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Makinq Worn Out Soil
Produce 100 GusHds
yComperAggJg
CORTT GROWTfAf'FFR V^T'C'/f
6y ftoberi: H. ttouIior\ •
An enterprising Indiana far-
mer followed advice given
by the Department of Agri-
culture and planted sandy
vetch on dead soil
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'1' IS miller iiui>l«*iiNiiiit in see iIimI the
a c world is biting tnvltod to focc tin1 cold,
raw fact of n gradually Increasing
X jU?2 scarcity of the prime necessaries of
Mft*. Agricultural figures Just pub*
yi Ifshi'd in Home hy the International*
‘y ■ Institute of Agriculture show that the
*" ^ process of scrapping tin* most essen-
tial of all our foods, grain. pies on apace.
Steadily the arable land of the world shrinks
us the area under permanent grass, often a eu-
phemism for land that Is derelict, extends Its
frontiers. At the present moment the United
States is dependent on Imported .supplies for- an
appreciable amount of wheat nnd for different
cereals consumed In this country. >
There is not only a tremendous shortage of
wheat in the United States today, hut of corn
also, ns Is testllied hy the price of ,$1.20 per
bushel paid In n number of Instances recently for
the latter grain. This Is about three times as
much as the fnrmer hns received for it In normal
times. Figures posted by the Chicago board of
trade Indicate that the visible supply of corn In
this country today Is less than half what it was
a year ago. Of course, the war hns had much
to do with the depletion of our stores, and a con-
sequent rise In price. Hut even granting that
the demand hits been phenomenal, the fact re-
mains that our farmers are not producing as
much corn ns they should. *
Evidently something is wrong with our system
of growing corn. Most farmers understand the
importance of good seed for planting, and the
majority of them employ scientific methods of cul-
tivation. The trouble, then, would appear to lie
with the soil.
Everyone knows that, unintentionally perhaps,
most farms in this country have been robbed
of much fertility of the soli. In every state there
are thousands of farms which formerly produced
big crops but are now so worn out that the land
will not return enough to pay for the labor of
tilling It. Many a farmer says, ns he gazes over
his broad acres: “I remember when ! was a boy
that field was fine for corn, but now It’s only fit
for pasture.” But if he only knew, that field is
capable of producing just as much corn as it did
in the old days; it is even probable that it could
be mnde to break the records established In its
earlier prime. This, at any rate, is what William
C. Smith, an Indiana farmer, says, and Mr. Smith
ought to know, for he has performed some'seem-
ing miracles with worn-out land down Indiana
way.
Farm Jpurnnls, agricultural colleges and the
United States department of agriculture have
been doing a wonderfully good work in telling the
former how to Increase the fertility of* his soil,
but Mr. Smith, apparently, has discovered the
easiest, simplest nnd most Inexpensive way of all.
Almost anyone can tell how to spend a hundred
dollars per acre on fertilizer, crushed limestone,
etc., nnd in the end improve the land. But It
takes a practical, successful farmer like Mr. Smith
to demonstrate how a field ‘‘never known to have
on it a crop of any value” could be made within
one year to produce 72 bushels of corn per acre
at a cost of $3.50 per acre, aside from labor. The
how nnd why of it all has been put Into a book,
“How to Grow 100 Bushels of Corn on Worn-Out
Roil," which Mr. Smith has dedicated to the Amer-
ican farmer. And he believes that any other
farmer who will follow his teachings will be
equally successful. It all sounds like a fairy
story, but Mr. Smith has facts to back up all his
statements. Furthermore, he Is known nationally
for the remnrkable experiments he has made.
In 1006. Mr. Smith purchased a farm that had
the reputation of being one of the poorest in In-
diana. It had been kicked and buffeted about ns
trading stock. Each owner no sooner got into
possession of it whAi he found be hail purchased
a gold brick, and never rested until he succeeded
In unloading it upon some-other victim. It never
seemed to occur to any of its owners ‘.hat the
farm had simply been handled by soil robbers and
was paying the penalty by withdrawing its boun-
ty. Mr. Smith purchased the farm because of its
cheapness, location and possibilities, and was
given the laugh for so,doing.
