. Review of reviews and world's work . ilize thehay within the State by encourging the mul-tiplication of herds. The growth of silage crops and the build-ing of silos are stimulated by the countyagents. In certain counties silage corn isan uncertain crop on account of the shortgrowing season, and millet is being substi-tuted as a silage crop. Silo constructionbees have superseded the raisings andlog-rollings of pioneer times. One of thefarmers in a neighborhood having providedthe necessary material for a silo, the neigh-bors come together on an appointed day and,under the instruction of the co
. Review of reviews and world's work . ilize thehay within the State by encourging the mul-tiplication of herds. The growth of silage crops and the build-ing of silos are stimulated by the countyagents. In certain counties silage corn isan uncertain crop on account of the shortgrowing season, and millet is being substi-tuted as a silage crop. Silo constructionbees have superseded the raisings andlog-rollings of pioneer times. One of thefarmers in a neighborhood having providedthe necessary material for a silo, the neigh-bors come together on an appointed day and,under the instruction of the county agent,put up the structure. These are only a few of the ways in whichthe farm demonstration work is teaching thefarmers of Maine that their industry undermodern conditions is largely a communityenterprise, and that by his own unaided effortthe individual cannot hope to succeed. Allthis is preparing the ground for precisely thekind of rural community effort that is out-lined so clearly by Mr. Elwood Mead else-where in this A MAPLE SUGAR CAMP IN THE MAINE WOODS THE BATTLE OF THEBOUNDARIES BY TALCOTT WILLIAMS THE Battle of the Boundaries extends on the line which had taken shape by the sue-across Europe from the Rhine to the cessive decisions of united Europe over twoUral. Winning the war is a task direct, and a half centuries—substantially the lineimmediate and clear, by the side of marking the French Revolution found. For 223 yearsits boundaries. In eachof the new lines drawna possible war lies unlessa League of Free Nationssubstitutes arbitration forbattle. From the Treaty ofVerdun (843) betweenthe three grandsons ofCharlemagne, the bound-ary on the Rhine sep-arating the halves of hisEmpire, has been drawnby war and by battle for1076 years. Boundariesmany there be on theearths surface over whichsuccessive empires havestriven under many dynasties, tongues andpeoples; but nowhere is •there a single line,deep-graven- by the plough-share of war,where the same race
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