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THE REDWOOD GAZETTE
PUBLISHED TO PROMOTE THE BEST INTERESTS OF REDWOOD F ALLS AND REDWOOD COUNTY
VOLUME LVIII.
LOCAL FANCIERS
URGED TO SHOW
BIRDS JAN. 11
PREMIUM LISTS JUST ISSUED
SHOW LIBERAL AWARDS WITH
SEVERAL SPECIALS; POULTRY
BECOMES REAL ASSET.
Premium lists for the coming Red
wood County Poultry Show are now
being sent to interested persons and
these lists show that liberal prizes
will be offered at this, the ninth an
nual show. The exhibit will be held
in the Redwood Falls armory and
the dates are January 11th, 12th, 13th
and 14th. Entries close January 10.
Ad. Newman and Son of Redwood
Falls offers five dollars as a special
prize for the best Plymouth Rock
Pullet and the same for the best
cockerel of the same breed, to Red
wood County exhibitors only. This
offer includes all varieties of Rocks.
To further raising of
Plymouth Rocks in the County the
same firm announces that for the
1928 show it will offer the following
generous premiums; $25.00 for the
best Plymouth Rock pullet, $25.00 for
the best Plymouth Rock cockerel and
$25.00 for the best Plymouth Rock
capon.
Mrs. Carson Rote, the secretary, in
urging a larger showing of local
birds at this show says: “There is
a good demand throughout the Coun
ty for good standard bred poultry and
more of our local people should step
to the front in our home show and
secure the trade which is justly due
them with their fine birds. There are
many flocks of poultry in the sur
rounding community from which fine
strings of show birds could be select-:
ed. These birds would be a credit to
any show and yet their owners have
never exhibited them. Bring in your
birds,” urges Mrs. Rote, “and let the
public know that you have them. This
is your show «nd the Poultry As
sociation and the business men of
Redwood Falls have gone to consider
able expense annually to give you
this good opportunity and to encour
age good poultry raising. If you do
not profit by it some one from out
side the County will.”
The poultry industry in the United
States is one of the most. profitable
branches of agriculture. The Federal
census taken by the Department of
Agriculture in 1920 shows that the
“poultry products of the United
States exceed the value of all V' e
•attle i*aised by $100,000,000 and the
Quit and fruit products by nearly
$400,000,000.” The Ad. Newman Com
,any has shipped ninety-one carloads
of poultry from Redwood Falls dur
ng the past year. This is the ship
ment of a single dealer from a single
station and with many competing
shippers. Each carload contains
about 5,120 birds making a total of
165,920 fowls shipped by this one
dealer in a single year. These fig
ures are sufficient evidence of the
value and the possibilities of the
ooultry industry. It is to promote
this industry that annual shows of
ooultry are held throughout the
country.
The officers and board of directors
if the Redwood County Association
ire; C. F. Pecholdt, president, San
■orn; Dr. Golden, vice president, Red
vood Falls; Arthur Hassenstab,
reasurer, Redwood Falls; Mrs. Car
on Rote, secretary, Retjwood Falls;
vlrs. A. F. Bechtold, asst, secretary,
Redwood Falls; Frank Theiring, sup
rintendent, Redwood Falls; Joseph
Schmidt, Lamberton, Lynn Sheldon,
Redwood Falls; Mrs. E. E. Mosier,
Redwood Falls; Mrs. W. R. Hawton,
Redwood Falls; R. A. Marshall, Red
wood Falls; J. Sexton, Redwood Falls;
F. Carmen, Redwood Falls; Wm. Sim
jndet, North Redwood. Desired in
ormation may be obtained by writing
he secretary.
Season Opens Thursday
The basket ball season opens in
ledwood Falls Thursday evening
. hen the Guardsmen meet the Hector
earn on the armory floor. The Red
vood Falls team is practically the
ame team which played such a good
eason last year with the addition of
venneth Stockton, high school coach,
vho is a new member of the team.
V feature of the evening is the con
ert by the Redwood Falls band which
)recedes the game. This concert is
me of a series to be played by the
and during the winter and admission
o it is free.
