Albright's Farm and Ranch from Winfield, Kansas • 5

ALBRIGHT'S FAILU AND RANCH January 3, 1907 NEW CLUBBING RATES Wo have a considerable am mnt nf outstanding subscription due ua for the Farm and Ranch. S. W. Duncan who is well known to most of our subscribers, he having obtaind a lare pirt of them, will ba continued in the field to collect these outstanding accounts and to take subscriptions for the Oklahoma Farm Journal, the paper that, we wiil substitute for the Farm and Ranch. The subscription price of The Oklahoma Farm Journal is 50 Cents a Year 25 cents for 6 months.

We shall continue to club with other papers and wil make the following rate fur subscriptions with farm Journal: The Farm Journal- and twice-a-week St. Louis Republic or Globe Democrat one year The Farm Journal and American Boy, Pearson's or Tom Watson's Magazine, one year The Farm Journal 1 year and Daily K. Journal or Wichita Eagle 6 months $1.25 $1.25 $2.09 $1.75 The Farm Journal and K. C. Daily World one year The Farm Journal, Weekly Topeka Capital, K.

C. Star or Journal, and any of the $1 papers (jjl named above i year in helping to carry on the business here. Messrs. E. E.

Alspaugh and John Cates, the former part owner and the latter an employe at Floral, have accepted positions under the new management. This guar antees that the creamery will not lose any of its former prestige by its removal. The business will be conducted on the same plan as before. Payments will be made twice a month and its former patrons will find no change in the conduct of the business. There were good reasons for removing this plant from Floral.

The railroad facilities were such that the company was greatly handicapped in getting their supply of cream and also in disposing of their butter. A large per cent of the cream was transferred by wagons to Floral from stations on other railroad lines. The facilities here for receiving the raw material and shipping out the finished product is so much improved that the company will be able to do business with less expense and the patrons will no doubt receive part of the benefits. The business should now expand and many other producers of cream in this sections of the country should have a better market for their product. The creamery has lost none of its old customers by the change and it is hoped that many new ones will be added.

FARMER'S INTEREST IN GOOD ROADS. The country roads are used almost exclusively by the farmers. The citizens of the towns make but comparatively little use of them. The traffic between railroad towns and cities is nearly all carried on over the railroads. Comparatively few people living in the towns and cities travel country roads, and, generally, when they do go out over the public roads it is during good weather when the roads are in good passable condition.

The farmers are the people that make the greatest use of the roads and it naturally seems that if the roads are to be improved, that they are the ones that must get interested and busy to see that this work is done. As a means of building up the trade of the towns the town people will contribute liberally for road improvement and if rivalry is created between towns for the trade of a district, the farmers may be able to get large help from the towns for road improvement; but while the roads to all the towns are all equally bad and no town has an advantage over any other town with respect to the character of the roads leading into thenv there is little financial advantage to the citizens of the towns to have the roads made better. The produce of the country must be marketed any way and if the farmers are content to bring their produce to The Farm Journal and Weekly Topeka Capital, K. C. Star or Journal one year 60c 31 75c The Farm Journal and Chicago Inter-ocean one year The Farm Journal, K.

C. Weekly Star and Topeka Calital 1 year The Farm Journal and Winfiield Tribune(new) $1.00 $3.25 1 year The Farm Journal, Review of Reviews, Success Magazine, Woman's Home Companion 1 year small indeed compared to the benfits which are to be derived by the farmers. While out on a rather bad stretch of road not far from Winfield, a few weeks ago, the writer met a representative farmer in the midst of one of the worst places. We asked him if he thought the community could afford to allow the road to remain in such a condition in view of the fact that they were compelled to use it in all kinds of weather. He said he was convinced that the people of the neighborhood could better afford to give more of their time and money to grade and drain the road than to allow it to remain in its present ill cared-for condition.

He said he thought an effort would be made soon to get the people of the neighborhood to do some extra work on this piece of road. It was evident to us that the wear and tear on the teams and implements in grading the road and afterward dragging it after each rain, would not be so great as that caused by traveling over it in the condition it was in at that time. P. Ward King, of road drag fame, calculated that he could afford to regularly drag the half-mile of road between his home and that of his next neighbor living on the road to the town where he did his trading, just for the benefit that he, himself, got out of it. If Mr.

King received full value to himself alone for the work he did, how much more would a township or road district receive in providing for all the roads in the district to be cared for in this way. Certainly farmers do not realize what good roads are worth to them or they would take a deep incerest in their impove ment. There is no question that it will pay a big profit on the cost to grade and drain the roads and afterwards drag them whenever they need it. A few men along the roads should not be expected to do the dragging voluntarily and without pay, but the county, the township and the road district should be taxed to pay for the work. If the present laws will not permit this, then the coming legislature should change the laws.

Attention, Farmers! Hon. H. B. Sherman, national organizer of The American Society of Equity, will address the farmers and friends of farmers on the great doctrine of "Profitable Prices Through Consolidated Marketing as taught by this society, at the city building in Winfield on Jan. 7, 1907, at 1:30 p.

m. Everybody invited. L. P. King, President County Union.

An Oklahoma farmer says: "Inoticed that every acre I had in cowpeas last year was worth ten dollars more this year, I believe this is the best, quickest and easiest way to spread manure," market over bad roads, it seems that the people of the towns ought not to be blamed if they do not lead out in the matter of road improvement. However, we believe that any enterprising town that is seeking to hold or extend its trade can not expend money more judiciously in any other way than in improving the roads leading into it. It is a little strange that ths commercial clubs of the towns whose purpose is to build un the trade of their respective towns have not made greater efforts in this direction. The town people see little of the roads and they are not vexed and worried with traveling over them and really what they have to gain from having good roads is.