AMERICAN SEPARATOR CO

["The Best Constructed Cream Separator", "EVERY year the superiority of the De Laval over all other cream separators becomes greater. Every year the De Laval offers separator buyers a better machine than the year before.", "Note the improved features of the latest De Laval machines as shown in the illustration below, representing the very latest and best in cream separator design and construction.", "SIMPLE CREAM SCREW ADJUSTMENT", "SIGHT FEED LUBRICATOR (SOLE OIL SUPPLY)", "CENTER BALANCED BOWL", "SPUT-WING TUBULAR OR FEEDING SHAFT", "ONE PIECE DETACHED SPINDLE", "SEAMLESS ANTl-SPL^SH SANITARY SUPPLY CAN", "SANITARY FAUCET", "EXTRA HEAVY TINVVARE", "REVERSIBLE ROAT", "IMPROVED ALPHA-DE LAVAL\" SEPARATING DISCS.", "HEAVY PART OF BOWL BELOW CENTER OF GRAVITY", "HIGH SEARING CASE PROTECTNG GEARS FROM MILK AND WATER", "HELICAL TOOTH SPUR, PINION AND WORM WHEEL GEARS.", "BRONZE REVERSIBLE WORM WHEa FRAME JOINING SCREW OPEN. SANITARY BASE", "The new De Laval catalog just out explains in detail the advan- tages of De Laval design and construction and why the De Laval is superior to all other cream separators. It will be mailed free upon request to the nearest office.", "The De Laval Separator Co.", "SAN FRANCISCO", "nON'T RIIY a Gasolioe Engine—", "- Ifntil You Investigate the \"TEMPLE''", "Operates on 30S lo 50^t less fuel than any average engine. Bums fasoline, kerosene, eas or distillate. A3 explosions take place low down and are absorbed by the ground instead of the ea- eine, vibrations arc practically eliminated. This lenethens life of eneine and the machine 1 to 50 it drives. Crank shaft over cylinder secures perfect lubrication by gravity. Means less friaion. less wear and more power from every pint of fueL", "TEMPLE Engines are slow speed, heavy duty engines. Our design requires 504 less floor space and weight than the average Yet it is built stronger in proportion to strains, outclasses every engine made for portable uses. Built with single or double cylinders.", "Try One 30 Days", "The Temple Eniplne has won 5 first premiums. See why our mails are crowded J with enthusiastic letters from owners. They write — \"My engine consomes half the oil of myj^ neighbor's doing the same work.\" \"My engine saves grain in threshing owing to its unbroken ^ power.\" This is our GOth year as manufacturers — an absolute guarantee that you are safe in dealing with ug. Write today for full particulars. Ask about our 30-day trial < Get our caUlog. TEMPLE PUMP d; EKGJLNE CO., 254 Meagher St., CHICAGO, II", "The Market Outlook", "Heavy Marketing of Hogs", "By L. K. Brown", "EVER since the scare in the cattle-mar- ket there have been heavy receipts in bogs. Prices have about been main- tained since their di'op. and the market has been healthy. The packers have been heavy buy-rs. showing that they are in need of the hogs, and that there is a profit in it. The demand for meat and lard has been m;iintained and offers an outlet for aU that is in the supply.", "At eastern points there has been a run of local hogs, cutting the shipping demand at western points, which has been the cause of much of the drop in price. With the disappearance of this and the return of shippers, prices will have a tendency to advance, provided supply at western mar- kets does not increase.", "The packing interests have for some time been foreetisting a June slump. It has been so widely published that many have taken it for granted, and probably the continued heavy May marketing has been the result of an effort to dodge it. The increased num- ber of 22.5-pound stuff on the market would seem to indicate this action. It is possible that this clean-up during May will prevent the June slump, as the receipts may be lighter.", "Compared with one year ago. conditions are decidedly different. At that time the packers' cellars were full of cheap meat, the receipts were rather light, and these killers were boosting the market so as to dispose of their stocks at a higher price. To-day their cellars are almost bare, the receipts are rather heavy, and the packers gather in all the hogs they can, and at as low a figure as possible. It is a good deal of a case of market manipulation.", "While recent weather has been favorable for the pig crop, many early litters were lost, and many litters are small, so that the number of pigs is about the same as one year ago.", "The provisions-market has moved down with live-hog prices and is healthy on the new basis.", "Sell at Your Own Time", "By W. S. A. Smith T'HERE has been, all through the month of May. an undertone of unrest among cattlemen — a feeling that even with an allowed shortage of cattle the market might slump. The consequence has been that the market has at times had more cattle than necessary, and we have had sharp breaks of from twenty-five to fifty cents per hun- dredweight followed by sharp advances the following week. Cattle are on such a level now that packers evidently do not care to buy rdore than is actually necessary for daily needs. David Harum says, \"It's a fool who tells at the top.\" and I guess he is pretty nearly right. Hanging on for the last nickel and overstaying the market has ruined many a man. I have always been and always will be, in favor of playing the game safe when it can be played safe. So when the cattle-market was lively about the middle of April I contracted 350 head of 1,100-pound cattle to one of the packing companies for $8.75 locally, to be delivered on or before June 15th at Sioux City. At the time these cattle were contracted they were worth on the local market about 5>8..35. so that with sixty days' more feed ,$S.75 was not an unreasonable price. The large majority of the stock-yards talent seemed to think I had made a great mistake in con- tracting. However, when the market broke ten days afterward I began to receive f- wer condolences. What the market will be by June I know not, but hope it will come back", "President S. R. FEIL Reg. Pharmacist and", "I'll Feed Your Stock GO Days Before You Pay", "I want the privilege of semling you a 00- dny supply of SAL-VET. the great worm rlcatroytr and conditioner, at my risk and without asking you u single penny in ndviince.", "If your stock (especially sheep and hoEb) couRh. look KHunt and thin, have dull eyes. loKK.'ird aUttm nnd drooping ears— look out for worms. They are stealing your stock profits and keeping your animals from thriving nnd putting on money- making flesh. .Some may even die. I'll stop ihis'' losscf, or no pay", "READ THIS LETTER", "Ship U3 at once , nother ,300-rb. barrel of Sal-Vet. We hud nvaluable asset to successful sheep Every sheep on our place is in", "farming , - _ .", "excellent, thrifty condition.\" -7 Geo McKerrow A- Sons, Pcwaukee, Wis.", "I never ask any man to", "pay me a penny for Sal-Vet un- til he has convinced himself that it has rid his stock of ^* ^ worms — stopped his los.'^es ^< ^ and increased his profits. Reao this lib- ^# ♦' V*", "erni ofTi r, already accepted by hundreds , of Ihoii^ands of farmers:", "40 lla t2M, 101 llx. 2U01U. ID. V*) ]ht 113.00, Vj<i lla. 111.13. No illip- tnwit infcdf, of leBf thno 40 Ih*. on (VMlky ofTor. Nevar filA to bij]k;<.Dly inTriid*. Markiy) Sal-Vet ifsrkaKM.", "Send No Money— Just the Coupon", "•Tuit fill out the r»uiH>ii. tnll mc h'>w initnr licad of tUM-k juu \\iav; mail il to Vxinf. I'll tend you onoiiKh Sat-Vol to Uil rII jroiir >t<K-k 60 d«]ri. You limitlT p»T the froiKht charfco* wh*D it ^ arrivofl; whoD thn 60 rUyi kt* up r«|><irt rcfult*. If Skl-Vut d<>«i not do All I clftim, I'll CftDcol tho charftn; you won't ow« me ft itanny. Sood Do monttT, Jutt th« coupon. AddroM ^ <", "S. R. FeH. Pres. THE S. R. FEIL CO., Dept. F & F. Cleveland. Ohio xVVVa*^*\"", "-vV \\t -.<. .B*", "Farm and Fireside, June 7, 1913", "and the cattle be worth the money. The point I wish to make is this : that no man can tell you when to seU your cattle. The time to sell must be decided by you, and you alone: If the cattle are making money think once. If they are losing money think twice. The keen edge has now gone off stock cattle, and I fully expect to see lower prices from now on. as the quality coming to' market is very poor, and quality cuts quite a figure with this class of cattle. There never has been so much trash sold as this spring at very high prices, and I often wonder how the buyer figures his prospective profits. Crops in western Iowa will be planted late, owing to an excess of moisture and a cold, late spring. This, however, can be very quickly made up by a few weeks of warm weather. South Da- kota, which has suffered for two years in its western part for lack of rain, has this year abundant moisture, and everything points to good crops.", "hoTM at bM,l of oattl*. M Dt«r M »* cftD »iin« without brMkbif rtfulftr pMka«M.", "Meeting the Market Demand", "By John P. Ross |URING the past month fluctuations of from twenty-five to seventy-five cents have been rather frequent in the sheep- market, and buyers have sometimes been able to have their own way, being helped out by the prevailing dullness in eastern markets, and by the fact that feedei-s in Colorado and some of the Western States, with a view to closing out for the season, were sending in quite a large amount of stuff, often of poor quality. Still, through . all of this, the prices of sheep and lambs | have never fallen below a point which could fairly be c-onsidered as satisfactory. Though trade has at times been slow, yet a market has been found for everything offered.", "Shearing has been general, and shorn stock in good demand, relative prices having been about as follows :", "AYooled lambs— light, choice . .$8.25'? §8.60 Wooled lambs — heavy, choice. . 