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CATTLE_ 
FOR SALE—Accredited herd registered Hoi- 
steins, 4'cows, S years old and over; 5—3- year 
olds; 3—2-year old heifers; 7 freshened this fall, 
the others freshened in January; 4 yearlings, 4 
heifer calves, 2 yearling bulls, Pontiac and Sadie 
Vale breeding. F. L. BURGER, Athens, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—Registered Guernsey bull calves, 
three to five months, $50 up. Accredited herd. 
EDGAR PAYNE, Penn Yan, N. Y. 
IRA STERN CO., New Brunswick, N. J. 
Route 6. 
COMPLETE FOX~TRAPPINGTMethods and 
Scent.” Reasonable. E. F. KEITH, Expert Fox 
Trapper of the Adirondack Mountains, Elizabeth¬ 
town, New York. 
TANNED WOODCHUCK SKINS, $1; stuff - 
ed Screech Owl, $5. Satisfaction guaranteed. 
ERNEST SWEZEY, Ashville, N. Y., R. D. 64. 
HELP WANTED 
DOGS AND PET STOCK 
THOROBRED COLLIE puppies, males, 
spayed females; all ages. ARCADIA FARM, 
Bally, Pa. _.__ 
WHITE ESKIMO PUPPIES, beautiful white 
companions, pedigreed, eligible, register — $20, 
$25. Not pedigreed — $15, $20. WHITE 
ESKIMO KENNELS, De nton, Md. _ 
FERRETS for sale. Price list free. GLEN¬ 
DALE FERRET CO., Wellington, O._ 
“CHRISTMAS PUPPIES”—It is better to 
buy English or Welsh Shepherds than to wish 
you had. Healthy pups in the country. 
GEORGE BOORMAN, Marathon, N. Y._ 
FOR SALE—CANARIES, 1924 hatch—Ped. 
Reg. Theressa Hyland, An dover, N. Y. _ 
PUPPIES wanted in litter lots, mention kind, 
age, etc. DAN E. NAGLE, 161 George St., 
New Haven, Ct, ___ 
WANTED A NO 1 COON DOG, still trailer. 
No fox or rabbit dog wanted. CLIFFORD 
BORTHWICK, Unadilla, N. Y, _ 
EGGS—POULTRY—TURKEYS 
FOR SALE—Toulouse and White China geese, 
Golden Seabright Bantams and Guernsey cattle. 
J. H. WORLEY, Mercer, Pa. _ 
FOR SALE—Fine pure Bronze turkeys. J. H. 
WHEATON, Painted Post, N, Y., R.F.D. No. 2 
BOURBON RED TURKEYS. Selected for 
size and color. Strong, vigorous stock. Eggs 
in season. A. W. HARVEY. Cincinnatus, N. Y, 
TURKEYS—Hens and Toms—with size and 
quality. Pairs and trios no akin. Mammoth 
Bronze, Bourbon Reds, Narragansett, White 
Holland, write. WALTER BROS, Powhatan 
Point, Ohio. 
“ COLUMBIAN WYANDOTTE PULLETS. 
May and June hatched, $1.75 and $2.00 each. 
Utility, $1.50 each. MRS. LEWIS LONG. 
Lincklean, N. Y._ 
FOR SALE—S. C. White Leghorn yearling 
Hens, Selected Cockerels, and a few N. Y. State 
Certified Males. Write for prices and catalog. 
Satisfaction guaranteed or your money back. 
CROCKETTS POULTRY FARM. Sterling Sta., 
N. Y _ 
JERSEY BLACK GIANTS and Regal Dorcas 
White Wyandotte cockerels, $5 each. Satisfac¬ 
tion guaranteed. GEORGE W. SCOTT, Conne- 
mii Lake, Pa. 
“MAMMOTH WHITE HOLLAND TUR¬ 
KEYS, 25 young toms, also hens from 40 lb. 
sire. D. E. GRAY, C.eneseo, N. Y. 
BUFF ORPINGTON COCKERELS. Farm 
raised, heavy boned, good color. Shipped on ap¬ 
proval. Write I. B. ZOOK, Box A, Ronks, Pa. 
PREMIUM BUFF~ROCK cockerels. EDGE- 
wood Farm, Ballston Lake, N. Y. 
JERSEY BLACK GIANT cockerels, splendid 
birds, weight 9 pounds, $4 each. JAMES VAN 
BENSCHOTEN, Locke, N. Y. _ 
TRAP-NESTED Barred Rocks. Catalogue 
free. ARTHUR SEARLES, B-E, Milford, New 
Hampshire. 
