75 
Haul A Load 
Each Way 
Crops must be hauled 
to town, and fertilizer 
must be hauled home. 
Why Not 
Combine the Trips? 
When you 
tako 
a load 
to town 
Plan to haul a load of 
SPRING 
FERTILIZER 
Play safe and get 
your fertilizer stored 
in your own barn. 
War conditions have de¬ 
creased the supply of fer¬ 
tilizer and increased the 
demand. Late orderers 
may be disappointed. 
Co-operate With Your Dealer 
Few dealers have sufficient storage 
space to carry large fertilizer stocks 
on hand. Shipments in less than 
capacity car loads—40 to 50 tons 
—are discouraged—even refused. 
Co-operate with your dealer—place 
your order now—enable him to 
combine orders and make up a 
full car load. When your car 
arrives haul as soon as possible— 
on one of your return trips. Take 
part of the fertilizer directly from 
the car if you can. Hasten unload¬ 
ing—free the car for other uses. 
Order Spring Fertilizer NOW 
Make certain of your supply and at 
the same time do your part toward 
relieving railroad congestion. 
Send for lUeralure to Dept. 19 
Soil Improvement Committee 
National Fertilizer Association 
Postal Telecraph Bldf. 
Chicago 
The Manicr Bldg. 
Baltimora 
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U/te RURAL N 
A Farm Woman’s Experience 
Fuel Conservatiox. —The shortage of 
coal is causing fanners to resort to their 
woodlots if they are fortunate enough to 
own any. Of late years, the woodlots 
have become so scarce and so thin that 
many farm families burn coal almost en¬ 
tirely. Other reasons for this are the fact 
that labor was high and scarce, and it 
costs more to get the wood out and ready 
for the stove than coal would cost, and 
the women folks found coal much cleaner 
and more convenient to burn, besides giv¬ 
ing a more even heat. But when a man 
travels 10, 15 or 20 miles for a load of 
coal, waits in lino for his order, waits his 
turn to get perhaps a ton or loss of coal, 
a"fl(l makes the long trip home, he is glad 
to turn tt) the woodlot. It is to be hoped 
that the fuel administration will see that 
wood shall not be sold for a very high 
price, or some short-sightixi persons will 
promptly go to cutting down the poor 
little patches of trees th.at are left of our 
groiit forests. 
The big trouble with the farm Avoodland 
is that in almost every ciise it is n.sed as 
part of the pasture land, and naturally 
cattle eat and trample the seedling trees 
year after year, and the forest <‘annot 
perpetuate itself. The pasturage in wood¬ 
lands is seldom of much value, while the 
damage done to young trees i.s incal¬ 
culable. Let farmers fence off their 
woodlands, or let tlie legislatt>rs giv'e us a 
law making it a misdemeanor to allow 
grazing animals to be in woodlots. Then 
if only the timber that is going to waste 
i.s cut, in !i few years there will be a 
great increase in the number of trees and 
the value and usefulness of the woodlot 
will bo enhanced. 
To come to real economy in fuel, such 
as has been jiracticed in Knrope for years, 
all the bits of waste wood in fields and 
about the buildings should be picked up, 
Itnish pile.s slmnld not be burned, but 
broken up into convenient sticks for fuel, 
and fruit ami shade trees should be care¬ 
fully jirnned of their dead and surplus 
wood. Wiomen and children can help very 
much with this work. 
And after the fuel reaches the woodbox 
it i.s only the beginning of the housewife’s 
saving, for she has to go through the 
whole gamut of cooking and heating econ¬ 
omies, from doing all the cooking and bak¬ 
ing that she can with one fire to remem¬ 
bering to shut off the drafts when she is 
through with it, and from planning the 
most economical and effective w.ay of 
heating the house, to .seeing that the 
weatherstrips and .storm doors are in good 
order. And finally, we farmers ask that 
fuel he not wasted by running saloons, 
too many moving picture theaters or iu- 
dnstrie.s that are purely luxuries. IVe are 
willing to do our best to conserve fuel, 
and we expect other clas.ses and industries 
to do the same. 
The Fakm Budget. —Figuring out the 
year’s receipts and expenses is truly a 
melancholy occupation. Here are the en¬ 
velopes which contained the checks from 
the cheese factory. No use holding them 
lip to the light; they are empty, every 
one. which goes to prove the proverb that 
riches certainly make themselves wings. 
