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Sales from a Small Farm 
(C’ontimied from page 412.) 
the money for those, takes it in, spends 
it, iind makes no account of it. 
From the above tigures some might be 
misled to believe we have a get-rich-quick 
scheme of farming, but our expense ac¬ 
count shoAv.s .$2,!I11 .(i.l for the year, whidi 
just iibout offsets the cash sales account 
of .'i:2.()S;l.lt]. We also had a little income 
from stone road work, wliicli balances our 
cx)»ciise iicconut. s. ir. 
llellevtic, Oliio. 
EVENTS OF THE WEEK 
DOME.^Tir.—Corporal .Tohu Sim¬ 
mons, of Piedmont, S. C.. was instantly 
killed: Capt. Peter Sorenson and Ideut. 
W, Hanna were injured seriously, and 
three other officers received slight in¬ 
juries from the explosion of .a grenade at 
the School of Fire, Schofield Barracks, 
Honolulu, Feb. 28. The exidosion was 
.said to he due to the presence of a live 
bomb in a box sujiposod to conttn'u dum¬ 
mies. 
Followers of the late “Pastor” Bus¬ 
sell, were recently arrested in Toronto, 
Ciutada, for disseminating treasonable 
literature, and the headquarters of the 
same institution were later raided in 
Brooklyn, at the Bethel Home and Brook¬ 
lyn Tabernacle, and quantities of liter¬ 
ature seizeii for examination by Federal 
authorities here. 
Federal officers searching for secret 
w’irele.ss devices iiivailed the offices of 
Ilicliard Pfund, former mtinager of the 
Telefunkeu Wireless Telegrtiph Com¬ 
pany, in the tower <if the 'rrinity Build¬ 
ing, 111 Broadway, New York, March 4, 
and there discovered a powerful outfit. 
Although disconnected, the apparatus, 
according to the authoritie.s, could he 
assembled within a half hour and would 
then be capable of sending messages 
many thousands of miles. For several 
weeks wireless operators at Fort Totten 
had been intei’cepting messages, tippar- 
ently in code, which led army authorities 
to suspect that a powerful wireless sta¬ 
tion somewhere along the Atlantic coast 
was in operation. So po-wei'ful was the 
sending aiiparatus, the Fort Totten op¬ 
erators reported, that they were <’ertain 
it was similar in construction to those 
of the Telefunken Company, which were 
seized by the Government after the start 
of the European wax*. In the belief that 
such a wireless apparatus _ might easily 
be commuuicatiug iuformariou regarding 
the movements of .ships out of Atlantic 
ports, and especially spy reports to Ger¬ 
many or German iigeuts on the movement 
of troop transports, the Army Intelli¬ 
gence Bureau assigned several radio ex¬ 
perts to locate it. Pfund was not ar¬ 
rested. He claims to be doing experi¬ 
mental work in his laboratory. 
Democrats Avere ele<-ted in each of 
four Congressional districts of New York 
City in which special elections were lield 
March 5, where 01 per <ent of the 
women registered A’oted, tin unusual iier- 
ccutage for a by-electioii. The heavy 
Democratic vote was laid to a desire to 
uphold the President. The oldest vtiter 
at this election was ^Irs. 8ally (Jold, 
born in Austria, 102 years ago, wbo went 
to the polling place with her daughter 
tiiid four granddaughtei'S. 
In Vermont, with women exerci.sing 
full muuicii>al suffrage for Gie first time 
M:irch 5, 2.15 communities voted against 
luiuor license. Women are credited Avilh 
turning tAVO of the largest cities in the 
State, Burlington and St. Albans, from 
the Avet to the dry column. In many cities 
the percentiige- of enrolled Avomeu A’oters 
Avho cast their ballots’ Avas remarkably 
high. In Burlington, Avherc approximately 
8(jo Avomen Avere enrolled, betAveen SO and 
SK) per cent of the Avomeu Aveut to the 
booths. The nuirgin of 400 votes in 
fiivor of license last year Avas wiped out. 
making Burlington dry for the second 
time since the local ojitiou law Avent into 
effect in 1001. 
IVilliiim Nimke, of Torrington. Conn., 
a sergeant iu (\mipany F. 101st En¬ 
gineers, iit Camp Devens, Ayer, Mass._, 
AViis given a thirty-year sentence March .5 
for unpratriotic utterances. He Avas tried 
by ii general court-martiiil I’Vbrimry a. 
Nimke was taken to Fort .lay, N. V., 
immediately, to begin his .sentence. 
Nimke Avtts tried on three counts, on Iavo 
of which he was found guilty. In one 
of these he Avas charged Avith saying: 
“If I am put in cluirge of a ptirty on 
the other .side I Avill surrender to the 
Germans no matter what their strength 
be.” On another oectisiou be wtis alleged 
to ha\’e said : ‘T Avill fight for the Fiiited 
Sttites so long its I tim kept on this .side 
of the Atlantic, but if I am sent to the 
other side I will act iudopendently.” 
THE P.VCKING INQT'IBY. — Feb. 
28, Fi-iuicis .1. Heucy, _ conusel_ for the 
Federal Trade Commission, in its inves¬ 
tigation of the meat-packing industry, 
read letters telling of efforts made by 
Cudahy & Co. to obtain permission from 
the Food Administration to include 
“cheek meat” iu deliveries on p-my cini- 
triiets. This meat ordinarily is not lu- 
clnded in the grades ou Avbicli bids are 
itsked for tlie army. A letter to \\. K. 
