen,
About to Become Mother.
in Collapse While Friends
Throng Home OfferingAid

Friends came all day yesterday to
224s Webster Avenue and stood beside
the coffin Of Henry Immen, tho police
man who was shot early Saturday
morning when he trapped robbers haul
ing away their meager loot from the
shop Of Philip Markowitz, Gun Hill
Road and Brainbrldge Avenue, the
Bronx.
Mrs. Immen was still under medical
care yesterday. She has not been ra-
tional since she collapsed in the Web
stcr Avenue Police Station when she
saw her husband with bullet hole
in his head and two more in his body.
She is about to become mother. 1t
has been necessary for her own safety
to keep her asleep.
"They just lived for each other" said
lmmen's sister yesterday. He was so
fond of her. She may be able to go to
The cemetery Tuesday. Tho doctor
says SO. Everyone has been so kind"
Slayer Still at Large
With the close of the day the mur-
derer was still at large. Captain
carey of the Homicide Bureau was up
IN the Bronx with his men hunting
through the Italian settlements along
Jerome Avenue. Every man in the
Webster Avenue station was out after
the slayer. Three men were brought
IN Saturday afternoon, but they we're
able to clear themselves.
Inc flag at the station house hangs
at half-staff, and there in the station
mousse are five burlap sacks Of cigar
ettes' candy, chewing gum, tobacco,
sugar and the sled on which the rob-
pers had piled them for getaway.
Cheap stuff" said Acting Captain
Henry Duane, of the Webster Avenue
station. "Wo orth about $50. That's what
man died for"
AS Captain Duane explained it, the
task of finding the culprits is no easy
one: They left nothing but their
spo'ls, empty cartridge cases and the
body of their victim.
No Description Available
Their footprints were lost in the
slush Miss Margaret Ferguson. nurse
IN the Montefiore Home, at Brainbridee
Avenue and Gun Hill Road, who heard
the shots and saw two men running
down 310th Street.. is unable To de-
scribe them.
Every possible line leading to the
criminals is being followed. Immcn
had been on the force since 1912. He
vas thirty eight years old. A delega-
tlon from his precinct will attend his
funeral.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-23
Reds Prosecuted
For Political Views.
Says Jane Addams
Carrie Chapman Gait Also
DenOllnces Government.
in Chicago Speech, for At
tempt to Curb Thought
Special Dispatch to The T7ios.n,

CHICAGO, Feb. 22.-Miss Jane Ad-
dams. Of Hull House. speaking this
evening in Recital Hall at the Audi
torium Theater, said the activities Of
the Federal government in the sup
preston and deportation Of foreign
born radicals was a form Of intoler-
ance. She called the "Reds" in Jail
and under suspicion more American in
their basic ideals and thought than the
agents of the government which is
sending them to banishment.
"The Socialists, Communists, mem
bers of the l. w. W. or whatever they
may be-" she said, "are being perse-
cuted."
Miss Adams and Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait spoke to more than 800 men
and women as part Of the program
of a school of political education being
conducted during the convention Of
the National American Suffrage Asso-
citation.
"This wholesale and so-called de-
portation of radical thinking and
speaking peoples is very disconcerting
to those working for the Americaniza-
tion Of alienborn citizens" said Miss
the so-called Red raids began more
than 100000 aliens have applied for
passports back to their native lands.
They feel America no longer is safe
place to live.
'Hundreds of poor laboring men and
women are being thrown into jails and
police stations because Of their politi-
cal beliefs. In fact, an attempt is
being made to deport an entire politi-
cal party.
"And what is it these radicals seek
1t is the right of free speech and free
thought; nothing more than is guar
anteed to them under the Constitu-
ton"
Mrs. Gait was almost equally
vehement in denunciation of what she
termed the attempt of the Federal
government to curb free speech and
free thought.
"If all the talk--even the pro-Ger-
man talk--had been out in the open
before and during the war we would
have had d chance to answer in the
open and so clear away misunder-
standing.' said the suffrage leader.
"As matters stand there is danger we
tnay lose what has been our proudcst
boast-our Republican form Of govern
ment.
because Of the political corruption
in the United States-corruption which
began fifty years ago and included the
buying and selling of votes-we have
come to a form OF government that is
not of a class or classes, but rule of
the few"
New-York tribune., 1920-02-23
Permission Asked
To Install Newest
Hedley Invention
Device Is Said to Operate
Subway Car Doors With a
Maximum of Safety; Will
Be Worked by Only 2 Men

Application has been made to the
Transit Construction Commissioner,
John H. Delaney, for the installation
OF another Hedley invention on about
1000 of the Interborough Rapid Tran
sit Company subway cars. This latest
patent of Frank Hedley, president of
the company, is a device known as the
multiple unit car door control" by
which it will be possible to have one
or two trainmen, instead Of employ
ing guard on each car, open and
close all of the doors of subway trains.
1t is estimated by the Interborough
officials that the cost of installing the
new device on each car will be approx
imately $1,14o and, if approval is Sc
cured from the Transit Construction
Commissioner, the company intends
spending S1,122, 900 in installing the
new method of control on about one
half of its steel cars.
To Reduce Time of Stops
According to the application made
by Mr.. Hedley, the new device will
provide q maximum of safety in load
ing and unloading passengers and
substantial reduction in the time of
stops at stations. The effect of this,
he says, will be to increase subway
capacity and comfort, without in any
way increasing hazard. The multiple
unit car door control" provides for the
| simultaneous opening and closing of
all car doors, with resisting cushions
on the exposed ends of the doors.
The device consists of mechanical
operating safeguard that automatically
controls the movement OF the door and
pneumatic engine that controls the
door.
The tralnmcn who Will operate the
device will stand Oh footboa rds pro-
! jecting about one foot out from the
steel framework that incloses the car
platform. These footboards arc elc-
waited about one foot above the car
floor. The idea is that the trainman
will, from his elevated position between
cars, at all times have an unobstruct-
ed view OF tho clearing, unloading and
! loaulHB passenger movements. AS IN
the present method of operation no
train will move until an automatically
operated electric light shows in the
motorman's box, as evidence that every
door has been closed.
An Emergency Method, Too.
Mr.. Hedley said that continuous op-
Grafton Of the device as an experiment
during the past four months without
single failure of any kind has demon
strated that the proposed new device
is safer in every respect than the pres
ent method of operation.
Although every precaution has been
taken in the design of the multiple
door control to guard against failure,
through the employ ment of storage
battery, low potential current and
rugged design throughout, Mr.. Hedley
said. it is conceded that occasional in
dividual car failure may occur, neces-
stating provision for all emergency
operation. 1t is proposed, therefore, to
retain the present door control for this
emergency operation.
New-York tribune., 1920-02-23
Masked Men With Guns
win $4,000 Pot at Club
Eight Highwaymen Interrupt
Political Discussion
of Democrats

Forty members of the 9Th Assembly
District Democratic Club were as
sembled at the clubhouse, 60 Seventh
Street, at o'clock yesterday morning,
each discussing politics behind stack
of chips, when eight masked men en-
tered the room from the rear, displayed
revoivers and asked every one to put
up his hands.
The request was complied with and
the robbers proceeded to gather be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 in cash and
yewelry from their victims. One man,
known as Moe" to his fellow club
members, was attempting to swallow a
$500 diamond ring and $500 pin when
ne was deferred by blow on the head
from pistol butt and forced to dis
gorge.
After warning the club members 10
stay where they We're for fifteen min
utes the robbers departed After the
allotted Time had passed the police
we're notified. but have not found the
criminals.