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"V rl tr?:-t^r,lrt-^-ff,i:ri,vry.i.:t....-r This extract from a statement made by a former farm tenant employee, now a farm owner, reviews a relation ship between owner and tenant that a great many persons on both sides of the farm-landlord situation may well envy. There is possibly no subject connected with the business of fann ing which leads to as many misunder standings, dissatisfactions and mutual losses js the management of a farm by a nonowner. Somebody has said that nothing short of application of the golden rule would ever bring about sat isfactory arrangements between the owner and occupant of a farm, and yet, in this case, there was. nothing eleemosynary in the arrangement. Tested by Fifteen Years' Trial. The man who made the statement quoted above was for a number of years the manager of one of two ordi nary-sized hog farms owned by a man in Illinois, and the plan under which he was engaged as farm manager has •been followed by the'-owner with al most unfailing success for more than fifteen years. Briefly, the plan was nothing more or less than a straight annual salary which included tenant house and the usual garden and poul try perquisites, and, as a bonus, a share of the net profits. The profit-sharing plan has served to stimulate the efforts of the employee and has greatly lessened the supervi sion necessary on the part of the owner. By the use of the telephone and occasional visits he is able to keep In touch with the farm problems and tc co-operate effectively with the man ager. Since the owner was farming himself it was important that the man agement of his other two farms takq as little of his time as possible. Thus, far the managers have been selected from the men employed on the home farm, which ser res as a training school. How Net Income Is Determined. The managers are given a regular monthly wage and a bonus consisting of one-third of the net farm income. In determining the net income 5 per cent interest on the valuation of the property is first taken out, as due re turn for capital, after which all ex penses are deducted, such as for thrashing, the manager's wage, extra labor, machinery repairs, depreciation, and the cost of fertilizei"s and seeds. Each of the two managed farms has a house for. the manager, who also can use the work horses to drive for per sonal use, has a garden, and a cow or two for supplying the family with milk and butter. Fifty chickens are fur nished, and the family is permitted to raise as many as possible to supply the needs of the farm table, but on Decem ber 1 all the chickens above the origi nal number must be sold, and the land lord gets one-half the receipts." The purpose of this limit on chicket^ is to enable the manager to have his own poultry supply without taking undu. advantage of his opportunity. Iii order to calculate the amount of money which the manager is to re ceive on this plan it is necessary to do a certain amount of bookkeeping. This is left to the owner, who keeps a set of farm accounts, and on March 1 a complete inventory is taken and a yearly summary of the farm business is completed. In cases of disease, poor crops, or a partial failure which is un avoidable, thus cutting down the in come of the manager, the owner makes some -allowance and gives the mana ger, in addition to the wages he has received, what he thinks is due him for the \jork he has done, and the re sponsibility he has assumed. In the period before war inflation the managers made from $41 to $49 per month the year round, in addition to having their rent, garden, milk, but ter and eggs. The manager of the smaller farm, comprising 96 acres, re ceived $35 a month straight wages for four years up to 1918, and his bonus averaged $168 a year. The manager of the other farm, comprising 160 j, NOVEL AND SATISFACTORY PLAN BETWEEN LANDLORD AND TEN ANT Fixed Wages Plus a Share in Profits'Give Zest to Farm Work. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture) "I took the same Interest in iny work as a tenant as I take in my own farm. I began work without a dollar ancl with very little knowledge of farming, but while I was on the farm I learned a good deal. I had ample opportunity to study the principles controlling crop growth, soil improvement, stock man agement, etc. The inspiration 1 re ceived was valuable indeed, and dur ing my period of service I earned enough money to buy the small farm on which I now live." IS acres, formerly received $30 per month and was increased to $35. Manager Well Paid. When the fact is taken into consid eration that the managers employed under this system are provided with houses in which to live and are given the privilege of raising their home sup plies of vegetables, milk, poultry and eggs, it will be'seen that their neces sary expenses are Inconsiderable, and it must be conceded that they are well paid for their services, in view of the fact that they have no Investment risk. The length of time which the men re main on the farms shows that this method of employment must have been satisfactory both to employee and landlord in these cases. It should be pointed out, however, that the tenant should have absolute confidence in his landlord before he would be justified in working under this system. TOMATOES ARE BEST IF RIGHTLY PRUNED Fruit Is Larger, Cleaner and Su perior in Flavor. Growq. in Home Garden Staking and Pruning Require Little Trouble and Will Fully Repay Trou ble, Say Specialists. