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OKLAHOMA FARMER, W ED N JS S D A Y . IYI A K (J «. 16, i U(
."fOR PROFIT, BUY A U. S,
100%
Carthage, Mo., Oct. 30, 1906.
From Mar. 1st until Oct. 30, 1905, 1 milked 5
(J cows and sold all of my butter at 20 cents per
8 pound, and the sale amounted to $126.90. On
Mnn4!m ^ar' ^s*;' I bought a U. S. Separator No. 7,
iflUiliilO 211(1 from that date until Oct. 30, 1906, from the
same cows I sold $197.85 worth of butter. • I
consider that my separator has paid its first
cost already, as it made a clear gain of
$70.95 in eight months with only five cows.
For profit buy a U. S. — every time. 1.
I. N. Hussey.
Dairj-mon : there's a straight tip "from Missou-
ri" For profit, buy a U. S. Money talks. Does that
£70.95 say anything to you ? You want the best sepa-
rator, sure. It's cheapest in the end. And there is no
earthly reason why you should n't have it, when a U.S.
Separator will pay for itself. It always does. Simply
a question of how soon, and that depends mostly
on how many cows you have.
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WEEVIL CONTROL.
The control of the boll weevil evil by
means of birds la the theory upon which
the federal government Is working in
Texas. IJrof. a. H. Howell, assistant
biologist of the biological survey, depart-
ment of agriculture, was in tlhe city yes-
terday en route to Cureo to resume the
work which he iias been carrying on for
the past two years along that line and
which has resulted in discoveries of in-
terest to the cotton farmer. While it is
practically admitted by all who have had
anything to do wit'h the boil weevil that
the eradication of the pest is impossible,
it i« hoped that means will be found to
greatly reduce the damage the weevil
may do, and Mr. Howell's work is along
that line.
In ills report last year Mr. Howell gave
the list of birds which lvad been found
to consume boll weevils, comprising
twenty-eight species, as follows: Kjlldeer,
quail, nighthawk, scissor-tailed flycatch-
er. Phoebe, least flycatcher, cowbird, red-
winged blackbird, meadow lark, we-tern
meadow lark. orchard oriole, Baltimore
oriole, bullock oriole, brewer blackbird,
great-tailed grackle, Savannah sparrow,
lark sparrow, white-throated sparrow,
cardinal. Pyrrhuloxia, paintenf bunting,
d'"keissel, white-rumped shrike, Ameri-
can pii^id mocking bird, brown thrasher,
Carolina wren and black-crested tit-
mouse.
It was found that thirteen of the above
feed on the weevil during the summer
and seventeen during t'he winter, two
species feeding upon them at both sea-
sons. The mi miner months is the best
time for the consumption of weevils by
birds and the greatest amount of good
is done at that time. Txist summer ten
more species of birds were found which
consumed the weevils. These birds were
found during the investigation of Mr.
Howell in the territory between Beeville
and Victoria. Among them were ifee
Ixirn ."wallow, the bank swallow, the
cliff or eve swallow'and the purple mar-
tin or bee martin.
Mr. Howell explained that the biologi-
cal survey is trying to find the birds
which feed upon weevils to a greater
extent than any other sort of insect, ia
which case the propagation and pro-
tection of the species will be encouragal.
The importation of foreign birds of the
class is being worked upon, but thus far
withut success, for tlhe reason that nat-
ural conditions are unfavorable. The
discovery that the bee martin is a boll
weevil dest roper will be followed by urg-
ing the farmers to erect martin houses
on their farms to encourage the birds
to increase.
Mr, Howell will take uip the work at
Ouero and work over various parts o£
the cotton growing sections of the fitito
finding those birds which eat the weevils
and publishing the fact that the farmer
may look after his friend.—Houston Post.
Saftiuetl Pryer of Plymouth county,
Iowa, gives in Wallace's Firmer his ex-
perience with foaming separator skimmUk
causing bloat in calves fed thereon as
follows: I have had some experience in
calf feeding that might bo., interesting
to some of your readers. When I first
got my hand separator I fed the milk
to the calves without taking tile foam
off, it would be two or three inches deep
in each pail. I had three calves die with
bloat. They commenced to moat as soon
as they dra'nk the milk and died in frpm
two to three hours. As soon as i made
up my mihd fihat it was the foam that
kiried tham I skimmed the foaim off. Then
I had no more calves to die for about
three months, when one of the boys got
careless and foil one calf without taking
off the farm. Next morning it lay dead
where he had fed it, all bloated. Since
then we have been very careful to take
the foam off, as I feel very certain [Uat
it is the foam that kills them. I have
ten fine calves a year old last fall raised
on separator milk, and ten more from
three to four months old that are doing
finely.