8.00@ 8.25", "Wooled wethers — choice 6.25@ 7.00 ,", "Wooled ewes — choice 5,50@ 6.50 1", "Shorn lambs — good 7.00@ 7.75", "Shorn wethers — good 6.00@ 6.75", "Shorn ewes— good 5.00® 6.00", "A heavy run of lambs from Kentucky and the South may lower the market somewhat. Genuine spring lambs are few and far be- tween.", "An association has been formed to pro- mote the more general consumption of mut- ton and lamb. Their endeavors are worthy of success ; but, since the American is dainty as to the quality of the meat he eats. ^ it would be well for them to start, also, a j propaganda among the farmers to impress 1 upon them the need of improving the qual- I ity of the sheep and lambs they breed and ^ feed. If we are to be inundated with a flood of frozen meat — though that is hardly likely to happen — we are blessed with sev- eral millions of people from southern and eastern Europe, and even from Asia, who will be delighted to get it. if it is only cheap enough.", "Pro^'identially, however, there is still left among us suflBcient of the American type to consume all the choice legs and loins of mutton and lamb we can produce, and to pay for them liberally, and it is going to be up to our farmers of many or few acres to see that this praiseworthy taste should not go unsatisfied.", "Quality Goods in Demand", "The conversion of the ranges having closed out that great source of our sheep supply, the field of endeavor in that line is thrown more open to the farmer. • To reap its full benefit he must be prepared to pro- duce the goods of the highest quality ; and there is but one way to do it. There arc hundreds of men giving their best knowl- edge, energies and means to the importin;; and breeding of the very best types of mutton-aud-wool sheep to be found any- where in the world. It would be invidious to name any of tht^m here, but their flix'ks are well known, and their breeding rain.s and ewes are sought for eagerly by up-to- date sheepmen. But this is not enough under the changed circumstances, uiidei- which the consumers of sheep-meat have sn gr(>:itly increased in numbers, while the supply of sheep has diminished.", "It lias become necessary that every man who desires to keep up the fertility of his farm, and to earn his share of the good prices of live stock, should keep a flock : and whether it consists of twenty-five or ol five hundred ewes he must avail him.self of the efforts of the men above spoken of. cease to be content to breed scrubs, ami be willing to pay the necessary but ver.\\ moderate prices at which their pure-bren rams can now be bought. By doing this even if he can only afford to start in with grade ewes, he can. by retaining the best ol his ewe lambs and carefully mating them with rams of the same type (a little iu breeding will do no harm), in two or thrcf seasons own a flock of which he may be proud, and make more money out of the investment than he will out of any othei product of his farm.", "Now that the lambs are going to gras.- keep a sharp lookovit for scouring. Don't stop their grain ration too suddenly.", "PRESIDENT WILSON, it is an- nounced, desires that currency legislation be taken up at the present session of Congress, con- sidered and, if possible, passed. In this purpose it is not believed that many members of Congress, of any party, strongly support him ; but he is likely to have his own way. The President has never lived through a long session of Congress in Washington. His views about the midsummer climate of this town are academic.", "He knows by common report how that climate gets on the nerves of people, how cross it makes senators and con- gressmen, and how presidents, even of the strenuous persuasion, have been dis- posed to get away from it before the August crisis comes. But still he hasn't had the experience, and nobody quite knows midsummer Washington who doesn't know it.", "Before we get much farther with him we will be agreed that Mr. Wilson is a right strenuous president himself. He doesn't waste much energy in non- essential occupa- He", "Why I Don't Look for Hard Times", "'Y^E ARE revising the tariff down- ward. There will be a measure of industrial and financial depression as a result. Some people will be hurt; some will think they are hurt. Some will think others will be hurt, and still others will think they will be hurt be- cause others will think they will be hurt.", "t i o n s. He has developed a won- derful faculty for keeping his eye on the main is- sue, and energies at work on it. At the time I am writing he has seen the tariff bill pass the House and go to the", "Senate. He knows pretty accurately how the Senate is going to behave about it. There will be a conversational Marathon, and the bill will pass. The Marathon doesn't greatly interest the President ; he looks upon it as inevita- ble; a cross to be borne with patience.", "But for himself, having determined what he wants done about the tariff, and how he is going to get it done if possible, he has traveled on ahead to the next task, and is giving attention largely to it. That is the currency-reform issue. When it was first reported by his callers that the President would like to have currency legislation taken up at this session as a trailer to the tariff, there was general expression of confidence that he would change his mind. Con- gress has a theory that one big job is about all that should be expected of it at a single session. Also, it has a theory that nothing worth while should be ex- pected of it at a short session. To pass the appropriation bills is about as much as it feels capable of attempting at the short session. There being two long sessions in each administration, that means that Congress is amiablj' dis- posed about tackling two really im- portant tasks in each presidential term.", "The President's Attitude", "TTO GET back to currency, which the * President wants handled just as soon as possible, it is explained that there is a good bit of politics mixed up with the attitude of the President and of all parties toward the currency. The Presi- dent is said to figure thus :", "\"We are revising the tariff downward. There will be a measure of industrial and financial depression as a result. Some people will be hurt ; some will think they are hurt. Some will think others will be hurt, and still others will think they will be hurt because others will think they will be hurt. If, then, the harm that actually happens, plus the harm people fear may happen, amounts to anything like a financial stringency^ it will be desirable to have the currency in the best possible shape to cushion the shock. Therefore cur- rency legi.slation ought to go along with the tariff enactment.\"", "But here comes a practical difficulty. The aggregation of people that used to be the Republican party, and that now, speaking broadly, constitutes the Repub- lican and Progressive parties, is looking to the future. Whatever the rank and file of these people may think, it is a fact that their leaders, as we find them in Congress, think there will be some business depression following the taking effect of the new tariff. Your stand- patter reasons somewhat thus :", "\"This tariff revision is going to have a bad effect. It is going to teach the", "country a lesson. It will hurt some people directly, and", "some others indirectl.v. If they're hurt badly enough there will be a sharp reac- tion against everything Democratic, and that reaction will cause the pendulum to swing back toward the old high-tariff program of the conservative Repub- licans. That will be our chance. Why should we sweat here all summer and fall, passing a currency bill whose real purpose is to act as a pneumatic cushion for business to light on so that it will not know how badly it has been hurt by the tariff revision? What we want, the thing that wUl help our cause, is to have the tariff revision get the full credit for all the harm it may do. Then folks will get their attention centered on that issue, we will make our fight on it, and the country will swing back into our control where it ought to be.\" Therefore the extreme high-tariff wing of the Repub- licans is not much in favor of rushing cur- rency legislation into the statute books on the heels of the tariff revision.", "The progressive element of Rfepub- licans and former Republicans are in a different situation. Those who have thus far stuck by the Republican party think their course has been vindicated by the party's defeat last November. They be- lieve they could reorganize the party back into something like its old soli- darity, if they could only get the chance.", "Here is the Chance for the Republicans", "CO THEY are demanding that the old element, the element that always op- posed Roosevelt and Rooseveltism. retire from control and turn over the machin- ery to the progi-essive crowd; to the people who are represented by LaFol- lette, Cummins, Borah, Bristow. Norris, Murdock and the rest of that group. They believe that if the present national committee, which is controlled by the conservative wing, would call an ex- traordinary Republican national con- vention, just for the purpose of party reorganization, it would be possible to accomplish that reorganization, to put the machinery in the hands of the liberal element, and to give the country some acceptable assurances of purpose to keep in touch, in future, vnth the, currents of real sentiment.", "That much accomplished, these . ad- vanced Republicans think that they could coax back into the party a large proportion of those who supported Roosevelt last fall, could hold those who supported Taft, and, if times really get close following the enactment of the tariff, would have a chance to make a good fight in the congressional election next year. ^", "Now let me explain the precise dif- ference between the conservative and the progressive", "By Judson C. Welliver", "Republicans. The conservatives, the men like Boies Penrose and Murray Crane, think that things are going to get so bad that the country will be rushing pell- mell back into the arms of the high-tariff wing. They think the Pa yne-Aldrich bill is going to get a vindica- tion ; at least, they hope so. And they say, \"If things are going to .swing back to our policies, why shouldn't we be there to welcome 'em? Wliy should we abdicate just when the crown is being polished up to fit our head? No; we'll postpone this abdicating business; well wait and see how things go.