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Show I Big War Jobs That IfV Are Helping . American Farmer ' "limfoM of dollar worth of food p'"- yui clothing Intended for' use oyer VV Vneae'aad stored in the government W ' warehouse at the Bash Terminals, Mt (Niw York, will he protected from 1' ' " damage by Inseeti through arrange-, K ' meats wa'ereby the War Department mwty -J s-ril use' the knowledge on stored M i product Insects In the possession of H' . the Department of Agriculture! The H'v stored supplies originated In all parts RL: vjst heworl 'and, are' likely to con-gaaaKrV'"l con-gaaaKrV'"l lasecU that will multiply and fe'V '' Muse great damage In storage, par R&VA ilcularly,,duriagr the .summer. To HwK, eh'.oaVJ'l treat, laf'esUtlMs ln f , ' ;:umW:.K.uLlety. h. been K- f , eneni Jkv.eihnct ,ef p werk. In (Vt ' apwaWn'-witk-'tsarpart-gJgr? a v meat ' "' K' - rJI "Urgar, 'mere , naif eras and more KJtMtlnitkH eW TMletle. and R:VjV4dUien.,s highly disease reslst-f.y:',f reslst-f.y:',f . sit'hsiW aeteleped Urouth tea Bv , ', ''wark'-'hr J. B. Norton, a K-'il, plant breeder la the- Bureau of ggf c Flaat Industry, .who Introduced, naBnTr ,i ' ' tested and hybridised asparagus from ail parts of the world. Introduction of the new strain. Is expected eventually even-tually to stamp out the rust, a destructive de-structive disease that swept over the country a. few years ago. CommSr-clal CommSr-clal quantities of the new type recently re-cently sold In Washington, D. 0. for more thaa double tbe price of other asparagus,' i ,, ,., ,, Additional help, to harvest the wheat In the central western states will be supplied by aa'army of work-mefmovlBg work-mefmovlBg from' Texas to North Dakota with the season of harvest Definite plans for distribution of Jthla labor have been made by the De-partmeaV.ot De-partmeaV.ot .Agriculture's farm help specialists ..cooperating 'with . the Deprm4atof Lbor. aad with Jthe county agents la' these 'wheats prev du'cing states.''' It It esttmatedthat 80,000 'men will be needed ,to hardest hard-est the wheat crop In., Kansas, aad that about lo.OOO of this number will be furnished by the, towns (aad cities of that, state 'while the remain- Ider will go lata Kansas from Oklahoma Okla-homa and, Texas when the wheat harvest la finished la these states. Sale of the skins of stock destroy-! Ing and other animals killed by almost al-most 00 animal hunters of the Bureau Bu-reau of Biological Survey ef the Department De-partment 'has netted 'during the ear-rent ear-rent fiscal year up to May SO, ?,-780.77, ?,-780.77, awarding toreeords of the bureau. 7,Thi compares with ale- I ULje3Y,7l,l.lter tbVflseal year I 117, a''M,14.08 for ike seal 1 year lll'l. ' The Increase la due 'to I better ergaalsattens A the work I aUd to ttMreaatd valaee eNfars. 1 The work ef the animal hunters (s I directed primarily agalastthe ear- ete, bobeat lebe ar Umber' yrelf, auuatala Hen. lynx aad steek kin- . lag bear battle lppia'eperaMehs aWo resulted in A "eapture 'afa large- nwmber tt badgers, etvat eats, foxes, martens, opossums, raeeeena skunks and weasels' From th be-1 ginning ot this work In the fall of 1015, whealt was sUrted on a smalt scale, up1, to January 1, 1911 more than 1801 wo'lves, 61,830 coyotes, 144 mountain lions and 8681 bob-caU bob-caU had been hilled by trapping and shooting besides great numbers destroyed de-stroyed by earefully conducted pola-1 pola-1 onlng campaigns. Forty-seven additional veterinarians veterinari-ans making a total of seventy, have recently been detailed by the Bureau of Animal Industry! to protect horses which are being transported for war purposes, from Influenza, distemper or shipping fever, diseases which have caussd enormous losses. In cooperation with the Signal Corps, United 8tatea Army, the Weather Bureau Is providing for and maintaining for the duration of the war aerologlcal and meterologlc-al meterologlc-al observations at a number of aviation avia-tion and artillery fields. For use at these fields tables of mean values ot atmospheric pressure, temperature and density and a paper on Meterol-ogy Meterol-ogy and Aeronautics, have been published. pub-lished. z In connection with searchlight tests conducted In February and March at'Washlngton by the Engineer Engi-neer Corps oft the Army, the Weather Bureau