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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
THE AVERAGE REFoRMEa-

National Crop Inprovemcnt ssrvica-l
The average reformer having SO
little at stake himself, plunges about
like a bull in a china shop, regard
less of the results of his ardor.
An amusing incident is told of the
Secretary of Commerce. The can
manufacturers put up a howl that
unless they could get tin-plate to
make up, no canning of fruits and
vegetables could be done, so without
looking over the field it is said that
an order was made that steel was to
be diverted by the manufacturers
from other projects and put at the
disposal of the can manufacturers
1t looked all right on the face of it,
but when the manufacturers of har-
vesting machinery demanded steel
which they contracted for, and found
that there was not steel for aprons,
1t having been diverted to cans,
hurry-up call modifying the order
was issued, SO that our harvesting
machines could be made in time for
the growing crop.
This illustrates how many plans
are ignorantly made robbing Peter
to pay Paul. Every enthusiast
who has a pet reform which is
always hitting some other business
instead of his own, never looks
around to see what the effect will be
before he p1unges. The manufac-
turers of feed and the most success
full feeders in the country have a
right to demand that that delicate
machine-the dairy cow-shall not
be wrecked by hasty legislation
Revolutionary reforms are seldom
efficacious. Anything which disturbs
the food equilibrium should be
handled gradually. Experience has
shown that the most efficient way to
handle cereal products is to remove
the human food first and feed the
residue to stock. ANY other system
is sheer extravaganza.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
WRONG FEEDING METHODS.
National Crop Improvement

National Crop Improvement Service
There is an old story about a ship
captain who had a medicine chest. A
sailor was sick and he found that No.
At in his book was the indicated rem
edy, but alas! the bottle of No. At
was empty, 80 he took equal parts of
No. 40, which was strychnfne, and
No. z, which was carbolic acid, and
added them together and made No. ~
and the sailor died.
The application of this old story is
that many feeder will think that If
a little of cottonseed or oilseed meal
is good, a whole lot will be better
And, like the man who put the green
spectacles on the horse and fed him
shavings-just after he got him
trained the horse died.
1t is human nature to experiment
in feeds, and the poor cow has to suf-
fer for an overdose or an underdose
before the proper ration is estab-
lished. -
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
THE FIFTY DOLLAR BOND

In issuing Liberty Loan Bonds in
a denomination as small as $50 the
Secretary of the United States
Treasury has put in the reach of al
most every American citizen to do
real and actual service to his
country.
Not all can fight, nor can all rem
der personal service in other ways,
but those who are denied the priv
ledge. of serving their country IN
person have the privilege of serV-
ing by lending their money to win
her victories.
But it is not patriotism alone that
urges the buying of Liberty Loan
Bonds. Thrift and a wise economy
in investing small savings commend
these Liberty Loan Bonds to small
investors. They are safe, and consld-
ering their tax-free quality-free
from all federal, state and local
taxes inheritance taxes excepted)
and free from any war tax that may
hereafter be levied, affording an aD-.
solutely net income OF IL per
cent, they constitute an ideal invest
ment for savings.
Nor is their any reason for walt
ing for a later bond issue IN the
expectation of a higher rate OF IN
terest being obtained, for the law
provides that should such bonds be
issued later, Liberty Loan Bonds
may be exchanged for them at par
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07

Mules three years old be raised 10
per cent.
Cows and heifers two years old be
raised 10 per cent.
Ogallah Township
Horses three years old. to be
raised 5 per cent.
Steers two years old to be raised
25 per cent.
Steers three years old to be raised
so per cent.
Riverside Township
Horses three years old be raised
20 per cent
Mules three years old be raised
10 per cent.
Steers three years old be raised
20 per cent.
Hogs, raised 20 per cent.
WaKeeney Township.
Horses three years old be raised
10 per cent.
Mules three years old be raised
10 per cent.
Wilcox Township
Horses six months old be raised
25 per cent.
Horses one year old be raised
80 per cent.
Ponies, cripples and plugs, be
raised 20 per cent.
Mules six months old, be raised
80 per cent.
Mules one year old, be raised
so per cent
Cattle one year old be raised 20
per cent.
Steers two years old be raised 40
per cent
WaKeeney City
Horses three years old raised 20
per cent.
The board will meet on June IS
for the final adjustment of all per-
sonal property.
C. H. BENSON,
CSeal) County Clerk.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
DIFFERENT cows, DIFFERENT
FEEDS,

