Volume 54, Number 32. TOPEKA, KANSAS; AUGUST 5, 1916. Esta blished 1�63.
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is no way by which the farmers of Kansas can escape the silo. The man who is keeping ten or twelve cows and their young is losing the price of a silo' each twelve months; The silo is no longer an experiment, Ask the farmer who THERE . has ,one. Live stock 'farming is the basis of the most profitable type of farming-in Kansas .. el�ewhere. To maintain live stock economically and profitably, the farmer must have a sure feed supply. The silo will enable him to have this because it will-permit carryin.g feed over from the year of plenty into the short year.
The silo will come near doubling the live stock carrying capacity of every KanSM .
- farm without encroachingupon the acreage of cash market crops grown. It will bring to- gether our feed crops and our live stock in a combination which we have long since needed. Let the silo be the next structure placed on your farm. It will become' a dividend..paying investment just so soon as you begin feeding therefrom. - T. A. Borman
'Let the Silo be the Next Structure Placed on Your Farm" Oliver' Method for fighting t\te Hessian' Fly It,m6oflntw'6t A'£out Automo£;1'6, Eng;ne6, Traetors, ana Motorcycl,6 tractor is here to stay. We in all of the cost, because the horses must make use of quicker ways of have to be fed and takcn care of, which THEperforming labor on thll_ f�r�. In , has to be done 365 days in the year., the light of present day_ developments The average agriculturist will perhaps this conclusion cannot be avoided. bring forth as an argument tlie first W. H. Sanders, instructor-in farm cost, but if he will go back and figure motors at the Kansas Agricultural Col his equipment, com par.! it with the cost lege, believes that the problem of the of horses and their maintenance, he will manufacturer in the future is not only find that the balance is strongly in favor to build the tractor witb more speed, of the power-driven machine. Care and but also to build implementa that can intellig'(!nce go a long way toward the be used at a higher rate of speed. In making of power equipment a practical' the of the doubling speed engine, the thing, but I do not think !lny more so is energy used more than doubled. than do to handle and take care , t4_ey' The of present speed tractors is rated of good teams of horses, in fact not so on the speed of a horse when walking, much. I sincerely believe that in this Agricultural experts tell us the which is two miles per hour. Tillage age it is not going to be a of best way of the question checking Hessian is also for the of whether the farmer can machinery made, speed , afford to put fly evil is Mr. a horse when . by deep plowing. walking. power-driven maehines on his farm to McColloch of the Kansas Experi-: do his work, but whether he can mental heavy Station believes the Oliver Tractor Coata afford to do without them. coulter tli, rolling and jointer plays If a farmer is and an Back in medieval times' we had the cultivating tOling nu important part iii fighting the one hundred acres of land - he crooked stick which was later unques th fly. supple-. in the course of mented the the tionably, time, will pay fll 15116. by plow. Comparing for the July B, horse and the modern tractor. of power equipment whetber he has IiI' OLIva CHILLED PLow today Woa:u, is like it or not. He will pny for it in the loss Kansas Mo. comparing the crooked stick and III City, of which often means the cast steel Let us at some time, poor crops, ell Dear Sir: plow. get loss in of the real facts. yiold, inconvenience, ami hiring til I have !just seen the Oliver combined of power to do some of his work, etc. rolling coulter and jointer in operation First, as to A good team P\ on l·quipment. There are so in favor wheat stubble, and wish to sar that today that will weigh 2,800 pounds, and mnny urguments ell I am well WIth it. of the on the certainly pleased their such as blan power-driven machinery all The way it turns the stubble and trash equipment hnrnoasea, dollars and will cents side' of this matter that tli under is a big advance in tbe thorough kets, etc., cost ahout $600. This it would cover to evcn dis preparation of wheat .land, team will pull under conditions many pages w ordinary - I was CURS them. I. in National especially interested 'In this im· one 14-inch-bottom plow. If thc condi HAMILTON, ell plement as a means of turning stubble Stockman and, Farmer. tions are severo, season and on tr and volunteer wheat under to destroy dry heavy we til the Hessian fly; One of our recom land, will have to add another horse, mendations for the control of this in a three-horse team to a Care of Tire. III : making pull 14-. sect is thai: the ground should be inch With that a tire tester. It will tli plowed to a depth of at least six inches plow. equipment, basing Buy' cost about our costs the -one a l and all stubble dollar. _, and volunteer wJteat approximately upon price , , buried under at least three inches of of $600 for tcam and equipment, we will To prevent rim cutting and broken Si 8011. The should ground then be call the extra horse $250, which down fabric, tires inflated to the ell worked into a 1I00d seed bed. brings keep the to for a LITTLE tr It is a difficult matter to price up $850 power to pun- following pressure: Three-inch tire, 60 GIA�T TRACTOR ,. thoroughl,. . .6-36 Ii. • PI,,,.. hI bury all the stubble and volunteer B, 14-inch plow. 3!-inch, 70 80 Model.·'A," P., , 12,000 pounds; pounds; 4-inch, Model "D," 18-22 H. P. 'Flow., ,wheat with 'the and the Let us back and ,1,250 S' ordinary plow go compare ·this with pounds; 4!-inch, 90 100 Each model has 17 set Hyatt Roller Bubsequent working of the with pounds; 5-inch, BcarJ ground a gas tractor which will III a harrow pulls much of it out again. medium-prleed pounds. under favorable four Seal all t':.!�I::ss�':"e:a'!.�e:g��t b:�� ��':.�:!t��g For this reason the farmer often be-, pull conditions 14- cuts in rubber either with tire Built on automobile Jines tron high grad.��dC'�l comes ineh automobile CI discouraged and gives up trying plows, and take thc extreme condi dough or by vulcanization. This is im material. In d�slgn, to centro! the and workmanehlp, will compare favorably fly. tions, as we ha ve with the horses, where ,to moisture and sand r The thoroughness with which, the portant prevent with highest prlcecl automobile made, we have a season, where we will from the fabric. Ha. three speed. torward-l %, 8 andmaterial!6 ml, S,I coulter and jointer buries the stubble dry pull reaching per hour, and one speed reverse. With prn-' on the bottom of the furrow overcomes but three 14-inch-bottom, For When not in ·tires in a g plows. use, keep cool per care will olltlast any autemoblle. I thi. trouble and in v my opinion solves thil! power with horses the cost would dark Orders tilled promptly. Qwlng to great, one of place. the most serious difficulties in demand ter our we will not II be $2,550. Wherena with the tractor the Do not start or the car tra8tors, exhlbll the control of the Hessian fly. The stop suddenly. thl. year at 110.., traeter _hows. will run . from to or Do not turn thorough preparation of the seed bed, price $1,000 $1,600, corners at a high rate of lIlAYEB BBOftliERi �OlllPANY tOllether with the other methods advo to do the same work about one-half of speed. 1M W. Rock Stl Mankat.. MIml., 'Ii, �, cated in the inclosed circular, will serve the of the horses A� price and thuir equip Be sure the front wheels are ------to control the fly in any parallel. community. mont, But we cannot b If the coulter and did stop here. With Do not allow oil to gl't on the tirl!s. jointer nothing t more than aid in the control of the a team of throe horses, with onc man, ])0 not use too much or too little talc :fly it would be a valuable on will in ex f implement they :plow ten hours under in the tires. Too Ilttle causes the tubes any fann, Very truly yours, treme ' h conditions, about one and one-half to stick while too much CaUB(!8 a grad. J. W. MCCOLLOCH. 11 acres per day. Figuring the cost on this ual accumulation into a solid lump the a basls, placing value of your team which is frequent cause of a, puncture. ASK us to send you a copy "of and man at $5 per day, this would bring Do not 'Put a tire on a rusted the circular Mr. McColloch re rhn. your cost to approximately $3 pur acre. fers to. We also have a special Let us take the tractor for an exam Automobile Excuraion circular on the Hessian that will travel about two milcs fly; ple .per Automobile cxcursions to mat· The Oliver combined hour three study rolling plow speed. hauling plows, ters of interest to farmers coulter and jointer covers weeds, will in ten hours six: particular plow approximately are provlllg popular in counties where turns under green manure, checks acres of lund. We will in the figure there are farm bureaus and county the Hessian fly and the cost of the man at provides $2.50 per day, de agents, seed bed of thc value of compact necessary preciation your machine The farm 'bureau in McPherson for good crops. This de- $2 We will a maximum per day. figure County made an excursion to the trac vice can be used on Ol- amount of at three gasoline gallons per tor demonstration at Hutchinson last iver wheel plows. It is acre, which at 20 cents a figuring gallon wcek. A large number of cars made the regular on trac- would be $3.60; 40 cents a equipment adding day trip. Thcy bore pennants with the, name tor for oil would the plows. lubricating bring cost, of the county. The party was headed, for six: acres of land to Com plowing $8. by V. M. Emmert, the county agent. pared with the horse-drawn the plow, They were met by a committee of the' same work would cost the on farmer, Hutchinson Commercial Club and es the basis at which we have It C. PRAIRIE DOG estimated corted to the tractor grounds. F. P. our about THE TRACTOR THAT on WOI.. THEM m cost, $20 for plowing six: acres of Lane, county agent Harvey County, WID II1IU tbree 14 inch of land. , led a similar automobile excursion. The botlolDll under any While the of in these ordinary conditlona. degree accuracy automobile OpilnS up great opportunities 215 H-P. Wluk.aba figures will vary somewhat owing to to farmers in the of Molo...... beuaed way getting around for conditions and the it will not oDera&lnll' other operator, quickly. maclilDll7: 21_.a: vary in the more on the trac 1'10.... at � mil_ aggregate - _ bour ou road tor than it will on the horse- drawn plow. One enterprising tractor company ....ork I mil... Hyatt Boller Yet :we will go still furthcr. We have rigged up a train of four wugous at the BaariDlfll. trhe Oliver comblllec1 1'011111.". figured in all of the cost and the ex demonstration last week and ICOUlter and jOinter-the device plowing attached to the tractor end of LOW COST '01' IDhecktDg the Be'aal_ :117. pense it, hauled footsore visitors around the but with the horse we "have not figured fields. CIiwr Oll1ledPlow'\lb& ...... _.... South Bend. Ind.
ALL XINDS OF FARM: lfAOBINEnY OPERATED SUCCESSFuLLy .v.IIY alZJI!I "."IIUIII. 1,',', e, 8, BY TIllS ,TRACTOR AT TIlE HUTCIIINSON DEMONSTRATION. When to Jl.le ...,UIH.P. Gaollne, 8 H.p' 'writing KA�S�� KeroIeae, eta..a BERE SUOWN PULLING DRILL AND A CORRUGATED BOLLEB 11m EI8111E lORIS. ��.� "8, l'.uUER live stock advertIsel8, please mention this paper. The Standard J'arm _Paper of Kanl.1
HaDa r ALBERT T. REID. President 0, C. YOUNGGREIIN. AdYerthln. .. G, C, WBEELIIR. Lt.,' Stook IIdltor T. A. BORHAN. Edltor::1D.Ohlef ,
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real in COLOR CRAZE DYING 'OUT RUNNING WATER IN HOUSE tumes being furnished. A charge of $80 evidence of the ,interest power for each. course. This is' The writer met many friends DO merit 'i�' deter "Are one of the ten: thousand is to be made farming. Color has special you the state who are to to cover the outside of Ioeal.>: from different parts of value ,of cattle, )1 i�sissippi farmers who 'going expense mining �he 'm,ere utility and are tractors water in their houses this entertainment for the speakers.' have purchased using aJthough, it', is of 'value as' & factor iii. 1"lt running farm was reo is that most in their work. character and unl r 'I" This The interesting thing. fully successfully determining breed, \,1',1 pointed question � for this, course have The farmer cannot get away 'Color is an cPlitly put to a body of farmers who forty applications thinking formi.ty. interesting 'phase of been received. The" offer had from the 'fact that an immense amount of 'Shorthorn There was ,& W,'I'(' visiting the agricultural college original history. it to of feed is to maintain the 'York color held a i when mO,st t state. We have been mueh inter been to furnish only twenty places, required period imIWrtanil thu He cannot afford. the cam but now are made to enlarge animals on the farm. in the value of ani- ('II in 'systematic plans being place determining ' cst watching the round horses .. that is made in Mississippi the force so as to be able to handle a to 'koop enough year mals .of this breed. P" il-(Il being must in number. to take care of the work that to arouse greater interest this par· larger just In writing of the color craze which)de� " tractor " our of the character be done at certain seasons, The ti(,lIlnr improvement•. From knowledge veloped among breeders of Shor-thorn this we would offers a out: He is therefore inter- We feel sure that running water in and'value of work, espe- way cattle, B. O. Cowan caUs attention to commend' it to Kansas communi- estcd in till' farmhouse means better health and cially power farming. the fact that in the early periods' of! to the Rural The tractor not reduce the num- rest for the women folks; means ties. Send in your requests may Shorthorn there were far more wore but what history on Service Col- ber of horses very materially, th.i t the boys and girls willatay the Department, Agricultural roans and whites than reds, and this is Manhattan. is more it will insure farm; means that the farmers will enjoy lege, important, plenty true in Canada and Great Britain, and that 31 '31 31 of for the load" of the year. IiI',' more fully" and we would urge power "peak was true, no doubt, of the early impor INFANTILE PARALYSIS CURES The farm is .If fal'lners of Kansas give this matter most average under-powered, tations to the United' States. At an of the Federal of this had not been true, Hutchinson ral'('ful consideration. The cost of put OlJicials Department early 'date, and for many 'decades there with the, enforce- would not have been taxed to the utter- t ill" water in thc house need ·not be Agriculture charged after, the prevailing shade of red was in kit ment of the Food and Act are most last week in taking care of the I'x(�'ssive. A pitcher pump 'tHe, Drugs Jight--by some, called "strawberry red" win cost out so-called thousands of visitors, who came from all CIH'I1, with sink and drain pipe; sending warnings against or "yelJow red," as described in the early cures for infantile that are of the state to witncss this great nbuut eighteen dollars; a force pump at paralysis parts volumes of our herd books, and many to be advertised thc demonstration of farming. til" well with a tank above' the- 'kitchen likely by ufiscrup- power preferred it to the dark red that became remedies are to be , such wiLh the water, on, tap at the sink will ulous, Any re- 31 31 31 popular in the United States during the : with extreme When cu-t about ·thirty-five dollars. A sys garded suspicion. PRIZES FOR IDEAS color craze that well nigh swamped the . and 'cold water in an of kind exists there are , trill giving both hot cpidemic any A con,ductlng !'on judgment of, breeders during the thtee for who upon the fear c��l company n?w th» kitchen, can be, installed: fifty always thpse prey IS a series decades fo1Jowing l87a. Allen's history the market with adv.ertlslnlf campaign orfer�ng while .for, onc of the by flooding from states that there were (loll aI'S, about hundred-and public of cash prizes ranging flftr of Shorthorns with coneoetjons which have ,dollars thirty dollars a complete system, hastily prepared dollar for the the more reds among Bates cattle than Govern- to �nsw(:r!l glvm,g imy can bl�' installed that will no curative merit whatever. on.e a II fi xtures, Ideas on the a other class of Shorthorns and this is' as discovered story �ol
• Unity Rural lty stTength and service of any 'By classes of all community is measured by unity JEWELL MAYES, Secretary, MilllouriState Board of Agriculture sections when we sllall
