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Show THE BOLLES RESIGNS AS I (Copy (or This Department Supplied by Ihm American Legion News Service.) REHABILITATED MEN MAKE GOOD SHOWING Vocational training of World war veterans has proved the most serious mistake in the care of the disabled by the government, according to Gen. John F. O'Ryan. Many of the veterans would have been better off tf they hud not been trained, he declared in an interview with a representative of the American Legion, upon his departure from Washington at the conclusion of a ten months' Investigation of the veterans" bureau. The general said that this statement did not take into consideration ilny charges of negligence, extravagance or mismanagement, but considered only the system of rehabilitation used In caring for the men. "I am firmly of the opinion," he said, "that there are a great many the number may run Into the thousands of men in vocational training who would be better off if the government had never undertaken to reeducate them. By better off, I mean more able than they are now to cope with conditions and win economic Independence." "The government's vocational machinery never actually broke down; It never even started in the right Little attention was paid to way. getting the right men into the right course in 1920 and 1921. The whole thing was a travesty on the name of Instead of teaching rehabilitation. men to strike out and paddle their own canoes again, the tendency was to cultivate habitual pensioners." "In ft)22 when the federal board was merged with the veterans' bureau, things took a turn for the better and the situation has steadily improved. But the evil had been done. Instead of being taught to become independthousands of ent and veterans had been schooled for two years In how to get a livelihood at public expense. It has been necessary ' to drop a good many men whose cases have become Impossible. . . I believe others will have to go. I cannot see how the bureau can turn out men as rehabilitated who obviously cannot make good." Of the -- 70,000 men now lecelving vocational training, about 2,000 a month are leavlr.g the Institutions as Itecent rehabilitated. experience shows that aproxlmately ninety-fiv- e per cent of these men are making good after their absorption Into the business life of the nation. . Need $420 Annually for Each Child's Care contribution of approximately for the care of each child at the American Legion Blllett at Otter Lake, Mich., is necessary for the war veterans to carry on this important phase of the work, according to Dr. C. V. Spawr, department commander of the Legion In that state. Cottages are soon to be built and the whole plant extended as rapidly as funds permit, according to department officials. It is not unlikely that his project will be adopted by the national organization as cue of the regional homes anticipated in the national program for child welfare by the A $420 annually Legion. The orphan's project Is In addition to another unique work of the American Legion In Michigan, at Itoosevelt Memorial hospital near Battle Creek, where scores of tuberculosis men are cared for at the expense of the Legion. Casino Aix-Le-Bai- ns in order to muke the doughboys feel at home, a replica of the famous In France, casino at where many soldiers spent their leave, was constructed by Wichita (Kan.) American Legion members for their annual bnll. The big ballroom was effectively decorated and was peopled with "V" worker", canteen girls and other well known figures of leave-are- a was furnished by the day. Music band, which was a conlocal Legion tender for prize money at the San Francisco convention of the American legion. Dignity lleyt" yelled the excited deckhand from the deck of the great liner Im-- "Man overboard!" "Wot do you mean, you Impertinent beggar man overboard?'' demanded un Indignant but aristocratic voice from the WHter below. "'Is Lswd-bl- p Percival McStubben 'Awklna la overboard. Id 'ave you know." Weekly. American becility. He Qualified.' Minister We, all of us, should do at least two thing every day that we heartily dislike doing. Charlie I do that, all right. Why, every morning I get out of bed, and every night I go 1o bed. Pearson Weekly (London). He Couldn't. ha left yon T "Yes P "You don't look pleased." "No. She baa come hack -- rasalog Show. "Wbst? Tour wife NATIONAL ADJUTANT Lemuel Bolles, perhaps more closely associated with the American Legion for a greater length of time than any other World war veteran, has resigned his position as national adjutant. Bolles was a delegate to the Paris conference at which the actual work of organization was completed. He had a part In drafting the national constitution of the organization and was named a member of the executive committee when a permanent organization was formed at that caucus. Franklin D'Oller, as national commander in 1919, named Bolles to the position of national adjutant which he has since held by appointment from every succeeding commander. lie was born in Minneapolis, Minn., in 1S85, Just when the pioneers were resting after opening up the West His grandfather built the first