Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1919 — Page 3

TIRES IN USE

(By N. B. Scott, of Scott Brothers.)

When you purchase a tire, no matter what the make, you. naturally want Io get as long mileage as possible, for therein, lies the owner’s profit and catlsfaction. The best way to make tires give more mileage, is to “know” what things or conditions are most apt to l cause damage and then to avoid these things as far as you reasonably can. In most cases, where one driver gets, “more” and another “less” mileage out of tires of the same make, the whole reason is due to the kind of “tire hab-. Its” each man has formed. So, it be-' comes highly profitable to form those! habits which save money—and the royal road to long mileage is simply to “form the habit” of always keeping) your eye on what is the daily condition of your tires —of stooping down and; testing them with a tire gauge in place] of walking around the car with head) up, for fear that left rear tire “might be down to 40.” How To “Keep Up Pressure.” Pressure has been preached to owners until most of them are sick of it —: but necessarily so, because “lack of-it”; is still toe one big source of quick tire destruction,- Every owner knows about what pressure his tires should carry—THE BIG THING IS TO KEEP UP A GOOD PRESSURE CONSTANTLY—WHICH YOU CAN ONLY DO BY WATCHING THE TIRES —USING THE TIRE GAUGE AND NOT LETTING THEM “GO” BUT PUMP! THEM UP A 8 OFTEN AS THEY} NEED IT. There’s no other way. Deflation not infrequently happens) by. “accidents” in which nobody is at| fault. As for example, where a punc-j ture is received driving over a road so] rough that the owner hasn’t the slight-: est suspicion he has a flat tire until he, has gone far enough to destroy half! the future life of the tire —even if he hasn’t developed an actual rim break. Again, a “soft" or “flat” tire often comes about from some inside condl-; tion of the tire damaging the tube — such as tubes pinched between the rim or cut by an improperly placed flap, or cut by cracks in the fabric —by little pebbles left inside the casing when making a tire change, by a patch coming off under heat —by the slow leak pf a valve stem or by some “part-way-through” puncture hole in the tube that was not at first discovered, but 1 which gradually developed Into a good sized leak. Remembering how any of these things will cause a tire to run “flat” or “soft” and how quick such a condition will “raise Caln” with the best of tires, th* one simple remedy is to form that important habit of taking a look at your tires frequently—and if there is a suspicion of a flat tire give it prompt attention—because the difference between only running it ten yards and running it a mile is easily worth “considerably more than $10.00” —to you. Then, here’s the next big thing—and one that unfortunately is very commonly overlooked —or not fully understood. If a rear tire has been run flat or if you have a suspicion that it has been damaged or weakened don't put It back on the rear if you can help it The rear tires of a car have to do by far the hardest work, and it is a well proven fact that a weakened or partly damaged tire will stand up several thousand miles on the front (where the strains are much less) when the same tire will go ‘o pieces and blow: out on the rear in less than 500 miles. If you catch the big point—the front, is the place to get long mileage out of old, weakened tires —while the place for your best and strongest tires is always on the rear. In the case of Fords, where the front and rear tires are different size, you can at least save yourself from having to buy new tires unnecessarily often —by putting that, new bought rear tire immediately as your extra for many months to come. If you carry the new tire as an extra, the first thing you know the old one 1 will blow out and then you ..have “got to buy another new one”—or do without the comfort of always having an egtra tire ready to use. How To Prevent Stone Bruises. The next big source of tire destruction is what is commonly called the “stone bruise”—-which simply means that the inside fabric is broken by some extra sharp blow against some sharp projecting rock, railroad track or any one of the "inch to 2-inch high” projections which are about as thick on the average road ,as files on a dog's back. Most of these “projections’* will be passed over without damage—but occasionally one strikes just right or is just a bit too high or Is struck with a speed force back of it just a bit too big—and, bingo! you have —not necessarily a blowout right then, but the a regular man-sized blowout a week, a month—or perhaps two months later. r When the blowout does come, it may “happen” when the tire is standing atm, or what is most likely of all, you will discover the inside break throngfa It's pinching the inner tube. In either case, there is about one chance in 100 that you will ever be able to connect up the original cause of the blowout with - the time . It happened. The most practical way to overcome axcesslve tire, loss through stone bruise blowouts, is to buy “Extra Ply’’ tires because of their extra strength resists thousands of blows without damage, which would cause a break In any of the so-called standard or “dne-ply-less" tires. The other big pi 'Tentative Is in the owner's own hands—and consists of

