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~ POULTRY OUTLOOK BETTER Favorable Elements Will Make Year More Prosperous Than Last, Say Reports. a better year Tor farmrs than 19%7, the annual agricuitural outidok re-- port otf the college of agriculture Of the University of lilinois said recent-- 'The report warns, however, that in-- comes of lllinois farms have been 0R the downgrade during the last .two yun.mmemmttn in-- comes of farms for the entire country were larger last year than in 1926. 'The report summarizes existing out-- look conditions as they pertain to 23 kinds of live>--stock and live stock products, field crops, fruit and Yege: years, Gespite the fact that the M band the Fox _ River of Wisconsin, comes of farms for the entire country | where he visited the Wlnmbm wore woebor Sn 4ok oo o ie 3':.-"?& Emu" who lt!h:d south 3 marizes existing out-- -- k Y * """:;";"'"' tney pertain to 23 | Of the Winnebagoes in sixty villages. i00k conditions as they : rmnnmflnmu"mm»' kinds of uvej'tocx and --live ltoc§ ca would apparently include the products, field crops, fruit and Yeg# | lake region of McHenry and ~Lake tables. counties. ~He then returned, by the, Eood Nof to Go Higher route he--had-- come.-- re i« 2e Prices ot feed crops, which consti--] ~Then in 1671, two years before Jo tute the state's keystone agricuiturall liat and Marquette, Nicholas Pvrmtl préitucts, and dairy ang poultry Prod--| came to Chicago, having been sent by. ucts, are not likely to be substantialUy ]| Talon of --Quebec as an agent of the nigher than the average of the 148l] Canadian government to call a--great six years, the report predicted.'. HOW* | peace convention of the western Indi-- ever, if weather conditions Are I¥"| ang at Ba "the ans at Green Bay preparatory to the Yorable and crop yields average, f8M!}--| mavement for the discovery of the source than they-- did in 19%7, WD°D| moaty friendship, and--promising them bad weaTher cut both the quality 204| me commerce and protection of the yield of these feed ctops, Hrom £59| pronch government Perrot arrived in standpoint 'of 'pricé alone,. there . is Green in 1671, procured an esocrt """"'""'""'"""'"'um.flmn rants increases of fed crop averages. bark cande visit to the M+-- :lntnoanotnungockndnn:"".am?'" » P es stock 'products, the outlook for hogs o o i promises better prices in the winter| : N°Xt Came Father -- Marquette who "lmz'tm;n'emm '".-M"mml- He during the current winter, while the| AfTivyed in America from . France in outlook for cattle is also fa¥orabie.| 1666 and was appointed to the Illinois 'The outiook for sheep is less tavor--| Mission in 1670. C able, but the immediate future tor| _ "He and Jolict were the agents em-- wool seems bright, the report saiq.| Dloyed by the Canadian government 'I'he numbers of horses and mules on|to @iscover the Mississippi. in 1673, farms continues to decline and it is | they floated down the Wisconsin riv-- unlikely that during the nest few|er ftom the portage ~where Nicolet years farmers can replace their work| turned back, tr;volod down the Mis Toooes ie snn miem in in Lik oe »netmaing tm tai prige 4 report -- urges . an . in-- j poin creased interest in horse breeding a@| they traversed the country of the II}-- a desirablé function. inois, ascending . the river of that it is unlikely, in view of the strong| great name, making a briet stay at and increasing demand for dairy | the village of Kaskaskia near Utica in products and the large amounts <of| LaSalle county. They passed by: the labor needed for milk production, that | site of the later Chicago and returned current expansion in the dairying in--| by m'bcmnhy.'.-:(.knm T To ue s mat Te | ASMETS onte maicaatis siiled 0 re in 1674 ¥Visited the Dairymen who increase the number Of| borders of Lake county in company calves they raise or who buy addi~| with two bands of lMlinois and Potta l bioek eoould remember that! wattamies. 