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INFLAM¬
MATION
AND PAIN
Cured by Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound.
Creston, Iowa.—" I was troubled for
a long time with Inflammation, in side, pains
my sick
**$$1! i: headaches and I had ner- ta¬
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ken so many y medi¬
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m thought discouraged I would and
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1 vegetable Com¬
stored pound and health. it re¬
me to
pain, I have no more
do my nerves are stronger and I can
my own work. Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound cured me after
everything emlnend it to else other had failed, and I rcc-
—Mbs. Wm. Seals 605 suffering W. Howard women.” St.,
Creston, Iowa.
Thousands of unsolicited and genu¬
ine testimonials like the above prove
the .efficiency of Lydia E. Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound, which is made
exclusively from roots and herbs.
Women who suffer from those dis¬
tressing these facts ills should doubt not lose sight of
B. Pinkham’s or Vegetable the ability Compound of Lydia
to
testore their health.
Ifrou want special advice write
to Mrs. Pink ha in, at Lynn, Mass.
She will treat your letter as
gtrlctl y confidential. For 20 years
•he Jbas been helping sick women
In this way, free of charge. Don’t
hesitate—write at once.
Cured
Splint
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Sloan’s Liniment on ® fif ■’
a line mare for splint
add makes cured the her. third ThU {BREST “
horse I’ve cured.
Have recommended It to any neigh¬
bor* for thrush and they say It is fine.
I find it the best Liniment I ever
used. I keep on hand your. Sure
Colic Cure for myself and neigh¬
bors, and I can certainly recom¬
mend It for CoHc.”—S. E. Smith,
McDonough, Ga.
Cured Thrush.
Ms. R. W. Parish, of Bristol
lnd.,R. No. 2 , writes:—“I have used
lots of your Liniment for horses and
myself. the world. It Is the best Liniment In
I cured one of my horses
of thrush. Her feet were rotten;
ths frogs came out; she laid down
moat of the time. I thought she
would die, but I used the Liniment
as directed and she never lies down
In the daytime now."
SLOANS
LINIMENT
should be in every stable and ap¬
plied at the first sign of lameness.
You don’t need to rub, it penetrates.
Will kill a spavin,
I! curb or splint, re¬
duce wind puffs
Kj IJ and and swollen is joints, and
a sure
*, loan's' speedy remedy for
LINIMF NT fistula, sweeney,
m \m\ founder Price, Sloan's 60c. and and book thrush. $1.00 on
horses, cattle, slieep
and poultry sent
freo. Address
Dr. Earl S. Sloan,
Boston, Mass., TJ. 8. A.
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Farmers’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
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Matter* *f Especial Mount to
the Progressive Agriculturist
Two families may live side by side
for years and yet be far from being
real neighbors.
Corporations and trusts today con¬
trol most of the legislation because
of organized effort.
Study to produce results; the best
results with the least labor is what
we are all striving for.
At a bam raising the man who
grunts the loudest generally lifts the
least and eats the most.
The man who owns a two-year-old
colt that is not harness broken has
much to learn about horses.
The farmer who dresses like a
tramp is sadly out of place among
self-respecting men these days.
If we had to live our lives over
again the chances are we would make
different kinds of fools of ourselves.
It is more difficult to hold an office
In the Farmers' union than in any
other organization, those who know
say.
size yourself up as others do and
you will probably find that you are
not such a big pumpkin as you
thought you were.
No man living can live easier than
the farmer, and no one can become
Independent quicker by the exercise
of industry, good judgment and econ¬
omy.
The Farmers’ union needs Its strong¬
est and best fighter to the front these
days. The shirkers should be turned
over to the women to make drudges
out of.
We have more respect for the farm¬
er who puts a stone in the butter Jar
or conceals the wormy apples In the
middle of the barrel than the man
who poisons the children’s food with
chemicals.
Cut out the 30 per cent middleman
and send your butter and eggs and
other produce direct to your custom¬
ers In town. Two dollars worth of
postal cards will give you a start in
the business.
NEW ERA IN GOOD FARMING
Next 8tep Forward Must Be to Or¬
ganize Business of Farm Upon
Basis of Highest Efficiency.
