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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-11-30
GOOD BUSINESS SCRAPS
] THE UAPROFITADLE MACHINE
Put the Dairy on a Business Basis.
+, Weed Out the ABoarder." "Grade
~ up the Herd BY Pure Bred Stock
and Feed Balanced Rations.

The dairy cow is a prime factor OF
Importance. No branch Of farming Ia
more fundamentally sound than dali
ry farming, though 1t is often true
that the returns from this business
are not sufficient to warrant the in
vestment, material and labor charges.
The reasons why this is true are nu-
merous, and some Of them are in the
farmers own bailiwick.
The Dairy Cow is a Machine.
The dairy COW is machine bought
and sold by the farmer to manufac-
ture milk from hay and grain. I'm
fortunately the production value Of
each one of these machines is differ
emit. Fer this reason each machine
must be tried and its standard deter
mined to learn whether 1t will turn
out milk at profit or loss.
Estimates made by the New York
State College Of Agriculture show
very clearly that the average cow is
not an eflcient machine. Her an
nual product is worth $1,000 and the
annual cost Of maintaining $61.85
exclusive Of labor. This shows that
the return ON mans labor for car
ling for her is only $4.25 q year.
Hence a man keeping 80 cows-and
that ia good sized herd-would re-
'ceive only $127.20, q little over $40
month, or less than the lowest paid
boys wages on the farm. If manu-
iSEturer had such machines In his
"a sctory he would scrap them with as
little delay as possible.
Use Dairy Scales and Babcock Test.
4 The farmer feels that he cannot af-
ford to beef his cows, but he must do
something to raise the average Of
milk production in his herd.
He should put his dairy on busi-
ness basis and determine what each
COW is doing for him and then weed
out the poor animals. The use of the
milk scales and the Babcock test are
indispensable to. success in dairying.
Along this line much credit is due
our agricultural experiment station
in assisting to organize 'tcow testing
associations" Where such organiza-
lions have been formed great assist
ance has been rendered the farmer by
putting his dairy business on q sound
and more profitable basis.
Hcrade upn the Herd with Pure Bred
Stock.
Good business, that's the first and
last principle, and it includes in its
curriculum grading up the herd
with pure bred bull or by the pur-
chase Of pure bred animals. Grade
cows may be good. but they are never
as good as pure bred animals and the
calves Of pure bred dam from pure
bred sire are always more valuable in
the market.
4 Feed Animals for Profit.
The foregoing is all spoken with
the assumption that properly bal
anced rations are fed, because there
Is nothing which will swallow preflts
quicker than poor feeding, especially
now while feeds are so high. Every
man keeping any kind Of animals
should inform himself about balanc-
Ing rations. The Agricultural Expert
ment Station and farm papers will
1adly cooperate with you in making
Nb rations.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-11-30
FEED GARDEN WASTES TO PoUL-
TRY.

Use waste leaves of cabbage and
any beets unit for the table for for
age for poultry. 1t Is worth while to
store any left over beets for winter
forage for chicks.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-11-30
rha Raokleaa Informnnt

Isn't Galbeton one OF those people
who tell everything they know?"
HE doesn't walt that long. he
rushes in and tells things before he
has time to find them out Exchange.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-11-30
The Lesser Evil.

"Lushman declared he would rather
go to jail than pay his divorced wife
alimony."
did she let him?"
yes; she said she'd much rather see
him save his money behind bars thar
spend it over them" Pittsburgh Dis
patch.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-11-30
State of Ohio. City of Toledo.


State of Ohio. City of Toledo.
Lucas County. SIS.
Frank ]. Cheney makes oath that he
Il senior partner Of the nrm OF -
City of Toledo. County and State aforo-
said. and that said firm will pay tie
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case OF CatarHh that
cannot be cured by the use of HALLS
CATARRH CURE. FRANK ]. CHENEY
Sworn to before me and subscribed
in my presence, this 9Th day of DeceMA-
Der. A D. 1886. Z. w: GLEASON,
(SeaD Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inteEA-
ally and acts through the Blood on the
Mucous Surfaces of the System. Send
for testimonials. free
F. ]. CHENEY e co, Toledo, ..
Sold by all druggists &c.
Halls Fanny Pills for constipation.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-11-30

Heaven never helps the man who
win not act.-Sophocles.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1917-11-30
WANTED.

