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Among Our Patrons
Show Great Growth.
The_J. I. Case Threshing Machine
Company furnished a fitting climax
to the most successful year in the an
nals of agriculture by announcing
that it had increased its capital stock
from $5,000,000 to $40,000,000 and
would add several new lines to its
already big output of farm machinery
and engines.
Several additions will be made to
the big plant of the Case company in
addition to those already in the course
of building. The new gas tractor
home will be one of the most com
plete in existence and will be complet
ed in 11)12.
Banking interests friendly to the
Case company have encouraged the
expansion policy and the floating of
the fir3t $20, OCX), 000 of Ca9e common
and preferred stock excited little
more than passing interest. The
assets of the company were conceded
to be many times in excess of its old
capitalization, to say nothing of the
world wide influence of the Case
name and the far reaching power of
its great army of 10,000 representatives
in the field and its 65 branoh houses
all over the world.
The history of the J. I. Case Thresh
ing Machine Company reads like a
fairy tale. Just seventy years ago
the founder of the great plant, which
now covers upward of two hundred
acres came to Racine, Wisconsin,
from New York State. And while he
has long since passed away, his name
still remains standard trade mark in
the threshing machinery world.
The beginning of the great Case
plant was intlnitestimal compared to
its size today. It covered less than
an ordinary city lot but improve
ments that the brain of J. I. Case
had imbeded in his own threshing
machine made it far superior to any
other in use and in the spring of 1843
the Case Company began to expand,
and never stopped until now is the
largest institution in the world of its
kind.
In 1897 the last reorganization of
the company took place but the name
of the institution remained the same,
the J. I. Case Threshing Machine
Company, incorporated, and the
capitalization was raised to $2,(XX), -
(XX). P. K. Bull was elected president
and Frederick Robinson vice presi
dent, while R. T. Robinson was
chosen secretary and Charles L. Mc-
Intosh treasurer. Later the capi
talization wus raised to $5,000,000
and Charles L. Molntosh, who died,
was succeeded by F. Lee Norton, the
present incumbent.
The latest building completed is in
connection with the automobile
factory, which is three stories high
and has close to 100,000 square feet
of floor space. The plans for the
coming year call for the construction
of 3000 automobiles, and these will
only supply the demand or the branch
houses in the different parts of the
world.
The rumors that have been floating
around of a Threshing Machine trust
are dispelled by the action of the
Case Company and meaus more com
petition than ever in farm mchiner?
circles.
Making Repairs Economically.
Every farmer has his break-downs.
The wear and toar on farm machinery
as well as farm buildings and equip
moutis a source of great expense, to
say nothing of the annoyance in wait
ing for repairs. Often the break is
of a trivial nature, yet, for the lack of
tools, the farmer has to hitch up and
drive to the blacksmith or get a
carpenter. The binder breaks down
and the entire force has to lay oft
sometimes several days. The corn
harvester breaks, causing days of de
lay when a frost is expected every
night that would damage all corn
standing.
These expensive daily occurrences
are causing farmers to establish their
own repair shops right on the farm.
Many are equipping their shops with
both wood-working and iron-working
.The FtancHJ
tools, so that they can repair practi
cally any break-down that might
occur, saving their time. It is re
markable bow soon the outfit of good
tools pays for itself.
£Many farmers, however, have found
an outfit of poor tools more expensive
than none at all. When tools break
down they can seldom be repaired or
the repairs amount to more than the
original cost. In years gone by it
was difficult to select a really good
tool. Few tools were guaranteed and
those that were cost so muoh that
their purchase was almost prohibitive.
It was a common occurrence to buy
an ax, for instance, that had all the
earmarks of an exceptionally good
tool, but the first or second time it
was used produced big nicks that
could not be ground out.
It is different nowadays. The
farmer can go to bis dealer and ask
for any tool or lot of tools and simply
say that they niust all be "Keen
Kutters. " He knows that every tool
sold under this name is absolutely
guaranteed. If it proves unsatis
factory he can get a new one. He
knows that "The Recollection of
Quality Remains Long After the Price
is Forgotten."
Everyone will do well to demand
nothing but "Keen Kutter" tools
If your dealer does not handle them
write to The Simmons Hardware Co.,
St. Louis, Mo. They will see that
you are supplied.
