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3' at'a blishe.d .1863. Volume 54, Number 13. TOPEKA, KANSAS, JUNE 1916.
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loose? is about what you .leave f�ur hundred dollars lying �round ,,:�at The team receive care commen- a good farm team IS worth. certainly s�ould - . " the cold cash it -. surate with . represents. WOULD \ In hot weather 'special precautions must be taken. Qverloading and fast driving the horses a drink when you may kill your horse. .Do you ever arrange to give yoUrSelf in dollars and cents. took a pull at the water jug? ,Try it. It will pay In feeding, study the individual;, Feed carefully, 'neither overfeeding nor The horse rob his mate. ' The, grain Cap steals from Billy Will . underfeeding. greedy m�y horses ,a warm Dran mash a certainly do Billy no good and may hurt Cap. 'Give work hyi�e i week in h.9t weather. Heavy rations are heating. and adds to the comfort of the horse and of collar greatly . Proper fitting harness- increases his efficiency. You have $400 in this team. A little extra care during the hot weather' may G. C.. W. save you serious loss.
When You Take a Pull at the Water Jug Give the Horse a Drink. It Will Increase His Efficiency and May Save Serious Loss 'K Al� SAS
" IIp.lil.-.illi the BOiler FAR:M' PO"WER .� the bl"lllhful �,With 1� 01 lICIt a pilat. th� � ��oaable item 10 lie fouad 1Jl,� eaame ffi� the & Nicholl S� CompllllY bwlc:l. ' Items Intere8t A�out Evory• of Automo�ile$, thiDa it of the belt. Engines, Tractors, and Motorcycles I aOOD TRIOTIOI E'4GIIE L the unfailiDa of thia selection of an automobile is than to a all .. � method. enough buy light weight Whea. we thllt 1t.1S one of the which I., aood We are kerosene tractor that will not .. problems many purpose backed by the eapreAed THEpeople are to solve at this do all the work done rea.Jy opInion trying. only formerly by of thouAnda or UIerI who know time of the year. The is too the but do it better and in question horses, quicker, every detail what a often the pod ,iridian en• decided, not by merits of the much cheaper. sine abould be. car, but by the salesmanship and skill Let us contrast the method and ex of the demonstrator. It is much- safer pense of keeping horses with .the 'man rer to purchase a, car of a make which is ner and' cost of of the, small THE USER upkeep . IS. , SITISflED known to be reliable, even without a farm tractor. nat gr�' every �veaienc:e. that every econ, "than to select a car With the demonstration, . by spring break-up the horses 0!DJ of, 0t*aboII. that every �ety de. cal ·the demonatratton alone. are thrown into VIce that .. thefleld and used every � o_r practical will III" The first thing to decide. is the size' available 'minute from till dark. be where it belo on daylight � right ... �_ dill df car most suitable for the require They are' soft from their enforced win ments and' purse of- the purchaser. ter's idleness, and consequently the RED RIVER SPECIAL (if Briefly, tile advantages of the larger heavy field work soon begins to tell. Ei�GIIE . cars are i More easier more Five _ ud Uteen variations style, riding, They lose weight, contract sore shoul are @ built. &om 13 .. 40 to room, smoother operatlon and greater ders, occasionally straln their muscles, �� 30.96 "on The 'smaller H. P.: WciOd. coal or maw speed good roads, cars, and become generally run down before may be Ihl
on the other' are lower in first - _ for fuel. the be haJ hand, the spring work is completed. eaaine may in \\";1 as well as in EveI}' or double the cost, operating expenses. year. hundreds of horses die from vari qe cyliader. mounting 1.1 be center or rear. Due to .the' and to the ous causes may No matter what 1:\( . light weight com- from overwork. resulting needs be for p'aratively narrow tires, small cars Starting in the spring of the year with JOur mey qric:ultural trac, gj' more over tion we make en that travel easily muddy, sandy the of the we see a power enaine will nil hid .... Dealers opening season, light fill die bilL .; , Enrywhere. or other heavy roads. farm tractor hard at work in the field. 1\, The two chief items of in It is three or four lend for a COPT ot. the Kome EtUtlon of the . expense pulling two, plows, River !Ita qll 4 ... " an automobile are and 8peoial paper. You wiU lind that some. running ttrea according to conditions, and instead of one iD III SIVES A TEI'M c.II.... Tour lJiiJrietUate vicinlt;v haa tried with � and. these will be almost them a luooe.. a Jliohol. • 00. fill WArm ...... fuel, directly 'lifting trifle' as is done when 8hepard tract ion eu...... aine on e'l'erT kind of wor'k that It proportional to the weight of the car. we see the horses we are t:·oclot 1\: �"'NK plowing, put OBD do. They h.....e beeD piuud wit!! tl" It is a mistake to a car 110 Ie great buy big ting them down to the last notch, turn lulu· end hava written us' to tell ;ir", how use 'well It Tbere is a lot of ex =-:.. and then it sparingly on account of soll that has never �rformed. "dance F_W ing up been exposed. oondens.a in th...... the of With the l.ttera that may bl useful expense operation. the comes the disk or to ·you. Ask for a at t" Tlle, one successful Following plows Big Oatalog same III same one can one of the time. It illustrates and desoribes th, BiDderEDgine. At money buy peg-tooth harrow, POWI! re conserving every pos that wlU haul the mortlfage oil the fer:::,. tachments for � smaller cars and keep up with the ex sible trace of moisture and 111 biDder. 'l'wohOl'88S practically penses for 10,000 to 15,000 miles of a We - til pulJ8-ftbiDd· assuring good crop. plow straight easlly service. ' eriD heavygraiD.as through to the noon hour, and instead f,o eDlriDe drivessickle The type of motor to select depends of unhitching and returning to the barn . ,and all m�hiDery. IICHOLS I SREPIRn largely 'On the preference of the _indi for feed and we the �Ol rest, replenish hop Continuoul BusIness vidual. The motor is less (In Since 18'; 3) ,1 four-cylinder per with water and let the boy or the and has fewer aUILOlUla 8JlOI.U81V.&.r 0' Wei� eomplleated parts. Sixes, hired man keep on wotking while we a: C�o����mL" . . En�ines w and twelves more Throttle GoVerned. V� eights are flexible, go to dinner. After' working steadily THRESH INC -MACHIN �RY light weight. 4 H. P. 011" and better balanced. The life WIlhw Special ..... Wibd quieter, through the afternoon, we have n..hnl., '" SL: ,. Ad'f.erUa'inl .Kanller ALBERT T. BEID. Prelldent· O. O. Y,O.UNOOR�EN. Lin Stock .dltor T. A. BOBH:A.N. Edltor'-Ln-Ohlef O. O. W'BEELEB. Edltorl"l. -Adnrt.lllni and BUllne•• om_ - Topokl. Kllllau Han....r N"" York om.... 881 Fourth Ave.. WaUlIce O. RIchardson. Inc.. .. 0h1ca&0 OlDoe. Adv� BuU� 0_' W. Berbert, Inc.. ,fI[an..-: Entered at the TopeklpQIt om•• u·eecond ctus matter ..... '" -� ...... �� ' and kafir- at the rate ANlMAiLS SUPPLA: TED . 9 been such bidders for "tops" 1913, 1914, yielded �MEA:T have strong . FARMER NOT GUILTY Sta e 1 ANSAS for American of' 10.66 ·tons an acre, green weight, at A:t ·-tHe meeting of the' Da� ' has been difficult " editorial in a that it held in Till' folluwing appeared with them. Manhattan; cane, 16.93 tons. In 1915, Association recently 'Abilene. Drovers' Tele- importers to compete �".fl of Daily the cane 23.4 tons acre. Tile. of the Tl"'l'n! isst�e the. American breeders have been looking yielded an Pre�id.ent �H; �. Wa.�rs �all'sas �\-e hansas fall made a elllie-----' ,.,"ll of CIty: at this South Amer cane did not mature w.�ll last owing !ltr�ng g has been wi�h longing eyl;ls AgrlC!.ult:a-r�1 9O�1��e_ . attention of .is a. for •. as an.,econOIJ!.IC8i}: pro- ":1'11[' Telegrnm's some It is now to nature the .se�son, bu.t Jt '. t� i!.I'lW, c.Q� . which . ican trade f.or time, th�. .. -: in the following qJlotatlons lines ,lind ellll, generally' understood that in most splendId crop bot!, .·f�r ;;dry for�,,�. duce�:��um�tff!)Od. A'PQ,,�io,n o(:..th!s in a Topeka farmoweeklY'under that and in sell'llO�S WIll ma BddreBI5!l'p�ara on another ,page ojl thIS our. are alli�als sll�ge, qr�lJiaf;Yi . ., IlI'P,'"r;,c] 20: .' breeders producing 'lillowed!:bow. M . much it .did last ·fali. h� dill.' May . stand ture better th,n jssue.:,,' I� $1.09 measure up to -the highest Brlttsh ,t��Ii��Jscussion. "'IraI'd whI'Ht-No. 2, nomi'!1ally have For the central .and. the Jupplant.e!J.:m��t-pr.()'ducing ard. occasionally, however, ���tern portions Qf COw:"li¥. No.3, nominaHr.$_1·[email protected]. 'Only the the is:the, best ; animals.bc.ctitI�·'of her:greater' emel�ncy:_ @'I.I.; sales been made to South' American state, Ka��lls Qra�ge .. $1.08 become. more 'Soft wheat-No.2; nominally has In the part of the He stated that as countr!es The war greatly ,variety. �esten;a . ·$'[email protected].' 'buyers. European and' (11.1,); No.3, nominally relations state the Ret! Amb�r. and the Western disturbed commercial between po�ulAUS, �ef.(�t�ble!l. 'frui!s' slipplalit 'lD! the' Kansas Saturday, May 20, .. _ , mdl!t>'forms -of ammal "I.: City and and this country Orange wiJI give th!l ,be,t�results : �pr(jducts on No.2 hard wheat Argentina Europe, iI .m inal oelief would be a tIl{' range to America for breeding .' It is OUt; ,that .it, dietary o.f;th�-:;p�pl.e." '.'J,lhe· o�e standing No. 3 is now looking has out 11',1" �[email protected]; hard, $1.03@ ,many the' i which held - a 'fQr or excepj;iod� ISk,pollltry, proposltdon; . on stock. recently very large ship paY,ing No.2' soft, [email protected], Only feed in to the It iB true that t�e fo.\tl, when 1.1 I; and. . wheat .list crpps last; ment of pure-bred Shorthorns fa�ers ,t9 i� 'j $1.0:[email protected]. Thus, the prrees high-class be No. sofb, from New York to the .abandoned wheat .fiillds. It play chlitged wlth.a.ILtlie_feed:.coDsumed, pro- farm are as was 'forwarded in the weekly of a .better balanced of animal girt'" Topeka The selection of two the beginning . sys- cJuc�s �me .o� ��e most costly out of .Iine with Buenos Aires. mll('1! as 5 cents a bushel fowls. live· so for the Interna tem of farming. '. "product·s,- yet: tl I :By H. J. WATERS. Before II State .D'.iry A.lhociatioD· t't o subject is not of my own ebooslng., I am not by.birth, edu TillS',cation or sympathy a dairyman. · My sympathies and tastes are all in the other direction-the production of meat, and in the · primarily production of beef. I like the Shorthorn, the Hereford, and the Angus much better than I do the Jersey, Holstein, and Guernsey. I like the beef business much better than I do SOME KA:NSAS FARlIfEll. DAIRY CLUB M1L'MRERB INSI'I!lCTING HERD OF O. OjACOMINI, LEAVltr,WO.?TH C;)j,;NTY,-lIERE THE .En'! the I rea CIENCY OF WELL-BRED cows IS dairy industry. Nevertheless, RECOGNIZED.-DAIBY CATTLE ALWAYS SUPPLANT BEEF ANIMALS AS LANDS BECOA1EHIGH IN PRICE lize that the man who stands out against - . dairy' and poultry husbandry as the basis of a' permanent agriculture is standing' out at the an irresistible and he very least, 6,000 of milk. able when used as against force; pounds food. In the case of and millions of pounds are thus tnxcn will in the end be as effectual as one who The dairy cow will for the casein and require pro- albumen-the of milk from the and sold at a . . protein sewerage loll' attempts to sweep back the ocean tide duction of her annual milk less -it is output practically completely digestible". price, chiefly for the manufacture of _. a with broom. Either this is grain, less less and less and the same is of country hay, grass range true the ash. There soap. This mcans that the corn of the going to be an to all human than will the steer in the of not is exception production fore, only the edible material pro Mississippi Valley is converted or we must its 675 of being experience, sur- pounds gain in "duced the cow more' than a into ultimately . weight. by two and high-priced fat on our cattle Let . hogs, render to the inevitable. us, however, these total half times as inspect large in amount as that of and sheep, a portion of which. The beef business is annual more The fintilly primarily adapted products closely. 