The past sixty years has witnessed
a wonderful advance In all lines of
agriculture. During this time the
binder, the gang plow, the traction en¬
gine, the perfected grain drill, all
have appeared on the scene. Prac¬
tically the whole list of farm machin¬
ery has been reshaped, or brought In¬
to being. He who recalls the great
changes of even the last thirty years
will need little by way of proof of
this statement. The farmer has been
getting together his working kit of
tools. Some of these, as the binder,
have been long in coming to their
proper efficiency, says Farm, Stock
and Home. Today this phase of de¬
velopment Is nearly complete. In this
part of the world there is little vacant
land, although much of the land under
private ownership Is idle. The stand¬
ardization of tools and machinery can
go little farther. Most of the “im¬
provements” of the day are mere sell¬
ing points, and give little or no in¬
crease In efficiency. The pioneer
farmer and the pioneer machine came
In and will depart together.
The next step forward must be to
organize the business of the farm up¬
on the basis of highest possible effi¬
ciency. This means that the individ¬
ual farm must be looked at as a
whole, and Its future planned as care¬
fully as is the location and equipment
of a factory. Soil and markets will be
given first consideration in the estab¬
lishment of the factory-farm. The
buildings will be made to fit into a
general plan, and the machinery and
power equipment will likewise be
carefully considered, that there may
be no waste capital, and that every
dollar Invested may return as steady
an Income as possible.
Another phase of the coming farm
life will be community industry. In
our breeders’ associations and other
co-operative societies we have the
beginnings of the system. If farming
Is to be placed permanently on Its
feet as a paying business we must ex¬
pand and develop this vague groping
after help into the close-knit co-opera¬
tive community. The waste due to
cross-hauling among neighbors only
the neighborhood Itself can eliminate.
It is no argument against co-operation
that it has heretofore shown but small
results. The time for it was not ripe.
The time Is now here when the farm¬
er can well afford to put his own farm
upon a thoroughly organized basis,
and can afford to become a member of
the larger community unit. In fact
he cannot afford longer to do other¬
wise.
Real Producers.
Farmers' are the only real produc¬
ers. If they ever take their proper
place in the Industrial world they must
read and think, must unite in solving
some of the problems that confront
the prosperity of agriculture. The
middleman who cuts a large slice from
the share of both producer and con¬
sumer, will not then have the lion’s
share.
'WHY FARMERS SHOULD JOIN
Farmers’ Union Does Not Only Ben*,
fit Members of Organization Alike,
But Aids Outsider.
As the old year is now gone and
the new one has come, we hope to see
a general move in every local to
make the new year a more successful
one than the past. While we are
proud of the Buccess that has been
accomplished by the union in the past,
we realize that more can be done in
the future. If every member will at¬
tend and quit grumbling about some¬
thing that was done when he was not
there, writes Don McDonald, In the
Co-Operator, The union should be a
place of educaUon, as well as a place
of business, and if every member re¬
ceives the benefit of It they should at¬
tend as regularly as possible; they
should grasp every opportunity that
presents itself to elevate the labor¬
ing class of people.
Now we realize that this has been
a hard year on all the farming class
of people. Crops were short over a
large portion of the state, and finan¬
cial means are short with the most
of the laboring class of people, but
the farmers should not fail to realize
that it Is Important that they strive
to advance the interest of the Farm¬
ers’ union. It has raised the farmers
of Texas millions of dollars. It does
not only benefit the members of the
union, but every farmer alike. We
often hear some of the members raise
a kick and object to the outsider re¬
ceiving any benefit, but It is Impos¬
sible to benefit one fanner by raising
the price of farm produce without
benefltting all alike, and I believe
that when the outsider sees that the
union has come to stay, that the most
of them will come In and help out In
the fight We should sympathize
with the country farmer. He lives In
the country and Is in less touch with
everyday developments. It 1 b this
class of people that the politician
continues to influence, whose minds
they can more easily poison. It will
require further educational work
among this class of people before they
will realize that it Is to their interest
to become a part of our organization.
When they understand that their In¬
terest Is with the organization, they
will become a part of it, and nothing
can change their views or make them
feel that the world is against them.
This Is what the Farmers’ union
should have In mind, and carry out
through their work. The amount of
money the farmer receives depend¬
ing upon good rains or limited pro¬
duction through long droughts, deter¬
mine whether they can educate their
children and whether their wives and
children can have one suit of clothes
or not, or a winter pair of shoes. It
is strange to me that every farmer can
not realize that it would be to his
benefit to help raise the laboring
class of people to a higher level than
they now attain. Every member of
the Fanners’ union stands equally
responsible for the success or failure
In carrying out the work for which
the Fanners’ union was created, and
the outsider stands responsible for
not making an effort to lift himself
and let the organized part carry all
the burdens.
