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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-03

lated to travel on all kinds OF
roads with the possibility OF nav
ing the most convenient type OF
body for the army mounted such
as for the transportation OF
wounded, personnel transportation,
various loads. machinery. etc.
It's low price for the complete
cha3ais in the Custom House OF
-aiparatso Xxx,
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-03

ing passed a large sand desert and
the most difficult and dangerous
part of roads impossible to animal
drawn vehicles. which as a meas
IRE of prudence swas avoided oy
the other trucks in the contest.
Because the characteristics OF the
chassis are such hat they COM
line qualities O: ssurd!ness. light
,,e,cht. and ~'otor power calcu'
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-03

In old days after dark sentiment
tai young people stood whispering
behind the wheel house. The old
er, more serious, looked at the
starry sky, muttering about Arc
turus, Orion and Pleiades and the
Chambers of the South.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-03

s-The Graham Brothers truck Is Of
IDEALLY selected as the type for adop-
ton and acquisition by the Army OF
the Republic Of Chile"
{ This Is the unanimous report OF
the special committee OF high army
. officials designated by the Ministry
! o; War of Chile to determine the
: make Of truck the Army should adopt
I for its services. It followed an IN
ternational reliability race open to
all manufacturers and participated
IN by six different makes - three
|, European and three American.
4 The Graham Brothers truck shown
epove with Colonel Anbras1o ViauX.
president of the committee, and other
army officials. was the only one OF
the six entrants to finish the test
with a perfect reliability score. Not
! only was It's superiority shown in this
av out marked economy was dem
>..3t.ated over all others in consump-
tiua Of gasoline. oil and water. The
. .e.age speed Of Is kilometers an
,,ur made by the Graham Brothers
{: uck placed it first in this respect
?, re next truck to finish showing an
:. eragc of only 81 kilometers an hour
Tie race covered more than BOG
j ..lometers (50v l:.:iesS CT mo>.1taln-
3 us territory. including an ascent OF
/, tAe Anoes.
Z The -......>a, sigr;d report Of the
..,rlr1't':e, f.. .si.l!c + which Is
srcu.n abov~. Is FLIED with praise for
/ the record made by the Graham
s,o.hcrs truck, The translation from
/ he Spanish reads:
,snuSlic Of Chile.
W.r Material Office.
The Committee decided unani-
! ,nou$ly to recommend the adoption
'! n. Il acquisition Of the " to 2-tcn
DAY load Graham Brothers truck types
-. presented by the dealers. Messrs Besa
& Ga, Ltda.. for the following rea-
s2ns:
, I.aving c5ro.,et:l tic contcs;
v,tsout a detect.
= -.ceuae CT bcing economical in
/. ticI consumption in proportion to
= ,..a losd which 1t w.s able &c
: ',-aasposy.
a = ..ause O! having reached the max
I'm speed that can Gle demanded
9 truck IN the cad roads over
; &! t:ey were r~2 90 k:!one-
:. ...s n-r nn,ir lis an ..--97e'. cav
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-03

News comes through the ether
from both shores, and unlike the
brother of old Jerome of Travers
and Jerome you don't wait ter
days to learn That Will Street has
ruined yoH You know it she same
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-03
THE WAY OF A SHIP.
MARK TWAIN WOULD WONDER,
DOG AND PERFUME LADIES. >,
AND ONLY ONE STAR. .

