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U I 1KIW TV Visiting Marines Made WASHINGTON. There was a bast-ball game at the Florida avenue military reservation between the Camp Meigs boys and the marines from Quan tlco. It was a gala day. All the marines came to town to see the game, and .each marine had a girl on his arm. Just within tlie gate to the camp, and to one side of the guardhouse, was an American flag, standing in the sod. It was not a large Hag, neither was it a small one, just a medium-sized Amer can flag. Each marine passed through the gate with his girl on his arm, all right, and each marine failed to see the flag. When it was taken into consideration that the flag was just without tfoi range of vision and the girl was well within the range of vision, no one need wonder. As the marine would get 20 JTeet ahead, the sergeant of the guard would call him. "Iley, you, marine. Come back here. Live your lady." The wondering marine would turn nnd return. "Have you ever been taught to salute the flag?" the sergeant would ask. To this question the marine would reply in the decided affirmative. "Well, then, why don't you do it?" the sergeant would say, pointing to the flag. The marine, seeing the flag for the first time, would blush and start to explain. "That's all right," says the sergeant, "let's see' you do it right, now." And ihe marine would march by at salute, while his girl would grin from afar, and Camp Meigs soldiers grouped around would smile. Of Course Her Middle Name Was Generosity, But SHE was as gay as a knitting bag, in tan pongee all over green moons set in pink triangles. Her tan straw was wreathed with more green moons, only they were grapes, and her tan feet were classy enough for store ads. Also she was mad enough to bite nails. YOU MKihT AW exact size of the Venus de thingamajig, except in height. The teacher told me so that time I took art lessons on trial. I know stripes make me look taller, but It was such a lovely blue crossbar and now I suppose I've got to wear it." "You might give it away." The unsympathizer was just the right size for j checks. I "I see myself 1 I take notice people don't tumble over themselves in their : hurry to give me things. The trouble with me Is I'm too generous. I've just ; gone and given my cousin a brown silk that I could have made over for my- : self." "That old foulard? What on earth did she want with it?" j "I like your nerve why, woman, that goods cost me $7 when I bought it." ' "Forty-eleven years ago" "The buttons alone were worth and Jiew, except at the elbows, and say, remnant ously rlvfn un his seat, caught the small thing's The baby quieted down. Uhe man aanuieu ma ume rim me miuj tuutMcu. The woman beamed relief. The passengers smiled approbation and the cane man looked the pride of one who conquers. And when the baby had chuckled Itself into a doze and the man was getting out, the woman ventured to thank bim for his kindness and to say that he must be a father himself, to have such a hoppy understanding of children. "No, madam. No such good fortune. I atJ just an old bachelor, but, I must say, I have a way with the young ladies." It was supposed to be a little joke and the passengers accepted U at full value, especially the mother and another woman who smiled Inscrutably at each other' a if as if they understood about blue ribbon3. K 5AVl5JS ii .r"B!'. 1 ! i1. 1,1 -Mil i .1 1 1 ' ' y.vl wiiM Victims of Soldiers" Joke 4& J? She said so. Having expressed her willingness to partake of cold iron she paused for the woman with her to wedge in a sympathetic remark which was where she made her mis take. "I don't see how you could expect a store to take back goods you have cut into. You were foolish to have bought It Jn the first place, seeing you are too chunky for checks." "I'm no such a thing! I'm the the last lining I put in was as good I'm scorching inside for a soda. Come counter to where thi soda clerk was troubled with generosity to say noth- rould have supposed that knitting bag Car Wheels by the majority of the ed joy ride. The one firm grip on his lever i are keeping a e, at that. You a and folks get a week after a j dy been mended ity wrench that ppers and floppy ia the obituary the Babies r seat offered to et. The mother you would feel. lot of passengers ur child were in erieh", it sounds ould ee she was mi. isut me oauy motions. He merely ngs. Of course, it a she-being, but H It could bawl either r was getting more wor- Vri- instant, and the baby iKiwlleNw J the oldish man who had interestWh his silver-knobbed cane. V Trolley .14 1 - II I l-'O belong to the ; Id by an inhab- I