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SAVES HIS LIFE
BY RARE COURAGE

theodore A. SCHUBERT. twenty-five
years old. Of 42l New Jersey avenue
southeast, had his right arm crushed
and his head injured late last night
Whl.e working In the freight yards at
fourteenth street and Maryland avenue
southwest.
0chupert Is a brakeman, and while at
tempting to jump on a slowly moving
tram, zen directly under the heavy
wheels and but for great presence of
i r,tI ulisilt nave been crushed to death.
5IIn, ne succeeded In pushing his BODY
I I uiideI' TIC oncoming trucks. but
WAS WAS unable TO Withdraw his arm quickly
enough. The limb was terribly mangird
ana may have 10 be amputafed.
,i'esPiIs MS agony the man walked
ABOUT 2O0 feet to where a comrade was
P-ai iettisg' SGhupert was taken TO the
FroVldenee Hospital. The nbvsft fans
say that ms wounds are not fatal
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REFLECTIONS.

A moments patience is a ten years
COmfOrJ.-MOdeTn Greek
Mind no business but your own.-Dr.
Johnson
Use paStime so as not 20 lose time
Dutch.
The best prophet OF the future IS the
pdSt.-ByrOn.
Some men are so afraid OF their wives
they don't even dare TO Try for a di-
VoTce from them.-NeW York Press.
Intentions are gold bricks that hui
mauity tries TO sell il for the same price
as deeds bTing.-FlOrida Times Union.
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WHAT CONGRESS- DID
N THE SENATE.

The Interstate Commerce Commission
sent to the Senate the report OF the
receiver of the Western Maryland
road. as to why he had not observed the
commodities clause IN the Hepburn
law.
A bill was passed appropriating $4,000.
to -epair the damages at Fort Crook.
Nebraska, caused by the Teceh'
cyclone.
Senator Rayner of Maryland appeared
before the Military Affairs Committee
in support of his resolution for a cour'
Of inquiry IN the Colonel Stewart case
The conferees on the District bill helu
their first meeting TO-DAY.
The Senate considered the suhdry CIV
appropriations bill.
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TOO CLOSE NOW.

subbubs-I don't know anybody that
my wife hates more than the Jenkin-
sons
Citiman-Why. she used TO think
pretty we'll Of them
Subbubs-Yes, but thar was before
they moved in next door - us.-Ex-
change
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claiming that the throwing OF the shoe
represent an assault. and refers 70 the
by force OF violence. while others look
upon II as a relic OF the old laws OF
exchange. implying that the parents OF
the bride give up hencefOrth all right
over their daughter
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IN THE HOUSE.

The House began consideration OF ire
Vreeland currency bill.
The District Committee reported severAi
Senate bills.
The Select Committee on wood PUP
continued its session.
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THE NEEDING SHOE.

The custom has long been known In
England, Scotland. and other countries
The precise period Ct its origination IS
unknown. As to rs meaning, there is
difference Of opinion. some authorities
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A PLEASANT TOPIC

eot 9hn ne very aloof and austere. but I
How -
my ny asking her how she ever came 10
cha1S,, HeI dub of a husband ."-Ex-
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Exits to Be Made.

President Oyster reported that Build
ing Inspector Ashford had agreed to
supply Immediately the four additional
exits desired by the board at the Lang
don school Needed sanitary repairs to
the PetWOrth School had also been
promised, IL was reported.
The names Of Miss Barbara Wallace
Butler. Miss Mary Hoge. Miss Margaret
Stewart and Miss Annie Mae SWaTt
were placed upon the substitute teach
ers' list for the graded schools
The board approved a number OF pro-
motions, transfers. and appointments,
and granted leave OF absence TO several
teachers.
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Died

KEENAN-SuddsnIy. on Nay g. 1901 MRS.
ANN KEENAN,. aged siEty-thres years
Gone but not forgotten.
Funeral from her late residence, 21l9 Elev-
nth street northwest Mass Will be held at
"a. Paul's Catholic Church On SATURDAY,
May IS. at a. m. Friends and relatives
are invited 10 attend.
II
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Robertson 6 CO., Specials

Robertson 6 CO., Specials
Golden Rod Hams, ID. lac
Golden Rod Bacon, ID. lac
Pure Elgin Butter, ID. .28c
Guaranteed Eggs, doZ. zoe
GROCERIES AT COST.
Best Tomatoes, can. ..... sc
Best Sugar Corn, can. -. Sc
Best Peas, can. ...... 10c
6 Cakes Oliene Soap. .25c
Golden olend Coffee, h.. Zoe
F. ROBERTSON & CO.,
$50 LOuisiAzs AVszRs Northwest.
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ALI. CASES. al courts and dspaTtU. snts:
collections everywhere; aid IN private dIfi~
culties; confidential. L. S. Is AL CORP
20I Bond big. Llyl0-tt
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Printing that's effective

HAVE YOUR TRUNKS. hand bags. and har-
ness repaired at 18Th and u SITS. NV, wagons.
buggies, and wagon wheels on hand. Your-
price. GEYER'S- ap2-S9I
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Special Notices.

