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Our Part in Feeding the Nation
P al Information Service, United States Department of Agriculture.)
let the wise sower look to his seed.
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Which Do You Sow? Clean Seed (Lower Right); Adulterated Product (Lower
Left). Make a Tester of Two Dinner Plates and a Moi6t Cloth. Bad
*. Germination (Upper Left), Good Germination (Upper Right),
PURCHASE ONLY
LABELED SEEDS
Farmers Urged Not to Take Any
Chances With Product of
Poor Quality.
MAKE A GERMINATION TEST
Home-Made Device Will Tell Value of
Seeds—Clean Small Grains Be
fore Sowing—Send Sample to
Agricultural College.
The seed trade has voluntarily agreed j
to label all field seeds with the per- •
centage of pure seed that will grow, j
giving the purchaser exact information '
as to quality. The United States Depart -1
meat of Agriculture urges all farmers
to buy their seeds only from dealers j
who comply with this agreement and
not to run the risk of buying high
priced, uulabeled seed that will not ^
give a stand in the field.
Make Germination Test.
Get your seed early and make a ger
mination test of it before sowing.
Count out 100 seeds ; put them between
folds of moist paper or cloth between
two dinner plates and keep at room
temperature for four days ; then count
the sprouted seeds. If 95 seeds sprout
the seed is good; if only a small part
of them sprout the seed is either poor
or the test was not properly made.
If in doubt as to the value of the seed
send a sample to your state agricul
tural experiment station or to the Seed
Laboratory, United States Department
of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., with
SCREENING SEED MAY PRE
VENT NEW DISEASE.
Screening out the shriveled
grains from wheat seed before
planting will remove one cause
of spreading the new bacterlul
disease of wheat which has been
discovered In many states of the
middle West. This has been
learned by specialists of the
United States Department of Ag
riculture who, in co-operation
with the experiment stations of
Kansas and Wisconsin, are
studying the problem at control
ling this disease. Wheat ker
uels that are plump do not con
tain bacterial cavities, but shriv
eled ones often do.
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Reached Hie Capacity.
The first floor of the home was
reached at the rear by climbing a flight
Äon. .»en,.,« tl* »•■»«» "«
from town with » S'*«!
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said, forgetting momentarily tfi«'<
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oungster replied :
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• SEED DEALERS TO FURNISH
I INFORMATION WITH I
• PRODUCT. •
• •
• - •
J According to a plan agreed J
• upon by representatives of the •
J seed trade and representatives J
• of the United States Department •
• of Agriculture in conferences »
• leist year, seed dealers will pro- J
• vide the following information »
J with all lots of ten pounds or J
• over of field-crop seeds which •
J they sell : J
• 1. Name of seedsman. •
J 2. Kind of seed. J
• 3. Proportion of pure live seed •
J present, with mouth and year of J
• germination test. •
» 4. Country or locality of or- »
• igin in the case of the following J
• imported seeds: Beans, soy »
• beans, Turkestan nifalfa, and *
• red clover from southern Eu- •
J rope and Chile. J
» Since the seed trade confer- «
J ences, practically all the larger J
• seedsmen have individually •
J agreed to conduct their busi- J
• ness in accordance with these •
J suggestions. J
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the request that it be tested for qual
ity, Including percentage of purity and
germination.
Don't take any chances with the
quality of the red clover seed you sow
this spring.
High Price of Seed.
Never before has the price of red
clover seed been so high as it is at the
present time, and never has the quan
tity of seed on hand been so small in
proportion to the acreage to be seeded.
In years when the demuud for any
kind of seed exceeds the supply, all
available seed is put on the market
and much of the seed is of poorer qual
ity than in normal years. Therefore,
every farmer before sowing should
know what proportion of the seed he
buys cannot be expected to grow. If
one lot contains 96 per cent of seed
that will grow and another lot con
tains 04 per cent of seed that will grow
It will take three bushels of the 04 per
cent seed to sow the same number of
acres that two bushels of the 96 per
cent will sow.
This is important from the stand
point of cost alone when red clover
seed Is selling for $20 or more per
bushel. It Is much more necessary,
however, to know the quality of seed
In order that the rate of seeding may
he proportional to the quality, so that
enough live seed will be sowed to In
sure a stand in the field. First know
how much of the seed may grow and
then sow accordingly.
True Gospel of Work.
