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["5332 Sycamore St.. Cincinnati. 0-", "BIG PROFITS IN", "SCIENTIFICALLT TEMPEAED KNIVES AND RAZORS", "with your photo, name and address, lodge emblem, etc.. in handles. Great opportunity. Work fuU time or spare hours. Iso eiperi- . ence necessary. We show you how to make money. Writ© today for special -nitnt offer. Territory going fast. Canton Cutlery fo.. Dept. 'HX fanton. O.", "To Entertain U", "1 1 JoK^s and Kiddies. '3 Toasts. 91 Parlor Amusemt-nts. 21 Puzzles. IS Tricks with Cards. 7 Comic Recitations. 3 Monologues 12 Funny Bead ings. All lOe postpaid. J. C. Porn, 709 So. O«arborn St., Dept. 72, Chicago, III.", "RIDER AGENTS WANTED", "IN EACH TOWN and diHtrict to rido and exhibit a s^iniple 1913 Nrodel **tiunger** bio>cle fiirniKhed l>y us. Our asenU everywhere are mnkiufc money fast. M'rite at ofuv for lull particulars tttut sj>eci.il offer. >0 MONKY Ri QI'IRKU until you receive and Hppr»i\\e of your birvcle We nhip anywhere In the I'. S. leithnttt a cfnl dfpnsit in nHvant-e. pr«)Hiy trrti/ht. am) allou- 10 irvVS* KRKK TRIAU durine which time you may ride the bicycle and put it to anv test yon w iah. If you nre thi'n not perfectly satisfied or don't wNh t<i keep the bicyele you may ship it back to n>> nt our expense and yau icitl luit", "low FACTORY PRICES iVo'\"™'»i\"he", "l>icycli' it in pctssibli' to make at one »imall ^ profit abovf netii.'il factory cost. Vou save \"sin to $ir> nuddlem4'n*s prt^tUs bj buyinK Jin*et of UH and have the manuffcturer's eiiarantee hi hind your !>icycle. UO NOT RTY n bicycle or a pair of tlre« from aur/\"\"*' -\"^t price until >ou receive our cataloicues ;(nd Irarn our unheard of /net ory prices and rettt'i' kiitilv fi'frint i'{Tt-r", "YOU WILL BE ASTOHISHED ?^>»en yo« receive onr l>enutinil catalof^ue and study our superb models at (hf ic.tndfrful loir > ricrs we can inake you. \\Ve sell the highest jirade bieycle- at Itmer prlcrit than any other factory'. We ar<» natisfied with $1 I'rotlt above factory eo«t. Illejele Oealcra, ynu can well our bic>ole« un<Ier your own name plate at. double <Mir I'riees. Order?* tilled the day received SECOND HAND BICYCLES -A limited number t.^ken in trade b\\ our Chicago retail storeK \\\\ illbe cloyed om jit j once. .Tt $3 to SB rnc h. I)e«eriptive l)arKain li^-t wnl free. TIRF<: rnA^TFR- RRAKT wheels, inner ttdten.", "IIKta. LUAbltH PKAIIt cvolometen.. part'*,", "repairi and parts for all bieyclex at half usual pricoa. DO NOT WAIT— l>ut write today for our Lorgr Oi/\"//'0i\"* beautifn)l> ilhwtrated and rontainin»; a ifreat fund of", "' interestiuK matter and useful information. It only", "I CO-**** a po-ital to Rot everythioK. Addrew«", "i MEAO CYCLE CO., Dept. 0-83 CHICAGO. ILL", "The H ousewife's Club", "EDITOR'S NOTE — Monthly we give prizes of $2.00 for the two beat descriptions (with rough sketch) of origina], home-made household conveniences or labor-saving devices, and $1.00 for the third best or any that can be used. ^ We also give 25 cents each for helpful kitchen hints and suggestions, also good tested recipes that can be used. We would suggest that you do not send more than two recipes, and not more than five kitchen hints each month, because we receive so many that space will not allow us to print them all. in spite of the fact that they are reliable and practical. ^ All copy must be written in ink, on one side of the paper. Manuscripts should contain not more than 250 words. We would suggest thaf contributors retain duplicate copies, as no manuscripts will be returned. The mail is so heavy that it is impossible for us to acknowledge receipt of manuscripts. Address \"The Housewife's Club,\" care of Farm and Fireside, Springfield, Ohio.", "Taking the Smart of Pepper Away —", "Simple flour will take the smart of red or cayenne peppers away. When a child gets pepper on its hands or in its mouth, rub -flour on the hands, or give it flour to eat, and the smarting will soon stop. The flour absorbs the oil of the pepper which causes the pain. Instead of rubbing with flour, wet the place with water, daub on flour, remove the paste so formed, repeat once or twice, and the pain will be gone. A. G., Indiana.", "Three Kitchen Helps —", "Bore a hole in the broom- handle and slip the hole over a nail in the wall to hang up the broom.", "Bake your cookies on an inverted tin, and they will not burn.", "Line a pie-plate with the crust for j'our lemon-pie, then, while baking it put over it another pie-plate. The latter will keep the crust from slipping down at the sides of the pie. Mrs. C. P. H., Ohio.", "Kitchen Hint — When making syrup from granulated sugar, melt the sugar before adding the water, stirring con- stantly to prevent burning. The syrup will be of a rich golden color and will not crystallize on the sides of the pitcher.", "Mrs. H. C. F., New York.", "When desiring baked beans and feeling the necessity of saving fuel-bills or heat from stove in summer, try stewing them with a piece of pork until tender, then putting them in hot iron spider and fry- ing until of the proper consistency.", "Mrs. C. R. C, Ohio.", "Substitute for Cedar Chest — Procure a box of the desired dimensions and enough cigar-boxes to line your box completely. The cigar-boxes, being of cedar and satu- rated with the scent of tobacco, will keep out moths and all other insects. The box can be painted or covered with wall-paper or covered with cretonne, the top padded for a seat and a ruffle tacked ^around the top with brass tacks. You can procure the cigar-boxes from your druggist, who throws them away when empty, and they are easily taken apart.", "Miss I. G., Massachusetts.", "Home-Made Cabinet — It often happens that there are houses which have no closets or cabinets in them. In such a case the housewife will find a home-made cabinet like the one shown below to be very useful. The material required to build a case five feet high, thirty inches wide and ten inches deep is six boards, each five feet long, ten inches wide and three fourths of an inch thick ; one board thirty inches long, ten inches wide and three fourths of an inch thick; one board three inches long, eleven inches wide and three fourths of an inch thick; three", "Home-made cabinet", "boards, twenty inches long, ten inches wide and three fourths of an inch thick. The boards for smaller shelves should be the same in width and thickness. For the doors some quarter-inch material is re- quired and some three-fourth-inch pieces for rim of door. In the illustrations the cabinet is shown both open and shut.", "The cabinet shelves are used as fol- lows: A for large doilies, B for sheets, C for pillow-cases. D for towels, E and F for napkins, G for napkin-rings, H for small table-mats. I for smaller doilies and J for knife and forks in the boxes. Mtss E. D., Indiana.", "Kitchen Hint— When getting a meal in a hurry and having to fry meat before rnaking a milk gravy, I find it a great time-saver to put the milk on the stove in a kettle and let it heat while the meat is frying. In this way it only takes about one minute to make the gravy, as it will start right to boiling.", "M. A. M., Oklahoma.", "When making a buttonhole in thiii, goods, overcast around it first, and it will make a neater and stronger buttonhole.", "Mrs. W. H. F., Pennsylvania.", "When baking beans, add one-half cupful of sugar and see if you don't think they are fine. Mrs. M. M., Wisconsin.", "Spoon - Holder —", "Here is a useful lit- tle article that can be used when can- ning season comes, to keep the spoon from falling into the kettle after the cook has stirred the fruit. Take a piece of stiff tin, and cut it to a shape, as shown in Fig. 1, then bend it on the dotted lines, as shown in Fig. 2. Place it over the rim of the kettle, as shown in Fig. 3. After stirring, the spoon is placed on the holder upside down, as shown in Fig. 3, so that the juice that is on the spoon will run back into the kettle. This contrivance also keeps the spoon from getting too hot to handle.", "D. A- S., Pennsylvania.", "Saving Steps in the Kitchen — In so", "many old-fashioned country homes the kitchen is so large that the housewife walks many weary miles during the year in preparing the meals and washing and putting away the dishes. Much time and strength may be saved by taking a plain, ordinary kitchen table and placing an up- right at each end to support two shelves over it, and one other shelf put in under it (see illustration). These will hold all baking-dishes, measures, pans, kettles, cover, and also salt, pepper, sugar, spices, extracts, etc. ; in fact, everything needed in the preparation of a meal, and all to-", "gether, within reach and without taking a single step. If this table is placed near the stove, a meal may be prepared and cooked with the minimum amount of time and strength. A plain home-made screen may be placed between the table and stove 'in hot weather, to ^jrotect the worker. Such a device, which can be made at home by any handy man, need not cost over two or three dollars and will be of inestimable value to the housewife and help her keep her health and strength as few other things would. Mrs. C. S. E.", "Try dipping stale bread in milk and then placing in a paper bag in a moderate oven. It is delicious eaten while hot. This is a particularly nice way to use the ends of Vienna loaves. M. T. M., New Jersey.", "Cement for Enamel Ware — Take equal parts of sifted coal-ashes, sifted table- salt and soft putty, and mix well together. Cover parts on both sides of the vessel, if large. Place the mended utensil on the stove with a little water in it, and boil about ten minutes. Wash out, and it is readv for use.", "Mrs. a. D. L., South Dakota.", "The Winged Message", "Noah's messenger was a dove. In Solomon's time, pigeons were- trained to carry messages. Brutus used them at the siege of Modena. They served the Turl<:s in their fights against the Crusaders. In mediaeval wars they were more useful fhan ever before.", "France had a carrier-pigeon mail service, with messages reduced by photography and read through a microscope.", "Even today carrier pigeons are utilized as news-bearers in isolated parts of Europe.", "In America, the land of the telephone, the carrier pigeon is bred only for racing. The winged word has taken the place of the winged mes- senger.", "Pigeons may fly more than a mile a minute, but the