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COMMUNITY DAIRY
HERD DEVELOPMENT
(By R. F. Flint, N. D. Dairy
Commissioner)
The indications are that during the
coming winter there will be consider
able discussion of community dairy
herd improvement. Throughout North
Dakota sentiment is crystalizing in
favor of the plan of organization of
the Holstein Breeding Circuit Associ
ation at New Salem, Morton County.
This circuit has now been operating
eleven years., Any cooperative dairy
organization that can successfully
stand the strain of war and drouth
must have a membership of excep
tionally practical cooperators, or the
working plans of the organization and
its purposes are economically sound.
Having been a resident of New Salem
for twenty years I believe I am qual
tied to say the organization has all of
these features. But, as indicated, it
does not appear to need any endorse
ment except the known fact that after
eleven years of success it is "still go
ing on high." The circuit was organ
ized in 1909 with twelve members,
two were later dropped for noncon-
One of the most pleasing endorse
ments of the circuit was the organiza
tion of another in the same county, at
Flasher, and one in Burleigh County
which is being perfected. In other
nearby communities organization is
being earnestly discussed. We were
a full year completing the New Salem
cii'cuit. It was a pioneer organiza
tion of its kind in the United States.
An interesting point in connection
with the circuit plan of organization
Organized community dairy herd
improvement throughout the United
States has been carried on chiefly
along definite lines and these are
known by the following names—Calf
Clubs, Cow Testing Associations and
Bull Associations. A brief discussion
of these organizations will give a bet
ter understanding of the "Breeding
Circuit Association" and how it com
bines the good features of the others.
Calf Club
A boys' and girls' dairy calf club is
an organization in which each mem
ber owns a registered female calf.
Each member is personally required
to feed and care for his calf. He must
also keep a record of the kinds and
amounts of feed fed. At some time
prior to the fulfillment of the life of
the club the calves are assembled for
a competitive showing. The data of
feeding and a story of experience in
caring for the calf is considered with
the calf in placing contestants. The
number of members a calf club may
have is not restricted. The require
ments of a registered calf or similari
ty of breeding are not always adhered
to, though these are desirable fea
tives.
The purpose of dairy calf clubs is
to assist in establishing better-bred
and better-producing dairy herds, and
to develop boy and girl members as
stockmen. There should not be a sale
of calves as a closing feature of a
dairy calf club as is customary in
baby-beef and pig clubs. The dairy
calves should continue in the herds
where raised, and the calf club devel
oped into a more advanced organiza
tion. A calf club receives supervision
from the county club leader, but in
nearly all really successful clubs there
is a local person or persons with an
enthusiasm for good livestock and a
love for children, who exerts more in
fluence and gives more assistance
than the club leader is able to give.
Such supervision is rendered without
direct financial aid from club mem
bers.
Cow Testing Associations
An association of dairymen for the
purpose of regularly testing their
cows for production is known as a
cow-testing association. A group of
farmers (usually 20) employs a man
or woman who goes from farm to
farm of members once a month and
weighs and makes the necessary tests
of the milk and butterfat of each cow.
The weight,, kind and cost of feed are
also recorded, and suitable and econo
mical rations are compiled. The great
value of the cow-testing- association is
that members are enabled to feed with
greater economy, to feed the produc
ers while discarding the undesirable
ones because of knowledge through
the records of the earning capacity of
each cow.
Cow-testing associations do not
take breed into consideration. They
afe democratic on this point. It is a
question of production and return
over feed cost regardless of breed.
Many an overcommercialized pedi
greed cow has been hamburgered to
the hereafter by her owner, and a
humble grade exalted (or vice versa)
because of the showings of cow-test
ing association records.
Cow-testing associations have prov
en their worth. They first appeared
in Denmark in 1895, and in this coun
try in 1905. There are approximately
500 in the Urvted States now, and
widely distributed.
Funds to pay the salary of the cow
tester are provided for by a levy per
cow per month by the association.
General supervision is also provided
through the county agent, or* in
some
states, by specialists assigned to cow
testing associations.