Sts forming the driving habit of keep-. Ing his eye on the road and of “dodging” rocks, sharp ruts, and of slowing up at railroad tracks—in short, of handling his car as cleverly as a' cow horse dodges prairie dog holes. It! takes a little practice to become a really “good” driver, but it adds interest to the driving and it pays good dividends in saving both tires and the car. Other Tire Damages and How To Avoid Them. There are a hundred other ways in which tires can be damaged, either by pure accident —lack of knowledge or direct misuse.. The direct misuse is perhaps the least of the three, yet. is by no means uncommon. It consists most often of] either trying to use the wrong sized tire on a rim—of putting tires on rims without first properly cleaning the rim —of using tires on rims igjiich have been nicked or damaged so the tire cannot seat properly—of trying to use a smaller size inner tube than the tire calls for—of continuing to drive a car on which you know the wheel is out of line, or wobbly (by the fact that the tire is wearing off on one side, or is being ground off abnormally fast, square across the top in place of slightly rounding) and of tires damaged by unusual road conditions —frozen ruts, sharp rooks, excessive speed, etc * With all of these things you yet; come right down to the fact that the one big way to save tires is to EXAMINE YOUR TIRES FREQUENTLY. You exp<At to put oil in the engine! every little while —and look at the gas-i oline tank or gauge frequently enough to see that you don’t run out. Just do the same thing with your tires and you, will find your mileage—nearly double.) And right here it should be understood that the purpose of this whole article is simply to help owners generally in’ every way I can, for there is nothing, which pleases the. tire dealer so much] as see his customers obtain the long-i est possible mileage on every tire they, buy, and there is.nothing that bothers' him more or hurts his trade more than to have the reverse of this happen, whatever the cause. There is one very common source of short mileage, which I have failed to mention —and that is, the neglect to promptly take care of a puncture hole in the casing. Many owners think that if they simply change the tube, that is all that is necessary—but it should be remembered that every puncture makes a hole clear down through the fabric. That this fabric Is bone dry and is intended to be protected against water by the unbroken

rubber tread, and that unless a puncture hole is promptly sealed from the outside by a little inexpensive job of vulcanizing, or by the next best thing, by using some kind of fill gum, water is bound to follow in this puncture hole while the surrounding fabric will' absorb it like a sponge and the result' Invariably will be a big soft spot ini the tire, resulting in a blowout. The Inside of the puncture hole also needs , to be sealed —preferably inexpensively vulcanized —at the same time the rubber Is vulcanized In the tread, but whether vulcanized or filled, the hole' should also be reinforced inside by a, small fabric patch—thus strengthening it where damaged.

* The same conditions apply to cuts In the tread, which if small, will do] no narm unless they are deep enough to reach the fabric—in which case,' look out —for, unless such cuts are; properly filled or vulcanized, water,) dirt and sand will work in and will 1 soon produce a loosened tread and; dually, damaged fabric and a blowout.] Another source of tire economy sim-< liar to that Of getting most out of weak rear tires by changing them to the front —is to-change tires around —put-; ting what has been the outside to the inside. When you run across condi-i tlons such as. crooked by-roads and! frozen ruts which quickly chew off the j side wall —but in .which you will find] much tae greater damage is always! done to the “outside” of the tire, so that you can obtain a lot of extra miles, by simply turning them around. Whenever there is any mark or, lengthwise cut on a tire .following cleararound the tread, you will almost in-; variably find a corresponding bright! spot under the mud guard or where) the tire is turned in too far and) strikes the frame. This is particularly apt to occur in case of a broken) spring, but it is a.so coming about of late quite frequently, where owners put on larger sized tires than they have been using before, with the re-: suit of bringing into play projections which the smaller tires fail to reach. Such projections are generally easy to remove and on most cars there is a 1 set bolt which can be changed to prevent the tire turning finder far enough to go against the frame. When we consider the wonderful things pneumatic tires do for us all — bow they get us over even rough roads with wonderful comfort and speed (roads that would be entirely impractical for either solid rubber or steel) we really ought to take off our hats io the pneumatic tire as one of the greatest of our present century blessings. » Truth is, despite all the things that jan happen to a tire, it is so wonderfully tough and so perfectly adapted to it’s use that it only asks of us reasonable attention, to return royally

good service. ' A tire pays mighty big dividends lowever, for that one word “attention”—and as for the quality of the ire you buy, when the millenium jomes and you are able to buy a good torse at the cheap skate price—or a food hat, a good suit of clothes—or food “anything,” at the price of Junk, then, and not before, you will find that you save money by buying cheap. In the meantime, the best real bargain is that tire which is strictly high*

