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The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19

The old-fashioned farmer used 20
leave a large part of his business TO
chance. His selection of crops was
mostly guesswork, for he knew moth
ing of the chemical properties of his
lard. He invited bankruptcy by de-
pending upon one or two things, and
he allowed other parties to market his
produce, taking what they were will
ing 10 give him.
Through the agricultural schools the
farmer has been taught how to utilize
his resources to the fullest extent and
how to curtail waste, turning by prod
ucts to account.
He learns what his soil will grow
best. and In getting seed he takes ad-
vantage of the improvements on ma
ture. He hastens his harvesting with
labor-saving machinery. II has just
been shown that the farmers of a COM
munity may combine TO purchase a
still for denatured alcohol and make
a good profit from their corn husks
and garbage.
The Department of Agriculture has
been experimenting to this end. and
it is announced that still of suAeslent
capacity to serve a rural neighborhood
may be installed for little over ST.
600. The farmers of France have made
this enterprise pay well.-Spokesman
Review.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Sweet. Are Great Baby Savers.

The young, unspoiled human animal
has a liking for sugar just as 1t has
for sunlight, for fresh air, for play,
for padding in the surf and plunging
in the stream, or for food when it is
hungry and sleep when 1t is tired;
and, subject of course TO reasonable
limitations, as wholesome as any OF
the others. This Is precisely what our
specialists In children's diseases, and
broad-minded family physicians have
been urging for decades past, and it
would be safe to say that next to the
Punishment of starchy foods, gruels.
and paps from the nursery and the
substitution Of pure. sweet milk, few
things have done more to increase the
vigor and happiness of modern chill
dren and to cut down our disgraceful
infant mortality. than the free and
intelligent use in the nursery of sweet
fruits. preserves. sugar, taffy and but
terscotch-Woods Hutchinson in Sue
cess Magazine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Farm Automobiles.

improvements In road machines
have brought them to degree CT use
fulness that is interesting to farmers.
Formerly automobiles were so heavy
and the power so uncertain that farm
ers preferred horses. During the past
year great improvements have been
brought about in safety. in easy rid
ing, in the application of power to the
best Advantage, and with all the i'm
provements the price has been lowered
until 1t Is considered good PROPOSE
ton to invest in an automobile and to
save the horses.
A business farmer has a great deal
OF running about to do, in spite Of tele-
phones and other modern improve
ments, and it seems to be a question
between keeping driving horses and
an automobile. There are men who
prefer horses because of their associa-
ton with live things. There are
others who have less sympathy with
animals, and those m1n often get
along better with a machine They
can drive 1t as hard as they want to.
so long as they do no damage. and
il is nobody's business.
There are so many styles and varie-
ties OF automobiles on the market this
year, and so many good ones among
them, that 1t is very difficult to point
out any particular machine, but on
general principles an automobile. to be
serviceable, must have abundance Of
power, and II must be comparatively
low down.
II is said that the cost of keeping a
good automobile is less than the cost
of keeping one horse. and that the
care, when figured in time, is not
much different. The horse must be
fed the same, whether he works or
not; at least, there Is very little differ.
ence in the cost of feed or time in
feeding. But the expense OF a ma
chine stops as soon Is 1t comes to rest
that is. all the expense except in
terest and depreciation. Business
farmers, Of course, take all these
things into account Economy does
not consist in saving all the dollars
possible. but investing them in such
way as to get the best possible re
turns.
Improved roads have done a great
deal to introduce automobiles into the
country. OF course, we have a great
many improvements yet to make, but
in most places the principal roads are
in good condition during the summer
and early fall. Some people don't
care to ride in an automobile in cold
weather. anyway, but it is a great
satisfaction to know that the machine
may be put inside and left for the
day or month, and that there are no
extra grain or hay grinding teeth and
jaws working night and day In our
stable.-Agricultural Epitomist.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Bacteria in Eggs.

1t is necessary to test eggs out OF
the incubator hatchings and for near
ly the same reason it is necessary to
get the infertile or rotting eggs from
under the setting hens. There would
be. fewer sick chicks and losses in the
hen-hatched chicks did We look close
ly to this last. First, for the incubator,
and least. TO lay the thermometer on
a dead egg in the incubator runs
down its record. But this might not
DO a great amount of harm. 1t is the
dead egg itself that does harm. Every
egg, no difference how good, contains
bacteria. The amount of harm 1t does
depends on its growth. At "a degrees
Fahrenheit this bacteria will not null
tiply. Eggs kept at low tempera-
ture, as low as this given. Will not
decompose. Kept at a temperature
as high as 9S1a they multiply rapidly
and in rotting egg pass quickly
through the shells of other eggs bed
ded with them. You see what a rot
ting egg teeming with hurtful bacteria
can do to the living chick in the shell
next it? Test out the bad eggs
Twentieth Century Farmer
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Surface Cultivation.

