Fag* Six

ifmuEoi

Machine cm West Front Sapping Strength of

Germans.

1 *nd flctit on tbr dafaMIr*. »bathioo*a«

Ills straieglc •cbcme.

The Ocnau dlvt»loo* are now <—» Uin-r-qui t«r» tbdr lamer •trrtytth. 0Dd raasist u< a rale or Mm bettaUMU lu*te«J at ttrelrr; which means 8/000 tmj'oarts to the dlrlahm It eaefc hot tahon la ut toll atrensth. Urt ta prs'dee not more than ".500 baycaau to

SOLDIERS ARE OPTIMISTIC

8upanori*y In Air, la t of Aura and Supplio* of

By JOHN LLOYD BALOSB8TON. (Coprrtaht. tr.- ^Oj^toClur* Oeoeral HmdQnartera. British Armies In France.—It probably new occurred to a beholder, watching the gnat steam dredges of Colonel Goetbals scooping out the Panama canal, to wonder whether the Job would crer be finished. Bow hmg It would take to dig the canal no man knew, but that It would be dug. nobody doubted. That la the way I teel wheorrer 1 aae the British military machine at work. Through the cowrtesr of the Brit 1th staff I base tj|p«tW *h* battle front along the whole tine where active fighting has been in hrogreat this year. The unsatisfactory military sltuadoo !n Russia, which has helped the German defeoslTe upon this front has don. Out here, the men who are. doing the fighting are optlralatic. It has not always bee* oo; I left an optimistic London lb the spring of 1918 and

grimly aware of the long and t road ahead. It was the aaaa in w midst of the battle of .the Somme, but in the winter, when fighting had died down. I found the front more "oocked up" than ew before. And now. the front Is confident that the Germans bare shot their bait. London guesses, but the front know*. T?*t U why them slterusdoos of feeling are not only Interest'ng. but Important But the back keeps murmur. lac. oar loanes are heavy. No doubt the German loarea at* hewry. too. but w« are not gaining much ground. W.

week* In the ralM of ooree Insignifi-

cant village.

Soldiers Think Differently.

Not eren three years of wai hare taught the people who any these things to think as the soldiers think. The ooldler brashes aside all such talk as irrelevant. His Job. he knows. Is to bent the German army. When that has tx-cn done the war will be crer. Movement ns measured oo a map does not imprest him at all except as It bHpe to kill Germans. He complains bitterly, vnoo

allied 'plana The purs®* was more rapid than the Germans thought poosttste. the British Wow at the Vimy Jldge came three weeks before It was l. apd the eM taarfSal'k plans

fighting this year, 82 German fihdslMi* were •rot la against the British In the At' ras battles and again® the French on the Alsoe and In CBampagsr. of these divisions ST were so shattered that they had to bo withdrawn, and 1st® appeared again, their gape refilled with reserves. Several came back tat the third time. In six weeks, therefore. only <7 of the German dlrldon* garriaoMnc the western front had not been dragged Into the great “suction

are not obtainable.

During

-the entire battle of the

separate German dirlsious were engaged. many of them amt bade for the second or third time after being

In tlx week* of the t

fighting of 1917. the Germans were compelled to ure practically tbr

I up

the

British and French onslaughts as they poured Into th« whole Rom me action from start to .finish. No more men than nheoluiWy necessary are sent Into the Infernal fire maintained by the allied artillery. By the figures I have given are to be calculated the results of the fir® phase of this real's fighting. not by progress measured oo a map.' Every division sent Into thane battles suffers heavily under fbe constant sbeillng to which It Is subjected from the tine It enters the sane «I long range fire miles behind the trench lines until What U left of It reaches

safety again.

