O£�:;,;,; , Cr.o(,' _ ... <: , • E.t. I,., , " JAN U A R y. 191,9.' · o N u m b e r 4 e TOP E It X:A N S AS, 25, O;){f!,o 7 A, • vs Jt : II..� � III/llillIlIlIlIlI II II....���1"ti/J/6�'. � 1I I§ �..m. � "er! . FUTURE OF�: THE .DRAFT HORSE Incr�ase 'Efficiency' by B�eedin� and by Usill� Better HitchinA Methods
factor very competent draymen, who stated. we will what the same may temporarily ATTEMPTING to forecast the In 'this article give only though on the in the of that· there had been a tendency on the first reserv interest production' future of an it neces we had to say two, depress to back to industry, �s drafters. part- of some firms swing careful of his discussion of production real sary to make a study ing reducing drafters for more of their sbort of demand "How far truck and tractor use 'may _heavy UN the costs and the matter. 'fo;reigp ' the past and investigate the future haul for' reasons of economy. In field for drafters in . work, a later article. limit. the With this in mind, for was the present. Wayne can foretell. We Greater New York there during "The of trucks and trac no one with certainty of the Percheron competition and four months in Dinsmore, secretary do know that in the cities trucks' two years ending in the tors has had a distinct influence," said large of America, addreesing a bal a reduction of 2,100 Society thou and teams appear to ·be reaching March, 1917, only. convention of the Mr. Dinsmore. "It has frightened increase trucks. forty-eighth annual 'and more ef a in, or com ance. Teams are cheaper horses, despite great on the draft sands of farmers into a partial, 2 St.ate Board of Agriculture trucks in ThiB was a decrease of less than per discontinuance of horse -fective in short hauls, superior . horse situation sketched the his plete, breeding. briefly For a time trucks reo cent. it inhibited the of mares the hauls. of the He said: Where breeding long of tory industry. at a rate in "The limit profitable replacement of 1,200 or over to .draft stal placed teams very rapid "For forty years past heavy (trait pounds .to JJ.ave been reached, or near-If, lions this has been harmful, Where it our _large cities. Chicago, especially appears 1100'ses of approved types have alway!:! data and not 30 cent. of the heavy or favorable to truck usage, has exact so, per which left a fair stopped the use of small stallions, The most been salable at prices the three drafters have been displaced. of small or on this. During years ending work rendered on tne breeding very decidedly men have profit when the they ;o:-two-horse teams de experienced city transfer who into consideration. inferior mares, it has been a benefit. April 30, 1915, the farm was taken three-horse teams' been in the business for t;wenty years than harm has re- creased 15 per cent" Even in the when all values were' More good probably that teams can never 90's, and auto trucks one ton or or more declare the feed . for we had a vast. 'surplus of 30 per cent, at n low ebb, this was true, for sulted, the be eliminated in city' work by over increased 441 per cent. During entirely was horses from 1,000 to 1,400 needed to produce horses absurdly ranging as the increased cost othandIing were next three April 30, 1918, trucks, horses have been the pounds, and horses as a whole be years, ending loll' ill price. Draft- decreased 21 cent, short haul traffic would be J!rohibitive; more than demand two-horse teams per the farmer to have ing produced rapidly men who have jjoth trucks easiest for produce, teams 8 cent, and and these are service warranted. was this true of three:nol's.!l only per rendered the greatest during Especially increased and teams in constant service, do dray inferior kinds. A auto trucks over one ton only their of and have enjoyed the smaller, surplus a and are inter period growth, the 174 cent-less than half as rapidly ing on tonnage basis, stable market of of inferior horses drags down, price per from a tho widest and most Furthermore, ested in the proposition solely on ones, so that every man" who as. the preceding ·period. horses ever good ' 1111.1' class of produced. increase of 2 cent in financial standpoint. . is horses has reason to there was an per the four years of war recently producing good "Tractor to draft horses "During 'the three-horse teams in the last year, competition have the thank any factor which materially reo and ended draft horsea brought with the statement of on farms is a newer dev.elopment, tards the of scrubs, even and this tallies. highest prices both here and abroad and �reeding has not yet reached its limit. The use have been most readily sold. Today of tractors will continue to increase �2 than they are bringing more money 'any to the limit of profitable replacement, be other class of horses and can always wherever that may be, and the· farm Bolt! some The then into a bal at price. only complaint power question will go not as heard is that they do ..bring high ance between tractors and horses," just n, other of price proportionately as products as in our cities. The proportion it has of the farm. This is true, but horses displaced on farms, however, will also been true of other farm' products be much less than in the cities, for there and it will do at various times in the past, .are many factors on the farm which be true in the future of other things not exisa in the city. to retard the use of has these \ than horses. Lack ship space of gas engine power units. Among for been the chief contributing factor, the more important are soft ground, when horses were worth' from two 'to lack of skilled mechanics, distance from as here th ree times as much in Europe repairs, and' the higher cost of gas, Qil all wr- could, not export them because and repairs. Horses also cost less, needed for II vnilable boat space was whether reared or bought, and are main and' munitions of war (including horses) tained' at a I!!uch lower cost, especially men We were in much feed. and provisions. as regards shoeing and the same situation as tiie wheat grow Increasing Draft Horse Efficiency millions of ('I'S of Australia, who, with "From a working standpoint the horse and in the tests hushels of grain iii. their granaries THE cut is here shown a six-horse team as-hitched being must be considered simply as an equine
a could this hitch the team is - world clamoring to be fed, not, made at the Illinois Experiment Station. In motor self-reproducing, self-repairing the nations for three horses walk in the fuel transport it to crying INstrung out in three pairs. When plowing, and capable of utilizing the pro bottoms were more chains and manu food, because ship furrow. The is by means of draw-rods, pulleys. duced on the farm. The tractor . pull equalized elsewhere. the of two six-inch urgently needed Today Behind the wheel team a block and tackle, consisting facturer seeks to maKe his machine as . same our for are threaded with a chain best condition retards trade, blocks with single pulleys, is used. The blocks efficient as possible by using the provisions must first to the Euro feet so as to divide the draft of theIoad -in its creation. He also seeks go -a ring in each end-four long, material pean nations that have had less than a attached to the free end of the line in a two-to-one ratio. The wheel team is to secure the most advantageous allowance of foods to ten-foot the other is avoid all needless loads lI,�l'Il1al necessary chain, and one of the pulleys to a draw-rod; pulley of draft, so as to Ilir. work in this the between the eliminate all Construction country attached to the plow. This arrangement balances pull or strains, and tries to ha: not farm work is the and breakdowns had time to start, two wheelers and the other four horses. The pull_between swing weak spots which may cause at the lowest of and feed end of the unit. point t'!le year, lead teams is equalized by a pulley attached to the draw-rod, or shorten the life of the power stllffs are The n¢; result is that for the lead team. should the same high. a second draw-rod being necessary ''Horsemen apply wants to of units cl't'ryone with surplusl.horses "Tying in" and "bucking back" is the secret of the simple system principles to their equine power sell, and are the near horse in make trade is stagnant, prices driving several teams. "Tying in" consists of tying in fact, must do so, if they are to hom 25 cent to 40 cent below an and per per each pair to tlie hame of the off horse with ordinary tie-strap, progress. true the world's forward learn to values, measured by tying of the off horse (the furrow horse) to the draw rod running "First and foremost we must Jlrcd for horses mules. Such is the to and to the next team. These tie straps should be just long enough permit hitch our horses to various farm- imple ]Jrrsent even at situation-yet today the horses to move straight forward when straightened out on a pull. ments in. such a way as to avoid side well-advertised farm be tied in at the , sale, bi.g. so�nd When correct lengths are obce determined a snap should draft, which has been a constant drag, �II.YIn ft wlll horses for work bring it is to it to the our in It ready proper point, so that in hitching up only necessary snap on power, especially plowing. goo(1 cash not as much as they been' attached to the horses. to hitch three or four prices; proper place after the neck yoke has is impossible in to other classes of R,hould, proportion "Bucking in" is done by taking a strap or rope ten feet long, placing horses abreast on a single bottom plow, that free. The with stock, but, nevertheless, prices a or buckle on each end and a on the strap running or four abreast on a gang plow; � I snap ring II,v� leave a when the cost of the this rides unless one of profit ends of this strap are snapped into the bit rings so that strap out creating side draft, consumed is \'educed a fair An the fC�'(1 they by the same as an ordinary check-rein but is slightly longer. ordinary the horses works on plowed ground. work have done allowance for the they is into the and then tied back to a welded on This much has been definitely demon , ring on the tie-strap snapped ring farm." called a "buck is strated the carried out , draw rod. The of strap," adjusted by in experiments' Mr. the length this, Dinsmore enumerated four main to into the season field test, and a snap then tied in at the proper point snap during the past by Professor as farmers and so that the. confronting on the draw rod. The'buck straps should be adjusted White of the Illinois Experiment Sta-, tOblcms at the trae ring bree�ers present time, horses will work freely, but be checked whenever they are .in danger of tion. The increase in traction due to :tlO�'se truck the �nd competition, increasing the chain back against the pulley whee1. side draft where four horses were en! of re drawing le.lency horses as power units, hitched abreast was 25 per cent, under d tIieir and llC,ll1g cost ot production (Continued on Page Nine) allltenance, a,�d the foreign demand. K AN SA S' \'PA R M E If' •••••••••••••••• •••••••••••.••••••••••••••••••••••••__ ·i
TUE FARM. l I rMECHANICS'�N.' I I Items of Interest'"'XDout Automobiles, '.: : I I Tractors and Motorcycles • Engines, I I ...... __ � The Farm Shop Engine Prices time. without a DON'T BUY an Engine at any HAVE a every Kansas good So, detracting shop-con natO yOU set my Big New Catalog whit from tile we are price would mean the utilization machinery show, latest on Gasoline aDd Kero. , farm ,aad olter on a real show of acts of much time 'that is now lost, going to put big Beae EJigbies, 2 to 80 B-P. Statioaary, Do dean of in the exposition building that it will Saw-Rls 'Or Portable. Casb or Terms says H. Umberger, acting IMMEDIATE SHIPMENT. Write me to come across three states the division of extension of our agrieul pay people �. Sure.-ED. JL :wI'l"rEo Pres. is a farmer to see." . tural college. Mr. Umberger wrr:rE ENGINE WORKS "he This and tractor exposition himself and knows whereof speaks. machinery 18020 A_.. Kan_ C� Me. which will be� held 11-15 will lEla ...... Stormy days on the farm are usually February 1802 ,I Ulklll'! 1!'1ttHtI be ·first show to use tM lost time as far as the men folks are the complete concerned, points out Mr. Umberger. On new million dollar exposition building
. It is Iive stock farms the stock requires 'a recently completed. admirably to the of such exposi greater amount of attention on these adapted holding can count on than it needs in good weather, but tions and visitors being days comfortable while in attend-, a of on other farms \ large percentage. thoroughly stormy days is lost. Time is also lost ance. on the farm in repairing tools and ma chinery during the rush season. Economy in Lu"rication On the farm where there is a work One-half of the troubl�s experienced it is to use the stormy shop. possible with farm machines could be obviated if to. in repairs. days advantage making were. to lubrica'tion. should be proper regard paid The farm shop large enough the This means, says F. A.' Meckel of to house machine that may need re any Missouri Oollege of .Agriculture, that A stove or other means of -heat pairs. not enough lubricants. must be used, should be provided. only ing but that must be of the right kind • A of and machine they .. supply carriage There can be no economy in using low bolts of the size' most apt to be used oil and grease, nor in applying should be in It bolt. rack in the grade kept the rna- lubricants in less quantity than \ shop, and should be boxesfor cot there eh ine requires. ters, washera, and extra nuts. A sup ATlY machine is entitled to the very of is essential to main- . ply these parts best of treatment. Without that its a farm taining good repair shop. is reduced, and this reduced of the should be efficiency One shop pro I\S . c,?rner is just the same in effect vided With a harness bench and efficiency equip needless in other direction, , any ment. Harness requires constant abten-. expense The more and valuable the complicated ' tion in the way of' sewing, riveting and I ,items of the farm equipment are, the greasing, better the care to which are en-, of the should they Another department shop bind farmer titled. Tractors, gasoline engines, be the pipe bench. Nearly every the· ers, and the like, should receive only must now do his own pipe cutting and best of, everything, including lubrica This does not require extensive fitting. tion, both in quantity and in quality. and it saves many dollars in equipment of automobiles are beginning to time. Owners learn the economy of an adequate use - "A farm shop equipped with only a' of lubricants, but they should not con moderate amount of tools cannot help fine the of this acquired a application being profitable proposition," says . knowledge to -their automobiles. Give Mr. Umbarger. "On most farms S••d POlltoel enoul{h each machine on the place a chance to lias' been on tools to equip money spent do its best. It can't have this unless a The general, practice, however, O·ATS shop. it is lubricated properly, A bath of the of storing tools' in different places and best oil. on a bearing once a day O:NION them to the field to do repair very carrying not the same as the same amount of needed results in a . work as it is large i,\ Oil distributed in parts to that SETS of tools lost or left in equal . number being at intervals of thirty minutes. SEED CORN' until. are and bearing exposed places they rusty the use of the Re This implies' judicious Red 'River Early Ohio No. '2, per bu.. , U.10 have become worthless: practically best oils that can To do •• buy. Red River Early Ohio No. I, per bu, 1.36 that have been tagged and money _ pair parts Early Six Weeks, per bu.. •..••.••.. : .1,36 else is 'economy. . machine any,thing Bliss Triumphs. Irish Cobblers, Rose, etc. hung on the shop wall or shed fal�e Fancy Red Texas Oats, per bu...... •'U.OO wall can be found when needed Several varieties Seed Corn. per bu.'.. $3.00 always condition. Parts for Catalogue FREE, Send tor It. and are in good Saving Coal,' that has finished its sea machinery or two HAYES SEED HOUSE, TOPEKA, KAN. just one suggestions,· BOOK son's work can be wired to the ma By using ON advocated by the United States Fuel chines the time there is oppor pending Administration for saving coal, one man DOG DISEASES to make the needed repairs." tunity has proved that not only coal but dol And How to Feed lars can be saved. actually Malled tree to so,. address � Wichita to Hold Tractor Sltow A consumer in Philadelphia has writ DSEEDS. AlII.rIOl'. tb',Author .OOD AS CAN 8. ten to the fuel administration telling' of GROWN For' seventeen years successful thresher Pioneer H. CLAY GLOVER Price. Be... All Oth.... sur CO., Inc., shows have been his experience. His house was or thresher and tractor' M.di.i... 118 Weat 311t Street, New Jor I will a new rounded on the northern and western DOl give lot,of held in Wichita. To the visiting thresh IOrta free with every order fields. By covering ermen, farmers, manufacturers, dealers exposures by open I fill. Buy and test. Return his heater with asbestos and hav and tractor men these have been great pipes If Dot O. 1t.-moDey refunded. all of the doors and windows events, even though out in the' open. ing . BAG FREE he was able CASH·�,R 81e e.blloe This for the first time the' show stripped _to keep Over year w:eather 700 llluI,tratloas of vea-e his ten-room house at a sensible tem Don't throw them a.way. Save the� and table. will be held under cover in a heated and flowera. Send youra ship to us. We'll pay you HIGHEST .nd on a total consumption of coal to your Delll'bbors' addresae.. building which. provides two acres of' perature MARKET PRICE. Get your neighbor for the winterl'of a, little more than four ship his ba�s with yours, E8tab1ls�ed 1870, RoIL SHUMWAY.1IocIIfGnI.1L .floor space. tons. FULTON BAG & COTTON. MILLS Last year the management on a _put a 'house His neighbor, having of the 500 S. Seventh St. -st. Louis, 1\10, big tractor and farm power machinery same size, declined to use the same parade two miles long led by a' big tank methods and his aggregate consumption with an old-fashioned calliope to bring of coal for the winter was fourteen tilns. the rear. This year they are plan tip an incentive Ripen •• .tltre, atr•• Will. not this be .' Machines rll.r, a Lincoln's birthday tractor a�ded Shearing ning big For tIocks up to 300 use Stewart No, 9 Ball Benrl -they stand up. A to' all householders to cover their pipes I bigger and farm and band operated, $14,00. For tIocks up we power machinery parade Machine, . Yielder acre than ever seen, per have win-. and all doors and Stewart Little Wonder. two po. with as weather-strip- 8000 use hprse A,'." •• Clov.r •..d. which say , •• Gr... peace pageant they tension magneto. two power sheurl .. dows? engine. bigh i hardy seed. Potatoes at- will all former -eff'orts Inri . west�m surance surpass machines and power ablLl'jlener-$l50, For - .wholesale pnces. this show will former flocks there are 8S many power ahearing Wilts DeliDloue T_l. eentll a and that surpass Apple eacb, operate on line shaft as Deeded. $50 per machl , feet. Golden WIn_; herdy every. shows as far as the farm machin A water that will a power system provide' Send for catalog. , . complete, wtab8ere; bears early. amau tralta, lfBrden class of of •••d. at this time surpasses that wholesome for use, FLEXIBLE SHAFT COJll1>ANl' . catalOI! ery supply family prove CHICAGQ :=at.'!.t:. Street and Central Avenue, ChlCl t�= ;�:ee in existence before the war serviceable for farm uses, be as nearly. Dept. 122, Twel1th IGUEIEIIEI IU machinery ••• lED .OW and manu .. _..._ ...... whipped up inventive' genius permanent as may be made, and cost facturing skill and put twenty years' the least, has been one of the four prin intensive effort into one' year's im- cipal utility problems of the average proved production. . farmer. The other three prime utilities But they don't stop there. They take of the farm home which constitute the show you right out to the docks and foundations .of safe, comfortable living, yo� car after car of machinery already according to the United States Depart bemg unloaded for this show and tell ment of Agriculture, are a complete you-show you, if you care to look over sewage-disposal plant and effective heat: the bills of lading-that it has been ing and lighting systems. coming in ever since Ohrtstmas by car loads and that enough is on the way to of make whole trainloads, and then they One of the most essential elements I as we can rea"ch on this add, "But that isn't all. These thresh such happiness earth lies in not too much time. ermen, farmers, dealers. etc., when they having HILTZ. c�e to Wichita will want to have a. -CARL Ad�eJ.tiaing :and BudDe.' EdltorlAlJ '- 0 Kansas , Offices, Tope)!.; OF KAN'SAS: "pAPER • ,.. i' _ THE FIftRM0" I lfemb8r Audit Bureau of W. Secretary imd Treasurer , Post Office President and Editor I:CODY, at T; A. BORMAN, - Entered Topeka .Associate , , , G., C. WiHEELB;R, �ditor eit�diAtiQD' S. E. COBB, Y.ice President Matter - : as Sec�nd Class ADVERTISING AGENCY E. KATZ SPECIAL ./ - ",.. REPRESENTATIV·ES: " , , ' , . ... ( • : I" Chicago: Harris Trust Bundlng ' ,. North . York: 16 Madison Square, PublicatioD In .New . Monadnock Olde-st :Agricultllral Mo.: 1402,�aldhelm Building San Francisco,: Bulld!1\1f � Xansaa Kansas City, �sa8 Published Weekly by Th� 'Three 'Years, U.OO. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One ;Yea�, $1.00: Farmer Com�any, at Topeka
