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Volume 70 July 9,1932

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taxes with T'S a tough job trying to pay "good-time" "hard-time" dollars wrung from rock-bottom prices for farm products. In hundreds of instances in every thrust county June 20, this year came as a bayonet a and home. to the work of a lifetime. in building up farm Many farmers had' been "able to struggle along under their burden of low prices to that breaking point. What then? Tax and mote are added. :111 penalties are greedy. They grow daily Finally they take the farm and it goes at sheriff's sale. of taxes. We This is not a question of avoiding the payment voted them, they must be paid. But isn't it possible to relieve the situation to make their payment more certain? A morato­ would be of rium on tax payment without a penalty added, vital help. Stretch the time-limit. Accept partial payments. Give these hard-pressed farmers a further chance to sell something It won't do the and pay up. That's good business! county any it good to sell out its best citizens, men who have supported for years. no extend tax­ The Attorney General says there is way to paying time without legislative action; that local officers have rules. The statute so. no authority to make taxpaying says That is the letter of the law. But the spirit of the law is to collect taxes, not penalties. We know, and the higher law recognizes, that circumstances alter to save the cases. In war time human beings are conscripted in this country from invasion. Is it not also vital peace-time or three months of extra time to emergency to conscript two farmers from stem the invasion of a bankruptcy that will oust their hard-earned holdings and cripple the state's great industry? voted The county commissioners of Cheyenne county June half of the taxes until 16, that no penalty be added to the last August 20. -Pawnee county taxpayers have been given until July 20. For the third consecutive time the penalty date has been extended there. Kansas is not alone in this tax emergency. Increasing delin­ from quencies in payment of real estate taxes are reported are made in every state, but accommodations being far-seeing in states to avoid the unnecessary sacrifice of good taxpayers straightened circumstances. These consist of legislative action affecting tax penalties or tax sales, an extra-legal county policy of or the lenience of individual tax officers. The legislature Kansas might well meet in a one-day free session for this pur­ in Kansas will return a vote pose. Meanwhile, puhlic sentiment of thanks to the boards of county commissioners who have the themselves. foresight and the courage to tak� the initiative step The states of Connecticut, Indiana, North Carolina, Oregon, South Dakota and Washington, since 1930 have enacted laws lessening wolfish tax penalties, allowing installment payments, Kansas counties are or otherwise easing the burden. Several attaining the same immediate end by wisely omitting to clamp those whose homes on the penalty immediately, thereby giving chance to save them. The are in peril of confiscation a further spirit of the law is to collect taxes," not "penalties. Give these them to taxpayers a chance to pay instead of compelling default. , 2 Kansas Farmer jor 'J.uly, 9, i93S

HENRY FORD

ON FARM AND FACTORY I 1 / '

to our country is to be apprehended not so much sunflowers to soy beans. We pa,ss �he crops through our lab­ DANGERfrom the influence of new things as from our forgetting oratory to learn how they may be used in the manufacture of the value of old things. At present, much that is blamed on motor cars and thus provide an industrial market for the shall no the new thing-the machine-should perhaps be blamed on farmers' products. I foresee the time when industry our forgetting what we had before the machine came, namely, longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, the land. The two belong together; they cannot live apart; nor use up the mines which were ages in the making, but, shall there is no antagonism between them; they must be reunited. draw its r!1W material largely from the annuaZ produce of the a outlet I do not look for less but more use of machinery. If the fields. The dinner-table of the world is not sufficient found a wider market world is to have even a minimum supply of goods, it must for the farmers' products; there must be And utilize the machine. The people will never willingly forego the if agriculture is to be all.that it is competent to become. help which the machine gives' them in their work. where is that market to be found if not in industry? we shall be able to out of Besides, machinery makes more jobs. It enables every I am convinced that get the basio materials which we now one to enjoy inexpensively the comforts and conveniences of yearly crops most of get we shall modern living conditions. As for overproduction, we have never from forest and mine. That is to say, grow annually , the substances needed in yet had a sufficient produCtion of all the things which the many if not most of manufacturing. family needs. It would be splendid if the world should seri­ When that day comes, and it is surely on the way, the farmer ously attempt to overproduce will not lack a market and the everything that everybody needs! worker will not lack a job; More will the The We should then discover that our people live in country. unnatural condition will present machine facilities could T;r/E ARE still in the early stage of present ry To stabilize condi­ be balanced Our not even catch up with the need. world-making. naturally again. tions at a or foundations will be once more Give the. world a money system given point to, reject pr�g­ laid the that makes it easier for goods to ress because it brings problems with it, is securely in land. to The of small near flow from man to man, and all the impossible. We need 'to plan how pass day industry with the least the farm will because much factories on earth could not begin through necessary changes return, human Economic must' of the material for to supply a tenth of the demand. hardship. changes grown industry But it is possible to expect of come and it is possible for men to be in a can be given its first processing by the men who raised it. The master the machine more than it can do. position to welcome rather than dread [ farmer will as he was in We cannot eat or wear machines. them. With factory and farm as part­ become, former master of a form of If the. world 'were one vast ma­ ners, with one foot on the soil and one foot years, ! a besides. f chine shop, it would die. When. planted on industry, we should be in industry to hail the new without An com it comes to sustaining life, we go position epoch old Roman said that land us was so as to the fields. The machine may fear. The would protect from never plentiful in Rome help us plant, cultivate, harvest, needless anxiety. when the men who ruled the state grind and bake the grain for were those who also tilled the fields. bread. The machine may weave It will be so with our people when those and cut and sew for clothing. The who fabricate the utilities of are who raise the raw material from machine may transport these necessities for our use. IIi the world those the fields. One is certain-we must conditions doing so, it serves in partnership with the land. And it is thing go on-present that relation and balance which I am urging upon our cannot be stabilized-life goes on. I suppose that in 1632 people today. there were people who urged that the world had gone far that it should be hardened into the Ten years ago we started seven village industries on enough and halted and of in others a small water power sites, all within twenty miles of Dearborn, pattern 1632. And again 1732, thought that line should be drawn and conditions stabilized. In 1832 the our purpose being to combine the advantages of city wages with country living. The experiment has been a continuous same proposal-it is always made-every generation makes of success, Overhead cost has been less than that in the big it. Suppose the world had halted at any those dates! factory, and the workers would not hear of going back to Are we to declare that 1932 is the date at which development the city shops. As they are free to till land in the growing must cease and the world be stabilized just as it is? It cannot done. Life would burst barriers we raise season, throughout these trying times they have all remained be any might against - self-sustaining. Their security is produced by machine and its 'ongoing. We do not yet control all the materials out of farm, not by one alone. which to assemble a world that is worthy to endure unchanged. While this experiment has fully justified itself, I have felt Our times are primitive. True progress is yet to come. The as we see its that it is only a step in the right direction. Excellent as village industrial age has scarcely dawned yet; only first are has its industries are, they do not really bring industry and agricul­ crude beginnings. We pioneers, and pioneering ture together. For a long time now I have believed that indus­ hardships. This generation is composed of economic pilgrims, try and agriculture are natural partners and that they should passing out of less desirable conditions into what we hope begin to recognize and practice their partnership. Each of shall be more desirable ones. That is the meaning of these them is suffering from ailments, which the other can cure. times. We are not going back, and false prosperity is not Agriculture needs a wider and steadier market; industrial soon coming back. It would be well' to interpret present condi­ workers need more and steadier jobs. Can each be made to tions in this light and help each other in the good old pioneer supply what the other needs? I think so. way, as we pass through them. We are going to renew our, The link between is Chemistry. In the vicinity of Dearborn stake in the land; for the land is the foundation of the w� are farming twenty thousand acres for everything from economic security which we seek.

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.-./ I When Wheat Needs a Friend

make fence worth more in this weed isn't the only pebble on the beach Sheep battle than other livestock. "They did a lot for for Fred Paulsen, Zenith, as it used to be. Here is a. line on those 100 acres," Goodman said, indicating a A third of his land now is in row crops perhaps, fairly good WHEAT 'almoat lived on volunteer wheat and "I made this raisers are or field. "They that are marketed thru livestock. what Kansas wheat doing cleaned up every sandbur and other weed except so I could feel more secure," he said. change will do this to meet the changing corn now is fall a few they will not eat. There the wheat is a liability." "Straight �imes and out of the game. much easier to free from weeds than usual. has 50 acres each of corn, Kansas get something keep This year he there to are several on wheat­ The weeds just aren't grow." cane and Atlas sorgo, and Wheatland There good tryouts Orange lambs co-operatively helps, too. A beats corn a he be­ It is a and Shipping milo. Wheatland long way, in-combination. big subject third carload from the while dozen men will send the lieves. It made 25 bushels for him last year in the inter­ your sayso will be welcome soon. It beats individual truck use 4 county marketing corn did less than 5. "There is no raising all. loads 50 to 75 cents a hundred. Goodman made a cornstalks to the acre to mois­ est of or 5 tons of sap this 30 $6.75 top at Kansas 9ity spring. ture and fertility when Wheatland, growing men have been shipping wool co­ about 2 tons of forage to Thirty-two inches high, produces A carload is made , operatively for three years. up the acre and is easier on the land." is the is 8 bushels. Farming less ground of sacks. man credit for the milo to and it beats making graded Every gets , Wheatland "I fed hogs to cut overhead costs for him. And the This has mar­ cent better way quality of his clip. always brought wheat in gains. It is. worth 90 per and his two making labor isn't much. Parsons ket or better. is to question price as much as corn by weight and easy grind. off run­ sons, Philip 11, and Wayne 13, change Dry weather cut Goodman's wheat to near 100 takes the of corn for my milk cows. But in It place the tractor "so no one will have to put instead of 300. His son had 300 acres be in ning acres ready the use I will make of it will feeding work biggest too long hours and make the drudgery." but didn't seed a grain. It was too dry. Wheat in 75 head and have been calves cattle. I have buying will make 8 bushels-or less stock­ that neighborhood in the fall, wintering them and selling as . But Goodman listed in 225 acres start than expenses. ers. But I 35 Hereford heifers to my bought corn and acres of Wheatland on the wheat and it Corners in Pratt of 30 own herd. I two years ago found " creep-fed Cutting and seeded some alfalfa and Sweet clover of Wheatland milo ground, a If I had plenty went good thing. -FIVE carloads of smutty wheat to make use of the seedbed where wheat it this good I would be doing year." last that sold for 1 when wheat blew out he has . out of Pratt county year failed. Several years are the best paying ltvestock on FIFTY __ Sheep �e to 14 cents a bushel under an already low followed with alfalfa and always got a good stand. made $3.50 Ito $4 net this Paulsen place. They So treated seed of the pres­ head that cleared. price. many growers Paulsen creep-fed 30 dust at 1 to 2 spring. ent crop with copper carbonate on 65 -to 70 il;1 90 to 120 $3.75. They put pounds and smut isn't so noticeable. and oats cents an acre, on shelled corn and good wheat Hens'Take the Slack days More wheat will be so treated this fall. Hun­ up ewes when were consid­ He bought they fallowed for a better pasture. dreds of acres are summer has more bills than wheat and than they are now, but the wether paid erably higher and most farmers work seedbeds early. They Gib­ that first cost in one crop cattle feeding in the last year for E. O. lambs paid half of year. on them that POULTRY don't let many things Slip up they 450 thru the win­ care ' Isabel. He Since then Paulsen has found the wool takes son, keeps layers can control. have the life insurance, run­ of the and the lambs turn a profit. ter and they kept up upkeep A least 20 cent of the landowner farmers .. per ning expenses of' the family and paid hired help. in Pratt are gradual changes to county making It looks as if chickens belong in the Wheat Belt. conditions. For Frank meet present example, This S. C. R. I. Red flock has been improved dur­ lO-Bushel Land Schaffer is decreasing his wheat acreage Boosting steadily ing the last eight years. Some are under R. O. P. and more diverSifying, including dairy, hogs, Last for wheat struck Frank Dale, doing supervision and others are state accredited. oats and barley. J. W. Fulks is chang­ bird more than five sorghums, 207 eggs. "Every male Coldwater, as a sensible idea for to year layers averaged FALLOWING from wheat as his chief crop market, is more ever since. ing is Gibson said, "which impor­ years ago, and he has been doing it pedigreed," than folks think. And B. W. D. testing "I have taken 10-bushel land on this farm and tant many All are tested and hens reo' boosted it to 18 bushels in one year," he said. is necessary. pullets This and sanitation cut chick Joss to "And working the seedbed early is worth at least tested. my 3 cent." 5 bushels extra. I have two tractors. One pulls per chicks a and culls to the combine and the other follows right away Gibson starts 1,500 year to 450 and hens for winter. Portable brood­ disking the field. Then I list or plow according pullets on clean the start. the season and condition of tlie seedbed. This ers ground give right One reason the flock is such a bill-payer is be­ costs no more than late work, but is a big thing cause of Lots of chickens are in wheat farming. Disking immediately gets weeds good marketing. for 4 to 6 cents above the market, and them from taking moisture. It also sold locally keeps market has been rain. It made a and that A near all-year opens up the ground to catch big helps. worked for Local demand takes difference with my wheat last year." up hatching eggs. them in season. After that they are Another big help is the packer Dale made out most of to and a case a week is going of an old drill frame and six header steering shipped California, Records made the flock and wheels. It cost $3. Hooked behind the plow it to Arizona now. by list is used twice a works perfectly. Single disking worked well on a few ads help. A mailing head of Shorthorns and some hogs .hts sandy land one year so instead of using one year. Forty to make the of 10·foot tandem, he hooked three s-root single do their part up short-comings it. disks in a line hitch and now takes a 24-foot wheat by eating ------swath around the field. That is 14 feet extra to the round and more than cuts the work and fuel bill in half. To beat old man hard times, he is Not a One-Crop Country making the same machinery that was farming the price of wheat was good, it was 500 acres do just as good a job on 1,100 this year. WHENvery, very good. But now that it's bad it's horrid. Yet H. H. McCandless, St. John, Steers for could smile at his work the other day. Feed crops Using Money are getting plenty of attention on his farm. is for be­ the family living first is the big thing "This country big enough something sides he said. "And row crops not only with B. W. Parsons, Hugoton. He often uses wheat," GETTING make chances of breaking even better, but steers for money. Recently he butchered one my me do a better job of wheat farm­ and traded three-quarters of it for groceries. The actually help I reduced wheat another 50 acres this year other quarter was canned at home. Another fol­ ing. and have 120 of corn, 30 of Atlas sorgo, 25 of j lowed shortly. Butcherings are strung out over Wheatland milo and 30 acres of alfalfa and will the year so there is a credit balance at the store and livestock. He has seed 20 more this fall. I want 60 acres to work most of the time. wheat as feed for poultry farm. in a rotation of alfalfa, wheat and corn. One steer would have brought $24.50 on the a well-equipped poultry have had "That builds land for better wheat. And hoof at 3% cents regular market. But butchered Most farmers in the county experi­ my and basis. since cows eat the feed I more fertility. Wheat traded in at 8 and 9 the ence selling on a grade quality Every get and cents, three-quarters Fallow­ in the has been wheat on year soon wears land pretty thin. were worth $1.50 more-and the elevator county buying every $26.50-just I fallow I'm more than 4 cent of brings it back, but if straight fourth quarter was used fresh and canned for grade for years. Ninety per ing sell on in for trouble. To get away from this I home use. Chickens are dressed, cut up, packed the wool growers co-operatively grade. blowing corn other row. In the last two years in 3-pound trays wrapped in wax paper and sold plant every I have gotten as much this way as from every for 50 cents. More than 100 have gone this way and and will 7 out of 10 years. Leaving fhe corn come. Garden truck is Fence row, orders continue to planted Weeds the doesn't make well under sub­ Help Buy stubble stops blowing. Wide-spacing over a long season and grows is worth for itself weeds on as much 'wheat as stratght fallow, but it So the has groceries, meat, milk, pays fighting irrigation. family to from blowing. Wheat is some extra R. W. Goodman's Stafford farm. He something get away eggs, chicken, vegetables, fruit and county FENCING and crossed with drilled in the corn stubble in a good seedbed 'and cash whether school keeps or not with wheat. has a half section enclosed snow that comes in winter sticks. Semi-fal­ Parsons wheat if there is in the woven wire and intends to put up more, including any Yet grows any other this divide wheat and so he can low wheat isn't any better than the year a third to a half of his land 100 rods to barley I country. Every 4 bushels more runs livestock in after but it will average 3 to is fallowed. As a result he has some 25 to 40 turn in sheep. He always year, and lost most year's." bushel wheat this year while wheat-after-wheat harvest to get weeds, grass grain. Kansas Farmer fot July 9, 19�5 , Brash Talkers Do Har·m Passing Comment by T. A. McNeal