But does not this procaas of attrition work both ways! Are not British

about equal li time the alUas. V gree to the « been « n .MHPm Me to glTb. Otfurea «

In the tnfi»n*ty fightfa bare wise bom. pfe-wd u dlKUlvatobig*. ffuUe «p heavier ahelUag they h Thanks <o the possession ef tna ri deal WBaflw-a that alapty mean* the . log the fighting and eompenta German* to devote MMLfilf eouj

p® emt In s y« aua® report to the G. B. sf agrtcMtmw. The report •heap, and hogs is tor the ;war ending Beptsmfeer S. and for chMkarx. Oe- • bwef euule per 100 Vwiafwm to K.40. or M per c^t; f* veal calves aer 100 poanda, feoas fiS77 » til-08, uf 28 par cent: ahewp per iqo poanda fror- 88W W flOttS.-bf « P«7 cent: tamhn p® 300. pounda. from $&JS to WM. br.W.Pdr ceptL-hof* pec 100 pountfs. Own WB to »15fi9, or ID per cent,, and chickens. Oo* 14S to 1&J emtu per po*®£ or ST percent. Sheep. I&ahw and bogs have tar excveded *mt guttle, real calves, and cMckws • the upward price movemaut at the

the German* cuesilqg until ally launched as to the ~

Ends uniform. 10 potntaPlnw* • i and out at guide furrow. • Total. 80 point*. wMc* U per- J • feet whan no dead furrow Is £n- • Dead furow finished. 10 5 sista. ■eewseeeeaeeaaaaawaeasaaas TO PREVEST NOXIOUS PESTS

centra ted Oennaa batteries * How on, we talk about sneceas and ultimate victory If both aides are bleeding to death la Oil* fashion 1 balance Heavily Again® Germans. In the answers* to tbeae questions lies the real cause of the optltMwn ot .the front. Heavy as are the allied' losses, the et.rttloo proems U Del ep 1 rrating to the same extent on both sidra. There are sevral factors ot work thU year that are weighing down the baluuce heavily against the GerHrst comes the allied superiority In the air. This Is Indisputable, and man-

ifest to the mo® « dear days 1 have

the «T* per SW. MsdBeei flur- — , T^torkgrlew. was fifi.TO beef cattle to May.«LW tor rsol mdna ta la® SeptrmUr. 110.15 for sheep ta May. »13.0C tor Utah* ta la® September. «&S0 for hnga ta last Septotob®. and I&l cents per pound foe .rifidems ttatober 1 of this ymr. The tats® farm price reported Is the hlghe® one of the year foe veui calves, lambs, bog*, and chMteas: the May price was the hlghe® tor beef cattle

end sheep.

IMPORTANT EFFECT )F WAR Demand for Horse. Hat Not Been So Far-Reaching as Ora® Many Be-

Oennan position*. They InwnwHatrij i llrved. Says Expert. come under the ms used fire of caaimn

secretly concentrated over a long pe- Ttwt the effect of the war « the riod tor the very purpose of awp|<Jrtlcc ! demsna tor bareet has been Important

‘ hot not ao fiar-reacWng as many perhave been led to beUere. ta the

If advantages are wog by thr.t the German* cannot ai they arv compelled to' f

In variably extremely costly,

have to be hurriedly taaprorisod, out of whatever troops an ut baud, and

cannot be supported by anything Hhe a similar weight of gnus If the Orix

I ■ _ cos of Britbe has ti«se to consider public opinion. i 8 h airplanes buzzing over the German Hint civilian* cannot Oink of fighting line*; to catch Bight of an enemy plane

on bar ride ta now nn event and an exciting event because the ventnre*otne Intruder Is sure to be fighting so angry swarm of British or French vnsps. gorocUroe* the Germans eeud squadron* of high-speed scouts scuttling along three miles In the nlr. but nt these great altitudes observation even with German lease* ta not of the

-vxccp* R- terra* of geography, of advance and retirement which, until the final “break through" comes. If It doe* come, are relatively unimportant In attempting to sum up the rituatitm on the weriern front as the aol<U*rs see It. a reporter U at once faced with the factors that have misled opinion everywhere. CJrillan* have maps. Progress upon * map can be visualized by anvooe. AU infantry fighting rvsclu from an attempt by soldier* of one ride to reach a point on the map held by the enemy. The sneceas or failure of the® attempt* ta at ones announced to the bulletins. It ta movement and movement alone, by which the public Judge* fighting, because It ta not allowed to know anything else. Each ride keeps Us own losses secret, and can only goes* st those of the enemy. Neither ride tell* the world bow many theita It fired to an action, bow many of Its guns wers worn out. Yet these things are often. Indeed usually, of very much mow Importance than the loss or coptuw of a village like Frestwy or Bullrvourt. It may possibly come about at a later Mage of the war that the winning of g certain strip of ground will decide the fate of nn army. Mo*t soldier* do not think so. and they all ^ree that

this ta not true today. Be® to Forget Map.