675 the steer, but it is a fact that finds its into a significant way soap factory thl'o\wh0 to the newer conditions such' as broad pounds the steer will contain of. gained, by practically all this is digestible and the sewers of our great cities. acres, land, scarce and 286 of water; 253 of cheap high-priced pounds pounds fat; easily assimilated by people of all years, Just what number of' of the to the 95.5 pounds · labor., and of the and 40.5 from transportation pounds protein; pounds youth to old age. annual production of the steer would be over or a total of 389 products Iong distances. As popu ash; of as pounds dry STEER'S FAT OF LOW VALUE. actually left digestible material it. is lation becomes more dense, as land be matter, In the impossible to say, but it is perhaps not comes more. dear, as labor becomes more The 6,000 of case, however, of the production pounds milk produced by unreasonable to that thc amount IIf the cow in of the steer, there is a. further waste. say 'abundant,' and; therefore, cheaper, we the same length of time might matter For when animal is . digestible produced by the COII- is shall on our farms ,be estimated fo contain the slaughtered the , produce products safely about three 5,160. butcher is times as large I\S that pro, which will the maximum of of water; 276 of 285 compelled to trim the carcass employ pounds pounds fat; duced the steer in the same of of its excess fat or by length human labor. The cow, the of .231 tallow. In the aver dairy pig, ,pounds. sugar; pounds _ time. protein; 'case this· and the hen will be the last animals and 48 or a. age green tallow is not worth to' pounds ash; total of' 840 Thus it is that the ali much as he has perfectly 'evident be driven from our farms.. We matter. per pound for the must , not pounds dry paid cow is a steer alive. This tallow has dairy very much more, efi'il:ient forget that human labor is the only ex The water in the meat and in the milk perhaps cost the feeder machine for the manufacture of our haustless element in New is of no more value 'for food than that ten cents or twelve cents a production. grass" and into 'l!dible n nimal which comes from pound to make, and it has a value when grain, hay .York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New the cistern or than is spring, sold as products the beef steer, 01' than and Connecticut were form and we are, such; and not attached to a Hampshire, -tllCrefore, primarily inter- is any animal for 'hat tile ested in the steak or ,roast, of Iess than four producing meat, erly great "beef-producing states of quantity 9f dry matter pro- perhaps matter. the Union. At that; time the in duced. cents, Furthermore, when the butcher dairy cow REQUIRES LESS GRAIN was nursed and carried divides thia carcass into steaks and dustry being MUCH WASTE IN STEEB'S PRODUCT Of its enthusiastic roasts, the customer is insist equal importance is the fact (hat' along by: friends just as A constantly �lose scrutiny of the detailed the the cow will make the it was in Kansas a few years ago and figures ing upon having excess tallow yearly product given above will show that: the whole trimmed off ascribed to her in the 'as it yet: is in some parts of the state. before it is weighed; All foregoing computu story is not told. The steer's of this tions on alone without dur The beef business was able to take care yet prod tallow must, like that which was grass 'grain uet will need· to be still further trimmed the summer months. The rest nt' the of itself then as it is in Kansas. reduced, from the carcass when the ing yet a because portion of the made is animal was year she will' eat Iess dnv than Now the dairy business dominates in the gain killed, ge into the tub as grain per inedible, in the form of increase in the steer will On other East and are' to coax being low-priced material. when require. the" they trying back of Furthermore, . 'weight bone, hoof, the or hand, it will -be feed th� the .vanished beef industry. horn, hide, _vital steak roast is cooked, a consider necessary to organs, etc. We have no steer to the full for blood, reliable able portion of the fat is fried or stewed limit of his appetite , :FERTILITY RESTORED BY DAIRYING. data from which to each one estimate the amount out, and this is likely to be poured into of the 300 days' figured in the Thus, as the farm land of a com of the annual of this tables growth material the garbage can or sewer. Then, when foregoing in order to have him is divided into smaller on a but it is make the munity farms, steer, certainly safe 'to the meat comes to the table, the first amount of ((ain credited to and as the are forced to assume that the . people work on amount of ash given protest from the children is. him. All thelte figm __ ,t "; .' he cow are an economical basis and when could be classed against in their soil as inedible and of use being given too much fat. The every way 'conservatlve. It is likely has become so for the portion indeed fertility depleted by grain only manufacture of leather or of the steak or roast is left uneaten is that the amount of food con that must conserve fertilizer. On this sumed farming they their basis there would the fat, and this is wasted by the steer to make the gllins need essentially .resources, the beef, is first to be deducted 41 from the or used in our industry !_he pounds fed to the dog, the chickens or the' computations would prnuilce to wane and in its total of 389 stead the dairy in pounds' of dry matter. leav pigs. fully one-third more milk and (ntnl comes.. First it: a total of dustry is usually com ing 348 pounds of edible ma Thus, this high-grade material-that sollda than has been credited to the "0\1', bined with beef, but in terial the later, especia11y produced by steer, compared material that is most of all ADVANTAGES OF· SELLING the *ith is, expensive BUTTER vicinity of the large cities and in 840 the cow. pounds produced by animal products to make. is of The economic the most it becomes really advantages of ll'ing congested centers, a There is a difference to least use for human yet be' con practical consump dairy animals as 1\ market for irl]'!11- highly specialized industry. In the rural sidered. The fat because unlike butter produced by the cow 'is tion, it, fat, is of grown are most showll iJlstrict� the combination of beef and the feeds, strikingly most of all the animal itself not in the with digestible especially palatable. table on this The amnllilt dairy production, dairying as the fats. .:,rhe in milk is page. sugar perhaps the In New York so much fat is of butter sold in one to other 51 n t.es feature beef as ' City principal and an adjunct, most and year easily digested assimilated of into the sewers that the is from actual from the has remained stable in the oldest Euro- all poured recently figures secured " and is sugars, assumed to be all avail- authorrtles about to recover creameries of the reo pean countries.. city se� it, state. The feerl has been hasis Broadly the second class of quired calculated on the speaking, of' standard. meat anlmals to diminish outside of thc dairy rations and in plating a value on the feeds it has been asstlllll,d mountain and other strictly grazing that could be sold on the a; is the SAVING BY they market regions, sheep. Then follows the EFFECTED SELLING BUTTEB INSTEAD OF FEED as the butter. The hog, although on. account of the use to Butter r�adily freif!!lt sold to other states in one were one !,:ul· which the be as year figures supplied by of the bog may put a consumer Kansas _ by ••....•.••.•...•...... road of Kansas and of waste products around the home, it 9,305,603 pounds companies repre"cnt Total feed to actual conditions at the timr. remains a feature in the required produce this present prominent' agri amount of butter culture of the most ....•.•...•..... 537,398,000 pounds 'Foreign countrtes in making their !,ur· densly populated Farm value of this chases regions of feed...... $1,768,065.57 almost, invariably buy raw ,ma' Europe. Value of butter at 20 cents terial and in sod :It We have not -yet, however, per pound ...•..... $1,861,120.60 S9 doing fatten their approached Value of skim milk at our ! cent ... " . � expense. We sell t"'e11ty the most cogent reason for the elimina per pound 442,016.14 2,303.,136.74 annually . million dollars' worth to the tion of the beef, industry when of products great Excess value of butter - little and milk " of economy must be exercised in ..•...... : .. $ 535,071.17 country Denmark and buy bt_lt produc Value of. inbutter at 51 two million dollars' tion and fertility cents a ton .. $ 2,372.94 worth of productS consumption. Value of in from that fertility feed ....•....•.••••.•... enormous STEEB AND COW 1,236,714.64 country. They buy OOMPARED. quantities of oilmeal, cottonseed cake, The' most fact in connection Saved to farm when and bran. arc as . Their marketed . . striking butter. . . $1,234,341.70 chief exports 11U�: with this whole is the inef and' t question FBEIGIIT BALANCE SHEET ter, cheese, bacon. In the .lJaot ficiency for the of human on butter the farmer production Freight •...... ••...... ,$ 50,028.06 �wcnty-five years Danish of I.�:r'.r J food the beef animal as with on feed Increased the acre land compared Freight ....•.••.••••...... • " .. of hls 1,236,016.78 ' yield the dairy cow. cent. per r Let us assume that wc full . feed a steer Saving in freight- by marketing butter instead A farm used for dairy purposes for 300 and that his of feed sIIl'UI(�thl days, average daily .,...... gain constantly in fertility becaus(' for that time is $1,176,088.72 t gain two and one-fourth manurial value of the feed grown on h� pounds, making a total gain or 675 Tota! saving. to state through selling+butter farm is retained and that of purcha,'" pounds. In the same of time a. instead of feeds is .. .. add{!d. .. .. When ...... milk length feed...... prodllct� :,re dairy cow of to that $2,945,501,59 sold from the quality equal of farm only a small por�l.OI� the steer above assumed would produce. of the plant food contained in tbe �lltll(} crop, is sold. - �;f: For, , .J,'� .' Every . -. - "r". - of them half .-.: " late as 'the middle of ,June" larval S�1li!'1 many only milk breed- planted' as asks if it will whole cOflsumption Ii9lstein in. .', � o(our readers or cane 'for It'etcnta can be They actively is It will, ,gra!!8 hay. grqwn. :' the ers claim, this an advantage. as soon as mature' l',"_ to go to expense-of put- and mature a of in ordinary tlle !!pring, �ndbegin'workinf,ull.)' pay seen from these statements toat the' crop grain or barns to be come from their burrow" and shed out .spin. up protect seasons. U the season should be too ONEting " rises on mches of cream that _ number of cocoon of silk. from the rain. do as well kafir. tliemaelves-a alfalfa taken as a. relia'ble wet it will not as-'win on the farm milk cannot be guilie feed produced Sudan can be as late 1 No bulky / of butter fat the milk- planted as',July alfalfa in to the percentage Lambe Before Time with feeding·'!alue. and & Q{ forage. It ,D.ock l'1y cOlllpar� contains. Of when a large yield- � crop- as 'much as' course, LambS that have not' been almost protem, » four already: It contams risils Ii bottle or should be planted-in rows, using .�l' � of cream ash-animals amount ':ilL be attended to at once •. Irhcat bran. It is rich in seed to the &ere. Some, docked 'should of milk it is an indication- that it, . five pounds of alfalfa never lack for -bone, trlass to with the If d9(:king is delayed much longer, :fli_!!8 ferl good as an means' how.ever, plant .grain' 18 rich but alleura� J?refer' .' the is to rain' much milk, will from fifteen to will troublll by laying eggs close:t� \V hen hay exposed the amount.of batter f.at' drill; Thu� �il�e giv.e value is diaaolved and of determining the wounds.' 'The that hatch" , l!'.' _ maggots of this feeding it...is unreliaJJle., twe:.ntl pqu,ads of � it -the sample contains, .. or near the �'" out. it bright _ from eggs feed in, washed By keeping is tlie and'. t,hese on the The Babcock test only simple· it from will command'. a higher price PoRed 'Herefords , wO�D4 .and prevent healing. reliable method of',a�termhiing, tile,. per, It if it is to be sold·, and it is 'also a' 'Hereford neglect to dock the'lambs. Ularket fat in of milk. .E. L. 'Farmer" Polled Many for We be-' cent of samples ,This not-be 'W ,ifl' worth much mor� feeding. de- .'!>reeder of :�Ii"BOuri� writes us as. fol· may .�80luteI1 necessf17, investment to test should always ,be<. employe4 jn docked lamba: it would be a paying this Dew breed 'of cattle: is .advisable. pre-:_ liove the fat Iows, regarding because. alfalfa from termining a,mount'Qf produced by 8, more attractive than' sheds for protecting' "There are over five hundred members aent appearance IJl;t up cows. '. _ Each there .are over those with brblg_�rom the rain. year, enormo,ua associated w·ith in the Polled 'Hereford- Association: ,long tails, tIley . is valuable feed because COloI' commonly cents more a 100 when losses of this most fifteen hUDdred different herds and more ZD to 50 poundS but a such richness in milk, rich, yellow �i1k in ease of, scours 'when it is left out without protection. ,than cattle recorded. ,Kan8&8 has marketed, an4 not: more butter fat 7,0.00 wilt sheds used need not be espenstve, may' eontaln any the 1J� is tu�ed on graa filth The another in color. n�.rly fifty membed tn 8!!_8OCiation. �he and a tha� mueh-paler 'on the tails of the docked 80llle 20-foot can be a_et up sample. -. Polled Hereford sale at Des often· collect poles common observation that, all cows In. toe ot It, is an ideal for roof made of corrugated steel roofing 8, twenty-eig!tt bulls lambs,. making place mag- - of a color ill" and. Moines, Febr.ulut do not be give milk ri�b,_er spring to live., boards. The sides need' W. sold at an of $558, twenty-nine gots :" feed summer when they are eating green average, EXpert covered more than five or six down At the Missouri Agricultural will for no bad results from dock [rom the top. Such a 'shed pay men.t 'Station ever been noticed and no i tse1f in' a very sbort time. ing have in, los8' in '.--- case do the records show any The BiDder Engine. " weight du� to docking. Strollg healthy. - when S. L., Clay County, asks if an engine , lambs 'lOD, be docked most easily old suitable for running 'a binder is a, good from two days to. three weeklt by an ' investment. cutting the ta�ls off about inch fr�1D: _ ,_ ;'0' OIlier', ) '." , farmers knife. , For a number of years a few the bpdy with a good sharp if <; run their binders. wiD bleed ' lambs . hn ve used engines to frequently- lladly ","': or hatchet, ,Hot· The engine furnishes power to operate docked with a knife � of order to the ',,,' the machinery so it is independent irons are used in prevent to some cases will the bull wheel. All the horses have I08S of blood, whicb in the lambs and - rio is to ptill the machine over the. ground be so great as to weaken, de a week or more. ,. nnrl the bull wheel does not have to eub 'clown their gain 'for the machine. The iron which can be ',( liver any power for running regular doc�ing . ;t' houae ." 