mother’s  milk  for  10  days,  when  we  ad¬ 
vertised  the  cow.  She  gave  37  lbs.  of 
milk  a  day,  and  George  sold  her  without 
the  calf  for  $85.  Of  course,  if  you 
reckon  the  actual  value  of  everything 
she  ate  and  had  to  hire  the  help  to  care 
for  her,  there  was  not  a  fortune  in  it. 
But  as  it  was,  George  thinks  he  got  our 
of  it  well.  We  must  have  had  fully  10 
chances  to  sell  her,  due,  I  imagine,  to  her 
large  flow  of  milk,  and  especially  that  she 
was  a  Guernsey.  There  was  a  real  call 
for  a  “family  cow,”  and  in  every  such 
case  no  Holsteins  need  apply.  Dealers 
say  that  Guernseys  are  at  a  great  pre¬ 
mium  all  through  this  section. 
Games  for  Socials. — Someone  has 
written  the  Parson  asking  about  games 
to  play  at  socials,  and  suggests  he  write 
about  some.  A  fine  game  for  beginning 
and  getting  mixed  up  and  acquainted  is 
what  we  call  swat  on  the  knee.  The 
Parson  got  it  at  a  Grange  gathering  over 
in  the  western  part  of  the  State.  The 
people  all  sit  round  the  hall,  and  you 
put  a  piano  or  organ  stool  out  in  the 
middle  of  the  room  ;  if  you  have  neither, 
a  box  will  do.  You  want  something  that 
has  no  back  to  it.  Then  you  make  a 
“swatter”  out  of  oilcloth,  or  an  old  piece 
of  window  shade.  It  wants  to  be  about 
18  in.  long,  and  not  hard  enough  to  hurt 
anybody.  The  one  who  is  “it”  has  the 
swatter  and  goes  to  some  person  sitting 
along  the  wall  and  swats  them  on  the 
knee.  Then  he  or  she  rushes  as  fast  as 
possible  to  place  the  swatter  on  the  piano 
stool.  The  one  hit  jumps  up  and  rushes 
to  get  the  swatter  and  swing  it  round  in 
hopes  of  hitting  the  one  that  hit  him 
before  he  gets  to  his  seat ;  that  is,  the 
seat  of  the  one  hit.  If  the  hitter  gets 
swatted  again  before  getting  into  the 
other  person’s  seat,  then  he  has  to  be 
“it”  again.  The  swatter  always  dives 
for  the  seat  of  the  one  swatted — it  is 
against  the  rules  to  go  back  to  his  own 
seat.  The  person  having  charge  of  the 
games  had  better  stand  right  in  the  mid¬ 
dle  of  the  floor  and  look  after  the  piano 
stool,  as  the  temptation  is  great  to  put 
the  swatter  on  it  and  then  give  it  a  shove 
so. that  the  other  person  cannot  get  it 
quickly.  Also,  if  the  swatter  drops  on 
the  floor,  the  party  letting  it  fall  lias  to 
be  “it”  over  again.  This  makes  a  fine 
game.  They  have  to  play  it  at  every 
party  we  have,  generally  at  the  begin¬ 
ning.  as  a  sort  of  .mixer.  Next  time  the 
Parson  will  put  in  about  one  or  two 
more  games. 
All  Animals.— Yes,  we  people  that 
live  in  the  country  are  all  animals,  and 
we  might  as  well  make  up  our  minds  to 
it.  The  minister  met  a  little  boy  one 
days  and  asked  him  how  he  was.  “I’m 
all  right,”  he  said.  “And  how  are  your 
people?”  again  asked  the  minister.  “Oh! 
the  other  animals  are  all  right.”  “But 
why  do  you  call  them  animals?”  asked 
the  minister.  “Is  that  just  the  wav  to 
speak  of  your  people?”  “Well,  it  sounds 
to  me  as  though  they  -were  animals. 
There’s  ma,  she’s  the  dear,  and  there’s 
little  sister,  she’s  the  little  lamb,  and 
there’s  little  brother,  he’s  the  kid,  and 
there’s  dad,  he’s  the  goat.” 
