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Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29
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DIVERSIFIED FARMING.
A Safeguard Against Failure Owing te
Low Prices.

A Safeguard Against Failure Owing te
Low Prices.
In some parts of the country certain
crops are selling this year for very low
prices. This is not an unusual condi
ton of affairs because the price OF
these same crops fuctuates widely
from year to year. Even in the same
year certain districts receive high re
turns while others show losses.
study of the older agricultural dis
tricts in the eastern states reveals how
the organization of the farm guards
against severe losses at such times
In Chester county, Pa, for instance
dairying is the chief enterprise. sup
plemented by such cash crops as pota-
toes, hay and wheat. Some additional
income is derived from the sale OF cat
tie, poultry. eggs and hogs. With such
farm organization the price of such
crops as potatoes or hay might be I'M
usually low. yet affect the farm profits
for the year comparatively little
In another district. central New
York, hay. potatoes, cabbage. beans
and fruit. with some live stock. are
the important sources of income. This
year potatoes, fruit and early cabbage
are all low in price. Yet these farm
ers through excellent diversification
are practically insured against any
large losses.
1t is in this respect that settlers in
the newer agricultural areas of the
western and southwestern states have
vet to learn Il very important lesson
When agricultural districts are devel-
oped so rapidly that economic forces
do not have time to act properly the
result is OftentimeS very imperfect
scheme of farm organization 1t is
caused by the extreme prOfitableness
of certain crops for Il few years and
the consequent development of farms
on the basis of II single enterprise
Coupled with this one sided OrganiZa
ton, land prices are often forced so
high that an intensive form of agri
culture is necessary when only a fair
ly extensive type of farming should
prevail. 1t is these single crop farm
ers who are the greatest sufferers in
years of low prices for their products.
Aside from better use of labor and
land. dversifcation of enterprises is
one of the surest safeguards against
losses. Specialties in farming are all
right, but farmer usually needs more
than one of them.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29
RIPToN.

d. w Smith, while coming down a
steep hill into the village on Monday
slipped on the ice and fell heavily
striking his head and shoulders. hurting
himself considerably, besides rec living a
bad shake up
Mrs. Amy Farr and daughter, Edith
started on the Goth for the south, going
for the benefit of Mrs. Farr's health
c. j Norwood had the misfortune to
lose a horse while here from Rochester.
Mrs. Martha Goodro, who has been in
Middlebury on a professional nursing
call has returned.
Mrs. Helen Day has gone to Colches
ter to care for her mother, who is sick.
DR.. Dorey is in attendance upon Will
liam Calvin who is on the sick list
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29
COUNTY NEW S.
PANTON

Milard Norton and family visited at
Herbert Norton's Sunday.
Harry Sheridan of Shelburne has been
visiting his cousins, Georgr b. and
Henry j. Allen, for several days.
Representative S +. Gaines spent the
week end with his family, returning to
Montpelier Monday.
Mrs. S. F. Gaines spent last week in
Montpelier.
Miss Martha Hawkins and William
Benson of Ferrisburg were united in
marriage by Rev. j Hall Long Tuesday
evening of last week at the home of his
brother, Carl Benson.
Carl l.. Benson has returned from
Glens Falls, N. Y, accompanied by his
mother, who is recovering from the eff
fects of a shock.
Miss Mary Fisher, who has been with
Mrs. George B. Allen for the past two
weeks, will return to her home in West
Addison this week.
Ralph Adams and mother of Chimney
Point spent Sunday at the Davis
brothers.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29
Farmers May Recover Money

Montpelier, Jan. 81. The many cred
tors of the Boston Condensed Milk com
pany in Addison, Rutland, Windham
and Windsor counties may have some
hope of recovery, Notwithstanding the
fact that the Boston company has been
adjudged bankrupt. The company
upon entering the State to transact
business was required to furnish a bond
of $50, 900 to the Secretary of State
This bond is in the New England Cas-
ualty company of Boston, and it may be
that the State, acting for the Vermont
farmer creditors. will put in a claim
with the Casualty company for the
amount of the indebtedness.
The default of the Boston Condensed
Milk company on its payments to sew
eral hundred farmers caused consdera-
BILE cons ternation among the dairymen.
A bill just introduced into the Legisla-
ture amends the present law so that not
only foreign milk and canning COM
panies but local companies will have to
furnish bonds with the Secretary of
State.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29
Ninooski Savings Bank Elects
Officers

