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A WOMAN HOMESTEADER.
BOUT two years ago Mrs. Mary
M. Younger, a widow, came
west to grow up with, the
country. She filed on a homestead
in Wyoming, and, relying upon her
industry, she has shown what a
.Western woman of pluck and experi
ence can do.
Mrs. Younger broke 24 acres. Disc
ing the ground, she planted oats. Her
wheat averaged 18 bushels to the
acre on sod, but her oats were a
failure because of bad seed. She also
planted five acres of alfalfa.
Prom half an acre of rutabagas
Mrs. Younger harvested two tons.
Half an acre in cabbages yielded
’ 1500 pounds. In her garden she
raised turnips, onions, carrots and
sunflowers. She had plenty of to
matoes for her table and to can for
winter use. Her chickens are thriv
ing and healthy. One hundred hens
are laying. She raised most of her
own feed for stock, getting 15 bush
els of corn an aero from newly
broken sod.
Mrs. Younger was in danger of
becoming a factor in tho unemploy
ment problem, for her needs were
greater than wages could supply.
She came west, but she did not stop
in the cities. She was a woman, and
therefor© she wished to bo inde
pendent. She is prospering because
of intelligence and hard work. She
is not a member of the army of the
unemployed.
What Mrs. Younger has dono in
Wyoming can be done in Oregon and
Washington. It is being done in this
etate. Why is it that some men con
Btantly permit women to outshine
them in initiative and industry!
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GLAD HE BROKE AWAY FROM
THE CITY.
ISTEN to the story of Boland
W. Day, who describes how he
worked at a trade in the city
without getting ahead and how ho
and his wife decided finally to make
the break and go to the country. He
has made a success in the country
and writes in part, as follows, about
his enthusiasm for tbe new life that
he is enjoying:
“ What would I be doing if I were
in the city working at my trade to
day with two feet of snow on the
level! Sitting by the fire just the
same as I am doing now, only I am
making dollars today where there I
would bo spending them. Would my
wife go back to the city and live!
Well, I think this is answer enough.
Why should we, when we are happier
than we ever were before and are
both young and have tbe best part
of our lives yet before us.
“ This same opportunity is awaiting
all such young men and women who
are not afraid to get out and work
and take advantage of a helping
hand when it is offeree and work
on a little borrowed capital so long
as they can see their way clear.
“ There is one point that I must
say, that I can stop my team in tbe
field, or any other place, and light
my pipe, and I never could do that
working for a boss in the city.
“ There is one great thing that my
wife and I are aiming for now, more
than anything else, and that is, that
when our five-year lease is up on
this farm we shall be able to move
upon our own.”
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WHY FARMERS SHOULD ADVER
TISE IN THE NEWSPAPERS.
RECENT issue of Farm and
Fireside, the national farm
paper published at Springfield,
Ohio, J. M. Taylor writes a valuable
and interesting article telling farm
ers how to get to the market with
their goods. Mr. Taylor goes on, as
follows, to show how farmers can
use the newspapers:
“ Tho cities are full of people who
want to buy their goods direct, the
country is full of farmers who would
gladly sell direct for the sake of the
additional profits to be gained by
that mode of selling. All that re
mains is for them to get together.
“ There is no need of an extensive
advertising campaign. All that is
necessary is a small display adver
tisement in the newspapers of the
nearest large city. And in writing
the ad the farmer should not be
bashful about having his name easily
seen. Let him advertise Sm ith’s po
tatoes, or Sm ith’s cabbages, or what
ever Smith has to sell. Do it in a
manner that will leave the impres
sion that Smith is proud of his cab
bages, that he knows them to be up
to standard and that he personally
stands back of them. People will
more readily buy of a man when he
stamps bis name on his goods in a
manner which shows that he is not
afraid to bo known as their sponsor.
Furthermore, it is good business, for
if people buy Sm ith’s cabbages this
year and find them good they will
clamor for Sm ith’s cabbages next
year and be satisfied with no
others. ”
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BUMPER CROPS.
IFTY SIX million dollars is what
it is estimated tho railroads of
this country will get for moving
the record breaking wheat crop.
It is impossible for any one to get
a full idea of these staggering fig
ures. The only object in quoting the
estimate is to show why “ big crops”
and “ prosperity” are words that go
together.
