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["2260 Ma''s'*a\" Blvd, CHICAGO", "XAt S^my^^f^ ilen in everj' locality to demonstrate \"*««i*wU and take orders for the Melrose Con- vetiible Wagon B«d, new invention for the farm.", "Fifteen Boxes and Backs in one; can be changed from any one position to any other in two minutes or less time. No tools needed— just your hands. Others are selling them every day. So can you. Every farmer interested. Good men wanted to represent us. Big money-making offer. Work all or spare time. Start now and pocket the profits. Write us today— get our big. finely illustrated book and money-making terms- Address American Wagon Co., 129 Lincoln Ave., Dixon, III.", "RAI Ffl QUAVIMHC- The best litter for all stable DALCU OnHVinud. beddincs. Clean. Sanitary, Dry, Cheap and Convenient. Write for prices. Our method of baling makes them safe and easy to handle. THE COLUMBIA MFG. CO., New Philadelphia, Ohio", "S»«e Bi^ Money", "—and Get a Bigger, Better Machine — Guaranteed a Lifetime", "We want to send you our big, new Separator Catalog. It will save you a lot of money.", "Just think of it! A full size 200 lb. capacity machined for only S19.65-a price NEVER BEFORE MADE, backed 'by a Lifetime Guarantee against defective material and' workmanship. Skims 1!^ Quarts a minute and gets ALL the cream. Thousands m use. Catalog shows four larger sizes up to .,J lb. capacity shown here— all sold for much less than others ask— all GUARANTSED A lilFEXIME.— backed bya milUon doUarscash capit", "Cream Separator has a wonderful new ''triple force\"", "skimming device, complete in ONE PIECE, made of Aluminum —light, rust-proof and easy to clean. Milk slime and butter-fat won't stick to it. The Mayuard has no discs, no \"hard-to-get-at\" places to wash. Note these labor-saving features: Self-draining bowl: low down milk tank; open milk and cream spoiits; ball bearings bathed in oil; easy to turn; oil can't drip on floor; sturdy frame*", "60 Days' FREE Trial", "Send for our Free Catalog today. See for yourself the money you save — see how we gladly put any size Maynard on your farm —let yoQ use it two whole months— then, if you are not", "pleased, send it back at our expenae. You won't be oaC one penny— not ■ even for freiijrht. Don't buv antil you ?et our big- Free catalog and lowest prices ever quoted. Sending for book does not obligate yoo in any way,", "Charles William Stores, Inc.", "Dept. A20 56 Pine Street, NEW YORK CITY", "Qnick ShiDment from New York, Cbica^ & Kansas City", "Farm and Fireside, March 29. 1913", "If all of the water which has been pumped by Aermotors could be collected in one great body, it would form a sea on which all the navies of the world could maneuver. But you do not have to pump oceans of water to supply your own needs. What you want is some reliable and econom- ical power which will supply plenty of water for your house, bam and fields.", "An Aermotor of suitable size erected on a tower of proper height will do the work for you without bother or worry and with practically no expense.", "Power for Pumping", "It costs nothing for power if you use an Aermotor to do yoar pumping. More water is pumped by Aermotors for stock and domestic purposes than by any other kind of pumping machinery. They do their work silently, surely and satisfactorily. Aermotors have been pumping water faithfully for the past 25 years. Go to any part of the inhabited world today and you will find the Aermotor there ahead of you. From Alaska to Patagonia, from Hongkong to LiveriKK)!, from Siberia to the Cape of Good Hope and on all the islands of the sea you will find them. You cannot travel far today without seeing an Aermotor standing out as the most prominent object in the landscape. Aermotors have gone everywhere because wherever they have gone they have been found to be the most economical, and most reliable device for pumping water.", "Count the Cost", "The price of gasoline has taken a big jump. It is likely to go up again any day. The air is free and the supply is inexhaustible. No one can comer your source of power if you use an Aermotor for pumping water. The first cost of an Aermotor is small, the upkeep is almost nothing, the service is most satisfactory. Anyone who has used an Aermotor will never be satisfied with any other pump- mg device. It was the first steel windmill and has always been the best. Aermotor Galvanized Steel Towers are best, too.", "\"Storage Solves the Water Problem\"", "We have just issued a large hanger, 16 x 44 inches, on the above subject. It contains over 100 pictures of Aermotor outfits which have been pumping water for the farmers of one community for from 1 to 20 years. These picures have been made from the finest lot of farm photographs that have ever been taken. If you will put up one of these hangers in your living room it will be the most talked about object there. It is 100 pictures in one and each indi- vidual picture shows a prosperous farm where the Aermotor is T'' used for supplying all the water required. This hanger gives val- ^ uable information about the storage of water for household and stock purposes. You should certainly have one. It is free for the asking. Just one word \"Hanger\" on a po^al card, with your name and address, will bring it.", "Aermotor Co. S^pl-lifttol Chicago", "Consider Now", "what it will cost and how much money you will save on your next season's fertilizer bill if you should buy your", "Nitrate of Soda", "and other Farm Qemicak and mix them yourself.", "Your own brand MIXED AT HOME will be better than any patent brand and is sure to have in it just what you want", "Book of formulas and full instructions for Home Mixing will be sent", "FREE OF COST", "Dr. WILLJAM S. MYERS", "Director of Chilean Nitrate Propaganda 1 7 Madison Ave,, New York", "No Branch Office*", "You can Easily Blow f '^^^Smokethrou^h", "That's how porous they are. That's how easy U Is for air to circulate through them. And they absorb mois ture like a blotter. It goes right through to the outer surface and quickly evaporates.", "Veniiplex Pads", "Keep the horse's shonldera and neck In good palling condition. Prevent all sores, galls, etc., resulting from poor fitting collars. Ventlplex Pads are made of our patent Ventlplex fabric. It's soft, cool and comfortable on the horse and easily washed when soiled. Ask your dealer to show you the Ventlplex Pad. If he hasn't them In stock, write ns.", "BUSLIN6T0H BUNKET CO., ■>ker>oframoai\"8ur-oD''BbDk«t Oepf. S2. BUBLIR6T0K, WIS.", "Canadian Address— Windsor, Out.", "It is to your advantage to mention Farm and Fireside in writing to advertisers. Farm and Fireside folks get the very best results.", "-Marketing", "LXigChiclcsRifh:", "They most l>e furnished with the right kind of material If tbey are to make satisfactory Krowth of muscle, bone and feather. Profit lies Quick growth and early maturity. Rush those cockerels to market- able size and turn them Into cash before prices lall. Get the pullcu completely developed and ready to DU the nesta with fall and winter", "fr^i^ Baby Chick Food", "contains Just the necessary Ingredients to give them (luring the first three", "weeka the best possible start, at a cost of Ic per chick. luooxea and bags,", "— ' thli ■", "up. After the third week mix", "Poultry Regulator", "Uc, Mc «", "In the ration to aid digestion and make the greatest gain for every pound of feed consumed. 35c. soc. $1. 25-lb. Pail. $2.M. \" Your money b«ck If it faiU.\"", "Oui producn are sold by dealers everywhere, or", "PRATT FOOD COMPANY", "Philadelphia Cbicaeo", "The Hog-Market Has an Upward Trend", "By L. K. Brown", "WITH March 1st the v»inter packing season closed, and it proved to be far from the normal. As a rule it is a period of heavy receipts and light trade, so that there is a heavy accumulation of stocks of meats. During the past winter, however, the supply was so light and the fresh-meat demand so insistent that almost nothing went into the cellars to meet future demand.", "Receipts are Still Lagging", "With the coming of spring, labor in- creases, especially in the South, where the idle negro gets busy in cotton-planting. This stimulates demand for food-stuffs, and pork, the cheapest meat, will receive a goodly share of this increased demand. To meet this there is almost nothing but the current supply. With this condition ahead, prices cannot help but work upward.", "With every advance, the interests at the 3'ards predict increased receipts, but they do not always materialize. The farmer does not sell unless his hogs are ready or he is in need of money.", "Feeding operations are profitable and the market is stable, with an upward trend, so that the hogs are seldom sold before they ripen, even though at times the prices are very attractive. Even the usual run of renters' hogs previous to March 1st did not materialize. This policy of continued feed- ing has brought the average weight up until it is larger than that of the same period for the last two years.", "Eastern demand continues strong for prime shipping weights, and this, coupled with the fresh-n eat trade, maintains a premium on the two-hundred-pound hog. The relative large number of heavy hogs makes this class sell somewhat lower, but this does not deter the grower from feeding to the heavier weight, as his number of hogs is limited and there is good money in putting on this extra weight, even though the price realized is not quite so high.", "At Chicago there is considerable demand for light-weight hogs to go back to the adjacent country for feeding purposes.", "The Present Situation is Unusual", "The present condition of strong demand from so many sources and but a moderate supply to care for it, and the low price of feeds, is an unusual one and comes but once in several years.", "of everything, will not be behind the British- ers in supporting home-grown products.", "Precautions in Feeding Lambs", "It is seasonable to note just now that when sheep, and especially ewes with their lambs, are turned out from the yards onto pasture the young grass is likely to produce