INTERNATIONAL FALLS PRESS, MARCH-6, 1919 KINDERERS GET BRITISH NAVAL WEEVILS CAUSE SOLDIERS KNOW BEST FARM Mouasey some would land on the deck of the Mounsey with broken limbs and be washed overboard. SOUND SCORING OFFICER HONORED SERIOUS LOSSES The reports to Oen. .Biddle, while ANIMALS I was in London, told of the horrors Can Tell Why All Should Subscribe of the 6cene. FOR 6ALLANTRY Stuck to the Job. to Victory Loan. The Mounsey was veered off several times by powerful: blows from the Harvest Beans, Peas and Cowpeas Chairman Rogers Rakes Those steel sides of the founding Otranto. Bearing Marks of Great War They Circulating Report of No More Promptly After Maturity HALT HOG CHOLERA RAVAGES One side near the stern was battered Can Explain Need of Raising in like an old tin can. Her engineer to Prevent Damage. Awarded the Distinguished Service Liberty Loan Campaigns. of Billions. Farmers Should Insist on Animal* signaled to Lieut. Craven that the destroyer Medal by President Being Vaccinated by Compe* could stand no more she would VICTORY LOAN IN APRIL tent Veterinarian. go down if another effort was made to Discharged soldiers bearing the TREAT SEED BY FUMIGATION Wilson. run alongsIdeMhe big ship. But Craven marks of the Great War that they received (Prepared by the United States Depart* took the chances. He manipulated the in "France will tell people of ment of Agriculture.) little ship with great skill and got the Ninth Federal Reserve district AVES 600 YANK SOLDIERS Farmers should insist that all the another hundred American soldier why everyone should subscribe to the Kill Insects Before They Can Increase stock hogs which they purchase for Country Will Be Put to Test In This boys. In all he saved about 600, leaving Victory Liberty Loan that will be feeding purposes should be properly in Numbers and Carry on Destructive Last Loan Drive and Mr. only 357 to .perish, and nearly all staged in April. vaccinated by competent and conscientious Work—Growers Have Become these were lost in the effort to jump Rogers Says It Will Be Goes to Assistance of Transport veterinarians in order to prevent In every county throughout the district Discouraged. from the big ship to the little destroyer. Met. the spread of hog cholera. Unlike Otranto When 8he Was Sunk in the men who served their country Collision Off Irish Coast With the larger stock yards of the country, (Prepared by the United States Department so -well are being listed and scores Craven landed the 600 in Belfast. of Agriculture.) which are properly protected by American Troops on Certain persons who are anxious to have agreed willingly to speak at Liberty It is true many of them died there The serious losses caused by bean Qualified government representatives, Board. hinder the efforts of the United States Loan rallies wherever their voices from the exposure and wounds, but the and pea weevils—which amounts to many of the smaller local yards are entirely government in Its reconstruction work 600 were put ashore from, the badly may be needed to further the sale of millions of dollars annually—is largely without safeguards against By E. W. BARRETT. came in for a sound scoring this week battered destroyer. How he stored bonds. preventable, and by putting a stop cholera. Editor Birmingham Age-Herald. by A. R. Rogers, chairman of the Ninth away the 600 in the little fighting craft "Nothing will bring the war to the to it a valuable and much-needed Immature hogs go from the farms of If ever a man were entitled to the is difficult for naval officers to explain, District War Loan organization, in explaining people of the district like the living source of the nation's food supply can origin mainly because of lack of feed distinguished service medal, it was but it was done. that there will be a Liberty evidences of modern warfare," said A. be saved. No satisfactory artificial or on account of disease. The purchaser that young British lieutenant, Francis Was Fearfully Battered. Loan campaign in April. remedies can be applied to kill weevil who buys such sick hogs on R. Rogers, chairman of the Ninth District W. Craven of the destroyer Mounsey. A British admiral in discussing the grubs in beans, peas or cowpeas growing the market for feeding purposes usually The report recently gained wide circulation War Loan organization, in outlining matter with me»in London just after introduces disease into his home in the field, but they can be easily that the next bond issue the plans for the speaking campaign. A dispatch from London announced it occurred said few destroyers could and effectively controlled afterward herd. To stimulate production