lWrday, March 4, 1916
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DID YOU DO YOUR BEST?
Dm vou fail in -the race? .
nid you faint in the spurt :
, thl .hot dust choked and burned?
WUcru-l-X- ta ifi midst - the -flying -
Did you oi tsAOk t - ;
That 'ih'" '' spl?!f
ThJ bet of it since the .beginning, lad,
J, in ur UCkInS :grlimiag
If youagaye them the beat you had.
Did your tackle fall short?
rM the runner flash B
W.th the score that won the game?
Sid it break your heart when you pissed
DM you Soke with the hurt and shame?
if -i-nn did vour best
oVTknU- the score; I followed you
- all the way through-
nd that Is why I am sayiug,; lad,
That the best of the fight is the staying,
lad
And the best of all games is the .playing,
lad,
if vou Rive them the best in you.
2-Nelson Robins, .in the Y.h $&m-
panion.
which all our hogs and oitrs . were
grazing. Now .we have him back in
the grass lot by himself, and he seems
to get lonesome, arid wants to get out
and be with the other pigs. We now
arefeedingnim.5oakedcorn.aji
cowpeas in the pod. He is very 'gen
tle, and is always ready to eat when
feed time comes.
We want to' keep our pig healthy
and growing so lie will some day be a
big, fine hog. with which we can build
up pur .common grade herd of hogs.
We need more purebred ,and high
grade hogs jn the South, because "they
make more meat for the feed given
them than the" "scrubs" will with the
sake kind and amount of feed. I be
lieve, though that the feed counts ,as
much as the breed.
. ALONZO McKAY.
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By J.A.MARTIN
FROM FACTORY TO F4RM
(This Week's Boys' prhe fetter)
HAVE read your paper for the
(. past eight years, and J do not think
hat there is any better published be-
ause you do not publish any patent
Medicine or whiskey advertisements.
Km sorry to say that I have been
school but three weeks but by
udyirig at night I have learned to
ad and write at home. I was once
factory boy in the city but the city
e does not compare with farm life
all. When I worked. in thefactory
was similar to the chaiiTgarigrfor
e children were put under an over
eer. Sometimes we had a good one,
.ometimes a cruel one. Most over
leers in those places remind me of a
ig torn, cat that wants, to be boss
vcr the cream jar. But out here on
lie farm I am my own boss. Here I
fen have my dogs, cows, pigs, hogs,
nckens, etc., which make our lives
appy. Jiut 1 will remember the
pars I lived in the city.
When you leave the citv and move
J the country you da not know what
change it makes. I believe in farm
g and doing something- worth while.
pre are a lot of farmers who do
t take care of their land and build-
jgs; but take an old plantation, trim
an the hedge rows, fill up all the
hes, clean out all thp nIH rfitrW
a make some new ones, paint the
"dings and get a gasoline engine.
fter !ank etc., and see .what a
f ge it will make. Now that is just
f kind of change it will. make on a
f or girl you take from the factory
V f. iaun- ow, people who live on
f tai"m and who have been reared
Fe ao not at all realize what a life
YVK m these little villages live.
l thfKP rlo-.,n ' t
, v uaya are 0ver ana i am
!ng ?.ow and living at home
warding at the same nlace : on
raised farm rr.4. t"l
j,,..,, piuuiitis. i nave
-umers or sisters, my father is
a Just mother and T 'W f
old farm. : "
tie Progressive Pm : -
J. ! r,at.our home every.week,
- ,. u 1S the best farmers
C1 published. I wish vnn nnA irrvin-,
f a happy new year d Uf
JNO. B. NICHOLSON.
A Young Hop R nicer
Dilm r U erKsnire pig. :We
oth ago from
thrv U5 au told, and is
afrrV IIins 01d" Fr some
diter v (TAt t: i. - . .
U ,. SUl 111111 nA :nro taH
landTnm y ne quart butter- '
St HmFCOrn soake water.,
r P I ,m,n a grassy,lot with two
where he had plenty of
gra Ced ?
h were 1 i"?1 on cowpeas
er Planted April 19, and Ion
Likes Primer of Hygiene
I HAVE been studying hygiene, and
. have learned how to prevent small
pox, scarlet fever, measles and sever
al other kinds of contagious diseases.
I .can help mama cook and wash
cl.ish.es. Mamma says I can cook as
good bread as she has ever eaten, and
I love to make pies . and rc.akes and
help papa on the farm.
I get up every morning and feed
the chickens and help . mama about
the Jhouse and then I get ready to go
to school. I study the fifth grade.
