1218 
RURAL. NEW.YORKER 
October 20, 1917 
The Louden Way eliminates the 
slow, laborious, wasteful, disagree¬ 
able method of bam cleaning and 
stock feeding and helps to keep the 
boy or man on the farm. 
WM. LOUDEN 
Barn Specialist 
Originator of Modem 
Barn Equipment 
Litter and Feed Carriers 
help solve the f armer’slabor-shortage prob¬ 
lem. One man can actually do the work of 
two. Think what an item this is during 
these times when help on the farm is hard 
to get. “Fe^ng fifty horses and cleaning 
the bam, in one hour and twenty min- 
utes, with Louden earners, is an easy 
a|5v ioh for one man," writes Lewis 
Evans, proprietor of Horse Ex- 
^J^p^^charige r arm, Murray, Iowa. 
Built in sizes and swles to fit any 
a bam, large or small. Thev cost 
I so little and save so much that 
a / / they pay for themselves in a few 
Louden Feed Carrier 
Saves Time and Feed 
shows the very outfit you need, also 
shows stalls, stanchions, bam and garage 
door hangers, hay tools and scores of 
other Louden Labor Saving Bam Eqi^p- 
ments. Write for it today—state what size 
and style of bam you have, how^ many 
head and what kind of stock. W e'll give 
you the cost of die outfit you need. 
Louden expert bam plan service is at 
your disposal without charge, for sug¬ 
gestions and preliminary nlans to suit 
your needs, if you contemplate building 
or remodeling a bam. 
Write for Louden Bam Plans—one of 
the most valuable bam building books 
ever gotten out; not a catalog but a 112- 
page book of practical plans and dollar 
saving information. No charge. 
t The Louden Machinery Company 
(Over SO Years in Business) 
2613 Court Street Fairfield, Iowa 
Louden Litter Carrier 
Is Safe and Easy to C^erate 
KENDALLS 
SPAVIN 
iTREATMENr, 
Z'Ji 
« vr* SKitc ovostuiu 
$1 per bottle, 6 lor $S. “Treatise on the Horse*' 
free at druggists or write to Dr. B. J. KENDALLb 
COMPANY, Enosburg Falls, Vt., U. S. A.^ 
I 
Quaker City Feed Mills 
Grind corn and. cobs, feed, 
table meal and alfalfa. 
On the market 50 years. 
Hand and power. 23 
styles. ^.eOto^O. FREE 
TRIAL. Write fot catalog. 
THE A. W. STRAUB CO. 
OepL E-3740 Filbert St.. PhUadelphia.Ps. 
Dealers — Write for contract. 
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Your Most Valuable By-Product 
This year of all years you can’t afford to waste manure—your crop needs It. Save 
every bit. By spreading it evenly in a wide sheet and making one ton produce bet¬ 
ter results than two tons spread by hand; doing the work in one-fourth the time 
and without back straining labor—^you can soon pay for 
The Flying Dutchman Wide-Spread Spreader 
Striking advantages are built into this spreader which 
commend it to farmers above all other spreaders. 
Double Beater pulverizes manure 
thoroughly. Second beater running 
at high speed makes a vdde, even 
spread—covers the field in less time— 
makes the load go farther amd pro¬ 
duces better crop results. 
Separate Direct Axle Drive for 
beater and apron eliminates over¬ 
strain on beater mechanism—prevents 
breakage. 
Low down—only 42 inches from 
ground to top of box at rear—makes 
it easy to load. 
Wide range of adjustment permits 
spreading thin coat or heavy layer. 
Reserve speed moves apron at rate of 
40 loads to the acre, for clearing out 
the bed. One lever controls operation, 
Elxceptionally light draft under heavy 
load—easily carries 4500 pounds. 
Built almost entirely of steel — 
nothing to warp, sag or rot. 
The Flying Dutchman pays for itself in one season’s rrork- Ask 
your Moline Dealer about it, or write us for Illustrated Literature, 
Address Department 19 
Moline Plow Company Moline. Illinois 
Plows (a Ch'ihd) 
Harrows 
Planters (8Srton^ 
Cultivators 
Listers 
Afan uflacfurers 
Stalk Cutters Crain Drills 
or 
Rice Binders 
Hay Loaders 
Side Del,Rakes 
Dump Rakes 
Potato Diggers 
Spreaders 
Scales 
Afo/Jne-l/niversa/ Tractor 
LimeSowers’ Grain Binders 
Seeders Com Binders Wagons 
Mowers Vehicles 
Reapers Farm Trucks 
Stephens Six Automobile 
For Over 50 \fear^ 
Good Implements 
A Letter from Canada 
(Continued from page 1210.) 
to be the most wasteful and shiftless of 
managers. We women of Canada are 
growing very angry at all this senseless 
advice to farmers’ wives. Thank you 
for the sake of the overworked farmers’ 
wives. That editorial page is excellent, 
and al.so the Pastoral Parson. I used to 
pin my faith on the Hope Farm man, 
but I think I could easily transfer my 
allegiance to the Parson, who seems to 
have the same gift of hitting the nail 
i squarely on the head. The “Uplift Farm 
Adviser,” 'though, appeals to my inner¬ 
most soul. The sarcasm soothes my angry 
feelings, the caricatures (verbal), are 
true to life. I intend to borrow from 
it for our local editor. He needs the 
illumination—poor man. 