f i I. s 1 f rvA- FEED GRAIN TO MILK COWS About 20 Per Cent More Milk Is Se cured When Concentrates Are Fed to Animals on Pasture. The question of whether milk cows should be given feed while they are cost of the pasture and extra feed, says Trof. W. L. Fowler of Oklahoma A. and M. college at Stillwater. As a rule, cows will give about 20 per cent more milk when they are fed a good ration of concentrates in addition to pasture, but the cost of the concen trated feeds is generally about as much as the value of the increased milk. Heavy producing cows; that is, cows that produce four gallons of milk a day, should have some supplemen tary grain 'feed. I would suggest a combination of ground corn or kafir four parts, wheat bran two parts and cottonseed meal one part. The amount of this that should be led in connec tion with the pasture depends upon the state of flesh of the cow and the amount of milk that she Is producing. A four-gallon cow should have about four or five pounds of grain in addi tion to good pasture. The per cent of butterfat in milk cannot be changed to any extent by the kind of feed that a cow eats. The amount of fat in the cow's milk Is determined by the breeding. For a winter feed, I would suggest alfalfa hay and silage for the rough age, and the same grain combination as mentioned above for the concen trates. Feed about thirty pounds of silage per head per day and all the alfalfa hay the cows will clean up well. Feed one pound of the grain mixture per head per day for each three pounds of milk produced. The question of how long a cow can test and still be profitable depends upon the amount of milk that she pro duces. Many Holstein cows are prof itable for butterfat production even when they do not test more than 3 per cent butterfat. This i3 true be- v . Champion Holstein Cow. cause of the extremely large amount j of milk produced. The average Jer sey should test about 5 per cent or a j little above. A cow that will give 500 pounds of milk per year or above i should be profitable under ordinary j conditions. , i REST PERIOD FOR DAIRY COWS Best Accomplished by Gradually Stop ping Milking and Reducing Supply of Feed. WM. H. FELDMAN, Colorado Agri cultural College, Fort Collins, Colo.) Milk from cows which are milked right up to the time of calving fre quently has an unpleasant odor and an animal-like taste, or may be even salty or bitter. For this reason, and because the udder and other tissues vital to maximum milk production should have an opportunity for rest before a new period of lactation be gins, all milk cows should be "dried up" at least one month before par turition Is due. This Is best accom plished by gradually stopping milting and reducing the amount of feed. UNPROFITABLE COW MUST GO Weil-Bred High Producer That Takes Place of Scrub Must Be Properly Fed and Cared For. If dairying is to provide either pleas are or profit, United States departs meat of agriculture specialists point out, the unprofitable cow must be dis posed of. The well-bred high produce that takes her place must be properly and economically fed and cared for. Cow-testing associations have demon strated that the feed of the dairy herd can be selected and balanced In such a way as to decrease feed costs one- hlrd and at the same time increase nilk production. '"' V'l m i - " 111 r- J i " '' " j Our Part in Feeding the Nation (Special Information Service, United States Department or Agriculture.) WAR GARDENS MORE PRODUCTIVE -swiyv-k. -f?!? 4v'r s-'lyXf Hoes and Rakes at Work Producing War Food in a Well-Kept City School Garden. FOOD SUPPLY IS MUCH INCREASED Spread of War Garden Movement Is Reported From Every Section of Country. ADDS MUCH TO POCKETBOOK Examples of Progress of Home, Chil dren's and Community Gardens In dicate They Have Come to Stay Some of the Advantages. War gardens as a whole, including home, children's and community gar dens, are more numerous and far more productive this year than last, accord ing to the department of agriculture. This is the consensus of opinion of those who have been working on the garden problem, and is based on specific reports of the department's agents, and upon the observations of its specialists throughout the country. While it is reported that seedsmen sold less seed to home gardeners this year than they did last, this does not mean that there are less gardens or smaller plantings. Amateurs learned last year that they bought too much seed. Some of this seed was un doubtedly kept over, and many gar deners saved seed from last year's crop for planting this season. A few gardeners going to work in 1917 with more enthusiasm than