MASONS OPEN BUILDING
The new $30,000 Masonic Home
;uilding at Slayton will be formally
pened with a banquet served by
he Eastern Star and following the
anquet there will be a program at
'hich C. T. Howard of Pipestone will
e the principal speaker. The mem
>ers of St. Ann’s Council, Knights of
’olumbus of Slayton, have been ex
ended a special invitation to attend
he hall opening ceremonies. The or
anization will share the lodge rooms
,-ith the Masons, having signed a
?ase for a period of ten years.—
rown County Journal.
“Julius” Takes
Oath of Office
Julius A. Schmahl, state treasurer
elect, Tuesday took his oath of office
before Justice Homer Diebell of the
Supreme court in preparation to tak
ing office in January.
Mr. Schmahl filed bonds totaling
$400,000. The taking of the oath
marks the twentyieth anniversary of
Mr. Schmahl being sworn in as sec
retary of state following the 1906
election.
Mr. Schmahl announced that Geo.
R. Olson, now of the public examin
er’s department, will be named cash
ier -and George Lafond will be retain
ed as chief bookkeeper of the treas
urer’s department. Mr. La Fond is
the oldest employe in the treasurer’s
office in point of service, having serv
ed since January 1907. Henry M.
Blaisie will be named assistant cash
ier. Mr. Schmahl has already an
nounced that H. J. Hadlich will re
main as deputy state treasurer. —St.
Paul Dispatch.
Joe R. Keefe and W. T. Willcox left
Saturday for Mahnomen on a busi
ness trip. They returned Sunday ev
ening.
CHRISTMAS MUSIC
SUNG BY SCHOOL
DECEMBER 14TH
“WHY THE CHIMES RANG” TO BE
CHIEF FEATURE OF ANNUAL
CHRISTMAS MUSICALE; SEN
IOR GLEE CLUB TO SING.
The combined talents of the entire
school will present a Christmas Musi
cale at 8 o’clock Tuesday evening,
December 14th, at the Lincoln School.
The production is being directed by
Geneva M. Flygare who hopes to
make it one of the most interesting
events of the school year’s musical
activities.
The Christmas Spirit will be em
bodied in every feature of the pro
gram, which will open with carols and
hymns sung by a chorus of seventy
five voices selected from the Junior
High School. The entire enrollment
of the grades will be seated in the bal
cony and from there will sing their
carols and jingles.
“Why the Chimes Rang,” a play in
one act by Elizabeth Apthorp Mc-I
Fadden is to be the central part of'
the entertainment. It is interesting j
to note that in many colleges and
schools this production has become a
tradition. The atmosphere is one of
religious exaltation and the divine
beauty of charity is the main theme.
The music perhaps is the most im
portant single element in the play,
however, the picturesque costumes of
medeaval times and the lighting ef
fects contrasted in the w T ood-chopper’s
hut which are set against the earthly
j splendor of the cathedral chancel
; and which in its turn is dimmed by
the miraculous presence of the angel,
is a scene long to be remembered.
One of the finest chorals ever writ
ten, the Hallelujah Chorus from Han
del’s Messiah, will be the closing num
ber. This will be sung by the Boys
arid Girls Glee Club of the Senior
High School. It has been the time
honored custom that the audience
stands whenever this impressive
chorus is sung in recognition of its
value as the highest type of choral
I composition and in deference to its
noted composer.
The program will start promptly at
8 o’clock and will be given in the
auditorium of the Lincoln School.
CLUB WOMEN
ORGANIZE TOHELP
WITH CRIME WAR
MRS. WILLARD BAYLISS FORMS
STATE COMMITTEE FOLLOW
ING LECTURE OF JUDGE KAV
ENAGH.
Answering the urgent plea of Judg3
Markus A. Kavanagh of Chicago
that the women’s organizations of
Minnesota get behind a movement to
reform the law and bring criminals
to justice, Mrs. Willard Bayliss, Chis
holm, president of the Minnesota
Federation of Women’s Clubs, Monday
called a preliminary meeting to set irv
motion a statewide campaign for law
enforcement among the more than
50,000 federated clubwomen of Min
nesota.
State chairman of law observance
and legislation of the federation will
meet with representatives of the Hen
nepin County Bar Association and the
Minnesota Crime Commission at the
preliminary meeting called by Mrs.
