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Middletown transcript., 1915-12-25

crop. 1t is worth baled all The way
from "a to Sc a ton.
My dwelling and barn are located on
ground much higher than the field on
which the straw stack stands and on
which the wheat crop was grown.
Threshing the wheat and stacking the
straw on the loYer ground$gaved haul
ing it up steep grade to the barn and
stock lots, An open straw Shelter and
fenced lot have been bull. for ralves
and colts for the winter months. They
communicate with a large pasture in
which the animals Craze practically
all the year. The calves and colts
can come to the lot and shelter when
ever they desire to do so. When the
ground is covered with snow they are
confined in the lot about the straw
stack all the time, being watered and
given extra feed besides the straw.
The shelter is we'll covered with
straw and has three tight pole and
straw sides, making il thoroughly COM
Portable in cold and stormy weather.
Although there is room in the barn for
all the animals this calf and colt shell
ter relieves the congested condition
of the barn when all of the farm ami
mails are to be sheltered, and utilizes
the straw for roughage so as to re-
duce it to manure during the winter.
By keeping some of the farm animals
here through the winter they get a
good share of their living from the
straw and by the time spring comes
the straw stack will be reduced to
good manure.
Many farmers thresh their small
grain crops away from their barn
grounds to save hauling the wheat a
long distance, yet in so doing the
straw stack is in such location that
it cannot be economically used. It
stands out in the field for several
years, gradually rotting down, but al
ways occupying valuable field space.
In the end practically no good has
been derived from the straw. The
good farm manager who realizes the
possible value of straw will arrange
to feed it as soon as possible after
threshing, or use it for bedding or
for some other good purpose, 1t is
better to spread it back on the land
or use it for filling gullies than to al.
low it to stand in the stack and slow.
ly decompose for three or four years.
Straw makes an excellent temporary
animal shelter; it is ideal bedding ma
terial and it is fairly good roughage
for winter feeding of horses, cattle
and sheep.
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the grain feed for exercise, especial
ly in cold weather.
With every year straw gradually
grows more valuable. Only a few
years ago here in the big West it was
considered worthless and almost
nuisance. Large grain growers fire.
quently stacked it out in the open to
rot and be wasted, while those who
had no unused spare places to stack
1t simply burned it to get the stacks
out of the way of the plow. The waste
full ard thoughtless custom of burn
ing straw is even practiced now to
some extent in some districts. How
ever, there is now market for bright
baled straw, and many are baling and
selling the product as a staple farm
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WINTER QUARTERS FOR HENS
Make Sure Houses Are Free From
Vermin and Dliease Germs by
Thorough Cleaning and Spraying.

Are you sure the Winter quarters of
the layers and breeders are free from
lice and disease germs? Better make
doubly sure by cleaning all manure,
rubbish, dust, and litter out of the
houses, then spray the walls, ceiling,
floor, roosts and nest boxes with
whitewash made thin and strained so
that it will spray readily. This formula
government recipe) is one of the
best:
1. Sixtytwo pounds cone bushel)
qnicklime, slake with II gallons hot
water.
g. Two pounds common table salt,
pound sulphate of zinc dissolved
10 gallons of boiling water.
Two gallons SKINNED milk.
2 into /, then add the milk (S),
IIopghly.
gallons cf wlHtewash
irude carbolc acid
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.PULLETS FOR EGGS
IN SEVERE WEATHER
Fowls Need Especial Care When
Transferred to Quarters In
tended for Winter.

I'VE must depend on well-matured
pullets for the bulk of our egg supply
in cold weather." says G.. E. Brown,
poultryman at the Northwest expert
ment station, Crookston, in Bulletin
No. 81 issued by the extension divi-
sion of the Minnesota College of Agri-
culture.
Pullets of the heavier breeds that
have been Matched between April l
and the middle OF May. and those Of
the lighter varieties hatched between
the middle of May and the middle of
June, adds Mr.. Brown, will be mature
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AT THE FIRST SIGNS
OF Falling Hair Get cuticura, 10
Works Wonders. Trial Free.