Replaces the Grindstone.
Everybody hates the grindstone.
For centuries it has been a symbol
for back-breaking work. The very
hardship of sharpening a tool by this
slow old-fashioned method is the
reason so many farmers are content
to get along with dull tools. Their
sickles are only half sharp, their discs
almost stay on top of the ground be
fore the season is done, the ax is
blunt most of the time and the chisels
and plow points have hardly ever the
right sort of an edge. All this is be
cause the grindstone i9 so slow and
requires so much effort.
Emery they have tried and found
far from satisfactory. In fact nearly
every farmer has a scrap heap on
which are several emery sickle
grinders and tool wheels. The emery
would spoil more tools than it was
worth by drawing the temper and
leaving a rough cutting edge.
Luther's new Hummer Grinder
equipped with Dimo-Grit sharpening
wheels remedies all this. It will do
everything that a grindstone will and
dozens of things besides, and do* it
all in a small fraction of the time re
quired otherwise. The machine is
built entirely of steel with enclosed
shaft drive, protected bearing^and
beveled gear's.
Dimo-Grit, of which the sharpening
wheels are made, is the latest and
most advanced sharpening substance
scientists today have been able to
produce. It is as hard as South
Afiioan diamonds and with a speed
of 4,000 revolutions per minute, work
is done very rapidly without, the need
of water and without danger of draw
ing temper. It is peculiarly adapted
to sharpening steel, leaving a smooth
cutting edge. This machine, how
ever, can do 30 other things besides
sharpening tools. One of the attaoh
ments is a flexible shaft which every
farmer will find extremely useful. It
is the only way by which the knives
of ensilage and feet cutters can be
sharpened without taking them from
the machine. With this flexible shaft
can be attached clippers for shearing
sheep or clipping horses. Besides
this it will sharpen horse shoe calks
without removing the shoes, grind
the (Inters on corn buskers and dozens
of other jobs where it is easier to
take the wheel to the work than to
take ttn« work to the wheel.
Tin- Bubcock milk lester is also im-
portant on the farm. It is commou
kuowledge among dairy authorities
that nearly one tbird of all the cows
are milked at a direct loss. By the
use of the Babcock milk fester nnd a
pair of scales anyone, no matter how
inexperienced can find out which are
his "robber" cows and whicti cows
Bre paying him.
Besides this it has au attachment
for boring holes through iron or any
metal. There are also attachments
for sharpening drills, jig saw, circle
saws, skate sharpening, iron polish
ing and wood saudtr.
The Luther Grinder Mi'g. Co.,
would be very glad to send their 40
page book telling all about tne in
teresting discovery of Dimo-Grit and
this labor-saving larm machine.
Fight the Same Battles.
The farmer who is getting the
utmost out of his farm today is woik
iug along the lines to highest quality,
as well as greatest quantity.
Why? Because quality of product
pays as well as quantity. It pays
better.
The greatest per cents in farm prof
its are being reaped by the men who
grow the best grain—the best cattle—
who produce the best butter and the
best vegetables.
More and more our farmers are
coming to realize this. Hence, the
constantly widening interest in seed
selection—in the scientific prepara
tion of the seed-bed—in modern
methods of thorough cultivation —in
a word, everything that enables
Mother Nature to put all the quality
in her products that rightly belong to
them.
The pioneer Quality Farmer has
had his battles to fight. At times it
has looked as if the returns were not
paying him for his tioiQj his labor
and his discouragements. But he has
won. He is winning.
The markets of the world welcome
him. His stock, his butter, his
chickens, his eggs are virtually trade
marked with his own name aud he
gets his own price for them.
And you will observe that the
farmers who are giving Quality are
demauding Quality in return.
These are the farmers who are buy
ing the best grades of clothing, the
best grades of footwear —the best of
everything. They know that Quality
is the most piotitable thing in which
a man can invest. It pays to buy
quality just as it pays to sell it.
The manufacturers who meet the
Quality demand certainly have the
support of all thinking farmers,
whatever anyone may say to the con
trary.