scouring. The advance of the lambs is likely to be checked, if no more serious evil is produced. In all young animals a falling back in condition at an early period in their lives is a heavy handicap on their future well doing, and if due precautions are not taken in time the injury is apt to become permanent.", "Though it is very desirable to avoid the use of drugs, yet if scouring has set in to any extent it may be well to give small doses of Epsom salts or castor-oil, with a drop or two of laudanum ; but the best way to avoid the need for this is to continue the grain and bran or oil-meal ration they have been getting in the yards, but on a scale re- duced by at least one half.", "There is real economy in this, for sheep and lambs respond most readily to a gen- erous diet and may be relied on to well repay its cost. But, even in this, excess must be guarded against, for there is always danger in forcing young lambs too much. If, however, provision has been made of a few acres of mixed oats and peas, or of early rye, or stUl better of rape, a run of hjilf an hour on it to begin with, which may gradually be increased to two hours, is very desirable.", "The grain ration may thus be reduced and even discontinued, until it has to be resumed when the lambs are weaned and the pastures dried up. They should always be penned on forage crops, or they will tread down more than they will eat ; and it is well to keep a lookout the first day or two for cases of bloating, though there is not much danger of it if the above time rule is ob- served.", "Still Some Blind Sheepmen", "By John P. Ross TTIE February markets closed with some- thing of a lull in sheep, caused principally by large shipments from Colorado and West- ern States. March, however, opened up with very lively doings, as the following report for its second week, from the Farnxers' and Drovers' Journal, shows :", "This week ?7.00 $6.00@$6.75", "Week ago 7.00 5.65® 6.50", "Four weeks ago 6.00 5.00® 5.75", "1912 5.65 4.50@ 5.25", "This week $9.00 $8.50@$8.85", "Week ago 8.80 8.15@ 8.60", "Four weeks ago 9.00 8.00® 8.75", "1912 7.40 6.50® 7.00", "The principal setback to the business will be found in the scarcity of sheep and lambs. This goes to show that feeders have strong faith in the near future of the market.", "There are many complaints around the stock-yards of the number of in-Iamb ewes that have been coming in for slaughter, and it seems strange that men can be found so blind to their own interests as to follow such a course, even if we leave the ethics of the matter out of consideration.", "A Tonic for the Desjjondent", "WoH remains quiet, but prices show no lowering tendencies. Shearing goes on slowly. Fleece wools are in good demand at from twenty-seven to thirty cents. Anxiety as to the tariff seems to have quieted down, and to be confined mostly to newspaper fore- bodings founded largely on imagination.", "The English market reports should act as a tonic on despondent souls who dread the effects of the admission free of foreign meats. Over there, though millions of car- casses of sheep and lambs arc admitted free from Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, yet, while they sell wholesale at from twelve to sixteen cents per pound, British lambs were eagerly taken on the hoof at from twenty to twenty-five cents. It is certain that if we will only take pains to produce the perfect goods^and wc possess the means and the capacity to do it if we choose — our people, who will have the best", "Better a dollar by toil than a hundred by spoil.", "Some folks seem to think fussing is hustling.", "Legs were never designed to straddle questions with.", "Cattle Prices are Askew", "By W. S. A. Smith ■WTHEX little four-hundred-pound calves of fair quality are selling here in Iowa on the Sioux City market for $7.35, and heavier eight hundred to nine hundred pound cattle are bringing $7.50, it makes you gasp a little when you realize that steers dressing sixty per cent, are selling for $8.30.", "I want to tell you it takes a good steer, a good feed and a good feeder, to get that dressing. The difference between purchas- ing and selling prices is all out of propor- tion. I understand that the cattle sold at the Denver show averaged in car-lots $7.75, eyen with freight paid to the river. This means $8 cattle to go on feed. The best calves sold for $12 per hundred.", "Higher Prices are Looked For", "The general opinion is that fat cattle must go higher. I wish I could make myself think so, as IVe a good many on hand. As a matter of fact, the cattle dressing fifty-five to fifty-seven per cent, are high enough now.", "The best beef is the cheapest to buy. but at present prices it doesn't pay to produce the best. The butchers say they get as much for the carcass of a cow as they do for the carcass of a choice steer after the best cuts are removed. The average American house- wife knows only two parts of a \"critter,\" a steak and a roast.", "We are Outgrowing the Wasteful Age", "They will know more before long if pres- ent prices increase. We have already got past the time when buffaloes were shot for the tongue and the hide, and we are fast getting past the age when the American working man can live on Porterhouse steak.", "Cottonseed-meal is $3 per ton cheaper than in the fall, and hay and roughage can be bought very reasonably. This truly has been a wonderftil winter, and cattle have made fine gains for feed consumed.", "I hardly think prices are high enough yet for tariff-reformers to get in good work. If fat cattle go to twelve cents and hogs to ten cents and the country begins to get hysterical, it would make a nice opening for a little bill favoring free beef. Such a thing is not improbable.", "\"How long a term does the Vice- President serve, Pa?\"", "\"Four years, my son.\"", "\"Doesn't he get anything ofl for good behavior?\"", "Crops and Soils", "When Nitrate of Soda Helps", "By M. R. Conover", "A WELL-ROOTED plant is helped by separate applications of nitrate of soda. The plant must use much nitrogen dur- ing its structural growth, previous to its bearing or fruiting period, and unless the soil be well supplied by nitrogenous ma- nures or the remains of legumes the plant may lack a sufficiency at a critical time.", "Nitrate of soda is expensive, and its appli- cation may be an utter waste instead of a lasting benefit. It all depends upon condi- tions. The extreme solubility of nitrate of soda makes it easily attainable by the plant if root and soil favor ; it also favors its getting away from the plant if these factors are not working together.", "The Best Time to Apply 1 1", "A heavy flooding rain and a powdery dry condition of the soil are alike unfavorable to its use — the one washing it beyond the root area ; the other not favoring its immediate solution. The most favorable time to apply it is upon a normally moist soil, previous to a gentle rain.", "In dry weather it is sometimes advisable to apply it dissolved, using one half an ounce to each pint of water and applying a half- pint to a hill, making a shallow furrow about the plant four or five inches from it.", "Wait Until the Rootlets Can Use It", "Under no circumstances must either the dissolved or undissolved nitrate of soda touch foliage or plant-stem. The undis- solved soda may be applied about three inches from the plant at either side, on top of the soil or lightly covered.", "Corn, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, egg- plant, turnips and squash, as well as lettuce, spinach and cabbage, are helped by one or more applications of the soda before the plants are of a size to produce. In the case of tomatoes just transplanted it is waste to apply the nitrate of soda at once. A week or ten days after resetting is soon enough. In that time the plant will have established itself, putting out fine rootlets, and can avail itself of the stimulant", "With corn an application when the stalk is two feet high, and again as it begins to tassel, is very helpful to the crop.", "As a stimulant to grass it should be ap- plied early in spring, when the weather favors immediate growth.", "It is helpful to asparagus if applied just as cutting commences and at intervals of three weeks during the season.", "In the case of melons and cucumbers it is very beneficial just before the vines begin to run.", "Cabbage uses it to the best advantage just as it begins to head ; early beets and turnips when about the size of marbles, and egg- plants when the buds are forming.", "48 pounds on a measured acre. Of these, 838 bushels and 40 pounds were merchant- able potatoes and 136 bushels and 8 pounds small and unmerchantable. The whole yield was sold for $788.80, from which deducting $74.80 for expenses left a net profit of $714, quite different from the average for the United States of $42.12.", "There is no crop yield in this country but what can be doubled, and if the working people are to be able to secure the neces- sities of life at a moderate price consistent with their wages, the yield must be doubled.", "Why is it that the old countries of Europe are continually exceeding our yields per acre on soil that has been cultivated for hundreds of years? We must eventually answer this question, and the sooner we do it, the better it will be for us.", "While our ten-year average — 1900 to 1909 — yield of wheat per acre was 14 bushels, Germany's was about 30, Austria's 18 and Hungary's Xiyz. France's was 20^ Winchester bushels and the United King- dom's 33 Winchester bushels. The Winches- ter bushel is slightly larger than ours. Not a very pleasing showing is it, with Germany twice ours, and the United Kingdom a great deal more than that? The Agricultural De- partment divides the United States into slx di\\'isions when calculating yields and aver- ages. But one division, the far western or irrigation region, has an average wheat pro- duction above the average for the whole United States. All the others drop below the average, though individual States in some divisions rise above the general aver-", "and seed are pure white. It is