GROWTH OF FARMERS’ UNION
From 50,000 Members Six Years Ago
Organization Has Increased to
More Than 300,000.
Six years ago the Farmers’ Union
had only 60,000 members; today It
has more than 300.000. Six years ago
it had no gins; now there are G,000.
Six years* ago It had no cotton ware-
houses; now it has 2,000. It had no
frult packing plants; It now owns
500, It had no representatives In the
cotton markets of the world; now It
has a representative In every one. It
had no financial standing in the
banks; it has now twenty strong
banks of Its own and a financial stand-
ing in every banking center of Amer-
lea and Europe. Tt had no system of
selling or handling cotton and was
without direct connections; today It
has Its connections and customers In
the majority of the milling centers of
the world, to which it ships direct.
Six years ago it was at the mercy of
the grocery trust; today it has thou-
sands of stores under tts own con-
trol.—Labor Advocate.
TRAIN-FARM SCHOOLS LIKED
Texas Railroads Will Make Them Per¬
manent Feature of Industrial De¬
partments of Roads.
The agricultural demonstration
trains sent out by railroads during the
last two winters have been so well re¬
ceived by the farmers and have borne
such excellent fruit In the Increased
production that the roads have decid¬
ed to make them a permanent fea¬
ture of the Industrial departments,
says a Fort Worth dispatch to the St.
Louis Post-Dispatch. Expert lecturers
and farmers accompany the trains to
tell the farmers how to grow the spe¬
cial crop under consideration. Some¬
times It is hogs, other times wheat;
and so on. Farm experts In state and
federal service often accompany these
trains.
It is expected that other railroads
will adopt the practice of sending out
these trains, depending upon In¬
creased freight from greater crops for
remuneration.
Weekly Rest.
Don’t do anything on the Sabbath
that can be done on the day before.
This is your day to rest and you will
profit by doing It.
GOOD SOIL IMPROVER
Velvet Beans Is Best Legumin¬
ous Crop to Grow.
May Be Grown Entirely as Catch
Crop, Interfering Little With Corn
and Giving Feed to Cattle
Worth $8 Per Acre.
,1By E. B. FERRIS. Director of McNeill
(Miss.) Experiment Station.)
The velvet bean is a native of India
nd is supposed to have been intro-
luced Into America about 1872. It re¬
ceives its name from the velvety na¬
ture of the pod. It Is a twining plant
and frequently reaches a length of 75
feet. The growing season is long and
In order to fruit to best advantage the
seed should be planted as early In the
season as possible. It should not be
planted until danger of frost Is over,
for It Is very susceptible to cold. How¬
ever, It Is not always best from a
money standpoint to plant the beans
extremely early. In order to fruit well
they should be planted with some
crop to give them support. The best
crops for this purpose that the writer
has seen tried are corn and sunflow¬
ers. Since the money value of the
sunflower crop Is rather uncertain,
com is now regarded as by far the
best crop to grow with velvet beans.
The writer has seen a good many
beans planted here between cotton
rows of the year before and the old
stalks used as supports for the vines.
These beans were not worked at all
and made a fair crop of vines and
pods.
In order to make the most beans,
the two crops should be planted to¬
gether as early In the spring as the
season will permit.
The McNeill experiment station has
adopted the plan of planting the com
two months before the beans and
makes a first class com crop and a
fair yield of beans. Last year on
about ten acres of our thinnest hill
land, com planted In March made an
Average of about thirty-five bushels
per acre and was harvested In August.
Beans planted In this corn in May
completely covered the field before
Trost and made a fair yield of pods,
even the frost was three weeks early,
tf planted this way velvet beanB may
he grown entirely as a catch crop, in¬
terfering little with the corn and giv¬
ing a feed for cattle worth around $8
per acre and a fertilizer for succeed¬
ing crops worth fully as much.
No leguminous crop tried here has
come up to the velvet bean as a soil
Improver. They Bhade the land more
thoroughly than any other crop, make
as great If not greater tonnage per
acre, fruit much better than the cow-
jpeas, and may be harvested without
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j „ ^ ai , ternate , rows but If grown as
f catch f op we UBuaIIy plant the corn
! ?. f ° ur '* et ™ w » and at cond , or
th,rd cullVaU ° n in ea ' Iy , “ ay 5 un a
B “ otcr p ow oa °“ e of each row
corn, drop the beans by hand, and
cover with cultlvator aa the com is
* 01 ed '
Being a leguminous crop and grow-
* ng ,' ate l n the season, a nitrogenous
fertilizer is not necessary for these
beans and only the mln eral constltu-
ents funrishlng phosphorus and pot-
ft8b need be applied in a fertilizer.
