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OPPORTUNITY 10 A Better Boar ing to the Leoti Standard. In 1887 Scheve raised five acres of wheat on the homestead, bringing the seed the fall previous from Rawlins county. That five acres made a hundred bushels and Scheve disposed of the entire lot to neighbors for seed, getting a dollar a bushel. In 1890 he had another twenty-bushel average on a bigger field despite a drouth which extended from April until after harvest. Scheve's first big wheat crop was in 1891 when he took something over 5,000 bushels from his land.

The next year he had 7,000 bushels. BEATS PRICE FLXING Among the many who believe that educating the people to use more wheat will do more to increase the price than attempts at government price fixing is W. H. Smith, Wichita grain man. He wrote Governor George White, of Ohio recently commenting on the governor's article in the August issue of Opportunity.

The letter follows Governor George White, Columbus, Ohio. Dear Sir: We are subscribers to "Opportunity" which is printed at Garden City, Kansas, and note an article in the August issue written by you wherein you mention the fact that the Government should educate the people to use and eat more wheat. Wish to go on record as stating that this is the first sound and logical idea that we have seen presented by any one and we think it is the only solution. The Government can go on from now until the end of time in trying to fix a price, but their fixing a price in our opinion, will always be a failure. The fixing of the price of rubber, coffee and other commodities has failed in the past, and the fixing of the wheat price stands a much greater chance of failing on account of its being a world commodity, while the other two might be considered local commodities in their respective countries.

Yours very truly, W. H. Smith, 513 W-K-H Wichita, Kans. Don't use a scrub sire on your next pig crop. We can sell you a first class selected pedigreed Hampshire spring boar so cheap you will know beforehand he's a money maker.

you keep no more than five sows one of these better sires will pay you big to own and use. Feed Alfalfa Meal! Alfalfa meal is more economical to feed than alfalfa hay. It is packed in 100-lb bags may be hauled any distance and stored indefinitely for future use. Is about half as bulky as baled hay. Many of the largest dairies in the U.

S. feed alfalfa meal instead of hay because the cows may be given an exact ration in the feed box or it may easily be mixed with any other ground feed. The animals can't waste it. It is the whole alfalfa plant; leaves; stems, blossoms, all ground together. In feeding alfalfa hay animals waste considerable of it.

The leaves are lost and much is usually trampled under foot. Money is saved in feeding alfalfa meal because this waste is eliminated animals eat every particle of it. Stop at our plant in Garden City or phone or write for prices on one bag or any number of tons. We have plenty of nice meal on hand ready to load on your truck. It will actually pay you to investigate the saving in the use of meal instead of hay.

THE DENVER ALFALFA MILLING PRODUCTS CO. Garden City, Kansas R. E. HAM, Local Manager Mill phone 99 Residence Phone 399 PROUD OF FIRST CROP The first crop of wheat Chris Molz raised in Stanton county produced 300 bushels, and he was probably prouder of that crop than he was of his last, which amounted to approximately 200,000 bushels. Molz settled on Bear Creek with his father's family in 1886, when he was sixteen years old.

When he was 21 his father gave him a relinquishment and in that year, 1891 young Molz planted his first wheat crop. He sold the 300 bushels for 42 1 cents a bushel. This year Molz harvested 114 quarter sections of wheat in Stanton, Hamilton, Greeley and Baca counties. Few, if any men in Western Kansas or eastern Colorado have developed more wheat land than Molz. Lakin Hampshire Farm G.

R. Hickok Lakin, Kans. Lm iiear WANT ROAD OILED Lane county is in hopes that the state highway commission will oil Highway 96 through that county when the work of spreading crushed magnesia rock on the road is finished late this month. The crushed magnesia, which extends from the east line of the county to the west makes an excellent highway, but Lane county people believe it could be greatly improved by oiling. are included in the NEW BUSINESS HOUSE A building now being erected by Fred Collingwood in Johnson, Kansas is to be the home of the Collingwood Lumber and hardware.

The outside structure of the building will not be finished until some time next May. Mr. Collingwood is now storing wheat in the new structure. He plans to store about 70,000 bushels there, which he has sold for May delivery. As soon as the wheat is removed work will begin immediately on the partitions and erriam Webster, C.

E. Blood Building Contractor GARDEN CITY, KANSAS as aerograph, broadtail, credit union, Bahaism, patrogenesis, etc. New names and WELDING places are listed such as Catker, Sandburg, Stalin, Latvia, etc. Constantly improved and kept up Electric and Acetylene J. L.

WAGGONER 109 N. Eighth Street Garden City to date. DRY FOR WHEAT DRILLING Up to the 19th of September most of Western Kansas and nearby territory in other states had been too dry for wheat drilling, and unless rain comes the acreage of wheat planted this year may be materially smaller than last. Exceptions, where local rains had furnished plenty of moisture for drilling were in Finney and parts of adjoining counties. DEVELOPED, Printed, Enlarged, Skilled work Films MONUMENTS FOR VICTIMS The one large shaft and the six small headstones to be placed in the Holly cemetery in honor of the victims of the Pleasant Hill school bus tragedy last March have been completed.

The large seven foot shaft will be in the center of the plot and around it will be grouped the six headstones on the graves of the six victims. AH are of the same design and are of gray Colorado granite from the quarry at Salida. The Odd Fellows lod.e, with the Holly group in active charge, sponsored the fund for the monuments. WEBSTER'S MEW INTERNATIOHAL DICTIONARY Get The Best Tie "Supreme Authority' in courts, colleges, schools, and among government officials both Federal and State. 452,000 entries including 408,000 vocabulary terms, 32,000 geographical subjects, 12,000 biographical entries.

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The valuation of Hugotdn, the county seat is Moscow $252,668. The assessed valuation of pipe lines in the county last spring was The population of the county is 5,316. done quickly. Best results assured. Our gloss Prints will please.

Write for price list and samples. CONARD STUDIO, GARDEN CITY The Wise Ones Are Buying- NOW! But they are shopping around as never before, and at no time in many years have they studied the ads in their favorite periodicals more closely. If you are not telling the readers of these home papers or magazines what you have, they take it for granted that you have nothing for sale at worth while values. Western Kansas and nearby territory is covered more completely by Opportunity han any other publication. CIRCULATION OVEB 8,500.

0 FIRST WHEAT RAISER The first crop of wheat raised in Wichita county, Kansas was by Bernard H. Scheve. He located in Wichita county on April 18, 1885, staked a claim on the northeast quarter of section 22-17-38, accord MOVE INTO COURTHOUSE Sherman county offices have moved into the new courthouse. The new building will be formally dedicated in the near future. Turn to the Classified Ads.