Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 28, 1916, Page 10

BUILDING AND BUSINESS. Permits lssued Indicate Much Activity About State. Caused probably by being a holiday week, sales of real estate show a de- cided decrease when compared with In the cities of the recent weeks. state reported in The Commercial Rec- ord sales by warranty deed last week numbered 369, as compared with 245 in the same week a year ago. Mort- gage loans for the week totaled $1,517,- there were 13 new ‘companies formed, which had total capitalization of $1,222, 525. numbered but two, with total assets of $600 and liabilities of $10,073 a rec- ord about equal to that of the corre- sponding week of last year, when there ‘were three petitions filed having as- sets of $2,211 and liabilities of $14,641. Building permits issued in the cities of New Haven, Bridgeport, Hartford, ‘Waterbury and New Britain last wesic numbered 97 for building construction amounting to $319.903, a general fall- ing off being noted in the building trade in all cities, although the record is better than a year ago, when th2re were but 46 permits issued in the same cities for building construction costing $259,915. ' Among the projects which were fiz- ured last week are several four-fan ily houses, fire station and police bullding, brick and steel rolling mill, and three-story garage and stable in Bridgeport; apartment block and sev- eral two and three-family houses .in Hartford; new schoolhouse in Brad- fcrd, a number of frame houses in New Britain, frame residence and a three and a four-family housé in Stamford; several frame houses in New Haven and the usual run of smaller work throughout the state. Plans are being prepared and will soon be ready for estimates for a new schoolhouse in Stratford and contracts will be award- ec shortly for addition and changes to the grammar school in Southport. Contracts awarded during the past week include business block and a number of small houses in Bridgeport; bakery an dapartment buflding in Hartford; regidence work and several two-family houses in New Haven; al- terations to residence in Greenwich to cost $10,000; several fine houses in Waterbury and one and two-family houses in Norwich and New London. Norwich had eight sales of real es- tete during the past week to 16 a year ago. The mortgage loans for the respective weeks were $8900 and $2700. In New London there were five sales of realty last week to 11 a y ‘The loans were $11, the respective weeks. BUILDING OPERATIONS N NEW ENGLAND Statistics of building and engineer- ing operations in New England as compiled by The F. W, Dodge Com- pany, follow: Contracts to Dec. 20, 1916 $204,936,000 Contracts to Dec. 20, 1915..175,465,000 Contracts to Dec. 20, 1914..161,383,000 Contracts to Dec. 20, 1913..170,014,000 Contracts to Dec. 20, 1912..195,393,000 Contracts to Dec. 20, 1911..169,146,000 Contracts to Dec. 20, 1910..153,282,000 Contracts to'Dec. 20, 1909..159,615,000 Contracts to Dec. 20, 1908..109,237,000 Contracts to Dec. 20, 1907..128,637,000 Contracts to Dec. 20, 1906..121,894,000 Contracts to Dec. 20, 1905..105,901,000 Contracts to Dec. 20, 1904.. 95,296,000 Contracts to Dec, 20, 1903..102,769,000 Contracts to Dec. 20, 1902..116,655,000 Contracts to Dec. 20, 1901..118,974,000 PLUMBING AND GAS FITTING CALL UP 734 ————— With or Without Gas Attach. ments but Always EFFICIENT and ECONOMICAL~— MODEL RANGES We furnish Repairs for all makes of Ranges A. d. Wholey & Co. 12 FERRY STREET Robert J. Cochrane GAS FITTING, PLUMBING, STEAM FITTING Washington Sq., Washington Building Norwich, Conn, Agent for N. B. O, Sheet Packing. Phone 581 MODERN PLUMBING is as essential in modern house as electricity is to lighting. We guaran- teo the very best PLUMBING WORK by expert workmen at the fariest prices. Ask us for plans and prices. J. F TOMPKINS 67 West Main Street T. F. BURNS Heating and Plumbing 92 Franklin Street IRON GASTINGS FURNISHED PROMPTLY BY THE VAUGHN FOUNDRYCO No. 11 to 25 Ferry Street COAL AND LUMBER GOAL Free Burning Kinds and Lehigh ALWAYS IN STOCK A. D. LATHROP Office—cor. Market and Shetucket Sts. Telephone 175 18 no advertising medium in | THERE istern_Connecticut :13“-‘ to The Bul- tin fc: Susiness results 329, comparing with $775,271 a year aj ‘fie' companies formed in the state during the week numbered five with total capital stock of $205,000, while during the same week of last year Petitions in ‘bankruptey for the week UILDING ACTIVITY IN EASTERN CONNECTICUT NORWICH BUILDING NOTES Progress on Work in Erecting Bulkhead for Winchester Woolen