Volume 55, Number 37. TOPEKA, KANS,AS, SEPTEMBER 15, 1917.

THE -FARM HIKE Over Fifty Em£ryo' Montaomery County,Farmers Visit Best Farms of Count-y . second of the viduals in this herd came in for special of the best farms in belly and is held down by the operator's On 'Thursday, the day was made mud One, of these- had been in the were visited foot. 'The of the farm gave tour, the march through study. Montgomery C.ounty proprietors, at of and rain The arrived at the Bush- Southwestern Dairy Show Kansas TIDRTY-FlVEthe who took in the a demonstration of the method using ... boys by boys part fall was a fine - ,- nell farm .aboub six and after last and r..e.marJmbly annual farm bureau hike, August 15, 16 this castration table. � O'clock, City their clothes and a specimen of the breed. Mr. were in Almost the entire section visited from drying out getting PO\lenoe, and 17. There fifty-two boys of indicated farm the end of the turned in for a long night's county agent Lyon County, the and, in spite of the rain and the Ellis -to trip, good supper, ,- party to be about mid- the to consider in the s�lection.e roads the with it to was in 'the best orchard land in Mont.' sleep only interrupted points muddy boys stayed cows. the water­ showers. , dairy the end of the They traveled gomery County. It is also in night by heavy trrp, farm south of Inde- I fact was Mr. Bushnell has a herd of .At the Ewing miles' on foot and fifteen melon growing section, which splendid thirty-three and the the found one of the interurban. of special interest to the' boys. The pure-bred Bliropshire sheep, boytl pendence boys miles by visited on the were- .with the most places.. Carl G. adaptability of the soil for these �ops made acquainted points interesting District, Agricultural Agent how Mr. , of were also told inspected Ewing's dairy of Southeast Kansas and was noted' especially on the farm of good sheep. They trip. They Elling ,Agricul· his silos and his herd of Holstein northwest o{ Cof­ to avoid trouble from stomach worms, bam, tural H. L. Popenoe of Lyon Ernest Miller &; Sons. Agent these most troublesome cattle and noted=the operation of 'his assisted E. J. Macy, agricultural feyville. -Mr, Miller has a demonstra­ parasites being County' to the lambs. Mr. Bushnell a demo milking machine. This was very inter­ for Montgomery County, in con­ tion orchard under the- direction ,of the, gave agent onstration of the' method of a, as well as practical to the boys. the' tour. Professor Tomlinson Agricultural College. With the help of drenching esting ducting three cows was a how to 'it a dose of A class of aged brought of the .. schools had his sona- he has constructed power lamb.- showing give Independence city The out and the tried into while Frank De­ and have sprayed th.e or­ medicine without strangling. party boys putting prae­ of the sports, sprayer they - charge also his of ,tice what had learned about select­ took care of the feed­ chard the supervision of George O. inspected he;4 pure-bred they Hart, a local chef, under Mr. farm was to horticulturist of the extension Herefords, his barn, and ing dairy' cows. Ewing's which . gambrel.roof of the proved Greene, , " ing aggregation, one visited. From there the kind division. hollow tile silo. the last be a- The boys were very quite job. At the Banks which is man- took the interurban car for Inde·' , are tried farm, boys ill with this work, _ Two irrigation systems being assisting, W. the found there at 4: 15 the of the first out on the Miller /farm. Mr. Miller says aged hy C. Conrad., boys pendence, !1,rriving Early on the morning day -of the one best' orchards in afternoon

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In the Oheat­ to the without,;, sas". c.onsisting il)f twenty-four best' to Kansae, In the .. paat opened gates public can seen of . adapted i�s headed by 'as nut herd also 00 evidences. of .. Belgians. full claselfieatlons have been made admisaion TIle jd�a ,!-, fr��, !!his,..,her.d,is of the herd sire. when «!targ�. a as has ever been, the prepotent power at a fair was, an innovabion m good Belgian stll,llion herd bull some out-of-the-state breeders have gate big Take the. show of The Galloway-Messer Farm fair add when this' KaliEfas" shown hi K8;n�a.$·�· animals of all the breeds for bueiness, . th¢ was of the Free .Fair last year, brought nerve draft as whole, the champion won Free Fair Association bad the' -to �:: quality which were offered and -. ,. horses". premiums at·· fair. but Kansas breeders are not willing the 'three ranks higher :than' any previous the the without and fre­ make experiment years .ago concede this until the' money competltion, end exliibtts. ! to, defeat," year exhib- There are absolutely no tail that were not of big fairs and leading -. -breed is on animals espe­ officia)s of the fair decided ribbons are t,ied. The Jersey quently itors of the the result The management not creditable to the breeds rep­ _ country watched'. two Fred cially they to conduct the horse show which has �·r.epresented by only' exhibitors, with keenest interest. The idea' een- and resented. for several This of Laptad, of Lawrence, showing ten, tcred around the thought that a big fair been held years. of the G. T!' Braden, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, educational inatitution and as 'course removed one spectacular was an of Aulne is' One of the live stock features of the a Johnson. showing be made free so features, . from, strictly practical twel).ty. snch should absolutely but., a. and the bull day' was the boys' jlidg� con­ from it is a feature that could be Guernsey bull, Guernsey opening that no one need be prevented get- 'standpoint is also test conducted Dr. C. W. . without loss. to the fact own� by the Agricultural College by Mc!2ampbell all the possible by having to spared Owing ting good on exhibition.. This bull is an of the Agricultural College. 'Eighteen. of and ,that none of the exhibitors had large college pay for the privilege attending breed and the all sections of the there was room outstandlng animal of the boys, representing exhibits. is no numbers of entries, studying the ..It longer on took in this contest which left in the barn to house the ·college is to l>� congratulated having state, part an The free gate idea has enough forenoon. experiment. such a class animal at Ute head of was held Monday They ·judged both the who horses of- Battery A, which is encamped high been approved. by people herd. The exhibitor two classes of two of beef cat': In one section of its Guernsey only horses, attend and the exhibitors. Thoae on the fair ground. by of is William Galloway, of tIe, two of dairy cattle, and two of hogs. of their the barn was the usual string of Shet- Ayrshires who go to .the expense fitting one the It was an to see these the exhibitor be- Waterloo, Iowa. This is of good interesting sight for exhibit.ion are never so well land ponies, principal products herds of the It is to be re­ alert young fellows going carefully over crowd of R. J. Foster, of Topeka. This sec- country. satisfled as when have Ii· ing was out for they with' the do not have some com- each ring as it brought around them the exhib- tion is exeeedingly popular gretted that they people studying . As usual the milk to work on and finally marking exhibitor children. petition. three-day ,t1iem its and The , asking 'questions. and blitterfat test ill -eonducted by down their and handing them in 31 31 "'-31 being placings is primarily interested .showing his. the to the the young The cattle barn is well filled. Here the superintendent of depart- superintendent, Upon skill to as as This dair] many people possible. all the cows in flow men of the state who tbus early horse barn there are no ani- ment. Nearly good begin is the feature of the free as in the live stock outstanding are entered this to the of not to be shown in such a, of milk in. three-day study principles fair. of classes this worthy measure the I!l.ll)any i�s m�ls contest. Good are offered .depends in large gate, Kansas Free fair. In the Shorthorn breed there are money prizes judging s exposltion of the in live stock year almost for the winning cows, and in addition a p.ogress made improvement breaks all records, As we eleven exhibitors showing ninety Fail;' previous of. a silver in the to come. herds are shown sweepstake prize consisting years . the touches are be-. animals. All but five write, finishing just is offered the Kansas Farmer closes' Kansas farmers. There are now no cup by :r :r:r and before �he, gay , by ing' given, and the Kansas In order to hold this cup per­ will be the special Kansas classes, Company.. Probably no exhibit in the remodeled cverything i�:re'adine�s �or It must be won three years in seem well able to on manently . is more who are beginning to breeders compete agrleultural building attracting people already, the same exhibitor. It is even terms with breeders from sueeession by that of the and stream in through the' wide open gates. fairly attention than boys' girls' ' now held the Genoa Indian School. such states as Iowa or Among by club work of the state. In this exhibit . . .: Mis�ouri. 'Ill. •. , . Nebraska. :r�" : Kansas breeders are A. L. Genoa, dozen of canned In hurriedly 100kuI'g over the exhibita the showing is shown fully fifty jars H. H. To- :r :r in the live stock department, our atten-' Harris, Osage City; Holmes, :r fruits and vegetables. Eighty girls

John ' that A. F. Kitchen, Burlingame; of corn and have and there are nu­ tioii was first attr.acted to. the fact pekaj' In spite of the high prices' sewing- exhibits, T. J. Dawe & Son, of and theshow-of draft hOJ;sel:'\ was being made Regier, Whitewater; all kinds of concentrated feeds, the hog merous exhibits potatoes, corn, farmer and Park Stock Farm, Pea­ numbers The and chickens by'_fifteen or twenty Kansas Troy, Doyle men have turned out in such vegetables. pigs The out-of-the-state of the state breeders. The usual horse breeding firms body. principal that the hog show is, overflowing the shown by boys and girls breeders are ,Brothers, St. Ed­ tent in course were exhib­ were conspicuous by their absence. This Rapp barns provided. A mammoth clubs' of necessarily cer- William Herkleman, built (Wer a hundred in their The is an indication of the developments ":wards, Nebraska; which have been ited proper departme!lts. draft Iowa; W. E. Pritchard, Walnut, house the over­ Junior which included ex­ ta:}iJ to'take place -in br\ledin� Elwood, pens is being. used to Department, and E. M: Parsons & Son, Carroll, One made the and OJl:er horses. These' men do all their farm Iowa, flow from the regular hog barns. hibits by boys girls Iowa. were not members of work with pure-bred/horaes 'and have 110 or two other buildings are also being the state who any exhibitors are attracted consid­ diftf�IIlty in disposing ·or .the surplus at Only two showing used to house hogs. There are probably of the· state clubs, also Polled one Achenbach The We noticed one exhibit Handled: in this ",ay the Durhams, being . over a thousand hogs entered. erable attention. good prices. and farm of Washington, Kansas, Duroc are made a which was so unusual as necessary power for conducting op- Brothers, Poland Chinas and the, Jerseys by boy of ex- . Albert Saronville, comment. This erations for itself. A conspicuous the other Hultine, most numerous. In both of these breeds to call for special pays have class show ._ four­ this of horse Nebraska. Both high shows under the of hibit was that of Elwyn Engler, a example of kind _ breeding futurity auspices and the will be keen This is that of the Goodland Stock Farm, of herds, competition their record associations are teen-year-old Shawnee County boy. . respective come to the rib­ collections "of Shawnee County. W. E: Dustln and his when the judges place being held. Fifteen exhibitors are show­ boy apparently had made the bons. In of numbers the Here­ and nI,!.nt . son, C. L. Dustin" who have adopted point ing full herds of Poland Chinas; nine, every weed, grass, agricultural exhibit- fords have the number of entries found on the home farm. He had above name- for their farm, are largest Duroc Jerseys; four, Chester to be there are W�tes; ·mares are in the cattle division, although a. of insects and the larvse ing twelve head. Two fine three, Berkshires; and five, Hampshires, large collection not as breeders as in breeders of all of which had been colts represented of . in the group' that have raised good many The fact that a number of many insects, breed. three out-of­ mounted dur­ in addition te working hard all the sea- the Shorthorn Only Spotted Polands have come some dis­ collected and preserved or six the-state llerds of Herefords are being adds to the season. It would seem from son. One of' these mares. is only tance to make this show the ing past colts shown. the Ka.nsas exhibitors A nature of this exhibit years old, but now has four filly Among interest in the Poland ,Chinas. sep­ the comprehensive Bowman & of Ness have done to her credit. Three hundred dollars are W. I. Company arate record association has been formed that tlle boy could hardly any­ Carl Miller, Belvue;' Klaus Bros., and but we learned that the work wa� recently refused for her yearling. City; for the Spotted Poland Chinas; they thing else, There are two entries of material was A. P. Loomis, of the Diamond Stock Bendena. only have been given 'a"separate classification. of collecting this exhibit Polled these shown by times when he was not Farm, is showing seven head, among Herefords, being They differ frqql the 9rdinary Poland done at' odd Goernandt Aurora. Three in out with the them the three-year·old mare, Francine, Brothers, only iI( the .fact that, tliey Il-re !iberally busily employed helpin'g last herds are competing for have work of tlle farm. the grand champion of the show strong �ngus spotted with white. Thirteen boys regular the money-Sutton & Porteous, to year. This mare 'has five championships prize t���n, ;�dv!lnt�g:e of tlIe. opportunity • :r :r two R. L. Kersbaw, Mus· and and blue ribbons to.her credit, Lawrence, Kansas; silOW .plgs which they had fed Han­ Not for several years has such a large eight and D. K. Robertson & of the blues awat:ded on groups in kogee, Oklahoma, dled since birth. These pigs came in been made of the various kindll being & G. showing Olle of the Nebraska. H. some of them There which she was shown. Every Sons, Madison, from all over' the state, of farm equipment and machinery. in the 0'1' Bluff Kansas, show Gal­ on this farm pays her way Croft, City, from far western counties. has been a for several years mares best herds disposition & of This is one of the ma­ work performed,. Braneoll Son, loways. :r :r II