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture) A thrifty tomato plant left to Itself will spread over a space from 4 to 6 feet in diameter and will produce a peck or more of tomatoes. If staked and pruned it will yield about the same quantity of fruit, the tomatoes will be larger, cleaner, better flavored, and sui)erior In every respect, and enough space can be conserved to ac commodate five other plants cared for in a similar manner, say garden spe cialists of the United States Depart ment of Agriculture. The staked and pruned plants are easily sprayed, and will continue to produce fruit later in the fall than plants which are allowed to spread naturally. As a rule, also, the pruned tomatoes will mature ear lier. On the scale on which tomatoes are grown in the home garden, stak ing and pruning require little trouble, and will fully repay the effort. When the plants begin making a vigorous growth, shoots will appear in the little pockets where each leaf joins the stem. Later the blossoms appear on the opposite side of the stem. In pruning the plant, remove all these side shoots and those around the base of the plant, being careful not to dis turb the blossom clusters. The shoots, sometimes called suckers, should be pinched off shortly after they appear. The main stem can be carried to the full height of the stake, then allowed to hang over.. By this time six or sev en blossom clusters, on which the fruit is developing, should be set on the stem. W00DL0T LIKE BANK A woodlot should be treated as the principal in a savings bank. The annual growth of wood corresponds to compound Interest. When you cut out more than the equivalent of the growth, you are. drawing upon your principal. ?-^V¥i. .%:•.*- .•i--.-.^-..:.- vrK. •...• .•. ••...*•*«• r-'. ,- i.. t.r *.5.«v1. :. ,* -r-, "if r*fr»r *. $ SILO OF GREAT IMPORTANCE Never Discarded When Properly Built and Filled With Corn at the Right Stage. No silo which was properly built and filled with corn at the right stage of maturity has ever been discarded. Neither 5s there any farmer who has had a silo on his farm and used its succulent, nutritious feed that Is will ing to do without one. CHEAP SEEDS ARE EXPENSIVE Success of Garden May Be Jeopardized by Unwisely Trying to Save on This Item. Qheap garden seeds are likely to prove expensive at any price. The cost of good seeds Is relatively small and the success of the garden nmy be Jeopardised by unwisely trying to save a few cent* on this Item. THE HOPE PIONEER COWPEA USEFUL TO HELP SOILS Crop Increases Productiveness and Also Improves General Physical Condition. GREATLY BENEFITS ORCHARDS About 85 Per Cent of Fertilizing Value of Crop Is Contained in Hay and 15 Per Cent 'in the Roots and Stubbie,. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture) The ease with which cowpeas are grown and their*m*"ked effect on suc ceeding crops have made them one of the most popular crops grown for soil improvement. Besides increasing the productiveness of the soil, the bulletin says, the cowpea also improves its general physical condition making heavy clay soils more open and sandy soils more compact. The cowpea has the distinct advantage of making a •-,'ood growth on soils which will not produce profitable yields of other le gumes or cereals. It Is an excellent screen-manure crop for vineyards and orchards. Plow Under Stubble. Except on the poorer soils, results indicate that it is decidedly more prof itable to utilize the cowpea as hay or pasture and then plow under the stubble than it is to plow under the entire crop. About 85 per cent of the fertilizing and soil-improving val ue of the cowpea is contained in the liay and about 15 per cent in the roots and stubble. Feeding experiments in dicate that much of the fertilizing value of feeds is recovered In the manure. It is possible, therefore, to obtain the feeding value of the cow pea as hay or pasture, and, in return ing the manure to the soil, to save *.* if. «.*.v 'l 4 •V 4* 'VVv-V »'•& '"x. km I Cowpeas and Johnson Grass Seeded Together. a large part of the fertilizing value, provided the manure Is well handled: When the entire crop is plowed under, a more beneficial and lasting effect in obtained, but this advantage is not sufficiently great to equal the feeding value of the cowpea. Plow Under Entire Crop. Light or sandy soils that have been cropped for a long time and need humus receive greater benefit from plowing under the whole crop. When, therefore, the Improvement of the lain] is the sole object, the entire crop should be plowed under to obtain the greatest value. I# utilizing the entire crop for soil improvement, it is host to plow it under when green, before being killed by frost. The green plants dcj'jay more readily and are su perior to dry plants in their fertilizing effect. The results of analyses made by the North Carolina agricultural experi ment station show that one ton of cowpea hay contains 47 pounds of nitrogen, 10 pounds of phosphoric acid and 29 pounds of potash. BETTER CONTAINERS NEEDED Millions of Dollars Worth of Perish able Products Destroyed An