lands rssialmsN. * h reqaUji a, _
National Irrigation Act
ests of the town will pay the burden
of taxation, and the amount of each
SAVE THE PUBLIC LANM kw
tax payer will be less in proportion to
HOMEMAKER8,
“
f
carry on government.
&
OUR HOME TOWN.
Learn
by
Doing.
Work
Together.
6. That not another acre of tha
18 THE SAVING A REAL ONE?
A Department Devoted to Village
lie lands shall ever Iiereaft» u
While the country household, in
granted to any state or terriS. ,
Betterment.
looking over one of the big catalogues
Give
every
Man
a
Chance.
any purpose whatsoever or to anr "*
and sending an order for $50 worth of
RICHARD HAMILTON BYRD.
other than an actual settler who?1
goods, may be able to figure out an
built his home on the land and liS
immediate saving of five or six dollars,
I.-
«My ideal of civilization is u very high «net but the approach to it is
on it for five years, and that no m
even after they have paid the freight,
f.a New England town of some two thousand inhabitants, with no rich
land scrip of any kind shall «7?
there is no question as to the final out
THE SLOGAN OF THE HOMECROFTERS IS
‘man and no poor mun in it, all mingling in the »aine society, every child
B at the same school, no poorhouae, no beggar, opportunities squat, nobody
issued, and that the Desert Land Lt.
come, if the practice is persisted In by
too proud to aland aloof, nobody too humble to be ahut out. That’s New
$« Every Child in a Garden-Every Mother in a Homecroft, und Indi-
all the people of any particular local
and the Commutation Clause of th
. England as it waa fifty years ....................... The civilization that lingers
vidual, Industrial Independence for Every Worker in a
Homestead Law shall be made to «7
ity. The home town will suffer, the
11 beautifully on the hillsides of New England, and neatlea sweetly in the
'1 valleys of Vermont, tlie moment it approactiea a crowd like Bouton, or a
home market will fall to increase, if
form to the recommendations of th
Home of bis Own on the Land.”
J million men gathered in one place like New York, rota. It can not stand
it does not decrease, as will also the
Public Lands Commission apn0|nt7
£ the greater centers of modern civilization. ”- Wendell l‘blllipa.
value of the farm lands. Undoubtedly
by President Roosevelt and of th.
Tt ia a well-known fact that the cities are rapidly sapping the strength
Message of the President to Congrea
the catalogue houses can sell goods
“A little croft we owned-a plot of com,
of the village communities and the country towns by destroying local
A garden stored with peas and mint and thyme.
cheaper than the average country
r trade and undermining the local spirit. The very life of the country
And flowers for posies, oft on Sunday mom.
PLANT FORESTS AND CHEAT®
* town depends upon the checking of this purulyzlng force and the protec
store, for they do a cash business,—
Plucked while the church bells ranr their earliest chimee."
tion of local interests.
— It ordswortn.
FOREST PLANTATIONS.
you send on your cash with yorr
The only way thia can be accomplished is by aronaing local sentiment
order. There is no risk in the cata
7. That the Timber and Stone t*.
“The Citizen standing in the doorway of his home—contented on his threshold, his family
I in favor of the improvement of local environment, tlie beautifying of home
logue or mail order house business.
surroundings and the maintenance of LOCAL BUSINESS by LOCAL
shall be repealed, and that all tmh
gathered about his hearthstone, while the evening of s well spent day closes In scenes and
sounds that are dearest - he shall save the Republic when the drum-tap is futile and the
TRADE.
Possibly if you arranged to do business
lie timber lands shnll bo Included h
barracks
are
exhausted."
—
Henry
.
Grady.
on
the
same
basis
with
your
country
To that end the editor of thia departneut desires to keep in touch
permanent Forest Reserves, the tltk
with the active members of Civic and Local Improvement Associations,
merchant—cash down with your pur
to the land to be forever retained bv
and every one interested in the improvement uud the protection of rurul
“The slums and tenements of the our fast increasing population in In- the
get almost as favor-
chase—you could
i
National Government, stumt»,,
village life.
homes on the land—home
great cities are social dynamite, cer dividual
But
the
country
merchant
able
prices,
crofts, however small, owned by the only of matured timber to be soil
What is being done in your town to encourage small industries and
to
extend
credit
to
every
is
supposed
tain to explode sooner or later. The occupant, where every worker and his and young timber to be preserved for
for home employment ? What ia doing along the line of street improve
ment und the beautifying of private lawns and public parks?