11 Last year, owning to tbe excessive rains, purchased from any sheep supply for the. ,.;; 11111 were so wet that by at· $1.25 to $1.50 is docking, _;", ny fields only use!! 0- be harvest of the :flock. A'hot chisel, ' engines could the grain lambs College ' lI,ing .suecessful. (,.1 at aU. Af�r a crop has been grown no doubt" would be just; as to'let it un of the .use of the hot iron a farmer cannot afford go The purpose harvested, .All he has put into. the crop is to prevent bleeding' by thoroughly, case. The the blood vessel's. becomes a dead loss in such searing the _ e.nds of to horse should be beated until cnginu is so much superior The irons they" a binder or header are red. If are too eold; power when used on che1'17 th�y the L. J.EAVEN the blood vessels will not be seared; if thnt it is possible to do harvesting SKIM MILK OALVES ON Ff\BM: OF E, MARSHALL, than it can be done A. PURE-BBED POLLED are too the tails will be taken much more rapidly WORTH COUNTY. THEY ABE smED BY' they fot, must·furnisb all the power. SOUllOE OF PIlOll'lT ON THIS F.AlI.H off too and some will.: where horses DURHAM: BULL; CATTLE ABE , 'luickly hleeding - occur. An tin-_ With an engine to operate the binder, frequently ordinary fields is one of the moat tile machine can be pulled through smith's blow torch to use the convenient means of the wl.ere it would be impossible' beating irons, - Linder if the to be fur season females $397, or an average f�r but a .may be used. at all powerhad feeds, than during the winter averaged portable forgt! nished the bull wheel. We believe is head of $476. 'l!bese must Ram lambs thair are not to' be kept by when tbey are eating dry feeds. It ·fifty-seven tJl(� for tbe binder or have been cattle to make for purposes should 'always be engine operating also a .faet that Guernseys and Jerseys pretty good breeding become standard such sale castrated at time. This is not header should equip milk that is of a deeper shade of high averages." docking outfit. give fears that some of in case of lambs that are to ment on the harvesting than that of most otber breeds. Our eorreependent neeessary yellow some can 'be used for scores readers misunderstand of be sold for mutton at the age of three Th�se engines This color is produced by a substance our may' If had no other statements made in a recent article or four -but lambs that or other purposes. they called carotin. This coloring matter is 'the months, spring binder the breed. In this article refer are not to be marketed until fall -will Ui'(' than to run the during in the carrot in large quantities on this need in present fact that arid fatten if hnrvesb not be profitable are rich ence was made to the only be much easier to manage they mi�bt '-henee the name. Green feeds view of the fact that 100 Herefords castrated. This should always vestments, but In in also' that has' been care about naturally polled operation carotin, hay American Here become trou are farm engines, were in the be before fiies Ih",I' general-purpose cured so its bright, green color has registered performed the fully AB8ociation. The two blesome in HACKEDORN. alld can be used tbe year around, been retained. Good silage also contains ford Record spring.-H. associations do into one is well spent. straw and Polled Hereford record money put Bleached fodder, . -' -' hay, dry now it, double stan .. the Horse CoUar Lt wo'" ". to begin also not· confine themse}\.-es to Fitting good plan simila! feeds are poor in carotin, 1',0 makl:' for the coming Polled Herefords, but accept for, collars are re prep'arations most of the commonly used concentrates d,ard Ill-fitting frequently be used are not in harvest and if an engine is to This why cows registry animals that eligible sponsible for sore shoulders. and grains. explains Horn i.1H're no reason for its pur American Hereford Record., should fit It. is' delaying produce light-colored milk in winter. ,the The collar snugly. some time to tbe are somew'hat of a of the 'Lse, It takes adjust and Guernseys have no power less Herefords rarity, 'should not pinch at the crest wben the Jerseys establishment of the new "II�'ine to the binder, and crop manufacture this matter, but and in the neck and there sbould be room enough to coloring .. I, to. harvest there is little time cbaraeteristic have not confined them the collar and lower of the rcady it seems to be a breed breed, breeders between part i'llt' the use of Herefords when not doing this work. with them to transfer a larger propor selves to pure-bred neck to admit the hand freely breed. A double standard of tIie col tion of the color from th& feed to the of the old pUlling. The contact surface for Fat. Hereford is one that is not and dis Testing Milk milk. The color of tbe skin Poll�d only lar should be smooth and plastic rich, yellow but A. E" a California reader of KA�SAS breeds as of the polled character, tributed over as much surface as , of these breeds and other dairy possei!sed bearing r value to \ II)[ER, asks if I the comparative is due to of carotin. Cows also by its ancestry eligible registry possihle. The incrustations that form on well, deposits Hereford "� rows can be determined setting color books of the American fo by. a amount of yellow in the a collar sbould be removed daily pre amI having large of their milk in draw on Record. of the skin. Sweat or ';"'l1ples glasses stored up in their bodies can vent .chafing pads the thickness of the cream milk We feel sure this breed lias a great false collars should not be used nll'flsuring this reserve and produce yellow except - are t:".t rises. when two samples in future before it. Horns objectfi'ln cases where the animal has been Also, even when consuming feeds very poor in galled would the one feed and the demand will case a nl<',I;;Ure the tlame, having carotin. able in the lot, or has a collar boil, and in this �II(' color contain more but advan be for cattle possess so· as to richer yellow In selling whole milk it is an undoubtedly great hole should be cut in the pad ("j' fat than the one in color? con the hornless cbaracter.. of .collar paler tage to have it look yellow because ing prev('nt the bearing surface the the thickness of the layer with rich contact with the Bore. ,:'tleasuring sumers associate yellow color coming in (J[ a unreliable ('ream that rises is very same l'(�ason butter that Tree Borers. ness. For the Destroying P(lach • for butter fat. :lHhod of testing milk is off in color is not as acceptable as that writes that Farm Ice Club nil' form of minute B. T. S., Sed�wick County, fat in milk is in the amount of Ice on the farm is a but a largllr coloring are hia great luxury, .. contllining borers inJuring young peach Iohules. consirlerably in size has noth They vary matter. The color, however, and asks how he can prevcnt not out of reach. HI When orchard, the milk from different cows.. richness of the milk. number of farmers ing to do with the their furtber injury. A enterprising :l",,;() of fat a're doing globules relatively laTge is to out the could form an ice club made up of men 'when The first thing to do dig il", or the fat rises a cream, quickly; CatCh '- After this has been done, apply who would j!)in in purchasing wagon not Crops. worms. arc small the fat does separate the load of ice from a town and th,.'y . the solution and mound up neighboring never be Sumner writes that a protecti've 'lulekly, and the separation will E. R., County, it to tbe members of ,the club. his ann dirt around tbe tree to a of eigbt distribute milk tIle bave destroyed oats, heigllt a� complete as in having large green bugs H. In some sections a outgrowth of what to or ten inches. This is the advice of J. poB8ible 1{IObules. Of this not apply he wishes advice as to crops course, doeB. assistant of the the idea, might be a, community ice to 11aml at thiS'"late date. Merrill, entomologist the results secured in using plant • if a of bomes until the Kansas Station. house, especially group "'parators. These make' a No. crop should be planted Experiment complete can be made were clustered about a cross roads, but starved out or A wash ',C'pamtion of the milk and cream witb havc been brought good protective' bugs of arsenate of lead to where artificial icc is available it is often out size of under control their parasitic. enemies. by add.ing a pound reference to the comparative by more than be of lime and solu· cheaper,and always sanitary Lite old when another crop would five gallons sulphur fat globules. In the days Planting simply and that obtained in winter from or feed for the If it IS pos tion. The arscnate acts as a poison ponds !o:!"wity separation was the method prac supplying bugs. streams. with or other the lime and sulphur as a repellant. it was to have milk sible to the oats hogs tl(:ed, important graze have been would be a to Various kinds. of wrappings Upon which cream would rise stock, it good -plan pas the - quickly are seldom satis Sometimes automobiles need readjust them. As soon as have been advocated, but these when set ill or crocks. It is char ture they If bow pans be ments and repairs. you just H(;tcristic of breeds of cattle down the ground sbould factory. some dairy grazed the earth the how to proceed and can make them your fat This will tur� under the insects Mounding up compels produce milk large globulea. plowed. can save considerable baving tbat· female to the eggs high up on self, you money, � .e cream or milk and leave no food for those escape. deposit on Jersey Guernsey a never to turn a' seems but it is ' in condition the trunk of the tree, and this to good plan separates more when set in the ground good pans By keeping number screw or make an on q�ickly can be have a to reduc" the adjustment your that ot Holsteins. TJie fat in HoI some quick-maturing crops tendency tha,ll car unless you know absolutely what as feterita or of ' mi_lk remains in because planted later, such early eggs deposited. suspension borer the winter in tbe tiemIe for of kafir for and Sudan This passes you Rr:, doing., blobules' are very small, and at,rains grain, WESTERN the Kansas Station $36 a ton. The Experiment . following prices for a double-deck carload of 310 lambs were used: , roughage Alfalfa, $8 a ton. ATwO divided into .four lots and the silage, $3 a ton. The table on this pag-� lambs . experimentally fed the past win gives the results in full. The total ter. The purpose of this trial WaS to profit is based on the selling weights of study the value of feeds adapted to the lambs on thc Kansas City market Western Kansas conditions in were sold. fmishing where they: . for sheep market. Too little- is known The outstanding lesson in this test is of the value. of sueh feeds lIB in the kafir kaiir fact that gave results prac- stoek , finishing for market. tically cqual to corn. There is no reason The lambs purchased cost $8.15 Ii. hun why sheep cannot be fattened for mnr .dred, They were shipped to .Manhattan ket anywhere in the western part of the amongat tbem tbose tbat bave and fed on kafir fodder and corn until state. Oorn is not essential to fin· Dot gone up 111 price 111 .plte November 26, when they were divided ishing. sheep for market. When tho at tbe war. value of the. into four lots of 75 lambs each, care grain sorghums is more For· eumple, bere I. a being taken to have the lots 'as uniform fully- appreciated; there will be mueh peculiar altuatlon 111 regard to in weight and as The more live stQck grown and fed on the a beverage wblcb 1. 110 uni quality possible. rations farms now devoted to ox versally liked tbat It bas be following :were fed to these four too lar�ely come .lmoat a ataple. The lots: Lot one, shelled corn, 'cottoneeed elusive wheat growmg, name ot tbat beverage .. meal, alfalfa, and lot whole Coca-Cola. silage;. two, kafir, cottonseed meal, alfalfa, and all· Plan Now. for Fall Colt .Show Now, .s lot Cooa-Cola, YOll. age; three, ground kafir heads, cot A 'well know, la really an managed colt show agricultural tonseed meal, alfalfa, and lob invariably product-a product· or the silage; stimulates interest in better horses. We BolL Cane four, shelled corn, cottonseed meal, and lugar-the very hear a good deal about the poor . purest and Jlnest-constltute. alfalfa. It will seen prices be that a direct received for but of co_ when we consider raw we a of Coca-Cola horses, upon careful in product. large part ayrop. As you comparison' was made between. shelled Dlaat car17 the II1lbJect further on tnto the know, Bugar bSII gone way u�so every glaas it is found corn .and vestigation nearly always threshed and whole like . matter ot the prices we get and the prlcea- ot Coca-Cola you drink make. BOme tarmer's kafir, that these have reference to we muat pay tor Jlnlshed products. We shall heart gladder. wise a direct comparison between-ground the com:rlaintsfor the common, ordi eonlIne our consideration. too, to those products kafir heads and whole prices pai So It, Is with the trolt that kafir grain. A kind. which hsve their origin C¥I the farm either In pure juice. nary ReaUy good drnft horses arc the 8svor 0 WRS also made Inlmltable. al tile raw Btate or 8nlshed and manufactured combined, produce I eomparison between, scarce, and farmers who strive to Coca-Cola. Not 80 much In falfa as a pro "into. edible or wearable artlcieL quantlt,. seemlngl,. and alfalfa and roughage .duce this kind will not have much cause when you conslder--a single glaae or tbl. . silage. to Let us take wheat, tor enmple. We a'll delicious 'beverage, but enormous wben the 'en. worry about prices. tire The silage was fed at .and the know that tbe war h611 put the price ot wheat Coca-Cola output 18 coD81dezed. night Where colt shows are more of alfalfa in the held, way up. Ve17 well-tills mellns tbat tbe morning. The lambs were Yet thl. product of nature-of tbe tarm this kind of horses will be grown. Bet whole coollt17: town and rural started on a ration 14 city, population Increased lu cost though It has been to tbe grain of pounds ter methods will be as well are more for their breeding followed paTlng 1I0ur--tbere makers, has not been :raiaed one In a to tbe penn,. day seventy-five head, grad and there will more tore the w..eat :raiaer should theoreticallT be to be incentive to price dealer-or to you. The price at the to a rich Oil. a. which It coats him ually increasing full feed which cettlnC product soda fountain and 1n the bottle has not risen feeding _the colts properly. In many 110 more to raise than amounted to over a a formerly and tor which one Iota. pound day per cases poor feeding results in colts not lie pta more money. lamb. The same amount of grain was out as Now ,inaamuch as the rural alone growing good as they should. population fed to the lambs in all the lots. Thc But walt a minute-there are'other.,thlngs ot Ame�lca conaume. million. ot bottle. and In order to have' a good colt show it " to con.lder 111 this ot of varied de matter ,ot growing rich 011' glaases Coca'.Cola eve17 year, ,.on and the roughage, course, slightly, is weU to work as . begin earlY', the mall' ot the war. Cotton and wool and meats aDd 'otller agrlculturlsta ot· tbls will Dot the manner in count17 pending upon which the must have to fal'lll and have be able to agement time thoroughly machinery a\IB8r gone up too. onl,. continue to please your palate. cleaned what was [amba up given them. canvass the '.l'blll ;,DleIll!8 t_hat Willie the wheat' raiser la and·ifet dellcloUB .refreshment, with tbls bev- community. It is very im .. at no In Lots 1 and 2 it cett1J!g more for his product, 'he 18 also panng erage-' Increased cost, but you wlll be 'was possible to portant to have a man manage the colt lOme tor back to. the farDl and the : otli�r agriculturist ""ore hili product. I!