.�----:-- QUI' ' ohttsiness want .• transacts a charity; if the is opened up great volume'· . fear , CONSTITUTION FOR XANSAS ,that questi'oit thousands of a fair chance. NEW in y:ear, saving . some would. be slipped add�ng during the. of. the a brand new,' constitu joker lin connection with this problem Only through to the farmer who is dollars to' its memJ)ef,s l"rgeJ'y through amendments additional burdens we would ii' calle. � of farm disabled .urge . ion 01' by making many his share of the distribution sol<1iel', than b�y.�g'and" Kansas carrying more bulk. on nine constitution" can already "ful of the __a�icle, page, o the present load. This attitude is products, reading taxation . ii? the reforms necessary.if we the this .of this issue -and particularly !ou ring about for the action taken The 'jltate. cenvention of organ- responsible or relative to forward in, our development. probably its have a fri�nd' returnin�"in re go State where the question ization, through delegates. represent. assertion at the Grange, the 'incapacitated for doing W'!.i'IIIII-'''''''. c round this ge{leral <,1overnor answered without ing practicall:y: all the 169als in state,. � any way met and, ' ad- had to be � at before he, ...... _... JIen 'delivered a most conviacing to demanded' government .ownership' and he was employild opportunity , Our. three four hundred dele 'th� delegates, having and 'one- of our fighting men� ress to the 91' in all its details. management, of railroads intel'etate Farmers' the problem taken to mee in attendance at the study the and opposed ment has steps atcs We understand the proposal of public utilities, absolutely convention in last week., how- r ation, thl} oI'ganizat' Top.eka ' ,through nion Union to on the unlversal-mllitary training; urging, farm is reo- Farmers' get toge1:her Federal .Board for :Vocatronal in . . he increase tenantry which the ever, that all the schools provide physi- and' essential legislative points will Wncle Sam all 'as a: serious problem, - 'education. The Not gliized by is reo cal training and league. only - that farmers demand being favorably lor 'his, soldl .sa�· he Governor maintained only There of nations idea wa!' endorsed, Speedy cational,tr:ainlng ceived the other organizations. who have be a in -our taxation sys by was es- and, marines, s� hrough change or federated demobillzatldn of troops urged, is no reason why a jo�nt sickness and di- em which would discourage 'speculative be the of -boys who through W-Qunds, committee should not immediately pecially releasing farlll fi make it for the in the weeks rect causes of the waf, and iolding of land. easy to the are so mUQh needed at home and legislature . for a present for but .he will pay t man to buy and pay farm, organized and months The legislative com- ploy.ment them, oung united front. ahead, 811'& of a' a w-hilll they.- nd for 'the farmer retiring age mittee's as adopted follows: Ilbera] monthly salary easy _ _ _ report In this menace of this training. takinlt,this o seJI, could tenantry PROHIBITION First-We are opposed to the prevail- undergoing NATIONAL . one is not admlnistra- course the United States has' gori�, e checked.. The tenant }l!.ckjt;!g the to centralize In almost record-breaking- time ing tendency other nation in 'sensibilities of citizenship, or further than any in the finer ratified the prohiblt- tive powess in bureati commtssioners step: to Kansas legislature f but because he, is uncertain as the to the' peo- the world. constitu- responsible " amendment to the federal ,only indirectly States Gov· he cannot do the things ory "Not 'Only is the United future manyof of action seems to be pIe for their authority. title to the tion. This sort the ie would do if he possessed Union Second- the so- pr?viding fo�' l'e.e,�uClition the in every state in the �e hav� ex!!,mined ernmen� he tiIfs.-"'trnder the plan style of and training of her erdppled soldIer!! and nnd present convene and called tentative Ieglslattve program as their legislatures organ- more, 'he farmer' taxes on all' he "owns Kansas State Teachers' Association. sailors on a vastly larger -and pays As we write, the count the Governor ize for business. scale than other countl'Y," and all he owes," said Allen, our enactment of this complete any-' states in the column ratifying In judgment ,the correct this is forty 'Dr. C. P. director' of the "and there is no way"'·.�o states into law would deprive 'the said Prosser, the amendment. Of the remaining program mota..-> without a in our over Federal "but it has done double taxation change concede farmers of Kansas of all 'COntrol Board, in the the friends of prohibition only Federal Board for Vocational 'E(lu·, constitution which was adopted the -their own rural schools, and we are of The • one to the "wets." Like winning when there were only two its cation is ered to pay a disa'!>led days long ago
• Work Together In Reconatrucrion hiterests. the most must be in need of organized effort in thing -that they are impressing on us because of their commercial modern equipment We have been known in the as our hands-with which to our keeping pace with the world there this week is how to get at the past perform now we are and the and the on the about us was urged upon the enemy quickly and get at him in a vital producers of raw materials; tasks, boys girls ORE be the consumer across the farm must not to feel 'The last to the Kansas' State But we have read article after to known to grow up . delegates spot.' be a' Grange by S. B. Haskin of Olathe in article about how kind and tender those water as producers of both raw mate thing on earth I want to do. is to addressing the conference at its first boys at the front were not only to their rials and manufactured articles. farmer.' How many boys and girls I interests are to raised on the farm have session. While addressed to Grangers, comrades, but to the enemy when. placed "If these commercial that feeling I . be built what are 'we to of those to of the ideas expressed apply to all those in their power. So I say America has up, say when they get up twenty years I engaged 1n agricultural production. given the lie'to the world which said interests which furnish the food, the age! And how many of us have to get, "The which are before us we lived for the dollar. shelter, and the clothing of mankind? up to thirty-five and forty and some problems � almighty score before today," said Mr. Haskin, "are the prob "The problems of this country are not We must keep pace with the world times up to three and ten lems of reconstruction. I hear people only the problems of the giving of em about us and we cannot do that by indi we realize that we made a mistake and � We must work in con best for wondering, 'W"hat will' we do with the ployment, but the furnishing' of food vidual effort. the opportunities development some uniform and are on the farm where we were boys when they come home" The ques and clothing and supplies not only to formity with plan, right across that is the reason individuals in born raised! tion seems almost preposterous to me, America but, to the people the 25,000 and be the State of Kansas are combined in 466 when .there is so much that needs doing, water. Many things are going to ''We have come together to consider are tasks on farm We make that subordinate What a power if' when there every changed. many things granges. the part which we are to take as farm are not done because there is no we never of before. we work and in some specific which thought making together ers in the reconstruction Not we now period. one there to do them. say women The 'Made in no plan under such leadership as They mark, Germany,' longer that our interests are different from have. We must abreast of the are the of men and when appeals to a purchaser. 'Made in keep taking places those our brothers in the must do our of who live the men come home there will be .idle America' is taking its place. When we times. We farming-the is to us-not but we 'must dovetail those inter ness. Idleness is dangerous, because. entered the war 85 per cent of American specific job that assigned city, as our but because our interests are where there is idleness there is crime, commerce was carried in Japanese bot it was done by forefathers, ests together, we methods and these boys perchance may turn into toms, manned by Japanese crews, om must design some better the interests of our brothers. Where from to and to Com -the ways of crime. cered by Japanese officers. Only 2 per day day year year. there is a man working at a job that one we must remem cent our commerce before the merce is not what it was a decade "There is thing of foreign ago. can be dispensed with without any loss been schooled and war was carried in American bottoms Themail service is not what it was a ber. These boys have to humanity, dispense with that job and trained in how to but never before manned American seamen and offi decade ago. Just the other day' aero kill, by set that man at some useful work. Let in the history of the world have there cered by American officers. We have planes were mapping out mail routes us instill it into our and to over boys girls, followed into the training camp the in 'been building ships. Those bottoms the country. We must keep pace. out some that needs fluences that followed the boys into this which we have been building are going "The foundation of all our prosperity, pick job doing, must firm and must be whatever it and then do that war. The' Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., to carry the commerce of America. We agriculture, keep may be. we as a must not well and and all the kindred organizations car are entering the commercial world. adequate, and people job remarkably enjoy them the ried the spirit of home' into the camps. America will develop a larger, bigger become top-heavy. The best roads must selves in doing it, and we will have our best homes and the chil One boy came home from a training field of commercial activities than na go past homes, the opportuni happiest happiest ties must come to the farmer's dren that God ever mankind." camp and said to me, 'Sam, the only tions which in the past have been known children, gave � .,. el,
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r K.A K S�A ., S January 25, 1,,19 Farme�' Week at 'Manhattan JIO. . the one to be Home week at the be given by B'arrJ: and agri- a on the subject, "The lkind, ·o( cultural coDege' b!DgB together, Nair.' that the high dollar oh the hundreds of farm. people from all horse; brings market." Mr. McNair 1s a memo [lARM Kansas. gather-: opea over ,.This year's, because ber of the ,firm of El1swdd'h' & McNair, will be of unusual interest ing has IDOre horses the C�o, that "ongbt of the Importanee of problems grow- than any otl!er firm in the country. out of the war. The dates ,this 'Tear ing P. of will 3 to 8. ,.--. A. Coon, £.incoln. N'eI!raska; are Febmarj a for and state of lU8OciatiOD8 ,will meet at present plan iovemment A number which merits eoDegii durlDg Farm ,and aid to the 1!orse 'breeder, the agricultUral of horseman ,in the of these are the Kan- the' support every Home week. SO�e the the state. Such aid can be secured by .As8ociation, ' saa Cro� Improvem�nt interested in rais- Horse Breeders' united effort of those State Association. Dairy better horses. Plan to attend thiS Association, Sheep Bl'eedera' Associa· ing and with this progreSsive and Improved Live Stock Breeders. meeting help tion, . will also movement. The Kansas Potato Growers that A--number of Kansas breeders will. re hold their anDUSI eonferenee at late their in raising pure cream atation short experiences time. A opemtors" :will bee bred horses. One in particular pre course and a ahort eourse for keep- " &ent showing :that the pm:e-br� are two of the special features. figures ors line on & aD horses he ;raises aa a side gen" programs along agn- ' Specialized eral farm have r.eturoed & greater Det awl! -offered each for.eiloon cultural lines - incom.e than all the r.emainder of his the winters the'most e)ljoyable'patt _ until ll'o'clock. 'At, thia hour eaeh day ��e 'ong farm openati,ons combined. He haa had all wiD gatb� in the big auditorium, from Canada, the' Pacific, ofFarm life .IDEAL-AMERICAN where special programs will be giTen inquiries by ins�l1ing the and even the' horse which will interest every person in 'at· Coast', Sout!', centers of Iowa. and TIlinoia. in house. You will be surprised tendance. There will also tie evening railling "Heating your man has otbers can do. one What this done, '8- seselona in the _ditorium, each hav- and house can be changed into matters affecting materially, how quickly easily your a special program. Several ing the horse situation in Kaneas will be and easy'c::are parenta will 'bring their boys HOME with this comforting,�, Many at this meeting. Every horse and to take part in the various presented _girls the future Burns fuel. . Never wearsoutand makea offered the' col- Dian that, is intereSted'n. �oJ1tfit. any contests and games by - welfare, of his business should plan to , your home the of your neighbOrS: lege. be to adjust these matters the coziness envy Music will be one of the entertaining present help o� in' such a', manner that the progressive features on each evening program. Che'B� horsemen of the state m�y be protected H _ ter H.' Guthrie, music direetor, Camp IDEAL-AMERICIdI ...... and encouraged in the work of building Funston, will ecmduct a "community liDRo�.. da. Fana IbeIf 'or It bred horse business of the take a up the pure- in which every ODe may y whole ...." and sing" � . state and make Kansas rank third 'in AMF�1fAN keepa-th. part., of and well as in quanti�y pure U coDteDteL '---. On February 4 Dr. W. M.. .Tar,dine will quality 1i�IAIORS' :IDfAL�BOIL£� of the Kan- bred horses. be inaugurated as president held the the This meetmg will be during loan to make this im sas AgricultUral College. Among Banks will Illoney Farm and Home Wee� at the Agricul· on the program are many of because it is pennanent, worth speakers thus horsemen an provement from out of the state tural College, giving great prominence stock mote than"itcestsand you always get b�ck opportunity to attend other liv.e and in it. besides ! tba. will be held that ita firstcoat if sell or lease. advertising this meetings during you unique, pOsters ' f Very week. of fuel. There' week haTe 'been prepared and sent out the'bjg y�ly savings b The e. new seene bum fuels in over the state. poster, is no need to high priced - admin Breedera" in blue and White, represents the Stock Meeting mEAL Boilers. istratron with In is the -buiJding aglow lights. February 6, day given " s Thursday, is a man with wife and Live Stock � thc foreground over to the Kansas Improved Put in tbislow-coat children ,trudging through the falling Breeders', �sociation for ita annual SIlOW toward the An arc light w1iich will be held at Manhat_' building. meeting, ' heating N'OWI with arrow to K. S. A. C. The Home Week. points tan Farm and not neces dnring Putin any bouse. Water pressure label below "The Beacon Light the oldest li.ve stock asaoeia proclaims This is CeDar W, not eaaential-aet mEAL -that leads to better farms and homes." been an im sary. . , in the tion state. baving Boiler in aide room or "1eanto:" the factor in improving quality him to portant Call up your dealer today end uk Association of Kansas live stock for nearly forty mEAL Dairy Meeting give you an estimate for inltallinl It is an assoeiatfon that appeals - years. AMERICAN this week. It can be The Kansas State Dairy A,ssociatian, stock as beating to all classes of live prodncers, or Our IDEAL Bot of which William H. Newlin, of Hutehin IDB AL Bollen done in. a few daya in any kind buildinp not centered. around one . ita. interest is the son, is will hold its annual is wiD � ample without disturbing family. president, breed .or one class of live stock, It :'."WiII�Ps:r; at Manhattan 5. There heat OD olle eIIa,,- ll1;-eting February association for the purpose an organized eoa' 'ar 8 to our Free Book, eatrulh::'::i Will be an beginning in irrII tI/ Send for Heatiq all·day program of a greater interest in bet .toek at .man. coet the' encouraging 24 hour., depaul a af "Ideal r,. the at 8 :30. w. want "ou., to la". COP"., 01 lew doDan moruing Following ter live stock of kind. every OD of _ la e I lor__ president's address Dr. T. J. Eagle of in Iq aeverit)' Heatlaa." It ._Into the .ubject "...,. This program is particularly Temperature. II:� AJiimal will dis. year's weather. Bvery and ..... 'YOU OU8lat to the Bureau of Industry of national pletel'Y 'You thiatra jUlt ri&ht by sil teresting. Speakers reputa 0UDCe 01 fuel Ie cusa the "Federal Accredited bow about laeatiq 'Your Ia-. PDta 'YOII subject, tion have been secured. Frank Tomson, .ade to JIeIcl ute E. _ no to err:. ,C:ett Herds." H. spe ..... �atio. bur. , �ai�y Dodge, dairy of Lincoln, Nebraska, will apeak upon �nI8ulta. Clalist of the extension will division, "The Outlook for the Beef Producer." on bull cluDe.. 'The busi. speak pure·bred M. Rommel, U. S. Department of ...4 ness session will be at 10: 15. The meet· George Agriculture, WashingtOn, D. C., upon --= will for the assem. �=:.�� AaCAN�IATORCOMPANf ing adjourn general "The Live Stock Situation as I· Saw It at 11, which win be addressed on St. bly in Europe"; W. A. McKerrow, of that Charles H. Huffman, lieu. day by Paul, Minnesota, on' "The Importance -���.