Mills—Cellars Dug for Washington Street Houses—Doors Hung in ‘Work on the bulkhead at the Win- chester ‘Woolen company has been started by the Connecticut Engineer- ing company. delivered from the woods and one spile driver is at work setting them in place. Another driver is being set up and will be working very soon. Double Doors Hung. ‘The big double doors at the main entrance to the Murphy block have been hung. A stained glass transom has been set over the doors. The windows in the second story have been set and the large front plate glass windows facing West Main street will be set this week- The plastering is nearly complete and things are pro- gressing rapidly, so that the building will be ready for occupancy in a short while. Peck, McWilliams Co, have the contract. Thayer Property Work Progressing. The work on the Thayer property at the corner of Shetucket street and Laurel Hill avenue is nearing comple- tion. The window frames for the plate glass windows in the front have been set and are ready for the glass. The work on the alterations on th einterior is nearly complete. The Connecticut Engineering company is doing the work. . Boarding House at Trading Cove. The work on the boarding house for The timbers are being Murphy Block. P the Joseph Hall company at Trading Cove is being rushed and the roof is being shingled. The work of sealing the interior has been started and lath- ing is in progress. Erecting Waiting Stations. The Shore Line Blectric company are erecting waiting stations along their line between Norwich and Montville. One station has been erected at the Trading Cove stop to accommodate the many passengers that wait there. The other is being erected at Raymond Hill road.- The stations are 10x5 feet, with shingled roofs, and will be equip ped with electric lights. Cellars Dug. The cellars for the two houses which will be erected on the Baltic road have been dug and the stonework has been laid- Owing to the bad weather the progress has been slow on the brickwork. If the weather is warm, the foundation work will he completed this week and the frame- work erected. George W. Allen has the contracts for both houses. DelCarlo’s Houses. The two houses being erected on Washington strcet by Caesar DelCarlo are fast nearing the completion stage. The outside work has been completed and interior work is being done. _—FP—mm MIDDLETOWN. Plans are being figured for the erec- tion of a new schoolhouse in Long Hill for the Long Hill school district, Frank C. Hubbard, chairman of the coemmittee. It will be of frame con- struction, with exterior of stucco, and will be 33x6 feet. with an ell 10x40 feet, two stories high, with a slate roof, steam heat and electric lights. It will contain two class rooms and two piay rooms. A new dye house is to be erected at South Farms for the Russell Mfg. Co. It ‘will be built of brick, with cencrete foundation and will be 34x80 feet, two stories high. It will have a plastic slate roof. The new store and tenement build- ing being erected on Pine street for Louis Shlein is now being finished. It is arranged for one store and two tene- ments. The carpenter work has been started Ifnr the new residence to be erect2d :on Home avenue for Ernest A. Inglis. The two-family house being erected on Walnut street, South Farms, for ‘William Fitzpatrick is now ready o plaster. ROCKVILLE. Work has been started on a brick garage to be erected by A. M. Burke. It will have steel truss roof. Plans were prepared by Architect J. Henry McCray. The Berlin Construction Co. have the contract for the steel woric and the Detroit Steel Products Co. has the steel sash. The owner will buy the material. NEW LONDON. Alterations to Building. Plans are being refigured for. the proposed changes to the house on Huntington street for Mrs. C. C. Han- non, and it is expected that the co tracts will be let soon. A large addi- tion will be built on and when the changes are completed the house will be arranged for five apartments, pro- vided with every convenience. Will Build Several Houses. ‘The contract for the stone work on tiie new houses to be erected on Ocean avenue and Connecticut avenue by A. L. Notkins & Sons of New Haven has been given to John J, Ryan. The car- penter work will be dgne by the day and other contracts will be let soon. The houses will be of frame construc- tion arranged for three families, and will be fitted up with every conven- ience. Addition to Hotel. Estimates are still being made on plans drawn for the proposed addition to the Royal Hotel on Bank street and it is expected