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Dollars 
in your 
Pocket! 
It pays to own a Craine Triple 
Wall Silo. Its three-wall con¬ 
struction insures exceptional 
strength and durability! Once up 
you can forget it; no lugs or 
hoops to tighten. It makes good 
silage and keeps it good! You 
get more beef and more milk 
for less feed money. 
You can rebuild your 
old stave silo into a 
handsome, strong, dur¬ 
able Craine. Our catalog 
is worth dollars to you. 
Write for it TODAY! 
Craine Silo Co. 
Box 110 
Norwich, 
N. Y. 
CRAINE t ^ p l l l e SILOS 
the Silos of giant strength 
Pullets and Cockerels 
Range raised. Tested for B. W, Diarrhoea. Park’s 
Barred Rock, Wyckoff’sand Hollywood S.C. White 
Leghorns, Vibert’s S. C. R. I. Reds. Free from 
disease. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 
A. H. FINGAR Sunnybrook Poultry Farm Elizaville, N Y. 
For Sale comb White Leghorn Cockerels 
Tancreed Strain. From dams with records of 270 
to 297 eggs. Fine, strong, vigorous birds. Free range, 
Price. $2.50 to $5, J. F. & B. K. LOCKK 
Vineland, N. J. Phone 53 R. 3 
200 SC.W. Leghorn PULLETS 
Ready to lay; good duality; highbred; free ranged; 
milk fed. Ten for 819. Reduction on the lot. 
IDEAL POULTRY FARM. R. F. D. 4, New Brunswick, N. J. 
SingleComb White Leghorns Barron i&5# 
Ready to lay. Pullets, $2 each; younger, $1.75 each: 
cockerels, $5 each. FRED HEUER, Sayville, L. I., N. Y. 
Gfl I Auinff Dnllatc each. Guaranteed healthy 
Oil Laying rinierS stock. White S. C. Leghorns. 
G. HUBER Sunny Hill Farm Stockton, N. J. 
KENT BARRED ROCKS 
Pens in leading egg-layingeontests. Breeding cocks 
and cockerels. Baby chicks and hatching eggs. Cir¬ 
culars. W. H. B. KENT, Cazenovia, New York 
For Sake-Single Comb Black Minorca Cockerels 
Northup Strain. Dark Green Sheen. Five Dollars 
Each. JOSEPH ROBERTS, Route 5, Box 108, Johnstown, Pa. 
S O A IIP fill AC Hens, pullets, $8 up. 
• U. A NOUI1 Ad Q. SIMMS lloxY Lake. N Y 
lorsey Black Giants —Growing stock , pullets and cocker 
J els, $1.80 each and up. BR00KCREST FARM, Craobnry, N. J 
J ersey Black Giant Cockerels—6 mos. old ; fine large 
birds. $4 each. Blauvelt Holmdel, N. J. 
Northern Grown r. r Red Chicks 
State Certified free from White Diarrhoea. Our hardy 
Jail, and Feb. hatched chicks are naturally adapted to 
Winter brooding and pay big profits as early broilers. 
Catalog free. MapleHIIIFarms.Walpole.NewHampshire 
I D-J- Cocks, Hens,Cockerels. Pullets. Fine quality. 
,.l.neas Cheap. S. BOWDEN. Box 185, Mansfield, O. 
quab Book FREE 
Squabs sellingat highest priceseverknown. Greatest 
market for 20 years. Make money breeding them. 
Uaisedinone month. We ship every whereourfa- 
mous breeding stock andsupplies. Established 
24 yrs. Write now for big illustrated free book, 
How to to Make Money Breeding Squabs. 
PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB CO., 
205 H St., Melrose Highlands, Mass. 
TOULOUSE GEESE 
young birds from New York and Chicago winners. 
Selected breeders, ganders and geese, 810 each; 
three for 828. MAPLE FARM, R. F. 0.. Bordentown, N. J. 
Turkeys 
Special Discount on young and old breeders. 
Also ducks and geese. Write your w-ants. 
