411 
re are toe pipes 
want for Christmas 
lluitmumul 
r hey ’RE just what he’d choose if he 
were buying them himself. 
Go to your nearest tobacco dealer and 
look over his Holiday line of 
The remor- 
abkr bow lean 
be kept sweet 
and dry. 
The clear, 
cloudy, or white 
Bakclite socket adds 
natural beauty. 
Whoever you give one to will have 
the coolest, cleanest, most satisfying 
pipe he ever smoked. 
Bakelite Socket Pipes are made by all the lead¬ 
ing manufacturers. All dealers carry them. 
BAKELITE CORPORATION 
247 Park Avenue New York 
Chicago Office: 636 West 22d Street 
lioth socket aiu! stem can be 
. ^ taken apart and 
tesdily cleaned. 
BAKELITE 
is the registered 
Trade Mark for the 
Phenol Resin Prod¬ 
ucts manufactured 
under patents 
owned by the 
B.4XCUTS 
corporation 
The Bakelite Underslung 
The reason for the nation-wide popularity 
of this latest model of the Bakelite Pipe 
can be readily understood when you've 
talked to the man who has smoked one. 
SAW 
As Low as Sid 
- 4 
Buy your saw direct at lowest factory prices, 
Guaranteed staunch, durable and depend' 
able. Cost as little as $10. 
HertzSer &Zook 
Portable Wood 
Saws firewood, lumber, lath, posts, etc. 
Kipping table can be attached. Lowest 
priced practical saw made. Other styles 
and sizes ac money -saving prices. Msde of 
btst materials. $10,000.00 
bond backs our guar¬ 
antee! Write today for 
FREE CATALOG showing 
m aU kinds saws, engines, 
feed mills, concrete mixer 
and fence, Ford&Fordson. 
Attachments, etc. Full of 
surprising bargains. 
HERTZLER & ZOOK CO. 
Box SA. Belleville, Pa. 
WITTE TREE Saw 
C uts down trees and saws them up FAST—one man 
d es the work of 10—-saws 10 to 25 cords a day. 
Makes ties. A one-man out t. Easy to run and troubte- 
p oo-. T ousands in use. Powerful en ine runs all other 
form mac-ine. y. Uses Kerosene, Gasoline, DistiHale or Gaa 
Easy Pay only a 
Payments htw dollars 
* a y merlI!i down an(J 
take a year for balance of low 
price. Make you own terms. 
CSJPF Just send name for 
* BCE. full details. Pictures 
and low p ices. No obligation 
by w ttuii. WIXXE ENG2N3E WORKS 
6831 Wifle Building, Kansas City. 
68jl Empire Bnildine, FiUsinirgh, Ps, 
ICE 
PLOWS 
TOOLS 
Plows S22.00 up. 
MM. H. P&A., M&, 
La Granger llle. New \ork 
A ONE DOLLAR BILL 
Brings you this EVER SHARP BAKELITE Pencil with your 
name engraved in any color and with two extra boxes of leads. 
VjM BOOKSHOP FORT MONROE. VA. 
A Special Holiday Offer 
TO 
American Agriculturist Readers 
CpWO of them, in fact, and both planned to give you unusual value ]for your money. 
By taking advantage of Offer 1. and extending your subscription or taking a new one 
for 3 years, you receive for the price of postage, a copy of Dickens' Christmas Carol, the 
most beautiful Christmas story ever written. Under Offer 2, with a 3-year subscription 
and only 50c additional, you receive a copy of Dr. Royal S. Copeland’s magnificent 
Health Book, the very last word in up-to-dale medical advice so clearly written that a 
child could understand and apply it. 
**# 
Aci quickly, lor supplies are limited. Mall the coupon with the correct remittance, and the book you 
r oose will be sent immediately, while the American Agriculturist will be a welcome weekly visitor, for 
the next three vears * 
Offer No. 1 
American Agriculturist every week for 
3 years, 
A copy of Charles Dickens’ Christ¬ 
mas Carol, leather bound, in a two- 
colored holiday box— 
All for only $2.12 
Offer No. 2 
American Agriculturist every week for 
3 years, 
The Health Book by Dr. Royal S. 