Work Is the glory and delight of
life, and the only acceptable excuse
for being in this world, and the ob
ject of all practical investigations of
the principle of fatigue and recovery
is to find out, not what Is the least
possible amount of work that a hu
man being can get along on, but what
Is the greatest amount that he can do
without decreasing his working capac
ity. Such is the gospel of work, which
those who are not of the elect may
regard as hurd doctrine— Excaanga.
NOT HER CONCERT
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What Cared Cornelia's Sister for
George's Remarks?
But It May Have Been Just Possible
She Was a Trifle Disappointed
at Something the Youth
Had Said.
"Oh, how do you do?" said the dlffi- j
dent young man ns he entered the j
screened porch. 'T— er —I thought
you were Miss Cornelia."
"She's gone out," explained Cor- ]
nelia's considerably older sister. "But
that doesn't matter. Sit down, Mr.
Chudleigh. Isn't it a lovely evening?"
"Yes," agreed the diffident young
man. "Er —you're looking well !"
"Do you really think so?" murmured
Cornelia's sister, archly. "I'm so glad
you like this blue dress—people ul
wavs have said blue becomes me!"
"Yes, it does!" said the diffident
young man hurriedly. "It looks tine."
"I value a compliment from you,"
said Cornelia's elder sister. "I appre
ciate tl*e opinion of a man of your
experience far more than Cornelia
does. Girls of eighteen are so eatter
brained and— weil, conceited. You must
have observed that with all Jour ex
perience !"
"Yes, of course," said the diffident
young man, beginning to throw out his
chest and frown seriously.
"I knew you would agree with me,"
murmured Cornelia's sister softly.
"Isn't it a great comfort, Mr. Chudleigh,
to find some one who is entirely sym
pathetic and comprehending?"
"Yes." said the diffident young man
suddenly. "I do, come to think of it !
With some people it is so hard to get
along—that is, I find it so hard to say
what I mean to them. That is terribly
embarrassing when I'm dying to speak
my mind !"
"I hope you don't feel that way with
me," said Cornelia's elder sister softly.
"No, I don't !" declared the young
man. "I wonder—would you mind if I
told you something?"
"Why, Mr. Chudleigh !" exclaimed
Cornelia's sister, raising her eyes and
then dropping them again hurriedly.
"How absurd! Why should I mind?"
"I—I'd rather you guessed," he said
huskily.
"Guess?" she repeated. "IIow can I
guess when I haven't the ghost of an
idea—"
"But you must have!" insisted the
young man, fervently.
"Oh, Mr. Chudleigh !" said Cornelia's
sister faintly.
"You're blind if you didn't," said
the young man rapidly. "Haven't you
seen me here night after night, unable
to tear myself away, a regular slave
to-"
"Why, George!" said Cornelia's sis
ter tremulously. "You are so over
whelming! I hadn't a notion ! You
"It's got to the point," insisted the
young man with the violence of the
timid person who is thoroughly
aroused, "where I've got to know defi
nitely—whether I'm to stay or to go—
I can't wait another Instant—"
"It's stay, George, dear," said Cor
nelia's elder sister, slipping her hand
in his.
"You think she wants me to stay?
You are sure?" cried the diffident
young man.
"She? Who?" cried Cornelia's sister.
"Why, Cornelia, of course," ex
plained the diffident young man. "What
did you suppose I was talking about
all this time?"
"Mr. Chudleigh," said Cornelia's eld
er sister after an awful pause, "there
isn't any way of knowing what a per
son like yourself is talking about. And
if you think T have the slightest inter
est In your remarks you are very much
mistaken!" — Pittsburgh Gazette
Times.
Barges to Foil U-Boats.
If actual trials prove the scheme to
he practicable, it is understood that in
order to check the depredations of the
enemy's U-boats, immense oceangoing
barges towed by powerful armed tugs,
may be used instead of steamships for
transporting freight through the sub
marine zones. Long, low-sitting, in
closed craft of steel construction will
be tested. Crews being unnecessary,
the barges are to be decked a few
Inches above the water line so that
from a distance they will be practi
cally Invisible to a periscope. As is
perhaps generally known, a tub, be
cause of its small size and compara
tively shallow draft, offers a torpe
do a poor target. In a gun duel, should
a U-boat risk a fight, the tug would
have nearly an even break with the
enemy.—Popular Mechanics Magazine.
War at a Beautifier.
