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The Arkansas Valley Farmer from Wichita, Kansas • 12

The Arkansas Valley Farmer from Wichita, Kansas • 12

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THE ARKANSAS VALLEV FARMER PAGE TWELVE An Ideal Dairy Farm 10 ares, 70 in cultivation, balance In line Umber pasture, well fenced ugl w-t tered. Good 3-room bouse, other outbuildings. Fine orchard' Ismail fruit. Close to school. Five miles from Leeton.

An ideal dairy and chicken Jurm. Price $42.50 per acre. Terms and possession. A bargain. 1 LEETON LAND Leeton, Mo.

C-4tK Moon Fanning. Moon farming Is becoming ft thing of tha it, according to Professor If, of Cornell In Independent It) la being u-perceded by (he new agriculture. It been the common tradition that pork from pigs killed, In Jthp old of the moon will ahrlnk when cooked but It will retain Ita size If killed In tho new moon. WANT MJY WESTE1N LAMP ft Ibuay cl (patters if gal westerns fluid. MaisiL) fe lbdtoiM pidoss.

Gw os lwsftipMs TMUIRMAN i. IND. 1'IIONE, 1326; BELL, 073. ROOMS 6-8 TURNER WICHITA. KAN.

WVV 400 Acres Kansas Land 400 acre of smooth Improved land In Gove county, Kan. 2ix) acres under cultivation; every foot can be cultivated. If taken soon $6.401 will get It. Terms. Would Consider fat cattle as part payment.

Mortimer If. Feck, Bridgeport, Lock Box No. 5. 6-iitx Animals born when the moon Is new or Increasing will be much more likely to thrive than those unfortunately bora at tho opposite period. Fleeees will not be so heavy If sheared when the moon Is on the wane.

Meats decay with unnatural quickness if exposed to moonlight. In the new of the moon Is the time to set TEXAS Runnels County, Texas OKLAHOMA FARMS I have some choice farms for sale. If Interested write, REV. F. I LOGSTON, Cleo, Okla.

63tx For Information about Ballinger and Runnels County write C. A. Loose Ballinger, Texas. 6-lOt a Itl7.ll VA. ARIZONA FARMS Fine farms In Balt river valley, under the Roosevelt dam.

2OL.0O0 acres with plenty of water, where oranges grow, no snow, no Ice, no fog: the most healthful climate in the United States. For further particulars correspond with Wilcox Hageman, Phoenix, Arlz. DRAINAGE L.ND FOR SALE-1280 acres In Juneau county, Wisconsin, two and one-half miles from Babcock, Wisconsin. Main ditch alongside of this land, branch ditch through center. Ditches completed lust year.

Snap at eleven dollars per acre. Might consider some trudo. F. C. Horn, Oshkosh.

Wisconsin. 3-4tx ARKANSAS Irrigated Land The greatest fruit and alfalfa valley in Amerit'H Is now open for settlement at Fort Stockton, Texas. rich alluvial, natural flow of pure spring water exceeding M.ouo.ono gallons per day for Irrigation and domestic use; water on land now; assured profits of from to per sore; no drouth; no crop failures; finest all yeur round climate in the United States; nltlaudo 3.050 feet above sen level, lort Stockton Is county seat of 1ecos county and Important division point on the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient railway, now under construction; population now l.ftm; will soon be a city of front 10,000 to 1.1,000. Greater opportunities for lioniescekers and Investors than were ever offered In the older Irrigated districts, where orchards are valued at from to per acre. Choice locations open to those who Investigate now.

Low xato excursions first and third Tuesdays of each month. You cannot afford to buy land anywhere without seeing Fort Stockton. For full Information address FORT STOCKTON IRRIGATED LANDS 317 Fidelity Trust Kansas City, Mo. 3-2t Send only 25c for trial subscription to The Little Chronicle," the biggest and best magazine published. Fine stories and beautiful illustrations.

Departments of electricity, mechanics, photography, stamps, coins and curios. Send only 25o (lc stamps accepted.) The Little Chronicle" of Chicago, 817-S19 W. Taylor Chicago, (Dept. 12), Crapple. 1 2tX Farms Where You Will Not Freeze ur acres.

