The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 11, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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THE FAIRFIELD RECORDER.
PREPARING SEED BED
MOVING HEAVY FRENCH GUN INTO ACTION
Get Rid of Numerous Air Spaces
by Firming Soil.
Effective Work 8houtd Be Done Juet
After WowHifl, Using Either 8ub-
•urfaee Packer or Dlak Set
Straight and Weighted.
Two general luetboda of preparing
the seed bed on dry land, are la
vogue—one by plowing, the other by
disking. We occasionally find othei
methods, such as listing, but not com-
monly. Far more often we find a seed
bed with absolutely no preparation!
at aU and this la surely not good
farming where deep Ullage Is eo es-
sential. In preparing the seed bed
with the plow we must consider the
depth and tbs time to plow. The
depth of plowing depends on the type
of soil, the previous tillage, the crop
to he grown, the time the plowing Is
done, the amount of water tn the soli
and the prevailing otlmaUa conditions.
When done shortly before seeding, es-
pecially In our dry regions, the plow-
ing should be shallow, unless the furs
row slice Is sofflotontly moist to per-
mlt of paohing and plenty of help is
available to pack the furrow slice.
From observations during two ex.
tremely dry years I would say that
more crops are lost from s loose.
Uncle Sam Is Planning the Biggest Rose Garden
inASHINGTON.—"Uncle Sam Is planning the biggest and prettiest rose gar-
u den In the world at his flower gardens near Arlington. "The American
Hose society last spring completed arrangements to oo-operate with the de-
partment of agriculture In establish-
ing s rose garden,” It Is stated at the
office of information of the depart-
"lt Is to coo-
THIS IS
REAL
VgUASURE
ment of agriculture,
tain as complete a collection of roses
as will grow out of dpors in this sec-
tion of America. The society 1# fur-
nishing the roees, the department two
scree of ground. The garden will be
under the direction of federal horti-
cultural specialists. The farm le in
Virginia. Just aeross the Potomac
from the capital, and convenient to
the Washington-Virginia trofler line. The garden already cental^ about
three hundred and twenty varieties, but there are many hundreds not yet
Included, and eventually the sits can accommodate as many ae 2,000 varieties,
if they can be soenred.
"The garden makes an Interesting show place for visitors to Washington.
The rones are arranged, as far as possible, according to parentage. Teas
end hybrid-teas, for Instance, have a bed to themselves, an have hybrld-per-
petuals. As far as practicable the roses are arranged also according to color.
A fence six feet high, In which cllmMng roses will grow, Is to surround the
garden. The walks are of turf, and the plan has been to use a different kind
■of grass in each walk. There will be rose canopies on the corners and at
the entrances. A summer house will stand at the most commanding point,
"where a view of the whole collection may be obtained.
"Any grower of roses who thinks he has roses not already In the collec-
tion has been Invited by thei"soclety to contribute a plant.”
Just before a battle on the Freneh lines, showing a detail of men laboriously moving one of the great field pieces
Into place.
SB
Par
lllustrat
of the (
dred too well informed Germane. Un-
like that of Germany's, the French or-
ganisation is recruited among volun-
teers, all civilians. . None are paid in
any way and no other Incentive but to
serve France Is offered them. In this
way the government has secured from
all walks of life a good number of
lueu, nail even women, fund of excite-
ment, who are after neither gain nor
honor, but who would not stoop to
such work In time of peace.
Up to date a dozen or so of these
unarmed soldiers have disappeared,
some prisoners, most have ended their
lives, eyes bandaged, against a farm-
house wall, 12 German bullets in their
bodies. When they started out It was
with the understanding that the
French government'could not recog-
nize them In case of trouble. Those
that have died took a chance and lost.
Th i "flyer" Is worth while, for a week
at counter-spying will often furnish
more excitement than a month in the
trenches.
The stories of spy chasing are now
innumerable In French and British
Here are a few of the
the communion to a dying farmer.
