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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH Electricity Reaches the Homestead; Farming Regains Favor With Youth Father of Steel-PloIndustry Leonard Andrus established the first steel-plofactory in the United States. A monument was erected in his honor at Grand Detour, IlL The In 1837 inscription says in part: Leonard Andrus and John Deere built the first Grand Detour steel moldboard plough. The new plough was made in limited numbers until 1843, when Andrus established on this site a plough manufactory, which he operated until his death in 1867r' At different times he had as partners John Deere, H. H. Paine, O. C. Lathrop, Amos Bosworth and Theron Cummins. The product of this enterprise stimulated farm development throughout the prairie states and was the basis of the steel-ploindustry. w w Classification of Hides are classified as packer, city, or country stock. This division is based on the theory that less defects are found in hides removed and cured by packing houses in metropolitan districts because of improper purchasing and supervision. The best grade, packer, refers to hides of large packing houses; city, to those from moderate size slaughter houses, and country to those from smaller houses or farm districts. Loose-haire- d animals, essummer-balif are pecially they are preferred by tanners in making shoe leathers. The sparse hair foli-cllessen the separation of the skins grain, which weakens its structure. Hides d, es w Arabs Idea of Happiness The Arabs solution of how to be Superstition There is a superstition that, when happy although unhappy is curious. cutting the nails, unless one gathers To the Arab that is no problem at up the fragments and bums or buries all. He believes in fate; he believes them, after death he will be sent that everything is ordained and that back to look for them. A race there is no such animal as free track enthusiast, paring his nails at will. Feeling that he has no power the track, was told this and warned over his life, he is therefore inclined to gather the pieces. But, why to take things calmly, never to hurshould I? smilingly answered the ry or get excited and angry when skeptic, If Im to be sent back things do not go well. to look for the pieces what better How to Kill an Octopus place could be picked out than the An octopus cannot be killed either track? by cutting off a tentacle or by puncColor of Labrador Dogs turing the ink sac. The octopus has nervous system While most Labrador dogs are a black, the official standard for the which is centralized back of the breed permits yellow, brown and eyes. The Smithsonian institution liver. The dog is strongly built, says that the most certain way of Co-ooffip Above: REA and wide in the head, wide killing an octopus is to spear it cials rode beside modern power the chest, with an otter- through an eye or between the eyes, through lines in an ox cart symbolising like tail, and brown eyes. It stands or to cut the body off just in front the inconveniences of rural life from 19 to 23 inches at the shoulder, of the tentacles. in a bygone day, as Center, Ala., and weighs about 60 pounds. It is Does Not Always Give Warning paraded to celebrate its new elec- very rugged, most understanding A rattlesnake does not always and devoted, ideal in disposition. tric service. warn before striking. The rattler shakes his tail, upon which the ratEgyptians Method of Embalming My boys who are just enterery. tles are attached, because of nervemwere methods various There for or about school ing ready high are making their plans about what ployed by the Egyptians in embalm- ous excitement or fear. If surprised they are going to do, on the farm, ing. The processes were quite elab- so quickly there is no time for nervwhen they grow up. It used to be orate. According to Herodotus, the ous excitement or fear to cause the strike they, talked about what they were internal organs of the body were re- tail to vibrate, a rattler will warnwithout ominous his which to was sounding it when after do moved, steeped going they grew up, seeming to have in mind everything for 70 days in strong solution of na- ing. else except farming. tron, a mixture of salt, saltpetre War Directed by Cameramen Nor will the cities be without com- and sodium sulphate. The body was in the Mexican revolution of Back in afterward washed and bandaged pensation for the benefits extended 1914, the famous bandit, Villa, was to the farms. Manufacturers will linen strips smeared with resin. paid a sum of $25,000 for the motion be materially helped. picture rights to his battles. He Are Razors Taxed New figures from the REA statisto fight only in daylight so promised Bearded Russians under Peter the ticians reveal that the total lent or Great best the pictures might be secured. on wore metal their receipts made available by REA in the four beards to cameramen The held up the war octhat they had paid to years which will end June 30 will the beard signify recasionally original angle permit tax. Beards lacking be $231,000,000. Of this amount, shots of military tactics. off by were shaved forcibly ceipts $150,000,000 is for material orders, the czars barbers. In America the from which all industry draws ex- tax is on Father of American Navy shaving. Every razor miltensive benefits. Twenty-nin- e is usually John Barry 45 hidden taxes to dull blade carries lion dollars will have gone into its referred to as the Father of the edge. poles and $6,500,000 into line hardAmerican Navy. Under the law of ware and cross-armMarch 27, 1794, he was appointed a Village Broadway Englands senior captain of the U. S. navy by Aluminum: A Sample. in one but America is Broadway President Washington. From this The effect upon industry is easily street, but visitors who seek Broadcame the fact under title probably find that it is one seen by making a brief analysis of way in England which he is so well known. Warwickof of loveliest the villages any one of these items. Take the largest conductors for instance : shire, and it also consists of but one Taxes on Amusements The United States has consumed street lined with homes centuries 29 to 30 on every From some 600,000 miles of aluminum old and embowered in vines and amusement dollar incents vilAmerican flowers. cable, steel reinforced and 115,000 to Accordmovies. the goes lages miles of this have been required by ing to the National Consumers Tax Deserting for the Front REA in four years! New 1939 orof In 1918, French papers told of the commission, nearly five cents 41 ders will help to stabilize employcost movie divided is that among ment for