Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 19, 1917, Page 8

I don't kmow ve t but T be- gunners got two of the me were with me they were only distance away, and I never saw t se from the ground when the irdment was over. As we lay hoping _the Boche machine gt as not a very ot, we distracted ourselves by crumps” (large high ev- ht around us. ] during the ht. re that they > the arance uch shorter the although their umeter does not appear altered. It was fascins h them shoot- ing in at ) see the dirt and of air as the terrific explo: Rudely Dispelled. Suddenly, about 10 o'clock. we were aware of the fact t the bombard- ment had o 3 rst we did not know w Our own artillery & re. It was still a_tomb ath. There was not even the « { a rifle to break the silence. It was also strange, after the terrific row that had been going on all morning, that we did not know | whether w or dead. I a minute that ad that that I had gone was the r 2 there was no noise. I probabl red myself regarding my future ion, but that was the feeling I had My con. subject were rudely dispelled by the most peculiar se I had ever experienced. The Eround had started to sway from side to side like a ship on a rough sea. erky motion, but a gentle, nd thé ground we hat seemed to me Up till this 1t was not slow movement were Iving on ro about ten o moment there lookeg and excl My God, Bar- there was leafening roar 1 had ever under the place where these badly wounded men uge mine wen We could clear- see the stumps of trees. bits of trench and parts of what had once | been soldiers soaring upward to a tre- mendous height. The air was filled with such a mass of earth that for a few moments it was almost as dark as night. Gradually the zround we were lving on settled down and a deluge of stomes timber and earth fell around us. Ilooked up and saw a large piece of timber coming down which seemed to have picked me out as a good soft spoth on which to land It was no use trying to dodge it. I had not time, but even if I had, one &pot seemed about as £00d another. With a terrific thud it struck me on my steel helmet, which saved my life. Barclay Was Untouched. I don’t know how long 1 was uncon- scious, but when I opened my eyes Barclay was there beside me untouch- ed by some miracle. I could not move hand or foot and was fully convine- ed that my neck was broken. I told Barelay 1 was done in and that he had undoubtedly no noise. 1| [CAPTURED ™ | could, as the Germans would probably attac! undoubtedly take up a position on.the ridge with any support that might be | coming up. ay, however, stayed | with me a few minutes and I soon | found that with his assistance I.could a stagger aloms. My steel been driven down on my head so far that it had torn my. scalp in several places and 1 could hardly see for the blood streaming down my face. Barclay examined my head and found that the wounds were not .seri- and we continued at a little better pace. We were walking over the ruins’| of the old trenches and not a living man was to be seen anywhere. We came 1o a sort of lean-to dugout which had received o direct hit.-and in the wreckage 1 found Mr. Wells with his feet pinned down by revetting ma- terial. With himwere one or two dead and very scriously wounded men. Mr. Wells himself was very much dgzed: He had had his edr dryms so badly damaged that he could hardly hear me when I spoke to him. I had enough strength left to release his legs: and we decided to cross the little stretch of marshy ground which lay_between servation Ridge. 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Wells, got it through the side and at first I asd not know where I was wounded. I felt as if some .one- had -struck fe across fthe back of the neck with a crowbar. T rolled over arnd-found that my Jeft hand was flopPing.uselessly at my side. L knew that my arm was broken. We had both been pretty weak before we were hit, .but this was ‘the last straw. We just had enough strength to crawl into a shell hole on the edge 6t Which we, were lying. > ur artiliery opened fire. and sharpnel started to burst ali atound us. There was the occasional crack of-a rifle from Observatory. Ridge, - but our hearts sank when ws noticed how intermit- tent the fire' was. e knew. that. no body of support hail hech able to get up alive through the German barrage fire.