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on the Kitchen are pantry and wash
room. the latter u necessary room In
the farm house plan. q place where
the men coming In from TIE fields can
wash up before stepping into the
house proper. In this way much of
the dirt that used 10 col4e into the
farm kitchen Is left cut. on the din
Ing room TO the rear is a bedroom for
those who have 10 wash early. There
Is also a iavatory In connection with
the Mushroom.
This arrangement leaves the upper
floor entirely to bedrooms, of which
there are four In this plan. with a
rear ~screened-in sleeping porch and
balcony. The two front bedrooms are
l3 feet square. while the two rear
ones are II by 10 feet. They all have
clothes closets.
In short. we have a modern
farm home. well constructed. com
tanning all OF the convenlences and
comforts Of the city home. Il is the
antidote for the poison that Is gnaw-
ing at the vifals OF the youth on the
farm and driving them 10 uncertain
conditions in the great cities. There
Is nc excuse for the old fashioned
home any more. The snap Of 4 bur.
% or the turning Of a switch gives
the best light there Is al small cost
Running water from faucets allews the
soothing vigor OF a bath and relieves
the farmers wife Of the hard task Of
hauling from the well q pumping IL
via the kitchen
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R0OMY HOME FOR
CITY Or FARM
Ideal House Which Provides All
Modern ColvenienceS.
NOT EXPENSIVE TO BUILD
Square, Economical Shape, Frame Ex-
terror With Concrete Foundation
Has Eight Comfortable Rooms
and Sleeping Porch.
BY WILLIAM A. RADFoRD

Mr.. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE or
COST on all subjects pertaining TO the
subject of building, for the readers of this
paper. On account of his wide experience
as Editor, Author and Manufacturer he
is, without doubt, the highest authority
on all these subjects. Address all inquiries
to William A. Radford. No. 1897 Prairie
avenue, Chicago, H., and only incIose
two-cent stamp for reply.
Let there be light"
For years and years the practical
meaning OF this Biblical expression
was lost to the farmer. True, he may
have got some spiritual consolation
from it, bur there was a significance
that had not dawned upon him. He
kept hard at it. working his long hours
each day and far into the night with
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1922-06-01
BIG SAVING MADE BY
CULLING OUT SCRUBS
Nonproducing Fowls Eliminated
From Many Flocks.
Extension Agents Explain Method Of
Wedding Out So Thoroughly That
Poultry Raisers Soon Be-
come Efficient.

prepared by the United States Department
Of AgricuitureD
Approximately $4,000 vas saved TO
poultry men in Texas last year through
the work of extension workers en-
ployed comparatively by the United
States Department of Agriculture and
the state agricultural college. In II
counties Of Maine the saving was
about Sl,394.40. These sums repre-
sent the money value of culling, es-
timated on the feed cost of one cent
a day a hen.
In Maine 1864 hens were examined
in culling demonstrations and 4,64S
culls removed. I'm Texas about 49,
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RIGHT CULTURE or CABBAGE
Rich Soil Encourages Fast Growth,
Large and Solid Heads-chl.
nese Variety Differs.

The history Of the development Of
the cabbage gives the key to it's Gull
ture. The richer the soil and the
faster il Ia kept growing, the larger
and solder the heads. Ii must be
grown fast to head fast. II through
lack Of fertility or drought its growth
is checked, there LIS either nc real head
or a loose. very inferior one, the whole
strength OF the plant going to develop
such leaves as II had produced before
the check. The Chinese cabbage is an
entirely different species from the com.
mon cabbage and Its brothers.
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KEEP COMPOST HEAP MOIST
Arrange Pile So That Rain Will Keep
Material Wet and Prevent Loss
OF Fertility.

1T is of the utmost Importance"
says the Flower Grower, "that the top
of the pile be kept hollow or at least
fiat, so that rain will keep the ma.
terial wet and prevent burning and
loss Of fertility. Don't let the pile
get rounded on top under any cir
cumstances, as IL should absorb the
rainfall and not shed II, and. there
fore, the nearer level II Is kept the
better job Of composing will result
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DETERMINING SEX OF DUCKS
Hen Always ouacks In Coarse Voice.
While Drake viii Emit
sibiIant Sound.