grist mill ever erected In that state. As a youth he tended furnaces, cows and horses during his boyhood, and by these earnings educated himself at McAllister academy In St. Paul. In spare times he assisted In opening up Northern Pacific land grants for settlement, as a member of and appraising and surveying party in the West ern Dakotas. By the time he was fifteen he was riding along the Buffalo divide In the Grande river country Into the Dakota "Bad Lands." Before long he accompanied a carload of western ponies to Yakima, Wash., and chose that section as his home. He was In the banking, law and soldiering business, all of which meant diligent study for the young man a hardy offshoot of the pioneers of the early Nineteenth century. As a climax to the legal phase of his life, he became an assistant in the office of the adjutant general In the state of Washington where he re- - TIMES-NEW- Creosote Will Make Pays to Keep Up Posts More Durable Testing of Cows In Well-Manag- Associa- ed tions There Is Gain in Average Yearly Yield. United Statea Department (Prepared by the of Agriculture.) As a result of the study of records of associations In all parts of the country, the United States Department of Agriculture has shown associations that in there Is a gain in the average yearly production of cows from year to year. In other words, even though the poor cows are culled out at first, it pays to keep everlastingly at it, as there Is cow-testin- g d always an opportunity for profitable improvement. Averages Show Increase. To illustrate this, figures of butter-fa- t production for three associations, one each In Michigan, Ohio, and Penn sylvania, show that for the first year the average per cow was 237 pounds, rrt rffv fruit-growin- r " & Boys Learning to Make Babcock Test for Butterfat in Milk. for the second year It was 255 pounds, for the third year 278, for the fourth 92, and for the fifth year 305 pounds. The last year in the series showed an average production of 68 more pounds of fat than the first year. At 40 cents a pound this amounts to $27.20 a head, and for a herd of 20 cows the increased value would be $544 a year. Pure Breds Excel. Production records of 17,405 pure bred, grade, and scrub cows showed Lemuel Bodes. that In milk production the pure breds celved great inspiration for military and grades excelled the scrubs by prolife. In 1917, when America entered 12.42 per cent, and In butterfat the World war, Boiles was assistant duction by 17.80 per cent.adjutant general In that state, holding Proteins in Sour Milk the rank of major. He was named as assistant quarterAssist Egg Production master with the Forty-firs- t division, Rome of the poultry departments at and was sent to France where lie was the agricultural colleges have been assigned to Headquarters First Army making experiments to find out why corps as assistant general in charge of sour milk Increases egg production. supply transportation and evacuation A study of the analysis of sour skim for the whole corps. He held the rank milk It to contain 00.77 per of lieutenant colonel and served cent showed0.10 water, per cent fat, 3.93 per through the Champagne, the Marne, cent milk sugar (lactose), 0.56 per Alsne-Marnthe Toul and cent lactic add, 8.6,1 per cent protein drives. For meritorious serv- and 0.79 per cent milk ash or salts. ices he received the rank of Chevalier It was assumed that water alone of the Legion d'Honneur from France. war not the stimulating factor. The Still holding a commission In the fat content seemed too low, and the organized reserve, he is a lieutenant distribution of carbohydrates did not colonel commanding the Three Hundred point to milk sugar as a possible and Thirty-fourtInfantry of the source of the problem. Eighty-fourtdivision. A comparison was made of rations His Legion service has been long containing' lactic acid, milk salts, protein-free and useful. sour skim milk and sour skim He was given a month's leave of milk. The results showed conclusively absence on his return to the United that lactic acid In the same solution States in order to arrange for the as in sour skim milk Is valueless for first annual convention of the Amer- egg production. Besides both milk ican Legion which was held at Minne- salts and ash entirely failed to stimuapolis in 1919. Following this con- late increased egg production. The results all seem to indicate that vention ho acceded to the post of na tional adjutant, which he has since It Is the proteins or milk curd that is the valuable part of sour skim milk. held. sour two years, the protein-fre- e For no one in Legion person Perhaps circles has a wider acquaintance. Mr. klra milk bas not given as satisfactory production as the sour skim milk. Holies' man reached 1.0 X) letters day, his duties have taken him Into every section of the country, and he Silage in Ration Will has made countless friends In his Make Big Money Saving breezy, wholesome way. It has been conclusively proved that Mr. isoiies is resigning to accept a position with a firm of New York pub silage In the ration makes a saving With dairy of considerable money. lishers. In speaking of the