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CURRENT COMMENT.





 





0n_Tuesday next the

youth of the land will

celebrate the anniver-

_ sary of the nation’s in-

dependence. Our cover design depicts

Young America dreaming of the ex-

ploits of the continental army in the

struggle for the maintenance of our na-

tional independence, which was declar-

ed on that memorable July 4, 1776.

The patriotic enthusiasm of Young Am;

erica will be still more deeply stirred

by the impending prospect of war with

Mexico, and the mobilization of the

national guard which has so recently

taken place within the knowledge if

not under the observation of impres-

sionable youth. Under the stress of

this excitement the small boy will nat-

urally be more daring in what he

deems the fitting celebration of our

national holiday. '



For some years a publicity campaign

for the “safe and sane” obServance of

the Fourth has been carried on with

gratifying results. Year after year

there has been a notable decrease in

the casualties resulting from Fourth of

July celebrations, due largely to this

publicity campaign. It will, however,

require the watchful co-operation of

parents to bring about a similar de-

crease in accidents this year. None of

us would care to see the patriotic spirit

of young America broken or diminish-

ed, and none would deprive the boyish





The National

Holiday.





. heart of the joys which even a noisy





celebration of the national holiday

bring, yet all should co-operate to re-

duce the attendant dangers to the min-

imum. This can be accomplished by

wise interest in the nature and hand-

ling of the explosives used to create

.the noise, and in the proper care of

even trivial injuries which may harbor

the deadly tetanus germ. The wise

course is to call on the family doctor

to dress even apparently minor injur-

ies in the many cases where such will

be sustained.





In response to requests

for authentic informa-

tion regarding monthly

prices paid for milk in the Chicago





Milk Prices.





’ ,district,,State Director of Markets Mc-





Bride has just issued a bulletin con-

taining this information, from which

we quote as follows:



“The prices agreed upon by all deal-

ers buying from the members of the

Northern Illinois Milk Producers’ As-

sociation for the six summer months,

for milk delivered at the various sta-

tions and condenseries, per 100 pounds

April, $1.65; May,





$1.45; June, $1.25; July, $1.55; August,





’ 1.70; September, $1.70. These prices





 





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are for milk that tests 3.5 per cent but-

If the test is above the stan-

j - rid, three cents is added to the above

cos for each tenth of one per cent





 





that the testis: ’ 1- th te





is below the standard, "a .de fiction of

three cents is made for each tenth or

one per cent that the test is below.”





A comparison of these prices with

those prevailing at Michigan shipping

points should be an incentive for the

early organization 'of a local milk pro

ducers’ association in every dairy com-

munity.





With the approach



The Annual School of the date of the



Meeting. annual school meet-



ing, school patrons



in the various school districts of the



state should devote a little thought to



educational matters, and not only be



on hand at the school meeting, but



take the trouble to get other school



patrons in the neighborhood to attend



and talk over with them vital ques-



tions of policy in advance of the school

meeting.



The reader may at first be in doubt

as to how he can aid in the betterment

of the school, even if he is interested.

One good way is through the improve-

ment of the school plant so as to make

it conform to the state requirements

for a standard school. Write the Sup-

erintendent of Public Instruction for

a copy of those requirements and study

them own They will be found to pro-

vide for proper sanitation and increas-

ed comfort for e pupils, yet to in-

volve no extravagant expenditures. Ev-

ery country school which conforms to

these requirements and bears the offi-

cial sign “Standard School” will be a

far better and safer place for housing

school children from a hygienic stand-

point, and will go far toward promot«

ing a degree of efficiency in school

,work which will be a source of pride

and satisfaction to the parents.





It pays to be liberal in providing for

the needs of the rural schools, notwith-

standing the fact that the school tax is

a large item in our annual burden of

taxation. Good schools are worth all

they cost, and poor schools are dear at

any price.





On another page of





Road Building this issue two imoprt-





Problems. ant road building prob-

lems are discussed in

detail. One of these problems is quite





properly described as a local one. The

community in which the writer lives

finds it road building economy to use

crushed stone in the permanent im-

provement of its highways, yet looking

beyond the local phase of the problem

the writer concedes that in a great

many localities within the state where

good gravel is right at hand, it would

be poor economy to use crushed stone

in road building.



In still other communities it has

been found the best economy to use

crushed stone for the foundation of

the road-bed with a coating of screen-

ed gravel as a wearing surface. In

many communities of the state this

combination of materials would seem

to contribute to the economical build-

ing of permanent roads. Michigan is

fortunate in this respect, since fairly

good gravel deposits are to be found

in most sections of the state, while in

a great many localities there is an

abundance of stone which could be

profitably used as a foundation for

gravel roads and at the same time im-

prove the appearance of the country

by cleaning up the roadsides and elim-

inating stone piles from the adjacent

fields.



The availability of material is un-

questionably a vital factor in the pro-

gress of road improvement. Indiana,

for instance, is conspicuous among the

states for its large mileage of improv-

ed roads, yet no state aid has been ex-

tended in Indiana, and this improve:

ment has been accomplished almost en-

tirely by the townships.

accomplished in this manner is also

well illustrated by the progress which

has been made in township road im-

provement in certain townships "of

Hillsdale county which have been

from time to time cited as an example

in these columns.





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problem," yet not wholly so. Trunk

line. reads should unquestionably be

improved in a manner which will in-

sure adequate service for a long term

of years under heavier traflic conditions

than now prevail, since traffic is bound

to increase. Experience has demon-

strated that a very narrow road-bed is

more quickly disintegrated because of

the concentration of traffic in one place

and it is probable that the public in-

terest would be best conserved in cas-

es like that cited in another column, by

a compromise between extremely Wide

and extremely narrow road-beds.



With the building of trunk line roads

the use of the auto truck for the mar-

keting of farm produce from a consid-

erable distance of points of general

consumption is bound to increase ma-

terially, and it requires a good road-

bed to stand up under that kind of

traffic. It‘is, however, something of





- an injustice to the farmers of a town-





ship to have the entire burden of build-

ing trunk line roads through the town-

ship fall upon the local taxpayers. The

adoption of the county road system and

.the making of the trunk line roads

county roads would tend to distribute

the burdens of road construction and

maintenance, as well as the benefits,

more equitably.





A referendum was

Vocational Train- recently taken by

ing. the Chamber of

Commerce of the

United States of America in which

four recommendations were submitted

to the members for approval. These

recommendations favored liberal fed-

eral appropriations to promote voca-

tional education in the United States,

the same to be allotted among the

states on a uniform basis and with uni-

form relation to appropriations made

by states for like purposes, the crea-

tion of a federal board representative

of the interests vitally concerned,

which board should be required to ap-

point advisory committees of five mem-

bers each, representing industry, com-

merce, labor, agriculture, home-mak-

ing and general vocational education.

These propositions, which we have

briefly summarized, all carried by sub-

stantial majorities, averaging around

seven votes for to one against. The

units voting were the industrial organ—

izations of many cities of the United

States comprising the Chamber of

Commerce of the United States.





The wording of the recommenda-

tions is such as to make clear the ad-

vocacy of federal support of vocational

training all along the line, without

committing the organization to any

definite plan as to the scope or method

of carrying out same. So far as agri-

culture and the mechanic arts is con-

cerned the federal government is al-

ready lending liberal support to the

several states through the land grant

colleges for the promotion of higher

education along vocational lines. Still

more liberal aid is being given to gen-

eral vocational education along agri-

cultural lines through extension work

projects carried out through the aid

of the Lever fund and equal contribu-

tions by the states. The states are also

making notable progress in the matter

of vocational education along agricul-

tural lines. Michigan has some fifty

schools in which a full four-year course

of agriculture is taught, while elemen-

tary agriculture is taught in all pri-

mary schools. The public schools of

several cities also include vocational

courses in mechanics and home eco-

nomics, while our higher institutions of

learning furnish admirable facilities

for advanced technical training along

every line.



Agriculture is our basic industry and

federal aid for vocational training

along this line is more fundamental to

the nation’s prosperity than along any

other line. Even in this line federal

aid for vocational training has been

comflned to higher technical education,





experimental work and extension work.





 





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du‘stry, .l'eav 113 to the states. the task»





lines. While it may be desirable to





promote a more general development '





of vocational training through federal

aid, it would seem a more desirable

plan to enlarge the scope of the activ-

ities of established governmental de-

partments, rather than to create new

administrative machinery for such pur~

pose.





 





HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.





 





National.



Mexican Affairs—The attack on the

American troops at Carrizal last week

will probably result in war between

Mexico and the United States, accord-

ing to the most recent information.

Officials at Washington look upon the

attack as a hostile act on the part Of'

the Mexican troops. As a result of the

encounter, several. men on both sides

were killed and many wounded and 17

American soldiers were made prison~

ers. A statement has been demanded

and is now being waited for by the

United States government as to the

course of action determined upon by

the de facto government of Mexico.

Orders have been issued to move 15,-

000 national guards to the Mexican

border at once. The Michigan guard

has assembled at Grayling and expects

a call to the front at any moment. Two

American cattlemen are reported to

have been killed by Mexicans south-

west of Nacozari in the state of Sono-

ra.——Reports that the German legation

in Mexico City has actively inspired

Gen. Carranza to hostility against the

United States, have been set aside as

unworthy of attention by the German

Imperial Chancellor.





The national committeemen of the

progressive party are holding a session

in Chicago this week to act on the dec-

lination of Colonel Roosevelt to head

the party ticket in the coming cam-

paign. It appears that some of the

committeemen are favorable to the

support of the republican candidate,

while others are desirous of putting in-

to the field a third party ticket.





Twenty persons were injured, five of

them seriously, when a trolley jumped

the track on Pine street, Lansing, last

Sunday night.



Mrs. Hetty Green, known as the rich-

est woman in the world, is seriously ill

in New York City. She is 83 years old.





On July 14 a monster good roads

meeting is to be held at Mackinac, at

which time Governor Ferris will unveil

the monument at the end of the Dixie

highway.



The thirty-sixth annual session of

the Farmers’» National Congress will

be held in Indianapolis, Ind., October

17-20 inclusive. The program is to be

comprehensive and it is expected that

a new record in attendance at the na-

tional conventions of the congress will

be made at this session.



Col. L. H. Ives, of Mason, Mich., has

been elected commander of the Depart-

ment of Michigan, G. A. R. The nations

a1 encampment of the G. A. R. will be

held in Kansas City this summer.



Foreign.



The European Wan—Russian forces

now occupy all of Bukowina which lies

between Czernowitz and the Carpa-

thian mountains. The Russians have

also massed troops in Volhynia in op—

position to violent attacks by German

forces at that point. While Berlin re-

ports that these attacks have failed,

news from Petrograd indicates that the

offensive is being continued. On the

western front the French are making

vigorous attacks north of Verdun to re-

gain lost ground, and trenches to the

west of Thiamount have been taken and

some progress made in the village of

Fleury. A German attack in the Dead

man Hill region has also been repuls-

ed. The British forces have developed

pronounced artillery activity along the

part of the Franco-Belgian front from

La. Bassee canal to the Somme river.

There is nothing to report from the

Balkan and Italian fronts. An Italian

auxiliary cruiser and a French for-

pedo boat destroyer have been tor-

pedoed in the Strait of Otranto.





Riots occurred during the elections

in Panama on June 25. No Americans

are reported among the casualties.



Mexican money has so depreciated

in value in Spain that a peso is quoted

at only ten centimes, which is equiva-

lent to two and a half cents. »



Information by way of Holland





'states that distress in German cities





caused by food-scarcity, has risen to

such a degree that the church authori-

ties at-Munster at Cologne have asked

the co—oneration of the clergy to send





the children of the cities to country g 3, ,

places where the scarcity of food is





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,5 provements must cost more.

bility of material, in any normal case,

"is the first point to be considered.





HE writer lives in the heart-of a

locality famousvfor' its perma-





nent road improvements. . In the





'main,‘ these improvements consist of

'1 crushed stone or macadam highway.





With Fayette township as the pioneer

in this kind of road building, the same

system has been adopted by neighbor-

ing townships, in the northwestern cor-

ner of the county. The day is now

past and gone forever, when perma-

nent road construction can be limited

to any particular township or group of

townships. The . whole county and

neighboring counties have taken up

In this widening

of the field, with its varying problems

in different localities and under differ-

ent conditions, a discussion has arisen





as to the merits of the two principal ,





kinds of permanent highways—namely,

gravel and, crushed stone. In the con-

sideration of this subject, some very

important points are often overlooked.





Perhaps the most common and im-





portant factor in the situation, has to





do with the kind of material at hand,

for use in permanent road construc-

tion. In the writer’s section, there

may now be found a few stretches of

first—class gravel road. Many automo»

bile owners and others, contend that

this is the preferable kind of perma-

nent highway. They contend that it is

not so hard on the auto tires, that it is

more easily repaired when worn by

travel, and that it is less expensive

than the macadam road.'Granting that

all these claims for the gravel road

may be true in limited localities, the

fact remains that number one gravel

is found only occasionally, and that its

presence in the locality is necessary, if

roads are to be constructed of it, at a

price cheaper than that paid for the

crushed stone road. Gravel roads in

this county have, before now, failed to

pass state inspection, because of the

inferior quality of the gravel. A first-

class gravel road requires first—cla‘ss

material, and in many sections, not a

yard of this first-class gravel is avail-

aable.



But, so far we have stated only one

side of the question. Many advocates

of the crushed stone highway, hold

that this is pre-eminently the proper

kind of .permanent road to construct.

They claim that taking the higher

state reward into account, the stone





, road is as cheap as the gravel, and





much more lasting. Here, again, often-

times, the question of available mate-

rial is lost sight of. To ship stone into





~ a locality possessing excellent gravel





for road construction, would be an ex-

pensive'and short-sighted blunder.

' A Local Problem.

Thefact is, that excellent roads may

be and have been built from both grav-





. el and crushed stone. Each community





or township must accept the kind of





1 material available if the work is to be





done without unnecessary expense——

and all must admit that expense is an

important item in road construction.

But someone says: How about those

localities where neither stone nor grav-

el exist in sufiicient quantities for road

building? In these localities, the com-

parative merits of the two kinds of

highway and the relative cost of each,

should be considered. If gravel can be

obtained much more cheaply than

stone, this item certainly ought to

count in favor of the gravel road. In

some parts of Ohio where neither stone

nor gravel are found locally, these per-

manent roads are being constructed at

an expense that is unknown in Michi-

gan. The residents in such sections,

have a bigger problem to solve, and in

any case, their permanent road im-

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road censtruction is too new to prove

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‘probable that improved methods and





new ideas will be introduced. . The

building of these roads in Michigan, is

still in its infancy. It seems probable

that the use of some kind of binder to

be. added to the top-dressing of these

roads, will be one of the improvements.

Such preparations are used with suc-

cess in other states, and while this will

undoubtedly add to the first expense

of construction, it seems likely that the

repair expense would be lessened by

the adoption of such a preparation.



If the reader chances to live in a lo-

cality where good gravel can be had,

let him boost-for gravel highways, for





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construct 'in' such a case.

a section where stone is abundant, ma.

Cadam roads are the kind to advocate.

Each of these kinds of permanent

roads has 'its merits, but theSe are in-

significant in comparison with the

availability of. material. Under proper

management, an excellent highway

may be constructed of either. Use

what is at hand, and- you will get more

satisfactory results than in any other

way. Permanent road improvement

costs enough at best, and why make it

more expensive by copying after some

locality in which conditions are entire-

ly different from those existing in

your own? ‘





Hillsdale Co. J. A. KAISER.





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trunk line roads across Michigan



in different directions is being urg—

ed and some consideration of this mat-

ter by the farmers who are now, and

others who will be taxed for building

them may be in order. These roads

are run on general lines without refer—

ence to the needs or convenience of

the people of the townships through

which they pass, that being merely an

incidental matter, and they are design-

ed to have a roadbed of macadam or

gravel 16 feet wide. A double reward

is to be paid by the state for the con-

struction of such roads upon their com-

pletion, and provision is made for pay-

ment of a specified amount for their

maintenance annually thereafter. In

townships in which there are cities or





JUST now the construction of the





The Width of the Roadbed





sively Wide roadway is necessary. The

idea of a Wide roadway is so that ve-

hicles may have room to pass each

other. Near large cities where there

is a good deal of travel this is an im-

portant consideration, but in these

country districts there is no likelihood

that traffic will be large enough to be

seriously inconvenienced in the next

fifty years on roads of ordinary width.

On roads already constructed with

nine-foot roadbeds of macadam and an

earth grade the proper width, vehicles

find plenty of room to pass, so that

there is not the slightest inconven-

ience on this account. Is it wise or

fair, therefore, to ask the farmers to

tax themselves to build these roads so

much wider and more expensive than

the exigencies of the case call for? The





 





 





 





Material and Width Important Factors in Road Building Economy.





villages of considerable size, especially

where resort interests are consider-

able, the proposition seems to carry;

but in those townships in which the

farming interests more largely predom-

inate it is having harder sledding.



Now, it would seem to be a practical

and proper question if some modifica-

tion or compromise might be consider-

ed which shall meet all of the needs of

the case and at the same "time conform

more to the farmers’ ideas of justice in

the matter. In several townships with

which the writer is acquainted along

the line of the West Michigan Pike,

one of these trunk line roads, the line

of the road is close to one side of the

township and on roads, which a consid-

erable proportion of the farmers use

but little or not at all. Furthermore,

the roads are at present among the

best in the townships. The farmers

therefore ask, for reasons for the ex-

cessively heavy expense for improve-

ment of these roads while others with

equal or greater travel are neglected.

It is probable that in several'townships

some concession will have to be made

to‘this objection befdre the road can

go through. -





But in general the question may

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heaviest expense of construction is in

the material and hauling, as the stone

or gravel for surfacing all has to be

shipped in, hence. doubling the width

of the roadbed adds enormously to the

expense.



Counting the Cost.



Some figures that the writer has ob-

tained throw some light on the ques-

tion of economy as well. A’ represen-

tative of the state highway department

gave as his opinion that to build a 16-

foot roadway of macadam through one

township along this line would cost

$7,000 per mile. There are seven miles

of this pike through this township, so

that the expense bill would spoil $50,-

000. According to this same authority

the state would pay upon acceptance

of a 16-foot roadway, a reward of $3,400

per mile, or for a nine-foot roadway

$1,700 per mile of macadam. Probably

the expense of grading would be not

far from $1,000 per mile in either case,

being slightly more for the wider road-

way. If the township undertook the

wider roadway at a total cost of $7,000





‘per mile and received $3,400 back from





the state it would then have'to put in

$3, 600 on its own account But should

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cost of probably $4, 000 per mile and- 1‘81,





ceive back $1,700 per milerit would“

have to put in $2,300 per mile of it‘s ‘

own-money, a difference in the ex-j “

pense to thetownship of $1,300 per

mile, or a difference of $9,000 for ,the

entire seven miles of roadway. Now,

why should the farmers of this town-

ship be asked to pay an additional

charge of $9,000 for a roadway, mainly

for the benefit or convenience of auto

owners and tourists of other sections

and other states, when a road which

would meet every need of traffic Could

be built for that much less, and when

other roads in the township of equal

importance to the farmers themselves

remain unimproved? This township is

farther from shipping points than some

others so that the expense of hauling

material would be larger, but this

doubtless furnishes a fair comparison

of the relative expenses in building

the two widths of roadway. There are

many townships in the state in which

this matter may well receive consid-

eration.





Allegan Co. EDW. HUTCHINS.





FARM NOTES.





The Fertilizing Value of Sweet Clover.





I should like to know the fertilizing

value of sweet clover as compared.

with red clover. When should it be

sown and how much to the acre?



Ionia Co. W. H. W.





The fertilizing value of clover or any

other legume is two-fold, first, these

plants have the power of adding ac~

tual plant food to the soil in the form

of nitrogen appropriated from the air

in the soil by the bacteria which make

the clover a host plant. As both red

clover and sweet clover harbor these

nitrogen—fixing bacteria, it is perhaps

fair to assume that they would have

about the same value in this respect,

although this is not definitely certain.



The other value of the clovers as soil

improvers consists in the amount of

vegetable matter added to the soil and

the amount of mineral fertilizing ele-

ments brought from the lower strata

of the soil for such purposes. In this

respect, sweet. clover is somewhat su—

perior to common red clover.



Henry’s tables show the fertilizing

constituents of the two plants to be

very similar, but if the crop is plowed

down for fertilizing purposes the sweet

clover being a much larger producer

of vegetable matter will add more hu-

mus and more mineral fertility brought

from the lower strata of soil in the

building of the plants, because of its

more vigorous habits of growth. On

some soils sweet clover has another

marked advantage, in that it is better

adapted to soils having a very low con-

tent of vegetable matter than is ordi-

nary red clover. For general use in the

crop rotation on the average farm,

however, red clover is a much more

valuable crop; it. is only under special

conditions that sweet clover should be

substituted for it.



Sweet clover is preferably sown in

the spring on a firm, well prepared

seed bed, either without a nurse crop

or in spring sown grain, depending up—

on the character and condition of the

soil. It should be sown in about the

same quantity as alfalfa, or eight to

ten pounds of hulled seed per acre.



Seeding Clover in Buckwheat.





Have five acres of ground run down.

Would 100 lbs. of fertilizer to the acre

bring a fair crop.of buckwheat? If

not how much? By sowing clover seed

in the buckwheat, in August would I

stand a chance of getting a catch so

as to use for pasture next summer? If





nolt?what would be best to sow this

fa 1.

Oakland Co. J. B.





Buckwheat is a grain crop which will

produce well on a thinner soil than any

other crop which could be sown, owing '

to its vigorous habit of growth and the

persistency with which it appropriates

available fertility for. a considerable

depth in the soil. Due to this habit of

growth, it also leosens up the s0il and.

supplants weeds. -. . ‘ . ,



It is not a safe dependence, however, »

to seed clover in buckwheat, owing to‘ ’

the late date at which the clover must

be 130%, the likelihood of.urit'a'v9;13,1211;m '
' ing same with rye in the corn at the





 





V weather and the. strong campetitiOn of

j the buckwheat plantsfor available fer-

tility. Although clover may sometimes





be successfully seeded in this way, if

the desire is to use this land for pas-

ture next summer, a better way would

be to plow and seed in August with

vetch and rye, inoculating the seed if

vetch has never been grown on this

land before

pasture this fall, and again next spring,





' and will leave a residue to be plowed





down for improving the soil, or clover

may be seeded in the spring if desired.

g; A little phosphate fertilizer would no

‘doubt aid in securing a good yield of

grain from buckwheat, although little

if any nitrogen should be used if the

land is in even a fair state of fertility.