We need economy of the strictest and 
severest sort, but we farmers’ wives are 
past masters of domestic science, though 
we are quite willing to receive instruc¬ 
tion from those who have graduated from 
a higher school, but when will our male 
friends learn that economies should not 
come from the distaff side of the house 
alone? Verily, history does repeat itself. 
In an old Chaldean record called “Gen¬ 
esis” we learn that at the first agricul¬ 
tural community there were present but 
three iudividuals, two agriculturists and 
one who belonged to quite a different pro¬ 
fession who just stepped iii to give a 
little advice. o. j. 
Nova .Scotia. 
The Pastoral Parson 
(Continued from page 1214.) 
two New York City doctors, and her 
husband went to the Editor of The IL- 
N.-Y., who advised him to buy a farm 
in Connecticut. Y’ou see how well the 
woman is now, and how fond she is of 
all her animals. This is the farm’s first 
venture in the small pig line, and these 
nine were boi*h on Labor Day. The 
mamma pig is as gentle and tame as a 
house cat as she looks for a nubbin of 
corn. Much_ less feed could often be 
given our animals if more kindness took 
its place. 
More Pigs. —With pork chops at 42 
cents a pound, hadn’t we better go in 
for more pigs? Y’ou remember that 
pig of the Parson’s that ran away and 
had a fit? He paid fourteen dollai's for 
it last Spring. It has run out to pas¬ 
ture all Summer and drank water from 
the brook. It has never had a regular 
mess fixed up for it. When it began 
to squeal, some ears of old corn were 
hurled from the corn barn. I suppose 
now it is worth at least forty dollars. 
Save the Cobx. —We shall not try to 
have the pigs on this place so wonderful¬ 
ly fat. We do not care whether they 
are as fat as the neighbors’ or not. Feed¬ 
ing out all the corn in the Fall and 
then buying grain all next Summer is 
like marrying in ha.ste and repenting at 
leisure. It is simply awful how much 
corn hogs will eat up if thrown right in 
on the cob. Feed green stuff, poor cab¬ 
bage and the like, and boil up little po¬ 
tatoes and spare the corn for next Sum¬ 
mer. It may be even higher than it is 
now—no one knows. 
IlrsKiXG Time. —The Parson knows 
of nothing he enjoys more than husking 
the golden corn. We do it all even¬ 
ings. We pick the ears off in the field 
whether w'e cut the stalk into the silo or 
not. so there are no heavy stalks to 
handle. The two oldor boys and “.Tolrn- 
nie” and the Parson pull out about 25 
bushels a night. One night this week 
we got out 2S. We have about 125 
bushels out now and more than a hun¬ 
dred yet to husk. It has been a won¬ 
derful year for all crops iu this sec¬ 
tion. 
Potatoes. —What a blessing that this 
year of all years we have such a great 
potato crop. We have been reading a 
bulletin this morning telling of 20 dif¬ 
ferent ways of cooking them. We lost 
track of the number of bushels we 
had, but a neighbor looking at the bins 
in the cellar says we have already a 
hundred bushels down there and there 
are still more to dig. The boys’ patch 
yielded better than mine. A small patch 
on horse manure did better than any of 
the others. This seems to be especially 
good for potatoes, ilost farmei-s are 
storing iu the cellar. Plenty can be 
bought for .$1.50 a bushel here. What 
few the boys have to sell they will 
let go for that rather thau hold them. 
It is a good price for a potato auy- 
M'ay. What would we have .said to that 
price a few years ago! Today, October 
fifth, the wheat on the potato patch is 
quite green and getting a good start as 
wheat should before Winter. Johnnie is 
spreading what little manure could be 
found on the place for a small piece of 
rye. This will give enough seed for a 
cover crop next year. 
OuB Field Day. —Tomorrow, Satur¬ 
day, down at the church we shall have 
our second annual farming day. A 
special feature this year will be a dem¬ 
onstration in butter-making right at the 
church. A man from Storrs College will 
be there, and we shall have the cream 
and let him produce the goods. All 
about ripening cream and working and 
seasoning butter will be thrashed out. 
