RED- CLOUD, NEBRASKA, CHIEF "iTT" '' 'J yy.,'77 V J-.-rtTi f-"- ' '- 1 I 1 1 iTI ! 1 "1 - - -lj"' ri--'iirtrPr" ""'"-"-1 f-- '-'- t----- -- -a. - --.- - tt.i...- wi. r .i. - . --.. fa - - t. ... w. .1-, . .. - ,-, r, V, -,, m-iiiM -111 -ii iin 1 II,t TRAINING j. i U1VJIW .. rtEETL. aw iwwfflKlite' Thov staid AMTTWVA TvlilAmaiSISf ! ' 7il I U I'll fc m - RPPP'ffiJ-swfwiiHBy-wB? i r'i FFPn lIZlIz hUbt rn l Wl--l 'Mil' I 4HF(PfK flPMli rv ',!.' , WAM 97 y& m Mi 0 r 7W mV- A PSli Kg Mrjzmnza have ever bven. A f am tne A &, JlM J impends. Yet the s uteri can r'''SS I farmer zvasted more than four jfelfeBM hundred million dollars' zvorth J M TSflC f wamin' the best ferti- yjfoTj B'in.jahvwi''v fi MMvwiM TODAVS Be Taught Moaning of Thrift. the FROM A NEW POINT OF VIEW Child Must Be Encourccjcd to Think of Cost In Terms of Human Ef fort, FUthsr Thin of Price. tamzpj&WGPj' zz&ur r.ItTM.t'K.ns: nr iiilm n Iwi lili'lwr " I thnii they liiivu over Itoon before, inv- I Iiik S tin; war. So tieute litis the 1 (lotush situation liocmne that Uncle I Sam, miuiiiK nil Ills other diplomatic JL I tniulili's. I111M Iiihmi dlckorliii: with the allli'H anil with (iermauy to let a nttlu mlKerahle Hlilpmeut of 10, tons of pot iihh fertilizer come through the block tide for the use of the department of UKrlculttire's farm experiment work. Vet with such u fertilizer' famine staring the American fanner In the face, he linn 'deliberately waited during the last year bvtwgilti ,fur lnmdrel million and four hundred mid tlfty million dollars' worth of manure, the beut of all fertilizers. And this, according to authorities on agriculture and fertilizer, In a regu lar yearly occurrence. It n not theoretical; It Is nctual loss, and the BtrauKcst part of the story Is that the great bulk, If tint all, of this Waste, eould bo caved Just us easily as not. In fact, most of It would bo saved If American farmers were, for In Rtnnce, Dutch or (icrmun farmers. It would be naved by the farmers of any of the old countries, whero every pound of koII fertility Is conserved as automatically and as naturally as though It were minted money. In Germany the size of the manure pile has long been an Index to the wealth of the farmer. What the value would bo of the Increased crops that would result from this American plant tood, now wnstcd, can hardly he estimated, but the In creased yields of corn, wheat, potatoes, and all farm crops would amount to something enormous. On the basis of using this needle.vdy wasted strength In manure on the corn crop alone It Is estimated that the yield would be Increased at least n billion and n half bushels, besides perma nently Improving the condition of the soil to a tremendous degree. In fact, a good many corn fields of the present dny would be so surprised at receiving their quota of this wasted soil fertility that they would not recognlzo themselves. And yet the Dutch or tho German way of handling ma nure, etllclent as It Is, Is not tho beht. Americans huve discovered tho way to prevent all waste in manure and It Involves no more labor or expenso on the purt of tho farmer than his present methods through which ho loses annually nearly half a billion dollars. Tho uverage successful farmer or gardener will say that this statement doesn't npply to him; that he knows tho value of good manure and uses every bit of It that he can get. Hut is he certain that ho makes the best use of nil his manure? When ho hauls a ton of manure on to the Held, Is Its fertilizing content all that It should be and Is ho sure that from 10 to fit) per cent of Its crop-pro. duclng strength has not been dissipated through leaching, llre-fanglng, or lack of provision to absorb or cousorve tho animal urine? Take an nn Instance the caso of urlno alone: A ration goes Into that urine. 