Burning Hardwood Stumps.





Is there any method for treating oak

stumps which will permit burning

them without waiting the indefinite

'length of time required for them to





decay?

Genesee Co. F. B. H.





Various methods of burning hard-

wood stumps have been practiced with

success where this method of ridding

a field of a few large stumps is chosen.

‘Of these methods, what is known as

the char pitting method is probably

the most efficient. This method is

available for use only on clay soils,

since the heat generated is confined

by clay covering, and slow combustion

takes place, burning the roots to a con.

siderable depth. This method is fully

described in the Bureau of Plant Indus-

try Bulletin No. 39, which may be se<

cured from the Department of Agricul~

ture, \Vashington, D. C.



A simpler method is to bore auger

holes diagonally through the stump

near the surface of the ground on one

side into a hole previously dug one

foot below the surface on the opposite

side. When a fire is built in the exca-

vation, some of the heat and flame

pass through the auger hole, heating

and drying the stump until it ignites

and is finally consumed.



Another method is to bore intersect-

ing holes into the stump, one horizon-

tal and the other at an angle runnirg

as far up the stump as practical. A

fire is started at the intersection of

these holes by the use of oil or other

highly combustible fuel which will fin-

ally ignite the stump. Another method

is to split the stump by an explosive,





’ when they can be more easily burned





by the same method.

Seeding Vetch.





Please tell me whether vetches are

annuals or not? Which is best, sand

vetch or hairy vetch? Would it do to

sow them with orchard grass, and how

late could such a mixture be sown and

still survive the winter?



Osceola Co. I. T.





Sand and hairy vetch are different

I designations of the same plant which

is also called winter vetch. It is a

winter annual, ripening its seed wtih-

in the year, but being best cultivated

by sowing in the late summer.



Orchard grass would not be a suit-

able plant t'o sow with vetch, for the

reason that orchard grass is a peren-

nial, while the vetch would survive

only a single season unless conditions

were favorable for it to re-seed for a

volunteer crop. It is best sown in rye

in midsummer, as the rye will support

'the vetch vines, and will also add to

the vegetable matter to be plowed

downpor to the yield of forage, if it is

cut for hay or pasture.





The Place of Vetch in the Crop

Rotation.





Having seen in your paper some

time ago about winter vetch as a green

manure crop, I would like to know how

it compares with mammoth clover to

plow under. Will it stand as much

wet or dry weather and how much to

sow to the acre, if sown in corn at last





cultivation ?

Eaton Co. D. H.

Vetch is a particularly valuable





: jgreen manure crop to use as a catch





crop, as for instance, after corn, sow~





t cultivation, and plowing. down as

”green manure crop the following

Spring. Where so used on land which

adapted to this crop it furnishes not-





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only humus but nitrogen as Well, the

same as clover or any of the other

legumes.



Varying amounts should be sown, de-

pending upon the purpose for which

the crop is, grown. On land where

vetch has never been grown, a com~

paratively light seeding is ordinarily

used, say ten to fifteen pounds of vetch





seed with about three packs to a bus!»

tel of rye.





‘This will insure a good

stand of rye and a sufilcient‘grow-th of

vetch, provided good inoculation is se-

cured. Quite often vetch does not do

well the first time it is sown on a field,

for which reason too great results

should not be expected from the first

seeding. ' .





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Busy Land the Best Land





of the soil in his field as the



home of untold millions of bacte-

ria—there are many more forms of life

in the soil than on top of it—many of

which work day and night for our ben-

efit, asking only that we provide them

with food. The better we feed and

care for them the more bountiful will

be the crops we get as payment.



How do we know that the soil bac-

teria are essential to good plant

growth.



First. The bacteriologists have prov-

en by tests and experiments that ster-

ile soil, even though having the chem-

ical elements, nitrogen, phosphorous

and potash in proper proportions, will

not produce good crops. The bacteria

seem to perform the function of mak-

ing the chemical elements available.





Second. We have all observed that

soil which has been continuously un-

der water for several years will not

produce a crop the first year; dirt tak-

en from several feet below the surface

will not produce the first years; also

we have noticed that crops did not

thrive when planted on ground over

which a house has stood for many

years, or on a hard packed road.



What conditions are necessary to aid

the development of these bacteria in

soils? ‘



First. The soil must have air in it

and circulating through it. Air cannot

circulate in water-covered soil, hence

the bacteria cannot live there. The

harder a soil becomes packed by

tramping or otherwise, the fewer bac-

teria in it, and the poorer the growth

of vegetation it will produce. A hard-

packed road-bed makes a poor crop.

Conversely the loose, porous soil—~n0t

so loose that it will lose moisture ab«

normally—breeds most soil bacteria

and hence produces best crops.



Second. The soil must be supplied

with vegetable matter because this is

the home of, and supplies the food for,

most all of the soil bacteria. Without

vegetable matter to be worked over by

these bacteria—we call the work they

do “rotting”—there would be no hu-

mus in the soil. Vegetable matter kept

under water does not rot, simply be-

cause the bacteria which eat out and

tear down its cells cannot live under

water.



A good soil literally breathes, be

cause it is teeming with life. If a soil

is too wet, lacks humus, or is not turn-'

ed over or stirred up frequently enough

the bacteria languish and die and you

say the soil is sick. At [least the vege-

tation it produces looks sick.



If the soil, therefore, is well drained,

kept from packing and has sufficient

quantities of vegetable matter put into

it in the form of stable or green ma-

nure, it furnishes the ideal home for

soil bacteria and good crops are the

natural result, granting that the chem-

ical elements of plant food—nitrogen,

phosphorous and potash—are properly

balanced to make a “balanced ration”

for the crop grown.



Making Plant Food Available.



How do the soil bacteria aid plant

growth?



The chemists tell us that nitrogen as

contained in dead plant and animal tis-

sues cannot be taken up and used by

growing plants. It must be transform-

ed by soil bacteria two or three times

until in the form of nitrate nitrogen or

“nitrates”'it is soluble in water and

therefore can be absorbed by the root

hairs of the growing plants. Some

what similar transformations are vnec-

estuary to make phosnhoreus Land.-pot«





] E VERY farmer should always think





ash from animal and plant tissues

available. That is, ,all of the chemical

elements must become soluble in wa-

ter. This process of change is going

on constantly and remember that your

good friends, the soil bacteria, are do-

ing the work without charge. These

faithful servants work constantly and

most vigorously during the warm sum-

mer months.



Here is another important thing to

remember: Since the nitrogen is con-

verted into nitrates and the other

chemical elements are made soluble in

water it follows that when rains come

this food is carried by the water di-

rectly to the root hairs, as they fill the

soil, and taken thence into the plant

tissues. But what if the ground is bare,

as so many fields are left, during July,

August and September? It means that

every rain carries off large quantities

of plant food which should be taken up

by plants and held in the soil for fu-





ture use. So keep something growing

all the time. Better have weeds than

nothing! Nature tries heroically to





protect our land and grass, weeds, etc.,

are made to appear as if by magic. But

better than trust to weeds put a catch

crop or cover crop on all corn or other

ground not already in a growing crop.

Keep the soil full of growing roots all

the time. Corn rootlets die about the

time roasting ears harden, hence every

corn field is much better off if a catch

crop of; soy beans, cowpeas, rape or

turnips, or a cover crop of rye and

vetch or wheat is put in at last culti-

vation.



Remember that busy land is the best

land.



Mason Co. I. B. MCMURTRY.





LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.





 





I am much interested in the criti-

cism about my steer feeding as com-

pared with dairying. Editor Waterbury

did not criticize in cold type through

the Michigan Farmer, but he did by

letter and accused me of giving the

cows credit for unusual prices or extra

prices for butter-fat and the steers only

ordinary prices for‘their grains. But

I did not give the cows credit with ex-

tra prices. Only wholesale creamery

prices for fat. Cow-testing records are

compiled on ordinary market prices,

and should be.



My esteemed friend from Lenawee

county claims I should have fed these

steers better, made much larger gains

and should have sold them for nine

cents instead of seven cents. Well,

there may be something in that, but I

was keeping them to get rid of some

poor clover and alfalfa hay and had I

fed them heavily of grain they would

have eaten very little of this hay. The

hay was unsalable. A very successful

feeder in Shiawassee county told me I

did not feed these steers, I just winter-

ed them; and I guess he was right. I

just wintered them. I don’t figure I

was out much for feed except the little

grain I fed them.



But I don’t think from the last of

December to May is long enough to

fatten thin steers. I doubt if any feed-

er could have finished them in that

time so they would have brought nine

cents. I was fairly well satisfied with

my results, all things considered. My

original intention was to run them on

pasture until July. But I was afraid

of dry weather and short pasture. Had

I known grass would grow as it has I

certainly should have'kept them. But

even with the best, conditions all

around I feel that cows are a better





would do some speculating every year .

by buying fresh cows every fall, milk- \ 3





ing them all winter and selling a. lot





of them every spring for beef. Just‘





an ordinary cow can’ be .fattened while

giving milk if you feed her heavily,





but the best kind of a dairy cow will . I





not do this.



An interesting question was brought

to my attention the other day by a re-

mark a breeder of pure-bred dairy cat-

tle made. He told me frankly that if

he had to depend on the'profits from

milk from his herd he would ‘go out of

the dairy business. He must sell some

breeding stock at high prices to get

the profit he desired. Now if he is not

satisfied, how will his customers be

satisfied with their returns. If every-

body must sell pedigreed stock to make

a fair profit from their herds where are

we coming to in the whole dairy busi-

ness. If a breeding herd don’t make a

good profit What does the farmer want.

of them, anyway? If the dairy busi-

ness is based on the selling of surplus

stock the bottom of it will sometimes

fall out, for everybody can not sell ped-

igreed stock. Somebody must get an

actual profit from milk production.

You can’t fool all the farmers all the

time into buying high-priced cattle, un-





less theSe cattle will bring good profits ’





at the ordinary dairy business.



If this man was right then the whole

dairy business will crumble and fall.

But this man is not right. Good dairy

cows will pay a profit and a good one,

when they are in the hands of good

dairymen.

high-priced surplus stock to make a

profitable business out of dairying. Of

course, if one’s stock is registered and

superior in quality and can be sold for

more than ordinary prices, well and

good. That is added profit, and well

merited and well earned profit, too.



A farmer is foolish to pay extremely

high prices for simply finish and pol-

ish. Because an animal’s horns have





been trained to grow in symmetrical





curves and because it is well groomed,

etc., really makes it no more valuable.

Anybody can do this sort of thing to

any kind of an animal, and it is no bet-

ter for it. We buy breeding stock to

improve our herds in economical pro-

duction. What we want is cattle that

will make us better profits at the ordi-

nary everyday work of dairying, and a

breeder that does not make his herd

pay a profit at the pail has a poor foun-

dation, and a poor argument to ofier

for people to buy his surplus stock.





Tile Drainage Does Not Always SaVe

Crops.



Even tile drains will not save crops

when it rains all the time. You can

actually drown crops right over good

tile drains, if it rains often enough and

hard enough. This is proved on my

own farm this year. One of the best

drained fields is a failure. The peas

are actually destroyed in many por-

tions of the field by too much water. I

don’t know how to help it.



This is June 17 and our sweet corn

is not planted. Not only this, but the

ground is far from being fitted as yet.





If it doesn’t rain any more now it Will





take several days to prepare the ground

although it was fall plowed. The field

is green with weeds. It has been disk-

ed only once and that made little im-

presion.on the weeds. Four times disk-

ing will be necessary, at least. We top-

dressed this field the past winter on

the fall plowing. This was bad for

this year, for this manure has acted as

a mulch and kept the land from drying

out quickly. ‘

Corn planted now in a few days will,

in my estimation, stand as good a

chance as though planted earlier. We

have had no corn weather. If the bal-

ance of the season is at all favorable

corn will mature. One year, much like

this, we did not plant till July 12. The

corn did not ripen but it made splendid,

ensilage.





proposition than. steers 313,1. didn‘ot ,





You don’t have tosell any.





It will do to plant corn any ‘

time in June for ensilage and chances

are that this year it will. get _, ripe A; .





 





 





 





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OSSES due to fungous diseases.





and insect peSts are great. In

' 1904 Michigan lost a third of its

potato crop. In 1911, in the United

States lo'sSes from wheat smut amount-

ed to $9,000,000. And so it is for

all diseases and insects. Every year

sees an epidemic on a certain plant

due to disease or insect, which de-

stroys millions of dollars’ worth of

crops.



The farmers in the United States

spend millions of dollars annually, in

fighting these enemies. The farmers

spray, they treat the need, they cut

down alternate hests, and they take all

precautions in handling their crops.

Yet under the best of these conditions,

epidemics have been known to break

out. What is the cause?



In explaining what I believe to be a

cause, I do not maintain it is the only

cause. But, I do claim that it is a

very serious condition.



‘ Breeding Places for Pests.





Every city has its numberless back-

yards. In these yards are planted fruit

trees of all descriptions. Many of these

yards are used for gardens. The own-

er, as a rule, has a vague idea of hand-

ling or caring for these crops. He does

not take any steps in eliminating in-

sects or diseases. He merely plows up

the soil, plants the seed, and awaits re-

sults, whether good or bad. I have

seen one of these backyard apple trees

covered with enough curculio and scale

to destroy the entire apple crop of

Michigan. I have seen in this same

yard several varieties of insects, and

as many kinds of fungous and bacterial

diseases. In'such a yard, the embryo

of a state-wide epidemic lies dormant

awaiting its time.



Winged insects travel many miles.

Spores from fungous plants have been

known to be blown fifty miles by the

wind. Birds, in their flight, carry the

spores, bacteria and insects with them.

Here in these yards the pestilents find

an ideal wintering place. Here they

breed only to leave in the spring for

new goals.



The farmer, who has taken proper

care of his crops, wonders at the cause

of the outbreak. The backyards are

Overlooked.





Back Yards Should be Kept Clean.



Each state should make special laws

governing this matter. The farmers

come to the\city for their clothing. The

city men look to the farmer for their

eatables. The armer does not injure

the goods he buys, but the city man

wages war upon the crops he needs for

his own consumption. He does this

through his backyard. Laws should be

made requiring’the owner to care for

his backyard‘under national, state, or

city supervision. If the owner is un-

able to carry out these requirements,

the work should be done by the city.

In taking precautions against these

pests, both the owner and farmer will

be benefited. ‘The farmer will be ben~

efited by his larger and better yields

and the city man by being able to get

clean farm products, and clean pro-

ducts from his own garden.



Let us, then, wage war against the

present system of handling backyards.



Ingham Co. A. H. BAYER.





TROUBLE DEPARTMENT.





Peach Leaf Curl.





My young peach trees seem to be

dying of some thouble with leaves. I

am sending you some leaves and would

like to know the cause and what to do

for it Have some older trees the





same way.

Livingston .00. G. H. B.





Your peach trees have what is called

the “peach leaf curl ” This is a fun-

..|- J ;-gous disease which becomes active ear-



[y in the seasOn just as the leaf buds





with lime-311111111117 at

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the: middle or March.





disease. .



There is nothing that you can do

now, to contrdl the disease, but un-

doubtedly during the summer months

when we do not have so much rain, it

will be checked to a great extent, and

will therefore not 'do any serious in-

jury to the trees this year. It is tOO-

late this season to do anything to keep

the disease in' check, but we would ad-’

vise you to make the recommended ap-

plication next spring, in order to keep

the trees from the disease for that

year. '



Lice and Ants.



There are ants cOntinually going up

and down the trees, especially on the

cherry trees, with the result that most

of the leaves curl, and in the curled

leaves we find what looks to me like

lice. Now, I have used your spraying

solution and that helps some, but I

would like to know if there is anything

in the line of glue or paste which I

could put around the trunk of the tree?

If poSsible, advise a home remedy, as

we live quite a distance from town.



Newaygo Co. A. R.



The ants crawling up the tree are in

no way the cause of the condition of

your cherry trees. But they go up the

tree to get the sweetish liquid called

“honey dew,” which is secreted by the

cherry tree aphis. You will usually

find ants present Wherever there are

any plant lice. It is very hard to con-

trol aphis after they have become nu-

merous, and as the time for their stay

on the tree for this season is short, it

will not be wise for you to use any

methods of control now. These aphis

are due to leave the tree some time

during the latter part of July.



The best way to control the aphis is

to spray with commercial tobacco ex-

tract such as Black Leaf 40, just be-

fore the blossoms drop. Spraying ear-

lyin the season will kill the few aphis

which become active then and thus

prevent further increase. It is not pos-

sible to do thorough work in spraying

after the leaves have curled, and as

the spraying with tobacco extract is ex-

pensive, the results would not warrant

the time and expense of putting on the

Applying a sticky appli-

cation around the tree to prevent the

ants from crawling up would, have ab-

solutely no effect on the aphis on the

foliage. ’





 





THE NECESSITY FOR ROTATING

IN GARDEN WORK.





If one would preserve a balanced

state of fertility, hold insect and weed

pests do‘wn to a minimum, a systematic

rotation in, the garden must be prac~

ticed. The different vegetables draw

unevenly on the fertilizing constitu-

ents of the soil, and if a soil carries

the same vegetable, or vegetables sim-

ilar in nature, season after season, it

will finally become deficient in the par-

ticular fertilizing element on which the

plant feeds the heaviest. Thus, cab-

bage, lettuce and celery draw heavily

on the nitrogen in the soil, and in fol-

lowing a rotation, these should be fol-

lowed by peas and beans, plants that

are leguminous in character, and ex-

tract nitrogen from the air and store it

in the soil.



The growing of the same vegetable

in the same soil season after season,

favors the multiplication of insect

pests that feed upon that particular

vegetable. When a vegetable is grown

year, after year in the same location,

the soil becomes a veritable breeding

place for the pests. The logical way

to fight insects is to starve them out

by growing the same crop, or crops

similar in character, no two seasons in

the same soil. T. Z. RICHEY.





When the new canes of the raspber-

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back the tips to check the upward

growth. This will insure stockv canes

and low. branching of the laterals.



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scale, if the scale spraying is- made in" .

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vesting the fruit to prevent the spread '

'of raspberry scab.





 





 





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0 an individual who'has spent a



larger portion of his life among



the animals reared on the farms,

watched their growth and development

under varying conditions, noted the re

suits obtained by different methods of

breeding and caring for the animals,

gradual though they be, developing

from inferior to superior on one side.

and refining from the coarse and awk-

ward to symmetrical and well propor-

tioned on the other, all have a charm

that awakens in the mind of a stock

enthusiast a deep grounded interest.

unsurpassed by but few, if any, other

topics that can be suggested. It is a

story of the labors and sacrifices of

the worthies of the last century who

have been the beneficiaries 0f the hu-

man kind. ‘



Eating of meat has been indulged in

by the inhabitants of the temperate

zone for so long a period of time that

it is looked upon as a prime necessity.

To deprive a large percentage of the

people of our country of meat would be

to narrow their possibilities for enjoy-

ment of life. toa point seemingly un-

bearable. A well marbled, well cook-

ed piece of beef has a rich, delicious

flavor and substance which meets the

requirements of a hungry individual,

and satisfies as well, or better, than

any other kind of meat. Good meat is

both stimulating and nutritious, giving

courage and vigor to the consumer.

The better the meat the better the

results.



When Beef Improvement Began.



Originally the wild ox was large,





 





count of lack of symmetry and har-

monious proportions. If some of the

representatives of our improved breeds

were to be turned loose in the wilds of

the great west, and left for a consider-

able length of time, they would grow

slowly and develop into ungainly brutes

and resemble some of their remote an-

cestors.



It was back in the eighteenth cen-

tury, before men had discovered the

methods by which they could yoke the

steam and make it do their work, or

harness lightning to do their errands,

that the first steps were taken to im-

. prove the cattle to make them econom-

The British Isles

were well located for the purpose, and

England had become the great center

of population. The balmy sea breezes

fanned the islands extending the grow-

ing season to late in the fall, and help«

ed to loosen the grasp of the Frost

King early in the spring. The con-

stant benediction of nature, grass,

grew with great luxuriance and fur-

nished an abundance of that best and

cheapest, of all feeds that quickly pro-

motes the growth of animals and

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.’ imusclc and fat, an easy accomplish-

“ f ment.





At that time the people of that coun-



try learned to practice the community

:plan of carrying on their enterprises.

They traveled to and from market in

groups, “armed to the teeth,” to be

prepared to defend themselves against

the numerous highwaymcn that lay in

ambush, ready to deprive them of their

hard-earned, yet well deserved and

much needed money.





At the time mentioned there existed

a kind of cattle that had been develop<

ed largely by natural conditions in the

fertile valley of the river Tees. They

were firft called the Holderness cattle

which were distinguished by their

large bodies, wide bags, and great pro-

ducers of both meat and milk. They

were profitable for the dairyman, graz-

ier and butcher. They had reached

that point when they might be termed

a race of cattle. In order to make my-

self clearly understood I will define

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men. Races are varieties molded to

their peculiar type by natural causes,

without the interference of , man.

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object in view, until the characteristics



of the breed are transmitted with a.



considerable degree of certainty.

Changes Begun.



Experimenters whose knowledge of

breeding was crude and unscientific,

began to improve the different kinds of

stock that chanced to be in their

hands. Without the example of well

trained breeders to guide them, they

were like sailors at sea without chart

or compass.



Robert Bakewell, by methods un.

known to his friends and acquaint-

ances, accomplished results that not

'only challenged attention, but made a

profound impression. It wasquietly

hinted that the great results were ob-

tained by inbreeding. The Coiling

Brothers embarked in the business of

stock improvement. The method of in-

‘breeding was followed to an extent

which might well cause a careful

breeder to expect disastrous results.

In the case, of the bull Favorite (252),

an animal that seemed to meet the ap-

proval of Charles Coiling, he was bred

to heifers of his own get to the fifth

and sixth generation.



The cattle with which those first

breeders were operating were cOarse

and slow in maturing. Some of them,

when fed to the ripening point, reachv

ed enormous weight. The Durham ox

that was bred by Charles Coiling and

traveled about the country as a special

show, is said to have weighed.3,400

pounds.



The point toward which those early

worthies were striving, was refine-

ment. They chose the route toward

the object to be attained known as in-

breeding, which was contrary to the

teaching of the wise ones of all the

past as known to them. The results

brought about by breeding and gener-

ous feeding, astonished their oppon-

ents as well as friends, and converted

many who sought to improve their own

stock by the same scheme.





