Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, October 15, 1913, Page 9

PAGE EIGHT JOHN REDMOND. irish Leader Opposed to Exclu- sion of Ulster From Home Rule. IRISH WILL NOT COMPROMISE John Redmond Declares Plan Is impracticable. Limerick, Ireland, Oct. 14.—John E. Redmond, leader of the Irish National- ists, speaking at a home rule demon- stration. he declared himself unal-, terably nst the suggestion made by Winston Spencer Churchi first lord of the admiralty, in his speech at} Dundee last week that a settlement; of the Irish question might be reached by the exclusion of a portion of Ulster from the operation of the bill. Mr. Redmond said that the sugges tion was impracticable and unwork- able. WILL BE BARRED IF Immigration Commission Dis- cusses Mrs, Pankhurst. Washington, Oct. 14—If Mrs. Em- meline Pankhurst, leader of the Brit- ish militant suffragists, who is en route to this country, should attempt to land under an assumed name she would encounter serious \ obstacles. The report reached the bureau of im- migration that Mrs. Pankhurst might adopt an alias in order to enter the United State Inquiries concerning! the report became so persistent that Commissioner General Caminetti is- sued a ement in which he said: “We have no authentic information on the bject; and without reference to Mrs. Pankhurst, will further state that this bureau and the department deal with people who seek admission | at our ports in a frank and open man- ner and prefer like treatment from those who want to enter. “We are confronted with much per- jury and deception in efforts to gain admission into the United States. Gen- erally st ing, and when not too rank, our oflicers are often disposed to overlook such instances when it oc- curs with people who lack experience and make a showing of having been misled. I am not saying what may happen when it is deliberate and prac- ticed by people who ought to, and do, know better.” a i i a i i la i has SOME FREAK GAME LAW REQUIREMENTS. Washington, Oct. 14.—Badges as big as butter plates, bear- ing the hunting license num- bers of the wearers, must be worn by sportsmen when they take the field in Ohio or Penn- sylvania, while gunners who cross the Canadian line into Manitoba or Saskatchewan + must go clad in immaculate + white. These are some of the + peculiar requirements set forth + in a synopsis of the game law + requirements issued by the « department of agriculture. + + Si i ei i ie ee i a i Ee a a BETTER CHILDHOOD OBJECT improvement of Homes Humane As- sociation Topic. Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 14.—Conser- <wation of the nation’s childhood and the prevention of home conditions which produce delinquent children, ‘will occupy a prominent place in dis- ‘cussions of the thirty-seventh annual meeting of the American Humane as. gociation, in session here. oh be be be oh be ob oe oe ob he oe ss * 24 + ~~ a ms + * + + + ea + “+ ici + + Killed for Resisting Arrest. Springfield, Ill, Oct. 14—Francis ‘McCleelan, a Beloit (Wis.) horseman who has been working at the Illinois state fair in this city, was shot and almost instantly killed at the fair grounds here by Tot Cannon of the East St. Louis police force when he resisted arrest. Much feeling has “been shown over the shooting. Churchill | “THE FLOCKMASTER. The time has come when ev- ery farmer who is in the sheep business should preserve a part of his corn crop in the silo. It means much in the efficient pro- duction of mutton. Sheep cannot eat silage in as great proportionate quantity as do cattle, though no one seems to know why. However, they do well on it, and it saves a great deal of hay and other feed. Sheep will do better am rough land than will any other kind of stock save goats. Success in the sheep business depends as much or more upon the care taken as upon the sheep. Oilmeal is greatly relished by lambs and helps greatly in ob- taining a fine finish for the mar- ket. Be sure the flock has plenty of fresh water. If the sheep drink from springs keep the ap- proaches dry. Corn silage is a safe feed for lambs when it is free from mold and does not contain an exces- sive amount of acid. | MILK COWS REGULARLY. Carelessness In This Matter Tends to Lessen Milk Flow. No greater mistake can be made with good dairy cows than to milk at irregu- | lar hours. No good cow will keep up Ber milk flow under such treatment, whites H. F. Button in the Orange Judd farmer. Two milkings a day, twelve hours apart, is the only rule which the cows will abide by. On