HEAVY SNOWSTORM IN PARIS GIVES TRACTOR WORK
B e ts y ’s S to ry
By LINCOLN ROTHBLUM
(Copyright, 191 ». by the McClure News
paper Syndicate.)
Following d heavy snowstorm In Furls a "new snow plow drawn by a Renault truetor was put Into commission to
clear the walks, with great success.
tion of the secretary and chiefs of
bureaus o f the department o f agricul
ture, and after the signing o f the
armistice the mailing list for these
summaries was extended to Include
other government officials and senators
and members o f the house of represen
tatives.
Bimonthly foreign crop re
ports were issued In the spring of 1919
and w ill be continued.
A vast amount of information was
compiled anil furnished in response to
inquiries received by telephone, tele
graph, letter, or personal call o f rep
resentatives o f the food administra
tion, the war trade board, the war In
dustries board, the military intelli
gence office o f the war department,
the tariff commission, the federal
trade commission, the council o f na
tional defense, other departments o f
the federal and state governments,
congress, and private Individuals.
More than 4,000.000 pieces o f mnll
were handled by the division o f crop
reports during the year, as compared
with 3,200,000 by the same division for
the preceding fiscal year, an increase
o f 25 per cent. About the same rela
tive Increase was noted In nil other
branches of the bureau at Washington.
In the state offices o f field agents
the work more than doubled In the
fiscal year 1919 as compared with the
preceding year. The issuance by field
agents of monthly state crop reports
hearing their names which are gener
ally reproduced in ail the state papers
has made them widely known through
out their stntes nnd has resulted In a
heavy volume of correspondence.
Crop Estimating
Gigantic Task
Government Bureau Collects and
Publishes Much Important
Information.
AGENTS COVER WHOLE COUNTRY
More Than 4,000,000 Pieces of Mail
Handled by Division of Crop Re
ports During Past Year— Re
ports Are Issued Monthly.
During the fiscal year ended June
SO, 1919, the bureau o f crop esti
mates o f the United States department
o f agriculture issued the regular
monthly crop reports, showing esti
mated acreages planted, growing con
ditions, yields per acre, and total pro
duction, farm prices of different crops
for each state and the United States,
estimates of totar number of live
stock o f different classes on farms and
ranges, their condition, and losses
from diseases and other causes. Com
mercial estimates o f the apple and
peach crops were made, and the
weekly truck-crop news service which
had previously been In force, was con
tinued and extended, according to the
annual report of the chief of the bu
reau, an extract from which is given
below.
Many special inquiries were made
during the year, including;
Quantity o f commercial fertilizers
nsed per ncre o f cotton and propor
tion of fields upon which used.
Perceblage o f various crops to
which commercial fertilizer and ma
nure was applied and quantity used.
Binder twine requirements for the
grain ordpf o f 1918 for the use of the
Grain corporation.
Emergency live stock survey, to de-
tennine-.the number on farms July 1,.
1018.
Uses ruadif,’Of Wheat crop, for the
United S ta te s 'food administration.
Quantities o f various crops fed to
different classes o f live stock.
L ive stock survey o f January, 1919.
Fertilizer Inquiry o f January, 1919,
to ascertain quantity o f commercial
fertilizers and manure used for crops.
Wages of farm help.
Prices farmers pay for equipment,
machinery, and supplies.
Percentagç._of farm lajior require
ments available.
A gants Gather Facts.
Field agents prepnred estimates of
acreage, yield, production, and stocks
on farms of wheat and corn by coun
ties for the United Stntes Grain corpo
ration, nnd they also prepared esti
mates o f the value o f agricultural
production by counties In ench of the
principal states fo r the use o f the
treasury department. Field agents co-
1919 Fashions Harmful
Says Woman of 100
New York.— Catherine Tibball,
who celebrated her one hun
dredth birthday a few days ago
at 964 Lafayette avenue, Brook
lyn, does not see longevity for
any woman who follows the max
ims o f dress approved by Dr.
Royal S. Copeland, health com
missioner. Her daughter-in-law,
Mrs. Thomas Tibball, sail}:
‘‘My mother-in-law and I are
entirely against fashions of dress
for women. I never wore any
thing but the simplest kind of
stays, and neither did she.”
The centenarian was told
about Doctor Copeland's state
ment that women can wear silk
stockings,
high-heeled
shoes,
tight corsets and low-neck gowns
with benefit rather than harm.