Rags, Bones, Bags, Burlap.
Hides, Iron, Cum and Metals.
Paper cement bags, Magazines,
Papers, Books.
Highest cash prices paid for all
kinds of Junk, Hides, Calf
Skins Furs and Tallow.
JULIUS I. HAER,
Phone 126-X
RISING SUN. MD.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12

A representative of the Antisaloon
league was speaking to the juvenile
Sunday school.
II will now" he remarked, place
the letters of the alphabet upon the
blackboard. AS I write each letter
I wish you to tell me the name of a
bad drink that begins with the letter
I put on the board" He then chalked
the letter A, and one of the children
called "Alew Next B, and a youth
volunteered, Beer"
A silence when he wrote the letter
G caused the lecturer to ask, us there
nobody here who can name bad
drink beginning with G." He point
ed his finger at small boy in the front
row and said, encouragingly: There
is a little man who think can tell
me the name of bad drink that be-
gins with c."
To which the youth replied: sure
1 can. Castor oil~
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
SANT0 DOMINGO RICH LAND
is Without Modern Means Of Trans-
portation, However, Having only
One Short Railroad.

The Dominican republic is good
sized and very wealthy country which
is almost entirely without modern
means of transportation. 1t has only
one short railroad in bad repair and
only a few wagon roads reaching n
short distance inland from the princi-
pal ports. The great rich interior is
traversed only by very difficult trails,
so that to travel from one city to an
other you must go on horseback and
swim across rivers.
This state of affairs has greatly re-
tarded the industrial development Of
the country, but 1t has been q great
stimulus to the inventive genius of the
Dominicans, who have to transport ev-
erything either on horseback or by
boat.
The ability of these people to fasten
all sorts Of commodities upon the
backs Of ponies and burros is almost
Incredible. The typical Dominican
saddle is a bulky affair made Of WOW
en- grass, with short stirrups set very
far forward, so that the rider sits In
about the position of n man in a chair.
This leaves the TANKS of his animal
clear for cargo. All the milk sold in
the city is delivered by countrymen so
mounted, with an immense milk can on
either side of the mount. Eggs and
chickens are brought to town in base
kets the same way. Immense loads of
hay are miraculously strapped to the
backs of burros till they look like four
legged haystacks. Kindling is brought
to town the same way and the valu-
able hardwoods of the forests come
down TO the water front In billets load
ed on the backs of pack animals.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
Was Greek to Him.

The famous Non-Conformist divine,
Doctor Jowett, who recently accepted
the pastorate Of Westminster chapel,
London, recalls the following amusing
episode of his student dayS.
1t was during lecture'on Greek by
an eminent professor, who, after a
while, called upon one of Jowett's fell
low students to read aloud passage
from a well-known Greek author.
The young man obeyed, but had not
proceeded far when he was pulled up
sharp.
"Stop!" cried the professor. stop,
for goodness sake. Your pronuncla-
ton is terrible. How did you get such
an accent? Where do you come from?"
In an accent almost as foreign to
English as the language of the auShor,
the student replied:
"From Athens, sir"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
Insurance Staff Cut.

Gov. Gardner, who will reappoint
Walter X. Chorn of FaYette as insur.
ance superintendent, at $4,000 a year,
has caused Chorn to make sweeping
changes in the personnel of the cler-
ical force in that department.
But few of the clerks employed dur
ing the Major administration were
retained. John Sanderson, son-in-Iaw
Of former Gov. Major, who was put on
the pay roll in the state insurance
department at the suggestion Of
Major, late in the year 1916, was not
retained on the new force. His salary
was $500. Sanderson resigned re-
Gently.
The number employed in the de-
partment was decreased from IS to
IA, which is in keeping with the gov
errors demand that the clerks be
cut down so that all might find work
to do.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
Capitol Nav d. Refused.


