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Show THg SAUNA other factors LAND PRICES A PUBLIC PROBLEM Speculators by Running Selling Values Above Production Values Make Farming Unprofitable. CIVILIZATION PUT BACKWARD Bankers' Farm Expert Discusses nomics of Farm Finance Farmers v'iewpoint Calls Eco- From Farm-er- s Men of Affairs. I By D. H. OTIS Agricultural Director American r production and the prices of farm products then It will be possible for the farmers to attack this problem with the hope of arriving at a satisfactory solution. If land values are run up beyond their value for production purposes In order that the speculator, be he farmer or real estate dealer, may make money then the real farmer will find farming The brighter and more ambitious young men will be attracted away from the farm and the farmers as a class will deteriorate. This in turn will mean that our civilization will go backward instead of forward. Every citizen is therefore Interested in the land problem and should use his Influence to see that speculators do not run the selling value beyond production value. Fictitious land values spell higher cost f living and ultimately a lowsr class of citizens as farmers. SAUNA. OtAU SON. r I For this wonderful Cleaner IMAGINE! your entire spring housecleaning for only $3.00 down, and the prick of owning an electric cleaner, of un- questionable Quality and Reliability. Bank- ers Association. Our farmers are fast becoming men of They do business in a affairs. allowance on your old $12.50 business Ou r rural banks owe their existence to the patronage of the way. DISCARD ALL DOUBTFUL EGGS cleaner. farmer. Our farms are run as business enterprises. The products of the farm are thrown upon the marin ket large Our quantities. farmers do not attempt to supply their own . needs from what they produce but rely on purchasing what they need from the sale of the product or products that they are able to produce best and most economically. Land, labor and capita! are the three factors involved in production. A rise in any one of these factors increases the cost of production. Land values have been rising rapidly. This means that many of our farmers have become wealthy not so much, from the farm products sold from the farm but from the rise In value of land. They are enjoying what Is commonly spoken of as the unearned increment." Some day somebody will have to pay for this.. If we do not then it will be our children or our childrens Farmer Should Give More Attention to Candling Before Shipping Telluride Power Co. Product to Market. (Pitp&red by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Farmers, merchants, and shippers the country districts will Improve tlie reputation of the market egg if they give more and more attention to careful candling of eggs before they let them go any farther on the way toward the consumer. The presence of doubtful eggs hurts the deputation of all the eggs marketed and has a corresponding effect on the price. The a wag responsible for the saying doubtful egg is a bad egg even if It is OU-- PETERS, HE GOT AOP TbOAM Candling Is Surest Way of Taking Doubt Out of Egg Case. a good egg said something no or egg dealer ever should poul-tryma- for-ge- t. Candling is the surest way to take doubt out of the egg case. The United States Department of Agriculture has a bulletin on the best methods and equipment for doing the work. Those who desire it should write to the department at Washington, D. C for Department Bulletin 565, How to Can die Eggs. It contains descriptions of candlers for the handling of small numbers of eggs and for handling large quantities. Escaping the Critics. He was showing his friends his new house;.. This, he said, Is an Idea of ray own. It is my bridge whist room." How very small. There is room here only for four chairs. Yes," he replied, thats the idea. 1 wanted to have one place where we could play bridge without being both-ercs- J by the experts who merely want to look on." Effort to Span Distance. Elmn, age eight, was saying her evening prayer, preparatory for bed. She was so Intent that her voice be came almost shrill, and her father gently reprimanded by saying: "Dear, the Lord isnt deaf." No, papa, but the distance is great," was the quick reply. Taking No Chances. Why do you stop when you see that bore coming?" asked Hank DFP "t VU9 SWORE HE VJOOLDUT SHAVE B0UU9, V SITED A&AP&W 'U HAD WEPT " WE WWSKERS CnOPPtO OM TH' CLAkAE GAVE AS VMS EXCUSE UV9 ed, but several of the reptiles are the farmers friends and should be instead of exterminated. Snakes have been on this continent for a longtime. Pterosphenus schu cheti, as the fossil snake found in Cocoa, Alabama, is called by the scientists, lived here from three million to .ten million years ago. Little is known of the evolution of the snake, however. Among living snakes there are two tropical families, Ilysiidae and Boidae, of the boa type, which have vestiges of hind legs. This has He Could Maks It. Early one morning before the new traffic towers were erected, one of the traffic policemen was rolling his "Stop and Go sign to his station In the center of the street, when a man drove up on a heavily loaded hay wagon and proceeded to turn "left." Hey, you cant do that !" shouted the policeman, wrathfully. "Oh, yes, I think I can make It, called back the man, cheerfully. And it was necessary for the policeman to leave his post of duty to explain that although he possibly could make It, the man had better keep to the right. Indianapolis Star. pro-teete- ! t j J 4 $ 4 J 8 4 8 5 4 8 8 5 44 8 as supporting the of serpents once having a different method of travel. $ 4 44 44 41 4 4 41 41 v YOU R TOWN Build It By The fund of $100,000 to be raised Patronizing your by the American Legion as a permanent endowment to decorate the HOME TOWN MERCHANTS t 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4-4. 4 4. 4- - 4- - 4-- 44 4-- 4 v 4 4 4-- 4 4 4 4- - 4-- 4 4 4 4- - 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. 