TOULOUSE GEESE—Clean sweep at New 
York State Fair, 1924. On eight entries, four 
firsts and four seconds. Exhibition and breeding 
stock. Also Rouen Cayuga and Blue Swedish 
Ducks.- Choice birds for sale. CRANE BROOK 
FARM, Port Byron, N. Y. 
BARRED ROCKS, growing pullets, surplus 
after picking our best fancy specimens, $3 each. 
Hens, $5, Nice Cockerels, $5. Similar to our 
best. BRADLEY BROS, Lee, ass. 
FARM IMPLEMENTS 
SANDWICH Full Circle Horse Power Press, 
12x22, stored at Spencer, N. Y., ready for im¬ 
mediate delivery. Price $300 F.O.B. Cars, 
TUDOR & JONES, Spencer, N. Y. _ 
~FURS AND TRAPPINGS 
HIGHEST CASH PRICES paid for raw furs, 
beef hides, sheep skins, calf skins, tallow, wool, 
etc. Write for price list. No lots too large. -No 
lots too small. ALVAH A. CONOVER, Leba¬ 
non, N . J. ________ 
TRAPPERS—“Sure-Kill” capsules will kill 
foxes, minks, skunks, and all fur animals almost 
instantly. They contain most deadly combination 
of poisons known to science, and no animal will 
go over fifteen yards after swallowing bait. Used 
by United States government for killing wild 
animals in national parks. Price, delivered, 25 
capsules, for $1.90. 100 for $5.00. EVERETTE 
SHERMAN, Whitman, Mass. _ 
WANTED ‘Jinseng’ Raw Furs, all kinds, live 
in country, but beat city prices, price-list, tags, 
FIREMEN AND BRAKEMEN—Men to train 
for firemen or brakemen on railroads nearest 
their homes—-everywhere; beginners $150, later 
$250; later as conductors, engineers, $300-$400 
monthly (which position?). RAILWAY ASSO¬ 
CIATION. Desk W-16. Brooklyn, N. Y. 
SALESMEN to sell our high grade garden and 
field seeds direct to planters. A good position 
with big income. Experience unnecessary. COBB 
CO., Franklin, Mass. 
HONEY 
BUCKWHEAT honey in 60 lb. cans, $6.50, 
F.O.B. G. W. BELDEN, Berkshi re, N . Y, 
HONEY—White clover, postpaid, 3rd zone, 5 
lbs., $1.05; Dark, 95c. Wholesale list free. 
ROSCOE F. WIXSON, Dundee, New_York._ 
HONEY—Buckwheat, goldenrod, clover blend. 
Delicious, 5 lbs., 95c; 10 lbs., $1.80. Postpaid 
3rd zone. CHAS. B. ALLEN, Central Square, 
N. Y._ L _ 
HONEY—Light and Clover, 5 lbs., $1.15; 10 
lbs., $2.15; Buckwheat, $1 and $1.75. Postpaid 
within third zone. 60 lbs. Buckwheat here, $6. 
HENRY WILLIAMS, Romulus, N. Y. 
MISCELLANEOUS 
GEO. F. L0WE“AND SON~Fultonville, New 
York, ship New York State clover and timothy, 
alfalfa, oat and wheat straw, alfalfa meal for 
poultry. Our prices and quality are right. Ad¬ 
vise when in need. __ 
ALFALFA, mixed, and timothy hay for sale 
in car lots, inspection allowed; ready now. W. 
A. WITHROW, Syracuse, New York. 
LATEST STYLE SANITARY MILK TICK- 
ETS save money and time. Free delivery. Send 
-for samples. TRAVERS BROTHERS, Dept. 
A., Gardner, Mass, _ 
MILK CHOCOLATE made at our dairy; the 
best you ever tasted; box of 120 pieces, 2 lbs. 
net postpaid, for $1; 1,000 of satisfied suctomers. 
WIND, Babylon, N. Y. _ 
TOBACCO HOMESPUN smoking, 5 lbs., 
$1.25; 10. $2; 20, $3.75. Pipe FREE. Chewing, 
5 lbs.. $1.50; 10, $2.50. Quality Guaranteed. 
WALDROP BROTHERS, Murray, Ky. _ 
HOMESPUN TOBACCO — Chewing. five 
pounds. $1.50; ten. $2.50; twenty, $4.50. Smok¬ 
ing, five pounds, $1.25; ten, $2.00; twenty, $3.50. 
Pipe Free. Money back if not satisfied. UNITED 
TOBACCO GROWERS, Paducah, Ky. 
