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‘The girl gave me.a.sneering looks 'was speechless. 1 recruited for thres weeks &nd got one recruit. est ‘This ‘was not the greats stunt in the world, but it got back at the officer who had told me, ‘Yes, we m “bob” or shilling for every it he entices into joining the the recruit is supposed . to get bat ho would' not be a recruit if were wise to this fact, would he? Il-'n at the elflu((he bar was a man fihewnldmuhowdmhmlan hand, two .fingers were missing, but said that did not matter as “we Iflmx over here.” The left is the rifie hand as the piece is at the slope on the left ishoulder. N g in Eng- is ‘by the left” even general c keeps to the port side. { I took the aplicant surgeons | busy n those days and did not have much time for thorough physical ex- aminations. My recruit was passed ws “Ot* by the doctor and turned over to a corporal to make note of his scars. 1 was mystified. Suddenly the searporal burst out with Jlime me " turning “You certainly have your nerve with you. got *alf you aint, 10 bring this heggar The doctor came over and exploded, *What do you mean by bringing in @ anan in this condition?” Looking out of the corner of my eye /I noticed that the officer who had re- _cruited me had joined the group, and S could not help answering, “Well, Isir, 1 was told that you took anything over here” 1 think mevh m!ledn ltd"Yl-nkee im- jpudence,” anyhow it ended my re- \eruiting. CHAPTER T Blighty to Rest Billets The next morning, the captain sent for me and informed me: “Empey, as 2 recruiting sergeant you are a wash- jout,” and sent me to a training de- After arriving at this place, I ‘Was haustled to the quartermaste: and received an awful commenced throwing a miscellaneous Jassortment of straps ,buckles, and oth- er paraphermalia into it. I thought the would never stop, but when the lle reached to my knees he paused enough to sey, ‘Next No. 5217, 2 in be- ipmaent ot the pile of jame in front of mp and then my eyes wandered mround looking for the wagon which was to carry it to the barracks. I was rodely brought to earth by the ~guarter” exclaiming, 'Ere, you 'op it tyke it aw'y; blind my eyes, e's Jooking for is batman to 'elp 'im carry s Fea Struggling under the load, with frequent pauses for rest, I reached our barracks (large car barms), and my platoon leader came to the res- cue. It was a marvel to me how quickly he assembled the equipment. After he had completed the task, he showed me how to adjust it on my m. Pretty soon I stood before him a proper Tommy Atkins in heavy marching prder, feeling Iike an over- Joaded camel. On my were heavy-soled boots studded with hobnails, the toes and heels of which were reinforced by steel half-moons. My legs were en- cased in woolen puttees, olive drab in color, with my trousers overlapping them at the top. Then 4 woolen khaki tunie, under which was a bluish gray ‘woolen shirt, minus a collar, beneath this shirt a woolen belly-band about ®ix inches wide, held in place by tie strings of white tape. On my head was a heavy woolen trench cap, with buge ear laps buttoned over the top. Then the equipment: A canvas beit, with ammunition pockets, and two wide canvas straps like suspenders, called “D” straps, fastened to the belt in front, passing over cach shoulder, crossing in the middle of my back, and attached by buckles to the rear of the belt. On the right side of the beit hung a water bottle, covered with felt; on the left side was my bayonet and scabbard, and entrenching tool handle, this handle strapped to the onet scabbard. In the rear was my entrenching tool, carried in a canvas case. This tool was a com- bination pick and spade. A canvas haversack was strapped to the left mide of the belt, while on my back was the pack, also of canvas, held in place by two canvas straps over the GAS, HEARTBURN, INDIGESTION OR A SICK STOMACH *PAPE’S DIAPEPSI N" RELIEVES STOMACH DISTRESS IN FIVE MINUTES Time it! Pape's Diapepsin will fweeten a sour, gassy or out-of- prder stomach within five minutes. i your meals don't fit comfortably, br whbat you eat lies like a lump of Jead in your stomach, or if you have heartburn, that is usually a sign of mcidity of the stomach. Get from your pharmacist a fifty- kent case of Pape’s Diapepsin and take » dose just as soon as you can. There will be no sour risings, no belching of undigested food mixed with acid, no stomach gas or heartburn, fullness or heavy feeling in the stomach, nausea, debilitatng headaches or dizziness. This will all go, and besides, there will be no sour food left over in the stom- uch to poison your breath with nau- seous odore. Pape’s Diapepsin helps to neutralize the excessive acid in the stomach which is causing the food fermenta- tion and preventing