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Show JTJLVkCJ'JI V1LCJ ( Children Cry For Farm Prices Twelve Points Above Year Ago. farm products in per cent above KS prices as compared with 15 per above in April. 1921, aceordmg T he monthly data of the United bureau of labor statistics made Tbiic in May. The weighted average 2 all the groups for which figures collected was 52 pet cent above with 54 per 1013 this April compared tent last April. The purchasing power commodities has imratio of farm the period. proved considerably during farm products are April prices of March than prices, lower i per cent is which average, weighted the nhiie remains the taken as the price level, The as in March. fame in April are to March very April from chants prices .til slight in all the groups with the exception of fuel,- which is four points higher. Index numbers of wholesale prices for March and April, 1922, and April 1921, are as follows : Index Numbers of Wholesale Prices by Groups of Commodities. of 1 Prices of Wholesale (Heavy horizontal line 152. This is taken s a 100.) Source! U. S. numbers Equals 100 April Mar.-Apr- ll 1921 115 141 186 199 Farm products Food, etc. Cloths and clothing Fuel and lighting Metal and metal products ..138 203 Building materials Chemicals and drugs 168 House furnishing goods ....274 Miscellaneous 154 Ail commodities 154 1922 128 138 182 183 115 202 159 213 153 152 127 137 181 187 11? 201 160 f JsY 1 ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT, AVeelablePreparation&rAs-- bv Groups Anri? j similatinthcFood ill Bouse Thereby Promoting Digestion Cheerfulness and Rest Contain 152 neither H0 and Drugs, 8 Cloths and clothing Fuel and lighting Building saterials 29 35 49 House JO- cals Bldg. Stma JtokUtSdt Joust SA ct nmfuiSogtf flsrrf A helpful Remedy for Constipation and Diarrhoea and Feverishness ana j too Fuel 1 Fac-Simit- ASfttr. Che. 160, April 1922 ft .160 II Prioe Level MOTHERS Sijnatareof grown-up- s. READ SHOULD THE BOOKLET THAT IS AROUND EVERY BOTTLE OF FLETCHERS CASTORIA GENUINE 70I 70 That Baby should have a bed of its own all are agreed. Yet it than to use is more reasonable for an infant to sleep with grown-up-s delicate a mans medicine in an attempt to regulate the organism of would Neither same shunned. be to that infant. Either practice is he tolerated by specialists in childrens diseases. Your Physician will tell you that Babys medicine must be prepared with even greater care than Babys food. A Babys stomach when in good health is too often disarranged food. Could you for a moment, then, think of. giving improper by to your ailing child anything but a medicine especially prepared for Infants and Children ? Dont he deceived. Make a mental note of this: It is important, Mothers, that should remember that to function well, the digestive organs of you receive special care. No Baby, is so abnormal that must your Baby the desired results may he had from the use of medicines primarily prepared for resutdnlherefromunjmancy Cloths J0 II loss of Sleep 170 59 Furnishings nor Opium, Morphine SteptafOldDiSlfLUnTCMR 'll tiol Points above April Prloo Level . Cheat Special Care of Baby. lE.aHU-fluiim- of Labor Statistics. ret Ml by iri tmStheStomadis and Bowels tf pen ZI0 , 111 io?pf ' ! -- Mineral Not Narcotic CtKI GonMN& frre. Cevtauh Bears the Signature "of 1 CAST0RIA ALWAYS 1 . j - fft i3o Points below April Prioe Levs!. m. Food V 1 IVO J Jo iso Exact Copy '4 f Wrapper. 0 THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Farm no. 720 1 Fetal no I Yf 1913 weighted average of all the groups, or the April Price Level based on 1913 which Bureau 15 Fluid Dractai - !922, were 27 jpa.r Net Contents Gives Charming New Shade nd m dyes or tents as you wish PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Price Level. 1913 to Old Lingerie Thrift. OBJECTED TO SHOW PILLOWS The Joneses had imported their But Young Man Finally Figured Out cook Dinah from a rustic part of South Usually Amiable Bachelor Had ReaCarolina. The wastefulness and exJust Whom His Acquaintance son for Returning From Week-Entravagance of Chicago people and the Might Have Meant. Visit With Grouch. ' general disrespect with which money Office politics are not unknown even was treated was an unfailing source Did you have a nice week-eninof surprise to her unsophisticated .n the government bureaus. Indeed quired the sweet young thing brightly mind. this should be though perhaps One day the Jones son and heir re- of the popular bachelor. better whispered maybe theyre O, I suppose you might say so, he turned from the dentist and told his known tliero else. with unexpected ill humor. grumbled, in Dinahs presence, that the But A bright young man holds down a mother, like to know bow anybody Id dentist had estimated it would cost very responsible job in one governweek-encan have a nice when he ment unit and holds it down very $40 to have his teeth filled and put cant sleep." In good shape. capably. His noyiinal superior Is genWhat was the matter? 