, have T�of purpose. So long as a town or understood all phases and Team fac�s, rural are divided sus first father seems work, free from will neighborhood by to liave gone into can and should mcet for mutual pesaimism, and producer do moat to advance picion, contrary purp�es you will the retail and manufacturing business. eo-operation, any cause or calling, lind progress behind thc local Cain Junior was the first hardware man. has t1ie lagging Lct us unite to foster Agriculture Iargest possi opportunity. There is. a common of mutual larger effieiencr bilities, and it all lines of ground along all lines of commercial and upon depends So much of organizing in the past, has interest between the retailer and the agri business finally, and the farmer certainly been cultural service, agreeing that human resultant in dividing the farmer, and and failure of should not resent or misunderstand people disloyalty nature is the same in avocation of why rather than them. is a either or every all uniting It mixed both to live up to duty has wide-awake business men are and life, and that the same oil mooted question as to what eon spelled commercial friction and trouble percentage, anxiously interested in to boost skill and intelligence will be found in helping stitutes the elements of a rural com a-down the and life conditions, It ages. each or farming country or trade, calling and is , munity-whether not the rural banker profession, a banker or "Community develO!lment" expresses that the same or similar amount of eff'i near-sighted merchant and the rural merchant have a in who fails to realize of part th. common ground where dealer and can be that the profit an ciency discovered among all the agricultural community movement, farm regulatea the possible revenues There are those who ably and vigorously of the country town. hold, that none but the farmer should Any law that encourages be especially permitted to an or more is in join I agricultural "profitable farming not, result, ganlzatioa for rural hetterment, that clasa leglslation, bcenuse the advance: the lines between the farm and the town ment of agriculture the advance should spells be widened, the 'farming interests ment of all lines of business, for the and the town interests farmer - country arrayed feeds and clothes the-world. each other. against When the Golden Rule is the measure One is that the "rural com viewpoint of co-operatlon, then and includee all there yOIl munity" the men and meth find local ods of eighty-five per cent -of the production, distribution and sup troubles in fade the farmer is a hrother of the community co-operation ply-that away, then and there will discover common with the rural banker and you good the dawning of the bf'tter in com' merchant, thai' ,what benefits the day really munity advancement to the that farmer will benefit the banker and the degree every citizen is boosting for every merchant, thai a dollar of wl}at profit coming other citizen seeks - into the will singlEi-mindedness neighborhood directly for the common good-community unity. or indirectly benefit everybody in that community. The rural commllDity activity at its In the wheat variety te�ts conrlucte,d best includes the farmer, the tenant, the in Southeast Kansas under the supervl' hired man, the and other local sion pf the district agricultural agcn�, C' d,\ctor G. professional men, the merchant, the Elling, the Mirnel« wheat, 'a varlPtr of which banker and every soul that believes in meeting Raga Farmers' InstitJlte at Samuel Kinert's has gained consldernble prom,l barn. Ice cream and cake nence in tfiis making the community a happier and served following the 'program. This is flection, usually had bIg ASUMMERone of the better place to earn an honest living most active institute organizations in the state. Even heads. but did not develop the remark· the season able in ,the spirit of the Golden Rule. during busy such meetings as the one shown are held, and tilling qualitk-e that have, bce,n about only The rural community really and truly one-half of these present are in the picture. During 1915,twelve claimed for it. A noticeable and detr+ includes the country bank, the country mectmga were held. The boys' and girls' club work is being actively mental feature of this variety is that in this it has a weak store, the country town school and every pushed neighborhood. Such community work I1S is here straw and falls quickly. conducted will being de of town and country. help to unite the people of country and town and make for The Red Sea and Currel appear to b� jnterest real • sirable In the first family that ever graced progress. varieties of those extensIVely this one of used here, while the new variety earth, the two s,ons of the college and Fuleaster have done well. POW6r FGritting
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such soil as was plowed at Hutchinson during the National PLOWINGTractor Demonstration last week would have been a physical impossibility with horses. The rule was that tlie plows must go down six inches deep and the general' manager and his corps of assistants enforced this rule to the Iet DElIfONS'l'BATION IN HUTCHINSON .BESElIfBLED A M.un.t:OTH ter. They also watched to see that every HEADQUARTERS AT THE TRACTOR ONLY.-TIIE BULLDOG IS THm, SIGN OJ.l' TJIII of the gang used was set cIRcmi GROUNDS.--CUT SHOWS' A SMALL",SECTION plow-bottom HEBE There had AVERY EXHIBITING HAD' QUARTERS SIMILAR TO to go down the full depth, .�_NE.-A.LL COMPA.N�S THOS� SH�WN been no rain for five weeks and some of the ground was hardpan and would have made hard plowing even under favor to .house its exhib The of all the representatives' able moisture condltions, the -Iever, every' engine with 'had a tcnt in which opinion . was . h�mming its. 'This tented eovened a ten- of the tractor companies wen like a concrete city' . "It was pave suppressed power. . plowing a was' a. acre field. summed up O. S. Wespe, prominentl ment," said one of the tractor operators, In the middle of ,the field by ex Kansaa -farmer and also the first afternoon of the demo mounted man, it!" his hand. A noticeable feature of all these general agentl and yet bearing,s. flag im WIIS the made to for one of, the tractor and farm onstration & 125:acre field was turned He was conspicuous, for in all that quar hibits special effort big all when he said, "The down six to eight inches deep in ter section his was the 'only horse. All show in the almplest manner posaible plement companies" upside . of the tractors tractor demonstration has passed the ed about two hours by the tractors in the else was motor power. the mechanienl features There wore full ucational and is now a b.usinesl test. It was hot and but it fur- mounted man waved his flag on exhibitlon, displays stage dusty Th, caee; for the thousands of" farm of the vnri�ls gcnrs, shafts and other proposition are ·to tractors, parts so that visitors could' see at & ers who rl�ady buy glance all the hidden machinery. En· ''We are all eonvineedthnt the tractor that the fanners �ines having parts cut away to show oil � is here 'to stay and devices and other features in, oper will henceforth buy tractors in the same' lDlJ binders or at.ion were on exhibition. This was ap sph'it tlid they buy waftons. Hutchinson preeiated, for farmers who are consider "Last ycar we needed tbe to start tractor sales. ing tmctors are keenly intcrested in the demonstration This we did not. 'Our sales way in which they are made. Farmers ycar heavy have hnd much experience with machin last year did not begin until after the Hutchinson demonstration. This ery and are quick to grasp the advan year we have delivered more tages or disadvantages of :various devices. already tra.etors The tractor men are not trying to put than we sold all last year put together. mind not that somothlng over on the farmer.' 'This provcs to my only Ther but thai are & business-e-e bust the tractor has already arrived, developing grent , tractor to . IIl�S that will eventually enable the the !S here stay." American farmer to still furthcr increase The ,people are interested because the his ellleleney, Alrl�ady much has been coming of the tractor is the coming of a and in no in the 'new era of farming-an'era which will aeeompllahod country . so lessen the Jabor and cut down the labol' SCENES LIKE TIllS AI.L OVER TOE FIELD.-ALMOST TWO HUNDRED world is the man himself producing It is the kind costs 'of Not an institution" DIFFERENT TRACTORS SHOWN AND EVERY ONE HAD ITS FOLLOWEB8" much Oil in this country, farming. of dovelopmonf tllut makes for better conditions of living m rural communi .tiell. The use of tho tractor to give ml)D was a of still in _ his .eon nished just the kind of ... test farmers twice, thrice. There splutter control of more power is but wanted. explosions all along the half-mile lim', tests with Nature and the' soil Fnrmcrs of Kansas know more early as a half-mile stretch of gas engines be another step in advance. a half manufacturers is find deep plowing should be done, bull gan popping and humming, and The spirit· of the mile line of tractors forward shown in the statement & year after year they are confronted with plunged following by after them. tractor official: conditions such as existed in this dem pulling gangs of plows prominent tract manufucturers have taxed onstration field., The land can only be Each outfit had a certain ,of "Over sixty plowed when in ideal condition with' the ground, carefully marked off, which had thpir ingenuity to produce power in n. a inches Thousands of forms. Almost verage amount of horse power available to be plowed six deep. mnltiplidty ,every the ma idea and other work is often so pushing that of farmers trailed along with conceivable of-transmitting powcr the plowing cannot be done when the chines, at the sides or behind, watching is now before you in this great expos, one Millions of dollars have been land is right. The result is, it goes un the plowing of cach and passing tion. spent which was the to make it for to see as plowed or can only be plowed at some judgmcnt as to making possible you late date when rains have come and best record, Unmindful of the heat and sembled in 1\ forty-acre field the great achievement of modern times. softened it so the horses can pull the dust, thcy tramped through the plowed cst plows. ground, the weeds and the stubble, all _ "Buy your tractor-it's here today. with own ex over It needed no scientific test to convince intent on seeing their eyes Look them carefully, study YOJ1r the GENERAL MANAGER HILDEBBAND visiting farmers that the tractors were actly what the many different outfits own requirements. Study possibility under Be INSPECTING DEPTH OF FURROWS up against the real thing at the Hutch could do in such hard ground. TIII'Y of the tractor inspect.ion. per will find PWWED.-ALL TRACTORS REQUIRED mson demonstration, but dynamometer wcre not mere curloslty seekers, but sistent and patient-you your of tractor," TO PLOW FULLY SIX INCHES DEEP tests were made each day so visitors men hungry for knowledge power has made such The same sentiment was in could figure just how many pounds each f'arming which progrl'Rs expressed that means of different words of the earnest tractor was actually pulling. The in recent years only by by many kind "As one watches mechanism used for this not re a public demonstration of this tractor men present. only exists but will be benefited this corded the of could the thousands learn of the the attendance and the intense in by automatically pounds pull great great the have bonn toresb in this said which is sWCjlping across required to move the the advances that made. manifested exhibit," change plows through , editor of the Har country. soil, but' the number of fe!'t traveled, There were about sixty companies ex George F. Whitsett, trac... vester "he realizes that no circus While is the big job for a,lld the total time elapsed in minutes. hibiting tractors, the number shown by World, plowing and no tors on Kansas farms, would not·,· .l'rom this the horse each from one to In cver attracted as mnny 'people thl'Y power. developed ranging fifte.en. be investments if used for eould be calculated. addition thore were a number of com net of conrt. or Iogislaturo ever inspired profitable readily one tractor man more scrlousnces than this plowing alone. As said, The farmer is always interested in panu-s pxhibiting en'gine plows and other people with demonstration." "The average practical farmer is look f,he actual pull of the outfit. The equipment, Ench of these companies gn'at ing for a tractor that will do all the sbtement that a tractor develops eight field harrowing, plant horse on the drawbar means little, work-plowing, power ing, CUltivating, mowing, haying, har �JUt see it pulling two 14-inch plows �o vesting-s-and in addition run a feed �n SOIl as hard as that plowed at Hutch grinder, wood saw, pump, cutter, mson was most silage convincing. anti do other belt ,At the demon the tests showed that the jobs. \yednesday stratilllll it was apparent that mnnufae furrow six inches deep was re U:II�ch turers were recognislng this demand for a of 710 to move (llIIrmg pull pounds a tractor thnt would do different the plow. It would have takcn five many good kinds of work. Tractors were shown big horses to stand under SUCll a pull up harrows, drills, packers, manure pulling . all In fact, during such ex day long. spreaders and other fnrm heme heat even five horses could not mllchinerr. Some have so' kwe worked all at'the usual companies designed day long their machines as to be able to handle that amount of plowing gait, exerting almost kind of field work. Com pUll. A horse should not be expected to any was bcing successfully cultivated ·by exert more than one-tenth of his weight some outfits, and others were opeTnting for an ' all-day pull. wheat headers. This last is B most im To the man who has long realized the portant use of the trnctor for harvost for more power 'Within the control need. our wheat which, like his the at the jng big crop plow o� hands, lincup begin an immense amount of lling of the demonstration each ing, requires public and at a· time when it is afternoon was full of thrills, power killing work on horses, With trnctors opornt A half a mile marked the !urrow long TRACTORS TURNED TIlREE AND FOUR FURROWS WITII EASE IN ing all the headers and binders, harvest point, and lined up on this, FIVE BIG startlD� GBOUND SO HARD TIlAT IT WOUU) IlAVE REQmllEO ing will move forward with mu('h in a row, wl're the com DEEP Btr�tchmg long HORSES TO PULL .It. FOURTEEN-INCII I'L2_W SIX INCIIES grentl'r rapillity than whcre horses must petmg tractors, every machine at the furnish the power. �ape, every operator with hiR hand at N D A RomaBee of the Moonstone Canon Trail
CHAPTER VII. SYNOPSIS' OF PRECEDING C�ERS "Sure I Woulll you quit him now, TBl!l GIRL WHO GLANOED BA.OE. .A of his when • 10nAly prosPlICtor. thinking always wife and ohlld left behInd. fol- they're after him worst!" lows the lure ot the desert In his s"arch for gold. In the desert town men begin win the crossroads in the stood to the "They get him valley notice r"gularlty of his comings and going.. Th"y are gr""n with envy ·finally." the or and d('clde to beat him out his But local" jail, "coop," as it was of claim. Meanwhile. In the lonoly canon he "Mebby. Red's pretty slick at . hoarded tho' little bit.. Aa weekll rolled ATmore called. Un- y"lIow by the water d"creaspd; he CRr,, getaway. If they do pinch him descriptively tully atowrd hi. gold In a pouch and prepared to leave the ee.non. Att"r a fatrful again isolated, its search he finally cornea to a railroad. Here he Is found a man. who that's 'where I come in. I'm the on II: painted, by him . solitary ugliness . glvPH watt'r. but so exhausted tho no lacked even the squalid com being water Is of avail-a. flash eomea OVAr him _witness and the only friend he's dignity and his vision I. forever darkened. Loul"e Lacharme and ot Moonstone got...- associated with Boy.ar "Of course. But dori't monly the word "jail." Ranch accidentally come upon the camp of Overland and Collie (whom Overland you see, m r The sun pelted down upon its bleached, has picked up along the way). Tenlow. the detective, fInds thn pro"prctor by boy, that your way of living is so much the' railroad and rld"s to the to arrrst whom he unshaded roof and sides. The up camp Overland. su"prctll; against you that couldn't renllv burning but after some strenuous arguIng, Overland tactfully "'ap" on Boyar and, through you' · air ran over i.ts warped shingles like a moves. e.capes tho detective. Tenlow'. hors" slips and rolls hond help him? A man's naked word is worth kind of colorless fire. r.recautlousong to the bottom of the cUtt, loavlng Tenlow lying halfway down the , htllsldA. what his friends and turned toward the just neighbors will . HavIng foothills, Overland rel"aHr.1I Boyar and dlallppears In The the allow him for boy Collie, half-dreaming in the brush. At the suggestion of l,ouls8, Colllo_ goes tor the doctor and Is attar it,'and no more." ward suffoclI;ting heat of the started' '&0 arrested. Louls8 t81111 Walter Stone. her uncle. about the arrpst, and tlnally "But ain't a guy no in thif. place, coaxes hIm to go with her and get Collie. Waltor Stone, a Infturntlal got righte bring very . 'his feet as the door swung open. He had ranchman and hllvlng secured Collie's release, takes hIm back to tho ranch. where country!" heard horses coming. They stopped. He he gives hllQ. work to do. "Certainly he has. But he has. to eould hardly realize that the sunlight prove that he is entitled to them, by his was swimming through the close dusk of way of living." the place. But the girl of Moonstone "Then he's got to go to' church, and
