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that he would be beaten his neighbors
began to think more of him. Their re-
spect for him grew immensely. 1t always
Is that way. Everybody admires those
who are ready and willing to do the very
best they can, although that best may
not be very much.
Peter Rabbit was to be the Judge. Or
dinarily Peter would have felt very proud
and important, but this time he didn't
You see, he had been made judge SO
that he couldn't claim any unfairness on
anybody's part if Jumper should be beat
en-. Jumper went back a little way. ran a
bit and then made a beautiful, long jump
1t really was wonderful jump. and
everybody said SO. They clapped their
hands and some of them began to say
openly that they didn't believe any one
could beat it. Then Jumper tried again
and did little better than before. A
third time he tried, and this was the
best jump of all, and he knew and
everybody knew that he had done his
very best.
Next" called Peter Rabbit
There was a great stretching OF
necks to see who was going to jump
next, for. like Peter Rabbit, none OF
the others had been able to think OF
we'll as Jumper the Hare. Jimmy
Skunk disappeared among the trees
OF the Green Forest for a few minutes
and when he returned, who do you
think trotted at his heels? Why. Light
foot the Deer! Everybody but Jumper
looked very foolish. They had forgot
ten all about Lightfoot. and how won
derfully he could jump.
He went back a little way just as
Jumper had done. Then he ran swift
ly and bounded into the air. 1t seemed
to Peter as II he never would come
down again. But he did. and where his
sharp hoofs struck the earth was a
great deal beyond the best mark OF
Jumper the Hare. Everybody clapped
and Jumper clapped loudest Of ali.
What did 1 tell your he cried to
Peter Rabbit. Didn't tell you that
there was friend of mine who could
outjump mew
Lightfoot, holding his head up proud
ly. went back and tried again, and this
time everybody cried "1a!" his jump
was SO high and SO far. Surely there
was no one else in all the Green Forest
who could jump like that. Lightfoot
looked as If that was his opinion, but
Jumper the Hare merely looked at
Jimmy Skunk and winked. Jimmy
winked back. Then Jumper knew that
Jimmy was going to bring forth the
greatest of all jumpers in the Green
Forest
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Poultry Yard Notes.

With ample shade for shelter during
the heat Of the day, and plentiful sup
plies of clean. cool water all the time,
the poultry can keep comfortable even
in the hottest weather. Without these
things the fowls will surely suffer,
and their discomfort will be reflected
in poor condition now and later on.
An occasional feed Of grain that has
been scalded. or even thoroughly cook
ed, and then allowed to cool, will be
relished by the hens even In the sum-
mer Oats, wheat. rye and barley cook
ed for an hour, or soaked in water
which has been poured on them while
boiling. will also be greatly increased
in bulk.
feeding to a much greater extent than
do the poultrymen in this country. The
potatoes. which are the unmarketable
culls. are thoroughly cooked and used
until the mash is crumbly with meal,
bran and middlings. Potatoes should
never be fed raw, as the hens will
not eat them that Way, but will scratch
them over and waste them.
II the fowls have little range, give
them q head or SO OF cabbage every
day. Hang the cabbage up where where they hey
CdA pOCh dS ~ 90 SaSy 0SA. AA
this way whole heads will speedily be
consumed without any waste whatever.
More attention will have to be paid
to the incubator at this time Of year
when chicks for winter brollers are
being hatched-than in the normal
Matching season. The temperature must
not be permitted to go above lO4 de-
grees at the highest, and to see that
too great a degree of heat is not reach
ed during the middle Of the day. con-
slant attention Is necessary.
After about the sixth or seventh day
Of incubation, at this season, 1t viii
be advisable to keep the ventflators
open from morning until evening. and
then to close them about half way for
the night. BY the sixth or seventh
day the eggs begin to develop their
own internal heat. from the developing
chick, and this, plus the actual tenn
perature Of the egg chamber--from the
lamp-and the outside temperature.
rising during the day, equal trouble II
constant watchfulness Is not exercised.
carelessness is more dangerous than
disease.
Half-starved hens are not so produc-
tive as fat ones.
A bad habit may be taught dogs or
cats by throwing the head Of q freshly
killed fowl to them.
Capital pluck, enterprise, perseve-
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well or for so much as when received
early.

