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PEDIGREE Sired by Princo da Ohenoy (21008), he by Dno da
Ohoncy (11050), out of Charlotte II (1G409). Dam, Mouotao do
Thlsnos (02809), she by Organiste (8001), oat of Fanlo do Vil
lerB (40705).
Will Stand the Season of 1915
Monday, at the Chas. Bliven farm.
Tuesday, at the Char. Hcikes farm.
Wednesday and Thursday at Henry Filmore's.
Friday, at the Homer Livery Barn.
Saturday, at the E. L. Ross place on the old
Win. Nixon farm.
TERMS $1B to insure in foal; $20 for standing colt. Upon tho
sale or rornoval of mares from tho county, foal bill bocomos duo
at once; or when marcs aro not properly returned for trial serv
ice, fees beoome dno at onoo, Duo oaro will bo taken to prevent
accidents, but at risk of ownor of mare, if ebo sustains any.
Owner & Attendant
Homer, Nebr.
Leonard Ross
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ASIIINOTON. For nearly two years
thcro has been an attempt on the
part of tho agricultural department
to spread useful agricultural and
household Information among the
people through tho medium of tho
press of tho country. Tho attempt
has been highly successful, as por-
4 haps tho readers of newspapers do
not need to bo told, for tho Interesting and and at
times compelling writings of tho Borvlco men have
been beforo them from day to day.
In tho department of agriculture there Is an of
flco of Information which was created In Juno, 1913.
Before Its establishment thero had been no active
effort to glvo directly to tho pcoplo tho results of
the department's work. Walter H. Page, at pros
cnt tho American ambassador to Great Britain, said
on this subject of getting agricultural information
to tho people that the department "Had been reser
volrlng an enormous mass of Information collected
with the people's monoy and which the peoplo were
entitled to get."
In tho past there were Issued at frequent Inter
vals publications largely In bulletin form, but with
the oxcoptlon of more or less perfunctory notices of
their appearances comparatively little was done- to
mako tho public awaro that they wero at Its dis
posal. One of tho first things that tho offlce of In
formntlon did, therefore, was to develop a systom
by which absolutely accurate newspaper stories
based on tho material contained In those bulletins
could bo sent out to such newspaper, which It
seemed reasonable to expect from tho nature of tho
various subjects, would be interested in publishing"
them for tho sako of thoir readers. This work still
forms a largo part of the activities of tho offlco.
Some time ago thoro was a criticism of what' were
called tho publicity efforts of tho department of agrl
culture. Tho critics did not understand nt all the
nature of tho work which was being dono. They
seemed to think that a press agency had been es
tablished simply for tho purpose of booming the
activities of tho agricultural department with a view
perhaps, as some of tho critics may havo thought'
of saying somnthlng kindly occasionally about the'
officials of government concerned in tho work
Criticism pasued quickly, for congress was told In
a letter to Speaker Champ Clark of tho houso of ren
resentatlves of Just what tho Information work of
tho department consisted, and a Bharp line was
drawn botweon tho nature of tho Information which
was bolng Bent out and tho usual stuff which la
turned cmt by a publicity bureau which Is not at
all necessarily an information bureau.
In tho letter to tho Bpeakor of tho liouso tho sec
retary of agrlculturo Bald this:
"Tho nation is spending through tho depart
ment many millions of dollars in acquiring agri
cultural information. It would bo little short of
criminal to spend millions of dollars to acqulro
information and not to use every possible effl
tjlent agoncy available for placing it at tho dis
posal of tho peoplo as promptly as possible. It
Is tho purpose of tho ofllco tho offlce of informa
tion, with as little delay as possible, through
every proper medium, to glvo tho knowledgo
which tho department possesses as the result of
investigations and field work to all tho peoplo
who desiro It or should have It. The offlce un
dertakes to deal solely with facts, with sugges
tions of remedies, and of methods of applying
thorn In every Hold of agriculture."
Prior to tho tlmo that tho offlce of Information
was created nearly all tho printed matter con
voying information was In tho form of bulletins
and circulars and tho lssuos were not very vol
uminous. Frequently a great deal of tlmo was
required finally to prepare the bulletin, to print
it and to distribute It. It was Inevitable for
many reasons that these bulletins could not
reach tho great mass of tho peoplo who would
bo Interested In them. 'Many farmers did not
know that tho service was at ' their disposal.
They know nothing about tho bulletins or which
ones of them would bo helpful to them, nor did
they know how to secure them. Moreover, tho
publications largoly were technical, were dif
ficult to Interpret, to understand and to apply.