nually in Transit. Perishable products worth millions of dollars are destroyed annually on account of breakage in,transit of the containers in which they are packed. More than one railroad has appealed to the United States Bureau of Mar kets to help to remedy this situation, a high official of a southern railroad stating recently that, in his opinion, shippers should be compelled to use containers of adequate strength, and that proper car-loading methods should be exercised. It is vastly to the interests of the shipper to use containers of a strength that will carry perishable products safely to market, and the bureau of markets has made many Investigations and experiments to determine just what strength retainers should be to accomplish that result. These Inves tigations are still in progress, but the Information already collected is suffi ciently complete to enable the bureau to advise shoppers with regard to the best containers to use in shipping roecifled fruits and vegetables. SUBSTANTIAL FLOOR FOR POULTRY HOUSE Specialists Say There Is No One Best Kind. Everything Depends on Soil and Use of Structure as to Which Is to Be Preferred—Cement Is Most Sanitary^ (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture) Cement floors for poultry houses are championed by some poultry growers, while others declare a good dirt floor is the only kind to use. The fact is, poultry specialists in the United States Department of Agriculture say, that there is no one best kind of floor. It all depends on the soil, and the use of the house as to which type is to be preferred. On light, sandy, well-drained soils a dirt floor is satisfactory, especially for small or colony hen houses. Such Honrs should be from 2 to 6 inches -I -A A Plain and Suitable House for Poultry. hislier than the outside ground sur face, and it is advisable to renew them every year by removing the contami nated surface down to clean soil, and to refill with fresh sand or fine gravel and earth. A board floor is generally used where the level of the floor in the house is from 1 to 3 feet above the ground surface, and In portable hous es on land which is not well drained. Board floors harbor rats, and rot quick ly, and should be raised some distance off the ground so that cats or dogs can get under them, and also to allow a free circulation of air to prevent the wood from rotting. Cement floors are adapted to per manent laying houses, to brooder houses, incubator cellars, and. to all permanent houses where an artificial floor Is required, and can be built on the ground level. These floors are* easy to clean, very sanitary, rat proof, and comparatively Inexpensive, If one has a cheap supply of gravel or sharp sand. BROWN-TAIL MOTH IMPORTED Inspection of French Nursery Stocks Results in Uncovering Many Nests of Insccts. Federal and state inspection of French fruit and rose stocks during recent months has resulted in the in terception of 85 nests of the brown tail moth In 32 shipments, in contrast with 63 infested French shipments which have arrived In this country during the last nine years. The find ing of so many nests in such a brief period indicates that the French in spection' service is much below the standard of previous years. To meet this situation, all French shipments of rose and fruit stocks are being fumigated at the port of entry under the direction of the Department of Agriculture, as well as inspected at destination by state Inspectors. Fur thermore, a warning has been sent to the French nurserymen and the French inspection service to the effect that If. shipments continue to arrive infested with nests of this injurious insect, it may he necessary to cancel all existing permits to Import French stocks. Interceptions have been made by the state inspectors of Connecticut, New York, Indiana, .Iowa, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Mary land and federal inspectors In New York-city, Philadelphia and Washing ton, D. C. COWPEA HARVESTER. The bean harvester, of which several types are commonly em ployed in harvesting field beans, will work well with cowpeas planted in rows, accoidlng to specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. The most successful of these harvest ers are constructed so that the long knives run under the vines, cutting off the stems hey*.th the surface of the ground. CONTROL OF BLISTER MITE Very Thorough Spraying, Covering Every Part of Tree, Is Recom mended as Satisfactory. Early spraying will control the blister mite on apple trees. The trees should be sprayed when the trees are dormant or when the leaf buds are swelling with lime sulphur spray In about the proportion of one gallon of the concentrated' lime sulphur to nine gallons of water. The spraying must be very thoroughly done, cohering every part of the tree. Unless the spraying Is done early the result will not be satisfactory. Declares She Would Like To Put a Bottle Of Tan lac In The Hands Of Every Sick Man, Woman and Child In This Coun try Never Saw Its Equal. "I am sixty-seven years of age, but in all my experience I have never known a medicine like Tanlac. Think of it! At my age to gain twent.v-flve pounds ii. weight, but that is just what 1 have done, said Mrs. Emma Reifenstein, of No. 337 Webster ave nue, Syracuse, N. Y. "If I had it in