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Farmers’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
Matters jf Especial Moment to
tiie progressive Agriculturist
Work without heart in it will wear
out the best of us In time.
Clothes do not make the gentleman
but clean ones increase a man’s self
respect.
Learn the difference between spend
ing money and investing it. Try and
invest some.
Cheer guarantees confidence. Confi¬
dence insures success, and men who
succeed are cheerful beings.
Good intentions are said to make ex¬
cellent pavements, but they do little
towards making roads to market.
With only a little money to invest,
you can get only a few things, there¬
fore be sure and get the things you
most need and desire.
The first step for southern people,
especially farmers, is to learn to keep
their money at home and learn confi¬
dence In themselves.
We must not forget that once we
were boys just like our own young¬
sters with hope and ambition and love
of amusement and wanting to know
things.
The boy who is taught by kindness
and sympathy to love the farm and
to regard it as the only home worth
having will never be a clerk in the
city.
1 It pays big dividends to be honest
Life is too short to cheat our neigh¬
bors; our neighbor may forgive us, hut
our minds will he forever punished by
a never-forgotten thought of the
wrong done.
Between overworking the hired man
and being too easy with him there is
the celebrated “golden mean’’ no
doubt, hut it takes the right kind of
an employer and the right kind of a
hired man to work it out properly and
we very rarely find this combination.
MUCH SKILL OF HOME-MAKER
As Much Science Required as in Any
Profession to Take Advantage of
Many Chances Cffered.
(By PROF. C. L. IJUNTON.)
The work of home making Is becom¬
ing more and more complicated.
Transportation has developed so the
housewife has now the foods from all
over the world brought to her door, as
well as Its fabrics. To be able to
choose her food wisely and economi¬
cally from such a variety and to pre¬
pare them in the best way is no sim¬
ple matter; likewise to buy cloth from
such a variety and to make it into gar¬
ments in these days of endless styles
Is an accomplishment.
When the farm and garden supplied
the table and the cloth came from the
hand loom, housekeeping could be
learned at home. But at the present
time with the ever widening variety
of foods, of fabrics, of utensils, of ap¬
pliances, and ever increasing fund of
knowledge as to food values, as to
nutrition, as to sanitation, as to nurs¬
ing and care of children, as to con¬
veniences amd appliances for the
home; the home maker to make the
most of her home can make use of as
wide a range of skill and Information
as any profession requires. Today
three million people are sick who
should not be sick and half a million
die every year who should not die so
eoon. Our home makers, If trained in
tiie knowledge now available, can pre
much of this as well as an almost
amount of waste in foods, in
and in misery and suffering.
The home Is the most vital thing in
our rapidly developing country. And
we all come from homes and live in
homes. Why not have them the best?
BOLL WEEVIL CAUSES STIR
People of Louisiana Awaken to Fact
They Have an Agricultural
Country—Raising Grain.
Governor Sanders of Louisiana paid
eloquent tribute to the Mexican cotton
pest in a recent Chicago address. “Be¬
fore the advent of the boll weevil in
Louisiana, a few years ago,” said Gov¬
ernor Sanders, “we raised cotton so
cheaply that while we clothed the na¬
ked we ourselves were hungry. This
condition maintained until the boll
weevil taught the people of our state
more than anything else could.
"It taught us the lesson that we had
an agricultural country; that we could
raise grain every month of the year.
As a result of this lesson on January
1, 1910, we awoke to the fact that we
had more money on deposit in our
banks than ever before in the history
of the state.
-Last year Louisiana for the first
time shipped millions of bushels of
corn that graded No. 1. We have be
come a great com producing state; we
have become a great truck producing
fitate. Louisiana has a conjunction of
climate and soil that enables us to
harvest a crop every month of the
year. of the We
“Cotton is a thing past.
used to raise from a million to a mil¬
lion and a half bales of cotton. Now
we raise between 200,000 and 250,000
hales, and we just raise that to let the
rest of the country know that there
isn't anything that we can’t raise in
Louisiana.”
EVERY FARMER A UNION MAN
Many Denefits Organization Has Ac*
complished in Past and Bright
Prospects in Future.
I think that every farmer ought to
be a true blue union man and 1 long I
to see the time when every farmer
will be a member of our union. I I
have heard some men say that when
the union had done any good that they
would join. If they would go to read¬
ing and studying more they could see
that the union has already accom¬
plished a great deal. I will give a few
figures to show what the union has
done since Newt Gresham met and
organized the first local in Raines
Texas, which been nearly :
county, has
eight years ago, writes D. S. Claninger
of Marmaduke, Ark., in the Co-opera
tor.