A cQE0 DTAN0 $3.50 Cash
Fine WV PulIy warranted
Hon oxxr1.nyooa Tuning, Sl.6O.
w. @4e~ " NASS SIS q. Easy terms.
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SPECIAL OFFER 10 ladies' ana gentiemeu's
furnishings. hosiery, undergaUnents, shirt
waists shirts, collars. neckties, Cosmopolitan
Patterns Joe each. s. SODel.s GIL Pa. ave Sc.
myI 4-eod-90t
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II. BORTNICK & co. have opened 4
new Junk shop. at IZ17 Bladensburg
Road We pay highest cash prices for
ali kinds Of goods. Phone L 81 myS-53s
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RUDOLPH Won NAGLE. ARTIST
Studio, 1910 G st. NV. Refined studio for
hrst-Class Photographs. Special. me
Cartons. 800. apZ-SUt
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WILL THE PARTIES who were On the
7th st. car that passed 9TH & J. sts. nv.
Y D. m. on Monday. May H. '06. kindly
communicate with ~. p. AUTEY. Al
J. NV. u
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Accepts Scholarship.

The board transacted a large amount
OF routine business, one act being the
acceptance Of an offer from the Draugh-
ton Business College to give a scholar
ship TO each honor graduate Of the
high schools.
Miss Leila Mechlin, Of the Civic Art
o League. appeared before the board with
a proposition 10 erect in Franklin Park
a fountain. TO be called the Chill
dren's Fountain" the money 10 be
raised by subscription, each child In
the public schools, If so inclined. 10 con-
tribute not more than 10 cents The
board took the matter under advise
ment
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RooMs PAFEREp 500

up: legal guarantee covers ali our work. send
postal for free samples and estimate TO ".
v MAHOSEY. G05 Pa. ave. Sc. phone 7. 1873
r4rr4-ea
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TEXT BOOK REPORT
APPROVED BY BOARD
Offer OF Scholarship in
Draughton Business Col
lege Accepted.

Unmarked by the tits between board
members and former Superintendent
Chancellor that accompanied the adop-
ton OF a similar report a year ago, the
annual report of the text book com
mittee was adopted by the Board Of
Education ct its regular meeting yes
terday afternoon. The committees re
port showed that a balance OF S491.S6 OF
the appropriation OF $4,000 remained on
hand. the balance being considered ade-
quate fer the remainder OF the fiscal
year. which ends July l. The board
has been watching carefully text boci
expenditures recently in order TO hold
them within the appropriation.
The report Of the committee year
ago remained a bone OF contention for
several weeks between the superintend-
ent and Chairman Evermann, Dr. Chan
celIor contendlng that expenditures had
been made by the committee for books
of which he did not approve The quiet
manner in which the report was read
and adopted yesterday, therefore, was
70 ma VLxnd 11r4ou.
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DR.. j. G. BUCHANAN,

Eye and Nerve Specialist
1853 ID ST. NV. Phone North 2l23-M.
aBZ9-3gI
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PLUMBING-Tbe lowest price for the best
work 81 your service. Jos. A. Herbert,
Plumber S0z z. Capitol ct. Phone Lin. I2s-F.
myIo-Su u, th-91t
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BY MUTUAL CONSENT the firm OF
Harris e. Patterson have dissolved part
uership. Elr. Harris viii continue BUSH
ness. GEO. T. PATTERSON. 502 II
St NV myIC Ct
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FRANK DOOR, practical TAILOR Tor ladies'
and gentlemen; cleaning. dyeing and pressing
neatly done; work called for and Cslivsrs1-
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THE EIGHTH SEMI-ANNUAL DIVI-
dend OF TWO and one-half (2zGe) pei cent
has been declared on the preferred stock
OF thu " ashingtou Railway and Electric
COMPANY, payable June I. lS9s. 70 stock
holders IL record May p, 1908 from the
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THE FRIENDSHIP ICE CREAM and
Wafer Ices. under pure food law for
puri. : and quality, Serial No 1880
aDZ4-91t
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NOW IS THE TINE to have your PAINT
ing done. Jas. A Glenn. eth and & sts'
NV, twenty-five years in business hefs;
uses strictly pure white lead and III see9
oil paint. Estimates cheerfully furnishes
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COVER THE GRAIN STACK