tele- phone is as quick as speech itself.", "The dove is the emblem of peace. The telephone is the instrument of peace. The telephone lines of the Bell System unite a hundred mill- ion people in one national family.", "American Telephone and Telegraph Company And Associated Companies", "One Policy One System Universal Service", "THE SEWING MACHINE OF KNOWN VALUE", "Known the world over for its Serving Qualities.", "The only SeMring Machine which is a life asset at the price you pay. Purchase the NEW HOME £md you will not have an endless chain of repairs. It is better made, docs nicer sewing, easier to operate, and more silent than any other. Guaranteed for all time.", "Write THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO., Orange, Mass. for booklet H", "The Roman Catholic Hierarchy", "By Thos. E. Watson, Editor Watson's Maga- zine. Historically' Correct. Educational. Richly Illustrated. Price 31-00 postpaid.", "Subscribe for Watson's Magazine", "Not on sale at news-stands. One dollar a year. Sample copy on request.", "Dept. D, The Jeffersonian Publishing Co., Thomson, Ga.", "It is to your advantage _ to mention Farm and Fireside in writing to advertisers: Farm and Fireside folks get the very best attention.", "Guaranteed 5 Years", "e new frieadfi uid uuroduceourcAtalogueofEl^a", "Post Paid", "CE NTS. QentlonMn'iBize.foU nickel Bllver ptited c*se. Arabic dial, loT«r eacftpamcDC, stem wind uid seem set, a perfect cime^eeper and fall; gusnDteed for b jeftra. Seod tbia »dT. to us with d&c.and w&tch will be eent hj romm mkil postpaid. S^tisfutioQ^iurmiiteed oriQoit«7 refuikled. Bend 9£!c todaj. Addnas", "R. E. CHALMERS « CO., 538 So. Dearborn St., CHICAGO.", "Pony For You", "Farm and Fireside, April 12, 1913", "This is \"Duke\" The Prince of Pets", "Send in Your Name To-day", "Beautiliil Buggy and Harness Too", "This remarkable gift offer is open to all FARM AND Fireside boys and girls. Don't you want to win \"Duke,\" the beautiful Shetland Pony shown in the above picture ? Then here is the chance of a lifetime. You can get \"Duke\" and his handsome buggy and nickel-plated har- ness, delivered to you at your very door, without spending one cent of your own money. \"Duke\" is a beautiful chestnut pony with a fluffy silver mane and tail. He is about 41 inches high and weighs 350 pounds, and can trot faster than most carriage horses. \"Duke\" is just as kind and gentle as can be and will follow his master around like a big dog.", "\"Duke\" will be given away soon by the Pony Man of FARM AND FIRESIDE. Besides \"Duke\" and his fine outfit, the Pony Man will give away two more ponies and outfits and hundreds of other prizes. You have just as good a chance to win a pony as any other boy or girl, if you send your name right away.", "A Few Winners of Our Prize Ponies", "Each spring, Farm asd FiRESmE holds a Pony Contest for its boy and girl friends. Hundreds of boys and girls have won ponies and other valuable prizes from this reliable paper. Here are the names and addresses of a few of the boys and girls who have won ponies. These are the proudest boys and girls in the land, and they all love the Pony Man of Farm a.sd Fireside.", "won by Arthur QissoD, SoHray, N. T. won by Johnnie Kielen, R. 4, Madison, Mins. won by Daryl Porterfield, Emienton. Pa. ' won by Wilbur Corey, R. 9, Aobnrs, N. Y. won by Virginia Jamison, lola, Kansas.", "\"FUZZY\" won by ADen Weber. New Carlisle, Ohio. \"CUPID\" won by LaVeme Fulton, No. Lawrence, Ohio. \"WUZZY\" won byMargueriteLawson,HopkiB»Ti]le,Ky. \"PHE\" won by Lena PurcheU, HancottsviUe, N. Y. \"BILLY\" won bylona Morton, Kemenrille, N. C.", "This is * 'Duke' ' with harness and buggy complete", "You are Sure to", "Every Pony Club Member Gets a Prize", "You are sure tb win a handsome prize IF you become a member of the Farm and Fireside Pony Club, and you will not have to invest a single cent of your own money. Farm and Fireside guarantees that every boy and girl who joins the Pony Club will get a handsome prize. You are absolutely safe in accepting the promise of this big and long established paper. Don't wait. Hurry up and send your name to-day.", "How to Join the Pony Club", "Write your name and address on a piece of paper or on a post-card, and address it to The Pony Man, Farm and Fireside, Springfield, Ohio. Simply say:", "Dear Pony Man — I have seen your pony offer. I have no pony and want very much to win \"Duke and his com- plete outfit. Please send me a Member- ship Certificate Blank so that I can join yourPonyClub and become a prize-winner.", "The Pony Man will gladly send you a Membership Certificate Blank together with a picture of \"Duke\" and the other ponies and prizes and everything neces- sary to start right in and become a pony- winner. Remember, all these things will not cost you a penny. Send in your name right away to-day.", "Write To-day to", "The Pony Man, Desk 3, FARM AND FIRESIDE", "Springfield, Ohio", "T-h-e G-i-f -t C-l-u-b", "MY! SUCH a showery month April has been so far in The Gift Club! Not the usual sort of showers at all — but delightful rains of valuable and attractive gifts for our Club girls ! And the best part of it is that these showers will continue month after month. There is no end to the sup- ply of good things that The Gift Club has in store for its members.", "I\"ve just been looking over our big Club Membership Book, and it does seem to me that every girl and woman reader of Farm and Fireside has joined the Club. The Gift Club isn't quite two years old, but it's the biggest and strongest young- ster you ever saw. Sometimes I feel like the Old - Woman - Who - Lived - in - a - Shoe, I've so 7nany Club members I But there is not one too many — I want jou all. It's such jolly fun to be at the head of a big successful organization like this and to be able to give to our girls just the very things for which they have been longing.", "One of our Club members wrote me not long ago that she was sure I must have found Aladdin's w^onderful lamp, because the Club seemed to be enchanted and the members apparently did no work at all for the exquisite gifts that they received. She was mistaken there, however, for the only lamp of Aladdin that we have in the Club is Work — but such pleasant work! When we wish for a certain gift, — a bracelet, for instance, — we rub our lamp lightly; but when we want several gifts, we rub it briskly and vigorously. And the gifts are always forthcoming. That's the best part of it — our lamp never fails us.", "I don't believe that I ever told you in this corner of ours the name of the lucky winner of the exquisite diamond ring that I offered last winter in a prize contest. The ring was sent to Mrs. J. W. Lewis, of Rushville, Ohio. She was so surprised and delighted with it. Wouldn't you like to see her letter?", "My Dear Miss West — I was amazed and more than delighted when I received your letter saying \"You are the lucky winner of the diamond ring.\"", "It certainly is a beauty, and I thank you heartily for the ring and the many other nice things. The teaspoons and the ladle were beautiful. When you get a present from The Gift Club, you get something worth while.", "Who would have guessed that beautiful ring would come to me? I can hardly be- lieve it's true, even though the ring is right on my finger now. Such a beautiful stone — everybody admires it.", "Thanking you again for the lovely ring — and it's genuine too — I am.", "Sincerely yours, Mrs. J. W. Lewis.", "This spring I am planning to have an- other diamond ring contest in The Gift Club, and I want all our old members and a great many new ones to take part. There's no reason why you should not be just as successful as Mrs. Lewis.", "Every girl who wants to earn for her- self the good and luxurious things of life — pretty ornaments for her home, jew- elrv, books, clothes — is invited to join The Gift Club. There are no hard and fast rules, no dues and no expenses of any kind. Both married and single girls find a warm welcome waiting them. I am secretary for no other purpose than to help you, and by helping you I shall be doin_g a good service for thousands of other women. Doesn't that seem won- derful ! But it is true, and that i? what makes me so happy — knowing that I have it in my power to be a helper. Congenial and profitable employment is the open sesame to happiness. There are no drones in Th^ Gift Club's hive, not even a queen bee. for your secretary is as busy as any of you !", "Do take a peep into our Gift Club's Cup- board and see what lovely things I have stored away for you. Here are a few:", "silver mesh \"bags, bracelets, silver toilet- sets, rings, comb-and-brush sets, clocks, table silverware, brooches, manicure-sets, chains, shopping-bags, lockets, lace cur- tains, books, china dinner-sets, watches, vacuum cleaners, belt-pins, fountain-pens, frames, embroidery outfits, dolls, and, oh, dear ! so mam- lovely things besides — I can't begin to tell j-ou half of them.", "You can get any one or all of these beautiful presents — and more besides — if 3\"ou join The Gift Club at once.", "Now I want you to see these jottings from a few of the letters written by our successful girls :", "Received the beautiful locket It certainly is a lovely gift G. E. A., Missouri.", "Our Gift Club is just fine. The corset cover and perforated patterns that you sent were dandy. Thanks to you and all the members. I'd like to see you all.", "E. W. A„ Washington.", "Those lovely dishes were much prettier than I expected. I'm in love with The Gift Club. O. B., Kansas.", "Thank you for the beautiful little mani- cure-set and the stationery. Next I want a kodak. Good wishes to you all.", "F. B., California.", "The Gift Club solved all my Christmas problems. Mrs. J. W. L., Ohio.", "All my girl friends wondered where I got that lovely locket and chain.", "J. E. D., Pennsylvania.", "The Gift Club is the finest thing I ever struck, and I'm glad I joined. I can't thank you enough for all those lovely gifts, the bracelet was beautiful. I have my eye on several other things which I intend to work for. H. E. R., Ohio.", "My brother was delighted with the foun- tain-pen that I gave him for his birthday. I'd like another for my husband.", "Mrs. C. C. New York.", "So many of our girls are delighted with the purely social side of the Club. The • Club spirit puts them in touch with things and interests outside their own