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McHENRY PLAIKDEALER, MeHENR¥v 4M^ *2aliMa. .. & _ ^1* "' 1 - IMPORTANT SYSTEMS OF CULTURE USED ?! IN 6R0WING 600D CROP OF RASPBERRIES FIELD OF SEVEN-YEAR-OLD EMPIRE RED RASPBERRIES. (Prepaied by the United States Depart­ ment of Agriculture.) Three systems of culture are used in growing raspberries, the hill, the linear, and the hedge systems. The term "hill system" is restricted to that method of tillage in which the horse cultivator is used on all sides of each plant. When the cultivator is run in only one direction and only the plants originally set are allowed to fruit, the term "linear system" is used. If some Of the suckers which come from the foots of red raspberries are left to form a solid row and the cultivator is fan in one direction only, the term "hedge system" is employed. | The distance between the rows in tech of these systems should be de­ termined by economy in the cost of Cultivation and in the use of land. Where the area of land available for planting is not limited, usually it will be found most desirable to make the spnoes between the rows wide enough to allow the use of two-horse Imple- mente ir^ cultivation. Where the area of land is limited, the rows may be placed closer together and one-horse Implements used. Planting Distances. Under the hill system of culture the plants usually are set about five feet apart each way. This, however, al­ lows the use of one-horse cultivators only. This is used to some extent itt New York and other states In raising red raspberries. It has the advantage of requiring less handwork in keeping out grass and weeds, as the cultivator pan be run fn both directions; and the berries can be more easily harvested from fields under this system. If the hedge or linear system is used, the horse cultivator can be run in one direction only and more hoeing is nec­ essary. Under these systems the red varieties usually should be set from 2 to 8 feet apart in rows which ore 6 to 8 feet distant, i In tie; eastern United States 6 feet is the moist j^ommon and desirable distance between the rows for the shorter caned varieties, such as the ftuby and Marlboro, and 7 and 8 feet for the tall-caned varieties, like the Cuthbert. To use two hot-ses in a plantation the rows must be at least 8 feet apart. In the. Pacific northwest, where the canes grow very tall, the planting distance for red raspberries Is usually '2% by t or 8 feet. In parts of Colorado and other states where ir- PRESERVATION OF SOFT CORN fbmwri Should Work It Over, Remove . , Af|yy Damaged Eara Mid Put in Ventilator*. • ;; (Prepared by the United States Depart­ ment of Agriculture.) Soft corn which has been stored to large cribs during cold and freezing Weather, without specially Improvised ventilators, is practically certain to get out of condition as soon as the Weather warms up in the spring. To preserve such corn farmers should work it over, remove any damaged ears, and put In ventilators, I The best way to dispose of soft corn fs to feed on the farm all that can be consumed to advantage, but don't waste it. The concentration of shelled cbrn in country elevators during the next few months is practically certain to lead to disaster unless it can be transported to feeding centers or to terminals for drying before what is popularly known as the germinating season. Whenever practicable the drying temperature should be lowered and the time of drying Increased, to prevent •acesslve breakage. 'a \ All ©id corn should be carefully saved tot seed, as the balk of the pres­ ent crop iu the northern states will be unfit for planting. . t>o not delay the securing of suitable seed. Do not plant any com first knowing Its germination. !""'i h' • -- BALANCED RATION FOR COWS Use Such Feeds in Such Amoufi^S- W Will Give Greatest Productionv at Most Profit > The fine point in feeding dairy cqws 'v Jfc to »l»e such feeds in such amounts as will give the greatest production at the most profit. This calls for bal­ anced rations. With feed prices at their present altitudes it will pay dai­ rymen to make a special study of their . Jfrjllua practices. . ™ ' «' """• .