Muriibv. Omaha manager for ( tulahy iV 
March It!, lit 18 
Co., from the Chicago headquarters of 
the concern, directed him to include 
“cheek meat” in corned-beef cans in pro¬ 
portions of 2.5 i)er cent. .10 per cent tind 
40 per cent, for submis-siou as samiiles 
to the Food Administration. Coiiferen<-es 
of representatiA’cs of Armour, SAvift, and 
Morris, with Col. Kniskeru, of the ('hi- 
cago dojiot of the Quartermaster’s De- 
jiaitment. relative to changing the grtides 
of bacon so that b.acks and slionlders 
might be included in tirmy bacon, Avere 
iil-so mentioned. The letter said that 
such a change in the bacon specifications 
was necessary because of the A’ast amount 
of meat Avhicli must be used. 
WASHINGTON.—A petition headed 
by the name of Mrs. Frances F. (.ffeve- 
land I’reston tind representing B.OOO.OOO 
Avomen. was presented to President Wil¬ 
son, Feb. 28. It stated that the gr.iin 
being used in the brewing of beer, ale 
juid otlier malt beverages in America is 
enough to make more than 4,0(MJ,0(M] 
loaves of bre.ad daily and asked that the 
production of malt liquors in the United 
States be stopped in the interest of food 
conservation. The jietition bears the 
names of many notable Avomen. 
Coincident Avith the opening of the first 
aerial mail route hetAveen Noav York and 
■Washington on April 1.5 there will he 
issued a new stamp sure ro he of interest 
to philiitelists. This stamp Avill perform 
ii function similar to the special delivery 
stami), for it Avill ctinse the letter to 
Avhich it is affixed to he sent by the air 
•service. The present plan is to sell the 
stiimj) for 24 cents, AA'hich Avith the regu¬ 
lar postage Avill make the cost 27 cents. 
It Avill he cheaper and quicker than a 
night letter by telegraph. 
At the urgent request of both President 
Wilson and Attorney-General Gregory 
the House. March 4, extended the scope 
of the esjiiouage act to include ^ Avomen 
alien enemies. The amendment gives the 
Department of Justice poAver to intern or 
deport women sjiies .and others of danger¬ 
ous nature, and that tudion against many 
such Avomen soon Avill be taken is indi¬ 
cated by the action of the Attorney-Gen- 
ertil. It is known that the Departm.mt 
of .Tnstice has been keeping a close watch 
on several AA’omeu snsneeted of being Gta-- 
inan sympathizers. Women Avere^not in¬ 
cluded iu tlie sedition laws of 1798 and 
this laAV has stood without change until 
the present, action of the House. 
FARM AND GARDEN.—The Boston 
IVool Trade Association aa-jis advised Feb. 
28 by George IV. GoerHiils, acting Qnar- 
termastcr-General, tlnit the Government 
bad decided to exercise an option granted 
it by aiiplieants for wool import licenses, 
under Avhich it Avtis permitted to take 
over such Avool as might he required. 
Ihider this agreement, Generiil Goethals 
said, arrangements AA-onld he made_ for 
iicqniring certain grades snitjihle eitlna- 
for Avorsteds or Avoolens, or both. F. 
Ntithiiniel Perkins, secretary of the as¬ 
sociation. immediately notified the mem¬ 
bers, in order that they might be prepared 
to act in accordttnc.e with the agreement. 
The iinnonncement from Washington Avas 
entirely unexpected, and dealers stiid that 
many Avho had been buying the South 
.Vnierican product freely, on the supiiosi- 
tiou that the GoA’ernnient would never 
exercise its option, might he heavy losers. 
It Avas estimated that purchases in South 
America since 1 )ec. 15, at Avhieh time the 
Government ojttion becomes effective, h:id 
exceeded 2.5.000 hales. 
The T'nited States Food • Administra¬ 
tion announces that express companies 
Avhich solicit shipments of food commodi- 
tic.s and issue quotations for the benefit 
of buyers and sellers are not subject to 
license at the present time. Expre.ss com¬ 
panies Avhw-h do not actually deal in food 
commodities nor receive any revenue 
other tlnui that for triinsnortatiou tire 
not classified as dealers in foodstuff's. 
Seven hundred and fift.v thousand dol¬ 
lars, to be distributed by the Department 
of Agriculture in prizes to stimulate 
staple food production, is jirovided in an 
amendment to the agricultni-iil appropria¬ 
tion hill adopted March 4 by the Senate. 
During the debate Senator Gore (Okla¬ 
homa), chiiinnan of the Agriculture Com¬ 
mittee; Seiiittor Reed (Missouri^, Demo¬ 
crat. and Senator Wadsworth (Ncav 
5’’ork), Rennblican, attacked the Food 
Admiuistraliou, declaring it has not been 
giving proper attention to the farmers. 
Intensive farming Avith the assistance 
of the Department of Agriculture offi¬ 
cials and practical food conservation 
idanned by the Food .Vdministration Avill 
he fetitnres of the third eneampment of 
the National Service School, from April 
22 to .Ttine 1. 'Phe site of the school on 
Conduit Road, District of Columbia, i.s 
the Siime as ocennied by the second en¬ 
campment last Soring. Brovision Avill 
he made for 2.50 students in e. course 
of 20 days etich. The first session Avill 
ooen Aoril 2’2 ttnd close Ifay 11. the sec¬ 
ond session Avill begin May 12 and end 
on Memorial Day. Students taking the 
agricnlturtil course Avill he required_ to 
remain for the entire six-Aveek period. 
The scho(d Avill he housed in tents as in 
former years and Avill he conducted along 
military lines. The co-operation of the 
Department of Agriculture officials Ims 
been secured in Avorking out^ a practical 
agriculture course and portions of the 
English system of farm training schools 
for Avomen Avill be also utilized. Red 
Cross classes Avill be available for stu¬ 
dents AA’ho have not had the advantage of 
them. 
