A CRITICAL PERIOD
INTELLISENTWOMEN PREPARE
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is the change of
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women as this
time draws near
is not witnout
reason ?
If her system is in a deranged condl
[tion, or she is predisposed to apoplexy
i®r congestion of any organ, it is at this
,time likely to become active and, with
• host of nervous irritations, make life
IK burden.
At this time, also, cancers and tumors
Are more liable to begin their destruc
itlve work. Such warning symptoms as
{A sense of suffocation, hot flashes, diz
tainess, headache, dread of impending
evil, sounds in the ears, timidity, pal
pitation of the heart, sparks before the
eyes, irregularities, constipation, varia^
hie appetite, weakness and inquietude
Are promptly heeded by intelligent
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of life when woman’s great change
may be expected.
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Mrs. A. E. G. Hyland, of Chester
town, Md., in a letter to Mrs. Pink
ham, says:
Dear Mrs. Pinkham: —
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for years and was passing through the change
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For special advice regarding this im
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8he is daughter-in-law of Lydia E.
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been advising sick women free of
charge. Her advice is free and always
helpful to ailing women.
Made Her Sick.
From the New York Weekly.
Young Lady—"Oh, yes, I went to see
that new comic opera, but I went under
protest. I can’t bear anything but
classic music, and, although I sat
through all those simple airs and com
mon-place harmonies, It almost made
me sick.”
Musician—"So it did me; made me
nick at heart to think any author could
be such a thief. The greater part of
that opera is stolen from Beethoven.”
Deafness Cannot be Cured
by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There li
■only one way to cure deafnesa, and that It
by constitutional remedies. Deafntas li
caused by an Inflamed condition of the mu
cous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When
this tube la Inflamed yon hare a rumbling
sound or Imperfect hearing, and when it Is
entirely closed. Deafness Is the result, and
unless the Inflammation can be taken out
and this tube restored to Its normal condl
T tlon, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine
cases out of ten are caused by Catarrh,
which is nothing but an Inflamed condition
Of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured bp Ball's Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars free.
F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Hair Raisina.
From Washington Life.
Husband—I feel In the mcod for reading
something sensational and startling—some
thing that will fairly make my hair Btano
on end.
Wife—Well, here Is my last dressmaker’s
bill.
DISFIGURING SKIN HUMOR.
Impossible to Get Employment, as
face and Body Were Covered with
Sores—Cured by Cuticura.
“Since the year 1894 I have been
troubled with u very bad case of
•czema which I have spent hundreds
cf dollars trying to cure, and I went
to the hospital, but they failed to cure
me, and it was getting worse all the
time. Five weeks ago my wife bought
a box of Cuticura Ointment and one
cake of Cuticura Soap, and 1 am
pleased to gay that I am now com
pletely cured and well. It was impos
sible for me to get employment, as my
face, head and body were covered with
It. The eczema first appeared on the
top of my head, and it had worked all
the way around down the back of my
neck and around to my throat, down
my body and around the hips. It itched
•o I would be obliged to scratch it,
and the flesh was raw. I am now all
well, and I will be pleased to recom
mend the Cuticura Remedies to all per
sons who wish a speedy and perma
nent cure of skin diseases. Thomas
M. Rossiter, 290 Prospect Street, East
Orange, N. J. Mar. 30, 1905.”
Railroad Blunders.
From the New York Weekly.
Brakeman—on railroad train at night
—Pough-keep-sie ! ! !
Poughkeepsie Lady—Dear me! Will
these railroad men ever learn to pro
nounce so folks can understand them?
What station is this?
Friend—This is our station—P’kepsy.
v Mrs. Winslow’s soothing sr»r» ror Children
teething; softenn the gums, reduces, inflammation, **
lays pain, cures wind cvtlic. 26 cent" o bottle.
Accidents Will Happen.
From the New York Weekly.
Miss Gushlngton—‘I admit. Arthur, that
this is not the* first time I have been en
gaged. but I'm sure your noble, generous
heart-”
Little Brother—"Sis, the baby's got your
bag of engagement rings."_
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
THE AGE OF CEMENT.
Seventy-five per cent, of the farms of
America are a disgrace to their own
ers from the standpoint of neatness and
appearance of the buildings and sur
roundings. Wooden structures In vary
ing stages of collapse; rotting fence
posts; Inefficient watering troughs and
floors of barns and cellars all speak of
decay and temporary use. If these
farmers could be awakened to the im
portance of building for all time In
stead of for a day, the sum total of
prosperity and enjoyment in country
life would be Immeasurably Increased.