• Examine Orchards, J This Is a good time to look over the orchard , to mark the trees which should be top grafted next, spring. One Is likely to forget during the winter Just Which trees need grafting. rigation and winter protection are. noe» essary. the plants are usually set In rows which are 7 feet apart. System for Black Variety. Black raspberries are nearly always grown under the linear system, and in the United States east of the Rocky mountains they should be planted In rows 8 feet distant and 8 or 4 feet apart in the row. In Oregon and Wash­ ington they should be planted in rows 7 or 8 fe§t distant and from 3 to 6 feet apart In the row, depending upon the vigor of the growth in the particular locality. The purple varieties also are grown under the linear system and should be planted 4 or 5 feet apart In rows which are 7 or 8 feet distant. The Colum­ bian and other purple varieties of equal vigor should be at least 5 feet apart In the row, but the Royal may be set 4 feet apart. If the plants are checked In both di­ rections when set in accordance with either the hedge or linear system and are 3 or 4 feet apart In the row. It Is possible to run a one-horse cultiva­ tor both ways for the first year. This will save much work and reduce the first year's expense. In some sections, two plants of red raspberries are set together. This in­ sures the grower against misses, and a larger crop is secured when the plan­ tation Is one year old. It will cost nearly $20 more per acre to buy and set the extra plants, but in some sec­ tions the additional yield will make it profitable. However, If care Is taken In setting, one plant In each place Is usually sufficient. 8ettimg the Plants. Before planting, the tops of the plants of all types should be cut back to 6 Inches or less in height. To make it easy to jtandle the plants and to Indicate the rows after setting, 4 to 6 inches of the cane should be left If a garden patch Is being planted, It Is better to cut the canes back to within a few inches of the leader buds. The plants should be set slightly deeper than they formerly grew. Sometimes it Is well to set red raspberries as much as 3 inches deeper than they grew, in order to protect them from drought. Rlark and nurple raspber­ ry plants should be set not more than an inch or two deeper than they for­ merly stood, as there is danger of smothering the tips. <>oooooooooooooooo< FARM REFLECTIONS When the average man wants to quit Is the time to get inter­ ested in horse production. Gumption is ability to put the grease where the squeak is. Are you onto your Job? Stock raisers should agree as to what breed best Jits their lo­ cality, and then stick to that breed. Raits in the grain' bin ore al­ most as destructive as a bull In a china shop. A rat-proof gran­ ary Is a national bulwark these days. Don't neglect It. Many county fairs are appar­ ently run In the interest of the faker rather than of the farmer. A general overhauling Is In or- cjer if they are to serve effi­ ciently the object for which they were established. RABBITS ARE EASILY RAISED 8mall Rabbitriee Are Producing Meat Crops for Family Tables--Free From Disease. Rabbit racing on „a back-yard scale is not an experiment. 'Thou­ sands of small rabbitries in this' coun­ try are producing meat crops regu­ larly for family tables. These domes­ tic animals are easily raised and re­ markably free from disease when prop­ erly cared for. t BALANCE DAIRY HERD RATION Special Attention Should Be Given to This Matter by Those Who Feel Feed Shortage. Dairymen who feel the pinch of feed shortage will do well to give special attention to balancing their herd ra­ tions. A balanced ration Is an efficient ration. It means making the most of the feeds used. Egg Shell Is Porous. The shell of an egg Is porous and filth of the shell will enter and poison the contents. For this reason dirty eggs should be cleaned as soon as gath< ered. NOW, SAYS MARTHA "This No Time for Dallying--Win theWarP ih* Would Have All the Pedfrle <Mt Together on That One Idei , ."Hot an Afternoon We're In." 9r JUI4A M. 1JPPMAN of The Vl*t- , lantes. '• ' ' Big Sam Slawson halted on his own side porch to stamp the snow off his boots before letting himself Into the kitchen. , A hand from within turned the knob of the door. A Voice from within ad­ dressed him through the narrow open- ing. "Come along In, Sam. flurry! m clear up your tracks, but don't stand there preparln' any longer. You'll give us all our deaths. Besides, I can't wait to hear if they're speedln' up the war like they'd ought to. We got to get In right off or It'll be too late." Very deliberately Sam shoot the white drifts from his shoulders and hat-brim, crossed the threshold and closed the door