lives, and it is a splendid experience for them. Do read this letter from a new Club member in Oregon :", "A year ago, Jean West, I was the most lonesome girl, for there are no girls of my own age near, and I've so missed having a friend. Sometimes I used to go to my room alone and cry. Then one day I happened to be looking through Farm and Fireside and I came across your page. The letters from the girls all seemed so friendly and cheer- ful that I wanted to be one of you. Well, you know what happened after that I You've kept me so busy and happy that I haven't had a chance to be lonesome. I'm so glad I found you !", "Now I know that you are wondering how in the world our Club members get all these charming gifts. I've purposely made our work a secret because I know how dearly all girls love mystery. I want •to raise your/curiosity to the boiling-point, so that you'll just have to sit down and write me a little note to find out all about it. There is a place in The Gilt Club for every girl and woman reader of Farm AND Fireside, and I want you to fill the particular place that I am holding for you. I'm eager to tell you our plans, and I'll be glad to whisper the secret—on paoer — to you. Remember, procrastination steals more than time. It is stealing the good things that should belong to you. Better write at once. A line on a postal card or a letter saying \"I am interested in The Gift Club\" will bring you an immedi- ate reply from me.", "Secretary, The Gift Club . Farm axd Fireside. Springfield, Ohio", "Another Golden Link for the Family", "By HoUister Sage", "T HAS been my privilege during the past months to pore for hours over the records of a man who lived a century and a quarter ago or longer — an honest and happy forebear who looked at life aright. Getting thoroughly imbued with the spirit of those distant days when pounds and pence were used instead of United States money and the shoeing of a horse cost but thirty-seven and one-half cents in- stead of one dollar and a half as now, is a genuine pleasure.", "If any family of to-day would inaugu- rate such a record book to be written by all members, chronicling events of all kinds as they come to pass day by day, especially a family privileged to live on a farm, it would soon become an affair of the greatest inspiration and animation. Its work as an educational factor would be excellent also, and orthography and system would be learned hand in hand. The blank book should be paged and each page dated, but, still further, each should be inscribed with the name of the person ■who was to fill that page or write upon it a record, however brief. Father, mother, each of the children and the grandparents now will take their turns. When one whose page has come happens to be away overnight, the next in line may itake his place, stating how it is and keep- ing the record fresh and up to date. I Following such a rule, the book will .become of great value as a work of ref- erence in time to come both because of ^its historic and its bookkeeping features; also because the handwriting of loved ■ones, sometimes of those who are called above, will be preserved. Improvement in the writing of school-children and their descriptive ability may be noted from month to month.", ")■ The keeping of such a record will prove a source of great merriment, will prove to be a family binder, and because all are interested it will not be forgotten, but |Will be brought forward each evening with some such remark as, \"Tom, are your words ready?\" or \"Ellen now has the opportunity of her life to make herself", "famous in placing on file the important", "events of to-day.\" Of course younger children will need direction and advice about what to write and Mother will be appealed to many times. Will not such a family diary bind the hefrts of all to the old rooftree? Father will set down when he bought the new harvester, the make and the price ; when the colt was sold ; to whom and at what price, and will see to it that every page has its right and left corner for figures and balances. The right is to be used for all moneys which flow in, this being the right direction for the family's interest ; the left side for money that must needs be left to go the way most money has to go, as a rule. The balancing of the two sides will show whether the business is paying and if the methods followed may be improved. Often the grown-up boy will ofifer a sug- gestion that may well set the head of the house to thinking. The volume will make every participant in its avjthorship a seri- ous financier as he or she realizes how easy it is to dissipate a sum of money and sees where it goes in small amounts.", "On the margin of each day's page should be set down the peculiarities of the weather. Thus the date of a blizzard, a deep snow, an uncommon freshet, the breaking up of winter, the first frost of autumn, may be referred to readily and without argument later. The book will tell when the upper meadow was planted with corn and when potatoes were taken from the camp lot, and how many. It will also describe the draining of the swamp, state how many and what kind of tiles were used and the cost, and will con- tain a carefully made map of the system of drains drawn to scale so that the mains and laterals may be found if desired, with- out wasting time.", "Father will wish to interlard a page occasionally virtth \"How We First Raised Alfalfa,\" or on \"Conclusions About the Improvement of a Dairy Herd After Long Experience.\" And Mother will enter with red ink when baby John cut his first tooth, or tell the ordeals of \"When All Hands Were 111 with Measles.\" There alsa will be the chronicle of great events.", "with quite a blank space before and after the record, as for instance, \"Marriage of Lucinda to John Henry Watrous,\" with a description of the excitement and prepara- tions, the ceremony, by whom performed and where, and newspaper clippings on the joyous but solemn occasion. Then will come unavoidably also blanks when all hearts are too full to take any interest in the joys of life, and a single line writ- ten in a trembling hand, in ink splotched with tears, will speak a volume of sorrow in the words, \"Our little lamb, Florence, left us to-day to live with Jesus,\" or, perhaps, \"Grandfather entered this day into the reward of the blessed. He awaits us on the other shore.\" Instinct with the daily life of every member of the family, and mentioning clearly visitors, great care should be exercised to make every statement so clear, especially where it relates to persons, that the reader a century or more hence will be able to state : \"That was my great-grandfather,\" and feel certain of the correctness of the statement. A well-bound book made of excellent paper should be chosen and the best indelible ink used for all that is transcribed.", "Care should be exercised from day to day, by the head of the house, that every- thing in the book reads clearly, looked at from the viewpoint of unborn genera- tions. For the utility of the record will depend largely upon its comprehensibility in the distant future. Father or Mother, or both together, should act as the secre- tary or editor of the volume, and when- ever necessary should paste in an extra page, upon it referring directly to the affairs mentioned, fully explaining them in the most lucid manner possible. The reader a century or two hence will be most grateful, for this work, besides bringing a daily benediction to the house- hold, will slowly have woven into its fabric that which will make it an invalu- able heirloom, beside which the impor- tance of the family plate will sink into insignificance, and coming generations will cross continents and oceans to scan its pages and plead for the right to copy portions of them.", "•Large Meals With a Fireless Cooker", "By Ray Mclntyre King", "THE reason why farm women have been slow to adopt fireless cookery is because manufacturers have not until recenth- put cookers on the market that could adequately handle cook- ing for a large family. A small-sized fire- less cooker is a nuisance in a farm kitchen. However well it may boil the beans or the cereal, the average woman is not going to 4uss with it for one or two occasional dishes and have to resort to the range to get the bulk of the victuals cooked. ^ A fireless cooker must bake, boil, stew and broil — do all of the cooking. It must be a complete substitute for a big six- holed range, or farm women have no use for it. But at last cookers adequate to meet our heavy demands are being made, and they are proving a real help in cook- ing.", "By careful experiments in my kitchen 1 have determined these facts about my fireless cooker :", "1. The first cost of fireless-cooker equipment is less than the first cost of a range equipment.", "The large three-compartment fireless cooker, with full set of aluminum vessels, costs, on the Pacific Coast, about $30. A two-burner gasolene-stove for heating radiators, etc., costs $3.50. The cooking capacity of this outfit, costing $33.50, is equal (except for heating a water-tank, for which a separate water-heater must be installed) to the cooking capacity of rng new, latest improved, fuel-saving, six- hole, all-steel range costing $70.", "2. The cost of the cooker maintenance is less.", "Best seasoned oak wood costs, with us, $3.50 per tier. Gasolene costs $1.25 per five-gallon can. One can of gasolene gives me heat units which, when conserved in the cooker, are equivalent to the heat units (used and wasted) which I am able to obtain from one tier of this oak wood in my steel range. At present prices of fuel one cannot afiford to use wood for cooking. The price of coal is even more 'prohibitive, costing $15 per ton here in the Sacramento Valley.", "3. The fireless cooker economizes on food values. It is the ideal method of cooking. Food values are saved and savors imoroved by fireless cookery. Evaporation is almost nothing. The meat juices are all preserved. Beans and cereals and other foods requiring long, slow,- uni- y.form_cooking to render their nutrients", "available for digestion are prepared perfectly. The morning cereal cooked overnight comes out a delicious jelly, impossible to obtain by stove cooking. Gingerbreads, fruit-cake, etc., are baked to perfection, with no worry about scorch- ing.", "4. The fireless cooker economizes in time — the time of the