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i l ; 8 ! V 18 ! is Y Y f r J: 12 ANNUAL SALE f of Imported and Home Bred Stallions and Mares We will hold our twelfth annual Kale in the Bradstrect sale pavilion, Grand Island, t y Y Nebr., T Y T y x T 1 y y ? y y Y Y f y y y y y y Y Y Y y Y JANUARY 28, 1916 60 head, consisting of 20 head of percheron mares ranging in age from two to eight years old. These mares are bred to the 2200 imported stallion 97349 (100316). Most of the n are showing to be in foal. These mares arc the good big nigged brood mare type with style and action, 10 head of Belgian mares as good and big as grows. Ranging in age from two to seven years old. 5 good big shire mares true to type. .. 15 head of percheron stallions from two to six years old. They are the kind that make good stock stallions. The home bred have been pasture raised, which makes them more valu able for the one that wishes to turn them in a herd. 3 head of coming three-year-old Belgian stallions. Two imported. They are the draft kind. , 3 exceptionally good shire stallions. The good clean bone kind. Ages from two to four years old. 2 four-year-old German coach stallions. 3 German coach mares. Stallions will be sold with our regular 60 per cent breeding guaranty. Mares guaran teed breeders. All our stock are registered in the recognized stud books. If you are in the market for a stallion or mare it will be to your advantage to attend this sale, as they will positively be sold to the highest bidder. Catalogs ready January 15th. DON'T FORGET THE DATE. JAN. 28 Gol. Fred Ruppert, Auctioneer North & Robinson Co. V Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y t Y Y Y Y Y Y Y X X X X X Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y Y thk ma di:nvi:k show Entries tlie largest Ever Hail niul Many Strong Kent tire editors on any phase of farming or stock raising. The closing entries for the Denver Stork Show, which opens Monday, January 17, for a week, have sur passed all previous records. In the breeding rattle division alone, eighty two of the largest rattle herds in the United States will compete. There will be between 10,000 and 12.000 .feeder cattle on exhibition and close to 4,000 registered bulls will be on exhibition and sale. No such num ber of pure-bred animals was ever gotten together anywhere, as far as known, in the world. Every depart ment of the show Is completely filled and Denver Is expecting to entertain fully 40,000 stockmen and farmers , JfjVBl all jarts of the country during the week. -.-.. i As this Is the first big show to be held since the outbreak of the foot nd mouth disease, there Is more than usual Interest In the event. The .Hereford breeders of the country are claiming that they will put on at Denver the greatest national show cf .Hereford breeding cattle ever seen Anywhere In the world. All of the beef breeds and several of the dairy breeds are represented with strong exhibits, as well as fine exhibits In All of the horse breeds. The Horse Show, which is held in connection with the Stock Show, it is claimed will be the largest Horse Show ever held In the West, including Chicago, SL Louis or Kansas City. The lead ing stables from Ohio west to the Pa cific coast will be represented. The large number of feeder rattle And breeding cattle In carloads is a strong feature and is attracting the Attention -of stockmen from all parts cf the country and it is expected that there will be at least 15,000 "90 worth of cattle sold during t.& week. Denver Is having an "in winter and -hm outlook U xry favorable for the Dsual nne weather that has been had At every Stock Show for the past ten years. Tho Value of a Good Horse A good draft horse may earn sev eral thousand dollars for his owner. Farm and Home says the Chicago ntock yards company has a nine-year-old Clydesdale gelding which weighs 2250 pounds. He was purchased as a three-year-old for $ 385, and an of fer of $1500 was refused recently for him and his mate. For six years the daily work of this gelding for five days each week has been as follows: He hauls four loads of shelled corn with a rapacity j of 85 bushels each to the hog houses i In the forenoon. He delivers four wagon loads of hay of three tons each In the afternoon. This makes a dally haul of 4 4,000 pounds, an an nual haul of 11,400,000 pounds, and for the six years he has been In serv ice, 43,320 tons. The stock yards company estimates that at 25 cents a ton the gross earn ings of this horse in six years have been $8580. Deducting the team ster's