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..-. w .... , - 7 J, lillj (7) . 5S7 rigtt "when every .lick Is made r count to the fullest. : ' .:: ".' Let's all try to be that tort of boss -this Bummer and Just remember that being boss of ourselves. la just as im-1 portant . as bossing the Ixands -well. J DonV fool away" time. It . la the most : important thins we hare, for it only : - comes once. V vV - , : - - j , : ' 2 d V: Now is; the timo to get the "sum mer hair cut" find buy.ju new- suit. : A farmer Is Just as. much of a gen- tleman as any other man and I don't see why he should ; not look the part . Vwhen his business takes him to public 1 OUR YOUNG PEOPLE JI1E BOY'S CHANCE ON THE - r "kS gave this man his success as an ". ;. - FARM ' oflce-holder, neither did oQce-hold- - - . .VI v ing make Mm a better farmer; but Young. Men of Pluck and. Energy. olnt !svth",he fnad l hJm Make Opportunities Everywhere to, wla . d to, and is win- V Rather Than Having to Wait for - ?in& now' G?"inS rcad ut9 one. Them - - - - 1x1 . the way of taking advantage of V crirr.o V; "Chancea 'waen they come. Waiting COMETIMESwe hcar itsaid, Thcro .(or chance3 one not fitted to take yJis no chancafor the boy on the i3 the most: unsatisfactory thing in Iarm. ..,. w.r , : VVv : the world. Good chances do . not . Now let me make this statement: come to anybody: they have to be laces. Overalls " arid hickory shirt young boy has , Just as good , a . hammered out on .; the anvil of am- suit me all right to work in on the farm;; but I need -something . else" f or a change when I am riot working. - A $25suit and a 25fcent hair cut will make you feel like-a newsman. Try it chance on the farm as he has the bition and enterprise. wma - vo maite. owmay i iry 10 " Many a young man has thought at prove -.v.--: .j; C the '. beginning of his career that if s; Just now ! have in. mind a young ;'. someone would only set ; him up in man who went away' to a State Nor- business,; furnishing him his farm; ? f -' Hasn't the: madam spoken? to. you age. "It .took him five .years to .fin- of money! in the bank for him , to about A mowing -the - door - yard ? v v ! sl the course. All the .way along draw" from as he needs, then he would she hasn'tf I take'it she has Just beerilVhis heart was true to the bid farm ; surely do grand things. It does not , waiting to seer if you won't thmk of many years for the majority of it yourself. V Have the children pick for the occupation of teaching, and young men who set out with that idea up air the old Vcans arid sticks, Hhen . wj)uld have done well at it no doubt, to come to the end of their rope and .take the shoes - off iybur cutter bar, J he went back ta the farm and is mak- be forced to : admit that;, something load yourself up with; Sunday a -marked; success rbf it. : The more -than having a chance "given ; guage,":and cut the grass and weed gained:from books Is a them is. the way to success. If they V'- ROOFING fw a pncUeU net bj CAROLINA Metal Shindies roof. if Iron m Ita Plntd or clTtw(i Any car (enter cn pn tbm on. Sheets fit and lock perfectly No aoJder luliMrMnqr. If tatereated la a Better booL be aura to Writ far FREE CaUla Qnaiated with oar tall liam by tlnm f and apeetal ctrelar ihow IB Uka tn MIak lumm km. Quejated witH onr tail 11 aending a poatcard t4ay. CA1CUN A KFTA1 MODUCTS Ca Dm &awllaalHtM. N. C , i A Most Efficient Trac cauae if drives in all four wheels it puahes and pulls. Easier to handle does better work. Woita where or dinar? tractors can't. Write f or catalog. ' Heer Enalno Co, 45 T St. Porttmouth 0. m . ILl V.I :h5srr close with the horses;! Do this every ;10 days . and yoU;iwill' have a better ; " looking place. - r' 7 r The writer has been : carrying - a ; great hidden: sorrow for the, past, 15 years and the whole family has ; ?l felt its blighting" curse. . The soil of -"Sunny Home Farm" just would not--V produce' .watermelons.. But 'now -we s v have 'another farm over, in Virginia' where, between the rolling, red hills, are little ;rich; "sandy