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LABOR IS SCARCE AND TWINE IS
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Doctors, Lawyers, Merchants and Fair Folk of the Cities Donned Old Clothes
and Overalls to Help in the Harvest Fields During the War—the
Famous “Shock Troops," to Whom the Secretary of Agriculture Has
issued an Appeal for Similar Aid This Year.
(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Labor and binder twine.
On the eve of the sea
son the wheat-growers’ thoughts turn
to these two necessary items, particu
larly the former, which caused him
much worry during the years of the
war. Os course, labor is the chief
problem, bin binder twine is some
thing that must be reckoned with as
well, and in its own way is a very
important feature in the harvesting
operations.
The wheat-grower, need have no ap
prehension as to the supply of binder
twine this season. Reports coming to
the bureau of plant industry indicate
that there will be a plentiful supply
of this commodity available for the
American farmer. Not only will it
be plentiful, but it is likely to be
cheaper this year than for some years
past.
Yucatan —the chief and cheapest
source of henequen, from which the
twine is made —produced a large crop
this year, which, coupled with the
termination of control of prices by
the commission regulators, was re
sponsible for a drop in the price of
tiller from 15 to 10 cents a pound ear
ly in March. The price is now re-
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Not Afraid to Don Overalls and Do
Their “Bit."
ported to be 8 cents a pound. This
reduction should be reflected in the
price of twine this season.
Supply Not Affected by Revolution.
Thus far the recent revolution in
Mexico has not affected the henequen
industry of Yucatan and Campeche,
the two important fiber-growing stafes
of that country. It is too late now for
any disruption of this industry to af
fect seriously the supplies of twine
for this year’s harvest, as practically
ECONOMICAL METHOD
IN THRASHING WHEAT
Task Should Be Performed Di
rectly From Shock.
Grain That Is Handled When Damp
Will Sweat Too Much and Be
come Hot and Burned—Commu
nity Plan Most Desirable.
When thrashing can he done early,
the most economical method is to
thrash directly from the shock. Thrash
when the grain- is dry, either before or
after it has gone through the sweat.
If the grain is too dry, it will crack in
thrashing.
Wheat thrashed before sweating In
the shock will go through the sweat in
the bins, giving the grain a darker
and richer color. Grain that is thrashed
when damp will sweat too much and
become hot and bin burnt. When grain
is stacked it should he allowed to go
through the sweat before thrashing.
Community thrashing is desirable
where the farms are not large. The
Individual farmer will get his thrash
ing done more rapidly and econom
ically where a group of farmers can
own and operate a thrashing outfit to
gether.
See that the separator is well
cleaned before the thrashing Is started,
in order to prevent the mixture of
grain and the scattering of weed seed
from the neighboring farms.
Watch carefully the working of the
machine to see that the grain is en
tirely removed from the straw and that
the chaff is blown out.
Stack the straw, use it as feed or
bedding for live stock, and so con
vert it into manure.
Write to United States department
of agriculture. Washington, D. C., for
a copy of Fanners’ Bulletin No. 678,
“Growing Hard Spring Wheat.”
Buy Labor-Saving Tools.
If labor Is scarce and high priced,
buy !abor-savlng machinery and imple
ments.
alt tiie fiber necessary for the present
needs have already been imported to
the United States.
Although there is no danger for
this year’s twine supply, officials of
the department of agriculture are
somewhat apprehensive over the effect
that the low prices for fiber prevailing
now will have upon the production
of henequen during the next few years.
Low prices, according to reports to
the department, are leading the grow
ers in Yucatan to reduce their plant
ing, with the result that a real short
age of the fiber five or six years henco
is a very likely possibility.
The labor outlook is not so cheer
ful. The supply of hired farm labor
is about 72 per cent of the normal.
Although no appropriation was made
by congress this year for carrying on
the department of agriculture’s war
time activities in aiding the farmers
to get laborers, the department is do
ing what it can to assist farmers with
this problem. The state directors 01
extension and the county agents arc
aiding in bringing together farmers
and men who want jobs on farms.
Calls for “Shock Troops.”
Results are expected from the ap
peal of Secretary of Agriculture Mere
dith to city men, college students, and
others to spend their vacations work
ing on farms, particularly as helpers
in harvest fields. Frequent inquiries
are being received by the department
from university and college students
as to where their services could best
be used. The need for the now fam
ous “shock troops”—volunteer helpers
from the city who shocked wheat—
that gave such a good account of them
selves in the harvest fields during the
war is believed to be as urgent this
year as in those trying days. The
mobilization of these forces is what
Secretary Meredith is seeking to ac
complish.