Touch spots of dandruff and itching
with Cuticura OintmeQt, and tolloiw
next morning with a hof>shampoo Of
Cuticura Soap. This at once>arrestA
falling hair and promotes hair gtoE;thl
You may rely on these supercteamT
emollients for all skin troubles.
Sample each free by mail with Book.
Address postcard, Cuticura. Dep. KY.
Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv
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A Good Sour Milk Ration.
Corn 4 parts.
Wneat, 2 parts.
Bran middlngs, 1 part.
Cornmeal, part.
Sour milk separately.
Give 100 hens 21a gallons of
milk and from 10 to 25 pounds
of other food a day,

2 z z I517II274E44
While this is a higher record than Ell
ther of the others, the sour milk is so
much cheaper and easier to get on
most farms.
At 20 cents q dozen, the eggs from
the hens fed sour milk brought $29.71
and those from the hens fed beef
scrap, $3OOS. The difference wouldn't
begin to pay for the extra cost and
trouble of beef scrap.
The big thing to remember is that
the hens fed no animal food brought
little more than half as much egg
money. Theory and experience both
say Feed the laying hen sour milk as
part of her ration
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VALUABLE FEED FOR LAYERS
Missouri Agricultural College Expert
Recommends Giving Hens Sour
Milk In Their Rations.

CBy H. L. KEMPsTER, Professor of
Poultry Husbandry of the Missouri
College of Agriculture.)
Milk or meat in the ration may
make all the difference between profit
and loss. We know from our tests at
the experiment station and from the
experience of poultry men everywhere.
We got only 945 eggs from pen
Of hens that ate no animal food, while
another pen Of hens, no better in any
way, but fed sour milk, laid 1,78S.
Those fed beef scrap laid 1902 eggs.
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Sure Sign.

Gov Locke Craig was talking in
Raleigh about the difficulties OK tho
profession of politics, t
81 am in hearty sympathy" he said,
with the ward leader WNpannounced
20 his friends the other day that his
rev soma nine-pound baby -bade
fair to grow up very Iuccessful poll
tician. -.
N,How CAR you tell that already,
Jake?N thy asked him. Why, the
kid canSt talk yet
mo said Jake, but he has al
ready started trying to kick and shake
hands at the same time"
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Load Evenly.

In loading wagon place the load
evenly over the front and hind wheels.
II any difference is made it should be
on the hind wheels. They are larger
and hence do not sink in as deep as
the smaller front wheels. The fact
that the load is farther front from the
team does not increase the draft ON
the wagon.
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canada,s School Gardens.

No one city is probably doing more
by organized effort to make up home
and public gardening instruction than
in Toronto, Ont. Here is a climate
the opposite in its makeup to that
of southern California, yet the same
appreciation of the beautiful and the
value of economic thrift is evidenced
in both sections.
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Make Frlends Wlth Hens.

II care is used around the hens they
soon become very quiet in your pres.
ence and will not be frightened ii
you remove eggs from under them.
The farmer who can make his hens
strut around and talk to him like per
sonal friends, has no trouble with
what might be termed a wild flock.
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Times Changes.

what has become of the candidate
who used to have his photo taken boz
side load of hay?"
He may be little out of date
However, no candidate has yet mus
tered up the nerve to have his photo
taken beside a stock ticker '-Lvou
vile eourier-Journal.
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Bones Are Good Investment.

A good investment is 100 pounds of
bones bought at the market in town.
They sell for a cent OF a cent and a
half a pound. They can be chopped so
that the hens can get hold of the
pieces, and they will do the rest,
Blood meal could be fed in small guam
titles to satisfy the chicken appetite.
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enough by the first of October or No
yember to begin laying, and, If they
are properly cared for, should be good
egg-producers.
Special care is needed when pullets
are first transferred to their winter
quarters. If the chickens have been
roosting in the open air through the
summer and are suddenly transferred
to close and stuffy quarters, they are
almost sure to contract colds or even
roup. The windows and the door of
the chicken house, therefore, should
not be closed too tightly at night un-
til severe weather sets in.
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AIda In Potato Produetlon.

