Show Farmers and Turkeys Are Very Profitable Thing to Raise Some ones one's success usually moves us to try the same thing It Is ts far too late to raise ralso turkeys this year but wo we can look around at our neighbors neighbor's neighbors neighbor's neigh neigh- bors bor's flock and make- make makeup up our mind about next spring or better yet purchase purchase purchase pur pur- chase a few fow turkey hens and a gob bler bIer The cost of wintering wont bevery bo be bovery bovery very great and you will wUI be ready for your next years year's crop when tho the time comes Many farmers neglect the poultry end of farming A few chickens maybe may maybe maybe be seen about the place Enough to keep the family In eggs and maybe may maybe be have a few to take to town when eggs arc are cheap and hardly worth the I I trouble Once In m awhile a farm arm Is stocked with a variety of fowls I Guinea fowls ducks geese pigeons turkeys and a dozen kinds of ot chickens Such an assortment might be good for tor a zoo but it la is poor for the pocketbook as a a. rule Few farmers or farmers farmer's wives have time to give to the needs of very many different kinds of birds Each kind has different habits and needs different care To make money by raising fowls keep to one or two kinds Study their needs and take taka good care of at them You can make much money out of turkeys If you YO try A conservative farmer of ot the Uintah basin says It costs about sixty cents to raise ralso a turkey for the mar ket keto He lie receives on an average two dollars for tor his turkeys This gives give him a profit of or one dollar forty cents cent I I I I II I I per turkey This year he has one onehundred onehundred I hundred fifty of these fowls that will give ghe him a nice little profit of over two hundred dollars This man gave but little time to his turkeys In Intact fact tact his wife did the work still sUII he realizes enough from them to pay a aI alot alot lot Jot of or taxes and such things that seem hard to meet The evening chill tells teUs the stor story of or the coming fall tall and winter winter winter-it it Is I near at hand You promised those chickens a warm place this winter I Dont Don't you remember when you found them standing around dumpy and almost frozen Now dont don't plan to have ft a close se house ous for them chickens need need fresh f esh air as ns much luch as 1 a human Give il them m a 3 clean dry place where they will wUI be protected from the cold wind and rains Keep the summer fat on them Give them warm food tood once In awhile this winter and they will pay you yo back bark Turkestan Alfalfa During the fiscal years ended June 30 1913 1914 and 1916 1915 approximately approximately six million five million and seven million pounds respectively of alfalfa seed were Imported while during the fiscal year ended June Juno 30 1916 less than three and one- one fourth million pounds were import ed cd For several years Russian Turks tan has been the only country haying baving hay hav having ing a large surplus of at seed available for international trade but the sup supply supply ply from tram this source has been prat practically shut oft off since the beginning of the European war until the past winter when shipments were begun Eby by way of he trans-Siberian trans railway Vladivostok and the Pacific Ocean Of the seed imported into the United l States since July 1 I 1915 1916 more than thau half has been from Russian Turkestan tan and no doubt more of ot this seed will wUI bo be brought In as transportation can be arranged The short abort domestic supply of at last year rear together with tho the decreased imports im- im ports have resulted In a marked Increase increase In crease in the price of seed over that of a year ago The lack of alfalfa seed In this country this year must be made up by Importation and this will wUI be largely Turkestan Turkestan tan tl-n seed It Is known that Turkestan tan seed is not well adapted for goI gen go I oral eral use in the United States and that it Is particularly undesirable for l use in tho the eastern humid sections IOn IOn On the basis of ifs Hs relative pro crop-pro- I capacity the price of ot Turkestan I tan seed should be bo lower than that of domestic seed and purchasers should know when they are aro buying Turkestan seed Conditions may of ot often often otten ten bo such that only Turkestan seed can he be obtained at the time and place where seed Is wanted but In every Instance the purchaser should know whether he be is getting setting Turkestan seed or not seed can be distinguished distinguish distinguish- ed from other alfalfa seed by the I presence of or certain characteristic I weed seeds These seeds are usually not net numerous but no Importation of commercial Turkestan seed reed has been l I examined by the Seed Laboratory of or orthe the department In which they were not present On account of these characteristic weed seeds not being J or plentiful It Is la always alwais nece necessary sarT la is determining the origin of at the seed to a bulk of seed and not depend on the examination of a small trade sample Anyone wishing to havo have alfalfa seed leed examined to doter deter mine Its Ita possible Turkestan origin should send not less than one half pound of seed to the Seed Laboratory Bureau of Plant Industry Department Depart ment meat ot of Agriculture Washington D.C. D.C. D.C. D. D C. C V Kill The FlIes Files Now The best time to kill kUI the fly Is al always always always al- al ways now But Dut during Aug August st tho the great number and the stupidity ot of flies makes them particularly ious Statistics show that the greatest greatest great great- est number of deaths and cases ot of sickness among children occurs durIng during during dur dur- ing the tho high fly time of July and August So safety as well as cleanliness cleanliness cleanliness clean clean- liness demands that a vigorous fight be made upon the fly during this thia month I When we are told that comparatively comparatively few houseflies succeed in passing passing passing pas pas- sing through the winter without succumbing succumbing suc to unfavorable weather conditions conditions con con- we conclude that their rate rato of ot increase Is extremely great In the eight generations resulting from one adult fly there are offspring One fly Is about one-fourth one of an Inch in length then if It all the tho flies above e could b bb placed end to end they would make I Ii i a line of flies fifes feet teet long The distance to the moon Is only feet This string of flies fifes the progeny of one female could reach there and back hack several times The Breeding Place of FlIes Files The housefly breeds readily In al almost almost almost al- al most any decaying vegetable matter I I but not in animal flesh as Is so often orten asserted Horse manure Is the favorite favorite material selected by the horsefly horsefly horse horse- fly for egg deposition and supports the growth of perhaps ninety-five ninety per pet percent percent cent of at all the housefly larvae LackIng LackIng Lack Lack- Ing lag horse manure the fly usually selects selects se se- sc-I sc the excreta of or human beings pigs or poultry The dishwater and refuse thrown out the back doors or I many homes sometimes affords a convenient breeding place for flies It H is admitted by medical men generally gen orally that the tho housefly may be the tho carrier of many intestinal diseases Typhoid cholera dysentery diarrhea In fn infants and tuberculosis are some somo of the principal diseases carried b by it Control Measures To rid tho the house of ot flies the tho best hes known remedy is the following Soak a piece of bread about one and one one- half Inches square and quarter one I inch thick In a little milk then place the bread In a saucer and add a tea spoon full of ordinary Add sufficient water to raise the level of the liquid in the saucer until it almost aU al- most reaches the upper surface of the bread Sprinkle over tho the bread and liquid a spoonful of sugar I This saucer should be placed on ona a window sill In the evening and the blinds drawn before all the windows except the one ono before which the saucer saucer saucer sau sau- is placed this shade should b be drawn two-thirds two the way down Early Ear ly Iy the tho following morning the houseflies houseflies house- house flies fIfes will wUI go to the window that Is b partially lighted and partake of at the liquid In the saucer Within ten mn mn- utes after acter a fly has taken the least sip of or the liquid he ho will bo be killed This method cannot be considered the least family U f Mr forget to register and to Roto Roc Roi to hla grow c camp p mou mou k d f past W WI but IOKA fated I k |