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products such as po­ tatoes, other root crops, and fruits • PERISHABLElike apples, when stored 'on a com­ mercial scale, are usually kept in first­ class condition by mechanical refrigera­ tion or cold storage, Such methods, however, are impossible on the average farm, as a mechanical refrigeration .IIIconere" In Wr;/Is plant involves an expensive building and . IhM . (In(iroola/Jove lew! . . One solution of the farm \ : equipment. of 1.-;::,7ml){ storage problem for vegetables and fruits is to build some type of air-cooled stor­ age house. This year, more than ever before, it will be advantageous to provide suitable storage facilities on the farm for fruits and vegetables. The advantages of such storage are that the crop can be mar­ keted in accordance with natural de­ mands, thus preventing any glutting of the market and resulting in maintaininl[ fair prices throughout the year. w;lhr�s On the average. farm the practice-ds MATERIALS to immediately unload on the market, REQUIRED cllmen! practically all of any crop as soon as • harvested, All that the 14 Cv.�_nd. producer keeps -'01 2. Cv. is a slight surplus over what is needed CLAN 4�'/JIlSya'.s pllhbles for domestic use. This glutting of the market occurs at a time when the de­ CONCRETE CELLAR FOR AVERAGE FABM.-CAPACITY ABOUT 600 BUSHELS OF POTATOtlS. _ STQ._BAGE mand for the produce is not at its max­ SUITABLE FOB APPLES. AND BOOT CBOPS imum, and, brings the price level down, frequently to a point where the crop the cost of does nQ� bring production. .> PROPER STOBAGE PREVENTS WASTE rots The best covered 1 x 4 boards nailed one inch the number of Thousands of dollars of waste in the ber construction rapidly. by people in the family, pro­ wood storage cellar is therefore nothing apart. Openings in the floor allow the viding at least one more than is .ordi- potato crop can be saved by providing .• but a structure. No .other air to pass up through the stored eon­ needed. suitable storage. 'The large annual loss temporary narily material can be used to such advantage tents, thus cooling them. A few of the conveniences that Ii. in normal years both in potatoes and in' all the for a The outside walls are built so that farmhouse should contain that are not so apples cannot continue under our new securing requirements fruit and cellar as cool air can circulate up along them. eseential are as follows: An office at scheme of farm economy. If stored vegetable storage concrete. The warm air passes out through the the front, a clothes and wash room at under suitable conditions and po- apples course one PLAN FOR CONCBE'l'l!: STORAGE CELLAR . manholes. In the of night the back of the house with a door .tatoes can be kept in good condition open­ - The concrete . cellar shown in the entire air in the storage cellar is in into the room in order that from one season's end to the beginning storage ing dining that it can this thus thor­ the farm hands f)f the next. the cut has been so designed way changed many times, may wash and enter the This the cellar before room The requirements for vegetable and he made any length desired. plan oughly cooling morning. d!ning without g?ing through the to or· from the A root or vegetable storage cellar of kitchen ; It bath room If water fmit storage are essentially the same, permits adding taking running' so that it concrete is built to Like a con­ can be that is, potatoes and other vegetables length of the structure may stay. obtained, and if not a sanitary built to The crete silo a concrete storage cellar of in connection with the back of the and apples may be kept in good condi- be any required capacity. privy and fourteen proper size should almost pay for itself house or the wood shed so tion under practically the same condi- cellar is twelve feet wide that little in a This is more. than to children and tions. feet long as designed and nine feet deep ,year. likely old people will not have to . be true when times are as at out in the Both fruit and vegetables which are' on the inside. The entire structure­ present, go severe winter weather to' since of can be con­ to be stored must be properly handled floor, walls and roof-is of concrete. marketing crops tend to a call of nature. The old-fash­ trolled in strict accordance with ioned 2 x 4. set from. the beginning. This means' first Such a cellar is not only moisture-proof supply privy out in the back and demand and the most favorable con­ has been the that· the seed 01' trees should be treated but will entirely prevent the waste yard cause of a great deal ditions, and waste by rot entirely pre­ of sickness because of to a germicidal solution or 'spray, so which rats and mice cause to some people dreading to vented if crops are stored and venture out in that only healthy produce will result. stored crops. carefully stormy and cold weather when in proper condition. and the calls of nature. The crops must be carefully handled to Concrete mixed in the proportions 'of neglecting A closed prevent bruising or' other injuries when one part cement to two and one-half stairway can be arranged to off harvested, then they must be cooled parts sand, to four parts pebbles or Planning the Farmhouse ope." �he dinin� ro?m, while an open staircase IS not quickly to the required temperature, stone, may be used throughout except Today the building of a farmhouse is objectionable in the liv­ a back is which must be maintained uniform. The for the floor and the arch of the roof, not as simple a problem as it was once ing proom provided stairway made so that the farm storage cellar must also be provided for which a 1:2:3 mixture should be when ·it was made of logs and contained hands will not have to the with sufficient moisture to prevent used as indicated in the plan. Adver­ but two or three rooms. The 'farmhouse go through living room to An shrinkage and thus keep the fruit or tisers of cement will gladly furnish book­ now must have nearly all of the con­ get upstairs. emergency bed room down stairs is vegetables crisp and plump. lets giving detailed instruction for con- veniences that the modern city. home often very desirable. Any who has cared for sick Storage cellars for potatoes and other crete work. has. In fact we farmers must get away person. people and run and down. vegetables and apples are best built at The side walls of the plan shown are from the idea. that our houses must be up stairs to wait on them can the least partly if not entirely underground; ten inches thick at the base and taper workshops and figure that we need a readily appreciate value of this room. The therefore the location best adapted to to six inches thick "at the crown. End home the same as the city man has, and basement should have an en­ is a In a walls are ten This a trance from the but it is ;ust the construction hillSide. such inches thick. design separate workshop. kitchen, J as to have an location the excavation generally fur- .has been prepared with special reference There are many conveniences that a important outside en­ trance so that nishes enough loose earth to cover the to ventilation. During cool evenings modern farmhouse should contain. There the potatoes and fruit can be carried in and out 'entire structure afterward if this is de- manhole and cold air intake covers are should be a large roomy basement with without entering the kitchen. sired. removed and the cold air permitted to a furnace, a medium-slzed kitchen, a The TEMl'EBATUllE OF STORAGE pass down the intakes, circulating large dining room, a large, comfortable arrangement of the rooms in the cold are not the between the con­ room with an and house is a problem on which one can Although storage experts through passage . living open fireplace, afford to much �n entire accord as to .the exact temper- crete floor and the false floor of the bins. several large bed rooms, the number of spend study. The kit­ chen should be so ature which is best for keeping pota- The false floor is made by 2 x 4 joists, bed rooms should be fixed to located as to be con­ accord.ing venient to the toes, apples, and root crops, the majority dining room and other rooms of the house in seem to agree that a temperature of 40 order that 'the housewife can degrees Fahrenheit should not be ex­ do her work with as little ceeded for best results. walking as possible. She may easily be forced to walk miles in a The average normal temperature of many year in the earth is about 50 degrees Fahren­ a poorly arranged house that it would heit, which is too high for ideal storage not be necessary for her to walk in a conditions. During the early fall well arranged house. The kitchen should not be in months there are nights when the tem­ sight from the dining room or room. If perature drops near or below the freez­ living the living room and the ing point. This condition should be dining room can be 80 located as to al­ taken advantage of by building the stor­ low for It large door between them, the will be when age cellar or cave so that it has a good arrangement appreciated ventilating system, which will provide entertaining company. rapid and ample circulation and change In summing up the points I have men­ of the contained air. After the interior tioned we see that the farmhouse should of the storage cellar has been brought be provided with up-to-date, convenient and of rooms • to propel' temperature, the cellar should equipment arrangement . not be opened until the next change of The farmhouse should not be devoted to weather which will permit doing so with­ the industries of the' farm. If other ·(lut again warming up the interior. buildings are provided for the farm in­ Root and vegetable storage cellars be­ dustries the farmhouse is made a home, ing built mostly in excavation, the con­ and that will go a long way toward solv­ stmction material is in constant con­ ing the problem of keeping the farm tact with the earth. Due to the. chang­ hands on the farm, as it is the desire for ing conditions of dryness and moisture MONTGOMERY COUNTY BOYS JUDGING HOLSTEINS ON T. W. EWING FARM city conveniences that makes them which naturally prevail in the soil, tim- leave.-P. C. JAlIUESON. . 5 September' 15, 1917 KA NSA S' FARMER D C·OMM,U NIT�·Y BRE-E I IN,G Great Possibili�ies in Li�,� Stock Im�rO!'�ment T]"rougA NeigAborAood Cooper�t;on: at a fair price. Prices to the cODsumer possibilities in live stock im­ are too there are millions of peo- from community co­ high; provement woo .cannot afford to eat 'meat now. THE in have been , pIe operation breeding "We for our stuff. demonstrated in various may get good prices abundantly this fall because of the war," said .Mr. of the country. We have been im­ parts Stubbs, '''but during the last few years over and over again _ with the pressed cattle have frequently been sold at & value of such community work. The lOBS of several dollars a head. The man establishment of breeding community who live stock and the farmer centers where an farmers or breeders produces who raises a lot of other food one of beef products confine themselves to breed - does much over half of wbat horses not get or dairy cattle and to one breed of the consumer pays for them. Producers or other cill1ssea of stock has many �e will have to and there can­ over ttle usual haphazard get together advantages not be an' effective with­ method of live stock improvement. With organization out the expenditure of some time anel the probability that in the future this money. 1; think it would be ae plan win be called upon to restock good country to have an of live-stock in­ breeding herds, the "Improve­ organization European terests five cents' a 'bead 011 ment of our own stock becomes more im­ charging cattle and two and a half cents 'on than ever before. We have been hogs portant and in order to obtain eufficienfl much interested in of a com­ sheep reading financial aid to do effective work in the worked out and into munity project put interests of the live-stock in North Dakota, The results producer. operation "Cattlemen will ·come to IL be­ of tHis effort toward cattle improvement Place foP15 where will feed calTe. H. of long they were' Prof. J.. Shepperd given by from the time leave their mothers the North Dakota Experiment Station they HOLBTJaN TOPEKA. FREE FAIB and them out when are five at the annual meeting of the Improved A. BING, ship they or six months old. When cattle are Live Stock A8Ilociation of that state. marketed at this early age, it will take This' community improvement project a lot more of them to produce the beef told in his herd of the thirteen that I have the of Great PI�ins bred of which Professor Shepperd only hope producing needed. I believe, however, that it ill started in New Salem com- the summed for. It is - cattle of a superior performance address the 1916.records up dairy on this basis that the· cattleman hall in 1909 and 1910 was well the herd which I think has made the munity by car-acity. more daylight ahead of him fhan in any cattle the that 'A time as under way. It was a dairy 'prop- best showing during past year; breeding problem requires other direction." HoI- is reason it was summed first. well as n�ber8 to give positi\Ve and osition, the breed selected being the up In the course of his .talk ex-Govemor and while the New stein. The meIilbers of the association No. ot Butter- Cost or Net permanent results, the that stock­ f�ed. Stubbs presented thought all to breed this kind of Cows. Year. fat. profit. Salem project shows marked: progress agreed only men to better acquainted. If and' clear for the plan, much ought get cattle. A 'iU� 'U:�g ._ feasibility dairy co-operative enterprise g mi m:;g a man loses money he to tell hia 17 1912 189.50 26.52 35.45 of what should accrue to it must come ought was. entered into by the New Salem as- brother stockmen about it and tell in the future, A measure has been es­ why. sociation, the U. S. Department of Ag- l& �m m::� :::n �g:�� If he makes tell how he did it. 37.0' 54.50 class money, riculture, and the state experiment sta- 13 1915 291.80 tablished, the Jowest .in perform­ 1916 42�.60 57.S0 90.24 The suggestion was made that stockmea from each 14 ance eliminated, and the highest marked­ tion. Representatives organ- to have a that would ''It will be noted that this herd started .An individual herd has ought newspaper ization constituted a committee which ly increased. . month or week the ex­ in with about state average perform­ been raised from state to 427.6 carry every every on sires selected and , average passed the adjusted- of a number of those ance record in 191(), 131.9 pounds of of butterfat while the periences large all matters of. transfer, including the pounds per year, It­ and in 19'16 made a herd av­ interested in live-stock production. members of the butterfat, number of -advanced registrations has price paid by different is so much III matter of of 427.6 of butterfat. The increased. The now not, however, association when sires were ex- erage pounds been greatly circuit breeding more as it is a matter of poorest calendar year individual record furnishes 300 head of newspapers changed. The work of the whole circuit approximately the stockman his in this herd for 1916 was 329.8 to work and is offering experiences was a in pounds pure-bred animala with, supervised by superintendent 524.8 to the There are plenty of butterfat, and the highest on such a basis that all desirable ani­ freely public. the pay of the experiment station and of that would The are for his can be papers gladly give pub­ This man pounds. figures quoted mals for the work of the circuit the Federal Government. to such entire herd of fourteen cows. retained. I feel that the licity experiences. made such tests as were necessary and pure-bred preliminary The circuit as a whole is showing good and that the cir­ made himself generally useful by sug- work is accomplished, of butterfat results mueh improvements in methods of yields progress. cuit will be able to secure Danger from Grade Bull gesting was "The circuit instituted primarily more in the future." . feeding and caring for the cattle. rapidly We wish every grade bull in Kansas so that numbers could be secured This is but an illustration what large oJ- be a of The has the very best of In addi­ replaced by pure-bred good plan given' as a basis for breeding study. be accomplished in many a com­ could. results in actual and Professor might breeding. \�Te are frequently asked why practice, a of and results from in Kansas. tion, study plans munity Already beginnings a bull from a cow should . erd some grade good Shepp" gave interesting figures is a feature. the of sev­ co-operation have been made in starting not be used. A writer himself which show the extent of the -improve- will signing "Any student of breed history eral cow The dairy ments made in the herds the time testingcasaociatloua. ,''Herdsman'' writes on this question in during have been impressed with the fact that of the Kansas . Experiment the has been under He department Farm and Dairy. He says: project way. almost breed 0f I'rve efforts to co­ every prominent Station is tireless in its "At the National Show at Chi­ called attention to the fact that the of the Dairy stock has sprung from a district operate with dairymen of the state. The Holetein-Frteslan A. R. O. requirements cago a few yeMs ago I saw exhibited country where a' single breed and type members of this have al­ one .. department the bred in are 250.8 of butterfat in n grade Guerpsey cow, 'Jerry,' pounds is k a11 Citizen fIEarmers. ng­ a in the ept by accomplished great deal wae from a cow and' one- ready Wisconsin. Her record 15,744 pounds Year two-year-old land and where most of them the Scotland, way of aiding in improvement of 729.89 tenth of a for each additional of milk and pounds of butterfat; pound day have arisen, a given breed was usually cattle of KAnsas. The same is cow dairy over 900 of butter as our Hol­ over two until the is five 01" pounds years kept exclusively in. a county shire, true of the dairymen of the extension At this and over the stein friends it. Thousands of years of age. age and find the fact mirrored in the figure you division. cows as cow to 360 pure-bred with 10nD' _ is required produce pounds names carried the breeds:' pedigrees very by Ayr­ ..­ of butterfat in a He said: "I as a city sidewalk have no such record� year. shire, Berkshire, Yorkshire, Hampshire Raised have classified the .cows -of this circuit Marketing St.Ock as this to their credit. In fact, thcre and Shropshire are examples. It is re­ reo- of live stock are few cows of the on the basis of their performance corded that the father of live stock The whole proposition pure-bred Guernsey four the breed that have done better. As an in­ ords and have divided them into breeding. Robert Bakewell, hired out his farming centers around marketing classes. In the first class are those stock after it is raised. This broad dividual, too, 'Jerry' was It wonderful sires, requiring for their hire the choice which have exceeded the standard re- statement was made ex-Governor W. cow--dairy temperament, wonderful ca­ of their get from the herd upon which by In the second class are of the Kansas Cat­ and beautiful to look at. And. quirements. were used. R. Stubbs, president pacity within they at the cattlemen's who looked at her would have those which have come forty "Territorial of stock of sim- tlemen's Association, many proximity . at the to have one . chance of the standard; in the third or th a held at the Kansas Agricultural jumped gotten pounds i1ar breedimg aIIows tlie gemus f t meeting class those which have come within one in June. In his talk to the cat­ of her bull calves had they then been work to. see and sort over .large num­ College of the and in Stubbs said that it was no in the land of the hundred pounds standard, bers of stock, bringing together the like tlemen Mr. living. the fourth. class the cows one hundred trouble to raise beef and but the "'Jerry' inherited her ·wonderful per­ and fit from among their number. On pork, more below the in the live stock busi­ from her ancestors. Her pounds or requirements." this gencral historical basis of fact, the biggest question forming powers out the it was was find a market blood was from two sources; one foun­ In working percentages New Salem circuit was founded, with ness to. permanent was a of sires found that in 1914, 26.3 per cent of the tain long line pure-bred richest source cows were in the first class, and in 1915, of the breeding; the other was a common scrub or native cow back 40 per cent. For the same years 37 per cent of the cows were 'in the second in the early days of 'Wisconsin breed­ and of that scrub was a class the first year and 26.7 the second ing, back long line of as a .line of ycar. In the third elasa 26.2 per cent scrubs; just long of the 'cows were found in 1914, and scrubs as there were aristocrats in the of sire. In 33.3 per cent in 1915. In the fourth family 'Jerry's' 'Jerry'#­ class there were 10.5 pel' cent of the veins flowed these two lines of breeding. cows in 1914 and none in 1915. ''I do In her progeny either line might come not flatter myself," said Professor Shep­ to the front. Here would be the danger perd, "that improvement in breeding is of using a grade bull even from so good responsible for aU the increased produc­ a cow as 'JrITY.' In a good strain of tion shown. Silos have been built 'and - pure-bred, cattle there is no scrub blood silage added to' their rations. Grimm to assert itself. Hence the greater pre­ alfalfa bas been grown, and the circuit potency of the pure-bred sire. And cows are getting the hay. Their barns viewing the question in the larger light, have been improved, and circuit men are I never saw a good herd of grade dairy feeding more grain. All of these items cows that had been developed by the US8 have had an influence, but I am certain of grade bulls. Did you ?" that the subtle thread of heredity has been in part responsible. I am proud A surtax on idle lanel. is proposed, by of the fact that the two bulls which a recent resolution introduced in Con­ were sorted out and retained until five gress by Senator Kenyon of Iowa, which the and thirteen years old, respectively, calls for an investigation by Federal blood Tariff in order to deter­ should have their three-eighths I Commission,

