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, Deep plowing is good for some soils
and not good for others.
Liquid manure is richer in nitrogen
and potash than the solid manure.
Sour milk is good for the chickens,
and where fed brings a larger egg
yield.
Put small dependence in drugs, but
everything in good care in handling
your chicken.
Every crop raised on the farm
should help to put the soil into better
condition. This is the purpose and
aim of rotation in crops.
Good stables, well-lighted, well-ventilated,
and arranged with a view to
the comfort of the cows quartered
there are some of the requisites to a
good dairy farm.
The opportunities of picking up fine
heifers are growing scarcer as the
dairymen are becoming alive to the
value of keeping the promising heif
ers and raising them for themselves.
A farm without pasture land means
that little if any stock is kept, and
where this is true it is safe to "con
clude that the land is being run down,
rather than built up. unless lots of ma
nure is bought and hauled upon the
land.
Now is the time to attend to the ver
min In the hen house if you have not
.looked to it before. A fight begun this
late in the season is better than no
fight at all. It will be a hard one, but
you must conquer if you do not want
the vermin to eat up all your profits.
How many farmers go to the ex
pense of setting out an orchard, tak
ing up valuable land by so doing and
who then expect that the orchard is
going to run itself without further
care or attention from him. What
folly. Plant trees and then cultivate
them as you do your other crops.
Never let the sod get thin on the
pasture land for this always means
the decrease of the root systems of
the plants and a decrease in their abil
ity to penetrate the soil in search of
plant food. When sod becomes so thin
that the hoof of the animal will break
through it in wet weather, it has
reached a state of exhaustion .that re
quires attention.
It is always best to feed the calves
by hand because one knows just what
they are getting and how much. It is
really not such a terrible task to feed
a dozen calves, but it is quite a nuis
ance to go through the motion just
for one or two. Perhaps a great many
dairymen who object to raising calves
for their own herds would change
their minds if they should practice it
in a wholsesale way.
Any old method is a poor way to
handle the calf. The most successful
dairymen allow the animal to suck the
cow for the first two or three days,
then feed the whole milk until about
two weeks old, then gradually jdrim
the milk. If the calf is healthy and
worth raising at all. it will do well
on skim milk alone, at this age. At
two or three weeks old, place a little
whole corn and oats before it, which
it will sooon learn to eat, also hay and
silage. Keep the calf in thrifty con
dition, for once run down it is hard
to get back to normal condition again,
and during that time It has lots of
good growth.
Do not let the soil form a crust.
It is at such times that the evapora
tion of the moisture is very rapid.
Run the cultivator through the corn
to prevent this condition, and the
oftener it is cultivated the better the
crop will do. Such cultivation puts a
fine dust mulch upon the surface
which effectually prevents evapora
tion except at a very slow rate. Any
one, that has examined a well-cultivated
field has been struck by the dry
ness of tfie surface, and only a few
inches below it was almost wet
enough to make mud balls. After
every rain it is necessary to break up
the crust that forms. In this way
moisture enough may be accumulated
to tide over the period when it is
needed most. A little shower often
does considerable damage by destroy
ing the dust mulch, and it should
be restored as soon as possible.
As a pasture for sows and young
pigs, alfalfa proves a wonderfully
helpful ration for milk-making in the
sow and for growth in pigs. Experi
ments have shown that pigs make bet
ter growth when the dam is fed con
siderable alfalfa than those from sows
fed the best of commercial rations,
but with no alfalfa. Of two sets of
pigs, on 2 fed clover, rape and soaked
corn, and the other with access to al
falfa in lieu of clover and rape, those
having alfalfa seemed to grow the
more rapidly. For brood sows, it Is
a most valuable food, either as hay,
a soiling crop, or as pasture. The
litters of such sows are generally
large and vigorous and the dams have
a strong flow of nutritious milk. Al
falfa meal in slop may be used with
profit where the hay is not to be ob
tained. It is also claimed that sows
fed on alfalfa during pregnancy will
not devour their young, its mineral
elements seeming to satisfy the appe
tite of the sow, while contributing to
the fetal development of the pigs.
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When the corn' begins to dent 1s' the
time to cut it for the silo.
The best cows are Jhe ones that the
careful dairyman raises for himself.
s.