There will be plenty of time for re¬ 
ports of our Summer’s work, and how- 
the crops came out, and what did the 
best, and what we are going to sell and 
what we are going to keep. Who will say 
that this will not be a fine thing for 
the people? Have you had one at your 
church? 
The Home Evening. —The Parson 
was much interested in reading what the 
man wrote in The R. N.-Y. about the 
evenings at home; how he stayed out 
and did chores till bedtime, and the fam¬ 
ily was very little together. Tber-e is a 
good deal to this. 'The Parson has 
tried to fight hard against that very 
thing. On a farm there is always some¬ 
thing more to do. One can work all 
night if he will. It sometimes takes more 
strength of character to stop work than 
it does to begin it. This Summer we 
managed more than ever before, probably 
because the boy.s are bigger and helped 
more, to finish the chores and after sup¬ 
per and the little ones were tucked away 
for the night, to sit by the front porch in 
the twilight and not be too tired to visit 
together and talk over the things of the 
day. As I look back now, these wero 
among the happiest hours of the year. 
And next time the Parson writes, the 
corn will be husked, the heifers home 
from pasture, and the. sound of Thanks¬ 
giving in the air. 
Home Dressm 2 dcer 
(Continued from page 1215.) 
Velvet and satin are both to be very 
popular. Both satin and velvet are seen 
combined with cloth. There are some 
very attractive suits for young girls hav¬ 
ing a loose black velvet jacket with 
a pleated skirt of plaid serge, the skirt 
having a deep girdle and suspenders. 
We again see many handsome dark brown 
suits, but black, black and white and 
dark blue still predominate in costume. 
Dark^ blue jacket suits and dark blue 
one-piece dresses are always so prevalent 
that they almost become a uniform, but 
no other color is such a wise investment 
to .anyone who finds the color becoming. 
Plaid serge is seen in simple dresses of 
the tailored “college” type, and also in 
pleated separate skirts to wear with 
bright-colored sweaters. 
Neck\veab and Accessories. — High 
stocks are again in vogue, and it is 
likely that many heavy garments will 
have high collars. One of the new 
models is_ a black satin stock with a 
white satin turnover and two rows of 
tiny white satin buttons in front. A 
jabot of imitation filet lace was attached 
to it, and it fastened at the back. 
Flat collars are made of white broad¬ 
cloth with bindings of white silk braid, 
instead of a raw or picot edge. Wool 
crepe is another material used for col¬ 
lars. Some are in a shawl shape that ties 
in front. 
Figured veils are quite elaborate, and 
often expensive. Some are trimmed 
with soutache braid and embroidery; 
these are square or round, to be thrown 
over the crown of the hat. Others have 
a_ heavy border of chenille spots, some¬ 
times alternating in color. One pretty 
taupe veil had alternate rows of taupe 
and navy blue spots. A veiling with 
graduated rows of velvet coin spots was 
SO cents a yard. Another showy veil 
had a large hair-line mesh with clusters 
of velvet dots. 
Some plain serge frocks for girls show 
knitted worsted belts. Another new idea 
is the use of colored Oriental cotton ci*epe 
for collars, cuffs, belts and vests finish¬ 
ing girls’ dresses. This is an attractive 
change from organdie. 
Wool embroidery is still with us, and 
more goi’geous than ever. Dark blue, 
embroidered with brightly colored yarn 
in a de.sign borrowed from the Dakota 
Indians was a French idea. 
Fur is used as a trimming on all sorts 
of fabrics, and on house and evening 
gowns as well as street costumes; also in 
millinery. 
A very handsome hat was made of 
sand-colored velvet, shirred closely from 
the top of the crown to the brim. The 
edge of the brim had n narrow banding 
of brown fur, and there was an irregular 
wreath around the front of the crown, 
of large velvet poppies in odd shades of 
orange, petunia, green and bronze. 
Eskimo jewelry seen in a Fifth Ave¬ 
nue shop consisted of necklaces, earrings 
and pendants of transparent crystal in 
brilliant color combinations. “Aurora 
Borealis necklaces” were formed of 
glass beads, including all the colors of 
the spec-tnim put together with filigree 
metal beads, and finished with flat pen¬ 
dants showing an Eskimo design. “Shack- 
leton bracelets” consisted of a pair of 
filigree gold bracelets set with colored 
stones, united by a long slender chain of 
filigree links set with similar stones. 
“Negligee girdles,” advised for athletic 
wear, would be found desirable by wom¬ 
en actively engaged, who dislike the con¬ 
finement of an ordinary corset. They are 
made of open-meshed tricot, extending 
only about an inch above the waist liue, 
while below they follow the outline of 
an ordinary corset, and are provided with 
stocking supporters. They are priced at 
$1.50 and $1,75. 
