The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 1, 1917, Page 9

1917, PAGE 9 STAR—FRIDAY, JUNE 1, “THE NEW LIFE OF THE LAND” t of the « To plant your feet pat outdoors on land you own and n 7 up the children with a knowl eret of tl ol to make the hen, the calf, the for themselves wher the oney he lays away; the rose, the for get-me-not to give them an ¢ portunit to sup from the warm mother earth the spirit of kindness towards all things that grow and the perfect health in thelr developing years that comes laden on the winds the oad flelde To give you root in the soll yc ndulge tm that earliest endeavor, th To bring the th 1 earn edge cow; to | busy bee goes for the to teach them store o the lla bosom of t care irself so that you nd most fascinating watching of your own owing on acres To make you impervious to city It ithout cutting city contact the changing for tunes of you off from To provide for that day to which we all look for ward, a eful twilight to life itself with the set ting sun of that incident we call a day casting {ts mellow light green embowered home that has been ma tful by your own hands and A. J.C. precious to your children and their children, a Poultry De house set in the midst of rich yielding acres, hal lowed by the memories of succeeding genera. tlons To leave it all on the Trained Specialists who Alderwood Manor sful wa how saucer with the peace. | Ki ledge that hand and when you must ful content that conres with the kn have let Nature take the lead you along the path ¢ account If you are you ha amed all that and yearned for the fulfillment of the dream, Perhaps you have endeavored to attain it and have set your self on some isolated acres and turned una tomed hands to strange pursuits until your thusiasm has waned through failures born of lack | in the of knowledge and the absence of practical advice | ont for as to how te t your wrongs. | us st the pe jan, impractical of course, to the man of limited means and limited acres, but pleasant, at least, to dream about FIVE ACRES THE IDEAL FAMILY, FARM getting th Your « asset to start with ts, we will gay, | ¢o five a rod land to be paid for on terms that come within your means. To make it self-sustain. ing it must be cleared. You can clear it yourself but you cannot afford to do it, as there must be thoney coming in to support you. Suppose the company from which you buy it will advance you. @ay, seventy-five dollars for each acre you clear and let you eventually pay {t back by continuing ong riod the payr s you have already undertaken to make. Or let company itself do the clearing and add the cost to the purchase price Then you'll want a home. lars have available will not suffice for even | > modest place want. Very weil; let the | good build y applying » few bun no wards the cost and carrying the re ay later. You will want your mediately surrounding the house jaid out tastefully and the kind of shrubbery and flow janted that will do best in that particular soil. Wouldn't it be fine to have a landscape architect who would give you a planting plan and all neces- sary advice? Coming to the commercial side of it, you will want to know how to make the soil pay the most An expert on chickens shows you that one hen per year will pay two dollars net profit and that on three and one-half acres of your little land you can raise 1,500 chickens—$3,000 a year profit in that for you. Fine! But you don't know anything about rais- | ing chickens and you haven't any houses for them. | Just go on supposing. Suppose the company would help you provide the chicken houses and your | chickens and then place at your dispoeal an expert who will tell you from day to day, if need be, just what you should do to get the best results. actually living-——the yo! you by some normal e dr That @ half acre What to do with tt en- | another expert Very best spot on all the raising filbert nuts. land for that purpo onstrated after twenty-five The expert you everything m into the nuts ment will tell ket the res of se You want to ke a nothing about them either, Ff The kind of cow, the you n garden? Certainly packages of family of five? Will toes grow on this side of the over in that little this land any . 