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Lamphere, feY Y' \$£. Waucorwfla, who is moving, in thH' •vJttek. Mr. Gfiswold! started on Monday molding for his pew home, near Jickpon, Ter.n. ^ •"' "* " IWe learn that a son of N. S. Cplby, **ed about six years, had the misfortune to fall on Saturday last, striking upon a chair, breaking his nose, the being broken in two places. FORTY YEARS AGO P John J. Bishop lias purchased the Mrs. L. A. Clark bouse, north of the bipewerv. Consideration, $1,050. The Village Board has just issued the Revised Ordinances of the village of McHenry in pamphlet form. a Rev. J. Straub will occupy the pul flgk at the Universalist church- on Sunday next, Feb. 18, morning and .evening. • Sprint: election or annual "town tneetuig this year will occur Tuesday, April 3. The latest date on which nomination papers may be filed is March 19. Albert SnoW- has received the appointment of postmaster at McHenry, and will take charge of the office as soon as he receives his commission* BIG CHANGES MADE ON FACE OF EARTH TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO" Government officials have recently placed several pairs of Hungarian partridges on the farm of Charles C. Colby, just north of town. Hunters are warned not to shoot these birds as a fin© of $50 may be imposed. The McHenry Canning factory is hereby offered for rent for the season of 1909. . Notice the pretty little gold pins the •. .Y Jhchelor girls are wearing? J-Yed Adams is a new hand in the > employ of the McHenry Electric Service company, engaged as lineman. Jacob HoHarbush, who moved to Spring Grovef rom here about a year mgo, had the misfortune to have his , l«g broken in two places Wednesday ^ last week. ^ TWENTY TEARS AGO Joseph W Freund, the wide-awake flbd enterprising West side clothier, has announced himself a candidate for legislative honors in the primaries which will , take place next Septem- ,twr. The ice field's in McHenry and vi- (Sriity have been the scenes of much acftivity since the arrival of the cold spell last Saturday. A reporter for the Plaindealer has OWerheard quite a little talk by busi- "Mss men of the village on the local option question and in most instances the business man does not look with favor upon a d.ry town. The snow plow made its first trip of the season on Saturday morning ISst. Since their We have been enjoying some excellent sleighing. On Sunday morning the thermometer was from 10 to 15 degrees below zero. TEN YEARS AGO •Work on the new community" high Mhool building was once more returned this week. The ioe on the mill pond, when measured, was 19 inches in thickness. . The season's first shipment of Strawberries was received in McHen- glast Saturday and as a result a w of our people enjoyed real strawberry shortcake, Sunday. The store room in the Mrs. Emma tC. Freund building on the West Side, which was recently rented and is soon to be occupied by W- F. Vogt's drug :«nd confectionei-y store, is undergoing some changes and improvements pro- T»aratory to housing its new occupant. WQRTH ATTENTION * Language Is the dress of thought- Johnson. Y.' ' Genius beplns great works, labor alone finishes' tliem.--Joubert, 'Learning j>asses for wisdom among tliose wlto want both.--S!r W, Temple. Language a*,well ks the faculty of speech,,'was tlie i'uinvodiafe gift Of Go<J. --Noah Wet>ster.Y i;;. ;0' >. Toil ami pH'iisute, in tlieii' nature .opposites, are yet iiHketl togiither in a kiod of Iflece^l-y^meHioq^Llvy. Learhin^. Is wealtii ro the poor, nn hdnor to the rWi, «ii aid to tliv J-ouud, and a s'uppdi i ^iiu comfort to ilife aged. The labor of the I)inly relieves us from the fati^n^s of'the niiiirt ; anil this it is which forms tire liappiiiess of flie poor.--Rochefoucauld.' , 1933 Sees Great Engineering * Projects Under Way. Witshlngton. -- Outstanding changes brought about on the face of the earth during 1933 by dynamite, steam shovels, picks and spades, riveting "guns," and concrete mixers are summarized in a bulletin from the National Geo graphic society dealing with the engineering accomplishments of the year. Owing to the pushing forward of pub? lie works in the United States and a number of other countries, in an effort to combat the economic depression, and to threats of war in other, regions, the bulletin points opt, more than fhe normal . number of construction projects were under way .In jiH parts of the world" ' . J "Engineering activity fras'VspectaHy marked in Mghwaj» cbnsjtruction," Says the bqUetin. "In the Onited States worfe.