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Open  to  You— Real  Sales 
Opportunity 
Even  with  no  previous  sales  experi¬ 
ence,  you  can  make  good  money  sell¬ 
ing  R.  H.  Co.  Lightning  Rods. 
These  “Rods  of  a  Better  Kind’’ 
have  been  giving  perfect  lightning 
protection  for  74  years,  and  bear  the 
official  approval  of  the  U.  S.  Depart¬ 
ment  of  Agriculture  and  the  Under¬ 
writers’  Laboratories. 
Every  farmer  needs  lightning  rods 
of  reliable  make  to  protect  his  build¬ 
ings  and  other  property.  You  can 
sell  right  from  the  start.  We  show 
you  how  to  interest  prospects  and  close 
sales.  You  are  backed  up  by  our 
advertising  and  close  co-operation. 
This  is  your  chance  to  get  established 
jn  a  pleasant,  profitable  business  of 
your  own,  requiring  only  small  capital. 
Write  today  for  terms  regarding  ex¬ 
clusive  territory  and  full  particulars. 
THE  REYBURN-HUNTER-FOY  CO. 
829  Broadway  -  Cincinnati,  Ohio 
"Lightning 
Rods  of  a 
Better  Kind'' 
r-HAYING  TOOLS 
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delays.  Its 
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and  easy  operation  is 
due  to  the  HUDSON 
PATENTED  DEAD¬ 
LOCK.  We  make  car¬ 
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or  wood  tracks;  four 
wheels  or  eight;  used  with  fork  or  slings. 
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on  the 
HUDSON 
Dead- lock 
Carriers 
HUDSON  HAY  TRACK  is  the  strongest 
made.  Doubly  strong  at  joints.  If  neces¬ 
sary  the  HUDSON  takes  a  whole  ton  load 
at  once.  Bo  sure  to  see  it.  Ask  your  HOME 
TOWN  HUDSON  DEALER  or  write  us. 
msBmm  mwg.co. 
Dept.  386  Minneapolis,  Minn. 
GOOD  FARMING  PAYS 
Every  farmer  wants  to  save  labor,  time.  seed,  borre-powe 
and  raise  bigger  crops.  The  WESTERN,  3  machines  in  t.  ■ 
do  all  oft  bis.  It  has  proven  it  to  thousands.  It  pulverizes  s 
packs  as  deep  as  plowed,  leaves  a  loose  mulch  on  top.tnakra 
a  perfect  seed  bed  In  one  operation.  Get  S  to  10  busbelapes 
clover  and  srrasa  seed. 
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Contain,  letter,  from  farmers 
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Our  law  price  direct  will  aurpri,#  you.  'ea 
Writs  today  for  book  and  price,  freight  paid? 
WESTERN  UNO  HOLLER  CO.,  Box  138  HASTINGS,  WEB 
Farms  For  Sale  or  Rent  fsa‘mxs 
for  sale  on  easy  terms,  or  rent  for  cash,  or  on  shares. 
These  farms  are  all  near  town,  tine  buildings, 
on  Rural  route,  near  Otsego  Lake,  and  are  adapted 
to  stock  raising,  dairying  or  raising  garden  truck, 
which  finds  a  ready  sale.  Address  all  communica¬ 
tions  to  GLIMMERGLEN  FARMS,  Inc.,  Cooperstown,  N.  Y. 
ROOFING 
GOOD  QUALITY 
ROLLS  IN  ONE  PIECE 
Smooth,  1  ply.  85c.  Heavy  slate  surface,  81.75, 
slate  surface  shingle.  Remnants,  S3.  Send  for 
complete  roofing  catalog.  397  Walden  Ave.,  BUFFALO 
HOUSE  WRECKING  S  SALVAGE  COMPANY.  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
THE 
HOPE 
FARM 
BOOK 
This  attractive  234-page 
book  has  some  of  the 
best  of  the  Hope  Farm 
Man’s  popular  sketches — 
philosophy,  humor,  and 
sympathetic  human  touch. 
Price  $1.50.  For  sale  by 
Rural  New-Yorker,  335 
W  30th  St..  New  York. 
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Raising  Puppies  for  Sale 
N.  AY.  R.’s  query  as  to  whether  or  not 
raising  puppies  as  a  business  would  be 
profitable  prompts  the  writer  to  tell  of 
bis  experience  in  growing  and  selling 
collie  puppies  out  West.  On  our  small 
farm  we  kept  a  pair  of  collies  to  help 
handle  the  stock,  and  also  as  watch  dogs 
and  companions.  Incidentally,  they  were 
very  useful  in  reducing  tke  pesky  rabbit 
population  around  the  orchard  and  in  the 
Alfalfa  fields. 
The  puppies  came  iu  April  and  Octo¬ 
ber,  in  litters  of  from  seven  to  15  each. 
Accidents  of  one  kind  or  another  gener¬ 
ally  reduced  their  number  to  from  five  to 
nine  per  litter  by  the  time*  they  were  two 
weeks  old.  We  seldom  lost  any  of  them 
after  they  got  their  eyes  open,  though. 
Besides  the  table  scraps  we  fed  the  old 
dogs  cornmeal  (or  better  corn  germ  meal 
when  we  could  get  it),  mixed  wtili  meat 
scraps  or  grease  (to  flavor  it),  and  milk 
baked  into  a  cake.  They  usually  had  all 
the  milk  that  they  wanted,  too,  and  occa¬ 
sionally  a  rabbit  or  other  meat.  We 
started  the  puppies  off  on  milk  as  early  as 
possible,  and  that  was  soon  after  their 
eyes  opened.  And  how  they  did  thrive 
and  stow  on  it! 
