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April lit, 1910 
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The Moline Line 
of Implements 
Plow* 
(steel and chilled) 
Harrow* 
Planter* 
Cultivator* 
Grain Drills 
Lime Sowers 
Mowers 
Hay Rakes 
Hay Loaders 
Hay Stackers 
Grain Binders 
Corn Binders 
Pitless Scales 
Spreaders 
Watjnnn 
Use Moline Hay Tools this year and you will 
accomplish two things — obtain a better grade of 
hay and save a great deal of time. 
Regardless of your hay tool requirements, 
there is a Moline Haying Tool to give you better 
and quicker results under all conditions. 
Moline Gearless Hay Loader operates entirely 
without the use of gears, sprockets, chains, rope 
webs, etc. It gives you less trouble than any loader 
made, and because of its long, easy 5-ft. stroke, 
loads hay without breaking or shattering. Loads 
light swaths or heavy windrows without adjust¬ 
ment. We also build a double cylinder loader 
known as Moline Loader No. 5, which is pre¬ 
ferred in some localities. 
By using Moline Side Delivery Rake you can 
rake your hay into long fluffy wind¬ 
rows where it will cure quickly and 
in best condition. It will also save 
your time in loading—we build two 
styles of side delivery rakes. No. 14 
combined side delivery rake and 
tedder—simply shift a lever and it is in¬ 
stantly converted into a tedder. No. 12 is 
a side delivery rake only. 
In addition we build a complete line of 
stackers, sweep rakes and mowers—all of 
which uphold the Moline reputation for 
quality, long life and convenience. 
Your Moline ‘Dealer will be glad 
to give you a complete description 
of any of these tools. See him 
or write us for full information. 
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MOLINE PLOW CO.. MOLINE ILL. 
MANUFACTURERS OF QUALITY FARM IMPLEMENTS SINCE IS65 
Sour Soils 
Must Have Lime 
To Produce Well 
The harmful soil acids, resulting from fermen¬ 
tation and decomposition of vegetable and animal 
matter, will prevent profitable growth of some plants 
and greatly retard healthy development of others. 
Write to us for free Litmus Paper and 
Directions for Making the Simple and 
Trustworthy Litmus Test for Soil Acidity. 
THE EASTERN AGRICULTURAL BUREAU 
Colorado Building, Washington, D. C. 
‘ The Litmus Test” 
W HITE WONDER SEED BEANS; free from disease and yielded 2f> 
bu. perac. last yr. $6 per bu. Geo. K. Bowdiih, Esperonce. N T. 
SEED CORN 
MILLION STRAWBERRY JtiigXlKZ. 
Fruit Trees, Rhubarb, Asparagus roots, vegetable plants 
and seed potatoes. Catalog free. MicliielN. Borgo,Vineland, N. J. 
5 ft ft ft Extra eeleo- 
jUUU ted, sure to 
B ”Shels KZfc 
rieties. Highest yielders Rest show corn. Also seed oats, barley, 
alfalfa. Spring wheat. 1200 acres Sample on request. Write 
to&fty for catalog, W• N. SCARFf* it SONS, New Carlisle* Ohio 
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Practical 
Live Stock Books 
FOR SALE~bY RURAL NEW-YORKER 
FEEDS AND FEEDING—Henry . $2.50 
MANUAL OF MILK PRODUCTS- 
Stocking .2.00 
DISEASES OF ANIMALS— Mayo . 1.75 
PRODUCTIVE SWINE HUSBANDRY 
Day .1*75 
BREEDING OF FARM ANIMALS— 
Harper .1.50 
CHEESE MAKING-Van Slyke . 1.75 
BUTTER MAKING —Publow . . .60 
MILK TESTING —Publow and Troy .60 
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Certified Luce’s Favorite. Long Island 
grown. Single bushel, $5. Two or more 
bushels, $4.75 per bushel. Beware of 
spurious seed offered at reduced prices. 
New York Grange Exchange 
212 E. Jefferson St. Syracuse, N. Y. 
6-YR. ASPARAGUS ROOTS 
Fur this year’s crop. $1 dozen; $4 hundred: $20 
thousand. 4-yr. root*, $2.50 hundred : $12 thou¬ 
sand. 3-yr. roots. $1.50 hundred; $8 thousand. 
HARRY L. SQUIRES, - Rood Ground, N.Y. 
Binder Twine 
ijetonr low 1919 prices. Farm- 
eracents wanted. Sample free. 
THEO BURT 8 SONS. Melrose. Ohio 
Wanted 
I* TV F.KT POT ATOM 1*1. A NTS. 50,000. Name 
Kinds and Price. ROLLIN' WKI.LBOKS.truton, N.J. 
