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The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-03-18

Concrete walks and curbs, that's
me, A. L. Martin. 4otf.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-03-18

Signal want ads bring results.
The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1921-03-18

Subscribe for the Signal.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-09-16
Little Bronze Button

How dear to the heart of each gray
headed soldier
Are the thoughts of the days when
we still wore the blue,
While memory recalls every trial and
danger
And scenes of the past are brought
back to his view.
Though long since discarding our
arms and equipments
There's one thing veteran most
surely will note
The first thing he sees on the form of
a comrade
Is the little bronze button he wears
on his coat.
The little brown button,
The sacred bronze button,
The Grand Army button
He wears on his coat.
How much did it COST" said a man to
a soldier,
That little flat button you wear on
your coat"
Ten cents in good money" he an
swered the stranger,
"And four years of marching and
fighting to boot"
The wealth of the world cannot pur-
chase this emblem,
Except that the buyer once wore the
brave blue;
And it shows to mankind the full
marks of a hero,
A man who to honor and country
was true.
Then let us be proud Of the little
bronze button
And wear it with spirit both loyal
and bold.
Fraternally welcome each one who
supports it.
With love in our hearts for the COM
rades of old
Each day musters out whole battalions
OF wearers
And soon will be missed the token so
dear,
But millions to come will remember
with honor
The men who'd the right that bronze
button to wear.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-09-16
"Be Careful What You Say"

In speaking of a persons faults,
Pray don't forget your own:
Remember those with homes OF glass
Should seldom throw a stone.
If we have nothing else to do
But talk of those who sin,
IT'S better we commence at home,
And from the point begin.
We have no right to Judge a man
Until he's fairly tried:
Should we not like his company,
We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults-and who has
not?
The old as well as young;
Perhaps we may, for aught we know,
Have fifty to their one.
III tell you of better plan,
And find it works full well;
To try my own defects to cure
Before of Others tell;
And though l sometimes hope to be
No worse than some l know,
Ny own shortcomings bid me let
The faults of others go.
Then let us ALL when we commence
To SANDER friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do
To those we little know.
Remember curses sometimes like
Our chickens "roost at home;"
Don't speak Of others faults until
We have none of our own. Kron-
thai
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-09-16
SOUTH STARKSBORO

Glynu Parker of Monkton was the
guest Of Daniel Sargent and wife Sun
day.
Mrs. Charles Grace spent the week
in Ripton as guest of Mrs. James
Grace.
Mrs. D. Harris Underhill and daugh-
ter Lou of Brooklyn and Miss M. A.
Jones of New York city were at Clay
ton Hallock's the Sth.
Stephen E Young and wife of Port
Chester, who have been the guests of
relatives and friends here, have re-
turned to their home.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-09-16
CORN CROP BETTER
DESPITE DROUGHT
VERMONT PASTURAGE is ID
POINTS POORER
New England Reports More Potatoes,
Less Cranberries, Fewer Peaches
and Poorer Onions

The draught has reduced the pastur-
age of Vermont IA per cent below the
average, while its neighbors, Maine and
New Hampshire, are suffering "a and II
per cent respectively, say the govern
ment experts in their Sept, II report
Yet in spite of the dry weather the corn
crop of New England has grown re-
markedly we'll and has not only exceed
ed the expectations of the farmers but
has even turned into a better than av-
erage crop. Potatoes will be better
than the August forecast by seven mil
lion bushels in the country and more
than one hundred millions bushels less
than last year. Addison County is one
of the two New England counties in
which spring wheat has been grown
to any extent. The report of the gov
eminent statistician is as follows:
Bad weather has reduced prospects
for the cranberry crop to lower than
the average for the past 20 years V. A.
Sanders, federal statistician for the
New England district, reported today.
Against last years crop of $4,000 bar
rels, indications are that there will
be only 215,0O0 barrels in 1921. Har-
vesting began about September l.
Improved weather in Aroostook
county, Maine, helped potatoes there,
and prospects now are for crop of
about 23,000000 bushels against l5,-
100000 bushels last year, Mr. Sanders
said The entire Maine potato crop
changed from a prospective 2l,S35,OOO
bushel August l to 24,639,000 bushels
September /, due entirely to gains in
AroostOok Size and quality are good,
New England corn has grown re-
markedly well despite drought and is
much above the average generally, the
report stated.
Oats Below Average
New England oats are about II
point below average, being poorest
in Maine and Connecticut and best in
Rhode Island The other grain crops
are short generally Spring wheat
which attained considerable impor-
lance during the war has mainly dis
appeared except in Aroostook county,
Maine, and Addison County, Vermont
Pastures in drought regions are dried
up and very poor, being "A points be-
low average in Maine, Il points below
in New Hampshire, IA points below
in Vermont, while in the other states
they are close to the average
Field beans are a good crop general
" as are most garden crops except
onions, which have not grown well.
Connecticut Valley onions are around
So per cent to 60 per cent of full
crop, growth having been stopped by
disease and insects.
Peaches have turned out IS per cent
to SO per cent of full crops in Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut and quality
is good. while in New Hampshire and
Rhode Island the crop is much light
er. due TO spring damage
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-09-16