proper digestion. Relief in five minutes is waiting for you at any drug store. These large fifty-cen t cases contain * (CONTINUED FROM. TUBSDAY) | shoulers; suspended on the bottom of GUNNER IN Copyright by ARTHUR GUY 'm the pack was my mess tin or can- teen in a neat little canvass case. My waterproof sheet, looking like a jelly roll, was strapped on top of the pnck with a wooden stock for cleaning th: breach of the rifle projecting tm.ll each end. On a lanyard around my wais. hung a huge jack-knife with a can-openr attachment. The. . pack contained my overcoat, an extra pair of socks, change of underwear, hold- all, 1ther brush, shaving soap and a razor made of tin, with “Made in Eng- land” s‘amped on the blade; when try- ing to shave with this it made you wish that you were at war with Pata- gonia, so that you could have a “hol- low ground” stamped ‘“Made in Ger- many”; then your housewife, bt ton-cleaning outfit, constmnz of a then a shoe brush and a box of dub- bin, a writing pad, indelible pencil, en- velopes, and pay book, and personal belongings, such as a small mirror, a decent razor and a sheaf of unanswer- ed letters, and fags. In your haver- sack you carry your iron rations, meaning a tin of bully boef. four bis- cuits, and a can containing tea, sugar, and Oxo cubes; a couple of pipes, and a package of shag, a tin of rifle oil a_nd a pull-through. Tommy generally carries the oil with his rations; gives the chees a sort of sardine taste. Daniel Boone period, and you have an idea of a British soldier in Blighty. Before leaving for France, this is taken from him and he is issue with a Lee-Enfield short-trench rifie and a ration bag. In France he receives two gas hel- mets, a sheepskin coat, rubber mack- intosh. steel helmet ,two blankets, tear-shell goggles, a balaclava helmet, gloves, and_a tin of anti-frostbite grease which is excellent for greasing the boots. Add to this the weight of his ratiofls, and can you blame Tommy for growling at a twenty Kkilo route march? Having served as sergeant-major in the United States cavairy, I tried to tell the English drill sergeants their business, but it did not work. They immediately put me as batman in their mess. Many a greasy dish of stew was accidentally spilled over them. I would sooner fight than be a wait- er, so when the order came through from headquarters calling for a draft of reinforcements for France, I volunt Then we went befors the M. O. (medical officer) for another physical examination. This was very brief. He asked our names and numbers and said “Fit,” and we went out to fight. We were put into troop trains and sent to Southampton, where we de- trained, and had our trench rifies sued to us. Then in columns of twos went up the gangplank of a little steamer lying alongside the dock. At the head of the gangplank there was an old sergeant who directed that we line ourselves along both rails of the hip. Then he ordered us to take life belts from the racks overhead ‘and put them on. I have crossed the ocean several times and knew 1 was not seasick, but when I buckled on that life belt, I had a sensation of sickness. After we got out into the stream all I could think of was that there were torpedo on each, across the warhead h was inscribed my name and ve hours we came alongside pier and disembarked. I had at- tained another' one of my ambitions. I was “somewhere in France” We lept in the open that night on the ide of a road. About six the next morning we were ordered (o entrai: I looked around for the passenge: coaches, but all T could see on the sidv ing were cattle cars. We climbed into these. - On the' side of each car was a sign reading “Hommes 40, Chevaux 8.” When we got inside the car, we thought that perbaps the sign painter had.reversed the order of things. After forty-eight hours in these we went through an intensive training of ten days. This training consisted of the rud- iments of trench warfare. Trenches had Dbeen dug, with barbed-wire en- tanglements, bombing saps, dugouts, observation posts ,and machine-gun emplacements. We were given a smattering of trench cooking, bomb- throwing, reconnoitering, listening posts, constructing and repairing barbed wire, “carying in”. parties, methods use in attack and _defence, wiring parties, mass formation and the procedure for poison-gas attacks. On the tenth day we again met our friends “Hommes 40, Chevaux 8.” Thirty-six hours mdre of misery, and we arrived at the town of F- - After unloading our rations and equipment, we lined up on the road in columns of fours waiting for the order to match. A dull rumbling could be heard. The sun was shining. 