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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
SPEED GOOD ROADS BUILDING
Federal Supervision of Nations High
ways Is Being Urged-MiIitary
Value Is Shown.

A few days ago a big government
mOtOrtruck stuck hard and fast in a
rut on the road between Washington
and Baltimore. A commercial truck
tried to get around it from one direc-
ton and another government truck
from the other direction. Both of
these also stuck. Soon this over
travelled road, for q mile each way,
was jammed with squawking cars and
trucks. All traffic was stalled for the
better part of a day, with the result
that war work was delayed, suburb
antics were late to dinner and thirsty
Westinghouse were unable to reach
the Maryland oasis.
This incident is no special discredit
to the Maryland ROAD builders. The
WashingtOn-BaltimOre road was not
built for the amount and kind of traffic
it is now bearing. The same is true
of many other highways in all parts Of
the country. More and more motor
trucks are taking over what used to
be 'short haul" railroad freight. And
the short haul that is accomplished
by mOtOrtruck has gradually length
ened from ten or fifteen miles until
now much freight is carried 200 miles
In trucks.
Such facts are the basis of drive
being made on congress for legisla-
ton to empower the federal govern
ment to unity roads of the country into
a comprehensive system and to spend
the money necessary to make the
roads adequate to meet the new re-
quirements. The federal government,
it is claimed by proponents of the
plan, must do the work, because q
central authority is absolutely neces-
sary to the perfection of a national
system Of roads.
The federal government should
spend the money, they say, because
their military value makes the roads
a great national asset. This military
value of good roads is already shown
by the dependence which the govern
ment is placing upon them for the
moving of troops and supplies. In Eu-
rope it has been even more cOnvinc-
ingly demonstrated. It has been said
that good roads saved France and the
lack of them defeated Russia. It is
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
COUNTY AGENT
BECOMES LEADER
Has Come to Act as Clearing
House of Cooperation Be-
tween City and Country.
CAN Direct where NEEDED
None of His Time Can Be Devoted to
Work That Does Not Concern
Agricultural Development
Likely to Be Busy Man.

The growth and the strengthening of
the county agent system has resulted
in almost all cases in the county agents
coming to be recognized as the agri-
cultural leaders in their counties, &C
cording to reports to the United
States department of agriculture
Help for City and Country.
The county agent has come to act
as the clearing house of cooperation.
He is available to both the city man
and the country man and can trans
NIT from one to the other requests for
help and offers of help. He can di-
rect, to places where it is needed, farm
labor offered; he can assist farmers in
their problem of cooperative market
ing; he can inform chambers of COM
merce, county councils of defense,
merchants associations and other ur-
ban bodies, of the problems before the
farmers in his county; in general he
is In a position to act as the medium
through which the town will meet the
needs of the country and the country
will meet the needs of the town.
Must Concentrate Efforts.
Every county agent is required to
know and observe that his services be-
long to all the people in his county,
but it is evident that none of his time
can be given to work that does not
concern agricultural development. He
is placed in the county to stimulate
good farming. Therefore, he must con-
fine himself to work on definite prob
lens affecting farmers. 1t is neces-
sary for him to utilizeethe aid of com
munity organizations to the fullest
extent and it is within his duties to
impress upon the town people how
vital their interest and help is to the
farmers.
In the war emergency the county
agents are not only representing the
agricultural colleges and the depart
| ment of agriculture, but are assisting
| the food administration, the treasury
department, the war department, the
navy department, the department of
| justice and the department of labor.
Help in Direct War Work.
They have aided, in addition to
their regular activities, in such work
as food surveys, seed surveys, seed
distribution, obtaining credit for farm
ers, selling Liberty bonds, eradication
OF livestock diseases, surveys of live
stock diseases, surveys OF insect pests
and campaigns for their destruction,
marketing farm products, preferential
or priority shipments by railroads OF
farm products and all farm supplies,
and the dissemination of information
given out by the war department, the
council of national defense and the
committee on public information re
garding the war and other matters af-
fecting the national policy under wal
| conditions.
Thus it can be seen that the county
agent is likely to be a rather busy
man
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
Aid Farmers.

