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T HE FIRE DEMON rides in 
the terrible lightning stroke! He is 
plunging his torch of destruction down on barns, 
silos, houses,—killing, destroying, sweeping away 
the profits and savings of years.. He kills or inj ures 
by lightning 4 people a day in the United States. 
Lightning turns $22,000 of valuable property into 
smoldering ruins every 24 hours,— a loss of nearly 
$1000 an hour. 
Lightning Waits for No Man! 
/ The losses from lightning fires in Illinois in 
I 1918, 1919, and 1920 reached the terrific total of 
^ $2,216,829. More than 99% of this fearful and 
unnecessary loss was on unrodded buildings. 
Your barn, your house, your loved ones may 
be the next victims. Don’t delay! This terrible destruction 
is going on right now! Protection is cheaper than re¬ 
building. You pay for lightning protection only once in 
a lifetime. Its cost is less than you would lose by fire OH 
an insured building. 
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Milking Machine for One Cow 
About the milking machine—(lid you 
ever know of anyone with a single cow 
'installing a machine? Some years ago 
I had an interview with -a selling agent, 
who insisted that in a single instance he 
had done so. The circumstances were 
that an elderly woman, who had always 
kept a cow and milked her herself, had 
become disabled, and could no longer 
milk ; she sent to the dealer and had. a 
machine sent out, with an expert to in¬ 
stall it. She was situated so that she 
could connect with street wires, her build¬ 
ings being already supplied with lights. 
It is not to be argued that it was profit¬ 
able to do that, but we can readily be¬ 
lieve that some well-to-do folks might 
like to do it. I have a fairly useful left 
hand, but it isn’t equal to milking. Now, 
after 74 years, I have to milk with one 
hand. I shall put electric lights in the 
house and barn very soon. I assume that 
the machine wouldn’t fail. B. 
Massachusetts. 
R. N.-Y.—There is only one way to 
find out—that is submit it to the big 
army of It. N.-Y. readers. They will 
know if anything is known about, it. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
May 2-5—Thirteenth Annual Purdue 
Egg Show, Lafayette, Ind. 
May 11—Annual meeting American 
Guernsey Cattle Club, New York City. 
May Iff — Washington County, Pa., 
Guernsey Field Day. Washington, Pa. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
May 17 —• Holsteins. State Fair 
Grounds, Milwaukee. Wis. IIolstein-Frie- 
sian Breeders’ Association of Wisconsin. 
L. L. Oldham, secretary, Madison, Wis. 
May 18—Jerseys. Monroe County Jor- 
sev Breeders’ consignment sale at Tomah, 
Wis. 
May 18-lff — Holsteins. Manitowoc 
County Holstein-Friesian Breeders’ Asso¬ 
ciation, Manitowoc, Wis. Chas. Ilampke, 
manager. 
May 23-24—Holsteins. Missouri State 
Holstein Association show and sale at Se- 
dalia, Mo. 
May 24—Guernseys. Marathon County 
Guernsey Breeders’ Association’s second 
annual consignment sale at Wausau, Wis. 
F. E. Fox, Waukesha, Wis., sales mana¬ 
ger. 
May 25—Guernseys. Portage County 
Guernsey Breeders’ Association’s annual 
consignment sale of registered Guernseys 
at Amherst. Wis. R. K. McDonald, sec¬ 
retary. F. E. Fox, Waukesha, sales man¬ 
ager. 
May 26—■ Holsteins. Michigan Hol- 
etein-Friesian Breeders’ Association sale 
at Grand Rapids, Mich. H. W. Norton, 
Jr., secretary, Lansing. 
May 26 — Guernseys. Portage County 
Guernsey Breeders’ Association annual 
consignment sale of registered Guernsey 
males and grade females at Amherst, 
Wis. R. K. McDonald, secretary ; F. E. 
Fox, Waukesha, Wis., sales manager. 
May 26—Holsteins. Marshfield, Wis., 
Holstein-Friesian Breeders’ Association 
of Wisconsin. L. L. Oldham, secretary, 
Madison, Wis. 
May 27—Holsteins. Outagamie Coun¬ 
ty Holstein Breeders’ Association sale at 
Appleton, Wis. Edw. O. Mueller, secre¬ 
tary. 
June 1—Holsteins. Dispersal of Fair- 
view Stock Farm’s herd at Anderson, 
Ind. O. L. Janney, owner. 