mi(e some kite flights at I night. Other flights were made la daylight la "connection with studies of atmosphere electricity conducted by tie Bureau of Standards. The United, States' Food Leaflets recently published by the Department ef Agriculture aad the Food Adraln-Istratlen, Adraln-Istratlen, nave been translated la m)Wf.M loeel-flHOsesitatives into eleven forejga languages and, are new being distributed among th'iT foreigners ' In the ' United States. Twenty leaflets, eaeh carrying 'its message' of fped sense and food economy eco-nomy IB, four pages, make up the se-! rles. ' Besides the English version they have bean published la. Yiddish, Armenian, Syrian, Italian Polish, Finnish. Portuguese, 'French, Greek. Swedish and Lithuanian. ,MImIssIbvI ha aaaeted a taw authorising au-thorising ')he esUbHshment and Uie IWaiateaaace of mualelpal weed and eeal yards daring the period el the present yearand for oae year thereafter there-after as a means t meeting the fuel shortage. This is said to be the first legislation, of .the kind by any state. Municipalities taking ndvaa-tagr-ef this law may provide the necessary machinery, transport, sell, and deliver fuel and are authorised to use for 'this purpose geneaal municipal mu-nicipal funds aad also with certain restrictions, to borrow money li necessary. nec-essary. Four district men and thirty-six state leaders, all trained poultry rfpe- claltBts, are carrying out the Department Depart-ment ot Agriculture's program to secure large Increase In poultry and egg production, this year. In addition to these workers there are eleven extension poultry club men who are encouraging more efficient poultry production among the boys and girls in their various States. ' Recent reports re-ports from these poultry extension specialists indicate that normal production pro-duction will be maintained In practically prac-tically every section of the country this year, In which they are working sAd.ta.'ataay laagaataewaae over previous yearajaeaaaetoi. The appeal made by "etrtaialtepeelal-Istai "etrtaialtepeelal-Istai ta.aHy peaief jatreass fasid pradactloa aft ufcWstakJtaetr table scraps la feeding assail beak 'yard Hecks of hens la meeting with marked, mark-ed, success. In treat' of the main bulldlag of the Department of Agriculture hangs a big service Hag with the numerals "1,196." Since the flag was made the number ot f6rmer regular members mem-bers of the department now In the Army or the Navy has risen to 1,537. In addition, 4,511 employees including includ-ing 968 women have been lost to the department In other ways since the declaration of a state ot war with Germany. Most-of the 6,048 who have left the department's service are experts In their fields and were performing Important duties In the department which required long training and peculiar qualifications some of them special technical qualifications. The department has been In the position at having to Increase In-crease its forces greatly to perform Its old duties and meet the war time demands for extended operations while at the same time It has been fecUve aad trained employees. The E difficulties la aecurlag men t the retrtlteiUalais eat 4t fetalatac these ialraadr $m the aerrlea he beaavvery'great "- i One handred'aad sixty train veterinarians ef the Departmeat.ot Agrlcultare are working In 88 states, In cooperation with agricultural colleges, col-leges, state authorities aad local veterinarians, vet-erinarians, to control hog cholera. The effectlveaess of their efforts and. the success of modern methods ot combating this disease Is shown by the fact that during 1914 the hog: mortality from disease was 7,000,000 head, as compared to 3,000,000 in the year ending March 1918, 90 per cent ot the deaths being due to hogr B cholera. The losses In 1914 were ' 1 equivalent to the normal consump- tlon of pork and pork products by S the entire population of the United States for 37 days. v President Wilson has Issued a proclamation pro-clamation establishing three new Nalonal Forests in the East the-White the-White Mountain In Maine and New-Hampshire, New-Hampshire, the Shenandoah In Virginia Vir-ginia and West Virginia, and the I (Continued on Page 3) BIG WAR JOBS THAT ARE HEHLPING AMERICAN FARMERS (Continued from Page 2) Natural Bridge In Virginia.' East forest represents