Bayliss for 10 a. m. today at the fed
eration headquarters at the Nicollet
hotel, Minneapolis.
Mrs. Henry J. Bailey, St. -Paul,
chairman of law observance; Mrs.
Fred Spafford, Minneapolis, ..chair
man of legislation; Dr. C. A, Prosser, F. B. Griffith left Monday for Min
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REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1926.
BUREAU CHIEF
ADVISES DRIVE
FOR FARM AID
PRESIDENT THOMPSON OF NA
TIONAL FARM BUREAU AD
DRESSES ANNUAL MEETING IN
CHICAGO.
American agriculture was summon
ed Monday to presg with constant ag
gressiveness toward federal farm aid
legislation, by Sam H. Thompson,
president, opening the eighth annual
convention of the- American Farm
Bureau Federation in Chicago.
Thousands of farmers, gathered
for the greatest agrarian session of
the year heard that keynote, temper
ed with counsel of deliberate decision
on measures to meet their problems.
He urged nothing be done that
would in any degree injure the co-op
erative marketing movement, whicii,
he said, has performed a “vast ser
vice,” with the aid of state and na
tional legislation, even though it has
not effected complete agricultural
stabilization.
“We have a right to expect what
ever additional legislation is needed
to effect further and more widespread
stabilization,” President Thompson
said.
“There no longer is any difference
of opinion as to the immediate need
for adequately handling and dealing
with agricultural surpluses. Some
complementary and additional powers
must be given to agriculture for this
purpose.
“Stabilization of agriculture de
pends upon making the supply of bas
ic farm crops balance with the de
mand in our most important markets,
at a fair and reasonably constant
price. Fundamentally, this is not
easy, because no matter how carefully
farmers regulate their plantings to
meet a prospective demand, natural
allies and enemies of farm production
can and often do upset their best
plans.
“It is this condition which has led
the farm bureau to take the advanc-
ed position it now maintains in press
ing for natural legislation aimed tow
ard the stabilization and effective pro
tection of agriculture.
“It is true that no single measure
or act, either by the farmers or the
government of the United States, can
be broad enough to do all that needs
to be done to establish the new policy
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COUNTY STILL
NEEDS HELP OF
HEALTH SEALS
SIXTY-FOUR PEOPLE HAVE TU
BERCULOSIS IN ACTIVE FORM.
EIGHT DIED OF IT LAST
YEAR.
Does Redwood County need anti
tuberculosis work? The fact that it
does is shown in a report just receiv
ed from the Minnesota Public Health
Association by Mrs. J. L. Parsons, lo
cal Christmas Seal manager.
Tuberculosis has killed 78 people in
Redwood County since 1913, accord
ing to this report. Deaths for the
last five years have numbered 34.
Based on estimate of authorities that
there are nine active cases of tuber
culosis in a given community for each
annual death, this County has at the
present time approximately 64 people
who have the disease in its active
form. Eight Redwood County resi
dents died of it in 1925.
“Find these cases early” is the ap
peal of the State Association. One of
! the most serious problems in tuber
' culosis work, according to the organ
l izalion’s leaders is the delay in diag
nosis and treatment of the disease,
which is readily curable in its early
stages. For this reason the Free
j Chest Clinics and general educational
I propaganda for periodic physical ex
i amination, financed by Christmas
Seals, are of vital importance. Three
chest clinics were held in the County
last year with 169 people examined
and helped.
interest, too, in view of the fact
that the Christmas Seal program has
! been extended to embrace a well
-1 rounded health promotion and disease
prevention program, are statistics/on
infant mortality for the County giv
en in the report.
Twenty of the babies born in the
County in 1924 died before their first
birthday, the report shows, and the
same number of those born during
1925 failed to live until they reached
the age of one year. Children exam
ined at clinics last year numbered
175. There were also 28 orthopedic
cases examined.
“Buy Christmas Seals generously
and help make 1927 a banner year for
health work in the county” is the ap
peal for local Christmas Seal work
ers.
STATE LEADERS
TALK TO LEGION
HEN FRIDAY EYE
RUFUS RAND AND OTHER LE
GION OFFICIALS MEET LOCAL
POST MEMBERS AT SUB-DIS
TRICT BANQUET.