A doctor told me the other day that
the war Is doing one good thing at
least In teaching the nations how much
better off they are with less food than
they used to eat. He meant that they
were more healthy, but there is anoth
er side to it. Much of the adipose tis
sue which has caused us middle-aged
women to look older than we want to
Is the result of overeating. Eat what
your need, exercise all you can, keep
your mind awake and keep young.—
Mother's Magazine.
Poor Kind of Joke.
A woman of uncertain age required
the rervices of a page boy and inserted
in the local paper an advertisement
headed: "Youth wanted."
One of her friends, with little humor
and less taste, sent her a bottle of a
celebrated wrinkle remover, a pot of
fairy bloom, c set of false teeth and a
flaxen wig!
RECIPE FOR GRAY HAIR.
To half pint of water add 1 oz. Bay
Rum, a small box of Barbo Compound,
and V* oz. of glycerine. Any druggnt can
put thia up or you can mix it at home at
very little cost. Full directions for mak
ing and use come in each box of Barbo
Compound. It will gradually darken
streaked, faded gray hair, and make it »oft
and glosay. It will not color the scalp, is not
sticky or greasy, and does not rub off. Adr.
Why She'6 Barred.
"I haven't seen a milkmaid in must
cal comedy for a long time."
"Evidently you haven't followed the
trend of girl shows."
"No?"
"A milkmaid Is supposed to wear
some clothes, even on the stage."—
Birmingham Age-IIerald.
Skin Troubles Thnt Itch
Burn and disfigure quickly soothed
and healed by hot baths with Cuti
cura Soup and gentle anointings of Cu
ticura Ointment. For free samples,
address, "Cutlcura, Dept. X, Boston."
Sold by druggists and by mail. Soup
25, Ointment 25 and 50.—Adv. 4'
False teeth are one thing, but a false
tongue behind them is another.
Sloth wears out the
sûmes the mind.
body and con
Proof that Some Women
do Avoid Operations
Mrs. Etta Dorion, of Ogdensburg, Wis., says:
"I suffered from female troubles which caused piercing p
like a knife through my back and eide. 1 finally lest all
strength so I had to go to bed. The doctor advised an operation
ams
my
but I "would not listen to it. I thought of what I had read about
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and tried it. The first
bottle brought great relief and six bottles have entirely cured me.
All women who have female trouble of any kind should try
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound."
How Mrs. Boyd Avoided an Operation.
Canton, Ohio.—'T suffered from a female trouble which
caused me much suffering, and two doctors decided that
I would have to go through an operation before I could
' cct well.
Ê "My mother, who had been helped by Lydia E. Pink
ham's Vegetable Compound, advised me to try it be
fore submitting to an operation. It relieved me from
my troubles so I can do my house work without any
difiiculty. I advise any woman who is afflicted with ■
female troubles to give Lydia E. Pinkham's Yege
table Compound a trial and it will do as much
for them."—Mrs. Makie 13oyd, 1421 5th St.,
îî. E., Canton, Ohio. I ' J 1'
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Even/ Sick Woman
LYDIA E. PINKHAM S
VEGETABLE. COMPOUND
. Before Submitting To An Operation
IYDIA E.PINKHAM MEDICINE CO. LYNN. MAS Si
Life Still Has Its Joys.
If you are troubled with the belief
that war has taken all the Joy out of j
life, you should have been on hand j
you
when the playful wind took the fat
man't hat and he made a zig-zag race
for it along the street car tracks, and
noticed what a lot of people stopped
to laugh their eyes full of tears at the
spectacle.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
FRECKLES
New Is the Time to Get Rid of These Ugly Spots
There's no longer the slightest need of
feeling ashamed of your freckles, ns the pre
scription othine—double strength—is Guar
anteed to remove these homely spots.
Simply get an ounce of othine—double
strength—from your druggist, and apply ft
little of it night and morning and you should
soon see that even the worst freckles have
begun to disappear, while the lighter om s
have vanished entirely. It is seldom that
more than one ounce is needed to completely
clear the skin and gain a beautiful clear
complexion.
Be sure to ask for the double strength oth
ine. as this is sold under guarantee of money
back if it fails to remove freckles.—Adv.
Precedent is a convenient peg to
hang incompetency on.
Nothing rattles a timid belle like an
engagement ring.
22 Million Famili
in the United Stf
June
jCivi!
