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Middletown transcript., 1915-03-06
Natural Bedding Material.

Natives of British Honduras find
that nature has provided them with
splendid material for pillows and mat
tresses in the pollack tree. 1t is a com
mon soft-wood growth. with a large.
pear-shaped fruit, which has a hard
shell. changing to almost black when
ripe, and contains a short staple brown
fiuff or silk fiber. The Huff is about
quarter of an inch long, more like
the finest of camel's hair than fiber.
and is used extensively for filling pill.
lows and mattresses. 1t will not lump,
even after years of service. The ma
tives occasionally expose it to the sun.
light for day or two. and put it back
again as good as ever.
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l}AERY]
KEEP BUTTER DURING WINTER
To Retain Its Quality Temperature Of
Cellar Should Be Maintained as
Low as Possible.

A supply Of butter that will keep
through the winter is much desired on
most farms, but many find 1t difficult
to produce it. There are two or three
secrets that must be observed. First,
If the cellar is musty, it must be care
fully scraped and cleaned and the side
walls and ceiling swept Then it will
be well to whitewash it carefully with
a little formaldehyde in the lime. To
spray it with force pump is easy.
kumigation with at least a pound of
sulphur is another way of destroying
the must germs. The cellar should be
closed tightly for several hours while
the fumigation is in process.
What makes cellar damp or
musty? Usually it is because some
thrifty person is anxious to keep it
sweet and lets in the warm air of the
day. Warm air contains a large
amount of moisture, which is precipi-
tated upon the cold walls, and it nat
urally follows that the cellar Is first
damp, then musty and, later, moldy.
Ventilate cellars only during cold
nights.
Now the butter. The cream should
be ripened only to a point of pleasant
acidity. Stop the churn when the
granules of butter have begun to come
and have massed to the size of kernels
of wheat. Draw off the buttermilk and
put in an equal amount of clear, cold
water. Revolve once or twice and
draw, repeating this washing until
the water runs out clear. Then salt
one ounce to the pound with best
dairy salt, mixing 1t in the fine grains
in the churn b. revolving or stirring
Next mass it into balls and set 1t aside
to settle until the next morning.
Then work the butter a second time,
and pack it hard into sound, sweet,
stone jars, and over its hard-pressed,
level top, spread disk of parchment
paper wet. On this lay fine salt an
inch deep. Then tie tough paper over
the top to exclude dust, and place the
jar at once in the coldest, cleanest
part of the cellar. To make butter re-
tain it's quality, the temperature Of the
cellar should be maintained at as low
and even a temperature as is possible.
Vegetables and other things that may
produce odors must be excluded.
Do not be persuaded that the addi-
tion of saltpeter or sugar or any other
substance is necessary to the preser-
vation of butter. Salt alone is needed,
and one ounce to the pound is suffi-
cient. Never use a cracked or musty
or "lardy" jar. The old-fashioned
stone jar that is well glazed has never
been superseded by anything better
for holding butter. Where butter is
to be consumed soon, of course. the
washing is not needed, and the favor
will be higher IL the buttermilk is not
washed out
Middletown transcript., 1915-03-06
Green Bone for Fowls.

Green bone can be fed advanta-
geously to fowls intended for different
purposes and kept under different
conditions. 1t is a great help in has
tening the growth of young birds, but
the greatest help of this food to the
average poultry raiser is in feeding 1t
during the winter months to supply
animal food. When fed to laying
hens the yield will be increased won
derfully, and the poultry raiser will
be well paid for the labor expended
in cutting. It is a food which all
fowls eat readily, and one that must
be fed judiciously.
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Follow the Worm.

A Harvard professor, experiment.
ing with the intelligence of a worm,
has discovered that the ,wriggling In
vertebrate knows enough. after three
trials, to avoid a path that leads to
an electric shock and to take the road
that leads to comfort.
But vertebrate man will follow the
lane to disaster time after time. He
knows that It is the way to ruin. He
knows that discomfort and disease lie
at the end, but with that splendid gift
of reason and free will, with which
he is endowed. he lets the crawling
things of the earth prove their SUI
perior wisdom.-Philadelphia Public
Ledger.
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Care Of Details important.

AS rule it is the taking care of the
little things that goes furthest toward
making a success of any business.
This is especially true in the poultry
business. Until one masters this fea-
ture of the work he cannot hope to be
a real success. This is one reason why
many women are really successful in
the raising of chickens. They have the
inborn faculty for detail in their work.
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PROFIT FROM GUERNSEY cow
Most Satisfactory Results Shown by
Records-Limit Of Production
Not Yet Reached.

