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Show maim I gitft nafrfftirt THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH HORSE BUSINESS IS COMING BACK Breeders Have Been Timid to Resume Operations. ISEASE OR PAY THE PRICE (Prepared by the United State Department of Agriculture.) Whether tlie horse continues to decline in numbers by reason of displacement by the motor car and tractor, or not, tlie horse business is due for better times in the opinion of J. O. Williams of the United States Department of Agriculture. The number of horses on the farms of the country declined in 1928 to the lowest point yet recorded, but tlie market stiffened or advanced. Mr. Williams points out that for several years fanners have been breeding and raising only about half ns many colts as are required for replacement of the diminished number of work animals in use. Inferior horses of all types are a drag on the market, and undoubtedly will continue to be so, says Mr. Williams. But the difficulty with the horse and mule situation in recent years has been largely psychological. Breeders of horses and mules have wondered whether there would ever he a recurrence In demand for work stock and have been timid about resuming breeding operations. Tills lias resulted in tlie present shortage of good work and pleasure animals, a situation which promises to become much more acute within tlie next few years. We believe that farmers should now study their farm power situation; those who will continue to use horses and mules enn now replace aging animals with young stock before an acute shortage occurs. That farmers are beginning to realize this situation is reflected by a study tlie Department of Agriculture recently made of tlie number of stallions and jacks in service in 24 states. The number of these has declined sharply in recent years, but owners In some localities reported that last year witnessed a considerable increase in the number of mares bred. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON Drawing' by Ray Walters. iTHIN the next few weeks an army of 1 00,000 men ami women will be visiting every home In the United States and asking a series of questions which every one of us must answer, or iiae answered for us. Those questions are the following: Name and address, sex, color or race, age, single, married, widowed or di-to vorced ; relationship head of family; home owned or rented, free or mortgaged ; literacy, place of birth and that of parents; citizenship, ability to speak Hnglish, whether employed and trade or profession, whether veteran of any American war. But lest you should feel that the asking of these questions is a meddlesome interference in your private affairs, let it be stated at once that the man or woman who calls at your home and asks you these questions Is a census enumerator, engaged In the huge task of taking the loth decennial census of population in the United States, In accordance with Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States, that you are required by law to give true answers to the questions and that there Is no real reason whatsoever why you should not answer them. For you have this assurance from Dr. William M. Steuart, chief of the bureau of the census, In regard to it: No citizen need hesitate to answer the questions asked by the enumerators. The facts, so far as the individual is concerned, will be safe in the hands of the government and will never be disclosed. No one need have the slightest fear that his personal or business secrets will ever be disclosed to friend or foe. The oath of the enumerator requires that he shall keep secret the answers to queries. If he does not, he is guilty of a crime, and If detected there is not the slightest doubt ns to what will happen. The law will he invoked and enforced to Tests at California of University Cross-Breedin- At well-bein- ... or pay the price. houses clean Chicks will not thrive and become profitable unless they are raised And under sanitary conditions Lewis High --Test Lye makes sanitary conditions easy and sure. TllE editor of this paper and hatcheries and poultrymen everywhere will tell you to dissolve 1 can of Lewis High-Te- st Lye to 10 gallons of boiling water for best results. This solution will cut right through 8XF CrYFRICTION Top the dirt and filth and get to and remove the germs that destroy your chicks. Then dilution. spray with a B-- tlie ... Its cross-breedin- erally. In 1790 there were 4.5 persons for each square mile of what was then the United States. The 1930 census, 1 believe, will show forty people to each square mile, or nearly ten times v Itam-bouill- 3 $50.00 IKEWAim ... 7 ' control of disease is largely a matter of SANITATION. You have to keep incubators and brooders and hen K University of California g with sheep tests throw Write for a valuable book on light on tlie best rams to use. poultry sanitation On pure-breItambouillet ewes U SYLVANIASAgT-FREE. Southdown, Shropshire, Suffolk, llora-ne.Marsh, Hampshire and rams were used, one ram to JAMES D. SWAN, Mar. ol Specialties 20 ewes. When between four and THE PENNSYLVANIA SALT MFU, CO, Ltopt. fcL-- 30 North 1 Hallo St Chicago five months old the lambs were graded. PARKERS The Southdown lambs 16 raised HAIR BALSAM weighed an average of 78.5 pounds, For an you tbit cm tq better roiei tbu our Restores Color and grading 43.73 per cent choice, with Thete rote ore 2 yr. old field grown Beauty to Gray and Faded Hair ac, andli.wat UrueirtfU. average value of $10.03 for all. oar roe. (J need !vT X TUr Chm Whs. . , . we need your bu.lae.. Shropshires 24 lambs weighed 70.7 U'ntc for Catalog for nw In SHAMPOO-M- eal FLORESTON 41.7 cent choice, per pounds, grading FORDHAM NURSERY CO. connection with I'niker'e liter llalsam. Wake, the with average value of $10.07. Hamp-shire- s Box t, Sandy, (Jtab and Salt Lake City .Utah hair oft amt fluffy. 