A good investment for any farmer
who does not thresh from the shock or
store his hay in barns or sheds is lot
of stack covers.
They will save their cost the first
season and if kept in the barn when
not in use will last five or six years.
Covers are used great deal in the
eastern states. where the value of any
thing raised on the farm is more keen
ly appreciated than on the big farms
of the west.
They can be bought of any farm i'm
plement house.
There is no more reason why gbod
grain and hay should go to waste on q
big farm than on d. small one.
Get covers of heavy canvas about
IL by "a feet or 16 feet square and
weight down the sides.
They will keep the top of the stack
dry and there will be no necessity of
throwing away a half dozen layers of
wheat or a half ton of hay, that is gem
orally done where covers are not used
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with little sugar of lead lotion on the
surface.
When cracks have appeared apply q,
similar lotion with the addition of a
rev drops of carbolic acid or grains of
chioral llydrate (enough to give it an
odor): or suiphurous acid solution. wa
Ter ana slycerin in equal proportions,
covering promptly and perfectly with
pandage; or glycerin and aloes. etc.
IN case of discharge or postuIes the
! lotion may be made with chloride of
Iihc or lime in place of sugar of lead,
OF nnely powdered charcoal may be
sprlhkled over the poultice; carbolic
aclo or choral will be equally in place.
When fungus growths appear more
active measures are demanded. Strong
carpollc acid may be applied to them
individually, or. better, pledgets of tow
saturated with tincture of the muriate
of iron applied; or they may be indjvid
! uallY strangled with a stout throat
drawn around their necks, or cut off
with the sharp edge of red hot black
! smiths shovel, cool one being held
beneath to protect the skin. Then ap
ply any of the antiseptics above men
| toned
! scratches are among the most obsti-
nate forms of the affection, because not
severe enough to demand the seclusion
OF the horse from wet, mud and snow.
In feeding the subjects of this affec-
ton avoid all buckwheats, maize or 9TH
er heating agents; and if it proves OBJ
stlnate resort to the various internal
remedies advised for chronic eczema.
Locally use benzoated oxide of zinc,
slycerin and aloes. camphorated spirit
and choral; the same with few drops
OF tincture of chloride or iron, etc.
When irritation subsidies and the
scales drop off. leaving healthy-look-
ing surface. smear with bland ONT
ment (spermaceti and almond oD.
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ITALIANS GOOD FARM HANDS

] have had the good luck to get an
Italian farmer as a farm hand this
year, and if we could get enough more
like him in this country the help prob
lem would be solved. This man came
direct from the fields in Italy and could
not speak a dozen words of English.
but he learned quickly and is now. aft
er three months, able to understand
nearly everything that is said to him.
He is the most Industrious and pains
taking man l ever had on the place. He
understands soils and animals and is
eager to learn our methods of farm
ing. OF course he must be shown, but
once is enough. He will follow direc-
tons afterward. He lives in a small
house on the place with his wife, who
is a great help in the dairy and house
work. They are the sunniest happiest
people around, and life in America
seems one perpetual picnic TO them
James Durkii, Tennessee.
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LITTLE NuBBINs OF NEWS

