Smallest High-school Boy.
George Fielding, a freshman in the Brazil, Ind., High School, is the smallest pupil who ever entered the school. He is 2 feet 10 inches high. He stands well in his studies. His home is at Carbon.
“Some Punkins.”
There are 500 pumpkins on one vine which covers an eighth of an acre on Doctor R. G. Sloan’s farm, at Little River, S. C. One of the pumpkins weighs 100 pounds.
No Reason for Egg Famine.
Although the country faces something like an egg famine to-day, the number of eggs produced in this country has increased more rapidly than the population, according to the census bureau. Between 1899 and 1909 the population increased 11 per cent, but the egg production grew 23 per cent.
This estimate does not include the large number of eggs produced by amateur poultrymen in the suburbs of cities. It shows merely the farm product.
The price of eggs paid to the farmers in that period advanced an average of about 11 cents to an average of 19 cents.
Illinois enjoyed the cheapest egg supply. The price there in 1912 varied from 22 to 28 cents a dozen. In New York it was 29 cents to 41 cents.
The estimated production of eggs for 1913 is 1,734,529,000 dozen, an average of 17.7 dozen per capita. In 1909 the production was only 1,591,311,000 dozen.