Not every one knows how to tell
the sex OF ducks, but It Is easy. The
hen duck always quacks In a coarse
voice; the drake never quacks. but
emits g sibilant sornd. described By
r woman al being like an old utan
with brownkeeters." 1t has a "qusck"
sound. but is high pitched and not so
loud as The raus.-us quacking Of the
hen ducks-
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PLAN TO AVOID CAPE WORMS
Pests Can pc Guarded Against by
Putting Little T~urpentine in
Drinking Water.

Now that warm weather is coming
m. cape worms will soon put In an
ippearaEce in terrain localities. They
an often be prevented by putting a
'ew drops Of turpenfine In each quart
VI water-and scattering air slaked
Tine about the coops and runs.
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cutleura seap Cor III. compIexlon.

Nothing better than Cuticura Soap
daily and Ointment now and then as
needed to make the complexion clear,
scalp clean and hands soft and white.
Add to this the fascinating, fragrant
Cuticura Talcum, and you have the
Cuticura Toilet Observation-Disclosures
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NieMa of One.

From fifty a week Flubdub Is now
earning ten thousand q year. Yet his
wife is no happier"
at isn't the amount OF money that
counts. 1t is living within her In
some that makes a woman unhappy"
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Bans Used in Church services.

rams Oseo IN Ihurcn services.
Fans were used In the religious
services OF the early Christians In
the Middle ages, to keep HES from
the sacred elements. These were
round, with silver bells.
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One doesn't need philosophy TO sap
port his spirit through life he needs
TO be busy.
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His Opinion.

what Is this alleged work of artf'
"It's a fricze."
-It's a frost"
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Patience is not exercised by master
minds when 1t will do no good.
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Grateful eettor.

1t was her first visit to the races.
On being introduced to a famous
jockey, she said II think IL was just
too sweet of you to win that three
dollars for me-
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A hermit is a man who gets along
pretty well without the world.
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12

not driven to learn. The subjects are ar
ranged so as to draw out of the child the
best that is in him. With this in view, diver
sified industrial trades are placed at his dis
posal He may thus gain an insight into a
world of endeavor and can choose that which
most nearly fits in with his natural ability.
The school has its own cafeteria now, where
foods more especially adaptable to growing
children are prepared by the domestic SCI
ence class Music. singing, languages, bot
any, agriculture, Esperanto, are among the
subjects offered to Llano's children: and
there are many opportunities for obtaining
real education. in addition to those pro-
vided by the regular state course of study,
making them a thinking, alert. self-reliant
group of future builders of cooperative
commonwealth.
Equal wages are paid to men, women and
children. The theory of this is that each
colonist owes to the community his best en-
beavers, whether he be learned lawyer, hus
ky farmer, or little school child. They give
to the whole the best they can, and in re-
turn receive the best ~~~'' ether can offer.
Hospital and doctor are provided when
sickness comes, and there are no charges for
such social services. Funerals are conducted
along the same lines.
There is no need for insurance in the Col
ony for the dependents receive their support
just the same, even if the father be remov-
ed from them.
Social life is made by those who live to-
gether. The great objection to living on the
land is the isolation which accompanies it.
Here in Llano, the farmers and the industrial
workers live close to the center where dane
es, entertainments, picture shows, and all
manner of good times can be had for the
making.
No rent is charged for the houses, and
any building can be used for meetings with
out cost
Men work in whatever industry they are
best fitted for Sometimes they are moved
around to different work as is deemed neces-
sary, but the fact is conceded that each
worker works best at something that be likes
to do and has fitted himself for. But when
it is remembered that each is working for the
whole. and the whole is working for the in-
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selects a general manager. He selects his
foremen for the various industries, and each
is selected carefully according to his ability
to do the work and to direct his men.
Each manager is given free hand to run
his department, always with the supervision
of the manager and board of directors, in
order that his actions may not be contrary to
the collective welfare.
New industries are started from time to
time as necessity demands. The object of
Llano's industries is to provide the Colony
with what it needs, rather than to make a
profit by selling the products. Production
for use is our slogan. Thus to make its own
food, clothing and shelter. to provide as far
as possible every convenience and comfort
is the final object. To get as nearly as pos
sible to the source of wealth, the Colony will
raise sheep for wool; cotton can be raised,
and the colonists can weave their own cloth
and make their clothing
The Colony's timber lands are now fur
nishing hardwood and pine for its buildings,
its brick plant makes the necessary brick and
can make thing, hollow tile, ETC., for its own
homes.
The Farm and gardens Of the Colony have
provided the tables with most of the good
things which nature offers.
Thus the three important problems are
easily solved.
The Colony now owns about 5000 acres
Of land, some Of it of very fair character,
varying from bottom land to rolling land
and timber land. 1t intends to purchase a
total of 10000 acres. because the colonists
realize that the movement is destined to grow
to large proportions, several small commun-
tiles probably will be settled on the land.
When the days work is done at 4:30.
each colonist has an equal opportunity to
improve himself along many lines, such as
music. vocal training. languages. science,
agriculture. orchestra work, dancing. and
other diversions. Many of these classes are
well attended. and all the coIonists realize
the fact that to keep progressive they must
advance in knowledge. A radical in poll
itics and conservative In everything else is
out of place in this community.
Llano's school system is as progressive as
the cooperative colony. The children are
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Be a booster for Cooperation.
LANO The Trail That Leads the Cooperative Commonwealth