2 raise for the fam ust you put you need Having * med One for all mergencies you one to handie this problem. He tells you exactly how much to plant, of everything for your needs, when to plant, how to take care of the garden and how to store the root vegetables for the winter. You have now got a very good start. You have re ved so much expert advice, however, that you are a lit tle bewildered and next spring when you start in a new year's operations you | find there are a lot of things that you have forgotten. Be toma- house or low? Ie The few hundred dol you you for ce h potatoes how many it? You find |} another expert | cessfully sup the other can suppos pur house, teach to do things in the ch department head knows his or her New Life of the powes of all your land but one and one. t? Alo: who tells you that American that » has heen acientifically years oF will get the tr you nee aring and wh company cow or kind of fe tter, how to bring up the calf—and everything | ceived, EXPERT FOR EVERY NEED @ ttuce seed do you need to AT ALDERWOOD MANOR CHAPTER TWO GUIDING SPIRITS AT ALDERWOOD MANOR COLE Architect MOHIUCH rod tu Garden Landscape Landers at and Little the A. A. QUARNBERG Flivert Colture Orchards and model Poultry Dwellers for Fri A Moving Picture regular means of study t modern ubject thorough and is Land seems to be something the matter | telephones, a filbert trees, and you want to ex a litte to the «7 if it would ne landscape plan out of plumb, ring if it wouldn't be a good iple of pigs, and—oh, if only there! sides, there x comes | with one of the your land lie tend the lawn Everett to yo to what even of fact whole wor ontin. | throw the the supertority and you are idea to keep a cx experts were hone There | Mill Company supposer realized expert ou and Go about tor Well, there they are, right acrons the road and ask them anything you like. They are the to serve you In any way they can and you do not | have to pot them on your pay roll to know n you are ready will cooperate To round off this supposititious idyl of agrarian ecstacy you suppose that all your neighbors these little lands developed under the same aesthetic and commercial advice as you have that there is a demonstration farm fiv the size of yours right In the middle of the luster of beautiful places, that a fast interurban train can flash 1 into the heart of Seattle in forty-five minutes, that you have electric lights, two and know another expert 1, how to mak of won and Ev probably the evolved in time Hut how many ut for a as exactly IDUCATIONAL and and thelr Alderwood Manor, “where all can gather # in munle, song, readings and plays passively and indirectly The Educational and Social Instructions © and the Educational Film free and moving pictures, a good school for dren, a superb automobile r front gate, w dre is there some could conjur dream man’s desires in this suppositious acme of The Puget Mill Con rfully rich Is tt, is mont America UNLIMITED MARKET FOR FILBERT NUTS Of course, there are lots of prosaic detail»—such how much they will tell you about at the office of the com- pany The com- thous lands There is nothing visionary about it pany has the land, It has #een so many and people fall to make a living Mitte through Jack of finances and skilled ice and after years of investigation and planning it has worked out a scientific plan where the prophetic vision of Abraham Lincoln, “the art of deriving a comfortable sustenance from the smallest area of soil,” can be put into effect, and where the man now living the life in the crowded city which is artificial, abnormal, and unwholesome, can be- come the owner of a little land. Under methods iberately organized and wisely directed he enter into the New Life of the Land, the that is natural, normal and wholesome for and all men of bis family Where ts Alder: wood Manor? Just @ short distance north of Seattie— forty minutes by automobile, forty- five by electric cars from Seattle on the Seattle-Ev. erett Interurban on the finest, most comfortable coaches yet turn- ed out by any car manufacturer The land -olls gracefully, sup plying a lot of little hills and valleye that merge into a landscape that the hand of cultiv tion will make superb. It is high land, four hun- dred feet above Puget Sound and there is that ever-present fringe agricultural pioneering. | Of snow-capped peaks to greet the eyes that seek with thousands of acres | the horizon, ad half way between Seattle | — -p) opening it to settlement under | ideal development plan ever on can life him pers Ws. MINER Chief Gardener Garden, Filbert open to Community Hall, Home Houses are supplement the community dances the chil Seattle or but there fs a limit ier Can sUppoKE, As a matter anything left to suppose? house for toad from poe No connected but a with the poet or a splendid out of logged-off lands a quares so faithfully with uing in all its details to | Puget one that conk an soil is wonderfully rich. No better evi- dence of this can be found than in seeing the prod- ucts there. When you think of the ease of the life on these little lands there is rest for the imagination. Over the wire that brings light into your home comes also the power to do all the heavy work. You can have your coffee percolator and your toaster on the breakfast table beside you! the electric washing machine and vacuum cleaner will make the housework easy, and outdoors it can saw your wood, pump your water and do other chores, This harnessed power will do the heavy work and leave you free to use your brains in developing your place These thousands of acres will be a paradise some day. When the present