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POLK COUNTY NEWS; TRYON, tffC. 4 , . It , 0 " 4 i P0DD3H j INCREASE POULTRY STOCK w Opportunities for Specialists to rate With Raisers In Best Co-ope Production. Uared by th United States fcepart CP ment of Agriculture.) ivhile the main effort in the cam ign to increase the nation's stocks of oductive poultry is to be directed to a general farmer" and the city house lder, it does not follow that the spe ilist in poultry production cannot ider good service in this cause. He iv find it desirable and conducive his greater profit to diversify his rming by devoting mpre attention live stock other than poultry and j producing a larger proportion of his edstuffs on his own ground. It may be doubtful Irji some, cases hetlier "a special poultjry farm can perate profitably along the same nes as in the past. The grower of ible poultry can. use his stock, plant ad equipment for production along ime other line that wilt be profitable i this time. Indeed, in most cases he mat so adapt "his business to changed jnditions or sacrifice what he has in- Vted in it. j Iverv farmer that becomes Inter f 1 in inrreasine and mproving his i - . I L : tJt j. . i poultry 4 ana every owu resiueut to begins to keep poultry in the back ird is going to buy stock or eggs for atching. or baby chicks, j This should fuse at least the normal demand for jrds, ejrgs, and stock in jtfie early part f the 'year, and also stimulate de mand for pullets in the fall. ' I The attention of poultry breeders fho want to produce to meet popular .emands may well be called to the ad antas;& of the "farming oit" -method f pro rs w tlucing stock in quantity. Farm- ho are interested in increasing !nd improving their stock and town leoplp who have room to grow more Jhickens than they wish for them selves will in many cases find it an ad antnge to grow, stock or a breeder l their vicinity. With jjso much new iiterest developing, It should be easier han usual, to get breeders and the pultry keepers near them to co-oper- e in the production bf fowls, for ying especially. . Suchl ah arrange ent is to the advantage-of both. It duces the cost cf getting good stock the grower and the risk on growing ock to the breeder. - I The success of this line of work and operation depends vecilargely upon rly hatching; and that in turn de- lends, muchi upon the breeders begin- A Well-Cared-For FiocI Produce's Eco i nomical Eggs ar.d I Family. Meat for the tning at once to interest their neigh bors in growing chickens for them. Whether he farms our stnelr nr nntv k?very poultry keeper who looks for- pvard to better times in; poultry culture should do his part to bring them, by iroducing ali that he can handle at ome. GEESE AS PRODUCERS OF FAT I, Importance of Adequate Number of Fowls in Poultry Scheme Is ' Quite Apparent; Geese hold a sector m the line of the poultry army that makes war against waste. Whenthe fact!s are taken into consideration that the demand for .itLbe is strong, steady and. extends .over practically the whole year, that bw eim an other kinds of poultry as producers of fat, a! thing of which the world stands at present in dire need, and that their value as ess nro- jducers is considerable! the Importance i uucHuaie numoer oi geese in ine poultry scheme n becomes apparent. .Geese fake-their living in large part Jrom grasses of the pasture and need .range of this nature. b be kept at a .pront. KEEP SICK FOWLS SEPARATE When Ailing pirds by Themselves . and Clean Up. .When di taw I c aiiii risk DATVJ arated and placed to themselves. If any have died they should be burned or buried. The house and yards should be disinfected and a hunt begun Im mediately for the cause of the trouble Conditions should be. corrected a quickly as possible to prevent Its continuance. JOINT RECEPTION IS GIVEN THE PRESIDENT BY THE ITALIAN PARLIAMENT AT ROME. 1 I. DIAZ AND WILSOII MEET Weather Warmer ; and N More Balmy Than That Experienced by Party In France or England. ; Roine.--In parliament house a joint reception was given President Wilson by the members, of the senate and the chamber of deputies. . The function was an impressive one. The large and. distinguished gathering gave the President an' ovation. ; , jjurjng nis speech the President ; constantly was interrupted by out- j bursts of applause and when he ended ! he was j accorded an ovation which lasted until he passed through the exit 1 of the building. Outside the throngs;' in the street took up the demonstra-. tion which continued until the doors of the Quirinal closed hPhinrt tviv Wilson. ' The weather was warmer and more balmy than the presidential party had: experienced in Prance and England: and there' was a feeling of relief on their part. Te President met with really the first touch of sustained sun shine he had seen