that the contracts will be let soon. Frame Houses. Work is well along on the new house on Broad street for Mrs. Joseph Smith. The plans call for a frame house, con- taining six rooms and bath, fitted up with conveniences. Connecticut College Gymnasium. Bids for the construction contract for Connecticut college’s new gymna- sium must be in the hands of the architect by noon today. The con- TEMPERATURE AND GOOD BUTTER. Cream Should Be Kept At 50 De- grees or Lower. Oftentimes we hear a buttermaker say, “I had good luck with my but- ter today,” and often enough. it is nothing but good luck when the but- ter does come properly. However, there are buttermakers that always seem to have “good luck.” When the source of that person’s success is analyzed, it will be found almost without exception that a good dairy thermometer is responsible for a con- siderable part of it. It is absolutely impossible to make a uniform quality of butter without a guide as to temperature and the soon- er the buttermaking public find it out, the better it will be for all concerned. To begin with the quality of the butter does not depend entirely upon the churning process. The quality of the cream that goes into the churn is going to help determine the quality of butter that will come out. One of the important factors in producing good cream is the temperature at which it is held. Cream never should be stored at a temperature higher than fifty degrees. Lower than that is better. If the cream is held at a higher temperature, indesirable bac- terial action will take place and we wil have bad flavors in the butter. Again we know that butter from “ripened” cream will be better flav- ored and that we will lose less fat in the butter milk when such cream is churned. - To properly ripen cream we must sour it at the right temperature which is 70 degrees. The souring process is brought about by the grow- ing of certain desirable bacteria, and these bacteria will only do well at 70 degrees. If our temperature runs much above or below that other types of bacteria will develop and spoil the flavor of the cream. ‘When we come to the churning pro- cess our old friend, the thermometer, is again called into use. If the cream is too warm the butter will come soft; if the cream is put into the churn too cold, it will take a long time for the butter to come, and it will be too hard when it does come. The pro- per temperature for churning will vary from 52 degrees in the summer to 62 degrees in the winter. The pro- per method is to bring the tempera- ture to a certain degree, say for ex- ample, 60 degrees, and churn. If the butter comes soft and hard to handle, lower the temperature of the cream to a few degrees the next time, say to 57 or 53 degrees. After a few trials anyone will be able to churn butter that will come firm and in emall gran- ules and still have come in a reson- able time. The mark on many dairy thermometers that says ‘“churning 62 degrees” is misleading. Under cer- CRAVING ror DRUGS 4w LIQUOR | removed by the Original Keeley Treatment e g chaplct ooy e ‘THE KEELEY INSTITUTE - West Haven, Conn. 5 AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS tain conditions this temperature may be used, but more often a colder tem- perature s called for. Only by check- ing the temperature carefully each time can we be sure of getting butter to come in good condition. Another place to use the thermom- eter to advantage is in noting the temperature of the wash water used for washing the butter. Cold water from the well will often be about right but it can not always be relied upon. The wash water should be about the same temperature as the buttermilk or a few degrees colder. To make the best butter the variation in tempera- ture of wash water should not be more than four or five degrees from the temperature of the buttermilk, us- ually the variation should be below rather than above the buttermilk temperature. Thus we see that temperature en- ters into practically every operation in the making of butter. A person may eliminate other parts of their equipment, but the thermometer should be one of the last things to go. In fact, if butter of a good gaul- ity is desired, it is absolutely essen- tial—Glenn H. Campbell. Connecticut Agricultural College, Dairy Depart- ment. THE FERTILIZER SITUATION. Unusually Complex This Year and Orders Should Be Placed Early. A very unsettled condition prevails in the wholesale market on “chemi- cals” Manufacturers are buying on- ly for their immediate needs. In small lots, such materials as nitrate of