Dry feed for young chicks is grow
ing in favor among many poultrymen.
Growing sheep for mutton is' all
right, but be sure that you'have sheep
that grow a good back o wool.
Young poultry, cannot- develop nor
mally if infested" with lice.. See that
they do not have any such handicap
In the struggle for growth.. r
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If the pasturage is good it is ques
tionable whether it pays to give heavy
grain ration. The difference in gain
is not offset by the. increased expense:
It looks like a waste when thinning
the fruit on the trees, but the harvest
time of larger and better fruit proves
the wisdom of the course.
Radishes , need lots of potash, and
for this reason wood ashes sprinkled
on the soil. where they are grown will
give them large and rapid growth.
It is a look a long ways ahead, hut
just make up your mind now that you
will attend your state and county fair
this year.
This is a good haying year .in most
sections. The cool, moist weather
nas encouraged heavy growth, and
there ought to be plenty of hay
throughout the country.
Oats and field peas make a good
combination crop for hay. The peas
add the protein property to the fodder
ana the oats hold the vines up so that
they can be cut with the mower.
In sending eggs to market have
them as near in size and color as pos
sible. Ill-assorted eggs never bring as
good a price as those with even ap
pearance. It is the wise farmer who feeds all
he raises and then buys some from
his neighbors to feed. The farmer
who carries such an amount of live
stock will be constantly improving
his land and making it more pro
ductive. Do you appreciate the fact that if
the liquid manure is not utilized the
most valuable part of the manure Is
lost? Use absorbents in the stable
to take up the liquid manure, or bet
ter still have a cistern into which all
the liquid manure can be drained, and
from which it can be pumped and
used as desired.
Study the character of the soil of
your pasture land if the grass is not
doing well, and aim to supply the
fertilizer containing the elements
needed. The droppings of the ani
mals help, but some concentrated fer
tilizers are also needed. Harrowing
the pasture fields will help to break
up, distribute and work into the soil
the coarse dropping of the pastured
animals, besides improving the . tex
ture of the soil. '
For the first week after farrowing
until weaning the sow will be little
else than a milk machine, and to be
a high-power machine in perfect op
eration she must have proper care.
Nothing else is so well calculated to
make pigs grow as a bountiful supply
of wholesome sow's milk, and the pigs
that have plenty of other feed with
the milk of a well-slopped sow for
eight weeks will ordinarily have much
the start of those weaned at five or
six weeks, no matter how much food
and attention the earlier weaned pigs
may have had.
After the first two weeks you can
get the calf onto skim milk. Whole
milk is too expensive to raise calves
on. Calves thrive much better on the
warm skimmed milk from the hand
separator than on the skimmed milk
brought home from the creamery,
where the milk of several hundred
cows is probably mixed, or the milk
set in pans and crocks or deep cans,
which, when the cream is taken off,
is always cold and usually half sour.
I think skimmed milk may be fed to
calves with more profit than to any
other thing about the farm, unless it
be the poultry.
A cow will make use of between
three and four tons of silage a year.
With ten cows and other stock to use
as much ensilage as the cows, one
could use 60 to 80 tons per year.
Where enough stock is kept to use to
advantage 80 or more tons of ensilage
per year one may be justified in in
vesting in a silo and the necessary
machinery to fill It The larger and
better the herd and the better the
dairyman the -more profitable, ensilage
becomes. One is never justified in
the use of expensive feed like ensilage
unless he gets to be a careful herds
man, furnishes his animals comfort
able quarters, good, regular care and
protection from storms and winds.
Milking under quiet, favorable con
ditions is quite important for the fol
lowing reasons plainly set forth by
John Burroughs, the, eminent natural
ist, in speaking of the supposed powd
er of cows to "hold-up" their milk.
Says Mr. Burroughs: "Most farmers
and country people think that the 'giv
ing down' or 'holding up' the milk by
the cow is a voluntary act. In fact,
they fancy that the udder is a ves
sel filled with milk, and that the cow
releases or withholds it just as4 she
chooses. But the udder, is a manufac
tory; it is filled with blood fro5 which
the milk is manufactured while you
milk. This process is controlled by
the cow's nervous system; when she
is excited or in any way disturbed, as
by a stranger, or by taking away her
calf, or any other cause, the .process
is arrested and the milk will not flow.