It has been suggested that the huge
stones used by the ancient Egyptians
In the building of the pyramids and
othec monuments which have endured
thousands of years, were not quarried
out of solid rock, but were made from
some substance resembling our modem
cement, formed in molds on the site
their final occupation. Their process
may be another of the lost arts and If
so we are but repeating history, for we
most certainly are entering upon an
era when cement 1b bound to constitute
our dependence In permanent buildings
of all sorts.
The hold which rement as a building
material has In the world today Is as
strong and lasting as the material It
self. Timber Is becoming scarcer, and
at the present gate of consumption the
supply in the CTnlted States will not last
longer than forty years. A durable and
satisfactory successor of wood may be
found In Portland cement combined
with sharp sand and gravel In the pro
portions of one part of cement to two
of sand and four of gravel or stone for
very strong and waterproof work, or
one part of cement with two and a half
of sand and five of coarser material for
ordinary work, and one of cement to
three of sand and six of stone or grav
el where strength is of minor Impor
tance. Mixed for ordinary work a bar
rel or 380 pounds of cement (3)4 cubic
feetl, will make about 27 cubic feet of
concrete. As the sand fills the spaces
between the stones (or gravel) and the
cement fills the spaces between the
grains of sand, the total quantity of
concrete will be but slightly in excess
of the original quantity of gravel or
broken stone.
Portland cement costs $1.40 a barrel
at the mill, and other materials cost
according to the hauling distance. At
80 cents a yard for sand or gravel the
cost per cubic foot of concrete is
around 8 cents, exclusive of labor.
It is often found tha* concrete con
struction is absolutely cheaper than
lumber, and possessing the additional
advantage of being fireproof and per
manent. It Is used for gutters In sta
bles, cellar and stable floors, drain tile,
silos, sidewalks, fence posts, bridges,
houses, barns, watering and feed
troughs, Ice houses and cisterns. There
seems no limit to its usefulness. The
simpleness with which it Is handled
commends It to those unskilled in car
pentry. Cement should be mixed with
Its bulky companions in a dry state and
just enough water added to make It
pack well. A mold for the form re
quired is then filled and tamped down
hard and allowed to set for twenty-four
hours, when the mold may be removed;
or if made with hinges, as are fence
post molds and other small forms, It
may be removed within a few minutes.
Surfaces are generally finished off with
a smooth coating of pure cement.
Buildings are made from separate
blocks or constructed in a solid wall.
One of the latest methods is to build
this wall hollow, thus making a frost
proof structure, warm in winter and
cool in hot weather.
Of the several kinds of cement, Port
land possesses the highest cementing
power and an additional virtue of hard
ening under water. All cement should
be kept dry. When properly protected
it often improves with age. Crushed
stone makes a somewhat stronger con
crete than gravel; cinders are frequent
ly used. The mortar may be colored to
suit the fancy of the builder, and some
very beautiful houses are now made of
this material.
The department of agriculture has
issued a farmer’s bulletin No. 235, on
“Cement Mortar surd Concrete,” with
special reference to its preparation and
use for farm purposes. This bulletin
is for the asking, and gives in detail
many valuable hints and methods Im
possible in this space.
Farmers should use nothing but a
good grade of cement. It is made by
a number of concerns. Do not buy from
unknown dealers. Several firms make
iron molds for fence posts, tile, build
ing blocks, etc., and these will greatly
facilitate construction, being cheaper
usually than to have one made by a ma
chinist.—Farmers’ Voice, Chicago.
POULTRY POINTS.
The cheapest and most economical
food raised on the farm is the poultry.
No breed Is so fine that you can
make it pay well if you mismanage
your poultry farm.
Feed enough coarse food. It pro
motes digestion and helps to keep the
fowls healthy.
In providing nests see that they are
so located that they are handy both
for the hen and you.
When it comes to raising turkeys,
Texas takes the lead. Then follow
Missouri, Illinois, Jowa and Ohio.
Don’t sell the fc'Sgs from your best
pens in the market when you have a
surplus. Sell them to people who will
pay the price they are worth. You can
find purchasers through the columns
of The Farmer and Breeder.