wage of $55 a month, stable charges of $18 a month, and shoeing charges of $1.50 a month for six years, a net earning capacity of $3, 216 Is shown. It Is doubtful If any form of motor power could have done this hauling so cheaply. Women Invited to At tend The Nebraska Home Economics Association cordially Ivites wives of all husbands attending the sessions cf Organized Agriculture to be pres ent at the home economics sessions, which are held during Organized Ag riculture week at the College of Ag riculture from January 17 to 21. The home economics meetings are Intended for all women who come to Lincoln at this time. The programs are prepared especially for the needs of the farm women. Persons wish ing a program or other information should write to Mrs. Emma Reed Da vlsson, University Farm, Lincoln. Noted Men at Breeders' Meeting In addition to many farmers who will offer the results of much "prac tical experience at the Nebraska Im proved Live Stock Breeders' Associa tion during Organised Agriculture week, January 17 to 21, some of the most prominent speakers on live btock problems in the Middle West will be on the program. Among those from out of the state are C. F. CurtisB, dean of the Iowa State Col lege of Agriculture; J. H. Skinner, dean of the Inidana College of Ag riculture; George McKerrow, Pewau- jkee, Wis.; and H. R. Smith of St. Paul, Minn., formerly of the Nebras I ka College of Agriculture. Secretar- 1 les of several of the national breed ers' associations and members of the Nebraska College of Agriculture will also speak. iAbor per Farm Is Constant The amoun of labor that can prof itably be employed per acre is gov erned largely by rainfall and length of growing season. In western Ne braska, with an average size per farm of about a thousand acres, one farm employs no more labor than the east ern Nebraska farm which averages about 200 acres in size. Regardless of the section of the state, the aver age farm uses the equivalent of 1.6 men per year, as shown by farm- management surveys of the College of Agriculture in twelve counties of the state on 659 farms. Money-Saving Offer The Alliance Herald has made Apeclal arrangements with Farmer And Breeder which enables us to of fer you The Herald and Farmer and Breeder both for 1 year for only 11.75. Send us your subscription .now and save money. This offer is .good for only a limited time. Every .subscriber to Farmer and Breeder is entitled to tree consultation with its What notations Should Contain A crop rotation should contain the following, according to the College of Agriculture: 1. A legume. 2. A feeding crop. 3. A rash crop. 4. A cultivated crop. 5. An uncultivated crop. Two or more of these crops may be combined. For example, alfalfa is both a legume and a feeding crop. Wheat is an uncultivated crop and a rash crop. No Chance for Infection While it is generally believed that the foot and mouth contagion, which has been the controlling factor In the live stock situation of this country for over a year, has been finally Btamped out, there having been no known case of the disease now for several weeks, the National Stock Show at Denver is taking every pos sible precaution. No cloven hoof animals will be admitted to the show from Illinois or New' York, where the last cases of the disease were known, and all other animals are shipped in disinfected cars and both the stock yards and the show grounds and buildings are being thoroly cleaned and disinfected and will be kept con stantly disinfected daily during the show. .The Colorado sanitary auth orities are giving close attention to all of the exhibits brought to the Bhow. The last known case was in Illinois about a month ago, and there have been no other cases re ported since that time anywhere. "John," said the Lickdab teacher, "tell me what is pasteurized milk." "Milk from a cow that has been turn ed out to short grass pasture," promptly answered John. 0RUGS GIVEN TO LIVE STOCK Medicine Are Administered by People Without Knowledge of Action Study Symptoms of Animal. Frequently drugs are administered by people without any knowledge of their action, One individual only re cently asked what he should give his horse when aconite and nitre had failed to cure. It is always best for one to know the action of a drug be fore it is administered to live stock. A thorough study of the symptoms of the animal should be made before any drugs are given. Just because certain drugs have succeeded in some neigh bor's horses, there is no reason tney will cure yours. To illustrate a horse