60 wnU by mail or at drugX gists. illacoi Chemical Worka,l,atcliogue,N. 22 lambs weighed 70.3, grading 3 per cent choice, with average Nicknam. for Ston. value of $9.13. Suffolks 13 lambs Chang. The word holystone denotes a pleei First Movie Star We certainly weighed 81.6 pounds, with average of soft stone used In scrubbing decks, value of $9.95. Romneys 19 lambs change as we grow older, don't we? Second Ditto Yes. I used to marry The term Is supposed to be derived weighed 77.5 pounds, grading 30.8 per cent choice, with average value of men I wouldnt go out to dinner with from the fact that decks were usual21 lambs now. Vancouver Province. $9.23. Kanibouillets ly scrubbed on Saturday as a preparation for Sunday Inspection, church, weighed average 70.1 pounds, gradA church may need a good active etc.; hence, the phrase, holystone and ing 19 per cent choice, valued at $3.83. debt to keep it awake. holystoning. Tlie Suffolks bred tlie smallest number of lambs, 13, which, however, made the greatest weights, but graded only 3 per cent choice. The Southdowns also bred only 10 lambs, but made 78.5 pounds weight and jlie high percentage qodDnors of choice grade, which put them at the top In value. so great an improvement in the comof the people genfort and more than at the time of tlie first census. In 1790 there were six cities in the United States with more than 8,000 inhabitants. Then the cities were responsible for only 3 per cent of the population; America in those days was truly agricultural. In 1920 the cities with more than 8,000 inhabitants num- izz bered 924 and their population was 44 per cent of tlie national total. Add to date what the latter figure means these the little towns and villages of when you are told that tlie enumerless than 8,000 people and we find that ators who will take the 1930 census will be an army of more than 100,000. in 1920 the urban population was a little more than half tlie total for the Since tlie 1790 census the nations Union. of the world have been gradually deIn accomplishing the huge task veloping methods and machinery that which faces Uncle Sams army of censpeed up the counting of heads and sus enumerators, they will visit not tlie accumulation of a vast amount only 30,000,000 homes but also more of data regarding economic, social, edthan 2,000,000 stores, almost 200, (XXI ucational and other conditions. Here manufacturing plants, and in addition In the United States the development has probably been more far reaching they will compile data concerning 6,(xX),000 farms, 14,000 mines and than In any other country. Consequently tlie director of the census is quarries, 100, 000 irrigation and drainage projects. Tlie reason for this is now by law required to enumerate In that the loth decennial census will the space of one month more than be not only a count of population but 120, (XX), (XX) people and at the same also a comprehensive study of the time obtain very extensive information aiiout 6,01X1,000 farms, 14,(XX) commerce and industry of tlie nation, including, for the first time, mines, 100,000 irrigation and drainage In the projects, the facts of employment and a census of distribution. last named it is hoped that there will unemployment affecting millions of he found at least some of the reasons people, and also tlie trade, profession or particular kind of work done by for an estimated annual loss of 000, 000 in the process of placing every person of working age in the nation. Quite a Job for four weeks, commodities in the hands of tlie ultiis it not? Yet it can and will be commate consumer. The 1930 census, says Doctor pleted in the allotted thirty days. With the exception of a comparaSteuart, is going to be, we hope and believe, tlie most nearly perfect tabutively few, when tlie vast total is conlation of population, business and othsidered, the original records of every er basic facts ever taken in history. family enumerated in tlie 1790 and I say this with the fact in mind that subsequent census are on file in tlie census bureau, according to Mr. Steuthe limit. nearly 3,000 years have passed since the first census was made when King art. Tlie missing records have been The 19I10 census will be the greatest the people lost or destroyed by accident. How'counting of noses in the Hstory of David set out to number hint nine took It and Judah. Israel ever, file on John Hancock lias been of world. When it is completed Uncle the months and twenty days to do tlie preserved and Ids family was reported Sam will know just how many more children he lias than he had in 1990. job, and among the things lie found as iieing made up of two white males As to what the population of the out was that there were in Israel and over sixteen years of age, three white females and seven other free persons, in Judah about 1,300,000 valiant men United States will be. Doctor Steuart not white. It is presumed the seven : drew the sword. that says The first census of tlie Uniled free persons