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TRENCH DIGGER HELPS BUILD CAMP THE GREENVILLE DAILY NEWS ubUsed every afternoon Except Sunday by GreenYille Publishing Co., Inc. sVjCONBAD LANIEB, President; JAS. L. MAYO, Secretary & Manager Entered at the Post Office at Greenville, N. C, as second-class matter June : il, 1917, under Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. ' 2 i Subscription Bates: CI (Delivered by Carrier within specified sections of the city, or by Mail) 1 tear $4.00 3 Months $1.00 AMonths.. $2.00 1 Month 35c (Subscriptions Payable in Advance) . - Subscribers desiring the Daily News discontinued will please ,, notifly office, - otherwise paper will be continued at regular subscription rates. . To insure efficient delivery, complaints should be made promptly to the Circulation, Per partment, No. 315 Evans Street. Telephone No, 70. Saturday Afternoon, September 29, 1917. THE AMERICAN SPIRIT v. There is something appealing about that story " of the American engineers being attacked by German airmen and their utter nonchalance in , the face of the dangers that beset them. It shows the type of men we are sending over to France. While bombs were bursting above them, the 7 engineers quietly sat in their dug outs, clad in . pajmas and playing poker. They apparently .; were utterly indifferent to the attack. ; And in London, a few days ago, when that city - fwas attacked in an aerial raid, the American sol- diers ran out into the streets, eager to get a - glimpse of the invaders. After the aeroplanes had been forced to retire, the -Sammies went back into the Y. M. C. A. and continued the game of i pool they had been playing. V It's that devil-may-care attitude of the Ameri : can soldier that has already impressed the French and English. It will be even more in evidence when additional troops get sent over to France- The true American loves a scrap and he's wil- Jing to risk all kinds of dangers when he gets into ' one. There won't be any cowardice among our troops when they get into action. On the con trary, the real difficulty will be up to the officers . . in checking their enthusiasm. . And, when off duty, but still in danger from fire from the enemy, we'll continue to read more dis- V patches about our Sammies playing cards or leap frog or any other kind of a game in the trenches, -with shells bursting around them and with bullets singing over their heads. " Our boys are carrying with them something r- which no other troops have carried, a real joy and enthusiasm in warfare. They like it. It is this spirit that will carry them on.to victory over " all obstacles. 1 ft s t J:- I! IS -X. Vt-jP' --tC I -. 4 S Jtv A Photo by American Press Association. At -the camp at Spartanburg, S. C, where the- former New York guards men are quartered, this trench digger is used to drain the camp. Similar ma chines hare been used in France to make real trene-hes. (luced, the herds are petting better, they are being better cared for, and they are paying better. THE TICK'S TAX ON DAIRIES Washington. D. ('.There is a not uncommon idea if a cow does not die from Texas fever, the cattle tick is do ing to no great harm. Native cattle. ,it is asserted, are immune to the tick. There could le no greater mistake. Cattle may become immune to the fever outgone of them ever becomes immune to the loss of the blood that the tick sucks out. With steers this loss i jeans , reduced weight and lower prices ; with with dairy cows it means smaller milk production and correspondingly small-: er profits. , Government tests conducted sthnul taneously, under identical conditions, ' with ticky and tick-free herds show that ticks reduce the milk flow from 18 to 42 per cent, the exact amount de- peuding of course, upon the severity of the infestation. Translate this state ment into dollars and cents and the true meaning of the tick to the dairy industry becomes obvious. Let us assume that a man owns a herd of twenty cows each of which, uiu "der normal conditions, yields eight quarts h day and that he can sell tbo milk for five cents a quart. His gross revenue then is $8 a day f,roin his herd. If a few ticks were allowed to feed up on his cows and thir production is cut down 18 per cent, his gross revenue is only $6.55 a day. If each cow is milked on an average 20(X days in the year, his annual gross revenue isJowered from $1,600 to $1,310. This is the minimum loss from the t'ok. If the infestation is very heavy and the production low ered 42 per cent the reveuua is cut from $1,600 to $930, a loss of $070 a year. This loss is absolute ; there is no re duction in the cost or labor of feeding to offset it. Neither is it possible to overcome it by increasing the amount t feed. "Cow.j carrying ticks.' savs le government repo.-t of. th- tests, "did not increase their flow of milk when the feed was increased as did the tick-free cows." In other words, the feed went to the ticks and not to the cows. The , practical experience of the peo ple confirms the conclusion of the gov ernment investigators. In the tick-infested sections of the South dairying is not an important industry. The farmer may cling, if he wishes, to the delusion that the tick is harmless on immune cattle, but, he is not likely to put his faith to the test by investing in dairy cows. He knows from his own and his neighbors' experience that they will make little money for him. On the other hand, where the tick has been eradicated, dairying is coming more and more into faver. Silos are being built, pure-bred stock is being intro- COTTON SEED HELPING TO WIN THE WAR Due of the most valuable exhibits at the State Fair this fall is going to be that of the Cotton Seed Crushers Association of North Carolina. Mrs. Jane McKinimoh is arranging to de monstrate the food value of many things made from cotton seed bj' the oil mills, and she will show ou the fair grounds just how enormously