1t is reported that thirds of the
Russian winter wheat is ruined and a
sad famine is expected next year. Two
and one-half million acres were not
seeded.
The most conservative course is to
select the breed most popular in your
vicinity and improve upon the common
individuals by the use of improved
breeding boars.
AS narrowing time approaches be
sure that the old SOW is in good pen,
with strong rail or plank around the
sides standing out some fifteen inches
and standing about "a foot from the
floor.
A large proportion of the growth OBJ
tanned while the pig is less than
months of age does not cost but little
actual money, and to make the bust
ness profitable it is essential that we
secure the most gain possible during
the first few months of the pigs life.
When pigs are kept eight months,
when fully as good weights could have
been obtained at six months, the profit
is anything but what it should have
been.
There are good openings for men in
sWill 1t is good material for pig feed
ing, but must be fed with Judgment.
Before feeding it should be heated and
fed before it becomes cold. In many
cases outbreaks of disease come from
feeding cold swill.
Fourteen million bushels of wheat
We're exported through Puget sound
ports last year and 100000 through
"a nr1 ,v.to RI
20000,0G0. Galveston 100000 and New
Orleans 100000 bushels.
I Dwight Wheeler, a genius of Middle
bury, Conn.,, boldly claims that he has
solved the potato and is now growing
a tri- bred variety, which requires no
cooking and grows on vines like the
tomato. Maybe!
An American botanist declares that
if man should suddenly disappear from
the earth all cultivated plants would
soon follow him, because the useful
plants could not hold their own against
the weeds. But how did the useful
crops get their start?
President Roosevelt usually wears a
$50 hat, d present from the Philippines
but when he is making hay on his
Oyster Bay farm 10-cent straw an
SWerS his purpose when he does not go
hareheaded.
Professor Worst of tho North Dakota
station, who recently returned from d
visit TO Holland says in some cases the
land in that country is made to carry
two or three cows to the acre The or
binary twenty-acrc farm carries from
ten TO twenty COWS. Holland land sells
at $500 to $4,000 per acre.
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'actory stole it nearly all.

factory stole it nearly all
This man had a separator and WAS
selling his cream on the you weigh
and test it, plan. He had four cows
to start with. and at first was so well
pleased with results that he bought
four more.
Things moved along satisfactorily
for several months, when. without any
known cause, his test began to get
lower and corresponding shrink IN
amount of cream.
Matters kept getting worse ana
worse until he got disguised and Oh
fered his cows for sale. He quit the
creamery, but saved the cream from
the herd for two days.
When he sold his COWS his cream
was churned and the butter sold Tor
IS cents per pound and brought Tor
the two days s1.9S-lacking just one
penny of 81 day per COW.
Yet this farmer had received the
muni1icent sum of SIS even money for
the thirty days previous to the two
DAYS the cows earned for him 80 cents
per day.
This may have been an extreme case,
vet l have known of others where the
stealing was nearly as great.
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WORK IN THE FARM DAIRY

Too many farmers wives do not
know that sailing is one of the most
important things in butternaking.
Every woman whose butter does not
bring the highest price should attend
the district institute, or, better still, a.
short course at the state experiment
station. She will learn some things
about buttefmaking she never dreamed
of.
Creameries are becoming more strict
in their demands for sweet cream.
This is not easy to produce in hot
weather, and nothing but the cleanest
possible methods should be used.
Milk that is allowed to stand until
it cools naturally will not keep as we'll
as that which is cooled by water or
ice Immediately after it comes from
the cow.
BY setting the cream can in very
cold water and stirring it frequently
it will soon get down to so degrees,
and that is pretty safe
! Not long ago we passed a dairy
! where the man and his wife were
milking a herd of fourteen fine-look-
ing fat Shorthorn cows. Most of them
We're in pretty fair condition for beef.
| The dairyman complained that al
/ though he fed his cows we'll he did
| not seem to get enough rich milk to
make the business pay No wonder!
If the cow is off her feed, droops or
shows any signs of illness, she should
be taken from the herd at once. II
is a mistake to change a cows food
suddenly and radically. If the COW is
thriving feed should never be changed
! Newspapers wrapped around mill
cans will keep them cool While being
! taken to the creamery.
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WORK IN THE ORCHARD

1t is estimated that nearly 5000 car
loads of fruit will this year be Shipped
from the district surrounding Noc.h
Yakima, Wash.
The apple scab has done tremen-
dous amount of damage in Kansas this
year, but only those orchards that were
not sprayed with Bordeaux mixture
We're affected.
Some people seem to think that in
order to spray their orchards they
must have a big tWo-horse outfit and
pay out lot of money. Nothing of
the kind! An orchard of 100 trees can
quickly be sprayed by barrel sprayer
set on a stone sled drawn by a single
horse
If your grape vines have been al
lowed to grow rank and do not produce
as they should, work up your nerve and
trim them to stubs this winter. You
will have no fruit next year, but after
that with proper pruning you will
doubtless get a great big crop every
season.
Scraping out the deadwood and fill
ing the cavity with cement will be
the means Of saving valuable apple
trees that otherwise would soon be de-
stroyed by rot.
We cannot paint peaches a nice,
lucious color without liberal use Of
potash.
Pillow the peach orchard in the spring
and keep down the weeds and grasses
until August, then SOW rye or crimson
clover to pillow under the next spring.
Elevated sites are desirable for peach
orchards: some of the oldest peach
trees no on the tons of hills
The application of too much fresh
barnyard manure stimulates an I'M
healthy growth of wood and leads to
the winter killing of the peach buds.
A few mulberry trees set around the
fruit orchard will divert the attention
OF the birds and afford a windbreak for
the fruit trees. Poultry and plum
growing make a nice combination for
the small farmer who wishes to make
use of his poultry yards
The human eye is the great fruit
buyer and we must put our fruit UP in
neat attractive packages if we would
! obtain the best prices on the markets.
The honest fruit grower who puts up
good fruit and gives honest-sized pack
| ages does not need to look up d trade.
1t will come to him..
some city buyers prefer DrlSHl req
apple that has been polished with a
dirty rag and saliva by an Italian fruit
! vender to one that has its natural
| bloom.
The pineapple crop of Florida last
year proved to be very profitable. The
| industry is yet in it's infancy, but
promises to become of great impor
! lance in the near future.
The apple crop of Oregon promises
to exceed that of any other year. The
| quality is fine.
The orange tree is gradually moving
| north. 70 BotanistS of the Agricultural
Department are producing a citrus tree
| which bears the sweet table orange by
crossing and which is able to stand
much colder weather than the trees OF
! Florida.
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RAIL FENCE PHILOSOPHY.