dividua, no one refuses to do what is allotted
to him.
Women all find lots Of work to do. They
feed the men at the hotel, wash and iron for
them at the laundry, make dresses and over
alls and shirts at the sewing department, at
tend store, office, etc., wherever their SER
vices can be utilized to best advantage.
On special occasions such as harvesting.
or planting. all the school children are glad
to go to the fields and help. 1t is the COM
mon food store-and all will help to save
the harvest. Men, women, and children will
forsake their regular work to help where they
can.
This is because they are actuated by an
ideal. They believe in cooperation with
each other. Some co-operators think Coop
Grafton means that others have to cooperate
with them, that their lot may be bettered.
Llano co-operators realize that each must
sacrifice their personal interests and amalga-
mate with the COLLECTIVELY. This is the very
ideal which has made Llano signal success
in the cooperative field, when other like
communities have disintegrated.
Men and women will laugh at hardships
and pioneering when they are propelled by
a brilliantly-visible IDEAL Such an ideal
is Llano 's-to show to the world that humans
can cooperate together 10 build veritable
paradise in which to live. where love and af-
lection are the predominant personal rela-
tionships and where the consideration Of the
other fellows welfare is not hidden by per-
sonal greed. In such a community greed,
selfshness and jealousy cannot survive long.
If you are interested in such a commune
ity and such an ideal and would like to learn
how to get into practical application and de-
monstration of that ideal. write for more
particulars. Ask for Cooperation in Ac-
tor" which goes more into the detail Of
Colony life and is illustrated by pictures,
showing the colonists at work.
The Colony has its express and freight
agency. and hopes to have its own possoffice
AT present address all communications to:
Llano Cooperative Colony, NewIlano, La,
(via LeesvilIe).
TIE LLANo COOPERATIVE COLONY
NEWLLANo VIA LEESWLLE, LA.
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and industries are all owned by the collective
ity; where each works for the other; where
each receives the same compensation for
days work; where no member will accept
anything, which any other member cannot
have on the same terms, if he desires it
in short, imagine a place where the golden
rule is the only law imposed upon the COM
munity, and you are picturing the Llano CO.
operative Colony.
After eight years Of work, Llano Colony is
rated in the commercial world as worth over
$250,000. But Llano's least asset is its COM
mercial rating. The fullness of life, the Joy
Of living, the satisfaction of working, the
security for the future, the healthy environ
ment, the opportunity for education, the aft
lection of your feIlowmen-these are priced
more, much more, than what the commercial
world calls success.
This colony now has something like thirty
industries, all collectively owned. Among
these are: apiary, auto garage. building de-
partment, brick-making plant, blacksmith
shop, butcher shop. broom factory, crate
making factory, chicken farm, dairy with
about 20 milking cows and herd of thoro-
bred Holstein heifers, goat ranch, hog ranch.
with several hundred Duroc-Jersey hogs,
sweet-potato storage houses, dressmaking.
grist mill, handle lathes, hotel, hospital, Ii
brary, steam laundry, land clearing, fruit or
chards, print shop. peanut butter factory.
magazine and weekly newspaper. picture
show and theater, wagon-making shop, cam
dy kitchen, shoe shop, harness shop, and
many other smaller concerns.
Then Lano's farms and gardens provide
the bulk of the living for the colonists, the
farmers specializing on sweet potatoes, SUI
gar cane, peanuts, corn, beans. peas, ETC.,
while the gardens provide greens and gar
den truck for the table the year around.
The system of government is exceedingly
simple. Stock is sold in the corporation at
one dollar share. and only stockholders
are employed by the Colony. An agreement
of employment is entered into between the
Colony as an organization and each individ-
ual. Each member is employed at what
he best can do. or which needs most to be
done. A board Of directors is selected each
year by the stockholders. which board in turn
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12

