Not  A  Cent  For  3  Months 
Oat-Sprouting  Rack 
The  picture  at  Fig.  27  shows  a  de¬ 
vice  for  sprouting  oats,  for  providing 
green  food  for  chickens.  As  will  be  seen, 
rhis  is  a  rough  rack  built  up  so  as  to 
hold  a  number  of  trays,  which  have  very 
fine  wire  netting  at  the  bottom.  These 
trays  are  simply  filled  with  outs,  and 
k<pt  moist  by  pouring  warm  water  over 
them.  The  whole  thing  is  kept  in  a 
reasonably  warm  place,  and  the  oats 
manure,  and  as  manure  is  worth  three 
dollars  a  ton,  he  will  have  $80  of  value 
ns  the  result  of  investing  $1.50.  Prob¬ 
ably  no  one  would  be  inclined  to  chal¬ 
lenge  the  possibilities  in  these  figures, 
but  why  should  a  man  charge  $5  for  giv¬ 
ing  information  which  The  It.  N.-Y,  has 
freely  given  now  for  the  past  10  years'? 
The  man  goes  on  to  say  that  farmers  will 
listen  to  advice  of  this  kind  in  a  farm 
paper,  or  In  a  station  bulletin,  and  pay 
no  attention  to  it.  When,  however,  they 
pay  $5  for  it,  they  will  follow  it  out  care¬ 
fully  in  order  to  save  their  money.  There 
VOU  practice  intelligent  selection  in  the  choice 
-*■  of  seed,  grain  and  brood  stock  in  improving  your 
farm  products — 
Do  you  exercise  the  same  good  business  sense  in  choos¬ 
ing  your  building  material? 
The  Strongest,  Most  Durable,  and  Most  Economical 
material  available  for  General  Farm  Building  today  is 
Southern  Yellow  Pine 
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You  can  build  more  durably  and  for  less  money  with  Southern 
Yellow  Pine  than  with  any  other  material  of  anything  like 
its  high  quality.  If  you  are  planning  a  new  home,  a  barn, 
a  granary,  a  hog  house,  or  only  a  minor  repair  job,  practice 
intelligent  selection —choose  Southern  Yellow  Fine.  It 
means  Service,  Saving,  Satisfaction. 
Perhaps  we  can  help 
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sprout  readily.  They  cau  be  taken  out 
as  desired  for  feeding,  and  may  be  kept 
in  a  warm  cellar  for  handling  in  this 
way. 
may  he  some  truth  in  that,  but  we  give 
this  illustration  to  show  what  you  will 
usually  get  when  you  answer  advertise¬ 
ments  of  this  sort,  and  send  your  money 
for  mysterious  information.  The  original 
offer  of  this  sort  seems  to  lmve  come 
from  a  man  who  offered  to  send  for  half  a 
dollar  a  positive  method  for  killing  hugs. 
When  you  sent  your  50  cents  you  got  a 
card  on  which  was  printed  about  the  fol¬ 
lowing  :  Take  one  small  block  of  wood. 
Put  the  bug  on  this  block.  Take  another 
block  of  the  same  size,  put  it  on  top  of 
the  hug  and  squeeze  hard.  -Most  advice 
of  this  sort  is  just  about  as  true  and 
about  as  valuable  as  this  method  of  kill¬ 
ing  bugs. 
Town, 
Possibilities  in  Farming 
I  would  like  to  give  a  few  suggestions 
iu  regard  to  L.  A.  (5..  from  Illinois,  on 
page  1477.  I  like  the  ring  of  his  letter, 
and  the  fact  that  he  has  $4.50(1  shows 
that  there  is  something  to  him.  I  don't 
believe  in  going  to  the  extreme  flint  .1. 
Grant  Morse  has  in  outlining  farming.  I 
will  admit  that  all  of  the  things  he  has 
named  go  with  farming,  lmt  a  great  many 
farmers  are  getting  along  nicely  with 
less.  There,  are  good  farms  here  in  New 
York  with  comfortable  buildings  for  man 
and  stock  of  75  to  100  acres  that  can  be 
bought  for  $.’>,000  to  $.'5,500  and  in  some 
instances  team  and  tools  thrown  in. 
I  would  eunsider  it  very  poor  judgment 
for  a  new  beginner  to  buy  everything  to 
make  an  up-to-date  farm.  It  is  better  to 
work  into  it  by  degrees,  learn  as  you  go 
along  how  to  take  care  of  stock  and  tools. 
]  i'-u'r  expect  great  profits;  you  will  be 
disappointed.  Rut  Von  can  he  inde¬ 
pendent  if  you  arc  ambitious,  saving  and 
Will  stick  to  business  principles.  The 
ruination  of  a  great  many  farmers  is  big 
ideas,  debts,  too  much  hired  help  and 
b  ed  hills.  I  would  not  buy  a  high-priced 
dairy  at  first,  would  get  :t  few  good  cows 
and  raise  up  a  young  dairy,  or  else  buy 
young  stock  and  get  the  growth  on  them. 
I  have  in  mind  a  farmer  to  whom  I 
sold.  11!  years  ago.  a  good  farm  of  100 
acres  with  fair  buildings  for  $15,700.  lie 
had  been  a  bandy  man  for  a  rich  family 
in  Syracuse  for  a  good  many  years,  and 
had  saved  $2,500.  lie  has  improved  the 
buildings,  stocked  the  farm,  and  is  out 
of  debt.  With  the  increased  valuation  of 
las  farm,  stock  and  tools  that  he  now 
has.  he  Could  sell  out  tnnd  be  to  the  good 
a  great  deal  more  than  he  ever  could  have 
hoped  for,  at  his  old  job. 
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Chautauqua  Co.,  N.  Y. 
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