one; he has bad bills which I.'* never only safeguard against such dangers family can enjoy individual Industrial future cutting, so that the forests will
I
consequently
must
make
collects
and
Are your local merchants receiving the support of the local trade?
iudei>endence.”—George H. Maxwell. be perpetuated by right use;
a greater percentage of profit on the is to plaut tlie multiplying millions of
that the National Government ehall
Ezperience, plane and suggestions will be welcomed by the editor of
things he sells.
thia department and so far us possible given place in these columns.
by the reservation or purchase of n-
Every community which is imbued
fating forest lands, and tbe planttn»
J
with the spirit of building up its own
of new forests, create In every state
Industries and of supporting its home
National Forest Plantations from
HOMECROFTS
EDUCATION
greatest good for the greatest number, town with local pride, Is sure to be the
which, through all the years to come,
COOPERATION
OPPORTUNITY
the farms of each agricultural area most prosperous; there can be no gain
a sufficient supply of wood and timber
surrounding a town should support saying this fact.
can be annually harvested to supply
ENORMOUS STRUCTURES TO HE that town to their uttermost.
tbe needs of the people of each state
from -be Forest Plantations in that
ERECTED 11Y MONTGOMERY
THE HOME GARDEN.
KEEP THE MONEY AT nOME.
state.
H ARD AND COMPANY AND
Every dollar that the farmer spends
OTHERS.
CONTROL AND USE OF (fflj
The Story of the Boy and His Little
in the town indirectly comes back to
Plot of Ground
HAS JUST BEEN PUBLISHED AND AMONG ITS CONTENTS ARB
GRAZING LANDS.
Suggests Question Whether Giant him in the way of benefits. The town
At
the
age
of
five
every
boy
is
by
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES OF ABSORBING INTEREST
8. That all unlocated public lands
Catalogue Houses are Benefit or grows, it supports better stores, more instinct a gardener. If guided by op
not otherwise reserved shall be re
Detriment to the Farmer and the churches, better schools to which he portunity, example and intelligent di The Brotherhood of Man
served from location or entry under
can send his children, furnishes bet rection he will dig, plant and develop
Country Generally.
any law except the Homestead Law,
near-at liand markets for his prod an interest in growing things; lacking
Charity that is Everlasting
Chicago Is to have the greatest build ter
and shall be embraced in Grazing
ucts,
and
finally
Increases
the
very
The
Secret
of
Nippon
’
s
Power
these
the
call
of
mother
nature
leads
ing the world ever constructed forcom- value of his farm land. As a good Il
serves snder the control of the Secre
to
mud
pies.
Given
a
square
yard
of
mercial purposes. It will have a floor
tary of Agriculture, who shall be em
Lesson of a Great Calamity
the Dry Goods Reporter as mellow ground, a tiny hoe and a hand
space of 50 acres—a good sized farm. lustration,
to issue annual Licenses to
that such an agricultural town ful of beans, a healthy five year-old
The Sign of a Thought powered
It is to be 10 stories high, including the sumes
graze stock in said Grazing Reserve«,
has a population of 1000, its support boy will have a combination that ex
basement, and were it to be all coming
but such licenses shall never be issued
from the country tributary to
stretched out on one floor it would it. The life of the town is its retail cels anything yet designed in “nature
a longer period than one year on
This bOfilf Is thfi first Of fl Series Money, nnd should pny more heed to for
cover 13 of the big city blocks in the trade. If It secures the entire purchas study.,”
agricultural lands or five years on
that will Chronicle the Progress of the raising up and training Men who will grazing
windy city. It will be 900 feet in length ing business of the farmers, it must of
lands, and all lands classified
From five to ten the world begins to
MOVEMENT
be Law-Abiding Citizens; that the wel
and 270 feet wide and will be built of necessity grow rapidly. But Mont dawn. He looks up and out; he sees and HOMECROFT
as grazing lands shall be subject to
fare
of
our
Workers
is
of
more
con
inform
all
who
wish
to
co-operate
steel and concrete. The cost will bo
Ward and Co., Sears, Roebuck and imitates, but does not reason. He with it how they may do so through sequence than the mere accumulation reclassification at the end of every five
$2,500,000. The present building oc gomery
and
Co.,
others of the enormous should play without hindrance. If the tlie formation of local Homecrofters’ of Wealth; and that Stability of Na years; that no leases of the public
cupied by Mongonicry Ward and Com mail order and
houses semi out their great square yard of ground be enlarged to Circles, Clubs or Gilds to promote tional Character and of Social and grazing lands shall ever be made by
pany is a huge affair, but is stated to
or five pound catalogues describ a rod, the handful of beans to a collec Town and Village Betterment, stimu Business Conditions is of greater im tlie National Government, and that
be entirely inadequate to the needs of four
ing
everything
the sun. Suppose tion of Seeds (the kinds for sale in the late* home civic pride and loyalty to portance to the people of this country tlie area of the homestead entry shall
this enormous mail order house, and that Instead of under
spending
his $000 a grocery stores are best as these have home institutions, Industries and trade, as a whole than any other one ques never under any circumstances be en
so this new pile is to be constructed.
