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POWER AND SPEED OF
| THE BRITISH ASSAULT
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From r. staff corrc spondent ci"
I the British Headin
France, (via London.)
The speed a;id pw.er of the British
assuuii m what probably will be
Tknown in history as the battle of Arras,
seem to.have. thoroughly sur:
prised the Geimans.
So much so in fact that their usual
retaliatory artillery fire has been ab-1
, solutely neglible in the last two days.
This is partly due, of course, to the
number of guns captured, to which
> must be added the number knocked
out by the British artillery before
1 the. actual assault began. It is also
due to th$ .fact that . thp Germans
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their remaining ^runs nw?v fvnm im.
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mediate danger to bother firing them
at the enemy. In a German artillery
position east oi' Arras, known as Battery
Valley, could be seen the remains
ol twenty-lour lield pieces. A trip
over the newly taken line revealed
a condition of trenches closely approximating
those recently evacuated
by the Germans in the valley of the
Somme. .Many dugouts remained
with only damaged portals, but the
trenches, including all communications,
have been unmercifully baiter-1
eu about. So successful was the ar!
tilkry hairier sot up by the British;
back of the German lines that some
oi' the German prisonc. s reported
they had been without food supplies
for four days,
BarbcJ Wire Ohlilcrated.
Tire barbed wire entanglements |
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Wk.v ?.ni|? VlIC vJCMililll JJUSIlIUIl^ Wtrti I
obliterated and only .stray sti a;.ds
could be seen hcic and there on the
fi 1 tit line. The thoroughi scs with
which the wire cutting was carried
out by t'ne artillery was a big factor
iii accelerating the speed of the infantry
attack.
T..e zest of offensive warfare could j
be felt in all parts ol the British j
front today. Troops were swinging
fo:*ward with bands playing gay j
tunes. The Scotch troops behind j
their pipers, were particularly picturesquo,
for not even the vicitud-1
( ex of nearly three years of war have
caused them to discard their kilts.
Out over the newly won ground airk
planes were scouting while beneath
them were tanks at rest. The tanks
hud done splendidly throughout
especially in attacking stioagly wired
points with which the artillery hr.dj
not dealt. Some German anti-tank,
guns were captured. Machine gunsi
[ and trench mortars were taken in j
such large numbers that they have j
not yet been counted.
Cavalry Captures Howitzers.
A cavalry corps had t.ie unique
distinction of capturing two bin- how
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itzcrs. riiey charged these guns in
the open, killing several members of
the crews before the others surrender
ed. *A German motor transport j
column was captured in tact. It had
expected to feed German troops at a |
certain point, but encountered British
instad. The drivers said that when
they left Douai there was no idea
that the attackers had reached so far.
Thousands of German p isoner.s
could be seen along* the roads today.
Some had little round caps and others
were wearing the great scuttle stee l
helmets. Although the intense cold
continues, only a few had overcoats.
They are a docile lot and somewhat
surprised their captors by carfeully
sorting themselves into their respective
units before being registered and
temporarily caged. Smaller cages
were provided for the officers. Four
of the latter have been in a furious
rage ever since they were taken.
They were in a forward observation
past, they said, and saw the infantry
) coming back from their front line,
dui naa no iuea tnat tney wore actually
retreating. Their anger was
due to the failure of these troops to
give them warning so they too, could
flee.
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Germans Amazed.
' The British sween east of Arras
yesterday turned the northern pivot
of the famous Hindenburg line* and
large forces of British troops tonight
were pressing far beyond the top of,
that German barrier, which was pre
pared after endless months of labor.
The sinking of 25 more steamchips,
14 sailing vessels and 37 trawlers
with an aggregate gross tonnage
of 18,000 in the last few days is an-!
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nounced by the German admiralty, i
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TREATMENT OF DISEASE1
GOMMON TO POTATOES
Control of Diseases at Bedding
Time?How to Disinfect
Seeds.
Some of the worst sweet potato
diseases live from one season to the
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next in the soil and on the old decayed
potatoes bedded for a previous
crop, according to the specialists of
the United States Department of
Agriculture. For that reason it is
essential that fresh soil or sand be
used every year. Under . no circumstances
Ui?e soil for the hotbed from
fields where sweet potatoes previous
ly have been grown. Instead go into
the woods, if possible, and throw off
G inches of the surface and take subsoil.