. and live Canyon, rcining Boyar round, was real, Rod at Barstow. You told my niece that "'Whenever he feels like it,' I told work, decent, or he don't gl't a and she smiled and nodded a greeting. this Overland Red was 'square.' How him. square deal, hey?" .. "This is Mr. did come "But , Stone, my uncle," she you to be mixed up in it!" "Red laughed and said.fo come on. I why shouldn't he do that much said. "He wants to talk with ''I Collie did not answer. you." guess I'll have to tell you the whole was sick of there, so I run away with Instead, he in With a that noted each un thing, straight. Red always said that to Red. We trled it on a freight and got spected his questioner critically from detai of the the iron tell the was foot. "I lovely fIance place, broken truth just as good as lyin', put off. Red had some water_in a can h'!!ld �o guesB_ Y0'!1're right," he ·the cracked and the un because said ''I've bed, pitcher, nobody would believe UR, any- teen he swiped: It was lucky for us he flDally. heard folks talk like speakable blankets, Louise touchcd her way. And if a fella gets caught tellin' «lid. We kept walkin' and goin' nightR, that before, but I never took no stock. pony and was gone. the truth, why, he's that much to the nnd mf!bby ridin' on freights in the day- They kind of said it because thl'\' Collie rubbed his eyeB, blinking in the · good." time if we could. One day, a. long time knowed it. I guess you say it because sun as he stood gazing after her. "Well, I shall try and ,believe you this after that, we was crossin' the desert you mean it." "Of Walter Stone, standing near the door time," said Stone. "Miss Laeharme again. We got put off a freight that course I do," said Stone beartilv, way, noted tlie lad's clear, healthy skin, thinks you're 'honesb," time, too. We was walkin' along when "Well, here comes my niece with tli" his well-shaped head with its tumble of "A guy couldn't lie to her!" said the we found a guy layin' beside the track. mail, See! Over there is EI Camino black and tho luminous dark ,wavy hair, boy. Red said he wasn't dead, hut was dyin'. Real, running north. My ranch is up ·eyes. He felt an instant sympathy for "Then just consider me her rf!Jlresen- We give him some water. Then he kind there, in the hills. My foreman's name the boy, a sympathy that 'he masked tativI'," said Stone, smiling. of come to and wanted to drink it all. is Williams. If you should ask him for 'with a business-like bruaquesnees, "Well, · Collie squatted in the shade of Red 'No.' Then the kind of work, I helieve he some . meager said, guy got might give you yotl.ng man!" the "coop." crazy, He got up and grabbed Red, I thing to do. I heard him say he needed · "Yes, sir." Walter Stone, the was scared. R man, not . dropping pony's long ago." "Come outslde, It's vile in there." reins, came and sat beside thc lad. Walter Stone cinched the saddle "RI�d, he passed me the canteen and up Stone led his to the north side There was and 'mounted his pony something in the older man's me pony. The told to keep it away from the guy boy's eyes of the an assurance of com- shone as he at the "coop." presence, unspoken because more water would kill 'him, gazed strong, soldierly Collie followed. radeship and that� annulled the figure. Ah, to look like and ride sincerity Then the guy went for Red. 'He's that, to the west he saw the · to reticence about him- dyin' a horse like that I Away hazy boy's tendency on his feet,' said Red. 'It's his last 'peaks.' A lake of burning air pulsed self. He hegan hesitatingly, "My dad Boyar, the black clattered 1IlIsll.' And he tried to hold the guy ponY, up above the hot' :floor of tho was a drinkin' Ma and he' and •. flat, valley. man, died, quieb, talkin' decent to him all the time: stopped "Hello, folks I"· said Louise, ,Over there the hills and the shade got worse at it. I was n. kid and didn't the in her lay They was staggerin' around when the purposely including boy greet .and the road. • •• .somewhere be- care, for he never done nothin' for me. mg, I guy tripped backwards over the rail. His was his We lived back East, over a Collie flushed Then a. bitter ,yond Overland, friend, penniless" pawnbroker's. head hit on the other rail and Red fell on happily. . • • on hunted, • Main street. One come home' ness grew in his heart as he of hungry. day pa top of him. the was dead." thought , Anyway, guy "She the with a timetahle. He sat up 'most all his friend hunted from town brung you!" queried boy. Walter Stone sliifted his Overland, "Yes. I have seen Tenlow, the sheriff. night readin' it.. Every time I woke up, posltlou, to town hy the same law tbat to at the white face. protected He is- to let you go at my re he was .readin'· it and talkin' to himself. turning gaze boy's these law that thl'''- willing, p1\ople-an unjust . - on," he said quest. What do you intend doing, now That was after ma died. "Yes-go quietly. observed and fostered. . that are free!" "In the morn when I "Red was for searchin' the hut I "WI!II 1" you in', was, gettin' guy, said Stone • to come on before we "I don't know; Find Red, I guess." dressed, ,he came over and to take says got caught. Collie's gaze was on the ground. "I sa:ys he Walter Stone nodded... "What then!" the .nocdle he had and stick It through Red, laughed kind of queer, and asked don' know," he muttered. "I don' know," stick it out with Red. the timetable I was scared me, at what!' I 'I . "Oli, They'll anywhere. 'Caught Theil- said, "Well, good luck to you!" And the but I was be .after him sure now. Red's my pal." he was goin' to have the jimmies. But dunno,' scared. ponlea swung into that philosophical 101'(' '''What has he done ·to get the police I took the needle-it had black thread in "Anyway, .he went through the dead of the Western horse who knows his aftQrchim t" it_;_and stuck if through the timetable. guy's clothes and found some papers and journey's length. ''Nothin'. It� the .buneh," He the and awful old letters and a little Ieather with of opened page laughed bag figures th� riders grew smaller. loud and was a whole lot of in it. Red :r�e "The bunch!" queer. Albuquerque where gold-dust said Still the boy stood m the road, watchinc Them out on the the needle in. ,He couldn't the mebby five hundred dollars!" them, he "Uhuh, guys Mo� . went say Undecided, gazed. Then cam« . "Gold-dust 1" jove. But say, are you workin' me to 'name right, hut he kept lookin' at it. an answer to his stubborn self-queation to Red and him "Uhuh I Then Red was scared. He Louise get get pinched again!" "Then he went out and was gone all ing.' glanced back-glanced back buried the and "No. You don't have ·to answer me. 'day and all night. When he come back bag the papers 'way out for an instant in mute sympathy with in the sand and a Th'is man Red is to one made mark on thc ties his ' nothing me, way he showed me a whole wad.of money. I lonelinl'ss. or the other. He took Mi�s Laeharme's to find it says, 'Wllllre did you get it!' He got by." Slowly the boy turned and entered He but she has overlooked that. I "Did find out the dead man's He pony, mad and tells me to shut up. you jait. folded his coat oVl'r his ann, care to ex name?" asked Stone, thought, perhaps, you might "That we on n. glancing curiously steppl'd outside, and closed the door. day got train. I says, at the plain your position. Perhaps you halt boy. Refore llim stretched the hot '\V1lere are Wll goin'1' and he says to grfl�' rather not. You ma.y go now if you "Nope. We just beat it for till' next levf!1 of El Camino the road to th,' never mind, and did I want some Real, wish." pea- station. I was feelin' sick. I !IIuts. give out, beyond. From it· hranched a narro\\'t'j' and "Is tltat straight!" Red, he lugged me to the next water- road, into the southern hill;. "We kept ridin' and ridin' in the same reaching up "Yes." tank. He was wllt!'r on me when to the car; and eatin' bananas and san'wiches pourin' -on, up mysterious Moonstolll' the eame Fllr several tense seconds the lad TJimited along anel stOPPI!el, and with its stf('am and it, gazed and sleepin' settin' at I was Can:yon singing at his his up nights. she throwed the rose to Ul'l. Red told me questioner. Finally gaze about gral'lous shade; Somewhere just sick when we come to Albu- about beyonrJ. shifted to the hills. "I guess it after. You wouldn't go hack on and in the fastness or you're querque. You see, was whl!re the higher, shadowy. he said ''I that, a pilI like that, would 1" the straight," presently. guess needle went the timetable, and you great ranges lay the.. Moonstom' a if through I don't know that I she wouldn't ll!\ve for relation "No, should." Ranch . • • you dad said we would off there. He her home. wasn't g(·t "That's me!" said the "Then "I you straight." awful drunk that boy. guess, steppin' up smart, I�ll ht' got night. went The eld(�r man laughed. "That's right tlley to work and pinched us at there just about in time for SUPPPT." ''Next day he said· he was to Rarstow. Said we -she wouldn't, young man." goin' quit killed the guy be said the boy. And he I. - whistling cheerily, and make a fresh start. I knowed cause his head was "How's the sheriff guy?" as:ked the. liquor smashed in where set his feet toward the south' and thf' . . he 'cause he said that boy. 'wouldn't, always he hit the rails. They tried to makl! Red Moonstone Trail. next mornin'. But I ''He's well What guess he tried to Ray that he robbed the after killin' getting along enough.. guy I don't know. CHAPTER VIII made you ask?" quit. him. But Red told everything, except "One Ill' tell THE TEST · "Ob, notllin'. I hate to. see any guy night he didn't clime back to the elidn't about the letters and the
. , was Aft(lr a gct hurt." room 'where we stayin' upstairs over �old.eluBt. They tril!d to make me say week of weeding in the vog'" "I'm glad to hear you say that. I be the saloon. Thl'Y found him 'way down It, but I daSRf!nt. I knowed they would table garden, Collie was put to work the track fix sure if gin to think you are n. bigger man than next day, all cut to piecos by Red I did, anel he told me not rep�iri�g fen.ce. There were many mill'S he is." the train." to tell about the gold if they did pinch of It, meloslDg some twenty thouSllnd "Me!" And Collie :flushed, misunder The boy paused, reached forward, and us." . acre� of grazing land, and the erm:s· standing the other's drift. "I gucss plucked a withered stem of grass which "They let you go-after the police ex- fencmg of the oat, alfalfa, fruit, ana you're kiddin'." 'he wound round and round his finger. aminatjon. They how is it that the au- vegetable acreage; The fence was for "No,' I mean it. Mr. Tenlow still Walter Stone sat looking across the thorities are after you again!" ever in need of repair. The heavy win· sccmed pretty hot about your share in valley. "It's the bunch," replied the boy. ter rains, torrential in the mountain�, this-er-enterprise. You sel�m to have "I guess his money was all gone," re- "Them guys out there kninved the dead ?ftl'n washed away entire hill�ides, ll'ay' no hard feelings against him." suml'd the boy. "Anyhow, 'bout a year guy had a mine or n. ll'dge or somethin' mg a dozen or so staggering posts h.,l,j "Huh·! He shouldn't to be sore at me. after, Overland Red comes along. He where he got the gold, Nobody was together by the wires, tangl('d and sllg· I didn't spur no horse onto him and ride comes to the saloon where I was staY-in', wisc to where. They told at the jail ging. Cattle frequently pulll'd loosl'n!',l . him down' like n. dog. I gueRs Red -they give me a job clc!lInin' out every how he uSI·d to e'ome in once in a while pORts from the enrth .by knl'('ling 'und,'r would 'a' killed him if he'd seen it. Say, day,-and he got to talkin' a lot of stuff and send his elust to Los Angeles by the the wire and working through, oblivioll�
did 1". . about to the barbs. nobody got Red, they sCI!nery and livin' the simple life, express company. All them guys like ,Again, "stock gone a liW,' ''I haven't heard of it. How did this and all that guff. Thll bart(!Qeler got to the shcriff and the station agent. and loco" would oftl!n charge strnigllt man Red ceme to pick you up! You're jawin' with him, and I laughed. and the all the people in that town are workin' t�rough the rigid and ripping wire bnr· bartender rlers as (If pr.et� young to be trampin¥." hits me II. lick side thn head. try in' to find out where the gold come though thl1_ stranc1� werl' he "cross your heart you am't tryin' to Red, hits th(! bartender a lick side of from. They tllink because Red and mf! thread. PORts would split in the sun, queer Red' You ain't tryin' to put the his head.::.:....and the bartender d�m't get up is tramps that they can make us tell the staples would drop out, 'leaving sng· mjun on us, are 1" away. 'I'll learn him to hit and arrest us whenever like. But spaces 'whieh cattle never failed to sign you ... right kids,' they ging "No. ,I have heard all about the Mo- said Red. 'If you learn him to hit 'em ev(m Red don't know, unleRS it's in the find and take advantage of. Trees up' affair-the died on as hard as I to 'then it llC hid in rooted the rain oftI'll lave that that,' Red, the sand." • 'and wind would prospector says pRpl'rs by . \he traek-and the arrest of Overland will be all off with me the 'ncxt time." "That sounels like a pretty straight fall across the fence. . "'Does he hit you very often!' said story," said Stone. "So you iDtend to Altogether, the maintaining of n. sen' '''.rland ·ll.ct.-COI>Jrlabt. HOlllbton KUIiIn Red. stick tothis man Red 1" OompanJ. [Continued on Page �ine. J Government I�vestigates Meat Pt"oduction
. self-feeder in the and let your meat has not kept your dry production want of these min increase in have all they pace with the popula pigs erals and won't have any trouble THATtion and that its failure to do so, you with worms. Since cholera. is responsible combined with increased cQst of produc about 90 cent of the losses in diminished power of for per tion and purchasing vaccinate our to swine, I believe we should the unit, has contributed money when occasion demands it. If we not the Unitcd hogs higher prices, 'onJy.in usc sani stated will use the above ,:tutes but all over the world, is suggeattcna, tation about our premises, good ,feeding in Part I' of the exhaustive report' on the lice and worms away '-of- in the of methods, keep ,� the meat situatior, preparation . of and vaccinate our hogs if in danger �.� which specialists in the Federal Depart- we will not 'lose, through dis lIIt'nt of have been engaged cholera, Agriculture we have made on it is ease, much of the profit for some time. This country, said, "THAN A TRACTOR our •. MO'RE in a world-wide move hogs is in \' participatin� Now we have been careful it not that the suppose What it will do for you: mont, and ,IS expected a side hollows or BUts with: our methods and have produced good constructed to take hills, situatlon will any radical change It plows. Specially loads from five undergo Next comes the very.im It dumps, pulls future. On the other crop of hogs. out trouble. :tt;-mows hay and-grain. hauls, in the immediate' the best kind of belt work item of them to saws wood, does any stationary it -is believed that there ,will be portant selling to,six tons. Itgrlnda feed, bar ha nd, here is where some' of mgehines, 'seeders, harvesters, and in the advantage. Right around the farm. It operates threshing a gradual growth expansion is road rollers and and us lose the profit. Producing only mulchers, disks, corn shellers, bay tools, baling presses, world's production of beef, mutton, to rows, one-half of the game disposing of it which, not equal the other farm idiplements_ traction jlork mayor may the other half. It is a is' the invention of creating an" advantage is 'Ehe secret of this great machine increase of the ," rate of meat-eating pop farmere are notorious fact that we long automatically..: uln tion, on our at least should get on production but short selling cannot afford to be witbout this machine, you In this gradual expansion ap You A1l!erica to the best advantage. We ;, Nilson at once. It is especially !or the ' desillned. have Between products on Jwnrs to begun already. more and complete inform'!'tion to Its SimpliCity should this thought no expense. Easy operate. there was a markcd de give subject farm-practically up-keep and 1013 '!;iny . ]007 than we do.-H. B. WALTER, in order. in the attention ' makes it easy to keep cline in the number of cattle and light weight machine in this Atchison the wonderful features of this ad, but in the last two this' County. We cannot t(!ll all country, ,years which will be sent, you absolutely has write for complete information, " not only has stopped but given way but today . . The estimated free of cost. _' o a perceptible mcrease. Crude Oil Kills Hog Lice THE LA CROSSE LINE OF PLOWS number on farms and ranges-on January in warm lice increase very rapidly LaCrosse tractor however, still Hog information on the famous ], 1!J16, 61,441,000, is, the that most of Also write for complete for weather. Due to fact, exclusive features much below the corresponding figure it iii The LaCrosse line embraces many are on the of ,the hog, drawn implements. of them body the farmer'a requirements, having With the exception The result of a careful of 1007, 72,534.000. to rid of them. developed as a «tudy at the checks due to losses from hog fairly easy get the most efficient work and temporary easiest to do this is to crude in view the giving of long service; doing in recent way II:pply draft. are entitled to there has been years brush or with the least, possible you oholera, can be done with a same 'time being operated the oil. This in the market. Write us now a Increase in production in most successful line of plows persistent old socks around the posts know about the understood. On 1016, the num by tying reference to details not fully of swine. January 1, and them with this line, with any at' the hog lot saturating regarding asking her in the country was estlmnted the 'tOU'BOTTOM PRICES crude oil. When the louse bites, WE ARE PREPARED TO GIVE as with 58,200,000 AT THIS TIME (i8,000,OOO, compared on the oiled and THE FIRST FIFTY F�RS rubs that spot post IMMEDIATE SHIPMENTS AND TO in 1910. On the other hand, the hog AND STARTLIKG. April, trouble is soon over. PRICES ARE GOING TO BE the OUR " this _ ANSWERING THIS AD, number of sheep declined during oilers are write from in 1910 to 40, A great' many patented hog If want to sne dollars, porlod 52,500,000, tar . you how also on the market, of the coal �OO,OOO in 1016. As the decrease, Any used in a 2 cent sufficient to offset the in stock dips may be per over, is not SALES, COMPAI' be said to 3 cent solution and they carry SOUTHWEST crease in cattle and swine, it may per the ivalue of. disinfection in KANSAS that the total production of meat in the with them WICHITA to the insect pests. United States is increasing. but that this addition killing however, cannot be put on increase is not yet proportionate to the These dips, to kill all the lice and growth in population. _ strong enough so a. second or third dipping eight meat would nits, The available supply of is With or ten days apart necessary. be much if it were not for the greater the nits are killed the first disease and crude oil by ('IlOrmOUS losses caused by With the losses from application. exposure, sheep, the is some in diseuse have been about the same, but There danger covering oil on With swine entire of the hog with crude from exposure much larger, body If the are large and the relative prevalence of hog cholera is a hot day. 'hogs better to brush half the hog -the determining factor in the fat it is pvrhaps the other half the next In 18!l4 this was as low one day, and annual loss. in the amounted to In the meantime it will rub :1, 2,200,000, but in 1!l14 it day.. ha<1 mud and dirt sutIiciently to relieve the j ,000,000. If these 7,000,000 hogs been saved, it is said, they would have danger. com produced enough meat to furnish every , A concrete hog wallow is a great in family in the United States with forty fo.rt for hogs and will help destroy made in the pounds of pork. sect pests. This should be and should be about twelve inches Despite these facts the United States shade four feet wide nnd enough to remains the greatest-meat-eattng as well deep, long nation in accommodate, as many hogs as neces as the greatest meat-producing The bottom should upward the world. Approximately twice as sary. .slope sidl's so that the will much meat is consumed in this country toward the hogs out. This no trouble in g(!tting [\5 in before the war, and the have Germany should be filled with water once total normal consumption in Russia, wallow and in this water may r:l'cat and France, is less than in or twice a week, Brftain, or some of the coal tar The be placed dips, �:el'many. per capita consumption kill than crude to dlsinfcct the water and 15 also far 'greater in this country oil, lice. Such a wallow will for anywhere else with the exception of the pay several times over the -\ustralia and New Zealand. itself during season. own exports. now consist largely ,Our these are or pork and pork products, and from corn. In Tushes dpl'ived to a great extcnt Pull Pigs' 1!J15 we im the fiscal years ]914 and The tusks of small pigs arc very sharp and frozen ;'OT'ted more fresh, chilled, and while fighting over their feed they beef and mutton than we exported and lacerate each other about the im frequently mora beef of all descriptions was mouth. This would not be so serious if 1!J14 than was In "bull nose" infection i,o!'ted in exported. it were not for the the t his limited respect we have joined sometimes found in, the pens. the whole g�eat majority. Practically Injuries inflicted upon each other by in meat is con lIT the world's export trade while feeding are a source of countries - pigs maintained by nine Argen siderable loss to the Animal Husbandry' Mex of Facti tina, Australia. Canada, Denmark, department of the Kansas Experiment SELDOM SEE Book New Zea Handy reo (under normal conditions), Station. but hone Know a big knee like this, your Every One Should the United States, and Uruguay. who has of the on hi. Thlnp l:I.l1d. Mr. Gatewood. charge' have a bunch or bruise of to may Dlustratec1. Federal Department Agd on the station farm, attempts or Throlt. 