Experience here shows that our soils
h ave enough potash already so that
phosphorus alone is all we use.
The velvet bean leaves a greater
quantity of rotting organic matter on
the soil than any other known crop
and in the presence of this decaying
vegetable matter, or humus, raw phos¬
phate rock is brought into solution
and answers all purposes of acid
phosphate and at a cost only one-
fourth as great. As handled here the
beans are grown as a catch crop, corn
Is harvested as early as It will stand
housing, and the beans allowed to con¬
tinue growing until killed by frost,
then dairy cattle are turned in on
them and allowed to eat everything
they will. After this the remaining
vines are cut up with disk harrow and
turned under before Christmas.
Crops following on land so treated
will be greatly increased In yield and
a much cheaper fertilizer may be
made to produce the heaviest yields.
^General a
Farm Notes
Improvement In domestic animals
depends largely upon variation.
The treatment the heifer calf gets
will partially determine whether she
will be a profitable cow or not.
In most cases where a man says he
likes the light horse better than the
draft horse, you will find he never
owned a draft horse.
M0NEY IN RAISING peanuts
Most Gratifying Results Obtained
Where Proper Attention Given to
Many Little Details.
The following letter written by Mr.
Ben Gray of Shreveport, La., In reply
to a query on the peanut industry Is
self-explanatory:
I take great pleasure in giving you
all the Information at my command
upon this important Industry, the
white Spanish peanut.
Before going into the preparation
of the soil, cultivation, etc., would like
to make a few preliminary remarks.
The whole south has been, and Is
still being preached at upon the Im¬
portance of raising hogs, corn, cattle
and alfalfa, with peanuts as an ad¬
junct, claiming that these crops, by
demonstration, have proven to be the
cheapest and most economical feed
for the successful raising of hogs for
the market. A few pioneers in our
territory undertook to plant the white
Spanish peanut. Lo! when this crop
was harvested there appeared upon
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Peanuts Between Corn Rows.
the field buyers vying with each other
for the possession of the nuts, bid¬
ding in some cases as high as $1 per
bushel.
Having received a great many in¬
quiries as to the preparation for and
cultivation of peanuts, I have prepared
the following form in order that I may
mall one to each individual asking for
Information upon this subject.
A sandy loamy soil is best adapted
for the growing of peanuts, either In
the hills or bottoms. It being vitally
necessary that the soil should contain
an abundance of lime. For bottom
lands where the soil Is loamy, I would
advise putting the rows three feet
apart, with one double peanut every 12
Inches In the drill, covering about one
to one and one-half inches deep. For
hill land, would make the rows about
three feet apart, with the double pea¬
nut every ten inches In the drill, cov¬
ering the same depth.
Either broadcast your land from No¬
vember 15 (o March 1 and re-bed with
four furrows about the first to fif¬
teenth of May aRd plant at once, or, If
delayed In work, list your land from
January 1 to April 1, and break out
middles with middle buster, allowing
the land to remain until about first to
fifteenth of May, when you can re-bed
your rows dry enough for the soil to
pulverize thoroughly, and plant at
once, as above directed.
It is not necessary to soak seed or
crack the nuts for planting.
Drop the double nut, In its dry
state; when, in your judgment, all of
the seed have sprouted and appeared
above the ground, soak some peanuts
18 hours, and replant skips with them.
Keep this up vigorously until you have
a perfect stand. Remember a good
stand Is absolutely necessary to Insure
a large yield. Hoe early and often at
first, and carefully, for once grass and
weeds get the advantage of the crop
it is a hard matter to chop and clean
properly and retain a stand.
Cultivate clean with sweeps or
shovels, and lay by with a middle
buster, as this enables you to use a
potato digger in harvesting your crop.
In case you are unable to procure a
digger, bar off your rows, then re¬
move the wing from a No. 3 plow, use
a sharp point and run under one side
so as to cut the tap root just under
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the nuts. Allow your vines to lay on
the ground two to six hours and wilt,
not cure.
I have by personal experience this
year demonstrated that by observing
the above directions my yield was
61 bushels to the acre, with a fraction
more than one ton of hay to the acre.
This in face of the fact that we had
two protracted droughts, which hit the
crop on both occasions at the time of
full bloom. The mill here is paying
from 95 cents to $1 per bushel for
the nuts, and the hay is selling at thip
time here for $14 per ton.