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test quality, extra heavy and priced right. You don’t have to be an expert either, to tell it. for there is a certain weight and a certain beauty of fine rubber and a thickness of sidewall and tread in a strictly high-quality tire, which you yourself can readily see and feel. As the bld darkey down south used to say, “Dere’s many a piece of moss in ’er tree top, what looks ’xactly like a squirrel’s tail—but—dere’s never yet been no squirrel's tail what looked ’xactly like a piece of moss.’’--Come in and look at an AUBURN tire.

THE NEIGHBORHOOD CORNER

A DEPARTMENT OF FARM WELFARE CONDUCTED BY COUN TY AGENT LEAMING. Livestock Conditions Flourishing. “There never was a (brighter prospect for the producer of pure-bred livestock than the outlook that we have at the present time,” is a summary of a talk made by Russell Van Hook, secretary of the Jasper County Livestock association, at a meeting of the North Union Farmers’ club held last week. Mr. Van Hook points out the wonderful! interest that has been manifested in better livestock in this and other localities during the last three year. He believes that we are at the beginning of an era in which every farmer will have puebred stock of some kind or other on his farm. “The breed doesn’t matter,” says Mr. Van Hook. “Pick out the breed that you like best, learn how to feed and care for it and you can hardly make a failure of it.” The interest in good livestock is at a fSver heat. Practically every breeder in the locality reports that the demand far exceeds the supply and that farmers who have never manifested the slightest interest in good stock are taking sires at good

prices. Lime Aids the Corn Crop. An illustration of the effect of lime on the corn crop is to be found on the H. J. Dexter farm in Union township. . Several years ago Mr. Dexter applied a carload of lime to the less productive side of one of his fields, which was thought to be acid. Since that time this side of the field has each year produced a better crop of com or oats than the untreated side.

This season the field is in corn. From all appearances the limed side will produce from 2b to 35 per cent more com than the unlimed side. As the original cost of the application did net exceed five dollars per acre and as the lime will constantly produce this increased yield for years, the cost of improving this land was extremely low in comparison with the benefits. terne for agricultural purposes is now more easily secured than ever before. Crop prices are high and will probably continue so for some time to come. The farmer who has sour soil can make but few better investments'this fall than a few carloads of lime to be applied to the land this winter. Culling Hen* Reduces Cott of Egg Production.

Experiments and demonstrations in different parts of the state have shown that the proper culling of the term poultry will enable the owners to detect the non-layers and dispose of them, thus Saving feed and housing costs. It has been shown that the lowproducing hens lay only in the spring and summer and the later a hen lays in the. fall, the greater is her yearly egg production. If, during July, August and Seeptemlber, the non-layers are weeded out, the average egg production of the flock will be materially increased. In numerous flocks, one-half of the hens have been culled out at this time of the year, without lowering the number of eggs produced. A circular has been prepared explaining in detail just how to detect the non-layers and giving other important information on the subject. Thia circular may be secured by application to this office. Bee Meeting Held Last Friday. Every bee keeper on his job was the theme of the meeting of the County Bee Keepers’ association, held in the court house last Friday. Prof. E. G. Baldwin laid special empha*i« on the value of requeening during the month of August in the proper wintering of bees. “Spring dwindling can often be traced to old queens,” said Mr. Baldwin. “A colony may often have from 40,000 to 50,000 bees in the fall, but all of these may die of old age before spring and simply serve to consume stores without benefiting the swarm iim any way.- 10,000 young bees hatehad after the middle of August will be of more value than four times as many older ones,” T. C. Johnson, state bee inspector, made a plea for the use of movable frame hives as a means to prevent outbreaks at bee diseases. He laid stress on the fact that better bee keeping will do more to increase the production of honey than more bee keepers. The next meeting of the organization will be held during the latter part of September.

Granville Moody went to Chicago Thursday. St&hUus RrnsnAhan returned from Chicago today. Walter Randle went to Lndianapcfia today.