- relative and half-sister earn world's mine the constitutionalitv of such a tax FAm championship records. PLACING CLASS OF HEREFOBDS, TOPEKA FREE with the purpose of amending our con­ "The table shows the record of the stitution in this respect if necessary.

" , .--KANS:AS 'FARMER Sept1!mb�r 15, 1917 Kans'as Dairy" Clu,), I are and Elise full and invalids much more 'We do.... �have given the to suffer from the use of iIit­ on of' ... apt . twenty �ln18 quality product BABIES,pur\! milk than grown-up people' We really'feel proud· of t'be reeord made . in perfect health. Boys and girls of the by all on this point of quality • Dairy.Olub, living as you do on farms, Now, boys, these two stories are cannot- fully realize what it means to Itbout what girls have done. Let us not the babies of a great city to have milk have it appear that the girls are any that is safe. ,Hundreds of them die cleaner or neater in the

Member Lose. Cow our new club members has . One of suf· fered a serious loss. Emma Mae Len­ PAUL STUDDARD AND HIS OALF hert, of Hope, writes us that her 'cow died last week as a result of what the veterinarian said was acute lndizostlon. is almost broken-hearted over' ber know how many points to give her. We She 'and are the Club learned that milk from. her cow had loss, we. sure. Dairy members will with her. been fed to a two-months-old baby SYmpathize of so have suffered such .. None whose mother was taken down with ty you .far a serious loss. some of phoid fever. We wrote to this lady, who Perhaps. .you will want to write a few lines of en­ Door is now fully' recovered, and asked her McKinney.Pittsburgh Hangers to Emma. She had her us was couragement Trouble.Proof Doon about it. She writes that she Make Eu,.RaDDinl, cow insured for a hundred dollars, al­ in the hospital five weeks and of course of course she cost more than that. . McKiuaey-Pilbburlh Door Hangers and Tracb are so_con. baby had to be fed

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For R,es�lutio�s Daiey�en- , she freshens," Of THE form of a proclamation, the fine condition when it American Jersey Cattle Club has course if she is rather thin ·in flesh, her some even INpublished a leaflet in which it IS might pay· to give grain is We do not out that we have come to a' though the pasture good. pointcd milk "ows crisis in the history of our country where lose the grain fed to good • A milk it devolves upon every loyal cittzeu to' while they are dry. really good of the fat do his part for his country as his' eir- I' cow has the capacity uslng her own in milk. It is cumstances .and opportunities allow. One of body' making to have such great aeed of the future is the con- nearly always. a good plan 'servat.ion of human industry and the cows in rather' fleshy condition when Best for 'maintenance -ofhuman effort by an ade- 'they freshen, They will give more milk: Every F�··tJ8� quate food ·supply. It is stated that, than' cows that are so poorly fed during No farm should' be without ;.cOiUmLL- .while many foods �are valuable and all the dry period that they are scrawny

. , for there. are.Idesirable, 'there is one indispensable and-thin when they freshen. WOOD-BOARD, is: ·amro.si:�, ; , � food" and. that is. the product of the If this cow js so thin as to really a- use for it. The+lisf below, kind to feed would

. seem to be . cause the Jersey is the greatest natural very thin and does not gain- Send for FREE· Plans ,Porch (Aliap one such cow be- as she should. We would suggest food-making machine, . ing you Cornell-Wood-Board PutitioU one of the most three as about the Whetller buy capable of producing two or - pounds daily ing or not; our Department of Design will elements in human food-fat limit. Stable· necessary draw up free plans and specifi­ " t6 that obtairied sev­ gladly -equivalent from with cost for any room or - cations, estimate, Summer Kitchen enteen slaughtered steers. rooms.. Send accurate dimension sketches or Winter Dairying Write today for catalOg and 2. I shall bring my heifers to ma­ blueprints. large too of the' farms In Kansaa 1IIIDP1e. In WIjting mention Klina.. J!'arIIaao. All alterations and repairs turity, trot only because this is now a On many' the be On I!JI!!Clal requ� we will sendFreePlans because a Jer­ where cows. are milked, cows' will: 'Patriotic duty, but good for MOdel 31 feet x 72 feet. in the next few weeks. The Dairy Bam. ··C"aranteed sey cow has the earning capacity of one going' dry. .�• habit of calves WIlen Prope� Applied 5 old come CorneD :Wood Products�Co. thousand dollars invested at range having -, securely Of in the is.. hard to .c. O. Friable. Pre&. per cent"; and surely it is folly to sell spring overcome. course' the cows a flow of 173·175 W. Jaw. . for $125 or less a machine which equals give heavy 81.d., Cldcap milk on the luscious and.iearly ·the earning capacity of one thousand spring .- --.....•..•- �-.-.�.��. ' summer and at small feed . cost, . pasture .., 'dollars. _ - COUPON ': I • . THIS : . busiest time of the ,U!$E .' it is the year '3. I will not keep or use a poor bull but abundant does • ,pioduc!tai� F.·..·173�17S W. ')acluoD,Bi�.• ... in resolve Is to breed and this pariod of pasture Cclnl�lllYooci I)ept. �" ·iny··herd. My up, Estimate as dimeilsion sketch last Later in the summer the • me Panel Suggestions and Cost per. ,.1 'not down, to the end that each genera­ not long. Se':l pastures are dry up along • to milk .ment because in the fall when there is time • ';:1 'on the, preceding one, my ��:Board. '

. .for needs better stock, as well a9-... the cows and' care them,' they dry • . '. :1 country Name.L; " milked a have been ' . 'better and more bountiful up. They through I _. . � I production. ._ short when ... '. '4. I will comparatively period dairy intelligently study feeding, • Address .___ .• the lowest of the -:,;, so that the production of my herd may products bring price -_. --.• - - -'. '.-. -.- _ •••- _ •• .:iI is rushed with �.- -, ',. be equal to' its capacity. lowe it to year and when farm labor field work. the winter season my cows, to myself, and to my country Through to the the feed is maintaining a non­ .to.. give time and thought impor­ simply tant subject of profitable and economic producing herd.- The real who studies the ;feeding; and it-is my duty to set an dairyman and winter is . that fall example in intelligent feeding, so that business finds the time of the in which there is my neighbors may go and do likewise. year in. cows, 5. I will use every endeavor to pte­ 'the greatest profit milking to have his cows vent the waste of skim-milk, as it con­ therefore he plans the fall. He knows that dur­ stitutes a fine food for human beings. freshen in of the butterfat 6. I shall plan intelligently to grow ing this season year commands the best and he also has my cattle feed on my own farm as far price look after the cows and attend as posaible- and thereby lower the cost time to the calves It is of production to my customers and in­ to feeding properly. also a fact that the cow in crease my own profits at the same..t.ime. freshening 60 and reasonable care wiII D�ysTriaI As in all other lines of work, the nation the fall given Satilfacmon Guaranteed $39·· has the to demand and produce more milk on- the average than AND VP right efficiency . cow that freshens in low production cost on my part. the t.he spring. New 'Enclosed AII-Oear Drive, No Cbaln; stimulus of recent a­ 7. I will do all in my power to 'main­ Under the calving Close,'Skimmlnc Sanitary' Bowl, Easily will start in and milk tain the fertility of the soil in my. care, good dairy cow Clealled; Splasb - Oiling System, Llgbt fall and whiter to her fullest realizing that I simply hold my lands during the Running; Low-Down Tank-Simple, Dur­ on her own in trust for coming generations. The capacity, even drawing body able, Sanitary. Tbe RIOHT Separator at not in abundance. If You. welfare of my country in the future de­ if feed is. supplied tbe RI,bt PRICE. Sold DIRECT to the conservation of the fer­ she is given liberal ra-tions through the Quickly pays for Itself by cream saved. Noti�e po­ pends upon comfortable winter season 'and with suitable lIition of tinware, heiirht of'supply,cau. of the soil, and I resolve that I provided over tility positiou of operator, No stoopiug. no reachinll' she will a flow of milk will this line, so that shelter, give good milk can, Side delivery of milk and cream away. do my part along . I will be enabled to give a good account all winter, and when the grass comes from operator. another per of and hand on her milk production is given MONTHLY PAYMENTS. $5 down-$S my stewardship, to my and for a month.·Madelll350. 500. 650 and 900 lb. capacities successors lands better and not worse stimulus and she will be good sold direct at" mauufacturer's low prices. Write to­ flow flush from my having lived uponThem. heavy through the. pasture day forfree c:ataloll' and monthly payment plan. are These resolutions are season. Cows handled in this way 1802 equally applica­ "k", 01 IIparalara 'lclUllnl, lor 18 ,.III_lnc, the same time the pas­ ble to those handling any kind of dairy ready\to go dry DAIR.Y CR.EAM SEPARATOR. CO. turcs Their IND. cattle. The dairyman who will follow 'go dry. resting period 11100' WASHINGTON ST. LEBANON. closely the principles laid down in these comes at a time when conditions are for milk brief statements is sure to make prog­ most unfavorable production. 'rhe. who will ·make ress in his business of milking cows at dairyman provisions when they freshen in .the sprlng, This' vegetables supply the succulence neces­ a for suitable feed and proper shelter dur­ is a profit. is because cows are not bothered by heat sary for the human. Siloing good the winter will find winter dairying a or of ing and flies at the time they are suffering way of preserving mature crop for his a means better prices products, a that for reason must Feeding Grain to Cow the hardest strain. . saving crop any total for the year, and 40 . larger production Furthermore, at the end of about be harvested before maturity. About Floyd Gerardy, Americus, Kansas, a much more even distribution for the in the seven when cent of fhe total. food material writes as follows i months, production usually per labor of the since the heaviest of farm, milk flow is bolstered corn is found in the stalks and cow I a little falls, the up by plant "The . which" purchased comes at a time when the dairy work Information leaves. a farmer who harvests over months will freshen in green grass in the spring. Thus, two ago there is no field work and the during officia:l be obtained the ears loses nearly half the crop. about a month or six weeks. She is on regarding testing may only season of field work there ia -the heavy to the department but the farmer who uses a silo loses but good prairie pasture. It is nice and ten­ of work to upon application dairy minimum amount dairy per­ at Manhattan. little. When there are no ears, not in­ dCI' since the rains we have .had of our agricultural coUege during form. the whole is lost. the last three weeks. She was two' frequently crop "Canned corn," or substi­ y�ara old last spring and has never been green silage, Official Teats of Cow. tuted for in the diet of the Hominy feed or meal is a by-product �J1ked before. Would you think it ad­ grain dairy will milk. to from the manufacture of hominy gritll VIsable to feed' her any grain? If so Early fall is the best time to start cow, keep production up the same time for human It is a what kind and how much should be fed cows on official tests. The Nebraska its present level and at consumption. good feed for and can be substituted for each day?" Experiment Station has found that cows save large quantities of cereals for hu­ hogs "corn even when one and one-seventh the . more milk each man food. succulent feed Now that the pasture is SCI good, this wilrgive ten per cent Silage supplies the as canned fruits and of corn per pound. young cow ought to do well and be in year when they freshen in the fall than for cow, just price What, is Silage Crop Worth? who will not have of much more ground must be eovered to enough - the a crop on his own farm to fill his ges enough to fill silo. AMANsilos asks what he can affllrd to pa, for a silage crop two miles away, Price Statement thUl of com which Dot )Vbeat conaisting may the of more than two oLthree tons of .Immedlately following report yield the wheat committee, Pres­ the acre. price-fixing ----- silage to ------ident Wilson issued the following state· � We do not believe that as a general ' SBORTtimebeforetheabove ment: proposition it will pay to haul silage . A was taken, there the Act "Section 11 of Food ' , picfure two miles. Silage is heavy material, and provides, was bam between the two for and a�$6,500 with labor as high as it is DOW the cost among other things, the purchase The eilos. It burned down. of hauling it this distance will add quite sale of wheat and flour by the Govern­ Ask E. H. for the­ aiJoa' were unharmed. materially to the cost of the crop in the ment, and approprfates money 'wheat and Salisbury, Kirksville, Mo.. who has silo. Of course the, need which exists purpose. The purchase of aiDee erected a new barn, what be for rough feed must be taken into con­ flour for our allies, and to a considerable countries has 'thinks of the aDos. sideration. If this seems the only means degree, for neutral also, control of the of securing enough feed so that. valuable been placed under the I have stock can De carried through the win­ Food Administration. appointed a committee to- determine' a fair Co.ide' the Silo ter, it might pay to put this amount of price in Government 'Wlth fortp per cant of the too! ftlue of _ labl>r into such a crop. Of course the to be paid purchases. aDOB ani an eeonomlc , now recommended that In the atalka arulleavee. price' asked, for the crop in the field 'is The price by on modem:farm. aarleuI­ JleCeSldt:v the Any another important consideration. committee-$2.20 per bushel at Chicago turalleader. farmezpert..bmIter ean ...... for the basic be ad­ In t-. times of I, The of in the grade-will rigidly lauodred l'tl8II01l8 for IdIoa. silage fie�d buying crops hered to the Food Administration. _aervatlon and elBcleDt food utilIzation­ raises frequent questions as to the price by Ia • , of the "hen sraIn,pricea ani lib' IaIsh. tile IIiIo that should be paid. Frequently men "tt is the hope and expectation :from the atart. and own _ey-maker who have raised a crop to the silage Food- Administration, _my also, stabilize and point do not know what they should that this step will at once within moderate bounds the charge, and the man wishing to buy :ja keep price Ind the COlCrete Silo transactions uncertain as to what he can afford to of wheat for all through­ tbat; I. tile aDo that etap PUt: � fkea, and in eon­ were told of a man out the crop year, 1lIIDDCIt-touch. Concrete _ reason- pay. We recently present 1'8tB, the of lIour and bread ab1II initial eoat, DO repaIn. DO npalntlna-. in Harvey County who asked a neighbor sequence prices also. The Food Act has DO malnte.Dance. qancrete __ ,.,... $30 an acre for, a crop of corn which given large pow­ "ero-On ers for the control of and ex­ W_lTTE __ IUId d S 1111'••"" was 80 poor that probably no ears would storage r and will • mature, and it probably would not make change operations, these powers . 'r be exercised. An inevitable con­ t , '.Ii more than two or three tons to the acre. fully ENGINE will be that financial Dewer The neighbor did not buy this crop, but sequence dealings . ;:: which can not, follow their usual eourse," What­ bought another field at $5 an acre, II and lDmIe4Jate Shlpm is a low the ever tlie advantages disadvantages probably price, considering . and 22 H-P,,-Direct I of it 4, 6, 16 Porlland Cern.", of feed. of the ordinar, machinery trade, 2,3. 8,12, .scarcity rough dis­ from the LBrIreat EzcIualve E.lDe Facto17 can not function well under sueh bllt When a field of com will mature In the world.1I8IIiDJr b:r man. 'Nothbur Ie the popular cement for to}V1l and country turbed and abnormal conditions as now eDClnes. Qulek Senlea-IIC1ntIll-SIir Del' some an estimate of the Improvements. Get In touch wltb the Dewe7 grain, probable exist. In its the Food Administra­ TrIal, 6-Year a-ntee. Fuel_t...... ears place Jet him show :Faa bow JOU -Clill can be made the using kerosene. Write for DOW book (copl'­ Dealer and yield by snapping DOW fixes for its a fair tion purchase Entlne /priDtedlncolora make your farm atruetareB wlnd- from, a measured portion of several rows. )UNow To.rudp .... as recommended by a committee and fuD:r mllB� ehowlnlr h_ I caD 88V8 • vermfD,proof and ftreoproof, Tire value the corn is a known fac­ price, righted. proof. oJ a:ll and all buDetlna em Coo­ of interests Ask him far a matter of representative ��taellol�';=����' tor, and it becomes getting it aetle SIb. If be bam't"_ sections, and believes that thereby WORKS at the cost in the field of a given amount WITTE ENGINE lie wiIl_e-a far ;raa. will elimlnate-rspeculatdon, make possi­ of corn and fixing the value of the fod­ =:::.:';'.:'" ble the conduct of every in 1:1 =.=:.::: der which accompanies it. The manwho operation the full light of day, maintam the pub­ is in a to sell a in _ this There ;s'a, position crop stated for all, and, through cannot value on licly price way place a very high economies made stabilization the fodder because the market for such possible by and control, better the position of con­ Dewer feed is rather limited as it can except sumers also. be marketed through good live stock. his has Dealer If he does not have the live stock him­ "Mr. Hoover, at express wish, taken no ift the deliberations of the .self, this part of the crop' is worth ,part committee on whose recommendatton I nothing to him unless some neighbor determine the Government's fair price, having, stock needs more rough feed than nor has he in any way intimated an he has grown on his own farm. opinion regarding that price." In getting at the actual value of sil:' a of the total nutrients . age, comparison it contains with the nutrients of hay Buying Seed Co-operatively it a -cash value. will' help in giving The present emergency is teaching contains in Three tons of good silage some valuable lessons in eo-operation. total digestible nutrients about as much Methods adopted under the stress of CREEl CORI CUTTER course alfalfa or as a ton of hay. Of present conditions can be followed, with other legume hay contains relatively profit at all times. has more protein than silage, and protein As a result of seed wheat shortage a higher market value than the carbo­ in Washington County, the county farm hydrates. Hay usually has a fairly -bureau and the farmers' union are co­ definite market value. When hay is operating with the county council of de­ in worth $18 to $20 a ton, good silage fense in an effort to supply the farm­ the silo to feed should be worth ers the with seed. ready . of county Through $6 or $7 a ton. these agencies the entire county was four in Getting a silage crop into the silo is completely organi�ed with JIlen as a colll'fiiittee on a part of its cost that must always be each township acting considered. The cost of filling, with good information as to the seed wheat situa­ for machinery and proper organization tion. This committee is responsib� should not exceed 75 cents a ton. It locating the seed -wheab and seed rye . farmers who will usually range from 50 cents to a and also for listing tuose dollar a ton. It costs more to harvest are in need of seed of either grain. the canvass made bush- a poor crop than a good one, because so Through 7,900