since coming to Europe, and he made the remark dur ing the day that the weather remind ed him of that at home. During the day King Victor Em manuel presented General Diaz to President Wilson, who complimented the Italian commander-in-chief on the magnificent achievements of his army. The President expressed regret that he wouJd be unable to visit the Italian battlefront owing to lack of time and the necessity of returning to Paris as soon as possible for the work of the peace conference. AMERICAN ARE MILITARY LAWS DECLARED OBSOLETE - New York. Administration of mili tary justice in the United States will be one of the subjects considered at the annual meeting of the American Bar Association. The executive com mittee of the association, at a meet ing here, decided it Is a subject which requires; consideration and "probably some reformation." In making the announcement, Presi dent George T. 'Page, of Peoria, 111., gave out a statement in which he de clared that the war has demonstrated "that our military laws and our sys tem of administering military justice are unworthy of the name of law or justice." The United States, he said, still Is ' following rules copied from England In 1774, but which were abandoned long ago by Great Britain and which were better suited "to the armies of feudal times than to the citi zen armies of a modern republic." ' HOOVER, DIRECTOR GENERAL ; INTERNATIONAL RELIEF WORK . Paris. President Wilson has ap pointed Herbert C. Hoover director general of international organization tor the relief of ; liberated countries, both neutral and enemy. Norman Da vis, formerly on the staff of Oscar T. Crosby, special commissioner of finance for .the vTJnited States in Eu rope, will act as Mr. Hoover's assist ant; . ' . ;. This was announced by the Ameri can peace commission in a, statement which says that the designation of Mr. Hoover to take charge of the relief work is in conformity with the request of the allied governments that the United States take a predominat ing part In the organization and di rection of relief measures. The state ment says: : "Upon President Wilson's arrival the result of the investigationsTof the . United States and allied government officials into the food situation of the liberated countries, neutral and en emy were laid before him. NEARLY ALL FORTY-FIRST DIVISION ORDERED HOME Washington. Practically the entire forty-first division was included in a list of units announced by the war department as assigned for early con voy, from France. The forty-first division was the: first to be stationed at Camp Greene. This division was there several months in the fall of 1917 and was transferred , overseas from here a ' short while be fore Christmas. Charlotte literally "fell in love" with the Western boys. 200 SICK AND WOUNDED YET ABOARD STRANDED LINER us TaiflTvr! .M Y -ErceDt for 200 wounded men, every one a veteran of European battlefields and more than half of them helpless on their cots, all of the 2,500 soldiers were passengers on the stranded army transport North ern Pacific were safe ashore or aboard - naval ' vessels at the close of the second day of one of the most re markable marine rescue in the hi tory of the Atlantic" coast , : ' i . 11 A Road in i T WAS the vlntasre time, and I tried to forget that half o Chris tendom was plunged in a great war. Leaving the fiehtine line. I wandered about in the lovely freedom of. the hill country of Tuscany, past vil las which are surmised rather than seen through the long vistas of grave, still cypresses and around smiling, sil vergreen olive slopes from whose sum mits beckon dignified palace fortresses of the Medicis or sterner and more j aged ivy-decked towers, writes a Tus ' canjjcorrespondent of the New York Evening Post. Finally, I reached the road of my morning's quest and stopped where a high wall, after many turns and twists, suddenly opened to a vision of green terraces. It was the gate to the podere upon which Ton ino and his forebears have labored for ' the last century and a half the fam ily "going to the land," J not as serfs, . but as willing servants of the soil. . I Entering the terraced farm, .1 skirt ed a stout wall with Ivy spreading lov ingly over its gray stones; a hedge of winter roses followed me in fragrant companionship all the way to -Tonino's i farmhouse, a structure poised bravely i over a precipitous ledge : of rocks. The house itself might be called an architectural slant of walls, chimneys, stone flags and steps running off and down in all directions tilt they seem to merge with the vines and the olive ; tree anid the green sod. I lingered a mo ment, then followed in the wake of a primitive oxcart, painted bright red, on which the empty grape vats rumb bled sonorously as the plodding beasts i dragged their draft 1 over the stony ; road. t Harvesting