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WW Twice T o l d Items of Interest Taken From* the Files of ttiePlaindeaJfsr ^ . of Yean Ago • FIFIX YEARS AGO ' iipin we ask, is land in this pnt of the county full of watches? Another was plowed up near Johnsburgh last week and has been left with J. P. Smith for repairs. This makes three within the year. 1 The Centennial Children's day will b® observed at the ML E. church in McHenry on Sunday, June 8, both morning and evening. This year is the Centennial of the organization of the M- E. church in America.1' E. Lawlus has been repairing hi* store building, both inside and out, bvldmg new stairs and otherwise improving its appearance. FORTY YEARS AGO 8 Wm. Sternberger and Mr. Glosson, representing the Seip Brewing company, Chicago, were here last week, making arrangements to open n branch depot in this village. During the hail storm on Thursday last a hail stone was piked up in front of our office that measured1^ ^x4Vi inches. We have been treated to all kinds of weather the past week. Snow on Wednesday, hail on Thursday and rain every day since, with regular November temperature all the time. Smith and son have sold their feed, coal and lime business together with their warehouses, in this village, to tt* Wilbur lumber company. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO Dr.' R. G. Chamberlin has disposed" of his auto to Jacob Scickem. The doctor expects a new Ford soon. A night shift is now working at Terra Cotta and the factory is way behind orders. The water wagon is again on the job and from now on the streets of the village should be kept in a dustl^ ss condition. Gilbert McOmber represents the McHenry high school at the interscholastic meet at Evans ton next Saturday. He is entered in the twelve pound shot pat and also the discui throw. TWENTY YEARS AGO At a special meeting of the McHenry county supervisors held at the court house «t Woodstock last Saturday the proposition to grant licenses to saloons outside of villages in wet territories lost out and as a result the places which were ordered closed soon after the spring election will have to be satisfied with the serving of soft drinks in the future. All of the streets in town received a thorough sprinkling last Saturday night The heavy rain laid the dust in fine shape and in view of the fact that everyone was complaining about the dust all were satisfied for. a day at least. lit begins to look as if Mayor Stoffei moans eoaitMss when he says that tfc* saloons most remain closed on Sundays. TEN YEARS AGO -ilko last of the sewer mains on the original city contract were laid oi-. Wednesday of this week and yesterday found the men making the last connection at the intersection of Riverside Drive and Washington street. Notwithstanding the fact that the weather has been anything bat favorable for automobile touring, a number cf travelers have already made use of McfSenry's tourist camp located on the K. A. Conway property oast of Fox river. We understand that a petition is being circulated among the property owners along Riverside Drive for the purpose of ascertaining just how many cf these are in favor of cementing that thoroughfare. " Chinch Bugs Hatching; Barrier Will Shicdd Corn Hatching of chinch bugs in smallgrain fields has started, and farmers of McHenry county should not delay in taking steps to protect their corn fields against the pest, according to a warning which Farm Adviser W. A. Herrinprton has just received from W. P. Flint, chief entomologist of the Illinois State Natural History Survey and of the College of Agriculture University of Illinois. * Last year the bugs reduced the corn crop in 70 Illinois counties frt>m 15 to 60 per cent, and unless the weather comes to the rescue of fanners, the damage from the insect may be double that of last year, Flint said. So far the spring weather has not lessened the danger of losses, he added. Serious damage may still be prevented if there are heavy rains during the next three weeks to drown out some of the bugs, but if the dry weather continues, the injury done by the peats in infested small-grain fields will increase enormously, Flint warned. Following that, the bugs will migrate to com fields where they will take an even heavier toll unless precautions are taken to check their march, he said. •Where small grain adjoins corn, whether the small grain be