cook, not the time of cooking, for that is in most cases longer than required by the range and therefore the better for the food values.", "It requires no longer to prepare a dish .for the cooker than it does for the stove, and once the lid of the cooker is closed, then the cook is free. It makes me soul- sick when I think of the long weary hours we women waste standing over a hot stove watching lest something undercook, or overcook, or the fire go down ! Per- sonally, I verily believe that in the last fifteen years alone I have sizzled and perspired up enough good energy to have moved a mountain or two !", "Praise be to the fireless cooker! We farm women may now go to the club, or to church, feeling certain the dinner will be hot and \"done\" when we return. No invention of our times has done more to emancipate women who must cook for many.", "5. The fireless-cooker system is cool, peculiarly adapted to summer cooking, when as little heat as possible is desired in the kitchen. This fact must be con- sidered in cold clirnates and some other provision made for heating the kitchen.", "6. The fireless-cooker equipment re- quires much less space and less labor in cleaning. The average farm kitchen is much too large for comfort and ease in cleaning. By reducing the kitchen space to kitchenette size— that is, to a pantry or closet just large enough to hold the cooker equipment, with table, bins, etc., compactly, and conveniently arranged to save steps — it will be found that the clean- ing and heating expense of the kitchen has been correspondingly lessened.", "In cold weather the cooker may be used in connection with the dining-room heater. A metal disk (I use a discarded stove- lid) may be heated on the live coals, without the bother of lighting the gaso- lene.", "It is claimed that soapstone disks, or radiators, hold the heat longer and are preferable for heating on the gasolene. I use both metal and soapstone disks, as", "occasion requires, and find it pays to have several extra disks, more than the manu- facturer puts in the cooker.", "The cooker uses conserved heat. If you want a substantial breakfast, put a kettle of parboiled beans and a big loaf of brown bread, or gingerbread, in the cooker at night. Then see the men folks smile at breakfast-time at the delicious meal cooked while the family slept.", "All the waste of foods that stick or burn to kettles is eliminated in fireless cookery, unless one insists on heating the disks too long. Even this may be cured by slipping an asbestos mat under the kettle.", "Dish-washing is lessened by fireless cookery. The light aluminum vessels are so easily cleaned, and the shallow ones are so sightly that they may be sent direct to the table like the casserole.", "Every dietetic value claimed by paper- bag cookery is also obtained by fireless cookery. Meats roasted, broiled or stewed in the cooker have that fine flavor and tenderness found in the old barbecued meats. The pit in the earth, heated with hot stones or hot ashes, was only the primitive form of the fireless cooker.", "Bread baked in the fireless cooker has that thin, crisp, tender crust so next to impossible to obtain in the stove-oven. The moisture retained in the cooker cell prevents the crust from being hard, thick and dry. Oven-baked bread is likely to have either an overdone crust or an underdone crumb, but cooker bread is baked perfectly, both crust and crumb.", "Fireless cookery is easy to learn, but, as in every method of cooking, practice brings one nearer to perfection.", "Cooking Sparrows", "MOW that the United States Govern- ment, through the Department of Agriculture, is suggesting that \"we eat sparrows, perhaps you would like to see the recipe for cooking them suggested by Uncle Sam in his capacity as chief cook for the Nation.", "\"Cut off the legs, the wings at the outer joint, and neck close to the body; strip off the skin, beginning at the neck ; make a cut through the body -wall extending from the neck along the backbone till the ribs are severed, then around between the legs to the tail, and remove the viscera. Sparrows may be cooked by any one of the methods used for reed-birds or quail.\"", "Mrs. Mortgage — \"I'm nearly crazy! Our interest is com- ing due next month, and we •won't have enough to meet it. If I had more time to spare, I could make enough butter and egg money to help out.\"", "Anty Drudge — \"Mercy me! Don't you know that if you use Fels-Naptha Soap you can get your work done so you can have time to 'tend to your chickens and churn your but- ter?\"", "It costs money, as well as strength, to do your work the long, hard way.", "Up- to- date women use Fels-Naptha Soap, and use the time it saves for doing other things.", "The weekly wash, housecleaning, every- day scrubbing and cleaning are all made easier with Fels- Naptha Soap. It works best in cool or luke- warm water, dissolves grease, makes dirt dis- appear and takes out all kinds of stains.", "Easy directions are on the Red and Green Wrapper,", "Fels A Con Fblladelphla.", "STOVE BARGAINS", "Our low factory prices and I", "customers' Profit-Sharing I", "Plan save you $8 to $23. I", "We pay freight and guar- I", "antee safe delivery of I", "stove— polished, all ready to |", "set up. your money refimded m", "after one year's trial i£ you are I", "Dot satisfied, '", "Gold Coin I", "Stoves & Ranges j", "(Write for Catalog and Prices. Big Free Catalog J", "Bhuws wity improved features of Gold Coin Stoves make I", "them fuel-savers and splendid Ijakere— why they liave |", "(given satisfaction for 53 years. Write to'lay. |", "Gold Coin Stove Co., 8 Oak St., Troy. N. T. |", "ONE VEAR'S TRIAL", "The World's Largest -Builders of Six-Cylinder Automobiles", "These Only Are the Cars You Should Buy", "While there are approximately 250 different makes of automobiles on the American market, it is not so difficult to choose a car that will prove satisfactory. Your neighbors tell you of their experiences. The dealers speak in highest terms of the cars they sell. You are appealed to from practically every angle to consider the advisability of this car and that car.", "In all this there is apt to be much confusion as to what car can really be trusted. Just bear these facts in jnirfd in considering each car. It will save you much worry.", "Consider the Importance of the Dealer", "The choice of which car is, of course, important. What it has done, who builds it, the manu- facturer's position in the indus- try and the character of the car itself is not difficult to ascertain.", "You probably have a pretty definite idea now as to which ca.T.", "'Have you- considered just how the dealer is to be figured in the transaction ?", "He is the point of contact between you and the maker, your relation with him is bound to be more or less personal.", "The finest product of the best builders can not be as satisfac- tory a car for you to own, if its dealer does not display the spirit of interest after you have bought, as it would were the dealer all that he should be. From those who have had dealings with him you can get a pretty accurate line on the dealer.", "All who buy HUDSON cars of us have our interest so long as they own a HUDSON. We are more interested in the perform- ance of the car after it is sold, than in the sale itself.", "That policy is established by the Hudson Motor Car Co. We thoroughly subscribe to its principles.", "And Why a \"54\" ' HUDSON", "Motorists who know see in it the qualities which only Howard E. Coffin and his associ- ates— 48 all told — were able to build into it.", "They have not produced a Six by merely adding two cylinders to a good Four. A good Six can't be built that wav.", "These 48 specialists, experi- enced in all the details of motor car building, trained in 97 European and American fac- tories, started out to build a Six without being hampered by", "old manufacturing equipment and old ideals.", "Their reputation is staked on the \"54\" HUDSON.", "That is a sufficient guarantee for most buyers.", "HUDSONS don't disappoint.", "The \"54\" HUDSON has elec- tric lights. It is electrically self- cranked. The famous Delco system, patented, is used. Ever\\' motor car luxur}\" is included, speedometer, clock, top, cur- tains, rain -vision windshield, demountable rims, twelve-inch upholstery, etc. Equipped with a five-passenger Phaeton body or a two-passenger Roadster the price is 32450. With a seven- passenger Touring body, 32600, f. o. b. Detroit.", "At 31875 vou can obtain the HUDSON \"'37.\"", "It too was designed by the same engineers that built the \"54.\" Experts point to it as being the \"Four-cylinder masterpiece.\"", "Send for catalog, or go to the Hudson dealer, and he will prove their value in a hundred different ways", "See the Triangle on the Radiator", "HUDSON MOTOR CAR COMPANY", "7642 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, Michigan", "I Eastern Edition", "ESTABLISHED 1877 SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1913", "Farm end Fireside, April 26, /5/3", "THE EDITOR'S BULLETIN OF BETTER THINGS COMING", "WITH THE EDITOR", "AD VERTI SEMENTS IN FAPv-M AND FIRESIDE ARE GUARANTEED", "Coeer Design", "Those who are interested in the sub- ject of prohibition will enjoy the cover design of the next issue of Farm axd Fireside. It deals with this serious problem in a unique manner, and solves it without the necessity of written comment.", "Special Articles", "A few issues back we promised some articles on the Parcel Post. A few letters have appeared from time to time, but in the next issue half a page will be devoted to the experiences of readers in sending farm products through the mails.", "In an article entitled \"Disinfecting Farm Buildings.'' Doctor Alexander tells what disinfectants are best for various purposes. Disinfectants are much like tools, some are good for one purpose and some for another. Doctor Alexander takes away all the mystery concerning bacteria and diseases by telling just what to do to clean stables and farm buildings and make them perfectly safe after sick animals have been kept in them.", "The Headword Shop", ".\\ttention is called to the announce- ment in this issue of the \"Milking- Stool\" contest. \"We wish to determine what milking-stools are best and why. Prizes will be given successful con- testants.", "The cover of the March 29th issue has caused much comment and has raised many questions concerning the guinea-fowl.", "Lite Stock Dairy", "John P. Ross, one of F.