The residents of Zoar Ov have de
cided on a novel method of supply
ing the people of the community with
cider next fall. A
100
barrel cement
cistern, built years ago by the Zoar
Communistic society. Is to be cleaned
out and when apples are ripe will be
filled with fresh cider. A pump is to
be installed, and any one who has the
will to work the handle may have a
swig. If this fact is generally adver
tised It Is safe to assume that the
thirsty tourists from the four winds of
heaven will light down on Zoar next
October "when the frost Is on the
punkln'."
A German corporation which has
been exploring Mesopotamia, the "mid
river* country between the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers in southwestern Asia,
believes that the country can be re
juvenated agriculturally by a restora
tion of the irrigation systems whose
waters used to quench, the thirsty and
"marvelously productive Np$Uey in the
olden-days when Nebuchadiiexsar was
humiliated and turned out to grasH.
While desert sands have drifted in and
covered the fertile soil, it is thought
this can be stripped off and the sec
tion in a large measure restored to its
former productiveness. It is said
that some of the canals will need but
little repairing to make them usable.
The rat poison which Is most highly
recommended by the agricultural de
partment after making a trial of sev
eral is barytes or barium sulphate.
