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I) a ft I TV. W. MILLER DEAD. FEDERAL COURT SAVES THE PACKERS. As Usual, Big Corporations Resort to the Technicalities of Law to Escape Punishment.

"beef trust." the "trail of the packers" would not be so noticeable, reaching as it does, as shown by Francis J. Heney in his investigation of the packers by the Federal Trade Commission to I. R. Kirkwood of the Kansas City Star. The editorial policy of the Star was reached and controlled by the packers threatening to withdraw their advertising from the Star unless the Star gave the packers advance information and copy of all articles before publishing concerning matters in which the packers were interested.

When you see a packer advertisement in any farm, live stock or any other publication, you may be assured that said publication is under the blighting influence and domination of the packers, or else the said publication would not be given the advertisement. easily see the point of the regula-tion. If the hens are killed off the hundred-hen movement has little chance, nor will there be hens enough to supply the backyard flock for the man with the bit of land who is trying to make his own stronghold hunger proof. The present situation offers an opportunity to live wire poultry men to start a piece of community work that will connect the surplus of breeding hens to the hundred-hen movement and the backyard flock. Community organization and the gospel of "feed yourself" will dispose of surplus hens and convert possible roasters into food producers for the winter 1918-19.

Agents of the United States Department of Agriculture report that between Jan. 1, 1918, and Feb. 11 forty carloads, each of about 4,000 hens and pullets, were shipped from Texas alone. This means that 160,000 birds that were laying or about ready to lay were prevented from turning into eggs the food they had consumed without return during the winter. Had these birds been kept until April 30, as urged by the department of agriculture and as required by the Food Administration for those remaining on the farms on Februaryll, it would have meant at an estimate an addition of 400,000 dozen eggs to the food supply of the nation, with little added expense for food, and would merely have postponed use of the birds themselves as food until after May 1.

Francis J. Heney has been halted in his investigation of the big packers by the federal courts. Swift private papers and contracts showing their criminal operations and manipulations of the big packers, taken from Henry Vecder's office, the attorney for Swift, cannot be used in the investigation of the packers, according to the decision of the Federal Court of Appeals. It is to be regretted that the investigation has halted. Air.

Heney has been doing a great work and the public was hoping that he would be permitted to complete the investigation so successfuly begun. But it has ever been thus. Big corporations have always rushed to the tender protection of the federal courts with a maze of legal technicalities and we are sorry to say the courts seem to favor the big corporations at the expense of justice for the common people. Congress should come to the rescue and enact laws that will enable Air. Heney to continue the investigations.

MISSOURI LIVE STOCK MEN MEET. Enthusiastic and Important Gathering of the Producers Held in Kansas City. CRITICISM AND PATRIOTISM. MANURE INCREASES CORN TEN BUSHELS. Criticism, regardless of personal or party friendship, where criticism is needed and where it can be helpful to the nation, is the bounden duty of public men and of newspapers in this time of supreme sacrifice and danger.

He who does not criticise under such circumstances for fear of hurting his friends or party, or helping another party, is a traitor to manhood and to the nation. Manufacturers Record. Successful Kansas Banker and Live Stock Man Dies Tuesday Morning at His Home in Topeka. Last week this paper made note that Hon. W.

W. Miller of Topeka had suffered a slight paralytic stroke but that hopes for his complete recovery were held out. Yesterday (Tuesday) morning his death occurred following a cerebral hemor-rage. William Wesley Miller was one of the wealthiest and most successful bankers and live stock men in Kansas. He was born in Stark County, Ohio, October 24, 1844, and came to Kansas, settling in Osage City in 1872, where he engaged in the mercantile business with his brother, the late H.

B. Miller, the firm becoming known as Miller Bros. Later the firm engaged in the live stock business and operated extensive ranches in Texas, Oklahoma and Wyoming. They also owned and operated the Miller ranch, west of Osage City in northern Lyon County, which is one' of the finest and best ranch properties in Kansas. For years Mr.