- progressed In all the"-states on more than 3,tXK.» separate road-building i projects hnanced with public works administration funds." For the most part, these projects represented refatite^ ly short stretches of road supple-; nienting and: Impr&sing exfsting high-' ways. *• - ' • ' Y. ..:-V-'i'Y • "Two scenic htghwavs of more than local Interest were completed or brought close to completion: 'Going to-the-Sun' highway in Glacier National park. and the 'Skyline Drive' along the cfest of a section of the Blue Ridge mountains In Viriglnia. Railways Shrink Hi U. S. "While net railway mileago Increased In 1933 on Several continents, especially Asia., a much greater mileage was again Abandoned In the Unit ed States than was built. Less than 50 miles of1 new track was laid In Uncle Sam's domains during the year, while more than 2,400 miles was abandoned. "Railways were (*xtendj?d In Chile, Brazil, .jPeru, Uruguay, Argentina, and Colombia; in Spain and Italy; In French Morocco, Central, South, and Kast Africa; In Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union, Poland, and Turkey; In China; and In Australia. "One of the most important railway projects undertaken during 1933 was the double-tracking of the Trans-Siberian railroad. "Greatest railway activity centered during the year In Manchuria and Korea, to central Manchuria. "Famous Aswan dam across the Nile, 450 miles south of Cairo, had its second heightening Job completed during the year. It will now Impound more than Ave billion tons of water. "The 20-mile dam across the Zulder Zee if the Netherlands, the last gap In which was closed In 1932, took flnal shape during 1933, and In September Its1 top was officially opened to rail and highway traffic. "After nearly three years of excavation and preparation of the Boulder dajg site on the Colorado riveT, the first concrete was poured June 6. Two years will be required to pour the 5,500,000 barrels of concrete that will go Into the structure. "By means of a four-mile highway bridge, opened April 25, Venice became more closely connected with the mainland, and for the first time automobiles were driven to the edge of the Island city. 4 "A new bridge across the Hudson at Albany was dedicated in January. "Work was started on the two huge bridges In San Fr&ECiaco which lire to span San, Francisco bay and the Golden Gate, _ 150-Mite Canal In Russia. "The Soviet Union completed the most Important artificial waterway of the year--the Baltic White Sea canal extending for approximately 150 miles from I'ovenletz, on ,Lake Ouegar to Soroka, on "the White sea. It has 12 locks and 15 dams. f "At home, barge service between New Orleans and Chicago, was formally inaugurated during the summer on the Lakes-to-Gulf waterway. "Nlneteen-thlrty-three saw a considerable addition to the world's tunnels. In Japan the five-mile Tanna railway tunnel was completed after 16 years of work. In Chile, completion of the three-mile Las Ralces tunnel gives a direct rail connection between southern Chile and southern Argentina. Spain completed a two-qnd-a-half-mlle tunnel between Burgos and Madrid In Africa, 'holing through' of the Mount Bomba tunnel removed the greatest ralKraflic obstacle hetweeri Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa, and the Atlantic. "Subways were extended In three of'the great cities of the world: New trk, London, and Paris; and opened the first time in Osaka, Japan. One New York extension Involved the boring of twin tubes under East river, Work progressed rapidly during 1933, on tho new subway system for Mos COW.""' • '• .V "Y ': ' • Y-:" Language Is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and tlie weapous of ^ts;future couquests.--Coleridge. &HORT AND SNAPPY . , " - , >• . - . • Y ; " Y ' ; " One wants to coutent«4 only by Good Samaritan Must Pay $3,000 to Injured Girl Merced, Calif.