A controversy more serious than
the long dispute over the building
stone has begun between the Capitol
Commission Board and Gill & Son,
the contractors who erected the new
building.
The new building is ready to be
turned over to the board as a COM
pieted structure. but the commission
insists on the payment of $4,000 as
accrued damages for delays Of more
than a year.
The capitol commission board may
decline to accept the building on the
ground that it is not complete. What
part Of the forfeit money the com
mission will undertake TO collect from
Gill, members Of the board had not
determined.
Under the contract between Gill
and the board, the building was to
have been completed July 1. 1916.
The contract also provided that Gill
should forfeit $3.50 a day, in lieu Of
all damages and inconvenience oc-
casioned by delay in completing the
building, except for unavoidable de-
lays"
Gill contends that the delay occa-
stoned by the controversy over the
selection Of proper building stone re-
tarded the work and that the board
was as much responsible for that de-
lay as he. He will also call attention
of the board to a record made by the
board soon after the contrast was
signed in which they granted him ex-
ira time to obtain additional bids on
rough stone.
The board is willing to allow the
contractor time off for bad weather.
1t cannot, however, grant him other
time without admitting that they
themselves, were at least partly re-
sponsible for the long delay, which It
is not believed they will do.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12

The largest financial melon that the
public schools of Missouri have ever
participated in is about ready for
cutting. The total OF state school
moneys is the largest and the per
capita will he the highest in the his
tory of the state.
State Auditor George E. Hickman
certified to State Supt. of Schools Uel
w. Lamkin that the schools would re-
ceive from the state in August, when
the apportionment was made, $2,0S6,-
S66.9S, or $135,S44.66 more than in
1916.
This fund arises from the following
sources: One-third of the revenues
of the state, from June 80, 1916, to
June so, 1917, $2,O3O,S .46; interest
on the school fund certificate, $751;
O4C, and refunds from various sources,
$2,749.62. Total, $2,22O, 612.08.
From this total must be deducted
for the pay Of county superintend.
ents, $4,000; for rural high schools,
$71,216S4, and for teachers training
course, $3S,3OS.S1, total Of $193,
725.15. leaving the balance for dis
1ribution, s2,0S6,866
Approximately there are few un
der 100000 children of school age
in Missouri so the per capita will
be slightly in excess of 81.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
How LARGE Birds Fly.

Large birds make only couple of
wing strokes a second when first talk
ing to flight, but when under full mo-
mentum the strokes become more rap
i'd. The principle is the same as that
which applies to an oarsman In start
ing his boat; the quicker the craft is
moving, the less resistance there is to
the oar and the faster is the stroke.
A swan cannot reach maximum speed
in less than $50. yards after springing
from the water; a goose requires near
ly 100 yards, and a duck about fifty
yards.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
New Carload Limits.

An application has been filed with
the public service commission by the
trunk-line railroads operating in Mis-
souri, for the establishment of a new
minimum carload limit on shipments
of grain and grain products.
Many years ago the old board OF
railway and warehouse commission.
ers fixed the minimum at 10000
pounds. This proved satisfactory I'm.
til recently, when the minimum fixed
by the interstate commerce commits.
sion was placed at 10000 pounds.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
MISCELLANEOUS MARKETS.

st. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
i2O@20.5O; No 1, $18.5O019.50; No. 2
517@1S.50. Clover-Hay. choice, $21
Prairie Hay-Choice. $22; No. 1, $2OG
"a. Alfalfa Hay-Choice, $24Q25; No
l, $21@23; No. 2, $1,000.
Eggs-New cases included, ESQ
2SAc; good secondhand cases. 15c
ess; cases returned, 1c less.
Butter-Creamery extra, SIC; flrsts
34@35c; seconds, S3c; ladies', 321zc;
packing stock, 29hc.
Potatoes-New stock, $1.50Q175i
old goods about the same.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
Autos on the Increase.

A heavy increase in the number OF
automobiles owned in Missouri over
the number registered last year, is
indicated by figures compiled by the
automobile department in the office
of Secretary of State Sullivan.
The percentage Of increase is rath.
er larger in the country than in the
larger cities, indicating that residents
of the towns and farmers are still
active in the market for machines
The gain is approximately rs per cent
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
Calls for School Report.

To determine what basis there is
for the report that Missouri public
schools rank thirty-second In eff
cheney in the United States, Gov.
Gardner directed Uel w. Lampkin,
state superintendent of public schools,
to make report to him not later than
June 80, 1918.
The governor wants the survey to
cover the physical condition of the
schools, methods of instruction, adap-
liability Of the course of study to the
needs Of the community, qualifications
OF the teachers, and other facts bear.
ing upon the public schools.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
Looks WeII in Print.