'OLD STAMPS WANTED—1840-1850-1860- 
1870-1880. Any quantity, on the letters pre- 
ferred, JOHN P. COOPER. Red Bank, N. J. 
WILL BUY OLD GUN CATALOGS—L. D 
SATTERLEE, 458 Forest Ave., West., Detroit, 
Mich. • > 
CANDY—My high-grade chocolate covered 5c 
Fruit and Nut Bar is equal to any, and pro¬ 
nounced delicious. One dozen 50c, half dozen 
25c postpaid. F. H. GERBERICH, 537 North 
Uth Street. Lebanon, Pa. 
PRINTING 
PRINTED STATIONERY!—100 either letter¬ 
heads, envelopes prepaid—95c; 250—$1.45; 500— 
$2.40. High grade samples free. FRANKLIN 
PRESS, B-28, Milford, N. II. 
REAL ESTATE 
MONEY MAKING FARMS FOR SALE in 
central New York State. For sizes, description, 
price and terms, write PERRY FARM AGEN¬ 
CY, Canajoharie, N. Y. 
FOR SALE—144 acre dairy, grain or potato 
farm, 7 miles from Trenton, been a dairy farm 
for a number of years. For full particulars con¬ 
sult owner. A. STOUT, Robbinsville, N. J. 
SHEEP 
DELAINE RAMS—From largest registered 
flock in state, bred for size and heavy, long 
staple fleeces. Grown on upland pastures which 
adds to their natural hardy and disease resistant 
qualities. Like produces like. See them; write 
J. C. WEATHERBY, Trumansburg, N. Y. 
WOMEN’S WANTS 
SWITCHES—Transformations, etc. Booklet 
free. EVA MACK, Canton, N. Y. 
PURE WHITE SUGAR — $6.50 hundred 
pounds. SOUTHERN WAREHOUSES, Rock- 
mart, Ge orgia. ___ 
PATCHWORK.—Send fifteen cents for house¬ 
hold package, bright new calicoes and percales. 
Your money’s worth every time. PATCHWORK 
COMPANY, Meriden, Conn. 
American Agriculturist, December 27, 1924 
Pitfalls of the Young Breeder 
(Continued from page 441 ) 
stock is not a “game,” nor a rich man’s 
hobby; it is a practical farmer’s busi¬ 
ness necessity. Purebreds are 40 to 50 
per cent more profitable than scrubs, ac¬ 
cording to the established facts of ex¬ 
perience. 
A Sound, Practical Business. 
The registered livestock business is as 
sound and practical as the growing of a 
crop from improved seed. Crooks dis¬ 
credited it to a considerable extent while 
they were active in the trade. Their 
operations drew into it numerous farm¬ 
ers and others who, in the spirit of 
gamblers, plunged into it for the sole 
purpose of making “easy money” in a 
jiffy. They were assured by fieldmen 
that they could do so. Some of them 
worked in collusion with their deceivers. 
Despite the crass and thievish abuses 
to which the stock-breeding business 
during its late “boom” was subjected by 
some breed organ fieldmen, a few auc¬ 
tioneers, and many farmers who bought 
or sold as gamblers, it is stronger, 
cleaner and more useful to practical 
farmers than it has ever been before. 
Conservative men who were in it then 
are in now. They did not lose their 
heads when the temptation to speculate 
was well-nigh irresistible. Prosperity is 
a more searching test than poverty of 
the character of men. Breeders who 
stood the test came through the defla¬ 
tion, and are the bulwarks of the indus¬ 
try today. They are in the business as 
practical farmers. They like it, stick to 
it, make mone} r , and own the best farms 
in -their communities. The coming de¬ 
mand for breeding stock will be so 
strong and widespread that - they will be 
abundantly rewarded. 
Room for More. 
It is obvious, therefore, that there is 
room in the business for hundreds of 
new men, who like it and are circum¬ 
stanced to get into it. Now is the most 
favorable time that I have known for 
young farmers modestly and prudently 
to get in and grow up with the business, 
whether they desire to conduct it as a 
practical sideline or .as a major farm 
specialty. 
It is-never a good time for a man of 
moderate means to jump err plunge into 
any business. Our most successful and 
constructive breeders are men who when 
young began in a small way to build up 
purebreed herds, flocks and studs. Their 
experience is the lamp by which young 
beginners today may safely be guided. 
Some Pertinent Questions. 
Every young farmer who aspires to 
be a stock breeder w r ould do well to ask 
and answer several questions. Do I like 
the work connected with the personal 
handling and management of purebred 
stock? Am I qualified by experience, 
training and temperament to engage in 
it? Is my farm, with its equipment, crop 
production, pastures and water supply, 
adapted to the carrying of a purebred 
herd, flock or stud? Am I in a favorable 
location to market purebred stock? 