" I hnvc never painted or pow
dered my face,” she said, “ 1
never wore high-heeled shoes or
low-neck gowns, yet I have lived
to be a hundred years old and
expect to celebrate another
birthday next year. Woman's
fashions today are more than
bad; they are harmful.”
operated with officials o f the depart
ment o f agriculture, the treasury de
partment, and the state extension serv
ices In the states where seed-grain
loans were mude to farmers In the
drought-stricken regions o f the north
west and the southwest in the fall of
1918 and spring o f 1919.
The bureau compiled Innumerable
statements showing the production,
consumption, surplus nnd deficiency,
exports nnd imports, nnd prices o f Im
portant agricultural products for all
tne prlneipnl countries before the war,
and o f production nnd requirements
during the war, fo r the infoimotion of
administrative officials of the depart
ment of agriculture, o f other federal
departments, nnd various war-emer
gency organizations. Many o f these
statements were fo r the use o f the de
partment committee on crop produc
tion nnd were used ns a basis for the
crop-production programs which were
recommended.
Other
compilations
were tnnde for the confidential use of
the war trade board and for the com
mittees on agriculture in congress.
Much Information Compiled.
Summaries o f weekly reports o f the
state field agents o f the bureau were
furnished for the confidential Informa
M ore Energy and
Zip in Germ any
Writer Says There Is Less Lazi
ness Than in Any Other
European Country.
it can, but the attitude o f the Pro
sians in the business world Is:
“ You have to give us credit befoi
we can pay France and Belgium ar
England! You're delaying to gli
France and England a further Iiei
| stnrt I”
LOW EXCHANGE IS BIG AID I
Gives Germany Advantage in Laying
Her Commercial Lines in Little
Nations About Her— Bitter
at United States.
«•By HAROLD E. BECHTOL.
(In Chicago Post.)
Berlin.— I have been tavellng in
central Europe for months. I have
visited farms nnd factories nnd stores
nnd banks and government offices.
A marked difference Is noticeable as
soon as the German frontier is
crossed.
There Is more energy and zip in
Germnny; there is less laziness; trains
move regularly; clerks in stores ore
well staffed; wagons nnd cars nnd
freight trains (one o f the rarest sights
in Europe) move briskly; smoke comes
from the stacks o f at least some of
the factories.
German factory owners say “ Made
in Germany” goods can never again
depend on cheapness for sale abroad.
They point out that her sources o f ma
terial are cut nnd that the old long
hours nnd cheap labor are gone.
Yet Germany bid far lower than
nnybody else on a contract for metal
uniform buttons fo r the Czecho-Slo-
vak army recently. I could cite sev
eral other cases.
Germany has a big advantage In lay
ing her commercial lines in the little
nations about her (sentiment aside of
course) because o f the fact that her
exchange Is very low, like theirs.
From Germany alone, among the
big nations, can the new nations get
values
approximating
what
their
money represents to them.
Germany's Bright Side.
That is. for Germany, the bright side
o f a bad situation. Her mark Is worth
under a nickel, about a sixth o f par.
She has got to have a credit before she
cun buy cotta« and copper from Amer
ica. She can't buy with marks.
Government ofllcials urge a credit
for the hope.-it. would give the Ger
man people as 'they enter on a hard
winter.
The same picas, o f course, are made
by the other nations o f central Eu
rope, some of-^hom helped the allies
to win the war.-
Amerlcan observers here say the
Bauer governtpeot .la doing the beat
They hold Uncle Sam personally r
sponsible; he’s hated fo r declining i
rush humbly across with open mon<
bags.
There are several reasons why (t
south o f Germany is leading the nort
The Prussian worker had less 'r
dom In the old days than the soul
German worker. Now that he holt
the whip hand, he hnsn't ns sane a
iden of what to do with his liberty.
Prussian capitalists, too. are, slowe
They hate to “ get .to work fo r Franc
nnd England.” ns they put it.
British officers in the occupied arc
tell me the big dye works In tli
northern Rhine district are kept close
by the Germans. The Germnns kno
(he allies cannot yet equal their d.ves-
espcclally a “ fixed" blue— nnd they ci
not propose to start these pinnts an
let the allies learn the secrets If the
can avoid It.
What She Can Export.
Germnny can export some gins
china, potash, cutlery, optical instri
ments, surgical and scientific Instri
ments nnd toys, without Importing rn'
materials. She needs from Amerlc
principally cotton nnd copper.
French and British chocolate, son;
toilet articles, etc., ore on sale i
the stores everywhere In German:
The only Am erican. goods found ger
ernlly are prewar stocks.
The French and British occuple
zones are now commercial fronts. Ml
itary officers there apd military mb
slon* In Germnny give the French an.
British commercial travelers nnd bnni
ers every assistance. All o f the Amei
lean commercial men nnd bankers
met In Germany told me they ha.
fought their way through in spite o
the American government, rather thai
with its assistance.
