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The Exeter Times, 1919-1-9, Page 4Farmers Attention Melee Money ado noun Vere Vane itTfarla8 the dull end wintea' moan* IV tearing , I D1Y eCANADIAN zmusaavr. a Aritisth aEurce eau, eaarkete. wi4I t ane Open OlgOtai ISor ,ffiarsteclian 6E',ruit and now ,is thet hue Ile i to eta for peening ' Pniagataaeg , 1 1. ilherneet til t of ;Fruit and Ornartientat Stock, Seed Potatoes, etc., grows ( i f i .; ; (Write for Partkntlars I �i STONE & ATTELLINOTON nitro Old Reliable S`onthill r,Nurselriee restabilehed 1187 TORONTO, ONT. GR'ANO TRI R/1F! i.)1V AV' SYS"!" CM. Time Table Changs id; change of time will be minder et January 5th 1919 Information Now in Agents' ligands N4 Jt I> , 'Agent, Exeter Phone tifiw to + lei!ti o►oi♦1♦o...ta9ea0 Peeves 9.8-1RAM9en sem, ikr Term from ♦ Januai , 6th iWe place graduates in tonal- s term' ere now earning es 'high ;. as $15 an even VD per week white 'boys are earning dzigher salaries. (9de have }Commercial Shorthand and Teiegranh/ De- ♦ erartmerts. Write for free cata ; Ue- ' W, et, anndOTT t President De ;a neclea reHLANe Pantie/nil, War Time prices® on Wire Fence (h strand (Bennet 46 esters lees' cede I led 49 .salsas titeg 104 1, .9rotraud please) SS mantle rood; &eel gates, barb wire and brace wire, *tear brace poste at low prieee, �1ao 9 taxed 1Q ova IAnvhoo Inostet Let gas 4note you my prises on all kinds ea !amber and shingles. Plage your, order, now sitar what i6'.ertilizetr ,yoa ,_ FEItTILIZER Weed Phone 1'3, A. J.1 CLATWORTI-IY GRANTON FAKES OFF DANDRUFF, HMR STOPS FALLING Jsave your Hair! Get a small bottle of Danderine right now --Also stops itching scalp. The Kaiser as 1 Knew I�Iilll For Fourteen Years Thin, brittle, colorless and Sar Lair es mute evidence of a neglected acalpp; of dandruff—that awful scurf. Where is nothing so destructive to Bee hair as dandruff!. It robs the hair of its lustre, ,its strength and its very life; eventually producing a. feverish- mess and itcthiug of the scalp, which if not remedied clauses the hair roots to shrink, loosen and die—then the Bair falls out fast. A little Danderine to- might—now—any y %zme--wI1 surel y save your hair. Geta small bottle of Knowlton, s Danderine from any drug store. You surely '+an leave beautiful hair and lots ,of it if you will just try a little Dan- tterrne. Save your hair! Try, iti CASTORIA For Infants and. Children. � er3OYears In UseForC1v Always ears b ,�. tb e fa`ignatttte of Br Arthur N. Davis D, D. Sc, Imus each ween "'Mat we -should do at tiie very first available opportunity;" she declared. "is to destroy every single work of art In Italy- Not a atingle one of their tnndtnarks or art treasures shooed bet :eft standing. Then when the war is over and Italy no longer derives the enormous revenue she has been col- lecting for years from toerists, she will be sorry for what she has done to Germany r Did the Herman people countenance the sobmurine warfare and the slaugh- ter of tanocent women and children, in defiance of all =Tee of in1erntzttonal law and the dictates of conrmon hu- manity? They had only one criticism to make of ft—ft was not comprehen- sive enough 1 It was absolate folly, if not a crime, they said, for Germany to prescribe safety lanes for neutral vessels to use. The whole world should have been declared a war zone, that death and destruction might be dealt wherever and whenever the opportun- ity offered. Every ship that sailed should be stunk, and every American who ventured within range of a Ger- man gun, on sea or land, should be shot. That was the universal senti- ment. The suggestion that a continuation of the submarine warfare would in- evitably bring America into the war did not perturb the people in the slightest "How can America d6 us more harm than she Is now doing?" they asked. American :bullets are shooting aibwta bur men, American food is sustaining our enemies. American dollars are working against us he every possible a.4 Atcr$t1 reale fete the war and give us a chance to pay her back for what she has done to ns. fie couldn't Intern ne any more if she were a belligerent. Why allow her to re- main neutral and go unseathedl" The jubilation with which the news of the sinking of the Lusitania was re- ceived by the German people was gen- eraI. It was so significant that I be- lieve Aznerica would have declared war immediately had it been known. I have felled to tend a single German who did not exult over the dastardly crime, and the activity of the - Zep- pelins in their raids on open towns evoked similar demonstrations. That the views which the