year
In
his
home
town,
each
farmer in brilliantly colored pictures on the pack improve methods and facilities of edu tion that is now before them; and we larged to exceed 160 acres.
It seems to be the time of big com- tlie community diverts 50 per
cent of ages and the boy learns thereby what cation in the local public schools, and believe that the only way to Preserve RESERVE STATE LANDS FOR
merlcal houses in the great centers of his trade from his town and sends
manner of a thing he is to expect), this
new opportunities “At Home” such Stability, nnd to Permanently
HOMESTEAD SETTLERS.
the country. Another idg firm is to a year to the catalogue houses; $300
square rod will be the play ground to create
it
that will go far to check the drift of Maintain our National Prosperity, is
erect a building on Chicago avenu . ’ ’cans tliat H ilf of the business of the a surprising extent.
9.
That
the public land states shall
to carry into Immediate effect and
trade and population to the cities.
which will contain a million sq ini
is gone. On the basis of one hun Ho may not plant the kinds you ex
operation the Platform of the Talis administer the state lands under a
feet—200 feet by 800 feet; Sears, 1!<: town
The first Gild of the nomecrofters man, which is as follows:
system similar to and In harmony
one hundred and fifty square pect or want him to plant, as his view
buck and Company is a big Chicago dred or
of territory to support the town, point is different from yours. It is un ha« been established at Watertown, EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT AND with tbe national public land system
business rival of tho Montgomery Ward miles
above outlined, and that each state
estimated that there are five wise to insist on any given plan. Let Massachusetts. The Gildball, Shops
HOMES ON THE LAND.
firm, and has Just also been lncori r- it can be farmers
shall enact a State Homestead law
in the district. Three this garden be his own. If it has been and Gardens are located at 143 Main
ated to do business in New York, with hundred
1. That children shall be taught for the settlement of lands owng by
illars a year in trade from entirely to carrots or cabbage let it re Street, where the Garden School is
a capitalization of $ 10,000,000, pay in - hundred
of the farmers means that one main carrots and cabbage, for they are now fully organized and over one gardening nnd homecraft in the public the state, and that state lands shall
the State incorporation tax of $2u,000, each
hundred and fifty thousand dollars more to him than your choice variety hundred children are at work in the schools, and that Homecraft and be disposed of only to actual settlers
TO BE 1’ROII) OU.
Garden Training Schools shall be
such lnw, and that all state
These are fine projects, and at fir1 annually is taken from the home town. It is unwise to expect careful pains- Gardens. The departments for train established by county, municipal, under
lands shall at all times remain open
ing
in
Homecraft
and
Village
Indus
thought may make ono proud of Amei
state,
and
national
governments,
tries are being Installed. The Weavers where every boy and every man out to Homestead Entry.
lean business institutions, but wl t 1
are already at work at the looms.
the real effect of the success of th
work who wants employment where UNITED OWNERSHIP OF LAND
It Is not designed to build here an of
gigantic commerical houses ui n tli
he can gain that knowledge, can learn
AND WATER.
Isolated
Institution,
but
to
make
a
country's prosperity? How du ; th r
how to make a home and till the soil
10.