1118 in Sile, Fully �Jl'c1l1ar, hogs Ankle, Hock, Stifle, Knee Pages, 8J!:8 rlllture. avoid the trouble by pulling the tusks 110 Different Subjects but this does not always of the pigs, and pre average temperature ' them free from infection. Bull Including Keeping Hogs Healthy keep cipitation, water power, farm crops, disease. Once the < nose is a fatal hogs national An factor in making It clean it off without laying the great war, income tax, parks, important it as well be killed. will them free get they may DO hair lands, from is to keep No blister, banking, pensions, tariff, public - l�l'ofit hogs horse up. com- ; outbreak a few and all the subjecta of rom disease. A single mny �oDe. Concentrated-only army navy, made in '2 per mon interest. ':,lI'oep away all the profits years. Cholera Checked required at an application. dis Hog drops .pedalln.tructioDl las� 'We willuend this in �c..ne factors in from dell,ered. o-rtbe .lour ca.e for While they keeping free an outbreak of cholera bottle antloeptlc There ,was hog free. AUSORBINE. JR.• to are methods and Book 8 It valuable book free, postage paid, any �'iI�e proper sanitation, good this for Painful S..ellln,.. Bn -�in Leavenworth County, month, IInlmelll for manItIncl. Reduce. for a 1n free from lice and Varicooe Vrln.. one who sends just $1.00 yea'r's fecding and keeping Mr. Rosa ad Gialld.. Goitre. Wen.. Brul.... the sixth time this year. lar,ed • If or fuel oil is the Paln. Price.l anc! IZ to KANSAS FARMER_ you Thin crude oil, vuceination with serum VarlCOlld... Olel 8or... Allay. subscription vised immediate Manufactul"ld only by time will be �"nl'ms.)l'st louse and nit killer I know of. We bottle al drullIlall or deUnred. are already a subscriber, disinfection. So far II.. Sprlnafield.MIIi. alone, and thorough W.F.YOUNG. P. D. F•• 211 Temple Address Illny the free from worms by extended one year. keep pigs this not a single case in this county them with of mineral yenr :KANSAS XANSAS' ,lJpplying 'plenty further than the farm. the market for pure-bred FARMER, Tt)PEXA, salt, , has gone original If on lHatter, such as wood ashes, cop- demonstration of the This is a KANSAS FARMER live peras salts. Tho best way splendid stock, read WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS and glauber action in out result of prompt stamping MENTION KANSAS FARMEB to feed them is in a self-feeder, having find what want. PLEASE _ you cholera outbreaks. �ach article in a. separate division. Keep hcg SAVE 'THE STRAW. TON of wheat straw contains ten value of $3.71.a ton, 'the total value of The Silo . Dickey pounds of nitrogen, two pounds of this straw would be $446,000,000. The
. . A phosphorous, and fourteen pounds magnitude of the annual output of straw of potash. These three are the main con may be appreciated when these figures stituents of a fertilizer. Six years ago are compared with the total production these elements were worth $2.58. Since of cultivated hay, which in 1914 was then they have greatly increased in' price estimated at 70,071,000 tons. In other and some are difficult to obtain at words, there is about one and two-thirds any. price. as much straw as cultiyated "hay pro The amount of wheat straw burned ruced in the United States. The total the United States in 1914 was value of straw.as giyen above. is ex 14,357,000 tons, or a total of all straw, ceeded only by the value of 'such crops including oat, barley, rye, and rice, of as corn, wheat, oats, hay, and cotton. It NowI 17,613,000 tons, according to an investi "Of this total production of straw it Buy gation by the Bureau of Crop Estimates. was estimated that about 55 per cent This straw, in ]914, was estimated to ( 17,613,000 was 8 . Later tons) burned, per Pay be worth, on an average, $3.71 a ton for cent (9,212,000 tons) was plowed under Save :\'Ourself aninst loss of crops bl' having feeding purposes. Some of this straw or. otherwise disposed of. SUo resay to use U drouth and hot winCls come. being worth more than others, such as rice and oat, was not burned or wasted . Powdery Mildew of Grapes to such a great extent. The total value We Can Once H. N. R" writes some Ship !! of all this straw that was burned was Republic county, is wrong with his grapes. He has We _ �:raa IIInzperlencecl DlBBOD to erect the lIDo. valued at $56,533,760. thing three rows, were all'mulched with 8eDd tar OUI' book tefllDlf why the Dickey SIIO"!"Salt- This is an economic waste that has They straw in Glazed-Vitl'lfled-i8 better all othel' kind.. Reed early the spring and two rows \haD no excuse. Although the soil of Kansas what the man .ye who OWDa one. Cam_ the DIckey seem all but the third row, an is now the time is but a few right, fertile, - Glazed Silo with all oth_ If � do. )'011 wiD bQ the has made little distant when acre of the early variety, growth �'. . \ Y(larS every and the leaves are of a sickly yellowish Let UII ·bow about what like atlo :roo 'WIlDt, iuuI _ Kansas soil will need replenishing with wm Inlltnlctfonl with blue color, The grapes there quote )'011 pricea. Complete some kind of a fertilizer. Where a farm hang exposed, - DriD� - :roa need to beaiD buUcliDc at GDCe.o few leaves to cover them. eYV:vthIDIf is to small for being planted grain twenty-five We referred to Prof. or in succession the loss of thi.s inquiry Dickey. aay ,Mig., Co. thirty years Albert Dickens' of .the Col- matter is from to' Agricultural organic 32,000 50,0.00 He SUoDepL 01)'..... lege, S8.ys: , ...... pounds an acre. Unless some of this "I think your grapes are affected with organic matter is replaced in some form powdery=mildew, This fungous disease the yielding of the land will row! qualities 18 much more on some varieties become materially lessened. The amount prevalent of 2 than on others, but practically all varie of manure produced on the average each cien< ties are likely to be more or less affected. year will not entirely replace this loss two "The most satisfactory measure of Of fertility. It will be necessary to add unti control i� to spray with Bordeaux mix commercial fertilizers as are two just they ture as soon as the fruit is well formed doing in the Eastern states and in the or a and at intervals of from two or three countries. Then so much die foreign why weeks to the weather con straw allowcd to in smoke when according hav: go up ditions, until the fruit to it is so valuable as a fertiliZer? The begins ripen. actu The most satisfactory -formula to use replacing of the straw on the land will to for this purpose is the 3-4-50 mixture. p to keep up the for several help . fertility Bordeaux mixture is a chemical com plan years yet. farr bination of copper sulfate, Blue Vitriol Straw will also keep' the soil from mor or Blue Stone, stone lime and water. away so bad in sections of the he ( blowing It can be mixed in as state where this is a common occurrence. purchased ready T small as one pound packages." The straw is spread on the ground and the! disked into t4e soil. This practive will not only keep the soil from blowing Two-Row Tools but will also hold the snow on the land. J. -B., of Nebraska, asked in KANSAS Farmers who have tried this use of FARMER of July 22 if it is advisable to ( straw report it a most valuable asset use two-row tools, such as listers and in. increasing the yield of whcat. cultivators, on rolling land. The ques The feeding value of straw is an im tion is certainly pertinent and needs item. This is well shown in a consideration all portant thoughtful among leeo recent bulletin from the United States farmers. From years of observation and nee- Department of Agriculture. At Hays, experience it is quite well settled in the T Kansas, also its feeding value has been minds of the best farmers in this sec unu StOI demonstrated. tion that the lister should no have place liar "To bring these straws up to thew among the implements of the farmer ecn real value on the farm," says the govern whose farm is rolling, or at least not he S ment bulletin, "would necessitate their used. The two-row lister, ern: extensively Sto fed or used as for cattle will being bedding however, do beautiful work where dis. and other live stock. The gain which any other lister will, and the same thing tie accompanies this feeding because .of in may be said of the two-row cultivator. ran National Hollow Tile Silos rail creased soil fertility can hardly be calcu The most successful corn raisers are Test of years has proven the strongly re-In- bst Foreyer - lated, but needless to it would be those who their forced Tile 8110 to be the most permanent, say thoroughly plow ground. hal emclent and economIcal Silo In use. Cheapest to Install. Freedom enormous. Of all systems for maintain This can be done late in fI'om leisurely along 1 Trouble. No repaIrIng or upkeep•. No paInting. No blowIng In soil fertility, none is so the fall and in when there w. or blowlng down. No cracking. ,No rusting or rotting. No freezing. ing practical early 'spring or as as lie Write . easily available that of feeding is nothing else With toda.T tOI' information-prices, seriously pressing. em live stock. this when the rush work FIll out coupon and mall to us. You will get the .Informatlon by preparation of ( return mall. Get otarted on your silo NOW. PrIces: 12x30, $169; "The economical "feeding of cattle begins, take a loose ground lister, which str 14x30, US8: 16x35, U24; 1.8x35, U42: 20dO, ,313. neccessitates the use of large amounts is just simply a corn planter with large National Tile Silo Company 1I1�:N:AsLgl��,8ML:'G, of roughages. Experiment stations have disk blades, to throw out the furrows...... 'I1.lItIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIllIlIllIllIIllIlIlIllIIllIlIllIllI1I11I11II11I11III1II11I11IIII11I1I1I1I1I11I11I111I11111111111111111111111111111tHtllllllilUllllltn1lllllllllltlUIIIIII found no more efficient way of utilizing At a time when there was no rush of rOI i.e T roughage than through cattle. Consider work, we have expended and used a little I upect to build ••Uo about tons capac1I.7 feet ph dng these factors. in all thcir phases it more power in the preparation of our seems that there.js little doubt that this but 1 am sure str in diameter by •••••••••••••••. teot In hel,lht, about the month of . sys- ground by method, 1'1....0 send me 'information and prices. tems of crop soil the farmer so will be re tho growing, permanent doing amply th. and cattle are inter- fertility, feeding warded for such expenditure. tir : : ADDRESS . ' lNAlIE dependent, Weare now ready' for the rush of eo �II "The total production of grain straw work with a two-row planter instead of in the United States in 1014 iii estimated a two-row lister. Four horses will plant a,t about 120,000,000 tons, or an average more acres in a day with the planter 3\' OR of 1.14 tons acre from than six will with a two-row lister-It CU�ED per 105,406,000 hi � acres of � Heaves MONEY BACK producing wheat, oats, barley, rye, saving 50 per cent of power. After of Dalrd's Heave RemedY permanently rice, flax, and buckwheat. At an average we are done planting and ready for cul- cures heave. or your money Is re Sit funded. Give Balrd'B Heave Remedy fin I" anImal's feed and keep It workIng. el, It one package falls to cure, send tor u your money. Write for free descrip IV: tive matter. at DAIRD MANUFACTURING CO. at Dolt 711 PurceU, Okl.. (, fe hi ,Seed Wheat $1.35 Bushel al Varieties GI'OWB lor _ Pure. Seed PllI'JIOSeB. Supe�lor to all other varIeties of Seed Wheat. Excels all other varieties In yl..ld8 fs�� :rg�':-�...anl"��;t f��ri!,�T��IP��vewf���� Wheat. Also Rye, TImothy, Clover and Al ,When falfa. Highest gradeB and lowest prIces. writing to KANSAS We save you InOney on every purchase, FARMER live stock WrIte today. advertisers, SEED HOUSE, Sheilandoah,lo_ please mention this paper. RATHK3N i_ THIS 8-16 TRACTOR IS BEING SHOWN OPERATING A !lA�E SPBEADER ON .e I'LOWED READ KANSAS'"ARMER'S GBOUND.-GREAT INTEREST BEING TAKEN' IN' SI'READING llANUKE l: CLASSIFIED AND STBAW.-USE OF THE TRACTOR MAKES POBSmLE MOBE BAPID WoBK c ADVERTISINC PACE FOR READY BARGAINS
, / . of last at the great/tractor The Steel Mule-repeated its sweeping victory year Bates. saw finished at Kansas. Hundreds of farmers came, delDOnstr8tion just Hutchinson, " .... machiDe built, aDd that the Bates Steel Mule was' the only real ....e- and were convinced abowD. farm with it more a year than'any other uactor that they could do mere different jobs days Bates Steel Mules was eVID gnatertbIa ,_,. Great as were the sales last year, the number of buyers of
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and apparently tivation, it requires a lister cultivator is frequently reported on a scale. -There to follow the listed com, and four horses never duplicated large com is no reason ulider the sun why if we use the two-row tool. On the s1iining a farmer could not as large planted with the furrow openers three produce if he would as till a horses with a harrow will take three yields thoroughly tract as the do the small rows at a time in place of two--a saving large boys cent in effi tract. of 25 per cent, and 50 per Stanolind Trador seems to forecast that we ciency-and the com can be harrowed The (uture Gal. Engine 2! better for farm two or three times. Harrow the corn must pai wages help, hand must be Is the of the Standard on Company, (Indiana). until it becomes too then take a and on the other they product large, c:baracter in itae1L more efficient, The more efficient and That's sufficient certificate of two-row cultivator of the lighter type, horses will han . is coming on the It is 1under the watchful eyes of men who have or nny kind" that three complex machinery produced as the railroad dle and do it fast. I know farmers who' farm just as sure large made a life study of lubrication. its mile of cars have followed out some such method that engine hauling freight It is made oexpressly for pa' eugiDe tradora where tero- The man 0 the sman one. , actually get enough more com per acre has superseded aene is used for fuel. on the farm who studies his methods to the entire expense of cultivating, for as well pay idca It is equally efficient stationll1Y pa engiues I know one a1f(f those of his neighbors with the planting and gathering. as for lubricating bearings of all types of harvester mach of labor and power farmer who claims he got twenty bushels of greater efficiency inery and heavy pariDp of tractora. than is the successful man of the future. more per acre from sueh methods
the 0 he did from the old method. Method and system must take place a V. AKIN, Minimizes Fridio. ad The question is often asked, why in of haphazard guess.-V. - Repair Expeue & marvelous _Intal... the conect IubricatIDc body __ at ...b...... these . 'h boys' contests yield Riley County.. ' temperature. -. It Idd8 power Md Ute to � _..... Itd_awaJ' with IICOI'ecl eyllnden. OVER·LAND It's aD on ofcreat dllrabillt)'. It'. UIM! mean. perfect lubrlcaUon and that's the secret of etaclenq In all tractor&. Dou'tpractice fa... ecGDOIIIl'. Ioterior � (CoDti.uecl From Page, Siz) - GiI_..-aLraqpuce In tbeeod. "