1 turned to the man on my left and asked, “What is the noise, Bill?” He did not know, but his face was of a pea-green color. Jim on my right also did not know, but suggested that 1 “awsk” the sergeant. Coming towards grizzled sergeant, properly fed with the war, so I “awsked” him. Y “Think it's going to rain, sérgeant?” He looked at me in contempt, and grunted, “'Ow's it a'goin’ tor rain with the bloomin’ sun a ’shinin’? I looked guilty. “Them's the guns up the line, me lad, and you'll get enough of ’em be- fore you gets back to Blighty.” My knees seemed to wilt, and I squeaked out a weak “Oh!” Then we started our march up to the line in ten kilo treks, After the first day's march we arrived at our rest billets. In France they call them rest billets, because while in thm. on the eighth day of the week he is given twenty-four hours ‘on his own.” Our billett was a spacious affaif] a large barn on the left side of the road, which had one hundred en- trances, ninety-nine for shells, rats, wind and rain, and the hundredth one for Tommy. I was tired out, and us- ing my shrapnel-proof helmet (shrap- nel proof until a piece of shrapmel hits it), or tin hat for a pillow, lay down in the straw, and was soon fast asleep. I must have slept about two hours, -vhen I awoke with a prickling sensation all over me. As I thought, the straw had worked through my uniform. 1 woke up the fellow lying on my left, who had been up the line before, and asked him: “Does_the straw bother you, mate? It's worked through my uniform and I can't sleep.” Tn a sleepy voice, he answered, “That ain’t straw, them’s cooties.” From that time on my friends the “cooties” were constantly with me. “Cooties,” or body lice, are - the bane of Tommy's existence. The aristocracy of the)trenches very seldom call them “cooties” they speak of fleas. To an American, flea means a small insect armed with a bayomet, who is wont to jab it into you and then hop, skip and jump to the next place to be attacked. There is an advan- tage in having fleas on you instead of "cwtle“ in um ln one ol' his .M | 5y ARTHUR GUY EMPEY [] AN AMERICAN SOLDIER WHO SERVED AS A MACHINE i for a brand of insect powder adver- Add to this a first-aid pouch and & tised as “Good for body lice. iong ungainly rifle patterned after the!advertisement is | powder is good for | simpiy thrive on it. rifle | d | were wiser and made scratchers out 2 million German submarines with a| us was an old| Tommy works seven cays a week and | FRANCE AND WENT. THE BIG FLOOD SHOE ed jumps said fiea is lable to land on the fellow next to you; he has the typical energy and push of the American, while the “cooue" has the bulldog temacity -of the Englishman, he holds on and consolidate ar digs in until his meal is finished. ‘There is no way to get rid of them permanently. No matter how you bathe, and that is not very often, or how many times you clnnze your underwear, your friends, the “cooties,” are always in evidence. The billets are infested with them, especially so, the floor. plete change of uniform. and then | turned in for the might. The next! morning my shirt would be fuil 3 them. It is a common sight to see | eight or ten soldiers sitting Imdur al tree withtheir shirts over ther knees engaging in a “shirt hunt.” At night : ‘lights out,” you around a candle, trying, in its X dim light, to rid their underwear of | the vermin. A popular ‘and very quick method is to take ybur shirt and drawers ,and run the seams back | and forward in the flame from the | candle and burn them out. This prac- tice is dangerous, because you are li able to burn holes in the garments (! you are not careful. Recruits generally sent to Bughty “There are stilthundreds The the they | ‘battalion quite righ “cooties,” The older men of our of wood. These were rubbed smooth with a bit of stone or sand to pre- vent splinters. They were about eighteen inches long, and Tommy - STILL GREATER VALUES - HEIGHT AT . The Brockton Sample Shoe Store BIGGER BARGAINS THAN EVER Hundreds of satisfied. customers will tostlty to the.tnrgams in Shoes which they purchased dur- ‘ing this-great Flood Shoe Sale. : MEN’S, WOMEN’S and CHILDREN'S SHOES. Come early to avoid the.rush. . ¥ Prices cut regardless of thm Take this opportunity. of this big sa.e as market prices are advancing daily. The Brockton Sample Shoe Store 138 MAIN STREET SALE. IS STILLAT TS — of bargams to be had in . guarantees that a scratcher of this length will reach any part of the body which may be attacked. Some of the fellows were lazy and only made their scratchers twelve inches, but many a night on guard looking over the top from the fire step of the 'front line trench, they would have given a thousand “quid” .for the other six inches. Once while we were in rest billets an Irish Hussar regiment camped n an open field opposite our billet. After they had fed their horses, a general shirt hunt took place. The troopers