H. A. Souder Box 29 Sellersvllle Pa. 
ARDEE'S 
ERFECT 
EKIN 
DUCKS 
America’s Standard 
Strain. BREEDERS NOW. 
PARDEE'S PEKINS. ISLIP, N Y. 
Large Stock Poultry,Turkeys, Geese ha r s e s'pups* 
CHICKS, EGGS, low. Catalog. PIONEER FARMS. Telford, Pa* 
BOURBON REDS-tfMS 
Can mate from non-related flocks, 
E. B. WILDE - Wayland, Michigan 
For Sal ^-Mammoth ToulouseGeese 
2 and 3-yr.-old stock from 30-lb. gander. $10 apiece. 
Mrs. E. G. FAILE Saxon Wood Road White Plains, N.Y. 
SPECIAL FALL PRICES ON TURKEYS 
•15 per pair. Geese— $10 per pair. Catalog free. On • 
now and save money. FAIRVIEW POULTRY FARM. Telf»rd, l*o. 
TURKEYS-M. Bronze 
Mrs. Alfred E. Reid Star Route 
Free from black¬ 
head 15 years. 
Freehold, N. J. 
MAMMOTH BR0HZE TURKETS— Large, Vigorous, Prolific. Satib 
111 faction guar. Write ESBENSHADE TURRET FARM. Ronkx, P». 
WhiteHollandTurkeys 
Aneonas, Buff&BrownLeghorns 
OWHLANO FARM.Bax«97,H»mm»nd,N.T. 
For $1 postpaid. Edmonds’ Poultry 
Account Book. The Rural New- 
Yorker, 333 W. 30th St., New York 
Lamb Chops 
“He that produces two blades where 
one grew” was given a bouquet by some¬ 
body. Any who can influence food more 
palatable and nourishing is also a good 
fellow. The first I have done, so that I 
require, and have, five times former barn 
room and stables, and if readers will bear 
with it, I want to speak of lamb. 
It is a well-known fact that some can 
cook materials so the eater feels at peace 
with all the world, while others not only 
spoil them, but encourage indigestion, 
dyspepsia and mental breaches of the com¬ 
mand “Thou shalt not kill.” To practice 
a lot of preaching during the past, on a 
trip through Pennsylvania, New York 
and New England, I ordered lamb chops 
once or twice a day for awhile, then gave 
up in despair. 
Ignorance about how to cook food right 
is amazing; worse, it is wicked. Now, do 
not insinuate anything about my neglect 
to patronize chefs of good hotels. Wife 
and I lived close to hardpan when young, 
and when we go on vacations nothing is 
too good for us. The last attempt at 
.lamb chops was in Pittsfield, Mass.; 
rates, $7 for dinner, lodging and break¬ 
fast, and instead of being broiled, chops 
were fried to a crisp at one end, raw at 
the other, and reeking with cottonseed oil. 
Many say they do not like mutton, and 
I do not blame them. Many who have 
felt pleasure at the prospect of a broil or 
a chicken dinner, afterwards had a bad 
taste in their mouth. They had a fine 
psychological prospect, but realization in¬ 
fluenced its evaporation. If any do not 
like tourists they may have the satisfac¬ 
tion of believing that food purveyors have 
them at their mercy. 
No meat has been growu superior to 
lamb, cooked right. .Some have a notion 
they do not like sheep meat, but if they 
eat it unknowingly they extol the beef or 
veal. The wife’s word goes at our house, 
and here it is: 
“Put them on a grate in a pan under 
the gas fire, or in a broiling iron over the 
coals, and cook quickly. Then slap them 
on a warm plate, with pepper, salt and 
good butter, and be quick about it.” 
Served at once they are a delicacy, but as 
done sometimes they are unfit for a sheep 
dog. A hindquarter treated in the roast¬ 
ing like the Thanksgiving or Christmas 
turkey is better than any that ever gob¬ 
bled, and a forequarter with the shoulder 
blade removed can have dressing rolled in 
it, and will be as good for less money. If 
you want something too good to talk 
about, apply a little lemon juice or chop¬ 
ped parsley, but keep canned peas, espe¬ 
cially ones which have become repeaters, 
away from it. 