THE BIG MAN OF THE WEST

WILLIAM A. RINEHART, KING OF MISSOURI FARMERS, PAID HIGH TRIBUTE. An article, many columns in length and of considerable more than passing interest to our citizens, -telling of the success of a former local boy, William A. Rinehart, may be found in (the current issue of the Country Gentleman. The article dwells entirely upon the subject of the success Mr. Rinehart has attained in gaining his title as the king of Missouri farmers, and is entitled, “Putting the Bottom on Top.” The 'lack of spaice does not permit of the publishing of the entire article, but the extent of Mr. Rinehart’s glorious march to victory over the Missouri soil may be realized by the reader from the following extracts:

Fifteen years ago in Palmyra., Missouri, William A. Rinehart -laid out for himself the tidy job of draining and clearing about 5,000 acres of Mississippi bottom land. With the exception of a few hundred acres this land was considered permanently unfit for safe cultivation. Today 2,500 and more acres are tide-drained, and gamble-proof so far as drainage can take the gamble out of farming. It is drajpage on a huge scale, but drainage is drainage after all, and every man with a piece of “risky” land should be upheartened by what has been done in this Mississippi bottom. Five thousands acres is a big tract to swing. I don’t suppose William A. Rinehart means to tie himself up to that many acres indefinitely. The risks that go with farming on such a scale are no small risks. It is frankly speaking, a straight business enterprise for the enhancement and creation of land values. But here at least, on this big Palmyra tract, is a splendid example of what can be effected with nerve and intelligence ( and capital; and it is a good in- ( stance of how the country's agricultural wealth can ibg shoved up a . few pegs, year by year, 'by making f unfit land fit. ( Palmyra, Missouri, is a town about i half way between Quincy, Illinois, ( and Hannibal, Missouri. Hannibal, j you may recall, was the river town , made famous by Mark Twain. . Making a Bay Work. t At this point the Mississippi is a I stream, too. Just the other day I was standing on one of its banks, or rather on the levee on Rinehart’s farm, watching the blue water flow by very quietly and quickly, as though (it had an important date in the Gulf of Mexico and didn't want > to ibe disturbed. The old Mlississip- ! pi looked as gentle and tractable as 1 though he would eat out of yojir < hand. But that old river certainly > can be disagreeable when he tries; I and the endless pranks he- commits have about the same quality of ' humior in them as that displayed I by a full-size mastodon scratching himself against a two-year-old apple ' tree. 1 One time, years ago, the Mississippi rolled up a tog spring flood, • which hung over the bottom lands • nobody knows how long. The flood ; subsided at last, but when it had ; gone it was found that the river had just playfully carved out a sort of bay several miles long, several ' hundred yards wide, and deep ' enough for navigation, wholly in- 1 closing a mile-broad strip of the mainland. . • _ - ... - I

That bay 'has made iit possible for William A. Rinehart to convert bottom tad -which was worth nothing, or less than nothing, into land which produced 55,000 bushels of wheat last year, besides either crops of staggering •dimensions. This year he has 2,700 acres in wheat that will thresh out better than an average of thirty bushels. A tidy little crop of more than 80,000 'bushels, worth—well, figure it cut at the government’s price and you’ll see ,th«t all Mr. Rinehart has td worry about is his income tax. The bay was a solution of the drainage difficulty; but for one hundred years nobody realized it—until Rinehart came along. A couple of up-and-coming- gentlemen founded a city on the bank of the Mississippi at a point which is now within the confines of the Rinehart farm. They called it Marion City. This was back in the thirties of the last century. Marion City was to be the metropolis of (the west. They sold stock in the enterprise to the amount of hundreds of thousands off dollars. Settlers came, traders came; they built warehouses, churches, banks. • Then, one spring, the Mississippi began to rise and when it finished rising Marion City was half way to New Orleans, and the foundations of it were knee-deep in a black slime that oozed malaria and smelled like a dockyard. Then Rinehart came along with a drainage idea. A Bit of Good Luck. William A. Rinehart went from central Ind iana, where he was bom and raised, to Buffalo, New York; in the -palmy days of live-cattle shipping to Europe. The business was then in its prune, and 'he made money. Butt the introduction of frozen-meat ships began Ito put a kink in the cattle shipments; and the live-cattle shipping business got too easy—that is, in the sense that more and more “tramp” ibotttoms became available year after year, with the result that every so often a shipper laid bis livestock down, in Liverpool or London into a glutted market, and got stung. . ■ • Rinehart tern- that the cattle-ahip-