���������- governor, officer of the Robert t.enant presidin� on the Average Farm"; State and W. P. Lambertson, of'Sheep Senate, IllinoiS, will speak upon at 2 Evans, Chicago, speaker of the !fouse. Beginning Pork Producer Y" Dean treated It is Dot un in "What About the half well cured corn fodder without eara and accordingly, o'clock in the afternoon the followma.. to reo Ilr the "Con· common for a skilled o};Jerator F. D. Farrell, of college, upon almost' as as -cattle - addresses will be made great gains �e given:' and E. L. Bar· store five out of six cases to Ii repro· servation of Pastures," corn, and alfalfa for all their "The Influence of II! Prepotent Dairy receiving favorable conditions. at rier, Eureka, Kansas, upon "The Impor. ductive state under C. H. of roughness. should be soll1 a' �ull," Eckles, professor dairy tance of the Beef Cow on the Average Cases of lang standing mg, of fails to ' University Missouri, Columbia, Farm." to the buteher, as the treatment Indus Kansas, and Abortion Di�ase ' ']Sl Mo.; "Tbe Future of the Dairy Sterility case of more than 19, help, them. A eight W. A. extension special. think would be at is ofl �ry," McKerrow, Breeders' Meeting "I it appropriate months to on� years standing very {I of Mimtesota St. Paul Sheep that the - ' , out ct, IS�, University , this time point clearly to tbe operator, for he real· has ' to. discouraging , Mlnn ; "Th e Use 0f Cow Asso· An program as well as the have taken' e· � .' Testing exceptionally good act of presence that functional , izes changes ." for the annual of, ,Il:bortmg and Bull Clubs in Increasing been prepared meeting of are each a of abor that re clatl?nS sterility symptom place in the reproductive organs E. V. Kansas Breeders' Association "abortion" rid Pr?fltable Production," Ellington ' the� Sheep tion disease. The name only will be difficult to correct by treatment. C. be held at the daIry division" Washington, D. which will Agricultural that the fetus has been expelled Therefore do not aD ani nt Week. implies delay having will then and Farm and Home, mother's but a dis- in the ,re ,�he meeting adjourn College during from the, uterus, mal examined and treated beg!n· VISIt the herd. the are W. A. McKer- uterus or the college dairy , Among speakers -eased condition of the , of the �uble instead of waiting in live stock extension, ninlf. row, specialist fetus is for the act, and fur too late. The annual loss 'er responsible unttl it is St. Paul, Minnesota; same Horae Breedera' p'niversity Farm, thermore this disease-producing caused sterility would be surpris n Meeting for by Charles Herren, sheep salesman Clay is for in- could be made The organism responsible sterility, ingly high if a survey 'ot annual meeting of the Kansas & The date of this and udder and Robinson Company.- flamma.tion of the uterus accurate data obtained from the Breeders' Association will be held and ,m !Ionle at 9 a. m. C. meeting is February 6, ovaries,", says Dr. L. Kigin, cattle breeders of our state. Manhattan 5. Dr. d W. cystic he Ii'e�ruary veterinarian of the Purdue University h� of the associa. secretary Feed staff. ' �r· Alfalfa Still .profitable ex_tension , �,[cCampbell,,Ion, lias a of unusual State of New York had fur arranged, program In herds where ahortion disease If th'e Lre "In to as to whether an many not only to horsemen but to reply inquiries cent of nished soldier sent over8e&S by to fatten cat is present, from five to ten per every !rc ;!lterest,stock farmers attempt should be :rp.ade the number of men generally. become sterile or barren and the United States, on account of its the cows lat IV� M. Rommel of the Bureau of tle without alfalfa, have been no in propor· �eorge cases become chronic or would greater A and the Animal Hus· most permanent )ss nlmal Industry; United States Depart- Scarcity high price, tion to the state's popUlation than en of the of unless they are treated' by a qualified of who was a member bandry Department University from the little conn nd Agriculture, veterinarian. Dr. W. L. Williams 6f the listed voluntarily o even at $30. a; ,n�e�t commission appointed to invellti. Nebraska says alfalfa, of Scotland. The more we leal'll of ,et h� form New York Collegll is to be try te live will is still a comparatively cheap Veterinary the less in �tock conditions in Europe, ton, the of what our Allies have done, to ��e and it will to feed it, given credit for plan procedure first hand information ,of roughness, pay clined we will be to of our in regard Fatten in these cows, The treatment' brag part rig, In s�nt horse seas. at least in limited quantities. handling menace to �e situation 'across the too after the great world lat 18 need alfalfa for all should not be neglected long destroying T�' IS a matter of vital interest to the cattlc do not nations. ' ing manifests this A freedom-loving m horse as an the cow symptom. raiserso.f Kansas and horse· their roughness, however, experi. every examination of the patient is ;he Ina should ment at the Nebraska station thorough hear Mr. Rommel. performed either know, is a prayer-BAYMlD to locate the trouble in Labor, you • lil· \ fed corn with half of necessary ;:.nother address that should be beard showed. Cattle TAYLOR. other the ovaries or fanopia,n tubes, _. . 'the uterus, by every horse raiser in the state will their roughness alfalfa and '6 I r�� Ka,.a.' Meat Product�on , ,- ( , ...,. , 'Decline. '/ will' probably be a falling off in the, mcat production of . Fir.I-�Th' ,lilde'st�··The Kansas Those The. Large.t the coming year. -'O,lIERE. familiar with the conditions have I.N THE WORLD been predicting tbis result, and now re ports coming tOethe State �B';lI�,rd of Ag'
riculture bear' out this' of , e;tp'ression \ tractor man-every _ Every farmer-every thresherman-every opin'ion. Responding to the�urgent pleas hardware dealer-every sa1esman--every of the 1food, Administration:. "and other machinery dealer-every roads Interested oigl;tnizations;t1Nr�,greater pr,-o blaeksmith-every service man-every good advocate--every made effort to 'on who eats bread-everyone c!uctions, fl;trl.Jle�s lvl'ty one depending farmers-everybody' ' increase the' supply of pork in' 1918'. In who enjoys "a time"--:..come to the this they' succeeded, though at a loss to themselves, The high-priced fattening EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL ,grains fed into the 1918 pig crop failed to, meet a corresponding increase in the :Show prlee of pork at the markets. The ef Mid-West Traetor-Thresher 'forts ,of the Food AdlI!inistratiQn to ,m,aintain the ratio of the value of thir Wlchlt., ,K..,., 1�, 12;13,14, 15, '19 teen,bushels of corn to a hundred pounds .Feb. of forced farmers to take a lower pork I Mammoth LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY TRACTOR PARADE a reward for 'efforts to price -II-S' their ana PAGEANT OF PEACE. Watch for honest Old Abe, an increase the of this supply necessary allegory of 'wartime manufacturing genius converted into commodity. The depressing effects of food and feed for peacetime farm power machinery to supply these to will losses, according reports, the nations of earth. A year means an age in farm in the I result in decreased pork production are a behind-if "" development. If you year 1919. power machinery . The are this year behind-you are an age behind, inven-j Estimates of you correspondents reporting tive skill, intensive thought of twenty the Board of show that genius, manufacturing ..,. to' Agriculture concentrated into one effort years have all been year's were on hand. November 23, 19IR, th!,!l'e achievement-e-output, and all will be exhibited under one roof \ l,296,549 hogs, as compared with 1,467,- combined with a real show on a real stage---'a show it will pay 082 on hand March 1918. This Wichita's MILLION DOL- hogs I, you ,to go across three states to see-In is' Ja decrease of. 1 1.6 per cent. Six hun LAR EXPOSITION BUILDING-500 feet front-two acres of floor acres of educa- dl!ed' and thirty-three farmers out of space-two acres of machinery and people-forty tion' and enjoyment-a hundred thousand acres of prosperity for every owner 899 state that for the at the marvels of after repor.ting prices of a patch of farm land who takes a look In Improved as to machinery. '19.18 pigcrop have been such de- war farming as now made possible by road building In hat. Don't the da te-Februaey 11, _ Cut this out. Paste It your forget creaSe pork production. " 1919. Don't forget the place-Wlchlt_1n �an8a8-the largest the "How will the 12, 18, 14, '15, Asked question, wheat growing state-the state that makes farm power machinery Its main number of saws bred for the 1919 spring' show and n'ot a side show-where the farm meets the power-where Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas 011 fields meet .. Kansas, :pig crop compare with the number of Oklahoma and Texas wheat fields and refineries and Kansas. Oklahoma and Texas rarmcrs meet In grand bred for the 1918 fami sc.iws spring pig crop," conclave and meet the farm power m,achlnery men and all bring their cent" there for the eorrespondenta estimate ,75 per lies and have a good time together. Have you been past ' - This means that the sfwi-ng crop of next elghteen years? and all the other seventeen. year is � likely to be 25' per cent less You'll find this year ec11pslng surpassing 'Have missed this in the past? hardly miss It this year. Write t;h,an 'the spning- pig crop of 1918. The you :You'l}, ii��ses for this situation" are Iaid chiefly ,to 'unfavorable market prices and to The Wichita Tract.r lid Thre.her �igh'prices of feed, partleularly corn . CI'I�J lic.,,,,ate.
. There has been a similar dropping off for 'full Information. in beef cattle. On March I, 1918, there were on hand in Kansas '2,239,717 beef cattle, and on November 23, IlnS, the number had dropped to 2,133,920�a de 'crease of 4.7 per cent. The shortage of WANTED. SITUATION - this year is undoubtedly . feeding crops for the smaller' number of WANTED-WORK ON STOCK FARM BY responsible experienced mario Address Jack Strong, cattle .in market. Kansas Mo, liilef preparation' _for' 2521 Prospect Ave.. CIty"� It is but natural that short' and Classified crops Advertisin.g "1lnfavorlJ.b:le pniees should be reflected on REAL ESTATE. farms a' smaller number of \, 'AdvertlSlng "barcaln �UDt:;i... Thoullands of people have 111l,rplull IteDlll of'IItook �ansas by - RENT A GOOD FARM. 'T. J. sale-limited In or to extensive dl.pl..y animals. FOR for amount numbers hardly enough justify meat-producing Getzr Hope, Kansas. advertising. Thousandll of other people want .to buy thes. same things. ',!these Intending buyers read the elas,sltled "adB"-lookln. for bargains. �oar adverilH_* SALE-EIGHTY ACRES IMPROVED FOR here reach.. over 80,000 farmer. for 5 '_" a word per week. No "ad" taken for land near Purcell, Doniphan County, Kansas. le.s than 60 cents. All "ads'" set In uniform no ..y. Initials and numberll style, dlspl " Learn to Eat Mutton Address F. L. Schneider, Box 464, Albu count as words. Address counted. 'a1wa,.. cash with order. , Terms, querque. New Mexico. We should learn to likemutton. WANTED 25 will inaertell Sheep . SITUATIONS, ads, up, to. wordll, Including addreslI, bll 'on farms. are free from most of the infectious dis CATTLE. free of char.e for two weeks, ,for b,on& fide seekers of em�loyment -easgs found in other animals. The home consumption of mutton and lamb must FOR SALE - REGISTERED GUERNSEY of females. R. C. Krueger, Burlington, Kan. be increased if a pernianent program AGENTS WANTED HORSES AND MULES. Ii' sheep and wool productlon is SPLENDID AYRSHIRE 'BULL READY greater and W. for service, a grandson of Jean Armour .AGENTS-MASON SOLD 18 SPRAYERS to be maintained, says C. Coffey, Wald FOR SALE-ONE COMING FIVE-YEAR oock-a-benrue.. $300. L. E. Johnson, and Autowashers one Saturday; profits $2�50 Illinois old Percheron stallion: one seven-year-old sheep specialist in University. ron, Kansas. each; square deal; particulars free. Rusler Percheron one slx-months-old filley: a Ohio. mare: The idea' that these meats possess Company, Johnstown, All Ca SHORTHORN BULL-OUR HERD BULL, one, slx-months-old -stanton colt. flavor" is seldom true under Will bonds In ,"woollY Orange Sultan, Scotch-topped (red)', quiet, AGENTS-MAKE A DOLLAR AN HOUR. sino bred. accept Liberty Carl Route 28, Topeka, Over an excellent and sure breeder. for payment, Snyder, methods of good size, ' Sell Mendets, patch instantly , production, patent present-day Palmer, Kan, -!- ,three-fourths of the marketed to Molyneaux Bros., mending leaks m all utensils. Sample pack sheep ' age free. Collette Manufacturing Co., Dept. , - THE STRAY LIS.,... day consist of lamb, and a more palat FOR SALE OUR WHOLE HERD OF 103, Amsterdam, N. Y. forty-four head of registered Holsteins. Will able and of meat OF easily digested piece sell whole herd or Individuals, Also several OUR REPRESENTATIVES MAKING $5 TAKEN UP-BY F., A. ,JOHNSON, of the fine Blue Township, Pottawato cannot be produced. Aged sheep grade Holstein calves, finery marked, per day and up selling Kansas Farmer on Garrison, Valley, mle Kansas. one cow, color red with are never Individuals, at $22.50 each7' M,arcus Knllans, special proposition. Write today for par County, wool breeds practically cut out of purely Box J, Whitewater, Wis. ticulars, Address Circulation Manager, white face, left ear off; piece the block and it is from the ear. at J. B. Clay· sold over Kansas Farmer Company, Topeka, Kansas. right Appraised $80. consumption' of this type of sheep that HIGHLY BRED HOLSTEIN CALVES� well: County Clerk. either 15-16th pure, from heavy milk 'the old-time has sex, SEEDS, prejudice grown. ers, five' to Beven weeks old, beautlfuU, marked. crated and delivered to any FINISHING. $25, - PHOTO Send SEEDS SEND FOR OUR NEW 1919 sta tlon, ellpress charges paid here. catalogue 'free. Hayes Seed House, Topeka, orderll or write. Lake View Holstein Place, Kan. TRIAL ROLL DEVELOPED AND SIX More Wisconsin. To Get Egg. Whitewater, prints only 25c silver. Reed Studio, Dept, Do not overcrowd; do not keep the SEED CORN':'_ THE 90-BUSHEL KIND. C, Norton. Kansas. select. enormous yielder. While It and corns are Very fowls in close, ventilated build bumble-foot, Neb. poorly Scaly leg, lasts. bushet, $4. Wiltse, Rulo, SEEDS AND NURSERIES. Ings. aU too prevalent in the average poultry OATS-FANCY RED TEXAS. SEND FOR Do not immature or weak birds the of professional keep yard. Even yards sample. $1 per bushel. Hayes Seed House, SUDAN G R ASS ,SEED, NORTHERN in the houses with the others; breeders are not free from "them. The Topeka, Kan. grown, free from Johnson grtlss, 20c per or freight Do not the fowls in houses that condition of the feet of the birds should pound, ba'gs free, postage, express keep SEED CORN-VARIETIES ST. CHARL:ES extra. White Sweet 'Clover, scarified, SOc. are infested with lice and mites. have consider-ation in selecting breeders. White, Reed's Yellow Dent, Gold Medal Alfalfa, $8 per bushel and up. Order early, satisfac Do not expect tonics and dopes of While it is true that the prevalence' of Yellow; $4 per bushel. Frank Crosby, Bel Supply short. Quality guaranteed vue, Kansas. tory. Henry Field, Shenandoah. Iowa. various .kinds to, take the place of foot troubles is largely due to unsani houses and proper care. tary conditions in poultry AUTO TIRES. HOGS. yards, it is also true that there .are very - OLD great differences in the reaistanee of AUTOMOBILISTS, ATTENTION. TWO POLAND CHINA BRED SOWS, With tires $2.50 to $3. Retreaded tires ou t Bar eggs, bringing exceptional prices individual birds to the attacks of such retreaded, three, bred gil ts, Closing quick. to for sale. $5 and $6. All tires guaranteed gains:' Frank Barrington, Sedan. Kansas. the of the poultryman is get Milford object as the mite, and that 2,500 miles. Write for particulars, num pests scaly leg Kansas. hens to the possible Tire Co .. Milford, his lay largest some birds contract bumble-foot where Retreadl'!g ber of at a minimum of HONEY. eggs expense, , others a�e free from it. TOBACCO. to this end is to - and.one way gain keep DELICIOUS, LIGHT - COLORED, EX the feet of bens warm, A. S. tracted gathered our own bees says Smith, LEAF TOBACCO, PURE AND UNADUL":. honey by Draw now for See from alfalfa and sweet clover. Guaranteed .of the division at Univer plans your garden'. terated. Sent to consumers exactly as' It .head poultry Can containing, 60 pounds, $15,26; Minnesota. "Hens with cold that the grown in one corner leaves farmer'. hands. Fine smoking and l2!lre. Farm, vegetables case of two cans, $30. You pay freight. srty this time. chewing. Prices, 50. 45 and 40 cents pound, Mr. Smith. last year are in another place Frank H, Drexel, Crawford, Colorado. feet db not lay," adds prepaid by parcels post. Tw,o-pound sam A will more "Frozen ground, snow and mud make plan help you get space ple, $1. Duke Bros., Dresden, Tenn. feet. A floor in the hen house when it comes to planting, and larger DOGS. cpld dry MISCELLANEOUS. :with from four to inches of straw crops later. ei'ght DACHSHUNDE KENNELS WEIDMANN scratch in which the hens may constantly $1.00 (POSITIVELY CASH) FOR EVERY shell. G. R. Rudolf, R. F. D. No.1, Cuba, MO. Put at table a from white will not only keep the hen's feet warm your guest name you send us of parties having a little sweet" clover (threshed or unthreshed) that AIREDALES, COLLIES AND OLD ENG. France. You can do it . will to insure health, by eating Your and but help good. we can buy ow or later. Be first. IIsh Shepherd.. Pupa, grown dogs less and what would Seed Com Instructive list. 5C. which' is essential to egg pro by saving you, name not mentioned. Standard brood matrons, Jjarl'e absolutely Box Oakland, 10\\' ,1. duction." waste. pany, Eureka, Kansas. W. R. Watson, 128, FORUM
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' Chains of mad,1! INDERGARTEN is often :pape� a.re by slipping training another and one short strip within pas�. begun at home unconsciously by its the ends. Colored may be al· both 'mother and' child, 1;t lias ing strips with the white that have in the' answers to the ternated strips beginnfug been saved from rolls of narrow ribbon. familiar to every motll.er, rst questions out is this 1" Coloring with crayons, cutting pic' ch as "Mother, what. color' tures and are all kindergarten are there 1" "Which is my pasting ow many activities' can be carried at hand 1" "Which is heavier 1", ,that o� . ght home. will take a little time to ... If mother ... A in which pictures of with her children, the first questiQri" blank-book lay of furniture have been pasted for eacll' color can be made the nucleus. bout house that I have Let the child rmd some- 'room of a give delight Iittlc game. the which seen last all summer. How of the -same .eolor as that ea�erly ling are then ill' advertising pages in magaames rst Interests him,' 'something bath count searched for the kitchen cabinet, ach of the six standard colors; crib or bed! How articles found; classify them I1s tub, parlor suite, ie selected are cut-- or and carefully the, pictures mooth or rough, heavy light, ' and on the " pasted proper page! ° on. .' forms With a hat box as .the frame for a' In the same way the- three type doll house, and cardboard partitions f solids-the sphere, cube and cylinder articles four rooms, 8..: ehild's 'interest an be shown the child, and making and attention be occupied for sev- round the house classified 'as cubical may .BAKING PO""QER, are certain of 'best results-light, tasty, ;;;;;:;;;:""'you no loss; wholesome cakes, biscuits, etc. There is' pies, and tender. Calumet moist . , made With stay fresh, Things � powder�ld Calulrtet is a perfectly manufactured, baking lesS than priced trust brands. It is at a moderate price. It costa high' kiild. Try it. more ecQDOmical to use thaD the cheap bigociul And save a lot bOth ways.
