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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 2;*.. IhlS 
Save Money^—Use Concrete 
For Barnyard and Manure Pit 
‘ One load of manure from a concrete pit is worth 1 to 2 
loads as ordinarily stored,” says the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture. A concrete pit conserves fertility. A concrete 
barnyard is moderate in cost and saves grain, labor and 
manure. It soon pays for itself if you use good concrete 
made of 
ALPHA 
TIE GUmTEED 
PORTLAND 
CEMENT 
“Use cement guaranteed for 
strength,” is the Government’s advice 
to farmers. We guarantee every 
saclc of ALPHA Cement to meet 
the standard specifications. ELxpert 
chemists test ALPHA hourly while 
being made in order to make sur0 
that every bag of it is pure, live and 
great in binding power. Concrete is 
placed to stand for generations. You 
can’t have sand, stone or cement that 
is too good. Use ALPHA and be sure 
of the best results. It costs no more 
than any other high-grade cement. 
Ask us for a free copy of the big, illustrated book, "‘ALPHA Cement How to 
Use It,” full of valuable information about all kinds of concrete work. We also 
have the practical ALPHA Service Sheets on the following subjects: 
-Walkway 
-Driveway 
-Small Bridge 
-Culvert 
-Foundation 
-Bam 
-Water Trough 
-Gutter end Curb 
-Silo 
-Poultry House 
—Corn Crib 
—Storage Cellar 
—Small Dam 
—Greenhouse 
—Hotbed 
—Hog House 
—Steps 
—Porch Floor 
—Cellar Floor 
—Stable Floor 
—Feeding Floor 
—Smoke House 
—Milk House 
—Ice House 
—Spring House 
—Manure Pit 
—Septic Tank 
—Dipping Vat 
—Taflks 
—Tennis Court 
—Cold-Weather Concrete Work 
—Concrete Hoof 
—Piers for Small Boats 
—Garden Furniture 
—Fence Posts 
—Gate Posts 
—Walls 
—SiUs 
—Lintels 
—Garages 
—Concrete Roads 
Alpha Cement Dealers of the Elast 
If you don’t know a nearby Alpha Dealer, address Alpha Portland Cement Co., Easton, Pa. 
mentioning The Rural New-Yorker and the building of improvement that interests you- 
CONCRETE FOR PERMANENCE 
Healtlw'Udder 
Good Milker 
The milk flow will be easier and more gen¬ 
erous if the udder is free from sores, cuts, 
ehaps, bmi.scs, cracks, bunches or onflammaUcm 
I^g Balm, tlie great healing ointment, is 
used in. tliousands of the best daincs for aU 
udder troubles, cow pox, and any extcrwr 
wound or hurt. Caked Bag Is Quick^ m- 
movod by Bag Balm: its great penetrating 
QuaUties soothe and soften 
hasten normal beading. Keep Bag Balm on 
^'^Sold^ht^^mg 60o packages by feed dealers 
and dmggists. Write for free booklet. 
“Dairy wrinkles." 
DAIBY ASSOCIATION CO., Lyndonville. Vt 
LABEL 
DANA’S EAR LABELS 
Are stamped with any ntime or address with serial 
numbers. They are simple, pi actical and a distinct 
and reliable mark. Samples free. Agents wanted. 
C.H. DANA,74 Main St.,West Lebanon, N.U 
fn colors explains 
_ __ how you can save 
money on Farm Truck or Road 
Wagons, also steelier wood wheels to bt 
any running * 
gear. Send for 
It today. 
Electric Wheel Co. 
48 Elm St.,Quinc]r,lll. 
Free Catalog 
Standard Fruit Books 
Successful Fruit Culture. Maynard-$1.00 
The Nursery Book. Bailey. LbO 
American Fruit Culturist. Thomas.... 2.60 
Citrus Fruits, Hume..2.60 
California Fruits. Wickson. o.OO 
Dwarf Fruit Trees, Waugh. .00 
Plums and Plum Culture. Waugh.1.60 
Fruit Ranching in British Columbia. 
Bealhy . 1-50 
Farm and Garden Eule Book.. 2.00 
Live Stock — Poultry 
Types and Breeds of Farm Animals. 
Plumb . $2.00 
Poultry Feeding and Management. 
Dryden . 1.60 
Swine in America. Coburn.2.60 
Diseases of Animals. Mayo. 1.50 
Principles of Breeding. Davenport.2.60 
FOR SALE BY 
Rural New-Yarker, 333 W. 30lli St., NewVark 
After 
a Hard, Long Winter 
of forced feeding on roughage and 
grain, many a cow breaks down 
under the strain. Avoid the sudden 
sickness and slow decline of produc¬ 
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big. Make the 60-dollar a ton grain 
earn full value. Feed a pinch of 
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a natural, concentrated herb tonic, nearly 
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Box 50 Syracuse, N. Y. 