after him. "You can't do things so quick as you seem to think, Martha," he observed In his slow, cautious fashion. s , "Why can't you?" "Because this Is a democracy. De­ mocracies move slowly." "They needn't If all the people get to­ gether on the one idea Of winning this war. It don't make any difference to me whether itts a democracy or a re­ public or a socialism, or a prohibi­ tion, or one of them new-fangled Rus­ sian samovar-things they talk so much about nowadays--chammy-flage--no, bolshlvlkl. that's It. It all comes right down to this, so far • as I can see: Unless we stop fussing about names, forget what party we belong to, we're going to lose out on this war. And you've got a boy 'over there', and a fam'ly over here and-- you're an American, Sam Slawson, and It's up to you--it's up to us--U. S.-- not to lose out on this war." "How are we going to prevent It?" "By getting together, that's how. Every mother's son and daughter of us pulling together the one way--a long pull and a strong pull and a pull all together. The sort of pull that'll land our troops on the other side a million- strong before the Germans can get In their fine work this spring. The trou­ ble Is that up to this there's been too many ladles and gen'lmen talkiq' their heads off about pacifism and red tape and any old thing that happens to be their pet idea--as If the thing we're In was an afternoon tea. Forget It, that's my notion ! Forget it! There's only one thing to remember these days: IF WE DON'T WIN, THE BOCHES WILL." Sam sighed. - "Well, it certainly 's a problem." "If the curiosities at Washington haven't got the right answer to the problem by this time why, all I got to say is, Invite 'em to step down and out and give a new bunch a chance. It might annoy 'em. We can't help that. The Boches are annoy! n' us. And they mean to keep right on an- noyin' us unless we do something and do It quick." "I hate war!" lamented Sam. "Sure you do. So do I. So does everybody. I hate having my boy shot at. I hate having girls and little chil­ dren ruined and maimed. I hate hav­ ing old women and men starved and froze and burned. That's why I want us to get a move on--because I hate It" Sam's eyes were misty. "Oh, Martha! I wish I could see the end of It. We're in a terribly tight place just now. We're up a tree! I tell you, we're up a tree!" Martha threw him a heartening glance. "Up a tree? Sure we're up a tree. So was that little fella In the " Bible. What's-hls-name? Zaccheus? Zacche- us was up a tree, to. And that's where he saw the Lord from." . SLAVS ARE NOT "MYSTERIOUS' The Latest Kiss. There's s new kis in town. We're had the tango, the "Merry Widow" and the "Waltz Kiss," every one of them a marathon of the osculation tribe. But the newest one is called the "Puff, Puff" kiss. It Is the latest home-wrecking novelty along the main street, and now that It has been proper­ ly presented there is no doubt it will quickly become popular, at least in the cabarets. "Blow smoke into aay mouth,' Jim," teased the parlor "worm" In the latest of Broadway's comedies called "The Indestructible Wife." "Jim," who happens to be the new hus­ band In the play, and somewhat of a "lounge lizard," complied, whereupon the parlor worm announced: "I feel so naughty this afternoon." So Jim gave another demonstration of the "puff, puff" kiss for the benefit of the blase first-nighters who took it with them. And now the merry, merry girls in cafes and other places having taken It up, it is quite the proper thing to blow smoke at them.--New York Times. ^ Valuable New Cement A Vienna metal cement or solder, supplied commercially in small cylin­ ders, is described as a copper amalgam, amount of mercurous nitrate and wa ter, a mixture of seven parts of mer­ cury with three parts of powdery cop­ per precipitated from sulphate solu­ tion by zinc. When applied, the amal­ gam and the metal parts to be united are heated to 180 or 190 degrees F. Aside from its use as a cement, the amalgam is stated td be an easily work­ ed composition for various uses, as it can be hammered, rolled, shaped under a die, or softened in boiling water suf­ ficiently for making casts, and it takes a good polish. Added Her Tribute. At a family reunion everyone laughed heartily at one of grandpa's jokes. Ruth laughed, too, although she hadn't the slightest I'dea what it was all about. When the fun was over she remarked breathlessly: "Oh, dear, gran'pa. I guess that's the cutest thing you ever said." . Their Civilization Is Simply Four Cen- furies BeWnd Ours, Says WWMHT,., "* '• " Magazine. ; / V/ . '"v.'V I used to see a good deal of a Swede .In Petrograd whj lived with his Rus­ sian wife in a little inside tenement over in the Viborg quarter and wrote long and very erudite'articles In mi­ croscopic long-hand for a Stockholm so­ cialist newspaper, Arthur Ruhl writes In Collier's Weekly.