people held regarding the conduct of the war were strongly influenced by tbe public press, which was absolutely controlled by the government, was only to be ex- pected. The fact that in peace time the press of Germany was perhaps the most reliable in the world, made of it a particularly valuable tool in the hands o2 the government in time of war. The German newspaper is gospel to the people. The last word in any argu- ment was always furnished by proof supplied by some newspaper article. "Es steht in der zeitung," liberally translated, "The paper says so," was always final and conelusive. Nothing the papers declared was too prepoater- ous to be believed. The press was used to excellent ad- vantage to conceal reverses and to make the utmost capital out of suc- cesses. Bight from the start the news- papers declared that Germany was fighting a defensive war; that the na- tions of the world had Jumped on Germany's neck because they were jealous of her growing power, The importance which the kaiser and his leaders placed in public opin- ion among the German people is clear- ly illustrated by the announcements they made and the measures they re- sorted to from time to time, for home consumption. When in December, 1916, for In- stance, the kaiser realized that the re- sumption of unrestricted submarine warfare, which he haci determined upon, might bring neutral nations, in- cluding the United States, into. the war, he felt that it was necessary to do something to uphold the spirit of his people. It took the form of a pro- posal of peace to the allies, This proposal was designed to ac- complish'two distinct purposes: First, It was to convince the German people that their kaiser was really the peace - loving monarch he had always pro- fessed to be; second, it was to demor- alize tbe allies . by, dividing them against themselves. This much is certain: The kaiser never intended the allies to accept the proposal he made. He admitted that. much to me, as did also the Prince von Mesta his . most intimate advisor, It was termed in such a way that the allies could not possibly ac- cept it. But it Served one of the pur- poses which it was intended to achieve, and nearly accomplished the other. CHAPTER XVI. Germany in Wartinse. While. the German people nage al- ways been in thorough accord with the halter's ambitious project 'ethic)). s de signideailtit described : c6to 9Rttlfilr slagaa " 5eutsehlend ober "Vete? wheal tate great war, which was to 1 achieve' Qermaree s dunk commenced, it came almost as much, as a surprise: to the Germans as it was to the rest e, the world. They knew it was hied- Ware ne 1 -table Glad they looked forward eagerly to "Der Tag," but when It arrived the bustle and excitement, notto say pante, which developed throughout Germany was so pronounced that in some eases it approached the ludicrous. Obviously the people were kept in ignorance of the plans of their war barons in order that hostilities might Come as a complete surprise to them. and give color to the government's contention that the war was forced' upon Germany. So little thought dfd we give to the complexities of the political situation that on Friday, July 31, 1914, my wife and I started off on a motor trip. We had heard so many rumors of war within the previous ten years that we Saw no reason why an amicable solu- tion should not again be found as !1 had always been before. On our way out the Charlottenburgez Maumee we passed the kaiser and the kaiserin driving to Berlin from Pots darn at about silty miles an hour, and there were other indications of ao• tivity, but we attached little !raper tance to them. When we reached Potsdam, bow• ever, and saw thousands of tons of coal heaped up between the railroad tracks which were ordinarily kept clear, we realized that preparations for war were being made in earnest and we stopped to consider whether it would not be better after all to return home. Such was our ignorance of war that we decided that, even though it were not advisable to motor in Bel- gium and France, where we were bound, we might safely plan a tour in the Black forest in Germany. We had left Berlin late in the after noon. 1n the evening, when we arrived at Gotha, we found that the younger waiters in the restaurants and hotels had already left and that the older re. serves expected a general call tbe.aext day. The next morning we started for Frankfort. As we passed through vil- lage after village, war preparations be- eame more and more evident. Measures were being taken everywhere to arouse enthusiasm --young men gathered en school steps were singing patriotic