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THE BOY
FARMER
Or a Acigber > the
Copyright, 1915, by American Press
Association
SYNOPSIS.
8am Powell inspirea by a government
agent, plans to make a sclentitic tarmer
of himself and to compete for prizes
awarded to the Boys' Corn club
Sam works hard cleaning up and ferti-
lizing the wornout farin Miles Fagan rid-
fcules scientific farming. out lets his boy |.
join the corm club
While blowing out stumps Sam saves
Joe Watson's life. Sam plans nis contest
acre of corn and other crops and the
stocking of his farm with cattle
*“} want to try to raise everything
we'll need and a lot to sell besides
The corh apd cane are tor the stock
and the Kaffir corn for the chickens
If we donut raise such stuff we'll have
it to buy. and that's expensive He
sides, most of these crops | speak of
will be gathered pretty earfs. and 1
can get a crop or two more on the
land When, | ¢ut the cane I'm going
to plant Sweet potatoes on that patch.
“] know where vou can get some seed
Irisb potatoes.’ suggested his mother.
Sam smiled = “Did you ever stop to
think. mother. be asked. “that what
‘you call seed potatoes are just the lit-
tle dwarfy culls and not really fit for
anything”
“Why. no.” said Mrs Powell. *i
never had thought about it, but it
‘seems like there is something in It.”
- “Of course thére is.’ said Sam. “A
bulletin the department sent me says
they've tried all the different ways.
and the best way i® to use good sized
potatoes and cut them in halves to
plant” os
“The agricultural department must
be a pretty good thing.” observed Mrs.
Powell.
“It i= a good thing.” said Sam. “It
works all the time to help the farmer.
but lots of farmers won't let it help
them. As for me. I'm not going against
anything when | know it wants to help
me and can help me if | let it. The de.
partment of agrieulture keeps men trav.
eling all the tide all over the world
collecting new plants and flowers bei
fruits and grains snited to our diffe
climates and sofls It ey
are best suit-
“Bofls and the best way
~ cu en RD how! to fight insect
‘pests. It does all this and lots more
‘that it would take me hours to tell you
‘about. I wouldn't want to farm if
‘there wasn’t any agricultural depart-
ment to help me. It would be too slow
finding out things by myself. I've got
a whole lot of bulletins on farming,
and I'm going to use the money I get
Yor hauling mannre to buy some books
‘that I waut to read and to subscribe
A good farm
per i8 the next best thing to the ag
Itura] department.”
“Have you selected the corn and cot
ton seed that you're going to plant?’
asked Mrs, Powell when Sam had fin-
“ished his glowing account of the de
‘partment.
“No, I haven’t yet.” he repited. “But
that’s one thing 1 must look after next
week. [I'll see the agent and ask him
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“You'll make a farmer if you keep up
that lick.”
about it, but 1 expect our state experi-
ment station can tell me more about
the best'seed to use in this part of the
country
“Hello. Mr Burns!" greeted Sam,
coming up to the government agent on
the street “I've been wanting to
speak to von about seed corp and cot-
ton. What varieties wonid vou advise
me to get and where can | get them?”
“Well, as for the corn seed.’ repiied
Mr. Bu i'll order
that for you, as
I want a
kind of s
select
the boys
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eed. both cotton and
corn. ‘Pou’t depend on sending OF Tor
seed If you do you'll surely be badly
disappointed sometimes Get good va:
rieties to start with and you can build
them up by selecting seed from the
finest and most productive plants
“Speaking - about cottonseed.” the
agent continued. "as good a plan us
any is to get seed from somebody ip
your neighborhood. You always find
at least vne kind of cotton in every
community that is far ahead of all oth-
er kinds. Everything seems to suit it
exactly. It you can get seed from na
tariety like that out your way and
then select your own seed afterward
‘you'll soon have the most productive
cotton that can possibly be grown in
your locality =
*1 am wmuch obliged to you.” said
Sam, ‘for getting the corn. and | think
1 know where | cap get some good
cotton seed close at home A fellow ~
got a kind down there; | don’t Know
the name of it, but it is about two
weeks earlier than most cotton, and
it’s got five long locks to each boll.” -
“That's the cotton for you, Sam.
said the agent, “the kind that matures
early, before the boll weevils get a lick
at it. Being a big bolled kind makes
it so much the better. How about
your iand” Are you getting it in good
condition?”
“Wel | think the acre for the con
test is all richt, Sam replied ‘1 put
‘ ome ton of ashes and two tons of ma
nure on t then had it broke deep
cross broke nnd narrowed. I'hree tons
is a big lot of fertilizer to put on one
acre. hut | don’t think | can get too
much op that land.’
The agent s eyes prightened. “Good!
be encouraged “You'll make a farm
! er if you Keep up that lick That 1and’'=
| in tine shape. and it'll soak up all the
moisture from the rains and spows
that fall from pow until spring The
idea is to stere up all the moisture von
can for use hy the growing rops ip
summer when ram is scarce I'he only.
way to «do that is to get the and plow
ed deep and thoronghly pulverized
Whenever von see a patch of gronnd
that's been plowed five or six times to
kill out Bermuda or Johnson grass you
always see a fine ¢rop growing on 1
when evervthing around it is a fail
ure. [It seems as if farmers ought to
tearn from such examples :
“When is the best time to break
iand ?" asked Sam.
