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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS PAGE THREE itlLtlitiiiiiiiiiiiniitfitiiiniiitiitiiiittitiiiiiiiiitiiifiifiiiiiiiitifiiiitiiiiiiititiiiiiiiififyfj SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT J3y F. A. PAHS IT ALONG FT ICA ltl n good story (tin other il".v." In! said, nml then lit? re- (llfll II clean, . lioll'MOlllC IlllCCflotP, which U Mild to have originated With llii' lute Champ Clark. Hi- win HHititi along n Utile of the Joy of lire. Ho wax distributing U'Hep,. There Is 11 Inanufuclutiug iMalillxli- tiKiit up lii New England, not u tl it piilt rprlhc. It In n Hurt of family uf fiilr In uhlih nil tli workmen mi'l their wives nn sweethearts have a more IIimii uii m envelope Interest. 'Jin 1 r-) 1 1 1 1 n I reason lit 1 lint the mini wlm hi 111 in It decided tlmt he wus going to pas along tin! Joy of till' mirrt-MH, If It WHS u success, Mini lo I1111 continued lo do no from the liny Did little factory opened. If n particularly Ills order come In lie write IHHo bulletin about It mi'l glw It to t lie superintendent, nml nt the bottom of tin slip of 1'iipiT 11 10 ulwuys tlio words .J'l'unn It Along." Tlmt mean tlmt everybody In the factory known tin' good news ulmost Moon II n tin; oWIM-r does. Anil one year when the profit rh.-iwcd larger tluui usual lie hud tlirf bookkeeper druw up a little Ntale ini'iit of tln year' surplus. Wln-ii It wm In lila bund lift took lila pen im dividing tlio tot al by two tn drew n ring urouud tlu quotient nnd 11 line from the ring led to the word 'Tim It Along." which ineiinl tint! half of nil the profits wus divided among thu workmen. The (.'nine of 'Tun It Along" U ft great ciime. So miiny run play nt It. It 1 )- 1 11 " t take uiiy money to start THE WOODS By DOUCLA3 M ALLOC! I --------- JUNE. IKNIIW you wit mining, June, 1 knciv that ou were coming I Among the aider by the stream I I il 11 partridge driirimlng; I heanl a partridge ilrumiiihig, June, n Wrlroino with his wink's, And felt 11 Hoftness In thu lilr hulf SuiniiH-r'n und half Spring's. I knew that you were Hearing, June, I knew that you were Hearing , 1 saw- It In the bursting bud of rones In the clearing ; The roses In the clearing. June, were blushing pink and reel. Tor tin y hud heard upon the hllU the echo of your tread. I knew that you were coming, June. I knew that you were coming. For every wnrhler In the wood a song of Joy was humming. I know that you ure here. June, I know that you are here The fairy month, the merry month, the laughter of the year. (Ciipyrlf hi ) (I THE CmmVL CHE.RU5 I never c-r te- 3z.t i j Pied As tKroujK tKe world Irr oir 1 do not tsk more tkirvjs I Dri-v My ttAte will just jtop drowirtf Contlnuout Performance. First Navvy Ye know, It's hard lines on Joe, Mm belli' so' short Hlghled. Second Navvy NYVy? Yer don't need gooil eyesight for our Job I 1'lrst Nuvvy No, hut ho can't see when the foreman nln't looUin', so he has to keep on workln' all the time. Uoyiil Mugazlne, I.otulon. , o Wit i.nd Wisdom. Wit nnd wisdom dilVer. Wit Is upon the Midden turn, wisdom U In bring ing ubout ends. Seidell, O HedJ Onl Not until 11 li cr a uiiin Ims his hend dues ho realize that two headi are iMter than one. C'ui'tooiu Magazine. WALKER r. It nnl none to keep It going. All It require I a desire to mnka people happy nml n ileterinlnntloti to niiil.r thu desire n working reality. It I n strange thlfig tlmt we cem more willing nhwiv to (preinl ihe tin plinMiint new thnn the pleasant. 'I he rumor that Jin k hn IomI hi Job get twice tin prompt circulation an the fart that Jill lum received a promotion. I wonder why? We run pun along ho many help ful thing. Encouragement. Enthusi asm. Apprecliiilon. Sympathy. Ev eryone of them without a penny of font, hut HO full of the profit of sstls fartloii, If wo do It with a generous Hpirli. 71. pnrnhlo of tbo two dehtora lum ilwnyn Heemed to me one of the innM vivid of the Illustration hy which Jesus tkught hi great trutha. You , will find the aiory In the latter part of the eighteenth chapter of St. Matthew. Thu trouhlu with the ncrvant of the king wn that he did not pas along to the mini who owed him the char llnlile treatment which liU mauler had shown In forgiving him the debt he I'ttinl. If you hove Homethlng good, some thing helpful, Home thing that will make another happier pus It along. It It a profltuhle proceeding. (Copyrlgbt ) SCHOOL DAYS Vluk, tol. kJU million, dollvrj ( I X An Ttere is only ona type of arllut whose Bi'lilevi'iiiciit muku cry type of noilety flulll thu t'llllU'Hl to II10 lllll'Kl; HIlJ lliul ireutur la Multiurliuod. V. bliaw Spur row. A FSW SALADS. A SALAD Is a part of the menu, which, If well prepared, Is the chief attraction. A well muilu haliid bhoiUd be an ornament as well as a food. The following are unusual hut good : Russian Salad. Cut crisp, tender celery Into bits, add a smalt can of Uusslan caviar, und the sumo quantity of unchovles as caviare. Add us much tomato pulp 11s celery nnd mix with mayonnaise. Serve in tomato cups. Spanish Salad. Cut Into dice three allces of stale bread. Add