Cleanliness in all details is an abso-
lutte necessity for the man who sells
direct to the consumer. Soiled, wealth
er-beaten boxes and crates, dirty
wagon. an ungroomed horse and patch
ed-up harness repel customers. To at
tract and hold trade the vegetables
must be clean and fresh and pEs up in
bright. clean receptacles. The market
wagon must be kept painted. the horse
well groomed and the harness oiled. A
lot Of trouble? OF course. but 1t pays.
1t is not advisable for the trucker to
save seeds of all his crops. but it may
pay handsomely to do so with such
things as cukes. melons, tomatoes and
sweet corn. Whenever variety Of any
of these is found which does well in a
given locality, it will pay to save seed
from the earliest and best specimens.
If the grower will go a step further
and select the plants from which to
save seed. he can soon develop supe-
rior strain of most varieties.
On many farms much canning will be
done this month. A good home canning
outfit will be great help in this work.
kerosene oil-stove set up under a tree
will add much to the comfort of the
Gamer. Farmers Bulletins Nos. POS,
$50. and 426 on canning and preserv-
ing tell the whole story briefly and
simply. They can be had from the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture.
In the hilly sections of the country
there are on many truck farms some
rough, broken or stony ground unfit for
vegetables. Properly managed such
land can be made to produce profitable
crops of tree fruits and especially ap-
pies. Under the mulch system 1t has
been found that good crops of apples
can be grown. Coarse, strawy manure,
spoiled hay, or almost any kind Of Or
ganic matter win do for mulch.
Nitrate Of soda is a strong quick act
ing fertilizer. but it must be used with
care. Too much applied around plants
at one time will injure or kill them. A
teaspoonful around a cabbage, pepper,
or eggplant is plenty for one dose.
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Jumper the Hare had guessed who it
was that Jimmy Skunk had found to
jump against him, and Jumper knew that
he hadn't chance in the world to beat
them But Jumper didn't mind. He was
perfectly willing to admit that they were
better jumpers than he, but he was also
perfectly willing to go out and try II it
would give any pleasure to his neighbors
who had gathered to see the jumping
match. This was the right way to feel
Jumper didn't know it, but right away as
soon as he said that he would jump his
best In spite of the fact that he knew
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| rance and patience are qualifications
that make successful poultrymen.

rance and patience are qualifications
that make successful poultrymen.
Find out which are the good layers,
and market the rest. Twenty-Five
selected hens will give better results
than double the number of good, bad
and Indifferent ones.
There are entirely too many I'M
profitable hens kept on the average
farm. Too many idlers are allowed to
occupy the room and eat feed belong
ing to the Industrious ones. Weed out
the drones; it is the only means of
success.
be placed in a henhouse is the trap
nest. Where this is operated from
November 1 to June 1. the early ard
winter layers can be picked out, and
1t is that class which can be bred for
profit. But it is not alone sufficient to
select the good layers. You should go
step further. These hens should be
mated to cockerels bred from heavy
laying hens. The male has a wonder
tul influence on egg production.
While 1t Is interesting to know how
many eggs a pullet will lay in a year.
1t is more important to ascertain how
many eggs she will lay during the fall
and winter. when they command the
best prices.
some breeders 90 not trap-neSt the
hens, only the pullets. This is especial
!y the case on large farms. They trap
In order to make their selection for
the coming season.
Each year, as trap nesting Is prac-
ticed. better returns will be obtained
from fewer hens. IT is important. The
time spent in looking after these nests
is the best expenditure on the poultry
farm. 1t Is money we'll spent. But, as
already mentioned, 1t is equally i'm
portant to use males, in mating, that
came from hens that did good work.
Continue the selection and culling out
processes with the early pullets, so
that none but the very best of the
matches will go into the laying houses.
1t is often the case that pullets which
at three months old looked to be first
class will at five months look like
entirely different fowls.
1t 1t hasn't already been done, get
piece of ground ready right away
and sow rye, winter wheat or crimson
clover, for a winter supply of green
feed for the poultry. If possible have
several plots, so that the fowls may
be ranged on one while the others are
fenced off. In this manner supply
winter.
Plan to bury or otherwise store as
much cabbage and as many turnips.
beets, rutabagas, pumpkins. etc, as
possible, for winter feed for the hens.
Properly buried. little later in the
season, any of these will keep perfect
ly all winter. A plentiful supply of
such. things will aid materially in
keeping the hens in good laying con-
dition-vigorous, alert, full Of pep and
on the job all the time.
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FOR SALE-ONE OF THE BIGGEST REVENUE
PRODUCING FRUIT FARMS IN THE UNITED
location are considered Is miles from wash
ington: railroad station 2h miles: fruit reaches
as shipped; 10000 four-year peaches, selected
varieties. now bearing a crop Of 49, 900 bushels;
Loo choice apple trees cultivation everyt thing
brings the red blush to fruit and top price;
1O6 acres; half fruit: IS. 900 net profit assured
dwelling house: packing house; mules. impls'
ments to work the farm goes with it; Price,
SlS,5OO, or $4,000 without this years cropi
half cash. i have examined this property and
vouch for It being up to representa- tons:
ELIJAH E KNOTT. District National Bank
hldg.. WashinRton. d. C. 10Y
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Its Name.


