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¥^*y^WWTT* l'^^wlMJ^Miujl 11 i^^j' I p un^I^iiim Vogue for Decorating 'Gifts Growing :' ; ? J""•' this Season I "There is almost no limit to tike fiomber of articles being decorated |his season for gifts," said Mr. Bolger Jf Illinois' Finest Drug Store at IttcKenry. "Hundreds of commonplace Jrtieles when decorated wi|h Duco be 5ome articles or rare charm which are alued as gifts not on account of heir own value but because they exj (ress the personality of the giver, j , "There is always a place for another • sh tray, and trays in metal or glass lake very popular gifts. Mapazine lacks are especially in yogue and may ie purchased unpainted and finished in ill kinds of, color combinations and lecorated with furniture transfers, j Candlesticks add a note of cheerful >lor to the modern home. Glass, rood and metal candlesticks ant being shed with Duco in many color com- Idnations. "Inexpensive waste-baskets in wood tin are also handsomely decorated, itchplates, either painted in solid alors or decorated with small hand tinted designs, are proving very pop Kitchen ware, such as canisters, ead boards, or handles of cutlery, ^nds itself especially well to decoratjig. These are only a few of the many tides which are being purchased season for decorating at holiday 1 Going Somewhere •••1 Room one has said thai it ti hard o meet the -average mind becauae it sn't going anywhere The difference , etween real thinking and reverie ts J hat reverie Isn't going anywhere Just etting things run through'your mind ngoverned. isn't thinking. Life la too hort n*u to hi (olnt somewhere.-- Exchange. Use Coconut as Ball Basket ball has jnst been introduced to Guam and the natives ere taking to It with an enthusiasm rivaling that shown for baseball when the Americans first brought the game to the South seas. There are five American and two native teams. Among the Chammoro children the basklt ball cr»re is spreading also. Some of them for lack of the necessary equipment use a bent bamboo strip nailfed to a coco palm for awicker and a ripe coconut for a ball. : Gas-Steam Locomotive A *»6w "gas-steam" locomotive is being tested on railroads in England. This hybrid has cylinders that function on one side of the piston as a gasoline engine and on the other side of the piston as a steam engine. The steam generator uses the waste heat of the gasoline side cooling system along with auxiliary burners which axe used to start the engine. .£•? Wouldn't Do at A& v Little Bobbie--Mom. get me 8 bag of pegnots. I wanna feed the elephant; Mom--No, Bobbie, papa is a Democrat and he wouldn't a improve of your feeding the Republican party emblem. aa Final Lenon Neetied Harold--When the postman I'm going to wallop you within Inch of your life. Jack--Why wait for the postman? Harold--I'm taking a boxing course by correspondence. Saper-Smtiiiet "See that man over there. He'« the very latest type of novelist." **Ia he really?" "Yes, he debunks the debunhers.* FARM t POULTRY BUCKWHEAT GOOD FATTENING FEED Head the ads and save your dollars. AUCTION! CHARLES LEONARD Auctioneer Having decided to quit farming, I will sell at public auction on the Henry Buchert farm .located 3V4 miles southwest of McHenry, 7 miles north of Crystal Lake and 6H miles east of Woodstock, on Friday, December 14 Commencing at 12:30 o'clock, sharp, the following described property, 16 . HEAD 07 LIVESTOCK 1^1* - consisting of , ~";W . * • 14 MILCH COWS All tested stock and retest made Oct. 3, 1928. 2 HORSES Bay Bona, II years old ,wt. 1700; Gray Hons, 12 years old, 17(0. * 50 CHICKENS SAT, GRAIN AND MACHINERY 25 tons good Timothy Hay; 408 Shocks of Corn; 18 ft. Silage; 300 ha. v Barley; 200 bu. Oats; 15-30 Plowman Tractor; 8-roll Appleton Husker; :M International Silo Filler, Type "B"; Moline Tractor; Moline 3-bottom Plow; Moline Tractor Cultivator; Moline 8-ft. Mower; Moline 10-ft. Binder; Deering Corn Binder; Moline Truck for Corn Binder; Deere 6-ft. Mower; 6-shovel Cultivator; Disc Cultivator; 5-shovel Cultivator; Potato Killer; Walking Plow; Sod Plow; C. B. & Q. Corn Planter, with _ 120 ft. Wire; 4-section Drag; 2-section Drag Evener; 4-section I>T*g Evener; Colter Packer; Buzz Saw on Trucks; Side Delivery Rake and Tedder; 10-in. International Feed Grinder; Corn SheHer; New Superior * Fanning Mill with Elevator; 1000-lb. Fairbanks-Mbrsfe Scale; 2^-hp. Raleigh Gas Engine; Bob Sled; Litchfield Manure Spreader; 3 Rack Wagons; Box Wagon; 6-tine Hay Fork; DeLaval Cream Separator; set Dump Boards; Wagon with Dump Boards; 2 Hay Slings; Grindstone; Truck Box; Grain Shocker; 2 Hog Feeders; 4 Hog Troughs; Clover Leaf Oil Burner Tank Heater; 2-car Garage, 18x24; Brooder House, 10x12; Small