'They visited --again the es for cattle will not| Kaskaskia village. weather de continue indefinitely. ----'I imhenet Tham n¥ Tha n'l;::f..a'zmm on ol req ciover seed Ilor said or home use is, desirable in many locali-- ties, while sweet clover seed is low in price and the crop can be grown at relatively smail seeding expense, it is pointed out. "Production of most fruits h&s reach-- , ea a point where a keen competition must be expected,. and close atten-- mnvuwmmw' tion economical and mar-- keting, the repoft advised. ® . Strawberry Acreage Grows % umw~mhwm be expected during the nokt Toew sea-- otmwburh-hthom)otm which produce this fruit at the same Poultry Outiook Brighter f 'The outlook for -- poultry and egg prices is brighter than a year ago, at least for the early part of the year, the report--predicted. ' With average yields, another large crop of wheat will be harvested in 1928, while the corn crop of the coun-- try will about equal the 1927 crop, it is estimated. Uats continue to be the cheapest cereal crop, aithough higher in price this last year. 'The unusual barley situation in 1927, when a record crop grown--on a 20 per cent larger acreage sold As <a -- relatively high price, is not likely to be repeat-- 1927 level 1221 level seems wurranted.. Aay increased production in the case of soy beans, however, will bhave to find an outlook mainily thru the milis, inasmuch as the demands for seed are limited, and hay growers should turn more attention to the It(lll% which hay bigher feeding value, it sons, the report said. The acreage of strawberries in the group of states which produce this fruit at the same season as illinois has been expanded wwmm»mnu.n%: areé likely to be burdensome, in season as illinois has been expanded »mmm»muu.n,a:{ aré likely to be burdensome, in it is forecasted. -- About the usual acreage of important vegetable crops for roadside and local kets may WNMhUIE}'uhm mfimw shipment, creased to advantage. At present price levels, the produc-- OF COAL FIELDS Washington, Feb. 15.--Investigation of conditions in the soft coal fields of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virignia, now gripped by strikes, was approved unanimously ~today by the :ou Interstate commerce commit-- It was decided to havre the inquiry conducted by a sub--committese which can make a first hand inspection of A proposal by Senator Reed (R) of Penna., for an investigation of freight rates on coal was rejected. CV by Senator Johnson (R) of Californja at. the request of the United Mine Washington,© "ab.~ 15.----A -- contract ftotg 96 "wasp" type, Qeylinder aircool-- éd motors today was awarded by the navy to the Pratt and Whitney Air-- s NAVY BUIYS PLANES FARMING FACTOR Imntediate action will be sdught in I1L, _ Feb. 15--Kavorable ud EARLY WHITE vis!TORs . The first white man who is known to have stood upon the soil of Mlinois was Jean Nicolet, agent for the "Com-- which ruled thg basin of the Saint umwmmm:xm ters in --Quebec. His trip to the far southwest cor-- ered. the peripd &m July, 164. and December, 1 He came in ca-- noe by way of Mackinac, Green Bay "He and Jolict were the agents em-- ployed by the Canadian government to discover the Mississippi. in 1673, they floated down the Wisconsin 'riv-- er ftom the portage ~where Nicolet turned back, tr}nled down the Mis-- sissippi to the of the Wabash-- in Ohio. Returning from this point, they traversed the country of the II}: inois, ascending . the river of that great name, making a brief stay at the village of Kaskaskia near Utica in LaSalle county. They passed by the gite of the later Chicago ug'r:tnrn«l by canoe to Green Bay.'--(Parkman's "LaSalle.") > :x Again in 1674 Marquette visited the borders of Lake county in company with two bands of Ilinois and Potta-- wattamies. <They visited again the by canoe to Green Buy.'.------(fika': pared by «the. Waukegan chapter, M . "LaSalle.") > Daughters of the American Revolu Anlnthlflt!smuttc?hmuthttkn,'mhfluuduvmmh a borders of Lake county in company| thevDaily Sun each Wednesday. Pic with two bands of lilinoig and Potta--| neer residents of Lake county, and de-- wattamies. They visited again the| scendants who own old family Bibles Kaskaskia village. The weather de--| and reqprds, are urged to communt+ tained them at the Bluffs--of the Mil--; cate with Mrs. Longabaugh so. that waukee river. _ At Root river (near they may be included in future_ar Racine, the Indians parted comp@hy ~ticles. a ' FEWER SHEEP AND LAMBS NOW .There were 13 per cent less sheep and lambs on lilinois farms the first of this year, than there were a year before. 