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Thursday, December 12, 1912.] THE CAKOLINA UNION FARMER Pa;ge Seven t ■ i THE STANDARD "CENTRAL NEEDLE” OSITIOK V WO ACHING BACKS Wlkcn using STANDARD Sit Straight Central Needle Sewing Machines The Standard Sewing Machine Company Cleveland, Ohio nrou CANT «IT THIS WAlT- AND SEW! Trnsses Like These Are a Crime mk Hii’i Here’s an end to the curse of wearing straps and springs that squeeze and pinch—pads that do no good—trusses that simply shorten your life. Here’s somethingabselutely guarabteed to keep your rupture from coming out. Test it on 60 days trial and see. If it doesn’t hold at all times, then it won’t cost you a single cent. Has relieved some of the worst cases on record—made them entirely well. Doctors and surgeons who know ol it recommend it instead of operation. No belt, no leg- straps, no springs. Is water-proof—will hold in bath. Write lor Free Hook and find out all about it. Book is full of facts never before put in print. Cloth-bound 98 pages. Explains why elastic and spring trusses can not help you. rfhows dangers of operation Exposes the humbug “appliances,” ^’methods,” “plasters,” etc. Will save you from wasting money Shows why 60 days trial we allow is the omy safe way to test anything for rupture and how we offer you the only thing good enough to stand such a long and thorough test. Book gives over 5,000 voluntary endorsements Write for it today—It tells you things you could never find out by going to doctors or drug stores. Address Box 336—ciuthe Co., 125 E. 23rd St.. New York. NORTHERN BUYERS want Southern farms; direct dealing with owners; no com mission. What have you to sell 7 Write Southern Homeseekers’ Bureau, Box 1454, Atlanta, Ga. (Dec. 12.) FARMERS: 25 cents silver brings you a book let that tells all about Fertilizing and Farming for profit. $2 doz. to Locals. Address Box 150 Picayune, Miss. Frost Proof Cabbage Plants Now ready. Best seed, best varieties, best plants. Set early for best results. One to three thousand at It 25 per 1,000 1,000 to 3,000 at 11.25 per 1,000 4,000 to S.uOO at 11.00 per 1,^ 9,000 up at 90 cents per 1.000 Special prices to Local Unions and dealers. HIGH CREST TRUCK FARM G. L. B. Penny, Prop , Routt 1- Ralelph W. C. Cheapest Place to Buy Fine Jewelry in the World Do not buy your Christmas presents until you see my catalogue. Write for catalogue today. WILL C. WALKER. Bailer, Tcnn. Studying Agricultural Europe Henry A. Wallace in Switzerland. Switzerland is not quite one-third the size of Iowa, and there is but one- sixth as much farming land. Strange 'to say, she has almost exactly the same number of farmers that we have in Iowa. The average size of a Swiss farm is only twenty acres. It is interesting to ride through Switzerland by daylight. Nearly all the farms are tilted on edge. When we were riding from Basil, on the German border, to Berne, the capital of Switzerland, we noticed how fun ny the farmers looked, cutting hay by hand, on their slanting, little fields. We feared that some of them might fall off and be killed, unless they were anchored to the hillside. The Swiss women seem to do as much field work as the men. Everywhere on Swiss farms we saw women and children raking and loading hay. Ox en and heifers are used more than horses for hauling in hay from the field. . Some of the farm houses are frame, but most of them are of stone or brick, with red tile roofs- The most noticeable thing about Swiss farm houses is the overhanging of the roofs. Many of them project for three or four feet at the sides, in front, and behind, beyond the house itself. In England, France and Ger many the farm-houses are commonly collected in villages, but in Switzer land they are often as far apart as half a mile- A peculiar thing about the Swiss farms is that there are almost no fences or pastures. As you ride through the valleys, you will see no cattle except those hitched to wag ons. They are all kept in barns, or else are pasturing high up in the mountains. But although nearly half the Swiss people are farmers, the things which strike you most about Switzerland are mountains, lakes, and hotel-keepers. The Alps are no higher than our own Rockies, but they seem higher and grander because, whereas our Rock ies rise from a plain a mile above sea level, the Alps are in the midst of a country scarcely 2,000 feet above sea level. There is more snow on the Alps than on our Rockies, and somehow they give the appearance of being rougher and more jagged. Jungfrau (Youngfrow, they call it), one of the most noted mountains of northern Switzerland, is 13,670 feet high, or about 600 feet lower than our own Pike’s Peak. But to look up at it from the foot, Jungfrau seems far grander than Pike’s Peak. The top four or five thousand feet is covered with snow, and along the ravines of its jagged sides are glaciers. A cog railway takes us within about 2,000 feet of the top. First we climb up at a twenty per cent grade out of a deep canyon. As we look around us, we see waterfalls tumbling for hundreds of feet over the pre cipices. Then come several miles of green Alpine pastures, and here are the big, yellow Simmenthaler cows, peacefully grazing. They have bells hung on their necks, and it gives you a sort of happy, care-free feeling when you watch those big cows swinging their heads from side to side, pulling off the grass, and all the while the bells go tinkle-tinkle. Most of the cows are as high as they can get, just below the snow line. But I must tell about the cattle of Switzer land another time. Higher up on the mountain is a deep chasm, filled with snow packed into ice. That is what they call a glacier. Glaciers flow down hill