HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1916-6-1, Page 2THE STORY OF THE "EMDEN"
(Concluded from last week,)
At about 9,20 a.m„ while this work
was still in progress, the cruiser blew
her siren to recall her men. Soon
afterwards a cloud of smoke was seen
on the horizon, and presently this re-
sole ed itself into the Sydney, steam-
ing toward the island at twenty knots,
Von Muller, leaving his party ashore,
at once proceeded to meet her, and
soon afterwards fired the first shot
of the engagement, The Sydney re-
plied, and to start with the firing on
. both sides was very accurate, The
Australian ship, however, being the
faster vessel, armed with .the heivier
guns, could chose her own range for
fighting, and steaming to and fro
across the bows of her opponent,
poured in a heavy fire with out receiv-
ing much punishment in return. The
effect of her 6 -inch lyddite'shells must
have been appalling, for the raider's
fire slackened very rapidly, and before able to drive them off,
long her foremost funnel and fore- The state of some of the Emden's
mast were shot away. Then a bad wounded was deplorable. Already
fire broke out in the stern, and the many of their hurts were gangrenous;
second and third funnels fell. But but with infinite care and no little
even then Von Muller did not intend risk they were all taken on board the
Sydney, where the doctor, assisted
by the surgeon and some assistants
from the cable station, did all he could
to alleviate their sufferings: Over
one hundred officers and men of the
Emden had been killed during the
action, while fully fifty more had been
wounded, and of these several died
subsequently.
The ship herself was in a terrible
state. All three funnels and the
foremast had fallen, while superstru-
cture, boats, deck fittings, and hull
were riddled through and through
with high -explosive shell splinters.
The Sydney's casualties were com-
paratively light, only three men be-
ing killed and fifteen wounded, and
they all occurred at the start of the
engagement. The ship was only hit
ten times, and was barely damaged.
The details of the two vessels were
as follows: Sydney -5440 tons, 25.5
condition; so Captain Glossop remov- knots, nine 6 -inch guns, four 3 -pound-
ed the men, fired te few shells into her ars; Emden -3544 tons. 24,5 knots,
to expedite the foundering, and then twelve 4:1 -inch guns. From that it
returned to the Emden and asked by will be seen that the Sydney had a
signal if she surrendered. No reply great advantage, particularly as her
was instantly forthcoming; but after superior speed and heaver guns en -
another brief bombardment the Ger- abled her to keep off to a range at
man hauled down her colors and which the German's weapons could in -
showed the white flag. She could 'Bet little damage.
do little else; her career was at an
end.
Meanwhile the three German offic-
ers and forty men who had landed on
the other island had seen their ship
steam away to engage the Sydney,
and, after watching the preliminary
a 'promise from him to the effect that
the Germans would not attempt to
damage his ship, Captain Glossop em-
barked all the survivors. The, work
of transporting the wounded was a
very difficult task, for the heavy swell
on the reef made it dangerous for
boats to go alongside the stranded
raider. Some of the crew had man-
aged to get ashore in spite of the
surf; and it was here, it is said, that
several o fthe more badly wounded,
unable to help themselves, were at-
tacked by the enormous land -crabs
with which the islands abound. The
story has often been put down as un-
true; bat from personal experience of
Keeling Cocos. the writer can . affirm
that the crabs, ferocious -looking
creatures a foot to eighteen inches
across, with large claws strong en-
ough to break through the shell of a
ripe coca -mit, are quite capable of at-
tacking a wounded man who is un-
to surrender his ship, though, over-
matched as be was, he certainly had a
justifiable excuse for doing so; and at
eleven o'clock, with his decks covered
-with dead and wounded, and his ves-
sel little more than a floating wreck,
he turned for the beach at North Keel-
ing Island. At about 11.20 she struck
the coral -reef with a crash, blazing'
furiously, but with her colors still
flying. The Sydney approached, gave
her a couple more broadsides to finish
her'off, and then steamed away in pur-
suit of a merchant -ship which had
hove in sight during the action.