Bull Associations
A cooperative bull association is a
farmers' organization whose purpose
is the joint ownership, use and ex
change of three or more high class
bulls. The territory covered by an
association is divided into three or
more breeding blocks, and a bull is
stationed in each block for the service
of 50 to 60 cows in the block. Every
two years the bulls are exchanged.
Therefore, at the initial cost, a bull
for 50 cows is provided for six or
more years, and the very best bulls
can be secured. Bulls of outstanding
merit are preserved for their full per
iod of usefulness.
In 1908 there were three bull as
sociations in the United States, now
there are 1(50. The average number
of farmers to an association is 40,
owning 5 bulls and 235 cows. A small
but increasing percent of the cows are
pure-bred. Thus far bull associations
have been most popular among farm
ers .with small herds. But exacting
breeders of means who search the
continent for the most desirable bulls
are seeing the practicability of such And begrudge them every crust,
organizations and are forming and
joining them. When the value of bulls No thought for them but what
of real merit, as demonstrated by the bring
production of their daughters,' be-1 And add unto his gain.
comes more generally appreciated,
bull associations will increase in num
bers rapidly.
In the bull association a small serv
ice fee is charged at the time of serv-j
ice. This provides funds to com pen
sate the bull keeper for the feed and I
care of the bull, and for keeping a:
record of breeding.
Breeding Circuit Associations
N'ow let us see how the breeding
formance to rules but others were circuit association combines the good
added and at present there are sev- features of a calf club, cow-testing
enteen members. association and a hull association in aj All hail to him with kindly heart
registered female of the chosen dairy
breed. In the New Salem circuit the
number was placed at two. In a few
instances these were calves. This
feature is similar to that of a calf
club.
Kvery member of a breeding circuit
tgrees to keep a record of the produc-
is that it originated in the Division of tion and feeding of each cow regard-j is that one which sets December 21
Animal Husbandry, Bureau of Animal h'ss of breed. This is similar to the aside as the shortest day in the year.
Industry, U. S. Department of Agri- cow-testing rules. According to Mr. Spencer, whose
culture, not in the dairy division, and Kach member agrees to use a regis-! favorite pastime is uprooting tradi
that'it was primarily intended for to red bull, and not to sell pure-bred tions which have survived the ages,
breeding experiments with beef cattle, I females (excepting culls) until his en-!
hogs or sheep. In its original plan it tire herd is pure-bred and registered, just seven "shortest" days. Starting
The New Salem circuit does not pro- Monday and continuing
is still available and should be of
service to stockmen as the modified
plan has been to dairymen.
inK in Kensal recalls, his efforts in
188(i to get a baby carriage, as report
ed in the Kensal Progress:
"If you think it's a big: effort to n'o
down and buy a carriage for your
baby, read how Mr. and Mrs. Osmer
Burleson frot their first one. It was in
on their homestead, seven miles south!
laRo, with
Osmer
Hettinger County Girl, Crack Live
Stock Judge, Marries Accountant
Miss Vesta Steer, who won inter
national honors at Chicago five years
ago by her ability to judge livestock
and who shyly admitted at the time
she probably would marry a farmer
some day when she was "grown up"
has married. But her husband is not
a farmer.
He is Munroe Smith of Foreman, N.
D., an accountant.
Miss Steer was the only, girl ever
to complete a course at the N. D. A. C.
at Fargo, her mother said, specializ
ing in livestock and animal husbandry
and graduating with honors. The bride
is the daughter of Mrs. E. M. Steer of
New Richland, Wis. She was born
and reared on a farm near Mott. Her
father died a year ago. He was a
prominent rancher and later operated
a successful cafe in Mot't.
Neil McDonald Has High Blood
Pressure
Neil McDonald, first league state
superintendent of schools, is seriously
ill at the_ home of his mother at Han
nah of high blood pressure.
*L.
How did he gain this wealth
Is what we should like to learn.
Did he produce some useful thing
And labor in his turn?
Or did he grind his fellow-men
Yet deeper in the dust
Make their lives more barren still
real man-sized dairy herd-improve- Who takes but will also give
ment organization. And leaves Lhe world when his
In the breeding circuit association comes
each member must own at least one
A better place to lice.