TIMES like the present. it not only behooves Vermont. They reduced their living expenses to are not in but every loyal American citizen to do a lot of $75 a month. They living, luxury with INhard and sober thinking but also to be care­ comfortably. They are not trying t'} keep up Is It It? as well as ful of the words he uses. WQrth people of larger incomes but they live of the in the who are The other day I was talking to a business man, BY J. H. WILLIAMS any people village peaceful, the supposed to be at least reasonably intelligent and law abiding, honest and better-informed than interested in the public welfare. He was concerned Is life worth the living, 1 ask you; average. residents of the big city. a income. These I about economic conditions, as man and Is the worth the that we It is no trouble to spend large ; . every game price pay' be. He that he had been did not have any diffic"!llty in living up to woman ought to said Will the wee drops of joy that you gather people no an man who seemed to be a $15,000 income, but they are as happy and talking to unemployed Out-weigh all the grief of the day' �/ rather desperate and then said: "These doubt more healthy, living on a $900 income. feeling Does the love and respect of your fellows men," referring to the unemployed, "are talking Count more than the hate and the scorn' about getting their guns." Do you feel that your life is worth living, ".4\.nd suppose they get their guns," I asked, Or. wish had never been born' Grasshoppers Alarming "just whom are they going to shoot?" you "The poltttctans," replied the business man. in some respects farming is the most He did not just what politicians were of the speaking gen­ specify Just count up the hours of pleasure, WHILEdependable professions, to be shot or what constituted a politician. Now it is a co.atinuous gamble. No farmer The long days 0/ sorrow and pain, erally this business man is not going to get a gun or plants a: crop with the assurance that he will reap And tell me, now, would you be willing join a mob, but he has not done his duty unless a harvest. He must from year to year gamble with To live over he reasons calmly and good-naturedly with the your life again' the forces of nature, untimely frosts, drouths, that made on man who is talking about getting guns and shoot­ The mistakes you your jour- floods and storms. Insects multiply and make war ing politicians. ney; upon him and he finds that constant vigilance and The deep disappointments you've met; incessant battle with these pests is the price he even a measure of success. The ones 1vhom you loved that were fickle; must pay for Here is a from the Tribune Foolish Remarks The heartaches you cannot forget. story Minneapolis Risky that illustrates what I mean. "The Northwest," there are a great many says the Tribune, "today faces a· possibility of dis­ Win the love and the joy of the journey aster the like of which has no in emotional people who may be thrown off parallel history." UNFORTUNATELY sorrow and What their mental balance by just such foolish re­ Out-weigh aU the pain' That seems to be P.utting it pretty strong. is the threatened disaster in marks as this. So far as politicians are concerned Will the .days that are sunny and pleasant unparalleled history? It's With the best for a some of them are good, some are bad; some are O'er-balance the tempest and rain' grasshoppers. prospect devoted to and feed since 1924, the Tribune says, indifferent. Some are honest, wise, My friend,1 win teU you a secret; grain crop best that is in them that there is every prospect that the crops will ideals and willing to give the The beacon that leads all the way for the Some are honest but dumb; be devoured by grasshoppers. public good. Is hope, yes, the hope that tomorrow want to do what is right but do not know they Will cure all the ills of today. what is best and are just as likely to follow the lead of bad advice as of good. Others are selfish Is It as Bad as This? and scheming, careless of the general good, pro­ vided they can reap a personal advantage. How­ "have gone thru the lean years of drouth, let this be said: Polttlclans, taken by and failures and continues ever, the majority in a country as large and populous WEpartial grasshoppers," w111 average in integrity, intelligence and the Tribune. Then adds: .large, as this is a physical impossibility, and even gov­ ideals with the of business men. average ernment by elected representatives of the people We have struggled thru with the Red Cross feeding is cumbersome and more or less inef­ some 40,000 of our farmers last winter. The Government necessarily has been to feed livestock and lend for the obliged money ficient. However, the people st111 have power, seed. Over half of the farmers In North Dakota bor­ Not a Time for if they will only use it, to change and simplify rowed money from the Government to buy seed for this Hysterics Northwest cannot survive their government, to scrap a great deal of the spring's planting. The simply another year like last. We could check these billions is not a time for .hysterics, but for most and so make the machinery by doing government of grass�oppers with polson bait. but there are no state one fact constant­ THIScareful thinking. Keep this not only more efficient but far less expensive. funds available In amounts sufficient for our need,s. .. ly in mind. The majority of the voters of this The fact that the majority does not use the power Minnesota has appropriated $100.000 and needs $150,000 more. North Dakota needs $400,000. and South Dakota have the if have the w111 and alter the other fact that it is inherent eountry power, they does not needs $500.000. Our salvation lies In polson bait. Polson to their na­ sense to use it, change government, in our form of government. bait we must have or we are ruined. Our crops and live­ tional, state and local, as they please. Of course stock will be gone and our farmers put on the dole. our offices and will be closed. The North- stores, shops . there is a good deal of political machinery that ! west will be a land of desolation and despair. accumulated since we the ex­ we have began Is Mob Rule Better? It Is hard to believe the situation Is as bad as the periment of popular government, which makes Tribune depicts. One thing Is certain; the grasshoppers cannot more or more voracious than for cumbersome and slow operation and hinders be any admitting all the faults that can justly they were In 1874, anJ'lentlfulIn that day polson bal� was not but nevertheless the inherent power still changes, be charged against our governments, na­ known. lies with the to alter as they see fit not AFT� people tional, state and local, is there any sensible Constitution but the laws which have • only the that these faults would person who does not know been enacted the legislative bodies. Head He Thinks by be made worse instead of better by the rule of Need Tax, Our faults of government, whatever present the mob? Does anyone suppose that conditions could have been avoided if the ma­ I have long thought we needed a head tax. Make those they may be, a lot of half-crazed men would be improved by taxes, taxes, or deprive them of the right to jority of the voters of the country had not thru voting pay parading the streets with guns? Is it not per­ vote taxes on others; The tax laws at present do a their representatives or by direct vote in many grave Injustice to the person who makes an effort to fectly evident that mob r111e is of all rules the cases consented to these faults. own his own home and be self-supporting. Our legisla­ most cruel and destructive? tors and congressmen should have been able to see that What is the duty of all citizens who love their unlimited spending and taxation would bring ruin and dlsaster.-Greenwood County Subscriber. country and who are wishing for a betterment of Have Power conditions? It is this: When hear a People Ample you person already have a head tax of $3 a year about guns, do not give him tacit talking getting levied on every male citizen of Kansas living then, says the opponent of democ­ but show him and WE encouragement kindly calmly outside of cities of the first class, to 'be used racy, "the majority of the people are not able that he is the lives and EVIDENTLY possibly endangering in building and repairing roads. It is a misde­ to govern themselves well." of his his talk. property neighbors by meanor punishable by fine or imprisonment, if Unfortunately it must be admitted that democ­ the said male person fails or refuses after being racy has not been as successful as dreamers hoped. In the very nature of things direct rule by This Is Encouraging encouraging manifestation amid the gen ONEeral gloom is the fact that there seems to be more of a disposition to study questions of government than ever before. Out here in Kan­ sas local non-political organizations are being formed-that is, they have nothing to do with partisan politics-for the purpose of finding out if possible how we can have more effective and more economical government. It does not follow of course, that these organizations are going to solve the problem. No tax system has ever yet been adopted that is entirely satisfactory and probably no one ever will be. Tax systems like governments in general are all experiments and necessarily faulty because they are devised by imperfect men. Living Well Accordingly YOUNG man with energy, ability and initia­ A tive started in business in New York. He suc­ ceeded so well that in a few years his income reached the comfortable figure of $15,000 a year. Then came the crash. He lost nearly everything he had accumulated. His income shrank in the same proportion. He had accumulated along with his other possessions a wife and child. His wife was a sensible woman who was willing to ac­ ITs A !)DIn' 5I-4AME. IN TA(.T IT� commodate herself to the changed conditions. E"fllou6i.1 ..-0 "JAKE. A DUENY 'BOIQLAIl. They changed their location to a quiet village in 'BuSY OUT CA.Vlr.J. / KansaB Farm61' for JuZy 9, 1938 .. 5

engtneer with the approval of the township board of highway commissioners, shall determine what township roads shall be dragged which shall in­ Illinois Farmers Marched clude all graded rural mail route roads, and.-shall each year contract with or employ some person Farmers united in nearly every county or persons to drag the graded roads in their re­ in-Abraham Lincoln's state July Fourth, spective townships at such times and on such in a and demonstration to terms as the board and the county engineer shall parade empha­ direct. The board may pay reasonable compensa­ size that "prosperity for America must tion for the dragging. begin with the farmer;' and to re-dedi­ One more than another township might pay cate their efforts in behalf of agriculture. township under the law. Furthermore, if a ma­ learned 'that jority of the township highway commissioners By nightfall alZ Illinois had at a meeting of the township board should make prosperity would return to America when a contract to have the roads for 50 cents dragged the farmer's buying POW61' WaB restored.. a mile, that is a valid contract notwithstanding / that one member of the board might disagree, ) provided that the contract was approved by the county engineer, if there is a county engineer. ""/ case they simply voted $'600 �for teacher'S wages. The board would have no right to payout more Must Loan than that amount, but 'might at their discretion Company Pay? distribute that amount as they pleased in paying the the limitation could If a person has money In a building· and loan com­ teacher, only being they was au­ pany and the company fails to pay Interest for a year not pay more for teacher's wages than and such person has several times served notice on the thorized at the school meeting. company for the money to be paid, can It be collected? 2. In the case of Aikman versus School District, 'ILl!!: do not have to 'Interest when you lAI(�yQ� O"'L.,. They say they pay 27th Kansas, the supreme court held that a con­ CONSOL6.TION have notified them you want the money.-M. F. B. � tract signed without IUlY meeting of the board is The holder of this stock has rights which are invalid. Therefore a contract signed by two mem­ determined by the bylaws of the association and bers of the board but not at a regular or called warned, to pay the tax. The road overseer may by the terms of the certificate which has been' meeting of the board would be an invalid contract. grant the said male the privilege of working out issued to him. If the association is failing to live rate of a but is not his tax at the $1.50 day, up to its contract, you should take the matter up obliged to do so. Theoretically this head tax con­ with the state banking depa,rtment. Bank Take Cattle tributes several hundred thousand dollars to the May road fund, but my opinion is that practically it The bank has a mortgage on 50 head of cattle for amounts to comparatively little. Road Must $800 which the owner cannot pay. May the bank take Pay'Damages all the cattle where his ·wlfe has not signed the mort­ If It may, would the bank have to pay the pas­ A has an SO-acre farm thru 'whlch the railroad runs. B gage? . ture bill on the cattle?�Reader. Wa.s Thter Man or Mule?_../ has the farm rented. A sells a strip of land to the 'ratl­ road. B's crop Is damaged. Does the railroad company 1. If the wife has not this . signed mortgage have to B damage?-E. J. are the cattle owned a number of Southern states it is necessary pay and these 50 cattle all by allowed to this man, the mortgage is void as to' two cows to pay a poll tax in.order to be Assuming t111s crop was planted and growing IN which are the allowed vote. It is a convenient way to disfranchise the at the time the railroad company took over the among exempt property the head of the household. . colored citizens and more merciful than to sub­ land, the railroad company in that event would If these cattle are not on land of je�t them to the tender mercies of the Ku Klux take the land with notice of the renter's rights 2. pastured ·the man who the mortgage but on other Klan. In most of the New England.states origi­ and would have to pay the damages. ·gave of the other land would have nally the right to vote W:lS limited to property land, the owner what is called an lien. But our supreme holders but all of these states have abandoned .agtster's .. is not ,.' was court has held an agister's lien superior that policy. In one (Jf these states it ne��s­ Teacher's the value of '"' Raising Pay to a chattel mortgage. sary to own taxableproperty to $J:OO in order to have the right to vote. One citizen 1. At the annual school meeting the district voted 'an months' school' and' $600 for teacher's wages, al­ was the owner of a mule valued at $100. So long eight lowing the board to pay $75 a month. Would we as He Foreclose Now? as the mule lived this man was one of the en­ members of the school board have a legal right to pay May franchised sovereigns of that state and of the $120 a month for teacher's wages? 2. Does a contract on a farm. A foreclosure Is neces­ the mule died and the I hold a mortgage Union, but unfortunately with a teacher drawn outside of the board meeting have up sary. DOes the amount that has been paid any­ disfranchised. Then arose a somewhat board dis­ man was and signed by two members of the bind the thing to do with the time the present owner has' to

was . acr.imonious debate over the question; who trict?-s. D. R. redeem the farm ? I understand that If one has paid I' the voter, the man or the mule t half he can hold 18 months. If he' has paid one-third 1. The electors at tlie general meeting may vote or less, he can hold only six months.-R. C. D. a sum annually not exceeding the limit fixed by He Vacate in It this mortgage was given' to secure the pur­ Must August? chase price and less than one-third has been paid would six on it, then the time of redemption be X furnishes the land, tools, horses, plow and feed. Z, months. If one-third or inore has been paid, the the renter, does the work. taking care of and handling for his would have the usual 18 months. If the crop for one-third of said crop In payment mortgagor a of the· labor. Can X force Z to vacate on August 1 without writ­ this was not given to secure part pur­ ten notice 30 days before March 1? There Is no written chase price, then the question of the amount that O. U. contract. Z has a corn crop growlng.-I. has been paid upon it would have nothing to do with the time of Z would seem to be a tenant from year to year redemption. without a written lease. If so he can only be forced to vacate on March 1 by giving him writ- . to that un­ Is Outlawed? ten notice at least 30 days prior date, Mortgage less the rental contract began and ended on Au­ A mortgage Is given on real estate to secure the pay­ 1. In that case notice would have to be given gust ment of a note. Is the mortgage outlawed so long as 30 to 1. And Z would have a days prior August the note Is kept allve?-I. T. right to harvest the corn. My opinion is it is not. for Dragging Roads Pay Not a Legal Matter I drag the road of a mall route In Kannoka township, What Is the correct proceeding at a political caucus Douglas county. Other townships pay $1 a mile. This a mile. held for the of nominating candidates for pri­ township has never paid me more than 75 cents purpose ?-A voter. Other townships cut the drag man to 75 and SO cents a mary election cut me .and the rest of our drag mile, but our township The law does not provide for any such caucus. men to 50 cents a mile. The township treasurer and the clerk did the cutting. The township trustee did not law as the meeting shall deem sufficient for school this cut a man has to work two For aMwer to a enclose a want to cut. Under purposes and for payment of teacher's wages. an legal question, E. With teams and himself all day for $S.50.-F. The voters of the'district have a right to say stamped seZf-addressed envelope your ques­ for teacher's - tion to T. A. McNeaZ, KaMas Farmer, Topeka. The law does not provide what compensation how much shall be paid out wages, distributed. In this answered only for subscribers. shall be paid for dragging the roads. The county also to say how that shall be QuestiOM

'Fair Prices Thru an Ernergency Plan if the cot­ has the of the three national farm or­ Using wheat as an example, Secretary emergency farm relief bOI for wheat, backing the domestic of estimates that 75 per cent of the ton and effective for one year only, gantaatlons. It is a combination of Agriculture hogs, wlll be used for domestic con­ Senate committee on allotment and the equalization fee plan. present year's crop was approved by the plan certificate X measure the will receive a the committee voted the grower at a 1, in Sena- "Members of sumption, agriculture special meeting July of 4 bushels of wheat he out as an relief proposition. covering 3 out every tor office in the capitol. . purely emergency Capper's to to a representative to Some doubts were expressed as to its ad­ markets. He has only prove In brief, for one year, the bill pro_poses pay grave has failure of this Con­ of the Department of Agriculture that he 42 cents a. bushel on wheat, 5 cents a visability as a policy, but the a bounty of of his own wheat to deal with the farm has made marketed, say, 100 bushels on and 2 cents a on hogs, for gress to problem pound cotton, pound certificate the 75 bushels. This that would drastic relief action necessary." receive a covering that portion of the farmer's production of measure and certificate will be ret:1eemed at any place pay­ be used for domestic consumption. The Govern­ Being a temporary 1 year acreage the bill ment named the Secretary of the Treasury, the an amount tax­ for the year been planted, by ment in turn will collect equal by present having the 75 bush­ stimulation of Neither holder 42 cents for each of the or of these three com­ cannot result in production. receiving ing milling processing . does the bill fix nor alter the existing mar.: els. modities. prices time It the farm­ The certificates may be cashed any after The payments equal the keting machinery. will, however, give proposed adjustment but must be within a year' im­ er an additional return for the of a. year 30 days, presented tariff rate on wheat and hogs, and the bOI period three basic commodities whose from date. a tariff of 5 cents a on short staple upon the prices poses pound deficit or strain on the effect on all- com­ The bill creates no cotton for which no present tariff exists. have controlling agricultural . recruited from the the condition of Treasury, because the fund is "This bill is a relief measure for 1 modities. In Improving agricul­ temporary altho a temporary advance. m.ay can ture in this it is believed the measure will processing tax, year, such time as Congress develop, way, ma­ pending the na­ be And no new governmental in a permanent have marked effect in relieving present necessary. enact, and place full operation the measure into economic chinery will be needed to put plan for agricultural relief," said Senator Capper. tional emergencyIn industry, transpor­ and finance. effect. "The bill was introduced by Senator Norbeck, and tation, employment, 6 Kan8a8 Farmer far July 9, 193�

The Glad Band The editor stood at the pearly gate, His face was wom and old; He asked of the man of fate Our meekly . Neighbors Admission to the fold. "What have you done?" st. Peter then that were blind- are in the with a sterl- asked, Suppose you planted jelly folded and asked to draw them lized wire. Then the Idish is covered "To seek admission here?" out, one at a time, and cut each pair' and left for 24 hours. Meanwhile these "Oh, I ran a country printing plant p�r One Farmer's Taxes one button and throw- little organisms get busy and multi- On earth for many a year." apart, saving ing its mate away. Now let the 18 ply, forming colonies and cities. Then To pay the taxes on an average The gate swung open sharply quarter-section farm In coun­ buttons that were one from ,the farmer a Clay As Peter touched the bell. saved, germ gets larger crop by ty. takes, 16 loads of farm products, i each the chromosomes these in dishes. Farmer William he "and a pair, represent transplanting separate Gepner finds out. "Come in," said, take harp; . that <;.!lrry the inheritance with which This Is his list and the prices are You've bad enough of-er-trouble." liberal: a high-produci!lg dairy cow endows What Have You her first calf." Or, 200 bu. oats @ 18e ...... 0 .... $ S6.00 Yes, Indeed WTHAT will the department stores 100 bu. wheat @ SSe...... SS.OO W do next? A reader writes that 100 bu. corn @ 28c ' 28.00 The excited when a c: gossips get 4 tons Insane Team Game Ward will now hay @ $t...... 16.00 widower shaveS on Wo� Montgomery analyze Tuesday. 50 weaned 7l1c each... S7.50 ...., BALL TEAM of patients at the your urine, postpaid for a dollar-fifty. pigs @ Freckles would make a nice coat 100 roosters @ tOe each...... 10.00 c: A State Hospitl['! for· insane at To­ of tan, if they would only co-operate. Ii cases eggs @ 6c dozen...... 9.00 peka, d�feated a nine made up of their Ford's Pants cream . . . After Henry Ii cans @ 11e lb.. . . . 8.00 c: The Old-fashioned store now guards, 12 to 11. One of the patients general Ford has a knocked a homer in the fourth that Henry has pharmacist in the back end. inning Total $177.50 LEARNINGof trousers the Goodwlll and later in the game that side pulled 100 pairs c: Perhaps kissing shortens life, as has him a a fast double play. Can it be that the SOCiety of Memphis sent