We will take the south's greatest
crop, which is cotton. We have got on
an average of $50.00 per bale for the
past eight years and for the eight
years before that we got on an aver¬
age of $38.67, which makes a differ¬
ence of $13.33 per bale since the union
has been organized, and during this
time we have marketed about 85,000,
000 bales and at $13.33 would make an
increase of $1,133,050,000, and 1 think
that this is enough to prove to any
man that the union has accomplished
a great deal, and it has also raised the
price of other products that we have
to sell and it has already been worth
to the farmers of the south many times
what it has cost us. The union has
taught the farmers to use economy
and diversify their crops and raise a
living at home instead of sending to
the north and other countries after it
It has also taught us scientific farm¬
ing, to study our soil and plant the
crops best adapted and to prepare our
lauds better before planting.
The legislature of Arkansas has
given us four agricultural schools, and
now, brethren, what are these schools
for? Are they to teach us to be law-*
yers, doctors, merchants, bankers,
speculators and gamblers? No, they 1
are not for that purpose at all, but!
just the reverse, to teach us how to|
be farmers and study the soil morel
and to raise more to the acre. As wej wej
asked for those schools, just so
must patronize them. I was glad Texas^ tel
read in your paper that the
union had voted to stay with the!
union. We are just now getting into)
shape to accomplish anything that we 1
set out for, so, brothers, let’s all shoul¬
der our obligation and ever keep it
in mind and live up to it, and when¬
ever our union passes anything let’s
stay with it, and, brethren, this is what
we have got to do.
Now, if we were to go on for the
next thirty years as we have been
for the past thirty, what condition
would our lands be in and what would
be here for the rising generation?
The time has come when we must go
on improving our lands and we must
improve them by planting crops that
will draw nitrogen from the air and
enrich our lands. So, brethren, let's
all attend every meeting that we pos¬
sibly can and when it beoomes our
duty to do anything get up and do it
and falter not, and the victory will
sure he ours.
ADOS TO FARMERS’ PROFITS
Spirit of Co-Operation and Mutual
Helpfulness Beginning to Manl
fest Itself Among Truckers.
One of the most promising tenden¬
cies of the day Is the spirit of co-op¬
eration and mutual helpfulness which
is beginning to manifest itself among
the producers of truck crops, says the
1909 report of the secretary of agricul¬
ture. The successful organization and
working of co-operative marketing
companies or exchanges by farmers
have proved the possibility as well as
the desirability of a system of market¬
ing which shull have headquarters at
the point of production. Products can
be distributed more economically and
more satisfactorily to the consumer
from the point of production than from
a city distributing center. The work
of one of these co-operative organiza¬
tions has come under the notice of the
department during the past year. Of
an aggregate business of $2,500,000,
this organization was able to handle
90 per cent, of its work from a central
office In the growing district on a i
o. b. shipping-point basis. The prices
received were equal to New York and
Philadelphia prices in all cases. The
net results of these operations were
the elimination of losses which inevi¬
tably result from consignment, practi¬
cally cash transactions for all sales,
and the saving of transportation from
the field to the center of distribution
In one of the large cities, which in
this case added $150,000 to the farm¬
ers’ profits on the year's business.
Protecting Against Sun Scald.
The protection given to guard
against sun scald w-ill perform a dual
purpose of guarding against rabbits,
or in case this has not been done, as
in the case of forest trees, where the
number of trees is so large that It Is j
not convenient to tie up each tree,
then It is well to remember that the
rabbit has a sensitive nose and can
be kept away by applying with a swab
a combination of blood, soap and U>
bacco.
Fruit Raising.
If your neighbor’s fruit is better
than your own don’t be too proud to
discuss it with him and find out why,
if possible. Then strive to raise better
fruit-
ALMOST A MIRACLE.
Health Completely Restored After
Case Was Pronounced Incurable.
Mrs. J. Tilghman Wright, 519 Golds
borough St., Easton, Md., says: “I
cannot begin to describe my suffering
from Bright’s disease. I constantly
felt as if I were dy¬
ing. My back pained
me intensely and
was so weak that
for weeks I could
not walk across the
floor. My condition
w became critical and
f? 8 ll % ced physicians started me incurable. prononn- taking
I
' Doan’s Kidney Pills
as a last resort and
soon received relief. When I began
with them I weighed only 64 pounds.
I now weigh 109 pounds and feel like
a new woman.”
Remember the name—Doan’s.
For sale by all dealers. 50 cents a
box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
An Exciting Town.
