THE CITIZEN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1913.
PAGE SEVEN
000
MAKING
FARM
- Qoo
FOlt city men who sock homes In
tbo country and for farmers of
small means who wish to own
tlMj land wliich they till tho lit
tlo farm solves a Berious problem of
life. The choice of location Is Impor
tant. To get the beat results it Is nec
essary to bo near at least one good
town.
In modern conditions farming has to
bo made a business proposition. ETen
the city man who wishes a restful
country home ts seldom averse to hav-
Ing his land show a balance of profit.
AH farming ought to pay better than
It does, and the operations of any one
owning a small tract of land ought to
show what may bo realized by apply
ing business methods to agriculture.
As land Increases In value Intensive
farming will come more into voguo.
The man of ordinary means who is
getting started in agriculture must try
to make forty acres accomplish what
ho would have used eighty or a hun
dred acres for In an earlier day.
Tho up to date plan of running a lit
tle farm is to have such a variety of
products that tho worlt is evenly dis
tributed over tho year and there is
something to seireach woolc or month.
A farmer with fort' acres operating
on tho principle of diversification can
show results as follows:
Fifty hogs, gross fTOO
MUk from eight cows 1,000
Flvo hundred bushels of potatoes.... 400
Eggs and poultry 000
t
A study of tlio market and its
methods Is a very important mat- .
course of reading which the
farmer maps out for himself.
Selling is Just as important as
raising a crop.
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EVER TRY SWISS CHARD?
It's a New VegetaWo Here, but It Has
Many Good Points.
A few years ago Swiss chard was
scarcely known in tho United States,
but it is now grown in thousands of
homo gardens and is often seen on
truck .farms and in market gardens,
says Professor R. Ii. Watts in the
American Agriculturist. Tho Italians
of our large cities are especially fond
Photograph by Long Island agricultural
experiment station.
SWISS CHABD.
of It, and tho demand is increasing
among Americans. Tho leaves are val
ued when used as greens, and the leaf
stems are excellent when cooked and
served, on toast in tho same way as
asparogus.
Tbo plants are fully as hardy as cab
bage or lettuce. In tho north It is not
uncommon for them to escape Injury
from cold until severe winter weather
begins. In tho milder Boctlons tho roots
may bo wintered safely by cutting the
plants almost to the ground and mulch
ing heavily with straw, strawy ma
nure, pine needles or other material
which will prevent nlternato freezing
and thawing.
Tho seed is usually sown in the oien
ground wliero tho plants nro to stand
all summer. Chard is an easy crop to
start in hotbeds or greenhouses, trans
planting into cold frames and finally
into tlio llekl. Tho crop attains a mar
ketable size probably a month earlier
If glass Is used in starting tho plants.
These require practically tho same
treatment in tho botbed "and tho cold
frame ns cabbago and may bo set In
tho field Just as early, provided the
plants are properly handled.
Fresh Manure Is Beet.
When tho fact is considered that it
takes nearly two tons of fresh barn
yard manure to mako one ton of rotted
manure, owing to loss by evaporation
and leeching, it may bo soon that much
of tho fertilizing matter originally con
tained is lost in tho rotting process and
that when fresh there are more tons
(rad so more fertilizing material to
mako use of. Kansas Farmer.
Ueo For an Old Buggy Wheel.
A very good way to uso an old buggy
wheel is to attach it on an ash at the
outsldo of a long farm gate so that it
will roll when the gate Is opened either
vny. It will keep tho gato from sag-
ing ana help to mako It open nnd shut
suv. Farm Journal.
000
THE LITTLE
PAY
By C C. BOWSFIELD
ooO
It Is cosy to vary tuts program" by
raising a pnn of colts each season and
producing a quantity of fruit, vegeta
bles, honey, etc. A farmer can accom
plish as mnch on forty acres by such
diversification as he con with' grain
crops or n dairy on 100 or era 200
acres.
On a place of forty acres in the Chi
cago district one season's profits above
family expenses were:
Poultry and eggs $400
Fruit and vegetables 300
Grain and ha; 500
Twonty-flvo hogs 450
Span of horses 275
Honey from sixteen hlvca , 140
J2.0C5
In the latter Illustration there Is no
dairy. This feature involves more hard
and constant labor than any other, but
with the question of help settled a
dairy of ten or twelve cows is a good
thing. Pork raising Is profitable.
