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American Agriculturist, April 7,1923 
White Diarrhea 
Remarkable Experience of Mrs. 
C. M. Bradshaw in Prevent¬ 
ing White Diarrhea 
The following letter will no doubt be 
of utmost interest to poultry raisers 
who have had serious losses from White 
Diarrhea. We will let Mrs. Bradshaw 
tell of her experience in her own words: 
“Gentlemen: I see reports of so 
many losing their little chicks with 
White Diarrhea, so thought I would, 
tell my experience. I used to lose a 
great many from this cause, tried 
many remedies and was about dis¬ 
couraged. As a last resort I sent to 
the Walker Remedy Co., Dept. 437, 
Waterloo, Iowa, for their Walko White 
Diarrhea Remedy. I used two 50c 
packages, raised 300 White Wyandot- 
tes and never lost one or had one sick 
after giving the medicine and my chick¬ 
ens are larger and healthier than ever 
before. I have found this company 
thoroughly reliable and always get the 
remedy by return mail.—Mrs. C. M. 
Bradshaw, Beaconsfield, Iowa.” 
Cause of White Diarrhea 
White Diarrhea is caused by the Bac¬ 
illus Bacterium Pullorum. This germ 
is transmitted to the baby chick 
through the yolk of the newly hatched 
egg. Readers are warned to beware 
of White Diarrhea. Don’t wait until 
it kills half your chicks. Take the 
“stitch in time that saves nine.” Re¬ 
member there is scarcely a hatch with¬ 
out some infected chicks. Don’t let 
these few infect your entire flock. Pre¬ 
vent it. Give Walko in all drinking 
water for the first two weeks and you 
won’t lose one chick where you lost 
hundreds before. These letters prove it: 
Never Lost a Single Chick 
Mrs. L. L. Tam, Burnetts Creek, 
Ind., writes: “I have lost my share of 
chicks from White Diarrhea. Finally 
I sent for two packages of Walko. I 
raised over 500 chicks and I never lost 
a single chick from White Diarrhea. 
Walko not only prevents White Diar¬ 
rhea, but it gives the chicks strength 
and vigor; they develop quicker and 
feather earlier.” 
Never Lost One After First Dose 
Mrs. Ethel Rhoades, Shennandoah, 
Iowa, writes: “My first incubator 
chicks, when but a few days old, began 
to die by the dozens with White Diar¬ 
rhea. I tried different remedies and 
was about discouraged with the chick¬ 
en business. Finally, I sent to the 
Walker Remedy Co., Waterloo, Iowa, 
for a box of their Walko White Diar¬ 
rhea Remedy. It’s just the only thing 
for this terrible disease. We raised 
700 thrifty, healthy chicks and never 
lost a single chick after the first dose.” 
You Run No Risk 
We will send Walko White Diar¬ 
rhea Remedy entirely at our risk 
—postage prepaid—so you can see for 
yourself what a wonder-working rem¬ 
edy it is for White Diarrhea in baby 
chicks. So you can prove—as thou¬ 
sands have proven—that it will stop 
your losses and double, treble, even 
quadruple your profits. Send 50c for 
package of Walko—give it in all drink¬ 
ing water for the first two weeks and 
watch results. You’ll find you won’t 
lose one chick where you lost hundreds 
before. It’s a positive fact. We guar¬ 
antee it. The Leavitt & Johnson Na¬ 
tional Bank, the oldest and strongest 
bank in Waterloo, Iowa, stands back 
of this guarantee. You run no risk. 
If you don’t find it the greatest little 
chick saver you ever used, your money 
will be instantly refunded. 
WALKER REMEDY CO., Dept. 437 
Waterloo, Iowa 
Send me the [ ] 50c regular size (or [ ] $1 
^onomical large size) package of Walko White 
Diarrhea Remedy to try at your risk. Send it 
on your positive guarantee to instantly refund 
ffly money if not satisfied in every way. I am 
enclosing 50c (or $1.00). (P. O. money order, 
check or currency acceptable.) 