. some M. D. but it on the says, depends' two nine's to change places in special delivery letter asking for 93 of the car. oUlrht speed that institution? injured arm and he has the movement If all stations were c: filling placed of that arm in one direction. During side it would save bandits by side, boy this time Elton has received $15 a lots of He LueesOk Her C00ki milage. tng week compensation. It is because so brother "is so accidents occur on farms � My' appreciative," many that Speaking of Hard Times says Emily Jane, a Miami coun- Kansas Farmer recently added an ac­ ty girl. "I put a dinner on the table cident insurance service for its readers. lambs were 6 a day centa pound consisting of a pound and a half of THEin Kansas c 0 u n t City, Douglas y hamburger steak, a pot of baked butchers asked C. S. Finch 43 cents a beans, hot biscuits, a pound of wilted Didn't Want the Road for pound lamb chops. lettuce and a double of sliced serving Bill White, home from a va- and and he 'is orange bananas, says YOUNGcation in Mexico, fin d s Mexican all to eat?' " Likes Them With Butter this you got towns just the opposite of American towns of the same size. the time S the first roasting ears of the sea­ During of railroad expansion in Mexico, young A son have appeared in Cloud coun­ Many New Homesteaders Bill says the people of Texaco were ty, Tom Kiene, for the moment, doesn't and women who left the farm greatly excited. They raised a fund care much what happens to business. MEN for the city when. wages were and sent a committee to the railroad and are now without are high, work, builders. "We will give you all this into farm houses unoc­ She's a Good Manager moving Iong' money," they said, "if you'will prom­ cupied. They are making homes of ise to route the railroad thru some YOUNG Marion bride who intends them and are getting a living from other town, and not come near Tex.,. A to her husband in help every pos­ the land. No farms remain long for aco,:' Mexicans prefer the simple life, sible laid in a way, generous supply and may be right. of 2-cent stamps before the price went up to 3 cents. . pairs for the unemployed. They asked only for 93 so that Henry still would Describing the Bride have a left for each of the Two Farm" Sidelines pair day is "she like?" an Atchison week. Meanwhile Salvation Memphis' WHATwoman asked of a bride one of the road between Hoi ton and has after the of Army gone pants the town boys had brought from out ONTopeka, Mabel Beck saw a farm Andrew Mellon. Along with a better of town. "Well," was the reply, "she )"Police of not a bet­ signboard advertising, pups­ distribution wealth, why is not beautiful to have her Gooseberries." Eastem Kansas is ter distribution of the seats of the enough go­ husband shoot her for love, and she is in for diversified these backward times? ing farming.· mighty not homely enough for him to have just married her for money." ,Why Noe . Look Farther? Went Down Tail First Valley Falls a farmer found FRISKY horse chased a Shetland Promoting the Gospel NEAR A tower in a $20 gold piece on his farm. He pony thru a windmill GROCER at Scranton offered $2 believes it was lost there 50 ago Nemaha and the horse being years county, A worth of groceries free to the fam­ a man he knew as a What down he went tail first thru by boy. heavier, ily having the largest attendance at better year could there be for a lost the Neighbors tried to draw platform. the Methodist church on Family Day. to reappear? him up with pulleys, but the crowd gold piece That family, by the way, would prob­ him and he like a frightened fought ably have most need of the groceries. catfish on a line. Then the tower fell Even High Living's Cheap and the horse slipped back. ·It took the good old times often re­ the road wrecker to get him out. Its An Egg and a Sign? WELL, chain held and pulled the horse out Farmer . ferred to in Kansas by WHITE owned Mrs. rent, says John Fields of the Wichita none the worse for his Wyandotte by the have almost come back. experience. A pioneers, Land Bank. Houses without mod­ Frank Krous, Marysville; laid an A Syracuse cafe is serving turkey any em conveniences, yet almost palatial egg with an almost perfect imprint dinners on Sunday for 25 cents with in comparison with the on the Divorce 2 Minutes of the head of 1\ donkey on the shell, a dish of ice cream free. dugout Every creek bank which' was considered com­ in a shade of green. Are Marshall is the present record of the fortable by pioneers, provide shelter county hens going Democratic? THATU. S. More than 1 in every 6 mar­ for families who otherwise would have Robbed Poor Man's Patch ends in divorce. By 1965 it will no homes. riages meanest man lives in Topeka. be 1 in every 2 if the present rate con­ Uncle THEHe visited the vacant-lot garden of tinues. But it is noticed that only 8 per Jerry Says cent of American married with a man who had had just eight days a Good couples Another thing the automobile has Hardly Helping children to the divorce c 0 u r t s. work this and took all the peas. go contributed to is the year, most amused look we have seen progress "dirty Doubtless he will return and harvest Make your own comment. look." THEon a woman's face this was other when they are ready. year � vegetables shown on the countenance of a farm­ A man too lazy to tend a garden of er's wife when she looked in the win­ This Didn't Grow A Butler county man tells me he is his own who robs the gardens of the Pig dow of a Topeka grocery. What she enjoying the most peaceful home life unemployed, is too mean to kill. owned by F. J. Reider, of Iowa, saw was a little package of shelled he has had in a year. The radio APIGwas 2 weeks old when he missed family peas, done up in cellophane and tied is on the bum. it from the litter. Seventy-five days with ribbon, waiting for a city woman � But Will Do It? later he found still under a They to take them home to cook. it, alive, , ) it costs as much to sell a 75-pound hog house floor where there didn't The East discovers that the under­ it could have world has now turned to As_ shoat as it does to sell a 400-pound seem to be any food making Gave to the eaten. A diet ended this hun­ counterfeit No use to the hog thru a commission house, Vic Van Eggs Hogs special money. talk, I strike for better market Volstead Act and the 18th Amend­ Campen of Pottawatomie county, sug­ N enraged Sedgwick county farm- ger prices. ,P' that the ment must be repealed. gests during readjustment A er is said to have dumped a case it would be a fine thing for � period of eggs into his hog pen rather than Even Goats Eat ., commission firms to sell on a Lighter per­ sell them for 6 cents a dozen. They When everything has been re­ basis. That would be fair to owned W. I. Peck, Neosho, centage might have made better horse feed. by adjusted on the deflation basis times the commission house and fairer to ONE t h r u the bedroom In the old days the farmer who wanted Mo., jumped will grow better, say the economists. the stock raiser. himself in the middle his hoss critters to show a shining window, planted Unfortunately there are more filling of the floor and started a feath­ coat was always blind to the eggs eating stations than we had in 1929. er while Mrs. Peck sought safe­ .the hens laid in the feed trough. plllow, � Thanks to Our Ancestors ty on top of the dresser. Maybe billy he could trade his homs for New Yorkers are pretty dumb when . life of every person starts from thought in a Saucer it comes to .. appreciating prohibition , .THEa single cell about the size of a Farming wings.' They haven't yet found out that even grain of wheat. Within that cell is a smallest farms in the world are a Gotham speakeasy grades 5o....per small collection of chromosomes, small, THE4 inches wide and %-inch deep. . Made Him a False Joint cent better than an old-time saloon. . rod-shaped bodies that unite and con­ They are the bacteria specialist's cul­ two � vey to us our ancestral inheritance. ture dishes. John Koopman, in Hygia, AN accident in a grain elevator K. F. Wamer illustrates the process tells how they are farmed. The soil years ago has resulted in 40 weeks Balancing the budget "soaks the and 3 bone a in Hygia with colored buttons, in the may be gelatine or moistened agar, a in the hospital, 8 operations rich," complains financial paper, and .ease of a purebred cow. "Suppose you seaweed. Whim this jellies, the germs grafts for Elton Blanchard, a young that may be true for the rich are eas­ farmer. A .false has soak. But also a were to put 18 white buttons into a the bacteriologist wishes to raise from Belleville .. joint' iEir·,·to Congress did box,_each one tied to a black button. which to' make serums. or. antitoxine, been developed above the elbow of his 'good job of peppentng the poor. . " 'Kansas Farmer for July 9, 1932

The Best Ranch Story You Ever Read Bear Creek Crossing Jackson By. Gregory .. ( ".', 'I :..... (Copyrighted. Ail Rights Reserved)

Beginning of the Story now. This same 01' bear had, et "all one sid�leg an' arm an'-" all Victor . his to DIf,fresne, After losing money As dalntlly, as a lady could under �e circum­ in and shooting gentleman gambler, Queen Oity, stances, Mrs. Estabrook delicately removed the John Brent, cowboy preacher thru the shoul­ big particle of meat from her mouth with a lace, best rider Bear Track Ranch, meets (ler, Hal, of handkerchief. Even Mr. Cushing grew suddenly Overland to drive a Easterners out the party ·of and his second steak away pale pushed gingerly. to the ranch. Dick drives the second Sperry wag­ from contact with his potatoes. on. In the are Mrs. Estabrook, mother of party "Hem." remarked Mr. Cushing with a sick Hal's her and Fern boss,' daughters Sibyl Yvonne; smile. "Remarkable." Winston, Mr. Dabner, Sibyl's intended; Mr. Oueh» Hal and Dick Sperry dropping into their seats, ing, Mimi, the French maid, and two servino men. passed their plates up to Swayne and partoolt The journey proves rough. Hal secretly aamires generously of the "man killer" steaks. the beautiful Sibyl. She is distantly interested in him. Now read on. now, ladies an' gents," said Swayne, hav­ own "if , finish'ed bis meal, you'll jus' stars were thick strewn acrosS"the dusky AN'ing stick aroun' a little kin make yourse'ves elvet of the moonless the un- you sky, ground have - to home. pronto my Chink'll your TIEerfoot lost in black nothingness, the moun- Purty rooms for I to out an' shut up tains merely sheer walls of ebony, when the Bear ready you. got go stock." . Track man swung his team about a well-remem­ my thirst a of his chair bend in the road. The moon lifted an arc Hal, hi!! thing fire, pushed bere4 and his hat as he went. strode over the mountains in the east, and now the back. sweeping up into the barroom. He poured out his two custom­ Easterners, looking down, saw the moon and the drinks. giving no Sign that he knew Sibyl's stars looking back up at them from the floor of ary were fixed him thru the open doorway. the valley. Yvonne cried out aloud, a little ecstat­ eyes upon the bottle again in its place he tossed ic cry of delight, like a child's. Having put a coin into _the little drawer under the bar, and Cutting into the silence so sharply, so abruptly strolled to the stables. Dick Sperry followed fear grew greater than his shame. and that the enwrapt guests were startled by it and 'away Dabner;s . ·'Hal to the stables. he hurried forward. the French maid threw her arms around Mr.' Mr;' the thin blue of smoke "Now dig." Dabner'e neck, shocked into a shriek of terror, Dabner, spiral aloft from, his cigar, leaned back in Like Cushing. he pulled a handful of small bills Hal's piercing yell went flying out over the val- climbing I Fern Winston, the pretty girl from his pocket. These he tossed to the floor and ley. The echos went mad with it, the two sidlls of after-d,inner peace; the black hair and blue was watching to move back. the'canyon which they had just left breakiD« the Wlt)!. eyes. began Mrs. Estabrook and seemed' to find amusement "No/'you don't!". There was an ugly snarl in sound into a thousand fragments. As he called in the look that wore. the steady voice which had not been there before. 'they saw one of the stars far below begin to move lady half half one of "You come across an' do it fas·. Come, along the side of the strange mirror which had Yvonne, sitting, reclining upon proper the looked out thru the across with the res' ." caught the reflection of the sky, and knew that long benches. dreamily door and to the little lake sprinkled with stars. "That·s all I have," grumbled Mr. Dabner. they were directly above Swayne's Lake and did father send us out here?" "You lie!" The words fairly slapped him in the Swayne's Roadhouse. The runaway star resolved . "Why your 'way Mrs. Estabrook was half her tearful eyes face. and his head went -b,ack as tho a itself into a lantern. swung in a circle about a sobbing, Yvonne. "And did Oscar send two such struck him. "An' anyway: it ain't enough.' y­ man's head. and an answering voice told them upon why for us? Oh, don't tell me: 1 know a few a�ive out'n this if he has enough m ey, that Swayne was waiting for them. savages body gits I are cutthroats, I know; to his fare. If ain't the coin, an' I Still it was half an hour before the four horses things, hope. They pay you got h�ad wild men.·1f they eat the bears that eat don't, git it damn quick, I'll shoot you up for could bring them to the lakeside. For the road . butchers. who knows but that eat each bein' broke an' ·wastin' time. I'm countin' seemed needlessly long in its windings down 'the their Chinks, they my have us to this unheard three. One-two-" mountain side. other? And they brought , where could rob us and us Dabner's like before him. shot The Estabrook party hastened stiffly into the of. low place they .kill hand. Cushing's into his coat and drew forth a wallet house. The short of their new host were andL" pocket greetings with the other loot. "Hands Look alive! Jes' set still, , which was cast hurriedly Tben. lost in the furious barkings of a dozen dogs. Sibyl up, gents! ladies. The first one as makes a move his like Mr. Cushing, he stepped backward. Estabrook slightly in advance as usual. they en­ gits again brains all over!" hands and took his place near the Wall. tered the long. low-ceiled front room of the squat. spattered uplifted. The men Crofton and Bates. were log building, found rough, homemade chairs and serving was low insistent .and called. to the door. emp­ benches by the light of a dim. evil-smelling kero­ voice toned, very They stepped quietly up front in the tied their and as back. sene and them. stern. Just outside of the door, pockets. stepped quietly oil lamp, dropped thankfully upon THE ' pale moonlight, barely touched by the faltering The hold-up man nodded approvingly. a man with a "Which is actin' like two real sports should." a long table made of planks ripped out of rays from the dirty lamp, heavy six shooter leaned forward, in up­ he muttered. "I reckon you're the two real gents. oaken logs with an axe, were a dozen plates. slightly peering ON A soft an' that old an' the with the is on his attitude alert and determined. guy cigar no and sev­ them. Fatty two alike. tiIJ. cups, pewter cups, about was over his a red handkerchief your hired, men, hub? Well. folks. that'll be eral glasses and the proper number of black­ black cap eyes. below throat. His looked all No, I atn't troublin' the ladies. I guess handled knives and three-pronged forks. Mrs. knotted falling the eyes tonight. them. they ain't got much cash aroun', anyway." Estabrook gave one' sweeping glance at the prep­ upon noted that he fitted in­ In the barroom a faint· creaking of boards un­ arations for their entertainment and shuddered Yvonne. still dreaming. to the Mrs. Estabrook der cautious tiptoes was lost in the noise of' the, herself to a bench, upon which She continued to landscape picturesquely. sat and still. Mr. Dabner came near falling chair which Crofton's foot had toppl'ed moan about the ingratitude of one's children. wide-eyed his Mr. in the same in­ over. There was no light in the barroom now; Swayne, standing in the open doorway. his big swallowing cigar. Cushing stant his and shot his short arms high perhaps the .oil lamp had burned down and flick­ hands upon his hips. surveyed his guests for the opened eyes. his head. And murmured to herself. ered out unnoticed. perhaps a gust of wind had night with cool scrutiny. He commanded a half above Sibyl "So our Outlaw has turned highwayman!" swept out the little flame. dozen dogs at his heels to "dry up an' git out," on the man stalked into the the door "I hate to seem rude,'! went quiet­ and then room, leaving the "An' I sure hate to make you folks rush. But faces in the room were intent upon open. ly. much time. You ladies set still. face of the man out in the He,in "Well. ladies an' gents," he drawled, "you're I atnt got right ALL moonlight. can walk this when I had his for the men and welcome. Make yourse'fs to home. 5upper'll be An' you. gents way sUp you tum eyes only word. Get an' if women whom he was in about 10 minutes. You kin find a place the your money ready, you got swiftly robbing. ready me. be much sense won't, none to hold out on "Now," he was saying crisply. "I got to to wash up out here. An' the bar's right in yon­ you try You're the first one across. You folks can tum faces to th1'l wall der. The drinks is on me." All right, Fatty. Step goln'. your I tliis mazuma An' dont tum back Swayne struck the door with his shoulder, lead­ lively." while pick up. Mr. his hands still high above' till I tell can." ing the way into a second room as long as the Cushing, puffy you you his came forward so that he His command was one first and wider. Along one side of the room was a head. promptly obeyed swiftly. Shoving stumbled. of the its holster at his he stooped painted redwood bar. guns'into hip "I-" the loose bills on "I-I he , and with the free hand up "What you takin', gents? beg pardon." gasped. swept "That's all You can cut it short. the to stuff them into his pocket. Since there was only a choice between beer and right, Fatty. floor. beginning han'S down lowered his head the barroom door sudden­ whisky, it did not take long for them to name You can also take your long enough As he ... I "their poison." Having replied to Swayne's hearty. to dig. An' dig fas' ly swung wide open. Mr. hand shot into his pocket. "Han's " "Here's how.... they drank with him. Cushing's right up!" out with a handful of which he Hal's voice-as cool, as indifferent. as steady In the dining room. a Chinaman. slant eyed and coming greenbacks hand dived into his as the other's had been. with shuffling feet, brought the dinner i,n. and proffered eagerly. His left and quiet and determined and thrust forth a red-leather wallet. Hal himself in the doorway. his hat disappeared to the kitchen. leaving those at the pocket fat. standing "Put 'em on the commanded the far back his head. his lips smiling. table to wait upon themselves. Swayne called to floor." quiet pushed upon his his left hand his his right them to "Set in." dragged his own chair up to voice. eyes stern. upon hip, them as tho were hot. outstretched with a revolver trained upon the head of the table. and began to carve the Mr. Cushing dropped they hand watch-" the man at the threshold. steaks piled high upon the platter in front of him. "My The man near the started, a little cry that Supper went on smoothly. Mr. Cushing. seeking a hold-up laughed .shortty, Yvonne, door. it Now back an' from her The man second helping. asked what kind of meat it was. "You can keep Fatty. up give sounded like fear whipped lips. a with the so near her lifted his head with, a "This here?" queried Swayne. holding a large the res' show. ,.come ahead, you Cigar." stooping quick and the two wallets piece, suspended with his own fork, is bear meat. jerk leaped back. dropping almost as as came and the loose strewn over the Eatin' this'U put hair on your ches' an' make you whit� Cushing, -leavlng greenbacks. less fear in his heart than floor. As he he the gun in' his scrap tigers." forward slowly. leaped, jerked up DABNER, mani­ Mrs. Estabrook shuddered. Mr. Cushing con- shame that that fear should have to be hand. women. Hal's voice tinued swiftly. fested in the presence of the Estabrook "Cut that out, pal!" again: ringing hand stem. "You know me. I'll you "Bear meat? It's very fine. You klll him?" The revolver in the highwayman's right omino.usly drop to use that "Yep:" Swayne nodded. "An' time I did, too." dropped its nose until it pointed at Mr. Dabner's dead. in your shoes if you try gun. .. Han's "Yes? How's that? hesitant feet.. up!" or hole The the and was a bad one. A man killer. I had two You'll "step livelier. feller. git a man, paused quickly. dropped gun, ".a� younR , Chinks workin' for me'las' week. I 'only got one thru that hind foot'of youni; Which is it 1" (Continued on Page 19) .,' 8 Kansa8 Farmer for JuZy 9, 19S5

Hatch Will Grow No More Wheat

Hog Prices Mak� the Outlook Better lor Cattle

BY HENRY HATCH Jayhawker Fann, Gridley, Kansas

are we going to do about field should be in the pink of condi­ WHATwheat growing for 1933? No tion for an August seeding of alfalfa, doubt about this question now be­ a crop of which we never yet had as ing uppermost in the mind of the av­ much as could be used to advantage erage farmer, and particularly if he for feeding on the farm. READ lives where wheat is really "it" as a � crop. The other field. is 10 acres that was This is what we are to do going sown early In the spring to Sweet about it on this it. farm-quit clover, simply by harrowing a corn Here in the near eastern end of the stubble field until level, then broad­ are other .... state there crops that may the seed and in. casting harrowing , be grown that seem to offer, for the . This left the, field very solid, except at least, a better outcome than present for a half-inch on the surface, and wheat. other offers a Any grain crop how that Sweet clover has taken hold return this because it can greater year and grown! On the first of July it was be fed to better on the advantage from knee to waist high everywhere, farm, to cattle. especially and the 20 pounds of seed sown to the elevators now are Many offering acre has made a thick stand. more than a a bushel slightly quarter Either this has been a most unusu­ for wheat. I should like to see the ally favorable season for a color of the fellow's hair who believes getting start of Sweet clover, or else this is he can grow it for that price. the ideal way' of seeding the crop­ � perhaps partly both. Seventy-five acres were in wheat on Anyhow, here is a crop that is go­ this farm this year, or, rather, 15 ing to do that 10 acres a whole lot of acres on the "home place" and 60 good, and when plowed under next acres on land rented, which is owned May, when about a foot high, I hope by a non-resident. the crop that will be increased by it My two boys have this, and give the may bring a greater financial return landowner a one-third share, delivered than this year's wheat crop is bringing. at the nearest market. They handled � this 60 acres as well' as knew they While the recent upturn in the price it after har­ how, plowing deep early of hogs cannot be anything to become vest last with the year tractor, kept excited about Until at least the point it well disked to fit the seedbed, and is reached where the cost of produc­ at the time of it was like a seeding tion is returned, it is encouraging in garden. that it should have a tendency to add for a few this field Except acres, strength to the cattle market. came thru the winter in fine shape, The beef producer should soon be and now looks as if it will make a bet­ , given a break. If he doesn't get one ter than for this average yield year, soon he will be broke, instead. The fel­ 20 bushels to the acre. which is possibly low who has tried to do the most with � beef cattle the last two years is now Sho'uld it make this much-and nearest that frame of mind that de­ there is a likelihood that it will make cides him to walk in and tell his banker, less rather than more-and were it "they're yours-go and get 'em." �old on the present market, they Had the price of hogs hung in the would have but $3.33 an acre for the well, everyone was certain the tow entire job of producing and hauling pork price would have been used as a beef this crop of wheat to market, and the leverage to still further depress landowner would get $1.66 an acre for prices, but the turn for the better Here's real his rental. But the boys are going to with hogs makes things look better put their share of this wheat in bins, for the cattleman. call it their 1933 wheat crop, and let Were business conditions normal, a someone else farm the land next year.. shortage of beef would be felt right TRUCK TIRE THRIFT! For every bushel of this wheat sold now. for 25 cents, they would be losing an­ � other 25 cents. Practices have changed in the pro­ and' � You might as well have the mileage thorough­ duction of beef as in other things. Not There are two fields on this farm so many years ago the steer was not bred quality that Goodyear puts into truck tires, when on whiCh we are considering ourselves considered a subject for the feedlot more fortunate. One is the 20 acres until 3 or 4 years of age, and he can them at like these: left to be summer fallowed to be seed­ weighed from 1,400 to 1,800 when fin­ you get prices ed to alfalfa this fall. ished. Now, as we do in the education At one time last fall we were al­ of our Children, we rush 'em thru, and most presuaded to fit it for wheat, the race is to the swift. They go to GOODYEAR PATHFINDER then run our chance of getting it market weighing half as much as the ready for alfalfa after. taking the old time steer, when a year or less in Prices quoted here include we this wheat off this July .. Had done age. the wheat would have been a liability While the market tally may show an as is the rest of it. the usual the of beef instead of asset, number, pounds - Size - 6.00-Z0 Size - 7.50-Z0 Size 8.Z5-Z0 with a crop-drain on the land besldea, hanging on the packer's hooks may be As it is, favoring rains brought on only half or less. which has been The cattleman should have a decent , a great weed growth deeply plowed under, and now this price coming to him this fall and win­ ter. Not only does he deserve it, but the actual visable supply, should en­ title him to a rising market. If he does not get it the reason may be found in Kansas Has an All-Water Price the unfilled pocketbook of the beef �rice p�r �rice p�r per i, consumer. tire $1.93., ure ., single tire Route to the Sea single single $.93• The hint of a low price for corn in After more than half a cen­ the Corn Belt will create an early de­ tury the Missouri Riv61' has mand for feeder cattle, but in many cases excellent has more been reopened. for navigati01� the grass Slze-30 X 5 Slze-3Z x 6 Slze-34 x7 than half finished the feeder's job. from St. Louis to Kansas City, � thru a permanent all-year e-toot of channel, and that means water Bright oat straw is the equal for and even better rates for freight [rom. Kansas prairie hay cattle, if the light oats are .blown in with the City to New Orleans and the sea. straw. It pays to stack well the oat towboats Mark Twain and $39�:m The $28�-i and one man can do it very $16�� straw, St. Lou-is Price Genera; Ashburn, left nicely with the blow stacker if the Price per �rice p�r $.ft4Z per Tuesday, June 21, with Patrick separator man will work with him. single tire $1704 single we .,., single tire $4040 J. Hurley, Secretary of War' More and more are inclined to let aboard, and reached Kansas City the straw pile up, untouched by hand, and at least a third of it is the following Monday, where however, wasted after a few rains. whistles tooted and the crowd One man with a fork can save a lot on the bank cheered. U'pstream. of good feed if he will stay with the speed was better than 6 miles strawpile while the threshing is being an hour agai,nst nearly a 10- done, and to one who started stacking mile current. Ultimately the straw in the days of the olg,.slat car­ river will provide a bette)' mar­ rier, when three men were needed to straw it is Dot so ket for Kansas [arm. products. keep the away, much of a job after all. Next season tmlfic will begin with four towboats. (J: If the short sellers were poor men, they would be dangerous Reds. KaMa. Farmer for July 9, 1938 9