an equal quantity of cold cooked potatoes, three tomatoes sliced anil one onion chopped tine. Itub the salad bowl with the cut side of a clove of garlic, put In the saJad and pour over plenty of French dressing. Onion Salad. Slice 11 lai'Ke Spanish onion und let stand In water for two hours; druln, put Into a chopping bowl and chop; anango In h nest of lettuce with minced parsley and put over u highly seasoned French dressing. Strawberry Salad. Arruugu tender white lettuce In 0 salad bowl In cup shapes or as Indi vidual Milads on plates. Fill each let 1 1 THE ROMANCE OF WORDS "ASSASSIN." IN WO there wn founded In Alio a Herrwt aorlety known a the 'Fednvlir' or "Devoted One," the uiembers of which were pledged to Implicit blind obedience to the ordera of their superior, no matter what di rection theso order might tnke. IIushiiii ben Kabbah, the Per Minn, who founded the dreaded order, whs extremely explicit In the mica he luld down for the government of the organization, which wiii partly religious and partly secular In nature. The member of the lower section of the society were kept In total Ignorance of the teachings and aim of the body to which they belonged, and It wa Impressed upon them that unfailing obe dience wna their only key to huc'chs In this life and happi ness In the next. In order to give them a fore taste of the Joya which were In More for them, provided they followed Instructions, Hassan ben Siibbah directed that they be given a specified ration of hashish, or hemp n narcotic which produced effecta an alogous to those resulting from the use of opium and from thli practice the memlers of the ao rlety tecume known as has hoshln or hemp-enters. Euro peons slightly altered the word to "assassin" and applied It to anyone guilty of murder, this crime being favorite among the Feduvls. (Copyrlfht ) I dumo- WhiJcVttdo? tuce cup with fine ripe strawberries ; put n tuhJespnonful of seasoned may onnaise In each cup. Pea and Walnut Salad. Take equal quantities of cooked peas nnd F.ngllsh wulnuts broken in bits. Sprinkle with French dressing, let stand half an hour nnd mix with mayonnaise dressing. Serve in lemon cups or on lettuce. Shad Roe Salad. Cook the roe In suited acidulated water with a slice of onion for twenty minutes. Drain, cool, cut Into slices and sprinkle with French dressing. Add n cucumber, diced, nnd a few diced olives. Mix with mayonnaise dressing nnd serve on lettuce; garnish with shredded green peppers. Hunter's Omelet. Rent the yolks of four eggs unjll lemon-colored nnd thick, ndding one-fourth teaspoouful of pepper and one tnblespoonfuJ of water. Meat the whites until stiff and odd one-half teaspoouful of salt. Fold the whites into the yolks and cook In a well greased omelet pan until well puffed, then place In the oven to cook on the top. The cooking Bhould be done us quickly as possible to uvold toughening the omelet. Spread over half of the surface a mixture of chopped veal, or other cooked meat, season with toasted bacon and chopped cooked spinach. Fold the omelet, slide on a hot dish and pile heated canned tomatoes over the top, drained from nil liquid; garnish with mush rooms or sliced (frecn peppers unc triangles of buttered toast. 19111, Wimturu Nowoiiupcr UuianJ COST OF USING TRACTORS AND HORSES SHOWN IN YEAR'S WORK Preparing Seed Bed With Tractor Power. (Prepared by the Unite Rtates tepart mnt of Aarlculture.) During octoncr and Novemlicr, 1920, representatives of the United States Department of Agriculture visited 280 tractor-owners In Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. A complete record of all the work done during the year both with tractors and horses was obtained from each farmer. Information from wblch the cost of using the tractor and the cost of maintaining the workstock could be determined was also obtained. The investigation was made through the co-operative efforts of the bureau of animal Industry, office of farm man agement and farm economics and the bureau of public roads. In accordance with plana outlined at the farm power conference nt Chlcngo, 111., In October, 1910. The object was to obtain Infor mation, In addition to that already available In the Department of Agri culture, which would aid lu determin ing advantageous forms of power for different farms and different condi tions. Farms Above Average In Size. The avernge size of the farms vis ited wns 258 acres. This Is consider ably above the average size of all farms In these states. Two-plow tractors were owned on 174 of the 2Sd farms, three-plow trac tors on 104, and four-plow tractors tin six farms. One farmer owned a one plow machine, nnd one farmer owned a five-plow machine. Two-plow ma chines were found on 75 per cent of the farms with less than 100 crop acres, and on 53 per cent of those with 100 or more crop acres. ' One hundred and six of the tractors fiad been In use one year, 100 had brti In use one and one-half or two years, 49 had been In use two and one half or three years, and 31 had been In use more than three years. Ou the average the tractors were used for 30.8 full days during the year covered by the