Volume 54, Number 32. TOPEKA, KANSAS; AUGUST 5, 1916. Esta blished 1�63. / is no way by which the farmers of Kansas can escape the silo. The man who is keeping ten or twelve cows and their young is losing the price of a silo' each twelve months; The silo is no longer an experiment, Ask the farmer who THERE . has ,one. Live stock 'farming is the basis of the most profitable type of farming-in Kansas .. el�ewhere. To maintain live stock economically and profitably, the farmer must have a sure feed supply. The silo will enable him to have this because it will-permit carryin.g feed over from the year of plenty into the short year. The silo will come near doubling the live stock carrying capacity of every KanSM . - farm without encroachingupon the acreage of cash market crops grown. It will bring to- gether our feed crops and our live stock in a combination which we have long since needed. Let the silo be the next structure placed on your farm. It will become' a dividend..paying investment just so soon as you begin feeding therefrom. - T. A. Borman 'Let the Silo be the Next Structure Placed on Your Farm" Oliver' Method for fighting t\te Hessian' Fly It,m6oflntw'6t A'£out Automo£;1'6, Eng;ne6, Traetors, ana Motorcycl,6 tractor is here to stay. We in all of the cost, because the horses must make use of quicker ways of have to be fed and takcn care of, which THEperforming labor on thll_ f�r�. In , has to be done 365 days in the year., the light of present day_ developments The average agriculturist will perhaps this conclusion cannot be avoided. bring forth as an argument tlie first W. H. Sanders, instructor-in farm cost, but if he will go back and figure motors at the Kansas Agricultural Col­ his equipment, com par.! it with the cost lege, believes that the problem of the of horses and their maintenance, he will manufacturer in the future is not only find that the balance is strongly in favor to build the tractor witb more speed, of the power-driven machine. Care and but also to build implementa that can intellig'(!nce go a long way toward the be used at a higher rate of speed. In making of power equipment a practical' the of the doubling speed engine, the thing, but I do not think !lny more so is energy used more than doubled. than do to handle and take care , t4_ey' The of present speed tractors is rated of good teams of horses, in fact not so on the speed of a horse when walking, much. I sincerely believe that in this Agricultural experts tell us the which is two miles per hour. Tillage age it is not going to be a of best way of the question checking Hessian is also for the of whether the farmer can machinery made, speed , afford to put fly evil is Mr. a horse when . by deep plowing. walking. power-driven maehines on his farm to McColloch of the Kansas Experi-: do his work, but whether he can mental heavy Station believes the Oliver Tractor Coata afford to do without them. coulter tli, rolling and jointer plays If a farmer is and an Back in medieval times' we had the cultivating tOling nu important part iii fighting the one hundred acres of land - he crooked stick which was later unques­ th fly. supple-. in the course of mented the the tionably, time, will pay fll 15116. by plow. Comparing for the July B, horse and the modern tractor. of power equipment whetber he has IiI' OLIva CHILLED PLow today Woa:u, is like it or not. He will pny for it in the loss Kansas Mo. comparing the crooked stick and III City, of which often means the cast steel Let us at some time, poor crops, ell Dear Sir: plow. get loss in of the real facts. yiold, inconvenience, ami hiring til I have !just seen the Oliver combined of power to do some of his work, etc. rolling coulter and jointer in operation First, as to A good team P\ on l·quipment. There are so in favor wheat stubble, and wish to sar that today that will weigh 2,800 pounds, and mnny urguments ell I am well WIth it. of the on the certainly pleased their such as blan­ power-driven machinery all The way it turns the stubble and trash equipment hnrnoasea, dollars and will cents side' of this matter that tli under is a big advance in tbe thorough kets, etc., cost ahout $600. This it would cover to evcn dis­ preparation of wheat .land, team will pull under conditions many pages w ordinary - I was CURS them. I. in National especially interested 'In this