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The Lucknow Sentinel, 1915-07-22, Page 3AL Rf4PORT. .01:,.: .110N. AMES So DIff' THE REPUBLIC GERMANY °WARS INCREASE IN IMBY :ON SILENT .ENEMY DEM RAW lintereatinx Pointer* 13y the Ontai:io Minister el Aviculture. *Farm:era' CIulni in Ontario now totel over 300. Ontario's Horticultural Soeietiee have 14,000meMbera enrolled. The. attendance at Varmerie and Women's Inetitilte ,meetings laet Year totalled 801,237. • Methods of bolding Celery Blight iii check have been demonstrated ).y the the Depeetineat.,--- Repreaentatives are tithing a live stock census in the counties. in Which they are located. Varieties of corn are being tested , by the Departnient to ascertain the 3?.eet far silage Purposes. , ' Onion Smut is reperted in Ontario for the. 'first time and means have been adopted toelteep ittiadee control. Eighty-five Wort. 001=400 in stock And Seed judging were heldlast year Upder the directioia -ef :the Depart,. Ment. The DeeartMent last year pablished 200;000 bulletins and 201,000 .annual, • reperte; in adition. to. 35,000 crop re- ports. Local apiary A0MenStratiana, 344 ling 65, were held in the province last' :Yea!, for the better instruction of bee- keeper. ; Foul Breed." Among Deese .while -* held in check by the methods of the Department, does net eaein to be die,. appearing. The patarie Veterinary College, Which is under the"Proviacial Depart- ment of Agriculture, had an attend- ance lest year of 234. e'e- Two featuresofWomen"le-Inatitate wOrielast year were Demonetretione e Lecture Ceuraes in Sewing " and .• rood Values and Cooking. Last Year , the - Stationary Engin- eers' Brae* of the Department issued about .8,400,certificates and the Beard ' examined 1,076 candidates: In addition to the Winter Fairs at • Ottawa' and Guelph, the Department gave ,financial assistance to 25. Rem -and 44PoultryShows. Seventy-five percent.of the farm help placed through the Ontario De- partment of "'Agricultere have been placed in yearly - engagements. _ • At The. Macdonald Institute at ,1 Guelph the: attendance' continues to . be limited by the accommodation. The attendance -last year totalled • 741:— Thirty-three dairy instructors . were employed by the Deeertmente and 232 district dairy meetings were _ • held,' With a total attendance of 446. • Thirty Courses- in Agriculture,for farmers'. sons; and held in .various sections of the country,were con- ducted last -year by 'District Represen- tatives. s "Junior Farmers' Improvement As- societions are being organized in ,On- tario • wherever young Men have° ' taken short or other' courses in agri- culture. , Yellow and tittle Peach disease have been practically eliminated in • Oaterhae.eande-measurenelrieveebeen adopted for the control of the Ch_errY Fruit Fly. • . e . 'Alfalfa it being grown - invarious ,-Par,te of the province under. the • tion of the Department, in order to • supply farmere, with. seed suited to this _climate. • ' • , Ontario's share 'of the Federal Oen% e in . aid ' of agriculture was $230,868.83, and of, this $100,000. was . expended on work of District -Re- • presentatives.- -•- . At the Demonstration Farm at Monteith 'many ,settlers *purchased their seed 'last year, and the farm is •also serving to improve the live stock of the district.' • . Large quantities of Vegetablee, are • imported into the province every year, and the Department it 'encour- • • aging Vegetable growers to raise • more vegetables .under glass. In the acre -profit competition hitt 'Year 501 bushels of potatoer were raised on one acre by A Middlesex competitor at a cost of $32.62; and with a net profit of $167,18:. The •average net 'profit of the five coming highest last year in the acre - profit competition for potatoes totall- ed $124.96, and that, of the lowest five was $18.49. ' It- is the aim' ot the Department to have pupils look upon. the Rural SchoolFairas a childrees-organizae • eon,- and separate from the township or county agriteltural feint. , The Ape of electricity on the farm In teitario is inereaeing, owing to the .! . . • The heat .6ow of the imported Dairy Shorthorn herd at the Ontario Agri- cultural College gave 11,000 pounds of milk during the period of inertia thin while four 40W3, averaged 8,600 