The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 28, 1918, Page 3

{ i ( t : 121 acre farm, well improved, plenty of water and wind mill and pumps, with pipe line to tanks and barns. 2 good barns and other outbuildings. 8 room house and good concrete cave. Farm is fenced and cross-fenced hog tight. i Having decided to rent my farm anddeave the country, I will sell at Public Sale at my home 5 miles west and 2 miles south of Butler, 6 miles southeast of Virginia, 2 miles northeast of Nyhart, on Friday, March 8th, 1918 the following described property: 57 Head Livestock 6 Heac 1 black mare, weight 1200 lbs., coming 5 years old, in foal to jack. 1 bay Belgian mare coming 5 years old, in foal to jack. 1 pure bred Percheron mare, star in face, coming 4 years old, bred to Belgian horse. 1 dark brown Belgian mare, 8 years old, bred to Bel- gian horse. 1 brown Belgian mare 7 years old, bred to Horde 1 bay mare 9 years old, bred to jack. ; 1 smooth mouth sorrel Belgian mare, bred to jack. ” 1 brown Indian pony, bred to Belgian horse. Span black mares 8 years old. re 1 span of coming 2-year-old black mare mules, extra ine. Span of three-year-old black mules, 1 coming 2-year-old black horse mule. 1 yearling black horse mule. 2 coming yearling colts. 7 Head Cattle 7 1 full blood Holstein cow, 3 years old, with heifer calf by side. 1 Brindle cow part Jersey with heifer calf by side. 1 4-year-old Jersey cow with Jersey calf by side. 1 3-year-old Jersey cow, giving milk. One spotted cow with calf by side. All extra good milk cows. 1 pure bred 3-year-old Jersey bull. fsorses and ules 10 1 span bay horses. 1 black mare. 2 8 HEAD BREEDING STOCK 1 -coal black stallion, white hind feet, star in forehead. This horse is full blood stock, 7-8 pure bred Belgian and 1-8 Morgan stock. A fine breeder. : 1 coming 4-year-old jack, black with white’ points. Sired by Big King (the Thralls jack). 3 extra good pure bred jack colts, 18 months old, sired by Gatt Monster No. 2092 (owned and registered by W. D. Gatt, Bronson, Kas). 3 thoroughbred Mammoth Kentucky jennets, registered in the American Breeders Association of Maurey county, Tennessee. All bred to St. Jumbo No. 6291 (owned by E E.-Khea, of Metz, Mo.) One young jennett. This is a fine lot of breeding stock and anyone wanting stock of this kind should be sure and see them. 18 Head Hogs 1 pure bred Duroc Jersey sow, of the J. H. Park stock. Will farrow soon. . 17 shoats, weigh about 80 pounds. Will give a nice sow pig to be sold for the benefit of the Red Cross Farm Machinery Three Gasoline Engines—1 Fairbanks-Morse 3 horse power; 1 Fairbanks-Morse 4 horse power;one 1 3-4 horse power Neward engine and power washer. 1 Milwaukee binder; Keystone hay loader; McCormick mower; 1 McCormick self-dump hay rake; disc harrow; 12- foot smoothing harrow; harrow cart; 1 Corn King manure spreader, good as new; American 12 disc wheat drill, good as new; check row planter and wire; 6-shovel cultivator; Peter Schuttler farm wagon; Velie spring wagon, canopy top; steel wheel feed wagon; single buggy; Dain sweep rake; power feed grinder; Fuller & Johnson 12-inch gang plow, good as new; Goodenough sulkey plow; 16-inch walking plow; 6-shovel cultivator; disc cultivator; 1-horse 8-shovel garden cultivator; 2 hand garden plows; steel land roller; kaffir corn header; 20-inch dinner bell; road scraper; grind stone; post maul; post auger; crow, bar; several blacksmith tools, including anvil, forge and post drill; 1 2-hole corn sheller; several sets of harness; 1 saddle and bridle; 1 slop tank on wheels; dipping tank; 200 feet of 1 1-4 inch gas pipe; stock tank, 5 barrel; pump jack; Hog Joy oiler; end gate seeder; 200 horse power steam boiler; several feet of dimension lumber; 150 rails; several walking plows; 2 or 3 hay frames; 30 gallon iron kettle and lard press. Steel barrel, and several wood barrels; some good, big hedge posts, 8 and 12 feet long, good for corner seh about 200 hedge fence posts. 1 steel disc grinder. 1 Good Buick Touring Car in good order. 