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Clutch  Pulley 
Did  you  ever  see  any  other  8  H.  P.  Engine 
two  men  could  carry?  Cushman  engines  are 
tho  lightest  weight  farm  engines  in  the  world- 
easy  to  move  around  end  put  to  work  any¬ 
where,  No  longer. neccusary  to  put  up  with 
old-style,  back-breaking.  Iheavy  weight  en¬ 
gines.  with  their  violent  explosions  and  their 
fast  and  slow  speeds.  The  Cushman  weighs 
only  about  one-fifth  aa  much,  per  horse¬ 
power,  but  with  its  modern  design,  accurate 
balance  nnd  Throttle  Governor,  it  runs  much 
more  steadily  and  quietly. 
Cushman  Light  Weight  Engines 
40  to  60  lbs.  Par  Horsepower 
The4H. P. weighson]yl90!b3.  Mountedon 
iron  truck,  as  3hown  below,  it  maybe  puHed 
around  anywhere, 
_ _ _ _ _  machines  in 
the  field,  such  as  grain  and  cornl>lnders.  no- 
sh.  p.  lone 
190  iw.  Truck  Book  fi 
CUSHMAN  MOTOR  WORKS 
8*7  Worth  21. t  StrMt  Lincoln,  H# 
Feed  Dealers  and  Dairymen  busiufNs."  It  evident 
Bureau  of  Ob-opemtic 
1'abt  I  part  merit  of  Agriculti 
[The  papers  are  well  filled  with  stories  "  /.  bead 
about  the  activities  of  the  N.  Y.  Retail  ,  u  ioU  p,nt. 
Feed  Dealers'  Association  in  their  relation  ^XDtouoe.  demanded 
to  dairymen.  The  following  statement  is  ,,  .  e  kept  right  alt 
taken  from  the  records]  the  board.  Marc  Doli 
_  IIow  did  you  get.  r 
RESTT.TS  of  r  n  VKSTtn  \Tio  v. — Black-  “Politically.  We  1 
mail,  grand  larceny,  bribery,  conspiracy,  tion  smothered."’ 
and  political  revenge  are  only  a  few  This  was  the  begin 
of.  the  things  which  the  Wicks  legis-  tionai  testimony.  J 
ifltivc!  committ.ee  hfls  tuvned  tip  us  by*  in^rod  away  for  a  ]ou 
products  of  its  milk  investigation.  What  closing  who  did  the  lot 
sot  out  to  be  an  inquiry  into  the  purely  dealers  at  Albany.  T 
economic  aspects  of  the  milk  situation  basic  principles  “lb 
ran  plumb  into  dark  and  devious  ways,  erativ**  Bureau  interfi 
which  the  attorney  for  the  committee  ness?”  lie  asked, 
openly  hinted  might  lead  to  criminal  “  \\\>  feel  that  in  t 
prosecution.  Many  of  the  letters  and  toilers  wo  have  a  per 
much  of  the  recent  evidence  of  the  Wicks  the  same  as  any  otlu 
committee  will  be  laid  before,  the  Alter-  fail  to  recognize  tile  j 
ne.v  (tenoral  tor  his  action.  One  of  the  sidling  to  tho  consuin 
latest  developments  was  documentary  vidually  are  exlendiu, 
evidence  on  the  part  of  feed  men  showing  tent  conservatively  < 
conspiracy  to  prevent  co-operative  bodies  individual  dealer  is  c 
of  farmers  from  buying  grain  directly  in  perhaps  half  that  ain 
carload  lots  from  the  millers.  Incidental  a  stock  equal  to  that 
to  this  a  threat  has  been  made  in  writing  take  notes  of  all  those 
t<>  kill  Senator  Charles  W.  Wicks  politi*  why  we  object  to  it." 
call.v  for  his  ‘‘pernicious  activity”  in  jfr.  Carrier  testifa 
delving  into  tho  secret  methods  of  the  Dealers’  Association 
grain  men.  .•  800  members,  each  of 
A  Far- beaching  Inquiry. — The  dis-  (,t  $3*  Shown  n 
closures  that  were  made  at  the  re-  Foil  passed  by  bis  : 
cent  hearings  in  Cooperstown,  Richfield  blitted  it  was  designer 
Springs  and  Clinton  exceeded  even  the  pass  through  the  hand 
expectations  of  the  committee  members  retailer  before  being  sc 
themselves.  Letters  which  made  them  Object  to  Grain  , 
fairly  gasp  were  brought  to  light  by  the  paragraphs  in  the 
Judge  George  Y\ .  "Ward,  who  knows  some-  to  farm  agents  designa 
thing  about  the  milk  business  himself.  0f  feed. 
