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American Agriculturist, May 19,1923 
The 
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A Modern Bathroom, $60 
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On trial. Easy running', easily cleaned. 
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6 colors, $1.00; 
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Chicken Lice Vanish 
In Twenty-Four Hours 
Amazing New Discovery Banishes Vermin 
Like Magic—Makes Fowls Grow 
and Lay More Eggs 
Practical Poultryman Offers $1 For Every 
Louse You Can Find 
Lice, chiggers, fleas, mites, etc., probably 
steal one-third to one-half of the poultry 
raiser’s profits by sucking the very life blood 
from the flock. But there is no longer any 
reason why you should suffer this loss since 
the perfection of a remarkable new mineral 
formula by science. 
Not only does this wonderful method do 
away with the bother and trouble of greas¬ 
ing, dusting and spraying, but it practically 
assures doubling your profits because you 
get more eggs and fatter broilers. 
With this simple, 
scientific system you 
merely drop a few 
mineral tablets in 
the fowls’ drinking 
water. The tablets 
quickly dissolve and 
within a day or 
two after the fowls 
drink the water, the 
lice, fleas, etc., leave 
like magic. For in¬ 
stance, J. H. Veach, 
of Logansport, La., 
writes “The lice 
left my flock like 
a swarm of gnats 
on a ■ sultry morn¬ 
ing,” and Pergstrand 
Bros., the widely 
known Pennsylvania 
raisers of pure bred 
poultry, say they will give a dollar for any 
louse you can find on their poultry since 
using Paratabs. 
This wonderful mineral compound simply 
puts elements into the fowls’ blood which 
the lice cannot 
stand, yet is war- The Healthy, Lice-Free 
ranted not to flavor Hen Doubles Your 
the eggs or meat Profits 
in any way. 
Over 1 5 0,0 ,0 0 
poultry raisers 
have used this for¬ 
mula known as 
Paratabs with 
great success. 
Many say they 
would not think of 
doing without it. 
Simply address 
a post card or let¬ 
ter to M. B. Smith, 
3326 Coca Cola 
Bldg., Kansas City, 
Mo. Don’t send 
any money at all. 
Mr. Smith will im- r ^ r . ^ 
mediately send you Jewel, who laid 
two large $1.00 eggs in one year 
packages (enough 
for a season) at a special introductory price 
of onlj' $1.00. Pay the postman only $1.00 
and postage. You can easily sell one package 
to a friend and thus get yours free. Try 
Paratabs 10 days. If the lice are not all 
gone, your hens laying more eggs, and strut¬ 
ting around full of life and pep—if for any 
reason you are not satisfied, simply say so 
and your money will be returned. 
This is a special introductory offer good 
for only a short time and should be accepted 
at once, as a big bank says Mr. Smith does 
as he agrees, furthermore, your money is 
fully protected by ample bank deposits. 
The Lousy Chicken 
Loses You Money 
Butter Making Good For Pin Money 
Miss Van Rensselaer Recognized—Our Usual Attractive Dress Patterns 
F arm women who make butter for 
private trade as I do, have some¬ 
times been annoyed by having butter 
cloths returned mildewed, or else not 
returned at all, or they have heard over 
the phone just after making butter into 
rolls according to order, “Oh, Mrs. F., 
I’ve got company. Could you spare me 
a little more -butter?” or “Mrs. F., 
John was away last week, so I’ve butter 
left on hand. Just send me two pounds 
instead of four.” 
I never could make a nice roll of but¬ 
ter, especially in hot weather. We tried 
packing it in small crocks, but these 
get cracked, are not returned promptly 
and my husband dislikes bothering with 
them in the auto. So I bought a pound 
print, the brick shape, and it has solved 
most of my troubles. It measures an 
accurate pound, so I need not weigh 
any more butter. Relief No. 1. I wrap 
the butter in paper, so no more greasy, 
mildewed cloths. Relief No. 2. I can 
add or subtract from a customer’s order 
at a moment’s notice without trouble. 
