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. PAYS TO RAISE ! HIGH-CUSS CATTLE., t' ! INTERESTING STORY OF YOUNG FARMER'S ACHIEVEMENTS ALONG THIS LINE. The following very interesting article by Mr Paul C Willard is taken, from the current number of The American Nagazine. We believe it will be of interest to every farmer's son in the county, especially tho9<-1 interested in raising improved catt'e.! This is a romance of real life- the t *- kaci urli * kori 1 BlOgrapiiy ui a lauuci iwj m u uuvt t the pluck and perseverance to make; a great dream come true. On the hills of Oneida county,New York,three miles from Clinton,a few j years ago lived Francis M Jones, the son of a former struggling for a meager livetihuc 1. One of young, Jones's daily tasks was to milk, mor-1 ning and night, the red cows of his! father's herd; but he felt contempt for such common stock and cherished an ambition to own some animals of better breed. He broached the idea to his father; but the elder Jones.a farmer of the old school, rejected it promptly. Cows were cows in his sight. But Frank clung to his scheme. He read live-stock papers and kept on pleading with his father. He could make some money if he had some Holsteins; he was rnre of it. He was! equally su-v that ih re was no profit ; to speak <if in (vntnun cattle. At last the father yielded. Frank might I do as h pleased, he said, but he had . no faith in the pn ject. They announced an auction. The i neighbors came, shaking their heads ( at what seemed to th^m a rash act. and bought the herd,thirty head,and nioht tKj hiir h.tm *?tnod pmotv. Frank hastened to a stock farm the I next day and bought two spotted black-and-white heifers of excellent j pedigree for $250 and joyously drove j them home. The farmers saw him trudging through the dust behind j . his cows, and scoffed. They antici- j pate 1 dire disaster for Farmer Jones, j n But Frank tended his o^ws through i c< the winter and the next spring p ;rchased seven calves, bringing his in- n vestment up to $1,400, which, re- tl member.w as the total amount staked a on the enterprise. tl Then came lean and anxious years d at Spring Farm, as Frank called the n home of his miniature herd. He was d obliged to wait for his animals to j c reach maturity; but through those p trying times he never faltered in his tl # faith. The heifers grew big and | sleek. He always fed and wa:ered : J them with his own hands; he groom-1 ed and petted them,and coaxed milk i F from them in prodigious quantities, f And, between these tasks, he studied F every book that he could find on cat- n tie and devoured every live-stock d journal from cover to cover. He ex- t< perimented with various kinds of 1' feed with tireless patience and mas- C tered every detail of his business. e His reward came even before he recognized it. One of the two heifers J that he had driven home so proudly tl was the mother of a little creature p that he named Ponliac Lass. tl The young dairyman bided his a time; meanwhile weighing the milk w and keeping a careful record, which e told him that his cows were extraor- a , dinary, and that year by year their V milk production steadily increased, p Above them all stood Pontiac Lass, $ his favorite. Her yield was almost v, incredible. Jones kept his own coun- f< sel until he was convinced; then he Ij sent to Cornell university and asked tl for some dairy experts. li . Trained herdsmen came and began f< a seven-days' test of Pontiac Lass, le They milked four times a day? q morning, noon, evening and mid- p night. There was little sleep for tl Jones. As nervously as a candidate awaiting the election returns, he h haunted the barn where his pet plac- p idly chewed her cud, and where at noon or by lantern light the Strang- F ers computed the butter fat. d; The seventh day came. The fig- p ures were completed?more than 44 a pounds of butter?and the excited P herdsmen proclaimed that the world p record had been broken by Pontiac Lass. Not by a narrow margin, eith- T V er, but by more than two pounds, a' ' \ They showered congratulations on a; Jones, who seemed not surprised at rr alh( rr "I knew it months ago," he said, h "Keep on! Let's see what she'll do tl in thirty days." w Followed more sleepless nights,for the tension greatly increased. Jones h knew now that a fortune was hang- ei ing in the balance, but he had faith tl that Pontiac Lass would not fail, ei On a Sunday murning a nervous and ai excited group stood about the scale tl - *?