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mm sticking towsiness ' . *y-f " f Ifliiitlfllffi USE OF LAR6ER IMPLEMENTS AFFLF TTME' HORSES HELP TO SOLVE Pftyslclan Asserts That Too Early Re> tlrement of Successful Business Men Is a Mistaken Policy. 'An eight weeks' drought was broken When rata fell throughout Macoupin county the past week. jThe honor roll and memorial to the Soldiers and sailors of Chicago who fail in the war will be located in Grant Mrs. O. W. Eaton, aged thirty-five, of Cambridge, fell in a cistern from which she was drawing a pail of wa­ ter, and' drowned. - City Sealer Elier of Chicago has six motorcycle policemen assigned to his apartment to help run down cases against fraudulent ice dealers. The Freeport Gas company has asked the state utilities commission to permit it to Increase its rates for gas per cent over the present scale. . Charles Erb, a farmer near De Kalb, #ouged out one of his eyes with a file while pulling a cotter pin frpua a cast­ ing. The file slipped and the sharp point penetrated his eyeball. Work has started at Amboy on $500,- OpO worth of improvements, in the 3>*rds of the Illinois Central railroad. A new roundhouse and additional, trackage will be built this summer. , To make Chicago the fur center of toe United States is the principal pur­ pose of an association of the fur in­ dustry, for the organization of which plans were discussed at a large meet­ ing of fur dealers and manufacturers in Chicago. All coal dealers in Cook county will tie registered and licensed, according to plans being worked out at the of­ fices of the fuel administration. Reg­ istration will be compulsory and only licensed dealers will be allowed to twelve coal. A personal plea was made by a representative of the state department of agriculture to the car service bu­ reau at Washington, D. C., in an effort tO secure a sufficient number of cars to. transport grain from points in San- gjftinon county and central Illinois. ; Fred Warning, former treasurer of fit. Claire county, was arrested in East St. Louis to answer an indictment charging him with being short $78,000 of public funds. Warning was re­ indicted July 8 after an Indictment re­ turned last April was found insuffi­ cient While cutting grain on his farm in HJstick, Cornelius K. Smith found a •Sfcoat. Search- of the pockets revealed a bankbook, belonging to a resident of Eldredge, la., in which was shown & bank balance of $2,000. It is thought the coat was carried there by a tornado "Which struck Eldredge some time ago. ; Forest Park, one of the largest l^lpiusement grounds ui the country, located at Chicago, was partially wiped out by a $250,000 fire that wrecked nearly a score of buildings and small­ er concessions and taxed the strength of firemen from three villages. The glare of the spectacular blase--the ori­ gin of which is a mystery--could be seen for miles. - Warm weather has brought a de- ^•:.<jpease in the price of potatoes and a further dfop is looked for by officials of the food administration. Number one new potatoes were placed at 49 to 56 Cents a peck in the official list of prices sent out the past week. North­ ern potatoes are beginning to be a fac­ tor on the, market and warm Weather also makes it necessary to make sales quickly. Clarence 3. Root, district weather director, who recently returned to Springfield overland from Indianapolis in a new car, stated that Illinois has the Hoosier state bested greatly in crop prospects. "Central Indiana is suffering from a drought," said Mr. Root, "and pastures are parched by a long period of dry weather." He said the highways were in fairly good etkape, complimenting dirt roads be­ tween Danville and Decatur. Napoleon M. Clement of Chicago is aeon to'become his own son's father* ih-law. Last Christmas William A. Clement introduced to his father, Na poleon M. Clement, Miss Evelyn Ad­ ams add her mother, Mrs. Bertha Ad ams, as his prospective wife and moth­ er-in-law, respectively. The elder Clement turned the tables on his son by introducing Mrs. Adams as his son's prospective stepmother. The date for the double wedding has not b^en an nounced, although both licenses have been obtained, Officials of the Illinois food admin­ istration are awaiting word from Washington as to the new basic flour price reported to have been set for the crop year 1918-1919. "Until we learn what this figure is we cannot tell what the effect on local prices will be," said . R. Lenfestry of the flour division. "We do not expect much change from the price prevailing in the spring. The maximum retailers' profit of $1.20 a barrel announced is the same as that «ow prevailing. The present Jobbers' profit is 50 to 75 cents a barrel, as compared with a profit of 25 to 50 •cehts announced in the