- A social demo-, crat himself, in the bewildering shift­ ing of political values, he had become almost conservative. Realism was h" * strong point, and he never tired of smil­ ing satirically at western attempts to explain the mysterious Russian--espe­ cially attempts after the manner of Stephen Graham, always so much more Russian than the Russians themselves. " 'Mysterious, mysticism, a separate destiny for the Slavs," " he would quote satirically. "All foolishness! There's nothing mysterious about Russia--it's merely four centuries difference In civ­ ilization--that's all." There was something, at least, in what he said. Tolstoy's nonresistance and his final renunciation of everything to go out into the winter night to meet his God; there was something of race In this and not mere personal idiosyn­ crasy^--something more lu the air of this half-oriental land than It Is in ours. Yet westerners often do forget, when considering Russia, that its vast uneducated majority are closer perhaps to the material life, the superstitions and prejudices of the sixteenth cen­ tury, than to our own. When Shakes­ peare, borrowing for his Roman mobs the crowds he saw about him In Eliza­ bethan London, described their lice and loutishness, and how they threw their "greasy caps in air," was he not looking at a person in very much the same stage of historical development as the Russian peasant of 1917? All these things must be remember­ ed in picturing day-to-day conditions in Moscow or Petrograd. An officer at the front or an unpopular land owner in some remote country house literally doesn't know what may happeu to him before morning. But for most peoplo life goes on amazingly the same. Chil­ dren go to school, postmen deliver let­ ters, the theater and opera run on as usual and people sit about their samo­ vars talking until all hours in the ge­ nial Russian fashion. You must not imagine Petrograd In terms of stage pictures of Paris during the terror or Imagine that the tova- risni carry on a revolution as It might be carried on In Liverpool or Manches­ ter or Pittsburgh or Chicago. City Boy Hears Better. Our recruiting officers have made an Interesting discovery in gaging t^e relative fitness of city and country boys for service In the army and navy, according to the Popular Science Monthly for February. City boys have better ears. From the Washington records of the Marine corps come the assertion that only one boy In five among those re­ cruited in quiet neighborhoods has the acuteness of hearing possessed by the average dweller in a noisy town. The rejections on the ground of defective hearing were In the ratio of five to one In favor of "city ears." The surgeons and scientists assume that the quiet of country districts tends to weaken, through dlRuse. the nerves in the ear, while the constant clamor of the city, really keeps the aural nerves responsive. When Surgeon Washes His Hands. Dr. R. R. Von Baracz, the eminent Austrian surgeon, recommends in the Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift the following method of washing the hands for surgeons before performing operations or handling wounds. He says he learned it from Doctor Weir of New York: A handful of chloride of lime Is placed on one plate and some crystals of ordinary soda on another. After carefully cleaning the hands with soap and brush, a soupspoonful of chloride of lime and a crystal of soda are taken In the hands and crushed together with a little water. This forms a paste on the hands and requires three or four minutes. The hands are then rinsed in sterile water. The odor of the chlor­ ine that Is released can be removed by ammonia water, 1 to 5 per cent Removing Blight of Islam. The blight of Islam which has sealed Jerusalem for centuries, which has re­ duced Mesopotamia to a desert, Syria to desolation, promises to be lifted at last over all that region that was the cradle of civilization and the first gar* den of the world. "The crescent of fertility" stretches from old Judea and Philistine