The entire farm In Its early history was cov-
ered with large walnut, poplar, oak and other tim-
ber. the timber on the sandy land having been as
heavy as on the other portion of the farm. The
land was a portion of an Indiana reserve, set
apart by the government to the Indians in ISIS
nnd by the Indians sold again in lS3p. nnd was
cleared more than 60 years ago. nnd for many
years produced large crops. It had always been
farmed upon the principle of getting out of it all
you can each year and putting nothing back into
the soil. Under this system of farming the soil
had become so poor that in the best season it
produced but 15 to 20 bushels of corn to the ncre,
while in bad seasons the crop was an entire fail-
ure.
Mr. Smith hail read in one of tin* bulletins of
the department of agriculture that the value of an
acre of “Randy Vetch" plowed under was equiva-
lent to putting Into the ground $20 or $10 worth
of commercial fertilizer, nnd .straightway decided
to try It on hls farm. Accordingly, he ordered
enough seed to plant two acres.
The seed was planted la August, upon the
J3Z,OOTZ—*
poorest and most rolling two acres of sand land
on the farm. It grew rapidly, and by winter the
ground was so completely covered with Its foll-
age that washing of the land was entirely pre-
vented. An‘examination of the roots showed them
set thick with nitrogen nodules. Early in the
spring, before any other grass or vegetation be-
gan to grow, the vetch plants wore pushing out
their summer foliage, and hy May 1 they were
four feet in length. About the first of June the
two acres were cut for hay.
Seeing that he had found n valuable plant for
the farm, Mr. Smith planted 25 acres to vetch the
next year, the sowing being done on the poorest
nnd sandiest land of the farm. It was decided to
seed 21 ncres of this land to field coni and leave
the other for pasture. The vetch grew luxuri-
antly.
The spring of 190ft was very wet, nnd it was
May 1 before the ground was in condition to
break for corn. Delays were such that the 21
acres reserved for corn were not entirely broken
until May 25. The vetch had grown to a height of
five feet, nnd the mass of vegetation wns so heavy
that it wns almost impossible to turn under. A
half dozen makes of plows were tried with com-
plete failure, when finally success was obtained
with a double disk plow, and the field,was finished.
The prospect did not look inviting, for bunches
of vetch showed here nnd there sticking out of
the ground. The field was worked down to fairly
good condition for planting by dragging and
rolling, and on June 3 and 4 was planted to yellow
corn.
Dire were the predictions made ns to (lie out-
come. Many contended that the heavy mass of
vegetation would absorb all the moisture from the
ground and the corn would die. Rut Mr. Smith
gritted his teeth, held his counsel nnd awaited
results. The corn enme up a splendid stand. Dry
weather set in. which added no little discomfort
to the situntlon. The corn grew slowly, nnd as
soon ns it wns sufficiently large the cultivators
were set to work, and wore worked with a little
difficulty on account of hunches of vetch insuf-
ficiently plowed under catching on the cultivator
points:
The neighboring farmers came around, leaned
over the fence, and indulged in sarcastic remarks.
The gist of these remarks wns that they had never
In all their experience seen so unpromising n
prospect for corn ns this field presented.
The weather was dry. and the corn grew five
oi six Miches, nnd made no further growth for
more than a week. At the end of this time It
seemed to take on «ew life, and grew with such
rapidity that even Mr. Smith was astounded.
When U'e com reached waist height the pro-
phets who had predicted Its early demise on ac-
count of the great mass of vetch turned tinder
tried nnrther tack: “Wait until it begins to ear.”
thev said. you will see it tire and wither tip."
But the “orn refused to side with these chronic
cnmkers. aft grew up and up until it reached the
height of eij.ht to ten feet. sJ'ked. tnsseled, and
bore Its ears of golden corn.