soda, sulphate of ammonia, tank- age blood, cyanamid, cottonseed meal, acid phosphate and bone are all high. Acid phosphate seems to be slightly lower than last year but cottonseed is 80 per cent. higher. Nitrogen in ni- trate of soda and sulphate of ammon- ia is about 23 cents per pound and 22 cents in 9-9 tankage. In mixed goods nitrogen is about 23 cents. These values are based on cash quotations, carload lots. No firm will hold quota- tions open on unmixed goods, indi- cating the instability of prices. Those in close touch with conditions seem to feel that plant food can.be pur- chased cheaper in mixed goods than in unmixed. This is probably true ‘when the cost of mixing is considered. The safest procedure would be to get quotations from several sources both mixed and unmixed goods and make the comparisons. If present conditions continue we may be able eventually to supply our needs. Several firms are offering as high as 4 per cent potash goods. Some offered this goods earlier but are sold out now, the Maine growers having contracted for the entire sup- ply. Our results so far on corn indicate that potash pays at normal prices. This, however, is on the Gloucester sandy loam on the station farm, On heavier soils the results might differ. ‘We very seriously question the advis- ability of paying $5 a unit for potash to be used on the common field crops. Where large aplications of potash have been made in previous years, as on tobacco land, it does not seem wise to use much if any potash year. tract will be awarded by the executive committee at a meeting to be held either today or Friday, and thereafter work on the actual construction will be commenced as soon as possible. The construction of the gymnasium has been made possible through the generosity of Mrs. Appleton B, Hillyer of Hartford, who made a gift of $15,- 000 ‘a few months ago for the erec- n of a field house and assembly hall. Previous to the receipt of Mrs. Hil yer's gift the students, who were en- thusiastically working for a gymnasi- um, had collected a fund of $4,742.41. Plans for the proposed field house call for a building about $9x50, of frame construction with local stone foundation and gables in keeping with the domestic Tudor architecture of the main buildings. The main floor, which will be on the second story, will have a stage, rooms for offices and special classes, and an open area for class work in physical education, ‘tasketball and other games. This area can be seated for about 500 per- sons. A first floor will supply space for lockers, dressing rooms and show- ers. The building will be situated on the corner of Reservoir street and the college driveway which leads past Blackstone house and can thus be economically heated from the central heating plant. The field house will also serve as a hall of assembly for the daily assem- bly of the college including Sunday vespers and for general lectures, re- citals, dramatic and social gatherings. Tn the present college building there is no classroom that will accommo- date the present student body. The dining hall is now used with great in- convenience, as an assembly hall. that stress be laid on the use of lime, the price at that time being normal, This year lime has advanced, and notice 'is given of a further increase on March 1st. In spite of this fact, we believe that lime will in the long run, repay the investment, although every means should be used to secure good aquotations. Manure—We have this year an- other opportunity to hammer on this point. Too much stress cannot be laid on the proper care and use of manure. An extension bulletin on this subject is now in press. Transportation—This would seem to be the most serious problem we are facing. The fertilizer manufac- turers are at present working to se- cure preference for fertilizers over some other classes of freight. Some pressure might be brought to bear if farmers’ organizations were to take up the matter with the railroads, The wise man will order early. It is al- ready late—Agronomy Department, Connecticut Agricultural College. HOW TO KEEP CORN FODDER. One Farmer Considers It More Valu- able Than Timothy Hay. I consider.well-cured and well-pre- served corn fodder superior in feeding value to timothy hay, and nearly, if not quite equal to clover hay, writes J. A. Raiser, a_successful Ohio farmer, in Farm and Home. Preserving the feeding value of corn fodder begins with the ripening of the crop. Upon cutting at the right time and upon the stability of the shocks depends the feeding value. Let the corn get pretty ripe, not