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Show . GREKN. RIVER DI8FAT0H, GREEN RIVER, UTAH other times trying to pick a fight It afterward was to talk about Ms visit was all one to bm: I jnst wanted and what he hod sold to them. Wo CLUB WORK to do. I found what I wanted, knew Mr. Gerard had got the Germane 1 aU right to make conditions better la some of I had quits' a talk with a sentry in the worst in Germany and BOYS Dent of a barraeka. It must have the men were always glad when ha somelasted of an hour. Ha came around. They felt they had did not know what I was calling him, thing better to look forward to and and I did not know what.be was call- some relief from the awful misery. Valuable Means Is Provided for Mr. Gerard was passing through the ing met I could hav hniN him all Increasing Food for Human . right but another sentry came up on French barracks and a man I knew my blind side and grabbed aw and the there told him there was an American Consumption. talk was over. there. The Germans did not want him They dragged me to the commander to see me, but he put up an argument of the camp and he instructed them to with the commanding officer and. they give me a bath. So they took me to finally said he could interview me. I TAUGHT FUMWG FBNCfUS to the bathhouse, where I was stripped never was so glad to see anyone aa and lashed. All the time they were I was to see him. The picture Is etlll Tim Hava whipping me I was .thinking what a with me of him coming in the door. Many Youths for First Takan Interest In Raising Crops Joke it was oa me, becauae I had been We talked for about an hour and n Instructed by a or Stock looking for exdtemedt and had got half, I guess, and then he got up to more than I wanted, so I laughed and go and he said I would hear from him Agents In Doing Man's the Huns thought X was crasy sure. in about three weeks. Jnst think what . Work. I was dumped into a vat of hot water good news that was to ami and at the aame time my clothes were They let me out of the guardhouse (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) given a boiling, which was good for and I celebrated by doing all the damthem. age to German sentries that I could, In addition to furnishing valuable ln- Then I was forced into my wet do. The men in the camps went wild' traction the boys dubs in the southclothes an& marched back to the bar- when they learned that- - Ambassador ern states provide a valuable means This bath and the stroll Gerard was there, for they said he was of increasing food production. Unorracks. through the. snow in wet clothes just the only man in Germany they could ganised, the boys probably would have about did for me. Nowadays, when I tell their troubles to. The reason was done little to help the South feed itsit in a draft for a second and catch that he was strong for the men, no self; but through, the clubs they have cold, I wonder that I am still ally's to matter what nationality, and put his been taught the principles of farming, catch it Having gone through heart into the work. I am one of and many of them for the first time MIS soms-thin- g SOUTHEIH hell-hol- three-quarte- - tX-GUNN- AND CHIEF PETTFFICEICnJrSNAVYT MEMBER. OF THE FOREIGN LEGION Captain gun Cassard; turret, french battleship DE GUERRE WINNER OF THE CROIX CHAPTER XXI. It A Visit From Mr. Gerard. Lata that night we arrived at DolWe were rousted man, Westphalia. oat at the carriages, mustered oa the platform, counted, then grilled through the streets. In spite the latesm. the streets were pratf, well filled with people, and theyjggggged us through Ml the streepf the? could, so that ail the peoptofrould have a chance to see the crnuDeBt M they called us. Most of thKopla were women, and as soon saw us coming, they began the "Watch on the Rhine" or seme other German song, and it was funny to see windows opening and fat on, sticking fraus, with night-cap- s their heads out of the windows. They would give us a quick once-ove- r, and pipe up like a boatswain: "Schwein-hun- d Vaterland Wacht am Rhein nil klnda of things and all mixed up. Bo we gave them "Tipperary" and "Pack Up Tour Troubles, " and showed them how to sing. Our guards had no ear for music and tried to atop us, but though they knocked several men down, we did not atop until we . had finished the song. Then, after we had admitted to each other that we were not downhearted, we shut up. We would have done so, anyway, because by this time we were on the outskirts of the town, and we needed all the breath we had. The road we were on was just one long sheet of ice, and we could hardly walk more than four steps without slipping and falling. Ky shoes had wooden soles, and it was just one bang after another, with the ice and myself trying to see which could hit the hardest Every time we fell smash I came a riffle over the tj - back. days. - They thought nothing of picka sentry and giving ing a flght-wlthim a good battle, even though he was armed with