wheat, oats, rye or barley, it should be carefully examined and if old chinch bugs are found in numbers of five or more a linear foot of grain, it will be advisable to put a barrier between the small grain and the corn. The barrier ridge or barrier path should be made at once in order to be ready for the movement of the bugs oat of the fcmall grain into the corn. Throwing op the barrier immediately nay fcetp FACTS PROVED SIRE IS BIG DAIRY ASSET Quality of His Get Cannot Be .Told by Their iooks. --i-- (By J AS. W. LINN, Extension Dairyman, K. S. A. C.) , The sire Is half the herd! Beside* feeding, there 4s nothing that determines the production of the herd or cow to as great an extent as breeding. lb breeding- it is important to have good cows, but regardless of how good or well bred one can obi; count on an average of one calf -each year which will be the limit of the individual cow's Influence on the future herd. Such is not true of the sire. His influence in bettering or lowering the standards ot the future herd is limited only by the number of cows to which he is mated. The dairy bull has two disadvantages as compared with the beef herd sire in that the quality of his get cannot be told by their looks, and it is more difficult to keep an aged dairy bull. If dairymen will realise that the older bulls may be kept in perfect safety by spending $100 or less on equipment, that the bull •'that has proved his worth is a sure way to build a better herd and that these bulls may often be bought at beef prices, or at least at f* reasonable prices, more of them will be used and better and more profitable herds will be the result. It Is necessary to list the daughters of these aged bulls to prove their worth. The Dairy Herd Improvement association is doing this in the best and most practical way, and hundreds of bulls will be proved in the next ffew years through this method. Perhaps the"one thing that is dolrig more to encourage the use of proved bulls than anything else is the use of the bull association where bulls are owned co-operatively and moved from one farm to the next This Is especially true where the qjembers are members of the Dairy Herd Improvement association. Absolutely, Germ-Free Milk Is Impossibility Clean milk should contain neither foreign matter nor bacteria of any kind. If milk could be obtained and stored, that was entirely free of bacteria, it would keep indefinitely. In 'view of the fact that absolutely germfree milk is impossible to obtain under practical conditions. It is important to consider the ways and means of securing milk that is from healthy cows, free of foreign matter and which contains only a small amount of bacteria, none of which are disease-producing. The tuberculin test Is used as • means of eliminating cows that might pass tuberculosis germs through the milk. This test is prescribed by practically all city ordinances. In some cases cities require the cows to be tested or the milk pasteurised. Other cities Insure a doubly safe product by requiring all the milk to come from tuberculin tested cows, whether it Is pasteurised, or not Visible dirt In the milk Is net only s source of danger, but It Indicates carelessness in handling. Usually such milk contains a large number of bacteria. | Dairy Hints A balanced radon for the cow will help balance the bank account. • • • Give the cows all the hay they will clean up rqwonably well, legumes preferred, • • f Fifty fen* of rodttirill replace about four and one-half tons of grain in feeding dairy cattle. • • • Get acquainted with your milking machine. It may be able to explain how the milk cab be better. • • • The feed saved by culling oat one low-producing cow will pay the cost of testing an entire, dairy herd for a year. . ' The chief reason why scow does not starve to death on pasture alone is because the summer season is too short - • • • Give a calf the right start Heifers cost too much to raise to waste time on poor ones. A good heifer poorly developed is not a good investment either. • • • Grow » legume to reduce feeding costs. Underfeeding dairy cows is like riding a merry-go-round; you never get anywhere. * * * Don't stunt the dairy call A cow must have constitution to make a good producer, and a stunted • calf never made a big frame. * * * Many feeding, experiments have fully demonstrated that the percentape of cream in milk is not materially altered either