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The War and You Potato Patriotism Copyright hy Krtiest Thompson Selon. How to Help Feed Europe's Mil lion! and at the Same Time Have Enough to Eat at Home. Plan Out lined hy Ernest Thompson Seton and the Woodcraft League. Foot! pikes are high, but they will be higher. Bread and potatoes are essential to life. America is going to hnve less of them this coming winter. We are ihw milking plans to help feed millions more of Europe's eople. This means less for us. The one thing that will stand be tweeu us and want next winter will be the vegetables raised in the gardens, back yards, lots and pieces of vacant land this summer. Next to wheat the potato is our most lmportuut crop, it can be raised on small plots; It cnn lie cared for by the Average person. Ernest Thompson Seton says: "The largest addition to the food supply in the shortest time the leader must know what to do and bow to tell It. He should know about raising potatoes. The club Instructions tell the fundamentals, but the leader with any plot of size would letter con ink some local agriculturist and post Himself fully. He will be able to Inter pat Hie hoys and Rlrls by explaining the real worth of their work and how Oct It la needed, with the land ap proaching a time of food shortage like that of Europe: of the president's mes sage to boys and girls that the best way they can help Is to raise food. He will tell them that It takes three months or more to do the Job right, testing whether they are the real thing or the sun m whicft soon tires and drops out, and urge them to see It through. The leader must see that the club imtton la work, and. as competition Is the secret of success with boys and . it si sf -vj to send the children seed potatoes for twenty four hills free, made posalble by the generosity of a New York man of national prominence. Ailults. iiieauiug everybody over eighteen, receive the button and circu lar of Inst ruction and provide their iwn seed potatoes. The crops, natural. . M III belong to Hie raisers, the liene- lit to the country at large being that h. food supply is tin reascsl. It Is con idem v expected that the stimulus of Woodcraft poini.i clubs will result in tin- production of an addiilonal 1.000,- Ono bushels of .spuds to feed the sol diers and the rest of ns next winter. Competition for prlr.es Is OpSfl only to the Juniorsthat Is, those uniler eighteen. A leautlful silk Ameilcan Max and a Woodcraft League potato club peuuan't will be given to the boy or girl who raises the best crop from t went v four hills. The witiuer'a name will lie eugraved on a brass plate on the staff. A silk fla and pennant with name engraved on plate will Iw given to the boy or girl who raises the largest po tato Second and third prizes will Is an nounced later, and many other prises sre contemplated. VVo T JCjw to Tht Woodcnjt league (Joinf to to my bit. Copyright by Ki nest Thompson 8lon. with the least trouble can be made by growlug potatoes. It calls for no un usual skill or outlay a Iki.v or girl, a. hoe and a sunny back yard with our instructions for guidance." "We face the future with the Im mediate prospect of the greatest food shortage our generation has ever known. Every acre of potatoes plant ed is life insurance against starvation next winter." declares Isaac Russell in the New York Evening Mall. Woodcraft Potato Clubs. This urgent need has caused the Woodcraft League of America to urge the formation of clubs of boys and girls, men and women, who will raise potatoes. A minimum number of hills is to be raised by each member, but it is hoped Unit this will be only a !