poaida during their period. • Experiments at the Ontario Agri - 'cultural College continue te Phew thet. the variety of oats known 40 O.A.C. No. 72 is still at the front in all tests and is heitigainore generallygroWn the farmers of • the Province. The eeve. dining hell at the Ontario Agricultural Celine 41 ene of the finest of its kind an the continent. The large • dining -room is equipped to seat 000, .and is without pillar or post to obstruct the view or take UP eleace, The Department , continues the work of making surveys and helding demonstrations. in ditching and tile - laying free of -chug.. Lt year 200, .surveys were ,ialade, covering 180-380 Acres, aael, 1,678 miles of drain. were eRurei .sehoe fidrs are helning tor, interest the yoUth, of Ontario in the land. ','In 1914 there were 148- fairs. lad to Si counties, -*Wang the chile' What Isolated" spur to the east of the dren in 4,301. school's. There •were Apsnnino, ,is easily discernible from 70,002, entries and a, total attendance gat out me the Adriatie, aad feopt the of 95,810; ' . .e. ' " ... . highlandi•ef the "; Austrian border , . Several orchards are rented 'annu. Miles to the north. At the time of ally by the Department to demon- etrete the vehr et Iwo" ottivition) hSuarttiMedarvineo;r0.0 inplEilaitatrhye cliffs sY and dvetrhael pruning and spraying, Deraonstra- strong, wan that auneed along lege tions in packing apples, particularly edge to Titane's summit were a de - in boxes, are given at 'fall faire and fence against crossbows,, javelins, elsewhere. • and catapults. in tbeSe .daYs, of ._eet, Co-operation.andAViarYeta7Branelimodern'Wailare this strength proves has been. established. by the Depart- • more or lese a , alcoves Merit in order . to asinst the agricele OLDEST STATE LSAT WAR WITII GERMANY'. . an Alexia° Wag Founded 16011 Year* 9 Ago hy a Dalmatian Monk, • San Marino, the smallest republic in the World and the oldest state in Europe, bee voted to go into the war . - This tiny republic did not have to malce a formal declaration as the mightier comhataate in the struggle did, for with $an Marino and Austria the relations were somewhat similar to those getweea Montenegro and Tuakeyi there never was peace,. and it was only necessary for San Marino to say that a state of war already ex- isted. Sea Marino thus threat bite the balance some thirty-eight knave Mike of Apenninet raehtk and ValleYS! 950 soldiers and as many offieere as iihe has square miles, and defied the Austrians Ueda' their worst. Altitede and pesition had mach to de with getting San Marino into the, War. The highest peiat of the re- pablie is Monte Titeno, which rifies--4 sheer 'ellif to More than 4,620 'feet ;above _the yeller and, being 0, 110mar MI ONS SPENT TO RID ARMY DIRE EFFECT OF WAR SEEN IN OF VERMIN. Vieinfecting Bath* for Everyone 'Whe *peace Maiden Border Into Germany. Gamailia heroic fight against the "tenth eneesy"-the louse -- has all but been lest in the grand shuffle of the world 'wan and Yetit is not the least dramatic chapter of contemporary history. It began, by being taken for a joke; and the ,Ger- man. high leaders frankly admit that just ea they underrated the English, go they underrated these allies of the Triple Entente. It Was for a long tite amine of revenue to profese ei Immorists; while With "Grand Duke Nicolatie" it furnished a fafora ite rhynie for the German soldiers at the treat in Poland, and every one of their semi -subterranean villas that MO there ben -4 at least one. sign- hoerd with thiesuggeative couplet. ' The field post brought -iin-inereeS- ing tide of heraevverel „tette* from the fighters in the Oat containing ap- pealg to the folks; at home to send oet'eoropoulide and mendicamanta.for • checking the. Unsolicited advances'. of Poheli lice. Many Getman cities •ape propriated fends to send out carloads. of anti -vermin "Liebesgabee to their brave OWIS. But no Hindenburg could etee the irresistible advance Of their Million' armies; in fact, Ilindenhurg played right into their hands by - rounding up hundreds , of thousands . Of Russian prisoners and bringing the enemy into GermenY.