Sand will do just as well. II
soil can be obtained from the woods,
it may be taken from a new field
where sweet potatoes have not beer
grown before
It is essential also that the framework
of the hotbevl be disinfected b;
spraying with a solution made by ado
ing 1 pint of formalin to oO gallons
of water. Similar results may he obtained
by whitewashing the frame
work. Better still, spray with winter
strength lime-sulphur solution.
In the spring before being bedded
the potatoes should be dii'infcctc t b\
immersing for from 5 tj 10 minute:
in a solution of corrosive sublimate
made by dissolving 1 ounce of the
crystals in <S gallons of water. This
is a deadly poison. U c with great
care. Treated reed should not he left
where animals can riach it. Onl>
wooden containers should he used fo.
disinfection. After disinfection t!.<
potatoes should he immediately rins
cd in pure water and dried or hclde
at once.
Jus enough of the solution "hou'.d
he put in the barrel or rocepta< 1
used for disinfecting to cover the
quantity of potatoes to be immerse (
each time. The solution should not
be used more than three times, rir'cc
it Ins s its strength and effectiveness,
upon repeated use.
After the potatoes are disi- fo -t d
any showing evidence of disease,
either on the .surface or at the cn<?
should be thrown out. Frequently il
is in these bruised, calloused, and decayed
spots that the disease gem:
are concealed. It shoulel he rcmom
bi.ued that the disinfection is to ki 1
the germs loose on the surface of the
potato and that the treatment does
not kill the germs concealed in the
decayed, bruised, and calloused spots
on the surface and at the end.
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NATURE'S LESSON
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THE LOGIC)
Nature's order is: 1. the soil; 2, the
plant; 3, th animal; 4, man.
If this order be interferred with in
agricultural practice one or more of
the four will sutler.
The most important element of plant
food is nitrogen. Nature has an ocean
of this valuable material in the air
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ii irt pi uuduiv iiie original suurce
of all nitrogen and if not continually .
returned to the soil by natural meth- ;
ods, will soon leave the soil almost
entirely.
Nature when permitted, grows thousands
of legumes, the only natural ,
means of collecting and stowing it in
the soil, and unless as great an acreage
be grown annually of these soil
building plants as of tlie soil robbing
crops usually produced by farmers,
the soil becomes poor in nitrogen and
refuses to produce profitable j'ields.
To supply this element of plant food
by purchasing it, costs about one-half
our fertilizer expense and makes oilier
ops too costly.
Velvet beans, soy beans and cow
peas in summer, and vetch and clover
in winter may be made to supply all
of this element any farmer needs to
grow cotton, corn, grain or any of the 1
other soil robbing crops. Nature can j
not use her 6,000 legumes naturally for i
this purpose where land is planted to
cotton, corn, etc., from year to year.1
we must therefore help nature to help j
us by planting these everywhere pos- i
sible. This means a rich, productive
soil which is the first necessity In
farming.
Rotation of Crops.
No one-crop system has ever or will
Aver support live-stock and make a
prosperous nation in a country similar
to ours. The rotation must be so balanced
as to keep the soil well filled
with humus and to supply individual
and foreign needs; otherwise, supply
a.nd demand will levy a ruinous penalty
that no nation can stand.
We must, therefore,, as nearly as
possible, produce all foods and feeds
needed in South Carolina and then
produce sufficient cotton to supply the
demand at a profit to the farmer,
whose success is a fore-runner of all
success in a final analysis. Our expenditures
of $75,000,000 annually for
foods and l'eed stuffs alone, together
with about $30,000,000 for commercial
fertilizers (1-2 of which might be secured
through the legumes) is exceeding
$35,000,000 annually South Carolina's
income for cotton. This is
ruinous and has helped to reduce our
farm owneship within a few decades
from 45 per cent to 35 per cent of our
farm population.
Live Stock Industry.
No country with poor soils and costly
production has ever fully succeded
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witji livestock. Those countries which
have made livestock a part of farm
economy, have either started with rich
soils or built their soils largely by a
SVStCIll Ctf fflrmlnc witli loornmoa In
crop rotation in connection therewith.