rifle and bayonet We soon learned that unless his pals are around a German will not stand by his arguments with his fists. In other-wordif be can outtalk you, he will beat yOH up, but if he cannot, U If h case of "Here'ttBSqk Selnle going hack. The Russian prisoners at Dulmen were certainly a miserable looking bunch. They spent most of their time wandering around the Russian barracks, hunting for rotten potato peelings and other garbage, which they would eat When they saw Frits throw out his swill, they would dive right through the barbed wire one after another, and their hands and face and clothes were always tom from it It was unhealthy to stand between the Russians and their garbage prey they were so speedy that nothing stopped them. One morning, just after barley-coffe- e time, I came out of the barracks and saw an Australian arguing with the sentry. I was not only curious, but anxious to be a good citizen, as they say, so I went up and slung an ear at them. The Australian had asked Frits what had been done with the flag that the Huns were going to fly from the Eiffel tower in Paris. That was too deep for Fritz, so the Australian answered it himself. "Dont you know. Frits? Well, we have no blankets, yon know. Still the sentry did not get it So the Australian carefully explained to me so that Frits could bear that the Germans had no blankets and were using the flag to wrap their cold feet in. This started a fight, of course the German 1dm of a fight, that is. The sentm, Veins a very brave man for a German,' blew his whistle very loudly, and sentries came from all directions. So we beat it to the Australian's barracks, and there I found the second American in the camp. Ha was a Berber named Stlmson, from one of the Western states. He had heard I was there as well as.the Boston man in the Canadian service, but he had been too sick to look us up, and in fact did not care what . happened, he was so miserable. He had been wounded several times, and died in a day or two. I never knew how he came to ha in ' the Australian service. Those two and myself were the only Americans I knew of In this prison camp whether in Canadian, Australian or French service. The other two had been captured in uniform, so there was no chance of their being released. Dulmen was very near the Dutch border and as it was quite easy to get out of the camp attempts at escape were frequent Host of those who ran away were brought back, though. The Germans were so easy on those who tried to run away that I almost thought they were encouraging them. .One chap was doing his ten days in the guardhouse for-- the sixth time while I was there that Is, he had just about completed his period of detention. He claimed that the sixth time he had really got across the border and was arrested in a little town by the Dutch authorities and turned over to the Germans. That is against the law in most countries, but he swore it was the truth. I am not so surq, byself. He got away for the seventh time while I was at Dulmeq and was not returned. Ten daya in the guardhouse is not such a light punishment after all, because water three times a day is an the prisoner received during that time, but it is pretty mild compared to some of the things the Huns do. One morning I thought for sure I was going cafard. I was just fed up on the whole business and sick of doing nothing but suffer. So I strolled along, sticking my head into barracks doors, sometimes trying to have a talk. s, Dix-ma- knd the Dardanelles and the sinking of the Georglc and four German prison camps and a few other things I shall probably trip over a hole in a church carpet and break my neck. That would be my luck.' Thera were all the diseases you can think of in this camp, including black cholera and typhus and somebody was always dying. We had to make coffins from any wood we could find. So it was not long before we were using the dividing boards from our bunks, pieces of flooring and, in fact the walls of the barracks. The officers were quartered in corrugated iron barracks, so they had to borrow wood from us for their coffins. We would make the box and put the body in it give it as much service as we could, in the way of prayers and hymns, and put it away in a hole near the barracks. There was so much of it that a single death passed unnoticed. One morning the German sentries came to our barracks they never came singly and told us that an officer was going to review the prisoners and ordered us to muster up, which we did. I was the lost man out of the barracks and on account of my wounds I was slower than the rest Ton understand I had had nd medical treatment except crepe-pape- r bandages and water ; my wounds had been opened by swimming from the Georglc to the Hoewe and they had been put in terrible shape in the coal bunkers. On account of the poor food and lack of treatment they had not even started to heal. Incidentally, tfee on?ffitli bandages that any of us had were what we would tear from our clothes and I have seen men pick up an old dirty rag that someone else had had around his wound for a long time and bandage his own wounds with it So it was all I could do to drag myself along. The officer noticed that I was out of line and immediately asked my name and nationality. When ha heard "American he could not nay enough things about us and called bm all the swine names be could think of. I was pretty thin at this time and getting thinner, so I figured I might Just as 'well have it out before I starved.