BIRDS ROOFS
!
"GOOD OLD PAROID"
lot of the best advertising for Birds Parod
Roofs is done by satisfied users For instance
Gipson Brothers of Brandon write, "The small
house which was covered with Paroid in 1901
was torn down about two years ago but the roof
ing was in seemingly just good condition as
ever. We have barn with Paroid Roofing that
has been on 12 years and just as good as when
put on, we think"
ANOTHER 19-YEAR ROOF
The picture above shows barn on the Manuel
Farm near Burlington The Paroid roof was laid
in 1901. Without painting it lasted until 1920
when it was replaced with another Paroid Roof
The Bird line has roof to fit every requirement
and every taste. The dealers in your vicinity,
named below, can advise and supply you
Any Of edeaers sell you Roofs:
vergennes Monkton
W. H. a. Fan
in. spaulding s. Sons Pw Waite
Bristol Starksboro
R. c. Martin F. S. Ferguson
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1921-09-16

Women constitute one-fourth of all
the wage earners in Chicago.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02
STARTED THIS NEXT
MONTH
Pure-bred Animals Can Be Obtained
at Their Lowest Prices Right
Now

Ali the boys and girls that are to
take up animal projects this next
year should be laying plans to get
started sometime this next month.
If you do not know where to obtain
your calves, your pigs, or hens and
Matching eggs, write the club agent.
He has sources of getting some fine
pure-bred calves, Holstein-F riesian,
Jerseys, Ayrshires and Guernseys;
pigs, both pure-bred Berkshires and
as well as some grade
animals that would be best if for
raising to fatten only; Matching eggs
can be obtained in some good egg
laying strains of pure-bred Rhode Is
land Reds, White Wyandottes, Ply
mouth Rocks, and White Leghorns.
Other breeds of animals and classes
of the breeds as called for can be
readily. found sources of supply for
club work boys and girls at very good
pure-bred animals are selling at their
that make laying out money in scrub
or grade animals poor business pol
icy. The thing to do always is to
get the very best quality animal,
whether grade or pure-bred, not re-
lying on the fact that the animal is
pure-bred means that it is not
"slacker" or "non>producer," or
poor animal to buy. Insist on the
best and ask questions about proof
of this, such as pedigree records,
production records in "hlack and
white" or send to the club agent for
bulletins and special help in study
ing the best types and characteristics
of good animals. Also remember
that all animas will respond to good
treatment. At best they are but
dumb beasts, though possessing great
powers of observation and response
to good and kind masters. You can
be more sure of success with calf
if you learn to like it more each day
you feed, water and clean it off, even
though at the same time you treat it
as machine, producing only as you
give it chance to produce-the- first
makes success of the other.
A word about equipment. A saw,
hammer and some nails will trans
form packing boxes, old lumber, or
crates into as good a pen or poultry
house and yard as ever created by the
carpenter. Be economical and thrifty
with your equipment and you will be
economical and thrifty with your ami
mails inside the equipment.
Remember-start now during the
month of March to get your calves,
hatch out your eggs (ff by incuba-
tori, making that house, yard or pen,
so as to be ready when spring really
gets here. Animals enjoy spring
fever as we'll as we do-be ready to
give them that chance, they will re-
spond by growth and thrifty bodies.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02
AN EPISODE IN INK.
Continued from page one)

