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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29
FARMS FOR SALE
PRICE, CASH $4,000.

Fine s2-acre fruit and poultry farm, two
miles from city good road. hundred yards
from good school. Fruit of all kinds.
profitsbly bearing. Finest poultry plant
in State. Beautiful and healthful location.
Residence practically new. Quick buyer
can secure bargain in tractor outfit. imple-
ments, lot OF poultry. etc. Good oppor-
tunity for speculation. Don't write unless
you mean cash business. Apply to HENRY
J. LITTLE, 40 West John st., Martins
burg, w. Va,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29
Spiritualism.

MRS. LILLIAN GREEN,
1894 Que at. N. w.
Formerly OF 1&2l eth at. N. w. Private
readings daily Phone North s36s.
MRS, F. RINALDI
Will give daily spiritual readings by ap
pointment only. Phone Main 675b.
MRS. j. Z. MALTBY-Daily readings, 81
per half hour. SIT 10th ST. N. e. Tele-
phone Lincoln bg<2.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29
MEDICAL

ACUTE and chronic skin affections success
fully treated: relief at once certain. DIR
NICHOLSON, 1905 H ct. N. w,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-08-29
ROOMS WANTED

BACHELOR apartment room, bath; sept.
LIST. State price BOX asa Times office.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01
THOUSANDS SIGN PLEA
FOR REAL DlSARMlNe

st. Paul, Nov. EXPEDITIONS ex-
pressing the earnest hopes Of farmers
in 24Minnes VA counties that the In
ternational Disarmament conference
will not break up until the nations
have agreed on drastic reductions in
ornaments are on their way to Pres
ident Harding.
The first petitions bear the sig
natuers Of $3.50 farmers. More are
arriving daily and will be forwarded
to Washington as they come in, farm
bureau offic ais announced, to show
the United States delegates that they
have the heartfelt support of agri-
cultural America in their program for
reducing naval and military burdens
The longest petition was sent by
the Stearns county farm bureau,
bearing 1876 names fpestone cours
tvs petition carried $50 names, Muir
rays 1922, OlmsteRs233 and Mowers
225 names
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01
DAIRY.
CONTRASTING ASSOCIATIONS
ment Has Been Noted in Quality
of Dairy Herds.

prepared by the United States Department
of AErlculture.)
The practice" Of testing cows to de-
termine their milk and butter-fat pro-
duction and feed consumption by
means of cow-testing associations has
become widespread. There are, now
452 associations Of this kind in the
United States, besides many in foreign
countries. In most cases each associa-
ton has one tester and no more cows
than can be we'll handled, but there
are some very large ones and some
that are much smaller than the stand
ard. The theoretical number Of men,
bers in a cow-testing association is 26,
which makes one member for the test
er to visit each working day of the
month. A member of such an associa-
ton is supposed to have not more
than 30 cows, as that makes large
days work. If every member had
that number, there would be $50 cows
in the association, but few Of them
have that many.
There is no definite relation between
the number Of members in an associa-
ton and the number of cows owned.
In California there is one association
that tests 1900 COWS and another that
tests 400, and the number of men,
bers are, respectively, 46 and 100. An
other in the same state has SO men,
bers and only 1,439 COWS; there are
IL associations in California with over
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01

ttF- ry,Ft. : IS
dts" is robbing Minnesota cooper,
ative creaneries, according to war
ming sent out by the Minnessotas
Cooperative Creanneries> association,
Inc. -. .~,:. " =>sr~ =
Crearneries throughout the state
were urged to be gon guard against
the thieves. r. 49, =
The warning was issued following
the theft Of 1,1OO pounds. of butter
from q Chicago county cooperative
creamery, one of the first to join the
state organization. The central asso-
citation Immediately notified sheriffs
and police officers in adjoining count
les, the Twin Cities and Duluth, and
took up the case with detective
agency.
The thieves are believed to be con-
Quoting a systematic campaign to
loot country creameries, load the
stolen butter on trucks, and escape
with it to the market, says A. J. Me-
CURE, organization manager of the
state association.
The central organization also mott
fled creameries that it is investigat-
ing arrangements for burglar insur-
ance for it's members.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01

An opportunity to enjoy the advan-
tages and happy experiences of the
kindergarten is the birthright of every
child, but there are still 100000 Of
our little ones for whom no kinder
gartens have been supplied, writes
John J. Tigert, United States commits
sioner of education. Francis Hodgson
Burnett has said: Zone generation.
one entire generation of all the world
Of children, understood as they should
be, loved as they ask to be, and de-
veloped as they might be, would more
than bring the millennium" The kin
dergarten not only recognizes the edu-
cational value of the early years Of
childhood, but is an ideal preparation
for the grades to follow, and for a
higher, finer type of citizenship, for
it expresses the spirit Of America and
its institutions. I strongly urge the
parents Of little children residing in
communities in which there are no
kindergartens to request their school
boards to establish them.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01
EXPANDING HOTEL LIFE.

