effort  is  being  made  to  interest  the  boy 
on  the  farm  in  the  increase  and  improve¬ 
ment  of  our  farm  horses.  Prizes  to  the 
amount  of  $50  for  the  3 DIG  fair  and  $75 
for  the  1917  fair  for  weanling  grade 
draft  colts  from  registered  Perchoron  sire 
owned  and  shown  by  State  boys  under 
JO  years  of  age  are  offered  by  Charles  M. 
’rouse  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
e.  s.  AKIN. 
SWINE 
RIDGELY  MANOR  FARM  Rhe 
REGI  STEREO  VUG 
to  son  of  “  Wildwood  Prince 
Service  boars 
ami  gilts  tired 
STONE  RHINE,  N  T. 
£  ’  rays  the 
iareen  Ereighrt  & 
Buyers  fare 
offers  more  Stallions  of  service¬ 
able  age  by  the  $4U.0I)U Champion 
CAHNOT  (fitiOi'ii)  than  does  any 
other  breeder  In  America,  For 
Percberons.  Belgians.  Holstein 
Cattle  or  Shetland  Pontes,  write 
forcat.  Prices  rixht.. 'i'll  runs  tosuit. 
A  W  CRFFN 
Middlolield.  Ohio  it  It  'station, 
East  Oiwell,  O.  on  1'ciiUft.  it.  R. 
Springbank  BERKSHIRES 
Honrs  and  Bred  (tilts  of  March  and  April,  191",.  far¬ 
row.  <J»K.  WATSON, Marhiodade,  Connecticut 
1  1  *  —The  New  York  Farmers’ 
I  jhPSnirPS  ’'  ’K  We  have  some  very 
±  n;CB  young  gilts  ready  to 
breed  and  we  are  now  booking  orders  for  pigs  for 
spring  delivery.  For  particulars  address  The  Denar! 
meat  of  Animal  Husbandry,  Cornell  University,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 
EITHER  SEX,  $5  EACH 
JOHN  P.  BARTIES,  Fleminriton,  N.  J. 
Jersey  Red  Pigs 
Sows  bred  to  Successor's  Longfellow,  180594. 
admittedly  one  of  the  greatest  boars  in 
America.  Also  service  boars  and  Spring 
pigs,  both  sexes.  Write  for  circular. 
TYWACANA  FARMS 
A.  F.  Wright,  Sup1,  Bnr  fiS  Farraimnlale.  L  l,  N.  Y. 
Coming  Live  Stock  Sales 
mlsfcin  SmIc,  John  C.  Sharpe,  Blairs- 
N.  J„  May  9-10. 
lolsteins.  New  England  breeders,  Wor- 
(  .  -ter.  Mass.,  May  22-23, 
llolsieins,  I'ioga  Breeders’  Sale, 
( twego,  N.  Y..  May  23-24. 
Tri-county  Holstein  Breeders’  Sale, 
Sidney,  N.  Y.,  Muy  25-20. 
Shorthorns,  Harrison  County  {Short¬ 
horn  Breeders’  Association,  Cadiz,  Ohio, 
June  10. 
Shorthorns.  Illinois  Short  born  Breed¬ 
ers’  Association.  Galesburg,  Ill..  June  29. 
Shorthorns,  Sauk  County  Shorthorn 
Breeders’  Association,  Bamboo,  Wis., 
Nov.  3, 
Highland  View  Stock  Farm 
-*1G  pair.  Farm  for  sale, 
SERENOO.WEEKS.De  Graff,  0 
DUROC  PIGS 
Our  barns  are  filled  with  the  best  Percheron  and 
Belgians  at  the  lowest  prices. 
0.  N.  WILSON,  Prop.,  -  Kittanning,  Pa. 
SIIEEDON  FARM  KK<i TSTKRKI)  DUROCS 
Pigs  of  both  sex.  Bred  sous.*-  Service  boars. 
Best  of  breeding.  C.  E.  UARXES,  Oxford,  N.V . 
