a
should be made
artistic, sanitary
and livable.
These walls should be Alabastined in the latest,
up-to-the-minute nature color tints. Each room should
reflect your own individuality and the treatment
throughout be a complete perfect harmony in colors.
The walls of the old home, whether mansion or cottage, can be
made just as attractive, just as sanitary, through the intelligent use of
Instead of kalsomine or wallpaper
It is absolutely necessary if you expect Alabastine results that
you ask for and secure Alabastine.
Avoid kalsomines under various names and insist on the
package with the cross and circle printed in red. That is the only
way to be sure you are getting the genuine Alabastine.
Alabastine is easy to mix and apply, lasting in its results, and
absolutely sanitary.
Alabastine is a dry powder, put up in five-pound packages, white and beau-
tifui tints, ready to mix and use by the ad ition of cold water, and with full direc-
tions on cach package. Every package of genuine
= Alabastine has cross and circle printed in red.
MIX IN ONE
MINUTE WITH
COLD WATER
THE ONLY TOOL
NEEDED TO APPLY
Balti.
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Better write us for hand-made color designs
and special suggestions. Give us your decorative
problems and let us help you work them out,
Alabastine Company
1653 Grandville Ave., Grand Rapids, Mich.
It isn't necessary
lo zood
cocoa must be expensive we
urge a trial of Monarch. The
yw cost and high quality are
l fnractuve
Reid, Murdoch & Co.
Chicago
Boston, Pittsburgh, New York
Coffee #* Cocoa
“U.S Blue Ribbon Boots are made -
either red or black — with stwrdy gray
soles— knee to hip lengths.
Its a Brute
for Wear/
=this “US. Blue Ribbon Boot
F you want the most durable, flexible, com-
fortable boots and overshoes on the market,
get “U. S.” Blue Ribbons.
These “U. S.” Blue Ribbon Boots have thick,
oversize soles, tough as an automobile tire;
uppers of rubber so elastic that constant bend-
ing won’t crack it; reinforcements of layer on
layer of strongest fabric and rubber.
When you buy boots or overshoes, look for
the “U.S.” Blue Ribbon. It will pay you.
United States Rubber Company
Five times its length! That's how
rubber cut from any “U. 8.” Blue
Ribbon Boot or overshoe wil l stretch.
It vesists cracking and breaking —
and waterproof.
Greater Length |
Possibilities of Increasing
Average Fleece Weight
by New Method.
{Prepared by the United
¢
of Agricultu )
fs Department
Profitable wool production depends
to a considerable extent on the welght
of fleeces. A century ago the aver
age annual fleece weight for wool in
the United States was less than two
pounds, but there has been a gradual
Increase in the weights of fleeces for
American sheep until now the annual
average is about seven and one-half
pounds,
Possibilities of Increase.
“There are still possibilities of in
creasing the average fleece weight a
considerable amount,” savs D A
Spencer who is in cl re of the sheep
and wool Investigational work of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture, The Increase so far has been
brought about, he says, by the use of
well-bred,
breeding
heavy-shearing
1
these methods, but they will need to
be applied in
tific way, he says
and scien
The department
1 three year
sheep under
that while
density of
f clean
Lengthen Life of Posts
by Creosoting Method
Dipp ries fi wists int ot oil is
vessel
1 oll tank or an empts
oil drum in hich a reasonably large
heated
The oi netrates every check and
dunged into this bath
ind a complete covering with the pre
servative is assured
While the brush method of creosot
plext and the least ex
ive, it likewise Is the least effec
creosote should first he
temperature of 100 de
| Alsike Clover Will
Stand for Wet Feet
Ohio Experiment
Tells of Recent Test.
testing alsike clover to show its abil
ity to go through life with wet feet
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piece that was not drained. It was
doubled the yield of wheut ;
wis 17 bushels, on the drained part
it was 32 bushels to the asere, In mucl
vield 37 per cent by drainage (11
the other hand, alsike clover on the
age of more than two and a half tons
more than on the drained land Thi
not familiar with alsike clover, but
those of us who have tried it thor
oughly, know of its ability to thrive
There is
red clover or alfalfa
tainly something about the alsik
these wet conditions. The alsike wil
also grow on land that is quite sour
and strange as it may seem, It alse
does well when lime Is used. In fad
4
it often happens that the use of lime
Tease the vield of alsike. Mucl
quality is found in red-lo
frequently grow
rop aon
Guinea Fowl Is Useful
as Substitute for Game
they are
iiineas are mar
1 the summer, when they
1 to 1% pounds, at about
old, and also through the
the demand Is for heavier
Some Excellent Tips on
Too few { rs appreciate quality
o
in potatoes They have become so ac
nstomed to planting commons sone]
1 meg 3 IHanlung common sews on
kind of ground that happens to
that the idea of growing
wgrained, finely flavored po
me too absurd to give con
-
Corn Plainly Described
fust heen
Rion
and
4
of Publiea
St. Paul. Th
vidual care may
nator, Pireec
tions are given for making the doll
and for analyzing the results after
the corn has been under test. Agri
culinrigts agree that some effective
and practical plan for testing all avail
able seed corn must be put into effect
in Minnesota The new bulletin has
been prepared to help along the eam
critical situation confronting Minne
gota corn growers,
Live Stock Improvement
Through Improved Sires
With more than five hundred pure
bred bulls placed through the efforts
of extension workers during 1025,
Kentucky Is rapidly improving its
domestic live stock. Farmers in Camp-
bell county, Kentucky, replaced 42
grade and scrub bulls in slightly more
than a year and a large number of
pure-bred sires have been introduced
through efforts aside from those of
county agents an extension workers,
A report to the United States De.