One more new hotel is under way in
New York, the largest in the world,
covering a city block and IS stories
high To this have come the inns
OF the early days which once provided
a tarrying place for the infrequent
traveller, whose arrival was an event.
Now, hotel will swallow whole con-
vention and never blink one of its
thousand eye-windows. But the popu-
lation Of great caravansaries is by no
means composed Of strangers. Thou
sands make their permanent homes
there, free from every care Of house
hold affairs, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. There isn't one house
keeping task to lay its lghtest bur-
den on the hotel guest, save, perhaps,
the punching up of the fire In the
CRATE, for among other charms trans
planted from the home are fires in
CRATES. These "charms" cost money,
but ease in any case does that. We're
it not for the outlay, the number Of
hotel residents would be multiplied by
millions; and since we are now we'll
into the era Of many STORED hotels it
is reasonable to expect the numbers
will be built to exactly suit moderate
incomes. Wonders can be accom-
plished in economics when it is known
that ready money waits.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01
S ELEVATORS JOIN
U. S. GRAIN GROWERS
Country Bank Presidents Sign Con-
tract To Market 1000 Bushels Under
Farmers' Plan

By Farm Bureau News Service
St. Paul, Nov. 49, Five elevator,
joined the U. S. Grain Growers Ine-
within four days after the national
cooperative marketing corporation
offered it's first contracts in Mimi
esota.
The first grain producer to sign a
contract to market through the ma
tional corporation for five years was
c. H. Wallace, president of the First
National Bank Homer, Illinois, who
contracted to ship the grain raised
on his $40 acre farm near Warner
Illinois, Marshel county. Minnesota
Mr.. Wallace has farms in six states
and has signed six separate CON
tractsso that the grain produced or
all six farms will go through the U
S. Grain Growers, Inc.
The first five Minnesota co-opertivt
elevators to join In the national mar
keith plan are at Minnesota, Taunton
Tracy, Cottonwood, and Balaton al
in Lyon county.
Declaring that no "brass band
methods would be used in presenting
the marketing plan to Minnesota far
mers, j. S. Jones, organization direct
or of the Minnesota Farm Burea,
federation, and now manager Of thu
Grain Covers membership drive, ha.
adopted the phrase run it Yourself
as the motto of INSTITUTION in Mimi
esota. Every. farmer who joins has
equal voice in the management of ths
national corporation, farm bureau Of
ficers point out.
1T is up to the farmers Of Mimi
esota to manage the affairs of thi.
new marketing agency in this STATE
to suit themselves, Mr.. Jones' says.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01


Producers.
1000 COWS each. Ordinarily the num-
Der Of cows in an association runs from
800 to 500, the average for the coun-
try being 429. The number of herds
average 24.8. To have more than one
tester is a California practice, and one
association in that state has three. In
contrast to the large associations in
California and a few elsewhere, there
are some that are quite small. One
in Massachusetts has 8 members
and 125 cows; another in Kansas has
10 members and IS COWS; and in
Michigan there is one with herds
and only As cows.
The use of cooperative cow-testing
associations has resulted in great I'M
provement in the quality Of the dairy
cows in the localities where they have
been organized by reason Of the sift-
ing out of the low producers and the
discovery Of good COWS that might
otherwise have been sacrificed
The United States Department OF
Agriculture collects Statistics Of all
the cow-testing associations and is
sues directory Of all those that are
active on July 1 each year. 1t also
assists in the organization Of asso'
Citations, working through the county
agent If there is one in the commu-
nifty.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01

Children as we'll as parents and ed
ucators will watch with interest the
four schools opening in a neighboring
city for experiments in some phases
Of what is known as natural educa-
tlon," although in judging the power
Of at least one Of the schools to hold
the interest of the pupils, the fact
that the teacher will serve hot choco-
late along with the lessons, must be
taken into consideration. The expert
mental schools will be conducted on
the plan Of directing the children to
teach themselves, the teacher elm
mating himself as much as possible at
least In the minds of the children,
writes May Stranathan in the Pitts
burgh Post. For instance, instead of
compelling the child to memorize and
recite the multiplication table, and
tables of weights and measures, arith-
metic will be learned by the use of
the yardstick in measuring goods, and
the use Of weights and measures in
weighing ingredients for cooking.
Short cuts to education will be tried
IN these schools and the results care
fully noted.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01

