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Thursday, August 17, 1916. Written For Graphic Readers By G. E. Conkey Molting time is close at hand, in fact many birds are already drop ping their feathers, so that right now is the logical time to decide what is to be done with your old stock. If you don't intend to carry the hens over another year, turn them off now while they are in good con dition. They have done, the bulk of their summer laying and you will get but few eggs from them while they are growing their new coat of feath ers. Don't take chances by keeping them any longer because once they start to molt, their condition will be against them and they will not bring top prices. It surely will not pay you either, to carry them through three or more months of idleness to dispose of them in the early winter. If you are going to sell only some of the old birds, keep the younger ones and use your best judgment in culling out the undesirables. First of all weed out the cripples or weak er individuals and those that are known to be poor layers. Dispose of any that have shown a tendency to take on fat while feeding a well bal anced ration for they are hard to han dle and may cause trouble next year. It is also a good plan to get rid of any persistent setters that have wasted most of their time during the warm weather. In short, cull right down to the real money-makers of the flock, and don't keep more birds than you can house comfortably through the winter. A few birds, well cared for, will make you more money than a greater number that must be poor ly housed or neglected. Help Your Birds Molt Molting is a very trying ordeal on the fowls and everything should be done for them at this time to lessen the weakening effect caused by rais ing a new crop of feathers. Far too often there is a lack of interest in the flock during the molting period, per haps because this care means ex pense to the owner. Yet this is just the time when the birds need your best care, and anything you spend on your birds to help them over the LIBRARY NOTES The Neutral's Portion, by Elwin Lorraine, has a strong local interest, and there are many people who know the author that will be glad to know there is a copy of his book in the li brary. It deals with ah immediate problem an dis concerned with the part the United States should take in the affairs in war-ridden Europe. Preservation of Food in the Home is a most excellent pamphlet put out by the Agricultural Department of the State. It is written by May C. McDonald, whose lectures and dem onstrations here under the Better Farming Movement have made her well known. She discusses reasons for the spoiling of food, methods of pres ervation, the object of canning, three methods of canning, how to can veg etables, some failures and their caus es, the canning of fruits, the making of jelly, preserves, jams and marma lades, and classifies vegetables accord ing to their richness in various min MONROE BROS. Agents and Distributors CARE of POULTRY KNOWLEDGE OF FOOD VALUES IS IMPORTANT molt will pay you back big dividends. Keep your birds systems toned up and they will need less time to grow the new feathers. Take care of them properly and when the feathers are grown there will be no time wasted getting the birds into laying condi tion. They'll be ready for fall and winter laying, and you know its win ter eggs that bring you big profits. It takes about 3 months for the molt but if you don't handle your hens properly, most of them will not resume laying until winter is well under way, and some not before spring. Feeding in a litter where possible. Make sure also, that animal food and green stuff is given regularly, for these are es sential. Forced Molting Forced molting is practised to some extent but Experimental Station re ports have so far failed to show that there is any particular advantage in letting the poultry keeper control the time of molting. It is true the whole flock can be made to molt at the same time and earlier than would otherwise be the case, but by this their laying is entirely checked, where if the feath ers are gradually replaced, a number of eggs will be produced during the first few weeks. To force the molt the fowis are fed lightly for about two weeks. Some what less than half the usual ration is given and then the regular feeding is resumed using a good feed of mash once a day. This causes the feathers to loosen and starts the new coat and the molt is soon under way. Where trouble is experienced in get ting birds to molt early this plan might be given a trial. eral constituents, together with the reasons for adding them to one's diet the year round. The pa,mph!e+ ma'' be borrowed from the library or had for the asking from headquarters. Early in the fall the library will install a rental system for some of the late, popular novels. By means of a duplicate pay collection, in which the books go out for five cents a week the first week and two cents a day for each additional day, the demand for a popular book can be better met and the extra books made to pay for themselves. It is a system in wide use among libraries. MAKE WILLISTON THEIR HOME Chas. Fjerestad who recently com pleted a residence on Third ave. e^t at Seventh street has brought his family from Medicine Lake, Mon'., to make their home in Williston. Mr. Fjcfrestad is 'superintendent of a block of the Rogers Lumber Co. yards. 