80 it Is most Important to conserve the urine, for nitrogen Is the most ox pensive element of luatiure or fertilizer. Tho other two Important plant foods ure potash and phos phorus. Hven though manure Is highly regarded by nil good falini'i's, nevertheless there Is probably no product of equal value which Is so miserably neg lected and regiirdlng which such real Ignorance prevails. The first great source of loss Is through tho Incomplete absorption of the urine, and It Is not Infrequent to see no attempt being made to save this portion of the manure in spite of the fact that It Is richer In both nitrogen and potash than Is the dung, and In spite of the fact that these fer tilizers are more available for tho plant In tho urine titan In tho dung. The second greatest source of wasto of manure Is the loss Incurred by leaching. If a good-sized manure pile is stuoked up against the side of tho stable where the water from the eaves can drip on It, or If It Is plied on a slope or other exposed place, every heavy rain washes away crisp hunk notes In the form of nitrogen and potash. Theso leached chemicals are the most valuable portions of the pile, tho most available for plant forcing. The third common source of loss is thnt Incurred by healing and fermenting. When manure Is put In piles It soon heats ami throws off more or less gas and vapor. The fermentation which produces these gases Is caused by the action of bacteria, or minute organisms. Tho bacteria which produce tho most rapid fermentation In manure, In order to work their best, need plenty of air, or, more strict ly, oxygen. Therefore, fermentation will bo most rapid In loosely piled manure. ( Heat and some moisture aro necessary for fermentation, but, if the manure Is wet and heavy, fermentation Is chucked because tho tempernturo Is lowered and much of the oxygen excluded from tho pile. The strong odor of ammonia, so common around a stable, Is a simple evidence of tho fermentation and the loss of nitrogen which Is going on. Fresh manure loses In the process of decny trom 40 to 70 per cent of its original weight. An 80-ton heap of cow manure left exposed for one year lost 00 per cent of Its dry substance. Some tests con ducted by the United .States department of agri culture showed that two tons of horso manure ex posed In a pile for five mouths lost 57 per cent of Its gross weight, 00 per cent of Its nitrogen, 47 per cent of Its phosphoric neld and 70 per cent of Its potash, or an average loss of three-llfths. Five tons of cow manure exposed for the sumo length of time In a compact pile lost, through leach ing and dissipation of gases, !() per cent In gross weight. -II per cent of Its nitrogen, 10 per cent of Its phosphoric acid and 8 per cent of Its potash. Hero was a terrjtle waste, veritably, yet not greater than Is to lie found In most common farm practice. What would any business man or any farmer think of a .city real ostuto Investment or a innd Invest- The farm scientists and the theorists can pr'ieh all they want to about the economy of tin tnrmer building line, big sheds to keep "e rain oil the manure nr other such plans, but It goes without saying that the average farmer Isn't going in see It that way. I'.ul he doesn't have Ml The remedy for such losses Is simple in the extreme. In t:iet. exactly the right way of bundling manure so as to save all this loss Is about tin? cheapest, cleanest and altogether the easiest hiij to handle manure. The first step to prevent the loss of the fertilizing elements In manure Is to provide plenty of bedding or litter In the .stable to absorb and save all the liquid. The losses due to fermentation can he greatly cheeked by mixing horse manure with cow manure and making the temporary plies compact to as to exclude the air, anil by thoroughly wetting the manure, which will assist In excluding the air and also reduce the temperature. The Ideal way on the average farm Is to follow the plan, all through the year, of hauling manure directly from the stable and spreading It at once. There Is a generally prevailing notion among larin ers that If manure Is hauled and spread In mid summer, the sun will scorch It to a cinder and hum all the good out of It. The governtnejit agricultural station In Maryland. Just outside of Washington, decided to determine this matter accurately, and Its analytical experiments have exploded two ery common beliefs, the summer-burning theory being ono of them. The other common belief which bus been blown to atoms Is that It Is better to plow manure tinder In the fall than to leave It exposed on the land's surface during the winter and then plow it under