the final step in carrying out" the law passed by "Con gres la 1911 proridlag for the pur-chase pur-chase by the gorerameat of forest landson the watersheds- of aarlgabfe stream. Additional land which hare bees purchased la the Vhlte Mountain and Southern Appalachian Appalachi-an will bo proclaimed NaUeaaifrer-e'sla NaUeaaifrer-e'sla a their accumulation reaches a1 point justifying the step. To show how farmer of the United Uni-ted State are meeting the shortage of farm help a field agent of 'the Bureau of Crop Estimates in a 'recent 're-cent report told of seeing a farmer In Indiana drlrlng a team- of six horses hitched to a disc plow and leading three horses drawing a harrow. har-row. He was working nine horses aad two modern farming machines, and doing the work of sereral men and team under the old system of farming. Community cooperation la spraying, spray-ing, particularly la4 the control of such disease as potato late blight and tomato leaf spot, 1 urged by the United State Department of Agriculture. Agri-culture. The department la suggesting suggest-ing to county agents and. extension pathologists the early organisation of such spraying circles to deal more effectively th(s year with such destructive de-structive plant diseases. A community commun-ity spraying outfit with a man and team continuously employed through out the season is both economical and efficient, department officials say, and proved a successful plan in Vermont and New York last year. In one New York community the average spraying cost per acre for the season was as low 'as 65 cent while the cost on one application wnlle the cost on ope application averaged 13 cent an acre. Detailed report of the organisation and. operation oper-ation of the community spraying circles cir-cles a they were conducted la Vermont Ver-mont and New Yorkare being made available by the department to the workers. . A guide to baking with helpful fact briefly told has, been Issued by the office of home economic in the form of a card, to be hung la a convenient con-venient place in the kitchen. , It carrie the message-of saving -wheat by the use of aaastltvjtes'aad give amount of substitutes equal to, one cup of flour.' Oood comMnatlea of substitutes with tautloa to be considered con-sidered la their use "la baking, are alio given. Aa old recipe, for making mak-ing bread 1 compared with a new one ia which 1 3-8 cup of barley aad 1 cup of corn flour take the place of t cup of wheat flour. Cooperation In Wisconsin between the Bureau of Crop Estimate and the State Department of Agrlclture I providing very satisfactory, according, accord-ing, to expressions of State Officials.' The j reports are said to be more.de- . pWlable because of better sources of Information and better organisation organisat-ion secured through the cooperative arrangement, 'which' ha elimlaated duplication of work aad expense. Similar cooperation ha been established estab-lished In Utah. Missouri, and Nebraska Neb-raska and la under consideration in other States. Tlie sheep extension speclalllats appointed by the Department of. Agriculture and now at work In 15 State are giving special assistance j toj BToipecttve,sheep raisers inaidlng them in procuring satisfactory stock and la providing necessary equip- , ment to insure successful outcome of the new ventures. In this way people who are unable to retain for breeding breed-ing propose the full number of the female increase of their flocks, are arranging through the extension specialists and local county agent to have their surplus stock go lato the hands of other persona who are looking for stock. This has been an Important factor in conserving breed lng stock which might otherwise have gone to the market for immediate imme-diate slaughter. ' In the final year 1917 the cost of the Federal meat inspection was about 5 1-2 cents for each of the 63,000, 000 anmals slaughtered. This covered the entire service from the first Inspection of tbfb live animals an-imals to the final examination of the meats in the finished products when ready for delivery to dealers or consumers. Local Office of the Bureau of Market have been opened in East St. Louts, Salt Lake City, Pa., and Louisville, Kentucky, to handle report re-port on livestock movement and moat-trade conditions at these markets. mark-ets. t , V |