of the sea has changed since Solo
mon, the SON of David, wrote his
/ Proverbs. The hardy Phoenician,
bringing precious freight for Solo
mons temple, and the American
+ tourist of the General Grant-Mark
Twain period would wonder at the
ships of 1927. t-~-.-.-
} This is written on the AQultaniA,
one of many floating cities that
cross the ocean, as free from TO
nance as the moving pictures
shown on Deck A. Whoever has
crossed in old days rubs bis eysa.
like Rip Van Wrinkle. -
Along the deck, much wider than
Fifth Avenues sidewalk, and a.
most as steady, comes a wheezy,
short, fat lady, leading a small dog
to match, with all its owners quail
tiles, plus a disposition to snap at
passing legs. They turn at the
notice, "N6 dogs allowed forward
of this sign"
The dog wears a beautiful RIB
bon, the lady, possibly a grand
mother, wears brilliant pink silk
stockings, of such high visibility
that an old time captain might
have put her in irons. Much gold
on her dress and on her cheeks
profusely spread the rouge that
Jezabel wore, in Racine's descrip-
ton, pour repGrsr, Gss ans, Fire
parable oaVrGge.
That modern seafaring lady
passes, and here comes another,
forty years younger, forty times
worse. AS she passes, in bright
red. she scatters ali the perfumes
OF Arabia, which are the worst
stickiest perfumes on earth, and
smokes an ostentatious cigarette.
The cigarette is used as a wand,
wave to emphasize a speech that
s :S1l,ing, deeply appreciated
b .; man with black, sleek,
E -. ,1;5, d stomach Gazing in
%a.-, I foreign accent and no
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-03
PEACE TERMs-750 Page

Cut out this Coupon and send 10
$2.9S and We will ship KetV HfNes's
Negro In the World War (y4,hO.
The Planet for one year coz, Q
total vaiue Of $40 for. .$e.SS
TIN PLANET,
81 N. 4th st.. Richmond. Va.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-03

more back head than Russian
wolf hound.
y The young woman's father prob
ably has money.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-03

D The young woman'S father prob
4 ably has money.
Z Hundreds spend week in this
floating hotel, not realizing that
they are on the ocean unit the
fog horn blows. Then some say
81 don't like that sound" The
more nervous drown the fog, horn
with two more cocktails.
Modern American wealth has
changed ships into cocktail and
breakfast food emporiums. There
are thirty kinds of mucous men,
brane destroyers listed as cock
tails on the smoking room pro-
gramme, and indignant Britishers
on their own ship wade through a
list of American breakfast foods
that amazes and outrages them.
In old days after dark sentiment
tai young people stood whispering
behind the wheel house. The old
er, more serious, looked at the
starry sky, muttering about Arc
turus, Orion and Pleiades and the
Chambers of the South.
That 10 ~o}d stuff" now. There
10 no wheel house accessible on a
modern ship, and you are not sup
posed to look at the stars.
The only one OF SIX decks from
which they can be seen is dark at
aight. Nobody uses 1t. To walk
there Is to interrupt your musings
Sy falling over shuttle boards or
imitation green's for golfers. I.
enough. He one to Be seen to-
night y wondrously beautiful,
deep and soulful. Her picture, in
eolors, just outside TIE dining
saloon, shows her pretty tiny
nose, pressed close to the nose tip
Of some gentleman. The sign says
Pola Negn In @Good and Naugh-
H"
IN The smoking room pools are +
auctioned on the ships daily rum
the pools running to thousands Of
dollars The chief smoking room
steward, generously remembered
by the winner of each pool, gets
twice as much as the ships captain.
That also Is modern. Many boot
egger gets four times as much as
the President of the United States
On this voyage Mr.. Newnark
and Mr.. Lehman display strange
knowledge as to BOW fast S skip
will go. Martin Conboy, of New
York, looks on and says It's too
complicated and not worth the
bother anyhow.
News comes through the ether
from both shores. and unlike the
brother of old Jerome of Travers
and Jerome you don't wait ter
lays to learn hat Will Street has
.uined yoH You know it she same
lay
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1927-09-03

Hundreds spend a week in this
floating hotel, not realizing that
they are on the ocean unit the
fog horn blows. Then some say
II don't like that sound" The
more nervous drown the fog, horn
with two more cocktails.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19
Nonshrinkoble Wool
Supplied by Ouibos

The musk-ox - scientifically, the
ovibos-is one of the interesting an
finals of the Arctic region. 1t is some
thing like a cow and something like
a sheep, but is not cross, though the
name, ovibos, means sheep-cOw. 1t
seems to be relic of an animal that
lived in the Stone age, when the hairy
rhinoceros and the mammoth were
common, writes the travel editor of
the Pathfinder Magazine. 1t feeds on
grass herbs, moss and the shoots of
trees Not only is its meat very good
to eat and the hide good for leather,
but the wool from its coat is softer
than cashmere ana it has the advan-
tage over all other wool that it will
not shrink. One can smell the ovibos
when it is still quarter of a mile
away, and this gives it its popular
name of musk-ox. But the muspy
smell does not faint the meat if tine
butchering is carefully done.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19
Some Species of Hawks
Beneficial to Farmers