---A Merced county constable's errand of mercy following an unusual accident recently resulted •In a $3,000 damage judgment against him. . • The constable, Lewis Iluleij, of Los P.anos. Cqlif-, rushed Elsie Uoeha of Los Banos to a hospital here after she had been struck on the head by a wildly thrown rolling piif during a farm picnic contest. . Y : En route his automobile and two other* collided, and the Injured girl vvas . hu,rt additionally. V , ' S h e s u e d d l u l t - n a n d w o n a J u d g ment. ^ Held Up Arties*--Why. doesn't somebody:#rlt* the Great American Novel? Knowall--It is, a complicated problem-- a question now whether It should be In golf or hockey slang.--^LouIsvlU* Courier-Journal. One can neglect a child and his duty lo the same action or lack of it Lights of New York by L. I. STEVENSON " The Social Register shows why 80 many marble mansions are shuttered and tenanted only by caretakers or left to their own loneliness while so many swanky and costly apartments remain closed at a season when ordinarily, gayety reigns at its height and debs and dowagers are kept busy trotting about the town attending affairs of various kinds. It seems that this season more society families than ever before have decided to make their country places their winter as well as their summer homes. In other On nearly every fluid milk market there is a surptit^ of milk in the spring and summer with a consequent , , low price;.and a shortage in the fall words it s smart to stay In the conn ^ and wlnter wlth prices in keeping try. Even the opening of the Metro politan opefa season, which sets a new record for lateness 1# getting under way, has faUed to Hire back many of the'sniart set. Thus evenings In those upper Easjt, side streets ^ far more quiet than they have been In many a year., * . , •"v.- - • '•-, 1 • ; '• ..' ;• '•• : . ..J.v Y . . Y ' .• opoheii 1* a rather grim "brick house at , Fijfth .avenue arid Sixty-first street, ft Is the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. hartley Dodge, Mrs. Bodge being the niece of John IX RockefeHer. The reason the house is not. open is that the Dodges spend most of their time on thelf huge farm near Madison, N. J. The Duke mansion at 1 East Seventy eighth street, is tenantless most of the time except for servants and guards, the family spendifig the greater part of the time at Duke farms near Somerville, N, J. Then a stone's throw away, at 972 Fifth avenue. Is a silent white mansion. That's the home of Mrs. Payne Whitney. But she's seldom there. Usually, she's at Greentree, her estate at Manhaisset. ' * * * The home of Mrs. Mary Duke Blddle at 1000 Fifth avenue, Is also a town house practically tenantless. Mrs. Biddie prefers the mansion at Irvingtonon- the-IIudson, high up on a hill overlooking a great sweep of open country. There are more, many more. A\|d those silent town houses don't do those who profited by the entertainments of old any good at an. • * •. Millions of dollars were spent by the late J. B. Duke on his New Jersey estate. The ample grounds are traversed by 35 miles of paved roads. In the past, the grounds were open to the public. But the public was unappreclative. Shrubbery was broken and rubbish left behind. So now the public Is barred. • • • Speaking of tubblsh, wonder what would happen If other magistrates follow an example set recently by Magistrate Johan H. Goldstein. Three culprits who appeared before him pleaded guilty to throwing rubbish on the sidewalk. They didn't have the $2 fine, so the magistrate set them to work sweeping In front of their homes for an hour with a police Inspector to see that there was no loafing on the Job. The offenders live down on the lower East side where among many it Is the custom to wrap garbage In a paper bag and drop it out of a window. In some higher rental sections, tenants drop refuse down Into courtyards. Leafned something else--this has absolutely no Connection with the preceding paragraph--from the- Social Register. Among those listed therein were 910 marriages last year, while the year before, there were 1,044. Five hundred and fifty-nine death* were recorded. Y • • •' . • IDave Chasen Is certainly a durable stooge. At every performance of "Hold Your Horses," now on tour, slx^i husky stage hands had to be on the alert to keep him from being killed. HFn-the course of- the performance, Joe Cook tells Chasen to drop down to the corner and get him a cigar. Chasen instantaneously disappears through a trap door. Various devices