More than three thousand yearly
records of Guernsey COWS have now
been completed. These show an av-
erage milk yield of S,544 pounds milk
and 426 pounds butterfat. More than
one-third of the COWS tested we're
heifers with first calf, which makes
the showing all the more creditable.
OF this number 564 gave from 10000
Middletown transcript., 1915-03-06
CUTICURA SHAVING
IS up-to-Date Shaving for Sensitive
Skina. Trial Free.

Prepare razor. Dip brush In hot
water and rub It on Cuticura Soap held
In palm of hand. Then make lather
on face and rub in for a moment
with fingers. Make second latherinG
and shave. Rub bit Of Cuticura Oint
ment over shaven parts land on scalp
If any dandruff or itching) and wash
all on with Cuticura Soap and hot
water, shampooing same time. Ono
soap for all-shaving, shampooing,
bathing and toilet. It's velvet for sen.
sitive skins. No Shiny mug. No germs.
No waste OF time or money. Free
sample each II you wish. Address
postcard. "Cuticura, Dept Ky. BoS-
ton" Sold everywhere.-AdV.
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Napoleon outdone.

In small town there was veteran
of the Civil war who was called Colo
mel Blngle He was stored full of an
ecdotes about his life as soldier,
which had won him the unbounded ad-
miration of a certain little boy in the
town who was of martial cast Of
mind But never had the boys admi-
ration for the colonel found such COM
plete expression as when he remarked
to little playmate:
"Come on, Jimmy, let's play sol
diers You be Napoleon BOnaparte--
Ill be Colonel Bingle!"
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Adamantine.

81 never saw any one so obstinate
and set as John is"
"You surprise me!"
Yes, indeed. Why, only this morn
ing we had a dispute. but l stood firm
and told him he might move the pyra-
mids. but he couldn't move me when
my mind was made up"
And he finally admitted that he
was wrong?"
We'll, about the same thing. He
said, Have your own way, Marie
"Of course But what was the ar
gument about?"
"Oh, haven't the slightest recol
lection; but 1t was the principle, you
know"
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Found Humanity FraIl.

In town in New York a disagree
able man set a trep for his brethren
and sisters. Twenty-Five were tempted
with dimes slipped into their change
and then watched to see what they
would do about It. Seven men and
one woman pocketed the change un-
counted and never knew of the bait.
Four men and two women found and
returned the coin. Eleven succumbed
to greed and, unconscious of the watch
upon them, pocketed the Illicit gain.
Even happier than those who demon
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A Guernsey Calf.

to 10000 pounds milk and from 500 to
1000 pounds butterfat.
The 80 COWS highest ON the list gave
an average of 1887 pounds milk, and
I'll pounds butterfat with a test Of
5.2S per cent. This is over two pounds
butterfat a day right through the
year. and is a very satisfactory show
ing. Guernsey records show over 80
pounds milk in one day and 1881
pounds in 80 days. The limit of pro-
duction is not yet reached.
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Indication Of EowI,a Health.

The condition of the bowels is the
best indication of the fowls health.
When the droppings are more or less
hard, of dark brown color, capped
with white. we know the fowl is enjoy
ing the best of health. But when they
are watery and yellow, indigestion, If
not liver trouble, is the cause.
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Table Manners.

The small daughter of the house
was buslly setting the table for ex.
pected company when he mother
called to her:
Put down three forks at each
place, dear"
Having made some observations on
her own account when the expected
guest had dined with her mother be
fore, she inquired thoughtfully:
Shall give Oncle John three
knives?"
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Much Attention Is Neeessary.

Chickens are easy to hatch in incu-
bators, and are easy to raise if one has
house for the purpose and good
brooders and gives them good atten-
tion; but one cannot go visiting three
days in a week and raise chickens.
But no business can be managed sue
cessfully If the manager does not
apply business principles, stick to his
work and know it from beginning to
end.
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kHuCu UGSOCA S
did when the doctor
was treating me. j
don't suffer any
bearing down pains
at all now and / sleep
well. / cannot say
enough for Lydia E
Pinkham's Negeta-
BILE Compound and
Liver Pills as they
have done so much
for me- I am enioVs
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Terrifying STYLES.