songs, students were marching and Speeches were being reade in the mar- ket arkat places. About five o'clock that afternoon we at raved in Frankfort. The whole place was 1n a fever of excitement over the mobilization posters end their resent- ment against the French was being aroused by "extras," which were handed out without charge, announc- iag that the French bad air ady dropped bombs on the railroad at Nurnberg and that French officers in autos had over-ridden the borders. The ridiculous statements about French flyer" dropping bombs on the saiiroad at Nurnberg had not the slightest foundation, of course. The older people who had lived through the war of 18TO had interested audiences for ones while they related past experiences and gave advice as to what preparations to make. A pout - Witty of food shortage seemed to be uppermost in aff minds, and the gro- ceries were stormed with eager buy- ers. Salt suddenly jumped to 75 Beats a pound and other things in propor- tion. On Sunday, Angast 2, all the pee - line in the country was commandeered, and we heard of many American tour- ists being put out of their cars In the cities and even on country roads, no matter how inaccessible to trains they rmlght be. We accordingly decided to stow our car away 1n an old wagon shed attached to a hotel and sought to return to Berlin by train. At the railway station there was such a ` tremendous crowd that it was quite impossible to get anywhere near the ticket office, and anyway 110 prom- ise could be given as to trains to Ber- lin. Trunks and bags were piled high in `very available space and it was months before that enormous pile of baggage was finally sorted out. We decided to defer our effort to beach Berlin until Monday, since there Seemed no hope of getting away that day. Oa Monday morning, the streets were filled with excited crowds de- stroying every sign with a French word on it and looking for spies. The papers had announced that the coun- try was full of French spies, women as well as men. I saw the crowd stop an automobile, take a woman out and literally tear her clothes to Shreds be- fore the police succeeded in rescuing her from the mob and: took her to the police station. The general supposi- tion was that all the man spies were masquerading as women and the first thing the mob did was to pull out hair pins to see whether the hair was real.. On Monday evening, we managed to ledge our way. into the last through train to Berlin. We were side-tracked Innumerable times to allow troop trains to pass through, and we were re- quired to keep our windows closed so that no enemy passenger coulddrop bombs on the bridges we crossed. it Was a hot August night and the lack of ventilation was most oppressive. Our compartment WAS crowded with ofecers on their way to join their regi- ments and very grand and important they felt in their new 1eld-gray uni- forms wbich may have long been put away in moth balls for just this oppor- tunity, but which took the German peo- ple as well stn the allies eoMpleteiy by rrtsr�i�.e: . y_ f arelbe . which In absSt hat. Wily betweeae i'ranhtort and Berlin, a telnpany of soldiers 'boarded the train MI guarded the corridors while a, non, m • ndesIonned offiQu cer estioned the My wife, who was asleep In at+ ear* nerr of the coupe i, was the only worse an be the compartment. Believing that her deep might be feigned and eke. might, he fact, be a man is woman's clothing, the officer yelped at ber: "'Where are your goingr Uer Ameri- can accent, revealed when she alt• rwered frim, incensed Idin the mox+e and he demanded angrily: "What right have you to use this train? Where is your passport'!" By thee time ?^ had produced all the papers of identification I could find and tried to tell Min that my wife and I were returning to our bore in Berlin, but he was too excited to listen and would have dragged us off the tralg had not an officer, with whom 1 had been talking en route, intervened and said: "I dell make myself personalty responsible for these people." I wait glad I bad admired his new uniform. From the coupe next to ours I saw soldiers drag efx Russians.