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IVOL. CXLV. No. 20
Whole Number 3888

DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1916

3 50 CENTS A YEAR.
12 FOR 5 YEARS.

Among Upper. Peninsula Farmers

HE Michigan'Clean Seed Dem-

' onstration Train has just finish-'

ed its trip over the Upper Penin-

Sula. of Michigan. This is the second
trip of the clean seed train. The train
was equipped with clean seeds and
seeds of all the different varieties of
grain grown in the Upper Peninsula.
The object of the train was to get the
farmer to thoroughly clean his seeds
before sowing. There was a grain
cleaner and grader on the train and
farmers brought their oats, wheat, bar-
ley, flax, clover and all farm seeds to

M. A. C. Extension

By W. F. RAVEN, Specialist for U. P.

the train to have them cleaned and
oats treated for the prevention of oat
smut.

The farmers that had grain cleaned
last year reported an increased yield
from the grain cleaned last year on
the train, from 10 to 26 bushels per
acre over any seed grain bought else-
where.

This train left St. Ignace on March
27, and returned t9 St. Ignace April

 

26, covering the whole Peninsula ex-
cept Keweenaw county. Over the M.
St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie to Esca-
naba; over the C. & N. W. from Esca-
naba to Ironwood; over the D., S. S. &
A. and Mineral Range to Marquette;
over the M., M. & S. E. to Munising;
over the D., S. S. & A. to Sault Ste.
Marie; over the M. St. Paul & Sault
Ste. Marie to Trout Lake; over the D.,
S. S. & A. to St. Ignace.

On the whole the trip was a decided
success. Almost every place farmers
came from long distances to have a
few bushels of grain cleaned, to get in—
formation in regard to growing the dif-
ferent grains and seeds.

The train was equipped with pure
varieties of potatoes, three early and
three late varieties, also with several
plates of market grades. The interest
in potatoes never lagged once from the
time the train left St. Ignace till it re-
turned. The train also caried speci-

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DETROIT, MAY 13,1916

CURRENT COMMENT.

There is no oth-

Epoch-Makinq Events er state insti-
for M. A. C. tution in which

the progressive

farmers of Michigan have such a vital
interest as in the Michigan Agricul-
tural uouege. The past history of the
institution has warranted that interest
at every stage of its development. It
was the first institution of the kind to
be established in any state or country
and during all the decades of its his-
tory it has been well to the front in its
educational field. Its influence on the
agriculture of the country has not been
confined to Michigan alone but has
been country—wide in its scope, and
today more of its alumni are to be
i'ound serving in the field of agricul~
tural education than of any other sim~
ilar institution, and the graduates of
the institution who have returned to

the farm to afford object lessons of '

agricultural efficiency in their respec‘
tivecommunities are numbered by the
hundred, while the benefit of the
state's agriculture from the short
courses, extension work and other ac-
tivities of the college, including the
publication and circulation of bulletins
giving the results of experiments and
research work are beyond accurate
estimate. In addition to these highly
beneficial results along agricultural
lines, the Engineering Division 01 the
college has been a potent influence in
the building up of Michigan’s great
commercial industries through the ac-
tive work of the graduates from the
engineering course. Valuable as has
been the past work of the institution
in the upbuilding of Michigan’s lead-
ing industries, for which credit is due
to the efficient and tireless officials and
faculty who have accomplished the re-
sults, as well as the people of the
state and their representatives in the
Legislature who have loyally supported
it, a still greater opportunity lies be
fore our agricultural college which, by
reason of recent epoch—making events
it is well prepared to improve.

First among these events should be
mentioned the wise and liberal action
of the last Legislature in increasing
the mill-tax appropriation for the col-
lege to provide adequate funds to ena-
ble the institution to keep pace with
the increased demands made on it by
the farmers of the state, and to meet
the requirements of the federal gov-
ernment to make available the state’s
apportionment of the Lever fund for
extension work for the support of
county agents, boys’ and girls’ agricul-
tural clubs, and other important pro-
jects. The wisdom of the Legislature
in making this increased appropria-
. ‘tion has already been demonstrated
through the inereased- activity in ex-
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buildings and equ1pment and the plans
which are being developed for the in-
creased efficiency of the institutiOn all
along the line. ‘

Another and more recent event of
epoch-making character is the accept-
ance of the presidency of the college
by Doctor Farnk S. Kedzie, long at the
head of the Department of Chemistry
and the son of Dr. R- S. Kedzie, who
early made that department second to
none of like character in the country.
Students, faculty, alumni and. friends
of the institution are united in their
expression of gratification in this hap-
py solution of the problem of leader-
ship for M. A. C. To the students he
is “Uncle Frank," always loved and re-
spected, if sometimes feared, for jus-
tice is tempered with sympathetic un-
derstanding in his relations with them.
The faculty are cognizant of his inter-
est in their every problem, as well as
of his executive ability. The alumni are
united in their support and praise as
they could be for no other man. The
friends of the institution everywhere
are confidentthat the destinies of the
college are in safer and stronger
hands than ever before in the history
of its remarkable development.

The most recent, but by no means
the least, of this series of epoch-mak-
ing. events for M. A. (3., to which we
would call attention, is the substantial
contribution made by one of Michi-
gan’s leading citizens in the institu-
tion’s hour of need. In the brightest
hour of this institution’s history, but
at a time when every present resource
was being taxed to the limit to satisfy
immediate needs, the
building, together with the shops and
equipment, was totally destroyed by
fire. Through the energy of President
Kedzie and the united cooperation of
the faculty and students, arrangements
were made for the progress of the
work of the division while the ruins
smouldered, and not a single class was
missed. But the future looked dark,
as the appropriation of necessary funds
for the immediate restoration of the
buildings would necessarily hamper
other needed development.

In this hour of the institution’s need
Mr. R. E. Olds, of Lansing, President
and founder of the Rec Motor Car C0.,
stepped into the breach and tendered
to the State Board of Agriculture 3.
contribution of $100,000 to aid in the
restoration of the building. This mu-
nificent gift will enable the prompt re-
construction of the plant without in
any way hampering the regular work
of the college, and is an epoch-making
event in the history of M. A. C. in more
ways than one. It will enable the col-
lege to properly aid the state’s com-
mercial industries as well as its agri-
culture; it will more fully center the
interest of all classes of citizens in the
institution, and may well prove an in-
spiration to other public spirited citi-
zens of the state to erect for them-
selves and their memory substantial
monuments in the betterment of the
state and its people through the medi-
um of a bigger and better M. A. C.

As noted in the
report of a re-
cent meeting of
the Livingston
County Milk Producers’ Association
which is published in another column
of this issue, that organization has
taken the initiative in the calling of a
general meeting of the milk producers
of the state to be held in the Agricul-
tural Building of the Michigan Agricul-
tural College at East Lansing on May
23. It is desirable that general recog-
nizance be taken of this meeting by
milk producers in all sections of the
state, to the end that a concerted
movement may be launched looking to-
ward the securing of compensatory
prices for market milk at the earliest
possible date. Milk producers who are
members of other general or local as-
sociations should not permit this to
interfere with their affiliation with a
broader organization which will doubt-
less be effected at this meeting.

The M ilk Producers’
Meeting.

engineering

,There are many problems which.

should he worked out in the interest of-

the dairymen of the state which can
be best accomplished by an organiza-
tion having a state-wide scope. Four
objects are mentioned in the calling
of this meeting; first, an advance
price schedule from ‘buyers for such
period as will stabilize milk produc-
tion; second, advance a movement to
protect the integrity of the butter-fat
standard; third, secure an increased
price for milk in accord with the in-
creased cost of production; fourth,
promote the interests of the milk pro-
ducers of the state.

To the end that intelligent action
may be taken at the coming meeting,
State Director of Markets, James N.
McBride, has been called upon for in-
formation regarding the milk market-
ing methods prevailing in other states,
and the Dairy Department of the Agri-
cultural College is being asked for
facts and figures regarding the cost of
milk production. With authentic data
at hand on these subjects, this meet
ing should be productive of profitable
discussion leading to the formulation of
plans which will secure for Michigan
milk producers a compensatory price
for their product. The Livingston
county producers who took the initia-
tive in the calling of this meeting in-
sist that the price now being paid for
whole milk is less than the actual cost
of production, and if it were not for
the fact that the dairy industry helps
to maintain the fertility of the soil,
those engaged in the dairy business
would be on the road to ruin. 111 view
of the success recently attained by the
dairymen of the Chicago district in se-
curing a more equitable price for the
product of their dairies during the en-
suing six months’ period, this has been
considered a favorable time for Michi-
gan dairymen to unite in the considera-
tion of ways and 111eans looking to-
ward the same end.

Other, problems 0011fronting dairy-
men of the state will doubtless also be
considered at this meeting, or by com-
mittees which will be appointed for
the purpose, so that same may con-
tribute to the solution of other vexed
questions relating to the sale and
transportation of market milk, as well
as the establishing of a uniform and
adequate yet common sense system of
inspection to be followed by munici-
palities throughout the state.

Dairymen from all sections of the
state should interest themselves suffi—
ciently to attend this meeting, which
may well be the beginning of a cam-
paign for the general betterment of
conditions surrounding the dairy in-
dustry in this state. No matter what
the reader’s atficiattions may be with
other organizations of dairymen, either
local or general, his support should be
given to this timely movement.

Governor Ferris has is-
Mothers’ Day. sued a proclamation
nanouncing S u n d a y ,
May 14, as Mothers’ Day. The procla-
mation by which this announcement is
made is an eloquent appeal for the
rendering of a just tribute to Ameri-
can mothers, and for the public and
private discussion of the inspiring
theme of “Mother” 011 the day set
apart for that purpose. The text of
the pioclamation follows.

During the last fifty years the Ameri-
can home has undergone little less
than a revolution. Science and inven-
tion have wrought marvelous changes
in our economic and industrial condi-
tions. Some of these changes have a
tendency to destroy the unity of home
interests. Time and distance have
been annihilated. Home permanence
has in a very large measure been
destroyed. The responsibilities of
the mother have been increased.
She finds it impossible to keep
her flock together; she finds her task
of inspiring and directing her children
more and more difficult. She must,
therefore, do her greatest work when
her children are “little tots,” when
they are most responsive to the ten“
derst and wisest suggestions. Ameri-
can mothers recognize this necessity,
ang are making holy sacrifices to this
en, . . ,

The; mothers of every country are

more important than r

tio'ns of war. The mothers are the
source of civilization. To our methers
we owe our patriotism," our religion,
our holiest aspirations. It is especial-
ly fitting in the year nineteen sixteen
that we pay tribute to the Mothers of
America. Let the boys and girls and
the “grown-ups," who are away from
home on Mothers’ Day, write a letter
of gratitude to Mother. “Let those
who are home meet Mother with, a
smile, a kiss and a handful of flowers.
Recite to her the prayer she taught
you at her bedside. "

Therefore, 1, Woodbridge N. Ferris,
ask that the people of Michigan set
apart the second Sunday in May (the
14th) as Mothers’ Day. In obedience
to a resolution by the United States
Congress, I ask the people of Michigan
to display on this day the United
States flag on all government and pub-
lic buildings, at their homes or other
suitable places, “as a public expres-
sion of their love and reverence for
the Mothers, of our country.” As far

-as possible let parents in their homes

and both young and old in public meet~
ings discuss the theme of Mother with
that. enthusiasm and sincerity which
characterizes all loyal Americans.

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

 

Foreign.

The European Wan—A new offen-
sive against Verdun has been launched
by the Germans, following a two-day
artillery bombardment of positions on
both banks of the Meuse river, a
strong infantry attack resulted inthe
capturing of 500 metres of first line
trenches on the east bank of the river
and the taking of underground passage-
ways of .hill 304 on the west bank. At
all other points the Teutons were re-
pulsed with heavy losses. Aside from
these attacks, no fighting of import-
ance has occurred alang the remainder
of the line in France and Belgium. In
the Baltic region Russian torpedo
boats shelled German positions on the
northern coast of Courland; Along the
lower Stripa river in Galicia the Rus-
sians made further advances against
the Austrio-German forces. Turkish
troops have made several attacks on
the Russian positions along the Black
Sea, but in all instances the efforts
were‘ futile. They have also been uIr-
successful in preventing the Russian
advance toward Bagdad, recent re-
treats being so» hastily made that the
invaders captured large supplies or
war material. Infantry encounters
along the Austro— Italian front are re-
ported to be favorable to the Italian
troops. The Germans sank a British
submarine off Horn Reefs on May 3
while on the previaus day a German
Zeppelin was destroyed by British sea.
forces in the North Sea.

The Irish revolt has been practically
smothered out. A number of the lead.
ers in this revolt were found guilty by
the military courts, ‘ and executed,
while a large number of others have
had death penalty commuted to im-
prisonment. Chief among these is
Countess Georgina Markievicz. wife
of a Polish nobleman and sister of an
Irish baron who has been prominent
in the Sinn Feine movement for years.

Mexican Affairs—A second raid by
Villa bandits into American territory
was made last Friday night when they
attacked the Texas towns of Boquillas
and Glenn Springs. Four Americans
were killed and several were carried
away. This incident will no doubt cause
a more vigorous campaign on the part
of the American troops now over the
Mexican line and along the border,
and will likely delay the time for the
withdrawal from Mexican territory.

. National.

The German reply to the American
note on submarine warfare is satis-
factory to the Washington officials,
and has again released diplomatic re-
lations between the two countries from
Severe strain. Following the German
reply, Great Britain has also made
concessions in her blockade order, and
thereby prevented the necessity of a
diplomatic controversy with the United
States.

F1 ank R Crandall, well known stock
raiser of Livingston county, and an
officer of the Livingston County Agri-
cultural Society, is dead at his home
in Howell. He is survived by his wid-
ow, four sons and a daughter.

The convicts of Jackson prison are
cultivating 2, 500 acres of land. A large
acreage will be put to corn and peas
for canning in a factory to be oper-

ated by the prisoners. '

A riot in which one man was killed
and five others wounded resulted at
the gates of the Michigan Alkali Works
in Ford City, Mich” Saturday night.

Laborers who are on strike made an

attempt to rush the guards, which re-
sulted in the riot.

The first prize of $1, 000 m the church
peace union’ 8 annual essay writing
contest was awarded to Dr. Gladden,
of Columbus, Ohio, on his essay en-
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1. OTATOES can be grown on prac-l
tically every farm in the country.

. More than One-half of the farms

in the northern, eastern and central

states can grow a few. acres of pota-

toes at a fair profit under present con-'

ditions. But this proves nothing. 'Some
other crops may make much greater
profit on a certain piece of land. It is
only on particular types of soil .that
potatoes can be grown so well that the
crop will. surely hold up the rate of
profit to the level that justifies cutting
'out other crops and going to the ex-
pense necessary to make ptatoes a
profitable commercial crop-
.Suitable Soil 3 Factor of Success.
The - best results are invariably ob-
tained‘b‘y planting potatoes on a well-
drained, deep sandy or gravelly soil,
well supplied With organic matter and
located favorably to marketand trans-
portation facilities. If you read about
farmers who are making large profits
from potato growing, and go out and
plant a large acreage without duplicat-
ing the conditions on their farms you
should not wonder when your crop
does not do so well. Only a compara-
tively small portion of the total area
of the country is well suited to the po-
tato crop, and only on a few farms
will potatoes pay as they pay in the
examples so often quoted. It is in
spots and areas that Vary in size from
only a few acres to one or more coun-
ties that conditions are ideal.
Profitable Points for Study.
Commercial potato growing affords
a fine field for profitable study and in-
vestigation. One must be interested
in potatoes and make a study of the
peculiar requirements of the crop as
regards the soil; the selection of seed;
the adaptability of varieties; time of
planting; the best kinds of manure
and fertilizers; proper methods of til-
lage and cultivation; how, why and
when to mix and apply spraying mix-
tures and how to harvest the crop to
the best advantage. .
The farm and the crop rotation must
be so arranged that potato growing re-
ceives its proper attention and is a
part of the business. Incidentally a
sufficient acreage should be planted to
make possible the economic use of
special implements and machinery. On
many farms the potato crop is a valu-
able complement to dairying and stock
farming. It affords a better distribu-

tion of labor and team work, and fits

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nicely into the rotation of crops prac-
ticed in growing food for the stock.
But the crop Is difficult to handle
where other work comes at a. time
when the potatoes demand attention.

It is evident that the question of
economy in fertilizing the potato crop
can be worked out only by definite ex-
periments in each locality, but the evi-
dence seems to show that in nearly all
sections the cost of production per
bushel may be decreased by growing
potatoes in rotation with clover, mixed
hay, corn and .small grains. Such a
crop rotation brings the soil around in
good condition for the potato crop.

No man who has handled a crop of
potatoes and given them clean cultiva-
tion has failed tonote the benefit ac-
cruing to subsequent small-grain and
clover crops that follow in the rota-
tion. The soil that is given intense
tillage is teeming with bacterial life,
a condition brought about by opening
up the pores and letting in the air
which the soil bacteria need in mak-
ing plant food available for the grow-
ing crops. '

- The potato crop- has a higher money
value than many other crops, there-
fore it should have a liberal supply of
plant food from start to finish. By ap-
plying excessive quantities of fertilizer
to the potato ground a larger crop will
im-
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of fertilizer to the potato ground, for
What is * not utilized by that crop is
taken by the other crops that follow
it in the rotation. ‘
Cost of Production Less for the
General Farmer.

The uneven seasonal distribution of
labor in the specialized potato growing
regions tends to increase the labor
charges against the crop. This is caus-
ed by the relatively short time during
which the plantingand harvesting can

{be safely and efficiently done. In most

potato growing sectibns extra help at
planting time and digging time is dif-
ficult to secure and high in price. For
the same reason, if enough labor is em-
ployed regularly to care for the potato
crop during the rush seasons it will
not be remunerative during several
months of the year. As a consequence
the general farmer with a few acres
of potatoes and a less expensive equip-
ment may often grow the crop at _a
much lower net cost than the large
grower with up-to-date methods and
machinery.

A combination of potato growing and
dairying or stock farming may often
be so arranged that the net income
from a smaller acreage will be greater
than is the case when a larger acreage
is grown. The greater efficiency of
laborers secured by a system which
keeps them on the farm long enough
to become accustomed to a certain
kind of work should not be lost sight
of; nor the fact that better laborers
are attracted to the farm that offers
permanent employment.

The farmer who decides to grow a
few acres of potatoes each year should

. plan on keeping the cost of production

per acre low, thus being able to meet
low prices even though the yield per
acre may not be so high as could be
secured by more expensive methods.
This is a phase of crop production
that is sure to receive more attention
in our future farming operations. Many
men who start out with the idea of
producing maximum crops soon dis-
cover that maximum yields are fre-
quently secured at an expense out of
all proportion to theirvalue. It is the
man who can put his crop on the mar—
ket at the lowest cost per bushel who
is always master of the situation.

Organic Matter in the Soil an
Essential.

The soilvfor potatoes should be well
supplied with moisture. The incorpor-
ation of organic matter adds to the
moisture-holding capacity of the soil
and furnishes a base for the fertilizing
elements to combine with While being
made available for the growing crop.
If drouth comes and checks the growth
of the potato plants; when the rain
comes, they start growing again, and
the result is a crop of small, ill-shaped
potatoes. Such a yield is common on
gravelly and sandy soils that are defi-
cient in organic matter, especially if
late varieties are planted.

In the leading potato growing reg—

'ions and on nearly every farm where

potatoes have been grown successfully
for any considerable length of time a
humus-making crop is grown ahead of
the potato crop.

It is not only beneficial to rotate
crops in maintaining the humus-supply
of the soil, but the rotation should
contain legume crops, such as clover,
alfalfa or cowpeas if the humus is to
be entirely maintained. These crops
have the power of gathering their sup-
ply of nitrogen from the air, besides
building up the humus of the soil. If
these crops are removed from the land,
however, the actual humus added to
the soil is small, although 'since the
land is not tilled When these crops are
on the ground, they tend'to maintain
it. To build up, humus rapidly in the
soil it is necessary that these crops be
pastured or fed and the manure re-
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" humus in the soil on dairy‘and stock

farms, and that is the return to the
land of the manure produced, not only
from feeding the humus-making and
nitrogen-gathering crops, but from the
grain and by-product feeds as well.
This explains, in part, how many dairy
and stock farmers can produce pota-
toes at less cost per bushel for fertil-
izing materials than growers who de-
pend upon green manures and chemi-
cal plant foods. '

It is plain to understand that, to
maintain an adequate supply of humus
and nitrogen, and especially if the sup-
ply is to be increased, it is necessary
to make wide use of legume crops to
be fed to stock, or even occasionally
turned under, unless feed or plant food
is used from outside sources. For the
potato grower who makes little ma-
nure, and who sells the bulk of his
crops from the land, resort must be
made to plowing under legume crops
if the humus and nitrogen supply is
economically maintained.

The Preparation of the Soil.

The seed bed for the potato crop
should be prepared to a depth. of from
eight to ten inches. If one has been
plowing shallow it is better to increase
the depth of plowing gradually. A deep,
friable and loose seed bed is essential
to large yields. By incorporating more
organic matter and gradually deepen-
ing the seed bed we develop greater
water-holding capacity and a greater
feeding area for the roots of the crop.
If one has the time deep fall plowing
followed by shallow spring plowing
will put the soil in ideal condition to
yield a maximum crop.

Immediately after the ground is
plowed it should be harrowed length-
wise of the furrows to fill the spaces
between the slices with loose dirt. This
prevents the exposed furrows from
drying out and hastens the decomposi-
tion of the organic matter that is plow-
ed under. This should be followed
with the disc harrow and spring-tooth
harrow. The application of fertilizers
at this time will insure them being
worked down into the soil and they
will become so thoroughly mixed with
the soil particles that they will not in-
jure the young potato plants. There
is no work on the farm that will re-
turn larger and more certain profits
than frequent tillage of the potato
ground just before planting time. All
of the weed seeds that may have germ-
inated will be destroyed and better
moisture conditions are established
with the soil below. The frequent stir-
ring of the soil develops plant food
and thoroughly incorporates the ma
nures and fertilizers with the sbil and
insures a more vigorous early growth
of the young plants.

EXPERIENCE WITH OLD BEAN

SEED.

 

In a recent issue we see an article
from A. B., Van Buren county, which
is very misleading. He gives his ex-
perience on something he really knows
nothing about, as you see it was all his
neighbor’s. He states his neighbor
planted part old seed of his own and
part new seed purchased from A. B.,
but he does not tell us if they were all
planted on the same day.

Now we know from past experience
that seed planted today might be a
perfect failure, while those planted a
week later might make a perfect crop.
though the seed were out of the same
bag, and vice versa.

A. B. knows nothing of how the old
seed was handled, whether it was
kept in a dry place or whether it was
exposed to the elements.

Now we invariably keep our seed
from year to year and if present seed
is not as good as last year’s we use
the old seed. Never yet have we had
a failure, nor have we seen any differ-
enCe between old and new seed, for we

always sowed some new seed for a

check plot.

-. Sanilac Co. M. L.

 

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lrom an Ounce of Gasoline ’

The power to drive the threshing
machine is a most important factor
in getting good results.

It must be steady, strong and sure.

For work at the belt the explosive
engine does not yet successfully
compete with steam without han-
dicap in the shape of weight and
bulk that is cumbersome.

The Ilichols & Shepard Go.
Recommend the Steam Tractor

For driving their Red River Special sep-
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I3 to I00 horse-power.

No better or more highly developed
engine is made for all around farm pur-
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can be practised with economy.

With Good Water and Good Fuel
Ilse Steam

There is a lot. of matter abOut the reliable
work that is being done with the steam tractor
of N. 8; 8. 00. make to be found in the Home
Edition of the fled River 8 eoial paper. One
of_ our own neighbors may ave written some
mig ty good reasons as to why he prefers to
own one. .Wnte for a copy and argue it out
with him if you don't believe what he says.
Ask for a Big Catalog when requesting your
paper.

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AMONG UPPER PENINSULA.
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,_ mens of the different potato diseases
"and showed potatoes affected with dif-
ferent diseases. The potato growers
of the Upper Peninsula only need to be
shown what good potatoes are and
' how to select and grow them; how to
identify the different potato diseases
and by what means they are best con—
trolled; when they fall in line and en-
deavor to have the best. This is one
reason that the train was such an un-
qualified success from start to finish.
These inquiries were all noted and in
counties where there is a county agent
he will follow the induiry, where there
is no agent, Mr. J. W. Weston, who
had charge of the potato department,
or myself, will follow it up. These in‘
quiries are on nearly all farm topics,
such as land clearing, live stock, fenc-
ing, barn-building, laying out farms
and farm buildings.

The train was equipped with a horti-
cultural exhibit under the charge of
J. Allyn Petrie, of Kalamazoo, Class
’14, M. A. C.

On our trip through the Upper Pe-
ninsula we met many people who were
interested in the different branches of
horticulture. Upon questioning the
people visiting the train, we found that
small fruits do exceptionally well in
most sections and that some growers
get fabulous prices for raspberries,
strawberries, currants and gooseber-
ries, as the demand for such fruit far
exceeds the supply. Many of the more
hardy varieties of apples, such as the
Wealthy, Duchess, Pewaukee, Yellow
Transparent, N. W. Greening, Alexan-
der, Fameuse and McIntosh do well in
certain sections. Several hardy varie-
ties of plums are also grown success-
fully and wild plums grow in abund.
ance in many regions. Several grow-
ers find that the Hanson plums from
South Dakota do better than some of
our other standard varieties.