According to reports of the depart
ment, Kansas leads all other wheat
growing states in its demands for la
bor—so,ooo outside men is its esti
mated need. Nebraska requires 6,000
additional men for its harvest, and
Oklahoma. 4,000 or 5,000. No figures
have been received as to the require
ment for the Dakotas. It is expected,
though, that the labor shortage there
will be largely met by the workers in
the other wheat states which have
earlier harvest seasons. The central
employment office established by the
department of labor in Kansas City
is undertaking the task of gathering
the laborers and distributing them in
the various localities.
COULD DOUBLE CORN YIELDS
Desirable to Produce Enough to Meet
All Demands on a Smaller Num
ber of Acres.
Corn yields per acre in the United
States could be doubled within a few
years, and this could be accomplished
without increase in work or expense.
It is not to be understood that it is
desirable to double the present corn
crop, but that it is desirable to pro
duce enough to meet all needs on a
smaller number of acres and with less
labor, says the United States depart
ment of agriculture. If 60 bushels are
raised on one acre instead of on two
acres, the labor of plowing, harrowing,
planting, cultivating, and harvesting is
greatly reduced.
FEED FOR STOCKER CALVES
In Addition to Pasture Young Animals
Should Be Given Cottonseed
or Cake Oil.
In the range sections of the United
States Stocker calves and yearlings
should he fed from one to three pounds
of some concentrate, in cottonseed or
oil cake, in addition to pasture, ex- !
cept in severe weather, when they i
should also have roughage.
Drainage improves soils.
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Sudan grass is winning on merit.
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Locate your farm build legs to save
steps.
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Encourage the song birds; they arc
friends of the farmer.
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The . richest land i* usually the
cheapest measured by net profits.
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The loco weed does not grow abun
dantly except in seasons when there |
is an abundance of moisture.
THE MONTGOMERY MONITOR, MT. VERNON, GEORGIA.
Id doe house
IS PROFITABLE
Hog Raisers Everywhere Now
Recognize This Fact.
SAVES THE LITTLE PIGS
Modern Weather-Tight Home for
Sows Permits Two Litters a Year
Instead of One —Good Type
Illustrated.
By WILLIAM A. RADFORD.
Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and rive advice KREK OF
COST on all subjects oertuining to the
subject of building work on the farm for
the readers of this oaper. On account of
t his wide experience as Editor, Author and
■ Manufacturer, he is. without doubt, the
) highest authority on all these subjects.
Address all inquiries to William A. Rad
ford No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago,
' 111., and only inclose two-cent stamp for
■ reply.
‘ Hog raisers everywhere are rapidly
recognizing the modern, weather-tight'
hogliouse as a most profitable invest
-1 ment. Where the sows are properly
- housed they respond with two litters
1 of pigs a year instead of one ; the pigs
are marketable at the time when
.prices are highest, and a greater per
centage of each litter is brought to
maturity.
The advantage of having the sows'
farrow in the late winter are well
known to every hog raiser. But to
have the pigs come along while the
weather is yet cold is unprofitable un
less tiie mother and young pigs have
a house that will keep them warm, dry
and healthy. Modern liogliouses arc
designed and built to give the sow and
her pigs just such a home.
Herewith is illustrated such a hog
house, It is a frame building set on
; a concrete foundation and has a ce
ment floor. This building is 24 feet
wide and 42 feet long and has pens
for ten sows and their pigs.
The peculiar shape of the roof
nakes possible a warm sunny interior.
I'he house is set so that it extends
■ast and west and faces the south.
This position gives the windows the
I enefits of tHe late winter sun, light
■ntering the lower windows falling on
me row of pens and on the other from
he windows in the roof. The multi
ilieity of windows also permits good
entilation, which is another necessity
u a hogliouse. The young pigs are
vanned hy the heat from the mothers
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find the sunlight. The heat from the
sows, however, Is moist and unless
ventilation is provided the house will
he damp and chill.
The interior arrangement of this
hoghouse is shown by the accompany
ing floor plan. Through the center of
the building runs a feeding alley, with
the pens on either side. Doors at botli
ends permit free access to the build
ing, either for taking feed to the hogs
or for removing litter. Each pen is
6 feet 6 incites wide and 8 feet 0
inches deep. The cement floor is cov
ered by a board floor, slightly raised
from the concrete, for a distance
of five feet from each wall. This
board floor, covered with bedding pro
vides a dry place for the mother and
J pigs. Despite the general impression
that hogs are filthy animals, they are
not and will keep the board floor clean
and dry.