June 3—Guernseys. Fond du Lac 
County combination sale. Charles L. 
Hill, manager. 
June ff—Holsteins. First annual bred 
heifer sale. Thorp, Wis. W. H. Krause. 
June 9—Michigan Aberdeen-Angus 
Breeders’ Association sale, East Lansing. 
Mich. Ward Hathaway, Ovid, Mich., sec- 
reary. 
June 22—Ohio Aberdeen-Angus Breed¬ 
ers’ Association sale, Fair Grounds, Co¬ 
lumbus, O. C. D. Littleton, Kenton, O., 
secretary. 
September 23—Eastern Aberdeen-An¬ 
gus Breeders’ Association sale. Eastern 
States Exposition, Springfield, Mass. F. 
W. Burnham. Greenfield, Mass, secretary. 
October 12—Indiana Aberdeen-Angus 
Breeders’ Association sale, Indianapolis, 
Ind. Prof. C. F. Gobble, Lafayette, Ind., 
secretary. 
KILL YOUR WEEDS 
*1*1111 1% in II will do it at small 
O I H l« WH ll l w expense. Write us 
UFDRirjnF for lea ^l et and 
IldlDIwIVEi further particulars. 
STANDARD CHEMICAL WORKS Reading, Pa. 
DO YOU NEED FARM HELP ? 
We have many able-bodied young men, with 
and without experience, who wish to work on 
farms. If vou need a good, steady man. write 
for an order blank. Ours is a philanthropic 
organization, and we make no charge to em¬ 
ployer or employee. 
THE JEWISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY 
Y76 Second Avenue New York City 
BINDER TWINE 
Get our low price in quantities to GRANGES and 
FARMERS' ASSOCIATIONS. Agents wanted. Samples 
free. THEO, BUKT & SONS, Melrose, Ohio 
Best Grade Horse Mannre t 0 o # s a e g ll ts 
Writ* for price* NEW JERSEY MANURE CO.. Newark. N. J. 
Subscribers' Exchange 
Other Advertisements of Subscribers* 
Exchange will be found on page 667. 
WANTED—At once, two colony stove hovers, 
large size, standard make. J. E. MURRAY. 
Moriches, N. Y. 
WANTED—Cream separator; also milk bottles. 
E. LINDSTROM, R. F. D. No. 1, Somerville, 
N. J. 
JAMES barn equipment for sale; drinking buck¬ 
ets for nine cows; Rig Boy manure carrier 
with 70 feet of track and swinging crane; never 
installed; a bargain. F, P. HART, Red Hook, 
N. Y. 
CASE TRACTOR and plows, complete; first-class 
condition; price $<‘>00. R. G. HARWOOD, 92 
Water St., Boston, Mass. 
FOR SALE—$1,700 will purchase my practically 
new, especially equipped Oakland Six Sedan 
automobile, worth $2,500; would consider $1,100 
cash; balance note, or exchange. BOX 61, Kings¬ 
ton, N. J. 
FOR SALE—4x5 Century plate camera; A1 con¬ 
dition; genuine leather case, tripod and ex¬ 
tras; cheap; write for particulars, A. S. Mc- 
HENRY, Rehrsburg, Pa. 
FOR SALE—$35 buys a Little Jap riding culti¬ 
vator; six shovels; used two days; f. o .b. 
Redden, Del. Address O. A. KEPHART, Route 
4, Georgetown, Del. 
WANTED—One-horse mowing machine. CHAS. 
P. LEAKE, Newfield, N. Y. 
NUT TREES—The best time to have native hick¬ 
ory, walnut and butternut trees topworked 
witli improved varieties is in May and June; 
inspections, estimates, topworking, scions. W. 
C. DEMING, Danbury, Conn.; Route 2. 
BEAN HULLER wanted; send description and 
price. THEO. E. DETMEIt, Malinta, O. 
FANCY maple syrup, $2.50 per gal.; sugar in 5 
and 10-lb. pails, 35c per lb.; 2-oz. cakes in 
bulk, 40c; in attractive boxes, 45c. W. H. 
WARREN, North Pomfret, Vt. 
FOR SALE—Two Cletrac tractors; latest model; 
almost new; with plows and harrows; priced 
to sell at great reduction. G. G. BURLINGAME, 
98 Chambers Street, New York City. 