Five per cent, only, of meat eaten is 
mutton, whereas 70 per cent is pork and 
65 per cent beef. There are several rea¬ 
sons for the low percent, but the main 
one is the same as mine when I ordered 
bacon and eggs. They are good also, and 
anyone can cook them, if told how. An¬ 
other reason is that it is easier for a 
butcher to cut a slice or a chunk of beef 
than to prepare mutton for the cook. 
Another reason is the delicate juices 
are often lost, and the meat is like the 
tasteless fibers left after beef tea. A 
strong fire at first will hermetically seal 
the richness when the heat can be lowered 
for finishing. In boiling, the larger the 
piece the better, and the hotter the water 
for fastening the richness where it be¬ 
longs. Figure the drift in a turkey and 
try a lamb’s hindquarter for Thanksgiv¬ 
ing; also chops cut from the loin, or a 
wrapped shoulder will fit any time. 
Ohio. W. W. REYNOLDS. 
Coming Farmers’ Meetings 
Nov. 26-29—Cortland Fanciers’ Club, 
annual poultry show, Peekskill, N. Y. 
Dee. 11-12 — Sixth annual poultry 
show, North Bergen County Poultry As¬ 
sociation, Westwood, N. J. S. ,T. Ham- 
merstein, secretary, Hillsdale, N. J. 
Jan. 6-9, 1925—Seventh Annual Union 
Agricultural meeting. State Armory, 
Worcester, Mass. The Masaehusetts 
Dairymen’s Association, annual meeting, 
will be held at this union meeting, Jan. 8. 
Jan. 9-12, 1925—Vermont State Poul¬ 
try Association, twenty-eighth annual ex¬ 
hibition, St. Albans, Yt. B. P. Greene, 
secretary, St. Albans, Yt. 
Jan. 13-16, 1925—New Jersey Agricul¬ 
tural Week, State Board of Agriculture, 
annual meeting, and New Jersey Farm 
Products Exposition, Trenton, N. J. 
Coming Live Stock Sales 
Nov. 22—Accredited Jerseys, 15 head. 
L. Tillinghast, Ovid, ‘Seneca Co., N. Y. 
Nov. 26—Guernseys, 200 head, West 
Salem, Wis. 
Jan. 14-15. 1925—Holsteins. Fifth an¬ 
nual sale. Coliseum, Syracuse, N. Y. 
Wool Notes 
The Boston market is stroug with a 
good volume of business. Following are 
recent prices: Fine strictly combing. 64 
to 65c; fine French combing, 56 to 57c; 
fine clothing. 52c; one-fourth blood strict¬ 
ly combing, 62 to 64c; one-half blood 
clothing. 55 to 56c; three-eighths blood 
strictly combing, 65c; three-eighths blood 
clothing, 55 to 5Sc; one-fourth blood 
strictly combing, 64c: one-fourth blood 
clothing, 55e; low oue-fourth blood strict¬ 
ly combing, 54c; common and braid, 47c. 
BOYS AND GIRLS 
(Continued from Page 1485)’ 
It is a quality to keep fast hold of all 
through life. Whatever ups and downs, 
joys or sorrows, triumphs or defeats may 
come, face each new day gladly and do 
your best. 
All work for the December page 
should be sent to reach your editor on 
or before December 6. We are going to 
devote it especially to Christmas and will 
use as many drawings and poems and 
stories as possible from those you send. 
Your editor thinks that it would be in¬ 
teresting to have a number of original 
short stories all on the same title. 
Wouldn’t you like to try your hand at 
that? Take for your title “A Christmas 
Gift.” 
Doris Ives of New York and Anna 
Graham of Illinois wished to have a note 
on Our Page regarding the death on Oc¬ 
tober 29 of Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bur¬ 
nett, the author of “Little Lord Faun- 
tleroy,” “The Secret Garden” and many 
other books. We have had little write¬ 
ups on her life more than once on Our 
Page. She was 75 years old and had 
written more than 40 novels and plays, 
beginning when she was 13 years old. It 
has been said that not one of her manu¬ 
scripts was ever refused publication. 