11B14 Williams. Standard·Oil Iceable ience-llne on & well-ordered ranoh with. although you 0&110" Company but hla teeth ara all good yet. . (""""'"' nece,sltates eternal vlallance. "Baldy·s old. on W. Cblc U.s. A. Ju,t eaBY now. Ride In your saddle, not fa Adame.Street, ..o. Tho Moonstone Rancho was well ordered I your reins. That's It! And _y. kid, Under the direct of Walter supervision would 'a· got them atapl"a and that a:ie Stone's "Brand" Wllilama. Wil ioreman. before crawllD' the hOllS, eh?" liam" cowman of the old was a Wyoming Collie flushed. He dismounted and walked school : lean••Inewy. taciturn. to the foreman's omce. When he returned Wllliama S0111e ten years- beiore, Williams. seeking to the corral. the horse wall gone. with had ridden over the range still sat on the corral bars smoking and SemlllOyment,tone, Returning. the cowman remarked gallling earnestly at nothing. llke your stock, and I'll dlscollsolately. "I corner of the stable Collie saw at Round the tie to you. But, say, It'll onl,. playln' the pony. his nose peacefully submerged In. ranch In' on thousand fenced. I was twenty 0 the wator-troueb, but his eye wide and vigi raise,] In Wyoming." lant. The boy ran toward him. Baldy "A II right," Stone had 0 replied. "Play snorted and. wheeling. ran back Into the hard and we'll get along first rate." corral. circled It with an esprellllion whlcb little of EVcry Inch of Brand Williams' six feet said plainly, "Let us play a game shall "leeped In the astringent ot experience. tag. In which. my youQ_g friend. YOU • Hase played hard and prospered, as did bl. always be ·It.''' employer. Again Collie tried to rope the ponJ'. tn Collie stood awaiting the foreman's "Want any help'" aakeil Wlillams. as st��('tions. slid rrom the corral barB to the ground. Eve,o fence?" &liked WIlliams. mend And Collie disentangled his legs ·'i\(Jpe.n "Nope." from an amazing contortion of the rlata and "Ccod. can learn right•. Go Then you &8 he had the that trled to whirl the loop seen rope a cayuse-get IIOme .taples and Tbere's cowmen whirl It. I.etlc axe In my olftce, and go to It. •• "You Pien t Y fence "Hold on, lIOn!'· old Wllliama. don't to him with 1'h" ··Go· rope a cayulIB·' momentarUy mean right. but Ito rope that the boy. but he went IIlIently to the saddle on. It you looped horn, he, t e would clean to Cala shtagg"redcarral. secured a rial&. and by puzzling like as nOt, yank you feet out of that IJ]"yful ponle. by hili amateur taCtiCII he basIUI before you got your In. .Anyway. illc'nally entangled ··Baldy." a white-faced mea of rope you're'standln' Calabaa.. dueO up of peaceful mien but uncertain YOu .In·t golD· to ; you're . 'dOWoponyISIl'l3ition. the other way," laz Williams, watching the performance, Collie waa learning things rapidly. and. II Y, rolled a straw-paper clgaret. better BtllI; he was learning In a way that Sil u h saddled bed to the post. bridled and would cause him to rem"mber. no outward sign of aWkwardly. Baldy gave WllIlamR "poke sharply to the pony. lllallgnant Inward Intent of getting rid �;5 Baldy stoPPl'd and IIy"d the foreman with lad the minute he mounted. I \,;,110 vapid Inqul.ltlvene8& ··Now. BOn, got illiams drew a match across his slowly to tell you." and the foreman 51 eClt. ending with a thr(lfl thlnlt" from elbow to wrist. on fI to hia gathllred up· the reins. "Firat-keep that was extremely convenient c�rne keepln' your mouth Bhut and teDdln· to He wasted no effort at anything. agar"t.e half bustneas, It pay.. Second_lways drop lVas a man who never met a yawn IV your retns over a hoas's head when you get but only gave In to It when actually ott. whether he's trained that way or not. abay, to. Collie climbed Into the saddle And last-alway. figure a hoss thinks he anl;gOdstarted for the corral gate. He arrived know. more than you do. Sometimes he th' far ahead of the horse, He got to hi. does. Somlltlmes he don't. Then he won't fe;(eand brUShed his knees. The pony W&8 hu tool YGU sO frequent. for you'lI be watchln' round the corral' with marvelous wouldn't 'a· Bald that much, only ag�IPlngI ty him. I for so old a horse. I hear. ypu're a tenderfoot from the Baat. left-handed man." never did llke a It you was a tenderfoot from the Weat. .YOU sa;'He get on _W1l1lams gravely. "Nell:t time would 'a' had to take your own medicine." hind see If he don't trom the other side, and Collie's shoulder was lame from his fall bet"' In a hurry. Let Hold on; don't be and was becoming stiff. but he grinned hl";;1.Ve. he'll throw a few more jumps. then which Qu chllertully. and said nothing, pleased tor And say. son. '. It today most likely. Williams. 0 I� does take to buckln' with you again. U .:� The foreman leveled his mow. keen eyes choke saddle to death hangln' that 0. o�·" a. at him ior a minute. "You'll find Bprlng to the horn. Set up straight, lean Ill"' You'll under the live-oaks by the third cross-fence back, and clinch your knees, i:e�'" north. Reckon you'll get there about noon. but 'you might IL8 well anyhow, for fire. I thought I at'�rtPl!led.r gbt." Keep your eye peeled Been somebody up there a. I come acr08S se boy approached the horllB again. from the corral early this mornln'. We cu;ue tbe mounted. dangling relna. and again Clome cloBe to burnln' out here once. account 'llal�d Waa aa demure as a splnater In If ketch chu Yh of a hobo's fire. Understand. you He actually looked ploua. anybody cantelopln' around a-toot. YOU just erc. toward the gate. urged the poDY ride 'em off the range pronto. Tba.t's all." llnl�l1leY II reared. be JI. SPade bit ain't made to pull teeth [T9 Conti�ued.] KANSAs FARMER ;4.ugusti 5, 1916
Study Cost of Production of production is an important sometimes called "blood meal." Before factor in figuring profits. The man of this I tried , learning remedy various COST as a selling cream, rule, lays great cures, and lost a number of calves. stress ou the he receives for price butter , "I place two or three spoonfuls of fat. So much the stress, in fact, that it dried blood in a back the bottle, calf up would seem that t11C difference between in a corner, open his mouth and pour the profit and loss in cow was en meal down his throat milking and keep his nose a matter of received for the tirely price elevated until he swallows. Do this two It is til product. right at the farmer or three times a day and he will should sell his stop butter fat where he can scouring and get instead of the lively dying get most for it. If he sells 200 as they often do. of butter a pounds fat from cow per "This is effective with calves of at 30 cents any year instead of 25 cents, he It is no age. simple, requiring mixing or has realized a income greater by $10 on compounding of drugs. I have not lost that cow. and a $10 bill is at any time a. calf since I the dried What is the Farmer worth began using blood up. treatment for or picking scours eight tcn years However, it is a matter of more im Telling the DealerAbout ago. This blood meal is good to mix in that the cow be of such indi portance the feed of calves after they learn to as to viduality produce butter iat at a. eat. It seems to act as a tonic. cost of 10 cents per instead of 20 "In pound pouring it down the calf, be sure cents. The realized a "OLD BEN" profit from cow to let him have a chance to breathe," Big Lump Coal consuming 10 cents' worth of feed to produce a pound of butter fat, selling for When to Cut Corn for Silage For 25 cents a pound, on a basis of an annual Threshing and Home Use? Silage crops should be allowed to be production of 200 pounds, is $30. If the come thoroughly matured, if possible be For the Best cow's charge for butter fat was 20 cents Answer Before Oct. 1st. cause of the food nutriments whicb 0", 'fl .. $50.00 a the on II II ." pound, profit the same produc velop the last of 2nd. best" tion would be The difference in during growing period " fl $25.00 $10. the the "" " " " crop. Corn does not increase 3rd. cow's charge per pound for butter fat, greatly $10.00 in bulk after it tassels out, but due to , as indicated above, is not "Next 25 Best extravagant, the storage of protein and starch in the Answers, each $ 1.00- either. The right kind of cow anti the stalk and ear between the time it tassels right kind of feed, and the two in the out and the time it is thoroughly dented ,ho" Ask Your Dealer for the Coal hands of the right kind of man, will it inereaaes from eight to ten times its t'J'illi produce butter fat at an cost Send Your average original value. k"('1 Replies 10 for feed of 10 cents a cents a feeding pound. In case a becomes too :11'01 It is the which crop dry before profit the man and the it is mill, placed in the silo, the condition may OLD BEN cow have in their own control COAL absolutely be remedied sufficient n'uis' It'�" CORPORATION that is the big in The by adding 1119 McCormick Bldg. thing dairying. ture to cause the to well. mill, Chicago, III. cow-milker has the cost of silage pack production This can be done buckets of h01l1 within his control. It is for him to de by pouring water on the but where water T termine whether or not he will make silage pressure is turn the wut from .As above available, simply money dairying. stated, hose into the blow cork he is in the best pipe. justified seeking price The time for from 11001 he can secure right making silage for butter fat, but he must wut corn is when the kernels are remember that he has little or no control thoroughly dented and the lower have JpJ1 over prices, that the difference in the blades begun to burn. Sorghum should be cut lor II prlces paid by cream buyers can if" honestly silage when two-thirds of the heads are and legitimately be verysmall, and that thoroughly ripened. It is necessary to hpil reducing the cost of 5 or 10 production at the corn when Set'" cents a as get immediately dry pound the result of greater In in I winds begin to burn it up. telligence, is vastly more than Sorghum, hor important feterita, kafir or milo will wait SCI'l'ral the 1 or 2 or 3 cents he be able may to for qua realize from the days cutting without serious .l.un higher price. age. this OWl How about the Blood, Meal for Calf Scours silo? If the dry YOll weather continues the only way to get i ;"t Several have been answered reul 1 inquiries any value from the crop will br t� to Howdo recently rt'garding scours in calves. put it up as silage. Having plenty at ke� You Fill Your Silo? Thos. D. of Hubbard, Neosho County, silage will effect a great saving of ('a,h writcs as follows of his experience: in f'oedlng the stock next winter. There "The and suresb simplest remedy for is no. cheaper or better feed for In ilk scours I have ever used is dried blood, cows.. clu' he To
- always a wonderful crop -is more of CORNa king each year. That is not to be wondered at since ensilage is proving so cheap and economical a feed. More and more we realize the extra profits in the all-year-'round use of green fodder. In the same proportion International ensilage cutters bave grown popular. Here are some International big points. There's the famous special concave knife, with inward shear cut, cutting at outer edge first, hence the greatest volume is cut , near the shaft with least power. The handy knife grinder that is always on the machine grinds one of the two sets of knives while the-- other is working. It's a water stone, leaving the tem per in the knives. Perfect adjustment of knife blades to cutter bar can always be maintained, saving power and doing good work. Heavy channel steel frame, trussed, hot riveted, so that working parts can't get out of line. Self-feed keeps cutting always even; silage may be cut in various lengths. Blower pipe is adjustable to any angle; silage may be delivered to a silo of any' height. Full equipment of safety devices. These features make the Internatiorial the best to buy. See the dealer who sells them.' Write to us for the II II interesting booklet, A Silo for • Every Farm. cut here shown illustrates the ideal way of getting the most from the corn in crop good years as well as the poor. In the It , poor years THEis the only wny to get much return for the work put into the crop. The man with a silo need 1I0t worry over a prolonged dry spell, for 11<1 cu n run the fodder into the silo at the proper time and save that which has been produced in the most form. palatable _ Each of day dry weather is now leasing the chance of a corn crop. A large amount of nutrient material has been produced, but it cannot bv concentrated in the form of grain because of lack of moisture. If left to in dry up the field it will blow away and return but little value in feed READ The to KANSAS FARMER'S CLASSIFIED way avoid this lOBS and save the crop is to build a silo. ADVERTISING, PAGE FOR READY BARGAINS 11 KANSAS FARMER Farmer Dairy Cluh ZhelOdafOmtlain Yo"r� M;}}C AnAmuriconInslifultil done best to clean. all use the strainer, but v"fER you have your Probably Did you ever stop to realize that the soda dirt out of milk. You Institu dirt out of your milk, there you cannot/strain fountain Is as much an American keep Is a German Institu bacteria in it to can strain out the hairs and the coarser tion as the sausage will be enough "French Bread" Is an Institution In A dis but the dirt that does the tion, it, to unless you particles, France and the Plum' pudding an English C'lu'r spoil quicklr dissolved in the milk. them by coohng the milk or harm is that Institution? And the f,unny part of It all c�\ll'ngc soluble dirt carries that one seldom sees a soda the of cold well Every particle of this Is though to te�perature fountain in (and then only for the el'l"IU; into the milk scores of minute organ Europe and It at that sake of attracting American tourist trade) ,r:t(l'I' keep, temp�rature. These and isms called bacteria. multiply just as soon as a foreigner gets to this TI\l' tilly gro�v I�crease org�Dlsms in warm milk and it is country he too seems to learn to love the In warm milk, but In cold very rapidly rei \ rapidly soda fountain. not thrive. their presence in the milk that causes it Jl\ili' tlley do But, It you are old enough to look back tunk should be used for to sour. a few years will remember that only '\ ('ooling you recently has the soda roun cream on all farms where cows A at the comparatively mi'lk ';ll(1 bacteriologist agricultural taln been either so popular or so beautiful in hot weather. If do even hasten al'C' lllilkcd you college says straining may and hygienic. a can make ono bacteria be remember what these old soda 110t bave such tank, you the harmful action of the You may J. fountains looked lI)t_what poor provtaton from a half barrel. Prof. cause it breaks up the larger particles rNV I'asily they made to supply even their seanty this as these n, ',,[ch describes arrangement of filth and scattera tiny organ· trade. isms all through the milk. It is not' What has wrought this great change follows: fountain a na half barrel be placed be to milk free from bae what has made the soda "The may possible produce Institution-a comfort and necessity and the stock deal tional ["'('I'll the pump watering terta, but you can do a great by In the dally lives of men and women-not tl'ough. If there is .much pumping to keeping dirt out of it as you milk. only during the hot Bummer time but the the milk :Whole year 'round. be rlono for other purposes, The rules for keeping milk: clean are several times a with will he cooled day simple. You should milk in a clean trouble. out 1C"tra place. Do not stir any feed in the barn milk arc set in is full "I 'n ns containing the before milking. If the air of each about in ihe hu rrcl or tub. Two holes, dust, you are sure to get a lot of dirt made tIln'l' inches in diameter, should be the milk. Before you begin milking, the barrel. These the cow in t'I'Posite sides of clean the flanks and udder of with the and will much filth out arc t'liitnected pump spout carefully. This keep (bn \l'atl�ring trough by gas pipes or of the milk. Ordinarily wiping with a woo(1 spouts and should be high enough moistened cloth is sufficient, but occa to krrJ! the jars or cans surrounded by sionally the udder may need washing. watl'!' without danger of its getting into In milking, use a puil with most of the til"Ill. As the fresh water is pumped top covered. Until you have used such milk barrel inlo the pipe leading to the a pail you cannot realize how much dirt milk and cools into the it Jl:l"�(,s around the jars will be prevented from dropping th,' milk. milk. These are the things that count "The milk jars should be covered, as for clean milk. You will probably eon ,1101l1d also the top of the barrel. Cov tinue to use the strainer, but be sure to "I'in;.; will keep them cooler as well as scald it each time before using. As soon out the dust. Towels wrapped as drawn the milk should be cooled in a h('p was so evident In the fountain trade. in the nrour.rl each jar will aid keeping screened room that is kept The same principles of purity, goodness the water at most deliciousness made another astound milk cooler. Changing clean. This cooling is importnnabsolutell., and '!'he answer lies In that delicious bever Ing record at growth possible. Bottling It'n�t three times a will keep the for milk sours in the sum day very quickly Coca-Cola, Soon after Its introduc plants have been established all over the from twelve to at tom age milk sweet twenty mer if allowed to atand ordinary tion at the fountains people began to ask country to take care of this branch. glasses hours.' peratures, more and more for this distinctive drink. Just think of It-over 90.000,000 ii the Along with Its demand came the de and bottles of Coca-Cola are drunk every To a void out the jars the soda lifting mand for more places that would serve It. month. So-just as much as Is be a W:\(I'!' is to completely changed, Soda fountains sprang up everywhere, fountain a national Institution ec 1& Coca ncar the Succulence for Cows and at cork 1l1ay be fitted into a hole Important Improving In beauty, neatness Cola the liational Beverage. the floor of the barrel. The drained off One of the fundamental principles in tractive service. It Is a fact that part the soda fountain and all its allied Indus wuur be used for the milk cows is that must may watering gar· feeding they tries have come to play In the economic ,I,'n :t nd flowers. have a certain amount of succulent feed life of the nation today Is due largely to see to It by Coca·Cola. If you do not have a cooling tank, to do thcir best. Succulence simply the stimulus given will, In the same way has the call for bottled if cannot something that means feed their natural )'011 rig up containing beverages grown. In 1899 Coca-Cola In milk or cream. help you to cool your juices. bottles was first put on the market and y a can make same recognition and apprecla Sel' bat sort of record you as much the quick The chemist may find just it In this form as in sweet. Remcm tion was accorded to h,'ping your product nutrient material in a dried feed as in �----���������� bor ,P,C of the conditions of the te!lt is one in the succulent condition, but the of What on (III:\I'I.\' product. you' get cow cannot. In the winter season silage in this point is almost cntirely your furnishes the succulent part of the ration own hands. Some time the year during and no farmer milking 'cows can consider will have to stand the test. you quality himself fully equipped until he can give I:"L for it now )";]lly by beginning right his cows their daily allowance of succu to «tice these mensures for pr. suggested lent feed in the form of corn, cane or clean. kC"i,ing your milk kafir silage.
Keep Milk Clean Nothing will do your cow more good this time of than some :'[i .lc is a food product and our dairy at the.year green sweet club membera should always keep that fodder of some kind. If you have after fact in mind in handling their product. corn, feed her some of the fodder '1'0 l", wholesome, food must be kept you have picked off the ears.
'L41uh Memher Owns Tw-o ,Heifers
'1' WAS disappointed at being unable to start my record on June 10 as I intended, but I have, however, started it now-e-r', M. June 28. I feel ..t since she was that my heifer will prove to be a good milkcr, giving vealed «bout thirty.eight pounds of milk, on the average, at the time I i he calf, She dropped to about twenty-five pounds after that, but she I hns gained each day until now she is giving about thirty-two pounds. alO, expecting her to give forty pounds within a week. I have varied her ,'atlon at times, changing the amounts and cutting some out altogether, linseed I,am now feeding two parts chops, four parts bran, and two parts 011 mea]. .