along the Mediterranean lit­ toral curving eastward to the upper Euphrates and Tigris and then contin' ulng southward to the Persian gulf. The zone between the sea and the des­ ert, and again between the mountain and the desert, will be redeemed as Egypt has In our own vday been re­ deemed, provided the Turk be forced back northward and westward behind the Taurus and the Anti-Taurus har­ rier. Sorrow. It would be a poor result ofall onr anguish and our wrestling If we won nothing but our old selves at the end of it If we could return to the same blind loves, the same self-confident blamO, the same light thoughts of human suffering, the same frivolous gossip over blighted human lives, the same feeble sense of the unknown world towards which we have sent forth Irrepressible cries In our joneli- ness. Let us rather be thankful that our sorrow lives In us as an Indestruc­ tible force, only changing Its form ss forces do, and passing from pain Into sympathy--the one poor word which includes all our best insight and onr best love.--George Eliot. They Put Him In the Copper. In the Tudor days the poisoner was liable to be condemned to death by boiling; while under another stat­ ute, the man convicted of theft "Shall have his head shaved, melted pitch poured upon It, and the feathers from a pillow shaken over It. that he may be known." After all there are ad* vantages in- living In the twentieth century! BOSCHEE'S GERMAN SYRUP 5? --1~ ; ^ • ^111 quiet your cough, soothe the In­ flammation of a sore throat and lungs, Stop irritation in the bronchial tubes. Insuring a good night's rest, free from odughing and with easy expectoration to. the morning. Made and sold in Aftieiica for fifty-two years. A won­ derful prescription, assisting Nature in building up your general health and throwing off the disease. Especially Useful In lung trouble, asthma, croup, bronchitis, etc. For sale in All civil" Itea countries.--Adv. • ^ ' Set Contents 15 Fluid Prapt A Stickler. Banker Henry P. Davison said at an artists' banquet: "Gentlemen, I once went In for paint­ ing myself, I enameled a bathtub. "My friends sought to discourage me In my artistic aims. They said: 'It's no use going in for painting unless yon stick to your work.' "Gentlemen, I did so." 9oo DROPS For Infants and Children* ALCOHOL-3 FUR GENT. , AVe^etabfelYeparafiofifaAs I J similaUi^thelwjd by | I tin<?thcStPfaacteandRqtf|c^gj KIDNEY TROUBLE NOT EASILY REGOGHI Thereby Fromo1in£1HSgffin Checrfalness and festCafltt® . neither Opiam,Morphifien* | >fineraL NOT ffARCQTB? Jhmr**** £££** Applicants lor Insurance Oftsa Rejected physician for one of the prominent life insurance companies, in an interview of the subject, made the as­ tonishing statement that one reason why so many applicants for insurance are re­ jected is because kidney trouble is so com­ mon to the American people, and the large majority of those whose applications arc declined do not even suspect that they have the disease. ' Judging from reports from druggists who are constantly in direct touch with the public, there is one preparation that has been very successful in overcoming these conditions. The mild and healing influence of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is soon realized. It stands the highest for its remarkable record of success. We find that Swamp-Root is strictly an herbal compound and we would ad­ vise our readers who feel in need of such a remedy to give it a trial. It is on sale at at) drug stores in bottles of two sices, feedium and large. However, if you wish first to test this peat preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghumton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing be sure and mention this paper.--Adv. < -,i mm n s . .. . It'* a great pity that some aultnals isn't tftlk and some men can. The wise man does bot say all that he thinks, but thinks all that he says. , AhclfrfuIRcroerfyfor > Constipation as*! and Feverishnefss aim Loss OF SLEEP i resuttm^ facsimile -SijnaW*0* 5BE'<Centach GoKPASf- NEW VOgl^ <\ ; ft Mothers Know ThatL Genuine Castoria * .Always Bears the Signature of For Thirty ->S\: • i V - , | Exact Copy of Wrapper, •Mr, m V*mi entt I'-- Life Still Has Its Joys. If you are troubled with the belief that war has taken all the joy out of life, you should have been on hand when the playful wind took the fat mnn't hat and he made a zig-zag race for It along the street ear tracks, and noticed what a lot of people stopped to laugh their eyes full of tears at the spectacle.