Compared  with  some  of  the  testimony  ‘'Your  real  reason, 
adduced  at  the  earlier  sittings  of  tho  Ward,  “is  that  the 
committee,  the  latest  revelations  are  Competent  to  analyze  ; 
startling,  as  showing  the  far-reaching  ‘‘That  would  be  a  in 
effect  of  the  investigation  and  how  it  it."  admitted  the  wit 
touches  the  pockets  of  many  tradespeople,  fact." 
who  have  been  lining  their  uests  at  the  “Then,  if  he  wet* 
expense  of  the  farmer,  it.  shows  how  the  would  not  object  to 
dairyman  has  been  "getting  it  going  and  brands V" 
coming,’’  at  both  cuds  of  the  line;  and,  “Well,  Fll  stick  by 
at  that,  the  committee  has  not  touched  jt  stands.”  hedged  the 
on  distribution  abuses  in  New  York.  It  “Then  your  real  r 
is  leaving  that  for  New  Y'.irk  to  handle,  reference  to  the  comp- 
everybody  lots  known— that  is.  every-  agent,’’  persisted  the 
body  who  lins  been  iu  touch  with  the  <r,,t  m,  further  admissi 
dairy  situation—  the  abuses  that  had  "  ,,  r 
sprung  up  ur/urnd  the  producing  and  .  ' '  . . 
buying  end  of  the  business,  how;. accounts  S2U<  hm  t'Nsoeu 
hive  been  doctored,  <  how  '  collusion  has  1”  d<  Rat  pohtieall.v 
been  practised  between  they  big  dairy  I  t;,V‘ s  l,,u'I>ose  in  pro 
companies  and  health  inspectors,  how  buying  Kv  fanners,  ant 
skimmed  milk  has  been  shipped  to  New  f"  . T)a.v  profits  to  .1" 
York,  and  lmw  farmers  have  been  given  ,  :!lj''  11 V.  1U  'u.,SIn'1 
"the  short  end  of  the  stick”  in  general,  he  said.  lie  contend 
All  these  abuses  have  been  known.  It.  costs  the  mamifaetu 
remained  only  for  Senator  Wicks  and  through  co-operative 
his  colleagues  to  make  them  a  matter  of  through  legitimate 
official  record,  sworn  to.  JJ anl  Showed  letters 
the  grain  dealers  had 
J  HE  1  ltAlf.  OF  the  Ffko  Man. —  vi*nt  direct  carload  sab 
Rut  not  so  many  knew  the  extent  to  One  letter  said,  “It  h 
which  the  feed  men  had  been  mauipti-  to  the  regular  dealer.’ 
luting  things  to  got  their  share  of  the  the  admission  that  1 
sooils  while  the  farmer  “paid  the  freight.”  that  he  had  written  1 
This  line  of  testimony  began  to  break  timers  telling  them  t- 
loose  at  Cooperstown  August.  29,  and  meats  to  consumers  t 
kept  up  the  next  day  at  Richfield  Springs,  dealers.” 
and  on  August  80  at  Clinton.  It  w:as  "Did*  you  understar 
Ilans  Hansen,  a  Dane,  of  Clintouville.  Ward,  “that  that  wi 
N.  Y who  told  the  committee  at  the  penal  code  of  t 
Cooperstown  he. had  been  unable  to  buy  York?” 
grain  in  car  lots  from  certain  dealers  in  "No.  sir.” 
Otsego  County.  .  To  make  a  Jnull mutter  “Have  yon  had  udv 
worse,  he  told  how  one  dgnler  approached  "Nut  to  uuv  extent.' 
him  with  the  proposition  that  he  “might  Protecting  the 
be  able  to  fix  it  up, .  if  he  (Hansen!  contended  tin 
would  slip  him  a  .$10  hill.”  This  started  7.,‘t .(i|er  fias  the  right 
the  committee  on  the  feed  trail,  and  on  ti  {Vr  j  is  business  ‘ 
August  MO,  Charles  Carrier  put  in  an  timfs  attempts  Weil  i.' 