Worms
"Caaearets are certainly fine. I gave k friend
pne when the doctor waa treating him for cancer
ot four the stomach. of The next morning Be then he passed box
and in pieces three days a tape he worm. passed got 45 a foot
a tape-worm
tnri. It was Mr. Matt Freck, of MiUetaborg,
Dauphin Co.. Pa. Iam quite a worker forCasca-
rets. I use them myself and find them beneficial
for moat any disease caused by impure blood.*
Chaa. B. Condon, Lewiston, Pa., (Mifflin Co.)
Pleasant, Do Good. Palatable, Potent. Taste Gripe. Good.
10c, Never Slckea.Weaken or
ine 25c, 50c. Never sold In bulk. The genu¬
tablet stampedC C C. Guaranteed,!?
earn or your money back. sa
Give a girl a present, and she wlllt
not worry about the future. {
Dr. Pierce’* Pelleta, areal], sugar-coatAd,
easy to take as candy, regulate and inv‘ s -.
gripe. orate stomach, liver and bowels. Do not
The test of whether you are edu¬
cated is, can you do what you ought,
when you ought, whether you want to
do It or not?—Herbert Speicer.
For COLDS and CRIP
Ricks’ Camus* Is ths best remedy—rs
Ilevss the aching and feverishness—cures ths
Cold and restores normal conditions. It's
liquid—effects Atarag immediately. 10c., tie-, and50c.
stores.
I honor any man anywhere, who,
In the conscious discharge of what
be believes to be his duty, dares to
stand alone.—Charles Sumner.
Tasted Good.
"I saw John, the butler, smacking
Ms lips. Just now, as he went out.
Had he been taking anything, Katie?*'
asked the mistress.
“What was he doin’, ma'am?” asked
the pretty waiting girl.
“Smacking his lips."
“Sure, he'd Just been smacking
mine, ma’am!"—Yonkers Statesman.
His Aspiration.
Richard, aged 12, Warburton, aged
14, and Gordon, aged 10, were discuss¬
ing what they would do with a million
dollars.
Richard said: “I would buy a motor
boat.”
Warburton said: “I would spend my
million for music and theater tickets.”
Gordon, the 10-year-old, sniffed at
them derisively. "Humph!” said he,
“I’d buy an automobile, and spend the
rest In fines!”—Harper's Bazar.
Consumption Spreads In Syria.
Consumptives In Syria are treated
today much in the same way as the
lepers have been for the last 2,000
years. Tuberculosis is a comparative¬
ly recent disease among the Arabs and
Syrians, but so rapidly has It spread
that the natives are In great fear of
It. Consequently when a member of
a family Is known to have the disease,
he Is frequently cast out and compelled
to die of exposure and want Ai small
Jiospltal for consumptives has been
bpened at Beyrout under the direction
»f Dr. Mary P. Eddy.
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Bloom—I'm glad I met your ‘Vila.
She »eemed to take a fancy to me.
Gloom—Did she? I wish you'd met
her sooner.
HONEST CONFESSION
A Doctor’s Talk on Food.
There are no fairer set of men. on
earth than the doctors, and when they
find they haTe been In error they are
usually apt to make honest and manly
admission of the fact
A ease In point Is that of a practi¬
tioner, one of the good old school, who
lives In Texas. His plain, unvarnished
tale needs no dressing up:
“I had always had an intense preju¬
dice, which I can now see was unwar-
ran table and unreasonable, against all
muchly advertised foods. Hence, ‘ads’' l
never read a line of the many of
Grape-Nuts, nor tested the food m
last winter.
“While in Corpus Christi for my
health, and visiting my youngest son,
who has four of the ruddiest, healthi¬
est little boys I ever saw, I ate my
first dish of Grape-Nuts food for sup¬
per with my little grandsons.
“I became exceedingly fond of It
and have eaten a package of it every
week since, and find it a delicious, re¬
freshing and strengthening food, leav¬
ing no 111 effects whatever, causing no
eructations (with which I vras for¬
merly much troubled), no sense of
fullness, nausea, nor distress of stom¬
ach In any way.
“There Is no other food that agrees
with me so well, or sits as lightly or
pleasantly upon my stomach as fils
does.
“I am stronger and more active
since I began the use of Grape-Nuts
than I have been for 10 years, and
am no longer troubled with nausea
and Indigestion.” Name given by
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Look In pkgs. for the famous little
book, "The Road to Wellville."
“There's a Reason.”
Ever rend the above letterT A new
pne appear* from time to time. They
InTer^r 10 '’ a " d ° f