The Lady-And you may say we
suspect discharged butler of the rob-
berry.
Reporter-When was he discharged?
The Lady-Oh, we never really kept
n butter, but / think it sounds quite
well.-Judge.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12

Nothing can make woman suffer"
says an impassiOned lady writer, 'like
an unbecoming hat" Evidently some
thing should be done to alleviate the
sufferings Of the unbecoming hat.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
Gently Sarcastic.

NJ. O.-What's the matter with your
Tommy-Sore on my cheek, sir.
NJ. o. (gently)-My good man, it's
not me you should see. Call on q
beauty doctor.-London Opinion.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
Alter Pay Methods.

Alter Pay Methods.
In the supreme court In banc Judge
Faris, with the concurrence Of the
other judges. held valid and consti-
tutional the act OF 1915 changing the
basis Of pay for the clerks OF the cir.
cult courts throughout the state.
Constitutionality of the statute was
attacked on the ground 1t was grant
Ing the circuit clerks an increase in
salary during the terms OF office for
which they were elected.
Judge Faris rules that the law l.
not an increase of salaries, but 6
change in the methods of pay.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12

Some people eat and drink "any old
thing" but are very particular about
the quality Of oil and gasoline they
use in their automobiles.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
Missouri Women to Register.

1t is expected that as soon as Gov.
Gardner returns from the south where
he was called by the illness of his
father, be will issue proclamation
urging the women of Missouri to reg
lister. The date will probably be fixed
around the latter part of July.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
5one-Dry Costs.

Bone-dry prohibition as proposed in
the federal food-control measure
would cost Missouri more than $3,-
100000 biennially in revenues from
license taxes and fees from inspec.
ton OF beer and other malt liquors.
1t would cost the counties and the
city of st. Louis approximately s4.-
100000 annually.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
Balance In State Treasury.


There still is fairly large balance
in the Missouri state treasury, which
will be depleted by a third or more
when the annual distribution of the
state school money is made next
month.
State Treasurer Middelkamp, in his
report of the condition and transac.
tions of the treasury for the month
OF June, fled with Gov. Gardner to-
day, shows the following:
Balance on hand May 81, 1917, So
39,138.36; receipts during the month
OF June, S924,759.99; disbursements
during June, $1,35S,7S194. leaving a
balance on hand at the close of bus.
iness June 80 of $6,0O5, 1854.
Balances in the important funds
are:
In general revenue fund, $941, 1885,,
"a; state school fund, $2,O16, 499. SO;
game and fish protection fund, $12,-
250.42; state road fund, S643, 1884,
and in the capitol building fund,
$666,7S1.55. The earnings of the pen.
atentiary for the month were STA,
SS7.5S.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
rurns Down 81 500 JOB.

Turns Down 81 800 Job.
wv. Wilkinson, an original Gard
Heterogeneous" man, spurned an
$500 job in the state insurance de-
partment when It was offered to him.
II spent two months of my time
and my own money In travelling over
the state in helping to elect Governor
Gardner. and l thought was entitled
TO something better than an $500
p Job" said Wilkinson.
IF the governor has nothing better
than that for me don't want state
Job. I can make more money in pri-
yata life"
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
AEWIs COUNTY OFFICIALS ARE
SAID TO HAVE oVERoRAWN
SALARIES.
SUM APPROxIMATES $4,000
Clerks Bond Not Recorded and He
Ia Said 70 Owe s5,52o-Noah W.
Simpson Alec Charged With
Taking Too Much.
Jefferson City, Mo.


. An examination of the records Of
Lewis county, fled with the county
court at Monticello by examiners from
Auditor Hackmann's office, show that
james W. Barnes, former circuit
clerk, owes the county $500 and that
his bond is missing and not recorded
Among county officers and former
county officers who are found to have
COLLECTED and kept more money than
they were legally entitled to retain is
Noah W. Simpson, a member Of the
public service commission, who as
prosecuting attorney received 500 a
bear in salary for four years, instead
OF the 5000 which the report finds he
should have been paid.
Barnes bond should be on fle in
ahe office of the secretary OF state
IT Is not here. It should be recorded
In the office of the circuit clerk and
recorder of Lewis county, which is the
pffice Barnes held. It is not recorded
there.
The examiners found that county
officers and former officers owe the
county approximately $4,000.
e. G. Hilbert, who succeeded Simp-
son as prosecuting attorney, must pay
back $500; ]. NJ. Smoot, former coun-
" clerk. s6,747.19; Earl Samuel, coun-
~ clerk, 343S.23; N. W. Castor, for
mer collector, $14.02.
Burrell NJ. Bradshaw, county collec-
Sor, is found to have overpaid the
county $5f7.61, which he will recover.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1917-07-12
Red Cross Picnic.