and would be absorbed by the banks without that President Wilson had awarded have stood the strain. He could only if the necessary care is given. The to conserve our available pork supply asking individuals to purchase the "No one like the returned soldier him.this medal and that Maj. Gen. Biddie, account for her standing the pounding none but vaccinated, immunized crop should be harvested as soon as government securities. can explain the need of raising the commander of the American against the sides of the Otranto by the possible after maturity, and the seeds healthy hogs should be maintained in five billion dollars that our government "There will be one more Liberty forces in the United Kingdom, had fact that her hull was cold riveted thrashed or shelled and treated by the feed lot. If the farmer wishes to is asking for. These men who Loan," said A. R. Rogers. "It will be presented it to him. and that she bent without the giving aid in increasing food supplies, he fumigation, heat or cold storage, in have seen the desolation of France The medal was awarded, in the known as the Victory Liberty Loan away of the rivet heads. order to kill the weevils in them before should help increase our hog supply who have tasted the poisonous gases words of the London cable, "to Lieut. I saw her afterward tied up in Belfast. and it will come in April. by routing disease. they can increase in numbers and that the Germans used who have Francis W. Craven, who commanded She was fearfully bent in, like "Somehow the report got abroad The practice of buying hogs from carry on their destructive work. starved and fought and suffered that the British destroyer Mounsey, which a battered tin thing, but not torn open. that the government had no intention public stock yards for feeding and Weevils not only cause serious damage democracy might not perish from the saved 600 American soldiers from the The heads of the rivets held. stocking purposes, a custom which has to peas, beans and cowpeas in of inaugurating another drive. We do earth—these men will spur the people British transport Otranto, when she It was different with the Kashmere, been intensified in this war emergency, storage but also in the field, and are not know where the report started of the northwest to the realization was sunk in a collision off the Irish which I afterward saw in Glasgow. has to a large degree complicated the responsible for a curtailment in the but do know that it freely we waB of the immediate necessity of 'finishing coast on Oct. 6, 1918, with the loss Her bow was crushed in. The rivet work of controlling hog cholera. In acreage planted in these crops. In circulated by persons anxious to impede the job* that the brave American of 357 American soldiers." heads had given away and the plates many cases, owing to improper equipment some sections, particularly the coastal the work of the government. boys started." Though the British government conferred opened up. She had been hot riveted. for immunization and disinfection regions of the middle Atlantic states, "America may well be proud of the The empty sleeve, the crutches, the no honor upon Lieut. Craven for English naval officers are giving of hogs, new centers of infection this pest has carried on its work of part she played in the historic struggle. artificial eyes and limbs, the maimed his work, because it was not an act study to this rivet question, and are have been introduced in communities destruction so successfully that growers She gave lavishly of her best bodies and the disfigured faces that of valor in war combat, no man in any previously free from the disease, and preparing a report to the admiralty have become discouraged and have blood and she poured out her money were received in the cause of right navy ever showed more courage nor for future consideration in the building the movement of hogs from public discontinued to produce on a commercial will be everywhere throughout the in a golden flood. So nobly did the demonstrated more perfect seamanship of destroyers. stock yards having no supervision by scale these valuable food crops. Ninth District during the coming nation respond to the call to arms than did Lieut. Craven on this state or federal authorities and where In the meantime all America owes Badly infested seeds are worthless drive. that the war came to an abrupt end occasion. treatment for the prevention of cholera a debt of gratitude to Lieut. Craven. for planting. In one experiment on six months before the experts predicted The man who refuses to buy bonds The full story is worth telling, now is not compulsory is a serious But for