When a business concern wants to
borrow money it makes a business
statement showing the inventory-or
money invested at the beginning and
end of the year-the money taken in
during the year, the expenses and the
profits. With this statement a banker
knows whether or not it is safe to
loan money to this cOmpany-in other
words, whether the company has a
good chance of securing profitable re-
turns from a further investment In
their business. A company with a
good business, as shown by such a
statement, usually has good credit
and can borrow money cheaply.
There are many farmers in this
country who keep records of what
they have on hand at the beginning
and end of the year and of what they
take in and what they spend. These
men can borrow money more easily
and cheaply than most farmers be-
cause they have the figures to show
the banker.
But before a farmer borrows any
money he should have very clearly in
mind what he wants to use it for,
and be very sure that In the end it
viii pay him to borrow.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
Sand and Gravel Piled on Subgrads
Ready for Use on Experimental Con.
crete Road, Chevy Chase, Md.

certainly true that the French had
the best roads in the world when the
war broke out and that the men and
supplies which checked the first Ger
man rush went forward largely by
motor. 1t is also true that a break
down of all transportation facilities
prevented Russia from effectually mo-
bilizing her tremendous resources.
There is now federal office of good
roads, operating under the federal
road act, whereby the government ap-
propriates funds for roads, provided
the states in which the roads are to
be built will appropriate q similar
amount. This gives the government
the power to recommend the improve
ment or building of certain roads and
to disapprove the improvement or
building of others. 1t may exercise a
sort of advisory and mildly cOmpul-
sorry power toward the establishment
of unified national system of roads.
But this power, it is argued, is by no
means sufficient in an emergency like
the present What is needed is the
power to form d definite plan for a
system OF national highways, and the
funds to carry that plan into execu-
ton as rapidly as possible.
For this new national system OF
highways must not only be thorough
~ co-ordinated, but must be radically
different from that of most of our
present roads. The failure of these
latter is largely due to the fact that
roads which sufficed very well for the
traffic Of light pleasure cars and farm
ers' wagons will not stand up under
the strain of heavy truck traffic. =
truck highway, to meet the require
ments now being laid upon it, must be
a paved highway with concrete base.
Such a road is very expensive to
build it costs from $4,000 to $4,000
q mile.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
Red hot Weather!
Stomach Off
No Appetite? Mouth Dry? Tongue
Stiff and Fierce Thirst?
Here's Relief!

EATONIC Tablets have amazed
people everywhere with the marTel08S
benefits they have produced for thea
sands OF stomach sufferers. Start the
test today and let your Own stomach
tell you the truth.
EATOETC works quiek-it abseEbs-
and neutralizes hurtful, pOtS0aS1S
acids juices and stomach gases CEASED
from uDdigested foods. ThOasazd5
testify that 1t quickly puts the stomach
In clean, sweet eondition-recreafe
builds up the lost appetite and makes NE
worth living for the man who likes EOO6
things but who suffers every tine he eats
them
EATONIC Is absolutely guaranteed TO %
al THIS and you are 70 be the jszdge II e
DOESN'T nd you OF stomach and to1Te1 Ms
eT1es most common I'm hot Weather-YOw
GET your money back at once right ton,
your own druggist whom you know ans
can trust No need OF your taking a
cnanee OF suffering Start EATONTC to-
day. You VIII see
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

Hot, heavy foods and iced drinks
often play havoc with bad stomachs
In hot weather. The weak ones haven't
got a chance. A quickly chilled or
overw0rked stomach is a starter Of
untold misery for its owner.
When you have that dull, depressed
feeling after eating stomach pains,
bowel disorders, heartburn or nausea.
belchIng, food repeating-it is the dan
ger point. You want to look out-and
be quick about It in this hot weather.
A way has been discovered to make
sick stomachs well and TO keep them
cool and sweet. It is a commonsense
way. No starvation plan OF diet Is
needed. Make this test and see how
quickly you get a good. appetite IN
hot weather and enjoy the things you
like without misery to follow.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
VALUE OF BACKYARD FLOCK
Average Size Should Be at Least Ten
Hens to Produce 100 Dozen
Eggs Year.