I have found rape, artichokes and.
carrots valuable crops for liogs. Tho
artichoke Is .especially hardy and pro
lific, providing nn early field fodder.
Late In the season n field of pens Is n
good thing. Just before tlio finishing up
with corn.
Hogs thrive nicely on alfalfa or any
kind of clover. It pays to get sklm
mllk or whey from tho factories nnd
tablo garbage from dwellings or hotels.
Poultry as well as pigs do well on this
kind of feed. I have raised hogs to
250 or 300 pounds at ton months at a
cost of $3 or less.
. . . ' . t. y . r . . f i. r r i ' t
nTi rivv nvrn h I n n I n vt
It is very essential to make
money, but It should .not bo done
at a sacrifice of the fertility that
Is in the land. The thing to do Is
to raise crops that will enrich
tho land at tlio same time as
they enrich tho farmer.
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n i j r i i n n n i n ith piTTi j
D0NT LOSE YOUR LABOR!
Planting Impure and Poor Alfalfa Seed
Means Time and Work Gone.
It wont bo long now until farmers
begin to plant alfalfa, and wouldn't
they like to know whether it is pure?
Only one thing on earth will settle that
doubt, and tliat Is to test tho Bced tho
best seed obtainable.
Tho testing can bo done nt homo too.
It takes only a simple apparatus, con
sisting of two pieces of flannel or of
blotting paper about six inches square,
between which nro placed 100 seeds.
The whole, placed between two plates,
should be kept moist, but not "sopping"
wet, nnd tho seeds which have sprout
ed counted every day. At the end of
six days the total number of Bpcoutod
seeds will represent fairly well tho ger
minating power of Uio sample. Good
alfalfa seed should give a percentage of
at least 80.
Does the sample contain a large num
ber of brown seeds? If so It would
bo safer not to use it Tho brown
seeds may sprout in tho apparatus Just
described, but fail cnirely to make
plants when put in the ground out of
doors.
Many farmers sow screenings or seed
which Is little better than screenings
and try to moke up for lock of qual
ity by doubling tho quantity. This
may do well enough where land Is
cheap, but thero Is too much danger
anywhere o getting a poor stand or
sowing tho land with weeds. Kansas
Stato Agricultural College.
Device For Pulling Saplings,
l'w removing bushes and small trees
tho device Illustrated herewith has
proved very satisfactory. It consists
of n five or six foot stick of round,
tough wood such as
hickory and, say, three
Inches in diameter,
with a singletree at
tached at ono end and
a trace chain at tho
other. Tho chain is
passed around the sapling and hooked to
tho pole. While a horse pulls the roots
are cut with an nx on tho opposite side,
nnd soon tho tree comes out with a
rush. American Agriculturist
"Going to Law."
By a recent decision of tho appellate
division of tho supremo court of New
York It has been ordered that oleomar
garine makers must not uso artificial
coloring. Neither may they uso Ingre
dients which will glvo a color to their
6tuff resembling butter.
Can persons renting farms by the
year sell or dispose of hen or horse
manure they havo paved tho last year?
Is asked. Tho Rural New Yorker says:
As a rule, unless somo special arrange
ment is made, such manure Is consid
ered real estate and Is to bo left on
I ho farm.
A contract always Involves an offer
mado by ono party and an acceptance
of tho offer by tho other party. An
offer which Is not accepted by tho
party to whom It is mado can bo with
drawn by tiro party who mado It He
can withdraw tho offer at any time
before acceptance.
The Little
Authoress
By WILLARD BLAKEMAN
Walter Ewlng had Just that kind of
suavity that is required of tho editor
ef n magazine. When authors came in
with their manuscripts ho would grasp
them cordially by the hand, snillo upon
them, ask them to be seated and listen
to their long talks about what they
had to offer.
One day the prettiest little girl in the
world was admitted to Mr. Ewlng's
sanctum. She came In with a smile
not only to beat the ono with which he
greeted her, but in slang phrase, "to
boat the band." He drew up a chair
for her close to his rosewood desk and
relieved her at once of a package she
carried by which he know her for an
authoress. Then he brought his ex
pressive eyes upon her as if to say:
"Do tell me what I can do for you. I
am dying to servo you."