Los Angeles is a truly exciting town
to live in. To say nothing of its
heavenly climate and Its borrfbs, there
j s always something stimulating in
the occult line going on. Just the
other day a widow of the angelic city
began to long for a sight of one of
her schoolmates whom srfe hail not
seen for 45 years . The longing brought
j ts fulfillment. A spirit told her to
look for him in Brooklyn. She obeyed,
met him on the street a few hours
after she arrived, and promptly mar¬
ried him. It is worth while to live
in a city where things like this hap¬
pen, even at the risk of being blown
up now and then.
WANTED 'EM BACK.
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The Barber—Some hair restorer,
sir?
Man in Chair—Yes, if it’ll restore
the hairs you’ve just rnh'bed off.
PUTS STOMACHS IN ORDER.
No Indigestion, Gas, Sourness or Dys¬
pepsia Five Minutes After Taking
a Little Diapepsin.
There should not be a ease of Indiges¬
tion,, dyspepsia or gastritis here if read¬
ers who are subject to Stomach trou¬
ble knew the tremendous anti-ferment
and digestive virtue contained in Dia
pepsln. This harmless preparation
will digest a heavy meal without
the slightest fuss or discomfort, and
relieve the sourest, acid stomach in
five minutes, besides overcoming all
foul, nauseous odors from the breath.
If yonr stomach is sour and full of
gas, or your food doesn’t digest, and
your meal don’t seem to fit, why not
get a 50-oent case of Pape’s Diapepsin
from any druggist here in town, and
make life worth living. Absolute re¬
lief from Stomach misery and perfect
fligestion of anything you eat is sure
to follow five minutes after, and be¬
sides, one fifty-cent case is sufficient
to cure a whole family of such trouble.
Surely, a harmless, inexpensive
preparation like Pape’s Diapepsin,
which will always either at daytime
pr during night, relieve your sick,
sour, gassy, upset stomach and digest
your meals, is about as handy and val¬
uable a thing as you could have in the
Louse.
What’s in a Name?
"See here, waiter,” said Mr. Grouch,
scowling deeply over his plate, "I or¬
dered turtle soup. There not even
a morsel of turtle flavor In this.”
“Of course not, sir,” returned the
waiter. “What do you expect? Shake¬
speare said there was nothing in a
name. If you ordered college pudding
would you expect a college in it? In
Manchester pudding would you look
tor a ship canal or a cotton exchange?
Any tea, sir!”—Tit-Bits.
Stiff neck! Doesn’t amount to much,
but mighty disagreeable. Hamlins You’ve Wizard no idea Oil
how quickly a little
lubricate the cords and make you
aga'
The Limit.
"John, I want to buy some gloves—
will you give me a check?”
“Sure—how much can you do with ?”
“How much have you got in the
HEADACHE—Hlck»> CAPi:DINK
Whether from Colds, Heat, Stomach or
Troubles, Capudine will relieve you.
liquid—pleasant 25c.. to and take—aots 50 Immedi¬
ately. Try it. 10c., cents at drug
Many a fellow does all his betting
his mouth.
i You Look Prematurely Old
1, retail.
ENCOURAGEMENT.
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First Boy—Mother says if I go
swimming she’ll lick me when I get
back.
Second Boy (encouragingly)—But
perhaps you won’t get back; there’s
been lots of fellows drowned in that
swimming hole.
BABY WASTED TO SKELETON
“My little son, when about a year
and a half old, began to have sores
come out on his face. I had a physi¬
cian treat him, but the sores grew
worse. Then they began to come out
on his arms, then on other parts of
his body, and then one came on his
chest, worse than the others. Then I
called another physician, Still he
grew worse. At the end of about a
year and a half of suffering he grew
so bad that I had to tie his hands in
cloths at night to keep him from
scratching the sores and tearing the
flesh. He got to be a mere skeleton,
and was hardly able to walk.
“My aunt advised me to try Cutl
cura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. I
sent to a drug store and got a cake of
Cuticura Soap and a box of the Oint¬
ment and followed directions. At the
end of two months the sores were all
well. He has never had any sores
of any kind since. I can sincerely say
that only for Cuticura my child would
have died. I used only one cake of
Cuticura Soap and about three boxes
of Ointment.
“I am a nurse and my profession
brings me into many different fam¬
ilies and it is always a pleasure for
me to tell my story and recommend
Cuticura Remedies. Mrs. Egbert Shel¬
don, Litchfield, Conn., Oct. 23, 1909.”
Somewhat Indignant.
The two extra specialists had pound¬
ed and sounded him. and felt of his
pulse and tapped his frame till he
could only lie in a cold perspiration of
fear.