10.0ft; 203 acres, 13.00; 430 acres, J2S.0O. All fine land; well improved; near railroads and towns; 10 per cent guaranteed on Investment; DON 1 STAY IN THll NORTH AND FRUNZE. COME TO SOUTHWEST ARKANSAS. Johnston Reynolds, Ashdown, Ark. MINNESOTA.

100 IMPROVED FARMS in central Minnesota; all sixes; cheap prices: easy terms; always a good title. Write for land list No. 27. Mention this paper. C.

Baker, Fergus Falls, Minnesota. BOOK OF BARGAINS Send 8 cents In stamps, we will mall you our beautiful Illustrated 68-pago catalog brimful of bargains, and send you free our magic bill book useful to every farmer and business man. EMMET C. REEL 6421 Lake Chicago 1 2tx 100 FINE Cathartic Tablets, postpaid for 10c. Dr.

Thornber, Fort Madison, Iowa. 49-3tx hens, plant corn and other things that grow above ground, rianted when tho moon Is waning such seeds will probably rot. On the other hand, crops that grow under ground, as potatoes and' beeta should bo planted In the old of the moon; and plants that tend to run too much to vine and straw also should bo planted when the moon Is on the wane. Groin purchased In the full of the moon will be of full weight IUtll fences sink into the ground and rot It built In the old of the moon. If shingles are laid In the old of the moon the nails will pull out These any many other beliefs have been held by our forefathers.

Most of us have heard older people tell about the effects of the moon. In the light of present day knowledge, there are now fewer people who hold these beliefs. ITofcssor Bailey says: Country ppople at least must Interpret nature from cause to effect, rather than by notion of traditions. This they are now beginning to do, and this constitutes tho new agriculture. Those who can not interpret nature and who are poor business men are being driven off the land.

Tho colleges of agriculture and the experiment stations are making this great contribution to human welfare they are instructing the landsman te ascertain the fact and to establish his practice on It. To see an investigator at work studying an Insect or a soil Is to get a touch of a new attitude toward nature. Nothing is taken for granted and everybody's opinion must be tested Beyond all practical application, of. the work of these Institutions, is -the new and open-minded attitude develop on all problem. under.

discussion. They banish all guessing, all moon-farming, and all think-so. The farmer is now willing to learn and to cast old notions aside; and for this reason the world is becoming a new world to him and he Is beginning to understand his situation. As rapidly as he understands his situation, he will master it." It is only through lfnorance that we are governed by superstition. Ages ago people believed that the sun and moon controlled the affairs of men, and the belief In the moons effect upon farming is but a relic of barbarism and savagery, handed down from generation to generation.

As our farmers become better educated in scientific matters, they will see the fallacy of such things and learn to reason from cause to effect. T1IF. TEAS r.NHANDLK Wlient. corn, hogs. Come to Swisher county, the heurt of cheap, rich, level land.

Sure crops. High altitude, delightful climate. No cyclones, no floods. Free descriptive booklet if you mention Arkansas Valley Farmer. Write James Frye, Secretary, Commercial Club, Tulla, Texas.

3-7tx FREE GOVERNMENT FARMS Write for official 112-page book. Vacant Government Lands," describes every acre in every county and state. A million acres now open. IIow to get a homestead for only 85 to $15 each, or Irrigated farm. Price 25c postpaid.

Webb Iubb Dept. 13, St. Paul, Minn. 4412tx FARM LANDS BUT LANDS IN THE Irrigated Belt. South Texas; fertile soil; water plentiful: fine climate and splendid crops.

Write for booklet. Byrd Clarkson, Uvalde, Texas. 29 6tx auctioneers We teach yu by MAKE BIG MONEY yourMPown Information Free. Address Carpenter's College, (Largest In the World) Trenton, Mo. COLORADO EtGIIT SECTIONS smooth, rich valley land; good grass and water; price and description sent on application to owner.

Burton Mathis, Pecos, Texas. 90-41X Send 10c for 100 Money-Making Secrets and Illustrated' Catalog. ACME SUPPLY Concordia, Kansas. Price $350 FOR 320-ACRE HOMESTEAD RELINQUISHMENT near Sheridan Lake, Colo. Small Improvements choice, smooth, level, fertile, sandy loam farm land.