the Grape Crop. It was a pagan almost bacchanalian picture, as those huge cattle, white and big-horned, moved slowly and pro cessionally down the way, flanked by grape vines in endless, festive wreaths and festoons strung from tree to tree. At the lower terrace a host of neigh bors was busily at work cutting the dew-moist grapes, dropping the lus cious bunches into picturesque bas kets lying all about. The sun played in glad, shifting shadows In andf out of the vines and olive trees, while the damp soil, drinking in the solar warmth, exuded a moisture heavily odorous with the abounding vitality of Mother Earth. I The harvesters included many wom en, some territorial Tsoldiers on leave and a few children. No one, old or young, gave signs of fatigue; the labor was pursued slowly and easily, not at all as a struggle in overcoming time, or resistance. It was this seeming slowness of the laborers In Italy which often gives to the outsider, especially to the nervous and strenuous Ameri can observer, the impression of a wastage of 'time in the accomplishment of things. This apparent slowness, however, is rather a wise restraint and distribution of effprt, coupled with tra ditional JSkill or special hardiness, which bring about results by deftness as well as by mere expenditure of force. i So, at this harvesting, all of that crowded, terraced acreage had been shorn of Its grapes by sundown, and all the fruit carried away to the wine press.- . ' , ; V- U Supper for, Tonino's Laborers. -At nine in the evening we gathered iat Tonino's house for the harvest sup peri to which, by immemorial custom, everyone who has labored in the vine yards must be invited. We entered by the kitchen door, near which hung a little oil lamp patterned after those ot the Etruscans; at the long table in the main; room of this casa colonica sat three generations of harvesters 24 men, women . and children. A -warm, soothing, "natural" odor .of oxen and stable came thinly and "not unpleasantly into the feast chamber, i which had that dignity of proportion arid fine simplicity ' of ' lines which speaks of Tuscan taste, even in these humble quarters. A light hung from the center of the celling threw a rath er: dim ; illumination jover the festive board but . amply sufficient for us to see all the good, things which awaited, our Impending attack. First soup was J served from huge bowls into deep, ca- fr 1 , 1 .., V r , , . Jj 1 - Smmm H ill nniiiiTiifrilriii'iiTiiinriiiiiiii i if-ti-- "fuscany. pacious dishes 4next came a rich and satisfying frittti misto, and then large platters, urdeied with pasta redo lent with anfi herb savored sauce. There was plty of honest wine to wasn aown in.j nuge siasnes or war bread served ut generously to alJ Of US. . No Bittetlies8 In War Talk. After the pleasant business of eating was over the n$n started talking about the war. It wis a simple, rather ob jective discuson, withciut bitterness or hatred, ol something unpleasant which had to nbe done, but all must wish that it s&uld be 'ended and laid aside as soonfjis possible. Then the conversation vxed warm in the more direct and personal realities of the year's corps, and the promise for the coming seasons. One by one the little children nuggled closer to their mothers' sidef. and childish heads bent sleepily iver the table or fell, relaxed and ; sjif e, on arms soft and solicitous witi maternal . care. The drowsiness of 4k hard day's labor crept irresistibly ulon the men, urging them to " welearried and refreshing sleep. We said -iod night and start ed homeward the little oil lamp by the door had dickered out, but a faint moonlight j watfc bathing the landscape in a soft, mystical indistinctness; far away the denies and. towers of Flor ence rose skfjward I like dream sym bols of hopestsmd darings, of love and faith. .. . . I sat in contemplation, watching the moonlight wa stronger and brighter, making more eal and definite the pic tureof peace4pn earth spread so won- drously before me, till my thoughts wandered avpiy to another, harvest scene, far removed among sterner but no less peaceMoving mountains, a . har vest scene offjbattle wherein men like those with 5hom I . had gathered grapes today vere the protagonists. We have bfen toid of the. thrill of a gallant assault and the stirring emo tions of a brve defense, but what of the harvest ater the decisive fighting is over and crie walks over the fields plowed by th.merciless artillery and harrowed by Ihe struggles and the suf ferings of mejt. What of the fruitage of battle, noP alone of , the dead and the wounded we have been-told bo cften, but ofail the other and Inde scribably sa;; things which the eye and the hear of the harvest gathers! Amidst Scenes of Desolation. Look! AlJ once flourishing little town, with jot a single one of Its houses unscathed, and