7 PlMi Try to give your molting hens much the same care and feeding as you do when they are laying, with perhaps just a slight reduction in the amount of feed, and the addition of sunflower I seed, oil meal, or something of this there have been many more buyers nature to the ration. Keep the birds for —ever thought what that name means on the radiator of YOUR car? Just take one angle—$500,000,000 worth of Studebaker products now in the hands of users, all giving COMPLETE satisfaction! Surely that's a guarantee of QUALITY. Or take another—more than 225,000 Stude baker cars in users' hands, and a world-wide popularity increasing so rapidly that for 1916 we are building 100,000 cars. Surely that's a guarantee of QUALITY. Or take another angle—64 years of successful manufacturing experience and manufacturing facilities that few organizations in any industry can rival. Surely that's a guarantee of VALUE and LOW price. Or another—one of the world's GREAT manufacturing institutions with a Service System that blankets the entire country. Surely that's a guarantee of SATISFACTION. But the list is far too long for this space. And we urge you to come in and see the cars and judge for yourself wbat that name of Studebaker meant. SERIES 17 CARS *875 7W,r.:'l085 P.O.S. Detvait EQUITY EXCHANGE NEWS Several months ago, a department was created at the St. Paul office for the purpose of finding good managers for Farmers Elevator Companies. Managers that would work for the farmers interest instead of the in terest of the Grain Combine that have been fleecing them for so many years. Many Farmers Elevators have taken advantage of this department, and have during the past few weeks em ployed many managers through' this Department. During the past, the salesmen for the Equity Co-Operative Exchange have been able to sell all the gram received with little or no effort, but the large volume of grain that they are expecting this winter and even the large volume that they are receiving at the present time have caused them to send a traveling representative east, to call on the various mills that are buying grain produced by north western farmers. Walter Cars tensen, an experienced mill man that has been accustomed to buying grain for flour mills is the new employe'.'. Mr. Carstensen has "gone east on his first trip. oats and active, as at other times, and feed market than the salesmen for the Ex To close the eye and close the ear, Wrapped in a trance of bliss, And gently laid in loving arms, To swoon to that—from this. Scarcely knowing if we wake or sleep Scarcely asking where we are, To find all evil sink away, All sorrow and all care. Sweet souls around us watch us still Press nearer to our side Into our thoughts, into our prayers With gentle helpings glide. Let death between us be as naught— A dried and vanished stream Our joy be the reality, Our suffering life the dream. —Harriet Beacher Stowe A man's work is from sun to sun and woman's work descends from daughter to daughter. WILLISTON GRAPHIC During the past two or three weeks barley on the St. Paul change have been able to supply. Many malteries leaving standing or ders for grain and request having a privilege to bid on every car of bar ley that is offered. Many of the country buyers for oats have also re quested that they be given a chance to bid on every car of good feed oats offered on the market. The Other World It lies around us like a cloud— A world we do not see Yet, the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be. Its gentle breezes fan our cheek, Amid our worldly cares Its gentle voices whisper love, And mingle with our prayers. Sweet hearts around us throb and beat Sweet helping hands are stirred And palpitates the veil between With breathings almost heard. And in the hush of rest they bring 'Tis easy now to see How lovely and how sweet a pass The hour of death may be. FEDERAL FIRM LOM BOARD ORGANIZED SEC. McADOO BELIEVES LAW WILL PROVE GREAT INDUCE MENT TO DEVELOPMENT Washington, Aug. 10.