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FARM DEPART MEN! Three Aids to Big Egg-Yield He must gather in all the young chickens from brooder ihousy^, coops, boxes, trees, and bushes, for a thorough culling of the flock He must give pullets, hatched in April and May, a chance to make good. They will lay in Nov ember or December if properly housed and fed. He must dis pose of all old stock, except birds desired as breeders al so old roosters and cockerals, excepting those needed as breeders or for family con" sumption. Colony houses may be utilized for cockerals and surplus stock until they can be profitably marketed. BOSSY SUPPLIES A SIXTH OF OUR FOOD. This year between six and seven hundred thousand dairy cows are being milked in Neb raska. They are producing about 300,000,000 gallons of milk annually, containing more than 90,000,000 pounds of butter fat—enough to sup ply one-sixth of all the food eaten by Nebraska's one and one-fourth million people, provide skim milk for the calves and pigs of the state, and furnish a large surplus through Nebraska creameries. The Chronicle will be glad to print contributed articles wndet tlit* department head from Golden Valley Farmers. Anything pre talalng to grain growing, gardening, or stock raising that will be of value to your neighbors should be sent in and we will gladly give it space without charge. Write on one side of the paper only and mall to "Farm Department," Golden Valley Chronicle, Coach, North DakotH. Hie poultryman who wish es to have a profitable, laying flock for the season just ahead must do three things NOW" First, he must make his poultry house ready for the laying stock. This means that he must make it perfectly weather tight, repairing roof and windows if need be that he must clean it thoroughly and either whitewash it or spray it with kerosene and zenoleum or kreso that he mmumst thoroughly renovate roosts and nests that he must refill the loft with clean straw provide new sand and litter, hoppers for dry mash, for grit, shells, !and charcoal, a table or shelf for pans or crocks for water and milk, and a cheese box of road dust or hard coal ashes. He must determine the ca pacity of his house in order that the laying flock may not be crowded. Each laying hen needs at least four square feet of floor space. If an enclosed scratching shed is included, this may be considered in making calculations of the amount of floor space. If a considerable number of old fowls is to be kept over, it will be worth while to divide the poultry house proportionally between old and young. Have Your Engines Repaired Food And Mouth Fight With the exception of mod" ified quarantines in one or two small areas, all the Federal restrictions of the movement of live stock which were im posed on account of the out break of foot-and'mouth dis ease in 1914 have now been removed. On the other hand ihe contagion has reappeared in Illinois and Massachusetts. Infected herds were discover ed in northern Illinois in Aug ust and parts of the state have been in the closed area since that time. In Massachusetts the disease did not reappear until very recently, one herd in Worcester county being affected. At the present time this is the only county quaran tined in that state. It is a clos ed area. In northern Illinois the Aug ust outbreak has resulted in the quarantining of all that part of the state which lies north of the northern bound aries of the counties of Cal houn, Macoupin, Montgom ery, Fayette, Effingham, Jas per, and Crawford. In this area the entire counties of Bu reau, Lake, LaSalle, McDon ough, and Putnam, and por tions of Dupage, Lee, Han cock, Schuyler, and Cook, are under closed quarantine. The Union Stock Yards in Chica" go are maintained as a restrict ed area, handling live stock for immediate slaughter only. The remainder of the quarantined territory is also classed as res tricted area. PUMPKIN PIE. Cut up a nice pumpkin the size needed put over the fire with just enough water to cover, and let boil until per fectly soft|, then mash until smooth, beat together four eggs and two cups of sugar and add these to the amount of pumpkin necessary put in to the mixture a pinch of salt, one teaspoonful of cinna mon one of nutmeg and one of ginger. Scald the milk and add to the mixture while wlarm, then beat all together. Have two medium-sized tin plates lined with paste, fill in the mixture and bake until the custard is firm—from thir' ty to forty minutes. Usually one large teacupful of pump kin pulp is enough for one pie. We have secured the services of two gasoline tractor experts and are prepared to REBUILD, OVERHAUL, and REPAIR all kinds of gas engines. Cylinders rebored- Satisfaction Guaranteed THE FIRST VICTIM. Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 20.