Washington •dispatches." George Hardy, who said he had aerved for three years in the British army and hhd been oft the reserve list •for nine years, testified at the trial In •Chicago of the 101 members of the or- • -der charged with espionage, that the T. W. W. was the most up-to-date labor -union he had ever seen. Hundreds of frightened bathers at •Chicago beaches fled shoreward when a lightning bolt struck close to land in X*ke Michigan and heavily charged the water with electricity. The bathers said when the thunderstorm swept •down upon them, ^they distinctly felt the electrical shocks. . Waukegan's "mystery man," arrested several days ago and ever since con­ fined In the county Jail, was sent to -the Elgin asylum with the mystery of •his identity and of his condition still -unsolved. Beyond writing the name "H. Gale" and indicating his age was thirty-four, when shown a column of figures from 1 to 50, he has given no clews regarding himself. Judge Harris in the Logan 'county Circuit court has issued a decision to fhe effect that the petition filed by the •drys was legal. This automatically closes the saloons at Mt. Pulaski. The v$s will anotar as engine Winers ill house. The war serenade is the "latest move along patriotic lines in Aurora. A quartette of young men has been or­ ganized to sing under windows in which a service flag appears. Five thousand Camp Grant soldiers who have been practicing nightly on the rifle range shooting at targets in the form of German faces, have turned the targets around since the American victory sto France andareoow shoot­ ing at rodr backs. - "A report by the appraiser reveals that the state inheritance tax upon the estate ;of the late J. Foley of Lin­ coln, win aggregate |di»,000f The de­ cedent left $1,500,000 iu Logan county land. The heirs must sell some of the land to procure money to pay the tax. Wives of farmers In the .country sur­ rounding Orangevllle have signed an agreement tx> serve no suppers for thrashing crfews this year. The gangs will be fed at noon, but will have to go to their. homes for the evening meal, contrary to a long-established custom. • The gradual encroachment of wom­ en in their craft, together with short­ er hours and more pay, was the cause of a strike of meat cutters at practi­ cally all Peoria markets. Employers were prepared for the exlgeucy and the places of the strikers at once were filled with women. That 1918 draft registrants will soon be inducted into military service was the opinion of many members of Chi­ cago draft boards when they an­ nounced that they had completed phy­ sical examinations and classifications. To fill present quotas means that new registrants will be completely ex­ hausted. Following close on the heels of an announcement by the draft boards that they will Immediately begin a campaign to force bartenders Into useful occupations, the East St. Louis saloon owners announced that they are contemplating the employment of bar­ maids, there being no law in Illinois forbidding women working in saloons. There will be no Sand Prairie wa­ termelons this year, the land upon which they formerly were grown now being part of a gun-testing ground be­ ing established by the United States government. In other years many hundreds of carloads of watermelons were produced on the vast stretch of sandy soil along the Mississippi river at Hanover. In the sweeping reorganisation df tne nation's express business under the consoldiation ,of the American, South­ ern,^ Adams and Wclls-Fargo com­ panies, Emory A. Stedman and G. B. Simpson, vice president and general manager, respectively, for the central department of the new American Rail­ way Express company "have .established headquarters In Chicago. Warren C. Fairbanks of Indianapo­ lis, Ind., son of the late vice president, Charles W. Fairbanks, has filed bond In the sum of $100,000 In the Greene county clerk's office at Car rollton, as administrator of the estate of his fa­ ther. The Fairbanks holdings in Greene bounty are quite extensive and have become of considerable value as property has Increased In price. The government's later meat order, received at the Chicago stock yards. Is said by packers to break all records. It calls for 99,560,000 pounds of bacon and 134,000,000 pounds of canned meats for the army. The cost will run between $140,000,000 and $145,000,000, it is said, of which $130,000,000 will go to the growers of live stock. Dellv- erlesc are to be completed by January 1, 1919. The price of milk at retail in Chi­ cago has been placed at 12% cents a quart delivered and 10 cents a quart at the cash-and-carry stations. The price for pints Is unchanged. This announcement was made and followed a' series of hearings held by W. E. Lamb, attorney for the food adminis­ tration. It