his pluck and seamanship not record only 50 per cent of infested it would. The early peace will have to give his reasons to the that the censorship is off and no further handicap in the fight to prevent the a man from the Otranto would have beans germinated, and of these 30 per saved the country hundreds of thousands men who fought the battles of this obligation rests upon the newspaper spread of Infection. lived to tell the tale. cent were so badly injured that they country. of her sons and countless millions man who was in the offing, so could not develop into normal plants. Some losses have resulted from of her treasure. to speak, when this horror of the sea THINK IN INTEREST—SAVE shipments of stocker hogs even when "But the job is not finished. Government Harvest All Seed. FROM THE BATTLEFIELD occurred. originating at public stock yards having officials calculate that about In gathering the crop, exercise care, DOUGLAS COUNTY, MINN., Flagship of Convoy. government inspection, particularly five billion dollars will be needed to the bulletin urges, to leave no portion The Otranto, which went down, was in the early beginning of extensive LEADS NINTH DISTRICT finish it. The boys must be brought of it in the field, as seeds scattered on the flagship of a convoy of fourteen movements of these animals for feeding home they must be fed and clothed the ground or left in shattered pods troop laden, influenza infected ships purposes. Several factors were Douglas County, Minnesota, until demobilization is complete the on the dried vines, may carry the pest which sailed from New York on Sept. responsible, such as improper equipment leads all the 286 counties of the sick and the wounded must be taken over winter, and furnish a supply of 26 last. She was a British-Australian for immunization and disinfection, Ninth Federal Reserve District in care of as though the war was still weevils the following summer. The liner, with something like a thousand insufficient doses of serum for the organization and sustenance going on and thousands of disabled crop should be harvested as soon as American soldier boys aboard. On her hogs exposed to infection, the application of War Savings Societies, according men must be taught new ways to earn possible after reaching maturity and sister ship, the Orontes, a nasty old of treatment promiscuously by a living. to figures compiled this week the seed thrashed or shelled soon afterwards. plague infected refrigerator freighter anyone chosen by the buyer of the at War Loan Organization headquarters "With the tumult and the shouting Storing in the pod does not with limited and dirty passenger accommodations, in Minneapolis. hogs, and the use of the serum-alone gone, this country will be put to the confine the weevils. Immediately on A eighteen hundred soldier Under of Chairman treatment, which produces an immunity the leadership test. We met the test during the placing the seed in storage, fumigate boys, the writer and about fifty, George Susens of Alexandria, of very short duration. These are stress of war and I know we will meet with carbon disulphid or carbon tetrachlorid. other passengers were crowded together Douglas county now boasts 83 societies proofs positive that "haste makes it again when the time comes. We are These chemicals when exposed like cattle. divided among the schools, waste," but these objectionable features a grateful nation and I think the Fifth to the air vaporize into a heavy We were accompanied from New community and the industrial and are being overcome. Where Liberty Loan will prove it to the poisonous gas which immediately kills York by a battleship, a cruiser and a commercial divisions. proper equipment is being installed, world." the weevil. Carbon disulphid is the destroyer. The route was to be around When the society idea was dosage of serum increased and the more generally used, though carbon tetrachlorid the north of Ireland and down the THINK IN INTEREST—SAVE launched, Douglas county was treatment placed in the hands of competent has the advantage of not being HAVE SENTIMENTAL VALUE Irish channel to Liverpool. All sorts asked to form 100 clubs and this veterinarians, losses occurring inflammable. Seed to be fumigated of hard luck hit the convoy and particularly week, Mr. Susens reported that in shipments of this character have should be placed in an air-tight container, Gifts of War Savings Stamps Should the' Otranto. She first ran 83 of them were homing prosperously been reduced to a minimum. such as a tin can or barrel. Be Kept. into a fishing fleet and cut down two and that others were being There is reason to