dry, but a part of the ears white and you will have a sweeter, more palatable and better preserved foder than where you cut it too green, as it will cure out quicker. The manner in which corn shocks are set up has much to do with the feeding ‘value of the fodder. The shocks should stand erect and be well tied or the fodder will rapidly decrease in value. This applies equally as well ts the shocking of fodder after corn has been husked out. The larger you make the fodder shocks the better they will stand and be preserved, less fod- der being exposed to the elements. In shocking, the bundles should be set unright and the tops drawn tightly tegether and tied, which will provide all the slant necessary. Don’t set up fodder promiscuously, here a bundle and there another, but begin a center and keep on_building around it press- ing one bundie tightly against the one set up before, until the entire shock is complete. This method will leave the wind very little chance to catch hold and tear out protruding bundles, as there will be practically a smooth sur- face all around the shock. SHEEP HAY HANDSOME PROFIT. Experience Shows What Can Be Done With Them. Our neighbor, writes D. C. Kenyon in Farm and Home, had 44 ewes and raised 65 lambs that dressed 38 pounds each and he got 20 cents a pound. Had he sold all of them they fwould have brought him $494, hides and tallow $65. The offal—heads,,legs ard blood to boil for poultry—is worth two cents a pound. The wool brought $72.60. He sold only the buck lambs, tife least desirable ewe lambs and some old ewes and his income from them was over $600. The cost was the loss of two old ewes, the use of 100 acres of pasture valued at $120, and that pasture also furnished feed far 12 young cattle. The sheep were charged with $7 They consumed eight tons of mixed clover huy, 40 bushels of oats and corn and 25 bushels of turnips, salt, straw and hemlock limbs kept by them in cold weather, valued at $40. The manure paid for attendance. This gives an in- come of over $600 and an expenseualc; a count of less than one-fourth amount. Another writer in the same issue tells of a friend in Iowa who bought 10 sheep at a sale two years ago. They were just ordinary animals, gave them only the roughage and grains comon to this section—hay, good, clean corn fodder, and a little corn and oats through the winter. They dropped a good lamb crop the and he had good luck (comon sense management) with them. When the note given for the sheep came due, my friend found that the wool and lambs would cancel the note, and he had $1 remaining. sheep ran on blue grass that summer. Thus_ encouraged, sheep through another lambing period, and he next spring, and the flock netted him $150. He still | per 100 pounds for each one-tenth per | went away, leaving some device that ‘has the foundation flock, besides his profits. CULL THE PULLETS. On most farms all the pullets are re- tained, whether they give promise of proving profitable or not. ~The pul- lets should be culled and all that do ot come up to a set standard should ‘be marketed. The farmer who keeps only his best pullets will not only real- ize more from his poultry, but will, if he culls for several years, notice an in- crease in strength and egg-ylelding ability. In a timely article in Farm and Home, T. Z. Richey writes on this subject: The pullets tHat I weed out are: Those that are backward in growth or those that feather poorly, Such pullets are lacking in - consfitutional vigor. Those that crooked - breast or Dpullets | was in the western states. ‘NATIONAL BANKS (Continued from Page One) cent a year during the past two years as compared with six per cent. a year for the ten year period from 1904 to 1914 and that the total resources are at present more than double what they were ten years ago. Growth Beyond All Precedent. “The compilation just completed of returns for the last bank call,” the comptroller’s statement reads, ‘dis- closes a condition of strength,. pro- sress and growth beyond all prece- dent. Resources of national banks on the date of the last call are greater than the total resources of all report- ing state banks, savings banks, pri- vate banks and loan and trust com- panies throughout the United States !at the time of the inauguration of the federal reserve system two years ago.” Greatest Increases in Western States The greatest percentage of increase, the comptroller states, during the two year period in which the federal reserve system has been in operation, Geograph- ically, the increase was as follows: New England 22 jer cent.; eastern states 39 per cent; southern staets 32 per cent; middle western states 31 per cent; western states 50 per cent; Pacific states 33 per cent. New England’s Total. “In_this period,” the statement says, “the New England and eastern states increased a total of $2,005,000,000, hile the south and west includin, he far west, increased $2,022,000,000. CITIES SELECTED FOR FARM LOAN BANKS. _about Springfield Has Been Chosen for D trict No. 1, Comprising New Eng- land, New York and New Jersey. Washington, Dec. 27.