Drinking vessels of all kinds should
be arranged so that the fowls cannot
get into them with their feet. If noth
ing else can be done, they should have
a board cover, large enough to leave
only room to drink around the edges.
An old belief, and one that is still
more or less credited, Is that the pres
ence of the male Is necessary for good
egg production. This is wrong. On
many of the large egg farms no males
are used at all. Some even claim that
hens lay better without roosters, but
this is at best an unsettled question.
At the Kansas state poultry show at
Topeka In January, tne barred Ply
mouth Rocks exceeded any other kind
In number, there being 192 birds of
this breed. The first prize cockerel
sold for $45. There were 118 white
Plymouth Rocks on display and 109
buffs.
Don't blame it all on the incubator
when some of the chicks die In the j
shell, but see to it that the next set- )
ting Is composed of nothing but fertile
eggs. Poultry raising Is no longer ex- I
clusively a farmer's occupation. It i
has become a business in which people
of all classes are interested and In 1
which women as well as men are em- ,
barking. It is a business offering ex- ;
ceptional opportunities for the small
investor, and one which can be carried
on by people living In small towns and
residents in outlying districts of large
cities and towns with remarkable
hopes of success.—From Pacific Fruit
World.
Onions require rich soil, not too I
sandy, as they must be able to reach
constant moisture. To grow onions
successfully from seed they must be
sown early. Sow in rows and cover
the seeds about one inch with fine soil.
Do not allow a crust to form over the
tows before the onions are up.
It is not enough to put fresh water
Into tlia drinking vessels. A good
.cashing is absolutely essential to keep
hem clean and sanitary for the hens.
A god tarn intluonces every man i .
...la ins consequence.
—.—.
HOW MUCH CAN THE
BUSINESS GIRL EARN?
(Copyright, 1906 by the McClure-Fhlllips
Company.)
BY SALLY CHAMBERLAIN.
The first and last question which
confronts a girl who enters business
life Is “How much money can I earn?”
She may be dependent on her dally ef
fort for her livelihood, she may need
only to make her own pin money, or
she may be working merely to kill the
monotony of an Idle existence. Still
the query remains the same and the
size of the weekly salary is the most
emphatic If not the most important
phase of her presence In the strenuous
grind of the money making world.
To know how much money she can
earn a girl must first know what her
earning capacity Is. This in nine cases
out of ten controls the amount of her
salary and until she knows Just where
she stands In this regard, she will never
be sure of the size of her Income. Un
derstanding the extent of her earning
capacity, however, It Is undoubtedly
true that she will be able to turn her
energies In one of at least three or four
different directions and still procure the
same remuneration for her work.
Three things determine a girl’s abil
ity to make money. The first and foun
dation of the three is health. The sec
ond Is training, which Is positively es
sential to obtaining any kind of a sal
ary In the modern busines world, and
the third is spirit—the Interest feigned
or genuine which a girl Instills Into her
work.
Health lies at the bottom of all three
and the amount of money which a girl
can earn will always be dependent up
on her physical strength. The girl who
Is always sitting down to rest cannot
hold her position very long as sales
woman in a store. The girl who Is
continually having headaches will not
be retained many months as typewriter
or bookkeeper, and that girl has a
small chance of earning any kind of
a salary who spends a month or two
of every year in a sick bed. The same
holds true also of work in the field
of art, where vitality and strength are
indispensable to the girl from whom
originality is constantly demanded.
So whatever it may be at the begin
ning, the question of salary resolves
Itself finally and often very quickly into
a question of red corpuscles. A girl
may have an ambition which leads her
into the highest field of active life, she
may have a mind capable of the most
clever inventions or she may have a
talent which falls barely short of gen
ius, and if she had not the red blood
corpuscles and endurance to withstand
the round of daily difficulties and reg>
ular day-in and day-out work, all her
other qualifications will count for
nothing and she will have to drop out
of the race entirely or content herself
with a bare living wage.
Given good health, however, and a
girl is always assured of her living ex
penses. though the amount of her in
come will depend very largely upon the
second gauge of her earning capacity,
her business training.
Only the girl who has tried to earn
a living without a training in some reg
ular line of work can realize the diffi
culties of finding an opening in the up
to-date business world when she has
not a knowledge of some particular
trade or profession at her finger tips.
The girl laden with letters of introduc
tion and the girl starting out single
handed and alone both meet with the
same catechising, "What do you know
how to do?” and the "know” implies
that she must not "think” she knows,
she must be sure of it.