resignation. Na animals the feeding of silage saves tional Commander John It. Qulnn, who from 8 to 15 cents on the cost of had reappointed Mr. Holies as nation' producing a pound of butter and from si adjutant following the San Fran 30 to 50 cents on producing 100 production pounds of milk. For Cisco convention, said : or fattening of u mills, the sav"The resignation of Lemuel Bolles ing the produced by silage Is about $1 Is a loss to the American Legion. His 100 pounds gain, rhough several per place will not easily be filled. If It experiments show three and four were possible for me to tetain his sery. times this figure. The average of fl Ices, I would do so. I could seek no Is then-forlow and better support ss national commander when we consider the conservative, growing of bis than to continue services for the the feeding of dry cows stock, young organization. It would be manifestly anil heifers, the wintering of work unfair, however, to attempt to per horses and mules. suade him to remain. There comes a time In every man's life when that man must give consideration to Ms Farm Animals Like Rye own welfare. I feel that the work Mr. Mixed With Other Feed Bolles has oone for the Legion, the animals arc not fond of rye, Farm sacrifices he has tnnde for the Legion, It willingly when mixed with have largely prevented the advance but take other feeds. Fed alone or In large ment of his own career. tit Is to cause digestive "He goes from this org.mlxatlon with amounts Fed Inspt troubles. large amount to dairy hundreds of thousands of friend. His cows It a hard, dry butter. unremitting toll for the organization, A limitedproduces amount gives good results. his zeal In carrying out the adminisnot a palatable horse feed, but tration of the organization, his labor Rye isbe may safely ffd In small amounts In building up the organization all rolled or these thing" have become Invaluable. with oats. It should be It resembles wheat I can wish him no greater success coarsely ground. than that which has always accompa- In composition, but Isor of lower feed corn. Oround nied his efforts ss national adjutant Ing value than wheat Is worth shout 04 per cent as much rye of tbe Legion." sround corn. Mr Meuse-Ar-gonn- e, NEPHI, UTAH S, o h h t" Especially True of Several Softer Varieties of Wood. With wood becoming scarce and labor more expensive farmers are finding it necessary to use some means of making their fence posts last longer. Experiments have shown that creosote will solve the problem. Prof. E. It. Gross of the New Jersey State College of Agriculture states that fence posts treated in creosote will last three to five times as long as untreated posts. This is especially true of the softer varieties such as willow, ash, elm, soft maple, white cedar and cotton wood. Many consider It inadvisable to creosote the harder woods such as oak, red cedar and chestnut. It is better to use round posts for creosoting rather than split posts, as the penetration will be more uniform. All bark must he stripped off and the timber well seasoned before creosoting. Creosote eight to ten Indies above the depth to which the post is to be set, since most rotting takes place at or Just below the ground line. Posts three or four Inches In diameter at the top give best results us they are strong enough for most purposes and usually last as long as larger post Ii Is important to get thorough and A deep penetration of the creosote. good vat is made of an old steel barrel set over a roughly constructed furnace. The creosote Is kept at the boiling point and each batch of posts is left In the vat about two hours, depending on the rapidity of penetration. One inch penetration should bt obtained. In order to determine this a post may be split or sawed in two The tops of the posts are either dipped or painted with hot creosote. A fanner having a woodlot may well spend a few days this winter cutting posts. Next winter these posts will be properly seasoned for creosoting. )W hi. LOAD FOR HORSE RAW LINSEED OIL IS DEPENDS ON ROAD BEST TO KILL LICE That the size of the load horses or The little red lice or biting lice of cattle are common to young and mature animals alike. They do not suck the blood of the host but feed upon loose scales of the skin and portions of the hair. Their multiplication is favored more by the dry, scaly skin of the cow than by any other condition. They are smaller than either of the other kinds and are red in color, but can be seen with the naked eye. The eggs of the red louse hatch In five to seven days and It takes about fourteen days for the young lice to mature and begin laying eggs. The red lice are more active and move about from place to place on the host None of the lice can live any length of time away from the host. But their eggs are carried by means of loose hairs from animal to animal. This Is the most probable manner of mules can move depends upon the road was determined In contests recently held at the Iowa state fair. The teams tested developed all the way from 8.6 to 21.2 horse power and exerted from 2,000 up to 2,300 pounds in tractive pull, but the pull exerted by the teams which