—Twelve cities in which are to be located the federal farm loan banks were announced to- day by the farm loan board, and it is expected that within sixty days ‘the new system will be in operation, ready to make the loans for whieh applica- tions already are pouring in from ev- ery section of the country. The cities where the banks will be set up are: Where Banks Are to Be Set Up. District No. Springfield. Mass,, covers Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- mont, Massachusetts, Vhode fisland, Connecticut, New York and New Jer- sey. District No. 2, Pennsylvania, Virgini: Columbia. District No. 3, Columbia, S. C, covers North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. District No. 4, Louisville, Ky, cov- ers Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Ten- nessee. District No. 5, New Orleans, covers Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. District No. 6, St. Louis, covers Illi- noi; issouri and Arkansas. District No. 7, St. Paul, Minn., cov- ers Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North_Dakota. District No. 8, Omaha, Neb., covers Iowa, Nebraska, South' Dakota and Wyoming. District No. 9, Wichita, Kas., covers Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico. District No. 10, Houston, Tex., covers Tevas. District No. 11, Berkeley, Cal, cov- ers California, Nevada, Utah and Ari- zona. District No. 12, Spokane, Wash., cov- ers Washington, Oregon, Montana and Idaho. 2 To Open Subscription Books. Stock subscription books of the banks will be opened within the next ten days, probably about Jan. 2, to remain open for thirty days. It is ex- pected, however, that the government will have to supply most of the $9.000,- 000 capital under that section of the Baltimore, covers Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, District of law which empowers the secretary of |! the treasury to make up the unsub- scribed stock. % Temporary Directors to Be Named. Temporary directors, five to each bank, will be named, probably within the next three weeks, by the board As soon as the banks have been or- ganized and borrowers have subscribed to $200,000 of the stqck of each bank, the temporary directors will surrender their authority to boards of nine di- rectors each, six of whom will be named by the farmer borrowers and ! three by the farm loan board. The permanent directors will serve three years and receive per diem compen- sation, as in the case of federal re- serve bank directors. Borrower Must Subscribe to Stock. Each borrower must subscribe to stock in the bank from which he bor- rcws to the extent of 5 per cent. of his loan and the original subscribers to the capital stock are required to sur- render their holdings as they may be needed to meet this situation. In designating locations for the banks, the board was guided chiefly by the needs of rural sections. This has resulted in placing only two of the twelve banks in New England and middle Atlantic states, the chief cen- ters of population. Three go to the south, five to the farming states of the middle west and west, and two to the Pacific coast. NEW SCALE OF MILK PRICES IN NEW YORK Producers to Get $2.20 Per 100 Pounds During January. New York, Dec. 27.—A new scale of milk prices for producers for the months of January, February and March was agreed upon at a meet- ing tonight of a committee composed of two representatives of the produc- ers, two representatives of New York have deformities, such as | city dealers and State Senator Charles W. Wicks, chairman of the lezislative committee investigating the food sit- uation. The highest price fixed is for Jan- uvary, when $2.20 per 100 poynds will be paid for milk produced in what is known as the first district, and $2.10 per 100 pounds in the second district. The prices for February and March are $215 and $2.10, respectively, for The | the first district, and ten cents less|Small, set the fire and left by the for the second district. The prices are fat with an advance of three cents cent. increase in butter fat. The prices agreed upon are subject to revision by the committee if it con- siders conditions warrant revision. They are five cents per 100 :pounds higher than the prices originally set by the Dairymen’s League. Rus: Reply Telegraphed. London, Dec. 27, 6.41 p. m.