\"", "Before attempting to say what I think is going to come of all this complication, let one word be interjected as to the", "'J'HIS tariff legislation is not going to cause a panic or a grave depression comparable to that which began in 1893. There will be some slackening of industrial activity with- out doubt. It will not last long or be as acute as the last two depressions. It will be borne with more patience and less dis- position to blame the party in power, be- cause the public is not so ready as it used t<5 be to attribute everything to politics. Let it be remembered the Republican party had a panic in 1907 and still carried the country overwhelmingly in 1908. Doesn't that suggest that there is less disposition to attribute everything to politics?", "present attitude of the Democrats on the tariff subject. The commonest expression one hears in Washington, among the men who are putting through the tariff measure, is that of misgiving. The Democrats don't have the courage of their tariff convic- tions as they used to have it in the days when they were in opposition. They are fearful of the results of their revision.", "The Tariff, a Source of Trouble", "\"W/'ILL we have hard times?\" is the \" query the average Democrat ad- dresses to you. When a word of cheer is returned, your Democrat is likely to shake his head and dejectedly observe that \"You know, the tariff has always been our Jonah.\" The truth is that there are more protection Democrats than anybody ' would have believed a very few years ago. The South is full of them. They have been standiag by their party, fighting to get back into power, all the time fearful of the results- if they succeeded ; dreading the respon- sibility, but standing by the traditional party policy.", "A western Repub- lican of the progress- ive persuasion, a man who voted against the Payne-Aldrich bUl and who is also opposing the present Underwood meas- ure, said to me :", "\"The Democrats are making a bill that I can't support because it doesn't rest on any possible consistent theory of levying duties. But after they pass it, it deserves a fair chance, which it will not get. The elections come too often in this country. Before the new meas- ure gets a respectable try-out, and just while the country is in the worst condi- tion of fear and misgivings over it, an election will come, next year. If the new law could have three or four or five years to prove itself, to demonstrate what it really can do, the country might give a fair verdict on it. But we can't wait that long. The election must come just at the time when, if there is to be any hysteria over the thing, it will be at its height. The readjustment to new conditions will not have been accom- plished. At that most unfortunate mo- ment the Democrats will go before the country in the congressional election. If they should lose the House they would become panic-stricken, and noth- ing would save them in the general election of 1916. Then the standpat. Chinese-wall faction of Republicans would come back into power, and we would have another tariff for exclusion. The cause of real tariff reform would be staved off another dozen years.\"", "That is the view widely entertained by people who want tariff revision downward, but who don't want so much of it as the Underwood bill provides. They fear a reaction that may swing", "the country clear", "back to the other extreme.", "Now I am go- ing to set down what I think about this situa- 1 1 o n, modestly and in the hope that if I am all wrong readers will be charita- ble enough to forget it before the mistake is proved by events, yet with some little confidence and a sneaking hope that if my guess is right some few readers will remember and give me credit for it.", "This tariff' legislation is not going to cause a panic or a grave depression comparable to that which began in 1893. There will be some slackening of indus- trial activity without doubt. It will not last very long or be acute as have the last two depressions. It will be borne with more patience and less disposition", "to blame the party In power, because the public is not so ready as it used to be to attribute everything to politics. Let it be remembered that the Republican party had a panic in 1907 and still car- ried the country overwhelmingly in 1908. Doesn't that suggest that there is less disposition to attribute everything to politics ?", "Still there will be some depression and some revulsion against the Democrats. They will suffer in the congressional elections of next year. They will lose a good many seats in the House, and it is very doubtful if they will retain control of the Senate, on which their grip is very weak even now.", "But — here's more of the same guess — they will not lose control of the House. They will retain it by a good, substan- tial majority. The Republicans and the Progressives will not have got together, by that time, to a sufficient extent to enable them to put up an effective fight. True, the tendency right now is for them to draw closer and closer together. They are both opposed, generally, to the Underwood tariff bill.", "F, THEN, the harm that actually happens, plus the harm people fear may happen, amounts to anything like a financial stringency, it will be de- sirable to have the currency in the best possible shape to cushion the shock. Therefore currency legislation ought to go along with the tariff enactment.", "Their com- mon ground in opposition to it brings them daily closer to the pos- sibility of coales- cence. No matter how bitterly the progressive lead- ers may denounce the idea, no mat- ter how insistently the standpat manageraeut may protest that it will have none of the progressive alliance, the fact remains that most Of the third-party progressives in the House voted with the Republicans against the Underwood bill, and fought with the Republicans against it. The fact re- mains, likewise, that almost without exception the progressive Republicans in the Senate will do the same thing.", "But, inevitably and surely, this com- munity of opposition ■will tend t» bring the various elements that used to be Republicans closer together once more. LaFollette and Penrose may dislike each other with great cordiality; but when they have spent three months, shoulder to shoulder, heaving rocks at a common enemy, joining in a chorus of predictions of disaster to follow this legislation, they will be a lot more friendly than they were four years ago.", "No Telling What Will Happen in 1916", "CO. IT seems certain, the tendency will be for the two elements to gravitate closer together. But — and here is the real point, as I view it — they will not get close enough together to make ef- fective common cause in the congres- sional elections of 1914. The Penrose crowd is not willing to abdicate in favor of the insurgents, and the insurgents are not willing to come back and play second fiddle as they used to do. There will be some pride, some vanity, some plain pig- headedness. some ambition, in it. Also, there will be a sharp realization that, no matter what the leaders might agree to do, the millions of followers can't be picked up and tossed into the common pot so suddenly.", "The Democrats, then, will carry the House in the 1914 election by an ample majority : and there wUl be two years ahead for experiments, for experience with the results of Democratic policies, for all factions to think it over, for new issues to develop, for countless things to happen which must finally decide what sort of a line-up there will be in 1916. Present Indications decidedly sugge.st that a Democratic president will win in 1916 ; but present indications may be sadly misleading as to what will be the conditions when 1916 comes along. A great business disaster would wipe the Democrats oft' the political map. A foreign war would pretty nearly insure their retention in office; and in neither case would the election give a fair ver- dict on their policies and program. Neither the panic nor the war is likely to happen. It seems altogether probable that things political will just sort of wabble along for an indefinite time, and we vrill have to content ourselves with recollection of Lincoln's observation that the people, \"yes, the people wabble; but they wabble right.\"", "Farm and Fireside, June 7, 1913", "\"Huh! Apples are mighty plentiful this season. Nobody wants 'em\"", "The Market'-Hunter", "By Don Cameron Shafer", "Illustrated by W. C. Nims", "IHITE setter crouched to heel, hammer- ] less shotgun in the hollow of his arm, /■! Douglas Gordon stood in the middle of a carefully kept orchard, beneath a large snow-apple tree, eating the finest apple he had ever tasted. Above his head the leafy branches bent low with the weight of deep red fi-uit, until the very tree seemed to be bursting into ruby flame. There were six other snow-apple trees in tiie orchard, each heavy with the red-coated fruit — bushels and bu.shels of perfect snow-apples.", "\"And only yesterday I could not buy a suow-apple ■in the whole city,\" the youthful himter muttered to himself Ijetween bites. '\"I thought snow-apples wei'e extinct — their growth a lost art — and here is a veri- table treasure-house of them.