Control'Jr
\ flies
You'll find it pays to spray with Diazinon—just one residual application
on dairy barn walls and ceiling, kills flies for weeks.
Diazinon saves time and labor, gives you lower cost per day of protec
tion. So spray less . . . pay less for effective fly control. Ask your farm
supply dealer for Diazinon —one of the safer phosphate insecticides
creators of chemicals for modern agriculture
GEIGY AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS j
Division ot Geiffy Chemical Corporation • Saw Mill Ri var Road. Ardslay. N Y
get the ONE
insectitide
for ALL
your farm needs
METHOXYCHLOR
LIVESTOCK
Direct application to livestock
controls horn flies end cattle lice
D AMD PORAAI CROPS
Controls leafhopper. sprttletmg. and
many othar insect pests.
IN STORAAE RIMS
Residuel control of insects attacking
stored pain.
TARLES
Controls many insacts on many
vegetable crops.
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■ Controls phim curtuiio. codling moth and
many other insects in the orchard
Folks* label deactions May be used on food
crops up to seven days before harvest
creators of chemicals for modern agriculture
GEIGY AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS
Division of Geigy Chemical Corporation • Saw Mill River Road, Ardsley, N. Y.
GRASSROOTS I
GLEANINGS I
Have you ever been afraid to do nothing?
It happened to the Senate Judiciary Coin
mittee of the Wisconsin Legislature, accord
ing to the Port Washington (Wis.) Pilot.
A bill which the committee had been as
sured by exoerts would really do nothing,
was laid aside for further thought.
There are a number of us who would be
interested in the success of the meeting re
ported in the Mitchell County (Iowa) Press
News in which boys were invited to learn
something about clothing selection.
I wish my boys could have attended. The
way they select clothing is to fight. The
winner wears whatever is being fought over,
and the loser screams to his mother that
someone is wearing his socks or undershirt.
Our boys don’t only fight over each other’s
socks, they fight over mine too, which
leaves me sockless about ninety percent of
the time.
This, of course, means that 1 get into the
sock fight some mornings, and there are p.e
breakfast wrangles with three or four of us
claiming the same sock.
About the only thing of mine that the
boys haven’t “selected” to wear are my
trousers. The reason for this is obvious, and
it isn't because the legs are too long. My
wife tells me that if I would do fifty sit-ups
a day, my waistline might recover its lost
youth. I don’t want it to recover, because
then the boys would wear my pants, and 1
at least like to think I’m wearing the pants
in mv familv
There are probably a few farm dogs left
around the country that contribute some
thing to the national effort, but these
pooches are frequently so impressed with
their own importance that they are totally
impossible. We had a dog like this once.
He got so carried away that he wouldn’t
chase cows until you said “please.”
I wish I could have heard the psycholo
gist’s talk on “Emotional Disturbances in
the Classroom,” that the Storm Lake (Iowa)
Tribune reported some time ago. I would
like to know if the talk was on the emotional
disturbances of the students or the teacher.
I know beyond a doubt that facing a class
room full of kids day after day would sure
enough disturb my emotions.
In checking over a son’s homework the
other night, I came across a question which
asked, “What grave problems faced the na
tion at the end of the Civil War?” His an
swer— “There weren’t enough people left
to bury the dead soldiers.”
That’s a grave problem, and it is also
emotionally disturbing. I’m glad I caught
it before it got into the classroom.
The Boonville (Ind.) Standard reported a
while back that the Yankeetown Fire De
partment would hold a meeting to discuss
a water system for Yankeetown.
This is a municipal activity that makes
pretty good sense. It is tough to think of a
better agency than the fire department to
hold a meeting on a water system.
A dog's life isn’t so bad, according to the
Gratiot CoutUy (Mich.) Herald lire Herald
reports that dogs are living longer and more
comfortably thanks to better nutrition, vet
erinary medicine and vaccines.
It ought to be said right here and n<m
that another reason for a dog having it
pretty nice is that most of them go direct
from puppyhood into seini retirement and
never have to grub out a living.
Most of the dogs I know lounge around
the house and hiccup from over eating
The Sullivan (III.) Progress states that the
average dollar hill remains in circulation
for only ten or twelve months before it is
so worn that it must be replaced.
At the rate I hang onto a dollar bill — at
least five minutes — this means that the
greenback is handled by 105,120 people la
fore it is retired. This is figuring that money
is circulated twenty-four hours a day, which
is the way it would have to lie in order for
most of us to go through so dam much of it.
The people of Nashville, Mich, are brave.
The Nashville (Mich.) News reports that the
students are going to be allowed to name
the new school. All the children from kin
dergarten through 12th grade were to have
submitted suggested names some time ago
I don’t know if the contest is over, but
I’m prepared to bet that among the entries
were: “The Prison, Torture Chamber, Cage,
Zoo,” and others. Any takers?
An item in the Crookston (Minn.) Daily
Times said that Canadian women are more
courageous about the overweight problem
than men.
A survey showed that twenty-eight per
cent of French-speaking males and seven
teen percent of English-speaking males felt
they were overweight, while forty percent
of French-speaking women and forty-four
percent of English-speaking women felt
their figures were too ample.
As a spokesman for my sex, 1 take issue.
I think the survey only shows that the ability
to speak French makes you heavier — if you
are a man, that is.
I don’t see where courage enters into tin
picture at all. I know any number of fat,
brave men.
Dear, I think the dog wants to go out.