1. A more liberal use Of potato seed
will generally result in both increased
production and proit
2. A good storage place iB essential
IN order to insure sound. firm seed at
planting time.
8 The use Of high.grade ed would
increase tho fetntns from saUotato
crop Of the country 81 many 81. iops
d dollars
an seed honid Be treated vi
folmeiin ttlersl |anilas to prsve
Middletown transcript., 1915-12-25

Aren't you afraid to be aion in
the woods?" asked the syrapathetic
man.
mo, sir" replied tie old guide;
when I'm alone in he woods no
body is liable to pick me for deer
It's the only time feel safe
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lnnnnrfanf 4n Mnfharn
No Cause for Mirth.
Bears the

Friend-So this is one OF your Jokes,
is It? Ha! ha! ha!
Humorist (testily) Well what are
you laughing at, anyhow! Isn't 1t a
good one?-, Passing Show.
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aration. Incidentally, the poultry
house will be lighter and more cheer
full for the biddies.
The house should be allowed to dry
out for several days before the fowlS
are allowed to occupy it.
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Wasn't Sure.

Pyker-By the way. you are mar
ried man, are you not?
Hyker-Don't know. way this
morning, but / haven't had a chance
to peruse the court news in the eve
ming papers.
Middletown transcript., 1915-12-25

Not Gray Hairs hut Tired Eyes
make US look older than we are Keep
your Eyes young and you will look young
After the Movies Murine Your Eyes. Don't
tell your age. Murine Eye Remedy Co. =
Chicago. Sends Eye Book ON request
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Green Feed Needed.

Poultry need greet feed in winter.
Mangels, turnips and cabbages are
good. Alfalfa or clover cut early and
cured green and lawn clippings are
excellent. Some Of these should be
fed every day.
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shIppInu Live #,OuItry,

When shipping live poultry to mar
ket, be sure it is not crowded in the
coops, for stock that suffers en- route
will lose considerable weight.
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Bum Thrower.

There il a great demand for bomb
throwers in Europe"
Gee, we had one on our team last
year"
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DO YOU NE|
REM
DR.. Kilmer's Swan

DR.. Kilmer's Swan
mended for everythil
kidney. liver or blad
be found just the
Swamp-Root makes {
cause it's mild and ID
soon realized in most ca
healing herbal compou
prescription which has
curative value in thouss
distressing cases accor
testimony.
All druggists In 5Oc and
You may have q sample
this always reliable prepafN
eel Post, also pamphlet tel
Address DR.. Kilmer & Co.
N. Y. and enclose ten cents,
this paper.-Adv.
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Use Purebred Ram.

Use only a purebred ram to head
the flock. Get the type of breed you
choose well in mind and make your
selection come up to that standard.
Remember that the fleece 0'0yq
a multitude OF faults,
low set ram, with Md
loin; deep. wsll filled y
1 lag-of-muttol Have {
long, don't get
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Mako snre of PedInree.

II you are not sure of a stations
pedigree make his owner prove it in
black and white from the official
records.
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Advice is about the only thing the
average man will give freely without
money and without price.
Middletown transcript., 1915-12-25

To keep clean and healthy take DIR.
Pierce's Pleas SAINT Pellets. They regulate
liver, bowels and stomach-Adv
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Misht.

Ad i1 New York paper: "Wanted
--Bookkeeper and salesman. Must
have a leg shorter than the other" !"
We y about to teleph lone this op.
portu to q friend hen we sud.
denly mbefed hat he had
|Yas IfneE ctb01l
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Protection for Eggs.

