The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, October 24, 1918, Page 6, Image 6
BAND PliAYS FOR COWS.
Strains of Classical Compositions Emanate
From Big Barns.
Travelers on the high road that
passes Maple Villa Farm, Delaware
county, have been entertained for
weeks past, by strains of dulcet music,
emanating from the ample barns
of a big estate, the owner and proprietor
of which is Al. Field.
Those in ignorance of the ownership
of the broad acres over which
they'passed were impressed with a
vague idea of a picnic at which the
town band had been employed to provide
musical entertainment. Others
guessed that the proprietor of Maple
Villa Farm was having a huskin' bee,
although the season was too early
for that sort of thing, and they might
have known better.
Still others were convinced that Al.
Field, finding it necessary in these
war times to exercise economy, was
rehearsing his minstrel band and perhaps
the troupe, too, in his capacious
barn building. <
"Music Hath Charms."
They were all wrong. One and all,
they had forgotten that classic line
which declares that "Music hath
charms to soothe the savage breast,"
and if they had remembered they
certainly would have hesitated to apply
it. No "savage breasts" lurks in
Maple Villa Farm. But there are
N plenty of domesticated beasts.
The secret finally leaked out, however.
A curious traveler ventured up
the broad avenue leading to the
barns and peered in and?this is what
he saw: Al. G.. himself, presiding
at a recital of his famous minstrel
band, each musician in uniform and
the guests ranged about in stalls,
much like his city theatre-going patrons
have in the past and will in
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ha awn. ensconced in the box
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es at the theatre. It was an aristocratic
audience.
The guests, in this instance, however,
were four-footed. They were
0 the princesses, duchesses and countesses
of Jersey, Aldern and Guernsey
and they were being right royally
j entertained. That they enjoyed the
concert was plain to be seen, and, as
Al. G. explained eventually to his
amazed and uninvited visitor, each
gave vent to her enjoyment by copious
squirts of that popular and now
patriotic beverage, milk.
Al. Field Explains.
In all seriousness, dear reader,
that is just what occurred, that
"v amazing early evening in July, when
the curious passerby investigated the
unsolved mystery of the barnyard
Lorelei. Al. Field and his band were
the yield of milk. At the next milking,
the cows exhibited no nervousness.
The music for this milking
was very soft, the string instruments
predominating. The yield of milk
was greater than that previous to the
introduction of music.
One milking was passed. The
yield of milk was normal. Again
music was introduced and there was
a gain in the yield of milk?a pronounced
gain.
It was not practical to have the orJ
chestra at the next milking, but the
. victrola was used with good results.
\ - ^fr. Field has placed a victrola in
the feed room of the milking barn,
using records of music of the quieter
kind, as it was noted that the cows
evidenced nervousness as tne music
became louder. Even human voices
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blended in song interested the cows.
One nervous cow, always fidgety and
consequently difficult to milk, yielded
readily to the influence of song,
standing quietly as long as the song
continued.
Employees Affected, Too.
Later on the orchestra was
brought into play again and there
was an increase in the flow of milk
from the herd. The last test with
the orchestra showed an actual increase
in the yield of milk from the
25 c'ows, over the first test, despite
the fact that the pasturage was very
poor, owing to a severe drouth.
All persons who witnessed the tests
are of the same opinion, namely, that
music is beneficial to dairy cows. It
soothes and allays their nervousness,
particularly when flies are most annoying.
The music not only soothes
the cows, increasing their milk flow,
but has its good influence upon those
who handle the cows.
The victrola is the cheapest and
most practical of all musical instruments
for use in the dairy and its
continued use has convinced all who
ha've investigated, that music quiets
the cow and that she will yield more
milk under its influence than otherwise.
Anything that quiets the cow
is beneficial, and that contented cows
yield more milk than nervous ones is
sufficient argument to induce all
dairymen to introduce a victrola in
the cow barn during milking hours.
Music in Horse Barn.
Other experiments with horses,
hogs, etc., while not so interesting
as the experiment with the dairy
cows, are instructive. When music
was introduced into the horse barn,
the animals became very nervous, excepting
a Shetland pony. This little
creature, after the first few
strains of music, approached the mu
LOOKING FOR WAY OUT.
