I FARM MARKETING WAGON. |ndi»yenNn%le "Where Gnrden and Llalry Fradnetn Are Sold Directly to the Couaumer. Hundreds and hundreds of our most Successful farmers find the most profitable method of disposing of the farm's products to be selling them at first hand to consumers, direct from the farm wagon. Where there is a eity or numerous villages within easy driving distance there can be Bo doubt that this plan is eminently wise. It enables one to market his «iops when they are at their best, thus affording a chance to get best prices, while it saves to the farm the middleman's profit. In following this plan of selling crops it is cf great Importance that the market wagon li« well suited to the business. If the ! IDEAL MARKETING WAGON. •rdinary open farm wagon be used, there is little protection from the tun and flying dust, while all the ar ticles composing the load are more or less jumbled together, detracting from their flavor. Again, a rust3~- looking old wagon is not suggestive ©f delicious fruits, vegetables or dairy products. Bright paint and varnish pay big interest when it comes to the 6election of a market vehicle. It will often pay to build a wagon just suited to the needs of the farm whose crops are to be disposed of at first hand, or at least to build a wagon body that may be set upon a "low-down" running gear that may olready be at hand. The accompany ing design of a farm marketing wag on is presented for the consideration of those who m»y find it expedient to build. This wagon was designed for the convenience of the farmer and for the safe bestowal of his load in a manner to make the contents of the load show to the best advantage. It has a "deck" on which the bulky articles, such as cabbage, squashes, melons, etc., can be heaped up, while "below deck" is a covered space, ac cessible from four points, where such articles as butter, cream, strawber ries, etc., can be kept secure from heat and dust. This interior sp;tce can be reached from behind the cart, the end letting down; from either side through little doors, and by lift ing up the driver's seat in front, ice could be used in one of these apart ments to keep cream, milk, butter Bnd tender fruits in the best condi tion. A canvas cover over the whole will not only add to the attractive ap pearance of the outfit, but will pro tect the load from sun or showers. With so handsome a wagon, with a driver clean and neatly dre: sed a*nd with farm products of No. 1 quality, there will be no lack of patronage, and the money the consumer pays will all go into the farmer's pock't. —Webb Donnell, in Farm and Hoiue. Keepinti It otitis In Condition. Fred Grundy, in Farm and Fireside, tells us he has been watching "rotsd keeper" care for ten miles of black earth road, and he has kept it in good condition, not by macadamizing it or by covering it with crushed stone, but by providing good drain age, by tile in most places, to take the water off, and by digging out some of the worst places about 18 inches deep and filling with broken brick, tile, coal, cinders or whatever will make a firm foundation, and al low water to drain through. Then if the roads are rounded up to allow the water to run off and they get a little attention after every ram, they are easily kept in good condi tion. The results are much better and the cost much less than they were for the annual turnout of the district to mend, or often to make worse the roads, the job being ex pected then to be done until the same season comes around another year. Fertilizer* for Melon*. Growers of melons claim that if the manure is putin rows or broadcast ed it will be better than using it in hills, as the cause of the vines dying eround the main stem, although the branches Uiay appear healthy for a short time later, is the use of fresh manure in the hill. In the rows or hilis the coarse litter is said to be better than fresh manure. Lime is not beneficial to watermelons, but does no harm to muskmelons. Fer tilizers give excellent results with melons, and they should be broadcast ed and well worked into the soil. Seme Keglected V«*Ketalil<»H, There are some crops seldom grown in gardens, but which would be ap preciated if given a trial. Okra, one of tU» essentials for certain soups, is grown very easily and with little or no labor. Salsify, or vegetable oys ter, which is seeded in the fall, and the various peppepn and garnishing plan*,*, will occupy but little space. Even the peanut will prove ornamen ta.l and worthy