Disregarding orders the sentries, good
Catholics, allow the priest to pase. He
disappears on the other side of the
bridge. Suddenly one of the sentries
sees a flicker of light along the ground
60 yards away. A rush to the spot
and the good priest Is discovered
stooping at the base of one of the
bridge arches. The stick of dyna-
mite on the ground and blackened
fuse In his hand leave no doubt as to
his Intentions. The sentries did not
wait for a court-martial, but executed
the "priest" on the spot. Papers found
on him proved him to be a captain in
a Hessian Hussars regiment
In a trench near the Belgian border,
a few days ago. A jovial old chap, a
farmer, oomes along with a basketful
of pears. The shooting has stopped
for an hour or so, both sides needing
a rest after 12 hours of uninterrupted
fighting. A number of farmers In the
region having refused to abandon their
homes, no one questions the farmer’s
presence among the troops, and his
basket Is soon emptied. As they are
given away the farmer Is thanked all
around and 1b Just leaving wh$n he is
grabbed by the throat suddenly by
one of the troopers, who half chokes
his victim before shouting, “He's a
German. He was my boss in Paris."
And so It was. For 12 years Joseph
Hublg had been chief accountant In a
big Parisian wall paper factory. He
was German, every one knew It, but
he was a good accountant Under
him worked half a dozen young
Frenchmen. Two days before the dec-
laration of war his consul had warned
him to leave Paris—and he had. His
knowledge of French had been used
by his officers when he joined the Ger-
man army, and he retuVned. This
time he stayed.
The last Is the best In Parts last
month, at the war department offices,
officers hurry In and out, orderlies
pass like the wind,) generals and their
staffs discuss the campaign in the
hallways, a young artillery officer, lieu-
tenant of the general staff, according
to the insignia on hls-collak. walks up
and down Idly smoking. A captain
pasaes by, asks for a light for his
cigar, and remarks. “Nice weather,
lieutenant." No answer. The cap*
tain, surprised, repeats his remark.
The lieutenant turns away. Angered
the superior officer goes after him.
The other runs toward a door.
It’s all over In a jiffy. Friend Lieu-
tenant brought into a private office,
answers questions -with an over-the-
Hblne accent, whieh le a trade mark.
He Is a lieutenant fell right, but In
the Eleventh Bavarian regiment. He
has made the French war office his
headquarters for over a week. Some
of the Paris papers got hold of the
story, which was, of course, cut out
by the Censjor. - C
Notebook of Official in France
Discloses Stories of Many
Daring Feats.
Ordinance of Secession Is Restored to Louisiana
SHORT SHRIFT WHEN CAUGHT
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of air .through these larger open
spaces will very rapidly dry out the
solL
Aside from the larger open spaces
the Boll particles falling from the plow
are not set close together. Tljey have
comparatively few points of contact
Thus the movement of water from
one to the other la slow while the
passage of the air through the eoll Is
much greater than when the soil has
been firmed and as a consequence the
ground dries out more quickly. This
is of vital importance. If any crop Is
sown on a seed bed prepared only by
the plow and harrow, there may be
sufficient water In the upper part of
the soil—where the particles have
been brought quite closely together
by harrowing—to germinate the seed.
But the harrow stirs only two or
three Inches of soil. As soon as the
crop has used the moisture In these
few Inches it will suffer unless oppor-
tune rains come to supply it with
water until Its roots can get through
the loose layer below. If light rains
keep the upper few Inches moist, the
roots will probably tend to stay near-
er the surface rather than push
through the loose soil. The time to
firm the furrow slice ie Just after the
plowing Is done. If the surface Is al-
lowed to dry out It cannot be packed.
If there Is sufficient moisture to plow
well there will be enough to pack.