my own farm we milk at 5 a. m. and 5 p. m., which are as convenient hours as any. If anything happens to delay the milking even an hour it is noticeable that the cows resent it by giving less milk for a day or two. The reason for this is not far to seek. The solids of the milk are secreted at a very uniform rate be- | tween milkings, but the liquid part is | mostly formed just before and during milking. | Ifa cow giving six quarts of milk at | | | | fore milking there would not be more | This addition of the liquid to the solids that have accumulated since the last control of her nervous system. I do part of the cow, though I have seen men club a cow to make her let down the milk. We all know how emotion. such as anxiety or fright, makes our mouths dry. It is just in this way that any sort of disturbance shuts off a cow’s milk. I have several times found men who | than two quarts of milk in her udder. | SHE USES AN ALIAS: | milking constitutes a large part of “‘let- | | ting down the milk” and is under the | PUT THE POOREST CORN IN THE SILO One of the greatest advantages of the silo is its ability to make a very profit- | able feed out of a crop that would not amount to much if fed in the usual | ways, says the lowa Homestead. For this reason farmers are falling into the habit of putting their poorest crop in the silo. Where a farmer has corn that yields from thirty-five to fifty bushels to the acre and another field that for some reason yields but fifteen to twen- | ty-five bushels, he has found, if he has had a silo on his farm for any length of time, that it is more profit- able to put the poorest corn in the silo | and husk out the rest for the crib. a milking was killed half an hour be- | not mean that it is voluntary on the | | failed to milk their cows clean thus — drying them up after six or seven months. The best security against this | is found in keeping daily milk records. | A spring balance with a dial face and ; a ruled sheet of cardboard will pay many hundred per cent in the larger flow of milk. I know that many a man who is dishonest enough to leave milk in a cow’s udder is not bold enough to put record of his dishonesty down for | | than in a crop of heavy yield than the | difference in bushels to the acre would his employer to read. | HOG CHOLERA CHECKED. | Methods by Which a ' Stamped Out Disease. | George Glover of the Utah experi- | ment station writes that in one com- munity with which he is familiar and in which hog cholera was rampant the fol- disense “was; etamped out by ‘the ‘fd | put their poorest corn in the silo. lowing method: | A competent veterinarian was made ;a deputy sheriff with instruction to clean up cholera. He did it by first ordering the carcasses of cholera hogs | destroyed by fire. Healthy hogs were isolated from sick ones, serum was | ased with discretion, pens were or- dered cleaned once a week and the | litter destroyed by fire, lime was scat- | tered in the yards and the pens white- | washed, the hogs were placed in quar- antine, and notices to that effect were posted conspicuously, the moving of hogs on the public roads was pro- | hibited, and all imported hogs were held fifteen days before exposing them to other hogs. This procedure in a general way, if enforced vigorously, will control hog | cholera, and there is no other way. | The sanitary authorities must enforce | the same general rules in quarantine ‘and disinfection that they do with ; Smallpox and scarlet fever in the hu- | Man, and there is no reason why the disease cannot be equally well con- trolled. } \ | Taking Calf From Its Mother. e exact time will depend upon the _ condition of the calf and its mother at | time of calving. If the calf is strong , and in good conidtion it may be taken ;away immediately, without allowing \it to nurse. If the calf is weak at | birth or if the cow’s udder is inflamed or caked it is probably a better prac- tice to allow it to remain with its mother for several days. In case the calf is immediately taken away from its mother it should receive the | mother’s first milk by all means, as it |acts as a laxative and tonic and is very effective in cleaning out the digestive tract and stimulating the digestive organs.