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The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26
Goat Hill Honors Him

The legislature has said that cer- tain state officials could continue to violate the constitution for four more years. and then they would have to quit. There is generally q way for the fellow that is in to get by.-Centreville Press. Remember the fellow who uttered the truism "You scatch my back and I'll scratch yours?" Goat Hill delights to honor him now.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26
sals. the whole matter would now be constructive history.

Hiram Johnson says this is going to be lively fight because he has his health and his voice. It is generally admitted that the latter constitutes at least one sound element in his cam paign,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26

If there were as close competition among congressman to safeguard the public welfare as there is to get vot- ing credit from tax-reduction propo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26
Yumpin', Yimminyl

"Ten headliners from Norway are listed to appear on the course, and each has distinguished himself in jumps across the ocean,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26

Press dispatches announced that the worlds biggest cheese has been sent from Australia to England, but did not specify his identity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26
News

("It's news to me-" said Jacl Kearns when asked about the Demp Gibbons fight.) When Noah sailed the good ship Arl Upon a shoreless sea, And all the world was. wet and dark Without a single tree, And finally reporters came To ask him tidings of the same
 He shook his head
 And coldly said:
 "It's news to mew When Caesar in the senate hall Was wounded grievously And took the celebrated fall That set his spirit free, No doubt before he passed away, Amid those marble walls of gray,
 He shook his head
 And coldly said.
 "It's news to me!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26
A Strong Argument (Gadsden Journal)

The Journal has argued for years that one of the finest arguments to be used in the location of prospec- tive manufacturers in the Gadsden district is the high class of labor and the efficiency of the workmen to be found here. That view is strengthened by the news which comes from various industries of new production records.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26
Comes In HandiIy

(FT0rida Times-UniOn)
 It is proper nowadays to wear the wrist-watch with the bathing suit 1; and then if the fair one deigns to enter the water, she may keep tab on the tides.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26

The Labor party. in England should recognize the force of the admoni-
 tion: Physician, heal theyself."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26
1 THE tARAGRAPHERS
Always On the Job

(Atlanta Constitution
 An exchange notes that the Ana nias Club has been revived; but really, it never was out of business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26
The Retort Courteous

The Ret0rt Courteous (Maryville, Mo-. Demoerat-Forum) Two high school girls were en- gagged in conversation on the street. Said the first: 'Tom tried to kiss me last night and wouldn't let him."
 Did it make him angry?" her companion asked.
 II should say. He said he wished he had called on you."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26
Enthusiasm

The walrus and the carpenter
 Were at betless race. Somebody won," the walrus said
 With calm, untroubled face. "What of it?" asked the carpenter, And so they left the place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26
Artistic Confusion

(New York Sun and Globe) Mr.: What in the world has our daughter been doing in her room for the last hour?
 Mrs.: Bombing her hair so it will look as though a comb never touched it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26
OverdOne (Tit-Bits)

He was a very keen young busi- ness man. He had written on a square of paper to be stuck outside his office door, Out to lunch. Back in half an hour
 An afterthought struck him. He added the words, Been out twenty five minutes already"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26
What's the Idea? Nashville Banner)

It is said that Magnus keeps a
 scrap book containing all newspaper references to him. We wonder if he is keeping them to hand down to his grandchildren when they grow up?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26

One of the neighborhood novelties recently discovered was a still with a whistle attachment. That would seem as useless as a pocket in a shroud.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26

Luis Firpo collided with a Buenos Aires street car and escaped injury. The report does not say what hap pened to the car.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26

To double the number of policemen would be, to double the hazard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26

A motorist has at last succeeded in hitting a policeman. That's quite a feat in a city where such game is so rare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26
THE AGE-HERALD

Entered at the Birmin ghaui. Ala. post of flee second-class matter under act of Conyre '. March 6, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-26

We'll say that they are receivers all rioht
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-01-31
High Cost OF Wasting