were used to break the force of his fall. But only human arms proved reliable. And at that, Chasen took a lot of bruises on the road with him. • --_ ft tl». Wffrn Snrnwr WW. PASS TO LET COW * # FRESHEN IN FALL Last Two Months of Year Best for Breeding. ODD BITS Girl Receive* Answer to Note After 15 Years Bremertou, Wash. -- Fifteen years ago, Miss Agnes Yurklsh was working In an overall factory In Freeland, Pa. While wrapping the overalls she stuffed a note into one of the pockets. •The note read: "I hope these overalls wear good and I hope you are the man who will get the kaiser. Expect an early reply." The reply fcas a little late. About 15 years, as a matter /FVact. The note was discovered bj\ a C. C. C. member. Shouldn't Ask Too Much ' . An Ideal wife, says a writer, til one who keeps her eyes shut to her husband's faults. Or her mouth shut about them anyway.-- Boston Tr»o*eripL Denied Fresh-Air, Wife Gets Divorce San Francisco.--Mrs. Fernande Delort Engahl, among charges of cruelty,In her suit for divorce, told, how her husband nailed down a bedroom window. "I like fresh air," she told Judge Thomas F. Graham. "I opened the fvin'dow. My husband, Milton, got out of bed and closed it. I opened It again. He got up apd nailed it down." She said this happened several times, adding that she would'-pu^ .the nails during the day and/her husband' would renall them at night. Mrs. Engahl was, granted a decree. ' ' . with the shqrt supply. It is easily within the power of the producer to •regulate the seasonal Supply of milk by timing the breeding of his cows so the majority of -them will freshen Wheri milk Yis? scaircts land '-tlie^jpiyice good'. '• ;,y Tlie months of Nftve'rnber nnd December en»bro,ce the period when fows should be" bred' for fall freshening. Cows bred during Ihose two months and the month following will drop ;calves in August, September and October, Some of the advantages of •fall freshening are-; v 1. A better price is received. For example, in an Increasing number of markets, dealers .during the summer season permit producers to -ship to them a certain number of gallons of milk at a certain price, this amount being equal to the average amount shipped during the fall shortage period. Any milk over this amount Is paid for at a discount of several cents per gallon. * 2. The cow that drops her calf In the fall really freshens twice in one year. When she calVes, her flush season continues for several months. Then about the time there comes the natural tendency for her to begin to slump In her milk flow she Is turned on spring pasture grass and this, furnishes a new stimulus to the flow, very much like a second freshening. Milk .records show that on an average the total yearly milk production of cows freshening in the fall <!s 15 to 25 per cent greater than that of cows of the same kind and capacity freshening in the spring. " T 3. There is more time to milk and work with ttye dairy herd In the winter, consequently the cows can be given better care. When the majority of the cows freshen in the fall the dairy work In the busy cropping season Is reduced and tell cows Interfere less with work In the fields.--Southern, Agriculturist. ' Canadian Animals Show Value of Proved Sire A group of four two-year-old heifers owned by Charles Hodgson, Hudson Heights, Que., and all sired by Johanna Rag Apple I'abst, have under official test In the R. O. P. with two finishing In the 305-day division, closed their first lactation period with a production averaging 11,360 pounds milk containing 443 pounds butter. The leading producing heifer, Montvic Dandelion Rag Apple, In her year on twice-a-day milking gave 12,035 pounds milk containing 618.75 pounds butter, Irer test averaging 3.92 per cent fat. Her stable mate, Montvic Rag Apple Mercedes, was a close runner-up with 11,480 pounds milk containing 576.25 pounds better, her test averaging 4.02 per cent fat. The other two heifers in 305 days made 10,464 of milk testing 4.02 per cent "fat and 10,863 of milk testing 3.63 of butterfat.