S \VEFT CI.OVER. Best whiteScarilled. SI 8 Bu. Kxp. 
paid. Bags free. A. IILOOHINGDALE, Sohent-oiadj, N. V. 
BERRY PLANTS 
STRAWBERRY PLANTS, earliest, latest, largest, 
most productive and everbearing varieties. RASP- 
BERK Y,BLACKBERRY.(IOOSEBERRY.GR APE, 
CURRANT. ASPARAGUS. RHUBARB. HORSE¬ 
RADISH PLANTS. FRUIT and ORNAMENTAL 
TREES, SHRUBS. 
VEGETABLE PLANTS 
CABBAGE. CAULIFLOWER, BEET. CELERY. EGG. BRUS¬ 
SELS SPROUTS KALE. LETTUCE. ONION. PAftSLEY SAGE. 
PEPPER. SWEtiT POTATO. TOMATO PLANTS. ( fir... 
HARRY L. SQUIRES. GOOD GROUND. N. Y. 
A subscription to this magazine entitles 
you to membership in The POTATO ASSO¬ 
CIATION OF AMERICA. Write for sample copy. 
THE POTATO MAGAZINE Dept. I, 139 North Clark Street, Chicago. III. 
Things to Think About 
Old-time Farm Accounts 
In these days of good advice on busi¬ 
ness matters connected with the farm, 
from portly business men who sell the 
farmers’ products from swivel chairs, it is 
interesting to note that my wife’s ances¬ 
tors, 05 years ago, kept very accurate ac¬ 
counts. The page shown here is from a 
ledger which my wife found in the attic. 
It is labeled “John Cutting’s Book,” and 
in it are notations and accounts quite 
marvelously detailed, as to his farming- 
operation on this same farm a hundred 
years ago. This has been a farm quite 
awhile, for our house is 175 years old. 
It is interesting to compare the prices: 
Wages paid for labor were $10 a month, 
payable in produce or cash f probably pro¬ 
duce, for I imagine these good people sel¬ 
dom saw a dollar). It would be considcr- 
Page from Old-time Farm Account Book 
ably less of a strain if we could hire help 
at $10 a month, but how would you like 
to sell dressed “veil” at three cents a 
pound? EDWARD MOSEMAN. 
Vermont. 
Terribly Maimed Soldiers 
In regard to inquiry of T. M. M., 
Greenwich, Conn., as to soldier boys com¬ 
ing home with both legs and arms ampu¬ 
tated. I enclose a slip which was cut out 
of the “Farm and Dairy” of Salem, O., 
where a soldier came home with both legs 
and arms amputated, and is also blind. 
Ohio. a. A. B. 
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The clipping which our friend sends 
reads as follows: 
A HEARTBREAKING SIGHT 
Swung in a baggage car on one of the 
Pennsylvania trains going west, a soldier 
boy passed through Wednesday, and one 
glimpse at him made the hearts of men 
and women ache. lie was being taken 
home from the battlefields of France, 
where he had all but lost his life. Both 
arms and both legs had been taken off, 
and, worse, than all of this, his sight was 
gone. Tln> young soldier was being taken 
west.—Columbian Ledger. 
The United States Surgeon General 
tells us he has no record of any such case. 
A reader in Washington wrote us that in 
the Walter Reed hospital there is a sol¬ 
dier with both legs and arms amputated. 
We wrote at once to the commandant of 
this hospital and received the following: 
In reply to your communication of re¬ 
cent date. I am directed by the command¬ 
ing officer lo advise you that several can¬ 
vasses through our hospital wards, insti¬ 
tuted on several occasions by inquiries 
similar to yours, have each time failed 
to discover a patient with amputations of 
all extremities. Our files also fail to re¬ 
veal the record of any such disabilities in 
one soldier. david m. rlom, 
Capt. M. C., U. S. A. 
Home Canning as a Business 
The suggestion of Mr. Morgan in Tiie 
R. N.-Y.. page 533, that farm women ad¬ 
vertise their surplus stock of canned fruits 
and vegetables for sale, so that the city 
dweller may supply himself by parcel 
post, has aroused considerable discussion 
in our home. The question might be dis¬ 
posed of, off hand, by simply stating the 
bald fact “there ain't no surplus,” for 
there seldom is. Too often the housewife 
has to content herself with a garden far 
too small for the needs of her own family. 
Men who are intent on the culture and 
harvest of crops measured in acres have 
little time or patience for “garden putter¬ 
ing.” And the average housewife, when 
she has done the extra work necessitated 
by the extra farm help which the Sum¬ 
mer’s work always brings, and has re¬ 
sponded to the slogan dinned in her ears 
by the United States Department of Ag¬ 
riculture. the State Department of Agri¬ 
culture, the State College of Agriculture, 
the Home Economics Director, and canned 
“a can of vegetables and a can of fruit 
for every day of the year that the garden 
is not producing,” isn’t often madly en¬ 
thusiastic about canning for sale. 