The best way to appreciate the progreas of the war to France. It ha* been impressed oo me again and again. I* lo forget the map. T.irrr are oo the Frmnco-Brittah trout a certain numtwr of British and French ill virion* •Hived to them aw 148 or 144 German Jlvisions. The object of the alUev ta to go on fighting, under the most advantagmu* condition* posriWe. until the 144 German dlvlricm* plus all the reserve* nnd units from other fronts

opinion of Dr. C. W. Mc-Campbell. associate profeasor of anbnal husbandry in the Kansas State Agricultural cci-

tocc.

“Since tl*e beginning of the war approximately 1.000.000 horse* have hewn _ exported from the United State*." said ’he fighting of tlu pa® few maaths Doctor McOampbeiL ThU ta a large The British use their poseesaloo of j number whan considered to toe aggrothe initiative to launch an attack on j gate, but when compared with th« total a narrow front. They capture a position. The Germans are forced. By the need for K-.ft-suardlng their UoU and preventing other pofltious from being ' ‘ ~ counter-attack. They advance to dense masse* and are slaughtered by the waiting gun*. Sometime* the concur-attack* succeed, and then r.td ta a buitatto. “Our troops •»- tacked at dawn and oeouptad the es«-

by oar fire, but towards waring n fifth attack compelled us to roUpqutsh tbs

aaw jryarif daring swend days of perfect observing weather was enraged, at an enormous height, to a struggle with five or six Britirii planes. There hundreds of good German airplanes. with fir® rifigs pilot*, but ®» relent I*** ta the alltod serial offt asiw that they are compelled to remain behind their Own tine* on nn almost continuous defendve. and It ta over Oer-

of German archie* that 18 fights out of

20 now take place.

Mu® "Shoot Off ths Map." The result* of this ritratioa would be manifest to the rarsalty lists If the guns and shells on each rid* were equal. The Germans are compelled to “shoot off the map" where they haw not direct observation over the enemy lines from some higher (rounds; that ta their gum fire at rood* who® ranges can be calculated or at ph.ee* where they merely guess slued guns are placed, to the absence of Mr photography to show them what to shoot at or of ‘‘spottiniT I •lanes over the enemy poritione to wireless the results of their marksmanship By taking the YUny ridge nod the commanding height at Monchy, the British early to the Airsf fighting deprived the Germans of direct oh-M-rratlou over their rotmnuaWstiun*. and wew able to watch mite* of the German lines: an Instance of the roal

value of winning

end In itself, hot merely as one of a

that may !>• brought up. aw so nnarii ,

„] t hat they enu Do long® take the number of factors which help to give punlahUM Ut. Then and then only-will ' * “ * '

come the ••break through" so much

talked about, but victory win not come thl* yeor: It may not tie possible at Ml without the help of great American

armies.

The great progress toward the final goM that ha* been made during the 1BIT campMgn by the French and Bril

And it ta quite possible that at the name time arv ling over their repoAS. to. the mean that at a co« ot a the British haw atyot down «w

Ucuiarlj Urge—2H ptr cent of the whole or one oot of ovary forty bo The United mates govsnur ct _ tart made heavy purchase* to data and the lata® toformstioa from tha <

a Mx to ton y

• old

ty Whe* you-w had a dtfler,r,- - ,. r fro® the roat They tr*w t-i Q -^ grows up you taro-. wb« a, extemn®. ad they need her. that-* Why «he w«a *waj to Hntq. ttaddr did Wt Ifte to bt bothers* T1® Msgwd Mater had sxie ■*,- «e! tha CWIF* toe old to b«t» i .t-* tr. artowsl _

fCtoswon Oeltags BMletlu.)^^

ot hay which contains various kinds of seed bring fed to Hr* stork. Too d ta Infested with noxious waeds from thl* sourer. This danger may be over we. says the agricultural extension division of ClemsoB college, by keeping manure ta pOea 8 to 10 fact high from four to sta The treat and fermeatolloo produced In such pUea ha* been found lo kill practically an the weed need with the excepGon of a few on the surM idle. These can also bo by putting the surface tnar the bottom of a new ptlt. By thld method the farmer may sefriy