\\rm axd Fire- side's sheep experts and prominent among sheepmen generally, will tell of the Hampshire Down breed of sheep, which together with veterinary dis- cussion by Doctor Alexander and horse-training contributions by David Bultum will make the coming issues of particular interest to live-stock men.", "Garden and Orchard", "\"Scale Foes of Our Trees\" is the title of a valuable contribution by C. M. Weed. Most fruit-growers know in a general way the harm done by scale insects, but do not know how to identify and kill the scale pests.", "Crops and Soils", "The average intelligent farmer com- monly regards sweet and Irish pota- toes as belonging to two separate agricultural belts. But Mr. James B. Morman of Maryland tells how both crops can be grown not only in the same soil and climate, but on the same field at the same time.", "M arreting", "By the time this copy of Fakm and Mreside reaches you. there will have been held in Chicago the First Na- tional Conference on Marketing and Farm Credits. Farm and Fireside will have a representative at this confer- ence, and the boiled-down deliberations of this conference will be given in the marketing department of the next issue.", "You will be interested in the new story by -\\nnie Hamilton Donnell, which will appear in the next number, .^s in most of her stories, Mrs. Donnell deals with the simple home life, and shows the things that are most worth while.", "Needlework and Fashions", "Bags will be as popular as ever this year, and we are going to have a new pattern which our needlewomen will find easy to make. The fashions will include not only the best and the new- est patterns, but Miss Gould will g've us a page of inexpensive dress ma- terials, suitable for the cool summer dresses that are being prepared now.", ".Vowhere is cookery brought to so high an art as among the Dutch people who spend their lives concocting delicious dishes. We have secured a number of their recipes. Try them.", "Sunday Reading", "Joseph is still the central figure of the Sunday-school lessons, and the thought- ful reader can learn much from the marvelous story of his life in Egypt.", "I Children's Page", "We are sure our boys and girls will want to read \"New Red Riding Hood.\" which is every bit as \"thrilly\" as the old one, and it is pretty hard to believe that it all happened in a big city.", "I once knew a man who refused to work, though a The Fear perfectly industrious fellow. Understand, he was not of Sin lazy. He had a good business and was making money.", "He was a manufacturer. He quit work because he said there was nothing to do without sinning. He was unable to pay his employees quite all they earned, because that policj\" would take from him all the profits on their work. He thought it a sin to make such profits.", "He could not sell goods, because he felt sure the people were not told the full truth about them. He thought of farming, but the bad uses to which many farm crops are put seemed a sin that he could have no part in. About the only thing he could conscientiously do was to peddle books which preached the things in which he believed — and nobody would buy these books. So what happened?", "He became a pensioner on friends who did the things his conscience was too tender to endure. He could not support his family, and they became pensioners, also, on people who were not gifted with such piercing insight into the defects, lies and sins of business life — or whose consciences were not so tender.", "I have a friend who says that there is an enormous waste of the vital resources of the earth in the growing of 2,175,193,000 pounds per annum of tobacco.", "I suppose that he would starve before he would grow a pound oi it. But would he grow barley? I once knew a farmer who refused to grow barley for sale, because it might be made into beer. But he did grow rye, wheat and corn, all of which are made into whisky.", "Every one of us who grow grapes get more for them because of the enormous demand for this fruit for wine. I suppose the hop-growers among my readers know that they are engaged in the beer business.", "Shall we all quit growing wheat, corn, barley, hops and rye. be- cause if we take part in or profit from liquor business we shall sin?", "If all the people who are growing tobacco should How About quit at once and plant corn, the price of corn would Tobacco go down. I'm perfectly willing — but the point I'm making is, as things now are, that I can't grow corn without making a profit from the tobacco business. The same is true of every crop that could be grown on the land now planted in tobacco. Tobacco removes a lot of competing acres and com- peting farmers from the field. Removing competition makes bigger prices for me. In a way, every one of us is up against the same thing that drove my friend to doing nothing. We can't escape from com- plicity, direct or indirect in the work the world is doing.", "The Chinese have the opium habit. They need every acre of their land for useful crops; but hundreds of thousands of acres would be planted in poppies for the production of opium if it were not for the activities of the government. And even under the laws forbidding the planting of poppies police ofiicers are often bribed to overlook fields of poppies which grow and mature and produce opium for the use of the poor Chinese smokers of the drug. It must not be for- gotten that opium is one of the most valuable of medicines.", "There are now thousands and thousands of chests of opium at the Chinese ports, sent there from India for importation while the revo- lution was going on. The opium-dealers thought that they would be able to send it through the custom houses while the Chinese govern- ment was busy with the war. But the revolution was a success, and the opium did not get through. The government of British India is in some way interested in this great store of opium, and there are millions of dollars at stake.", "Professor King noticed that in China the use of to- Tea and bacco is taking the place of the opium as the latter Coffee Too is driven out. He speaks with sorrow and some indignation of the waste of land in tobacco-planting, where land is as precious as it is in China. He is right, I have no doubt.", "Nobody can doubt the statement that the opium traffic, for smok- ing purposes, is an evil. I suppose, too, that few would disagree with the statement that if the Chinese are to smoke the one or the other they had better smoke tobacco. We may say that they ought to smoke neither; but to millions and millions the supply of tobacco seems just as legitimate a need as that of flour. Who shall decide on the matter of a habit? The use of coffee is as universal as that of tobacco. So of tea. Both are narcotics. Neither is a necessity. Caffeine is the active principle of coffee, and theine of tea. They are both as active poisons as nicotine. Who shall say that some time we shall not develop a public sentiment against the use of these? They are certainly a source of waste when we consider the great areas of good land devoted to their cultivation. Is it right to devote the good land of God's earth which He gave to all to the growth of the narcotics which enslave us — tea, coffee, tobacco, opium, alcohol, beer, wine, whisky?", "Let each man do right as he sees the right. I respect Individual the tender conscience of my friend who quit work. Standards but I don't just see how the world would be able to go on if everybody did as he did. In matters of eat- ing, drinking, wearing and consuming it is just possible that our standards of right and wrong are not infallible.", "Let's try to grow good crops of wheat, corn, barley, rye, apples, hops and tobacco, if we are in that business, and withhold censure for those who are interested directly or indirectly in such of these things as we think subject to question.", "Agents FASZ", "-American Wagon Company 6", "Automobiles, Motorcycles. Etc,", "Corbin Screw CorporatioB Division 6", "Elkhart Car ge & Harness Mfg. Co. 12", "Hendee Mfg. Company 10", "Owen Company. R. M 9", "Stewart Speedometer Factory .... 7", "Willys-Overland Company 28", "Carriages. Wagons and Accessories", "Bohon. D. T 27", "Electric Wheel Company 6", "Lane Brothers Company 14", "Mtitual Car'ge & Harness Mfg. Co. 13", "Ohio Carriage Mfg. Company 24", "Tower Cc:npany. A. J 6", "Correspondence Schools", "Internationa] Railway Cor. Institute 16", "Klein. Dean, Louis A 14", "Farm Engines", "Ellis Engine Company 6", "Fairbanks, Morse & Company .... 6", "Jacobson Machine Mfg. Company.. 27", "i emple Pump Company 10", "Witte Iron Works Company 6", "Farm Implements and Accessories", "Deere & Company, John 11", "Deere & Company. John 12", "Farquhar Company. Ltd.. A. B.... 14", "Farquhar Company, Ltd.. A. B.... 12", "Moline Plow Company 6", "Scott Company. The J. A 11", "Wilson Brothers 6", "Bond Steel Pest Company 13", "Brown Fence and Wire Company . . 25", "Coiled Spring Fence Company .... 25", "Cyclone Fence Company 9", "Cyclone Woven Wire Fence Co. . . . 25", "Kitselman Brothers 25", "Kokomo Fence Machine Company . . 25", "L^p-To-Date Mfg. Company 15", "Ward Fence Company 25", "Detroit Heating and Lighting Co . . 6 Household — Miscellaneous", "Dorn, J. C 22", "Gold Coin Stove Company 24", "Hoosier Stove Company 22", "Incubators, Poultry, Etc.", "Edge Hill Silica Rock Company. ... 16", "Elssex Incubator Company. Robert. 16", "Greider, B. H 16", "Providence Squab Company 16", "Pfile. Henry 16", "Souder. H. A 16", ".A.tlantic Coast Line Railway 2-", "Department of Interior 24", "Ktihn Irrigated Land Company. ... 27", "Strout Farm Agency, E. A 24", "Wooster Company. C. M 24", "Lite Stock, Stock Food and Remedies", "Newton Remedy Company 14", "Pratt Food Company 14", "Troy Chemical Company 14", "Young. P. D. F.. W. F 14", "Monumental Bronze Company .... 22", "Century Mfg. Company 10", "Barrett Mfg. Company 27", "Bird & Son. F. W 16", "Century Mfg. Company ^", "Edwards Mfg. Company 25", "General Roofing Mfg. Company ... 11", "Separators", "Albaugh-Dover Company 14", "American Separator Company .... 13", "De Laval Separator Company 15", "Empire Cream Separator Company. 14", "Sharpies Separator Company 13", "Stores. Inc.. The Charles William.. 16", "Griffin Lumber Company ■'■", "Sporting Goods", "Gregory, J. F ^6", "Mead Cycle Company -", "Brown Company, The E. 