When taking eggs to market they
should be protected from the suns
rays.
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Local IsaIousv

Some fellows san see no big men
in their home b En. Everybody at
home is as small as they.-Toledo
Blade.
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pohnestlc Temerity

Stella-Are they a strange family?
Bella-VerH; they can keep secret.
a car and a cook.
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The Fiery Year.

The Plymouth Rock-Terrible ttmega
The LeghoFn-Yes; ! didn't lay my
egg to be an omelet.
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Piles cured In s to l4 Dsys
Comfortable soIituee

@ DTSsgs: .oIs 5sP9f fssns pna B.sSne BAsG
ing Piles First application gives relid. SOB
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To Cure a Cold in One d av

Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE TabletA
Druggists refund money 1t il fails to cure. r. W.
GROVES signature is on each box. ase
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The kitchen is about the last
on earth the modern girl ente-t Il
kill time.
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Plenty Of Room.

The poultry house should be rOomy
enough to be used as Z Playroom dur
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Fruit Trees AloS side.
side.


]. H. Taylor recomn he plant
ing OF fruit trees fc he along
country roads. He su that the
owner OF a row Of n rees gets
no fruit from them, a he might
plant fruit trees in me spirit,
letting travellers ha t they de-
sired as - pass 1t is not
uncomE1 nice apple,
pear along coun-
try 70 ty of cities,
where they play
havoc
bad.
Th d will hold
SNOW iey will hold
30 % road becomes
i'm ait Is driving
Rses the
time to
the
7
Newark post., 1915-09-15
Senator Furniss Deputy Marsnai'

IT, S. Marshal Martin r. ferfs
last Monday announced the ap-
pointment of State Senator Sam
mel ]. Furniss of Bethel, Sussex
county, as outside deputy vice
James H. Cole, who succeeds as IN
side deputy Ralph l. Finn, VINO
resigned to enter the employ OF tne
dupont Company at Hopewell' va
Mr.. Finn has served for IL years
under his father, Marshall Will
lam R. Finn and Marshals Town
send and Fairy. Mr.. Furniss is a
well-known shipbuilder OF Bethe'
and has long been an active Demo
crat.
Newark post., 1915-09-15
Continental Fibre

Score by Innings
East End A. C. 100000 "A
Continental q POOP Ox-6
Hits, off Salter, Z; off W. Salter,
@; off A. Crow, 8; earned runs,
East End, 2; Continental, 3; two
base hits, Slack; struck out, by II.
Salter, 8; A. Grow, 8; base on
balls, off H. Salter, 2; off A. Grow,
2; umpire, Johnson.
Delaware Hard Fibre Wins
In the only other game played
Saturday between the champion
ship contenders Delaware Hard
Fibre defeated Wildel 2 to /. Both
Hawke for Delaware Hard Fibre
and Farley for Wildel pitched fine
ball. Chesrook scheduled to play
fremont failed to appear and con-
sequently forfeited the game. Con-
tinental has two postponed game
one with fremont and one with
Delaware Hard Fibre.
Newark post., 1915-09-15
Boosting The oBulevard

At a meeting held last week at
Milford it was announced that tho
right of way from Georgetown IN
Glendale, a stretch of nine miles
for the DUPONT Boulevard, had
been obtained and that it was up
to Milford to look after the re-.
naming stretch of seven miles to
that town. j. E. Holland, J. 8
Short, Ruby R. Vale, R. P. Davis
and Rev. L. A. Bennett were an
pointed a committee to secure
rights of way. If obtained within
two weeks it is said the highway
will be completed from the Mary.
land line to the Kent county line
at Milford by Christmas.
Newark post., 1915-09-15
Benefit For Sick Player