point has been reached where war is waged by whole nations. Every mari, woman, and child is involved and nearly every adult were hold all THEand most boys and girls can be efficient factors. We are in this "If there silos enough to the fodder in this county we could win­ war for the purpose of defending our rights, of making sure that, as a ter twice as many cattle as there arc in to Jive the sort of life and to have the sort of nation, we shall be able the county," is the statement made by the and institutions we desire, of making democracy persist in world, of Neil Rucker, emergency demonstration This safeguarding the world against the recurrence of such a war as this. To agent of Hodgeman County. county's 1916 silo census showed only accomplish this the nation must aim, at the perfection of organization, and twenty-seven of these efficient feed SRV­ therefore each individual must the of sacri­ 'recognize necessity making era, but many more have been built this fices for the common good and more than ever of working under Iimita­ summer. Many farmers, realize that the between a. tions--of doing team work. Our people have a genius for organization, silo represents the difference well stocked farm and one dependent In colora e"plaID. and the.y will not fail in the task they have assumed. Our farmers, on Free' Ca&:l:.:t cau aaye upon grain erops. _ � ho".,oll eash a are most efficient farmers in the or Road whom rests, tliEi money on Farm Track great responsibiliby Wqou. IIiIID WNd .heel. Co Ie world dojhelr best. will not be found in this The and when 'They wanting� kafir, milo, aD,.ruDDID.. ' they grain sorghums, ft':!.i.�� crisis.-D. F. HOUSTON, Secretary 9f Agriculture feterita, may be substituted for com Q..._� when slightly lower in price per pound. 1JIctrIc ce. -'. should be and fed, as meal. I -34�II.""":._ .. They ground September 15; 1917 KANSAS FARME,R smut'is �nd' els of wheat and' 2,900 bushels of rye {'airly' ea.sy, n�t_ e_�nsive, cent 'The effi· suitable'to be useI! for sel!id, were lo­ fully 95 per effi)ct�ve. the treatment' cated in' ilie' ,coUnty" and this informa· ciency of is. i� f.iLct, prae­ 100 cent in' most, of- the tion was sent 150 inquiring farmers. tically per tc? Seed treatment Water in R. W. Schafer, county agricultural' agent, .wheat·growing regions. If You Hat)e, Running farmers costs not to exceed five cents an acre has acted as middleman for the transactions, In addition to for materials and labor. To. this cost, For in the seed ' You Are Ready must be added the cost of Your'Home, the seed found in ·the county, five cars however, which 'have been ordered from out­ the germinating power of of wheat - grain, - will 'be the 'treatment. . __·�tl side the county and this be may destroyed by 11��__.4 at, the most to 20. �� financed by the farmers' union and will This amounts per In case'the value of the­ .. be handled at cost. This outside wheat cent. every w-�_.umI" Pa�r treatment would amount 'Will be 'iDspected before being purchased, -wheat saved by thll to several times the cost of treatment. a water is the by the' farmers' union manager, THE next step, alter installin� system, and one or Statistics show that the average an­ a Bath county a�ic1iltural agent, , J. addition of a labor-savin� Kitchen Sinle, Tub, - loss of from smut is about 1 two farmers. nual rye that belo� in the less than the loss Laundry Trays-real plum:bin� comf01'ts wheat-has been per cent-i!onsiderably J Seed bought by over. worth how­ it be new or made , bankers and business men of several of of wheat. It is well while, every bome whether seed also. the towns in Cloud County- and sold to ever, to treat rye � r� tbr Bath, Kitchen, Laundry, represent � � Several methods -of seed for. UacJ the farmers at' actual cost. The county treating rience in manufacture, �at variety 01 styles to aeli!Ct &om, are in acted as the middle­ the destruction of smut spores our branches in aU cities agricultural agent 8II1U'IUlce of ae7'Vice as rendered by principal the but the it is believed, is the &tune. man in this county also in transac­ use, best, everywhere. Denuuul � The and byJeadU$ plumbers tions between the bankers and business formaldehyde treatment, grain with Green aDel Golc1 labeL Talk to -vour pl1lll1he and the farmers. If is should first be cleaned thoroughly Look for the ':$tancfaatd" men expected the line thatis "$� in_. 8iu1 fact. - town seed a mill so that_smut balls, ahrlv­ in any nearby abo11t that five add·itional carloads of fanning FimanI f1w tbeBome.· ' will be removed. for a l:O))y of ":J�"" Pl�iD& wheat will,:.be needed !oi Cloud County: eled grain, chaff, ete., Write;to<1ay After the grain is clean it may be spread in a or StasIcfard ..!aaltaG_eo.' Protectin« Alfalfa Hay .on a floor or a .tarpaulin layer pile several inches thick and sprinkled Dept. 211 Plttahallla :Alfalfa Central Kansas are. growers: ,in with.a. solution ',9f made hay sheds to shelter their �ormaldehydt;of for­ using cheap by nnxmg on,: pound �om;mercl&l rough feed. J. E. Payne, of Oklahoma.> gallons of A of _ maldehyde of sheds of this kind on a Wlt� fortY-�lve. Copy tells seeing An sprmkhng can or.a made to Wabaunsee water: or�ary recent visit he 18 used and Book to machine gram This ' t�e - �praym� , . County.' IS over and until every nsed in shov.eled �ve� A -type quite g�nera1Jy tllis, The IS then .IS wet. grall?- placed YouPImB section- consists of a roof of corrugated, �ernel blan­ m a pile and cove�ed WIth sacks, which rests on' the ground whim iron, kets, a for .two ho�s ot: the is A set firmly wheat fields Oklahoma. Wisconsin to move over into Canada, with S. Meteorologist, Weather Bureau, Topeka -South Dakota. Nebraska. Minnesota, and Reports Furnis.hed by D��ora, when the In the UnIted the privilege of later returning to the United States. crops the enormous In Canada whIch Ste.tes have been conserved. and help to save crops by that time will be ready for harvesting. HARVESTED , HElP YOlJR CANADIAN NEIGHBORS WHEN YOUR OWN DROP IS

, Canada wants 40,000 Harvest Hands to take care of Its 13 Million Acre Wheat Field Internatlonal Boundary'llne to de;Unatlon One cent' a mile railway fare from the Internatlonal Boundary. High wages. good and the same rate returnIng to the • board, comfortable lodgings. Canadian Immigration Ofllcer An Identlflcatlon Card Issued at the boundary by a the Unfted States. wll!' guarantee no trouble In returnIng to move northward and assist AS SOON AS YOUR OWN HARVEST IS SAVED, in thIs way do your bit In helping "Win your Canadian neIghbor In harvesting his; the War." Identification cards ana place where employment For partlcutars as to routes, of rmmtsratton, Ottawa., Canada, or to may be had, -apl\ly to Superintendent OED. A. COOK, C.Dadla� Govemment A•••t, 2012 Mall St., IaIlIlS City, Mo,

than offered more per foot of row 01}. account 9f the premium put grains year of the soft wheat. by the millers. This recalls a dispute seventy-five pounds rate Is this worth when we which once occurred concerning the considering ever . seed our wheat land?-J. E. PAYNE, Ok­ was one of the wettest and best crop-growing Augusts of seeding wheat. were and rate lahoma. experienced in Kansas. The rains widespread general Two men were asked about the 011 Tmsalmost from the first of the month and there were more days of seeding wheat. One advised' seeding on the state record. Held as it is in the center of a great. which measurable rain fell than in any other August pounds and the other advised more forty-five sec­ in in twelve and acre. 'When live stock and agricultural It was the most rain that has fallen August years seventy-five pounds per breeding National with times the amount that in preceding. found that the tion, the Dairy Show, than three July _ fell, they got together they more was almost Pas­ more more demonstration, The revival of crops after the rains began magical. one who advised sowing forty-five cattle, when the month soon furnished of hard exhibits, more entertainment than ever tures that were bare and brown began pounds per acre was tninking new The insures the most valuable' Na­ excellent and the entire corn crop took on a growth. wheat while the other was of before grazing, thinking is fall that the of it count­ tional Show ever held. The place ground was in such fine shape for plowing greater part large-grained soft wheat., Upon Columbus. Ohio, and the time October was finished by the end of the month. ing grains, they found that forty-five . . 1917 pounds of hard wheat per acre would 18-27, I. September 15, 1917 ' KANSAS FARMER