It was subject to six weens of dry weather
after it had silked, and yet It had not fired and'
every hill wns bri*V nnd green. Across the road
i* neighbor’s corn fired clear above the ears of
the corn, nnd did not make more than 20 bushels
to the acre. But Mr. Smith's com finally reached
ita harvesting stage, sound and aolid. It was
cozzrr J1FTZ7Z vgrczi ctzap
gathered. hauled to marl.et. ami made by weight
72 bushels to |he acre, and brought a money value
of $35 per ncre.
The planter tc-'eil to plant the corn was set to
drop three grains to the hill, and never missed
putting three grains In the hill, hut too often
dropped four grains, which made the corn too
thick, mid this condition reduced the yield fully
ten bushels or more to the acre. But think of 72
bushels of corn being grown on land that had not
for over 20 years produced more than 20 bushels
to the ncre, and this feat accomplished In so short
a time and with so little expense, as the cost of
the vetch seed wns hut $3.50 an acre.
This experiment with vetch made Mr. Smith a
vetch enthusiast. The following year lie planted
ten acres of better and higher land.to vetch, and
the yield of corn on this land after the vetch was
over 00 bushels per acre, the cost of the vetch
seed for this field being only $.3 per ncre. Similar
experiments were made with the growing of sweet
corn and potatoes on land ttint had first been
planted to veldt, and the results were equally
successful.
Vetch, according to Mr. Smith. Is no respecter
of soils. It settles down nnd makes Its home with
the rich or poor clay as well as the rich or poor
sand, and continences its business of soil restora-
tion at once. It has no terrors of frost or draught.
Winter will grasp It with its hand and hold It in
its ley clasp for months and months, and when
Die warm sunshine of spring releases It, it smiles
with its freshness of green and continues doing
business at the old stand. The drought of fall,
spring or summer will blow Its breath upon it, but
% it heeds it not. and continues its business of stor-
ing fertility In the soil as though it were being con-
stantly caressed with refreshing showers.
Big: Elephant Butte
Dam Will Curb the
Rio Grande Floods
The United States reclamation service has com-
pleted by the building of the Elephant Butte dam
a reservoir capable of impounding 862.200,000,(MX)
gallons of water. That is to say, within an artifi-
cial lake 45 miles long nnd with a shore line of
216 miles, water enough will be stored to lie
spread a foot deep over an area of 4,285 square
miles; or. if twice that depth, It would cover the
state of Delaware. The purpose of this water is
to Irrigate 185.000 acres in four valleys lying be-
low the storage basin in New Mexico and Texas.
While the dam itself is not so high as others In
the United Slates for a kindred service, stijl the
massiveness ol- the structure and the capacity of
the reservoir make the project not only tho big-
gest tiling of its kind in the United States but tlie
most ambitious in the world. The famous Assuan
dam In Egypt impounds only two-thirds as much
water and cost $14,000,000 more than the Elephant
Butte structure, or $19,000,000. Elephant butte
is in New Mexico, about twelve miles west of
Engle, and in order to carry materials to 1 lie dam
site It was necessary to build a branch railway
nearly thirteen miles long tupping the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe line. The government con-
structed this road and operated something like a
fourth of it. and in this way saved $130,000 in
freight charges alone.
The dam is built of great rocks hurled In a mass
of concrete nnd blocks a canyon on the Rio
Grande. From the lowermost point of the parapet
wall the dam rises 31S feet, nnd nearly a third of
this is below the river tied. At its top the struc-
ture has a length of 1.674 feet and on it runs a
fine roadway 16 feet wide. The dam is 225 feet
thick at its base and the entire mass, which called
for 610.000 cubic yards of material, represents a
dead weight of 1,000,000 tons. This strength and
inertia are needed to halt the onrush of the erratic
and the torrential Rio Grande and to hold the
accumulated waters so that they may be supplied
slowly and safely to the widespread acres reach
ing for 171 miles.