This vessel was the collier Buresk,
which had been captured by the Em-
den at the end of September, and
from which she had doubtless intended
to replenish her coal during her stay
at Keeling Cocos. But when the
Sydney came up with her it was found
that she had been badly damaged by
her prize crew and was in a sinking
AT 35 HE HAS
HUGE FORTUH
MARCELLU:S }TARTLET DODGE IS
VERT'IUCH,
Was Left $30,000,000 and Made 360,-
000,000 Himself in War
Munitions.
Mr. Marcellus Hartley Dodge, of
New York, is, at the age of 35, the
richest individual of his age in the
United States bo -day.
Out of the smoke of cannon and
rifle fire in Europe has come mot of
his immense fortune, now estimated
at $80,000,000. And, through the Eu-
ropean conflict, it is increasing daily
at the rate of thousands of dollars.'
Marcellus Hartley Dodge is a new
type of the American Croesus. He
never has speculated, and he never
has gone out to get what he was af-
ter. Wealth always has come to him,
seemingly without his bidding.
His grandfather, Marcellus Hart=
ley, owned a firearms and sporting
goods store on Broadway. He also
controlled the Remington Arms and
Ammunition Company and the Union
Metallic Cartridge Company. He had
two daughters. One of them became
Mrs. Jenkins and the other Mrs.
Dodge.
Hartley outlived Mrs, Dodge. Af-
ter her death he took a great interest.
in her son. He had the boy with
him as much as possible, He trained
him carefully in business methods,
sent him through High school, and
then to Columbia University.
Inherited $20,000,000.
Just before he had finished his
studies at Columbia his grandfather Produce more feed than three acres of hay. In looking over the beef herd
died. When the will was read he natural grass pasture. An expert- at the Ontario Agricultural College a
found himself worth $20,000,000. Hast meat conducted at Guelph last sum- few days ago, we remarked that never
ley had left 340,000,000, and the other mer illustrates this fully. had we seen, at that Institution, a bet
half of it went to Mrs. Jenkins. In one field we had 28 acres of ar- ter lot of calves, all in excellent con -
One of the first honors bestowed on able land, four acres in natural grass dition and apparently good doers. We
him -before he had reached his ma -
ed
and four acres in rough land enquired as to what they were being
jority—was his election as a director and woods. The mixture mention- fed. Of course, they were sucking
of the Equibable Life Assurance So- ed was sown on April 30, with an ad- the cows, but calves four, five and six
ciety. That was before he left the dition of two and one-half pounds months old were getting, besides all
university. When he was graduated Canadian blue grass; two and one- the good hay they would eat, about
one of his friends said to him: "See half pounds meadow fescue, these three pounds per day of a mixture
here, Marcellus, you've worked pretty grasses being added to provide pas- composed of half rolled oats and half
hard. Why don't you take a rest? A Lure for the next year. On June 8 bean. It looks as if this was a good
nice trip to Europe would help a lot" we turned into able field 14 mature I mixture of grain for the calf being
"Not for me," he replied. "I'm go-
ing to work, and I'm going to -day.
Good-bye, boys." And then he jump-
ed on a car and rode down to the
sporting goods store where his grand-
father had his office. That was the
ON ' THE FARM
This Experiment Favors Pasture.
The problem that many farmers
are endeavoring to solve is the proper
relationship between number. of acres
and number of cows. Generally i
would say that it does • not pay.to
put a large herd of cows on a farm
too small to afford pasturage for
them. Our results at the Ontario
Agricultural College go to show that
as cheap milk cannot be produced in
the stable in summer es can be produc-
ed on pasture. At Guelph we pastured
32 cows, which produced in four
months 81,550 lbs, of ,milk ata cost
of $308.28. This figures' out to a
production cost of 46 cents a cwt., of
milk, and 11 cents a pound butter fat:
In the stable we fed 16 mature cows,
They were better individuals than the
cows on pasture. In the same four
months they produced 56,290 lbs. of
milk at a cost of $426,21, which figures
out to 86 cents a cwt. of milk and 22
cents a pound butter fat, or very
nearly double the cost of milk pro-
duced on pasture.