• Their success- ful offerisive carried them clear hrough Gerniany VT -the emttle-IfiWire the west; they have gained a firm, foothold in Flanders, around Lille, on the Oise, along:the Aisne. The mat- ter ceased to, be e joke and became feed , for thought for ,professors, ecieatiete, Generals and committees of Gchimrats, person died6Yered that the harmless loking Russian louse was the carrier of the dread "spotted typhus" germ ape' therefore threatening to became a more terrible: scourge than all • the Czar's swarms a Cossacks.. • Costing Millions. • The relentless finish fight against • the "tenth enemy" is on now to the death. It is enlisting some of the best brains in the Raiser's Empire,' . and. all that German hiveetion, hie genuity, .and oreanization can :show. And it is co Genital millions of &Alert: The . it stet: ,s to -aft tack the. enemy in his owe. Country; to attack the problem at its 'solace: Bath trains bath autos; , and bath wagont: are:Wing rushed to the front in the east as fast as they can be equipped and put into Operation. ' Patriotic appeals for funds to carry on this, great fight are being made, with gratifying success. Frequent appelle"--iireepafteof-theee. mili- tary routine hack of the firing line. The compeey, is line& up for review; turist. in solving marketing probleMS In tIke•ftrs`Fla"uf San MOT) va'' to deer la an educatienal. way :with4noineti-neetral-tbeistriatr-eerzu such matters as the name of the oliKhe Venture 'across the pea* drop bzimch would embrace, • down upon these heights for rest and Pure bred surplus • stock of the repairs and ther.i. dart Off to attack herds at the Ontario Agricultural Col- some interior Italian city ,or even lege are Sold periodically by. auction., *Venice, mare than 1,*-milee upthee At the lam sale prices as high at '13 coast. On the Other hand if the went cents per pound was paid for iiteeite into the-war-these-sanieeventureseine on the heofaind the proceeds- of the airmee, drop bombs that would entire sale exceeded 4,000, • . • tear up most of 40- ancient' ivails To clear Ontario of ,eserubse and and destroy her caPital city. Undesirahle, sires the Department :Finally the 'decided that since she proceeding to enforce the law .Which Was part' of Italy' and bound to. that .sequiees the compulsory inepection of country by the, closest relations sh� stallions this law provides that no would risk the bombs rather' than be -grade. stallion shell be allowed to 'dome the base for the manoeuvres Of stand or 'travel after August, 1918. hoe old enemy. • ,. In factories and. eiereantiie estab- FOunded by Monk. •,. lishments, with 229,439 employees and inertectecl under Alia direction oi the .Department. last year, only in 94 St. Marinus laid the foundation of the little nation seine- 1,e00 years ago eases were employees found to be un- ,AccOrding to tradition the founder der 14 years. of age, Dud- in time of the 'Sate was a Dalmatian stone - cases the law was promptly enfore- cutter named Markus, - who after ed. , - • - working for Years at Rimini embraced Despfte the unsettled condition Christianity and withdrew to Monte following the outbreak of the wart the Tittine to escape • persecution under attendance at, the antarit, Agnelli- Diocletian. His fame as an austere tural College in 1914 totalled 1,551, anchorite reached the ears of • the Ontario students totalled' 466,, and noble lady to .whom iebelonged and those from .other provinces;74. On- she pretierited the mOunt to him and tario students the pievions year matte in addition a tract of 'land, thinking bered 449. • • - that Marintuie -was usual in those _Yarniers' plea Take, great interest in the 'Feeding Hogs for -Prefit Cora- , ayerwoeldefound monastry. petition," and in the 20 coinpetitions He did this and More, for he found ed a reptibtic. Bying gave Titimo lasteyeantheeaverage net profit a the e2r°a'gielionfer:gt-hiwe.afisrs'S.Pfk°.v;e:wwinlerithse was the';Ther4f3 todisatiPnlegoinreir anininde‘ntodinogigatiere M10 per hog, and that the,loW- a civil ,society and live always in per - est five 0.,§5. ' feet commnnion,and peace based upon The, rre.04 of the Imo worm last principles .of virtue." - year Were. reported fro -11;42 coun- ties or districts and 234 townships. -The last-serious-outbreakAiccurredai 1896 - At that time Brant county escaped, while in 1914, the 'outbreak apparently began there, and this, coenty was the chief