ignored the call “Dinner up” and kept on with their search for big game. They had a curious method of pro- cedure. They hung their shirts over a hedge and beat them with their en- trenching tool handles. T asked one of them why they didn’t pick them off by hand, and he an- swered, “We haven't had a bath for nine weeks or a change of clabber. If I tried to pick the ‘cooties’ off my shirt, T would be here for duration of war.” _After taking a close look at his shirt I agred with him. It was alive The greatest shock a recruit gets when he arrives at his battalion in | France is to see the men engaging in a “cootie hunt. With an air of con- tempt and disgust he avoids the com- { pany of the older men, until a couple of days later, in a torment of itching, he also has to resort to a shirt hunt, or_spend many a sleepless night of misery. During these hunts there are lots of pertinent remarks bandied back and forth among the explorers, such as, “Say, Bill, I'll swap you two little ones for a big one,” or, Tve got ;\‘:‘lm:k one here that looks like Kaiser 17 One sunny day in the front line trench, T saw three 'officers sitting outside of their dugout ‘cooties” are no respectors of rank; I have, even noticed a suspicious uneasiness about a certain well-known general, one of them- was a major, two of them were exploring their shirts, paying no at- tention to the occasional shells which passed overhead. The major was writing a letter; every now and then he would lay aside his writing-pad, search his shirt for a few minutes, get an inspiration, and then resume writ- ing. At last he finished his letter and gave it to his “runner.” I was curi- ous to see whether he was writing to an insect firm, so when the runner passed me I engaged him in conver- sation and got a glimpse at the ad- dress on the envelope. It was ad- dressed to Miss Alice Somebody, ~in London. The “runmer” informed me that Miss Somebody was the major’s sweetheart and that he wrote to her every day. Just imagine it, writing a love letter during a “cootie” hunt; but such is the creed of the trenches. (Continued Tomorrow) AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS BREAD FROM SMALL POTATOES,cinnamon, 1.4 teaspoon nutmeg, teaspoons’ baking pcwder, 1 cup riced | potatoes, 2 cups_flour, 1-2 2 teasponn! . salt. Mix sugar, spices, salt and short Jiom o B e |Sning. Add well beaton ege and millc! Beat well and add flour and baking By P. G. HOLDEN swder. which have been sifted 0- There are ‘nearly 120,000,000 bushels | SOREC YO WES PTG BONCE 1% of small potatoes wasted in the United|j;cn " thick, cut with doughnut cutter States every year, all of which could | grot £ 1G5 250 T 4 be used in making bread. This enor- mous waste of potatoes takes pl.me on the farms, in the markets, and the homes; but the burden of tb waste falls upon the grower and tin merchant. In large provision centers - whers thousands of carloads of potatoes are annually handled, small_potatoes are | generally thrown away. In the gros stores in cities and small towr over the country and e homes of the people, im ttiles of emall potatces are Uos O T hira Eoistors and Sava its] POU LTRY RATIONS. | Recommendations of Experts as to Balanced Rations to Ensure Egg Production. A recent conference of poultry ex- perts in New York propose a stand- ardization of war rations ior poultry, tand the ration recommended for scratch feed is cracked corn, 3500 pounds; feed wheat 100 pounds; heavy the farms and in the truc s |oats, 200 pounds; barley, 20 pounds. small potatoes are as a ril This combination of grains makes an ered, but left to rot on.the ground.]excellent scratch grain, but at present Why not make use of these potatoes? | PFices it is doubtful if it pays to feed 1t cost time labor, money and {as large a percentage of corn as sug- fertility to grow them, and the zrow- |8ested in this ration. As long as rea- er cannot eliminate the smail potatoes | Sonably good wheat can be secured for from his crop. If we must grow them |2 less price than cracked corn, it'is why not save them? Many miliions | °Ing to be practical for poultry keep- of bushels of wheat badly needed by | €rs to feed wheat in quantities at least our allies in the war can in this way | edual to corn, and as long as oats are foinaveas cheaper than either corn or wheat, if Substitute these gmall potatoes for|they are of good quality, they should one-third the wheat flour used in mak- | 2150 be fed in large guantities. Barley ing bread. The bread will be as nu-|On the present market is one-half cent tritious and more palatable. Potato | Per pound higher than oats and there- bread retains its moisture and good | fore the careful feeder will not use flavor longer than wheat bread. * | very much barley, no matter how good Potatoes