The nervosa energy goes elsewhere.
The whole process is as involuntary
as is digestion in man, and is dis
turbed or arrested in about the same
-way.
It is well for those who are inclined
to use the milk stool on a cow when
she refuses to "let the milk down" to
remember Mr. Burroughs statements,
which are without question correct
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There are natures of the mystical,
contemplative order who' seek instinc
tively to correlate their scenery with
some mood or aspiration of their inner
life who are not satisfied till' they
have linked it on somewhere intelli
gibly with their deepest being, writes
Algermon Blackwood in Country Life.
Before a given landscape, that is, they
find the explanation of their emotion by
translating the color, distance, confor
mation and so forth unto definite spir
itual sensations; passing thus, with
out too great confusion, from the finite
to the infinite. Until this is success
fully accomplished there is a sens of
disquietude almost of pain; the love
liness blinds. But, once that inner
key is found, the result is peace; the
beauty becomes comprehensible with
a personal message as it were. They
dramatize the view in the terras of
soul; doors open; veils lift, there
ome wings.
The kind of scenery that best does
this varies, of course, with individ
ual temperamenL For some the great
plains, or the mystery of forests: for
others, again the majority, perh::ps,
the grandeur and terror of mountains.
But to all who understand this process
of mind the world appears aS the ex
pression of something spiritual and
alive, and common objects become a
source of vivid revelation. Such per
sons endow "common objects" with
something of their own life; nothing
seems quite the same once tLir trans
forming imagination has looked upon
it
The immensity of cloud-scenery has
already been noticed. Let the eye on
a June day travel up and down the
blue lanes of sky between the masses;
and with the eye send also the Imag
ination. The gradual comprehension
of the piled and beaped-up vapours
holds In the end something that ap
pals. In the high Alps the wind currents
that for ever suck through the deep
valleys marshal the details with be
wildering .effects: the black depths,
suddenly revealed and as suddenly
closed again, the awful chasms, opened
and shut so swiftly, throw the imagi
nation Into a state of disorder that
adds enormously to.the confusing gran
deur of the spectacle. Only a few
days ago, while climbing across the
middle slopes of the Blumllsalp, I was
fortunate enough to see the pageant
in all its splendor. The hot spring sun
shine joined forces wlti the. snow
cooled air to produce a vast chaos of
cloudland. Far below, the huge trough
of the Oschlnen See was filled with
seething vapour, that -ose and fell as
the winds directed it allowing occa
sional glimpses into the green glac
ier water through profound tunnels
of mist, yet as a whole, climbing grad
ually 'upward to where we stood.
Overhead. the summits rose clear in
a sky of summer b.ue, with theSlugle
exception of the great Doldenncrn.
where an immense cloud, forever shift
ing, and shedding whole precipices on
its way, moved off laboriously till it
was caught by the air-draughts from
Best and Worst Cigarette
Veteran Travelers Agree That Russia
Has the One and France
the Other.
There are two things that smokers
who travel extensively are agreed
upon: That the worst cigarette ever
forced upon an unsuspecting stranger
is he French, and the best cigarette
is me Russian.
One writer describes the French
:igarette as follows:
"The tobacco, which has been aptly
iescrlbed as consisting of scorched
linen flavored with assafoetida and
glue, is' very coarsely cut, more so
than for the pipe In England, and
very dark. To reduce Its strength
It is steeped In water. The resultant
cigarette is indescribably horrible;
English smokers fall to recognize it
as tobacco. Yet of those cigarettes,
France smokes some three hundred
billions a year; in any form but that
of the cigarette it would be intolera
ble. An Englishman will face un
moved the armies' of France or the
the Gastern Thai, and myserlously
spirited out of sight ltogether.