No rock, sand or gravel every acre tillable. snap for any one who has not used his homestead right. S. R. SMITH, Sheridan Lake, Colo.

A FREE GIFT 12 beautiful colored Easter poet cards (worth 5o each) for 25u in stamps or silver, and as a present a very high grade fancy Gold Plated Ring, set with a duster of 2, 3 or 4 Amethysts, Sapphires, Emeralds, Rubys or im. Diamonds. Supply limited, send at once BRISTOL CARD Bristol, Irtd, Box A. 1 2tx MILLIONS OF ACRES Texas School land to be sold by the state; $1.50 to $5.00 per acre; only one-fortieth cash and 40 years lime on balance; three per cent interest; only $12.00 cash for 100 acres at $3.00 per acre. Greatest opportunity; good agricultural land; send 50 cents for Book of Instructions.

New State Law -and description of lands. J. J. Snyder. School Land Locator, 102 9th Austin.

Tex. Reference, Austin National Bank. 40-tf FARM LANDS Buy lands in the irrigation belt, South Texas; fertile soli, water pientirut, rine climate and splendid crops. Write for booklet A. R.

Byrd Sons. 243 Missouri Trust St. Louis, Mo. 27-10tx CIGARS FOR YOU! PREPAID BOX OF These are genuine Havana filler and Sumatra wrapper. A quickly rolled cigar not expensively finished, but the goods are there.

E. SIIIFSEY, 610 Second St. Brooklyn, N. Y. l-2tx MISCELLANEOUS.

and book mailed Rochester, 39-i0tx 4,000 FERRETS-rrices free. N. A. Knapp, Box 10. 100 ACRES, well Improved, 4-room house, best land In Texas, 1 mile from Oyster Creek, per acre, $25.

N. B. Knight Houston. Texas. 26-6 tx tIOLSMAN 2-seat surrey automobile; just the thing for country use, plenty of power; solid rubber tires.

iTice. $225, Address Clifford Hales, Rugby, N. D. 3-2tx Hints for Stock Owners. The airships are flying high, but they can not overtake pork.

The humble pig has become the most Important animal on the farm. PUT YOUR NAME on grain sacks, baskets, crates, protecting your property from loss by theft or otherwise. we furnish 3-4-inch letter stencil, brueh and can of stencil Ink and sponge-cup all for only 50 cents. ELKHART STENCIL Elkhart, Indiana. 50-ltx SECTIONS OF LAND, Artesian belt, Brownsville county, at $6.00 to $3.00 per acre.

A. 11. Mouly, Box 201, Corpus Chrisll. Texas. 23-12tx TEXAS SCHOOL LANDS-Over 1,000,, 000 acres for sale by the state; you can buy 610 acres at $2 an acre; pay $32 cash, balance after 40 years; fine farming and fruit land; healthy climate.

For further information send 6 cents postage. INVESTOR PUB. March winds whittle the flesh right off the cows. Keep them In out of the cold. Either sex can earn $10 weekly, spare time, decorating post cards.

New process. Package beautiful samples with complete details, 10 cents. Geo. W. Mol-der, Unionville, Tenn.

50-ltx LOOK! LOOK! LOOK! North Dakota, 4X0 acres choice farm, 200 acres ready for crop, fair buildings, 1 mile to city, good well and arid pump, also grove, 90 acres fenced, $35 per acre; $1,000 cash, balance good terms. 160-aore first class farm, price same. Clifford Hales, Rugby, N. D. 6-2tx BARN PLANS Send mo details of needed buildings and 10 two-cent stamps to cover postage and I will send free pencil sketches and estimate.

Barns plans a specialty. Benton Steele, Architect, Halstead, Kan. 4-6tx We would not hear so much about Pasteurizing in the creamery If there were a little more pasture-lzing In the dairy. The farni animals are shedding their coats, and the Peter Tumbledown cows will soon show clean flanks for the first time since last fall. ONCA TENT AND AWNING CO.