Is expected the price will be advanced to 18 cents during Sep­ tember and that the "cash and carry" milk will then be sold at 11 cents. A. Mitchell Palmer, federal custodian of alien property, who was In Chicago the past week on business connected with his department, particularly con­ cerning estates heirs to which are resi­ dents of enemy countries, said: "I think there are perhaps more Individ- •ual pieces of property owned by alien enemies in Chicago than In aQy other city of the country. These do not aggregate the great amount of money that alien property owned In New York but in individual cases Chicago's total Is huge." A value of $3,529,380 has been placed upon the war gardens of Chicago by the garden bureau of the state council of defense. An average of 2,989 gar­ dens with 238,422 gardeners is also compiled by the bureau. This Includes •the barkyard gardens, children's school gardens and vacant-lot gardens within the city limits, and of this number, the backyard gardens and backyard gar­ deners are In the overwhelming ma­ jority, it being estimated that 140,000 of Chicago's citizens are tilling the soil on their own premises. Nearly three hundred men and wom­ en were arrested In Chicago in a score of raids on hotels, so-called "dry" cabarets and rooming houses. The ac­ tion is said to have been taken at the request of government officials for the purpose of protecting soldiers and sail­ ors from vice conditions. The demand for help on the farms of Lee county, to harvest one of the big­ gest crops In the history of that sec­ tion, is such that a special appeal was sent to the state council of defense in Chicago for more than a score of men. Already about forty Chicago men are working on the farms of Lee county. The "work or fight" order has hit clamming parties along Rock river. A federal officer Is visiting clammers' camps and ordering men of draft age who could engage in more useful oc­ cupations to give up clamming. William and Elijah Gorda broth­ ers, and their wives, were instantly killed at Bloomlngton when their au­ tomobile was struck by an east-bound passenger train on the Big Four rail­ road. The women were sisters. The name "German" on the Syca­ more German Lutheran church there was painted out by a jrroup of loyaV is*. ̂ m jr i « v. . > ?X. ' » Mere is own a Mparait tunte arouse or wnixe cniiron amoroioerea in Circles of Blue, With Two Ruffles ef Plaited Chiffon Below the Waist. Sash and 8klrt of Crepe de Chine. , ISIIWITDESIGNER -AMERICATSLOGAN i New York.--Fashions are rarely fixed, but never have ihey seemed to fluctuate more fluently and perversely than now. It does not need a Diogenes with a lantern, asserts a foremost fash- ton writer, to find the reason for thiii condition. Certain raw materials are lacking; labor grows scarcer every mo­ ment, although it shouldn't with » many women to be employed, and the designers put out in the morning What­ ever they dream of at night. To the observer these days are faa- cinating. To the woman who thinks she I - settled the question of clothes for an entire season b^ buying her cos­ tumes at the beginning of it, the situ­ ation is not only perplexing but irri­ tating. It is quite useless fdr the world to go against human nature by preaching standardization of apparel or food. We will not eat the same dishes three times a day 365 days in the year, and we will not wear the same gown ten hours a day for twelve months. If we can't get raw materials to diversify ottr food and apparel, at least we can stim­ ulate the appetite and the eyes by min­ ing, what we have into new forms. , Everyone Plays on Fashions. Viewed from the airplane point of view, It looks as if the entire world of women will attempt to bring out something new In clothes for them­ selves or for their neighbors. This does not mean that they have ceased to work for the Red Cross. It only means that such work has in­ tensified their desire to dress well be­ fore the public, and has brought them Into such an active current of air that they see new things and think of them with brains that might have been al­ most atrophied from inaction before the war. Stimulate a brain in one di- TRY A BURLAP KNITTING BAG Choose Any Color of Material Make a Useful and Beautiful Convenience. •Pi Some day, when yen wantchange from the brilllant-hued knitting bag, try concocting yourself one of burlap. Choose any color that yon want, a natural colored one; for instance. Make Just a plain rectangular bag, quite deep so that there will be plenty of room for tiiat sweater that you are working on or an" other knitting; turn up csch of the lower corners slightly, to make It hang a bit more gracefully, and gather the top with a ruffled heading. If a stiff, easily opened top is de­ sired, a pair of bag