That
It
shall be tbe law of every
model
which
can
be
duplicated
in
any
business affect the country nieidi.'
and get his living straight from the state and of the United States, that
town or village in the country.
the country banker, (lie country to
ground, nnd where every boy would beneficial use Is the basis, the meas
Itself and in fact the country p<
Copies of “THE FIRST BOOK OF be taught that his first aim in life ure, and the limit of all rights to
who are the patrons of the great n
THE HOMECROFTERS” can be should be to get a home of his own water, including riparian rightr, and
order houses. What creates the villa
obtained by sending twelve two- , on the land.
that the right to the use of water for
the town, the thriving city? Wli t
cent stamps with your name and BUILD nOMECROFTS AS NATION irrigation shall Inhere In and be ap
keeps it a live and bustling center i
address (carefully and plainly
AL
SAFEGUARDS.
purtenant to the land Irrigated, so that
‘.her than a dead congregation of a f
written) to The Homecrofters’ Olid
2. That the New Zealand system of the ownership of the land and the
houses with one or two miserable
of the Talisman 143. Main St., Land Taxation and Land Purchase water shall be united, and no right to
stores? It is the patronage and sup
Watertown, Massachusetts.
nnd Subdivision, and Advances to Set water as a speculative commodity
port, is it not, of the surrounding conn
There is New nope and Inspiration tlers Act, shall be adopted in this ever be acquired, held or owned.
try homes. Towns are bul.t up < I;
for every Worker who wants a Home country, to the end that land shall be
when they have support from an ngrt-
of his own on the Land In the subdivided into small holdings in the
cultural territory, if agricultura is tho
CREED AND PLATFORM OF THE hands of those who will till it for a
surrounding industry, which is tin
THE COMING PEOPLE.
HOMECROFTERS' which is as fol livelihood, and labor find occupation
case in nine out of ten Instances. But
lows:
lu
the
creation
of
homecrofts,
which
"Outward changes, economical and
conversely, the richness of the s 1
“Peace has her victories no less re will be perpetual safeguards against political, more or less marked, are
alone does not make the mostvaluuble
the
political
evils
and
social
discontent
always
going on in the forms and or
nowned
than
war.
”
farms.
resulting from the overgrowth of ganizations of society. But to-day one
THE MARKET FOR PRODICIS
EDUCATION
cities and the sufferings of unem can make a specially strong argument
There must be a good market for th«
CO-OPERATION
ployed wage-earners.
that great and radical changes are Im
farm product; if the farm is adjacent
OPPORTUNITY
pending. No one can believe that
PROTECTION FOR THE AMER
to * live growing town supporting ac
HOMECROFTS
existing conditions will continue in a
ICAN HOMECROFT.
tive nnd well-to-do-people, tho market
We believe that the Patriotic Slogan
for the farmer’s products will 1 h > ac
S. That Rural Settlement shall be world where all things move and
of
the
Whole
People
of
this
Nation
GETTING ACQUAINTED WITH MOTHER EARTH.
Waste, extravagance, political
tive and the prices good. If the town
should be “Every Child In a Garden— encouraged and the principle of Pro change.
corruption, fierce mercantile rivalries,
be a dead one, he will have to turn
tection
for
the
American
Wageworker
Every
Mother
in
a
Homecroft
—
and
In
In the course of ten years, thlsmeans taking effort and constant care from
elsewhere to dispose of his products,
di« ldual Industrial Independence for and his Home applied directly to the colossal monopolization of wealth and
and perhaps Incur heavy transporta one and one-half million dollars. Aver a boy of this age; encourage it but do Every Worker in a Home of his Own Home by the Exemption from Taxa of tbe industrial plants of the world,
tion charges in their shipment. This aging the profit on this amount at not compel it
on the Land,” and that until he owns tion of all Improvements upon, and masses of dreary poverty,—these are
fact Is set forth unmistakably in the twenty |» t cent. It means ,.iat in ten
He can be taught by example ail of such a Home, the concentrated purpose also of all personal property, not ex natural subjects for profound, patri
years
’
time
three
hundred
thousand
the needs of plant growth but his hoe and chief inspiration to labor in the life ceeding $2,500 in value, used on and otic and humane concern. Is not tha
last census figures which show that in
a small area of to United States, the dollars profits are taken from the town. ing and weeding may be superficial. of every wage worker should be his in connection with, every Homecroft old social and industrial machinery,
regions where factories abound.—a dis Now, on the other hand, should the If you ask him he will allow you to dig determination to “Get an Acre and or Rural Homestead of not more than the competitive or wage system, show
trict comprising but little over 10 per farmer. Instead of sending away his in his garden to loosen the soil deeper Live on it.”
ten acres In extent, which the owner ing signs of breaking down beneath
cent, of the United States—the value money to the foreign place for goods than his strength permits. It is wise
We believe that the Slums and occupies as a permanent home and Its load?