Ross . I have gotten i llcipe for an anti.fly preparation from Mr. 1 have another Holstein heifer in addition to my contest heifer, but &he . 18 not giving near so much milk. I will try and write oftener. Enclosed find personal check for scales you are selling club members. -GtOBGE H. KUHNHOFF, Leavenworth County. 12
SCHOOLS and fl, COLLEGES cure � wlI � __ yoU LAWRENCE. pr�ctical FARM' LOANS will 1001 able wet ��- DO YOU WANT A These OH81'II best adv8ntues. Oldest In Kansas. LOAN? lar,. enrollment RnC! fin. equipment. De the Exi It you do. write WI. We mand for araduate8 tban we I'an will turn Ish 'if.,eater you money at the lowest AgriclI,lt ��Jtu.d, a�' S�.?:.�keop�; rate, bost follow III •• terms. prepayment prlvlleges otu_la_d boeou they.o to wltb every In :ealwor•• Little T to loan. boOle tbeemployvtralDedfo: �lks cnl �r,::rr. �:;l� .;�tobel:� Housekeepere iog, work.. ralD8tl ...d frieDdohIp. H;nts'H.re tl.. Women Folies Helpful for of tl., Farm CAPITAL MORTGAGE I! , ....WUllIlJl 1I1JII11l1tIIII «lOLLEDB Spec ....nINe Love Is the will ...... filling from one's own and close the top. You will BOOR have COMPANY iog Anotb�r'8 CUP. these 81 Love Is the dally laying down your proof. -:- -:- lUI And taking up. Topeka oIVn A cboo�lng of the stony path 1\ Tbrougb each new plcte day Housewife we That othpr tellt at Can Save Steps two COIMERCIAl may tread eallG The smootber WilY. While exercise has instruct Love Is not blind. but looks ahead many good quali ties, most housewives would be less fa If yOI Through otbor eyes Whit, And ask� not: "Must I give?" but at the end of the and would Plymouth Rock. tigued day Hard to as school�, ���COLLE6£ "May I sacrifice?" beat all-purpose fowls. Bxcel have, more time for recreation outside lent layers, wltb :F Love bides Its grlpt that other bearts yellow lee. and Ycllo� Miss 10th& And . the skin. Eggs, sa per 15, $6 per 4&, Oak Sts. KANSAS CITY,MO. lips may sing, kitchen, if the kitchens were a,r express 01 BoOle 81 st YEAR. Over former Students. And burdened walks that other lives them J 3,000 Our more We have exclu. State modern has May. buoyant. wing. ranged conveniently. �lo.,se""yg�ofrte�:��Y_fO��v:ea���d Bulldlnc 15 elejtant Rooms. IncludIng THOMAS -Pauline Frances several times seen the OWEN. Boute 7. TOPEKA. FREE GYMNASJUMandAuditorium. ,n experIenced Camp. statement that in RAN. :Kansus. Teachers And Lecturers. Day and NICht Schools six years the woman who docs the all Year. Free Employment Bureau, • Shorthand. When you get up in the morning feel- housework for an walks TypewrItIng. Book-keeplng_ and English Branches. average family Be " blue and K Free. J. A. M ing discouraged because dis the distance around' the world. Real Estate For Calalocus" F.Spaldlnc, •• Prest. Sale agreeable things confront you, make up We are sure housewife every gets in your mind firmly that, come what may, more than of this kind IIOW enough particular MR. FARMER: is will make this a "red ll'ttllr" in of You heal son, you day walking. In most kitchens the num have thlnkllli about a bluelll'u. and red clover bl : life. instead of a ber of her f&rID. We have it tor sale. Wrlto WOlllel your Then, probable steps be re epeel&! or ro� might greatly deacrlpUon an,. �Ize rarm ..hleh Would In, failure and the loss of a will torcat you. on jf day, you duccd by serious price 320 acr. 1% miles of jelly, merely giving thought S�"I whclI at least accomplish infinitely more than to the matter and the kit = ��wrOwn. X�'l:'!I�"7t r�n : rearranging �oarg��n t�:obl:tf,\�,,�� jar you would have done if you had chen furniture. We have in mind a gift given ���!"�o �I�V';.':. C�rt� If - ��'1oru��lal ch.o.rg��gw��: yc away to your depressing mood. friend in the who for ;vou want. city years kept cherrict MABDEN. her in the corner of the refrigerator Mansfield Land cherrict back porch farthest from her kitchen Company OTTAWA occcptn doorv- and this moved it to Care of Milk only spring deliciol the corner which seems to have been Two and 0 things--cleanliness tempera made to fit it and which is outside glass ture-are for just THIS alderbc entirely rcsponslble the the door. This of her WlllllTEREST YOU changing refrig Do of milk, Milk that is drawn you want to move to Topeka. to quality erator will save her hundreds of educate your children? If do. this Wltb our renlar eeurse In Morse from the cow under clean steps you Teleg conditions, modern five-room home near raphy and R. R. Station Work. Four to every day. Washburn tlve months in clean vessels, and College will just suit you. New, onlv required. Earn no to U50 .placed Immediately Most kitchens could be in ten per month. improved occupied month.. A choloe location, Positions guaranteed; earn cooled to the of well Must sell board while temperature water, the matter of but it is also quick. $8,ZOO takes It. Address learning. Wlcblta Te1etf!'aph will sweet convenience, CoUece. Desk keep much longer than will true ., CARB K4NI!I.&1 Y. Wichita., Klmsu. that many housewives are taking "ABMBS. TOPEKA. carelesely handled milk. Milk closed mnny unnecessary steps because with the animal heat in and left to 'cool thllY have not given a thought to how rlr'crlphlra like S55 10 S 18& ill water will fast deteriorate in they :: quality, might arrange the kitchen furniture IDEAL FARM can learn for such conditions are conducive to qulokl.,. �d cheaply more 800 Acres adjoining town; two Bet. 01 earn board wbll. conveniently. learning. spoiling. buildings; every' acre lays 250 acres raduate Into a perfect; paying job. If it is of finest growing wbeat, al1 with 601. Writ. for catalog. necessary for you to prove tbiR goes K. It sold betore cutting. which will be about statement, divide a S. A. C. Exterision School. 4th. IllTl FE TELESRlPH milking. stirring part July Price, $27.110 per acre. Will carry of it in cool UO,OOO at 6 %. No trades. Other bar ICHOOL well water until it is the Have you arranged for an extension gulns same as the and sct school in home BUXTON & RUTHERFORD DelIla temperature water, economics for your com :r. Top•••• "118... the other in water it ·1l'tI_ Nes. County .; part while is warm munity? If you have not, and can se- RANCH FOR SALB. 1.280 Acres. two streams, two sets Im provement.: 176 acres under Irrigation, fenced and erose-fenced, outside range. $10.00 per aere. No trade considered. Thl., 18 & bargain. O. A. WUoLlS, DOUGLASS, WYOMING
... Colorado Needs 10,000 Poultry and 110' Raisers. dairymen and general farmers, Good markets, fine climate, schools and churches, Agricultural and Industrial map frep. Write ImmlgraUon Commluloner. 81ale Houte, Denvcr. Col.
180 ACRES. Two Miles O..ge City, Knns.,. Et,lhty acrea corn ; 30 acres boa pasture. hnlnJlN puture and meadow. Elght·room house. gooti ceilar and cistern: large bam, dllry barn. wind mill. One hundred lIl'owlng trees. PrI... '65 per acre. 1";1 torma. Will eonstder trade for sman.. farm, RENSTROM AGENCY OSAGE CITY, KANSAS
SEVEN ACRES strictly flret class botlom land. 0.11 cult., '4 mi. McAlester, city 15.000, $46 per acre. Terms. SOUTHERN REALTY CO., McAlester, Okla.
One Thousand Acre Stock Ranch In Knn Bas to exchange for rental property or mer chandl"e. lV. C. Bryant. Elk City. 1\(1"5". ROPP'I lEW CALCULATOR OF GREAT AVALBOOKUE TO EVERY FARBER FREE This book Is the greatest time and Inbor saver ever offered the American farmer. It Is also a great money-saver and money maker. It shows you how to accuratoly .nd Instantty figure out any problem t ha t lllaY come up-how to figure estimates ,,'ages. taxes and interest on any sum ot mo'ney, nn)' number of da 5, at any rate-tells bushelS - and pounds In load' 01 grain; correct amount any price; weight anad prices of live stock : con' tents of ·crJbs, wagons, bins, etc. It Is a "lightning cat culator" always. ready when ybu want It. Bound in red cloth covers, 160 pocket size. One coprpng"i0 this tamoU9 book frc{' to nil who Rend 25c tor a. threo .try to Milk Cows months' subscription t o KAISAS FARMER ,0 start on a 45·mile journey to a e summer, helping with the TOPEKA, KANS,IS milking. ------ie place last summer and made him ose of school this spring he received A New Crochet JJook to come back. Edgings and Insertion! for the journey early ill the day. A special selection ntial lunch for each, the coat of pretty pattern'; boy's L a I' e e lIIustratlon would last until his suitcase arrived. with complete I�O to make sev(wal The atructlons. 1ssary stops. overJledaPP ltion about new designs eight-thirty that night, to Hand ke reh 1.1;: \ble beds that awaited them. Towell, Yokes, CU ta.ln etc. B was •• boy milking to ten cows I • eight Every U sefU and page 10C. !Iany interesting practical things Price, Pattemp08tpald'tDop , 8 ty boys who would make good and KANSAS FAB�f£ } no doubt as many farmers would Topeka, 5":::- is boy rendering. Cards-Free ' 'or the boy and him swell his ten helps If you will send us the names of the burden is lifted from the being persons who are not now subscribers :l ideal arrangement, this, under the a � KANSAS FARMEB, we will send you see of Twentieth Century Travel Cards frcg for your trouble. .Address KAlI'SA FABlIIEB, Travel Dept., Topeka, Kun9D,9. FARMER
to "be between �bw and October I, IiI does seem early thinking COLLEGES' e IL date but there are AN-D the work offered about Christmaa preSents, SCIiOO·LS will find very: \ CU� that can be and and those who take the course aome -things planned YOllctical well as later. _ back to it as the most profit. done DOW aa look . I.IIH pr'Il We have a friend who all·through the WASHBURN week of the year., COLLEGE, T"... a of that come w�le schools conducted year makes Dotes things "How Choosea These one-week by Engineering,.Art. Catalogand to College" onrequeat her mind as suitable remembrances �ollege, Law,l'tIuaic, Extension Division of the Kansas to the certain friends. In this she is College cover any two of for way .the which cannot Agricultural Food able to money Plano Tuning and courses: pr�paratlOn, give things advantages In Kuslc. Art. Expression, following are far more Domes home sew and which appreciated Courses. Only one tuition for CoHege. Academy. ll1anagement, nursmg, buy , College I courses. Boa.rd. $2.75 per home and home art than the costly gifts. tlo Science and combined Business conning, dietetics, M"lI8lab eeneerts Easter. For cate,log. ing, We do Dot mean this that every week" Famou. eve�y by E. LINDSBORG. KANSAS _ write Prealdent. ERNST PIHLBLAD. work. between seasons • two-week schools in dresemak spare moment holiday do-we Special held At should be utilized in this way, nor _Special will also be upon request. ing refer to hand-made that overtax schools �very member brings her things these nerves. Reason should be used in material and is expected to com the own for herself the all such matters. I, :1 garment during plete under the of the LAID two weeks guidance BARIiAIIIS II WHEAT iDstructor. . Dill Pickl.,. POSITlnLY NO TRA.DES COlfSIDEDD. are interested in either of these If you size cucumbers 12 to 24 make 20 ced net each 011. tile for further information address Soak medium Thi. land haa proven ita ability to per year schools, water that will float an for a. the owner ia to r..... Frances L. Brown, Director of hours, in salt Talu. asked. It ia offered sale, ready Miss brine and in :rA.JLH NO••• Economics in Extension, Kansas egg. Remove from pack :r.&IUI NO. L Home •• ID with a layer of 110 .&c..... 110 acre. broke, 10 aor College, Manhattan, glass jars,' alternating Kanaaa. contalnlnl' 110 10 State Agricultural mustard aced. Darper C_tr. wheat.-60 aere" ready for aprtDI' orop: dill and a. of white ..... loam with mixture; 80 all layer acrel: d,. clay acr.. mow land on er••k bottom: Kansas. for • Care shoulu be taken not to allow pickles acrea In wh.at, ao acre. ready ..,rIDI' fenced. m.ado.... cro..·fenoed; rUDDlnc acre. .All fenced and .toall as crop.. 60 puture. ....ater. well, granary and : to the side of the Jar, two .....11•• lay against crae.-fenced. RUDDInI' ....ater. I'o'od hard wheat land.. Uti 11_ ae . of Christm.s chamber and causes Jl'our·room houle. cave, eto. Btable for Be Thinking this forms an air ouh • • cattl. ahel. an4 other Ollt the that can be done them to Fill full to Isbt hora� One of things spoil. just enough bulldlnl''' t,;uh prlc.. ,'0 an acr.. FAJLII NO. ,. for the sea them to shake in Heat now in preparation holiday allow loosely jar. " .Au.. In 8�ek (lOUDiT. Kuaaa. is in mind friends who to weak vlnegar-e-ahout :l'A.BJI NO. I. .A.ll broke. all tine alfalta. land: 1 acre. son keeping boiling, v(�ry wheat alfalfa: taste of two-thirds water III alfalta. balance ID ...... the your one-third' vinegar and barn for four wo�ld specially enjoy '" A._, Duper OOllD"'. lEaD.... leO f.nced; 1'004 houae, well. or and then one to two preserves, pickles, cupful sugar gallons aor.. �elly, jam, -adding acre. brok•• 100 acre. ID wheat. 10 fill over and :t�r:I�':i: r��lre-:��o�U��W!���� t10�e::; are making these, your of pour this pickles hard In alfalfa _d when you vinegar, read,. for .prlnl' crop. all I'ood acre. Balance ot quarter and label them. seal. These will c.... be had for an acre. jars keep indefinitely. wheat l....d. an acre. cuh. U16 gift U5 - J have a friend in a. where If you region LUf&.U. have the flavor of our WRITE TO H. N. CAllE KANSAS FARDR, TOPEU, cherries do not and then there HOVlllY, more Take away thy opinion can imagine anything chmies, you is taken the complaint, "I have than a small amount of this away acceptable been harmed." Take the com fruit 1 The writer thinks a. away delicious "I have been harmed," and the of jelly made from wild grapes and plaint, glass harm is taken away.-M• .AureliU8� alderbcrries would be hard to beat. Classified Advertising PATTERNS TEN CENTS FASHION DEPARTMENT-ALL eo1lll"'!' ThoUllaDd. of people have IlUrpJus Itemll of stock In New York City. for Kans... Farmer. Advertislnc ...... _tenslv. display This department Is prepa.red especially aal_lImited In amount or Dumbers bardly enough to jUlltIf,. blgh-grade. perfect·tlttlng••eam-allowlng patternB tor things. Tbese We can supply our reader. with Thousands of other people want to buy these Bame directions tor ... well &8 the amount advertising. advertl8emeDt; cents prepaid. Full maklnc tor bargain.. Yo.... at 10 each, postace all have to do Intending buyers read the clalslfled "ads"-Iooklng each pattern. When ordering. yoU word week. No "ad" taken for of material required. accompanies over 800.000 readers for'" CBIlta • per the correct number and size ot each bere reacbes Inltlala and Dumhers Is to write name and addreBs plainly. give "ads" aet In uniform .tyle. no display. your number. We to till all orders les8 tban 60 eente, All and enclose 10 cents tor each agree Tel'lDB ClIIIIb wltb order. pattern you want, a COUDt as words. Address counted. ••1-,.. Special otfer: To anyone ordering pattern Including addre.s, will be SlUlerted sate delivery. • 25 promptly and guarantee OWn Dre... srrUATlON8 WANTED ada. up to words. our fashion "Every Woma.n Her OD. fa.r1De. we will send the Ia.test luue of book, bona. fide seeker8 of emplo:rment and book. Price of book If free 01 cbarlro for two weeb. for maker;" for only :I cents: Bend 12 cents for pattern all orders for patterns or book. to Kanlu ordered without pattern, 6 eents, A COLLIE PUPS FROM GOOD GOVERNMENT FARMERS NEEDED SCOTCH for L P. Kohl. Fur· Big s&larle.. Permanent job. Light work. workers sale. "each. Write Ozment. 