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DEATH DEALING DEVICES 
Many have wondered why the German 
military machine smashed as early as it 
did. Probably the chief reason is that 
the German officers got something of an 
idea of what Americans were fixing up 
for them if the war continued through 
1919. We are now learning about some 
of the ghastly killing devices which had 
been worked out. For example, in Har¬ 
per’s Magazine, Frank P. Stockbridge de¬ 
scribes “Lewisite,” a gas which has 72 
times the killing power of the deadliest 
gas used in the war. So unbelievably hor¬ 
rible is this stuff that if a ton of it 
could have been dropped to the windward 
of Berlin, practically the entire popula¬ 
tion of the city would have been de¬ 
stroyed ! In order to deliver this frightful 
thing where it was to go an automatic 
airplane has been perfected. This flies 
without any driver or direction save an 
automatic device, and can be sent for 50 
or more miles with wonderful accuracy. 
These planes were to carry 300 lbs. or 
more of “Lewisite” and were timed to ex- 
.riode when over certain desired places so 
s to drop their horrible freight literally 
“into the enemy’s camps.” The work of 
inventing and making these things was 
done with great secrecy, but 1919 would 
have found them ready, and the slaughter 
in the army and the cities of Germany 
would have made the previous years of the 
war seem like child’s play. When the 
armistice was signed there was enough of 
this fearful “Lewisite” on hand to kill 
the entire German army, and 10 tons 
were being added every day. This awful 
death dealer has no place in peace, and 
when the war ended it was packed in cast- 
iron containers, taken to the coast and 
carried 50 miles out in the ocean where 
the water is three miles deep. There the 
containers were gently lowered into the 
water and sunk. That seemed the safest 
way to dispose- of it. yet who knows but 
that 50 years hence when the rust finally 
eats through and sets this horrible dose of 
death free there may be some fearful 
tragedy on the ocean? Suppose that on 
this trip through some accident a can of 
this gas had been set free! No man 
could have returned to tell the tale, and 
the ship would have floated aimlessly 
about, loaded with enough canned death 
to destroy an entire nation. 
These .were only two of a number of 
death dealing machines which Americans 
had prepared for the Germans. The great 
Zeppelins or balloon ships failed chiefly 
because they used hydrogen, an inflam¬ 
mable gas, to float or uplift them. Most 
of those which were lost were set on fire. 
A new gas called “helium” is lighter than 
hydrogen, yet it will not burn. It exists 
in the air in the proportion of one part 
to 250,000, and is also found in some 
rare minerals. It had cost about $1,700 
to produce one cubic foot! A fair-sized 
Zeppelin has a gas bag of 2,000,000 cubic 
feet capacity! In Northern Texas there 
wa6 found a well, the gas from which 
contained 1 per cent of “helium.” A 
process was developed for extracting this 
gas, and they finally were able to produce 
it at about 10c per cubic foot. When the 
i rnfstioe was signed they had 117,000 
cubic feet of this gas ready to ship to 
Franco. Without question they would 
have sent fireproof balloon ships out over 
the German cities loaded with this “Lew¬ 
isite,” prepared to drop death from a 
height of five miles! 
James W. Gerard tells of an interview 
he had with the high German authorities 
during which they discussed the possible 
effect of America’s entrance into the war. 
The Germans said we would not count. 
We could not raise an army in time, and 
if we did it would be nothing more than 
an armed mob. Those German machine 
brains could not grasp the idea of the 
effect of generations of independent think¬ 
ing and free action. They said we had no 
leaders, no aristocrats, no military in: 
itance—therefore we could not and wot. 1 
not fight. Gerard suggested that the in¬ 
ventive mind of the American would more 
than make up for any possible lack of 
organization. The Germans could not see 
it—they knew that Germany was to win 
the war through development of science— 
they could not comprehend the working of 
a free man’s mind. They found out—and 
if they had carried on another year the 
losses would have been too horrible to 
think of. But now that the war is over, 
let our inventors turn from devising 
means for destroying life and show us 
how to make common life happier and 
better! 
Chicken Manure on Frames 
I have a large number of chickens; 
also a large number of cold frames and 
open beds, 6 ft. wide. I intend putting 
the manure on quite thick to get rid of 
it. on top of tlioso beds, doing it now. 