The worst diseases troubling fruits
of the Upper Peninsula are the Oyster
Shell scale, Fire Blight~and the Green
Aphis. Some people said that the bark

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pounds needed in spraying.

The train made seventy-four stops;
theattendance was 8,860.

The railroad officials expressed
themselves as being greatly pleased
with the success of the train.

FARM NOTES.

 

An Uneven Stand of Alfalfa.

I seeded a piece of land to alfalfa
last August during the wet season.
carefully prepared the land until soil
was nicely pulverized, then limed it
and inoculated the seed. The ground
had had alfalfa and clover on it pre-
vious to plowing it for this seeding.
The seed was bought from a good seed
house and it failed to come up evenly.
There are several completely bare
spots occurring on high knolls as well
as on lower places. Other places where
I imagined it would be too wet and
rather low the seed came up real well.
What is the trouble and what would
you advise?

Livingston Co. L. G.

From the description given, it is im-
possible to state with any positive
knowledge just the reasons for-the
failure of the alfalfa to make an even
stand. If it were not for the fact
that the seed failed to grow well on
some of the low places as well as
some of the high places, the trouble
might be in the moisture condition of
the soil. Possibly it may have been
due to the work of cutworms or other
insects. Probably the best way to fix
up the seeding would be to work up
the places where the stand is poor
and re-seed as soon as practicable
this spring.

Using Fertilizer with Manure.

I would like to ask you if a 1-8-1
commercial fertilizer would pay at $25
a ton, to use in connection with a light
coat of stable manure, the same to be
used for potatoes on sandy loam on
timothy sod, plowed last fall?

Schoolcrat‘t Co. E. G. K.

It is, of course, impossible to tell off-
hand whether it will be profitable in
any individual case to use any given
kind or amount of commercial fertiliz-
er on any given crop. As a general
proposition we would say emphatically

 

 

 

Farm Home of H. A. Osborn, of Chippewa County.

on the south side of their trees dried
up, split. and died.

Many people of this section are mak-
ing a bad mistake in planting the fruit
trees too close together, the trees in
some apple orchards not being over
eighteen to twenty feet apart. No ap-
ple trees should be set closer than
thirty feet apart each way even if they
be of the smaller growing varieties,
and the larger growing varieties should
be set at least thirty-five feet apart
each way. ,

On our trip we showed the diseases
which trouble the different fruits, and
as far as possible gave methods of
control. We also gave demonstrations
of proper pruning, grafting and the
budding of tree fruits, and lectured on
the care of the orchard. Pruning and
grafting tools were: on exhibition, also

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that it would ,be profitable to use a fer-
tilizer of the analysis given to supple-
ment a light application of manure on
sandy land, since it will tend to bal-
ance the plant food nutrients in the
manure the same as a ration may be
balanced for live‘ stock by the mixing
of different feeds. The use of com-
mercial fertilizer, and especially phos-
phate fertilizers in connection with
stable manures could be more gener-
ally practiced with profit upon Michi-
gan farms as a means of conserving
and increasing soil fertility as well as
the production of more profitable crops.
Time to Plow for Beans.

I have a field of six acres, an old
June grass pasture that I intend to
plow for beans and to give a new seed-
ing a chance for a good start. Will
want to pasture the above six acres
of June grass sod as late in theseason

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as possible before plowing it for beans;
but want to plow quite early so as to
work it to keep down Weeds until it.
is time to drill them. How late can I
plow to be all right? Oats and corn
both tested this spring.

Lapeer Co. ‘ M. A. C.

From the standpoint of growing a.
good bean crop on old June grass sod,
it would be better to plow same as
early in the spring as is practical. If

. the plowing is delayed until the last of

May or very first of June-rand it could
not be delayed longer with a prospect
of getting a good crop of beans—dry

I weather may prevail and it thus be-
come impossible to provide first-class

conditions for the beans. Then, too,
if the plowing is.delayed until that
late in the season, there will be little
chance for the old sad to decay and
furnish a maximum of plant food for
the growing crop. Since a large
amount of: pasture could not be se-
cured from the field before it would
be necessary to plow for beans, it
Would be better if possible to sacrifice
the pasture and plow this land as early
as possible, in order to give the bean
crop a. .fair chance.

CROP AND FERTILIZER QUES-
TIONS.

 

Applying Fertilizer to Beans and Corn.

I would like to know from someone
who has had experience if it would be
practical to sow fertilizer with corn
and beans in an ordinary grain drill
with fertilizer attachment, sowing fer-
tilizer'in the drills with seed.

Eaton Co. G. B.

More fertilizer is applied in this way
than in any other way. Possibly more
than in all other ways. A grain drill
with fertilizer attachment is a very
stable tool in modern farming.

In heavy applications of fertilizer it
will not do to apply in this way be-
cause too much fertilizer right with
the seed is liable to injure the germi-
nating power of the seed and do more
harm than good. Early in the spring
or in the fall for wheat as much as
350 or 400 pounds can be sown in this
way on cereals with no harm. In hot
weather, especially if the land is dry,
there is danger in sowing more than
200 to 250 pounds per acre on beans.
This crop seems to be more easily in-
jured by having fertilizer in close prox-
imity to the seed than any other.
Where it is desired to apply more than
250 pounds it is best to drill part of it
before the seed is planted. When once
mixed with the soil there is no danger.

Laying Drain Tile in Quicksand.

I was much interested in your article
on “Tile Drainage and Soil Fertility,”
by J. H. Hulett. Now, tile drainage is
what we are much interested in in our
business. Have put down some, but
have been much disappointed at re‘
sults on account of sand filling up the
tile. Our land is sandy and not much
fall, but good open ditch from two to
four feet deep to empty into. The fall
is not near one per cent, as mentioned
in the above article. Not more than
half of that. The length of line of tile
is about 15 rods. We were very care<
ful to get tile laid close and true to
grade, but still they fill up. The sand
seems to go wherever the water does.
Now we know this can be done and if
you can tell us how in the Michigan
Farmer we will be grateful.

Bay CO. V\. . H.

I have had considerable personal ex
perience in laying drain tile in quick‘
sand and know they can be laid so the
sand will not bother afterwards, pro-
vided there is sufficient fall to the ditch
and also provided the tile are laid to
a true grade. '

A line should be stretched tight
above the ditch parallel with the grade
line and the tile must be laid accur-
ately by measuring from this line
above the ditch for every tile. Besides
the man who lays the tile must net
step on the tile after they are laid.
This is what gets the tile out of place.
The quicksand is wet and soft and the
tile easily misplaced. The man must
back up ahead of the tile, using the
full portion of his tile scoop to prepare
the bed for the tile. After each tile is
laid he should carefully place soft
earth on both sides of the tile tohold
it in place and then place earth on top

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inches. After he has'l‘aid say one rod
of tile this way moreearthishould be
placed on top until the ditch is at least
half full, besides this should be dis-
tributed evenly along the tile 80 no
portion will get much more weight
than any other, otherwise this extra
weight will cause the tile immediately
under it to settle out of shape.

Where large tile,~ (six inches or
more), are to be laid it is necessary to
use a “form;” years ago at the Agricul-
tural College we students used to call
it a “mortar.” I am not sure that is
the correct word. It is simply an iron
form as long as a tile, oval at each

 

Scene on the Whitney Farm, Owned
by the National Pole Company.

end, having no top or bottom, with
sides about one foot high. This is
placed in the bottom of the ditch
where the tile is to be laid and settled
down, and the sand removed to the re
quired depth. This form prevents the
quicksand from running in at the sides
and filling the excavation made for the
tile. After the tile is laid the form is
moved along for another tile.

In laying small tile I have found
that this form is not necessary. The
tile can be pressed into position and
held there if the dirt is at once placed
on either side and then evenly on top.
But the man must keep off the tile un<
til the ditch is half filled with dirt or
he will press the tile out of place and
then they will soon fill up with the
quicksand.

Field Peas the Best Crop.

I have a field which has raised two
crops of cats and I had intended to
summer fallow it this year for wheat,
but now I would like to sow some crop
(other than oats, barley or white
beans), which I could harvest in time
to sow fall wheat on the land. Would
soy beans ripen early enough, or cow-
peas, or what would you recommend?

Sanilac Co. , B. K.

It is extremely doubtful if soy beans
would ripen in time so the land could
be prepared for wheat, and I don’t
think you could rely on cowpeas. But
our Canada field peas will fill the bill.
You should by right have prepared be«
fore this so the peas could have been
put in early. It is courting failure to
delay the sowing of peas till after the
weather gets hot. Get them on as early
as you can. I have onefield yet to
sow May 1, but we sowed two fields
the middle of April. This is a' late
spring and we can plant accordingly.

You may have some trouble in har-
vesting peas if you have no pea har-
vester but ripe peas will harvest very
well with a mowing machine with a.
clover seed attachment.

Sow three to four bushels per acre.-
Fertilize well. You can not grow a.
good crop of peas on poor land.

Peas Will leave, the land in prime
condition for wheat. It won’thave to
be plowed, -simply worked up with a.
disc barrow. ..

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, Spraying Grapes.

Can you tell me what to do for my
grape vines? They were out in the
spring all right » and when nicely in
leaf, the lower ones begin to turn
brown until most of the vine becomes
so and the grapes do not grow to full
size. The blight does not seem to kill
the plant, but only to affect the leaves
and fruit. Can you tell me what to
spray and how often it should be used
and at what times?

Lenawee Co. E. W.

Undoubtedly the disease which is
attacking your grapevines is the black
rot, which is one of the most common
and destructive grape diseases.

This is a fungous disease, and can
be kept in check by spraying with
Bordeaux mixture. The usual method
of control is to spray once before
growth is ‘started, with copper sul-
phate solution, and then after the
leaves are out, with Bordeaux mixture
‘at intervals of about two weeks until
the grapes are half grown.

The Bordeaux should be made of
four pounds of copper sulphate and
five pounds of lime to 50 gallons of
water. The copper sulphate solution
should be used at the strength of
' about one pound to 25 gallons.

Girdled Trees.

What is the best treatment to give
my young apple trees, which have been
bitten and barked by rabbits?

Newaygo Co. A. R

The best treatment to give trees
which have been girdled by rabbits is
to cut away all of the loose bark, and
then paint over with pure white lead
and raw oil, making the paint quite
thick. _

If the girdling is so serious that the
girdled portion is over two inches in
width and entirely around the tree,
the only way to save the trees is to
bridge graft them. This is done by
making small holes on each side of the
girdle, cutting cions slightly longer
than the distance between the two
holes; sharpening both ends and then
sticking them in the holes. The ends
of the cions should fit quite tightly in
the holes. In order to protect the
grafts from the action of the weather,
they 'should be thoroughly covered
with grafting wax at each end where
the cions enter the trunk. For a tree
four inches in diameter, four or five of
these grafts are ample to eventually
effect a cure.

Many, in addition to applying lead
' and oil on the girdle wounds
which are not very serious, bank’the
earth up around the tree, so as to pre-
vent as much as possible the drying
out of the wound. ‘ '

Protecting Tomatoes from Frost.

The writer has read with much in-
terest the article, “Orchard Heating in
Michigan,” by George M. Low, in your
issue of April 8. We judge from Mr.
Low’s article that he has had consid-
erable experience with smudge firing
and therefore we would appreciate
very much his opinion on the real val-
ue of his system of firing if used in a
field of tomatoes, would the smudge
hover over the field enough to be of
value or if there would be a light cur-
rent of air could the pots be placed on
the windward side of the field so that
the smudge 'would pass over the to-
~ mato plants and thls give the field the

desired protection. G. C. R.

There is no question but what the
smudging will save the plants, when
first set out or when they are carrying
a crop of tomatoes late in the fall.
However, they will require mere pots
or fires to the acre than an orchard.
The plants are not high enough to
hold the smoke, and for this reason a.
lot of small fires would be better than
a few large ones. ,

For this season I would suggest the
following for ”an experiment; Secure
some straw and put in small piles
about twenty feet apart each way,
dampen it so it will not blaze but will
.make a lot of smoke. Save some of it
so it can be placed'ron the windward
use of the patch in (38.861211, wind

      

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prove whether Or not the smudge can
be held on this particular location or
not. I would also advi’se‘sprinkling
the ground heavily with water after
the sun has gone down, and .once or
twice during the night. Only a small
strip will be required, and if properly
done will save the plants from any
ordinary frost. Would advise the pur-
chase of a frost predictor. This will
give ample time to haul out the straw

and haul a few barrels of water.

GEO. M. Low.

Spraying and Blight Control.
Please give me the best formula for
spraying apple trees and other fruit
trees. My trees are dying with some
kind of blight. The leaves first be-

come shriveled, then thé branches
show signs of blight. SUBSCRIBER.

Spraying will not control blight. The
only method of keeping this disease in
check is to cut out the blighted limbs,
making the cut about six inches below
any signs of the blighted condition.
The wounds should be disinfected with
strong lime-sulphur solution or any
other suitable disinfectant.

Trees which are susceptible to the
blight are either old trees which are
weakened, or young trees which are
making too rapid growth. Blight in an
orchard is often best checked by us-
ing some means of checking the
growth of the trees, such as leaving
the orchard in sod, keeping fertilizers

from the orchard, and very light prun- ‘

ing, if any.

There are seasons when blight is
worse than in others, because of the
weather conditions, and during the
past two years it has been quite ser-
ious in most all parts of the country.
This is a bacterial disease, and winters
over in what is called blight cankers
on the larger limbs and trunks of the
trees. These cankers are the source
of infection the following year, and
one of the chief preventive measures
is to cut out these cankers early in the
season before any growth starts. In
cutting them out, the wounds left
should be disinfected as in the case of
removing the blighted limbs.

The best formulas for spraying ap-
ple trees and any other fruit trees ex-
cept the peach, is concentrated lime-
sulphur at the strength of one to 40
for apples and one to 50 for the other
fruits, and two and a half pounds of
arsenate of lead. The first spraying
should be made just as the pink of the
blossom shows. This should be fol-
lowed by another application as the
blossom petals are dropping. In about
two weeks the trees should be sprayed
again, and winter varieties of apples
should have another application for the
second brood of codling 'moth about
the first of August.

All fruit trees except the peach
should receive the first three applica-
tions. Plums should receive a spray-
ing after that at intervals of two
weeks, until within about a month of
ripening time. No fruit should be
sprayed within a month of ripening
time, because sufficient time should be
allowed for the removal of all traces
of the spray material by the weather
before the fruit is harvested.

 

ORCHARD NOTES.

 

Spraying should be a community af-
fair. The farmer who sprays his or-
chard for scale does not enjoy watch-
ing the English sparirows carry the
scale from the neighbor’s orchard
across the road.

Old apple trees can be rejuvenated
but their condition when the rejuvena-
tion begins determines whether the
work will be profitable or not. .It is
rather risky attemptng to rejuvenate
the orchard which is nearly dead from
the scale and filled with mixed varie-
ties of little commercial importance.
There are some orchards that might
better be removed and the land turned

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years. 0
turns it out 0 horses way, no waste oilseed.

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beans—all short. grain crops, b using the ThombnuhSIde-Dehvery Bundler Ind Wmdrower.
helmets, Ore on.
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alfalfa. timothy. peas. flax, vetch, toy

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puts hay in shape for quicker loading.

Leaves crop in either loose bunches or windmwo.
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Grapes and Vegetables who have used Sulfocide
for the past 6 or 6 years say that they prefer it
to Bordeaux mixture as it is cheaper and easier
to use and equally effective. 1 gallon makes
200.collons of Spray. Write today for booklet.

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satisfaction.

Separator—the self-oiling
machine that is made up of new, improved and ling-desired features.
And the demand for this new Reliance when we placed it on the market
two years ago was almost instantaneous—even exceeded our biggest

The users of our new model were not only satisfied wit

with merely giving

That’s why we produced a new

model cream separator. One that goes ahead
of anything ever built—a separator that works easier,
that gets more cream and affords greater profits than
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they were so loud and enthusiastic in praise that we couldn’t keep up
with orders, and the demand keeps us right up on our tip tees to this
very day.
insure yourself of an early de ivery.
soon asyour order is received.

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Write us at once for full partieulars in order that you may

We will send Reliance book as

ERY little is accomplished by an
V inspector taking the position
that his duty is fulfilled by a.
simple rejection of an unwholesome
product, or a product which is in any
way in variation with the ordinance
unless his department attempts to, in
some way, remedy the condition which
exists. Dairymen are getting tired of
having to stand the brunt of this all
the way through and the only real
remedy which we can see is for the
Legislature to establish, by law, the
ways and means by which these pro-
ducts may be marketed, and to har-
monize the various interests which
are involved. To do this will require
the deliberations of a committee of
competent men who are appreciative
of the conditions which exist and who
are not antagonistic to any one fac-
tion or prejudiced against the inter-
ests of any one party in the matter.
The transportation problem is the very
important problem to solve in the
matter.

What Can be Done.

In the meantime it seems to us that
much may be accomplished by the
boards of health of the cities, or by
the dairymen themselves if they would
establish laboratories at the various
receiving stations in the country. This
could be done and frequent laboratory
tests of the milk made, in our opinion,
without any increase in the expense
involved over that which is now made
necessary through the farm to farm
inspection.

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portion at another receiving station,
thus dividing his time among several
of the smaller units. In some of the
larger receiving stations the results
obtained would warrant the establish-
ment of a laboratory at that point,
with a competent man in charge who
could devote the major portion of his
time to the laboratory consideration
of the milk received at that station,
who could make individual reports to
the farmer and to the city board of
health, and who, if posspssed with the
amount of tact which he should pos-
sess, could be of untold benefit to the
farmers in that community in showing
them the results which would be ob-
tained through certain changes in their
equipment or in their method of pro-
ducing milk.
We have attempted to promulgate
this idea in the communities from time
to time but officials charged with the
enforcement of the law have not re-
sponded as, in our judgment, they
should respond on this point. This we
have been unable to understand.

The Records of Dairy and Food De-
partment Show what Can be Done.
When we were connected with the

Dairy and Food Department, of the
state, during the months of June, July
and August, and the fore part of Sep-
tember, we employed special inspec-
tors, young men who were familiar
with the general laboratory methods
in a study of milk, and who had had
the regular work in bacteriology at
the Michigan Agricultural College, and
‘ who were regular students at the
above named institution. These young
men we sent out into the various cit.
'es of the state, particularly those eit-
ies which did not have a well-estab-
lished inspection department of their
own. They were placed in these cities
and theunilk taken from the wagons of
the milk dealers was examined daily
through a certain period of time dur-
ing the trying months of the year, that
is June, July and August. The results
obtained in the laboratory were used
as a ground work for acquainting the
farmer and dairyman with the results
of the conditions which they maintain-
ed on their farm. ‘

In this way a great deal of good was

accomplished and many dairymen were

 

 

 

The Milk Ins-peed 6 hiPr’o'biefi

By FLOYD w. R'OBISON. >

enabled to see at first instance why
the conditiOns which existed on their
places and under which they produced
their milk were not conducive to the
production of the best type of milk.
In the work which was carried on for
three years in this way in the Dairy
and Food Department, so far as my
memory serves me, there was not a
single instance of antagonism on the
part of any farmer to this work. In
fact, the very heartiest co-operation
was extended in the matter. So much
mystery, however, has surrounded the
whole handling of the milk work in.
many cities and by many dairy depart-
ments that it is little wonder to our
mind that dairymen have not enthused
in the matter in the way that might be
expected of them.
Why Not Try it Out?

We should like to see, therefore, in
some one, at least, important milk-
producing center, the experiment tried
out of establishing a laboratory for the
purpose of the study of the quality of
the milk at that particular point, and
an effort be made to obtain accurate
and reliable information such as could
be obtained by a regular study of the
milk, followed by co-operative inspec¥
tion of the dairy farms contiguous to
that milk center. This laboratory and
the results should be accessible at all
times to the dairymen of that commu-
nity, and when they desire to inquire
as to how their product is showing up
under laboratory surveillance, this in-
formation should be given them and
every facility extended to familiarize
them with not only the results but the

technique followed out in each case to

arrive at any result found.

All that is necessary to establish
this laboratory is to secure some
young person who is either familiar
with the current methods of milk ex
amination, or who is capable of learn»
ing these matters when taught. This
is not difficult work but requires the
services of someone who is not afraid
to work. This laboratory should be es<
tablished at the receiving point where
the farmer.delivers his milk and where
the sale is consummated. A small
room can be provided without much
expense and the apparatus neceSsary
is not expensive.

We know the type of results which
would be obtained and any department
of health which is empowered with
sufficient funds to send an inspector
to the dairymen in the various commu-
nities would surely have funds enough
to provide for the carrying out of this
idea as a test, at least, in some one
community. We have supervised this
work personally for three years, and
the records of the Dairy and Food De-
partment in this respect will show
some of the most unique tests that are
anywhere recorded. But as explained
before, these tests were conducted
more particularly with the idea of
studying the milk as originally produC<
ed by the dairymen.

We think it extremely advisable that
a meeting be called of a few represen-
tative dairymen, at least, and that ways
and means to a careful, intelligent
study of this whole milk situation
should be discussed and some plan
adopted, looking to the betterment, of
the conditions as they exist today.

 

CATALOG NOTICES.

 

“Velvet for Dairymen” is the title of
a new book published by the Sharp-
les Separator Co., ,Westchester, Pa.,
which fully explains how the farmer
can save the cream now going to the
pigs. Write for a free copy to the
above address, mentioning the Michi-
gan Farmer.

“Sweet Clover and How to Grow it,"
is the title of an interesting bulletin
published by the Bokhara Seed Co., of
Falmouth, Ky. This booklet contains
valuable information with regard to

the use of this soil-improving forage,

plantbwhich may be had for the ask-

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, a in . airy Calves

‘ 1%qu of"when the calf
" , should Whom is of same‘lm.
portance. The ' ’cow should
have a, roomy, well ventilated box stall
’ with plenty of clean, bright bedding.
After the calf has been dropped, this
bedding should be removed and burned
and clean substituted to prevent dis-
ease. The calf barn should be a‘warm,
well ventilated building at a safe dis-
tance from the cow barn. Cement
floors are handy to keep clean, but
should be covered with plenty of good
clean bedding to prevent the calf from
becoming chilled. 4

The questions of what to feed, when
to feed and how much to feed the calf,
are of much importance, but cannot be
answered definitely as they must be
regulated to supply the wants of the
individual calf. If the calf is real
thrifty, that is, weighs from 115 to 128
pounds, at birth he will not need as
much attention as a. calf of a weaker
constitution which weighs from 44 to
66 pounds at birth.

The Value of the Colostrum.

The colostrum is very important to
every calf as it contains minerals
which cleanse the bowels, start diges-
tive functions, aid in the growth of
bone and act as a general tonic. It is
advisable to leave the calf with the
dam for the first two or three days,
.during which time he should be taught
to drink from a pail.

This process will require the utmost
patience on the part of. the breeder.
After stripping the cow, dip two ‘of
your fingers in the milk and allow the
calf to suck them. Then gradually
spreading the fingers, lower the hand
into the milk until the calf is getting
milk through your spread fingers. Next
carefully withdraw the fingers from
calf’s mouth. He will drink for a few
minutes without noticing the differ-
ence, and after a few lessons will drink
from the pail. ,

Preventing the Scours.

After the calf is taken from the dam
and placed in the calf pen, for the first
two weeks it should be regularly fed
warm whole milk twice a day. The
milk of its own mother is best, but if
it does not agree with the calf that of
another fresh cow may be used. Spe-
cial care should be taken that the pails
are clean and the milk pure and at
body temperature. Large quantities of
milk should not be placed before the
hungry calf as he is liable to over eat
and thus get scours. Scours can be
cured by decreasing the amount of
milk and adding lime. water or butter-
milk to the milk the calf receives.

FOr the next two weeks the amount
of whole milk should be gradually de-
creased and skim-milk substituted in
its place, so that at four weeks of age
the calf is getting skim-milk entirely.
Milk obtained at the creamery should
be pasteurized before being fed to the
calf. Hay tea makes a good substitute
for skim-milk and has been used with
success, when milk could not be had.

Calves should be given grain as soon
as they will eat it, this is generally at
about four weeks of age: One good
method in starting calves to eat grain
is to rub it on their mouth after they
are through drinking milk. Another
is to place thegrain in the bottom of
the pail when they have drunk all the
milk. Grain should never be put in
the milk as the calf will then gulp it
down without giving it proper mastica-
tion. There are many calf foods on
the 'market, but it is much more prof-
itable in the long run for the breeder
to feed the grain that he can get the
handiest. Corn, barley, oats, kafir and
sorghum are good grains to give a calf
which'is being raised on skim-milk.
Bran is often mixed with the ration to
insure safety against scours. .

Some good rations for the dairy calf
on Askim-milk are: Whole oats and
,bran, corn meal gradually changed in
" intoxeishtwesk' to Whole corn.

“ it appears the industry is new.“ .

corn meal, three parts oats, three parts
bran, and one part linseed meal. Fresh
grain should be placed in the feed box
daily to prevent souring. Whole corn
is much better for the calf than corn
meal. xx ' '

The calf will begin to eat roughage
almost as soon as grain. At first it
will eat no more roughage than grain,
but as it grows older the amount of
roughage in proportion to the grain
will increase until at six months of age
it Will be consuming about three times
as much roughage as grain. Early cut
blue grass, clover, alfalfa, and silage
make good roughage for the calf. By
this time the calf will be old enough
to make use of the spring pasture.
Calves should never be put on pasture
before four months of age and then
only for a little while at a time at
first, but the time may be increased
daily.