Relief No. 3. A store in town which 
refuses to handle country butter will 
take all the prints I have above my cus¬ 
tomers’ needs. Relief No. 4. 
Printing Butter is Beal Fun 
I have found that butter which is 
too soft to roll will print nicely. Why, 
printing butter is almost as much fun 
as making mud pies used to be! 
The paper costs 35c per pound, but 
can be purchased a trifle cheaper by 
the thousand sheets. My print cost 35 
cents. It has saved my buying a new 
butter scale. The neat, sanitary butter 
package has gained me new customers. 
I have a chance to furnish butter for a 
smart tea room some twenty miles away, 
and it will be called for at my door. 
I do not have ice, but use water from 
the well to chill my cream before 
churning, and I wash my butter with 
the cold water while it is still in the 
grain. My customers pay me just what 
they would have to pay at the store. 
Most of our stores have a difference of 
ten cents between wholesale and retail 
price per pound. Through our butter 
customers, we have found a market for 
maple syrup, hams, berries, chickens, 
and other produce. 
My mother bequeathed me some of 
my customers, but I really dreaded the 
whole process of butter-making until I 
learned to use a print. Some day I 
mean to own a butter worker. Since 
I salt my butter in the churn after 
washing it, and in cold weather print 
it at once almost, I do not dread work¬ 
ing it. I moisten the salt, as it seems 
to go through faster and never grains 
on the butter. Washing the butter 
through two waters seems to elimi¬ 
nate the streaks of white that once 
troubled me. 
When Sales Improve 
Sales are usually best in summer. 
Butter is in extra demand during green 
corn season! I anticipate losing my 
tea-room customers when the weather . 
becomes unpleasant for motoring. As 
yet I have never sold butter by parcel 
post. Our dairy is not model, as the 
men insist upon some Shorthorn cows 
in order to stock the farm. I won’t 
churn for Shorthorns alone, so have 
two registered Jerseys. Sometimes I 
sell no butter, for “we are seven”; 
again, I have 20 to 30 pounds per week. 
When my dairy becomes model I 
shall have enough cows so that I may 
be churning for five the year around. 
Most of my neighbors sell cream, so I 
could market my butter among them, 
but it is more satisfactory to market in 
town. Some of our stores will take 
good butter at an extra price and hold 
it for their best patrons. 
Learn to make a superior article, 
then a very little salesmanship will do 
the rest. _ 
ONE ON us: 
Only a zero—yet it meant just the 
opposite of “nothing”! When it was 
accidently dropped from the account 
of the recent conference of Home Bu¬ 
reau workers in New York, it changed 
the membership of that splendid organ¬ 
ization from 30,104 women to 3,104. 
Quite a difference there! 
Thank you Mrs. Brigden, for pointing 
it out. We apologize. Next year, we 
hope we can make it 300,000—and we’ll 
be careful of the O’s! 
MAYBE YOU LIVE AT THE 
“HUB” 
The “center” of your state is not 
necessarily the largest city. New York, 
Philadelphia, Chicago, and many other 
WELL-DESERVED RECOGNI¬ 
TION 
N selecting Dr. Martha Van 
Rensselaer, head of the School 
of Home Economics, at the State 
College of Agriculture, Ithaca, as 
one of the twelve leading Ameri¬ 
can women, the National League 
of Women Voters recognized the 
unusual position which Miss Van 
Rensselaer has achieved during 
her successful administration of 
this most unusual school. 
Miss Van Rensselaer has per¬ 
haps done more than any other 
woman to popularize the word 
“home-maker.” Indeed she may 
almost be said to have coined it. 
With her very capable “partner,” 
Miss Flora E. Rose, and their as¬ 
sociates at Ithaca, she has opened 
the eyes of her generation to the 
dignity and importance of the 
home-making profession. 
