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Oxen to Earn Automobiles. 
IIE picture below, is sent us by 
Mr. H. M. Clark of New York, lie 
says he wants to show his two-year-old 
grandson and the choice yoke of three- 
year-old steers. Mr. Clark has a farm of 
125 acres, and ho keeps horses beside 
these oxen. lie says he is a firm be¬ 
liever in the theory that farmers ought to 
raise more oxen to do the slow, hard work 
of the farm, and then turn around and 
help out the nation’s beef supply. Mr. 
Clark says if more farmers would do that 
and keep more of these oxen, they would 
have more money with which to buy an 
and clean the core need not be removed, 
so it is but little work to prepare a 
bushel. Father or the boys will do it 
for you these long evenings after the 
chores are done, and they get their boots 
off. Take all your available “things” 
and fill the oven 1 full. When well done 
put the pulp in a cheese cloth and hang 
over a dish just as would be done for 
jelly. No one who puts up grape juice 
will need more instruction. Use sugar 
if you want to, but it is good enough 
without and sugar is high. Give the 
pulp to the hens, though I, the man of the 
house, being fond of apple sauce, have 
TWO YEAR OLD BOY AND THREE YEAR OLD STEERS. 
automobile. This idea of using the slow 
ox to obtain the price of a rapid automo¬ 
bile is surely a new one, and we have no 
doubt that the two-year-old boy will grow 
up to drive the car which the three-year- 
old steers will haul into the family. There 
is probably much truth in this idea of 
keeping more oxen on a dairy farm 
where the large breeds of cattle are bred. 
A Labor Saver. 
S PEAKING of household or labor-sav¬ 
ing conveniences, the ingenious scheme 
shown in the picture may possibly inter¬ 
est some of our people. This was taken 
from “Gleanings in Bee Culture,” and 
we understand it to be a suggestion for 
the man who does not like to bend his 
back and lift a heavy weight. The theory 
of course is that of the okl-fashion well- 
sweep, where the weight on the end of 
sometimes dipped my spoon in and dis¬ 
regarding hulls and seeds have called 
it good. 
The juice has considerable food value 
and is always acceptable to the invalid. 
Our housekeeper has sometimes fed al¬ 
most no other nourishment to the sick 
one for a week at a time. Put up a lot 
of it. Take a bottle to your sick neigh¬ 
bor when you call and want to carry 
something nice. Use it with lemons and 
grape juice for punch for the picnic or 
surprise party, and ask your friends to 
guess what it is. I have looked for it 
on the exhibition table among the jellies 
and canned goods at the great apple 
shows on the “apple products” table, and 
never found it yet. Try it, everybody, 
and tell us through The R. N.-Y. how 
you like it. u. L. b. 
A “Well Sweep” For The Back. 
the pole lifted up the water from the 
well. Our friend who is trying to lift 
the crate does not appear to be particu¬ 
larly happy over his invention, and he 
will probably take off the harness without 
giving it any further trial. 
Baked Apple Juice—A New One. 
T WANT to suggest to those who put 
1 up fruit and fruit juices for family 
use a new old substance that is of great 
value in sickness, and a nice beverage 
to offer in a small glass to your guest. 
It is simply the juice from baked apples 
put up like grape juice. Of course you 
will need a lot of apples, but you prob¬ 
ably have a lot of unsalable seconds or 
thirds that would go to the cider heap 
otherwise. Select ripe sound fruit, small 
or specked it may be, since you are go¬ 
ing to cut them over anyway. Such 
nubbins as an unthrifty Northern Spy 
tree will furnish by the bushel give just 
as nice juice as fair fruit. It will not be 
necessary to pare them, but no doubt 
they would better be cut, the juice will 
start better. If the inside prove sound 
U TILIZE SMALL CARCASSES.— 
The Department of Agriculture is ad¬ 
vising housewives in town near the 
country to buy mutton in quarters. Far¬ 
mers’ wives are advised to share sheep 
and lambs with their neighbors. This is 
good advice from every point of view. In 
the country the distribution of small ani¬ 
mals in this way will give several fam¬ 
ilies the chance to obtain fresh meat fre¬ 
quently, and they can obtain it in this 
way very much cheaper than they could 
by buying it in small lots from the but¬ 
cher. At the same time it would be im¬ 
possible for a single farmer’s family to 
take care of an entire carcass before it 
would spoil. As for dealing with out- 
of-town housekeepers, we have found this 
season that there are a good many board¬ 
ing houses or small hotels in many a 
country that will gladly buy half or even 
more of a small carcass. In the cool 
weather such customers can buy an entire 
lamb or a small hog well dressed, and cut 
the carcass up to suit themselves. In 
every town also where there is an organ¬ 
ization like the “Housewives’ League,” 
it is possible to handle an entire carcass 
to good advantage, for the members will 
usually be only too glad to buy such a 
carcass at a fair price, cut it up to suit 
them and distribute the meat. We have 
been handling a good share of our pro¬ 
duce in this way, and it has become evi¬ 
dent that here is one good outlet for the 
farmer. We believe it will pay many a 
t i*nit grower to buy a small flock of sheep 
or lambs, feed them through the season 
and during the Fall and Winter slaughter 
and sell the entire carcass or a half at a 
time, to people who understand how to 
take care of the meat. Such people will 
be found in any town of fair size, if we 
will only hunt for them. 
NEW-Y OKKEK 
Baby’s Winter Clothing. 
N O doubt every mother has solved the 
problem of dressing the wee girlie 
in her own way, but perhaps if I pass on 
some of the ideas I have picked up they 
may help some one a little. I don’t find 
very satisfactory outer garments on the 
market, and if I happen to find anything 
really comfortable for severe weather the 
price is prohibitive. I think I hear some¬ 
one say “wee girlies” should be indoors 
in very cold weather, which may be true 
in a measure, but the healthiest ones of 
my acquaintance are out much more 
than mine. Mine refuses to go out much 
alone, and I cannot always go with her, 
while my neighbor’s little tots can play 
out indefinitely with their older sisters. 