_endl.!il bigger prollts study comparative value of shelled show who understands what must be cutll at ' ',l'bls_ do'll!D. 119.l;IIewhat Oil. the prolltli ,the il!!O!'O' ;qwney 110 creater ellpenae to ;vouraelt. corn and whole kafir. The lambs in war IiI the done. brlnstllS to the farmer. Tbell._ It Would ,� '... . laP" 'kafir lot made as ,�eem. t4at. ,«:he .best'wV to Ir;CllP ahe,ad ot. the '. good gains as those' The best time for holding these shows Ill, tor .the tarmer to "'. • 'in the lot fed shelled corn .Ilme p.,. the :farmer who and their . is in October or the fore part of Novelll' "ralses his necessities the Increased .•.. price. that gains were less expensive since the kafir ber. Colts can be shown to bet tbe war haa about always brought and when bu,yllig was $' figured at a lower cost. The net ter after are "Is luxuries or those things that are Dot bare :i!2:::,,� advantage they. weaned the 'necessities ot life to alld· cbooae from profit from kafir lot was six cents and broken to halter. pick $i��. �._ more lamb than the on tl\e One of the ��:. per profits. first things to do in work lot receiving corn:, ing up a colt show is to secure the co The lambs fed the ground kafir heads operation of the stallion owners in the did not show the condition and finish community.' It is not always necessary of in tlw lot. those receiving the whole that they contribute prize money, but kafir grain. On tho market they sold thry should be made to fet:1 that the for fifteen cents a hundred less. The colt show will be of much benefit t" are probabilitil!s that,'thcre was too much them in a commercial :way, as it will bulky material ground up with the grain. increase interest in bctter llOrses. Dur· By ordinary methods ·of heading it is ing the spring season stallion oWlH'rs diffieult to have all the heads cut short have to meet the men who - opportunity . enough. . are raising the colts; and they can (]0 In . comparing alfalfa as roughage with much to work up :interest. alfalfa and silage, it was. found that the It is always d(�sirable to have a nUIIl' lot fed the alfalfa· alone made a little ber of prizes in Bach class imd ribbons bett(lr than gllillS the lot receiving silage should be granted as well as cash prizl's, in addition. Thcy likewise sold for five In fact· a ribbon will be kl�pt and highly cents· 'nternational ,more a hundred. prized long after the money won ha.; In figuring the results of this experi been spent and forgotten. Haneater 'ment, the following prices per hundred· Colt shows have been successfully WagoDl wl!ight were charg(�d for the grain.:' held in connection with county [lIHl Shelled corn, $1; kafir,. 90 cents; bllt it is to hn \'l ground township fairs, possible. We�and kafir heads, 72 cents; cottonseed meal, it held independently. ColaiDbUa YOU can be sure of one thing when you buy a RESULTS OF LAMB FEEDING TESTS, NOVEMBE� 26, 1915, TO Weber or Columbus wagon-You get more FEBRUARY 14, 1916. service for your money. The service good they {iva LoT 1. LoT 2, LOT 3 LOT 4. is one of features of and the·strongest Weber Columbus 8h�ll"d Whole Ground wagons. This service is the result of careful design and con Corn, Kaflr. Kaflr. Shelled struction, such as is shown in the International fifth whe_eL Cotton.eed Cottonseed Cottonseed Corn, Look between the front axle and where Mpal. Moal. Ml�al, Cot tonseed· bolster, the king bolt Alfalr" There will Hay, Alfl!Jfa Hay, Alfalta, Meal. goes through. :rOil find the fifth wheel (an exclusivG Silage. Slrage. Silage. Alfalfa. feature). Note the wlde cil-cular surface of the two wearing Lambs in lot ...... 75 75 75 75 substantial fifth wheel plates. Those relieve the owner of plates AVl!rage initial weight ..... 58.58Ibs. 58.80Ihe. 57.771bs. 58.50 Ibs. a lot " of trouble. They prevent breaking or of circle " " " bending AVl�rage final weight ...••. 80.50 80.82 77.52 81.70 irons. They prevent the of theDolster that breaks or " " " " pitching Total .' ••...•....•... 21.92 bends gain 22.02 19.75 23.20 king bolts. They take strain off the reach and keep the " " " Average daily gain ..•.•..• .274 .275 .247 .290," lower part of the front axle from sagging. Drcssing per cent ...... ••. 56.6% 55.3% 55.0% 56.5% This one feature adds years to the life of the wagon, but, bet ter even than that, itindicates the care and thought that have been AVERAGE DAILY RATION: to Columbus and Weber are given every and Grain... • 0 •• 0 •••••••• feature, they many. 1.011bs. 1.011bs. 1.16Ibs . 1.011bs. Look over the Weber or Columbu. either " " " " wagon carefullv, at Cottonsced meal ...... 16 .16 . .16 .16 the local dealer's orin the illustrated folders we will " " " " Alfalfa ...... •.. place wagon hay ',' .95 .95 .93 1.70 send you on Then will see if want more " " " request. you why, you Silage ••• ...... 1.24 1.26 1.09 for your money, your next wagon should be a Weber or Columb.... FEED PEB 100 LBS. GAIN: International Grain. • ...... •.. 370.68 lbs. 368.89Ibs. 471.04Ibs. 350.231bs. Harvester of " America " " " Company Cottonseed meal ...... 58.39 58.11 64.82 55.17 (Incorporated) " " " " Alfalfa hay ...... 348.54 346.85 377.11 618.39 CHICAGO " " " USA . . • • Silage...... 454.07 459.74 444.63 0'''';011 Deeriq McCormick Mil.aabe o.ltoru PIuo Cost of 100 pounds gain.... $6.83 $6.44 $6.74 $6.97 Cost of total feed per head.. 1.50 1.42 1.33 1.62 Initial hundredweight value. 8.15 8.15 8.15 8.15 Final hundredweight value •• 11.10 11.10 11.00 11.15 lamb ••••. READ KA.NSAS FARMER'S CLASSIFIED Average profit per 1.73 1.79 1.60 1.76 ADVERTiSING PAGE FOR �EAOY BARGAINS of the the wheat on .larvlB. If a considerable portion " BlLITY to store crop Hock is affected the nose of each affected n.. the farm will be perhaps of rubbed with snuff or £1. value to the farmers this animal should be greater animal should be made' to inhale an ever before. For this' there the ".,1 r than is to - smoke•. The obj�ct C81Jse two reasona first, lhe irritating (HI' principal animal to and dia of freight resulting the snee,,� vi.olently �I;"rtage �ars, fro';l1 larvlB if Diluted vln of on tlie lodge 'the posslble, lilt' congestion ff-elght Atlantle� nose or salt water poured into the ,(';!hoard; second, the lower price per egar has also been .secommended. llll-;ltci during the early tllreshing season. results from measures 'are rather diffi· Tili,,; lower price necessarily Preventative in,l iJility to get transpo!;'tation facilities, hence il"ll] the greater risk Ilnd grea�r to l1Iargin taken. by elevators handl!l .rin before It has gone through tb.e g: the R"','ating process, and from fact knows that tit,lt the whole grain �rade will be mar gJ'l'at quantities of wheat k,'lCd in July, Augus.t apd September, be wh:ttcver the price may •. wheat Prof. In a study of marketing, has L, ;\. Fitz of the a�icultural college iound that two-thlrda of Kansas grain i' marketed in July, -August, Septem· ex bi'I' and October, and almost withoqt are lower than later in cqltion prices . " Kafir in Cowley County nil' : year. . ·.made a rain cro in Cow· The principal remedy. for this 'eondi afi him e ten ' tiou is in the hands of the farmer ley cpunt,t .!!L!!!!!!UL. past .le�rs. corn 1iii ,;l'!i and consists in the storing of grain Diirm lbis same period mfde to sev J. 'C. HOlmes, theI I)I! the farm for a short period Dut"'tfree' grain crops. done this reo "I'll I months. This may be by agncUltiii'lI.largent'""·of county, in farm that. four ka'[ir tests are ;,i':lcking the grain, by storing it ports twenty- or conducted members of the farm «levn tors, granaries, or metal bins, being by first and. bureau this Improved strains of 11:: II combination of stacking year. well tried out on these varl-, 51 r-ri in bins afterwards. Grain kafir are being ng' with -tnckcd immediately after harvest does ous farms.in comparison ordinary varieties and with corn. The members "or germinate or become bleached, goes that kaflr . the sweating process in, the. of the farm bureau recognize lI:rongh and these tests '[.I('k and not in the bin, and when is practically a sure crop the threshed and placed on the market- avo are for the purpose Qf determining better than if l'rng(IS one to two grades lit reshed out of the shock. This means , The r 11'0 to four cents more bushel, per , li;i!,prence is especially marked in a sea bleached in . has son of wet harvest. Even if $�pr:emacy IQng �h,' shock before stacking, the 'grain reo : gains much of its original color in the to CA$E'� slack. belonged thresh The expense of stacking and OutfitB' more tban if the Threshing ill(\' may be a little ,. The �r,l i 1\ is threshed out of, the shock. f let, however, that many can use their lubm- more effectively over a period o.f -t.uk ing than over a shorter period of hroshing out of the shock, more than counterbalanees any loss that may reo 't'lt from the additional labor in stack ill�',-EDW. C. JOHNSON, K. S. A. C. Nasal Trouble in Sheep "r.:l'ub in the nose" is the common way ", the describing a condition caused by in I "",. of thc sheep fly which lodges I' , facial cavities of sheep; especially ,1"lIiUg' animals up to yearlings . ' . sheep fly depoaits -Its eggs around find 11." nose of the sheep. The eggs and II" ir way into the nasal cavity . j h 'nee to the cavities in the bony strue- 'i 'l' of the face and head. In the spring i ' larva migrate to the nasal cavity M·ust " the There , is dropped, to the ground in If Others- Prefer CASE I 'HI discharge. The pupre develops and III I rom six to eight weeks this develops " ') the After fcrtilization sheep fly.. You Should J'" in the Reasons females again deposit eggs Be Why .: «p's nose. The eggs arc deposited ""I'IIIg the slimmer months. outfits demand Case. sun is men """Ilt noon, when the warmes,usualll. Most 'who buy threshing II , fI iI'S swarm from their resting places each more then the next three concerns rrueks, crevices, underbrush, etc. As We·build and sell year rigs is to the and to y approach the flock of sheep will combined. This means that the safe way for you join majority I' I their heads and even together, lower which has won approval. ,. , the one practically universal I"a VOl' to thrust their noses into the buy threshing rig 1\1 lid. as soon as the eggs However, Prefer cil'posited, the flies depart, the sheep Men Prefer Why Men no Why '1J1e quiet and nothing more is Case Enginel d until thc following spring' .when Cale Threshers that owner CaD " chief 'reason is every larvre make their way out of the construction of Case threshers The I The all-steel the of his Case ",I cavities. wind' and depend utterly upon ability is absolute insurance' against fire, and his nose kerosene or gasoline engine the discharge from the frame is constructed of steam, l',"ally water. The solidly morn till , I Case to work from night- the evident irritation is suffici(lntly no of separator steel channels. '1'here is danger warp· hours-without " number of wasting 'l'IoulIced for a to recognize line.' or any layman lng and getti�g out of I 'trouble. However, sometimes the any time. two-fold " I ani or threshermen-you And better is this economy: (1) rrhn] signs arc absent, but the You grain growers outfit-must insist won because of .. upon I might show of dizziness, be- who need a threshing Case engines have top place signs saves the Case , because it grain their and dependability, (2) ",: very n(lrVOUS and may keep on the a Case separator, simplicity cost. the there is to be gotten. '1'1' and at the lowest threshers get all grain almost constantly, very frequently operates out all , has tested ex In the 74 years, Case ,'ding in the same direction until of Case with past The big cylinders separators, TheSiinol for use. Today we '''ted. are due to that un- kinds of power agricultural ". These symptoms their are thorough, so Mechanical kerosene or I", steady motion, in steam, the of thresh- E"c:dIence sell the three final types, penetrating to vi�inity favorable weather conditions do not£top ' larva: OYer i than out the World gasoline classes. brain, rather .commg lng-damp and wet grain is handled easily.'. "::',','"gh the nasal cavity. ' facilities. are show continuous service . ,I'l'abnent of animals 'that Owners of Case threshing rigs have nearby and I!..: the brain symptoms seldom, if ever, are ever handy. , harv.est for and repairs .' »vo effectual. Therefore, such animals You run no risk in the busy season, parts it before you buy. :"'lilld be sent to slaughter, preferably our thresher tells the story complete. Study ," Write for catalog-it an establishment under federal in. �I)('eti,on, as soon as possible. Valuable 711 Erie Racine; Wu. ::'('1!lhng animals that are showing the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co., Inc. (FO�li�ED) 51., �,tlal'l'��1 symptoms may be treated by 'lllnitfled veterinarian who would open re �l frontal sinuses and remove the test . .