Discussing the privileges and op
portunities of the Legionaires as cit
izens, Rufus Rand, State Commander
of the American Legion, gave the
principle talk at the banquet and rally
of the pecond sub-district which jn-'
eluded representatives of posts from
Belview, Sleepy Eye, Lamberton, Sea
forth, Sanborn, Walnut Grove and
Redwootf Falls, with about 150 pres
ent. The banquet was held at the
Knights of Pythias Hall Friday night,
December 3rd, with the American
Legion Auxiliary serving, Fred
Maes, the Post’s chaplain acted as
toastmaster and called upon the
state’s oldest Legionaire, Dr. C. P.
Gibson, to open the banquet with a
prayer. Short talks were made by
Dr. A*. F. Branton of Willmar, State
Membership Director Dr. Wilbur
Smith of Pipestone, Second District
Commander and E. L, Spencer, local
post commander.
In opening his talk Commander i
Rand stressed the importance of in
terpreting the thought of the Legion
to the public. “Try to present the
articulate thought so the public will
see us in a different light,” sdid the
speaker. “My idea is to make clear to
you that firm ground on which we,
as Legionaires, tread. At the Phila
delphia Convention this year I saw
80,000 Legionaires. What is the force
of this mass of people ? There are
700,000 legionaires, 30,000 of whom
are or will be in Minnesota. Realize
that each member of your Post is
the reflection of some other member
in some other post in some other
state. We have every classification,
color and creed in the Legion.
“Before the late war, situated as we
were, I believe that we had less pat
riotism for America than any other
country had for itself. Since the war
it is different among the Legionaires
and others. If we can recognize and
feel our own self respect dominate,
I know \ve will stand forever the
body we started out to be. In a time
of stress, whether it be political
stress or a national crises the Legion
will stick together and for America.”
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“ONLY 38” IS
PRONOUNCED ONE
OF SEASON’S BEST
AMATEUR CAST PROVES ADAPT
ABLE IN COMEDY DEPICTING
LIFE OF MINISTERS WIDOW
AND HER TWINS.
The local home talent play follow
ers were treated to one of the best
amateur plays ever staged in Red
wood Falls Thursday night, Decem
ber 2nd, at the Lincoln School Audi
torium. The play, “Only 38” was
presented for the benefit of the Par
ent-Teachers Association and was
very successfully directed by Miss
Lela Atcherson. Between the acts
James and Clarence Keefe entertain
ed with a well executed clog dance
while Hauck’s Orchestra furnished
the music.
The play, a satirical comedy on the
life of a minister’s widow and her two
dignified children, in which mistaken
dignity forms an interesting plot, was
handled in an unusual way and furn
ished much good comedy. Miss Mar
garet Adams as Mrs. Stanley, the
widow, played the leading role in a
very clever and interesting manner.
Ted Ahrens and Mary Flinn as Rob
ert and Lucy, the very dignified twins
of Mrs. Stanley, acted their parts
in true actor style and deserve much
credit. Roy Stephens as Mr. San
born, father of Mrs. Stanley, played
this character part in good style and
pleased his audience with his wit and
humor. Mr. A. F. Dahlberg, as Pro
fessor Giddings, the widow’s wooer,
acted this heavy role successfully.
Mrs. Newcomb and Mrs. Peters, the
! two village gossips, acted by Miss
Margaret McNaughton and Miss Innis
Thompson, were clever, the young la-
I dies playing their roles in an interest
' ing manner. Mary Hadley and Syd
ney Johnson, played by Marie Asle
-1 son and Shirley Shippee, as especial
j friends of J.ucy and Robert Stanley
j were well impersonated and they re
ceived much favorable comment. Jim-
and Charlie played by Roy Warn
.er and Carl Melges and Alice and
i Ruth by Aneta Buchanan and Edna
! Harris typified the modern college
student in .characteristic style.
Miss Atcherson again has proven
her ability in directing home talent
ceptionaHy well, the lines were bright
and the whole presentation consti
tuted & program of good wholesome
entertainment.
Redwood Birds Win j
Many State Prizesl
Mrs. EX E. Mosier took twenty-!
eight of her fine Barred Rock birds |
to the Northwest Poultry Show in St. !
Paul last week and twenty-four of
them were placed among the winners.