"What shall I train myself in?” is
the cry of the girl who is to venture
Into the money-making worid.
Her question is invariably answered
by the query, "How much money do
you want or need to earn?” And It Is
a fair reply to the girl’s question, for,
lofty as may be her ambitions, she is
obliged to take the work which is open
to her, and this is seldom the work
which she most wants to do. For there
are but comparatively few fields of em
ployment which assure certain salaries,
and these in nine hundred and ninety
nine out of every thousand cases, have
to be used as stepping stones to realiz
ing more exalted ambitions.
Among these assured salaries are
that of the stenographer and book
keeper who need never earn less than
$6 to $8 a week and with a fair
amount of experience she is sure of
from $10 to $15. The clerk behlnd.the
counter can depend upon earning $6 to
$10 a week. The telephone girl is sure
of from $6 to $12, and so on through
the ranks of seamstress, milliner,
proofreader, nurse and teacher.
And what is the training which as
sures these average salaries? It is six
to ten months hard study for the
stenographer and bookkeeper, an ap
prenticeship of at least three months
and perhaps several years for the girl
behind the counter, and from ten to
twelve months of night duty for the
girl who answers the telephone.
With the larger salaries the training
Is longer and harder, and the seam
stress and milliner have to plod along
a year, and perhaps two, turning out
plain sewing or doing the drudgery
part of hat trimming before they can
expect the assured returns. The com
fortable $17 a week salary of the
proofreader is allowed by the union
only after a girl has worked as copy
holder not less than two years, while
the teacher and nurse both earn their
salary of $20 or $25 a week only after
three years of the hardest kind of
schooling.
Beside the technical training and ex
perience, the assured salaries are also
dependent upon two Important traits
of character, promptness and accuracy.
A girl must be punctual, she must be
exact In her work and she must finish
her tasks In an allotted space of time
Every successful business office today
demands these three things of every
employe, and the girl who would com
pete with the great mass of business
women Is obliged to make them an In
tegral part of her business training.
Third and lastly, a girl’s personality
Is a strong factor In determining the
amount of money she Is able to earn.
She must keep her good natured side
foremost, she must always be tidy
In her appearance, and she must cen
ter all her Interests In business hours
to further her employer's ends.
As to her capacity for good nature,
the smile of the girl on the stage
should be the smile of every girl who
Is making her way In the business
world. Perhaps It Is a look of bright
ness rather than a smile, but no matter
what blue days a girl may have with
in herself, she has always to remem
ber that those working beside her, and
especially her employer, must be shown
no sign of tne Inward turmoil. In the
same way do petty grievances, Jeal
ousies and annoyances have to be cov
ered by an attitude of good cheer. A
girl's happiest self must be held in the
foreground when she is earning a sal
ary, and while her good nature is
worthless unless it is self respecting,
she must never fail to make it manifest
In every part of her daily routine.
Her personal appearance, as the ex
perienced girl well knows, Is also a
factor In her earning capacity. Good
looks are certainly an advantage, but
It is the girl who is always tidy and
attractively dressed who wins the
surest approval of her employer. The
hair particularly needs to be carefully
put up so that it makes a pretty frams
for the face, and still has no stray ends
and scolding locks to detract from Its
neatness. Waists and skirts must have
their fastenings perfectly adjusted, and
any portion of the workday dress
which can be laundered must always
be kept fresh and immaculate. Soiled
linen of any description Is quite for
eign to the well ordered business office,
and the average girl who makes a
success In her work is she who never
starts for business until he presents
a perfectly groomed appearance.
Welding all together, the value which
a girl makes herself to her emplbyer
determines finally how large her salary
shall be. In office hours she must de
vote her undivided attentions to his in
terests. Her duties may be cut short
the moment 4, 5 or 6 o'clock arrives,
but all thought of her own affairs
should be banished the Instant her
day’s work begins.
Having discussions, little aside con
versations or interests foreign to the
business of the day with those who
may be working beside her invariably
shows in the laxity of her own service.
The positions are scarce where a girl
can take time to write personal letters,
or do embroidery, or read chapters from
her latest library book. The minutes
which some girls use for these purposes
are the spare minutes in which a girl
should find small ways of serving her
employer. The lazy girl answers this
by saying she earns all the money that
she is paid, but the successful girl
knows she must do Just a little more
than she is paid for, or there Is some
other girl ready to step in who will.