These statements on the outside of the en¬ 
velopes, tell us that the milk delivered at 
the factory during seven and one-half 
months brought ,$2.08 per hundred, and 
these little reports from the condensery 
for the remaining four and one-haif 
months of the year show tjjat milk 
brought .$2..89 per hundred, making the 
average $2.20 per hundred for the year. 
Adding up the receipts from other sources, 
such as sales of cows, <‘alves. pork, poul¬ 
try, etc., only increases onr dismay at the 
evanescence of earthly treasure, and we 
turn to the expenditures in the hope of 
finding whether it departed by legitimate 
means or by some unsuspectiKl loojihole. 
Fully 7.3 per cent of the receipts have 
been used to maintain the farm, ,32 per 
cent of it having been expended for feed. 
15 iier cent for seed, repairs and other 
equipment. 10 per cent for labor, 13 per 
cent for interest and iiayments on debt, 
and .3 per cent for taxes and insurance. 
The other 27 per cent covers the living 
expenses, including groceries, clothing, 
coal. oil. doctor’s and dentist’s bills, 
church dues, telephone, magazines, etc., 
also the school expenses of three cliil- 
dren in high school. The chief thing 
that stares at us from this survey of the 
year’s accounts is the number of mistakes 
made. For instance, the per cent for 
labor is low on account of not having a 
man by the year, and to hire “off and on” 
costs much more in proimrtion to the 
amount of work done. And when farm 
labor is scarce, work cannot be done on 
time and losses result. But it is better to 
see the mistakes than not to see them. 
To make the accounts easier to classify 
next year we are marking each item as it 
is entered in the account book with an 
initial to indicate its class. For this 
business of keeping accounts is rather 
fascinating after all, and without an ac¬ 
curate record we shall not know whether 
we have benefited by past mistakes or not. 
MRS. A. G. UOREX. 
E W-YO R K E R 
The Day 
for Fertilizers 
The Breeders Gazette of Nov, 1 says: 
‘‘There never was a day when ferti¬ 
lizers would do so much good on the 
lands of this country as during this war. 
We need still greater yields. Fertilizers 
produce them without causing much 
extra work excepting to harvest the in¬ 
creased crops. With the scarcity of farm 
labor it is difficult to increase the acreage 
of land which any farmer can operate 
next ^ season. With the high prices 
prevailing for crops it is possible to make 
a profit on the fertilizers used even on 
ordinary grain crops.” 
Practically every farmer realizes the truth 
of this. Hired help can get more per acre from 
land that is well fertilized. A hushel of wheat, 
corn, oats or potatoes now buys more fertili 2 ^r 
than ever before. 
A*A C- FERTILIZERS , 
produce more fodder, hay and grain; the 
farmer can keep more stock to make more ma¬ 
nure ; and he is using the fertilizers. They pay 
him. We only wish we could produce more of 
them. In view of the abnormal war conditions, 
our friends must get their orders in early and 
bear with us in patience if delivery is late; for 
there never was a time when every condition 
affecting the fertilizer trade was so much upset 
as right nov'. Don*t drive home an empty 
wagon. Order early. 
If we have no agent in your town, we want one. Write us for 
agent’s name or ask for cn agency yourself. It is paying 50,000 others. 
Why not you? 
.VOWTOMAKi' 
MONEYWL 
READ THIS BOOK 
No matter how many other books about ferti¬ 
lizer you have read, read this one. It is a new and 
different book. There isn’t any advice in it for one 
thing. Probably you have about all the advice you 
need already. This is just a common sense book. 
You will read it and say: “That’s so! Why 
haven 11 thought of that before. ’’ If you are using 
fertilizers you are probably making money with 
them, but are you making enough? How do you 
know? By making little changes here and there, as you some¬ 
times shift your farm labor and teams, perhaps you can make 
more. This book may help you. 
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Send me “How to Make Money with Fertilizers.” I expect to 
ttse . tons of fertilizer this season. !<• x.-v. g 
My Name . 
My Post Office Address . 
My County . State. . 
My Crops for 1918 . 
T*** American Agricultural Chemical Co. 
SECRETARY’S OFFICE 
2 Rector Street, New York, N. Y. 
The Company maintains an Agricultural Seryice Bureau 
conducted by Dr. H. J. Wheeler, (for many years Director of 
Rhode Island State Experiment Station), whose Crop 
Bulletins, services and advice are free to all farmers. 
W* skip from 60 different centers east of the Mississippi. 
tood service for you wherever you live. 
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