RUST WEARS OUT MACHINERY

CO® can be reduced by making every machine liMt longer. A large proportion Of farm machinery Wear* out too soon because It Is oot given proper care nod attention. More machinery ta wore a way every jsnr by ru® and weather than by sorrier. The Ilf* of any machine mey be lengthened by protect!oc from weather, good lubrication. and prompt attention to repair*. Farm machinery frequently ta left

s .-JEwsiT ta no mtuh lu the way. they *n Me that and tha never did wk« *t nil. Now. the wygeri *»*?« “ K to be married ghd 'he t-fher » abroad, ffh* brother 1* ti

winter. Houring not only protects the Implement* from ru® but leaves them — ' use the follow-

BUYIN6 EWES FOR BREEDING Not Profitable In fitartlsf of Flock to “ se Old F ' Culling

advantage In observation. A modern semvaL nskid wbrther he would prof*v to carry a bill l>*-f.»re him or to retain hla Mnilnw auperiority. would alu«® Invariably rtioore the Utter. Far more enviable ta the lot of She Biitinb and French gunner*. They, can shoot “off the wap" as well a*

...., , the .-(icmy, but they sre con*tently i*l> onatas muat U rors*ored not b> -npjillcd with airplane photogrnpl'* lllx-rated town*, but by the 1c«m* »«f- ' -hnwln* the mo® minute dfdWlMve fend t.y those 144 German dlvialan* • <wk* tx-hlnd the German line*, rbey It t* |*i-*lbli- to give approximate fig- j are Informed, by alrptaoes which see ure* xhfvlng What the Gertnao w* ' tbe fU4he* ««f enemy gun*, appr.oldlere hav. hnct to endure fWa year. j matrly where to shoot to knock out When tb. . un.pMgn opened to Msrrti twtteftoa. and they are able to com-rt. the trench lin. tr.mi Bwitserlaod »•• j *bHr range* after each snlre on a the sew e ere u naed by about l«»Gcr ! dear day, to tbe light of repart* reman dlririuoa, V, idle cnwipeil to the ‘ cel red from airmen who have see® the

rear as a virniiflc reaerr* were 44 *he!l* explode. which Uinderburg hoped t" Artlitary “ '

as a problem to addition and subtree- wsighln* from fiSO to LHO pounds are

' " ‘ " r *r'U sf

> Iris

own monition power exactly, and he a reasonably good guea* M We know our own exactly.

A make n falrt;

tlmate of hla. If we got

and a i both told the truth. tIM demand. Marketmt® axpreaa the probably agree that there rplrdon that ttda etarn mt hones wonld was core a chance that tbe German ke aellUg for $S0 per head leas ware It alas could tire us all oot anJ g® a “ '

iw. A small chance, perhej*. but 1 a chance. Bat we should agree that chance went overboard when

the United States passed a cooscrip-

aod decided to seuii an army r. From a military potof of

view, the Boche ta doomed, and he

o® cerudnly knows It.

“The Boche 1* not a fool. He 1* not going on killing hi* men and ruining Ms country for nothing. He know* he ha* n.» chance on tbe battlefield, and he would surrender at once If he did oot sec somewhere else a glimmer of hope. Undoubtedly be believed in the submarine nt one time, but he must now realize that so great 1* the pw !«>udereBee of force gradually mounting up again® him here that no number of shlj* he can sink will do more than postpoor tbs evil day of reckoning. Ills jireaent reason for fighting must he that he thinks we are all get ting tired of the war. so be may hope to be-derll onr labor parties or on: weaker politicians Into a peace made

up of pt.vty phrase* and plona aspire- | Nwdow* «f Hsn Housss Should B*

tlon* which will leer.- him to a pori- Kept Open Outing Middle of Day thm to recupereie an- attack o* seate Outing fievsw Weather. to ten *»r twenty yeera. I am no. »

l-.litlctan but a soldier, but I think If j Open the ben house windows in Ml the politician* and the public generally I except the severe® weather, during the hod a dear notion of the military Mtu- < nlddle of tbe day. so that the sun and atiun. saw th*- thing us it la Instead of j *lr can get In and purify the bouse regarding our front as dradlocfcnd. 1 *nd give the fowls pbnty of good Mr they couM uudcretaad the German po- ; to breathe. If they can be made to lilies! dodge* much better than they i rzerctae vigorously while the window, do. The Boche I* beaten. If we *3 vre open, they wtU oot suffer any harm

hang together and you send ns bmpl ! from the cold, area U ft ta

ewe*. It doss not pay la tbe starting of a flock to buy old ewea. If there is an advantage to be had In getting

all there 1s to animal breedlni sorely It ta Important to tbe

of the flock. It ta also Important tr adopt a system of colling out each year. The asm* may he applied la the

produce of the flock. It la

predate some female# that are not up to the standard of tbe flock. Every flock should be bought, bred sod culled In view of establishing uniformity to