From Judge.
Paw, when q game has four players
in 1t. it's called q foursome. isn't it?'
Sure"
with two players it's twosome?'
'Yep."
'.rhen what's . game with ono in it7''
"A lonesome"
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AT FALLS CHURCH. VA. BEAUTIFUL e-ACRE
truck. fruit and poultry farm; large io-room
house wired for electricity; fine well Of water
In kitchen: fine springs: house sets on hne
slipping hill surrounded by large trees and
lawn; the entire place is fenced with Pitts
burgh chicken wire; there are over 40 bear
ing peach, apple. pear and cherry trees
grapes. currants. gooseherries, red and black
raspberries In abundance: "a acres of late
potatoes; u acre sweet corn; 1000 late cab
bages: a quantity of mangle beets: y acre
sweet corn nearly ready for market; other
vegetables to last through the winter; barn
with hay to winter and horse: sheds
for automobile or wagons: one chicken house,
200 IT, to house 900 hens: 3 colony houses:
brooder house. Incubator cellar separate
from vegetable cellar: $50 fancy pulets and
hens; q 1uar-ity Indian Runner ducks: Jersey
COW; fine hogs: this fine piece of property
can be bought for small cash payment balance
like rent state how much cash you would
care to pay in reply; 10 real estate men need
apply; the owner must sell this property by
September 1st, as has other business interests
and cannot devote his time to farm. Address
Box 100, Star Office.
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SUBURBAN PROPERTY.
A SPLENDID LIVING.

1t rarely happens that You have chance
to acquire home that will be practically
eelf-sustaning' from the start. but here
is an opportunity that you ought to look
into at once over seven acres. COM
Portable six-room house, barn. etc, and
NEARLY ONE THOUSAND FRUIT
TREES.
Nearly 1000 fruit trees. Think Of It.
1t takes years to get an orchard In good
bearing order. and when you stop to think
that this moneymaker is only about ff-
teen minutes walk from trolley. seven
miles ont. and that you can get title for
5000 cash, balance easy, you won't wait
many days to take a look at this great
bargain.
The price is s2.75o Why. a good hus-
Ting purchaser ought to make big money
on this place and not work very hard
either.
Suppose you come out to see me and
arrange q day to look over this property.
COLLINS" Clarendon, Va.
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SUBURBAN PROPERTY.
FOR SALE-ILLUSTRATED.

SIX PRETTY NEW GROOM AND BATH BUN.
gaiows; hot-water heat; electric lights: sewer:
gas aud city water: beautiful paper and
shades: gas logs; full cellar and attic: only
u square from Riverdale cars: get Oh at 18th
and r. I. ne: two sold: price. $3.50;
500 cash. balance $2T. so per month. Open and
lighted daily and Sunday till pm.
W. p. MCDOWELL, 1891 g St nv.
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FARMS.
FOR SALE.
I Lakeside Farm,
i, Acres F,ouipped. $500.