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Berlin Wonders How the Kaiser Can
Disappear.
Paris, Oct. 16.?According tc
source of information not witho <,.
value, Berlin is considering how Emperor
William can disappear without
endangering the dynasty, says a dispatch
froth Geneva to The Temps.
One solution being considered, it is
said, is the abidication of the emperor
in favor of his grand son, William,
the eldest son of the German crown
prince, with the emperor's brother,
Prince Henry, as regent.
The Journal des Debats yesterday
mentioned editorially the possibility
of such a plan, but it condemned it as
unacceptable.
An Indiana County Wars on Rats.
Morgan county, Indiana, had more
rats and mice than it wanted, so it
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planned a rat ween. mo puijjuot
was to start a concerted attack on
the rats and mice in the week previous
to the storing of grain. The
county agent advertised in the papers
and enlisted the members of the
United States Boys' Working Reserve.
Reports are incomplete, but
the county agent believes the number
of rats has been greatly reduced and
consequently a large quantity of
grain has been saved. One boy reported
that he killed 97 rats and 393
mice. Another killed 84 rats, a third
37, and a fourth 28.
Holland Interns 15,000 Germans.
London, Oct. 20.?Fifteen thousand
retreating German soldiers have
been interned in Holland after being
cut off by Belgian troops moving
northward from Eecloo, according to
reports from the frontier reaching
Amsterdam and transmitted by the
Exchange Telegraph Company.
Belgian soldiers took charge of the
Dutch-Belgian border last night and
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were entnusiasucany receiveu ujr me
populace.
Capturing Metz.
Before you allow yourself to get
very enthusiastic over the plans advanced
by popular strategists for the
capture of Metz, sit down and read
some of the things about that fortress,
and its encircling chain of fortresses,
which are available in almost
any reference book?and also
recall what happened at Verdun,
when the Germans threw away 500,000
men in futile attacks upon it.
And Metz is admittedly a far more
formidable stronghold than Verdun.
It is a fine thing to be near enough,
ten miles or so, to drop shells into
its forts and to bomb it from the air,
but do not assume in off-hand fashion
that it can be wiped out in a
day's drive, as the St. Mihiel salient
was. It can be outflanked and isolated,
and it can be captured as the
Germans captured it from the French
in 1870 when they could not take
it by direct attack, but even that is
slow and costly business. Since 1870
German military efficiency has devoted
itself to making Metz a fortress
that would forever bar the invasion
of Germany from that quarter. German
efficiency, which has failed in
so many things, has perhaps failed
in that also, but when the French
and American ljags fly over Metz they
will hardly fly there as the result of
frontal attacks?and they will hardly
fly there this week or next.?Boston
Herald.
siicans and seemed pleased with the
unusual sounds. *
The softer and more piano passages
seemed to quiet the horses. They
gazed with astonishment, moving
their ears back and forth, evidencing j
pleasure as they do when about to |
be fed. The longer the music con-!
tinued, the more quiet and tractable
the horses became.
When the drums were introduced,
in the inspiring strains of "Over
There" the horses reared and plunged.
Whether it was the martial music
or the resonant reverberations of
the drums upon their 1 tympanum
walls, the musicians did not determine.
Elephant Enjoys the l>runi.
The horse and elephant, the most
intelligent of the brute creation, are
the most susceptible to the influence
of music. The elephant delights in
the bang of the drum and the crash
of the cymbal. The horse delights in
the softer and more musical notes.
You have often noticed a horse
greatly frightened at the sound of |
an approaching band, but if the
banging of the drums ceases, although
the band continues playing,
the horse will quiet down.
Seemingly the most pleased of all
the animals, with the music, was an
old sow with a litter of pigs. The
music was not intended for her but
she unconcernedly led her family into
the group of musicians, lying down
and grunting her satisfaction as tn*
music rose and fell and the pigs fed.
Mr. Field is experimenting in various
other ways. His artificial lake,
stocked with fish by the United
States fish hatcheries, has proven
more than successful.?Columbus,
Ohio, Dispatch.
TO USE STNDARD CARTONS. !
Rules for Sending Christmas Packages
to Soldiers Abroad.
The Red Cross has issued the following
rules regulating the sending
of Christmas packages to soldiers
abroad:
Only one package may be sent to
each man, enclosed in a standard
carton furnished by the Red Cross.