But meanwhile, the sea of vapour at
our feet had risen till It spread in t
single plain of white that somehow
made one think of Shelley's "plat
forms of the wind" become visible
This sea was without a breuk. Ap
rarently, too. It was motionless; yet
on looking closer through field-glasses
it showed itself really alive with raove
ment; the rising and falling of waves
rifts with fringed and jagged edges
shooting in all directiens, though nev
er high enough to destroy the gen
eral effect of calm surface. There
were swift draughts and whirlwinds
astir through the entire mass. It was
the glasses, of course, that betrayed
the colossal scale of the thing. Far
below us. from some steep slope hid
den beneath the sea of mist, there
rcse a curious long-drawn ?ound that
at first" suggested nothing we could
rrecogniz. It was only a few minutes
later when the thunder followed that
we realized an avalanche had plijnged
into the gulf. First we heard the hiss
ing of the sheet of sliding snow that
awful hissing that more than any
thing else strikes error to the heart
of. the climber. It rcse up to us
through the mist as .he sound cf an
explosion might rise through the depths
of the sea. Then, as the mass fell
from ledge to ledge and finally dropped
over the last dizzy cliff into the Os
chinen bee, we heard the thundering
roar that echoed below, behind and
overhead, and later felt the icy wind
that followed the displacement of the
air. Yet no signs were otherwise vis
ible. The surface of the mist-sea re
mained untroubled. Nothing stirred;
only the mighty sounds and the mes
sage of the loosed wind. And. far over
bead, the iron battlements of rock
stood serene and terrible, their foun
dations rising out of the vast platform
of vapour that wrapped them about
like an ocean, their summits of shin
ing ice inhabited by the flames of the
sunshine.
Yet several hours later, when we
watched the same mountains from the
safety of the comfortable Gemmi ho
tel and listened to the warnings of
Herr Dettlebach, the proprietor, about
spring avalanches, it all seemed some
bow unreal the scenery all Incredible
and phantasmal as with the coloring
of a splendid dream. The clouds had
risen; like fragments of flying fire
they floated far overhead now in the
sunset It became impossible to see
again that ocean of mist What we
had seen was no scenery of the known
world. It belonged, surely, to the
scenery of such dreams as carry the
imagination into the beyond Into, in
finite distances above the clouds.
Alarmed.
Suddenly there was a great commo
tion in space and Mars was observed
to be whirling away from the earth at
top speed.
"What's the trouble?" queried the
astronomers on the earth. "Afraid we
want to steal your canals?"
"No." signaled the Martians, "we
Just heard that that man Castro was
about to pay us a visit"
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howlings of her mobs, but from her
cigarettes he files apace."
The Russian cigarette, which is so
deservedly popular In California, is
the exact opposite of the horrible mix
ture which masquerades in France un
der the name of cigarette. The Rus
sian cigarette is equipped with a pa
per holder, thus giving a cool, satis
fying smoke, and is composed of the
most delicate blends of Turkish to
bacco, carefully selected and pains
takingly prepared by experts who
spend their lives In learning just what
proportions will produce the perfect
cigarette.
Soldier Something of a Hoodoo.
John Ross, the British general who
led the force that burned Washington,
was killed in a battle with the Ameri
can army at North Point, Md., near
Baltimore. The Americans were de
feated. Ross fell Into the arms of
Capt McDougall, and the same officer
caught Gen. Packenham in his arms at
the -battle of New Orleans.
BETZVnXE TAEES
Sue Granger and the Lamp Post
JDV EUis Parker 3trticrtt
Atdhor cfVi&s Is Pids Eic-
ILLUSTRATED By
"Uth a Wuth a Wuth.Uth Uth!" She Said.
Surgical science is getting to be a
great thing these days. You would
never believe, to see Sue Granger of
Betzville lick a two-cent postage
stamp, that she was born tongue-tied.
She was, though, until she was two
years old, and then a surgeon came
down from the city and loosened up
her tongue, and when he was done she
had the best quantity and quality of
all-'round tongue in the village. She
has such a sizeable tongue that when
she is writing a letter it lops out like
a dog's on a hot day, and it was only
last, week that she bit it badly whilst
writing to that blonde-headed young
fellow that comes up from the city
to see her on Sundays.
I never shall forget that day last
winter when she was walking down
Main street eating a bunk of yellow
taffy and choked on it. Just as she
choked she had to cough and her
tongue flew out and the end hit an
iron lamp post, and the frost in the
lamp post glued the tip of her tongue
to it so tight that it seemed as if
nothing short of warm weather and a
thaw would ever get it loose again.