Document No. 250205.
properly supervised and conducted,' Organization Certificate of the Norlh
recar^ are soon discredited, interest I "k'iuiv ?vnV?Tby These Presents,
.*paihs indifferently and the organiza-1 That we, whose names are hereunto
tion cesises to function. subscribed, hnve this day united our
selves together to form an association
t()
1886
Days of Work and Travel in
Buy Baby Carriage
Reminiscent of the early days ..., ...
this region, Osmer Burleson, now liv-1
lonb, two years after they had settled Sawyer, North Dakota.
south!
of Kensal the lonjj summer days had!
come, they had a baby boy with no
carnage and no cash to Ret one with,
So the Burlesons picked buffalo bones,
which was the only means of obtain-i
inff ready money in those ^pioneer!
callinjET
jree,"
THE WARD COUNTY INDEPENDENT
A Successful Life
T. H. E.
A Successful life the world doth say
Of him who has much wealth.
The glint of gold we all pursue
And barter even health.
they
No thought for sorrows in the world
That was better e'er he came.
Rut we can change this standard
If each one does his part.
And call a life successful
That shows a gentle heart.
That lifts the weight of sorrow
That dries the scalding tear
That helps the one who needs the
And tills the heart with cheer.
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NOT ONE Bl SEVEN SHORTEST
DAYS, SAYS WEATHER MAN
iOx.—Another pet tradition is
knocked on the head by the weather
man, K. K. Spencer of Moorhead. The
latest to meet with destruction at the
Hands of the weather prognosticate!'
We
vide for cooperative ownership of day, Dec-ember 24, the days will be of
bulls. It is easy to understand, how- the same length—measured by hours
ever, that with the advancement of the of sunshine—and on Christmas day
percentage of pure-bred females there the sun will shine one minute longer,
was a growing demand for bulls from continuing to add to its daily visit un
ancestors with huge-producing ret-i til next summer when the time ag-'.in
ords. These being higher in price, shortens.
there was naturally a joining in own-1 The sun rose at
8:08
a. m. and set
ership. There was also a demand for at -1 :.'S0 p. m. The sun rose one mill
service from such bulls and therefore 1 nte later Monday and will set one min
an exchange of sires, as in the bull as- ute later than Sunday. Thus adding
sociation. one minute on the end uf the day and
'lhe Superintendent taking it off in the morning maintains
l'he salary of the New Salem c.ir-' the equality between days, Mr. Spen
cuit superintendent was originally cer stated. The sun is this week
paid by the N. D. Agricultural College shining eight hours and 31 minutes
and the U. S. Department of Agricul-' each day unt.il Christmas day.
ture cooperating. In 1017 the U. S.
Department withdrew its financial Firemen Soak Up Ash I'ile
support, sijice which time the circuit The lire department was called to the
members have borne that portion. St. Paul Hats early Sunday morning
Eventually they will and should bear to throw a stream of water on a pile
the entire expense since the circuit
1
ent. It is also important that they
have some supervision front reliable
livestock extension work
production should be
less of breed, feed or breeder. All I
dairy herd improvement finds its base! rtpumrrTB
on records of production. Unless
[JUildllL tllcit tii"y I
learn this year at least, there are
over to Sun-
of hot ashes that threatened to do
has demonstrated its commercial prac- some damage. It appears that the
tieability. I* or some years they have janitor has been throwing hot ashes
levied a sales tax which fund has been out in the back vard and the night lie
used for advertising. f(„v the flat dwellers got up and put
No feature of any livestock im- the re out themselves. When the
provement organization is of greater janitor refused to throw water on the
importance than the employment of a cinders the following night, the neigh
competent and energetic superintend-
1
bors called up the fire department,
tion front reliable! Within twelve days the mother of
workers. Data oft Lewis K. Crawford, of Bismarck, and
reliable regard- that of his wife's mother passed away.
I tor carrying on the business of banking
under the laws of the State or North
Dakota, and have adopted and executed
I Articles of Association, in duplicate for
ill I that purpose, and have duly forwarded
les to the Secretary of State
sl,-lc'i-ar.V
"haw"
11eU*r
and "giddap," they threw on the load I
of bleached bones, some still fasteix
together with sinews and skin and
some half-hidden by prairie grass.
