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The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-11-18
HALL & LINDSAY

For tin and sheet metal wogk
Tanks gutteripg AID well cas-
ings. all kinds of repair work.
The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-11-18

sls CHoCTAw PHONE sS'
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
South Dakota, a State of Unlimited Resources, Its
Laws Promote Industry and Encourage Thrift

South Dakota is a state that has developed in the past decade
with a rapidity that has startled the nation. Prosperity has
been gained by the intelligent use of our wonderful resources,
the state. Property assessment for the state is $I,44I ,ISI $500.
This if divided among the people would give $24oI96 for every
living individual, or $I2oo0So for the average family.
Millions Of acres of undeveloped land await the settler, where
native grasses grow in abundance and opportunities await for
production of beef, grain and produce.
the best system of land loans that was ever devised. State
hail insurance gives cheap and ample protection. All state
utilities are fully protected and administered in a wise and
conservative manner.
The new Land Settlement Act provides money and bonds
for the purchase of land to be sold settlers without profit to
the state. Long time and low interest make this attractive to
those desiring homes. a "blue sky" law and the guarantee of
bank deposites protects investors.
The soil offers unlimited chances for diversified farming.
Corn is a wonderful crop and it is the fourth wheat state of
the nation. Other cereals grow in abundant profusion and cult
walton of the land has been through the most approved methods.
Forage, potatoes, fruit and gardening are profitable crops and
never fail. Livestock and poultry are mounting high as sue
cessful industries. The animal health service is of the best.
Dairy farming is becoming a leading feature.
Internationally the state ranks among the first of the nation.
Rural schools, high schools, colleges, technical schools and a
university offer every advantage that can be asked for. The
railroads OF the state offer transportation to markets in every
direction. South Dakota outranked every other state in its
patriotic devotion through the Liberty Loan campaigns. Write
to the State immigration Department at Pierre, for information
about the chances OF success in South Dakota.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
Some Pictures Of Way We are Spending One Million Dollars
Brookings County, Where Crop Failures Are Un-
known and Farming and Business Prosperous

Brookings County has a population as given by the state
census of 1915 as 1854, but with the increase of the past four
years there is no doubt but what the figures are nearer the
1900 mark. Land that once sold for one hundred dollars per
acre is now bringing as high as three hundred dollars per acre.
Experienced farmers from Illinois and Iowa declare this land
to be just as valuable for all purposes of agriculture, as the
Nine towns are situated in the county, all of them having
elevators and stores. Eight of them have postofhces, express
offices and all are located on the railroads. Five of them have
newspapers, and one, Brookings, the county set, has two papers.
A one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollar court house,
fully modern in all respects, provides Offices for the county
officers and the transaction of the county business. A handsome
brick Jail and sheriffs residence is located adjacent thereto.
The county commissioners have adopted a plan for county roads
to supplement the state highways and have engaged a competent
highway superintendent to carry out the work of making the
highways of the county uniform and sufficient.
Volga, Bruce, Sinai and Como are located on the west side
of the county. The first three named towns have all the con-
venience of a modern city on a small scale. Como is a grain
station and is equipped with an elevator.
White, Ekton, Aurora and Bushnell are located in the
eastern part of the county and are growing towns having all
the things that make for the accommodation OF their residents.
Rural telephone lines extend from most of the towns, so
that the larger number of the farms are placed in connection
with the markets. Rural mail routes extend out of several of
the towns giving daily mail service to nearly all the farms in
the county. Schools are situated conveniently all over the county
and the standing of the educational system of the county is
exceeded by none in the state. Three times in succession the
county school exhibit has taken first premium at the State Fair,
a record never equaned by any county in the state.
Write Brookings Commercial Club for facts about the county.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31
Brookings, the Ideal Home City, Whose Ed.
ucational and Financial Advantages
are Excelled by None