Advertisements appearing year after
year in the best class of agricultural
publications prove this. Look these
advertisements over. They have a,
lesson for everybody who classes all
farmers as buyers in the cheap, poor
grade markets.
These advertisements of Quality
goods in the farm papers would not
continue to appear if the farmer were
not buying the goods.
After a few trials the advertise
ments would cease to appear aud the
cheap man would have a clear field.
Instead, the advertisements of
Quality goods are multiplying, show
ing a constantly increasing response
from the farm market.
No better illustration can be taken
than "Ball-Band" Kubberand Woolen
Footwear, so well known to farmers.
Well ktiown in this case means known
wtierever rubber and wooleu footwear
are worn for the manufacturers,
Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing
Company, make more than half the
footwear of these kinds, sold iv this
country.
Large shipments go across the
border, notably to Newfoundland,
which pays 40 per cent duty to get
"Ball-Baud" Footwear, although it
could get the Canadian goods by pay
ing only 10 per cent.
More than eight million people
wear "Ball-Baud" Rubber and
Wooleu Footwear. Many of our
readers ate among the millions wlio
have worn "Ball-Baad" for many
years. Multitudes are added to its
host every year. But the explanation
of this amazing army of more than
eight million customers i 9 the fact
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that the old customers stick.
Now, wby do they remain loyal to
"Ball-Bund"? People don't come
back a second time f»r an article that
disappoints tnem. Eight million
people are not deceived year after
year by goods that lack merit.
The only answer is weatiug^Quality
—good, old-fashioned wearing quality
that causes the buyer to remember
the name and to insist on having the
same kind the next time he buys.
Tnis enormous demand for "Ball-
Band" represents a steady growth of
nearly a quarter of a century, from
small beginnings.
The business of the Mishawaka
Woolen Manufacturing Gompany
originated in the manufacture of All-
Knit Wool Boots and Socks. This
explains the "Woolen" in the name
of the company, though rubber foot
wear is now by far the larger part of
the output As the business grew
the company could neither obtain tbe
quantity nor the quality of rubber
goods which had to be supplied with
its woolen footwear.
• The company, therefore, went into
the manufacture of its own rubber
footwear. The result was "Ball-
Band" Kubbers.
Competition was just as keen wben
"Ball-Band" was first marketed as it
is now.
la a year's manufacture of "Ball-
Band" goods, 1,252 carloads of raw
material, supplies, etc., were used.
Tbis material, if put into one con
tinuous train, forming a hollow
square, would enclose more than
3,600 acres with a solid wall of fully
loaded freight cars.
It required 5,000,000 square yards
of sheeting, cotton duck, casbmerette,
wool linings, etc., to make these
goods -enough cloth to cover 1,033
acres completely.
One and a quarter billion yards of
yarn was spun for knit boot 9, lumber
men's socks, etc.—more than enough
to form three strands from the earth
to the moon.
Che Rome.
(Continued from page 15)
Continue until you have as much as
you need then cut. The result- will
be even bands. Its a good plan when
one has nice muslin to make the
pieces into bands. Its nice to have
them on hand and saves time.
The Ranch Cook Book.
CORN PUFFS.
One and one-half cups of sweet
corn, cannod or fresh, one cupful of
milk, the yolks of two eggs, one-half
teaspoou of salt and one and one-half
cupfuls of flour sifted ' several times
with one teaspoonful of baking
powdei. Add the whites of the eggs,
well beaten, and bake in a moderate
oven twenty minutes.
MEXICAN RICE.
Use one cupful of rice, cooked soft,
three slices of bacon chopped fine,
one onion chopped fine, one cupful of
tomatoes. Fry the onion and bacon
together until a golden brown. Add
the rice and tomato and season to
suit. Cook together until well blend
cd.
FRICASSEE OP CHICKEN.
Cut fowl into joints, place in stew
pan with two onions cut into quarters,
salt and pepper, a bit of lemon juice,
butter the size of an egg and one pin
of water. Stew for an hour under "
closed lid. Strain off gravy, beat int<>
it gradually a small cupful of cream
or rich milk and the beaten yolks of
two eggs. Add a little salt if neces
sary and cook until thick, but do not
allow it to boil. Pour over chicken
and serve. This is an excellent w»y
to prepare an old fowl.