Copeland—the great authority on 
home care of illness, who tells you 
how to get and stay well. 
All for only $2.50 
-COUPON-- 
MERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 461 Fourth Avenue, New York City 
Send me American Agriculturist 3 years and j x ^Health 3 Book 01 
enclose herewith j || '^} in full payment 
N ame. 
Post Office. 
S.F.D. 
.County.State. 
American Agriculturist, December 13, 1924 
Service Department 
How Patent Medicine Sharks Prey on Sick Folks 
E VEN . worse than those who prey 
1 upon the widow and the orphan are 
the patent medicine sharks who give false 
hope to those who are ill. Every day 
brings to our Service Bureau pathetic 
letters from invalids among our people 
who ask about some patent medicine 
advertisement that promises in glowing 
terms to restore them to health and 
happiness. No matter what the disease 
is, the medicine “absolutely guarantees” 
to'wcrk a full cure. It would seem that 
all should recognize at the first glance 
these lying fakes, but when a sick person 
has suffered for months or even years, he 
or she will grasp at anything for help. 
We know of nothing more pathetic than 
this constant doping with expensive drugs 
in the eternal hope that sometime some of 
them somehow will work a miracle. If 
these words of warning would do any 
good, we would like to write them in red 
letters a foot high, “All the patent 
medicine fakes want is your money!” 
NOT ONLY WILL MOST OF SUCH 
DRUGS NOT DO YOU ANY GOOD, 
BUT MANY OF THEM ARE POSI¬ 
TIVELY HARMFUL. 
“To Be Taken With a Grain of Salt” 
The circular advertisements are very 
cleverly written. They are filled with 
dozens of recommendations and testi¬ 
monials from sick people who have 
apparently been cured. But these testi¬ 
monials are fakes, or else they were 
written by persons who would have 
gotten well anyway, not because of the 
mediciue, but in spite of it. Other testi¬ 
monials are written by people whose pain 
has been temporarily lulled by dangerous 
drugs and who will suffer all the more 
when the effect of the drug wears off. If 
space permitted, we could print dozens of 
letters like the one which follows: 
"Cou'd you inform me about the reliability of 
the people who write the enclosed circular? 
They have sent me two letters. I suffer with 
rheumatism all of the time and am confined to 
a wheelchair.” 
To this letter, the Service Bureau re¬ 
plied: 
*‘I have had considerable experience with 
sickness in my family and I know how one who 
is ill is always longing to find something that 
will bring him relief. 
“That is the reason that unscrupulous patent 
medicine companies make so much money. 
They prey upon people who are reaching out to 
get some relief for the sole purpose of getting 
their hard-earned savings. I am sorry to dis¬ 
courage you, but I have no faith whatever that 
if you were to spend the money for these patent 
drugs that they would do you any good. 
“The ordinary physician’s remedies are dis¬ 
couraging, particularly in chronic cases like 
yours, but they are much safer, and in the long 
run, if anything will do you much good the 
doctor’s remedies stand a far better chance 
than do patent medicines. Permit me to ex¬ 
press my personal sympathies for your trouble 
and I regret that I am unable to advise you that 
the drug advertised in the enclosed circular 
would do you any good.” 
The circulars which were enclosed were 
attractively printed in several colors. 
Here are just a few of the statements that 
they contained: 
“Dear Friend: 
“If you could be entirely rid of your pains 
and aches WITHIN 96 HOURS—by using a 
simple treatment that is GUARANTEED TO 
GET RESULTS—wouldn’t you feel mighty good 
about it? • 
“Sounds impossible, doesn’t it? . . . Yet 
thousands of folks who suffered with rheuma¬ 
tism and like diseases can now tell you that 
WITHIN 96 HOURS THEIR PAINS WERE GONE 
ENTIRELY! 
“Some of their letters—all that we could find 
space for—are reproduced in the enclosed 
literature.'’ 
There was much more of the same kind 
which space does not allow us to publish. 