missioner Bates decided to check up
a report which had come to him in
which the governor was quoted as
saying that he had been unable to
get any definite information about
the highway department. Taking
with him as witness an Addison
county senator (name deleted by the
censor) "Stod" went into the execu-
tive chamber and closed the door. A
few moments later he came out, so
the story goes, his florid complexion
a little more florid than usual.
Just what happened within the
aforesaid chamber will probably
never be known-possibly nothing
happened-but talk about the city>>is
that someone lost his temper and
threatened to throw an inkwell at
someone else. And that a truce was
patched up with difficulty.
Perhaps it's so; perhaps it isn't.
But addicts of the ouija board are
reported to be turning to that source
for verifcaion of the story, while
others are wondering what the omnis-
cient Pete Hopkins will have to say
on the subject.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02
SUNFLOWER SILAGE GIVEN
REAL TEST
Robbins Farm in Derby Compares
with CoSn.

During the last two or three years
much experimental work has been
conducted by the farmers of the coun-
ty on sunfower VS.. corn silage. AS
farmers become more and more ac-
quainted with the best methods of
growing and feeding sunfower silage,
they become more favorably impress
ed with it's value for silage purposes.
The w. B. & H. E. Robbins farm
at Derby gave sunfowers a real try
out last season by growing three
plots; one of corn alone, one of SUM-
flower alone, and one with them mix
ed. The same amount of fertilizer was
used for all plots, there being fifteen
loads of manure and 200 pounds COM
mercial fertilizer applied per acre.
Twenty quarts of corn per acre were
used on the corn plot, 10 quarts on
the sunf1ower plot and 10 quarts of
corn and five of sunfowers on the
mixed plot. Field weights were TAX
en- from the plots at harvesting time
as follows:
Corn, green w.t., 1876 T per A.
Sunflowers, green w.t., 22.5 T per A.
Sunfowers and corn, no weight taken.
The silage from the same plots
was kept separate in the silo and
careful figures recorded on the pro-
duction of milk when the different
kinds of silage were fed. The dates
below show the production of milk
by the Robbins herd when fed the
three kinds of ensilage. The num-
Der of cows was the same for the
whole month and grain and roughage
fed were same. The milk production
figures are as follows:
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02
The Farmers Share and How to Get

''The Farmers Share and How to
Get 1t" is the heading of an article
recently published by DR.. H. c. Taylor
of Washington, head of the Farm
Management and Farm Economics
Office. The following is the summary
of this article which may prove of in
terest to. US since so much has been
said in this country regarding cost of
production and prices in general.
/. We must know costs of prOduc-
ton. Without this it is hard to tell
what things pay us best to produce;
and costs are needed as evidence in
collective bargaining.
z. We must know our market If
we expect to sell to best advantage.
The selling problem should stand in
our minds at the time when we are
planning what to produce. Buyer and
consumer will have to be reckoned
with when we have something ready
to SELL
3. We must take every advantage
of cooperation in buying end selling.
1t is mainly through cooperative eff
fort that we can hope to be sure that
our products go to the consumer IN
the right form, and with a minimum
charge for the middleman service.
a. We shall get better income
if the income we have is more gene
rally used to improve living stand
ards, rather than to compete with
each other in bidding up the price of
land and other instruments of pro-
duction.
+ AS we dignity farming by better
living, we may expect such attitude
to be. supported either in better pro-
fits resulting from more efficient
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB WORK
IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF
THE COUNTY FARM
BUREAU
Based on Development of the Home