'Laws amassy, Miss Jones! Forty erally recognized as merely a figure- dollars the usual thing the guest pilO, for des filling that chile's teef head. Relations between the two are low. IIow many times have 1 had a him could a new whole Why, you buy a bit strained. good night in an otherwise The other day a Washingtonian, set fer dat money! ejaculated the and comfortable room ruinedpleasant by an Dinah. talking of the bright young man, re- thrifty If elephantine pillow. you lay just marked: I nearly ran down your boss your head on it you break your neck ; Only Despot. Remaining the other day in Scott circle. And The only despotic monarch left- in if you try to ease the slant by moving he mentioned the boss by name. it clown under your shoulders you The young man looked blank the whole world is the amir of Af- might as well be sitting up. Have I a boss by that name? he ghanistan, who rules his country abFor themselves people have decentasked. Oh, yes I know who you solutely, ordering the coming and go- ly low, soft, comfortable things which in all He matters. of his people mean. We have a dead man up at the ing are tucked out of sight in the dayruns the countrys personally religion, name. Washington shop by that time. But In the guest room the show commerce, foreign affairs and domestic Post pillowy are the only pillows provided. relations. New York Sun. Part of the Training. Big Splurge. Shes having her voice trained. Another sensational druggist. Some men have to have a hard and Whats he featuring? Why doesnt the teacher, train it fast contract before they will consent to stop now rod then. to be honest with themselves. Drugs. Louisville KNEW NO BOSS BY THAT NAME DAIRY MCKLIN TO OVERSEE PLAN IS APPROVED Based on Idea That the Producer Is Entitled to What His Customer Pays. STUDENT RESEARCH One-Ha- lf d d, The Illinois Agricultural association, State Federations Have Ar-- i, the Wisconsin Farm Bureau federaranged Fellowships for Study tion, the Indiana Federation of Farmers Associations, and the Milk Proof Dairy Marketing. Four ducers Marketing company have approved the plan of the Committee of Nine on Chicago Dairy Marketing appointed by E. B. Heaton of the American Farm Bureau federation. At the farm bureau meeting in Chicago ihe plan was outlined in detail by the committees chairman, C. V. Gregory. The basis of the committees plan Is that the milk producer is entitled .to half of the price which the consumer pays for milk; In the Chicago territory I.e now gets 30 per cent. The plan provides for the reorganization of the Milk Producers Marketing company. The new contract must have 6,000 signers by September 1, 1922. The farm bureau will secure these. director of the research department of the American Farm Bureau Federation, announces that Theodore H., Mackfin, professor of agricultural economics at the University of Wisconsin, will have charge of the farm bureau research scholarships in marketing of dairy products. Professor Macklins appointment and the entire scholar ship plan has been approved by the research department advisory commit tee, which it composed of Dr. C. H. Taylor chief of the bureau of agricultural economics of the Department of Agriculture; Prof. B. H. Hibbard of the University of Wisconsin ; Prof. W F. Handschin of the University of 111! ,no!s, and Prof. E. G. Nourse of the Sapiro O. K.'c Contract. Iowa State College of Agriculture. The committee retained Aaron SaArrangements have already been In attorney, to with the respect- piro, noted ive state farm bureau contract and the draft plan of federations to help establish fellowships In Missouri, Ohio. operation. owa and Illinois. Several other state The new contract, which Mr. Sapiro Bays is the best milk contract in the United States, provides for pooling receipts from milk and other dairy products in four separate divisions, as follows: . 1. Fluid Milk Fund. 2. Condensed Milk Fund. 3. Cheese Fund. z ' 4. Butter Fund. The net average price received, In I Jeach division for any given month for milk (or otl er products reduce! to a milk basis) will constitute the basic The pooled price in that division. to be in all divisions, first payment made between the 21st and the 30th of the followinr month, will be the basic pooled price in the lowest priced division. A month later each producer will receive a second payment made up as follows: of the amount by 1. basic which the pooled price in his division exceeds the basic pooled price in the lowest priced division. will go into 2. The other be distribwhich will a general fund to all rata producers. uted pro Theodor H. Macktin. Pro rata deductions will be made for overhead expenses, and a 3 per Mem?n8 ave tbe Project under con-lo- cent deduction will also be made ' wl?n Under the plan each feb from each producers check for an nllotted VW per month, insurance and working, capital fund. Thlsu'in paid bF the iburesn farm After this fund , reaches iFarm V fcderatln8. The American size, further deductions will be used !verh areU Federation pays all the to pay back the producers who first epenses connected with the contributed to it. 'tudloa Professor Macklins . The committees plan also includes 0,111 the formation of local associations as for tlie scholar rapidly as possible to build and own Mdi small receiving plants. H. W. Moorhouse, d ! - Courier-Journa- - s , , Two-thir- one-thir- d w tte Watch me, said the .strong swimmer, Im not afraid So he matched his strength against the swirl of the rapids, and laughed at the danger, and kept repeating the stunt, until It was the day the life-save- rs had. been waiting for that day the call for help came. Its an easy matter to smile at coffee warnings when youre going strong. But a good many strong swimmers wont risk the rapids, and a good many coffee drinkers are beginning to think of the caffeine in coffee. 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