Great as it is, tho wheat crop is
not everything this year. From near
ly every section of the country comes
news of bumper yields of nearly all
crops. But moving the wheat is the
big job right now. This means get
ting it from tho thresher and dis
tributing it for storage and for mill
ing. It takes brains as well as
money to do this. It takes the farm
er, the banker, the miller, tho ex
port man, and, of course, the railroad
man. Somebody must pay for this
vast yield—and here is another
place where prosperity comes in.
Good markets join the big crops in
making it complete.
Millions of bushels of wheat will
be made into bread for immediate
consumption. Other millions will be
kept for seed. The rest will become
a potent force in business affairs of
the country and the world. It is
the game with the other big crops.
Without modern invention, the
reapers and the binders, it would not
have been possible for the United
States to produce the greatest wheat
crop in the history of the land.
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DENATURED ALCOHOL.
F WE COULD utilise the products
of the farm to their utmost there
would be greater profit iu farm
ing. With the price of gasoline go
ing higher because of such universal
use for autos and gas engines it
would mean much to the farmers and
users of engines to have a market
for those products that could be
converted into alcohol.
Hundreds of tons of fruit go to
waste every year because they are
not marketable, and the potato mar
ket is easily overstocked. Many pro
ducts contain alcohol that should be
distilled for mechanical purposes.
But why isn ’t it! We have a de
natured alcohol law, but the farm
ers are still lettmg stuff go to waste
instead of trying to make it into
alcohol.
The reason why is because the
denatured alcohol law was not made
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for farmers. The law m Lae the ship
building law—made for and by the
very interests that would be hurt
by a real good law. Farmers cannot
make their potatoes and fruit into
alcohol under the present iaw,
hence there is no means of trans
forming these waste products into a
marketable product the world so
much needs at this time.
There are probably enough waste,
or practically waste, products on the
farms to make into alcohol that
would largely furnish heat, light and
power, at least all the farm needs,
and that would save gasoline for
city needs. But until the law is
changed there will be no attempt
made to conserve this great by-
produtc of farming.
It might bo well for the farmers
to ask their congressmen and sena
tors to help fix up a iaw that would
be workable to tho advantage of the
farmers.
ASK FOR INFORMATION.
ERBERT QUTCK, editor of Farm
and Fireside, says that we citi
zens pay our scientists and ex
perts, but that few of us use them
as we might. There is not a worm,
a bug, a blight, a disease, or a prob
lem of the soil which is not studied
by these hired men of ours and
about which they are not anxious to
tell us. Mr. Quick goes on in part,
as follows:
“ At the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture in Washington
almost any question will be answered
by experts free of charge. In such
cases not even a stamp is required
for reply. They will examine dis
eased plants and tell what the rem
edy is, if there is one. Some one
has said that tho way to tell a
toadstool from a mushroom is to eat
it—if you die i t ’s a toadstool—but
these experts will save you the trou
ble of dying, and tell you in case
of doubt, if you will send them the
specimen.
“ The number of things an obser
vant farmer—especially a young one
—wants to know is simply illimit
able. And he can be sure that if
there is an answer it will bo sent
him. The country teacher who wants
to ruralize her rural sehool might
well ask for these problems to be
brought to tho school and sent
thenco to the experts. Such a policy
will do much to bring the govern
ment closer to the farms, and - to
make the pupils feel that it is really
their government.”
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these associations, which are virtual
ly farmers’ land banks.
“ The plan is extremely well de
veloped, is now twenty years old,
and, in Mr. Haymaker’s opinion,
needs leadership more than any legim
latiou. * ’
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FARMERS CAN CHOOSE THEE»
NEIGHBORS.
FARMER is about the only man
who can keep at a distance
from uncongenial neighbors tf
he chooses. On general business prin
ciples it is bad policy to sell the cen>
ter or even a large corner out of a
farm for any purpose or for any
figure very much less than the total
value of the farm. If the partiea
who wish tho land seem desirably
give them a long lease that does not
grant the privilege of subletting. The
smaller the piece of land to be di
vided tho more rigidly the foregoing
remarks apply. Owners of large
tracts, on the other hand, can ad
vantageously sell of slices to indus
trious farmers to mutual advantage.
