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You Can Increase Your Yield
3 to 9 Bushels Per Acre
Several ftrmt In California
ot 3 to A bushel, Illinois 5,
Xantu S'j mi Iowa 0 bushel
Dior per acra by drilling small
grain instead of broadcasting.
Hera b tha big advantage la
drilling which we want all of our
cuttooiert to undent and only
one trip over tha Held U neces
sary to plsnt the seed. The drill
complete four operations it
make! tha teed furrow, dropt
and coven the ieed and pul
veriiea the wQ. Not Decenary
to drag a harrow over the field
fterwardi, 4
Yon will alwaya need I
machine of tome kind for plant
ing your email grain crop.
Why not get one from ui now
that will do all of thit work-;
one that planta the teed at even
depth to that the crop will all be
ready for harvest at one time?
We have the driU In ttock that
we know will do tht work for
you. It it John Deere-Van
Brunt the famoua drill that hat
worked very successfully all over
the country for forty yean. We
want you to know all about the
Van Brant Grain Drill It hat
pattnltd adjustable gate force
feed that will interest you In the
way It works. Come in and let ut
show you how easy it It to plant
even, continuous streams of
fine, medium or coarse iced with,
this drill
MONMOUTH HARDWARE
' J. L Winegar, Proprietor
Hungry Kiddie Mouths Strike Issue
fwmi 14
IB x intv.
PL.nAc' .r lilrlilln mouths
are to 'be fid! but the coal mlnnrs
of American Insist tholr demands
must be met botore the groat coal
strike will end. Gompors and
' American labor are backing thorn,
dosplte the federal , Injunction
against minor union loaders In
Indiana, which tied up bonofll
funds there. Early optimistic
view for a hurrlod settlement
reeni shattered when tho coal op
erators refused to talk settlement
until tho miners first return lo
work. These pictures are typical
of the mine worker and the mlit'
Oj'sJmllv.
INFERTILE EGGS KEEP BEST
Fertile Qtrm In Hot Weather Quickly
Becomes Bleed Ring, (polling
Egg for Market
(Prepared by tha United Stats Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
Farmers lose millions of dollar 10
nunlly from bud methods of produc
ing and huddling i-kks. One-third of
thit lost la preventable, because It
l.i duo to the partial hatching of fer
tile egg which have been allowed to
become warm enough to begin to in
cubate. The roostor make the egg fertile.
The fertile egg makes the blood ring.
You can save the money now lost from
blood rings by keeping the male bird
from your Hock after the batching
sea mm it over.
The rooster does not help the bent
to lay. lie merely fertilize tbe germ
of the egg. The fertile germ In hot
wenlher quickly become a blood ring,
which spoils the egg for food end
market. Summer beut ba Uie same
effect on fertile egg at the hen or
Uiculmtor.
After the hatching season cook, tell,
or ij.-u ytur rooster. Your bent not
running with t mule bird will produce
! Infertile eggs quality eggt that keep
' beat and market best.
I 1'ulcs for handling egg on tbe
i furru : Heat It the great enemy of
I eggs, both fertile and Infertile. Farm
er are urged to follow these simple
rules, which cost nothing but time and
thought and will add dollars to the
poultry yard return:
1, Keep the nest clean; provide
one nest for every four hen.
2. Onlher the egg twice dally.
8. Keep the egg In a cool, dry
room or cellar,
i 4. Market the eggt at least twice
1 a week.
I 5. Sell, kill, or confine all male
' birds a soon a tbe hatching season
It over.
POULTRY KEEPING PAYS WELL
Community Breeding Ataoelatlon In
Virginia Provee Moat Profit
' able Institution.
(Prepared by the United Btttet Depart
ment ol Atnculturt.)
A striking example of community
breeding accomplishment Is furnished
by the Darrod Plymouth Rock associa
tion, Farmvllle, Va. Organized for
"I don't know what we would ban.
don without the hlp ut the Ameri
cans. I thank you from the bottom
of my heart." (par I'tderewakl,
'rentier of Poland.
see
"Mr. Davison bat spoken to me of
bow the Red Cross hope to continue
work even In peace time. This Is a
noble enterprise Wonderful
retulti could be obtained If all coun
tries would Join bandt, especially in
all Questions concernlug small chil
dren, tuberculosis, tnd sanitation in
general." Quean Marie of Rumania,
"We surely can do no better than
to emulate tbe human and social work
of our sister organization, tbe Amer
ican Red Cross." Slgnor Clrtolo,
newly elected President of Italian Red
Crost.
"Our heartiest thanks go out to our
American friends." Union des Fam
ines de France.
"One Is honored by tbe prlvlleg of
membership in the Red Crost, and
bltased In being permitted to make any
kind of contribution to It work."
William Prater McDowell, Presiding
Bishop, Methodist Episcopal Church.
"The Red Crott Is America at her
best . . . Money given to the Red
Cross Is not an investment, nor Is It
a charity. It Is s sacrament "Charles
A. Eaton, Pastor Fifth At. Baptist
Church. . V
A Well-Selected Flock of Young Htm
of Uniform Size, the Kind That
Make Excellent Winter Layers.
poultry Improvement In 1015, this as-
Boclntlon has made such continuous
and rapid growth that It has been In
corporated with a capital stock of
$1,500, and a manager employed to
bundle Its affairs.
llecelpts during the first five months
of operation amounted to $7,600, and
recent reports show that member of
the association have on hand more than
six thousand Barred Plymouth Rock
hens and pullets. In the spring of 1916
they sold 1,000 capons on a northern
market.
Hefore the Farmvllle association was
formed poultry keeping In that locality
was merely Incidental, an unimportant
Ule line to other farming activities,
Today poultry keeping Is one of the
Important Industries of that region,
and even the casual traveler Is Im
pressed with the large numbers of
Burred Rocks and farms.
POULTRY FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Boys and Girls Who Take an Interest
in Chlckeiu Should Be Given
Chance to Rale Them.
Poultry raising appeals to the young
people In many Instances. The boy)
nnd girls who like poultry and would
hike an Interest In fowls should have
a chance to raise poultry and use the
Income ns they please. Parents often
mny help their children to become suc
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One hand guided the Ship of State, the other reached out to his beloved
boys and steadied them up thru the years to manhood.
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AND SAFEGUARDED THE HERITAGE THAT IS OURS
AND WHICH HE GLORIED IN LIBERTY FOR ALL!
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American, is revealed in these heart-to-heart talks and teachings to his children.
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