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Show Past ana Present. r' Secretary of Agriculture Houstoa said in Washington the other day: "What improvements we see in lit , country when we go there on our va- c' cation! We see automobiles, tele- phones, player pianos, phonograph and even, among a few wealthy youcg farmers, biplanes. "How different is this prosperity ' from the hardships of the past from the days when a gaunt farmer would enter the general store of the district and rant, hungrily: .. "'Gimme an egg's worth o' sugar c" an' ye mout weigh out an egg's worth o' salt. too. The Plymouth Rock' t. "j cluckin'." t |