ping game was up. Besides that he had a hunger fox some ImmL &* went to Missouri. Up in Schuyler county, in the vScdnity of Queen City, Binehart bought a couple of thousand acres of bottom Mind. It was partly in timber and partfly in tillable land. It needed drainage. Rinehart drained it, and raised fine crops of com. He added, parcel by parcel, more than two thousand more acres to his holdings. At that time the nearest railroad was too many miles away. There were millions of feet of fine hard timber, some of it virgin, hickory, bp texcept for the very highestgrade axle stock, there was no money in hauling it Then a railroad was pushed through, right into Rinehart’s property, and for several years he had sawmills running, sending that timber to market. He made money. Rinehart believed in tile. He tiled and tiled that Schuyler county farm, and took Ithe gamble pretty nearly out of corn farming up there. He believed that a piece of bottom land might be good, but proper drainage Would make it better. Then, after he had created an estate that would 'have satisfied Ithe ordinary mortal, he looked round for something bigger, harder amid more profitable. So he took on the Mississippi bottom at Palmyra as about his size. Mind you, this was the bottom that couldn’t be drained. It would break any man that tried it. People said: “It can’t be done. If it could be done it would have been done long ago. He can’t keep the Mississippi out of that land. Even if he can keep the big river out, the back-wash up the creek will swamp him. If he makes a levee against the creek backwater, there is that xay which is connected with the Mississippi on both ends and that will overflow with the river. And even if you should stop up both ends of the bay, how can you drain the land? What can you drain it inIto?” Miles and Miles of Tile. This was in 1904. The first thing Rinehart had Ito do, as ter buying up that 5,000 acres of land at an average of about twenty-five dollars an acre, was Ito get the United States government to give its permission and help on one point. This point was, that both ends "of the bay coming from the Mississippi river and emptying • into it had to be plugged up. A rock dam had to be built to keep the river out. This was distinctly a federal matter, and the government entered wisely (into it and did its part. The two ends of the bay were filled with stone and a rock dam built along the river’s edge. There the government quit, saying, “We’ve done our part. That’s all we data do for you. If you think you can drain the land, gb to it It’s not our affair.” The next thing necessary was to throw up a levee to keep the water from backing on to these' 5,000 acres of Rinehart’s and a number of thousands of other acres in 'the same locality owned by others. So a levee twelve miles long, averaging ten feet high, had to be built. This levee followed the Ime of “fatal depression,” as you might call it, to the Mississippi, then went right along on top of the government’s rock dam and back to higher ground on the other ride. So far as Rinehart’s land was concerned, what he had now at this point was a big piece of land surrounded 'by a levee on the low side and by high land on the other, with patches of ground which could be depended on for crops in any ordinary year, but .the majority of which ground was dotted with sloughs, frog ponds and gamble land. “I will make every square foot of this land as free from swamp hazard as though it were - in Western Kansas,” said Rinehart. “You will, will you?” said the unbeMevers. “And will you kindly tell us what you will drain into?” “Sure. Into ithe bay.”

That Was in 1904-1905. Today there is just one slough on the property, and Rinehart keeps that purposely until ihe is ready to send a big tile through from it into the bay. Where water used to stand foot-deep, wheat now grows at a thirty-bushel average, with one" tenacre piece which has yielded as high as fifty-two bushels to the acre; bom crops that in a decent season will run sixty bushels to the acre easily; four and five cuttings of alfalfa—without inoculation —making close to a ton. per cutting. And all the rest of it. The uniform productiveness of this land ,-at the present time is a goodly sight. And it was achieved by drainage. Here is the way it was done: “In the first pttace,” said Mr. Rinehart, “I’ll tell you that up to the present time I have land better than 240 miles of tile of various sizes. That is to say, somewhere round 2,500,000 pieces of tile. Of course, the end of my tiling is not yet in sight. We tile here right through the year, Whenever the tile and labor are available.” And sure enough just as the owner was speaking we came to a freshly dug trench where a lateral was being put in. ‘T lay tile right in the midst of the growing season,” went on Mr. Rinrihart- “Yes, right through a field of wheat, of cam or anything else. You might think that was wasteful. Of course it does waste something; but it is absolutely the only way to get the work dope. “When I started draining these 5,000 acres, some of the land, as I’ve said, was productive. It was a comparatively small part. My idea was Ito get the worst spots drained first For, you see, we could, saise something on the higher ground, but the other was good for less than nothing. It wap in one of two things, bull grass or timber. And even the timber down here hasn’t tiie quality of the timber thait I had

