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Lurgcut Maker* of Sheet Meta] Products in tho World, 
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Settler 
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Immigration figures show that the population 
of Canada Increased during 11)13. by the addition 
of 400.000 new settlers from tho United Statos 
and Europe. Most of these have gone on farms 
In Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. 
Lord William Percy, an English Nobleman 
says; 
"Tho possibilities and opportunities offered by 
tho Canadian West are so Infinitely greater 
than those which exist In England, that It 
■corns absurd to think that people should bo 
Impeded from coming to the country where 
they can most easily and certainly Improve 
their position.” 
New districts are being opened up. 
which will make accessible a great 
number of homesteads in districts 
especially adapted to mixed farm¬ 
ing ami grain raising. 
For illustrated literature and 
reduced railway rates, apply to 
Superintendent of Immigration, 
Ottawa. Canada, or to tho 
Canadian Government Agent. 
J. S. Crawford, 
301 E. Genesee Street, 
Syracuse, N. V. 
3 Crops 
Yearly 
'T’HAT’S what many 
Southern Farmers are 
-.making. Alfalfa yields 4 to 
6 crops annually. Other hay crops do pro¬ 
portionately as well. It's the greatest dairy 
and livestock section of America. 
GOOD LAND, $15 an Acre Up 
Truck, poultry ami fruit* of all kind* make big profits. 
Seven to ten monthsi.Tuwingscasou. Climate very 
healthful, Learn the facts, ask for "Southern 
Field" In a gar me and land lists. 
M.V. Richards,L*nd4Ind.Agt. 
Room 87 
Washington,D.C. 
Southern Ry. 
Mobile&Ohio 
GaSo.&Fla.Ry 
T^l 4 nit/IP ot a11 descriptions, and 
I - l\ IVI ^ prices. $10 an acre up. 
■ ^ XilVlfllLF Healthy climate and st iff 
soil. Write for catalog. 
• E . II . KIOUS 
2*1 N. Division St., Salisbury, Bid. 
CROSS-BRED HOGS AS BREEDERS. 
Among a great number of farmers 
crossbred bogs are very popular. It is 
claimed that they are better feeders, and 
the men who always feed that kind are 
ever ready to enter into a controversy 
with breeders of purebred swine over the 
relative merits of the two classes of hogs. 
There are so many things that enter 
into the breeding problem as applied to 
hogs that a man must be able to see the 
matter from, a great many different 
angles. For instance, not only are the 
different breeds to be studied, but the 
strains of breeds as well. Perhaps a 
breed like the Poland-Chiua is condemned 
because the breeder happened to start 
with small-boned hogs when he should 
have selected a big-boned strain of the 
breed. The results he obtained prove to 
him that back somewhere the hogs have 
been too closely interbred, when without 
doubt inbreeding has had very little to 
do with the fact that his small-boned Po¬ 
lands do not mature quickly into market¬ 
able butcher hogs. Then again, pure- 
breds are often condemned because of 
some fault they develop that is plainly 
dne to their lack of care and feed, and 
usually the man who thus condemns 
purebreds is the one who is a strong ad¬ 
vocate of the crossbred hog. 
The strongest argument for the cross¬ 
bred hog is that cross breeding is the sur¬ 
est way to eliminate any chance of in- 
breeding interfering with the growth of 
the animal. From experience it is plain 
that cross breeding does produce pigs 
that mature quickly, at a minimum of 
feed cost, into well-matured hogs, pro¬ 
ducing excellent meat. Where the breed¬ 
er is raising pigs to be sold at weaning 
time for feeding purposes in a neighbor¬ 
hood where crossbred hogs are popular, 
the practice of cross breeding is a pay¬ 
ing proposition. However, the one cross 
from purebred sows and boars is all that 
is practicable. 
One of the reasons why purebred swine 
are often condemned is because their en¬ 
vironment, after they are bought by some 
new breeder on trial, is not what it 
should be. If purebred hogs are not 
given a ration well enough balanced with 
protein, they cannot show the best that 
is in them. Often this very lack of pro-* 
tein is the cause of some good strain of 
purebred hogs being condemned. Obser¬ 
vation shows that where a herd of hogs 
is given every chance to produce bone 
and attain a vigorous growth, it is not 
to be compared with another herd, per¬ 
haps very closely related, but being fed 
a ration of corn with very little mid¬ 
dlings, skim-milk or tankage to balance 
the ration. 
Those who lay down the law of in¬ 
heritance for us contend that environ¬ 
ment plays a very small part in the 
breeding of live stock; that no matter 
whether an animal has the proper feed 
and care or not. if it is mated properly 
with other animals in its class it will 
pass on its inheritance from its ances¬ 
tors to its offspring unchanged. It is 
hard to accept that theory, though it is 
no doubt true. However, as applied to 
swine, if a herd of big-boned hogs are 
kept for several generations by a poor 
feeder who keeps mature stock averaging 
less than 300 pounds, and I have seen 
purebred hogs matured at that weight 
due to lack of protein feed, it is quite 
possible that inheritance can be in this 
way indirectly influenced at least to the 
herd’s disadvantage. E’or, if the breeder 
possessing such hogs, continually sees 
before him such low-grade purebreds. 
even though the hogs have the power to 
pass on a vigorous inheritance, the man's 
standards are lowered and he becomes 
less careful in selection of breeding stock, 
and eventually possesses’a poor strain of 
purebred liogs. And then, sows that have 
not the proper feed cannot produce 
thrifty pigs, and if a purchaser, who is 
skeptical about the value of purebreds, 
eventually buys a poorly nourished pig, 
his trial with his first purebreds is start¬ 
ed under a handicap. It is the poor spe¬ 
cimens of purebred liogs and those fed im¬ 
proper rations that help on the argu¬ 
ment in favor of crossbred hogs. Vigor¬ 
ous, growing purebred hogs, given proper 
feed and care are in a class much above 
crossbreds as money-makers, though for 
pork production the crossbreds often pro¬ 
duce meat in every way as good as that 
from purebred stock. H. B. cobb. 