A  Woman’s  Farm  Notes 
February 
This  February  might  well  he  called 
the  month  of  auction  sales.  There  are 
posters  advertising  farm  machinery  from 
every  cross  roads’  corner  post — featuring 
this  man’s  failure  and  that  man’s  dis¬ 
couragement,  with  a  minimum  of  retire¬ 
ments.  Never  before  in  my  knowledge 
have  auction  bills  been  so  numerous  as 
to  be  unworthy  of  special  interest  and 
comment.  The  grocery  and  hitch  shed 
are  papered  with  their  loud  and  staring 
type. 
But  then  we  saw  it  coming  last  Novem¬ 
ber  in  the  number  of  young  farmers  com¬ 
muting  to  city  shop  work,  in  the  surprising 
scarcity  of  farm  labor,  indicating  the 
need  of  ready  money,  brought  on  bv  low 
prices  for  produce  and  high  prices'  paid 
for  farm  necessities.  These  farmer  com¬ 
muters  are  of  good  old-fashioned,  sturdy 
stock.  It  is  not  pleasant  to  leave  home 
in  our  inclement  weather,  by  unbroken 
roads,  to  walk  miles  to  a  trolley.  Yet 
most  of  them  will  tell  you  that  they  in¬ 
tend  to  keep  on  at  the  shop  if  they  are 
able  to  secure  a  reliable  man  to  put  in 
crops  and  tend  them  next  Summer.  There 
never  was  an  adequate  supply  of  the 
reliable,  man.  It  is  reported  that  over 
south  in  the  neighboring  hay  country 
there  are  seven  adjacent  farms  without 
prospect  of  a  tenant ! 
The  big  State  road  can  be  glimpsed 
from  the  breakfast  room  windows.  It 
shows  little  sign  of  the  slump  in  farm 
interests.  The  automobile  traffic  is  mak¬ 
ing  a  desperate  fight  for  existence,  and 
has  apparently  won  out  so  far.  The 
disk  and  scraper  that  is  used  leaves  the 
road  bed  flat  and  hard,  in  ideal  condi¬ 
tion  for  automobiles.  Fleets  of  them 
start  out  from  town,  and  thev  are  a 
pretty  sight  until  overtaken  by  more 
snow.  Then  they  begin  seesawing  from 
side  to  side,  exciting  for  the  driver,  and 
rather  exasperating  for  the  next  man 
who  follows  Avith  a  team.  One  finds 
them  stalled  along  the  roadsides  like 
birds  of  passage  exhausted  in  flight. 
Then  there  comes  along  the  scraper  to 
set  them  free  again.  For  it  is  the  law 
of  the  road  here  that  local  road  masters 
furnish  means  of  extrication  from  snow- 
clogged  roads.  However,  Daddy  insists 
that  this  is  not  so  in  all  townships.  Yet 
a  modern  seven-ton  truck  crosswise  of 
the  roadway  forms  a  most  embarrassing 
obstruction  of  the  highway.  I  suspect 
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Farmers!  Greeting!  Let’s  Know  Each  Other  Better 
NEARLY  three-quarters  of  a  century  ago  the 
Dickinson  Seed  business  was  started. 
The  enterprise,  skill  and  integrity  of  its  founders 
laid  the  solid  foundation.  The  Institution  has 
slowly,  but  surely,  taken  form.  Every  brick  in  the 
structure  spells  hard  work,  service,  skill.  Others 
say  we  are  now  the  leading  Wholesale  Seed 
Merchants  of  the  World. 
Our  occupation  is  the  securing,  from  far  and  near, 
of  the  staple  field  seeds  needed  by  farmers.  Once 
secured,  their  purification  and  refining  is  our  most 
important  work.  Nature  supplies  the  seeds  as 
rough  diamonds — we  finish  them.  When  our 
work  is  completed  the  seed  is  clean.  We  are 
wholesalers,  organized  to  do  a  volume  business, 
and  we  do  it!  We  distribute  our  seeds  through 
other  merchants.  Economy  of  operation,  with  low¬ 
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