sticks, finished off with balls at each end and painted some gay color, may be bought and Inserted, Instead of the more ordinary draw-string. Cotton cords, to match the burlap, may be attached to these sticks as handles. As for decoration, one might make such a bag attractive with very little work. A conventional puattern, the popular basket of flowers, or some IDEAS FOR SUMMER SASHES rectlon, yon know, and it reacts in nil directions. , Stimulation is the heart and soul of life, and It is undoubtedly the means of producing the very best kind of national dressing. It will cause a wom­ an to rebel against looking as if she belonged to a procession in which every member must dress alike. It kindles a flame In the brain, which heats It Up and makes it respond to whatever there is In It of creative power. Therefore, every woman becomes her own designer. She no longer goes to a shop and takes the gown that she Is assured "everyone Is buying." Once she regarded that phrase as the de­ cree of power; today she listens to it with a shrug of her shoulders and usually insists that that's the last gown she wants to buy. Heretofore the woman with slender opportunities and rare contact with the outside world chose her clothes blind­ folded, led by the hand of the sales­ woman to whatever was cut by the hundreds and sold by the thousand. She Is not so easily hoodwinked as she was, because the public was as much to blame for the constant repeti­ tion of one model, sold at varying prices, according to the overhead charges, as the dressmakers and shops. French Women and Clothes. Soon these women. will be trained into the same kind of power that has governed France for 900 years. The French dressmakers do not govern the styles In Paris; It Is done by the wom­ en who wear the clothes. They are artists; they are skilled In the science of clothes, and it is their insistence upon changes and peculiarities, their experimentation in new things, which guides the designing world into a sore groove of success. (Copyright, 1818, by the McClai* Newspa­ per Syndicated geometrical design, might be stencilled upon it or embroidered on in mer­ cerized cottons. Or a worsted deco­ ration may be added, either embroid­ ered on or crocheted and appliqued upon the burlap. A design might be cut out of felt of harmonizing colors and sewed to the bag, with large stitches of contrasting shades. Such an adornment may be as elaborate or simple as chosen and the burlap" bag be made a thing of beauty, as well as of decided usefulness. Flowered Ribbon Effects Afford Wide Variety of Acceptable Designs for Various Gowns. i Not only does moire ribbon make excellent sashes, but so does the wide satin ribbon which hangs in graceful soft folds. In the shops one finds a wide variety of all sorts of lovely rib­ bons for sashes, many of them in flow­ ered effects, bright-colored blossoms woven into ribbon with a more somber hue for a background. Some of them seem to be embroidered on. Other wide ribbons have a floral or conventional design worked into them in metallic threads either silver or gold, and these, too, make handsome sashes. It would be an easy thing to make an original and beautiful sash by tak­ ing, for example, the required length of black satin ribbon and embroider­ ing the ends, either in silks or chenille or beads. In fact, one could make as many as one wanted, sashes to match all one's gowns. Perhaps, who knows? the simple white frock of dotted mus- ttm with light blue ' Transformable Hits. '•3L very clever milliner showed soma hats which were transformable; that Is to say, they had crowns and brims which one could take apart and com­ bine again in great variety. A white silk brim could be worn with soft crowns of different colored organdie, to match different frocks, and the op­ eration was simple. ; Tucks In evidence. ^fifefe-pin tucks are a noticeaftfl ftft- ture of some of the cloth coats that are a part of two-piece suits of fine fabric. , * ways considered to have reached the acme of ^mpllclty--may be one of fashion's favorites this summer. Narrow sashes, too, are conspicuous In popular favor, being often of nar­ row velvet or silk ribbon^ knotted at one side and hanging down in long ends. The Porch as Parlor. - When putting your home in order tor summer the porch is deserving of a generous share of attention. Make it comfortable. It is easy to add attrac­ tiveness, for in no other place about the house is it so possible to gather charm--the charm of things that live and grow--flowers and plants and vines; brlght-hued birds and gllnty goldfish disporting themselves for your pleasure and delight. The fam­ ily seek the porch for real rest, and guests always prefer afternoon tea and a tete-a-tete there; In fact, the porch as a parlor Is Ideal. To old