-tartiug point. Complete instructions for planting anil raising pot. lines, pre pared by the Aincrii-iili Agriculturist in cooperation with the Woislcraft league, will be furnished each mem ber. Every American who can possibly plant and raise potatoes is not only doing himself a favor, but renders a real service to the nation. "Do your bit." Servo your country by planting and raising potatoes. f,r.c Wlf Tafck Copyright by BrflOSt Thompson 8eton. jtlrls. he must keep them on their met tle by awarding points right along, which shall count for the prtr.es when harvest Is over. Points should le glv. en for excellence in digging up the soil, planting, cultivating, weeding, etc., and harvesting. The point system will make each want to excel, squad will rival aquad. and teams will work hard to win. The result tabulated by the club leaflet Is friendly rivalry, greater interest, greater results, great er fun. Recreation, Fun, Patriotism. The Woodcraft League is not alone In proposing to utilize boys mid girls in potato raising. Since Mr. Seton an nounced the slogan. "The Hoe Itehlnd the Flag." he has been gratified that largo number of other organizations have takeu up and are pushing the Idea of "potato patriotism." Indeed, the state of New York thinks so fa vorably of the plan that It Is proposed to enlist 100.000 schoolboys to till the farms of the state that more men may be free to enlist. But so far as an nounced none of these agencies have onstrnetlve plans for the boys and girls beyond having them till the po tatoes after they are planted. Here is where Mr. Seton believes the Wood- raft potato clubs will excel, for it Is aimed to give the boys and girls recre ation and FUN while they are 'doing their bits." Organizing a Potato Club. Get a group together, either boys or girls, using a group already organ l.ed If possible. Have the group elect a presuleut and secretary, with the understanding that the adult leader la ro be supervisor of everything. How to Succeed. Split the club Into two teams, appointing captains and having them select their teams. Just Copy light by Ki nest Thompson St-ion as we used to choose ball teams in a huos(. up game Name the teams mud allot each half of the tract. Divide the teams Into squuds. each to have an allotment of ground, and then gie each ludividual his or her owuplot to work all alone. Wueu this Is done they are reauy to vorw, uu Will Arouse Boyish Enthusiasm. Boyish enthusiasm will respond quick ly to the call for patriotic service For the Flag" will attract them In masses, but about the time the sun shines bright on the farm, whether It be a ISO by 20 back yard or a multiple of acres, the enthusiasm will congeal (or nieli and evaporate!, and In propor tion as the backs get hot the feet will get cold, and the flag and patriotism will suffer a slump. So Mr. Setou who has lieen working for and with bOTS for more than a generation and knows the Imy's mind quite as well as lie does that of the Indian for be Is schoolmates, class mem1r. club mem her and nett door nelghlMira to Join with you. You understand the first and only qualification for membership in the Potato clubs Is that a member tutiat plant and raise at least twenty four hills of potatoes and make use of the crop, preferably giving the proceeds of the first twenty four hills lo somo war fund. Italslng potatoes la real aervlce to the nation. Ltr$ HOE OUR WAY TO VICTORY. J2 THE WOODCRAFT LEAGUE OF AMERICA, 13 West Twenty-ninth Street, Hew York City. Ernest Thompson Seton, Chief. Philip D. Fagans, Executive Sec retary. Pill out slid mail today Instruction In Farming. To each Wisxlcraft potato farmer will go. whether he be Bobble or Rockefeller, a printed sheet of Instruc tions how to plant and raise the crop. Monmouth totinlv. V .1. Is the banner eooatf of the stale for isitnto raising. In that county me hundreds of sum mer homes and country estates. The l W lien are forming an association to plant potatoes on every spare piece of ground in the county, so far as seed n l i - r w w l. . r g '(.it EMj . us te URGES RAISING MORE BABY BEEF large IVerenlage of ltereltt of Mtork Markets Consist f Year lings from t-'arm There is one feature of the liberal recelpta of rattle for the past ten days that cannot escape notice and In fact la causing considerable com ment and that Is the large percentage of yearlings- baby beef For years there has been a Btead lly growlug demand for baby beef and the young stuff baa been com manding a substantial premium par ticularly during the spring months Packers discriminated against the heavy cattle until the country learn ed the lesson that the big, heavy steer was out of style and light anil handy beef was the thing the public demanded. Many farmers thought it tmposst- ihe Woodcraft LoagUO Of America