house on BriXton Hill, England,
WAS recently torn down to make room
for a modern fiat building. 1t is stated
that in the garden attached to this
house the first potatoes in England
were grown. They were introduced by
Sir Walter Raleigh.
Owing to the increa sed demand for
horse flesh in Vienna the city authori-
ties have spent 100000 for additional
slaughter houses. Last year 10000
horses We're killed in Vienna, most of
the flesh going into sausages of vari-
Gus brands and havors.
The Swiss have adopted system of
small farms, grouped under the man
asement of q director, who teaches
farming TO the unemployed from the
cities. The movement is said to be
Very successful and has raised the
moral standard of a class of city la
borers that have heretofore been
troublesome to the government.
The oil wells in the Brownwood
(TeNas) field, having shown a DISPOSE
tion to give out interest in that section
has been revived by the alleged dis
covery of gold. Enterprising people,
those Texans.
James L. McCleary, second assistant
postmaster general, has asked the
Abraham Lincoln memorial commits
sion to build a highway from Wash
! ington to Gettysburg, Pa, a distance
of seventy-two miles. as a national
memorial to the martyred President
Millers in some of the western wheat
growing states are forming clubs, the
| object of which is to procure better
seed wheat for the farmers. Growers
will be urged to discard the soft grades
and to take up the hard wheats.
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DANISH THE FEATHER BED

Do you still sleep on feather beds :?
You do, because mother gave them to
YOU for a part of your wedding set
out" Discard them. They are not
sanitary, because they allow the body
to sink down so deep that the air cam
not circulate about it, and that is not
for good health. The bed should be
set out Il little from the walls, so there
will tbc a free circulation of air all
around it. And the mattress should
not be too soft if You would sleep
comfortably. The covers should be
light and not heavy and soggy. Heavy
covers absorb perspiration and are not
as warm as light ones, provided the
latter are made of the right kind OF
material. ] believe that many cases
of tuberculosis can be traced to feather
beds and heavy covers
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MUST GET DOWN TO BRASS TAcKs

There is class Of young men grad
uatlng from the agricultural colleges
we'll grounded in the theory of aericul-
ture and without farms of their own
wondering what they are to do for q
living when turned loose on the world
quite number of these bright and
Well intentioned boys have written to
me asking what l advise them as TO
where and how to obtain paying posi-
tons upon their graduation
Without in the least wishing to dis
parage the value of the agricultural
college training or the worth of these
young men, | wish to impress upon
these lads the fact that they are Of
little value to any one needing a farm
foreman or superintendent until thew
have had actual experience in farm
work-and in all sorts of farm work.
One cannot direct another in mat.
ter of which he is practically ignorant
himself. He cannot hold the respect
of laborers if they feel that thew know
more of practical things than he knows
himself.
His very college education. which
may serve as the greatest helm as a
foundation for his practice, is a ham
per to him if it be not coupled with
| practical experience.
And there is constant inquiry for
young men who do know how and who
have both practical and theoretical
| groundwork of training.
Let MIN curry horses and feed. plow
and harrow. SOW till and reap; make
hay and feed calves, until all the details
of farm work are familiar to him, then
let him apply for a position as fore
man or superintendent and he will ge,
/ it without difiiculty.-Joseph Z. Wing
in the American Farm World.