$50 Acres, Equipped, $500.
This may be your last chance to get p af
the low price only because owner wants l" Iii III
ing fields, spring and lake-watered pasture, 10
acres wood variety fruit only IA miiss 10
railroad station and village, close 10 ena .a.
and school: 2 houses. one rooms, .ne , orms'
other buildings: quick buyer gets hofses'
3 cows. 150 chickens, wagons, machinery. sasE
line engine all tools and half the crops, o.iy
$500 teTms uii sreuts Farm Gaia
Iogue IS: write today for Your free cory.
E. A. STROJT FARM AGENCY. Station 133,
Land Title bldg. philadelphia. Pa.
HOME TRUCK. FRUIT AND CHICKEN FARM
Montgomery co. near District; Groom nouse'
ontbuildings about $50 fruit trees; pears, ap-
pies cherries peaches, pluIns. grapes, CUR
rants gooseherrieS. asparagus anf stra"perries
in abundance: macadamized road' anoa.
1O1s acres 10 minutes drive 10 i's'riv I'll, my,
friit alone will pay about 5000 year. u
months ago this property could not have been
purchased but owing to i'll heaith owner Inus.
sell: horses farming implements, crops; Wo opn
ertv and crops So. 500: section where lana Is
incoming more valuable daily.
NEW YORK REAL ESTATE BROKERS' l425 Il:
Fl ORIDA-BEATTIFUL RURAL HOME; 30
acres In peaches, oranges, graI@fruits, persitn-
mons. pears plnms hes, knma 1Ira tenant mt
house; $500: half cash. GEokGE Soi-
BURN. Box 49, Lake City. Fla
80 ACRES PRODUCTIVE LAND, NEAR WEST
Falls Church trolley station; miles from
Aqueduct bridge; good roads; $50 apple trees.
$50 pears, few plums and cherries; all hearing;
sized barn; other buildings; Groom dwelling;
convenient: good condition; paying place; price
reasonable T. 4. McENALLY, East Falls
Church. Va. "a
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Northern Virginia and
Maryland Farms.
New free catalogue describes go
properties valued at 81 900 to $3.50. 600.
II you wish a country or suburban
home. confer with US. We offer the
very best properties in the very best
regions.
Real Estate Investment Company,
$40 Connecticut avenue.
Fl. W. HILLARY. President.
CHARLES 8. ROBB, Vice President,
WALTER R. TUCKERMAN. Treasurer.
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FOR RENT.

IS ACRES
ON W., B. & A. ELECTRIC LINE.
DEyLIN'S FARM. FRANCIS STATION.
APPLY 1908 ST. NV.
FOR RENT-RAvENSwORTH FARM; POS
session given January ]. 1915. Apply to Mrs.
LEE, Burke. Fairfax Co., Va.
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WASHINGTON TO PHIIADELPHA,
ATLANTIC CITY AND NEW YORK.
ERICSSON LINE STEAMERS
ATTRACTIVE WATER ROUTE FROM
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mington. Del. From Washington by B. y
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cept Sunday pm. Fast day boats daily and
SUNDAYS 8 am. Tickets on sale at B. 4 o. and
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Little Storle,
10 Bedtime
BY THORNTON w. BURGESS.
Copyright, 1915, by J. g. Lloydl
The Jumping Match.

Who does the very best he can,
OF him no more We ask.
TITS all that any one can do,
Whafare1. he the taSE
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In 1913 there were 574,s59 trees felled
In Ireland.
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Find out which are the good layers,
and market the rest. Twenty-Five
selected hens will give better results
than double the number of good, bad
and Indifferent ones
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There are entirely too many I'M
profitable hens kept on the average
farm. Too many idlers are allowed to
occupy the room and eat feed belong
the drones; it is the only means of
success.
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His Specially.