A team of local players COM
posed largely of those who played
for the Newark Delaware-Mary-
land League club will go to Elk
ton on Saturday to meet Elkton
Club. This game will be beneht
for a former Elkton ball player
who is now i'll and in need of as
sistance.
Traction -ElktOn Game Called Of
Because of the fact that many OF
the players of both clubs wanted to
see the final games between New
Castle and Parkside the double
header that was scheduled be-
tween Traction Co. and Elkton on
Saturday was called off. 1t is
not likely that any Of the post
poned games Of the league will
now be played as there is practic-
ally nothing at stake among those
clubs having postponed games.
Newark post., 1915-09-15
D | R e CT O R Y
BOARD OF EDUCATION

rreS'dent-Joel s. Gilfllan.
secretary and Treasurer
hobert Gallaher, c. A. McCue, Harvey
Hoffecker, Edward L. Richards.
Newark post., 1915-09-15

double plays, Cotin to Booth; Cof-
fin to Booth to Duncan; left on
bases, Parkside, 8; New Castle, a;
stolen bases, Austin, Booth, Dun
can, Hance. Sacrifice hits, Smith,
Carlin; hit by pitched ball, Con-
nell; base on balls, off West, l off
Coffin, 3; off Wise, 2; number of
innings pitched by Wise, 2; West,
Z; Coffin, 8; umpire, G. Wier.
The score by innings of the sec
ond game follows:
R. H. E.
Parkside ..1OOO221 21OO-6 II 2
New Castle 03000OO-3 5
Batteries: Parkside-Jones and
Austin; New Castle-McKenney
and Pedrick, and Ingram and Nc
Daniel.
Continental Looks Lik champions
The Continental Fibre Co. team
is putting up strong fight for
title of independent champions Of
New Castle county. On Saturday
they defeated the East End A. G..
club in Wilmington by the score
of 6to 4. The present indications
are that the championship lies be-
tweens the local club and Della
ware Hard Fibre. Both of these
teams have an edge on the four
Wilmington clubs who are in the
championship series. Delaware
Hard Fibre has won and lost
none and the Continental has won
2 without defeat. The game be-
tween these two clubs will likely
decid ethe championship. The
standing of the clubs at this time
follows:
Newark post., 1915-09-15
Totals
Newark

Score by Innings
Elk Mills ......1 0 0 0 0 0 0-1
Newark ......1 0 0 0 0 2 x-3
Two base hits, Work and Beatty ;
sacrifice hit, Wilson; stolen bases.
Ferguson, Scott, Moore, and Work !;
hit by pitched ball, Ritz; double
play, M. Jackson to R. Jackson;
wild pitches, Hogan, /; Work, i;
struck out, by Work, 5; by Hogan,
7; base on balls, off Work, 6; off
Hogan, 2; left on bases, Elk Mills,
7: Newark, 8; Umpire, Eubanks.
New Castle Wins By Narrow
Margin
New Castle won the pennant by
narrow margin on Saturday. A
double header was scheduled be-
tween the leaders and Parkside
at New Castle and the largest
crowd of the season witnessed the
contests. Parkside by winning
both games would have won the
pennant. New Castle took the first
game by the score of 8 to 2, al
though Parkside outhit them 2 tt
1. Coffin pitched fine ball fol
Parkside but the leaders got the
breaks of the game and just noset
out ahead. Parkside took the sec
ond game easily by the score of
to 3. The score of the first gam'
which decided the pennant figh
follows:
Newark post., 1915-09-15
Elk Mills
Score by Innings

Score by 1nnlngs
Elk Mills @ @ 0 a 2 0 q o O-6
Newark g 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IA
Two base hit, Ferguson; three
base hits, Gregg, 2; Grant; stolen
bases, Ferguson, Creswell and
Steele; wild pitch, Wilson; struck
out, by Hoch, 5; by Wilson, 3; base
on balls, off Hoch, 2; wilson, q;
left on bases, Elk Mills, 5; New
ark, 7; umpire, Eubanks.
Newark post., 1915-09-15

In the Saturday game in Will
mington Grow held East End
scoreless until the ninth inning
when he eased up and the Will
mington boys put four runs over
before they could be stopped.
Grow was given poor support in
this inning. The East End twirl-
ers were hit hard in several inn
ings. The score follows:
Newark post., 1915-09-15
New Castle
Score by Innings