One of the causes of high costing
milk' in the summer may he too much
poor pasture. . The natural grasses
in Ontario do not produce pasture for
the cows for more than one-half of
the ,summer, and there is no part of
the farm where manure and seed can
be more profitably expended than in
the production of an annual pasture
crop. The seeding mixture that I
would recommend for .this purpose
is one bushel of spring wheat, one
bushel of oats, one bushel of barley
and five to seven pounds of red clover.
One acre of this annual pasture will
One
Tea-
spoon-
full
ea-
spoon-
ful
of, "SALADA" for every tteo cups -boiling
water—and five minutes' infusion will produce
a most delicious and in'vigoratiig. beverage.
SEND FOR A TRIAL:
PACKET
Mall us a postal saying
how much you now pay
for ordinary tea, and tho
blend you prefer—Fllack,
Mixed or Green.
"SA.LAAA," TORONTO.
TEA
Mate Up the Strongest Birds.
Poultry -raising is considered only a
side -line on most farms, but there k
B191 no reason why a side-Iioe sheulci not
he made profitable as possible. There
are good, better and hose birds in
every flock, but eggs are saved pro-
miscuously from the entire flock for
hatching purposes. The bird with a
poor eonetitution that has never been
noted for laying heavily when eggs
are a high price, is permitted to pro-
pagate its kind as well ea the strong,
robust bird which loos been a producer
all winter. Naturally the poultry-
man
oultry
man prefers his best birds, but if like
tends to produce like it is impossible
to improve the flock unless a selec-
tion is made at breeding .time. On
the average farm' possibly one hun-
dred and fifty eggs are required for
hatching purposes during the sea-
son. ' This number could 'easily be
et -applied by ten or a dozen birds in
the time required. Instead,of buying
two or three cockerels to put with the
entire flock, purchase one good male
bird to mate with a pen of tho choic-
est females, and use the eggs from
these birds to produce the next year's.
flock. The remainder of the flock
could be used for producing eggs for
market purposes. Raising a flock
from selected birds every year will
materially improve the birds' appear-
ance and increase their value. Selec-
tion is of paramount importance in.
working toward profitable poultry
breeding. Yearling hens mated with
a cockerel will usually give a higher
percentage of fertile eggs than will
pullets which have been laying heav-
ily all winter. An endeavor should
be made to have all chick% hatched by
fectiveness at each assault makes it the middle,of May. Pullets hatched
worth while for the French to stay. I during the latter part of April or the
Most of, the French losses were right first of May should he developed suf-
at the beginning pf the battle. They
were so great during the first week
that Gen. Joffre wantedc to give it up,
but Gen. de Castelnau, ommander in select the most productive ben by her
Chief of the armies in the field, beg- I appearance. Very often it isnot the
ged permission to send up Gen: Petain' most showy bird that is the heaviest
with his crack troops,' the mobile armyproducer. By trap -nesting is the
of France.
A Million Shells a Day.
The Germans opened bheir offensive
against Verdun in February by drop-
ping a million shells a day into the
French trenches, It seemed like mad-
ness to try to hold out in a disadvant-
ageous position against them, and
Joffre, looking to the military advant-
age alone, wanted to abapdon the fort gy raying close attention for a few
and withdraw to the shorter, stronger days it is possible to pick out fairly
lines west of the Meuse. But Gen. de accm•ately the hens for the mating
Castelnau, having his ear to the pen, With the white -lobed- and yel-
effect,and realizing the bad moral low-shanked breeds it is usually be -
effect, argued him out of it, lieved that the brighter the color the
When the two Generals fought it better the bifid. However, it is
out in council at the very height of claimed by some poultrymen that
the first attack, de Castelnau talked these birds are notalwaysthe best
for two hours straight before he won layers. The color' of the lobes, or
his point, and raced to Verdun late at shanks, is decreased, with the increas-
night to take command. The Ger-
ed number of eggs laid, owing to the
mans at that time were coming stead- yolk of the egg absorbing the pigment
ily on, the French falling back, on t matter: If this is the case the bird
orders, before them. So de Castel -j with coil colored ear -lobes and,
nau raced in a closed motor car, with i shanks 10 the spring would be counted
war maps on his knees, and the trench the best layer. Endeavor to pick out
commanders heard nothing more in- i
spiriting over the telephone than a'• the best birds and mats them rather
curt command to hold. I than save eggs from the entire flock
Before de Castelnau was able to for hatching purposes.—Farmer's Ad -
organize his defence, the Germans, � vocate,
marching under the protection of a
deluge of shells, had already reached
Douamont. They had the town and ' Sitting Hens.