The next day they started for James
town but the oxen tired out before
going the whole 22 mites, so a night
was spent at a friendly homesteader's
place. The next day they arrived in
town, sold the bones for seven or
or eight dollars and after buying the
bright, new buggy and some other
needed supplies, started home. It took
another day and a half to return, but
what did that matter, they were both
happy—they had a carriage for their
son.
Dakota that we do hereby
under our hand make and file the fol
lowing as our Certificate o£ Organiza
tion:
The name
Northwestern
FIRST
of said corporation is
State Rank of Sawyer.
SECOND
The place where the business of dis
count and deposit are to be carried on
Die amount of the capital stock and
the amount Into which its shares arel
lo be divided is: $ 15,000.00--] .V) shares I
FOURTH
The names and residences of the
shareholders and the number of shares
held by each of them are as follows:
days following the ox cart
"arolind'the kS~s, Lee, Minneapolis? Mi.fm'no
Kuiaas, Minot, North-Dakota 10
John Horfr Cr
I
^,
I
or,h
Dakota 10
The period at which this corporation
shall commence business shall be with
in one year from date of Its charter,
or upon date of preliminary examination
and delivery of charter by State Kxam
iner, and it shall terminate twenty-flve
years from date of it.s charter.
In Witness Whereof, we have here
unto set our hands and seals, each for
himself, this fifth day of October, A.
D. 1922.
EDWARD S. LEE (Seal)
PETER KULAAS (Seal)
.1
Oi?v K. BORG (Seal)
Stale of North Dakota,
County of Kidder,
SS
On this 5th day of October, 1922, be
fore me, personally appeared Edward
S. Lee, Peter Kuiaas and John K. Eorg,
known to me to be the persons who are
described in and who executed the fore
going certificate of organization, and
they and each of them acknowledged
to me that they executed the same.
(X. P. Seal) TILLMAN FORTNEY,
Notary Public.
My commission expires September
12 th, 1923.
State of North Dakota,
County of Ward,
Filed for record this 5th day of Octo
ber A. D. 1922, at 3:50 o'clock P. M. and
recorded in Book "T" of Misc. page 577.
M. J. ENGESETH,
(Seal) Register of Deeds.
State of North Dakota,
County of Ward.
NOTICE OP MORTGAGE FORE
CLOSURE SAX.E
WHEREAS. Default has been, made in
the terms and conditions of the mort
gage hereinafter described, in that the
mortgagor has failed to pay past due
principal and interest and taxes for
1920, 1921 and 1922, and upon such de
faults the mortgagee has declared and
does ht*reby declare the entire mortgage
Indebtedness due .and payable as author
ized by this mortgage, and bv which the
povyer of sale therein contained has be-
come operative, now therefore.
NOT ICR is hereby given that the
certain mortgage executed and delivered
by Joseph Grogan, single, Mortgagor, to
The Union Central Life Insurance Com
pany of Cincinnati. O.. Mortgagee. dated
the 22ml day ill" April, l'.Hili, and tiled
for record ill tile office of tile lirgisti-i
of Heeds of tin- County of Ward and
State of North Dakota on ihe -Mth day
of April. inn, and recorded in liook 1 r,
of Mortgages at I'ano 227. will ho fore
closed ly a sale of the premises in such
inurt KiiRi' and hereinafter described. ai
the front door of tin Court House in the
city of Alinol in the County of Ward
and State of North Dakota, at tilt? hour
of 1!: (i o'clock I'. .M., on the 1st day of
February, A. 1 11123, to satisfy the
amount due upon such mortgage on the
day of sale. The premises described in
such Mortgage and which will be sold
to satisfy the same ale those certain
premises situated in the County of
W-anl and State of North Dakota and
described as follows:
The South West Quarter of the
North I-Just Quarter tSW.', Nl-.'i ), The
North West Quarter of the South
Kast Quar ter (XU'lSKJ), The North
Kast Quarter of the South West
Quarter NKHW1). The South Kast
Quarter of the North West Quarter
SICN W.1,), of Section 27, Twp. 157.
Kange St.