as have been officially' Calumet contains only such ingredients approved by the U S. Food Authorities. , HIGHEST. 2��
the bottom to use when" turning up E. coats or men's trousers.-CHARwTTE CARPENTER, Colorado Agricultural ,Col· LEARN TELEGRAPHY lege. YOUIlll men and wOlDen attend GIl credit. A. practloal .chool with ...uro.d Steak � Spanish r s,�eL.an��ai":okll¥; • r.r: into for servo ,165 PER MONTH. Write for catal... Cut round steak pieces' SANTA ing, roll in' barley flour and brown in a ��H\��EGRKPH casserole TO,llla,.Ke... small amount of fat. Place in with brown f or saucepan, cover gr.avy and cook until tender, about one-half hour. The house can be fum BROWN GBAvY.-Brown one small on·, ike the cube or round like the eral, montbsv" block, from the flour in a bar Ished as to a-nd rugs ion and four tablespoonfuls phere or ball, or cylindrical like occupants while curtains can be made fat. Add one cup el. The size of objects should also be. magazines,' thre� tablespoonfuls from lace used stewed one. of oted. for the windows paper ful tomatoes, cupful furniture can be one Worcestershire can be in boxes. The lJli.oo A DAY GATHEB�G EVERGREENS, water, teaspoonful Color, form and number easily candy Beltadonna seed, folded or built with roots and herbs, Ginseng, $14 lb,: salt and and a small has time to made from paper war free, sauce, pepper, lade into games if mother $64 lb. ; or grow It yourself, -Book and prices or kitchen bou dominoes. - CONN. of with her children. When mother small blocks or ROTANICAL·SiS NEW HAVEN, amount soup coloring lay are not thick and I to mothers who or Cook until s busy with the pressing routine of. May say quet catsup., reach of a kindergarten" over meat. Slices' of green pepper a box of cranberries 'within public that we pour lOusework, perhaps and ing in him intangible something desired.-Home that best course is to agitate be added to this if nd a long thread in a coarse needle your call personality, and forming his con l;Ilay to have one if it-is a possible Economics of vould entertain a dear little meddler race. Department, University co-operate tribution to the ./ If that cannot be done and some I Wisconsin. give mother a free hour to work: thing. ,Ild materials-can be be scarce, but. buttons kindergarten purchased, rau?err�es may Com EDITOR'S NOTE: This article by Mrs: also inch a from Milton Bradley Iourish III every home; pieces catalogue McKenzie is one of the series Cracklings or E. Steiger Janet W. macaroni which can be combined, with pany, Springfield, Mass., lard is " of � issued the United States Bureau After the remaining pressed" I 49 Street, New York, will by Ircles or of colored paper cut & Co., Murray for the that are left when squares of ma suggestlons out of cracklings nt be in the list Education, containing I of bright advertising pages. helpful selecting who have been fat is fried the may be i the home mothers out, cracklings ' little terials desired. by 1 When baking is under way, and salted and stored in a the is more important kindergarteners. pretty freely have to be from interfering, However, spirit be used for lan�s kept mem cold place to later seasoniilg than the material. Look back in .11Iece of colored string one yard long beans. A will season two childhood. What are pint quints 1I1th the ends tied toaether will afford ory to your own Mending Tissu_, also be moth of cooked beans, They may make dearest recollections of your IIlCh delight. Wet th� stri�g and your Mending tissue which can be pur. used for seasoning baked macaroni, care for your food, pcrfect a circle of it as on a er? Her-unceasing a at the with possible it chased' for five cents package noodles, bean soup, or for cooking IS the heatth ! 01' is surface. By pushing a point in clothes, teeth, eyes, counter in nearly all dry goods , kraut. took novelty- - i�t what not rather that happy day you the center, we change stores, should be an accessory to all Ic�e t� mother und the rest, and ooked hke a full moon into a crescent· your lunch, as it is a saver of 'so Did work baskets, great One of went an picnic? .the Humanity's- Failings' a unexpected - ushing in three places makes clove� .for time w.hen repairing rents in either wool the' church-going, the said Uncle Eben, 'Ide man The variations are endless. And trips, "Somehow," • shopping, or silk garments. ie the matinee, leave dat can't do much of allus Jaf. child can learn with an occasional calling, occaaionall the torn of the garment anything � hour Place 'part his from to make the impress, Cor the quiet board attaches de mos' importance to opin� ugg:e�tion mother, many deepest on the flat surface of an ironing was alone with you and ion of how to be done." ulIllhar symmetrical outlines in this when _:_mother with the side fit things ought . wron� up. Carefully 'ny read or'told you stories? the tear and - the two of like Martha, together edges boasted of their it is bread that JIs Dear mothers, cumbered, the A lot of men who being over this place a strip of mending can not see that are now on t�rhapsWhat in a small with many cares, you extend half an inch on independence county poor possibilities services tissue, letting it ��ed. and necessary farms.-Atcliison Globe. It can be made into a the practical of the tear. Over all a d01!gh! minister to each side lay 'i oal.of into which render your child . like mother's, or rolled you of material like the and J�lst . hours piece garment my the which passes, but the Memory Verse biSCUits. physical, with It, hot iron, lifting and re which press Thou earnest not to place by accident: as of and mental effort you thy have many possibilities play the iron instead of shoving. God meant for thee. I Toothpic�s and the ideals you placing It Is the "Very place . ay can share and for material. With them pictures encourage materials cannot be mended in And shouldst thou there small scope e . meat Sheer made' fur- set for emulation, these are the action see, outhne of houses, fences, up discontent. which nour this :way. Do not tor this give room for 'ture ' b Oil. S or material of the of child, Trencli. I. lnt stars, and it is spirit your The mending tissue is also convenient -Richard Cheveulx at can essence of his life, develop- be used over and over again. ish the very
---- .... FARMER Some Facts Aboui DOirying Kansas COWS are still not The to...an annual price is the . o�j.ectipn paying their board. The average poII8lbibty .of feed prices changing and I)ANYKansas cow produces not much also because a number of d�irymen more than 100 pounds of butter rough' cowsfhrough the winter and pro a of milk in the fat a year, while it takes 200 pounds to duce surplus spring make an animal. profitable. months when it -may be produced Of course the tot",l of cows in the cheaply. state includes a, great many not kept primarily for milk production. Kansas New CoW"Test Association is not a state, and the primarily dairy A f!,88OCiation has been _ cow-testing o.ro of cows is merely .a side line. 'milking ganized in County and Mr. R. F. Where an effort has been made to Lyon 'I'esson, the tester. is at work.. He will build real herds, as many breed- up dairy work here part time. gimg the remain ers in Kanll8.8 have done, quite a dif- der of his time to Morris County. When ferent story ia told. For example, the demands come for enough of a tester'. herd at the averages_ agricultural college time to bim the full month, Lyon _ keep an annual yield of 500 pounds of butter County ha-ve aj'u,ll-time tester. Mr. .fat �w-two and a half times the W!1l .per Tesson will tests on several pro-> m�e_ h�d quantity necess!U'y for. profitable on & few. duction. Successful is _- herds. an� se�l-officlal te� dairying steadily seml-offiClal work will allow the on the. increase in the state. T�h� _ of advanced regtstry records -for The above facts are stated on the gw,mg fat production. Testing wnI be of Prqf. J. B. Fitch. head of yearly authority done on the herds of Thomas Marks, the of our agricultural. dairy department - Griffith Paine Spencer • ...roh� Husband, college. and others. Brothers•. W. W. Finney Here are some further brought! points Mr. a Holstein coW that out Mr. Fitch.: Griffit� ba� by flfty-flve pounds ilutter fat The butter' fat reeerd for a year is produced of. In one month. Someone Wln have to the milk record 31,200 1.205 pounds; bustle to beat this. Both records are now held pounds. by ------"- HolsteiDL . State Officers A cow should 7,006 GraDJe . produce poun!1s of milk and 200 pounds of butter fat B.· Needham was re-elected .Muter of annually to be profitable to the owner. the� State Grange at the annual The average person consumes seven- meeting. J. l\!I. Ryan was also re teen pound's of butter and twenty-seven elected overseer. The remaining officers gallons of milk in a year. are as follows: P. S. Sanders of Oe- Three-fourths of the dairy products wego, lecturer; J. M. McJtIulJen of Cof of the United States are produced as a fey County, re-elected steward; Byrle eide line on farms devoted principally Webb, Sumner County, assistant stew to other linea of work. . ard; Mrs. Mabel Pomeroy of Holton re- New York. Minnesota, and Wisconsin,' elected chaplain; B. B. Haskin of Olathe in the order named, lead as dairy states, re-elected treaaurer; A. E. Wood of Like those. of other industries. by- Olathe re-elected aecretary,; Oaldw:e11' products of dairying are becoming in- Davis. Bourbon County, re-etected gate creasingly important. lfiIk sugar' comes . keeper; Maud Lins, L.,-on County. from whey. a by-product of cheese mak- Ceres; Mrs. A. P. Reardon, re-elected ing. Dried buttermilk is being exten- Pomona; Mrs. Colglazier. Larned, Flora; sively used as a feed. for bogs and poul- Mrs. Stella Webb re-elected Lady As casein is used. for sistant F. C. re try. Dried making " Steward; Pomeroy buttons. knife handles, and other artl- elected member of executive committee. cles, taking the place of bone and eel- The next annual meeting will be' ja luloid. Fort Scott. Dairy products contain L-vitamine&- the recently diScovered substances neces- · ..... -ex-.TBu..... Ac.od Pho.pha&WJ sary to nourishment-to a greater dealers were foreed. to tent than do other food products. While local buy cam of acid War necessities etimulated the dairy mixed goods. twelve straight obtained the Williams· industry, Professor Fitch points out. phosphate were by Farm Bureau for ita The exports of dairy products were .tre- County' (Ohio) When it mendously increased. The- government members. became. apparent in of the urged the making of cottage cheese from that farmers many parts to acid skim milk. which, though ccm.taining county were unable get phos - from their local dealers, the farm Real Estate For Sale half a per cent of butter fat, is phate only and learned that neverthele!is very nourishing. Skim bureau investigated Ihe fertilizer could be obtained in READ! CONSIDER! ACT! .milk, Mr. Fitch went on to .say. 'is de- straight, sirable for �human food ,in' ita ll8.tnral C8.J'& A buying committee was appointed Aeres. 2',j, miles .from good railroad 16C) and the w:ork was carried out sosuecesa- I town, In Neosho County, Kan8a8, on county state. but the problem-ref Dia'rketiJak it nIne-room dwell has been re- . auto road; large two-story has it from used, that the'farm bureau In II. beautiful good outside kept being1extensjvely ",fully Ing set grove; to order cars for use this com cellar; good well at door; some fruIt, large Professor Fitch con'lider:s the 'efforta.. quested machIne cattle and bog The farmers saved $800 barn, granary, shed, in many large cities. t'o ,hol ... voluntees for re-edn-" EW iJJ this 'country are 'a dlaabled soldier people the awake, 'ae yet, to tile gr'eat prob- eation; it only comes about thro-qgb in t1ll re-education' faree and the tactful' 1em we face of public opinion . and rehabilitation of our disabled influence of his intimates. It is there- fore the attitude of this man's oldiers and -sailor{l. Few have vi�al- family, friends and home-town 'zed the magnitude of the w!lX'a pSY'SlC&l acquaintances his future in nine isaster. No li.cemate figures, are avail- that will' determine and hiB ble at this time, but in addition to-'our ,eases out of ten; .1'nture, socially a of nexpectedly large eastialty list the and ecolJomically,.)s vital part, and a of our ]Iumber of our men diaa'b1ed from shen AmeriCa's future, gauge shock, tubereulol!lie, ""gassing," trench civiliu.tion. will reach a This man wants but not ever, and other diseases, sympathy, totaL' ,pity; ,this man .needs. to 1M! treated as a arge 'ro In other wars it was the practice to human being, pot &8 an abnormality. a for a month and then : discharge from the hospitals into civil be feted &8 hero late ife the industrially incapaeitated sol- forgotten has been the- of JP8.ny. on arid will be the ruination tliers, to become a burden on aoeiety, already, �f their families and to themselTes. By more. The disabled' man goes through wave of act of congress the Federal Board 'for ;wave aft�r desperate 'depres, Vocational Education hat! been endowed sion, dwells poignantly on all- things he take the could once do and can no do- with full to oVer �-" . longer powers friende make him abled soldier and sailor, regardl�s ot' "SO ,he thinks. If his wbether the disability was caused by 'believe that what be has' suffered for him to a life of idle battle or dlseaee, when he is about to 'his country entitles be discharged frbm '"the hospital an'd', to ness, they 'have done, the worst thing We have Service Looms fit him mentally and physicany, as far pm,swle for, the 'man himself. ,Wh�·Woman'. �'"�' to become once more a eon- seen too Civil War victims as mav be, many ped . and member of our lead to believe that atti- tented" 'independent dling pencils " woman 811� over aaclLIthe. indul!ltrial Ufe. eitber wise or humane. . War her bench social and tude gave bending ' take his from the But no man can be' forced to After discharge hospital In bouae and chem- ,�.;- wise and it is the natural course that the man preme and, glorious opportu.; counting advantage of our government'i! '., "- : , humane It is up to him and ,should go honie for a visit before the baa liwmed' provision, to her field of, . . ic81'1abomtoty"she callA on him to advise nity enlarge r even more vitally up to society at large, v�tionBl expert -" ,with him on his re-education. her brains to the as we shall out. During serviCe. She.won 'her share ca� . "�: I pl'esently point . The federal board ill empowered to pay this interim it is the du� oi the public , and his frienirs in of laurels for 8 a disabled- man a �bJimum wage of $65 generally particular the ' patriotic of re-educs- td lift_him to the normal In aerviCe;' also. a n month during the period up plane, spir achievement. telephone tion, with proportionately more if he is itually and mentally, by milking him host of married and .haa chl1dren. 'There are his disabilities, not by: pointing capable., lotal �uP-',,' e forget ' . out over our to them. '- fourteen centers, spread exalted aim-'and un'; teD of America .