--Montreal Family Herald. Keeping Cow Records Individual cow records are now available to every man maintaining a milking herd ef eows. The dairy herd Improvement associations, or cow testing associations, as they used to be called, all are familiar with. Twenty-five or 26 men In a community band together and hire a tester, who visits each herd one day a month, weighing and testing the milk from each cow. In this type of record work, it Is necessary for a group of men In one community to be Interested. They ordinarily have to start their herds at the same time. The cost is from $30 to $40 per year. DAIRY HINTS Camel Path for Auto Road The old silk route, along which 2,000 years ago camel caravans transported silk from I'eiping to Syria, whence it was shipped to Rome, Is to be re- *acy£p£.®n<| made into an. automoMJ*- road. • :'.) Grinding roughage for dairy cow* has not proved profitable. r No seperator can work properly If the sklmmllk bowl Is not level or If It vibrates. - » • • . The too common practice of washing the separator only once dally not only Increase the loss of butterfat, but also decreases the keeping qualities of the cream. : * * * Drought will lessen the per cent of fat in milk^nd finally turning In pas-, ture will have effect on the fat content only when the pasture Is in poor condition -•.;•.v / •• ,"-: '* 'iYY One can' of poor cream may produce a. whole churai full of low grade butter. This is especially true where strict grading Is not • practiced. • * * The three things that tend to prevent milk fever are: Clean quarters, ar special light, bulky ratiofv aiad judicious use of epsom.salts,' y Low grade cream results in low grade butter, nnd low grade butter -depresses the general market: of dairy products aM jUmds to keep ftll prices -down., Y--;Y; , There are more than 200,000 EmUes listed in Paris. v v- Java has earthworm* which and In the- Coeo* JaJaad* thai crate eat coconuts. The Cathedra! of Vannes, ifn Lorlent, France, was recently closed to tourists, because of the noise made by visitor*. -•* , V Cardiff, Wales, jUl *tockMg ^o^ Park lake with trout to rid It of a minute species of snail which causes skin eruptions to bathers. An artificial mountain of soil brought from all over the world Will be raised at the hundredth anniversary o^ the State of Victoria, Aystralia, . this year. *• i • V- : . ' *-S. "'^Y.'Y Y Irish' cows pay their way," When a carload shipment arrived frpjii Fish-" guards to : Acton, England, it was found that six had given birth ."to calvcs en route.' -VY", . --• .Y„; A Bible 100 yfstm old ^hd a prlzed sword-cane, buried and hiijden from Yankee soldiers in the Civil war, have been brought from their hiding ^l»c;£SS and exhiliited at Tyler, Texas." - sixty-five thousand tons^of dead e&a were removed from the Willamette river below Willamette falls, at Oregon City, Ore., this year, August Rakel, head eel rempver, estimated. of Illinois Foods Is Tempting and Nutritious b "Y WITH BRAIN WORKERS An attachment for typewriters has been invented that renews the Ink in ribbons as they are being used. A new paper milk bottle, molded from pulp And tasteless wax, can be handled and capped with the machinery ordinarily used In dairies. An invention dating back to 1900 has been perfected to the pointy where a train may be uncoupled in three sections without stopping the train. Already operating the fastest train on, regular schedule in the world, British railways are building locomotives that will Increase the present speed. University of Washington chemists have found that from 80 to 90 per cent of oil and other soluble products can be obtained from some varieties of coal. ; A ^patent has been Issued for a two way television apparatus to be used with existing telephones. Users may see and talk with each other at She same time without interference. A discovery In regeneration, by which a new ear drum was grown in a living frog out of skin ^from his own or another frog's back' was described in the New York Academy of Sciences recently. HITHER AND YON Land taxes in the Dutch East India* may be paid in rice. In forty-three years Scotland Yard) in London, has increased Us clerical force from 164 to 690. New road signs !n Ireland1 are mounted on four pillars, which are illuminated at night to represent red-hot -pokers. -. A road bunt on the Island of Cnt« about 1500 B. C. Is still good enough to run an automobile on at 00 miles an hour. After sinking a 50-foot shaft at Wan.