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Hp.* fish*" ?•#* • Cattle Numbers Op I £er Cent. Cattle numbers climbed l per \? cent during the past year in ' Bpite of & record large slaughter. :r lnorease was largely In dairy **?• ».?• lib: p$%2 Wt\ Showed no important change. These figures show that the nations farmers ate in a position to furnish about the stune axnount of beef' in 1964 as they did In 1953. / t The U.S. 1>epartment! of ASfricultur* raport placed the nuni- |»er of cattle and calves on farms and ranches Jan. 1 at 94.7 .million head compared with 93.7 million head a year before.. The SjpHfx•? increase of a million head carried M-S-.Seattle numbers to a new record i' fS Jhigh. \ The current upswing in cattle - numbers began in 1949, when the "i year opened with 76.8 million head. During the five years since If. the upturn began, there has been IV' an increase of 18 million h>?ad. „ or 22 per cfent. The present upswing has carried the total 11 |1 per cent above the peak of the previous record cycle peak of 85.6 |! million head set in 1945. |j* The government report listed || hog numbers on farms Jan. 1 at jg! 48.2 million. This number was f»». u per cent less than that of one rf year before, and it reflected the £«% smaller 1953 spring and fall pig crops. The reduction in number? I* of hogs on farms means 10 to 15 per cent less pork for c«msumers. The reduction will con- 1# tlnue to about next August, ft* Farmers plan to have 6 per cent more sows farrow this spring than they had last year. Farmers started this year with about 24.7 million milk cows. This number is 3 per cent more than were on hand one year be- Milk production in January I iwajjt 9.2 bflllfcnpoimds, up 6 per • from 12 months before and | the highest on record for the f month. • Numbers of sheep said lambs decreased again in 1953 for the second consecutive year. The drop amounted to about 3 per cent, bringing total numbers down to 30J) million head, the IdHasst nunriter reported since 1990. Numbers of. chorees and mules continued to -dwindle in 195S. The number oh farms Jan. 1 of this yew" is listed as 5 million. This is Ma decline 'of 9 per cent tor tfte^past' year «nd 61 par cent swee the peak ofJjorse and mule popularity in 1918. Chickens am farms Jan. 1 numbered 1t89 million head; up 2 ttorh a year earlier. Egg1 ictlon in January was 5,- 44^,000,000, or 1 per cent more thftn m 1955. TUIrtceys We listed ttt 5.3 I?*' . P. Km •*"i * ?r §« It it |t Total livestock ani poultry on f *-;ims at the beginning of this year was 1' per cent less than one year before. The reductions In hogs and horses mote than offset the small increases in cattle and poultry. The decrease in total livestock during the past year was the first sjnee 1949. Ti e cut-back in livestock ^umbers, especially hogs, intensifies the problem of large grain stocks. FARM POPULATION INCOME AVERAGED $882 LAST YEAH The Agriculture department reported last week that the income of the fai-m population, last year averaged $882 for each person compared with ari average of $1,898 for the non-farm population. These figures were said to represent a decrease of |23 from 1952 for the farm population and an increase of $56 lor the non-farm population. The record average for the farm population $986 -- was said to have been reached, in 1961. Liast year's $1,868 average was reported to be the highest on record for the non-farm population. The decline in the farm income reflected lower farm product prices. The reduction in the farm population income lMt year was about 8.8 per cent on an overall basis, but only about 3 per cent on an individual average basis. The number of persons living on farms last year was smaller than the year before. Included in the income figures for the farm population was the value of farm products used in the family home, the rental value of farm dwellings and returns from non-farm sources, such as outride investments, wages for non-firm work and the like. The department said farm operators, as distinguished from farm laborers and other nonfarm operators, included in the farm population, realized a net income of $12,802,000,000 from farming operations last year compared with a' record high of $15,644,000,000 in 1951. The average net income for the nation's farms was put at $2,212 last year compared with $2,557 in 1952 and with a record of $2,884 in 1948. Farmers' cash, receipts from marketings last year were estimated at 31 billion dollars, 4 per cent less than in 1952, which was the record high. The total volume of marketings of crops and livestock and livestock products was up 4 per cent but farm priftes averaged 8 per cent er. ' lower. ' Net income figure* by states had not yet been determined. But the department reported the Provisions Ol County Rabies Control Program Are Annoum According