Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1908 — A Word for Our Farmer Friends. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A Word for Our Farmer Friends.

A manure spreader is a sure remedy for hard times. Every wideawake farmer will plan to make u\ some of the losses sustained by reasoi of the ruinous slump in prices of farm products last fall. One of the eas lest and surest ways to do this is ti | increase the QUALITY and QUANTITY of his crops. I The farmer who had a spreader last year, and used it. got as much again MONEY out of the use of tht same amount of manure as the man did who had no machine and spread ! the old way, and as a matter of course he had much more GOOP CORN. In short, the men who had spreaders and used them are about the only men who have good corn this year. Investigate this assertlot and it will be found to be true. That barnyard manure is the best crop producer, when properly applied, none will dispute. That machine spreading producer best results none but the uninfonnec will deny. Buy a manure spreader. It will increase your corn crop 60 per cent in QUALITY and 33 per cent in QUAN- | TITY. There are very few machine? made with which you can know what you are spreading to the acre. Thh feature is of the UTMOST IMPORTi ANCE. With my machine you know 1 EXACTLY what amount you are : spreading. If you want six loads | set the lever, and you get SIX, NOT EIGHT. Any of the machines will spread TOO MUCH, very few will 1 spread TOO LITTLE. After spreadi ing by hand almost every new be-

ginner. being used to seeing the manure so thick on the ground, puts on too much by machine. This Is a fatal mistake! You buy the machine so that you can turn all the manure Into corn, hay or gratn the year you spread It. THAT IS WHERE IT MAKES YOU MONEY. To do this th manure must be spread THIN and THOROUGHLY torn to pieces.

One hundred loads —and most farmers have more than that —of manure spread with my machine will put enough on 16% acres of ground to double a grass crop, or to add from 10 to 20 bushels of corn to tte acre, and ALL of good quality. Thu same 100 loads If spread by hand would not cover more than four or five acres. A big Increase from IS acres Is therefore obtained by uslnp a machine over hand spreading anc wfh the SAME amount of manure and half the labor and time.

Buy a manure spreader for cash It >ott can. on time If you must, while 'bey are sold at the old p-tce I s’ll r he best spreader In Rensselaer t’otne In and let me prove It to you

C. A. Roberts.

Don’t miss the auction aale Saturday, March 21, commencing at 2 o’clock, on Van Rensselaer street, next dooY to the Democrat offlea.

8. LEOPOLD, Auct

Stetson’s Uncle Tomh Cabin Company .which will be at the opera house next Saturday, afternoon and evening, carries their own brass band and orchestra. The entire show this season will be upon the stage and not upon the street. The band, which is composed of twelve solo musicians, will give a free band concert on the street twice daily.

We have our reputation to make >and must rely upon our flour to make It We could not make a first class reputation on a second class flour. We have no way of making Aristos popular but by making It good. We must suit you if we expect your flour trade. We have no proof but the flour itself that Aristos is the best flour made. We are willing to sell you a sack and return your money if it isn’t so. For-sale by our local agent, John Eger, at $1.40 a sack. — THE SOUTH WESTERN MILLING CO.

A FULL LINE OF EDISON PHONOGRAPHS AND RECORDS AT THE MUSIC STORE.

Don’t wear any kind and all kind of glasses and do your eyes harm when you can have your eyes tested by latest methods, by a permanently located sad reliable Optometrist Careful attention given in all examinations and all work guaranteed. Glasses from $2.00 up. Office over Long’s drug store. Appointments made by telephone No. 232. DR. A. G. CATT, OPTOMETRIST. Registered and licensed on State Board Examination, also graduate of an Optical College.

We wan’t you to try one pound of Spurr’s Continental Coffee at 20c a pound and compare it with what you are paying 25 and 30 cents per pound. Always sold In one pound yellow packages. JOHN EGER.

Extra stock of ladies’ suits, sale days only,Friday and Saturday .March 20 and 21, at the Chicago Bargain Store.

Stetson’s company, under the management of Mr. Wm. Kibble, presents “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” at the opera house, Saturday, matinee and night, March 21st The cast is a strong one. In the third act the landing of the boat, R. E. Lee, and the happy darkles working on the levee and the child Eva’s fearful precipitation into the river and her rescue by Tom, is a life picture. Previous to the performance the company gives a grand band concert.

The version of Uncle Tom’s Cabin interpreted by Stetson’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin company, whleh will yppear at the opera house, on Saturday matinee and night, has the special approval of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the immortal authoress of that world-famed drama, from the fact that Manager Kibble's adherence to the original text which is a complete deviation from the custom of other Uncle Tom managers who interpolate so many attempted gags, stale jokes and vulgar witticisms into their rendition that scarcely a vestige is left of the never-to-be-forgotten work. The excellent company’s Topsies, ludicrous Marks, the excellent scenery, the novel mechanical effects, the ferocious bloodhounds, brass hands, and the celebrated Lone Star Quartette, will all unite In making the engagement a most notable one.