Farmers Family Journal from Topeka, Kansas • 4

THE FARMERS FAMILY JOURNAL February, 1905 Page 4 FMtorial Page shown 1 in the average ages of cattle on the farms and ranges. This average was 2.18 years in 1890, while on June 1, 1900, the average was only 1.63 years, indicating that nearly six months had, been cut from the maturing and fattening age of the steers. But while the age of the steer has been decreased, the improved breeding and the improved methods of feeding have combined to put him on the market in a condition representing more and better meat than his older prototype did ten years ago. IRe Farmers Family Journal For the Farmer and His Family. you will be the best farmer in your neighborhood.

Setting new and higher standards for yourself with each succeeding year. Living more and more nearly up to your word. Let no man ever say of you that you say but never perform. Trusting your neighbors more and more. Pity the man who has no confidence in his fellows.

Bring your farm under better subjection each year. No idle acres, should be the watchword. Faith with old Mother Earth. She will do the best she can for every man who does the best for himself. Your evenings sacred to your family.

The boys and girls close to your heart. Never in the world give them reason to doubt you. Faith with your country and her institutions. Your face to the front and let nothing shake your courage. Finally, keep expecting that tomorrow will be the best day yet.

Farm Journal. GEORGE H. GILLIES, Editor. The Farmers Family Journal is not a newspaper, a poli Heal organ, a religious journal, a story paper, a market report, nor a common farm paper; it is a progressive down-td-date monthly journal of great interest and practical value to every member of the farmer's household a paper worth picking up and reading over again and you get it at a popular price. If you like it, tell your friends about it; tf you don't like it, tell us, so we can make it of in terest to you.

becomes very filthy and has a foul odor. They can not eat without eating of this filth. The most profitable beef, pork, or mutton is that put on the market early. In cleansing the stables give the mangers and troughs a thorough cleaning. Horses compelled to do hard work are entitled to the best treatment possible.

In nearly all cases the best animals are the offspring of mature parents on both sides. Money in the dairy is made with good cows. See that you do not lose it with poor ones. It should be the aim of every breeder of horses to raise well-bred and well-trained animals. The offspring of immature, undevel-open animals is inferior to that of matured and full-grown parents.

The origin of many diseases may be traced directly to the filthy quarters in. which the animals are kept. It is the steady, quiet horse that can do the biggest day's work when the weather is extremely hot. MM I The latest invention is a strawberry picker. While not quite perfect yet, it is said to do fairly good work.

Some Things to Keep. A stiff upper lip. Your eyes toward the top; Pegging away. Studying the best ways to do your work. A strong heart when the clouds fall, as well as when the sun shines.

Looking rihead to the time when Published first of each month by THE GILLIES PUBLISHING COMPANY, 603 Kansas TOPEKA. KANSAS. Also Publishers of The Poultry Gazette. The Great Poultry Journal of the Middle West. nnn nnrpc mm We recently bought I a monthly magazine.

We incorporated for $900,000.00 and under a plan of lib George H. President David P. Secretary G. A. Gillies Treasurer Wilfred C.

Gillies Superintendent FOR A eral ea-aaeratlan tmr ntmnlntlmt la nllmWnor fAuf. Wa Tiftvn ouMrauM tho alif name. We Want a new Advertising: Rates on Application. Entered as second-class matter Sept. 28, 1904, at the postoffice at Topeka, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879.

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1, 1905. nTtirn 1 eITrS There will be $375.00 in other cash awards that will be competed for I IlMi lAiI rttlbl by those who send in names and explained to them only. Any man, woman, or child, has an equal chance to win. Somebody will get this money, why not you? V'il AT Vfl Write the name you enter for competition on a sup of paper with itlAI Ibv LJI yUa your address and enclose in a sealed envelope. This envelope will not be opened nntil the awards are made.

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If you fail to get your paper, or your address Is wrong, kindly notify us at once, and the matter will be given our prompt attention. Sometimes papers are lost in the mail by the wrappers coming off. FOR REFERENCE. It will pay you to file away your copies of the Journal for future reference. CONTRIBUTIONS.

We want all the Journal readers to help make the Journal; it is your paper. Send us for publication anything you think will be of interest to our readers. Suggestions for Improvement are also welcome. WHEN WRITING. Address all correspondence to The Farmers Family Journal, Topeka, Kansas.

