Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1920 — Page 2

OATS BEST CROP

Statistics Show Advantages Over Com Growing. Or fcomparatlvsly Cheap Land la Western Canada Farmers Get Reo•rd Yields—Coat Per Acre Much Less Than Com. - ■ , ■ t How much more does it cost to grow an acre of com than to grow an lacre of oats? To get a proper comiparison It is necessary to take an 11Oustratton from a farm on which both crops are grown successfully. An extample has just been brought to the "writer’s attention of the comparative cost of growing corn and oats on a Minnesota farm. It is furnished by Albert Inmer, a well-known fanner in Cottonwood county, Minn., in an article which appeared in the Cottonbrood Gtlaen.

Mr. Inmer says: “I had a curiosity ‘to know how much it would cost to raise an acre of oats and corn. To (find out I kept account, during the .year, of the time required and the ■cash expended to grow the above men'Honed crops.” His figures show that tit cost him $31.49 to grow an acre of ‘com and $18.131-3 to grow an acre of oats, or a difference of $13.00 an acre tin favor of pats. Provided the respective crop yields are not altogether out of proportion to the cost of growing the crop, this •coma to be a good argument in favor of growing oats. But to grow oats sui r tashilly it la not necessary to use <sl6o or S2OO land. In western Canada some of the best oat-growing land tn the world can be bought for about S2O «n acre. On thia land good yields and a high quality of grain Is obtainable. Fifty to sixty bushels to the acre tn properly prepared land is a fair average yield for oats in western Canada tn a normal season but yields of up to 100 bushels, and even more, to the acre have been frequent in good years. The quality of oats grown in western Canada is attested by the fact that at all the international exhibitions for many years past oats grown to western Canada have been awarded the leading prises. There is on record oats grown in western Canada that have weighed as much as 48 pounds to the measured bushel, and the dominion grain Inspector is author §y tor the statement that 85 per cent of the oats examined by him in west•ern Canada weigh more than 42 pounds to the measured bushel. The standard weight for a bushel of oats Is 84 pounds. Samples of these oats weighing upward of 45 pounds to the bushel are <m exhibition at the Canadian government information bureau, located in various cities in the United States.- - Advertisement.

Proper Pride Necessary.

Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, Is beneficial tn small, though injurious in large quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even In a personal sense, can please others.—Frederick Saunders.

Aqueous.

She —They say he Is quite devoted to aquatic sports. He —Yes, he drinks .like a fish, you know.

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Representatives of the United States government'paid tribute to the French on Bastile day, July 14, by flying the trl-color over the White House and decorating graves of the French dead at Arlington cemetery. This photograph shows Secretary of War Newton D. Baker placing flowers cn the grave of Henri Coquelet Just beyond the headstone, a little to the right of it, is the dead soldier’s widow. Near the center of the group is Gen. Peyton C. March, U. S. A., chief of staff.

Navy to Stage Big Maneuvers

Atlantic and Pacific Fleets to Be Combined in Great Sea Spectacle. < ADMIRAL WILSON IN COMMAND Not Intended to Concentrate All of Nation’s War Strength and Only Vessels Regularly in Commission Will Participate. Washington.—The greatest concentration of sea power In the history of the American navy will result from the Junction of the reorganized Atlantic and Pacific fleets off the Pacific coast next January under plans now being prepared by naval officers. The great naval spectacle probably will be staged in the vicinity of the Gulf of Panama. Officials of the navy department say the proposed mobilization will in no sense result in “grand” maneuvers. No effort will be made to concentrate all of the nation’s naval strength and only ships regularly in commission w’ith trained crews will participate. The exercises and drills will be simple and mainly of a competitive nature. Including unofficial athletic competitions between representatives of the two fleets and of individual ships. Admiral Wilson Senior Officer. Admiral Henry B. Wilson, command-er-in-chief of the Atlantic fleet, will be senior officer of the combined force, with Admiral Hugh Rodman, chief of the Pacific fleet, second in command. The manewers will be unique in many respects, chiefly in that they will afford the first actual mobilization of the bulk of the new American navy. Before the war the forces were always more or less scattered and a shortage of several types of vessels, particularly of destroyers, submarines, light cruisers, aerial forces and fleet auxiliaries, made It Impossible to concentrate a well rounded out fleet although the major portion of the battleship force met each winter at Guantanamo, Cuba, tor target practice and drills. During the war the shortage in most types of small vessels, notably destroyers and submarines, was overcome, but the entire fleet was never mobilized, due to the use of practically all light craft In the war zone, the detail of cruisers to escort duty and the fact that a considerable portion of the battleship force was on duty abroad much of the time. w Will Set New Mark.

