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Show Industrial Plants in Rural Areas Increase Industry has penetrated new rural areas in the West. Iowa, for example, exam-ple, no longer ships practically all Its hogs to Chicago. Numerous packing pack-ing plants within that state take an Increasing number. Moderate sized manufacturing Industries In-dustries have sprung op In out of the way places throughout the United States, riants handling cotton and corn by-products are numerous. Concerns Con-cerns producing washing machines, fountain pens, buttons, metal products of many kinds, steel and machinery goods, and many other articles not directly dependent on agriculture for raw materials, have chosen rural districts dis-tricts for their bases of operations, apparently to their substantial profit Naturally, however, a large pro. portion of the Industries located in rural districts are supported by the products of the farm, Ivural Industry, besides giving the farmer a better local market, hops him to get Improved ' roads and schools, and to bring electric power to his farm. The electrification of our farms drags. It seldom pays to build high tension lines for only a few farms, but the problem Is solved when the rural district contains power-using industries. In addition, Industrial development In agricultural districts boosts farm land values, distributes tax burdens more equitably, and Improves agricultural agricul-tural credit facilities. Also It favorably favor-ably influences farming methods. YV. M. Jardlne, In the Saturday Evening Eve-ning Post Small Home Requires Trees and Shrubbery The small home actually needs planting more than a large house set in broad acres, because a house looms large on a small piece of ground. It needs trees, and foundation shrubbery to link it naturally to the ground. Planting will reduce the apparent size of the house nnd make it seem In better bet-ter proportion to the size of the lot. Any real estate man will agree that planting around a small home pays In cold cash. Trees and shrubbery may add several hundred dollars to your home If you should ever want to sell It They pay good dividends. Select shrubs, planrs and trees that are native to your state. Nature has spent thousands of years adapting them to your soil and climate, so why select a foreign plant which has a constitution as delicate as an Incubator Incu-bator baby. It has to be carefully nursed to pull it through, while native na-tive shrubs will thrive without inucl effort on your part. Small-Town Planning Larger titles of Missouri may need zoning laws and authority for city planning and some of them have found ways to acquire the rights, but the smaller cities are In the best position po-sition to make intelligent and effective use of them. So the smaller communities communi-ties should be vitally interested In nnd welcome the bill passed by the Missouri Mis-souri house, permitting all cities of the state to adopt ordinances creating city planning and zoning commissions, with authority to lay out permanent physical physi-cal lines. Under the proposed law, commissions would have their work of laying out and planning placed before city councils for approval. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Highway Width Width of the highway for safe and expeditious movement of traffic Is more and more concerning the road builder. Engineers of the .United Slates bureau of public roads nre of the opinion that a minimum of 20 feet should be maintained for a two-lane highway. It is held further that In built-up sections the roadway should be 3G feet wide at least, to permit parallel parking and T0 feet where diagonal and right angle parking la allowed. Ground for Fruit Growing The extent of ground required Is about ten or twelve square rods for the different summer fruits, and an acre and a half or two acres for all the others except the winter apples. The early or summer apples might be placed in between the winter apples as fillers, as these are less permanent trees. Discouraging Did you ever drop your work to do something for community benefit and have the first bird you tackle tell 30U to come nguin, that he would like to take a little time to think It over? Waldport (Ore.) Tribune. Spend Money in Home Town Communities nre not built on the money that is earned within the borders bor-ders and then spent with peddlers or 6ent to the mail-order house In some distant city.vTho Dalles (Ore.) Optimist. Opti-mist. Wide Beautincation Plan Sullivan county (Ind.) clubwomen began a campaign of beautllicatlon In tho planting of trees, evergreens and vines along the highways. As the season progresses flowers will be planted In places selected by them. |