are grown practically iniit may be, as long as it maintains every state in the union and enter | that ratio toward oats. into the daily diet of every family the | Iovery poultry keeper should keep year around. No cther vegetable is|this suggested ration in mind and ‘as | % generally grown amd so generally | F0on as corn reaches the price which used as human food. it should normally be. with a large of 1517 was about|SuPPly on hand, that should be in- creased in the regular feed. Contrary to normal times, dry mash is this season cheaper than scratch grains. For this reason a special ef- fort should be made to make the fowls eat more dry'mash than they do natur- ally. The. best method to bring this about is feeding a limited amount of scratch grain at all times except at right, and even in some instances leaving out the scratch grain ration entirely, except at night. Also the feeding. of a warm wet mash in addi- tion to the dry mash available for the birds all the time. The palatability of of the poultry mash is of greater im- portance.than most people realize and this should always be taken into con- sideration when the mash is being pre pared. When birds have a dry mash, which they eat greedily, the same combination should be fed without change. The night feed of grain should al- ways be given at about 3 p. m. and in such liberal quantities that a little will be left in the litter when the birds go to bed entirely satisfied. Dur- ing extreme cold weather, it is wise to feed very frequently during the day cither grain, green food or table scraps but in such limited quantities that the birds will be encouraged to become active in searching for the food rather than fill themselves up easily and stand around in the corners and on the roosts uncomfortable because of the cold. Birds that are uncomfortable because of the cold Wwill not be happy and therefore will not lay eggs and poultry keepers who are after eggs should bend every effort toward keep- ing the birds happy. easily kept in piis and root celiars, and there i ro rcz@on why this tre- mendoug waste shonid ta¥e piace. The need of saving them o greatet by the fact that they can be used to save wheat. the one grain crop so greatly needed for export. Save the smali potatoes. “culls” Use them in making bread or biscuit. Housewives will find it a source of household economy. Bakers will find it profitable, as they can often secure potatoes , discarded by grocers or commission houses at a very low price. How to Make Potato Bread: Ingredi- ents—2-3 cup sweet milk, 1 cup potato, 2 cups flour, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tea- spoon sugar, 1-2 yeast cake. These measurements make one loaf. Heat milk to boiling poict, then cool to iukewarm: Bake or boil potatoes, then ‘peel and. mash or put through ricer. Save. the Dissoive yeast cake in the milk; make a sponge as follows: Mix milk, yeast cake, salt, sugar, all the mashed or riced potatoes and 1-3 ofthe flour. Beat well, let stand over night to rise; in the morning add balance of flour. Let rise until double in bulk, then mold into a loaf; let rise again to double in bulk, then bake 40 minutes in a moderate oven. Potato Biscuit: Ingrediente—2 cups flour, 1 cup riced potato,,3 teaspoons baking powder, 1 scant teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon butter or lard, 1 teaspoon sugar, sweet milk to make a dough which can be rolled for biscuit. Sift flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar together. 'Work butter or lard into flour; add. potatoes, which should be ‘worker, will do more next year—must do more next vear than he ever did before. More grain, more food crops, more meat, must be produced next year ‘than ever before in the history of the coun- try, and that with less labor. It wiil not be accomplished simply by work- ing harder—by cultivating more acres. It will not be accomplished by work- ing longer hours. As a matter of fact most farmers work too hard and too long as it is. What is needed is some- thing far different. Probably the first step toward greater accomplishment will actually lessen labor. This will come through the elimination of dupli- cated efforts brought about by more thought, better planning, better prep- aration, and less duplication of effort’ will pave the way tcward larger crops with even less labor than usual. SAVE THE SEED CORN. Preserve Every Ear That is Fit for Coming Planting - Season. Investigation of the seed corn situa- tion throughout some of the miost im- portant corn growing states of the country indicates a big shortage of seed throughout ‘the west and would seem to indicate a brisk demand for Connecticut grown seed. Information given out by the sced reporter of the United States department of agricul- ture gives