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TlJlVE INI Goodyear invites you to hear the Revelers Quartet, Goodyear Concert-Dance Orchestra and a feature guest artist every Wednesday night, over N. B. C. Red Network, WEAF and Associated Stations 10 Kansas Farmer for July 9). 1932

tax, and many are drawing large sal­ Brisbane the U. S. Department of Agriculture Back 'Talk aries that plty little if any property Buy Dirt, Says recommended that sodium iodide be tax. The only way to reach them is to is the fu­ added to the rations of these sheep. Readers' letters always welcome. Addres& all tax their incomes. - H. B. Malone, WHATture of rea I The sheep rapidly became better and communications to Kansas Farmer, Topeka. Wellington, Kan. estate, asks Arthur grew wool again . . . Sows in Mon­ Brisbane. Then he tana not having any y.gw;Ig, also were Soon Learned Vaccinate the answers the ques­ found to need the iodine treatment. Pigs Pigs tion. "It depends on The importance of iodine in treating , sow farrowed. She was very HOG cholera has appeared in 'Okla- where it is. What thyroid troubles Inman, has long been \ MYlarge and heavy. I was afraid she homa, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Ne­ you can do with it known. would lay on some of the pigs. So I braska, Missouri and probably in Lane aft e r you get it. Kansas. It is better to be safe. placed a large dry goods box J.u,.-the county, Real estate is the means the the shed near the sow and the pigs soon That vaccinate pigs, o n 1 y natural mo­ Apple Business Growing earlier the better and the less serum learned to go in the box. The pigs nopoly. There is than one-third of the world's come out and nurse and then needed. Serum is low in price this year. so much of· it would just MOREcommercial apple crop is grown in the box. I saved 11 out and no m 0 r its go back pigs e, in the U. S., 12% per cent in France, of 12.-Ivan Colo. value is increased Arthur Brisbane Kingsley, Eads, Farmers Can Go Far 9 per cent in Russia and 8 per cent and � ,as population in Germany. These countries are apple BY ALEXANDER LEGGE the power of human ,beings consum­ .spendtng • leaders. But when it comes to increase. Every Bit 0/ It True ing apples, France leads the world "Real well chosen, will be with estate, with 60 pounds per capita a year. WAS so well pleased your than PERHAPS'thesoundest advice more valuable in years to come. is second with 52.7 I front cover article in a recent Kan­ Germany pounds we can to it ever has been, in my opinion. Men for Honest give and the U. S. third with 51.6 pounds. sas, Farmer, "The Fight in estate as is con­ have gambled real they more than a it was agriculture This country supplies Markets," that I saw to it that in and all tained in the one have gambled other things, of 40 million bushels needed in Pratt Tribune. third the placed the Daily real estate owners, like all stock own­ Let's word, "Organize." for foreign trade. People the world That article was a good one. the of the Properly organ­ ers, must help pay penalty over are more fruit. .have more like it. I am living on a eating ized, I cannot see gambling. But, buy good, productive farm and can appreciate the truth of reason real estate, in the right place; keep it, - why these statements. Lewis Tempe, any and it will pay you." Kan. agriculture might Preston, not eve n far- � go *� ����EP.?O���: ther than industry, MOTOR aDd COMBINE HAY PRESSES inasmuch as most Sheep Began Shedding Taxes at Fox and Smalley Ensilage Cutters. W. W. Studying Eagle farm are in Michigan began suddenly products SHEEP and Jumbo Grinders. Belts and Supplies. tax study club at Eagle is mak- Alexander Legge consumed eve r y to lose their wool. It was noticed Lead annealed Bale Ties. from Goi­ THEing progress under the leadership day and several they were suffering goiter. Complete Repair Service of A. E. Kinnamon who is giving the times a day and the consumption must, ter is a disease of the thyroid -gland Klughartt - Birdsell Sales Co. lessons. Six of the 13 lessons have be fairly continuous if we are to live. which normally contains iodine. So 1319 Hickory Dept. K Kansas City,' Mo. been presented at Friday evening ses­ sions, attendance averaging from 16 club .... to 23 . . . The Banner tax study finished the 13 lessons a short time still are ago. Cimarron and Copeland _studying the series.-Donald W. Ingle, county agent, Cimarron, Kan. � He Is Holding His Wheat 67,000 mrles • • • wheat and prosperity will VALVES GROUND DOLLARcome if farmers will keep � their wheat on the farm and not sell a bushel. My 1931 wheat crop is in the stack and keeping fine. I should like to hear from all farmers who can say 93,000 Iniles • • • the same.-W. J. Rickenbacher, R. 9, Topeka, Kan. NEW PISTON RINGS Mr. Rlckenbacher's "If" Is a big one. For the man who can It may pay to hold wheat but hardly for the dollar prlce.­ Editor. � How It's Done Down South HATCH is right in urging HENRYshallow cultivation of com the last time over. Feeding roots of corn spread out not far below the surface and by "laying by" time they reach across between rows. If cut by the eultlvator the corn plant's food and moisture-gathering capacity is reduced that much. Southern corn growers especially those of Virginia and Mary­ land, could teach Kansas farmers something. Altho cropped 300 years and more that soil still produces 100- bushel crops of corn easily with a lit­ tle fertilizing and the r,ight kind of cultivation. They do not CUltivate deep­ ly after the first or second time over. Often only a one-horse diamond shaped harrow is used between the rows just to keep the surface stirred and weeds from starting. This working is kept "I operate a Beet of three large milk trucks at miles on our speedometer, we had the bad luclC even after tasseling but then every up and have been a to break our oil feed line. It was a hot night at the missed Pontiac, Illinois, long highly other row is skipped and that satisfied user of Germ Processed Motor Oils. the end of a long trip, 'and having, heard rows are gone over a week later so as business Conoco Germ Processed Motor Oils penetrated not to the plant growth too "In all my years in the trucking I retard the we decided to try to get in to our roots.­ have never used an oil that could to save metal, much by cutting the shallow begin when Inter­ terminal, 20 miles away. We made it, and B. 0. Shawnee Co. trucks and money like Germ Processed. An Williams, the motor was it was found to be in national truck that I have, has now run 117,065 examined, � miles, and will be two years old June 15. It perfect shape. "Germ Processed Motor Oil has saved me a averages, as all my trucks do, 180 miles daily, Fail deal of in other Tax Amendment May with 40 to 50 stops. At 67,000 miles I had the great money overhauls, repairs and loss of time. It certainly results and tax amendment, to be voted 011 valves ground. I found them to be in excellent produces I shall never use anything else. THE this will be defeated shape andwith scarcely a. bit of carbon to be found, again fall, by "DAVID WILLIAMS."tr I) the same interests that defeated it be­ "At 93,000 miles new rings .006 of an inch fore, if the farmers, home owners and oversize were ordered, but had to be filed down tyou'll find Canoe» Germ Processed Motor Oil. jobless do not understand what they before they would tit. When we had about 75,000 III IIny Conoco Red Triangle Station. are voting for. It means a tax that '* This Wlpaid testimonial is oa file at CODOCO headquarters. corporations and individuals will pay on incomes over their to be f; exemptions / fixed by law, for the support of state and county government, to relieve to some extent the burden of taxes borne CONOCO by tangible property. If the amendment carries, it means that the constitution is to be amended GERM PROCESSED to permit an income tax law to be passed. It is up to the legislature to do the rest, But its enemies hope to M 0 fRa'�ASE 0 I L kill the amendment at the polls. A state income tax is not an experi­ a ment, 22 other states have an income 30; quart fall. tax and others will vote on it this PLUS TAX There is an increasing expense add­ ,1m ed to our county governments these dtstresslng times which cannot be met THE HIDDEN a U ART' �j[=l T HAT N EVE R DRAINS AWAY by the revenue raised by the property

\ Kansas' Farmer tor July 9. 1932 1-1

and a large amount of moisture on-the • Clear Across Kansas grain. It is likely that many bins will become in A ruinous weevily August.. Kaw Valley potato growers will use market and generally bad economic local labor in the 'For th IS only harvesting crop. con�lon may bring about a wheat Crop- "Gold has been found on the Cure famine in America, as farmers must farm near Republic-in sand, not in turn to a system o( farming that does OLIVER wheat. not require so heavy an investment in equipment. So far as the farmer is RaIns have turned agabi Cheyenne concerned an acreage reduction of 50 Bottoms into a 'lake, covering 12,000 to 75 per cent probably would be just acres with water. as profitable as the larger acreages. Harvest hands got from 50 cents Growing wheat merely for exercise is to $1 a day in Smith county, lowest a poor use of energy. A farmer had better wages ever paid there. buy himself some Indian clubs and take his exercise under the shade b est _ Washington county's paying of � tree. farms have one-fourth their acreages in Sweet clover and alfalfa. There is one thing about the falling A. P. former of Burdick, secretary prices and the, depression that seems Kansas Free was found dead in' Fair, to have no logic in it. Why is it debts bed in a Wichita hotel. Heart disease, do not shrink as values do? If a piece Offered 10 cents for his wheat be­ of land was worth $10,000 'and had a cause it was damp, Arthur Balaum, $2,000 loan on it, and the same land is Salina, hauled it home again. Right! worth today but $5,000, why should the owner of the $2,000 mortgage. Five thOlUSand tobacco the plants, still contend he has a $2,000 mort­ have been Kentucky burley variety, gage? If the loans of the country were set out by J. L. Walker near Yates shrunk in proportion to the shrink in Center. material values, things would look A concrete elevator 100 feet high, different. first of its kind in Stanton county, � has been built at the new town of This surely is going to be· a good Baunders, com year in: Western Kansas. Most fields have stands and are Thirty-five cents will take you thru very good the gate at the Hutchinson State Fair fairly free from weeds to date. Most OLIVER of the feed and com in this this year and 50 cents will give you locality will have to be cultivated one or more any seat in the grandstand. SUPERIOR times after harvest. It is remarkable Bakers from 5 to 10 million pledged how fast com will g row after it FURROW pounds of unsold bread a week for re­ reaches a knee height. If there is llef of needy thru the Red Cross. With plenty of moisture and the nights are DRILL of the compliments farmers? warm we have known a single stalk to 4 inches' in 24 hours. All but 81 acres of the fairgrounds grow %. at Garden City are being cut up into � small tracts. Race track and grand­ Local grocery stores have' many stand will be retained for awhile. calls for something to eat. One had 16 in one are more than will­ In the heat of the sun summer A stand on the righthand side of day. People blazing torrid of Oliver Hart-Parr Tractors­ ing to help the worthy fellow but .... the road, as motorists approach town, ,18-28-28-44 and the Row Crop-will keep cool. With their new type ,. the unworthy make it difficult for the sold $100 worth of produce while a that ones. It is a serious condition cooling system sends the coolest water to the hottest part of the motor, stand on the side sold worthy opposite . $47 all over the and the variation in worth. country something engine temperature is only 5 to 7 degrees between any will have to be done about it. When he of the . , will parts , work in better engine. Every part balance.. Southwestern Kansas is to have a said, "The parties are fiddling while livestock market at City that Rome in connection with the - Dodge burns," They will keep oiled Filtered oil under high pressure is forced to will furnish feeders for ranchmen, buy 18th Amendment, Senator Capper every motor crankshaft to camshaft. All transmission cattle and hogs for packing houses made a true statement. That is a pig­ bearing fr� gears and be a central market for horses my issue compared with the money and shafts are fully enclosed, running in a continuous bath of oil. and mules. and unemployment issue. They will keep clean-Dual air cleaners, that rough and Fine-clean, Ahead Wheat will keep all of the dirt out of the engine-away from the FineJy Fitted, Corn a Al/al/a 0/ Consolation Crop highly Finished, nickel iron pistons and sfeeves. ton or more to .the acre the cylinder BY H. C. COLGLAZIER Here are tractors fitted for hot summer's for the dirt and dust ONEfirst two years makes seeding af­ work, heat, of Larned, Kansas falfa on summer-fallow look good to combining, threshing, plowing, tillage and planting. L. E. Porter, Stafford. "Chance of get­ YEAR has rolled around since the And when your Oliver Hart-Parr and Oliver Tools have prepared the soil ting a stand is much better, especially A Honorable Kernel Wheat passed for winter of course want the Oliver Furrow in a dry year as all moisture is saved wheat, you·'11 Drill, the or;g;nal away. At the time of his passing many to start the In a wheat coun­ anel the 0", that takes of the out of wheat the old was crop." really only 75% gamble grow­ thought gentleman merely he finds alfalfa the most try profit­ in the land saves suffering from a physical ing dry ar�-that seed and increases yield by conserving temporary able crop he can raise. He has 35 acres disorder caused by overwork. But after moisture and and will sow 30 more tp.is fall. He reducing soil-blowing. a year of watchful most of anxiety sows a few acres every year and plows the mourners are convinced that Ker­ it up in five to six years, a plan hard See your Oliver Dealer nel Wheat, commander in chief of the to carry out as long as we are getting of Best Wheat Growers, in the army good hay crops," he admits. See your Oliver Dealer or check the coupon below. World, is very dead.t'I'he Banks fam­ for inFormation on the tractor and furrow drill and ily, the Loans family, the Machinery GET THE family and the widow Mrs. Financy Selling at the Roadside other machinery that interests you. WEATHER are to make the listen to the Latest Corporation, trying MAN who has had experience with best of life without the aid and coun­ Forecast each over A roadside stands, recommends dis­ day cil of the worthy Kernel. Altho Mrs. playing the pro d u c e in packages WIBW-Topelca Financy Corporation is again casting adapted to the use of the average small 1i:00 Noon her eyes about for another hypnotic Half a of will ap­ victim. family. peck peas KFH-Wichita peal to such a housewife, when a dis­ 12:25 P. M. in a bushel basket not. OLIVER play might baskets filled with onions The Kansas wheat crop for 1932 is Quarter-peck and on a table at so a three-cornered proposition that is a displayed many cents a basket will sell prize-winner for all time. A low yield, frequently Checlc in the square opposite the tool that Inter.sts you-All in your name and when bushel baskets of onions remain a low price and a Iow.toratr quality is a addreu-clip the coupon and send to OLIVER FARM EQUIPMENT SALES combination that can't be beat. Weeds unsold. Also price tags that can be CO., 13th and Hickory Sis., Kansas City, Mo., Wichita, Kan., Dodg. City, read Kan. and heavy rains have greatly reduced by passing m'-otor!,tIts encourage I In this fields sales. quality. _.__._ .. _ .. _ .. _ .. .. _ _ _ .. _ locality many •.. _ .. .. _ .. _ .. _ .. _ .. _ .. _ .. _ .. _ .. .. •._ .. _ Nam :.. .._ .. _ .. _ .. _._._._._. have a second growth of green wheat that make a There .. _ .. _ .. _.:_ _ .. _ .. _ _ _ .. _ .. _ .. _ .. _ .. _ .. _ combining problem. _ .. _ .. .. _ .. _ .. _ 1/ R. D_ City State � . will be considerable wheat in Does This Interest You? damage ._------.------the storage bins due to green' grain A LETTER from you will bring you information regarding an excep­ tionally attractive investment oppor­ tunity. Funds may be withdrawn at How any time upon 30 days' notice. De­ Long An Auto Lasts nominations of $50, $100 and $500 are rate of 6 The average life of a motor car Is 'offered, interest, per cent, o !8• .u Trldor DF_wDIIII a little under 8 the check. This years, Chrysler payable semi-annually by o 18·18 Trldor o Disc DrIll Corporation discovers. The tab I e investment is backed by an unbroken Row shows the number of passenger cars o CroP Trlctor o Double Disc DrIll record of 39 success in one of In use at the end of I, 2, 3 years, years' o Row CroP Equipment OAIfIIIIDrIll etc., out of 100,000 manufactured: the strongest business concerns in the West. I shall be pleased to give full End 01 End oj information to anyone whu.will write 1 year 99,960 9 years 25,020 me.-Arthur Capper, Publisher, To­ 2 years 99,770 10 years 16,100 Kan.-Adv. 3 years 98,990 11 years 10,860 peka, ------ 01.... 1CF·7 ([ A professor tells us earthworms .... can sing. He doesn't say why. farm Homes"

My Own Family Affair Thought He Was a Cook How I Make--a Dress Fit Longs lor Dust and Jim