For three months a number of Colorado
experts were engaged in trying to solve
the problem of wihy a cow kicks when
being milked, rt caime about through a
kicking breaking the leg of an alder-
man. In the first place the commission
asked itself: Does she kick because she
is vicious? Does location have any in-
fluence? Do the feelings of the milker
have any effect on the cow? thirty differ
ent kicking cows were tested and vari-
ous members of the commission were
kicked into the middle of next week and
the best tlhat could be done after three
months hard work was to report: We
respectfully report that the kicking ?ow
kicks because she does. This has been
the way ever since cows have been
milked and will remain to the end. The
only way to stop the kicking is to bring
out a* breed of cows with one hind leg
(missing. If she trie.~ to kick .with the
single leg she flnd3 herself on her ba"k
and probably will not try it again.—ICx.
If pays to raise the dairy heifer calvel
ftnd develop them for future use' In tha
herd. The man yho raises his own cows
can at all times feed and care for them
In a way that will assure their future
usefulness. The man who depends on his
neighbors for his supply of cows must
take what he gets, and seldom knows
how they have been fed and cared for.
It takes careful feeding to develop the
best producers, and this Is perhaps even
more important than is "proper feeding.
The New York experiment station finds
that the average water consumed by tha
cow for each pound of milk produced is
4.gs pounds.
A. & M. COLLEGE.
Stillwater, Ok., March 9.—Prof. J. F.
Nicholson and his assistant, A. J. Lovett
went to Mulhall Tuesday where they
are to do some extensive spraying for
San Jose scale. The spraying is not to be
done entirely for the sake of eradicating
the diseases, but also for experimental
work with new spraying mixtures. Mr.
Nicholson hopes to find a remedy tor
San Jose scale which will be better than
anything tried before or, at least, to de-
termine which is the best remedy for
the pest in Oklahoma,
Mr. W. D. Weatherford, general secre-
tary for the Young Men's Christian assa-
ciatlon, visited the college Tuesday. In
the evening he spoke to a larsp number
of young men in the college auditorium
on the subject 'The power of a clean
record." Mr. Weatherford was here twj
years ago, and all the young men of the
college were glad to have liim with them
again.
The first annual commencement exer-
cises of the school of agrficulture and
demostlc economy will be held March 15.
A class of ten will receive the certificate
of the college for efficiency in the work
of these two years. Professor Boman of
the Iowa State college, will deliver tha
address, and good music will be provided
While the class this year is small, it is
confidently believed that, in a few years
this schoool will be graduating from fifty
to a hundred a year. The enthusiasm
over the work of this important depart-
ment of the college has been aroased
largely under the capable and enthus-
iastic direction of Principle Long.
Miss Cora Miltimore, Miss Geneva
Swinford, Miss Olivo Bradwell, and Miss
Emma Bassler returned the first of the
week from Norman where they went to
attend the convention of the Oklahoma
Y. W. C. A., They enjoyed the sessions
of the convention very much.
In a bulletin recently prepared by It.
c. Potts, instructor in dairying and sup-
erintendent of the college dairy, gives
some interesting information concern-
ing the work of the college dairy. He
says that during last summer the output
of the creamery was 22,000 ponuds of but-
ter per month, and during this winter
season it has averaged 18,000 poun Is.
Tha dairy is also bottling* about 175
quarts of milk daily for the city trade.
During the fall term instruction was
given to M students In farm dairying,
and about 50 were instructed Jn the sub-*
ject during the winter term. Mr. Potts
also says:
"We believe that with the commercial
work, we slfall l>o able to show to the
farmer that dairy farming does pay in
Oklahoma, and that we may become bet-
ter acquainted with the markets, cream-
er conditions, etc in Oklahoma."