you put in gates where your railroad
crosses fences2" | asked him if he had
never seen cattle-guard and of course
he saw the point at once. The trou-
Bile was that he had never thot in rail-
road terms and the subject was new to
him. 1t is an old saying. There's
tricks in all trades but ours" | have
thought in railroad terms for years and
had experience in their operation, and
when the time comes that we can have
a railraod, my experience is at the ser
vice of the Colony. There's Spanish
proverb, ''Escoba nueva barre bien,
pero la vieja conoce los rincones." Lit
orally translated, "A new broom sweeps
clean, but the old one knows the cor
ners. - Read at Newllano Agricultur-
al Meeting, August 4, 1922.
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LEE DICTATORSHIP
OF PLUTocRACY
Gil. A. F. L. News Lottery


What would the ragged soldiers,
shivering around their scanty camp
fires at Valley Forge century and a
half ago. have said if their famous
leader had told them that warmth and
comfort were more precious than lib
erty and that coal was greater es-
sential to civilization than freedom.
Every American school boy knows
what the answer would have been. Our
revolutionary forefathers knew that
freedom was the greatest essential to
human progress and hence they sacri-
feed everything for the sake of lib
erty. But times have changed since
the days Of Washington and Jefferson
and now their successor in office, War
rem G. Harding, president Of the United
States of America, is quoted, in effoct,
as having advised at a meeting of the
coal operators at Washington, few
days ago, that he considered an ade-
quate supply Of coal to be more neces-
sary to public welfare and national
security than was freedom of action on
the part of either the working people
for the employers.
The present national administration
seems to be Of the opinion that it has
no other duty to perform in contro-
VERSES between employers and workers
than to apply force against the work
ing people and in support of the EN-.
pEoyers under the plea that such &C
ton is necessary to public welfare
That was the position the administra-
ton took during the great seamen's
strike which took place more than a
year ago, in the miners strike which
has been on since April |, and also
in the railroad shipments strike.
The United States Department Of
Labor which was created to protect
and promote the interests of wage earn.
ers has failed to function in each Of
these great strikes. Its division of con.
Citation has scarcely been heard Of II
connection with any of these three i'm
portant events. The Secretary of La
Dor appears only in the back grounc
and when government authorities be
come active, it is the Secretary of Com
merce, representing the business inter
The Llano colonist. [volume] (Llano, Calif.) 191?-1937, 1922-08-12
THE GROWING MENACE
BUREAUCRATIC CONTROL