dwarf, com- monly growing to a height of five or six feet, though it may be yet shorter through ad- verse conditions or much taller. Last sea- son mine reached eight feet and yielded forty bushels.", "It would seem, although being grown more and more in western Kansas, that this variety would find its greatest use farther north than other canes could be grown. Through the real sorghum belt, however, white cane will be at home in that it can be planted as a catch crop so late in the season that either milo or Kafir would be hopeless, from a grain standpoint.", "Loss Through Inefficiency", "By W. F. Wilcox", "'T'HE American farmer is losing money *■ steadily through the production of meager yields per acre of the various crops he plants. Thousands of farmers are planting thousands of acres to crops and harvesting yields far below the average for the United States, and all know the average is smaU enough ; while every one of our farmers, comparatively speaking, seems content with harvesting less than many of our foreign cousins do.", "With the increasing value of lands as all the available land is brought under cultiva- tion, something must be done in order to raise the annual returns per acre. No won- der that in many of the Eastern and Central West States farmers are leaving the high- priced land and seeking cheaper lands, for they are utterly unable to make a living, decent wages, interest on investment, keep up repairs and meet expenses on such high- priced land with so small returns.", "Some Record Potato Yields", "According to the statistics of the Depart- ment of Agriculture, the average farm value per acre of the following crops for the ten years from 1896 to 1905 was as follows : Com, $9.35; wheat, $9.37; oats, $8.32; bar- ley, $10.34; rye, $8.08; potatoes, $42.12; hay, $11.62; tobacco, $55.95 ; flaxseed, $11.00; buckwheat, $9.68.", "Now these are very insignificant figures to be called returns from a year's work per acre. They are insignificant when we look at what has been done in this country. Take potatoes, for instance. The average yield per acre for the above-named period was 84.4 bushels, and the acre value $42.12. Now it is very common in the irrigation regions of the West to produce 300, 400 and 500 bushels per acre. One man in my county here in Colorado grew 624 bushels. In 1891, at Del Norte, Colorado, R. A. Chisholm and R. C. Nisbet harvested 847i4 bushels from a measured acre. In 1890, Mr. Sturgis at Buffalo, Wyoming, produced 975 bushels and", "The Meadow-Lark", "By H. W. Weisgerber", "/^NE Sunday afternoon in the closing days ^^^of March, when the sky was overcast and the air chill and damp, a small company of mourners were gathered at the grave of a dear grandmother, and, to conform to the simple habits of her life that had just ended, music and singing had been omitted from the funeral service.", "But the universe is full of music. There is music celestial and music terrestrial going on at the same time ; but only the sleeping infant when it smiles catches strains of the first, and our ears have become so hardened", "by all manner of noises that we hear but a small part of that which is intended by nature for our ears of the second.", "It was the heart of nature that furnished the music for that simple burial service, with the meadow-lark as soloist, whose flute- like notes wafted across a neighboring field ; and my ears, perhaps, were the only ones among those of the small company that per- ceived nature's solemn requiem.", "The meadow-lark's notes may sound sad to our ears, but they are the happiest love- notes that he knows, for his tribe have been whistling the same tune for ages and will, no doubt, continue them for ages to come.", "It is impossible to estimate the value of this bird to the farmer, for : \"Briefly stated, more than half of its food consists of harm- ful insects ; its vegetable food is composed either of noxious weeds or waste grain, and the remainder is made up of useful beetles or neutral insects and spiders. Of the va- rious insects eaten, crickets and grasshop- pers are the most important, constituting twenty-nine per cent, of the food of the year and sixty-nine per cent, of the food in August\"", "' arthest North Cane", "By C. Bolles", "CO FAR white cane is acknowledged to be ^ the earliest sorghum now in cultivation. It is being tried by practically all the experi- ment stations from the Panhandle up to Sotith Dakota and has been found to be a fair forage-plant and a fairly good grain- yielder too. Grain yields have run all the way from nothing to forty bushels. On my Nebraska farm last season it made 14.S bvishels, while an acclimated variety of black amber yielded forty-six bushels. The purely grain sorghvims reached jvist 23.3. Notwith- standing its low yield, white cane was the earliest of seventeen varieties tried out.", "In appearance white cane is quite similar to the other ambers, excepting the glumes", "By Berton Braley T SING you an ode", "Of the country road. The lumpy road And the bumpy road, That jolts the wagon and spills the load. Mud to the hubs when the rain comes down, Flooded wherever the creeks run high, Filled with ruts when the fields are brown And the sun is hot and the air is dry. It's clogged with gravel and packed with sand.", "So built and graded and laid and planned", "That it takes a team,", "And sometimes two.", "To do the work one horse should do.", "It racks the wagons with jolts and jars.", "It ruins horses and motor-cars.", "Keeps back crops from the market-place,", "Piles up debt on the farmer's place —", "The old-time road is a plain disgrace.", "But the modern road is a different thing,", "A worthy theme for the bard to sing :", "Put together", "For every weather.", "Smooth and dustless and good to see,", "And graded right, as a road should be;", "Useful always and muddy never,", "A thing of beauty — a joy forever.", "Johnson wants your name and address if you are interested In chicken raising:. He will send . 'you the famous Old Trusty Book, free— Enest published, worth Si.OO. A Postal Brings Johnson's 1913 Old Trusty Book. Free Tells about the Incabator sensation ol the world. 400,000 sold— all makins big money for owners. Tellsaboat 30 to90day tree trial offer, lOyeai igaarantee. Price Is less than 810.00. freight paid easi of Rockies and al- lowed that far to points beyond. Get the Johnson's .Book Free — read 11 the facts— see andreds of pho* tographs. Don't miss it. fiXall a postal now to Johnson Incubator Man. Clay Center, Neb.", "Freight Paid East of Rockies Tliat Far if You Live Beyond", "Alsike for Wet Land", "By H. F. Grinstead ALSIKE will grow on land that is too wet and sour for red clover, and with timothy makes a good feed. Stock do not relish it as they do red clover when green, but eat it readily when cured. Being a perennial and producing seed every year, alsike will never need reseeding. Sow about six pounds of alsike seed to the acre. I have sown it with timothy in the spring the same as red clover. It will even grow on ground too wet for timothy ; then redtop and alsike make an excellent combination.", "Alsike possesses advantages over red clover in being adapted to wet ground, but where red clover will grow well the change to alsike would not be advisable. It is more like white clover in blossom, and furnishes excellent bee pasturage.", "Some of my neighbors made the mistake of sowing alsike on a large scale before try- ing it, but found in some instances that it would not do well on fairly good clover- land. On dry, gravelly land where red clover has made good crops the alsike proved poorly adapted, yet on the wet land it yielded bountifully.", "$n.55 still Buys", "M World's Champion", "m I4Q-Egg Incubator", "Double cases all over; best copper tank; nursery, self-reg- ulating'. Best liO-chick not-wat^ brooder. $4.85. Ordered togrettier, $1 1.50. FrelghtFald CE. of BocMes)t No machines any price are \\ better. Satisfaction ^anmteed. Writeforbooktoday orsendpriee now and save time. Jim Rohan, Pres. \\", "Belle City Incubator Co.,BoxlQO.Bacine^Wi^", "20P££E POULTRY", "Tell§ how to sacceed witli pj ^\\ ^ 1^ f poultry on the ordinary farm. ^", "( How to make a first-class ■■ M p", "f brooder out of an old piano k U k Hi", "I box. H^h&t breeds lay best. | Hbk", "I Plans for poultry houses, how ^^^^^^^^^", "Ito feed, breed, etc. Describes ^^^^^^^^^", "^PRAIRIE STATE Incubators and Brooders I", "Ton will be surprised at the valaable information it con- I tains. It'sfree. Write a postal for a copy today. (.21J I", "Prairie State Incubator Co., 415Wam St.. Homer City, Pa.|", "Kougheat grit on earth.. In- creases egg production, The original silica grit. Avoid substitutes. Ask your local dealer, or", "send S1.25 for two lUO-lb. bags 1. o. b. cars. Agents Wanted. EDGE HILL SILICA ROCKCO. Box P. New Brunswick, N. J.", "PFILE'S 65 Varieties", "LAND and Water Fowls. 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Jenkins", "AVE you heard about cauliflower- culture in the south- eastern part of Dela- ware County, New York ? The general cash crop on the dairy farms in other parts of the country is potatoes but the cauliflower growers get as high as $500 net per acre for the use of their land, while the potato-growers are doing well if they get $100. Being in the vicinity of a locality which is the center of the cauliflower busi- ness in the county, I took some pains to inquire about it.", "I learned that on some days during the best of the season that five hundred barrels had been shipped from one railroad station, that one grower some years had grown ten acres as a side crop, on his dairy farm, and that cows and cauliflower had proved a good combination. The cauliflower often more than paid the grain-bill and hired help, so the receipts from the dairy herd were net profit.", "A Visit to a Cauliflower Farm", "The largest grower, and pioneer in the cauliflower industry of Delaware County, is William Van Benscoten. I was told that he began several years ago in a small way, found a market for them in New York City and realized a good profit. His neighbors saw that his cauliflower-growing was more profitable than his potatoes, and they tried an acre or two. The fact that many have gone into the business and stayed in it seems to prove they are well satisfied. I visited Mr. Van Benscoten's farm about the first of last October and found him cleaning up a field of cauliflower he was cutting. A large amount had been trimmed and packed in barrels ready for shipping. I said, \"Mr. Van Benscoten, how late do you ship cauli- flowers ?