The county seat Of Brookings county is
the educational center of the state. Location
of State College of Agriculture and Mechanic
Arts and the Extension Agricultural Work.
Modern in every respect, all the c~onveniences
and utilities. Accredited high school, beauti-
full churches, well stocked stores, elevators,
seed warehouse and every advantage the citi-
zen needs.
One million dollars being spent this year in paw
ing, sewerage, lighting, Wafer mains, bank buildings,
stores, apartment houses, dwellings, garages, ware
houses and other evidences of prosperous growth.
Three banks with resources of nearly six million dollars.
Nine churches, Lutheran, Methodist, Presbyterian, United Pres
byterian, Episcopal, Roman Catholic, Christian, Baptist and
Christian Science, all with beautiful buildings. All public utii-
cement sidewalks, with more shade trees than any other town
of the size in the northwest. All streets being paved, contracts
now let, or petitioned for, making it an ideal residence city.
Electric current for power and light. Public Library and Munich
pal Band.
Ground being broken for new 100000 High School building.
There is good money for the investor in apartment houses,
new homes and small factories.
We have a good hotel, but it is inadequate to the demands.
We need another.
While other sections are drying up and burning
up B~rcokings county is suffering from too much wet.
Small grain has suffered on this account, but corn
fields look like forests and all late crops will be great.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31

Come to Brookings and See These
Things For Yourself and Many Other
Evidences Of a Prosperous City
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1919-07-31

Many Other Views Of the City I'm
provements Might Be Shown If Time
and Space Permitted
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12
The Scorpion.

The scorpion is a well-knOwn ven
omOus insect OF hot climates, shaped
much like a lobster It is usually not
more than two or three inches long,
but in tropical climates is sometimes
six inches in length The wilderness
OF Sinai is especially alluded to as hav-
ing been inhabited by scorpions at the
time OF the exodus, and to this day
these animals are common in the same
district, as well rs In some parts Of
Palestine Scorpions are generally
found in dry and in dark places, under
stones and in ruins. They are car
nivOrOus in their habits. and move
slong In a threatening attitude. with
the tail elevated The sting, which Is
situated at the end Of the tail, has
at its base a gland that secretes a pol
sOnOus fluid. which Is discharged into
the wound by two minute ori6ces at
its extremity. In hot climates the
sting often occasions much suffering,
and sometimes alarming symptoms
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12
Rritisb IN cermsn craves

Viscount CurzOn, in the house OF
commons. was asked If the secretary
for war would give an assurance that
he would permit the remains OF Brit
ish soldiers buried IN Germany to be
exhumed and brought home Tor rein
terment, should the relatives desire, as
soon as the transport facilities permit.
Captain Guest Joint parliamentary
secretary TO the treasury replied that
this matter would receive sympathetic
consideration as soon as the condition
Of affairs permitted.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12
FEED CROPS TO LIVE STOCK
Investigations Show Profit From
Feeding Steers on Surplus Corn
and Roughaae.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture)
That the southern farmer who raises
surplus of corn and farm roughage
can market them at handsome price
through steers OF good quality, when
properly purchased, and can retain
fertilizing elements of the feeds on
his farm, is clearly shown in recent
department of agriculture.
Three lots of native steers, grade
animals two to three years old, Of
medium good quality, and averaging
about S25 pounds at the beginning of
the experiment, were fed for about
five months on full feed. The ami
mails in lot 1 received a daily allow
ance of 391 pounds of corn silage, 81
pounds of cottonseed meal, 40 pounds
of oat straw; those of lot 2, 37.4
pounds Of corn silage, 7.6 pounds of
ear corn, 3 pounds of cottOnseed meal,
and % pounds of oat straw; and the
steers of lot 8, 38.5 pounds of corn
silage, 6 pounds shelled corn, 8 pounds
cottOnseed meal, and 3.5 pounds of
Oat straw.
At marketing time these groups of
animals averaged, respectively, 1, O44,
1859, and 1905 pounds an animal, the
beeves of lot 1 having accomplished
daily gain of 1.56 pounds, those of lot
2, 1.66 pounds, and the animals of
group 3, IL pounds during the feed
ing period.
When the pork made is credited to
the steers of lots 2 and 3, they paid
for corn at 20 cents a bushel, and
then made over $14 a head profit, or
almost as much income as resulted
from the cottonseed meal-fed steers.
Without hogs following the steers the
feeding of corn would have been con-
siderably less profitable than feeding
cOtt0nseed meal alone. 1t cost 1888
to make 100 pounds of gain in the
case of lot 1, $1O.82 for lot 2, and $1O.75
for lot 3, where no pork credit is given
the steers. Each steer in lots 1, 2 and
3 made a net profit of $3.50, $11.87,
and $11.48, respectively, when no
credit is given the steers of lots 2
and for the pork produced. This
pork credit probably amounted to
about So a steer.
It is particularly noteworthy that
the shrinkage in transit to market of
these cattle during a 34-hour run
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12
Courtesy AIVNays Paws,