&tiD' find is- matter-of With country, so that each man may be some- ,We should be cheerfully where near his home town and his fam- fact in our constructive kindnesses. His in' for their ambition aoCf e zeal abe pression �. him flagging figured f ily. Experts in every known occupation very life may depend on making us that These Il vill be available. A two-armed man, feel "that he is still one of and not practically every activity a�1ity. girls ue'� dollars an forever set the rav I vho before the war eamed two object apart by' made 'for and re to an "from the neck of war. We must not kill him victory the' legeCI play � r, day ,down," in-many ages but 11im d uses will, be taught, as a one-armed with thoughtless kindness, help lief of ,distress. She the in the nilticm�s and it plied' part nan, to earn much more "fl'Om the neck with kindly thoughtfulness make, �'� « In a of our as easy ae we can for the govemment needles that fashioned com have in their ip." short, large proportion - They keePD.tglhe;.c·' lisabled can and will be re- to carryon its great work .of helping fighters forts soldiers. .she ' avenueS of itored to economic independence and to these men to help themselves.-DouGLAS lor C?Ur myriad teIePhone .., renee of mind. Z. 1JoTy; editor Ila,rper's MagaZine. ministered to the wounded. communication diroUah, whidi Just how large a proportion will de iend on the attitude of the The What we find in our friends depends in the 8 is 'Public. • She labOred unceasingly J¥ltion· ind1,1stry 8wciecL but will say: in on what we are in our- rindly -thoughtless ,citize� great part "J 'Too much cannot be done for our dis selves.-BBADFOBD TOBEY. canteen work. y bled heroes," wbich is true only if The _@ell ,System invites � id ight things be done; for this is a -delt- The' duty of the AmeJ,ican people is more more . has Qf listment ita, ranks -of .. ately phychological problem. playas well as prayer.-DB She, kept the w� �ong ' til Our Allies have found that rarely does KELLOGG. the It industly gOing: tilling 8oiI: 10Jal opemtors. 18 s - farmer who uses un AND m he Future of the Horae less degree. The A'ME81�A" TEl.EP'MONE 'TELEGRAPH C9MPANJ ita .Qraft Bound stock, or animals that lack en ' AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES Itt durance and courage when put to the : from. ODe) �d (Continued Page test, is like the manufacturer who de- ,One Poliq One S:y.tem Unifier_ Senlice uses inferior materials in an ,s- I he best and sometimes· con. Iiberately ® conditions, Both are to a' 'e· , iderably more.' engine. eontributing that break down and be , n- "Without into, details here I product ma, going . laid 'out for at an ly ay say that we have, working with repairs inopportune Th, 18. A.ta Bull tractor aal.rip ld he evolved time. Here, then, we find in - Illinois Experiment Station, Anti-Skid- a Iesson which we all The most and effective L known as the competition may simple �itcb 'multiple hitch,' Trucks in exist, take to for our like tbat ding Device for Autos and vhieh entirely eliminates side draft. heart; object, is to a ence. Attachable in a without ,or The teams in are bitched one .of the manufacturer, produce jiffy boring plowing will time off holes and without the assistance of a. n front of the other, and from two to power unit that require :no drilling be for and that will life mechanic. ive pairs may be used strung out tan- repairs give long ler and service under all conditions. lem just as handily as an ordinary farm steady the Percheron breed FOR FORD ,SIMlhAR CA� lk, iorss team. In this hitch, also, we have In this particular Al\JO - lo, has an enviable record, due undoubtedly ,Iiminated the fault of an unsatisfae- f.o.;'b. it hall been the common Twelve units a compleiie, 'set, $4.25 factory. of ory of trace on the teams re- to the fact that angle a Iimibed' f.o.b. .nt both in-France and America, to Introductory price fol' time, $3.50 some distance from the load, practice, cents. This no�'ed both coun A unit mail, 40 of vhich has heretofore been the 'work the mares. Farmers in factory, working by stumbling will on balance of set if ordered Ire without dis amount apply lock of those who to use their tries have, realizing it, sought , - mares that wimt within ten days of. receipt. he cams strung out in this fashion, and to criminated against hese or unsound, or that were ill ,ge tandem hitches we have applied lame, ;were - Illinois endurance. MFG. CO., Freeport, lst he, 'tying in and bucking back' system, tempered, or that lacked ULFE� been inatine mil vhlch has been successfully used for the Such mares have rejected nd aet and have drifted to the cities, or twenty years on the Pacific Coast_ tively, Irn he other where were not general application and USEl of these to places they there has 'a mproved methods of hitching and driv- used for reproduction; so that been a of natural selection at 11& teams in four, six, eight or ten-horse process luts work in the breed which has increased will go far toward increasing our value of Percherons as motors. ,raft,horse efficiency to It point whete the equine draft will be wholly eliminated and It was the superior endurance, activity ;ed ;dcIe and of the or work done per week per man em- docility Percherons, grade rae than with pure-bred, on the battlefields of Europe of brought higher any lloyed tractor_ that first attracted the attention of ,nd I�,ee,bottom Horsemen must also learn to build British army officers, who have given on etter dTaft horses that will work with ,the breed unstinted praise; and it is pe time off for T�pairs and last longer these characteristics that have made the ;jP.S �ssInn the draft breed of the the average horse now endures_ Percheron premier ,an horse that lacks endurance, and that' world, now numbering more than 70 per to �e draft l'a�s out' when in hard work, must be cent of all America's pure-bred from the reproductive ranks. horses. Despite this clear superiority of ��matedtbe sam.e holds true of those that the breed as a whole for power pur- iIIlt o I arne because of 80me structural 'ile. poses ther� is a considerable percentage c.t ond , A of Per maJ:_e that must be laid off be- animals, ,even among pure-bred and that hold fast to such a matron and her a of desired is ready for work, lameness or lack of endurance cherons, that are not up to the always make rich. into the collar at the end daughters, for they will yon , ubeard stallions or ne, work should be discarded 'as a standard, and these, whether steps freely shortest road ,to a safe one to This is the surest and iOil Service is of a hard day's work, is eeder, for she has faults that reduce mares, should be rejected. of our r and if her colts are of mch con· increasing the efficiency equine for and these will the main test-and every farmer can keep; inevitably size as to motors." .nd Pe��ef:Ulness,In The mare that formation and �ll readily, her descendants in more or judge of this with eaee. KANSAS' FARME'R PURE �RED POU��Y PFUL POULTRY HINTS , ] ',PLYMOUTH ROCKS. Practical Ideas on How to FlU the LARGE'EXCELLENT'BARRED, ROC� Egg Basket. and Increase Profits cockerels. Florence 'Belle Ziller. Hiawatha, Kansas. FINE PURE BUFF' ROCK COCKERELS, March hatched. $3 each, ,,-siX tor $16. Mrs. Oe'o: MorOmer. Route 4. ;Manhattan, Kan. Show BUFF ReCKS AND BLACK LANGSH.AN The State , Poultcy -' .ccckerets tor sale, $2 each: gO!),d ones. New� ton Coffmah, Rosendale. Missouri. thirtieth annual snow of the laying just beforethe big snow, but have Kansas State Poultry Breeders' not advanced any since, but are in 'fine WAGNER'S BIG FAR M .' R A I SED Barred Rock' cockerels. $a to $6: pullets, Association took at the and for bare ground. Our place shape waiting $2.50. Mrs. E. C. Wagner. Holton, Kansas. OHE 6 were 50 but have auditorium in Topeka, January pullets laying per cent, 'No BARRED ROCK COCKERELS FR,9M to and was a- decided success from fallen off some, but look fine. eggs' 11, pure-bred stock. $3 to $6. R. D. Ames, but does not - star.t to finish. is a universal cry, crying Walton. Kansas. The Association had uni it; it is an 'unusual condition and purchased help SALE-BARRED ROCKS. EVERY , FOR showed off the hen man has to about form 'wire coops which the, a!!_'n;luch worry bird from .. prlze'wlnner. T_. N. Davis, 60a birds tp good advantage.. The coops in the matter "as anyone else." FllImore St.. Topeka.�. below and were decorated with bunting CHOICE BARRED -ROCK COCKERELS. • Gem on and made .a most pleasing Chicki' Parks' 200-egg strain. Poultry Farm, flags top, Selling Baby' Haven, Kansas. and Everyone en imposing, ap,Pearance. Day-old chicks can be shipped with remarked on the PURE-BRED BARRED ROCK COCKER tering the show room much and more less loss 'considerably els. large kind: bred for laying. $2.50 and of the so differ fine appearance show, satisfaction than for each. C. H. Seneca. Kan. mixture eggs hatching. $3 W'empe, ent from the old conglomerated These chicks 'can be miles shipped 1,500 PURE-BRED BARRED ROCK COCKER· of of The utility coops years ago. or more and raised to full size with a els with. size and quality," $2 each. C. E, breeds -were in numbers, Olivet. Kansas. conspicuous and more chickens. . ing raising chicks from a quick-fattening strain to down, Kansas . annual three new At the meeting who have, homes on small Im.rloln Poullry Almlnlc �W'E:i.91'k��a�,,: townspeople RINGLET BARRED ROCK COCKERE'LS we members of the board of were breed the SOO-egK hen. Plain sclcntlrtc facts. How managers lots. Such customers want to buy chicks from the very best prize winning stock. win medalt at the egg-laying contests_ three Large, heavy-boned. Thompson strain. $2 . elected for the ensuing. years, in lots of to a hundred. It saves HOPEWELL FARMS; BOX X. HOPEWELL. N. J. Herb fifty to $5. James Pickrel. 'Route 4. York, Neb. namely: Thomas Owen, Topeka; all trouble of hatching and keeping hens. James R. BARRED ROCK 107 PRE D. Wilson".Hiawatha; and a COCKERELS. The chicks can 'be kept in 'cold brooder, 39 The six members of miums. winter laying stock. Record, eggs Cowdrey, Topeka. supplied on cold nights with a jug of from 40 'hens. $2 to $5. A. G. Hammond, over are F. W. the board holding Ford, hot water. The chicks can be grown to Vlnland, Kansas. A. J. Waddell, Wichita; W. Caldwell; frying size on the scraps from the table, PURE BARRED -R()CK "RINGLETS." , PO�LTRY-l -I'�;� H. Nickerson; H. L. White, large, vigorous, beautifully marked birds, Ward, with only a small amount of grain. The JV.YANDOTTES. G. D. and $3.00. $5.00 and $8.00 each. S. R. Black Wichita; McClaskey, Topeka, can have to a hundred choice Kansas. ' famiJ.y fifty _ welder. Isabel. Wichita. The board WYiANDOTTE C0C,K C•. K. Whitney, at a of what it would" cost , 'lIliNE BIG BUFF frys quarter Newton. for the en erels, $2.60 up. George H. Kltte11. elected the following officers to buy them in the market and the ,Kansas. . President, F. W. Ford, LEGHORNS. suing year: whole lot is cleaned up' by fall, with no LACED WYANDOTTE COCKER� vice W. H. SILVER - Caldwell; president, Ward, to care for the winter R. C. BROWN LEGHORN COCKERELS. Or poultry during . els, $2: eggs. $6 per 100: $1.50 setting. Nickerson; secretary and treasurer, Otto Borth. Plains. Kansas. del' early. Claud Copley, Riverton. Neb. storms. This trade can be developed Thomas , Owen, Topeka; superintendent, enormously. PUR;E-BRED S. C. BROWN LEGHORN LARGE WHITE WYANDOTTE COCKER-, was eCI ed H. • . IC I a. deeid Mrs. L. _ It for A • T Wadde,11 W' hit ------cockerels, $2 each: Six $10. each. Von Forell Bros.• Chester. ets, '$2.60, next show at Wichita Jan- Hastings, Thayer. Kansas. -c., Nebraska. to hold the Unfortunately the national prohibi- uary 12 to 17, 1920. tion will not PURE-BRED SINGLE COMB WHITE LEG PRIZE WINNING CHALK- 'act stop the brewing of CLARY'S' under horn cockerels. $1.50 �nd $2.50 each. Eggs. tor sale. Prices right. The State Association is great trouble.-American Issue. White Wyandodes $5 per hundred. lola Buhrle. Russell, Kan. :Oeorge B. Clary, Fairbury. Nebraska. -, obligations to the Topeka Chamber of to the merchants of To PURE-BRED SINGLE COMB WHITE '. WYANDOTTE COCKER Commerce and 'ORPINGTONS. COLUMBIAN Leghorn cockerels, $1.60. Chas. McFadden, s. J. Without .eI9. fine large birds. $8 and $5. Pauls. peka for financing this show, Morland, Kansas. Kansas. WHITE 0 R PIN G T 2h-� COCKERELS. :a;lllsboro. their help the show could not have been Wilderness Farm, Route 5, Hutchinson. Kan. S. C. W;lUTE LEGHORN COCKERELS. E .WYANDOTTES FROM held. PAR T RID G Ferris strain, fourteen years a breeder. $2.50 Jeffer- prize winning birds. Lldle Rodgers. The Association to secure an SINGLE COMB BUFF O'R PIN G TON each. tlve for $10. Ben_,JQhnson. Belton. Mo. Oklahoma. ,- hopes Cook and Martz strain dlrec,t, U son. from the state so tl(at cock!',rels. appropriation and $5. Thos. D. Marshall. Sylvia, Kansas. GOOD SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS. S I"L V E R .WYANDOTTE shows may be held alternately in To cockerels and pure-bred Barred Rocks. $2.25 Hens. $2. Mrs. Edwin Shuff. LARGE PURE-BRED BUFF ORPINGTON U.60 up. and Wichita and obviate the ne each. Vivien Hind. Madison. Kansas. Plev,na. Kansas. peka cockerels, $3, $4 and $5 each. Myrtle How of, the means of holding ard, Byron, Okla. EXTRA FINE SINGLE COMB BROWN WYANDOTTE cessity begging TWENTY CHOICE'SILVER merchants of the Leghorn coclcerets, $1.50 each: six for $7.50. Twenty. $4 the show from the cockerels, $S each: six. $15. BUFF ORPINGTON EGGS. $4 PER FIF Mrs. F. E. Tonn, �I)�venJ Kansas. and $5 each. Eggs In season. Mrs. Philip city where it is held. teen. Winners at Oklahoma and Kansas ·Schuppert. Arrlnl!:Jon K"8.nsas.� The main object of these shows is the State Fairs. Write for particulars. J. L. BROWN ROSE COMB LEGHORN COCK Taylor. Chanute, Kansas. erels, $1.50 each. Mrs. Den Barry, Wallace, - of the of WHITE W;YANDOTTI COCKERELS advancement poultry industry Nebraska. From the world's greatest layers: The dams the state and thus the birds have a increasing egg LANGSHANS. of the sires of these' yearly - s. C. WHITE LEGHORN COCKERELS, and each. and the meat from record of 227 to 276 'eggs.' $3 $6 production supply six for $8� Mammoth bronze toms. $7: hens, •. BLACK LANGSHAN COCKERELS. $2 ,R. A.. Dressler. Lebo Kansas. this· source. The breeders send or bring $5. WlII Tonn, Haven. Kansas. and up. Mrs. Geo, W. King, Solomon. Kan. their birds to the show at a finan great SINGLE COMB W HIT E LEGHORN RHODE ISLAND IlEDS. BIG BLACK LANGSHAN COCKEREI:..S cial loss each year, for the Association cockerels, $2: bred for eggs. Louie and and utility: also eggs. B)Lrnes, to ade pullets; fancy Moline. Kansas. LARGE DARK S. C. RED COCKERELS does not have money enough pay Guaranteed. H. Osterfoss, Hedrick, Iowa. for sale. Stanley Kaura, Wy- and pullets . . premiums. A small appropriation SINGLE <:lOMB W HIT E Nebraska. quate SEVENTY-FIVE 'R LAC K LANGSHAN L1llGHORN Dlore, for this would cockerels, 283-egg Tom Barron strain. Theso from the state industry cockerels. Won first cockerel at Illinois cockerels are from Imported English stock. COMB RHODE ISLAND WHITE mil Jno. Lov ROSE a for. the and Kansas State 1919. ' be but small recompense Shows. and Grant Miller, Madison, Kan. and In season. Mrs. $3 $5 ea,ch. cookerels for sale. eggs lions of dollars it to the state ette. Mullinville, Kansas. Wm. Nlder. Jansen. Nebraska. brings each OWEN. , year_-THOMAS BABY LARGE BIG-BONED FULL-BLOOD SIN CHICKS. TURKEYS. . gle Comb Red cockerels. $3 each or six for $15. Lel� Osterfoss. Hedrick. Iowa. THOROUGHBRED BABY CHICKS.-WE M. B. TURKEY HENS. $5 EACH. Records are now booking orders for chicks of the Henn. Plainville, Kansas. PURE-BRED SINGLE COMB RHODE, Poultry following breeds: Barred Rocks. Rhode Island Red males. $2 to $10. James Sisters, M. of Island Reds, White Leghorns. Butt Orpfng FINE BOURBON RED TURKEY TOMS, . E. Wheeler, Jefferson, Kansas, tons and White from Olathe, Ransas. of his Wyandottes. trap $6 each. J. W, Warner. Rush Center. Kan. believes in keeping records poul-' nested stock: also utility stock at all breeds. PURE-BR)llD DARJl.S\ VELVETY RED try work. He reports 29,605 eggs as Have some very nice cockerels at from $8.50 BOURBON RED TURKEYS, EXTRA cockerels. both combs. $4. $5. Freda Peck of his flock for 1918. He up. Thoroughbred Poultry Yards, Dept. A, good. W. H. Oliver, Reger, Missouri. the productiori Box Colo. anpaugh, Lake City. Kansas. 