• throw them down sad kick them in the facet and one was a woman! The trate pulled out es tate crowd dosed in on them so that I was unable to ascertain the fate of those Innocent but helpless passen- gers. When ' we finally reached Berlin. about fire the next morning, it seeded like ea% dead city. There was not droschke, a taxi or a tram is sight. Every available means of locomotion had been mobilised for the time being. As we had heavy bap, we simply had to find something to take us home and after half an hour's search far from the station I found an old cab driver who thought he could take us forthe liberal bonus I agreed to .pay him. We hid hardly got seated when an officer tried to force ns out, and 'only nay wife's quick plea of illness saved him a black eye and me iron bus or a large fine; After England declared war, the ef- torts: to capture spies were doubled, ,.x and the inob had a new lot of signs t• tear down. We were forbidden to talk Englitebt, on the telephone or on the Street. We kept to our homes rather Closely. Most of the buses, taxIced and horses had been commandeered. and the only signs of life in Berlin were furnished by the officers driving ]sadly about In high-powered can which exceeded all speed limits and ether traffic regulations. After a few days, things began to re• turn to normal again. The food sup• ply seemed ample and the headlines is the newspapers were so encouraging and the reports of victories upon vice tories so convincing that every one ex- pected the war to be over within a eery short time and they began to eat up the stores they had so excitedly collected. Bread cards were initiated, it Is true, but the amount allowed was more than adequate for all except, perhaps, the Very poor who depend altruist entirely upon bread. The press began advising the pee. pie to conserve food • but at the same time said that if care was taken there was no danger of there not being enough for all. School teachers gave daily talks to the children to eat every- thing on their plates. Ona went so far as to announce: "I always lick my plate, children, and you should do the same 1" The result hi these warnings wait merely to increase hoarding and buy- ing from food speealators. I never knew of a single German who volute. tartly deprived himself of a single article of food out of patriotic mo- tives. The only sacrifice a German is willing to make for his country -is the One he cannot escape. As time went on Weld Englabd's blockade became increasingly effective, the internal condition of Germane went from bad to worse, and long be- fore I left Berlin, on January 22, 1918, conditions had become well-nigh un- bearable, CHAPTER XVII. ~?, The Economic Situation in Germany. By the spring of 1916, butter and meat had become extremely scarce in Berlin. My wife had remained in America, where she had accompanied me in the summer of 1915, and during her absence I dined at hotels and res- tanrants where the food was stili rather good. In June, 1918, I left for America again and just as I was leav- ing easing meat cards were Issued for the Ann time. I returned to Berlin with my family in October, 1916. Conditions had. changed considerably for the worse during the summer. I found that every one who had the money had bought up every available pound of food and soap which had not already been commandeered by the govern- ment. flutter, potatoes, eggs, milk, flour, 'sugar, soap, bread and meat and dry groceries were all rationed and it was now no longer necessary for wom- en to stand in line in front of the shops, sometimes all night, to await the morning opening, Shopping by the card system was very complicated and the quantities permitted by the ration cards so small that a well-balanced meal was an im- possibility. To dine in a restaurant it was necessary to take a whole pocket- ful of cards and, make a careful analy- bis of them before ordering the mea- ger meal which the law allowed. Empty boxes were used to decorate the depleted show windows of the tehops. The fact that they were empty was not known to theublic and p very often the windows would be broken by hungry 'mobs who couldn't resist the Sight of What appeared to be so much food. This led the government to or- 4ex the wboatteeners to. -tine boxes,; 00D FOR LAYING BIRDS Most Economical Ratwwn,in View of Conditions, Discussed. Contagious Abortion Matter Tem& sary the Sale of Valuable Animals at a 8aerffice —. The Disease,. However, Will Weld' to the Trade meat as Explained.. leentributed by Ontario Department et Apiculture. 