to Dr. H. S. Fike, local veterinarian in charge of carrying out the provisions of the state law passed July 6, 1908, concerning rabies control, all dogs unless kept on leash, muzzled or confined must be vaccinated against rabies. The following provisions are being.followed throughout the comity: (It The fee for this vaccination shall be $3 per dog, of which $1 will be turned over to the county treasurer for a rabies control fund as approved by the county board of supervisors. (2) Dogs at large will be Impounded a. maximum of seven days. If unclaimed at the end of^seven days, a veterinarian swill be authorized to destroy said dogs. • f (3) Owner may claim the impounded dk>g by payiflp $1 per^ day for board plus vaccination fee (if unvaccinated) and $1 additional penalty to the county rabies fund. (4) Any unvaccinated dog that has bitten a person must be impounded for fourteen days for rabies observation, such cost ' to be paid by owner, plus $3 vaccination before the dog can be released and a $1 penalty. (5) Any persoh who iB on relief may have fcne <fc»g vaccinated free of charge by producing a voucher from the supervisor. The veterinarian will retain fthe voucher after vaccination. TWO MILLION VICTIMS (An Editorial) Far- from the entire slory of the staggering increases In automobile accidents in recent years is told in highway death statistics, which are more commonly used to depict the horror of it all. The threatened toll of 40,000 or more dead In 1954 speaks volumes in depicting tlfe extent of the nation's accident problem. But a great deal more is told, too, by the enormous total of injured traffic victims, which reflects almost as vividly the constant threat of accidents to our safety. According to Thomas N. Boate, nationally known highway safety authority, motor vehicles will injure some 2,000,000 victims or more in 1954. His estimates run. far higher than some quasi-official ones, which he declares are "completely unrealistic." These rtln in the neighborhood of 1,350,000 injured annually. The lower estimates, Mr. Boate explains, are based on theoretical ratios of approximately thirty-five person injured for every person killed on the highways. Independent annual studies support Mr. Boate's broader picture of the actual motor vehicle toll. He gives further credence to' his contention that the injury toll is from one-third to 55 per cent greater than .is generally b£lieved by citing much higher proportions of injured victims to dead one's by official count in a number of states. One state averaged 113 persons injured tor every highway fatality over the three-year period from 1950 to and forty-five. Mr. Boate conredes that in some states the rates run somewhat lower, but these lower averages- are usually due to incomplete reporting or they occur in less populous -states and have little effect on the national .average, ,So, instead of thiity-five persons hurt for every one killed, he believes the national average would present a far more accurate picture If ft were computed at fifty to fifty-five Injured for every fatality. That is shocking but believable news. Surely it demands that accident prevention measures of every kind must be adopted to stop our motoring insanity. 1952. Next highest average of a following state breakdown on neighboring state was seventycash receipts from farm marketmillion, the same as last -year, in^s for 1953 as a percentage of Farmers report that they plan 1952: to boost tdrkey productioh by 7j Indiana, 97; Illinois, 95; Michiper cent tfiis year. The expected I gan, 97; Wisconsin, 92; Missouri, fndftaike for UgHt breISs is jfM 94; and Iowa, 92. yer oent, and fq? heavy breeds,j -r- 6 p*r cen* ' Subscribe To The Platadsaler five; in others nearby, sixty-five MYF News The McHenry Methodist Youth gtoup met Sunday night sit the church to form an MYF band. Mrs. Stinespring led the band, With Dick Wissell and Bruce Nelson on the cornets; Betty Wright, Donna Barger ajnd Jinny DeYoung playing clarinets; fiarbara Eggert on the baritone;-'Sue Stinespring on the alto saxophone; and Ipst, bat not -least, Kathy Anderson playing tits triangle. Sunday! March 1*4, a" .< JffaJup from Chicago will visit the local church .at 6 o'clock and withvjthe ideal group Will have a pot-Wfck dinner, At 7:80 o'clock the Cwy MYF will join them and they will go to the high school gym for square dancing, led by Augie Aamodt of Humboldt Park. Afteiward, everyone will go back to the chuixsh for refreshments, SPRING >i-_. #'•"* -v - » - WSERVICE FRED J. SMITH '.v • V >5* • Complete Motor Overhauling Welding JOHNSBU8G, ILL. McHENHY 200-J TRACTOR SALE RUSSEL and IfOWERS, liaotkBeefi Dtte-'to my help being placed in 1-A, I am forced to sail at pubMc auttdoci on the faitn knowta as the Henry Stilling farm lodated 2 miles j north of MlcHenry on the old McHem-y-Johnstousg Blacktop roSH on j SATURDAY, MARCtt-13 at 12:30 Sharp 56 HEAD OF LIVESTOCK consisting of 20 JH toads Holstein Dairy Cows. 12 of these cows have freshened j in the past 6 weeks and 8 are clOpe sprtagers. At the present time this dairy £b producing 10 cans of milk ditiJSy. 