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THE GUIDE TO NATURE— ADVERTISEMENTS 



The Greenwich Trust Company. 



Mr. E. C. Converse has been elected 

 president of The Greenwich Trust 

 Company, succeeding the late R. J. 

 Walsh. The other members of the 

 board of trustees are as follows : John 

 D. Barrett, U. S. Lloyds ; Russell A. 

 Cowles, president Metals Trading 

 Corp. ; George A. Drew, manager Con- 

 yers farm ; Nathaniel A. Knapp, high- 

 way commisioner ; James Maher, 

 treasurer Maher Bros, corporation : S. 

 Elbert Mills, retired; F. A. Springer, 

 treasurer Mianus Manufacturing Com- 

 pany, and James F. Walsh, attorney at 

 law. 



The officers are as follows : James 

 F. Walsh, chairman ; A. W. W. Mar- 

 shall, vice-president and secretary ; 

 Walter B. Todd, treasurer, and Luther 

 H. Allcorn, trust officer. 



which, of course, control price. Their 

 advice is, "Put every acre you own into 

 use at once. Get those stumps out, and 

 cultivate that land." Now is the time 

 to get the high price for your crops. 

 Make money now while the war lasts. 

 Don't wait until it is over. Those 

 stumps are occupying land that should 

 be under cultivation. Get busy and 

 pull them out. 



Write to Mr. Walter J. Fitzpatrick, 

 Box L, 182 Fifth Street, San Francisco, 

 California. Do not forget to mention 

 The Guide to Nature and he will send 

 you full particulars. 



A Wonderful Stump Puller. 



It does not look big in the advertise- 

 ment, but its claims are so big that oc- 

 casionally some of our readers inquire 

 if the little machine is really so very 

 powerful. The editor of this maga- 

 zine has seen one of these little ma- 

 chines in operation on the premises of 

 Ernest Thompson Seton. What it did 

 was marvelous. It will not only pull 

 up a huge tree from the earth, but will 

 easily drag the entire tree with a moun- 

 tainous mass of earth attached to it. 



Opportunity is now knocking at the 

 farmer's door. Why? Because the 

 prices of all crops are higher now than 

 they ever will be again in the history 

 of the world, or ever have been, 

 and crops will be higher in price next 

 year than they are this year. This 

 statement is made on the authority of 

 the food experts in Washington who 

 know what they are talking about. 

 They know the demand and supply 



Needed a Dentist's Pull. 



Wild and disheveled, watery of eye, 

 and trembling of limb, he burst into 

 the dentist's consulting-room, and ad- 

 dressed the molar merchant in gasping 

 tones: 



"Do you give gas here?" 



"Yes, replied the dentist. 



"Does it put a man to sleep?" 



"Of course." 



"Nothing would wake him ?" 



"Nothing. But—" 



"Wait a bit ; you could break his jaw 

 or black his eye without him feeling 



it?" 



"My dear sir, of course, I — " 

 "It lasts about half a minute, doesn't 

 it?" 

 "Yes." 



With a wild whoop of joy and relief 

 the excited man threw off his coat and 

 waistcoat. 



"Now," he yelled, as he tugged at his 

 shirt, "get yer gas-engine ready. 1 

 want you to pull a porous-plaster off my 

 back."— "Tit-Bits." 



Why did the fly fly? — Because the 

 spider spi(e)der. 