Work was h**gun in 1911, and half of the sue
ceeding six years was taken up in preliminary
operations before tlie great bulwark could be
reared. This preparatory work called for the con-
struction of a great sluice to divert the river's
flow and enormous bulkheads or subsidiary dams
above and below the permanent dam.
The climate is an equable one In the region
opened to the farmer, and the soil Is abundantly
productive when property watered. A practical
husbandman with $5,000 working capital haa •
splendid chance. x
SECRETARY HOUSTON ASKS MORE COIN
Appeals to Farmers to Increase Production of America's Most Im-
portant Cereal to the Fullest Extent—Points Out Best
Sections for the Growing of This Grain.
Washington.- The secretary of agri-
culture has Issued the following state-
ment :
Corn Is America's most Important
cereal, R ran h<* grown successfully
over a wider urea than nay other, ami
furnishes nutritious food for mail as
Well as tin, staple grata feed for cattle
and draft animals. The production of
corn should he Increased this year to
the fullest extent, taking Into consider-
ation seed, labor, and existing eco-
nomic conditions, ami the avnlluhlllty
of good land In corn-growing regions
I not needed more urgently for other
I crops. Tlie acreage may well be In-
J creased lii most of the country oust of
I the one hundredth meridian, as corn,
la general, thrives In Mils region.
All appreciable Increase In the corn
I crop Is most feasible, however, la the
I sections of highest corn production.
I'livortililc growing conditions exist In
such regions; farmers there are famll-
I inr with corn growing; they have the
necessary equipment available, and
; have adapted earn production to pro-
| vailing economic conditions. Farmers
in such regions, tlirough many years of
experience, have learned methods of
successfully combating adverse condi-
tions. They know that the planting of
virile, tested seed ill well-Mlied, friable
soil. Immediate replanting of mis dug
hills, and early and continued cultiva-
tion of the fields, count for much in
the ability of the plants to produce a
bountiful yield. This knowledge should
lie [nit to good use during the coming
season hi order that, however unfavor-
able conditions may be, production of
an exceptionally large crop may‘lie as-
sured.
Iti practically every county in the
country in which experience Ims shown
Mutt corn may lie produced success-
fully, the possibilities of increasing tin*
corn crop -without encroaching upon
other important crops is at least wor-
thy of consideration, if land, labor and
seed are available.
Areas of Maximum Corn Production.
A list of tin* lending corn-producing
counties In the principal corn-produc-
ing stales marks roughly the area in
which efforts to Increase the produc-
tion of corn should he most successful.
Such u list of counties for the ten
lending corn-producing states follows.
The states and the counties within
them are named In the order of their
Importance in corn production. Al-
though early plantings have been com-
pleted or are In progress in some of
the counties, late additional plantings
may be advisable In sue!) regions.
1T.T.1 MOTS—Counties: Champaign, Iro-
quois. I.aSalle, Livingston, McLean, Bu-
reau. Christian, Edgar, Henry, Lee. Lo-
gan. Macon, Sangamon, Shelby, Vermilion,
Will. Adams. Coles, DeKnlb, DeAVttt,
Dongtas, Fayette, Ford, Fulton. Grundy,
Hancock, Kankakee. Knox. McDonough,
Macoupin, Mason. Mercer, Montgomery,
Morgan, Ogle. Peoria. Platt, Pike, Taze-
well, warren, Whiteside, Woodford,
Madison, Marshall, Moultrie. Wayne,
White. Greene, Jasper, Jefferson, Kane,
vx 11 i i x , vj i ct in f dao|P I, IP avicoii, ixoin,
McHenry, Marion, Stephenson. Carroll,
Clark, Clay. Cook. Hamilton, Henderson.