'The Gorgons were NEUROLOGICAL
sisters, who had snakes for tresses in
stead Of hair"
Gee" muttered the high school
girl, ut must have been tough to have
to go out and gather a bunch of
snakes whenever you needed a few
extra puffs. louisville Courier-Jour
nal.
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strated their rectitude are the eight
whose indifference to lucre made them
winners without hla,ne. Unhappy are
the detected pilfersTs indeed, but prob
ably the sorest people in the town are
the remaining 2,O13 inhabitants who
missed the chance to make either q
record or ten cents.
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Rioht Kind to Keep.

Keep good COWS that will produce
from 200 to 300 pounds or more Of
butter fat annually.
Feed them literally; follow methods
commonly employed among feeders in
eow-testing associations.
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Hard to Educate Cow.

You cannot buy COW that has been
educated three or four years on other
lines, and by any means of care and
feeding, make her what she would
have been If you had her at the outset
Middletown transcript., 1915-03-06
The Exnlanation

Tomdix-So Weeks is married, eh?
He is so timid that l wonder he ever
mustered up sufficient courage to pro-
pose.
Hojax-Oh, he didn't have to. A
young widow married him.
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aulId sIowIv

If you are looking for a get-rich.
quick scheme, don't go into the chick
en- business. On the other hand, If
you will start small, build slowly and
study as you go, you can make splen-
did income from poultry ralsh.g.
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Make ErIenda Wlth Helfers.

Take care OF the heifers. 1t is from
them the hero is REINFORCED. Handle
them when they are young and get
them to accept things with good ma
ture.
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Inveatment Thar Pava-

Dairying is the kind of business
that pays for the right kind of an
investment and In this case the in
vestment is in COWS and feed 1t is
poor policy to try to shorten the
ration.
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perslstenoe Makes suosess.

Those who become discouraged at
a few failures will seldom succeed
with poultry Failures are often met
in any line, and poultry is no excep-
ton to this rule. Il takes persistence
to make a success at anything.
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Increase the Meat Ration.

Remember. in cold weather to in
crease the meat ration, as the hens
need it to keep up the heat for the
body.
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RarnInded Him.

well, see the groundhOg-"
by George. that reminds me! My
wife asked me to bring home some
sausages for supper. Tan
script.
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All Bows and Girls

should write to VIM. Wrigley Jr. Co, &,
1904 Kesner Bldg, Chicago. ILL.,, for
beautiful Mother Goose Jingle Book"
in colors sent free to all readers OF
this paper-Adv.
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Ace Of the Ostrich.

The average age of an ostrich is
thirty years, and the annual yield Of
a bird in captivity is from two to
four pounds Of plumes.
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Heredltv.

How did your son get that stay-up-
late habit?"
Acquired it in babyhood."
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One kind of idiot is the fellow who
attempts to take taxi rides with troll
ley car pOcketbook.
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Its Class.

This cotton shipping business"
Hush! It's a baleful subject
Baltimore American.
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Some fellows are as quick as light
ming. and Just about as flashy.
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Goo Stimulating Feed.

Scraps saved at butchering time
make a fine stimulating feed in cold
weather
Middletown transcript., 1915-03-06
The Difficulty

'tIe simply refuses to throw anv
Hight on his past"
Perhaps he can't; it's so shady"
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WHAT $40 DID
FOR THIS WOMAN
The Price She Paid for Lydia
E.Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound Which Brought
Good Health.

Danville, Va--"Ihave only spent ten
dollars on your medicine and / feel 90
Middletown transcript., 1915-03-06
Provide pustina Boxes.

Provide busting boxes and Keep
them we'll filled with loose dirt.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-28
OUTLOOK FOR DRY
NATION GO0O ONE
PROHIBITION yIuTDRYyrS urunxS
PROHIBITION VICTORIES FROM
ALL OVER COUNTRY HAVING
THEIR EFFECT.