'This decrease, the Illinois and fed-- eral department of-- agriculture -- an nounced today follewing its state wide liye stock survey, was due to a heary ;ap.',.uomeuunm_om"mnt l.n..'. tfeeding industry this winter, due to the. high price of feeder lambs 13 Percent Less Animals Than Last Year: Value Per Head is 40 Pct. Higher. MANY ARE ever, especially breeding stock," 'the rébort continued, "are well above the mnn year average, due to the fact numbérs were heavily increased during the 1925 and 1926 seasons and. it feeding operations are near.normal again ext year it is possible that the next annual report will show a fur-- thetr upward trend in IMinois -- sheep ued profitable but commercial feeding operations have been disappointing the last two seasons. . # & ; Decreaste in Sheep The number of sheep and lambs in the state is placed at 698,000 °: head agalust 800,000 a year ago, 710,000 in 1926 and 638,000 in 1920, Value per The Daughters of the American Revolution * Mrs. Jess Longabaugh, mw., -- 104 North West St. _ _ \ % --_~ Waukegan,. iL & head at $10.40 is 40 cents above that of a year ago. * mmumsutu.:n"uot the shéep and wool eituation shows that skeep numbers mfl;'z on the increase . and-- pros cate " a lamb erop hrlu}'gi'ht-w ml'hm ago. ~Consumer demand tor is not likely to improve sut-- ticlently to olffset the prospective in-- crease "in production. With wool stocks in this country light and with .mmwh&fibm for wool appears favorable. : "The number of sheep and lambs in the States continued to in ug'a'm'"fl.m.hl.l."'l\' the number was estimated at 44,545,-- head. : number was 2,699,000 alotu ~eent larger than the tevised estimate of numbers_Jan. 1. "Sheep numbers in the state, how: on {eed tor market January <1, wAs estimated at about 450,000 bead or 10 per cent greater this year than Jan. 1, 1927, and 100,000 head greater than Jan. '1, 1926. ©The iferease this yeat was die mostly to increases in worth: ern: Colordao and woestern Nobraska, where numbers fed .last year were much below normal. All the cornbei states east of the Missouri river ha Tewer lambe on feed this year than "The number of sheep and lambs uncertainty-- about later market . whd the latgest number in 16 ON STATE FARMS Illinois C O N -- FEED with Marquette andwent overland by ptairie whilethe Father went on by canoe to the Chicago river portage, _ _ Here, thru iliness, he mm' & winter in the cabin of Pierre Moreau,; a French trader and*surgeon friend. in April he was once more at the Kas kaskia village _ After a brief stay he MARQUETTE AT WAVUKEGAN -- Charles Dilge of--Chicago, an Author ity on the matter, says that . Mar: quette, beomusp of a fog tipon the lake which efrbtold a storm, landed about where Waukegan now stands and made the remainder of the trip to Chi cago on foot.> The Dead River region near the --north boundaries of-- Chicago was the spot whence be set out De-- cember 4, 1674. ~It may be fairly con-- cluded therefore that the Reverend Marguette traversed -- this region on Meved--:to have visited here in 1670. ~ passage around the south end of Lake Pioneers tound a decaying remnant| of a wooden cross at & polnt near the | south county line not far from High-- land Park. This they replaced and near it established the cemetery and present at the 'time the new cfoss was raised in 1835 or 1836 stated that the old cross which was then replac-- at the behest: of a,. * . gown": as they were accustomed to demnom} nate the priests==and missionaries. They further deciared that the cross put up by them many years prior to thoomluotmuthmhz;n- placed still another. <It is a in-- ference therefore that Marquette or some of the Fronch Missionaries and explorers erected this first cross dur-- ing--the 17th century. J It is interesting to know that Fath-- er Marquette in 1674 established the mission of-- the <Immaculate Vir-- S: Mary at Kaskaskia, which was ; first mission founded in Illinois: and in the whole Mississippi valley. . _ ~Editor's Note: This is the first and Introductory article of a series pré "POWER TRUST" . | SCORES VICTORY -- B IN PROBE FIGHT SQUELCH-- WELCH PLANS "seventeen--billion doliar" public util-- l:y combine seemed on the verge Of mhcsomhhxflmnwday% the progressive insurgent--democra coalition of the senate on the