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p*ff« Farquhar Threshers* Especially adapted for individual work. Thresh and clean all kinds of grain—wheat, oats, etc.— perfectly. Can be run with small steam engines or other light power. Simple but substantial ami light running. Write about our new pea thresher and shredder. Also threshes oats and rice. Handsome 68-paue Catalog of engines, boilers, saw mills and threshers mailed free. k. B. FARQUHAR CO., Lts.. Box 965. Venn. P». GUY cTWacL. RICHARDS Editor SEATTLE, WASH. The Leading Live Stock Magazine of the West ORIGINAL MATTER BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED Subscription $1.00 a Year SEND FOR FREE SAMPLE COPY SHEEP CONDITIONS GOOD. At the recent meeting of Oregon State Board of Sheep Commissioners, Secretary Smythe reported that prices for wool and mutton are better than for some time; that there are approxi mately 2,700,000 sheep in Oregon; that the wool crop will aggregate between 17,000,000 and 18,000,000 pounds; that the fleeces from the shearing now in progress are of good quality, unbroken and above the average of previous years; that lambing is in progress in Eastern Oregon and about finished in The Wilamette Valley, and that the outlook for these is big and the per centage greater than last year. The state has been carefully inspected by both Federal and state officials and upon the showing made by them, the State Board issued a proclamation declaring the annual dipping for 1909 is not necessary. The same condition prevails in this State. Sheep shearing is now pretty well finished and the sheared flocks have been started mountainward in search of green feed. Generally speaking, the spring clip of wool is of good qual'.ty and the prices offered from 18 to 21 cents is considered so satisfactory that many dealers have disposed of their clips. A consider able amount of wool is stored in local warehouses. The fine quality of the clip is attributed to the fact that sheep fared well during the winter. M. D. Wisdom, Editor of this jour nal, has accepted the position of Superintendent of the live stock de partment at the Alaska Yukon fair in Seattle and is now in the field after exhibits. He has hopes of mak ing this the largest live stock show ever held in the west. His varied ac quaintances throughout the country with l'vestock breeders and exhibit ors and his reputation for fair deal ing and systematic methods of con ducting a show of this kind, renders him a most suitable person for the position.—Rural Spirit. S. S. Young of Pomeroy, Wash..sold 30 pigs 8 months old that weighed 6,100, a little over 200 pounds apiece, at 7 cents, getting $427 for the bunch. The hog looms up large as an element of value to the farmers of the Pacific Northwest. Let us tell you how to save money and repairing. Avenarius Carbolineum is a wonderful wood preserver; by applying it to your fence posts, roofs and buildings, will increase their last ing qualities and save repairing for a long time to come. Send us your name and address, we will send you our booklet explaining its uses thoroughly. Write today to Fisher-Thorsen Com pany, corner Morrison and Front Streets, Portland. Oregon. /The R^anchk^ LIVE STOCK AT SPOKANE FAIR. John L. Smith and Professor W. T. McDonald will have charge of the livestock department at the Interstate fair this fall. Professor McDonald who is connect ed with the Washington State Col lege, at Pullman, has recently re turned from Portland and other points in the Willamette valley, where he selected some stock for the Co.lege farm, and states that considerable interest is being mani fested in the Spokane fair by stock men of that section. It is expected that many will arrange to bring their herds for the Interstate far in spite of the conflict in dates between Spo kane and Portland. Owing to the stockmen arranging to show in Spokane as one of the regular stops from the East to the A.-V.-P. the Interstate fair this year will have one of the best stock exhibits in its history. TEN WEEKS FOR TEN CENTS. Send The Ranch to your neighbor ten weeks for ten cents. The Ranch is the largest farm paper west of the Rockies and every rancher should read it for its many helps about the farm. Send stamps or silver. Ad dress The Ranch, Seattle, Wash. SAVE FARM MACHINERY. Somo farmers make the mistake of using light-bodied oil for field machin ery, thoughtlessly forgetting 1 that it has no "staying properties" and must be often renewed. One application of "thin" oil will hardly run n mower twice around a meadow; so it happens sometimes, in the very press of harvest work, that mo ments are lost in frequent oilings, or the mcahine itself is lost through infrequent oilings—in either case a trouble that could have been avoided by