Score by Innings
Parkside l. / 0 0 0 0 0 0 %
New Castle 1 / 0 0 0 0 l 0 x-3
Earned runs, New Castle, 2;
Parkside, l; two base hits, Rainey,
Austin, Cobb; struck out, by Cof-
fin. a; by Wise, /; by West, 8;
Newark post., 1915-09-15
Base Ball Games of the Week
NEW CASTLE WINS DEL-MAR PENNANT


Totals q 10 III IA
#Batted for O'Daniel in the ninth
##Batted for Hogan in the ninth.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-12-01
Product of Industrial School
Farm

The product of the state industrial
school farm at Vergennes the past season
was as follows:
Fifteen tons of millet (soiling), 125
tons of hay, 400 tons of ensilage, 700
bushels of field corn, 800 bushels of oats.
500 bushels of potatoes, so of wheat, so
of barley, $50 of beans, 800 of tomatoes,
100 of cucumbers, 200 of bevts, Is of car
rots, Is of onions, so of parsnips, 5000
heads of cabbage, 25 tons of sweet corn,
~ tons of summer squash and four tons
of winter squash, 5000 heads of lettuce.
800 punches of beets, 800 punches of rad
ishes, 100 bushels of green peas, 300
punches of onions. 400 bushels of sugar
beets, 30 of string beans, 400 bushels of
sugar beets flor cattle), 300 heads of
cauldower and two tons of pumpkins.
The dairy products were $4,000 pounds
of butter, 1,460 quarts of cream, and IA,
600 pounds of whole milk, and fat pigs
that were slaughtered produced $1,000
pounds of pork.
The other products of the farm were
10 bushels of currants, five of pears, and
five bushels of cherries.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-12-01
SMILE BRINGS CUSTOM
PLEASANT FACE ALWAYS AN AS
SET IN BUSINESS.
Experiments Also Have Shown That
Joy Stimulates All the Bodily
Functions, Especially the Cir
culation of Blood to Brain.

There is Chinese proverb which
should be memorized and taken tt
heart by every young man starting or
g business career, says H. Addingtor
Bruce.
1t is short and easily remembered
Here it. is:
"A man without a smiling face must
not open shop"
Applied specifically to the business
of shopkeeping the little proverb may
be applied with equal force to almost
every vocation in which a man
can engage.
In one, particularly interesting set
of experiments man was required to
press spring until fatigue paralyzed
his finger This was repeated at in
tervals in order to determine definite.
ly the average number of pressures
he could make at single sitting.
Then he was required to press the
spring while thinking of something
extremely sad. At once his average
pressure power was noticeably low.
cred.
Whereas when he allowed his mind
to dwell on exceptionally pleasing
thoughts he was able to press the
spring far oftener than when his mind
was occupied with nothing in par
ticular.
Other experiments have proved that
cfi 1Af oil he f,,,,
lions and stimulates especially the
circulation of blood in the brain, with
resultant improvement in the ability
to think rapidly and clearly.
Accordingly joy must be regarded
as body builder and mind developer
of the first order If only for this
reason the man about to engage in
business should cultivate the habit of
happiness.
d. But joy does more than this. If it
is tonic that helps a man to carry
on his business more efficiently, it is
also a magnet that draws to him
more business wherewith to demon
strate his efficiency.
Everybody is attracted by smil-
ing face, and especially by the smil-
ing face that speaks eloquently of
inward joy and self-confidence Every
body is repealed by the gloomy coun-
tenance that testifies to self-distrust,
and hints at present or expected fail
ure.
In the one case people unconscious
ly say to themselves:
Here is forceful, capable, genial
fellow. 1t will be pleasurable and safe
to do business with him. He can evil
IDENTIFY make good his promises"
In the other case their unconscious
comment is:
There is something wrong with
this man. Best keep away"
Gloom, to put it tamely, is mar
velous business killer. Joy is an
equally marvellous business winner