Of course we're not what you might
call curious-minded in Betzville, but it
ain't human nature fo see a girl stand
ing right in front of the grocery on
our most prominent corner with the
end of her tongue against a lamp
post and her hands waving in the air.
and not take a little interest. So
mostly all the population gathered
there in two minutes, being surprised
to see a young lady of our best social
circles rolling her eyes wildly and
connected close up with a lamp-post
like she and it was a sort of new
style Siamese twins. We walked all
around Sue and talked it over, but we
couldn't make any sense out of it, and
we was just about to decide it was
some new suffragette notion that had
just come to town when Uncle Ash
dod Clute thought he might as well
ask Sue. So he did. She rolled her
eyes at him kind of grateful.
"Uth a wuth a wuth uth uth!" she
said.
Uncle Ashdod is a pretty wise old
man, and he guessed what was the
matter right away, and as we seen it
might be inconvenient for Sue to
stand there that way until warm
weather turned up, on account of that
lamp-post being a favorite hitching
post, and some horses being biters
and liable to bite Sue on the tongue, so
we set to work and formed a commit
tee to get her loose.
But it wasn't any use. Sue Granger
had the most flexible tongue I ever
saw. and when the fellows had pulled
her back to the window of the gro
cery store they saw the tongue wasn't
going to come loose at either end. so
they let go, and the tongue contracted
like a rubber band and yanked Sue
across the sidewalk and slammed her
up against the lamp-post. All she said
was "Uth!" but we could see she did
not like it. And she wasn't going to
have it tried again, either, for she
wrapped her arms around that lamp
post and hugged it tight.
Then the committee didn't know
what to do! We walked around and
around that lamp-post and studied the
situation, and then we saw that when
Sue had slammed up against it two or
three more lengths of her tongue had
struck the iron post and glued them
selves onto it tight. Well, it was
Cigars, Too?
Bacon This paper says that as El
wood Scott, a gigantic admirer of Miss
Lola Wescott of Pongateague, Va..
was taking a good-night hug. he broke
one of her ribs. He also sha;tred
the crystal of his watch at the same
time.
Egbert Doesn't say whether El
wood busted any of his cigars or not,
does it? Yonkers Statesman.
Don't be "consistent," but only true.
-Holmes.
PETER NEWELL
lucky it was a lamp-post, anyway, for
while we were cogitating over it night
came on, and all we had to do was to
light the lamp on top of the post. It
made it more cheerful for Sue. So
when we had done that and had got a
high office stool so she could sort of
sit down we felt that the committee
had done about all it could for that
evening, and we adjourned. But Uncle
Ashdod Clute saw that it wasn't right
to leave a girl out that way all night
alone, and that she ought to have a.
chaperone, so he sent for Aunt
Rhinocolura Betz.
She came right down and said she
would be glad to chaperone Sue. but
she didn't believe a word of that non
sense about the frost in the pest glue
ing Sue's tongue to it, and she showed
Uncle Ashdod that it was all nonsense
by sticking her own tongue to the
pest and there it stuck! So then
Uncle Ashdod was sure Aunt Rhino
colura would not go away and leave
Sue unprotected, and he went home
satisfied in his mind.
The next morning the committee
came around quite early, after it had
done up its home chores, and it found
Aunt Rhinocolura and Sue were real
peevish. It looked as if they had quar
reled during the night over who should
sit on that high stool.
"Uth a wuth a wuth a wuth!" said
Sue, angrily, but Aunt Rhinocolura
Just drew herself up indignantly and
said:
"Uth a with a with a with!"
Anybody could see that they were
mortal enemies from that minute on,
but we had nothing to do with that,
and we consulted and decided that the
thing to do was to put both of them
in a hospital, and as there wasn't any
hospital in Betzville, somebody's
house would have to be used. So they
chose Aunt Rhinocolura's, and we dug
up the lamp-post and put it in a
wagon, with Sue on one side of it and
Aunt Rhinocolura on the other, and
when we got them to Aunt Rhinoco
lura's the women put them to bed. I
guess it was a pretty cold lamp-post,
for we could hear the two of them yell
about the time they ought to have
been undressed.
