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Show WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE IS DOING LIGHT ON THE ItO.LD AIIKAl You hove been motoring or wsc-onlng wsc-onlng or walking, or otherwise proceeding pro-ceeding along a fairly good road with nothing to Indlcato that It would not continue fairly good, and then you have tun suddenly In to an Impassable place, mired down nnd had 17 assorted samples of hades I getting out. Everybody olso hns hail the same oxporlonco road maps to tho contrary notwithstanding. Tho road map Is a good thing, but It shows what the road UBed to be, not necessuilly as It Is. Iloads change--mighty rapidly, Fometlmes. A down pour of rain nnd tho road is wnshed out; a night of snow and It Is cluttered clut-tered up beyond passing though It innye have been perfect yesterday. If there were some way of knowing what tho road Is today, of reading It on a card or map like you do thoj weather, for Instance Well, this Is ono of tho now things that tho United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture Is undertaking to nrrango for you. Honceforth, tho weather bulletins will show ronil conditions. con-ditions. Tho work was begun by the weather bureau as an aid to winning tho war. At first tho service applied merely to motor transportation In - some enstom states. Then tho do-mond do-mond for It became pretty general nnd very Insistent. So without any special appropriations to tako euro of It, tho weather bureau Is undertaking undertak-ing in certain states to add dally news of road conditions to Its other services. Tho work can not bo perfected per-fected all at once. Dependence will JiaVe to be placed, for a while, on free Information from localities. Dut "Ihe service will bo given to tho fullest ful-lest extent possible this year, nArniEnrtY 'fight to go on There will be no cessation In the vigorous campaign of tho United States Department of Agriculture In cooperation with tho states, against tho barborry until all of tho obnoxious obnox-ious bushes are dug up. Itecont information in-formation from Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and other sections where i tho barberry hns existed for long periods Is to tho effect that It Is growing wild nt n number of points. All tho field men of tho United States Department of Agriculture engaged en-gaged in the campaign recently met nt Ames, Iown. Hoports wore mudo on the work of locating and eradicating eradi-cating barberry bushes from all sections sec-tions of the thirteen stntes Infested which Includo Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin Wis-consin Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakotn. Illinois, Illi-nois, Wyoming, Indiana, Colorado and Montana, CLUIl YOUNGSTKUK EXCEL IN .SCHOOL A boy or girl who belongs to ono of the clubs organized by tho Department Depart-ment of Agricultuiu und tho stnto Colleges gets bettor marks in school than ono who doesn't. This la tho testimony of tho county suporlnton-.dents suporlnton-.dents in the counties in which clubs have been organized as brought out iby a recent inquiry in tho aouthorn states. In Monongalia county, W. Va. for two yours a complete record has boon kept of 53 club members and of tho samp number of pupils of the same grado and age nnd from tho same schools. The records show that tho club members in tholr monthly examinations havo averaged 15 por cont above those who do not belong to a club, 12 per cent In attendance I at high school aftor completing the1 eighth grade. At the nn.ual ipel-l ling contoit In the :ounty all the' winners wore club boys and girls. A four year record In Comache eounty, Tbrw, shows the scholarship of the club boy and girls to be 11 per eeat above (hoi wlie de met W long to n club. Of tho 4,000 boys and girls In rural school i In the county, not ono expelled or suspended suspend-ed was a club member. The superintendents super-intendents ngreo thnt club mombors are morn active, have moio Inspiration Inspira-tion to do butter work nnd possess the deslro to search for new things Very fow club members stop school In tho lower grades, nnd thoso not of tholr own choice. I n:VKit hulls hut ItKTTKIl ONES How n hull association tianstorm-ed tianstorm-ed a community with 18 nondescript bulls