using a "heavy" oil one-fourth as many times. Perhaps Ruddy Harvester Oil is the best example of a proper farm machine lubricant, for it possesses properties which peculiarly fit it to that class of machinery. It is carefully compounded to give only the very greatest wear and satisfaction. One oiling more than an swers the purpose of several with thin oil—a fact worth considering when time is a matter of dollars, as is the case in harvest time. On a half-worn-out machine, or one having bearings necessarily loose, "Rud dy" oil will be found especially valu able, as its heavy body acts almost like a cushion to absorb jar and shock. Rud dy Harvester Oil will greatly extend the useful life of an old machine and large ly insure a new one. R. G. Lyle, a Pullman farmer has a small flock of sheep and reports a re markable birth record this season. He has 120 head of sheep, of which 115 are ewes and these have 150 lambs, making an increase of 130 per cent. Mr. Lyle says sheep pay better than any other kind of stock. They live largely on what would be wasted in the spring, summer and fall and in the winter he feeds them alfalfa hay. Colonel William Duling and William Bishop, the Garfield "cattle kings" purchased a tra'nload of cows and calves at Vale, Oregon. There are in the lot between 400 and 500 head. These cattle go to Whitman county to be turned out on the big farm of Duling, Bishop, Johnson and Lemon, at Winona, where they will be fat tened for the Spokane, Portland and Seattle markets. Duling and Bishop recently sold a trainload of fat steers, which brought them in cash $19,000. WHAT IS AXLE GREASE WORTH It's a fact that the adhesive quality of an axel lubricant or its ability to wear, will raise or lower the expense account of a great city's commerce by a very considerable sum every year. If you doubt it, stand for an hour on any busy corner and count the truck loads of merchandise moving toward railway terminal or steamship pier. Estimate, if you can, what it would mean to each shipper in time, and team and truck wear, if there was a little fraction less of friction required to move each load. Think what an application of Mica Axle Grease to the four wheels of every dray and truck, large and small, would do toward hustling things. Why! It would mean dollars —good dollars and many dollars, to every merchant and manufacturer; because "Mica" Is the greatest killer of friction on wagon axles ever known. Any grease is better than no grease, but no grease Is better than —or as good as—"Mica." Probably If you found op portunity to Interview a few busy dray drivers, they would tell you that they know "Mica" is all right because they use it—and if you asked further why it's all right, they would say—"or! it stays on, it wears better than any other grease and it makes a truck run easy." There you have it! It stays on, and it makes wheels turn easy. Land plaster will Insure you better crops, which means a larger Income with no greater expense than you are now under. This Is a fertilizer that you are sure to get results from and cannot afford to lose the profits it brings you. Send for our land plaster booklet, which will pay you to read carefully and cost you nothing. Write today. Oregon Lime and Plaster Company, Portland, Oregon. Genasco lastsbut you don't have to take our say-so. Judge for yourself! Genasco Ready Roofing is made of Trinidad Lake asphalt. You know that is Nature's own absolute waterproofer and weather-resister. It is better to know what goes in your roofing than to guess—saves money, time, and trouble. Look for the trade-mark, and know that you get (ienasco. Mineral and smooth surface. Backed by our written guarantee. Write for samples and the Good Roof Guide Book. THE BARBER ASPHALT PAVING COMPANY y^JKLA^^^ Largest producers of asphalt and largest j^S@Mj|gyßVf\ manufacturers of ready roofing in the world. ||ppi||l^ PHILADELPHIA T^wjw^§3§f New York San Francisco Chicago Malthoid Roofing Mr. H. B. Eakins, of the Commercial Warehouse Co., Los Angeles, Cal., U. S. A., writes: "Now that we have had two good rains to test our Malthoid roof, we have desire to express our satisfaction in the knowl edge that we have a covering over our head that does not leak. We write you regarding our pleasure in this matter from the fact that we had fully expected more or less trouble, as we did not believe it possible that so large a roof surface could be covered with any material and stand the test of a first rain, but there was not a leak due to defective roofing." The Paraffine Paint Co., SSJ£2" W. L. Rhoades, 558 First Aye. So., Seattle. YOUR MONEY SAFE in the: bank Open an account with DEXTER HORTON & GO. BANKERS The oldest bank in Washington Capital and Surplus $1,350,000.00 New York Building SEATTLE 18