— Lambert and Company, stock brokers, today assigned their failure to the bullish market. It is believed that the failure will equal half a million dol lars. Geo. M. Stockwell Co. Seed Growers Annual Contest As Secretary of the North a a I S Growers' association, I am authorized to offer some very beautiful medals for the best fields grown. These gold medals are offered on the flax crop, the oat crop and the du rum wheat crop. Those who with to compete in this contest should immediately write for application for entry blanks. Any citizen in the state of North Dakota who is a grow er of seed can exh bU his seeds and compete for the or dinary prizes in the North Da kota Improved Seed Growers' association contest, free of en" try charge, but in the case of field contests, special work is involved and the givers of the medals have authorized that ihey be given only to members of the association.. Therefore, those who wish to compete in these Best Fields Contests should send in their member ship application with $ 1.00 for the year ending July, 1916, and ask for entry blanks. These contests will be deter mined upon certification of the owner and one neighbor that he has grown a certain number of acres of this seed. He will certify to the yield per acre, ad to the amount that he is holding for sale as seed, that the sample transmitted to the pure seed laboratory is a fair representative of the seed as it will be prepared for distribu ticn as seed- Any field over ten acres will be admitted. At the time the regular premium list is sent out full instructions will be given relative to the points cf judgment. Scores, however, will be made on the tallowing features: Acreage, yield, commercial quality of the grain, purity, viability, strength or growth, and on the statement of the grower as to the method of growing the crop. The usual amount of Brain will be exhibited, namely one full peck. For further information, ad dress H. L. Bolley, secretary treasurer, N. D. Improved Seed Growers' association, Agricul tural College P. O., N. D. How to Make a Tump. A tump makes a fair substi tute for a cellar in emergen cies when cellar-room is want" ing to care for products sub ject to injury by freezing. Po root tatoM, root crops, and even Jv ma^ii C* rnnrfiririn all unnfAv *4- condition all winter if proper ly tumped. Care should be taken to choose a place for the tump where the ground is dry and well drained. A tump made in the shape of a round mound better than one made with a ridge, since it is easier to protect a given quantity of po tatoes or the like from frost by a circular mound than by an oblong one. Dig a pit to a level below the local frost line, cover the bottom of the pit with dry straw, pile the vege tables or fruit to be tumped up on this straw, pack straw over the top of the pile, then bank up all around with a deep cov ering of earth. The surface of the tump should be closely packed, so as to shed as much water as possible. It is a good plan still further to pro tect it from rain and snow by a roof of some sort,, if only an old tarpaulin or piece of oilrloth. Bismarck, Oct. 20.—The board of regents Saturday en gaged E. B. Craighead as corn contracted with T. Baw den and Dr. Capen, both of Washington, D. C., to make a survey of the educational in stitutions of the state. The board also contracts to Dako ta Lignite Mining Co- of Dick inson for 5,000 tons of coal, and the Washburn Lignite Coal Co. for 2,000 tons. •*«$§: GOLDEN VALLEY CHRONIC LE THERE IS MONEY IN SORTING POTATOES There is money to be made by the sorting of potatoes Consumers, large and small, do not like mixed lits. They want them uniform in size and quality. Consequently potatoes are usually sorted be fore putting them on the mar ket and the price which is paid the potato-grower is the price of sorted potatoes, less the cost of sorting. Therefore, the potato-grower who ships unsorbed potatoes really has io nay the charge of sorting The shipper of unsorted po tatoes, also, has to pay an other charge, and that is the freight on the culls which are later taken out of ihis sh:| ment. The shipper of unsorted po tatoes, therefore, is simply wasting money. It pays to sort because it gives one the top market prices and because i* saves the freight on the culls, and, it might be added, be cause the culls could be kept c-n the farm and made use of in rations for live stock. HOW TO BATTLE WITH DIPHTHERIA. Epidemics of diphtheria are more likely to occur in rural districts than in the cities. In city schools, which have ade quate medical supervision, diphtheria is very rare. A cul ture is taken from every child •.vith a suspicious sore throat. This is examined free by a state board of health labora" tory. Whenever diphtheria bacilli are found cultures are taken from the nose and throat of all associates. This disclos es carriers who spread the dis ease broadcast. In rural districts where the family cannot or will not have a physician take cultures, the school board should employ a physician for all suspicious cases. If an epidemic should get a start the schools should