listed as not white were It will be more than 121, (X)0,000 States was taken 139 years ago. The negro servants. and less than 12fi,(00,000. We are cerIn the taking of the 18G0 census, tain as to this, because we know (hat United States was first among the countries to make a regular periodical the population of the continental United States is now increasing at the rate enumeration of its inhabitants a part asked to give tlie value of his or her real nnd personal property. Tlie recof about 1.400.000 persons each year, of the fundamental law. The first American census, taken in ords for Illinois show that Abraham or, to put it another way, at the approximate rate of one person every 17D0, was very limited in scope and Lincoln's family comprised Mr. LinThese totals are was directed by tlie United States coln, his wife, ids three sons and a twenty seconds. made up of the annual excess of marshals. They were allowed thirboy, fourteen years old, named Philip births over deaths, which amounts to teen months on the Job, and when tlie Dinkell. Mr. I.iiieoln said he was about 1,150.000. and the excess of imworth $17,000, of which $5,X)0 was totals were added up our population tlie value of ids real estate, tlie remigration over emigration, which gives' was about 4,XX),(MX). That census reus an additional 210,(Xto each year. lated solely to population. The name mainder being personal property. In Tlie lO.'tO census will show that our of the herd of tlie family was taken, tlie same census James Buchanan listpeople are thirty times as man v as together wit li the number of persons ed Ids household as consisting of himin each family, classified as free or self, Ills niece. Miss Harriet Lane, and were n the country in 1790 and neareleven employees ami servants, all of slave. The whites, who were free, ly twice as many as in lXtM), or only were classified ns free whites, as tlie latter being of foreign birth. forty years ago. Tlie system of Individual enumerHistory records no instance in male or female, and tlie free whites which population lias so rapidly Inmales as over or under sixteen years ation, was adopted at the census of creased as lias been the case in the of age. That was about nil there was 1850, and nt tlie same time a number United States. Neither is it of record to it. Tlie marshals who supervised of new classifications were added that the increase in population has tlie 1790 count numbered only 17, tlie illiteracy, school attendance, oecupa anywhere else been accomplished by enumerators 650, and you will appre- - tion, place of birth, age, etc. g The RerooTmUaudruff-HtexpsHalrKallln- g jy Liver Flukes in Sheep Difficult of Treatment $10,-(XX- ), f In most all flocks of sheep there Is now and then one or perhaps several head that do not seem to thrive even though you have given them good care and feed. Most likely stomach worms is the cause combined with the ills that are common in infested sheep. But if you have treated them with approved remedies and they do not respond favorably it is just possible that you have an entirely different parasite. Namely, what Is called liver flukes. Liver flukes are entirely different from a stomach worm. They are a flat, brownish gray worm and inhabit tlie gall bladder and liver of sheep and sometimes there are a few in tlie intestines. Tlie only known remedy for flukes Is carbon tetrachloride. It is a violent poison, hut prop- erly administered seldom does any harm. The usual treatment for stomach worms does not apply for flukes, they require special dosing. Like tlie stomach worms, flukes came into corn belt flocks unawares, like a thief In tlie night. They are here and must be reckoned with in the future. alcohol-ttnq toe imnrEnnsp PrwioM Then tty Rrinwr A Children hate to take medicine as a rule, but every child loves the taste of Castoria. And this pure vegetable preparation is just as good as it tastes; just as bland and harmless as the recipe reads. (The wrapper tells you just what Castoria contains.) When Babys cry warns of colic, a few drops of Castoria has him soothed, asleep again in a jiffy. Nothing is more valuable in diarrhea. When coated tongue or bad breath tell of constipation, invoke its gentle aid to cleanse and regulate a child's bowels. In colds or childrens diseases, use it to keep the system from clogging. Your doctor will tell you Castoria NotNawcqt WpW UmofSLXti- - deserves a place in the family medicine cabinet until your child is grown. He knows it is safe for the tiniest baby; effective for a boy in his teens. With this special childrens remedy handy, you need never risk giving a boy or girl medicine meant for grown-up- s. Castoria is sold in every drug store; the genuine always bears Chas. II. Fletchers signature. Insure Him a Healthy Skin through life by using Calves on Roughage Tlie tendency on many farms is to winter calves on cornstalks nnd straw ynd perhaps some timothy prairie hay, Sudan grass or some other nonlegum-Innu- s rough age. All such roughages are deficient in protein and mineral matter 11s Is required for normal growtli and for keeping it in a thrifty condition. Quite often there Is a con- siderable amount of cheap nonlegum-'turn- s roughage on the farm and It has o lie or should he used for some to ncKt wA CisLicnrsi a9 t Cleansing, Siwp ts. IleaL f ing. Soothing L and Antiseptic . T.leum Ko. CkemteJ Cwpm-tlo- Ointment iSe. .ml SSe. Proprietor,: Potter Drug Malden. ftlaM. |