BY K. I. M. BY MRS, ART BY MRS, STITCHER BY MISS R. L. A. been married five. years and MY parents live in the next county, I DO most of my own' sewing at con- I'VE heard Kansas claim the best WE'VEhave always lived with our in- so once each year the children and siderable saving. My bust measure wheat, the best sunflowers and the laws. My husband's parents were dl- I visit them. Before our visit I bake is out of proportion to the rest of my best of almost everything that's vorced when he was 15, leaving him and cook enough to last the men while body and the upper part of my arms grown. But this extract from a letter a wild, unprincipled boy, to run loose. I am away. However, a month ago I is too large for the' majority of ready- sent me by my homesick friend in Marrying young, he knew little or was called away suddenly by sickness made dresses. But several years ago New York makes me appreciate even were. I a which we who see them ..... nothing of farming, and yet chose that and had to leave things as they found ready-made dress that had the things for his life's work. When I returned home, the second a perfect fitting sleeve and bust. When every day think disagreeable. We moved in with my father-in- question my husband asked was, "Did the dress was worn out I cut it up to "Do you know what I miss most? law and his second wife. Altho we had you bring hom e something to eat? keep as a pattern. It's the dust-the clean Kansas dust separate houses, we had to have oUJ: Th<:re's not a darned thing here but I did not rip the seams as thatorten that lies along the roads-on' the wild chick,ens and gardens together. In ev- eggs and I never want to see another." stretches them. The seams were flat- roses and the morning glories and eryway the "Mrs." showed me her When he came in later to a dinner locked so I cut down thru the seams. the pepper grass. I want to walk superiority. I must do the dirty work' of chicken and noodles, salad, warm With this pattern for sleeves, shoul- along a dusty road and not see candy in this partnership. I managed the -btscuits, mashed potatoes and creamed der, neck and underarm fit, I choose wrappers and cigar stubs under my garden, raised several hundred chick- asparagus, berries and cake, he had a a dress from some magazine or cata-» feet. I want dust, not dirt nor smoke. did housework and each win- different It also and trim or make it to I've got a great big notion to come ens, my expression. changed log according " ter shucked 2,000 bushels of corn. I his idea of cooking. Because I had al­ outline. home and marry Jim after all. . . • did all this willingly, but the in-laws ways left everything cooked, before, As I am quite stout I always try to I could do better if I and all he had to do was to make have the at the center of always implied trimming Smart Summer' Frocks would try. Then I would lose my tem- coffee, fry meat or eggs and open 1),' the dress as nearly as possible and use unkind and wonder of he he had lines. I am careful of use of per, say things jar fruit, .thought pre­ long my' EASILY MADE how I was going to stand another pared his own meal. "I got dinner in pockets for I think they add to one's year of it. 10 minutes," I've heard him say a size. I prefer the eljbow length sleeve. About this time I read of a sttua- dozen times, but I haven't heard him If trimmed at the cuff, it often draws tion identical to mine in which the say it for a month. the attention to width, and it is length woman concluded she might be adding I want until I learn to diet. some burdens to her in-laws and that Handiest thru her temper she was only hurti�g 'My Helper to herself. handiest kitchen tool is a spatu- Children Have Play I tried her and have had little MYla near the kitchen stove to way, kept BY B. A. 01' no trouble' with my "in-laws since. lift pie or cornbread and biscuit from When make unkind remarks, I the to turn kind of balls or they pan; any grownups mustn't forget that control my temper, tell them I am cakes fried or baked, or fish, sausage WEchildren have to play. Nature com­ sorry and that I will try to do better or slices of meat or mush. Also large pels them to be active. When you want next time. I believe it has shamed it is to butter for the -handy shape a child to do something for you give them to silence. This was hard to do table; for a or cake spread icing pie him notice in ttmeror him to Wind up at first. or to 'shape candies. It is especially his play, just as you would an adult It isn't so much what you do that for chicken. Many more good turning who was busy at the moment. He counts, it is the way you do it. uses might be named.-Mrs. S. E. C., ' not to be snatched away Kan. ought rudely Hugoton, from his occupation which is of enor­ Looking Your Best mous importance to him. I work In the garden, and ride and swim Home-Baked Bread Also if he is hedged about by "no's" all summer. As a consequence I am burned Buy and "don'ts," he will become disobe­ brown and the type of cosmetics I have about coals old saying taking dient. Too many commands, of been using arenrt right for my new color­ many THAT be Home­ are soon Ing. Can you recommend something that to Newcastle must wrong. them useless, 'contradictory, will tone in with my coat of tan ?-Llllian. made bread sells like hot cakes in forgotten' at best, and unenforced by knowing something of Cimarron's Saturday market, reports the parent who gives the order, sooner tne Farm Bureau unit, A recent Sat­ or later lead little folks to question WITHOUTyour hair and eye-coloring it is urday customers were lined up for the the necessity of obeying any com­ impossible to tell you what shade of bread before it was unpacked. All mands. If are asked to do any­ cosmetics to use, However, I have a they homemade and home-grown products it should be of 'actual make-up chart for the varying types thing importance, sell well except garden products, as If a child learns that and colorings. All one has to do is gradually everybody has a garden this obedience is. of him, it will find "herself" and be guided by the nearly expected year. be forthcoming. We mustn't forget suggestions. I. am not permitted to that these little in their way print brand names in this column but people f. should be treated as reasonable human if you will enclose 4 cents in stamps Sojtening Wash Water beings and have some respect shown with your request, I'll return you a it or wash for their and as list of special cosmetics for summer not, softening rights intelligence BELIEVE lime makes individuals. use. You'll find in it the right shade water with washing cleaner and to blend with your summer tan. much easier and clothes whiter. Try it and report results. Mix A "Pet" a of slaked or Baby's Quilt Remembers the Children half pound hydrated 1 salsoda in 6 lime with pound quarts YOUNGSTERS WILL LOVE IT proposing to do away with prohi­ of water. Boil this 20 minutes and set INbition, the wets will have the moth­ aside to cool. Draw off the clear liquid ers of the country to reckon with. and use 1 cupful to a tub of washing "Thirty years ago," says Dr. Kath­ water. erine Richardson of the leading chil­ dren's hospital in Kansas City, "there was not a day at the hospital, when For the Preserve Shelf we were not fighting the liquor ques­ Pickled Beets-These pickles are deli­ tion. There was not a day that some cious and will keep perfectly. Cook and , slice beets as for table use, then place child didn't come beaten or burned in, them In glass jars. Mix 1 quart vinegar, 1 I or scarred because of liquor. could cup sugar and the juice of a lemon; boll tell you case after case of searching It and then pour It over the beets and Allen Junction in those saloons for neglected children seal the jars.-Mrs. Haney, Kan .

' City, . . . We don't have to be told that Carrot Pickles-Even If you, don't like conditions are nowhere near as bad carrots, or think you don't, you'll enjoy these times in any city or community. these pickles. Cut carrots In long strips and boll them In salt water until tender . To 2 of carrots use sugar, . 01tr The Homemade quarts lh cup . leaflet, Fly Trap, .. gives complete directions for making lh dozen whole cloves, a stick of cinnamon, 1 cup vinegar and 1 cup water. Boll the a simple, inexpensive trap. For a copy seasonings, add carrots and when they send 4 cents to cover expense to Home come to a boll, put In sterilized jars and Kansas seal for winter use.-Mrs. Esse A. Zongker, " iJervice, Farmer, Topeka. , Zenith, Kan. Every woman wants practical frocks in Sauce 3 dozen of those Apple Jelly-Use her summer wardrobe. Sketched here are )�: "j first summer that make such green apples 12 of and two models for the matron and an appeal­ sauce. Wash and cut them in they are, 'em, pets good quarters HERE Ing one for the little girls. but do not peel the apples. Put them In a barnyard friends of the children­ How Was It Done? kettle, add. enough cold water to nearly D9146 is Ideal in one of the soft sheers the the pup, calf, squirrel, bear, cover and cook them slowly until the apples kitty, for afternoons. Sizes 36 to 48. Size 36 re­ Quite a few Kansas farmer are soft, then drain thru a sterilized bag. bunny, pig, rooster, goose, baby chicks, quires 3� yards of 39 Inch fabric. Add the juice of 3 lemons and 2 ounces of little and some birds. are have worked a nice lamb, They D2261 is the for home wear. folks up stick cinnamon tied In cheesecloth. Boll just thing stamped on 9-inch squares of soft Sizes 36 to 50. Size 36 requires 3'4 yards little trade for their products 20 minutes and remove spice. Measure, white and when embroidered of 39 Inch fabric, 3% yards of bias binding. with customers in town. add an equal quantity of sugar and boll muslin, private until the falls In from sirup heavy drops and set together with strips or squares D9317, a darling frock, with matching We should like to hear how a spoon. Pour Into hot glasses and jelly of plain material of a favorite color, bloomers, will please any tiny miss, Sizes seaL-Mrs. Martha Newingham, La Cygne, 10. Size 4 they got the business started make the most adorable crib 2, 4, 6, 8, requires 2%. yards of Kan. they 36 Inch fabric. . and built it up, There will .be a quilt. You can almost hear the little dollar and a welcome for every Summer meals should be cooling. fellow whose bed they cover cooing' Pattems 15 cents. Summer Fashion Maga­ �uch letter we can print.-Ruth Our ((Suggestions for Summer Meals," and talking to his friendly playmates. zine 10 eents If ordered with a pattem. Address Fashion Kansas Farmer. Goodall, Kansas Farmer, To­ include salads, sandwiches, desserts, 'Package C-26.6 containing the 12 Service, and Price 6 cents. blocks costs 29 cents. peka. beverages pastries. stamped just Add"ess Home Service, Kansas Farm­ Order it from Needlework Service, ([ Every man thinks his wife has the er, Topeka. Kansas Farmer, Topeka. best husband. KanB48 Farmer'lor JuZy 9� 1938

po IJ I B:v • • My Experience With Capo ns

CAPONIZED more than 70 roosters before entering the nest; so it helps if of my first year, after sending for a to keep eggs clean plenty fresh, I hens out little book on capons that I saw ad­ dry litter is provided. Keep Kellogg's, gnarante'e vertised. The result was a check I was of muddy yards and off dropping proud of. Next year, because I was boards by tacking poultry netting un­ more skilled in the simple operation, der the roosts. If eggs are dirty they I was more successful, the percentage can be cleaned with steel wool, but of slips decreased considerably. Any not with water or a damp cloth. Mois­ heavy breed makes good capons. Rhode ture takes away the gelatinous coat­ Island Reds make good ones. The first ing of eggs and allows rapid evapora­ three years I caponized Rhode Island tion. Dark nests keep down the num­ Reds mostly, but some White Rocks ber of broken and soiled eggs. FBESDNES'S_ I have and White Minorcas. This year � Reds, White· Wyandottes and Ply­ mouth Rocks. I am planning to have Give Pullets More Room a much larger flock of them. is t1{at in The quickest way to sell capons GROWING pullets; pile up on the regular market. Special mar­ hot corners at night might just kets bring from one-third to one-half as well be placed in a drying oven, more profit. Meat .markets, hotels and says H. M. Scott, MaIihattan. The ef-, IT PAYS to say "Kellogg's" before you say "corn private homes in or near your com­ fect is the same, Roosts avoid this to them. Some a clean house. The best munity, are glad buy and help keep flakes." That's the way to be sure of delicious, crisp, prefer them dressed at a cent or two feed will not pr9duce a good chicken a Then you may ship carcass or a good layer if vitality of higher pound. flakes, For more than 25 years them. yourself to buyers in big cities. the bird is sapped, at night. really fresh Kellogg's There is no reason why every poultry � value in corn :Bakes. raiser should not caponize from 75 to have been the standard of 150 roosters every year.-Mrs. May Nest Duerson, Illinois. Injurious Eggs � use "medicated eggs" for nest These twenty-five years' experience, plus modern DON'Teggs, advises Uncle Sam's experts. Don't Keep Early Molters The naphthalene in them does not kill factories and expert workers, make the Kellogg'8 or drive and hens that are put into the away poultry parasites, may injure good eggs besides giving corn that ever MANYlaying house in the fall as pullets you get today the finest :Bakes have a mothball flavor to the poultry. lay only In the spring months, when even a crow lays eggs, and then go been "Of Thee I produced. into a prolonged molt which some­ Sing" times lasts as long as six months. I sing of the joys of the country; Other hens lay at such wide intervals The freedom of life on the farm; Each package is sold with the personal guarantee that they do not pay their keep. The The pleasure in things that are grow­ molting hens are conspicuous with ing; of W. K. "If you do not think. Kellogg's bright new feathers, yellow shanks, The orchard and fields in their charm. Kellogg: and yellow mandibles. Early molting Corn Flakes the Guest and freshest :Bakes ever ,>' hens that drop only one primary wing I sing of the bounties of nature; you feather at a time should be elimi­ The crops that our toils will evoke­ nated. Hens that drop three and four But man, when I think of the prices, tasted, return the'einpty package and we will refund primary feathers at a time are worth My song simply ends in a croak! hen keeping in the flock. The laying -Val Sherman. your money." generally does not molt until late sum­ mer or fall. She is industrious, some­ times and has bleached Will Grow ·More Berries ragged looking, Corn Flakes always reach you as fresh shanks and mandibles. Judicious cull­ Kellogg's acre on a sandy slope was put summer months will aid ing during AN Rickenbacher in dewberries on the as when left the ovens. That's ,because, in a high-producing prof­ they toasting building up farm near Tecumseh, Shawnee coun­ itable flock.-D. W. Ingle, co u n t y ty, 6 years ago. A big yield of finest Cimarron, Kan. of the inside WAXTlTE bag which is sealed agent, quality berries followed. Another acre special � was added next year, also raspberries and bottom. It's a feature. and strawberries. This year Ricken­ top patented Kellogg To Ease Hen Troubles bacher had 6 acres of dewberries and marketed more than 600 crates which is most important in poul­ Topeka dealers featured as the finest Taste Kellogg's. Compare the flavor, crispness COMFORTcare. For the flock it try laying on the market. As Rickenbacher finds ventilation is will help if provided and a ready market for good berries and freshness ••• even the aroma. When thru the back wall of their house. Cut tempting little variation in price, he will con­ openings every 10 or 12 feet just be­ tinue to increase his acreage of ber­ are remember it is seldom in the low the roof. In new houses substitutes offered, building ries. "Of course," he explains, "the the board next to the roof on put soil .arrd of the land must be tak­ and it out in hot weath­ lay of service. Insist on the hinges swing en into consideration." spirit red-and-green pack­ er. Plenty of fresh, cool water is nec­ essary. Clean houses help. If natural age. Made by Kellogg in Battle Creek. shade is lacking, throw up a rough Make framework and cover with brush and Liquor from Kafir straw. Growing pullets can be han­ than 895,000 bushels of kafir dled best in range houses on clean MOREand mllo maize were shipped from pasture. These houses should h ave Texas a recent month, most of it to . good roof and floor with sides made Germany where it is used in the manu­ of woven wire. This protects pullets facture of hard liquor. For this reason from trouble at night but allows out­ farmers in Northwest T e x a shave door circulation of air. been getting better prices than when � they had a local market only. Good That Keep Eggs Way Good Sale Cherries dryness, wind and fertility for HEAT, 737 trees on l{ 6-acre are enemies to 'good eggs now. THE cherry They hurt the quality of eggs sold on plot on the farm of Albright broth­ are estimated grade, and even take a tuck in in­ ers in Sumner county, to have 15 to 18 tons of fruit come from the regular market. In­ yielded stead remove males from the laying this year. Picking cherries is not laborious and a sale flock, collect eggs three or four times especially price of 5 cents a makes the returns a day; hold eggs on the farm in a pound such a as this. cave where the temperature is 50 or good year 60 degrees, is slightly moist and free from mustiness, moulds and strong odors. Pack eggs in cases only after From One Little Leaf have their animal heat. they lost Keep SINGLE leaf on the ground under out of sun and wind, and mar­ eggs A an apple tree will produce more often. ket than 63 million spores of apple-scab � disease, reports the Ohio station. To get a clean crop of apples, an apple Garbage May Spoil Eggs grower must dispose of every old leaf that get clean, balanced feed in the orchard and spray his trees . HENSlay the best eggs. Skimping now thoroly. promptly cuts production and lowers vitality of the flock in fall and win­ is Heavier ter. If layers eat garbage and spoiled Chopped Hay their not taste it's possible to ;food eggs may good. chopped up Kellogg'. encourage the cOlUumption of farm 'product.. For instance, it .aIee, Sudden changes in feed are likely to WHENget 65 per cent more hay in the a 700 acre, corn '0 one demand for reduce the number and quality of loft than if it were left in the more year', bumper crop from of ,uppl;r day" eggs. Forcing production too much bulky form. This is becoming popular. Corn Flakes. Then think of 'he milk and cream u,ed each day Ifli," Ke.llogg'. .. blood s 0 t s in and But one must be watched. This produces Ii eggs thing Kellogg', - about 2 % million quar'" And Ions of orchard fruits. Thousand, makes them undesirable. means more weight on the loft floor. use ,0 iweeten 'heir bowl.. s, Layers don't stop to wipe their feet It should be well-braced before filling. of people al,o honey of Kellogg' 14, Kansas Farmer jor July 9, 19�'