- - Besides, I thought, he ought to know that we are not used to being bawled out by German swine in this country. So I told him eo. And I said that be should not bawl Americans out, because America was neutral He then said that as America supplied food and munitions to the allies she was no bet ter than the rest . Then I said : "Do you remember the Deutschland? When she entered Baltimore and New London she got all the cargo she wanted, didnt she?" those who cannot say enough good things about him. Like many others, if it had not been for Mr. Gerard I would be kaput by now. A few days after this I was slow again as we were marching to the bread house and the guard at the door tripped me. When I fell I hurt my wounds, which made me hot Now I had decided, on thinking it over, that the best thing to do was to be good, since I was expecting to be released, . and I thought it would be tough luck to be killed just before I was to bo released. But I had been in the American navy and any garby of the U.S. A. would have done what I did. It must be the training we get, for when n dirty trick is pulled off on us we get very nervous around the hands and are not always able to control them. So I went for the sentry and walloped him in the Jaw. Then I received his bayonet through the fleshy part of the forearm. Most bayonet wounds that we got were in the arm. But . $ 0 have taken an Interest In raising crops or stock, and have been started on the right road to successful farming. Boys Enrolled. t The boya agricultural clubs In the South are carried on by state, district, with and county agents school officials and business-men- . The number of . boys enrolled in 1917 was 116,746, classified by clubs as follows: Corn, 40,294; potato, 8,441; cotton, grali. sorghum, 2,126; peanut, calf,. 2,968; pig, 81,875; poultry, 11,633; and miscellaneous, 4,087. The enrollment has been greatly increased In 1918, and it la expected that in addition to the regular enrollment there will be an emergency enrollment of 7; 7; Valuable . le z. w Facta Collected by Bu- reau of Animal Induetry. Certain Disadvantages, Formerly DIG flcult fo Explain, Sometimes Appeared in Experiments Conducted at Beltsville. (Prepared by the United Btatea Department of Agriculture.) Breeding facta valuable to live stock raisers are being collected by the bureau of animal Industry through experiments on its farm at Beltsville. Md. Experiments on the effects of in guinea pigs, began in 1906, already have been carried to the eighteenth generation wholly by mating brother and sister. Inbreeding in a practice frequently used by live stock raisers in their efforts to fix and render prepotent desirable family traits. With the practical results hoped for, however, certain disadvantages, formerly difficult to explain, sometimes appeared. Present progress of the government ' inbreeding investigations with guinea, pigs has developed the following points of interest: The mere fact that the closest in- -' breeding can be carried to the, eighteenth generation without any very; obvious degeneration is noteworthy. There baa been, however,- - some decline in vitality, size, and, especially, fertility. The young produced by crossing different inbred families show distinct Improvement in nil respects. The inbreeding has brought to light, and automatically fixed in 23 inbred, families, pronounced differences in fertility; size, vitality, color and pattern. There is Independent heredity of these traits, with no correlation between the vigor of a family in one respect and its vigor in others. The chief, effect of inbreeding, as indicated by tbe experiments, is the fixation of hereditary factors. The decline in vigor on inbreeding and the improvement on crossing appear to be merely very likely, but inevitable, consequences. If breeders use great care in the selection of breeding stock, there appears to be no cause which prevents a satisfactory ' degree of vigor from being combined1 with the uniformity and prepotency which can only be obtained through close breeding. GREAT pretty tired, so I said te some of the fellows that I was going to sit down and rest, and they said .they would also. Bp we dropped out and waited until the guards behind hdd just about caught up with us, and then we would go on. We did this several times until they got on to us, and we eeald not do it any more. Up the road a piece X fell again, and this time I did not care what happened, ao