Buys the New Butterfly! 
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Made also in five larger sizes up to No. 8' 
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ALBAMGH-DOVER CO., 8171 Marshall B!yd.,CHICAg0 
Notes by a Farm Mother 
Spring is ox tite Way.— The old bear 
was certainly wise when he went back to 
sleep for six weeks, .fudging by the storm 
that’s raging todaj’, one wouldn't think 
that Spring is only a few weeks away. 
But every day the sun is with us a little 
longer, and soon someone will see a robin 
that is cheerily singing “(’beer up,” and 
Spring will be here, though skies may still 
be gray. Kvery mail brings the seed cat¬ 
alogues. and how we wish we could raise 
everything pictured therein. But past 
experience makes us wary, and we won t 
spend gof»d money for worthless seeds, as 
so often happened in the past, ^^ hat seeil 
we do buy will be only from a firm ad¬ 
vertising in The B. X.-Y. _ We think 
every family on the farm or in Ji A’illage 
should take this paper, not only because 
it’s interesting and instructive, but be¬ 
cause of the dependence you can put in 
its advertising and its freedom from the 
schemes of those human leeches who sup¬ 
ply their tables and pocketbooks through 
the labor of others. 
Cheap Bapeks. —An advertisement has 
been going the rounds of the dumper farm 
For Your Empty Bags 
Don’t throw away a single bag— 
they're wor^ money ^to you. x^nces are 
'way up now. Cash in on all you nave. 
But be sure you get our prices before 
you Bella single one.We tfuaranteemost 
libe^ grading. Over 20 years jn busi¬ 
ness is your assurance of asQuare aeai 
every time. We buy any quami^* 
l^eight paid on all shipments to 
Werthan. rind out what real satisfao* 
tion is. Write quick* stating what you 
have. Address J 
WERTHAN BAG CO. J 
te Dock St. St. Louis, Mo. 
PAY'S 
h/ohest 
Empty 
bags 
The Postcard Holdup 
papers, asking boys and girls to sell post¬ 
cards and promising wonderful premiums 
“for a few hours’ work.” This is how it 
pans out: A little srirl answered their ad¬ 
vertisement and received 25 packages of 
six cards each. Nicer cards than these 
can be bought in the stores for 10 cents a 
dozen. The child tramped from one farm 
house to another, several miles through 
the almost impassable roads, to sell the 
cards at 10 cents per package, and what 
will she get for it’? Why, a pair of law 
curtains that you can buy from any mail 
order house for 50 cents. You send the 
concern a postal order for $2.50, which 
will cost five cents, postage stamps, then 
in case you want the premium after you 
earn it, you must send an extra 10 cents 
to insure it. That will leave you 32 cents 
for your trouble, besides the feeling of 
having sold your neighbors something 
they didn’t Avaut, at more than it Avas 
Avorth. Just imagine one of your boys or 
girls tramping around through the .snow 
and rain for these get-rich-ea_sys. If you 
are receiving any of these 25-cent maga¬ 
zines use them to build fires and clean 
lamp chimneys, but keep them from the 
children. If anyone should be made to 
get out and “hoe his oAvn row” it’s these 
contemptible fellows Avho are living by 
their Avits at the expense of the country 
people. You Avill say. “Don’t let the chil¬ 
dren ausAver any ‘ads’ unless you knoAV 
about it.” Very true, but in this case the 
child thought to surprise her mother Avith 
the present earned. Think of the dollars 
these felloAVs are raking in. Farmers are 
supposed to bite at all sorts of bait, 
Avhether it’s city lots in the middle of a 
lake or gold mines in the Western deserts. 
Let’s he Avise after this. 
Repairing W^.ls.—I t Avill soon be 
papering time; in fact, for A’ery busy 
farm Avomeu it is a good plan to do the 
spare rooms early, before the rush of 
Spring Avork. Often, especially in old 
houses. Avc find the plaster broken along 
the edges of door and AA'iudow casings 
and baseboards. Sometimes, the plaster 
is only loose, but in any case one can’t 
do a neat job of the papering unless this 
is hold in place. I take a long, thin strip 
of wood or heavy cardboard and press 
the plaster firm, tack the strip OAmr it to 
the lath. For other broken place, if no 
plaster of paris is at hand, I use card- 
hoard again, pasting a piece of cloth over 
that. In making the paste, add a piece of 
Avasliing soda the size of a walnut to a 
lO-quart pail of paste. This Avill make 
the i)aper stick much better. 