The first cultivation OF any crop
may be moderately deep while the
roots of the plants are small and oc-
cupy very little soil space Some
farmers, however, cultivate deep at all
periods. during the growing season.
when the roots of the plants are long
and fill nearly all of the soil between
rows. They have a notion that the
object of cultivation is to tear the soil
up as far as the pillow went, and they
take small thought of the danger they
are doing to the roots of the growing
crop.
After the soil has been plowed and
properly narrowed and otherwise
worked down the lower part is in a
good condition for the growth and
spread of growing roots. There is no
need of tearing it up again during the
season, in fact loosening It up TO more
than two or three inches will do more
harm than good. The past summer
the writer grew corn on ground that
had been firmly packed and beaten
down with heavy spring rains and
corn on either side of the strip, where
the soil was restirred after ii had be-
come packed by the early rains All
of the field was given very light sur
face cultivation. and the strip that
was packed The hardest grew the best
corn.
The best cultivator is the one that
has the most small shovels. We
never cultivate deeply at any time,
never more than two inches. or just
deep enough to kill the weeds and
secure better results than from deep
cultivation. Keeping the soil loose on
top and packed beneath, and the grow
ing roots untouched, viii give best
results
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
OLD AGE AND EMPLOYMENT.
something About Serious Condi-
ton Difficult 10 Remedy


ton Difficult 90 Remedy.
Writing in protest against the gen.
eTal reluctance TO take on AS new
members of a working staff men of
more than middle age, a correspondent
wanted to know yesterday why it
would not be just as fair for the pub
lie to refuse its patronage to bust.
ness houses the heads of which are
more than so years old, on the ground
that their wares were likely to be in
ferior to those produced under the
management OF men in their prime.
the New York Times says. The ques-
ton was ingenious, but the analogy
owed its FEASIBILITY TO false as
sumption-or on several OF them.
AS matter of fact. the goods made
or sold by long established firm are
apt-of course, with any exceptions
to be superior to those guaranteed
by one Of less experience and reputa-
ton. This is the lesson of common
observation. Equally Well known is it
that men of advanced years, while
often highly competent In such posi-
tons as those which they would nat
urally occupy in a house which they
had long served, lack the ready adapt
ability to changing circumstances and
custom which young men show, and
they are likely to be quite untitled for
the subordinate places which alone can
ho ciyan than hxyo
Were the hiring of an old man
mere matter of paying him for what
he can do and of dischargine him
when he ceased to be useful or suffi-
GENTLY useful to be profitable, he
would find little or no difficulty in get
ting employment. But what employers
dread and avoid is the assumption of
responsibilities sure to come soon in
the case of the old or elderly man.
He cannot be turned out to starvo
when the fast approaching end of his
working days arrives-cannot, that is,
without more or less disturbance OF
conscience and loss OF respect, self
and other-and the prospect of paying
pension or some sort or form to q
man most of whose services have been
rendered to another employer is out OF
harmony with economic instincts
OF course. all responsibility is not
avoided by the refusal to employ
worthy men whose only fault is their
age, but 1t is then a divided, vague
and unidentified responsibility, rest
ing on the community at large, and.
therefore easy to bear-much easier,
at all events. than is the responsibility
of him who has at once granted the
old mans application for work. So
the world is made. There is something
cruelty wrong about the situation, but
its remedy is more than difficult.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Motor Truck on Farm.

A three-ton gasoline motor truck as
farm vehicle in place of the ordi-
nary horse wagon is unusual, to say
least. 1t IS a fact, however, and shows
that the rapid substitution Of the
commercial motor vehicle for horse
drawn conveyance is not any means
limited to our large cities. One good
example of the practical use of the
motor truck in farming is afforded at
Conyers Manor, at Greenwich, Con-
necticut
Conyers Manor is one of the most
notable estates in the East, which is
not merely ornamental, but great
farm, operated on a commercial basis.
1t represents 1900 acres of reclaimed
land, and is the home of E. c. Con-
verse. Aside from being a beautiful
estate, it is typical of the great adj
vancement which has been made in
modern farming, and especially in the
way of applying scientific and COM
mercial methods to agriculture. Mo-
tor cars are common at Conyers Man.
or. Not only Is there large and
well-equipped private garage for the
several pleasure cars, but there Is a
separate garage for the commercial
vehicles, which 1t is proposed to use
extensively. The basis of work in the
commercial vehicle line, now on the
farm, Is a Packard three-ton truck.
Conyers Manor is about nine miles
outside of Greenwich. The principal
work of the Packard truck Is in run
ming back and forth between the farp
and town. It's regular platform body
has q special grain body inserted in
side the regular stakes. By removing
this inside body when 1t is not de-
sired to haul grain to Greenwich, the
truck with its regular body Is ready
for use in other work of carrying fer
tilizer, coal, machinery and general
supplies. Mr.. Converse is an enthu-
siastic advocate of motor vehicles for
hauling, and makes no distinction be-
tween hauling in the city and In the
country. He argues that, with suita-
BILE roads, such vehicles as the Pack
ard three-ton truck are particularly
well adapted to farm hauling. Their
greatest efficiency is In the carrying
OF approximately full loads for long
distances, with infrequent stops. Ag-
ricultural hauling meets these re-
ouirements exactly. The special mo-
tor truck garage which has been erect
ed at Conyers Manor has room for the
accommodation of four three-ton
trucks. it being intended that eventu-
ally at least three or four trucks will
be In regular service.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
-. We pay postage and send
u u FREE RED CROSS Pile
and Fistalx Cure.
The Law,a DELAYS.

