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A v ycv- -2-r ri-a , Make Money Get a Gra fc-Vs1 A rc.s . At; I,' 51 i Cole Drill with Plow Openers Mr. Freeman, of Alabama, says : "I planted my oats and wheat with a Cole Drill, and I am the only man in my community that has any oats and wheat left since the hard freezes." Mr. Wiggins, of North Carolina, says: "I have never lost a prop of oats or wheat sown with the Cole Three-Row Grain Drill. I have lost many sown with other makes. Some of my tenants sowed wheat last fall with a two-horse disc drill and at least one-half of their wheat was killed by the hard freezes. Mine sowed with a Cole Three-Row Grain Drill was a perfect stand." v Mr. Rogers, of South Carolina, says : "I used your Three-Row Grain Drill the past season in sowing oats. It sowed them uniformly and they were not winter killed but very little; while ad joining oats were badly killed." Cole Drill with Disc Openers Amid Sow Grain Because 1 f. High prices for food-stuffs are sure to prevail for another year. The war raging in Europe has sent prices soaring and created an enormous demand for grain. The world looks to you for food and will cheerfully pay liberal prices. .... "" . 2,tld Safety First requires you to grow wheat for your own bread and have a surplus to sell for cash at a big profit. ffl Preparedness urges you to grow oats for your own stock and for our government, so you can sell corn and meat at high prices for human food. Our armies must be fed and they are looking to the American farmer for their main support. A fly Enrichment of your soil is made easy by the Cole Grain.Drill. With this Drill you sow grain at the right time in your fields of cotton or corn. You get two crops from same land and start a rotation of crops that will build up your soil. The Cole Drill does not injure the cot ton or corn, and while you gather these crops your grain is growing and getting well rooted before winter comes. Early sowing not only means a sure crop but a bigger yield. Mr. Johnson, of Tennessee, says: "The beauty of the Cole Drill is that you can drill your grain in corn fields before you gather the com. " You save 7-8 of the labor by using the Cole Drill. Just one trip with the Cole Drill in each corn or cot ton middle, and your grain crop is planted. Why do the un necessary labor of plowing and harrowing fields that have been cultivated all summer? Such fields suit grain" better than loose, freshly turned land. (ifV The Cole Drill is the best insurance against win- ter killing. The past winter was the hardest on grain ever known. The wonderful results from using the Cole Drill are shown by the testimony of farmers every where. Patriotism calls on every American to do his part for his country and humanity. Fortunately you can do the great est service right at home by growing food-stuffs at profit able prices. ' ' You save money by. buying the Cole Drill. It costs only 1-4 as much as the big drills does all that the big drills do, and does important work that the big drills cannot do. Get a Cole Drill and get it early. Write at once for free circulars, telling more about these val uable Drills and showing how to Save LaborSave Money Make a Sure Crop and Increase the Yield. 5th. 1 Box 300, The Cole Manufacturing Company, CHARLOTTE, N. C. 1 li I i I i H
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