not be closed, but the state board of health should be notified at once- The board's agents will see that cultures the properly taken and thus make the children atending school safer than those associating with un controlled playmates at home. TO TELL A SHEEP'S AGE BY THE TEETH. A lamb has eight small first'teeth on the lower jaw. When the animal reaches the age of about a year, the mid dle pair are replaced by two permnent teeth at the age of aboul two, tee(h on -£in side of these permanent teeth "illM.r are replaced with a permanent pair at the age of three, the next tooth on either side gives way to a permanent tooth. and at about the age of four, the last or back teeth are replaced in like manner. Briefly, then, a sheep with one pair of permanent teeth is a yearling a sheep with two pairs is a two-year old! with three pairs, a three-year-old and with four pairs, a four year-old. After a sheep is four years old, one cannot tell by the teeth about the age. However one who is purchasig a sheep should see to it that it has not lost any teeth, or that the teeth have not become long and shoe-peggy in appearance. ARMY MANEUVRES. The Allies* left is trying to move around the Germans' right, but the Germans' right is also moving around the Al lies' left- Now, if the left of the Germans' right moves around the right of the Allies' left, then what is left of the Germans' right must be right where the Allies left. But if the Germans' right's left is left right where the Allies' left was right before the Allies left, then the left is right where the right was right before the left's right left the right's left. Try a want ad in the Chronicle. 47-FOOT REPTILE SHOWIS New York, Oct. 19. A specimen of the tyrannosaur us, forty'seven feet long anc eighteen and one-half feet high was shown at the Ameri can Museum of Natural Histo ry. It was unearthed on Big Dry Creek, in the Montana bad lands, by Batum Brown, a fossil hunter, who has discov ered several specimens of the dinosaur. The tyrannosaurus is a gi" ant reptile distantly related to lizards but with hind legs fashioned like those of birds and its gigantic head, dagger like teeth and sharp claws show that it was carnivorous. It roamed through the great basins of the west 3,000000 years ago. Paris, Oct. 20-—Heavily beset upon three sides, Serbia is making the last ditch fight for her life. Help fromm the allies must reach the little na tion to save her. The Serbi ans are holding the Bulgarians but the Germans and Austri ans are steadily advncing. General Mackensen is deter mined to advance rapidly hurling his troops against the Serbians regardless of cost. The British forces have landed at Sauonico but are in' sufficient in number to bring relief. France is doing noth ing. Rome Italy, Oct 20.—Al" though it is reported here that the abandonment of the allied attack on the Dardanelles is considered probable, it is not relieved it will mean an aban donment of the attempts to reach Constantinople, but in stead will mean a combined at tempt to beat the Germans there. They would take an other route through Bulgaria, eaving Serbia to her fate. This lowever displeases Russia, which is interested in the Bal kans. -•^V.'vv\f^n3'j5v *^a~r—s -,v f*t* J^''^ ",*" a v,f «Euk» It will pay you well to read all the ads Chronicle before you do your shopping. MR. FARMER )AIGE OWNERS generally are men and women who can afford to buy the most expensive cars. In the Fairfield seven-passenger "Six-46" —at $1295—they recognize the best that money can buy. That is the best proof that Paige Elegance, Paige Luxury, Paige Service and Paige Value are supreme. The Palo. Winter Top coomli the FabSrid )OCA Instantly Inte a eumptuouellmeuelne. fain Deliell Mdat Car Company, Ml W DMNU, Real Estate Snaps SNAP NO. 1. A tract of land of 800 acres, any part of which may be sold. One quarter, which is plowed, is on telephone and mail line near store and road house. It is plowed and fenced and has a living spring. The remaining part of the tract joins this quarter, 500 acres of which may be steam plowed. For this land $17.00 per acre is ask ed and may be bought upon easy terms. SNAP. NO. 2. Quarter section two miles southwest of Yates, $35.00 per acre. This quarter has improvements to the value of $1500.00, with good well, and is well fenced. Aside from these we are able to advise you where there are several good relinquishments. Chronicle Real Estate Exchange Are you contemplating having an auction sale? If you are, it would pay you to have your bills printed here and an advertisement run in the Chronicle. Tou could reach more people, especially more farmers, than you would by adver tising in the two other papers in this city. When you hold an auction sale you would like to let the farmers know about it. The best way to do this is by advertising in the Chronicle. Bear this in mind when you hold that auction sale* THE CHRONICLE MkU^A Dakota. Fairfield *1295 in the