There's a GOOD Job! 
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ROOFING 
TN 
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'I0NS.IK5IDEC 
OW I have the best roof 
in this township. One 
that will last — one 
that’s waterproof—one that 
will resist the hardest storms 
—and I didn’t have a bit of 
trouble laying it.” 
That's about what every Am'a- 
tite owner says. Its superiority 
over all other ready roofing is 
apparent to any one who uses it. 
Amatite does away with all roof¬ 
ing troubles and unnecessary ex¬ 
penses because it is made w ith a 
real mineral surface that needs no 
painting. It is durable, fire re¬ 
tardant. practical, economical. 
Don’t buy any other roofing till 
you look up Amatite. 
II 'rite to nearest office for samples. 
Barrett Manufacturing Company 
New York Chicago Philadelphia Boston St. Louis 
Cleveland Pittsburgh Cincinnati Kansas City 
Minneapolis Seattle Birmingham 
The Louden Way 
is the quick , easy;, money-making way* 
W-.Louoe/o- L 
The Louden Junior Hay Carrier, like all Louden Movable 
Equipments, is center hung—runs easily and smoothly; will not 
bind on the track; never misses register. No loss of time because of kinked 
°- ropes. Built entirely of steel and iron—the strongest 
mM 
30 lbs" 
swivel carrier made. 
The Lifting Power of the Louden Balance Grapple 
Fork, and the easy way it handles a heavy load, 
makes it the most serviceable in any kind of fod¬ 
der. Will grip half a ton at once, short or long 
growth, and hold it tight. So perfectly balanced 
it never fails to drop the hay where desired. 
Wr for Catalog giving full information on 
Louden Hay Tools, Stalls, and Stanchions, Feed 
and Litter Carriers, Barn Door Hangars, etc./ 
See the Louden Line at your dealer 
LOUDEN MACHINERY CO., 2100 Broadway, Fairfield, Iowa 
f 64 acres. Supports 
! family of 10; $5,500, 
I Grain anil Dairy. 
VALUES l Family, city crazy. 
FARMERS’ REALTY CO., - Quakertown, Pa. 
UNHEARD OF 
FAR 
FARMS 
*71,1 PDI’TTPY r-I'VTT? 
Send for onr FARM CAT¬ 
ALOGUE. 100 VIEWS of 
FRUIT. POULTRY and 
GENERAL FARMS in or 
near VINELAND.the FRUIT 
and POULTRY CENTRE of NEW JERSEY. Health¬ 
ful climate. Mild Winter. Purest Water. Unex¬ 
celled Markets. Within 100 mile* of TEN MILLION 
people. DRAY & MACOEORGK. LARGEST FARM 
AGENCY in SOUTH JERSEY. 1077 Drexel Building, 
Philadelphia. Pa., or Vineland. N. J. 
ICn FARMS FOR SALE—Near Philo. nudTrenton markets; 
I vJU trend R.R. and trolley fneilities. Neiv catalogue. Es¬ 
tablished 23 years. HORACE Q. REEDER. Nowlown, Pa. 
101 At»rae —1 00 cultivated, balance timber and 
109 MlriCO wood: 2 hams. 33x42. 24x64; L 18x30; 
piped water to buildings; plenty fruit; 10-room 
bouse Included—11 cows, 5 young cattle. 3 horses, 
r.i sheep, 75 hens, grata drill, potato planter, 
mower, rake, harvester, sulky plow, cultivator, 
harrows, harness, sleighs, sleds, wagons, buggy, 
surrey, incubator, brooders, a lot of tools. All for 
$.7.000; $3,000 cash; balance, time, at 5% interest, 
lliiIPs Farm Agency, Owego,Tioga Co., N. Y. 
$13,000 BUYS 267 ACRES 
school, cheese factory. All tillable, dark loam soil. 1 
111 acres valuable timber. 2 set good buildings. 
Well watered. Fruit. Including 3« head cattle. 3 . 
horses. 7 bogs, 40 bens, fodder and tools. $2,000 j 
cash, $300 yearly, 5% interest. Write for directions. 
ELLIS BROS., SPRINGVILIAS. N. Y 
CERTILE FARMS— near Philadelphia—Mild climate, ex- 
1 cellent markets, catalog. W. M. Stevens, Perkasie, Pa. 
COR SALE— Well established FLOUR FEED AND COAL 
1 BUSINESS, well located, in operation, doing good 
paying business, private siding, modern equipped 
plant. Would consider exchange for good, well lo¬ 
cated farm with good buildings adapted to the 
dairy game. Honest value. For full particulars 
address MILLER BROS , Williamsfield. Ashtabula Co., Ohio 
Level, fertile, paying farms in tbe most 
desirable locations. Get my list of best 
T CENTRAL W Bargains. Square deal always 
| new YORK 7 Fred C. BcCarty, Auburn, N. Y. 
FARMS of all Sizes PURPOSES 
Cheap anongh. Mild climate. For information write 
State Beard ®f Agriculture, Dover, Delaware 
FARM LIST FRKE-ED. BURROUGHS, Trenti/.i, N. J. 
F A D |U| C I a T. I. SIZE 81 LIST 
f\, re IVI O [ ALL riTRPOSESl FREE , 
A. W, IIRESSKR, Burlington, New Jersey 
C. D. Rose Farm ftgey. SELLS FARMS, send for list. 
State & Warren Sts.. Trenton. N.J. 
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