The .Tannuary maneuvers will set a new mark in American naval progress. For the first time in the history of the new navy the battleship fleet will be supported by a reasonably adequate number of destroyers and other light craft. Submarines will be available in abundance, together with sufficient naval aircraft for all tactical purposes and a fully rounded out fleet of auxiliary vessels. The total number of vessels to participate will depend on the progress of recruiting, as many ships are in reserve now for lack of crews, but it is probable that Admiral Wilson will command *t least 300 vessels of all types. The most modern of dreadnaughts to participate in the maneuvers will be the great Tennessee. The last word in naval construction, this great floating fortress displaces 32,000 tons, carries 12 14-inch guns and is propelled by electric turbines. The Tennessee is attached to the Atlantic fleet A sister ship, the California, probably will not be completed In time to join Admiral Rodman’s forces before the maneuvers. A comparison of the shjps available for next winter’s maneuvers with the naval strength available for a similar concentration ten years ago affords some striking contrasts. January 1, 1910, the latest battleship In the navy was the New Hampshire, authorised by congress in 1904, and completed In 1908. A comparison of the New Hampshire and the Tennessee follows: New Hampshire—Length, 450 feet; breadth, 76 feet; draft, 27 feet; dis-

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Pay Tribute to French on Bastile Day

placement, 17,700 tons; speed, 18 knots; main battery, four 12-inch guns and eight 8-lnch; second battery, 12 3-inch, four submerged torpedo tubes, 9-inch armor. Propelled by triple expansion steam engines, developing 18,000 horsepower; crew, 1,250, including marines. Tennessee —Ninteen hundred and twenty. Length, 600 feet; breadth, 97 feet; draft, 31 feet; displacement, 32,300 tons; speed (contract), 21 knots; main battery, twelve 14-lnch guns; two submerged torpedo tubes; propelled by electric turbines, developing 28,000 horsepower; crew, 1,600 men. Including marines. * Eighteen Dreadnaughts Available. Eighteen single caliber gun ships classed as dreadnaughts will be available for the January maneuvers that were not completed in 1910. They have a combined displacement of 445,000 tons and a combined gun power of 112 14-lnch guns, eighty twelves, 226 5-inch and twenty-eight 3-inch. A comparison of total battleship forces available in 1920 with 1910 shows that this year there are 18 dreadnaughts and 19 predreadnaughts, excluding the Oregon class, against 23 predreadnaughts in 1910, including the Oregon class. Most of the battleships listed as available in 1910 are now considered obsolete. Ten years ago the navy destroyer force consisted of about 38 vessels, including 17 torpedo boats, even then practically obsolete. This year Admirals Wilson and Rodman command destroyer forces aggregating more than

Junior Red Cross School Children in Italy Make Colanders and Sieves. Collestrada, Italy.—The Junior Red Cross school at Collestrada, Italy, is making kitchen utensils from osiers and withes to supply the countryside with the hardware that it is impose slble to buy from stamping mills in Italy since the war. Collestrada is in the heart of Umbria, where straw plaiting and osier weaving are two of the principal industries. The orphans at the Collestrada school make colanders and sieves and market baskets in sufficient quantities to furnish the neighboring villages. The reed receptacles are woven very tight and serve for flour sifting. This is an important utensil in a part of Italy where the flour is ground on hand grist mills and contains many coarse particles. Another method of making these sifters is to weave three tliicknesses .of horsehair across a wooden hoop, which sifts as fine as the best articles manufactured with steel Wire. The woven recep?hCles of Umbria are not exported from Italy this year because the country can use the entire output to replace those formerly made of metal by Italian stamp mills. Even the large output of the Junior Red Cross colony at Collestrada, which approximates a hundred paniers

Straw Kitchen Utensils

First Man-Eating Shark of Year Caught in Potomac

Washington.—lt remained for the poor old Potomac river to furnish the first “man-eating shark” of the 1920 season. A local newspaper published a first page story of an eight and a half-foot wolf of the sea, at Piney Point, Md., which is considerable distance up the Potomac, but where the water still is salt. A doctor in the fishing party, according to the account, removed the shark’s teeth and presented them as souvenirs to the other members of the party. Piney Point is not a summer resort.

Pearl Instead of a Boil on Man’s Neck

Twenty years ago, James London of Clifton Heights, Pa., ate some oysters. One of the bivalves had a pearl which Longen swallowed. He never gave the Incident a thought until a few days ago when he had severe pains In a small lump in his neck. Longen thought the lump a boil, so he squeezed it, and the pearl broke through the skin, ending Longen’s pains.