The list of prizes is as follows; first
on cock, fourth, seventh and eighth
on dark hen, second on dark cockerel,
first, second and fourth on light pul
let, fourth on dark pullet, second on
old dark pen, fourth on young dark
pen and first on young light pen. The !
special prizes taken were as follows: ;
best shaped cockerel, grand champion,
female of entire class, chamion light j
pen and best display entered by a lady
exhibitor. These prizes were taken!.
in competition with one hundred for-!
ty Barred Plymouth Rocks. The 1
judge pronounced the cock which took i'
first place as the finest he had ever
seen and rated him very high. Mrs. !
Mosier was the only one of the local '
poultry raisers exhibiting. The rep
resentation at the show from other f
sections of the state was very heavy.
Mrs. Mosier reports that the show :
was a very fine one from every 1
standpoint and was well pleased with j
the results of her visit to it.
PIONEER DIES
SUNDAY, DEC. STH
AT SON’S HOME
JACOB WERDER DIES OF NATUR
AL CAUSES AT AGE OF 86,
BURIED AT NEW AVON TO
DAY.
Jacob W’erder, the aged father of
Herman Werder of Redwood Falls, |
died at the home of his son Sunder,!
December sth, death being due to the.
natural causes of old age. The bur- j
ial service was held first at the Wer- j
der home at one o’clock this afternoon
with a church service following at the j
Church of New Avon and interment
in the New Avon cemetery. The Rev
erend C. F. Kachel of Saint Paul was
I the minister in charge.
The deceased was born in Canton,
Argau Switzerland, May 11th, 1840.
;He and his wife came to America in
, 1869, coming directly to Redwood
County where they first located on
Crow Creek in Paxton Township,
three miles east of Redwood Falls, j
In 1872 they took as a homestead a j
jfarm of 160 acres in New Avon town- j
I ship where they lived until Mrs. Wer
jder died in 1897. In 1901 Mr. Werder,
i moved to Redwood Falls and on Janu
lary 16th he was married to Mrs. Rosa
j Hauptli. She also preceded him in
(death, passing away in January, 1
j 1906. Mr. Werder, following the
death Of his wife, made his home with
his children, spending the most of
the winter months here with his son.
Besides this son, he is survived by his
daughters, Mrs. J. Kromer of Bird
Island, Mrs. Henry Sherman of Ano
ka and Mrs. Willard Krinke of Man-!
kato. There are also thirteen grand-]
children and eighteen great grand
children in his family. • j
The death of Mr. Werder closes an
! other chapter of the pioneer history
| of Redwood County, he and his young j
' wife enduring many of the terrible
| hardships of the old days with all the j
fortitude and courage characteristic,
of their Swiss parentage. Their first
years in America were filled with un- j
; believable hardship. From this diffi-;
cult beginning Mr. Werder became
a part of the earljr history of the
County as a citizen respected and hon- j
ored by all who knew him.
CONGRESS FACES !
HEAVY WORK IN
SESSION NOW ON
i
I LIQUOR, TAX CUT, FARM AID
AMONG MANY QUESTIONS
CROWDING FOR PLACE; EX-1
SESSION POSSIBLE.
Congress is meeting late this year,
j The session did not get under way
until Monday and must adjourn on
| March 4. This gives less than three
! months for legislative work, with the
I Christmas holiday, which will un- i
! doubtedly be brief, to be substracted.
At first glance the task of getting
I through by March 4 seems impossible;
| and talk of extra session is heard on
1 every hand. President Coolidge, how- j
i ever, believes congress will do its
work and be glad to go home early.
He would like to get away from
Washington late in the spring, and he
will be away from the White House
five or six months during a period of
repairs to the building.
Mr. Coolidge is about the only per
son who sees legislative daylight
ahead.
To others it looks as if congress
will meet a snarl which it may be
unable to untangle sufficiently to pass
the appropriation bills by March 4.
The democrats easily can force an
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NUMBER 22
iRVREAU UNITS’
! NEW PROJECT
j IS NUTRITION
FIRST LESSON DEVOTED *TO
DIET ESSENTIALS FOR WELL
NOURISHED BODIES; GIVEN
CORRECT POSTURE RATING.
