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Flying Dutchman 
Corn Planter 
■^ cu can rely upon this machine to plant every square rod of 
your field so it will produce the biggest possible crop yield. 
Drops two, three or four kernels to a hill as desired—change the 
drop while machine is in motion to suit varying character of soil. 
Edge Drop, Flat Drop, Variable Drop or Drill 
Accurate work, no scattering, missing or bunching, whether driving fast or slow. 
Places seed at uniform depth in hilly or level ground, or on short turns, 
Every machine subjected to thorough tests before it leaves the factory. 
The Hying Dutchman Planter may be equipped with Cow Pea attachment— for checking 
cow peas in the same hill with the com, adjusted to drop 1,2 or 3 peas to a hill. 
F ertilizer Attachment may be regulated to drop as much or as little material as desired. 
Ask your Moline dealer to tell you about 
the Flying Dutchman, or write jus for illus¬ 
trated literature. 
Moline Plow Company, 
Dept. 19 
Moline, Hi. 
THE MOLINE LINE INCLUDES 
Corn Planters, Cotton Planters, 
Cultivators, Com Binders, Grain 
Binders, Grain Drills, Harrows, 
Hay Loaders, Hay Rakes, Lime 
Sowers, Listers, Manure Spread¬ 
ers, Mowers, Plows (chilled and 
steel), Reapers, Scales, Seeders, 
Stalk Cutters, Tractors, Farm 
Trucks, Vehicles, Wagons. 
RHODES DOUBLE CUT 
PBUNING SHEAR 
RHODES MFC. CO 
patented 
529 So. Division Ave., Grand Rapids, Michigan 
THE only 
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made that cuts 
from both sides of 
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bruise the bark. Made in 
all styles and sizes. All 
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ANIMAL MATTER 
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from. You may have grown 
the hogs and cattle. 
Armour Fertilizers are GOOD 
for your land — GOOD for 
3^our crops—GOOD for your 
pocketbook—GOOD for your 
disposition —a GOOD all 
'round investment. 
From the farm — 
back to the farm 
Armour Fertilizer Works 
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Nashville, Term. Baltimore, Md. Chii ago, Ill. 
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Human Nature Notes 
A Country Sale 
P»ofore long wo shall conio to the sea¬ 
son of public sales on the farm. In 
many neighborhoods tlie public sale is a 
great institution. It is a social gather¬ 
ing as well as a place for doing business. 
They tell us that now in most country 
neiglihorhoods at every public sale there 
is a great line of automobiles parked up 
in the yard or along the fence. The car 
has extended the zone of the public sale. 
In old times peoide came in their bug¬ 
gies or wagons, and the sale was re¬ 
stricted in that \yay. Now that the car 
has gone into commission the announce¬ 
ment 'mast be carried over a larger ter¬ 
ritory. and if there is anything worth 
while to be sold the cars eoine and help 
tion arose how to divide the proceeds 
fioin the ones sold. The landlord care¬ 
fully figured it out, wrote out a check to 
the tenant, then suddenly realized that he 
wasn’t right and tore up the check. Can 
yon figure it out? Several men figured at 
the problem, all getting different results. 
It is not a catch problem, hut actually 
came up in practice. It was as.suined 
that all the hogs were of equal weight, as 
this would obviate the need of weighing 
the hogs before butchering. 
The solution is really very simph-r 
Five hogs wore sold and of those butch¬ 
ered the tenant kept five, which under the 
assumption that they were of equal 
weight, would make share and share alike 
for the landlord to take the money fur 
Gathering for a Farm Sale in Ohio 
make a larger crowd. The picture given 
on this page shows a public sale in 
Ohio several years ago, before there were 
as many cars on the farm as there are 
now, but whether the people come in 
buggies or cars, or whether they walk, 
the human nature of a farm sale remains 
very much the same. 
Opposed to Hunters’ League 
“Keep it before the pcoi)le that the 
world was made for man,” and not for 
“game preserves” and “wild life leagues.” 