Psychology, and not medicine, is the
secret Of longevity, according to DR..
A. n. Warner of New York. He ad-
dressed session Of the Allied Medical
Association Of America. Because the BIZ
bic says that a life shall be three-score
years and ten the people expect to die
when they reach that age, he asserted.
Its all wrong. They have Just hyp-
Noticed themselves into the belief be-
cause it's in the Bible. Given a sound
constitution and q clean record, there
is no reason why a man or woman
should not reach one hundred and fifty
years. I'm seventy-two now, and in
tend to live to one hundred. II life
still looks good to me at that age, ]
think shall continue on the Job 70,
another half century. It's simply 8
matter Of psychology and good living
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01

reduced railroad rates and livestock
commission charges, and against in
creases in telephone rates.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01
AMERICAN Federation
IN ANNUAL CONVENTION

Atlanta, Ca, Nov. -Minnesotas
$4,000 farm bureau members are rep
resented IN the third annual converl-
ton of the American Farm Bureau
federation here, by L. E. Potter, pres
ident Of the Minnesota federation, and
Thomas E. eastman, director, who
led the state federation's fight for
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01
CREAMERIES ARE ROBBED
BY BUTTER BANDITS

BY Farm Bureau News Service
An organized gang of 'butter BAN
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01

FOR the original Watkins Goods, tho
Watkins Retailer. Andrew Fred
rickson,Two Harbors, Mimi, Box 8e4
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01
Wants, For Sale, Etc.

SPECTACLES and GLASSES careful
ly and scientifically prepared. DR..
F. B. Hicks. 3-15-tf
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01

FOR SAlE-Platform scales, cheap.
Alvin Anderson, Grand Marais.
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01

There is no strong popular inter-
est in the speculations as to communi-
cation with Mars. Earth has so MANY
perplexities Of it's own at: present that
1t cannot be expected to encourage an
effort on the, part Of another planet
to tell its troubles. =, y AZ
The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1921-12-01

Suing for a divorce, a wife declared
that her husband threatened to cut
her heart out and carry it around on
a stick, and even went so far as to or
der their daughter to start the grind
stone for sharpening the knife. 1t was
at about that time, it seems, that the
wife decided to cut him out.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25
ENORMOUS TONNAGE
OVER COUNTRY ROADS

The necessity OF keeping country
roads in good condition is shown by
report recently compiled by the Bu-
reau OF Markets and Crop Estimates.
United States Department of Agricul.
ture. showing the extent to which they
are used in hauling farm products to
maraet- According to the report.
which shows the tonnage of II prod
uets hauled on country roads, giving
the yearly average for the period from
1915 to 1919. there were q tons of
these IL crops hauled for every 100
acres of land. The average tonnage of
the II crops hauled on country roads
each year for the period mentioned
amounted to $3.50. 900 tons. The IL
crops referred to in the report are
corn. wheat, oats, barley, rye, rice.
tiaxseed. cotton Including seed. to-
bacco, potatoes, and cultivated hay.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25

Clallam County Guernsey club elect.
ed permanent officers as follows. vii.
lis Chambers, president: c. c. Ken
dali, vice president: Ben II. Ridgwav
seeretary-treasurer; E. A. Sehmuch
and Dan Jackson. mem bers Of the az.
ecutive committee. The president
together with County Agent Holland
and Peter Jensen, placed two regis.
tered Guernsey bulls during The
month
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25

The second annual Guernsey Gal.
lup was held in Whatcom county
with thirty automobiles filed with
dairymen who visited thirteen breed,
ers' farms
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25

Leon s Joy, living about four and
one-half miles northeast OF Medina.
y. Y, claims to have the largest ap-
pie tree in the United States. The
tree is 10 feet 8 inches in circumfer-
ence and has two limbs that are six
feet and five feet five inches. respec-
lively. The tree has limb span OF
about 90 feet. He also has another
apple tree that is eight feet eight
inches in circumference.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25
Dairymen S Conner

Plans are being worked out BIZ the
farm bureau to increase the number
OF dairy farmers in Benton county
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25

County Agent Scott of Franklin
county reports the testing Of Is COW,
for tuberculosis.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25

\ registered Guernsey bull OF excel.
lent merit was placed in the herd Of
Logan Brothers OF East Stanwood,
Snohomish county. through the efforts
Of County Agent Love. The young
bull has backing OF over $50 pounds
OF butterfac
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25

Two carloads Of Jersey cattle wt'l
be shown by the Jersey club OF Gray,
Harbor county at the Southwest Wash.
ington Fair and then at the county
fair.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25

County Agent Berry assisted in
placing one registered Guernsey heifsr
and one registered Guernsey bull IN
Island county. There are also orders
on file for the placing of two more
bulls OF high quality.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25

County Agent Carroll OF Whatcom
county received los applications for
the tuberculin test during the month
OF July. This makes 3 total of 700
cows to be tested for the county.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25

