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Missouri Valley Farmer from Atchison, Kansas • 19

Missouri Valley Farmer from Atchison, Kansas • 19

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Atchison, Kansas
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19
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February 1905. THE MISSOURI VALLEY FARMER 19 'V4- Do you know how easy it is to get one these matchless Dinner Sets? I will tell you. It means a few friendly visits to your neighbors a call here and there during spare moments and before you know it the Dinner Set is yours. Tf .1 r.i i i i i ft Dl world as a premium. Made of genuine porcelain china, guaranteed full size for family use, each piece magnificently decorated with clusters of red rose buds with delicate sprays of green leaves arranged in graceful festoons The design is burned into the ware giving it that soft velvety glaze found only in the most expensive French china.

Each piece is heavily traced with pure gold lines knobs, handles and borders and in addition the borders are handsomely embossed. This grand set of dishes given absolute ly free to every lady who will take orders for only a few pounds of our celebrated brand Red Cross Coffe I mean just what I say. Sell a few pounds of our Red Jross Coffee and the Dinner Set is yours. TMs Is wlty It Is so easy! fi Ml fi tit for just the price of the coffee. Some firms will give you a pitcher and six glasses, a small set of dishes or some other cheap premium, but no firm but mine can afford such an expensive premium as a 23 piece imported tea set.

Everybody you call on will give you an order just to get the tea set, and I am satisfied, for I want everybody to try my lied Cross Coffee. After you have taken the orders, send them to us and for your trouble I will give you the 118 piece Dinner Set described above. EDontt send any money-! pay all freight etiargesl All I want is your services in introducing our Red Cross Coffee, ftna if you will send ns a postal giving us your name and address 1 will send you by return mail a set of our beautifully illustrated offers free. Write to-day. oa will be simply delighted.

In addition to the Dinner Set, we give Stoves, Couches, Rockers, larlor Suits, Bed Room Suits, Jack- Afo ma Wlri tfa Tinfa r.n LR, a ets, Caps, Skirts, Ilats and 23 PIECE IMPORTED CHINA TEA SET FMEE' WHilEVERY POUND OF A COFFEE everything in wearing apparel, in fact you can furnish your homo from top to bottom and clothe yourself by selling our Rod Cross Coffee. You do not spend a cent. We pay all freight charges. We take all risk. Wo ship tho coffee to you and send your premium with the coffee and also send the 23 piece Tea Sets all together, and if you are not perfectly satisfied with everything, you may return the entire shipment at oar expense.

There is no reason why you should not have one of these beautiful sets of dishes or one of the other magnificent premiums; it is so easy to get them. I have been in business in St. Louis since 1878 and you can depend upon what I say. Any bank or business house in St. Louis will tell you about me.

Simply write for our illustrated offers, order blanks, to-day. Address my company and you will be delighted to be one of us. Send letter or postal to RED CROSS SUPPLY 46 Red Cross St Louis, Mo. vxrmrrTfpsrrrm the same worm. It is very widely distributed and does serious damage to corn, pumpkins, melons, red peppers, beans, peas, gladioli, geraniums, etc.

The worm varies in color according to what it feeds on from a light to almost a black, sometimes without spots and sometimes spotted cr striped. The mature insect is a medium sized moth which lays its eggs, at twilight upon any part of the plant, He says there Is no known remedy except fall plowing to destroy the eggs, and rotation of crops, using some crops, which the worm will not feed on. lessons in farming, and have materially aided in producing the crops of this year. On this farm there are 35 head of blooded cattle, 13 head of horses, 25 high bred hogs and a full equipment of modern farm machinery. Recently Mrs.

Work has built on this farm one of the best arranged hog houses in the state. The State of Indiana commits a large number of its dependent boys and girls to this farm home, whence many of them have gone to fill responsible positions. The buildings are on an eminence commanding one of the most attractive views in Hoosierdom. J. L.

Graff, Indiana. Cheer Up. No matter how the skies may frown This world is rollin right A sun for every mornin An a star for every night. Then shout your hallelujah An raise your sweetest tune, If were freezin in December Well be warm enough in June. TWO FARM WOMEN.

A Cow and Sheep Raiser. Here and there some bright woman who did not think that a man was the greatest thing in the world, preferring Independence to any other thing, starts out with poultry or bees or horses or some other sort of stock or develops a fruit or flower farm with the most signal success. A bright Dakota girl has lately invested her little capital earned as a clerk in a ranch and has stocked it with cows and sheep of good blood and will without doubt make a success of the business provided she does not fall a victim to the wiles of some tree claimer in the shape of a man. Many a woman might, just as well do farm work for herself as to do it for some old stick of a man. J.

S. Iowa. Conducts a Big Farm. An Indiana farm of 360 acres, conducted and managed in every detail by a woman, has this year produced 2,000 bushels of corn, 1,500 bushels of potatoes, 150 bushels of beans, and good crops of rye, timothy, and clover, and great variety of fruits and garden truck. It is the farm of Brightside, the training school of Mrs.

Julia Work, located at Plymouth, Marshall county. At this school there are 180 boys and 70 girls. The boys are given practical Harmless Tobacco Cure. Mrs. Vine, 38 State street, Dos Mo'nes, Iowa, discovered a harmless remedy for tobacco habit.

She cured her husband in 10 days after using tobacco 30 years. All desire for its use gone. Can be filled by druggist. She gladly sends prescription free for self-addressed envelope. Corn and Boll Worm the Same.

Prof. W. A. Wheeler, botanist of the South Dakota experiment station, says that the corn worm, the corn ear worm and the cotton boll worm are all.

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