\"", "It was no trouble to reach the bending branches, and he filled the pockets of his hunting-coat with fine apples, then passed through the orchard to a weather- beaten farmhouse which was nestled at the bottom of that little pocket in the hills, out of the way of the north and west winds, with a little brood of dark- gray barns and outbuildings grouped domestically about it, and fine old maples, shaggy of trunk and mighty of arm, gu: rding driveway and yard.", "It was noon, and the white setter was both tired and hungry after a long morning of tracking the vnld grouse in the tangled Ijerry-bushes and in the .second- growth thickets bordering the hill pastures. His keen nose told him that there was a lunch in the back pocket of his master's worn hunting-coat, and just why anyone .should stop to eat an apple, even if it was a beautiful rubj'-and-white color, he could not imagine.", "\"Come right in,\" called a cheery voice from the farmhouse in answer to Gordon's knock at the door- fr;ime.", "\"Xo, thanks,\" bowed Gordon as a motherly woman hastened to the oix-n door. \"I just want permission to sit on your warm, sunny porch, near this fine tub of running water, while I eat my lunch.\"", "\"Come right in to tli' tjible, an' let me get you a cold snack,\" begged the woman. \"We eat dinner pretty early here, but I guess I can find sometJiing for you.\"", "\"No, thanks; I have my lunch,\" smiled Gordon, \"and I have been helping myself to your snow-apples as I came through the orchard.\"", "Abner Andrews threw down his paper, pu.shed his glasses to the top of his bald head and came to the door in his blue stocking fi'et.", "\"Kotter let me get you u leetle cider,\" said he. \"I reckon you're tired an' hungry. Find any birds?\"", "\"Quite a few, but couldn't hit them — leaves too thick.\" answered Gordon as he filled the half of a cocoaiiut-shell with the sparkling spring-water. \"No elder, i)lease. I would rather have the water. We city folks rarely taste such fine spring-water as this.\"", "'Cinda, can't you find some pie?\" called Abner, knowing man's weakness for this delicacy.", "\"Susan is gettin' it, Abner,\" called the housewife.", "The lunch which came from the rear coat-pocket was v(My, very light, as befits a hunter of birds who has far to go in this age when game-birds are so very scarce, but It was enough for both dog and man. Cinda Andrews did not think so however, and neither did her hu.sband nor her pretty daughter Su-san.", "\"Please, sir,\" began a soft, pleasing voice be- hind Gordon. \"Please, sir, wouldn't you like a glass of milk?\"", "It was Susan, tall, lithe and radiantly beauti- ful with perfect health and vigor- ous youth. The sleeves of her plain blue calico dress were rolled well up over rounded brown arms, and the neck of the gown was tucked in, displaying a hand- some throat and a hint of a soft white bosom. Her cheeks were de- lightfully pink, and her even teeth of sparkling whiteness. And, ah, me ! when she smiled there leaped a winsome, ; elfish dimple i n one pink cheek !", "\"Why — yes — thank you \\\" stam- mered Gordon as he rose to his feet and took the glass in his trembling fingers.", "He noted that her large eyes were very, very blue and her abundant hair, sun-kissed and au- tumn-red. was un- like an3 thing he had ever seen — a nebulous, crown- ing glory of cop- I)ery light.", "And Susan flu.shed a pretty pink and white when she poured the milk, insisted upon the hunter's resuming his seat upon the porch, and set the glass pitcher down upon a chair within his reach. In another second she was gone, to t;eturn presently with a plate piled high with cookies and fruit-cake — and two large pieces of golden pumpkin pie. Setting the plate down beside the glass pitcher, she tossed one of the cookies to the crouched setter, who was watching his master so anxiously and hungrily, but the dog only sniffed at the cake which rolled against his crossed fore legs and turned his black muzzle away.", "\"Why, your dog won't eat cookies!\" Susan ex- claimed in surprise. \"I never saw a dog before that didn't like cake.\"", "\"He is passionately fond of cookies,\" answered Gor- don as he imwrapped the lunch. \"Then why doesn't he eat it?\"", "\"Because he has been taught to eat nothing handed him by stranger.s — nothing he finds lying about,\" ex- plained Gordon. \"In the city dog-poisoners are all too numerous.\"", "Gordon picked up the cooky and pretended to ex- amine it carefully. When he tossed it to the eager setter with an \"all right, old fellow,\" it disappeared in a twinkle.", "\"Oh, the city is such a wonderful place I\" mused the girl as she .stood there watching the dog.", "And, lest it .strike you as peculiar that .she should be talking thusly with a stranger, I must haste to write that such is the custom of the back country where true h()si)itality to strangers .still exists.", "\"It — it is a fearsome place,\" answered Gordon as he sampled the pie. \"There is happiness there,- but more of sorrow ; there is pleasure, but more of work ; there is joy. but more of bitter suffering; there are riches, but more of poverty, cruel, cruel povert.v !\"", "\"Oh,\" sighed the girl, as she leaned against the vine- covered porch column and stared dojvn the hazy val- ley, \"we of the country know what it is to l)e poor I\"", "\"But not of the cruel, pinching, deadly kind,\" an- swered Gordon. \"Here one can always have a home, always enough to eat, plenty of fre.sh air, freedom, birds and flower.s, woodland and sparkling lakes, brooks and trees and hills and — oh ! ever and ever so many treasures denied us in the city.\"", "\"We are land-poor, here in the country,\" she ex- plained. \"About all we have is scenery and fresh air — money is always so very scarce in the country.\"", "\"You require so little money and have .so much to .sell,\" smiled Gordon. \"We of the city have nothing to sell but the labor of our hands and the product of our minds.\"", "\"We have much to sell,\" she laughed merrily, \"but no buyers !\"", "\"No buyers!\" cried the young man in surprise. \"Why, never before was farm produce so high In the city. There Is a great demand for everything from the farm at a fancy price. Fresh eggs are worth sixty cents a dozen, butter is forty-nine cents a pound, and potatoes, apples and vegetables of all kinds were never higher. Only yesterday I searched the markets for a few .snow-apples such as I used to enjoy when I lived In the country. I found only a few brul.sed, wormy, half-grown apples, full of l)ad spots and bruises, called snow-apples out of courte.sy, for which they wanted two dollars a bushel.\"", "\"Two dollars a bu.shel !\" exclaimed Su.san, in a tone", "that Implied disbelief, although the young man was so very serious. \"Why, we have bushels and bushels of snow-apples every year and we can't even give them away.\"", "\"TNTiat?\" cried Gordou, Ms turn to doubt.", "\"It is a fact,\" nodded pretty Susan very seriously. \"We can never early apples. Tou see, the buyers don't get around untU late, if they come at all, and then they only want the winter apples, apples that will keep a long time, the Spitzenbergs, the Northern Spies, the Bald^vins, the Ri^sets and the Greenings.\"", "\"And all those beautiful apples — the finest apples in the world — go to waste?\" questioned Gordon in sur- prise.", "\"Yes,\" she answered, sighmg, \"because there is no one to buy them. We also have plenty of Red As- trachans, Strawberry apples and Yellow Transparents which we never sell. And no end of Seckel and Bart- lett pears and plums which no one ever thinks of buying.\"", "\"\\Miew !\" ejaculated Gordon. \"And only a little over fifty miles away are three large cities, totaling nearly half a million people, all begging and clamor- ing for fruit and pa\\'ing fancy prices for a very in- ferior article. Whew '\"", "\"But who will buy them?\" asked the girl. \"No one ever comes here from the city to buy fruit. The local apple-buyers are ofliering only sixty cents a barrel for apples this fall, and it hardly pays to pick them for that when the barrels cost fifteen cents apiece. The nearest evaporator and cider-mill will pay only twenty cents a hundred for shaken apples. We know from experience that the wholesale apple-buyers in the city wall not give us any more than this for our apples.\"", "\"No, they will give you just as little as possible, and sell them for just as much as they can get. But there are literally thousands of people who will buy your apples if you can get in touch with them. Thou-sands of barrels of very Inferior apples are being sold m the city every day now for more than two dollars a barrel. Perfect fruit, well packed and graded, should bring much more. The thing for you to do is to get in touch with consumers, not with^ greedy commission men.\"", "\"That is so much easier said than done when one lives so far away and knows not a soul in the city.\"", "\"There are many ways,\" answered Gordon thought- fully. \"The trouble with you country people is that you produce, and then sit down and patiently wait for someone to come and buy yoiu- products at his own figure — and if the buyer fails to come your fruit wastes and other products spoil. If you lived near enough to a city to haul your products to market once or twice a week you would find a ready sale for every- thing at a fine price, and farming could be made to pay as good a profit as any other manufacturing busi- ness. TSTny, do you know, they are selling buttermilk down In the city to-day for six cents a quart on the street and five cents a glass in the cafes ! Because you live some fifty miles from the nearest city, you think it quite impossible to market your produce.\"", "\"But how could we find those city markets?