But no neighbors at all are betttff
than undesirable ones.
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NEVER DISAPPOINT CUSTOMER.
FARMER who plans selling
some of his produce by mean*
of the parrel post must start
out with one thing firm in his min^
and that is not to disappoint a cus
tomer, either in delivery or in tbe
quality of his goods. The farmer
must remember he is competing with
the corner grocer and the huckster
in the city whose wares the house*
wife may inspeet when she buys.
Buying “ sight unseen” by mail it
will take but one or two shipments
of inferior vegetables, fruit or pro
ducts of the poultry yard to drive
the buyer back to the old source uf
supply.
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“ EV ER A SOHO SO M E W H E R E ”
T here is ever a song some w here, my drnut
T here is ever a som ething th at tin g s ai*
w ay;
T h ere’s the song of tbe lark w hw en the akiea
are clear.
And the i o n | of the thrush whwen the
sk ies are gray;
The sunshine show ers across th e grain.
And the bluebird tr ills in the orchmA
tree;
And in and out, when the e a res drip r a l^
The sw allow s are tw itterin g c easelessly.
T here ia ever a ton g som ewhere, ray dear.
Be the akies s h o r e dark or fair;
There ia erer a song that oar hearts map
hear—
There is erer a lo n g som ewhere, my deas*-e
T here is aver a song som ew here!
PLANTS AS EMIGRANTS.
T IS often hard to account for the
There is ever a song som ew here, my dear.
way in which plants spread from
In the m idnight blaek or tha mid day b lu e ,
ono country to another, and yet
The robin pipes when the sun is here,
no such emigration has taken place
And th e crick et chirrups the w hole nigfcl
but the botanists have been able to
th ro u g h ;
advance some theory to account for
The buds may blow and tha fru it may grow.
it. In the early seventies of the last
And the autumn learee drop crisp and
century the scientists in Franco were
•ere;
puzzled by finding that many new
Rut w hether the sun or the rain or the snow.
T here is ever a rong som ewhere, my doac.
plants hitherto unknown in that
JA M E S W HITCOM B RLLZT.
country had mysteriously sprung up.
In the summer of 1872 noted botan-
THE W IN D IN O LAKE
,j‘s went carefully to work to find
The wood lig h t grow s more m ellow dim,
the cause of this strange emigration,
T^ie lea res denoe happily,
and hey succeeded admirably. They
The russet path glow s deeper hued
found no fewei than two hundred
To greet her w orthily.
plants natural ta Germany and tho
And all tha birds in chorus sw eet
Ring, rapturous, insane.
countries south of her, these plants
When la ssie comes to meet nse
were mostly of the grass, pea and
Adewn the w ind ing lane.
bean families and were found only in
the territory occupied by the Ger
S h e 's sw eet s s little roses are.
mans in tbe siege of Paris. This is
As qnaint as m ignonette.
a good example of t,ie strange way
And shy as m odest penny buds.
in which plants travel from place to
W ith show er jew els set.
S h e 's H appiness I And from this world
place.
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I ’ve nothing more to gam
When laaaie c o m e s to meet me
WHERE OHIO FARMERS BOR
Adown the w inding le a st
ROWED »12,000,000.
V. HAYMAKER of Defiance
Thus earth would he a kin dlier p leo^
If every man eould know
a county, Ohio, whose rural cred
Tha fragrance of a shady path
it plan for farmers was din-
W here cool, green eras see grow.
etissed recently in Farm and Fire
W here, when tbe sunset hour r a ise bp.
side, has been continuing his investi
And life w as sw eet and anne.
gations as to facts, and in a recent
H is tin g in g la ssie terned th e stile
issue of Farm and Fireside the fol
Adown th e w inding lane.
lowing results are recorded:
•— E thel H allett Porter, in Ju ly LippM
“ In tbe State of Ohio over twelve
coU 'a.
million dollars are now out on loan
Those who think farming is ill fn
to farmers from building and loss
associations. Thia is over sixteen per should give it n trial. It taken brainy
energy and business judgment U
eent of all tho farm loana in tho
a •ueeeaa ua auy ia«ia.
M U , Only six couut.ee do not hava
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