1 steam feed cooker. Feed Hay—About 15 tons of Timothy and Clover hay in barn. About 500 or 600 bushels of corn in crib. 100 bushels of fine seed oats. About 75 bales of good oats straw. Several bushels of fine, selected Seed Corn. ; ‘ Household Goods Good piano; wardrobe; 2 dressers; kitchen cabinet, with top; one without top; 100-egg size incubator and one 200-egg size incubator; dining table; rockers; chairs; couch; bed steads; retort heater; full nickel trimmed wood heater; cast range cook stove, with reservoir and warming oven; Golden Harvest cream separator, No. 6, with spedometer, Absolutely no by-bidding. Your bid will be mine. good as new; 10. gallon jar of kraut; several bushel of po- tatoes ; 20 gallon barrel churn; 1 bent ‘wood churn; ice cream freezer and many other articles too numerous to mention. Poultry—120 Buff Orpington hens; several Buff Or- pington roosters; 3 full blooded Silver Lace Wyandotte roosters. Lunch Served by Ladies of the New Hope Baptist Church. SALE TO BEGIN AT 10 O'CLOCK A. M. All si of $10.00 and under, cash. On all sums over that amount a credit of 9 months will be given on TERMS: bankable note, bearing 8 per cent from date. 2 per cent off for cash on all sums over $10.00. No proper- @ ty removed until settled for. x COL. C. E. ROBBINS. COL. L. A. POTEET COL. HARRY RAYBOURN Aucts. _M. C. WILCOX, Clerk. BE. Egeleson & Son OWNERS PRICE OF WHEAT HARVESTED IN ’18 HIKED BY WILSON Chicago Price is Put at $2.20, While Sums to be Paid in Other Markets Vary, Going up to $2.28, : Washington, Feb. 23.—President Wilson today raised the government guarantee price for the 1918 wheat crop as high as $2.28 a bushel in one pfimary market and in varying sums in all other primary markets except four, The Chicago price was put at $2.20. Acting under authority of the food law, the president thus met the a tation in congress for higher prices and took steps to stimulate produc- tion and prevent holding back the crop while the. agitation was .going on, The prices fixed, the president de- clared, would assure the producer of a reasonable profit. On the basis of number one northern spring wheat and its equivalents, the president fixed the prices as follows: Chicago, $2. Omaha, $2.15; Kan- sas City, $2.15; St. Louis, $2.18 York, $2.28; Galveston, $2.20; Orleans, $2.20; Fort Worth, Tex., $2.09;.Oklahoma City, Okla., $2.05; Wichita, Kan., $2.08, The equivalents of No, 1 northern, to which the same price applies, are No. 1 hard winter; No. 1 red winter; No. 1 durum and No, 1 hard white. The wheat must be harvested in the United States during 1918 and sold in the market before: June 1, 1918. The president's proclamation states that the action is to meet an emer- gency requiring stimulation of wheat planting. In a statement accompanying his proclamation the president said: “Under the food control act of} August 10, 1917, it is my duty to an- nounce a guaranteed price for wheat | of the 1918 harvest. 1 am therefore, issuing a pfoclamation§ setting the} é price at the principal interior primary markets. It makes no essential al- io u res tatu vo is a continuation of the present prices of wheat with some adjustments aris- ing from the designation of additional | terminal marketing points. “This guarantee price assures the farmer of a reasonable protit, ever the war should end within the ye and the large stores of grain in those sections of the world that are now cut, off from transportation should again come into competition with his pro- ducts. To increase the price of wheat above the present figure, or to agi-| tate any increase of price, would have} the effect of very seriously hamper- ing the large operations of the na tion and of the allies by causing the} wheat of last year's crop to be with-| held from the market. It would, moreover, dislocate all the present | wage levels that have been estab- lished after much anxious discus-} sion and would, therefore, create an industrial unrest which would be harmful to every industry in the country. “IT know the spirit of our farmers, and have not the least doubt as to the loyalty with which they will ac- cept the present decision. The fall Iwheat planting, which furnishes two- thirds of our wheat pr | place with no other as this and the farmer's coi demonstrated by the fact that they) planted an acreage la r than the record of any preceding year, larger by two million acres than the second largest record year and 7,000,000 acr! more than the average for the five; years before the outbreak of the} uropean war, = yn, took rance than fidence was among the cereals. The answer is that while normal distribution of all) our farm products had been subject) to great disturbances during the last three years because of war conditions, only two commodities, namety wheat and sugar, have been so seriously af- fected as to require governmental in- tervention. | The disturbances which affect these! products (and others in less degree) arise from the fact that all of the! overseas shipping in the world is now | under government control, and that} the government is obliged to assign | tonnage to each commodity that ters into commercial overseas tr It has, consequently, been