the farmers of the Middle West. Cheap telephones, yet fairly good, who found that by the aid of the telephone he could plant and harvest How the telephone saved a three million dollar fruit crop in Colorado, engineers; and stories of what could be done by telephone became the half a dozen years ago, there arose a veritable Telephone Crusade among year, the frosts in the Spring nipped the buds. No farmer could be sure Illinois, with Kansas, Nebraska, and Indiana following closely behind; burned down by telephoning for his neighbors; another had cleared five by getting an instantaneous message to the doctor; and so on. favorite gossip of the day. One farmer had kept his barn from being in 1909, is the story that is oftenest told in the West. Until that are now in farmhouses. Every fourth American farmer is in telephone and at the foot of the list, in the matter of farm telephones, are Connecticut and Louisiana. of his harvest. But in 1909, the fruit-growers bought smudge-pots--three Valley--such a man, for instance, as Oliver Dalrymple, of North Dakota, hundred dollars extra profit on the sale of his cattle, by telephoning States. In Iowa, not to have a telephone is to belong to what a Londoner would call the "submerged tenth" of the population. Second in line comes touch with his neighbors and the market. Iowa leads, among the farming the market gardener. Next came the bonanza farmer of the Red River hundred thousand or more. These were placed in the orchards, ready to thirty thousand acres of wheat in a single season. Then, not more than quick news of an approaching blizzard; a fourth had saved his son's life to the best market; a third had rescued a flock of sheep by sending The first farmer who discovered the value of the telephone was had by this time been made possible by the improvements of the Bell