■■", "\"Sometimes up to the middle of October. I begin about the middle of August. I have shipped every day since that time.\"", "\"When is the market the best ?\"", "\"Just after the Long Island growers have disposed of their early crop, which may be early in August, but one must study the mar- ket for years to know just when to place the bulk of the crop on the market to realize the most for it. I grow both the early and late crop and take my chances on averaging well.\"", "\"How do you grow plants for the early crop ?\"", "i \"I sow in hotbeds the last week in March,", "Hollow Tile — Steel Reinforced", "is fireproof , weather proof, practically everlasting— the most permanent type of building construction known.", "THE IMPERISHABLE SILO", "is built of hollow vitrified clay blocks. It cannot bum, can- not be blown over, will last a lifetime without a cent for repairs. Glazed sides keep silage sweet and palatable. 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Over 167,000 Split Hickory Vehicles sold on that plan. The facts are told in my own bier book. It posts you on how Split Hickory Bueeries are made — how money is saved by selling; direct from factory: what the latest styles are— how you can get your own option as to color, fini.sh, upholstery, etc. It is Illustrated throughout in colors. Send a postal now, to H. C. Phelps, Pres.'", "THE OHIO CARRIAGE MFG. CO.^^^ / «^", "Station 27", "Columbus, Ohio", "always a standard strain of the best early varieties, which I use for both the early and late crop. The seed costs thirty dollars per pound, and I estimate one-half bushel per acre. The hotbeds are managed in the usual way, but seed should not be sown too thick, and the soil should be kept moist all the time. When the plants are well up, they should not be forced too fast, as it tends to make them spindling and tender. Give them plenty of air, and try to get stocky plants. Harden them off well before transplanting to field.\"", "\"When do you sow seed for the late crop ?\"", "\"As soon as the soil is in condition to work in the spring. These plants are more reliable, as the early plants may 'button' and fail to head. The early plants are more of a lottery, but as the price is considerably higher I take the risk.\"", "Cauliflower as Part of a Rotation", "\"How do you prepare the soil for trans- planting?\"", "\"Usually sod ground is heavily top-dressed with stable manure in the winter, the same as for corn, except a little more manure is needed. In fact, the cauliflower can be grown as one of the crops in the usual rota- tion on the dairy farm of ensilage-corn, grain and grass. The manure is not lost grow-ing the cauliflower crop, as it puts the soil in ideal condition for the grass-seeding", "The leaves are tied over the heads to whiten them", "and great crops of clover can be grown, and the clover again makes the soil right for another cauliflower crop. Some growers seemed to have more clubfoot with stable manure and are using some commercial fer- tilizers, but the question of stable manure causing clubfoot has not been well settled. The stable manure has the advantage of adding humus to the soil. The ground is plowed early in the spring and a fine plant- bed made by thorough harrowing. I begin to set plants from the hotbed when about four inches high.\"", "\"Have you set the plants by hand, or with a transplanter?\"", "\"I use one of the large horse transplan- ters, and can set two acres of plants in one day.\"", "\"How do you cultivate after transplant- ing?\"", "\"The culture is the same as for cabbage. I run the horse cultivator both ways, for the plants are set in check-rows about three feet apart, and very frequently, so as to keep the soil well stirred. In time of drought a dust mulch forwards their growth. Cauliflowers should be kept growing all the time without check.\"", "\"I understand you blanch the cauliflowers to whiten them?\"", "\"Yes, when the head is three or four inches in diameter, the leaves are tied around it with twine. The head will be ready for cutting in about one week, some-", "A trimmed cauliBower ready for packing", "times less. In good growing weather the head will have made its growth and blanch and be ready for cutting in less than ninety days after transplanting.\"", "Packing Them for Market", "\"How do you trim and pack them for mar- ket?\"", "\"The leaves are cut smoothly within an inch or two of the head so as to make an attractive appearance. Then they are packed in barrels which have been specially made for this purpose by a local factory.\"", "\"How do you sell your crop, and where is the best market ?\" .", "\"I ship to commission merchants, because I cannot depend on grocerymen to handle a large shipment. I have found the best", "market in New York City. The Jews are good customers at certain times of the year, and the consumption is increasing. People prefer to eat cauliflower in place of cabbage when the price is not too high. Probably the business could be overdone so there would be no profit in it for the country growers who pay freight and commission, but the demand is likely to grow as the taste is educated to eat them in preference to cabbage and coarse vegetables.\"", "\"What have been your gross receipts for an acre of cauliflower in ten years?\"", "\"From $300 to $600 ; probably the average has been fully $400. To this amount can be added the value of the refuse and culls for feeding cows.\"", "\"What are the usual cash expenses of growing one acre of cauliflower, itemized?\"", "\"Seed. $15; commercial fertilizers, if purchased. $70 ; two tons of lime used to prevent clubfoot, $12; barrels, $40; total, S137.", "\"The cost of fertilizer is much less than the above amount if stable manure from the farm is used, as the larger part of the plant- food in the manure is left for the crop which follows.''", "Mr. Van Benscoten told me further that with his acreage, which is larger than most dairy farmers will wish to grow, he uses considerable high-grade commercial fertilizer v.-ith fhe formula of 4-8-\".", "I went to another farm where the owner keeps about twenty cows and grows between one and two acres of cauliflower, with no more help than is needed for the dairy farming, and no bill for fertilizers. He had bought barrels, but said it was not neces- sary, as some farmers were shipping in crates they made in winter or on stormy days, so the actual cash cost of the crop is for seed and lime, and even lime may not be needed on old sod ground where there is no danger of clubfoot. His sales per acre had been close to $500, and besides he had a large quantity of culls and trimmings he was feeding his cows. The net receipts from this farmer's cauliflower crop was sufficient to pay the grain-bill for his cows.", "Cauliflower can apparently be most cheaply grown on a dairy or stock farm, where the manure can be utilized for it. The same plows, harrows, cultivators, wagons, manure- spreaders and tools needed for the general work of the farm can be used for the cauli- flower, and the only extra equipment is a hotbed and possibly a transplanter.", "The fact should be kept in mind that there is only a limited market for cauli- flowers, and they are more of a luxury than staple articles of food. These Delaware Cottnty growers have proved that a consid- erable quantity can be sold at fair prices, usually from two dollars to four dollars per barrel, in large cities, and under such con- ditions their culture can be made very profitable.", "Overcoming Slough Holes", "By George W. Brown", "WE ARE aware that there are hundreds of acres of slough-lands lying upon our farms that might be made pro- ductive if properly drained. Many such slough - holes have stood for years sub- merged in water and covered with swale grass, and the gummy subsoil renders such places almost beyond proper breaking up and preparing for crops, hence are quite unproductive until properly drained and fer- tilized.", ". Our experience with these low mucky swales has been that they are of but little use without drainage. When once drained and fertilized with potash salts, they are our most productive soils.", "One Practical Solution", "Some of these slough-holes are quite dif- ficult to drain, owing to depth and inability to get drain tiles through them.", "We have solved this problem quite satis- factorily in several instances where the s'.oughs were not too large, by plowing and turning the soil toward the sloughs to fill them.", "In other cases we have scraped dirt into these sloughs from the adjoining high lands, and gained a very productive soil as well as removing the nuisance and loss of farming around them.", "Where they arc of such a depth that one outlet does not permit of thorough drainage through the bottom, we have run our drain up from below, forking just below the slough, then encircling with two linos of smaller tiles and merging them again into one line above the slough as shown in the sketch.", "A Sensible Precaution Our aim is not only to drain as much water as possible from the slough, but to catch all water from the higher lands sur- rounding it before it descends into the lower levels and fills up the slough.", "In this manner we have drained such sloughs upon our home farm in Ohio, arid are now growing crops of corn. These soils were badly water-logged and seemed dead, but since -drained and fertilized we find the soil breaking up with more life each year.", "HOOP-LA! We're not going to die of starvation ! The sun isn'", "\"going out.