It is an honor, but by no means 
an unexpected honor, that her 
name should stand with those of 
artists, social workers, scientists 
and writers as America’s great ex¬ 
ponent of intelligent home-mak¬ 
ing. We congratulate Miss Van 
Rensselaer on her appointment 
and we congratulate New York 
State on having at the head of the 
Ithaca school a woman of such 
broad vision and high accomplish¬ 
ment. 
important cities *have had to withdraw 
from the field, for the United States 
Coast and Geodetic Survey has been 
conducting a search for the exact 
center of each state and in almost 
all of the forty-eight the country wins 
out geographically. Only in the Dis¬ 
trict of Columbia, which Washington 
occupies almost entirely, and in Mas¬ 
sachusetts, where Worcester covers 
that geographic point, are cities the 
exact center. 
In New York, Madison County con¬ 
tains the central point, six miles south¬ 
east of Oneida, in New Jersey it is in 
Mercer County, five miles southeast of 
the State Capitol. In Pennsylvania, 
Center County has it, two and one-half 
miles southwest of Bellefonte. 
So, perhaps some American Agri¬ 
culturist boys or girls may live near 
these central points, all of which are 
in farming country. And some may even 
live in, or have visited South County 
in Northern Kansas, where the exact 
center of the United States is found. 
The Brown Mouse 
{Continued from page 443) 
turnpike. “Take Newt here to help 
load.” 
Jim smiled his habitual slow, gentle 
smile at Newton Bronson, his helper. 
Newton was seventeen, undersized, 
tobacco-stained, profane and proud of 
the fact that he had once beaten his 
way from Des Moines to Faribault on 
frieght trains. A source of anxiety to 
his father, and the subject of many pre¬ 
dictions that he would come to no good 
end, Newton was out on the road work 
because he was likely to be of little use 
on the farm. Clearly, Newton was on 
the downward road in a double sense— 
and yet, Jim Irwin rather liked him. 
“The fellers have put up a job on you, 
Jim,” volunteered Newton, as they be¬ 
gan filling the wagon with gravel. 
“What sort of job?” asked Jim. 
“They’re nominating you for teacher,” 
replied Newton. 
“Since when has the position of 
teacher been an elective office?” asked 
Jim. 
“Sure, it ain’t elective,” answered 
Newton. “But they say that with as 
many brains as you’ve got sloshing 
around loose in the neighborhood, you’re 
a candidate that can break the dead¬ 
lock in the school board.” 
{Continued next week) 
Here is another order for patterns. 
The Clown Suit was a great success. 
I used two different colors, red and 
yellow.—Mrs. B. H. C., New York. 
FOR STAY-AT-HOMES OF ALL AGES 
S UCH a simple pretty little dress 
for the growing girl—and one 
she can grow in, too ! This frock 
could be made in a morning for 
everyday wear, or with dainty 
material and ribbon bows, be 
used for parties and Sunday. 
No. 1738 comes in sizes 4, 7, 8 
and 10 years. Price, 12c. ■ 
U>51 
T he matronly figure looks well in the 
morning dress of long lines and No. 
1685 is quite ideal both for appearance 
and comfort. It comes in sizes 36, 38, 40, 
42, 44, 46, 48 and 50-inches bust measure 
and costs 12c, in stamps. In a medium 
size, 1885 requires 4 yards of 36-inch ma¬ 
terial, with 1 yard contrasting and 3 yards 
binding. 
I S it possible to have too many aprons? 
Not if they are homemade, for that 
sort wears longer and looks better than 
any ready-made could. No. 1637 is cut 
in sizes 36, 40, 44-inches bust measure. 
Size 36 requires 2% yards of 36-inch ma¬ 
terial with dVs yards of binding. Price, 
12c. 
To Order: Enclose correct amount (preferably stamps). Write name, 
address and numbers clearly, and send to Fashion Department, American 
Agriculturist, 461 Fourth Avenue, New York City. 
The summer catalogue is ready and from its attractive front cover^ in 
colors to the back page, it contains fascinating designs for all the family. 
Only ten cents! Get one before they are all gone! 
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