it seemed so certain they_ would have In all probability it is the sitting
the fort too that they announced the
fall of the fort a ]ittIe too soon. For hen that suffers most from lice and
it did not fall. Just at that bine the mites, though sick hens have much the
counter -offensive hit the German ' ad soma trouble. Inactivity on the part
vance. Gen. Detain arrived with' his of the hens means a great increase
picked army of 450,000 men, the mo -
and
the number'o.f the ]ice at all tunes;
bile army, the test body of troops in and offers- the best opportunity.for
Europe. the attack of mites. Many sitting
Kept Out of Verdun.. hens are literally driven from their
First the Moroccan volunteers, nest_. by these pests, and it is not a
rare thing to find that the hen has
Frenchmen who had been serving been killed by the' mites.
in Africa, were thrown against the
Germane. They are the most •'ad- Not only is the sitting hen lase-
venturous of all -the French troops five, but the nest made for her is very
and they would have been insulted if commonly placed in dark recesses
any other troops had been. sent into where she will be Jess likely to be dis-
the danger before them. They caught Curbed by other hens or by the keep-
She full force of the German rush on err, hence the is placed under condi-
Douaumont, and their acts of heroism
bushels; beets, 6Ibs.; cabbage, 1/s lb.,
one ounce equals 2,000 plants, car-
rot„ 4 lbs.; cauliflower, r/* Ib.; celery,
'/z ib.; cow peas, Si bushel; cucumber,
2lbs.; kale, 4lbs.; lettuce, 1 lb.,
equalling 1-3 ounce to 50 feet of row;
melon, musk, albs.; melon, water, 4
lbs.; millet, 1 to 3 pecks; onions, 5
lbs., equalling 3s ounce to 50 feet of
row; parsnips, 6 lbs:; potatoes, 8 to
12 bushels, equalling 25 tubers per
50 feet of row; pumpkins, 5 • lbs.;
radish; 10 lbs.; spinach, 12 lbs., equal-
ling 1/a oz. to 50 feet; squash, 4 lbs..
to 6 lbs.; sweet potato, 11 to •4
bushels; tomato, 1/.s lb. or 33 plants in
50 feet; turnips, 11b, or 1 ounce to
60 feet of row.
Oats and Bran for the Calf.
The beef -calf must be kept growing
from the start. In the pure-bred
herds it generally sucks the cow from
the beginning. As time goes on it
is necessary to give some grain, pulp-
ed roots,.. silage and alfalfa or clover
But Von Moller, overmatched as be beginning of his career,
was, fought his ship very gallantly, For three years Marcellus Hartley
and throughout the whole of his Dodge "kept his nose to the g'rind-
career he had behaved in what, for stone." Then, in his steam -yacht
want of a better word, we may calla Wakiva he went on an extensive cruise
thoroughly gentlemanly manner. He in South American waters, including
never took life unnecessarily, and was a voyage of exploration up the Arne -
guessing of the action and guessing always courteous and considerate to- zon.
Ad -
what the result would be had seized ward his victims; and when the Ad- That was his first vacation. And
and privisioned the 70 -ton schooner miralty gave orders that he and his yet it wasn't a real "young man's
Ayesha, belonging to Mr. Ross, the officers were to be accorded all the outing," for he took with him a party
owner of the islands. They had with honors of. war, and were to be allow- of scientisbs who studied the flora
them four Maxim guns and ammuni ed to retain their swords, their lord- and fauna of the Amazon regions,
tion, and sailed at 6 p.m•, while the
Sydney was still absent at North
Keeling. The subsepuent adventures
of this party must have provided ex-
cellent material for a most interesting
book, for, after crossing the Indian
Ocean under sail, the schooner even-
tually arrived at the Turkish port of
Jeddah, in the Red Sea. Here her
crew left her and went ashore, and
after an overland journey through
Asia Minor, with many adventures,
including several attacks by bands of
wandering Arabs, eventually arrived
in Constantinople.