In the spring. In tho tlrst instance manure spread In "burning" July and allowed to stand until the following spring gave better results In carefully checku'l ex periments than that spread In tho following spring Just before plowing. In the second series of ex periments, better yields were secured after allow ing the manure to lie on top of the land all winter and plowing It under in the spring than were ob tained from plowing It under In the full. By SIDOUIE M. GRUENQERG. WlIATi:VKK benefits may funv Mom the training of children, they are supposed to have some rela tion to the futtite; but the training Iiself Is founded upon the experience of the past. That educating children to Use tomorrow according to the wis dom of .Vf.stcrihiy is not always 11 .sound procedure Is Illustrated by the prevailing attitude toward "thrift." hver..uie, nearly, pays lonnal homage to tin supposed virtue of thrift, an 1 everyone, nearly, resents In Ids Inmost l heart the niggardliness and narrow lies" suggisted by the word. In this country thrift lias tradition ally iiieunt the scheme of sun lugs worked out under pioneer conditions ' during Colonial times. It applies, ol course, to the whole economic otttinol;. but It Is especially prominent in con- 1 ...... . . . . . . necitou wuii tne idea of saving. The early settlers found plenty of land and plenty of timber; but the products of labor were to be tutalned onlv with mueb effort. Haw materials that In volved labor, such as wool and linen and nil of the metals, which had ti be brought from Km ope, were carefully hoarded. Clothes were mended and patched until they simply could not hold together any longer, and tin 11 the rags were saved for carpets and quilts, or for making paper. A patch was an evidence of "thrift," and thrift was a commend'iblo virtue. Hut the cultivation of land was cur ried on in a most wasteful manner, and good timber was burned and de stroyed with wanton disregard for the future mrds of tin; country. These facts only emphasize the fallacy of the common notion that we tuny teach such nn abstraction as a "virtue" ami then -peet It to perform Its function In the regulation of human life. Thrift was very e-irnestly cultivated, but It had no meaning except in relation to particular kinds of commodities. Fire anil fat had to hi; saved, but what ever was plentiful was disregarded us carelessly as the present generation disregards matches and paper. Yet every generation has to teach Its young tho best that It knows about the hanilllir,' of the material basis of life. The dlUlculty lies in not recog nizing that economic changes are con stantly going on, and that It Is neces sary to readjust past experience to new situations. A little hoy who had acquired an interest in spending money their prices. On tho other hand, wo hnyejeurued to tldnk uU'osUMccnis ifilinmaa ffnt,rnthto thatiiln turpik if pr)4. r Jritfc' fflilldYtir, lah irnrn Jt ihlnk of their Anrroundlngs lim fjn1 a ue way, although It ulia'osi lmJiOs II ly to cscupoAUe bleu. of brlccvqn Ir-fr. . . '-TI V ' , A teuclHfyiuct'x ons'erved 11 'chili cnimpllupuB fiipiece of paper that sin hal "spnlleiK';byu few might peucl tin rks." 'On being' repiMod, tint gjr affected nn injured nir it,seeiiijt sv lier rather smi'ilPdmakc 11 fuss u1!ou a cheap ylece df fafier. Tin) teachef otAhlyilttfuttqn of tlujf'Jitsf and fet beforeit tiVew' problem ltriirltlimefli There are so many sheets of this kind of paper in a pad, and the board of education pays so many cents a pad. The little K'rl who prcclpitatei) this problem curled up her lips trluuiphr nittly the sheet sh.e hud polled cost a very tiny fraction 01,11 cent! Hut", the teacher continued, there were sev' oral hundred thousand pupils In the schools of thi' city, and the average attendance Was about 17.1 days a yearl What would It cost the city to give eaclf child an additional sheet of till paper 'each day? The fraction of n cent U not worth considering; ht.r the wanton and tin necessary waste of materials Is worth very seriously considering. Instead, however, of fixing the .child's" attention cwmB!afaiB ll WK trni , u j v x 1 yi 1 1 1 hi u&m & .Tssa LANSING, PRESIDENT FOR JUST ONE DAY Tho next president of the