R LJ RAJ HEAIIH As the accuracy of the hour-glass depends upon an even, continuous flow He Had a Weak Heart a little at a time . •• so the uniform flavor of Hills BY CHARLES H. LERRIGO, M. D. Bros. Coffee is produced by Controlled - the exclusive that . Roasting process roasts evenly, continuously • • • "a the other day a newspaper I think should a Yt0u give yourself little at a time." JUSTrecorded another death from "acute chance by having one careful exami­ 'indigestion." The victim had en­ nation made by a reliable ear doctor, joyed an excellent banquet, had made but unless he is very definite in assur­ a good talk on an important subject, ing you of relief, do not begin an ex­ and collapsed. "Acute indigestion!" It pensive course of "treatments." You KEEP COOL might well make one afraid to go to a would better use your money in the banquet or eat a purchase of an ear phone. WITH HILLS BROS " 'W mea if hearty I, � I one really believes that such deaths See a Good ,. come' from indi­ . Physician I am a gestion. Most doc­ girl of 19. Four years ago I was violently struck by a calf hitting the front tors laugh at the of the pelvis. What would you advise to re­ COFFEE'. idea. "That man lieve the pain? Wlll It prevent me from be­ iced a mother?-Subscrlber. had a weakheart," coming say s Doctor A. I doubt if the accident of four years "The banquet had ago is responsible for your present something to do distress, tho it is just possible. No one TO A FROSTY GOODNESS wit h his death, can advise you without knowing fully perhaps. He may the present conditions. � this matter have loaded his is giving you mental and bodily dis­ stomach so heav­ tress, you should clear it up by going ily as to increase to a reliable physlcfan for examination. Dr. Lerrlgo the load upon the � THERE'S one drink that never fails heart, and the n I the strain and excitement of the speech to, .freshen a thirsty throat •.. ,to might have been the 'last straw.' But Lockjaw Germ in Soil no such death from 'acute indigestion' In what places are lockjaw germs found? bolster you up and help you through would ever occur in a man with a What is good to use on sores and scratches? Is it for a .•• sound heart." possible the germ to be In the hard, hot day. It's coffee Hills body and the place of entry healed up?- This leads us back to the fact that M.R. E. ••• to a . Bros. Coffee iced cheering, the man of 40 or past whose life is of The tetanus bacillus produces lock­ enough importance to be worth carry­ chilling goodness. jaw. The germ is prevalent in the soil ing on does well each year to have a and is present in relief new "going over" his doctor. virtually everything What and life you find, by family around the That few of the Records tell us that in this healthful barnyard. cuts and scratches in farm work ever as you drink it slowly-savoring each age we ought to live in good repair produce lockjaw is good evidence that well into the eighth or ninth decades. sip-making the most of that rich, slight infection has little danger. It is Too many of us disappoint our fam­ when the tissues of the are bad­ flavor! For here is coffee ilies and friends by "dropping off" body exquisite ly lacerated or when when least expected. If the defunct deep-punctured at the of wounds without much height flavor-perfection. orator had recognized the fact that his bleeding occur, that is to be feared. It is the heart was not lockjaw Coffee with the taste' that Nature exactly up to its job he } , that seems to heal could have avoided the strain of late punctured-wound while yet the trouble is in the tis­ intends-developed by perfect roast- dinners and exciting speeches and deep sues. In such cases anti-tetanic serum gone along very for another 10 Hills Bros.' exclusive Controlled nicely should be used. ing! years. Many times the doctor gets his � never under-roasts first chance to discover high blood Roasting process pressure o� a leaky heart years too late nor over-roasts. for repair. Why not catch these "little What Causes Eczema? foxes" before they spoil the vines? If Does It Indicate weak kidneys? I have Hills Bros. Coffee can't go stale!' an attack of eczema you are worth '$5 a year to your friends nearly every winter, cold weather seems to bring It on. With it vacuum of and a to The process packing family get good doctor give come pains In left hlp and back similar to . you a leisurely examination and de. rheumatism. Might meat or other things I coffee is the method that eat be only fully cide whether you need any repairs. injurlous?-C. J. �. coffee. freshness - the air. Eczema has many causes, but some preserves For an answer to a health enclose • When in from a question, underlying irritation is at the base of is removed from the can and you're a 3c stamped, self-addressed envelope with your kept case. Find that cause and re­ question to Dr. Lerrigo, Kansas Farmer, Topeka. every hot It was Hills Bros. hard, day-and you � move it and a permanent cure results. out; originated by There is no particular connection with need a real I. over thirty years ago. There is no. pick-up. Can Deafness Be the kidneys, altho the same irritation Helped? - that eczema about a vacuum can it will I am produces may also place magic bothered with catarrh of the head a a tax • When neighbor and for four years have been getting hard upon the kidneys. In many cases drops - not make coffee but it will of hearing. Can a eczema poor good, person have the air pas­ has been found due to some in for a chat-and there's sages cleaned out and thus relieve his deaf­ food substance ness?-S. B. against which the sys­ keep good coffee fresh. tem reacts. One method of treatment not a breath of air on the Chronic catarrhal deafness does not is to stop all food for a time, then go Order Hills Bros. Coffee today. much porch. give hope of improvement by on a milk diet and gradually add to kind of Really, you haven't any idea how any treatment. If the trouble that. such foods as seem to be easily is in the the ear early stages special- assimilated. Protein foods are most delightful iced coffee until you • When horne , ist is, you're may help by inflation of the Eusta­ likely to be among the offenders and chian tubes or taste Hills Bros. Ask for it from - by other treatment. that is the reason eggs and meat often by name, town and can Even then the outlook is not very good. are forbidden to eczema patients. and look for the Arab trade-mark on hardly drag one foot the can. after the other. Go With Us to Yellowstone fifth annual Capper Tour is kota, and into the scenic Rocky Moun­ THEsoon to leave for Yellow.l!tone Park tains of Montana, where we enter the and the scenic Rockies. It starts celebrated Gallatin Gateway to Yel­ from Kansas City August 14 and lasts lowstone National Park. There will 10 days. This summer it is being ar- be four and a half days in the park, ranged for by Oapper's Weekly. Like ample time to see all its wonders. former Jayhawker Tours, it offers Salt Lake City and its famous lake Kansas Farmer readers an will be also Denver and Colo­ opportu- visited, How to make a . nity for a delightful low-cost, one-cost rado Springs. Two of several aight­ marvelous of vacation on a conducted tour. Anyone 'seeing trips in the cool Colorado glass Hills who hits taken a Capper tour will tell. Rockies will be to the summits of Bros Coffee-iced you this is the most enjoyable way to Lookout Mountain and Pike's Peak. travel, no worries, no details to look The tour booklet will give you full in­ Prepare Hills Bros. Coffee in after, and you know before you leave formation and answer all your ques­ your regular way. Then instead home jus.t what the trip will cost. tions. Fill out the coupon below and of adding ice to the hot coffee, From Kansas City we go to Omaha, the booklet will reach you promptly. then west thru Nebraska, South Da- The sooner the better. cool it in a pitcher or covered dish-and chill in your refrig­ erator. Do not add ice until to serve-for ice dilutes Tour Director, Kansas Farmer, Topeka, Kansas: ready the delightful, bracing flavor. Please send me a the booklet all about the free copy of telling Capper Serve with cream, if desired, Tour for thiB summer to Yellowstone Park and enchan.ting mountain sweeten to taste. regions of Montana, Wyoming, Utah and CoZorado. "nd

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Sec o n d Shot- Stopped Thief: JUT n: yOU' ffAVi- , A Trick and Close Obserootion. Got Four Others ftELPING BY J. M. PARRS :ANOT+lER Manager, Kansas Fanner Protective Service

as 'ROOM' "dropped the chickens after tain advertisements having urged YOU WON'r ftAV-E THEY'I fired the second shot. I captured readers to write for the "sworn state­ one man and held him until the ment of the Inventor who was himself

� Fabl­ "deaf." The New York " sheriff arrived." That is Roy City :Department ANVTfflNG ELSE I strom's account of the chicken theft of Health reports that Leonard still is fOR to the American Med­ on his premises near Concordia. The deaf. According thieves, Loren Millard Parnell and ical Association, the device" a small Paul Dunbar 30 8J(d the rubber affair, has all the objections , got days, , and cause /' Kansas Farmer Protective ServJce paid common to its kind may' ,f " ( $25 of the reward to Mr. Fahlstrom. serious damage if wom by persons �..,.. for Suspecting an attempt would be with discharging ears, a condition made to steal his chickens, Ross Som­ which Leonard recommends it. ers, a Protective Service member of _. Cowley county, let the word- get out that he would be away from home a Thefts Reported certain Instead, he hid and saw night. W. T. McClure. Cherokee, Sink. the would-be tllieves arrested by the harness. deputy sheriff and chief of police. P. Coody, Anthony. Set That is why Clare Seyfer now is serv- Francis D. Good, Louisburg. License tags. and the Ing a 1-to-5 year sentence B. E. BollDg, Caldwell. Black Jersey cow. Kansas Farmer Protective Service, A. Olds, Webster. Set heavy work har­ reward last week, paid a $50 to Ro� ness. Somers. J. Hu1tg�D, White City. Cattle were stolen from the pro- chrct'!;n:'· Twelve_ tected premises of Harley Rhoade�, J. E. MUDsel ' Goff. Twenty-five 2-pound Kanorado. He and his friends noticed chickens. , car tracks. the tire-' They compared Neosho Falls. Forty treads on different trucks and finally chfct:"e�s�cCU110ugh, found the one. James Morris has right C. Wlmdorf, Redfield. Wheel from Fann­ begun a 4-to-7 year sentence for the all tractor. theft. The Protective Service re- $50 Ed WUbDs, Leoti. Magneto off a Hart­ ward was divided between Reuben Parr tractor. Rhoades and Rell Morrow. Harry Denewller, Lecompton. Fifty White ... _. Mlnorca hens. O. D. Meade. Two Kansas license Beutlelj ' No. 86-'/41. Better Use a Razor plates Mrs. Walter J. Miller, Partridge. About --- An advertisement of the Company 30 gallons of gasoline. says Its product will remove the beard without the use of a razor' and the skin Is Carl Waper, Winkler. A 22 Remington left In a soft" beautiful condition. Do you rifle.,and 32 cotr-revotver, know of...thls product ?-A. R. S. D. C. Metzger, NeWman. Four leather According to the National Better collars and set of harness. Business Bureau, this article is ob­ Herman Doeden, ClaOin. Black and tan tained from the same source as that trail hound, name '·Bruno." of another razorless shaving cream T. L. Brigham, Hiawatha. Two tires, .about which there has been complaint. tubes and rims and blanket. Some users say the preparation did T. E. Norton, New Cambria.' Six sections Dot remove hair,' others are said to from new J. I. Case harrow. have suffered injury to the skin from Mrs. Elmer F. Vau.hD, We11lngton. A its use. The Bureau has found that the 10-gallon milk can and gasoline. active Ingredient in the product Is Theodore H. Beltz, Gove. Nearly new cup­ sulphide which, according to medical board with glass doors, and, table. authorities, will remove hair, but, if H. H. Bitter, Coffeyville. Twenty-nine applied frequently over a sufficient Single Comb Rhode Island Red hens. TRY ITI period of time, is likely to injure the J. C. Patry, Oatvllle. Suit of clothes, skin. woman's plush coat and small articles. _. Mrs. Beuben Newton. One hun­ Boyer, Flakes nourishment than a dred White W,yandotte pullets, 25 cockerels. YOU'LL'SAY Grape-Nuts many hearty Get a from Too Far Mushrooms Bay Eutsler, Tescott. Five yearling is tJ,e grandest news that has meal! package your lor steers and heifers. Mule shoe branded on The --- Mushroom Company offers left hlp. come to your cereal disli in 'grocer-quick! Grape.Nuts me 25 cents a for mushrooms to pay pound both received In good condition at Chicago or J. W. Summers, Wellington. Thirty-five a Flakes and Grape-Nuts are N. Y. Would It be to Rhode Island 5 roosters; 20 spring many long day! profitable hens, - Buffalo, of General Foods. produce mushrooms In Kansas and ship chickens. Good? Here's the same products them to these polnts?-J. S. grand P. I. Buchanan, Eldorado. One-row Mc­ r I n or ·'P. & 0." corn flavor whose fame has traveled According to the National Better Cormick Dee g , scratcher. Business Bureau, the company to around the world-the tempting, Mrs. L. E. Hiawatha. Thirty which you refer is interested chiefly KoellInI', Serve both and hens tattooed in web of wing with flavor of Nuta. Grape-Nu,tII mushroom heavy nut-Iike Grape'; in selling spawn-enough "KF 574·'. Grape-Nutll Flakes to cover 40 square feet, for $25. The And now it's also in the curliest J. H. Set he a v y does recommend Fenton, Cherryvale. the flavorin this company not ship­ breechlng harness, steel hames, two tugs, of Enjoy Grape-Nnta and jlaketJ. on ping mushrooms more than 500 miles no butt chains. goldenest crinkly new.FLAKES form. And keep in warm weather. Most of Kansas is it in the familiar nut-like W. G. Wells, Jewell. Gold watch, knife Grape-Nuts Flakes provides , enjoying more than that distance from either and chain ··Mrs. S. W. Inscribed, Wells, A kernels of GRAPE.NUTS itself­ mentioned. Unionville, Mo." essential fOod elements] receiving point many the kernels so beneficial to crisp . John F. Between 75 milk _. Carrollt Baileyville. with whole teeth and and 100 White Legnorn hens, English Baron single serving gums. and Hollywood strain. or cream contains mo'k'e varied to Half of Reward Member C. G. Hughes, Ottawa. Four tires size one or two Rtverstdes. Four 21- we re­ 21\ by 4.40, Answering many "Inqulrles inch rims, one almost new. peat that one-half of every reward D. La Double set the Protective Service to S. GowIng, Cygne. heavy paid by goes breechlng harness with wooden hames. An the Protective Service member whose odd trace on left side of one set. is he dis­ property stolen, provided John Egelston, Atwood. Twenty hogs-15 covers the theft before an arrest is black and red spotted and 5 purebred black made and reports immediately to the Poland Chinas. Weight 100 to 175. sheriff and to this department. G. D. Dirks, Inman. Battery, from 1929 Whippet car, dated 1-15-31. 125 Rhode Is­ _. land Reds weighing about 2%, pounds. Mrs. Bird Pate, Otego. Four tires, one � . new "'hl The _ Refund Was Short about new; 4 rims, battery distributor, tools and cushions from model --­ generator, I received a check from the T It'ord car. Company for $19.59. It should have been $24.67.-L. M. M. Charles L. Atwater, Netawaka. Set heavy breeching harness with 1%-lnch traces, heel This company seems to make it a chains, steel hames with nickel balls, also ' rule not to refund express charges on three collars. is that returned goods. The contention Weyer Brothers, Baileyville. Between 50 all prices quoted are f.o.b. the factory. and 60 White Wyandotte chicks. S 0 m e chicks marked by web between the outside toe on the foot _. and middle right ' being clipped. But Not Dumb J. D. Mlllerl Spring Hill. Two sets of 1%­ He's Deaf inch heavy breechlng harness. One set, Can you give me any Infonnation about brass knobs on steel hames; other set, the Leonard Invisible ear drum? The ptlce nickel knobs; 35'·pound government stock Is not high but $5 Is a lot to pay these saddle, new. unless we know what we Is O.K. days buy Benner Cunningham. 1922 model -H. N. T. Harry Buick, 4-door, blue body. black wheels. license No. 57-2574. A 410 on the merits of this prod­ 1931 tag gauge, Opinion Iver Johnson shotgun" black suitcase, 10- uct seems to, divided. The New York be 'gallon, Cream can, ,17' jeweled Elgll). watcb, Better Business Bureau speaks o'f cer- an Ingram watch, 2 grease gURS and tools. 16 Kansas Farmer lor July' 9, 1938