Reasons that some have poor luck in
raising calves on skim-milk are: Lack
of sunlight and fresh air, unsanitary
stalls; feeding too much milk at irreg-
ular intervals; feeding stale or chilled
milk; feeding'from pails that have not
been scalded; daily feeding improper
concentrates and in stale feed box. If
these things are avoided, no one should
have any trouble raising dairy calves.

Lenawee Co. I. ROBERTSON.

DAIRY PROBLEMS.

.Grain Ration on Pasture.

Will you give me a balanced grain
ration for cows running in pasture,
and at as small a wet as possible?
Will have to buy all of grain at mar-
ket prices.

Clare Co. J. G. K.

Geod mixed pasture grass is a fairly
well balanced ration in itself. It con-
tains the protein and carbohydrates
in just about the correct proportion.
The only trouble is it is so bulky that
it tasks the cow to get enough of it to
obtain food nutrients sufficient for her
to do her best. Besides good pasture.
so stimulates milk production that aj
cow can hardly keep her flesh and vig- ;
or. Many times it does not figure a
profit to feed grain on pasture, if the
pasture is extra good, but always the
grain has a cumulative effect. Those.
fed grain on pasture invariably do bet-
ter the following winter. l

Wheat, bran and corn meal equal:
parts is a splendid ration. Also ground 5
oats and hominy feed, and gluten feed
and dried beet pulp.

When to Dry a Heifer.

I have a. heifer which was fresh last
September and will be fresh again in
August. The quantity of milk which
she now gives is small but very rich
in butter-fat. Will it do any harn to
the cow if in the course of a couple of
weeks I only milk her once a day until
time to dry her up? Some have ad-
vised me that it will be harmful and
some not.

Indiana. R. A. I.

I would advise by all means, to keep ‘
milking the heifer twice daily until
the middle of June. Is she was an
older cow I would not care so much.
The heifer should be encouraged to be
a persistent milker. If you dry her off
it will tend to fix a habit and she will
want to go dry for a long time. A per-
sistent milker don’t have to give a big
mess of milk to be profitable. It is
the old question of keeping everlast-
ingly at it. Comm C. LILLIE.

 

GOAT MILK BUTTER.

One of the odd questions asked re-
cently‘of a food specialist contained a
request for information about produc-
ers_of butter made from the milk of
sheep and goats. It seems that a large
number of Greeks, Syrians and Armen-
ians in the vicinity of New York have
been in the habit of importing it, but
the war has shut off the supply. But-
ter of this sort usually sells for $1 a
pound. The Wells-Fargo Express Co.

has been trying to find American pro-
ducers who can meet the demand, but

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Get all your Cows Earn

Every milch cow in your herd earned a nice
profit for you that your separator failed to deliver.
Where did the money go? Let us show you.

Every separator (except the New Sharples)
loses cream if not turned at the exact speed marked
on its crank. Experiment Stations and independent
researches have brought out the surprising fact
that 19 out of every 20 separator users turn their
machines under speed and thus lose $2.40 to $12
per cow per year. (See Purdue Bulletin No. 116).

The New Sharples skims clean whether turned
fast or slow. It will get you this extra profit
your cows make for you, but which your fixed-
feed Separator throws away.

THE NEW

SHARPLES

SUCTION-'FEED

Separator feeds the milk into the bowl in exact
proportion to the separating force. At 45 revolu-
tions it skims clean; at 55 revolutions it skims clean;
and at 35 revolutions it skims equally clean and
always with even quality cream. No other
separator has these two valuable features—clean
skimming and unchanging density of cream
at varying speeds.

The Suction-feed Separator
has other important advantages.
The hollow tubular bowl is easy
to clean and easy to handle.
There are no discs to wash. The
oiling is automatic; no oil-caps or
oil—holes; no dripping or mussing
of oil; no oil waste. The top of
the large supply-can is only two
feet from the floor—a great con-
Venience in filling.

These are some of the reasons
why you should have a New

Sharples and get all the cream
money all the time.

Read the full story in our
new book, “ Velvet’ ’for Dairy-
men which also explains our free
trial plan. We will gladly send
you a copy. Ask for it—now.
Address Dept. 18.

Easily and quickly oiled.
Once a month is sufficient.

The Sharples Separator Co.

Also SharpIes Milkers and Gasoline Engines
West Chester Pennsylvania

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We are the originators of h llow bl k H ll ;

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As a rule automobile prices vary
according to power.

The $695 Overland is the one big,
important, outstanding exception to the
rule.

Because we build twice as many
cars as any other producer of automobiles
of like class——

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We can price this car way below its
power classfinearly $200 below.

Another heavy shortage this spring
is almost certain.

Order yours now to avoid delayed~
delivery.

Catalog on request—please address Dept. 86.

The WillysFOverland Company
Toledo, Ohio

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TTIIS Magazine Section toms a part of our paper every week.

Every article is written especially for it, and does not appear elsewhere

 

England, Birthplace ofthe Cooperative Idea

By WILLIAM B. HATCH

ACCOMPANIED an advance Com:
mittee to make some preliminary
investigation in Englandand Scot-
land. We left Paris on the third of
July, getting into London that evening.
As we stepped onto the boat at
Calais for Dover and was taking a last
“shot," with the camera, at Continental
Europe, one of the boat’s crew who
stood near said, “this is not a very
good day, sir, for taking pictures.” It
was one of those seemingly all but
everlasting “gray days” which so

abound in this climate. But the friend-
ly interest of this boatman was one
hundred per cent appreciated from the
fact that he spoke English. After two

months of work among people speak-
ing at least six different languages,
the English not included, the first vol-
untary and common use of it makes
you feel that verily you’re “going over
’Ome,” and that you’ll gladly get along
without the “h” if you can only have
the rest of the alphabet. Undoubtedly
our common language with other Eng-
lish speaking peoples, contributes a
much larger part to the friendliness
which prevails than we realize.

The ride into London from the Eng-
lish Channel naturally exhibits a den-
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second only to that of Belgium. _The
farm holdings, however, are much larg-
er than you would expect and Lloyd
George’s campaign for the promotion
of smaller holdings is but the natural
result of the feeling that the welfare
of the people at large require more in-
tensive methods and consequently the
breaking up of these large estates. The
irregular hedge-separated fields and
the course-wool sheep grazing over the
lower downs illustrate the opposite of
intensive agriculture. Both, however,
add to the beauty of the landscape.
The main body of the Commission

were in Paris on the Fourth of July.
The day was appropriately observed
at the American Embassy and the ex-
ercises were participated in by the
American Commission and on the
grave of Lafayette the Commission
placed a wreath out of respect for this

much American loved Frenchman. Our

committee in London decided to ob-
serve the Fourth by taking a day off
from our regular work. So We went
to the Paddington Station and took a.
Great Western train for Bristol to see
England’s big agricultural fair. It is
called the Royal Show, given under
the auspices of the Royal Agricultural
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Investigating

Down in Texas, recently, a
man made a 124-mile round trip
in his motor car—just to investi-
gate Clothcraft Clothes.

And he passed through several
nearer towns where other cloth-
ing was sold. .

He wanted absolutely depend-
able value—and got it.

It’s surely worth your while
to drop in at the store and see
and feel that Clothcraft value.

Clothcraft's makers have for
= three generations devoted all
their efforts to improving
medium-priced clothe's. By
scientific study they haveworked
out shorter and better Ways to
perform the operations in making
a suit. Their success gives you.
better fabrics, better linings,
superior workmanship—in a.
word, more style, comfort and
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' English agriculture. But it did not dis-

close what Americans would regard as
up—to-date agriculture. ,

The Royal Show well repaid us for
going. King Edward was there and
we had a close view of him while he
alighted from his carriage, petted some
Southdown sheep of his which had tak-
en a prize, commended-the herdsman
and then passed on to other exhibits.
The crowd cheered about as lustily as
an American crowd would in the pres-
ence of ,their President.

The Royal Show~is said to be the
finest stock show in the world. We
think this would be disputed by enthu-
siasts from some other countries, in-
cluding our own. It was, however,
very fine in some lines, especially in
its exhibits of fat, cattle, draft and
coach horses, sheep and hogs.
the Ayrshire and the Swiss cattle were
more conspicuous by their absence
than otherwise. But Scotland has her
own show at Paisley, near Glasgow.
And it is here they say you must go if
you would see the finest Ayrshire and
Aberdeen Angus cattle, Clydesdale
horses and Scotch sheep. The Scottish
Agricultural Society is back of this;

The Royal Show at Bristol is ideally
located on a large elevated area ad—
joining the city. It: is covered with
grass, the rock protrudes in places,
and the natural drainage insures
against mud. Like the other foreign

fairs visited, this show Sticks to the

text—“this one thing I do”——and that
one thing is to promote agricultural
education. There isn't a cheap, com-
promising, catch-penny side-show per-
mitted to harangue and annoy the
crowd. The machinery exhibit, while
large and comprehensive, seems to
make one-quarter the noise usually
heard at American fairs. The actual
reported attendance at the Royal Show
on this Fourth of July was 78,702. Our
train hauled fourteen coaches loaded,
over 130 miles back to London in two
hours. In England they have prac-
tically eliminated the grades so there
are no grade crossing troubles and
they go through hills instead of around
them. These betterments, combined
with a rock-ballasted road-bed makes
it possible to cover sixty-five miles an
hour with safety.

England the Birth-place of Co-opera-

tion.

It is perhaps natural when we re-
member that the twenty-eight weavers
of Rochdale way back in 1844 gave
birth to the principle of co-operation
and organized the Equitable Pioneers'
Society, that in England we would
find the largest development of the
principle and the most perfect exam-
ples of its application. This, however,
is not true, at least as regards its ap-
plication to agriculture. As a matter
of fact England has taken its inspira-
tion for the organization of co-opera-
tive agriculture largely from Ireland,
although Great Britain sent: a commit-
tee of investigation to cover part of
the ground, traversed by the American
Commission, and published the Cahill

-Report as embodying its findings.

That little group of weavers has
grown from twenty-eight to 11,000 in
Rochdale. This represents about 15
per cent of the population and this or-
ganization in this one city is doing
an annual business of over $1,250,000.

English Agricultural Organization

Society.

The Irish Agricultural Organization
Society-stile great concrete accom-
plishment of Sin Horace Plunkett, was
also the inspiring influence which ac-
tuated the realization of the English
Agricultural Organization Society in
1901. This society represents the con-
solidation of the British Agricultural
Organization Society and the National
Agricultural Union. It is briefly refer-
red to in the reports as “A. O. S.” In
the year of its organization it compris—
ed twenty-five afliliated societies with
a total membership of 517 and had a
turnover, for that year, of something
over $45,000. ‘It had grown ,to the

 

end of its fiscal year May 13,1913, to

Both

compriseriss' ’amiiated ‘ eciet‘i‘eswl' '
membership of 45,000 and a’ turnover
for that year of $10,000,000. This or-
ganization or society covers Wales as
well as England, and really has affi-
liated with it, the Scottish Agricultural
Organization Society, (Ltd.) These
affiliated societies, as regards the'scope
of the activities, are grouped thus:

One hundred and seventy—eight soci-
eties for the supplies of requirements
and sales of product; 30 dairy, bottled
milk and cheese-making societies; 194
small holdings ad allotment societies;
48 agricultural credit societies; 24 egg
and poultry societies; 18 miscellaneous
societies; one Central Co-operative Ag-
ricultural Bank, (Ltd.); one Scottish
Agricultural Organization Society,
(Ltd.); one Agricultural and General
Co-operative Insurance Society, (Ltd.),
making in all a total of 495.

It will be observed that the depart-
ments of co-operative agricultural pro-
duction, distribution, finance, and also
small holdings and insurance, are pro-
moted by this one general central or-
ganization.

Co-operative Wholesale Societies.

This society is distinctively con-
spicuous in England and Wales be-
cause of the very large development to
which it has attained. One-fifth of the
population of the United Kingdom is
in the habit of making purchases at
co-operative stores, where a little paper
or metal check, with figures showing
the amount, is given with each pur-
chase. The shop looks like any other;
the goods outwardly are not very dif-
ferent; the giying of the check with
the purchase is the only feature likely
to strike an observer. From data col-
lected for us by an official of this so-
ciety, I submit the following, to me,
very interesting facts and opinion:

“During 1910 these co-operators did
a total trade of over $500,000,000.
Nearly 123,000 persons were employed
in those shops and the warehouses and
factories connected with them. These
employes were paid over $35,000,000
as wages during the year.

“Yet, small as these wages may
seem (about $5.50 a week being the av-
erage for men, women, boys and girls
altogether), they were, substantially
higher than the majority of the work«
ers would have obtained in other
shops, warehouses or factories. The
goods were of the best quality and as
cheap as in other shops and the hours
of labor, less. The purchasers were,
for the most part, of the so-called
“well—to-do” working class.

“The total profit on this upwards of
$500,000,000 of cooperative trade this
year, after wages and expenses were
paid, amounted to over $60,000,000.
The total capital employed was some
thing over $250,000,000. Under the
system of business followed by the
other four—fifths of our population this
profit would have been divided, as in—
terest on capital, between a compara-
tively small number of trades people.
Twenty years ago the total trade of
the society in the United Kingdom was
under $200,000,000.

“These facts and figures afford the
most convincing evidence of the inher-
ent vigor of co-operation. So signal a
success justifies the sanguine ideal of
the Rochdale weavers that the work-
ers of the country were able to own
and manage their own business. There
are other features of co-operative work
which constitute an effective denial of
the charge sometimesmade, that co-
operation is no more than shepkeeping.
During this same year over $45,000
was spent in educational work, an

amount which represents much ear- -

nest labor in the direction of enlight-
ening members as to the principles of
the movement, students’ classes, lec-
tures, etc. During the same year over
$250,000 was subscribed to various
charitable objects.

“The idea that profits should be paid
out on the same basis that they are
paid in, that they are first reckoned
and got in on the purchase price, they
should be, paid out as dividends on
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been the original discovery of these '

 

t" est, seems militia

Rochdale weavers in 1844. They held
very strongly that profit made out of
the people in front of the counter
should .be paid back to them. Their
little attempt to run a shop that should
belong to the customer and not to an
individual, was attended with immedi—
ate success. It held the germ ofa
great idea, that no individual should
be allowed to amass fortune out of the-
supply of necessaries to the commu-
nity. . '

"Every customer in a co-operative
store is, or may become, a part owner
of the business. By paying $5.00 down
or agreeing to pay it by installments,
anyone may become a member, entit-
led to receive a fair rate of interest on
their capital, full dividends on purchas-
es, and a voice in the management of
the affairs of this society, including
the election of the committee.

“After the expenses of management,
depreciation, and interest at fixed
rates on share and loan capital have
been paid, the remaining profits are
divided among the members in pro-
portion to their trade, after such sums
as! the quarterly meeting may deter-
mine have been put aside for reserve
funds, charitable donations and grants
to relief funds.

"Cash trading is a fundamental prin-
ciple of the Co—operative Wholesale
Society, both in buying and selling.

“The bulk of the general trade of
the society is done in goods bought by
the society’s buyers at home and
abroad and distributed to the retail
societies from its warehouses, or, in
case of very large consignments of
certain articles, sent direct to the re-
tail society from the manufacturer or
port where landed. The stocks of
hams, bacon and canned goods from
America are held in great warehouses
at the ports of arrival, and on receipt
of ‘orders at Manchester, New Castle
or Londn, the heavy orders are sent
direct.

“One general principle runs through
all the purchasing done by the society,
namely, to go direct to the source of
production, whether at home or
abroad, so as to save the commissions
of middlemen and agents.

“The total amount of goods imported
direct by the society from foreign coun-
tries for the year covered by this re-
port was over $35,000,000.

“The bank is another important
branch of the Co-operative Wholesale
Society. Its turnover in 1910 amount~
ed to $682,500,000.

“The society also carries on the bus«
iness of shippers, having steamers em-
ployed on continental service.

“The various productive work of
the societies are situated in England
with the exception of the creameries
and bacon factories in Ireland, a bacon
factory at Herning, Denmark, and a
tallow and oil factory at Sydney, Aus-
tralia, the latter being a subsidiary to
the soap, etc., works at lrlan, Silver-
town and Dunston.

“The output from the society’s fac~
tories in 1910 exceeded $32,500,000.

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I passed him by the roadside,
As I went for a walk today,
His back was bent from toiling.

And his beard and hair were gray.
He was mowing weeds by the wayside,
With his scythe he worked along,
But the arms that felled the burdocks,

Seemed very far from strong.

Young men passed him unnoticed,

On recreation bent;

Middle aged men strolled by him,
And children, singing, went;

But the old man, worn and wrinkled
Bent to his humble task,

Nor stopped his weary labor
Awhile the sun did last.

I wondered how it happened
That age should find the need
To bend to such a task as his
So far from the aged’s creed:
Was. it that he had squandered, "
Or sickness, did it come,
Or did ambition forbe him
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dling horses in haste. Evidently all
the animals had been brought out of
hiding. fSwiftly, with regard only for
life and limb, Madeline, Helen, and
Christine-were lowered by lassoes and
half carried down to the level.

peared on the cliff above.

the matter as a huge joke.

and rode away through the pines;
' en.

one word:
“Wait ! ”

cort. Few words were spoken.
seemed to be the great essential. The
horses were urged, and, once in the
trail, spurred and led into a swift trot.

One cowboy drove up four packhor-
ses, and these were hurriedly loaded
with the party’s baggage. Castleton
and his companion’s mounted and gal-
loped off to catch the others in the
lead. This left Madeline behind, with
Stewart and Nels and Monty.

“They’re goin’ to switch ofi at the
I holler thet heads near the trail a few
miles down,” 'Nels was saying, as he
tightened his saddle-girth. “Thet hol-
ler heads into a big canon. Once in
thet, it’ll be every man fer hisself. I
reckon there won’t be anythin’ wuss
than a mighty rough ride.”

Nels smiled reassuringly at Made-
line, but he did not speak to her. Mon-
ty took her canteen, filled it at the
spring, and hung it over the pommel
of her saddle. He put a couple of bis-
cuits in the saddle-bag.

“Don’t fergit to take a drink an’ a
bite as you’re ridin’ along,” he said.
“An’ don’t worry, Miss Majesty, Stew-
art’ll be with you, an’ me an’ Nels
hangin’ on the back trail.”

His somber and sullen face did not
change in its strange intensity of brid-
led passion, but Madeline felt that she
would never forget the look in his
eyes. Left alone with these three
men, now stripped of all pretense, she
realized how fortune had‘favored her,
and what peril still hung in the
balance. - .

Stewart swung astride his big black,
spurred him, and whistled. At the
whistle Majesty jumped and with
swift canter followed Stewart. Made-
eline looked back to see Nels already
up and Monty handing him a rifle.
Then the pines hid her view.

Once in the trail, Stewart’s horse
broke into a gallop. Majesty changed
his gait and kept at the black’s heels.
Stewart called back a warning. The
low, wide-spreading branches of trees
might brush Madeline out of the sad-
dle. Fast riding through the forest,
along a crooked and obstructed trail,
called forth all her alertness. The

. stirring of her blood, always suscepti-
ble to the spirit and motion of a ride,
let alone a'perilous one, now began to
throb’and burn away the worry, the
dread, the coldness that had weighted
her down. ,

Before long Stewart wheeled at
right angles OK the trail and entered
a hollow between two low bluffs. Mad-
eline saw tracks in the open patches
of ground. Here Stewart’s horse took
to a brisk walk. The hollow deepened,
narrowed, . became rocky, full of logs

. and brush. Madeline exerted all her

gkeenness, and needed it, to keep close

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91 didn’t .see the finish, but those
Ambrose hurried the three WOmen

over the rough rocks down to the
cliff. The, cowboys below were sad-

By the time they were safely down
the other, members of the party ap-
They were
in excellent spirits, appearing to treat

Ambrose put Christine on a horse

Frankie Slade did likewise with Hel-
' Stewart led Madeline’s horse up
to her, helped her to mOunt, and spoke

Then as fast as one of the women
reached the level she was put upon a
horse and taken away by a cowboy es-
Haste

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make out Stewart’s tall form as he
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black, of eluding the sharp spikes in
the dead brush, of avoiding the treach-
erous loose stones.
After some time she was brought to

a dead halt by Stewart and his horse
blocking the trail. Looking up,‘ she
saw that they were at the head of a
canon that yawned beneath and widen-
ed its gray-walled, green-patched
slopes down to a black forest of fir.
The drab monotony of the foot-hills
made contrast below the forest; and
away in the distance, rosy and smoky,
lay the desert.
Retracting her gaze, Madeline saw
the packhorses cross an'open space a
mile below, and she thought she saw
the wolf—hounds. Stewart’s dark eyes
searched the slopes high up along the
craggy escarpments. Then 'he put the
black to the descent.
If there had been a trail left by the
leading cowboys, Stewart did not fol-
low it. He led off to the right, zigzag-
ging an intricate course through the
roughest ground Madeline had ever
ridden over. He crashed through ced-
ars; threaded a tortuous way among
boulders‘; made his horse slide down
slanting banks of soft earth; picked a
slow and cautious progress across
weathered slopes of loose rock. Mad—
eline followed, finding the ride a se-
vere tax on her strength and judg-
ment. On an ordinary horse she nev-
er could have kept in Stewart’s trail.
, It was dust and heat, a parching
throat, that caused Madeline to think
of time; and she was amazed to see
the sun sloping to the west. She re-
membered Monty’s advice about drink-
ing and “eating as she rode along.
Stewart never stopped; he never look-
ed back; he never spoke. He must
have heard the horse close behind.
The worst of the rough travel came

   

 

  
  
 
 
 

 

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at the bottom of the canon. Dead ced-
ars and brush and logs were easy to
pass compared with the miles, it seem-
ed, of loose boulders. The horses
slipped and stumbled. Stewart pro-
ceeded here with extreme care. At
last, when the canon opened into a
level forest of firs, the sun was set-
ting red in the west.

Stewart quickened the gait of his
horse. After a mile or so of easy trav‘
e1 the ground again began to fall de-
cidedly, sloping in numerous ridges
with draws between. Soon night shad-
owded the deeper gullies. Madeline
was refreshed by the cooling air.

Stewart traveled slowly now. The
barks of coyotes seemed to startle
him. Often he stopped to listen; and
during one of theselintervals the si-
lence was broken by sharp rifle-shots.
Madeline could not tell whether they
were near or far, to right or left, he-
hind or before.

Evidently Stewart was both alarmed
and baffled. He dismounted and went
cautiously forward to listen. Madeline
fancied she heard a cry, low and far
away. It was only that of a coyote,
she convinced herself; yet it was so
wailing, so human, that she shuddered.

Stewart came back. He slipped the
bridles of both horses and led them.
Every few paces he stopped'to listen.
He changed his direction several times
and he got among rough, rocky ridges.
The iron shoes of the horses cracked
on the rocks. The sound must have
penetrated far into the forest. It per-
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softer ground.

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Madeline heard the faint scratching or
a match; then she saw a faint light.
The cabin appeared ‘to be deserted.
Probably it was one of the many scat-

tered habitationsv belonging to pros-
, pectors and foresters who lived in the
mountains.

Stewart came out again. He walked
around the horses out into the gloom,
then back to Madeline. For a long mo-
ment he stood as still as a statue and
listened. Then she heard him mutter:

“If we have to start quick, I can ride
bareback.”

With that he took the saddle and
blanket off his horse and carried them
into the cabin.

“Get off,” he said in a low voice, as
he again stepped out of the door.

He helped her down and led her in-
side, where he struck another match.
Madeline caught a glimpse of a rude
fireplace and rough- -hewn logs. Stew-
art’s blanket and saddle lay on the
hard-packed earthern floor.

“Rest a little,” he said.
in the woods a piece to listen.
be gone a minute or so.”

Madeline had to feel around in the
dark to locate the saddle and blanket.
When she lay down it was with a
grateful sense of ease and relief. As
her body rested, however, her mind
became once more a thronging amaze
of sensation and thought.

All day she had attended to the
alert business of helping her horse.
Now, what had already happened—the
night, the silence, the proximity of
Stewart and his strange, stern caution,
the possible fate of her friends——all
claimed their due share. of her feeling.
As for herself, somehow she had no
fear; but she could not sleep. Indeed,
she did not try.

Stewart’s soft steps sounded outside,
and his dark form loomed in the door-
way. As he sat down Madeline heard
the thump of a gun that he laid beside
him on the sill; and then the sound of
another. Stewart’s wide shoulders
filled the door; his finely shaped head
and strong, stern profile showed clear-
ly in outline against the. sky; the draft
waved his hair. He turned his ear to
the wind and listened. Motionless he
sat for what seemed hours to her.

Then the stirring memory of the
day’s adventure, the feeling of the
beauty of the night, and a strange,
deep-seated, sweetly vague conscious-
ness of happiness portending, were all
burned out in hot pain at the remem-
brance of Stewart‘s disgrace. Some-
thing had changed Within her so that
What had been anger at herself was
sorrow for him. He was such a splen—
did man! She had discharged him;
she could not take him back; she knew
her debt to him, yet she could not
thank him, could not speak to him.
She fought vainly against an unintelli-
gible bitterness.

Then she rested with closed eyes,
and time seemed neither short nor
long.

When Stewart called her, she open-
ed her eyes to see the gray of dawn.
She rose and stepped outside. The
horses whinnied. In a moment she
was in the saddle, aware of cramped
muscles and a weariness of limbs.

Stewart led off at a sharp trot into
the fir forest. They came to a trail,
into which he turned. The horses
traveled steadily; the descent grew
less steep; the firs thinned out; the
gray gloom brightened.