Washington. Senator Stanley Of
Kentucky attacked in the Senate The
'inordinate increase in governmental
expense due to the persistent growth
Of bureaucratic control.
IT has been said, " ayerred the Sem
ator, that there are 100000 PEN
sioners on public bounty. IF that IS
true there S an office holder, tax
eater on the back of every two tax
producers in the United States. That
situation crushed France and produc--
ed the French revolution. It has been
the bane and the damnation of Ger
many and a like condition will enslave
and bankrupt this country"
Il will cheerfully say that the able.
and capable Senator from Wyoming.
Mr.. Warren, the chairman If the com
mittee on Appropriations, has made an
earnest and interchangeable effort, in my
opinion. to curtail expenditures. and
my differences with him do not imply
that he is particeps criminis III the
abuses Of which am going to speak.
However, it IS true that an analysis
of the expenditures Of this Government
over and above the expenditures Of
sums which arose. Or arise Out Of
wars present, past or future, has inor-
dinately increased. am moi here to
take partisan advantage or to make
partisan appear, for this is not due
entirely to the derelction Of the party
in power.
1T is due to the persistent growth
Of bureaucratic control, the increase of
the personnel of departments and Of
commissions and Of boards and Of bu-
,,'reaus and Of every other agency ever
utilized or ever abused BY paternalis-
|'tic regime.
The great Senator from Idaho, Mr..
Borah, not long ago in hearing be-
fore the Committee on Judiciary on
bill then pending to increase this bu-
Ireaucratic control by abridging the lib
erty of the press, declared that par
ticular bill was but symptom Of
worse disease-the wholesale taking
from courts, from local governments,
from the states, from constituted au-
thority in every shape and form, the
conduct of the peoples affairs and the
control Of those things that local com
munities have controlled during the
whole history Of the Government, and
sticking it somewhere in hidden bu-
reau here in Washington.
There is more power to-day exer-
cised in these marble sarcophagi BY
unnamed experts, the politically con-
trolled oppointees Of Whispering prop
uganda, than by the courts themselves.
The cost has become unbearable."
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y INCE THE DAYS of Jesus Christ. the
> human heart has longed for the time

~ NCE THE DAYS of Jesus Christ the
y human heart has longed for the time
when no mans hand would be against
the hand of his neighbor, time when each
mans interest would be identical with the
best interests of the whole community. The
progressive thinker. all down through the
march of civilization, has yearned tor bet
ter state of society in which to live. FOR
this reason, more than any other, men and
women have left their native SOILS and tax
en- up the duties and terrible hardships OF
pioneers, searching for the golden opportun-
ity. 50. u
West they go farther West; but the smeary
hand of exploitation has always followed
close behind, leaving them often drained to
the point of poverty.
To get away from the tithe-paying system
from rent, interest and profit-men have
struggled and fought and planned. Colonlz~
alton enterprises have come into beng IN
many parts of the world, having as their OBJ
'iect the grouping of congenial workers IN an
effort to eliminate these Objectionable phases
Of human life. Many of them have partly
succeeded, only 10 be wrecked upon the
rocks, because of lack of understanding
of each others motives.
After studying most Of the former attempts
at cooperative colonization, and marking
well the rocks and shoals in the stormy SEAS
Job Hartman founded cooperative COM
munity at LIano. California. on May lst'
1914. This community operated and pros
pered at this location until 1917. when the
water for irrigation purposes proved unequal
to the growth of the Colony. and new and
more resourceful location was found IN Lou
isiana, where they are now located.
Founded on three great principles OF socl.
ology-equality of opportunity. equality OF
income, and equality of ownership, the Llano
Colony has proven that men and women can
live together in harmony and prosper. lms
Colony is incorporated under the law as a
protection against unscrupulous persons and
disgruntled seIf-seekers. Imagine it you can;
miniature cooperative commonwealth ana
you have Llano Colony Imagine a COM
munity where all the land. the farms, tools