National Crop Improvement service-1
b.. No suggestions that we can offer
nor any other formula that can be
made can be followed to the letter as
a druggist follows the prescription Of
a physician. Feeds vary in their nu-
tritive values, some being better than
the average and some not as good,
and cows vary in their ability to di-
gest and transform nutriment. These
conditions make it necessary for the
feeder to use a good deal of judgment
and not follow too blind1y the sugges-
tons of others. Any good stock feed
is recommended as a base, to be sup
plemented by homegrown roughage.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
DIFFICULT TO MIX FEEDS
A More Scientific Result Can Be Pro-
duced BY Machinery.
gNational Crop Improvement Service. ]

National Crop Improvement Service.1
AS no two lots run alike, it is very
difficult to mix straight by-products
of oats, barley, rye, corn, cotton-seed,
1axseed, ETC., by measure, because it is
purely guessing. Only few years ago
intentional fraud or unintentional
carelessness was the rule. Before the
feed laws were passed, each manu-
facturer adulterated all the trade
would stand.
Every car of feed sold to the con-
sumner is not analysed, and the farmer
cannot become a feed expert because
he has no laboratory. Not one car
out of five hundred is officially in
spected. In the old days country
millers were throwing feeds together
with no knowledge of feed and were
running valuable cows and making the
farmer poorer. In those days the feed
tables were wrong, the feeds didn't
fit the tables; the .digestible analysis
method was incorrect; feed standards
for animals were not agreed upon nor
complete; the animals didn't fit the
standards; the buyer didn't know
what was in the feeds he bought to
mix; and there was an unavoidable
variation in the concentration of the
feed
These conditions have been largely
overcome through the joint action of
the government and state experiment
stations and, the mixed feed manu-
faeturers who have every facility for
maintaining a uniIIrm product By
using these scientifically prepared
feeds, many a herd has doubled its
yield and profits. There are some
painters who can buy lead, oil and
dryer and mix and match their own
color uniformly but the best painters
of today have learned that mill-made
brands are much better than any
thing they can mix with paddle.
The same is true in fertilizers to
great extent. In mixed feeds there
can be no economy in home mixing
because the mixing factories, being
near the large markets, can utilize
by-products to the very best adyan-
tage. Home mixing cannot be accom-
plished at one-tenth of a cent per h.,
besides the result is never twice alike
and cannot be without the help of a
laboratory.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
WHO AM I?

My saving power is greater than
ali mechanical forces.
have the power to overcome
careless, recklessness and dndiffer-
ence.
1 am the greatest enemy of sor-
row and suffering.
/ am ever present. 1t takes no
physical effort to find me-
1t is not necessary even to call
me, for 1 come on the wings of
thought
am at the service of old or
young, weak or strong.
/ protect the happiness of homes
and save years of suffering.
I prevent the unnecessary making
of widows and orphans.
/ save thousands of wage-earners
to lives of usefulness.
/ save the lives and limbs of hus-
bands, fathers, sons and daughters
in the industry; of the little children,
Of the parents, of the young, and
strong, of the aged and feeble in the
homes, on streets and in public
places.
I bring comfort and cheer.
L give my all and ask nothing in
return
I am your best friend.
AM CAUTION.
Bureau of Safety.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
THE USES OF LIBERTY LOAN