I just sat there in the middle of the road until Frits came up. Instead of giving me the bayonet, he made me take off my shoe that Is, he took them off of me with a knife through the strings and I had to walk the rest of the way In my bare feet It was about four miles altogether from the atatlon to the camp. Most .of These Who Ran Away Warn When we got near the camp, all the Brought Back. boys came out of the barracks and were arms in front of our faces those lined up along the barbed wire, and The sentries did not aha the at time. welcome. asked We them a us yelled for our arms, you can bet on that A if they were downhearted, and they wound of the kind I got would be noth said no, and we said we were not either. We could hardly see them, but lng more than a white streak if properly attended to, but I received absothey began yelling again when we got lutely no attention Tor it and it was nearer, and asked us, Is there anyone a long time in healing. At that I was there from Queenstown 7 and then lucky; another bayonet stroke just Hull, and Portsmouth, and Dover, and Toronto and a lot of other places. grased my stomach. I had been at Dulmen for three I did not pay much attention until weeks when we were transferred to I heard, "Any Americans there?" and "Yea." Havel which is known I yelled back, Yes, where are youf "Well, if you send over your mer- Brandenburg, hell-hoas of Germany" to the "Barracks 6-- Gruppe 8." "the chant marine they will get the same. "Where from 7 I yelled. It certainly is not too answer he gave me'ten daya prisoners. For that "Boston. Where Ye you from?" In the guardhouse. He did not like to strong a name for it either. "The U. 8. A. and Atlantic portsi On the way we changed trains at be reminded that their merchant maSee you later." rine had to dive under to keep away Oanabruck and from the station platSo, the next morning, I went over to form I saw German soldiers open up from the Limeys. bis barracks and asked for the Tank. machine guns on the women and I admit I was pretty flip to this of- with They pointed him out to me, where he who would not be when a children who were rioting for food. but ficer, was lying on the floor. I. went over slick German swine officer bawled him and laid down with him, and we had CHAPTER XXII. out? quite a talk. I will not give his name was whjle I was in the guardhouse It here for certain reasons. "The Hell Hole of Germany. that Mr. Gerard, the American ambasHe had received several wounds at On arriving at Brandenburg we weft sador, visited the camp. He came to the time he was taken prisoner. He marched foe three or four miles northabout this six as camp every months, had been in the Canadian service for a rule. Even In the German prison west to the camp. While we were betwo yearn. We used to talk about ing inarched through the streets a camps the men had somehow got infor- woman New Tork and Boston and the differwalked alongside of us for Mr- - Gerard's efforts to about mation ent places we knew In both towns, and a way, talking to the boys In quite the terrible in improve surroundings we also talked a lot about the rotten which the men lived. Some of the men English and asking them about the treatment werwere receiving, and tried nt Dulmen had been confined in vari- war. She said she did not believe to cook up some plan of escape. But ous other camps and they told me that anything the German papers printed. every one we could think of had been Mr. Gerard visited these camps She said she was an Englishwoman when used by some one else, and either had and that at the out nil the men did for a week or so from Liverpool that failed, or the Huns had fixed It so the break of- the war not being able to plan could not be tried again. We get out of Germany, she and her childoped out some pretty wild schemes at dren had been put in prison and that But Altogether, we became great BRMDEtt&URG every day for over a week they had pals, and were together as much as put her through the third degree; that possible at Dolmen. The day I left her children had been separated from the camp, he gave me a ring made her and that she did not know where from a shell, and told me to get it safely they were. back to the States, but some one stole She walked along with us for several it at Brandenburg. blocks until a. sentry heard her say One day while I was in his barracks something not very complimentary to an Englishman stepped out of the door the Germans and chased her away. for some reason or other, and though When we arrived at the camp we were he did net any a word to Frits, in two pot into the receiving barracks and . minutes he was dead, in cold blood. there six days. The condition of A out 6Iftfimocy kept We never knew why they killed him. m HOSPITAL barracks was not such that yon these e'umLvnmwMBMtJtaa At Bwlnemunde and Neustrellts, I describe 1L The floors were accould nttfkm imtAs sumuM&Jr must admit that the Germans had us tually nothing but filth. Very few of AwWWreBwcw pretty badly buffaloed, but at Dolmen the bunks remained ; the rest had been the prisoners were entirely different torn down for fuel, I suppose. fod ? a7tnuugmmv(M Dolmen was the receiving camp for -. (TO BE CONTINUED.) wnuniuk fnmrma a the whole western front and the prisPKIMtfRj MKMCKi oners there got to be pretty tough Concrete bases to give longer irTe tr eorn-ou- t fence posts are a for eggs, as far As Frits was concerned, Sketch of Brandenburg Prison Camp Drawn Memory I IgTBfitn-- 's Mm Depew. thay had ben in camp taany I was getting INBREEDING TESTS WITH GUINEA PIGS IMPORTANCE OF ICE Appreciated Mere In Country Heme Than In City Indispensable for ' Dairy Products. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) An ample supply of Ice la of greater economic Importance in the country ' Club Boy Caring for Chickens. 400,000 club members.. Many farm boya under the age of eighteen are being instructed by club agents and county agents In doing a mans work on the farm. The emergency enrollment la an effort to get hold of all boya who are taking on tbe added burdens of the war time and to give them credit for tbelr extraordinary efforts. ' Tbe average yield of corn raised by the members of the boya clubs throughout the 15 southern states was 47.97 bushels per acre. There were 110 boya who made more than 100 bushels per acre, and aome good records were made by boys In other farm crops. -Results of Pig Cluba. Pig clubs conducted in with the bureau of animal Industry of the United States department of agriculture are popular. Thousands of purebred pigs have been distributed among the boya with excellent results. Purebred hogs are becoming well distributed throughout every pert of the South. Short, practical courses in agriculture for club boya are held in each county, where, all the club members attend and receive instruction. In addition to the short courses held In the counties one Is also held at the agricultural college where the prlxcr winners are brought for a week or two weeks instruction. Tbe boys clubs are stimulating form boya to enter the agricultural colleges to continue their agricultural training. In one state In 1917, 218 club boya entered the agricultural college'. home than in tbe city borne. City people can purchase perishable supplies aa needed, but the remoteness of country homes from markets often renders it necessary to use canned, corned or smoked meat products during the' season of the year when the table should be supplied with fresh meats. Not only (a ice appreciated because of its use in the preservation of fresh meet, butter, and other tablo supplies, but the production of high-gra- de domestic dairy products la almost impossible without it Many markets to which milk la now shipped, demand that it be cooled before shipment to a degree not attainable without the use of Ice. FARM GATE EASY TO HANDLE Pulleys Can Be Mads to Serve as Hangers Is Quite Handy for Cattle Lota. Two-Flang- d If there are any pulleys about the place they may be made to serve as gate hangers quite satisfactorily. Two old well pulleys will do, writes D. B. Van Horn in Oklahoma Gate for Cattle Lota. Farmer. Put them on the gate post, with long lag' screws and nnll tr atrip of old Iron to the lower edge of the panels that are to run on the wheels. PREPARATION FOR SOY BEANS Strap iron from the top of an old wagon box will do for this purpose. Soli Free Fram Clods Insures Beat Re- An iron rod placed as shown In the drawing keeps the gate from being sults Work It Quite Similar to s dismounted and thrown off. That for Corn. a handy gate for the cattle lots but Is too insecure for hogs. Prepared by the United Btatea Depart-- . This-make- ment of Agriculture.) The preparation of the soil for the My bean is similar to that for corn, and It, like corn, readily responds to any extra preparation. The land should be plowed early and deep, fitted, and ihen harrowed at Intervals until the beans are planted; otherwise, weeds are likely to choke out the young plants. Disking will give tbe proper preparation after a crop of early potatoes or peas or for stubble land after wheat or winter oats, provided the soil is moist and mellow. A firm seedbed with a light, loose covering of fine soil well smoothed by the harrow, la conducive to uniform .depth in planting and to a good stand of plants. A soil free from clods Insures the best results, especially iu seeding broadcast UNUSED WATER FROM SPRING May Be Made Valuable If Brought to ' Watering Trough, Cooling Tank or Harvested aa lee. (Prepared by the United Btatea Department of Agriculture.) The, unused water from a spring or flowing well may be made valuable if brought to s watering trough, cooling tank, fish pond, or swimming pool or harvested as ice. A saving may bo effected by laying two lines of pipe In one trench. The engine which driven the pump may operate other useful appliances such as a dynamo, saw, washing machine, cream separator, or churn. |
