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Show MANY AUTOS; FEW BATHS. South Dakota farmers, according to tho results of a survey recently made by tho home demonstration agents of the state collego extension division, run heavily to automobiles and lightly to bathtubs. The records of this survey, which took in four counties, show that 8S per cent of tho farmers owned automobiles au-tomobiles and that only uino bathtubs were discovered. It has long since been proved that wind is a 00 per cent cleanser. Many cities, notable among them San Francisco, Fran-cisco, keep clean and healthy by reason rea-son of the wind which blows tho impurities im-purities away. Inasmuch as a swift journey in an automobile is attended by a self-created wind, no doubt the farmers of South Dakota, when they feel tho need of a bath, merely "put 'or in the hilr7 and emerge from their spin thoroughly purh'ied in body. As a substitute for a bathtub, au automobile auto-mobile appears , to have its advantageous advan-tageous points. Incidentally, the survey disclosed j that the average working day of farm women is fifteen hours in summer and twelve hours in win;er. Sixty-one per cent of tho water used iu farm houses is carried to the kiiehen au average distance of seventy-two feet one half mile on one farm. Lamps for lighting ,ne used by 83 per cent, and electric !ii:h!s by 7 per cent. Kighty per cent of the homes are heated by stoves. |