like other professions, has advanced tunities for such co-operation HOTALiNG WRITES OF BUBAL PRESS by leaps and bounds and are innumerable and can be IWlfLlUllj that the methods of a quarter of found in every community. In a century ago are not the methods the words of F. W. Beckman, of today. professor of agricultural journalism H. C. Hotaling, editor and pub- there is no better work for the Farming has in reality been of the Iowa state college, lisher of the Blue Earth County statesman, the economist and the revolutionized by the creamery "Such a business, such a partnership Enterprise, is the author of an social worker than in an all-1 and the cream separator, by the with God, have in times past 11 article on "The Rural Journal- around reconstruction of rural tractor and the gang plow, the made for the best citizenship, ist," in the October number of life—a return to the simpler silo'and the corn binder. return to the simpler silo'and the corn binder. All of Men of the country press (and the Journal of Agriculture, published things, the better physical and this advancement needs men in we should say of the schools of A PHONOGRAPH by the University of California. moral condition of a closer rela- the country newspaper field who journalism), stick by the farmer FOR EVERY HOME tionship with Mother Earth." are qualified for the opportuni- he needs you and is worthy. The article follows: As a vocation, it is thus evi- ties which are daily presenting With his head in the sunshine, A speaker at the Minnesota dent that the man who takes up themselves and an agricultural with his feet feeling the soft EDISON Editorial association last winter rural journalism will not only specialist is ust as essential in earth, with hand to the plow, the said, "Agriculture is the biggest have a large constituency but the rural office as is the agriculfor farmer is the very personification Diamond thing in industry," and no one win have broad problems tural county agent. The oppor- of substantiality and honesty and AMBEROLA doubted the statement. There consideration. It is a man's task, tunities of a permanent position safety and loyalty and devotion. were those who did question an(j the «Qne who undertakes it far more promising in the are The play of the winds has fanned QWaM. 1 $30.00—350.00—$75.00 whether the rural press had real- wiH have abundant opportunity newspaper field than in that of a freedom into his being his tender ly awakened to the importance of to give something to the world pedagogy, where the place and care of dainty growing name its country constituency and for the remuneration which he salary both are dependent in far Edison things all around him gentle in whether the farmer had awak- receives. The remuneration, too many instances upon some spite of a rough exterior his far ened to the usefulness of the however, need not be unsatisfac- booster club which no doubt has vie whas made his vision wide Blue Amberol 4 minute on a press to his business. There are tory, for the field of rural journ- been made to see the need of his quiet has made him thoughtful, Records so many matters in common that aKsm is which be fol- such an agent through the per- undewear—the and thinking has given him one may fame us Stephenson we welcome the interest of the lowed with even more financial sistent pushing of some country certificate attachc-J to each wisdom. So we must stand by 50c—75c—$1.00 garment -the wide range off ab­ young people in our schools of returns than many of the so- editor. There are so many probagriculture, rics, weights and weaves—made to the farmer, because the community satisfy the rigid requirements of every occupation—are in journalism and in called professions, but like the Jems of country life up for solutheir ycur best assurances of health, needs him, the commonwealth comfort and complete underwear satisfaction. demand for knowledge farmer, he will have to labor tion that the need of experts and needs him, the nation C. N. WIRT, Agent. O. M. CARR & CO. along practical lines. with no eight hour restrictions to specialists is daily becoming needs him."—University Farm "THE STOKE OF QUALITY" International Falls, Minn. The country newspaper, if it his time of toil, no watching of more prominent and the opporis Press. alive to its responsibilities and the clock and no soldiering on irsiml'Xf its possibilities is, with every is- the job who is to become a pub sue, drawing nearer to agricul- lie benefactor and give the comtural The Kirctin SHOE HOSPITAL. Method gets rid constituency as it recog- munity that which it deserves, of yonr flumps nizes that the greater share of its for only the best is good enough. after they are pnlled. subscribers are located upon the He should be an advocate of prefarms Morse Power which surround the village pared soil and tested seed. that constitutes its headquarters. A half century ago agriculture Land clearing is not the time consuming, money consuming, Like a central office of a tele- was classed as drudgery. Today back breaking, heart breaking, never ending job it once was, if phone company with its wires ra- it is an art, and the man who undiating you get a Kirstin. to do the work. in every direction, the dertakes farming without taking, The a Kirstin Method guarantees of 10% to £0% over saving well-founded printing office has advantage of the new methods any other method of land clearing. The