.ndmpi.y  hull r  or  two  under  Judge  Ward’s  oranB,.^'  fartn 
persistent  grilling.  Mr.  Currier  is  presi-  ti  .msoeial inns  were 
dent  of  the*  New;  York  State  Retail  Feed  sillPP'  they'  had' no  ov« 
Dealers’  Assmuakon  When  ho  got  ,.xt ,nded  no  credit, 
through.  Judge  \>urd  asked  him  if  he  1(lft  th(,  M 
knew  that  the  officers  of  the  association  x1  V  ...nrurm- 
had  laid  themselves  liable  to  a  fine  of  ' VKKrteiatbm  said 
$5.CKM  1,  and  imprisonment.  Judge  Ward  be  sworn  to  explain  so 
told  the  w  itness  he  had  indulged  in  ex-  u-.'  ,  told  him  he  mig 
tortiun  and  blackmail.  Tim  counsel  for  TvSluSS 
the  committee  said  he  would  turn  the  that  lu.  changed  his 
evidence  over  to  the  Attorney  General.  take  thp  staml.  But  ] 
The  evidence  included  a  mass  of  letters  s,.ns.llinn  flf  all  was 
which  were  read  into  the  Wicks  records.  Jlut  <ljlly  thp  wicks  e 
Fating  ui>  Frofits. — These  disclos*  for  poltical  defeat  by 
arcs  exceeded  the  expectations  of  the  but  that  the  State  De 
committee.  During  the  hearings  in  1G  and  Markets  is  the  “fii 
counties,  again  and  again  had  cropped  ism.”  and  is  fit.  for  si 
out  testimony  about  the  impossibility  terosting  testimony  tl 
of  securing  grain  in  car  lots.  This  is  tors  made  when  they 
one  of  the  items  that  cats  up  the  profits  testimony  at  Clinton 
of  the  business,  and  makes  milk  pro-  Under  date  of  August 
d action  expensive.  It  was  expected  II.  M.  King,  secretary 
there  would  be  some  testimony  from  ere,  to  51.  J.  Madge 
grain  dealers;  but  the  assertions  of  the  association,  contained 
president  were  beyond  any  admissions  which  were  placed  iu 
Judge  Ward  expected  to  obtain  from  Wicks  committee: 
that  source.  There  was  one  letter  from  rp|(E  Go-oPERATIVE 
the  files  of  flic  association  which  indi-  fiq.,,  i'  r.-ve  dimr 
eated  that  the  grain  dealers  had  vigor-  („.„llPn(Ti VP  bureau  of 
ousiy  opposed  the  sale  by  a  Western  rnPnt  of  Agriculture  In 
dealer  of  a  car  of  gram  to  the  Jordan-  business  by  the  assoei 
villa  farm  of  M.  G.  Brunner,  of  Little  ...1,1  ..,,,...,.,1  ...  ai  i-  w 
Falls.  “Your  association  was  trying  to  tlt.:i  7  v,,  1,1 
ferret  out  the  private  business  relations  “The  writer  has 
°f  f  Til'  VV- J?r(-Un-’i}1';  U!  t111!01'  promise  to  send  you  si 
west  ot  the  Mississippi,  remarked  Judge  „  rel.ltion  to  the  Fan, 
Ward.  "It.  was  none  of  your  business  ,, fleeting  vour ^busin 
whatever,  but  you  were  trying  to  extort  V'L  State  Department 
money  from  this  firm.  It  is  plain  ex-  ,  t  Tln-re  was  u  c 
tortiun.  and  you  ought  to  be  indicted  for  t  Alban v  but  our  as 
it  m  every  county  where  you  have  op-  to  |t  it‘out  of  busint. 
crated— and  tried  by  a  jury  of  dairymen."  orKUI,ized  a  maul 
Put  a  State  Sureau*  Out  of  Bust-  companies  throughout 
ness. — Then  Judge  Ward  opened  a  let-  always  held  that  the 
ter  and  read.  “Our  association  was  able  couraged  and  used  its 
to  put  the  State  Food  pureau  out  of  organize,  them.” 
