Milford chronicle., 1928-01-27

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Cod-liver oil is a horrid dose, 10
be sure, but Mother says it will
keep away tummy-aches and sniffly
colds and make boys and girls into
strong men and women and il "ab-
sitively" must be took! Very young
people are a prey to all sorts of
painful diseases such as measles
and mumps and whoOping cough.
Cabbages and rose bushes and all
sorts of baby plants sometimes get
sick and have to be dosed up, just
as you occasionally do Rose bushes
are susceptible to most disastrous
disease known as ''rose cankeI."
When this affliction sets in, the lit
tie shoots grow out Of the main
stem just a little way and then die
back. Plant doctors usually pre-
scribe a spray for this rlalady of
plant medicine known as Senesan.
After this treatment the rose bushes
begin to convalesce and in due
course of time they ale healthy and
blooming again.
Foresighted farmers often given
vegetable seeds preventive tonic.
Sometimes, just to see whether the
treatment does them any real good,
seeds that have taken the medicine
are planted in one place and seeds
that haven't are planted in another
and then developments are watched.
Almost always, the ones that have
been dosed up with a plants idea Of
cod-liver oil yield from one-fifth to
one-third more vegetables.
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If you ever tried digging even the
tiniest hole and found how much
time and effort it took, you prob
ably realized that digging long
wide ditch with just pair of hands
and a pick and shovel is a pretty
difficult task.
Perhaps you had better leave the
task to grown-ups, because men can
use things that are dangerous that
little children should not touch.
Men, by working very hard, can dig
a very fair-looking ditch if they take
a long, long time and get very tired
out doing it, but there is something
that can dig the longest kind of a
ditch faster than you can say "Jack
The most capable ditch
digger in all the world is dynamitei
All the labor there is to it is the
of the dynamite along the
line that marks the path that the
ditch is to follow. When it is time
for the ditch to be dug, man just
presses a little electric button and |
boom!-a mighty noise, a cloud of |
smoke, a shower of falling tree
stumps and dirt and brush and,-be-
lold,-the ditch is dug.
Nice little gurgling, winding
brooks can be very naughty and do
great deal of damage sometimes.
very mild little stream has been
lnOwn to sweep madly around cor
Ter beneath a culvert and, during a
stormy night, to wash
he sturdy little culvert right
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tream is made to follow straight
ut not necessarily narrow path, it
an never do very much damage
Is the little wiggly, winding ones
hat do all the harm. When they
ehave particularly badly, dose of
ynamite is often used to straighten
lem out and make them into sedate
title bitches that literally walk the
halk line!"
There used to be a swamp way
own in Georgia near little town :
here there suddenly grew up
lrge meat packing plant. This plant
tarted piping all it's refuse into the
wamp. A mosquito from New Jer-
ey that was touring the South hap
ened to be spending . the night
lere at the time and he discovered
lat the swamp was just an ideal =
pot for home. He forthwith hung 6
p his toothbrush and telegraphed f
II his family to join him. Mrs. Mos
lito arrived on the next train.
ringing all her children and friends =
Id relations. Millions of new mos
litoes settled in the swamp every
ly and at night great cohorts of
EN- would swoop down on the lit b
town and eat the people up. I
had to be done. J.
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What evidently made life so pleas r.
It for the mosquitoes was the
lste from the packing plant and. if
channel could be made through II
e swamp so that all the water III
'uld flow through and take all the III
lste along with it, the MOSQUITOES II
ght find life more agreeable else II
Iere. A carload of dynamite was II
she'd to the spot and in just a few II
Us a great wide ditch was blasted
and the water ran out of the ii
amp and rushed down the ditch II
a great rate. II
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VOW there's no more swamp way
vn in Georgia and a bright, spark
3, little brook carries the waste
m the swamp right out into the
and the disgruntIed mosouitoes