\" cried the girl.", "Gordon saw in a flash what really ailed these thrifty country folk, what was preventing them from making a financial succ-ess of their plant for the pro- duction and manufacture of food-stufifs. They had no salesmen. No one knew what they had to sell. The people who want farm produce and the people who raise it are separated by a wide, wide gulf, bridged only by a few commission houses, whose toll leaves but a meager margin of profit for the i^roducer. The farmer, he determined, ought to get In touch with his market, to feel it, to know its wants, its moods and its rewards.", "\"How long would a manufactui-ing plant keep out of the bankruptcy courts if it produced a certain brand of merchandise and did nothing to sell its goods?\" he asked to make his point clear. \"It would not exist a month. It must advertise in the pai>ers and magazines to let the people know what it has for sale — why its particular product Is better than the others. It must employ competent salesmen to go from place to place and sell its goods direct to the retailers. Fai'ming will never be a recognized finan- cial succ-ess until it adopts .some simple selling method. Every farm needs someone to sell its goods as well as to raise things.", "\"Look at the fine crop of apples you have this year. If you can get them to *he city and in the hands of the housewives they will be willing to pay you a fine price for them, probably enough to net you two dol- lars a barrel.\"", "After this long speech Gordon looked up and saw that Abner and Cinda had both come out on the sunny porch to listen, but he continued fearlessly — resolved to tell them the horrible truth — to make them take heed.", "\"One must get out and hustle to sell goods — any kind of goods. It Is easy enough to produce things, but it requires skill and hard work to sell the prod- ucts of mill and factory and farm.\"", "\"Do ye mean that I should go down to th' city an' sell those apples?\" questioned Abner. \"Who ever heard of such a thing?\"", "\"You certainly should.\" nodded Gordon, \"whether anyone ever heard of it or not Those apples should not be allowed to go to waste. You cannot afford to lose them.\"", "\"Huh, nobody'd buy 'em !\" snorted Abner. \"Apples are mighty i)leutiful this sea.son. Nobody wants 'em.\"", "\"All the more reason for hustling out and .•celling those apples,\" answered Gordon. \"In the factories of the city they employ men, and pay them good salaries too, just to find and stop the slightest waste, tlie least little leak. Here you .sit idly by and see a .season's growth of the finest fruit I ever saw wasted, because you are out of touch with the market. Even while| your fruit Is spoiling they are .selUng Oregon apples' of no iK'tter grade in your neighboring cities for five cents apiece.\"", "\"I am sure It is true !\" cried Su.san enthusiastically:.", "The young man smiled at her for this encourage-' ment and continued.", "\"Now I am employed In the sales department of a larg(^ manufacturing concem. Selling goods is my business, and perhaps this makes me too optimistic in this line. I have never .sold [concluded on page 15]", "or Sunday's Reading Hour", "Joseph Forgives His Brethren", "By Rev. Chas. O. Bemies Sunday-school lesson for June 8th : Gen. 45, 1-15. Rend Chapters 45 and 46.", "Golden Text : BehoTcT, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity !— Ps. 133. 1.", "The Bible, especially in the Old Testa- ment and the four Gospels, is a counti'y-life book. Let us interpret it accordingly. We believe that the Bible is a true record of facts.", "JUDAH, the kingly lion's whelp, struck the tenderest chord in Jo- seph's heart by his masterly plea for Benjamin, and climaxed his magnificent effort by offering to take the iplace of his brother Benjamin as a slave so ttiat the youngest son might be re- stored to his father. Joseph felt his pent-up emotions getting the better of him, and he ordered everyone except his brethren out of the room post-haste and wept aloud for very joy. . The greatest thing in the world, love, is an emotion. Heart, not head, rules the world. Religion without proper emo- tion is a cold-blooded parody. Love to God and to neighbor is the emotion on which hangs all the law and the prophets. Human sympathy Is one f the finest of earthly emotions, and we should properly cultivate the emotions the same as we cultivate the brain. When the heart, however, runs away with the head, or the head with the heart, there is an unbalanced man.", "The time had come, and Joseph re- vealed himself in a perfectly natural manner to his brethren with heartfelt emotion. At first they were terrified with fear of conscience and possible vengeance. If he should treat them as they had treated him! But Joseph had thoroughly tested their repentance and brotherly love, now he forgives them as God forgives, wholeheartedly and abso- lutely. He returns good for evil, and talks reassuringly to them in his and", "their native tongue, easing down their sen.se of guilt by declaring that God had wonderfully overruled their action of twenty years ago to the preservation of them and all the family through him.", "'Tis divine to forgive. When repent- ance and forgiveness weep together the past is dead and buried in a new-found joj'. This is the essence of the Gospel : Sincere repentance for the sinner, and absolute and eternal blotting-out of sia by divine forgiveness.", "Jacob Before Pharaoh", "By Rev. Chas. O. Bemies", "Sunday-school lesson for June 15th : Gen. 47, 1-12. Read Chapters 47-50.", "Golden Text : All things work together for good to them that love God. — Rom. 8, 2S.", "JACOB was the first scientific breeder \" of cattle mentioned in history, and we moderns who know so much haven't caught up with him yet. His son Joseph was the greatest farm-manager the world ever saw. He didn't bother with a paltry one hundred and sixty or a hundred thousand acres of cultivated land, but successfully managed all the farms of the whole coimtry of Egypt through seven bumper crops and seven years of famine and for the rest of his life. Jo- seph wanted to be reunited to his whole family, but as the famine was deadly in Canaan he could not leave his position as farm-manager, statesman, banker and chief ruler in Egypt to live up there. Pharaoh quickly and voluntarily solved the ticklish question as soon as he heard of the situation, by insisting that Jacob and all the sons' families and belongings should be brought down into the favored land of Goshen, not far from the capital city, in the delta of the Nile.", "The brothers were sent back home jubilant and abundantly supplied with provisions, presents and wagons for the children and wives for the return trans-", "portation. When they joyfully told Jacob of Joseph and his splendid position and Pharaoh's urgent request that the whole tribe go down to Egypt to live in plenty, he could not at fTrst believe it. But the sight of the wagons and provisions was proof positive, and he re- newed his strength, declaring his eager- ness to go down and see Joseph. No time was lost. The journey was safely made with all their flocks and herds and pos- sessions, together with all of Jacob's sixty-six sons and grandchildren. As fhey came into the country, Joseph had them directed into the place of their fu- ture abode and went down to welcome them. The meeting between Jacob ' and the son whom he had mourned as dead for twenty years was deeply touching. Then Joseph told his brethren how to act and what to say when he would present them before Pharaoh.", "Joseph knew that his brethren and father would find great favor with Pharaoh because of their occupation. God had met Jacob on the way down and told him that He would go with him into Egypt, and in good time He would fulfil His promises to his descendants. In due time Joseph picked otit five of his breth- ren and his father to be presented before Pharaoh. Noble-hearted Judah and Reu- ben must have been among the five. They were inexperienced in the customs of the magnificent Egyptian court, with its elaborate etiquette, but these rural folk, unused to city ways, seemed to be very much at ease. Why not? Their brother was the virtual ruler of Egypt \\ The brethren \"went through their part of the program without a hitch, and Pharaoh was more than pleased with them.", "Then Joseph as a climax introduced his aged father, Jacob. And Jacob, the wan- dering patriarch of a small tribe, shows his humble but God-given superiority over Pharaoh by pronouncing a heartfelt blessing on the mighty Pharaoh ! The really Gqd-filled man rightly feels him- self the equal of any man anywhere.", "Thz Market' Hunter", "[continued fbom page 14] farm produce, but I think that I can sell it.\" Here he looked again at Susan and noted the enthusiasm in her deep blue eyes. \"Just to prove that I am in the right of this argument, that those apples can aU be sold for a good price, I will undertake to sell them — for a consideration.\"", "\"What kind of a consideration?\" asked Abner.", "\"That I can conie out here next spring and fish that fine trout-stream which I see you have posted.\"", "\"Haw-haw-haw !\" chuckled Abner. \"Tou sell those apples for two doUars a barrel, like you was talkin', an' I'U give you that trout-stream !\"", "\"No, I'll just fish it — next spring,\" an- swered Gordon as he picked up his shotgun. \"Tou will hear from me in a day or two. Here is my card ; investigate me if you like. I shall sell your fruit, but I must in- sist that you be honest with those apples.\"", "\"Honest !\" breathed Susan, because she really did not understand how folk could be otherwise.", "\"We may be poor,\" answered Abner, \"but we've always been honest !\"", "\"One of the reasons why city people would rather trade with their grocer and purchase poor fruit at a fancy price, rather than buy it direct from the farm, is because the fai-mer has cheated and robbed and fooled them too many times,\" explained Gordon.", "\"Why, sir, we never try to cheat folks !\" cried Cinda in horror. \"Though I've heard as how those things was done.