-,.- wn� 'Dr, told Bess,.,lp sec Sho and DlslDlectant serl vall the benefit of the dairy club ii thcy could get the cows. Ii the same i'illl members who have started their county a number of the men are also 'J FOR _ we a to some year's records, give sample wanting get good cows. 1l1W of the milk record on this page to show • The thing to do in this community is CO" how it should be kept. The record for to decide just what is needed and then ord each calendar month be send someone a must' kcpt sep to locality where the pro arate. For instance, if your cow fresh cows can be purchased. This has been (' ened on May 11, close the record for done in many places in Kansas. Prof.. \\'01 this month on May 31. The milk given O. E. Reed of the Kansas Agricultural jus each day should be recorded in the space College has given freely of his time to stc; .... r.. for r9tt threohinc cliNcdy.1nro And.WIt to the of the date; Pro- assist in cows for Kansas thr !he .Ira timeandIaborOfhuiliri8·c!urinaIhe..,' right proper selecting buy HUOn. They_also . vision is here made 'for recording both ers, A prominent dairyman said at the her the night .and morning inilkings. Some recent meeting in Abilene that too much get . RAT PROOF-FIRE PROOF have cows milk to credit could' not be the I and wiDproleCt)'OurWh.t frOCDalI __Df.... mlloY giving enough given agricul to store warrant more tural for enahlinI )'OU )'QUI' pain in perfelc r"-'- .... them than twice college Professor to . milking permitting until chi iiIarket is . hiah . a ·day. Where this is done, y.ou should Reed to render this splendid service to gi\' BEST CONSTRUCTION make the figures small and crowd in the dairymen of Kansas, The way in' fee Buder Bins �ve eVery feature for economi the extra milking. which the beginner geta-startcd in the rue cally And quicklY handJina &rain. Larae and 1111&0 will Unless. cow to freshen dairy. busineas have much to do ..,.,.., shovClinsr bo.rd•. maiIhole. remOvabl. slats. your happens with the our state . makes in �. AUarefuTlyd-nbedino","_19160rain so that you begin thc year's record on progress "on Booklet. whic;h your dealer Will sive)'Ou or we the first day of the month, this first this great industry. yOI WiJJ mail direct. Write I'IOW"-IIri!:a mayadwnc:e Wc this will make KOls Disease Germs hal month's a hope at any time, .. !he ww.cime IiecI muIICt Is record will not be full one. community wry this to des It will be to have one arrangement go and select such � . easier, however, Foul cows as are needed. . We are Destroys Odors to short month, than to have the . record especially 'anxious to have all our club mem better for BUTLER MFG. CO. for every month cont.ain parts of two dairy disinfectiq stables. barns 1"7 Buder Build... Kansas City, Mo. bers get started right. 'We want NlnothbllrtroulI'hsl_ garbll29 cans. outhouses. etc' calendar months. Several of our mem- you SOooks.d alike for 1I0me aud stable. TcmAe ""J •• to. have first with '1 rAre.Aerr!lcm'. o.tJj, bers have been confused on this your dairr experience point. For IIcab. mllllle. hOll ticks on You should read cows that are right, In Jlce� sheep, fleas carefully all thc in every respect. en aud all SKin diseases of dolrS� parasltio horses' There are a lot of that can be " structions given in KANSAS FARMER and things oattle, sneep, dOllS, hOlls aud pouitey. ... with cows save each for future reference. wrong purchased for dairy paper Pint bottles, Quart. half-IlaIJon and !raDon cans purposes, and you should seck the best, and barrels. One _ The method these records was gJil]on can, 11.00 (except In Can. of-keeping ada and advice and. assistance in farWest). Smallerpackages as low as 25c. explained several weeks ago. your. selections. makin�: If you start a record past the middle or. Bess Fly Chaser of the month the butter fat tcst for the Boya Cowa Doesn't gum, color or blister. Hakes stock month following is to be used. You will hiveatigate comfortahle. At your loeal dealer's. , have to wait until the test is made-be- Evidence is' to the effect accumulating ng' can that Kansas Farmer mem .DR.BESS a fore you calculate the total amount Dairy Club CLARK. Asldand. Ohio lin of butter fat the cow gave in the begin- bers are sclecting their cows carefully, th Ernest- S. a ning month. . Asbury, Leavcnworth ira The records for each month should be County boy, wanted to get started in th, the sent in to KANSAS FARMER and a copy club and went to Mr. '\Vlllfl'kuhler of 19 of each furnished bank the Wulfekuhler State Bank .of Leaven your before the HOG li" tenth day of the following month. .A,n worth, to talk it over. This banker was f[[DE�'. mi to let Ernest have 75 exception to this will be made where it willing the moncy, S��fonly is necessary to wait until the butter fat but like all wise- bankers, he was inter $16 :" test can ·be secured for the first month ested in knowing into what sort of in 511 la Sf day. tbe M":r_ hl'.HOII "eeder pays for and in which case this butter flit test vestment the money was Ernest Ill' going. It.elf. FREE circular·leUI .11 aboal It. Hogs must had located. a will to the month and 'grade Shorthorn cow that lraot ...iaat feed arm 10 ,et feed-oaly a eertuin or apply starting . the month following. he could buy, but in talking .it ovcr they amoant i. rele••ed wilb eaab motio,. Waste 1m. of posslbl.. Aooommod.te. 80 ho� Made 01 The feed record is to be in the decided he to more look ac "YOU.R OWN NAME" kept ought closely up "lv8llized ad cut inID-..... weu.. FREE TRI�l. same manner, each day's ration to be �her record as a producer before buying WI recorded in the space to the right of 'her, Ernest called on Mr. Ross, the agri. auTOMATlC ae �GHT 'the date. cultural to him in 'AVCSFEED_ be SIZE agent, help securing There is a good reason for following' the information needed. He has finally UNITARY ar the calendar month in closing thc rec·· made a very satisfactory deal. The foI·· til ON THIS EXTRA FINE KNIFE ords. The business world generally bal lowing from a letter just received tells how he Two best quailty steel blades. German anees accounts and closes all records on managed to seeure a good dairy 'sl1 ver tips. brass lined. Transparent handle the last of each month. cow: showing your own name. day Keeping We will send tbJa beautiful knife with . the dairy records in the same manner "The cow I bought is a grade Short own name It for your OIJ one yearly sub thuB fits into the of the business hom, and I paid' $90 for her. She has a to Kansas ways . scription Farmer at U.50 or a heifer calf about three years' subscription at U.25. Address world. three weeks old. My KANSAS FABl\IER - TOPEKA, KANSAS father has a good gradc Jerscy that he said' he would trade' me evcn for .in Cow my Co-Operate Buying grade Shorthorn. The will be Jersey THE MEYER CORPORATION "A county agricultural agent called fresh in about two weeks. She will give BUSINESS STATIONERY KANSAS Dept. 201 MORTON, ILL. FABMER by telephone recently 40 or 50 pounds of milk a day when . and told us there were in fresh and her test is At the prices quoted herewith you. ean- twcnty boys 5.6. The Short his lined for the club not afford to use anything but printed county up dairy horn cow gives 50 pounds a day but it BUSINESS STATIONERY. Write for fr pi samples. is LETTER HEAD8- 8�dl Inehes. Bond pILper. White. 1500 for t2.&0. ir for additional U 1;000 $3.0(). 1.000 $1.&0. you wSab 81 ruled stock. add 75c per 1.00(). Kansas Farmer 51 ENVELDPE8- Dairy Club No. 1. 6�. Commercial s1ze. WhIle. &00 for $2.00. o 1.00() for $2.75. additional 1.000 $1.75. • Name of ENVELDPE8- �",' No. 2. 6�. Commercial size. WhIte. 500 for $2.25. N',me II . . 1.00() $3.01t. additional 1.000 $1.76. . cow� Postoffice R. F. u ENVELOPE8- ofC�4'V� D._g__ Nil. 6 Special Addressed Envelopes. 500 for $1.75. ]( 1.900 for $2.25. additional 1.000 $1.25. :3 0 b . For Month . BU"INE88 CAR08- . 19th Bound comer. 2'N.xS'!ll Inches. No. 8S. &00 for Milk Endin�_Q� il for additional These Record $2.00. 1.001t $2.15. 1.000 $1.75. n can he supplied In sCjuare comers If you wish. The items are in following put up pads t of 100 if you desire, at no -extra charge: . • P t:ETTER HEADS- Special Packet, size 6s9�. Ruled. WhIte. 500 for a $2.25. 1.000 for $3.00. adilltlOllal 1.000 $1.&1t. DA\' n..\IE .DAV 1 �1T:0�E2�ENTt.; size. 6 :IS Inch... Ruled. Whita GO() or �. 1.000 for'3.�. additional 1.000 $1.60. . " STATEMENT8- 8 15 22 No.1. Special. size 5'>10>:5% Inch.... Ruled. White. I. ;:: &00 for $2.25. 1.00() for SUS. additional 1.000 $1.25. I H· I�I. BILL HEADS- 'DAIRY FEED BAGS No.2. size 7:18� Inches. Ruled. While. 500 for WE 23 . BUY THEM $2.75. 1.00() for $3.0(). additional 1.000 '1.76. Whether they are torn or good. Ship them BILL HEAD8- to UB and receive highest market Jlrlces. sue SI.:r ruled lines. White. 500 -�1==1-1==1-16 No.1. 4'!11:18�. I�!. DAYTON BAG a BURLAP CO. . for $2.50. 1.00() for $2. 75. _�dltIooal 1.000 $1.60. Dept. K. 429 BU1'D8 Ave. Dayton. OhIO All prices are quoted delivered to you afl your home address, prepaid. Fot this BEE SUPPLIES �l��! Fullllneot .... 1916 ' eryman, or teSt their skim-milk with the Babcock teater. they do not Yields appreciate just what the difference between a Boocl and a poor sep Reduce - \Veeds Crop, arator means to them in. dollars and cents. YOU WOULD B y H. F_ R 0 B-E R T S • K. S. A. C. NOW IF YOU WERE IN NEED OF LEGAL ADVICE, to a If were sick would consult a doctor. If you I go lawyer. you you that have Because cause serious 10SBes in Sometimes native plants bad the toothache you would calIon a dentist. Why? sud Unlesa we be hitherto attracted little attention, men are in their line, and you rely upon their crop production. these all specialists . become noxious weeds on account WEEDSgin a systematic campaign denly judgment and skiD. these troublesome plants that of special conditions. This was notably against A r.iWARATOR WHY NOT more the case in the drouth of 1913. WHEN IT COMES TO BUYING' arc each year becoming numerous, native herbaceaus the which qualifies him will become most difficult of erad During that year a profit by the experience of creameryman they , from will ication. Billions of weed seeds are in -prairie plant gr,owing in dry soil to advise you correctly? He ••01116 which separator give you Kansas known as al the most econom-. the fields as a result of the luxuriant to Texas, ery1igo, the best service and be and fre hitherto unknown as a weed, be That's cent 1915 crop of vegetation. Early though leal for you to buy. why.98 per came in certain localities a qucnt cultivatlon will kill weeds by the temporarily of' the world's creameries and mllk dealers vicious On one farm millions. noxious and �eed. use the De Lav� exclbsively. WEEDS WASTE TONS OF WATER alone, near Wichita, is eaused $1,000 BETTER RECOM II'ecds waste tons of water that worth of damage. THERE CAN BE NO takes In the same a little narrow mendation for the De Laval than the fact should go into growing crops. It year native annual the western more water to make a ton of pigweeds leaved plant, that, the men who make the separation of swarmed the or Russian thistles, than to make a ton horse-weed, 9ver pastures milk a business use the De Laval to the the who ' of orghum. Sunflowers will cost an and alarmed farmers, thought exclusion of all other makes of introduction. had -practical nero of Kansas land barrels of it a new It always 13,000 cream separators. an been with them but had been held in water a year, or enough to, irrigate of normal Y_r local De Lanlaga. wiD be glad to aero of alfalfa a whole summer. It pays check, in years rainfall, by a D. La....1 for ,.ourself oa _ let tr)' better to raise than to raise weeds, the other prairie plants. ,.ou crops :rour own place. U ,.ou doa't kDow the nnd it is as if one starts in· A native plant of the plains, fog fruit, write just easy \ _lit D. Lanl ...... ,. iii_pi,. tim, because of its underground root system, Ilta aearelt meia office, a. "alow. West Rest the overgrazed pastures and let has become in certain placea in Central Kansas a weed of the native grasses come back and crowd pernicious gar out the ironweed, wild verbena, horse dens, vineyards, and orchards. The west THE DE LAVAL ARATOR CO. bur, snow-on-the-mountain, wild croton, ern ragweed, an ordinary I!rairie Jllant, SE� becomes a nuisance ,m cultivated York 29 E. MadilOn poverty grass, drop-seed grass, and other often 165 Broadwa,.. New St., Chlca80 weeds. Salt the when fields because of it� propagation by pasture bindweed, LOCAL DIE WORLD OVER , means of horizontal roots. SO.OOO BRANCHES AND AQ:NCIES ever it appears in a new locality, with an application of common 'crude salt ap BINDWEED IS RAMPANT PEST at the rate of tweive tons to the pliod ..... Among introduced weeds, the bind acre, Have alfalfa seed tested at the weed is common but not dangerous in of the sta seed laboratory experiment Europe and the Eastern Statea, where tIOIl, to find what weed seeds are in it. Million it is held ill check by the growth of Three 'Hundred Thpre is no law the seed to 'protect competing vegetation. In the dry, west farmers, so the farmers will have to ern country, though, it is a rampant themselves. If Sudan seed prntcr.t grass pest--the most dangerous and the most Bushel in 1916, IS sources Grop that the planted, be certain nearly ineradicable wecd merely because lUSUI'C its free from Johnson Farme,. pa, for Iheir land wilh on. ,ear'. orop being graSB its deep ranging root ilystem enables it SCN]. The seeds of the two can ". DIver 10 species to collect the moisture that should and proaperil, peaL each Etarce1y be distinguished from to the other. rightly go growing crops. Spread Regardinlr Western Canada aa a grain producer, a prom. means of its - ing by underground system inent business man says: "Canada's position today ia that the agents ,n j,9 hopcd county more extensively than by its seeds, it sounderthanever. Thereismorewheat, moreoate,more WIll attention this to ' give special year advances and never retreats. grain for feed. 20\(, more cattle than last yUr and more the steadily' in their The war market in needs ourllUlPluII. As 1',:eed problem respective A more complete knowledge .of the hogs. Europe locnlltlcs unknown or trou is marvelous and a monument of and report and of introduced weeds is for the wheat crop, it range spread ,. �ll's\lllle weeds to the. state botanist for confidence to exceeding the most optimiBticpredictiona seriously "needed. At present, a new ItreD&th for business b_uild 1;Ipon, information as to .n 1915 onr 25 bu.II.'e ... a"N It!pnf,ification and for weed ill allowed to suffi- Wllea' a".ra,,'" " mcanH usually spread In 1915 _ 45 ".,. _ of eradication. . 