Then she began to talk. About
what? Everything her bashfulness
about entering tho field of literature,
the great responsibility that must nec
essarily rest upon editors, what won
derful powers of discrimination they
must have, the characters in her work,
a novel; her difficulty in finding a motif
and tlio many times she had rewritten
certain parts. For half an hour she
talkod, tlio editor listening rather to
her swoot voice than what sho said ho
had heard it all a thousand times be
foresometimes fancying that sho was
a bird that had flown into his sanctum
to rest him from the hardest work In
tho world that of reading ono manu
script after another through tho long
day.
When sho went away ho had prom
ised her that in order to give her story
especial attention ho would take it
homo with him nnd read it far away
from the interruptions constantly oc
curring during business hours. For
Bomo tlmo after she hnd gone ho sat,
with her warble still sounding sweetly
In his oars, then began to write in
bluo pencil the word "return" on the
covers of a pile of manuscripts on his
desk, throwing each into a basket bo
sldo him, such as is commonly used
as a receptacle for soiled linen.
That ovening, true to his promise,
be took tho manuscript homo with him,
intending to read It at an early date;
but whether tho Uttlo authoress had
mado a deeper Impression on him than
the bundle or whether ho had been so
taken with her that he was in no hur
ry to get rid of hor, ho put off its ex
amination from day to day. Now and
again sho would call upon him. He
would greet her with the same affa
bility as before, telling her that ho
was deferring tho examination of her
novel till ho felt in a mood to appre
ciate its merits. Tho more delicate the
stylo and sentiment in a story the
more difllCrUlt It was of detection.
Doubtless within another week ho
would feel Inspired to read tho manu
script and decide upon its merits.
Tho patience, tlio good nature, of tho
little authoress were Inexhaustible.
Sho appreciated tho editor's kindness
to her, a stranger, and hoped he would
not hurry. Ho invited her to drop in
occasionally, slnco ho would always bo
glad to talk with her about her liter
ary aspirations.
One dny when the editor felt "in.
spired" to read tho manuscript ho had
taken bomo he looked for it In his
room and did not find It Calling his
landlady, ho made inquiries and learn
ed that sho had gathered up somo "old
truck," among them a lot of paper
dono up in a bundle, and It had been
taken away by tho scavenger.
Tbo editor turned pale. Tho manu
script of tho little authoress had doubt
less gone to tho dumping ground,
whence it would not bo recovered. lie
wrote her at once to know if sho had
another copy, slnco he wished a friend
on whose literary Judgment ho greatly
relied to read tho story and had not
yet finished It himself. She replied
that sho had glTen him tho only copy In
existence.
Tho six months that followed were
wearing on tho editor. For that period
ho put tho little nuthoress off with ex
cuses. Then, thero being no other way
out of tho trouble at least so ho put It
to himself ho asked her to marry him.
When sho refused him sho took away
his last prop. ETo had a faint hope
that tho estrangement which usually
comes between a man who has been
refused and tho lady who has refused
him would lead tho llttlo authoress to
keep away from him and the lost
manuscript would in time be forgotten.
But sho continued to call for it in per
son, always with tho samo good natur
ed smile, noiler chiding him for the
delay, and overy tlmo sho left him he
assured her that by tho time sho came
again ho would surely bo ready to give
her his literary opinion on her work
and did not doubt that it would be ac
cepted by the magazine.
Tbo lady's refusal of him mado him
cognizant of tho fact that sho was
much more to him than ho had sup
posed. After a month moro of mental
distress ho confessed to tho loss of the
manuscript and that ho couldn't pos
sibly llvo without her.
She claptfed her bands In glee. "And
1, too, havo a confession to make," she
eald. "Friends of mlno had sent you
manuscripts which they proved, by
sticking together certain of tho leaves,
wore returned without having been
read. It occurred to mo to try blank
paper on you."
However, sho concluded to forgive
him and accept him. And now sho is
helping him to git rid of manuscripts
without reading them.
(Conducted by tho National Woman's
Christian Temperance Union.)
WHY ONE MAN QUIT DRINKING
Tramp With Bloodshot Eyes, Bloated
Face, Boots Mlsmated and Filthy
Clothing Was Good Lesson.