Duroc  Jersey  Red  Swine 
of  the  choicest  breeding.  Mature  early,  are  hardy 
and  very  prolific-.  Pigs,  2  to  8  months  old,  at  rea¬ 
sonable  rrices  Satisfaction  guaranteed, 
K.  AY.  McAUEN  -  Fannettsburg,  Pa. 
u uk bflLt— «Jne  Registered  Percheron  Hlnllion 
1  Urey,  three  years  old;  sound  and  right  In  every 
way.  Has  size  and  quality  and  can  win  in  any  sin  \v 
ling.  Weight,  1,9011.  Photo  and  description  on  re¬ 
quest.  ARDMORE  FARM,  P.  0.  Glen  Spey,  Sullivan  Co..  N  Y. 
LEE  PREMIER’S  RIVAL 
FOR  PURE  BRED  TAMWORTH  SWINE 
Invincible  Rival’s  Last  ami  Invincible 
Rival’s  Successor  head  our  herd  of 
supremely  bred,  superior  Berkshires. 
We  can  supply  anything  in  the  Berkshire  line: 
Fall  Pigs  Boars  and  Sows 
Bred  Gilts  Open  Gilts 
Bred  Sows  Open  Sows 
Service  Boars,  Trios,  not  related,  and 
Foundation  Herds 
Satisfaction  Guaranteed.  Visitors  Welcome, 
Correspondence  Solicited. 
Address,  BRANFORD  FARMS,  Groton,  Conn. 
writa  or  visit  WESTVIliW  STOCK  KAKM.lt. 
K.  1).  No.  1,  Winston-Snleni.  North  Carolina 
For  Sale-Pure  Bred  O.  I.  C.  PIGS 
Price,  five  dollars.  Write  yon r  wants.  Satisfaction 
guaranteed.  Arthur  Freeman,  Pulaski,  N.  Y. 
MORGAN  HORSES  FOR  SALE. 
SiDLiM*  for  rMifur,  driving  und  breediiijr  purposes. 
New  England  Notes 
Kentucky  Jacks  and  Saddlers 
Always  a  good  lot  of  Kentucky  Mammoth  Jacks 
and  Jennets.  Saddle  Stallions,  Goldings,  Mares 
and  Colts.  Write  us  fully  describing  your  wains. 
HU:  COOK  FARMS,  Box  436  l,  Lexington,  Ky. 
NOT  WOU KYI XG  ABOUT  POTASH. 
The  New  Hampshire  Station  manage¬ 
ment  is  not.  fretting  about  the  potash  sit¬ 
uation.  "This  element  of  plant  fond  is 
not  tn  lie  had  this  year.”  observed  Prof. 
F.  W.  Taylor,  “and  we  probably  shall 
nut  miss  it  much  anyway.”  Years  ago 
the  New  Hampshire  Station  advised  cer¬ 
tain  farmers  that  their  heavy  clay  loam 
soil  would  gradually  set  free  enough  pot¬ 
ash  to  maintain  the  grass  crop  so  far  as 
that  clement  is  concerned. 
’The  Maine  Station  also  takes  a  hope¬ 
ful  view  of  tiie  potash  shortage  as  con¬ 
cerns  the  potato  crop.  Their  average  for 
the  past  year  without  potash  was  302 
bushels  per  acre,  compared  with  320  bush¬ 
els  with  live  per  cent,  of  potash  and  331 
bushels  yield  with  eight  per  cent,  potash. 
Apparently  the  crop  was  satisfactory  and 
profitable  even  without  any  potash  ex 
cepr  what  the  soil  could  supply.  Fertil¬ 
izer  agents  assert  that  the  New  England 
potato  acreage  may  he  reduced  this  year 
because  so  many  farmers  hesitate  to  plant 
extensively  with  a  lion-potash  fertilizer. 
If  so.  all  the  better  for  those  who  have 
courage.  It  would  seem  there  is  little 
to  fear  from  the  no  potash  ration  on  good 
strong  soil.  and.  anyhow,  good  seed,  til¬ 
lage  and  general  management  may  lie  de¬ 
pended  on  to  effect  wonders  in  the  line  of 
offsetting  any  temporary  lack  of  balance 
in  the  fertilizers  lined. 
UFRMS  OF  CO-OPERATION. 
Many  New  Hampshire  county  agents 
are  trying  hard  to  innoculate  farmers 
with  the  co-operation  bacillus.  '’We  are 
all  trying  to  start  this  year  by  co-operat¬ 
ing  with  someone  on  something.”  says 
one.  “Any  two  farmers  can  find  some 
point  on  which  they  can  get  together. 