Livestock maintained 011 this basis
not only becomes a profitable industry.
but becomes a soil conserving and
soil building practice as well. tVhen
fed legumes, livestock becomes a
soil building industry. When fed nonlegumes.
they are soil conservers
only. Livestock, therefore, must be
based 011 soil building by natural
methods as was ordained from the
foundation of the world; for, livestock
cannot be expected to' return
to the soil more than 75 per cent of
the fertility fed into them and if that
be fed in the form of non-legume products
produced alone, it can clearly
he seen that more fertility leaves
than returns to the land each year.
Human Prosperity.
Nro agricultural country like ours
has ever succeeded without a soil
building, soil conserving system of
farming as is attested by the history
of nation after nation which have
failed largely as a result of neglecting
tn observe the ordeV of practice heroin
given.
Roman farmers were advised by
Columellus, Varro and Cato. to sow
and turn down vetch, clover aud%the
lentils for the enrichment of their
soils which had been rendered poor
and unproductive by soil robbing
through the production of the nonleguminous
crops, even where their
lands were deeply plowed and thoroughly
tilled as probably no other
lands ever were before or since. This
advice was unheeded until conditions
in Rome became unbearable for want
of support.
South Carolina's future must be
based on soil building and economic
production or tlie history of past fallen
nations will be repeated.
The South Carolina masses are
growing poorer and the rich are at
least growing no richer, but must
eventually lose their holdings if this
condition is continued to the point of
accuteness. When we have changed
to nature's order as herein presented,1
we shall save:
On feeds and foods, annually
$75,000.0001
On commercial fertilizers.. 20.000,000 j
On liev stock production.. 5,000,000
On cotton production 60,000,000
On these four items alone, we shall
realize $160,000,000 annually and
prosperity will follow as light follows
the sun. W. II. BARTON,
Ass't State Agent, Exetansion Work,
Clemson College
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The government has decided to
<cize all German ships in Brazilian
larbors.
The Marion County Medical association
held its quarterly meeting in
Marion on April (?.
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WILL ORGANIZE NO
NEW Gl'ARD UNITS
War Department Aims to Prevent
Forming of Volunteer
Regiments.
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Washington.?Plans for the National
Guard were definitely outlined
today by the War Department.
Adjutants general of the State;
have been informed that no ne\
units of the guard will be recognise
|?vcept such special forces as may be
necessary to complete division organ
izt.tion of the present establishmei/
and those which have armories have
been recruited in definite localities
and have other indications of "prob
able permanency."
The purpose of the department h
to prevent organization of purely
voluntary regiments under the guise
ot* National Guard units and which
would not, in all probability, last beyond
the duration of the war.
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To assist milk piodueers to lessor,
thiol* losses from milk whieh sours it*
| transit and to help them comply with
{bacterial requirements set by local
{health officers, the Dairy Division ol
the United States Department of Agriculture
this coming season will
demonstrate its homemade steam
steiilizer for dairy utensils in a'
large number of milk-producing cen-1
ters. For this demonstration the
lepartment has had constructed
move than 20 of the homemade sterilizing
outfits. Already the health
authorities in lf>0 cities have asked
the department to send these outfits
1*01 local demonstration.
These outfits the department has i
offered to lend any local dairy official
or health officer who will
agree to demonstrate them in actual
practice to milk producers in his lo-1
jality. The outfits, which cost not
over $15 and can be made by any
local linssmith, when placed on a
range or a two-burner oil stove, generate
steam enough to kill the bacteria
in milk cans, pails, strainer
cloths and separate * parts. At the
same time the device removes foul
fdors, leaves the utensils dry as well
s ste adzed, and adds materially
o their life. The sterilization of
ai 1 k utensil.-* is of importance to the
'airyman who wishes to produce a
;ood flavored milk which will not
our rcadi'y. This is shown by the
'act that milk cans, washed in the
ordinary way, may harbor billiMis
v bacteria, and milk contained in1
these cans is sure to have a high
baetcral count, which tends to affect
not only its keeping quality but!
its flavor as well. Other experi-1
ments show conclusively that milk!
which starts in sterilized utensils
has a much better chance of reaching
market in good condition than milk
which has been handled in utensils
that simply have been washed in the
ordinary way.