Space forbids a discussion of the

merits and demerits of inbreeding. The

benefits claimed for the plan, is fixing

and concentrating the desirable char-

acteristics possessed by the animals

so bred. The fact that inbreeding

diminishes the constitutional vigor of

the progeny seems to have been over-

looked, and when followed very far,

sterility and the extinction of the fam-

ilies have been met in noted cases

which we might mention if it were nec-

essary. Another point overlooked is

the fact that faults will be fixed by in-

breeding and in time may be too glar-

ing to endure.



To the majority of modern breeders

it seems that a more rational plan to

obtain refinement and improvement is

by careful selection and generous feed-

ing to bring about early maturity. Such

methods are safe for all to follow. The

staunchest advocate of inbreeding can

not claim that the organic quality of

animals inbred is improved, while by

the other plan the constitutional

strength and vigor can be greatly im-

proved and the aptitude to take on and

accumulate flesh at a more economical

rate can be greatly increased.



(To be continued).

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FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS.





The Chemical Analysis of Middlings.



Will you kindly enlighten me on the

following subjects: What is the chem-

ical analysis of pig middlings, white

winter middlings, gray middlings and

standard middlings and their relative

value in price for hog feed?



Genesee Co. F. B. H.





Not being familiar with the commer-

cial grades of middlings, known as

pig middlings, white winter middlings

and gray middlings, this proposition

was submitted to Prof. Andrew J. Pat-

ten, of M. A. C., in charge of feed in-

spection work for Michigan who make

the following reply: _. . '



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not find any Samples‘ot middlings} on

the market under the name "of either.

«pig middlings or gray middlings, and

we collected in all something like a

hundred samples of middlings. The

only grade of 'middlings recognized by

the Association of Feed Control Offi~

cials of the United States are shorts or

standard middlings which are the fine

particles of the outer and inner bran

separated from bran and white mid-

dlings, and wheat white middlings or

white middlings which are that part of

the offal of wheat intermediate be-

tween shorts or standard middlings





. and red dog.’ .





“Up to date we have analyzed about

50 samples of middlings and have

found the protein to vary from 13.76

per cent to 17.94 per cent, the average

being about 15 per cent, and the fat'

varies from 3.50 per cent to 5.62 per

cent, the average being about four per

cent. In no case is it possible to say

that the name under Which the mid-

dlings are sold gives any indication as:

to its composition, and it would be

practically impossible to place a value

on any lot of middlings without know-

ing the composition."





The Best Way to Feed Skim-milk to

_ Pigs.



Which is the best way to feed milk‘

to pigs, warm and sweet from the sep-

arator or let it sour? What kind of

grain would be best to feed with this

milk? At present I am feeding ground





oats.

Lapeer Co. P. M.





The souring of milk adds nothing in

the way of feeding value or digestibil-

ity to milk, consequently the best way’

is to feed directly from the separator.

as you are doing. Skim-milk is a feed

high in its content of protein, and

should be fed in combination with

some starchy grain such as corn, at

the rate of one to three pounds of skim-‘

milk to one pound of corn meal, de~'

pending upon the amount of milk avail-

able, and the age of the pigs. The

skim-milk will have the greatest feed~

ing value when used in combination

with corn or other similar grain with-

in the proportions above noted.



Owing to their bulkiness oats should

not be fed as the sole ration to fatten-

ing pigs. In experiment station trials

with oats as a feed, the best results

were secured with a ration of one-third.

ground oats and two—thirds corn. Oats

and skim-milk do not make a. good

combination where oats are fed as the

sole grain ration, since the ration can

be cheapened by adding some grain.

containing a larger proportion of starch

where skim-milk is available as sup-

plementary feed. Corn and oats ground

together and fed in connection with

skim—milk would make a very desirable

ration for growing pigs.





LIVE STOCK NEWS.





Goats have been received in recent

weeks in extremely large numbers in

the Fort Worth and Kansas City mar-

kets from southwestern shipping

points, and nearly all of them were

sold to the packers. It is well known





that goat meat is almost always sold

in the retail‘meat markets of the coun-

try as lamb or mutton, and it brings

high prices.



J. M. Walker, a veteran all-around

farmer and successful stockman, now

83 years of age, and for a long period

a resident of Macoupin county, Ill., has

been regularly in the practice of feed-

ing cattle winters for half a century,

and he has made it pay well, although

he has marketed prime beeves in the

Chicago stock yards as low as $41214),

per cwt. He now owns over 100 head '

of high~grade Angus Hereford cattle

which he bought in Missouri the first

of May last year, when their average

weight was around 1400 pounds. He

expects to have them ready for mar- .

keting in July, when they are counted

upon to weigh about 1600 pounds. Mr.

Walker has also 400 head of immuniz’

ed hogs which were bought in the St. ‘

Louis and Kansas City markets, and

his death loss has been only about two

per cent. His cattle are being fed on

corn and'blue grass. He attributes his

success in fattening live, stock for the

market to the fact that he always

, agcombination of, cattle and, "





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NDER the advanced methods of

dairy farming it has Mcome rec-

ognized as essential to the great-



est success to maintain the highest and

most- uniform flow of milk thrOughout

the year. ‘When a good pasture is

available the change from barn feed-

ing to pasture is, as a rule, highly ben-

eficial. both as regards the milk flow

and general health of the cows, but





.- éyeh When on good grazing grounds





there are frequently parts of the sea-

SOn, usually in late summer, when the

paStures are apt to become dry and

thus make it a matter of much import-

ance to find some means of keeping up

the milk flow. ‘

For this purpose the practice of feed-

111g either grain or supplementing soil-

ing crops, has been found satisfactory.

The economy of feeding grain to cows

on pasture has received considerable

attention during the past few years in

the various dairy sections.

In a recent test in which two lots of

cows were fed alternately on rations

consisting of pasture alone, pasture

and bran, pasture. and corn meal, and

pasture and ground oats, for periods of

seven' days each, the conclusion was

that although the grain feed added ma-

terially to the milk flow, corn showing

the greatest increase, the increase re-

turned did not pay the cost of the

grain. In fact it was, considerably less.

In . experiments at the New York

Cornell Station one lot of cows was

fed. from‘June 8 to September 21, a





daily ration of ,two pounds of cotton:





seed meal and two pounds of bran per

cow, and another lot was fed from May

25 to September 17, six to nine pounds

daily per cow of a mixture of wheat

bran 100 pounds, cottonseed meal 100

pounds, and malt sprouts 15 pounds, in

addition 'to‘ good blue grass pasture: In

neither case was there any'profitable

return in milk or butter for the addi:

tional grain fed.



"To determine whether the profit

from grain feeding would be greater in

case of- poorer pasturage, a herd of

cows on light pasture was divided into





- two similar lots, one lot receiving only





pasture and soiling, the other begin-

ning May 23, was fed four quarts per

cow daily, two feeds, night and'morn-

ing, of a‘mixtureof equal parts of corn

meal, wheat bran, and cottonseed-meal.

On August 10, the pastures became

dry, both lots began to receive a ration

of green cern fodder of about 16 pounds

per cow per day. . On September 9 the

corn fodder ration waschanged to mil-

let, which" continued until October 1,

when second growth grass was used;

this Continued until, October 13, when

pumpkin was fed. The grain feeding

in this case resulted in a profitable in-





crease in milk production and also in a.





cunsiderable gain in weight of the an-

imals. The beneficial effect of grain

feeding was observed the following

season, particularly in the-development

and performance of the younger ani-

mals, which were two and three-year-

olds.



. Taking into consideration the results

of the various experiments at the sta-

tions and on dairy farms throughout

the country, the conclusion seems to

be that unless dairy products are es-

pecially highvin price it is not a profit-

able practice to feed grain to cows at

pasture. It is true that more milk is

Obtained and the cows hold up better

in the yield and remain in better flesh

when receiving the grainrations, but

under ordinary circumstances there is

no direct profit from the grain feeding

as the increased production actually

costs the farmer more than he is usu-

ally paid for the additional milk.



New York. " E. W. GAGE.





. , g DAIRY PROBLEMS.





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gfine silage.





put in corn, .





sowed but not- enough. Would it be?



all right to sow Hungarian grass or.



mullet? A. E. B.

An early variety of corn Will, I be-





lieve, produce more silage and better ;

silage than any other crop that can be ’

If this land dries up so 1

it can be planted along the first days '

of July. there is time enough for flint -

corn to mature sufficiently for good sil- *





planted late.





I have planted as late as July 12

‘Flint, “smut





age.

and got good ensilage.

nose yellow,”-

dent varieties and will do better plant-

ed late, yet it will make fine silage. ' If

it should be frosted, if one is already

and well put‘the corn into the silo' at

once before the leaves all dry up it

will make excellent silage.





You can sow to millet, of course. but:

this is liable to be frosted, too. Be-

sides, it‘will not make as good silage-

as corn.

corn; and cows do not like it as well.

I would plant Corn as late as July 15 in

preference to anything else that can

be grown now this season. You will

be surprised how late planted corn

will grow. If it only gets mature

enough for roasting corn it will make,





The Retained Placenta.



Could you give me any advice as to

what I could do for my cow? She

dropped hel calf about three or four

weeks ago, but did not pass the after-





birth. She seems to be getting awful- ’





1y poor but has a very good appetite

for hay and green grass, but does not

care for any bran or grain of any

kind. Her milk does not Seem to be

aslrich as other times but the quantity

is, there all right. R. S.



Retaining the afterbirth, or placenta,

occurs many times in cows. If the

afterbirth does not come in a few

hours, the best way is to remove it

with the hand. A veterinarian should

be, employed for this. Sometimes it

will come away after several days and

apparently no harm is done. Again, I

have known where it was retained un-

til it became decomposed and appar-

ently the most of it absorbed. Some—

times a cow in full vigor will accom-

plish all this and come out all right.

It should never be left, however, to

decompose if possible. It is a good

plan to immediately upon the estab-

lishment of the fact that it is retained,

to irrigate the cow with an antiseptic

solution. This will assist in repelling

it' and will also cleanse the womb.





One should have a small rubber hose

three feet long. Carefully insert one

end into the mouth of the womb and

then use a funnel on the other end.

Hold the funnel high so the solution

will run into the WOmb. If one has

never seen this done he should employ

a veterinarian, for the first time at

least. Most any antiseptic disinfectant

will do. COLON C. LILLIE.





 





weer MICHIGAN HOLSTEIN SALE

SUCCESSFUL.





 





The consignment sale, held by the

West Michigan Holstein Breeders’ As-

sociation on May 3 at Grand Rapids,

was very successful. Eighty-two ani-

mals were sold with the average'price

per head amounting to $165.43. -



Three breeders, John M. Tobin and

H. A. Washburn, of Allegan county,

and E. W. McNitt, of Kent county, sent

in consignments of 13 animals each,

the largest number for any consign-

ment.



John Tobin got the high price and

also the highest average price. The

high price was $500 for a year-old

male, Wolverine Clothilde Hengerveld,

which was bought by Henry V. Len-

ardson, of Allegan county. The aver-

age price for all of Mr. Tobin’ s animals

was $269 23. Mr. Lenardson also bought

the tap price female, Pearl Aaggie

Ormsby, a three-year-old, from Mr.

Tobin.





The National Dairy Show Asso-

ciation has appointed the follow-

ing special breed days at “The Nation-

al,” which will.be held this year at

Springfield, Mass. :



Monday, October Iii—Guernsey. day.



Tuesday, October 17—Holstein Day.



Wednesday, October 18—Ayrshire'





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BECAUSE THE LOSSES OF

the poor separator from incom-

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product of the hard—to—clean

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in having a separator of ample

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BECAUSE AN IMPROVED DE

Laval is so much simpler and

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If you are still using some gravity or set- »

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poorest without a separator in

hot weather and often more

harmful than helpful to calves.





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product as superior with one

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other.





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inferior separator of any kind—-





for than any other, and you

cannot afford to waste time

these busy days “fussing” with

a machine that ought to have

been thrown on the junk-pile

long ago.





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gravity setting, and every fea-

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a few thousand dollars and then put

so little real thought or study in see-

ing that the money secured with so

much effort is properly employed. But

that this is true" is evidenced by the

ease with which so many fraudulent

schemes are perpetrated upon a public

made up of men successful along some

certain lines but who have neglected

posting themselves on the fundamental

principles of finance or who seem un~

able ‘ to apply that sound common

sense to the investing of money which

was so skillfully accumulated. Those

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whereas, as a matter of fact, the in-



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pression of the bond or stock. But



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of investment bond houses operating in

this country are made up of men with

a high standard of integrity and busi-

ness honor and by confining your deal-

ings to a firm recommended by your

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from men who have built up their busi—

ness success by being correct in their

judgment of securities and who recog-



nize that their future depends upon a



continuance of that condition.



This department has been instituted

by this paper in the hope that its read-

ers will come to look upon it as a

sound source of advice along financial

lines as well as concerning subjects

with which it has been identified in the

past. It will be the aim of your editor

to devote some space in these columns

each week in an effort to lay before

you information of such a character

that if carefully read will give you the

general idea of the investment prob-

lem, also endeavor to answer your

questions concerning any subject

which may properly come under the

subject of finance or investments.

Bonds and stocks will be discussed at

some length in future articles. The

difference between investment and

speculation will be carefully explained

and recommendations to fit the needs

of certain individuals will be given

with no selfish motive other than to

best serve your own particular re-

quirements. It should be borne in mind

that this paper serves no interests but

those of its readers and this depart-

ment has been instituted entirely for

the purpose of providing information

along lines which may have been neg.

lected through lack of proper study.





 





In European countries the peasant

and day-laborer is a bond-holder. He

is educated in the principles of finance

by his banker, his newspaper and his

government. This situation has made

it possible for foreign governments to

so successfully finance this terrific

struggle by resorting only to the mon-

ey owned by the masses through the

issuance of government. bonds or treas~

ury notes which are freely bought by

the small investors instead of putting

their money into the savings banks.

In fact, the banks have always encour-

aged this practice niuch to the benefit

of the treasury department and the in-

vestor as well.





A campaign of education along these

lines is necessary in this country as

well in order to permit us to maintain

our position into which the war has

thrown us. Money lying in the stock-.

ing or carefully hidden is a gross ex‘

travagance, and money deposited in

the savings banks is lazy in that it

does not produce as much return to

the owner as it should.



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post you on a subject with which you

Should be familiar to the end that the

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John W. Bate has built. He has worked out in

those models 700 improvements. and all are

now found in this car.





A Lifetime Car





What he has aimed at is a lifetime-car. His

genius is efficiency as applied to machines. And

he says that a Car should last like a watch.



Instead of heavy castings he believes in light

steel made three times as strong. There are 440

parts in this New Mitchell which are- either drop

forged or steel stamped.



He believes in Chrome-Vanadium steel, and he

uses a wealth in this Mitchell.



He believes in making each part as strong as

need be, and then adding 50 per cent.



He believes in utter simplicity—in a car

almost trouble-proof.





 





One result is this: One Bate-built Mitchell has

run 218,734 miles. Six Mitchells have averaged

164,372 miles each. That is more than 30 years

of ordinary service.



He has certainly come closer to a lifetime car

than anyone else ever did.





10,000 Savings





In our factory Mr. Bate has made 10,000 sav-

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No other plant in the world could build this

New Mitchell at anywhere near our price.





That is why, years ago, we brought John W.

Bate here. And why we paid him his price to

make this factory and car represent the last word

in efficiency.





26 Costly Extras





You will find in this Mitchell 26 costly extras

—wanted things which other cars omit. Things

like a power tire pump. reversible headlights,

cane-handle control, cantilever springs, etc.





There are 26 of those extras—each something

you want. In other cars they would cost you an

extra price. In the Mitchell they are free. All

are paid for out of factory savings.





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The Mid-Year Mitchell is the latest model out.

It was not completed until after the New York

Shows. Our experts and designers there exam-

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ideas from all of them are combined in this

single car. It brings out 73 new touches in

body, finish and equipment. It is the most com-

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Mitchell dealers everywhere are now showing

this new model. It is the only car with all

Mr. Bate’s ideas. It is the





 





50 per cent in five years.





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"0h, sons of France, with roll of drum,



The dawn of glory’ s day has come!



Against us tyrants of the world,



Their blood- stained banner have un-

furled.





March! To their storming,

battalions swift forming!

Till our soil drink the foul blood, their

dastard hearts warming!”





“Arm !





HE singer was a slight, dark—eyed

young man attired in rough gar-

ments, wearing a pit-lamp on his

soft wool cap. He was leaning against

the door of the engine room of mine

25, just across from the pit. Seated on

a pile of lumber was another young

man, attired in the same manner, ac-





The Fall of Verdun





By EDGAR WHITE





companying the singer on an organ.

The singer was Joe Brusier and the

accordion man was Jaques—called

Jack here—Lamar. These and two

others were the shot firers of the mine

waiting at the pithead for the signal to

go below.



Soon the swiftly moving cage had

brought to earth the last man from the

mine and the four shotfirers took their

position on the downbound cage.





At the bottom the men separated,

Joe and Jack taking the east half of

the mine and the other two men tak-

ing the west half.



“Arm! March! To their storming,

battalions swift forming——”



Joe hummed the war song as they

made their way along the main entry

toward the working places.



“Would you like to be there, Joe?”

asked Jack.





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Joe laughed.



"Not today.

right."



“But suppose they haven’t enough

men? Suppose they need us, Joe?”



The other quit smiling.



“True, Jack,” he' said.

need us yet.”



“Would you go, Joe?”



It was'a hard question.



“I’m an American now,” replied Joe.

“I came here to stay. Still—”



They had now reached the cross—en-

tires. Stooping low the two men en~

tered the black hole and as they pass-

ed along they would hold their lamps





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entrance to a miners room. At each





room was a. wooden tag numbered to‘





indicate how many cartridges were to

be fired in that room. Long, yellow

fuses hung from the face of the coal.

To these the shot-flrer touched his

torch, and then hurried out. Soon after

leaving the room the detoi‘iation oi the

cartridges would be heard, and the

crash of coal on the opposite wall. J00.

fired the cartridges in the rooms on

on side, while Jack did similar work

on the opposite side. They hurried

along the murky corridOrs, followed

by the roars of bursting cartridges,

like the thunder of approaching artil-

lery. Violent gusts of wind swept.

through the mine at each report.



Then Joe's alert. ears noted that

from one room where he had ignited

two [uses no sound came. As the cus-

tom was when anything went wrong,

Joe called across to Jack and told him

he was going back. Jack waited at the

entrance of a rootn for his partner. Joe

plodtletl back some fifty feet and re-





entered the room. There were no

sparks dropping from the fuses. Ho





approached the place where the curb

ridges were. There was a vivid flash,

and a great mass of coal swept across

as it tired from a cannon.



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“\Veren‘t you one of the men singing

the Marseillaise this afternoon at No.

25?” asked a large dark man, wearing

a heavy mustache and imperial.



“l was singing at it," replied the

young shotiirer, "if that is what you





mean.”

“Singing at it or singing it is all

one," the dark man stated with some





“What interests me is to

was a lt‘renchman





impatience.



know whether it



who did it."

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of l-‘rance," said Joe





proudly.

"Good: \\'ell, we need you right

now."





"But I can't go-ml'v . got a wife and





baby. Besides, l'm tow an American

citizen."

The other looked at him with a





[shade of contempt.

“i thought i was t ilking to a meh-

man.‘



"You are talking to an American cit-

izen who was once a Frenchman," re~

turned the shotiirer angrily. “1 served

in the Fiench aim} 101 three years,

and did my duty well. Then i came

over here, married and adopted this as

my country. And l'm proud of it!"



The recruiting agent changed his

tactics. Smiling genialiy he took Joe's

arm, and said:



“Well, we won‘t quarrel, my friend.

Let‘s step over to the cafe, and we'll

talk of France—I‘ve just come over.

You'd like to hear how your country-

men are faring, wouldn't you?"



All of the young 1 re nchmans resent-

.ment vanished at the liiendly tone,

and he eagerly accompanied the man

into the refreshment parlor, where

they took seats at a table in a far cor-

ner. The dark man gave the order,

and when they were served with lem-

onade he dropped a white powder in

his glass, and then diverted his com-

panion's attention while he changed

the glasses. \X'iien the young miner

came to himself he was in a great city,

the streets of which seemed to be fill-

ed with soldiers. He soon recognized

the place as Marseiliaise, and hurried



down to the dock to see if he couldn‘t

get passage to America. The uniformed

man to whom he spoke smiled, and sig-

naled to a couple of officers. They ap-

proached and took charge of Joe, des-

pite his protestations that he was an

American citizen. He was virtually a

prisoner, and soon became a part of

that great system known as the army

, of the French republic. It was no use

to protest—nobody paid much atten-

, tion to him,‘except to see that he kept

, in the company to which he was as-

signed. Finally he was marched to a





Vtroop train and conveyed to Paris.





”Pretty soon, somewhat to his surprise,

“he caught the general infection—he





iii: the. side where there we: on»





treated to to the . t~

France. That seemed to he the

thing in the mind of every man he met.

The crippled soldiers he saw on the

streets were venerated as homes. The

very air was charged 'wlth patriotism.

Then came the news that the Crown

Prince was massing for an attempt to

break the line at Verdun. instantly

the whole city buzzed with excitement.

The fall of Verdun meant that Paris

would come. next.



A report. came that the enemy had

already taken some of the first line

trenches, and was bringing up the sort

of artillery that had reduced Liege. and

Antwerp. There was urgent need for

fresh troops and supplies for Verdun-~-

at once. Then General .l’etain's genius

began to be. manifest. The motor line,

was established. Joe and his company

were rushed to the threatened citadel.

and immediately ordered to the trench-

es. For two days such an avalanche of

shells came as the world had never

seen, and with nightfall of the second

day cattle a lull. The enemy was pre—

paring fer a massed attack. The cap-

tain, a bushy whiskered man, his uni-

form coated with mud, passed along

the trenches.



“i want some men with eyes like a

cat," he said—~"men who can see in

the dark."



lie was looking keenly at Joe when

he said it.



“i worked in a coal mine at home,"

replied Joe. "it's dark down there."



“Good I "



The captain found three other men,

and to the group he gave this direc-

tion:



“One of you take. this roll of wire

and the other these stakes. Crawl

close to the earth and get as near to

them as you can. Then stretch this

wire four inches above the. ground~~—

they'll be coming at us in a couple of

hours!"



The four men climbed out of the

trenches and started to obey the order,

when flashlights from the enemy's side

began sweeping the. earth in front of

the French trenches.



“Come back!" cried the captain;

“they'll pick you off like birds."