From Judge.
Had we better take our lunch with
US today"
yes; and let Dunerington prepare
tho sandwiches. Slicing 10 his spe-
cialty."
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Some breeders do not trap-nest the
hens, only the pullets. This is especial
!y the case on large farms. They trap
In order to make their selection for
the coming season.
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While 1t Is interesting to know how
many eggs a pullet will lay in year.
it is more important to ascertain how
many eggs she will lay during the fall
and winter. when they command the
best prices.
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Carelessness Is more dangerous than
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HaN-starved hens are not so produc-
tive as fat ones.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21


hand the
in
This
mnt in itself
and confirmed
OF
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21
Great Menace Of
Content to Man
BY Phillip Brooks. Kansas City. Mo.

discomfort OF We give it, but the real reason for
all is this that which everything lying behind signifies that
greater than his that God is always calling him
up the fullness of his life SIS.
Dreadful will be the day when the world ontened
one great universal satisfaction spreads itself world Sad will
the day when he conend with the
life that he is living with the thoughts that thinking with the deeds
that he doing when there the doors of his sol
some great desire to do something larger which that he
meant and made to do because God And there the
real secret of the mans struggle with his
1t not simply the hatefun of the again and
again. but it the dim option deep suspicion the real
at the heart of the that there richer region in which
1t really meant for him dwell Man stands separated
of Cod by great thick WALL effort to put away
his m make himself noblr and simply beating at
the inside of that door which stands God
which he knows that he ought to be living. "a
1t like the prisoner who feels tboupb all the
thick wall that shuts him out from the sunlight joyous life that
outside who knows that his condition. and
so with every tool that his hands and with his bleeding
themselves beats on the stone that he find his
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21
Question of Interest
to All Motherhood
By M. L. Danforh. Denver. Colo.

him guarded as If he thinks
baby the hppest the land mothers think she mis-
taken. -5.
They believe that only poor baby be really happy.
When the poor child is babe in the mother hangs
puts the tniest stitches the precious baby at
every cry. $3.50 sa'
When begins walk the threshold it is the mother
and not stern governess who picks him up
The poo" baby to play sometimes and given chance
spill bottle of ink mammals best perfume window
"to vain" ,s.
This baby can play in sand pile pleasant days
less and dishes the time pies play
with rag dolls and have just coolies of fun
As the last hours make the best of
the time that is left him.
The rates rattle louder than the
the small voices get stronger shriler
Baby doesn't need maid to him bed
because he knows the bogeyan can't him while
Rag dolls, mud pies mamma is denied the
richest babies " o'
That's what makes think these not the happest
babies. Do you? /'
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21
Substantial Tax for
the Jitney.1Bus
BY r. l. Co.ey. San Francisco. Cal.

Tor and for accident liability The restrictions imposed obviously
the public interest that the result foregone
will be very few cavi it.
Perhaps it predict jitney
mere temporary and that it will presently
back of municipal history But the tny
this would
without the aid of the new inception
phase of the unemployment problem Owners of cheap found that
they could pick few dollars in ncke and dimes and that the weekly
receipts represented fair But they made allowance
citation Very few them could replace their keep
them good condition under the of
nuous The life of the jiney institution
measured by the hfe of the actually Possibly
form another wholly disappear but it will lose
its present features, and they will be unamented.
In the meantime it emineny proper that the jney
regulated 1t guarantees that responsibilities
should have fixed and adhere
proper share toward the maintenance of the
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21
DO YOUR DUTY.
knowledge dwells in heads replete
With thoughts of other men,
Wisdom in minds attentive to their ow1
Shakespeare.


o
well others of the public why publish
weekly something weekly
consideration,
publics obligation
world
which would almost give the bulldog
this this influence which materially destns
unlimited
allpowerfu its magnitude
obligations financially giving their
opic-Twhich
reehoed
scholarly
peeminence still
a derelcion of duty
On
members that
any
will bulwark
from your lehargy YOUR WHOLE DUTY TODAY.
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21
Beautiful Vision Of
True Patriot
By Jane. C. Scott. Salt Lake. Utah.

upep and development of and wholesome
ness is the undong of corporate the
The immense amount of wodness that apparent
states To-Day Is due to this egocentrc regarding eand
no means the politicians only who are sinners in this gnobe respect
for the political leaders, the
people make them.
We further and affirm that
country world PRAYER missionary
interest and social effort al
The vision of the genuine patriot will stop with the
even with the Americans but will sweep abroad GLOBE
obedience that pagan saying alone puts
into practice), Nothing human is foreign me-"
The Colorado statesman., 1915-08-21

True patriotism 10 o k s
beyond the individual, looks
beyond the party, looks be-
yond section, and looks be-
yond race and creed, to
center its gaze on the inter-
ests that are essential to the