(As allthori/.ed to (to by the terms ol
the above described mortgage, the morl-
gagee has paid the lit lid. 1 21 and I'.i22
I taxes against the above described prem
isi's in I ho sum of $2:11.60 and has iu
eluded the same in this foreclosure.)
help There will be due oil'such nmrlgagt
at the dale of sale the sum of Kight
Hundred Sixty Kiglit and 80/ion
CftiKS.iXI) Hollars, plus attorney fees and
cost s.
Hated this 11th day of 1 ecemher, 1!)2"J.
Tim I'NION
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or in for Mortgagee,
a nil Forks. X. H. 12/21-tli
SUMMONS
State of North Dakota.
)ss.
"ounty of Ward,
I.N DISTRICT COUKT
Fifth Judicial District
Stephen Starch. Plaintiff,
vs.
Campion Securities Company,
a corporation, Martin Cam
pion, Julia Campion, H. W.
Wilder, lienjamin AJdajns,
First State Rank of ltuso,
a corporation. Will Ilannan.
and The Citizens Bank of
omemee, a corporation, Defendants.
TliK STATU OF NORTH DAKOTA TO
THE AMOVE NAMED DEFEND
ANTS:
Vou and each of you are hereby sum
moned and required to answer the com
plaint of the above named plaintiff,
which has been duly tiled in the office
cf the Clerk of the District Court in
ami for Ward County, North Dakota, and
to serve a copy of your answer upon the
undersigned at his office in the City
of Towner. McHenry County, North Da
kota, within thirty 30) days after the
service of this summons upon you ex
elusive of the day of such service and
in case of your failure to appear or
answer as above required plaintiff will
take judgment against you by default
for the relief demanded in the said com
plaint.
Hated November 16th. 1922.
HORACE BAti HEY.
Attorney for Plaintiff,
Residence and P.O. Address
ll/23-6t Towner. N. D.
NOTICE OF REAL ESTATE MORT
GAGE FORECLOSURE SALE
DICFAITDT existing in the terms and
conditions of said mortgage. NOTICE IS
TIHRKHS" OIVEN that that certain
mortgage made, executed and delivered
by D.'ivid A. Dinnie, a widower. Mort
gagor. to Olof A. Olson. Mortgagee, dated
March P.), i!ilS. and filed for record in
the office, of the register of deeds of
Ward County, North Dakota, together
with power of sale therein contained.
April 6,'1918, at 1:30 o'clock P. M. and
duly recorded in Hook 251 of Mortgages
on page 430, will be foreclosed by a sale
of the premises therein described, at the
front door of the court house at Minot,
Ward County, North Dakota, Saturday,
January 13, A. D. 1923, at two o'clock
P. M., lo satisfy the amount due on
said mortgage on the day of sale.
The premises described in said mort
gage and to be sold are situate in Ward
County, North Dakota, and described as
follows, to-wit:
Northwest quarter (NWJ) of
Section thirty-three (33) in
township One hundred fifty-five
(155) north of Range eightv
Ihree (83) west of the f.th P. M.
There will be due upon said mort.gag'e
on the day of sale the sum of Three
thousand two hundred seventy-five and
67/100 dollars ($3275.(17) together with
attorney's fees and the costs of this
I oreelosure.
Dated at Minot, North Dakota, Decern
her 6, 1922.
OT.OF A. or,SON.
II Hill
SS
hereby certify that I have carefully
examined the within instrument, and
compared the same with the original in
strument No. 250205 now recorded in
this office, and that it is a true and cor
rect copy of the same.
(Ii.ofD.) M. J. ENGESETH.
(Seal) Register of Deeds,
12/14-4t Ward Co.. N. D.
Mortgagee.
FIIANC1S MURPHY,
Attorney for Mortgagee.
Minot, North Dakota. 12/7-61
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FOBECXtO
StrRD SAKE
NOTICE Is hereby Riven that the cer
tain mortgage, executed and delivered
by rcilinp: T. Ellinffson anrl Matalda O.