The flashlight. suddenly went out and

star shells shed a ghostly glare on the.

land between the trenches. Then mass—

es of men began to move forward by

companies and regiments, like sands

of the sea. The French batteries bark-





 





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their ranks. Still they came on and

on like the shadow of fate.



“its up to you, fellows,” said the

black-whiskered captain who seemed

to take in everything; “the artillery

can’t stop ’em.”



Joe glanced at the working parts of

his gun, and idly wondered how many

cartridges he could fire before the end

came. lie recalled that the miners had

once held an animated discussion at.

the pithead of No. 25 as to how many

shots an expert rifleman could fire in

a minute, and how long it would be

before the gun barrel got. too hot to

hold. And that while there was some

disagreement. on those points, all

agreed that. it was a lucky thing they

lived in America, and didn’t have to

make the actual test. And here he

was face to face with that very thing

they all had dreaded!



And he thought of another thing

about. which they had talked over in

happy, peaceful America, and this

made him angry-the marvelous 75s

of the French! .lf the 75 was such a

wonderful piece of artillery how was it

that it. had fallen down tonight, and

let the enemy in on the. thin line man-

ning the first trenches? Why, the 75s

had hardly made an impression on that

multitude now so fatally close; the gun

barrels of the 75c were now elevated

and shouting ov,er the heads of defend-

ers and assailants—malting that over-

rated curtain of fire. he had read so

much about! What was the good of a

curtain of fire that let by that mighty

stampede ‘3



“Now, boys, don't get excited, said

the whiskered captain as cooly as if he

were instructing a class in mental

arithmetic. “Make every shot count,

anti if they get. to us give ’em the bay-

onet. Now—«let go!"



Rifles and rapid fire guns rattled like

hail against, the charging waves of

gray; the first. line went down, but the

second kept doggedly 011, heads bent

and clumsily staggering over fallen

comrades.



Down went the. second line. The fire

of the defenders cut wide swaths

through the assaulting column, but it

never stopped, and for every man shot

down there scented to be another to

take his place. Some of the machine

guns jammed, and here and there a





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A Memorial to





Since publishing the account of the

life of Rix Robinson, Pioneer, in the

June 3 issue of the Michigan Farmer,

an error has been pointed out in the

last paragraph where it reads, “With-

out even a monument to mark his'last

resting place, he sleeps on the hillside

near Ada where the river he so dearly

loved ripples by.”



Soon after the death of “Uncle Rix,”

as he was familiarly known, the Ada

Pioneer Association, of which Mr. Rob-

inson was the first president, started a

movement to provide a suitable mark

to the memory of this leader among

the pioneers. This action interested

another and larger society of which

Mr. Robinson had also been its first

executiVe, the Grand River Pioneer As-

sociation, which co-Operated with the

local society in raising funds among

the early settlers from Portland to

Grand Haven for the erection of a

bronze monument at the grave in

the Ada village cemetery on a hill ov-

erlooking the site of the old trading

post managed by the pioneer.



The illustration on this page’gives

the readers a view of this memorial

which recites the- achievements of, and

honors bestowed upon the man whom

it commemorates. A fine life- size





Rix Robinson





township of Ada 1840; associate judge

of circuit court for Kent county 1844;

state senator 1845; state commission





 





medalion also appears on one face of of internal improvements 1846:1nem-





the monument.

inscription: “Rix Robinson,





The following is the her of state constitutional convention

Indian 1850; born 1792, died 1875. Erected by

trader on Grand River 1821; supervis- the Old Residents’

or township of Kent 1834; supervisor Grand River Valley.” ‘





Association of





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tion or hades. .



“Now, men, the bayonet!"



It was the last words the captain ut-

tered. The front line of the charging

tide in gray fired point blank into the

trenches, and the whiskered oflicer fell

riddled.

ants threw themselves on the men in

the trenches, and there was a struggle

like wild beasts in a cage. A burly

sergeant, with clubbed musket, beat

down Joe’s gun, smashed heavily

against his head and for him the shout~

ing and the tumult were over.



I II It!





The town was full, of people. Bands

played on the main street intersec—

tions. The houses were decorated with

bunting and flags. Cheers rent the air.

Now and then a cannon boomed in the

distance. Digni’taries in glossy car-

riages led the procession through the

streets of the city. A pale man, with

head bandaged and arm in a sling,

roused at the cheering and painfully

pulled himself up into a sitting posi-

tion, where he could look through the

window. For down the street he saw

the long'line of carriages, heard the

band playing a martial air, and observ-

ed the decorations on the buildings.



“'l‘hey’ve taken Verdun," he groaned.



A sweet faced young woman, who

had come. lightly up the steps, entered

the room and running to the bed threw

her arms around the invalid.



“Oh, Joe!” she cried, “you're back at

your old self again, and hit so glad.”



He looked at her in a dazed manner,

and then suddenly drew her face to-

ward him and kissed her.



“it’s good to see you, dear,” he said

quietly, “but this is not a happy day

for France. We’ve lost Verdun."





“When did you learn all that, Joe?",





“if you look out the window you’ll

see the enemy marching in."



The little wife went to the window,

and saw the procession moving to-

wards them.‘ Then she returned and

sat on the bed beside him While she

ran a white hand through his hair.



"Joe, boy," she smiled through her

tears, “those people are Americans

and they're celebrating the Fourth of

July just as we used to celebrate the

fall of the bastile.”



“Isn’t that a procession of Ger-

mans ?" he asked doubtfully.



“There are in that parade, Joe,” she

replied, “some men who were once

Germans, some who were lrish and

some who were French, but now they

are all Americans, just like ourselves,

and they are matching under the ban-

ner, the beautiful stars and stripes,

their flag, Joe, and ours!"



She hesitated a moment and looked

tenderly at the pain-racked face. Then

went on:



“You have been having a hard time

of it, boy—you’ve been talking about

trenches and machine guns and star

shells all night, but you’re safe and

sure in dear old America, your land

and mine, Joe, thanks be to God!"





FINANCE AND INVESTMENT.





(Continued from page 8).

to the lasting benefit of .your family

and the greater prosperity of yourself.

Recognize that a knowledge along

these lines is part of the education of

a well rounded business man or farm-

er and that you should deem it neces-

sary to be well informed on financial

subjects in order to hold the position

which you should in the community in

which you live.

J. R. MILLIGAN,

Financial Editor.





Enjoyed the Story.





Tekonsha, Mich. June 17,1916.

The Michigan Farmer: I felt as

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ended, “The Light of Western Stars

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ham, a tiny seed in the warm soil of a

mountain slope on quite the opposite

side of the world thrust into the light

of day a slender green spike which

was destined, during an existence of

more than four thousand years, to be-

come itself a lofty tower; noble in

form, “with a physiognomy almost

Godlike,” as John Muir puts it, pulsat-

ing with life to its topmost leaflet more

than three hundred feet above the

ground, and Giving forth a babel of

bird song to the accompaniment which

the summer winds played upon its

many millions of tiny leaves.



On the stump of this prostrate

sequoia tree, one of the noblest of the

celebrated Big Trees of California,

John Muir counted more than four

thousand rings, a ring for every year

of its life. its trunk, exclusive of bark,

was thirty-five feet. eight. inches in

diameter. As the bark of the very larg-

est sequoias is two feet or more in

thickness, this giant. must have meas‘

ured forty feet in diameter when it

was still growing on one of the slopes

of the Kings River.



Largest of the Monsters.



In the Sequoia National Park, upon

the. upper slopes of [the Sierra Nevada

Mountains in central California, and in

the little General Grant. Park six miles

away and under the same management,

grow 1,166,000 sequoia trees, of which

12,000 are more than ten feet; in diam-

Some of the others have these

dimensions: General Sherman Tree,

diameter, 36.5 feet, height. 279.9 feet;

General Grant Tree, diameter, 35 feet,

height 264 feet; Abraham Lincoln

Tree, diameter, 31 feet, height, 270

feet; California Tree, diameter, 30 feet,

height, 260 feet.



How to Visualize a Big Tree.



It is extremely difficult to realize

what the dimensions of these trees

really mean. To visualize as best you

can the greatest of those now stand-

ing, the General Sherman Tree, meas-

ure off and stake its diameter, 36 feet

six inches, upon the ground in front of

a church the height of whose steeple

you can readily ascertain. Then stand

back a distance equal to the height of

the tree, 280 feet, and look hard at the

stakes whose distance apart repre-

sents the thickness of the trunk.



Now raise your eyes slowly, imagin-

ing this trunk rising in front of the





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wmd,

And dgone is all the brightness of the

ay.





The fading flowers lift their drooping

. heads,

*Beseeching Heav’n



draught to send;



The birds grow restive, and their car-



ols cease,

With weight of trembling leaves the

tree-tops bend.





its quenching





The torrents break their leash at last,

and rain

Descends to cool the fever of the





land; .

Thediamond-pointed spears of light-

ning flash,

And thunder peals like organ-echoes

grand.





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. spent;

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and sea.

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church, tapering Very slightly as it

rises; When you are looking upward

at an angle of forty-five degrees from

the spot: where you are standing (and

this will not be difficult. to calculate)

you will be looking at the point where

the top of the General Sherman Tree

would be if it were growing in front of

your church instead of in the Sequoia

National Park. The known height. of

the steeple will help you verify this

calculation.



It will help your comprochnsion of

the great. size of these trees to know

that a box big enough to have easily

held the ill-fated ship Lusitania, one of

the largest ever built, could be made

from inch boards sawed from any one

of these great sequoias, with boards

enough left over to build a dozen hous-

es. Automobiles and six-horse teams

have. been driven up and down the fall-

en trunks of several great sequoias,

and there are regular wagon roads run-

ning through gaps in the trunks of sev-

eral others in our national parks. Two

parallel street, car lines and a drive-

way mlght be run through the trunk

of several of the very largest.



The Oldest Living Thing.



But the age of the sequoia is still

more difficult. to realize. It is beyond

comparison with the oldest living

thing.



Several of the trees now growing in

hearty maturity in the Sequoia Nation-

al I’arkw<:re vigorous youngsters be-

fore the pyramids Were built on the

Egyptian desert, before Babylon reach-

ed its prime. Hundreds of them Were

thriving before the heroic age of an-

cicnt Greece—while, in fact, the rough

lndo-Germanic ancestors of the Greeks

were still swarming from the north.

Thousands were lusty youths through

all the ages of Greek art. and Roman

wars. Tens of thousands were flour—

ishing trees when Christ was born in

Bethlehem.



,But with all its vast age, the sequoia

today is the embodiment of serene

vigor. No description, says Muir, can

give any adequate idea of its majesty,

much less its beauty. He calls it na-

ture’s forest masterpiece. He dwells

upon its patrician bearing, its sugges-

tion of ancient. stock, its strange air of

other days, its thoroughbred look in«

herited from the long ago. “Poised in

the fullness of strength and beauty,

stern and solemn in mien, it glows

with eager enthusiastic life to the tip

of every leaf and branch and far-reach

ing root, calm as a granite dome, the

first to feel the touch of the rosy

beams of morning, the last to bid the

sun good night.”



The sequoia is regular and symmetri-

cal in general form. Its powerful,

stately trunk is purplish to cinnamon

brown and rises without branch a hun-

dred or a hundred and fifty teete—

which is as high or higher than the

tops of most forest trees. Its bulky

limbs shoot boldly out on every side.

Its foliage, the most feathery and del-

icate of all the conifers, is densely

massed. The bright green cones are

about two and a half inches long, gen

erating seeds scarcely more than an

eighth of an inch across. The wood is

almost indestructible except by fire.

Fallen trunks and broken branches lie

for centuries undecayed and almost

unaltered.



The sequoias are the glory, as they

were the cause, of the Sequoia Nation~

a1 Park. Scattered here and there ov-

er great areas, they cluster chiefly in

thirteen separate groves, and it is in

these groves that they attain their

greatest size and luxuriance.



'But they are by no means the only

attractions of this national park, which

many frequenters declare nature has

equipped best of all for the joys and

pleasures of mountain living.



ideal for Camping Out.



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you are in it. . It's pa

loftieet, its canyons among the deep-

est and most romantic. Its summer

temperatures are even and bracing.

Its summers are practically without

rain.



Across its borders north and cast

opens up a mountain region, on the.

crest of the Sierra, of uncxcellcd grant

deur. Mount Whitney, the highest

mountain in the United States, 14,501

feet, lies upon its eastern boundary.

The Kings and the Kern Rivers have

few scenic equals. These and its many

other rushing streams abound in trout.





THE BOAT RlDES.





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“Y L. MYli’l'lJ‘; HUIHIH.





A boatman called my name one day,



“Come here and climb in,” he said.



I trusted the boatinan and answered

the call



And found tin-re were six of us there

in all



To ride in the boat. away.





He handled the our with steady stroke,



With hand clasp firm and strong;



And We rode o’er the water, far out

from the shore,



And heard the dip of each splashing

oar .



While the wavelets ’round us broke.





The water was, deep, and down below



So beautiful it lay,



In its tranquil depths and glistening

sheen



I could see the tender things of green



That under the water grow.





The sun shone clear and the day was

warm,

A perfect, day in June;





And the shadows lay in the water

bright



Where the, willows grew in the sunny

light,





And added their Witching charm.





I went again with a fair haired girl,



In the evening of the day,



With some children too, but. the sky of

blue



Was clouded now,

came through,



And fell ’mid the wavelets' curl.





and some drops





We drew our boat, ’ncath a willow tree



And waited a little while



Till the sprinkle of rain had gone away.



It was pretty there where the willows

play



All over the water free.





We rode to the place where the hub-

bling spring



Comes up from the depths below,



To drink of the water, clear and cool,



That gurgles and sparkles, a laughing

pooL



From out where the big rocks cling.





Then we glided over the water slow



While the evening gathered on,



And we rode till we saw each twink-

ling light



Shine out ’mid the trees in the park,

all bright,



And down in the water glow.



And then we rode our boat to the

shore



And went each on our way



’Mid the murmuring trees and the mur-

muring breeze



That helped each happy heart to

please



Till the summer day was o’er.





THOUGHTS FOR REFLECTION.





If a man take no thought about what

is distant, he will find sorrow near at

hand—Confucius.



When the heart is full it shows it-

self in action as well as speech—David

Starr Jordan.



But what is it to love one’s country?

Is it to carry a banner in a procession?

Is it to shout. as we see the flag? Vast-

ly deeper than that is love of the coun-

try, deeper than any soldier’s uniform,

deeper than any pictures of battleships

with which we adorn our walls—Rev.

W. H. P. Faunce.



Duty is a power which rises with us

in the morning and goes to rest with

us at night. It is co-extensive with the

action of our intelligence. It is the

shadow which cleaves to us, go where

we will, and which only leaves us when

we leave the light of life—Gladstone.



It belongs to every large nature,

when it is not under the immediate

power of some strong, unquestioning

emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt

the truth of its own impressions, con-

scious of possibilities beyond its hori‘

zon.——George Eliot.



False friendship, like the ivy, decays

and ruins the walls it embraces; but

true friendship gives new life and ani-

mation to the object it supports—Rob

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HE man should be the head of

the house,” announced a Detroit





judge when a wife haled her'





husband into court for spanking her.





Need I say, the judge was a bache-

lor? Married men in this year of

grace, here in America at. least, are

learning that the ancient doctrine of

one head to the family is hardly‘a fair

one, and that team work is much more

apt to insure a happy home. A home

where one person’s word is law is more

apt to be run without friction than one

where each individuality is allowed full

play. But unfortunately such a home

makes for the happiness of but one in-

dividual, the head.



Team work, the right of the wife to

a share in the family pocketbook, a

voice in the management of the house

hold, these are the things on which

women have been insisting, and have

in most instances secured. To the

shame of American manhood, be it

said, there are still homes where the

wife must beg for every cent, or steal

it, and give strict account of every pen-

ny spent.



To counterbalance this, however,

there are all too many homes where

the pendulum has swung too far in the

other direction. The women in their

new liberty have gone just as far in

the other direction and are determined

to be boss. In a sort of panic lest they

be downtrodden, they go to the other

extreme and insist on their own way in

everything, refusing a calm, sane dis-

cussion of matters with the husband,

even where their better judgment tells

them he is right and they are wrong.



“No man is going to dictate to me,”

is their favorite expression. “I’ve just

as much right to have my own way as

he has.” So they go ahead and have

their way, even when they know they

are almost morally certain to come to

grief.



Selfishness is at the root of the old

doctrine, that one must be supreme.

And the wife who refuses ever to give

up her whims is just as selfish as the

husband who takes the same course.

The Only way to bring contentment is

the commonsense way, arbitration.

Talk things over calmly, judiciously,

and, above all, with even tempers and

try to see whose way is best. Then

take that course, no matter which

thought of it first. No one is infallible

in this world, and neither sex has a

monopoly on good judgment. The only





- wise thing, then, is for each to admit





that the other may be right, and follow

what seems to be the wisest plan.



The great trouble with the average

American home is the lack of balance

in the average American individual.

Eternally on the search for something

new, we fly off on a tangent every time

a new idea is presented. The doctrine

of woman’s freedom, of her right to

do anything a man does, appealed to

women, after centuries of homekeeping

and submission, and with all their ner-

vous intensity they have followed it

far beyond its logical conclusion. Wom-

en undoubtedly have as much right to

life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-

ness as do men, but they have no more

right to pursue these objects at the ex-

pense of the happiness of their family,

than do the men.



The woman who insists that the fam-

ily income shall be spent on pleasures





. and clothes for herself and children is





as selfish and thoroughly tyrannical as

the husband who robs the family to

buy more land and build bigger barns.

And if I dared I should say she is even

more foolish, for the land and barns

will provide for the living when work-





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wear out and excursions will be for-

gotten.



Equally guilty is the woman who re-

fuses to do her share of work, main-

taining that she should be freed from

drudgery and given time for pleasure

and “the higher things of life.” If wom-

en demand equality with men they

should be willing to do an equal share

of the work, as well as to spend an

equal share of the money.





It is only in homes where equality

really exists that true happiness is

found. For equality means that each

must be allowed liberty for self-expres-

sion, and so far most of us are all too

willing to infringe on the other fel-

low’s rights, if there is any disposition

on his part to submit for the sake of

peace. DEBORAH.





 





CANNING, AND COMBINING FIRST

FRUITS.





 





3‘! MRS. JEFF DAVIS.



More and more housekeepers are

learning, and practicing the art of com-

bining different fruits, and thus extend

the flavoring powers of those high in

price by using a cheaper fruit as base.

Rhubarb is ideal for this, as it is so

universally grown, and combines hap-

pily with so many fruits. It‘ strawber-

ries are combined with rhubarb the

acid will be neutralized, and the fruit

rendered more digestible.



A few essential points will be men-

tioned to impress upon the minds of

young housewives the importance of

detail in cooking, and absolute obedi-

ence to directions and accuracy in

measurements.



All jars must be tested and the right

tops provided for each jar, as well as

new rubbers secured. Wash each jar,

then sterilize jars, tops and rubbers by

bringing to the boiling point in hot wa-

ter. Drain the jars, but keep tops and

rubbers in the water on the back of

stove. Use only granite, aluminum or

porcelain preserving kettle and alumi—

num or wooden spoons.



The following table of weights and

measures will be found helpful, and

the recipes given have been thoroughly

tested.



Table of Weights and Measures.



Four teaspoons, liquid, equal one ta-

blespoon; four tablespoons, liquid,

equal one wineglass; four tablespoons,

liquid, equal one~half cup; one cup

equals one-half pint; two cups equals

one pint; four cups equals one quart.

One cup granulated sugar equals half



pound; one cup of butter, solid, equals

half a pound; one heaping tablespoon

of sugar equals one ounce; one table—

spoon, liquid, equals half an ounce.



Rhubarb Marmalade—Remove seed

and white skin from six oranges; then

chop the orange pulp and rinds very

fine. Cut one quart of rhubarb into

small pieces and add one and one—half

pounds of sugar. Mix all together and

boil until the mixture thickens. Seal

while hot.



Rhubarb and Strawberries.———In com-

bining these fruits use one part of

strawberries to two parts rhubarb, al-

lowing a large coffee cup of sugar to

a pint of the cooked fruit. Cook fruit

and sugar together until thick. If very

rich preserves are desired equal parts

of sugar and fruit may be used.



Rhubarb and Pineapple—In combin-

ing these as above, use one part pine-7

apple to two parts of rhubarb, allowing

a large cup of sugar to a pint of the

cooked fruit. Shred the pineapple and

cook until tender in just enough water

to cover it. Cut the rhubarb, skin and

all, in small pieces and add to the pines

apple. Cook until soft, then add the





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pound of sugar to enact fruit and

. place over a slow fire with no water.

‘Do not mash in stirring, and when

skimming set on the back of the stove,

allowing the scum to rise before re-

moving it. When the sugar is dissolv-





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the fruit, place in jars, boil the syrup

five minutes longer, pour over the ber-

ries and seal.



Canned Strawberries—Prepare four

quarts of strawberries, place in a' large

bowl, cover with one quart of granulat-

ed sugar and allow to stand over night.

In the morning drain the fruit, being

careful not to mash it. Boil the juice

dewn one-half and add the berries,

boiling a. few minutes until the fruit is

thoroughly scalded; seal at once. Any

juice remaining may be canned to use





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Strawberry J am.——-Choose small. ripe

stifaWberries and allow a pound of

granulated‘sugar to each pound of the

fruit. Prepare the berries, place in

large bowl, cover with sugar and let

Stand 24 hours. Put into preserving

kettle, and stir to keep from scorch-

ing, being careful not to crush the

fruit. Remove scum, and boil until

thick, about half an hour. Fill jars

and seal. Delicious combinations may

be made by using equal quantities of

gooseberries, figs, dates, pineapples,

cherries, currants or red raspberries

' with the strawberries.



Spiced Strawberries—After using

the above recipe for jam, spices may

be added to the strawberries.



Preserved Cherries—Select ripe,

sour cherries, wash and stone them.

Take equal parts of fruit and sugar and

allow one-half cup of water to each

pound of fruit. Place alternate layers

of fruit and sugar in preserving kettle

and allow this to stand for an hour.

Then add the water, and put over fire.

Let the mixture simmer slowly until

the cherries are clear, and the syrup

very thick. Seal at once.



Canned Cherries—Put one cup of

sugar and one and one-half cups of

water in a kettle and let come to a

boil. Add three pints of cherries that

have been pitted. Simmer ten minutes,

or until the fruit is thoroughly scald-

ed. Fill jars until juice runs over.

Seal at once.