Is suffering from colic. A dose of opium would be correct to give if it Is spasmodic colic, while if the patient has impaction of the bowels a dose of opium would only pack the bowels the harder. A dose of aconite should never be given when the heart is weak and slow, for the reason that aconite depresses the hea-t and will cause death. On the other hand, aconite would be the proper drug to give when the heart was beating full and strong and very rapid. A common mistake Is to give horses sweet spirits of nitre when suffering from frequent urina tion, as this drug is a diuretic or In creases the flow of urine. It only ag gravates the trouble in this particular case. In diseases of the respiratory tract when the high fever has caused con stipation one should never use aloes on account of the danger from super purgation. Raw linseed oil is prefer-" able, as it Is much safer. Quantity that you would all take steps lo be more careful In the future. One of the most common ways of wasting feed Is to feed it upon the (round when the surface is wet or soft. Feed scattered about In this fashion will soon be tramped upon and buried under the mud. Pigs, especially, are wasteful of feed given to them in this way, but many feeders har real lied tho lost and hare prevented It by building - concrete feeding COors which will not only pay their cost In the feed they save In a few years, but enable the quarters to be kept in ft more sanitary condition. Peed may be wasted when It Is fed In the mangers In excess of the ani mal's needs. This is a loss that Is easily preventable, for the feeder If he is observing will know Just how much the animal will eat up clean. For feeding alfalfa, clover, soy bean hay or other coarse feed, a rack of the kind shown in the illustration is handy and prevents waste. More sim ple racks are often constructed on the inside of a hog house by placing tbem against one of the sides of be build ing or adjoined to the pen partition.' DAMAGED WHEAT FOR SWINE Greater Gains Obtained in Testa In I FaaHInn It linn. Than AIU fn. . W.lll (., WW III, wi In Fattening Hogs. The grade and market price of part of the 1915 wheat crop has been so much reduced by sprouting in the shock that it is not too high for hog feed. Recent feeding tests by L. A. Weaver at the Missouri experiment station have shown tr t wheat fed alone gives greater galas in fattenings hogs than either corn alone or corn mixed with wheat. The addition of tankage to the ration resulted in still more econom ical gains, especially during the early part of the feeding period. If ground, the wheat is better digest ed and three pecks produce as much grain, as a bushel of unground wheat, both being soaked. CONCRETE FLOOR IS FAVORED Much Waste of Feed Can Be Prevent ed by Average Farmer Roughage Rack for Swine Is Shown. There is a great deal of feed wasted on the average farm each year, but so little is lost at a time that you seldom notice it. If you would take the time to count up what is knocked out ot the troughs by the animals and tram pled under foot In one month's time you would be so surprised at the large Pig Feeding Experiment. At the Ontario station, 100 pounds of meal, when fed to 40-pound pigs, proved equal to 406.9 pounds of skim milk and tc from 37.6 to 48.5 pounds of tankage, depending upon the grade used. The skim milk was fed In the proportion of about one and a half pounds to one pound of meal, the tank ago c:ie pound co about six pounds of meal. ,- KKK1 OATS FOH SALK Swedish Seed Oats, guaranteed to 'e "all oats". (Jood grain and straw producer, (irass stalks that will not fodKe.' Fifty cents per bushel, lellv "rod in Alliance. -Telephone Spruce .'41-11, or write O. MARKS, Alliance, Nebr. l-lt-6304 Roughage Feed Rack for Swine. ni it hers entered the dining room -vith u pair of yellow automobile gog r les on. Hello, Blithers," said little Binks. "Going motoring?" "No," said Blithers. "I'm sort of hungry for a grape fruit, and I want 1o keep the Juice out of my eye." PARADISE FOR "JOY RIDERS'' Work of Army Chauffeurs Would Make Oldfleld's Hair Perma nently Pompadour. J From St. Die to Le Rudlln Is In the neighborhood of thirty miles, end we f' did it in something less than thirty minutes, writes E. Alexander Powell in Scribner's Magazine. We went so fast that the telegraph poles looked like the palings In a picket fence, nd we took the corners on two wheels so as to save rubber. Of one thing I em quite certain If I am killed in this war, it is not going to be by a shell or a bullet; it is going to be