To the American citizen who gives
some consideration to features of his
investments other than the mere
money return from them, the uses
to which the money raised by the
sale of Liberty Loan Bonds is to be
devoted will prove patriotic induce
ment to purchase such bonds A
certain dignity attaches to money in
vested in high and noble cause
The Liberty Loan is made by the
United States Government to pur-
chase arms and equipment for the
American soldiers and sailors, food
and supplies for the American Army
and Navy The money is to be spent
in America for those Americans who
are fighting Americas battles on
land and sea.
Part of the money raised by the
sale of Liberty Loan Bonds is to be
loaned to our allies; this too is to
be expended in America 1t is to be
spent for food and supplies for the
armies of our allies fighting on our
side on the various war fronts in
Europe. It is Americas first con-
tribution toward doing her part in
the war we are engaged in.
1t is billions for defense in the
worldwide war Autocracy is waging
against Democracy, but not one cent
for tribute
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
THE MOST SENSATIONAL COW
IN THE WORLD

The purebred Holstein-Friesian
cow, Segis Fayne Johanna 114658, re-
allied the long-cherished hopes of
enthusiasts and electrified the dairy
world when, under an official seven
day test ending January s, she es-
tablished a new worlds record for
butterfat production; producing in
seven days 1908 pounds of milk con-
tanning 5O.68 pounds of butter. This
remarkable animal has scored a bril-
liant triumph for the Black and
White breed.
The pessimist had for years scott
ed at the optimist's prophecy that
some day a cow would surmount the
50-pound a day barrier, but with
Segis Fayne Johanna's accomplish
ment what seemed the almost in
credible" has happened.
Segis Fayne Johanna is the prop
erty of Oliver Cabana, jr., proprie-
tor of Pine Grove Farms, Elma Cen
ter, N. Y, and was bred by A. A.
Cortelyou, of Somerville, N. j., hav-
ing been purchased by the present
owner at a breeders sale on JAN
uary 5, 1913. She is eight years old
and weighs now about 1450 pounds,
in color she is four-ffths white. Her
sire is King Fayne Segis 46767 and
her dam is Wilma Johanna 64385.
The new seven-day butter cham
pion, the. sixteenth Holstein-Friesian
COW to obtain a place in the 40
pound class, is the fifth worlds
champion to be developed at Pine
Grove farms, so a brief resume of
the methods of feeding and care
in operation at this noted establish
ment particularly those employed
in the test of Segis Fayne Johanna,
is of extraordinary interest,
The test was made in a roomy,
clean, white enameled stall, under
the supervision of representatives of
the New York State Agriculture
College, at Ithaca, N. Y. She was
MIXED every six hours. From the
time she went dry to ten days before
freshing the new champion received
the customary rations used at Pine
Grove farms, consisting of 80 pounds
grain, 40 pounds of beets and 80
pounds of beet pulp soaked in mol
asses. She was then fed a test
ration of 16 pounds, increasing grad
ually to % pounds, consisting of the
following mixture:
200 pounds dried distillers grain,
100 pounds bran,
100 pounds ground oats,
{ 125 pounds gluten,
100 pounds cotton seed meal,
/ 80 pounds oil meal,
Is pounds table salt,
10 pounds charcoal.
On the third day after freshening
she was given 16 pounds of grain
until the sixth day,when two pounds
were added, which was systematic
ally increased to 81 pounds. Two
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
DOUBLE Duty
A Dairy Ration Has Two Main Uses
Life and Product.
[N.itn.l Crop Improvement servicel

EuG anu PFOoOCIs
INailDnaI Crop Improvement service-1
A ration is divided into two parts:
L. The part needed to maintain or
keep the animal alive.
2. The part needed to make
stored up material like wool, fat,
meat or milk.
Milk is roughly in solids, one-third
each casein (protein), fat and sugar.
The casein in milk can only be fur
nished by the protein in the food
The fat and sugar may be derived
from either protein, fat or carbo-
hydrates.
If COW has the ability to give SO
pounds of milk containing two pounds
of casein, and only gets enough pro-
tein to make one pound of casein,
then she will only give rs pounds of
milk.
A balanced ration is one that has
just the exact amount of protein, fat
and carbohydrates that the COW
needs. Just what this is we cannot
ever say exactly, because the amounts
vary from week to week and no two
cows are alike, nor are feeds alike.
A practical ration is one that has
sufficient protein and enough total
food to make the greatest amount of
milk without the COW losing weight
A commercially successful ration is
the one that makes the most milk or
profit, keeps the cow healthy and en-
ables the use of the most roughage
All the hay and ensilage :. COW can
eat will keep her alive and make
about 1 5 pounds of milk. Any more
milk has to come from grain or grain
feed.
The farm can usually raise carbo-
hydrates cheap in the form of hay and
ensilage, and, outside of clover, peas,
etc, protein can usually be bought
cheaper than 1t can be raised.
The average price of protein feeds
with 20 per cent digestible protein
was about $25 to $35 per ton before
the war, but the prices are much
higher now, while hay (clover) with
s " per cent digestib1e protein has
been rated at $40 per ton, so the pro-
.tein feed at $40 would furnish protein
about the same as clover at $40.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
CONCENTRATES FOR RATIONS
Taken From an Article by z. S. Saw
age, Professor of Animal Nus
bandry, New York College
Of Agricultur