Kirstin Method rets rid of your stumps a^er they are pulled. No stump is too big for the its correspondents located in ev- developed by the state agricul- I Kirstin Horse Power Puller. Its mighty strength is irresistible because of its triple ery school district, always alert tural schools will find himself power and other exclusive Kirstin features. It will clear mere than two acres at one setting without strain to man, horse or machine. It has been a leader for 21 years. to the doings of the community, distanced in the race of success, Cne n-n without kcrs-s can pull the biggest stumps, too, with the Kirstin One Man Stump Puller. A little Thus the editor constantly has An old Scotch farmer truly says, ruc' ion tiie handle gives tons cf pull o:i the stump. This enormous power 13 developed by use While You Wait Repairing ci double leverage. It gives an ordinary 17-year-old farm boy a giant's power. his hand upon the public pulse "Farming is not plowing. My is do-n^ Lenrr. hov/ Tlirstin r^chin^ will get the prold from under your stumps. I-Tlrst'n NATHAN NURICK, Proprietor and can be in touch with the Farming is gathering sunneeds extremely good wur*:. Let us prove that the l^rsi.n Method provides Hav-j cleared 7 acres in A money back 213 3rd Street of his people. Thus once shine.". And I would like 3 weeks. The bl# poir.t The Qaichcsi, Cosiest and Dest Way to Clear Lend bond. A15year is that it gets out all t!:e Send todr.y for our New Free Book, "The Gold in Your Stump Land." Next to Boston Lunch. knowing the requirements of the to add that the purpose roots and nrikcs ground a a 1 rcadv for the plow. It gives valuable information on all kinds of land clearing. It tells all against breakage, —JACOB MOORE, about the Kirstin line cf pullers most complete in the world and explains locality, it is his place to measure Qf rural ournalism should Rice Lake, Wis. Kirstin Service, forever free to all owners of Kirstin Machines. It {law or no up to the responsibilities by not be to dispense sunshine and haponly has many photographs of stumps that the Eirstin has pulled, and letters flaw. A war* I have used the Kirstin from men who pulled them. Don't buy a pulier until read this book. YOU ranted saving of One Man Stump Pull: advocating through his pub- piness to help and give encouragement E:? Money to those who Order Early. To first buyers in every locality in my spare time and riS/ew from 10% to have pulled 2,000 stumps we offer a special opportunity to join in our prolit sharing plan. No canvassing lication such matters as will benefit to all, and in the words from 20 in. up to 40 in. just a willingness to show your Kirstin to your neighbors. Don't 50% over all in di i.::e'rt.n\ i-i hard p. wait—send the coupon today. the greatest number, but he other methods. SYIR10 IfUtt of another, "Expect its reward cuy a id soil at a cost of g* IS19E FIFTH ST 4c er.ch. A profit sharing A. J. KIRSTIN COMPANY, 3002 Main Street, Escanaba, Mich. should go out into the fields in a generous return of the same —J. T. STURDIVANT, ST PAUL, INN. plan. Coultervi.le, 111. Largest Stump Puller Manufacturers which are ripe for the harvest, virtues in exact proportion to the in the World OPPOSITE CITY HALL MODERN EUROPEAN PLAN attend the farmers' club srather- seed which it sows to generate ings, participate in and encour- them." Kirstin 1612 LOCATED'IN .HEART OF BUSINESS DISTRICT A ES: Rooms with detached bath and age their fairs, assist in building The value of the rural press is Horse Power Puller A.J, 1 shower bathOne irstinCo. Main St. person 75c, 11.00 and 91.60 per day up the community church and in not realized by one farmer in a I Two per$on« in tame room, 60c extra. Kscanaba, Michigan every way help to eradicate the hundred. By this I mean that I ROOMS with private baths and toilets- Send me a Free One person $1.50and $2.00 per day barriers which now separate too the farmer is slow to take ad-: _opy of The Gold Two persons in same' room, $1.00 extra. Your Stump Land" and full particulars of many villages from the country vantage of the profits which the Send postal card lot colored blotters. The Kirstin Method. WE AIM TO PLEASE districts that surround them, publicity of the press places at The Money Back Bond. The 15 Year Guarantee. Kirstin One Man Puller absolute co-op- his command, in the disposal of There should be The Profit Sharing Plan. eration between farmer and busi- blooded stock, the exchange of I JtOTEfe ness mani and no imaginary animals and the disposal of seed boundary line permitted to divide grains. There is no reason why The Minneapolis Dollar-Hotel them. By working together, the farmer should not avail him- 1 Sending this coupon obligates you in no way. 250 MODERN ROOMS land values are advanced and in self of the advertising columns of Located in Heart of Business District the distribution of prosperity all ONE PRICE--ONE DOLLAR the paper as well as the village must participate. NATE TWO .f'i.i merchant. By using printers ink CUROPLAN FOR PERSONS PRIVATE BATH, SHOWER AND TOILET EXTRA there are many instances where It is the country newspaper's COMPLETE SAFETY Such AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS place to point out the advantages the products of the farm might AND FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION and benefits of this loyal co-oper- be sold without the loss of time INSURANCE RECORDS