771, Denver, also kept tab on the flock's behavior dur PURE-BRED WHITE HOLLAND TOMS, RHODE ISLAND RED Freda Lake City, SINGLE COMB the season. He says: CORNISH FOWLS extra, $8. Peckenpaugh. tor $3, $4, $5, Mrs. ing molting Kansas. cockers. 'none better. molt Oeo. 'M. Long. l'!t. John. Kansas, "The hens of last season began WHITE CORNISH-8ILVER CUP WIN TWENTY and we the last LOVELY MAMMOTH BRONZE gathered eggs ners. for sale. PURE-BRED ROSE COMB RED COCK ing early Good breeding pens Spell. pound turkey tom tram best breeding. $10 October and man & Karrsas.c, erels from high-priced stock. $3 and $5 each. from them �O, began gath Spellman, Fredonia. crated. L. E. Johnson, Waldron. Kansas. Howard Vall.� MarysvllJe. Kansas. eggs from them again December ering FOR SALE-DARK CORNISH COCKER LARGE DARK MAY-HATCHED BOUR .six weeks been els and In seaaon, Olin E. SINGLE COMB RED ROCKERELS. 15, practically . having pullets, Eggs bon Red turkey toms, $6.50 each. Mrs. F. Route 9, Ottawa, Kansas. prl:!;e winning strain. Prices reasonable. occupied in the process of changing their Dawkins, E. Tonn, Haven, Kansas. R. P. Hockaday. ' 'Satisfaction guaranteed. add to this a month for Kansas. coats; grad LARGE WELL MARKED PURE-BRED 2·88 FUnnle ,Ave.• 'VlTlchlta. POULTRY WANTED. ually quitting laying, and another month mammoth bronze turkeys-toms, $1'0: hen" Y S, C. RED COCKERELS. Mrs. Minnie Kansn", BRED-TO-LA to a and have DELIVERED $6. Snider, Piedmont. ' start you OLD PIGEONS, $1 DOZEN the finest ones I ever raised. $8 get good again, absolutely 5. Next week we are paying tor Satisfaction guaranteed. Belmont the situation on a basis. I February to $5. working No. 1 28c. WE SOLD FIVE CHAMPION BRONZe: Kansas. heavy hens, 24c: turkeys. Coops FaJ'm. Tope) ' feb. •• <'Fi.... Tuesday, ,11, Effi_,h , II�., Thlrldl" 1 p. m. \ lot tried The herd that made Bob W9nder f!lmous.-A splendid. of Big HEAD " , FIFTY 'and fall bred to,·.t.hree of greatest sires. of sows, spring, summer gilts. ,the head of eows and ,Heifers,. mostly w,itlh; A. R. Q.�' / , FortY:fi'Ve Registered the breed-- and from , _; records up' to ,26 pounds 9:s a four-year-old; ]l'ive_Reglitered Buqa . A BIG TIMM, BOB WONDER .BUSTER KIN� ;, 'lllijghly bred A. iR. O. dal1fS and sires, including our grea€ y,:oung thre-e-,yeal'- ;'; K0RNrDYKE one of, the PONTIAC DEL 167620, " the real ones bred to Bob Wonder are: No. 12, bred to old sire, EMPEROR SEGIS Among good bred we have ever sold sons 01' SEGlS PONTIAC, and a daughter him November ·11. This will make one of the best sows most promising �:N:G highly It of will farrow a line-bred Big Bob ,W-onder litter. Also, Big Orphan Girl, of KO;RNDX!(E 38835,. brathe.r tl}e gr:eat �� SEG�S.,,:: . and PRIN!JE �iEG1!S mterests me' with , IIr deal which asaoeiates and : sired the ' a tried sow and a fine brood sow and by OOUBLE. grand .champion Havmg Just completed . in the East for. the and bred to Bob Wonder December 10. Blue one of the largest and best equipped estate!!, dev.elop- boar, McGath's Big Orphan, the: a fine fall one the GREATEST REGISTERED HOLS'TEIN HERDS in, Ribbon bred November '11, is a fine one. Hiawatha 3d, ment of of Belle, I have decided:, br.ed November 6; and K: J. 'lady, I!- tried yearling',sow by King country which needs by personal .management Immediately, yearling, entire herd at PUBLIC AUCTION" I know it will be a spr_pril!e Joe and bred November-B. • to sell my to friends ,to hear of this herd at auction. This herd is the �es1Jlt to" Buster the attractions : No. 2&, sired by my going Bred King are. following and financial to attain the possible, a fine of of breeding eXl!ense highest Bob Wonder and bred to Buster King, December. 10. SIte is very .years Big standards of and production, and it will be 'u, long a tried bred to Buster individuality, breeding fall Also, Beauty 8th, yearling, .. King auction" yearlings. Long such a combination will be ever offered to the bred io Buster time· before public at, November 30.. 'No. 28, Halvor's Ginl 34', King. flesh and The cattle are in the P1NK of condition, good healthy. sows bred-to-Walter's again, Lulu-Wonder and Golden 'are two extra good tuberculin tested a Lady Every animal over six months of age will be '!?y eompe-, was the sow in the sale last winter Jumbo 'l1mm. Lulu Wonder top Petty tent State Veterinarian and will giiVe purchaser privilege of sixty-day retest" Golden has raised and is a fine· sow and a splendid brood sow'. Lady clean from or other infectious 91' . are very ". and guaranteed .eontagioua abortion any one litter and is a fine yearling., , just big contagious disease. " best -fall PUBLIC AUCTION at tbe' Bred to The Pilot are: Orange Model, just one of the yearlings The following day, February 12, I will sell at The Pilot October 31. Also Minnie of all ill the sale and a read show sow, bred to :MAGEE DAIRY FARM, 3! miles northwest ,Chanute, my nip:a�rn {arm. bred to The a sow sired Jumbo 2d, a fine tried sow and and Duroc sows, gilts a;nd', ' Jersey Dell, big by Long -machinery dairy equipment, registered' . November 14. boars. 'Also and other too numerous to mention, Pilot horses, feeds, things ,. to Bob lease farm of 200 acres with 40 acres of: twelve head bred also ' There are eleven head bred to A .Big Timm; Will my productive dairy acres of two silos with barns" nine head. bred to Buster King; four head bred to Walter's Jumbo fine alfalfa and fifty ,growing wheat, . necessary Wonder; ' cows. first class of . June 10 to conduct a . Timm, and five head bred to The Pilot, and there are three fine and buildings dairy f9rty ; of the a division of the Santa Fe and on, the M. K.· & T. and, the dam is ' boars, sired by Big Bob Wonder and out of Long Beauty, Chani,Ite point miles' southwest of Kansas our last winter sow sale. . 127 $1,200 sow last year, the top of City. TRAIN out from and back 'to Atchison, sale making A SPECIAL day, Send for Full Descriptive Catalog, Ready to. Mail fine connections for all wanting to get away the evening of the sale. -Bale in heated Send for catalog, and come. pavilion. .. MAGEE DAIRY FARM· , H. B. WALTER &' Sal, EFFI'IGHArt1, KAISAS' JAS. W. MAGEE, PROPRIETOR Auctioneer, Col. Fred S. Ball, EI Reno, Oklahom� cei, H. S. Duncan, Auctioneer .. " " PUBLIC SA:LE RED POLLED CATTLE. JOHN'S ORION DUROC SAL'E!,� FEBRUARYi 1919 , 'J RED POLLED, (JATTLE 'FOR SALE 27, Young bulls and some extra. gQ.od young Of registered, Chester White sows and gilts . Feb. .. 1919" few yea.r- W Wednesday, 5; cows to calve I early spring. A bred to Prince Tip Top, first prize junior BshingtQn, ,Kansas, 3. I, :., yearling at Topeka, 1918, and Big Prince by j ' ' KANSAS ¥.n'\v�e�O"ULTON, MEDORA, Prince BI'g Bone. Am booking names for Twenty-five Tried- Sows and Fall Gilts catalogs. I I FOR SALE , Kan. ..five Gilts of 511 heifers a.nd bulls. Spe- Henry Murr, Tonganoxie, 50 Twenty Spring Popular Breeding Red Polled cows, Sows Are Bred to John's Orion 4285A, the Greates� Soa 'of the, Th�y-flve Top ' .f.r!fi';J€R\aS�� :t_on'::xTELL, KANSAS ,5,000 Joe Orion 2d. I- ���l POLAND CHINAS. s, II OF , n, RED POLLS, BOTH SEXES, BEST Facts About John's Orion: BREEDING. . E PhUllpsburg, Ran, He as a. two-year-old, 1,040 pounds. ()hlU'les Momson & Son, ERHART'S POLAND CHINAS weighed, II boars than 1)0ar In the West. , n, Sired more thousand-pound. any ' of boars for sale, Ha.ve a. grea.t lot spring He Is the sire, of John's Combination, John's Orion Jr.. John's Orion Aga.ln. Some by the 1200-pound, A Big Wonder. King John's and John's Joe, Orion, everyone of w1!.lch Is a. rea.l thousand- Orton., " B, re , . make on palrs and trios not pound boar. se POLAND CHINAS wrn prices His sows are great producers. Many of them produced litters In 1918 which o. lated. All Immuned. Write your wants. ' . have sold for from $1,500 to $3,000, Bred Bow Bale Feb, 19, 1919. and In the shows Chinas. John's Orion has won more first prizes championships big , 'Ranch Poland International two In succession. Deming A. J. ERHART & SONS than .anv living boar. He won at the years Poland China Hogs Big.Type NESS (JITY, KANSAS Tried Sow in This Sale Raised a Good Litter Last Y�ar real farmer Every For Sale-Fifty spring boars, For catalog�liddress '.' I: boars and herd boar 100 bred prospects; r' and gilts. Write or come and see our MRM AND HERD, ���d. Gwin Kansas Kan� Charles Morrison & Sons. of Phillipsburg, Bros., MorrowVille. Oswego, of Deming Ranch, owners of one or the best herds In Kansas, AuctIoneers: Jas. T. McCulloch, WUl Myers. Sale Held Wa.sh1nston, Kansas. [I (H. O. Sheldon, Herd Manaser) Red Polled cattle In the Southwest,. report 'their herd doing mil, They report the re �------� cent Bale of a choice bull and six extra good Poland. Okla. at the head of their herd Henry's Big Type heifers to W. S, Roof, of Collinsville, choice high-grade Jerseys will be catalogued the grea.t Du'rOD sold several. bulls an of choice John's one the sires have also recently for this sale. This Is offering Sire, Orion, .of great ' of March and April pigs sired by Mammoth They and a. small 'lot of heifers to Kansas buyers. producers, and 0.11 tuber-. the Duroc breed, Orange, Smooth Prospect and Big Bob 2d, breeding, heavy A feature of their herd lit this time Is the culln tested, ou t of sows the best of big type breeding. outstanding lot of young bulls. Everything Immune. Danrter '& Wooddell, the well known breed_ W. J. Weisner, of Ogden, Kansas, has sold Kansas ers of Duroc Jersey swine at Winfield. Kan.. , 'John D. Henry, Route 1, Lec�mptlln, Ka�sas Duroc Jersey Breeders' Asso his fine farm near that city and will dis The' saa, have announced 28 for has announced February 7 for their his herd of Shorthorn cattle, consist February theJJ! ciation perse annual sow to cows and bred sow sale of Duroe bred' SOWB next annual Duroc Jersey bred sale. Ing of forty head o( regl�tered at and gil ts, The offering will consist of f· BIG·TYPE �OLANDS be- 'held 'Farmers' Week at the college seven young bulls and one herd 'buH. sIxty heifers, head sired such two to five head of sows Goods, All the cows by boars as Crimson Kln� Bred and boars of the easy Manhattan. From a grandson of ChoIce sows, gilts the best Gano's Pride 2d. Danner's Colonel, Path! kind. or gilts will be contributed by 'and heifers old enough to breed will be hred keeping, quick-fattening. big-type finder Chief 2d. and ChIef's Wonder and Write Duroc breeders In the state. The college to this bull or will have' calves at foot. Cholera Immuned and priced right, they will be bred to five of the best Us will use these animals In the swine judging The foundation cows of this herd were pur very what you want. bred boars known to the breed: Chief's Won to. demonstrate the proper breeding type. chased from the herd of Andr-ew Pringle, ISAA()S BTO()K PEABODY. KAN. the der, the first prize and reserve champion a.t FARM, The breeders have consigned some of of Eskridge. Kansas, and other good herds this a. the Kansas State Fair. 1918; I Am Grea.t herds and Is . very best stock from their over the state, Mr. Weisner holding lot Wonder by Great Wonder I Am, one of the offering promises to be about the best complete dispersion sale. Nothing will be this largest hogs of the breed; Pathfinder Jr. ! HOGS! HOGS! FOR SALE! of Durocs sold In any sale In Kansas reserved. Kan by Pathfinder; Z's Orion Cherry by Kin&' year. Roy E, Gwln. of Morrowville. I Poland Chinas and English of Orion Oherry and ,his dam was Prince B Is managing the sale. Gwln Bros" Of Morrowville. Kansas, have ,by erB�ghReglstereds Ires that wekh and win. B. C. Brown sas, Defender; Orion King Illustrator' Crim L announced February 5 for their annual Du by , eghorn Chlcken","lhat lay. See or write Kansas, to ran son Illustrator. dam Illustrator 2d. This Rey'nolds & Gleason. of Horton, roc Jersey bred sow sale. Owing date of offering Is a high class lot of Duroo S. have. claimed February 12 -as" the road connections and other acconimodatlons very Y. MO. This salo sows and gilts and promises to be of BURKS, BOLIVAR, their Jersey cattle dispersion sale, the sale will be held In Washington, Kan on., of B, C. comfortable sale the good offerings that'wlll be sold In wlll be' under the management sas, right In town, In a. any man sale this year, and Includes' part of the Bettles. the well 'known Jersey sales pavilion, The Gwln brothers have been Oak Twenty-seven and have champion show herd year. Grove Stock Farm Polands ager of Palmyra. MissourI. breeding Durocs for several years la;st head of registered and twsntv-two head of ribbon herd of Spotted Polands. Fa1feP Ibluegs sired 0 and 0 25th, are Im rn by and the very best of breed In�ne'l{eCOrded Barred Rock cockerels, $3 ',and $5 ��c��olce "IN BROOD SOW SALE !:. W. SONNENIIIOSER WESTON. 1\10. Famous FEBRUARY 1919 CEDAR (JHJNA8-A Faulkner's TUESDAY, ,18, POLAND splen '��NE bred gilts a great Bon by Big Chimes, and ��tIftg Jr. and out of high class You know the kind--big bones, big hams, big spots .rnatu Hadley also a. few tried sows and fall kind. If interested in MIe world's greatest pork ]llgs ' the prolific rll��ws;mmuned. A. A. Meyer,McLouth, Xs. r-= hog, write for catalog. SPOTTED POLANDS • rel'ANGFORD;S Polands tried sows. herd boar L. Box Mo. . prospects. Spotted H. FAULKNER, K, Jllmesport, T . 'rlts, Bngford & Sons, Jamesport, 1\Ussourl , January 25, 12 K'ANSAS FARMER .JERSEY CATTLE. HORSES' AND MULES. THE THIRD ANNUAL Kansas National Livestock ExpositioD, Horse JICIS AID JEIIETS - Large lIIaIDmoth B I .. e k 15 .Tacks for sale. ages fronf and Livestock SaleJ large, heavy- Show 'Registered 2 to 6 years; boned. Special prices for early for sales. Twenly good jennets stallions. to March 1st. sale. Two Percheron Wichita, Kansas, February 24th see me. Come and - PHIL WALKER $30,000-In Cub for Premiums and Expenaes--$30,OOO Koline. Elk County, Kan_ Entries Are Free. Every Breeder Is Invitec1 to Ezhibit. PERCH,EIION-BELG,IAN SHIRES FOR EVENING HORSE SHOW-$5,300 In foal; $5,300-IN CASH RoglsUtred ma.... beavy nllles. Ton horses will weanling and yearling The world's best harness, saddle, high school and jumping also colts. Grown mnturo .talUODs, for the ours.l.es Ute· ancestors for 11." gen compete money. erations OIl dam slda: .Ins Imported. lewa SALE IN THE U. S. Fred Chandler. Rt. 1. CharHon, IT IS THE BIGGEST ANNUAL HELD: FOR SALE-Five registered cows, to Six 'Hundred Head of Registered Anima" Will Be Sold at be fresh In January. We are pt'lclng PERCHERON STALLIONS ., , are strictly Algare Auction them very reasonable. They Some good young atalllons sired by These Individuals and the and Boaquet, two great herd aires. auction of and nigh elasa, perfect and It wiD be our first big Hampshire Shropshh'e Sheep. stallions are very promising ;,)rlced blood lines. Also young things and young will be and better beat Our Poland: China and Duroc Jersey sales bigger ' - GBEA'r KANSAS bred heifers. lr. �!IHARBI8 BEND. than ever. s. W. BERRY oil: SON. Jewell City, Kan. will be the Rec- "ACKS AND JENNETS The Shorthorn and Aberdeen Angus sales managed by C Good Indi- .