In the plan shown, the pens along
the soutli side of the building are con
nected witli outdoor runs, making the
house usable in summer as well as
winter. The doors of the pens are so
placed as to provide direct runs to
each of tiie yards.
This sort of modern hoghouse will
enable hog owners to double the num
ber of pigs usually raised, and will
make bog raising more profitable. The
cost of the building Is low, but the In
crease in receipts from the drove are
great.
While it may he a little early to be
gin now to construct farm buildings
that will not he needed until next
winter, it is a wise plan under present
conditions to make arrangements for
any contemplated building as far In
II advance of construction as possible.
Contractors everywhere are busy and
material dealers must place their or
j ders with manufacturers several
j months in advance. This hogliouse
can be built In the late fall or early
winter, so long os the concrete floor is
laid before frost conies. The balance
of the building is of lumber and can
be erected at any time.
Nothing raised on the farm is more
profitable than liogs. These animals
bring high prices, the demand con
stantly is growing and with prop«/
housing and care a maximum number
of young pigs can be brought to ma
turity. Health is the prime essential
that makes for profitable liog raising
and to be healthy, liogs musjt be kept
in clean and sanitary quarters.
A hogliouse with a cement lloor is
easy to clean. Where water under
pressure is available the cement floors
can be washed and the litter that is
not gathered up hy the fork carried
out. Sunshine helps a great deal iu
preventing diseases, the sun’s rays be
ing a germ killer. The double row of
windows admits sunshine to every
part of the hogliouse illustrated.
Modern farm buildings of all kinds
are helping to solve the labor-shortage
problem that confronts farmers every
where. Modern buildings, equipped
with modern, labor-saving devices for
doing tiie work necessary to give the
live stock proper attention make the
work easier and quicker, (bus saving
a great deal of labor.
Hog raisers will find it is a good in
vestment to build a modern hogliouse
this summer.
GLORIOUS CITY OF ROMANCE
. Historic Edifices and Monuments of
Constantinople Unequaled by Any
Other Capital.
In spite of filth ami evil odors, the
one dominant note of Constantinople
is Romance. It meets you at the
threshold of every one of Its 2fX)
mosques and its hundreds of chapels.
In tiie Church of St. Sophia, with its
stupendous dome, its dream-like
beauty, and its 16 centuries of history;
in the Suleymaniya mosque, with its
colossal columns and its miracles of
Saracenic decoration; and tiie Mosque
of Sultan Ahmed I, with Its six sky
piercing minarets, exquisite in their
grace, and its columns more than 100
feet in circumference.
In the Hippodrome, where gladiators
fought and clinriots raced to the plaud
its of Roman spectators, you can see
the famous column of tiie Three Ser
pents, which stood 2,000 years ago in
the Temple of Delphi.
Tiie Old Seraglio recalls Mohamme
dan splendors of long-gone centuries.
Once a royal residence, it still con
tains the mint and museum and 11-
brary; and perhaps the most won
derful sight in Europe, the treasury,
with its fabulous treasures of jewels
and golden ornaments, worth incal
culable millions. Leaving Stamboul
and crossing the Golden Horn we conic
to Galata, the quarter of the mer
chants, a busy hive of commercial in
dustry, with warehouses and factories
and the coming and going of great
ships from all the world’s seas.
From Galata we pass to Pera, the
aristocratic quarter, with its stately
embassies and consulates, its walled
in palaces of pashas with their har
eins.
P.eyond Pitra Is the beautiful village
of Eyytib, with tlie famous mosque In j
which every sultan girds on the sword
of Osman before he mpurits his throne,
and which no Christian foot may ap
proach.
Useful Carabao.
The carabaos of the Philippine is
lands belong to the group of Asiatic
buffalo. They are mostly mouse
colored, and their thick hides are
sparsely covered with thin hair. Their
bodies are as round as barrels, and
their thick, long horns give them a
formidable appearance, although they
are quite harmless under ordinary
condition?*.
Henry Flury, in Our Dumb Animals
magazine, says the carabaos are ideal
Philippine beasts of burden, first be
cause they are ulow. and the slower 1
the better, in the estimation of the na
tive who is never in a hurry; and
secondly, on account of their big. bar
rel-shaped bellies and split hoofs,
which spread out very widely when
the rainy season comes and the roads
are rivets of thick mud.
HAS ONLY MEMORY
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1 Old Minstrel Sadly Recalls Days
of Affluence.
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’ Years Ago the Pet of Royalty, and
Earning Thousands, Today Mere
ly Regarded as an "Old
Colored Man."
