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'  full  of  fjif.m.  the  ground  is  full  of 
them.”  W..  used  no  phosphate  whatever, 
hut  plowed  in  Hovel*  niiit  n  good  coat  of 
inanm'O*  The  li<*ns  iiti:  still  lajing  re¬ 
markably  well,  having  nothing  hut  what 
they  get  from  the  farm  and  all  the  skini- 
tnilk  they  can  drink  at  all  times,  and 
oyster  shells. 
Husking  At  Night. — And  every  even¬ 
ing  the  hoys  and  1  go  over  to  husk  a 
little  while.  Dow  we  enjoy  husking  and 
visiting,  just  as  father  and  us  hoys  used 
to  do  on  the  old  place  ’way  up  in  Vermont. 
We  save  red  ears  for  the  husk'ng  party, 
and  the  most  perfect  ears  for  seed.  We 
talk  over  school  together  and  a  thousand 
end  one  things.  The  cows  are  chewing 
their  end  on  the  one  side  of  ns  and  old 
Doll  grinding  her  hay  on  the  other.  There 
in  the  dim  candle-light  wo  husk  and  visit, 
and  visit  and  husk,  and  compare  the  big 
golden  ears  of  corn.  The  Parson  and  his 
hoys  are  so  happy  together  that  at  times 
it  seems  too  good  to  be  true,  and  too 
great  a  happiness  possibly  to  last.  Hand 
in  hand  we  go  about  the  farm  together — 
1  pla.v'ng  with  them,  and  they  working 
with  me.  Oh!  that  we  might  “turn  the 
h  -arts  of  the  fathers  to  the  children.” 
The  fathers’  minds  may  be  for  their  bus¬ 
iness.  their  clothes  for  tlncr  ne'ghbors, 
their  first  love  for  tin  dr  helpmeet,  but 
their  hearts  are  for  their  boys. 
brought.  There  were  To  fried  chicken* 
(other  years  wo  had  hamburger  nr  vv;en- 
ers)  tomatoes*  olives,  pickles,  butter  aid 
hundreds  of  sandwiches.  Tli  -  year  was 
the  first  time  au  attempt  was  made  to 
furnish  fried  chicken  to  the  crowd,  and 
it  was  certainly  an  innovation  which 
will  not  be  dropped, 
fine  thousand  people  were  present, 
about  500  automobiles  were  parked  on 
the  lawn  and  in  the  grove,  to  say  noth¬ 
ing  of  the  other  vehicles.  The  Ab.'l  no 
Military  Band  was  out  in  full  dress  uni¬ 
form  and  furnished  music  throughout  the 
evening. 
This  year’s  corn  roast  will  go  down 
in  memory  as  a  revelation  of  what  can 
be  done  with  a  large  crowd  in  a  small 
space,  and  that  splendid  times  can  he 
had  with  simple  thiugs  to  eat,  nothing 
stronger  to  drink  than  Band  Springs 
water,  and  where  town  and  country  are 
wi’ling  to  jo' a  bauds. 
MAY  UABCCS  TAYLOR. 
we  care  to  use.  The 
||  engine  is  run  about  an  hour  three  times  a  week. 
&  My  expense  for  electric  plant, water,  washing  ma¬ 
il  chine  and  suction  cleaner  never  exceeds  $i.50  a 
U  month."  Zack  Melhoro,  F  iries  Park,  Macon  Co., 
d  minor-'.  Jane  2*.  1916.  _ 
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Sulphur  Fumigation  for  Bedbugs 
'Hm  picture  below  is  taken  from  a 
report  of  the  Nevada  University  at  Iteno. 
It  shows  the  comparative  size  of  two  bed¬ 
bugs  with  the  human  linger — both  magni¬ 
fied  three  limes. 
Tit  Nevada,  an  investigation  was  made 
to  learn  Low  long  these  creatures  will  re¬ 
main  alive.  They  are  found  in  bunk- 
houses  on  ranches,  where  they  cause  great 
annoyance.  Frequently  these  houses  are 
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Bpring  the  bugs  show  up  hungry  nud 
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A  Corn  Roast  in  Kansas 
Did  you  evpr  hear  of  a  corn  r*>.-ist? 
Guess  you  did  not,  unless  yon  have 
friends  in  or  near  Abilene,  Kansas.  For 
it  probably  is  the  only  place  iu  the 
United  States  where  such  a  thing  is 
known. 
A  corn  roast  is  the  greatest  equalizer 
to  be  found,  for  there  everyone  is  free 
and  equal.  Can  you  imagine  a  banker 
going  up  to  an  ordinary  farmer  and  say¬ 
ing,  “Won’t  you  please  give  me  an  in¬ 
vitation  to  the  corn  roast?"  and  this  same 
man  shortly  after  I10  gets  the  invitation 
stopping  a  blacksmith  and  asking.  “Have 
you  nci  ived  j'uur  invitation  to  the  corn 
roast?  I  have,  and  maybe  you  think  I 
am  not  glad?”  However,  that  is  just 
the  way  the  town  people  act.  and  those 
who  do  not  get  invitations  are  a  disap¬ 
pointed  lot. 
