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Show f & aMagrrrafc,lW-i- ;A ti r T THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH It's perfectly safe to do business with us by mail. Send us an order. POOR COWS CAUSE OF LOSS BOYD PARK Wisconsin County Farmers atlng in Better-Bul- l Campaign Discard Scrubs. Co-op- en FOUNDED - (Prepared by the United States 669 MAKERS OF JEWELRY KX5 MAIN STREET SALT LAKE CITY Depart- ment of Agriculture.) Dont pay two taxes Is the timely slogan of the Door county (Wls.) live Seek to Retain Old Friends. The years have taught some sweef, some bitter lessons none wiser than this: to spend in all things else, but of old friends to be most miserly. stock committee. Few farmers realize that they are ipaylng In addition to their regular tax poor-cotax. This poor-cotax Is about the heaviest, robs the pocket-booand profits no one. You have Just paid your annual property tax. This Is necessary to provide for our schools, roads, and other government expenses from which you benefit; but why pay two taxes? is the appeal which, in the shape of a little card, is being placed In the hands of Door county owners of scrub sires. And the prospect who wants to be shown is pointed to results which were worked out In a farm management survey, where it was found that on 124 farms with pure-bre- d sires the average net profits were $1,102 ; on 400 farms with grade sires the profits averaged Lowell. w k, to Superior Sires Milk Production Can Be Greatly Increased in Single Generation and Greater Typewriters Rented, Repaired, Sold Write for prices $7.50 to $100. All makes Utah Office and School Supply 32 W. 2nd South, Salt Lake City, Utah WHY $734, and on 83 farms with scrub sires there was an annual loss averaging $234. The scrub sires on these farms were responsible for at least part of the good or bad showing. A poor bull Is an extravagance which Door county farmers cannot afford. Watch us grow .a reputation Is the enthusiastic parting challenge of the committee which is boosting better bulls In this peninsular county. Practically every farmers organization of the county Grange, the Socl- ely of Equity, the Association of Guernsey Men, the Holstein Cattle In the better-bul- l club Is campaign. What in reality amounts to a farm bureau a committee made up of a representative from each township and with the county agent as managing director is directly responsible for the countys drive to replace the grade and scrub bulls with good pure breds. To keep its lead in dairying and live stock raising Wisconsin must discard Its scrub sires, said the executive committee of county agents and representatives of all of the states cattle breeders associations. . Count on Door county to help, said Alk this live committee. though somewhat off to one side, the Door peninsula Is still on our map, and we are going to stay there. In one of our lownshlps, which happens to be an Island six miles out in Lake Michigan, each man contracted more than a year ago to use only purebred bulls and every one agreed to stay by but one breed. And by means of this same kind of teamwork the other townships of the county are promising to follow suit The entire county Is going to wage war on the scrub only upon a much more extensive scale. The county agent spoke as If he represented men who meant business. The committee is out to give their county a reputation for the production of as high-clas- s cattle as It already has for Montmorency and Early Richmond cherries. : live-stoc- BREED DAIRY HEIFER EARLY Purpose Should Be to Get System of Animal Into Milk Producing Habit Before Maturity. (By R. W. CLARK, Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colo.) In order that heifers may be bred young and begin milking at an early date, they should be well developed. This Is Important. Cows that acquire considerable age and become mature before beginning to milk will not usually make as deep and persistent milkers as cows that are bred at a comparatively early age and begin to milk before they are mature. The aim Is to get the system of the animal into the habit of producing milk at as early an age as possible. Therefore the heifer should be well fed and cared for from birth. If the heifer Is well developed she should be bred at 15 to 18 months of age, otherwise she should not be bred until 18 to 20 months of age. . HAVE CLOCKS They Were Originally Made, It Is serted, to Hold the Seams In A, Hosiery. It Is surprising how much of the past still remains, more especially in regard to the clothes we wear. On the backs of most gloves will bs found three thin strips. These marks correspond to the fourchette pieces between the fingers. In earlier times gloves were nor made so neatly as they are today, and the stitching of the fingers was carried down part of the way on to the back of the glove, braid being used to conceal the seams. To a practically similar reason does the clock on a sock owe its origin, says London Answers. In the days when stockings were made of cloth the seams occurred where the clocks are now displayed, the decoration being utilized to hide the seams. The little bow which will invariably be found in the leather band inside a mans hat is a survival of the time when a hut was made by taking a piece of leather, boring two holes through it and drawing it together with a piece of string. Handkerchiefs were not always square. At one time they were shaped to the users fancy. It chanced that this irregularity displeased Queen Marie Antoinette, who suggested one winter evening at Versailles that a uniform shape would be an Indication of good taste. The result was a decree by Louis XVI, Issued in the early days of 1785, enacting that all pocket handkerchiefs should have edges henceforward. By Breeding Economy Effected. SOCKS By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN. to and thoroughly railways, transportation means good in normal times the roads. Even wagon value of such roads is well nighi Incalculable, but in a period of armed conflict victory or defeat may depend upon the condition of the common highways. All this is well known. And yet, though men have for some years been urging the good roads movement upon the people and uome progress has been achieved, our highways in general still remain among the worst in the world. Albtirt J. Beveridge. NEXT far-seei- I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the worlds sweet flowing breast; A tree that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray; A tree that may In summer wear A nest of robins in her hair; Poems ace made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree. Joyce Kilmer. If you want to build a road, let the people plant memorial trees along that road and your project is a success. Charles Lathrop Pack. Thus come closer to the Great Plant memorial trees In honor of the men who gave their lives to their country In honor of the men who offered their lives. Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark. Tree-Make- r. Roads and trees for remembrance! Victory highways In honor of Americas fighting men in the great war ! Roadside planting of trees In memory of their individual deeds! It is a truism that the economic and moral fiber of any community is shown by the condition of Its highways. Give the community the right kind of roads, schools, churches, factories and banks and the other signs of advancement will soon be in evidence. Memorial roads! What more fitting monument can we build in honor of our heroes? Permanent roads dedicated to them! How can a community better commemorate their achievements? And ail these memorial roads planned and built as parts of a great system of victory highways victory highways that food may move from farm to city and manufactures back to the farm! that the way of the children to the schoolhouse may be made easy; that the defense of America against armed force may be certain. ' Victory highways that not only serve the nabut needs tions delight the peoples eye victory highways beautified by roadside planting of American trees and shrubs and flowers. No wails and gates and arches with their suggestion of something closed and set apart, but memorial trees and groves rind little parks and wayside camps for the American traveler and food trees for the birds. To Abraham Lincoln have probably more memorials been erected than to any other man. Which of all these memorials is most fitting? Consider now the Lincoln highway as it is and as it Is soon to be. The Lincoln highway is an object lesson of what is and what is to be in a memorial road. More than 3,000 miles in length, it runs east and west through the heart of America, with giant north and south feeder highways, joining the Atlantic and the Pacific. It traverses 11 states. Fifteen millions have been expended on It in the last five years. Already there are nearly 400 miles of concrete and brick and paving and more than 1,000 miles of macadam. It Is in operation from end. to end. It carries an endless procession of Americans in their own automobiles. The year round it is dotted with freight trucks. At this very moment the federal government has under way on the Lincoln way across the continent an exhibition train. It started from Washington, and from Gettysburg, Pa., the route is over the Lincoln way to Pittsburgh, Camden and Bucyrus, O.; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Chicago Heights, m. ; Clinton, Cedar Rapids and Marshalltown', la. I Omaha, Neb. ; Cheyenne, Wyo. ; Sait t.flir (Sty, Utah; Carson City and Ely, Nev., right-angle- finally dropping down the Sierra Nevada to Sacramento, Cal., and then to San Francisco. s of the This train consists of 00 types employed by the motor transport corps in the conduct of the winning of the war. In addition, accompanying this train are several other brandies of the United States army service, including representatives of the engineer corps, with antiaircraft defense trucks and searchlights, and certain specially detailed observers who will make an intensive study and report to the war department on road conditions. The trip is being made for both military and educational purposes, including: An extended performance test of the several standardized types of motorized army equipment used for transportation of troops and cargo and for other special military purposes; the war departments contribution to good roads movement; demonstrae motor tion of the practicability of post and commercial transportation and the need for judicious expenditure of federal governmental ' appropriations in providing the necessary highways. So much for the Lincoln highway as a means of transportation a transcontinental road linking the United States by states. Consider now the Lincoln way as a beauty spot and a memorial, not only to the Great Emancipator, hut to the heroes who followed his example and won the freedom of the world in the great war. The roadside planting of the Lincoln way is in charge of the General Federation of Womens This organization has a membership of Clubs. It has a state federation in 2,500,000 members. every state in the Union. Mary K. Sherman, chairman of the conservation department of the general federation, has secured a comprehensive planting plan for the way. This plan has been worked out by Jens Jensen, a noted landscape engineer of Chicago. In general It provides for the planting of trees, shrubs and flowers indigenous to the locality. For example, blue prints have been made for the planting of the way through the 180 miles of Illinois. These prints give all necessary details kinds of trees, shrubs and flowers for each locality; suggestions for grouping each. The clubs of the several states through which the way passes will see to it that the planting is done. Many clubs in other states will plant memorial miles on the way and in addition carry out the same plan in application to Lincoln way feeders in their own states. Features of this roadside planting of the Lincoln way by the general federation are memorial trees in honor of Individual heroes ; groves, fountains, camping places along the road; fruit and nut trees for the birds and a bird sanctuary from ocean to ocean. For ten years America has been spending from $200,000,000 to $300,000,000 a year for highway construction and maintenance without national lan without relation to the broad needs of the country as a whole and with little of effort between states. After spending over a decade, we are, broadly speak$2 000,000,000 