my power," she con tinued, "I would put a bottle of Tan lac in the home of every sick man, woman and child In this country, for I know what this wonderful medicine would do for them. For almost two years I was almost a nervous wreck. I did not dare to leave the house or even go up town unless my husband went with me. I was afraid to even cross the street and had a feeling of dread all of the time. "My stomach was weak and easily upset. For days at a time I would go without solid food. I could not rest at night to do any good and felt tired and worn out all of the time., Some days I could hardly drag myself across the room and was so weak and miserable I was ready to give up. "My health Is fine now and I eat anything want and never have a touch of Indigestion. I have never slept better than I do now. My recovery Is the'talk of our neighborhood, as It was generally believed I could not last but a few weeks longer. This grand &OH/V Blood Is the Sap of Life You grow by good blood as a tree grows by sap. Rich blood, robust man. Good sap, sturdy tree. Keep the blood healthy and wholesome poor, impoverished blood cannot nourish the body or remove the waste as nature intended. When your blood is impure, itching, flaming skin eruptions often break out, and your body S.S.S Spite enables the fool to believe he Is happy in his unliappiness. Colc'n Carbollnnlve Qnlckly Relieves and heals burning, itching and torturing skin diseases. It instantly stops the pain of burns. Heals without scars. 30c and 60c. Ask your druRgist, or send 30c to The J. W. Cole Co., Rockford, 111., for a pkg.Adv. Cement-Coated Nails. Approximately one-tenth of the wire nulls manufactured are now cement coated, according to H. A. Knight, who writes on the subject to the Iron Age. The nails are coated by shaking them up In a hot tumbling barrel with a compound consisting mainly of resin, from which they Issue with a thin, tough coating which greatly Increases their holding power. The friction of the driven nail with the wood melts the cement and forms a glue, which cakes fast the nail.—Literary Digest. Not So Encouraging. "Your father merely grunted when I told him I wanted to marry you." "Don't be discouraged, Alexander. Father is an elemental creature and expresses pleasure as well as anger by grunts." "Yes, dear, but this was a fortissimo grunt. In fact, there was so much power behind it I'm afraid it was a snort."—Birmingham Age-Herald. A farmer becomes accustomed to sol itude—and it isn't so bad. 'Af^ALL-. DRUGcHsf* There's More Than Flavor Many foods.while pleasing to taste, contain but little nourishment. Grape?Nuts combines wilh its rich, sweet flavor the full nutriment of wheat and malted bariey which makes it an ideal food. It has been the favorite ready-to-eat cereal for a Quarter of a century: 'There's a Reason" MRS. EMMA REIFENSTEIN, 337 Webster Ave., Syracuse, N. Y. medicine has brought me health and happiness and I just can't say enough In its praise." Mr. J. Ueifenstein, in commenting on his wife's statement, said: "Yes. her recovery has been a happy sur prise to us all. A few weeks ago I had no idea she would be able to pull through, but now she is in better health than I have ever seen her and the credit Is due to Tanlac. We liava been married fifty-two years today and I don't believe I have ever seen her looking any better." Tanlac Is sold by leading druggists everywhere.—Adv. DON'T LET THAT COUGII CONTINUE Spohn's Distemper Compound will knock It In very short time. At the first sign of or cold in'your horae, give a tew doses of "SPOHN'S." It will act on the glands, eliminate the disease germ and prevent furth er destruction of body by disease. "SPOHN'S" has been the standard remedy for DISTEMPER, INFLUENZA, PINK ETB. CATARRHAL FEVER, COUGHS and CQLDS for a qilurter of century. SO cents and $1.16 per bottle at all druic stores. 8POHN MEDICAL COMPANY, GOSHEN. IND. a couch Keep It Pure gets run down and weak—easy prey for disease. To be safe, keep the circulation wholesome. For |)iis S.S.S., the famous vege table blood remedy your druggist keeps, is excell ent. Start enriching your blood with S.S.S. to day, and write about your condition to Chief Medi cal Advisor, 838 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Ga. Jubilant Jubilee. "Some years ago," says an Ameri can who used to live in London, "before Queen Victoria's death and about the time the queen's jubilee was to be celebrated, there was over heard this conversation between two old Scotchwomen on a street corner: "'Can ye tell me, wumman, what i9 it they call a jubilee?' 'Weel, It's this,' said the other. 'When folk has been married twenty five years, that's a silver wuddin' and when they have been married fifty years that's a golden wuddin'. But if the inon's dead then it's a jubilee.'" Who Can Tell? You cannot always tell. The patriot who is quickest to rise when the band plays "The Star-Spangled Banner" ia often slowest to get up .when the gov ernment asks for his income tax.— Arthur H. Folwell In Leslie's. Unfair of Him.. "It was cruel of you to throw Reg» Inald over the way you did." "I know but what could I do? Ha quit smoking my favorite brand cigarettes." of Easily Explained. She—"I shall never forget how crazy you looked when you proposed to me?" He—"I was crazy."