Mecosta County Farm Directory - 1918 - 1923
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ABBREVIATIONS.--a, means acres;  bds, boards;  B tel, Bell telephone;  4 ch, 4 children;  H&L, house and lot;  O, owns; R1, rural Route No. 1;  ret, retired;  T, tenant;  4h, 4horses;  2c, 2 cattle.
Names in CAPITALS are those of Farm Journal subscribers--always the most intelligent and progressive people in any country.  No Tumbledowns, for no farmer can keep on reading the F. J. and being a Tumbledown, too.  Many have tried, but all have to quit one or the other.