The Germans realize their oversea
trade will be absolutely dependent oi
the allies for years to come. German;
now owns only 3*4 per cent o f her pr«
war shipping.
Catch Two Legged Whale.
Victoria, B. C — A female humphnek
whale havlpg two hind legs 50 inches
In length has been caught at the Kytj-
goV whaling station.
Manager Ruck
o f the Consolidated Whaling company
says that in his 20 years o f whaling
experience he has never heard o f
whales having legs on the exterior.
It was such a small hail bedroom-—
way up near the top o f the house—
so high above the ground It seemed
suspended midway between heaven
and earth, somewhat after the fashion
of those luiuging gardens which ure
said to have required neither under
nor upper support. But though the
room by its elevated location strove
for a place in the sun. It received
none, of Its rays at any time of
the day, for the one window faced,
in unceremonious fashion, against the
bleak and bland stone wull of the
building opposite. Now. If one were
as dexterous us Betsy Bond, a very
jood glimpse, albeit limited, could tie
obtained not only of the sun casting a
seemingly forgotten beum o f light
clown the murky courtway, but also of
the window in the other building one
floor below. It is true the bit of light
was only enjoyed on Sundays, when
Betsy’s exacting and onerous duties
as salesgirl at the notions counter of
rilden's, Inc., did not call for her ex
pert services for the somewhat start
ling compensation of seven dollars the
week— startling how little might be
procured on that amount in the way
of dally necessities
And It is also
true the window of the room ncross
the court afforded little distraction,
for up to the writing of tills— Betsy’s
story— It had remained untenanted.
For Betsy’s heart, starving for nf-
fectlon nnd dying because there was
none on whom to lavish the love pent
lip within, hungered for romance; she
looked for it everywhere, and found
Its substitute only on the “ Fiction
page” of the evening pnper. It was a
very unsatisfactory substitute.
The days of August had made a
blistering advance, and It seemed to
Betsy this day tiiat summer was ex
erting every effort to lenve a scar nnd
scorching memory of Its torrid pres
ence. A hot, musty humidity pasted
the ringlets about her perspiring fore
head into fantastic forms ns she en
tered the room breathless from the
Interminable climb o f stairs.
Up
went the window, the courtyard send
ing forth Its nightly quota o f onion
and other odors from the quarters
below. Betsy had no taste for the ar
ticles of food on her table and list
lessly adjusted herself In the oblique
and uncomfortable position necessary
to see the window in the building op
posite.
She leaned forward.
Glar
ingly It stood forth, and not even the
dirty panes concealed the yellow jet
of gaslight which illuminated the room
and Its solitary occupant.
Betsy
laughed aloud.
“A
neighbor,” she mused, and
reached for the pillow from the bed to
make her cramped position comfort
able. “ Romance!” her thought con
tinued, and a smile exposed two pret
ty rows of even white teeth. It was
In spite of, nnd not because of, her
clothes that Betsy was considered at
tractive ; for the worn serge skirt
loudly acclaimed Its age by a lustrous
sheen and the white lawn waist no
longer admitted further mending.
But there was little In the man’s oc
cupation to excite undue curiosity or
romantic conjectures; laboriously lie
wrote, stopping to press his temples
with his fingertips or pass a hand
kerchief over his forehead.
Betsy
slipped from the sill to the floor and
protruded her hend through the win
dow into the court until she could
almost touch the opposite wall, for up
through space came the voice o f the
man faintly singing:
“When your Ship o' Dreams comes In,
dear,
When Its cargo comes to shore.
With gold so fine, It will all be thine.
You alone I adore— ”
nnd then abruptly stopped.
Betsy
climbed back onto the window ledge,
and leaning far forward, peered down
Into the room. A gasp o f consterna
tion escaped her lips as she Jumped
to the floor and tore down the steps,
the ascent o f which had so taxed her
strength. Out Into the street she ran
and up to the door o f the next build
ing.
Mrs. Slattery appeared In answer
to the imperative summons o f the bell,
and Irritated because supper was in
terrupted, eyed with, a landlady's sus
picion the unhntted and disheveled
I’.etsy.
She did not make a likely
looking roomer.
“ I guess all the rooms be Ailed,"
was the curt and unsolicited Infor
mation. Betsy Inserted her foot be
tween door and panel to prevent it
being shut in her face.
“ I am not looking for a room, hut,
but— ” she stammered as the unusual-
ness o f the situation presented itself.
