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Show SOMETHING FOR STOCKMEN. Mr. Joseph Barker, the well known enterprising farmer and stockmaii in life - eomnfunication printed below malVcsr a most magnificent proposition to anyone willing to do some hustling for the farmer's friend and servant, the "Dcserct Farmer." He will pay yon handsomely. Read what he says: Editor Dcserct Farmer, , Dear Sir: In looking over the columns col-umns of your valuable paper I note the account of your trip east, and what you say regarding conditions there and also in the west. It seems too bad that you have such a hard time to educate our people, and after working here all your life have to come back and say we ought to have some of those people come out west and buy our farms, so they can educate us by their example. Yes that is just what they' will do if we don't wake up, and then by the time they get us taught we, with our sons, will be working for them. I have noticed your repeated efforts )' to the farmers and fruit growers to send in their subscriptions, and the , valuable ofTcrs for new subscribers'. 1- or one will assist you to double the subscription list during the next year if you feel like accepting my help. I will make the following offer: ist, to the person sending in the largest larg-est number of paid-up suvscribcrs to the Dcserct Farmer from Jan. i, 1909 to Jan. 1, 1910, I will give one (1) registered Jersey bull calf, value $100. 2nd, one Berkshire or Duroc Jersey (registered) Boar Pig, value 25.00. 3rd, one Berkshire or Duroc Jersey (registered) Boar Pig, value $25,00. 4th, 100 eggs from a choice pen of Single Comb Brown Leghorn Chickens, Chick-ens, value $10.00. Or in other words I will give One Jersey Bull Calf, $100.00, and Two Boar Pigs, one a Birkshirc and the other n Duroc Jersey, value foi the two $50.00. T want the party getting the second prize to have his choice whether he takes the Birkshirc or the Duroc Jersey pig, and the third prize takes the pig left, nnd for a fourth prize I will give 100 selected Leghorn I eggs from a choice pen, the value of which would be for the special selection selec-tion for hatching purposes, $10.00; total, $160.00. 1 L |