One of tho particular duties of tho depart
ment's offlce of Information Is to put tho matter
which comes from tho dlfforont bureaus In tech
nical or scientific form into language which lay
readers can understand. It seemed easier and
bettor to tho department officials-that tho offlco
of Information should chooso the matter of spe
cial value to particular districts or sections of
tho Union nnd to have It distributed to such sec
tions quickly. It had been found that delay In
Issuing the official printed bulletins and in mail
ing them ofton defeated tho oi'ds of real service.
In case of the appearance in some district of an
Insect plaguo or of a disease that menaced tho
stock, quick action, of course, It was realized,
was necessary to accomplish resultB. "
Tho Inauguration of the sorvlco of Information
as It 1b at present carried out necessitated a most
efficient mailing system which would enable tho
ofllco to clrculato Hb material among those
classes of publications nnd In tboso sections of
tho country which could derlvo benefit from It.
and at tho samo tlmo avoid a distribution that
would bo expensive to the government nnd ubo
loss to tho newspapers and, if thoy should pub
lish It, to their readers.
Now there Is a mailing systom Installed and
under oporatlon by tho division of publication
.and bV means Of it the mitillcnHnnn nf tlia mm.
try aro classified geographically and by their
character, Now it is posslblo to transmit a
story to all tho newspapers in tho United States,
to all tho nowspapors in nnyolty or group of
cities, to all tho farm publications in tho country
or In any state, omttting tho general newspapers,
to the trade papers of any ono pr nil of tho
trades, to dally newspapers In big cities alone,
or to those in small county seats alone in short,
practically any desired combination of publica
tions Ib possible.
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From this It will bo seen that each story, with
Its fund of human Interest and useful Information
combined, reaches a different circulation, "tho
distribution being governed entirely by tho range
of applicability of the Information It contains."
It Is the deBlro ot tho ofllco of Information to
prepare theso stories so that they may bo printed
without editing or revision. It Is inthis that lies
one of tho strengths of the agricultural depart
ment Information service, for It means that scien
tific terms and phraseology aro eliminated wher
ever possible, that tho significance to the people
of tho bulletin on which the story is based is
emphasized, and that specific, but easy, instruc
tions are given to enable the peoplo to do that
which the bulletin recommends. Tho stories,
therefore, can bo called "constructive news."
They tell tho people what they can do and how to
do it.
The department of agriculture takes great care
to make its stories accurate. Everything that is
put out by the offlco of information Is submitted
for approval, first, to the author; second, to the
chief of the offlco or bureau which has charge
of tho subjects with which tho story is con
cerned; third, to a second chief of bureau In
order thnt he may check up any undue em
phasis on one particular aspect of a given prob
lem!, and, fourth, to the secretary or assistant
secretary of agriculture for final approval.
It would seem that with theso safeguards noth
ing can bo sent out which will bo misleading to
tho people'. It can be said that since the offlco
of information was created it has been a rigtd
rule to avoid any appearance of personal pub
licity. In the information stories which aro sent
out neither tho names of individuals nor even
the names of the different offices and bureaus
in tho department are printed unless they aro
absolutely essential to the story. Every state
ment that is made Is given upon the authority ot
tho department and not upon that of a part of It.
No stories are sent out from tho offlco of Infor
mation about what tho department of agrlculturo
Intends to do or hopes to do. Neither is anything
said In praise of the department's work.t Plain
statements aro given of what has been done and
recommended. This Is all. It can bo said that
seemingly this policy hna brpught about a very
appreciable change in tho way In which the
nowspapors regnrd agricultural news. Once tho
dally press was inclined to consider ' that tho
only Interesting stories wero those which" were
personal In character, wero sensational or what
might bo called freakish. Now it Is believed that
tho newspapers are much more disposed to meas
ure the value of a story as news by tho valuo
of tho information It conveys.
Tho offlce of Information does not measure tho
worth of newspaper circulation by numerical
standards, but rather by tho appropriateness ot
each story that it sends out to tho necessities
of tho readers. So it can bo said that tho farm
papers aro regarded as a much more valuable
medium than the daily press for purely agricul
tural stories, nnd tho papers circulating In rural
districts as much more valuable for tho same
kind of reading matter.
No absolutely accurate Information can be had
as to the extent of the circulation given to Infor
mation stories by o agricultural department
Bervlce. It is said that clippings aro received
sxmigoGRapj&RoaMr
from only ono clipping bureau
and that these afford only a
rough kind of Indication of the
extent of tho use of the materi
al. Calculations, however, have
been made and It is perhaps
likely that they are under rath
er than over tho mark. It Is
believed that Just before tho
outbreak of tho European war
the material furnished by tho
information offlce appeared each
month on approximately 300,
000,000 printed pages. At the
close of the last fiscal year, Just
about twelvo months after tho
Information service had been
established, the division of pub
lications made a report to tho
effect that the demand for Farmers' Bulletins
was 44 per cent greater than during tho previous
fiscal year. Of course a certain proportion ot
this percentage must be laid to the increased
number of publications and to the Increased
population, but making all allowances it scorns to
bo plain that the public was much better in
formed about the existence of the bulletins nnd
much more Interested in them than over It had
been before.
