ABOUT THE GOLDENROD HE goldenrods were nodding their pretty bright heads. “We are like the sun,” they “pretty and bright and yellow.” Near them stood some weeds which were also pretty, but, of course, they were not considered flowers. “If we were in a garden or were hard to grow they would call us hand- some,” said the weeds, “We're not In a garden,” said the goldenrod, “and many people like us. Of course there are others,” continued the goldenrods, shaking their heads quite hard, “who don't like anything unless it costs money—hard, cold money. “Just as though money would make us grow! “They could pour those things they call pennies and nickels and dimes— said, “Yes, What Care We for Money and Hothouses.” and even quarters, all over us, and do then? wouldn' wouldn They {| around our roots i you suppose we'd grow “Indeed plant d I'S § it wouldn we make a scrap of difference, “That shows money a flowers that “You i avo as though you weeds, how much we care for nd wople who only great deal” were weeds,” the ge flowers. “We need er to make “And ar CTHE WHY of SUPERSTITIONS By H. IRVING KING 4 a 7 - - AY OWL'S hooting at night Is a very uniucky omen-—in some sec- * { } tions it is lieved to portend death in the family. This superstition is so not only among universal, among aborigines American like that per- must be civilized rac of Australis Indians, ti taining nd among the its origin, crow, looked for in the soressing effect which the bird of night w produced upon primitive man. The owl, it is truss, in the classic period, as assigned as the bird of Minerva, goddess of wisdom, be the never for not to be wondered at sider that, in addition to his uncanny appearance and doleful hoot he is a carnivorous bird of prey, and that small birds and squirrels instinctively attack when he is caught dozing in the woods, The American Indian stops where Le is and covers his head in fright when he hears an owl hoot; in India a hut upon which an owl alights is torn down: the Australians of native race say that he “smells death” vis- its the neighborhood of the dying and is an agent of the Spirit of Evil. In Europe and America an owl hooting near a farmhouse casts a presage of death or disaster Into the souls of its inhabitants. And all this because of the impression the owl's appearance, habits and doleful ery made and make upon the primitive mind. He looks, acts and cries ominously, therefore he presages disaster, (i by McClure Nuwwontue Syndicate.) ith its lugubrious volce the has a wise look. lost its sinister signi- the proletariat: which is when we cause creature But it fieance con- him i (@ by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Just then some children came along talking. “Oh,” they shouted, “look at the glorious goldenrods. They are the first of the season.” “Did you know fs the American asked the child, “At least, it Is almost always cons sidered so, although a recent popular vote favored the wild rose, “But the goldenrod is away of all other flowers, “You see, so many flowers—special flowers, “England has the rose, France the fleur-de-lis, Scotland has the thistle, Ireland the shamrock and Italy the lily. “Isn't it wonderful for us to have a wild flowér—a flower so bright and one we can all enjoy?” All the children agreed and picked great bunches of the rods, The were heads happily now, “We're going to be the nation’s flow- ers,” they and to the came to call on them and sip of their honey. that the goldenrod national flower?” ahead nations have they golden- thelr flowers nodding whispered to themselves, bumblebees who “Yes, what care we for money and the nation thinking of hothouses when the honor of flowers.” pays us us for her The weeds felt | friends of goldenrods thei they had been rods, and the tell all that they they were p= “A girl always knows the car has come to a dead stop when her escort talks about the moon with both hands on the wheel. AEE U & PAY ore smal Pistia How It Started By JEAN NEWTON 0000000000000 0 “EVERY MAN MEETS HIS WATERLOO AT LAST” ERE Is a quotation which sounds as though almost any one of us might have said it. Possibly many of us have sald it and used it with- out thinking that in so doing we were plagiarizing a famous orator of by- gone days, quoting a line which so well turned an idea that it was Im- mediately consigned to universal own- ership without so much as a “Thank you!" to the author. It is to Wendell Phillips that we are indebted for the expression, “Ev. ery man meets his Waterloo at last.” He uttered it in a public speech on November 1, 1850, in which he