on my Schuyler county farm. “I employed, «npk>y, a very capable engineer by the year. The main tiles, froan twelve to eighteen inches in size, all go into the bay. NafaHttly the dririn tiles vary in depth, depending on •the elevation of the land. One of our mains—a twelve-inch—Was laid at a depth of eight feet and four inches for a distance of 5,600 feet—over a mile. That was a job! “Rrobably a good many of our farmer friends will want to know what sizes of tile I use. I use practically all sizes, from four to eighteen inches, according to conditions. My jbasMt.-ifor laterals is the five-inch. I use some four-inch. Our laterals are Mad for the mast part at a depth of thirty to thirtysix inches. “I’ve used many sorts of tile, according to when and where it could the obtained. Once I bought a lot of glazed tile. But most of it is ii ng Lazed tile right from our own state of Missouri. I’ve had some Illinois tile, but I like this Missouri trie better. Let’s go up and look at some of it at the siding.” Siding! That sounded good. A farm with its own siding. Sure enough, it would give the average farmer reason enough to be envious to see that 1,200-foot switch, right plump where it is needed, din the heart of .the Rinehart farm. Very near the riding is the “shop,” where the blacksmithing is done, and the tools are repaired, and that sort of thing. Alongside the siding was a mountain of tile of all sizes—not less than a hundred thousand feet, I should guess. Certainly they do make a fine quality of tile at the Missouri plant where this came from. It was about as free from flaw and crack and chipped spots as could be possible. Mr. Rinehart suddenly pulled Up the horses. “There!” he said, pointing. “Here’s a good example of what drainage has done for this land. There’s a 210-acre piece of wheat. Looks fine, doesn’t it? Weil, before that piece of 210 acres was drained, ninety acres of it after a two-inch rain was under water. That ninety acres,- of course, affected a whole lot more round it. It was saiid to me that that piece could not possibly be drained. Well, they were wrong. Giddap!” Alaike Clover * Big Help. “Now as to crops: Last yeax we had 2,000 acres in wheat. We produced 55,690 bushels. So the average to the acre was between twentyseven and a half and twenty-eight bushels. The highest yield on any one piece was fifty-two bushels to the acre.” .

“And why that big production on that one piece, Mr. Rinehart?” “It was a piece .of clover land. You can say for me that alsdke clover is the big thing on these bottom lands. It does more work on these lands than anything else we have, and does it for nothing. We take a piece of land that is in wild grass and sow the ailsike seed on it along in February, when.the frost is going out of the ground and conditions are right.” “You disk it in, I suppose?” “Not at all. We just scatter the seed right upon the wild grass. The rains come along and send it into the ground. Then the wild grass gives it perfect protection until it gets a start. The wild grass nan be burned or pastured off, and in one season the attsike has choked the old grass out. We have 500 acres of it; and don’t forget to put me down as saying that alsike is the real thing in these bottoms. “We’ve got 130 acres in alfalfa. We haven’t inoculated. It has made a strong ton to the acre each cutting. AH of it was cut four times, and some of it five. We feed most of it on the farm.”

A good many mules have passed through the hands of W. A, Rinehart educe he came to Missouri sixteen years ago. But I hasten to say that he isn’t a mule trader. He buys a good many and sells a good many, but the main point is that he is a farmer who works* mules —works the best, because the best are none /too good. Mr. Rinehart matures about 500 Poland China hogs a year and ahips them to the market Also he runs about 200 cattle to clean up the stalk fields. But after all, the great thing about the Rinehart farm is not that it raises 55,000 bushels of wheat or has wonderfully fine mules or ships 500 hogs or finishes 200 cattle—or even that it is going to raise 80,000 bushels of wheat thus coming season, unless the dope goes wrong. It is that such a farm is a creator of values and that the drainage work here, though on a larger scale than most farmers would ever be engaged in, is yet full of encouragement for any man Who wants to know what properly laid tiles will do.

Mrs. A. W. Roach, of Richmond, was in the city Thursday in the interest of the Young Woman’s Christian association. Mr. and Mrs. James Maloney and son returned to their home in Chicago Thursday after a visit here with Mrs. M. E. Drake.

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