\" The ocean isn't drying up. The soil isn't ceasing to pro- duce. Rather it's producing, year by year, more and more per acre. Cost of living is soon going to drop like the enthusiasm of an original Wilson man when another chap gets the post-office.", "Which latter observation isn't at all true, but is good to put in at the beginning because everybody knows it isn't and therefore may be excited enough to follow along and see how big a lie is coming.", "Anyhow, these remarks are by way of some defense of the American farmer and his methods of farming. We have a class of economists and a coterie of scien- tists in this country who derive most of their amusement from abusing the farmer ; telling how inefficient he is ; how he tried to farm too many acres, and what a sorry failure he makes of it; objurgating him for his omission to do it \"intensively,\" which means that they think he ought to hoe his corn by hand instead of using a riding cultivator. It all sounds good, and it would be good, if these typewriter experts and swivel-chair scientists would do the hoeing. There's nobody else to do it; unless the job is attended to by the lazy and inefficient and wasteful man who uses the cultivator, it will not be attended to at all.", "Acre Yields ase Going Up", "IT SEEMS that, lazy and inefficient as we are, we keep on raising more stuff all the time for the critics to worry over. There are run-down farms, abandoned farms, unprofitable farms, and a.tl that sort of thing. But the fact sticks out from all the statistics that the average acre of ground in this country is producing more and more, and that what it produces is worth very much more, year after year. This is true not only of the United States, but it is true of nearly all the States, and of most of the civi- lized countries of the world.", "For twenty years past the tendency in all the leading crops has been toward steadily increasing yields per acre. Take corn. I have before me the February bulletin of the gov- ernment crop-reporting service, with a set of tables and diagrams made to show this ten- dency. They indicate that in 1890 the country's average yield of corn per acre was twenty- three and one-half bushels per acre. It has fluctuated since then, with good and bad seasons ; but the tendency has been steadily upward, and in 1912 the average reached seven bushels, the highest it had known to that time.", "Wheat shows a like experience. In 1890 it was a fraction below twelve bushels average per acre; in 1912 it got up to a fraction above fourteen bushels. The increase was steady and persistent.", "Oats in 1890 averaged a trifle under twenty-five bushels. In 1912 they just topped a thirty-bushel aver- age per acre.", "Potatoes went just a bit over seventy bushels per acre in 1892.' Then they climbed upward till they were ninety-six bushels in 1912.", "Barley increased its average yield from about twenty- one and one half to twenty-five and one half between 1890 and 1912.", "Rye made the greatest proportional gain, going up from eleven and three-fourths to sixteen and one-half bushels in that same interval.", "Buckwheat rose from thirteen to over nineteen bushels in the same period.", "Hay went up from 12 to 1.4 tons per acre.", "Some Silly City Folks", "ALL this means something. It means, among other ^things, we are getting more out of the soil without any revolution in farming methods than we used to get. It's perfect rot to converse about \"intensified\" farming in the way a lot of city folks do it. They know so much that isn't so ! I've met 'em at dinners, and heard people who never saw a farm except when the train jolted and woke them up and by mistake they looked out of the Pullman window — I've heard those erudite people tell about how the damnation of farming in America was the overdevelopment of power machinery. They think in all seriousness that because the government corn contests have developed the fact that one hundred, one hundred and fifty, two hundred and more bushels", "o's Pushing Up Land Pric", "By Judson C. Welliver", "can be grown on an acre of ground, with closest care and the most ample fertilization of selected tracts, therefore it's proved that we are all incompetent because we don't raise that much or something like it on all the acres. Gracious me, if everybody set about to raise one hundred bushels of corn per acre, and all the peo- ple now raising corn stuck right at the business, there wouldn't be enough corn to make whisky for a prohi- bition national convention — not as compared with what we now raise. Why? Because a man would put in all his time raising one hundred bushels per acre on five acres or less, instead of raising forty bushels an acre on fifty acres and thus raise just a CLuarter as much.", "Let's Pat Ourselves on the Back", "REMINDS one of seeing a cow sell for $1,000, and figuring that if we would all raise none but $1,000 cows we'd all have Croesus looking like a salted mining project that had been denied the use of the mails. But the difficulty is that if we all raised $1,000 cows, there wouldn't be any more $1,000 cows. They'd be too com- mon; and at that there would be so few cows that milk would be as rare as radium.", "The truth is — and this is where I venture back to the statistics again — that we're doing the best farming we can under the circumstances. Not all of us ; not every individual ; but in the aggregate we are making a given amount of human effort go farther toward raising crops than any other lot of farmers in the world ever did. The trouble is that we have too many acres to farm, and have to farm too many acres, for the number", "^ than that of Iowa and that New York's aver-", "aged higher than Indiana's. Everybody", "THIS problem of the city farmer is a big one in the East. It would be useless to deny it. He musses up the price of eggs and of acres alike. Broadly speaking, he makes land worth more and agriculture worth less. But the big fact remains that he is chiefly responsible for the big increase in the price of New York State real estate in the last ten years.", "The day will come when he will learn a good deal of sense about his own farming, and also when he will help the rest of us to do better. He is willing to spend money \"doing stunts\" in our vari- ous neighborhoods, by which we will all profit. He will not care much if he loses a bit on his peaches or prunes or eggs; he will try out a lot of experiments that his neighbors will know all about, and in the end they will benefit just as much as he will.", "of hands we have to do it with. We must use horses and gang plows and riding cultivators and the like in order to make a respectable dent in the job. Just as fast as the increase of population and its demands press on us for more results, the land will be cut into smaller holdings, the people will be drawn from other occupations to the soil, and the yields per acre will go up. But that can't happen until there are more people to do the work.", "Here are Figures That Will Surprise You", "MEANWHILE, we are informed from time to time by pessimistic people, our methods are ruining the land. Wrong again. They're improving it. The figures show it, and these are not the figures of liars.", "It seems, for instance, that the \"worn-out\" farming sections of the country really are making the best showing. There are no worn-out sections. There are sections almost deserted; but the tide has turned back toward them. They are being resettled. Farm lands in New York showed, between 1900 and 1910, an increase in value per acre for the first time in half a century. Ditto in New England.", "Not long ago a middle-western friend chaffed me about whether my Maryland farm \"produced enough to pay for the fertilizer.\" That's a favorite joke among middle-western people, whereby they show how much they don't know about agricultural possibilities East and South. Another way they have of demonstrating the same innocence is by selling their mid-western farms and moving off to Saskatchewan and Manitoba, when they would do ten times better to look up the cheap-land possibilities of neglected parts of this country.", "To this western friend and his little joke — he didn't know how very old or bad it was-^I made reply that I would bet him the dinners for the gathering there and then present that Maryland corn averaged a bigger yield", "laughed. Looking up the figures next day, I got these figures from the December, 1912, Crop Reporter on average yield of wheat per acre in 1912 : Maryland, 15.5 bushels per acre ; New York, 19.5 bushels per acre; Indiana, 14.7 bushels per acre ; Iowa, 16.4 bushels per acre.", "Wheat, then, showed New York leading, Iowa second, Maryland third and Indiana fourth. Next I looked up corn; it showed: Maryland, 36.5 bushels per acre; New York, 38.5 bushels per acre; Indiana, 36 bushels per acre; Iowa, 31 bushels per acre.", "Wheat, then, gave Maryland a strong lead over Iowa and placed New York in the lead of them all. Both eastern States led both western States.", "When I told my friend about it, he sniffed and demanded :", "\"All right; but is your Maryland corn worth enough to pay for the fertilizer it takes to raise it?