Il understand that you called on
the plaintiff, Mr.. Barnes. Is that so?"
questioned Lawyer Fuller, now Chief
Justice
Yes" answered the witness.
What did he say?" next demanded
Fuller.
The attorney for the defense jump
ed to his feet and objected that the
conversation could not be admitted in
the evidence. A half-hour's argument
followed, and the judges retired to
their private room to consider the
point
An hour later the judges filed into
the courtroom and announced that
Mr.. Fuller might put his question.
We'll. what did the plaintiff say,
Mr.. Barnes?"
He weren't at home, sir" came the
answer without a tremor-From Sue
cess Magazine
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
IN AGONY WITH ECZEMA
Whole Body n Mass of Raw, Blee,

Whole Body Mass of Raw, Bleed
ing, Torturing Humor-Hnir All
Fell Out-Hoped Death Would End
Fearful Suffering-In Despair
Cured by Cuticura.
Words cannot describe the terrible
eczema l suffered with. 1t broke out
on my head and kept spreading until
it covered by whole body. | was al
most a solid mass of sores from head
TO foot l looked more like q piece of
raw beef than a human being. The
pain and agony l endured seemed more
than l could bear. Blood and pus
oOzed from the great sore on my scalp,
from under my finger nails, and near
ly all over my body. My ears were so
crusted and swollen l was afraid they
would break off. Every hair in my
head fell out. l could not sit down.
for my clothes would stick to the raw
and bleeding flesh. making me cry out
from the pain. My family doctor did
all he could, but I got worse and
worse. My condition was awful Z
did not think / could live, and wanted
death to come and end my frightful
sufferings.
I'm this condition my mother-in-law
begged me to try the Cuticura Rem
edies. | said would, but had no hope
of recovery. But oh. what blessed re-
lief l experienced after applying Cuti-
cura Ointment. 1t cooled the bleeding
and itching flesh and brought me the
first real sleep l had had in weeks. 1t
WIS as grateful as ice to a burning
tongue. l would battle with warm
water and Cuticura Soap. then apply
the Ointment freely. / also took Cuti-
cura Resolvent for the blood. In
short time the sores stopped running.
the flesh began to heal, and l knew
was to get well again. Then the hair
on my head began to grow. and In a
short time / was completely cured.
wish l could tell everybody who has
eczema to use Cuticura. Mrs. VIM.
Hunt. 135 Thomas ST, Newark, N. j.,
Sept IS, 1905"
Potter Drug & Chem. Corp. Sole
Props of Cuticura Remedies Boston.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19

able to the patient and having a rest
for the legs in addition. A pair of
standards with a crossbar, looking
like horizontal bar on rollers. holds
the upper end of the bed suspended.
At one side of the standards Is a
wheel and gear by which the head Of
the bed may be raised or lowered to
chance the position of the person &C.
cupying 1t. Running up from the foot
of the bed is a T-shaped bar 20 be
placed under the legs of the patient,
so that when the bed Is tilted at a
steep angle he is, kept from sliding
downward. the bar beneath his legs
giving him the feeling of being in
a reclining chair. Any person who
has been forced to lie abed for any
length of time, unable to change his
position, will appreciate the relief
such a bed will afford.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Either Way.

Mr.. Wilkins had been sitting quietly
on a nail keg, perusing a paper which
he had found on the counter The
date of II he had not noticed. Finally
he looked up with a puzzled express
sion.
Whats this wireless telegraph sig.
nal, this C. o. D. they're talking 80
much about?" he asked.
81 guess it's C. @. D. amt it?'
suggested Holbrook, the grocer. ANY.
way, it's a signal of Distress" he
added, modify.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19

Efforts are being made to introduce
in the Southern States certain useful
vegetables hitherto unknown TO this
country, which are known in tropical
regions as the yautia, the dasheen and
the taro. The last named is already
familiar as an ornamental plant,
under the name Of caladium, or "ele-
plants ear" All three are nearly re-
lated, and their starchy. edible roots
are highly priced in warm ATTITUDES.
These roots, indeed, resemble the
common potato in composition and in
flavor. That of the yautia, for exam
pie, when properly cooked, is not cas-
lily distinguished from the Irish"
tuber. 1t is sometimes white, some
times red and sometimes yellow, &C
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
HOrsemans ship I'm Heaven.