men who are thinking of r* tiring from active business Dr. WIK Ham J. Robinson, editor of the Medi­ cal Critic and Guide, gives the cele­ brated advice once tendered bj Punch "to young people about tc marry," namely, "Don't!" The coun­ sel often given to those of advancing years, even by physicians, to take things "easier," to give up this and give up that--In short to lead a dull, empty, vegetable existence, Is unqual­ ifiedly bad, Doctor Robinson thinks, although, of course, there are excep­ tions and special cases. He writes: "An old man with a very high blood pressure--1. e., high for his age- should not engage in business which is likely to cause him great excite­ ment and throw him in fits of anger; and a man who is showing symptoms of senile dementia should not be in­ trusted with important affairs; but, generally speaking, there is no rea­ son why a man should give up his work or narrow the circle of his In­ terests, merely because he has cele­ brated the seventieth or eightieth an­ niversary of Ms birthday. The gen­ eral condition of the man, his fitness, should be the criterion, and not his age In years. We all know that some people at sixty are actually older than Some are at seventy or eighty. "The advice to old men to retire has sometimes, If followed, very dis­ astrous consequences. A man of sev­ enty or eighty is attending to his pro­ fession or business in a satisfactory manner, and he feels well. Suddenly he decides or Is advised to retire and take things 'easy' for, the rest of his days. He does--and in a few weeks or months that man 1b a physical or mental wreck and ruin. As long as he kept up his mental Interests he was all right. A sudden change, a sudden vacuum, I might say, perhaps the pernicious subconscious feeling that now it is all over for him--all that contributed to the dlsastea And It 1r not the physical change so much as the mental that is tie important factor. I, for one, am sure that men­ tal activity, mental interest, has a life-prolonging influence, because mental activity stimulates many, if not all, of our vital processes. It Is not mental work that ever kills; it is worry that does it, and even Its baneful Influence has been greatly ex­ aggerated. We know of octogena­ rians whose lives have been one round of trouble." Great Home Arm* More than 2,400,000 boys and girls were reached through club work last year, according to a compilation re­ cently made by the United States de­ partment of agriculture, which super­ vises this work in co-operation with state agricultural colleges. Of this number approximately 350,000 made complete reports, which show that they produced and conserved products amounting to $10,000,000. In the 33 Northern and Western states 840,606 boys and girls were enrolled. Of this number 160,625 made complete reports and produced and conserved products valued at $3,700,000. In the South there were 115,745 boys enrolled In the regular work, who produced prod­ ucts valued at $4,500,000, and 73,306 girls, who produced and conserved products valued at $1,500,000. In the emergency club work in the South the club leaders reached over 400,000 boys and approximately 1,000,000 girls, who produced and conserved products val­ ued at more than $4,000,000. "Stocking Room" for Banks. . Has your bank a stocking room? The Security bank of Oakland, Cal., couldn't sell Liberty bonds without theirs. Here is how It works: Mrs. Oaklander enters. "I want to buy a Liberty bond, . r-»se." "All right; sign here," says the pleasant bank clerk. After this the good woman hesitates, blushes. She makes wavering passes and then looks around with a hunting nuu iiuuieu ioOk. The pleasant bank clerk knows the symptoms and politely inquires: "Would yon like to use the stocking room?" Mrs. Oaklander retires to the little ride room and make* a run on "the first national bank." Soft sports hats of ribbon la alt£ie becoming shades of blue, rose, green and yellow, are worn at beach and coward imamet states* r,;f » • * * * t '• • '• Veteran Proud of 8tandlng| Edward P. Weaver, formerly Of R« nmr ,Me.. * cinimMj the distinction the other day of being the oldest offi­ cer yet graduated from the free gov­ ernment navigation school conducted by the United States shipping board recruiting service. He is sixty-nine years of age. Mr. Weaver, who had many years' experience as a seaman, decided while at New Orleans some weeks ago to enter one of the schools and train for a deck officer for the merchant marine. He passed the rigid physical test without (UfliculJaL and completed the course.