The following letter has been re-
ceived here for publication from w,
p. Baker. proportion of the Do Drop
In Poultry Farm at West Moscow:
| have just read in the Pictorial
Review an article on the High Cost
of Wasting, it says in part:
A man get $500 per day or the
equivalent of Is bushels of wheat for
laying 500 bricks, It. takes 17h bu-
shells of corn to pay a brick layer
for one days work. Bricklayers in
Wankegan, Ill. were receiving as
much as $4,000 week last Septem-
Der. 1t takes 631a doz. eggs to pay
plasterer' for one days work of eight
hours. In New York City plaster
ers get $119 a week including extra
pay for overtime and Sundays. 1t
takes 23 chickens weighing three
pounds each to pay painter one day
in New York 1t takes AZ pounds of
butter or the output from Ia cows to
pay a plumber $14 for one days work
Let me add to all this that 1t takes a
farmer one whole year working 16
hours day to even pay his taxes
God bless the poor farmer.
w. p. BAKER,
West Moscow
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-01-31
East Madison Grange

The special meeting of East Madi-
son Grange was held Saturday even
ing, January 10, to install their off,
GERS. The Secretary with the assist
ance of Mr.. and Mrs. Fred McCollor
Mr.. and Mrs. Ora Judkins of Athens
Grange and Mrs. Nellie r. Hobart Of
East Madison Grange installed the
officers in a very creditable manner
The Lecturer gave a short program.
Opening song by the choir; Readings
by Alta Young, Florence Burrill and
Carrie Baker; song by Emma Whit
tier; reading by NJ. G. Baker; re-
marks by o. b.. Hobart and Leland
Bosworth; duet, (minstreD by Vel
ma Vincent and Daphne Smith with
encore song and dance piano solo,
Velma Vincent; closing with amer
lea" by audience.
The next regular meeting of East
Madison Grange will be held next
Saturday afternoon. January 26
The new officers are: Master, Mrs
Emma Whittier; Overseer, Miss Dor
ris Dexter Steward, Cony Savage;
Assistant Steward. Melville G. Baker;
Chaplain. Mrs. Lillian Savage; Treas
urer, l.. c. Jewett; Secretary, Frank
Pugh; Ceres, Mrs. Nellie Phgh; Po-
mona Mrs. lnez Rowell; Flora, Mrs.
Lucy Kicker; Lady Asst. Steward,
Emma Thompson; Pianist, Velma
Vincent; Chorister, NJ. G. Baker; In
surance Agent, d. B. Hobart.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-01-31
MADISON MAY NAVE
CHEESE FACTORY
Somerset Dairying Association Has
Its Tenth Annual Meeting

The tenth annual business meeting
of the Somerset Dairying Association
OF Madison was held Thursday fore
noon at the creamery on Jones street,
there being about thirty stockholders
present. The officers elected for the
coming year report of the association
show that the receipts for the past
year amounted to $b7,643.34. The
association has paid out to farmers OF
this section during the past year for
butter fat $43. 535.54. 1t has paid for
collection of cream $33S9.29. The
creamery was started I'm a modest way
ten years ago as cooperative as
sociation and the business has stead
lily increased and it will be seen by
the above figures that it means siz-
able revenue to the farmers in this
vicinity. The association now has
modern plant valued at $10,759.90 and
the amount in the hands of the treas
urer January /, 1924 was SCALA.
The officers elected for the year
were: President, Orlando Walker;
secretary-treasurer and manager,
Frank {. Moore; directors, Orlando
Walker, w b. Hilton, Ernest c. Wes-
ton, Mark Gray, Henry Norton, b. F.
Burns and w. d. Waugh Among
other interesting items in the course
of the business meeting was the pos
sibility of cheese factory being es-
tablished in town providing suitable
arrangements can be made with the
Dairying Association. After the
business session an oyster stew din
Aer was served to the stockholders by
Manager Moore Facts CLEANED from
the tenth annual meeting.
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-01-31
CLOTHING SCHOOL At
SKOWHEGAN