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Capture of Bagdad Marks Climax
of One of Most Dramatic
Phases of War..
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London.?Bagdad's capture marks
the climax to one of the most dramatic
and pUtiiresque phases #of the worlds
war. The city which has fallen to British
arms links the present to a paflt so
distant It is semi-fabulous.
The known history of Bagdad
reaches back for more than four thousand
years to the shadowy -times of
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, a
quay built by the scriptural monarch
still existing, submerged in the Tigris.
Within its precinct* also there ctlll
stand the toiubs of the Jewish prophets,
Joshua, Ezm, and Ezeklet, and the
well of I)aiilelv
Long after the Babylonian dynasty
had censed to be more than a memory
Bagdad rose to splendor as the. artistic,
literary, scientific, and religious
capital of the world. The heart of ihc
great Islamic empire of the caliphs for
hundreds of years, it was known
throughout the world as "the Glorious
City," and was the scene of the fantastic
exploits of llaroun-al-Rnsclitd. the
potentate whose magnificence is im- ,
mortallz?"l in the Arabian Nights,
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with a population of 2,000,000 inhabitants,
and was easily the first ePy ill
the world in wealth and eonunerce.
With the fall of the caliphs before
the Turkish sultans, the decline of Bagdad
commenced. It was successively
the prey of Turks, Mongols, Tartars,
and Persians, but it was not until 10.1S
that tlm city became definitely a part
'of 1 be Turkish empire. t.r>te**v
Its ancient importance was largely
due to tlie fact that it stood at the
center of the lines of communication
between India and Persia and the west,
hut the opening of new routes by way
of Trebizond and through Armenia diverted
its trade and was a vital factor
in its decline.
The British campaign against. Bigdad
was opened early In 1915 Mien an
Anglo-Indian force under Maj. Gen.
Charles Vore Ferrers Townshend was
landed at the bond of the Persian gulf
und moved rapidly up the Tigris.
General Townsliond commanded a
force of about 40.000 men and at first
lie pushed forward with amazing speed.
Early in .Tune, 1015. be captured Kut-elAmura,
about 250 miles from the
mouth of the Tigris and ltK) miles from
Pngdnd. On the 22d of the following
November ho reached Cteslpbon, 20
miles from bis goal, where he was attacked
by an overwhelming force of
Ottoman troops. Tfis water supply
gave out and he was forced to retreat.
Fighting a continuous rear-guard action.
the F.ritish expedition regained
Kut-cl-Ainara on December f>. Here
General Townshend determined to
make a stand with a portion of his
forces and entrenched with about 10.-'
000 men, while tin remainder of his
troops continued t? all back along the
Tigris in order to loin hands with the
relief army that was hurriedly dispatched
from France and India after
the defeat at Cteslpbon.
Relief Comes Too Late.
For three months Gen. Sir Percy
I.ake, the relief commander, fought his
way up the Tigris and was within
eight miles of his besieged comrades
when on April 111, 1010, General Townshend,
his food supply exhausted, was
compelled to surrender.
In the meantime additional re-enforeements
had been sent from Egypt.
iuit after tlio disaster at Kut-el-Aimna,
tlie British abandoned the offensive for
several months.
The resumption of British operations
on a major scale did not occur until
December, 1:)10, when an advance on
Kul-el-Aninra was made from the Babylonian
plains, while a secomi force
again moved up the Tigris. Uen. Frederick
Stanley Maude was in command
of the new campaign and wa? unofficially
reported to have 12t>,0fl& men at
his disposal.
From the time of the opening of the
new campaign the British progress
was steady and uninterrupted and, In
its last phases, of remarkable rapidity.
ROOSEVELT GOES
TO SEEPRESIDENT
Washington. ? Colonel Roosevelt
Roosevelt called on President Wilson
at the White House today and was
reeived in the executive mansion. He
was accompanied by his daughter,
Mrs. Nicholas Longwprth.
CoL Roosevelt laid his plan - for
raising a division of troops for foreign
service before the President and
said afterward that he had been received
with the "utmost courtesy and
consideration."
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