Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1917 — Page 2

Dogs of War in Real Life

i Trained animals of the French army discover the wounded and even capture German dogs as prisoners : : Many of them have been given great military honors

HIS strange war has fortified and enriched immeasurably the beautiful pact of friendship concluded ages ago between man and the dog and has conferred upon the venerable and sinister phrase “let loose the dogs ' of war” a new and softened

yneaning. The dogs of the French army are a force to be reckoned with. They are a really necessary cog in the big army machine. They have distinguished themselves In Argonne, on the Somme, on the Yser, in the Vosges. They have contributed appreciably to divers local successes. They have saved the lives of thousands of soldiers by their intelligence and devotion, by their courage and address. They have given their limbs, they have given their health, they have given their lives. They have been cited on the rosters of their companies, their battalions, their regiments. They have been decorated. Their virtues have been celebrated by the cinema, by the newspapers and illustrated magazines and by the novel. Festivals have been held for the benefit of their hospitals and convalescent homes. Their delegates were enthusiastically cheered at the Palace of the Trocadero by an audience of over 6,000 persons (including many wounded soldiers from the military hospitals) on the occasion of the last annual meeting of the S. P. A.(Societe Protectrice des Animaux, corresponding to our S. P. C. A.). And a committee has been formed (at the instigation of their two-footed- comrades-in-arms) for -the erection of a monument In their honor.

Saviors of the Wounded. At the moment of the mobilization, 150 dogs, specially trained to rescue the wounded, were put at the disposition of the sanitary department of the Army of the Soclete Nationale du Chien Sanitaire.' After a short stay at Longchamp, they were sent to the front, where they conducted themselves, on the whole, exceedingly well. “Pic” was brought down by a German bullet In Argonne. "Toby,” alias “Crapoulllot,” died from a shell wound received at Vic-sur-Tourbe. “Kaiser,” “Kronprinz” and “Francois-Joseph”— names given in derision, because of fancied resemblance to the sovereigns of the adversaries —served zealously and fell upon the field of honor. In 1915, mainly on the initiative of the S. P. A. and the Anti-Vivisection league, some three hundred more thoroughly trained dogs were turned over to the sanitary department, and now not hundreds but thousands are succoring the wounded between Nieuport and Alsace. “Prince,” a superb Alsatian wolf, the first dog to have his coat dyed In the Interests of invisibility, and still in the service, saved five wounded men in a single day at Vauquois. "Pax,” blind and paralyzed and “invalided” in due form because of these infirmities contracted in the service, has the rescue of more than two hundred wounded to his credit. On the other hand, “Cadet,” efficient singly, but too 111-tempered for team work, has developed a specialty altogether his own, that of “gathering in” the dogs of the . enemy. When “Cadet” spies a Boche dog, he pounces upon him, masters him, grips him by the ear and brings him to the trench as prisoner.

The “sanitary dog” scours the battlejf.eld in quest of the wounded. When he discovers a suffering soldier he tails back on the brancardier to whom he is attached and makes plain iby his attitude that his services are (needed. At the outset he was taught to fetch to the brancardier a kepi or a (handkerchief. But the handkerchief of the soldier is very apt to be in a Itightly-buttoned pocket and he may have lost his kepi. Furthermore the 'kepi has been replaced largely by the (heavy helmet, and It is next to impostHible for a dog to remove the latter, when it is held on by a chin-strap, as lit almost always Is. So it has become •customary to have the dog fetch any ■object whatever (pipe, handkerchief, helmet, briquet, tobacco pouch, cartridge box, bit of uniform), save a bandage, which he is taught to scrupulously respect. Surprising Canine Versatility. The “sanitary dogs,” having been •first in the field, thanks to the anteTbellum preparedness efforts of the So-

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clete Nationale du Chien Sanitaire, and having long been the most numerous, have naturally attracted the most attention; but all the four-footed pollus are not rescuers of the wounded. Latterly, a goodly number have been trained for functions which bring them into closer relations with the actual combatants than with the disabled, and a special canine military service has been organized by ministerial decree. Dogs now serve as sentinels, as scouts, as dispatch bearers, and as revictuallers.

They are taught to wait patiently in solitary spots; to pay no attention to the most deafening detonations; to wear a gas-mask; to growl (without barking) at the slightest suspicious approach ; to move back and forth between widely separated points without being tempted by irrelevant appeals en route or being disconcerted by the obliteration of landmarks due to the tramping or churning of the earth. “I use only French dogs,” says a dog-training specialist, “for a very simple reason that renders all other reasons superflous, namely, that they are the best shepherd dogs of La Beauce and of the Pyrenees, enterprising and hardy, excellent pupils on condition that you specialize them, that you demand of them only what jtiiey have to give, that you do not exact from them, as from the modern-style ladies’ maid, housekeeping, piano-playing, sewing, ironing, and the giving of English lessons. The efficiency of the war dog depends upon two things, obedience and scent. Do not expect from the best dog miracles of well-nigh human intuition. If you do, you will be deceived. Refuse to believe that a war dog will learn to send telephone messages by growling before a telephone (as has been reported and even printed), or that he will run to ring the alarm bell at the approach of asphyxiating gas.” Four-Footed Sentinels.