| ' i r ^ --5 rtc Canadian Emphasis. By the bye, don't be shocked by our damning and swearing. It doesn't mean the same In Canada as it does over here. It's natural to us. In Canada everyone swears. My little boy--he was six years of age at the time--was swearing one day In the kitchen and the cook told him if he was not care­ ful his teeth would drop out. He looks up at her--only six years of age, mind you--and says, "Daddy's teeth haven't dropped out!" What do you think of that?--Gen. Alec McDougall, Canadian Forestry Corps, In London Chronicle Interview. Barley Long Known to Man. Barley was originally a wild grass of western Asia. It Is believed to be the most ancient cultivated vegetable rood of mankind. Three varieties of the grain have been found in the pre­ historic lake dwellings of Switzerland, ^inrtng back to the Stone Aga, Counter Question.' She--"How do I know you are not marrying me for my money?" Her- «If it comes to that, how do I know you are not marrying me < to reform me T"--Boston Transcript , , & Examples of Methods Which Save Man Power--One Man Operating Tractor- Drawing Three Plows and Another With a Four-1Mule Team Operating Large Harrow. -• gwepared by the United Stouten Depart­ ment of Agriculture.) . •••e»»»e»e»»»»»e»ee»eeeee» If two men, driving one horse ! each, can combine the two ; horses into one team which one ' man can drive, and this team ; can do as much or more work ! than two did singly, isn't it wise ; to combine them and save one ' man's time? And If the firm is large and • conditions warrant, isn't it wise | to combine two of these two- • horse teams Into one, and save ! another nan's timet Work which Is generally done In some parts of the country with the aid of machines that greatly increase the efficiency of the men employed Is still largely done by hand In other parts. Machinery for most of the work In connection with preparing and tilling the soli Is available in many sises, and frequently two or more outfits, each requiring the time of one man, are seen working in the same field on op­ erations for which implements of two or three times the size of those used could be employed with Just as satis­ factory results. There are few farm horses which a driver of ordinary In­ telligence cannot train to work in large teams In a few Clays' time, and most of the larger Implements are lit­ tle If any more complicated or difficult to handle than the small ones for the same work. Installation of Machine^'|l; Where the farm Is large, and if Is not possible to procure sufficient labor, it will certainly be more profitable, as HOW TO SHIP NEW POTATOES x * * % ' •<% \ • My1 'J sL* Tit: V "if1 Prevent Losses by Lending Them Cere-, fiilly Into Cars--Double-Headed Barrel Is Good. (Prepared by the United states Departs • ment of Agriculture.) Shifting of the loads In' transit, weak and partly filled packages, and lack of ventllatlou are responsible for losses in many cars of new potatoes which are arriving at markets. The loading of diseased potatoes Is also responsible for considerable loss. In some cases shipments that show scab wilt or late blight are practically worthless when they reach the market. The double-headed barrel appears to be the best package for new potatoes that Is now In general use. If proper­ ly made it protects the potatoes as well as holds them In place. Much less breakage has been found In cars where the barrels are loaded on end than -when loaded on their bilge. Strips Should be placed on top of the lower layers of barrels for the upper layers to rest upon. Loading barrels on their bilge Is not a safe practice unless headliners (strips to prevent heads bulging) are used. It is said that the use of head- liners would prevent nine-tenths of the breakage in all types of loads with barrels. Extra bracing is needed when barrels are loaded on their bilge. The sack is not a suitable container for tender new potatoes; It offers no protection from bruising, and when loaded is hard to ventilate. If sacks are to be used they should be of no greater capacity than 100 pounds. The smaller sack could be handled with much greater care and would lend It­ self to ventilation better. Hampers are not suitable, packages for potatoes. They do not have the necessary strength for the Weight of their contents and offer little protec­ tion. As long as hampers are used for potatoes and other heavy produce there will be severe loss from breakage*. If used they should be loaded on end and alternate baskets inverted. Great care should be taken to make the load tight, and no slack space should be allowed In the ear. This will lessen the chance of shifting. Crates of various sort* are being used, and appear satisfactory where the strength of the crate is sufficient for the weight of its contents. Weak crates should not be used under any circumstances, and crates with wide openings t$nd to wilt the potatoes while In transit. Crates must be load­ ed tight and firm, and no slack space left under any circumstances