200 vessels, with over 100 more in reserve or under construction. In 1910 16 submarines were carried on the active list of the navy. Thia year nearly 100 of the submersibles are attached to the two fleets, with about 75 more under construction. Little Change In Cruiser Strength. The cruiser strength of the navy has shown little change in the last ten years. In 1910 the backbone of the cruiser force was the "big eight” armored cruisers, now reduced to six by the loss of the San Diego and the Memphis. No light cruisers of importance have been launched in the last decade. One of the most striking increases in American naval strength in the last ten years has been in auxiliary vessels. Both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets now have well-organized and complete “trains” of hospital ships, supply boats, repair vessels, refrigerating ships, ammunition and fuel ships, in addition to motor patrol vessels, submarine chasers, mine sweepers and mine layers, converted yachts, submarine and destroyer tenders and troop transports, practically undreamed of a decade ago.

and colanders each week, is entirely absorbed by the needs of the nearest images. The children learn to do the work in a short time, for the only exceptional skill required is in choosing the material carefully and soaking the splints and withes correctly.

NOTED GOLF CHAMPION

' Abe Mitchell, one ox umj most famous of English golf era and holder of the 'world’s championship for maa#

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Heavy Traffic.

They seldom crowd the roads in northern Minnesota, but on our last tour, when we headed into a tamarack swamp and had to take our top oft because of the low-hanging trees, we did feel a trifle uncertain about the route. “Do many cars travel this road?” we asked some children who happened along. “Oh, yes,” came the proud reply: “lots of ’em. One came last year and one this year, an* now you’re here, too!”

Cuticura for Sore Hands. Soak hands on retiring In the hot suds of Cuticura Soap, dry and rub in Cuticura Ointment Remove surplus Ointment with tissue paper. This is only one of the things Cuticura will do If Soap, Ointment and Talcum are used for all toilet purposes.—Adv.

WAS TO BE MORE YELLING

Safe to Say That Father’s Prediction Turned Out to Be Absolutely Correct The sweetly peaceful scene in the little sitting room was suddenly disturbed by a loud yell, and the honored guest sprang wildly from the chair into which he had just sunk, while the daughter of the house felt her face grow pale. She had had hopes from this visit Alas, poor girl, were they to be blighted? But father took the matter —and his small son—firmly In hand. With a (graceful apology he removed the bent pin from the chair and the aforesaid small boy from the room. “Now, look here, Charles,” he said sternly. In the back yard, “why did you do it?” “It—it was an father!” faltered the laddie. “An experiment!” snorted father. “The only man who has visited your poor sister for years, and you go and drive him away!” “Well, dad,” explained the boy, “he advertises that he is a painless dentist, an’ I wanted to find out if it was true, an’ It wasn’t You should have heard him yell?” “Yes,” was the father’s grim comment -“And some one else is going to hear you yell now?”

The Magic Distance.

Guest —You advertised a magnificent view. Proprietor—Yes, you can see three miles out at sea. — I ■ ■ Love at first sight may be due to oversight

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YOUNGSTER MADE WORD GOOD

Though, as It Turned Out It Was at the Cost of Some Personal Discomfort

Marshall, who is five, lives tn a. flat building. He Is a real boy and although he has a rear yard and a sand pile in which to play, his mother has more or less trouble keeping him off the streets. A neighbor saw him. across the street one morning and the next day called his attention to the fact that he was out of the zone mapped for him. He was one of {he busy ones about a vegetable wagon. “Yes,” he said, “I had to get some sings.” The next morning he asked his mother for the market basket He Immediately disappeared and soon returned, accompanied by the vegetable man. In the basket were three pounds of potatoes, a box of berries and two cantaloupes. Mother had to settle whether she needed the goods or not At any rate, Marshall made, his word good with the neighbor that he had to get “some sings." When questioned by the same neighbor about his shopping expedition he said: “Yes, and mother spanked me. too.”

And Yet It Was Tough!

A woman famous locally for hei ducks sold one to Brown, her neighbor. But It proved particularly tough, and as Brown had paid a big price for the bird he called on the vender without delay. “What do you mean by Imposing such a duck upon me, one of your neighbors?" he inquired. “Why, was there anything wrong with it?” . “Wrong! It wasn’t good at ail!” “Well, It ought to have been,” replied. the dame. “It won the first prlzs at all the poultry shows for 11 years in succession !"

He Kept On.

“Why are you staking out a lot here, my man?” “Gonna live here.” “But you can’t live here. This is the great American desert. It’s too dry.” “I can’t see that it’s any dryer hers than anywhere else.”- —Louisville Cour-ier-JournaL

A Great Improvement

“Jim’s wife can make a tart answer.” “My wife Is a lot better than that, for she can make a pie speak for itself.”

If a man Itches for fame It probably keeps him scratching.