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Show Dixie Co-op Ships Eggs and Poultry to Yegas i For the past two and one-half ' months the Dixie Consumers' co-oierative co-oierative has been engaged in the i shipment of eggs and poultry. The latter has been principally young ' fryers. A good market has been found in Las Vegas and shipments of from $250 to $500 per week have been going forward during this entire period, reports W. A. Whitehead, local manager. The month of July witnessed an output amounting to better than S1SO0 says Seth Harper, who has had charge of preparing the fryers for market and in this connection has trained a number of the young Iviys interested in poultry production. produc-tion. Mr. Harper has personally taken each shipment to Las Vegas and excellent reports are coming in of the quality of the poultry and eggs so shipped. During the final week of July one shipment totaled 1200 pounds of prime fryers along with the shipment of eggs. These shipments interested P. D. Spilsbury. vocational instructor instruc-tor of the Dixie Normal college. Rased on his findings and the co-oi'ration co-oi'ration given him in the training of his boys in this rospoct. Mr. Spilshury recommended that the college turn over their food mixer for the use of Mr. Harper for the summer in connection with the continued instruction he is giving the lineal F.F.A. boys in poultry feeding and raising. In a letter he wrote before leaving. Mr. Spils-bury Spils-bury expressed special thanks to Mr. H.irper and to the cooperative coopera-tive for their oooivrat ion. and extended ex-tended congratulations for their excellent handling of these local pnvlucts. What's in a name? A Setcchsii : walked into a telegraph office arJ picking up a blank asked the ci ; "How much will a message to Chicago cost T" "Twenty-five cents." replied the ' clerk, "for the first ten wends ar.d five cents for each additional word-i word-i and no charge for the signature. "All right." said the sandy Scot, j i "send my signature." and after l i moment's hesitation the Scot, said: "Well. I may not look it. but . ! I am an Indian and my name is i I Won't Te Homo Till Friday." i |