Building, 8x12; Post Drill;; 1000 Chicken Brooder, with burner; 4 Drinking Fountains, two with burners; 4 CarryiM^H Trucks for discs; 60 Grain Sacks; 8 Milk Cans; Strainer and PaU^^ some Chicken Wire; Spray Pump; Milk Cart; Tractor Lugs; Extension Rim for Tractor; Gas Pump, with 160-gal. Tank; Blacksmith Forg Tin Water Tank; 72-gal. Gas Tank; 50-ft. Drive Belt, 6-in.j Shovels and many other items too numerous to mention. TERMS OF SALE All sums of $25 and under, cash; over that amount a credit of 9 - months will be given on good bankable notes acceptable to drawiity^ 7 j>er cent interest. Mo property to be removed until WM. BUCHERT ^ GERALD J. CART, Clerk Buckwheat is a pretty good fattening feed for turkeys. Some prefer barley and corn, however. Either barley or oats, if mixed with buttermilk and the hulls removed, would be a preferable mixture. The buckwheat has the objectionable quality of having a woody, fibrous hull which is not good feed. A mixture of all three or four would do pretty well. Some records sent in give the costs of feeding one pert ground oats wit a hulls removed and two parts buttermilk as beiug cents per pound, while the cost of feeding on equal parts ground barley, oats, and corn, with the oat and barley huils removed and with the same relative amount of buttermilk, averaged about the same. A mixture of 200 parts corn meal, 100 parrs ground oats, hulls removed, SO parts red dog flour, 3 parts tallow, 706 parts buttermilk, averaged a cost of about 5 cents per pound. Using equal parts ground oats and barley, hulls removed, one part beef scraps and eight parts buttermilk, the cost was shown to be cents per pound. Of course, these costs were not figured lately, but the comparisons remain. The Cornell fattening ration of 100 pounds corn meal, 100 pounds buckwheat middlings. 100 pounds oat flour, 30 pounds beef scraps, and one part charcoal. Is considered, too, a very fattening ration. Sodium Fluoride for Destroying Vermin Sodium fluoride is one of the best substances to use for getting rid of chicken lice. It can be purchased at almost any drug store. It can be applied by the **pinch" method, or by mixing with four parts of talc or fine dust and using a dusting can or by making a dip. The pinch method is most commonly used. In this method the hen hi held in such a way that the feathers loosen up and one pinch Is applied to the head, one on the neck, two on the back, one on the breast, one below the vent, one on the tall, one on each thigh and one on the underside of each wing. This application should be repeated in about eight days so as to kill the lice that were In the egg form during the first application. Blue ointment Is usually mixed with equal portions of grease. Three peasized portions are rubbed into the feather*--one around the vent and the Other two under each wing. If head lice are present it ls'usually better to apply some lprd with 10 to 20 per eent kerosene thoroughly mixed with It or with 5 per cent of carbolic add. i For your Lawn and Garden ' • - .#•. Stepping Stones * Sun Dial|| Lily Pooh * Driveways __ '^J^ietaining Walls Lawn Seats • ••<nof^hese are thingslhat you can fnake-- many of them during winter fnonths in the home basement* Working with concrete--the stone you can mold -- is fascinating. Your Skill and ingenuity may enhance die |»eauty and value of your property, fiere's a book which tells how. If you ^jion't want to do the work yourself, it will help you plan. It's free--just fill and mail the coupon, . ' Producing Capons for Consumption at Home sThe matter of producing capons for home consumption has not had proper emphasis. Everyone is aware of the superiority of meat from unsexed larger animals and as a rule such male animals are never used unless operated upon. But the fact that capon meat Is as superior to rooster meat as steer beef is to Jmll beef Is not generally realised. The farmer and pooltryman should not be content with a low grade food stuff when It Is very easily possible to have the best The time will come, no doubt, when we will insist on cai on quality in fowls a much aa we do now for steer beef. rORTLAND CEMENT ASSOCIATION , - 33 West Grand Avenue* CHICAGO I want the booklet "Concrete Improvements Around Home.",- ... ... w •wir AtUrtn. rs •4* iiitfmH t it i. ^ c%. JEZ. Poultry Hints Man has to hustle, but a hen makes money "laying around."' • • • f• Sick birds should be segregated and proper remedies applied. Probably vaccination ig as good a remedy and preventative as can be used. The vaiue of clean feed In preventing pouisry disease Is being realized more a'/id more by |«oultrymen. All feed should be given to chicks in dean troughs or hoppers. • • • * It Is a good plan, when starting into the