No parcels may be mailed after
November 15, 1918.
The label issued to the man overseas
by the army authorities and forwarded
by him to some relative or
friend in this country will entitle the
holder to apply to the local Fled
Cross organization for one carton.
The cartons must be packed by the
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relatives or friends ana aenverea unwrapped
and unlabelled to the Red
Cross to be weighed, inspected, wrapped,
labeled and delivered to the Post
Office.
No package may weigh more than
three pounds.
No written message may be inclosed.
The sender must furnish the necessary
postage from place of mailing to
Hoboken, N. J.
Each parcel must bear the label received
from abroad with the name
and address of the soldier and the
inspection label of the American Red
Cross.
Inspected parcels must remain in
the custody of the Red Cross until delivered
by its representatives to the
postoffice.
In the event of a Christmas parcel
label being lost, no duplicate can be
issued. This rule can not be altered
by anybody.
How to Send Xmas Packages.
The navy department has issued
the following instructions regarding
the shipping of Christmas packages
to sailors in home waters and abroad:
Packages forwarded by Parcel Post
should be enclosed in substantial boxes
with hinged or screw top covers to
facilitate opening and inspecting.
Boxes are limited to twenty pounds
in weight and should not be more
than two cubic feet in volume.
Mail matter should be addressed as
now prescribed by the postal regulations,
but express packages should be
forwarded in care of Supply Officer,
First Supply Base, Twenty-ninth St.
and Third Ave., South Brooklyn, N.
Y.
tyo perishable foods other than
those enclosed in cans or glass jars
can be sent.
All packages must be plainly
marked with the sender's name and
address and also the notation "Christmas
Package."
All packages for U. S., Naval vessels
abroad must be in New York not
later than Nov. 15.
Fourth of People Buy Bonds.
Washington, Oct. 20.?Probably
25,000,000 *or more individuals
bought bonds of the fourth liberty
loan, unofficial reports reaching
Washington today showed. A large
proportion of these filed their subscriptions
during the last few days
of the campaign which ended last
night. Consequently it would be a
task of many days to actually count
the number of pledges and to compile
reports from the entire country.
Definite figures and the total subscriptions
to the loan were not available
here tonight, but officials were
confident that the $6,000,000,000
popular war credit .had been oversubscribed.
NOTICE.
All persons are forbidden from
hunting, tresspassing cr letting their
stock trespass on the following
lands. No nermission granted.
MRS. F. P. FOLK,
J. F. HIERS,
G. F. HIERS,
- BRADLEY HIERS,
10-31 ERNEST L. HITRS.
RILEY & COPELAND
Successors to W. P. Riley.
Fire, Life
Accident
. INSURANCE
Office in J. D. Copeland's Store
BAMBERG. S. C.
BUY WAR SAVING STAMPS
MASTERS SALE.
By virtue of the ; dior' v of a decree
issued out of t. e Cov.rt of Common
Pleas in the ca e of L,. K. Mayfield
vs. Nancy Cui ~y, I, the under-'
signed Master for Jamberg county,
t. 11 offer for sale, to the highest bidder,
on Monday, November, 4th, 1918.
ti.e same being sales day in said
month, in front of the court house
door, Bamberg, S. C., between the
legal hours of sale, the following
described real estate, to-wit: All thp
right, title and interest, being onet:*lf,
of the defendant above named,\
and to all tnat certain piece, parcel
lot of land, with the buildings
t'creon, situate, lying and being in
the corporate limits of the town of
B mberg, county of Bamberg, State
aforesaid, bounded by lot formerly
of Tom Baker, Fishburne estate,
Emma Johnson, lands formerly of
Mrs. Marv E. Felcer. and street.
Being the lot conveyed to Daniel Williams
by Mrs. Mary E. Felder.
Terms of sale: Cash, purchaser
to pay for papers.
J. J. BRABHAM, JR.,
Judge of Probate and Acting Master.
MASTER S SALE.