—American Agricul- turist. Horses Mean Cash, The man who has mares and young foals in the Sgmmer has a right to be proud. Ho bring, about the high- est price of* anfmal raised on the farm. Com ity | cule | a yield of forty bushels. This does not mean that silage made from the poorer corn is just as good as the silage would have been from the better corn, but it does mean that the -better corn does not make silage enough better to pay for using the best yielding corn of the farm for filling the silo. Even though the grain yield of a corn crop runs only from fifteen to twenty-five bushels to the acre, or even as low as ten to twelve bushels. Photo by Tennessee experiment station. Maggie Doon I1., a Jersey cow owned by the Tennessee experiment station, bids fair to make a record that will rank among the best for the breed. Last year as a heifer she produced 6,672.8 pounds of milk containing 417.6 pounds of butter. When she freshened this year’ she was put on test. During the first sixty-nine days of this test Mag- gie Doon II. produced nearly 2,500 pounds of milk containing 160 pounds of butter. Her best day’s milk production was 425 pounds of milk testing 6.38 per cent butter fat, equivalent to 3.2 pounds of % per cent butter. During one month she produced 1,028.6 pounds of milk containing 76.8 pounds of butter, an average of practically two and one-half pounds of butter per day. there is still a great feeding value in the entire crop, putting fodder and grain together, if it is harvested at the time when the feeding value of both fodder and grain is the greatest. Always, before the days of the silo, the problem was to keep the feeding value in the crop—in other words, to preserve it. When the fall and. winter season is dry we have found that our shocked corn made much better feed. This was because it was preserved better, the weather not damaging the fodder as much as is usually the case. Now, with the silo one is able to pre- serve all the feeding value that is in the crop at the time of harvesting, so with even a light grain yield there is still much value in the corn crop, prob- ably more in a corn crop of light yield seem to indicate, a yield of twenty bushels to the acre, for instance, be ing worth more than half as much as This is be cause the feeding value of the fodder is very nearly the same in either=case. For this reason, and more parti¢ularly for stock not on full feed, silo own- ers are finding it the best practice to Feed Rack For Hogs. A very handy feed rack for hogs is easily made. Build a trough a foot wide and four inches deep for the bot- tom of the rack. This trough will catch the leaves of the hay. Nail four aprights, three feet long, one to each eorner of the trough. Fasten the back uprights to the fence so as to keep the rack in place and make it handier to fill. Nail a board between the tops of the front uprights and to this board fasten the strips, which should be from six to seven inches apart, and run from it to the center of the trough. Alfalfa hay should always be kept in this rack during the winter. In the summer fresh alfalfa can be used if the hogs are not on pasture. It is sur- prising to find how much hay a hog will eat, and hay is cheaper than corn. —Kansas Industrialist. Sheep Shearings. Keep the flies away from the sheep. Watch the eyes of your sheep. If the eyes look sore shear off the wool from around the eyes and bathe with twenty grains of boric acid to a couple of ounces of water. Sheep need salt. Have a box of it always within their reach. See that the feeding troughs are kept perfectly clean. Never scare a flock of sheep. If you must go near them do it as quietly as possible. 4 Look out for the lame sheep. It is a forerunner of foot rot. Weight of Fleeces. The fleeces of sheep sheared at the University of Illinois this year have been of very good weight. The aver- age of the Rambouillets was 15.8 pounds; the Shropshires averaged 8.7. the Hampshires 8.5 and the South- downs 7.07 pounds. Cheviots averaged the lightest, with fleeces of 5.9 pounds. All of the university sheep have been turned on to forage crops for the sum- mer and are fed rape, cowpeas and soy beans. : Auction Sale J ‘rest of the United States as a OF HORSES sale will offer. FRIDAY, 0 the logging companies. MARK & DIGGY The well-known reliable Horse Dealers will offer at Auction Sale 50 Draft Horses Weighing from 1300 Pounds up, at theGreat Northern Stock Yards, opposite Root’s Barn in Grand Rapids T.17, 1918 Beginning at 10 o’clock A. M. The farmers of this section need draft horses, so do No better opportunity will be offered for securing suitable draft animals than this They heve been selected with care. E.Z.Mark,Auctioneer POTATO,CROP SOME SHY IN MINNESOTA But, Minnesota Leads All the Rest | in Condition of Crops,for, the Present