'Toronto) PULLET requires more feed than a hen, ff it fs .Intended that the pullet produce epi. A bird to lay well must have a surplus of feed over and above body maintenance.: The excess of feed above body maintenance geao either towards growth fat, or egg production. Poultry feeds are divided Into twat elasses; one, whole or cracked grains, commonly called scratch feel. and the other; ground grains, commonly called mash. Scratch feeds are generally fed night and morning and are scattered in straw in order to induce the birdie to scratch or take exercise. A nets. ture of two or more kinds of grabs usually gives better results than one. singfe grain, largely because inda. vidual birds' appetites vary from day, to day. A good mixture for the win- ter months might contain as much as fifty per cent. good corn, either. whole or cracked; if corn eould not be had and the birds were aceaS- tomed to eating buekwheat. the buckwheat would answer nearly as well, or one could use twenty -ire pea sent. buckwheat and twenty-five per cent. corn. To the corn or buckwheat could be added twenty -Ave per sent. of barley, ten per cent. of wheat sereenings, and fifteen per tent. of good oats. If one was obliged to de' so, almost any of the grains could be fed alone with the exception of oats. There is too much hall or husk on oats to use entirely as a single feed. At present for a mash feed we are urGng the standard hog feed. H the ground grains are to be fed moist or mixed with cooked house. hold refuse then the mixture should be one that will Mix to a crumbly state, but if fed dry in an open bolo Per the above is not so important. The mash feed is the one where the animal meals are generally gives. The amounts vary from ten to tweet. ty per cent. of the mixture. The We mal meals used are commonly higbi grade tankage and beef scrap. Where one has plenty of skim milk or buttermilk the other animal feed* are unnecessary. Some use green cut bone; cooked refuse meat, such as livers, lights, beef heads. eto. A eery good mash can be made of one part each by measure at shorts, barley meal, and ground oats. Corn meal could be used in the plate of the barley or with it. if one is short of green feed or roots, it would be well to add one part of bran. Per- haps the simplest mash to feed from an open hopper is rolled or crushed - oats.. We have used this, when the birds had milk to drink, fqr a num- ber of years with excellent results. greefhens require plenty ce eed. Cabbage le one 01 the best green feeds. Roots are very good, but clover leaves should be within reach as well as the roots. Sprouted oats are used to a large extent on poultry farms. When the birds get accustomed to a green and succulent food it is generally wise to give them all they will eat. A pea of fifteen pullets will eat a fair -wised head of cabbage almost every day or one hundred hens will eat a peck of sprouted oats day after day. Grit and shell should always be within easy access.—Prof. W. Pe Graham, O. A. College, Guelph. Abortion Should Not Be Neglected. Some cases of abortion are the re- sult of injury to the dam due to se* nasty fall or bad kick. In such cases the trouble is not likely to spread to other members of the herd. With the majority of abortion cases, howevver, the trouble is due to an infections disease which is very readily spread to other members of the herd. The disease apparently is localised almost entirely to the uterus. Here an inflammation is produced which may result in the expulsion of the foetus, dead or alive, at any period of gestation. In most cases of infer. tious abortion, however, the foetus is expelled dead. A frequent complica- tion of such a case is the retention of the foetal membranes by the darn. If these are not removed after a few hours, death front blood poisoning is almost sure to occur. The bacilli which cause the disease are present in large numbers in the fluids, foetal membranes and foetus. Consequently, every care is necessary to prevent these from contaminating anything with which other stock is likely to come in contact, either di- rectly or indirectly. A11 should be gathered tip carefully and burned or else buried deeply in quick lime. Then the hands and clothes of those in attendance should be thoroughly wash 'with a e disinfectant, and a strong disinfectant used freely all around the stall, particularly on the floor. The dam should be kept in. a stall by herself, as there will be a field discharge from the vulva which may last_ for weeks. Disiefeutants should be freely Used in the stalls, and the external genitals, thighs, tail and back of udder should be washed daily with factory disinfectant solution. For this purpose a two -per cent. solution of lysol is strongly recommended. Strict attention Should be paid by the attendant to the thorough dig- infection of his hands or other parte of his person or clothes after ham,' filing the patient. The dam should not be bred again C until twine weeks after all disebarae, from the vulva has stopped. ---Prof. D. Ii', ,tones, Ontario ,&.gricultuatJ College, Guelah. . 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