believe that with The chemicals, used at the rate of boats, but saved the crews. In doing planned. the various agencies in each state, from 2 to 4 pounds to each 500 cubic Every person who makes a gift of so she fell behind, but caught up The Ninth District now has 625 such as county agents and farm bureaus, feet of space to be fumigated, should '•it War Savings Stamps to either a child when we ran into a fearful storm and societies. interested in the increased production be poured over the top of the seed, or a grown person should accompany continued battling against it for several Interest in the societies was of meat animals, a system of and fumigation should continue for that gift by one or two things, according days. never higher than this month, according exchange could be established to bring from 24 to 48 hours. to Charles Kerr, Minneapolis assistant Scattered in Storm. to A. R. Rogers, chairman together farmers with a surplus of Miss Lillian P. Nielson of New York, postmaster. He should accompany Killed by Heating. Before reaching British waters of the Ninth District War Loan hogs and no feed and those having a nurse in Dr. Alexis Carrel's hospital the gift either by a lecture on When there is only a small#quantity north of Ireland, the American jiaval Organization, and he predicts a more feed than hogs, with a view of in France, recently returned with the value of thrift and the wisdom of of seed, the weevil may be killed by vessels turned back or were scattered steady growth more rapidly than having the transfer of these animals a six-months-old baby, which she says keeping the stamps or by a pledge heating the seed,in the oven for several In the storm. Our old ship was struggling in the past. effected locally and avoid the long and was picked up on a battlefield when from the recipient that the stamps "Thousands of school children hours. The oven should not be and our captain was begging in dangerous journey to a public stock only nine days old. This is i:he first will not be cashed. throughout the district are enrolled hotter than 120 to 145 degrees Fahrenheit. wireless messages to Capt. ^Davidson market and back to farms oftentimes orphan or foundling the French government "There is a tendency," Mr. Kerr Dipping seed in boiling water in the societies," Mr. Rogers of the Otranto for more sea room. in the same community. has permitted to leave the said, "for persons who receive stamps said, "and they are putting away for one minute is also an effective He feared going on the rocky shores country. Miss Nielson will take the as a gift to think of them as so much their pennies and dimes and quarters remedy. Weevils will not feed or of Ndrth Ireland. Capt. Davidson baby back with her when she returns SELF-FEEDERS HELP RAISERS 'velvet,' something, to be turned into in surprising style. The societies cause damage at low temperatures, and made no answer to repeated calls. to France. money and spent at once. Every are doing wonders in inculeating seed can be kept in cold storage at If Then our wireless went down, our Campaign in Maine Resulted in Securing stamp giver ought to do something the spirit of thrift in the a temperature of 32 to 43 degrees boats were crushed, the smoking room 15 Per Cent Increase Over to offset this tendency. The value of PUN TO BUY BATTLEFIELDS growing Americans. Their fathers Fahrenheit, no trouble from this pest doors and ports were smashed in, the money in the form of War Savings 1917 Production. and mothers, too, have entered the will result. galleys, dining saloon and many staterooms Stamps is just exactly as great as if Member of French Chamber of Depu* spirit of the game and are members were flooded. Only cold foods by the possessor got them without effort, (Prepared the United States Depart" in either the community societies ties Proposes Avenue of Trees were obtainable. To make matters URGES FISH MEAL FOR HOGS ment of Agriculture.) as a gift, as if he had worked to earn or in the industrial and to Honor Dead. worse, 400 soldier boys were down An increased pork-production camr the money and buy the stamps. Also, commercial societies." with pneumonia. They were dying paign carried on by county agents anc| the stamps represent the toil of the Tests Conducted by Agricultural Department The great northwest is rapidly Paris.