The members of the Winooski Savings
bank corporation held their forty sixth
annual meeting the twentieth at
Winooski, VT, and reelected the fol-
lowing officers: Ormond Cole. president;
Emory c. Mower, vice president; H. E..
Gray, treasurer; and trustees, Ormond
Cole, Emory c. Mower, C. H. Shipman,
r. j. White, G. b. Catlin, F. E. Big
wood, H. E. Gray and Guy w. Bailey.
The bank has had one of its most
prosperous years, having deposits of
81, O67, 459. "a, surplus of 1920, O6l 80
which is over ten per cent of the de-
posts, and assets of 1927, 6l9. 60.
The deposits have increased in the past
year $l69, 32S. 40 and the surplus has in
creased SIS. AS 80 after paying to de-
positors $40, sos. 95 which is at the rate
of four and one-fourth per cent per
annum for the whole year 1914. The
bank has also paid taxes to the State of
Vermont of $l4, l29 "A, and sustained
no loss upon any investment during the
past year.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29
Read Your Books Aqain.

Let me implore any reader who has
a fairly large library of his own and Is
honestly anxious to know what his
books contain 70 devote some period Of
leisure TO 90 through these volumes.
shelf by shelf as they stand. to learn
which of them he can remember well,
which are half read or unread What
pleasure and profit he would find in
recalling the poetry he once 50 enjoyed
or in turning To such essays as he had
hitherto overlooked lie would find,
am sure. that the very things he long
wanted to know. the poetry that had
almost faded from his memory. the
bursts of eloquence aud prophecy that
had stirred his youth. NOW grown dim
in his mind rs IAN ancient tale al
though the words were strong All
this had stood silent and unnOticed on
his walls for years and wears. while
he had been stutfinC himself with the
last short story the lives OF royal
laundry women or II may be m article
in a magazine. Frederic Harrison
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29
CORNWALL.

Miss S. 4. Griswold is at home after
some time spent in Brattleboro and
Brandon.
Mrs. Royal Stevens is feeling much
better.
Mrs. Edward Kinds of Florence was
an over-Sunday guest of j. L. Douglas
Miss Ruth Eggleston was in Rutland
Saturday.
Mrs. Joseph Shorkey has been visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Cyril Brunette in
Rutland.
Wilbur Goodrich was in Jericho Tues.
day.
Miss Katharine Griswold is in Shore
ham.
Mr.. and Mrs. Amos Atwood were re-
cent visitors in Burlington.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29
STATE NEWS

While taking heavy, water-soaked
cask downstairs in Brattleboro We'd
nesday, Patrick Manning lost his bal
ance and the cask, the latter coming
onto him, breaking both bones of one
leg below the knee.
Hollis Morrill, of East Concord, mar
rowly escaped fatal accident when
he was carrying logs. He was work
ing on the skid when log struck it
causing the skid to strike Morrill, I'M
der the arm. 1t threw him on the tee-
phone wires where he would have hung
had the skid not broken the pole in it's
course, so the released wires let Nor
rll down on the car below. No bones
were broken and Mr.. Morrill, was out
the next day, though very lame after
his strange experience.
J. Walter Wardaw of st. Adams,
well known among Vermont railroad
men, has been promoted to be assistant
to President +. G. Smith of the Central
Vermont Railway company and pur-
chasing agent to fill the vacancy in the
latter office caused by the recent death
of J. B. Laurie. Mr.. Wardlaw has been
in railroad service many years.
George Pond lost his gold watch while
hayng in East Dover last summer and
found it again few days ago while
pitching hay from NOV. 1t fell to the
barn floor but was as good as ever.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29
Cost of a Horse.