\"", "He dropped the argument when I explained that we don't fertilize with commercial fertilizer for com in Maryland.", "All this illustration is by way of suggesting that there isn't any \"worn-out soil\" in these Eastern States.", "Why the City Farmer is Your Friend", "THERE'S plenty of worn-out agriculture ; not soil. But it isn't because the farms are bad; it's because agriculture is a decadent industry in these eastern com- munities. People are pulled away from it by the towns and by the lure of the West. They go to the Panhandle of Texas in preference to New York; to Canada, rather than to Maryland. But there's no excuse for it, and they wouldn't do it if they knew. All over the country, East and West, North and South alike, the tendency is toward larger yields per acre year by year.", "Proof that the people are turning this way is found in the Agricultural Department's report that in the decade ending 1910 the aver- age value of farm lands in New York showed an increase. That is true generally in the East. The people are realizing the chance.", "In New York the average value of farms per acre was $45.89 in 1870. It dropped by 1880 to $44.41 ; fell still farther, to $44.08, by 1890, and in 1900 touched the low census figure, at $39.21 per acre. Then observe the upward tilt that brought it to $53.78 in 1910! Not a big increase compared to the experience of some western States ; but a mighty big one when it is realized that it represents the reversal of a steady sag that had been going on for forty years. These figures, be it explained, are for farms with improve- ments. The statistics of farm-land values, without considering improvements, show that the average value for the whole State even now is only $32.13.", "Agriculture in the East is going to be divided, in the next generation, between gentlemen farmers and truck- farmers. The gentleman farmer is one of the reasons why it will be profitable to own land, and unprofitable to farm it, in the neighborhood of the great cities. I know one of them. He has a poultry-farm and points with pride to roosters that cost fabulous amounts. He has about four thousand hens, that lay eggs which cost perhaps $1.25 per carat. The owner of the farm doesn't know what they cost. He doesn't have to care. He makes enough money in town to care for the deficit. Three miles from this gentleman farmer I have a friend who is a real farmer. He also raises poultry and expects to make a profit on it. He has to meet the competition of the rich man who doesn't care whether he loses money or makes it.", "Look at Both Sides and You'll Agree with Me", "MY FRIEND, the real farmer, who is trying to make money in the legitimate poultry industry protests that it isn't fair to expect him to compete against the rich man who, in the same business, doesn't care par- ticularly whether he makes money or not.", "There's a good deal in it, but there's also another side to it. The rich farmer paid a fancy price for his land. He had a friend who also paid a fancy price. In the long run these city farmers are bad competition in raising milk and eggs, but they certainly do help to push up the price of land. They are the ones who are paying good prices for farms, improving them and raising the value of farms all around them including your own.", "Farm and Fireside, March 29. 1913", "Do You Want to Win \"Duke ?", "You Can Win This Pony and His Whole Outfit", "This Pony Will be Given Away to Some Boy or Girl", "THIS remarkable Pony Offer is open to all Farm and Fireside boys and girls. The Pony Man is going to give away \"Duke\" and his handseme outfit to some boy or girl. You can be that lucky boy or girl if you try hard enough. With \"Duke\" you vnW receive his hand- some buggy and harness complete. \\\\Tiat splendid fun it will be to go driving every day this summer. How 3'^ou will enjoy taking your friends for a drive to the neighboring farms, to the village or out to a picnic. My how your friends wall wish they had a pony like \"Duke,\" but they can't have one sojgood because he is the pick of the finest pony herd in America.", "About \"Duke", "kUKE\" is a genuine Shetland pony and he is the most beautiful pony you ever saw. He is chestnut in color with soft hair and the silkiest, fluffiest mane and tail in the world. He can travel faster than lots of horses, but he is just as gentle and kind as a kitten. He just loves children too. \"Duke\" is about 42 inches high and weighs 350 poimds. He is not verj' big, but he more than makes up in spirit what he lacks in size. \"Duke\" has a splen- did disposition and is absolutely fearless. He is surely a prince of plajTnates — just full of fun and life. This is the best chance you ever had to get a Shetland pony, and you ought to jump at the chance. We are going to send \"Duke,\" together with his han'dsovie outfit, right to the very door of the child who wins him, and pay all charges.", "WITH \"Duke\" the Pony Man will also send the beautiful buggy and harness shown in the illustration. Never was there a more elegant and stylish pony outfit than this. It has been made to order, especially for \"Duke.\" The buggy is a handsome four-wheeled piano-box affair with whip cord seat and cush- ions, nickel trimmings and rubber tires. The harness is a dandj', of the very finest leather with highly pol- ished nickel trimmings. You could not find a more handsome outfit if you traveled this country from coast to coast. The thing for you to do right away is to send your name and address to the Pony Man.", "Read How to Win \"Duke\"", "A LL j'ou have to do to win \"Duke\" and his buggy and harness will be to get enough of your friends to read the Farm AND Fireside. That should be very easy because everybody who knows about Farm AND Fireside likes to read it, and your friends will be glad to help you win such a handsome prize.", "For the boys and girls who do not win \"Duke\" there are two other beautiful Shet- land ponies. This year Farm and Fireside is going to give away three pony outfits to its boys and girls. You surely can win one of these handsome prizes. Just start to-day and hustle.", "Do This To-day", "OIN the Pony Club. Write your name and -v address below and send it to the Pony Man to-day ._He will at once send you a Member-", "■<<> ^ >. -^/y Certificate blank, picturcs of \"Duke\"", "and all the other ponies. He will also tell you how to become a full-fledged cjj, > member of the PonyClub right away.", "You have just as good a chance as any other boy or girl to be the ownerof \"Duke\"and hishand- some pony outfit. Once you \\ <yV are a member of the club, \"e.-^ ■•■ rv simply can't help", "o/o^'V •* • O beingawmner.", "Act Now! Don't", "This is3\"ColoneI,\" the Second-Prize Pony", "Three Fine Ponies and Outfits Five Hundred Grand Prizes", "r^ON'T let anybody persuade you that j'ou can't win \"Duke\" or one of the other ponies, because our plan of giving away ponies makes it possible f()r children who hve in small towns and the country' to have ponies. We have already sent ponies to chil- dren m almost every state in the Umon. Send in your name to the Pony Man to-day sure. Besides Duke and his splendid outfit, the Pony Man will also give away two other handsome pomes and out- fits and more than five hundred Grand Prizes. Just think of it! You can't lose once j'ou join the club. Every Club Member is guaranteed a Prize. So don't wait, but start to-day. Hurry!", "npHE publishers of Farm and Fireside ■■- guarantee that every boy and girl who joins the Pony Club will receive a square deal and will be handsomely rewarded for joining the club. The first thing to do is to send the below coupon to the Pony Man or wTite your name and address on a post- card, which will be just as good. The Pony Man will then know that 3^ou want to be- come-the owner of \"Duke\" and will send you full details explaining just how to win \"Duke\" and the other ponies, or one of the other Grand Prizes. Act promptly and you will be thankful for it all the rest of your life.", "How to Join the Pony Club", "VrOU are sure to win a handsome prize, if j-ou be- come a member of the F.\\rm and Fireside Pony Club and you will not have to invest a cent of j'our own money. Farm and Fireside i.s one of the old- est and best farm papers. You are absolutely safe in accepting the promise of such a big wcll-cstab- hshed paper. Besides \"Duke\" and his complete outfit, two more handsome ponies will be given away to the second and third best members of the Pony Club. Al.<o 500 elegant Grand Prizes and thousands of dollars in cash will be distributed to the lucky club members. You will be siu-prised at how easy it is to win one of the Farm and Fire.side ponies. Hurry up and send in j-our name to-day. Eton't wait . just as soon .<is you send in your name and address, the Pony Man will tell you how to be- come a member of the Farm and Fireside Pony Club. Remember it will not cost you a penny to join and > ou will not be under any obhgation to do a single thing.", "The Pony Man, Farm and Fireside, Springfield, Ohio", "Making the Most of Things Around Us", "IHIS week I am writing to you girls, not from the country that I love so well, but from the very center of the biggest city in the United States. Somehow I have been wishing all week that you girls could all see New York City so you would know how good it is not to have to live in such a place. Now, of course, there are many great peo- ple here, and there are many people here who would not want to live anywhere but in a big city, but that is hard for me_ to imderstand. Just think, there are no trees, excepting in the parks — just great stone buildings and stone streets. I am not going to stay here long, and I guess it is a good thing, for I feel now as though I would just hug an ear of corn if I should see one.", "One day when I was walking down Fifth Avenue — that wonderful street on which so many millionaires have their homes — I stopped in front of a very at- tractive florist's window. Many other people were stopping too. In the midst of the expensive orchids and American Beauty roses in that window was some- thing which seemed to be appealing to them all. And what do you suppose it was? Just pussj'-willows in birch-bark baskets. And, do you know, those beau- tiful natural things were bringing tears to the eyes of some of those men and women. One white-haired old lady with beautiful mink furs had such pretty brown eyes and looked so long at the pussy- willows in the basket that I dared to speak to her, and I asked, \"Why do you care so much for these?\"", "As she turned to me, I expect she saw all at once that I liked them too, and she said with such a sad smile, \"They used to grow along the brook on the old farm where I lived when' a child, and my brother and I used to put them in birch- bark baskets just that way.