A professional gentleman, who was
accustomed to taking his morning
glasa, stopped into a saloon, and go
ing up to tho bar called for whisky.
A seedy individual stopped up to him
and said: i say, squire, can't you ask
an unfortunate fellow to Join you?"
He was annoyed by tho man's famil
iarity and roughly told him, "I am
not in tho hnblt of drinking with
tramps,"
Tho tramp replied: "You need not
bo so cranky and high-minded, my
friend. I venture to say that I am
of Just as good family as you ore,
havo Just na good an education, and
before I took to drink was Just as
respectable ad you are. What la
more, I always .knew how to net tho
gentleman. Take my word for It, you
stick to John Barloycorn, and he will
bring you to Just tho samo place I
am."
Struck with his words, tho gentle
man set down bis glass and turned
to look at him. His eyes wero blood
shot, hl3 face bloated, his boots mls
mated, his clothing filthy. "Then was
it drinking that mado you like this?"
"Yes, it was, and It will bring you
to tho samo if you stick to it"
Picking up his untouched glass, he
poured tho contents upon tho floor
and said, "Then it's time I quit" and
left tho saloon, never to enter It again.
MUCH DRINKING IN COLLEGES
President Schurman of Cornell Univer
sity Has Come Out Flatfooted
for Total Abstinence.
President Jacob Gould Schurman of
Cornell has come out flatfooted for
prohibition In his school of learning.
Alcoholism among tho students, ho
says Is on tho increase, and should bo
stopped before it goes any further.
While President Schurman does not
Bay that drinking among tho students
inevitably brings disastrous or serious
consequences, he does bellevo that tho
man who is trying to get tho fullest
value from his studies should be a to
tal abstainer. Therefore, the leaders
among tho upper classmen should nev
er bo seen in any drinking resort, be
cause they Bet tho example and tho
fashion for tho entire institution, and
their word Is, in somo respects, almost
law. If a young student finds that his
social position or his personal prestlgo
is strengthened by drinking, bo will
drink, no matter what the effect is up
on his work.
Tho situation at Cornell merely em
phasizes tho ancient fact that tho ma
jority of young men do not drink
through any great appetite for liquid
allurement, but because it becomes al
most an essential part of their social
duties.
WOMEN AND CHILDREN FIRST.
"Women and children flrstl" This Is tho
law of tho sea;
But why not make It tho role wherever a
man may be?
Let It become the law where roisterers
quench their thirst;
Emblazon It over the bar "The women
and children first'
The man who Is etaggerlnB home, having
squandered his weekly wnga.
May dream of heroic deeds and his name
on the printed page;
He may long for the chance to prove,
where worse has come to the worst
That ho has the strength to Bay: "The
Women and children first"
But why on the sea alone, or only when
dangers rise?
Why. not where the lights are bright why
not where temptation llesT
Does he who is boasting where ha lingers
to quench his thirst
Bee, shining over the bar: "The women
and children flratT"
The world will have fewer cares and
there will bo few that sigh,
And few will sit In the dark and hope
lessly wondor why.
And few will bemoan their fate or fancy
themselves accurst
When all men obey the law: "The women
and children first"
& E. Klser in Record Herald, Chicago.
Customs Confiscate. Wine.
Tho Paris customs authorities re
cently seized 8,000,000 ljters of adul
terated wino nnd throw it into the
Canal du Midi. As a result thousands
of dead fish havo been of late found
floating about tho Canal and tho Porto
de Cottc, It Is estimated that the
canal and port have been depopulated
of fish for two years at least Such
is the havoc wrought by tho adulter
ated alcoholic boverago intondod for
human consumption. Meanwhile the
havoc wrought by tho Inspected al
coholic product continues with all too
little hindrance.
Why She Was Not at School.
A public school teacher relates tho
following conversation between hor
solf and a pupil:
Teacher You wore not hero yester
day, Minnie. How woa that?
Pupil Please, teacher, I had to
mind tho baby,
Teacher Could not your mother
mind tho baby whilo you were at
school?
"No, teacher, she had to mind fa
ther." "Oh, how was that?"
"Father la drinking again, teacher."