sufferer. The benefits of tile drainage are being. shown under the auspices of the, Ontario Agricultural Cellege by; Means of demonstration plots show- ing the results.froni drained and un - &pined land. e Prior • to 1914 eight of these had been started,. and the first reports show tie average in- crease per acre ..ef $1412 on drained, land. . e• The increase in the use of elec- tricity, .which • is rapidly overtaking Stettin power, is shown the,Factory Inspeetien Branch of the Department in a stetementadathe horse -power em- ploycd in provincial industries as fol- lows:-4tearn, 386;767 hp.; ' electric, 273,357 14.; water, 5806 hep.; gas or gasoline, 7,042 lhp. . . For •prinhaing the study' of -agricul-- that the Ooveriiikent-forbadethe sale ture in public schools the following of such titles. As an illustration of were features pf 'work , at , the On- the ease with which a person with taxi°. Agricultural- -College,. Normal long -purse could' acquire n title , Teachers' Chas in Elemettary- Agri- story is told of a wealthy Plebian facilities placed at the farmer's dis:- ouiture; Summer Scheel Course for Germen who wagered 25,000 with ai poser to secure a •suPplar from the Public School Teachers; ginniriel'• ennobled compatriot that within four weeks he ,could, secure,_a_ higher titi than that of his •friend. The German ,Nveut:44 San Maino,-.paid-,12,500--for a ducal title and came back within the stipulate -d time, making a profit of $12,000 besides his title. , San Marino lies about twelve miles fromethe Adriatic coast and about hersemo-distamee fromeRi • • seven milealorig and five wide.. , The Geverimient of the republic it really in the hands of a Great Coun- cil of StxtY, twenty nobles, twenty landoWnets and twenty peasants. The executive poWer is vested in two capitani reggenti, who are 'selected twice a year. The judiciary is peal-. liar in that. thejudges are not. chosen feom arieng the people of San Marino but from a. foreign country. The hist two judge's, who have held Office for twe terries of three years each, *ere members of :the Italian bar. • Sam 1Viarileno has ministers plenipcs- teritiary and consultethe same as any other European eountry.. . There was a-tiitreaseveral year melee the sale of patente of nobility formed no mean pert of the. revenue. Dukes, counts, and barons of San Marino became so numerous in Italy • ,Vegetable' growers in Ontario are --e-warnedeef-thezneeessity.:of elev,eleping, a home seed supply, since the former • sources Of Emptily, chiefly Germany • . and Holland, have been cid off.. There were 002 • deity factories in ,operation iii Ontario in 1914, with 88,002 patrons; let creamerieswith 110,934 patrons; and a total output of • about 23 million Ivan& of hater. -Legume,bacterineeultuteeetotalling. 8,467, eachculture sufficient to inbeu- •. kite one bushel' of seed, , were distri- - bided by the Bacteriological Depart= ment of the OntariolAgritultural Col-. • • The war has Stopped immigretiozi • frere Europe, but notwithstanding thiS the, Colonization and,Initaigtatioh • Branch of the DepartMent handled •. 5,018 fent laboreesand domestics last In the dairy. herd competition, ceit- • thicted-by-the Dairymen's Association of Western Oritatio in 1914, the first • prize herd produced 7,023 pounds per cow /or the six months` from May AO Petal/et - • Sweet clover, to long regarded 40 'Weed, is attaining • considerable Papulaiity in Seine oettiolia of the province as toddea, and -is now being investigated at the Ontario Agricul- tural 'College. •• Factory inspeetious last yearc' under the direction of the Department num- bored 10,060, an itiereateetif 8,000 over • the preceding y;eita, and the territory 'devoted inaludee 410 cities, towns and villages :The Women's Inetitutee, of the • vied° raised over $40,000 Ina year toweede the Ileapital Ship, Red Croas nod Ilfelgian toilet Funds, and donat. ed-largiv quantitieu of hospital eini-• plies aud clothing. • Icheel...