When you mingle courtesy with
business principles you take out in
surance on success. Ross Winans
was only acting the part OF a gentle
man toward two foreigners whom he
was showing through his shops in Bal
timOre. It later developed that they
had been sent to America by the car
TO select a man to introduce the man
ufacture of locomotives into Russia.
While there were many larger and
better equipped shops than his he
was the man chosen and within q
few years his annual income had
reached the 100000 mark Good
manners have a way Of getting where
brusQueneSs and force have difficulty.
The grace and charm Of Josephine did
more to make France safe than the
sword Of Napoleon. The courtesy OF
well-bred manners carries men TO for
tune and power not possible under
any other circumstances
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12

OF large sities-a congestion that has
increased during the past several
years, and that, If it continues, will
tend to run up the cost of living.
Those are a few of the main reasons
est, the city automobile owner should
vote for rOad-bOnd issues.
Good Roads as Military Measure.
From the standpoint of duty, the
military element probably takes first
place. When 1t became necessary two
years ago to concentrate great num-
bers Of men in cantOnments, it was
found that the roadways connecting
the environments with the surrounding
cities were In no sense adequate. For
the most part new roads had to be
constructed. There is always the pos
sibility Of another such emergency,
and the only means Of insuring facile
communication is by the construction
Of surfaced roads over which motor
trucks can operate.
While the security Of the nation In
such an emergency might depend upon
good roads for military uses, their serv-
ice to the nation would not be con-
fined to military matters. For a great
portion Of the time during the past two
years 80 per cent of the railroad ca
pacity Of the country was required for
military purposes. The transportation
OF food, fuel and the like had to be
accomplished largely by means other
than rail. Some hardships were en-
tailed. The motortruck, however, over
such roads as were pasSable, rendered
excellent service. When the present
bodybuilding program is carried out
and the total Of improved roads is
several times larger than at present,
the service possibilities Of the motor
| truck will be cOrrespOndingly in
creased and the safety OF the nation
and the comfort Of the people more
fully insured.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12

to tell the methods for the proper up
building of the nations highway Sys-
tenn.
For number of years Mr.. Stevens
has been highway commissioner for
the Estes Park highway. This piece
Of road work in itself is testimony
to his ideals. He is also the inventor
of the Stevens improved road drag,
one of the simplest and most efficient
road machines on the American mar
ket.
Mr.. Stevens believes in concrete
highways and prepared boulevards,
but he also believes that the earth
road, which comprises more than 80
per cent of the country's highways, is
of no less Importance. ga concrete
highway isn't going to do a farmer
much good if he has got to haul his
load three miles through hub-deep mud
before he gets to it, is Mr.. Stevens
attitude.
The farmer is the man who is going
to pay for most of the country roads,
and although concrete roads are need
ed where the traffic is sufficiently
heavy the earth roads that feed the
concrete road must be kept up.
AS an inventor of road machinery,
a road engineer, q road supervisor and
and the life dream of better roads as
his idealism, Mr. Stevens is ably Qua3<
flied to judge highway problems.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12