When Madeline rode out of the firs
the sun had risen, and the foot-hills
rolled beneath her; and at their edge,
where the gray of valley began, she
saw a dark patch that she knew was
the ranch-house.

About the middle of the forenoon
Madeline reached the ranch. Her
guests had all arrived there late the
night before, and wanted only her
presence and the assurance of her
well- being to consider the last of the
camping—trip a rare adventure. Like-
wise they voted‘ it the cowboys' mas-
terpieée of a trick. Madeline’s delay,

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cOup‘t'O' give, a final, effect. She-did not
correct their‘ impression, nor did she
think it needful to state that she had
been escorted home by only one” cow-
boy.

Her guests reported an arduous ride
down the mountain, with only one in-
cident to lend excitement. They had
fallen in with Sheriff Hawe and sev-
eral Of his deputies,'who were consid-
erably under the influence ofidrink
and very greatly enraged by the es-
cape of the Mexican girl, Bonita. Hawe
language to the
ladies, and, according to Ambrose,
would have inconvenienced the party
on some pretext or other if he had not
been sharply silenced by the cowboys.

Madeline’s guests Were two days in
recovering from the hard ride; on the
third day they leisurely began to pre-
pare for departure. This period was
doubly trying for Madeline. She had
her own physical need of rest, and
moreover had to face a. mental conflict
that could scarcely be postponed any
further. ’

Her sister and friends were kidnly
and earnestly persistent in their en-
treaties that she should go back to the
east with them; and she desired to go.
It was not going that mattered; what
disturbed her was the question of her
return. Before she went to New York
she wanted to have fixed in mind her
future relation to her ranch and to
the west. ‘

When the crucial hour arrived she
found that the west had not fully

claimed her yet. These old friends had,

revived old memories. It turned out,
however, that there need be no hurry
about making the decision. _

Madeline would have welcomed any
excuse to procrastinate; but, as it hap-
pened, a letter from Alfred made her
departure out of the question for the
present. He wrote that his trip to
California had been very profitable,
and that he had a proposition for Mad-
eline from a large cattle company.
Furthermore, he wanted to marry
Florence soon after his arrival home,
and would bring a clergyman from
Douglas for that purpose.

Madeline went so far, however, as
to promise Helen and her friends that
she would go east soon—by Thanks-
giving, at the very latest. With that
promise, they were reluctantly con-
tent to say good-bye to the ranch and
to her.

At the last moment there seemed a
great likelihood of a hitch in their
plans for the first stage of the home-
ward journey. All of Madeline's guests
held up their hands, western fashion,
when Link Stevens appeared with the
big white car. Link protested inno-
cently, solemnly, that he would drive
slowly and safely; but it was neces-
sary for Madeline to guarantee Link’s
word, and to accompany them, before
they would enter the car.

At the station good-byes were spoken
and repeated, and Madeline’s promise
was exacted for the hundredth time.
Helen’s last words, spoken with a
mocking light in her eyes, were:

“Majesty, bring Stewart with you
when you come. He‘ll be the rage!"

Madeline treated the remark with
the same merry lightness with which
it was received’ by the others; but
on her way home she remembered Hel-
en’s words andlooks with something
almost amounting to a shock. Any
mention of Stewart, any thought of
him, displeased her.

“What did Helen mean?”
Madeline.

That mocking light in Helen’s eyes
had been simply an ironical glint, a
synical gleam of worldly experience,
suspicious and yet tolerant in its'wis-
dom. But there had also been in her
look a certain, sweet gravity that was
something deeper and more subtle.
Madeline wanted to understand it, to
divine in it a new relation between
Helen and herself, something fine and
sisterly that might lead to love.- The
thought, revolving around ‘a strange
mention ‘of Stewart, was poisoned’ in

mused

its inception, and she. dismissed , it.

Upon the drive to the ranch, as she
was passing the lower lake, she saw
Stewart walking listlessly along the
shore. When he became aware of the
approach of the car, he suddenly awak-
ened from his aimless sa’untering and
disappeared in the shade of the shrub-
bery.

This was not by any means the first
time Madeline had seen him avoid a.
possible meeting with her. Somehow
the act had pained her, though afford-
ing her a relief. She did not want to
meet him face to face.

It Was annoying enough for her to
know that Stillwell had kept him at
the ranch. The old cattlemapn had
been distressed to hear of Stewart’s
discharge. Several times he had tried
to open a conversation on the subject
with Madeline; but she had evaded
him until the last time, when his per-
sistence had brought a cold and final
refusal to hear another word about
the dismis’ed foreman.
been crushed.

Yet, as days passed, Stewart remain-
ed at the ranch. Madeline was not
moved to a kinder frame of mind to
see him wandering dejectedly around.
It hurt her, and because it hurt her,
and because it hurt her she grow all
the harder.

Then she could not help hearing
snatches of talk which strengthened
her suspicion that Stewart was losing
his grip on himself, that he would
soon take the downward Course again.
Verification of her own suspicion made
it a belief, and belief brought about a
sharp conflict between her generosity
and some feeling which she could not
name. It was not a question of justice
or mercy or sympathy. If a single
word con-id have saved Stewart from
sinking his splendid manhood into the
brute from which she had recoiled at
Chiricahua, she could not have said it.

A telegram from Douglas, heralding
the coming of Alfred and a clergyman,
put an end to Madeline’s brooding;
and she shared something of Florence
Kingsley’s excitement. The cowboys
were as eager and gossipy as girls. It
was arranged to have the wedding
ceremony performed in Madeline’s
great hall-chamber, and the dinner in
the cool, flower-scented patio.

Alfred and his companion arrived at
the ranch in the big white car. They
appeared somewhat wind-blown. In
fact, the clergyman was breathless, al-
most sightless, and certainly hatless.

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High in a tree top a bobolink clinging,
Rocking and swayng with never a.
fear,
Out on the branches he loves to be
swinging,
Singing his
clear.
Dandelions gold‘ in the meadows are
flinging,
Bright as a dollar their faces appear,
Everywhere robins and redwings are
singing,
This is their message:
time is here.”

carols so joyous and

“The Spring.

Proudly the lilacs their plumes are up-
lifting,
Sweet is the fragrance that floats in
the air,
White fleecy clouds in the heavens are
drifting,
Dream ships that float on a Sea blue
and fair.
Down thru the branches the sunbeame:
are sifting,
What with the sunshine of Spring
can compare?

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Robing the earth with a garment
most rare.

Sweet-scented snowdrifts the orchards
are heaping,
Hark how the bluebirds and orioles
sing!
Over their hidden nests loving watch
keeping;
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wmg, .
Violets blue from the roadsides are
peeping,
Look how the forests their green
banners fling!

Everywhere Nature is waking frOm '

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attend;

Alfred, used as he, was to Twind and M

speed, remarked that he did not won-
der at Nels’s aversion to riding a fleet-
ing cannon-ball. The imperturbable
Link took off his cap and goggles and,
consulting his watch. made his usual

.apologetic report to Madeline, deplor-

ing the fact that a teamster and a few
stray cattle on the road had held him
down to the manana time of only a
mile a minute.

The arrangements for the wedding
earned Alfred’s delighted approval.
When he had learned all that Florence

'and Madeline would tell him, he ex-

pressed a desire to have the cowboys
and then he went on to talk
about California, where he was going
to take Florence On a short trip. He

'was curiously interested to find out all

about Madeline's guests, and what had
happened to them. His keen glance at
Madeline grew softer as she talked.

“I breathe again,” he said, and
laughed. “I was afraid—well, I must
have missed some sport. So you went
up to the Crags! That’s a wild place.
I'm not surprised at guerillas falling in
with you up there. The Crags was a
famous rendezvous for Apaches—it's
near the border—almost inaccessible
—good water and grass. I wonder
what the U. S. cavalry would think if
they knew these guerrillas crossed the
border right under their noses! Well,
it's practically
some of that border-line. I’m sorry to
say that there seems to be more trou—
ble in sight with these guerrillas than
at any time heretofore. Orozco, the

.rebel leader, has failed to withstand
Madero’s army, and has broken up his'

forces into guerrilla hands. They are
moving north and west, intending to
carry on guerrilla warfare in Sonora.
I.can’t say just how this will affect us
here; but we’re too close to the bor-
der for comfort. The guerrillas are
night-riding hawks; they can cross the
border, raid us here, and get back the
same night. Unfortunately we hap-
pen to be favorably situated for them,
down here in this wilderness corner of
the state.”

On the following day, Alfred and
Florence were married. Florence's
sister and several friends from El

Cajon were present, besidesMadeline,
Stillwell, and his men. It was Alfred's
express wish that Stewart should at-
tend the ceremony.

Madeline was amused when she no-
ticed the painfully suppressed excite-
ment of the cowboys. For them a wed-
ding must have been an unusual and
impressive event. She began to have
a better understanding of the nature of
if when they cast off restraint and
pressed forward to kiss the bride, ac-
cording to the old-fashioned custom.
In all her life Madeline had never
seen a bride kissed so much and so
heartily, nor one so flushed and dis-
heveled and happy.

The dinner began quietly enough,
with the cowboys divided between em-
barrassment and voracious appetites
that they evidently feared to indulge.
Wine, however, loosened their tongues
and when Stillwell got up to make the
Speech everybody seemed to expect of
him they greeted him with a roar.

Stillwell was 'now one huge, moun-
tainous smile. He was so happy that
he appeared on the verge of tears. He
rambled on ecstatically till he came to
raise his glass:

“An’ now, boys and girls, let’s all
drink to the bride an’ groom—to their
sincere an’ lastin’ love—to their happi-
ness an’ prosperity—to their good
health an’ long life. Let’s drink to the
unitin’ of the east with the west. No
man full of red blood an’ the real
breath of life could resist a western
girl an’ a good hoss an’ God’s free
hand—that open country out there. So
we claim Al Hammond, an’ may we be
true to him! An’, friends, I think it
fittin’ that we should drink to his sis-
ter an’ to our hopes. Heah’s to the
lady we hope to make our Majesty!
Heah’s to the man who’ll come ridin’

_ out of the west, a fine, big-hearted man

 

impossible to patrol '

with a fast hoss an’ a strong rupe, anf
may he 'Win an’ hold her! - Come, my
friends, drink—” . .

A heavy pound of horses’ hoofs and
a yell outside arrested Stillwell’s voice
and halted his hand in mid air. The
patio became as silent as an unoccu-
pied room. .

Through the open doors and win-
dows of Madeline’schamber burst the
sounds of horses stamping to a halt,
then harsh speech of men and a 10W
cry of a woman in pain.

Rapid steps crossed the porch, en-
tered Madeline’s room. Nels appeared
in the doorway. Madeline was sur-
prised to see that he had not been at
the dinner-table. She was disturbed
at sight of his face.

“Stewart, you’re wanted outdoors,”
called Nels bluntly. “Monty, you slope
out here with me. You, Nick, an’

Stillwell. I reckon the rest of you
hed better shut the doors an' stay
inside.”

Nels disappeared. Quick as a cat
Monty glided out. Madeline heard his
soft, swift steps pass from her room
into her office. He had left his guns
there. Madeline trembled. She saw
Stewart get up quietly and, without
any change of expression on his dark,
sad face, leave the patio. Nick Steele
followed him.

Stillwell dropped his wine glass. AS
it broke, shivering the silence, his huge
smile vanished. His face set into the
old cragginess, and the red slowly
thickened into black. Stillwell went
out and closed the door behind him.

Then there was a blank silence. The
enjoyment of the moment had been
rudely disrupted. Madeline glanced
down the lines of brown faces to see
the pleasure fade into the old, familiar
hardness.

“What’s wrong?” asked Alfred rath-
er stupidly. Yl‘he change of mood had
been too rapid for him. Suddenly he
awakened, thoroughly aroused at the
interruption. “I'm going to see who’s
butted~in here to spoil our dinner,” he
said, and strode out.

He returned before any one at the
table had spoken or moved, and now
the dull red of anger mottled his fore-
head.

“It’s the sheriff of El Cajon!” he ex-
claimed contemptuously. “Pat Hawe,
with some of his tough deputies, come
to arrest Gene Stewart! They've got
that poor little Mexican girl out there
tied on a horse. Confound that fool
sheriff."

Madeline calmly rose from the table,
eluding Florence's entreating hand,
and started for the door. The cowboys
jumped up. Alfred barred her progress.

“Alfred, I’m going out,” she said.

“No, I guess not," he replied. “That
is no place for you.”

“I am going.” She looked straight
at him.

“Madeline! “'hy, what is it? You
look—dear, there’s pretty sure to be
trouble outside. Maybe there’ll be a

fight. You can do nothing. You must
not go.”

“Perhaps I can prevent trouble,” she
replied.

As she left the patio she was aware
that Alfred, with Florence at his side
and the cowboys behind, was follow-
ing her.

When she got out on the porch she
heard several men in loud, angry dis-
cussion. Then, at sight of Bonita help-
lessly and cruelly bound upon a horse,
pale and disheveled and suffering,
Madeline experienCed the thrill that
sight or mention of this girl always
gave her. It yielded to a hot pang in
her breast—that live pain which so
shamed her. But almost instantly, as
a second glance showed agony in Bon-
ita’s face, her bruised arms where the
rope bit deep into the flesh, her little
brown hands stained with blood, Mad-

eline was overcome by pity for the un-.

fortunate girl, and by a woman’s right-
eous passion at such barbarous treat-
ment of one of her own sex.

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"No, it isn’t mother,” she assured have anything to say about it.” And ble boiler until it is transparent. Then
me despondently. “Mother’s getting the angry lady flounced out to tell her add a half teaspoon 0f salt, one-half
better. It’s Angela.” troubles to a. more sympathetic CUP 0f. sugar and one tumbler 0f jelly

"Angela?” 1 exclaimed. “Why, she neighbor. and stir untilsugar and jelly are dis-
went by this morning the picture of Poor‘Angela, and poor mother. .It’s solved. Pour m a mould and set on 109
health. Has there been an accident?” the age-old problem of raising a child or on the cellar bottom until ready to
Angela was the 18-year-old daughter. as a part of one’s self and having it serve.

“Accident? No,” replied the mother turn out to be an individual with pro- Oranges, than WhiCh there is no bet-
mournfully. “But there might better pounced likes and leanings of its own. ter fruit for torpid livers, may be serv-
have been. I might better have buried Angela. and her mother are as much ed in a variety 0f ways. We all have
her in infancy.” alike as a humming bird and a crow, our "favorite orange salad, While or-

“For goodness sake, Mrs. Jackson, and yet the mother expects her daugh- anges sliced in circles and sprinkled
what is the matter? What can have ter to like the same books, people and With powdered sugar have been served
happened?” I urged. pursuits. The mother can not see that‘ from time immemorial. Then there is

“She wants to be a trained nurse,” the girl is not simply mother, but orangeade, to take the place of lemon-
the mother» explained tragically. “Not mother and father and all the ances— ade, and orange Shortcake as a. make-
only wants to be, but is bound to be. tors on both sides. She inherits char— Shift for the real sort 0f Shortcake to
She says if she can’t be she will go out acteristics from both sides of the fam- come in June. Orange bouillon may
cooking for someone.” , ily, and of course is a new individu- be served as the beginning 0f dinner

“Well, I don’t see anything so ter- ality. She could scarcely be expected some warm spring day. Tomake. DUt
rible in that,” I replied. “I thought to like a thing just because mother one quart 0f orange Juice withacup of
she had leprosy or smallpox. Why did, any more than she could like to sugar in the double boiler and set over
shouldn’t she be a trained nurse. if smoke just because father enjoyed it. the fire until the, mixture iS scalded,
she wants to? You can afford to put It’s a mistake that SO many parents stirring occasionally. Then thicken
her through training and it’s a good make. They wanted to do certain With two tablespoonfuls of corn starch,
paying profession, one where she can things in youth and could not, prob- dissolved in a little cold water, stir-
do his 0f good.” ably because their parents intervened. ring-constantly 1111.111. clear and then

“But I want her to be a school teach— And because they wanted to do it so 00013113 without stirring for five min-
er,” sniffed the mother. “It’s so much much they decide that their children mes; _ Chm thoroughly and serve in
more genteel and she 0011“ “V9 at shall carry out their thwarted desires, bonillion cups If you have them, if not
home and be company for me. and I’ve without stopping to think that perhaps "1 your Prettlest glasses-
always intended her to be. She knows that will not suit the child at all, and Orange Cream. Scald three cups of
well enough I put her through high that their insistence will spoil the milk in the double boiler and add flve
school just for that and intended to child’s life as theirs were spoiled eggs, a pinch of salt and one-third cup
send her to college. I never could go, before. . of sugar beaten together. When partly
but I always meant her to. She says It’s hard, no doubt, to stand back cooked add the grated rind of one or-
she isn’t going to college and ‘bone’ and see your child doing the thing you ange and the juice of three. Serve
for four years cramming her head with don’t like, and turning down the occu- with whipped cream. If preferred, re-
a lot of stuff she never will use and pation you deem most desirable. But serve the whites of three eggs, whip
don’t want to know anyway, when she remember you are not the child. He dry, flavor, sweeten to suit and pile on
does like to nurse. What do we bring will have to live on, carrying on his top of the custard, which has been
children into the world for anyway, to work for years after you are laid on poured in a glass bowl. Of course,
have them turn on us like this when the Shelf. Why not give him the priv. rich milk may be substituted for the
they get their growth?” And the I300r ilege of doing the thing he most cream. - ‘
lady dabbed her eyes With her IIIOiSt enjoys? Lettuce may usually be secured at
handkerchief and groaned aloud. this time of the year, and most coun-
I groaned, too, but for Angela. Not try groceries also have potted cheese
a youngster in the street who wouldn’t on 8319- A change from ordinary let-
go to her with a, pounded thunlb or a 1'.qu salad is made as follows: Al‘-
bruised toe or a sliver to get, out, I" range crisp lettuce leaves on the salad
quicker than to his own mother. She _ '3'? M- A- 1-; plates and sprinkle with crumbled
was always tying splints on lame pussy Wh’le the Cltgv houseivife, who wants cheese. BOil as many eggs hard as
cats’ legs, not to mention dropping in to pay the Drlceo has been enjoying you have services, out in halves, re-
to rock crying babies to sleep or rub strawberries Since. February, the coun- move the yolks and crumble over the
headaches away. If ever therewere a try housékeepgr m the lake reglons cheese. On top set the CUPS 0f egg
born nurse, Angela was one. As for must wait until Junefor this dlelicmus white. filled with your favorite salad
teaching, she had barely “squeaked” berry. Meantime, tired of pies and dressmg,
through high school, and “fiunked” puddings, cakes and doughnuts, she

twice in the grades, and had confessed SighS for “something different” m the mint jelly, instead 0f the usual mint
to a group of us just the week before way 0f desserts. Oranges, pineapples, sauce. Steep a. handful of chopped
that she didn’t know whether Serbia lemons and bananas she can usually mint for a half hour in a half pint of
was a place or a salad. Her letters to get, for If fresh pineapples have not water, strain, and add to one and one-
friends always had to be carefully ed- as yet reached her market, she can half cups of boiling water. Pour this
ited as to punctuation and spelling be- “wars buy .a good quality canned. A over two tablespoonfuls of powdered
fore they could be sent out, and she deliCious pineapple pudding may be gelatine and one cup of sugar and stir
was more likely to tell you seven times made as follows: . ' till dissolved, then'add one-half cup of
nine are 56 than to get it straight. Pour the juice off one small can of lemon juice, strain again and set away
Angela. a school teacher! How absurd. diced pineapple, or take a. cop 0f the to harden.

“But, Mrs. Jackson,” I ventured fin- fresh fruit diced. Mix with three-
ally, “Angela is a born nurse, and if fourths ofa cup of powdered sugar and
she doesn’t like school she’d never pour into two and one-half tablespoons
make a gOOd teacher. She would be of powdered gelatine dissolved in one

unhappy all the time and the children cup 0f boiling water. When the mix- Dr. E. B. Forbes: chief of the De-
would not get along. She’d end by ture begins to gaffe” add a half pint partment of Nutrition of the Ohio Ex-
having every youngster hate her. 0f ,Whlpped cream andpour mt" a periment Station, says that many Am-
where now they all adore her. You mould to harden. erican diets today consist too largely
can’t expect her to be just like you Orange and Grape Juice Jelly. Boil of meats and cereal foods which lack
and to like everything you do. Why one cup 0f sugar With one pint 01’ boil- the outer seed coats. _ Such diets are
not let her do the thing she likes, an ing Water ten minutes. Add two table— deficient in minerals. Those minerals
make the best or it?” , spoons of powdered gelatine. one-half most commonly lacking are calcium,

“Don’t you dare to encourage her," cup. of orange juice-and one-half~~cup,of phasphorus and iron. _
flared forth the momenror'getting her grape juice. Stir thoroughly unt the ‘ ” apt "

 

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prunes, beans, peas and green vegeta-
bles (especially spinach); Foods poor
in minerals are polished rice, pearl
hominy, white'flour, bolted corn meal,
and other cereal foods lacking the out-
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Oatmeal Nut Bread.

A good nut or raisin bread may be
made with rolled oats combined with
the fruit or nuts. To make, pour two
cups of boiling water over an equal
quantity of rolled oats and when luke-
warm add one cake of yeast and a
quarter of a cup of brown sugar which
have been dissolved in a half cup of
lukewarm water. Add enough flour to
make a sponge, beat well and set in a
warm place utinl light. When light
add one teaspoon of salt and enough
flour to make a dough. Let rise again,
then add a cup of chopped nuts or a
cup of chopped raisins, form into
loaves and when light bake about 45
minutes.

Meat Turnovers.

.Tomse up bits of left-over meat try
meat turnovers. Make a rich biscuit
dough and cut in circles aboutpthe size
of a pie plate. Spread with the chop-
ped meat, which has been seasoned to
suit, with salt, pepper, chopped onion
or celery. Brush the edges of the dough
with egg white and pinch together.
Bake about a half hour and serve with
a brown gravy.

Vegetables.

At this season of the year many cel-
lars contain a few vegetables aside
from cabbage and a few wilted carrots
and onions. Before using the vegeta-
bles should be soaked several hours in
water as cold as it can be secured,
changing the water frequently to keep
it cold. This restores some of the
freshness to the vegetables and makes
them more appetizing. As a change
from hot slaw and creamed cabbage,
try some one of the following recipes:

Cabbage with Sausage.

Fry sausage crisp and brown. Re?

move from frying pan and place Where
it will keep hot. Pour off the fat, all
but three or four tablespoonfuls, and
in this try finely minced cabbage six
or seven minutes, seasoning with salt
and pepper unless the fat gives enough
flavor. l’ile on a hot platter and ar-
range the hot sausage cakes around
the outside.
Cabbage with Ham or Bacon.

Instead of the plain salt pork and
cabbage which we all know, the cab-
bage may be boiled with a bit of bacon
or the end of a ham from which no
more can be cut for frying. Boil the
meat slowly for a couple of hours, then
add the cabbage, cut in halves, and
cook until done, usually not more than
45 minutes.

FRENCH ON THE MENU.

 

If you are out to dinner and have a
French menu placed before you, do not
despair. The following list of terms
with their English equivalents should
enable you to order so as to satisfy
hunger: ,

Au Gratin—Dishes covered with
crumbs and browned.

Bisque—-Soups made thick with
mince and crumbs.

Canape—-Usually toast with cheese
or potted meat spread upon it.

Cannelon—Meat stuffed, rolled, up
and roasted or braised.

En Coquille—Served in shells.

Farcie—Stuffed.

Croustade—A kind of patty made of
bread or prepared rice.

Fondu—A preparation of melted
cheese.

    

 

  
 

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Win the Gold Medal at a great World’s Exposition.

It IS a bigger thing, however, to Win the approval
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Proud aswe are of the Gold Medal, we are prouder
of the Pilot’s record in use, of the unequalled ser-
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If there had been no exposition, we would still
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for economy, reliability, efficiency and safety, from
the country home owners standpoint, the Pilot
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The Gold Medal award at the Exposition is the
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by satisfied users from the Atlantic to the Pacific
and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf.

These facts make it easy for you to decide the best method ' g

of supplying modern lighting and cooking service to your home.
The Pilot —- the Gold Medal winner—will be your choice.

Write for illustrated catalog and descriptive booklets for all .
the facts today. ’7 i

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the words of Mr. Jess S.Glasgow of
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ShOuld Know Cost of Milk

HE milk question is a vital one

for all dairymen that offer this

commodity for sale. Whether
you operate on a. large scale, or on a
small scale, the issue is the same.

If dairying is your main industry,
affording the wherewithal to support
and educaté your family, it is time that
you looked into the business side of
the proposition. If you are operating
a dairy as a side issue, it is time for
you to determine whether this branch
of your- business is being conducted at
a loss, thereby diminishing the net
revenues of your other undertakings.

If such is the case, ordinary business
prudence would suggest the elimina-
tion of this branch, and a concentra-
tion of your efforts in those branches
that do pay.

The time has come when the farmer,
to make a success of his operations,
must study and apply the same meth-
ods to his business that have proven
successful for the various enterprises
in our cities.

If we study the methods of any suc-
cessful manufacturing company, we
will find that the cost sheet is the founc
dation stone of the whole enterprise.
Upon the accuracy of this cost sheet
depends the entire superstructure and
financial being of the company.