loam bottoms, fashioned for the express purpose of j-Vk producing melons to perfection.! And : we are preparing now to make the ' " summer ,months. a sweet, happy T sea- son.",The land broken'deep; hills laid " ff eight feet apart; a forkful of .well-: rotted " manure,' . thoroughly : mixed ; X with the oil of' each, hill i a good; handful of - fertilizer- along with the ,manure, - and, Jong years' of sorrow . changed by" sweet anticipation. - Are you making preparations now for "one or two , good .heavy? colts to make their appearance on the farm -next year? Raising most "any, ,sort of good-colt to do the work on the farm is far better and cheaper, than' to depend upon buying mature anl- mals when needed. . But now, when the automobile is making-.such-in-J roads on the prices of light horses "and ' draft - horses 'are holding . their "own In the best markets because there - is nothing to usurp their place, It i- seems folly to me to breed our mares "w ill?, 0? ! ' Af ; fat , , .... a v' ' i 1 . . ..... , - - - -. had said T11 make my own c h ance," they would surely . have come J out at the top of the ladder. There is somer thing fine about working-out one's own success. The world honors the young man who brings to his life a well-defined pur p o se a n d -w h o presses toward the accomplishment of t h at p u r pose steadily. 1 and un- : flinchingly. It will lay ; every - possible tribute at his feet. The very soil of the farm seems to respond more readily to his t o u c h t h a n to that of the. man who : goes to his work in a half hearted way, com plaining that he is hampered al the time, and who looks upon . farm ing as a poor busi ness at best. Success in farm ing is to be won just as success ev erywhera is by available - within V drivmg I distance, r help to him every day and gives him earnest, faithful, persistent work. Regularibreeding will pw plus of horses after "a time,, and Ja :cimmunity. Already they have cho's-;-. ' " ' ' : good. draft horse' never looks . for en him. to represent them Jn the local rAfinr" Avtc Ar VAnn VSr buyer long. v for Young Vlf like, hanrry wolres any season if ait ever dlacoTered for attraetlni yon bait with Mzle Kiab Lure. Best bait ever diacorered for attracting ail kinds of fish. Keeps you trasy puuinff iuem on. wnia io-aay ana set m DOS to nerp miroaace it. Ageatu wanted. J. F. Ureory, Dept. B St. Lonit, t ' BOLL-WEEVIL style cultivators out of business wherever tried. You simply can't afford to farm without them. For cuts, prices, testimonials, etc.( write - GRIFFIN IIACEINE 4 SUPPLY CO.. GMFFIN, CA. Pure-bred Poultry R. C. RIIODE ISLAND REDS if you want the best Reds in the world or simply common, poorly bred Reds, do not send to me I have neither. Mine are fine well-bred birds winners winter layers, hence payers. You want some Ejnrs-to-Hatch" from these birds, write for matins : list and see for yourself. : D.Uatt. Thompson, Bex X, StatesvUle, N. C. EGGS BEDUCEDn h Oernba ' ONE.FOURTU , Prize matlnes R. ORMNtTONS. Butt, WliHe C. Red estar. $2.25; VERY CHOICE matlnga of aUU.5.."- My birds and their Immediate an- cestors nave won many nrsis ana cups in ouum b ucb shows. Catalog free. Satisfaction guaranteed. Mr. 4. 0. OKA TON, Laedla, N. C. - , (Red fancier ten years.) S. C. Rhode Island Reds K: K;r Bred from the best strains In the world. Stock and eggs for sale. EGOS 1.00 to D7.00 for 15. Baby Chlx a specialty. .Judge R. L. Simmons assisted us in mating our pens. Oat our 1914 free folder. , Piedmont Poultry Yard. Henry. N. C LEGHORNS SwUfs White Leoborn Farm OSverythJng White) h S. C. White Lefcrborns. S. C. White Minorca, White Holland Turkeys, White Indian - Runner nd Pekin Dueke. , Express er Parcel Post charges prepaid on em. Prices reduced April 15th. Catalog free. SausJae- ""-rSrSWIFT SON. , Junaloska Drive, - WAYNESVUtf, N, C. Urge amount of money every year V ffrnA Jfl A UAt.M A W A MAMA WAR m . - . A. .1 .111.. . . ' 4UAU . J GUI UA1. W HUIUB DAI O . A AM Ad fT f no V YT 1 T"W .11 I M M 1 I1W II" . ' m . w . . . "".-.