- naway, Australia, a' miner has fotfnd a cave," the root and floor Of which sparkles with gold. Under a law recently passed, Guatemala Is publishing In newspapers the names of offenders against the public treasury and those guilty of illegal disposition of public funds. Medals: awarded for bravery have slumped in value in London since the World war, the average prices being $6.25 for a Victoria Cross, $5 for a distinguished conduct medal and $1.25 fOr a military medal. INDUSTRIAL Sti* tt Observing a young woman standing alone, the young man stepped up to her and said: "Pardon m*. You look like Helen Black." "Yes," she replied, "I know I do, iMit Td look far wor*« la whito." Y Building societies are flourisMaf to the British empire. - The government of Slam is Increasing Railway construction. Railroad carloadings in Gerpiaiij' *rfe slewing a marked increase. American talking pictures now -lead In popularity in the Near East. A substantial increase In. French exj. port quotas for American apples has been made. Demand for mining "machinery in JBcJtlsh Columbia is the greatest" in many years. • . More than §3,(^,000 4tnen handkerchiefs were shipped from northern Ireland to the United States in 1933. An International Spanish-Swedish holding company has bought control of ten linoleum factories in Germany. Kiangsl province, China,'-will spend S U*X),000 In constructing a railway which will be a link in the Shanghai, Hangehow and Caul on trunk line. Aided Weit Point It Was under the teachings of Col. Jared Mansfield (the surveyor of the town In Richland county, Ohio, that bears his name) that the famous military school at West Point got Its start In the beginning years of the last centary. . Y . , By WALTER W. McLAUGHLIN > -Director, Illinois Department of Agricultttt» CjUBUItBAN gardeners are proud ^ when they are able to show their city guests that they can serve a whole meal of food raised in their own gardens, but city people as well astheir suburban friends ran serve » delicious nicaI, ii ii'ii (rom ibcir owil WALTER W. M. LAUGHI IN. DIRKCTOR, ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, gardens, at-least from their own state. That is, they can if they live in Illinois, for the principal products of our state when combined, make an appetizing, well-balanced meal. Start with a glass of- milk which In jitself comes nearer to being a whole I meal than does any, other single food. In this glass of mill: you will have an abundance of Vitamins A and G, calcium, phosphorus and protein, with some Vitamins B, C and D, sugar and Iron. Then add -a baked potato for an economical source of energy; serve with this, creamed corn which, among other elements, supplies Vitaiain A; plus a salad of peaches, apples and grapes for minerals, Vitamins A, B and C, tod easily digested sugar. If you add to the salad two more of your dairy products--a whipped crea<n salad dressing and cottage chees§--you'll be enriching your meal in vitamins, protein and minerals. ' Functions of Food Element*. * It's all very well to talk about these vitamins, minerals, proteins, and so on, but why are they important? Most ©f ; you have no doubt read various things. : about all of theih, but new Informa-: tion on their uses Is constantly be- Y ins discovered. Vitamin A prevents1 infections, particularly of the eyes and f respiratory system. . and promotes ; gr.Owth; Vitamin_ B helps protect ., against certajn nervous diseases; Vitamin G is; a scurvy , preventive arid is needed for healthy teeth and bones; : Vitamrn-1\ besides preventing rickets,/ is an imfwrtant 'factor in building and y inaintaining strong teeth; and Vita- 3 min G, in addition to preventing pel ! lagra, has mysterious - (Jualities that seem to do much toward "prolonging ° the characteristics of youth." - \ Proteins of course are the body builders and repairers of worn ttesues, but proteins, unlike other food elements, have different forms, some of which are more easily utilized by the body than others. Tfie protein in milk Is particularly desirable. Of the minerals calcium la at once one of the most important and one of those most often lacking In the American diet. It is one of the essential "ingredients" of strong, beautiful teeth and well-formed bones. Phosphorus is a tooth builder, too, and iron is an essential constituent of the blood. From this information it is obvious that each, of these food element* is essential not only for health but for attractive personal appearance. ;.