. even repair bills. The. best oil, changed

often, is economy. , . There has always bll_en more or less criticism of the treatment given to farm FARM� : PO'WER and Some of implements maehinery; this criticism is just and some is nltt. "Many farmers are not provided _with Interest A bout A utomobile�,. I> Ite1lH of implement sheds. The fact remains, and however, that there has been ap. enor­ _;E�giir.es, Tract., Motorcycles moua- \\IIlste in ':farm machinery,' taking '- th.e country as a whole. Under the pres­ ent conditions this is a waste that concern­ uets to market, that it- would be sur­ surprising information all means be avoided in the' - traffic should. by the use of roads in several Iowa prising if the returns of. during ing future as .mueh as possible. For many SOMEcounties has been obtained a the heavy hauling period do n_pt show by classes of machinery correct lubrication traffic census which is carried on that motor trucks axe rapidly becoming being - is one of .,the -eurest ways to give it It's Natural lor a the Iowa State and State essential for the farmer. by College life and make it return' f.U pro­ The census is This fact adds to the difficulties of longer Highway Commission. by­ ductive while it is in use...... dirt such as are so power to Wallow no means complete and the .results ob­ maintaining roads, Bog, tained to the time be numerous in- Iowa. While something up present may the Binder modified later informa­ can be done regulating the loads and Care of Here's a good thing to do: Provide materially by by tion. that the of motor trucks to reduce their a shed, for tlte binder to . however, speed a wallow close to, the .feedlng They show, Providing travel over Iowa roads is of a. character destructive influence on dirt roads, there it from rain a' which Dr: protect '.i paying· propo­ grounds to add Hess Dip' as that makes the improvement of such is no form of maintenance, so far is sition. When housing the binder' for, Disinfectant. As the .' and hogS pass, now which will a dirt road be roads a matter requiring careful t}loug'ht known, keep winter, all wearing' surfaces should. back and forth from the wiillow to in condition when motor 'rust them, and sound judgment, , "'i ;-. good many protected against .by: covering feed the' DIP -\vill kill are at more than the trough, The following facts rela;te to, the trucks operated very with heavy' grease or- oil that will not'· the lice and cleanse the sldn, while travel counted at eight Stations on high. moderate I speed over it. It would be wash off. The knotter requires 'llpecial" con­ and instructive to determine this of ma...... the DRIP will destroy the disease ways leading into market towns of interesting attention because part ·the These' roads are the effect on dirt and roads o.f chine will cause' much trouble if; it is germs and the worms th�'t pollute siderable importance. gravel the trucks at different for in the best condition. Farm" ma- , the That will mean a known. as tourists' highways, 'yet operated speeds, nc)t ground. clean, be census that· 3 it is possible that speed may found of any. kind pays divi- freedom a" . 'show� unexpectedly- only chinery llilways healthy skin, fromIice, ' traffic should' be classed the most factor in determin­ dends on care. dtsease and' -per cent of fhe important proper safeguard against such ve­ - as tourist. 'Fhe counts were made dur- ing the deatr_uctive effect of better porkers. hicles. should the are, larger, ing the tourist season and should put If this prove case, Fuel, spark and compression the road officillllS' will have a means of con­ essential of .motor. Dr. -BESS a ClARK to rest the .assertion that road improve­ three filatures your of the destruction of their low­ If will remember these Ashland Oblo ments are mainly for the' advantage trolling you points" 'you no of- taxes cost roads until are able to secure will save a deal of' time.. people who make payment they yourself _ good construction of sur­ toward the cost of the betterments. .As the funds for the .If you are out of fuel, fill your tanks. better 'for such traffic. and . a matter of fact, the great bulk of the faces ��pted Test out your magneto for "shorts" traffic-87, per cent-was between towns, loose connections. You can test com- what would be 'called interurban traffic . over . Faulty Lubrication Waste pression by turning your engine by electric The and if it want to railway companies. . hand, goes easy" you by lubrication is a most traffic from farms along the roads Proper important examine the valves, also the piston factor in the life of internal amounted to only 10 per. cent of the determining rings. Don't put off caring for them. . combustion The investment in total. engines. When 1.ou adjust the connecting .. this sort of is almost at ro� .Attention is called to this distribution equipment the bearings, be sure to replace the cott:er of lubrication. It is one of the of the traffic because it emphasizes the mercy pins and spread them: of economical fact that towns and cities have direct important phases opera­ FERTILE tion. The of the interest in road improvements. Where' protection pocketbook There appears to be a tendency on··th'e that man such en­ more'than three-fourths of the travel demands every using part of farm _equipment manufacturers and farm in' with KANSAS over main roads "brigtnates in towns gines machinery general to come back to the state fairs realize the of: those roads, as is the case in the deep significance proper their exhibits. For a number of years along lubricabion, . LAND' Iowa highways which have been under machinery' companies refrained to a eon-: observation, it is self-evident that the The output of steel is. being turned to siderable extent from showing. More expense of road improvement should not war materials. Mafiufacturers of farm tractor companies than ever are showing CHEAP, be borne mainly by the farmers, as at machinery 'are finding it difficult to pro­ .at the fairs. this year. We believe there of rate mak­ cure' sufficient material to with 'is no to exhibit farm ma­ Those who located in Central the present.' The principle keep up b�tter place ing for most classes of public service is o!ders. must, of neees­ chinery than at our big fairs. Farmer.s'. Kansas 20 are the big This. shortaffe: years ago that the charge for the service should aity, mean higher prtees .for machinery. .are being compelled more and more to has reason we farmers today. Their land be based on the use made of it. Road This is an added why should ,study closely their equipment needs, and save care.' improvements form a class, which here­ machines by proper . exhibits of farm machinery are always made them independent. . tofore has been from The man his first tractor, the center of of: interested farm- Your chance now is-in the five generally exempt -who buys groups this If automobile 01' should make to see if can in the / of principle. gas engine ers any Kansas counties application striving they S.outhwestern more traffic enumerations are made like the lubrication of his motor a...subject of way more efficiently perform their farm new .adjacent to the Santa Fe's those in progress iq Iowa, the injustice special study. The ravages of friction work through the employment of new line, where good land is still of putting most of the expense for im­ will quickly destroy unless all moving tools and labor-saving equipment. provement of market roads on farmers parts are protected by a clinging film � . cheap. will lead to a change in this or cushion of good oil. He must not be With railroad facilities this country is eventually Advice to Boy. satisfied with "just oil," but should use fast. Farmers are making poliey, developing some time that the- utmost care in his lubri- should finish school It is It has been known for selecting Every boy h�., on small investments. course. We shall secure more menunder good profits there are more automobiles in Iowa, in 'cants. .And once lie has made tITis se­ man of moderate the today for the the draft than we can arm at \he place proportion- to the population, than in lection he should never mix one grade ':pres. means. . returns from the of oil with another. ent time. '. kaffir and any other state. The Wheat, oats, barley, speltz, automo­ .A of over is The individual obligation on the part abun­ traffic census show that tlle�e temperature 2,000 degrees broom corn, milo and feterita grow of each and citizen for service is biles are used often developed in the and, un­ every in the Southwest counties referred being very frequently. cylinder dantly less his motor oil be of the manifest, but the should are not for Sun­ . boys ,reijiem� cows and beef They pleasure vehicles, " highest grade to. Chickens, are now h�, dairy excursions. If th" rcturns which and uniform, it will ber, that they serving i]\ the ' day quickly break up cattle increase profits. them­ your included 4 are thrown out because and separate. This results in two' grave bes.t possible way by preparing 160 acres for to July You can get $200- $300 to serve more when the of the unusual traffic on that day, the conditions: an -ineffieient lubrication that sef¥Cs efficiently no further on and -prin­ comes. we now for . down, payment of motor vehicles to horse causes ruinous wear and an unburned time What want is for two then balance one­ proportion cipal years, from of carbon that reduces and the boy in school or college to finish inter­ vehicles using the roads ranges two deposit power of purelrase price annually, his education in that· we have eighth one on one road to to one causes fuel waste. order to an to eighteen est only 6 per cent-s-price $10 $15 each a 0 well­ on another road. The average The best oil is, therefore, one that will year dependable outputmar acre. propor­ at its function and then mix with educated and well-trained young men. of letters from tion all eight stations, including the perform Write for our book It is a mistake for edu­ counts made on July 4, shows that the fuel and be entirely burned up. 'No great partly farmers who are good there now, cated to rush to the making vehicles were used to' one residue must be no friction young boys colors with of eleven motor left; per­ also inustrated .folder particulars now. .We was also observed that mitted. don't need them. It is. very. .Address horse vehicle. It our easy-purchase contract. should finish their edu­ these roads were carrying an average of Many motor owners have the idea, important they cation.-MAJ. GEN. LEONARD in E. T. Cartlidge, 387 vehicles daily. When it is consid­ that too much oil cannot lie used. This WOOD, ' Fe Land The .American Santa Improvement Co., ered that this traffic was carried on dirt is not a fact. The sump or reservoir of Boy. 1892 Santa Fe Bldg., Topeka, Kansas. roads, as a rule, it is evident that the II· motor should not be filled above its construction and maintenance- of Iowa correct level. 'If too much oil is used One of the choice herds of Ayrshire cat­ tle In this country Is owned by John Sher­ for the more will be drawn into the cham­ roads with the funda available firing win, of South Farms. Willoughby, Ohio. ber than can used This herd was started Mr. Sherwin nine purpose is a very hard problem to solve be and burned and a by will result. years ago with a few very carefully selected satisfactorily. carbon-forming paste animals. Today the herd numbers 300 head. One of the most mstructive features This is especially true of tractors for all of which are registered In the Ayrshire Breeders' Aaaoctatton, Of these 300 head. of the' census returns is the information these motors are in continually taking seventy-five are Imported from Scotland. regarding the use of motor trucks. On dirty, gritty air and these substances­ During the last six years 145 cows have qualified and entered Into the Advanced one road there were five horse-drawn mix with this paste a destruc­ causing Registry. Also during this period several tive wear on trucks' for every four motor trucks, the pistons, piston rings and of the cows at South Farm have broken lowest of the latter at walls. world's records In milk and butterfat as proportion any cylinder and The herd at South If two three-year-olds. of the census stations. On one road the splash system is used, it is a Farm has been fortunate In having' at 118 there were 2.6 motor trucks for each good practice to drain the oil out of head several of the noted bulls of the Ayr­ shire breed. The Imp. Bargenoch Bonnie road there of tractor crank cases at least once ia .A new book entitled "Farm Concrete" horse truck and on another Scotland 11974. Imp. Cralgbrae Lord Rose­ -' and it-with new Holehouse Wanderer 16390. ' has come from the Macmillan press. were 3.3 motor trucks for each horse 'week replace oil. Some bery 15001. Imp. just John 12584 have The of alt the stations 'authorities recommend the of and Imp. Foulton Spicy The use of concrete on farms is being truck. average changing headed the herd., Atso the famous White widely extended and it is of consider­ was 1.1 motor trucks 'for each horse oi!!.�very three days. In either case Cloud of Hickory Island 10377. the bull infor­ truck. It without that this kerosene should be in and the whose daughters have made him second In able importance that dependable goes saying put engine the list of the sires In the Advanced Reg­ the allowed to run a few minutes to mation be at hand such as is found in proportion will be changed during wash Istry'for their highest average of milk and At the time Victor of book. The cost of concrete in season when trucking is being out gum' and grit, then draw out the butterfat. present this good heavy South Farm 13286, a son of ,White Cloud of labor and materials is no more than that done from the farms to the market kerosene and' refill with new oil. Be Hickory Island, Is at the head of the herd. of concrete. This which towns. It is that the propor­ sure that your funnel is abso­ There have also been many other famous poor volume, expected filling bulls at the head of this herd. Recently horse trucks to motor trucks clean and free from dirt has been prepared by Prof. K. J. T. Ek­ tion of lutely sand, South Farm made an Importa.tlon of twenty­ of Illinois to­ will be much higher then. Motor truck­ and other substances. five heifers tram Scotland, they all being blaw, University, brings out of Howle's Sir Hugh 9026, the unbeaten the essential has come so into favor The, of oil in an gether in logical form prin­ ing rapidly

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book Through an arrpgement with a large publishing house, �ANSAS FARMER it.ble to exfend'to its reader. the following \ offer in: book.: Meaf at Less Cost e�ceptional Mo�e PAPER BACKS . " BEST BOOKS IN greatest problem confronting of producers as well as consumers. The CLOTH BINDINGS, BEST BOOKS IN - of the Government dis­ 25e. is how to raise more urging C. stockmen campaign .... ' - 50 _each ... I meat and for meat­ each TlIEmeat at a lower cost. This state­ crimination against Mark X less does not tend to en­ for any five volumes. .ment was made in a recent report of days certainly ,lUll in the use 'in front of books you want' and mail this the Market Committee of the America� courage production. Economy it with name, address National Live Stock Association. This of all foods is highly desirable, but advertisement, your remittance to KANSAS committee advises th'at 'under the pres· can be practiced in It rational manner 'and proper with the FARMER. The books will be sent you ent conditions animals should only. be without' interfering ;v.ormal' save all retum fattened to a commercial marketable dietary. 'Likewise the clamor to by mail, postage. prepai� condition. That is the most- economic breeding stock is both Ill-advised and H; The mak­ and to out ex­ we will ,F� 1.00 we wiD utilization of animal' feeds. _ logical, impossible carry For '1.00 finished animals should be in certain localities. If in force, new sub­ tie ournew sub- of fancy ' cept put enteryour ing condi­ discouraged,l:as it is economic waste. A it would unsettle all Iive-stoekt scription or renew­ tion or renew­ valuable service would be, rendered' if tions, and would result 'in a prompt de­ al to KANSAS to KANSAS of the. experiment stllitions of tM federal crease of our immediate supply meat, FARMER for one FARMER for one and -state governments would enlarge and a probable glut later on when in- year and send you yea,r and 'send YIIl! lines. . creased are not .needed." in three bOoks their research work along these supplies any -�e book any hi: . the Na­ The above propositions and others were The Market Committee of the following Hst, the following Usi, carefully' presented at Washin�tori last tional Live Stock Association is doing free. Mark your free. Mark your week by ,the members of the LIve 'Stock some fundamental work in the 'interests choice of books on choice of books On The committee Industry Committee appointed rto co­ of this great industry. Hst and use sub­ Iiat and use sub­ convention operate with the.Food Administration in was created at the annual scription blank at scription blank at and working out plans for increasing our held in' El 'Paso in January, 1916, bottom in· sending. bottom in sending funds to its work were in order. meat production. carryon guaran­ in your order. your stockmen of the coun­ Under. I the terms of the Food Control teed by thirty-five convention held in Act, no authority is given the President try. At the annua\ to fix in 1917 it decided re- or an'y' agency he may appoint Cheyenne .was 1.0 live stock or meat prices. As already LIST. OF CLOTH·BOUND LIST OF PAPER-BOUND expressed, the Food Administration has as "BOOKS' no intention of disturbing conditions BOOK�' of live stock or meats. regards prices By R. L. STEVENSON- USEFUL BOOK�' It seems to be the aim of the adminis­ and Mr. • .•• WebBter's Pocket •••. Dr. Jekyll Hyde Dictionary tration to stimulate im­ by. •.•. New Aratilan Nights, production • ••. Model Letter _;Writer Master ot Baliantrae masket what • ••. The proving conditions, doing •••. How to Entertain • Treasure Island to facilitate methods of dis­ •••. is possible • ••• Popular Etiquette its influence in stabil­ tribution, using By MARGARET -DE.!-AND- • ••. Everyday Cook Book and a Preacher •••• ising prices on fairly profitable •••. John Ward, Children's Recitations and His Wlte · ••. Philip liberal basis, and in every way inspir­ • ••• Eureka Recitations •••• Tom Grogan ing the confidence of live stock produc­ F. HOPKINSON SMITH- ers.. The first official statement By NOVELS FROM PLAYS AND very Master Diver •• , . Caleb West, -this was as follows: "We made on ' ot Cartersville point • ••• Colonel Carter MOVING PICTURES- of thc Fellow wish to' restore the confidence • ••• The Other farmer and stockman in his by • ••• The Two Orphans industry By JACK LONDO�- him that he will a fair .... The Holy City convincing get •.•. Adventure . Adam .... Quo Vadls share �f the price paid by the .consumer." • .• ; Betore · .•. Burning Daylight - Sherlock The Committee of the -Na- , •.••• Hoh�es ,Marketing • .•. Call ot the Wild • •• Down East- out '. , ',' ot, the Frost .'Way tional Live Stock Association· points • ••. Children .... When We Were •• : .Crulse ot the Snark Twenty.one that the Government has the power .to •• , . Iron Heel ....Under Two Flags without abso­ Face fulfoill this pledge fixing •.•• Lost Lite lute for the future. It will pur­ SHOW HElFER BELONGING '1'0 • .•. Love (it prices Martin Eden H. HOLMES • .•. POPULAR NOVELS chase the- food needed for our H. Face supplies •• , .Moon soldiers here and' abroad. The central­ •••. Sea Wolt By JULES VERNE- · ••. Sou th Sea Tales ized for the allies will Fish Patrol buying ag�ncy • ••. Tales ot the .... Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the