08.. _."ed to become troublesome before it .n 1915 Olfflr 40 "" a",. \, hCIl for examina ciently Barl;", alfflra"ed ".r , weeds are sent in is the state botanist. excellent land low In either im�ed or other. tion :llId of the reported to, PrIces are bleb} marketa convenient, JlrlCe identification, enough to sere. ·Free homestead lands are plentiful and not far There are approximately 800 kinds of wise. ranplr uom 112 $30 per plant should be sent to show the .char from lines and convenient to good schools and churches. The climate is healthful weeds in the United States. 400 railway or seeds. Fully acteristic leavcs and the flowers T1t_ Ie ao war .... _ ...... _ Ie ..... _,. coMCl'iptiollo For �Iete IDformattoD The be called common weeds, and about rates 8IId Wuatrated latter are indispensable in many, if may 88 to beat locations for Isc&tlemcnt. ndIMlecl raill'OIId deacriptive 200 from troublesome nui addresa lJ;ost, cases for correct identification. range merely I'emgh'et. sances to to Main sot,.ccdJlngs should not be scnt. Specimens dangerous pests. Strange 1011 St., most of the worst weed in GEO. A. COOK, KANSAS MO. sllnuJIl be forwarded in as fresh eondi. say, pests CITY, the United'States have come from Eu CoaadIaD a..-t .a.-c. t!on as possible, wrapped in damp paper, tied. and Asia. It is suflicient to men rcwrapped in strong dry wrapping rope tion Canada thistle. Russian thistle, por"r or newspaper, tagged with the field sow field Johnson name of the sender and his address thistle, bi,ndweed, crab Y written, and mailed, parcel graas-sub-tropical-quack grass, ria post: most of lill Department of Botany, Kansas grass, foxtail, cheat, "buckhorn, S(; a {It'I' �gricultural the wild ,mustards, the cockles, eatch College. and J),C�Plte the extensive literature on the flies, campions, mullein, burdock, laml)'s and ,wild car SUhJI�rt of weeds, a vast amount of defi pigweed, quarters, rot. These and scores of other wceds Information on their life habits is :llt"l have come into the United States in e,''l. Nearly every experiment sta �i�:( aeed or in ballast and have '!, ISSued a weed annual and the weed shipments iJo o,,� made their inland. by various authors are increasing way steadily iu The botanist finds weeds nUmber. _ interesting are successful STUDY THE WEED because they generally • :\1. ore .PBOBLEM: and it is of scientific work In types of i thorough weed biology plants, value to fmd out how and they are It would pay the statc of wby 1�;l ::�!,cded. so successful. The scientific knowledge employ a man to (i C\��, for. example, �o basis of the ote hiS entire time for the next ·thus gained lies at the study five weed eradieatioD. at least exclusively to a of st�dvyefrs weed in the field. Tn' question maximum a°dd��eItJon to the new Increased fertility means Wee-] pernicious in such are in and returns from the soil, and only in constantly coming v,:dl, returns aJ:C there Corn 109tha;,lelds, new weed problems are great profits. COil'�t for then for arising with regard to native and silage call first tillage, READ KANSAS FARMER'S CLASSIFIED we�d:n��e habits never stock, and these two insure the greatest b�cn of which have ADVERTISING PAGE FOR READY BARGAINS thoroughly investigated. yields. No More Flame-Blackened CookinlUtelllila to Scour Iln't that ROOd newe) lUlt think of the houR .of: work you won!t�ftI to clo. Write tocIa7 for booklet that teu. about·the CWfereoc Jt1leundpncelof Little Talks to 'Housekee·pers Helpful H;flt. H". fo,. tla. Women. ]lollt. of t1a. Fa,."., Never believe anything about anybody lungs: and when the plant ceases brl'nth. n. Seme n_ It . reach. the utenail. Coat. much 1_ to hum tha" the ectal 01 unless you· positively know it is true;. ing it dies. The present· infestation __ cre_ UP or climiniah.. lalliv... the will w.ood burniDjrr_. Doe. aWQwith n_ never tell even that unless feel that tliiil lDuimum of elicieney. aitp of endun... aceul... heat of the J.It•• you probably bUglit year's blossoms, but nu. atove ill to it is VAN life· of _ fill and ill a1WII7I Gea the oil c:OOk·_.with tbel.oqBlu absolutely necessary.-HENBY tIle the bush can be saved if im. �. M...... aummer cookiq e!lSl'. CltlmnllJ'.. YOUCIUl't DYKE. mediate and persistent action is No amoke-no odor-no wute. Your cur. alford to be without . taken this .. tIIu will etQ d_loqer. _. thUo _or. against pest Treat the children as though they ar� !J'he followlng sprays will be bendi. Standard Oil all that wish them to be, and' if they cJIlI in 'rose"s�ug: Company comb!1ting·the• are weI'ou fondest· ,c (1.41.".) .. . your managed, 'hopes. . 1'% tableliPoonfule araeDate of lend 72 W. Adams U. will be realized. " St., Chicago, S. A. -pute . - For 6a.' ra.a". a.a Parfacllon Oil 1 g_!!ollon _w,,:��-, e; Not Bad 01' Energ�tic ... . 2 tablespoonfuls areeDate of lead We are .. .. �ot yet convinced .that boys 1 are as· some would gaYl:,,:d:-ater naturally bad, have . . us believe; We do know that boys In. each case the arsenate of lead and too-are filled with. girls, energy should be-made into & thin paste the from the of their by tops heads to the 801es. addition of a small of quantity water ' of- tbeir fel,lt,. am! they must be before, added, to kept being _ the whole. But if the of this busy. expenditure Hellebore is another effective poison is w(!11 be energy directed, right �an for this purpolle, and should be used in made as interesting as wrong. the following quantities: Common 1 ounce hellebore Rose Bush Enemy 1 galloD water In the last few days we have heard or 1 many of worms on part hellebore complaints working 3 parts tlour the under side of rose leaves, leaving the dried veins or skeleton of This be only leaf. may .used dry or as 'a spray. This if! undoubtedly the work of the If it is to be used dry, mix it with 110ur rose slug. The leaves are the plant's at the rate· of one pound of powder to FASHION DEPARTMENT - ALL PATTERNS TEN CENTS This Is department prepared especially In New York City. for Farmer. We can Xansa. supply our readers with high-grade, perfect·fltUne, seam·allowlng at 10 cents each, Full patterns postage prepaid. directions for aa, well as the amount of material required, each makJng, accompanies pattern. When all YOU have to do I. to write name and address your ·plalnly. give the correctorderlngbDum er and size of each pattern you and encloae 10 cents want, for each number. We agree to fill all orders promptly and guarantee safe delivery. Special offer: To a�_l'one ordering & we will send the latest l88ue of our pattei'll faahlon book, "Every Woman Her Own Dress. fO.r 2 send 12 cents maker." only cents; for pattern and book. Price of book If ordered without 6 pattern, cents.. Addr.e8a all orders tor or patternl. book. to Kan.a, l'armer. Topeka. Kansaa. This' Useful Outfit Given to Subscription Helpers 1 Butcher Knife • • -_ 1 Meat Cleaver 1 Meat Saw THREE-PIECE .IDEAL MEAT SET Given as a premium, to anyone sending a. club of three NEW subscribers to KANSAS FARMER at the special trial rate of 50 cents to January 1, 1917. USE THIS ORDER BLANK KANSAS FARMER, Topeka, Kansas, . . Gentlemen: Inclosed please find $1.50 to pay for the following three new trial subscribers to KANSAS FARMER .for the rest of 1916. NAYE OF NEW' SUBSCRIBER TOWN STATE 1 . 2.! __ .. 3 . In return for my help you may send me, postpaid, the Ideal Meat Set. Name Town State . B.ARGAINS III WHEAT LAID POSITIVELY NO TRADES CONSIDERED. I Thi. la.nd has proven its ability -to make 2() per cent net each year on the value asked. It is offered for sale, as the owner is ready to retire. FARM NO.1.· FABM NO.8. I 1110 H�er County. Kan.... containing 180 Acree, 110 acres broke, 80 acres In acres; sandy loam with clay mixture; 90 wheat, 60 acres ready for spring crop; 60 acres In wheat, 20 acres ready for spring acres mow land on creek bottom; all crops, 60 acres pasture. All fenced and fenced. meadow ereea-fenced ; running cress-fenced. Running water, two weill. water. well. l'I'anary and stock sheds; good hard wheat lands. Four·room house, ca-re. etc. Stable for . U6 per acre. eight borsee, cattle shell and other out cash. Cash acre. buildings. price, tao an FARM NO.4. " Acree In Kansas. FARM NO. t. Sedewtek County, All broke, all fine alfalfa land; 6 acre. In alfalfa, balance In wheat, was alfalfa; No. 7717--Glrls' Dress: Cut In 480 Acres. Harper County. KanIl8I. 180 fenced; good house, well, barn for fOllr sizes 6 to 12 years. Cllllming the right to be called fascinating, this d reas and shows button. In groups, a box thuc acres broke, 100 acres In wheat, 60 acres horscs, usual outbuildings. Near . FARM AND HERD. LINDAMOOD'S BARRED ROCKS-BOTH SEE E. L. BNSIGN FOR GRADE HOL stein cows and' heifers mating&. Better th_ ever. Sliver cup and , and' regIstered bulls In Camero�. Mo. IIweepstakell winners. Eggs from pens. U add'ltIon to the recent export shipment and $6 per fifteen; n per hundred. of Shorthorns 'to Argentina under th'if'dlrec ;/ utlllt?� 450 FIRST CLASS Circular. C. C. Llndamooa. Walton. Harvey tion of Secretary Harding of the AmerIcan HOI,STEINS AND Guernseys Jor sale. Stock Farm County. Kansas. Shorthorn Breeders' Association. an' order Edgewater Fort WIs. has beell placed wIth Frank Scofield. Hills l\.tklnson. BRED TO LAY BARRED boro. Texas. by I1razlllRn parties for ROCI{S-EGGS HOLSTEIN CALVES. 16-1GTHS PURE from selected farm $l.OO. mat twenty-live head of tick-Immune bulls for 110ck. SpeCial 'ZO each, express prepaId. Write us for Hal Ings he'aded shipment by June 10. The price Is .500 by ten-pound ell:hlbltlon cock steins. "Edgewood." Whitewater. Wis. erels. $3.00. C. D. Swaim. Geuda SprIngs. per head. ThIs Is the largest Individual Kan. foreIgn order ever placed for bulls from FOR SALE-FIVE SHORT south of the quarantine line. Mr. ScofIeld REGiSTERED horn fourteen months also fe PATENTS. Is dra'Ylng upon the varIous southern herds bulls. old; WHITm PLYMOUTH 'ROCKS STILL' males. J. J. Kan. to complete the order. In Mr Thorne. Kinsley. hold their Barring addItion. popularIty. one. they Scofield has 'sold a yearling bull to Caso. were the class at the WOl'ld's "all' GUERNSEY HEIFERS OF our-P;A.-T-E-N'l'II--P-R-O-C-URIl--D-.-IN-Q-um�--:II�J.�·0ii1cub largest Alemana. governor of the Atlantic Coast DESIRABLE $lOO prIse. ..re. advice. at San FrancIsco. Good to lay. to eat breeding and promIsIng search. Free olllcial p"tei!'r�t good at Nicaragua. and two yearling bulls to development. Iteg drawlnga. Capital and good to look at. I have bred them ell: (stered. Soon to- freshen. J. W. .• Henry F. Springer. Bluefield. a Marley cluslvely for anil are Nicaragua; Kan. C._o__D__ _C_. twenty-tour years they yearling bull and heifer to Senor Manual Oswego! e,;,p_t._E....;.._W_aB_h_ln_g,;,t_o_n_._D_. __�_-,�- one of the best breeds edant. Eggs from EStrada. presldcnt of Guatemala. Another BEB first-class bIrds. the same kInd I hatch my HOLSTEIN COWS AND HEIFER�TWO SUPPLIBS. Argentina shipment includes twenty Short .-.___ self. '$2 per 16. $5 per 46. and I prepay ex carloads. Wbat do, .... horn bulls of varying ages selected W Fancy grades. you press or postage to any part of the Union. by want? Paul Eo South St. Paul E A. Forsythe & Sons. for Johnson. -F-O-R--S-A-L-E--B-E-E--S-UP-P-L-I 16 Thomas Owen. Route 'I. Topeka. Kan. GreenWOOd. Mo.. Minn. Good. Send for catalog. O. A. S.----::'R:-::OO"j';�Keene. J. N. Foley. This Is now en route shipment Seward Ave., Topeka, '((an. and Is due to arrive at the destination In _ HIGH-GRADE HOLSTEIN COWS AND August. This Is a very Important consign TURKEYS. helters. Pure-bred bull calves re ment. Inchralng bulls of hIgh Individual closely lated to world's cow. Entire herd SITUATION WANTED, merIt and representing the progeny of the champion � WHITE HOLLAND TURKEY EGGS. U.IO for sale: Dr. A. F. pynn. Hartland. Wls; • "most noted sIres of recent times. The selec· A S -N'j' per twelve. W. F. Teague. Collyer, Kan. EXPERIENCED FAR MER W tions were made with exacting care and the � jur' H'IGHLY BRED HOLSTEIN CALVES steady work on farm where 's character of/ the shIpment can scarcely fall ,,111' MAMMOTH WHITE HOLLAND either 11-16ths crated and dellv nlshed. Best of A. . EGGS. to strengthen our businesS' relations wIth sell:. pure. references. houseB sIred to by 37-pounll tom. $3 eleven. JessIe ered any IItatlon by ell:press. charges al mlngH. 1D8 Twiss Av'e.• Kan. the Argen tina breeders. It Is apparent thn.t Topeka•. _ CrItes. Florence. Kan. paId. for UO apIece. Frank M. Hawes our "outhern neighbors are lookIng to this Wis. MIDDLE - W 0 country for Shorthorn breeding stock. There Wbltewater. REFINEP AGED EGGS-FAMOUS TUR ._ wants care of old Invalid, or h'": ;,�"� NARRAGA)'ISETT Is an unlimIted field and we ha\'e an ad tolks. Mt. OF fur' keys. Sunlight Poultry Farm. Morhih. now GUERNSEYS ALL KINDS. ESPE -keeper. Small family; References vantage over breeders of the British O"lu,.. M� , clally hIgh grade belfers and regilltered DIIhed and Mrs. Mason, .