Boys and girls have her to thank for 
many happy hours. 
The following paragraphs from a let¬ 
ter from Gladys Feldberg (14 years) 
New York, indicate that we must be very 
careful in all work for Our Page to be 
strictly accurate. Your editor is not al¬ 
ways able to verify everything that is 
published. He must trust you to get them 
right. Watch out for this: 
I was rather surprised to read on the 
October page that the answer to the 
September Book Puzzle was “Pollyanna,” 
by Eleanor H. Porter. I had read “Pol¬ 
lyanna” just a short time before the Sep¬ 
tember page came. My sister and I both 
thought that some parts of the puzzle 
were like “Pollyanna” but not all of it. 
Pollyanna had been living in the West 
instead of the South when her father 
died. She did not meet the little boy, 
Jimmy, in a haystack where both were 
hiding, but found him sitting beside the 
road one day when she was coming home 
from a visit to a neighbor, Mrs. Shaw. 
Pollyanna tried in various ways to get 
Jimmy a home, since he also was an or¬ 
phan. After she was injured by the au¬ 
tomobile John Pendleton took Jimmy, 
as Pollyanna had wanted him to do to 
help her play her “glad game.” 
Miss Polly, her aunt, loves Pollyanna 
so well now that she consents to call Dr. 
Chilton (whom she has refused to see 
before) when Jimmy tells her that he 
thinks Pollyanna can be cured. Polly- 
anna’s letter to her aunt and Dr. Chilton, 
from the hospital, telling them that she 
can walk, ends this book and she is still 
only a little girl. Her marriage to Jim¬ 
my takes place in the second book, “Pol¬ 
lyanna Grows Up.” Perhaps other read¬ 
ers had read “Pollyanna,” too, who did 
not recognize it from the description 
given. 
Dorothy Butterfield, a New York read¬ 
er, wrote; “I think Our Birthday Page 
is just the most interesting of any we 
have had. I think your kiddies are awful 
cute. I’ve often wondered what you real¬ 
ly looked like, Mr. Tuttle. My sister and 
I thought you were old, with gray hair, 
mustache, and also fat and jolly. Just 
because you’re not fat does not say you 
are not jolly. I hope you do not get in¬ 
sulted at our imaginations.” 
Not at all, Dorothy. Why should I 
get insulted? I think we all imagine the 
looks of persons we read about but never 
see. And usually we find our imagina¬ 
tion is pretty far from the truth. I’m 
glad not to he so very old. It gives me 
that much longer to keep in touch with 
boys and girls. I have a few gray hairs 
but not enough to worry about. I do 
not seem to he the fat kind, though good¬ 
ness knows I eat enough. As to being 
jolly, I’ll have to let you judge that by 
what I write on Our Page whenever I 
can squeeze in a line or two between the 
drawings and letters from my boys and 
girls. 
Readers often comment on the work of 
others that is published. Now and then 
your editor thinks these things should 
be passed on. We all like encourage¬ 
ment, and it should make us try all the 
harder to do our best. Here are a cou¬ 
ple of items from recent letters: “I think 
November 29, 1924 
that Charlotte Booth is a wonderful con¬ 
tributor to Our Page. Her drawings 
are almost like a real artist. She may 
want to be one. I hope so.” and “We all 
think that Norman Hallock will become 
a cartoonist soon, and if so, we hope that 
he will be successful. We liked his Oc¬ 
tober heading very much.” 
Well, here we are at the end for an¬ 
other month. A happy Thanksgiving to 
you all! Don’t get sick, but when you 
have to sit down after dinner and rest 
your stomach a few minutes, find a pen 
and paper and write a letter to your 
friend and editor. Edward M. Tuttle, in 
care The Rural New-Yorker, 333 West 
30th Street, New York City. 
List of November Contributors 
These are the readers who answered the Oc¬ 
tober page before this one went to the printer. 