plans are consum- mated, Aiderwood Manor will be so developed as to conserve its charms and cause each little land- er to enhance the beauty of the whole, Intelligent cooperation, a prefigured plan, a community spirit and an artistic and enlightened forethought will make Alderwood Manor the most Prosperous poultry district to be found in this part of the world. inthe company’s atm: To organize prosperity for The first unit to come und demonstration farm, In the source of intents for those who will find happ on the surround- ing acres and is a cheery Place to visit now. Even the chickens seem glad © you. They forget remains that it is there to | {heir royal breeding and luck chummily in invites eagro Hon for you to visit them In their wondertully These are some of the prac if y tired, teal Bapects of the plan that dren's Tuture, by ell tne revenue each acre will pro- duce. The figures are not supposititious; they are the | psult of actual experiments extending over years. There will always be a market for filbert nuts; millions of pounds are imported into United States annually, Trees will be set out in the chicken runs and will flourish there. Between and under other trees green food will be grown for the chick It you act intelligently you can't get away from two dol. lars profit per hen per year. When your place finally comes into its maximum pro- ducing possibilities there is at least a $5,000 per year in- come in tt for you and your | family. You have to earn it, certainly, as you have to earn anything you get, but the fact are and if you give a disturbed ur future and your chil- ns visit Alderwood Manor, THE MODEL DEMONSTRATION FARM WHERE ALDERWOOD MANOR FOLKS ARE TAUGHT METHODS THAT LEAD THE DAWN OF THE TWO-DOLLAR HEN Alderwood Manor MANOR de Pedigreed Leghorns nt of the ALDERWOOD income from the very everywhere is waiting for rvests, athering the profits are before you at lopment, the un commenc it of operations every morn counting tt backbone cash Someone Poultry is the failing source of quick upon the little lands ing. waiting for cash receipts of the day man or woman who follows demonstrated successful methods and systematically, two dollars profit per hen per year is just and certain as the interest from government bonds Cost of feed, a raised only by the uninformed not enter into the argument, for is high eggs are high—the consumer pays the feed bill In adopting a poultry raising system for ALDERWOOD MANOK the Puget Mill Company gave careful consideration to every successful method known, finally choosing the system tried out and proven an unqualified success by the Western Washington Experiment Station, at Puyallup (Washington) as the best adapted to the Puget Sound country. In an official bulletin published by the state of Wash ington, this emphatic statement appears your eggs lay is but a glance easonable bh your net To the and does it faithfully as sure question when feed represents the producing about Acres buildings for the table ready to manage a complete plant antity of land, being sufficiqnt for all necessary material raisin egetables and fruit thone for green and And then also follows this quotation from the head of the department 4 plant of D 1 000 pullete ant for f abe untry W turing t wreen, ere the id advice at all Exper times pedigreed Leghorn stock at the ALDER rm the very best features of the best brooder and laying houses in world were adapted, resulting in What are sald to be the most the world. The little lander launching forth on the thus guided on to success by coming in close daily contact with @ systematized Poultry School in his OWN community, And at the head of this col lege, standing always ready the little problems that may confront you, 1s an acknowledged leader in man with a heart and soul in the work In providing buildings for the hard WOOD MANOR demonstrating “new perfect poultry houses in life of the lan@’ i to solve the poultry world, a TO PROSPERITY | published AND SUCCESSFUL FILBERT GROWING ON PUGET SOUND Filber Here futu) Filbert very rapi will contir A fow ar-old srowing combines and profit is the competence of the and increase in rofitable orchard whose generations to come trees from seven eight-year-old trees have pro- average yield per acre is be pounds of Filberts annually. During the last few years the Northwest-grown Filberts have retailed at prices varying from 26c to 30c a pound. Filbert wir one form of horticulture that best fits in with poultry and fall it the desirable complement of poultry n the Puget riet, be spot is favored above all others in the Ur productivit yield trees begin to yield in three or four years six years you have a really life will go on fe pected from five-year-old trees F 16 pounds, and individual when at to increase, and who ounds of may be ¢ ps the tween 1,000 and 2,00 ral culture aune r r ited of the Filbert Con indeed fortunate in States the growing The Puget