“Oh, it ought to be done in the fall.”
Mr. Burns replied. “Get the land in
“good condition and sow a cover crop
for winter of rye or oats By plowing
the land in the fall vou break up the
homes of insects and rurn them out to
freeze. A big majority of the insects
that work on crops spend the winter
the fields and around the fence rows.
“if you don't want to be bothered
with insects break the land and clean
out the fence rows in the tall”
Exe made wu litTle estra money hanl
ing manure from a stable,” Sam ex-
plained,
some good hooks Abong the dine I'm
stody ing.
two geod ches, Mi Barus?”
“There. are any nmmber cf good
books on ixrming and kindred sub-
fects,” said ihe agent. “You should
get a caintuune,
that yon get
bandry’ aud Hook of Altaifa.
books are by nn reat furmer. and he
knows what nes writing about. [be
first. of course, is abont raising hogs
The second tells all abont alfalfa from
‘Coburn’s Swine Hus
real interesting, too much better read
call best sellers. “I'he A ‘B C of Bee
Culture’ is a tine work on beekeeping
‘How Crops Grow’ will tell vou a ot
about agricultural plants that you don’t
know, and ‘Life on the Farm’ is a lit-
full of helpful suggestions”
“Don’t tell me any more,” Sam ex-
claimed. “I want to read them all.
and my money won't hoid out. But I'm
going to buy those. five and study them,
especially the gnes on bogs and alfalfa.
“Well. bees are worth studying. too,”
said Mr Burns. ;
“I don’t know much about them.” re-
plied Sam, "but | shouldn’t like getting
stung.” .
“No peed of it,’ said the agent
“Once you understand them they give
no trouble, and the honey they make i
almost clear profit.”
“If that’s the case I think [ll get a
few hives.”
“One or two will be sufficient to start
with. If you take care of the swarms
you'll soon have as many hives as you
need.”
“What I want to get more than any
thing else,” continued Sam, “is some
registered hogs. Do you know where
I could get a sow or some pigs?’
No: don’t believe 1 do,” said the
agent.
“Yes, sir; it doesn’t take any more
to raise them than it does scrubs, and
they are better and sell for more.”
“That's a good idea,” remarked Mr.
Burns. “You're on the right track. |
see you've got some plans, Sam. What
are you figuring on doing?’
“Well” replied the young farmer
“for the first thing ['m going to peg
and do the very best 1 can with what
I’ve got and with what I know.”
“And then what?” asked the agent
“Next fall and winter sister and 1
are going to complete the high school
course. Then I'm going to make an-
other crop. and if things go well I'll
take a course at the State Agricultural
college and iet sister also take a course
there In domestic science.”
“And after that what?" queried Mr
Burns.
“Well, after that [I'll take up the
work that | have already started and
earry it out to a finish. 1 want to
make mother as comfortable and inde
Dendent as possible I want to make
raat -
"the lana
| fétices "and buildings. 1 want to have
“and I'm going to spend it for
onid vou suggest one or :
Rat 1 would suggest
, These
the earliest tines to the present. It is |
ing thao sone of the novels that they |
tle book that is very interesting and |
“Want registered stock, do
vou?” -
glycerine, etc Adlerika. This remedy
' the most thorough bowel cleaser we
: 8 ever sold. It is so powerful that one
along on the jitlle farm of mother's | SPOONFUL relieves almost any case
! of constipation, sour or gassy stom-
! ach, Adlerika never gripes, is safe to
| prising. L. R. COLLINS, Druggist.
‘and put up good
“everything convenient. 1 want to stock
the place with the very best there is in
évery line—Jlersey cows. Berkshire
bogs. Angora goats, Plymouth Rock
chickens, Peking ducks, Bronze turkeys
and even a collie dog. Of course |
don’t mean to say that these breeds
&re better than others, but 1 like them
and know they are good.”
Mr. Burns did not laugh at Sam’s de
sire for a shepherd dog.
“There is need and room for all you
mention.” he said. “even to the dog.” ~
“But that’s not all,” Sam continued.
*“1 want théngs around the house to be
pretty and pleasant. | want books and
magazines and pictures and a big yard
full of flowers. Don’t you think a per
son can have such things on a farm?’
“I don’t think anything about it,” re-
plied the agent. “lI know it. You can
have them and should have them. The
farm is. first. of all, a place to live, and
it should be made as pleasant a place
as possible
*You haven't named a thing that is
out of reach. Sam And it is very
thoughtful of you to keep your mother
and sister in mind in all of your plans
They certainly are proud of you and
have reason to be.”
“When | get all that work done." said
Sam. “I'm going to buy a farm for my
self and do with it just as I intend to
do with mother’s. After that I don't
know what I'll do. | haven’t planned
any further. but 1 guess there’ll be new
dreams by that time.”