most of them horribly rent asunder, showing the debris of wfiat had once been the privacy andjfthe ianctity of peaceful hearths. irj the partial shelter of these shells pf homes along the main streets of tbV town, countless men are sitting or crouching, in full fighting equipment, Raiting for orders to pro ceed to theufront ; trenches, where a battle has jJst been fought and won. Let us wak to the battlefield ; it is j : j xi , L ' ' a i, reacnea mijjugn a pine woou sun. smoking reinously from the fires which the bursting shells have started. The road 11 wholly exposed to the range, of thousands be enemy's artillery, , but Bf- men have gallantly. crossed it ii order to reach their com-, rades In thf trenches beyond. y You can see wh-U the harvest has been here I There are fragments of shrap- nel, and uneploded shells along every foot of the Mine ; by the whir of the projectiles Ijstill passing over, our heads we cs a; reconstruct the scene of fire of some yours ago ; the shells whizz by us withi that horrible suggestive rotatory ; sojnd which seems to say : Coming, Coiping, Bang- and you die ! ; .Dog Hjid Something to Say. ' The Hon. John W. Davis, appointed our ambassador in London In succes sion to Mr Ji Page, Is an eminent law yerv s - .- 7 ; ; . U;"'.:""V :.a Mr. Payi tells the story- of a very small boy- trho was trying " to lead . a big St. Bernard up a busy thorough fare. . 'Whta:e are you going to take that1 dog, njy little chap?" inquired a passerby; ; Trni going to see vehere' where het wants to gofirstin was the breathless tfeply. ' J ; SCOLT (Conducted -.. by National . Council of the Boy Scouts of America.) GERMAN MISUSE OF SCOUTS How German terrorism has extended even to the perversion' of the-objects of . their own boy scout organization Is told 1; by Thomas M; Johnson,- a staff correspondent of j the E vening Sun of 'New; York, with : the American First. army in France. Ilae saysV; " " " i'The fear of German bby scouts, as much as anything else," : intimidates the German people at home, according to prisoners , captured in the last few days. Several prisoners; including Prus- sians, explain this seemingly strange, statement by saying that German boy scouts in the cities, lads of fifteen and sixteen years of age, haVe been drilled and equipped with machine guns and placed under orders by the. military au thorities and the police-drilled - - as thoroughly and strictly as German sol diers themselves and taught the goose step. v ' ' "German civilians, weakened by lack of food and knowing the murderous power of machine guns, are in awe of these youngsters, who are beginning to give themselves the airs of Prussian oflicers. If this Is true, It Is a val uable sidelight ion militarism." SCOUTS AIDED AT EXPLOSION. The value' of organized boyhood in an emergency was fully demonstrated in the cities of New Jersey to which refugees fled from South Amboy, where the explosion of a great shell loading plant .occurred. No call was issued for the boys, but they responded j of their own volition and worked as hard as they could, do ing everything and anything asked. Some of the: scouts rode with the drivers of conveyances which were bringing the people from Ainboy. They helped the refugees into the cars, car rying babiesbundles and family pets, and making things comfortable on the ride. Others acted as messengers In the armories,, carried cots and blan kets, swept floors, waited on the can teen workers, : passed out refresh ments, entertained the children by playing games With them, and, in fact, boys could be seen at all times busy as ' bees, doing everything that was helpful. ' . ; SCOUTS DRYING PEACH PITS. Splendid Service Rendered Uncle Sam by These Youthful Heroes. ITALY SCOUTS PLANT TREES. The boy scouts of Italy have been entrusted with the nation-wide prop- aganda for reforestation, and results of the boys' efforts are expected to count as one of the most effective serv ices ever rendered to a state by this organization, which has attained fully as great proportions and prominence In Italy as it has in the United States. The boy scouts of Italy, beginning at once, will not only give their own help in the actual work of reforesta tion but will inculcate it as one bf the cardinal principles of their organiza tion. -v . . . . , Italy still is receiving hundreds of thousands of tons of coal less than her minimum needs, and as a consequence she is obliged to continue obliteration of her forests. . ; ' , BADEN-POWELL AND SCOUTS. On the anniversary of the outbreak of the war in Europe, Lieut. Gen. Rob ert S. S. Baden-Powell, founder of the boy. scout movement, addressed the fol lowing cablegram to the Boy Scouts of America : - : . ' "Hope ; scouts will join in increased effort to make fifth year of war suc cessfully the last. j ' - Chief ! Scout Executive James B. West replied as follows : -j "American scout through splendid war service, program have gloriously justified value organized boyhood. Are pledged to hundred per cent participa tion In effort to make fifth year suc cessfully the last." DOINGS OF THE SCOUTS. Tlie scouts of ilontclair, N. with a ; hastily contrived apparatus, suc ceeded j in; heliograpbing ,from Glen Gray', to Montclalr, a distance of six teen' and a half miles. Communication was opened and short messages were read. V . 