Ihe name itself indicates that a letter was re¬ 
ceived from that boy or girl. Following each 
name is the age, whenever given, and a series 
of alphabetical symbols referring to various con¬ 
tributions, according to the following key: 
1>—Words for box. 
d—A drawing, 
e—An essay, 
g—A game. 
k—A new book or poem puzzle. 
I—Correct answer to last book puzzle. 
m—A new nature puzzle. 
n—Correct answer to last nature puzzle. 
o—An original poem. 
p—A photographic picture. 
r—A rhyme for drawing. 
s—A story. 
v—A memory verse. 
x—Correct answer to last puzzle. 
z—A new puzzle or riddle. 
Connecticut: Ruth Warner (17, d), Marv Sodv 
(11) , Ernest Pierce (13, d). Doris Basto (13. l>. 
d), Theodore Dran (d), Terese Manion (17), 
Mary Kasulis (d, n. v), Carolyn Ivashamer (14 
L 1), Margaret Fleischer (k, v), Edna Garlicfc 
(12, d, o), Margaret Segerstron (12, m, n) Ger¬ 
trude Stephenson (9), Norman Hallock (17, d). 
Illinois: Sarah Graham (10, d), Charles Gra¬ 
ham, Anna Graham (15, d. n). 
Kentucky: Anna Hillenmeyer (11, n, x), El¬ 
eanor Hillenmeyer (x). 
Maine: Edna Hurd (11), Rebecca Spencer (14 
d), Rowena L. (13, e), Elsie Kimball (9, p). 
Maryland: Catherine Bilbrough (12, v, z?, 
Agnes Bove.v (16, d, x), King Brittingham (11 
d, x, z). Louise Boswell (15, d, x. z), Charlotte 
James (12, v), Carylee Addison (11). 
Massachusetts: Elmer Gillfeather (11, n z) 
Mildred Gillfeather (n. z), Mary Donovan, Laura 
Jewett (11). Julia Buzzell (m, n), Ruth Eaton 
(10, d, v), Charlotte Proctor (x), Miriam Tilden 
(14, b, d, v). 
Michigan: Lillian Kent (e, 1), Ruth Beaver 
(15, e). 
Minnesota: Jessie Allen (13, d). 
New Hampshire: Thelma Stone (12, d), Frieda 
Haynes (16, d). 
New Jersey: Louise Gross (11, d, k, m), Wil¬ 
liam Bradway (15, o), Bessie Haas (10 d) 
Nancy Edgar (12. d), Edwin Herr (16, d), Es¬ 
ther Danielsen (10, d), Arnold Danielsen (12, av 
Mary Danna (13. v), Raymer Newton (13, d), 
Helen Newton (19, d), Marie Lamber (13 1 ) 
Edward Beclitold (14. d, o), Walter Wittmari 
(10, d, s). 