Po- hie to raise beef calves on the hlgh- tato Flubs, M West Twenty-nlutb priced land of the corn belt In com petition with the calves raised on the Steadily advancing cost of rang feeders has also been a potent factor In encouraging the raising of beef calves In the corn belt and If looks very much as if the practice of farm ers raising their own cattle to fees has again come Into vogue, which Is a mighty favorable augury for tl beef production of the country at large. Raising baby beef Is not going to cut in on the country's beef supply since the she stock is largely pro served for breeding purposes. It is going lo economise greatly In tho matter of feed, however, and that lo a most important Item In theoe times -South Omaha .lournal-Stoot-man street. New York City. Ernest Thompson Selon, Chief: Please enroll me as a taOMber of the Woislcraft League Potato clubs. I agree to plant and raise not less than twenty-font hills of potatoes and make use of the crop, preferably giving the pi ds to some war fund. 1 will report to you the result of my work. Namo T Address Age (If under H I will ars thnt a potato club Is formed In my town. cheaper grating lands of the west, but the big ndvance In prices in late years has made the raising of calves and the feeding of baby beef both popular and profitable. Agrlcultural experts favored it and the market quotations favored It un til today u large percentage of the receipts ut the markets consists of yearlings that were raised and fat tened on the farms of Iowa and Ne at? .braska. Under modern conditions - i lit Srf."sffnHSua t in our cities this baby beef Is more Pror. Paul W. Thomas, teacher of desirable particularly during the music at the Chadron Normal, Is spring and" summer months than Is . . ,., ,!.' the beef from heavier animals. The visiiniK icmiocn( ii, nun hi mm week. He expectB to return to riLMTKAL PATMOTMM In view of the large nmount of al falfa that has been reported wlntOT killed In Nebraska and the Import ance of Increasing forage and grain crops this year, the Omaha Hay Ex change and the Union Stock Yard Company of Omaha have had large posters printed In red, white and blue, giving valuable Information to farmers and stockmen. These posters are headed. "What About Forage!" Increase- In the production of hay and frtrage for uae next winter Is urged and particular Information from the Agricultural College, at Lincoln, regarding tho kind of cropa beat adapted for grow ing In an emergency Jlke this, tho ' nmstiiut it an ctrt no,' nrrn time Of i w v. r sending, and how to plant. Amber Sorghum, common and German, fnlllet, kafflr corn, rape, and oats and rape mixed, are recommended. public calls for lighter cuts. They - .. ..-J I no not run into money no mot iiu Chadron next week where he will are better suited to light housekeep teach in the summer normal. 'lng. Mrs. D W. Kenner went to Hem lngford Wednesday afternoon, re turning home today. R. A. Westover was here from Lakeside the middle of the week. ft iters hov a. s - . , . r- I ' Copyright by Bmost Thompson Sf ion. Chief Black Wolf of the Sewanoy tribe by adoption - knew that some thing must be done to provide for per severance in the task to hold the child interest to the end or until the stimulus of coming harvest time lias gripped. So the program is addressed more to the adults vlio shall lead the boy and Kh'l groups than to the boys and girls who compose them. The proverb runs. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy." and makes Jill a dull girl, for that matter. Hut you remember the boy back borne who always was able to call in a group of his playmates to clean up any dis agreeable task by making them think It a privilege he was grautlng. The youthful psychologist turned work Into play. Teamwork put the actual work out of the way before the boys tired of the game and there was a reaction to sure euough play. It took Kugland a long time when war came to learn what to do with the boys and bow to make them cheerful, healthy workers. Before the lesson was learned thou sands were slaving in munition works and other factories, wasting strength ami health. We of Amerha must learn to profit by the lesson. Prises For Potato Growers. Boys