In this cost sheet are incorporated
all the items of expense that enter in
the manufacture of the product. The
raw material, handling, freight, cart- T is not normal conditions, but un-
age, real estate, buildings, insurance, I usual ones, that call forth all the
taxes, light, heat, DOWGI‘, water, gas, mental resources of the fruit-grow.
tools, labor, superintendence, etc, are er in order to avoid a failure and to
carefully determined and itemized, place the balance on the right side of
and the summation of same divided by the ledger. Such was the year of 1914.
the number of completed units gives The enormous over-production of ap-
the unit 005‘; Of the product. pies with consequent low prices in the
To offer the product for sale at a usual markets, made .Iheir marketing
lower price than the unit cost would, a serious problem. Thousands of bush-
of course, spell ruin for the concern, els of Michigan apples were not even
and their lease on life would depend picked and thousands more that were
entirely upon the amount of their picked and sold did not pay for the la-
reserve or working capital. bor of picking and packing.

Of course, this unit cost is not the This was the condition that con-
fronted the Garden Orchards, of Delta
county. These orchards were origi-
nally owned by a lumber company,
whose manager established them as-a
hobby. By the spring of 1914, the
company had cut all its timber, and
they sold their entire holdings, includ-
ing the orchards, 10 a big land com‘
pany. This concern was organized
solely to deal in lands. Its members
were none of them fruit men, but they

keep of bull; incidentals, light, medi-
cine, veterinarian, tools, heating, wa-
ter, salt, etc.

It is in his failure to consider the
above items, and to enter them into

adds in his profit to the unit cost, that
causes him to sell his product at" an
actual loss at present prices. ’ '

There are no state laws that will
compel an individual orfirm to sell its
product at a loss. Such procedure
would be confiscation, and under the
terms of the law no man’s property
can be confiscated without due recom-
pense be given.

Bear in mind this word confiscation:
while'one’s property or business can-
not be confiscated, there are other leg-
al ways in which the same result can
be brought about.

In its present state the marketing of
milk by the producer is limited entire-
ly to his selling to the one distributor
in his locality. He either accepts or
rejects the price offered him.

To continue in business he is forced
to accept the one price offered, wheth-
er this price has any bearing on the
actual cost of production or not. It is
out of the question for him to consider

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shown, but I wish to lay particular em-
phasis upon the cost at this stage, be-
cause it is just at this point that the
majority of farmers or dairymen cease
in the determination of cost of the
product which they manufacture.

As a rule, the dairyman estimates
his net revenues by deducting the cost
of the cow, spread over a. term of years
and the feed she consumes per year,
.from the returns of his milk check. had to take the orchards in the deal.
That seems to leave a nice balance, The orchards comprised 116 acres,
but yet, somehow, at the end of the as follows: Fifty-six acres about 15
year he finds he is no richer than he years old; 20 acres, 10 years; 20 acres,
was the year before. eight years; 20 acres, six years. The
His trouble is very evident: the orchard had had fairly good care, but
same thing would apply to the manu- had never been sprayed. When the
facturing company if they failed to add land company came into possession, it
their overhead expense. Their over- fell to the lot of Mr. Stephens, the
head expense would consist of salaried secretary, to look after the orchard.
officers, bookkeepers, clerks, steno‘ He got busy immediately and bought
graphers, salesmen, etc, whose opera. a power spraying outfit and that year
tions are not directly connected with the orchard was thoroughly sprayed.
the manufacturing end of the business. When the proper season arrived, the
They might anticipate a profitable trees were a mass of bloom and Mr.
business for the year, by adding a Stephens realized he would have a
profit to the manufacturing cost price problem on his hands when harvest
of the article, but by failing to take time came. And, later, when reports

pense, before determining the selling try would be enormous, the problem
price of the product, they likewise assumed serious proportions.

would find at the end of the year that But. Mr. Stephens did not complain;
their anticipated profits have vanished, instead, he set his wits to work. He
and in its place a deficit stares them
in the face. barrels and when picking time came,
The trouble with the dairyman is his plans were ready. He knew noth-
that he leaves his overhead expenses ing about the commercial grades of
out of consideration. Among his own apples, but used his own judgment in
head expenses might be mentioned: ‘ grading,
Interest on money invested ‘in cow; grades.
insurance on cow; taxes on cow; ,de- pound boxes,

 

grades in barrels.

 

preciation of cow; barn rent; bedding;

his cost of producing milk, before he ,2

and packed them in four make him rich or restful. *
The best were packed in 60- which we are makes us rich or poor;
and the other three that which we own is a trifle—Alex. "
The varieties were Sander Maclaren.

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of' milk to
crate and distinct business. The pro«
'ducing and distributing should go hand
in hand, each is dependent on the oth-
er. For either one to dictate to the
other is wrong in principle. Both must
be conducted at a. profit—should one
fail. the other likewise fails.

The producer should at all times re-
ceive a profit on his roduct, and he
should have a. voice in he determina-
tion of its selling price. That such is
not the case at present is very evident.
The power of the distributor over
the producer is plainly evident in the
drop in prices from March to April.
All stockmen in this vicinity realize
that April is a harder month to food
than March. The cattle are aware of

  

the approach of spring and a restless- -

ness pervades the entire herd. Antici-
pating the green and succulent grass
of May, their appetites lessen, likewise
the flew of milk.

Thus a double hardship forces itself
upon the producer, not only is his sell-
ing price lowered 28 per cent, but poor

“Boss-19,” realizing the injustice of the.

same tries to get even by likewise low-
ering the flow of milk.

If a solution of this question is only
to be found in co-operation, then verily,
the milk producers for the Detroit mar-
ket will have to co-operate by joining
together in one organization and de-
manding a price that is just and fair,
one that pays them a reasonable inter-
est on their investment.

Livingston Co. W. L. DECKER.

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Gets Good Prices for Apples

Duchess. Wealthy, Northern Spy.
Greenings, and Pewaukee, with a few
each of several other varieties.

Mr. Stephens now went to Escanaba,
a city of 14,000, which is about thirty
miles from the orchards, and rented a.
store in the best section of the city.
The apples were shipped to him daily
by boats, He fixed a nice display of
box apples in the windows and had
both boxes and barrels arranged neat-
ly in the store. He advertised in the
local papers and business soon came.
In six weeks he disposed of nearly
5,000 bushels at the following prices:
Fancy, $2.25 to $2.50 per (SO—pound box;
No. 1, $4 to $4.50 a barrel; No. 2, $310
3.50 a barrel; poorest grade, $2 to
2.75 a barrel.

Last year there were forty acres
more came into bearing. Except for
the Duchess and Wealthy, however,
the crop was short. On account of
so much rainy and cloudy weather, the
fruit was not up' to standard in size
and color. Consequently only two
grades were packed; the best in boxes
and the rest in one grade in barrels,
leaving out the culls for cider. Prices
last yeal for boxes was $2 to $2. 25;
barrels, $3 to $3. 50.

The piices 1eceived were excellent,
especially when we consider that the
bulk of the crop was Duchess and Weal-
thy. It must be remembered, however,
that these varieties are a great deal
later in season than in regions farther
south, and, consequently, they keep
much longe1. In the north, the Duch-
ess is considered a good eating apple
in Novembe1 and December.

With two years’ experience in mar-
keting, Mr. Stephens is well satisfied
with results. No. 1 apples from Lower

into consideration'their overhead ex— came that the crop all over the coun- Michigan were delivered in Escanaba
last year in wholesale lots at $2.10 a
barrel. Mr.
much for his poorest grade.
perience shows that an
ordered a good supply of boxes and method of distribution is an important
factor in securing good prices.

Stephens received that
His ex-
intelligent

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HE price of milk in Michigan
, has been the subject of serious
complaint. Dairy herds have
been sold and are being offered for
sale. An industry fundamental to the
whole people ’and the maintenance of
soil fertility is menaced by a price be-
low the cost of production. ~With the
improved means of conserving milk,
milk products, and with increased uses,
the producer is not sharing in the
gains. -
Coincident with the maintenance of
milk products in storage until used,
has come an increased cost of produc-
tion along every line—land, labor, and
feed. In the sections devoted to whole
milk selling for domestic use, condens-
ing and the manufacture of milk pow-

der, the cost of production is very lit- .

tle less in summer than in winter. The
cut in prices, under this condition, ap-
pears to be inequitable.

When the April prices for whole
milk were announced this spring the
butter-fat prices were well maintained.
The New York prices for butter-fat
Were in excess of the prices paid for
the milk from which it was derived.

When the retail price of whole milk
for domestic consumption was reduced
from nine cents to eight cents a quart
in April the reduction was around 11
per cent; the reduction in price paid
to the producer was approximately 22
per cent. April is an expensive month
in the production of milk and such in-
crease in output as may occur is fully
absorbed by increased demand. The
reduction in price made by several of
the condensing plants in this state
worked a hardship on producers whose
milk was expensive to them because of
the high—priced foodstuffs needed as
raw material. '

Food Elements Not Considered.

The discrimination in price against
summer milk relates to a condition
prevailing many years ago and is con-
tinued despite the fact that these con-
ditions have long since changed. Bran,
for example, was formerly a by-pro-
duct in making flour; its use was re-

,stricted and its price low. Today bran
is high-priced, yet the mineral and
protein elements of the bran transfer-
red into milk are practically unpaid
for. For instance, the price paid for
3.5 per cent milk during the month of
April was just about equal to the but-
ter-fat prices. The other solids, not
fat, such as approximately four pounds
of milk sugar, three pounds of casein
and albumen and probably one pound
of ash, are elements essential for food,
yet are largely overlooked in making
the price.

Michigan has a law compelling the
furnishing of a standard of these items,
also butter-fat, and the law has been
invoked at times in compulsion of their
delivery. The morals and justice of
the inclusion of these items of food
and their conversion is cause for the
dissatisfaction of the milk producer.

The Milk Producer Finances the

Distributor.

Milk sold for domestic use Is prac-
tically the capital of the distributor,
furnished by the producer, and gener-
ally collected for by the distributor be-
fore the producer is paid. The financ-
ing of the manufacture of milk pro-
ducts such as ice cream, milk powder,
condensed milk and casein is some-
what complexed; but these, in the lan-
guage of finance, are liquid assets con-

.stantly in process of consumption and

with rather even distribution. That
strong financial backing has been
found for handling these products is
evidence that these manufacturing en-
terprises are well thought of in the in-
vestment world.

Unless operated co-operatively, the
practice of paying for milk an arbi-
trary price and without pre-announce-
ment of schedule of rates, is autocratic

: and unbusiness-like, at least it is not

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Prices
By JAMES N. MCBRIDE,

State Director of 'Markets

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a practice followed in the sale of the
finished product. The self-respect of
the producers as well as good business
policy should compel definite advance
information as to prices to be paid.

The investigation of prices paid for
milk indicates that the producer has
realized very little benefit because of
the increased uses and demand for
this article of commerce. The general
index price of 25 of the principal foods
of the United States was on January 1,
1896, 80 cents. Those same products
were worth $1.55 in April of 1915 and
$1.66 in April of 1916. The increase in
price during the last year of all food
products has been around,eight per
cent, while milk in Michigan has, on
the whole, lost ground as to price.

It is possible that the dairy business
in the sections devoted to the selling
of whole milk could be changed in
character so that the cream would be
separated on the farm and the skim-
milk fed to stock. However, there are
some circumstances in this connection
to be considered. First, the increase
in quantity of butter-fat would tend to
bring down prices to the consternation
of those outside the zones of whole
milk selling. Second, the investment
in equipment now used and addition-
al equipment for the changed industry
would be an economic loss. Third, the
consumers of whole milk and whole
milk products are in positive need of
this nourishing food.

A General Call to Milk Producers.

The question, then, is as to an ad~
justment of prices and conditions that
will permit satisfactory industrial op-
erations. To this end the Livingston
County Milk I’roducers' Association
has taken the initiative. At a meeting
held April 22 the following resolutions
were adopted:

Whereas, the milk producers of
Michigan are suffering seriously be-
cause of a greatly increased cost of
production with no corresponding in-
crease in income, be it

Resolved, that we issue this call to
all milk producers of Michigan to gath-
er at the Michigan Agricultural Col-
lege, East Lansing, Room 402, Agricul-
tural Building, on Tuesday, May 23,
1916, at 11 a. m.

At this meeting methods will first be
discussed whereby, if possible, we may
bring about a decreased cost of pro-
duction.

If by a discussion of conditions we
find it impossible to further remedy
these conditions, be it

Resolved, that it is our purpose to
adopt such measures as we hope, may
result in securing an increased price
for our product.

The Illinois milk producers estimate
that their gains for this year because
of their activity in a marketing way
will amount to a million and a half of
good money and that this is secured to
them without any added cost to the
consumer.

It is expected that most of the milk-
producing sections of Michigan will be
represented at the forthcoming meet-
ing at East Lansing and that a policy
will be formulated that will make milk
producing in Michigan a more satis-
factory occupation than it has been
much of the time in the past.

0. A. Baldwin, of Bridgman, Berrien
county, had 18 acres of strawberries
last season. He contracted the ber-
ries early at $1.05 per crate, a low
price as future events proved, but nev-
ertheless sold over 4,000 crates and his
net profit, after paying all expenses
including labor and packages, was
$3,300, or nearly $200 per acre. An-
other Berrien grower sold 278 crates
from half an acre, making a net profit
of $500 per acre.

Better than he Thought. .

David W. Cousins, Northport, Mich.,
who has been advertising poultry,
writes: “I am all sold out of surplus
stock. The Michigan Farmer is a
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May 9,1916.

Wheat. ——The government crop re-
port indicates an improvement in the
condition of the winter wheat crop in
a number of the larger producing
states. Notwithstanding‘this gain, the
present outlook is for a crop 155,000,-
000 bushels less than for 1915. The
largest abandonment of acreage is
along the Ohio valley, and in Wiscon.
sin, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri——
the amount ranging from 18 to 33 per
cent of the acreage sown last fall. An
increased number of reports of dam-
age by insects in Kansas and other
western states threatens to overcome
some of the recent improvement noted
above. The visible supply shows a de-
crease of 1,989,000 bu. The amount of
wheat afloat has increased during the
past week, and primary receipts are
running heavier than a year ago. No.
2 red wheat was quoted at $1.501/2 on
this date in 1915. .Last week’s De-
troit prices were:

No 2 No. 1 ,
Red. White. May.
Wednesday ..... 1.23111, 1.18%; 1.24%,
Thursday . . . . . .1.21%, 1.16111, 1. 22%,
Friday ......... 1.20.1/2 1.151/2 1. 211,5,
Saturday ....... 1.22%, 1.1714, 1. 23
Monday ........ 1.21% 1.16% 1.22%
Tuesday ... 1.. 221/, 1.171/4, 1. 23
Chicago. ——May wheat $1. 43% per bu;

July 31.16; Sept. 31.15%.

Corn—Corn values suffered a frac-
tional loss on the local market Mon-
day. Ideal weather conditions had a
bearish effect upon the trade, as did
also the prospect of enlarged receipts.
On the other hand, corn is in good
demand and dealing would undoubt-
edly be improved if cars could be se-
cured for distributing grain. The vis-
ible supply decreased 1,995,000 bushels
last week. A year ago No. 3 corn was
quoted at 771/2c. Last week’s Detroit
quotations were:

No. 3 No. 3

Mixed. Yellow.

Wednesday ......... 761/5 79
Thursday ........... 76 7 8 1,43
Friday .............. 76 78 1/3

Saturday ............ 761/2 79
Monday ............. 76 781/;
Tuesday ............ 76 78 %
Chicago—May corn 78 1Age ; July

74%c; Sept. 731/2c.

Oats—During the past week oat val-
ues advanced, due to an active domes.
tic consumption. The market, how-
ever, on Monday was influenced by the
lack of strength in wheat and corn and
improved weather conditions increased

the prospects for the growing crop.

The U. S. visible supply of oats de-
creased 148,000 bushels, with a heavy
increase, however, in the amount in
bond. One yeai ago standard oats
were quoted at 551/20 per bushel. Last
week’s local quotations were;

No. 3

Standa1 (1. White.
Wednesday ......... 481/2 47 1/2
Thursday ........... 48 47
Friday .............. 48 47
Saturday ........... 481,4 47 14
Monday ............. 48 1/3 47 1,4
Tuesday ..... ... ..... 48 1% 471,4

Chicago—May oats 471/2c per bu;
July 343/3c; Sept 39%0.

Rye.—Unchanged at 95c per bushel
for cash No. 2.

Barley.—Milwaukee prices about
steady at 74@781/2c, while Chicago val-
ues are 63@790 per bushel.

BeanS.—~This product is very scarce
in all the markets, and the demand is
good. Cash beans advanced another
So last week, and are now quoted at
$3. 85 in Detroit, with July at $3. 90. At
Chicago pea beans, hand-picked, are
quoted at $3.85@3.95; red kidneys at
$4.75@5.

Clover Seed.—-—Prime red clover and
prime alsike $8.85.

Timothy Seed.——Prime $3.45 per bu.

FLOUR AND FEEDS.

 

Flown—Jobbing lots in one-eighth
paper sacks are selling on the Detroit
market per 196 lbs., as follows: Best
patent $6.50; seconds $6.20; straight
$5.90; spring patent $6.80; rye flour $6.

Feed.——In 100—1b. sacks. jobbing lots
- are: Bran 824; standard middlings
322; fine middlings $30; cracked corn
' $31. 50; com and oat chop $28 per ton.

Hay. —-No 1 timothy, $21. 50@22;
standard timothy $20. 50@21; light
mixed $20. 50@21; No. 2 timothy $18
'.@19;-No.1 mixed $15. 50@16; No. 1
clover $13@14.

Chicago. --Choice timothy hay $19. 50
20. 50; No. 1 do $17.50@18.50; No.2
;~~, o 315@16. 50.

  

a ter, creamery, is off 2c;

'terl -n;'ketoi1owdtfie
decline in the Elgm market

Receipts
are large and demand is fair. Extra
. creamery 300; firsts 280; dairy 25c;

packing stock 22c.

Elgin. —-Increasing receipts weaken-
ed the market and 'brought a decline
of 2c. 'Price for the week, based on
sales is 30c.

Chicago.—Light demand' and liberal
receipts brought lower prices. The
buying is in small lots only. Extra
creamery 2934c; extra firsts 29c; firsts
280; dairy extras 29@291/2'c; packing
stoék 24@25c.

Eggs. ———Market is quiet and steady
at unchanged prices. Current receipts
are quoted at 20340; firsts 21%c .

Chicago. —The feeling is firm at
prices a fraction of a cent lower than
last week. Firsts 201/3@20%c; ordi-
naiy firsts 19@19%c; miscellaneous
lots, cases included 19@20%c.

Poultry.—The market is firm and
quiet at former prices. Fowls 19@210
according to quality; spring chickens
19@20c; ducks 21@22c; geese 16@17c;
broilers 35@400.

Chicago—The feeling was slightly
easier in fowls but prices remain the
same. Other kinds are unchanged.
Quotations for hire are as follows:
Hens 171/2c: ducks 16@18c; geese 10@
13c; roosters and stags 13c. .

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

Apples.——Apples easy at unchanged
prices. Greenings $3@3. 75; Spys $3. 50
@4; Baldwins $3@3 50 Steele Reds
$4@4. 50. At Chicago the market is im-
proved for stock which is sound. Off-
grade stuff is hard to get rid of. No.
1 Greenings are quoted at $2.50@3.25
per bbl; Golden Russets $3@3.25;
Baldwins $3@3.25; SPYS $3.50@4.50;
Ben Davis $1.75@2.25.

Potatoes.——Potatoes are quiet and
easy at slightly lower prices. Carlots
on track 98c@$1.03 for white and 95c
@31 for red. At Chicago the market
is active and steady at lower prices.
No Michigan stock is quoted but oth-
ers sell from 80@950 per bushel. At
Greenville potatoes are selling for 750
a bushel.

WOOL AND HIDES.

 

Wool—There is no let-up in the de-
mond for wool. An increased number
of inquiries came to dealers last week.
A fairly satisfactory amount of busi-
ness in new wools is already being
done in Boston. In the fleece states
perhaps a larger number of farmers
than usual are holding back their wool
crop, believing higher prices than they
can now get will be offered later.

Hides—No. 1 cured 17c; do. green
15c; No. 1 cured bulls 130; do. green
100; No. 1 cured calf 25c; do. green
24c; No. 1 horsehides $4.50; No. 2
$3.50; No. 2 hides lo and No. 2 kip
and calf 11,,éc lower than the above;
gif‘epskins, as to amount of wool, 50c

a.

GRAND RAPIDS.

 

\Vheat advanced 2c for this week’s
opening, with No. 2 red quoted at $1.15
per bu; No. 1 white at $1.10; rye, 56-
lb. test, is worth 750; oats 45@47c;
corn 75@800; buckwheat 750; white
pea beans $3.25; red kidneys $4.25.
Eggs are quoted at 191/§@201/20. But-
dairy butter
steady at 25c. Hay on the city mar-
ket brings $15@18.

DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.

 

 

The few farmers who brought pro-
ducts to the market Tuesday sold out
early because of an active demand.
Ben Davis apples were held at 40@75c;
potatoes 500@$1; eggs 25@27c; but-
ter 35c; loose hay is in small supply
with prices ranging from $18@25 per
ton.

 

LIVE STOCK MARKETS.

Buffalo.
May 8, 1916.
(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,
New York Central Stock Yards,
Buffalo, N. Y.)

Receipts here today: Cattle 160 cars;
hogs 95 d. d.; sheep and lambs 75 d.
d.; calves 2000 head.

With 160 cars of cattle today, there
were about 60 cars of shipping steers
and the trade was slow to a dime low-
er, with three loads of choice cattle
landing at $9.85. There was a strong
demand for the butcher steers and fe~
male stuff, and they sold fully steady.
We look for a fair run of cattle here
next Monday and if they do not have
a heavy run in Chicago on Wednesday
we look for about a steady trade here.

Receipts of bags were fully up to
expectations, in the neighborhood of
95 double decks on sale, and while
demand was fair, prices were 10@20c
lower on all grades a few selected
lots selling at $10. 20Q10. 25, with the

 

 
    
 

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close and late trade was steady.

Market was active on choice sheep
and lambs, but slow on the heaVy and
coarse, with prices steady with the
close of last week. About all sold and
we look for steady to possibly a shade
higher prices last of the week.

We quote: Clipped lambs $10.15@
10. 25; heavy lambs $8. 50@8. 75; cull to
fair $6@10; bucks $4. 50@6. 75, year-
lings $8. 50@8. 75; handy ewes $7. 25@
7. 50; heavy do 36. 50@7; wethers $8@
8.;25 cull sheep $4@5. 50; veals, good
to choice $10.25@10.50; common to
fair $8@10; heavy $6@9.

 

Chicago.
May 8, 1916.
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
Receipts today. .,20 000 45, 000 15, 000
Same day 1915. .,12 922 30, 252 15,060
Last week ...... 38, 455 155, 986 53, 752
Same wk 1915. .39 518 139,195 43, 818

Only 14,117 hogs were shipped from
here last week, comparing with 24,287
a year ago. Hogs received averaged
218 lbs. ‘

After the cattle trade got well start-
ed today steers were reported as large
1y a dime lower, the better class ex-
cepted while butcher stock was steady.
Hogs started 5c lower, with sales at
$9.30@9.95. Sheep and lambs of qual-
ity sold at steady prices, ~but there
were lower bids for others. The late
hog market was at least a dime lower.

Cattle were marketed in only fair
numbers last week, and a small ad-
vance in prices resulted. Taking the
week as a whole, the bulk of the beef
steers sold at a range of $8.75@9.65,
with smaller offerings of the best class
of cattle. Choice to fancy lots went
at $9.50@9.95, good steers $9.25@9.45,
medium to good do. 38. 80@9. 20, fair
killers $8. 50@8. 75 and inferior light
weight steers $7. 75@8. 45; yearlings of
the better class $9@9. 90 for good to
best kinds, and 382573850 for the
commoner offerings. Butcher stuff
had a good outlet on the basis of $5.60
@860 for fair to prime cows and $5.75
@950 for heifers, the heifers selling
at $9 and upward being fancy little
yearlings. Cutters sold at $4.90@5.55,
canners at $3.60@4.85 and bulls at
$5.50@8.15, prime light weight year-
ling buils being the highest sellers.
Calves from dairying districts were
marketed liberally and sold freely, de-
sirable light weight veal calves selling
at $8.40@9.60 and heavy calves $5@
7.75. There was a good demand for
feeder steers at $7.50@8.75, while
stockers went at $5.75@8.50, stock and
feeding heifers at $6@6.90 and stock
and feeding bulls at $5.90@6.40. East-
ern shippers purchased a good part of
the best beef steers. The bulk of the
cattle closed higher than a week ago.

Hogs were marketed freely last
week, yet they continued to sell not
greatly below their high time, the top
for the week being $10.05. Prime
light weight singeing hogs were bought
on Canadian account at top quotations,
with prime heavy hogs selling about a.
nickel below them. Despite the mate-
rially increased week’s receipts, hogs
sold Saturday nearly as high as a week
earlier, prices ruling at $9.40@10, with
prime heavy and light shipping hogs
taken at the top price.

Lambs comprised most of the offer-
ings shown in the sheep house last
week. Advancing prices for fat stock
resulted from declining receipts. The
week’s close saw prices for wooled
lambs 1'5@25c higher than a week ear-
lier, with sheep and yearlings advanc-
ed 10@25c, while shorn lambs advanc-
ed 35@50c.- Lambs closed at $9.25@
11.75, feeding lambs at $10.25@11.10,
yearlings at, $9@10.75, wethers at $8.25
@950, ewes at $6@9.50, bucks at $7.25
@850 and clipped lambs at $7@9.90.
Spring lambs brought $9@13.