—Russia’s reply to the German peace proposals was telegraphed Monday to the French government, says a Reuter despatch from Petrosrad. It adds that the Swiss minister has handed to the ‘Russian foreign minister the note of the Swiss government supporting President Wilson’s note. cause the egg-producin organs’ are often pushed out of shape and re- stricted for room. Those that are dull and listless and i ation’ to ' forage Products Are e ost po ‘More. & STONE 85 STATE STREET, NEW 'LONDON, CONN. _ Oy N All Our 'COMPANY %] YOU DON'T NEED TO LOSE YOU By PROF. P. G. HOLDEN. * Cholera germs are carried just the same as smallpox, diphtheria, scarle' fever, or any other contagious disease germs.’ People, animals and birds, any- thing that walks on the ground and comes from a farm where the hogs hav cholera, may bring cholera to your herd. ‘ Precautions—If cholera is in - your neighborhood, use the same precat tions to keep from getting it on your farm as you would use if there were a1 epidemic of smallpox or scarlet fever. E If your neighbor’s hogs have cholera, qm:‘t go to look at them. Do let your neighbor come on your place. He may carry cholera germs on hi shoes. Keep the hog buyer and all visitors away from the hog lot. If some of your hogs are sick, and you suspect that they have cholera, g busy. « \ Cholera causes fever, generally ‘accompanied either by constipation . the bowels or by diarrhea. The hogs are “off feed,” the odor of the urir is offensive, there is generhlly a discharge from the éyes, and, when the stand, there is a disposition to get their feet together, thus humping the back. But a hog may have cholera several.days before any of these symptoms is pronounced; then, too, these symptoms, or most of them, may accompany, a bad case of worms, or inflammation of the lungs, or some other disease. Don’t Lose Any Time. Determine at once whether or not a sick hog has the cholera. Get a veterinarian, kill the hog, and examine the intestines, kidneys, glands, and Sther organs. % If it is cholera, act quickly. Send at once for the vaccine. Do not take time to write for it. Have your veterinarian or your banker wire to your 3tate Agricultural College. Do not attempt to vaccinate the hogs yoursclf. Keep the vaccine cool, and use it just as soon as possible after it comes. The vaccine loses its effectiveness rapidly if al- lowed to stand where it is warm. Do not ~vaccinate un- til your first hog is taken with cholera, or until chol- era is so close to you that| you are certain your hogs will get it. i The Scrum Treatment. | Ordinarily, you should. vaceinate with serum only.‘! Serum contains no live: cholera germs, but has in/ it certain elements that combat cholera germs. - The serum treatment is; effective four to six weeks. At the end of this time your hogs must be vaccinated again, if there is still 4anger of their being exposed to cholera. Vaccinating with serum only is called the “Serum Treatment” or “Single Treatment.” In practically all cases, this is the only method that should be jused. $ ; Simultaneous or Double Treatment. | In rare cases, it may seem advisable to vaccinate with virus at the same time you vaccinate with serum. 1 Virus is taken from the blood of a hog while he is sick with cholen:} !therefore it is full of live cholera germs. o { | The object of using virus is to give the. hogs cholera. The serum given at the same time fights and checks the cholera germs which the virus con- tains. i When they recover, they are immune feom cholera; that is, they will not ' ‘have cholera again, no méftter how many times. they may be exposed to it. Remember, that when you use virus you are bringing hog cholera germs on your place. Don’t use it under any circurastances, unless cholera is al- ready on your farm. Even this should not be done unless cholera is elsewhere in the vicinity. iBe fair to your neighbors. If you use virus on your farm, you are bringing teholera into your neighborhood. It may get to your neighbor’s hogs. You }lmve no right to make them run this risk. Many of the best authorities think virus should never be used, and some ;states and some countries absolutely prohibit the use of it. Burn All Hogs That Die of Cholera. Burn all hogs that die of cholera and do it at once. i To burn a hog, dig a trench, put the fuel in the