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F EACH FAMILY saved one cup of wheat flour it would amt
S 500 000 nounds or more than 28,000 barrels. If this saving was
three'times a week it would amount to 858,000,000 pounds, or
barrels in a year
You can do your share in effecting this saving and really help to
the war by omitting white bread from one meal today and baking
place muffins or corn bread made according to this recipe:
Corn Meal Muffins
\ cup com meal 2 tablespoon, sugar
cup. flour
b teaspooa salt * ,
4 teaspoons Royal Baking Powder 2 tablespoons shorten
Sift dry ingredients together into bowl; add milk and melted
shortening and beat well. Bake in greased muffin tins in hot
oven about 20 minutes. Same batter may be baked as com
bread in greased shallow pan.
Our new Red, White and Blue booklet, "Best War Time Recipes," containing
recipes for making delicious and wholesome wheat saving foods mailed free—
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO., DEPT. W, 135 William St, N
FOOD WILL WIN THE
iola
Just Once! Try Dodson's Liver Tone!
Take No Calomel! Li sten To Me!
If bilious, constipated, headachy or sick, I Guarantee
relief without taking dangerous calomel
which sickens and salivates.
Stop using calomel ! It makes you
sick. Don't lose a day's work. If you
fee! lazy, sluggish, bilious or consti
pated. listen to me!
Calomel Is mercury or quicksilver,
which causes necrosis of the bones.
Calomel, when It comes Into contact
with sour bile, crashes Into it, break
ing it up. This is when you feel that
awful nausea and cramping. If you
are "all knocked out," if your liver Is
torpid and bowels constipated or you
have headache, dizziness, coated ton
gue, if breath is bad or stomach sour,
just try a spoonful of harmless Dod
son's Liver Tone.
Here's my guarantee—Go to any
drug store and get a bottle of Dodson's
Liver Tone for a few cents. Take a
spoonful tonight, and if it doesn't
Always Before Him.
"He is a great stickler for proce
dure, Isn t he?'
"I should say so! V by, e\cn the
furniture covers in his house are
bound with red tape."
all
Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
by LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influ
enced bv constitutional conditions. HALL'S
CATARRH MEDICINE will cure catarrh
It is taken internally and acts through
the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the
System. HALL'S CATARRH M Kl 1 1 b I N K
is composed of some of the best tonics
known, combined with some of the best
blood purifiers. The perfect combination
of the ingredients in HALL'S CATARRH
MEDICINE is what produces such won
derful results In catarrhal conditions.
Druggists 75c. Testimonials free
F J Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O.
Positive Proof.
"Ferdv. do you really lovi
."Didn't it take 35 cents t<
last letter I wrote?"
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A HINT TO WISE WOMEN.
Don't suffer torture when all female
troubles will vanish in thin air after using
'Femenina." Price 50 c and Çi.oo— Adv.
The man who Mows his own horn
is merely n self-entertainer.
straighten you right up and make yon
feel fine and vigorous by morning. I
want you to go back to the store and
get your money. Dodson's Liver Tone
is destroying the sale of calomel be
cause it is real liver medicine ; entirely
vegetable, therefore it can not salivate
or make you sick.
I guarantee that one spoonful of
Dodson's Liver Tone will put your
sluggish liver to work and clean your
bowels of that sour bile and consti
pated waste which is clogging your
system and making you feel miserable.
I guarantee that a bottle of Dodson's
Liver Tone will ke> p the entire family
feeling fine for months. Give it to
your children. It is harmless; doesn't
gripe and they like its pleasant tust«.
—Adv.
A Stickler.
Banker Henry P. Davison said at an
artists' banquet:
"Gentlemen, I once went in for paint
ing myself, I enameled a bathtub.
"My friends sought t<> discourage me
in my artistic aims. They said:'It'S
no use going in for painting unless you
stick to your work.'
"Gentlemen. I did so."
BOSCHEE'S GERMAN SYRUP
will quiet your cough, soothe the In
flammation of a sore throat and lungs,
stop irritation in the bronchial tubes,,
insuring a good night's rest, free from
coughing and with easy expectoration
in the morning. Made and sold in
America for fifty-two years. A won
derful prescription, assisting Nature in
building up your general health and
throwing off the disease. Especial' 11
useful in lung trouble, asthma, croi
bronchitis, etc. For sale in all cii * 1
Ized countries.—Adv. ^ 1 .
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seen you that w: nary and Monday
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