prepared by the United States DEPART
ment of Agriculture)
Here are some safe figures about
what can be expected of a backyard
flock. Each hen in her pullet year
should produce ten dozen eggs. The
average size of the backyard flock
should be at least ten hens. Thus
each flock would produce in q year 100
dozen Of eggs. which. at the conserva-
tive value of % cents a dozen, would
be worth $50. But the 100 dozen Is
more important than the $25.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

WATCH FOR LICE AND MITES
Unless Parasites Are Controlled They
Have Marked Effect on Number
of Eggs Produced.
prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agricultural

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
Poultry raisers should be on the
lookout for lice and mites, for they
get buster than ever with the coming
of warm weather. Unless they are
controlled at this season they will
have a marked effect on the number
Of eggs produced by laying hens, and
the number of chicks raised. Poul-
try houses should be thoroughly clean
I'd, whitewashed, or sprayed with kero-
sene or kerosene emulsion at this sea-
son. The hens should also be provided
with a good dust box, and insect pow
Ger should be busted among their
gathers.
Mites usually stay in the cracks of
She henhOuses and under the rOOsts in
che daytime, where they lay their eggs.
At night when the fowls go to roost
the mites come out of their hiding
places, attach themselves to the fowls,
End feed by sucking blood from the
birds. To get rid of them the houses
Should be cleaned and sprayed thor
Oughly, including the nests, the drop
ping boards, and, roOStS. The poultry
house that is kept clean and has plen-
~ of sunlight and ventilation is usual
y free from mites. Immediately after
cleaning the house should be white
washed or sprayed. An effective white
wash is made by shaking one-half peck
Of lime in 20 gallons of water. Add
one pound of salt, previously dis
solved, and two quarts of crude car
bOlic acid, or one gallon Of stock dip,
and apply the mixture with a spray
pump Or brush. Kerosene, crude oil,
or some good preservative manufac-
tured from coal tar. sprayed about the
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
SERVES AS AN ANEMoMETER
Marked Peculiarly of the sargssso
Sea That Columbus Discovered.
1t Is Said.

In the space between the Azores.
Canaries and the Cape Verde islands
lies the great Sargasso sea- Covering
an area equal in extent TO the valley
OF the Mississippi, it is so thickly
matted over with gulf weed that the
speed OF vessels passing through it is
often much retarded. The weed al
ways tails to- 4 steady or a constant
wind, so that it serves the mariner as
a sort Of thermometer, telling him
whether the wind as he finds il has
been blowing for some time or whether
il has Just shifted. and which way.
Columbus first found this weedy sea
on his voyage Of discovery. There it
has remained until this day, moving
up and down, and changing its posi-
ton, like the Gains Of Cancer, as af-
feeted by the seasons, the storms and
the winds. according TO Maury's au-
thOrity, exact observations as to its
limits and their range, extending back
for 90 years, assure US that its mean
position has not been altered since
that time There is also a SargasSO 10
the west of Cape OF Good Hope, which,
though comparatively small, is clearly
defined Mention is casually made Of
it in the logs as rock weed" and
drift matter" The weedy space about
the Falkland islands is probably not
a true sargasso. The seaweed report
ed there most probably comes from
the Straits of Magellan, where i'm
mense masses OF algae grow. These
straits are so incumbered with sea-
weed that steamers find great difficult
ty in making their way through it. II
so clogs their paddles as to make fire.
0uent stoppages necessary.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
RED CROSS PIG CLUB