Early on 10th November, the day
following the engegement, the Sydney
set about succouring the Emden's
wounded. Captain Von 'Muller him-
self was unhurt, and after receiving
I1.°4digestion
and
t iliousness
*;
Indigestion, biliousness, head-
aches, flatulence, pains after
eating, constipation, are all com-
mon symptoms of stomach and
liver troubles. And the more
you neglect thein the more you
suffer. Take Mother. Seigel's
Syrup if your stomach, liver, or
bowels are slightly deranged or,
MOTHER
EIGEE
SYRUP
have lost tone, Mother Seigel's
Syrup is made from the curative
extracts of certain roots, barks,
and leaves, which have a re-
markable tonic and strengthen-
ing effect on all the organs of
digestion,. The distressing symp-
toins of indigestion or liver
troubles soon disappear under
its beneficial action. Buy a
bottle to -day, but be sure you
get the genuine Mother Scieel's
Syrup, There are many intita-
kions, but not one that hives the
sante health beaents. lolS
is the
Rme,...
} Remedy
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NOW 501.1) 15 IWO S17FS 0MLY,
FULL 81-1, Pelee 1 A0 TRIAL B1rs, Pelee0Oe
ships only voiced the sentiments, of
the British public, in whom a love of
of fairplay is innate. Captain Von
Muller was a 'sportsman.' His ex-
ploits were rather akin to those •of
the celebrated Lord Cochrane; and in
carrying on his war against British
commerce he ran daily risks of being
brought to action and destroyed by a
superior force, while all along he must
have realised that his eventual cap-
ture was only a matter' of time.
He did his work well, too well from
our point of view; but, enemy though
he was, his sporting behaviour rather
appealed to the hearts of British peo-
Married Miss Rockefeller.
In 1907—the year following the Am-
azon cruise -young Dodge married
Ethel Geraldine Rockefeller, daughter
of William Rockefeller and niece of
John D. The match was a romance
pure and simple, and strangely enough
the grim god Mammon didn't figure
in it,. although each of the young
people was worth millions.
Miss Rockefeller brought to her
husband fully 375,000,000. Yet be
would not take one penny of it.
The young man's duties when as a
Benedict he settled down to the rou-
ple. tine of business life consisted in look -
The Sydney rendered a great ser- ing after the Remington Arms &
vice in ridding the sea of the notorious Ammunition Company and the Union
raidtr, and the congratulatory mes- Metallic Cartridge, Company, those
sage from the First Lord of the Ad- plants having been left to the family
miralty—'Warmest congratulations on by his grandfather.
the brilliant entry of the Australian It was a steady "grind" for him
navy into the war. and the signal ser- until August, 1914, when his great
vice rendered to the Allied cause and opportunity came. The war in Europe
to peaceful commerce by the clestruc- brought it. He secured a contract
tion of the Emden'—was thoroughly from the British Government for 33, -
well deserved, more so than ever be- 200,000 worth of ammunition,
cause many of the Sydney's men were Early in 1915, soon afber the execu-
Australian seamen, who behaved mag- tion of this contract the alert Mr.
niflicently under fire. Dodge organized the Remington Arne
The news of the Emden's destruc- Company of Delaware for the pur-
tion was received with great acclama- pose of manufacturing military rifles,
tion at Lloyd's and by shipowners. gen- as distinguished from the sports-
erally, for her successful forays had man's. rifle turned out in the Bridge -
put the premiums up and had ecce- port (Connecticut). factory of the
sioned no little -concern on the incur_ Remington Arms and Ammunition
ance markets. Ducting her cm- Company.
paratively brief career she sank yes -Big Order—No Plant.
sels worth about six hundred and fifty That was a master stroke 'in busi
thousand pounds, carrying cargoes to
the approximate value of three mil-
lions sterling; and this result only
shows what an enormous amount of
damage could have been done on our
trade routes if the Admiralty methods
of dealing with. Hostile commerce de-
stroyers had not been so effective and
efficient.