Another way of being of value to the
employer Is to surmise what he wants,
if possible, befoie he asks for it. It Is,
In fact, learning to keep In touch with
his method of working and conforming
to It. It is the keynote to the work of
the girl who holds her position with
perfect assurity, for the business world
always has salaries, and big ones, too,
for the person who does work for the
man higher up In exactly the special
way that he likes to have It done.
New Breed of Water Fowl.
From the St. Paul Dispatch.
It has remained for an enterprising
farmer of Beltrami county to success
fully breed a new water fowl, which
promises to take Its place In the front
ranks of the game birds of the state,
and which has already caused consid
erable embarrassment to two Bemidjl
nlmrods.
Charles Saxrud owns a farm In Ma
ple Ridge township, about fifteen
miles northwest of Bemidjl. Last year
he decided to raise a flock of ducks,
and, with that end in view, he secured
a pair of ducks, and, In the nature of
things, the female was desirous of
hatching out a brood of her own kind,
and she was given an even dozen of
nice eggs with which to begin busi
ness. The duck sat Industriously on
these eggs for five days, when she was
accidentally killed. Mr. Saxrud was
at his wits' end as to what to do with
that setting of ducks' eggs. He had
an old Brahma hen that had been per
sistent in setting on doorknobs and
any other old thing that was lying
around loose, and he put her to work
on the duck eggs. The eggs finally
produced eight small, hairy fowls that
caused great consternation to the old
hen, but she adopted the whole bunch
and took good care of them until they
happened to get down to the lake one
day. The ducks Immediately took to
the water, and the hen raised a great
commotion as her adopted youngsters
swam about. This was repeated for
several days, until Mr. Saxrud, in des
peration as to how to allay the con
cern of the hen, decided to tie pieces
of rubber to her henshlp’s feet, which
would allow her to swim with her
brood. The scheme worked to perfec
tion, there being a perfect web foot
The brqod was raised and Is still a
part of Mr. Saxrud’s flock. This year,
when the old Brahma exhibited signs
of desiring another family to look af
ter, he placed chicken eggs under her.
While she sat, the hen mused contin
ually on those ducks and the trouble
she had with them, and her stress of
mind evidently affected the hatch, as
when they came out of the shell they
were exactly the form of a chicken,
with the exception that they were pro
vided with a duck’s bill and had
webbed feet. They were larger than
ducks, but had all their habits. They
at once took to the water, and Mr.
Saxrud was again forced to provide
the hen with her rubber ''socks." The
brood developed rapidly, and were soon
large, lusty fellows, nearly as large as
full-grown chickens. One day last
week George McTaggart, a member of
the board of aldermen of the city of
Bemidjl, and Fred W. Rhoda, clerk of
the district court, made a trip up in
Maple Ridge township for an outing.
They chanoed to camp near Saxrud’s
place, and while out one afternoon es
pied, at a distance, Saxrud's old hen
and her brood, swimming along peace
fully in a little lake on the farm. The
hunters could not exactly decide what
the fowl were, but finally decided they
were swans, and let loose two double
barreled charges of shot in the bunch.
They rowed out to get their haul, when
they made the discovery that there
was an old hen with rubber tied around
her feet and the half-breed ducks. Just
then Saxrud happened along, and It
took considerable promises of refresh
ments on the next trip to town before
the two shooters were allowed to go.
But three of the entire bunch of chick
en-ducks were saved from annihilation,
but Mr. Saxrud thinks he has enough
left to form a nucleus for a large flock
of the new variety.
Lyrical Golfers.
From the King.
It Is very Interesting to note how
golfers, when they are gathered togeth
er in convivial entertainments, seek to
enshrine their golfing memories either
In song or in poetry. Mr. Ernest Tur
ner, in singing the song entitled “Good
Company," at the Leeds Golf club din
ner, added this verse:
When I sit in the club at the close of
the day,
And hear brother golfers discussing the
play,
As they fight o'er again the game they
have had,
And swear that “that stymie was rath
er too bad,”
I care not, I know not, where pleasure
may be,
But I know I’m in excellent company.
Bev. H. T. S. Gedge, vicar choral of
York minster, the captain of the club,
conferred upon tho members the priv
ilege of hearing an original golf song,
of which the subjoined was the chorus:
Gin ye want to be young, and no to
be auld.