New York: Doris Ives (15, d), Chester Weav¬ 
er (n), Janet Rose (11, b, n), Dorothy Paige 
(1), Sara Redden (12, d), Gladys Feldberg ( 14 , 
l, n, x), Anna Hoban (9, 1, n. z), Elizabeth Ho- 
ban (13, 1, n, v), Cecelia Slavonick, Dorothy 
Kastner (9) Anna Obuch (12, v), Anna Oeli- 
rlch (10. d), Frieda Oellrieh (12, d), Shirley 
Eaton (10, d), Charles Cordy (14. d. o), Irving 
Mullen (15, d, o), Martha Young (12. d n), 
Marion Glaesel (13. d), Frances Alvord (14) 
Authur Williams (10, v), Frances Carpenter 
(12) , Floyd Fingar (13, d), Helen Farmilo (15, 
l) . Mary George (9. n, x), Anne Armstrong (9, 
d). Wilhelmina Rasmussen (16, d, e, 1). Blanche 
Vodvarka (14, d, 1, n), Dorothy Butterfield, 
Ruth Woodworth (4, d), Maud Shoemaker (13, 
d, s), Barnard Bromley (n), Gladys Van De 
Mark (14, 1, n, r), Sara Roe (d, n), Margaret 
Dibble (12. n), Doris Light (9 1, in), Elsie Spen¬ 
cer (12, 1), Evelyn Hansen (14. 1), Kathleen 
Laidlaw (13, 1), Eleanor Nichols (1), Dorothy 
Safford (10, 1, n, o, z). Fred Hagen (9, n), 
Louis Hagen (11, n), Estelle Reeve (11, 1), 
Douglas Van Orden (11, d), Eleanor Van Orden 
(12, d), John Van Orden (9, d), Jennie Buckler 
'(1), Mary Segur, Gracia Cooper (15, 1), Mary 
McCrossen (13, 1, n. x, z), Helvi Keckman (10 
d, n, y), Ruth Relis (9), Sylvia Finkel (1, x), 
Esther Corcoran (11, b, d, g, k, n), Anna Kelly 
(13 d), Mildren F'aulkner (12, d, 1, n, v), Edith 
Beardslee (1) Gladys Bennis (14, d, 1), Marie 
McIntosh (13. d, o), Florence Grunfeld (14 1), 
Esther Kraft: (13. v), Marjory Gver (13, d, g, 
v, x), Reta Blakely (15), Ann Willcox (k, 1, 
m) , Edwmrd Downton (o), Aubrey Gregory (14, 
d, n), Edna Wilfert (17, e, x), Helen Yellin (8 
d). Jessie Huscher (12. 1), Blanche Hofert (1), 
Frances Ritter (p), Prances Holbert (1. n) 
Ruth Behrend (g, 1, n), Harry Worthman, Mary 
Harris (11), Margaret Mackenzie (12, 1), Marie 
Roberts (12, d), Elsie Cassell (10), Rov Berg¬ 
man (13, n, x), Harriett Austin (d)‘, Janet 
Cragin (d, n, x), Iva Sullivan (12, g, 1, n, v), 
Evelyn Underwood (13, d), Pearl Shook (16, d), 
Paul Shook (16, d), Agnes Veach (12, d, v), 
Florence Wessels (v), William Bartos (11, d), 
Dorothy McGeoeh (14, d), Charles Aker (10, n, 
r, •z), Frances Aker (9, d), Ellen Aker (6, d), 
Charlotte Booth (16, 1, n), Sarah Martin (15, 
v), Olive Riker (14, n, x, z), Obe Shapiro (18, 
d), Griffin Foster (13, d), Virginia Foster (17, 
d, 1, n, x), Henry Kiemle (d, n), Dorothy Fisher 
(13, 1, m, n), Juliana Simon (d), Marion Duff 
(8, d), Andress Doolittle (d, x), Ellen Weeks 
(10. d, k, n), Ellen Doolittle (12, d, s, z). 
Ohio: Marion Kent (10, v). 
Ontario, Canada: Frances Scott (9, d). 
Pennsylvania: Margaret Farabaugh (1, n, v, 
x), Susan Jones (14, k, 1), Annette Johnson (10, 
d), Janet Compton (15, d), John Reckard (7, x), 
Miriam Kachel (d, x), Martha Horst (15, g, k, 
m, z), Ruth Mattson (13), Jeannette Slater (d, 
n) , Elizabeth Anderson (10, d, m), Margaret 
Mann (9). Esther Herr (15, d), Miriam Herr 
(12, d), Clair Beers (10, d), Evan Beers (12, d). 
Rhode Island: Alice Brown (12, d), Frances 
Eckhart (14, d). 
Vermont: Lulu Rogers (1), Eugenia Powers 
(11, b, d, g), Christopher Royee (12, d), Eu- 
lalie Powers (12, d, 1, n, v), Warren Brown 
(10*. 1. n). 
Virginia: Esther Wright (11, 1, n, x), Annie 
Oaljouw (d). 
Washington: Pern Martin (13, d, g, 1). 
West Virginia: Mary Kennedy (1). 
Wisconsin: Agnes Helfert (15, d). 