· The Faith ot Men Sea ." probably work co-operatively with that lieve these men of the portion of their ••. .••• The Game of •••• Tour ot the World In of our own The total and depend upon Pride Eighty Days government. guarantee yet unpaid · ••. The House ot constitute and of the the Classes these combined purchases will the stockmen of the country · .•. War ot · .•. When God Laughs COUNT TOLSTOI- a volume-to practically different live stock associations for the By L�O sufficiently large •••• Whlte Fang work. As • •• ,Resurrection establish a price level to the producers needed money to carryon the indlvid­ PHELPS- •••• Anna Karenlne and consumers of this country. Under yet only a few associations and By ELIZABETH S. •••• the. ••. Lite Iva. Fool the for in the have contributed to the of • A SIngular power provided uals expense ' licens,j�g • .•. Gates The Ajar • ••• Tile Kreutzer Sonata 'oulr 'Government can pro­ committee's work. Every the Gates law; equitably this important ..•. Beyond Ga.tes Between tect both consumers and producers from stockman is vitally interested in what · ••. The HALL CAINE- abnormal 'middlemen's and elim­ are and will be benefited. By profits they doing BRET HARTE- W. Tom­ By inate expenses. The treasurer is 'f. Jack Hamlin's • ••• The Bondman 'unnecessary secretary- .... A Protege ot Commit­ Gate · ot Golden The" ::iiiembers of Market 515 Building, Denver, A Ward the •••• Tile Deemster t�e linson, Cooper Client · Starbottle's Colonel - tee and --other officers of the National Colorado. wishing to contribute •••• She's All the World to Me Anyone .... Cressy • ••• The Shadow ot a Crime Association had a his to Hills Live Stock lengthy to fund should send- money · ... In a Hollow of the this, - conference' in with the' · ., . Luck ot Roaring Camp Chicago recently this address. Husbands · ... Mrs. Skagg's Trade Commission the By ALEXANDER DUMAS- Federal regarding •.. ,Sally Dow. Pottawatomie asks the meat investigation. They also met rep·, C. S. W., County, · Tales of Argonauts .... Taking the Bastlle corn will kill cattle if · Three Partners resentatives of the Food Administration if black smut on • ••• The Hero of the People there the silo. .... The of the Red Castle and discussed in considerable detail the it is put into Apparently RUDYARD KIPLING- Bnlght By .... The Queen's Necklace no of cattle poisoned by the The is being • .'.. Mlne Own People live stock business of country. danger • ••• Camllle

corn smut. W. A. • .•. Plain Tales from the HlJIs are of the recommenda- eating ordinary part .... 'Rickshaw following of "Feeds and Phantom as a and the senior author Failed tions rutlined general plan Henry, '" .The Light That MISCELLANEOUS two milk cows at NO'VELS which were submitted at the Feeding," once .fed policy' CHILDREN'S BOOKS- •• In His Steps-Sheldon Live Wisconsin Station on of the Stock the Experiment Adventures In Wonderland Washington meeting .••.. Allee's •• " .Three Men in a Boat--Jeromc cleaned corn smut mixed with \Vheat the Glass Committee i well •... Alice Through Looltolng •••• The Scarlet Letter-Hawthorne Industry a Brownie an to find out its •.•• Adventures ot "While" we the importance bran in experiment Evans .... St. Elmo-A. J. appreciate •••. J. Cole live stock He increased the amount of of the of effect. · ••. Cuckoo Clock production • ••• Ishmael-Southworth increasing i the cows two • .•. House That Grew Stories-Reid to meet the shortage' claimed to exist smut until -wereiget.ting • ••. Twenty Good •.•. Llttle·Lame Prince Rock---Conner one reo •••. Black we also a At this point in the world recognize pounds day, •.•. Little Susie Stories •••• The Double Lite-Wilcox supply, allowance of the fae- hen feed and the ., •. Ponokah on the Hearth-DICkens that there are many fundamental fused • ••. Cricket • .•. What Tommy Did four a • ••. Robinson Cru.oe-DeFoe tors as lack other was 'increased to pounds affecting production-such • ••. The Wedding Ring-Talmadge cow to . or one This seemed of in the stability of the day, peck. MARY J. HOLMES- • ••. A Fool and His Money-Smythe eonfidenee sud­ By Love-Southworth and but •... A pertect of animal be getting fat, • ••. Marian Grey market, prices feeds, thriving Cabln-stowe high. ... • Uncle Tom's , .Alkenslde other sickened and died. At the Mich­ •• better returns from · •.. New Arabian Nights-Stevenson agricultural denly - Professor Smith • ••. English Orphans results Station and Sunshine •• , .Black Beauty-Sewall pursuits, and fear of disastrous igan Experiment • ••• Tllmpest corn smut from exercise a once fed cows on well cleaned overproduction-which - -- � - - from one to ten ------SUBSCRIPTION COUPON �110St deterrent influence against any until they were eating one cow showed Illcrease, and', which must measurably be pounds daily. Only any she recovered. The KANSAS FARMER, Topeka, Kansas. 'removed before any increase in produe- indisposition and of the Fed­ tion is .possible. We believe it is vitally Bureau of Animal Industry .lnclosed find for which send me KANSAS also has Gentlemen: $1.00, e�sential- for the Government to recog- eraI'Dcpartment of Agriculture which indicate FARMER one year and the books listed below: mze that, through its purchases of meat conducted experiments' at least for our army and the Allies, that in reasonable quantities products harmless unless It can practically fix the general level corn smut is probably fond of it for live stock and meats in this country, the cows become inordinately it would and should therefore promptly assure and eat large quantities, As no producers -Its will be made occur in the silo there is practically that ------.. purchase -_ ---- _--_ .. _------_ _':. __ - .. ---- .. _ .. --- _------animal ....-.- ---_. --_ on such a basis that there will be a lib- danger whatever of any one get- harmfu1. _ oral 'those who to be . profit, so as to encourage tfug enough Name : � may be able to increase their production. . when crushed IS excellent The an- Barley an. D State . Governmenb should also fully Town " R. F. feed for and can be substituted en­ nounee its plans for the stimulation of hogs . the for corn, even when it costs / tirely FARMER? ..... " ...... • production and conservation tlf t.lle live Are you now a subscriber to KANSAS stock industry, and for the protection same per pound,

_. 15, 1917 12 KANSAS september

]Ii Classified ti, Advertising be Items of stock ..... Advertising "barsa!n eounter." Thousands of people- have surplus tor sale-limited In amount or numbers hardly enough to justlty extensive display These advertising. Thousarlde ot other people· want to buy these same things. We dellre to make this department jUBt as helptlil as POBslble, and beJlevlaS tor Your advertlBement Intending buyers read the classified "ad."-looklng bargains. that an exchange of experlenoes will add to Its value, we hereby extend an a word No "ad" taken for here reaehes Over 60,000 farmers for II cents per week. Invitation to our readerl to use It In paning on to others eX1P8rlencell or II11&'ges­ and numbers leas than 60 cents. All "ads" set In uniform style, no display. Initials tlons by which you have profited. Any questions submitted will receive our cash with order. count as words. Address counted. Terms, always careful attention and If we are unable io make satisfactory answer, we will Inserted SITUATIONS WANTED ads, up to 25 words, including address, wlll be endeavor to direct inquirer to reliable source of help. Addrell8 Editor of Home free 0' charge for two weeks, for bona fide Seekers ot employment on farms. Department, Kansas Farmer, Topeka, Kansas.