conditions in a number of states as follows: Tllinois: The situation is_the most serious in vears. Practically all the corn in the northern portion of the state, ‘extendinz throush about 100 miles south of the Chicago latitude, is very immature and soft. In the cen- tral and southern parts of the state the corn matured better, though un- evenly. Indlana: A portion of the state is supplied, but reports from the north- ern counties show that as high as 90 per cent. of the farmers will need to buy their seed for next year. Michigan: From present indications, only five or six counties will have any surplus of seed next spring, thus leav- ing an immense territory depending for their seed corn on outside sources, There is a general scarcity of good seed except in a few southern coun- ties of the state, and- where a surplus jexists there is great difficulty in dry- ing and storing it. The corn is so full of moisture that it cannot be shipped without danger of moulding. Minnesota: The present situation is grave because of frosts in Septembtr and October. . Special sfforts are be- ing made to save what seed they can. Missouri: The situation is serious, especially in the northern half of the state. Many farmers who normally sell seed corn are compelled to buy it this year. - Germinaion tests of corn selected after -the first severe freeze shows low vitality. Previous estimates of. the Missouri seed corn supply now seem to be too high Ohio: The situation is serious over a ratmer large area. Twenty-four counties in the northwestern part of the state report that the crop was con- siderably damaged by wet and cold weather. Virginia: The western half of the state reports difficulty in securing sufficient good seed Lecause of the cold wave. Wisconsin: The situation is serious. Less than 100,000 of the mecessary 280,000 bushels needed to plant the usual acreage is now in sight. This state is looking to other states to se- cure seed corn of the varieties com- monly grown in Wisconsin, Inquiries have already come to vari- ous people in the state of Connecticut asking as to the possibility of securing 2 supply of seed in this state. In view of the shortage in the western states it would seem that the farmers of Connecticut who are needing seed would do well to take immediate steps to secure a supply sufficient to meet their needs for the coming yegr. Apparently people with ecorn 'which is capable of high germination and which is. otherwise suited for seed purposes would do well to save every ear which is fit for sale as seed, since the price which will be offered will certainly be above the value of the corn as feed. In addition, every farm- er who sells a bushel of good seed may have the satisfaction of knowing that_he has done a patriotic service by incrfasing the national corn crop next year. “Buy your seed now. Save every ear of corn fit for seed,” is the slogan for Connecticut farmers this year. INFECTIOUS" ABORTION. First of a Series of Short Articles Giv- ing the Condensed Result of Three Years' livestigation at the Storrs Esperiment Station, Published in Bulletin 93, by L. F. Rettger and G. C. White. The losses now occuring annually as a result of infectious abortion are variously estimated from twenty-five to fifty million dollars in the United States. No other cattle disease works greater havoc or is so expensive to the 1 Get Ready for the Spring Drive. Many of us think in a self satisfied sort of way that we have accomplished everything humanly = possible during the past year. When we look back to 1917 with the added vision of anothér year's progress we will see how child- Potato Doughnuts: Ingredients—1 |ish we were in supposing we did any Cup sugar, 1-2 teaspoon shortening, 1 such thing. Every American, be he egE, 1-2 teaspoon. sollier, farmer, mimer of munitidn boiled or baked and put through ricer, then add milk to make a dough which can be easily handied on board. Roll out about 1-2 inch thick, cut with big- cuit cutter and bake 16 minutes in a quick oven. cup sweet milk, 14 dairymen, located in thickly settled 'y communities, In such com- munities, there is considerable inter- change of stock, the cattle are inten- sively bred for high production and they are required to work under an in- tensive system and it is doubted if chandising. 