Most horses sold below $225, with
limited sales of desirable drafters at
$240@285 and fancy ones of extra
heavy weight quotable up to $300 or
even higher. Commercial chunks were
in demand at $165@235, and inferior
animals sold down to 360@75. Wag-
oners sold at $165@200 and expressers
at $170@210. Most farm Workers went
at $100@145.

Green pastures remind hundreds of
stockmen that it is time to See that
this is utilized, and those who have
not done so already are in the market
for stock and feeder c.attle Most
farmers who own thin cattle have no
intention of marketing them, as they
fully realize that in all probability
good profits are to be made by finish<
ing them, while those who need the
cattle to feed on their grass discover
that prices asked in the market for a
choice kind of thin cattle are unusually
high. The poorer class of stockers
are comparatively low-priced, but
there is no urgent demand for them.
Recently the best demand for feeders
has come from buyers in Indiana,
MiChigan and Ohio, with little demand
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“the t. e 00 tion 1? wheat in
the State is 81, in the southern coun-
ties 78, in the Central. counties 80 in
the northern counties 88 and in the
upper peninsula 95.

The condition on April -1 in the state
was 78, in the southern counties 73,

._ in the central counties 82, in the north-

ern counties 89 and in the upper pe-
ninsula 98. The cendition one year
ago was 92 in the state and southern
counties, 94 in the central counties, 90

in the northern counties and 97 in the ’

.upper peninsula. The per cent of
wheat that Will be plowed up because
winter-killed or otherWise destroyed is
five in the state, six in the southern
counties, five in the central counties,
three in the northern counties and one
in the upper peninsula. The damage
by Hessian fly in per cent is three in
the state, five in the southern counties,
two in the central counties and one in
the northern counties. ,

The total number of bushels of
wheat marketed by farmers in April
at 72 flouring mills is 69,136 and at 74
elevators and to grain dealers 68, 796
or a total of 137, 932 bushels. Of this
amount 92, 853 bushels were marketed
in the southern four tiers of counties,
42,062 in the central counties, and 3,-
017 in the northern counties and up.
per peninsula. The estimated total
number of bushels of wheat marketed
in the nine months August-April is
7,500,000 and the quantity yet remain-
ing in possession of growers after de-
ducting 2,500,000 bushels used for seed
and home consumption is 5,494,517
bushels. Fiftyceight mills, elevators
and grain dealers report no wheat mar-
keted in April.

Rye—The average condition of rye
in the state is 88, in the southern coun-
ties 84, in the central counties 89, in
the northern counties 92 and in the
upper peninsula 97 The condition one
year ago was in the state and southern
counties 94, in the central counties 95.
in the northern counties 93 and in the
upper peninsula 100.

Meadows and Clover—The condi-
tion of meadows and pasture in the
state is 91, in the southern counties 89,
in the central counties 93,.in the north-
ern counties 92 and in the upper pe-
ninsula 96. '

The acreage of clover sown as com-
pared with last year is 97 in the state,
94 in the southern counties, 96 in the
central and northern counties and 101
in the upper peninsula. The acreage
of clover that will be plowed up be-
cause winter-killed or otherwise dc-
stroyed is six per cent in the state,
nine in the southern counties, four in
the central counties, three in the n01 th-
ern counties and two in upper pe-
ninsula.

Oats ——The acreage of oats sown or
that will be sown as compared with
last year is 98 in the state, 96 in the
southern counties, 97 in the central
counties, 102 in the northern counties
and 106 in the upper peninsula.

Chicory and Mint—The number of
acres of chicory in the state so far as
reported is 637 and the number of
acres of mint 3,710.

Spring Pigs and Lambs—The per
cent of spring pigs saved as compared
with 1915, is 90 in the state, 89 in the
southern and northern counties, 96 in
the central counties and 92 in the up—
per peninsula.
saved as compared with 1915 is 92 in
the state, 93 in the southern counties,
95 in the central counties, 88 in the
northern counties and 97 in the upper
peninsula.

Farm VVages—The average monthly
wages with board is $28.56 in the state,
$29.72 in the southern counties, $28.20
in the central counties, $27. 36 in the
northern counties and $29 09 in the up-
per peninsula.

The average wages by the day with-
out board is $1. 74 in the state, 81. 82 in
the southern counties, $1. 69 in the cen-
tral counties, $1. 60 in the northern
counties and $1. 81 in the upper pa.
ninsula.

The average wages in the state last'

year, by the month with board was
$27.03 and the average wages by the
day without board was $1. 64.

Fruit. ——Fruit correspondents report
a very promising prospect for an abun-
dant crop of fruit in'all sections of the
state where the business is given the
proper care. ‘

The following table -will show the
prospect at present for a crop of the
various kinds of fruit in the state and
the different sections:

. Sou. Cen Nor. Up.

State. Co.’ 8 Co.’ s Co.’ 5 Pen.
Apples 87 85 87 92 96
Pears 84 84 * 85 ~81'188v
Peaches .. 79 79 74 82..
Plums..... 85 83 .867. 87 ‘ 96
Cherries . 89 88 88 93 94
Small ft“ 91 89 90 97 “ 99

The average prospect for peaches in
the Michigan Fruit Belt is 79 per cent;
one year ago it Was 93 per cent. in the

    

  
 

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Thursday’s Market.

May 11, 191 .
Cattle.

Receipts 2249. There was a good fair
run in all departments at the local
stock yards this week and nearly ev-
erything arrived and was yarded early,
the only straggler being a string off
the northern division of the Pere Mar-

,quette which arrived at 3:00 p. m.
I In the cattle division the trade was
iagain active and all grades brought

steady last week’s prices, the quality
was unusually good and several car-
loads brought $9 per th. Michigan
cows were very scarce and the few
here were of an inferior quality. Quite
a number Of country buyers were on

several carloads were bought and re‘
turned for feeding. The close was
steady as follows: Best heavy steers
$8.50@9; best handy weight butcher
steers $8.25@8.50; mixed steers and
heifers $7.25@8; handy light butchers
$7@7.75; light. butchers $6.50@7; best
cows $6.50@7.10; butcher cows $5.50@
6.25; common cows $5@5.25; canners
$3.50@4.50; best. heavy bulls $7@7.25;
bologna bulls $6@7; stock bulls $5@6;
feeders $7.25@7.75; stockcrs $6@7.50;
milkers and springers $40@75.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Mason B. CO.
1 bull wgh 1080 at $7.10, 2 do av 815 at
$6.75, 1 do wgh 1380 at $6.75, 1 do wgh
1240 at $7.50; to Parker, W'. & CO. 6
cows av 1060 at $6.50, 1 do wgh 1020 at
$5, 3 do av 1073 at $7, 20 do av 1078
at $6.25, 2 do av 1075 at $6.50, 14 steers
av 904 at $8.50; to Kull 23 do av 965
at $8.65: to Bresnahan & B. 6 cows
av 11.90 at. $6.50; tO Thompson Bros.
12 steers av 873 at $7.85, 10 do av 736
at $7.65; to Newton B. CO. 27 do av
1100 at $8.85, 5 do av 762 at $8, 1 bull
wgh 850 at $6, 20 steers av 887 at
$8.30; to Thompson Bros. 10 do av 1033
at $8.75, 23 do av 1019 at $8, 3 bulls av
823 at $6.25; to Sullivan P. Co. 10
steers av 1117 at $8.75; to Parker, W.
& C0. 2 cows av 1170 at $6, 1 do wgh
730 at $5.50, 2 do av 985 at $5.15, 2 (10
av 920 at $7; to Hammond, S. & CO.
2 bulls av 1285 at $6.75, 1 do wgh 870
at $6.75, 7 steers av 1050 at $9, 2 do av
1070 at $8.50, 4 bulls av 1130 at $6.50,
5 do av 1004 at $5, 10 steers av 1029 at:
$8.50, 4 do av 942 at $8, 14 cows av
1073 at $6.60; to Fromm 3 butchers av
870 at $6.25. 3 do av 817 at $6.25, 4
cows av 1020 at $5.65; to Garber 2 do
av 1285 at $7.25,.2 do av 1065 at $7.25.

Veal Calves.

Receipts 1132. The veal calf trade
was active and 50c higher than last
week and the quality was fair. Ship-
pers are advised not to buy bob calves
or thin heavy grades as they are being
watched closely by the meat inspector
and are sure to be condemned. Best
grades $10@10.50; medium and com-
mon $6.50@9.50.

Haley & M. sold Sullivan P. Co.
7 av 140 at $10, 6 av 140 at $10: to
Hammond, S. & Co. 12 av 160 at $10.25,
2 av 135 at $8.50, 12 av 170 at $10.25.
Erwin & S. sold Parker, W. & CO.
7 av 140 at $10.25, 18 av 145 at $10.25,
2 av 115 at $10: to Burnsiine 5 av 155
at $10; to Fineman 8 av 125 at $9.

Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 2160. The supply of sheep
and lambs on sale was common and
the general market steady. Swift &
Co. paid $9.75 for a few extra fancy
but the bulk Of the good brought $9@
9.50. The close was steady. Best
lambs $9.25@9.75: fair lambs $725617
8.25; light to common lambs $6.75@
7; fair to good sheep $6.50@7.25; culls
and common $4.50@5.50.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Thompson Bros.
124 lambs av 65 at $9; to Sullivan P.
Co. 126 do av 65 at $9; to Parker, W.
& CO. 84 do av 75 at $9, 18 mixed av
90 at $7.50: to Sullivan P. CO. 9 sheep
'av 120 at $7.25, 11 lambs av 63 at $8.
12 do av 55 at $8, 7 sheep av 90 at
$4.50, 26 do av 95 at $7, 13 do av 75
at $7; to Sullivan P. CO. 43 lambs av
55 at $8; to Thompson Bros. 10 sheep,
av 118 at $7.15; to Sullivan P. Co. 44
lambs av 68 at $9.50; to Swift & CO. 58
do av 80 at $9.75, 100 do av 88 at $9.50,
143 do av 80 at $9.75.

Sande], S., B. & G. sold Parker, W.
& Co. 110 lambs av 70 at $9; to Sulli~

van P. Co. 8 sheep av 110 at $7.25, 95
do av 65 at $8.60.

,. Hogs. ‘
Receipts 10,734. In the hog depart-

ment the trade was very slow on Wed-
nesday and packers would not pay OV-
er $9.60 for anything. The. quality was
fair.
5@10c higher.

On Thursday the market was
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Cadillac, Wednesday, May 17.

1:00 p. m., president’s address, G. A.
Brigham, , President Farm Bureau.

1:45 p. m., “The Market Question,”
J. N. McBride, Commissioner of Mar-
kets, East Lansing.

Discussion.

2:30 p. m., “Development of North-
ern Michigan,” Prof. R. S. Shaw.

3:30 p. m., “Sweet Clover," Samuel

Willis.
Wednesday Evening.

7:00 p. m., “What Railroads can do
to Aid Northern Michigan," W. P.
Hartman, Grand Rapids, Industrial
Agent for G. R. & I. R. R.

7:15 p. m., “Organization in County
and City,” M. M. Callaghan, Reed City.

7:45 p. m., “Concrete and Positive
Needs of Northern Michigan, Gover-
nor W. N. Ferris.

Thursday Morning.

9:30 a. m., appointment of the pro-
visional committee to plan to aid in
the development of Northern Michi-
gan. ,

9:45 aunt, “Advantages in Northern
Michigan Cattle Raising," Paul King,
Receiver of the P. M. R. R.

Discussion, F. B. Sotham.

10:30 a. m., “The Services County
Agents can Render to Northern Michi-
gan,” Dr. E. Mumford, East, Lansing.

Discussion, Jason W’oodmau, Kala-
mazoo, County Agent of Kalamazoo
County.

12:00 M., dinner at McKinnon Hotel.

Afternoon.

1:00 p. m., “Live Stock for Northern
Michigan," L. W. Oviatf, Bay City.

Discussion, F. B. Sotham.

2:00 p. m., election of Officers.

2:15 report Of committee.

2:30 p. m., general discussion.

4:30 p. m., adjournment.

LIVE STOCK DEALERS.

 

At the meeting of the executive
board of the Michigan Live Stock Deal.
ers’ Association held in the Offices of
the Michigan Railroad Commision on
May 5, it was decided unanimously that
it was proper to assess each shipper
of live stock a small amount per car
for the purpose Of financing the asso-
tiation which was formed for the mu-
tual protection of the live stock deal-
ers and growers of Michigan. The
farmer has as direct interest as has
the live stock dealer. The association
proposes to fight the present rates and
classification as well as the minimum
weights applying on both interstate
and intrastate shipments of live stock.
The matter Of the failure of the rail-
road companies to furnish proper equip-
ment was also discussed and it was
arranged to supplement the formal
complaint. by asking that two single
dcck cars be handled as one double
dock, when the carriers fail to furnish
the equipment ordered when given a
reasonable time in which to furnish
same.

President Fuller appointed a finance
committee and a legislative committee.
The instructions of the latter commit-
tee being to see to it that. proper au-
thority be given the commission cov-
ering the reasonable handling of ship-
ments of live stock, together with a
number of other minor matiesr.

The live stock dealers of Michigan
are far from satisfied with the present
rates and classification applicable up-
on live stock, as they find that instead
of approximately the five per cent ad-
vance they are assessed as high as 50
per cent increased charges for the
transportation Of live stock in many
instances. This, Of course, hits the
farmer as well as the dealer, as the
dealer cannot be expected to assume
the entire burden—G. M. Parsons,
Secretary.

 

Owners Of healthy, growing pigs and
young hogs are highly favored, with
ruling prices extraordinarily high, and
no pains should be spared to make
such holdings prime in quality before
marketing. The supply in feeding dis-
tricts in the corn belt states is short.
while the requirements of the trade
are extremely large. Breaks in prices
take place from time to time, and
whenever the decline is pronounced
stock feeders begin to withhold sup-
plies, the result being lively advances
in the market. This has happened re
cently, with prime hogs selling around
the highest prices Of the present year,
or at $10 per 100 lbs. The highest
prices are paid for prime light weight
bacon hogs on the “singeing” order.
these being purchased by Canadian
packers. These hogs usually weigh
around 185 to 195 pounds, with Hamp-
shires, Tamworths and Yorkshires the
favored breeds selected, while occa-
sionally hogs of the rangy Oklahoma
type are bought to fill out shipments.
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Yards, Toledo, 0., Sell live stock on commission,
get, giggles}; pricesfand best liills.f Try them. Daily

mar 9 area 0 SIX on s a ter ou ' 'ntor .

Financially backed by over $1,000,000." I 1 out

F"ME“ ——“'e wul paypremiums whenever possible

above the highest official Detroit Market
quotation for your eggs shipped direct to us by or-
press. “’rite us for Information. It will pay you.

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ARRED PLYMOUTH ROCK EGGS from full blood
stocks :1. 50 Ker 18. Have ewon not leading shows for
years. RNUM. Union City. Michigan.

'Ibychhks from our own Bred~To.La Rh! let Bar-

 

red Rocks $10per 1008. 0. hits horns
$10 per 100 ends .0 Bu llOr-pingtons $12 per 100. atch-
Eggs carefully packed $4pe 100. For furtheLr

in o ation Iwrite for our Chick Folder. RUBSE
P0 LTRY RANCH. PETERBBUBG. H101}.

BARREDa Rocks Parks 200 Eg Strain with records to
290eg§s eject—$1. .50 per 15 elivered. By Parcel
post. I Astling. Constantine. Ml lch .

leer. 3.29.0698 ..
w. c. Cochin. ad. laggnton Harbor. Mich.

ARRED Rock Eggs for batching of Bradley Bros:
strain. 81.050113“ setting 1.. $5. 50 per settin Ml
A. A. PATTU L h. Deckervil e Mic

BABIED ROCK EGGS P“’S."%‘l..iif.fidtiéh‘.‘i§

$1.“) per15. PINE KNOLL Box 391. Shelby. \Iich.
Barred 1’. Books. greatest
Breeld To l-ayfl layingn strain in America,

cock rels $3.00 up eglgs $1.50a 00g»... setting
Write JOHN NAS BE 1G. $1Crystal Falls. III higan

B ed Pl' 0 th
cousin: KoIlhIIrn King Slrain 1.25;. 3.3.3; .3...
manyprizes. E.ggs$2 for 15. liothmatings. Satisfaction
guaranteed David W. Cousins. North Port Mich.

 

 

 

 

OHN'B Boig.1 beautiful. hen hsiIlIed Barred Rocks. Eggs.
30.302 00 : 00. 0057. 00. Select matings l5 $4 30. S7 00. all
nostpsid. Photos. Circulars. John Northon. Clare. 13\1iI':h..

DAY- OLD CHICKS

80.‘000 for 1916 from Standard BredS C. ll lute
Leghorns. $9.00 pe1100.$v%5.00 per 1.000: S. L.
Brown Leghorns $9. 00 per 100. 85. 00 perl

Our strains are heavy layers an are sure to please
you. We guarantee their safe arrival. Catalog on
request WolverineHatchery, Zeeland.Mlch, Box 2221

3. ll. WHllE lElillOllll llll Dill CHICKS

Cut price on May chiI ks: Ten dollars per 100, from
Stock bred for size vigorand egg production. Full
count and safe deliIery guaranteed. Special price
on chickslbrooded to anv IIg

Krontel Bros.. East Lansing. Mich" Box 62-1.

CHICK “’0 ship thousands eth season. Ten
9 varieties AIII onn 5 $11 .I hundred free
booklet. Freeport Hatchery. Box 12 .Freeport. Mich

Slrnng Day llld Chicks Sill Per 10!]. 3.53;..w'01l‘i5'.

Selected hatching gigs, $4. 50 per 100 prepaid. Guar-
anteed delivery and Is lity Everfresh Egg Farm. lonis. Mich.

 
 
   
  
      
    
    
   

 
   
   
 
  
   
   
  

 
  
 
   
   
  

 

 

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Red Seal

DRY BATTERY
The. Electrical Silo

A convenient storehouse from which elec-
tric current can be drawn at will. furnish-
ing fat. hot sparks that spur your engine
into action and keep it running at ”.11ch
ommendcd as the most emcicnt satisfac-
tory and economical medium of ignition for

Gas Engines—Automobiles—

Tractors
Aloo too Phones. Bella. Hand Lanterns. etc.

Ask Your Dealer

Free to Engine Owners, Trac- I
tioneers, Motorists

Send us or dealer’ 9 name and we'll send you vol-
uble En ncBook. whhlc has been adopteda
book byl2state oer: :cultu rol coll co and
numerous o rlculturol h schoo 9. Also
we'll mil you res copy yoi' our catalog containing
pictures and descriptions of Every! hnl 3E ec-
trlccl too Home and On the Farm. Addiso-

MANHATTAlgmfilECTRlCAL SUPPLY C0.

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HICKS 7c and up. Barred Rock. Wyandottes. Leg-
homs. Minorcas. etc. Safe delivery guaranteed.
Circular tree. Reliable Hatchery. McAlistervillc. Box 6 Ps.

 

10 cents each. Vigorous.

While LeghorMn Chicks. I... .. I... I. I. .. b...
gain. cw I ockM birds ‘2‘20-‘20'; egg pedigree.

Maloney. R.1.1Ka amazon. Mich.

EGGS for lIatI hing fInIII pure lIIcIl \Vhiti. PlIInoutiI

Rmksimdh‘.(‘.1iull LPglIorIIsoII iree range.

Kletzlen & Web ster. Bath. Mich.

Eggs and Baby llhicltn “‘1’“ ”.3.” ’1??? 1.313323 2:502;

hens $1. 50 each. 0. E. HA “fl EY LIIIliIIgton. \IiI h

 

Buff Barred Colmnhian. Par- ' '
"“0“"! tridge SilIcI and \\ lIite RoI ks Chicks
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E for —_7hatcliing——From ure bred “ hite Plymouth
Aggs ROI-ks. l’ekin and \\ Iite IIIIIIInorIlucks. \Vhite
Arman guineus. H. V. Hostetler. 1i. 1. St Johns. MIIh

FREE. FROM 8 S. Hamburgs.
Eggs Delivere Rose (‘IiIIIb . “ lIitc Leghorns.
Barred P. Rocks, Whitc RIIIIIIPI‘DIII lII-I \V hite Holland
Turkeys. Circular free. RiIerIiewl“ urm VassarJllich.
—Utility Eggs $1. 50for

“1th S Bil" llsocks. ' s3 00 for .30 «$4 00

fox-50; $7. 00f or 10". liens 4.00 for 15.1. end for catalogue.
R. .1“ OW LER, Hartford. Mich.

 

Blue Andalusians and R. I.
High Scormg Reds. Eggs delivered 10
cents each W. T FRENC.H Scottville. Michigan.

IMPROVE your poultrI. My Y oung‘ s stiuin S. C. 1V hite
Leghorns great moncI makers. Stlnng. Iigorous, free-
range stotwk Baby clIiI ks$8pc r100 and up. Satisfaction
guaranteed. Free catalogue W. Van Appledorm Holland Mich.

[Eaflonus—White. Brown. Bull. BlaIk. Also Rocks.
Reds A-III onus 1’ Pk in Dill‘ ks eggs. baby
chicks. Prices reasonable. irIular free Sunnybrook
Poultry Farms, Hillsdale. .‘Il('.ll Chas. G. Burroughs.
Mgr. Formerly Foreman UniIersity of Wis. .. Poultry Dept

ILLIFJ Farmstead Poultry. B. P. Rocks: R. I. Reds;
LW Lheg orns. 15 eggs $1; ‘26 eggs $1.30; 50 eggs $2. 50.

P..P delivery free. Uolon C Lillie. Coopersvil .MiI-h.
O frosted combs with R. C.. BromI Leghsorns Kn $22310:
strain. Winter layers. Select eggs 15,51
MAPLEWOOD FARM.

ORPING TONSih’ér'slrisgssb‘élesfillb

Special prices. M. E. THOMPSON, Redford. Mich

' ‘ ' -E s S.' a 183
Pm (lreslS. ll. VllIIle Orplnglons .,.fi?1.-,..’....‘.‘.‘,sg
Or100. Chicks40cts. and ‘25c-ts. each. MRSJHLLIS
11.6111 Pine Crest Farm. Royal Oak. Michigan.

RHODE ISLAND REDS and PLYMOU THP ROCKS.
Mules 5 to 12 lbs. according to age $2 to$5;P R hens
weight 5 to 10 lbs. eggs 15 for $1.00:100.$5;120..$6
Mammoth Bronze Tom Turkeys 8 to 39 lbs. according
to age 36 to 525.10 eggs S3. A. E. (raIIIton. Vacsar. Mich.

II. I, llcds, Bolh llombs. Mosl Popular only:

Eggs (orbs tchlng. Baby Chicks. Write for catalog
INTERLAKES FARM. Box 39. Lawrence. Michigan

Rose Comb Brown Leghorn
one? $1 per setting. $5 W. China. Geese ‘250ents

Navarre. Ohi o

AUDIA EETTS. Hillednle. Mich.

HODE ISLAND WHITES Win at the National Egg
R Laying contest Cold weather don' t stop them.
Eggs $1. 50. 2 settings. $2. 50. H. H Jump. Jackson. Mich.

UFF LEGHORNS— Cookerels hens. pens or eggs.
B Anything on wish in Buff Leghorns. Great laying
strains. .Wllliam Smith Petersburg.Mich.

—200 Egg Strain~Eggs. chicks. 8
F.7d: llgllonu- week- old pullets from hens with
records up to 264 eggs. Prize winners at largest shows.
Prompt shipment. prices low, quality guar 1
White Leghorns are best for eggs. We raise thousands.
oganddn-ice list given particulars. W rite for it now.

fEllIlS ulEGllIlI MIN. ’34 Union. Grand Bulls. Mich.

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Heavy Winteri Layers!» 5313353ng
h ,W k if str .1. per

51088850121111)” 13(1). A. 3:326“. €85 .Ann Arbor, Mich'

A FlllE TIME TO BIIK S. 0. BEDS

Let ussell one trio or pen of this year's breeding
stock at 1131 the price you pay at other times of the
ear. Agood chance start with well- bred stock.
hotdhing eggsbe 5‘ price 15 th. Order chicks
w. Remembe rthis. (Satisfaction or our
Buck. ) 233ka to Son, Battle Creek. M 011., R. D. I.

ROSEQOomb lands pgnngtgfii Eggs. darik cgorzg
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No More White Diarrhoea

“I am sixty-one years of age and have been
raising poultry ever since I was seventeen.
lnever had much trouble except with White
Diarrhoea. and sometimes I have lost my entire
incubator hatch with this dread disease. Last
year I read a lot about Chictone but thought
it would be no more help than some others I
had used. However. a friend told me what it
had done for her, and that it was a very effect-
ive remedy, with not a bit of poison in it, so I
sent a dollar money order to The Wight Com-
pany for two 50c boxes. and I want to say the
result was wonderful. 1 used it about eight
weeks. raised over 600 chicks and never lost
one. I didn t even have a droopy one in my
flock and I will never try to raise another batch
of chicks or turkeys without Cbictone. It made
my work a pleasure and I know it was the cause
of my good success. —— Mrs. H. E. Blythe.
Unlonville, Mo.

Chictone get. results! Resolve TODAY that you
will save YOUR chicks from White Diarrhoea. Chic-
tone is guaranteed to save 901‘. There are lots of
substitutes. but there’sonly one Chlctonc. Chic-
tone is not. A poison. Sold in 50c boxes. Delay in
dangerous. Order today from your druggiot or from

THE WIGHT (20., Dept252, LAMONIJOWA

BEE KEEPERS’ SUPPLIES

Send for Catalog A for prices
of Bee Hives etc. We sell ever-
thing for bees. including begin-
IIcr’ s equipments. Beeswax
II. anted.