2 Jersey dairy cows; 10 Holstein heifers, vaccinated, -wilt either be fresh or close springers by day of sale; 1 Holatein heifer, vaccinated, 1 year old, open; 1 Holstein helf«r, vaccinated, 8 months old; 1 Jersey heifer, vaccinated, 18 mfattv Old, open; 1 HoiMein bull, 2 years old, Registered 2 Hajnctfdre- mws, IS pigs. . H Milking machines, 2 units; i Riteway milking machine; 14 ~ ^ stndners. FEED , 500 bushel efer corn. Farmers Agree CHAMPION ^^.TRACTOR TIRES CHARLES J. MnXES under cash, over thait amount y4 down and balpayments plus interest. Buy wheJt you want, sign note, no co-signers needed. Settlement must be made on day SALES CORPORATION, Clerk WoiMMkf Oltooto 110 L OTHERS! S | Thsir dssp bits and sslfcleaning action givs your trac* tor extra puMing power, csving fust casts and sngins r. £c|uip your traetor with RrOftono tiros today. PBiCES INCLUOf AIX TA5CES Reg. Price 8ale Price . EACH EACH 69.4S -- M6^0 ..$105.67 -- $79.55 96.73 -- $63.00 $117.38 -- $79.45 Other Sizes E<iually LAwl Fteft Come Fint Sarrad. MCHENRY TIRE MART WALT FREITXD ft BOB TITURLWELL, Props. SM Main St. Mctlaary, HL Phone 204 or 205-J 10-24 - 4 13-24 - 4 Ply ..... 10-36 - 4 Ply 10-38 r § P\y WEEKLY CROSSWORD PUZZLE Czech Author Here's the Answer HORIZONTAL S Yugoslav city 1.6 Pictured late 6 Departed ~ Ciech author 7 Comfort IS Newfoundland 8 Right (ab.) island 9 Music note, IS Pasturage Exit ' 14 Twitching .11 Foliage 15 Operates, 14 Singing group 17 Uheookei 16 He died in the 32 Manifest 19 Brazilian coin (ab.) 33 Worshipper 20 Sticks 18 Had being 35 Scorched 22 Night before 20 Likes better 36 Australian 23 Tavern 21 Meals river 24 Indian weight 26 Courtesy title 37 Native of 25 Portuguese 28 Ventilate Latvia city 31 Store 42 Take notice 27 6utmode|i 29 Providing 30 Mixed type 31 Extra 34 Iraq towt) 38 Possessedf 39 Employ 40 Ear (conk; form) 41 Mine passages 48 Rodent 47 By 48 Ireland 49 Natural (ab.) |5f 50 Built a nest S3 Sailing vessel pi 56 Groups of three 67 "Dull sounds VERTICAL 1 Quaker 2 Wisconsin city 8 Part of "be" 4 Compass point nirai 127 MORE VOTING PRECISCTS ADDED IN STATE SINCE '52 Illinois will have 127 more ^voting precincts far the April 13 primary election this year than it had for the November, 1962, {general election, Secretary of State Charles P. Oarpentier has announced. Total precincts in the state for this years election will be 9,807, of which 5,407 are in Cook county. The estimated number of liiifeday, March 11, 1954 •voters in the state is 5,287,979, ijjscretary Oarpentier said. i Counties which will have addl- ] ttonal precincts and the number of new precincts are: Bond, 4; Champaign, 1; Coles, 6; Cook, 6; DeKalb, 2; FDrd, 2; Henry, 4; Jasper, 2; Kane, 13r Kankakee, 5; Knox, 4; Lake, 16; LaSalle, l; Bee, 2; Miacoupin, 1; Madison, 2; Marion, 3; McHenry, 10; Ogle, 1; Peoria, 9; Sangamon, 12; Stephenson, 1; St. Clair, 4; Tazewell, 2; Vermillion, 2; Winnebago, 19, and Woodford, 1. 43 Helps 44 French (ab.) 45 Topic, 51 Chinese river 52 Tantalum (symbol) 54 What? 55 Bushel (ab.) SCHOOL GROWS The increase from 226 to 343 in the number of girls in the State Training School for Girls at Geneva, whidh occurred during the past twelve months, is without precedent, and was ftot provided for in the school's Budget. This information was disclosed in a letter sent by the Illinois Youth Commission last week to county judges and state's attorneys throughout Illinois. Explaining that the school ta equipped to care adequately for only 250 girls, Commission Chairman Lee E. Daniels requested that commitments of additional girls to Geneva be made only as a last resort for the time being. The Youth Commission on Jan, 1 took over administration of state institutions at St. Charles, Geneva and Sheridan whioh formerly had been under the Department of Public Welfare. leM Hie Want Ads! Vogel OUR *Pick-Up and Delivery ^is Part of Our Service, there is-- No Extra Charge! Suits & Dresats $1.20 Slacks and Single Garments 60c PHONE 20 LOCAL CLEANERS qoosfonethem 206 S. GREEN ST. McHENRY, ILL. REMEMBER THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS? How often have you said, "eh, for those good old days when a dollar was a dollar"? WelL we can't bring back those good old days, but to make room for new merchandise, we are ooixin to sell our of -- 2,600 ROLLS OF WASHABLE WATERFAST WALLPAPER AT ODD cime PRices JUST LOOK AT THESE REDUCTIONS ,* < ROLLS 47 ROLLS 33" 55' ROLLS s 'McHENRY COUNTY'S LEADING HARDWARE' til. Phone 284 501 MAIN STREET • McHENRY, ILLINOIS ^ '. .... .