The firming may be done with either
a subsurface packer or a disk set
strr’rrht and weighted. This firming
of the soil to get rid of air spaces and
bring the particles In closer contact
is more essential on soils that have a
tendency to become loose and ashy
|N EXECUTION of the provisions of an act of the recent session of congress,
1 Adjutant General McCain has restored to the stato of Louisiana the ordi-
nance of secession passed by the legislature of that state January 26, 1861,
which
Take-Most Desperate Chances and
Usually Die With Back to Wall—
If Taken In Zone of Battle They
1 Are Tried on the 8pot.
was seized by the Union
forces when New Orleans was cap- l
No one remembers exactly how
the old zinc tube containing the reo- ,,,
ord of the convention which voted to i i
leave the Union ever reached the war { -I t;. xuUSL
department. The case bears the elm-
pie legend painted on Its cover: l/yl
STATE OF LOUISIANA. A' \ \ '1
Ordinance of Secession, Iv./rrTV
It la the only one of eleven se-
cession ordinances that the government possessed.
Different stories exist as to- the means by which the relic reached the
capital t It Is believed that General Butler when he captured New Orleans
seized ill the official papers he could find and sent them to Washington. It
Is proh M)e the old brown tube containing Its message came north with other
trophies pf the war.
As *ar as the record shows, the ordinance first came to light after the
war In ilrawer of Lieutenant Colonel Corbin's desk, In the adjutant general’s
office. ll was delivered to Major General Davis, now retired. In 1896, and
from him It went to the secretary of war, who ordered it restored to the
Archive k>t the adjutant general’s office.
The,parchment Is yellow with age but In excellent condition and perfectly
legible, Lhough eome of the signatures are a bit faded. The text Is divided
into two parte—to English on the left and to French on the right Antiqua-
rians and students of history have frequently sought permission to copy the
quaint old document
army circles
most daring attempts made by the
Germans since the beginning of the
war: S-Is a large town, 56 miles
northeast of Paris. The houses are
slow, the church steeple alone being
visible at any distance. The German
artillery bombarded 8—s- for three
days, the church and Its steeple alone,
much to the surprise of the Inhabit-
ants, remaining Untouched.
The third night of the bombardment
a French sentry saw a light from one
of the small windows high up In the
steeple. The guard was called, and
three men sent Into the tower, which
had seemed to bear a charmed life.
There a man vfas Tound. For three
days his lantern had served the Ger-
mans, who trained their guns a few
points to the right and left of the
llgt^l, certain their shells would strike
the town. The spy was janitor of the
courthouse; had been for four years,
and confessed he was a German, hav-
ing been sent to 8-to report regu-
larly to the military authorities lu
Berlin.
Spy Poses as Priest.
Two sentries guard a railway bridge
near A—*—•. It Is ten o’clock at night
The village is a mile away. All day
trains loaded with British and French
troops have passed over the bridge.
A priest approaches the sentries, go-
ing to the next village, he says, to give
London.—These notes were written
by a man engaged by the allies in an
official capacity, whose duties con-
tinually called him from Paris to the
firing lines of the Belgian, English
jnd French, and who thus has unusual
opportunities of talking with the sol-
diers and frequently seeing ,the battle:
The general and his staff have es-
tablished their headquarters In a vil-
lage a few hundred yards from the
Belgian frontier. From the north
comes the roar of heavy German ar-
tillery brought up during the night,
from the west the duller sound of the
big guns of British warfihlps maneuver-
ing four miles from the coast and do-
ing good work. I have slept tVo hoars
In a deserted farmhouse In company
with three wounded British soldiers
and a whining dog, evidently left be-
hind by his master In his flight
A shuffling of feet in the roadway
and shouted orders awaken me. A
squad of French soldiers led by a lieu-
tenant is gathered at the door, around'
two civilians, hands tied behind their
backs. Spies I Caught on top of ^
Above
men, ten 1
Great Bril
inch guns,
Perfect Babies Wanted for Exhibit in Washington
haystack within a hundred feet of the
general's headquarters. They had been
In the neighborhood for a week, It
seems, getting food no one knows
where.4 They refused to speak. They
had field glasses and note books, .with
the numbers of French and British
regiments. The names of generals and
numbers of batteries were found
burled In the hay. On both men, sewn
a NNOUNCEMBNT of a perfect baby contest la made by officials of the Wash-
A ington Diet Kitchen association. With this announcement the association
imade an appeal for more funds for the conduct of its six Infant welfare sta-
tlons. Hitherto the stations have been
supported entirely by a list of pa-
trons, and because of other demands
upon many of these contributors, the
stations And themselves facing the
PtRFEcTl
iGACkes wAhrtF
E»msrr
lilies to
bp cwtfi
and In regions ef scant ratofall. Heav-
ler soils settle more readily than the
lighter ones. In regions of greater
rainfall, the rain falling upon the
plowed surface beats the particle!