1t costs on an average Sl04.O6 to
raise Il horse TO the age of three years
on the farms OF Indiana and those Of
other states This price has been care
fully figured by experts OF the depart
ment of agriculture. who based their
figures on those furnished by 10000
correspondents scattered throughout
the country.
New Mexico can raise horses cheap
err than the other states, or at an aver
age price of S69.5O. In Massachusetts
the raising of colts is more expensive
than in any other state, the average
horse at three years representing an
investment of $141.S0.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29

When it comes to winter and spring
hog pasture nothing equals dwarf Els
sex rape. Ground where it is sown
however, must be in good condition
Then the yield is enormous. Drills
two feet apart sown ut the rate of
three pounds per acre give the best re
suits.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29

ening iron trunnions TO opposite sides
Of same with bolts. The barrel is then
suspended in the air in the wooden
frame. us illustrated Feed of all kinds
that is mixed with water may he quick
ly emptied in the trough ID by raising
the barrel and tipping the feed out in
the trough. The tipping handle is
shown ut { ANA II water pipe with top
ut \. Two men can easily move this
device.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29
Handy Feed Mixer.

A farmer who feeds number of
hogs uses several feed mixers. such as
shown in the accompanying illustra-
ton A barrel is swung on pivots by
either extending n round wooden axle
through the barrel, as at b, or by fast
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29
neutrality-suspicious.,
FARMING RETURNS.

linking the average farm wage
as basis, the "hired hand" on
the farm receives within few
cents of $3.50 year. a recent
| bulletin from the bureau of farm
statistics shows that the cur
! rent average rate of farm wages
7 in the United States, where
board is included, is S20.S1. Since
{ 1902 the wages of farm hands
have been increased by "a per
cent
The farmer gets less of mon
etary return for his work and
on his investment than do many
farm hands. This means the
T average farmer, of course. The
| rewards of the farmer come to
him more in pork, beef, chickens
! and eggs, garden vegetables. in
brief his living and that of his
family, than in money. The ex-
perts have figured out that the
average farm uses food, fuel. oil
and shelter yearly to the amount
of $595.0S and the farm furnish
{ es S42117 worth of this. The
average cash expenditures for
{ farm neceSsaries other than la
T Dor amount to S173.91 annually.
The farm hand gets his board.
7 His expenditures are very small
! compared with those of other Ia
: borers. OF his $3.50. the wages
7 for the year. he is likely to have
more money at the end of the
I twelve months than the average
farmer who OWNS and operates
I his own place.-Farm Progress.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29

household remedy in America for
% years-Dr. Thomas Eclectic Oil.
For cuts sprains. burns, scalds, bruises.
Poe and SOC. At all drug stores.-adv.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29
Ona Bad Ear

The loss incurred by the use of one
bad ear of corn means the loss of over
go ears. or six bushels of corn.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1915-01-29
OUR
CLUB LIST

The Register and Toledo Blade,
full of good reading, a National
Weekly. 81 60
The Register and McCalls Maya
zine, the finest of its kind for the
price, including one pattern, 81 SIS
The Register and Mirror and
Farmer, an excellent Farmers
Weekly, 81 30
The Register and Tri Weekly
World, popular with everybody,
and taken largely, SIG
The Register and Metropolitan
Magazine, regular 81 80 monthly, 81 90
The Register and The Country
Gentleman, old, conservative and
reliable, Sc so
The Register and The Albany
Times Union, daily of excellent
reputation, in touch with New
York affairs sass
Boston Evening Record and Mid
dlebury Register one year for So SO
The Designer and Register
for SI.5O
The Delineator and Register
for So 90
The Woman's Home Companion
and Register for S2 10
Harper's Bazaar and Register 81 Is
Modern Priscilla, Ladies World
and Pictorial Review and Mid
dlebury Register So 65
lIiddlebury Register and Farm
and Fireside 81 rs
Good Housekeeping and Middle
bury Register So Is
Red Book and Middlehury Reg.
lister = So 10
Middlebury Register and Catholic
News 81 SO
THE ABOVE RATES are for subscrip-
tions inside the State. An additional 25
cents should be added to outside the
State subscriptions.
Middlebury Register and Farm
and Home 81 *
Pictorial Review and Register 81 SIS
The Register and Rural New
Yorker, a weekly of great value
to farmers $500
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-03-19
Stupid.