Cherry Butter.—Select fresh ripe

fruit. Wash, stone and put through

the food chopper. Allow equal parts

of sugar and cherries, and allow one-

half cup of water to each pound of

fruit. Mix well, place over the fire

and boil for 20 minutes, stirring con-

stantly. This should make a thick,

rich, delicious butter.





COOKING GREEN VEGETABLES.





It is most important when preparing

vegetables to save the portion which

givesflavor and that which provides

body. At least 20 per cent of all iron

the mineral matter needed by the

required by the body has its source in

vegetables.



Experiments have shown that flavor

and mineral matter are lost in less or

greater measure when vegetables are

cooked in too much water which is lat-

"er thrown away. It is best to use as

little water as possible in boiling green

vegetables and to keep this water to

be used later in soups or sauces. The

loss of mineral matter from vegeta-

bles through boiling may be as high as

36 per cent in spinach, celery, cabbage,

Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, carrots

and not more than six per cent when

' these same vegetables are steamed.

Flavor, when its source is frOm a.

’ products which is readily given off in

steaming, may be retained by cook-





” ing at temperatures below the boiling





point. For this reason peas, asparagus,

celery, cucumbers, and carrots should

he Cooked. at simmering temperature.



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Longer

time deveIOps strong flavor and, in

hard water, may darken the color,



Delicately flavored vegetables, as

peas, string beans, squash, and ruta-

bagas, may be served in their own

juices, seasoned only by salt, pepper,

and butter. Brussels sprouts are im-

proved in flavor if cooked in meat

broth made .as for soup stock, or in

water flavored with bouillon cubs. Car-

rots, celery, cucumbers and summer

squash may be improved in appear.

ance and flavor by first cooking in wa-

ter, then draining and covering with

white sauce—Univ. of Wis.





CLEANSERS AND RENOVATORS.





BY EMMA GARY WALLACE.



Cement for Glass and China.-—One

ounce of shellac dissolved in one-half

ounce of oil of turpentine. Work into

this two and one-half ounces of fine

powdered pumice stone. Or a paste

may be made of white lead mixed with

half the quantity of pipe clay and mois-

tened with boiled linseed oil.



Simple Disinfectants for Drains.—

I)issolve on ounce of zinc chloride in

a gallon of boiling water and add five

ounces of carbolic acid.





A valuable disinfectant recommend-

ed by some boards of health for ren-

dering harmless, discharges from the

body in case of sickness and the dis-

infection of clothes also, is one pound

of carbolic acid dissolved in two and

one-half gallons of water, and stirred

until thoroughly mixed; or, One ounce

of bichloride of mercury in four gal-

lons of hot; water. It is recommended

that a little bluing be added to indi-

cate its exceedingly poisonous charac-

ter. Make such a solution in glass or

earthenware. This solution is what is

known as “1 to 500.” To make it “1 to

1000" strength, use one-half ounce of

bichloride of mercury in the same

quantity of water. Bichloride of mer-

cury is another name for corrosive sub-

limate and should be kept out of the

way of animals and children and plain-

ly labeled. A ten per cent solution of

chloride of lime for disinfecting clos-

ets, etc., is prepared by mixing one

pound of chloride of lime with a gallon

of water. This must be used as soon

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' Wheat—Bullish factors such as re-

ports of black-rust and other adverse

crop conditions in the southwest, and

the increased,,prospect of war with

'Mexico had little effect on the local

market because of the large supply of

Wheat onhand and the anticipated ear-

, lyi arrival of .new ,grain. The arrivals

of American Wheat continue liberal in

foreign" ports, and Detroit dealers re-

port no demand for Michigan wheat

because the eastern millers are well

supplied. Foreign buying has not in-

creased as fast as anticipated, with the

increased prospects of thiscountry en-

gaging in war with Mexico. This con-



'tion brought about the opinion that



uropeaii interests were unduly de-

pressing whe’a‘t values. A year ago

No. ‘2? red wheat 'was quoted On the

local market at $1.19%. Primary re~

ceipts were 1,198,000 >bu., as against

633,000 bushels a year ago. Detroit

quotations for the past week are: ' '





No.2 No.1



-- Red. White. July.

Wednesday ..... 1.07% 1.02% 1.09

Thursday . . . .1.07% 1.02% ’ 1.09

Friday ......... 1.05% 1.02% 1.07

Saturday .... . . .1.06 1.03% 1.07%

Monday ........ 1.06%@1.03% 1.07%

”Tuesday ....‘....1.06 1.03 1.06%



Chicago—July $1.01%; Sept. $1.004





per bu; Dec. $10714.



Com—Continued unfavorable weath-

er‘. for this grain and an increased de-

mand from shippers held prices steady

during the past week. The demand for

exporting purposes is increasing, but

the local demand is quiet 'as most buy-

ers are anticipating better weather to

act as a bearish factor on the market.

One year ago No. 3 Corn was quoted on

the Detroit market at 77c. Quotations

on the Detroit market .for the past

week were:





. No. 3 No. 3



‘ ' . Mixed. Yellow.

Wednesday ......... 77% 79%

Thursday ........... 77% 79%

Friday” .............. 77 79

Saturday ............ 76% 78%

‘Monday' ........... '. . 76% 78%

Tuesday ........ ". . . . 79





Chicago.—July ‘743/gc; Sept. 725/80;

Dec. 62c. ,



Oats—Excellent crop reports have

made the bulls timid regarding this

grain, although good cats are in fair

demand for shipping purposes. The

market is very dull for the poorer

grades. A year ago standard oats were

quoted at 51%c on the local market.‘

Last week’s Detroit quotations were:





, No. 3

Standard. White.

Wednesday ......... 43 42

Thursday 43 42

Friday » ........... '. . . 43 42'

Saturday ............ 43 42

Monday ............. 43 42

‘Tuesday.....;....;. 43 42

Chicago—July 39%c; Sept 385/30;

. Dec. 40c.





Rye.—Cash No. 2 quoted at 980. ,

Beans—The probability of war with

Mexico‘ has been a strong bullish fac-

tor in the bean market. Immediate,

prompt and July shipment quoted at

.$5. There are strong probabilities for

higher prices. On the Chicago market

’stocks are light and prices firmly held.

Hand-picked Michigan pea beans are

quoted at $5.25@5.50; red kidneys $5.25

@575, according to quality. At Green-

ville beans are being sold on the $4

basis.

Seeds—Prime red clover $8.85;

.prime alsike $9.35; prime timothy

$3.60.





'FLOUR AND FEEDS.





 





 





Flown—Jobbing lots in one-eighth

paper sacks are selling 'on the Detroit

‘marke‘t per 196 lbs., as'follows: Best

patent-$5.90; seconds $5.70; straight

$5.50; spring patent $6.30; rye flour $6.



Feed—In 100—lb. sacks, jobbing lots

'are: Bran $24; standard middlings

“$25; fine middlings $30; cracked corn

432; com and oat chop $29 per ton.



. Hay.~No. 1 timothy $20.50@21;

,standard timothy $19.50@20; light

mixed $19.50@20; No. 2 timothy $17

@18; No. 1 mixed $13@14; No. 1 clo-

‘ver $10@11.



. Straw—Rye straw $7.50@8; wheat

and oat straw $6.50@7 per ton in car





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DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.





 





..Butter.—The market is active and

liberally supplied. Prices %c lower.

Extra creamery 280; firsts 26%c per

lb; dairy 23c; packing stock 21c. ,



' Elgin.—The’ market is easy and low-

er. » Price for the week, based on sales

is 28c '





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prices are %c higher. Current receipts;





are 'quoted at 22c; firsts 22%c.

' Chicago.—The market is unchanged

and the demand is goodfor fine eggs.

Receipts holding up 'well. Firsts 21@

21%0: ordinary firsts 18%‘@20‘%c;

miscellaneous lots, cases included 20

@210 per dozen. -

Poultry.—-Market steady, with only

slight change in prices. Fowls 18c;

broilers '25@28c; ducks 18@19c; geese

12@13c per lb. . '

Chicago—The demand is moderate

at prices slightly lower than last Week.





Receipts of spring chickens are light; 1





the" heavy weights are in greatest de-

mand. Hens 16%c; roosters 11@11%c;

spring chickens, 2 lbs. and over 260;

1% lbs. 23@24c; turkeys‘12@1'8c; spg

geese 16c. '





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





Strawberries.——Michigaii berries inf

demand at $1.10@1.15 per 16-qt. case.





At Chicago the price ranges from 75c

@$1.25 per 1,6qt. case, according to

quality. The demand is good for fancy

berries.





Godseberriea—Quoted at $2.50@2.75 ;





per 16-qt. case. -



Potatoes.——At Chicago the market

for old potatoes was quiet. ower pric-

es for new stock is a bearish factor.

Michigan white are quoted at $1‘@1.05

per bushel. ,





WOOL AND HIDES.





It is without doubt that. the world is

experiencing a'famine in wool. It is

not expected that the mills will have





 





to shut down for the'lack of wool, but T





if they can keep out of the market fOr

three or four months it will raise

great havoc. The Mexican situation

will tend to boom the market, and

though the trouble may last only a

short time, it will be necessary to pre-

pare for it and medium wools will be

in great demand. Owing to high pric-

es, the volume of business is light. In

the prodhcin‘g sections prices continue

to advance, and all OVer the world'

wool values are at a very high level.





.Following are quotations. on the Bos-





ton market for the week ending June

22: Michigan unwashed delaines'30@

310; do combing quarter—blood 38@4lc;

do fine clothing 26@27c.



Hides—No. 1 cured hides 18%c; No.

1 green hides 150; No. 1 cured bulls

130; No. 1 green bulls 10c; No. 1 cured

veal kip 20c; No. 1 green veal kip 180;

No. 1 cured murrain 18c; No. 1 green

murrain 16c; No. 1 cured calf 280;

No. 1 green calf 250; No. 1 horsehides

$6; No. 2 horsehides $5; sheepskins

as to amount" of wool 5OC@$2.50; No. 2

kip fand calf, 1%c; other No. 1 hides

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GRAND RAPIDS.





 





Strawberries have a range of $1.10@

1.60 per crate for the Week’s opening,

with Crop tapering off rapidly‘ and

higher prices in sight. The berry crop

has been lighter than was expected.

Cherries are now coming in, with sours

around $1.50 and sweets $1.65 a crate.

The few old potatoes that are offered

here sell at $1@1.25. The bean mar-

ket is on a $3.60 basis to farmers. The-

egg market is steady at 21c; dairy but-

ter at 23c. Hay is worth $15@17 on

the city market. Grain prices at mills

are as follows: No. 2 red wheat 960;

rye 75c; oats 42c;‘ corn 750.





DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.





 





Trading was active at the Eastern

Market on Tuesday with strawberries

predominating. Prices on this fruit

range $3.25@3.75 per 24-qt. case; as-

paragus sold for $1 per dozen bunches;

peas $2 per bu; onions 200 for a large

bunch; radishes seven bunches for

250; cabbage $1.50 per bushel; eggs

30c; potatoes $1.30 per bu.





LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Buffalo.

June 26, 1916.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

Buffalo, N. Y.)



Receipts here today as follows :. Cat-

tle 154 cars; hogs 100 d. d.; sheep and

lambs 6 d. d.; calves 1600 head.



Cattle trade today struck the worst

snag of the year; buyers felt around

gingerly and ‘only a very few of' the

good cattle were taken tip to noon.

One load of choice brought $11.25; two

loads $11.15 and two at $11.10. After

the top was picked up it was any price

that could be obtained. The general

market Can be called from 25@50c off,

and in some instances as much 337.50-

The greatest takeoff was on commoner

shipping steers, bulls and the common

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supply. of hogs, about 100 double ,ideck‘s.‘





and the demand was quite good; prices

‘~‘1_0@150 higher than Saturday's best

,time. The bulk 'of the sales were

:around $10.20, with'a few choice loads

at $10.25-and one .01!" two extra. choice

gfancy a little bit more; pigs and lights

g‘genera’lly $9.75. 'Roughs ruled dull,

,with the bulk selling around $8.50@

18.75; stags .$6»@7.25.





its: steady trade for the next few days.

Market was active on sheep and

lambs and :prices steady with the close

"of last week. About all sold and we

look for steady prices last of the week.

We quote: Spring lambs $11.50@

-12; cull to fair $6@11.25; yearlings $8

,@10; bucks $4.50@6.50; handy ewes

j$7.25@7.50; heavy ewes $‘6.75@7.-25;

}.wethers $7.75@8.2_5; cull sheep .,5@6;

gveals, good to choice $12.25 12.50;

.common to fair $8@12; heavy $6@10.





 





Chicago.

June 26, 1916.

Cattle. Hogs-Sheep.





,Re‘ceipts today. .15,000 33,000





16,000

.f'Same day 1915. .173057 43,336 6:678

Last week.- ..... 48,052 156,166 67,180

"Same Wk 1915..38,74‘2 139,780 55,987





Only 8,671 hogs were shipped from

Chicago last week, comparing with

i19,772..for the same week last year.

Hogs received averaged 227 lbs.



; ' Cattle were firmer and advancing to

day, because of small Monday receipts,

with desirable offerings selling a dime

higher. Hogs advanced fully 15c, with

an active demand at $9.40@10.05. Buy-

ers were bidding lower'fdr sheep and

Ilambs,‘arid the outlook was that only





{the ch‘oicer lots would sell at unchang-_





'ed prices.

Cattle prices have been showinga

great widening out recently, with the





best lots advancing because of their.





scarcity, while the common to medium

kinds have suffered extremely- large

declines on account of their abund-

ance. ‘The bulk of the steer sales dur-

ing the past week took place at a range

of frOm $9@11, with choice to fancy

lots selling at $11@11.50, the top being





another high record. Good- steers went‘

at $10 and upward, with a medium.

class selling at.$9.50@9.95, medium to.





fair light weight steers at $8@9.45 and

inferior grassy steers of light weight

at $7.25 and over. A few sales of prime

yearlings occurred at $11.25, with

$11.10 the late top. Butcher cattle

shared in the sharp declines in prices,

with cows taken at $5.80@8.50 and





heifers at $5.80@9.90, the best little $1150





yearling heifers going higher than ev-

er. Cutters sold at $5.15@5.75, can-

ners at $4@5.10 and bulls at $5.25@

8.40. Calves sold at $5@12 per 100

lbs., according to weight and. quality,

choice light vealers being largely want-

ed and going at further advances in

values. Stockers and feeders were in

good demand, with prices averaging

lower in sympathy with the sharp de-

clines in .beef cattle, buyers paying $6

@890, and not many sales took place

around the top quotation. Any further

declines in

would stimulate the demand, many in-

tending buyers of good feeders having

held back on account of what they re—

garded as their excessive cost. Not-

withstanding the promised large re-

quirements of beef for the United





States army and navy, all the cheaper‘

kinds of cattle have had'a big decline





in prices,vand it is expected that the

market will go much lower later on, as

large supplies of cattle from south-

western pastures are already moving

marketward. Closing steer prices were

25@75c lower than the high spot early

in the previous week, with a much

greater decline in most cows and

heifers. .



Hogs had a sharp break in prices on

the opening day last week, when the

receipts amounted to 51,235 head, but

on subsequent days the receipts were

very much smaller in volume, and un-

expectedly high prices were obtained,

the top being $10.15, or within 200 of

the highest price of the year. That

does not look like the predictions of

the packers and certain live stock pa-

pers of a glutted summer market and

a great slump in prices for June. Most

of the hogs were slaughtered here,_the

packers’ requirements being extremely

large. Weight was greatly wanted, and

for that reason heavy hogs showed the

most action and the largest gain in

prices. Even the heavy mixed late,

when they did not run down to too

light an end, were good sellers at the

ruling prices. Judging from recent ex—

perience, owners. of healthy, thrifty

young hogs are fully justified in fin-





ishing them off carefully, feeding them. .





all the corn they will eat. Advancing

prices swelled the receipts for the

week to greatly increased proportions,

and a late reactionflinflpri'ces left ‘qu'o;

tations Saturday at $9.25@9.90, with

pigs -sellingat.,$7.75@9;25; ; ‘; .. ‘





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best 'Idaho springers brought "3111

the highest price of the season so if

Demand. centeredimainlyj mi 6110

spring limbs, and. ‘they;.o‘ommanded

liberal premium over everivthing 61362

Most of the sheep offered were limitéd. '

to native ewes and bucks; Closi'

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lings $7.85@9.10; wethers $7.25

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came shorn except spring lambs, wfif ‘

were unshorn and closed at .$7@11. ..

Horses were marketed freely _"t

week, but not enough were offered

meet the increased demand, with 191

supplies wanted for the United Stat ‘ r

army. Prices ruled firm, with .inferi‘ - ' ‘

to fair animals going at $5‘0@100, w‘h ' ' I ‘

tile desirable offerings"‘in“'the ‘dra‘fter T "

11119 sold at $230@‘265, With’prime f-V

tra‘heavy drafters scarce and mos 3+

nominal at $275@300. Chunks bro ' ht .

$125@225. and desirable wagoners $ '0

$230, prime expressers selling" up to





 

   

 





 

 





 

   

   

 

 





 

 





 

 

 





 

 





 

 





 

 





 

 

 





   





   





 





 

   

   

 

 

 





 

 





 





 

 





 





 

 





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The appearance at last of $11.50 cat- 4'”

tle on the Chicago market makes the ;‘

predicted $12 beeves look nearer than

heretofore, and so great is the produc-

tion of strictly prime beef and‘"so.li'1‘-

gent the ‘demand that the._.p1"0phe5y‘

seems not unlikely to be fulfilled. The

feeding districts: are generally very

well supplied with short-fed and gras y

cattle, and undoubtedly there will .

enough of these cattle to meet the as

mand for the remainder of-the suffi-

mer period, but it is .plain that. prime

beeves aredestined to be comparatiVely

scarce and correspondingly ‘dear. This ~ . .

being the case, does it not: look like‘i‘av _’?

sure-thing for owners of well-bred cat- 1'

tle who have the corn to finish. them -

off Carefully? Themen who have fol-I

lowed this course have made handsome »«. . '

profits, and experienced cattle feeders WT.

generally are following this method, I “

conVinced that it will'pay out well in

the end. The market has been much’

of the time of late‘an-unsatisfact‘ory'

one for sellers of grassers and short-

fed cattle, and on a recent Monday,

when the Chicago market received

less than 22,000 cattle in all, the gen--

eral run sold down from 15@250 per

100 pounds, while the top steers went

higher than ever, the top price being





 

 





 





 

 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

   

 

 

 

 





 





 





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‘ .9 ’The first edition is sent to those who





’ ave not expressed.a desire for the

fittest markets. The late market ed1-

tlon will be sent on request at any

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DETROIT LlVE STOCK MARKET.





 





Thursday's Market.

June 22, 1916.

Cattle.





Receipts 2141. The local market on

.ened this week with a large number of

cattle on sale and nearly the entire lot

were grassers and many of them of

the common order,.as was predicted

last week all grass cattle took a bad

slump and were fully 25@750 per cwt.



lower than they were at the same pe-

riod a week ago, the only grade to hold

up being canners and bulls, which

were steady. Quite a bunch went back

for feeding at considerably lower DI‘IC-

es. The close was very dull on Wed

n'esday with a large number holding

over and the same applied to Thurs-

Quotations below are for grass

Best heavy weight steers

'$8.50@9.25; best handy weight butcher



steers $7.50@8.50; mixed steers and



heifers $7@8; handy light butchers $7

' @7.75; light butchers $6@7; best cows



$6.25@7; butcher cows $5.25@6; com-





daY. .

cattl‘e only:





mon cows $4 50@5; canners $3@4.50:





best heavy bulls $6.50@7.25; bologna

bulls $5.75@6.50; feeders $7@8; stock-

ers $6.75@7.50; milkers and springers





$410@65.





Sandel, S., B. & G. sold Golden 1 cow

wgh 1080 at $6, 1 canner wgh 1000 at

$4; to Mich. B. Co. 19 butchers av 810

at $7.50, 2 cows av 915 at $5, 2 bulls

av 890 at $6.25, 31 butchers av 731 at

$7; to Breitenbeck 15 do av 910 at $8,

1 bull wgh 990 at $6.25; to Bray & B.





1 cow wgh 1270 at $5.50, 3 do av 1247





at $7, 1 bull wgh 1790 at $7; to Kam-

man 6 steers av 1146 at $8.75, 7 do av

817 at $7.10; to Hammond, S. & Co. 1

b 11 wgh 1040 at $6.50, 1 do wgh 720 at

$61; to Wallace 23 stockers av 612 at





$6.40; to Kendall 11 feeders av 764 at





$7.25; to Frutchey 1 steers av 725 at

$7.75; to Sullivan P. Co. 5 butchers av

av 816 at $7.75, 2 cows av 980 at $5.25,

6‘d0 av 1055 at $6, 6 steers av 865 at

$7; to Kamman B. Co. 26 do av 921 at

$8.65; to Bray & B. 5 cows av 1346 at

$7.60; to Kendall 12 feeders av 775 at





$7.25, 3 do av 887 at $7.25, 8 do av 771

at $7.25; to Brighton D. M. Co. 8 cows

av 1150 at $6.40; to Sutton 2 stockers

av 775 at $6.50, 24 do av 614 at $6.50;

to Hammond, S. & Co. 2 bulls av 955

at $6.25, 2 do av 1085 at $6.25: to Mich.

B. Co. 1 steer wgh 940 at $8.75, 2 do av

855 at $6, 10 do av 858 at $7.50.



Erwin & S. sold Fineman 1 heifer

wgh 710 at $6.25, 2 bulls av 665 at $6;

to Golden 2 cows av 930 at $5; to Sul-

livan P. Co. 6 cows av 1011 at $6.25, 3

do av 990 at $6.25, 6 do av 1023 at $6.25,

9 do av 920 at $6.15, 13 butchers av

823 at $6.85, 12 do av 816 at $7.35, 6

do av 1030 at $8, 4 do av 755 at $7; to

Fineman 4 do av 670 at $5.75; to Frut-

chey 15 feeders av 800 at $8.10, 6 do

av 850 at $8.



,Haley & M. sold Bell 2 bulls av 950

at $6.50, 1 cow wgh 850 at $5.90; to

Golden 3 do av 947 at $5.50, 1 do wgh

920 at $5, 1 bull wgh 1000 at $6.50; to

Kamman 1 bull wgh 1620'at $7: to

Rattkowsky 2 cows av 410 at $6, 2

steers av 1230 at $8.50; to Bray 4 cows

av 1217 at $6.30; to Feldman 2 steers

av 915 at $7.50; to Brighton D. M. Co.