We  aim  to  sell  them  when  they  were 
about  six  weeks  old.  Local  markets 
would  usually  take  nearly  the  whole  num¬ 
ber  at  from  $2  to  .$5  each.  When  that 
failed  to  take  them  all,  we  used  to  run 
a  small  classified  advertisement  iu  one 
of  the  principal  Western  farm  papers. 
And,  believe  me,  we  got  results  from  those 
little  advertisements,  too,  especially  if  it 
was  at  a  season  when  farm  work  was 
slack,  and  hence  letter-writing  easier. 
Time  after  time.  I  have  had -to  return 
from  $30  to  $50  in  checks,  money  orders, 
etc.,  because  we  could  not  fill  all  the  or¬ 
ders  received.  In  addition  to  that,  many 
inquiries  were  received  asking  for  reser¬ 
vations,  descriptions,  etc.  The  advertise¬ 
ment  usually  cost  us  about  $2,  and  the 
stamps,  stationery,  etc.,  used  in  answer¬ 
ing  the  customers’  letters  about  the  same. 
As  the  old  dogs  more  than  paid  their 
way  by  the  work  they  did,  we  figured  that 
the  $40  or  $60  we  got  each  year  for  the 
puppies  was  clear  profit.  We  would  have 
got  more  females  and  raised  more  pups, 
but  that  would  have  made  more  baking 
for  the  women  folks,  and  they  had  toe 
much  to  do  already. 
Quite  a  number  of  our  customers  asked 
for  registered  pups,  or  pups  eligible  to 
registry.  I  think  that  had  we  advertised 
to  sell  registered  stock,  we  could  have 
gotten  higher  prices.  Whether  the  higher 
prices  would  have  more  than  made  up  for 
the  expense  and  trouble,  I  don’t  know. 
We  also  had  a  number  of  inquiries  for 
trained  dogs.  There  might  be  a  good¬ 
paying  lead  worked  up  along  that  line  for 
someone  having  time  and  talent  for  that 
sort  of  work.  There  used  to  be  a  man 
in  Iowa  who  made  a  business  of  raising 
and  selling  collies,  Airedales  and  Old  Eng¬ 
lish  Sheep  dogs.  He  had  some  system  of 
putting  out  females  on  shares  besides.  I 
never  learned  how  that  plan  succeeded. 
Evidently  he  had  market  for  more  pups 
than  he  could  raise,  you  see. 
A  very  large  percentage  of  farmers  as 
well  as  many  city  people  like  to  have  a 
good  dog  about,  but  do  not  like  to  be  both¬ 
ered  raising  them.  I  cannot  see  why 
raising  puppies  should  not  be  profitable 
in  the  East  as  well  as  in  the  Middle 
West.  We  used  to  receive  inquiries  from 
as  far  east  as  Virginia  and  as  far  west 
as  Montana  and  Colorado.  Our  cus¬ 
tomers  were  nearly  all  farmers.  By  sell¬ 
ing  the  pups  at  six  weeks  of  age  we  only 
had  to  feed  them  a  very  short  time.  They 
are  very  much  easier  crated,  then,  too, 
and  the  express  charges  are  only  a  frac¬ 
tion  of  what  they  would  be  for  a  full- 
grown  dog.  j.  H.  TUBBS. 
Maryland. 
The  Community  Mean  Man 
I  note  the  letter  of  B.  It.  A.,  on  page 
150,  and  as  we  have  recently  had  experi¬ 
ence  with  just  such  a  man,  I  am  impelled 
to  answer  it.  A  great  many  things  are 
“legal”  which  are  not  right. 
About  10  years  ago  lighting  wires  were 
extended  from  the  nearby  city  to  within 
one  mile  of  our  little  hamlet.  Twenty- 
five  or  more  places  would  have  been  wired 
here,  but  one  man  would  not  permit  the 
company  to  set  poles  along  his  farm. 
Rather  than  contest  the  matter,  it  being 
of  small  moment  to  the  lighting  company, 
they  did  not  make  much  effort  to  come 
through.  This  man  was  over  70  years  of 
age,  so  for  nearly  10  years  our  wives 
continued  to  wash  by  hand,  fill  and  trim 
lamps,  and  stand  over  a  hot  stove  to  iron, 
while  the  community  anxiously  waited  for 
this  old  man  to  die.  He  was  not  a  bit 
accommodating  and  still  lives. 
About  two  years  ago  we  petitioned  the 
Public  Service  Commission,  and  after  a 
hearing  they  ordered  the  lighting  company 
to  give  us  the  service.  The  opposite  side 
of.  the  road  was  occupied,  with  many 
wires,  by  the  New  York  Telephone  Com¬ 
pany,  but  by  crossing  the  road  twice  and 
arranging  the  telephone  company’s  wires 
and  poles,  the  work  was  .finally,  at  con¬ 
siderable  extra  expense,  accomplished. 
We  now  have  the  lights  and  power  for 
all  sorts  of  work,  but  it  would  be  much 
more  than  the  worth  of  any  farm  to  en¬ 
dure  the  sort  of  regard  among  neighbors 
which  this  mean  old  man  has  acquired. 
Any  neighborhood  which  is  cursed  with 
two  such  men  is  to  be  pitied.  d. 
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