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Show A Wonderful Tarra. Kansas Is noted for great things, Tarmlng Is done thero on nn extensive scale. In somo parts of tho world ten, tw enty, thirty or forty acres Is called a farm. In eastern Ohio tho writer has observed many of these highly Improved Im-proved farms. Hut, sajs tho World's Work, what would such a man think of a farm on which from 100 to 1D0 men aro emploed; a farm whoso furthest corner Is seventeen miles from tho farmhouse; a farm that requires three bookkeepers and stenographers to make a record of Its activity? This is tho scalo on which M. M. Sherman Sher-man conduct.1! his farm In centrnl Kansas. Kan-sas. Ho has more than 40 000 acres Hvery jear ho sells moro than 2200 fat beeves. If a man Avere to start to ride around his farm on horseback, ho could not make Its circuit In two dass. Mr. Bhermnn Is now trj lng to devlso a method of ploughing by power by the uro of two englrcs, one at either end of tho field, propelling a cable between them, to which tho ploughs may be at. tached. He believes this to bo the best solution of the ploughlng-by-power problem, ptovldlng a gasollno engine can bo mado with suulclent weight to propel the ploughs and Btlll not be too heavy for practical utility. In fact, every experiment which Is mado In tho work of tho farm Is commensurate with the slio of the farm and Its crops. Hut nothing Is unwieldy, nnd the entire little lit-tle Stnto which the Shermin farm makes swings nlong with better sstem nnd with greater profit than commonwealths common-wealths a century ago. Saturday Evening Even-ing Post. Tho Post Check Currency. Tho post check currency does away chlnery, A man can mako out his order chnlcry. A man can mko out his order wherever ho likes and It Is pnubla onlj to tho person designated. It saves time, cxpensn and loss and Is nt once tho most convenient, practical and sensible measure mea-sure the wit of man has yet devised Ono would think that Its simplicity and snfety would coTimend It at onco to the postal authorities, but men In official position becoma so attnehed to old methods that they Insensibly cling to them nnd persistently per-sistently fight nil lnnoatlons It Is precisely pre-cisely this class of men that tho post check s)strm has had to fight, but tho members of Congress ought to be nboe such petty anu feeble considerations Ihey ought to regard the measure ns ono fraught with Inestimable benefit to tho bulnes Intcreits of tho cojntry We trust that Congress will look nt this from tho high piano of statesmanship and not bo Intluenced hv tho objections of Interested Inter-ested parties Star, Teorla, 111. |