9 cows av 1131 at $6.40; to Mich. B. Co.

,6 do av 1053 at $5.85, 9 steers av 1092





L at $8.35, 2 do av 990 at $7.





Veal Calves.





Receipts 1266. The veal calf trade

was active at last week’s prices, a few

extra fancy, selling at $12.25, but the

bulk of'sales for the best was $11.50@

12; common and medium $8@10.50.



Haley & M. sold Goose 3 av 160 at

$12; to Hammond, S. & Co. 11 av 170

at $11.75, 22 av 160 at $12, 12 av 160

altb$11.75; to Rattkowsky 2 av 220 at

$ .



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 958. The run of sheep and

lambs was again very light and the

quality not very good; the market was

strong at last week’s prices, selling as

follows: Best lambs $10@10.25; fair

do $9.50@9.75; light to common lambs,

$7.50@8.50; spring lambs $11@12; fair

to goodsheep $6@6.75; culls and com-

mon $4@5.50.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Hammond, S. &

Co. 12 spg lambs av 50 at $12, 7 do av

75 at $11.50, 14 sheep av 105 at $6.50;

in Newton B. Co. 15 spg lambs av 59 at





{$12, 13 lambs av 60 at $10, 4 sheep av





120 at $6; to Olich 28 spg lambs av





. 65 at,$12; to Sullivan P. Co. 44 sheep





av 125 at $6, 9 do av 95 at $5.25, 15 do

av 110 at $5.25, 30 do av 95 at $6.



~ . Hogs.‘

Hogs started advanc-





n Wednesday the bulk, of the

' brought $935; on Thursday



5. 100 higher: , Yorker‘seand

is at $99.3;5@9.35.





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Dissolve 10 grs. of permanganate of





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CONDUCTED BY W. C. FAIR, V. S.





Weak Heart—I have a six-year~old

horse that pants badly in hot weather,

but appears to be all right when it is

cool. M. S. M., Daily, Mich—Give your

horse a tablespoonful of tincture ar-

nica, 1A. dr. fluid extract lobelia and

1/2 dr. ground nux vomica at a dose in

feed three times a day. Your horse

should not be driven fast, or heavily

loaded, or exerted much on a full stom-

ach, or fed much bulky food.



Injured Shin.—-l have a horse whose

shin was injured some time ago and

a bunch is growing which is quite hard

and the wound is filled with a fungus.

H. J. N., Luther, Mich—Dissolve 1 dr.

of permanganate of potash in one-half

gint of water and paint sore twice a



ay.



Foot Sore—I have a 14-year-old

mare that is sore in both fore legs, her

feet are flat and she has had some dis-

charges from both fetlock joints. E.

B., Rothbury, Mich—Dissolve 1 oz. of

acetate of lead, 6 drs. of sulphate of

zinc and 1 dr. of tannic acid in a quart

of water and apply to sores two or

three times a day. She should be shod

with a Wide-webbed shoe that has a

rolling motion and perhaps a leather

sole with bottom of foot stuffed with

tar and oakum would help her.



Barren Mares—Unthrifty Colt—I

have two brood mares 14 years old

that failed to get with foal last sum-

mer, but both of them have raised colts

before. I also have a colt six months

old that is not thriving. J. H. A.,

Rockford, Mich—If your mares come

in heat regularly, breed them to anoth-

er horse, then they will perhaps get

with foal. Feed your colt well, groom

it once a day and give it 20 grains of

sulphate iron, 20 grains ground nux

vomica and 60 grains ground gentian

at a dose in feed two or three times a

day.



VVarbles.——I have a cow that has

bunches on back and when squeezed

a grub—like worm pope out. H. A. M.,

Kent, Mich—Squeeze out warbles and

if necessary enlarge opening in hide

with a sharp pen knife and be sure to

kill the grub, or they may grow to be

flies and infect more cattle in a similar

manner next summer‘ and autumn.



Calf—knee. l have a seven-year-old

mare whose knee bends backward too

far, giving her leg somewhat the ap-

pearance of a cow. When she steps

she stumbles. C. S., Davison, Mich.—

Rub her leg with alcohol twice a day.



Impure Blood——False Teat.~—I have

a three-year-old mare that is troubled

with skin eruption which has bothered

her for one year and she has the ap-

pearance of an animal that has been

bitten by flies. I also have a four-year-

old cow that has a sort of false teat. on

side of the other teat and milk comes

from both. J. 0., Central Lake, Mich.

—The symptoms your colt show are

clinical symptoms of farcy and I would

suggest that you have her tested with

mallein for fear that she might have

glanders. This, of course, is work for

a competent Vet. You had better ap-

ply a clamp or string to teat and

slough it off, but understand it is not

always an easy matter to close the op-

ening in the fifth teat.



Veterinary Question—I would like

to have a good strong blood medicine,

one that would work on the lungs if

such a thing is possible. E. F. G.,

Thompsonville, Mich. A very good and

not very expensive blood purifier is

Donovan's solution of arsenic and it

should be given in two to four dram

doses two or three times a day. Iodide

of potassium given in 1 dr. doses is an-

other very good blood remedy, but

none of them have a direct action on

the lungs.



Lice on Cattle—l find that my cat.

tle are troubled with lice and I would

like to have an answer by return mail.

G. E. H., Rockwood, Mich—Apply one

part coal tar disinfectant and 24 parts

lard occasionally and it will kill them.



Acute Indigestion.—~Have a calf that

is nearly a year old which has several

times bloated badly and if not promptly

treated thought perhaps it might die.

What causes it and what remedy can

I use? T. J., Ada, Mich.—~Certain

kinds of food is apt to cause bloating,

therefore, you had better feed carefully

and about the least expensive remedy

you can give is hyposulphite of soda in

two or three! ounce doses and do not

hesitate to use the trocar and canula

if you believe the calf in danger of

dying.



Leucorrhea.——I have a cow due to

come fresh next May which has had a

slimy mucus discharge from vagina for

the past year. What treatment do you

advise? F. A. H., Middleville, Mich.—





 





 





 





p‘otas‘h :in one quart lof tepid water. and.





ssTheWheatvield

Tells the Story





of Western Canada’s llapld Progress





The heavy crops in Western _Canada have caused new

records to be made in the handling of grains by railroads.

For while the movement of these heavy shipments has

been wonderfully rapid, the resources of the different

roads. despite enlarged equipments and increased facili-

ties. have beer, strained as never before, and previous

records have thus been broken in all directions.



The largest Canadian wheat shipments through New York

ever known are reported for the period up to October 15th.





upwards of four and a quarter million bushels being exported in lean than six weeks.





and this was but the overflow of shipments to Montreal, through which point ship-

ments were much larger than to New York.



Yields as hi h as 60 bushels of wheat per acre are reported from all parts of the



country; who yields of 45 bushels per acre are common.



Thousands of American farmers have taken part in this wonderful production. Lmd



trees; are still low and free homestead lands are easily secured in good



ocahties, convenient to churches, schools, markets. railways, etc.



. _ x on land and no conscription.



Write for illustrated pamphlet. reduced railroad robes



and other information to





M. V. McINNES.





 

 





 





 





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Canadian Government Agent'.





 

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

 





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IFOR





representatives





of years of careful breeding.

I have on hand a number of 'oung





Having sold my farm in the city for

for me to dispose of the Holsteins before August lst next, as Ihave agreed to

surrender possession of the farm at that time.



These animals represent the highest type of the Holstein breed and are

of the best known families. .



I shall be glad to have any one who anticipates starting a Holstein herd to

come and see them. They are suitable for foundation stock and are the result





OLSTEINS





SALE





platting purposes, it will be necessary





bulls of the highest type of the breed,





ready for service, that will be so (1 at very reasonable prices.



I venture the assertion that a man can take four of these animals, retain

them and their female offspring for six ears, selling the males, and at the end

of that period his pure bred Holsteins wi 1 be worth more than his 80 acre farm,

provided he grows them and takes first-class care of them.



as had the milk and the returns from the sale of the bull calves.



A year’s time will be given to responsible parties, with interest at 6%.





D. D. AITKEN, Flint, Michigan.





In the meantime he





 





Also some good farmer's boars.





dial invitation is extended to visit the farm and inspect the stock.

young Jersey bulls in Michigan we have him for sale.





Brookwator F arm, Swine Dept., Ann Arbor, Mich.





Duroc Jersey Herd Boars





Special Ofl'orlng of High Clnu Full Boar Plgl,

enough for breeders who appreciate the best.





Breeding and Individuality good





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





lf you wish one of the best

For further particulars. aduress.





 





RUFUS B. HOLMES 60.





High and Riopelle Ste. Detroit, Mich.





Commission Merchants





Poultry. Live or Dressed. Dmssed Hogs. Calves,

Sheep and Eggs. Reference. Peninsular Savings

Bank. Sullivan Packing Co. Shipments Solicited.

Satisfaction Guaranteed.





 





F‘BMEns—We wul pay premiums whenever possible

above the highest official Detrort Market

quotation for your eggs shipped direct to u- by ex.

press. Write us for information. It will DI! you-

American Butter a: Cheeu 00.. Detroit. Mich.





Ship To The Old Reliable Hous-

HAY Daniel McCaffrey'a Sons Co..

__ 623-625 wnM. Bid... Pawn 9..





HIGHEST MARKET PRICE

Quick Returns. Write for

. tencil. Ship Direct to E. L.





8

RICHMOND 00.. Detroit.





BREEDERS' DIRECTollY.





Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Days before date of publication.





CATTLE.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS





H “D ESTABLISHED IN 1900-

TROJAN- ERICAS and BLACKBIRDS only.

Also breeders of Percheron. Hackney and 8nddlo





Borneo.

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. Mich.





ABERDEEN ANGUS : 3.30%.?





ing 15 head of Choice 'Oung bulls. one two year old

Trojan Erica at $200.00 i taken in 6 weeks. 14 head from

8 to twenty months old including the first and second

rize. Senior-hull calves at. the 1915 State Fair. Write

or Particulars, and come to the farm to look_ our

stock over, they are of the Blackbird Trosan-Encaa,

and K Pride Families only. U. L. CLARK. Hunters

Creek. Mich. SIDNEY SMITH. Mgr.





 





 





 





 





 





 





V; Aberdeen Angus, a few bulls and heifers

Pl". 370d one year and older at $100 each.

GEO. HATHAWAY & SON. OVID. MICHIGAN.





 





‘VRSHIBES—Ono of the foremost dnir broods. The

most oonnomlcnl milk to noel-s. Calves

i'or ulo. Whlto Leghorn oookoro I: Dnroo' Jersey

"vino. Michigan School for the Deal. FlintJ‘llohlgnn.





VILLAGE FARMS, Incorporated

Grass Lake, Michigan,

GUERNSEY CATTLE

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VON‘DALE Guernsey bulls all sold. Sorry to die-

appoint those wishing Ourstock. Only registered

bull calves left. Avondnle Stock Farm. Wayne. Mich.





 





(“I uernsethay Rose) Bull for sale. horn Sept. 5, 1913.

I . Elenilld animal in every respect, Dam 520 lbs. fat

class . J. K. Blatchford, Auditorium Tower. Chicago, 11.!





f . '

Guernsey Bulls o servtco fit: and calves from





choice. reg. bre dl .

T. V. HICKS. Route 1. Battle Ceeek. Nficlfiz





 





 





(Vuernseys, yearling bull, also a bull calf, 61’.

I Son. Pauline Sottswood 745 lbs. fat, cheap can 1:

eoyou can buy. J. M. Williams, No. Adams, Mi .





GUERNSEYS





We offer a choice lot of high grade Guerney cows and

heifers. bred to registered hulls La 'l'ertre of Maple

Lane.No. 23192 and Sir Dena No. 36173. Prices reason-

able. THE JENNING'S FARMS, R. I. Bailey. Mich.





 





 





MILO D. CAMPBELL CHAS. J. ANGEVINE





BEACH FARM

GUERNSEYS





Average yearly production 422.3 lbs. of fat. threew

fourths of them making their records as two year

olds. By the use of a pure bred sire, a ig im-

provement can soon be attained if the right

selection is made. The breeding of the Beach

Farm Herd is as good as can be found, and we

guarantee them to be free from. contagious dis-

eases and to be satisfactory in every way or

money refunded. Write and let us tell you about





them.

CAMPBELL 8 ANGEVINE,





 





Coldwnter, Michigan.





6 [£533 1‘3de LT? YMS :B'irfl‘blfixng

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Incu' GUIR SlgoFA‘llhg?gagi‘iin:$6¥jgf Mich.





Herefords—One Bull Calf.





ALLEN BROS. PAW PAW. MIC".

7 Bulls,





HER EFORDS : mHeifers.





EARL C. MCCARTY, Bad A10, Michigan.





Do You Want A Bull?





Ready For Service.





[from A grand daughter of The King of tho

Pontinoo. Sirod by a. bull that is more than A half

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By R. H ELSWORTH.





HE by-product side of fruit mar-

keting is being carefully worked-

, out in the Grand Traverse sec-

tion of the state. It is generally con-

ceded by those who have studied the

economics of the fruit industry that it

is going to be necessary, in fact, is al-

ready necessary, to utilize in some

profitable form all that is harvested in

the way of fruit. It isquite likely that

the methods of the Chicago meat pack-

ers who sell at a profit every part of

the hog, even to the “squeal,” will

need to be studied for marketing ideas,

in order that the highly capitalized or-

chards now being created may yield in-

terest on the investments.

Canning the Poorer Grades;



The management of the largest cher-

ry orchard in the region, if not in the

state, is already, although the 200

acres of orchard is only beginning to

bear, safeguarding the future market-

ing program by the erection of a can-

ning factory. The plant is located on

the edge of the orchard and will have





‘and cider mills in the Grand Traverse

region. While the better grades Of

seconds were used by the canners and

the apple drier, by far the greater part

of the apples were converted into cid-

er. These second and third grade ap~

ples brought from 20 cents to a dollar

a hundred pounds. The Duchess vari-

ety, which is worth the least of all ap-

ples for cider purposes, were bought at

the 20 cent figure. The greater part

of the fall and winter apples bought

for cider were obtained at 30, 40 and

50 cents a hundred pounds. The ap-

ples that went into cans and the ap-

ples that were dried brought the grow-

ers somewhat better prices.





By R. G.

HE observance of "Apple Day”

and “Orange Day” has undoubt-

edly brought these two fruits in-





made in this direction.





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able money to the city buyer and it





   

 

 

 

 

 

 





 

 





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. a

the neighborhood of 10, 000 barrels,

50 gallons each. I





So completely has the utilization of

the poorer grades of apples been work

ed out that there is no waste whit-

ever. The pomace from the cider mills,

which is all of the apple but the juiCB.

is dried, and sold at a geod Iproilt' to .

manufacturers of jelly and similar pro-

ducts. ‘



The only problem in connection Withi

the by- product feature of the apple lfi

dustry is to get the growers to refrain ,.

from putting their second and third: ‘ --

grade apples on the market in compe-

tit1on' With their No.1 apples. How- ,

ever, considerable headway is being





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





   

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





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season is at its height. The cannery i





a sort of anchor to Windward.





ing markets





ship than 10 can.





absorbed by the canners.





90 cents a 16-q11art crate.





City.

The Prices Paid.

The 1916 outlook for cherries





canneries to keep supply and demand

equalized. Two canning factories were

bidding for fruit early this spring and

a number of the larger growers have

made contracts for parts of their crops.

One plant is offering the fruit growers

three cents a pound for their sour cher-

ries, another 85 cents a crate contain-

ing 24 pounds of fruit. In neither case

does the grower have to provide the

container. It is expected that a third

plant will offer four cents a pound for

the English Morello cherries as it has

done for the past two years. The cher-

ries for this concern have to be pulled

instead of clipped, which means that

the harvesting costs a trifle extra.



As has always been the case the

fancy grades of cherries will go‘to

private customers who are indifferent

to high prices, and to the trade that

demands the best; but the canning

factories will get the bulk of the crop

when 'Detro’it, Cleveland, Pittsburgh

and Chicago are overstocked.



It is not unlikely that through com-

mercial organization of the region in-

vestigations will be conducted to see if

the by-products from cherry pits can

be obtained at a profit and to see what

can be discovered in connection with

the demand for cherries for soda wa-

ter fountains. _ ‘

Apples are now Well Provided for.

The utilization of the second and

third grade apples is already largely,

provided for. Last season'about' 60

carloads of apples were used by the





 





 





 





 





 





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29 markets Yqur inquiries solli "IE““LEII. easing-£1 ,





, cannipg factories, evaporating, plepts





sufficient capacity to put into tin the

entire daily harvest when the cherry





The

best of the crop will be marketed in

the usual way so long as the consum-

within reasonable dis-

tances are good, but on the first indica~

tion of a slump in prices or a glut in

quantity the factory will be started and

the daily yields from the trees will be

canned for marketing at a later date.

The plant will take the entire output

only so long as it is less profitable to





Every season more or less of the

Grand Traverse cherry crop has to be

There is a.

week or more when the season is at its

height when the usual markets are un-

able to handle to advantage the full

yield from the orchards. Then is when

the canners get their raw material.

Last season eight carloads went to the

canners at prices ranging from 70 to

These cher-

ries were taken by the canneries at

Grand Rapids, Frankfort and Traverse





1s

promising and'with the new orchards

that are now coming into hearing it

looks as if from 10 to 20 cars of cher-

ries a season will have to go to the





 





 





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as tomatoes and strawberries.





ucation.

Consumers do not Know when to Buy.





season or not. In the rush of business

affairs peach season comes and goes

and he scarcely realizes that the mar-

ket is crowded with a product that is

not sold in the fresh state at any other

season of the year. The same is true

of many other crops. Purchasing the

products in season means that both

the consumer and the producer find

the transaction more profitable and

satisfactory in every way. The quality

of the goods is better when fresh and

there is no added cost for storage. On

“potato day” potatoes should be sold

at a price which would give the grower

a fair profit and allow the consumer to

lay up a few bushels for winter use at

a. price much below their cost if pur~

chased of the local store during the

winter by the peck. Even if the gro-

cerman acted as a middleman on "po-

tato day” he could afford to sell pota-

toes on a very small margin of profit

for if the sales were large he would

make a very good profit in the aggre-

gate and it would mean a quick turn-

over of his capital which would not be

possible if he had to purchase a large

quantity of potatoes for cash and hold

them in storage for the customer’s

convenience. In cities possessing a

municipal market a plan of observing

special days for crops in their season

should be of great benefit to the farm-

ers and city buyers.

Should be a State Affair.



The difficulty in observing national

days in this manner is due to the fact

that crops in season in one state have

not matured in another. This difficulty

could be eliminated, we believe, by

putting the proposition up to the ex-

periment station, allowing them to de-

cide when would be the most profit-

able time to observe the maturing of

any special crop in their oWn state.

Plans of the kind submitted above are

doubtless very theoretical and possibly

they might have little effect on the

general public. However, it is a well

known fact that intelligent buyers who

know the fruits in their season are

able to save money in the managing of

the home table. The cost Iof storing

crops does not benefit the farmer when

the middleman does the storing and it

does increase the city man’s cost of

,living A wider education concerning

the ‘est tinieito buy 961:1; n fruits





 

 

 





 





to greater public favor and the custom

might be carried out to even greater

advantage in cases of other fruits like

the peach and the cherry and also with

vegetables like potatoes and sweet

corn or with other farm products such

The

purpose of such days would not be

merely a boom to enable farmers to

dispose of their crops at high prices,

but it could be used as a means of ed-





The average city man does not stop

to think whether certain crops are in





would- increase the demand for the



farmer’s products immediately after



harvest. ‘

Last Year’s Peach Crop.



Last year the peach crop proved ex-

cellent in quantity but nearly zero in

market value. Doubtless many house-

wives have scarcely any peaches on

their shelves this winter because they

waited to do their canning until the

crop had been sold at a low price or

allowed to rot. A general knowledge

of the value of the peach as home des-

sert, coupled with a proclamation from

the state experiment station stating a

good day or week for ordering certain

varieties of peaches for canning might

enable the growers to obtain a fair

price for their fruit, and not over;

charge the ultimate consumer.



Onions, potatoes and cabbages have

to be stored in expensive storage housé

es largely because the city man buys

one cabbage at a time, ten cents worth

of onions and a peck of potatoes.

There are millions of homes with par-

tially used cellars where storage bins

for vegetables would decrease the cost

of living in the winter. Then the city

man who could purchase ten bushels

of potatoes, thirty cabbages, and two

bushels of onions, depending on the

tastes and the size of the family, might

buy these products when they are har-

vested and both the buyer and the pro-

ducer would be benefited, and even the

middleman, and there usually is one,

could afford to cut down his profits be-

cause of the large quantity of goods he

might handle without tying up his cap-

ital for an indefinite time.



Save Much Delivery Expense.



The streets of our cities are. filled

with deliverymen’ s wagons at all hours

of the day and night. Where are many

of them going? To Smith’s with a. can

of tomatoes, one loaf of bread, a.

squash, ten cents worth of onions, and

a little bag of apples. To Br0wn's

with a. peck of turnips and a. bag of

hickory nuts. To Jonec’ with a cab-

bage and a can of beans. Who pays

the- bill? Smith, Brown and Jones and I





the farmer is in no way benefited hey, I





cause they have paid too much for the

products from the farm. More buying

in season will save money for the con- ..

sumer and a general effort to interest

the public in the fruits in their season

might start with some special manner

of observing a day when the harveSt

is ready. Unfortunately the farmer us-

ually needs the returns from his crops

as soon as possible. He also would bé

benefited by a system of disposing of.





a large part of the crop at a profit as





soon after the harvest as it could be

delivered at the homes of the city (50 -I

sumers. Farmers make no extra 1111111”

ey from the fact that middlemen‘are

willing to store the crOps for the, .I
We see no real objection to the

use of skim-milk, milk, or cream in the

manufacture of oleomargarine. It may

"be considered a legitimate constituent

of oleomargarine, but inasmuch as it

is used in the manufacture of oleomar-

garine we think the oleomargarine in-

terests are logically estopped from us-



' ing the sanitary or unsanitary condi—

tion of milk and cream as an argument

against the use of butter and in favor

of their own product. We see no ob-

jection except on general technical

grounds to the use of harmless color-

ing matter in oleomargarine provided



, V file not a coloring matter which will



‘ cause the product to look in any de-

gree like butter. We suppose that the

manufacturers of oleomargarine would



r: " not take kindly to the suggestion that



, they use pink coloring matter, for in-



. ’ stance, for their oleomargarine, or



green coloring matter for their oleo-

margarine, and it is possible to use

both of these coloring matters which

are classed as non-injurious and which



will do much to give their product a



distinctive color. The time may come



When, if oleomargarine is a superior



article of food, as it is claimed for it

bysome that they may be just as in-

terested in keeping the dairy interests

from imitating their product as the

dairy interests now are concerned in

preventing oleomargarine interests

from imitating theirs, consequently we



‘i ' t may expect that if oleomargarine in-



. terests should get together and decide



to make their product with a pink or

green color, for instance, when that

time arrives when the public recogniz‘



- * es the greater dietitic properties of



" V oleomargarine, dairymen will then be‘

gin to add pink or green coloring mat-



.ter to butter.