partment of Agriculture from Way.
land Rhoads, field agent in animal
hughandry of the Kentucky College of
Agriculture, states that all the coun
ties having county agents are doing
some extension work In live stock im-
provement through improved sires, In
counties without agents similar work
Is going forward through the influence
of banks and other agencies.
vim
i crop of soggy, flavorless
{ The light sat dy or gravelly soils pro
duce Her crops of delicately fla
potatoes It is only the
vored
ants good seed and gives
potato rows ideal care and eunltd
vation stho appreciates the supers t
flavor of quality potatoes
be avoided by selecting seed and sonal
ing it for two hours in a solotion com
posed of one Hguid formalde
hyde and water Foi
bordeaux mixture By putting ar
{ ounce of paris green in every ten gal
combined insecticide and fungicide
i ag well as help to control the blight
| Yon can probably secure a spraying
calendar from your state experiment
station. It tells when and how te
spray everything.
i —————
Replace those sagging gates with
new ones,
» - -
Put a new bottom in that leaky
old wagon box.
- » *
Look your farm business over for
lenks and wastes and to figure out
ways of stopping these drains on your
earnings In 1026.
- » .
The wise feeder knows that hunger
i 8 the best sauce, and that his stock
will gain faster if they are always
able to eat just a little more than he
giVes them.
*« + »
The Ohio farm family, averaging
four members, spends $200 a year on
clothing and clothing accessories,
Judging by the records 206 farm wom
en have kept this past year in eo.
‘operation with the Ohio State uni.
versity,
Let Tanlac
restore your health
¥
It your body is all fagged-out
and run down, if you are losing
weight steadily, lack appetite,
have no strength or energy why
not let Tanlac help you back to
health and strength?
80 many millions have been hen-
efited by the Tanlac treatment, so
many thousands have written to
testify to that effect that it's sheer
folly not to make the test.
Tanlae, youn know, is a great
natural tonic and builder, a com-
pound, after the f ous Tanlac
formula, of roots, bar ind herbs.
It purges the blood stream, revi-
talizes the digestive organs and
enables the sickly body to regain
its vanished weight.
You don't need to wait long to
get results. Tanlae goes right to
the seqt of trouble. In a day or go
you note a vast « srence in your
condition. You have more appe-
tite, sleep better at night and the
color begins to creep back into
your washed-out cheeks,
Don't put off taking Tanlac an-
other precious day. Step into the
nearest drug store and get a hottle
of this world-famed tonic. That's
the first Imporiant step back to by acting promptly you will avoid
health and vigor. Every day's de further loss of energy and weight
lay means unnecessary suffering du ur present run down con-
for Tanlac starts to clean out and Ii . ce Tanlac Vegetable
tone up the system right away. And ills for constipation.
Tanlac Put Him
On His Feet
“When 1 first tried Tanlac I was in
bad shape. Six weeks in bed, in
constant pain. Tanlac put me on
my feet. I'm eating and seeping
normally again, have put on 5 Ibe.
sud improving every day.”
Nicholas Bujnack
717 No. Main Soreet
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
ants an intimate friend.
} he grows too
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SAY “BAYER ASPIRIN — Gpmuine
Unless you see the “Bayer Cross” on tablets, you are not
getting the genuine Bayer Aspirin proved safe by mil
lions and prescribed by physicians over 25 years for
Colds
Pain
-\
Lumbago
Rheumatism
Headache Neuritis
Neuralgia Toothache
DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART “
Accept only “Bayer” package
which contains proven directions.
Handy “Bayer” boxes of 12 tablets.
Also bottles of 24 and 100—Druggists.
Arpirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Moposcrticacifester of Salleylicacid
————— s—
Like this mon, thousands
of people prior heed to con
fipation only when o @
Wo Leda,
“Dll tell you why
they wouldn’t insure YOU
“You allowed constipation to become chronic — until finally
it resulted in organic disease.
“People don’t realize how insidious constipation is. Its first
effects are hardly more than annoyances-— headaches, loss
of appetite, sleeplessness and the like. But in time, as the
body is subjected wo continued intestinal poisoning, it may
lead to high blood pressure, rheumatism, diabetes or even
Bright's disease.
“Stop constipation if you wish to live long. Take a little
Nujol every day—that will keep you regular.”
Nujol relieves constipation in Nature’s way
testinal muscles,
Nujol can be taken for any length of
time without ill effects. To insure
internal cleanliness, it should be
taken regularly in accordance with
the directions on cach bottle. Unlike
laxatives, it docs not form = habit
and can be discontinued at any time,
Ask your druggist for Nejoi joday
J ve begin ae hen elimina.
its t and regular elimi. that is possi y w
Dn Shvough nd repul the in. tion is normal and regular,
THE INTERNAL LUBMICANY
For Constipation
Constipation is dangerous for any.
body. Nujol is safe for everybody.
It not affect the stomach and
is not absorbed by the body. Medical
authorities approveNujol because itis
safe, gentle and natural inits action,
vujol makes up for a deficiency—
temporary or chronic-—in the supply
of naturallulwicantin the intestines,
It softens the waste matter and thus