Washington. Feb. 2T.-Senator
Sheppard has been earnestly working
for a favorable report from the Senate
Judiciary Committee for the national
prohibition bill. The subcommittee
IVES favorable. and for a time 1t
seemed that the measure would be
sent to tho floor by the whole COM
rittee. but the ship puschasc filibuster
and the chaotic state OF Senate debate
at the present time. which has even
preve nted the consideration of great
appropriation measures. seems to nave
the Cenate during the life of the pre-
sent Congress.
There Is. however. a feeling OF con-
sternation among the opponents of
national prohibition. Reports from va
rious sections of the country detailing
action by State Legislatures restricting
or prohibition the traffic In liquors has
created feeling among friends and
foes alike that the hour of fate has
strut',, that Il showdown cannot be
longer delayed. The enactment OF por-
hibition by Alabama and Arkanas. its
s. omission by Idaho. the favorable
action of one branch OF the Utah
Legislature. the certainty OF vote in
1915 in Montana, and the PROBABILITY
that South Carolina will 20 dry next
September, the inevitable repeal OF the
muict law in Iowa leaving that a
prohibition State. reports OF dry
victories in local option contests III
various States. and the amazing growth
OF prohibition sentiment In Pennsyl-
vania- TexaA Minnesota and other
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-28
IOWA WILL Be DRY
WITHIN TEN MONTHS
NO DOUBT OF SUCCESS OF THU
PROHIBITION MEASURE

/ Des Moines. Iowa, Feb. 27.--After
submitting constitutional amendment
! by vote of 80 to 10, the Iowa Senate
passed a measure repeating the mulct
law and leaving statutory prohibition
Z as tho law of Iowa to go into effect
January l, 1915. The vote was 81
to %.
Eighty-six saloons In Des Moines
have Just been closed by local action
and that large city is now dry. Liquor
dealers over the entire State are re-
signed to prohibition. Everywhere
! they are packing up an moving out.
Enthusiasm pervades Iowa
! Attorney-General Cosson has begun
the preparation of bill to insure the
effective enforcement OF prohibition
when 1t becomes law.
The history of prohibition in Iowa
Is checkered In 1882 the people
adopted a constitutional amendment
by 10000. 1t was thrown out by the
Supreme Court on a technicality. A
Vigorous legislative campaign was then
to elect a friendly legisla-
Eture. which was done, and In 1884
this legislature enacted statutory pro.
Ihlbition.
L No law was ever moro bitterly
fought or was the victim of more
dirty politics. AS result. in 1894
the mulct law. which was simply a
scheme to secure the nonenforce-
ment of statutory prohibition In certain
communities, was adopted. The repeal
of the mulct law leaves the old pro-
hibitory statute of 1884 in full effect.
1t will be hard on any politician who
attempts to play false with the pres
Ient prohibition movement.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-28
LONG FAvORS SANE
DEFENSIVE POLICY
MUST NOT LET EUROPEAN SIT
UATION THROW Us IN PANIC,
HE DECLARES.

John D. Long. former Secretary OF
the Navy, has put into letter to
the American League to Limit Arma-
ments a statement of his reasons
against any change In the policy OF
naval construction and equipment at
this time. His views coincide with
those of William f. fNandler, another
fomer Secretary of IN Navy, as given
in his recent letter - senator George
&c. Perkins He favors a ''reasona BILE
normal increase of the navy for coast
ldefenses and international peace duty"
but says the United States must not
let the European situation throw us
into a panic" and suggests that "our
imparatively modest. but by no means
inefficient preparation" is blessing in
disguise. since 1t would lead to some
other less bloody and costly means
OF adjusting an international difficulty.
should one arise, which he deems
most unlikely.
Ex-senator Longs letter Ia addressed
to l. Hollinsworth Wood, secretary
of the American League to Limit
IArmaments. at 43 Cedar Street, New
York City, and reads as follows:
Il see no objection to Congressi onai
OF our resources and pre-
paredness in that respect of a re-
port In due season with reference
thereto. But we must not let the Eu-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-28
HONORs FRUTT-TREE BOX
Comical Error ut Very Solemn DC
CasSinn.


Cassion.
Atlanta, Ga, Feb. 27.--When the
Sons and Daughters of Jealous Zion
held the biggest funeral of the year
In Monroe County, day OF two ago,
they overlooked one detail WHICH al
most broke UP the enjoyment Of the
lobsequities according to returning
travelling men present in the little town
Of Bolingbroke on the day of the fun
eral.
The departed brother passed away
lin Savannah. and his remains were
| shipped to BoIingbrcke in a handsome
cesket provided from the funds of the
| Sons and Daughters They were met
/ at the train by the full membership
of the Society In complete regalia,
the wamen in purple dresses, white
aprons and black hats, and the broth
ers In Masonic aprons and crepe bound
silk lids.
! After some confusion as to preced-
!ence and an argument over a choice
of pall-bearers the long box on the
station platform was borne tenderly
to the hearse and the cortege de-
parted for the ceremony, where the
services were long drawn out and I'm
posing Then the procession wounded
It's way back to the depot to watch
I the south-bound train pass by Tc
the surprise of the society the bag
gage men deposited anothed long boz
tCn the platform. which proved to b:
1.-THE remains of the departed brother
Upon investigation 1t was discovered
that the society had given full funeral
honors to a box OF fruit trees.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-28