Now, of course, there are some old- 
fashioned remedies and some standard 
drugs which, if used carefully and for 
certain diseases, are all right. Some 
mothers who have raised large families 
are particularly good amateur doctors for 
the simple, common ailments. Such 
remedies as castor oil, lard and turpen¬ 
tine, the various herbs, camphor, and 
several others, are good, when rightly 
used, but when it comes to chronic ail¬ 
ments, or acute diseases, then the only 
safe remedy is the doctor. 
Remedy for Chilblains 
AT this time of the year we always get 
-A* inquiries for help for frostbitten 
feet and for chilblains. For instance, 
the following is a sample letter on this 
subject: 
“Do you have anything among your record* 
that would give relief or cure frostbitten feet. 
My wife suffers every winter with her feet. They 
were frostbitten several ye'ars ago, and each 
year when winter sets in, her troubles begin. 
“Now if you have any remedy that you could 
send me, or if not, you may be able to obtain 
some remedy from some of the thousands at 
American Agriculturist readers. Among them 
may be some who have had frosted feet and ham 
a relief remedy or maybe a cure.” 
We replied by letter to this inquiry by 
using the recommendation for frostbite 
or chilblains given by Dr. Royal S. Cope¬ 
land in his Health Book. This book, by 
the way, should be in every home as an 
aid in emergencies and for elementary 
ailments where a doctor is not needed. 
On the subject of frostbite or chil¬ 
blains, Dr. Copeland says: • 
What to Do for Frost-Bite, or Chilblains 
1. Paint the chilblains with a solution of 
iodine crystals, collodion, and ether in 
the proportion of five grains of the iodine, 
to an ounce of collodion, and two drac hm* 
of ether. 
Every mode of life has its joys and its pen¬ 
alties. There is a fascination about the desert 
with its open spaces and the wonderful color¬ 
ings. The stars seem nearer and existence 
is like a dream. But there are vipers and 
poisonous insects to make life uncertain. 
The mountains hold the eye, and to climb 
them is a privilege. But under that jutting 
rock may be a den of rattlesnakes. 
The resident of a small town, or the rural 
inhabitant, has the joys of intimate friends!)ips 
and the association of kindred minds. But 
there are defects in his manner of living and 
in his personal habits which are likely to lead 
to trouble. 
Any house heated by stoves is sure to have 
cold floors. Having lived in the country and 
in a small town, I know exactly what it means 
to go into the kitchen in the morning to build 
a fire in the cook-stove preparatory to break¬ 
fast. Your breath makes a vapor as dense as 
the smoke which soon curls up the chimney. 
Your fingers tingle and your feet are like ice 
because the floor is like ice. 
Even when the room is comfortably warmed 
by the general heat of the fire, the floor re¬ 
mains cold. The underlying basement is cold. 
More than likely the kitchen is a “lean-to,” 
without basement, and possibly with scant 
foundation, leaving the space under the kitchen 
to be swept by the icy blasts of winter. 
What happens to the poor housewife? She 
develops chilblains. Her heels and the sides 
of her feet are “frosted,” and for the rest of 
the winter she must endure the torture of this 
miserable ailment. 
The farm-hand who wears heavy woolen 
socks and boots which are too snug in their 
fit suffers from sweating feet, subsequent 
chilling, and the natural effects of the im¬ 
paired circulation caused by the tight boots. 
It is important to protect the feet by proper 
shoes and stockings. These should be suited 
to the occasion, because sweating feet and 
damp stockings are factors in the develop¬ 
ment of chilblains. Dress according to neces¬ 
sity. When you get home with thoroughly 
chilled feet, you probably stand over a hot 
register or stick your feet in the oven. This 
is not the thing to do. You should take off 
your shoes and stockings, put your feet in cold 
water, and then rub them with a coarse toweL 
This treatment will restore the circulation in 
the frosted tissues and spare you months at 
misery. If chilblains have actually devel¬ 
oped here is a formula which will give yon great 
relief: ; 
Iodine crystals, five grains; collodion, otm 
ounce; ether, two drachms. Paint this on the 
chilblains every day. This will stop the itch¬ 
ing and protect the skin. i 