„'_Cotuese. e tor _ School, -Spienee ireaeh-a* andthe first Rural' hereaConferenee_inaZIAaria. Experiments, being carried' on at the Experimental Fruit' Farm' if Ville - land, include one to determine the ;value of Plum • roots for the peach limier certain conditions; linothee in pruning, in Which 200 Spy trees are being used; one to determine the value of _dynamited holes; others to test.. atiaieties- otaatrawberries, plunia tiears, cherries, currants and goose- berries., , SFY For • Her lt 9 !snotAn the 'field Al -battle that the British soldiet shows bis bree verys, A 'civilian who wet seeing off a' young soldier friend bound ,for the front was introduced by him to his wife, a rather severe -looking woman old • enough to be his mother. The tiviliat bad diffiulty, in concealing his •surprise, and When Occasion of- fered he whispered td the young man L --"I didn't knOW you word married." "Well, you seep" said- the soldier, heel- tatingly, "ehe, thta, my landlady, and her mail was killed at the front a few rnoethe ago, nie„ she wis goy, hard pit to it, ye seer an' 1 *hi kind O' sorry or her Ana -as I've nobody depen- dot* ou Me, just !limit her •so's she ,get tuy ellowartte4# • The reason there are ao many fail. urea is. betause so many men spend all their time looking for the guy . „ . , ways, to. success. ° Together with the igth Lateerso tie Soots ilresta *ere the first regi- ment to b steIal1yMentiond patcheg during, Alto _present war --11 Oir Mitt trench, • the captain requests all tin* who are "infested" to step forivard. The story is told that the, first time thie new order was 'Sprung on One. Com- pany of- German infantry in Poland not a znan moved forward until the commanding • officer reared: "Don't be bashful. I've got them, Joe," whereupon the whole company step - tied forWard as ene man, The Feet step was to establish iron control at the border so, that no enemy louse should in future enter Germany. At a total cost of $2,560,- 000 the Germans are building five huge f‘Entlatisungsanstaltee — the technical perman name 'for disinfee- tipn and. elimination of.'these vermin en masse. These immense plants, arbthrgblii1t lacing the Rus- sian frontier, one at each of The rait- read lines entering Germany, will each be, able to take care of 12,000 men every twenty -'four hours. No one will be able to enter Germany from the east without being put rough one or theee---"Entlausung- sanstalten". as a precautionary Meas- ure. At tile same time, work is proceed- ing systematically in cleaning up more than 500,000 •Russian priseners already in German hands,. for experi- Mental PEntlausungsanstalten" in- etalled orra srealt-scale at die various prison. tamps where, eltuaslans ere -guests bare -proved a .greire mimeos. LONDON'S STATISTICS. Day Nureeries Are Shut Because of the Lack of Fundy. - 'In war time the saying that the na- tion survives Re mpg appeals more vividly to the iinagmetion than in-perieds---of-peagev 1314--the---hop and proroiSe for the 'future; which it brings,. is somewhat discounted by the diselesures of Great , Britain's Registrar -General's returns of births and deaths. In 'Greater louden the number of births *Very Week is be- tween, 400 and ,00cP below the respect4 ive averages in the corresponding wforeekthsefrd.grtho9vdlibasinfilretriee7;OPau111414Tli; There is also an, increase of. infant taortality. Children have been dying in London at The rate of 200 a week for the.past"13'.weeks in excess of , the number dying.. daring •the corre- sponding weeks of last year.. More- over, this is not peculiar to London.. The returns, which deal' with 05 other great towns in England .and Wales, show that . the increased Mortality anapeg;Childrenis general threughent the , country. - • ' Mich of this hezteirtoll. on child - life isindirectlytraceable to the War. In March there was a virulent out- break of measles which has not, yet run ha %awe. This is a disease of the earlier years of Childlife, but it is rare, though not unknown, in infants under six months old, and mortality is rifest nMong babies of that age. A more probable cause is that infants are get -Mk -Tess care for reasons arise ing Out. of the War. There are fewer (lectors and nurses in civil life, and they are very mush over-worked. One deatheirr 10amonginfants occurs within 48, hours after birth. It is said, further, that, the, mortality rate It -ee,litgh-elttrinTthc first Week ditto' Were it to tolitiniWiet the same figure for 42 weeks all the Infants • would Wive succumbed. ' • (Aber Adverse' Conditions. • Other causes are the :increase