Stupid. Last night Jack tried to put his arm around me three times" Some arm!"-Yale Record
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-03-19
Obstacle to Enjoyment.

Many of us are plenty old enough to remember the big open fireplace, the enormous amount of wood it required to keep it going, how the cord sticks had to be dug out of the ice and snow, how it was a struggle to get the big back log in place, how every morning the fire had to be started over again, unless you were cunning enough in Woodcraft to hide some coals deep enough under the ashes to keep them until morning, how in the early hours of the bleak days the rooms of the house were so cold it required great courage or the insistent commands of the head of the house to get up to make that fire. But this is not all. It will be remembered also that in real weather the fire from the open side of the room baked you on one side while the other side was frozen, and all the day long the frost on the windows maintained the beauty of the formation into pictured mountains and valleys undisturbed by the heat from the burning logs. @
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-03-19
Finland,s Remarkable Schools.

The folk-schools of Finland are par ticularly fine, with their cooking de partments, gymnasiums, manual train Ing and neediework. Every school has excellent bathing facilities, and the poorest children are fed at the schools. There are little geological museums in most of the schools. There are so many varieties of schools, besides the folk-schools, elementary and higher; there are Iyceums, schools of forestry. of agriculture and of navigation. schools for training teachers, commer- cial schools, technical music and art schools, etc. There are three large garden schools in Finland, where boys as well as girls are taught cooking. "They must learn to cook what they grow" said one of the teachers. The dairy schools are particularly interest Ing. Dairying comes second among the industries of Finland. The pupil must have worked for one year at 8 butter factory before he or she will be admitted to the school.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-03-19
UNHAPPY FATE OF DRONES
Few Indeed Are Their Hours of En- joyment and Sad the End That
 Awaits Them Ali.

Drones are usually looked upon as lazy, useless creatures. They never do any work, but are fed by the work CT bees on the best the hive can af- ford, and this in a season of the year when the workers are busiest for "A hours a day with the gathering and curing of honey. Why do the bees treat them with such respect in the busy harvest time? The reason is that the bees are raising a number of young queens at this time, for the fu- ture generation The queen is des- tined to be the mother of all the bees reared in the hive for the next year or two. She is the only one in the hive that can lay eggs, and she will some day lay them at a rate of from two to four thousand day. The drones are the male bees raised at the same time with the queens. From their midst the virgin queen will some day select her mate. Without them she could not attain maternity, held by the bees in greatest honor. For this reason they are treated royalty until the wedding trip of the queen. When she returns widow, leaving her drone- mate (usually the most per sistent of all suitors) dead in the field, the bees make short work of the remaining drones. They seize them by the neck and throw them out of the hive bodily to die of hunger in the midst of plenty.-Francis Jaeger.
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-03-19
A BAD CASE
 AND ITS RELIEF
Lady Tells Details of Ten Year, Of Suffering Which Now Lies
 Behind Her.

Wallace, Va.-Mrs. Mary Vest, of this town, says: About ten years ago, l had very poor health, and for five years it steadily got worse. I could not stand on my feet. I got so could only drag about in the room Most Of the time 1 was not able to do my work.
 I had terrible bearing-down pains, my back ached all the time and was very weak. l could scarcely carry anything and suffered agony when lifted anything. The muscles in my abdomen were so weak I could scarcely lift myself up straight, and l thought l would surely grow crooked. l had difficulty in walking, it was so painful l suffered in hips and back and could hardly raise up at all At times, couldn't sit on the chair--would have to lie down. I was in such agony. l just sat around and cried.
 At this time, about five years ago, began to take Cardui, at my mothers insistence. After two or three weeks use l saw an improvement. The pains got less gradually until they disap- peared. In two months l could walk without pain and could do most of my work. For about three years my i'm provement was steady and continued until l had back my health and strength.
 The cure has been permanent, for have been in good health for the past two years, due to my having taken Cardui, which effected the cure"
 All druggists sell Cardui. Try it. Adv
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-03-19