It is believed that the Common
wealth Government has recently ac-
cepted a tender for the salvage of
the Emden and her removal to Aus-
tralia. If the venture is a success,
Australia will have a monument of
which she may well he proud; for, it
it does nothing else, it will show that
her home-bred seamen are as capable
of giving ns good an account of them-
selvee in action as are her gallant
troops now adding to their already
line record. in the Gallipoli Peninsula.
P
o
(The End.)
It isn't difficult to retain your
Mende if you do not put them to the
gold test.
beef cows, six beef heifers one totwo !raised as these calves are,'.in fact it
years old 17 dairy heifers one to two`is not a very bad grain mixture for
any calf.—Farmer's Advocate.
and one-half years old, four dry dairy
cows and 32 milking dairy cows.
Altogether we pastured on the field '75
head of cattle from June 8 to August
21. Then the 32 cows were taken off
to second growth clover, and on Sept-
ember 8th the 14 beef cows were re-
moved.
There was not time during the sea-
son when that pasture could not have
carried more cattle. I will admit
that last season, with its extreme
humidity, was unusually favorable to
such an experiment as this,. The
only supplementary feeding was to
some cows running in Record of Per-
formance. In an ordinary season the
results might not be so good, but in
any season they would more than
justify this method of feeding. Na-
tural grass pasture requirestwo acres
to an animal, or 35 a cow, rent or
interest on moderately priced land.
Then there would be another $5 for
the supplementary feeding necessary,
or 310 a cow. Our pasture carried
75 head at a total cost of $548, or
37.50 a cow.—E. S. Leithch, in Farm
and Dairy, 0. A. C.
Business Methods in Farming.
The present is an opportune time
for putting the live stock industry on
a more business -like basis, says E. S.
Archibald, B.A., B.S.A,, Ottawa, in an
address. S do not think that anyone
would deny that there is room for
great improvement along this line.
Even on the best of our farms there
is a constant waste. Our endeavor
should be to plug the .leaks. The
only secret of improvement in this
regard is the application of more bus-
iness -like methods, The present
Mine, when the demands upon our
farmers are so great, seems t0 me.
to be a very opportune one for im-
provement in farm 'management and
for introducing more efficient methods
into our farm practice.
The fixed charges on a farm are the
same whether it is run at a profit or
a loss. The interest on the capital
invested in farm, buildings and equip-
ment is so constant charge against the
business. These overhead or fixed
charges cannot be tut down, but their
nese. The fillet thing the new cam- relative amount can be very material-
pany did was to obtain a contract ly lowered by increasing the volume
from the allies for the manufacture of business and cutting down losses.
of 2,000,000 Lee -Enfield rifles, And By keeping better cows and feeding
at Shat time it had no plant, But it •them better, and by growing more
leased the Eddystone plant of the' and better feedstuffs from the same
Baldwin Locomotive Company and i ground,the volume of the business.
equipped it for a large rifle produc-]can bincreased. Reasonable co -
tion. operation in buying and selling and
In October, 1015, the Midvale Steel in general community work nbreed-
and Ordnance Company was iecorpor- ing will greatly increase the income of
ated for 3100,000,000 in Delaware. At the individual farmer without increas-
its first meeting, held in New 'York, !ing the overhead chargai he hes to
the new corporation acquired the Rem- meet. This increased income direet-
ington Arms; Company of Delaware,l ly tends, therefore, to increase the
paying 320,000,000 in stock, or in profits on his business,
other words, giving Mils. Dodge 4110,0001
shares of New, Midvale securities. /low Muth Seed Per Acre ?
The par vitlue of the New Midvale Amount of seedto sow per acre is
.
stock then was $.r�0' ashare. One as follows:. Alfalfa, 15 to 26 lbs.,
month later, after the new Midvale ! br'oadeast oe drill; barley, eight to
stork had lumped from 50 to 97 and ten pecks; blue erase, 25 ibs.; brute
then Bottled dower at ..., Dodge had grass, 12 to 20 lbs,; buckwheat, J
sold out the greater part of his hold- bushel; covet', 16 lbs.; corn, 10 quarts]
lege,
oats, 2 to 3 buthe's; orchard grass, 30
lbs.; pons, 8 bushels; red top, 10 lbs.;
When a man is paid for playing he rye, 3 to 6 pecks; wheat, 6 to 9
calls it work. pecke; asparagus, 5 1bs.; beams, 11/4
CAN GET VERDUN
FOR 300,000 MEN
THE PRICE GERMANY WILL
HAVE TO PAY.