From  small  groups,  large  groups  will  de¬ 
velop  and  in  time  unify  the  interests  of 
the  town.  As  soon  as  co-operation  gets 
working  here  in  a  perfected  state,  it  will 
probably  be  proved  that  the  county  as  a 
whole  is  specializing.  It  may  he  Hol¬ 
stein  cattle,  fruit,  poultry — at  the  present 
time  it’s  anyone’s  choice, 
They  started  last  year  with  purchase 
of  a  few  carloads  of  lime  and  fertilizers, 
saving  in  freight  and  more  besides,  and 
this  year  they  will  buy  more,  llovv  hard 
it  is  for  even  the  most  intelligent  and 
well  meaning  New  England  fanners  to 
pull,  together  in  buying  and  selling,  and 
lo  keep  it  up,  only  those  know  who  have 
t  ied  it.  But  these  county  agents  have 
plenty  of  youth,  energy  and  courage,  and 
the  work  is  worth  while. 
D0K8  SHEEP  FARMING  PAY? 
AYh.v  didn’t  sheep  pay  at  Ilighmoor 
Farm?  It  is  a  regular  pigs  in  clover 
puzzle  to  Maine  sheep  farmers.  They 
agree  that  the  experiment  station  people 
took  good  <are  of  the  dock.  that,  the  sheep 
are  well,  and  that  t'n*  feed  used  and  the 
wool  and  meat  prohn-ts  sold  were  on  a 
fair  market  basis,  while  no  charge  was 
made  for  use  of  the  well  fenced  pasture 
and  other  equipment,  mu'  for  depreciation 
of  the  flock  at  the  end  of  the  year.  The 
costs  were  mostly  for  feed,  and  for  labor 
on  sheep  and  on  crops  for  the  sheep.  Hay 
was  reckoned  at  about  $12  per  ton.  Some 
say  that  the  charge  of  $2  h  head  for  labor 
is  high,  hut,  on  the  other  hand,  the  ma¬ 
nure  was  reckoned  at  only  $24  for  all  of 
it,  which  seems  like  small  fertility  value 
from  about  $500  worth  of  grain  and  fod¬ 
der  consumed.  But  even  if  the  labor  cost 
and  manure  value  were  supposed  to  offset 
each  other,  the  flock  would  still  show  a 
loss  of  $1.45  per  head.  As  the  station 
people  figured  it.  the  loss  was  $3.45  per 
head.  Where  is  the  leak? 
The  farmer  who  believes  sheep  pay. 
and  there  are  many  such,  may  pass  if  off 
with  the  assumption  that  ‘‘station  people 
don’t  know  how  to  keep  down  the  ex¬ 
penses.”  But,  so  fur. '  upbody  seems  to 
have  come  forward  with  the  facts  and 
figures  in  detail  to  show  they  can  do  any 
better.  Did  the  Ilighmoor  management 
figure  it  out  on  a  wrong  basis,  or  is  it 
that  they  have  a  whole  lot  to  learn  about 
management  of  sheep?  Or  is  ordiuarv 
sheep  farming  after  all  like  a  good  deal  of 
average  dairy  farming,  not  very  profit- 
( Continued  on  page  701) 
-The  intelligent  kind.  Write 
Nelson  Bros.,  Grove  Cily,  Pa. 
COLLIE  PUPS 
HARVEY  0.  WEMPIE 
Fultonville,  New  York 
For  Sale- Registered  O.  I.  C. 
able.  Also  one  registered  Guernsey  Bull  naif  of 
excellent  breeding.  FO’CASTLE  FARM,  Burnt  Hills,  N.  Y- 
Most  Popular  Ook  tod/iy  beenuan  ol  IDRAI.  h’lfe  l*< Ml i.Vicv MAN 
6unr«KM.  kill*.  r..«  «  INDISPENtfA BI,B  IN  ORCHARD.  PEEK LK&S W  ,<TCH 
OG  -or  Homo,  um'.r  m.h’U,  »•  a « y  k»-**nitr.  SIH.KNDII)  l'l>AYVATK-  for  pMIdren 
ABSOLUTELY  Hr-rd  by  Allir**  in  txencliew  i,  fimkiul,  i./Jily  m'nlliirent,  u 
"onii  m.in”  ;  v.  MIGHI.Y  PROFITABLE,  good  btb;t»  ••  nrn*»  ui>*  v-1  S  Mfi  .  pup? 