Will it be dangerous planting stuff in 
Spring? Chicken manure seems to he a 
kind of gold mine that everybody shies 
from. It is a valuable fertilizer, is it 
not? Last year I sowed radish and other 
seeds, spread chicken manure in vicinity. 
None came up. n. h. 
Delaware. 
lien manure, comprising both the liquid 
and solid excrement, is far richer in nitro¬ 
gen than the farmyard manure. It seems 
to have something of a caustic nature that 
will injure seed in direct contact with it 
when fresh, but when combined with the 
soil some time before planting there will 
be no evil effect. You can put it in 
frames now quite liberally, which are not 
to be used till Spring, and there will be 
no bad effect from it. If the roosting 
place is well covered with plaster daily 
and cleaned off, the mixture kept under 
cover all Winter can be safely used in 
the Spring on any crop. w. F. MASSEY. 
It was one of those gray dull mornings 
when it is impossible to tell whether the 
sun is doing its duty or not, when little 
four-year-old Elizabeth wanted to go out 
and play in the yard. “You had better 
stay in the house,” said her mother, “it 
looks like rain.” “But, mamma. I won’t 
got wet.” replied Elizabeth. “I’ll come 
right in when the man turns the water 
on.”—New York Globe. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, DEC. 27, 1919. 
FARM TOPICS 
Tho Green Pea Industry of Madison Co., 
Employers’ Liability and the Farmers. 1875 
Watch Out for Your Seed Corn. 1875 
Fertilizer for Sweet Corn. 1878 
Northern Ohio Notes. 1878 
Hope Farm Notes.1882, 1883 
The New York Agricultural Department... 1885 
The National Farm Bureau Meeting. 1885 
Making Use of the Country Paper. 1885 
Handling a Small Place. 1890 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Milk as a “Public Utility”. 1885 
Pasture end Barn Notes. 1892 
A Record Ayrshire Cow . 1892 
Ration with Clover Hay. 1894 
Dairy Feeds with Good Silage.1894 
Feeding Rve Straw. 1894 
Feeding Calves . 1894 
Feeding Bariev and Oilmea'. 1894 
How to Make Good Dairy Butter—Part IV. 
1896, 1°97 
Keeping Butter in Brine. 1897 
Feeding a Family Cow. 1897 
Grain with Uneared Silage. 1897 
Bations for Holsteins. 1897 
Pomace for Hogs. 1899 
Thriftless Pigs . 1899 
Handling Two Cows. 1899 
THE HENYARD 
The Egg-laying Contest. 1900 
A New Egg-laying Contest. 1900 
HORTICULTURE 
The Scientific Search for a Poach.... 1873, 1874 
Review of Season’s Work—Part II. 1874 
Improving Hickorynuts . 1883 
WOMAN AND HOME 
Story of a Summer’s Work. 1877 
' hat Is Sweet Cider 1 . 1880 
Questions About Glucose. 1880 
Cold Cream . 1880 
Sugar from Potatoes. 1880 
Removing Molasses Taste from Barrel. 1880 
Darkening Gilt and Bronze. 1880 
Repairing Stoves. 1880 
The Lights of Home.1886, 1894 
The Squeakv Chair.1887 
Paying for Tuition Out of District. 1887 
Rights in Mother’s Estate. 1887 
Legal Rights of Education Board. 1887 
Dishwashing Discussed . 1887 
Povs and Girls. 1888 
Pastoral Parson s>”d His Country Folks... 1890 
Bunny Beef in Various Ways. 1889 
Quick Way of Canning Meat.1889 
Curing Hams and Bacon.1889 
Apple Recipes from the Rural Cook Book.. 1889 
An Efficient First Aid.1?91 
Tho Home Dressmaker. 1891 
MISCELLANEOUS 
Plowing Road with Motor Truck. 1 
The Inventive American Mind. I'T-'l 
Editorial . ’ 
Countrywide Markets . 
Events of the Week. • 
Philadelphia Markets ... . 
Boston Markets . . 
Products. Pricos anti Trade. 
Buffalo Markets .] 
Syracuse Markets . 
Publisher’s Desk . • 