Leaning against the side of a mov
ing picture theater on Broadway,
a crippled old man, with white
hair and deep lines la Ids face,
stood the other day, bearing little
resemblance to the man who was once
tlie sensation of the English amuse
ment world, tiie pet of royalty, and a
maker of money in such quantities
that it was said of him he only Nipped
the hubbies off champagne, leaving
the drink itself to hangers-on.
Not a handful of people know of Ills
former glory. To the passerby today
he seemed Simply an old ‘‘colored
man.”
But to the Old Timer recognition
was immediate. lie was none other
than George Bohee, who, with his
brother, Jim Bohee, was a feature of
Jack Ilavcrly’s Colored Mastodon min
strels in this country 40 years ago and
who in the early e’ghtles took Eng
land off its feet with the introduction
of negro minstrelsy, banjo playing
and soft-shoe dancing there.
The story of George Bohee Is more
timely now because of (lie recent visit
of the prince of Wales. For when the
present prince’s grandfather, the late
King Edward, visited this country as
prince of Wales, banjo playing was Ida
hobby, and he Inter took lessons from
the Bohee brothers, and often com
manded them to appear at royal en
tertainments.
George and Jim Bohee were innlat
toes. . They were splendid singers and
clever dancers. * They always ap
peared together in silk costumes of
gay colors, high silk hats, mid with
banjos hung over their shoulders.
They were for years with Haverly’s
minstrels. In 1880 they decided to
go to England, little hoping for any
wonderful success there, hut desiring
to see the world and to try their luck.
“I was in England at the period,”
says the Old Timer. “The success of
the Bohee brothers was instantaneous.
It was remarkable. The soft-shoe
dancing and banjo playing took Eng
land by storm. It became' the rage,
just as the jazz Is the rage here now.
They were wooed by the big music
halls and played a string of them every
night, going from one to another.
“King Edward, who was then prince
of Wales, always had a hobby for the
banjo. Nobody bad ever played it in
England as the Bohee brothers did
and he summoned them early in their
career there to play for him. The
Boliees appeared at royal parties given
by him ami by the duke of Richmond
and to Queen Alexandra.
“1 remember that one of the Boliees
great songs in those days was “A
Hoy's Best Friend Is 11 is Mother.”
Sounds slushy now, but it was a great
lilt in (lie eighties. Well, the Bohee
brothers certainly were the class.
They drove down Piccadilly, tandem,
with an attendant In livery that would
knock your eye out.
“When Jim Bohee came Into the
Gaiety or Criterion bar be would or
der champagne and never drink any
thing hut the bubbles. That’s a fact;
lie would simply drink the effervescent
top and lot the greater part of the
win" remain In the glass.
“1 remember one day meet ng Jim
'n the Criterion and reminding him
of an incident when he was with llav
erly's minstrels. It happened in
Kalamazoo. Mich. Jirn was leading
the parade In a startling costume, car
rying a huge drum-major’s stick which
he was whirling and twirling like
mud.
“A frisky young colt was tied to a
post, and when the parade came down
with hands going full pressure and
with Jim cutting‘high jinks In front,
the colt reared yp on Its hind legs and
fell over dead. That’s a fact.
“Well I asked Jim If he recalled
that and he let out a roar of laughter
that amazed those present. Jim had
cultivated an English accent and
eliminated anything approaching the
boisterous laugh or expression. Con
sequently when he lapsed Into an or
dinary whoop it caused a stir, and he
apologized.
“All this came to my mind the other
day when I happened to see George
Bohee a g'ost of Ids old self. Me
made hundreds of th msands of dollars
In his day. I think lie makes a living
now working around movie houses. I
stopped to talk with him and I re
called the days of forgotten glory.
‘Those were the days.’ he said sadly.
“1 forgot to sa.v that the fall of the
Pohces began with the death of Jim.
Jim died just about the time their
1 popularity began to decline, and
George couldn’t revive the old-time
; admiration of the amusement world.”
Tsingtao Thoroughly Jap.
Tsingtao is now as Japanese as It
j once was German. The effect, aeeord-
I leg to V. II Cazalet, writing In the
Vestndnster Gazette of London. Is
I something altogether incongruous. For
Tsingtao. from a lltt'c Chinese village,
was changed by the Germans into a
town with goodly concrete buildings, a
plendld harbor and "oigidllcenr roads
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TAME A WILD-CAT
Mr. Dodson Warns Against Use
of Treacherous. Dangerous
Calomel.
Calomel salivates! It's mercury.
Calomel acts like dynamite on a slug
gish liver. When calomel comes Into
contact with sour bile it crashes Into
It, causing cramping and nausea.