4. - IV) ELP Silenr.e Infectious. It Is Hi ways observable 1I111I silence propagates itself and that the longer talk has been suspended, llie more ddliciili it is n- ri ltd anything to say Samuel Johnson 44f 4 44 4 4 4 v M 10 timothy rtay Horn New fc.115.a1-in '1 iuioihy bay was first grown hroi--:-o.v England stales and was i he In 1720 carnliiias tliinseii. f loin whom it . tie t Tin. try derives d h.v mime. "Around Town'7 Sugbroe Warn Mty Uwtf "MESSiR.'oeSLARES ALOUTO PETT," IM AGtM THE SWITtHV I NEVER HAVE RAtSE A WAUO AGAtuS T KM BOMS, EXCEPT, VJERVOOSLM, 8 . O AOOEO 5 Biblical accoun ; By Charles HE 4 4 4.,f$$.f$$.$$$444444444444',t After Flbblnp. Porter Brow n, the famous NewJTork graves of the American soldiers who raconteur, was talking about the died in Europe, will remain in the newspaper discussion, Why does a United States and will be admingirl close her eyea when a man kisses istered by a committee appointee her? under the supervision of the Legion "This discussion, said Mr. Lemuel Bolles, Legion National adju out some ingenious soluhas announced. The money wil tant, tions, but the real solution was given from the 11,000 Legior be raised by no one. It Is this: in the country and added to ar A girl closes her eyes whesi a posts man kisses her because she has just amount already donated for the told him hes the first and In conse- same purpose by private bequests. National Headquarters of the Le quence shes ashamed to lookfhlm In . the face. gion have been advised that then are 32,000 graves of American sol iiers who died abroad in the servic . SNAKES DO SOME GOOD Of these 31.401 of their country. A department of agriculture expert are in France and Belgium, DO i who has been studying reptiles de- Scotland, 40 in Ireland and one sailclares that his investigation indicates or buried in Spain. Although the that snakes are a benefit to the government of the United States cemeteries for the sol country and should not be killed off indiscriminately. Pine, bull, and go- dier dead, thfe Legion feels that il pher snakes, he says, feed upon mice, Would be a fitting tribute to these from rats and other burrowing rodents heroes for representatives which destroy grain, foodstuffs, and among their former comrades at crops in the fields. Even the rattle- aims to visit the graves on Memorial snake is an asset to western farmers Day each year. It is to thi3 purpose through its habit of eating ground that the income from the endowment squirrels, young prairie dogs and fund will be dedicated. pocket gophers. People should re- ' The national treasurer of 'the alize that mature is made up of a American Legion will be the immesystem of checks and balances, in diate recipiant of the donations. It .vhich some of the snakes play an is hoped to have the fund completed important part in helping to keep in- in time to be available Memorial Day sect and rodent pests in control. this year. Where these pests are plentiful, the A He Country. snakes are also found in numbers. The Bunge described Itself ns n "lit The food habits of all kinds of Ir. oouniry In punts' I. A. Hollins. snakes have not 'yet been investigat the Cmvhnv Brown,-"brough- 8 "t been suggested Mans Length of Life. According to the president of Cornell university the average length of life In North America Is flfty-sl- x and years. In 1870 It was forty-on- e In 1910, fifty-tw- o and one-hayears. Students of this Interesting subject say that the average life could be prolonged twenty years if all people could learn and profit by what health experts know. Health education has a lot to do with It. In tropical India the average man Is destined to die at twenty-four- . Longest lived people In the world are the progressive New Zealanders. They are said to live ; sixty years on the average. CHE, THE PRINTERS DEVIL )CK I ill lf Civilization Needs the Farmer I want to see which way he Is The solution of our food problem is deI move directly connected with the land prob- going before Blurb. another step," Herb clared a is proper adjustment lem. If there between the value of land and the VUHO il li In children. Something to Think About It Is said that only from 7 to 15 per cent of the farms of the United States are inherited. The rest must be paid for in whole or in part once with each generation. Can this be done? With increasing land values this becomes increasingly more diffA reasonable icult. rate of Interest on land worth $300.00 will Involve an Interest or rental charge of $15.00 to $18.00 per acre. On land worth $400.00 this will be from $20.00 to $24.00 per acre. This is a heavy fixed charge for the farmer who attempts to pay for his farm in the course of a life time. Unless this can be done it means that we are to he cursed with a permanent tenant system. The census shows that our farm acreage has not increased near in proportion to the increase in population. It is true that we have regions of undeveloped or only partially developed land, but the unused land Is the least productive or is poorly located or needs development, or the rainfall is uncertain. Our labor costs are greater than in European countries and as increased yields per acre usually involve more labor the increase in production from more intensive culture or from developing less desirable land takes place slowly. Improvements in our country which Increases labor or utilization of less desirable land Involve higher prices for food unless the farmer is willing to take less profits. The greatest problem of our nation Is to have men on farms that can conproduce food at prices that the The farmer to afford pay. can sumer has the job of feeding the world. He cannot loaf on the job. He must do his best tc select crops, livestock, feed, bread and conduct his business economically so as to furnish food at low cost and at the same time he 11 should have a reasonable return made be to Is permanent, agriculture profitable, and comfortable. rreaauui 1 EPEUCGYL OROOr "THAT PbRER GAME OVER TH HOOAlS AUGER OP TH I AVI, STORE Aivrf M WO vt UEvrr law OCRS , houers ! ZXT Aiwrr per v mogawv6 op euAweg gore GUMS pot WTRM" Su-- O AVERM . REMARKS MEVER eoWTRttaUTE 1V4 triumph VJW1LE AWMTHtWG OTHERS BUT TUE |