I am oi)posed to the latter, primarily on 
ethical grounds, as the breeding and rais¬ 
ing of wild animals to be .slain in a cruel 
manner for the gratification of the base 
desire to kill is wrong. Killing animals 
for sport develops the faculties of cruelty 
and destructivene.ss. F’ox hunting has 
been a drawback to the moral advance¬ 
ment of Kngland most especially so to 
the lords for whose amusement it was es¬ 
pecially fostered. Let America encourage 
no organization of sportsmen to follow 
them in the suppression of those divine 
faculties of tenderness and mercy. Sec¬ 
ondly. I oppo.se wild life leagues and game 
lu-eserves as economic failures. When we 
figure up the cost of making and enforcing 
fish law.s. of supplying our streams quite 
often witli fresh spawn or fish fry. the 
cost of fishing outfits, the damage farmers 
sviffer from trespassing fishermen, and the 
value of time spent in fishing I believe it 
would amount to no less than one dollar 
l)er pound for trout taken out of our 
streams. High cost of cruelty as well as 
food ! The meat from land animals -fig¬ 
ured in the same way would probably be 
somewhat cheaper, hut there is another 
charge, the damage done to farmers by 
the animals themselves. If some one 
with the gift of expression would acquaint 
himself with the facts ho might give as 
good a showing for our game laws and 
game preserves as Daniel Poling and 
Win. .T. Pryan do for our liquor laws. 
Pennsylvania. henry iiabris. 
Figure Out This Farm Problem 
A friend owns a farm which is oiierated 
by a tenant on half and half shares. Re¬ 
cently, out of 11 fat hogs, the tenant 
butchered six, sold five live hogs for 
.$128.05, and gave the landlord one dressed 
hog. keeiiing five himself. Next the ques- 
tho.se sold and the tenant to get five if 
those dre.sscd and then to pay the tenant 
for a half interest in the hog the landlord 
got. I'ive sold for $128.05, one was worth 
.$25.01, oue-lialf of which is .$12.81, there¬ 
fore of the proceeds of the sale the teuanr 
should receive $1*2.81 and the landlord 
$115.24, which was the way settlement 
was finally made. w. i-:. duckw.m.i.. 
Ohio. 
A Mechanic on Farm Help 
-Just a word in regard to the first letter 
— (F. D. C.’s), on page 1509. I am a 
city man born and bred. For two years 
I have been ti’ying to “break” into the 
country, with hut partial success. How¬ 
ever, I am a thorough mechanic, and it 
tcM)k me five years to learn my trade, a 
high-waged one (electrician), so when I 
entered the country I gave myself five 
years to learn it. By that time I shall 
expect to begin to make a succi'ss <ff 
farming. All this is somewhat foreign ti> 
the article, but what I started out to say 
is this: There are, in my opinion, a 
half million mechanics who long for th« 
farm, and would make a success at it. hut 
are hindered by one thing—no conven¬ 
iences for the home. If .some of these 
farmers who are crying for help will lay 
off five or 10 acre plots, with a small 
house and barn, house equipped with 
bath and toilet, and running water, I am 
willing to wager that they will have u*> 
trouble getting help, and in most places 
can sell that little plot of land to th > 
tenant. A good mechanic looks forward 
only to success, and he expects to make 
sacrifices to get it. And he usually looks 
forward to having the necessary land to 
enable him to imrehase a registered heifer 
or a calf from registered stock, as the 
nucleus for a dairy. The average first- 
class mechanic finds it costs all he makes 
to live, and anything in the farm line ap¬ 
peals to him, .lOIIX P. EI.I.ETT. 
R. X.-Y.—More than a dozen peojih* 
have sent for the address of the man who 
wants to locate in the country. ^Yhat 
Mr. Eliott says is no doubt true, but does 
he realize that a large proportion of far¬ 
mers have not yet been able to put these 
conveniences in their own homes—to' say 
nothing of the tenant house? “Running 
water” seems easy to the man who has 
always enjoyed city privileges, but “it’s 
different” on the farm ! 