Miller was the president of the Osage County Bank, and at the time of his death he was still a director. The book value of the stock of this bank for years was the highest of any bank in Kansas. Before the death of. his brother, Hiram B. Miller, the property of the brothers "was as the Miller Live Stock and Investment Company, of which W.

W. Miller was president. About five years ago he retired from the banking business and moved to Topeka. Mr. Miller was a heavy shareholder in the Thomas Ruddy Company, the cattlemen's independent packing plant, and its vice-president.

He was a veteran of the Civil War. and was a member of the First Presbyterian Church a Topeka. His wife died some twenty years ago. He was a brother to the late Bradford Miller and H. B.

Miller, both well known Kansans. A sister, Mrs. Anna J. Millard, lives at Alliance, Ohio. He is survived by three sons and two daughters: Walter H.

Miller, of Cincinnati, Ohio; Will J. Miller and Dr. Milton B. Aliller, of Topeka; Miss Florence Miller, of Topeka, and Mrs. Julia Miller Brown of Topeka.

He was an uncle to Clyde W. Miller, Mrs. A. T. Lucas and Mrs.

Emma Majors, all of Topeka. The funeral services will be held tomorrow, Thursday, at 2:30 p. in. at Topeka. In the death of W.

W. Miller, Kansas loses one of her big, brainy men, men who do things and have made Kansas the great and prosperous commonwealth that she is. He has ever stood for the best there is in life and for the general uplift of mankind. No needy and worthy person or project ever appealed in vain to W. W.

Miller, and were we permitted to chisel the epitaph upon the granite shaft that shall mark his last resting place, we would chisel these words: "An active and useful life well spent. He did his full part. He left the world better by his having lived in it." RETREATING TO VICTORY. The largest and most enthusiastic gathering of the live stock producers of Missouri ever held, was held last Friday and Saturday at the Aluehle-bach Hotel. Air.

C. E. Yancey, the president of the Alissouri Producers Association, presided, and he makes a splendid presiding officer. The gathering consisted of the leading live stock men and farmers of Missouri and that the producers arc deeply in earnest and determined to right some of the wrongs that they are suffering was evidenced by the resolutions passed and the sending of a committee to Washington to confer with the food administration for changes and relief. They were particularly bitter toward J.

P. Cotton and Fequa and demanded their removal. Ex-Gov W. R. Stubbs of Kansas, who happened to be in the city, was called upon and he "stirred up the animals" in his usual emphatic way.

Stubbs is a big man anv place put him. Joe Mercer, also of Kansas, pulled a few tail feathers out of the food profiteers and urged the Alissouri producers to organize and demand their rights. Ed Yancey is one of the biggest men in Alissouri and is recognized as one of the national leaders for increased production and beLtcr market conditions. The Alissourians are slower to action than the Kansans, but when once aroused they arc a determined, fearless and aggressive people The Alissouri Producers Association means business and we expect great things as the result of their efforts. The results of a large number of tests conducted by the University of Missouri College of Agriculture show that manure applied to corn land at the rate of eight loads per acre has given an average increase of 10.4 bushels during the first season following its application.

At the present price of farm products this should be sufficient reason for making a special effort this spring to save every ton of manure produced on the farm, and to see that it is returned to the field before the corn crop is planted. Manure is unquestionably the most satisfactory corn fertilizer. No Missouri farmer should consider using commercial plant foods this spring until he has cleaned out every barn, feed lot and hog pen on the place. After this has been done and still there is medium to thin land to be planted to corn, some commercial fertilizer the highly phos-phatic ones, will doubtless be An intoxicated man hailed a cab After climbing in, the cabby leaned over and asked: "What street do you want?" "What streets have you?" he inquired. "Lots of 'em," smiled the cabby, humoring him.