This Is the of _ POULTRY. gospel labor, HELP WANTED. most every school there are some Ring It, ye bells of the kirk, pupils WHITE ROCK: EGGS, U PER HUN­ The Lord of Love came down from above who seem to have food to MAN TO WEAR FINE SUIT, ACT AS enough satisfy dred. Nora Lamaster, HaUowell, Kansa". To live with the men who work. agent; big pay, easy work. Banner Tailor­ their appetites, but who are of This Is the rose he ted, incapable Dept. 738, Chicago. plan Ing Co., PURE BOURBON RED TURKEYS, FOUR Here In the thorn-cursed soil; doing good mental work largely because months old, $3. Lily Robb, Neal, Kansas. Heaven Is blest with HOUSEKEEPER-COMPANION WANTED, perfect rest, of the lack of food. In order to But the ot earth Is toll. proper woman for modern coun­ blessing elderly preferred C HOI C E MARCH-APRIL HATCHED Van build up the and with woman and children. Ad­ -Henry Dyke. growing body permit try home White Rock cockerels, U.50 and $2. Mrs. care The Junction City, the mind to -its besj; work, dress 0, Republic, Rudolph ·Joll,nson, Bendena, Kansas. accomplish Kansas. It is customary but I think it is a food must be supplied that is nourishing SINGLE COMB BROWN LEGHORN WANTED-MEN-WOMEN, 18 OR OVER. mistake, to speak of "happy" childhood, without putting too severe a. strain on cockerels, 75c and $1 each. C. H. Robin­ . month. Big oppor­ Government jobs, $100 MissourI. Children are often overanxious and the dig4lstiye org&:ns. or War necessitates hun­ son, Urloh, Listle�Jless tunity for farmers. sensitive. Man to be headache from im­ dreds appOintments. Write tor list posi­ acutely ought man. frequently results tions. Franklin G-82, WANTED. and his but children are Institute,. Dept. POULTRY master of fate; proper eating. Rochester, N. Y. at the of those around them. Mr. The breakfast menus for POULTRY AND EGG MARKET HIGHER. mercy following horse has told children are a bulletin en­ CATTLE. Coops free. For prices, tiThe Copes," Topeka. Rarey, the great tamer, taken from us that he has known an angry word to titled "Suggestions, for the Health of 120 HEAD OF HIGH GRADE HOLSTEIN WANTED raise the pulse of a horse ten beats in Children," published by the New York cows and heifers, l'rlced for quick aale, H. a minute. Think then how it must af· College of One of these F. McNutt, Oxford·, Wisconsin. WANTED - AULTMAN - TAYLOR OR Agriculture. neeves tractor, large size, late model. Also fect a. child!-LoRD AVEBURY, shows certain defects in meeting the HOLSTEIN CALVES; HIGH GRADE, good eight-bottom gang. B, 1... Elliott, dietary needs of the child, and .the other trom cows producing up to 60 pounds. Stanley, Iowa. Man­ shows 110W Either sex, $15 to U5. L. D. Arnold, Women Emergency Agents these needs may be met with hattan, Kansas. food. REAL ESTATE. Thirteen Kansas counties have asked simple, easily prepared N D Griddle cakes and fried FOR SALE-DOUBLE S TA DAR for home demonstration ·syrup, sausage, Polled Durham bulls. Write for description FERGUS COUNTY LAND. - WRITE TO emeJ:gency potatoes, bread and butter, and coffee, and price, C. M. Albright, !toute 2, Over­ Box 440, Roy, Montana. agents, Arrangements have been made Kansas. constitute a. type of breakfast unsuited brook, for these agents in Chase, Mcf'herson, to a child. this meal may not - MISCELLANEOUS. Although FOR SALE HIGH-GRADE GUERNSEY Cowley, Anderson, Finney, Ness, Sew­ be bad for a it is unsuited cows and heifers, some tresh, close springers and healthy adult, 80c ard, Stevens, Shawnee, Wyandotte and tall cows, all bred to a registered bull, 1,024 YEARS AMERICAN HISTORY, to a child of school age for various rea­ C. R. Leavenworth, Kansas. postpaid. Elias Pelton, Hudson, l{anS'll.'. counties. Agents will be appointed to Ryan, sons. It needs to be modified by the these counties as soon as capable, ex­ FOR SALE-DOUBLE STANDARD LUMBER. addition of an acid fruit in order to be bull. three. Fine women can be found for this Shorthorn Deep red, age perienced even a man animal. F. G. Graham, Route 4, Olathe, work. .easily digested by grown- POSTS, DIRECT I{ansRs. LUMBER, MILLWORK, doing heavy work. Griddle cakes are from mlll, wholesale prices. Send for car­ Other counties asking for emergency estimate. in the class of hot which not WE OFFER FOR SALE CHOICE OF TEN penter's list for freight prepaid home demonstration but in which breads, at:� Lumber agents, herd of Guern­ MlIlwork catalog tree. Keystone suited to the diet of a child. are from our twenty high grade are not as They desirable Company, Tacoma,/Washlngton. the organizations complete sey cows. All our own raising and often swallowed without much chewing ages and due to treshen tall and early win­ are Morris and Riley, yet, Washington; and hence are with ter. G. D. Glidden & Sons, Homewood, Kaq. HONEY. home demoustration agents digested difficulty. Emergeney is a meat. to be - Sausage largely pork, FOn SALE VERY CHOICE HIGH·· have been at work in Atchison, Kansas HONEY-NEW CROP. SEND FOR PRICE used with moderation even grade Holstein calves, either sex, three t( and for several by· many list. Bert W. Hopper, Rocky Ford, Colo .. City, Wichita, Topeka, six weeks old, at $20 per head, crated fOI' grown persons. Some cases of digestive cattle 01 weeks, shipment. Or If you want dairy trouble be the a cornmtsston may caused any age, I will buy them at Miss Frances L, Brown, who is direc­ by large from the best herds In Southern Wisconsin. amount of eaten. It contains much economics the division of pork Albert M. Hanson, Whitewater, Wisconsin. tor of home pf an excess of which retards Real Estate For Sale extension of the Kansas Agrleultural fat, dfgestlon CALVES, in the stomach even when does not HIGHLY BRED HOLSTEIN leader of the it from milk­ College, is temporary either sex, IS-16th pure, heavy 10,000 ACRES of good grazing land, well cause discomfort. The of .saus­ to seven weeks beautifully home demonstration in serving ers, five old, watered, for $3 to $5. All crops good. No emergency agents crat.ed and delivered to any at breakfast means marked. $23, drouth, no hot winds. Grass for cattle and this state. age usually serving express charges paid here. Send station, corn for hogs. Best country In the world to meat twice a day, which is not an advls­ or write. Lake View Holstein Place, . orders IIvll-.-1!nd make money. Whitewater, Wisconsin. able practice for the children's diet. W, W. TRACEY - ANDERSON, 1I0SS0URI Save the Bottles Many dietary experts now believe that DOGS. 91S0-ACRE BOTTOiU FARM Catsup, olive, pickle and mustard bot­ meat eaten once· a day is sufficient for Four hundred acres In cultivation, 160 acres tIes are ideal eorrtaiuers for grape and that children under seven meadow, balance pasture. Splendid alfalfa, juice. anyone, SCOTCH TERRIER PUPS-GREAT RAT and tho wheat or corn land. Splendid 011 possibili­ may be corked cork coated of at should have none Frank Iowa. They years ag�, least, dogs. Healy, Bedford,. ties. A fine for some one. Only $75 bargain with paraffin. It is oftcn easier, how­ at all. A vigorous adult be able j;o acre. MI gh t take a small farm In on may TRAINED BEAGLES, RABBIT HOUNDS, per Write ever, to make of cotton. Make fried food without much diffi­ set­ the deal. stoppers digest foxhounds, coon. opossum, skunk dogs, KANSAS 111. T. SPONG . FREDONIA, a cotton which will fit into ters, pointers, house, farm dogs. Ferrets. plug tightly culty, but it places too great a tax on Catalog 10c. Brown's Kennels, York, Pa. the neck. Allow it to remain for a time the a child. Coffee EIGHTY ACRES, 6 miles McAlester, city digestive system of so that it will retain its when is a not TRAINED RABBIT ·HOUNDS, FOX ·15.000. 50 a, cul t., mostly drv. black bot­ shape stimulant, and therefore should hounds, coon, opossum, skunk dogs, settors, tom land. All fenced. Some Improvements. removed. When the are all be used school children. . stoppers by ferrets. List free. Violet Hili Corn now on rarm, make 40 bu. per acre. potnters, them on tin in the oven. As a of breakfast suited to a Kennels, Hanover, Pa. $21 per acre. Terms. made, place pic type remain until to SOUTHERN REALTY CO., IIJcAlester, Okla. Let them they begin .ehild of school age, Miss Knowlton, the COLLIES-GREATEST AIREDALES AND brown. If not ready to use them, let author of the bulletin of all pups. Grown dogs and brood matrons. mentioned, sug­ Beautiful Shawnee Kansas, Forms Large Instructive list, 5c. W. R. 'Vatson, County, them remain in oven, but turn off the rolled oats with cream. or Near gests milk, Box Oakland, Iowa. Topeka. 128, heat. and open the door. WIlen the bot­ sauce, bread and butter, milk to 160 a. farm, fine Improvements, $80; 160 apple tIes are the cotton in a. farm. good Improvements. $65; fine 43 a. filled, place plugs drink, egg if desired. The egg, however, SEEDS farm, good Improvements, $3.800. I can fit securely. Do not fill bottles so full that should not be fried. The rolled oats you ou t In any size farm desired. One to 'l'URKEY cotton will touch PURE-BRED HIGH-YIELDING two crops will pO.y for farm. E-Z ter-ms. juice. should be cooked in a double, boiler for red hard seed wheat, cleaned and graded, at J, E. THOIlIPSON (The Former Lond Man) several hours, or in a fireless cooker a bushel. Ferdinand Vllets, $3.00 Hubka. I{ansas Tecumseh, over foodstuffs Kanaaa, Light from Left Side night. Tissue-building are furnished in the rolled FULCASTER AND SEEDLING .SEED The well known fact that when using generously wheat for sale, $2.70 per bushel f. o. b. cars oats, the milk, the bread, and the egg. SUMlER COUITY the eyes for allY near work the Illumi­ Vinita. Sacks free. $2.50 per bushel In car are abundant withstood t.he Energy-giving foodstuffs loads, not sac"\

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GOV·ERNMENX SCHOOL The Kansas Wesleyan Business. College holds an. appointment by the United States Government to teach Morse and Radio Telegraphy. This honor is a fitting recognition of the efficient work of this school. The War Department furnishes us 11.11 needed additional equipment to of men and women now handle the great classes young enrolling. . Graduates· are guaranteed immediate appointment with the Signal Service or, if preferred, with the railroads. Write at once for catalog. The Kansas Wesleyan Business College, Salina, Kansas

�DILEn. LU'(SAS. me Please send your catalogue, and speclal tuition rate to firat.ont hun- . dred new atudents. Positions guaranteed.

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�Banks And ··YOUR OWN NAME" Railroads IUGHT � BIZE Demand Our Graduates Graduates guaranteed positions and fur­ nished employment to defray expenses while EXTRA FINE . ON THIS KNIFE attending. 119 East Eighth St., Topeka Two best quality steel blades. German silver tips, braas lined. Transparent handle own name. 814 Stude.to from 16 Stat... showing your Collelle, Academy. Dom..Uo No. 82Z1-Girls' Dress: Cut In sIzes 8 to 14 For and school Is We will send this beautiful knlte with years. playtime Science. Buatnees. ;Muoio, the your own name on It for one yearly sub­ this little dress. It Is just as simple as can be, and therefore very easy for Plano Art and Ex­ Tuning. scription to Kansas Farmer at $1.60 or & mother to make, The Inset vest Is slashed so that the dress may be more easily For write Ilrasalon. cataloll three years' subscription at $2.25. Address Slipped on over the head, and Is laced up with a bright colored ribbon or cord. The P..... E. E. Plhlblad. .Men· two-piece skirt Is gathered to the waist. No. 8181S-Ladies' \Valst: Cut In sizes 36 Uon course, KANSAS FARMER - TOPEKA, KANSAS to 42 Inches bust measure. A very dainty and girlish looking blouse Is shown herewith. Its broad collar with a new outline Is an especially becoming style to t'le of women. Crisp ruffles of the same material or of plain white majority The of the civilized world material hemstitched In a color to correspond with that of the waist. add much to larger part Its smartness. No. 8187-Glrls' Dress: Cut In sizes 6. 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. The will have to be reconstructed after the junior wants to be as up- to-date as her big sister, will be girl, who really just war. Such reconstruction is almost ex­ delighted with this clever little one-piece dress. It has all the style features of the work of •. Let me the grown-up, cna-ptece dresses, Including the popular slot pockets. No. 7834- clusively engineers I.adles' Dress: Cut In sIzes 36 to 44 Inches bust measure. Just full of style and earnestly implore youths who are ready for the rever fronts and currs, Novelty pockets snap with contrasting goods collar, for and who are not in any way in the sltlrt a smart touch to the front where the closing Is made. college four-gore give unfitted for technical to take POl' practical 'wear In the home, chambray, figured percale or such fabric to wlth­ careers, stund wear may be used. No. 7800-Ladles' Skirt: Cut In sizes 22 to 30 Inches up some branch of engineering or tech­ waist measure. For all Its Simplicity, this smart skirt possesses some degree of nology. It is not only for the good of style with side a pocket In each front gore and buttons that ornament and panels, the that I make this but close the garment down the front. On modest lines, with Its folds rippling Into country appeal or No. fullness, It may be made of serge, gabardine, whtp-cord linen. 7902-Lndles' also for the ultimate berlefit of the Allron: Cut In sizes 36 and 40 Inches bust measure: In the class of servIceable (!)TTA KANS. WA� young men themselves.--J. ,A, L. WAD­ garments attractively made, we may put thIs apron. Cut In one piece with a yoke at DELL, facing; other features of Interest are the front ctostns, elastic fastening the If you have more preserving jars than Consulting Engineer. waistline to divide the fullness, and a diagonal pocket with a stitched trim­ evenly you can fill, lend them to a neighbor ming band to match the yoke facing and the sleeve finish. who will make them work for the na­ Proper selection is as important as tion. -the propel' amount of food. /

I 'l!! 17 14' KANSAS FARMER September 15, Southard's Monarch Herefords AT ------·SELL , Comiskey, Kan., Saturday; October 6 (The -D�y Following the American Royal at Kansas City)

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REGISTER' OF MERIT BLOOD BACKED BY, YEARS 'OF CAREFUL BREEDING ·8uttoo·" Portlous August 8,811.,.. Will Be seia. in 'Thursday, October 4, At Farm Redmon & 5011,'. Cattle Sale at - Jersey - . - I TIPTON" MO., MONDAY, OCT. 1st. /La-,vrence, Ks. Sixty. Head ot Females. All In milk or hea:'vy In calf, Including Register of Me'rlt cows of dairy capacity. conformation, shapely udders and' high crass Indi­ vidual merit. 78 HEAD Three High CI88S Bulls ill_ady tor service. out of Register of Merit dam and by Register of Merit sires. Herd Is rich In the blood of Oxford Noble of Oak Golden Fern's Lad, larrds, Lad,. , Rosette's' Golden Liad and b,ther celebrated families.' Arrange to attend this great sale of the Best Dairy Cows ever sold In the West, Angus • Write today for large catalog on request to B. C. SETTLES, Sales Manager, PALMYRA, MISSOURI Cattle COL. P. M. GROSS, Auctioneer, KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI Sixt�en Bulls of. servicea:ble age POLLED DURHAM CATTLE.' SHORTHORN CATTLE. Twenty-six Bred Heifers or FOR SALE-A lew choice young bulls, Thirty-six Cows with calves at foot he..vy in calf sired by Clllef, a son of True Sultan. Priced ABBOTSFORD SHORTHORNS to sell. � D. C. VAN NICE - RlCH:LAND. KANSAS Eighteen young bulls for sale. A few of All the best families represented-c-the.Blaekhlrds, Ericas­ them about for service. Priced to sell. (On Mo. Pac. R:v... 17 m.lles S. E. of Topeka.) ready The kind that always please. and Prides. Our whole show herd goes in the: sale, Twenty­ POLLED DURHAM CATTLE D. BALLANTYNE If, SON, Herington, Kan. won herd Seventeen head of well bred Polled Dur- seven championships by 'our last year. Send for ham and Shorthorn Cattle to lie sold at Farmer. public sale., October 13, 1917. Write for S,eamore S·pr."n-sII Shorthorns catalog today, mentioning Kansas catalog. J Master of Dale the Avondale - by great EJIIJIIA Hl1NDLEY - JllRS. heads herd. A 'few young Scotch bulls and & PORTEOUS Route 2 Bogard, J\Dssouri bred heifers for sale. SU_TTON LAWRENCE, KANSAS. H. lIf. HILL LAFONTAINE, KANSAS Auctioneers-Cooper and Brady. Sunflower Herd of Shorthorns A few good cows and hellers for sale, also Breeders'Directory choice bull calves. Come and see my herd. 'RED POLLED CATTLE. Mahlon Groenmlller. Pomona. Kansas. A. L. HARRIS OSAGE CITY, KANSAS ANGUS CATTLE. PER'CHERON S TAL L I 0: N"S. Kan. D. J. lVhlte, Clements, FOR SALE THIS FALL AT REDUCED JERSEY CATTLB. SHADY LAWN SHORTHORNS PRICES" .". Porter If, Son, Mayetta. Kan. J. B. At head of herd, Kansas Archer 4W809 by Two yearling colts; two 2-year-old colts; two 3-year-old colts; two Mistletoe fifteen choice DORSET HORN SHEEP Archer. For sale, 4-year-old col ts, and one herd stallion. All sound and re'gl�tered In bulls from to H. C, LaTourette, !toute 2, Oberlin, Ran. young spring calves yearlings. Perqheron Society of America. Blacks and bays. If sold this tall I Come and see our herd. five registered Shorthorn bulls, .��ds and F. H, HULL & SONS - EUREKA, KANSAS ��I!�s�utc;�� ���e:�e ,!��o J. C. PARKS HAlIllLTON, KANSAS ALYSDALE HERD OF SCOTCH SHORT.- HORSES AND MULES. , HORNS Prince Valentine 4th and Clipper Brawlth PERCHERONB-BELGIANB-SHffiES In service. Orange Blossoms, Butterftys, MOD. E II N ·H ERE FOR D S 2, 3, 4 and 5-yr. stallions, ton and Queen of Beautys and Violets. Choice I heavier; also yearlings. I can young stock for sale. HAZFORD PLACE spare 75 young registered mares H. H. HOLMES, Route 28. Topeka, Kansas In foal. One of the largest breed­ Home of 'he Grand ChampIon BOCALDO 8TH, B8sl.ted by CALDO 2D, PUBLICAN 4TH Ing herds In the world. AND BEAU BALTII\IORE. FRED CHANDLER. R. 7, Char­ cattle our own tton of lton. Ia. Above Kansas City. Pearl Her d Shorthorns All our show breeding. Irispec fn.rm and breeding he�d Invited. A tew choice young bulls reserved to head high-class pure-bred herds now 'lor 111- Valiant 346162 and readr. Choice Young Belgians. English Shires. -Marengo's' Pearl 391- spection and sale. 962 In service. bulls to 10 months Percherons, also Coach sta'llions. also mares. Young up lV1I1Iam Condell, Herdsman. ROBT. H. EL old for sale. Reds and In HAZLETT, DORADO. 'KANSA8 Many first prizes. Long time 6 % notes. roans, good thrifty condition and t-he making of good DUnols Horse Co•• Good BIk., Des Moines. Ia; useful animals. Inspection Invited. Barn Full ot Percheron StallioDs and Mares. Can ship on. Rock Island, Union Pacilic or JERSEY CATTLE. DUROC Twenly-flve mature and aged jacks. Priced Santa Fe Railway. JERSEYS. to sen. AL, E. SMITH. Lawrence. Kans88. C. W. TAYLOR, ABILENE, KANSAS 1,20 Jerse, Cows and Heifers 15 Duroe Spring Boars AUCTIONEERS. GALLOWAY CATTLE. Pure-bred and high grade. Forty bred Sired by Illustrator O'Rlon 3d and Fancy yearlings. superior Individuals, all frol;!l Victor and out of my best herd sows. They profitable dams, now for sale. I are real herd. prospects, selected from 91 Jewell � Jas. T. McCulloch L1V�a��o��I':���� BULLS J. W. BERRY If, 801'1, alT, Write today If you want a. good Write for date. CLAY IGALLOWAY CENTER. KANSAS SIXTY and ���rn�al���r. yearling two-year-old btJIls, Jersey Bulls, butter-bred, from sfrong and rugged; farmer bulls, have been Registered LESTER R. HAMILTON high producing cows. Photo furnished. Hax­ ;' Will a few cows and Live Stock Auctioneer range-grown. price Boute 2. Topeka. K-. John W. Petford heifers. well's J8l'8ey Da.Jl'7" Write for terms and date. Clarksdale. Mo. Boute 1 Safford",lUe, Ka!l8a8 E. E. FRIZELL, FrJze., Pawnee Co.. Kansa. ,Live Stock and Real Estate AuctIoneer. REDHURST JERSEYS Fifteen years experience. Write for terms, Will Be Sold at Public Auction October 1. 11I1J\lUNED DUROCS Tho&. Darcey, Hutchinson. Ke.nsas. We have cows In the Register of thirty With size and bone. Bred sows and males GUERNSEY CATTLE. others that will qualify. Merit, and-emanv a specialty. 150 'larly pigs; pairs and trtos, This Is the best lot of producers to be 80ld . no kin. All Immuned. Satisfaction guar­ fall to wrIte B. C. this year. Don't Settles, anteed. C. G, Ditmars & Co., TurneT, 1110. CHESTER WHITE HOGS GUERNSEY' BUJ.I.S. Sales 1I1anager, Palmyra. lII1ssourl, for largo Buy a grandson of Imp. May ROy'al, whose catalog which will be ready ab,put Septem­ 4a.m. are granddaughters of Imp. Masher ber 20. _ McBRIDE'S DUROCS FORSALB Sequel. One to seven months old. ADAMS Pal.. and Spring Pluln Trio. FARM. Gashland. Mo., 12 miles from K. C. - Mo. Slx-months-old boars for red N Redmon & Son Tipton, sale, cherry at -related, from my unde­ ' and good ones. Priced right. feated show herd 1916.' I Ship W. T. 1I1cBRIDE PARKER., KANSAS at weaning, Send for prim," REGISTERED JERSEYS. and show record. COLEMAN HAMPSHIRE HOGS Cows, Hellers and Calves. Good breeding. Good Individuals. M)lst re­ & CRUM, Danville, Kanlal. Redmon & Son, of IIflssourl, own­ a duce herd. Price reasonable. Tipton, heavy­ C.F.PFUETZ ers of one of .Mlssourl's richly-bred herds of cattle, have an­ HALCYON HERD HAlIlPSHmE HOGS Route 4 JIIanhattan. Kansas producing Jersey Best breeding, best type; Stock for sale. nounced 'a, public sale of Jerseys to be held Clinton. Cheat.rs at October 1. This sale will be County GOO. ELA. Valley Falls. KaD888 Mrs. Emma Hundley, of Bogard, Mklsourl. Tipton, Bookln!> orders for spring pigs of National W'. under the management of B. C. Settles, the has announced a sale of Polled Durham and Swine Show blood lines. Fall and spring well known Jersey sales manager, of Pal­ ' Shorthorn cattle to be held October 13. A pigs, at bargain Missouri. The will Include prices. WHI!lN WRITING TO ADVIDRTISERS, will be catalogued for this myra, offering - choice offering W. H. many Register of Merit cows. JIIc�NAW CAlIlERON, MISSOURI PLEASB MENTION KANSAS FARMER sale. /' FARMER ::;epteRlb�r .15, .1917 ·KANS·As