“Fidele,” a big yellow mastiff, who mounted guard regularly before the porthole of a trench on the Yser, was shot in the head. He was evacuated to a dog hospital. The surgeons succeeded in extracting the bullet (which his master now wears as a charm on his watch-chain), and, after a’proper period of convalescence, he joyously resumed his service at the front. “Lion,” sentinel with the —th regiment of Colonial infantry, signalled the proximity of a strong German patrol whose mission it was to capture a post some two hundred yards in advance of the French lines. His alarm permitted the opening of a deadly infantry and artillery fire which repulsed and decimated the patrol. Several prisoners were taken, who declared that they would certainly have succeeded 4n their- enterprise JnuLiL not been for the warning given by the dog. ~T —~-

The Official Bulletin of July 19, 1916, contained this sentence: “An attack directed by the enemy upon our outposts in the region of Raschendael (Belgium) was checked by our fire.” The failure of this raid was due to a dog named “Fox.” He was placed upon the roll of honor of his regiment with this mention: “Fox, Serie F 4, matricule 221 of the Kennel A, foiled an attempt of the Germans to raid our first-line trenches. Profiting by a dark night and a gale wind, the enemy had succeeded In approaching our barbed-wire-barriers without being s.een or heard by the sentinels. The dog Fox of the Nineteenth company of the —th regiment of infantry, mounting guard at the extremity of the trench, alarmed tne post tw’ice and permitted us, to receive the enemy with a shower of grenades. Thanks to Fox’s alarm, the

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surprise resulted in a complete fiasco.” “Loustic” had no sooner familiarized himself with the trenches of the —th infantry than he made a discovery of the first importance. While on watch duty with his master he suddenly obliqued to the right and gave unmistakable signs of perturbation. “There’s something over yonder,” said the master to his comrades. “Nonsense! Your pup’s dreaming.’ 1 “But I tell you that if none of our men are over there at the right, there are Boches there!” The dog is led in the opposite direction to test him. He runs back te his point of observation and continues te ma nifest_the_same_disg.uieting_ symptoms. “It may be that he smells a Boche outpost,” observed his master. The men, impressed at last, communicate the observation to the officer in command. “X says that his dog ‘Loustic’ has discovered a Boche _outpost.” “The one we are after?” “Yes.” “That would be extraordinary indeed.” The captain is skeptical; nevertheless he orders several rockets to be set off. And there, sure enough, in the direction the dog so obstinately indicated, pop up the heads of three superb Boches, who fancied themselves secure against discovery.

“That passes me,” murmured the captain. “In 20 minutes this cur has discovered a post we have been hunting two months for.” Four-Footed Scouts. In a northern sector, between the French anti German trenches, fully 200 yards from the former and not more than 20 yards from the latter, was a farmhouse which was suspected of concealing machine guns and an observation post, despite the fact that no sighs of life were visible. The pollus in one of the French trenches lay their heads together: “It’s absolutely necessary to'•know what there is in that hbuse.” “You’re right. But it’s no easy matter. We shall surely be shot if we go near it.” “But if it is empty?” “That would be a lark. We’ll find out,—Well take ‘Papillon’ along with us.”

And one dark night four men, accompanied by Papillon, set forth, They advanced by bounds, with infinite precaution, making ten-minute halts between the bounds and unrolling a telephone wire as they progressed. When they were close to the house, they halted for three-quarters of an hour, in order to give Papillon time to familiarize himself with the premises and to reconnoiter them thoroughly. He displayed no signs of agitation save when he was turned toward the trenches of the enemy. The house was certainly empty. The party entered and made a thorough Inspection. They returned under Papillon’s guidance several times, making daylight observations which rendered possible a successful attack. And Papillon was cited on the roll of honor of the battalion.

In the spy-infected Vosges the scouting dogs have been particularly useful in detecting the civilian traitors who are in the habit of observing the movements of the troops from behind the forest trees. The gcout “Nestor,” besides rendering numerous services of this sort in the region, also distinguished himself particularly at Bandkopf by falling back upon a patrol, in advafice of which he was reconnoitering and announcing In unmistakable language a totally unsuspected menace of the enemy.—Boston Transcript.

Something New About Strikes.

“An amusing coup was effected bj an airman ar a place where the London engineers have come out,” says the London Telegraph. “The striker* commenced to hold an open-air meet ing as the airman was circling over head, and he promptly nose-dives straight at the crowd, skimming ovei them at the height of only a few feet As he descended the meeting broke us in Ignominious flight, and each timi the meeting resumed the airman, re peated his performance, until the strife •rs abandoned the meeting in disgust,*

SQUASHES TO RELIEVE FOOD SHORTAGE

ATTRACTIVE ADDITION TO SUMMER GARDEN.

(Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Summer squashes are to many an attractive addition to the home garden. They may be planted yet in practically any part of the country, and their culture is easy. Two or three hills will furnish enough for an average-sized family. They are not fastidious as to soils, though they, like most garden plants, prefer a warm, sandy loam. The most important requirements for their growth are abundance of manure and good cultivation. The hills may be spaced five or six feet apart. The plants will occupy the ground all summer if the fruits ate harvested at the most usable stage. Squashes are tender plants, and cannot endure the slightest frost, so seed should not be planted until the soil is well warmed. Ten or a dozen seeds are planted usually in each hill. These should finally be thinned to one or two plants. The soil must be stirred by shallow Cultivation-until the plants cover the soil. There are in use in this country several types of these squashes. They must all be used while very immature;

CROOKNECK IS POPULAR VARIETY OF SQUASH.

FOR INCREASED CORN YIELDS

Gain of 6.31 Bushels Per Acre by Thinning Secured at Ohio Station on Tested Seed. Thinning corn has resulted in a gain, as a four-year average at the Ohio experiment station, of 6.31 bushels per acre in the ease of seed tested for germination before planting, and of 8.47 bushels In the case of untested seed. The average time required for thinning an acre of corn was 5.7 hours. In one case three kernels were planted per hill, and on the plot in comparison a generous quantity of seed was dropped and the plants were thinned to three per hill when 6 to 8 Inches high. With tested seed an average yield of 59.28 bushels per acre was obtained with corn planted three kernels per hill, and 65.59 bushels per acre was harvested from thinned corn. With- untested seetL a yield of 55.38 bushels per acre was secured from regular planting and 63.85 bushels per acre where the corn was thinned. With corn at only 50 cents a bushel, one would make 65 cents an hour by thinning on this basis.

VACANT LAND ALONG FENCES

Not Many Farmers Ever Think of Amount of Waste Strips on Either Side of Barriers. —Few farmers stop to think how much land Is taken up by the fences. The fence itself takes little room, but it is Impossible to-grow anything fGr several feet on both sides of the fence. The department of agriculture reports that the ordinary rail fence occupies a strip over 12 feet wide. About 3,600 feet of such a fence takes up an acre of land. Hedges take up a little more than the rail fence, the width varying according to the width of the hedge row.

ESTIMATED COST OF DUCKS

Ranges From Eight to Twelve Cents Per Pound, Depending-on Current Prices of Grain. It is estimated by poultrymen making a specialty of growing ducks that the feed cost per pound of producing duck mer- ranges from 8 cents to 12 cents, depending upon the current prices of grain and other feeds.

If the thumb nail does not very readily puncture the skin of the fruit, the betff stage for eating has passed. Scallop or Pattypan squashes occur in white and yellow colors. Yellow Summer Crookneck is also much planted and is a good variety. These squashes have short vines and are usually called bush forms. English forms of summer squashes are called vegetable marrows, and can be obtained from many American seedsmen. There is also an Italian summer squash under the name of Cocozelle, which is offered by a few seedsmen. These last have long vines, and should be given as much as eight or ten feet between hills. Winter squashes such as Hubbard, Green and Yellow, Delicious and Bos-, ton Marrow require the cultural treatment given above, but should be given ten to twelve feet distance between hills. Winter squashes should be stored in a dry place where the temperature does not go belovV 45 degrees or 50 degrees F. An upstairs room is much better for this purpose than a cellar. The fruits must be thoroughly ripened, but not frosted.

TOMATOES ON SINGLE STEM

Set Plants Eighteen Inches Apart in Rows Three Feet Wide—Pinch Out All Shoots. Where tomatoes are to be trained to a single stem, the plants are set 18 inches apart in rows three feet wide. As soon as the young plant begins to grow after being transplanted it sends out branches or shoots from the axis of the leaves. When these shoots appear pinch them out, which will cause the main stalk to shoot up very rapidly. Put up a stake five feet tall and tie the plant to it. As the plant grows more suckers will form. Continue to pinch these out and train the plant to the stake. The ffuit will be formed on flower clusters about six inches apart on the main stem. The method of training does not produce as many tomatoes per plant, but the fruit is much larger in size and oFTighw This method ailom’S a. great many more plants per acre, therefore the yield per acre is greatly increased.

GIVE HENS PLENTY OF ROOM

Crowding Decreases Egg Production and Increases Feed Bill—Have Nests Clean. o " - If your house is built to accommodate 50 hens, keepthat many, and try to keep them in the best possible shape for profit—you Will get ft. But if you -fry to crowd in 50 per cent more you will require more feed and will have fewer eggs. It is pure greed which often renders a flock unprofitable. Have nest boxes in' Inconspicuous places for the shy pullets, and keep them clean.

BREEDING FOR HEAVY LAYERS

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