\"", "The Real Things", "And I went on, but later when I passed the same window people were still stop- ping to look at the pussy-willows. How soft and velvety and gray and \"just like spring at home\" they looked. Of course you girls love them, and you love the violets- and the anemones and the apple- blossoms and all the common things that grow around you. And just treasure this in your heart, that the things which you have around you in your lives in the country are the things that bring real joy to all people. Riches, pleasure of the world, luxuries — nothing can take the place of the simple blessings that God has given us in the country. They are the real things. May all of us country girls have the vision to understand what this means.", "In that window, too, were some tulips. I wonder if you have any tulips or snow- drops or hyacinths in your garden this spring? They are among the very nicest things to .grow, and they blossom so early in the spring. Tulip-bulbs are quite inex- pensive. I think I like best just the com- mon single tulips in assorted colors. They blossom early and are very hardy. Once I put out a large bed of parrot tulips, and I liked them too, for they were so odd with their ragged leaves.", "Tulips must be planted before the ground freezes in the fall. Get the ground good and mellow, and then put the bulbs in so there is about as much earth over them as the bulbs are thick through. It would be a pretty good thing to cover them over with leaves, but this is not necessary. In thel^ring, before the snow is really off, the brave blossoms, so bright with their crimson and gold, will push through. The plants live from year to year too, and' if you will take the trouble to re-set them, your bed will grow larger each year.", "What Tulips Meant to One Boy", "In Page County, Iowa, each country school set out a tulip-bed, and some schools put with them narcissi and hya- cinths too. In one school the boys brought an old rim of a wagon-wheel and made a circular bed. Then they put stones around that. It made a very nice bed. and they were proud of it, especially when the tulips were in blossom. I have always believed that people who love flowers are almost sure to be good, and this proved itself to me in the case of one boy.", "He was a boy who hadn't had much chance to become good through his home influences. And so he swore and used", "By Jessie Field", "tobacco. His teacher was worried about this, for of course she could not have such things at school. But Jack was such a good-hearted boy that she talked with him about it carefully and tried to make him understand just why it was wrong, and he said he would try never to let anything of the kind happen again. He did try until one day things went wrong in a game of ball, and Jack swore. The teacher called him in to the scHoolhouse and said to him, \"Jack, I have told you how wrong it is to swear. It is no use to talk to you. I wonder what I can do ?\"", "Jack looked at her so straight and said, \"Well, I wish you'd lick me and lick me hard if you think it would do any good, but somehow when I get to playing ball and get mad I just forget every time.\"", "Well, when the tulip-bulbs came to this school. Jack was the one who superin- tended the planting of them. Each pupil claimed one of the bulbs for his own, and they made a fine, big bed. In the spring when I went to that school the tulips were in blossom, and they could hardly wait to show them to me. They were back of the schoolhouse. Jack tied my horse, and we hurried around where they were — all of us. And I'll never forget Jack's face as he threw himself down on his knees beside that tulip-bed with his straw hat on the ground beside him and the morning sun bringing out the gold in his tousled hair as he reached over and took hold so tenderly of a great red tulip and said, \"This here one is my tulip. Don't you think it is the reddest of all?\"", "As I saw the reverence in his face for these beautiful flowers, I was not sur- prised when his teacher told me afterward", "that he did not swear or use tobacco any more. No boy or girl can really love beautiful things and still have room for things that are impure in their hearts.", "Three Kinds of Reverence", "In a school conducted in a mountain valley in Europe thousands of years ago they taught the three R's. This was not reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic as some of our fathers and mothers knew the three R's, but the three kinds of Reverence : first, r .verence for Go... and the things of the spirit, \"the things above\" they called this course ; second, reference for the things below, that meant everything that grew around them, and, third, reverence for the good in all mankind.", "In this beautiful springtime when every- thing is waking to a new life around us may you know in your own lives what these three kinds of reverence mean. I think if you have a garden of your own this year it will help you to understand about it. At any rate, while the year is at the spring, may you, my country girls, understand the value of making the most of the things around you. I have in my possession a basket m.ade of long-leaf pine-needles which I prize very much. It was made by a little colored girl in Ala- bama. She had nothing to work with, she thought. But she looked around her and saw the long pine-needles under the trees ; then she thought of the pieces of cotton threads that were waste around the cotton-mill in the neighborhood. She tied these pieces of thread together, gath- ered the pine-needles and made with them beautiful baskets. So may you. too, learn to value that which you find around you.", "PROCLAMATION", "Of the Return of the Spirit of Ruskin to the Elarth", "A NOBLE influence is beginning again in our land. It is the power", "of the deathless Ruskin. The name of this teacher will appear in the story of many an eminent citizen — day after to-morrow.", "Ruskin was called \"the greatest gladiator of his age.\" His jeweled sword, drawn for beauty and righteovisness' sake, shall flash again. It shall make a thousand conquests in the dominion of the soul.", "The new Ruskin gladiators speak a language that would, perhaps, vex him. They may violate his dogmas and run counter to his 'Victorian limitations. But they fight against the same powers of darkness.", "And their souls within them have the same changeling makeup. For the soul of this gladiator was but that of an elf unexpectedly equipped with a giant's armor and resolution. He had the thunder of Moses in the mount at his command. It was no mere phrase when Carlyle called him his \"ethereal one.\" To Ruskin the death of a lily was a crime, the slaying of the green grass a massacre. He toiled for a thousand whims. Each whim, when closely looked upon, was to make England more like fairyland. Through his valor many a corner of that England is clean and decked with a delicate splendor.", "Yet he had the soul of a monk. He could renounce, and renounce even that beaiity which was his heart's blood, in order that holiness and mercy be brotight to the weary. The last half of his life he turned his back on all his former standing and broke his heart trying to bring uncounted blessings to men. The serene art critic became the burning economic prophet, and took the prophet's portion of scorn, and won the prophet's ultimate authority.", "He was a Shelley, with the power of prayer and poetical achievement. He was a Shelley not only able to speak for beauty, but to live it per- fectly and dramatically throvigh all his years.", "Like Charles Martel hammering the Saracens at Tours, like Miltiades pursuing the Persians at Marathon, or Patriarch Nimrod driving the great beasts of the plain, he drove the powers of darkness before him in many a battle, and would not acknowledge defeat.", "By the valor of his returning sword we shall have on every highroad the beginning of elfin beauty, we shall have the beginning of justice and mercy. The foundations of the Church of the Open Sky, the Church of the Rose of Sharon, the Church of the Living God, shall more splen- didly appear because of this law-giver from Fairyland.", "This, hy faitli, and a study of the signs, we proclaim.'", "You'll be glad you own a", "FISH BRAND REFLEX SLICKER", "to keep you dry.", "Roomy Durable Comfortable Reflex Edges makes it impossible for water to get in at the front, and our \"Staydfast\" Pockets will not rip.", "$3,00 Everywhere", "Satisfaction Guaranteed", "If not at your dealer'a eent prepaid on receipt of price. Send for illus- trated folder describing this and other FISH BRAND garments.", "'^(S^ER]g A. J. TOWER CO.", "Tower Canadian Limited . •^■WBEPk!?^ Toronto 1131", "RANGER\" BICYCLES^", "Have imported roller chains, sprockets and Htdals: Nenj Departure Coaster-Brakes and Hui>s: Puncture Proof Tires: highest grade equipment and many advanced features pos- sessed by n o other -wheels . Gua ra n teedjyrs.", "FACTORY PRICES", "others ask for cheap -wheels. Other reliable models from tl2 up. A few good second- hand machines $3 to $8.", "lODAYS'FREETRIALr.lp^", "\\pTii'iVt\\, freight prepaid, anywhere in U. S., unthmU a cent in ad-vance. DO NOT BUTa bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone zxany ^ price until you get our big- new catalog and special prices and a marvelous new offer, A postal brings everything. Write it now.", "TipCC Coaster Brake Kear\"W;heel8, lamps,", "I iBIbW parts, and sundries half usual prices. Rider Agents every^vhere are coining money selling our bl. cycles, tires and sundries. Write today,", "MEAD CYCLE CO., Dept. D-83, CHICAGO", "A Leading Woman's Magazine", "The Woman's World is, without doubt, the best magazine ever printed for the money: iu fact, is superior to many magazines selling for more than this. It is not only attractive in appearance, but its columns are full of the choicest litera- ture that money can buy. The contents of the Woman's World are selected with a view of entertaining and educating its readers. It is a big value at a low price. Every farmer in the country should take this opportunity of obtaining the Woman's World without cost in connec- tion with F.4EM AND Fireside. You can get the leading medium-priced woman's publication for two whole years without cost by extending your own subscription to Farm and Fireside one year.", "Farm and Fireside, one year 1", "regular price 50 cents ( Both for", "Woman's World, two years \\ SO cents", "regular price 50 cents j", "Send your order at once to", "FARM AND FIRESIDE", "Springfield, Ohio", "ARMY AUCTION BARGAINS", "New Uniforms.. .