developed a tractive pull was sufficient to start and pull 38.4 tons of coal over a level concrete pavement. These tests the first ever held were made possible through the horse and mule dynamometer, the Invention of Prof. K. V. Collins of the agricultural engineering section of the Iowa State College of Agriculture and experiment station at Ames, la. With the Collins dynamometer, predetermined loads can be imposed on horses or mules for any required distance or time, and pair after pair can be tested with absolute assurance that the load is the same. "Tractive pull" refers to energy exerted In a direct pull, and Is the same as the pull required to pull a weight out of a hole In the ground. The tractive pull required to pull an ordinary walking plow In stuble, turning a furrow six Inches deep and 14 Inches wide, is about 400 pounds ; or, In other words, the team has to expend the same energy ns It would in puHing a weight out of a deep hole In the ground. The load a tractive pull will move depends on other factors. To lllus-trad-e a demonstration load was 2,300-poun- d 400-poun-d Illustrating the Parts of a Cow Most Liable to Infestations With Lice. Agronomist Tells How to Construct Pit Silo "The Pit Silo" Is the title of bulletin Xo. 288 issued by the Colorado experiment station and ready for free distribution. It is by John Sjogren, associate agronomist of Colorado Agricultural college. Advantages of the pit silo are enumerated as follows: pit silos cost less to construct; there Is no trouble from feeding frozen 'ensilage ; less power Is required in operating the ensilage cutter because it Is not necessary to raise the ensilage to any considerable height. Disadvantages are pointed out as follows : The pit silo cannot be economically constructed In regions where the soil has a tendency to cave In. If the soil will not remain In an upright position. It will be necessary to construct a heavy retaining wall, and this will require almost as much material as building a silo above ground. The ensilage is more difficult to remove from the pit silo than from the above- ground type. This objection can be largely overcome by constructing a good hoisting derrick. Another objec tion is the danger of the formation of poisonous gas called carbon dioxide on the surface of the ensilage at filling time. Rate of Crop Yield and Real Cost of Production That a definite relation exists be tween the rate of crop yield and cost of production Is an established though perhaps not a generally appreciated fact. How definite that relation and the factors entering Into It are Is an Interesting subject of Investigation. The Cornell (N. Y.) experiment sta tion has published the results of work done to obtain Information regarding the production and costs of the principal canning crops of that state. The report contains Information on several crops Including tomatoes. While It Is not easy to ascribe credit properly to the various factors, be cause of the relatively great Influence exerted by weather conditions, the ef fect of yield upon financial returns Is quite apparent. On 47 farms that averaged from 8 to 11 tons of tomatoes acre, the money return was $1.1.00 per acre greater than on 55 farms sveraglng less than 8 tons pe' acre. Moreover, on 31 farms averaging over 11 tons per acre, the Increased return advanced to per acre. The growers In the three groups made average Inbor Incomes of C2, 20 and 01 cents per hour. g rr Milk Cow Given Proper Rest Will Produce More The old saying that a bushel of corn before a rtiw freshons Is worth two bushels after freshening Is true. A milk cow, given s rest of from six weeks to eight weeks before freshening and fed during this time so that she will calve In good condition, will produce from twenty to forty pounds more butterfat Oan a cow not having a rest. Tobacco Stalks Fine as Top Dressing for Grass The tobneco stntks left after the leaves have been stripped have a high fertilizing vslne. The Kentucky experiment station Is authority for tha statement that a ton of tobacco stalks contain abont ns much nitrogen and potash as 8 tons of stable msnure. grass They sre fine for and small grains to lbs syrUig. Ro 1 spreading infestation and the hardest to control, 'it is practically impos sible to disinfect all objects that are capable of transmitting the loose hairs. Especially Is this true where the cattle have the run of pasture and yard. Whitewash can be used effectively around buildings. Effective control measures must be directed against the lice during the period after they are hatched from the eggs and before they mature and start the process. Any substance that will destroy the eggs will be Injurious to the skin of the animal. Any substance that is poisonous to the cow should not be used. The most lasting control depends upon killing the lice and putting the hide of the animal In the condition that will be unfavorable for the growth and development of the lice. For this purpose raw linseed oil has given most satisfactory results In the experiments made at the Connecticut experiment station. Linseed oil has been used for years by many dairymen, but Its use was not