Jefferson City raised many thous-
Rnds of dollars from the Red Cross
picnic at McClung Park on July 4.
1t is estimated that 10000 visitors
from other towns attended.
The picnic was on a tremendous
scale. The women of the city inter
ested in Red Cross work donated 1000
pies and several hundred cakes for
the dinner, and tons of meat were
barbecued for the occasion.
The ent'~o proceeds are to be do.
mated TO the Red Cross.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-02-16
sheep-RaIsIna In the EAST.

If the abandoned farms could be
utilized for sheep-raising. it will be a
long way togard reducing the cost of
living in this country. The sheep in
dustry was originally started on the
Atlantic seaboard, of course; but it
has worked its way westward until
now there are only few sheep breed
ers In the East. That the industry
can be brought back to the East is a
sure thing. Sheep, it is well known,
are the most economical domestic ami
mails produced. They can live on al
most nothing. II has been estimated
that every sheep in the United States
produces a profit of $40 annually. If
we can bring back the industry to the
eastern states and use the abandoned
farms for grazing, we shall very soon
make dent in the high cost Of liv-
ing.-Boston Globe.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1917-02-16
ARE YOUEFFICIENT?
HERE IS A TEST WHICH MAY BE
OF INTEREST.
Anyway It's One Which Very Few
Persons Find It Easy TO Master
So Don't Be Distressed II You
Should Fall.

Are you efficient? The awful query
refuses to down. The clocks tick IT,
the fiat wheels In the subway thump
It, the ungreased curves Of the ele-
waited screech it. II you are an old
business fogy. the question burns In
the eye of every plying employee.
, You find your wife measuring the
distance from the range to the kitch-
en- cabinet and your son computing the
power necessary to propel IA football
in the lowest arc. The telephone com
pany advises you to give your name
instead of saying "Hello."
Blessed be the concrete Of thought,
II not of heed. Concreteness enables
you to see just what the efficiency
master mean. One Of them, William
Fretz Kemble, tells in Industrial
Management "How to Test Your En-
ployees." OF course, every man who
reads it viii first test his most inn
portant employee, his fathers son.
Watch with pad and pencil are all
that Is needed to acquaint yourself
with your virtues and faults. In 30
seconds answer as many of these ques-
tions as you can:
Give the name Of a vegetable,
metal, an insect, a reptile, a fish,
man, woman, an ocean, a lake,
town.
If It the end OF the half minute
you Nage written only "beet, gold,
flea, adder" you are pretty poor. If
you have also put down trout,
Hughes, PiclSford, Atlantic" you are
up to human average of eight an
swers. IL you feel that you can 90
beyond ten answers, you may describe
the color of water, tea, beer, ivory
the sky, grass, milk, chalk, coal and
skin. But men who go beyond 15
answers in 30 seconds are rare; they
should have secretaries, limousines and
big black cigars.
Next try to answer five difficult"
questions in 20 seconds.
!. Who is the greatest living gen.
eral?
Lucky for you il you are pro-ally.
"Joffre" or "Haig" is written so much
more quickly than "Hindenburg" or
"Mackehsen.'
Q What is the most powerful force
In the world?
Perhaps love isn't, but it's shorter
word than militarism.
8. What is the greatest modern dis
covery?
Quick, mani Radium will do.
4. What is the greatest necessity of
commerce?
Secretary Redfeld probably woul6
not answer that in less than 1910
words. You perhaps win write "ships"
or railroads" and pass on to the
last:
s. What is the cheapest food for the
human race?
Bread, unless you are flend for
lentlls or employed by the makers Of
huted oat-corn. But you ought to an
swer three of these questions in 20 sec
onds, says Mr. Kemble. If you answer
fewer, 1t indicates "slowness or de-
liberation in thought"