When They Got the Toyrn They Would
Find It An Empty
Victory.
If the Germans want the overrated
fortress of Verdun badly en6ugh they
can take it by the middle of July at a
total cost of 300,000 men, says Amo
Dosch-Flemst, writing in the New
York World. Then when they get it
they will find they have a hollow vic-
tory. The French will simply withdraw
to a much stronger position they al-
ready have fortified on the west bank
of the Meuse.
Verdun has been in a precarious
position ever since bhe beginning of
the war, when the Germans in their
original rush against a half -ready
French army seized among other
places the strategical position on the
heights of the Meuse at St. Mihiel.
They swept around three sides of Ver-
dun and could nob be dislodged with-
out paying a price in lives which the
French General Staff has never con-
sidered worth while.
Forts of Little Value.
Since that time the value of forts
as forts has greatly diminished. Ver-
dun by itself could have been blown
to pieces, but the new trench fortifi-
cations in front of it have protected
it from assault. The trench fortifi-
cations have done the real work,
and for months now Verdun, as a
fortress, has not been worth fighting
for.
The French people, whose morale
is one of the' most important con They paid for Douaumont and so did tion of the nests may reveal swarms
siderat]ons at this tense moment of the divisions that followed, but they of. these mites well filled with the
the war are beginning to realize the prevented the Germans from sweep, blood of the hen that was covered or
facts about Verdun, and if it falls ing into Verdun. too far away from the direct sunlight.
In order to guard against this, it is
well to prepare for such emergencies,
painting the nest boxes' with carbot-
eniumelate in the winter or in early
spring, giving time for them to dry
thoroughly before they are to be used,
by using clean nesting motorial, by
placing the nests where some sun-
light will reach them, and if covering
is needed, wire will be found prefer-
able to board6.
In case the ]ren has been treated
not long before sitting with mercurial
ointment, no further treatment may
be necessary, but if large numbers of
234 lice are found on the hen, use the oint-
ment sparingly so as to avoid any
excess that would grease tine eggs, as
this might injure the developing
embryo within by cutting off the sup-
ply of oxygen coming through the
pores ttf the shell.
If doting is practised, it will be
felted' noosrsaary lee repeat the appli-
cation if the numbers are to be re-
duced, hence further dicturbance evith
Mcre clanger of broken egge will oc-
eur•.--Storrs Experiment Station,
now they will not consider it a defeat.
If it had fallen after only two or three
weeks of assault, it would have
been a great victory for the Germans,
particularly on account of the moral
effect on France, but it would have
no moral effect now. The French peo-
ple know how dearly the Germans
have paid for every trench.
Saving Soldiers.
If bhe German offensive continues
at Verdun until it is no longer worth
while holding, the French people will
be ready and anxious to give it up
before the army is ready. For it is
also an expensivebusiness holding
Verdun and the French are becoming
chary of the lives of their sons. So
far Verdun has cost the Germans be-
tween 140,000 and 150,000 men and
hascost the French about 90,000. The
French will nob continue to suffer in
that proportion from now on and will
not pay a total of more than 180,000
against the German 300,000.
The French, having already an eye
to the end of the war, hate to lose that
many sons, though they inflict a loss
more than twice as large on the Ger-
mans. Only the loss of German ef-
flciently to commence laying in the
early fall.
It is rather a difficult matter to
only accurate way of picking out the
bird that lays the most eggs, when ,
eggs are high in price. Where trap
nests are not used a square -built,
strong -framed bird, showing good
constitution, that is first to leave the
roost in the morning and Last to go
to roost at night with a full crop, is
tions best suited for the mites to
under the annihilating shells would work, not only during the night but
have to be 'counted by the thousands. much of the day. A close examina-
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