The county agent in Carroll
county, Mississippi, started out
last winter to combine pork pro-
duction and Red Cross work.
He tried to get $500 people
each to raise one pig to be
known as q Red Cross pig. In
stead of $500 members, he got
5000 in a county that has only
1,600 voters. In September
the club members are to send
5000 hogs to the st. Louis mar
ket. This will mean a contri-
button estimated at $4,000 to
the Red Cross, in addition to
more pork for the country and
more money for Carroll county.
A $25 registered pig is given
each month as a prize to the
member whose pig has made
the greatest gain.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

interior of the house, especially in the
cracks and crevices, is an effective
means of killing mites. IF kerosene is
used it is necessary to continue to
spray every 10 days or two weeks
throughout the warm weather. The
effect of crude oil or wood preserva-
tive is much more lasting.
Inasmuch as lice spend a greater
part of their time on the fowls, the
most effective treatment is that which
is applied directly to the birds. The
cleanliness of the house, however, is
OF equal Importance if the lice are to
be gotten rid of entirely. The two
most practical methods of fighting lice
are busting or using paste or an ONT
ment. Provide a good dust box con-
tanning a mixture of road dust or wood
ashes and allow the hens to dust them
selves. busting the hens by hand is
effective and is especially recommend
ed for setting hens and fowls that are
very much infested with lice. A good
homemade dust or louise powder is
made by mixing together one and one
half pints of gasoline and one pint of
crude carbOlic acid with four quarts
of plaster of Paris. Allow it to dry.
crush to a powder, and work it well
into the feathers by hand.
One of the most effective ointments
used to destroy lice is a mixture of
equal parts of blue OiNtment with vase
line or lard. Mix these ingredients
thoroughly and apply small portion
(about the size of a pea) to the top
of the head, under the wings, and
around the vent
Note-Blue ointment should not be
used on Matching hens and small
chicks.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
TURKEY FEED NOT EXPENSIVE
When Being Prepared for Market in
Fall 1t is Worth While to
Supply Some Grain.

About the only expense for feed for
the turkey is during a short period in
the fall when they are being fitted for
the market and as they bring quite a
little more per pound than any other
kind of meat raised on the farm it is
well worth while to feed well during
the fattening period.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
The Effects of opiates,
me Boston youth AaaLn.

Little Willie Emerson HigginSoE'
had just been strapped by his irate-
parent on the fathers side.
Yet he was not weeping
His mother said:
william, believe that was a mere
pretense at a whipping that your IA
ther gave you"
Begging your pardon, my dear fe
male progenitress, said Willie, THAT
was no eIlation.'-FaTEs
life
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
Hadn,t Much to Spare.

In an Italian field hospital a story
is told Of a surgeon who called out to
the soldiers:
Boys, is there anyone among you
willing to give a little Of his skin TO
this wounded mani"
THAT wounded man." one Of them
called out, sis the son of the usurer
who has always skinned me; but he
has fought well and it is only right
that I should give him what little
cuticle his father has spared"
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

Under stress OF war enthusiasm
many odd things are done A Mime
sofa woman give her letter carrier
171k pounds Of buffalo nickels the 9th
er day, amounting to $1,000. all in ex-
change for war savings certificates
The poor man. after counting them,
found he didn't have enough pockets
TO hold the money and finally had to
dump the coins into his leather maa
sack.-Capper's Weekly.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
MIX After Reino Drawn.

After the milk is drawn no time
should be lost in straining, cooling and
covering the milk, as the longer it is at
a high temperature and open the more
likely it is to be contaminated with
undesirable bacteria.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

federal specialists. They are extern
sion workers of the United States de-
partment of agriculture and the state
colleges.
The number now at work represents
an increase of more than 1000 over
those at work July 1, 1917. About 600
emergency agents over the number
working in May, 1918, were at work in
June, 1913
This is the strength of this division
of the food production forces:
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
Value Of Manure spreader.

