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A CEMETERY—AND A SERMON
It was a neat little country
te^y, much like most little country
cemeteries, yet there was
queer about it. There was the arched
gateway and the customary weeping
willows by it. The clipped hedge was
like most cemetery hedges. The tomb
stones were baout the average run
of tombstones. But, withal, there was
something queer—even shocking,
Then you discovered what it was.
These were truthful tombstones.
Consolating platitudes—“Too pure
for earth,” and that like—found no
place. Instead, there were such epi¬
taphs as these: “Mother—walked to
death in her kitchen;” “Sacred to the
mem ry of Jane—she scrubbed her¬
self into eternity;” “Grandma—
washed herself away i t Susie—
swept, out of life with too heavy a
broom. »»
The people who saw that ceme¬
tery—and there were thousands of
them—may have been shocked for
an instant, but they came away with
the htought that one might be bet¬
ter for seeing such a cemetery. For,
"you see, it was a miniature ceme¬
tery, 3 feet square, and it was part
of an exhibit at the Montana State
Fair. Such levity with the most sol¬
emn thing that mankind knows could
not be justified merely on the theory
that the htings said were true—but
those who saw it came away with
the belief that it was justified by
way way of keeping just those things
from being true. And that was the
purpose of the exhibit, placed there
by the agricultural extension de¬
partment of the State Agricultural
College of Montana. It was meant to
emphasize the need for home con¬
veniences, for lack of which many
a fram woman has gone to her grave
before her time.
There were other exhibits design¬
ed to drive home the same hard
truth. One was a model showing a
bleak farmhouse on a bare hill. At
the bottom of the hill ran a little
stream, and by the stream were
barns and cattle. Struggling up the
hill toward the house with two heavy
pails of water was a bent old woman.
And the legend was; Convenient for
the cattle—but not for mother/’
Then there was a farmhouse with
the water supply as it should be, the
woman in the yard sprinkling her
flower beds with a hose. And the
inscription read: “Convenient for
mother—and the cattle, too.” An¬
other model showed a kitchen as it
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GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL WORKS
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should be, and another a kitchen aa
it should not be. And there was the
legend: A long-distance kitchen
j shortens life. rt
The lesson taught by the ebhibit
is one that the 8tate Agricultural
colleges and the United States De
partment of Agriculture are trying
to teach by every means at their
command—greater convenience and
a larger measure of comfort in the
farm home.
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FOR »ALE BY
DR. F. G. HOBBS
Fort Valley, Ga.
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BUG TO BITE MOTH BORER
a The little bugs that bite our crops
Have other bugs to bite ’em.
The other bugs have lesser bugs,
And so, ad infinitum. >»
The old verse, somewhat para¬
phrased, is recalled by the state¬
,
ment of the Bureau of Entomology,
United States Department of Agri¬
culture, that the best hope for the
control of the moth borer of sugar
cane now seems to be the importation
and establishment in sugar-cane re¬
gions of parasites which eksst in
Cuba.
Bureau experts have been s.ent
twice to Cuba for the collection of
the parasites which reduce the ef¬
fectiveness of the moth borers. The
parasites have been imported amd
every effort is being made to pro¬
pagate them in the Louisiana cane
fields.
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The absence of fire works is a
decided improvement over former
years at this season of the year.
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Kinney Loan & Investment Co.
vv Phone 107 Fort Valley, Ga.
THE TELEPHONE BUG
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When the telephone girls in Cal
ifornia find their wires “shorted, »»
a bug may be on or in the wire, for
California has a wood-boring beetle
that goes thru wood and also thru
alloyed substances considerably hard¬
er than lead. Th“ beetle has put
hundreds of telephones out of com¬
mission by boring holes in the lead
cables that carry the wires. Water
enters the cables, making wire con¬
nections useless until the bored
places are found and repaired. The
problem of control of this metal¬
boring beetle is still unsolved, ac¬
cording to the Bureau of Entomolo¬
gy of the United States Department
of Agriculture, and it will bediffi
cult to find a practical way.
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HOW TO SELL LAMB CUTS
The extent to which the public's
habit in meat eating may be influ¬
enced by local butchers is illustrated
by information received by the Uni¬
ted States Department of Agricul-
, ture. Fair dealing and good
I are the basis by which the sale
lamb carcasses in one locality
been increased four or five
within a few years. Following
the policies responible for the
worthy increase;
Selling only lamb—neither
ton nor goat meat—when
ask for lamb.
Selling mutton as mutton
stead of as lamb), thus
customers to make comparisons.
Making special sales of “a
string of fat lambs” at
prices, but not with reduced
In the hands of local
largely rest changes in the
eating habits of the public, the
formation indicates.
Considering the health of
and the nutritive value of the
a much greater proportion of
and lamb might be consumed
at the present time.
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Smile if you
face doing it.
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