warmed that tyrants sooner or later meet the same fate as Napoleon—that all eventually bump up against something that Is too much for them, (@® by the Bell Syndicate, Ine.) Sally O’Neil A Columbia plcture star. Before she reached the silver screen she was Miss Nconan of Bayonne, N. J. With her sister, Molly O'Day, she is now making personal appearances in the East with the first talking “Sisters” picture to reach the screen, esmmsnmsmondl, Jr — COO DONO OO OOOH OOH OOS For Meditation By LEONARD A. BARRETT g COOOOODOGONOOOOUOOUNOO0GOT MACHINERY UCH has been sald lately gry M ing the demoralizing Te ¢ rouse | es nt nimost every tasks in the d fis years ago applicatie farming is certainly a st WA It Ati : ff machinery to hile rightly of our m been stated nery “has tind forever from the worst of the which all him.” bondage with past mye chained Machinery is enslaving kind: rather it is liberating the making It for he devoted to the development of the cultural and life. Machinery is made through the genius of scientific mind. It is an asset rather than a lability. Our age of machin. ery Is not enslaving mankind, setting him free, not mnn- race, time to possible more intellectual values in possible creative the (@. 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) — pain Possninin Dear Editor: HE trouble with most automobile drivers, I've decided, ls, tiiey never owned a horse, A decent man has some consideration for his mount. There goes a car labeled “My fourth bus.” Clash those gears some more like that, young fellow, and you'll need your fifth ere long. One old-timer tells me, “As long as my car runs, I never do anything with it, If 1 start looking, I'd find some. thing wrong" When 1 consider the jolts, and ruts, and broken glass and weather a car carries us through, I wonder that we aren't more grateful. I made a New Year's resolution te “Give the car plenty of oll and grease and paint, Fred Barton, (@ by the Rell Brandioate. tan) Soil Color Tells of Its Contents Often Gives Clue to Pres- ence or Absence of Desirable Qualities. tvs United Staten of Agricul re.d color of solls Is {Prepared by Department The often a good clue to the presence or lack of desir able qualities, says WW. ©, Robinson, of the United States Department of Agriculture, Different solls pre caused by differences in composi- tion, but the soll with the amount of colored constituents as re- vealed by analysis does not always have the deepest color because the constituents of the gol] are not always in proper combination to make them colors in greatest noticeable, Dark Soil Productive. “A black soll Is usually a rich soll, and In general the darker the soll the more productive it Is, Black color in solls Is due to organic matter in com bination with lime, The actual quan- tity of organle matter may be spall, but if it is saturated lime or other bases it makes a most favorable condition for plant growth, “Organle matter also brown. Such solls are generally and the organie be abundant, Is lime, A reddish-brown color ordinarily indicates the presence of organie mat- ter ang soll of the South, Red Soils Rated High. “ys ' wali Red and yellow s¢ with soils acid, while it may not saturated with colors matte mailer, i] iron oxide, Examples of such 8 are th : ma 3 ¢ to the iron A vrapee ally (ai Average Daily Gain on Mixed Pastu Symptoms of Parasites in Sheep Are Varied ire the symp pa ave lition, they lose flesh, they : ‘ petites, ump in the { wil sometimes parts on the ‘ the heads and ears drop, the dull, the 3 in moving around, comes pale, the wool fiber ye8 become sheep be ome } iw artis the ai:in cus active the skin becomes the sheep coughs, a throat From external swelling and the parasites rub against anything convenient to get temporary relief, If sheep show any of the above mentioned symptoms, make an investigation. may come under the sho [ Scours they Straw for Scratching Litter for Chickens If the farm straw supply has been vsed ap until threshing time, it will often pay to buy a few bales of clean yellow wheat straw for fresh scratch ing litter in the poultry houses. Then you will find the eggs will be clean for a long time and the hours saved in washing or sponging dirty egus will more than pay the cost of the straw, During hot dry summer weather the straw has fine powers of absorption and will take up the poultry manure much longer than in the damp winter weather, Put Apples in Pit Apples can be kept satisfactorily by buryitg them in the ground, advises the Farm Journal. The quality of some varieties such as Ben Davis or Wusset is improved by burying. The pit should be eight or ten inches deep in a well-drained location. The applies placed In It should be covered with straw and when the tempertaure is down ans far as 20 degrees the straw should be covered with three or four Inches of earth, In colder weather another layer of straw and a second layer of earth should be added, No ew Bait Effective for Beetle Control Increase Quantities of Ge- raniol and Eugenol. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Japanese-beetle trappers will have better luck If they will make a slight change in the bait used in thelr traps the quantities of the agents, geranlol and the United States partment of Agriculture, Two years of experimental work at the Japanese-beetle laboratory at Moorestown, N. J., has shown that traps containing the improved bait captured more than two and one-half times as many beetles as did the traps in which the old bait was used. In- creasing the quantities of geraniol and eugenol will make the balt slight. ly more expensive, the department says, but the Increased eatch will more than offset this cost. The formula for the balt recom- mended by the department is as fol- lows: 4 teaspoonfuls of geraniol, one- half teaspoonful of eugenol, 14 cups of bran, 1 tablespoonful of water, 23% tablespoonfuls of and lyeerin, his m third of } ugh by increasing uttractive el genol, says De- 1% teaspoonfuls of g akes about to bait traps. Certatin types of traps have small bait containers which hold not than an bait. The quanti- of the attractive agents used in such traps are necessarily very small, and the department recommends for geras of as much one one of ical more ounce of ties traps the use i- of the ¢ tha i0r Li Illinois Cherry Trees Now Facing Extinction iis ¢ rr i8 140e exiting Danger Periods in Life Cycle of Dairy Heifers pe men nowadavs seem to be i vihine that Missouri been in- growth of from investi- Ages, growth is is in f very birth, at The nonths after and one-half me between Bo these period for cow and 10d that abor. ally at seven months. The third period of growth bering at 12 months and ends at about The practical application results of Investigation is fers should be ex- the periods of 26 months of these that « tra well greatest ives fed growth, Clean milk will remain sweet for a longer period of time, - * . The best way to lower production cost is to keep only good cows, raise plenty of feed and maintain good pas tures, supplementing the permanent pastures. * » A very good grain mixture for calves is three parts of ground corn, three parts of ground oats, and three parts of wheat bran with § per cent of cot- tonseed meal, . & =» During the last half of the preg nancy period the young heifers should be fed liberally so that they will be carrying some surplus flesh at the time of calving. . » Cleanliness is not an absolute safe. guard against disease, but it Is a great factor in preventing contamination, From a health point of view, there is danger not only from milk that con- tains the specific disease-producing bacteria, but also from milk that con- tains large numbers of miscellaneous bacteria, which may cause serious di- gestive troubles, especially in Infants and invalids, whose diet consists chiefly of milk, HEADACHE? Why suffer when relief is prompt and harmless: Millions of people have learned to depend on Bayer Aspirin to relieve a sudden headache. They know it eases the pain so quickly. And that it is so Jayer Aspirin pever harmless, Genuine harms the heart. Lock for the Bayer Cross stamped on every table BAYER ASPIRIN Great Mule Market Memphis, Tenn., cls mule market in th the Jargest mule stable, More than BOOOO mules, of $100 each, ims the largest world aos well as valued at an average are handled there each season, One stable has tions for accommoda- 4.000 mules, Similar “How “Ni Electric Lighting on Ships f en 4] its and, “Universal” 1 Makes Life Sweeter Too much to eat—too rich a diet -0r too much smoking. Lots eof things cause sour stomach, but one thing can correct it quickly. Phil lips Milk of Magnesia will alkalinize the acid. Take a spoonful of this pleasant preparation, and the sys- tem is soon sweetened. Phillips is always ready to relieve distress from overeating: to check all acidity; or neutralize nicotine. Remember this for your own com- fort; for the sake of those arou you. Endorsed by physicians, but they nlways say Phillips. Dont buy something else and expect the gnme resmlts! [PHILLI PS W. li, U, BALTIMORE, NO. 35-1930.
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