Kendall, Menard. Winnebago, Cass, Clin-
ton, Crawford. Effingham, Franklin, Hock
Island, St. Clair, Schuyler, Stark, Wash-
ington.
lOW A—Counties: Harrison, Plymouth,
Pottawattamie, Sioux, Woodbury, Adair,
Henlon, ltlackhawk. Boone, Buena Vista,
Bolter. Calhoun. Carroll. Cass. Cedar,
Cherokee. Clinton, Crawford, Dallas,
Franklin. Fremont. Greene, Grundy. Guth-
rie, Hamilton. Hardin, Jasper, Johnson,
Keokuk. Kossuth. Linn, Lyon. Mahaska,
Marshall. Mills. Monona. O'Brien. Page,
Pocahontas, Polk, Poweshiek, Sac. Shelby,
Story. Tama. Washington, Webster,
Wright, Audubon, Buchanan, Cerro Gordo,
Delaware, Fayette. Ida. Iowa, Madison,
Marlon. Montgomery. Clay, Clayton,
Floyd. Hancock, Henry, Jones, Scott, Tay-
lor, Warren. Wayne.
NEBRASKA—Counties: Custer. Buffalo,
Gage. Knox. Lancaster, Saunders, Antel-
ope. Blaine. Boone. Butler, Cass. Cedar,
Clay, Cuming, Dawson. Dixon, Fillmore,
Frontier Furnas. Hamilton, Holt. Jeffer-
son, Johnson, Lincoln. Madison, Nuckolls,
Glue. Pierce, i’latte. Richardson. Saline.
Seward, Thayer. Wayne, Webster, York,
Adams Burt. Dodge, Franklin. Phelps,
Polk, Hedwillow. Thurston. Valley, Gree-
ley. Hall, Harlan, Howard. Kearney,
Nance. Nemaha, Pawnee, Shennan, Stan-
ton.
MISSOURI—Counties: Bates. Nodaway,
Vernon. Atchison. Audrain, Barton, Calla-
way, Carroll. Cass, Harrison, Henry,
Brow n. Clay. Cloud, Coffey, Cowley, Craw-
ford, Decatur. Dkldnson. Graham Green.
wood. Harper, Juckami, Jefferson, King-
man. I.ah iie l.yon, ,\L I'I.i ihu Murinti.
Mltclu-ll. Morris, tr-age, (inhume, pmi-
Him, Pottaw atomic, line, Huff,,id, flour •
bon. i‘horok«e, Franklin, l.lnn, .Miami,
Montgomery, Neosho, Shawnee, Wabaun-
see, Alh-n, Ainloisoli, llnivv. Norton,
Piatt, Rib tf, Rooks, Saline, Wilson. Amid-
soil, Doniphan, Douulax. Elk, Johnson,
Ottawa. Sheridan, Burton, cl uuiuaquu,
Kiowa. I.eaVeiiworlli, Lincoln
OHIO Counties. Dal Uc. Wood. Madi-
son, Pickaway, Clinton, Fayette, Fiiuik-
Ho. Greene, Pulnnin. Ross Mallei c ......
[ailgn. Clark, llamnck. Henry. Highland,
Mercer, Miami, Paulding. I'retdc, Van
Wert, Amtln/.i l-'uli n> hi, II idui, I.Us-
ing, Logan, Marlon, Montgomery, Sci.o a,
Hlaitby. Union, Wane i, Adams, Am
Brown, t'lerinotit, Pe’nwnre. Fulton, : n-
dusky, Wyandot, Piawinrd. Deltunce, H
ron, Knox, Richland, Stark, Wayne, Wil-
liams.
OKLAHOMA Counties: Caddo, Can i
(Han, t'"ionneb, Garfield. Grady, Omul.
Kay, Alfalfa, Hluln . Bryan, Craig, Cun-
tor, Garvin, Klngil-b-i Lincoln, os.i .•
Stephens, *1 llltiian. V.r-Utn, Dewey, Lo
gam Mi ('lain. Major Noble Payne, pot -
tawatoinle. Tabu Woodwuril. Melntimli,
Muskogee, Oklahoma, Pawnee, R *
Mills, Woods, (’level-util, !.!!.>, ,le ffel util I,
Kiowa. Ottawa, Hog, is. Wiiiron**r.