turkey raising business, or If in It now, to plan the production program over a period of more than one year. If this Is done} yards can be planned so tha| they may he rotated and so that the poults can be raised on fresh ground. ------- • • • Poor layers have the opposite characteristics of those given to be used in the selection of breeders. They hare thick, rigid pelvic bones; but two or three finger widths spans between these and the rear of the keel txftie. • • • If a strict separation of turkeys and chickens Is to be secured, as Is vitally necessary for success with the former, the producer is obliged to raise his poults in confinement. In addition to the value of this method In preventing disease it al*o has its merits in that the pouits^can be jjvjen ciosfr supervision. « • « Y • . V J - Hens dont stop laying melt They molt when they stop laying. Of course, it's natural for them to let np on egg production, so they caa grefr lfeqlr new winter coats. Secretary Knew How to Handle Balfour & Paris during the peace conference, two vounjs secretaries were conversing. This Is what was overheard : "Why don't you persuade your old man to get his hair cut?" said one. "He looks like the Old Man of the Sea." "I know,** said the other, "but he won't go to the barber's. I can't persuade him." A pause. Then from the first speaker: "I can." The next day he approached Lord Balfour--the "old man" in question. "Oh, sir," he said, "how like Mr. Uoyd George you look with your hair long like that!" Balfour arose and went to the barber's, shop on the spot.--Kansas Gttp Star. : •iJv Cat's Varied Diet On a farm in Hinsdale. Mass., says the Boston Globe, lives a cat that Is positively omnivorous,. Like most other felines she eats meat, fish and milk, but her diet does not stop there, however. When the lady of the bouse was surprised to find bits of cucumber on the ground near the kitchen door, she watched the cat for a while. Finally she saw kitty go to the garden, break off a good-sised cucumber and carry it to the houee, where she broke it open and ate it. Since that time the cat's appetite has been tested with various other vegetables and It responds heartily. Glass and Crystal Sets Glass flowers strike a most modem note in smart decorationl Transparent, luminous, lovely are these flow-, ers made all of glass even to their slender stems. Only In the most exclusive shops are they to be found, which Is directly In their favor If yoa are seeking a gift for some fastidious friend. Not only flowers, biit exotic birds whose plumage is a solid setting of glittering glass Jewels, and who are posed on sparkling crystal mounts, are among these decorative elegancies. This glass and crystal vogue includes most beautiful gi"-- for table centerpieces. Crystal trace, tow. are In evidence. - ' *Lr>' 'afc * merely Fancitm ffmw One editor of "Twelfth Night" says that the name of Shakespeare's play has ao obvious Connection with the •tory. Probably It Is merely Intended to convey that the comedy waa suited tor production on Twelfth night, a teas* set apart tor mirth. £coaoan> In the South seas-coconuts Have many uses--the milk is drunk; the sap of the tree, boiled and fermented, makes palm wine; the fruit Is eaten, leaves make roof thatch for huts, the splints make baskets, the coconut UteUs are useful dishes and the oU Is ased for rubbing the body. In order to make room for new models, we are offering the following cars at a Smashing Price Reduction: % Brand New Essex Coaches 4 Brand New Essex Sedans 2 JBrand New OldsmeMIe " ' Sedans 1 Deluxe Oldsmobile. 6 wire wheeUf,;^^'- Trade in your old car now and take advantage of these special prices on new cars* Do it now--they will not be available long. Easy Terms. Phone 255 On U. S. Route 12 near Mill Pond Bridge * 5 CARDS Now •Mi '.V-. The Plaindealer is prepared to supply Christmas Card purchasers this year with the bes* assortpients obtainable, printing Ithe senders thereon.' And these beautiful cards ^re ill different in &&ctf issortmen&f, iMname v or names ' -vjSli Box of 12' Greeting Cards, with name printed thereon, with envelopes, for . . . . Box of 15 Christmas Cards, name printed thereon, with envelopes, for .... $2.00 Box of 15 Better Greeting Cards, name $235 These cards'can fee purchase*! without the printed namfe for $1.00 less than the above prices. Come into The Plaindealer office and look over these assortments. We jgptt be pleased. What to Take the IwM riling to till when one la run down?" Inquired a friend at the writer's elbow. Would suggest the number of rhe car.--Salem Statesman. tSetemng "What about the voice of the peo pie, senstorT" The soprano note hat,, got me rne«^nfc"--I'Oatarfll* Cornier fr»urnal> ~ * ft .i'&SB&mS