“Undowbtedly It’s a case of appen¬
dicitis!" said specialist No. 1, grave
ly.
“Undoubtedly!” assented specialist
No. 2.
“But would he be able to stand an
operation?" pondered No. 1.
"Ah, would he?" echoed No. 2.
They dug him in the ribs again, and
he squealed.
“Ah," remarked No. 1, "I think we
ought to let him get a bit stronger be¬
fore we cut into him.”
“Confound your palaver!” gasped
the patient, starting up. "What do
you take me for—a cheese?”
Pie.
“You Americans,” said the London
man, “are very fond of what you call
pie. But properly speaking a pie
should have meat In It.”
"Perhaps. But the beef packers
compel us to economize.”
TO DRIVE OUT MALARIA
AND BUILD UP THE SYSTEM
T»ko the Old Standard GUOVK’H TASTBI.KSa
CHILL TONIC. You know what you are taking.
The formula is plainly printed on every bottle,
showing it is simply Quinine and Iron in a taste¬
less form. The OulnTne drives out the malaria
and tne Iron builds up the system. Bold by all
dealers for IK) years. Price 50 cents.
A stubborn desire to get even has
brought about man a man’s down¬
fall.
Faint ?
Have you weak heart, dizzy feelings, oppressed
tk breathing after meals ? Or do you experience pain
over the heart, shortness of breath on going up-stairs
N V | and the many distressing symptoms which indicate
> poor circulation and bad blood? A heart tonic,
blood and body-builder that has stood the test of
over 40 years of cures is
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery
The heart becomes regular as clock-work. The red
blood corpuscles are increased in number—and the
nerves in turn are well fed. The arteries are filled
with good rich blood. That is why nervous debility,
irritability, fainting spells, disappear and are over
come by this alterative extract of medicinal roots
put up by Dr. Pierce without the use of alcohol.
Ask your neighbor. Many have been cured of
scrofulous conditions, ulcers, w fever-sores,” white swellings, etc., by taking
Dr. Pierce’s Discovery. Just the refreshing and vitalizing tonic needed for
excessive tissue waste, in convalescence from fevers or for run-down, anaemic,
thin-blooded people. Stick to this safe and sane remedy and refuse all “ just
as good ” kinds offered by the dealer who is looking for larger profit. Noth¬
a
ing will do you half as much good as Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical
PUTNAM FADELESS DYES
Color more floods brlflhter and laoter colors than any other due. One 10c package color* all fibers. Tfiey dye In cold water better than any other dya.
You caw dye any flarment without rippin g apart Writ* lor fret booklet-H«w to Oye, Bleach and MU Color*. MOMROE DRUG CO., Quincy, IH invfm.
The man who deceives himself is an
easy mark for others.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflamma¬
tion, allays pain, cures wind colic, 25c a bottle
A girl Is worth all It costs to raise
her—and it always costs it. .
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Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound? We cad
furnish positive proof that it has made many remarkable
cures after all other means had failed.
Women who are suffering with some form of female
illness should consider this.
As such evidence read these two unsolicited testimonial
letters. We guarantee they are genuine and honest state¬
ments of facts.
Cresson, Pa.—“ Fivo years ago I had a had fall, and hurt
myself inwardly. I was under a doctor’s care for nine weeks,
and when I stopped I grew worse again. I sent for a bottle of
Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, took it as directed,
and now I am a stout, hearty woman.” — Mrs. Ella E. Aikey,
Cresson, Pa.
Baird, Wash.— “A year ago I was sick with kidney and
bladder troubles and female weakness. The doctors gave mo
up. All they could do was to just let me go as easily as possible.
I was advised by friends to take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound and Blood Purifier. I am completely cured of my
ills, and I am nearly sixty years old.”—Mrs. Sarah Leighton,
Baird, Wash.
Evidence like the above is abundant showing that the
derangements of the female organism which breed all kinds
of miserable feelings and which ordinary practice does not
cure, are the very disorders that give way to Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound.
Women who are afflicted with similar troubles, after
reading two such letters as the above, should be encouraged
to try this wonderfully helpful remedy.
For 30 years Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable for o. <a §
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female ills. No woman
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Made exclusively from roots and herbs, and
has thousands of cures to its credit.
Mrs. Pinkliam invites all sick women It
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steady can to the value of the RAYO Lamp as a light
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“PLAIN TALKS ON FLORIDA”
By I. I. Moody, one of the State’s early
settlers. From these talks you will learn
many and Florida important things about Florida
lands—facts for you to re¬
member when you invest. They are free
—write for them.
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