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April 26. 1913", "PUBUSHED BI-WEEKLY", "Storm, Flood, Disaster, Loss", "THE phenomenal storms and floods following on the heels of the spring equinox have probably not been equaled in a generation, in extent of area devastated and loss of life and property. The wrecking of cities, railways, aqueducts, levees, highways and bridges took such a toll of human life that the country was horrified, and property losses in cities alone aggre- gated scores of millions of dollars.", "This calamity reaches much farther in its direful effects than will be realized by many. Popular attention is naturally centered on the large cities that were razed and wrecked by wind and flood; the hundreds of ham- lets and towns suffering proportionately get but small consideration from the country generally. Farm losses are even less appreciated.", "A rough estimate of the loss of fertile soil and plant-food from erosion and the expense of restoring eroded iSnd to a tillable condition in the score of States more or less affected will make clear that the farmers also were very heavy losers. The torrential rains Jtept the streams and rivers running yellow, gray and brown for a full week. True, this source of enormous loss of the farmers' best asset — productive soil — is not peculiar to this unusually severe storm period, but this loss has been made more evident to farmers over a wide area at one time than has happened for many years.", "The land that was protected with a living cover crop or even filled with the roots and carpeted with the dead growth of a fall-grown crop now stands out as an object lesson that speaks with a force that no farmer of fair perception should be able to escape. As the country grows older and the soil gets poorer in vege- table matter, these dashing, cutting storms become a greater menace, and the only safe plant-food is that locked in the embrace of the roots and tissues of living, dormant or dying plants.", "Roast Chicken Dissected", "NOT much economic study has thus far been given to the \"before\" and \"after\" cooking condition of our common food products in relation to the actual quantity of food left at the last analysis when ready for consumption. It has been found by experiments carried on by the home economics department of the Wisconsin College of Agriculture that a four-pound live chicken will furnish only one pound of edible food when it is ready to serve on the table in the form of roast chicken.", "Stated differently, the live chicken that cost nineteen cents a pound, when transformed to the boned, roasted central appetizer of the dinner-table, costs the consumer about seventy-six cents a pound for the edible portion remaining. Of course this seemingly excessive cost can be matched or discounted by other delicacies and tidbits, such as spare-ribs, head cheese, terrapin and frogs' legs.", "The figures at first blush look formidable, but the incense of roast chicken fresh from the oven to a hungry diner goes far to convince him that his money has not been misplaced.", "Traveling Hospitals for the Country", "PROMINENT medical authorities are ^strongly recommending special hospital trains equipped to afford the best service to rural communities and villages. By this means it is planned to furnish the territory distant from the larger cities with medical service, including surgery, that can 'now be obtained only by journeying to a city hospital. Of course the hospital trains could not time visits to be in reach when a farmer is gored or tossed by a bull or suffers from machinery accidents. Nevertheless, there are chronic cases now going untreated and much needed surgery which could be cared for hy such traveling hospitals.", "The need of better facilities for treating cases that require the highest skill and best equipment has of late", "years been given frequent consideration in grange and other farmers' meetings. These proposed traveling hospitals will be a direct outgrowth of the discussion given this subject by the progressive thinkers in farmers' organizations which have paved the way for getting the fullest benefit from another needed rural improvement.", "Agricultural exhibits will this year be held in twenty- seven different cities in the Cape Province of South Africa, where exceptional interest has developed in agricultural matters.", "During 1912 over 150 tons of starch flour, worth from $50 to $55 per ton, were shipped to Great Britain from a single county in South Africa. The starch flour was made from sweet potatoes.", "Twenty-five million pounds of corn-oil, worth six and one-half cents per pound, were exported in 1911 and 1912. Most of the corn-oil was shipped to northern Europe for the manufacture of soap and lubricants.", "The growing tendency to sell farm products in the most concentrated and valuable form is noteworthy. The last census shows that less than one third of the milk produced in Ohio was sold as bulk milk. It was isold either as butter, cream or on the butter-fat basis.", "By Parcel Post", "By Alice Annette Larkin", "THE folks are sending lots of things", "To town to Uncle Ned And Aunt Jeanette and Grandma Smith", "And Cousins Jack and Fred. When Mama says, \"Go, bring the scales,", "We'll weigh this piece of roast,\" We hurry 'round and get it wrapped", "To go by parcel post.", "To-day they're fixing up a box", "Of eggs they're going to sell, And Papa says, \"Take care ! Look out !", "Be sure to wrap them well.\" They got them from the new hen-house.", "There were two dozen, 'most ; They're waiting for the mail-man now", "To send by parcel post.", "I've heard so much about this way", "Of sending things to town; It's cheap and safe and sure to bring", "The cost of living down. That's what my papa says, and course", "He ought to know the most. About such things, for he's a man.", "And uses parcel post.", "So I have found the nicest plan,", "But you must never tell ; I'm going to send a pail of milk", "To town to Grandma Bell. You see, she hasn't any cow,", "And she likes milk the most; I hope there'll be a lot of it", "To send by parcel post.", "Washing Soiled Eggs", "IN THE February 1st issue of Farm and Fireside Mr. Fred Grundy discussed the washing of soiled eggs and made a statement to the effect that the cleaning of stained or dirty eggs was impractical. This is the opinion of scientific egg experts also, as well as the experience of commercial egg-men all over the country.", "Some of F.ARM and Fireside's readers, however, disagree with Mr. Grundy. Here are the opinions of", "I have always read Mr. Grundy's articles with much interest, as I think he writes very intelligently, but the advice he gives on washing eggs can be very much improved on. I will give my method of cleaning eggs which I have used for several years. When shipping white eggs to the New York market I clean all soiled eggs (after washing them with water) with either vinegar or a good washing-powder. I used to use vinegar altogether, but have found that a can of com- m.ercial cleanser is very handy and will remove all stains and leave the eggs looking just as fresh-laid as ever. I wash my Indian Runner duck eggs in this manner, and they always go to market looking very attractive.", "The success of the above method is based on the cleaning power of the acetic acid in the vinegar. Here is another letter which gives a method similar in prin- ciple but which takes a longer time :", "After reading the article by Mr. Grundy on washing eggs I would like to inform the readers of Farm and Fireside that all stains can be removed from eggs and still retain their freshness and bloom if covered with buttermilk for twelve hours. Then wash, and wipe dry.", "We're glad this matter has come up, for the price on thousands of dozens of eggs will be cut a cent or two a dozen this summer just because the eggs are dirty. We can't aft'ord to sell dirty eggs. Neither can we afford to damage our good names by selling eggs soaked in buttermilk (lactic acid) or sponged with vinegar (acetic acid).", "But we' can aft'ord clean straw or hay for the nests a little oftener. That seems to be the best solution to the problem.", "Are We Wasteful?", "THIS is a big country, these United States, and it's full of big men — big mentally, physically and all other ways. We like to do things in a big way. But in spite of the size of the scale on which, as a nation, we operate we also think we're pretty good farm-managers and understand farm economics pretty thoroughly.", "A\\'astef ul ? Impossible ! We raise corn, feed it to steers, let hogs follow the steers, put the corn-free manure back on the land and raise more corn, and so forth. Or, we milk cows, sell the cream or butter, feed the skim-milk or buttermilk to hogs and put the manure from both the cows and the hogs back on the land to raise feed for the next generation of cows and hogs.", "But the late F. H. King, of Madison, Wisconsin, who has studied the agriculture of the Orient, thinks we are wasteful. He says'of China and Japan:", "Almost every foot of land is made to contribute material for food, fuel or fabric. Everything which can be made edible serves as food for man or domestic animals. Whatever cannot be eaten or worn is used for fuel. The wastes of the body, or fuel and of fabric worn be3'ond other use is taken back to the field.", "In Japan there is an average of 3.4 people to the acre of cultivated land, each farmer's household tilling an average of 2.6 acres. He shows that the lands have been worked for three thousand years without any noticeable loss of fertility and contrasts this condition with some of the older farm lands in this country which now yield satisfactory crops only when coaxed to do so with high-priced fertilizers. Rather looks as though the orientals were better farm-managers, doesn't it?", "Farm and Fireside, April 26, 1913", "The County Agricultural Adviser", "How an Illinois County is Increasing the Efficiency of Its Farming", "By George H. Dacy", "lEKALB County, Illinois, is lone of the first reg^ions in [the United States to have an agricultural expert to advise local farmers about I the production and market- J iiig of their crops and ^ about modern methods of intensive farming. The movement to se- cure a farm, soil and crop doctor for the county originated with the farmers them- selves. The farmers appreciated that they needed some instruction and counsel re- garding the \"hows\" and \"whys\" of bumper crop production. Moreover, they wanted to play square with the soil from a fertility- standpoint, but they didn't under- stand how to do it in an economical man- ner. So they bunched together and held indignation meetings — their anger being directed against their own lack of knowl- edge.", "To get good and mad often does a world of good, and when seven hundred farmers reach the angry condition some- thing is sure to be developed — a local squabble, a political wrangle or a milk- producer's riot. The storm that brewed around DeKalb did not develop so dis- astrously, as it made for good rather than evil. Its result was the formation of the DeKalb Counr\\- Soil Improvement Asso- ciation, whose purpose was to raise funds in order to employ an experienced agri- cultiu-ist who would assist in solving local farm problems.", "Where the Money Came From", "Seven hundred of the local farm-owners contributed from $1 to S27 per man to a fund for this purpose; the county su- pervisors voted $2,000; the Bankers' Association came forward with a gener- ous donation ; the count;.