"G'mme 'em all," he said, waving his arm grandly. After they had been driving for several hours, the man in the cab ordered a slop. "How mush do I owe you?" "Seven dollars and fifty cents." "Well you better drive back till -V-you get to thirty-fi' shents, thashall I got." A FAMOUS CHARACTERISTIC. Airs. Youngbride Our cook says those eggs you sent yesterday were quite old.

Grocer Very sorry, ma'am. They were the best we could get. You see, all the young chickens were killed off fcr the holiday trade so the old hens are the only ones left to do the lay-in'. Mrs. Youngbride Oh, to be sure! I hadn't thought of that.

WHERE WAS THE MULE? VENERABLE WIDOW KNITS FOR THE WAR. Katherine Hendrickson, widow, 85 years old, of Lawrence, has been knitting for the American soldiers since the draft bill was passed, keeping up with the quantities of yarn shipped to the local Red Cross. The farmer alleged a freight train of the defendant company had hit one of his mules. "Now, Air. Jones," said the attorney for the corporation to the aggrieved party, who occupied the witness stand, "will you kindly tell the court whether or not your mule was on the track, the property of the defendant, when hit by the train?" "Well, sir," replied Air.

Jones, "I didn't witness the occurrence, but I suppose things must have been about as you saj'. This was a pretty bright mule, and I reckon if that train had took out after him in the woods which fringe the track there where he was killed he would have got behind a tree." SELFODUNG WIN DM DLL OUT OF RESPECT FOR W. W. MILLER. With INCLOSED MOTOR SPLASH OILING SYSTEM Constantly flooding every bearing with oil enables it to pump in the lightest breeze and prevents wear.

APPROVES OF OUR STAND FOR THE PRODUCERS. Thisheimet keeps out rain keeps out dust The flag upon the Thomas Ruddy plant is flying at half mast out of respect for the late W. W. Aliller, vice-president of the Thomas Ruddy company, who died early Tuesday morning. The Ruddy plant will be closed down and all activities cease for one half hour Thursday, during the time of the funeral to be held at 2:30 at Topeka.

Air. Thomas Ruddy will be one of the pallbearers. Climax of30 Years' in Making Steel Oil Annuaii Oil Supply Replenished Only Once a Year SURPLUS BREEDERS AND THE BACKYARD FLOCK. DOUBLE GEARS each carrying half the load. Every feature desirable in a Windmill in the The following letter of appreciation was recently received.

Such letters are like "flowers for the living." The bouquets sent an editor are so few and far between that ones like the following arc always deeplv appreciated Alayview, March 11. 1918. Editor Feeding and Alarketing, Kansas City. Dear Sir: Let me congratulate you for the stand you are taking in the stock producing situation. I have read your No.

35 of March 6 with great interest and only wish some more agricultural papers would take the same stand, as something must be done or the stock producing business will go glimmering. Yours verv truly, S. R. SCHAIITZ. If the live stock producers would refuse to support publications that are under the domination of the AUTO-OILED AERMOTOR REPORTS FROM USERS Poultry production must be pushed vigorously.

"One Hundred Hens on Every Farm" is the popular and timely slogan and fits in aptly with the restrictions of the Food Administration on the marketing of hens. This regulation caught some poultry raisers with a surplus of breeding hens although there is no surplus in the country at large, for the shortage of feeds and the high price of poultry has tempted breeders and the owners of small flocks to sell their hens. Even those inconvenienced by the restriction on the sale of hens can Danvers, Montana I have one of your Auto-Oiled Mills pumping water and sure like it fine. Can't be beat. Haven't oiled it yet and it's better oiled than if a person oiled it every day.

Wouldn't trade for all the other makes of mil's in the county. F. E. LINHART, Jr. Fruitland Park, Fla.

The 16-foot Auto-Oiled Aermotor has run just 18 mouths without new oil and still has about two gallons in the base. It has been pumping about 5000 gallons a day, lifting it 98 feet. I cannot detect the least indication of wear. WM. B.

TURNER. AERMOTOR 25 lO Twelfth Street, CHICAGO.