. , . Have Oleo Interests Been Sincere?





The history of food adulteration has

shown all along that every effort is

made by the manufacturer of a sub.

stitute article to put it up in such a





 





 





 





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' ' culty in differentiating between it and



‘l the genuine. Extracts furnish another

he: ‘ splendid example of this. We have a





vanilla extract which is of a certain

' standard and recognized merit. A man-

ufacturer comes along with a substi-

tute for vanilla extract. Instead of

giving it an original, coined name, and

a distinctive color of its own, and bold-

ly advertising these facts, he colors it

to make it look as nearly like vanilla

' . extract as he can, and gives it a name

' which has some portion of the word

vanilla in it. His whole business is

established upon the idea of deceiving

someone as to the real facts about his

product. '



If oleomargarine cannot be sold ex-

cept that it is colored to look like but-

ter, or except that .it is made to taste

like butter, or except the public are

deceived, thinking it is butter, it is

our contention that oleomargarine

should not be permitted in the mar-

ket. We think, however, that it does

have a legitimate field. It is a substi-

tute for butter.

satisfactory name; butterine is not a

satisfactory name. Butterine is an un-

fair name. It is not a fair proposition

for the manufacturers of oleomargar-

ine to claim a greater degree of whole-

someness than pertains to butter be-

cause its method of manufacture

brings it into contact with milk, cream

or butter itself, and it is quite difficult

to maintain that oleomargarine con-



H-taining 50 per cent of butter can be

pure, and that same butter when sold

- ill-a, tub to be itself impure. It is just

.. exactly as absurd, on the other hand,

; for :‘creameeren and dairymen to

claim that 'oleomargarine is unsatisfac-

ry-fpr food purposes because of a

lesser degree of digestibility than but-

’ We: do not believe that oleomar.





 





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Oleomargarine is a are now making against the wholesome





tunity for the carrying of tuberculosis

or any other infectious or contagious

diseases through it as a medium.





I read, and I read several good maga-

zines, but I certainly think your last

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be‘ demoed strain ethe- Michigan.





standpoint of its digestibility or whole-

someness. If there is any difference in

digestibility this difference is not great

enough to make the basis of a com-

plaint against oleomargarine.





The physical substances of which

oleomargarine is manufactured are in

the main, butter, lard, oleo oil (or

what is commonly known as refined

tallow), and cottonseed oil. Any sin-

gle one of these substances is used

nearly every day by nearly every fam-

ily, and the question of their digesti‘

bility or wholesomeness is not raised.

Neither does the combination in which

they exist permit of the question of

their digestibility or wholesomeness.

Of course, substances may be entirely

wholesome in themselves and yet the

condition in which they are mixed to-

gether may permit of the raising of

the question of their wholesomeness.

Take, for instance, the question of sau-

sage. A common adulterant of sausage

is starch 0r cereal. Now cereal itself

would be considered perfectly whole-

some. But a mixture of meat and cer-

eal in the form of sausage without the

consumer being specifically acquainted

with the fact that starch or cereal is

mixed with the meat may be unwhole-

some, because of the fact that it would

not be prepared for the table in a way

in which cereal foods should be prepar-

ed to make them wholesome.





We repeat what we said at the out-

set of this article, that there is suffi-

cient reason for the marketing of both

butter and oleomargarine as they are

ordinarily manufactured.



If the various partisans in the case

would come forward with an admission

of the defects in their own product as

well as the claims of its superiority it

would be found that there is a desir-

able ground which will permit of the

marketing of both products from the

standpoint of their intrinsic value.



We believe that the government is

perfectly within its rights when it lev-

ies a tax of 93/; cents per pound on the

production of oleomargarine in imita-

tion of yellow butter, and we believe

that the separate states are quite with-

in their rights when they lay an em-

bargo entirely upon the manufacture

of oleomargarine which is colored in

imitation of yellow butter.



Let Oleomargarine Stand on its



Merits.



We think it is high time that the

oleomargarine interests awaken to a

realization of the great desirability of

making their product stand upon its

own merits, building it either with no

color at all or with a distinctive color

of its own, and undertaking an adver-

tising campaign, frankly and clearly

calling attention to the fact that its

distinctive color or distinctive mark,

so that it will not be confused with

butter; and then divorce it absolutely

from butter, taking the butter out of it,

and taking the skim-milk, milk or

cream out of it likewise, if they are to

maintain with any degree of sincerity

or any success the claims which they





cleomargarine and Butter~

By FLOYD W. ROBISON.





(Continued from last week).





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E. B. MILE'l‘ 1‘, bowlerville. Michigan,





0. I. C. SWINE: lf.’i‘7‘t§’-§f‘ii‘.i°$it§3.¥‘l



you with a choice pair or trio, not akin, or a gilt. due



to farrow about September first. ‘

A. d. GUBDEN. R. No. 2, Dorr. Mich.





 





 





 





 





0 ' c! .50 M stand Apr. pigmpairs and tries no akin

. . 3- ;, broil gilts to furrow in Aug. ‘ olstein

Bulls. Cloverleaf Stock Farm. Monroe. Mich.,li.No. 1





0. I. l). SWIIEJlHOICE SPRING PIGS. Bfllll SEX.





HERBERT PIERSON. DAVISON, R. 3, RICE,





Boars at Half Price





We still have a few big bone-d. big type Poland China

boars ready for Service, weighing up to 230 lbs. not fat

at $let& $23; gluhk Pltog’isterenl llh bu) er' :4 n-nme. A

rogls are no erc P. St; ' 2 . .

.l. C. BUTLE 1 roll l mu years old 3250.“)

Poland (‘hina sown bred for July and





R. Portland, Mlch.. Bell Phone.

B‘ls IYP August, arr'm, Spring pigs.

(1. W. HUI/FUN. Route 11, Kalamazoo Michigan.





 





erkshires. I have 6 choice fall gilts bred for Sept.

farrowing at $33 each for immediate delii'i-i‘y.

A. A. PATTUIJA). Ii. 4. Deckerville Mich.





 





 





and lied pigs. price. weight.



lllll'oc Jersey soars etc. given. I giliii'antci- fiélblfi—

faction. express prepaid. J.ll.Banizhart.East Lansing.

iiroc Jerseys. some choice Jan. boars. HprlllL: pigs,





pairs dz trios not akin, .‘i few sows for June I'arrow

of leading blood lines. W. 0. Taylor, Milan. Mich.





 





 





-Fall and spring plan either sex. from

fluroc Jersey: .0“... m... s. 0.8’1‘AHLMAN.

CHERRY LAWN FARM. bhephord. Michigan.





DUROD JERSEY Eileddfdfs “£30533;





ordersfor spring pigs. E. D. Heydenberk, Waylnnd.Mich.





- - —B - . r A c r

Big Typo Poland lllilnas 051%.: notifieriim'.’

pigs. A. A. WOOD do SUN, Sullne. Michigan.





 





1901! SA LE. P. (‘. Sims. “Bil; ’l'ype "bred for Sep

lui‘row. Extra soul 7 months hour. March an

April pigs. 8.0.3. Minorcas. ILW. Mills. Saline,Mioh.





Poland China Spring' Pig's





Our herd sire was Champion and Grand Chain 0

at the State Fair last fall. our sowa are great pals?

stretchy, splendid individuals, with best breed

Pigs from such matings will please you. Get our prices.





HILLCREST FARM





KALAIIAZOO, HIGH .





' A few choice fall boars red

[@783 Sham P- c' for seniors. and 1 Mar bodily.

(nits for early far-row all sold. a few choice Gilte to

furrow in Aug, and Sept., bred to black “'onder and

Uaklands Equal J r. H. i). Sii'ilrtz, Schoolcxaft. Mich.





 





 





UROO Jerseys—Fancy 'rill “as lcithcr sex). Huff

Rock 883‘ $1.25 per 13; H. (I. '. Leghorn eggs $1 par

15. John McNicoll. ll. 4. Station A. Boy (lity. Mich.





 





-—-Sept. I)l).'ll‘~l ready for scrvice also open

nuroc “my slits and some sows bred for Aug. and

Sept. E. P. M .





RRIS, MONROE. MICH

DUROC JERSEYS ;-- “Lilli?“

present. Win. W. Kennedy. Grass Lake, Michigan.

DUROC JERSEY _goa:58f“orfs?ille,l

CIJ'C, U. Edmondl. Hastings, Mlchldnn.

Dnroc Jerseys main”ar‘sii‘trsrlr;

bred for September arrow.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Michigan





 





Gllts and sows, Bred for Mar. and

largfl {zine P. G. April larrow. Slrcd by Big Des

Moines. lg Knox Jr.,nhd (llant Defender. Bred lo Big

Knox Jr._Smooth W onder 3 and Big Jumbo. {our great;-

est hours In slate. (Mme or write. “III. Liv.ingsion.I’nriiiaJlich.





QBSON'S DUROCH Combine size. quality. breed-

ing. Hours for sale. Pigs at weaning tiino. lieg—

istered Jersey bull. Orlo L. Dobson, Quincy, Mich.





BIG Type Poland Chinus. Sircd by Big Ty pe King.





 





.our 1000 lb. boar. Spring pigs. oiredh bi ty 6

DurOCJersey Boars gfigfiiyn'ifggtiitfiéiimg' King. Fesenmoyer A “'onder Jr., and Miww'sz. Eli).

Grand Champion blood lines, Glits bred for Sept. iar— “one W- “rall'haker «9 Sous. Elsie. Michigan.





 





row. F. J. DRODT, R. 1. Monroe. Michigan.





 





' either a . 'll ,8 -

lit.5:.!:.!’°'=r‘..°l!":: shit 5%





UROC Jerseys with breeding quality and size. foll .

(lrnnd Rapids, ich.





Daows bred to farrow early ready toship.expresspaid-

J. ROBERT HICKS. R. 3. ST. JOHNS. IICH~





 





Poland Uhinzls. Full and Summer I" 3.

9100.0'! Boned Son's Bred. Eggs from big Barred R00 5





or 15. ROBERT NEVl;. Pierson. Michigan.





[If I Type PC. 'Sows & Gilts all sold. Have 3 extra

g good spring boars. Sir-ed by Big Defender.

W J. HAGELSBA W. Augusta. lichlcnn.





F0" x‘LE. Big type Poland China boar pigs nine

. - weeks old. strong in the blood of Grand



Champions; Pedigree with each pig.



M. E. HESS. Lone Cedar Farm. Ht. 2. Pontiac. Mich.





Large Yorkshires ‘13:?





RaiSéLChestethhites g



‘Like This‘ '



(the original big producers‘

Z/ "”





   

 





 





 





   

   

 





September )i s. 2 sprin boars. Pr‘ - ' .

W. C. C0615. Route 0. l. ADI. egllafidlgm.

' HAVE sou-ted thousands of breeders on the road to ,

succcezs. dlcnn help you. Itwagt tolplace o‘nelhogi from GROWTHY TH E DISEASE

my (Tel 8? In every communl y W 8:0 am no . rea y ['8 - . ‘ ’ ’

asst-ma assess;geriatricsrmaav. 5:333” MULE FOOT assist-

a. a. murmur. n. r. n. 10 coma, momma HOG "“3





 





 





FOUNDATION STOCK FROM IEST BLOOD OF BREED





THE CAHILL FARMS





 





cHESTE" WHH’Es Sows bred for July‘f‘arrow. spring





pigs in )iiirs. not a in.





 





 





 





F. w. ALEXA DER. Vans}. Mien. KAI-““200 " - - - MICHlGAN

0. I. C. BREII GILTS, g‘di‘gpei‘llfnfi. 1'3“"





J.CARL JEWETT. Macon. Mich.





HAMPSHIRE SWINE $18?ng





d

registered. John W. Snyder, R. 4. St. Johns, Bligh):





 





 





 





 





qualities of butter.



Unquestionably some of the state-

ments regarding the wholesomeness

of butter are true regarding certain

butters, but at the same time the same

thing may be said of oleomargarine.

But every effort is being made to im—

prove the quality of food products and

the time is not far distant when it will

be impossible for anyone to make a

statement truthfully that butter is un-

wholesome or that there is any oppor-





 





“Your continued stories are the best





iine.l’+—Ed; Hamlyn, Coral,





'20" L o. 2:30 It: It“ Hold. an olefin; Sent. boon





 





. ' Bred Sows and gilts for A u t a

IIIIIIPSIIII'O Swme. September iarrows. Spifiigs plgnad

both sex. FLOYD M YERS. R. No. 9. lzecatur. 1nd:





ll. ll. Halloday 0. ll. llalliiday & Son

Breeders of Hampshire Swine.

Write your wants. Clinton. Mich.





SHEEP.

Kope Kon Farms Offers





100 Yearling Shro shl R .

00‘Yearlluz And 1:1 8!: 12.33..“

S. L. WING. PROPR.. KlNDlEBHOUK. MICK.





Oxlord llowii Show. 33.?3’335. 93%?“ "a

M. F. GANSSLEY. Lennon. Michigan.





.m-m—u—-n.

inn-ms

imp—1‘-..





 





Irlnhloldo l'll'lll .

Grnnd Lodge. Mich.





' —A nice lot ofs ring i . Write

0- I ll. sum. your wants. l\ oadowpflow St00k

Farm. Holland. Michigan. R. R. No. 5. .





 





 





0 l 0 October boar- weighing mo lbs. at 8%

o - a each for.April shipment.

C. J. THOMPSON. Rockford, .Illchlzan.





0. l. o. Boar: for service. fi‘i‘:.‘;’.‘:‘a§?’i‘;¥.§3

Danavllle. M ch





' ——Yenrling and rain I h f

blush“ flock of Thumb of Maicul'i.'Al?on;e(l):c.tnllig‘::





 





 





 





express. G. P. ANDREWS. shire swine. Elmhurot Stock Farm. Almont. Mich.

Servicoabla be re d bred like 11 HORSES

860" 9.350% Booking :rdei‘enfor Sign); pigs. , .

- °‘° . Jul“. mum“- ‘° W- "IBIIII'OMJIIISIIIBSJII is, “nachos. Ilmu

. Don! I). BUILL. Imln. Ichl‘lo.





 





01C 8 0 Imbookln ordersforBDrli-igplgs.



-- - Wile-Oneyr.oi Him in ~



Elmer-E. Smith. Redford. Mich. o b“ 0mm FOR SALE“3:§'§‘fil?2.’a";2::0°:‘Sfr.'"$tl“i:

mtg‘n 1.01:“. r; 1.. KING anomaliyim. 1mg,





"mm!" an", and hook Percheron your“





 





 





   





 

 





1W _ p _ fox-springs) p.A .Bnrker.1l.l.Belinont.Mi'o'lig.





5' b a u ‘f ”um“

. _ wi . i

nJ.ALnnrag°ro£§n-h.f5:i..&?irioifi “





 





 





 





 





M‘Iiglm o. l. ciao closiu Milo/Ply .
Biz ii _‘ iis'rsuiiuis:





Send for Catalog A for prices

of Bee Hives. etc. We sell every

thing for bees. including begin.

ner’s equipments.





nanny BASKETS





Send for catalog C for prices

of Berry Baskets and crates-



Specinl—QOO Waxlmed paper

berry baskets postpaid for

$1.00 to any point Within 150

miles of Lansing. .





M. 1!. HUNT 6 SON, Box 525, LANSING, M1011,





> , UICK AND

ErasY Q SURE WAY





DEA?" TO \JCE, HITEB. VCRMIN





HAY or. I'I‘ITEO 1'0 voue PEECWES

ASK HOW- LOU$(-9Q00f— NOT (IPLNSIVE





 





 





 





 





 





POULTRY.





BARRED Rachel’s??? 300 {lggLStrain 34th £6“;de (3(1)

2906 . a ear— .’ per 5 e ivere . y arce

glg‘l'ed’Astling. Constantine. Mich.





post.



Cock birds, hens. Three pallets

Barred Bock Eggs. 1.... 950 e... m on. ye...

W. C. COFFMAN. BENTON HARBOR. MICE.





Cousins‘llorlliern King Slrain 3538i? Pli-E‘°£§li





many priZes. Eggs $2. for 15. Both matingsfatisfaction

guaranteed. David W. Cousins. North Port, Mich.

OHN‘S Big, beautiful, hen-hatched Barred Rocks. Eggs,

30. $2.50; “)0, $7.00. Select matings 15, :4; 30, $7.00, all

postpaid. Photos. Circulars. John Nortlion. Clare, Mich.

ch' k Balance of season, Wh.and Brown Leghorns

lc 3! $8.50, S. 0. Red", Anconas. Wh. Wyandotte $11

hundrodm‘repaid. Freeport H;.tc.liery, Box 12, i-‘rceport. Mli'll.





YPHER'S TRAPN’EST strain S. C. W. Leghorns.

Brecriin’ stock for sale from this year’s pens. 12

oneyear—oltl‘ hens $15. 'I‘hos. H. Barnes, Crcston, Ohio





Laybilt





girong Day Old Chicks New $8.00 Per lilll gnaw,





eghorns, large. great layers. pure white, hatch every

week till Aug. lst. Guaranteed delivery alive and

lively. EVERFRESH EGG FARM. lonia. Mich.

[663 for hatching from pure bred “‘hite Plymouth

Rocks and S. 0. Bull Leghorns on free range.

Kletzlen & Webster, Bath, Mich.





llaiching Chicks

Eggs Ducklings





E gs for hatching—From pure bred \Vhite Plymouth

I

A





Bull“, Barred, Columliian, Par-

tridge, Silver and White Rocks

Pekin and ltouen Ducks. Sheri»

dan Poultry Yards. Sheridan. Mich.





Roi-ks. I’m-kin and W ite l‘llllllllt‘l‘lllk'kh‘. “'iiite

rican giiiuens. H. V. Ho’stctler, it. ], St. Johns. Mir-h.





Delivered from S. S. Hamburgs resecomb

\Vliitelmghoriis. B. l’. liar-ks, white Indian

fine Belgian harr- l)ll(‘k!~l, $3, $4, $5.

RIVlCILVlEW FARM, Vassar, Mich.





Runner Ducks,





Circular free.



Prices reduced one

FGWIOI'S’ BU" BOGkS :llillf, balance of seas-

0n. Utility eggs 5.75 for 1.5, $1. 50 for 30, $2 for fit, $3.50

for 1 . B. B. F0 WLER. Hartford. Mich.





Breeding Cockerels





White, Brown. Bull and Black Leghorn, Barred

Rocks, lthode Island Reds. l’riccs Reasonable.

Sunnybrook Poultry Farms, Hillsdale. Michigan.





ILLIE Farmstead Poultry. 13.1’. Rooks: ii. I. “edit.





V. L ‘ 'h . . 1.' eggs $1; ‘36 eggs $1.50: :30 .9 gs 32,50;

‘ ”5 orm (lolon G. Lillie. (loopersvil e,Mich





P. P.delivery free.

——-' , Sl l-C bKJl-

ulll’lllslolls : estrus: 1: (El‘kfl. (lliglech‘llrnflor‘kgreelg.





750.. pullets $1.111). M.E. THOIUPSON. Red 10rd, hllch.





INE Crust S. C. White ()r‘pingtons—L’ and 3 months

old cockerols for sale. Hatching eggs and stock

from pens. one half price. No llllli chicks. MRS.

WILLIS HO UGH, Pine Crest Farm, oyal Oak..\lich.





ll. l, Beds. Bolli Combs, Mosl Popular mm“...

Eggs for hatchin , Baby Chicks. Write for catalog.

INTERLAKICS “A liM. Box 39. Lawrence, Michigan.





strain in





and S. (l. R. l. Reds, e gs and breeding stock for

R. sale zit. reduced prices or bill. of season, Belgian

hares very reasonable. 0. E. Hawley, Ludingtun, Mich.





Rose Comb Brown Leghorns





Kulp and Gale strains $2.501per 100 eggs. Cockerels

50068011. CLAUDIA BE TS, Hilladale. Mich,





nurr muons : Big at.“ .g 1’9” ”mm-





( ‘eahon.

DR. WILLIAM SMITH. PETERSBURG, MICH





- ——200 Egg Strain—»Eggs, chicks, 8

For”: [fighomb Week-old puilets from hens with

records up to 264 eggs. Prize winners at largest shows.

Prompt shipment, prices low. quality guaranteed.

White Leghorns are best for eggs. We raise thousands.

Free catalog and price list gives particulars. Write for it now.





FERIIIS lEGllDIll H“. 934 Ilnlon. Grand lianlds, Mlcll.





RHODE ISLAND REDS and PLYMOU TH ROCKS.



Males 5 to 12 lbs. according to age $2 to 55; P, R. hens

weight 5 to 10 lbs.. eggs 15 for $1.00: 100, S5; 120, $6.

Mammoth Bronze Tom Turkeys, 8 to 38 lbs. according

to age 36 to $25. 10 eggs S3. A. E. Cramton. Vassar, Mich.





OSE Comb Rhode Island lied Eggs, dark colored

matings $1.0.) per 15. Utility eggs, laying stran,

M periOO. MRS. '1‘. A. ETTlt‘li, llicliland, Michigan





OSE and S. (3. It. I. lied eggs by mail 31.50 per 1};

or 20c per eg 7 from special pens; $5 per 100. Hens

for sale. JENl IE BUELL, Ann Arbor. R. B. Mich.





IMPROVE your poultry. My Young' a strain 8. C.White

Leghorns great money makers. Strongvigorous, free~

range stock. Baby chicks $8 per100 . Satisfaction guar—

anteed. Free catalogue. W.Van Appledorn,Holland,Michigsn





B ff Wyandotte and Barred Rock CockerelsSZOO

‘1 each. ergo for hatching $1.00 per 15.

Mrs. R. W. BLACK. Caro, Michigan





ILVER GOLDEN AND WHITE WYANDOTTES.

Eggs from all mattings, 1.50 per 15, $2.50 per 30 until

July list. 0. W. Browning, R. 2, Portland, Mich.