- Isles due to the European war conditions. required. bulls. Klement .BrOs.. our representatives Halli St.. Newton, KaJi. EGGS - MAMMOTH BRONZE will drive you to the breeders. TURKEY. Catalogs are out for the Shorthorn dl.· dlfferen� . prize wlnnlne U.26 per eleven. White' Thill service furnIshed to all persian sa1e to be held June 16 by purcballel'll b,. GuInea.. U.75 Btocklper f fteen. W. L. Bell. Funk, S._S Jefferson County Guernsey Breeders' AliSO LUMBER. at Mt. Vernon ....0 Neb. Span'gler Farm. Milan. clation.· H. A. lIoIaln Fort· Fifty head of choIce have Secy.. Atkinson, Shorthorns been Wis. LUMBBRI BUY FROM us. HIGH catalogued for thIs sale and the entire Offer Bottom Drlcea. Quick .blp_nt. 8:e),Gn��� Ing was 'sIred' a or 8 COCI:IINS. by grand champIon Lumber Co., Tacoma. Waab. / son of· a· grand There, will be __ . champion. HOGS. PARTRIDG. COCKINS _. ALL roLL twenty-tv head of helterll. four teen hel ers (the THE STRAY LIST. blooded stock, prIse winner&. .ute.. .g... two-year-old l,earllng two-year-old� __ . are and ten cowe wIth calves at foot BIG-TYPE POLAND CHINAS. U. A- ,I.. Hen. 01' pulleb. fa "acb; ecaeku.Js. " bred). or close to calving by Royal Cumberland Gore., Seward. Kan.· TAKEN UP-BY D. each. Nichol.. Bach. Ha,..; .... _ L. 0:' 5th. There wJJ1 also be nIne choIce bulls Scott Scott BUIUS,KanSa., - TownilhiP. County. nllY sIred by Royal Cumberland 6th. The Short CHESTER WHITE BOARS. SEPTEMBER the 21st day of May. 1916. one gray f,ony LANGSHANS. horn famlltea represented In. the sale wHl tarrow. Reptered free. PrIces. UO. Henry mare branded on right hlp; one be PrIncess Iba.r sorrel Royals. Augustn.s. Marsh Vio Kllmplng. Elsmore. Kan. mare with whlte,streak In tace; wIth BLACR! LA N'G S HAN. BARKER'S lets. Jealousy's BessIe and other noted mllk mare branded on· rIght shou��er strain. Eggs $1.00 16. delivered. J. Med producIng families. The entire offering '11'111 WheD please mentton f.0ny John T;. tord, Wheatland, Okla, be the useful and profitable kind. wrltlnl=::.rtl8ers,. Farmer. KanS"" . �r[so�: C��:�;lsc�r�! Milk Fo�' Young_ all It never' to stint tlle young is Nature's pays fi�st !ood'foi." all the feed will and the chick IS no excep chicks, give tlaem, they young rush them to as that , early, ' eat, and Ipaturity - tion t� this rule, exc.ept hI,! MILK as milk sour, ,It has possible. to his ms prefer the commonly that. lactic be�eved To make anel at the !tame tiJ!16' ���J1' aided so .a good, - in sour .dlgestlon �nli aeld m.i!k a dissolve fh:e - to withstand disease. �lieap, disinfectant, [n ied the chick I!ROTECTED' I of aRapS� • )IL It I of water about ARE,-:,YOUII• • \. three • show th'at gallons pounds f _. ,- ' experiments , ned nc'tll'll practice • Jen sour to which add one of of haIL Within few houre all your jeri Ities 0f sweet and copperas, pint cru� You ,know the deadly .work '!l where like quant haven't} a Your Ia'bo:r ia waated. the results are carbolic acid. If you got cropa"CAIl 1»8 deatroylM). Youl',iDcome � ,o�., - lire consumed, ifk use 'Common and lEY same. of sprayer, a watering pot han the preference are _ :t'he oecaslen 'W)lat a aenae ot ,aeC1h'lty, Y01l have wh�n )'o� cropi ,a.aiut we _ the house and p�otect�d now In b)' �Jllct;cllllY the facto:r, as sprinkle yards company_ ];)on't rJBk anotlier ilay., but Insure F, chick is deciding In a Bafe «nd ,'colUl8rva*l:ve tho with and the State-ot 'J[anllU 'for '10,,000. ',,' 10 to 25 per any tllis'mixture contagious a cOlllpany whose omcera are 'boncled �o: he will !)onswne C!ntl , - find diseases in the flock will not often milk and corresponding- ND more sour make. appear. THIS ,IS THE COM,PAtty''�, rnr, " , 0, "should be the Insurance, In torce trom the moment' the application wu .,qued results, m�lk ,- that tlrst put the I(lrs ga�;; best from smaiL' We It is well wQrth, while When ,the y�ung .cockerels weigh an� the premium paid, Alwa)\s ,haa adjusted' all lonea, ,n� m&tt!,r hop cer, food taken. the, write first tw.o is on �t record; Don't walt, tor' stor!D. but, each chick. a pound," aDd '� half to pounds, ask_ tor your, .appllcatlon o�r - beak of 'betore Jnmre your. Vain. , to 'dip the indivi�ually sell them. You will UB to), full particulars or Bee our ••ent iciu a of the best tim!! to get "('0 that he takes, good-drink and a better' for them 'at ,that he is pHce weight '.Ir. - milk "while being transferre� fro!», Of' if- ••ERI IIIUI.,ICE C•• tbe brooder. Tbls Will thaD you will later. course, you THE" IRAli (IR JAIL 3U- the incubator to want some of them for breeders next � for chick help develop a Elmer"F. Bagley,- Secretaiy, Topekaf the a·start " lti!l, givc an� will save the most ,,!t for the milk. season, you promising, lid. .'. keen appetite are them .ta- as It thick of tbem. But if you raising ,[ilk should be fed as soon to for broilers, sell them before they weigh en� and before tbe curd begins sepa best in tbis con two peunds, rate. The chicks like it consume more. , - dition and consequently feed is in ' Some one asks if bran, when placed in IAL A con'vcnient way to, shallow for chicks to feed at will, :Ing about a pint witb a piece hoppdrs young 11)'· pans holding across the is not distented crops. the inch mesh wire stretebed harmful, causing of last season to chicks IrQ chicks from We fed lots of bran top to prevent, the getting ine, without, any evil results. If they a),e fed hes. , w� will not eat enough sI\'ij In actual practice milk is worih vastly grain, regularly, thcy lOW of the bran to hurt thems�ves. On the than its would indicate. It I'll more analysis beneficial to 131· of nour it will 'prove them, not only carrles a large amount contrary, for the bowels are by its use, ishmrnt in itself, but it renders other regulated skim milk and it is a food for growth and de food 1110l'C digestible. If ean good nut he obtained, it is worth while to pay velopment. IR· vnole milk prices for the first two weeks case the cream, " notion tbat there won't f it chick's life. In this Don't get the' should be removed, as the skim milk be many. lice and mitcs tbis year, just, I results. Care should because the season has been cool and Dot - vir"" much bettcr H, clean will hl' Iukr-n to keep all feeding dishes many. have shown up so far. They anrl f"('1[ only fresh sour milk. ' come during hot, weather, you may be ITH Allowance should be made for thc milk sure, and eVllry, one you kill now is ers, as beef re a thousand later in the R, and protein feeds such scrap worth .hundred llill'I"l, olse thc chicks may be forced off season. Keep spray.ing the poultry thoir feet, This is particularly true dur house with a good lice killer, and so keep ' ing the rarlier part of the season, while ahead of the peats, confined lSE ih" chicks are kept more closely OIl nllil not to exercise. it! on ",h· given opportunity Not enough importance placed of sour milk �OIne of the advantages the value of good alrslaked lime for use iretiilli! are as follows: in the poultry house and on the runs, and 1. Chicks start quicker grow very Properly used, 'the' lime is of great sanl much faster, ' tary value. A free use of airslaked lime Iii. reelstanee �, Bocomo more disease by runs where is lip· on chicken gapes prevail nwan, of their own increased vigor and beneficial.1lt Its use no doubt ' exceedingly vital it v, also destroys other germs and bacilli. :i, 'i,akc of have , larger gains per pound Tbe wise poultryman will always !('l't! «msumod. a good supply of lime on hand and use it )T8 4, H"itch normal 'nk maturity younger both inside and out of his poultry birds,-Con and ,m,'ke better paying-__ houses. nect 11'11 Agricultural College. A flock of lively chicks in an orchard ,DB MaKing Kerosene Emulsion, will pick up thousands of, insects .and .nd, A how to worms and the that hatch such in to pOliltryman wants to know eggs will Inly mnk.. kerosene emulsion. It is made as sects. The eating of these supply and fullows, two of kerosene tbe chickens with animal food, and do ver, Take gallons lots of and at the same 'time ot OIl. 1)1:�-haJf pound whale oil soap, or tbem good, , E, all" tbe insects from 'J'ulrt home-made soft soap, and one it prevents damaging To entice them into the orch gall:,,!1 �f water. Dissolve the soap by the trees. scattcr the that �olhllg' Jl1 water, then remove, from, thc ard, grain along path to there. Jlrr all:i immediately add tbe kerosene. you wari't them to take get of tbe IN· BeaL 1 his mixture and After th(lY once get a taste bugs kly rapily violently llnlil and worms will want to :8.n. 11,., I'mulsion is as smooth as beaten they go again. ('rran" Bear'in mind the vesscl used in , makillv, the emulsion,'muflt be sufficiently There is no gain in grinding or crack-- brge 10 1101d a considerable increase in ing corn or kafir for chickens. As long as tIle bulk is nearly or quite as the grain is not too large for them dOllbl"IO1('a for aevera! or be - clays, delayed in O. E. Torrey - - Towanda, Kanaas Must Reduce lard forwar4iDL and XaD.a. Farmer head of and Forty registered cows. hQlter talUlot auu.m.e bull calves tor sale. Ot the belt blood line. any reepoDaibiUty ainong the breed. 1I0J' llliatak.. occurring I am a member ot the Southwest Jerley thereby HEREFORD CATTLE. Cattle Breeders' Association. , Regler's H'olst.,in-s SWEET SPRING STOCIII RANCR Holsteln.Frlellan A. R. O. bull. ready f9r .ervlce. World'.' reoord blood liows In their �ll 2..i Monett, MI8Ioul'l (l1.a.IM DATE8. " . �E, vel�& .,' . KAN Herefords. ,0. BEGIm:�;" f!lQN8. WBIT1DWA�BR, •. Brookside Farm·' Jersl,s Oct. 'l-J. O. Southard, Comiskey, Kan. Hereford Bulls Registered Jersey bulls tor BRie. Flyln8' We can, Poland Chinas. ("r.. nlsh ca.rlo.ad ot coming Fox and Eminent breeding, good enough to BUnER :IRED lhre., HOLITEIIS year-old Hereford bulla.' Ha.ve both head any herd. Also a tew femalel. Oct. to-Sigel Mo. 110lled Brow,n, Re�ds, . Buy your next bull calf trom a herd that and horned. Good: ones cheap.. Address Oli' 18-'W. BOo . : TKOS: D. MARSHALL, SYLVIA. KA:NSAS B�own,.Perry. Ka.n. won,'tlie butter test over ·all. breeds. °c:,tal:3.;t��·r�: n�i.r�l���. 'UiutosePh, �o.;, J. P. MA8T .- '_, SCRANToN�'KAN8AS JI C. H��P�I. ,1I11i 01". KanS11 L,INSCOTT JER'SEYS, Oct. 17--.John D. Henry, Lecompton, Kan. Oct. 19-H. B. Walter. Efflngham, Kan. -Kanlas' Firat H.,llter of Merit, Emb. 1878. Oct. '2'-"-Leonard "", kulisell .. St. 'Joieph," Mo. Blfliin In month-old bull catt trom one of Oct." 26'-'-U.· So Byrne. Saxton. Mo. RESlaJERED HO,lIIEII' Haralin. aDd 'areheron. the heaviest milkers In our.herd. Foz Fly,ln. Two choice Hereford bulla, a and 3 blood. Fnlly luaranteed. A beauty. $25.00. :L����� rear, gg:: ;�keV.7a1u:cti.;�s�yl;.",lflan. old. well marked, both wlll:ma.ke ton bull. R; J_ LINSCOTT KANSAS Nov.· I-Fred B. Caldwell, Howard, Kan. The 3-year-old HbL'_fON, weighs 1.9.60•. Also "orne I,' Nov: 4-L. R. 'Sr:. Kan.' choice • Wiley. Elmdale, yea.rllng Percheron stud colts. lIJ. ID. GIDEON ,- 1!:IDD!:'r.l'. KANSAS sal f L,O WEI' HE R.D-;,JEISfYI Durocs. Nov. -2'-Lant Bros.. Denrils. Kan. For Sal_Two yearling bulls and ate,,! WILLIAMI cows and heifers. All sired, by Coster's 1.0111 HEREFORDS Splendid. Imported and a. gra.ndson ot Gol- D. J. White of Ciementsl Kan., who owns For SaI-Seven cows bred to drop o"lve, one of' the good herds ot cattle In In summer. Sixty buill from I to 10 n"lUth. KANSAS old. �nl°j!i{DLEY ROL'I)ON, AnFruH Priced reasonable. Come and seo u•. L�I: �ta}rn:"roOr�thl�a�e:.;1 :�lsngy:a��I. :r� PAUL E. WILLIAl\I8, HABlON. K.1NSA8 White also reports a. ,heavy demand for high clasa Angus breedhig stock at satisfac Sunset Cattle Herd tory prices. SOUTHARD'I MOIAIOH Jerle, --- HEREFORD. Will ofter at sale hea.d HOLSTEIN COWS For Sale-Cholce private tlfty cows, N. L. Duchesne COWII Ij.nd helters bred of Great has : heifers. calves. The fa.mous Blue Bend. Kan.• to Monarch No. U9994 bulls, one ot Holstein cows, springers or. bred heifers. and Repeater GCth, the largest and most profitable herlls A few Belle-Golden Rosebays. Send tor specla.l cir Very large, good out ot belt milk extra good herd bull prospects. An, of Jersey cat t le In Knnsus, seventy head on markings, cular before buying elsewhere. Bargains. Ing 8tra.lnll. bred to bulla ot ·the nua.1 sale October 7, 1918. Send tor the rarm, forty cows In milk and thlrt)· pure-bred cat"log, best blood. on J. O. SOUTHARD EJiDls Stock and Dairy Farm, .Horine, Mo. helferR. This number ot cows the very Sl'ecla.l_prlces carload COMl8KEY, .lUll'. supplies lots. J. C. (Just sou th ot St. Lolila) milk for a large part ot Great Bend. Mr. ROBI80N, TOWANDA, KANSAS Duchesne has found the dalr;v business very Sl\QTH'S JERSEYS profitable. A teature ot the herd at this RED POLLED CATTLE. time Is the number of young heifers 'tha.t For Sal_White Hall's Baron solid ' 138966, are tine tor HOLSTEINS color, 26 tine Individual. Sire Blue prospects producers. months. It you wa.nt to buy Holstein ca.lves, heifer. Boy Baron 99918;' dam White Ha.1l Duches8 The Deming Ranch at Oswrgo. Kan.. Is or cpws,. at reasonil.ble prices, write to the 299731, used on a tew ot our best cows. making great success with the WhItewater 8tock � WhItewater, WI-. RED' Females a.1I ages and three bull $25 large-ty.pe POLLED BULLS calve!.. Poland CHina. H. O. Sheilion. the herds up. 8. 8M1TH. CLAY aAN. Alb. M. Hanson. Prop. TWENTY yearling bUill, big rugg.rl tel, 8,� CENTER. man, Is a hog, man. He prnctical foremnrly 10WII, sired' by ton aires; all reglster"L1 nnd owned one of the gOOd her-ds of big-type RAISIN,G 'Registered' Holsteins. Trying J!!'lced reaBonabl),. Will soli & few females, bogs at Wichita, Kan... but for the past two III. III. ha.rd to herd close FRIZELL, Frlsell, Pawnee Co.. linn,•• years hus hud or- the keep healthy. L,lvlng to : clillrge hog Ilepart Nature. Cows ca.lvlng regularly. REDHIRST J·ERSEYS ment on the Deming ranch. This well equipped tarm contutns 2.600 acres ot rich RED POLLED CATTLE oa1'i����o��r bottom land and 1,00:0 acres of valuable' TREDICO FARM' 0!a.I�.ql":t�8/o,;l�e�!l�a:"�bl:o!