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Fifteen Years of Tractor Progress 
F IFTEEN years ago the Harvester 
Company set its resources and its 
unrivaled engineering and field 
knowledge to work at solving the farm- 
power problem. For fifteen years it 
has been placing practical tractors on 
the farms. The result of this long 
period of accomplishment is the present 
Titan 10-20 Kerosene Tractor. 
In the long period during which the 
Titan tractor has achieved leadership, 
no radical change has been made in its 
design or construction, _ proving that 
from the first it embodied the funda¬ 
mental principles of a successful trac¬ 
tor. It was designed right. 
But the Harvester Company could 
not be content to stop there. The 
Titan today has all the refinements 
and perfections of these progressive 
years of endeavor. In the factors of 
durability, economy, comfort, _ ease of 
control, and general satisfaction, the 
Titan continues the leader. 
Because of the farm labor shortage, 
for instance, many a tractor owner must 
depend upon his boys, and sometimes 
girls, for help to carry him over a peak¬ 
load period. For such an emergency 
the Titan has been made remarkably 
easy to steer. With the present con¬ 
trol, a fourteen-year-old boy can handle 
the Titan and do a man’s work. We 
have ample proof of this. 
Titan plowing speed is now 2% miles 
per hour. This is 1/4 times as fast as 
the average horse walks, and it is the 
maximum speed under which plows will 
take to the ground well or do a good job 
of plowing, under most conditions. At 
this speed, pulling three plows or an 
equivalent load of other machines, we 
believe the Titan does more and better 
work than any tractor near its rating, 
with less wear and tear, less expense 
and with entire safety to itself, its 
load, and the operator. This is trac¬ 
tor progress. 
Today Titan 10-20 is securely estab¬ 
lished in every section. Titan leads 
the field, the standard by which others 
are judged. 
International Harvester Company 
of America 
(INCORPORATED) 
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quick reply and a square deal." See guarantee editorial page, 
September 18, 1920 
Treatment for Epilepsy 
Would M. B. D. tell me what he thinks 
of the inclosed letter 1 w. J. w. 
The inclosed letter, with regard to a 
treatment for epilepsy, has all the ear¬ 
marks of fraudulency, and should he 
given no consideration whatever. Of all 
chronic, and in a very large number of 
cases incurable, diseases, epilepsy lends 
itself most readily to the purposes of the 
quack. Remedies, known to every physi¬ 
cian will almost invariably check the at¬ 
tacks and will frequently hold them in 
abeyance for months, even then accom¬ 
plishing nothing as far as permanent cure 
is concerned. Quacks may, of course, 
use these drugs under any fanciful claims 
and names that they choose, and for a 
time deceive their victims into believing 
that they are being cured. During these 
periods of temporary relief they may 
obtain honestly written and most glowing 
testimonials as to cures. A free trial 
treatment would be just the thing to 
secure the confidence, and finally much 
of the money, of the epileptic or his 
friends, and finally, when the. worthless¬ 
ness of the treatment was demonstrated, 
the quack would he ahead of the game by 
a considerable number of dollars. 
If in need of advice in regard to epi¬ 
lepsy, seek it only from competent and 
conscientious physicians. Epilepsy is as 
,v~\ one of the diseases for which medical 
science has been able to do comparatively 
little, and it has, consequently, offered a 
wide field for the conscienceless and mer¬ 
cenary quack. Under intelligent and con¬ 
tinued treatment, however, many eases 
are cured, and the most competent advice 
within reach should be obtained when its 
symptoms are noted. M. B. D. 
Treatment for Skin Disease 
I am troubled with skin eruptions, and 
wish to try the much advertised calcium 
wafers. I hesitate, fearing they may not 
be perfectly safe. Could you give me 
advice on the subject? n. g. l. 
The same statements that apply to all 
advertised nostrums for the cure of dis¬ 
ease must be made with regard to these 
“calcium wafers” for skin eruptions. 
There is little probability indeed of their 
proving of any value, and at least a 
possibility of their being actually harm¬ 
ful. The use of the most vicious of habit¬ 
forming drugs in advertised nostrums lias 
been out down in recent years by some¬ 
what stringent laws, so that alcohol, 
opium and other deadly drugs are not so 
frequently found parading as cures in the 
thousand and one “patent medicines” 
that fill the druggists’ shelves as formerly. 
The nostrum business is altogether too 
profitable, however, to permit of any 
slackening in the efforts to sell worthless 
stuff at high prices to those who cannot 
possibly have any knowledge of the action 
and the limitations of medicine. So long 
as millions of people can be found who 
are willing to “try anything once,” and 
part with a dollar for the sake of trying, 
there will be no lack of those who are 
willing to furnish a bottle, a cork and 
appropriate literature to wrap about both. 
The cost of the contents of bottle or 
package is too insignificant to be con¬ 
sidered, and if containers, corks and ad¬ 
vertising are expensive, the expense can 
well be met out of a dollar that is almost 
all “velvet,” and new fields can be entered 
when repeat orders cease to come from 
those already worked. In a field where 
real knowledge has been so slowly ac¬ 
quired and separated with such difficulty 
from what only appeared to be true, as 
it has in medicine, it' is not strange that 
ignorance and its accompanying credulity 
have been rampant and that these have 
been taken full advantage of by those to 
whom a 90-cent dollar has looked at¬ 
tractive. M. B. D. 
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Remedy for Itch 
Will you give a cure for the itch? 
New York. M. w. P. 
If by “itch” you mean the common 
disease of the hands and other parts 
caused by the burrowing parasite known 
as the itch mite you will find a remedy 
in sulphur ointment made up from some 
such formula as the following: Sulphur 
sublimate, one dram; balsam Peru, one- 
half dram; lard, one ounce. This is to be 
rubbed in well over the affected parts. 
The chief difficulty in getting rid qf this 
disorder is not in destroying the mite, but 
in preventing reinfection from under¬ 
clothing, bedding, or possibly the original 
source of the parasite, (.'are in prevent¬ 
ing this reinfection is quite as important 
as the use of direct remedies. Your phy¬ 
sician will instruct you in methods or 
guarding against this. M. B. D. 
It was the rush hour in one of those 
up-to-date lunch places where you help 
yourself and use the arm of your chair 
as a table. A man called for shepherd s 
pie, and chose a chair; then, remember¬ 
ing that he wanted coffee, he dashed over 
to the counter. When he returned with 
his coffee his chair was occupied by an¬ 
other hurry-up diner. “Excuse me, fluid 
the first man, “but this is my .chair. 
“IIow do you know it is your chair. Re¬ 
manded the occupant, in a surly tone. 
"Because I can prove it," stated the first 
ninn. "How can you prove it? askea 
the occupier. "By your clothes, was the 
reply. “ You are sitting on my lunch. — 
Credit Lost. 
