ArHii.. 1919 



(J I, V. A N T N G S T N B E E C I' L T U R E 



several and canietl tlieiu over lo the t'a.r. 

 The picture on jirecedinij' i)ai;e gives you a 

 single specimen. 



As the above ]>lant erew in our hard still' 

 clay soil, probably a great many of tlie 

 nodules were torn off as I pulled it n\). 

 Those remaining, as shown above, indicate 

 what they look like. Some of them have 

 nodules the size of beans. 



COW^S BUTTER COMPARED WITH " BUTTER '' 

 FROM OTHER SOURCES. 



We clip the following from the Fuiitl 

 New Yorker, omitting the picture of the two 

 rats : 



LIFE IX JiUTTER FAT. 



The chemists at the Wisconsin Experiment Sta- 

 tion are doins; some fine work in butter investipra- 

 tions. They have found that milk and its pro- 

 ducts contain a principle which is absolutely needed 

 to promote 2:ro'Wth in animals. Thi.s principle is 

 found in alfalfa hay and other plants, but is not 

 found in grains or most vegetable oils. Some re- 

 markable experinfents have been worked out in thee 

 demonstrations. Fig. 152 shows two rats. Both 

 were fed on " balanced rations " which contained 

 Fu^cient protein and mineral matter. The larger 

 rat was given butter fat, while the smaller one re 

 ceived cottonseed oil. This one failed to grow, 

 while we see by comparison what happened to his 

 butter-fed companion. Among other things indi- 

 cated by these remarkable discoveries is the fact that 

 pure butter has a food value in excess of its actual 

 chemical analysis. Oleo and other substitutes can- 

 not compare with butter as a necessary and health- 

 ful food — especially for young people where growth 

 is required. 



I find quite a number df [people, even here 

 in the North, who use butter sa.id to be rnaf^e 

 from cocoanuts, or perha}is oth;T nuts as 

 well as peanuts and cottonseed oil; and 

 they, perhaps like mys-elf, have not notic':^d 

 \fe(y much difference in regard to the amount 

 of nutrition; but if tlie J?(*>'«Z is right about 

 it we had better ]>ay the e.xtra price and u.^e 

 the real butter. When the price gets away 

 up daring tliese war times, we can each 

 and all get along with a little less. 



THE TOBACCO HABIT; BY ONE WHO KNOWS 

 WHAT HE IS TALKING ABOUT. 



I want to tell you, Mr. Root, that when you 

 made that proposition of a smoker for all who would 

 quit smoking and chewing, I said to myself, " I am 

 going to earn that smoker, and if I ever need it I 

 will send for it." I have earned that smoker, but 

 do not need it yet, as I have three good ones. It 

 was the hardest fight of my life, but I won. I 

 never prayed so hard to God to help me in anythiug 

 in my life as I did for him to remove that desire 

 I had for the poisonous weed. 



Yours very truly. 



Clear Lake, Wash. Ch.'^.s. W. Hop.secger. 



In view of the above, dear friends, would 

 it not be well to consider the old majcim, 

 "Prevention is better than cure'"? Why 

 should any boy or young man of the pi-es- 

 ent age, Avith the above before his eyes, 

 voluntarilv commence the use of tobacco? 



GEOIUJE MA.VIKOWSKE, THE INVENTOR OF THE 

 ELECTRIC WINDMILL. 



r have had considerable to say about 

 this pai'ticular friend of mine already; but 

 I think it will be an inspiration to the ris- 

 ing generation of growing boys and young- 

 men for me to say a little more, and also 

 to give you a picture of him as below. 



,M,\ iii.Mid George, with an electric dynamo or 



motor under his arm, preparatory to climbing the 



windmill tower and belting it to the windwheel. 



The pai'ticular reason, why 1 want you 

 to have a good look at my friend George 

 right while he is rushing his work, is be- 

 cause he is a splendid illustration of a 

 young man who has grown up to manhood 

 out under the influence of the blue skies 

 and free air of North Dakota, and espe- 

 cially because he is a type of a young man 

 who neitlier drinks, swears, nor uses to- 

 bacco in any form, and, as a rule, not 

 even tea or coffee. Altho he weighs over 

 200 pounds he will go up a windmill tower 

 almost as spry as a cat; and his brain and 

 intellect are in keying with his well-de- 

 veloped body. 



North Dakota, you will remember, was 

 one of the first States to demonstrate what 

 prohibition does for a people. As I write, 

 our own State of Ohio is rejoicing thr.t 

 finally, after a long-drawn-out war against 

 intemperance, we too are going to start oat 

 growing such specimens of clean young 

 men — clean in mind and clean in body^as 

 the one in the picture I have given you. 