$1,50 np Armv Revolvers ...1.65 \" ■ \" Rptg. Rifles .1.48 \"", "\" Swords 35 \"", "7ShotCarbines2.95", "Saddles $3.00 np", "Bridles 90 ^", "Team Harness ..21.85 **", "Leggins, Pair 15 *'", "Tents 2.20 \"", "Colts Cal. 45, Revolvers 7.50 np. Cartridges Ic each Sp' field Mauser Sp'f g Rifie 11.S5. Cartridges 2c eacb. Army Breech Loading Rifle .9Sc. Cartridges So eact MARCH 1913 CATALOGUE, 400 large pages. overoyOO illas- trationa. 15 acr«3 Gov't. Auction Bargains described in ejclo- pedia catalogue, mailed 25e stamps. FRANCIS BANNERMAN, 501 Broadway. New York City", "on First Cost- Then", "F= MORE HEAT ^", "WITH LESS FUEL", "Are you williuGr to pay 825 to 875 more for a fur- nace not nearly as good as the Kalamazoo! Certainly not, especially when the Kalamazoo prives greater heat and cuts down fuel bills. Furnace and complete fittings shipped directat factory price.", "30 Days Free Trial— Cash or Credit", "You don't keep the Kalamtizoo unless it proves In service that it can heat your house perfectly at minimum expense. Convenient payments. We pay freight charges.", "Furnace Book Free", "Gives yoa facts that will save you money in buying, installing and operating your furnace. We're glad to mail It free— write a request on a postal,— ask for catalog No. 921.", "Kalamazoo Stove Co.. Mfrs., Kalamazoo, Micli.", "We have two other catalogs, one describing Heating and Cooking Stoves, the other describ- ing Gas Ranges. \"Which one do you wish? Trade Mark Registered.", "A KalanvazoQ tii", "Farm and Fireside, March 29, 1913", ">^DVENTURES(3/^^T3EMEFICIARY", "Characters of the Story", "Emery Wright, a young city man whose claim to his Uncle Nathan's fortune depends upon his successfully managing a Revolutionary relic in the shape of a man- propelled river ferry in New Hampshire. In his igno- rance he is persuaded by \"Chicken Smithers\" to buy six \"mated pairs\" of chickens. They are \"Alderneys\" and \"Holsteins.\" A large Shanghai rooster has a bantam hen as an affinity.", "While Wright is sketching he is attacked by an angry \"cow ' that chases him across a field, and through this episode he learns that cows are sometimes bulls.", "Pete, a half-witted youth, who seems to \"come with the ferry.\" Later Emery Wright learns differently and has to deal with Pete's uncle, who demands wages for Pete's services.", "Miss L.ansing, a young lady whose parents have a sum- mer residence close to the hereditary ferry. She meets Mr. Wright on his first trip across the ferry. He falls at the same time into love and the river. He rescues himself and the ferry and then determines to learn to swim.", "Mr. Dodd. the attorney, who makes known to Mr. Wright the terms of his uncle's will and who is to give the nephew any necessary legal advice.", "H.\\L I.OMOND, who is also in love with Miss Lansing, and who is the owner of a red car.", "Mr.=;. Hutley, a middle-aged woman, knocked senseless by Wright, who mistakes her for a thug.", "When Emery Wright arrives at the ferry, his adven- tures begin. This is a continuation of them.", "Chapter XXIV. — Primitive Justice", "IT WAS with a feeling of relief that the ferrj'man heard the clock strike five, the hour of his engage- ment with Lomond. He slipped the little lantern into one coat-pocket and the piece of stained cloth into another, the proceeding being watched by the Dentist with red and covetous eyes. Pete was bidden to hold himself in readiness for ferry duty, and Wright strode off at a good round pace with the Dentist following him.", "Where Lomond earlier in the day had come upon Wright, the latter discovered his rival, who had cast himself down upon a stretch of dusty roadside turf. When he beheld the ferryman, he sprang to his feet, pulled off his coat and tossed it behind him.", "\"I thought you'd never come,\" he said with an oath. \"Now you're here, let's get to business !\"", "\"I'm on time.\" Wright retorted. It flashed upon him that for a gallant who had begged a little indulgence on the score of expectation of lingering joyously in a cer- tain blissful presence Lomond had been strangely prompt at their tryst, and his pulse quickened. \"I'm ready too,\" he added, \"except that I must have a word or two with \\ou first.\"", "\"Oh, cut out the oratory !\" Lomond said impatiently. \"Time and place suit me : quicker the one and nearer the other, the better. And if you're hedging and trust- ing to an apology, it's too late, I tell you !\"", "Wright ignored the taunt, but a spot of red showed on either cheek.", "\"Lomond,\" he said sternly, \"I'm here to thrash you, and I'll do it if I can. But I won't go into this thing under what you might call false pretenses. Now, I'm. not apologizing, understand, but I am going to tell you that when I hinted to-day I could send you to prison I may have been mistaken. Did you ever see this before?\" Wright drew the lantern from his pocket.", "\"It's mine — belongs with the car,\" Lomond said. \"Missed it a week ago. So you stole it, eh?\"", "Wright's color heightened, but he kept his temper. \"That lantern,\" he said, \"was found near my barn just after somebody tried to burn the building. Half a dozen people saw it and identified it as yours.\"", "\"Good Lord !\" Lomond cried. \"You don't think I'm a blanked fire-bug, do you? The lantern was stolen, I tell you. You find the thief, and j'ou'll find the villain that tried to burn your place !\"", "\"I'll be open with you; that's my notion too,\" Wright told him. \"It happens I've more or less of a clew — enough, an,\\ way, to give you the benefit of a reasonable doubt.\"", "Lomond's face brightened perceptibly. \"Oh. 1 accept the apology — \" he began, but Wright stopped him.", "\"You'll have to extract it first,\" he said. \"That's no apology ; it's a statement. We've got plenty of other reasons for a fight.\"", "The declaration affected Lomond strikingly. \"We're wasting time; get out of that coat!\" he shouted and clenched his fists.", "Wright needed no urging. He slipped off his jacket, dropped it in the ditch, and was surprised to see the Dentist, who had crawled up in the course of the dia- logue, lose no time in settling dowri beside the garment. Tlie little incident touched him even on the verge of battle; for it betokened a loyalty to his interests he hardly had expected in so recent an addition to the ferry staff.", ".A.S a fight the combat that followed made up in variety what it lacked in adherence to the rules of the sciuared circle. In weight Lomond enjoyed a slight pre- ponderance, while in reach the advantage lay with Wright. In knowledge of boxing the ferryman was out- classed, but in training the odds were all his way. Lomond was puffing even when, after a brief exchange of blow and parry, he landed a resounding left-hander squarely on Wright's forehead and scored a clean knock-down.", "The ferryman scrambled to his feet, somcw'hat dazed, a good deal surprised and thoroughly aware of the need of a rlKui'^i' in stralci^v. Me bad no difficulty in avoid-", "ing Lomond's next rush, though the blow he aimed at his passing adversary missed its mark. He was very cool and determined to win the fight at all costs. His head \\vas clearing, and his breathing was hardly quick- ened, thanks to the out-of-door existence he had led at the ferry' ; and common sense rather than any knowledge of pugilistic tactics suggested the desirability of wear- ing his enemy out. Wherefore, there ensued a period of dodging, feints, dashes and retreats that carried the com- batants across the road, into the ditch and almost over the Dentist, up the bank, then back into the road again, and then in a series of zigzags along the highway. Twice they came to a clinch with fierce though ineffective infighting ; but each time Lomond broke Wright's hold and strove vainly to land a swing that would end the battle then and there. He was in distress now, blowing like a porpoise and wasting breath, moreover, in ex- hortations to Wright to come on and fight like a man. And then, w-hen he attempted a fresh charge, a stone slipped beneath his shoe, and he stumbled. Wright's chance had come at last. He caught his adversary about the waist and bore him backward till he lost his footing and fell heavily in the road.", "\"Got enough?\" the ferrxman demanded. \"Y'ou're taking this — say when!\"", "Lomond's thick body wriggled desperately. The fist vanished from before his eyes, but a heavy hand closed upon his throat.", "\"Got enough?\" he heard repeated, but now the words sounded faint and as if from a distance.", "\"Ye — ^yes.\" It was torn from him in his extremity and was uttered in a gasping whisper. Lomond felt a sudden relaxation of the strangling pressure upon his windpipe; then, strangely enough, he heard voices raised in anger, and mingled with them the rumble of a big dog's growl.", "Lomond turned his head cautiously, a little pain- fully, perhaps ; but what he saw was sufficient to make him raise himself on an elbow and stare at a bewilder- ing change in the players and the action of the drama. He was just in time, indeed, to behold Zeb Simonds lunge at Wright, contemptuously parry a counter, and then go down in a heap, when a raging, tawny creature flung itself at his throat and dragged h i m to earth.", "Lomond t o t- tered to his feet and cautiously approached the fallen man. He was lying mo- tionless as a log. for close to his head crouched the Dentist, h i s b i g teeth bared and glistening, and his red eyes fixed upon his prey, awaiting the movement which should be the signal for re- newed attack. Wright took from h i s coat- pocket the piece of cloth, torn and stained, and with this in hand he came back to the center of the current activities.", "\"Look at this. L o m o n d,\" h e said quietly. \"Here's an ex- hibit that inter- ests you as well as it does me.\"", "Lomond followed the direction of the other's glance.", "\"I — I — whalt