Name 
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Mark (X) in gquare indicating size package- 
wanted. Large package contains nearly three 
times as much as small. No war tax. 
Choosing and Buying a Farm 
(Continued from page 307) 
farm. Moreover, there will be consid¬ 
erable loss of time from , productive 
work when the building repair work is 
being carried on. A farm which has 
well-arranged buildings in a good state 
of repair may be ready for business at 
once. It is generally a much cheaper 
proposition than a farm with poor 
buildings, and it needs no loss of the 
owner’s time before being ready for 
business. 
Select a Productive Farm 
In choosing a farm, one should give 
considerable attention to the natural 
fertility of the soil and to the present 
state of fertility. As in the case of 
farm buildings, it is generally much 
cheaper to purchase a farm which is in 
a high state of productivity than to 
purchase a worn-out farm and attempt 
to build it up. Occasionally a run-down 
farm rhay be purchased so cheap that 
it will pay to improve it, but generally 
farm, or in hauling farm products to 
the railroad. 
A farm which is located near good 
neighbors is worth more than an iso¬ 
lated farm. It is worth something to 
the farm business to have rural free 
delivery and telephone service. Loca¬ 
tion near a trolley line is valuable. 
Well-built and well-organized churches, 
schools, granges, and other social insti¬ 
tutions make a farm worth more. If 
the farm is too far from high school, 
then children must be sent away and 
board with a strange family in order 
to complete their high school education. 
With the development of trunk lines, 
of State roads, and the rapid inci’ease 
in number of automobiles, there is a 
considerable market value in the loca¬ 
tion of a farm on the State road. Many 
such farms are now selling consider¬ 
able quantities of fruit, vegetables, and 
other products to the passing public. 
There are many other items to con¬ 
Buy a farm when the crops are growing 
it.is more economical to purchase the 
farm which is in good condition. 
The,fertility of the soil will be indi¬ 
cated to a considerable extent by the 
character of the crops which are grow¬ 
ing and the crop yields for the present 
year. A good time to view a farm is 
in June or July, just before the hay is 
cut. Most Eastern farms have half or 
more of their crop area in hay each 
year. Hay is one of the best indica¬ 
tions of the fertility of the soil. 
A soil which contains considerable 
limestone is generally a much more 
productive soil than one which is_ de¬ 
ficient in lime. The presence of lime¬ 
stone may be indicated by particles of 
limestone in the soil, by the growth of 
clover or alfalfa, or by a number of 
laboratory tests which can be made by 
the County Agent* or by the nearest 
Agricultural College or Experiment 
Station. 
The character of the soil should be 
considered in selecting a farm. A heavy 
clay or sandy soil is harder to work 
and is not well adapted for potatoes 
and does not produce the best crops 
of cabbage, corn or vegetables. _ A 
heavy soil cannot be worked when it is 
too wet or too dry. It is not adapted to 
a wide range of crops. On the other 
hand, a heavy soil ordinarily contains 
a considerable amount of fertility, and 
is very retentive of moisture and of 
fertility. 
A loamy soil is adapted for the pro¬ 
duction of a wide range of crops, al¬ 
though it will not ordinarily produce 
quite as good hay or grain as heavier 
soils. It is easier to work, can be 
worked when it is somewhat wet, or 
when it is rather dry. It is not as 
retentive of moisture or fertility as the 
heavier soils. 
Sandy and gravelly soils may be 
very dry or subject to drouth. They 
may be leachy or subject to a quick 
loss of soil fertility. They are easy 
to work, warm up quickly in the spring, 
produce early crops and are specially 
well adapted for some crops such as 
vegetables. 