without suitable bracing, while striping is rec­ ommended. well as patriotic; to install macMaetff-v which will enable the operator plant, cultivate and harvest a full acre* . age of the crops best suited to his land and the needs of the country, than to let some of the land lie Idle or, at best, " have It prepared and worked poorljr. and the crops out of season. In many cases, a worker can doubt# ^ the work done by the use of a larger implement and a correspondingly greater amount of motive power, and' sometimes the gain is considerably' more than this. If the nature of the work and the machinery for doing it are such that the best implements wilt increase the efficiency of the worker by only 50 or even 25 per cent, their use msy make possible an increase in acreage by just that amount, and et least will enable the farmer to do his' work in less time and allow him to take advantage of good weather if the. season is unfavorable. t ! Buy Larger Machinery, - Can all farmers afford to buy extra horses and larger Implements to save man labor? Of course, those whose farms require but one or two horses to do the ordinary work can seldom af­ ford to do so. But such can secure' this additional help by combining to purchase larger machinery, and doub­ ling up their teams to operate it; or one, usually more skilled in operating s machinery, or better able to purchase it, may own the larger Implements, and do the work for several neighbor .farmers, besides his own, to the ad­ vantage of all concerned. Both these methods have been tried out In many localities with mowers, harvesters, tractors, threshing machines and other . farm machinery. •eeeeoooaooaeeoeeoeeeeoaej^ • KEEP SHEEP FLOCK * 1 • TO CONTROL WEEDS • e • • • (Prepared by the United States De- ' • partment of Agriculture.)' • , • One of the best and cheapest • • ways to control weeds on farms e J Is to keep a flock of sheep. In J e addition to controlling weeds « J without cost, sheep will render J e a profit by producing nutritious e • food and wool, and will assist * e materially In meeting demands J f 0 on the nation for meat and wool * e production. If weeds are not e | a permitted to grow and develop « • leaves they will die, but it J • would reqtilre a great amount o • of hard labor to keep most e o weeds under control by this e J method. Sheep will keep the * e weeds down and the more e ' £ weeds they eat the less will be * e their cost of upkeep, and the e ^ greater will be the supply of » e food released for other stock, e £ Many rough or permanent grass * e pastures that require mowing e Z can be kept clean by the use of o e sheep, while at the same time e • the cattle-carrying capacity of o • the pasture is increased. • aeoeeeaeeaaoooeeaaaeoooee* NEED OF ANCIENT PRACTICE • . . - . History Tells Us That Roman Farmer* Stored Various Succulent Feeds s for Live Stock* x -- " '• - * 'V (Prepared by the United States Depart* ~ ment of Agriculture.) : History tells of Roman farmers wtpp < carefully chopped fine various grndj^ t succulent feeds and packed them % | pits for use during the winter season. || The practice seems to have been com­ mon and the feed kept well., From- 4; these early times It has been good' 0 practice to store various green cropa In pits or airtight containers for fee% lng to stock. The silo is the present day ^result, and a farmer who rala*«b' • live stock cannot afford to be without •' one. The advantages of the silo ar% . , ; numerous, but some of the more 1e$> portant are: . , \ 1. Green, succulent feed Is available^ r 'throughout the year. 2. A silo stores more feed for lesi^ - ^ cost than any other farm building. 3. The feed is handy for CORRECT SHAPE OF COW HORN Little Arrangement Used by Dairymen to Obtain Form Most Desired. « For tke little cows that are lng their horns and seem to have them coming In with wrong curves there Is a little arrangement that some dairy­ men use to fasten on the horns which shapes them pretty much as they are wanted. They have to be worn most of the time, but a correctly shaped horn is worth a lot of bother. * , * WTT-17* '-T '-V-. DRAINAGE WATER IS BLAME!) Furnishes One of Most tmportaai Means for Dissemination of Vari- oua Plant Diseases. (Prepared by the United States D«^a*VJ ment of Agriculture.) ' Drainage water of the run-off dur­ ing heavy rains probably furnishes, one of the. most Important means fqr the dissemination of plant diseases and has been found in many places to explain the presence of a disease in fields where cabbage or other cruelfers have never before been grown. » : *.G;» Income From Feathera^'-...̂ tt ""The feathers from the goose~whiefc are generally picked twice a year, amount to quite an income in a large flock, and are always salable et a price. r .is-/ . !im„; ..v