~ 1 w * awaiting the last Dnmmiug uuv.nct ? of milk. It was weighed, the table tl of figures was footed and a cheer r< arose that echoed through the big barn and brought the lazy, prostrate nr cattle to their feet. Another new o world record?171 i pounds of but- f' ter, or about four pounds more in a !i *r\ r f % in goodness and in pipe satisfaction is all we or its enth astic friends ever cl for it! It answers every i or any other man cool and fragrant smokeappetite that it in a mighty shor Will you invest 5c 00 on the national j H J. REYNOLDS TO] a- i lonth than the average America ow produces in a year! Th" A.-sociatc-d Press flashed th ews fr/?: ocean t< ocean, and siai led dairymen and fanciers read i nd asked, " A'h<> is Jones?" Soo hey began to arrive at Jofoes's farn oubtfui and suspicious. They d< landed a re-test,thinning that soir rug had been used to stimulate th ow, or that some fraud had bee -1 A. - J ' 4 I * rvAoaiKlxi erpeiratfu. it wow t puoomir, hey said. "Go as izr as you like," sai ones affably They stationed a guard aboi 'ontiac Lass day and night, and in w days all doubts were dissipatet 'ontiac Las3 calmly took the r< laining world records in turn?6 ays, more than 308 pounds of bu' ?r; 90 days, more than 426 pound: 00 days, more than 465 pound: ither animals in the herd broke otl r records for cows of various age: A new era dawned for Fran ones and his family. The momer hat Pontiac Lass became the chan ion the value of the whole herd, b his tinre about sixty ccws, apprec ted enormously. Jones becam wealthy overnight. Dairymen flocl d to the farm eager to buy animal kin to the world's greatest cow ifhen the neighbors read in a new: aper that Jones had sold a cow fc 10,000 they opened their eyes; an 'hen a bull went a few days late ar $6,000 they were almost part rzed. They even began to entertai ip idea that the raisincr of fane ve-stock might be a good busines )r them to engage in. One of ther >aned over Jones's fence and ir uired the price of a spotted calf tha oked an inquisitive nose throug le boards. "I don't care much about sellin er," Jones replied; "but if I do th rice will be not less than $10,000.' They don't speak slightingly o rank Jones in that locality now? ? * U??. firt/v Wio anfAirtAki) ays writrn uirv see ins Buiuuiuuu ass. He has 140 animals, value t considerably more than $250,001 ontiac Lass still retains the charr ionshif. Jones scows are bovine aristocrat heir lives are heavily insured, an t the first sign of illness a veterir rian hastens to attend them. A! lost any one in the herd is worth a mch as a house and lot. On th illtop stands a fine mansion, one o le fruits of Frank Jones's "ma him." To illustrate how the value of th erd leaped when Pontiac Lass gain i the championship, we may cit le ca3e of her first calf, born sev ral vears before she became famous nd sold by Jones for $150. Witl le arrival o? universal honors, h itterly resrretted that he had sol le calf, and the buyers were cor ?spondingIy jubilant. Jones resolved to regain the ani ml at any cost. His opportunit ccurred when the calf, by this tim ull-grown, was put up at auctior ts value was recognized ond hie I Princ |p?k \ 8m \ del rlte I M hu M comeb I pin ess iif Alb the national joy smoke ? yOU'LL find a cheery howdy-do I nutter how much of a stranger you Tfc. neck of the wooda you drop into. F Ifca. Albert is right there ? at the first pass that sells tobacco I The >6^ bag sells for a nickel and tl flh. tin for a dime; then there't some pound and halt tlSl- humidors and tl crystal-glass hui aimed StTEZ baccc smoke desire you ever had! It is so : and appealing to youi t you will get chummy w t time! or 10c to prove out our k joy smoke? BACCO CO., Winstoa-S&Iera, N. I ipiiii ;|The Mir 1 With W; SlM i.i^j ?-i n k v i >- The Minute Men * M Were Ready, Nigl , M Our Boys Today \ e R In tne Good Old ^ And speaki i H edness, we i-Py for any eir IM may arise i: ing needs. hl M from the ir M the outside i|^ tersign?St "H,r. . n !; m Mngsiree u d H Kingstree, * fyw WWW W" . 1L/AT? T <1 T II T ?T<) e y/y w ^ ^ w ^ ^ w ^ w r. ^ ding was brisk, but Jones rais< e every offer. The bids advanced to three, five, ten fifteen thousai dollars, and at that figure the son 1 Pontiac Lass again became the pro l" erty of Frank Jones and went ba> y to live at Spring Farm. e 1. I- Send us the news. e Albert gives okers such ight, because lavor is so different and so tfully good; ._??i *i i ini one your tongue; ui't parch your throat; can smoke it as long and d as you like without any ack but real tobacco hap! reverse side of every Prinee package you will read: "PROCESS PATENTED JULY 30th, 1907" ean9 to you a lot of tobacco ent. 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