The condition of the roads must be 
considered under the factor of distance 
to market. A farmer who is six miles 
from market on a good macadam road 
may find it easier to market its prod¬ 
ucts than one which is three miles dis¬ 
tant on a bad dirt road. If there is a 
very bad hill between the farm and 
market, it may mean expensive labor 
in hauling feed or fertilizer to the 
sider in purchasing a farm. A health¬ 
ful location is an economic factor which 
must be considered. The tax rate of 
the township or school district should 
be considered, especially since the very 
great rise in taxes during the past few 
years. 
The Farm Water Supply and Other 
Factors 
The water supply is very important. 
In fact, this may be an absolute limit¬ 
ing factor in the value of a farm. A 
dairy farm which must depend upon 
wells is at a considerable disadvantage 
over one that has running water in the 
barns from a spring which is higher 
than the buildings. A gravity water 
system can be maintained at very little 
expense. Any other water system is 
maintained at considerable annual ex¬ 
pense and with constant risk of trouble. 
Orchards and vineyards may add 
considerable to the value of the farm. 
The value of the farm as a home is 
one of the most important items to 
consider. 
The probability of an increase in the 
value of the farm should be given con¬ 
siderable weight. 
In choosing between two farms, it is 
well to work out for each the number 
of acres of crop land, pasture land, 
waste land, and to put a separate value 
on these. Often we find that what ap¬ 
pears to be the most expensive farm, is 
really much the cheaper farm because 
it has so much more crop land and so 
much more better improvements. 
Do Not Be Too Hasty 
Do not be in too great a hurry to 
purchase a farm. There are nearly 
200,000 farms in New York State. 
Many of these are for sale each year. 
There are thousands of farms in the 
State that are for sale each year at a 
very reasonable price. It is a common 
occurrence to have a real estate agent 
rush one into the purchase of a farm 
with the argument that this farm may 
be lost if not snapped up at _ once. 
Ordinarily, farms do not sell imme¬ 
diately after coming on the market. 
They generally move rather slowly. 
The prospective buyer should take 
plenty of time to satisfy himself that 
he wants this farm before purchasing. 
Meanwhile, if someone else purchases 
it ahead of you, remember that there 
are a large number of farms for sale 
and you can probably find many others 
that will suit you as well as this one. 
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Easy Now to Rid 
Your Farm of Rats 
Wonderful Discovery by Noted Scientist 
Kills Every Rat Within a Week’s 
Time— Not a Poison. 
Rats cost farmers over two hundred 
millions of dollars a year, through the 
destruction of grain, poultry and build¬ 
ings. Farmers need no longer suffer 
this loss because they can now kill off 
all the rats on their farm in less than 
a week’s time. This is possible through 
the remarkable discovery of E. R. 
Alexander, a Kansas City chemist, who 
has perfected a virus which kills rats, 
mice and gophers as though by magic. 
This product is not a poison—it can be 
eaten by human beings or any animal 
on the farm as safely as their regular 
food, but means quick, sure death to 
rats. 
This wonderful rat virus, which is known as 
Alexander Rat-Killer, is merely mixed with 
bread or meat scraps and placed where rats, 
mice or gophers can get to it. Within a few 
hours after a rat has eaten Alexander Rat- 
Killer he gets a high fever and suffers a ter¬ 
rible thirst. He leaves the barns and nesting 
holes and goes to the open fields in search of 
pure air and running water. Rats and mice 
affected always die away from the barns and 
houses, so there is no odor. 
It is a scientific fact that one rat affects 
others and soon the whole colony leaves the 
buildings and dies. And though this virus is 
absolutely deadly to rats—chickens, hogs, cat¬ 
tle or any farm animal can eat it and not be 
affected at all. 
So confident is Mr. Alexander that Alexander 
Rat-Killer will kill every rat on your farm in 
less than a week’s time that he offers to send, 
as an introductory offer, a regular $2.00 tube 
for only $1.00. Give it according to direc¬ 
tions, and if at the end of a week's time you 
are able to discover any rats, mice or gophers 
on your farm, your money will be refunded. 
A big Kansas City bank guarantees that Mr. 
Alexander is reliable and will do as he says. 
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