Could I do much business in my own 
community, county or state? Can I 
grow plenty of feed every year in my 
climate? Am I likely in a few years to 
be in a position to exhibit stock at the 
fairs and shoivs, advertise in the live¬ 
stock and farm press, and handle busi¬ 
ness correspondence in a businesslike 
way? What do I know of animal dis¬ 
eases? What would I do and whom 
should I consult in cases of accidents 
and outbreaks of disease? What do I 
know about breeds, breeding, feeds and 
feeding? Should I raise hogs, beef cat¬ 
tle, dairy cattle, sheep, horses, mules, or 
goats? 
Selecting the Breed and Stock. 
The beginner, young or old, is wise 
who selects his foundation stock from 
an established breeder in his own county 
or state. He is wiser still if he chooses 
a breed which predominates or is gain¬ 
ing the ascendancy in his own commun¬ 
ity. By so doing he can progress more 
rapidly in the business, get advice more 
quickly, learn more rapidly and market 
his stock more satisfactorily than would 
be possible if he were to choose a locally 
unpopular breed. 
The most successful purebred stock 
raising in the future will be a community 
enterprise. It doesn’t pay to be an indi¬ 
vidualistic crank in the selection of a 
breed, and to ignore community senti¬ 
ment in conducting a business. If a man 
has plenty of money and egotism, he 
may raise Zebus in a community where 
most farmers raise Jerseys or Here- 
fords. But what’s the use? It’s all right 
to be an individual vvith a will, convic¬ 
tions, ideas and ideals, “but don’t be a 
fool.” 
An honest, energetic young breeder 
endowed with brains, courage, faith and 
guts is not likely to fall into many pits, 
and there is no pit, outside of a ceme¬ 
tery, that he cannot get out of if he 
should fall into it. Business life is a 
process of struggling out of pits in order 
to know how to stand firmly for brief 
moments on an endless series of peaks 
when they are attained. When w T e are 
content to stand or sit, and quit strug¬ 
gling for higher peaks, we arc ready for 
the cemetery pit. 
A. F. B. F. Makes Little Progress 
(Continued from Page 443) 
the state and county organizations, and 
further, that no state should be entitled 
to voting delegates until all membership 
dues have been paid. 
Other changes provide that, begin¬ 
ning with next year, the President and 
vice-president and members of the ex¬ 
term of tAvo years, and that an additional 
ecutive committee shall be elected for a 
member of this committee shall be al¬ 
lowed any region for each 100,000 paid- 
up members. This will give the middle 
west an additional representative. 
While the income of the federation 
for the year 1924 will probably be 
$48,427 short of 1923, rigid economies 
have alloAved the expenses to outrun the 
income by only a small amount. Prac¬ 
tically the entire debt at present con¬ 
sists of current obligations. For the 
fiscal year ending October 31, income 
from the six states which furnish 
practically 80 per cent of the total, as 
compared with 1923, was as follows: 
1924 1923 
Illinois .$30,501.28 $35,541.21 
Iowa .. 19,627.50 
Ohio . 24,087.00 30,843.12 
Michigan . 500.00 11,948.64 
California . 10,465.12 12,791.62 
NeAV York paid $10,074.52, as against 
$9,314.19 in 1923; Pennsylvania, $404.60, 
as against $346.33; Nebraska, $677.50, as 
against $568.02. The payment of $250 
by Indiana was made after the close of 
the fiscal year. 
Contrary to the regular general pro¬ 
gram followed in preceding conventions, 
the program during part of the sessions 
Avas broken up into six sectional con¬ 
ferences on cooperative marketing, legis¬ 
lation and taxation, transportation and 
research, organization and finance, pub¬ 
licity and home and community. This 
allowed a more detailed study of the 
various problems than was possible 
under the old plan. However, it failed 
to produce a better program of action 
for the coming year. 
In addition to these sectional pro¬ 
grams, the general assembly was ad¬ 
dressed by W. S. Hill of the United 
States Shipping Board, C, W. Hunt, of 
the Federal Trade Commission, George N. 
Peek, of Moline, Illinois, E. H. Cunn¬ 
ingham, of the Federal Reserve Board, 
and Mrs. Charles Sewell, vice-president 
of the Indiana Farm Bureau Federation. 
After the convention closed, the ex¬ 
ecutive committee Ayent into session and 
appointed a sub-committee, to chose th£ 
secretary to replace Mr. Coverdale. It 
is understood that Chester Gray of 
Missouri, has the inside track for the 
position. 