PREVENT DISEASES ON EARS

Lorn ef Young Animals Can Be R« dueed by Clssning Out Stahls

and Disinfecting.

A good job for tbe fir® rainy day. From C to 10 per cant of the young

naval U1 of

other Infectious d'seaset.

Reduce this loss of young animal* from Infections diseases by cleaning the stable thoroughly and dlMitfcctlag with whitewash to which has been added 2 per cent crude carbolic arid or 5 per cent coM-tar dip. Thu ta raally applied to tb* walla, ceiling and

Soon with a spray pump.

ORNISH CHICKENS PURE AIR

^ U tbTlM'tiri‘^'f.V i;^iZ**ny l ur^ l,:u>dV'5 ‘rZ J.'ot pilled Mr *u ■ Ai7 he'um.t_b* hasten, or bell o> , «« be hoaJthy.

the March retreat had dl-Tganlaed the 1 premacy. but the cnema-toM*® hop® J us again.

Splendid Flock of Ew**. Quality and appearance. There ta m

•Not" She oaiteu t»rr*uu«"--.-Ian brother ulth to* deep irw • not, the brother with the k-hd t which makes yon feri that f-nr care*—he—ta not going twnrr The cMM regarAcd her perplexedly, then shook her bi*i•ol she said, “that 1» the oM«t k. tr wbe baa alw-ys l«eeo pelnitaf I teres somewhere far away. H' ® back net Inag ago. and ywterd® came up here to my big roem ' was no very grave and so that I was afraid, fto.* h» **lk 7 are tha Htfle one* Where, b • Fporo t»e meant the Mgr* od I told him and he went *vO Tta Hrt »MS! a. €1M » 1 uni. -H. •»- «* ,r . ly. Kkc that?"

a. hack there mnoot the «

r she asked

are fanciful." the gld tiff

“a lug broke In tha fire- ^

loro and I ufll MR a

w* upon a time a *"* 1 ■ came back to hta native Uut «

hta own. and perhap*

lady. The heart* of h'«

uc can oui n tin mn .. b, w««> , M.lr or—In th. U- 1 -- ‘ ’ll ■ - uticz Un W» . U H> uc,- •» ■b'c" tDDHSUie. T® the MNtert - know ot the dweyn afi* ^ — i- bn- own little roa® ^

CROPS DESTROYED BY SMUT i «*

Few went* 1 Worth of Formaldehyde and Little Labor Will gave Much

Wheat and Rye-

It ta eotimated that 8H per root of tbe Wheat crog nod 1 per cent of tbe rye crop ta destroyed by amut—irrubahly about -.’TJOOfioO busheta loro a year on the averaga. When a fe>r ««*• worth of formaldehyde and a UtUe tabor wlU save a man hta share of this lour. » t* bard to see bow ho ca^sfford oot to go to the trouble rathre than lorn 85 borheta of fata »hrot out of ^000.

stare for company-

dsn found that she me® f° , cause tb* ktodneas of M*cr’“^ |

skin to tove. -bccanre the

of hi* voice thrilled to •

“Didn't she eare'-W- r

child asked drowsily. ,

Tt was becanro to. «rel

■inch—" arowsred the ^ determined to go 0 Harry the womtarfui tad’ ^ bring to him Mrtory. A ' *, ed down oron the bo* f ' * ^

of the Child, while from « 1 '

Mm* a man'* figure.

; and Jutalaw vote*, ^ ; at*, that ta why y« ** ^

ptay at hide and **

. boy. that ta how r^ , wo , ,N yourrolf. Well h-v. h-“ ,

.iHMt her. “here U m

sod txasvar. * i Bltoklngty the little® " ^ Ur " , ed unbenevtogiy anrowrodttw ** are Ml rung to live 1c