“The question is quite fair whether
of the farm lands is over half that of ho requires, give all his trade to the to do this for tnere must be carrots Tenements and Congested Centers of cultivates with his own labor and so
nit of the arable land In the entire home town, its business would be Im and cabbage to harvest or there will population in the Cities are a savagely provides therefrom all or part of the any system Is just that permits Indi
mediately
doubled,
and
with
twice
the
viduals to roll up Immense fortunes as
country. The farms in these regions
be no play ground here next year.
deteriorating social, moral and polit support for a family.
are located close to the factories, employment for the people. Year af If the boy of five has been allowed ical influence, and that a great public ENLARGEMENT OF AREA AVAIL- the result of lucky speculations, or of
ter
year,
the
profits
made
by
the
mer
the rise of land values about a great
which afford a profitable home market
the run of a garden, if at eight he has movement should be organized, and
ABLE FOR HOMEMAKING.
chants would be retained In the town, a garden of his own, at ten he will love the whole power of the nation and
city, that permits other Individuals to
4. That the National Government, inherit almost unlimited money power,
would seek Investment in starting new gardening and will have absorbed an tlie states exerted for the betterment
Industries, and at the end of the ten- amazing store of knowledge, and to of all the conditions of Rural Life, and as part of a comprehensive nation as men once Inherited duchies and
year period, instead of a town of one him may be Imparted at this age in a to create and upbuild Centers of So al policy of internal improvements kingdoms, while millions of working-
thousand, there would be a lively city way and manner that will awaken the cial and Civic Life in Country and for river control and regulation, men, with small wages, live close to
of from two to three thousand, and the purest and best that Is in him, the Suburban Towns and Villages, where and for the enlargement to the tlie danger line of debt, or even of cold
utmost possible extent of the
every acre of farm land within the mystery of life.
Trade and Industry can be so firmly area of the country available for agri and starvation, and are liable to be
trade radius of the town would be en
that they cannot be drawn culture and Homes on the Land, and thrown out of employment for months
A pumpkin plant on a compost heap, nnebored
hanced in value from ten to twenty
Into the Commercial Maelstrom that for the protection of those Homes from at a time.
sending
its
vigorous
shoots
over
the
dollars.
“When in the face of natural wealth,
now steadily sucking Industry and either flood or drouth, shall build not
weeds, climbing where it cannot creep, is
ENRICHING THE BIO CITIES.
Humanity Into the Vortex of tbe only levees and revetments where never so abundant, and forces of pro
firtisting its snake like head through Great
Cities.
It can be plainly figured out that the the garden fence, is a thing of wonder
needed, and drainage works for the duction augmented indefinitely by
We believe that every Citizen in reclamation of swamp and overflowed science and invention, so many almost
Individual farmer who would divert to a boy if he is but taught to see it,
halt his trade to Chicago, New York or and when its great golden blossoms this Country has an inherent and lands, but shall also preserve existing fall to reap any benefit from the re
some other foreign city, in the course appear there is a still greater wonder Fundamental Right to an Education forests, reforest denuded areas, plant sources which surely belong to the
which will train him to Earn a Liv new forests, and build the great reser race, it must at least be confessed that
of ten years would send away three unfolded.
ing. and. if need be, to get his living voirs and other engineering works our present system, both of production
thousand dollars. If it were possible
Boys of twelve and fourteen mav de straight fn>m Mother Earth: and that necessary to safeguard against over and of distribution. Is not intelligently
that he could save ten per cent on this
amount, in ten years’ time he would sert the garden for the ball field or the lie has the same right to tbe Opportun flow and save for beneficial use the or humanely managed. Its results do
save three hundred dollars. His ..nl.v fishing rod. and tt is well they should, ity to have the Work to Do which will flood waters that now run to waste. not represent an ideal democracy, a
brotherhood of man.”—From “The
I'll! >
compensation would be a dead home for the serious time of life is coming afford him that living, and to earn not
Coming People”, by Chas. F. Dole.
RECLAMATION AND SETTLE
town, poor schools, a poor home mar soon and play days should bo as many only r. cor'ortr.ble livelihood, but
!<>«»«>
and
long
as
school
and
home
duties
enough more to enable him to be a
ket. and no increase in the value of his
MENT OF THE ARID LANDS.
will
permit.