If you feel bilious, headachy, consti
pated and all knocked out, just go to
your druggist and get a bottie of Doit
son’s Liver Tone for a few cents which
Is n harmless vegetable substitute for
dangerous calomel. * Take a spoonful
and if it doesn’t start, your liver and
•straighten you up better anil quicker
than nasty calomel and without milk
ing you sick, you just go back and ,
get your money.
If you take calomel today you’ll he
sick and nauseated tomorrow; besides.
It may salivate you, while if you take
Dodson’s Liver Tone you will wake up
feeling great, full of ambition and
ready for work or play. It’s harmless,
pleasant and safe to give to children;
they like it. —Adv.
What Did She Mean?
Little Jimmy Poster —-You promised
to take me to the zoo to see the ani
nals fed.
Ills Mother—l know I did. dear, but
ve won’t have time. Your father will
ic home to dinner In a few minutes
tnd you may sit up and go to the ta
>le with him.
CUSTOMS FTFTY YEARS AGO.
Who among us would nay to-day. “I
lever use a Dentifrice; I never have to?”
Yet Fifty years ago, odd as it may
leem. not one person in 1,000 used a
Dentifrice-—or even a tooth brush.
So to-day, after more than 30 years of
persistent publicity of Alien’s Foot Ease,
tlie Antiseptic Powder for the Feet, not
many well-turned-out people care to con
fess, "You know 1 never have to use a
Powder for the Feet!”
More than One Million five hundred
thousand pounds of Powder for the Feet
were used by our Army and Navy daring
the war.
The reason iR this; Confining the feet
in Leather or Canvas Shoes is bound to
create friction more or less. Allen’s Foot*
Ease removes the friction from tlie shoe*,
ft is tliis friction, which causes callouses,
corns and bunions. You know what fric
tion does to your motor-car axle. Why
not remove it from your footwear by
Shaking into your Shoes to-day, Allen’*
Foot Ease, the cleanly, wholesome, heal
ing, Antiseptic powder? Get the habit,
as millions now have it, who inhabit our,
as yet, imperfect world.—Adv.
Quite Different.
“What do you think Ellen told her
Jealous husband when he nskeil tier
If the paper she was bending over
was tlie cloak for her design?”
“What did she say?”
“That on the contrary, it was a
design for her cloak.”
If your eyes smart or fool scalded. Roman
Kyi- Balsam applied upon going to bed t*
Just 111© thing to relieve them.—Adv.
Shining Up the Back Yard.
Mr. Peuvlsh says that another rea
son why he thinks Mrs. Peavish car
ries housekeeping to an extreme Is
because he lias to go out and wipe
the dew off the grass every morning
to keep the back yard from tarnish
ing.—Dallas News.
if You Need a Medicine
You Should Have the Best
Have you ever stopped to reason why
it is that so many products that are ex
tensively advertised, all at once drop out
of sight and arc soon forgotten? The
reason is plain—the article did not fulfill
the promises of the manufacturer. This
applies more particularly to a medicine.
A medicinal preparation that has real
curative value almost sells itself, as like
an endless chain system the remedy is
recommended by those who have been
benefited, to those who are in need of it.
A prominent druggist says “Take for
example Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp-Root, a
preparation I have sold for many years
and never hesitate to recommend, for in
almost every case it shows excellent re
sults, as many of my customers testify.
No other kidney remedy ha* so large %
gale.”
According to sworn statements and
verified testimony of thousands who have
used the preparation, the success of Dr.
Kilmer’s Swamp-Root is due to the fact,
so many people claim, that it fulfills al
most every wish in overcoming kidney,
liver and bladder ailments; corrects uri
nary troubles and neutralizes the uric
acid which causes rheumatism.
You may receive a sample bottle of
Swamp-Root by Parcels Post. Address
Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y..,
and enclose ten cents; also mention this
paper. Large and medium size bottle*
tor sale at all drug stores. —Adv.
Child’s Logic.
"Oh, mamma,” saltl Elsie, suddenly,
“my foot feels prickly."
“ll’h only asleep, dear.”
“Then it must be having nn awful
bad dream,” returned the child.—Bou
ton Transcript.
Watch Cuticura Improve Your Skin.
On rising and retiring gently smear
tlie face with Outlcura Ointment.
Wash off Ointment In five minutes
with Outlcura Soup and hot water. It
is wonderful sometimes what Cuticura
will do for poor complexions, dandruff
itching and red rough hands. —Adv.
Early Example.
Mlilun hud Just seen another ham
sandwich turn to gold as his fingers
touched It.
“This profiteering,” he remarked
sadly, "Is something that can be car
ried entirely too far.”
