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November 1*0, 1920 
MAKE FARM LIFE 
ATTRACTIVE 
Save Labor 
With Belt-Driven 
Machinery 
Enjoy the 
Comforts of 
Modern Electrical 
Appliances 
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Electric Litfht Plant and 
Power-Plant combined. 
Made for farm use. Eas¬ 
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guaranteed satisfactory. 
The need for Litscher Lite is being realized every¬ 
where, because it brings city comforts at small 
cost to farmers not served with electric current. 
More Than a Lighting Plant 
Litscher Lite has surplus power. By belt trans¬ 
mission from its power pulley it operates labor- 
saving farm machinery, and at the same time 
supplies current for electric lights and electrical 
appliances in the home. 
Easy to Operate 
It is not necessary to stop work to charge the 
batteries. The excess power of the Litscher Lite 
will keep the batteries fully charged. 
Thousands in Use 
Litscher Lite cuts down working hours and 
makes work easier. It is correctly designed — 
simple, sturdy and reliable. If you are a modern 
farmer you should have a Litscher Lite plant. 
It is the plant you will eventually buy, because it 
has no equal for usefulness, quality and price. 
Limited Territory Open for Dealers 
C. L. TEMPLAR, Distributor 
329 Oneida Street 
SYRACUSE, NEW YORK 
Factory: Litscher Lite Corporation, Crand Rapids, Michigan 
YOU are naturally anxious to get the full market value 
for your Raw Furs, so ship them to Joseph Ullmann, 
Inc. During our sixty-six years of progress through 
fair dealing, we have always quoted prices according 
to the actual value, and have always paid the prices 
we quote. 
We are always in the market for Raw Furs whether 
prices are high or low, or the demand is good or poor. 
QUICK CASH PAYMENTS 
There is no delay in getting your money when you ship 
to us. We charge no commission, pay all express 
charges and refund postage on mail shipments. 
References: Any bank in the United States. Branches 
in all the important fur markets. 
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Garden Notes From New England 
Sunday Seeling Forbidden. — Road¬ 
side soiling, which is rapidly being de¬ 
veloped into a systematic business, has 
received a jolt which in the end may prove 
a serious handicap. In the town of 
Weston, through which loads a main trav¬ 
eled road that, is thronged by automo¬ 
biles every week end, the local authorities 
have forbidden the farmers to sell their 
goods on Sunday. More business is done 
Celery Bunched with Nails 
under ordinary condition on Saturday and 
Sunday than during all the rest of the 
week put together, and in many cases 
Sunday is the biggest day of all. Whether 
or not it makes for the moral improve¬ 
ment of a community to have, the Sabbath 
turned into a day of trade is beside the 
question. Anyway, the interference of 
the local authorities was not due, I un¬ 
derstand, to any such consideration, but 
because some of the local storekeepers 
conceived the idea that they were losing 
business which properly belonged to them, 
and that the farmers were receiving 
money directly which ought first to pass 
mum price this season, especially with » 
short crop. Perhaps there will be a more 
favorable season next year, but as it is 
there is much pessimism among growers. 
IIow Celery Is Handled. —There has 
been an interesting exhibit at the farm 
of Amherst College the past. Fall, ilius 
trating the ability of Easy Blanching cel¬ 
ery to resist blight. This celery was 
grown in the same row as Golden Self 
Blanching, and was given exactly the 
same treatment. Yet the latter celery 
suffered so badly from the blight that it 
was quite unfit for market. The Easy 
Blanching celery, on the other hand, was 
damaged but little. Easy Blanching is 
by no means a perfect celery, but it is 
pi’oving itself far superior to Paris 
Golden or Golden Self Blanching, and 
for that reason is worth a trial on the 
home grounds, as well as in the fields of 
the commercial grower. Other new va¬ 
rieties arc being tried out among the 
market gardeners, and probably will be 
heard from later. They represent a type 
which is half way between Paris Golden 
and Giant Pascal. It is still the custom 
around Boston to fasten celery bunches 
with nails. The experiment has been 
made of tying the bunches, and some cus¬ 
tomers, particularly the hotels and fancy 
restaurants, seem to like this method. As 
a rule, however, the plan of using nails 
seems to be the most satisfactory. This 
implies, thought, that the nailing is done 
in the right way. Careless or ignorant 
employees may do much to injure the 
grower’s reputation, because customers 
who get nails driven through the heart 
of the celery, making unsightly holes, are 
certain to find fault. If the celery is cut 
as it should he, with a little piece of the 
root stalk adhering, and the nails forced 
through this portion, below the heart, no 
harm will be done, and there will he no 
cause for complaint. Two nails should bo 
used, and the accompanying illustration 
shows just how they should be inserted. 
Growing Peanuts at Home. —Some 
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Cleaning Cranberries 
through their hands. The question is a 
serious one, because it apnears that in 
Massachusetts there is a law which 
places this matter wholly in the hands of 
the selectmen, and it is more than likely 
that in some other towns similar action 
will be taken. 
Farmer and Storekeeper. —To & cer¬ 
tain extent the farmers themselves are to 
blame. It is- a growing custom to sell 
other articles besides vegetables and 
fruits. In some instances pastry, chick¬ 
ens and dairy products are included. It 
is because of (lie diversity of products 
sold at the wayside stands that the store¬ 
keepers find their stand justified. The 
tension between the farmers and the 
storekeepers has been tightening for some 
time, and a break has been threatened on 
several occasions. In Quincy, for ex¬ 
ample, where one of the best outdoor mar¬ 
kets in the State has been established, 
to the great benefit of the citizens, consid¬ 
erable opposition had to be overcome this 
season before it could be opened. Of 
course, this market does no Sunday busi¬ 
ness, the trade being confined to Wednes¬ 
days and Saturdays. 
Cranberry Growers Disheartened.—• 
Cranberry growing used to be looked 
upon as one of the most profitable lines 
of agricultural endeavor in Now England. 
Now the situation is changed. While 
some growers have been making a fair 
profit, many others are greatly disheart¬ 
ened, and 1 think there never was a time 
when the bogs were in such a state of 
neglect. In the past, two or three years 
the growers have simply harvested the 
crop as best they could, without making 
much effort to keep the bogs weeded or 
otherwise cared for. High wages and the 
lack of labor are the causes for this con¬ 
dition. Many growers have paid a dollar 
an hour to pickers, which is far too high, 
considering the prices obtained for the 
products. To be sure, $8 a barrel seems 
plenty, and yet it: doesn’t allow the grower 
to much more than break even. Ten dol¬ 
lars a barrel ought to have been the mini¬ 
excellent crops of peanuts have been 
grown in New England this season, show¬ 
ing that it isn’t necessary to live in “Ole 
Virginny” in order to have back-yard 
peanuts. A little girl, Carrie Louise 
Randall, who happens to live in my town, 
has been especially sueceessful. Not. only 
did she get a good-sized crop for the 
amount of space used, but the peanuts 
themselves were large, and compared fa¬ 
vorably with those from the South. She 
planted raw peanuts purchased from a 
A Massaclissetts Girl's Peanut Crop 
local Italian, and used a piece of ground 
where a poultry-house had formerly 
stood. The soil itself was very sandy, 
which seems to suit peanuts, but naturally 
had been made rich by the poultry ma¬ 
nure. But little attention was given the 
crop, except to keep it weeded and the soil 
stirred, and the results were quite sur¬ 
prising, at least to the neighbors who 
hadn’t considered peanut raising in Mas¬ 
sachusetts feasible. E. I. FARRINGTON. 