The Beauty of Pure Speech.—S ome 
of us have boys who Avill soou be hiring 
out for the season. Let us be very care¬ 
ful AA’here they go to live. Don’t send 
them to the men Avho kick and swear at 
their horses and cattle if yoii are con¬ 
cerned about your boys, for daily contact 
with that man will tend to make your boy 
like him. There are fine men on the 
farm in every community; take the 
trouble to find out Avho they are aud get 
your boy a place with the best, if he 
must hire out. And it is not only the 
men, but, in many homes, the women and 
girls use language that should make them 
blush to hear. Think of lips made for 
blessings and kisses giving utterance to 
curses. Swearing is. of all habits, the 
most useless; it degrades the user aud dis¬ 
gusts the listener, but, worst of all, is 
the effect on the pure minds of innocent 
childhood if they chance Avithin hearing. 
Ijet us women be particular, and insist 
upon pure speech in our households. 
OCR Little Ones.—S oou comes the 
yearly arrival of young things on the 
farm, and on many farms the mother will 
have to leave her own little ones alone 
in the house Avhile she helps care for the 
barn babies. If you have an older child 
to Avatch baby, it may be safe to leaA'e 
them, but don’t eA-er leave little ones 
alone. Y'es, I knoAV. you may have done 
so and may do so safely again, but you 
never can be sure. Years ago Ave had 
an experience we never forgot. It Avas 
one Avash day aud as husband Avas going 
to Avork in the bush, he helped me carry 
a boiler of soft water from our neighbor’s 
cistern, a .short distance aAvay. One of 
the twin babies had had croup during the 
night, and I had given him some kero¬ 
sene and sugar, leaving the cup ou the 
top shelf of the sideboard, thinking it 
Avas out of reach. Shutting up the stoA-e 
drafts and giving the tAvin in his high 
chair a rattle to play with, and our little 
three-year-old son a lx>wl of bread and 
milk, we hurried away. V’lien Ave re¬ 
turned, in a A'ery short time, our baby 
boy lay back in his high chair gasping 
for bi<>ath. and the three-year-old Avas 
feeding him kerosene and sugar as fast as 
he could jiut the spoon from the cup to 
his mouth. I remember running outdoors 
Avith baby. Avhose face had a bluish, spot¬ 
ted look, believing that he Avas dying in 
ray arras. A hurry call AA’as sent to the 
ddetor eight miles away, and after he had 
given baby some poAvders, the little one 
Avas looking better, but no Avashiug Avas 
done that day—neither did “papa” get 
down to the bush. Doctor never forgot 
that call and often laughed about our lit¬ 
tle son playing doctor. But it wasn’t 
funny for me; after that I never left 
babies alone. A dear little neighbor 
Avoman of mine had a sadder experience. 
She only had one cow, and she always 
had to do the milking. Summer aud Win¬ 
ter. While her little girl was a baby she 
kept her in the baby buggy, tying her in 
Avhen she Avas just big enough to stand 
alone. When Winter came, girlie Avas 
walking, but as she was a very quiet, 
obedient child, always staying Avhere she 
•was told, the little mother Avas never 
really anxious, though she told me she 
Avas never longer than five minutes out of 
the house. One bitterly cold evening, in 
a howling snoAvstorm, the little woman 
Aveut Avith her husband to the barn, he 
Ready for the Spriny Puperiny 
to tend bis horses and she to strip the 
cow. As she finished milking she heard 
a child scream, aud running to the door 
saw her little girl outside the house, in 
flames. Screaming to her husband, she 
rushed to the burning child aud wrapped 
her in the old coat she had ou. The doc¬ 
tor aud neighbors Avere there in a short 
time, but little could be done for the suf¬ 
fering child except to bandage the terrible 
burns and give her something to deaden 
the pain. It seems impossible, but that 
delicate little baby girl lived three days. 
No one kuoAvs how it happened, but they 
think she Avas cold and sat down on the 
stove hearth to Avarm. As the isinglass 
out of the front stove 
could easily catch fire, 
mother almost lost her 
this day blames herself, 
If her husband couldn’t milk 
made his wrists ache,” he 
was all broken 
door, her dress 
The i)oor little 
reason, aud to 
but I don’t, 
“because it 
should have stayed with his child till the 
mother came back. The mother’s heart 
Avill never cease to ache till she meets her 
baby again. s. 