Season. The crop report published Oct. 4, giving the estimates of.the various crops in Minnesota and comparing the yield in this state with the whole hias been reeived. The condition of corn on October first was 99 while for the past ten years the average condition has been 83. The present year the con- dition. of corn in the whole United States is reported _ at 65 while the last ‘en year average has been 80.6. Taking potatues for the year 4: the condition ir) Minn. is 83 while the condition for the whole country, is 67.7. The condition reported for Minnesata potatoes for the last ten years being 78 and for the whole country for a ten ~ year average 76.4. The spring wheat production in Minnesata has remained about the same for a number of years. This year the estimated production is 67,959,000. In the past ten years the annual production has been 67,038,000. The corn yield this year is 90,- 000,000 bushels and for the past ter year average it has been 78,177,000. The yield of potatoes for the present season is 24,700,004 bushels amd for the ten year average 30,075-000. ' The potato crop is of more im- portance to this part of Minnesota than any other crop reported in the statistics of the department. The crops reported consist ofcorn, potatoes, flaxseed, cloverseed. ap- ples, cabbages and onions. Of this entire list potatoes is perhaps the only crop which is sold by north- ern Minnesota. The price of po- tatoes this year is 49 cents while for the past ten years the average price has been, 31 cents per bushel There is not a single product mentioned but what the condition. NORTH COUNTY TO ; This ISSUE ROAD BONDS Koochening county by a vote on Saturday favored the issue of $300, 000. in bonds for road buildirs, in, that county by a large majority. will interest Itasca county for the money is to be expended on four highways, some of whioh | come to the Itasca county line. According to the plans given by the commissioners of the county to the north the four roads will run as follows from International Falls: i Se One road to run from _ Imnter- nation! Falls a distance of eighty- three miles in a southwesterly di- rection to Northome, where it will join the proposed state road to Bemidji and the Twin Cities. An- other road is twenty-two miles long and to run from this city to ‘the St. Louis county line east of Ely, where it will join the state pe ke fee TT Corrects Indigesti Cream Nature's Bréakt akfast Food in Minnesota is ahead of the re- mainder of the United States this year.. road to Duluth. Another road is laid out from here west for fifty- three miles, down Rainy river to the county line, where it joins the proposed state road to Baudette, Warroad and Thief River Falls and also with the Canadian highway to Winnipeg. The fourth road will run east from Northome to the Deer River road in Itasca county, .a distance of about forty mil New Houses at Keew7 ‘Twenty-four new residence houses have just.been completed at Keewatin by the Meriden Iron company. This company has had stripping operations under way for some time and this provision for new workmen families shows that their operations are to continue on SHOOT UP STRIKERS’ PARADE Auto Load of Imported Gunmen at Calumet, Mich, Calumet, Mich., Oct. 14—Officials of the Western Federation of Miners, in charge of the strike of 16,000. cop- per miners here, made formal demand upon the civil authorities for the ar- rest of an automobile load of import- ed gunmen, who without appar- ent cause, shot up a parade of strikers near the Centennial mine location. Militia officers ‘witnessed the shoot- ing and took the names of the gun- men, but refused to make arrests. Wives and children of the striking miners were exposed to the fire of the gunmen, but none was injured. More than 20,000 paraders partici- pated in a demionstration on the oc- casion of the funeral of Joseph Man- erich. Manerich was shot to death last week in a fight in which Deputy Sheriff Pollack was also killed. REAL CAUSE FOR DIVORCE Baked Beans Three Times a Day for Six Months. Plymouth, Mass., Oct. 14.—Even a Massachusetts woman may rebel. if baked beans are too persistently forced upon her. Mrs. Caroline Langdon was granted a divorce here, and one of her chief -complaints against her husband was that he had compelled her to eat beans and little else at practically ev for five or six months. s : When she protested that this un- varied diet had caused valvular leak- age of the heart her husband replied: “Beans are good enough for me, you.” rein eckrege