and girls under eighteeu need only to sign an application biauk and forward it lo the Woodcraft League ,r America, IS West .Twenty uluth street, New York city, and get back by mail a membership button and com plete Information what to do to get their "hoe behind the flag." In addi tlon, as far as possible It was agreed Copyright by BrOSSt Thompson Seton. potatoes cau be provided. Mrs. Philip Lowtnoka of H2.'l Fifth avenue. New York city and West Und. N. J., Is lead ing In the movement and has enlisted Mrs Jafnes Willett Cunningham, also of West End: Mrs. P. T. Prellnghuy sen of lilberon, Mrs. S. It. Guggenheim of Llberoti, Mrs. Rudolph Hrbslob of Rumson Roatl. Mrs. Jeffersou Belig man of Long Branch, Mrs. Hamilton Fish Cane or Red Bunk and a long list of others. Postmaster Thomas Paften of New York -city offered his estate at Seabright to the Monmouth county Woodcraft potato 'clubs, and Mrs. James Seliguiau of West End offered to (liiaiii-e the planting. . Mrs. Lowtaobn has had committee meetings in New York city and a mass meeting at Long Branch to promote potato planting, and If they have their way the county will be the banner county not alone of New Jersey, but of the Unlou. Governors of most of the eastern and several western states have ac cepted places On the honorary council of the Woodcraft potato clubs, and several have asked their agricultural forces to co-operate with the Wood craft movement. Several of the large railway systems have agreed to foster the clubs along their lines. When this artb-le was written there had not been time to bear from the entire country since the plan was promulgated, but from every section whence malls have arrived there is but one note, and that of commendation for Mr Seton's move ment. Ba a Potato Patriot! Fill out tile blank, become a mem tier of the Woodcraft LoOSUO Potato clubs and mat' every one of your friends to join in this plan of savins our country from want. Get your aJa v I i T 1 f t ? 1 t i t NOTICE OF ANNUAL MEETING OF THE NEBRASKA STOCK GROWERS ASS N. The Annual Meeting of the Nebraska Stock Growers Association will be held at Valentine, Ne braska, on Monday, June 18, 1917. Provisions have been made to take care of a large attendance. We hope and wish that all stock growers of Northwestern Nebraska will be present at this meeting. Matters of interest and much im portance will be discussed. CHAS. C. JAMESON, Secretary-Treasurer. H. R Brand Saddlerv. Horse Blankets, Lao Robes, Whips, Etc. Harpham and Fremont Saddles are handled by the following dealers: r...,,-j Lewellen. RohlniiK & Berquist. Ainsworth. K. I'. Ballard. Alliance, Rheln-Housey Co. Anselmo, W. W. Bass Co. Ansley, Coinstock fc Mills. Ashby, J. Halloren Lbr. Co. Bayard, Henderson 6. Franklin. Belmont, Relsdorfer Bros. Berwyn, O. C. 8tanton.x Bridgeport, H. C. Burke. Broadwater, J. R. Minsball. Broken Bow, H. H, Squires. Chadron, w. s. cuiam. Chappell, Chappell Lbr. St Hdw. Co Cody, Stotta St Jareuow. Crawfrfrd, Crawford Hdw. Co. Crookston, Holmes Hdw. Co. Dalton. P. M. Cramer. Dix. Phil Nelson. Cordon, Jos. Kocer & Co. Harrison. Z. B. Johnson. Hay Springs, Parsons Hdw. Co. Hazard. C. W. Trumble. H. mlngford. C. A. Shindler. Hyannis. F. M. Spalding Lbr. Co. Johnstown. K E. Waggener. k, ml,. ill Cub Linn. Lakeside. Crowther-Reed Co. Lew. -ileii. Roulflug St Berquist. Li sco, Li sco Merc. Co. Litchfield. H. L. Nelson. Lodgepole. E. Fenske. Iong Pine. M. J. Potter Melebta. Dutton St Sons. Merna. A. J. Read. Merriman, Lesert Hdw. Co. M mat are, C. E. Clough. Mitchell. Riley St Tyler. Morrill, Lokuu & Catcbpole. Mullen, J. L. Roseberry. North Platte. A. F. Fink Northport, Jesse Edson Ogallgla. C. I. Bass ft Co Osbkosh. Quelle Bros. Potter, C. W. Johnson. Rushville, Coffey A Wasmund. Kushville, S. S. Connell. Scot tab luff. R. D. Owens. Sidney, Mrs. C. D. Esalg. Sidney. Thos. Olson. Sutherland. E. C. Brown. Valentine, T. L. Evans Whitman, S. G. Wright. Whitney. Whitney Supply Co. Wood l.;.kc Wood Lake Lbr. Co. WE MAKE THE BEST LINE OF HARNESS STOCK SADDLES AND HORSE COLLARS ON THE MARKET. THEY ARB HANDLED BY SOME OF THE BEST RETAIL DEALERS IN NEBRASKA, KANSAS, COLORADO, WYOMING, MONTANA AND SOUTH DAKOTA. HARPHAM BROS. CO., Lincoln. Nebraska