CANVAS WORKERS Tents, Wagon, Stock and Machine covers. 1018-1020 West Douglas. WICHITA, KANSAS BigTexas Ranch for Lease FOR LEASE Long term, 8-section stock grain and cotton farm. 500 acres In cultivation, 6 sets buildings, permanent Water. R.

telephone. Now stocked, registered and high grade llerefords. Saddle horses and mules, lessee can buy tock If desired. Address G. Wolf, Holstein, Abilene, Tex.

3 4 tx Dept. Cl, San Antonio, Texas. GOOD TEXAS LAND. PECAN TREES, idded pecans, pears, citrus trifoliate md other trees. Apply to Peairfleldi Nursery, New Ulm, Texas.

4-Gtx )R SALE 610 out of 900 acres, owner vishes to reserve 320 acres In Marathon ounty, Wisconsin; choicest of land, soil lay loam; every acre tillable; an abun-lance of maple and birch. Send for mice, plat and particulars. Griffith 188 Main Oshkosh, Wls- For Quick Sale 2100 acres of good land, 3 miles from a town on Fort Worth Denver It. R. $10,000 profit in it at once if cut Into small tracts.

Write W. A. Ish, Vernon, Texas. 4-Gtx If much chilled the lamb should bo taken at once to a warm room and plunged In water as hot as the hand will stand. Then wrap tho lamb in hot flannel and rub it dry, If a ewe loses her lamb she can be taught to mother a twin by confining her In a narrow row stall.

Tender hearted folks may succeed In getting the rod banished from the schools but they will never be able to make the railroads give up thelrswltches. There ore many number of men who, while ever ready to share their troubles with their wives, manifest a strong disinclination to share their pleasures wit5 them. I sang because I could not choos. but sing, wrote the popt, andi that about expresses the lay of the hen. Tht laws of nature rather than dope control her output.

FBI Peary Eskimo Talking Doll To EveryLittle Girl Tliij (t tli very Meat emtion right from til. Krozrn North tud (lid rw.vri in fl uffy fiirli ke A ret io con turn, with Evkimoc.p, moccasin, and It hu voic. like a r.itl Eskimo bnljy nnd y. M.uiuia" and Papa" in its own language. It i.

an exact reproduction of ill. Bah1 Doll, that our great ducovcrer Peary aaw on hi. journey to the North and every American girl ahould have one. Tlirae doll. ar.

unbreakable. We are the exclusive Western diatribu-ten and are importing thousand, ot them. Send in your tame and addros. and we will yon 20 package, of our beautiful gold ombowid souvenir poet carditoiellatlOcper package. Our poet card.

ar. great valu. and everybody will buy them from you. Senit u. the 2 00 and we will yon thk fine Eskimo Poll at once, aUjtranaportatl.a fharg.

prepaid, rite at once It coats notklag to try. Addreaa IwvEIt ART CO. $ek 159 CMt-ago, I1L SOMETHING BETTER THtAN MONEY." No. 1400-acre stock and grain farm. Fine 8-room house, 3 large barns, abundance of fruit and water.

Price $30.00 acre; terms. No. 283 acres, GO acres cultivated, 8 acres In orchard, all under fence, small house and barn. Price terms. 13 RITTAIN-SCOTT, Mountain View, Mo.

BIG TEXAS RANCH 920 ACRE RANCH FOR SALE-1920 seres, all fenced and cross fenced In three pastures, living water and some timber, 1000 acres good farm land, 400 acres alfalfa land, 30 acres in alfalfa, 300 acres In cultivation and fenced separate, 2 miles hog fence, three thousand dollar residence, barn, 32x62, young orchard, windmill at house with storage tank, water piped to house, ,100 head of jegistered cattle, and 15 head of common cattle, eight head of fine mules, three head of horses, $1000 worth of farm tools and venlcles and household goods except library, best llxed ranch in the Panhandle, all goes at $20 per acre; no trade considered, $18,000 cash, balance In one and two years at 6 per cent Interest. Dont write unless you mean business. Address J. ORR, Higgins, Texas- 8-2tx HELP WANTED. $21,500.00 by one in 22 months.

$7,000.00 by another In one year. $500 monthly by several, dont make Inquiry unless you have $500.00 and up, and good business ability. The Oxygenator Beatrice. C. C.

Johnson, Mgr. 4-2t fee, V. to.

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1910-1910