KENTUCKY Counl • - Graves, Hen-
derson, Union, Christ in, I' vie- -, Gray-
son. Ibtrdln, Oliln, I■ .I i-mI, Warren, Bar-
ren, Itroekenrbhm. I’ullowuy, Crittenden,
Hopkins, luigui Mu ii, Adair. Mi 1 -
bird, Butler. Hurt. I IP t- in,in. Lawn nee,
Livingston, Mnish.ill, Mulitenlieig, Nil-
sun, "I’lke, Todd. Trigg, Wujne, v. chMc,,
Whitley.
Sea Gull Urged ns Food.
•‘Rmisi sen gull" Is hnlDft advocated
In Great Britain ns a substitute for
tnVnt. A clergyman writes on tin* sub-
ject: "I have lastiil ciiniiorntit. also
herring gull ami gunnel. All are good
food—the flesh is thirl; and firm, anil
though perhaps rather strong there
was no noticeable fishy taste. Gannet
are as large as geese and in many
places nearly as plentiful as- sparrows.
They make enormous inroads Into the
herring shoals. In fact. It has been
computed that tin* garnets of the Bass
Rock consume as many herrings in
the course of the year as are landed by
the entire herring fleet for human food.
Hence their destruction would increase
our food supplies in two ways. I have
mentioned it Is the young birds only
—viz., those which have not arrived
at adult plumage—that should be used
for food."
Colorado the Nile of America.
The Colorado being often called the
Nile of America. E. <’. La line of the
geological survey, makes a brief com-
parison. Each river carries enormous
quantities of silt, depositing a wonder-
fully fertile delta cone at tlie mouth;
the climate of the lower Colorado re-
sembles that of the Nile valley, irriga-
tion Is necessary in both valleys; and
every crop of tin* Nile in Egypt can be
grown on the Colorado. The principal
crops In the lower Colorado region are
cotton, alfalfa, barley, corn nail mel-
ons; in tin* Nile valley, clover, wheat,
cotton, millets, maize, beans, barley
nnd rice. The respective lengths of the
Nile and the Colorado are 3,946 and
1.7(H) miles; area of basins, 1,112,000
and 214.1X10 square miles; total fails,
6,600 and 14,000 feet; and mean annual
runoffs, 68,000,000 and 17,000,000 acre-
feet.
Johnson. Lafayette. Macon, Monroe, Pet-
its. Saline. Boone. Chariton. Dekalb. Holt.
Ray, St. Clair, Andrew. Caldwell. Clinton,
Cooper Daviess. Gentry. Greene, Jackson,
Jasper. Knox. Linn. Pike. Stoddard, Ben-
ton. Cedar, Dade. Lincoln, Livingston.
Mississippi. Montgomery, New Madrid.
Polk, Shelby, Sullivan. Adair. Buchanan.
Clark. Clay. Franklin, Grundy, Lawrence,
l/cwis. Mercer, Newton. Halls, Randolph,
Scotland, Scott.
TNDIANA—Countles: Bentnn. Knox.
Montgomery, Tippecanoe. Boone, Clinton,
Madison. Shelbv, White. Hamilton, Hend-
ricks, Randolph. Rush, Warren, Allen,
Carroll, Delaware,' Fountain. Gibson,
Grant. Henry. Jasper. Laporle. Newton,
Posey. Sullivan. Wayne. Bartholomew,
Cass, Daviess. Greene. Hancock. Howard.
Johnson. Kosciusko. Marion. Miami. Mor-
gan, Parke. Putnam. Tipton. Vigo. Wells,
Adams. Decatur, F.lkliart, Fulton. Hunt-
ington. Jackson. Lake, Marshall, Porter.
