Imperial Valley press and the Imperial press., 1906-09-01

blance of the product to the Portland limestone.
 The man who has wife and fam fly and who refuses to take the home paper during the busy season because he hasn't time to read it has an eX- tremely warped and selfish disposition and needs making over badly.
 There would seem to be considerable justice in the proposal of the granger of central state who holds that inas- much as owners of automobiles share equally with the farmer in the benefit of good highways they should be asked to pay portion of the tax levied to keep the road in repair.
 Experiments which have been made show that the runts in a drove of hogs do vastly better when kept in a sepa rate pen, where they can have better chance at the trough. When kept with larger and more vigorous pigs they are chased from pillar to post and have
 
 While there is no trait that should be more generously exercised or whose effects are more wholesome or Salu- tary than charity, it is badly prostitut ed when its exercise affords a cloal. or shield for preventable rascality. There is the charity which uplifts and +n grade.
 Perhaps there is no more charming instance of gratitude than that to be observed in the return which we re ceive from the flowers to which we de vote our care. A bed of roses in our yard furnishes a daily thank offering of beauty and fragrance, and though it's messengers are mute they teach helpful lesson of purity and unselfsh- ness.
 A section farm within a few miles of the writer's home has an amount of Quack grass growing on it that would cover forty acres if it were collected on one patch. The passerby does not need to be told that this deplorable state of affairs is the natural out growth of long years of neglect and slipshod farming encouraged by year to year system of renting. Under this the landlord squeezes the renter, the renter skins the landlord, with the re- suit that there is very real agricul- tural devil to pay in the shape of be fouled land and depleted soil fertility.
 When once the start has been made it is just as easy to raise thoroughbred as dunghill or scrub fowls, while the satisfaction which comes from the rais- ing of a flock of uniform color and size is no mean consideration. The thor Oughbred fowls will usually lay as well as the scrubs and as a rule bring a better price when put on the market, both on account of size and appearance. We know of a nearby farm which it Is pleasure to pass by, simply because there are raised there each year from 15O to 250 full blooded light Brahmas. The statement made would be as true of any other variety of chickens
 While it occupies relatively a very humble place in the economy of nature, there is probably no one of her crea- lures that fulflls a more useful mis- sion or in a greater measure earns his way than the common toad That he performs a great service for the farm CT and gardener is shown from the fol lowing daily bill of fare: Caterpillars, cutworms, beetles, SOW bugs, snails, grasshoppers, moths, wireworms and potato bugs. all of which damage the farmers crops to a serious degree. One who has made close study of the matter found in the stomach of one toad seventy seven thousand legged worms, in another thirty-seven tent caterpillars, in third sixty-fve gypsy moths and in a fourth fifty-five army worms According to this same ob- server, in ninety days a single toad may destroy 1,16O cutworms, 1,S6O thousand-legS, 2,100 SOW bugs and 360 weevils. The toad is thus seen to be 6 benefactor which should be protect ed and befriended in every way posst- ble