bottom of it and placal the hog on poles across the top. 3 After cholera has been in your herd, dip all of the hogs and thoroughi® disinfect the premises. & ; For disinfecting, a whitewash of lime and carbolic acid, or any of th#l commercial disinfectant spraying mixtures, can be used. 2 If cholera is on your farm, post a sign, “Ifog Cholera Here.” This is onlg ‘feir to your neighbors. H | Tse all precautions to keep cholera from your hogs. b if cholera gets in your herd, save your hogs by vaccinating them a% once. Don’t sit down and wait. Vaccinating in the Flank. CARRANZA TRCOFS CLASHED WITH REVOLUTIONISTS About Thirty Miles South of Neuvo Laredo—Result Not Known. Laredo, - T troops clashed day near La JURY VIEWS SPOT WHERE MRS. SMALL’'S BODY WAS FOUND Stood Beside the Accused Husband, Who Was Sobbing. 27.—Carranza ith revolutio; rita, about thirty miles south of ivo Laredo, according to reliable reports. No word officially could be obtained concerning the en- gagements, Military authorities in Neuvo Laredo tonight said they were in direct tele- graphic communication with San Luis Potosi_and that there was no truth in recently published reports that that city had fallen:into Villa’s hands. St Er oy iy $100,000 Libel Suit. Norfolk, :Va., Dee. 27.—Owners of the Pritish steamer Telena filed @ $100,000 libel suit today against thd& Merchants -and Miners liner PowhaZ tan, with which the Telena was im collision in the lower Chesapeake twd weeks ago. The Powhatan still ig fast -on Thimble Shoals, where sho was run aground to prevent sinkingg H Ossipee, N. H. Dec. 27.—The spot where_the body of Mrs. Florence Ar- line Small was found on September 29 in the ruins of her burncd cottage on the shore of Lake Ossipes was pointed out today to the jury selected for the trial of the woman's husband. Frederick L. Small, who is charged with her murder. Besides the jury stood the prisoner sobbing most.of the tinfe, deputy sheriffs, Judge John Ki vel, who is presiding at the court ses- sion, the official stenograpner, counsel and. newspapermen. County Solicitor Walter D. H. Hill indicated where the doors nad been, the position of a revolver relative to the spot where the body lay, the site of Smali’s workshop in the rear of the house and the lecation of neighbor- ing cottages. Sydney F. Stevens for the defense directed the jury’'s attention to a hatchway door over a flight of steps leading from the outside of the house to the cellar and to a cleat on the inner side which served as a fastening for the door. Mr:. Stevens pointed out that under this cleat when it was in Dec. Norwalk.—The Christmas offering af Grace Episcopal church, for the mos€ innocent victims of the European waf a position that would leave the door| —the.children—amounted to $185. Z unfastened, the paint was scarcely | e damaged, while the rest of the door = H had been scorched and partly burned CATARRH CANNOT BE CURED [ Bt Teach 'Thie saE of the discate. Catarn It is understood that the defense | Fe3ch the s: o e diseage. will contend that in Small’s absence a [ 12 a local discase, < Influerced b: | constitutoinal con and in orde tramp entered the house, Killed Mrs. | 5”5t 0 t0] s ol S = el . Hall’s Catarrh Cure is take The state asserts that tibrough 1 hatchway door. he carried the|for milk with three per cent. butter | Small after shooting his wife, beating azes of Hail Catarrh Cure was prose gna of the.best Pth’(‘!hun;ofll 100 £ s composed of som e s sttey iy tonics iknown, combined with-some of the best blood purifiers. The jury was completed today.| The perfect combination of tae ingre- County Solicitor Hill is expected to|d outline the state's case at the opening. ents in Hall's Catarrih Cure is what of court tomorrow. her over the head and stranglinz her, produces suck . wonderful Tesults in atarrhal conditions. Send for testi- monials, free. F. J. CHENFEY & CO., Props., Todelo, O. Asquith’s Daughter Not Engaged. fiEuD. gists, 75c. London, Deec. 27, 10.55 p. m.—For- mer Premier Asquith issued a state-] ment tonight denying that his daugh-4 :::,d‘Elluthh, is engaged to mar- Constipation Causes Bad Skin A dull and pimply skin is due to a sluggish bowel movement. Correct | this “condition and_clear your com- plexion” with Dr. King's New Life Pills. This mild laxative taken at bedtime will assure you a full, free, " non-,fis’m‘ movement ing. “Drive out. Several of the London newspapers Tuesday morning reported the en- gagement of Miss Asquith to Hugh Gibson, first can embassy. —_— New Haven—Thirty-one county rep- amily Plils for constipation.