- Re....tered Jack.' and J8IlIleta. ord Ass'ociations. seme choice viduals. good colors. Have I· PLACE to sell Quick. The Sale includes seventy-five Registered Holstein-Friesians, TESSORO young jacks that are priced Dairy !II188OURI _ OWL INTEREST FINANCE JERSEYS GEO. S. APP. ABeHIE. Guernseys, Jerseys-many of them with high official recor�B. (Regllter .f Merit) orrer All our bull ealsea are sold and now young THE HEREFORD SALE WILL BE A DINGER sy. elth.. SHORTHORN CATTLE. cows and heir"", from OUY herd. Cows or In &11."'. of Merit or qualltylllll and moot Bulls-twenty-five Females-from famous show herds, suit- dams R. or M. records. Twenty-five . wlUt. Ut. helf.rs have herd. Thee. COWl' will be priced where their orfsprlllll' able to head and improve anY' pure-bred more Utan and' production abo.e teed cost wIJl 100 Bulls-The in the open and' suitable for farmers one !l'or Ute profit. SHORTHORN good kind, grown pay for themselves In yo.r. THE aIll" !dnd, wrlu., or coms and see. and ranchmen. KANSAS IL A. GILLILAND MAYETTA. THE FARMER'S BREED Some of them will be sold in car lots. -BEEF AND MILK We sell twenty-five big rugged two-year-old Galloway. Bulls. If you JERSEYS mado LONGVIEW Shorthorn steers like the black ones. BUY THESE. three world's records on long-haired (Reclater 01 Hent Herd) In 1918 tbe open market 25 JACKS-25 JENNETS Bull calves sIred by champion bulls out .e11lllg for $19.50. $19.60 at The cow. of Register of Merit dams, for sale and $20 per cwt. safe liberal milk several fine I6-hand Jacks and the Mammoth Jennets, F( all times. Incline to a Including big flow wlUt records In ex in foal to KANSAS CHIEF, the world's champion jack. Longview Farm cess of 11.000 pounds per yeaY. When dry Ute Short· HORSES-50' . OF TROTTING BRED LEE'S SUMMIT - MISSOUBI horn cow fattens Quickly. ,50-HEAD in Her calves are always Brood Green and Fast Record demand. The- Shortborn Including Stallions. Mares, Colts, Prospects BROOKSIDE JERSEYS excels in scale. Quality Race Borses. The Percheron sale ever. _ greatest .. L( REGISTERED JERSEY BULLS. few old enough and qulet dlapoaltlon. I1red for service from Eminent F1yln. 11'"" d&IDI. 30 IMPORTED AND AMERICAN-BRED STALLlO!'(S JC son the Queen'a, by Id..Ua.'s Raleigh. a of lI1'ea.t Write tor prices. SHORTHORN BULLS such famous sires as etc'. Ten sons, and Raleigh. By Casino. Kabin, Hoches, - grand- Bl KAN.· .', THOS. D. MARSHALL. SYLVIA, For Sale - Ten bulla. seven to fifteen sons of the International champion. CARNOT. W month. old; Scotch and Scotch topped. Two KllDsaa Goods, one a Bra COLTS J. B'. PORTER&: SONS. Mayetta. Scotch bulls by Type'. 40 IMPORTED AND AMERICAN-BRED MARES, 5 with Bud, the other a Duche8s of Gloster. Breeders of Pure-Bred' Jersey Cattle that All In good condItion and priced reasonably; several famous grand champions, also one daughter of Casino, A small but select herd of producing Including c' Oxford CLAY CENTEBi KANSAS sired . She sells cattie, rich In blood of Gamboge, 8. B. AMCOATS, has produced two International champions (both by Camot) Lad, Golden Fern's Lad. Leda's Fern Lad, Write Me Your Wanta bred 'to Carnot. etc. Write for prices on young stock. If you want to sell your stock in this great sale. Bend us your entries FARM Shorthorns ALLEN CENTER STOCK Cloverdale Farm at once. See next issue of this paper for daily sale program. Separate sale Reglsteriod Jer.aeys from choice cows. For Sal_Three Shorthorn helfere, two for each breed. ... dam Is the highest producing cow catalogs Sire· of Whitehall Sultan; Prices reasonable. bred to a grandson In Kansas. a real also a fine roan yearling Scotch bull, SUPERINTENDE-NT KANSAS. LA KA.."'lS. F. S. KIRK, WICHITA, TBEDWAYoII: SON. HABPE, herd bull for some one. Helfe"" $160 to $225; bull, $300. Must go soon at this. Wesley Jewell, Humboldt, Ks. HOLSTEIN CATTLE. Ellen Dale Breeding Farms . A. R. O. HOLSTEINS Ellen Dale Shorthorn cattle and Duroc hogs. Bred sows, bred heifers. also choice bulls Inspection Invtted. ntne for sale. .A bull calf born, December 12. 1918, dam white. Sired by a 24-pound bull, Kansas Whites tenths R. C. Watson' Altoona, three-year-old. The first Type Is a 17-pound Big Ches_er takes him. KANSAS HERD'S SECOND ANNUAL SALE check for $126 Mulefoot Hogs-Shorthorn Bulls Pinedale Stock Farm Ifour bulla No hogs for sale at present. Chester White Herd of the State KANSAS to fourteen months old, roans and a Selected from the premier H. A. DRESSLER LEBO, eight red. sired by Knox Knoll Dale 617322, priced A trom $160 to $226. REGISTERED HOLSTEINS KnOI Knoll Stock Farm. Humboldt, KUD8B11 six Ten fresh registered cows and heifers, Sows. and 30 Cilts ot SHORTHORNS 60 Head··30 bulls. serviceable ages', out MARK'S 'LODGE RED registered heifers to 23 of butter' For SIIIe-26 well bred cows and . cows with records up pounds heifers, out reasonable. A tew young bulls ID seven days. Ten high gyade bred. priced Bred to four boars born in the purple nearest dams aver Double. Diamond by Diamond Goods. of a bull whose three by week. bred grade Come and see, my herd. aged over 26 pounds per Price, $160. white. VALLEY KANSAS heUers, $12'5; yearlings. $65; almost III. F. MARKS. FALLS, Sale will be held in the Coliseum, heated and under F Write or come and see my herd. Chas. v. Sass FEB. 1919. Ko.nS88 DUROC JERSEYS. LEAVENWORTH, KAN., TUESDAY, 11, lOIS North FIfth St" Kansas City. .- CATTLE now Please write at once; Kansas HOLSTEIN - Catalogs ready, mentioning - 250 freshen 250 Duroc Bred Gilts We offer cows and heifers due to Farmer. calves for In farrow BOO.. Also a few choice ready We offer 260 gilts guaranteed blood lines shipment. Write us Cor prices, etc. and Immune, big, type, best of Sons and pedigrees recorded. Will sell one or a & . W. C. Kenyon carload. Better get our prices. Shipped to Box SS. Elgin, Dllnola ARTHUR MOSSE Holstein Stock Farms, you before you pny for them. ROUTIE 10 LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS . BUTTER-BRED HOLSTEINS F. C. CROCKER Three choice registered Holstein bulls, bred Nebraska ready. for J'Ight service, and' some Box K Filley, ��I�:slll�S'i-.32-pound S�iANTON. KANSAS HIGHVIEW DUROCS BRAEBURN HOLSTEINS Home of Repeater by Joe Orion King and Pathfinder. For sa1e dam and sire's Gdlden Reaper by King Segis herd bull's I My other spring boars and a few bred gilts, g'Jar both held world records. No dam antee satteractton or your money back. 1.000 miles Is of that class; Glenwood Farms Polands within bull F. J. 1I10SER SABETUA. KANSAS and not many anywhere. 60S Kansas Av•• TOllel",. Kan. H. B. Cowles, R. H. DIX & SON'S DUBOCS HOLTON. KANSAS choIce boar, a reat c. S. Nevius & SEGRIST & STEPHENSON, For Salo--One spring Sons, record bred to llYeeders·lIXclu.I••ly of pure-bred prlze·wlnnlnK herd header. Twelve spring gilts brea.kinK Hol.etelna, Co.....pondence .oUclted. Giant Crimson by G. M.'s Crimson Wonder, a prize wInning boar. Priced reasonable for HEBD Miami Kansas GOLDEN BELT HOLSTEN quick sale. Write today. Chiles, County, Hello KANSAS Herd headed by Sir Korndyke Bess R. H. DIX & SON, HERINGTON. His No. 186946, the long distance stre, dam, OUR BRED· SOW SALE AT FARM average �and dam and dam's two sisters WOODDELL'S DUROCS butter In one year. better than 1,200 pounds boars the for sale. I am gOing to slash prices on Young bulls of serviceable alre next thirty d'aya, If you want a good boar 1919 MANHATTAN. KANSAS February 17, W. B. BENTLEY. at a bargain, write at once. G. B. WOODDELL - WINFIELD. KANSAS RELIABILITY IS WHAT COUNTS CHOICE HOLSTEIN CALVES brPrl. beau 12 Helten und 2 Bulls, highly Duroc Bred Sows and Gilts Our most worthy offering �f our twenty-five years, producing 300 head tifully marked, and from heavy producing t any well bred sows and bred the Make and out kind. dams. at $25 each. crated for shipmen For Sale-Several per year, always large type. goon prove Write March and where. Safe delivery guarantee']' gilts bred for early April litters, WIS. a few hoars. FERNWOOD FARIIJ, WAUWATOSA, priced to sell. Also spring 25 TRIED SOWS AND FALL YEARLINGS First check or draft gets choice. Sold on an absolute guarantee or money back. 25 LARGE STRONG SPRING GILTS JOHN A_ REED &: SONS. LYONS. KANSAS GUERNSEY CATTLE. Carrying the blood of Big Bob Wonder through King Wonder ll; Giant Joe with the boars mixed in. "Feed Your Hungry Crops" Is the title of through Wonder's Joe, several of leading a little pamphlet published by the Inter we want sale Please send for BULLS Remember. you here personally day. GUERNSEY national Harvester Company. It contains at serviceable age, of come. Good Individuals much Information of Interest and value to catalog and Masher Sequel. ftay May ftoyal. May Rose. JIve stock farmers. It treats largely of tile Preel breeding. 'Wrlte or come mond of the means of using farm manure to the best C. S. NEVIUS & SONS CHILES, KANSAS Harvester ad van tage. The Intcrnatlonal GASHLAND, II11SS0URI �A��� t�Tiill(. Company will be glad to send a free COpy miles from Kansas City. Twelve on request. KANS''AS FARMER .' Caldwell's Big.�Bob. Poland China Sale At Howard, Kansas, FebruarY 8, 1919 4& HEAD CAREFULLY SELECTED SOWS AND GILTS '115 Will Be Bred and S.afe to Caldwell's Big Bob. 10 Will Be Bred and Safe to King Jumbo. 10 Will Be Bred and Safe to King Bob. An made of and young sows. A few of the attrae- . offering pra�tically up yearling - tions bred to Caldwell's Big Bob are a March Jumbo out of Longfellow Belle by Longfellow J11l11BO GIRL, yearling by Big . ' . Price. Smooth MAMIE GmL, a March gilt by Blue VaHey Big Bone, dam Mollie Big Bone by Big Bone. DOYAL GIANTESS, a May yearling_by Long' Giant. dam Royal Lady by Long GIant. JESSIE JONES, a granddaughter of Hancher's Big Jones. J11l11BO MAIDEN, a March two-year-old by Jumbo by Long Wonder, dam by Kin.. Defender. LADY SPEARMINT, by Giant Buster, dam Lady Queen by Long Expansion, one of the top things In the Wrigley dispersion sale. cham LADY QUEEN, by Long Expansion; an outstanding March gilt by the 1917 Iowa pion, A's Mastodon. All are Immuned and I have Insured the entire offering for' one year from date of sate, tor one-half the purchase price. This will Insure each purchaser- a bred sow or the Insurance money. The sale will be held In the heated sale pavilion on the Ell H. E. Myers' Poland China Bred Sow Sale WONDER by King of Wonders. .' 1919 . Gardner, Kansas, January 31, Attractions bred to Big Giant, the great young Ion of Denny's Giant by Giant Buster, include-- BRED SOWS AND TS FORTY HEAD BIG IMMUNED GIJ. LADY JUMBO by Model Big Bob; two big roomy gilts by Eighteen Tried Sows, Sixteen Fall Gilts, A Monster; two gilts by World's Big Timm, and six spring Seven Spring Gilts gilts by Big Bob Wonder and Big Ned, Maharry's noted show An offering sired by BIG BOB. WONDER, WEDD'S boar. LONG KING, GIANT JOE, W'S GIANT, GERSTDALE _. Two outstanding spring gilts by Gerstdale Jones, litter JONES, FESSY'S TIMM, BIG NED, A MONSTER, MODEL sisters, one bred to the sensational Liberatorv-the other to BIG A WONDERFUL CHOICE GOODS, and Bond. A Williams Wonder fall bred to BOB, KING, Liberty gilt Liberty- WORLD'S BIG TIMM. Boo� Bred to Giant Joe are- The One Sale Event You Will Surely Want to Attend PATSY WONDER by King of Wonders, dam Patsy Defender, Send for catalog, mentioning Kansas Farmer. the dam of Wonder Joe, the sire of the Schmitz Bros.' great futurity litter; BOB'S BEAUTY by Big Bob Wonder; REX H.. E. Myers' Gardner, Kaneas' ALL QUEEN by Wedd's Long King;· and KING'S LADY Col. J. C. Price, Auctioneer Poland China Bred Sow Poland China Bred Sow Sale Sale At Farm near Great :Bend,. Barton County, Kansas - My At Gypsum, Kansa. January 28, 1919 January 29, ,1919 Fifty Head Tried Sows, Spring Yearlings and Fan Gilts FORTY-EIGHT HEAD, ALL IMMUNED Fifteen Choice Tried Sows, Eight Fan Yearlings, and Twenty-five Large Spring Gilts The Best Offering Ever Sold in This Locality. The tried sows are sired by Monte The spring gilts are sired by Blue Cristo, Fessy's Timm, Orphan Chief. Valley Timm, Gerstdale Jones, Giant Orphan Big Gun, Big. Hadley Jr., Big Jones, Mammoth Jones, Bis Master Bone Model, Chief Expansion, Big piece, Wonder. Timm, Giant Bob, A Wonder, King Price Wonder, Big Big Wonder, Kansas Wonder, and A choice offering of well bred sows and gilts, including several sows that Bone Ben, Bob Wonder, Master Caldwell's Big Bob. It Big ave proven gaul producers, and a lot of spring yearlings and fall gilts, Orphan, King Joe 3d, and. King Bob. All Bred to Sons of Wond�r Buster, Big Jones, Big Bob Wonder, and Jumbo's King Will be bred for early spring farrow to three great herd This is I am a lot that my first annual sale and selling splendid any boars: GIANT BOB by Mellow Bob, dam Fontanelle by A farmer or breeder will be pleased to own. I urge every 011e interested in The WONDER TIMM Big g�od hogs to attend my sale. One of my herd !lOWS, Miss Orange Blossom, Big Orphan by Big Orphan; by 'ylll weigh right at 800 pounds. She farrowed thirty-eight pigs in three Timm, dam Long Susie by Long Wonder; BIG BUSTER by IJrers. Several of her daughters and granddaughters go in the sale. A part the $5,300 Wonder Buster. 0, t?e offering is sired by Jumbo King, the sire of the Kansas show herd in and a full brother to A Wonderful King, the grand champion Poland Farmers and breeders, we solicit your attendance at our b·:�bllP!1 of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas State Fairs in 1916. I have no bOll;r on the merits of our Please send for catalog list. Please send for and to attend sale. I sale, offering. nJalhng catalog arrange. my guarantee a good offering. and arrange to come. F.W. Bartholomew, Great Bend, Kas. Adams & Mason, Gypsum, Kansas Col. J. C. Price, Auctioneer Col. J. C. Price, Auctioneer E R 'K A N SA S FARM , Expansihh_Wonder, Hillcrest King, Iowa Lad, Big Wonder lJadley; Big Wonder These .are br-ed Price and Orange Taxpayer, with one, daughter of Buster Over. I Poland China Bred Sow Sale to Long Bob and Model Timm 2d, our two great young boars. ,Bendena, Kansas, February 13,'1919 so Head - 5 Tried Sow., 19' Fall Yearlings '/ Twenty-six Spring Gilts ------.-- BRED -TO -' - Blue BIG. BOB 2D - The Great MODEL TIMM 2D By Breedi,ng Son of Big 'Bob Valley Timm, one of the sea- Wonder . son's great young prospects KING BO�.....,.By J. H. Ander.Oft'. noted sire, Long Bob, and' . WONDER PRICE 2D by King Price 2d REXALL BEAUTY The five tried sows include REXALL CHOICE and by Rexall out of Metal Maid. These two sows have farrowed but one litter, Futurity Rexall and each and are now bred to Big Bob 2d. MISS QUALITY by Futurity MISS STANDARD by Chief Expansion, both bred to Model Timm 2d, and. 'On'e of Big Bob 2d's Best Daughters Bred to Wonder Price 2d THE FALL YEARLINGS INCLUDE the 1918 show litter FUTURITY REXALL, dam Black Lady 3d. Four of by WONDER PRICE 2D.' Bob 2d and Wonder Price 2d. We also sell the sires, BIG BOB 2D 76106 and, These are outstanding and are bred to Big great attend sale. We a . 2D out of 0 K Maid, Madam Please send for and arrange to guarantee splendid Fifteen big, roomy daughters of BIG BOB catalog of useful well bred and Hadley Queen. One of these will weigh 700 pounds; four, lot hogs. 1'- Orange . 6.60 pounds. '(, Herman & Sons, Bendena, Kansa. Gronniger . 'Bob Wonder Price 2d, Hadley, 'M�: Th� twenty-six spring gilts areby Big 2d, Big Auctioneer, Col. R. L. Harrimen, Bunceton, J. M. BAR.En'S IREAT SALE OF IMMU.ED- Pola,nd China Bred ,Sow 811e POLAND OHINA BRED' SJ:WS SCH'NEIDER a CORKHILL YEARLINGS AND GILTS At Nortonville, Kansas, February 11, 1919 45 HEAD OF TRIED SOWS AND FALL YEARLINGS The big, useful farmer hog, sired by such boars as Pfan DECKER'S GARAGE,' DENISON, KANSAS, der's King, Long King's Best, Guy's Expansion, Model Bob, AT Long Price, Jumbo Timm, Timm Again, The Giant, Big Bob FEBRUARY 12, 1919 Jumbo, Great Leader, Bell's Orphan, Big Bob 2d by Big Bob Smooth Jumbo Wonder by Six:: Tried Sows, Sixteen Fall Yearlings, Wonder, Master Orphan, Wonder, . H·I.d Three Spring .Boars B Wonder, and other good boars. They will be bred for March 52 Twenty-seven Spring' Gilta, JUMBO CHIEF Bloemendaal's Big Chief.