National Crop Improvement Servicel
A good rule to follow in all rations
Is to have at least three plants repre-
scented in the ration. There are seven
factors which should be considered:
Cd Bulk, CD Digestibility, CD -Rela-
ton between the digestible protein
and carbohydrates and fat, "a Vari-
ETY., CD Suitability of the feeds to the
animal and product, (6) Palatability,
Cd Cost.
AS an example, choosing the cheap
est feeds relatively, considering ma
nurial values, suitability and all, we
would recommend the following mix
ture of grains as suitable for dairy
cows at present prices:
500 pounds distillers dried grains.
400 pounds gluten feed.
800 pounds wheat bran or brewers
dried grains.
400 pounds hominy feed.
800 pounds cottonseed or oil meal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
STRUCK OIL

1t IS reported that the drillers
have struck oil in the well on the
Moravek farm south of Black Wolf.
They had passed through a wien of
oil sand and oil could be drawn up
IN appreciable quantities but not
enough for commercial purposes so
the drillers are going down deeper
The well has proved one thing and
that is the oil is in the county
Wilson World.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
SALT FOR CATTLE.

National Crop Improvement Service1
Professor Henry says that a COW
requires three-quarters of an ounce
per day per 1000 lbs. of weight and
six-tenths of an ounce per day per 20
lbs milk. Therefore, q COW which
weighs 1900 lbs. and gives 80 lbs. milk
should have 1.8 ounce salt. 1t must
be remembered, however, that salt is
generally included in high-grade dairy
feeds: 1t is well to give cows access
to extra salt. They will take what
their roughage demands.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
COMMISSIONERS PROCEEDINGS

May 21st, 1917.
The board of county commissioners
met today at the Office of the county
clerk as board of equalization as
required by law. Members present
were John McNaughton, chairman;
s. A. Newcomer, A. H. Hamm and
the county clerk, the board was call
ed to order by the chairman and re-
manned in session the. 21st and End
On June LIST the board OF county
commissioners met as a. board OF
equalization, this being the last day
to meet as a board of equalization
to receive applications for rehe1
from excessive or erroneous assess
ments.
The board finds there was not an
equitable assessment OF certain
classes of live stock and made the
following order, that
Franklin Township
Horses one year old be raised 10
per cent
Mules one year old be raised 10
per cent
Mules two years old be raised 10
per cent
Cattle one year old be raised 10
per cent
Cows and heifers two years old be
raised 10 per cent
Glencoe Township
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
THE PRICE OF FEED.

TEauonaI Crop Impfovement befv1ceJ
Feed is handled on a smaller mar
gin than coal, ton for ton. The retail
feed dealer who buys in carload lots
can sell as cheap as the manufacturer
can in less-than-carload lots, the diff
ference in freight rates being the
dealers gross profit In nearly every
Instance, a group of farmers can or
der their feed, through a dealer, in
carloads and make a material saving.
The difference in freight alone will
show g. good profit
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07