We .play basket ball. We play it
for our health, to strengthen our bod
ies. Primer of Hygiene is the best study
I have. " NAOMI FINCH.
If Naomi had read our "Good Eng
lish" lessons, we don't believe she
would have .said "I study the fifth
grade." Do you?
Helps to Run a Canning Factory
MY FATHER takes The Progres
ive Farmer and I enjoy reading
the Young People's Page. I am a lit
tle girl of eleven years old.
f We run a canning factory and can
our tomatoes at home. We put up
about 5,000 cans of tomatoes arid
200 of peaches, beans and other
things. I JKelp jnother and father can
tomatoes. My father is a carpenter
too. We raised this year about 800
bushels of potatoes. I lpve to go to
school. I :liv.e about two and .one-half
miles from school, and I go and come
in a buggy.
ALOE MAE BIRMINGHAM.
Haye You Read These Fairy Tales?
IN WHAT story is there a little
glass slipper?
2. In what story does the princess
sleep one hundred years? .
3. In what story is there ;a .house
nade of ginger bread and sweet
.cakes? :-
4. In what story is the hero about
.three inches tall? '
5- In what story do flowers and
j ewels fall from a girl's jtnouth when
she -speaks? .
6. in what story , are there seven
little dwarfs ?
7. In what story is there ,a "talking
iish?"'
8. In what story does a boy trade a
;cow for some beans?
9. In what . story does a girl ijaye
three eyes?
10. In what story does. a cat per
form wonderful deeds ,in the. service
ff her master ?-Kansas City Star.
HORSE CLOTHES
A horse dealer was showing a horse to a
. prospective purchaser. After running ,the
animal back arid .forth a few minutes he
paid to .the buyer: " -''What do you think of
his coat?" Isn't he a dandy?"
- The buyer; noticing that the horse was
affected with! heaves, replied: "Yes, I like
his coat all righv but I don't like his pants."
---Exchange. ,
"SORROWFULLY YOURS"
.jTKDIN5 his letter as above a poultry breed
er writes me as follows:
"What is the matter with Southern poultry
men and women ? I have been advertising
high quality stock at half or a quarter of
what I paid for. my cheapest birds but with
out results. J paid $100 for my five cheapest
birds. 1 -
.'.'Only high-grade birds are used In my
breeding pens and I am so careful about, the
birds I keep or sell as breeders that I only
get from 20 to 25 per cent of breeders from
the (' eggs I hatch. Remembering this and
coupled .with the expense of advertising,
raising, shipping and packing eggswhat
does the buyer expect ior his money? One
ma;n wrote me Jie was willing to pay
?7 for four hens and a cook-r-the cock alone
costing me $25 in . England.! The birds In
my breading peris .will weigh from 7 to 12
pounds each. J4yo .market poultry Js ,no,w
Wiling .at irpm Z2 cents ,to 25 cents per
pound. Where Is the .margin between that
and,.$2.6.0 ot a good breeding hen?"
There ia much food for thought in this
letter, though I. cannot .(as he seems to
want me to) jump on our readers and criti
cise them for being jmwilling to pay fancy
prices for fancy breeding stock.
Fortunately this man for I know him per
sonally) is well to do, and raising fancy birds
is. with him, more a "hobby" than a means
of livelihood. He, therefore, must remember
that the average farmer oriarm woman
raises poultry as only one of many crops and
that unless a man is equipped to handle and
raise fancy poultry the risk to him is great.
Where this man has made his mistake (if
he wants to sell a lot of eggs and birds)
was to have brought (1) a new breed, little
known in the South and only a little known
anywhere, (2) to pay such prices for his
breeders as he did pay and (3) to expect ev
eryone to be willing to pay as much for their
start as he paid for his.
If a merchant lives in a mining section he
will sell more overalls than he will silk
shirts.
It would be foolish to advertise or expect
to sell fancy, selected cotton seed in the Wis
consin Agriculturist or the R,urai New
Yorker. -
The man who lives in a section where tho
roads are impassable has no business with an
automobile, and no farmer should "go into
the dairy business" by buying a lot of fine
Jersey cows and expecting them to pick a
living in the cotton jfields and retire at night
on ah armful .of poor hay.
And yet there is no use trying to deny the
fact , that too many people try to buy high
quality breeding stock (poultry, cattle,
horses, sheep and swine) at .scrub prices. It
simply .can't be done.
If you are going to get rid of all your
scrub poultry and start put with good pure
bred birds, $5, $10, or even $15 is not a "high"
price for'a .good cock, nor is 12.50 to $5. a
high price for eggs from ,the b-est flocks.