- “Wé_hoped that every crack of a rifle meant a Hun down and we curs- ©d our luck that we had not time to'go back to our dugout for our:revolvers. We might have accounted fof one or two, but if ‘e, had _this story wouid probably’ never’ have ‘been written, {71 oot i farms ‘have tow’- present As we lay there in:the ‘shell - holé several groups of Huns -passed, quite close to us. - They ’were advancing. slowly over the swampy uneven ground which had been torn up by shell fire and were: fortunately.-paying more af- THE POSSIBIITY, z : . YARD POULTRY KEEPING. The | poultry industry is-today in 4 very. ; serious _position: ‘The ch’ began. when the' siain feached. its: present level Js.ex-| hansting our . -New .Enghand, . flocks: mere thah omne-bhalf the nofmal e -of .powltry remafn. Suburban are ‘almost -entirely v specialtzed . poultry Sold ‘out <o’ are - selfing. The« fafor fiocke ‘are holding ‘out: best due mb it to the fact thati home rown grain forms an important part of the “ration. o . Continued hpavy. selling of stock:has Kept the price of market poultry down but . the -supply cannot ‘long * continye: 1ggs have: not ‘increased -in: compari- son with other food stuffs. but a higlier - level “will, obtain_as soon as 3 storage. supply is exe hausted. . Patriotism, §s demanding more and’-more- that poultry’ products be ytilized to.spare: fhe’red meats and other -foods" fit. for- export. it out. Many -of the /flocks‘which have beén-| s0ld-. could” have been ' kept to. the ventual finanecidl’ advintage ‘of: the ‘owner. < % profit under 'present -conditions, if proper care and management are ziven. I you are:riot: keeping poultry in. your. hacl yard, obtain a few birds. and join fhe army’of food producers: —R: E. Jopes, Pxténsion: Pouliryman:, CARING FOR. WINTER CALVES. At ‘first_we feed. tham “entirely with] I,uv)eemlnt'ed smilk, but.as. they . gTow | 1der , we duail: '(hg flhh: (Iri:k‘lncl seg?x‘med' ™! . -YWe -eep the calves in roomsy, well= lighted box: .ui‘l’: in the_ barn, where { e besin givin, clover hayv ‘is kept before th ¢ all times: . ‘Wlien < the “ littlé - feliows ~are two weels-old they are nibbling at:th hay a_littie and-soan have .quite .an a little wppétite for it. 5 s . When_they (aré about four. weelis old| g’ the “Titt 3 tin The tiio wpeis oiie réa, tromi this kind of feeding'ls - comes, By pext {all they will be- rger than thosé calves. that w rn_at: the same - tir ‘but” wete’ lowed .to ruri. withi their mothers. We || consider ;tiis: nlan ‘Guistay figg;am, Commarider P decréase it until{; ell- i 7 of G, A Post, Pinckneyville, -1l ®Write: i Fighiy roe mmfi» Toier é?m;; J. HARVEY DOU " 'NORWICH ‘BULLETIN; WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1917. +LAS ‘ate of the Expe fonces of 2 Wourded X . .. ,Commmt I F. S 9. acrods:No-Man's .Land. tention to.where they stepped.than to us.> Every man had his rifie ~ slung across his back. They knew.that there would be no one.left to offer any. re- sistance. They wore a look of pride and confldence which almost approach- od _joy. Weé cyrsed, thiem under our breath ‘and thought of what we might have done to' them if the bombardment had not wiped out our men so. cOm- pletely. They were wearing their full equipment; ‘and. in. addition each man carried a long-handled - -spade _slung across his back. Now_and then we would see an “unter-afficer” examin- Ing a map as We advanced, evidently figuring on_a_new line of trenches. Smoke Signais We feigned death’ whenever a Hun passed close to us, but we watched them -through our half-closed eyes be- caise we wanted to follow their ac tions. and hoped ‘later,on to ‘be abie to regain our own lines. We knew :that they’ had not.gone far past us because from a few vards afay-smoke signals were being' shot into -the air.- These were tifal to watéh. ~They were firéd ‘a:large pistol which we use for:sénding, up flar smoke: rose - about :a- hundred feet “in the air and then burst into-two smaller ball which flew off at a tangent. This ‘was evidently.the.signal that their ob- jective had been reached. ‘The stream of advancing Huns stop- ped and at’last ‘we were able to pay ‘more attention® to’ourselves. I man- aged with one hend to-get Welle’ tunic undone -and - to. pull” his bloody “shirt aside to examime his wound. ' He could not tell exactly.where.he was. hit, but ‘profitable . than _selling’ them. when Young to: butchers and by so doing de- vrive “our farm of:good cattle.