United States will be Hobert l.unslng of New York, the present secretary of state. Mr. Lansing's term of otllco does not depend upon the action of any political convention; It Is likewise Irrespective of any primary or direct election. In point of fact, it dates back to Januarj ID, 1SS0, when congress passed nn act providing that, In the event of tho death, removal, resigna tion or (nubility of both the president and the vice president of the United States, the secretary of state shall act as president. March 4, 1017, will fall upon a Sunday, and It Is contrary to nil precedent although not In opposi tion to any law to hold an Inauguration on Sun day. Therefore the Incoming chief executive will take the onth of otllce and commence his term shortly nfter noon on March ft. President Wilson's term commenced at noon on March 4. lbl.'l; there fore, according to the Constitution, which dcliucs the term of 11 president as "four years," his tenure of office wll.1 be over at noon on March 4, and, even If ho Is elected to succeed himself, he cannot take the oath of olllce until noon on the following day. Vice l'resldent Marshall, of course, Is under the same disability as the president. Therefore tho secretary of state, Mr. Lansing, will be president of tho United States for the U4 hours and some minutes elapsing between noon on Sunday, March 4, and the me that the new president tnkes the oath of olllco on the following day. This brief term of otllce Is not a mero formnllty. It is nn actual occupation of the power of presl dent, with all his authorities and prerogatives. Mr. Lansing "l'resldent Lansing," for the day will he empowered to occupy tho White House, to Is sue pardons, to attend to all the other business of which the chief executive has control, and to ride to the capltol, should he desire, us the outgoing president on Inauguration day. Moreover, this Is the first time In the history of the nation Unit a secretary of state has had this honor bestowed upon him and oitly tho second time in the 140 years of the. existence of the United States thnt tho olllco lias been held by anyone other than the president and vice president. MpiHHHBiMMHnaHlHHnf cow will produce 45ito frt) pounds of olld immure 1 une-nt which depreciated In value in this wise? And n day, but sho will also make front i!0 to 150 imundrf '' what If he discovered that he could have prevented of urlno and fully one-uair or tne mtrogen In her It at ulmoDt uo cost or extra effort to himself? THE MARK OF THE DEATH'S HEAD. From the day of the medieval archer, who notched his crossbow, to tho day of the Western laid man. who notched Ills gun, men have always sought to preserve some mark of military prowess, some tally of their victims. This war bus not changed hittnuu nature. The modern military avia tor, the otil.Vj Hohller who still lights single-handed does not notch his gun; but lie paints a deaths head on tho Swing of his 'plane to show that ho has vanquished Ms foo In open combat Surjgcsted That He Keep a Record --f All That He Bought. upon the sugar or the paper, we should try, as quickly as possible, to get hlni to think In the larger aspects of the problem. A child of seen or eight is usually quite capable of understanding the principle of avoiding waste, and of applying It quite generally to all kinds of materials. The other side of our problem Is to establish through the routine of the home a sane atti tude toward the whole question of the use of materials. It Is not enough to repeat from time to time the adage about being "penny wise and pound fooll.sh." It 1 necessary constantly to keep before the children the idea that the Justification for getting is not hav ing, but using. Material wealth Is to contribute not to our repute, not to our power over others, but to life more abundant. A Patch Was an Evidence of Thrift, and Thrift Was a Commendable Vir tue. was given an opportunity to exercise tills Interest by being sent to the neighborhood stores to buy as much as possible for the household. Ills fa ther, thinking to combine the business of learning with the pleasure of spend ing, suggested that the child keep u record of all that he bought for his mother. "When 1 was your uge," ho