For  the  past  seven  years,  about,  the 
18th  of  August  the  “U  and  I”  crowd 
has  held  a  corn  roast,  at  which  time  the 
number  of  guests  has  grown  from  50  to 
1000.  This  alone  ought  to  bo  conclu¬ 
sive  evidence  of  the  success  of  such  an 
affair.  There  isn’t  a  country  neighbor¬ 
hood  anywhere  in  the  United  States  that 
cannot  do  the  same  thing  and  have  just 
as  delightful  times.  Here  is  how  it  is 
done : 
The  grove  in  which  the  roast  was  held 
has  long  been  famous  for  its  ideal  en¬ 
vironments  for  daylight  and  twilight  fes¬ 
tivities,  but  owing  to  the  mammoth  trees 
and  dense  foliage  never  has  there  been 
held  any  evening  affair  within  its  leafy 
fastnesses.  It  was  made  possible  through 
the  kindness  of  an  electric  manufactur¬ 
ing  company  of  Kansas  City,  which  furn¬ 
ished  light,  by  means  of  one  of  their  threc- 
borsepowor  electric  motors  and  home 
lighting  plants,  which  was  composed  of 
a  string  of  140  caudle  power  incandes¬ 
cent  lights.  (Other  years  lanterns  or 
gas  lamps  have  been  used.)  There  has 
never  been  an  obstacle  which  is  not  sur¬ 
mounted  in  some  way,  cither  by  the  farm¬ 
ers  or  by  the  tow*u  folks. 
At  the  last  roast,  twenty  bushels  of 
corn  was  prepared,  seven  bushels  of 
which  was  stewed  in  a  large  iron  kettle 
over  a  huge  fireplace.  The  remainder  of 
the  corn  was  differently  prepared.’  The 
husks  are  Stripped  back,  the  corn  thor¬ 
oughly  cleaned  and  the  husks  pulled  back 
into  place.  All  the  corn  must  be  pre¬ 
pared  in  the  afternoon  and  the  fireplace 
built.  The  trench  for  the  fireplace  is  al¬ 
ways  dug  about  six  feet  long,  1.8  inches 
wide  and  two  feet  deep.  At  five  o’clock 
the  fire  is  started,  and  kept  burning  brisk¬ 
ly  until  a  great  bed  of  coals  is  made 
upon  which  to  roast  the  corn. 
Each  person  who  wants  roasted  corn 
must  tend  to  his  own,  and  there  are  very 
few  who  miss  the  chance  to  get  roasted 
corn.  The  ear  is  placed  upon  the  coals 
and  turned  often,  the  husks  burn  black 
and  sometimes  the  corn,  hut  that  does 
not  injure  the  flavor.  Anyone  who  has 
never  tasted  roasted  corn  can  have  no 
idea  of  the  delicious  taste.  Another 
thing  which  makes  it  possible  to  feed  the 
large  crowd  is  that  each  family  is  told 
what  ami  how  much  to  bring  of  some  ar¬ 
ticle  on  the  menu.  This  menus  that 
there  is  an  abundance  of  each  article. 
A  75-foot  table  which  was  three  feet 
wide  was  built  and  this  large  table  could 
hardly  hold  all  the  food  which  was 
Decatur,  111.,  and 
Owego,  New  York 
327  S.  La  Salle  Sreet.,  Chicago 
Comparative  Size  of  Bedbugs 
has  often  been  asked  how  they  are  able 
to  survive  starvation  and  cold  weather. 
As  an  eirperiniout  51  specimens  were  ob¬ 
tained  in  a  lodging-house  ou  January  21. 
They  were  placed  iu  tubes  and  kept  under 
shelter  in  the  open  air  until  April  10.  At 
this  time  11  of  the  51  were  alive  and  vig¬ 
orous.  These  survivors  were  again  placed 
iu  tubes,  packed  in  cotton  ami  stored  in  a 
refrigerator  where  the  temperature  was 
kept,  to  about  40  degrees.  On  July  1st 
they  were  unpacked  and  found  to  be  ail 
alive,  and  evidently  just  as  vigorous  as 
when  they  were  put  in  cohl  storage.  A 
number  of  the  bedbugs  just  batched  from 
the  eggs  were  kept  for  nearly  three 
months  in  cold  storage  without  food. 
They  all  survived,  and  eggs  kept  under 
the  same  condition  hatched  promptly 
when  the  temperature  was  raised.  Thus 
this  shows  these  bags  may  survive  the 
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