The committee gave the case to
Doc Perkins, and the first thing he did
was to take the temperature of the
lamp-post, and he said it showed a low
temperature and no fever, and he
would advise .packing the lamp-post
in snow to take the frost out. So tfiey
did. But the lamp-post didn't seem
to Improve. So Doc Wilkins was called
in consultation, and he said what the
lamp-post needed was, hot-water bag3
at its foot and mustard plasters up its
sides to heat it up. So they tried that.
No good. Then Doc Perkins wanted
to amputate the tongues of the la
dies, but Doc Wilkins objected. He
wanted to saw the lamp-pcst down the
middle, so each lady could have a half,
and Sue could go home. Objected to.
So nobody knew what Jo do. and those
two females might have stajtd in lied
with that lamp-post forever if S:;e
hadn't thought of tie only posibl"
thing to do. We were all surr-risd to
think we had not thought of it our
selves. What he told us was tV.s:
"Uth a tiiuth-thuth. v.-iuh uth uth.
Uth a with uth wuth wutis-.u!:'"
"Well, of course, as soon as we diet
that both shtir tongue- ranie loose.
You t.n so? for yourself that they
would.
(Copyright, J3. by V. ('.. Chapman.)
Grand Feat of Balancing.
A certain English mayor the Lon
don Daily Telegraph U.ils of him
whose period of office had come to
an end, was surveying the work of the
year.
"I have endeavored," he said, with
an air of conscious rectitude, "to ad
minister justice without swerving to
partiality ou the one hand or im
partiality on the other."
The amateur gardener i3 generally
cured by one good dose.
To Clean Mother of Pearl.
Mother of pearl ornaments should
be cleaned with a paste of whiting
and cold water. Soap discolors them.
Wisdom from the Past
I am likewise convinced that no man
can do me a real injury, because no
man can force me to misbehave my
self. Marcus Aurellas.
WHAT WERE THEY-THERE FOR
Reporter's Seemingly Superfluous
Question as to Happenings at
Cabinet Meetings.
Postmaster General Meyer is of a
serious turn of mind, but he has a bit
of humor in his makeup, nevertheless.
Being looked upon as the shrewdest
politician in the president's cabinet, he
is the objective point for newspaper
correspondents on cabinet days.
Last week as Mr. Meyer emerged
from the White House a newspaper
man asked:
"Mr. Postmaster General, can't you
give us some news about the cabinet
meetings?"
"There really is nothing-to say." re
plied the cabinet officer. "We dis
cussed nothing of especial impor
tance." "Do you mean to say you did not
discuss politics?" the newspaper man
queried.
The postmaster general burst into
laughter. When he recovered his us
ual serenity he said:
"Do you suppose we were all muz
zled?" A JOB FOR TWO.
"What you fellers got in that box?"
"It's all right, officer. We're takin
home Mamie Casey's hat wot she wore
at de lawn party last night!"
Here's a Good One.
A friend of mine told me of a curi
ous experience. He was carefully
stalking a big bull elephant In a large
herd, when they got hi3 wind, and a
big cow elephant charged him. He
jumped behind a large tree as the
elephant reached him. and. being un
able to stop herself In time, the ele
phant drove her tusks with such force
into the tree that they snapped off
close to her head. The elephant was
stunned for a moment, but luckily
turned and galloped after the fast re
treating herd, leaving him the posses
sor of some SO pounds of ivory, valued
at about $250. Circle Magazine.
Lazy Men Power Generators.
Learned Justice Betts of Kingston.
N. Y., says: "Lazy men have a right
to live." Our lazy men are our most
potent. History shows that as a rule,
with a rule's exceptions, our greatest
men had either indolent or shiftless
fathers, as fathers of Shakespeare.
Lincoln, Napoleon. Bismarck and other
worthies indicate. On the other hand,
great men's children are few and
far between. Power in a lazy man is
accumulative, as in a coiled spring,
but the great man has little or nothing
left for offspring. New York Times.
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No Romance About It.
The stricken man constantly moaned
the name of the young woman who
had jilted him.
"Tell her," he said to the medical
man, "that her cruelty killed me. Tell
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The medical man shook his head.
"Aw, go on," he said. "That would
be shamelessly unprofessional. Your
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Starch, like everything else, is be
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est discovery Defiance Starch all
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Placing the Bother.
"They say we are not to be bothered
by the big hats much longer."
But, really, we don't care how much
much longer they are It's the height
and width that bother us. Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
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