of a place. It shoiffd have a little lime scattered over the rows, which will assist it to fill out. Even the sjjg-plant is absent in some gardens. WORK FOR GOOD ROADS. ~ Contitderable Ha* lleen Accompliahed In (he Co'iime of One Decade of Aitltatlou. Ten years of agitation has resulted in a national movement for good roads, but it is only within three years that a 'tangible progress has been made. Up to that time there had been a number of state associations. Later these were made to include a number of states, until in 1897 a national con vention was called at St. Louis. Twenty-two states responded to the call, with over 2,200 delegates. Oth er and larger conventions were held in 1898, 1899 and 1900. Several years ago President Moore originated the idea of trips of road instruction. Last year lie took a train through Minnesota, Wisconsin, lowa, Illinois and other western states. The train traveled over 38,000 miles on the trip, built 32 miles of model road, held 38 conventions and addressed 105,000 people. The trip was paid for with $14,000 appropriated by congress for the purpose. Following this trip, the last national convention was held in Chicago. Thirty-eight states were represented. It was then determined to secure an appropriation of $150,000 and ar range a trip which would result in a mile of model road being built in each state in the union. At the same time the convention secured the drafting of a good roads plank in the national platforms. The association failed to get the appropriation asked for, but with the assistance of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson secured $20,000, which was available for the work since July 1. After the failure to get the money President Moore went to New York and discussed the plan of a southern trip with President Stuyvesant Fish, of the Illinois Central. He was en thusiastic over the plan, and at once offered to provide the train and pay a large proportion of the incidental expenses. The association intends t > push the good roads work. Congress and each state will be asked to pass leg islation favorable to road improve ment. Good roads are conceded to be the opening wedge for every other improvement to follow. One idea ad vanced is to work the convicts of a state on its road construction. Over £OO miles of model road could thus be built each year. Tramps and va grants are forced to build roads in Germany and England. October 20 is to be Good Koads day in every state in the uniofi. On that day instruction in good road building will be given everywhere, ?n schools, through the press, and, if the day is on Sunday, the pulpit will be asked to assist the cause of good roads. SAFE FARM BRIDGES. TrrniH Arrangement Shown In the picture AamireH n Structnre That Cannot lie Improved, Where streams or ravines on the farm must be crossed by teams, it pays to build substantial bridges; for the other kind are of short life and are a constant menace to the safety of both team and driver. Some bridges are so short that three stout "sleepers" can be thrown across, hav ing supports only at the ends, but where the bridges must be longer, a support in the middle is imperative, SUBSTANTIAL FARM BRIDGE. and for this purpose the truss ar rangement shown in the accompany ing diagram cannot be improved. Such a bridge cannot well break down so long as the end foundations remain in place. The iron rods and bolts show plainly the method *>f construction, and the manner in which support for the center is gained. A center sup port that is placed beneath the bridge is constantly working loose by the action of frost and of heavy loads, a criticism that cannot be ap plied to the form of bridge shown here. —N. Y. Tribune. The Old Strawberry Bed. A Maryland strawberry grower says: My way of handling old straw berry rows, wh"ich I wish to keep for another year is as follows: As soon as they are done bearing I mow off the tops as close as possible, and then apply well-rotted manure, bone meal, if I have it, and wood ashes. This is applied when the weather is damp. After mowing I burn the stalks and leaves. It is now easy to remove all weeds and cultivate close to the plants. This is the time to pile on the fertilizer. Plants then start out a new growth and make a line bed by fall, when I cover them with straw after the ground freezes. Tree* Itentore Fertility. Many of the worn-out farms of the east may be restored to fertility by growing forest trees upon them for a series of years, and many of them are better suited for the production of timber than for any other pur pose. It is fortunately true that worn-out farm land>i throughout the region once wooded will usually re vert to their previous condition if protected from lire and stock. The process is naturally slow, and She re sult may be materially v jstened and more valuable for»«" may be grown by the judicial planting >f useful species. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1901. SET PRECEDENTS AT NAUGHT. Bnalnru Women Refuse to be (Gov erned by Axioms and Custom* of Trade. A critic of the new woman—t!he ■woman in business—declares that one-half of the members of the class indorse their checks on the wrong end. Some of them, he says, are just as fatally ignorant of laws that the most ignorant man knows as are their sisters who are tenderly kept from contact with this wicked world, says the Chicago Chronicle. The business woman denies this and pronounces such stories as that one going the rounds of the press about the girl who drew a check on a certain bank to cover the amount that her a (ten tin. t was overdrawn in that bank the most preposterous of fakes. It is nevertheless true that a stamp very rarely accompanies the cneek with which a woman pays a bill; that she is invariably surprised that she has to put one on an ex press package and not a little indig nant at the government for putting her to this trouble and expense. It is related of one young woman who considers herself quite a person of affairs that when called upon to register at a hotel on a certain occa sion she wrote herself down in big black letters as Miss "Pussy" Brown, that being her pet home name. And she moreover invariably hid the key of her room under the carpet in the corridor when she went out, instead of taking it to the office, as the aver age indivdiual does. Another woman, this one with a bank account, is strangely averse to paying by check, but will travel all CI I Ji?.AlPi 6 AN D RTS Jk _ JJEWYORK *"» IVEW ENGIrAND, (£) Jjk 112 WILITFIND EXCELLENT SERVICE ON THE THROUGH TRAINS OT THE \jMrs j YOBK fIEIV TRAIr lIM- S .rzM* / \ ~ 7 ~7\luZ&Z» ' THIS GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY SYSTEM OF AMERICA COMPRISES THE \ & \ _• Kow Tork Cantral « nndaoo Bl»m. C. CC. * St. LouU, (Dig Four), \ lA * e Skon> A Birhlgna Soatbra. Pittlbarf * Lake Erla, Q B E C I \ the jl •[ / \ § gjii / A | Get What You Ask For i * ~ * 4* T 1 1 ae box, our trade-marked, long-tailed Con the cover "•$" *- ( - *S» £ C anc/ substitutes are sometimes offered by dealers Jvho *£• "** \? N - ( 112 I £=S> * "cut prices" and try and palm off fakes %hen CASCA- j' T* RETS are called for, because the fake pays a little more *? - faction or money refunded —re<a</ guarantee below. ** I SIX MILLION BOXES | j; SOLD UST YE^ R B ° WELS I THE I Jul . 1^ l ' 4 K*J T , E 'S u T° • : ''RE»II bowel trsnMn, appradlcltli, blllouinnt, QI'AKASTFKD TO CITRKi rire vrarfl -—■ (hr Hrat bo* n f riiu * 1 °" 112"" y°" ,tt< bloated bowrU. funl ornuth, CA RETS wiu. »ol«J. Now It la ovor alx million l.nxea a y<-»r, urrutrr than any *IT -»-■ DlfTlnn r.'nil illtTl n r« ™.!H h^lls*i F. P " Ter trouble, aallow eon- almllsr Brdirlnr In the world. T'hla la abaolulc proof of icr. iit merit, umt • V S.tiilr.7.l, rSSJH 1 ... tffl your bowel, don't mo*r resulurly you arc our beat teatlmoulal. We huve faith, uud will aell CANCA RETfi uliaoliiU lv •. ftl.q.la.l, l.. !S P'''l»l*thiui ull other dlaeaoea t««re ther. iru»nauterd to cure or money refanded. Ok> buy today, two SOc boxea, Klvc ■4* r Mtfrward*. Ho matter what alla yon. "t«rt taking; CAW ARkIM today, for after ualnar one SOe box, return the tiQuaed ftOe bo* and the empty box to T JL. 'fake i'A«CAKL ! T'k n <? {l^".'fnAit. y Jil , »^"V' ! . 5" 1, V, m, »' 1 - " r . th *" • i ™JE«l* t from whom yoti purchased It, and K et your money J T it.