cotton seed is aiding the country in wtuning the war by supplying vast quantities of food. At a dinner in Raleigh a few dny.s ago a cotton seed man and a man con nected with the food commission of the United States were discussing the value of the cotton seed in providing the country with food and it was con ceded that an acre of cotton furnishes about as valuable a crop for food pur poses as an average of any other crop raised in the state. The cotton seed from an acre fur nishes more food than the wheat from an acre, the corn from the average acre, the peas from the average acre, or almost any other, crop from the aver age acre. The seed men are going to show these results in tangible form at the fair, and it is worth while for every house holder to visit their exhibits and realize what the oil mills are doing for the general good at this trying time in the history of the country. When we see and realize the results they are getting from a "by product" we will have a much greater ap preciation of the cotton oil mill than we have had. These mer are build ing up a big industry that pays thou sands of dollars to the farms of the state, and they are making a product that is doing a substantial work in providing this nation with the fats Miat will feed the people, feed the army, and make the fats necessary for the ammunition to win the war. The oil mills are surely doing their bit. TICKS AND PRICES WASHINGTON, D. C The average value of beef cattle over two years old iu ten tick-infested States North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Louisiana, Arkan sas, , Oklahoma and Texas was $25.JK) on January 1, 1915. For the remain derof the country on that date it was $48.47. In Georgia and Florida the average price was $18, in Alabama $20, in Mississippi $22, in Louisiana $24. In every tick-free State, -with the exception of Vermont and 3Pennessee. the average value was $40 or more-and in eighteen the average was over $50. There are two reasons why cattle in a tickyjcountry are .worth less than in a tick-free one. They ,weigh less and they bring less per pound. They bring less because they cannot be sold on the open market but must be dis posed of in quarantine pens for 'im mediate slaughter only. Experienced dealers estimate that buyers offer from fifty cents to two dollars a hun dred weight less for cattle from below the quarantine line and the owner, who cannot transship his herd to another market or sell the animals as feeders, j is in no position to stand out for a i better price. Ticky cattle weigh less tecause they are scrubs to begin with and because the tick sucks the blood they need to make flesh. Experiments have shown that when the ticks are abundant they will take in the course of the year 200 pounds of blood from a thousand pound steer. They don't take it all at ouce, of course, but they take it never theless and the steer, in order to live, has to make new blood. While he is busy at that, he is not likely to put on much weight. Fattening ticky steers is like trying to keep a leaky barrel full: there is a lot of waste in the pro cess. Furthermore, as all cattlemen know, there is more money in grade stock than in scrubs. Elsewhere in the country farmers are turning their at tention to grading up their herds, to securing animals that will respond to good treatment and feed: in the tick infested sections of the South this "has been impossible for no one will risk bringing pure-bred bulls into a ticky county to die from' Texas fever. We have just received a large line of Furniture, including : Bed Room Suits, Parlor Suits, Dining Room Furniture, Kit- chen Necessities, Davenports, Trunks, Wardrobes, Floor I Coverings, Clocks, Tables and you an purchase at our Store the best goods for Less Money. Xou can certainly do no better than the get pur prices. YOU ARE WELCOME AT OUR STORE. Green Fnnijiw.'. Company is YA MM FURNITURE, WE HAVE IT" d When things begin to rattle-te-bang in the kitchen,telephone a want ad for a new cook. The classified ad and its quick results exer cise the same influ ence on the servant problem that a super dreadnaught does on the world s peace. Q New Arrivak Daily amies 1N n MiSjUOiK. presses y OUR SHOWING THIS SEASON OF NOVELTY SHOES FOR LADIES AND CHILDREN IS COMPLETE. LADIES' SWEATERS IN LARGE VARIETY OF COLORS WILL PLEASE YOU. RAINCOATS FOR LADIES AND CHILDREN, ALL SIZES. o D o WE HAVE RECEIVED BY EXPRESS ABOUT 25 OR 30 MORE PATTERS FOR OUR MILLINERY DEPARTMENT, WHICH FAILED TO ARRIVE HERE FOR THE FIRST OPENING. COME IN TO SEE JTHEM. . 1 O a o: Wo Ao Boweo's Store "CREENVILtE'S AUTHORITY ON LADIES WfAR" GREENVILLE, NORTH CAR. I . w - -- i - . - PMPiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiw iliilM iiiiiimiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiw or Wrfl wlSi?S!'0l8pOUnds f 41?e Week- A iFri(?y I s-al,e was about the larest ever sold in Greenville. Gorman's had first sale and our overflow gave the other houses good sales. All sales finished so there was.no block. ote imoui tered Soujh thfsali J11'460 P1"18 averging $31:31 paying out $66,311.54. We had a quantity of scrap and lots of very common tobacco scat- we ev Jdto&SS"8 $L5? VayS 0ut?43.346.52 making $109,688.08 for the two dayssales. Prices are higher than ' thefhands! customers told us they could not believe their tobacco had brought so much even then they hal the checks in Gorman's leads in pounds and prices and if you want the best sale you ever made bring us your tobacco r markeow TLdonoUead n pounds and everybody on the RZter wZKS Xtt1 on would not hesitate to mislead in anothe?'y ..jr w uuoku aim our customers an go nome satisfied, advising their friends to sell at Gorman's. i o D y Q D 0 GiMlI :--M- , ," ili?ililiiiliiiiiiiiiiiiiiilliilfil . 1 """""""wi" "'"I'l wmm mm immti(ftiMilMiNllllllltii)imwtnillliliiilll.i,1y.iiiM.m!1mi,4iilii; m i n m m
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