Sanol Eczema Prescription is
famous old remedy for all forms of
Eczema and skin diseases. Sanol is
guaranteed remedy. Get a 35c
large trial bottle at the drug store
ADV. ID.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07

pounds of cotton seed meal was pro-
vided and, with the following made
up the balance of the ration:
40 pounds ensilage,
100 pounds roots,
80 pounds beet pulp,
IL pounds hay.
Rock salt and plenty of water
were accessible to her at all times.
The test began December %, 1916,
and verifcation and observation
tests began at 4:30 p. m. on January
and continued for 48 hours. Dur
ing the period the following super
visors were in charge: Ray Huey,
Spencerport, N. Y, R. v. Callahan,
Clyde, N. Y, S. H. Waldo, CASTLE,
N. Y, C. F. Mason, Seneca Castle
N. Y, and F. A. Linzy, Darien Cen
ter, N. Y.
A study of the following certified
table, giving in detail the milk and
fat taken daily from December % to
o -
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
National crop inprsv,~sut ssrsses.l

A practical test shows that eight
tons of a first class dairy feed will re-
place 13 Is tons of farm grain, max
ing a proportionate saving of about
$40 per ton and it also puts three
times as much fertilizer back on the
farm as is in the grain this farmer
could sell.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07

There is no sense in hauling two
loads of cheap feed when one load of
high-grade feed win do the work and
costs but three-fourths as much IS the
two loads.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07
IN.tional Crop Improvement servte..l

The human element in dairy feed ia
important Two men may have the
same equipment, one make good
money, the other fail, while both are
supposed to be feeding by the same
system and the same tables.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07

Take the chill OF the drinking water
in cold weather and COWS will drink
more and produce more.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07

For Southeast quarter 22-14-
25. Good wheat land. Price 81, 900
Sl1OO cash, balance years time at 7
per cent. Inquire at this office.-Ad.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07

Don't figure too fine on rations,
Be liberal but don't overfeed. You
can kill all of your profit by feeding
more than the COW can assimilate.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07

One new surrey to trade for horse
must be sound and gentle. A. M
Finley Adv. Is ct.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07

There will be dance at Big Creek
hall the evening of June 9th All
are invited to attend. Adv. 13 2t
Money to loan. See E. d. Wheeler
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1917-06-07

On the third day after freshening
she was given 16 pounds of grain
until the sixth day,when two pounds
were added, which was systematic
ally increased to 81 pounds. Two
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1917-11-21
HOG RAISING PROFITABLE
Fork Production Is Paying Industry
in All Parts cf the Country.

Whether in the corn belt, the dairy
sections, the South, or the irrigated
regions of the West, conditions for
the profitable raising of hogs are al
most sure to be present, according to
animal husbandmen of the United
States Department of Agriculture. It
is, in fact, almost safe to say that
whatever the soil or climate condi-
tions, there is not farm in the coun-
try on which there should not be hogs.
This is especially true at present
when producers may obtain high
prices for hogs. Matters that should
be taken into consideration in hog
raising, and methods that have been
found profitable are outlined in a
Farmers Bulletin, "Swine Manage
ment," recently issued by the United
States Department Of Agriculture.
Breeding stock does not thrive SO
we'll and is not SO prolific on an cx-
elusive corn diet as on varied ration
Forage, at the same time, is becom-
ing more and more importantin hog
raising. These facts are giving to
the South an increasing Importance
as a hog producing section. In this
region peanuts, cowpeas, soy beans,
abundance for hog feeding.
The recognition of the fact that an
exclusive corn diet is not necessary
IN raising hogs is also emphasizing
the dcsirability of increased hog rails
ing in dairy districts, where skim
milk and buttermilk are available: in
trucking sections, where unmarked
able products may be fed; and in irri-
gated regions, where alfalfa may be
used for forage
The bulletin points out that persons
taking up hog raising for the first
time will find it advantageous to
locate in a hog raising community
where they may profit by contact with
hog raisers Of experience. 1t is also
pointed out that if hog rascrs of a
community can bring about the pro-
duction in their district Of certain
grade or breed of hog by all produc-
crs, marketing difficulties will be
greatly lcsscncd. The marketing of
hogs at weights ranging fl ON $50 to
300 pounds usually will bring the
greatest profit, according to the De-
partmcnt specialists.