“Yes, there will. Sam,” said Mr
Burns. “There will always be some
thing new calling you to further en
deavor. Bur you'll take u delight in it
just as you have delighted in this other
It's a man's work you have set your
self. and it's worth doing.’
Sam Powell went huine with the
agent’ 8 last words running through bis
mind. He couldn't forget them, nor did
he for many and many u day
(Tuo Be Continued. ; %
HOW CHAMBER OF
COMMERCE HEAD
AMASSED HIS FORTUNE
Pittsburgh boasts of many promi-
nent men, but none occupies a more
exalted position than David P. Black,
the president of the Chamber of Com- |
merce, a man who has done much to
pronfote that city’s interest. He ea-ly
saw the ;citv’s possibilities; that th»
town afforded wonderful oppor uni-
ties, so he engaged in the real estate
business and made his fortune. He was |
DAVID P. BLACK.
identified in a partnership way with
several concerns and eventually
formed the Real Estatq Trust com-
pany, one o! the city’s largest banks
and trust companies, of which he is
now the head. He has always been
its president. He was the first presi-
dent of the. Pittsburgh Real Estate
Board and is a member of the execu-
tive committee of the National Asso-
ciation of Real Estate Exchanges. He
is also vice president of the Western
Insurance company, a director of the
Monongahela National bank and was
one of Pittsburgh's nine councilmen
originally appointed by Governor John
K. Tener under the new city charter
several years ago. He 1s a prominent
clubman, being a member of the Du
quesne club, the Pittsburgh Athletic
association and the Pittsburgh Coun-
try club and expects to be a member
of the trade tourist party of the
Chamber of Commerce of Pittsburgh
coming here during the week o May
18 to 21.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO :
MEYERSDALE FOLKS.
We wish to announce we are ex-
clusive Meyersdale agents for the
simple mixture of buckthorn bark,
used successfully for appendiritis, is
us€ and the instant action is 'sur-
‘which are offered for sale
| weak. These headache cures which
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correct the real cause of the distur- |
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HEADACHE
Dr. Dixon's Weekly Talk on Health
and Hygiene.
Headache is one of the most com-
mon ailments. Almost everyone, even
people in comparatively good health
are subject from time to time to
this malady. Because it manifests it-
self in more or less in the same
and general locality, the majority of
people are wont to believe that the
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Heahache may come from a defective
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manifestations of profound systemic
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tention. The cause, more serious than
the headache itself, should be found
and cured. Often the immediate
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Undue heart stimulation accompa-
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There is always, however, ..dan-
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WILLS PROBATED.
The will of Annie M. Frye, late of
Salisbury Borough, makes bequests
of $100 each to Joseph Patterson,
Mary C. Frye and Oliver Knecht.
Her husband is given the beds, bed-
ding and chairs and the remainder of
the testator’s household goods goes to
her children. One hundred dollars is
to be deposited in the First National
Bank of Salisbury to provide a fund
with which to bury her husband.
Hiram Hoffman, deceased, late of
Benson Borough, bequeathed $800 to
Mrs. Levi Blough and an equal amount
Albert E. Kuehne, of Johnstown,
i and Miss Dillie Cober, daughter of
Mrs. Lucinda Cober, of Berlin, were
married in Johnstown, March 31 and
have gone to the Panamsa exposition
on their honeymoon. They will reside
in Johnstown where the groom is the
gsecretary-treasurer of the F. M. Shaf-
fer Ice Co.
| to John Hoffman to be paid within a
i year. Mrs. Hoffman is to have the use
fof the household goods; the remainder
of the decedent’s estate is to be
equally divided between his wife and
children.
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To Comply With- Law Feading
Had to Put Extra Man
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South Bethlehem, Pa. March 24.
Specific instances of the arbitrary
working of the Full Crew—“Excess
Man Crew”—Laws have just been af
forded here. They show how these
laws work to the burden of the rail
roads and, how they are sometimes
availed of by trainmen to prevent ef
ficient service. .
A four-car passenger train was
made up on the Reading Railway
about to leave for Philadelphia. Under
® hurry order the “Loretta,” private
ear of Charles M Schwab, was at-
tached to this train at-the last minute.
This made it necessary, in order to
comply with the Full Crew Law, to
increase the train crew from five to
six men, although the private car had
its own crew and made nothing for
the train crew to look after.
It so happened that a trainman was
in one of the coaches, returning to
Philadelphia. He was instructed to
take the position of extra man. Thus
instead of riding to Philadelphia as a
wdead head,” he became a member
of the crew and received pay for-the
trip. ’
On the Lehigh Valley Railroad =a
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by a yard crew. When the road crew
of five took charge a trainman was
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geen to cut out the last car, which
happened to be a foreign line box car.
When asked why, he replied that they
weren't going to take a train lon
than required. The effect was to leave
a box car in the yard, entailing a per |
@iem charge upon the company.
stomach sweet, liver active and bows
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