Send for catalog B for p1 1099
of thoroughbred Italian bees
and queens.

BERRY BASKETS

Send for catalog 0 for prices
of Berry Baskets and crates-

SpccioJ-‘200 \Vaxlined paper
berry baskets postpaid for
$1.00 or 200 A grade Wood
berry basksts postpaid for
$125 to any point within 150
miles of Lansing.

M. ii. HUNT 8 SON, Box 525, LANSING, M1011.

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llm Bomb Brown [atoms at?“ ‘é.£’,‘;i.”’.;.‘§.‘3?.§
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S 0.13 Minorcas Cot. kerels and Pullets. Eggs. Pope
- strain. P. ‘.BredSows and fa ll pigs. Big type
with quality. R. W Mills. Saline. Mich.

S 0. WHITE LEGHORNS. bred for size. shape.
. Iigolr. egg production. 14 gy’ears expelience breed-
ing Longhorns. Hatchin .50 pm 100. Baby
OhiIks 10 per 100. A. O. 02 ARD. Tecumseh. Mich.

lom IlammS 0...... 33...... ”lam... 935%.. “:2?“

post paid. No ChicksiBruce W. Brown. May ville.Mich

B ff Wyandotte and Barred Rock Cockerels$2 00
u each. eggs for hatLAI:hlng$1.(Xlr15.

M .11. W. LA,CK Caro. Michigan

ILVER GOLDEN AND WHITE 'LWYANDOTTES.

Eggs from all mattings. 1R50 r 15 82. 50 l_' 30 until
uly 1.31:. 0. W. Browning,R .Portl and. Ic.h

While w Undo“. Cock 3‘ (éocfierelséo Eggsri $1 $2, $3.
DAVID NAY. 202 Forget1 Ave , Npsilantifmr Michigan.

WrIITE WYANDOTTES Eggs $1. 50 per 15. $2. 50
fiera 7.00é1er100. From choice

.F ANKLIN MITH. Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Wills 'Ximlllf s llall Price “M“ °‘ “‘°
EGGAD Y roux. RANGE. Marshall, “Midlilgon.

'fl’llEllEll" PilllllllllE ““00"“ 9°? "3“"

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Controlllng it:

[CE are indirectly responsible for,
many poultry diseases. The heal-
thy hen can fight away a lot of

disease germs but the louse is one of
the prime causes of dumpy hens and
the devitalized hen easily succumbs to
disease. It is a peculiar fact that lice
seem to select, the most unthrifty hen
in the flock for their special breeding.
place. I should think that they would
attack the healthy hens first but the
thrifty fowl can be examined carefully
and will be found to have a. clean skin
and no lice, while another hen on the
same roost will be fairly swarming
with vermin. The vermin-infested hen
is usually the bird with a generally
run down appearance. It is a ques-
tion whether lice attack weak birds or
the birds become weak from the at-
tacks of the lice. I have a theory that
the strong birds dust themselves more
thoroughly and more frequently than
birds lacking in vigor and for this rea-
son few lice are seen on a strong heal-
thy hen. It is a fact that lice multiply
rapidly and for this reason the slightly
weakened hen which picks up a few
vermin is apt to be supporting a whole
family of them in a. short time. As the
hen becomes weaker and neglects
scratching and dusting, the lice be-
come healthier from living on the hen’s
unhealthy skin and finally the lice win
but have to seek a. new home. Their
boarding house keeper is dead.
Means of Controlling Lice.

At present there are many methods
of keeping down the lice in the farm
flocks, the home—made compounds are
easily made and the commercial lice
killers are not expensive. At first the
battle is rather hard but when lice are
once brought under control or practi-
cally eradicated, it is not so much
work to keep the hens and the hen—
house in good condition.

Lice breathe through fine pores on
the sides, of the body and for this rea-
son any dust that will clog the pores
kills the louse by suffocation. The
healthy hen which wallows or bathes

'the breathing pores of the lice.
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If hen lice were as large as this draw-
Ing they would be about half as dan-
gerous. Then they would look as
bad as they are and the poultry
house keeper would rapidly eradi-
cate them.

 

in road dust continually makes the
lice fight hard for existence and such
a hen will usually be free, or nearly
free, from vermin. Most of the pow—
ders on the market' have Persian in-
sect powder, carbolic acid or tobacco
dust as their base, as these products
are very penetrating and much more
effective than road dust in rapidly rid-
ding hens of lice. Fresh Persian in-
sect powder is a very effective remedy
and We have had much success in
keeping hens clean by simply dusting
them thoroughly with this powder. By
going out to the coop at night with an
assistant a hundred hens can be dust-
ed in an hour. Hold the hen securely
by the legs and allow the assistant to
thoroughly shake the powder around
the vent, under the wings and on the
thighs an dwhile you hold the .bird

with one hand the powder may be

thoroughly worked into the feathers
with the other.
An Inexpensive Lice Powder.

An inexpensive powder about as
Persian insect powder, can be made
by pouring a mixture of four ounces of
crude carbolic acid to a quart of gaso-
line over about three pounds. of air-

_ slakedfllime. This should be thorough-..:

 

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have a. strong odor. of carbolic sold.
Which is offensive to lice and mites
and the powder is fine encugh t6 clog
A cot-

 

powder.‘ Punch the cover six or eight
times With a shingle nail and that will
allow enough of the powder to come
through at one time. Too many holes
will cause a. serious Wasting of the
powder and even if it is cheap the time
taken in making it is possibly worth
considerable and the supply cannot be
replenished frequently during the busy
season in the summer when 1106 are
the most dangerous. ’

The expense of using Persian insect
powder may be reduced by mixing a
quart of the powder to four‘quarts of
fine road dust. This may be applied
in the same mannei as other powders.
I do not like to saturate the feathers
of white fowls with insect powders as
it gives them a dirty appearance which
lasts many days. For such birds I be-
lieve that the blue ointment treatment
is the best method of killing lice. The
standard formula for this mixture
seems to be mercury, 50 parts; lard, 25
parts; suet, 23 parts, and oleate of
mercury, two parts. The necessary
portions can be purchased at the. drug
store and the mixture made at home
or the prepared blue ointment can be
purchased from poultry supply houses.
At night the birds can be caught and
each one rubbed under the vent with a
small piece of the ointment. It is said
that this will prevent attacks from lice
during an entire season but probably
two applications during the summer
will be safer. When setting hens it is
well to'give them an application of the
blue ointment as this will not only
protect the mother hen but it will keep
the'little chicks free from vermin.

Provide Good Dusting Places.

It is best to make the hens co-oper—
ate with you in fighting lice and they
can do this if you provide plenty of
good dusting places. Good garden soil
or road dust is the basis of the hen’s
dust bath but it can be made of more
value by adding finely sifted wood ash-
es, dry slaked lime or flowers of bul-
phur. This mixture can be placed in
a. long shallow box in the hen house
or a place in the house may be board-
ed off as a. dusting. place and this can
always be well filled with clean" dust
with possibly one of the above addi-
tions such as wood ashes. During the
winter it is next to impossible to ob-
tain good dust for the baths and so a.
few barrels of dirt should be stored
up in the fall for such use. It is not
difficult to get plenty of fine wood ash-

es in the winter and there should be'

a. place to store these until there is an
opportunity to sift them. Hot ashes
from the stove should never be dumped
into the dust bath as small hot coals
may be scratched from the ashes into
the saraw, causing an unexpected fire.

There are several machines on the
market for the killing of hen lice and
the principle is simple.
usually placed in some kind of a re-
ceptacle such as a revolving cylinder
into which any insect powder can be
sifted. A few turns of the cylinder
and_the bird is thoroughly saturated
with the dust. ,These machines do
their work fairly well and the tempor-
ary discomfort to the birds probably
causes no injury. In fighting the louse
it is well to remember that there is no
mystery about which side will win.
The poultryman has the remedies and
it is only a. case of using them. The
louse is a helpless little bug in compe-
tition with dust and blue. ointment.

Ingham Co. R. G. KIRBY.

, Feed Sour milk or beef scrap to help
build muscle, feathers, and bone.’
per cent of bone meal should also be

The birds are -

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‘ ssociational Motto: Our Mottoz—J‘The farmer is of more
“The skillful hand with cultured consequence than the farm, and should
mind is the farmer’s most valuable be first improved."

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Associational Sentiment:
“The Farmer: He garners from the
soil the primal wealth of nations.”

Master—John C. Ketcham, Hastings.
Overseer—C. H. Bramble, Tecumseh.
_Lecturer——Dora H. Stockman, Lan-
smg.
Secretary—Jennie Buell, Ann Arbor.
Treasurer—Frank Coward, Bronson.
Executive Committee—C. S. Bart- ‘
lett, Pontiac; Geo. B. Horton, Fruit l
\ Ridge; J. W. Hutchins, Hanover; W.
An example of what can be done by F. Taylor, Shelby; Wm. H. Welsh,
an energetic Farmers’ Club is seen by 33111? 519- Marie; IVE Pb Hull, Dfimon-
what Minnesota’s 900 Clubs are doing dale, Burr Lincoln, ar or Beac ‘
to improve. Simplify and cheapen live,A WEEK AMONG THE GRANGES OF
stock shipping by small farmers. These JACKSON COUNTY.
Clubs have been the means of the
farmers of this state forming hundreds . . _
of live stock shipping associations, Springport Grange 15 one or the 01d‘
which are little more than neighbor~ est in the state. However, many 0f
hood agreements to ship together, but the former members have either died
nevertheless they are err—operative in- 01‘ moved away, and now nearly all
stitutions of unusual merit and power, who attend are young people. Bro. E.
for they get results. They solve the 0- Elmer, a graduate 0f M- A-_C- who,
problem for small farmers of selling fortunately tor the community, has
live stock to advantage. They are a gone back to the tarm, 15 the worthy
substitute for the old local buyer sys- master. They have a very competent
tem, and by this modern method of lecturer, and programs at each meet-
selling there has resulted an actual ing. The play spirit finds enpression
saving in necessary exrnnses a'niount- in basket ball, a game in which most
jug to $40 or $50 a carload—a saving of the members are interested to a
which is entirely out: ”do of any I‘J‘OfitS considerable degree. A very promis-
'the local buyer might make. it is ing lot 0f young people are 1h.thle
quite impossible for a local buyer to Grange, and we hope that they W11 se-
compete with a shipping association. cure from It JuSt the help they need to

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FOR FORD, CHEVROLET “490” AND

SAXON “4 CYLINDER” CARS

Model F-l5—— is the same instrument that $
was used as standard equipment during 1915 8
by the Ford Motor Co. and is installed in
exactly the same manner except that a new post is
furnished which clamps around the new type steering
arm of the l9l6 Ford Car.

Model FF-lG—New Hush type for Fords. $

Fits on the windshield strip flush with the 1 0
cowl dash where it can be easily read. and

where a Speedometer should be. It is fast displacing all
other types of Speedometers for Ford Cars. Furnished
with a swivel drive for use on cars equipped with

Shock Absorbers at an additional cost of $2.00.

Model F. C. N. B.—-—For Chevrolet 490 $
and Saxon (4 cylinder) is a Flush Type 1 z
Instrument to be installed in the Filler Board.

For Sale lay the Best Dealers Everywhere

SEARS-CROSS CO., Bush Terminal. New York
Branches and Service Stations in all principal citie-

    
 

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There are approximately 200 of these make lile better worth while for each
associations in Minnesota and many in Of them. ' . . .
“’isconsin, and not one of them has We held a “W meeting WM) Mm-
failed to get satisfactory results. Dur- ard Grange. Thls Grange, too, has a
ing a recent trip to the former state I good lecturer, and good programs at

was much impressed with the prosper- the meetings are the rule. .

‘ Hanover is the home of Bro. J. W.
Otis appearance of farms whose owners , , , .
had been members of one of these live Hutchins, chairman of the executive
stock shipping associations for a long committee of the Michigan State
thhe- dEVlerk'tlhihti tag?“ the farms Grange. The roads were very bad
snowe p am y a 1e owners were . .
making money. The organization is and our‘att‘endance there was small, . H.
exceedingly simple, as no capital stock but the spirit 0f the meeting was fine, W
is sold,.for none is needed. It repre- and it was good to be in such an at- W
SONS merely a mutual agreement by mosphere. Hanover is also the home .1

a group of farmers to ship their stock . . - , . . 1;;
together, and by this means each farm- Of Mrb' Clara Sullivan, who has in

handled, is enabled to ship to a 0911- She is also worthy lecturer of Jackson
tral market at carload rates and get Pomona. _ fl,
exactly What his stock' brings, less the " ‘ . . -. ‘ . ‘ '5! l
freight, yardage, commission, etc. The final meeting in this series was
man sells one hog, one steer or one held at Pulaski. The Grange here 15 ll?
sheep to just as good advantage as he small but in it are a few members who 2§j‘
can sell a carload. are very determined. We gave them gm

The most intelligent, far—seeing farm- as much encouragenlent as “re ‘were

- inn . ,— .
EEZffiml‘v‘m oiqhinn‘éiléiiefaifif‘é£33331 able to: had a good We Mather,
be marketed by its owner. This can and we hope that each member Will be
be done, and is being done in many a cornmittee of one to help make Pul-
gigtcizsiis till}??? isthtehqe hShiDDifflgM'fISSO‘ aski Grange what it might be in the
sota fai‘iners that. eve‘i'y gigging 11.33: community In WhICh It 15 Situated. ,
in the state will in a short time have Bro. E- 0- Elmer has lately organiz~
such an association, and thus take 3. ed a new Grange in which have been i~::;::—_—A;———_
long step toward the improvement 0f enrolled some excellent people who be- ,.

 

 

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live stock marketing. Great numbers - ~ u ‘ . ,-

of Farmers’ Clubs have perfected these lieve m _ Community Service and are
«shipping associations, and practically Willing to do their part in it. There
every Farmers’ Club in the state is in- are still other points at which Granges
vestigating the subject. might be gotten, and we believe Bro.

_'(11‘he Minnesgta garnlersl’l Clubs Ellie Elmer will be equal to the occasion.

w1 e-awa e an ac we is s own y e .. . . .- . -
fact that several hold annual Club we ““1 1“” do” ‘f‘th‘mt say‘hgh
fairs. Others are interested in start word about JaCkSOh Iomona. Thls ‘5
ing co-operative creameries, in ship- one of the liveliest Pomona Granges
£1118? (133311.101; eflilziltaxiigmgllloclal DI‘OthCgS in southern Michigan. The year book

01‘ D . sua y iave 0 e - -.. '. .
imported; in establishing telephone for 1916 lb d“ models It 15 the first at-
lines, in cow-testing, and a great vari- tempt of the kind in the county and
ety of other actfivihties. But despite as such it is rather remarkable. The
these activi ies 0 t e past, everything meetings are well advertised the pro
shows that Minnesota Farmers’ Clubs . . . L ’. I

are preparing for a more energetic grams are good, “Ln-d good speakers
campaign of co—operation and concert have been secured for the several
of action than ever before. meetings. But the best of the story is

One other phase of co-0peration in that Jackson Pomona has a definite

Minnesota Whlch has grown out Of the ideal It is becoming a moulder of
get-together spirit fostered in the .' . . . . .
Farmers’ Clubs is the farmers’ elevat- public opinion In the county, and ”1 Its
ors. One farmer out of every five in program is ever a kindly watch over
Minnesota belongs to if; farmers’ ele- the subordinate Granges.

vator company. ne 0 these compa— . ,
nies has a membership of 600, another Oceana 00' W. F' TAXLOR’
a membership of 500, two of 400, and
four of from 300 to 400. The business
done by all tliglgafiners’ elevators of
the‘state in - was $30,000,000. -
These elevators not only permit the . Chester-Grange has égiven up the
'marketing of farmers’ wheat and other idea 0f building and th present quar-
grain in bulk, but supplies of various ters have been rented for another
{.Itnds 1tire 15:180 purchaged 11‘; ‘laiige quan- year. After looking over the situation
1 ms y t e companl S an SO ‘1 t0 the the Grange seemed to be unanimous

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Ten Days before date of publication.

DISPERSAL SALE

Thoroughbred

HOLSTEIN llllWS

to cuouc: rushes '

Eight have A. R. 0. records, one
26.79 lbs.
One daughter of King Segis, grand-

 

‘daughters of Hengerveld DeKol, all

bred to our World record Sire Long
Beach DeKol, Korndyke, $100 to $500.
Also 10 Choice Bulls, 5 ready for
Service—all handsome fellows—all
sons of Korndyke, prices $75 to $500.
Stables over-run, come see them,
don’t write.

Long Beach Farm,
Gull Lake, (Kalamazoo) Mich.

Trolly Car from Battle Creek. Kalamazoo or Grand
Rapids and boat to our dock.

CATTLE.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS

HER D ESTABLISHED IN 1900
TBOJAN- ERICAS and BLA CKBIRDS only.
“.Oreee breeders of Percheron. Hackney and Saddle

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WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionic. Mich.

ABERDEEN ANGUS: $30112}:

lug 15 head of Choice young bulls, one too year old
Trojan Erica at $2111.01 i taken in 6 weeks, 14 head from
8 to twenty months old including the first and second
rice. Beniorbull calves at the 1915 State Fair. Write
or Particulars. and come to the farm to look our
otook ver they are of the Blackbiréi LTroiim- Prices.
and Pride F amilies onlv. Hunters
Creek Mich. SIDNEY snirn. 111111.

 

 

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srcouo 11111111111. eat: or
100 Head of Registered Holsteine

at the Sale Pavilion on the Fair Grounde at Howell Michigan
on Wednesday, May,l7, 1916, at 10:30 a.m.

This is not a lot of cull. stuff. 75% of our offerings are under 4 years old

and include 5 granddau hters of the 850, 000. 00 bull 6
e, 4 daughters of King of the Hengervelds, 10 from a;

and 2 of Pontiac Korndy

Colantha Johanna Lad

30 lb. bull and 11 from a ygrandson of Pontiac Kornd ke.
Our reference sires are a superior lot and inc ude a son of Mabel Segis
Korndyke, 40. 32 lbs at 4 yrs. old and sons of cows with records from 29 to 351bs.,

from well known sires.
Remember the date. Catalogs, Mayt 7t h.

'A fine chance to get good young foundation stock.

F. J. Fiehbock, Sec' y., Howell. Michigan.

PERRY and MACK. Auctioneere.

Duroc Jersey Herd Boars

Special Ofleflng of High Class Fail Boar Pigs

Breeding and Individuality good

enough for breeders who apprec ate the best.

Also some good farmer 5 beers.

dial invitation is extended to visit the farm and inspect the stock,
young Jersey bulls in Michigan we have him for sale.

This is the best lot of fall pigs We have ever had to offer. A cor.

if you wish one of the best
For further particulars. address.

Brookwater Farm, Swine Dcpt., Ann Arbor, Mich.

 

Purebred Registered
H O L S 'I' E I N
0 AT T L E

Holsteins, the best dual purpose breed.

As e1idencin the enthusiasm with which
members of t e Holstein- Friesian Association
ap pgly themselves to the exploitation of the

lack and “bite" breed. it is only necessary
to state that over 4.000 certified reports of
ofl'icial tests “ere received at the Advanced
Registn ()flice during the month of April, 1915.
Ho] lstein-Frieslan Association distributes
eahch year 313000 in prizes for milk and butter
production. ficgin 111th Holstelns if 1'ou do
nothing more than to buy a purebred bull to
use on 1our grades. Investigate the big‘ ‘Black-
and “ hites.
Sand for FREE Illustrated Descriptive Booklets
'l'llc llolstcln-l'rleslsn Association oi America
P. L. Houghton. Sec‘y.. Box I“. llrsttlcboro. Vt,

 

 

 

 

OR SALE—14 Angus bulls9 months and older. in
F‘Gcluding our herd busll Also a ten couos'v and heifers.

eo. Hathaway 818011. .Mllch.

‘YHSHIHE ——0ne of the foremost dair breeds. The
most eoonomicalmilk ro ucere. Calves
for sale. White Leghorn oockeres; Duro oo Jersey
nine. Michiaan School for the Deaf. Flint. Michigan.

VILLAGE FARMS, Incorporated
Grass Lake, Michigan,

GUERNSEY CATTLE
BERKSHIRE HOGS

 

MILO D. CAMPBELL CHAS. J. ANGEVINE

BEACH FARM
GUERNSEYS

Average _1'enrl1 production 122.1 lbs of {at three-
iourths of them making their records as t11o 1' car
olds. By the use of a pure bred sire a big im—
provement can soon be, attained if the right
selection is made.'1he breeding of the Beach
Farm Herd is as good as can be found and no
guarantee them to be free from contagious dis.
eases and to be satisfactorv in e1ery 11'111 or
_W rite and let us tell 1 on about
them.

11. CAMPBELL o ANGEVINE,

Coldwater, Michigan.

 

Bull Cal1'eslorsalc. May
Registered Guernsey Rose 1119111111... Address
Clint Bishop, Watcrv liet. Mich.

 

VONDALE Guernsey bulls all sold. Sorry to dis-
appoint those wishing ourstock. Only registered
bull calveslcft. Avondale Stock Farm. Wayne. Mich.

of service age and cnl1es from
Guernsey BUll8 choice. Azd1 reg. breeding.
'1‘. V. HICKS Routel. Battle Ceeek. Mich.

 

Fun :‘LE Reg. Guernse1bull cal1es damsrunning
in a. 1'. now. CheapM plow write
JonN 33111.5. 1101.1. AND. c.h 11. No.10.

AT Parmers' Prices, Registered Guernsey Bull calves from

A.£R. dams and dams being tested. If nter 'slcd write for
photo, brooding and price. Byers & Barnes. Coldwater, ilich.

umseys—Bull calves sold. thev were beauties, e1 ery

one pleased. 3 cons to freshen this month he tte1
write new for 8 good one. J. \I. Williams. No. Adams, Mich.

GUERNSEYS

Weoffer a choice lot of high grade Guerney cows and
heifers bred to registered bulls La Tertre of Maple
Lane. 23192 and Sir Dena No. 36173. Prices reason-
able. THE JENNINO’S FARMS. R. l. Bailey, Mich.

Guernsey Bulls of Mn Rose blood!
For 83" ch38!) : up 7 months of age. Write Mead-
ow-Gold Guernsey F arm. St. Johns, Michlgan. ,1

Herefords—One Bull Calf.

ALLEN BROS. PAW PAW. MICH.

llOLSTElN BULLS FOR SALE

Four of them from 12 to 17 months old by 31 lb.
sire dam 5A. R 0. Price $100. 00to $150. 00. Younger

bull calves from 35000
BLISSVELDT ARMS].

Do You Want A Bull?

Ready For Service.

Iron a grand daughter of The K of the
Si red by a bull that is moréghzan a half

11 on olateln teh
gdrld. andA“I whose dam is a30 lb. 06% 5 fatw dau hter
If you do

 

 

 

Jenison Michigan

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use than any other living 0bull.
pedigree.

for
. ,- newts s. LEWIS. Met-hall. Mia». "03m" Mast ’a‘iifi'd‘t

 

 

FOR SALE

SOME VERY FINE YOUNG BULLS
Whose sires have as high as 81 lbs. of butter behind
them. As thev are young. will make a low rice on
them. BIG!!! 0“ ‘8 OLSTEIN ARMS.

BREEDSVILLE. MICE.

HOLSTEIN Bull Call: Born Oct. 5. A splendid in
dividual. well grown. and of choice breeding. Dam has
A.R.Orccord. butter Tdays 18.04 lbs. milk “9.8 asn2yr.old. Sire

' Albina Bonto Butter Boy No.93l24. W. 8. Reader. Howell.hlich.

HOLSTEIN- FRIESIAN CATTLE

Herd headed bv grandson of King Segis Pontiac,
and tuberculin tested annually. A few choice
1' oung bulls from dams having official records.
PEACELAND STOCK FARM. Three Rivers. Mich.

(has. Peters. Herdsman. C.L. Brody, Owner. Port Huron. Mich_

. Big Holstein 1311112 yr. old. Goodbreeding.
For sale- ltcg. bulls and heifers 10 mos old.

Ferd. J. Lnnge. Sebewninz. Mich.‘

R {I ma Hazel-let firandson of Ms lecrest De Kol
.« 7 .) jarthcnca 1111 Pontiac Mai 30.2 lb. Born
March 26.1 r11c cs to Deh oi 2d 17 times. Dam Pontiac
Hes eria 2,d 11 Pontiac Korndvkc. Pontiac Cornucopia and Pen-
liacliurlle combination. M. 1.. \chaulin. Redford Mich 1

“T0 P N OTCll ” llolsieins

B1 careful retention, for many veers. of largest,’ )I'O-
d111' 1an females and use of superior sires. o bree ing
herd of wonderful quality has been established.

are selling young bullsof this‘ "11 )P OTOHO’ 'qualiioty?
of ser1iceable age. at moderate P1ices.I

pedigrees. etc. on application. it PHERSOfN FAIi‘IS
CO. Howell. Michigan.

Bull Calves and Cows
l [lave Holstein Bulls, 1111.1 offer 101 1.1.1.
I can show breeding. records. individuality and attrac-
tlve prices. L. E. CONNELL. Fayette, Ohio.

FOR SALE Registered Holstein Bulls

ready for service. and bull calves. also females.
FREEMAN J. FISHBECK. Howell. Michigan.