Under the direction of the Farm
Bureau and Extension service two
three-day clothing schools have been
held in the county during the past
week Miss Edna M. Cobb, clothing
specialist from Orono and Marion G.
Hare, home demonstration agent were
present.
One of these schools was held in
Palmyra on January 21-22-23. Lee
lures were given the first day on
healthful corseting and becoming
dress; the second day was spent on
the making of foundation waist pat
terms, eighteen patterns were made
and fitted, the last day these waist
patterns were made into blouse pat
terms. Twenty-three blouse patterns
were made. Each day health drills
were given.
Number registered, 90; number of
sessions, 6; total attendance 104;
Average II 1-3
The other school was held in Show
hogan on January 24-25-26. The
work the first day was on healthful
corseting and becoming dress; the
second day the adaptation of the one
piece dress pattern was taken up and
dresses were cut showing the differ
ent type dresses that could be made
from the pattern, the dresses were
also fitted. The last day lectures
were given on short cuts in dressmak-
ing and finishes for garments, also
work was continued on the garments
Health drills were given each day
Number registered 20; number of ses-
sions g. total attendance 101; aver
age 16 So.
MILLINERY TRAINING CLASS
Millinery Training class will be
held in Skowhegan at the home of
Mrs. Cyrus Goodrich, February As
This training class is class of wo-
men from Norridgewock and Show
hogan. three women from each COM
munity, each woman agrees TO teach
three other women.
Edna NJ. Cobb, clothing specialist
and Marion G. Hare. home demonstra-
tioon agent will attend.
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Gerald e. Dunn county agent ant
NJ. d. Jones. farm manage
ment demonstratof)


VI. II. Jbifat iai III
ment demonstrator)
At the last of this report will be
found a comparison of the farm rec
ord for 1922, as taken from the farm
account loaned tho Extension Ser
vice. with that Of twenty farms in
Somerset County. The average Ia
Dor income for the twenty farms was
$279. This is what the farmer Sc
cured for his years work in addition
TO 5 percent interest on his invest
ment and what the farm furnished
toward the living of himself and fam
lily In the form of rent. fuel, milk,
eggs, vegetables and the supplies.
The average farm receipts were
$14S4 made up chiefly of sales as fol-
lows: milk and butter 1852; poultry
and eggs, s110; crop sales, SlS5; wood
and lumber sales. receipts for out
side labor and the miscellaneous re-
ceipts making up the remainder.
These farms averaged forty-fve
acres of crop land, carried an aver
age of seven cows and two horses.
The principal crops were hay, pota-
toes and apples. Two of the best
paying farms had about thirty acres
Of crop land.
Four of the twenty farms paid over
$500 labor income averaging 1868.
This is equivalent to $500 per day
straight time plus a considerable part
of the family living.
A comparison of these four farms
with the average is given at the last
of this report 1t will be observed
that they had slightly larger farms
than the others but carried about the
small amount of cows and crops. The
sales of dairy products were much
larger, however, due to better pro-
ducing COWS. The average sales per
COW on these farms being $135 per
cow per year against $50 per cow on
the average farm.
This one factor is responsible in
q large measure for the increased re-
turn on these farms. To show this
fact more clearly the records of all
farms having four cows or more have
been divided into three groups accord
ing to the value of products produced
per cow and the results given in the
table which Is given below. Six of
these farms sold during the year less
than $50 worth of dairy products per
COW and these six farms paid an aver
age labor income of $139. Five farms
with little better cows paid an aver
age of 1919 per farm while four farms
that sold ever 500 worth per COW
paid an average of 1851. Since these
farms sold their product in similar
markets the comparison shows very
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-01-31
Annual Maine Fairs Convention II
Portland

The annual Maine Fairs convention
will be held in Portland on February
s and and about $50 delegates from
all over the State will attend. In
addition there will be many non-mem-
bers present at the big horseman's
banquet at the Falmouth Hotel on
the first evening that the convention
is in session. The State of Maine
room at the Falmouth will be the
business home of the convention for
two days, and the delegates will dis
cuss all matters referring to agricul-
tural fairs In Maine, but the chief
business will be to arrange the 1924
dates as guided chiefly by the light
harness interests. There are thirteen
fair associations, members of the
Maine, including the Somerset Central
Agricultural Society, but all others
are welcome, and 1t is hoped to enroll
several more associations this year.
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Report of Somerset Dalrying AssO.
citation