'PLUSH COATS " RELIABLE Muffs, Scarfs and Sets 1o PRICE WOMEN'S BEAUTIFUL 1/2 Price Sizes 16 to 46 1/2 Price 1,"”‘“ Iml‘l e Hllun ‘I'” EVERY GARMENT WILL BE SOLD At the end of each season it has been our policy to clean up- our-- stock, and this year will be the greatest in our 22 years of mer- l Dresses nunumum“ EVS0 IllHI|Ifl“lllll\(lll““llllllll \fllnl\‘i WOMEN'S : WINTER 1, o. | Sizes 16 to 44 WOMEN'S Silk or Serge 1/2 Pficf Sizes 16 to 44 Nes |qu||||||||“I||mu-ul\ilmml!huu | V2 PRICE: SALE red due to the premature calving of from 15 per cent. to 50 per cent. of the cows, there is also the loss in milk production due to the fact that a cow which' does> not calve normaily does not receive suffigignt stimulation for maximum production. Again difficul- ty is often encountered in getting a cow to conceive' properly once she has aborted. In 1897, the discovery of the'organ- ism causing the disease was first re- ported. Various investigators have since worked on the problem but aside from the successful application of as- glutination and complement-fixation, blood_tests, little successful work has actually been done and-the disease has continued to spread rapidly The present work seems to materially ad- vance the information in regard to its effective control. In the work done at the Storrs Fix- periment Station, three herds Dheen under observation. infection was apparently of recent origin: in another, while it had been present for several years, breeding records are available only since 1914. In a third, records are ayajlable since the introduction of the disease through the purchase of three cows !n 1904 Tt has been generally supposed that the disease, after a while “burns its- self out” the animals becoming im- mune. Unless one has been fortunate in the disposition of the proper ani- mals and in adopting proper control methods it is doubtful if suck a thing actually occurs. Records ‘at the station indicate that cows, once infected, gen- erally remain so and can and do af- fect others, although they do not them- selves abort. Premature calving, ‘when accepted. as evidence of a sul In one, the STEAKS Sirloin, Porterhouse, Round| e i 280 CHUCK ROAST b oo s oo 0206 SMOKED SHOULDERS PURE LARD Ihe s el 300 Uncas Creamery BUTTER, Ib_.____50c MOHICAN SPECIAL COFFEE, Ib___.__ 35¢ QUAKER 0ATS package _.._____ 10c more than a very few herds areen- tirely fres from the disease; Aslde from the IDS! of cllVes incor- KELLOGG’S CORN have | sidence of the disease, may to the contrary but the remains in the herd on, when they are indicate disease still Heifers coming aised, will gener- ally show a large percentage of pre- mature- births in the first or second calf producing periods. It should be pointed out in this comnection that abortion (premature birth) does not necessarily occur with an infected an- imal, althouzh it generally does result in such manifestation at least once during the life of the animal an indication of the tenacity of the disease the following percentages of calves lost through abortion in one herd under observation at the station are given for the period from 1904 to 1916, inclusive: Percentage Year Premature Births 1905 1906 19807 1908 1900 1810 1011 1912 1013 1814 1915 1916 These percentazes are based upon the total number of calvage. It will be noted that as late as 1914, twenty- five perecent. or one-fourth of all the icalving cows aborted. In 1917, the abortions were less than ten per cent, due to the effective contro] during those vears, which will be described later. ~ In. 1914, seventy-five per cent. reacted positively this showing the of the calving cow: blood test, to the Take Advantage of These Mid-week Specials : U. S. 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Everyone asrees that New Tngland ought to have mpre sheep., ButaNew England is not getting more sheey— at least, not rapidly., Farmers are loath to increase their stock holdmes in the face of high prices for the feed with which to keep'them.” New Eng- land would be justified in leavinz sheep alone if it was necessary.go-lfty grain to feed them. 3 But New England has a ' large amount “of ‘land which ‘cair ‘only be farmed profitably as pasture and sheep pasture at that. Much of the pasture is poor, to be‘sure, but.if we follow the procedure of the . Rothamsted (England) experiment station : ever poor pasture may be made to produce mitton and wool without. the use -of grain. One-half of a sheep pasture was-top dressed. with fertilizer. No:zrain was fel to the sheep pastured-here. .The other half of the field was net-feftil- ized, but the sheep were fed cottonseed meal at the rate of one pound per head per day. At the end of the period of three years the gain in mutfon and wool was the same in each ‘case-—but 350 pounds more cottonseed meal than fertilizer was used. The cottdnseed meal cost about twice 4s much 3s the fertilizer, and: the fertilized -pasture was producing more than the -gnfer- tilized at the end of the period. Popped rice s a Chinese delicacy. In one city there is a rice poppers’ guild. 1 . 4TO6P.M. COOKING COMPOUND | LEAN POT ROAST | ISR T Dried Beef, Ib....... 48¢c Pickled Pigs’ Feet, Ib. . 10c Pickled Tripe, Ib..... 10¢ CRISCO POTATOES FANCY CANNED - STRING BEANS ’