—Members of the Federal Farm Loan Board, which is to organize the new rural credits system, were told by Secretary Mc Adoo that the new farm loan act would "emancipate the farmers." The first work which the board took up after its organization was the selec tion of a secretary. The other work of the board will progress slowly in view of the newness of the organiza tion and of the mortgage plan which the board will put into effect. It has boon said that the land mortgage banks probably will not be in posi tion to extend land credits until some time next summer. The five members of the new board are Secretary of the Treasury Mc Adoo, chairman ex-officio C. E. Lo lioll, George W. Norris, Herbert Quick and W. S. A. Smith. Mr. Nor ris was selected commissioner, or will, in other words, be the chief iiitive officer of the board. Several cities have petitioned the board to be designated as the location of one of iho farm loan banks, which aro to be twelve in number. Before making any selection of localities, however, the board expects to make a thorough canvass of the qualifications of each the oities which has petitioned. After the members of the board had lioon sworn in and the board duly created, Secretary McAdoo addressed i'liom, saying: "It is a statement of an old and recognized truth to say that the farm ing industry is the very basis of the life and prosperity of the nation, and this statement is more particularly ue in the United States, because of its agricultural development, which, although great, can be made vastly greater if our farmers are provided with the long time credits at low rates of interest which are so essen tial to the further development of the farming industry. There is no induce ment to greater farm development unless it can be made profitable, and it cannot be made profitable unless the necessary capital is available al ways to farmers upon reasonable terms. It is amazing that since the establishment or our government un til this time, a period of 127 years, absolutely nothing has been done by way of legislation to assure abundant farm credits on reasonable terms to our farmers. On th? contrary, they have been the preferred sufferers from a scarcity of money for farm development and agricultural pur poses, and have been, as a class, particularly oppressed 'bv hifi'h, nd oftentimes extortionate, rates of in terest and shadowed constantly by the fear of mortgage foreclosures. To Emancipate Farmers "The farm loan act, or rural credits bill, which it is your privilege to ad minister, will emancipate the farmer from the disadvantages he has so lonjr endured. It will, when fully es tablished, unquestionably provide an abundance of credits, available at all times to farmers in all parts of the country upon long term mortgages at low rates of interest with a provision for repayment of the principal in easy annual installments. In fact, under the new system, the farmer ought to be able to pay the interest on Ijis mortgage and the principal of his debt through annual installments which will be less than the straight interest charges he has been paying on his mortgages under the old sys tem. "This is an act of long delayed jus tice. We must see to it that those who are entitled to its benefits get them with the least possible delay. The establishment of this rural cred its system means not only more prof itable farming, but a life of greater comfort and prosperity for the farm er it means destruction of the night mare of foreclosure and the loss of property for the farmer it means ecurity and independence, thrift and elf-respect for the farmer. "It will reattract to the farms vast numbers of our people who have been inable fo onrrr.jre in agriculture ber cause it has been impossible to secure money on farm obligations. It means for ail the people of the country un limited benefits because thev will nrosper in direct proportion to the prosperity and strength of the farm nr industry of the country. "I am proud to be associated with you in this great piece of construc tive work and assure you of iny# cor dial co-operation in the inspiring tasks that lie ahead of us.'' YV. W. Flannagan Chosen Secretary At a short session afterward, W. W. Flannagan, of Montclair, N. J., was chosen secretary of the board. Mr. Flannagan has been secretary of the joint commission which investi gated rural credits in Europe and drafted the present law. The board also discussed the itiner ary for its trip to the Pacific coast and went over the applications and recommendations of forty citns for federal land banks. No route for the trip was determined on, but it is prob able the board will go west through northern states and return to Wash ington through the south. Hearings will be held in Washington al^i. but no date has been chosen for them. The board will meet again tomor row to consider how it may best ob tain information on which to base its *5rst important work—division of the country into twelve land bsrk dis tricts with a federal land bank in each. It is said that three of the stingiest men in the state were in town yester day. One of them will not drink as moch water as he wants onless it be from another man's well. The «ar: ond forbids any of his family from writing anything but a "small hand" as it is a waste of ink to make large letters. The third stops his clocks at night in order to save wear and tear on the machinery. All of them de cline to take their county paper on the ground that it is a terrible strain on their spectacles to read newspa pers, even in the day time. SELECTING YOUR CAMP MATE After you have recovered from the case of brain fever induced by try ing to decide which rifle is best, you reach the problem of selecting your camp mates. If there is anything that will put the kibosh on an otherwise perfectly good hunting trip quicker than a grouchy, always-complaining fellow hunter, I don't know what it is. The worst of it is that you can't tell how a man is going to act in the woods by the way he walks down the avenue or the number of good jokes he can tell. Always bear in mind that the kind of man you want is the one who can smile when it starts to rain, who can eat sour flap-jacks without murdering BEST ROADS IN THE WORLD In France, where they have the best roads of any country in the world, the highways are divided into several classes, but all of them are supervised by the national government, which maintains a bureau of roads and bridg es, and supports a school for the ed ucation of the engineers and inspec tors who are employed in this bu reau. This method of building and maintaining roads in France was started by the first Napoleon, who ap pears to have been the earliest Euro pean statesman who clearly saw the economic advantage of proper high ways, and who at the same lime Ivd the power to carry out what he wish ed. The effect of these fjood ro.?l in France has been wonderful. They have brought all of the various parts of the country nearer together they have made country life less lonesome, and they have reduced the cost of transportation of country pi-oduce to a minimum. France is the only country in Europe where the agri cultural classes are not dissatisfied, and where they do not feel that they have a harder time than those who labor in other fields. Civilized nations have good roads— savage and unenlightened countries do not. The highways of travel are a gauge of progress a peonle have made from barbarism to civilization. How are your roads? The price at which a farm will sell is regulated by its nearness to market, and the quality of its neigh borhood roads. To increase the sell ing price of your farm, work for good roads. I Good roads will benefit the farmer I more than he ever dreams of. On an average, the farm products of this country must be hauled by wagon, miles to market. There is Tips «"i Hui^n^JIelps by Alfred EvJLane uestions tO/I*Ir. Lane- the cook, and who doesn't go into a blue funk if he fails to connect with a deer the first day. There really isn't any formula by which you can tell to a certainty whether Bill Jones, for instance, will be game but as a general thing the man who doesn't let little troubles worry hirii, probably won't let the big ones get his goat. Picking a partner is, like matri mony, somewhat of a chance any way you look at it. more room for saving in this wagon haul than in a railroad haul of one thousand miles. The railroads of the country charge only eight-tenths of a cent for hauling a ton a mile. SHORTHORNS 125 head of Bates, milch strain, and Cruickshank, beef strain Short horn cattle, consisting cf: 40, 1 to 2 year old bulls 85, 1 and 2 year old heifers and cows All registered. .Can supply yo® with from one to a carload. Also a few Herefords and one Aberdeen-An gus bull. These cattle will be ex hibited at Minot July 3rd to 8th at the cattle show. My prices are reasonable. Let rae know your wants. P. W. MILLER Office: Minot Auto Co., Minot, N. IX tiOOPBOMK '(AJ QUKHQRWTH lu broilora awd pullet* bring you early profit*. Hulp your chleknbulbl bono and muBclo by nuttlna nlittlo OONKLYS FOUiyrUY TONI0 in their 2*n'« GOc. I'iiil *1 OONKl'v'B K\b LielCOlNTMKNl. 1 KMC FIX, Lie 10 rov. DEIl ami LICb ciiapoao of lirouml mites nl h"ll liiriln Krow. lUr, 36\BOp. CON KY 'H WHITK lf AHIUI HA KM KIY ami C'ONKKY'8 OAI'fc i.KJIH)* l-iithHiivo rhieliH. Alwn.VH huvo CONKKY S IIUM I1K.M K1)Y rcudy. 26ts60c Daniel Bell & Co. PLUMBING AND HEATING SEWER AND WATER CONNECTIONS Spen-ce Hot Water Boilers ana Standard Puu elain Enameled Ware. The Best on the Market. TELEPHONE 243 WILLISTON, N. D. The Best Is What You Want Is What we Give..,. And it Costs no More—In Fact in Most Cases a Trifle Less Than Elsewhere This week we want to suggest to you a few articles that are es pecially in demand at this time of the year. Buggies, Feed Mills, Gasoline Engines, Manure Spreaders We will be'glad to quote you prices on the above articles. All Standard Makes and Serviceable C. D. MILLOY The Implement Man. Williston, N. D. Til 10 O. F.. CON RE CO. Conki Hltlg.. Cleveland, t). rtSM i'sS&i