But
a
garden
for
a
bov
at
Homecrofter and to have a Home of .J'ti'vUn.« It* National Government
Tt behoove« everyone Wh'B has eyes
HUGE
CHICAGO
MAILORDER real-estate holdings.
On the other hand, by giving his this age may be a greater factor in his his Own, with ground around it shall bnlld the Irrigation works neces to see and ears to bear and a brain
STORK
TO
RE
DESERTED
training
for
life
than
at
anv
other,
for
sufficient
to
yield
him
and
his
family
patronage to the home town, even
FOR LACK OF ROOM.
sary to bring water within reach of with which to think to atudy the tre
I though he must pay the merchant ten I by this time the “root of all evil" has a Living from tbe Land as tbe reward settlers on the arid lands, the cost of mendous social problems with which
entered
his
soul;
he
has
learned
that
for his own labor.
for all the agricultural products. Ro , per cent more than the foreign house,
such works to be repaid to the govern- we are face to face to-day.
that the greatest factor In land value ' the remit would be like this: On ac- money Is essential In order to procure
Whether they are settled right or
We believe that the Public Domain ment by such settlers in annual In
tho
many
things
a
boy
must
have,
and
is the nearness to good markets. It ! count of Increase tn farm values, one
is the most precious heritage of the stallments without Interest, and that wrong will affect every member of the
the
garden,
which
to
this
time
has
becomes plain, therefore, that the bet i hundred and sixty acres of land worth
people, and the surest safeguard the the construction of the great Irrigation community. No one can escape the
ter the home town can be made, the ten dollars more per acre, sixteen hun been a recreation field, a place of won nation has against Social Unrest. Dis works necessary for the utilization of evils that will result from a wrong
derful
possibilities
in
the
way
of
good
more valuable is the farm land tribu dred dollars; or. thirteen hundred dol
turb, nee or Upheaval and that the the waters of such large rtvera as the settlement and everyone will be bene-
tary to it In the purely agricultural lars better off in ten years than If he things to eat and pumpkins for jack-o’- Cause of nnmnnity and the Preserva Columbia. the Sacramento, the Colo fitted by a right settlement.
lanterns,
may
bo
a
most
fertile
field
sections, the average country town Is gave half his patronage to the foreign
tion of Social Stability and of onr Free rado. the Rio Grande, and the Missouri
Nothing Is more Important than that
located in the center of from 75 to 150 concern. His home town is a lively of revenue.
Institutions demand that the absorp and their tributaries. shall proceed as we should get started right. There is
square miles of territory: that Is the one, all public Improvements, all mod Whatever tho crop the proceeds tion of the public lands Into specula rapidly as the lands reclaimed will be gnldance and Inspiration In every line
town Is supported by the trade result ern conveniences, high schools, to should be wholly bls own. If he has tive private ownership, without settle
In small farms by actual of “THE COMING rEOPLE.” by
ing from that area of farms. Accord which he could send his children produced the crop wholly by his own ment. be forthwith stopped: and that settlers and homemakers, who will re Chas. F. Dole.
Tn order to bring this book within
ing to federal statistics the average cheaply, good churches, good roads, | efforts. There Is but one way that he the nation should create opportunities pay the government the cost of con-
farmer spends $627 a year for supplies and everything that can add to the com can learn the value of money and that for nomecroftcra by building Irrlga- rJ’T!!on of th* ,rrf «ration works, and the reach of all. a popular edition has
—clothing for his family, household fort and happiness of its residents, Is by earning it The wise tree of tlon and drainage works to reclaim that the amount needed each vear for Just been Issued by the Homecroftera
utensils, food that he does not grow and those who reside near It Not money must also be learned bnt that land as fast as It Is needed to give construction, as recommended by tbe Gild of the Talisman which can be bad
every man who wants a Home on the Secretary of the Interior, shall be for 25 cents, postage Included. Remit
himself, farm Implements etc
withstanding. that the farmers’ land Is is outside the sphere of gardening.
l jtnd a chance to get It.
Now It must be evident that if a plan enhanced In value, his taxation will be
made available by Congress as a loan by postal money order, express nlnnfT
From address of Prof CranefleM.
were to be follow«,«! looking to the but little greater, as tbe business iuter-
"t »" • Nation we from the general treasury to tbe Re order or postage stamps to “THE
Wise. Agr. College should be less ,h
absorbed with Making clamntlon Fund, and repaid from HoMECROKTERR. 143 Main St.
Watertown, M
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