-iWYY ' Y Y y Y POTPOURRI The Alps The Alps mountains, occupying most of Switzerland and parts of Italy, France, Germany and Austria, cover an area of 90,000 square miles. The range is 700 miles long, from east to west, and 180 miles wide. The average altitude is between G,000 and 8,000 feet, although hundreds of peaks exceed 10,000 feet. Mont Blanc Is the highest of the range. © by Western Newspaper Colon. Wrong Size ' Suitor--Sweetheart, I offer yoa my hand and my fortunev Lady--So sorry I cant accept. The former is too large and the latter too small. The first naval commission Issued by the first President of the United States is still In existence. ' Delaware has the shortest qtate road system--only 944 miles, while Penhsylvania leads all the states with 84,- 000 miles. Between 1880 and 1931 the number of insanity cases in state hospitals increased from 64 to 236 in every HJ0,- 000 population. 1 According to the figures, as Andy says, you have had more than 74,500 direct ancestors. Tjell this to anybody who offers to trace your ancestral tree back. It is estimated there are 50,000 earthworms in an acre of land, and if It weren't for the earthworms there would be no vegetation and man and „ other animals would perish. AUCTION CHARLES LEONARD, Auctioneer Two miles southeast of McHenry on River Road, just off Route 20, known as the John R. Smith farm. * TUESDAY, FEB. X} Commencing at 12:30 p. m. the following described property, to-wit: 38 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK 38 \ Airpt*n* ®e»t» BuHet Traveltng at better than 426 milet an hour an airplane goes faster than • lral$*t 21 Holstein Milch. Cows, 357-lb. base with the Bowman Dairy" Co.; Guernsey Bull; 3 Springers, 2Vz yrs. old; 4 Heifers, 18 mo7 old; 3 Calves, 5 mo. old; 6 Head of Horses--Grey Team, 320Q lbs., 6 and 8 yrs. old; Bay Team, 3000 lbs., 15 and 17 yrs. old? Light Team, 1700 lbs., 11 and 12 yrs. old. HAY, GRAIN AND MACHINERY 8 tons Alfalfa Hay; 20 tons Alfalfa and timothy Mixed; some Cut Fodder; 300 bu. Oats; 50 bu. Barley; 1 ton Bran; 3500 lbs. Brewer's Grain; 15 tons Bar Cofn; 15 ft. Silage; 20x32 McCormick-Deering All Steel Thresher, like new; 6-roll Appleton Com Husker, like new; l6-incli Papec Silo Filler; Rebuilt 10-20 McCormick-Deering Tractor; New McCormick- Deering Corn Binder, with tongue truick, used one year; Mc- Cormick Grain Binder, 6-ft., with tongue truck, good shape; Jolin Deere Corn Planter, new, with tongue truck and fertilizer attachment with 80 rods of wire; McCormick-Deering Hay Loader, like new; McCormick-Deering Little Wonder 14- i^, 2-bottom Tractor Plow, new; 12-in., 2-bottom Gang Plow; JEmmerson 14-in. Sulky Plow; John Deere 14-in. Walking Plow; Hilling Plow; Potato Digger; McCormick-Deering Single Row Corn Cultivator; Single Row Oliver Com Cultivator; Single Row LaCrosse Corn Cultivator; One-horse Cultivator; Emmerson Grain Drill, 8-ft., with grass seed attachment; McCormick- Deering Side Delivery Rake; Dump Rake; McCoraiick Mower, 5-ft.; Tractor Disc, 8-*ft.; Horse Di-sc, 8-ft.; McCormick-Deering Rotary Hoe, like new; Cultipacker; two 3-section Harrows; 2- section Harrow ;'McComiick-Dcering §-in. Feed Grinder; set of Bob Sleighs; Chathom Fanning Mill; Set of Wagon Springs: 35-ft. Drive Belt; Buz^ Saw; Hay Fork; McCormick-Deerihg Cream Separator; two Tank HeaterskJWo Corn Shellers; Grind Stone; Grind Stone, with Electric Motor; Double- geared Pump Jack; Stuart Horse Clipper; three spools of 80-rd. Barb Wire; 10-bu, Seed Corn Dryer; 8 bu. Early Seed Corn; 3 bu. Silo Seed Corn; 2 sets of Iteavy Breeching Harness; set of Light Harness; Wagon with 14-ft Double Box and ITay Rack; Wagon with 14-ft. Hay Rack; Narrow Tired Wagon with Double Box; Litchfield Manure Spreader; Two-wheel Milk Cart; 30 Grain Bags; 6 Milk Cans and Milk Utensils; Brooder House, 10x10 ft.; Chicken House, 10x20 ft., Portable; 100 Leghorn Pullets; 100 Leghorn Hens; 300-chick Oil Brooder; Supply of Fountains and Feeders; Peninsular Wood $nd Coal Range; other articles too numerous to mention. , ^ TJSRMS--Those desiring dredit should make arrangements with clerk before date of sale. Cows can be financed up y,|© 50 per cent of price, CHARLES HERDRICH WEST McHENEY STATE BANK, Clerk .