easily  ranruil.  r rrtcily  «  >ld.  Fupplri*.  crown  UDlCM,  bilrbeH,  from  PINL.VI  A  t IU  |  >A  I.F 
BLOOD  IN  World,  pedigreed,  regi5tercdrOcrtlt|o<f.  AT  STUD.  Havelock  Gold 
smith.  V«mt.  Importt  H  *nn  ot  tnfnrrmlKinnfly  frunoii*  Cb.  Crnnrptnvi  Onrang, 
fee  If  ;  GXpii-K*  l»itiMir:i  to  WVstou,  N.  J.  Safe  tlolivuiy,  IioiUhoIjIu  ik-uiinr.  mtlsfuc- 
lion  R'lnmnlNd,  Booklet 
PFDIRRFFn  c-  WHITE  AND  0.1.  c.  SWINE.  Brood 
rcuiunccu  service  boars  ana  pigs.  Reg 
ENTERPRISE  DAIRY  FARM.  John  l  Van  Horn,  Prop.  Tr 
IMPROVE  YOUR  HERO 
Buy  S-months-old  Chester  WViiie  boars  now  for  fall 
service.  Cholera  immunized.  Soli. (faction  guaranteed. 
Morel]  .Smith,  Supt.  Alan  basset,  Loup  Island  NY. 
Box  la.  WESTOrV.  (V.  J, 
LARGE  BERKSHIRES  AT  HIGHW000 
Seventy  selected  fall  boars,  weighing  In  growing 
rig,  riot  fat.  225  to  320  pounds  at  six  and  seven 
months.  Sired  Try  thousand  pound  boars.  You 
cannot  buy  bigger  or  better  ones.  Send  for  list. 
H.  C.  <&  II.  B.  Harpe  tiding,  Box  15,  Dundee,  N.Y. 
MR.  A.  C.  BURNHAM 
Announces  an 
AUCTION  SALE  of 
SEVENTY- FIVE  HIGH-CLASS  JERSEYS 
To  be  Sold  at  his  Farm 
MONTAGUE  CITY,  near  GREENFIELD,  MASS. 
WEDNESDAY,  MAY  17th,  1916 
Til  MIC  DAMC~c!loic8  l°t  reaily  for  service. 
I  SI  II I  v  ItftlflD  Also  Mule.footilogs. 
Write  for  literatureand prices 
to  J.  N.  McPherson.  Pres.  A.T.  S.  B,  Assn.,  Seottsville,  N.Y. 
KING  of  the  PONTIACS 
now  has  13  thirty  lb.  daughters.  I  offer  a  4-year-old 
son  of  his  at  a  price  so  low  it  will  surprise  you. 
W  rite  today.  T.  Fl-M  hitler.  East  MILLSTONE, ST. J. 
SWISS  MILCH  GOATS 
X*  T0GGENBURG  ’A  NATIVE 
Spring  Kids— Backs.  *7  50:  l)oes,$lO. 
Yearlings— Bucks,  $15;  Dues,  $20. 
SHARPLES,  -  Centre  Square,  Pa. 
A  GRAND  lot  of  dairy  cows  of  the  best  type,  carefully  selected 
with  a  view  to  economical  production,  and  bred  from 
ancestors  of  proven  merit.  <J  Register  of  Merit  sires  will  be 
represented  by  some  of  their  best  daughters,  and  some  very 
choice  Island  blood  will  be  catalogued 
Now  Milch  f!nw«— 1 Arnde,  Jersey  and  Durham,  three 
new  ITincn  UOWS  ,.)(]Grad*  Holsteins  two  years  old. 
Prices  right.  J.  X.  McPherson,  Seottsville,  N.  Y. 
For  catalogue,  address  LEANDER  F.  HERRICK,  Auctioneer 
405  Main  Street  -  Worcester.  Mass. 
BOOKS  WORTH  READING 
r  The  Molasses  and  Grain  Products 
Dairy  Feed  that  Fills  the  Milk  Pail 
Sucrene  Alfalfa 
Horse  Feed 
enables  heavy  work 
horses  to  do  16  miles 
of  plowing  a  day 
without  loss  of 
weight  or  energy. 
Composed  of 
strength  producing 
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alfalfa  and  molasses. 
A  palatable  feed;  ani¬ 
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birds  to  pick  up. 
the  perfect,  money-saving  substitute  for 
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