\"", "\"I am sure thatyou do not.\" smiled Gor- don as he whistled to his dog. \"Now if you wUl give me your R. F. D. address I wUl sell your apples — or never speak of myself as a salesman again.\"", "Early next morning Douglas Gordon was down-town in the market district of his home city displaying samples of snow- apples from the Andrews farm. With his assurance and guarantee that the fruit would be hand-picked and not shaken from the trees, carefully and honestly packed, all of fine size and color. Gordon had no diffi- culty in securing orders for all the snow- apples the Andrews orchard could supply.", "Abner Andrews, assisted by Susan and a young nephew, hand-picked the snow- apples and packed them in new barrels just as Gordon wrote in his instructions. They discarded the wormy and deformed fruit and shipped only the best. Each barrel showed an even grade of perfect fruit from top to bottom. Forty barrels they packed and shipped in this way, hauling them to the nearest railroad station, which", "was but four miles away and the haul all down grade, and didy shipped them by freight to the grocery and fruit stores which Gordon specified. Inside of thirty days Abner received his checks which totaled, after the cost of fifteen cents each for the barrels was deducted, a profit of 180.55, or more than the two dollars a bar- rel which Gordon had specified.", "This was a good start, but Gordon still had the fast-ripening winter apples to sell, and he knew that this would be a much harder task, as the delicious snow-apples, with their rich, red coats and juicy, snowy pulp, are always scarce in the market and ready sellers when winter apples are not yet ready to eat.", "Apples were plentiful that fall, and the city stores would give only from $1.25 to $1.75 a barrel for winter apples, regardless of kiad or condition. At first it looked as though Gordon would not be able to net two dollars a barrel for the winter apples for all his rather boastful proposition. But he remembered that he had worked up from office-boy to assistant sales-mana- ger because of his peculiar ability to sell goods in a flooded market, and he resolved to seU those apples — for Susan !", "Being well acquainted in the city, Gor- don selected the names and addresses of nearly two hundred of the wealthiest citi- zens, men who had originally come from the farm and who could appreciate a good apple. Then he had his stenographer write a letter to each address, in which he de- scribed the flavor and quality, assuring the prospective purchaser that every barrel would be uniformly filled with perfect fruit, such as is generally shipped to Eng- land, and offering to send a barrel on approval f. o. b. If the apples were satis- factory they could pay $2.25 for the barrel. He also gave the freight rate, which was but twenty-five cents a barrel, and the de- livery charges, twenty-five cents additional, so that every person could see that a barrel of perfect apples, direct from the orchard, would cost but $2.75. or nearly the same figure as the city grocers were asking for poor apples.", "This letter was carefully worded, nicely written and sent only to men of well- known reputation and standing. While it did not bring forth the results that Gordon anticipated in his enthusiasm he did re- ceive telephone and mail orders for nearly fifty barrels the first week. A few days later Abner and his family filled these orders with the finest apples ever shipped from their farm. Each and every barrel of fruit was as perfect as it could well be. And those who received apples from the Andrews farm in this way were surprised and delighted. They told their friends.", "and soon orders began to pour in until even Gordon was surprised and the crop was all sold.", "Gordon went up one Sunday to see the apples and to discuss the situation — with pretty Susan !", "\"Maybe I could buy a few barrels of Spies to fill these last orders !\" suggested Abner. \"I could get 'em for seventy-five cents a barrel over at Perrill's an' make a nice thing out of it.\"", "\"Don't you dare do it,\" warned Gordon. \"Don't you buy an apple. Hundreds of farmers have made that same mistake and lost every customer- in that way. You can trust no one to pick or pack apples for you. Apples from another farm might be altogether of a different flavor. A single barrel of poor apples would ruin your repu- tation in the city. I knew a man who had a nice place to sell his fresh eggs to a city hotel. Whenever he did not have enough fresh eggs to fill his orders he would buy of his neighbors. They did not care whether the eggs were fresh or not — and they were not. He lost his customer, just as he deserved.\"", "\"I guess you're right,\" nodded Abner.", "\"Of course he is right !\" maintained Susan.", "When the last check was received Abner Andrews adjusted his glasses and figured up his profits. Much to his surprise he had netted nearly a thousand dollars from his orchard that one season. This was more than he had made off his whole place in two years. And he knew that the entire crop would scarce have brought a hundred dollars had it been sold to the cider-mUls. And, best of all, when he finished his figur- ing he discovered that Gordon had made good on his boasted salesmanship and each and every barrel had brought in its two dollars, just as he had promised.", "It was a family letter which Gordon re- ceived, in which Abner and Cinda and Susan all had taken a hand. They did not offer him a money reward, because they knew instinctively that he would be hurt. They did not tell him what a thousand dol- lars really meant in their extremity. But they did write of their appreciation, in sim- ple and homely words, assuring him of their thankfulness for his lesson.", "\"Come up for a few days,\" wrote Abner in a shaking hand ; \"the leaves are all off now, and the birds have drawn in from the brush and brambles, and the shooting is fine. Don't wait until fishing-time ; come now, and try your hand at the birds.\"", "Gordon took a deep breath as he folded the letter \"and tucked it into his pocket.", "\"Susan !\" he muttered. \"Susan !\" The next minute he was busy getting out his hunting-gear to catch the afternoon train.", "Vest Pocket", "is a miniature in size — actu- ally small enough to go into a vest or hip pocket — but a thoroughly capable, dura- ble, practical and efficient photographic outfit,", "A Kodak on the farm, not only means fun for the young folks, but has an every-day, practical usefulness as well. 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A Better Babies contest, held this summer or fall, will give you the answer, and you can be sure of this: However high your county babies score this year, they will score higher next year. This, of course, is what a Better Babies contest is for — to show each baby^s parents how to make that baby better. If you have a baby on your farm, if you are a property-owner in your county, you owe it to yourself to see that a Better Babies con- test is held in your neighbor- hood. And it is so easily done.", "How to help your county's babies", "FIRST, you want to get some organi- zation in your county interested. Tlife may be your grange, or your county medical society, or your parent- teacher association, or the ladies' aid society of your own church. If you arc a \"home body\" and do not want to put yourself forward, or you are short of \"hands\" and busy, all you have to do is to speak a few earnest words at a meet- ing or write a letter to some public-spir- ited organization, and those who have more time and opportunity will push the movement and plan the contest. The doctors, the teachers, the stock-breeders, of your county will understand why the Better Babies idea is an important scientific discovery — more important than many discoveries of cures for disease, for it will greatly lessen disease.", "Your county fair should certainly hold a Better Babies contest this fall. County fairs all over the United States are going to hold them, and the", "WOMAN'S Home Companion offers", "special prizes to county fair contests, but do not wait for the county fair — get the movement started in your com- munity right away.", "The WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION stands ready to prove this to your county. 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It is flat, with long ends for the slightly V front, and the straight cuffs are suitable both for full or elbow length sleeves. No. TO crochet-cotton and a fine steel hook are used for the set. The work is exceedingly simple, including but two motifs : the rose motif with which so many are fa- miliar, and a simple shamr rock motif for the edge.", "Begin the rose as fol- lows : * Chain seven, catch in the fifth chain from the needle for a picot, and repeat from * until a string of sis picots", "has been made. After the last picot oatch in the first chain made, to form the center ring for the rose.", "Firsf Row — Chain six and make one double crochet in the space after the first picot of ring. * Chain three, one double crochet in space after next picot, and repeat from * until six double crochet are made, counting the starting chain as one double crochet. After the last double crochet chain three and catch in the third stitch of the starting chain.", "Second Round — Make one single cro- chet and six double crochet in each hole of preceding row.", "Third Round — Make one single crochet in each double crochet of \"first round, and seven chain between the double crochet, working behind the second round.", "Fourth Round — Work one single cro- chet and fifteen double crochet in each space of preceding round. Join at the end of the round, thus completing the rose proper.", "Working the Picot Filling", "The filling around the rose is now to be made, as follows : Chain seven and catch in the fifth chain from the needle for a picot, chain eight and catch for a picot, chain two, catch in the third double cro- chet of the first petal of preceding round. Make another loop with two picots and catch in the third double crochet from the end of same petal, and work all around the rose in this way, catching twice in each petal. Catch the final loop of the round in the center of the first loop.", "Second Round — Chain .seven, catch in the next loop of pre- ceding round before the first picot. Turn, over the seven chain just made work nine single crochet. Turn, chain two, one double crochet in each single crochet, picked up on the back thread. Chain seven and catch for a picot, chain two, catch in the center of same loop in which the seven chain was caught, make two loops with two picot.'