- papers boosted for the scheme — with the ultimate result that $30,000 was raised to pay for the services of a soil and crop expert for three years, and to provide him with an automobile and all the facilities that would mcrease his efficiency. Prof. W, G. Eckhardt, formerly of the Illinois Agri- cultural College, was selected as just the man for the place of county adviser, as he had had experience in both practical and scientific agriculture.", "On the first day of June, 1912, Professor Eckhardt assumed his new responsibilities. He found work a-plenty awaiting him. Every intelligent farmer in the county wanted the expert to visit him and to explain why his com did not yield one hundred bushels to the acre, why the corn on one field was backward, what fertilizer should be applied to corn-land, and innu- merable other puzzlers of a similar nature.", "Mr. Eckhardt mapped out a schedule and planned to visit every farmer who asked for assistance. At the end of the first week his time for the succeeding five months was promised to the large number of farmers in the county who had asked for aid. He worked on the motto of \"first come,, first served,\" and called on appli- cants in the order that they had asked for his aid.", "Personal Visits Most Beneficial", "Right off the handle Professor Eck- hardt ascertained that approximately sev- enty-five per cent, of the soils in the coimty were acid and needed generous applications of lime. He constantly car- ried a soil auger and a package of litmus paper with him on his trips into the coun- try, and continually preached the doctrine of intensive fertilization, the utilization of well-conserved stable manure supple- mented by liberal applications of raw rock iphosphate and the use of limestone wher- lever the soil had become sour or acid. Where the soil was sour he said to the farm-owner, \"You'll have to buy lime- stone,\" and the farmer — at least the progressive ones — purchased the lime and remedied the acidity. One farmer ordered seven car-loads of lime, while in another", "'It isn't the seed altogether,\" he said, \"look at those roots\"", "community ten car-loads of this corrective were purchased by the farmers.", "Neighborhood meetings were the order of the day for some time, but soon the farm expert discovered that to really hit the nail squarely on the head in each case he must have a heart-to-heart talk with the individual farmer. A farmer will tell his troubles more freely and listen to advice more kindly if there are not too many of his neighbors about. The man who wishes to have his farm examined notifies the expert and is accorded a date. A week before the appointed time he receives a letter reminding him to be at home, which reminder is later emphasized by a telephone message.", "Usually the soil expert spends about half a daj- on each farm, going over even' field and offering advice to their proper management. The regular schedule of farm visits is often interrupted by emer- genc}- calls. One day it is a man whose soy-beans have succumbed to a combina- tion of a sour soil, poor inoculation and a surplus of weeds. The next day it is a man who wants to know if it will be necessary to disk his alfalfa ground again, and at what time the seed should be sown.", "A Case of Corn-Root Lice", "On many occasions the farms that Professor Eckhardt visits outwardly ap- pear to be in A No. 1 condition. Their hog-tight fences, thrifty fields of small grain, corn-fields free from weeds, and buildings in a fine stage of repair made the services of a crop doctor seem super- fluous. During a recent visit to just such a place its owner finally said, \"\"The corn in this field is not doing as well as it should. I guess the seed must have been pretty weak.\" The expert pulled up a hill of the corn and shook the soil from the roots. \"It isn't the seed altogether,\" he said, \"look at those roots.\"", "The roots were alive with corn-root lice which had been sapping the strength of the plants. \"These lice live on the roots of almost everything except clover,\" he continued. \"However, if you raise clover once every four years you will have no trouble with them. In the meantime, if you will keep your corn ground well stirred from the time spring opens until planting-time, to keep down the weeds and break up the ants' nests, you can pretty nearly do away with the lice.\"", "A Prescription for a Sick Soil", "Mr. Eckhardt left the following pre- scription with this farmer on his depar- ture : \"Limestone two tons per acre, to be applied during the fall or winter. Follow in the spring with fourteen pounds of clover-seed to the acre. When the soil is sweetened and the clover has supplied plenty of nitrogen, you should obtain from seventy-five to eighty bushels of corn to the acre from such fine land. Then apply raw rock phosphate in con- junction with well-rotted manure, and before you know it you will be harvesting a hundred-bushel corn-crop.\" There were also a couple of minor prescriptions —", "muriate of potash for a few patches of peat-land and bisulphid of carbon for the skunks that were digging up the meadow.", "On the next farm it was a young fellow, a renter, that asked for aid. The farm belonged to his father, who wasn't ver>' enthusiastic about the agricultural expert. \"I wanted father to go over the place with us, but he thinks it would be a waste of time,\" the young man said. \"Call him and tell him we are about to start and wish to ask him some questions about the place.\" the county adviser replied. Soon along came the father just as the expert was pulling out a sample of soil. \"Going to dig a well or are you looking for gold ?\" inquired. the old man.", "Clover That Needed Help", "\"I expect there is more gold in this farm than in some of the Klondike mines if we can only find how to g'et it out,\" answered the expert. \"I see you use a drill, young man, that's good,\" he con- tinued. \"You drilled the field of oats north and south, too, and have a stand of good clover. Y''oung man, you are on the right track.\"", "On reaching the higher portion of the field and making a litmus-paper test of the soil, Mr. Eckhardt shook his head. \"See that clover?\" He pointed to the sickly-looking, shriveled clover at his feet. \"You'll have to give that clover some help if 3'ou want it to make a hay- crop next year. Clover can't stand that,\" he remarked as he indicated the litmus paper that had been turned red by the acid in the soil. In the neighboring field of corn the crop was poor, although it had been accorded plenty of care and atten- tion. The owner said it was the third consecutive crop of corn that the land had produced.", "Silencing a Kicker", "\"You have done work enough here for an eighty-bushel crop of corn,\" the soil expert said, \"but I doubt if you will realize forty bushels to the acre. Let's see what the trouble is,\" he went on as- he pulled up a stalk of com. The root system was half eaten off. A little probing brought the offender to light — a white worm about a quarter of an inch long. \"That's a corn-root worm,\" said Professor Eck- hardt. \"You can't escape him where you are raising com and corn year after year. Such a stalk can never produce a pound ear of corn.\"", "\"I've been farming for forty years, and that is the first time I ever saw any of those things,\" said the father. \"I've often wondered what made the corn look like that, too.\"", "Later on in the afternoon, as Professor Eckhardt was cranking his automobile preparatory to leaving the farm, the boy came to him and said, \"I believe you have converted Father. He just told me to find out where we could get some lime- stone and rock phosphate, and how much it would cost.