FOOT  AND 
MOUTH  DISEASE 
AND  AM.  OTHER  CONTAGIOUS 
DISEASES. 
You  cab  make  all  live-stock 
quarters  sanitary  by  using 
The  Standardized,  Reliable 
Dip  and  Disinfectant. 
We  will  send  you  free  a  "booklet  on  tho 
treatment  of  mange,  eczema  or  pitch 
mange,  arthritis,  sore  mouth,  etc. 
We  will  send  you  free  a  booklet  on 
how  to  build  a  hog  wallow,  which  will 
keep  hogs  clean  and  healthy. 
We  will  send  yon  free  a  booklet  on 
how  to  keep  your  hogs  free  from  lice  and 
parasites  and  disease 
Write  for  them— they  are  free. 
KRESO  DIP  No.  1  has  been  used  at 
the  large  state  fairs  in  the  United  States 
for  the  last  tan  years  to  prevent  the 
spread  of  coni  ugious  disease.  It  has  done 
it.  and  KRESO  DIP  No.  1  will  do  the 
eatnc  for  you  on  the  farm. 
KRESO  DTP  No.  1  is  KiiHyto  Use- Reli¬ 
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Effective— Not  Expensive. 
DETROIT,  MICH. 
Dep’t  Animal  Industry. 
95  AMERICAN 
Upward  CREAM 
H  SentonTrial.  Fully  C.uaran- 
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■  Skims  warm  or  cold  millt.  Bowl  a 
sanitary  marvel.  Whether  dairj 
islargo  or  small  obtain  kandeome  eutaloc.  Addren,  ^  ’ 
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llUUll  rAKIVId  SECTION  OF  NEW  YORK  STATE 
Tell  us  what  kiml  of  farm  you  want  and  how  much 
cash  yon  can  pay  and  we  will  semi  you  a  carefully 
prepared  list  of  jost  such  places,  CENTRAL  OFFICE: 
THE  FARM  BROKERS'  ASSOCIATION,  Inc  ,  Oneida.  New  York 
Other  offices  tlirougmmt  the  State. 
PROSPRItlTT  IN  CANADA -*000.000,000  in 
new  wealth  added  in  1015.  Fnoruious  crops  and 
low  taxation  make  farmers  rich.  Wheal  aver¬ 
age,  ati.io  bushels  per  acre  in  Alberta,  2B.75 
bushels  per  acre  iu  Saskatchewan,  U8.B0  bushels 
per  acra  lu  Manitoba.  Taxes  average  $24  And 
will  not  exceed  $35  per  quarter  section,  in¬ 
cludes  nil  tuxes;  no  taxes  oa  improvements. 
Free  schools  and  full  religious  liberty;  good 
climate.  Get  your  farm  home  from  the  Cana¬ 
dian  Paid  tie  Railway;  20  years  to  pay.  Good 
lurid  from  $11  to  $30  per  acre;  irrigated  lands 
from  $35,  nnd  the  government  gmirnutees  your 
land  and  water  titles.  Balance,  after  first  pay¬ 
ment,  extended  over  nineteen  years,  with  in¬ 
terest  at  UYe ;  privileges  of  paying  in  full  auy 
lime.  Before  final  payment  becomes  due  your 
farm  should  have  paid  for  itself.  We  will  lend 
you  up  to  $2,000  In  improvements  iu  certain  dis¬ 
tricts,  with  no  security  other  than  the  land 
itself.  Particulars  on  request.  Beady-made 
farms  foe  sals.  Special  ensy  terms.  Loan  for 
livestock.  In  defined  districts,  after  one  year's 
occupation,  under  certain  conditions  we  advance 
cattle,  sheep  and  hogs  to  formers  up  to  a  value 
of  $1,000.  Wo  want  you;  we  can  afford  to  help 
you.  We  own  the  laud;  we  want  the  laud  cul¬ 
tivated.  Our  interest  are  mutual.  Buy  direct 
and  get  your  farm  home  from  the  CANADIAN 
PACIFIC  RAILWAY.  Send  for  free  hook.  J.  S. 
Dennis,  Assistant  to  the  President,  Canadian 
Pacific  Railway,  303  Ninth  Are.,  West,  Calgary, 
Alberta.  Canada, 