“One o f your tenants seems In trou
ble,” Betsy gulped hard, “ and I be
lieve he has fainted. I —we can
help—”
Mrs. Slattery made unsympathetic
Interruption. “ Oh. It be that singing
man. N ever pays his rent and he do
seem to live on air. He'll come
’round— ”
In a manner Mrs. Slnttery after
ward dubbed “ fresh," Betsy brushed
her aside and deliberately walked lip
the steps, Intuition directing her to
the proper room. There lay the man
as she had seen him from above,
hend flat on the table, arms hanging
limply at his aide. With unconsci-.ua
command she turned to Mrs. Slattery,
who had followed In her wake.
“Help me lift him over to the bed,”
I and
hypnotically
Mrs.
Slattery
obeyed, awkwardly assisting us they
loosened ills collar and undid his worn
shoes.
“Get some water,” was ttie
; parting order, and Betsy flew out of
tlie room,3down the steps, out of the
| house into her own, and thence up the
' jstairs to the room where mutely re-
l»osed t{ie untouched food. Gutherng
the articles in her arms site rapidly
retraced her steps, and as tlie young
man came to consciousness he saw a
not unbeautiful girl standing on a
chair holding a tiny pot above the gas
Jet. She siiiil->d down at him a genu
ine. comforting smile.
"Hot milk in a minute.
Tousled
crackers and a mite o f cheese. How
does that sound?” Her voice sound
ed merrily In the room and the man
answered the smile with a wan ef
fort.
"It smells better," came the whis
per from the bed.
And it tasted equally good as Bet
sy held his hend ami fed him tlie
browned biscuit dipped In the warm
milk. Tlie man slept and Betsy tip
toed from tlie room.
Mrs. Slattery
mounted guard in tlie hall with a
Dame Grundy vigilance.
"H is room reut he behind.”
Evi
dently in Mrs. Slattery’s makeup
there was no trace of that Impelling
force which hnd governed Betsy’s
spontaneous act of loving kindness.
She looked into her meager parse,
wearing out at the corners.
“ W ill a dollar on account be satis
factory?” she asked.
The hill was
tendered and accepted In silence nnd
Betsy returned to her room, supper
less and happy
As she crept into
bed she shifted the alarm clock. It
registered nwnkenluc at half past five.
The hour thus gained next morn
ing was devoted to assisting her new
ly acquired ward. With a promise to
the man who lay weak and Inert to
stop in on tier way home from worl(
in the evening, she turned to go.
“ Why are you so good to me?” he
questioned her.
“ Why doubt tlie motive?” by in
terrogation she answered.
Preoccupied with her thoughts, Bet
sy failed to be annoyed ns she was
jostled about on street and car by
throngs hastening to work. Morning
duties were fulfilled In like subcon
scious fashion, for mind was helping
the lad lying ill nnd helpless In tlie
hot bedroom. Noon was sounded by
sirens over the weltering city ns Bet
sy passed tlie music counter of Til-
den’s, Inc., on her tvny out of the
store for luncheon. In raucous tones
sang the song-booster through his bril-
Ilnntly colored megaphone, which tie
turned alternately lo right nnd left
so that all might hear:
LARGE CAPACITY
FOR DAIRY COWS
To Develop This Characteristic
Calf Must Be Kept Growing
From Beginning.
SUPPLY ABUNDANCE OF HAY
Hoiatein Heifers Should Not Be Bred
to Frethen Before Twenty-Four
Months Old— Work Up to Full
Capacity Gradually.
It is a well-known fact that capacity
is one o f the essentials o f a good
dairy cow and in order to develop this
characteristic the calf must be kept
growing from tlie very beginning. A
stunted calf w ill never recover from
the handicap. The calf should be in
duced to begin eating grain and hay
at as early a date as possible and
there should always be an abundance
o f the hay accessible. Itoughage de
velops cupaclty In the digestive or
gans— an item o f Importance— as the
amount o f feed that a cow w ill con
sume depends lurgely upon the devel
opment o f these organs.
Age to Breed Heifer.
H eifers should not be bred too
young, the age depending upon the
breed to which they belong as well as
the development o f the individual.
Holstein heifers should not be bred to
freshen before they are 24 months old,
as a rule, and a great many would do
better if given 26 or 28 months. Heifers
should be in good condition at time o f
freshening, although not fat from an
Splendid Type for Dairy.
excessive carbohydrate ration. A fter
freshening, they should be worked up
to full feed very gradually, receiving
all the roughage they care to consume
“ When our Ship o’ Dreams comes in, without waste; alfalfa or clover hay
dear,
fed In connection with silage or roots
being a very good combination.
When Its enrgo comes to shore,
With gold so fine, it will all be thine,
Amount o f Grain to Feed.