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SHERIFF'S SALE OF VALUABLE
HEAL ESTATE By virtue of
process issued out of the ourt of
Common Pleas of Wayne county, and
State of Pennsylvania, and to mo di
rected and delivered, I havo levied on
and will expose to public sale, at the
Court House in Honesdalo, on
FRIDAY, AUG. 15, 1013, 3 1 M.
All the defendant's right, title, and
interest In the following described
property viz:
All that certain lot or parcel of land
situate in Preston Township, Wayne
county, and State of Pennsylvania,
bounded and described as follows: BE
GIIVMNG at a heap of stones, tho corner
of lots numbered 21), 30, 37 and 33 in the
allotment of the Cadwalder-Equlnunk
tract: thence by said lot No. 23, north
twenty-seven degrees west, one hundred
and sixty-four rods to a stones corner:
thenco by land in tho warrantee name of
Michael Kryder north sixty-three degrees
east, one hundred and six rods to stones
by a beech corner; thence by lot No. 31
In said allotment south twenty-seven de
grees east, one hundred and sixty-four
rousjto stones corner: and thence by said
lot No. 37 south slxty-threo degrees west
one hundred and six rods to the place of
beginning." Being lot No. 30. and con
taining ono hundred and eight acres and
pno hundred and four perches, more or
l??3,,rBeIt!B samo Property which Itlchard '
W. Murphy, Sheriff of Wayne County,
conveyed to Bertha M. Tiffany by deed
dated April 3, 1896, and recorded in Sher
iff's Deed Book No. 6, pago l&t, and re
corded in the Recorder's office In and
for Wayne county In Deed Book No. 81.
pago 151.
Also, all that certain piece or parcel of
land situate in the township of Preston,
in the county of Wayne and State of
Pennsylvania, bounded and described as
follows: BEGINNING at stones corner
of lots No. 29, 30, 37 and 33 of tho allot
ment of T. Cadwaller; thenco by said lot
No. J), north C3 degrees cast, ono hundred
and six rods to a stones corner; thence
by lot No. 36 of aid allotments south twen
ty-seven degrees east, eighty rods to a
stake and stones corner near tho Equi
nunk Creek; thenco sixty-three degrees
west, one hundred and six rods to a
stake and stones corner in the line of
Cornelius Itiley's land; thence north
along the said line twenty-seven degrees
west, eighty rods to tho place of begin
ning. Containing fifty-three acres, be
the same more or less. Being same land
which Wm. J. Davey and Margaret
Hughes Davey granted and conveyed to
Bertha M. Tiffany by deed dated May 28.
1900, and recorded in Wayne County In
Deed Book No. 87, page 171, etc.
Being the same property that J. W.
Tiffany and Bertha M. Tiffany conveyed
to George E. Haynes by deed dated
February 27, 1906, and recorded in Wayno
county in Deed Book No. 91, page 466.
About one-haff improved land, ono two
story frame house, frame barn and other
Improvements.
Seized nnd taken In execution as the
property of Margaret Haynes and M. H.
Davis, Executois of George E. Havnes,
deceased, Margaret Haynes and W. J.
Barnes, guardian ad litem at the suit of
John A. Ballantino and Daniel W. Ballan
tlne, assignees. No. 201 March Term, 1913.
Judgment, J2157.S1. Attorneys, Mumford
& Mumford.
TAKE NOTICE. All bids and cost
must bo paid on day of sale or deeds
will not be acknowledged.
FRANK C. KIMBLE. Sheriff.
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION,
Estate of
Warren Akers, late of Dreher town
ship. All persons Indebted to said estate
are notified to mako Immediate pay
ment to the undersigned; and those
having claims against said estate are
notified to present them, duly attest
ed, for settlement.
H. M. JONES, Administrator.
Newfoundland, Pa., July 15, 1913
TN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
OF WAYNE COUNTY.
Mary E. Shevalier v A. I. Shevalier.
To A. I. SHEVALIER: You are
hereby required to appear in tho
said Court on tho second Monday in
August next, to answer the com
plaint exhibited to the Judge of said
court by Mary E. Shevalier, your wife
in the cause above stated, or in
default thereof a decree of divorce
as prayed for in said complaint may
be made against you in your ab
sence. F. C. KIMBLE, Sheriff.
P. H. Iloff, Attorney.
Honesdale, Pa., July 11, 1913.
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