said, "I kept an account of all of grandmother's household expenses." The child's mother was ut a loss. She approved of the hoy's writing and add ing; but she also realized tiio dltllculty sho had in making her husband un derstand that the prices with which he became familiar as a boy were no longer current. She wished that he had never been so thoroughly drilled In the prices of the early SO's of the last century. This father, like so niuny others, continued to think of cost uud saving in terms that no longer apply. In the same way, every family cultivates its pet economies and Its pet extrava gances. In a certain fumlly sugar Is looked upon as the Index of frugality ; whoever takes two or more lumps of sugar to tho cup is "extravagant, and whoever tnkes 0110 or none Is thrifty, In this s-nnm family aro truuks full of old clothes that no one will ever use, uud the rental cost of storing them Is equivalent to more than n tenth of the total cost of thu dwelllug. Yet theso people think nothing of spending sev eral thousand dollars a year on motor cars because motor cars came Into their lives after the standards of thrift had' becomo" established. Wo shall have to teach thrift, or Its present-day equivalent, from a new point of view. We lmvo learned that ..t .1 .i.,.! ., 1 1, rt ..ll w I .I .. I. (..... ....I.... I.i j flMllCllUl. 111. (Ill 1IUV II1I4H ,UI117 til proportion to their contrlnutlon to nu- mail welfare, and not In tiroportlon to Feeding the Inftnt. The Infant Is born with a slore of Iron within Its body. During the nurs ing period this store Is gradually de pleted, since the milk contains little iron. At weaning time the Infant stands In need of Iron. Tills is usually sup plied in egg yolk, hoof press juice, scraped beef, prunes, whole wheat foods and oatmeal, and some phy sicians of unquestionable standing recommend spinach. Kgg yolk Is of especial value as a source of Iron, calcium, phosphorus and lecithin. Hut it is nn exceedingly rich food. It must he fed with great care 011 two accounts, first, to avoid making the baby sick, because while It Is usually we'll taken It acts like poison to some Infants, and second, be cause the value of egg is so great that it ks especially unfortunate If you up set the Infant by an overallowance, since It may lie a long time before It will regain Its tolerance for this food. Reconciliation. Tn most families and among friends, differences sometimes arise that are decidedly unpleasant! In nearly all cases these differences spring from mis understandings. A time comes when explanations, apologies and reasons ure in order, and u reconciliation takes place. Tills is a thing much to he desired, und when It comes, wash the slate clean. Leave no fragments, uo left-overs to bo brought up at another time. Wash the slate clean as you would wipe out n faulty exiimploy, Cleanse thu heart of the last drop of bitterness or resentment. Let love ami j, good will prevail. A genial spirit brings , more renl happiness than a manner so j reserved as to raise doubt of the pleas ure of meeting, doubt that reconcilia tion was inutuul. So forgive as to for get. It has been done and can lie done. Such forgiveness wins good will and cements 1 Headships that fill life with Joy. Hold yourself ready to "wash tho , slate clean." Quest for Youth. One child of the period was curious to know what became of tho old moons. A greater puzzle Is what becomes 6f the old men und women. People refuse to grow old; perhaps because they aro afraid to. They arc like tho wonderful one-horse shusr, proof against thu ordinary process of gradual depreciation. They last o many yours, seemingly unchanged uud unchangeable, and then suddenly drao Into pieces. Old age Is unfashionable, and gravity purdottalde only In tho very young, it Is said that the majority of tango stu dents aro well over llfty. A boy may delight in hluchnoks, a . Greuzellke young girl may addict her self to the study of eugenics; but that wuy fogeylstn and fruniplshness He tbt -tho man or woman over forty. T 4 1 PVT --i liVteiA '&M rva.'tt.i. , M t. ; 1 . 1 s '..! I J 1.1 ttWHOTMflateiiiMflra MWrTOMtsatMrj f-Ai l-Uatzrz. -"T7" - STVjvHVV"'"'3 - rH" rtft'SiruM'? vrv-iiAMf. . 1 lintlfm