Through the effort OF County Agent
Cowan, one purebred Holstein sire
and one purebred Shorthorn sire were
placed in Grays Harbor county.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25

tuberculosis tests were made for
344 farmers in Okanogan county dur
ing the month, on ISIS head of cattle
OF this number only fourteen reacted
to the test Practically all OF the r..
actors, reports County Agent Dorsey.
were confined to one small section OF
the county.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25

Twenty head of registered Holstein
cows were secured by Lewis county
breeders at dispersion sale in Grays
Harbor county
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25

The Benston farm bureau OF Pierce
county is working on the organization
OF a bull club.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-08-25

Ninety-fvs per cent OF the cows in
a given area covered, or 1865 head,
were tested for tuberculosis in Pacific
county with four reactors.
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-26

;-72tce panic over a whole land! But @a l2-a1ar has to take to many chances, I th3 ordinary course of his occupation, ,z T@1ha t wise for him deliberately to l-tEiIsro another.
 5a is much better, in the end, to have :. ;-tt3e farm weI-tilIed and a little barn 5si filed of ones own. than to hold '1E>r title to a big mortgaged ranch, 'F'sose interest-paynerts you can't meet. I don't say there should be no such tttns as credit. I don't say one should aa4e7 Borrow. don't say one should never lend. There are emergencies when ere must wade the brook. But, ordin- 29sly, It Is pleasanter and safer, drier, anyway, to go round by tie bridge.
 The managOment and conduct of ''big business" you and I are not fitted fully to understand or to argue about. But the farmer who has got a dollar of his own and can make ten cents off 1t by legitimate farming, had better think twice before he mortgages it as se- curity for another dollar, merely on the chance of making twenty cents.
 It's pleasanter to know that one has s dollar of his own, than to know that the other fellow has his note for two dollars-which he can't pay.
 THE FARMER,
Norwich bulletin., 1921-08-26

bonds for a new ratir6ad. The road ran a few years, then vent bankrupt and the town had 10 take oyer the bonds. Since that tsme, 1t has paid more than twice the faeA value Of the bonds and still has some $2s, ,coo to take care ot During all that generation it has stag gered under a higher rate of taxation than that of any other town in it's county; has seen assessments raised, over and over again has witnessed steady loss In population and wealth, and s big. decrease Iii the acreage of land farmed, till, today, 1t ranks owner. in all these elements than t d:d in 1920, hundred yeArs ago.
 1t wanted a railroad. t borrowed money to help build 1t. And # has paid dear for it's iHdnlEence not only I fin interest and high taxes and material deterio7 alton, but also in population and productive caoasaty.
 But, it is said, fArnsrs are seldom possessed of cSpitad, and cannot 'tbranch out'' without h WhT shouldn't they borrow it, you ask, when they see the opportunity te make profitable use of It, above all interest and sinking-fund charges?
 Why not, indeed? That's what Neigh l bor Sherman thought, q few years ago. l SheeD were scarce and dear; wool was 1 selling at s high price; both were l tending towards still higher figures. He had the chance to buy big farm suit able for sheep, at an attraetively low price. Not having money enough Of his -ef skeNp; liked uo the fences repaired l the barns; engaged hay from other 1 farmers to winter the animals; spent 1 all he had himself and all he could bor- ] row branching out" along this tempt ! ing line, He had just fairy got going when the market slump carne. Now he can't sell his sheep he can't give away his wool.
 1 But the interest sn that borrowed money eo<nes due twice year, just the same How he's going to pay it he doef l not know, nor can any one Sell him l unless he turns over everything he has including not only the big sheep-rancr but his own ho1neste as well, to hi' cred;tors.
 His adventure brought him in lil ! tls money over and above interest ant 1 InaintArla nee charges for just one year Now he is in the way to being drained Of his very lifeIblood. It's the price h,
 pays for "p'unging :" the return he get | for trying to bite of mora than he coult
 chew
 I don't say all borrowing farmers en,
 up that war But do say that the,
 run the risk of f deliberately expos
 themselves to t; take another "gamb 1 Ier's chance in unwtse addition to thos
 which their sea asonsi combat wit
 weather and bugs and blight, etc, i'm
 poses upon then.
 At the best, farmer can hope fo
 bu. small gains and little money weaat1
 from the most prudent and industriou
 manaEern nent of his land. But the ques
 tio1 whether small gains and safety ar ] not better ~lan the one-in a -hundre
 chance Of bigger gains with desperat
 risk Is not one open to discussion It
 answered by the very statement Of ! On tfe farm. anyway, it is still bei ] ter to bs safe than sorry. "Big pusi
 ness" may and doubtless will contiuu
 to inaate Is balloons with credit ga { 50 that they may fly hign-aud caus t'lo greater less when thA--- l9u-st an