Pulaski. St, Joseph. Spencer, Wabash.
Jay. Warrick.
TEXAS—Counties: Collin. Fannin. Crav-
son. Lamar. Denton. Hunt. Navarro. Bell.
Cooke. Hill. McLennan. Milam. Hed River,
Dallas. Falls, Hopkins. Lin estone. Mon- , , milv,,incur must bn
tague, Smith. Wise. Cass. Cherokee. Clay. | D ,,ul,n"1 1111 rnoMUHIIt must lie
Friend Was Resourceful.
A young man drove down Fifth ave-
nue in New York in a nicy-looking
roadster. At liis side and resting back
oil his shoulder was another young
maxi with a bandage over bis eyes. As
the auto reached the intersection of
Thirty-fourth street the driver looked
around as if undecided where to go. The
traffic policeman walked over. “Look-
ing for it hospitalY” he asked. "No,
sir," said the driver, “I wniit to got him
to some hotel. He is packed to tlie
hat with expensive intoxicants." "How
did he get hurt?" asked the policeman,
stepping on the side of the car arid re-
garding the passenger solicitously. “He
isn't Hurt,” explained tin* young man;
“lie's asleep. I just put that bandage
around His head to give the party an
air of respectability. I couldn't have
him snoring all tile way down Fifth
avenub.”
Russia’s Co-Operative Movement.
The co-operative movement In Rus-
sia celebrated its jubilee in 1915, the
first co-operative society having been
sanctioned in 1865 during the great re-
forms when the serfs were freed and
when the zemStvos—local self-govern-
ment—Avere introduced. The move-
ment, with n membership of 11.299,404,
has reached n position which is
claimed to he far ahead of that of all
the countries of western Europe. Tak-
ing an average of four to five persons
in it family, a member of which is also
a member <*f the co-operative society,
the number of people in Russia dircet-
between 40,900.000 and 50.000.000.
14 XT, UOOIO. ....... ...... *vv,
Coryell. Ellis. Fayette. Gonzales. Kauf-
man, Rusk, Van Zanfit. Wilbarger. Wtl-__
ltnmson. Anderson. Bowie. Gandalupo.
Harrison. Henderson. Houston. Havana. Force of Habit.
Nacogdoches. Barker. Robertson. Wasii- .... 1,„lh|,l,.(,,i
ington, Wichita. Bastrop. Dewitt. Fort * n< " surgion we employ eil used
Bend. Freestone. Grimes. Panola. Sbelby. to lie a glazier.”
wher?"eV. wTodVlS' Upshur‘ Whur,0n' "I suppose that is why he can't per-
KANSAS—Counties: Rutter Jewell. Mar- form anv operation without a great
shall. Nemaha, Reno. Republic. Sedgwick. . . , ' „
Smith, Stunner, Washington, Barber, ut,u °* P-U'C.
Positive Proof.
Landlady — “That new hoarder
doesn't talk about himself, does he?”
I ioiisemnid—“No.” Landlady—“Won-
der if lie's married?” Housemaid—
“Sure he is." Landlady—“How do you
know?" Housemaid—“He only uses
one hook in the wardrobe In his room."
An Important Distinction.
“One great difference between a man
ami a mule." began the affable cynic.
‘Is that a mule is very quiet just be-
fore be registers a kick.”
Once Was Enough.
"What do you think of the burly
brute who would go away, on a hitter
cold morning, urn) leave Ids wife to
build n fire in the furnace?” asked
Mrs. I.erret. “That is something I've
never told anybody Hut my husband."
laughed Mrs. Yndilloh. "And I had to
tell him only once."—1'uck.
She Was Cruel.
Dalileigh—"There Is one thing I
don't understand." Mt«s Keen—“Olg
more than that, surely.”
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The Medford Patriot-Star. (Medford, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 26, 1917, newspaper, April 26, 1917; Medford, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc826348/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.