bythe amount or qual- Ity of feed. ULI DEVELOP. PULLETS' BODY FOR LAYING Use Care in Early feeding to Bring Maturity. -Br'StoV-.S. Dearatjne, Poultry Department. North Carolina State College. WNU Service. The proper feeding of chickens during the period of early development is of vital Importance in determining their future laying capacities, so teats at branch station farms during the past five years have proved. One of the most critical periods in a bird's life is that between the time It goes off the starting mash and the time it is placed on a laying mush diet The feeding should be suehas to bring the birds to bodily maturity at approximately the same time they start laying, and not before. After the birds start laying most of their food goes into egg production and very little. If any, goes to skeleton growth. Hence, a bird that starts laying before it has reached fall growth Is liable to remain undeveloped and will seldom have the stamina needed by heavy pro dticing hens. Too great an amount of protein in the food before the laying period is apt to start the pullets laying too soon. An excess of carbohydrates or a feed of cereal crops alone also are conducive to too-early laying. A good feWi( should have the proteins and carbohydrates well balanced. A mash containing 15.1 per cent protein, of which 4 per cent was animal protein, fed along with the regular scratch feed was found to give the best results In the experiments con ducted with Rhode Islands Reds and White I<eghorns. Fed on this diet, the birds reached sexual and physical ma turity at approximately the same time. Discovers an Easy Way to Clean Poultry House The ease and efficiency with which a poultry house may be cleaned depends considerably on the construction of the dropping boards. If they are made in removable sections the work is much easier, writes a correspondent in Successful Farming. For this type of construction, attach supports to the wall oh which the drop ping boards are to be built These should be spaced not more than 4V4 feet apart and should extend Into the center of the building about 3*4 feet. The dropping boards should be made In sections 5 feet long and 4 feet wide so they are of a convenient size to handle. If "eye" bolts are fastened to the back wall and hooks placed In corresponding positions In the dropping boards, they may be hooked to the wall, making them easy to remove. Removable roosts may be placed on top of the dropping boards. When constructed In this way, the roosts may be taken out and the dropping boards may be removed or raised in the front and hooked to tha ceiling until the bouse Is cleaned. Mr. and Mrs. Peter if us tenof Woodstock spent Sunday in the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. L Granger. to prevent heavy losses.' McHenry county fayners can get full information from the farm adviser's office or from Circular No. 419, "Fighting the Chinch Bug on Illinois Farms," which has just been issued by tho College of Agriculture, University of Illinois. It also gives the latest information on repellent mutiriala to mm In hurrfos. To Stop Feather Pulling Feather pulling among bens Is not s habit nor is It caused by too close quarters. Neither is It caused by being hungry, unless one could call it being budtry (or salt 8alt seems to be what they want when they pull out feathers and pick each other, freshly pulled feathers have a slight saltiness, but the blood has more. To stop the feather pulling and picking, says a correspondent In the Rural New Yorker, itaag a piece of fat pork low enough tor the hens to reach It--two or three pounds for a flock of 80 to 40 hens-- and keep water by them all the time. As long as they have water they-can eat all they want and It will not hurt ihcm. Small Eggs Hatch Poorly Hatching eggs, weighing less than 20 ounces per dozen, showed. In recent experiments in the state of Michigan, a very poor batchabillty and produced small chicks which developed slowly. Eggs weighing 21 to 22 ounces per dozen had a fair batchabillty, but those weighing 23 ounces or more per dozen showed a good batchabillty and chicks of good weight K , ^ , Poultry Hints f afing bens in the farm flock eat the profits the busy biddies make. Chemically, the shells of brown eggs differ from those of white ones. Grit is an aid to the gizzard "in crushing and grinding feed and should be before the birds at all times. Not