" The Hotel Adams has been filled
10 the roof for the past week and has
been compelled to turn away guests
daily More than ten arrivals on this
mornings trains could not be accom-
modated," said the Gazette" of Feb
ruary 9Th. thirty-six days after the
State went dry. To show that this
condition is not confined TO the Adams
Hotel alone. the same newspaper two
days later contained the following
news item.
The Commercial Hotel has been
filled TO capacity for the past two
weeks and guests are being turned
away daily. Clerk Dalton reports that
business was never so good at this
time of the year"
The Gazette. which by the way, was
used by the vets to make their fight
against the amendment. during the
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-28

ropean situation throw us into panic
So far from its operating as stimulus
or warning to US Immediately and alb
normally to increase our war forces
and armament. the argument. It seems
to me-, runs the other way. All the
nations whose antagonism would be
threatening to us, in case any such an
tagonism should arise, will come out
of the present convulsion exhausted
and bankrupt and with pretty keen
appreciation that years OF peace are
vital to their recuperation.
/ Then, too, II we were now at once
/ to put ourselves on the partly enlarged
war footing SO urgently advocated at
ably be antiquated and not up to In
venventive advances before any emer-
gency called for its use against world
power. / am in favor of a reasonable,
/ normal increase Of our navy for
coast defenses and International police
duty, and of maintaining, in ships and
.men. our continued rate of military
preparation. but at present at seems
enough to keep to that program with
cut getting INTO a panic.
I "Of course, 1t Is true, as claimed,
that IL any chance of war with a bet
ter prepared nation should arise, our
comparatively modest. but by no
means inefficient, preparation might
mot permit us to resort ofYhand to
the immediate arbitrament OF arms.
But. after all. would that really be a
sorrow, and might 1t not lead to some
iother means OF adjustment that would
be less bloody and costly? Would the
Kaiser, who by turn of finger could
have Prevented the present CHASTITY
borrow of mutilation and death. have
deliberately inaugurated 1t II his war
preparation had ben no greater than
our own? And would not Germany,
with its splendid people. have been all
these later years as we'll. If not better.
off commercially, industrially and So
cfally. and in every other good thing
true to modern civilization? If my
memory serves me right there Is
prayer which contains the words, Lead
us not into temptation
fSigned) JOHN D. LONG"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-28
FORTY DAYS OF FAST
GOOD FOR ARIZONA
Business Conditions Are Greatly Improved Uuder Prohib
ton Law-Hotels DO Good Business and Pay
Days Do Not Bring Disorder.

Phoenix, Ariz,. Feb. 27.--After forty
lays under "a dry Arizona, business
conditions have greatly improved. In
addition to the financial institutions
which have located In Phoenix since
the Phohibitory Law was enacted. the
new Hotel Jefferson. the largest and
finest in the State, will soon be ready
Tor occupancy. A very remarka BILE
circumstance ia the increase in eating
establishments. Since the state went
Ery, there have been five restaurants
opened. all Of them exceptionally well
patronized.
The Hotel Adams, which used three
ful page advertisements In the "Arl-
iona Gazette" In an effort To convince
The voters that the dry amendment
would keep transients out OF Arizona
and absolutely ruin the hotel bust
ness. has been full to overlooking un-
der the dry regime as the followin u
from the same newspaper will show;
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-02-28
Arranging Permanent Exhibit.

Atlanta, Ga. Feb. 27-Interest
shown by Georgia Boards of Trade
and Chambers OF Commerce in the
proposed Georgia Manufacturers Per-
manent Exhibit to be established in
Atlanta has caused its formal opening
to be postponed from March to
March Is. in order that exhibit space
for those bodies may be arranged 8.
is. Howle. publishers Of The Manufac-
lturcr and Builder, who is general man.
iager of the exhibit has returned from
a tour of the State with reports that
the idea has been received with en-
thusiasm amcng manufacturers, who
are taking srace and preparing ex-
hihits of Georgia made goods. six
story building next door to the Cham
Der of Commerce building will be de-
voted to the displays. which will form
an all-the-year round exhibit OF
Georgia mad. goods OF every kind.