Overlooking kills more chicks than
underfeeding.
Little and often is a good feeding
rule for newly Matched chicks.
Eggs Of some fowls will keep In
Matching condition longer than others.
Ducklings should be ready for the
green duck market at from ten TO
fourteen weeks Of age.
This is the time of year when pouI-
try quarters need to be made safe from
rats.
A good, well-regulated incubator will
hatch eggs with far more certainty and
do it more cheaply than can be done
with hens
Eggs for incubator Matching should
be fresh, the fresher the better.
Chickens must have dry floors In
order to do well Apparently this
ground needs to be drained.
Geese are good grazers, and except
during the winter months, usually
pick I'D most OF their living.
Provide a box partly filed with road
dust or wood ashes so as to give the
backyard hens an opportunity to take
a dust bath
Much OF the trouble often found in
brooding chicks Is due alone to feed
ing too early, or in excess during the
first few days
Scales on chickens legs are caused
by a mite. This mite can best be con
troIIed and disposed Of by the use OF
heavy black crude OH.
In the location OF the poultry house
II it is impraetieable to select q soil
that Is naturally dry it should be made
dry By thorough undertakings.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12
LIVE STOCK NOTES

Orphan lambs can be raised on cows
milk.
When a few sheep are cared for
properly one may expect a flock in a
short time.
When Iegume hay is used as a horse
feed, the quality should be good and
the quantity fed limited.
There should be a pasture for the
colts, so that it viii not be necessary
for them to follow the team into the
field.
Unless more mares are kept and
more colts raised on farms there VIII
be difficulties in experimenting trac-
tor power on farms.
There was no observable difference
In the effect OF clover and timothy up
on the spirit OF the horses or their
ability to endure hot weather.
Give pigs free access to sulphur and
they viii eat about a quarter OF q
pound per month. Feed it separate, AS
It is unwise 70 force It on the hog that
objects.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12
WAYS TO CONTROL HOG LICE
by Use of Dipping Vats-Some
Other Methods.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agricultural
Lice on hogs can be controlled in va
rious ways, but complete eradication is
best secured by the use OF dipping
watts, experiments conducted by the
United States department of agrieul-
ture show.
Medicated hog wallows and rubbing
posts, the experiments showed, kept
the number of parasites reduced so
that they caused little or no damage,
but neither OF these methods destroyed
all the lice. Crude petroleum was
used on the rubbing posts and the wal
lows were medicated with coal-tar creo-
sote dips, pine tar, crude petroleum,
and bland oils. Crude petroleum and
coal-tar creosote dips proved to be
more effective when applied from an
ordinary spriRkling can than when
used In WalIows or on rubbing posts.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12

NRMzNOpES

Start a fight against the weeds early
In the season.
A young weed is easier to over.
come than an old, tough one.
Sweet clover must be regarded
largely as a substitute for red clover.
Sweet clover is best cut for hay
early In June, before any buds ap-
pear.
Sweet corn and peas are products
that should be grown for canning and
drying.
Tomatoes are Of high food value be-
cause they can be canned and pre-
served so readily.
Pumpkins and squashes can be
grown with so little effort that they
may be considered In the calculations.
Beans may be considered the best
OF the garden products from food
standpoint. These should be planted
early and late.
Do your transplanting after a rain
rather than before It. The soil works
much easier when moist and the
plants VIII grow better and quicker.
Peas improve the land the same as
clover and other legumes. If the
straw is secured In good shape, it Is
almost equal to clover hay for feed
ing. Sheep are especially fond Of Il
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12
a suneh of sOuthern cattIe.

ranged from 81 to 81 pounds head,
which indicates that silage, where
properly fed in conjunction with sup
Elementary grains, results in less
shrinkage in transit than where cattle
are fattened on grass and marketed
directly from pastures. The steers
under consideration in this experiment
made good killing records, the car
casses being well covered with fat
and generally satisfactory. The ami
mails of lot 1 made a dressing record
of $50 per cent, those of lot 2, 57.8
per cent, and those of lot 8, 57.4 per
cent of marketable meat.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12