200';· corn, 2Oc; eggs, Be; cream, 11c.-C. O. Thomas. . Bush-Wheat thin and weedy. June was cool and wepoor,and delayed harvest. Row crops and forage doing especially well. Pastures and potatoes good. Wheat, 2Be; have run off with the ,farm Lane-Lots of rain. Much wheat weedy. eggs, 8c; butterfat, llc.-Wm. Crotlnger. price show. While' everybody'S Many fields plowed up for summer fal- - Market BaroDleter low. Row crops excellent. Pastures fine. Sumner-Showers bothered harvesting and attention has been focused on HOGS -A. R. Bentley. alfalfa cutting. Corn�rowing rapidly. Com- wheat, the old mortgage lifters balked bines started late. Rlenty of help. Hogs, Leavenworth-Many showers make gar- S8.80; Wheat, 27c; corn, S5c; oats, 17c; kaflr, at the anaemic . $2.95 treatment theyre­ dens well. of oats be- Cattle-Lighter supplies uiaking ac­ grow Large acreage 25c; veal top, $5. Flies bad.-Mrs. J. E . ceived more th8.Dta month ago, climbed Ing put up for hay for dairy herds. Corn tlve market, trend higher. Stockers cultivation rain. ,Bryan. out of the pit of all-time lows, staged delayed by Considerable and feeders show, home cannlng.-Mrs. Washlndon-Corn growing well, fields a sensational in improvement. Ray Longacre. price climb the face clean. Oafs good. Second cutting alfalfa a of rain. Wheat of a downward trend in other commod­ Bogs-Market upswing lasting four Linn-Plenty and oats In big crop. Plenty of rain helped pastures shock. Corn laid by In good condition. and and set a new for the weeks set crops. Grasshoppers numerous. Wheat, ities. top year. new high for year. Further Wheat oats not so light, good as year ago. 29c; eggs, Be; cream, 18c; hens. A seasonal rise was expected. But improvement expected. Flax about ready to cut. Chinch bugs, mel- 8c.-Ralpcornh24c;B. Cole. on and numerous. __ _ the rock bottom price once started up­ bugs grasshoppers Pota- �� Lambs-Failed to follow toes and gardens good.-W. E. hill kept going. Monday of last week strength Rigdon. in hogs and cattle, due to supplies. opened the fourth week of rising prices Lo«an-Plenty of good growing showers To the Court force crops along. Little weedy corn. Har­ Supreme on 10 to 25 cents for a Wheat--D em and on by tacking carry-over vest late. New potatoes, peas and beans outcome of the in re- the since Home needs ex­ hearin� $4.20 top, highest March, growing. increasing, ready. Cream. 12c; eggs. 7c.-H. R. Jones. 'rHEgard to the refusal of the Chicago and above the low rec- $1.25 May 25, E_ort possibilities brighter. Lyon-Rains delayed harvest until 'after Board of Trade to admit the F�ers "ord since 1879. was wheat was dead Some wheat Tuesday'S $4.50 ripe. good National Grain to mem­ Corn-Likely 1:0 improve with bet­ and oats. did Corporation within 10 cents of the year's high. Cottonwood river Ilttle dam­ ter livestock prices. New crop good, age. Corn and kaflr weedy. Old wheat, 3Oc; bership in the Chicago Board of Trade Wednesday piled on a nickel, Thurs­ to will affect market late summer. corn. 28 81c; eggs. 6 to lOc.-E. R. Grif­ Clearing Corporation. is likelrto re­ a dime to 15 cents. and fith. day Friday sult in an appeal by the board to �e more nickels the Oats-Fair demand for offer­ three carrying top llght Marion-Rains delayed combining. Wheat United States Supreme Court. That to $4.85, a quarter over the previous ings at mostly unchanged prices. �ew average, oats veIT good. Corn and feed fine. will delay the matter. during at least peak price of the year reached in crop under average. crops Eggs, Be; butterfat. 12c.-Mrs. Floyd Taylor. a part of the season. March, $1.90 above the and �arketing May low, ':Barley-Slightly higher. the week ended an of Marshall-Wheat cut and shocked. wm with attitude, average 5 to 15 bushels. Some oats still "look out here we come!" little $5. Alfalfa-Unchanged, trading, green. Pastures and millet fine. Hog mar­ What is the reason? Seasonal trend, second cutting good. ket better. Wheat, 32c; corn, 22c; eggs. 6 But with advance to 11c;. cream. 13c. Potsto crop good.­ The Complete partially. steady Prairie-Few sarea. -J. D. Btosa, came the lightest receipts of the year. Farm Supplies were short because farmers Eg�About . Miami-Harvest over, wheat poor. oats stead�. good. Corn to held off very growing well, ready Radio Program expecting more money. It Butterfat--Little change. lay- by. Fields clean. A 3-lnch rain washed W K worked. Fewer hogs made demand fields badly. Streams and ponds full. Eggs fewer, but 9c. Some cock­ 180 KUoeylllee stronger.. If farmers will control mar­ Poultry-Steady. only caponizing erels for winter 'markets. Files bad. Grass 1118.11, Meten ket a little better other supplies prices poor.-W. ,T. Case. I 5 wUl rise. This be the Trend of the Markets When Bet may turning Ness-Wheat half of normal. you your and Spring crops dials for the WIBW­ point. Maybe supply demand are Please remember that prices given and pastures doing well. Some wheat plowed B KSAC wave length, A a better balance. here are for offered. under as too poor to harvest. Cattle doing getting tops best, quality YOU get the best on fed fine. Plenty of weeds due to rains. Prices of cattle also did' better Last Month Year heavy the air not only of Wheat, 3Oc; eggs, 9c; cream. 11c.�ames with receipts under a year ago. A. top' Week Ago Ago McHIll. W farm features but the C was Fed"""" 7.65 8.25 beIIt. national enter­ of $8 paid to J. F. Steers, ,$8.00 $ . $ Tuesday Up- Books-Headers started late. talnment· Hogs """",.,'" 4.85 3.10 7.15 Most wheat progr&IDIJ. shaw, Kan.• a new since was Holcomb, , high thin. Corn late ()ontlnaoas fro m Lambs """""'" 6.76 6.10 7.00 plowing due to wet 8 March. This was d on« three .10 .13 weather. Kaflr that didn't 'have to be re­ .. m. to 11:80 P. m. duplicate . Hens, Heavy"",., .1011.1 fine. , Pastures loads Firsts, , . , , , . doing good. Wheat. the following day. , Eggs, .1011.1 .0911.1 .16 .planted, Buttel'fat ,,",",.. .18 .12 .16 W. E. Grimes, head of farm econom- Wheat".No. 2, ics at Manhattan, finds that "prices hard wlnter",... .49 .4511.1 .53 of farm products usually are among Oats, No.2, White, , ,,, , , ,, . ..22 the first to advance a de- .211,t .29'A1 following Corn, No.3, Because of movement , , presston. this, yellow, , ,, , .. . . .S2'A1 .62 of, farm prices during the next few Barley """""'" .29 .37'A1 months will be of unusual interest. Alfalfa, baled"", 8.00 16.00 Prairie ,,""', .. , 9.00 iI 9.60 �What·�� Better prices for farm tas will propuc Led to the Fall of Rome- increase, purchasing power, and bet­ 'ter business conditions will result." toes, gardens and alfaifa making good" Caused the American to growth. Second alfalfa Colonies, Re�c)lt cutting ready. New . Wheat Stili a BacksUder wheat. 26c; corn, 29c; cream, 12c; hens. 6 from. the Mother to Be.-Ralph L. lIIacy. Country- The market gambler's pet crop-wheat­ ? Cloud-Of last ,10 still Is a backslider. Yields are turning out months. nine opened Touched Off the French Revolution- with rains that soil In fine light In Kansas. Mother Nature piled up a keep condition • number of things to help balance supply and for growing crops. But corn Is late. Wheat will be In a measure demand here, too. Added to a smaller acre­ light.-W. H. Plumly. large the answer Is spent on education? Or are we going other are In taxation." Are to KNOW something about this prob­ ag!l. crop-cutting factors drouth. Coffey-Harvest delayed rain. Wheat "Stupidity we. the late Insect by of the lem of government. something about seeding, freezing out, damage poor, oats and good. Corn and people United States, going and weeds In thin pastures the why and wherefore' of Taxes? stands. besides too much kaflr fine. Potatoes and gardens excellent. to repeat the blunders of the cen­ rain wheat to It Is not just a question of saving delaying harvest, causing Lots of turies? Are we, an train­ canning. Fancy eggf!,' 11c; cream. educated, stool and produce new green heads"maklng 11c.-Mrs. our government or saving democ­ M. L. Griffin. ed. Intelligent people, going to be­ ,It harvesting difficult. Many fields were pas­ racy. comes closer home than have as if' there never had been a tured off and others turned 'under because Cow!ey-Plenty of rain. Weeds growing even that. It Is a 'matter of savinI!; In America a cost of harvest would hav.e been more than rank. Wheat and oats In shock and thresh­ school-house or dollar the contents of our poCketbooks. the graln was worth. Ing . to start soon. Crops good. Grasshop­ pers and chinch bugs taking their toll. Exports Show a Big GaIn Wheat, 27c; corn, 26 to 28c; old oats, 17c; WHY TAXES? new oats, 9 to lOc; cream, lOc; 5 to eggs; The government of the United' down, made ready for the ("armer or Total wheat will be under W. Brazle. production 7c.-Cloy Ststes Is the finest type of govern- business man wlio does not have a home needs In the U. S. The of Department ment In the world; but It does not great deal of time to give to special' at that "It Douglas-Threshing wheat and oats start ,Agriculture Washington reports work half as well as it might if you study or research. "Tax In Is certain 'soon. Several farmers 'planting OO-day corn Study now the spring wheat area .ot and I realized that It Is as Im- on wheat ground. Wild fruit, gooseberries, just Thirteen Lessons" may be used Russla"wlll be below last year." That prob­ to know about portant government the Individual reader or better stllbr., ably keeps the Soviet in the Import class. ,raspberries and blackberries abundant.­ Mrs. G. L. Glenn. as It Is to know about our own busl- used as the subject matter for dls­ Wheat from the U. S. show a exports gain nesses, "Tax Study In Thirteen Les- cusslon by a dozen or fifteen people of 413 over the first of per c�nt quarter Edwards-Plenty of moisture. Harvest sons" Is a beginners course In gov- who meet one evening a week for 13 last ana 25 cent year, per over the 5-year bringing dlsappolnting'ylelds of 5 to 7 bush­ ernment and taxation. It Is funda- weeks. It was written primarily for for 1927-31. has authorlzea average Spain els. Corn and pastures fine. Weeds bad mental fact which you could find In Kansas Taxpayers but for the most Importation of 25,000 tons more wheat. The in row crops. Wheat, 200; corn, 2Be; cream. libraries If you had the time to dig part Is equally valuable and Inter­ Red Cross will 45 million probably .get 11c; poultry, 8 to lOc.-W. E. Fravel. it out. Here It Is condensed. boiled esting to the taxpayer In any state. bushels more relief wheat. Ellis-Harvest with started ,headers and 2,400 Copies Sold in Kansas in Less Than Three Months Wheat Prices Should Rise binders. Combines well along now. Plenty of rain. All spring crops doing well. Labor 61 CIties In States Other Than Kansas Are Adapting This We shall 'have to dig Into the surplus for plentiful; $2 a day for pitchers. Wheat, PLAN OF STUDY to Their Needs! home consumption and for exports. Wheat 28c; corn, 20c; eggs, Be; butterfat. 120.­ Is In a position that justifies a higher price. C. F. Erbert. NOW AVAILABLE IN ONE BOUND VOLUME! Farmers have that idea. and In Kansas Franklin-Weather wet and Written Prof. Jens P. of of and Prof. Harold many, many will hold every possible grain. extremely by Jensen, Uinlverslty Kansas, hot. corn of Records show that In three other Some scalded but-crop generally Howe, Kansas State College; Approved by Kansas State Farm Bureau, depres­ made sions wheat prices stabilized first. A much wonderful growth. Weeds extra bad. Kansas State Gl'ange and Kansas Farmers' Union. First load of combined wheat at smaller yield, the rapidly shrinking carry­ Ottawa, tested 58 and sold for 29c. Market sales Send 85 cents-Cssh over. a holding campaign growers and �r P.ostage-to by business. 25 to the upturn In the hog and cattle markets, doing big Corn, 2Be; eggs. 7 to 11c; 6 to 15 to 2Oc. make It look as If wheat should get hens, 9c; butter, Tax busy. -Elias Blankenbeker. Department Kansas Commerce Greenwood.,-Farm work delayed by heavy Chamber of' . l What Our Crop Reports Say rains. Corn good but needs working. 011 fields Kansas ADen-Wheat all cut. Half thru with oats. providing work for number of men. Topeka, Few fed. No demand for farm Both better than average. Chinch bugs hogs being Your Volume of Tax In 19 Lessons' Study . labor. Eggs. 7c; cream, 12c.-A. H. Brothers. hurting corn but crop normal. Prices low Mailed Day Order Is Received costs down. General but IIvh'tg prospects Harvey-Wheat harvest about over with flne.-Guy M. Tredway. 8 to 10 bushel yield. Second cutting alfalfa half ton. Corn Anderson-Rain delayed harvest. Wheat making fine, 'belng laid by. Your Bequests for Further Information making nothing to 20 bushels. Oats good. Wheat, 26c; corn, 34c; kaflr, 2Be; oats, 100; An8wered 9 to lOc.­ Cheerfully Most corn laid Potatoes and gardens do­ barley, 20c; cream. 13c; eggs. by. H. W. Ing well. Fewer hogs than last year. Corn, Prouty. 35c; oats, 18c; springs, 9 to 11c; eggs, 5 to Jefferson-Potato digging started. Corn 12c.-R. C. Eichman .. 11c; cream, prospects best in _years. Oats and wheat North Anderson-Heavy rains stopped threshing started. Pastures good. Flies nu­ field work. Harvest late. Corn needs plow­ merous. Many fat hogs sold at community sales to from Kansas Guard Their Future Ing. Horses bring fair price. Cows sell for buyers Topeka, City, St . .Joe and Atchison. No demand for farm Surround that family of yours with a shield or secur­ $18 to $30. Oats crop good. Lots of unem­ labor.-J . .J. Blevins. Ity to enable them to enjoy al], the comforts and educa­ ployment.-G. W. Kibllnger. tional adventagea you wish them to have. In case of a of rain. Corn worked Barton-Too much rain. Row crops had Jewell-Plenty being seriouS accident would your family be protected ? third time. Second alfalfa stacked. to be rellsted several times. Combines at cutting Kansas Farmer's new accldent Insurance gives you cash Oats wheat Wheat be­ work: Wheat short. Considerable chicken good yield, average. and protection when you need It most. combined as It Is so much steallng.-Allce Everett. Ing cheaper, $1. to $1.25 an acre. Everybody feels fine over Brown-Wheat and oats In shock. Har­ rise in prlces.-Lester Broyles, . Covers AD Klad 01 Accidents vest help paid $1 to $1.50 a day. Hot weath­ Our policy covers all k1n4.0f accidents and to Kiowa-Moisture affects har­ pjcy8 up er making corn grow Wheat, 31c; plentiful, $10,000 In case of accidental death. There Is 110 red tIlDe rapidly. Wheat fair but low and taxes corn, 23c; oats, 100; butterfat, Hc; eggs, vesting. price and no medical examination. 20 million people In the U; B.' 8c.-E. E. Taylor. high. Chicks and pigs plentiful. Gardens are killed or Injured every year In accidents. You ,may be next, Men., women and cb11- fine. Hall did some damage. Eggs. .9c; drello may be Insured. Costs lees than re a. day. Write at once for. full Information. A Will do. Address Clay-Plenty of rain held up combining. cream, 13c; wheat, 22c; corn. 3Oc. Corn postcard KANSAS FARMER, Deparlmeat AA. TOPEKA. KANSAS Fair crop of wheat. Oats good. Corn, pota- good and fields clean.-Mrs. S. H. Glenn. Kansas Farmer lor July 9� 1932

Green. Ee e d Lasts Longer

THE word "pasture" the "s" only once a day. But their production INstands for strategy. Finding his Is highest when they have water handy cows made butterfat at half price all the time. Cows averaged 2.8 per on grass, which was also a good re- cent more milk and 2.1 per cent more ducer of high-priced feed for his beef butterfat when given free access .to cattle, led William C. Mueller, Wash- water than when watered twice dur­ higton county, to figure how he could ing the day. And two watertnga beat make his 300 green acres last longer. one by 1 per cent in milk and 1;4 per . Now the beef cattle go on one na- cent in butterfat. Besides having plen­ ,. 'i: tive grass pasture until early sum- ty of fresh water available in summer ( mer, next are changed to grass that helps cows to fight the heat. has been getting a head start and • stay there. until October 1, and then go back to the first field. These Clover Makes Cheap Fat beef most of changes give good grass of butterfat in Doni- 'the and the of prod�cing year carrying capacity COSTphan county Is 'being held low. pasture Is increased. t,he. Records of 372 cows that averaged The dairy cows go from wheat or 783 pounds of milk and 31.8 pounds rye to clover, then to Sudan and back of .butterfat in a month, put the cost to wheat or rye-an all-year grazing of -fat at 7%. cents. But Fred Marsh season. If the summer pasture needs beat that with a cost of 4% cents. a rest native lends a hand. If grass His Guernseys averaged 48.2 Of but­ the clover is under, native plowed terfat and 1,024 pounds of milk in grass holds out until Sudan and the the month. This average and next clover start. Of high crop course, low fat -cost is due to Sweet determines tbe exact rotation. chiefly r�all clover Eighteen cows have ·Our Is to sow Sweet clover pasture. plan 10 acres and haven't been able to in harvest the . oats, the oats, pasture it down. acres of clover fall and keep Twenty-five summer, and, spring, clover will be ready for' .,first-year . plow 10 time for corn-about May 1 them this fall . to on the Mr. 15, depending season," • Mueller said. "Sudan and Sweet clover are the most profitable pastures, al- Good Whitewash tho Brome grass has Its place. I be- Helps lleve more land should be put to pas- WTHITEWASHING or painting .walls W ture crops for fertlllty and to stop and celllngs of the dairy barn and erosion, as well as. to make profitable milk house, not only boosts sanitation 'feed." but-makes farm work pleasanter. For B-K KNOX OUT�:dlis new.scientific livestock • a good whitewash use 2 pecks of un- fly spray will not increase milk production, but slaked % pound Spanish llme, whiting it will protect cows from fly annoyance. Every No Holstein Penalty or barium sulphate, 1 peck salt, 1 3 rice dairyman knows that a cow bothered by biting, Holstein-Friesian Associa.tion pound powdered glue, pounds , flour. Add water so the whitewash bloodsucking flies will give from 10 to 25% less THEhas followed similar organizations can be and milk. You can't afford to lose this in fees for the applied easlly, thoroly. money. Spray reducing registration W. L. Severance, his fees Sedgwick, keeps B-K Knox Out before each milking to kill the flies present by suspending penalty barn white inside. Not he for the rest of the Until De­ long ago on the cows and in the barn and to build a year. served lunch in it for his' home-town up cember 31, farmers may regiRter all film on the hair. This each cow a business men. It helped them to see repellent gives Holstein females, of regardless age, he. Is producing clean milk. protecting armor of B-K Knox Out before going at Single fees, $1 for members and $2 • tit out to which will the flies off the for non-members. This temporary re­ pasture, keep cows so can feed in comfort and duction does not apply to males. Scrap-Pile Pig Feeder they produce • their regular amount of milk. B-K Knox Out is 50-GALLON barrel makes a good sau« practically odorless-does not stain-will not A self-feeder for on H a r old Wasn't a Good Cross hogs, taint milk or blister cows when used as directed. Chesterman's place in Pawnee coun­ Iowa farmer to wishing breed ty. Both ends were cut out and the ,..." B-K Knoll: Out is soLI '" leading haTd· ANsome dual used a left was bolted to an old milk­ -, purpose cattle, cylinder wa�e. dTUg, feed and supply cUa1cTa. Shorthorn bull on a herd of grade Hol­ cooling tank, allowing space for feed stein cows. When the first crop of heif­ to run down out of the barrel. An old Bepel. for interesting FREB Booldet OD PLIBS .... ers came fresh they proved poor pro­ wash tub inverted over the top keeps their breeding habits, write to ducers and he marketed all of them. rain from the feed. This feed­ spoiling GENERAL INc. Now he thinks this crossing of beef er holds 5 bushels and costs noth­ LABORATORIES, just - and dairy breeds is one way to spoil ing as it was made of "scraps." 711 Dickinson Street, Madison, Wis. a herd for milk and butterfat pro­ FliES • duction. • Use the Solution Rack Water That JJ.lakes Milk of 104 dairy herd improvement OUTassociations in Kansas, 51.9 per should have water whenever cent of the members are immersing COWSthey want it, to do their best. Tests milking machine parts in a disinfec­ run winter and summer with high­ tant solution, 22.1 per cent use solu­ producing and low-producing cow s tion racks and the others use neither show that milkers drink more when method, W. J, Caulfield, Manhattan, watered only twice a day than when finds it better to use the solution rack they have water at will or are watered as it is more convenient, less expen­ sive, more sanitary and more depend- able.

New Bulletins Concrete Hardens Slowly No. sss, Farm Production and it takes only a few hours Consumption 01 PouZtry in Kan­ WHILEfor concrete to harden, it doesn't sas. reach its full strength for nearly two No. 1689-F, 'Grape Districts years, when it becomes more durable . than stone. Builders use a , and Varieties. reinforced concrete made of 1 part cement, 2 � �?=�nM:rb��{��= No. 1J,le6, Far m PZumbing, Howie - parts sand, 4 parts gravel or crushed Bill No. 60, the (Revised). "Kan886 Children'S Law." stone-and water. In summer concrete Crippled It will be sent tree for the asking . l No. Farmstead W ate r 1448, dries too rapidly and should have wa­ to pa.rents of crl pled children or the Supply. ter sprinkled on it frequently the first persons Intereste� In helping �•. handicapped child. Address No. 2 89-L, ControZZing Stomach days. Con VIUl Natta, Admr. Capper Fond, Topeka" Kau.

• Worms in ''ii't Sheep. \ No. 148, Farm Dairying, (Re­ Mr. Corn Borer a Worker . ; I'" vised) • DAISY FLY KILLER < ·No. the corn borer is making a Placed anywhere, DAISY FLY KILLER attraeta and 163, Korean Lespedeza. Idlla aU flies. Neat, clean, ornamental, eonvenient and Protect Your ALTHO advance in the Corn Family No. 162, Strawberry Growing steady Belt, . the of be­ Department Agriculture �iYji�����PM��t�::.: " Cash .When You in Kansas. can't or .i lieves corn wiII continue to be the spill tip over; No. 1618-F, Sale Storage 01 will not 8011 or Injore 1 .' ). . ( Need It Most principal cash crop of this region. The anythlnlr. Goaranteed. etc. I I . In case of an accident GasoZine, borer can be controlled when it has In.l.t upon DAISY FLY would your tamlly have KILLER from yoar dealer. No. 253, Tam e pastures in to be. the 'entire Corn Belt to worry about tlnances? Eventually . HAROLD SOMERS. BROOKLYN. N. Y. Kansas Farmer has ar­ Kansas. wiH have to fight it. ranged with a large In- No. le54, Growing an Orchard �YJ:nft� ��::'J'e�yJ'b/'!iti in Kansas. A Smart Hotel in Atlantic Accident Pollcy at low Don't Boycott Yourself City cost. It covers' all kind of No. le55, Dairy Farm Organi­ accidents. There Is no red knock on the low price of tape--no medical exami­ zation in S. E. Kan. nation and pay. up to DON'T ST. CHARLES . . cream if you take your entire out­ 110,000 for aeeldeuta.J death. 20 These bulletins may be obtained to then to the Entire Block on the Boardwalk Every. minute, put market, go grocery people are killed or In- free upon application to K a n s a s and buy oleo for the family to eat. COOL ROOMS, fine location, superb meals, at­ . Jured In accidents. Write Farmer, Topeka, as long as the sup­ tractive rates, make summer days at the St. today for Information on this new Insurance Either make butter at home or buy Charles The the and relleve mind of fear for loved ply lasts. halcyon days. longer you stay your your the genuine article-patronize your more vigor to carry you through the rest of ones In case of accident. Address the year. KANSAS FARlIIER, Dept. A, Topeka, Kan. own ·line. SIU'f Bathlnc from Hotel 18 Kansas Farmer / for July 9, 1935

8 conti I word If ordered for four or more eonleoutiYe IIIUII. 10 conll I word Ncb In· RATES .ArtiaD on ahorter orden, or U cop, doel Dot appear 1D conseouth. hIUBI: 10 word minimum. Counl "bbre""tlona Ind Inltlill II wordl. Ind l'our naml and addrl.. aa pm of Ull ad.ertilemlaL WIMD tIlapla:r beadlD,I. WUllrationl. and wbltl Ipaee "" Ulld. ebirllel wm be baaed on 70 centl an IlIlll line: II IInl minimum. I column bl' 150 line maslmum. No dlaeounl for ... pilled lnaertlon. Dllpla, IdYertilemeta 011 UlII pIle a.. 1..llabll onl:r for Ulo followlall cla••I· f1catlon.: POullrJ'. babl' eblcl<•• pot alock ODd farm laadl. CoPl' mUll read> Topeka b, Saturdll' pracodiDl date at publication. BEBIlTrANCE HUST ACCOMPANY YOUB ORDER

