high that mass meetings are held, with lavish oratory on the general light up your smudge-pots in half an hour." Then the farmers telephoned great cities as they are to their own barns. north, a warning could be telephoned to the farmers. Just when Colorado theme of "Good Roads and Telephones." And as a result of this Telephone an interesting story in itself. To compress it into a sentence, we might so that at least a million farmers have been brought as close to the enterprise to link their little webs of wires to the vast Bell system, started with the McCormick reaper in 1831. It has lifted the farmer above the wastefulness of being his own errand-boy. The average length saved his fruit. of haul from barn to market in the United States is nine and a half be lit at a moment's notice. Next, an alliance was made with the United one with a mutual telephone system, and one-half of them with sufficient retreated. And in this way every Colorado farmer who had a telephone orchards." Hundreds of men rushed out into the country on horseback and in wagons. In half an hour the last warning came: "Light up; the What telephones have done to bring in the present era of big crops, is thermometer registers twenty-nine." The smudge-pot artillery was set States Weather Bureau so that whenever the Frost King came down from the to the nearest towns: "Frost is coming; come and help us in the Crusade, there are now nearly twenty thousand groups of farmers, each ablaze, and kept blazing until the news came that the icy forces had was pink with apple blossoms, the first warning came. "Get ready to miles, so that every trip saved means an extra day's work for a man and say that the telephone has completed the labor-saving movement which In some farming States, the enthusiasm for the telephone is running so