im· one 14-inch-bottom plow. If thc condi­ HAMILTON, ell plement as a means of turning stubble Stockman and, Farmer. tions are severo, season and on tr and volunteer wheat under to destroy dry heavy we til the Hessian fly; One of our recom­ land, will have to add another horse, mendations for the control of this in­ a three-horse team to a Care of Tire. III : making pull 14-. sect is thai: the ground should be inch With that a tire tester. It will tli plowed to a depth of at least six inches plow. equipment, basing Buy' cost about our costs the -one a l and all stubble dollar. _, and volunteer wJteat approximately upon price , , buried under at least three inches of of $600 for tcam and equipment, we will To prevent rim cutting and broken­ Si 8011. The should ground then be call the extra horse $250, which down fabric, tires inflated to the ell worked into a 1I00d seed bed. brings keep the to for a LITTLE tr It is a difficult matter to price up $850 power to pun- following pressure: Three-inch tire, 60 GIA�T TRACTOR ,. thoroughl,. .6-36 Ii. • PI,,,.. hI bury all the stubble and volunteer B, 14-inch plow. 3!-inch, 70 80 Model.·'A," P., , 12,000 pounds; pounds; 4-inch, Model "D," 18-22 H. P. 'Flow., ,wheat with 'the and the Let us back and ,1,250 S' ordinary plow go compare ·this with pounds; 4!-inch, 90 100 Each model has 17 set Hyatt Roller Bubsequent working of the with pounds; 5-inch, BcarJ ground a gas tractor which will III a harrow pulls much of it out again. medium-prleed pounds. under favorable four Seal all t':.!�I::ss�':"e:a'!.�e:g��t b:�� ��':.�:!t��g For this reason the farmer often be-, pull conditions 14- cuts in rubber either with tire Built on automobile Jines tron high grad.��dC'�l comes ineh automobile CI discouraged and gives up trying plows, and take thc extreme condi­ dough or by vulcanization. This is im­ material. In d�slgn, to centro! the and workmanehlp, will compare favorably fly. tions, as we ha ve with the horses, where ,to moisture and sand r The thoroughness with which, the portant prevent with highest prlcecl automobile made, we have a season, where we will from the fabric. Ha. three speed. torward-l %, 8 andmaterial!6 ml, S,I coulter and jointer buries the stubble dry pull reaching per hour, and one speed reverse. With prn-' on the bottom of the furrow overcomes but three 14-inch-bottom, For When not in ·tires in a g plows. use, keep cool per care will olltlast any autemoblle. I thi. trouble and in v my opinion solves thil! power with horses the cost would dark Orders tilled promptly. Qwlng to great, one of place. the most serious difficulties in demand ter our we will not II be $2,550. Wherena with the tractor the Do not start or the car tra8tors, exhlbll the control of the Hessian fly. The stop suddenly. thl. year at 110.., traeter _hows. will run . from to or Do not turn thorough preparation of the seed bed, price $1,000 $1,600, corners at a high rate of lIlAYEB BBOftliERi �OlllPANY tOllether with the other methods advo­ to do the same work about one-half of speed. 1M W. Rock Stl Mankat.. MIml., 'Ii, �, cated in the inclosed circular, will serve the of the horses A� price and thuir equip­ Be sure the front wheels are ----------------------------------- to control the fly in any parallel. community. mont, But we cannot b If the coulter and did stop here. With Do not allow oil to gl't on the tirl!s. jointer nothing t more than aid in the control of the a team of throe horses, with onc man, ])0 not use too much or too little talc :fly it would be a valuable on will in ex­ f implement they :plow ten hours under in the tires. Too Ilttle causes the tubes any fann, Very truly yours, treme ' h conditions, about one and one-half to stick while too much CaUB(!8 a grad. J. W. MCCOLLOCH. 11 acres per day. Figuring the cost on this ual accumulation into a solid lump the a basls, placing value of your team which is frequent cause of a, puncture. ASK us to send you a copy "of and man at $5 per day, this would bring Do not 'Put a tire on a rusted the circular Mr. McColloch re­ rhn. your cost to approximately $3 pur acre. fers to. We also have a special Let us take the tractor for an exam­ Automobile Excuraion circular on the Hessian that will travel about two milcs fly; ple .per Automobile cxcursions to mat· The Oliver combined hour three study rolling plow speed.