in the industrial employment' of married women, owing to the, 'War, and the lack of agezieies for looking after youngechildreh-elueingethw-Ithzente-i) the mothers from borne. • Day nur- series have always been fewer in this country than in France in proportion' to the population. Their- umber in - ,ext on is now mere ina equate t an ever, cowing to the war. - These excel- lent inttieutioas, where children are safeguarded and fed for a few pence while the Mothers are at work, are great . checks on infant mortality. They have been. founded by kind- hearted ladies, and Are: all mainly supported by voluntary subscriptions. A grant may be paid by' the Board•of Education at 'the rate of , not more thak. day for each .ehilde. bet this State assistance is. said trehe quite iesufficient; find as it is hard to gate Money from the public or any purpose not directly associated with the war, several of the day nurseries have had to be closed. The result that Mothers who have obtained work away 'from home leave: their young children in the charge of a neighbor, or professional roiader„ te-witom they 1W3cle'-te-- 4fl. a day .for each child. These women cannot give • the children the ,atten- tion and food adopted to their needs which they would baize received at the clay' nurseries. • • Nothing in Goodness, Willie came horrid from ,sehool cry- ing bitterly. "Mother," Inc ,sobbed, "I'm not going to try and be gOOdany mere;" "Why, Willie, whatever is the matter?" asked irie mother. "Boo- hoo!" sobbed .Wilile. , "I . was in school to -day, .and I taw Teddy Smith put a beet pin on the teacher's chair, and, because 1- did not want him to sit on it / pulled hia-cheir-away.,and• he sat on the floor: He gave mei a thrashing , for pulling his chair away when he got up, and Whep I got Out- side the school Teddy Smith hit me her the pin ;may) anti -emit minding my own bitsinees." , . - * German -prisoners of war in Eng- laed are allowed dnilr vb. bread,, Or 3-4 lb, biscuit;;e-4 freell meat, or lib. (nominal) preserved 'meal 3 oz. cheese; -5 -4 -oz. tea; 1-4 lb..-jamee3,--ore Ana gezieral rule; two productive sugar; 1-2 oz, salt, 1-20 cis?: mastatd; 'ems are-reepiired-Lier-the-iiiptiort-of1-462.-oz:-pepper; fresbelleegee. each Athabitante of a country, -and where this ratio does not. exist food must be impented. tables, or, instead, 2 os. 'Peas, Or beans, or dried potatoet; with 2 oz. to- baceo a week, for makers: '14,11e,2e 'V011it Home WOUNtitti PINANCIElta The nolatral ratant.d. g4x *Amu avenue, New Irerit,City of lytteettin, Wile Wait.eliottoela tit hit o • tillt A 'Ovo St1M11161, home, , 11) • ' - The Honda Berm • 'double the strength of the ladder amt. th,efotolutrnaolloveosut 41wleyth,:•abtutbywhtfieltnel. sidd- but expense. - ,proper .construetion, or •barn and, Making Good Butter. other. outbuildings" he Van SAVO the " The .easeritiala in the making of work ,of• man, it will readily- becornel good butter can be :secitred by *nye . clear to him that the investment one who will te.,kwe little pains, There Pal big interest iir the long run, 1 has been. _so. nuich .41SCUSSIQW.of the • Theiva are_La_te,W.:Oinga_ that are -l -subject. -caring • for - milk .med crani -.00intelineeensary in the farm WO. through the columns Of the farm pap. It Must be 'well lighted, well ventilate eta that it aeelly soma that a -bet- ed, ..ee_eY'telNep clean, so arranged ter' • bntter could .tnade. as to eeeneralZe spew, so ege::Mileli'.nolv with modern equipment than at . stock . as possible can be housed, It any time in the past. And if a high - should be easy of access, 'and its loca.:•.grade article ean be ,produced, and it; • lion.,;should be such as. to. insure a.: is sent to Market peeked in a dainty well -drained barnyard'. • With -the:::Manner that will' appeal , to the ,eyea, - 'above' features incorporated into the as wallas to the tastes of the bums* .. farm.- barnt.the sort ,or. style of the 'it. will Sell at a price that will assure. building matters_ net, . • •• !.•the Predneer ',good -margin of- profit, . . . A Well 'Braced Long Ladder: •• Farmers who have occasion to use long. ladders often _And 'them weak and dangereus, when set up at' the proper angle. This CO bgeovereeme hy. a Wire brace:, Get a, blacksmith to make two \T-shaped irons, :and fes: ten them. to the side s?lls With Malt holt; Bore smell holes through sills at each end.