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THE N'HENRY PLAIRDEALER PUBLISHED EVEHY THURSDAY BY F. G. SGHREINER Office in. Bank Building Telephone W«W TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: Oil* Year. . Six Mnntht, 7Sc Three Months. Mr Thursday, February 14, 1918 COUNTY'S 50,000 DAIRY COWS Will Be Given Opportunity to be Test­ ed in Co-operative Testing Assn. Co-operative Cow Testing associa­ tions are organizations of dairy farm­ ers for the purpose of securing the services of a man to keep milk and feed records on each individual cow, to aid the farmers in solving their feeding problems and to aid in co­ operative feed buying. » Profit is what the dairymen are after and the individual cow is the unit of profit in milk production.' If a dairyman has nine profitable cows and one cow that is a boarder his net profit would be incresed if the boarder vrere sold, Considering the ten eows together they would be returning a profit, but individually - one is a boarder. There are now two of these associa­ tions in McHenry county, one known as the McIIenry-Nunda association, operating around McHenry and Crys­ tal Lake, and the Harvard-Marengo association, operating Harvard %nd Marengo. Dairymen are asking for more associations and each of these associations will probably be split and four associations formed. Dairymen from Huntley, Ringwood, Hebron, Greenwood, Solon Mills and Big Foot have also expressed their desire to belong to associations. Just as fast as competent men can be secured for tasters, members from the dairy de­ partment* at the University *of Illi­ nois will be available to aid in organ­ ising these associations. Mr. Gafke/ the county agricultural advisor, is be­ hind this work and it was largely thru his efforts that the two asso- < iatiens now operating were organ- i .cd. Wisconsin, the leading dairy state in the Union, has more than eighty (80) of these associations. If they are good for Wisconsin, the leading dairy state, they are good for Illinois. Every dairyman might ask himself, '•Am I sure that I know my best cow? Ij every cow in my herd returning me a profit? Would yearly records of milk and butter fat of my cows increase their value? Would it be a thing to know my best cows so that their heifer calves might be iai:e;l and the production of my herd increased? How can I detect my boarder cov/s? Would co-operative feed buying meah cheaper feed? Would a tester's advice on feeding problems be of assistance to me?" The cow testing association will answer these questions for you.. Ask your county advisor concerning this v.crk and let's all pull together and make Illinois the leading dairy state and McHenry county the leading dairy county. , C. S. Rhode, Dairy Extension Dept. QUARTER OF A CENTURY Items Clipped From The Plaindealer Of Twenty-Five Year* Ago Wednesday, Feb. 8, 1893 L. E. Bennett of this village has just received an English patent on his universal tripod lock. The Scott family gave one of its popular entertainments at the city hall on Monday evening. Tickets for the Washington birth­ day party at the Riverside House in this village have been issued. This is rather a severe winter so far, but most people prefer it to one of those so-called mild seasons. Prof. F. M. Overaker, principal of the Genoa public school, was shaking hand with old friends here Friday. P. C. Mayes and Chas. Lamphere attended a surprise party at R. C. Hill's at Wauconda on Tuesday even­ ing. Miss Edna Story gave a birthday party on Saturday last and quite a number of her young friends were present. Quarterly meeting services were held at the M. E. church Sunday even­ ing, Presiding Elder Haight being present. We are still having what the old settlers call good, old fashioned win­ ter weather. The mercury has been playing around from 18 to 22 degrees below zero during the past few days. The cobwfeb social at the city hall on Friday evening drew out a good crowd and fill seemed to enjoy them­ selves. Miss Kittle won the first prize. The receipts were about $20. The social by the ladies of the Uni- versalist church, which was held at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Walsh on Thursday evening, brought out the largest attendance of the season. Mrs. R. Stebbins, Mrs. C. V. Stev­ ens, Miss Julia Story, Mrs. E. M. Owen, Mrs. B. H. Ford and Mrs. Geo. W. Owen went to Mound Prairie on Saturday to pay a visit to Mrs. Gibbs of that place. Tuesday being Joseph Heimer': birthday his many friends in this vil­ lage and Johnsburg treated him to a surprise in the evening. About eight o'clock nearly one hundred uncere­ moniously took possession of the Mc­ Henry House. The crowd enjoyed themselves to the fullest extent. Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1893 Today is Ash Wednesday, the be­ ginning of Lent. E. Lamphere moved with his fam­ ily to Wauconda on Saturday last. Our dealers were paying $8 per hundred for live hogs on Monday of this week. About one hundred couples attended the masquerade at the McHenry House on Monday evening. O. W. Owen put in a fine Decker piano for Mrs. T. J. Walsh on Mon­ day. It is said to be one of the finest instruments in town. A son of Harry Dunnill at Fox Lake had the misfortune to shoot himself thru the hand with a revolver on Fri­ day last. Dr. Fegers was called. On Wednesday evening of next week will take place the annual Wash­ ington's birthday party at that popu­ lar resort, the Riverside House. We were pained to learn on Tues­ day morning that Chas. Morse, son of C. C. Morse of Grayslake, and a for­ mer typo in this office, was dead. The Northwestern railroad will put on the river this spring a splendid new passenger steamer to play be­ tween this place and Fox Lake. She will be large enough to carry 75 or 100 passengers and will be able to make the trip to the lakes in forty-five minutes. The firm of E. M. Owen & Son has sold its agricultural business to Wm. Bacon of Lake co'Unty, who will here­ after conduct the same at the ware­ house formerly occupied by said firm. Mr. Bacon comes highly recommended as a young business man and he will devote his entire time to the business^ F. K. Granger shipped from this station on Monday two cars of hogs, for which he paid the handsome sum 4» of $2,400. He paid to one farmer $244.92, another $357.80, to another $453.90 and to another $407.16,. and the balance in smaller sums. The priees paid pet hundred were from $7.80 to $8.25. Who says thai bog isn't king this year? " . Auction Sale! Geo. Vogel, - - Auctioneer The tenant having decided to quit farming, we, the undersigned, will sell at public auction on the John Phalin farm, 1% miles north of Terra Cotta, 3 miles south of McHenry and 4 miles north of Crystal Lake, on the Terra Cotta road, on THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21 commencing at 10:00 o'clock, sharp, the following described property, to- wit: 80 HEAD LIVE STOCK --consisting of-- 30 Head of Cows new milkers and springers; 2 two and one-half-year-old heifers, springers; 3 yearlings, 2 calves, stock bull.' Hogs 26 shoats, Chester White boar, full blood; 5 brood sows. 30 chickens. Horses Bay mare, 4 years old, wt. 1150 lbs.; bay horse, 12 years old, wt. 1300 lbs.; black inure, wt. 1200 lbs.; brood mare, bay, in foal, 9 years old, wt. 1100 lbs.; gray colt, coming 3 years old; black colt, 7 months old; bay mare, wt. 1200 lbs.; bay horse, 12 years old, wt. 1100 lbs. Hay and Grain 30 tons of hay, 1 stack of oat straw, 5(M) bushels oats, 6 ft. silage. Machinery New McCormick grain binder, new Idea manure spreader, used one year; McCormick mower, hay rake, McCor­ mick corn binder, 2 sulky cultivators, walking cultivator, gang plow, 2 walk­ ing plows, 3-section harrow, disc har­ row, roller, corn planter, 3 wide tire wagons, steel wheel wagon, 2 hay racks, combination hog rack, surrey, bob sleigh, 10 milk cans, pails and strainers, grindstone, hay fork and pulley, 3 sets double harness, surrey harness, seeder, single harness, wheel barrow, milk cart, shovels, forks, tank set storm blankets, bag holder, 75 lbs. binding twine, 150 fence posts, silage rack, 50 grain bags. USUAL FREE LUNCH AT VOON Terms of Sale: All sums of $10.00 and under, cash; over that amount a credit of six months will be given on good bankable notes bearing interest at the rate of 7 per cent per annum. John M. Phalin. B. F. Martin. C. W. Stenger, Settling Clerk. Simon Stoffel, Recording Clerk-. Notice I will make my headquarters t|t the Wilbur Lumber company's office at West McHenry every Friday begin­ ning February 15 for the purpose of collecting taxes for thd town of Nunda. Richard Johnstone, 34-tf Collector. Notice My offices at Sharon and Woodstock will be closed during my vacation, from February 18 to April 1. ^ Broken glasses sent to either office or to F. A. Hardy & Co., box 804, Chicago, will be repaired promptly, if broken lens is included. Dr. Chas. R. Treat. Methodist Episcopal Church Sunday school at 2:00 o'clock p. m.; preaching services every Sunday aft­ ernoon at 3:00 o'colck. Read The Plaindealer and kaap posted on local happenings.