An interesting volume has ju?t been
indexed In the library this week. The
book is a treatise on Agricultural Chem-
istry, and consists of lectures delivered
by one Sir Humphrey Davy before the
Royal Board of Agriculture in 1802. The
book itself bears the date of 1815.
Press dispatches Indicate that a bill
has passed both houses of congress pro-
viding for an additional endowment for
such schools a.s the A and M. college. It
provides for the additional amount of
$5,COO for the current year, and that
the appropriation shall increase thereaf-
ter by $j,eoo per year until It reaches
rs.ooo.
The new club has been organized by
a number Of college young men to bo
known as the Quid Nine club. The club
was organized by the members for the
purpose of mutual help and fellowship
and lor self improvement.
The final term examination commence
tomorrow, Saturday anft everyone ia
busy preparing for them.
A PAIR OF MAINE OXEN.
The use of oxen on farms is becom«
lng more popular, particularly In the
South and East, where they have al«
ways been used more than any place else.
The picture shows a. pair of oxen which
weigh 1,200 pounds each and are valued
at $H00. They have won many first pre-
miums at Eastern state fairs.
Dooley says, "Th' throuble about math-
rimony, as I have obsarved it fr'm mo
seat in th' gran' stand, is that afther
fifteen or twinty years it settled down
to an endurance thrile. 'Women,' as
Hogan says, 'are creatures iv such
beaucheous mein that to be loved they
liave but to be seen; but,' he says, 'we
first embrace, thin pity, thin endure,'
he says."
A Kansas paper says, "Life in Kansas
Is the happoest this side of Heaven."
Gee! and we did fo want to go to Heav-
en.
a HEART TO HEART TALK
With the Man Who RSakes tha
BUCKEYE
GRAIN DRILLS
Mr, Farmer:—Let's have a few minutes
chat about that drill you'll need for this sea-
son's seeding. 1 know 1 can tell you some things
about Buckeye drills that will be valuable to you.
Something familiar about that name? No wonder, it's
been going on farm tools for over 50 years. We have
made this name famous simply by making farm tools that do better work; that
last longer; that meet the farmers needs better than any other.
There are reasons for this, and I want to tell you just what these reasons
are. I'm going to begin with the Buckeye frame, because, like the frame to a
house, the life of a drill depends very largely upon the strength and build of the
frame. You see it's the part that gets the wear and tear—the strain and jar—
the part that carries the load. If it weakens, gets out of true—gives out in
any part, your drill troubles multiply.
That's why we put sc much brain and brawn
Into the Buckeye frame It's made of square steel
tubing without riveted joints or malleable corner
pieces. It can't weave, rack, loosen or get out of
true. Weather can't harm it and there's nothing
to give out.
Ask the Buckeye Mo" ' -how it to you and
your own eyes will do th
The next vital part L ./inland feeding
mechanism. The Cone Gear oa the .luckeye is a
marvel. Absolutely accurate in regulating the feed;
easy to change; powerful in driving; ec —nisal in
wear. It's construction does away with all
interchangeable gears and annoyances com-
mon with other styles. It's always there when
wanted and the saving it effects in repairs is a big
item. Should breakage occur in the Buckeye feed
froraobstructions, it requires the replacing of the broken
cone section only, while on others it means replacing the entire feeding device
Be sure to ask the Buckeye Man about this. It's been imitated by many'
Fnr^nF61- *;qualed\ There's nothing "just as good." Next is our Double Run
t-orce Feed—a positive and perfect feed that can't skip, choke or bunch It has
two compartments one for sowing large grains—one for small grains
?W' we,cor?e ,0 the seeding device. On our Disc Drills the seeder is one
f^Ki, grain drill making. It is so constructed there is no chance
for clogging either from trash, stubble or mud. Discs turn on their own spind-
les just like a wagon wheel, and our hard oiler forms
a bearing that is absolutely dust proof. Bearing is
chilled and guaranteed not to wear out.
Aik the Buckeye Man to show you this Ideal
seeder-it's wen worth looking up. We also make a
Combined Gram and Fertilizer Disc Drill that's
winner. It ha3 the only fertilizer distributor
can't and don't corrode. It's made of glass.
Now, Mr. Farmer these are some of the many
reasons why the Buckeye Drills are so popular. They
are reasons why you should buy Buckeye Drills
P. P. MAST & COMPANY Oept. Bl, Springfield, Ohio,
that