Western Breeders Journal from Clay Center, Kansas • 3

A January, 1007. WESTERN BREEDERS JOURNAL oooooooooooQOcoooo oooooooooooooocooooooQ 3Q3Q00o000ooo0o0oo aoooooooooooooooocoooo a a a and ke -Seiris fllK 4. Monday, January 28, '07 at Humbolt, Nebraska. The Great Opportunity to buy good useful Poland Chinas. 50 (lead will be sold.

9 head of our tried and valuable soWS)' 21 big growthy fall yearlings and 20 spring gilts, all bred for early spring farrow our herd boars, King. Priceless, Socialist Expander, Mc's Duplicate and the old hero Pawnee Chief These boa.s are of the best breeding and of the big type. King Priceless is by King Look, a half brother to Guy's many other prize winners. Socialist Expander is of the famous Expansion family and a wonderful good and uniform breeder. Among the tried sows are Hanna (9:698) by Director 305.3, Bonna, a full sister to boar that won first in the under year class at Nebraska State Fair 1906; Lady Lbgan by Logan Chief.

All of tned sows raised both sprmg and fall litters this year and are a good useful lot. The yearling sows are mostly by Choice. They please everyone that is looking for a little more size. The spring gilts are by different boars that we have already menuoned, and are a first class lot of gilts. Catalogues ill be sent to those asking for them.

Send sealed bids to Jess Johnson in our care. Breeders stop at any hotel as our guests a cs ggT. C. CALLAHAN, Auctioneer. semist 10 iolt -Nekras rjjiM lu 9 uuimiiiiL a Oi I OOOOOCOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOO00000000000 things that prevented VOii from rniainor STARTLING FIGURES FOR POTATO this country, details of the GROWERS.

big crops been blessings in disguise Have you not had too much advice, as to how to raise big crops and too little The secretary of agriculture's prelim inary report for 190b' has the following paragraph concerning one 01 tne great products of this country: "With a probable crop of fully 300, of flocks, the uses of the fleece and the carcass, localities in the United States adapted to the goats, and statistics giving their number as well as the production, consumption, and imports of mohair in the United States. The Angora goat industry has developed remarkably during the last five years, and the writer estimates that there are now in this country about 1,000,000 Angoras, distributed in all the states and territories. The largest flocks are in Texas and New Mexico, but wie Nortwest has also successful Anoka considerable increase in production; but oVame 7Gar, the Tories used 3,061,910 pounds of imported mohair, ine total imports of mohair in 1905 were 2,025,575 pounds, with am average va ue of 28.5 cents a 'pound. ThVpres! ent import duty on mohair, subject to-mcrease under certain conditions is 12 cents a. pound.

goats are much less subject menHnnf The bulletin SnrLTi, maIadies which may "a em a.nd ges methods 0f treat-S TaksJ3' a contagious disease which created great havoc io certain ra a now to 000,000 bushels potatoes reach next to their highest production, which was in 1904; but the total value, tu xiuw tu get gooa prices Are there not too many farm papers and agricultural colleges teaching how to produce more and not enough teaching how to market at profitable prices? Ihis is a question worthy of serious consideration. The above "matter is from the Society of Equity, and, while all are not content to accept all their ideas as to control of the markets, yet these figures opens the way to a consideration of the subject. THE ANGORA GOAT. Information Concerning the Angora Coat (Bulletin No. zl of the Bureau of Animal Industry.

IL S. Dena.rt. mpnt. rtf rests on a rather low average per bushel and has been exceeded in other years." Here a few potato figures from the Year Book of the department of agriculture: Farm value. ana no part oi the country is unfitted 1UJ mem.

enaure extremes ol heat and cold and thrive DTI nil lHnda nl soil except wet land. Thev wvm iooiu wvucu witn Drusn; Dy nature they are climbers and browsers. Th Yield in bu. 260,741,294 332,830,000 247,12, 000 284,632,000 187,598,000 210,920,000 297,237,000 183,034,000 Dec. 1.

$100,821,080 150,673,392 151,638,084 134,111,436 143,997,470 90,811,167 78,984,901 108,601,801 ear 1905 ld04 1903 1902 190 1900 1895 1893 Agriculture), originally published in ly covered rough lands of the South, the iyui, is soon to be reissued a revised edition, in accordance with an'oint resn. wuiu-uuu iarms oi JNew England, and the "stumpaee" districts ftf Mi phi Aran lution of congress. The original bulle- and Wisconsin are especially adapted to tion was written bv the info dan vera mem. j.neir unmx, oi Drowsing makes them valuable for clearing land of ns course and will prob- C0.mPletely eradicated. Ihe bulletin is amply supplied with Hustrations of bucks, does, kids, mo-'air and mohair plush.

SHOULD APPOINT FARMERS. It seems strange tnat the board of re-'' of the ivansas agricultural college should not be filled by farmers. The the present board composed of f. W. Berry, J.

0. Tulloss and E. T. Fair-hild expire Jan. 1.

At that time Governor Hoch will appoint their successors, it is plain that the men on this board should be men who understand the busi-ness of agriculture instead of men only indirectly interested in it as has been the boards in the past, and every farmer who reads this shnnM writ i- layette Thompson, and the revision has been done by Mrs. Sallie Russell Reeves. The new edition is printed for distribution by members or ponoress hut. unii Drusn. iheir chief value, however, lies in their long, silky fleece, which is ivuuwii as munair.

Mohair is larsrelv nsprl in hp wQTiii also be for sale by the superintendent The crop of 1904 was the largest ever raised, but was worth over ten millions less than the crop of 1905, which was over seventy-two millions less. It was worth less than the crop of 1903, which was nearly one hundred millions bushels less, and but little more than the crop of 1901, was one hundred and forty-rive million bushels less. In 1895 was raised the second largest crop of potatoes the country ever pro facture of plush, imitation astrakhan, muiiair aress goods (bnlliantines). The United ocates produced in 1899, gwciiixxieui printing OI- Washington D. C.at 15 cents per copy.

The bulletin includes a description and classification of the Angora goat, a history of the various importations by which the industry was established in pounas or monair dress croods. wuitn or cents a pound. In 1905 our factories usprl 1Q07 calling his attention to the matter. Kan- lx J.1. pounds of domestic mohair, showing a iiita uuousanos oi farmers all perfectly competent to hold a position on this board ana who wnnU WHAT KANSAS CORN LOOK LIKE.

v. WUW rnore value to the state than those who have composed it. not fhrnutrh of their own but because they are not duced. Yet sold for less than any of the other crops in the table, and few potato crops ever undersold it since records were kept. Nineteen hundred and one was a year of great drought and damage to potatoes by insects, and the crop was the snortest since 1893.

Yet the value was only exceeded three times since crop records have been kept. J. A. Everut of Indianapolis, president of the American Society of Equity, recently said, in calling these figures to the attention of a convention of potato growers: "There is much to think about with When settinsr trees vuvm the southwest. This direction nation will prevent sun-scald, and our Hardest winds in the from the south, thus a great deal of in-cline can be given and the trees will be nearly straight in two or three seasoai.

The power of htreditr in bred cows Is stronger tha 1 such a showing before you. Instead of fighting the bugs, the blight and the drought would it not pay better to encourage them if crops must be marketed under tht old system Have not the stock and there ii mar nnlfnrmU. i. aJ lu aim the offspring of the eow and of tk miking qualities well..