Mil and Horticultural Quarnberg ha last an having as head of the Filbert man as eminent as Mr, A. A, Quarnberg. For Mr. ert growing in Western Washington for the Imost fifty distinet sy Filbert tr uthorities on Filbert culture in Ame illustrated booklet, “FILBERT GROWING FOR PROFIT ON SOUND,” by A. A. Quarnberg, the only on the Filbert industry yet n the United States, has just been issued by the PT T MILL COMPANY A limited number of copies of this copyrighted treatise has been set aside for free distribution and a copy had by calling at the office of the company or re letter. ELECTRIC CARS EVERY The Pa Northwest 7 8 (Seattle-B eattle to Alde afforded any id he stands today A fh PUGET introduet cles of me of the greatest arter of ica isomel may be quest by HOUR Interurban) rnishes the best equipped trains the rth Pacific Coast. courtesy mark this splendid service, trains Seattle at 20 a. m. and thereafter every hour on the half hour, the last train leaving the ¢ pot at Fifth and Pine at 12 midnight. Leaving Everett the first train departs at 6 in the morning and hourly thereafter up to 10:46 p.m. WATER AND ELECTRICITY water all the Alderwood Manor district. Wells at atively shallow depth produce abundantly for do and farm use. Cheap electricity elevates It to convenient storage tanks, whence it flows to kitchen, bath lawn and garden AN INVITATION A cordial invitation Is extended to those who are interested in the the Land” to call at our offices, second floor, Walker Building, and see the wonder. ful exhibit of filbert grown in Western Washington, A copy of “Filbert Grow ing Profit on Puget Sound,” by A, A H0e), will be given free to all visitors, The Alderwood Manor Model Demonstration Farm will be open to vis aturday and Sunday | PUGET MILL CO. | WALKER BUILDING . +s Second Ave. and University St. Phone Land Department, Elliott 182 ifie ction ¢ electric nor erett line from wood and most ef ficient service district in Promptness a leaving Fine, clear, pure underlies eatic room, New Life of ute for Quarnberg (price itors § PLENITUDE, HEALTH AND HAPPINESS THE SOCIAL LIFE AT ALDERWOOD MANOR Albis not work at Alderwood Manor, for ample provision hae been made for the development of a rich and inspirational community spirit, and the fullest exercise of the social side of life At Alderwood Manor the little lander comes ening group of congenial cational center is th Farm, in contact with a constantly wid- ambitious men and women, whose social as well as edu- pleasing central clubhouse or social hall of the Demonstration A comfortable and commodious building has been provided in advance to serve as an educational and social center, and these facilities can be extended to meet the growth of the community. This attractive building is available for all social and public ses No feature of the New Not only has it satisfied the bas had a marked and ment as weil a are purpe of the Land has given more general satisfaction, hunger for human association on the soctal side, but it favorable influence in the way of intellectual develop. in realizing the ideals of the movement Briefly stated, these ideals “For the Individual, a Little Land and Liberty For the Community, Co-operation and Efficiency. To become proficient in the art of living well, we must be exploiters of our own time, instead of selling our time to another. If we only knew in the be- ginning what is the best thing for us to do all the days of our life, how much more real living we might have out of our three score and ten years! False ideals, false standards, and false positions sidetrack us from the sanest exist- ence “Better than grandeur, better than gold, Better (han wealth a hundred fold, Are a healthful body, a mind at ease And simple pleasures that always please.” AT ALDERWOOD MANOR The soil at Alderwood Manor, as has been demonstrated by. suc- cessful, practical farmers and fruitgrowers owning lands immediately adjoining the Puget Mill Company's holdings, is ideally adapted to the “little lander.” ‘The soll, classified by the United States government as Everett Sandy Loam, varies in depth at this point from three to ten is light and easily worked, and is especially recommended t the department for fruits, small fruits, berries, ve bles and poultry raising, Mrs. Elizabeth Morrice, whose 20 acres of rich, intensely cultivated soil has produced in plentiful abundance for more than twenty-three years, is a notable example of prodetermined achievement Mrs. Morrice’s story of early life, pioneering her way to splendid suc fills’ ‘the lis tener with a quickened desire for a share in the fascinating joys of the “New Life of the Land.” The inviting gateway and flower-bordered walks that lead through spacious, well-kept lawns to the fine, big log house, ins a feeling of envy in city dweller. It makes one long for such a home within the quiet and peace ful environs of RICH SOI beautiful Alder. wood Manor.