OCTOBER 15, 1912 



SPECIAL NOTICES 



21 



A. I. ROOT 



SEED CORN THAT IS NOT ONLY "IIOMESICK" 

 BUT HAS "heart DISEASE" AS WELL. 



In Special Notices for October 1 I sug- 

 gested tliat each farmer should grow his 

 own seed corn, to avoid swindles such as 

 our friend mentioned. He has just replied 

 further as follows : 



Mr. Root: — The corn was not only "homesick" 

 but it had "heart disease." 



Tuscola, m., Oct. 5. John Hunt. 



Now I want to say just a word further. 

 So far as possible do not depend on any- 

 body for your seed corn. Grow it your- 

 self if you are going to be up with the 

 times and up to date; and not only That, 

 but test every single ear, and make tliis 

 test onl}^ a little while before planting- 

 time, so you will know you have done 

 your part in' furnishing seed that is all 

 right in every respect. "Whatsoever a man 

 soweth, that shall he also reap."' The very 

 cornerstone and groundwork of good corn 

 is good seed; and we might say the same 

 with every thing else that a farmer grows; 

 and be particularly sure that your seed 

 corn does 7wt have "heart disease." 



FLORIDA LAND SPECULATIONS, ETC. 



In our issue for June 1, page 356, A. 

 W. Foreman criticised us severely for ac- 

 cepting advertisements from the Seaboard 

 Airline Railway Co. On page 422, July 

 1, that conijiany replies; but friend Fore- 

 man is not quite satisfied to have the mat- 

 ter dropped there. Below is his protest, 

 somewhat abbreviated. 



I want right here to confess that my language 

 was somewhat intemperate, and. I beg your pardon 

 for it, and promise not to do so any more. But I 

 do not retract the general charge that the character 

 of the advertisement is highly objectionable. 



Let me illustrate. I at one time under special 

 conditions, and with a special kind of wheat, pro- 

 duced on our farm near this city fifty bushels of 

 No. 2 wheat per acre. Suppose I were a real-estate 

 agent, and should advertise that Illinois soil pro- 

 duces fifty bushels of wheat per acre. That would 

 not be a lie by direct statement, but it would be 

 a base lie by implication, because the average yield 

 of wheat in Illinois is only a fourth that. 



Now you must know that I have in the above 

 sketched the usual character of real-estate adver- 

 tising, as practiced by a large per cent of real- 

 estate agents. I hope I have made myself plain, and 

 that there can be no mistake about my meaning. 



Let me say in conclusion that I still have faith 

 in the good intentions of Gleanings, and hope that 

 this little scrap will be instrumental in a small de- 

 gree, at least, in moral uplift. 



White Hall, 111., Sept. 25. A. W. Foreman. 



I can only add that I have looked over 

 the Seaboard Airline advertisement once 

 more, but can not agree that it should be 

 rejected. It is well known that railways, 

 especially those running to new localities, 

 are anxious to have settlers move in ; and. 



although they may not say so, it is gen- 

 erally understood that their advertisements 

 refer to the possibilities rather than to 

 the general run of results obtained where 

 settlers are urged to go. 



CRITICISING HASTILY WITHOUT LOOKING INTO THE 

 CAUSE. 



Your experience with the crabbed porter reminds 

 me of an experience of my own. I got on a Penn- 

 sylvania train between Cincinnati and Pittsburg to 

 go to New York. As evening approached I noticed 

 how crabbed and uncivil the porter was, and asked, 

 in the slang of the day, "Jim, what's chawing you? 

 Can't you speak civil?" He then told me that 

 he had had nothing to eat that day. There was 

 some sort of meeting in the East, and to meet this 

 travel the company had been concentrating cars at 

 Cincinnati, St. Louis, and other gateways, and he 

 had been at Cincinnati until he ran out of money. 

 As his car was "dead" on a storage track he got 

 no tips. I "staked" him, and after we passed 

 an eating-station his disposition materially improved. 

 Get at the "cause" and you can sometimes remove 

 the "effect." A scolding or "cussing out" would 

 not have- made that porter pleasant. 



Newport, Ark., Oct. 1. A. M. Van Auken. 



The above incident brings to mind a lit- 

 tle stanza that I learned over forty years 

 ago. I was studying shorthand, and 1 

 worked so long in deciphering the words, 

 written in shorthand, that it fixed itself in 

 my memory. 



Think gently of the erring ; 



You may not know the power 

 With which the dark temptation came 



In some unguarded hour. 



The Savings Deposit Bank (Medina, O.) 

 says: 



BANKING BY MAIL A SIGN OF MODERN 

 PROGRESS. 



In the old days, when there were no steam 

 roads, no daily or even weekly mails, the greatest 

 hindrance to progress was the inability to com- 

 municate readily with other parts of the world. 



The tradesman or manufacturer in one commu- 

 nity, though his wares might be of ever so high a 

 quality, could not dispose of them to any appre- 

 ciable extent outside of his own village, town, or 

 city. 



As soon as transportation facilities became more 

 efficient, commercial advancement was marked. To- 

 day the manufacturer of Maine sells his goods and 

 delivers them with comparative ease to the mer- 

 chant or consumer in the distant cities of Cali- 

 fornia. 



Just as the United States mails have brought 

 together the producers and consumers in all lines 

 of business, so the mails nowadays enable banks 

 to serve not only people in their own communities 

 but also depositors throughout the country. 



Banking by mail is a prominent feature in the 

 service rendered by the Savings Deposit Bank 

 Company of Medina. That institution protects the 

 funds of people in nearly every State of the Union. 



These depositors who forward their funds to the 

 bank by mail find that banking by mail is not 

 only safe but also particularly convenient. When 

 they forward their deposits through the mails the 

 money is protected by the United States Government 

 until it reaches the bank ; and this plan makes it 

 unnecessary for them to go personally to a bank 

 to make their deposits, for they can simply enclose 

 the money in the form of checks, drafts, or post- 

 office money orders in an envelope, and mail it, 

 or they can send the currency in a registered let- 

 ter. Mr. E. R. Root, of the A. I. Root Company, 

 is Vice-President of The Savings Deposit Bank 

 Company of Medina, Ohio, which has been par- 

 ticularly successful in serving people throughout the 

 United States by this banking-by-mail plan. 