even as streams flow down hill, but when streams flow miles, Wallace’s Farmer. glaciers flow inches. From the point where the snow and ice begin, the railroad has been opened only a few days. For a time the journey upwards is very interest ing. The track is all the v/ay in a tunnel. If it were not, snow and ice would cover it completely. After ten or fifteen minutes we come to the Eigerwand station, a hole in the tun nel to the side of the mountain where we can look down a chasm to the glacier below. On this particular day there happens to be a misty snow whirling between us and the glacier. It is time for the train to go again, so on we climb. There are one or two more stations cut through the rock of the tunnel side, and at last, after nearly an hour’s journey through the tunnel, we are at the end, not quite the top, but neverthe less two miles higher in the air than we were four hours earlier in the day. It is chilly, so we walk about. What a beautiful world of ice and snow! If it were only clear, we could see hundreds of miles across Switzerland, but as it is our vision is shut off by a whirling snow storm and cloud banks. Suddenly a Swiss guide with short trousers, stockings, heavy boots and Alpine hat, appears on the scene. He points to a little peak about half a mile away, which he will take us to for ten francs- Two of us decide to go, so what does our guide do but bring out fifteen, or twenty feet of rope and an Alpen stock (a stick with a small pick-axe at one end and a sharp point at the other). Both of us start laughing, for we think the guide is making fools of us with his elaborate prepara tions, I look down at my low, sum mer shoes, and then at the guide with his high, hob-nailed boots, and then at the snow—and laugh the more. Then the guide ties the rope around the three of us and up we go, single file. Ten minutes later, looking over the edge of a snow bank to a glacier a thousand feet below, w’e were glad of the rope- The little peak to which we climbed the guide called the Sphinx. He declared in very good English that we were the first to as cend it this year. We thought he was “fishing for a tip,” but then it might have been true, for the railroad had only been open to the highest station for a week. We had our cameras with us, and after the guide took our pic tures, we climbed down, and that eve ning were again in the valley, only two thousand feet or so above sea level. It was all very interesting, but the total expense of the day’s outing was ten or fifteen dollars each. The Swiss are the best hotel-keep ers in the world. They have special schools for teaching the hotel busi ness. Nearly a tenth of the popula tion does nothing but see that the tourists have plenty to eat and good beds to sleep in. Do you wonder that the hotels are good? If Switzerland doesn’t make them good she will fail in securing an abundant crop of tour ists. And the tourist crop, you must know, is far more important to Swit zerland than the wheat or oat crop. Knowing these facts, we were not as tonished to find the Swiss hotel-keep ers the most courteous imaginable, willing to answer all questions, to weigh our letters, and even to lick the stamps to put on them. There is a little town on a lake at the foot of Jungfrau, called Inter laken. Here Swiss hotels are in their glory- The only purpose for which anyone goes to Interlaken is scenery, and for this reason you here find row after row of hotels, with shops here and there between. Scenery is prob ably the greatest product of Switzer land, and after that is silk and cotton To Our Farmer Union Brethren and Others: THE RALEIGH PROLIFIC SEED CORN was used by the United States this year for demon stration work and by our State Ag ricultural Society for exhibit at re cent State Fair, by the State farm and Penitentiary farm. All corn on exhibit was at least three ears to stalk. Sold on cob or shelled, as desired. Price $1 per peck, $4 per bushel. Cash with order. - S. J. BETTS, Raleigh, N. C. W HAT DO YOU WANT TO PURCHASE? Write me your wants. I will then send you a long list of articles to select from, sold at whole sale and factory prices at a saving to you of from 15 to 40 per cent. I have nothing to sell. I show you how to keep retailers’ profits your self. Send 3 cents in stamps to cover postage for Bulletin No, 13397. Address J. E. RUE, Littleton, N. C. Luberger Pig & Poultry Farm, Concord, N. C. Offer best strain Orpington and Leghorn Chick ens—Buff or White. Cockerels 12.00. Also Regis tered Berkshire Pigs. Write us. J 16 Suits Made to Measure $10.50 UP, EXPRESS PAID At Wholesale Prices to Members ol F. E. & C. U. oi A. Ask the Secretary of your Locai to show you our line of woolen sam ples. If he hasn’t it, write to us at once. We will send it to you FREE.. Fit and satisfaction absolutely guaranteed—no risk to you. Producers & Consumers Alliance TAILORS TO MEN AND YOUNG MEN 231 10*241 S. MARKET ST., CHICAGO I have made contract with the above company U. of A. members with clotnGs to ni6a.sure a.t wholesale prices express prepaid. j. r. riveS. State Business Agent North Carolina Division. . T, - . dan T. SMARTT, otate Business Agent Tennessee Division. Pure Seed of Lewis Long Staple Cotton |1 ... per bushel in lots of five or more bnshels. H. Q. ALEXANDER, Matthews, N. C. SPECIAL TO LOCAL UNIONS Cabbage Plants Over two million frost-proof Cabbage Plants sold direct to Local Unions in this State last winter, and we have them ready aga’n this sea son, from best seed obtainable. Have your Ircal secretary or business agent write us for special money-saving prices to Local Unions. OAKDALE PLANT CO.. Marshville, N. C
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