Into a community with ono-thlrd ono-thlrd thnt number of good puro bred sires from high producing ancestors Is oxplalnod by an extension worker of tho dairy division, U. S. Dopnit-ment Dopnit-ment of Agriculture. . When a bull association wns started start-ed nt Webster County, Mo., tho best bull In tho community beenmo a standard for tho bulls 'Selected by the bull association. All or the now bulls then, are aH good or belter than the best bull that was In tho community com-munity before. Ucforu tho bull association wns organized or-ganized tho 18 bulls tn tho community commun-ity woro valued at f 1,355 an avorago of $75.28. Ono or two of these hulls wero pure breds nnd tho rest wcro largely grades and scrubs of mixed dairy and beef bleeding. After tho association was formed these nondescripts nonde-scripts wero disposed of nnd six pure bred dairy bulls were purchased at a total cost of $1,657 an avcrngo of $276 an animal. The more efficient utilization of tho association bulls resulting from organization of the association mado It possible for the six puro bred bulls to take tho place of tho 19 bulla formerly for-merly maintained. Tho reduction In the number of bulls also resulted tn a corresponding reduction In the cost and maintenance to bo charge to each cow. The Improvement In tho quality .f tho bulls seemed to havo a marked effect on tho class of cows kopt In tho horde and In less than ono year I aftor tho association was formed tho number of puro bred females In the community Increased from two In July, 1918, to 42 tho following Juno. Tho largo amount of good which resulted re-sulted from tho Irnnformatlon "of a scrub bull community Into a community com-munity of good puro bred sires Is an agricultural Improvement hard to parallel, especially when It Is considered consid-ered that this chango was mado with un expenditure of only $10 moro per fanner and that tho uso of good sires will result In a lasting Improvement Improve-ment to dairy cattlo of tho commun-Hr. commun-Hr. llUFKALO HAS tOOICEl). 1'OODS CENTKIt ''- Dridget can depart at u minute' ( notice, and her mistress, If sliu lives In buffalo, will experience no slnk-.jjig slnk-.jjig of the heart, for Bho can order meals for iler fnmlly fiom tho cooked .food center and tho family machinery machin-ery will run ns If there had boon no interruption. Tho Buffalo food center cen-ter Is undor tho supervision of tho homo demonstration agent of tho United fitnles Department of Agrlcul-j Agrlcul-j turo and the state collogo of ngrlcul-turo ngrlcul-turo and tho Buffalo Homo Iluroau. jComloto mealH tiro sent out from It to ,bo served In tho Individual homes. I Its patrons have tho family life that contors around tho homo dining room .table with tho saving of fuol,' labor jand food costs, which come through .largo scale opetntlons, Tho woik In Buffalo storied In small way, but a fow weeks experience experi-ence showed that the equipment was inadequate to handle the business that Immediately developed. The oooklng of meals was discontinued until alterations eoiild t wade aad on Juno 17 the router wan rendi r IH handle buBlnoss on a largo scale. Two ll hundred peoplo camo tho first day, fll und tho tcgulnr orders for dinners Pfll and luncheons contlnuo to grow. The iHI menus are prepared under tho sup- WSfmi ervlsiun oPthu homo demonstration lilGB agent so that thoy represent balanc teffafls cd meals. TIicbo menus are dlstrlb- WMHj tiled to tho patrons one week In ad- HHjH ranee and tho orders nie returned to SH tho kitchen several days In advance rnXm of tho cllvcry of meals. In this &B way materials mny be ordered when kowfl they can bo secured at tho lowest KJSflB posslbla figure mLA Spcclnl features of tho service In- B chide tho Thursday night dinner, K3jl which Is in great domand by thoso jsvi fortunate housekeepers who hnvo lHM mnlds to whom they glvo a half holt- H dny Thursdays. Mnuy housekeepers iH also order tho Sunday dinner because H It gives them a day free from prep.ir- jH lug meals. Food for tho sick Is a H feature of tho work In which tho phy- H slolnns nie greatly interested. Spn- H clnl diets for special diseases arc. ro- H commended by tho homo demonstrn- Hon ugont nnd this food can bo pro- H cured at tho cooked food center on H special oiderB. |