supplying the fowls with all available
table scraps it Will usually cost from
80 to 70 cents a year per fowl for
grain and other feeds. A good egg
laying ration should consist of the
following: Three parts corn meal and
one part beef scrap mixed together
and fed In a dry-mash hopper to which
the fowls will have access at all times.
In addition to this a scratch ration
consisting of equal parts cracked corn
and oats should be fed twice daily.
When no table scraps are available It
will take about one quart OF scratch
grain daily for twelve to fourteen
fowls. However, this can be reduced
when table scraps are fed and a GER
tain amount Of natural green feed,
such as grass, is available.
In providing the fowls with suit
able house it should be remembered
that the essentials OF such building
are fresh air, dryness, sunlight and
sufficient space so that the fowls will
not be crowded. Usually each, fowl
should be allowed four square feet Of
floor space. If available, scrap lun-
Der from dry-gOOds boxes, etc, can be
uLllZeU 10 COuSLIuCL SuC4 HOUSE, lie
cost Will be considerably less than
when lumber is purchased If suffi-
cient lumber is not available for the
entire house a rough framework well
covered with ordinary roofing or far
paper will answer the immediate
needs.
When the heavier fowls plymouth
Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Island
Reds, etc.) are kept all females should
be disposed of at the end Of their sec
ond year, inasmUch as in most cases
| they will cease to be profitable at the
end of that time. The lighter breeds
| (LeghOrns, etc.), however, can be prof
itably kept as long as three years. By
disposing of the hens in this way a
part Of the flock must be renewed each
| year. Consequently, considering that
| the percentage of cockerels and pullets
is usually about the same, and that
a certain percentage will die before
reaching maturity. it is customary TO
hatch more chicks each year than
there are hens in the flock.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12
ATTENTION TO EARTH ROADS
Authority on Highway Construction
Likes Concrete, but FaVors More
Care of Lanes.

'eMore attention has got to be paid
to the earth roads if the coming bond
elections are to go over" This is the
opinion of E. L. Stevens, inventor and
road expert. Mr.. Stevens is, perhaps,
one of the most unique characters in
the bodybuilding world. A graduate
civil engineer, he felt the tremendous
need for the perfection and develop
ment Of the road system of America.
He stepped out from the promising
channels of the regular engineering
profession and went down almost be-
low the level of ordinary men to study
road building, says Rocky Mountain
News. He has made road building and
maintenance his life work and is now,
probably, as well qualified as any man
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12
UTAH TO SPEND 100000
Part of Money Is to Be Spent for I'm.
proVements on Arrowhead Trail
to California.

The state of Utah has decided to
spend about 100000 on roads in the
next two years, with an expenditure
this year of about 100000. Some of
the Utah millions, which are made up
of state and federal funds, are going
to be used on the development of the
Arrowhead trail, which is tributary to
all parts of southern California, from
San Diego and Imperial valley On the
south to Fresno and San Luis Obispo
on the north.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12

PURPOSE OF A SMALL FLOCK
1t Is Primarily for Eggs and Therefore
Fowls Should Be Fed With This
End in View.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agricultural
The actual purpose OF keeping q
small flock OF fowls is primarily for
egg production Consequently they
should be fed with this end in view.
Practically every housewife has a
quantity OF table scraps, vegetable
Feelings and '1eftovers" that can be
utilized by feeding to hens. Supple
mentary to such feed, however, grain
and dry mash should be provided in
order to produce the best results. By
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12
What's in 4 Name7

Mr. HOmebody-This tea substi-
tute's the worst dope I ever tasted.
Who recommended it to you so
highly?
His Wife-It was a correspondent
in the Ladies' Confidant who signs the
name "Adv."
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1919-06-12
PROVIDE SWINE WITH SHADE
Many Hogs Die During Summer
Months If Not Given Protection
OF Some Kind.

Many hogs die from the effects of
heat during the summer months. IF
there is no natural shade in the pas
ture. places should be provided where
the hogs may get relief from the heat.
A cheap and practical plan is to build
sheds with roofs of poles and straw.
supported by posts. This will allow
the free circulation Of air, and if the
water supply is near, will enable the
hogs to pass the hot weather safely.