* each, catching in the center of the next two loops of preced- ing round. Then repeat from the lK>giu- ning to the end of the round. The final loop of the round .should Ije caught down in the center of the final loop of first round.", "Third Round — Chain seven and catch for a picot, chain two, catch in the first stitch of shell, make two loops with two picots each, catching in the center and at the end of the .shell, make two loops with two picots each along the row, then re- peat from the l^eglnniiig to the end of the row. Make two loops after the final .shell.", "Fourth Round — Make two loops with two picots each, as usual, catching the first in the space after the picot of small loop of preceding row. Chain .seven, catch in the next loop Ix^fore the picot. turn nnd make a .shell, chain .seven and catch for a picot, chain two, catch in cen- ter of .same loop in which sev(>u chain was caught, make two loops along the round, and rei)eat from the beginning to the end. Make one round all picot loops,", "Detail showing the Rose and Shamrock Motifs", "making two loops over each shell of preceding round as before, and fasten off.", "Shctmrock Medcdlions", "For the shamrock medallions arOund the edges a padding-thread is used. No. 20 crochet-cotton is taken for this. Work in single crochet one and one-half inches of the padding-thread alone, taking a double strand of the latter and working enough single crochet upon it to make a big loop of the work. For the first petal of the first shamrock now work (.still over the pad- ding alone) one single crochet, two double c r o - chet, eighteen treble crochet, two double crochet, one single cro- chet. Draw up the pad- ding beneath these stitches and catch to the first of the petal stitches. Make two petals more in the same way and catch the last stitch of the last petal to the first stitch of the first.", "Work eighteen single crochet over the padding alone, and draw the latter to a tiny ring beneath the stitches. Then make one single crochet over padding in each stitch along one half an inch of the big loop, picking up the stitches on the back thread. Turn the padding sharply and over it alone work in single crochet for a length of one inch, giving this part a slight, inward curve. At the end make a shamrock as before, and work in single crochet over padding along the st^m, to the stitch with which work was started. Catch in center stitch of first petal made in first shamrock and fasten off.", "Make ten rose medallions, and cut a stiff paper pattern of the correct size and shape for the collar. Baste the medal- lions in position down upon it, and join them by working rows of picot loops between them.", "Make enough .shamrocks for the edge of the collar, fasten them in place and join them and fill in all the spaces with the picot filling.", "Now work along the neck edge of the collar as follows : Make one single cro- chet in center of each loop, and between the loops chain enough to keep work flat.", "Second Row — Make one double crochet in every third stitch of preceding row, two chain between.", "Third Row — ♦Three single crochet in first hole, one sin- gle crochet in next, chain three, one sin- gle crochet in same hole, and reiwat from * to the end of the row. Fasten off and remove from pattern.", "The cuffs are made in the .same way as the collar.", "If the needlewoman has no desire to make a coUar-and-cuff .set, but wishes to crochet a straight banding of Irish lace, either for edging or in.sertion, she can find nothing prettier than this pattern of simple rose and shamrock motifs. The shamrock edge, .so easily worked, is most unusual, and if a narrower edging than the whole pat- tern is desired, the roses might be omitted and only the shamrocks used, with enough inner rows of the picot loop filling to give the needed width of lace.", "For a Child's Set", "This pattern also may lie used for a child's coat set, but for this purpo.se the stems of the shamrocks should be omit- ted. Using the trefoils alone gives an odd effect to the edge, one that is very delicate and very appropriate for chil- dren's garments. For a child the collar may l)e made like that illustrated, but the cuffs .should have rounded ends, matching those of the collar. If a sailor collar is preferable to a round collar, enough rose medallions should be made to cover the back, row after row.", "In giving the size of the cotton used for the work, ordinary crochet-cotton is in- tended. If Irish crochet-cotton Ls used, No. CO is quite fine enough for this set", "Cousin Sally's Girls and Boys", "From Cousin Sally's Letter-Box", "Deab Cousin Sally — I received the button, as I said before. Your letter cer- tainly pleased me. It rained this morn- ing. I nearly got caught in a rain, and the roads are very muddy. I think we are going to have a picnic at our school the tweuty-thii-d of May. I will tell you all about it when it is over. School lets out the twenty-third because we had no spring vacation. We thought it best to have school when it was cooler and be out when it's so awful warm. I thought you were flooded out in Ohio, but I see it hasn't found you yet. I hope you and the other members are well. I will make a story and you can put it on the \"Boys' and Gii-ls' Page.\"", "I remain your loving cousin,", "Floy Downey, Age 12, Box 46, R. D. 2, Whitewater, Wisconsin.", "Dear Cousin Sally — I like to read the children's page in the Farm and Fireside. I am a little girl eleven years old. I do chores and help Mama with the housework. We have a large sugar- busli. We tapped about four hundred buckets. I have four calves, two kittens and two bantams that I feed. I hope this letter will be put in print.", "Your cousin, Lois Blowers, Sanford, New York.", "Dear Cousin Sally — I received your kind letter, and I am sending you the five cents for the rules and Club button. Also,^I am going to be a member of your club. I am now going to tell you how 1 help Mama with the housework. I ■wash dishes and wipe them, and I can cook and bake cakes and pies. One night", "A Page for Young Folks", "A Workaday Chat With Cousin Sally", "DEAR COUSINS — \"Afterawhile\" kand \"To-morrow\" are the last I chums I want any of the cousins to have. Even in the languid summer days they should be shunned, for they are companions who sap instead of buUdlng up.", "Now is the time of the year when we ought to be practical, not dreamy or — No. I will not write \"lazy,\" for I am sure no cousin could or would be that. I simply want to bring before your mind that there are other things as interesting as napping in a hammock if you're a girl : or, if you're a boy, lying on the grass in the shade watching the fleecy clouds untU you're caught into fast- asleep-land.", "Be a help to Mother so that she can have the same chance for resting that you have. Let Father see he has a son who is interested in the farm. Keep so wide awake that nothing escapes you.", "Help yourself by learning the how and why and when of farm life. There is nothing more interesting or that will more generously help you to become the ^ successful man or gracious, capable lady. A boy chum of mine named Allan has his summer all mapped out. He was telling me about it a while back, and when I said, \"But aren't you going to nap any until fall?\" his voice almost equaled a vigorous thump on a table when he said, \"Time to loll when crops are all ill I\" I said no more, but I am sure, con- sidering that turnips follow the summer crop he's most Interested in, that Allan intends hustling until frost shakes down the nuts, and even then he will be har- vesting for the family feast upon wal- nuts, hickory-nuts and butternuts the winter through.", "Allan will work and have a jolly time too, for he tells me the \"Jolly Grew\" are going to have some dandy times. Jaunts and fishing trips to the creek, with home lunches scorned in favor of bacon toasted ovei- a fire and eggs and potatoes roasted in hot ashes.", "All. the work and play, much better than luxurious ease under an apple-tree or up in the haymow.", "Auother chum, Minnie, is going to be Mother's aid. I have reason for believ- ing the butter will be even nicer than of yore, and the eggs fresher. (Minnie is not going to forget egg-gathering once, nor slight a single nook big enough to hold a nest.)", "Summer can and should be a grovrtng time for boys and girls as well as crops. If crops didn't grow harvest-time would be a dreary season ; and if the cousins should cease striving they would not be able to gather the crop of \"castles\" which working, added to dreaming, builds. Lovingly, Cousin Sally.", "A Whizzle", "The Whizzles and the Wumps", "By Pauline Frances Camp 1", "■yHEY'RE funny litde creatures.", "Are the Whizzles and the Wumps; They do not like to be alone.", "But go about in clumps. TTie Whizzles are all curlicued.", "And every querl turns up. Just like the wiggly-waggly tail", "Of any little pup. But the Wumps are just the other way.", "Their querhes downward go; And they are scary Kttle things. As by cind by you'll know.", "The Wumps and Whizzles go to school.", "You think that's very queer? They'd never have vacation if", "There was no school, my dear! Their lessons are not quite like yours.", "As you may well suppose. They leam to curl their kinks and querls", "And hop upon their toes. And when a Wump has learned the trick", "Of standing on his head He never is a Wump again,", "A Whizzle, he, instead.", "And now vacation-time has come,", "TTiey skip about and play. At least, the Whizzles do; the Wumps", "Are nothing like so gay. They play at marbles, hoop and ball", "(Those of the Wumps are square). \"Because they cannot roll so far,\"", "They sigh, with plaintive air.", "The Whizzles make them mighty stilts.", "That lift them way up high. And whiz about with shouts of glee.", "The Wumps are not so spry. They make their stilts close to the groimd.", "The step two inches tall; TTiey think that it is safer and", "'Tis not so far to fall.", "The other day the Whizzles went A-swimming in the lake.", "And all the little Wumps began To shiver and to shake.", "The Whizzles dived and squirmed like eels.", "Each gave the other chase. They rode upon the fishes' backs.", "Had many a jolly race. \"Come in, the water's fine,\" they called;", "The Wumps shook harder yet. \"We do not dare,\" they shrilly squeaked,", "\"We fear we might get wet.