- I am and April litters to our herd boars, Gerstdale Prince by Gerst Forty sired by BIG by Greenfield Princess especially proud of this lot. ". dale Bob by Big Jones and his dam was BLUE VALLEY GIANT 2D The offering is sired oy, BIG JUMBO 76095, Jumbo Wonder B Wonder out of Long MAJOR ZIM and BIG JUMBO by Big Wonder, by 63217, EXALTER'S RIVAL 68360, 61640, Wonder 2d Giant by The Giant. CHIEF 83016. _ dam, Long the is bred to BIG JUMBO CHIEF, with the exception of insures their future useful- The offering These sows have been grown in a way that bred to NO WONDER and GIANT K 2D. will lots sired him, and these are as breeders. are not but in condition, and they by shown ness. They fat, good on BIG JUMBO CHIEF is ideal, 'as is best The NO WONDER cross gilts make for farmer or breeder if cared for. This -is the good any properly bunch of fall I now have on the place. � the great xpigs lot we have ever offered. by and the fall The tried sows raised two litters each last year, yearlings our sale. We a Please send for 'catalog and come to guarantee good ' write either>" all raised fall litters. Sale ill town. Good train service. For catalog MAKE GOOD FOR THE FARMER offering. right THE PROLIFIC KIND, THE KIND THAT both size and An offering with outstanding individuals, quality mention Kansas Farmer. Good train service JO'E SCHNEIDER or I. A. CORKHILL Please send for catalog and ' I a good offering. NORTONVILLE, KANSAS an� guarantee KANSAS J. M. BARNETT DENISON, and Col. John Daum. and Auctioneers:' Col. Frank Reagan Auctioneers-Col. Jas. McCullough,' Col. Decker, Triggs Addy SHEEP HAMPSHIRE DISPERSAL SALE of Reynolds & Gleason's Jersey Cattle SHROPSHIRE HOqS 1919 Regl8tered HampshlreHogs-Sows and Spring Horton, Kansas, Wednesday, February 12, FOR SALE GUts, bred or open. ChoIce sprIng boars. Dou l ot heavy-wooled ble treated. Geo. W. Ela" Valley Fall8. KaJ!.s08 At the Farm Seven l\Ules West of Horton, Five l\lllcs North of Wb.!t1ng A bunch big J y.o'l1 n g regIstered ShropshIre Bred 27 'HEAD OF REGISTERED JERSEYS In prIce. BREEDERS' DIRECTORY BREEDING �:1f';e nroatm�.igh DORSET HORN SHEEP 22 HEAD OF HIGH GRADES 'OF BEST Ia. Howard Chandler, Charlton, Route Kan, non R. (J. LaTourette, 2. Oberlin, , a.nd breeders. Never' had a Heavy producers, tuberculin tested regular HEREFORD (JATTLE breeder on the farm. , F. S. Topeka. Kan. of the celebrated Gam Jackson, Headed by DISTINCTION'S GAMBOGE 151160, grandsori AUCTIONEERS. RED POLLED CATTLE Merit cows boge's Knight, sold for $6.700 and,sire of forty-five Register of averaging Mahlon 'Groenmlller, Pomona. Kansas. DURHAMS over 600 pounds bu tter per. year. Stock AucU._ POLLED etc, This Is an BLAKELlve Sale also Includes a lot of Horses. Hogs, Farming Implements. FRANK I make sales anywhere (l. M. Albright. Overbrook. Kan. to secure some first class absolute dIspersal. Nothing reserved. An opportunIty WrIte tor date. VALLEY FALLS. KANSAS ' Jerseys at your own price. will be trom Horton and WhIting day of sale. For cata ANGUS CATTLE Conveyances provIded W� B. CARPENTER logs and particulars wrIte ��Vc�t��OeCe� PresIdent MIssourI Auction School B. C. SETTLES, Sales Manager, PALMYRA, MISSOURI 818 Walnut St. Kan8B8 City, Missouri Dietrich's Aberdeen-Angus -, bulls. Auctioneer-Col. Chas. Streeter, Horton, Kansas LIVE STOCK AUCTIONEER Fifteen Aged bulls. fIfteen choIce sprIng years' experIence. WIre for date. Females, all ages, . CARBONDALE. KA:"· JOHN D. SNYDER. HUTCHINSON. KAN. GEO. A. DIETRICH, l • , f old, Gallant Red Lady tr,!-cing .'fe Im and Knight; - DISPERSION O,F den. C.rown SALE ported Flora, and Knigbt'&· Missie, tracing to Imported' Ito$e., S·H'ORTHO,.RN C.YT·,t.E ,All wiH be bred to Caroline's Roan, a grandson of Choice GOQds. AT. MY -FARM ·NEAR OGDEN; KANSAS . , Sa,til.�daY, ',Fe'b.ruary, :15� 1919 , . "- I ha�� sold 'fa�:'�nd :�In selling 'my elltire herd' of. �y . ·cattle. Shor,th'oAl " both, regiat-ered ancl·'·h,ig,h grraCfe . 40 HEAl) REGIST�D S'HORTiJORN CQWS ,.AN'D . HEIFERS, 7 YOUNG Bk1LLS�' AN'D ONE, HERD' BULL, .' ' . . . , � . \ Sale will -be hela right on the. farm, two niiles' frolJl Five Shorthorn cows' pure-bred' but c"n grade thal.�are' Parties are to. come on the elec -cows Ogden, Ka�sas. _ .requested . and foundation not be registered. Several by. reg!stered Junction or Manhattan and stop at Kemp. tric line from City ' . herd at and . from the Andrew Eskridge, Kansas, . come Prin�le one from farm.' Crossing, mile, • are such cows .as Caroline tracjng' to -Imported Rosemary; But Please send for and' come to sale .f you' 'w.ant . catalog . terscotch tracing to Imported Pomona: Bluebell tr�.aing, to Im-, ' some' 'good useful cattle. ported Pomona' Anna, a spl'ent:J,id', Scotch..topped cow tracing to Imported White Rose and SCbttish Pride, bred by Joe Baxter, Gol- ,W. J. KANS.• Clay Center, Kansas, tracing to Imported Blossom; through WEISNER',' O�D,EN, Duroc Bred So� Sale.February 14,'1919 Jersey , ., At TURON, KAN. 50 Head Tried Sows, Fall Yearlings and Spring Gilts Several daughters of Critic B and Crimson "Illustrator, the sire 0:( the first prize futurity litter, Kansas State Fair, 1918. Same daughters of King Orion Cherries and Cherry Chief, '- . ._- Prince Defender and other noted sires. __ I am offering the best lot of bred sows and gilts I have ever saId and bred to the best son of. High Orion, The sows have all raised good litters. The fall yearlings are a part ·of my show herd and are well grown out. The spring gilts are the I ever I a Please send , .' best raised, guarantee good offering. :' .r'- for BRED ORION UNEEDA'S HIGH, ORION for catalog and 'come to my sale. Write today catalog to A S�PLE, ';r(1rHIGJI Col. John D. Snyder, Auctioneer / (Sale held right in town.) ': DUROC JERSEY· Breeders' Sale Morrow, Washington; Casement Ranch, Manhattan; W. H. At Ma�hattan, Kan., February' 7 Shroyer, Miltonvale; John A. Reed 8r. Sons, Lyons; Glen Kee seeker, Washington; Guy, Zimmerman, M.orrowville; C. H. GREAT SOWS AND GILTS FIFTY HEAD Black, Marion; L. W. Coad, Glen Elder; J. W. Petford; Saf G. M. of Tried Sows, Thirty Spring and Fall fordville; C. W. McClaskey, Girard; Shepherd, Lyons; Consisting Twenty J. A.' Yearling Gilts. I' Kempin Bros., Corning; Clyde C. Horn,' Stafford; Geo. M. Holton; F. J. Moser, Howell, Herkimer; Klusmire, , herds. The pick from twenty-four _good Sabetha; M. R. Peterson, Troy; L. G. Wreath, Manhattan; Harry Givens, Manhattan; Homer Drake, Sterling . . There are daughters and granddaughtersof Pathfinder, the Illustrator This sale will be held during Farmers' Week. Please write Orion Cherry King, Great Wonder, King Col., '. for to 2d, Grand Model and Joe O'Rion 2d./ They will be bred to catalog such boars 'as Orion Cherry King, Joe O'Rion 2d, Pathfinder, High Orion, King Orion Jr., King's Col., King the Col. and Roy E� Gwin, Sale Mgr. Morrowville, Kans. Joe Orion 5th. The following well known Kansas' breeders are contributors to this sale: L. L. Humes, Glen Elder ; W. And arrange to be an hand at this sale at the College, Friday, W. Jones, Clay Center; Gwin Bros., Morrowville; William February 7, 1919. THE, BIG, SENS'ATION - POLA.ND CHINA SAL'E Giantess by Big Ben; Walnut Valley Girl by Big Hadley Jr.; Timm's Superba 1919' by Walter's Jumbo Timm, dam Lady Superba by, Superba; lola Jumbo by -Iowa Hutchinson, Kan., February 19, Jumbo; Bessie Jumbo 2d by Jumbo Hadley, a daughter of Bessie Wonder, the breed ever Won He�d headed by BIG SENSATION, the biggest boar of any shown, highest-priced sow sold in Kansas in 1917; Miss Model by YOWlg Orphan; assIsted by Buster Price, Big Hadley Jr., King Price Wonder and Big Bob Jumbo der Queen by High Wonder, one of the top things in the Wrigley dispersion Bale; Wonder Girl by Fessy's A Wonder, and others of equal note. SIXTY HEAD-Fifteen Tried Sows, Fifteen Junior Yearlings, JUNIOR YEARLING GILTS: Four by' Smooth Big Bone 'A, three by Big Fift�en Yearlili'g�, Fifteen Spring Gilts Bob Wonder, two by Caldwell's Big Bob, ami two by McCoy's Big Joe 2d. F�IJ FALL are Jr., Price Wonder and Bob " YEARLqWS by Big Hadley King Big FIFi'Y; HEAD �RJP' TO BIG SENSATION Jumbo, while the spring gilts are by Big Hadley Jr., Erhart's Big Chief, Long Others' to Erhart's the son of' Bloemendaal!s Chief, and Bob and Big Jones. Big. Chief, '-"great Big B,!ster Price by Giant Buster Send for catalog and notice the generous offer of prices for Big Sensation pigs that show at the various shows next fall. This is an opportunity for all, You know what it means to a roalsow bred to the boar of the h�ve biggest Don't overlook it.' Please write for and come to our sale at Hutchinson. b . catalog reed-yes, of any breed. Well, this is the place to get them" We will ,I§how you the greatest lot of real sows ever driven through one sale ring. A. J. Erhart & Sons, Ness City, Kansas Sows that sell bred to Sensation arc: Josie Timm; " Big by Fessy's Big Big McCormick Giantess and Wonder Giantess, litter mates by King of Wonders out of Big Ben's Auctioneers-Cois. Snyder, Price, Groff, Kramer, THE SOUTHER:n' KAmAS ClRc'UIT: Bert Hodson's Dispersion, Wichita, Kansas, February 17; Francois Olivier & Sons, Danville, Kansas, February 18; A. J. Erhart & Sons, Hutchinson, Kansas, February 19; Ross &. Vincent, Sterling, Kansas, February 20; Bruce Hunter, Lyons, Kansas, February 21. BarracksFarm:'oi��t First . Dispersion �SaJe, Satu�_�aj; 't:�'ruary � 15 46 - � 46 ••iah"t1ltJJe - R�8ilter:�d- Holste�-F: � ,'\, <, :�" THE SALE ""'� • INCL.ES':I' .., " Two Sires iii-·SerVice Fifteen Cowa·"in Milk or Springe.... ,Seventeen Heif�rs: two' 2-year.-olds , Four 'Yearlings and ,Eleven Calves R-om 2, to, 12 months. old to obtain :stock irom, the Government's ._ This is your first opportunity Big Herd here. DON'T MISS IT. ." and Production are the features-'oJ -- .outstanding, Breeding, Individuality - , this herd. , ever been The stock offered for sale is as fine a group' of indiiVidualS as lias them placed on the market. It will pay' you to come to this sale "lid'look ove�. ') REMEMBER THE'DATE AND �END FOR CAT�OG. Other Offerings: .' I ' One thousand Pure-bred Comb White in pens. Eacli pen _ Single Leghorns consists of twelve selected' pullets, developed and ready' for business, carefully ; , and one cockerel. Each cockerel is a real pen-header of the best breeding; . , A of .of the fin.es,t, breeding, the kind number Regi.stered Dnroe-Jersey _Boai's . . ' that -you will be, proud to own. _ _. �, , U. S. Disciplinary,·Barracks Fa..ttt 'Colony EORT LEAVENW:ORTH, UNSA�' " Harlo J. Fiske, Captain Q. M. C., Sales Manager AAGGIE This sale be held in the Leavenwoith -Sale, Leaven- CARLOTTA GERBEN DE KOL wm co�junction wi� County ' wlllbe .» 14 and !l919. '" This fine show, heifer, as well as her son and daughter, sold. worth, Kailsas, FebnJaiY ,13, 15, _ , of Holstein-Friesian Cattle ".,�" :�=.a ,:�;:Leavenworth County Sale "Leavenworth, Kansas, February 13-14, -1919: .- ]�{c HUNDRED HEAD OF h,IGH GRADES HUNDRED- HEAD OF P1::JRE-BREDS'-DNE .�;:�J�' �!:' _, ONE , St. "Louis World's Fair. It also produced Shadybrook Gerben, the,'great,-cow- - .r Febtllary 13, 100' he�d 'of heavy 'milking, ,,�JiL.'Ih.Jclay, that at twelve' of over all breeds for production (if , " years agawae champion oree e hel'fer fr h 0r eI'OH ri r , d es, , ,.,��_.�-.,-,-' '--""i:ild Ch" b� Sf sp nge a, both' milk and butter in the St. Louis World's Fair' production contest. The � �. Leavenworth � itl 1:), �'., These 'cattle are being dispersed by only living daughter, together with several granddaughters of Shadybrook Ocr- to. make rOQm for pure-breds and' are a fine Iot ben, are included in this dispersal sale. Another.' offering of particular impor- '�Qo�n :rmers DIOTIN CL'YDE . tance f.rom the herd 'is the show bull, � This is an for the of car- Mool'e great and breeding 01'" opportunity ' buyer gta"i'hi�/�attle. 'CORNUCOPIA LADD 150537, an unusual opportunity' for a breeder affording _ lots. '. 1�!1d or group ?f breeders to_�ecure !J. high class 'herd bull., I In thiS sale twenty A. R. O. cows, forty daughters of A. R. O. cows, twenty .' 100 head of the best reg,istered safe 'Qn Friday, February" 14, rlaughters of 30·pound 'bulls, cows and heifers, many beavy springers the fifty cattle;' g will consist of consignments from In calf to record bulls, fresh cows, fifteen heifer calves ,and a few ' This., , higb Twenty of herds of A. S. e, Manhattan, Kansas, 'and Mott Bros., Her choice young bulls from 30-pound sires and A. R. Q. dams, granddaughters Abbe bgether dispersal of the M. E. Hengerveld De Kol, Pontiac Korndyke, Johanna McKinley .Segis, TId,. i!igton, Kal!�a!:l;':, with th� entir.e kerk ofrthe Pontlaes and other 'famous bulls, animal, both of the latter to be sold to Prince, King every �oore & ;�;� herd Cameron, MISSOUl'1, and tuberculin tested. Sale held and comfortably seated in grade pure-bred, ' the dis- - the estate. This will without greatest to start at 10 a. -m, , settle be, doubt, beated pavilion-sale each, _ dar. , ev:er held of the River, - This .herd _ persal sale west Mississippi For of this write W. H. Mott, Sal�s great , was founded by the late M. E. Moore; nearly forty years ago,' catalog sale, ' Kansas. _ , and has always been conceded to be the reading herd of the Cen Manager, "erington, furnished stock for many famous, , tr&l\$est. It has .foundation Auctioneers - J. E. Fort Atkins�n, ,Wis., an� State Mack, herds both east and west, including the Pontiac, Mich., N. in the box. others. , S.,T. Wood, Liv.erpool, Y., Herd that gave to the breed Hengerveld De Kol, Pon- Hospital Barracks will head of ' NOTE.-Th� U. s. 'sell forty pure-bred other sires. Discipiuiary ti�� K!orndYkEi� famous, Holsteins in the same building OD Saturday, February 15. Arrange both sales. The and exhibited the show herd at the Moore he�d 'ifi-oduced championJ .:,s. .: At My Farm -Near Meriden, Kansas Febr-uary 14, 1919 FORTY COWS 'AND HEIFERS Several with calves at foot and all bred to Silk Goods, Vindicator and Royal Orange for early spring calves. Four teen bulls by Silk Goods, Vindicator, Royal Orange and Good' 'Enuff, he by Searclilight Boy' by Searchlight. of most The cows and heifers represent the breeding White useful The Rose, " all the leading families of cattle, < Violet , YEARS OLD Rose of Sharon, Queen Beauty, Buds, ••SII1K G,00:QS;:}.l'EN Young Marys, I � "" oj •• • .��_.. , Golden Prince and Imported Arabella; several cows tracing Caroline and Red to Imported Hudson, Imported Imported I �;�iIbi" ;twepty .head of registered DUJ'oo Lady 5th. This is the best lot of cattle I have ever .Jen�.ute':8Iret".iiy, C Critic by A Critic and for sale. 'bred'� my lit!lld :bD",... , nuber's Wonder by Great offered Wonder. His dam Pereheron stallion and Wonder ,2d J,y,:',(lreat Was I will also offer one The registered , Dlostrator Queen by King Dlustrator. Per five Percheron mares in .foal 'and two grade gilts are the pick from my herd and-are well grade . -eheron geldings, a splendid work team. 1I'l'0wn out. 'A GROUP OF SILK GOODS HEIFERS on the Santa Fe or Grantville, send for one and come to sale. Parties met either at Meriden, Kansas, Railway, My catalogs are ready to mail out. Please sixteen miles northeast of Kansas. For catalog write Kansas, on the Union Pacific Railway. Farm Topeka, H. E. HUBER, MERIDEN, KANSAS