--Seattle Pcst-Intelllgeucer. Precedent Is a convenient peg to hang Incompetency on. - Be careful to develop your talents.-- Charles Dickens. A Puzzle. )4. "Why do they call it fugitive 1 pair try?" "I don't know; I'm sure therffti nobody running after It." «*/ •v Skin Troubles That Itch Burn and disfigure quickly and healed by hot baths with Cuti- cUra Soap and gentle anointings of Ctt- tlcura Ointment For free samples, address, "Cutlcura, Dept. X, Boston.* Sold by druggists and by mail. Soflft 25, Ointment 25 and 50.--Adr. *• Marriage is like any other condlttaj|f ' J where there is life there is hope. ^ Proof that Some Women do Avoid Operations Mrs. Etta Dorion, of Ogdensburg, Wi«^ taysx "I suffered from female troubles which caused piercing p&inf like a knife through my back and side. I finally lost ail my strength so I had to go to bed. The doctor advised an operation but I would not listen to it. I thought of what I had read about Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and tried it. The first bottle brought great relief and six bottles have entirely cured me. All women who have female trouble of any land should try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." How Mrs. Boyd Avoided an Operation. Canton, Ohio.--"I suffered from a female trouble which eaused me much suffering, and two doctors decided that 1 would hays to go through an operation before I could get well. "My mother, who had been helped by Lydia E. Pink­ ham's Vegetable Compound, advised me to try it be­ fore submitting to an operation. It relieved me from my troubles so I can do iny house work without any difficulty. I advise any woman who is afflicted with 1 female troubles to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- i table Compound a trial and it will do as much./ j* Tff for them."--Mrs. Mamffi BOY©, 142i 5th St., 7/yr I,tit K- E., Canton, Ohio. J/'f Every Sick Woman Sho& ! ..-v.-rff't i W •".&<*• • • i . . •(m:S > i * •• tt'ii & , *15 % ̂ Vf.v *,..Vv P" A- : rir.T tt. }' S ' . ' v - # .'fJ -S ^ LYDIA E. PINKHAMS VEGETABLE COMPOUND Before Submitting To An Operatiqn| UTDIA E.PINKHAM MCIMCINK CO. LYNN.MASS. 'si*:yjrt Vf « ... * Protested Proverb. "Half the world does not know how the other half lives"--this we think Is a large overestimate of the njimber of people who mind their own business.-- Boston Transcript. Venezuela has made the use of the metric system compulsory in Its courts and public offices. Alcohol, when pure. Is greenish In color, while water Is distinctly blue In fhade. Birds Needed on Farms. The encouragement of birds on farms is not a mere matter of senti­ ment. They return a cash equivalent and have much to do with the success or failure of crops. bile Positive Proof. "Ferdy, do you really love me?" "Didn't It take 36 cents to send that last letter I wrote?" Sloth wears out the body and con­ sumes the mind. Not Too Mild. "Don't you enjoy listening to fhft honk of the wild goose?" Kot wheq h^yviog - - ' 4/ Pure blood is essential to Good Heslt ̂ ? ;;; Garfield Tea dispells imparities, deensW the system sad erfdiemtes disease. Ad*. ̂ r,- I Nobody ever got anything by mftr* c; lng a grouch, but the .grouch always . gets bigger. Be cheerful! Has-'* 22 Million Families ii, ... in the United States XF EACH FAMILY saved one cup of wheat floor it would amount to 5,500,000 pounds, or uore than 28,000 barrels. If this saving was mads three'times a week, it would amount to 858,000,000 pounds, or 4,377,00t barrels in a year. * v You can do your share in effecting this saving and really help to wfcr the war by omitting white bread from one meal today and baking in its place muffins or corn bread made according to this recipe: Corn Meal Muffins % cop corn meal 2 espi flour No tff« £ towpooe »«H 1 Bulk 4 Uiipatm Royal Belth^ Pootln 2 Sift dry ingredients together into bowl; add milk and meltitd shortening and beat welL Bake In greased muffin tins in hot oven about 20 minutes. Same better may be baked as com breed in greased shallow pan. * Ottrnem Red, White and Blue booklet, "B«# IFar Time Recipes" containing m*my sfWr recipes for making delicious and wholesome wheat saving foods mailed free--address ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., DEPT. W, 135 William St, New York #11! i ^i • 2 ,,1: 4 • it, ) '; ,4 - v1 ,-ji". H % ' I FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR 1