Arkansas vast bauxite desertion of American soldiers for federal and 20 state and local taxes. We did not mines, from which the ore used in the front trenches! REA aluminum cable comes; for come 3,000 miles to dig, would say Languages Reading Right to Left aluminum plant workers, for the an American doughboy to a The principal languages that are French officer, who found railroads, for aluminum reduction from right to left include read his him but way forward, making and fabricating plants and even for Arabic, Berber, Crimean, Hebrew, the steel industry, which provides to fight. Javanese, Kashmiri, Kurd, Moorish, cores for the cables. Malay, Persian, Swahili, Syriac, a Trail Appalachian Footpath Still further good news for indusUrdu and Yiddish. The Appalachian trail is a rugged Turkish, try, as well as an indication of the fuller life in store for the half mil- I'footpath for hikers. It takes them Some Cane Poison to Stock lion farms to be added to REA lines from Maine for over 2,000 miles to the first crop of cane Although in the remainder of the fiscal year, Georgia through the heart of the makes the best kind of fodder, the inAt certain mountains. it spots, is an immediate demand for second growth, or upshoots, is deadworth of appliances which corporates old Indian trails over ly poison to stock. Analyzed, the which westward. pioneers pushed the program is expected to create. upshoots are found to be rich in Even with the vast nature of this Prussic acid. Black Tea a Favorite years program there will be much Seventy per cent of the tea drunk left to be done. When REA first Girls Chance to Live the United States is black tea. in A white girl born in America has began to function, only one farm in nine had electricity; when this Orange Pekoe tea is made from the a life expectancy of 64.72 years. tea leaves. The quality of This is the world record, years program is carried out to its smallest is usually better than held in New Zealand and formerly small leaves fullest extent three farms in five will then in ' ones. file larger still be without it. Australia. It must not be imagined, either, that REAs path has been entirely rosy. REA makes no grants; it lends money only, and theoretically cannot be counted as one of the Santa Claus agencies. Its loans must be But of all the millions loaned up to March 1, 1939, less than $100,000 in principal and interest had been repaid. Officials were plainly worried that revenues and repayments were not up to expectations. Now John M. Carmody,' REA adand enjoy, Kentucky's ministrator, hopes a remedy will be found in legislation by the states Double-Rich , 'straight which will be favorable to REA coBourbon ! operatives experiencing financial difficulties. REAs legislative plan, now in effect in six states, will seek to have lightened the state tax burrelieve them of conden on trol by state power commissions and Kentucky Straight Bourexempt their securities from blue bon Whiskey. 90 proof. sky laws. How successful Carmody will be PINT No. remains to be seen. It seeim plausible to expect remonstrances from QUART No. utility companies whose rural lines H PINT No. are benefactors from no such leniency. Nail-Cuttin- g well-develop- ed Rural Depopulation Trend Reversed as Agricultural Industries Begin Developing New Cultural and Mechanical Opportunities short-couple- By JOSEPH W. La BINE How ya gonna keep em down on the farm? We used to have a lot of fun singing that good-humor- old ed ballad in the War days. The question was qualified, of course, The by the addition of the words, after theyve seen Paree. idea was supposed to be that once a lad from the cornfields of Iowa or the plantations of the Old South had had a fling at the worlds gayest capital it was no simple task to reconcile him once more to a life of hard chores and high boots. Everybody sang it, nobody believed it and it was swell propaganda for raising an ex to be added, independent of REA peditionary army. aid, the present total will be doubled. It takes no more than a little anecdote to illustrate how electricity, problem. coupled with this day of the automoopportu- bile, the highway and the radio, and the may well be a starting gun for the today its not Keeping so funny. down on the em farm is a serious Better educational nities, lean times broader sophistication for which that, same wdr was largely responsible have lured to the city many a young man who would otherwise have proudly aspired to the farming tradition; Land Up, Population Down. In 1925, some 48.6 per cent of the land area of the United States was in farms; in 1930 this ratio had increased to 51.8 per cent, and by 1935 it had jumped to 55.4 per cent. During these same years the rural populatiqn, which had been 46.1 per cent of the nations total in 1925, declined to 43.1 per cent in 1935. But in a real democracy the social and economic pendulums do not swing too far out of line before a way is found to bring them back. The last few years have seen a new appreciation of sociological readjustment,' and its effect has been to create new machinery for spreading to the farthest reaches of the land the cultural and mechanical benefits which have all too long obtained chiefly to the cities. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the concerted drive flow under way to electrify American farms. The Rural Electrification administration, organized in 1935, and feeling its way for the last two or three years, is getting into full stride with plans to electrify 500,000 American farms before June 30. Electrification Booms. During the first six months of this year it will have lent or allocated funds to bring the benefits of electricity to a number of farms equal of all the to more than electrified farms there were in this country at the end of 1938. It, is safe to predict that, with the farms one-thi- f ' " s " 'L V rd s ' , fT - s ' long awaited 'V (1745-180- s. i dum-found- ed This lad may some day be a than his better poultry-raiser, dad, homing future hens under an electric hover. ) tralization which may some day supplant the breadline. The anecdote concerns a southeastern farmer who had been persuaded finally to sign up with an REA co-o- p. Social Significance. I never would have believed what it has meant, he told the coop superintendent some time after electric power had begun to relieve his family from most of its drudg-- ' .. s Vj decen- - back-to-the-s- d, - r s -- u ? V"- -Va .v., vs i. $90,-000,0- , . Say Mine Cream!. co-op- W6. Stringing four lines of aluminum cable at once near Horton, Kan. REA projects have required 115,000 miles of this cable. s, 61 60 62 Western Newspaper Union. 3) |