44 F., St. Louis, Mo. ley. Kan. RABBIT FOX LADY OR GENTLEMAN TO TRAVEL TRAINED HOUNDS. squirrel dog•• tor old establlsbed firm. No canvassing. bounds. COOD, opoll8um, skunk. Pet-Farm dogs: ferret.. Staple line. UB weekly. pursuant to con Betters. pointers. 10c. Brown'B Kennels. York, Pa. tract. Expenses advanced. G. G. Nichols, Catalog, Philadelphia. PD.. Pepper Bldg. AIRDALE-THIiI GREAT TWENTIETH that ar.. bred worker.. THOUSANDS U. S. GOVEHNMENT JOBS century doC. Collie. W. breed the best. SeDd tor If.t. W. R.- now open to farmers. men and women. U5 _ low.. _ month. Common educntlon sufflcl�nt. Write Wataon, Box 121. Oaldand. Immediately tor list of positions obtainable. Franklin Institute. Dept. N-82. Rocbester, MISCELLANEOUS. New York. MONEY TO LOAN ON IMPROVED KAN· CATTLE. u. tarm lands. All negotiations qulckl,. cloBed. No delays. A. T. Reid. Topeka. Kan. REGISTERED JERSEY CATTLE. PERCY OWNERS-GOOD SOUND FLESH Kan. HORSE LIIl, Mt. Hope. No suarant..ed from my fattening recipe. tesults guaran· HIGHLY BRED HOLSTEIN CALVES, matter how old the horse. deliv Mailed for Chall. Smythe. Ard-: either sex, 15-16ths pure, crated and teed. U. a, ered to any station by express, charges all more. Okl Frank M. Hawes. ���te���er�2�IS�Plece. LEARN AUTOMOBILE TRADE AND" you learn all about the farm tractor, and all makes ot stationary glls t'nglnes. Why. ESTATE. reduced REAL _pay a. taney price whrn you can get rates for the summer and tall months T FOR SALE - A MODERN HOME IN Enter any time. Write Berry Auto School; Topeka. located on a good street, near t'stabllHhcd 1904; St. Louis. school and business district; two loti. mod e ern seven-room bouse, barn, a choice 10C8. FOR SALE-LATEST PLAT BOOK OF tlon. Will sell at .. ba.galn. No trades. Shawnee County. 46 pages, sl"e 14 x H Addres8 Z, care Kansas Farmer. Inches. Sho..... each townshIp In. the county. with name. of each property owner on hi. land. also rural route... school houses, .rall POULTRY. roads and complete alphabetical list of tax· SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORNS r::d':8 J:tI��::t\�no:�s��:n����krcl��: g�t Pullet mating only. Tiff Moore. Osage Ing. U.OO. To close out remaining bristol City. Kan. board binding will llell a. year'1I Bub8crlptlon to Kansas Farmer and' Plat Book for only WHITE PLYMOUTH ROCKS STILL n.50. Last previous county map lIold for hold their popularity. Barring one. they no. Send all orders to Kan.a. Farmer, Fair were the largest class at the World's Topeka, Kan. at San Francisco. Good to lay, good to eat and good to look at. I ba.ve bred them ex clusively for twenty-four years and they are LUMBER. one of the best breeds extant. Eggs from the same 'klnd I batch my tlrst-cla8s birds. LUMBER! BUY FROM US. HIGH GRADE. and I prepay ex self. $2 per 15. $6 per 45, Bottom prices. Quick shipment. Keyston. or to of the Union. press postage any part Co.. Tacoma. Wash. Thoma.. Owen, Route 7. Topeka, Kan. �umber ],UMBER DIRECT FROM MILL TO WANTED. conHumer. Send us your II�mlzed bills tor POULTRY estimate. Our sp('clalty, mlx�d cars. Mc Kee Lumber Co. of Kansns. Emporia, Kan. PAYING 20c FOR BROIl,ERS; HENS. 13c: roosters. 8c: young ,ducks. 10c; egg., 21c. Coops loaned free. The Copes, Topeka. PET STOCK. HORSES AND MULES. FOR SALE-ALL KINDS OF PURE· bred poultry. turkeys. geese. seven kinds of gulne.... , b&ntamq, harea. rabbit., MARES ducks, SHETLAND PONIES, GELDINGS, guinea pigs. canarl�s. fancy pigeons. dogl. and colts, all oolors. C. H. Clark. Lecomp Write. Free circular. D. L. Bruen. Platte ton, Kan. Center, Neb. 6 Appealing No. 7824-ChlldJ'en'lI Rompen: Cut In slzell 2. • and y�ars. C" a romlwrs" on WANTED WANTED. has been unwilling to put "juDt plain FARMS to the mother who has li·t'·'flallyIe that this mo,ll'l Is buttoned on the shouldrr, ,ay or girl. The picture tl,lIs OF 'j more attractive thun sca.J1op WANTED-TO HEAR FROM OWNER WANTED-HAVE BUYERS. noel,et and bloomers with a belted waist. Nothing FA RMS 4.000 i� sleeves. No. 7790-IAl41e8' Shlrt farm for Bale. Send description and 6U Farm. eauld be used to finish the neck, pocket and good Describe your unsold property. ",". This model proves that all plain cash price. R. G. List, Minneapolis. Minn. Cut In sizes 36 to U Inches bUHt measure. ers !i:xchange. Denver. Colo. W.I�lSt: extend to thn nt,ck ('l]go and the shou""'r are not made alike-the slcevro OF sleeve. The Trver•• fncnd with WANTED-TO HEAR FROM OWNER !r�"ts of to the top of the • the blouse are gathered ..... Stall, ca.h and. HOGS. 'n'.,. flat collar. No. 7M9-Ladl fnrm tor sale. prlcp �'Serial. have for a tlnlsh to match the low. 11'00<1 ;\ edging Another SuggeHtlon for D. F. BU8h. MinneapOlis, Minn. . deRcrlption. and Bonnet: Cut In sizes 2. 4 and 6 years. d,:·ron-J)ress comfortable and look pr('tty, to. This BIG-TYPE POLAND CHINAS. U. A .'"Ing the girlie 80 that she will be cooT. �,' belt of plain mat .. ral, short, Gore. Seward. R&D.' dress Is of striped galatea with the collnr and harmonize. No. 7316-I,aIUes' Apron: TANNING. il��?ln Sleeves and a pocket, are finished to (., r('H('mhles a MI seems be . PEBCHEBONDirectory to stale. HORSEs. M. E, Gideon. Emmett, Kan. A correspondent wishes to learn of ANGUS CATTLE. something to one up the systeme of his Oeo. A. Deitrich. Carbondale, Kan D. J. White. Clementa, Kan. fowls, which seem to be run down. At SHORTIIORNS. this time of the old hens seem out year C. H. White. Burlington, Kan. of after EARLY MOULTING sorts, having gone through the HOLSTEINS. strenuous laying season, and tbey really C. E. Bean. Garnett. Kansa•. of tbe difficulties in great layer, But too little is known of DORSET-HORN SHEEP. poultry need rest and of nourishing feed. is to tbe hens to molt this method to on it as plenty R. C. LaTourette. Route 2, Oberlin, Kan ' raising get depend being Som« of them are to molt ONE so tbat will be reliable. The other is ob beginning JERSEY CATTLE. early, they ready only way by need a and toning lip little. Tbey should J. B. Porter'" Son. to lay in tbe fall and winter wben eggs servation. watching and marking Mayetta, Kan. By be examined for lice, for frequently tbe are high in price. Left to themselves, the early and and dis persistent layer cause of tbe fowl's is a hens will take a time to molt, and the and setter. moping super long carding lazy persistent abundance of these One of the will not finish sometimes till after cold Tbe active hen and rustler is pests. busy good best tonics known to the frater weather has set in, will' not then a When suehure poultry AYRSHIRE8--A few bulls -They generally good layer, is tbe and is young for s� nity Douglas mixture, it ability. Write "'. lay until early spring, and all the profits observed they . should be marked with production Prices 10. frequently given to hens wben they are SAM JONES 11& SON. JUNEAU. for the .winter months are lost. Some leg bands and kept for next season's WISCONSIli not feeling well. It is made in tho fol poultrymen advise the starving of the layers. Their progeny should also be lowing manner-s Take of of hens till their feathers begin to fall marked and reserved for breeders in the sulphate GALLOWAY CATTLE. iron (common copperas) 8 ounces, .sul pretty freely, then to feed them all the future, for it is only in 'this way tbat phuric acid! fluid ounce, put into a jug nourishing feed they will eat till they we can improve the capacities of our or bottle one gallon of water, and into GALLOWAY 8 U are full feathered again. One poultry good layers from year to year. LLS this put tbe sulphate of iron. As soon FORTY yearling. and two-year-old bUll man of long experience gives this method strong and rugged; farmer bull., have Even the hens are as the iron is dissolved. add the bee� of the of hens: As though not laying acid, Will few cow. controlling molting � and as as a few weeks do and when it is clear the mixture is h��fe���rown. pr�ce soon as the hens are through laying, persistently ago, �. E. FRIZELL. Frizell. Co.. not to them of water ready. Tbis mixture is to be in p,a�ee I{anll. turn them on alfalfa and feed them dry neglect give plenty given a the water two or three bran in addition. Under this treatment and modicum of care as to their feed drinking every If on the market for pure-bred and welfare. days, a gill for every birds, they get thin. Then feed them a mixed general twenty-five read .or a to a of water. If stock, KA.N�A!;I FARMER live ration of grains and meat, giving a light teaspoonful pint Tben hen tbat lays in July, wben tbere are of disease it stock advertisements. You feed in the mornlngcand all they will any symptoms will green is drying up and the should be find what eat at noon and night. Under this treat everytl�ing given every day. you want. ment they will finish molting quickly. get, new feathers, and begin laying in September. By October, they are In full • laying condition and make a profit . through the fall and winter. Of course, A Great Increase In Railroad everyone bas not an alfalfa field whereon Wages to turn his chickens, but tbe idea is to give them a laxative food to induce them Means to start to molt. Any kind of green Higher Rates and a feed to do A Freight would help this. little linseed meal in the bran mash would help towards the sar_ne result. Fowls on Burden on full feed are not so apt to shed their Agricultural Prosperity 'feathers so freely as those that are underfed. We do not believe in starv ing them, but to give them a light diet Do you think the railroads to .mcrease instead of the usual grain ration. Then ought after tbey have shed their fcathers you the wages of their train can feed them all they will eat of the highly paid employes best food you can supply them. $100,000,000 a year? Balanced Ration No great increase in railroad wages can be made without A subscriber wishes us to publish a. directly touching your pocketbook. Out of every dollar you pay balanced ration for egg production, mak the railroads 44 cents to use A ra the ing of kafir, good balanced goes employes. , tion for hens can be made as fol laying the lows: Kafir, 100 pounds; meat scrap or Compare wages of these men (who have refused to arbi cut 10 alfalfa ground bone, pounds; trate their demands for and are to tie leaves or alfalfa 10 higher wages, threatening up meal, pounds; oats, the 10 pounds; gluten meal of oil cake meal, country's commerce to enforce them) with those of other 5 The idea is to use kafir in pounds. American workers-with yours. place of wheat and Indian corn, presum all the railroads in 1915 ing that kafir is more plentiful and .On three-quarters of the train employes earned these wages: cheaper than wheat or corn. Where the latter is as easily procured as kafir, we Passenger Freight Yard would feed equal portions of the three - grains rather than all of kafir. A very Range Average Range Average Range Average advantageous way of feeding kafir to chickens is to cut off the heads of kafir $1641 $1455 $1005 and feed it to the hens in that state. It Engineen • $2067 $1892 3983 3505 2445 $1526 will do them good in exercising wbile picking· off .the 'grain, This balanced ra a- 1543 1353 1055 tion business proves stumbling block Conductors $1850 " $1719 $1310 to many feeders of poultry. They think 3004 2932 2045 every ingredient must be balanced to a But all that is nicety. is required not 943 648 406 to feed all one kind of grain to the ex Firemen $1203 $1117 $924 clusion of others. If we had large quan 2078 2059 1633 tities of corn we would feed mostly with corn, giving animal food to balance the 854 755 753 ration. If we had lots of oats we would Brakemen. 1736 $1095 $1013 $1076 feed largely with' oats, giving a. little 1961 1821 variety occasionally of other grain, but never forgetting the animal food, what ever grain is used. So if we had lots You have a direct interest in these The railroads have urged that the of kafir we would feed mostly of that, giving the other grains occasionally for wages because the money to pay them justice of these demands be determined a change', comes ------out of your pocket. by the Interstate Commerce Commission . Trap Neats Low freig-ht rates have given Ameri- (the body that fixes the rates you pay th� One of the most important problems can farmers command of the markets of or a national arbitratio!l connected with the poultry buainess is carriers), by the selection of the profitable and un the world. board. The employes' profitable hens from the viewpoint of representatives egg production. Many methods have With of the cost of have refused this offer and have taken a been tried in order to accomplish this, t;vo-thirds oper- vote on a national strike. but the best method known to date is ating- railroads the wag-es paid labor,' any the nest; In fact it is the trap only great increase in labor cost reliable and accurate way of knowing inevitably This problem is your problem, The the hen's capabilities as an egg producer. means higher rates. as the These nests are arranged so tbat when freight railroad' managers, trustees for the hen enters to the door closes lay, A increase in railroad have no to this burden and keeps the ben in the nest till the sroo.ooo.coo public, right place I attendant releases her, The nests should wages is equal to a five per cent. increase on the cost of to you with- i be attended to at least five times each transportation \. day, which -requires a. great deal of time on all freight rates. out a clear mandate from a public tribuna I and work. It is obvious that trapnest- ing the fowls on a farm where a large : number are kept, is out of the qucstton. National Conference Committee of the : It would take too many nests and too Railways , ELISHA LEE. Chairman many attendants to for the trouble. O. H. EMERRON, Gen'l Managor, N. D. MAHER. Vlce-Pr",lrlent, pay P. R. ALBmOBT, Oen·1 Manl(gor, Oroat Northern Hallway. Norfolk & Western Railway. : is Atlantic CORst Line It therefore 'necessary to find some Railroad, C. IT. I':WINO. Oon'l Managor. JAMER HUElI:!ELL, Oon'l Manager. L. W. BALDWIN, Oon'l lIfanal8r, i other means of which is the !'hlladolph.1a & Reading Railway, Denver & IUo Orando Jtallroad, determining E. W. C, GRICE. Asst.. to Presldont, 'A. ]\f, RCrrOYER, Resident Vicc-Presldent, ! and whieh is the Lce�t,{�D6, ° CLYDE GIBOD, At; the Farm. F. W; BOBISON, Cuhler Towand.. St;at;e Bank HAZFORD PLACE, EL DORADO, KANSAS HOLSTEIN . F'R�SIAN :FARM, TOWANDA� KANSAS herd In the South Herd, of Direct Descendants of Beau Brummel, 4th and Pure-bred and hIgh' grade HolsteIns, all ages. Largest pure-bred Largest Anxiety Besste a show bull with royal breeding. west, headed by Oak DIl �ol Ormsby 156789, ' Don Carlos. Pure-bred bulls, servIceable age, from A. R. O. dams and sires. - A grand lot of pure-bred heifers, some with official records. ChoIce, extra hIgh grade WILLIAM Herdsman. on CONDELL, cows and heIfers, well marked, heavy sprIngers, In calt to pure-bred bulls, constantly for number hand. HIgh grade heifer calves 6 to 10 weeks old, $25. Bargains. Send dratt cars our herd before purchasIng. Write, wIre - wanted. All prIces t, o. b. here. Inspect MULES. or phone us. "-HORSES AND MULES. HORSES -AND GIROD. ROBISON. ' C HOI C E H 0 L 5. TEl N C O�W I »r bulls tor DEIERLING STOCK FARMS Two hundred registered and hIgh grade Holatetn cows, helters and sale, sl';gly carload Iota, Included are ten registered bul ls; all out ot A. R. O. dams; thlrty-flye Have fifteen heavy boned, black, regIstered jacks. 