But suppose.a woman should think it. a 
good business. First, she must see to it 
that the garden is planted with that end 
in view. Extra seed must be put in. 
(By the way, garden peas for seed are 
quoted as high as $22 per bushel.) She 
must invest quite a bit in cans, glass or 
tin. If she is to can in tin she must have 
some sealing equipment. Her wash-boiler, 
in which she does her home canning, usu¬ 
ally holds only eight jars—if she is can¬ 
ning in glass—and when canning vege¬ 
tables like peas or corn which require 
long processing, the total output per day 
is discouraging. Of course the home eco¬ 
nomies directors, if they chance to. see 
this, will at once suggest, mentally if not 
audibly, the purchase of a proper equip¬ 
ment, or, at least, of a pressure cooker. 
But the housewife usually has to consider 
the price of any extra equipment rather 
more carefully than a salaried expert 
When her season’s work is over, how 
shall she dispose of the product? Of 
course, advertise. 
But what shall she charge? 
One of the things about buying directly 
from the producer which appeals to the 
consumer is that lie expects to pay less 
than when the article has passed through 
several hands. In the case of natural 
products, as honey and nuts, this may be 
true, but the housewife, who counts the 
cost cannot compete in price witli the 
commercial canner. She must not say to 
herself, “The stuff didn’t cost me any¬ 
thing, and we have all the wood we can 
burn anyway.” These items must be con¬ 
sidered. Take, for example, a can of baby 
beot^ ; the ideal size for canned beets al¬ 
lows for IS whole beets to the pint can. 
Eighteen baby beets means in the market 
three bunches, which at baby beet time 
sell for from five to 10 cents per bunch. 
Allowing six emits per hunch, the beets 
will cost IS cents. The jar and rubber 
will cost about 11 cents. Beets are a hit 
slow to prepare, as they must be blanched, 
skinned, packed and then processed for an 
hour and a half. This will mean the use 
of a fire and watchful care for at least 
three hours. Farmhoi: ,e help by the day 
now demands its 20 cents an hour. Is the 
skilled housewife worth as much? And 
surely fuel is worth something. How 
much will a can of first-class home-grown 
home-canned beets be worth? Where can 
she find persons willing to pay the price, 
when commercially canned beets are of¬ 
fered for 20 to 25 cents a can? 
In some instances during the past two 
Summers the appetitie of the public for 
home-canned products has been whetted 
by the sale of the surplus from community 
kitchens. These kitchens, organized to 
save the produce mainly from market 
gardens, or gardens of the rich, which 
might otherwise have gone to waste, and 
which was usually given to the kitchen, 
supported by voluntary contributions of 
money and labor, offered their output at 
comparatively low prices. The work of 
these kitchens is in every way to be com¬ 
mended, hut the purchaser of their goods 
should not forget that the farm housewife 
has no such help. What she puts in the 
can has a money value; her equipment 
was paid for out of her own pocket, and 
her time also has a value. 
Still, we farm housewives are plucky, 
and if we can be assured of a market and 
a price which will pay for our labor in 
getting the extra garden planted and 
cared for, for our equipment of cans and 
crates, for the time and fuel spent in pro¬ 
cessing, and for our skill, we’ll “go to it” 
and can and can and can! alma. 
New York. 
Minimum Prices for Produce 
In Western Michigan we are working 
out a minimum price in many products. 
The creameries are strong and fair. Heinz 
price on pickles this year is $2.50 per 
cwt. on the small pickling varieties. The 
Holland-St. Louis sugar factories pay $10 
per ton for sugar beets, with an ascend¬ 
ing scale in high percentages, and the 
Holland Canning Company pays the fol¬ 
lowing prices on the articles listed : 
16-qt. crate (crates furnished) — 
Strawberries . $1.40 
Black raspberries. 2.00 
Blackberries . 1.75 
Per pound— 
Gooseberries . .05 
Cherries .0(5 
Per ton (2.000 lbs) — 
Wax beans . 50 00 
Green beans . 00.00 
Tomatoes . 18.00 
As no crates are furnished by the farm¬ 
ers, the price is really about 15 cents 
higher than the list. For myself I must 
say that I am a firm believer in minimum 
prices, even though they are not the high¬ 
est. I think when we have solved our fer¬ 
tilizer problems we will find vegetables 
and fruits our strong points. And the 
fertilizer problem is fast being solved by 
th(> White Leghorn hen in this vicinity. 
Michigan. d. h. c. 