Pursuant to an order of the Court
oi Common' Pleas for Bamberg county,
in the case of James D. Utsey, et
al., plaintiffs, vs. Nettie x'earl Sandifer,
et al., defendants, the undersigned
will sell at public auction, to the
highest bidder, for cash, before the
court house door, at Bamberg, S. C.,
on legal salesday in November, 19IS,
between the legal hours of sale on
said day, the following described
land, to wit:
All 4lia+ oortoin troot nr nar^pl of
All tliat bMili i,i U.VV V* rw _
land, situate in the county of Bamberg,
State of South Carolina."containing
two hundred and fifty acres,
more or less, bounded as follows: On
the north by lands of Willie Sease, on
the east by lands of Willie Sease arid
lands of Tom Rivers, Ike Nimmons,
et al., on the south by lands of Gus
Nimmons, Adam, Grimes and Ella
Mitchell and on the west by lands of
Joe Nimmons and Johnnie Halyard.
Purchaser to pay for papers. Terms
of sale, cash.
J. J. BRABHAM, JR.,
Acting Master for Bamberg Co.
MASTER'S SALE.
State of South Carolina?County
of Orangeburg.?In Common Pleas.
Marian Middleton, et ah, Plaintiifs,
against Samuel Middleton, Defendant;.
By virtue of a judgment of the
Court of Common Pleas in the above
entitled action, I will sell at public
auction, at Bamberg Court House, on
the first Monday in November next,
during the legal hours of sale, the
following described real estate: *
All that certain tract, parcel or
piece of land situate, lying and bei
ing in Bamberg county, in the State j
i or' South Carolina, containing twen y
four (24) acres, more or less,
bounded on the north by lands of the
estate of Julia Middleton; east,
south and west by lands now or forFiCrly
of Francis F. Carroll.
All that certain tract or piece of
lor d situate, lying and being in Bamberg
county, in the State of South
Caiolina, containing thirty-five (35)
acres, more or less, and bounded on
the north, east and west by lands of
F. F. Carroll, and on the south by
lands of Abraham Middleton.
All that certain lot of land in the
; Town of Midway, situate, lying and
being in the county of Bamberg, in
i the State of South Carolina, contain'
ing one (1) acre, more or less, and
I bounded on the north by la nds of C.
| E. Williams; east by lands of Getsin|
gcr; south by Methodist church lot,
j and west by public road or street.
Terms?Cash. Purchasers to pay
i for papers and revenue stamps and
j all taxes becoming payable after date
of sale; and in case the purchaser
shall fail to comply with the terms
oe sale, then the said premises will
| be resold on the same or some subse'
quent salesday, on the same terms
I and at the risk of the former purchasj
e?. ANDRE W C. DIBBLE,
Master Orangeburg County.
Dated: October 14th, 1918.
MASTER'S SALE.
Pursuant to an order signed by
I His Honor, Judge W. H. Townsend,
bearing date September 16th, 1918,
I in the case of Lynn W. Beasely, plain- ,
tiff, vs. Carrie Rentz, et al, defendants,
in the Court of Common Pleas
I I'm Bamberg county, the undersigned
l will sell at public auction, to the
j highest bidder, for cash, at the court
I house door, at Bamberg, S. C., dn the
4tl. day of November, 1918, between
i the legal hours of sale, the following
i described tract of land, to wit: All
I of that certain tract or parcel of land,
situate in the county of Bamberg,
State of South Carolina, containing
one hundred and eighty acres, more
or less, bounded on the North by
lands of G. Frank Bamberg; on the
! East by lands of Charlie Miller; on
the South by lands of J. M. Grimes,
et al; and on the West by lands of
G. Frank Bamberg. Purchaser to
pay for papers.
J. J. BRABHAM, JR.,
Acting Master for Bamberg County.
October 8th, 1918.
Bamberg Mills and Embree.
E'.amberg Mills?Sunday-school,
10 o'clock every Sunday morning;
preaching, 11 a. m. and 8:30 p. m.,
first and third Sundays.
Embree?Preaching, 11:30 a. m.
and 7 p. m., every second and fourth
and. 7 p. m. each second and fourth
Pastor.
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the digestion, and act as a General Strengthening
Tonic to the whole system. Nature will then
throw off or dispel the worms, and the Child will be
in perfect health. Pleasant to take. 60c per bottle.
Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic
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the blood. You can soon feel its Strengthening,
Invigorating Effect. Price 60c.
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