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THE FARMER AND BREEDER. SIM LTA NEO US TK 15 ATM ENT AND THE GEHM. farm advisers. The little country news papers and others who have no practical knowledge of farming or stock raising, will tell you of the wonderful work done by the country farm adviser, and endeavor to have him for a permanent fixture to feed at the public crib. Will the farmers and stock raisers for it? Yours truly, HENRY KAMPING.

$15.75 and one for $12.00. I am saving my money to complete my education. I have a pet calf 1 am going to keep for milk and butter. She -is half Jersey. Will follow me any where I go she runs on good meadow and, feed her clover hay and corn at night.

1 am doing a great many things but these are the most important. 1 am 11 years old. RALPH W. DORSETT. R3, Clovcrdale, Ind.

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M. A little germ In a fat pig grew (And it had many a delicious chew) The germ waxed fat and the pig grew thin, Oil, so thin, just bone and 'skin. farmer viewed the pig and said: That, pig has cholera and will soon dead." "Not so, good friend," his neighbor replied. "Have you ne'er the cure for cholera tried?" "A doso of serum just twenty C. C.

Will rejuvenate the pig as fine as can be; And. hold him for four weeks or so, Then give him 'Simultaneous' and see him grow." The farmer rubbed his ear and said: "I've hearn tell o'those things and read A lot 'bout serum and virus, too, And b'lieve I'll get 'em and see what they'll do." He bought the potent serum first And just when the pig was at its worst The germ was chipper and lively yet, But the serum produced a change, you bet. For the pig waxed fat and the germ grew thin, Oh, so thin, just bone and skin; And the farmer viewed the pig and said: "That goldarned germ's just about dead." And then to the fat little pig he gave Serum and. virus, his life to save; And thus he could grow so fat and big-Just think of the change from a little thin pig! "The pole horse," she mused, plainly mystified. Suddenly a light broke over her mental vision.

Turning enthusiastically to her sun-browned young man she cried: "Oh, to be sure, 1 see now. I wondered all the time why that sorrel horse had that long pole stuck up along side his head. It is so the others can tell which one to go by." the rest of the hogs, and when they had several fights they settled- down. 1 kept it about three or four months, then I sold it to my uncle for ten dollars. The next thing that I started out on the industrious line was farming.

I rented about an acre of ground from my grandmother, for half grain rent. And when I began to farm the ground I double disc, listed and then planted it. I helped my uncle farm his land to get a team, cultivator, and some seed corn to plant. About the time the corn came good there came a rain, and washed under some. I replanted, harrowed and plowed it with the cultivator twice and when I went to plow it the third time it was so tall that the cultivator broke off more corn than it done good.

The cuckle burs were thick, and when 1 got the corn laid by, I went through and pulled every burr, so that the ground would be cleaner to chuck the corn, and to keep them from going to seed. When corn shucking time came I missed school, so that I could shuck my own field of corn. It averaged about sixty bushels, thirty of which was to be my share, but I sold my share to, grandma at that time for twenty dollars. I gave her the stalk field. Most of the corn was thirteen or fourteen inches in- length.

Last year I thought I would try my luck on raising turnips. First I plowed the ground, then mixed the seed with sand, and sowed them. I had a. dime's worth of seed. After sowing I leveled the ground down good.

I had the seed sowed too thick, and it bein ga dry year, they did not make much, hardly enough for our winter use. This year I thought I would try raising geese. I bought a dozen of eggs. They have just hatched, and out of the dozen eggs I got nine goslings. On the place my uncle rented "was a large orchard, and one year there was a heavy crop of apples.

We sold the orchard to a buyer. He hired me to help pick the "apples at one dollar per day. it took seven days to clear the orchard. One of our neighbors hired me to help him build -a pond dam. I hired to him at seventy-five cents a day, for driving a team, when he settled with me, he gave me three dollars.

He said I had earned it. We only worked three days. Those who are always talking about what might have been done are not the sort of people who would have done it if they had been there. Dainty wash gowns should never he allowed to get positively dirty bsfore laundering, for their charm lies in their freshness. Where the goods is tinted pale blue, pink or red, soak it first in a pailful of cold salt water, a teaspoonful of salt to a quart of water; and for lavender or purples, soak in vinegar water, using the same proportion.