SHOW THAT NEVFR HAS LIFE BEEN LOST IN ANY BUILDING ating, this trusting one another incidental to taking the same to tobacco PROTECTED BY AUTOMATIC SPRINKLERS and bring all to a realization that market and there disposing of it EVERY ROOM HAS HOT AND COLD RUNKIi'U: WATER, STEAM HEAT, CLECTRiC l.!3HT AN the home friends are the best at a price named by the other TELEPHONE SERVICE. enjoyment friends after all. In fact, the du- fellow. This is especially true in ties and responsibilities of the the sale of blooded stock,x as by Majestic Hotel country editor are to endeavor to advertising buyers are attracted bring to the people of his com- from long distances. The postmunity as you never thought Cor. Seventh Street and Hennepin Avenue a broader vision of life ing of a notice on the fence cornitself. could be is yours to MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA The great Avar which is er may have its virtues, but few THE Or-ilY MODERN command quick as now waging its relentless battles people have the inclination to get POPULAR PRICED HOTEL in Europe has brought home to out of their automobile or tie up you buy some Prince one and principal Within blocl of t:n theatres department stores. us all as never before how de- their team to read a poorly writ Albert and fire-up a 65 ROOMS 65 ROOMS with pendent even the nations are upon ten ad tacked up on a fence post, At Bath pipe or a home-made one another. How necessary it The same notice, perhaps at a 75c-$1.09 SI.25-SI.50 cigarette! is that we individually take an cost not to exceed twenty-five Hot and Cold Running Water, Local and Lo.-.jf Distance Phones in Every Room. interest in one another's lives cents, might be placed before a Prince Albert gives and bear one another's burdens thousand farmers who would be RAY BOYD Mar. 2j by iorpnerlv Chief Clerk Vendome Hotel you every tobacco satisfaction There is a realization throughout permitted to read it while spendthe Our Rates are Always AS ADVERTISED country that there is too ing the evening around the pargreat your smokeappetite an exodus from the rural lor table. But advertising is a ever hankered districts to the city, and no less an study in which business men for. That's because authority than Right Honorable have learned but the rudiments, it's made by a patented Sir Horace Plunkett, for over so it should not be expected that process that cuts out thirty years a student of agri- the farmers will have taken any TRADE-MARKS you will rttd: Pro- advanced grounds in cultural co-operation and author reference bite and parch! Prince Albert has always COPYRIGHTS thereto. j'cif "Rural Problems of the been sold without coupons or premiums, V&2» Send sketch, or model and description United. States," says: "Were it There are so many places in for free search. We prefer to give quality I Book containing erer 200 werhasical not for the steady stream of rug community building where the movents sent free spaa quest. ged strength from the country- press and the farmer can co-opside WM. N. ROACH. Jr. the city would ultimately erate profitably that it is one of ATTORNEY-AT-LAW MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL lose its population." He adds fur- the encouraging signs of the EXPERT McGill BuildSac ther, "American civilization has times to note the presence of debeen Wasfafasteo. D. dominated by the city, partments of ournalism at so iThere its strivings, there its mar- many of our state schools of agv.elous CHICHESTER SPILLS wthe national joy Mmoke achievements have been riculture and so great an interest centered. Its thought and action in the cause of publicity on the has a flavor as different as it is delightful. You never tasted the like of it! came from the heart and mind part of agricultural colleges And that isn't strange, either. of the city and its failures, which throughout the land. The press have culminated in the present needs men equipped with a Men who think they can't smoke a pipe or roll a cigarette war, are from the same source.' practical knowledge of the farm. can smoke and will smoke if they use Prince Buy Prince Albert everywhere «IAMONDaBRANDOTHEft. May we not make a serious ef- Too many of the present writers tobacco sold in KAD1BSI is Albert. And smokers who have not yet given P. A. a tryout toppy red bags, 5c tidy red ik Tomr Druclit for CHI-CHES-TER 9 fort to strengthen our civiliza- on farm topics have the temerity PILLS in and/ certainly have a big surprise and a lot of enjoyment Red tins, lOct handsome pound tion on its neglected side The to give advice on "how to run metallic boxes, sealed with Blue Colo and half'pound tin humidors—and—that coming their way as soon as they invest in a supply. Bar Ribbon. NO oF Braggtsl u4 ssk for more we ponder upon the causes farm," have no real knowledge corhing fine ik CHI-CU£8-I£bi BBAKO PILLS, for twenty-fie Prince Albert tobacco will tell its own story! pound crystal-glass humidor ftlAUOXD years regarded as Best, Safest, Always Reliable. of the war and upon the condi- on the subject, failing to recogtions with sponge^ moistener SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS of an enduring peace, the nize, even though they once top that heeps the tobacco R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO, Winston-Salem, N. EVERYWHERE im each cleoer trim—tdways more we come to realize that lived on a farm, that agriculture, M'-l