Don't try to "Jew" people down by offer
ing f 4 .for a $20 ?ig. $4 won't bring anything
but a little hair, a little bone, a few grunts
and a world of trouble. And remember,
"Something for nothing" is expensive
Always.
practically the same In each Instance. The
readings are made up in twelve forms, one
loreacn sign or tne zodiac, and the readings
differ only according to the date of birth of
the individual, Bo. two persons born on the
same day of the year receive the same read
Jng, regardless of the. year in which they
were born. ' '
W. h. Dings, a Ft, Wayne Ind., doctor,
advertised that he could cure cancer and lo
comotor ataxia. ReauUr-$300 fine and costs.
"If I could take your license away from you
also, X would. jsald federal Judge A. B.
Anderson, of Indianapolis, in passing sen
tence. Judge Anderson said that locomotor
ataxia Is progressive, incurable disease
and so recognized by jthe medical profession,
and anyone who had ,uo jmore conscience
ihan to claim that It could be xsured ought
not to be in the profession.
Now and then I get letters from farmers
asking If this and that .Vdoctor" or this and
. that patent medicine can or will do all they
blaim in .their advertising.
As amuel Adams has said, 'If it's medi
cal it's fake" one and all alike. Iet them
aU alone but above all the advertising "spe
cialist" doctors. They would starve t death
If all papers barred them.
AW, MAN, GIVE US TIME!!
TWHEN the postal .card reproduced below
came in I jumped on the advertising
clerks, and told them that when an adver
tiser once ordered his advertising stopped, it
should not be necessary to be told again.
One of the boys looked up and said: ."Aw,
man, give us time." .
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- $1.60 pays for your own renewal one year
and The Progressive! Farmer, one year for a
new subscriber, - " -
ONE BY ONE THEY CO
A S THE Southern member of the National
...Vigilance .Committee , of the Associated
Advertising Clubs', . I haye time and again
begged various Southern newspapers and re
ligious journals to refuse advertising of 'Cer
tain rascals who were robbing people.
One of the sco ndrels was an 'astrologer"
Prof. Roxroy, .of London, England.
In the last sheet of the 'Vigilance .Com
mittee's News Bulletin, I see that the (In-)
famous Prof. Roxroy is no longer permitted
to filch hard-earned dollars from the people
of the United States. On December 24, 1915,
the Post Office De'par tent issued a fraud or
der against 'this faker, prohibiting him the
use of the malls.
Very few newspapers have been carrying
the Roxroy advertising for some .time. More
than a . year ago the vigilance committee , of
Minneapolis persuaded a newspaper, there to
throw out this copy, and similar results were
obtained in many other cities. . . .
Fraud orders have also been issued against
Henry Sacra, London, Eng., and C. Spargo,
London, Eng. In circular matter these "as
trologers" claim that they have .already cast
the .horoscope of the addressee and that
"Your star of fate is soon to' arise," or "a
period in which some matters can be turned
to your advantage is approaching,'! or "con
ditions are soon to arise that will have a
great bearing, on your family relations." ." ,
As a matter, of fact, . these readings are
You folks who advertise with us ought,
by now, to know we can't start or stop an
advertisement .withouT two weeks notice.
When an issue is locked up and running on
the press we can't go down to the press
room and ,take out a ,big or a little adver
tisement. Once in, it's just gotta go.
I feel like the advertising clerk felt when
wegetuch kicks '.'Aw, man, give us, time!"
KEEPING TIRES ON THE ROAD
MflTHIN the past week repairmen in every
part of the country have , been notlfled
by the B. F. Goodrich Company of an im
proved method of tire repair which will save
car owners thousands of dollars.
Two principal difficulties have been found
with repairs as made heretofore. The re
pairman often has not taken the injury out
of the tire. Piles of fabric have been heap
ed upon the injured parts but the injury It
self remained. , The repair was no more than
a patch, a make-shift, and often the patch
(was as stiff as a piece of armor plate. The
stiff patch and - resilient tire body parted
and the tire "shuffled off" before its time.
Again, in some cases repair materials
have been used which were not designed to
harmonize. , As a result, part of the tire was
either .over-cured or under-cured.
Under the new method the same tools and
equipment are used, the repair cost practi
cally the .same as heretofore, but the tire
goes back on the road nearly as strong as
before injury.
The Goodrich Company's latest improve
ment has caused a great deal of comment
among the trade and also among car own
ers, many of whom have heretofore felt that
it was. impossible to repair a badly blown
out tire ' effectively. Instructions are f urn-;
lshed to repairmen without charge. -