Kllingson, his wife, Mortgagors, to
Hart land State Dank, a corporation ex
isting- under the laws of North Dakota,
Mortgagee, dated the 25th day of Jan
uary A. D. 1911, and liled for record
in the office of the Register of Deeds
of the County of Ward, and State of
North Dakota on the 27th day of Jan
uary 1911, and recorded in Book "98''
of Mortgages at Page "563" (and assign
ed by said Mortgagee to Margaret
Brunsdale, which said assignment was
dated March 31st, 1911, and was filed
for record in the office of the Register
of Deeds of the County of Ward, and
State of North Dakota, on the 20th day
of May. 1911, and recorded in Book 145
of Mortgages, at page 118,1 wrll be fore
elosed by a sale of the premises in such
mortgage and hereinafter described, at
the front door of the Court House in
the City of Minot, in the County of
Ward, ai.d State of North Dakota, at
the hour of 2:00 o'clock ]'. M.. on the
20th day of January, 1923, to satisfy the
amount due upon such mortgage on the
day of sale. The premises described in
such Mortgage and which will be sold
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to satisfy the same are described as
follows, viz:
The Kast flail' of the Northeast
Quarter (E4 NIC}) of Section
No. Thlrty-onc (:i 1), in Town
ship No. One Hundred and Fif
ty-four (154), North of Range
No. iOighty-six (8fi), West of
the 5th P. M.
There will be due on such mortgage
at the date of sate the sum of Pour Hun
dred and Kigh ty-om- and 06/100 ($181.GU)
I ol lars.
Dated the 10th day of December, 1022
MARGAH HT 1!It 11NSHA1.10,
Assignee of the Mortgagee.
F. W. AMISS,
Attorney for Mortgagee,
Mayvillo, North Dakota. U'/ll-Gt
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FORECLO
SURE SALE
NOTICE is hereby give that the cer
tain mortgage, executed and delivered
by Sivert Olsen and Olava Olsen, his
wife, Mortgagor, to Margaret Brunsdale,
Mortgagee, dated the 28th day of De
cember, 1907, and filed for record in the
office of the Register of Deeds of the
County of Ward, and State of North
Dakota on the 31st day of December,
Everything
for the
HOME
'KNTHAI, 1.1KK
INSUUAN'CK COMPANY,
Cincinnati. ().,
Mortgagee.
The Minot Co operative Co.
Wishes its friends and
patrons a
HAPPY
NEW YEAR
May the year 1923 bring
you much prosperity
and many joys.
Best W is hes
1923
At
this season of the year our thoughts
are reverting gratefully to those whose
confidence and patronage have assisted
in our business progress and prestige.
To you we extend our heartiest gooc
wishes for happiness and prosperity dur
ing the coming year.
MINOT INSURANCE AGENCY
May you all enjoy a most HAPPY and PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR.
We are appreciative of the many favors granted us during the past year.
May our interests during 1923 be mutually pleasant.
MINOT FLOUR MILL CO.
COAL COAL COAL
WE HAVE IT ALL KINDS
ANTHRACITE BITUMINOUS NOONAN LIGNITE
MAX JOHNSON FUEL CO Phone 505
December 28, 1922
1907, and recorded in Hook H6 of Mort
gages at Page 3I!, will be foreclosed
by a sale of the premises in such mort
gage and hereinafter described, at tho
front door of the I'ourt House in Minot,
111 the County of Ward, and State of
North Dakota, at the hour of 2 o'clock
P. M., on the 2tith day of January,
11)23, to satisfy ihe amount due upon
such mortgage on the day of sale. The,
premises described in such Mortgage
and which will h. sold tho
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to satisfy
same are described as follown, viz:
The South Half of the North
east Quarter SJ NED and Hots
Nos. One (1) and Two (2), oE
Section No. Six (fi), in Town
ship No. One Hundred and Flf
ly-four (151). North of Uarigc
No. Mighty-six (86), west of the
5th M.
There will be due on such mortgage
at the dan of sale the tsuin of fourteen
Hundred and Ninetv and 10/10lth»
($1190.10) Dollars.
Dateil the 10th day of December, 1922.
AllO A It KT P,l: NSDA I.E.
Mortgagee.
F. W. AMES,
Attorney for Mortgagee.
Mayville, North Dakota. 12/14-111
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Second-hand (Joods lUu«ht and Sold
Beds and Hudding, Furniture, Stoves, Pianos, Sewing Machines.
Phone 244 Minot, N. I".
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Co.
Pasteurized
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