Interesting facts CLEANED from the
tenth annual report of the Somerset
Dairying Association at Madison
show that the receipts for the past
year amounted to, s57,643.34. The as
sociation has paid out to the farmers
of this section during the past year
for butter fat $43.53554. 1t has paid
for the collection of cream $3.3S929.
The creamery was started in a modest
way ten years ago as Cooperative
Association and the business has
steadily increased and 1t will be seen
by the above figures that 1t means a
sizeable revenue to the farmers in this
{. vicinity. The Association now has
modern plant on Jones street, val
ued at $10,759.90 and the amount in
the hands of the treasurer January /,
1924 was $1614.14.
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SUMMARY OF FARM ACCOUNTS FROM
TWENTY SOMERSET COUNTY FARMS
Factors That Appear to Influence Profits in
Agriculture Interesting Comparison

clearly the value OF good producing
cows. The following diagram shows
how the income increases per farm
compared with the kinds OF cows kept
Kind of cows
Poor cows ..... $139
FAIR cows .........#... $2lz
GOOD COWS .................. S6bl
Labor Income
The data referred to above Is given
in the following table:
Less $50 worth per cows Number
farms. 6; average labor income, $3.50;
average sales per COW, $55. $50 to
500 worth per COW; number farms,
5; average labor income, 1912; aver
age salessper COW, $76. 800 or over
per COW, number farms, d; average
labor income, 1851; average sales per
COW, s135.
A comparison of the sales of the
cows with the average Is given at the
end of this report. The final question
to determine is what Is the produce
ton of the individual animals. In
every herd some are good producers
while others may be eating up the
profits.
Production should be measured not
in pounds of milk but in terms of
the value of product produced. This
may be increased by the use of good
bulls, economical feeding, and good
general management.
On the following page will be found
a comparison of farm with the aver
age and the four best paying ones.
AV a
The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1924-01-31
Some Hog Killed at NarridgewOck

G. II. BlaisdSll of Norridgewock
killed the biggest hog reported in
this section during the past week
The hog dressed four hundred and
seyentyseven pounds. 1t was bot
of Irwin Palmer.
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Should Fertilizers be Used In Two
Appllcations2

Many growers in Southern New
England have advocated applying
half the fertilizer in the row at
planting and half between the rows
when the crop Is well Started. To
determine the value of such practice,
on certain plots half of the fertilizer
was applied at planting In the furrow
and half between the rows when the
plants were sir to ten inches in height
EFFECT OF TWO APPLICATIONS
OF FERTILIZER ~
Bushels per acre-marketable. 1000
pounds fertilizer ner acre
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Try an ad in Everybody's Column.
No matterw hat you have to sell you
are sure to find customer through
one of these little agents,
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Bushels per acre-marketable, 200C
nnunds fertilizor nn1, nnro

An examination of the above table
shows that in only one year, 1917.
was the yield higher for two appli-
cations. The average of the four
years shows small difference in
favor of one application. The con-
clusion seems perfectly obvious--it
does not pay to divide the fertilizer
into two applications. This would
apply under all methods of planting,
for obviously the entire amount can
be applied In the row at time plant
ing at lower labor cost than when
the second application is made later.
The question Is sometimes raised
on inquiry to the seed when a ton or
more OF fertilizer is applied in the
furrow. This method of application
has been used with good results not
only at this station but very common
ly in the potato growing sections of
New England. When planting is
done by hand, fertilizer should be
thoroughly mixed with the soil before
the seed Is dropped
Evening star., 1924-11-02
points of difference that their nature
seems to be quite different.
Grfp@h~lIs