TABLE OF RATES ,....: POULTRY PRODUCTS WANTED KODAK FINISHING OLD One Four One Four GOLD BOUGHT Words time times Worda time times SPRING CHICKENS WANTED A L SO ALL GLOSS PRINTS TRIAL FIRST ROLL DE­ CASH FOR 10 $1.00 $3.20 26 8.32 GOLD TEETH WATCHES, JEW- $2.60 $ other !dnds live poultry. Trimble Compton veloped printed 10c service. F.R.B. elry. 100% full value 11 1.10 3.112 27 2.70 8.64 Est. paid day 81ilpment re­ Co., 1896, 112-114-116 East Mo. Ave., J., lI�htnlng1 03 Lincoln Ave., Cln- ceived. Information free. Gold Smelt­ 12...... 1.20 3.84 28 2.80 8.96 Kansas Chicago City, Mo. ���tI.c'5luc?ePt. Ing '" Refining Co., 546-D Mailers 13 ...... 1.30 4.16 29 2.90 9.28 Bldg., LEGHORN P 0 U L TRY ROLL DEVELOPED AND Chicago. . . .. BROILERS, EGGS, ONE 14. .. 1.40 4.48 30 3.00 9.60 PRINTED, wanted. 111 1.110 4.80 31 3.10 9.92 Coops loaned free. "The Copes" print natural color 211c. American Photo 16 1.60 11.12 Topeka. Service, 2946 Nicollet, Minneapolis, Minn. 32 .....•. 3.20 10.24 C�:Ch�\I1.�1DvaTu�ET�d. �:a�b� Lre\t� 17.. .. 1.70 11.44 33 3.30 10.116 mall. Est. 181f5. InformatCm free. Central.Dls­ 18 1.80 11.76 34 3.40 10.88 trlct Gold Refining Co., 59 E. Chicago. 19 Madlso�, 1.90 6.08 311 .•..... 3.110 11.20

20...... 2.00 6.40 36 3.60 11.112 MISCELLANEOUS 1III80ELIANJC0US 21 2.10 6.72 37 3.70 11.84 22 2.20 7.04 38 3.80 12.16 SEEn. PLANTS &ND NUBSERY STOOK FARM LAW BOOK ON CONTRACTS, TRES- 23 " 2.30 7.36 39 3.90 12.48 pass, fences, crops, animals, etc how to 24, 2.40 7.68 40 4.00 12.80 j HARDY ALFALFA SEED AL- make your will: many legal forms. Written . . $11.00, GRIMM' 211. . . .. 2.110 8.00 41 4.10 �3.12 falfa $7.00, White Sweet Clover 52.70, Red by lawyer and farmer: Simple language. Ap­ Clover $8.110. AIslke $8.110. All 60 lb. bushel. plies every state. Postpaid $1.00. Darvlll's Law Book RATES FOR DISPLAYED ADVERTISEMENTS Return seed If not saUslied. Geo. Bowman, FILMS 2 PRINTS NEGA­ store, 54 McA11Ister St., Room 206, DEVELOPED, ;EACH San ON THIS PAGE Concordia. Kan. tive, 211c. Photographer, Unionville, Mo. FranCiSCO, Calif. ads be CERTIFIED SEED Displayed may used on this page OF ADAPTED VARIE­ TRIAL ROLL FINISHED, PRINTS, ONE SE­ under the ties fo.. Kansas. Kansas poultry, baby chick, pet stock, and Crop Improvement lection Oil-COlored, 211c. Ace, Ellis, Kan. LIVESTOOK farm land classifications. The minimum space. ASSOCiation, Manhattan, Kan. ROLL DEVELOPED, 8 GLOSSO PRINTS 211c. sold, 2 columns CERTIFIED ALFALFA SEED. FREE SAM­ Gloss StudiO, Kan. IF YOUR COMMUNITY NEEDS A STALLION ��Idl�� rl����sse':��':su':el�:ce ples. R. E. Kan. Cherryvale, Getty, Clayton, I will sell one on colt club plan. Joe Nolan, Inches Rate Inches Rate Colony, Kan. % 4.90 3 J ...•.••.•... $29.40 TOBACCO

1 ...... 9.80 3% ....• '" .•.. 34.30 F&RM MACHINERY DIRECT OFFER: BEST CHERRY RED PET STOCK �"":::::::::::: �Ug l",,:::::::::::: �::U A FEW BEARCAT FEED GRINDERS, WEST­ 2% 24.110 II 49.00 90�he;l:�J �� ��:e $-!ifg: l�m�::'fds 1& I�:: R ·se w:�re,:a�!�cki�pea��ro"c�:�P':��:e,.:ndreals� quested. �tlSfaCtion guaranteed. Reference, Rabbits-Guinea Pigs-Pigeons sessed, as new, some Chamber Commerce. Collier Tobacco :ltIake bIg moner, We 8upply stock. Good 1D8r� RELIABLE ADVERTISING only s�- . Pool, keto lI.t fact �ood SIl�hUYem Land Martin, Tenn. Illustrated. «, s, bulletin all tor lOco We believe that all classified livestock and �gfi�r [.lebr�es JAS. W. HOUCK CO .. Box Ohio co:;t,�an�e��B':�!, NATURAL LEAF 66, 'Iftln, NOTICE-FOR TRACTORS AND TOBACCO, GUARANTEED, ���I:s�� ��e �: REPAIRS, extra good. Chewing II ��v:����:n:�el��I�sral::e Farmalls, separators steam en­ pounds $1.00, 10-$1.110. engines, gas Smoking II pounds free. gines, saw well drillS, 71ic, 10-$1.211, pipe 20 ����I::�aIWs a:J�!��!�5' bOilers, twists 811c. when Doran e;���hi�� h�w:�e�ix:g �I11S, tank\. for list. Pay received, Farms, LAND ::J'��n��lueU:,.'�t��ln��rl�f�ti��. w�r:!'c::��t 1'l�;sM���:/ J�? :�tJw'f:,I,Il'kan.rlte Murray, Ky. be for CORN HARVESTER NATURAL LEAF responslb�e mere differences of opinion SELF-GATHERING. TOBACCO', AGED IN BULK: COLORADO as to quality of stock which may occasionally Complete with bundle tying attachment. Only 10 pounds $1.20. 5 pounds arise. Nor do we to $25. Free literature, testimonials, of ostman. Unite attempt adjust trifling pictures smokln'l> 'ChewlnH Farmers, FOR SALE: ONE NEAR CITY differences between subscribers and harvester. Process Company, Salina, Kansas. ACRE, LIMITS; honest re­ i'P:in����en�'iic'::y brick chickens. No sponsible advertisers. In cases of house, orchard, trade. honest dis­ MR. FARMER: CONVERT OLD MODEL T LEAF O. F. Colo. we • TOBACCG-GUARANTEED. CHEWING Johnson, Florence, pute will endeavor to bring about a aatts- st����o:ot��..ln!�I:: ��t�yw:.�r' �:�N!�e'T��: ���t"o"Jr �:J:g�':lgmtyb����e��y:Jch��tI��ler race, Mlnn. p�y���°«ijJtd$i�:'O����D;tl��: KANSAS GOOD WINDMILLS $19.110. WRITE FOR LITERA­ TOBACCO. CHEWING: 10 POUNDS PUBLICATION DATES FOR 1933 ture and reduced Currie WlndmW socks 160 ACRES IMPROVED, H,OOO. T E R M S. 23 prices. Co., January 9, July 9 23 Dept. K. F., Topeka, Kan. fr::..1I8�k�:ro��'fne�!:2�a��fe'\d�n�y.Sl1k Write us. The Allen County Investment Co., February 6 20 20 lola, Kan. ... August 6, SEVERAL GUARANTEED March II, 111 September 3 11' USED COMBINES AND TRAC­ BEST GRADE LEAF SMOK­ tors. Will sell or April 2, 30 October 1, 29 at bargain prices.' Kysar's Ing chewing, ten pounds $1.00. Pipe free. lE!, lli, Kan. United M"ay 14, 21S November 12, 26 Store, Wakeeney. Farmers, Paducah, Ky. MISCELLANEOUS L&ND June 11, 25 December 10, 24 22-38 INCH INTERNATIONAL GRAIN SEP­ arator. 111-27 Rumely Tractor. 1109 E. Para­ FREE BOOKLETS AND INFORMATION RE· more, Topeka, Kan. MOTORCYCLES gardlng Improved farms that can be rented BIG BARGAIN IN NEW CHARTER OAK MOTORCYCLES AND PARTS. MAIL POULTRY Martin'" Kennedy Co., Kan- YOUR ft!' �J':,'f,��o�� �'::'l �e.,� lS'a:gf:' ,*:em�l:)���� ordara. DusUn CyCle Co., Topeka, Ka.n. . west leads In low cost production of grains, Poult,y Adve,tise,s: Be sure to state on you, sa!aan.y:'\tg?s. o,der the heading under which you want you, ad· �'i,�� ��'tscat�l�ryFa�odfI".!::;e �f�!1;'r s�::fy ve,tisement run, We cannot be ,esponsible /0' cor­ DAmy SUPPLIES HONEY purpose also In Montana, Idaho, Washington, rect classification of ads containing more than one Oregon. Low Homeseekers rates. Let us help p,oduct unless the classification is stated on orde,. you find a farm location. Write E. C. Leedy, Dept. 802, Great Northern RaIlway, St. Paul, Minn. BABY OHICKS INDEPENDENCE, SECURITY ASSURED ON 1 North Dakota, CHICKS EVERY DAY. QUICK SHIPMENT, Minnesota, Montana, Idaho, AUCTION SOHOOLS Washington, Oregon farms. prompt delivery. Egg records up to 342 year­ Bargain prices. H&RVESTER-COl\mlNE REPAmS Easy terms. Write for Im­ ly. Guaranteed to live and outiay other strains. TUITION descriptive literature, $50 INSTEAD $100. TERMS. DEN- partial mentioning state, H. W. Leghorns, Heavy Assorted 100-$4.40. Rocks, COMBINE AND H E A adVice,_, Byerly, D E R OWNERS AT- ver, Lincoln, Oklahoma. American Auction 81 Northern ",aclfic Railway, St. Paul, M.lnn. Reds, Wyandottes, Orplngtons, Anconas, 100- tentlon. A few 45 foot by 34 to 36 Inches .college, Kansas City. $5.40. Send only $1.00 per 100 chicks. Pay postman C. O. D. or .balance plus postage write ������r ea"c�� xl:�� REAL ESTATE SERVICES for free catalog. Booth Farms, Box 719, Clin­ J::���ln:r�w60.�\{�ld��� ton, Mo. �����O�F=I�N�T�E�BES��T��T�O�ME��N�==== BLOODTESTED, ACCREDITED ROC K S, DOGS MEN'S RAYON HOSE, IMPERFECT, ODDS, Reds, Orplngtons, Wyandottes, $11.00. Brah­ colors don't match, 24 pairs $1, postpaid; satisfaction mas $6.00. White, Buff, Brown Leghorns, An­ PURE BRED COL LIE NATURAL guaranteed. Economy Hosiery Oo., PUPS, Asheboro, N. C. conas, $4.25. Heavy assorted, $4.25. Leftovers, Heelers. Males $4.00; females $2.00. Edward $3.50. Prepaid. Catalogue free. Schllchtman Hartman, 1450 Park Place, Wichita, Kan. Hatchery, Appleton City. Mo. SELL YOUR PROPERTY QUICKLY FOR ENGLIfl.H SHEPHERDS, COLLIES, FOX PATENTS-INVENTIONS cash no matter where BABY CHICKS. located: particulars STATE ACCREDITED, BLOOD terriers. Ricketts Farm. Kincaid, Kan. free. Real Estate Salesman tested. 16 breeds Co., Dept. 510, $5.00-100. White, BUff and PATENTS-BMALL IDEAS MAY HAVE LARGE Lincoln, Neb. Brown Leghorns $4.50-100. Delivered SHEPHERDS ALL AGES, BRED WORKERS. prepaid. Chas. Nebr. commercial possibilities. Write Immediately Tischhauser Kan. Teeter, Fairfield, FARMS WANTED. FOR DETAILS SEND Hatchery, WIChita, for free book. "How to Obtain a Patent" and cash price. Emory HRecord of Invention" form. Delays are dan­ G!o�":' gerous In matters. 'Free Information on N'!,",:i'i"rI!1t���ka�°'Ke:�. JERSEY �TE GI&NTS LUl\mER patent 1502 ------���m�o D�·C.O'Brlen, LUMBER-CARLOTS, WHOLESALE PRICES, BrJ'�.�e�asg�:ro';.e ([ Russia provides jobs for all by PATENTS. BOOKLET AND ADVICE FREE. building new factories; Americans are hO��s�t g�J!s t�:i0':.��r:::�' d��r.m�C��!�m:�: WatHon E. Coleman, Patent Lawyer, 724 9th Ing Lbr. & M. Oo., Emporia, Kan. St., Washington, D. C. jobless because they built too many.

The Hoovers- A Family Reunion-How Well Do You Know the Hoover Family? By Parsons

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I �. r. : ��t, If, can find various ! ,/� ,.��E y'�u the reunion are Old Man Hoover himself, body's. Cut out this picture. Write answers must be received before July �:;" L�·��,bers,.i>f the Hoover family in Grandma, Buddy, Sis, hard - boiled Buddy's name on Buddy and do the 30. Names of the three most success­ J this picture. In a later issue we shall Henry (now henpecked husband of same with the other members of the ful guessers will appear later. First , : them for numbers. In Sis), Thelma Ann, Josie, Hoover as them. will be a breakfast set JUt- id611tify y;ou by Dotty, Ag- family, you identify prize 20-piece '.; the'meah,t�.nje, three prizes are offered lies (mother of Josie and Dotty), Then mail the to Puzzle of dishes. Second prize, a 7-jar water J cli,pping IIi' ,l;I,Y Kansas Farmer for the nearest Billy, and Johnnie (husband of Ag- Editor, Kansas Farmer, Topeka, at- bath canner. Third prize, a rose glass correct list of names. Present at this nes), Your guess is as good as any- taching your mime and address. All 7-piece berry set. 1!ansas ·Farmer for .JuZy 9� 193B

Bear Creek -Crossing Come to Capper Party (Continued froin Page 7) ARTHUR CAPPER plans SENATORto be in Topeka on his birthday, lifted his hands. There was that in his July 14, to help entertain thousands bearing, in the very droop of his shoul­ of Kansas children who are coming to ders and quick upfling of his hands, his annual party. If you are 16 years which bespoke a gripping fear. . old or less, this is your invitation to attend. It will be an all-day party at N0W, went on Hal, his lips twitch- Garfield Park, with everything free ing· again into a smile; his eyes to boys and girls, even riding on street none the less steady upon the man cars to the park. Merry-go-round, fer­ whom his gun covered, don't you know ris' wheel, caterpillar ride, swings and as how these folks is Easterners?" games will be ready to show young There was a deal of contempt in the Kansans the "time of their life." "Don't know as how \.....' epithet. you they might get a shock an' die when you go an' play bad man like this? You'd ought to know better'n that!" There was a certain Je8se R. Johnson strange emphasis upon John W. Jobnson the pronoun. And the man to whom it was applied started perceptibly. "Well, ca'l'::e:::-m:Ka':.�1111 we'll let it pass. You c'n drop your leI' han' an' that out'n M. Stensaas &. Sons Concordia, have about dig rag money 200 Durocs, 125 of which are spring pigs. A your pocket. Don't .make no mistakea nice lot of SOW8 nave been bred for fall farrow. an' .go browsin' aroun' for your gun! Dig out the money an' jus' drop it on slI�e �91�1'b:S81I�r�II':i8u�r g� c�':.�; the floor." ���J'\o�gsOrl�:eko:��Ja��you"lr� Mve�� There was hesitation in the other's tion dams. attitude for a brief second. Then the Atkinson Is another left as went Ray G. Concordia, hand, commanded, swiftly breeder of Poland Chinas with a nice crop of to his pocket, the few greenbacks were 75 spring pigs. They are by his boar, Wold out and to the Creek Lad, a son of Knox All. His farm Is 12 jerked dropped floor, miles southwest of Concordia. the hand again was uplifted. IT'S the main duty of Dr. Hess their cuds in peace and comfort. "Much obliged, -01' timer," grinned )a�d gliin��r y���eNO�S:hebr:C:g����ld t� Fly Spray, first, last. and always, Just to test the efficiency of Fly Hal. "You'd to for for and He it ought apologise alwaY8 noted size, quality type. to cows from fty torment Spray as a repeller, we tried' ;;: protect . feathers out'n birds. will have some pickin' the my ��I:e0%'��c�o:Ps'!Y: &1�8 f:n� in the pasture all day long. And out on gadfties and bot-flies (you But we'll let that slide too. Now you that is what its know how hard they dis­ 8ell­ just pungent pine �o e'n back up, an' git out'n the house. J. C. Banbucy &. Sons, Pratt, Kan., are cows _ e�ed Ing registered Polled Shorthorn8 right along odor does. Cows are left free to courage I). Twenty p An' keep on goin'! Don't take all night and have some attractive offers In groups for ' graze in peace. They're not eter­ with Fly Spray had only �war- se gittin' out'n the country right aroun' sale right now. They are old, reliable breeders ?1 of Polled Shorthorns of the southwest. nally and and bles. Three unprotected co a-.had � .. here. So switching licking ar�, long." 321 The of a horse 18 a and fretting. They lie down and chew legs The man stepped back swiftly. They Jas. H. Long, Oskaloosa, breeder prot:ec;_�4"�_� 1)_'

HOLSTEIN OATTLE on�' oW' t�:U'l:;es�f ��g��ht�� l:te��:r'nlY:�hI�: breeders in Central Kans81l. 'WIS present herd find this malt that Dressler's Record Bolls Sire as well 81l his predecessor W81l bred at Pennhurst farm. Many of the females come From cow. with record. up to 1,018 Iba, lat. W. hav. from the Lindale farm and Include many ••t herd In United Btate. averaging the billb producing of Hendersons Dairy King. 6�8 lb.. lat. H, A. DRESSLER, LEBO, RAN. daughters leads the field F. H. Stricker, who owns a good farm in I'OLLED SHORTHORN OATTLE Brown county, near Horton, recently bought a nice farm of 160 acres In Johnson county near D Gardner, which Is to be the future home of 3 Polled Shorthorns $160 . his herds of registered Spotted Poland Chmas Delivered 15 miles free. Begin now with purebred and Ayrshire cattle. He Is planning a new hog cattle. More unHorm type. Maturo earlier. consume house to be built this fall and will hold a boar less Iced than grade.. Banbury & 80n., Pratt, Kan. and gilt sale In October.

DUBOO HOGS The Chinquapin Springs farm herd of Durocs is one of the great herds of the west and prob­ 40 Duroc SoW8 arul GUllo bred for Aug.·Sep!. far­ ably the strongest herd In the state. They will row. Bred to "Schubert's Superba" "Landmark," twico he out at the leading state fairs and big dis­ winner Nat'. Swine Show. Boars 011 sizes cheap. Shorter trict fairs during the fall with a show herd, legged easier reeding type. Photos, Hteruture. Shipped as in the P81lt that will attract much favorable on approval. Irnmuned. Beglstered. Come or write. attention. The date of their fall boar and gilt W. R. HUston, Amerlcu8, Kansa8 sale has not been claimed, but will likely be about the middle of October. BOARS! BOARS! EXTRA OHOICE Made In the world's big, deep, broad stretchy boys, heavy boned, sired by King Inndex, Chler Firework s, Alrlnan (8 times Grand largest malt factori es Champion or Iowa) priced to sell. Immune, guaranteed, men who have write us. G. M. Sbepherd &I: SOI18, LyOWl, Kan, by but one "im-to pro- , duce the highest pos­ sible quality malt. Low Rate for That's why Blue Rib­ Special bon leeds the field Livestock in quality, sales lind I Advertising Public Sales 0/ Livestock popularity. in Kansas Farmer �. Duroc Hogs Fifty cents. per line, 14 lines one r, E. Sliver Kan. inch. Minimum space for breeders Aug. 25-Roy Freer, Lake. card, five lines. Oct. 14-Chas. Stuckman, KIrwin, Kan. If you are planning a public sale Foland Ohlna Hogs of livestock be sure and write us Feb. :

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