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Y. Repair the Tools. Every year the farm tools need repairs. The shiftless farmer waits until he wants to use his mower or reaper at harvest time before making repairs, says the editor of Greens Fruit Grower, but the wise farmer looks over his farm tools at this season of the year, learns what repairs are needed and puts everything in good order so that when the busy season comes next summer these tools will be ready to do efficient work. It may be necessary to send some distance for extras.

If you wait until harvest time before you order these extras the delay will be expensive. Now is a good time to prepare for painting farm wagons and other farm tools. The paint used by manufacturers on plows, reapers and wagons is often of a poor quality. Farm tools will last more than twice as long if given a coat of good oil and lead paint every year or two. A GRAND SURPRISE! AIL FOE TEN CENTS.

While we have not exactly cornered the lace market, we have put ourselves in such position as to be able to give the biggest and best value ever known. This big lot "contains 12 yards beautiful Fancy Lace, 1 yard Ribbon, SO Fancy Silk Remnants and the beautiful Gold Plaited Stone Set Ring illustrated here. All above, 12 yards Lace, 1n OUR PLATFORM. The Farmers Family Journal believes: That the home should be kept pure and sacred, hence no objectionable advertisements will be inserted at any price; that the farmer and bis family have the means of being the most prosperous and happy people on earth, hence our reading matter will be only that which Instructs and uplifts the individual and brings brightness and sunshine into the home; that the science of agriculture requires cultivated brains and knowledge, hence we will publish such articles as are of every-day practical help In making bigger crops and more money; that the days of slavery are past, and therefore the farmer's wife has been emancipated; that nothing is too good for the woman on the farm, hence no effort will be spared to care for her wants and anticipate her desires; that the boy and the girl on the farm should have the best possible facilities for pleasure, culture and education, hence their interests will be given the best of care and attention, to the end that they will stay by tho old farm, realize Its opportunities, and admire Its beauties and freedom. The Farmers Family Journal can be trusted as the true exponent of all that Is best and most helpful for the farmer and his.

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Largest clinic. Students perform all operations while in school. Graduates eligible to positions in the army, and as meat inspectors in the employ of the U. S. Government.

Catalogue free. Address DR. J. II. WATTLES, 1134 Holmes Kansas City, Mo.

GtVJlTEJ BROG. VJttVTE WYAfJDOTTEG Raising Angora Goats. J. T. Earnest, who owns a farm near Ft.

Gibson, has gone into the Angora goat industry, probably on a larger scale than any other man in the Indian Territory. He has 500 goats and is arranging to purchase a large number more next season. Mr. Earnest believes that Angora goat raising can be made a profitable industry in the Indian Territory. Many sections, he says, are rough and thickly overgrown with underbrush and form ideal locations for Angora goat ranches.

Mr. Earnest says that Angoras can be fed In this climate for 50 cents a year leaves a handsome profit in the business. Dry sawdust makes a good bedding for the stables. Always skim sweet milk; never let cream thicken. ACKNOWLEDGED EVERYWHERE AMERICA'S FOREAIOST UTILITY FOWL Because they LAY EGGS IN WINTER.

If you are not breeding WHITE WYANDOTTES you are losing time and money. Splendid breeding fowls, $1 each. Catalogue free. SMITH BROS. POULTRY FARM, Lock Box 581, WEST PLAINS, MO.

The amount digested and not the amount eaten gives the horse strength. Cows should be milked with dry hands and the udder should be washed clean. 5 METROPOLITAN CHICK FOOD The Ne Plus Ultra of Foods for -Baby Chicks and Turfceys A pig that is stunted early in life should find no place in the breeding herd. An old and reliable food expressly for young chicks Just from the shell. I handle the territory west of the Missouri River for this reliable food, and guarantee perfect satisfaction or return the money and pay freight both ways.

Give me a trial order, 2.oo per 190 pounds; tJ pounds, lw. mas; tJ pounds, lw. Value of 'Blooded Stock. One of the best statements of fact which testifies to the value of blooded stock was made recently by Mr. J.

A. Spoor, president of the Chicago Union Stock Yards. He said that in the last ten years there has been a marked shortening of the period for preparing steers for the beef market. This is A growing pig that i3 always full will hardly take the exercise that it needs. Agents Make Twenty-Five Dollars a Week! Selling medicines.

Easy work. Liberal terms. Write today. EMPIRE REMEDY 423 Kansas Topeka, Kansas. Give the hogs a clean place to eat.

The mud on a feeding floor sometimes.