�:��==����== CIIINAS YOU CAN GET PC)LAND \ I'. FAiRvmW--t>Oi..AND :eHlNAS. • . World's_�Record , either sex. .'SO'aead Eighty Head MarcH pigs, 80 'Breeding- Heavy-Iioned reasonable. Write to select frorri. l'rl<;e.8 wants. us your II 81; �AOLA.�NSAS o Sale During 1'. L. WARE SON'': Entrie. At Iowa Waterloo, , call tor , Dairy,._ Spot.ted ·p._ot.,n�.-It'ast Are From OOTOBER " will contain more high record a,nlmals than LangforcJ,:1I for· good hogs- This sale on boam, ,Your.�· a . •• early spring other In this section thlB season. Think of two sisters and 30-pound Cattle Cflngi'e M188ourl. State'. any T, Langford 81; Sou, Jamesport, Large" SKYLABK ORMSBY. You'U find them In this sale. .: " .' of DUOHESS T. ..,.. brother Week, of many bred Herd. Other female� that are daughters and granddaughters .and 1l50HEADIN SIB ORMSBY SKYLARK, to such sires all JOHANNA IIlelUNLEY SEGIS, CHrNA 'HOGS HERD OONtlORDlA, DE KOL Catalog. POLA'N'O .• OAK DE KOL OLLIE HOMESTEAD, SIB FA"¥.NB stock for sale. Immune. Satisfac­ JOIlANN"A LAD and KING KORN­ Breeding liD'S BUTTER BOY 3D, OOLANTHA Sept. 20 guaranteed,_ Come and see me. All Oller Six For further Infor­ Ready tion DYKE SADIE VALE. A few bulls from these sires. KANSAS' V. O. JOHN&oN AULNE, Month. mation add res. Auctioneer Tuberculin IOWA HOLSTEIN BREEDERS' ASSOCIA:rION POLAND CHtNAS OHAPIN, IOWA Col. D. 1:. Perry Te.fed F. O. BARNEY, Se SO�S PEABODY, 29-0klahoma Breeders' Sale,' Okla­ In Nebraska seventy winning Berkshlres of England are illus­ Sept. Holsteins to the Nebraska homa City, Okla. B. S. Settles, Palmyra, very high quality trated and a complete list of Berkshire 200 - RAlliS - 200 b'l'eeders' sale to be held at South Mo.. sales manager. Holstein awards at the leading tail'S Is given, At REGISTERED SHROPSHIRES 16. The otferlng wlll con­ Oct. l-Redmon & Son. Tipton, MissourI. Omaha, October the great Smithfield Show ot England In Our. flock was awarded 20 cows and helters and four­ B. C. Settles, Palmyra, Missouri, salee sist ot fifty-six 1916, Berkshlres won all the prizes In thlll at 1917 Iowa State Fair. teen bulls. The sale will be under the man-: prizes manager. carcass competition. There were classes tor Weight and wool always win. MO. of Dwight Williams, ot Omaha. Oct. 31-Geo. W. Hagan, Lee's Summit, agernent not over 10� pounds, not over 220 pounds Rams and ewes for sale. O. W. , B. ,_C. Settles, Palmyra, Mo., sales man­ not over 240 pounds and not over' 300 '" Fronk Chandler, Kellerton, Ia. Albert of Rago, Kansas, Is dem­ ager. Early, pounds. Three prizes were awarded In each that cows are protlt L. Hunter & Sons, Lincoln, Neb. onstrating good dairy Berkshlres awarded first, sec­ Nov. 2-W. Holstein class, being - on the farm. One ot his FJyE EXTRA GOOD HA1\IPSHmE RA1\1 B. C. Settles, sales manager, Palmyra, Mo. producers and third In each class, as well as made a milk rec­ ond cows recently 'l:hlrty-day championship and reserve championship. LAMBS with a tat test of 3.5. Herefords. ord of 2,559 pounds, The table complied by Secretary Edgar In the next two weeks...... record was 94 pounds, and l'rlced right If taken Oct. G-J. O. -Southard; Comiskey, Kan Her best dally Humfrey and which Is Included In his an­ record 635 pounds. This cow 1,. 1\1. SHIVES, BOUTE 1, IUKA, KANSAS Oct. 23-W. H. Rhodes, Manhattan, Kansas. best seven-day nual report, shows that the carcass compe­ seven old and In AprH dropped a Is years tition was added to the Smithfield Club which Mr, Early gave to his son FOR 1>AI,E - Ten registered Shropshire Shorthorn Cattle. heifer calf Show In 1904. This class Is open to an), has rMused an otter of $200 for It. fifteen registered Shropshire buck N�v. l!b-w. W. Waltmire & Son, Peculiar, who breed, grade or cross. Pure-bred Berkshire. Mr. owns one ot the richly-bred bulls "l'wes,ambs, ten pure-bred unregistered Shrop­ Missouri. Early have won both the championship and re­ at a price near $1,000. bucks. In Kansas, purchased serve and the first In "hire yearling ' championship prlz� ){, Route 6, KANSAS. Poland Chinas. every class have been won every time by HAGUE, NEWTqN, \ and Fred McMurray, of Oct. (-Dr. J. H. Lomax, St. Joseph, !lo. M-essrs. "Charley Berkshlres except on six occasions, and on have made Borne very near Kansas. Darlow, Kansas, just were ram Ba.le at fa.rm Leona, two of these the winners a. Berkshire FOR SALE-Registered Shropshire selection.. of. Holsteins from the Na­ l3-Arthur Anderson, Clyde, Kansas. choice cross. of a firsts and Oct. Out possible seventy-four lambs yearlings. varre herd of E. S. Engle & Son. The Mc­ KANSAS Oct. 16-H. B. Walter '" Son, Emngham, and championships, Berkshlres were awarded W. T. HAMIIIOND, PORTIS, Murrays are successtul farmers and dalry-, . Kansas. all the cha.mplonshlps and' all the firsts but tlrm In high class Hoi­ 17-Walter B. Brown. Perry, Kansas. men and .believers and two ot these six were OXFORD DOWN RAlliS AND EWES Oct. Investments. six, prizes Kansa.. steins as safe and profitable Another ram. ,Oct. 24-Fred G. Laptad, Lawrence, a.warded to a Berkshire cross. In­ Bred.trom my $'300 Imported teed conditions so very abnormal 6-Ross & Vincent, Sterling, Kansas. Even with exhibit In this report Is the result - YORK Nov. teresting W�I. E1\lPIE AMSTERDAlII, NEW the Engles tlnd the demand for 6-U. S. Byrne, Saxton. Missouri. this season, of the at the Smlthtleld Club Nov. since their herd championship Gardner, Kansas. good Holsteins the heONlest The of the show Is 'REGISTERED SHROPSHmE RAMS -Nov. 7-H. E. Myers. show. champion pig Ranch. Oswego, Kansas. w.as established. chosen from the champions of each separate Ten extra boned yearling Shropshire Feb. l8-Demlng large Howard, Kansas. rams to sell. Feb. 19-:-Fred B. Caldwell, breed. Since 1883 thirty-tour championships by Imported sire, p-rlced Kans_ W. T. Hammond, ot Portis, Kansas, Is ()De Feb. 20-Bert E, Hodson, Ashland, have been awarded and of this number E. E. LAUGHLIN the successtul breeders of pure-bred Mlssourl Sale at Wichita.. of pure-bred Berkshlres have been chosen six­ Rates Oounty. Rich Hill, 'In this state and finds Feb. 20-B. E, Hodson, A.hland, KansRS; Shropshire sheep teen times and Berkshire cross-breds seven them'the most stock on his farm. sale at Wichita. , profitable times. During the same period pure-bred His flock was started with choice tounda­ Rams Feb. 21-E. J. Erhart '" SOil, Ness City, Berkshlres have been awarded the reserve Firat Class Shropsh.ire tlon stock and only high class rams have Kansas; sale at Hutchinson. nine times. Kansas. been used. This year he raised a very fine cham¥lonshlp For Sale Feb. 22-F. Olivier & Son, Danville, Kansas. lot ot lambs and a feature ot the flo'ck at Feb. 23-V. O. Johnson, Aulne, Wilbur W. a farmer Is the choice lot of young stock, In­ Wright, practical exhibit them at Hutchinson. Kaneae, present yearllng and ram lambs. of and a Kansas StWtllla ;Fair. Don't buy a ram before you Spotted Polands. cluding Earvey County Agri­ see 01t. I sell and ship on approval. Oct. 19-Fred Rhodus, Excelsior Springs, has been J. O. Southard, ot Comiskey, Kansas, j)ultural College graduate, ap­ MissourI. Here­ JOHN COLDWATER, BREEDE.R, Owner of one ot the tamous herds ot pointed assistant county 'agricultural cattle now assembled. has cataloguei( _ _ _ ferd Ohase - _ _ _ Kan888 Hampshlre Hogs. agent in Shawnee County. l\ir. Wright Breeder" an otferlng consisting of 125 head of choice Oct. 12-Kansas Hampshire Swine Pig Herefords for his sale to be held October 6. his work there September 6, "vVy­ S, M. Knox, of Humboldt, Kansas, Is -Association and Halcyon Hampshire began b Kansas. Geor.e Fltty cows with calves at side and tlfty andotte now has an ulldlng up a very profitable herd of pure Club sale at Valley Falls, County organized bred helters have been catalogued, also Scotch-topped Shorthorn cattle. ,W. Ela.. .ecretary and manager. farm bureau and will have an twenty-tlve choice bulls. They represent agricul­ ��\fh handhas only a small herd, they prom­ lee the best blood lines ot the Heretord breed tural as Boon as the man to return a nice protlt for the money DtlI'CKIII. agent right Ise Missouri. and this sale will be one of the big sale A feature of the herd at this Oct. 20-0. W. Long, Maitland, can be found. KanBae. even ts of the season. ,r�estled.1e s a number of oholce young bulls. Oct. U-Frcd G. Laptad, Lawrence!. I . KANSAS FARMER Sep� 1&, 191'1: } En-ar-eo Petroleum Prodaets for Fann Need ... Every -machinery is only as good as the lubri- En-ar-co National Motor on cannot be ex�

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