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