nec to es lish single agencies for purchase of the food supplies which | must go abroad. The purchase of} wheat in the United States for for- eign use is of so great volume in com- parison with the available domestic supply that the price of wheat has been materially disturbed, and it be- came necessary in order to protect both the producer and the consumer, to prevent speculation. It was neces- sary, therefore, for the government to exercise a measure of direct super- vision as far as possible to control purchases of wheat and the processes of its exportation. This supervision necessarily amounted to price fixing, and I, therefore, thought it fair and wise that there should be a price stat- ed ‘that should be at once liberal and equitable. “Those peculiar circumstances gov- erning the handling and consumption of wheat put the farmer at the very center of war service. Next to the soldier, himself, he is serving the country and the world, and serving it in a way which is absolutely fun- damental to his own future safety and prosperity. He sees this and can be relied upon as the soldier can. “The farmer is aiso contributing men to the army, and I am keenly [food supplies to the conservation in j operative br siby Senator Wirby of It seems not to be generally under- stood why wheat is picked out for] price determination, and only wheat) — > alive to the sacrifices involved. Out of 13,800,000 men engaged in farm industries, 205,000 have been drafted, or about 1.48 per cent of the whole number. In addition to these there have been volunteers, and the farmers have lost a considerable number of laborers, because the wages paid in industrial pursuits drew them away. In order to relieve the farming in- dustry as far as possible from further drains of labor, the new draft regu- lations have been drawn with a view to taking from the farms an even small proportion of men, and it is my hope that the local exemption | boards will make the new classificar tions with a view to lightening the load upon the farmers to the utmost extent. The secretary’of war has asked for authority to furlough sol- diers of the national army if .condi- tions permit it, so that they may return to their farms when assistance is necessary in the planting and har- vesting of the crops. National and local agencies are actively at work, besides, in organizing community help for the more effective distribu- tion of available labor and the draw- ;| ing upon new sources of labor. While »|there will -be diffieulties, and very serious ones, they will be difficulties which are among the stern neces- sities of war. “The federal railway administra- tion is co-operating in the most ac- tive, intelligent and efficient way with. the food administration to re- move the difficulties of transporta- tion and of the active movement of the crops. “Their marke is to be facilitated and the farmers given the opportunity to realize promptly upon their stocks, “The department of agriculture and the food administration will continue to co-operate as heretofore to assist the farmers in every way possible. Te All questions of pr ection, of the marketing of farm products, of con- servation in the wou t production, and of agricultura and of farm problems generally, be handled He the department sriculture, while _all_ questions of distributio and of n will be ation handled by the but the chic® re the farmer himself, 1 sure that that reliance will be justified by the results. The chief thing to be kept clearly in mind is that regulations of this sort are only the great general plan zation into which every cele the*na- tion enters in this was The business of war body. It yess of ser- and most at word.” ergy and sacr vice in the largest and best, stirring sense of that 2 | President to Have Free Hand With Railroads, he senate the pre Washington, Fel voted this arte ident a free even by law, in the roads during the war, The tall, as ides that the railre ected to all law care riers, 1 iws flict with any. orders NAPS president. The bill atso authority to t stocks bor 1; it he ing the provision frot John Shead Back to Prison. Jefferson City, Feb —John Shead, a life time convict es- caped over the prison wa re night last October, will be re d to the penitentiary y here os Angeles, Cal. He has be 1 bank robbery in Californi yead shot and killed a constable es Coun- ty who had his partner in crime un- |der arrest for burglary. Fisk Opera House PHONE 60 THURSDAY RICH HILL RED CROSS MINSTRELS FRIDAY Carlyle Blackwell in THE MARRIAGE MARKET And Fatty Arbuckle at Coney Island. SATURDAY Dorothy Gish in STAGE STRUCK