Not all hawks are harmful, in the
sense that they are supposed to be;
that is, in catching chickens and song
birds and quail. The biological survey
of the United States Department Of
Agriculture points out that there are
a number of different species of
hawks, and the food habits of all are
not the same. Some prey almost en-
tirely upon small mammals, such as
mice, ground squirrels, and rabbits,
whereas the food of others consists
chiefly of birds. The latter are the
species that are responsible for the
bad reputation of all hawks. The bird
eaters should be killed at every oppor-
tunity, but it is equally important that
the others be spared, for they do a
great deal of good in destroying small
animal pests of the farmer. The bird
eating hawks include the Cooper
hawk and the sharp-shinned hawk,
and these species prefer to capture
their prey by swift, fierce darts from
the concealment Of thick foliage. Most
of the other hawks are beneficial to
the farmer.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19
ANSWERS No. III

Capt. Robert Gray, 1892.
2-Three; Harrison, Taylor, Hard
ing.
3-Plants.
1.-The ability or capacity to per-
form work.
5-Great Heart cleared the bar at
feet Il inch.
6-Antonin Dvorak, in his "New
World" symphony.
1.-THE Nile.
8-"Endymion" by John Keats.
0-John Sherman.
10-In' America, yes; in England, no.
11-Major Pitcairn, before the bat
tie of Lexington.
12-The United States.
13-The average human heart weighs
nine and one-half ounces.
14-An instrument for detecting the
presence of an electric current or
measuring its strength.
15-New York, New Jersey.
16-Three: Lincoln, Garfield, Nc
Klnley.
17-Stravinski.
1S-Hudson bay. ..
19-"The Faery Queene"
20-The five-day week.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19
Efficient and Uniform
Toxicity Made for Rats

According to results of experiments
conducted Jointly by the bureaus of
biological survey and chemistry of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture, a powder can be made from dried
red-sQuill bulbs which has an efficient
and uniform toXicity for rats, but at
the same time apparently does not IN
duly endanger human beings or do
nestle animals.
The use of powdered red squill for
the destruction of rats is comparative
ly recent in this country, although the
poison has been in limited use in Eu-
rope for centuries. 1t has never come
into popular use, however, even there,
because of it's tendency to vary great
ly in potency. Several of the factors
influencing its toxicity have been de-
veloped during the course of the pres
ent investigation. Officials of the De-
partment of Agriculture anticipate
that these experiments will be of
material assistance in the production
of a uniform and stable squill prod
uct. This poison should greatly bene-.
fit the poultrymen and farmers gen
orally who hesitate to use some of the
commercial rat poisons on account of
the attending danger to live stock.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19
What's the
Answer ,..........,
Questions No. IL

1-What crew won the Harvard Yale
two-miIe rowing race in 1925?
2-What states were originally col
onized by the Spanish?
3-What army surgeon became Sec
rotary of war; in whose cabinet?
4-How does the beach get it's sand?
5-How deep Is the deepest part Of
the ocean?
! 6-What was the origin in the thea
ter of the Aston place riot, which re-
suited in the death of rs people; in
what city and what year did it occur?
Where is the group of islands
which is the unsubmerged portion OF
mountain system?
S-What great American novelist be-
came a permanent resident of Eng
land?
9-Who said, when he heard of the
battle of Bunker hill "The liberties OF
the country are safe!'?
10-Are common stocks of corpora
tons ever redeemed?
11-What novelist is considered the
founder of the American school of
realism?
12-Who was the leading pitcher In
the American league in 1926?
13-What are fighting fish,?
14-What was the "Flying Dutch
man.?
15-Who patented the first revolver,
and when?
16-When was the Panama canal
opened?
17-What genius Of the Renaissance
was painter, sculptor, architect, scien-
fist, engineer, mechanician and mu-
stefan?
1S-Where are situated the thou
sands of small lakes formed by the
Laurentian glacier?
19-WhO said: LET me die in my
Did American uniform, in which
fought my battles. God forgive me
for ever having put on any other?
20-What are the three leading
sources of national income of the
United States?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19
Grain Marketed
by Cooperation
Shows Greatest Develop
ment in Farmers Elevators
in Western States.

prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculturel
Cooperative marketing of grain in
the United States shows it's greatest
development, from the standpoint of
the volume of business handled, in
farmers cooperative elevators, of
which there are more than $500 listed
with the United States Department of
Agriculture Most of them appeared
In the Middle Western states. Farm
ers' elevators are most numerous, in
Illinois. Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska,
North Dakota, Minnesota, South Da-
kota, Ohio and Missouri. There are
few cooperative warehouses in east
ern Washington which receive and
market grain. Some attempts have
been made by farm organizations to
form declarations of local elevators,
but on the whole these attempts have
not been successful.
Organize Wheat Pools.
A total of 16 wheat pools have been
organized since 1920, but only 9 Of
these were active in 1925. The first
association was formed in Washing
ton and second association was
formed in Idaho in 1920. Organiza-
lions were set up in Oregon, Montana,
Oklahoma and Kansas the following
year. In 1922 the Arizona, California,
Colorado, Nebraska, North Dakota
and Texas associations were organ
lied. South Dakota and Minnesota
did not organize until 1923, and the
most recently organized association,
that of the Central states soft wheat
growers, began operating in 1924.
The wheat pools quite generally
utilize the facilities of the farmers
elevators in receiving and forwarding
grain to market. Several of the assO-
Citations lease or own terminal facili-
certain of the POOLS are now cOnsid-
ering, or have already organized, sub
salaries for the acquisition and Oper-
alton of country elevators.
Organize Sales Agencies.
A number of attempts to organize
cooperative sales agencies have been
unsuccessful, but in spite of this other
associations organized for the same
purpose have been successful. There
are at the present time at least four
central selling agencies operating on
our principal grain markets, as we'll as
several sales agencies which serve
only certain of the wheat pools.
The total volume of business han
died by all cooperative grain market
ing associations in 1925 was $750000,-
600, transacted for $4,000 members.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19
Best Time to Make Hay
From Red Glover Crop

The time to make hay from sweet
clover is either the year after it is
sown or the same fall it is sown.
The best hay is obtained the same
fall. Ordinarily it should be cut in
September. 1t can be cut as late as
October 1, if the weather at that time
is suitable for curing the hay. The
crop need not be cut any higher than
any other hay crop.
In the late summer, the sweet
clover plants form numerous large
buds at the crowns which produce the
next years crop, and after these buds
are well formed the sweet clover is
ready for the. winter, and taking off
the seasons growth does not injure
it.
The second season, sweet clover
must be cut high to keep from killing
it. Two or three green leaves and
branches should be left on the stub
BILE. A thin stand of plants can be-
cut lower than a thick stand.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19
Discarded Mower Is y
Easily Put in Shape
Little Time and Money viii
Put Machine in Order.

Many times an old mower is dis
carded as worn out when little time
and money spent in replacing worn
parts and adjusting the machine would
put it in first-class shape again, it is
pointed out by r. l. Shawl of the farm
mechanics department, college of agri-
culture, University of Illinois. Mower
troubles can be classed under three
main heads, namely: heavy draft, side
draft and uneven or ragged stubble.
Heavy draft is caused from lack of
fabrication, dull sickle, wear and side
draft due to improper adjustment of
the cutter bar parts. The cutter bar
with the sickle and other cutting parts
is the chief source of trouble. Side
draft is due to dragging back on the
cutter bar of the uncut hay or grass
and insufficient tension on the sup
porting spring to the cutter bar. A
dull sickle in a properly adjusted cut
ter bar will not give side draft.
''In adjusting the cutter bar parts
see that the guards are all in line. A
hammer may be used to drive the
guards back in line. The ledger plates
must be held in place tightly and the
edges must be sharp. The clips must
hold the sickle sections down against
the ledger plate so that the cutting
will be done without chewing the
stalks. The sickle sections should al
ways center in the guards at the end
of each stroke.
"Sicllle breaking is trouble expe-
rienced in some mowers and is usually
due to the worn condition of the wear
ing plates, clips and guides that hold
the sickle head in place. Adjustments
for taking up this wear are provided
on all mowers"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19
Agricultural Items