They stand the cold much better than 
mine as a consequence too. 
I buy the warmest underwear I can 
get, not the n.ost expensive silk and wool 
grade, but the softest, warmest, wool 
with just a little cotton to prevent shrink¬ 
ing; even then it shrinks enough. This 
grade costs pretty well, but is infinitely 
preferable to doctors’ bills, besides being 
cheaper. Then I make warm little wool¬ 
en skirts and for cold weather will but¬ 
ton them to substantial outing flannel 
underwaists with sleeves. Some people 
make these waists double, but I shall 
not. Last Winter we did not have the 
outing flannel waists, so I made outing 
flannel dresses, but gingham and eham- 
bray will be all right this Winter. 
When it comes to baby coats, I invari¬ 
ably think of the man whose friend con¬ 
gratulated him upon the robust health 
of his little girl, but added: “I’m sorry to 
see you so delicate.” The man replied 
in astonishment that he was perfectly 
well, but the child was not, whereupon 
his friend retorted that he only judged 
by the man’s overcoat and the child’s 
socks and short sleeves. If our Win¬ 
ter coats could be reduced to children’s 
dimensions in all but thickness they 
would no doubt be very bungling, but 
we would surely freeze in a coat no 
thicker than the average child’s cloak. 
For the first Winter I made my little 
girl a long full cape of eiderdown lined 
with outing flannel, and that had to be 
discarded, and I have just finished a new 
coat for this Winter. It is also of white 
eiderdown, lined with outing flannel, but 
I cut an interlining of cheesecloth, cov¬ 
ered it with a thick pad of cotton exactly 
as for a quilt or comforter, and quilted 
it on the machine. It must be generous¬ 
ly large, as it takes up a good deal in 
quilting. The coat is double-breasted 
and closes with a double row of big 
pearl buttons, four on each side. These 
were the only expense, as the eiderdown 
was given to me, but we buy it from 
mail-order houses at about 30 cents per 
yard, which would have made the coat 
cost less than a dollar, and I doubt if I 
could have found one so comfortable for 
a child of two years at any price. I 
shall make a little hat to match after 
the style of the boudoir cap. Cut a cir¬ 
cle 18 inches across, line with something 
soft and warm, and insert an elastic 
draw string an inch and a half or two 
inches from the edge, leaving a full ruffle 
all around. For Summer we made one 
of lawn edged with embroidery, and my 
neighbor and I think them even cuter 
and prettier for the little tots than mil¬ 
liner’s hats and bonnets costing several 
dollars. Mine for this Winter costs 34 
cents which is about three times as 
much as I ever paid for my baby’s head- 
gear before; a little lawn hat costs less 
than 10 cents. 
My baby always had ingrowing toe¬ 
nails until the doctor suggested shoes 
with extra wide toes, and I have had no 
trouble since. I know several mothers 
now who always buy them, and if all 
mothers did the babies’ feet would be 
more comfortable. We consider com¬ 
fortable clothing a real economy, because 
neither my husband’s family nor my own 
is famous for robust babies, and if we 
dressed them as some people do we would, 
employ a doctor or an undertaker, per¬ 
haps both. MRS. E. M. ANDERSON. 
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Mothers and fathers 
look at this bargain! 
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of it--and parents will be proud of 
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and suspender buttons. Coat 
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pockets. A big bargain. Lizes, 
B to 17 years. State age. No. 
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The American Dark Chaser is a big 
convenience on the farm. Gives 400 
candle power light. Stands all the hard 
knocks and burns brightly in all kinds 
of weather for less than one-half 
cent an hour. No wicks to trim 
or chimney to wash. Always 
ready for use. 
The American Dark Chaser is 
a dependable lantern for the 
farm. Absolutely safe. It give3 
the farmer a practical and effi¬ 
cient means of economical light 
in a hand lantern. 
See your dealer or write for 
large circulars. 
American Gas Machine Co. 
495 Clark St., Albert Lea, Minn. 
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Be Weather wise 
When you work in the 
rain wear the 
FISH BRAND 
REFLEX 
SLICKER 
Waterproof through 
and through. Cannot 
soak up water and 
get heavy. Our 
patented Reflex 
Edges stop water 
from running in where 
the fronts overlap and 
button. The best wet 
weather coat your 
money can buy. 
$3.00 EVERYWHERE 
A 
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Catalog Free 
J. TOWER CO. 
BOSTON 
LET US TAN 
YOUR HIDE. 
Cattle or Horse hide, Calf, Dog:, Deer 
or any kind of skin with hair or fur on. 
Wo Ian and finish them right ; make 
them into coats (for men and women), 
robes, rugs or gloves when ordered. 
Yourfur goods will cost you less than 
to buy them, and be worth more. Our 
Illustrated catulog gives a lot of in 
formation which every stock raiser 
should have, but we never send out this 
valuable book except upon request. 
It tells how to take olf and care for 
hides: how and when wo pay the trofght 
both ways ; about our safe dyeing pro¬ 
cess which is a tremendous advantage 
to the customer, especially on horse 
hides and call skins ; about the fur 
goods and game trophies we sell, taxi¬ 
dermy, eta If you want a copy send us 
your correct address. 
The Crosby Frisian Fur Company, 
571 Lyell Ave.. Rochester. N. Y. 
Elite Burning Oil 
In Wood and Iron Barrels 
A perfect burning oil made from 
Pure Pennsylvania Crude. 
25 Years on tho Market 
Write far Particulars and Prices 
DERRICK OH. CO., Titusville, Penn. 