experience de cided not to plant this year, but a great many more who did not make gardens last year made them this season. Estimates Not Reliable. Estimates of the number of gardens vary, and there are no figures other than conjectures. Department garden specialists say that an estimate of 10, 000,000 home gardens is conservative, but admit that this figure represents only a good guess. Specific examples show how the gar den movement has grown. Before the war, according to the garden leader of the District of Columbia, there were not more than 5,000 gardens in the federal district which contains the capital of the country. Now there are 28,000, including school gardens, with a marked Increase in 1918 over 1917. Chicago has 4S3.000 gardens, 140,000 of which are home gardens, 90,000 chil dren's gardens and 238,000 community gardens. Oklahoma City had more than 13,000 gardens last year. Gardens on Farms. It must not be supposed, either, that city man and suburbanite constituted the only classes that needed admoni tion to start gardens, and the only ones that heeded the admonition. The county agent of Oswego county, New York, maintains that the majority of farmers in his county have not had gardens and that much of the effort toward more and better home gardens should be expended on the farmer rather than on the city man. In the South last year more than 315,000 new gardens were started Through the efforts of farm demonstra tion agents, and this figure takes no account of many gardens established as an indirect result of the work of the department of agriculture. Of even greater significance has been the great amount of gardening done through the co-operation of Industrial enterprises. Many of the great lumber mills and cotton mills of the South have en couraged their employees to have home gardens even to the extent of furnish ing the ground and the plowing, and flowing time off with pay for the planting, cultivation and harvesting of the crops. In Bibb county, Ala bama, mine companies furnished land, seed and fertilizers. In Calhoun couoty, the same state, home garden ers co-operated with the military au thorities at Camp McClellan, Annlston, In growing food for the camp mess. The city of Mobile has 4,000 war gar dens. On many railroads, particularly In the South, the unused portion of the right of way has been given jp to gardens made productive section hands and construction gangs. There has been a decided movement for fall gardens and even for year-round gar dens where there is a long growing season and the "fall food acre" of the South has been a direct result of the government's campaign for more home food production. Gardening Come to Stay. These facts are significant as show ing a tendency, and are an index of activities In every 6tate of the Union. The most hopeful aspect of the gar dening situation, according to the de partment officials who are willing to venture an opinion, is the unanimity of their belief that the home and com munity garden has come to stay, and that those who have undertaken the work as a wartime measure will con tinue it after victory has been won. Their opinion is based, they say, upon the advantages which garden ers have found: cheaper vegetables, better quality and greater freshness, zest and healthfulness In gardening as recreative occupation, and the growth of community spirit and action through a common ground of interest. . . HOARD s Plenty of home-canned fruits J and vegetables. All garden products dried that can't be canned. Sugarless homemade fruit juices and sirups. Your garden root crop in prop er storage. Be a patriotic hoarder. .. ' ; ' ' Better Marketing. Last year the production of perish ables is estimated to have been 50 per cent greater than normal. Notwith standing the large output, the market ing difficulties 'were relatively less than in former years because of the effective efforts of the people through out the country, assisted by federal and state agencies, to conserve these products for future use by canning, preserving, pickling and drying. The department is again actively assisting in the conservation of perishables, as it did last summer, and is able to ren der more effective assistance with its largely increased staff. More effective assistance also is being rendered in the marketing of perishable products through the greatly extended dally market news service of the bureau of markets and the weekly report3 of truck crop production prepared by the bureau of crop estimates. Potatoes. The normal acreage of Irish and sweet potatoes should be maintained in 1918, notwithstanding the large crops of 1917. This