- Take,' two 'pieces of No. 9%wire and fasten to. the sills at one end by passing through the holes and forming a lock by turning, the end back through the holes. over small iron pine, then page the wire over the V- irens, drawing them tight with-alev- er and fasten at the other ends in the same way. This brace willemore than • Ten Good Poultry .Rulee. .1-4',rovicle. fine grit, OharcOal, shell :and bone the atart. , 2-a,ofee keaee range Or plenty of green food. • , -a-allaves fresh,•Clean Water always available. , 4—reed a Vidata,.sweet, .1,aheleeema, • . feeds,. a04.:-Aiold 'demi and soiled litter.. 4:--pisirtfoot.. breeders frequently. .7—Test all beef . scrap before feed- ' 8—Keep elriekene active by'alloiving them to becenie hungry once daily., • , 9—Feed moist mash elearinglY. • 10—Keep dry, mash always befere • TREES OBLIa TO* WIN .BArrLEs.: Forests Playing nBig Perch% Stride, gical Moves.: , . Commanders Frenee are taking full. advantage of the wooded state teafiti*Irigee.epluancetrYaried14frOrwehaitc11-ilitellitiTin't at einitiorteet part ' in ',Various 'etrate- glee' moves: Fierce fights for for- ests are of frequent* occurrence, as such positions are a 'decided advant- age to • the army having, possession of Omni.. They Offer • a serious ob- ataeleato the advance of the miemy, for einnoVinarcie neither can artillery. ba . rtipidly tiansperted through .dense •meods.. What roads are available ean also be simply block- ed by a few 'fallen trees. r The latter *tattles are especially effective fez' ()venlig !zp-retreate„ Manyebatteries are now secreted in Weeds, away :0*.orn the prying eyes of aeriarsceets, The guns are placed, in clearings and they send out shells in an upward direction, through holes in the foliage Above. An army pos- sessing a wood it, in fact, in as happy a position as if they were safely en- sconced hi a steel fort. They can concentrate a destructive fire on. an approaching enemy, and, being prac- _tiealt• invisible, they are Safe frora a serious counter-attack The only effective way of dislodging an ,arely from a wood is to fire it, and bum the however, soldiers out. litiie , Tohsieisarmseyldom done, covets the - wood for its own purposes, and is ' not likely to destroy these toatifica, i6InnitI5Ifeflpartetifitent- War'f'orest's'are.prov.:' ing invaluable. as a means of conceal- ing troops from air scouts. Infantry, cavalry, and artillery can. be -secreted in their thousands in forests, and if the trees cover a long stretch Of CountrY.e.tbe 'treOPs. P.O.n.,ackance to points of vantagesafe from imme- diate, Attack ordiscevery,„ by land .ore - air scouts. • Trees are also useful in, providing' - wood for fuel and eenstructipnal pur- poses. Modern armiescarry with them - meter- wOrkshops--where-rough - wood can lie sawn rind cut into planks and huts can thus be•constructed and wood for aeroplanes provided. A British...44)1Y aPPT°xj",. " mately; 38000 men, an Austrian is about 53,000 men; while the strength of French, Russian, and Gernian Arnly Corps .varies from 40,000 • to 55,000, 'mere • RUSSIAN PRISONER'S TONGUE Torture Becoming° a Regular Authorized Practice of the-Cerman Arillitary Authorities - That the niilitary spirit which'has been se carefully cultivated in Px•lisia is a spirit essentially brutal and de - At "all events, WheaYedYanol.parne to he was. alone. He _nianged..b get lincit;to the, Russian lines and at one° Wrote down a report colonel. grading has . been proved over and et, was an ambulance of the Moscow: - 'over again by thelavoke and 'sense- Traders' Society 'Which picked hini less ads of these intoxicated by it, up end., teak hirn'to his -regiment,and eveesince the first days Of the war, 'no* he is in a Moscow hospital. Here *rites H. Hamilton Tyfe from petro- • he wrote down for the chief Moscow grad. ' " newspaper, Susski Mover, .the account • It is herd to conceive any. act More of what befell him. He cannot speak -hideous ;than that of a soldier who and it is doubtful whether he will ever - tortures another soldier in order to be able to articulate se as to.. make force him to betray his ea/m.116e: The himself understood.' very notion of it fills