The only good corn borer is dead
one.
A barn owl makes a valuable mouse
catcher.
Sharp tools save power, power costs
money, hence?
Send for experiment station bulle-
tins on fertilizers and soils. They will
help your garden.
The crop that suffers most for
proper cultivation is the crop of coun-
try boys and girls.
Competition may be the life of trade.
but cooperation will certainly add
vigor to the life of farming.
Wool should be stored in a clean,
dry place until it is sold. 1t should
never be stored in basement.
The farmer who has no more live
stock than chicken on the farm
should have permanent pasture.
Sweet clover may be sown alone in
the fall like alfalfa. If sown in wheat
1t should not be seeded until spring.
Discouraged farmers have this con-
selling encouragement: When you are
at the bottom of the grade the only
way you can look is up.
If wire fences are grounded to per-
manent moisture every five or ten rods
the danger of stock being killed while
near the fence during a thunderstorm
Is materially decreased.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19
Milk Without Cream,

A COW that possessed "a perfectly
adjusted separator" has been reported
by correspondent to the Sydney Bull
letin. "She gave lot Of milk and her
calves were the latest and biggest in
the herd, but for household purposes
her milk was useless" according to
the correspondent. 1.-The milk could
be run through separator without Il
drop of cream appearing either in the
dish or in the interior of the machine.
BY no method of milking could she be
enticed to give any cream"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19
Farmers Being Urged to
Cast Vote for Alfalfa

John Brown, agricultural agent in
Owen county, Kentucky, taking ad-
vantage of the open political season,
is urging farmers to cast their votes
for Mr.. AL Falfa. Ye says that if Mr..
AL Falfa is elected he promises to do
many things of real benefit to agricul
ture. Some of his promises follow:
~. If elected promise to put more
dollars in the pockets of farmers.
80. will see to it that we have
better luck with sheep, because we
will have better feed.
80. l promise to gather nitrogen
from the air and store it in the soil,
thereby building up fertility"
And he will make good. Vote for
him.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19
Destroy Cutworms by Use
of Poison and Flowing

The Iowa station reports that farm
ers have successfully controlled cut
worm and army-worm invasiOns by
broadcasting poison mash with an
endgate seeder. This mash is easily
prepared from the following formula ::
Wheat bran, 20 to % pounds; paris
green or sodium fluoride, l pound :.
cheap molasses, 2 pounds, and water,
gallons. Early fall blowing of grass.
and pasture land hits the worms in
their weakest spot, however, as it
destroys a large part of the available
food supply for late fall and early
spring feeding.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19

N NE of Americas very best SOL
~ diers and citizens and it's most
eminent colonial administrator passed
away when Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood,
governor general of the Philippines,
died suddenly in Boston hospital fol-
lowing an operation for a tumor in
the skull. On Tuesday he was buried,
with full military honors, in Arlington
National cemetery among the dead
members of the Rough Riders whom
he led so CALAMITY in the Spanish
American war.
Born in New Hampshire in 1860,
Leonard Wood was graduated from
Harvard medical school and in 1885
entered the army as contract sur
geon. His rise thereafter was swift
and spectacular. While serving with
General Miles he captured Geronimo,
the notorious Apache. and won the
congressional medal of honor. When
the war with Spain broke out he was
made colonel of the Rough Riders re-
cruited by Theodore Roosevelt and
military governor of Cuba he did such
excellent work that the islanders will
ever revere his memory. and already
they are preparing to erect a monu-
ment to him. President Mckinley
made Wood major general in the
regular establishment. and previous to
the World war he was the most vigor-
Gus prepayment of preparedness. When
America entered the war. General
Wood trained the Eighty-ninth divi.
sion with characteristic skill and
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-08-19
Stopped Traffic for Duck

Traffic on a busy main road near
Bourne, England, was held up for ten
minutes while duck laid an egg. A
policeman had halted automobiles
when the duck started to waddle
across the road. Halfway over she
sat down. After she had laid the egg,
she continued her journey. The egg
was salvaged and the procession of
halted cars proceeded.