is especially true n view of the necessity of releasing more wheat for export. Potatoes, jboth Irish and sweet, are the most popular and most generally used of the perishable staple crops. The department, through Its extension and publication activities, Is encouraging their greater use, espe cially the use of the Irish potato as a partial substitute for wheat in bread making. The yield per acre can be made more certain by greater attention to the selection of disease-free potatoes of good varieties, by treatment of seed potatoes Immediately before planting, and by the use of sprays to prevent loss from blight. Those who are to fill the silos this year for the first time should exer cise care in determining the ripeness of the crop to be cut for silage. Health Was Shattered South Boston Woman Tells How She Suffered Before Doan's Cured Her. "I was in awful shape from kidney disease," Bays Mrs. W. F. Sterritt, 707 Dorchester Ave., South Boston, Mass. "My Lealth was shattered and I would often fall in a heap. Had someone stabbed rae in the buck with a knife, the pains could not have been worse. 1 lost thirty pounqs, was terribly nervous and could not do my housework. Fainting spells came on and my feet and limbs swelled so badly I couldn't wear my shoes. Puffy sacs came under my eyes, my skin looked shiny and the impression of a finger left a dent that Kn. Sterritt remained for 6ome time. "My kidneys were in awful shape and it seemed that I bad to pass the secretions every hour. The passages were scant and terribly distressing. I was feverish at night and perspired profusely. "I was discouraged until told about Doan'3 Kidney Pills. They brought improvement from the first and about a dozen boxes cured me. My cure has lasted." Gat Doan's at Any Store, 60c m Bos DOAN'S 'V.-ifif, FOSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO. N. V. WE Sail for SO Tiara. FOR HALAKIA, CHE1S AND FETEL Alt t FlM Geitral Strtnftkmlai Telle. At All Dn( SUn. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM A toilet preparation of merit. Helps to eradicate dandruff. For Reitorina Color and Boauty toGray or Faded Hair. 600. and $1.00 at Drugclita. DROPSY TREATMENT. Glrai quick rell.t V11VI v I goon remorea iwellloir and ah or breath. Merer heard of lte eqnal for drop. Try lb Trial treatment aent FREE, by mall. Write to DR. THOMAS E. CREEN Bank BMSh Be 20. OHATSWORTH. Ua W. N. U., CHARLOTTE, NO. 36-1918. War Horse Still a Factor. Despite the vast numbers of motor vehicles used on the European battle fronts, the horse is still important as on engine of war. The armies in the field have already used 4,500,000 horses, nnd our new army will require 1,500, 000 more. Wounded horses are easily handled. They seem to know that the surgeons are trying to help them and they sub bit to having their hurts dressed with wonderful fortitude. A BRIGHT, CLEAR COMPLEXION is always admired, and It is the lauda ble ambition of every woman to do all she can to make herself attractive. Many of our southern women have found that Tetterine is Invaluable for elf et ve anf to byl' iumi ' iui" JUL1. ' by rLa"aptr'mreTJoT Savannah, Ga. Adv. Representing G. A. H. Shideler. Charles A. McGonagle, newEuperin tendent of the Indiana Boys' school at Plainfield, tells a story on his predeces sor, G. A. II. Shideler, now superin tendent of the Jeffersonville refcrua tory, which can only be appreciated when it Is known that Mr. Shideler weighs rbout 300 pounds. Just before Mr. Shideler resigned to take up his duties at Jeffersonville, one of the young boys of the school peti tioned to be transferred to another school company and until he obtained assurance that no punishment would befall him or anybody else if he should tell the trcth, nally consented to give his reason for wishing to make the change. "I'm just afraid I'll get in bad' with that crowd of boys," said the little fal low, "all on account of a new game they play. At night they all stuff pil lows under their 'nighties' and play a game they call 'being superintend ent.' " Indianapolis News. Must Salute Women. British naval officers have to salute the "Wrens," women In the royal naval service, when the women are higher in rank than they, and the women must return the salute with a bow. The women seem to be given considerable liberty in regard to saluting one an other. ' The Main Reason. Socialist Orator We are here to night because It is a free country. Voice in the Rear And a free show. ioasti (Made op Corn) Taste twice as good now cause 1 know they Helo Save the. Wheat HIM ' Ml I c J iSS Post fed I A
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