In the case of flowered patterns, where blue, green and lavender appear, use both salt and vinegar in the rinse water, as well as a pinch of alum for the green, and the colors will be set by one or the other. Where a lilac or purple garment has been faded by the sun before washing, the use of vinegar will 'sometimes have quite a wonderful effect in restoring the tint. Don't use any blue in the rinct? water except for blue dresses, for it gives a clouded look to other tints, and won't come out without boiling, which removes all color. Some laundresses use a thoroughly dissolved dye, of the shade desired, in the rinse water; just enough to distinctly color it as bluing They keep a package of each of the different tints on hand for this purpose, but a still better way is in the. use of tinted starches.

They come in little packages, and as the color washes out with every laundering and does not spot or streak, with several packages of starch of different tints it is quite possible to have a succession of variously colored waists, all with a single white waist as a foundation. Where goods is closely woven, the starch much not be so thick, and when washing a dark colored dress, always starch on the wrong side to prevent it from showing when ironed. Many fine laundresses say that all goods should be turned before starching, or it will not retain its new look after being done up. They also iron all dresses and waists on the wrong side for the same reason. A very thin muslin dress may be stiffened sufficiently by letting it dry, then sprinkling with gum arabic water and drying at once.

A man can get the habit of feeling young. Some men of 50 feel like men of 70, and there is now and then a man of 70 who feels as young as a man of 50. Population of the United States passed the 100,000,000 mark on April according to the estimate of the census bureau. Yon like to go Hunting Fishing Trapping Than surely yon will enjoy the Ha. iiuuai Dpirumu juagazine wiw i And now my little tale I've But I didn't give the price of the pig when sold.

And here's a problem to figure on, 'Twill keep the doubter when. we are gone: If millions of pigs are born each year, And thousands of farmers from germs have fear, And millions of by cholera is lost, Which, as told above, could be saved at small cost? Wake up( Mr. Farmer, the time is at hand. And material, too, to save your land, Great riches yours just listento me, Vaccinate your pigs -ever prosperous you'll be. Copyright 1915 by John T.

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The things a boy can do on a arm to make money for himself is raising chickens and geese; I am going in partners with my sister and set the incubator. We arc going to ren a truck patch to raise tomatoes, potatoes and corn. I am counting on $15.00 for my corn and potatoes. Have been experimenting a little on my potatoes. Covered them about one foot deep in straw.

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'Boston, Matt. Clovcrdale, May 3, 1915. What can a girl do on the farm to make money for herself? A girl on the farm can set hens and raise chickens till they are big enough to fry and sell them, or keep them till they arc big enough to lay and sell the eggs. They can raise turkeys, geese and ducks. Tliev can haul hav shocks for the Editor Farmer Breeder: In United States Department of Agriculture Special Bulletin, issued November 25, 1914, on the subject of "How Southern Farmers may Get Started in Pig Raising," the statement is made, "Your pig's should be sired by Duroc-Jersey, Berkshire or Poland' China boar.

White hogs should not be used in the South, as they sunburn badly." Now, the fellow who wrote this article is either misinformed or else is deliberately discriminating against the Chester Whites. Chester Whites can be found in all the Southern states. In the South, as well as elsewhere, he is steadily gaining ground. This bulletin was specially designed to help the poor man, the man who could only afford to handle one or two sows. Where swine raising is engaged in on so small a scale, every pig counts, and yet the writer of the Bulletin gives this advice: Give her (the sow) a warm, thin slop, as soon as she begins to move around, then leave her' alone for awhile.

That evening give her a slop with bran or corn meal in it. It is evident that our would-be adviser never fed very many sows, or has ever discussed the matter with those who have practical knowledge of feeding sows, following the farrowing 'period. He would not have done a worse thing for the little pigs, if he had advised the owner to give each pig a dose of poison, because on a cold, damp spring dfy nothing is so deadly as the scours, the kind of treatment he advises will practically induce that. Under no" circumstances should a sow be fed a warm, thin slop on farrowing day if you want to save all the pigs. 'A short time ago the Kansas City papers gave an account of a bunch of agriculture students being taken out in the country to see a plow.

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