more closely together and washes the
finer particles down Into the open
spaces and the soil may not need me
chanlcal firming.
GIFTS FOR WAR ORPHANS
In the linings of their cape, were
passes through the enemy's lines
signed by one of General von Kluck’s
aide-de-camps.
Their case la settled in advance. In-
terrogated, they neither make denials
nor confessions. Simply refuse to
spesk. Caught at eight o'clock, they
ore tried at 8:30, a broken table serv-
ing as judge’s bench for a colonel and
three captains called hurriedly from
staff headquarters.
BIX Shots End Their Lives.
A few questions to which no an-
swers are forthcoming, a glance at the
notebooks and passes found on the
prisoners and It la over.
Six of these stations now are
open, and though five of them have
been in operation less than six
months, more than five hundred babies
now are being cared for by them.
During August this number reached a
maximum of 690.
Though the stations were formed primarily to supply milk, they gradually
assumed a much wider scope until the name "milk station" was superseded
by that of “Infant welfare station.” Even this term does not express the
varied nature of the services performed. For not only Infant diet, but cook-
ing conferences for grown-ups, classes for “little mothers,” lessons In house-
hold economics, and many phases of household management, hygiene and
sanitation are imparted to mothers, vs '• _
At present the Interest of th# mothers and workers alike Is centered on
the second annual baby contest to January. Only babies registered two
months In advance will be considered. This year a general prise, a medal,
will be given to the best baby of all those entered. Another prize, of 826
5n gold, will be awarded to the most nearly perfect baby among those from
ti e milk stations. . 1’i /
STUDY METHODS OF RENEWAL
GOATS AS SPY SIGNAL
Department of Pomology of New Yorl
State Leases Apple Orchards
to Make Experiments.
8hepherd Who Aided Germans With
His Flock Sentenced to Death
for Treason.
The prh
had been bo
ment of pomology of New York statf
has leased an orchard consisting ai
eight acres planted with Baldwin an!
Rhode Island Greening apples, wfalo)
will be used for studying methods oi
renewal. ,
The trees, which were originally tot
close, have now gi4>wn together s<
that the branches Interlock. In on<
part of the orchard every alternati
tree will be taken out, and to othei
parts the trees will be severely head
ed In or thinned.
The problem presented Is a com
mon one, many orchards in New Yor|
stats being to a similar condition
Different method, of renewal that ars
recommenaea win ns tested.
Chalons-8ur-Marne.—A Frenchman,
Alfred Durot by name, has been sen-
tenced to death by court-martial for
Back of the
farmhouse are a poultry yard and de-
crepit stable. Against the stable waU,
eyes bandaged, bands tied, kneeling,
the two Germans are placed, the six
soldiers ten paces away. The lieu-
tenant’s sword Is raised, six shots
mingle Into one. The law of Aar la
carried out. it is nine o’clock.
Buck incidents form s part of .very
During the battle which raged
around Reims the French artillery op-
erating near the village of Pulseulx
was subjected to a terrific bombard-
ment by the Germane, no matter how
often they changed their position. A
careful watch was kept, and It was
discovered that a mile In front of the
a shepherd was feed-
long which Wire five
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, December 11, 1914, newspaper, December 11, 1914; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1109966/m1/2/: accessed May 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.