� pasture land. They have on the farm :I'OR SAL:&-1916 bull calve. by Rose'. Z Grand about ·700 head of hogs. most of, tbem reg Boute KlNGI\(AN. KAN8AS, Chainplon 17998, a a.400-pound bull; B��i�Ir&: &110 a °L��me !,re��O:,r'iUiSSOURl Istered, and by careful selection ot breeding tew goOd cow. alld helferl. A.ULD stock and mann.gcmont ,they have proved a. HOLSTEIN·FRIESIAN BBOTIIBBS, mANKFOBT. KAN. FOR SALE-Nine registered J.ej,sey cows great source ot profit. 23 - BUllS_ a.nd heifers. Excellent unrelated bull, Oak 28 Ia.nd's Sultan 2d. E. S. Meyprs of Chanute. Kan., owner of POLLE'D DURHAM CATTLE. PERCY'LlLL - Ill'll. HOPE. KAN8A8 Tenneholm Shorthorn' herd. writes that his ov�rel:o o:o���:: tv:'" 09' tg:�he��u���� herd Is doing wpll. He also reports that the demand for breed FOR 8ALE-Three registered Jersey bulls, hlgh-class·Shorthorn �r,.t:er:l:&,t�::C�::t?f \t::8 �:v!D':n�OU�= Ing ..tock has been this and that COWl In the herd with richly bred. good ypar mature recoril I".. hove betm RnU .. re than 20 L. E. Pendleton Dodp City, Kansas prlcl's very tactory. He 'pounds. POLLED DURHAM BULL ports 'recent sales as follows: Seven head Breeden for'l'hlrt7 11'__ • :� �;n �·er�ve�c;�ft·on�a:{�o:.,; ��:s.t1o aR.b�� MIOY r; Crumpacker, Hlattvllle. Kan.; two to T. BROI., WlllrlH,IIWI Berkerdltc. Wellsville, Kiln.; on'!4.to Theo. Jagels. Hpplpr. Kan .• and one to w. J. Cur -Brleders I. Directory tis, Glen Elder, Kan. Albichar Hilstein 'Farm P�RERON HOBSES. , D. C. Van Nice of Is mak Richland. Kan" Offers young bulls. bred a. success with his flnp. herd double III••• OIdeon, Emmett, Kan. Ing ot cows a.nd helters tOI' standard Polled Durhnm ('lItUI·. Yon ANGUS CATTLE. Mr.' sale. Write tor breed Nice hilS In his hcrd Bome of the best &eo. A. very Ing, a. n d Deitrich, Carbondale. Kan. Scotch blood and description D. J. a.lways registers In both Our herd abso \Vhlte, Clements, Kan. Shorthorn and Durham prlcss. Polled associations. [utely trom tuberculosis. 8HORTHORNS. He hilS hi .. herd to the best kept up �'ry Sa tlsta.ctlon guaran teed. e. .. White, Burlington, Kan. standard of cnttle. both ·from a beet and .. dalrv This class of hornl .. ss CRtU" ROBIN80N &: 8HULTZ. Independence. Kan. HOLSTEINS. type. has 'become as an O... very popular all purpose (,little among fllrmers In this sr('lIon of the Be�&R��;_.:tii)Jf:n::;EBP. rountry and the dp.mand has drawn very B. O. LaTourette, Route .an. DUROC JERSEYS. 2, Oberlin, heavy on Mr. Van Nlcr.·s her,l for breeding JER8EY CATTLE.' cnttle. The champion ROlin H"ro was uRed J. B. Porter&: Son, Mayetta, Ran. In his herd for a number'ot y('ars and he 'has lert a fino lot of 'Young stock In the herd that Is ve"y promising. Duroc Bred Sows E';'-Govcrnor Stubbs added some recently For Sal_Ten Durie fot' .T"nr. valuable herd material to his Holstein herd sows bred a.nd July litters. to .\ 1>0 at Mulvane. Kan. In sddltlon to a. number Price. $30 $;;0. ten fa.l1 boa.rs, all $�" ot valuable cows, he purchased the registered, price .to great $30. First order Don't \I .Ill. bull. Sir Mercedes Plcbo 110166. The dam gets choice. P. M. CROSS These are rea.l ot thl .. bull has a rl'cord as R. two-year-old CHOICE HOLSTEII BULLI bargains. of 29.8 In sevrn nR a LIVE STOCK pounds butler dRYS; Five registered bulls. out ot A. R. O. cow•• J. a. rrror,l R.IMiTH, Kal1sas AUCTIONEER three-year-old. yea.r of 20,826 rrom 1 month to a years. Best breeding. Newton, pounds milk and 980 pounel. butter; as a. Choice Individuals. Price rea.sona.ble. BOARS! BOARS! BBED "Twelve Vears on the four-year-old. 28 pounds butter In seven GILTS: BEN SCHNEIDER, NORTONVILLE, KAN. Eighteen big thirty :".rd Block" days. Her record for nino months this ycar husky boa.rs, I'llts. a tew tried BOW.. as a milk. 23.829 and Crlnuon Pure Bred Salel a four-year-old, pounds. Illustrator ·WolI.Ir.;. butter 1,065 p'ounds. At the prrscnt rllte Colonel, Good Enutt. Specialty Ether Dcf�II'l\'�d. " she wilL break the world's record tor ll\lIk breeding. III by or bred to eons Sales Made Anywhere grea.test champions of the breed. Priced for ,production. . Another recl'nt purchase was IN MISSOURI I\(ACON. I\[JSSOURI the bull, Ca.nary paul Fobes Homestead. Price Segls Walker' Pletertje 123966 heads His dam has the As a. Dam ��I'i:. s8:::EplfE�ne. LYONS, KA:\',\S following r('cord: herd. 30.1S Ibs. butter In 7 days. milk .- LEARN AUCTIONEERING two-year-old. 20 pounds butter In seven testing 5.07 per cent. A. R. O. of dam, ns a 25 four granddam and ten At "'orld's Original and Great...t, School days; three-year-old. pou"ds; nearest dams of sire, 34.9 29.76 and become Independent with no cnpltal year-Old. pounds; flvr-ycnr-olrl. 32.20 lbs. Six of tht>se are SO-lb. cows. His MULEFOOT HOGS. Invested. Every branch of the business pounds; seven-year-old, 83.91 podnds; yellr five nearest dams all t"st o,'cr 4 prr crnt. taught In five weeks. Write for free catalog. record. 21.048 pounds milk. 932 pounds Bulls 2 to 8 months old, $150 to $350. Al ha.ve Jones National School of Auctioneering butter. ways cows and brrd heifers for, sale. ;;;;���==�;;�;:;;�;;::;;��:,:�Big-Type I\(ulefoot Hogs from ;l1l10\' 34 N. Sacramento Blvd., Chicago, DI. Everything registered Holsteins. Tuberculin lea's champion herd. Low cash prlcP', Carey M. Jones, Pres. The great value of dipping sheep for scab 'Buycatal'!g ·free. Juo. Dunlap, 1J30� was been fully demonstrated by the Depart ��t{i.' COOKE & SON. I\(AYSVILJ,E. MO. WllllamHI'� ment of Agriculture, which shows that a.fter Live Stock and Real Estate two dlpplngs the worst cases of the epi demic lire completely cured. "Two dlpplngs HOLSTEIN BULL'S BERKSHIRE HOGS. trom ten to tourteen a days apnrt," says - For Sale A number of very fine' bull Auctioneer bulletin Issued by the drpartment. "arc nec ca.lves. sired by ",Vauseona Authorized etate agent ot Kansas Rura.l essary In order to Insure the ('omplete de King Korndyke and out of COWs that 80 ot Credit Association. Write me your wants. struction of all the mltrs which cause the produce poun<�s milk per day. Price reasonable. B. 111. JUSTICE PAOLA, KANSAS dlsen.... The first dipping �hould klll all those that are hatched but may not destroy T. 1\[. EWING, INDEPENDENCE, KANSAS the eggs that have been laid In the wool. J., P. OLIVER These hatch In about ten day.s. and the REGISTERED HOLSTEIN BULL CALVES. LIV�st::�C!uc�I��ee�eal Fine Twenty years' experience. Newton, Kansas. mites which result will succumb to the sec Individuals and breeding. ond dipping. Lime and sulphur...,. nicotine PLEASANT VIEW FARM, Altoona, KlUllIu and sulphur, are the only solutions recog nized by the department for this dipping." HOL8TEIN BULL8, "BEGISTBBED" Livi Stock and Farm Auctioneer Two ready for service. 8mlth" RuIlhN, ANGUS CATTLE Write or wire for date. I can plea.o you. J. Ed Bailey of Irwin. Iowa. Is one ot the Bre8!lera. Route '. Topeka., Kana... LAFE BURGER, WEJ,LINOTON. I{ANSAS succesRful breeders of pure-bred Morgan horses that has preserved the Ideal type of BRAEBURN S Cards-Free that great breed. The Morgans In Mr. HOLSTEINS A.t3�:'uU UE-il-D E E • lJ H. B. AN-G herd ot old Cowles, 608 Kansas Ave.. ,tnY ,If will send us the names of ten Bailey's are exclusively the Topeka, �an•. We Offer For Sale Bull. aDd Heifer., ,ou Morgan that made the breed tamous. type Number, Sln-'e or C....oad Lot.s. who are not now subscribers to Danl,,1 one of the use 'I r' persons Edwin. stallions In, If on These cattle have size and quality In Is the market for and,.�._r KANSAS we will send you a set his herel. by Green Mountain 6496 by pure-bred bred In the purple. See them a.t FARMER, Green Mountain 4165. dam Fc Morga.n Lndy read torty miles trom Kansas City, onLsSWnil·I", of Twentieth Century Travel Cards free Eclipse by Fa.ncy Boy 4724. dam of Lady stock, KANSAS FARMER live for your trouble. Address KANSAS Eclipse. Fan. by Olel Morrow by Bullrush stock adverti8emenbl. You will g by Justin Daniel E,lwln Is one of li Travel Kansas. Morgan. itTTONlflC.allwpyo R TEO FABMEB, Dept., Topeka, tlul mo�t Intensely, Inbred MOrlranB living. find what you want. r{o", Phone 84114. Route 8, Lawrence. ".,;;r...... A.. ,till !�. . " �G�.'·'Hog.FeeCli�g::·M�"cKI.· �:t·�,.·--..�.....-----••------..-- - __ . "The �itject of feeding'-ia ,a:b" ,one: York recently· iI. 'C; Robl- in is'often lost III New The profit oi(t opel-ations I.vhilo K-an., purchased a Bon ·ot f 'rowanda. 'our" .meth'ods -hi lac ,Ofl, 0 Pontiac. Alcartra,' the famouB by pOOl' ,feeding. Sogi" at the ·head. that one-third of Holstein bull, to place t�ally believe fullY' th. KIIlWOO herd. Thl8 bull was pur- are'wasted Holstein Is the the' crops fed to our animals of15O·hl. arount U,OOO. Hla. sIre '1 'n t br.eed and the in We ChnS�' rlced bull of the by ,improper methode feeding. three of hla get Bell for to have must' feed the object we hI1h - ( , , / A CROP IHIT'IS SI'a'E! THERE IS' DIE FOR THE IREAT/IOUTHWEST---IT'11 THE CROP IF IRAII,IIRCHUMS' v f ' MR. BORMAN POINTS OUT AREA 1-'For grain, plant dwarf milo, feterlta, Freed Sorgo. AREA 2-Dwarf black-hulled kafir, white-hulled kafir, feterita. AREA 3-Sta,ndard black-hulled kafir and other grain sorghums. AREA 4-Standard black-hulled kafir is the best '. variety. , iUEA 6-Here c9rn outyields kafir. Use sorghums for forage only. For many in without the care com year.; planted patche., of and' wheat, the Sorgh...ms have produced ....in and after in forage year year eVflry Sorghum Belt locality. Thi. �hen 'i. a .ure crop, and sure crops mean. return. for :.:e.ular, dependable labor, time and investment. It mean. a permanent prosperity for whoever rightly farms Sorghum. in the Sorghum Belt. \ WHY NOT LEARN ALL ABOUT· SORGHUM AND KA·FIR GROWING AND GROW IT IN A WAY THAT WILL ASSURE YOU AtL THE FEED YOU NEED After several years' study and of It is on a investigation Sorghum, Kafir, printed fine quality of book paper; printed in large, clear Milo and all similar known as Feterita, grains, the- Sorghums, Mr. type, and is full of It is and bound in T. pictures. neatly substantially A. Borman, Editor of KANSAS FARMER, wrote a most contains 310 and interesting cloth, pages, will be a. valuable addition to any library. and valuable book on SORGHUMS, SURE FEED CROPS. This book . The Mr. shows how Kafir, MilQ and Cane fed to live stock of all kinds WILL price of Borman's sorghum book is $1.35, postpaid. The book and a INCREASE YOUR FARM CASH AND FEED INCOME. year's subscription to KANSAS FARlIIER, $1.50, flew or renewal. To write name order, just your and address on the coupon and attach It is a book not only of value to Sorghum Growers, but is almost your personal cheek, draft .or money order. send all orders to :Kansas - equally valuable-to every farmer in the Southwest whcther he gro�s Farmer, Topeka, :Kan. .. Sorghums or other crops. It contains precipitation maps, corn area. map, frost date map, map show)ng number of days in growing season in different sections of Kansas, altitude map, precipitation map, and What About This' Book length of growing season for the entire Southwest, The, Sa, "It is a practical work, for practical farmers, by a man." It discusses of practical every phase Sorghum farming, selecting seed, -J. C. MOHLER, Secretary Kansas State Board of Agriculture. planting, cultivation, types, SECTIONAL GROWING SEASON, effect on land, best methods of planting, feeding, handling and hundreds of ''It is the most practical, up-to-date, comprehensive and 'helpful book of its other important things that have never heretofore been put into book kind."-F. A. MITClU:LL, Berumda Stock Farm, Chandler, form. Oklu. _, . "I am certain that, it is a valuable contribution to the For 12 in Kansas, Kafir lias been 23 cent more valuable agrieul years' per - tural interests of Kansas." L. and than corn. The acre value of Kafir in Kansas for a of OTIs. BENTON, 'Farmer Banker, average period Oberlin, Kan. 13 years, is $11.41. For 12 years the Kafir average acre value was $2.12 greater than that of corn. "I have found it very interesting "and full of valuable informa tion. It will prove a helpful to !;lily farmer in the Plains The book is not one of statistics'; of course, it contains some Bide figures, country."-GEOBGE BISHOP, Farmt'!!"{ CordeD, Okla. .-" but they are woven into an interesting readable and instructive story. The ''It is readable and a experience o( hundreds of sorghum growing farmers are condensed t�oro'\lghly san;; discussion of the subjeet. It ill sure to therein. prove-of great value to farmers as well as to the student. It is a distinctly valuable addition to the agricultural literature of tbe country."-W. M. JARDINE, Director Kansas Agricultural -Experrmenf Station, KANSAS'FARMER CO�PANY, 625 Jackson Street, Topeka, :Kansas I "It is the moat practical, the most and �1IIIIIIIIIIIUIIlIIIIlIIIUIIlIIUllllUIIIUIIIIIIIlIIIIIUIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIUIIIIlIIIIIIIIIImlllllll1l1l11tlllltllntntllllll1lllllltlllllllllllllllllllllll1ll1l1l1l11l11ll11l1l11l1l11lllllllUlIlIIlIIllIIllI.!!Gentlemen :-1 enclose herewith f1.50, for which' send thorough the most readable please i book written on forage M. il KANSAS FARMER one and a of Mr. Borman's Book on crops."-H. COTTRELL, Agriculturist, Mem year copy g Bureau of Farm � Sorghums, phis Development; former Agricultural CommiSlioner postpaid. � of the Rock Island Lines. _ F. F. D I , � KANSAS FARMER Ilfame_ Post Office State � 6u.I,d,llllIllllUuuawuUlUII';.;"unl'IIIIUIIIU""IIIIUnJIIIUNlIUlUtlllllllUlllllUlllnllllllUllllIlllllllIIU,LlIUllllllllllllll1llUllllllUlllun1I111111ullluIllunwwnuuluuaauui Topek.a, Kansas