15 to 16 hands or large, or! R. O. cows; forty breeders, I have a number ot registered females ot all ages; several go A. h�gh.grad�,·cows; sl�ty - high, good heads and ears, good style, good or federal herd and h .. llrrH, one to two y<'ars old. All tested'by state jack. sll'ed by the champion, PrIde of MI"sourl, also several olher goor! two-vear-otds, sev''Dty-flve Kan"as State 1915, to sell. Write or come at once. n,' prospects: In my 1914 sale I sold the cnampton of Fair, auf hor-Itlna and prIced MIssourI State - - STATION D OMAHA, Eastern LIghtning, also Demonstralor, first prize aged jock HENRY G1.ISSMANN N.pRA�!',A antmut, Have Fair. Reference, People's Bank. WrItten guarantee with each stallions. Barn In town. a number ot Percheron stallIons tor sale, a.lso saddle MISSOURI. Wabash Railroad. WM; DEIER(.ING, QUEEN CITY, TORREY'S HOLSTEINS High grade cows and helters and r�glstered bulls. The best breeding. Call and see them. POLAND CHINAS. POLAND CHINAS O. E: - - - - Towanda, Kansas ����------Torrey FAULI.ER'S Famous Spoffed Polands IN MISSOURI We are not the ORIGINATOR. but the PRESERV Prtce Segls Walker Pleterlje 123955 head. ER of the OLD ORIGINAL BIG-BONED SPOTTED herd. Dam 30.13 Ibs. bu.tter In 7 days, milk. POI.ANDS. testing 5.07 per cent. A. R. O. of dam,' granddam and' ten nearest dams ot sire, The oldest and largest herd on earth. Every 29.76 Ibs, SIx ot these are 30-lb. cows. KI. recorded In the recognized records. I\IID-SUM1IlER hog tlve nearest dams all test over • per cent.. AUGUST 9. It Interested In the world's great SAI.E Bulls 2 to 8 months old, ·$160 to U50, Al ".t ask for pork hog, catalog. ways have cows and bred heIfers for sale. BOX - JAI\IESPORT. MO, H. L. FAULKNER. K,' Everylhlng regIstered Holsteins, Tuberculin teatcd. S. W. COOKE .. SON, MAYSVILLE, MO.' 1916 YOUNG'S BIG POLAND8-8ALE SEPTEMBER 16, sows and sprIng 'glltH. Herd headed by C Wondl'r, sixty-tive Head-Boars, bred A Wonder, aHslsted by Long Jumbo 2d by Hul . housand-pound son ot the great of the best orrertnxs of the AeU"On. Serul now Long Jumbo ThIs will be one ttl' Address T. H. YOUNG, STAHL. MISSOURI t�lr' "sataIOg. H. S:Duncan, Auctloneer. Choice Holstein Bulli Pontla<:8. Will sell cheap a tew young grandsons of the KIng of the Pontlacs and BIB"TYPE POLAND OHINAI BERKSHIRE' HOGS. of PonUkc Korndyke. Will prIce to suIt you $35; ten For sale, tall boars, prIce tap and Rood s �il" tu'cd to A Wonder SpecIal Frank It. Mo. and October IIt Buzard, Joseph, I!I� ';1'., 2d for September tel:" 'price HO FIrst check g"tA choIce. COTTONWOOD GROVE BERKSHIRES - - lIlISSOURI O. 'I\" LONG' CRAIG, Spring pigs slr�d by CharmIng Duke C. A BARGAIN HOLSTEIN BULLS one or two of these excet You should havo FOR SAl.E, registered bull calf, born For Sale - A number ot very fine bull HENRY'S BIG-TYPE POLANDS Io n t walt brer! pigs. past 4 montbs old, rpg IHtered, at $15. They will Improve your calves, sIred by 'WaU8eona KIng Korndyke bred or open, sired by' 8r:',IJ' rull bou r s, also gilts boar at It ��r:i�ar,8, b¢ �:�lit��°'P�'r.y flrth.ln� an. out ot cow. that produce 80 pounds 011 Mam herd. One 2-y"ar-old herd $50. 23-lb. Aaron De Kol. xtam rno t b Orange. Spring pigs by bull; dum, Lady milk Price reasonable. In terPAted, wrlle Mountain Mo. per day. moth oranse and Big Bob Wonder. S. E. BOSS, Route 4, Grove. Kan. WATERMAN .. BROWN. LAKIN. KANSAS � M. EWING. rNDEPENDENCE, KANS48 JOII:-i II. IIENRY. Route I, I.ecompton, HEREFORD CATTLE. HOLSTEIN CATTLE � � � gE FJ?I� T. FOR SALE FARM - DI. POLAND CHINAS WOODI.AWN Sterilng, Very mgh-Grade HolsteIn Calves; either all POI' ;,ale-A tew large type bred gilts; aez, three to .Ix weeks old, UO. Expres8 PrIce vacctnr, ted by the double process. prepaid. If you are In the market tor any thesA order r-nsoua ble tor quick sale. Herefords and Percherons JERSEY CATTLE. of choice calves, send to Whitewater Stock Fann, WhItewater, Wis. A,.1. SWINGLE Leonardville"KanBIIB. Two choIce Hereford bulls, 2 and 3 years old, well mar.ked, both will make ton bulls. The 3-year-old weIghs 1,950. Also some OLD ORIGINAL SPOTTED POLANDS choice yearling Percheron stud colts. SUNFLOWER .HERD seven M. E. GIDEON - ElIIlIlETT, KANSAS Reduce Herd REGISTERED HOLSTEINS Alred Must If,O choice spring pigs lett, by West. cows this or tit" "cry best boars of the East and Forty head of regIstered cows. hrller and Ofters young due summer and fall !'rlced right. Write your wants to the bull calves for sale. Of the best blood lines by 29 and S3-pound sires. Several EXTRA ('F;DAR ROW STOCK FARM AUCTIONEERS. among the breed. young bulls both In bree,lIng and Indlvld Kan8811 : A. S, ,\i"Xllllder. Prop. Burlington, I am a member or the Southwest Jersey uall ty. They .are bound to please. Cattle Breeders' Association, AND GILTS Estate F. J. BRED SOWS Live S�ock and Real SWEET SPRING STOCK. RANCH SEARLE, Oskaloosa, Kan� lOti lIeall, all Immune, bIg-type Poland and Box 241 I\l1ssourl Cltlnn ruws and gilts, bred tor July Auctioneer Monett, A tew choIce October HOLSTEIN·FRIESIAN BULLS SPIlt<'mbr'r larrow. Authorized state agent of Kansas Rural - boars Prices reasonable. 23;' 23 me wants KANSAS CredIt Association. Write your Tin, J)F.�IING RANCH, OSWEGO, Best of sires. A. R. O. dams, fourteen Herdsman H. M. JUSTICE PAOLA, KANSAS Brookside Farm 11. O. Sheldon, Jerseys over 20 pounds. Seven or the others trom bulls tor sale. Registered Jersey Flying heifers with records ot 14.89 to 19.2' pounds. I.IV ESTOCK Fox and EmInent breeding, good enough 10 1.,\:o.(;FORD'S SPOTTED POLANDS. � The kind you want. We have only two ... H• MAT THE W S head any herd. AIAO a f�w temales. Mr. lurmer, look this way. PIgs ready to , AIICTIONEER cows In the herd with mature records lees brrpd t he m, I TIlOS. D. I\l!\RSHALL. SYLVIA, KANSAS .. Hogs my Hprclalty. I buy than" 20 pounds, WrIte �.2��_::'l'�.�L=an�llf::o=r=d="=80=n:s:=J=a=m=etI=ll=o=rt:,=M=O. them. I ""II them and show them. Breeders tor Thirty Yean. tor datus and u-rms, I\IATTIIEWS TAnOR, IOWA LINSCOTT JERSEYS E. H. MolAY BROS., Wllerloo, low kanlal First Regillor of Merit, Edab. 1878, J. P. OLIVER LIVEst�:�C!uc�t':'�ee-:.':eal It intorested in getting the best blood or thu Registered Peroheronl. 39 he..vy 3 and 4 Jersey breed. wrlto me for descrlpllve list. Holstein Herd • Can Twenty years' experience. Newton, Kansas Golden Belt 2 otda. . yr. ot..lllons. 68 rullSed yr. . l\[ost atlracl),. pedlsr"" mares. 24 registered Buttl'r Boy King No. 7060S snare 25 reR1stered R. J. LINSCOTT - HOLTON, KANSAS Canary 'Belgtan stallions. Priced worth the money. g In Service, Above K..nsaa 1 City. Live Stack and Farm AQctioneer Herd has won more prIzes trom Holsteln 1,lr".- OLD FRED CHANDLER RANCH FrIesian Association for yearly production • - - Iowa -�,_ 7 _ • Charlton, Route � LA�tenURf1i:R�Ow'iii�bNJG�t'N�Ij{AeN��S Sunset Cattle Herd than any herd In Kansas. Young bulls tor � Jerley sale lrom heavy producIng cows. head cows Will otter at private sale tlfty W. E, BENTLEY. MANHATTAN, KANSAS SHORTHORN CATTLE. heIfers, bulls, calves. The tamous Blue DUROC JERSEYS. Belle-Golden Rosebays. Send tor special cir ����======�� cular betore buying elsewhere. Bargains. SycamOre ShorthDrns Ennis Sto(':J�s�n�ot?th'I�� ��r��u�?rlne, Mo BunER BRED HOLSTEIIIS Springs PATTERSON'S DUROCS Buy your next bull calt from a herd that .II,,,, I' of Dale by the grellt Avondale all For Sale-Ten head of young Duroc Jer won the butter test over breeds. h,al], herd, A few young Scotch bulls and sey cows, bred to one of the beat boars In J. P. MAST KANSAS bred h· ue r s tor sate. SCRANTON. the slate for fa II farrow; a 1"0 spring pigs,. II, �I, KANSAS Cows and Heifer. }[lLL LAFONTAINE, both sexes. Price reasonn hie. Jersey ARTHUR A. PATTERSON, Ellsworth, Kan 140 head to select from, pure-bred and R 1\[ R SID E SHOR"rHORNS grade. 20 heavy springers, bred on farm. REGISTERED HOLSTEIIIS KansllB l!en'!"'1 by Prince Valentine 4th 842179. DUROC BRED GILTS .J. W. BERRY .. SON, Jewell City, We want to cut· down our herd. Will sell hIIH.IIe:s represented, Orange Blossoms. ten or twelve choice cows, most ot them n hrad QUeen of Beauty and Violets. Twrnty-flve of gill". brrd for Sep young, also a tew helters. IIUtt'llIi.,s, Great Bend, Kan. tember and Oclober IItt"r". prlcpd at $25 to �, }(OLl\IES, RolIte I, ' JIE�lSEY BULLS M. CO. MO. $30. Five tOPM nt $35. Will sl'nd thO',,, five E.._I\IOORE" CAMERON, That will your h"rd, for sRle. Three '.OWEl\lON1.· SHORTHORNS. Improve wonderfully vigorous bull calves from high itl! �� �;�VEI�h:s&rlng Plj.�\t'HTIT: �N�SOi)RSi r"'" Heir 351808 heads herd. Inspection producing dam", $65.00 each, registered and E. E. Heacock" Son. Harttord, Kan. f. o. b. St. whll" they last. Satis BOARS! BOARS! BRED GILTS! Joseph, CHOICE HOLSTEIII BULLS .::_, faction teed. WrIte, --.�.-.��======� Eighteen big husky boars. thirty bred guaranan RegIstered bull calves out ot A. R. O. BOl( St. 1\10 A Iso Best gilts, a few tried sows. CrImson Wonder Rolla Oliver, P. 0, 701, J08eph, coW's. a few heIfers. breedIng. OHIO IMPROVED CHESTERS Illustrator II, Colonel. Good Enuff, Defender Choice IndivIduals. Price reasonable. -- breeding. Either by or bred to sons of the S�l1TII'S JERSEYS BEN SCHNEIDER, NORTONVILLE, XAN. Baron solid greatest champions ot the breed. PrIced tor For Sal_While Hail's 138966, quick sale. Immune. color, 26 months. fine IndivIdual. Sire Blue -0A';;:K�G:;;;R:;;;O:;;;V::::;::E;;;;;;'F;;;:A:::;:;::R::::M;;;;;;;;:::;- G. M. SHEPHERD LYONS, KANSAS Boy Baron 99918; dam White Hall Duchess HOLSTEIN COWS r), I, C. PIGS at Bargain PrIces. 299731, used on a tew of our best cows �:�I!j' 1\10. from Females all ages and three bull cal ves, $2 HolsteIn cows, springers or bred hellers. -:._: tlnJ.,I.I., R. F. D. I, I\larlonvllle, RAny DUROCS-Cholcr April pig" prrmlum stock, $10 rR"h. .JACKSON" up. S. S. SJ\lITII, C1.AY CENTER, KAN Very large, good markIngs, out of b�st mnk� 4:1 Kan Ing strains, bred to pure-bred bulls of the' .. GOOKIN'S O. I. C's. COUNTER, Crawford "trIg., Top"ka, J.''''' best blood. �"I-Whlte King 36445 by ChIef ot very SpeCial prices on carload Ali J. out of Minnehaha•. Spring pigs, � lots. (J. ROBISON, TOWANDA, KANSAS IJ:dn.'l�,/!,n.1 p ; trios, no kin. REDHURSTJERSEYS , (, KANSAS (,IIOKIN, Route 1. RUSSELL, SHEEP. and Noble 0 CORYDALE FARM HERD ::---- Grandsons of Golden Jolly Oaklands for sale. Also a few tancy <:ows Hrrd .Ire, Jewel Paul Butter Boy No. T, M, neverly of To'.as wrItes and heifers of same breeding. WrIte. 94245, Who's eight nearest dams average A. O. 25.95. POLLED CATTLE. REDI\IAN .. SON - TIPTON. MISSOURI R. Eight bull calves tor sale �D ;���V�o�O�r�h���. ah'!!W g;�th�r:�; trom 2 to 9 months old. ShropshlrQ rRm� from my flo(�k wtll L. F. CORY" 'SON BellevUle, KnnslIB 8ult you. Weight s.nll wool always ram also tor SII REIISTERED JERSEY BULLI IOWANA DE COLA WALKER heads RED count. A trled herd herd, POLLIO BULLS Iowa months �Ired has nIne half-sisters wIth yearly tests rang '1'1\' sale, C. W .Chandler, Kellerton, Three to twelve old, by Idyl' lows I'.,�': yearling bull., bIg rugged tel- Castor and out of SaInt I.ambert bred cows Ing from 407.53 pounds to 626.21 pounds ot Tl by ton sIres; all regIstered and Prlcf!s reasonable. 80% butter, the latter a senior two-year P'ic,:/"'e temalel. record; In tact seven were senior F., P Will sell a tew I.AI'TAD STOCK FARl\I, Lawrence. Kan8as two-year '!itizsonably. Kana.. and two were senIor three-year-olds. --:::...: ELL, Frlsell, Pawnee Co.. TREDICO FARlIl, Route 2, Kingman, Kan. POLLED DURHAM CATTLE. RED POLLED CATTLE HOLSTEIN BUI.LS. "REGISTERED" t, Two ready tor service. Smith. Hughell, bull oalve. by Ro•••• Gr�� (.SALlt-I81& Breeders, Route 2, Topeka. Kansas • • 1,", {hamPlon 17888, .. J,400-poun4 bull; RAMBOUILLETT SHEEP belfers. - A r "'1 cow. and FOR SALE Several r�glstered HolsteIn V:nlloOOd FRANKFORT. KAN. A II fo,tI me experience provc" the nam Durham Cattle THERS. Polled trp"h and fresh soon. .. cows, _" Is the best sheep for Kansas boulllet easily J. M. BEACH MAPI.E HILL, KANSAS condition". We offer cholcn Indlvldua.ls, HOME OF THE CHAMPION TRUE ����======either sex, with good bonr. size, form and SULTAN. SEE MY SHOW HERD E .0, Uurllngton, KaMa8. fleeced .. KING, BRAEBURN �_ MULEFOOT HOGS. AT THE LEADING STATE FADS HOLSTEINS A.���:.uU H. B. 608 Kansas Ave•• - Cowle&, Topeka. Kan.; �-�������====��� CEDAR HILI. SHROPSHlRES lJ.r�", bred for wool and 'f In Bred Sows, Fall Boars and Pip For sale, choice rams, I\".'nl�i� reasonable. Ed.Stegelin WilEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS me. PaIr no akin, History free, mutton. Priced SilllJ'. ��. II Route 1111880011 STRAIGHT CREEK KANSAS PLEASE MENTION KANSAS I'ARMIII. tildoot Ronch, Alexandria. Neb. B. F. ERWIN, 2. Fairfax, '1 -ELLERSUE STOCK FARM 'HERD- "More More Size, Quality, Y.. to ;:. �. �BiJNCETON, -MIS-SOURI, WEDNESDAY, . , . AUGUST 16 , 1 9 ·1 6 FIFTY' HEAD OF MAMMOTH SOWS AND GILTS BRED TO , THE $1,250 KING JOE, 70282 THE HIc;aHEST.PRICED BIG-TYPE POLAND ,CHINA BOAR EVER SOLD·AT AUCTION This off�ring was sired by Big Bob Wonder by Big Bob, Trusty King by King Of All, A Monarch by A Wonder, and other famous big-type sires. This is the greatest lot of richly-bred big-type S9WS and gilts that I have ever offered. Write at once for catalog. and be on hand August 16 and buy a sow that will raise you a thousand-dollar boar. All immune. tOL. R. L, HARRIMAN,· O. W. De.. will reprueot Auctioneer W.' B• unce o. W'ALLACE., B t�n, M K.... Fu.er at tW. sale HENRY STUNKEL'S SHORTHORN. DISPERSION SALE ·AUGUST. 15.16·� 1916 :At the one mile from :farm Peck, Kansas, fifteen miles south of Wichita and fifteen miles north of Wellingtoii;"'Kansas, on main line of Rock Island and Santa Fe we will sell at auction Railways, 175 head of registered Shorthorn cows, fifty calves at foot, and all bred; twenty head of yearling· bulls and twenty head of bulls fifteen to eighteen months old; three herd bulls ./ by Victor Orange and several bulls by Star Goods. All the calves are Star Goods and sons . by of ;\ricto:c Orange. We will sell 'all the regi�e1"ed cattle on / TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, AND ON. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 16, Will sell head of sixty high grade Shorthorns and ninety head of grade' Percheron horses; sixteen mares with colts and one registered Percheron stallion. The cattle are a splendid lot of working cattle and represent all the best Scotch Shorthorn families, Imported Ruby's, Imported Sorrel, Impt. Daybreak, Impt. Maid of Marsh, Orange Blossom, Rose of Sharon" Young Marys, Star Goods ami Victor Orange. Catalogs are ready to mail. Write to E. Kansas' L.,I STUNK�L, Adminiltrator,---Peck,