While the department extends tho usefulness
of the Farmers' Bulletins among the people by
familiarizing them with the publications' con
tents and value, it also sees to it that stories aro
prepared for publication that are much more
strictly news from the point of view of the nows
paper editors. Theso stories are usually warn
ings qf frauds or of pestilence, or decisions and
announcements connected with the enforcement
of the meat Inspection law and food and drugs
act and other statutes of regulation which aro
administered by tho department of agriculture.
In tho days bofore the creation of the offlce of
Information tho only organized method of spread
ing news of this character, which is almost al
ways of considerable and even great commercial
Importance, was to send It out through tho malls
In tho form of circulars. The delay frequently
was costly to the people and the interests con
cerned and it was necessarily unsatisfactory,
Under tho present system Information is sent
out at onco from the department's offlce by tele
phone or messenger to the press associations and
to representatives of newspapers which aro like
ly to be interested in the matter and who aro
within reach.
The usefulness of this work Is shown In tho
prompt publication of every quarantine order
affecting the foot-and-mouth disease. This sub
ject, however, had attained such proportions that
It is likely the newspapers themselves would
have secured tho Information through their own
representatives, but there are other cases and
many of them, whore the stories could not bo
covered because If the department did not Give
out the Information voluntarily nothing would be
known of it A case In point which may bo cited
was an elaborato attempt to palm oft on the
farmers In the corn belt region a preparation
alleged to cure hog cholera. Tho sellers pre
tended that tho preparation was recommended
by the department of agriculture. Thla fraud
Was suppressed when through the ofllco of In
formation the newspapers In the territory con
cerned received a full statement of tho facts
In the case.
Many of tho department's activities, moroovor,
havo to do, not with the farmer, but with those
who manufacture farm products Into food or
handlo, store, or market them. Tho department's
specialists are constantly making discoveries for
preventing losses, devising methods for manu
facturing new products or improved methods for
handling or manufacturing old products. Here
tofore It frequently happened that one progres
sive manufacturer would learn of theso things
and thus gain an advantage over others in tho
same trade who had no knowledge that the In
formation was available. Under tho present
systom the offlco of information quickly com
municates thv details of theso discoveries or im
provements to all trade papers In the class af
fected and to all Important daflles in the ter
ritories where such manufacture Is a prominent
industry.
Tho offlco of Information In addition to tho
service of tho character outlined prepares a
"Weekly News Letter" to crop correspondents
which has taken the place of the "Crop Report
er." This "Weekly News Letter" Is sent to nil
tho voluntary crop correspondents serving tho
department, to inspectors, agricultural colleges,
correspondents, and to other persons In a posi
tion to mako use of tho material. It has a cir
culation approximately of 103,000 weekly.
In all tho work of the offlce of Information the
effort Is simply to place at the disposal of the
people tho information which the department ot
agriculture primarily was organized to obtafn for
their benefit. In none ot tho material Is there any
attempt to gain prominence for any individual or
branch pf government, or to pralso or to crltlclzo
anyone or in nny way to influence legislation.
IRON A FACTOR IN HEALTH)
Science Has Proved That It Is Highly
Necessary In the Production
of Red Blood.
Iron should play an important part
In preparing mcnls. It 1b essential
In the making ot red corpuscles ot
tho blood and is directly concerned
with the processes ot oxidation and
reproduction.
Tho Iron ot the food enters tl cir
culation and 1b deposited mainly In
tho liver, tho Bpleen and tho bono
marrow.
Iron may bo taken as a modlclno
and Bttmulatos tho production of
hemoglobin and red blood corpuscles,
but It is bettor to got it If possible
directly through food and water.
Tho amount of Iron needed appears
to bo varied with different Individuals,
depending on tho nature of their work,
diet and other conditions, says an ex
change. Careful experiments havo
shown that tho avorago man under
normal conditions requires about fif
teen milligrams of Iron per day. The
average woman la supposed to require
about eight-tenths as much food as a
man and tho samo proportion ot Iron
will sufflco. A child that uceds hnlf
as much food requires tho same pro
portion ot Iron.
As long as infants are drinking milk
they get only a small amount of Iron,
but it is Interesting to know that a
certain amount has boon stored In
their systems at birth to tide them
over until they got a diet that con
tains Its share of Iron. Beefsteak and
somo vegetables are rich In Iron.