--. a. ... auu VC4 ims vma Huwuu v. w v"-,, Ti;ffUL'ij v onKAAI hnnOAMn Ul1n na tv - ; . rr ---- -. -. . , : pujr. . - - khwsm fTAiinrv. vireinra. a niAnarri jv, ausiasuc- over mo .wimer garaeo wav-True'office-fcOldmg is not tne .it a.a.ia -asked me .what Mrs. French was getrVMehest aim a young man may cher- tinr out of the garden I responded 7ih : and sUll It Is fin-thing for . JTni, .1; u.V-iUa . w i ' j j js U iA x J U W aali V ai ss ajl A fj Iff r VVVe promptly that "I saw her getting two one to get such an experience as this , nft:Tfi(1 n readfl- HOCKS PrlzcWlnnlna RfaaletM Barred Rocka Select Eggav from caitiuuy mated nens. tl 13. 14 A IS per 15. ' Clva PAnltrv !tri seswwaann -f," . sheep and a bull calf , out the day he fore." Salsify Tjaranina and- turnin v-: ; naiad are : about the only crops we nave xouna profitable in ,tner winter ; "'-''. '. U SD 11. . ) -M M Ul. BBII.I1 SM Mlllll IIIMI - E I 1I1TLI a different-story rmay beEtoldir the . tel.uif .. a a - aa . . . Dianxinir ann rninvfLTinn ata rarnTiiiiv ?'-fr. lcr " ' . "I; believe that the country which Another young farmer I know had God made is more beautiful than the the advantage of an academical edu- city , whicn man made: that life out cation7 and., went - part way : through oJ door8 and n touch with the earth college when his health failed-and he S the natural lite of man. 1 believe . went back to the f arm. He took an that work ' with nature is more in old, run-down: farm' and made it over ; Bpjrng than work with the most in SO that TOU would Scarcely know It to- trirnte machinery. T hliv that the Ahelnfui MmMet. tr, thower ' ' haslinore ;tha?' ?u?drfd :tdignity of labor depends not on what - r, . : " w -. - - .v. vi m hn ftnxtrm irnnr on inn r mrv. T- 4..t J.. " a ' r x 11 v i ii 8outhernProducts-of.the 611- tor i" -JL?" i-Vir--titkt :irtdn- df 'tM "-r" w-t- , sued by the Southern Railway Com- - t.- -t" you do, but. how you do it; that op- on the farm thA cltT!i that country as you may see there This jj is larger and freer.' and happier man too, ; went 'to the local Legi3:; on-the farm than in the town; that ture and, then on to tne state Legis-. jj,y gUCcess depend not updn my lo- lature. serving wim cmii ui-nimse vcaUon; tut vp0n myself; not upon duce. It ia a - fitting" cbmnanion'-to vu ;.u' " : rr".0" '' W dreams, out upon wnat I actually the reliable comminkm merr.hantn "spected for his-ability, and - integ j bellev0 Jn working when you work throughout the country Both nubl : Pr ie ftndr.inplaying. when you; play and cations can be bad tn annlicatlon'to ne r tne pany, Washington, p. ;,Q;-4 It eon tains many .suggestions ' on what, to grow, where to market, and the form of package to use for all kinds of pro duce. It is a . fitting comDanion to their, former booklet, giving.a. list o ' 3USCELLANEOU8 BREEDS EGGS FCIl DATCCING, Alter l!ay 1 Lto 13 for 15 from prize winning pens of tjlet Barred Rocks, Black Langshans, White Indian Runnar Ducks, Golden Seabrlght Bantams, Buff, Columbian and PartridM Wyandottes. Breeders and exhibition birds half price. At 14 shews in 1911 won over 450 premiums, specials and cups. Catalog free. . Z, - DUTCII FOBK TVLVCU FAU&I, ColWsUltae' 8. C '. r ;; - BLCX AS3ALCSUNS, KtACI S7AKIS3. ANCONIS. rcsxwcm and riw ilea tvbiti mzun cum-: KIM BUCKS. The arrest beantr and lay in 2 breeds; First prize winners wherever snown: unarione, ; etc Era cheap. Write for free booklet. ; - war r if f ii vc jtbt imiivs' it pw si . BEGS for hatchlneWrom pure-bred Docks, Turkeys, Chickens. . - - -H m w&r w vwmv w m r w a. k. l h . .vh. Bf ' . k. a a ra. i aa HHa. swaaaa iuJar, u. - . -JJILZ. The hif hest . price ever paid for a serial w aMtti.M t.mn i(n.iw.1iat'a What it W Jf "-.r Wf aa. -' ' .v. mM tfaitfnt -flf all BOUtn LI VI A. L V Ii iUV VBJ vr-sn"- - em stories;, to begin May 23. ' '. v ; above : address.' is not true that fafm- deal in every act of llfe. r J; ; i . - . -v.v Kz'y - . v. ..,', j . )" ")". "'.-..'''"', '-- ' "'- ' : ' '-.:' . . -
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