the mind ewith ' That is one of the two cases vbieh shame and disgust—disgust thatany are the most recent to be inquired man could .so debase his nature; shame into by the army authorities.' The at belonging to the same order as the other concerns a Cossack also. Ivan. miscreants' who thee offend agaIhst. Pitchneff is from the Aitope regiop, the most egged Jaw ofeGed mid mane Hewas-..made prisoner neer...the.ast . Mean that law which enjoins respect- -Prussian -frontier And -exaininek- bye - for, the fearless execution or 'duty, an officer, who; in order to induce hiM whatever the circumstances may be. to betray - the Russian positions; . had I related not long ago' the treatment him -beak -up by the arms first and - of 'Porfirio Panastile Whose earersittiletlita, brathaealersa-, -gashed his 'thigh , for' myself): exit almost to thc hea with a knife, which went 4atgoious,,--- liere are two More eases so sustec- ly near his femoral artery, and then. iously- sinrilar that they pint clearly atteekeclr. his eara;EiAbnat---w-Tnaikter-- to , the gOthitanixia0 by *authority _de ef the left ear -shell was sliced off and -his-damnableqalan7of-ektarAing4t1-04-part_of„..the_*ht_iealt.snalrt....._:;;. mation from *unfortunate Russian spite Of this fiendish cruelty . saldiers who fall into the Germans' formation could be 'got- Out of Pitch - bands. • , ueff, arid, fortunatelY,for him, he Man, VassiliVodyanoi is an Orenburg aged -toe escape; • How many Prison - Cossack. '• He. was scouting, neer ors have been practised epee in this. Shavii, in the Baltic Province about fiendish way end'have.initeitiaped wo a fortnight ago. Making his wayf cannot tetleltianY limy have died 'under trough- a *Tiede he tan into three, torture. Some may have .yieldetleili, 'Gettitinik.1C-11011;tonitniniblied"dfriddrit-7.*Ceetttinlerit'hag leeett-aaPliettin and tveo privates. The two privates More cases than we are yekaware of, •:•• Seizedhint:and held him by the arms We only haVe'at present the testimony • while the non-comiriissionede officer ' of victims Who were lucky enough to. 'crossequestioned him Voclyancd re- regain their fiherty. •' : thied to -giVe"iihylaifeeinatiore At Such practices • Put: the Cerihrins: once the corporal threatened to cut quite outside the group of tatioria•who his ear off. "Russian Pig," he snarl- have consented together to. be Wand.. ed„ "we will make you speak." ' He. by :considerations of humanity .and dreWthe short sword- which German honor; • With these May. be, 'foieedr non-ebrinnissionecl officers Carry: Ved, it new white -flag treaCherY: dodge, by rynnot WAS thrown to the: ground. One whith they have lately disgraced •- • doldier knelt on his chest. The other themselves in the neighborhood of tat upon his • The-tergetteit-be. .Raigroche;,.. gae to cut ayaw the lobe end shell of forward uriervied arid With ..their hie 'Ida ear,. Not a. word would the ,hands up.. They aareled a White flag .brave Cossack utter, though he ad- and cried -"Don'tshoot. We want to mits that he had to bite bis liard surteeder." , At fifty pacee. frenn the . to prevent himself from "shouting with trenches thee() met fell to the gamma.. pain. , . • : and behind them erotio. on a Party who, • Finding his "treatment" ineffectual, tried to Mil the leussitia potitiot: In the sergeant meet threatened to cut this: deptioally trick they :failed coni - out Yodyanol's tongue. The Oosseek •pleteln ' They Woe caught by a now spoke; but all he said was "You crois.-fire whenthey reaahed.theha_rb- 'ai‘e bandits, not eoldiers," mid / nm al wire and had ,to rettnea, as quickly>, sureevetyone Who reads this vifl as they teal, leaving ninny tread Audi .agree that inc was right, To :tho waumled behmd•theino , . lasting shame of his nation the per. X‘tort, will be forgotten when tho, otoybou tut oft about. a third bf, 'War ov,Oro toxidotv of *00 ooroatainOlonguo. s • ,ikrol itnoltiliko infamies 'willpordst for ' ainte4 Oa either the. Gerinerie gerieratietitio . .0 'Wand let It per., ,4tio dad ilittt it was ,uselais to utajee. isht It., mot remain, naive to fee lil bather Or else they were fhe void tovedebasiug end derunabloi, alarmed by the sound of tiring hear la tluetairit.of Militarisna the "belie* .14 .0114 thouht t ViSet,'.o .decamp4 wart?*