——Tarm Tiif SAVE ‘SPRAY MATERIAL.: “ AL fruit srowers shy Lo save all spray mate: ajassot ke this yeat. Jead. paste will Tetain its value if it is it under - “cover- where it will:not reeze, and, plenty of water kept in it 5o that’ it néver dries .out. When arseriate of lead paste Fas once dried i 1 , It is wery. aiffienit to get it %ood paste. form and: get it ‘so_that it will” stay -in suspen .8pod_shape. . Arsenate of lead should “be kepk dry. . Co 4 Vigre’ sulphar sointion is like 52 some of its strength w is cévered ‘so thut the air can- nét ‘get to 1. Adl full barrels should be capt - tizhtly corked,. while all ‘purt- fullibarrels .should have a_fim of oil placed. on -the..surface - of the -lime sulplinr and . then the barrel tightly Sorked. . Spray spuinps should be care- fully . washed- out: and.placed, under * The ‘working -parts might he ith o slight filpy of oil in cent_their rusting or oth- Batrets are like- d:make plans Is which. they Arsenate - o A small flock[of" poultry in the back | {vard’.can be ‘made both a. pleasure and. In manny communitizs’we find that farmers. huve difficultiés in’ marketing von {he most staple progucts. This vear ‘fhe ordinary troubles alons this Hne: sGeni -accentuated, -sspecially. as rds - Iive. stocl jogs vary ‘three 2| or' four Ooliars “per -hundred. ‘weight. ang. tiis: gives. a_great. chance for dis- agredment between the farmer, and the Jeeal’ ‘stéais buyer. Jf the top in the riearest market 1§ $17:50,the man Wwho has ' fairly hoi feels as, if he ht to get withinca reusonable mar- of this quotstion -ahile. the buy- lfl h‘.‘t ‘-lf Ll:lrl'le class- are going. for’ > fece ‘are very few “market top- en, . 100, . witen the' run is everal ‘days.for the.lo- h:‘sersm llate ‘enough. for a7 carloadl: 3 19 the .nigs. on, hand losing Yreight. and eafing expen- the siye rutions Specialists 'of the United Stat; mflu;‘h‘ o Markets say that'the ‘over the coy % ‘tnie prac. SR s - 5> amount ‘oberstive at.regular Thar hows. s may. be “immediately aft- bettsr and:. -more {8 res. One solid ball of | the ‘Enemy thought it was through the this. was not the as_well as possible and shifting we managed to more or less comfortable the bottom of the shell hole. Sprig for a Splint I was in a filthy state. My sleeve and the left side of my tunic by und that ceve, ma tha examined my wound. T fa helped me pull up my examined my wound hole w about in; in diameto i siruck one or hoth ba tened itself out, and on emer torm aut pieces of bor dons and the blood ¢ 1 had not felt so would have examined wiih interior workings of a ms My first thought was of th first aid by Captain Sianley the Thiriv-Fifth Batts that the correct thing to do on a splint. Captain Mills us_zreat scope the s splints, but, unfortunateiy, the ariicles recommended were o had in_ this one only thing T could find stomach. I was glad to be able to tell him that 1 fixed him up u little t him into a position in left and breeches were soaked with blood. Wells and 1| This bme out w lectures in nt: Mills of imight have b none of | little shell hole. The was a tiny, mossy sprig hardly strong emough to support a camary. I took out my field | aressing, and with on> hand and my | tecth did the best 1 could to stop the fow of blocd and bind the litile twig to my arm. large silk }:andkerchief which I knot- ted into a sling and then sought a comfortable position in which to lawait developments. Enemy a Few Yards Away. § ‘Wells produced from pocket some. gestin. waters of ‘5 saothin druz which we both took. I pr C2 my flask of whiskey from w h we each took a pu We felt betier and stealthily it cigarette, arefully blowing the smoke down o the Eround. We expected & bomp. iony fiinite; but s this 4 ot come wo ontinued smoxing til we had fis ished the few cigarettes Y had. We {must_ have lept for some t: tihe first thing I remember | was the fact that it was e momont e Wit fer. 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