—The Rev. Father Lemire, like cattle in the public rooms and farm bureaus in Maine has resulted life one who gave them and for that reason Show It Is Equal to learning to "think in interest" and who sits in the chamber of deputies on mattresses strewn about wherever a 15 per cent increase over last year have a sentimental value that must Tankage in Feed Value. the small change that used to be from the department of the Nord, there was enclosed room. Medicines in the number ,of hogs raised. Previ-. be taken into account. If a friend frittered away is now rolling into moved his fellow members in the chamber were exhausted, and dead and dying ous to 1917 self-feeders for hogs had is willing to work a full day, say, to Uncle Sam's coffers in a steadily (Prepared by the United States Department by a speech proposing that an avenue were all about. of Agriculture.) been used on a small scale, but hact earn the money for a gift to you, the growing flood. of trees be planted along the entire In the meantime every ship put gift should be kept." To stimulate greater interest in the battle front, which would serve about to save its own, heading into production of fish meal, which is a as a place of pilgrimage for those who the storm. The Otranto and other good substitute for tankage in the do not know where their dead fell. ships not heeding our captain's warnings SAFETY FIRST feeding of hogs, a representative of He asked that the government buy were almost upon the rocks of the United States department of agriculture the battlefields and make a forest from f.v.VvX Ireland. A veritable hurricane was recently visited a number of the North sea to the Vosges mountains. blowing. Waves broke entirely over fisheries along the gulf coast as well the ships. Albert Lebrun, minister of the invaded The Otranto, in trying to get out of regions, in replying for the government, Its predicament, turned across the said that every honor would bow of the Kashmere, another enormous be done the dead. Cemeteries, he said, old freighter crowded with would be laid out at points where the troops. The Kashmere's bow cut fighting was heaviest and entire battlefields through her sides and deep into her would be transformed into national engine room, stopping her engines and monuments. cutting out her lighting system. She became a broken log and was dashed upon the rocky cliffs. No other ship OCTOPUS AND WHALE AS FOOD dared attempt assistance. Each was Pigs Helping Themselves at SelfFeeders. struggling to save itself. United States Bureau of Fishenwa Mounsey to the Rescue. Conducts Cookery Demonstrations Then came the little destroyer Mouneey, on Pacific Coast. proved unquestionably successful. The Hops Feeding at Self-Feeder. results showed that farmers with selffeeders plowing through the waves like a riiTW submarine. She managed to run In Washington.—The bureau of fisheries kept more hogs than they \jr2 as a number of marketing centers in beside the foundering ship. Lifeboats has been conducting fish cookery demonstrations could otherwise. This suggested to the South. Tests conducted by the department along the Pacific coast the county agents that the self-feeder had been lowered, but were smashed show that fish meal is equal cities. in, and the little Mounsey was pounding be made the 1 isis of a campaign for fn feeding value to tankage. It contains against the hull of the big ship, The following species have been more pork. jilding "bees" or demonstrations about 57 per cent protein. It is -sgp used in the demonstrations Albacore, ~e held by agents, at first jammed against the side and then made by drying nonedible fish and barracuda, bocaccio, bonito, carp, catfish, which self-fe iers were constructed knocked far off. In the meantime gri -ui-£ fine. Tiiis meal is being used flounders, hake, halibut, llngcod, with the hel? the farmers attending the soldier boys jumped for their lives at cue government farm at Beltsville, chub mackerel, horse mackerel, grayfish, the meetings, and instructions toward the deck of the little destroyer. Md., io replace tankage. The menis perch, rockfishes, sable fish, sand given for their use, particular emphasis Many would land and be rushed into a den fisheries on the Atlantic coast being pla-ced upon their advantage dab, sardine, shad, skates, skipjack, the hatches. Others would miss the produce annually 10,000 tons of soupfin shark, sole, sturgeon, smelt, in coni ction with pasturing distance, jump and drop into the sea. ikh meal. Fisheries along the gulf yellowtail and salmon heads, milts and hogs. As a result of the campaign, StlH others would strike each othersin states and Mississippi river have been with octopus 745 additional self-feeders are now reported livers, together squid, the long jump from the high deck of wasting or manufacturing as fertiliser •M whale. in use and 2,000 more hogs are the Otranto to the swash deck of tht large quantities of nonedible flab. being raised with