In Orleans county this past year a
campaign for Boys and Girls Club
Work was run to finance the expens-
es of county club agent. In every
respect it was successful, except one,
the goal was not quite reached. The
leader was secured, however, and has
been able to accomplish the desired
results during the first six months of
this work. All that remains is the
proper support by the hackers of the
real organization that was behind
the movement.
Then, without sighting the inter-
ests and personal agencies that CO.
operated with in the county to make
this work possible, to whom the coun-
ty owes much for their public spirit
ed work, word should be said about
that organization itself, which stood
in the background all during the cam
paign, namely, the Orleans County
Farm Bureau Association. Boys
and Girls club work is an integral
part of the Farm Bureau Organiza-
ton, the one is dependent upon the
other for a good many things which
would be lacking if either stood
alone. So as the county club agent
looks to the fathers and mothers,
members of the Farm Bureau, for
support of his efforts to help the boys
and girls become bigger and better
citizens, the utmost concern Of every
predetermined citizen, just so the
county agricultural agent looks to
the influence of the examples set by
boys and girls to interest the IA
theirs and mothers in better agricul-
tural and home practices for their
own good and betterment as we'll as
the county's, states, and country's
welfare, to say nothing of the crea-
ton Of more advanced next genera
tion
What father or mother can wish but
that their boy or girl should have
better advantages in life than they?
The Farm Bureau organization is
based then on the development of the
home and Boys and Girls Club work,
the junior department of the State
Extension Service at the University
of Vermont at Burlington, teaches
our boys and girls the right ways of
making homes such as they can be
proud of in the making themselves.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02
PAGE EIGHT
CRAFTsBURY

Mrs. s. R. Lathe is suffering from
rheumatism.
Ed. Young left last week for his
new home in Woodbury..
Mr.. and Mrs. Wheeler from Wal
colt called on friends in town Thurs
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Spring have rented
the tenement over the Bishop Russell
store.
Hazel Thayer is back in the CEN
trail Office after a several weeks alb
sence.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alden Twiss were
business visitors in Burlington the
last of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. N. H. Kinney were in
Greensboro Wednesday to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Dorman.
Rev. o. B. Wells was called to
Greensboro Wednesday to officiate at
Mrs. Dorman's funeral.
w. H. Kemp, insurance adjustor
from Montpelier, was business WIS.,
itor in town Thursday.
G. l.. Cowles, superintendent of
schools, is attending the educational
meeting at Atlantic City, N. ].
Mrs. Lydia Robbins and daughter,
Evelyn, went to st. Johnsbury last
week, where Mrs. Robbins will re-
ceive treatment for her shoulder.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Marckres and
family are stopping at c. c. STRAIT
toms since they were driven from
their home by fire.
Percy. Keir has rented the build
ing occupied by a harness and shoe
hor Hxuo q
store and plumbing business.
Hollis Lathe, who has been sec
rotary of the M. E. Sunday school,
has resigned to take class of 10
boys. Archie Webber was elected
secretary.
The goods saved from Mrs. Mel
sons store at the time of the fire
were put into Harry Noodles tene-
ping at w. P. Kaiser's.
The people were saddened Sunday
by the news of the death of Mrs. A.
HI. Dorman in Greensboro. Most OF
Mrs. Dorman's life was spent in this
The annual meeting of the Crafts
bury Cemetery association will be
held in the American Legion rooms
Tuesday, March 9TH next. All IN
terested are urged to be present to
hear the reports of officers and plan
for the coming seasons care of the
cemetery and elect officers for the
year ensuing.
I wish to thank the friends and
neighbors who worked so heroically
to save my store and household goods
at the time of the fire and for the
many kind words and deeds of love
shown me. 1t has helped so much
to bear the misfortune. May a rich
reward come to all is my prayer.
Mrs. E. N. Nelson.
CARD-We wish to express our
deep appreciation and heartfelt
thanks to the friends and neighbors
for their kindness and sympathy and
for the many gifts of clothing and
food when we were driven from our
home. by fire. We do thank you all
and we pray that the bread you have
cast upon the waters may in your
time of need return to you in full
measure.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Marckres and
family. a
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02

production, a reduction in the cost
of certain agents of production, or in
higher prices resulting from closer
adjustment of production to demand.
II We are content to work long
hours and at the same time live poor
ly, relative to other groups of peo-
pie, it is to be expected that the prices
we receive viii, reflect our living
standards as expressed thus in our
production.
5. Assuming ideal conditions, fair
prices for farm products are prices
such that farmers, everything consid-
cred, will receive an average annual
return over period of years for their
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02