You alone I ndore— ”
The grain should be light in char
acter to begin with and gradually
Betsy smiled as she recalled tha
changed to a mixture o f grains that
first occasion when she had heard the
w ill supplement the roughage; 300
words and sacrificed the precious min
pounds ground oats, 300 pounds ground
utes o f her luncheon period to hear
corn, 100 pounds whent bran and 100
the end o f flie lyric.
pounds gluten feed being a good com
“ When our vessel comes sailing back, bination to go with the roughage men
tioned above. The grain can be in
dear,
creased a fraction o f n pound a dny so
Laden with wealth all for you,
long as there is an Increase in the
Then we’ll m arry; no need to tarry,
When our Ship, our Ship o' Dream» milk flow, but as soon as there is no
response to the Increase It must be cut
comes true.”
down until there is a falling off in the
She caught up the lilting, catchy milk flow nnd then the Increase may
melody and the easy, rolling words, be begun again. When on full feed
and ate her luncheon with the tun* they will be consuming about one
In her hend. Anxious for six o’clock, pound o f grain to every 3*4 pounds o f
the afternoon Hew quickly by and milk produced.
closing time found her hurrying to
In the absence o f silage or roots,
ward her boarding house with thou dried beet pulp may be used, but i f
sands o f other souls, all closeted up In none o f these are available or are too
their own little worlds o f personal In high In price, ollmeul can be used in
terest. Mechanically she bought the the grain mixture to advantage. In
evening paper and mechanically read the absence o f silage nnd roots, the
the usual run o f news, nnd equally cows will consume a large quantity o f
mechanically turned toward the classi alfalfa. Sometimes It is advisable to
fied section In search for the nlwnys chaff nnd mosten a portion o f it when
possible, but never probable, "better fed under these conditions.
Job." Her eye drifted to the adjoin
ing column o f “ Personals," attracted
possibly by the words, “ Ship o* FERTILITY IN DEAD LEAVES
Dretfms.” They seemed to pursue her
this dny. The man seated to her right Contain Large Amount of Potash and
A r* Useful as Mulch or Fertil
hummed with heavy breath, “ When
izer fo r Garden.
our Ship o’ Dreams comes sailing in,
dear.”
Because leaves contain relatively
Betsy read:
“ Royalties awaiting Leonard Sut large amounts o f potash, chemists at
cliffe. Information wanted as to pres the Ohio Experiment Station point out
ent whereabouts of composer o f the economy o f using leaves as a
'Ship o' Dreams.'
Phone Popular mulch or fertilizer fo r the garden,
rather than burning them in the
Music Co.”
Betsy gasped. Could It really he streets or gutters. They show that
so wonderfully romantic?
It wa» 100 pounds o f leaves are worth about
56 cents for their fertilizing value.
more than food she brought him.
“ Are you Leonard Sutcliffe?” she
When leaves are burnt the ash still
asked as she entered the room and contains a considerable amount o f fer
smiled to see him seated in the chair. tilizing materials; but as the ashes
He nodded with surprise and looked are generally swept awny by the wind
or washed away by the water, their
at the newspaper she laid in his lap.
"Then your Ship o' Dreams has value is lost. T o secure the best re
come to port, Captain Singing-Man,” sults from leaves as fertilizer, it Is
Betsy announced and picked out the best to pile them In the garden and
stopper o f the milk bottle with the let them furnish a mulch fo r the
ground during th* w inter; then they
tine o f a fork.
A wonderful light danced In hi* may be spaded in the spring and In
eye*. "Good Samaritnn, It’» our Ship corporated with the soil.
o’ Dreams, Isn’t It?”
And over the toasted crackers Bet
sy nodded assent.
Another Matter.
"Pa, what 1» meant by a 3)10« sky*
law?"
" R ’s a measure designed to prevent
the sale o f fraudulent stock, m ; son.”
“ Yes, pa.”
“ You should not confuse the term
with aerial traffic regulations which
will soon he on all our atatute hooka.”
—Birmingham Age-Herald.
Asked and Answered.
“ Can a man lift himself hy his boot
straps?”
“ I dnnno.”
"Why, the question answers Itself."
“ Well, teach*r, that lets me onL”
COW CONSUMES BULKY FEEDS
Most Economical Method fo r Market
ing Different Crops— Much Fer
tility It Saved.
When It comes to marketing grain,
hay, silage, green crops, etc., the
dairy cow Is almost Indispensable for
economy. She consumes these bulky
feeds, converta them into finished
products easily
and economically
marketed and at the same time saves
much o f the fertility In the manure.
Where hay, corn, fodder, etc., must be
hauled to market there is considera
ble expense. I f most o f this expense
can be saved there Is a wider margin
fo r profit on the farm.