points of difference that their nature
seems to be quite different.
Fireballs.
These brighter meteors - bright er
than a star of, the first magnitude
are called fireballs. They have great
er mass than the shooting star and
penetrate farther into the atmos-
phere; about 200 miles as an average
length of path. One in 1913 moved
over $500 miles in or minutes
before extinction Fireballs are often
followed by a glowing white trail of
eral minutes. This may be waited
about by the wind into an irregular
form. After moving across the sky
the fireball, seems to stand still at it's
maximum of brightness and then sud-
denly vanish as If by an explosion
Often a cracking sound like thunder
is heard shortly after. This may be
heard for so miles. Sometimes, but
rarely, there is a fall of meteoric
stones after the explosion. AS many
as 100000 pieces have been found
from single fireball.
But after the bodies are found we
must still wonder how such small
bodies can produce SO great a display
and appear to have 4 diameter of a
mile or SO when flying through the
air. Not only the body, but the heat
ed air about it, glows. The chief rea-
son, however, is this that the pieces
were never parts of a single solid
body, but moved as swarm. When
such a swarm strikes our atmosphere
it is, sorted. The resistance being
less effective ON the larger pieces,
they gradually pass the smaller ones
Then those that are in front bear tn
Evening star., 1924-11-02
DOMESTIC SCIENCE HELD
VITAL TO EVERY GIRL
British Women Declare for Train
ing i'll Discussion of Servant
Status at Meeting.

BY Cable 70 The Star and New York World
Copyright, 1924.
LONDON, November 1.-The status
of domestic servant Was discussed at
the conference Of the National Council
OF Women at Brighton recently, when
Lady Matthews of Tunhridze Wells
urged that training In domestic science
should form an integral part of the
education of every young girl.
Lady Matthews remarked that patho-
logical investigators had declared that
they had tracked cancer to the kitchen
because women did not understand the
nature of vitamines.
'fWe have women" Lady Matthews
said, who enter upon married life
openly boasting that they know moth
ing of domestic matters. We want it
to be realized that cooking is nothing
but applied chemistry. and that scrub
bing and securing are nothing less
than the science Of hygiene put into
practice. We hope the time win come
when We shall see esta blished in our
universities Domestic Science Troops.
We should clothe the domestic in a
garment OF honor and show what she
is-not a drudge, but q princess
A delegate from Australia stated that
women who came from England to
that country were deplorahly deficient
in domestic knowledge.
Evening star., 1924-11-02
THE STARRY. SKIES IN NOVEMBER
Samuel G. Barton Of the University of Pennsylvania

Mars is the only planet now visible
IN the early evening. At the first of
the month 1t is 61,000,000 miles away;
at the end Of the month, 100000
1t is now nearly two magnitudes
fainter than in August-that is,
about a sixth as bright. The position
Of Mars at the first Of the month is
Uranus, which is, invisible to the
naked eye, is also shown. Uranus
remains in practically this same po-
sftion all month, but Mars moves and
passes Uranus on November %. With
opera glasses or telescopes Uranus
can then be seen just above or north
of Mars.
When the sky is observed even
carelessly on a dark. clear night,
bright objects like stars are seen to
shoot across the sky, as though a
star has broken loose from the sky
and fallen. They are not stars, how
ever, and have never been supposed
to be stars by astronomers, SO that
the term shooting stars" sometimes
applied to them is misleading. To
astronomers they are known as
meteors.
AS Is common in other cases when
data was accumulated as to the num-
Der, brightness, position, motion,
color, ETC., OF meteors. many interest
ing facts were discovered about them.
They are of varying degrees OF
brightness. From those visible on
rare occasions even in daylight to
faint ones seen by the observer to
dart across the field of a great tele-
scope. there are all gradations in
brightness. The bright ones arc not
frequent. Meteors are not seen with
equal frequency at all times. Because
of the rotation and revolution of the
earth, they appear in greater num-
bers in the latter half OF the night
and in the Autumn months, and more
are seen in the eastern than the,
western half OF the sky. The rea-
sons for these differences were eX-
planned in detail in Il previous article.
There are found to be some days ,of
the year when there arc an unusual
number, many OF them starting from
the same spot in the sky, and this
phenomenon occurs on the same day
each year. Such groups are called
meteor swarms" and their appear