A number of women in the vicinity
of Redwood Falls have recently stud
ied the first lesson in the Nutrition
project which will occupy the atten
i tion of the members of the Farm
1 Bureau Units for the next several
jweeks. This project is being studied
'by the women of the Farm Bureau
under the direction of the Agricultur
al Extension Service.of the Univers- -
ity of Minnesota. The first lesson
dealt with the Essentials for Good
Nutrition.
In the opening lesson the women
( taking the course studied the selection
■ of food as to the needs of the body
and applied this selection to the mak
ing out of menus for the daily meals
iof their families. Correct posture, as
an essential of ar well nourished body
was also studied, and in several meet
ings the members were scored accord
ing to the University’s requirements.
In only a few cases were the women
found to be perfect in posture and a
part of the next few weeks training
will be to correct this posture if pos
sible.
At the Honnor Township meeting
at the home of Mrs. March, Novem
ber 30th, Mrs. H. M. Mason and Mrs.
A. J. Searle were the leaders. Mrs.
C. D. Clipfell, the Redwood County
chairman is a member of this Unit
and was also present. There were
twelve members present and Miss
Alice Kuenzli was a guest at the
! meeting. Mrs. E. W. Peabody was
made president and Miss Ellen Mann
(secretary. Mrs. March served a
i luncheon at the close of the lesson
study.
j The Kintire Unit held its first
meeting on the new project at the
home of Mrs. A. Stillmaker November
23rd with the hostess and Miss Tessie
King acting as leaders. Mrs. Wm.
Russell was made president and Miss
Lavina T. Brown secretary. Mrs. A.
A. Neal, Mrs. Chas. Eckelbarger and
Miss Bertha Kreft were appointed as
the refreshment committee. Sand
wiches, cake and coffee were served
at the close of the afternoon.
I The New Avon Unit held its meet
jing November 23rd at the home of
| Mrs. Robt. Bellig. Mrs. Henry Linde
, man. and the hostess were the leaders
in the study. One member of this
group was perfect in posture and the
majority of the others scored B. or C.
Mrs. Herbert Winn was made presi
dent, and Mrs. Vern Barnum secre
tary. Nine members and two visitors
were present, this rather small at
tendance being due to the bad weath
er.
The Paxton Unit met at the home
of Mrs. Britton. Mrs. Wells was
: made president and Mrs. Goodyear
I the secretary. The next meeting of
this group will be held at the home
i of Mrs. Wetmore and will be an all
day meeting with a noon luncheon.
The Redwood Falls Township Unit
j held its first meeting at the home of
Mrs. Norval Weeks with Mrs. Weeks
and Mrs. John Sexton the leaders.
The next meeting will be at the home
;; of Mrs. L: % i Sheldon in Redwood
j Falls.
j The Ramsey Creek Unit met at the
home of Mrs. John Kohler and a cov
! ered dish luncheon at noon was the
first feature of the program. Mrs.
! Amanda Juhnke and Mrs. Earl Bliss
j were the leaders. The next meeting
; will be held at the home of Miss
Juhnke. Mrs. Bliss is president of *
t this Unit and Mrs. Kohler secretary.
Nels Rans of Morgan was among
[ the Monday visitors here.
High School Plays
'!
1 The Redwood Falls high school bas
ket ball team, under the direction of
Coach Kenneth Stockton, will play its
first game Friday evening at the Lin
coln School gymnasium. The opposing
team is the Fairfax high school. The
i preliminary game will be played by
: the Junior high school boys and the
; second high school team. Mr. Stock
•, ton has been working hard with the
, j boys and believes his team will do
■ | creditable work. Patrons of the school
>! and all basket ball fans are urged to
i 1 attend.
LARGE AMOUNT SUGAR
More than 9,600,000 pounds of beet
l sugar were produced at the Chaska
: sugar factory of the American Beet
: Sugar Co., since it started operations
f October 9, according to a report is
sued by L. B. Fink, manager of the
■ plant. With the closing of the plant
t the middle of December the total pro
duction for the season should be 14,-
s 500,000 pounds, Mr. Fink said. Farm
i ers throughout the Chaska territory
i have produced more than 6,500 acres
. of compared with 9,000 acres
* last year. The yield averaged about
nine ton* ,to the acre.