That yer bluid may run warm instead
o’ deid eauld,
Tae be canty and crouse, not dov.ie
and dowf,
Take an auld man s advice and learn to
play gowf.
More Bad Luck.
From the New York Weekly.
Mr. Winks (looking over the paper)—
Cheap, Lrugg & Co. are selling nil sorts
of patent medicines at half price.
Mrs. Winks—Just our luck. There isn’t
anything the matter with any of us.
BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
The beet sugar Industry In the Unit
ed States Is growing rapidly and the
states west of the Mississippi river now
produce 24,000 tons more sugar than
they cun consume. In addition to this
east of the Mississippi 254,000,000
pounds are produced, or equal to over
17 per cent, of the consumption of this
same trans-Mlsslsslppl area. This Is
brought out In a report Just Issued by
the department of agriculture on the
domestic sugar production of the Unit
ed States,
This Increase In the Industry Is of
much Importance to the people of the
country and to the farmers and raisers
of live stock, since the byproducts
of the factories can be used for stock
food to such a good advantage. Sugar
beets are adapted to Irrigated districts
as well as to other districts where
crops are grown by rainfall. The In
dustry In Its development has had a
great Influence In promoting Irriga
tion, Immigration, land settlement, the
building of railroads and trolley lines,
the making of other Improvements and
the upbuilding of various Industrial en
terprises.
Only a few years ago the United
States depended almost entirely for Its
sugar supply upon that brought in
from other countries and from that
made from sugar cane. In 1905 there
was produced in the United States
312,920.60 tons of beet sugar, grown
upon 307,364 acres. Iowa Is to have
two factories this year, as It has been
Bhown that Iowa soils will produce as
good sugar beets as any other section.
This new- Industry should be received
with enthusiasm by the farmers of
Iowa, as It should by those In other
states where the beet cam be profitably
grown. The use of the byproducts in
stock feeding will no doubt Increase
the area devoted to beet growing as
much as will the production of sugar.
Where beets can be grown they will
make a double profit.
FINDING OUT WHAT PAYS.
It is not only Important for a farmer
to know whether, upon the whole, he
is losing or gaining, but it is, if any
thing, more Important for him to
know at what point he Is losing or
gaining, that he may cut off those
things which do not pay, and stress
those which pay best. Is he a cotton
raiser? If so. does it pay him to raise
cotton in the way he has been doing
it? Does it pay him to use fertilizers
on cotton? Does the rotation of crops
he now follows pay best? Does it pay |
better to raise or buy stock, to raise j
hogs or buy bacon, to keep ten head
of cattle or half that number? Would '
some other money crop pay better on i
his farm than cotton? TTiese and doz
ens of other like questions he may ask
himself, and study to very great ad
vantage. Some of these he may an
swer pretty satisfactorily from his in
dividual experiments only. Don't con
clude that since the government has
established experiment stations there is
no need of farmers making experi
ments. The stations make experiments ,
to establish general principles; the i
farmer should experiment to ascertain I
how best to apply those principles to j
his individual farm. Every farm has
something peculiar to Itself which calls
for special treatment. But experiments
teach little unless full, systematic rec
ord is kept. Experience loses much of
Its value in the absence of records. One
cannot trust to his memory alone; last
impressions always overshadow and
dominate those that are older.—South
ern Cultivator.
GOOD FARMING.
What is good farming? Does It con
sist in making money?
What may be termed good farming
does not necessarily consist in hoarding
money derived from the farm.
By good farming we would under
stand a large, full life for every mem
ber of the farmer’s family.
Financial success ought to be sought,
but it should not be the sole object in
view. Money is of value only in so far
as It aids us in securing those accessor
ies which contribute to the development
of the intrinsic self.
Good farming in our Judgment means
the maintenance of the fertility of the
soil, the breeding of good stock, the
growing of maximum crops, the educa
tion of the children, the abandonment
of slaving for the women folk, pleas
ure trip" occasionally for the family,
and the reading of good literature.
It also should Include the keeping of
the premises in respectable condition
and a healthy Interest on the part of
the farmer in the public affairs of the
township, county, state and nation.
Good farming is not theoretical or
fancy farming. It must pay; that is es
sential, but it must not make a slave
of any member of the family.
One trouble with American farming
is that many of us are farming more
land than we can farm well.
For example, there are too many 100
acre farmers working 300 acres.
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