Little Kenneth and his mother were
about to go for a drive
who was Gods father?" asked the
boy.
HE had no father" replied the
mother.
Then" persisted Kenneth. thought
fully, who hitched up the horse for
Gods mother?"-Success Magazine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Proof Positive.

A western newspaper man visited
Washington recently and told the fol-
lowing story on former Representative
Amos j. Cummings of New York, who
was once city editor of the Sun.
One Saturday night it was announced
that all the saloons were to be closed
next day.
Cummings called his star reporter,
Murray.
Tom he said, go out tomorrow
and find out if the saloons were selling
liquor"
1t was Thursday when Tom again
appeared at the city desk
They Were" he reported.-Success
Magazine
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Going Out.

Mr.. B.-There. I've let my cigar 70
out Do you know that 1t spoils a
cigar, no matter how good 1t is. If you
allow II to go out?
Mrs. B.-Yes; cigar is a good deal
like Q man In that respect
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Wasted Endeayor.

We'll, Uncle Zeb," said his neighbor.
your boys come back from college.
and 1 reckon he's got a good ejjica-
ton"
NO." groaned Uncle Zeb. Them
four years is plumb wasted. 1 tried
i'm on a railroad guide the other day.
an he couldn't make head ner tail of
1t, any more'n the rest of us could!"-
Chicago Tribune.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Availability.

A nobleman was once showing
friend a rare collection of precious
stones which he had gathered at
great expense and enormous amount
of labor. And yet" he said, they
yield me no income"
His friend replied: Come with me,
and / will show you two stones which
cost me but five pounds each, yet they
yield me a considerable income" He
took the owner of the gems to his
grist mill and pointed to two gray
mill-stones, which were always busy
grinding out grist.-Success Maya
zine.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Here q. Relief for Women.

II you have pains in the back. Urin-
airy, Bladder or Kidney trouble and
want a certain, pleasant herb cure for
woman's ills. try Mother Gray's Austria
Iiau-Leaf. 1t is safe and never-failfng
regulator. At Druggists or by mail so
cts. Sample package FREE Address.
The Mother Gray Co. Leroy. ~ Y.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19

According to government statistics,
the estimated coal supply of the Uni
ted States Is put down at 3,135, 7oS,-
100000 tons, while the output from the
mines of the United States in 1907,
the year of the largest production. was
429, 900. 900 tons
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
..Never Can Under.tand.p

Still, woman can't understand why
an eighteen inning base ball game
should interest her husband more than
a good hot supper.-Detroit Free
Press
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Happy Day.

well. Johnny. do you wish you were
grown-up MANI"
You bet I do"
But why?"
$50 people wouldn't ask me such fool
questions. Leader.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
BED FOR HOSPITALS.
an Be Adjusted to Give Patient

Can BE Adjusted to Give Patfent
Change of Position.
A boon to the bed-ridden and to
thousands of hospital patients
throughout the country is the inven-
ton of a Kentucky man. This IS a
bed which can be raised or lowered
at the head to any position comfort
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Reading for the Young.

Small Girl (of twelve)-Is this a
library?
Librarian-Yes.
Small Girl - want something
wicked, and excitin' and bad.
Librarian couldn't let You have
any book like that, little girl
Small Girl-It isn't for me. I've
read 'em. It's for my younger sis
ter.-Life.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19

Tbs output Of cast iron sash weights
In the United States has reached s5.-
600 tons a year in recent years
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19

Don't dope yourself for every little
pain. 1t only hurts your stomach. Such
pain comes usually from local infam-
nation. A little rubbing with Hamlins
Wizard Oil will stop it Immediately.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19

Mrs. Wfnslow's SOOTHING Syrup Tor Chill
dren teething: softens the gums, reduces In
nammation. allays pain. cures wind collie %
sents q hottie.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
Catch Your CITY Younr.

Clear. white clothes are q sign that the
housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue.
large 2oz package, cent?
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19

DO Your Clothes Look Yellow
IL SO, use Red Cross Ball Blue. 1t will
make them white as snow. Large 2oz. pack
age csntA
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19

The natural colored linen is of a most
up-to-date cut, showing the bolero, and
the long waist. Ecru all-over embroidery
is used for the bolero, and tucked net for
the yoke. The way the long black silk
tie is brought in, with its braided ends,
is effective.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19

Plumpish maidens seek the seashore,
slim ones seek the mountains high. IL
you think you know the answer. why.
why, why ?-Washington Herald.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-08-19
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for 20 cts. HAROLD
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