in a's far from a proper connecting system of ing, In the United States as ever. radiating highways figures show a total government latest The in the United States of 2,457,-33- 4 highway mileage and of this total, even after the tremendous expenditures noted, hut 12 per cent, or some 296,-00- 0 miles, have received any attention whatever and these Improvements are scattered in 48 states, in a loose and utterly Ineffective way, over various sections. of our entire 2,500,000 miles. motor-vehicle- long-distanc- Now the time for national action has arrived, Thus the time is ripe for roads and trees for remembrance. The United States is going to expend $500,000,000 in the next few years on a na- tional highway system of interstate arterial routes. It only remains to be seen what agency of the federal government is to have charge of the construction. If the department of agriculture and the state highway commissions do the work, the government and the states will share the expense, half and half. If a highway commission is established by congress to have charge of the work the share of the states will be apportioned in order that states like Nevada, Wyoming and Arizona shall not be too heavily burdened. As to the feature of memorial trees, this is also the chosen time. Public sentiment turns toward the idea. Events all over the country forecast a general memorial planting. The American Forestry association, of which Charles Lathrop Pack is president, has issued a call for memorial tree planting. It is registering all memorial trees and giving certificates of registration ; also instructions for planting. Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark has called upon the Christian Endeavor societies to plant memorial trees. university remembered its war Georgetown heroes at its one hundred and thirtieth commencement by planting 54 memorial trees in honor of its heroic dead. To each tree was affixed a bronze marker, of which a sample is given herewith. To the next of kin goes a duplicate of the marker. My boys made a wonderful reputation for this country on the battlefields of France, says DanI say my boys because I beiel Carter Beard. lieve that there were boy scouts in every American division that participated In the war. The hoy scouts slogan is, Once a scout always a A plan that we are taking up is the scout. planting of trees as memorials for our heroes. This is being done in some parts of Long Island and should be done in all sectiojns. After the tree has been planted a small tablet should be placed on it bearing the name of the man who made the supreme sacrifice, and when and where and how he was killed and his branch of the service. Many victory highways to be planted with memorial trees are under way throughout the coun- - try. i IN HEART OF MOORISH d CITIES Houses to Which Few Visitors Penetrate Are Frequently Luxurious In Their Appointments, Through the narrow lanes of Moorish cities the water carrier, who has s filled his at the nearest fountain, plies his trade from house to house. Tlie town of Morocco does not extend open, smiling arms to the stranger. The houses present cold, forbidding fronts. The winding, irregular streets twist and turn In a bewildering fashion, and the low arches, often linking house with house, convert the streets into a series of semiopen courtyards, still more confusing to the uninitiated. But if one is privileged to enter through the massive gates formidably with heavy iron bands and heavily bolted, one may step into courtyards inlaid with mosaics and ornamented with laced arabesques, surrounded witli arched passageways, richly carved and covered with luxuriant hangings; inte a melancholy garden flagged with angoat-skin- high-walle- cient white stones, where a marble fountain plays softly and great orange trees are outlined voluptuously against the white walls and the unclouded sky. Who knows how many wistful harem ladies have languished there, what fantastic tragedies have been spun on curiously fatalistic silken threads? From Through the Gates of the Moghreb, by Elsie F. Weil, la Asia Magazine. Human Frailties. Our structure, both external and Internal, is full of Imperfection ; yet there is nothing in nature but what is of use, not even inutility Itself. There is nothing in this universe which has not some proper place it it. Our being is cemented with corta a mean qualities; ambition, jealousy,' envy, revenge, superstition, despair, have so natural a lodgment in us that the image of them is discerned in the brute beasts ; nay cruelty Itself, a vice so much out of nature; for even in the midst of compassion we feel within Defence between National highway, Blandensburg and Annapolis, is Maryland's conn tribution. New York is planning a Roosevelt us an unaccountable bitter-swee- t of Memorial highway from Montauk Point to Bufpleasure in seeing falo. In Ohio Col. Webb C. Hays has offered to another suffer; and even children are give memorial tablets on memorial highways in sensible of it. Montaigne. Sandusky county, and William G. Sharpe, former ambassador to France, will do the same for LoArctic Night. rain county. Viewed solely as a matter of optics, The poem by Joyce Kilmer, who gave his life the Arctic night is as dark as any for his country in France, is most touching. What night. Explorers in high latitudes say, is more fitting than a tree for a memorial? We however, that there are many alleviamay attain the most magnificent effects in stone tions ot the obscurity. The stars flash and bronze. Compare them with a permanent keenly, the moon comes along in a road enduring as the Appian way, built 22 cenregular succession of phases, the snow turies ago and shaded by the Maryland tulip surface relieves the gloom under conpoplar or the Engelmann spruce or any other of ditions of the utmost absence of light, our magnificent American trees. The glimpse of and the aurora borealis is the finest an Estes Park road in the Rooky Mountain Na- kind of lllumlnant. Explorers all agree, tional park shows natures way of beautifying a that their men pass the winter night, Consider how the trees on guard add without much difficulty If only there highway. the crowning touch to the Washington are means of amusement. i The titil-latio- |