\"", "So when the Whizzles capered home.", "All rosy, warm and pink, TTiey left the Wumps, with chattering teeth.", "Still sitting on the brink.", "I cooked supper by myself for Papa and Mama. I will close for this time.", "Yours truly, Ida L. Cox,", ". Alva, Oklahoma.", "Dear Cousin Sally — It has been a long time since I last wrote to you. I enjoy reading your page as much as ever.", "I am in my eighteenth year and find plenty of work on the farm to keep me in good health and spirits.", "Yours sincerely as ever,", "Charles Tanner, Pleasant Valley, New York.", "One of our used-to-be-cousins, now barred from being an active member be- cause he is a man, is still interested in us, as his letter shows. One of the pithy sentences he wrote me is. \"A man's character will never rise higher than his aims.\" Charles has grown into a strong, healthy man and is one of the cousins who will always grow mentally, for he sees the opportunities about him and is not afraid of the work always needed to change the \"possible\" into the \"real.\"", "Dear Cousin Sally — I hope all the cousins are well and happy. Do you ever give prizes of dolls? I have two little dolls and one big one. I have had the big one nearly two years.", "Do city people take Farm and Fire- side? I like it very much. Do you like to live in the city or in the country? I like the country best. Your cousin,", "Ruth Hoge.", "Riddles for Girls and Boys", "Of three stripes I can make the num- ber thirty by adding three other stripes.", "Answer : By crossing the three stripes with three other stripes : XXX.", "Guessing a number. Think of a num- ber. Add the same. Then add 8. Now divide it into two. Subtract the number imagined. There remains 4.", "Answer : He has, for instance, thought of the number 10. He adds the same number. Then he has 20. He adds 8. Then he has 28. He divides it into two. Then he has 14. He subtracts number imagined. There remains 14 — 10=4.", "The trick is very simple. There always remains half of the number added. Of the number imagined nothing remains : it has first been doubled, and then half of it has been subtracted, and finally the number imagined Is ordered to be sub- tracted. So there remains nothing of it : 10-M0=20, half of 20=10, 10—10=0.", "Who has first four feet, then two and finally three?", "Answer : A man ; first, as a baby, he creeps, then he stands erect, and in old age he uses a cane.", "Ten guests get ten eggs. Each is to have one, and yet one egg is to remain in the dish.", "Answer: One of the guests takes the dish with the egg, so that egg remains in the dish.", "Ice Cream You Can Serve With Confidence", "is the kind you make yourself at home. 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They never stop se- riously to consider whether or not they can do the ex- acting work that important office of a team demands bet- ter than some other boy of the nine, but let their ambi- tions run away with them, and all clamor to be pitchers.", "To all such boys, with an earnest desire to occupy the pitcher's box. I wish to say : The position is a good one : it is full of honor for the boy who succeeds in it ; but if you have never before pitched in a game and do not know for sure that you have good control, good speed, good endurance, good curves, and a good head in a tight place, before you importune your captain for a place on his pitching staff, do enough private practising to make sure in your own mind that you have at least the control, speed, curves and endurance. This can be done quite con- clusively, and if you are successful in the matter of these four elements, you have a strong chance of making good as a pitcher, and can test out your head work in actual play.", "Head work is an essential, however. Without coolness in times of peril, such as when a batsman is on the point of \"walking,\" when the bases are full and a heavy hitter up to bat, when your teammates seem all going to pieces and making errors galore, — without the ability to preserve your composure per- fectl.v unruffled, you will not succeed as a pitcher. Then, too, you must be sa- gacious as well as cool ; you mu.st learn quickly the batting abilities and batting weaknes.ses of the men who stand up before you : learn just where a thrown ball will l)e in the most awkward place for them to strike it — and put it there not less than three times out of four attempts \\", "But now we are getting into control. That is one of the four requisites of a good pitcher which you are to se- cure in your private practice, before you embarrass your captain by your application, or imperil the interests of your team by trjing your hand at pitching without any excuse for it", "Practise In the back yard, alley, anywhere that will af- ford you sufficient space and proper seclusion. It is best to have a companion to catch and return your balls, but you can work alone, as many of the greatest pitchers have done under similar condi- tions, by placing your rep- resentation of home-plate about five feet in front of a wall or buUdlng. The latter wUl act as a backstop, and if of stone or brick will gen- erally rebound the ball to you.", "The home-plate may be a piece of white paper, weighted by a brick or stone, or a block of wood painted white or faced with paper or cardboard tacked upon it. It should be the regula- tion size, fifteen inches square.", "The regulation distance for the pitch- er's box from the home-plate is sixty and one-half feet, but boys between the ages of ten and thirteen should shorten this distance to forty-five feet Therefore set the practice pitcher's box a distance to correspond to this from the practice home-plate, as conditions in this respect must be the same as In an actual game. With a stick, scratch a rectangle in the ground whose dimensions are six by twenty-four Inches, as the pitcher's box.", "Standing within this box, attempts should be made to throw straight balls directly over the base. See that they not only go over it, but that they travel no lower than a batsman's knees, nor higher than his shoulders : that is. within the strike zone. A stick stuck Into the ground close to the base, with two rags tied", "thereto at these distances will help you to gage the balls for height", "When you can control the straight ball at moderate speed, get the same control with slow speed, then full speed. A slow ball, after an extremely fast one, often fools a batsman completely, and he strikes long before it reaches him and vice versa. Next practise cutting the inner and outer corners of the plate at will with the fast balls.", "Your control will never be perfect ; you'll be working to better it, as long as you're a pitcher ; but the degree of ac- curacy to which you can bring it in a short time is far higher than you sup- pose. And you must have it", "The Spit-Ball", "The vagaries of the so called spit-ball are supposed to result from the fact that it is thrown with no spin at all. That is why a part of the ball is wetted. If you wish to try to learn this, practise with a clean ball on which you have painted a black spot, to show you when you are throwing it without twirling. 'The first requisite in throwing a spit-ball is speed,", "The batsman sees the pitcher hold this curve in the way illustrated. The ball is", "Farm and Fireside, June 7, 1913", "the other way, with its palm toward you, and the ball goes out along the side of the forefinger. Many pitchers gi-ip the ball with the end of the thumb also, and give a part of the twist vrith that An out-curve may be thrown underhand, with a bit of rise on it, and with si>eed and control it is very effective, a hard ball to place.", "This diagram shows how the batsman might view the ball as the pitcher Ls about to release it As a matter of fact, however, no good pitcher will give a bats- man time to realize how he is holding the ball for any throw, as he wishes to surprise him, and batsmen are often pitchers or acquainted with the practices of the art The out-drop is gripped very tightly by the first three fingers and base of the receded thumb. It is cast straight overhand, and rolls over the tips of the three fingers mentioned. It travels ap- parently straight, but suddenly pitches downward just before reaching the plate.", "The illustration is a straight front view of this curve, as a batsman would see the ball held by the pitcher faciug him. The ball is gripped firmly in the", "To the left is the In-Shoot, to the right the Out-Curve, and below is one of the ways to thro