over three-fourths of a pound of hard grit will be needed by a hen in a year's time Hens will reduce their production of eggs and finally cease.laying entirely unless they are supplied with ftesb water. The capon is to the poultry dealer what the fat steer Is to the beef packer-- the source of the choicest food product of its kind. ' v. Common snapping turtles that gen erally feed upon fish, frogs, Insects and other small animals, are accused at times of biting the feet off young ducks. ' 1 njjnfDBALXt BOYSOOUTB 60 TO CAMP JUNE 18 TO 21 flri t * »*.j j ^. f < >r • •," * V•' ^ Flans for the Blaek Hawk Council Boy Scout Camp-O-Ree to be held at Camp Finehurst, a 180-acre tract of wooded land near Rockford, are nearing completion. The local troop i? making plans for the four-day camping "experience. The registration fee has been kept low by the Scout officials so that every Scout might have opportunity to enjoy a real camping program this summer. Two thousand Scouts and Scouters cf the largt 4lrea will gather together at camp June 18 to June 21, to receive the benefits of a program that is well planned by the executive staff of the council. The camp will be organized and set up on the troop basis with the Scouts doing their own cooking. This experience of cooking in the outofdoors over an open fire is the dream of every boy when he joins the Boy Scouts of America- Ldcal Scouts who attend the Camp- O-Ree will benefit from one of the most extensive and educational programa ever developed for such an event The program includes fun in baseball and many mass games such as: Indian and White Settlers, Treasure? Hunts, and Capture the Flag, and a demonstration by the Scouts of their ability in Scoutcraft and campcraft, competing against high standards for proper awards. In the evening there will be interesting campfire programs with the Scouts furnishing their own amusement for visitors with songs, troop stunts and story telling. The four active days will climaxed on Thursday night with a Scout Circus in the Rockford high school stadium. In this event there will be a parade of the animals, made up by the Scouts, tumbling acts, pyramid building and many more interesting aotiveties, including the capers of more than one hundred clowns. No Scout or Scout parent will want to miss the fun that this event promises. The health of the Scouts are safeguarded throughout the camping days by requiring a medical examination of each Scout before he leaves home and by careful supervision of more than 300 men who will be leaders at the camp. The menus have been carefully developed to give the proper balance of food. The water has been tested ly Rockford health officiate and pronounced pure. The council will provide ice for the troops so that flu food may be kept in a wholesome man ner. Local Scout leaders hope tha' every local Scout will have the privilige of attending this big Scnut event RINGWOOD VOLO Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kruppa of Evanston spent Saturday evening here with Mr. and Mrs. Frank St George- The business men from Volo held a card party and dance at the Recreation hall Wednesday evening. Prizes were awarded to MRS. Frank Ilironimus, Mrs. Eva Paya, Mrs. Lloyd Eddy, Rollin Dowell, John Wagner, Jr., W. Brouder, Mirs. William Dillon, Mrs. Anna Lusk, Mrs. J. Phannenstil, Frank Heronimus, Frank Rosaduestcher, Misses Elsie Steinsdoerfer, Rosemary Wieser, Marjorie Obenauf, Leonard and Lewis Blasius. Mrs. Lloyd Eddy of Grayslake spent Friday here with her pcrents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Fasefield. Mr. and Mrs. William Waldmann of Chicago spe/it Friday here with Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Waldmann. Mrs. Eva Ames and daughter of Avon Center spent Saturday at the home of Mir. and Mrs. Lloyd Fisher- The Volo school closed Saturday with a picnic at the home of Miss La- Verne Stone, their school teacher. The Volo Cubs baseball team played' the Volo married men Wednesday evening. Volo Cobs won with a score of 9 to 1. Miss Edna Fisher of Waukegan spent the past week here with her mother, Mr*. Sarah Fisher, Mrs. Bert Dowell of Slocum's Lake called at the hoittfe of Mrs. Frank Wilson. Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dowell and daughter of Elgin spent.Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Passfield. The Volo Cubs baseball team played the McHenry Shamrocks Sunday nt the McHenry diamond. Volo won with a score of 16 to 9. Those that attended the funeral of Esse Fisher from a distance were: John Fairweather, Mrs. Ruby Comfack of Downer's Grove, Mrs. Mao Ostwig, of Brookfield, Misa Bess Levett, Robert Levett, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harrison, from Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. William Lohman and son, Mra N. Chevonvtch of Libertyville; Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bemvell pf West McHenry; Mrs. Eva Ames and daughter of Avon Center, Mr. and Mr5. Charles Parker of Grayslake. - Mr. and Mrs. John Freund announce the arrival of a daughter, (Elaine Marie), at Dr. Brand's Hospital at Woodstock, May 25. , Virginia Jepson is visiting with her sister, Mildred, at Evanston. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Bruce and daughter, Phyllis, spent Sunday with relatives at Belvidere. Mr. and Mrs. Felvey Davis o.f Woodstock spent Saturday in the Alec Anderson home. * / Mrs. Ray McGee and son of McHenry and Mrs. Genevieve Dodge and sons spent Saturday afternoon at Woodstock. Fred Scfcau of Chicago is visiting in the Jtomeof his daughter, Mrs. L. E Hawley. Mr. and MrbvMaxwell Beth, and son of Chic? go spent Sunday in the Simpson-Beth home. Mrs. Nellie Dodge is spending a few days with her daughter at Antioch. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schaefer and daughter, Shirley, spent Saturday eveing at Woodstock. Mrs. E. E. Carr and daughter, Hariet, and Virginia and Mrs. Rose Antcliff, were visitors at Woodstock, Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Viola Lou and daughter, Alice Mae, and son, Robert, and Mrs. R#y Peters were visitors at Woodstock, Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carr and Mrs. Frankie Stephenson are visiting relatives at Vicksburg, Mich. MY. and Mrs. F. A. I^itchens wefe visitors at Dundee and Carpentersville Saturday evening. f Mr. fltnd Mrs. Ray Neal and family r.ttended tho wedding of their niece, Rose Wice, in Chicago, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Frey and family of Deerfield spent Sunday in the P. H. Beatty home. Louise Williams of Chicago spent the weekend with her parents, Mr. and Nrs. Henry Williams. Fredrick and Roy Wiedrich spent Monday in Chicago. Charles Coates of Genoa City spent Sunday in the F. Wiedrich home. Mir. and Mra. Lenke and three sons and Mr. Woodward of Kenosha spent the weekend in the Earl Judson hdme. Mr. Woodward will spend a few days with hia daughter and husliand, Mr. and Mrs. Pufahl of Hebron- They were cupper guests in the Judson home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Hltchens spent Sunday at Beloit. ' ^ Mr. and Mrk. F. Guth of Genoa City spent Sunday afternoon With IBS.", Genevieve Dodge and family. Mr. and Mrs. Meuser and two chS» c>ren, Mrs. Mildred Munshaw and M|| Alice Lawson of Elgin spent Mondag| with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McCannon. Mrs. Ed. -ard .Thompson is, frprndirtg a few days in Chicago*. ^ Tax Increases Fuel Cost Four y Times As Much As Code Prices, * ? Federal Trade Report Reveals PtAiCVXtBSA rCl t GOAtSTOALIILN E t* cunt n> mum AVERAGE STATE rCOCBAi. GASOUMC f*XC» M CtNTS r*' SALION rt M.irM I f - 1910 a '23 -23 -27 "29 "31 13 ION "21 23 '29 "27 29 *31 33 Charts show amount of gasoline dollar absorbed by taxes; averago yearly retail prices of gasoline In 50 cities; and average yearly state and federal gaaollne taxes. WASHINGTON, D. C. -- State and federal taxes.,have Increased the cost of gasoline to the consumer more than four times as much as have price advances under the NRA, the Federal Trade Commission has Informed the United States Benate. i Replying to a Senate Inquiry as to^what Increased gasoline prices mean to consumers In the way of additional costs, the Commission reported that while prices advanced Sc per gallon under the Oil Code between July 1, 1933 and January 81. 1934, subsequent price declines made the average net Increase only about lc per gallon. The Increase in cost to consumers ^ was placed at $160,000,000 annually as compared with state and federal taxes averaging 6.14c per gallon and costing 1700,000,000 annually. The Commission explained that tbe fconsumers' Advisory Board had estimated the Increased cost to clonstimers due to price advances at J644.000.000. 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