In a military motor car. No cars save military oncu are permitted on . the roads In the tone of operations, and for the military cars no speed limit exists. As a result the drivers tear through .the country as though they were In the Vanderbllt cup race. Sometimes, of course, a wheel comes off, or they meet another vehicle when going around a corner at full speed and tb next morning there is a mili tary funeral. To be a driver of a military car In the zone of operations is the Joyrider's dream come true. The soldier who drove my car steered with one hand because he had to use the other to illustrate the stories of his exploits, in the trenches. Despite the fact that we were on a mountain road, one side of which dropped away Into nothing ness, when he related the story of how he captured six Germans slnglehand ed, he took both hands off the wheel to tell about it. It would have made Barney Oldfleld's hair permanently pompadour. . Extermination of Prairie Dogs The ..extermination of prairie dogs over large areas has been practically completed, according to the report of the Bureau of Biological Survey, just published by the department, and wide stretches of valuable grazing lands have been entirely cleared of this pest. In national forests in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Ok lahoma more than ninety-five per cent of the prairie dogs have already been destroyed. Active campaigns are still in progress in Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, and South Dakota, and in the Rio Grande Forest in Col orado. The average cost of distributing poison on areas Infested by prairie dogs has now been reduced to less than five cents an acre. In cases where reinfestation has made It nec essary to go over the land again, the cost has not exceeded three cents an acre. Poisoned oats have been found to give the most consistent results,, except In the Coconino Forest in Ar izona, where a species of blue-si em mod grass is abundant. The prairie dops are so fond of this that they care little for grain, whether poison ed or not. A fool can't tell anything about the facility with which a girl can be kiss ed and a gentleman won't. New York World. Northwestern'Robe and Tanning Co. Tanners and Manufacturers of CATTLE AND HORSE HIDES INTOJGOATS, ROBES AND RUGS The Best Known and known as the Best, Oldest and Most Reliable Tanner in the North west. We have been at the business 22 years, and have tanned many thousand hides. WE nnTl UTrriTH" VTT OT flTASCJ WAP If vj I ritlCES FOR TANNINE IIIDF.S Oi l. SPKCIALTIF.S Horse hides $3..r.O tr $1.50 Wo mnk" u specialty of rt-pniring and re Cow hides ' 1 lirl"? all fur coats and robes at reasomi- Bear hides 2.50 to 5.0.) ble j.rices. We also huj hide and pay the Calf skins 1.0(1 to 2.50 hipliw-st market price. Dog skins 100 io- 2.00 Goat skiiis 1 00 to LV00 Sn' 118 "u'' n"d. well-furred Horse Wolf oklns . 100 to 2.00 and Cattle Hi Up, nd you will get an A-l Coyote skins 1.00 ro 1.00 Robe. Mth p,-of. Beaver, dress and pluck . . . 1.00 jo 2,00 'Horae HidPB mak(J SpIendld RoDe Fur ' no o 100 Coats and Robes Lined and Repaired at ! l Xr Reasonable Prices. Coou 50 to .75 i Deer 100 to 1.50 Fur Coats Made 10 Order from Cattle Mink 2" io .4') and Horse Hides. Ready-made Robes and Musk Rat 2f io .25 Coats for Sale. Wild Cat 5" to 1.00 Also do all taxidermist work. PRICES FOR LINING ROMKS Dark green ilneh 4.50 care op iimrfl Black plush t.00 caiu, OF HIDES Fancy Moquette plush tj.OO Hides are best for tanning from Novem- Beaver cloth : 6 00 ber 1 to March 1. Lining Fur Coats, quilted lining .... 6.00 Lining, best Skinners' Satin 10.00 Hides are not as good after they begin Write us for anything you may want in to shed the hair. our line. Correspondence solicited. Reference, Leeds Bank, Sioux City, Iowa .i?. ,.5ld b "Pred "t and thor- oofhly salted as soon as taken off. five days before shipping them. INSTRUCTIONS FOR COAT HIDES It takes two medium sited hides for a Roll Of. flesh side out, tie well, or if you coat. Our price for tanning and making prefer, use sack, box or barrel, all complete Is 114.00 where the hide to all Mm furnished. ' INSTRUCTION SinFPINO ffSJ!?!? nVtYSeny' When shipping hides always pat the ahead. 7 owner's name and address on tag. Write us when hides were shipped, glv- Customers will be notified when their ing kind and color, and send us the bill ot ' work Is finished. lading. Do not ship dry hides. We Guarantee our work. Write for Price List and Shipping Tags. G. B. LEWIS, Proprietor. Leeds, Sioux City.Iowa. :7 ...... k