issue of a power trust invegtigation. --Prospects pointed to the senate or« § dering the federal trade commission |M 4 to investigate the-- combine--an action o requested by public utility represen-- tatives--while defeating the Waish resolution, Calling for a searching in-- | quiry by a special senate committ A poll of the senate by lnxmupad News Service showed the h plan would be beaten by a margin of from two to four --votes. ' T9 s The situation, however, was so un certain that the 'Tinal -- debate today. may bring victory to Senator Thomas J. Waish (D) of Mont. The changing of three votes would swing the bal-- ance to his favor, according to the poll. --Two senators leaving the cham---- ber migh change the result, E* ; Senators Wiaizh and Norris (R) of: Nebr.:: declared the law -- forbade the commission cbnducting an inquiry and that if it did stare one now, the util. itles could stop it immediately by & uy o Wntbiast neved erealg on the groun t an * gation -- would -- prove . householders were being charged exorbitant rates {the states east of the MississippL _ . 'The market supply of ted lambs dur-- ing the first five months of 1928 will |be greater than during the: same> pe: |rlod last year, and about the same AS Yin 1926. * | ~--'%36 outlook for wool appears fa vor-- V'able. Supplies abroad are light, for for-- electric-- power, that the . PW utilities were spending millions to mu commissions -- and °t not the only one to | and sell seats in the© United 'Sta May Washington, FeB. 15.--The so--called me ic prices of wool are below _ the tarift difierontial from foreign prices, and 'no further recession An general business eoniitions seems -- probable in the asar futute. ~ ; _ > vote was 'expected late l -- on Request No beke t' ty Commnnity "Pacs A )_ 2R . commu + H+ day morning, He was a truck garden-- er and known in' the city, 'z eame to Zion from England ~sev years after the community was found-- ' Albert Woster, aged 54 years, a res He had been: ailing for some time Spring Frocks _ --Just Arrived From New York lace touches and youthful pleatin in their happy colors and gorgeot * Andeed theres not a fao Really an Introductory Showing . y The Dress Store: :4 : Of Waukegan _ éfi;m, Sport Silks and Fascinating New GiRoecs. sls $ ! z. j + oys ie d * _' T ' ~ Ras l i + i " ; 4 'hlim f w e =-- J o > n m y * s + * ie .: e «ie 7+ & Everyone stunning ~new --Georgettes, . Flat Crepes, oma,. Crepe Elizabeths, Adorable Printed c n c miong nhin: mioting fashion thrills aplenty-- indeed theres not a fashion whim missing from the picture. Really mlnkodm ntroductary Showing of Fashionable Beauty --Demonstrating that you canfiot duplicate su m";h"'cnggifi?fl?' and proving the wisdom of ifly B § Pn wandt 2C viged ns eFaeat NEATBR] 2. mt Brme. has a ols The Materials Include the Wonderful Lake Blue; Naj;f}y Blue, 4I§de§'endenc_e'Blue, Biubhard -- : Chicago,: Feb. 1§.--Officer': Patrick Costello yanked James -- Scmefjfkal, 47, from--the railing--of a bridge over the Chicago river.' in Scmejkal's pocket the officer found a 'small parachute. Semejka!l said he intended. to dommit suicide and use the parachute to breoak the fall. He was sent to the Psycho« pathic hospital, *o~ 5 TRIES LEAP FROM-- BRIDGE Price Hiz en . : 4 HNely S9 remilaaitie 4 s Remarkably Low Priced Patrick]}--. Washington, Feb. 16. --Rep. Allgood o« and 1 sctive eampaigs for Mis ul which ¥e cam 3 would authorize issuance of "m 000 worth of 50--cent piéces to memor-- ialize Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. ----The coing~would bear an image 0f Col. Lindbergh and would be sold for one. dollar.. The $10,000 fund rajsed Include _ the Bolero, Plugngee;fuehnp, Liace Triimmed, Sport Styles, One--Piece Combinations, Two--Piece Combinations, Circular Skirts, Uneven HALE DOLLARS ~_ Every New Fashion Is At The Globe would be use@ to promote q ing colonel would appoint a w committee to administer the 5o . all -- W the treasury rules against plac _(' ing 'the image of & living person on the coins, Allgood said he would ask that a likeness of the Spirit of St. j Loulis be used. * «~<$ Investor's Puzzles. One of the perennial puzzles for in« vestors is how to tell when a very good thing becomes just a little too good to be real. --Detroit Free Press,