„JllT.:. today, under aa abaululc biwli for both boil* Take our advlee— no Batter what alia you—atart today. X £ r LU — mou,y " funded - « 3 fr^S£«s!ttf 4* 4 k 4 fc 4 k 4*^4 4 4*4* 4*4*4* *M*4*4*4*4*4*4* 4* the •way into .town, a distance of 25 amies, to draw the money for her debts, and will then mail the bank notes to the firms which she wishes to pay. Asked her reason for this vagary, she replies that it would he such a disappointment to people who expect money to open an envelope and fin<] only a slip of paper. Yet she is a clever woman and conducts a poultry farm with marked success. There arc women who never keep a receipt for money they've paiif and who have to settle many a hill twice in consequence, and there are those who deem receipts themselves wholly unnecessary and 'troublesome arid are willing' to trust to the honesty of human nature. Yet all of these call themselves business women and would be highly indignant if anyone cast an aspersion upon their ability to take care of themselves. Our Character Slioivn in Traveling. Quite without our suspecting it, we show the stuff that is in us when we turn our backs upon home and take the road. Our revelations are en tirely unconscious. We display our familiarity with social usages or the reverse, but that is the lesser matter. A novice or a globe-trotter alike lets down the #iask which hides the inner self, when fretting over delays, care less of others' comfort, .and selfishly monopolizing conveniences intended for the many rather than the one.—- Ladies' Home Journal. Mamma—"How did you know that the lady was not tho lit tip boy's mamma, Johnny?" Johnny—"She pave him a sec ond piece of pie, and he did not ask for it, either. —Boston Transcript. ! Th« Teaeficr Knobbed JTIIn* Corel 11. A frood story is being told about Miss Marie Conolli and the proprie tress of a seminary for young ladies at Stratford-on-Avon. It is said that when staying on one occasion at Shakespeare's native town Miss Corelli happened to 'be residing just opposite to the school and found the continual piano practice of the pupils jar on her nerves and interfere with ■her work. Accordingly she decided to write to the principal and penned a polite •note asking that lady if she would kindly order the windows clos ed w hen the young ladies were play ing, as the music was rather distract ing and disturbed her in her composi tion. It. so happened, however, that the go'od lady was no admirer of Miss Gorelli's work and immediately sent a curt reply, saying that if she thought; the practicing would stop the composition of another work like "The Sorrows of Satan" she would a t once order 20 more pianos.—Interna- tional Courier. III*. Economic Difficulty. "Did you ever notice how Wabsley hesitated and seemed to grope for the right expression when he is talking?" "Yes; his supply of words is never equal to his demand.—Chicago Trib une. An lymphatic Touch. • The man who lives in a flat and is often annoyed by the violent piano playing of his otherwise agreeable neighbor of* the floor below remarked to his wife the other day: "That Smith downstairs would make La elegant carpet beater." "Why?" asked hie wife. "Oh, he has the regular carpet beater's touch," replied her husband.—N. Y. Times. Supreme Court Su*(»lnj (he Kase Tradc-Mtt.;k. Justice LauphlTn, in the supreme court, Buffalo, has ordered a permanent injunct ion, with costs arid a full accounting of salevy 4x> issue against Paul B. Hudson, the juasKtt facturer of the foot powder called "X»r. Clark's Foot Powder," and also against m retail dealer of Brooklyn, restraining them from making or selling the Dr. Clark* Foot Powder, which is declared, in the KH junction of the court, an imitation ituu in fringement of "Foot-Ease," the ponder ia> shake into your shoes, now so largely ad vertised and sold over the country. AlUrjs S. Olmsted, of Leroy, N. Y., is the owner of the trade-mark "Foot-Ease," and lie is tilt? first individual who ever advertised a foot powder extensively over the country. The decision in this ease upholds his trade-mark and renders all parties liable who fraudu lently attempt to profit by the extensiew: "Foot-Kase" advertising, in placing- spem the market a spurious and similar appear ing preparation, labeled and put up iri en velopes and boxes like Foot-Ease. Similar suits will be brought against others who are now infringing on the Foot-Ease trade mark and common law rights. It is an easy step irnm gossip to lying.— Atchison Globe. I am sure Piso's Cure for Con<nrnr<tros saved my life three years ago.—Mu. The*. Robbins, Maple Street, Norwich, N. V_. Feb 17, 1900. "When was it you first noticed your fa ther's deafness had di*ippeared?" night. I was singing away when suddenly he clapped his hands on his ears and rushedl from the room." Philadelphia Times. Hosnip'a Cronp Core The life saver of children. No opium. 50ct», It is worthier to be honored by the wiv» few than to be fluttered by tile fotjliaU many.—VVellsprine. The merit thai leads great souls to errrufa tion lends little ones to envy.—Ram's Horn. 7
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