1 . .t; " -v i Fire broke, out - three jtlmes in the mountains back of Flalnfield, New Jer sey, and' each time the boy':scouts went-out to fight It--'- r- ' ::' - A Brooklyn troop of scouts assisted n old lady to secure food and fuel. . RAISING WELL-BRED . SWINE: Return' Money Invested More Quickly; Than Any Other: Farm Animals i Except Prultry.: - i i . - -.. . - (Prepared by the United f Staips Depart 1 ment oi Agriculture.) :. . No branch of live stock farming gives better results than the raising of r well-bred swine; when -conducted with a reasonable amount 'of intelli gence. vThe hog is - one of -the ! most Important antpaals tov raise on the farm, either for meat or for:., profit and no farm is complete unless'some hogs are Ptfto aid In the modern method of farming., y The farmers: of J the South and-West; awakening to-the merits of the hog, are rapidly Increasing their output of pork and their bank ac counts. ; The hog requires less labor, less equipment,' less capital; and makes greater gains per hundred pounds of concentrates than any other farm ani mal, and reproduces himself faster and In greater numbers ; and returns the . money Invested more quickly than any, other farm animal except poultry. i In the trucking and mixed-farming sections of the United States hogs are A Good Hog-Feeding Floor Saves Feed and Is an Aid in Fighting Vermin. used to consume various unmarketable substances. The value of milk Is known on every farm although it may not be fully appreciated, and any one who has fed pigs knows the keen appetite they have for ' milk and its products. In the neighborhood "of many large dairies pork I production has become a very prominent and lu crative supplement to the dairy indus try. The hog is also a large factor In cheapening the production of beef. Hogs are placed in the I cattle feed lots to utilize the corn andi other feeds which the cattle have failed to digest and which otherwise would be wasted. Hogs following steers in many cases have increased the profit per steer by $6 to $9. Farmers and hotel and res taurant owners are using kitchen refuse to produce salable pork... In fact, as a consumer of by-products the. hog has no rival. ; . ) , t 5 However, this propensity in many in stances is being taken unfair advan tage of through ignorance and lack of care. , Milk products, animal -off al, etc., which contain disease germs, es pecially those of tuberculosis, are given to hogs. This practice not only results in spreading disease but cnuses loss in the hogs . themselves through condemnation "at slaughter. All such products should be effectively sterilized before being fed. FEEDING NEW CORN TO STOCK Not Safe for Hogs and Mules Liable to Prbduce Disorders Give Hogs Minerals. if v New corn Is not a safe gram ior work horses and mules, ias it is liable to produce colic and indigestion. If It must be fed, feed only the dryest ears, not more than four, or sir ears at each meal. . A j small quantity of salt should be sprinkled on each feed. A better and safer: method is to feed half corn and . half oats! If green corn is fedl to hogs, the safest plan Is to feed the entire stalks with the ears on the stalks. Feed small quantities at each)' meal ; spread the corn out in the feed lot so that eatch one will get Its full share. iteep a full supply of wood and coal ashes, burnt wood, and corn-cob charcoal under cover in the feeding pens, so the hogs can help themselves. These minerals are useful in correct ing the'acidity of the green fodder and corn. VALUE OF ACRE OF ALFALFA r;:r:,:;l;.:-; . ; (-' -.-:.-..-;; Result of Interesting Experiment Con ducted on Kansas Agricultural ' College Farm. : '" . , . '- X ::X k ' ; ' i : . Experiments conducted on the Kan sas .agricultural college farm have shown that 170 pounds of green alfalfa, cut and fed In a dry lotg was equal to 100 r pounds of . corn. Six pounds of com was necessary to produce a pound of pork, so the 170 rounds of alfalfa produced 16 2-3 pounds of pork. Esti mating that during the season ah acre of alfalfa will yield 20.000 pounds of . green hay,r this, if cut and fed green . with corn, wrould make 2,000 pounds of v pork. Figuring this pork at , the pre vailing price will : give ; some Idea ; of , 'the value of an aire" of alfalfa. ; I i y hi
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