 

EG. Holstein- Freisian cows and heifers. some fresh
and some ready to freshen $125, Reg. bulls 830 11p
Frank Station. It. 3. Box 38. Howard City, Mich.
A“

Holstein-Friesian Cattle.
HOBART W. FAY, Mason, Michigan.

Smos. old. Dam made 5461bs. milk.
Beg. llolslsln Bull” 1.11.. 1.1111... 1 .1... x1111}
marked and sell gro11n.%E.1{. (.‘ornell, Howell \lic

Handsome registered Hol.

Only $40 Delivered: stein bull call. Sire 25 lb.
butter bull, DamA. R. O. 17.62 lbs. butter. All papers-
Rougemont Farms. Detroit. Mich

WANTE

8131 good men to buy pure bred HOLSTEIN BULL
1‘ AL\' ES. Goad notes on a year' s time accepted in pay-
ment. GEO. D. CLA A.RKE VASSAR. MICH.

 

F S l My entire herd of high grade Holstein
or a e Cows and Heifers. Also one Reg. 3-yr.ol1l
Percheron stud colt or will trade for Reg. Holstein
cows. Arthur N. Birkholz, New Buffalo. Mich.

HOICE HOLSTEIN BULLS—all from A.R.O. dams
Entire herd on Semi of. test for yearly work. Jr.

2—1 r. -old just finished y'enr a record of ov er 1.5. 000 lbs.
milk. 01' er 10001bs butter record in mature class.Cherry
OreekStockFarm, M. E Parmelle, Prop. ,Hilliords. Mich.
FOR SALE; Holstein females. Pontiac Komdyke
Hengerv eld DeKol Breed infiuh Price

right. 1 to 5 years. John A. Rinke. Warren. lch

 

 

EXCEPTlflNAL 0PPORTUNIT: 11.313.15.313.

1earling. hi h- bied Registered Holstein heifers
Beauties. $1 to $150 aOeach. lp
R0 OUGEMONT FARMS.p Detroit. Mich.

 

Lillie Farmstead Jersey Cattle. Bull calves from R.
f M we. also heifer calves and several bred

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heifers for stile. Colon O. Lillie. Coopersvllle. Mich.

llo ope Farm Jerseys £3}: gthfzsm ”.1111...
GE “GE 0.8011011, Grand haven. Mien.

 

111111 1111111111 81011.3... 11.151 “'1' ,ggfim; «111111111111
semi-omolaHest. 0. high... 11,; “Italian:

SERSEY BBULLS and Relies-sic Duroc

Grade Jersey llerd For Sale

FORTY COWS

The result of twenty years careful breedin and
selection. are now offered for sale. Individua milk
records have always been kept and are open for in-
spection. If interested write for nrticulars and if
Beesslble visit and examine the her and their record.

livery will be made at any time desired during the

for as 9. Address Geo. A True, Armada. Mic

"11 11111111111111, Herd 1.1.mf::1.'..?.:1'.°:.‘.13.1

herd now on R of M test. No females l'oi sale. (‘1 mice

fining bulls for sale from Dams that are on test for
hegistcr of Merit. Vi rite your wants or come and see
hem before lD)11,1'.1ng

ALVINB AI. DEN

 

Capac, Mich,
A 10
Hillside Farm lomys .11.132°?;.:":‘.1:“‘1‘1“.53%;”.WEEK}?

cow with record 111.5411 lbs. of butter as a 3 yr. old. He is a
flue individual. Price right. 1‘. A' ll. Desire. Ypsilanti. Bllch.

 

R. of \I. JERSEYHERD if
MIDI. Lane tuberculin tested 1111111, lfeilggsfoLllllg'
and bull c'al1es bac ked bv several generations of R'
of 111. breeding. mvm Fox. Allczan. momgan.

JERSEY BULL CALF FOR SALE

Ready for serv ice. Majesty —Raleigh breeding.

Meadowland Flu-111. Watermnnk \\ 111131 1111111. Ann Arbor. BIich.

F0“ 8‘lE._ 21g herd bull. .ilncioba' s _Ffilry Emanon
g _1' cars 1m u1c

Must be seen to be ap reciated q and sure

must change sires.

AR so tuo 1earlllf£lllllll:¥50891lipgl
SMITH- PARKER. RD. No.1. Howell, 111311112113.
BIDWELL SHORTHORNS

For “Beef and Milk"

Registered bull s.
Scotch - to ed roans.
reds and 11 no for sale.
‘l‘nrm at N. Y.C. Depot;
also D I. R'y.

“1111339. I. Schisdsrflgr.

BIDWELI. STOCK FARM
Box B. Tecumseh. Mich.

 
    

Albion Stamp 352670

 

 

Shorlhorn Callie oi both Sex lor'Sale

W. W. KNAPP. Howell. Michigan.

AIRY Bred Shorthorns of best Bates strains. No
more females for sale at am pri1e
.B. Hummel, Mason. Michigan.

 

 

OR Sale—12 Reg. Short Horn Bulls by Maxwalton
Monarch 2,nd a son ofAv ondale fromfi toil mos. old
John Schmidt, Reed City. R. No. 5.. Mlchi igan

Five cows. Ten heifers. Five bull
Shullhom calllo- calves: also herd bull for sale.
Write. Wm.J. Bell. Rose City. Mich.

Shorlhorn Cows and Bulls For Sale

3,11. Station. Elsie. H. .PETERS, Carlnnd. hllch.

 

 

Sh ”h AND POLLF D DURHAMS FOR SALE.
I) am B {we red man and white Have over 100
head in herd. C. Carlson. Leroy. Mich.

Sherman's—Dairy or beef bred. Breeding stock all
ages for sale at farmers prices. C. W. Crum
Secy. Cont. Mich. Shorthorn Breedsrs’ Assn. McBride. Mich

 

-T11'o 1r l red shorthorn Bulls. Roan Calf!) mo. old.
Poll Angus Bull c 1111'. 8 mo. old. not reg. Priced to
mo1e quick. ' H1181. S 5101 k an1. Marlene, Mich, R. l.

9Loads feeders and two load yearling steers. Also

-can show you any numberl 2 and 3 years old from
600 to 1200 lbs Isaac Shanstum. Fall-field Iowa. R-8

HOGS.

 

 

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lloyallon Bred Berkshirss. “1‘29““ $5,593.... .211.
papers $8.00e ach. Order

..F VALEliITINE. Supt. Temperance, M1ch1gan.

 

' Sows bred to {arrow in April. Best,
BETkShIlB "Oliver breeding. Maple Place Farms
C. S. BARTLETT. Propr. Pontiac. Michigan

1 best breeding of various ages, either
Berkshires“ .11 .. '
gistered sto1',k no akin.
s ecial reduced prix1e. Write your wants quick.
it itchell' s Lakeside Farms. R. 2, Bloomingdale, Mich.

' ' Of various ages either sex open orbred.
afl'kflllles. prolific strains.‘Registered. at moderate
price. Elmhurst Stock Farm. Almont. Michigan.

SWIGARTDALE FARM

BREEDERS 0F
HOLSTEINS AND BERKSHIRES

Stock for sale at all times. Berkshires oi unsurpassed
quality and breeding, at reasonable prices. A choice
bull calf. nicely marked . flnve months old. sire's dam
111 record of over 27 %Jun sDam oi cali’ a grand
daughter 01 Hengerveld e Kol. Price 85 0. 00.

Swlgarldale Farm, Pelersbnro. Mlch.a

One myearlingt; two 10111011; two 6
BORIS for sale on; first class specimens.
J. H. BANGHART. East Lansing. Mich

nunoc JERSEY 3011811“ °“°‘°1‘;,i;:&°:°""“‘ .nab‘i‘r‘i’;

not akin. W. C. TAYLOR. Michigan

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sprin or early summer. A few registered Jerseys also

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01.1.11va 11 n. Haydeniu'fi? 131.3%
UROO Jerse s—Feano fall gem (either sex).

D John it'siiyo11,"°111’.": shank!” Al'ggmo 1?? fl” 1'31.

105m“ 1"" 41111111101111 ready fcrhservléeA also cm
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ounce Jens“: 1;- ”fig"
mum mentors. ”.11:

      

CI"! 0- Edmond-1 Hastings, Mlchlgsn.

Ilia esome oodlastSe tember

Duroc Jerseys!» v itaw Giltspwill be
bred for Beptembera

11.0. Keesler. R. No. 5. Canopolwil. Michigan

DOBBON‘. S DUROCS Combine size. quality, breed-
Boarn for sale. Fife at weanin time. Be:-
Dobson, Mic

 

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leavly Boned llnrocsg 1“" "$3.1“ EJ133111 5°11“

Sping sin. )1. A. Bray. Okemos.(1ng°hom ColMioh.

Duroc Jersey Boa rs ggg’hmfiifggwlg;

111111111 Champion blood lines. Gilts bred
F. J. DROD‘TR. 1,MonrOe. Mlohlxui

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0 I C SPRING8 BOAIRB of cod type and
Po lied bul calves.
John Homer and Son. Grand Ledge. Mich.

o l. c. Choice serviceable boars. Choice stilts all
' sold. inllpigs, either sex. not akin. Write for low
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0- l 9.310110 vour wants. and low Stock
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0 ‘ C October boars weighing 200 lbs. at 825
o 0 each for, Agril shipmen
C. J. THOMPSON. ockford. Michigan.

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0 Ifarrow. Bookin or ersforuprmgpige.

no akin. .MANN. eneville. ichigan.
IG TYPE 0, I.C' s. and Chester Whites. S in
prices on all pleura and tall pigs either sex ese

are sired by Abo 2nd. this bear sired our unbeaten
breeders young herd at every state lair we showed this
year other sires are Wonder Boy. White Holland Allen.
this hear was junior champion at Wis. State Fair last
y.ear Now .lr. Buyer our pigs are all sired from
champions. our price is no higher than other breeders
and t e Express Co. charges just the same for a or
as it does for a good one. Get our catalog an see

w ere the good ones are. We are booking for Spring
pigs sired by Sch oolmaster. the highest priced bear or
the breed and the times G. Champion. We Reg. Free and ship
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0 I C SWIIIO. One yr. old Holstein bull fogrgas' 8.
Elmer E. Smith, Redford,M ic.h

o I. c bred gilts all sold. am offering Sept. boars
o and gilts. lane growthv ones, and booking
ordersforspring pigs. A Barker,1-‘i .1 Belmont, Mich.
o I c! A few bredI sows to furrow in April. May
3' and JuneI haue201ast. fall boars to on'er,

also figlts Have them not akin. All good stock.
Otto Schulze, Nashville. Mich. 91 mile weatot depot.

o.1.c.sw1N E traces:
strictly 0.1. C. type bredtofarrowtheforepertof ay-

also fall pigs roe ri ht Stock registered input.
ohaser' s name ree of c arge. A. J. Gordon. R. 2, D01r.l‘£ich.

o I SWINE. Oct. bears and ilts.b 3l lRegistered
Holstein Bulls sired b1 lb.
Cloverleaf Stock Farm. Monroe. lilich. No.1.

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either sex.
A. R. GRAHAM. "Rifle“. Michigan.

0' ' 0 Spring lInge. both sex.$10.00 each at weaning
1 time. ook ing Orders now Recorded free.
Satisfaction guaranteed. Julian P. Gluten. Flint. Mich. R. 8.

0.1L c311 Strictly Blef‘l’ypo

Four last September are large one or service.
right good ones. One919 4Sept. Sow re 5811 Nine pigs
lasta fall.8 -Due to furrow May. 10th. Will sell cheap

NEWBMAN’S STOCK FARM. Harlem. Mich.._ll. F. D. 1.

0. l. C. September pl 8. 23.521.11.111?“
E..B MI LETT, ow lerville, Michigan.

Boa rs at Half Price
We still have a. few big boned. big type Poland Chino
boars ready. for SeRrvice. wei hinng’uptao 25011111. not at
tm a $26 each. Rice ate uyer’s name. A so
refistered black Percheron Sta lion 2years old 118250. 00.
UTLER. Portland. lch.. Bell Phone.

Big Type Poland ChinaPairs a...“ ““3. “?f, “in

G. W. BOLTON. Route 11. K318318300 Michigan.

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Contagious Abortion—Service Bull.
———Would you advise me to use,my thor-
oughbred bull on a neighbor’s cow
which we suspect of having aborted
May, 1915? Also, how old should a
bull be before he is used for service?
J. B., Peck, Mich.——If the cow you re-
fer to has not been properly treated,
she might perhaps infect the bull;
however, I would suggest that you
treat your herd bull both before and
after service when mated to cows that
you suspect of being diseased. Con-
tagious abortion is sometimes spread
in the manner you mention. Bulls
should be fit for service when they are
from 12 to 18 months old.

Calf Has Poor Appetite—I have a
calf four weeks old that has a poor
appetite for milk and is not thriving.
R. H., Wayne, Mich—Give your calf
three tablespoonfuls of castor oil to
clean out bowels, then give 15 drops
of tincture gentian (comp) and 20
drops ‘of tincture cinchona cempound
and 15 grs. of bicarbonate soda three
times a day.

Foot Lameness.—My twelve-year-old
mare is lame in right fore leg and is
inclined to point foot. A. 8., Fremont,
Mich—Clip hair off coronet and apply
one part powdered cantharides, six
parts lard twice a month, or you can
safely apply any of the blisters that
are regularly advertised in this paper.

Diseased Tooth —— Sidebone—Ring—
bone—I have a ten-year-old mare hat
had an ulcerated tooth‘ which our et.
punched out through the side of her
face and for a. long time the wound re-
fused to close; but since, she has an
offensive discharge from nose. She
also has sidebon-es and ringbone on one
hind leg which makes it very difficult
for her to move. G. N. H., Kalamazoo,
Mich.—~I do not believe that your mare
will get well of either ailment; there-
fore, you will be money in pocket to
have her destroyed; however, you had
better get the opinion of your Vet. be-
fore doing away with her.

Heaves.—I have a work horse that
has heaves, and would like to have you
prescribe a remedy. F. D., Springport,
Mich—Feed no clover or dusty, musty,
badly-cured fodder of any kind. Give
1 dr. fluid extract lobelia, 1 dr. ground
nux vomica and 1/2 dr. fluid extract of
belladonna at a dose in feed two or
three times a day. It is perhaps need-
less for me to say that your stable
should be kept clean and plenty of
fresh air admitted; besides, the horse
should be exercised every day.

Diseased Tail—I have an eight-year-
old horse that has lost the hair from
his tail and mane every year for the
past three years and he now has bare
spots as large as a. dime on different
parts of his body. He never rubs or
seems to itch and the other horses do
not become infected. J. W. P., Eaton
Rapids, Mich—Give him 2 drs. of Don-
ovan’s solution at a dose in feed twice
a day and apply one part coal tar dis-
infectant and 50 parts water, to sores
once aday and occasionally paint bare
patches with tincture iodine.

Chronic Cracked Heels—Worms.~—I
have a horse that has had scratches
for a long time; his legs swell to twice
their normal size and I imagine that
his legs itch for he is inclined to rub
them against posts or trees. I would
also like to have you tell me what to
give to a horse that is troubled with
worms. F. B., Ensign, Mich—Apply
one part powdered sulphate copper and
five parts vaseline to sore parts every
day or two. Give him 2 drs. of Fow-
ler’s solution at a dose twice a day.
Give 1 dr. of ground sulphate iron, 1
dr. ground nux vomica and 1 oz. of
ground gentian at a dose in feed twice
a day to the wormy horse.

Poll- Nil—My horse bumped top of
head, causing it to swell on each side
of neck back of ears and the treatment
I have applied fails to effect a cure.
A. DeW., Holland, Mich—Apply equal
parts tincture iodine and spirits of
camphor once a day.

Sore Shoulders—I have a four-year-
old mare which I have been working
lately that has a sore shoulder and is
some lame. F. S., Davison, Mich.—
Dissolve 1/, lb. acetate of lead, 3 ozs. of
sulphate of zinc, 2 ozs. of tannic acid
in a gallon of water and apply to the
shoulder three times a day.

Abortion—My six-year—old Jersey
cow lost her calf at the seven months
period. The calf before this came too
soon and she was bred some two
weeks after she freshened. L. J. W.,
Milford, Mich.—-—Doubtless your cow
suffers from contagious abortion and
if she is the only one in your herd,
segregate her or she may infect some
of the other cows or heifers. If you
treat her, dissolve 1 dr. permanganate

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flush out vagina every two days for 30
days and give her 2 drs- of methylene
blue at a dose daily for one week, then
discontinue treatment for a week, then
give 10 more doses two or three days
apart and at the end of 60 days you
may breed her.

Cow Leaks Milk.——VVe have a cow
that seems to lose her milk and we
have been applying rubber bands to
prevent her leaking milk. C. B. G.,
Evart, Mich—Hard rubber teat plugs
or rubber bands is the only practical
appliance to prevent milk dripping out
of udder when the bag fills. She should
be milked three or four times a day.

Death Resulting from Castration.—
Had a Vet, castrate a yearling bull
about four o’clock in the afternoon and
the bull died at six o’clock the follow-
ing morning. What caused his death?
0. M., Wooster, Mich—The bull may
perhaps have died from hemorrhage
or shock; however, it is difficult for
me to tell, not having seen the animal.

Lumpjaw. Can you give me a cure
for lumpjaw in a cow, for I have one
that seems to be diseased and the
hunch is now about twice the size of
a hen egg. S. . F., White Cloud,
Mich.—-—Apply one part red iodide and
Give 2 drs. of potassium iodide at a
four parts lard to bunch once a week.
dose twice a day for 15 days.

F. C. K., North Street, Mich—From
the description of your calf that died
I am unable to make a correct diag-
nosis. You should secure the services
of a competent Vet. and have him ex-
amine one after death. Doubtless you
have clippings telling you what to do
for scours in calves, for it has been
repeatedly given in this column and
other parts of the paper.

Goitre.——l have quite a number of
lambs that seem to have a small egg-
shaped bunch on each side of the wind
pipe which is small In some, but of
considerable size in others. What
geatment do you recommend? A. 13.,

eed City, Mich—Apply tincture or
iodine two or three times a week to
bunches and they will gradually dis-
appear.

Mare Disowns Her Cow-Raising an
Orphan Colt—I have a young mare
that will not own her colt, and Iwould
like to know if anything can be done
to make her own it? If not, will you
give me directions how to raise it by
hand? J. O. B., Colon, Mich—Certain
mares will never oxvn their colts and
it is not possible to change the dispo-
sition of such a mare. Sometimes by
punishing such a mare and watching
her closely for two or three days. she
will then take to colt. Another method
is to confine them in a narrow stall or
stocks so that colt can nurse from the
side of stall; she might then allow the
colt to suck. If you raise colts by
hand, be sure and keep the feeding
utensils clean, select a cow that has
recently freshened and add some sugar
and about one-quarter or one-third wa-
ter to the milk. Also feed colt often
for first two or three weeks.

Abortion—My six-year-old mare
foaled two months too early and I
have been told that she will perhaps
lose her next colt. A. B.., Millman,
Mich—If you have no cases of con-
tagious abortion on your farm her mis-
carriage was perhaps due to an acci-
dent; if so she will perhaps carry her
next colt full gestation period.

Bunch on Thigh—Shy Breeder—One
of my colts has a buncn or growth on
hind leg close up to flank, but it does
not appear to produce any lameness,
and appears to be movable and not
deep. The end of it is some sore, then
scabs over. I have a cow that bother-
ed us in getting her with calf last year;
had to breed her four different times.
She now comes in heat about once a
week and at other times runs the full
period. W. D. V., Sutton’s Bay, Mich.
—The growth you refer to should be
cut out and the leg will get well. Ap-
ply one part iodiform and four parts
powdered charcoal to wound once a
day. Your cow should be examined
by a competent Vet, as she may have
cystic ovarian trouble; if so he can
put her in condition to breed.

Irritation of Urinary Organs—
Wounded Udder.——I have a heifer calf
four months old that makes quite a
fuss in passing urine. I also have a
heifer due to freshen the twelfth of
this month that cut her leg on barb
wire. What had I better apply? L. J.
J., Breedsville, Mich—Give your heifer
a teaspoonful of bicarbonate soda at a
dose in feed three times a day and let
her have some grass to eat. Dissolve
1 oz. permanganate of potash in three
pints of clean water and apply to the
wound twice a day.

Opacity of Cornea—I have a year-
ling colt that is blind in one eye and
now there is a white scum coming on
the other eye. I have been. applying
burnt alum which appears to cut the
scum away; but it is very painful. W.
A., Whitehouse, Mich—Dissolve 40
grains of borate of soda and 40'grains
water and apply to eye twice a day,
Burnt alum is a caustic and should not
be applied to the eye. ‘ ,

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a can always on hand.

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antee three $1.00 cans of Newton’s to cure
Heaves. If the fail, we will refund your money.

eath to heaves.

Sold in powdered form in air-tight cans-costing

Write for booklet
that will give you some new pointers on horses.

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realized the cause of this disease, have been stopping
heaves, saving their horses and consequently their

Heavo, Cough,
Distemper and
Indigestion Cure

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because it corrects and eliminates the cause—indigestion.

This veterinary prescription has gained the reputation of being
the best general conditioner and expeller of
stomach and intestinal worms that can be bought
—not only for horses, but also for cattle and
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Oontoinlrlv blood of world chame‘i’one.
HICKS' OUER SEY FARM. Saginaw. . 8., Mich.

SHEEP.

Kope Kon Farms

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m6 TYPE P. C.B()ARS with pedigree papers. Six
weeks old. $8.00 each. atisfaction guar-
anteed. Dewey Blair, Mancelona. Michigan, R. No. 3.

MY. OH MY!
What an Opportunity

Starting May lat, we are going to give to the farmers
and breeders an opportunity to getstarted right in
the breeding industry. We are gomg to give yous.
chance to get hold of foundation stock that will
give you a. nucleus for one of the finest and best herds
in your community. We are going to show you, as we
have others, that you will have greater success with
our big type

OLAND CHINAS

than with any other breed. Write for spring piglprioes.

llillcrest Farm, Kalamazoo, Mich.

' A few choice fall boars ready

LIFE. Sham PI 0- for service, and 1 May boar.
Gilts for early furrow all sold, a few choice Gilts to
furrow in Aug, and Sept., bred to black Wonder and
Oaklands Equal Jr. H.().Swartz, Schoolcraft. Mich.
Gilts and sows. Bred for Mar. and

large ‘19. P. . April furrow. Sircd by Big Des
Molnes, lg Knox Jr.,ahd Giant Defender. Bred to Big

Knox Jr. Smooth W onder 3 and Big Jumbo. four great.-
ost boars in state. Como or write. “HI-i. Livingston.Parm-,Blich.

BIG Tylpe Poland Chinas, Sired by Big Type King,
our 000 lb. boar. Spring pigs. sired by big tvpe
King, Fesenmeyer A Wonder Jr.,
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' either sex, all ages. Some-
Fill Sal. Paland ohm“ thing good at a low mice.
P. D. Long. R. F. D. No. 8. Grand Rapids. ich.

Poland Chinas. Fall and Summer Pl 8.
"BIV Infidd Sows Bred. Eggs from big Barred Roars
$1.00 or 15. ROBERT NEV . Pier-on. Michigan.

EGISTERED Poland China Spring Boars'and Sowe
at $15 each. Making thisspecial price to make room
for others. A. G. Meade. Stanton, Micb.,Colbys Ranch.

largo Type PC. Sows (it Gilts all sold. Have 3 extra

s'pring boars. Sired by Big Defender.
W. J. AGE .SRA W. Augusta. Michigan.

' Swine all ages. Red Poll Bulll
Lil . vorkflllr. - ready to use 575 each.
E. . CARR. HOMER. MICHIGAN.

 

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WE ARE NOW ROCKING ORDER. FOR SPRING 'I.‘

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Hampshire Swine. gfififi‘lfléfi: “a“ 3‘ “d
both sex. FLOYD MYERS. R.No. 6.D&auir.m1:31

Good yearling field Rams and
Ollord ”own She”. ewes of all ages for sale. “.1
M. F. GANSSLEY. Lennon. Michigan.

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HORSES
Registered Percherons

Brood mares, fillies and young stallions priced
to sell. Ins ection invited.
I. C. HUN'P.

, Eaton Rnpido. Michigan
Valuable Porohoron

Slallions & Mares

last he Sold to Close Estate

A. A. PALMER ESTATE,
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marea,4and6 years old. with colts 2 weeksuldav

side. weight 3000 lbs., well broken and good to we .
A bargain if taken soon.

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and Fillies at. reasonable rices. Inc

pection invited. F. L. K ING a SON. Char otte.Mioh.
OR SALE: Percheron Stud Colt, 11 months wold.

Dumc pigs, Feb. farrowed, either sex. -. .
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Shetland ponies for-sale, 3 black and 2 spotted two.
year-old mares, 1 black and 1 spotted 2-year-old gel-
dings. lhhck yearling. Alark B. Cnrdy, R.6. Howell, Mich.

A RAZOR SNAP

A new lot of fine quality Imported
Razors at 50 cents while the supply
lasts, is now offered by the Michigan
Farmer.

The razors are made of the best
cutlery steel, five-eighth-inch blade,
and black handle. We will not say
just what these razors ordinarily re-
tail at, as prices on razors vary with
each dealer, but we have seen razors
no better sold at $1.25 and $1.50.
Every man who shaves ought to
have at least three razors as it is I.
proven fact that giving a. razor a rest
is beneficial to it, and here is your
opportunity to get a supply at .very
little cost.

So, only while our present supply
lasts the price is 50 cents each, post-
paid, or a half-dozen at $2.00, Lpool:-
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