In meat tho iron exists largely as
homoglobln, duo to tho blood con
tained in the muscular tissue. Iron In
combination with protein matter Is
found In considerable quantity in
grains. String beans, navy dried
beans, spinach especially, cabbage
and dried peaB are rich in Iron.
Among tho fruits that have plenty of
Iron aro dried prunes, apples nnd
raisins.
Borrowed money soon begins to look
llko borrowed trouble.
CITY HELPED BY NEWSPAPER
Prominent Man of Mobile, Ala., Gives
Testimony to Good Work
by Press.
"Tho Mobile chamber of commorco
for tho last couplo of years has not
taken nny pago spneo In newspapers;
but wo havo had occasion recently to
havo a great deal of newspaper pub
licity on several matters and tho ro
BUlts from It havo been far beyond
our expectations.
"Within tho last two weeks wo had
a campaign for tho raising of bettor
Hvo stock, which was commented on
by the newspapers throughout the
country, and brought up scores ot in
quiries from nil parts of tho United
States. Without this nowspaper pub
licity our campaign would havo been
for naught, as It was through tho
newspapers that tho Interest was
aroused, and today everyono in this
section is talking cattlo raising.
"Anothor instance:
"Somo weeks ago wo inaugurated n
movement to celebrate a day In honor
of tho Satsuma orango, grown in this
section, which is a recent Industry.
Our purpose wns to advertise It
through tho stores, hotels, etc. Wo
did not think our first attompt would
bo a big success, but tho newspapers
took up the matter with a vim, and
tho attendance from surrounding sec
tions was far In excess of what wo
anticipated.
"This was all accomplished entirely
by tho newspapers, and without their
co-operation we do not bellevo wo
could havo had such success."
Georgo O. Card, secretary of Mobllo
Chamber ot Commerce.
IMPROVING THE BACK YARD
Women's Municipal League of New
York Is Making Elaborate Plans
For the Season.
Wasted back yards aro to be. Im
proved by members of the Women's
Municipal league of New York. Sev
eral of tho members have taken
courses In landscape gardening to pre
pare themselves for the work of plan
alng other people's back yards. Even
the tiniest space of earth may be cul
tivated In some way, and whero soil Is
lacking, flowern and shrubs In pots
:an bo nsed with good effect.
A specimen garden Is described by
Mrs. Robertson Jones, chairman of
the gardening committee of the
league. First of all, the back fence
Is to be painted green, and a garden
seat of lighter green put at tho cen
ter. Trellises for honeysuckle aro at
either Bide. Stono Jars containing
email box trees will mount guard,
over each side of the path, with rows jj,
ot barberry bushes leading up to them.
This is an all-year garden, for the
honeysuckle leaves stay on until De
cember, box is an evergreen and the
barberry bushes have leaves In sum
mer and red berries In winter. The
cost of this garden complete Is about
$40, Including labor, plants, painting,
bench and Jars.
Members of tho league aro trying
to Induce the owners of whole groups
pf houses to Install these miniature
gardens, so that each family may havo
its own small rest-Bpot and play-space
for the children.
MOVE IN RIGHT DIRECTION
Annual Clean-Up Exercises Have Beer
Taken Up With Enthusiasm That
Is Commendable.
Tho good Influence of the painters
as a factor for health and cleanli
ness Ib manifested in tho statement
that largely through tho persuasion
ot tho national organization 2,200
cities nnd towns havo begun annual
clean-up enterprises, and this sea
son it is expected that about 800 moro.
will adopt tho slogan. With 3,000 cit
ies and towns scouring and scrubbing
and painting simultaneously It may
bo said that the United States has
got tho habit of cleanliness. This habit
onco formed will endure. It will mako
for a healthier, better country. It
will set a standard of appearance and
sanitation that must necessarily result
in tho years to como in better citizen
ship, through sounder health and a
more definite consideration for tho
general welfare. Washington hna
been cleaned up each spring during re
cent years and Is proud to have been
ono of tho first to go after the disease
carrying fly and to rout out Its breed
ing places. It has yet to acquire the
painting habit, but that will surely
follow.
Had No Chance to Grow.
Trees planted along tho main streets
of a 'Massachusetts city failed to show
any growth for two successive years.
Then somo of them wero dug up to be
transplanted, and It was found that
tho trees had been planted Just as they
camo from the nursery, with tho roots
all bunched together and wrapped In
burlap.
Planning for Good Housing.
Architects and draftsmen have been
Invited to tako part In an architec
tural competition Instituted by the
housing commission of tho city of Loo
Angeles to secure plans for tenement
houses.
How Differenti
"Just being mother's daughter was
a groat help," says Jose Collins, "but
heaven bless tho critics!" Thero you
are, boys read it again.
Smiles.
If wo cannot strew life's path with
flowers, wroto Charles DIckenB, v
can at least strew it with smiles.
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