three-fourths of a cupful of flour (pas-
try), one teaspOOnful of baking pow
der, two eggs, and one-fourth Of a tea
spoonful of salt. Mix all the dry in
gradients together; add the dates and
nuts; stir in the eggs beaten well, and
bake in as thin a sheet as can be
spread. When done, cut in small
squares and roll into balls. Roll in
granulated sugar before serving.
Cheese BundIes.-Take neat strips
Of cheese cut half an inch thick, and
roll each carefully in a thin slice Of
dried beef; lay on slices Of well-but-
tered whole-wheat bread and bake in
hot oven six to eight minutes, or un-
til the cheese melts and the bread
browns. Garnish with parsley and
sweet pickles and serve with hot choc-
Olate for Sunday night lunch or sup
per.
Mashed Potatoes With Peanut But.
ter.-BOil and mash a half-dOzen me-
dium-sized potatoes; add two table,
spOonfuls Of butter, one-half cupful of
hot milk, one and one-half tablespoon
fuls of peanut butter, one teaspOonful
of salt and a few dashes Of white
pepper. Blend tablespoonful each Of
butter and peanut butter and spread
over the top. The butter as season
ing may be divided and used as top
garnish. Brown in the oven.
Lemon DumpIings-Mix the grated
rind and juice of lemon with one
cupful of molasses, one-half cupful of
sugar, one tablespoonful Of butter and
one cupful of hot water, then add to
this boiling mixture simple dumplings
using one egg, two teaspoOnfuls of
baking powder, one cupful Of flour,
one-half teaspOonful of salt and milk
to make a drop-batter. Cover closely
and boil 20 minutes, using care that
the mixture does not burn.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02

skill, energy and capital, as large as
that of the people who consume farm
products and who produce the things
which the farmer buys"
National welfare demands that ag-
riculture along with mining, manu-
featuring, and other great divisions
of enterprise, shall receive fair prices
in the long run.
In reaching out toward this goal,
we, as farmers, should lay stress on
organization, and especially at this
time on farsighted, capable leader
ship.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02

have clear. bright day for making
cendy, and If inexperienced use but a
pound of sugar at time. To one pound
of sugar add three-quarters of cupful
of boiling water and One-half tea
spoonful Of cream of tartar. Stir the
sugar and water until well dissolved,
then when beginning to boil do not stir
or jar, to avoid granu1atiOn. Test by
using ice water for dipping; this is the
important moment in fondant making
When drop falls in The iced water.
making a soft bal, which can he picked
up in the fingers. remove the sirup a;
once from the fire and set the sauce
pan where it will cool without beinc
Jared. When cool enough to bear the
finger, begin to stir with wooden
spoon until creamy and smooth or II
may be poured while hot over 4 but
tered marble slab and worked when
cool. In either method it should b.
kneaded into q smooth. doughty mas;
and set aside, well covered, to ripen
This foundation may be used in al
sorts Of bon bOns. creams. nOugat ana
fancy candies.
Dat and cornmeai Muffins.-Mei
two tablespoOnfuls of shortening in
one cupful Of hot cooked oatmeal
add one teaSp0onfui Cf salt and o:''
egg beaten light with three-fourth
of a cupful of milk. Mix all togethe'
thoroughly. Mix and Sift together tws
cupfuls of cOrnmeal four teaspOOnfIi-
Of baking powder. one fourth of cup
full of sugar. ard stir into the first mix
ture: bake in q bot oven in wei
creased muffin pan about twenty hvs
minutes. go
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02

Average milk production per day
when fed corn silage 418.7.
Average milk production per day
when fed mixed silage 437.6.
Average milk production per day
when fed sunfower silage 454.2.
Mr.. Robbins states from his ex-
perience that sunfowers, when grown
with corn, are a practical thing for
Orleans County farmers. When
grown in this way the difficulty of
handling sunfowers at harvesting
time when grown alone is for the
most part eliminated Similar re
ports are coming to the Farm Bureau
office from other parts of the codnty,
and we believe there is a future for
mixed corn and sunfower silage on
the farms of this part of the state.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02
Cotton Sc ed.

Cotton seed was treated as garbage
I'm 1850; by 1870 ii was being used as
fertilizer; in 1880 its usefulness as
food for cattle had been recognized;
ano in 1890 its potentialities as 81 table
food were being advertised the coun-
try over. Now it is one of the most
important of the sources of oils, vary
ing from the clearest "olive" to the
cCHrSeSt paint oil
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-03-02

For what avails successes won
II there be none to care?
It's sweet to know there's even one
With whom our joy to share.
And when despair comes swift and
sure
And darks our world awhile,
What is it brings the sun once more?
A handshake and a SMILE