general. The raw oil Is not poisonous. Only a small amount Is required for each cow, one pint being sufficient to treat four or five cows. It Is not Injurious to the hide of the animal but will kill the lice. The raw linseed oil may be supplied with a stiff brush when the cows are being cleaned or groomed. Treatment should begin In the fall and early winter before the lice become numerous. The second application of the oil should be made In 12 to 13 All of the three kinds of lice days. will have had time to batch from the eggs during the Interval but will not have had time to mature and In turn lay eggs. The second treatment should be followed by an application of the oil every 30 days during the winter and enrly spring In order to keep the lice under control. It Is practically Impossible to permanently rid an entire herd of rattle of lice. The boiled linseed oil Is not recommended because there Is more danger of Its blistering the hide. When nslng the raw oil, precaution should be used not to rub the bide too strenuously when applying as burns may result. Strong sunlight will sometimes cause burns also. egg-lnyin- g Roa is Determine Size of Loads. shown tests. In connection with the Iowa A new farm wagon was loaded with sacked grain weighing 6,240 pounds equivalent to 104 bushels of bushels of shelled wheat or 111 0 corn. To move this load which, plus wagon, weighed 7,720 pounds, or 3.86 tons, required on concrete pavement a tractive pull of 125 pounds, or 32.5 pounds per ton; on brick pavement a tractive pull of 200 pounds, or 51.8 per ton; on asphalt, 300 pounds, or 77.7 d per ton, and on the dirt and cinder-surface- road where the pulling tests were being held It required 520 pounds, or 134.7 pounds' tractive pull per ton. These results, corroborated by other tests, show that It Is easier to pull three tons on a concrete road than one ton on a firm dirt road, and Indicate, forcefully, the value of hard roads. power, Watt's definition of laid down centuries sgo, was approximately correct In measuring the energy which a horse can expend continuously throughout a working day ; but he failed entirely to recognize the remarkable reserve power seasoned horses or mules possess. When a single pair of horses, rated at power. power, can exert over It Is obvious that they have a value far above their theoretical power. Above all other Considerations, however, is the fact that draft horses and mules can now be listed on a basis of performance, as dairy cattle or race horses are tested. one-hors- e two-hors- e two-hors- Improper Feeding Cause Proposed of Trouble With Calves in State of Washington In calves be due to over- Brake-Testin- g Automobile braketestlng stations and the use of a little "moral suasion" on the part of the state highway pa trol to require drivers to have their brakes regularly tested. Is the next development being shaped by Director U D. McArdle. chief of the highway patrol of Washington. A plan similar to that osed In promoting light testing will be employed where an arrest slip Is Issued for some minor Infraction, to be canceled only upon securing the required certificate of Inspection. Certificate f Inspection, dated, wll' be attached to the outside of the cnr. When a cur Is stopped for any reason, the patrolmen are to try the brakes and If they are not good, the srrest slip Is to be Issued to be redeemed only bv proper brake lnspe-tloeertlfVnte. In this way It Is planned largely to overcome the lack of specific brake textlng legislation. n Constructing System of d Highways Hard-Surface- If Alabama citizens will get In th game and see to It Hint the million of dollars voted In bonds to build roads are used st once to build roads in every coivnty, these roads will belf and they will be the means of bringing our people to a realisation of the Importance of good roads and rnor money wilt be rslsed In escb county with which to build a system of hard-surface- rosds. Andslus a Star. I Scours may feeding, irregular feeding, feeding cold milk, sour milk, dirty milk, use of unsanitary feeding palls, etc., says J. P. LaMaster, chief of the dairy division at Clemson college, who makes ths following suggestions for treatment: 1. For ordinary scours, as soon as symptoms are observed, omit one feeding and reduce next feeding to half, and then gradually bring up to original quantity. In case the disease becomes obstinate, give from l'4 to 2 tablespoon-ful- s of castor oil. repeating the dose on the second day If necessary. Scours may be due to the mother's milk being too rich In butterfat 2. To prevent white scours, tie the navel string close to the body and paint with Iodine as soon as the calf Is born. There Is no cure for white scours. Calf Will Learn to Eat Hay Very Early in Life A calf will learn to ent hay very early In life, and It should be clean and leafy and replaced often with fresh hay. In ten days or two weeks It may be taught to eat grain. It Is often easily started by ptsclng some oats or ground barley on Its wet nosa and will soon be eating from a box or dish. It Is a great mistake to allow grain or feed to stand before It, aa the feed soon becomes soiled and sour. |