\" Such experiences are typical of those that Professor Eckhardt meets with every day. However, the", "number of farmers who threaten to \"kick the darned crop expert off the farm if they get the chance\" is daily growing smaller. One farmer was loud-mouthed in his denunciation of the supervisors for granting $2,000 to forward the movement to hire a county adviser. Finally one of the supervisors took him to the court- house and demonstrated to him that the increased taxes against his farm amounted to just forty cents in consequence of the appropriation. After that the \"kicker\" kept silent.", "He Manages the Covmty Farm", "Thus far the greater part of Professor Eckhardt's time has been devoted to preaching the doctrine of clover and lime- stone, as the}\" are needed so badly in DeKalb County. He is also campaigning for alfalfa and soy-beans as v\\-ell as cow- peas, and urging the farmers to adopt these efficient crops in their rotations, beginning this year.", "He is making good with the county farm which has been placed at his disposal for experimental and demonstrational pur- poses. During the winter season he plans to hold demonstration meetings in the schoolhouses throughout the county, and to attempt to educate the farmer through the medium of lantera-slide lectures and talks on agriculture, with special reference to local conditions. He is also fathering; a movement to introduce elementary! studies in agriculture and domestic sci- ence into all the country schools of the county. In a word. Professor Eckhardt is probably the busiest man in DeKalb County at the present time, and without a doubt he is the one that is accoraplishingj the most good for the farm an(^ farming* in that region.", "Every agricultural county in the countr^i could profitably support an agricultural adviser of the caliber of Mr. Eckhardt,' At present there are plenty of competent men to fill such positions and to increase the crop yields and the net profits of the farms that will follow their directions. The feature to be emphasized in the DeKalb method of procedure rests in the fact that the farmers themselves felt the need of expert advice, and went about obtaining it. Other farming communities that entertain similar views can undoubt- edly do likewise.", "Editor's Note — Even at this early stage of the work being done by advisory farm experts, evidence is plentiful that the crop doctor must have more, much more than mere, scientific knowledge for his equip- ment. The qualities of unassuming tact- fulness and ability to see farm problems from the angle of observation that ap- peals to the farmer must make part of an adviser's equipment before he can hope to work effectively for and with the farmers of any community.", "The number of men whose training and other qualifications fit them for agricul- tural advisers will be found to be com- paratively few, — much fewer, we believe, than Mr, Dacy so optimistically asserts. However, the demand for this particular kind of counselor is still small.", "In many sections where funds are now lacking to help inaugurate the work of farm advisers, there is possible a practical means of keeping those localities in the van of progress. Let the farmers of any such neighborhood unite and procure the occasional services of one of the most successful farmers of that vicinity who is keeping abreast of the times.", "Organize a Grange or Farmers' Club and make him lecturer and demonstrator and get his counsel and suggestions at the meetings held regularly at the members' homes. This kind of farm advisory help has proved most helpful in various places and will be found well worth while till the services of the trained expert adviser who devotes all his time to the work can become a reality.", "He is probably the busiest man in DeKalb County at the present time and without doubt he is the one who is accomplishing the most good", "Silver-Penciled Wyandotte cockerel bred by Mr. Vandervort", "WHY does Mr. Vandervort of Delaware County, New York, get a labor income of about $900 per year for taking care of three hundred hens, or a net profit of three dollars each, when the profit on the average hen in the country is not more than fifty cents?\" This question I wanted satisfactorily answered by Mr. Vander- vort himself, and for that purpose I drove to Pleasant View Farm. I had talked with Mr. Vandervort when meeting him at our Grange meetings, so I knew some- thing about his hen business, but my only way to get real facts and details was to go to the farm. I found Mr. Vandervort busy with the care of a large herd of pure- bred Holsteins, and concluded the poultry business was a side industry on the farm of J. A. Vandervort and Son. of which A. E. Vandervort is the junior partner.", "How to Make a Flock of Three Hundred Hens Net Three Dollars Each", "By W. H. Jenkins", "But I was mistaken, for if there is one subject that will induce Mr. Vandervort to leave his farm work to talk it is poul- try ; in fact, I don't believe he could help talking poultry when the subject is men- tioned ; he is so full of it he naturally overflows. The whole secret of his un- usual success was enthusiasm — love for the work that was not a burden to him, but a recreation, and I told him so.", "His Start with Poultry", "\"Yes,\" said Mr. Vandervort, as we sat down on a rustic seat in a shady part of the lawn, \"when I was a little boy my mother gave me a hen with seventeen chicks ; that was my start in the poultry business. I took good care of my chicks, raised them, and increased them each year", "until I was the owner of a flock of hens. My love for poultry caused me to read poultry literature until I was not satisfied with anything but pure breeds, and my first investment was a setting of eggs of the best blood of White Leghorns. Later Brown Leghorns, Silver-Penciled, Colum- bia and Partridge Wyandottes, and Pearl guineas were added to my flock. I keep some guinea fowls ; they are good to keep hawks away. I have paid as much as ten dollars for a setting of eggs so as to get eggs from the best strains of a breed.\"", "Utility First; Conformation Second", "\"What do you value most, egg produc- tion or the fancy points and marking that makes fine show birds ?\" I asked.", "\"I always place utility first and con-", "« « « I « ^", "One of his pure-bred Silver-Penciled Wyandotte hens", "formation to the standard of fancy points second. I get my breeding stock . from yards that have large records for egg production, and try to increase the char- acteristic by selection as far as practicable. I sell eggs for hatching only about three months, then when the hatching season is over I must sell eggs at market prices, and the safe way is to get as many eggs as possible all the year. It is possible to breed birds which are good layers and still get good conformation to a good standard of points. I get plenty of show birds from my flock.\"", "\"Do you sell all your eggs for hatching at good prices during the hatching season?\"", "\"I sell more than 75 per cent, of the eggs from March until June for hatching purposes. I buy the best blood for breed- ing stock. This is the only way one can get fancy prices.\" [concluded on page 16]", "Horse Sense in Raising Hogs", "Some Ingenious Arrangements and Sensible Methods Used on a 160-Acre Hog-Farm in Illinois", "By W. P. Kirkwood", "ABOUT thirty years ago Mr. M. N. /A Bear, a young man just making his start, purchased a 160-acre farm near Farmington, Illinois, about midway between Peoria and Galesburg. The price he paid for his acres was $8,500. To-day, reckoning by the standards of recent sales in the vicinity and the condition of the farm, the same acres are estimated to be worth close to $48,000.", "In part this advance is due to a general growth in land values, and in part to improvements in equipment, but in a large measure it is due to a persistent upward trend in the returns obtained. This last, more than anything else, has given Mr. Bear and his farm prominence even in this region of fertile farms, and makes consideration of his methods worth while.", "While other farmers near and far were following the old rule of buying more", "land to grow more corn to raise more hogs in order to buy more land to grow more corn to raise more hogs, and so on, Mr. Bear was developing for himself the theory that it was good practice to extend one's acres downward.", "After doing that, there would be time enough to look after lateral extensions. The consequence is that his acres are more productive to-day than they were when he bought them, more productive than they were ten years ago, in spite of the fact that from year to year he has compelled them to yield larger and larger returns, until he has pushed his annual income up close to the $6,000 mark.", "Hog-raising being his specialty, Mr. Bear, of course, has given much attention to the problem of getting a large average yield of corn, and his experience has satis- fied him with a rotation of oats, clover, or clover and timothy, and corn as one of the best for attaining the end desired.", "His System of Cropping", "I With his oats he sows clover or clover J and timothy. He almost invariably gets ♦ a liberal crop of oats. Sixty acres of oats last year gave an average of seventy- t four bushels to the acre. In the fall he", "pastures on his clover. The next year he gets a generous crop of hay from the same acres.", "Then he plows under his clover, and in the spring puts in corn. In part he feeds his corn from the standing stalks, running temporary fences to confine his hogs to desired areas. His rotation and method of feeding in part from the stalk, coupled with the generous use of barn-yard ma- nures, have not only maintained the fer- tility of his land, but have increased it.", "He Favors a Two-Hundred-Pound Hog for General Marketing", "And along with the careful up-keep of fertility has gone close attention to seed selection. Every year as he stores his corn for winter feeding, Mr. Bear selects the best ears for the following season's seed. These he stores away in the fur- nace-room of his farm home. There, through the winter, the corn becomes very dry and brittle. As a result it germinates almost at once after planting, often giving his corn a good start over that of his neighbors.", "When it comes to converting corn into hams, bacon and so on, Mr. Bear is satis- fied that it pays better to ship at an aver-", "age of two hundred pounds to the hog than later. He says that the first two hundred pounds are obtained at a lower ratio of expense than subsequent additions to weight. Consequently, if the market is right, when he has enough 200-pound hogs to make a car-load, he ships and takes his profit. Of course, if the market is off, and there is reason to believe that it will improve, he accepts the alternative of putting on more weight.", "Poland-Chinas are his staple, and he raises two broods a year, one coming late in February or early in March, and the other in September. In so far as he can, he likes to have the litters of each brood arrive within a week, or two weeks at most. This makes for system and ease in handling.", "To facilitate the whole business of handling his stock, [concluded on p.\\ge 14]", "Interior of hog-house showing the adjustable gates", "The winter hog-house and gates leading into three separate yards", "The hog-trap used in holding hogs when ringing their noses", "Farm and Fireside, April 26, J 91 3 \\", "The brake that saves!", "Corbin Coaster Brake", "ts to yoar wheel what the air brake is to a locomotive.", "Fitted to your wheel at any bicycle re- pair shop. Gives you instant control, prevents accidents.", "The two-speed model is an immense assistance when riding on up-g^rades and against strong head winds. Invaluable to elderly riders especially. Corbin Brakes are operated solely by the pedal. 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