Samson was for moment thought full. then he nodded.
 That's about what 1 was expecting
 Now" went on Callomb, we un- derstand each other. We are working for the same end, and, by Godi Pye had one experience in making arrests at the order of that court. I don't want it to happen again"
 "I suppose" said Samson, you know that while am entirely willing to face any fair court of justice, 1 don't pro- pose to walk into packed jury, whose only object is to get me where l can be made way with. Callomb, l hope we won't have to fight each other. What do you suggest?"
 'If the court orders the militia to make an arrest, the militia has no op- ton. In the long run, resistance wouH only alienate the sympathy of the world at large. There is just one thing to be done, South. It's thing l don't like to suggest" He paused, then added emphatically: When my detail arrives here, which will prob ably be in three or four days, you must not be here. You must not be in any place where we can find you.
 For little while, Samson looked at the other man with a slow smile of amusement, but soon it died, and his face grew hard and determined.
 I'm obliged to you, Callomb," he said, seriously. Tt was more than had the right to expect-this warming understand the cost of giving it. But it's no use I can't cut and run. No, by God, you wouldn't do it! You cant ask me to do it."
 By God, you can and will!" Callomh spoke with determination. "This isn't time for quibbling. You've got work to do. We both have work to do. We cant stand on matter of vainglorious pride, and let big issues of humanity go to pot We haven't the right to spend mems lives in fighting each other, when we are the only two men in this entanglement who are in per feet accord-and honest"
 The mountaineer spent some min utes in silent self-debate. The working of his face under the play of alternat ing doubt, resolution, hatred and insur gency, told the militiaman what struggle was progressing. At last Samsons eyes cleared with an expres sion of discovered solution.
 "AIl right, Callomb," he said, briefly "you won't find mel" He smiled, as he added Make as thorough search as your duty demands. l needn't be perfunctory or superficial Every South cabin will stand open tt you I shall be extremely busy, to end which you approve. l cant tell yo' what I shall be doing, because to d. that, should have to tell where mean to be-"
 (TO BE CONTINUED0
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-03-19
Fiction and Reality.

1t is simple tfdca C 5.-5 - - things happen in fiction which would be quite impossible in fact, as any censor knows. It is in failing to dis tinguish between these two that many artists and most critics blunder and this error is in effect the same as that of the ambitious actor who, having once to play the part, for the first time, of an intoxicated ruffian in certain melodrama, went to a neigh boring tavern and intoxicated himself. He thought that this would storm the house, but on the contrary he was im- mediately fired by the management for B fool-and rightly.-F. H. Martin. in the Book Buyer
The Green Forest tribune., 1915-03-19
CHILDREN SHOWED IT Effect of Their Warm Drink in the
 Morning.

"A year ago l was wreck from cof- fee drinking and was on the point of giving up my position in the school room because of nervousness.
 'I was telling a friend about it and she said, We drink nothing at meal time but Postum, and it is such a com fort to have something we can enjoy drinking with the children
 T was astonished that she would allow the children to drink any kind of coffee, but she said Postum was not coffee, but most healthful drink for children as we'll as for older ones, and that the condition of both the chil- dren and adults showed that to be fact.
 'tI was in despair and determined to give Postum a trial, following the directions carefully. It was decided success and I was completely won by Its rich delicious flavor.
 Tn a short time I noticed a decided improvement in my condition and kept growing better month after month, until now I am healthy, and do my WOIh Ill tue SCHOOL FOoHu WlIu ease duu pleasure. would not return to nerve destroying coffee for any money"
 Name given by Postum Co.,, Battle Creek, Mich Read The Road to Melville" in pkgs.
 Postum comes in two forms:
 Regular Postum-must be well boiled. 15c and 25c packages.
 Instant Postum--is a soluble pow der. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in cup of hot water and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. BOG and soc tins.
 Both kinds are equally delicious and cost per cup about the same
 There's Reason" For Postum.
 sold by Grocers.