Investigation. Twenty three and tlve-tenths days of this was drawbar work on the home farm, 2.7 days was belt work, and 4.0 days was custom work. Seventy-three of the 2S0 tractors did less than 20 days' work during the year and 20 did 50 or more days' work. The number of workstock still owned varied from two head on 11 of the farms to more than 15 on five of the large farms. On the average there were 0.8 head per farm at the time of the survey, and their value was $145 per head. In all there were 1,878 head of workstock on the 2S0 farms and 111 colts less than one year of age. The average number of full days work per year per horse, for all farms was 08.0. On 20 of the farms the workstock did less than 40 full days work and on 27 they did 100 or more days work per year. The tractors did 85 rer cent of the plowing on these farms, 73 per cent of the disking, 43 per cent of the har rowing, planting, rolling, nnd pack TO BUILD FOUNDATION WALLS Concrete Two Feet Above Floor Is Ab solute Insurance Against Cold Feet From Floors. When you build that new chicken coop, hoghouse or barn, extend the concrete foundation walls a foot or more above the floor. It is cheaper than lumber, the sills and board ends will not rot from touching the ground and, best of all, the cold breezes can not chill the chickens, hogs or cattle. A concrete foundation wall two feet above the floor Is absolute Insurance against cold 'feet from cold floors. Be Careful With Refuse. Many poultry enthusiasts are liav Inb trouble these days because they are taking spoiled vegetables out of the cellar nnd giving them to the chickens. That Is bad practice. Value Of Droppings. The fertilizer value of poultry drop pings of 100 hens for .one year will jiceed $10. ing, 41 per cent of the grain cutting, nnd about 15 per cent of the loading and hauling of hay. Of 207 men who did spring plowing, 142 did it all with tractors, 121 used both tractors and horses, and four used horses only. In all, the power for 30 per cent of the drawbar work on these farms, as measured by days of horse labor re quired for it, was furnished by trac tors and the remainder by horses. The average cost per head of keep ing workstock on these farms for the year ending November 1, 1920, was $159, and the average cost per farm was $1.70. Costa 43 Cents Daily to Feed Horse. Exclusive of grass and stalk pasture, the average ration per horse consisted of .3 tons oC hay. 1.2 tons of straw, 0.2 acre of stover, 37.8 bushels of corn, and 22.3 bushels of oats. The total cost of feed per head was $134. Based on present prices (March, 1921), the cost of feed per head would be about $80. The average cost per day of horse labor for the year of the survey was $2.43. Hased on present prices the cost on these farms would be not far from $1.50 per day. The avernge first cost of the two plow tractors was $972, of the three plow tractors $1,334, and of all trac tors $1,140. The average amount spent for equipment, mostly plows and disks, for use with tractors was about $340. The average value of tne horse-drawn implements disposed of after the pur chase of the tractors was $12. The average life of these tractors' as estimated by their owners Is 6.7 years. The annual depreciation of the two-plow tractors amounted to $104,i and of the three-plow $217. The an nual cost of repairs. Including the value of the owner's time spent in re-' pairing the tractors, was $39 for both the two-plow and three-plow sizes. The fuel consumption per day for the two-plow tractors varied from about 18 gallons for fall plowing to about 11 gallons for drawing the hay loader. For the three-plow tractors it varied from 23 gallons for plowing to 15 gallons for drawing the hay loader. The two-plow tractors covered 6.6 acres per day In plowing and three plow machines 8.6 acres. The amount of fuel required per acre by the two sizes was practically the same. 2.8 gallons for the two-plow and 2.7 gal lons for the threi?-pIow tractors. Operating Costs May Be Reduced. There were great variations on In dividual forms in the cost of power furnished by both horses and tractors; and by more careful management many farmers could doubtless reduce this cost. Itepalr costs and fuel con sumption of the tractors could in many cases have been reduced by more care ful operation. The cost of keeping workstock could have been reduced on many farms by more careful feeding practices. DODDER WILL KILL ALFALFA Noxious Plant May Cause Consider able Damage and Should Not Ba Encouraged In Fields. Dodder Is a parasitic plant, Infest ing clover and alfalfa cliiefly. It Is a bad weed In Europe, though condi tions In the United States are not as favorable as in Europe, for damage by dodder; hence the appearance of the pest on the farm 6hould not oc casion undue alarm. Nevertheless, dodder may cause n great deal of damage and it should not be allowed to grow unmolested. Planting Soybeans. Soybeans may be planted with the corn by mixing the seed in the plant er boxes. Silage Will Keep. Silage put in silo lu good condi tion will keep a number of years. If the horse gets gall or sore ueck the lest cure Is a rest.