During the next few years the ma
nure spreader VIII justify its exist
ence more than ever before. Al
stable waste should be spread over
the land before any of its fertility Is
lost.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
oId-Eashioned Idea

The old-fashioned idea that round
eggs would hatch pullets, and long or
pointed eggs cockerels, is entirely
without foundation.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
Eood Produetlon Army.

More than 5000 men and women
6,166 June 1-are carrying to every
community in the United States the
food production and food conserving
knowledge that has been tested by
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

RRM2NOmS

Adopt systematic rotation Of crops.
Do not attempt to run the binder
with badly worn and torn canvases.
Glover seed of first quality has
been difficult to obtain and has
reached the highest price ia history.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
Just 2 Small Matter.

Salt is carried down year after year
into the sea, where ii accumulateS- If,
then, we can divide the entire amount
OF salt at present in the ocean by the
amount carried down in a year, the
quotient viii be the probable age of
the earth. Simple? Oh, yes. PrOfes-
sor Jolly has worked il out TO 10000
600 years, but to be on the safe side he
reduces that number to 9O,OOO-OOO
years. A little matter OF 100000
years is negligible to those who can
think in such numbers.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
NornaI Eaas Favored

Normal eggs are almost certain to
produce chickens which viii lay nor.
NAL eggs, while the reverse Is equally
true.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

The average man is always glad to
meet the fool killer for the purpose Of
sending him next door.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
cutIeura Is So soothinn


To itching, burning skins. It not only
soothes but heals. Battle with Cut1-
cura Soap and hot water, dry gently
and apply Cuticura Ointment. For
free samples address, "CuticuTa, Dept.
Z, Boston" At druggists and by mail.
Soap ., Ointment % and 5O.-AdE.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
Rice in the United States

During the last two years the pro-
duction OF rice In this country has
been at its maximum, between 36,O00,-
coo and 100000 bushels or, roughly,
one and one-fifth billion pounds. So far
as climate and soil are concerned, the
rice acreage in the United States
might be increased many fold, accord
ing to the United States department
of agriculture, since In the states Of
North Carolina, South Carolina, GeOr-
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas and Cali
fornia, as well as In small areas In
Missouri, millions OF acres are adopt
ed to the cultivation Of this crop,
while less than one million acres To-
Gated within a comparatively few
states are now occupied by rice. One
of the quickest ways OF increasing the
crop, the federal specialists say, is
to expand the acreage in the areas
where rice is already probably
grown.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
IFS pinerent Now

Bacon-YOu know we used TO cali
him governor before he got married
Egbert-Well, don't you now?
"Oh, no; he married q goYerDess,
you know
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

What the modern airship navigator
needs is a safety anchor and some
thing to anchor to.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
ParadoxicaI evasion.

why don't you answer that fellows
charges If you cam"
81 would not dignity them with a
reply"
THAT sounds as If a reply wouldn't
answer
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

When a married woman elopes With
another wOman's husband it's hard to
tell who is entitled to sympathy.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

Potatoes require good cultivation.
Grain cannot be cut with worn or
broken sickle.
Time and money are saved by or
dering repairs before harvest time.
OH all bearings frequently, using a
little oil each time.
Do not give the machine an OH bath
at the beginning OF the season and e1-
Dect it to be sufficient
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

The sea of matrimony swamps many
1 courtship.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

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The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

The average man is apt TO believe
what the world doesn't say about
him.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18

Idle Boosting is the smoke and true
courage the fire
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1918-07-18
Modern Love.

"WiH you love me always2"
'sWhat do you mean by 'alwayST
Ten or fifteen yearsT"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-18
Tomorrow Night at Nine O'clock
LAST CLUB and GOLD Offer Closes

Spued the making
a
feversh acvi
Today is the before" This ul before the
and putting good cks Bright and
will
will be until the o the offer
n
o
o
in
larg
burning brand applied brush
candidates \
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-01-18

to and the
be
checking the after the final day. real energetic effort and never ceang
tina ends
to of she will be
this last club gold offer The
mali
the last
to
possible the offer
be
tonorr as ossb
of n World
TO
by the udges