I Oockdz Cockerels. E 81, ,

'lillc Wgandollo per 15.54 ”50.3531331- 101% ‘5'

DAVID All, 202 Forest Ave, psilanti. Michigan.

BITE WYANDO'I‘TES. 138838160 r15. 2.50



r 30. $7.00 per 100. From choice 93.21:. 8



ANKLIN SMITH. Ann Arbor. Michigan.





 





A.F





Iliilc Wyindvolie Egg: llali Price b“‘“.‘;‘2...,‘.’,’, “"3

EGGADAY POULTRY RANCH, Marshall, Michigan.

“‘PllEllEl" PlllllllllCE WHIMIIES ”£3333."

legs 82.11) per 15. W. H. BACON. Petersburg, Mich.





«Valid 3 ' chromium-rum.





w. 3.1:: _ AN. Harbor-springs, Mich.





 





Storing {Incubators

HEN the season for incubation

" is over the machine must‘be

carefully stored to insure an-

other ‘year of good service. The best

machines can be ruined by neglect but

the poorest incubator carefully stored

will be worth more next year than the

best machine on the market which re-

ceives no attention from the owner.

First wash the egg trays with hot

soft water and baking soda and then

place them in the sunshine for two or

three days. The burlap in the nursery

under the egg trays will be badly soil-

ed and should be destroyed and re-

placed with a clean strip. Spray the

interior of the machine with a good

disinfectant, close it up tight and turn

up the lamp so that the walls of the

machine will be thoroughly steamed.

Then empty the oil lamp, clean it thor-

oughly, and throw away the old wick

as a new one should be used for the

first hatch next year. Wrap the lamp

in a clean newspaper and store it in

any convenient place but the egg cham-

ber. It is impossible to clean a ker-

osine lamp to the point where it will

not leave an odor in the incubator, at

least no ordinary method of cleaning

will be satisfactory.





A hot water incubator must be care-

fully drained. Any water left in the

pipes may freeze next winter and cause

a break which will not be discovered

until after the machine is placed in

use in the spring. Before moving the

machine it will be best to remove the

legs as they are easily broken if the

heavy incubator weight is allowed to

rest on one or two of the legs during

the process of storing. The thermom-

eter should be wrapped in cotton and

stored where it will receive no me-

chanical injuries, the same is true of

the damper. Neither part should be

laid loosely in the egg chamber where

more or less shaking around will

result.



A clean dry attic will be an ideal

storage place. A damp cellar is too

frequently used for storing the ma-

chine and this often results in warped

wood and rusted metal. Any necessary

repair parts should be ordered in the

fall, as a spring order may be delayed

and cause serious loss when the egg

trays are filled and ready to enter the

process of incubation. Old eggs mean

weak chicks and early hatched chicks

make the most profitable flocks so it

will pay to repair the incubator at the

close of the hatching season and store

it where it will keep in good condition

for next spring’s work.





Ingham Co. R. G. Kiiiim'.





TUBERCULOSIS OR ASPERGIL-

LOSlS





I have been losing hens for the last

three or four years. The first symptom

seems to be a limp in one leg. They

seem to gradually get weak, but often

live several weeks. They appear to

have a slight diarrhea toward the last.

What is the cause, and is there a

remedy?



F. H. B.





Ionia Co.



Your fowls have either tubercu-

losis or aspergillosis. These troubles

have similar symptoms, and are often

confused, and from the description you

give, we cannot definitely tell which





is attacking your chickens.

If your fowls have tuberculosis, 21.





post—mortem examination will Show

the spleen, liver and intestines of the

fowls to be covered with tubercules,

which are small raised nodules filled

with a cheesy substance.



As with tuberculosis in the human

family, this disease is caused by un-

sanitary housing and insufficient ven-

tilation.

cure, and unless the birds are valuable,

it would be most economical to get rid

of the entire flock, starting anew on

new grotind and with new houses, un-

less the old house is in such shape that

it can be thoroughly disinfected. If

e888, from infected birds are used for,





 





, .





hatching . purposes. they shouldnbe'





The disease is very hard to.





alcohoi.'}‘-’ _ .

'Aspergillosis is not quite as serious





welsh min 95 xpejrjc iii.~ so u . enrol"





as tuberculosis. and can be distinguish.





ed from it in a, p'ost-mortem examina-

tion by whitish or yellowish patches on

’the mucous lining of the air passages.

This disease. is also caused by improp.

or housing or impure food. To prevent

the disease, the house should be kept

dry and well ventilated, and mouldy

litter and grain should be avoided. Vig-

orous birds under sanitary conditions

are fairly resistant to the disease.





If the birds are valuable, they may

sometimes be saved by applying flow-

ers of sulphur to the diseased patches

seen in the mouth and throat, and by

causing the birds to inhale the vapor

of tar water or turpentine. As with

tuberculosis, the method of cure is

rarely economical, and the preventive

means suggested are the most satis-

factory way of controlling the trouble.





HOW TO FIND rHE QUEEN.





I had a colony of bees given to me

in a very bad condition. Mouldy, and

hive old and rotten. I got a new hive,

transferred them into it but could not

find the queen. Could you tell me how

I am going to find out if there is a

queen or not?



Oceana Co. C. W. M.





The best way to know, for certain,

whether a colony of bees contains a

queen is to take out one or more

frames of comb from the hive and if

eggs, or larvae, are present then you

can be certain that the queen is there,

unless the colony has swarmed within

three days. Queen cells are not usu-

ally found in a colony unless that col-

ony is. preparing to swarm or super-

ceding the queen, or has in some way

lost the queen they had. In these cas-

es queen cells will be started.



In transferring bees from one hive

to another if most of the bees were

shaken out it is quite possible that you

had the queen with the majority of the

bees, but if they are black bees the

queens are very hard to see and hence

she may have gone into the new hive

and escaped your notice. If, however,

you see eggs present you will know

that the queen is present—F. Eric

Millen.





—-





THE RED MlTE.





The red mite is the worst enemy the

poultryman has to contend with, and





the very hardest one to fight. This

pest is very small and normally is

grayish in color, but more often, it pre-

sents a deep red color, because of the

blood with which it is filled.



Unless very numerous, the mites are

seldom found on the hens. The pests

work on the hens at night, filling their

bodies with blood, and hide beneath

the perches, and in cracks and crev-

ices near the roosting quarters during

the day.



Whitewash is not very effective in

fighting the red mite. A better spray-

ing material is coal oil emulsiOn. This

is made by dissolving half a bar of

laundry soap in hot water and adding

half a gallon of coal oil. This mixture

can be diluted with five gallons of wa-

ter. ’ljhe emusion is best applied with

a spray—pump for .the reason that the

pump will put the fluid in cracks and

crevices that could not be reached with

a brush.



The job of spraying must be very

thoroughly done. Some of the mites

will. likely escape the first spraying,

and for this reason it is advisable to

repeat the spraying in a few days, and

again in a week, to destroy the mites

that hatch from eggs.



Indiana. T. Z. RICHEY.



Commercial ground feed may be fed

or a coffee grinder may be used in

cracking the grains. Never feed wet

mixtures until the chicks areat least

flVe weeks old. Use corn meal that





has not heated in sack or bin and place-





ayvire- screen Over it in the trough to





prevent it from . being. scratched out"





83169 wasted “ ’





ms...





 





 





1F‘our 0 them from 12 to l'l in s



g‘fieldam"31}.R.0. Frags $100.00to‘ O 50.



r m . u . .. .



assets. ms.” 9 a...“

VEBY~ FINE YOUNG B



Whogggi‘rlgs have as high as 31 lbs. of butter





. h one can , ill make alo’v'V' ric’e‘o‘n‘

them “t W ilv'sg 1'1 LS'I‘EIN ,rl’anus.‘





them. BIgELO





BEEDSVILLE. MICE.





 





OLSTEINS. a'nice straight deep bodied.b_lockybuilt

bull calf born Oct. 5th, 1915. His ’lnearest dam-

have A.VR. (5. records that. average); butter 7 days 23.”

lbs., milk 533.36lbs. W. B. REA EB, Howell,fiMich.’





HOLSTElN-FRIESIAN CATTLE '





 





Herd headed by grandson of King Segis Pontiac. , '





and tuberculin tested annually. A few choice

young bulls from dams having ofl‘icial records .



PEACELAND STOCK FARM. ' Three Rivers, I'lcl.

Chas. Potorl, Herd-man. 0.1.. Brody, Owner. Port llumn,!ich.





 





. Bi Holstein Bull 2

For sale. gReg. bulls and

Ford. J. Lance.





ll" old. Good breeding.»

alters 10 mos. old.

Bebewalng. Mich.





ets Hazel-let grandson of MaJJleorest DeKol



$ 7 5 garthenea an Pontiac M ai w.2‘lb.- Born



March 25. Dam Pontiac Hesperia 2nd, 14.89 lb; 436.611);

hsr dam's siroAbrother _



milk 1 yr. M. L. MOLAULIN, BEDFOBD. HIGH,



Bull Calves andCows





l Have Holstein Bulls, m... 1 on... 10. sale.

I can show breeding records in dividuslity and mm

tive prices. L. E- dONNEtL, Fayette, Ohio.





“.10 r N 0TCll ” llolstcim .





By careful retention, for many years. of largest Kro-

ducing females, and use of superior sires, a beige in:

herd of wonderful quailtéy has been as ablish . e

are selling young bullso this"! OF N TCH"quality.

of serviceable age, at moderatrhprices. Information

pedigrees.etc.. on application. cPHERSON FARMS

00.. Howell, Michigan.





FOR SALE Registered Holstein Bulls





ready for service, and bull calves. also femalu.

FREEMAN J. FISHBECK. Howell. Mlchl‘an.





 





EG. Holstein-Freisian cows and heifers, some fresh

R and some ready to freshen 8125. Reg. bulls 830i:

Frank Station, R. 3. Box 38, Howard City, Mic .





WANTE





Six good men to buy pure bred HOLSTEIN BULL

(VALVES. Good notes on a year's time acceated in pay-

ment. GEO. D. CLARKE. VASSA . MICH.





BRAGGING NOW





M consi meat of Holsteins at the Detroit sale the



8th, and 9t . sold for an average price of per head,



including 3 calves under six months of age. ‘

HOBART W. FAY. Mason. Michigan.





 





 





GHOIOE HOLSTEIN BULLS—all from A.R.0.dams

Entire herd on Semi of. test for yearly work. Jr.

2-yr.-old just finished year's record of over 15,000 lbs.

milk,over100()lbs. butter record in mature class.0herry

Creek Stock Farm, M.E. Parmelle, Prop., Hilliard-,Mich.

F0" S‘LE Re . Holstein females Pontiac Korndyko

anr Hen erveld DeKol Breedin . ' Prioo

right. 1 to 5 years. Jo n A. Rinke, WarrenfMich.





6 Holstein Bulls





Ready for service. at farmer-8’ prices. All have high

testing A. R. O aughters from world ecord 8i

nothing better atany price. LONG BEACH FARM.

Gull Lake. (Kalamazoo Co.) Michigan.





 





 





3'pure bred Holstein Bulls,

Vice. Sires. Znearest dams average 34.45“)

butter in 7 days. 1 bull andZ heifers 8400.

W. C. JACKSON. 719 Rex St.. South Bend. Ind.





ready for seri-





 





or sale nine head of Registered Holstein females

from 4 months to five years old and one fall calf

splendid breeding. Newton Bros" Freeport, Mich.





 





Holstein Calves, 10 heifers, and 2bulls 15-16ths pure

5 weeks old, beautifully marked.$20.00 each. crs '

for shipment anywhere.





illio Farmstead Jersey Cattle. B ll l f .

L of M. Cows, also heifer calves :ndcatevgrsllogrfil

heifers for sale.





, . _ .

Jersey llulls lor Sale .Sfifi‘nh“i‘.§o'.° ‘l‘éfitfig‘fi'mm





semi-official test. 0. B. We not. B.





READY FOR SERVICE. d

008.1033, Bu" era] Heifers and Calves {$- 8:1;

NOTTEN FARM. GRASS . LAKE. MICHIGAN.“





 





enior herd bull.Majesty’s Wonder 90717 for le si

Royal Majesty,Dam Mina's Dewdrop, his Infill slag:

Majesty’s Butter cup produced

Sons of Royal MaJesty are scarce. here is a chancetio

get one reasonable, must sell to avoid too close in.

breeding, write for particulam,also choice youn 'bullh

film





from above sire. AlVin Balden, Capac, Mic





- ' A 10 mos. old. solid color I) ll V



llllISIdC Farm 10".]: offered for I e. Dam is a I: of?

cow with record of 546 lbs. of butter as a 3 yr. old. Hrs is n

fins individual. Price right. C. A. 0. Decks, Ypsilanti, Mich.





 





R. of M. JERSEY HERD if f



"apl. Lane tuberculin tested cows. failihfifiii‘

and bull calves backed b several generations of B.

of M. breeding. IRVIN ox. Allegnn. Ilohltln.





 





JERSEY BULL CALF FOR SALE





Ready for service. Majesty—Raleigh breeding. '

Mendowlsnd l-‘srm. Wstornisnb Waterman, Ann Arbor, Mich,





REGISTERED JEllSEl Blllll FCll SALE





1 yearling, and Bull calves from 8 l

old. Also . cows. Write your wantiio 10 month.

sMITH- PARKER, R. D. No.4, Howell. Michigan.





BIDWELL suonrnonNs





For “Bee! and Milk"





Registered bulls,

Scotch - tolpred mans.

reds and% tefor sale.

Farm at .Y.C. De '

also D. T. & I. B".





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Edgewood Farm, Wiiitowater.Wis. '

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so on '

6. Allegan. Mich





703.2 lbs butter in 1 yr. '
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» Our Motto: —“The farmer is of more





 





consequence than the farm, and should

be first improved. "





STATE GRANGE OFFICERS.





Master—John C. Ketcham, Hastings.

Overseer—C. H. Bramble, Tecumseh.

Lecturer—Dora H. Stockman, Lan-





Singecretary—Jennie Buell, Ann Arbor.





Treasurer—F rank Coward, Bronson



Executive Committee—C. S. Bart~

‘1ett,Pontiac; Geo. B. Horton, Fruit

Ridge; J. W. Hutchins, Hanover; W.

F. Taylor, Shelby; Wm. H. Welsh

Sault Ste. Marie; N. P. Hull, Dimon-

dale; Burr Lincoln, Harbor Beach.





STATE GRANGE EXECUTIVE COM-

MITTEE MEETS.





At a meeting of the executive com-

mittee of the Michigan State Grange,

held in Lansing, Friday, June 9, sev-

eral important matters were acted‘up-

on which should be of interest to the

members of the order generally, and

I have thought it wise to report con-

cerning them.



There is now a bill before congress

evidently drawn in the interest of the

water power companies which prac-

tically takes from the hands of the peo





ple the remaining prospects for water





power. True, there is a way provided

by which the government can take

back these utilities at the expiration of

fifty years, but the way is so difficult

and fraught with so much probable ex-

pense as to mean nothing beyond a

sedative to put the public to sleep

While the job is being completed.



Already- this bill has passed the sen-

ate and it is up to everybody to get

busy and try to prevont the parties in-

terested from successfully working the

‘lower house.



Very strong resolutions’were passed

by the committee opposing this meas~

ure and mailed to the members of con-

gress from Michigan.



Another matter which received the

attention of the committee is a meas-

ure which as yet has not passed either

hOuse, but which has the endorsement

of the labor unions generally. This is

a bill granting the privilege to any

state to exclude prison made goods

made in other states, whether such

goods be imported in original packages

or otherwise.



The members of the committee are

unanimous in the opinion that our pen-

al institutions should be so managed

as to be reformatory in their influence

upon the inmates, and not places where

men are made worse. We believe that

such reformation is utterly impossible

unless the prisoners have regular em-

ployment. To limit the possible sale

of prison made goods is to lessen the

opportunity for labor in our penal in-

stitutions, or else to make it necessary

to employ a larger proportion of the

men in the production of goods for

purely local consumption. This would

mean the growing of more garden

truck and perhaps increase competi-

tion‘in other lines, with those living

near the institution.



We believe the right to labor in

some useful employment is inherent in

every man. Had these men not com-

mitted crimes and been deprived of

their liberty, they would have been at

work. They did not lose their right to

labor when we took away a measure of

their liberty, for their own good and

that of society. Therefore, we are op-

posed to the limitation of the demand

for prison made goods by law, believ-

ing that they should be put on the mar-

ket and sold at their market value

without reference to where or by

whom they were made. A sub—commit-

'tee"w1th W‘orthy Master Ketcham as

its chairman, wrote resolutions ex-

pressing our convictions in this matter

which; resolutions were passed and

sent to senators and members of con-

grass from Michigan.



- ting of the Michigan





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State Grange the executIVe committee





was instructed to submit the tonnage

tax measure and the bill providing for

The Torrens System of Land Registra-

tion'through the initiative. The ques-

tion came up as to the advisability-of

submitting both of these measures

this season. The real estate organiza-

tions will help in the fight for the Tor-

rens bill which will make it much eas-

ier to secure the necessary number of

signatures. There is no organization

outside of the Grange which will help

much in securing names to the peti-

tion for a tonnage tax.





On motion of the worthy master, a

committee consisting of George B. Hor-

ton, W. F. Taylor and Wm. Welch was

appointed to consider the matter and

report at the August meeting of the

committee.



(To be continued).





AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.





lonia County Pomona Meeting at

Ronald, Thursday, June 15, was a suc-

cess from every viewpoint. Over 150

partook of the sumptuous dinner and

enjoyed a social hour, after which the

programs were given by Belding, Ber.

lin, Banner, Keene and Portland

Granges. Keene numbers were espe-

cially interesting, including an officers’

drill by six young couples. Mrs. Dora

Stockman gave a helpful address on

“Grange Farming.” Grant Morse, of

Portland, read an instructive paper on

“Conservation of our Natural Resour-

ces.” Seven of the ten Granges were

represented. Keene again received the

$3.00 cash prize, having 38 members

present, and Berlin the banner, with 22

representatives. Every Grange present

is striving to become a standard

Grange. Some have already filled the

requirements, Belding, the youngest

Grange in the county being one. July

Pomona. at Banner Grange. The young

people have. the progran1.—Mrs. Addie

Daniels, Reporter.



The Open Meeting of Hopkinsburg

Grange, held June 3, was quite well

attended. Some interesting addresses

were given by E. W. Stone, Mr. Ben—

tall and L. C. Root, of Allegan, and

Rev. Holman, of Hopkins.





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Address all communications relative

to the organization of new Clubs to

Mrs. J. S. Brown, Howell, Mich.





 





SUMMER RALLY.





The Clubs of Central Michigan and

and all others interested, are urgently

invited to participate in a rally at the

M. A. 0., Wednesday, August 16.



A good program is being planned.

Dr. Frank Kedzie, the new president of

the M. A. C. will give an address and

others will follow. Hand bills contain-

ing the particulars will be sent to each

Club secretary. Let every Club within

reach of the College try and be pres-

ent. With the railroad and electric

road facilities and automobile parties,

there ought to be a large attendance.



For further information write to W.

L. Cheney, Secretary, Mason, Ingham

county, Michigan.





HOME ACTIVITIES.





 





Paper by Mrs Chas. A Johnson, of

the Bedford Club



Let us imagine ourselves transport-

ed back, for a few moments, to the age

of savagery. A bold member of our

tribe has gone to a nearby volcano

and, putting a stick into the melted

lava, has brought back to our tribe a

new servant—~fire. He has used it to

produce a genial heat in cold weather

and has roasted some meat and chest-

nuts and corn and potatoes. Imagine

how his discovery would be received

by the tribe. The old people would de-

clare the use of fire to be far too dan-

gerous. The priests would explain

that, while the ends desired were

seemingly laudable, yet if the people

were to be careful to furnish them, the

priests, with enough delicacies to eat

and warm robes to wear, there would

be no lack of food, or suffering from





cold throughout the whole tribe, but ' '





their ridicule and, finally, he would





otherwise the tribe would suffer any-

how, so that the discoverer is simply

striving against the inevitable. “Be-

sides,” they would declare, “the use of

fire is reserved for the gods, and mor-

tals who interfere with it are sure to

come to an untimely end.” It would

also be objected that if fire were to be

commonly used there would be little or

no incentive to labor—that instead of

climbing the trees for birds’ eggs and

scouring the woods for nuts, fruits, and

small animals to eat, the members of

the tribe might drift into the habit of

lying, in a lethargic way, in front of

the warm fires and subsisting entirely

upon roasted potatoes. Those in au-

thority would regard the discoverer as

a common revolutionist and insist that

he be dealt with accordingly. The

young would make him the butt of





find all the well-nourished members of

the tribe against him, for these would

have some secret place, (the where-

abouts carefully guarded), where food

could be more easily found, so that

while their brethren were starving at

home, they themselves could keep in

full vigor. This would increase their

power over their fellows. But they

Would object to the use of fire from its

leveling tendency in providing digesti-

ble food for all. The discoverer is

forced to flee to a spot far from his

tribe, but he takes the magic fire with

him and founds a new tribe, he being

the hero, or fire-god of it. It is soon

discovered that in order to have the

new servant. always available there

must be one member of the tribe de-

tailed to keep a perpetual fire. This

person becomes the chief priest or

priestess. As fires become more com-

mon, the original use of the perpetual

fire is forgotten, and it becomes merely

a ceremony—the altar of the tribe.





There are many new and new-old

fires that now are being introduced

into our civilization; abstinence the

from alcohol, the teaching of sex hy-

giene, woman suffrage, peace, consid-

eration of the rights of the workers,

and, among the mechanical victories

of our times, the automobile and the

good road, perhaps, hold first place.

We welcome these new fires and

should endeavor to assist their discov-

eries to adapt them to our conditions.

Just as people have never learned to

always control fire, so they may never

learn to absolutely prevent auto acci-

dents, but they can do a great deal to-

wards it if they will try. Now to myI

subject, home activities.



The farm home is the proper place

for almost all kinds of. constructive ac-

tivity. While saloonists and militarists

vie with each other to destroy, they all

look to the farms of the world for a

continual supply of food, clothing and,

most important of all, of reliable

young men and women. While book-

keepers, collectors, drummers and ad-

vertisers do the useless work of the

world in that delightful game known

as competition they all expect the

farmers and their wives to keep busy

at the useful kinds of labor. Conse-

quently, having such a large family to

feed, it is not to be wondered at that

the farmer’s wife often finds little time

for community life. If she has such

time, though, she ought to smooth out,

any ruffled neighborhood affairs and so

greatly promote the usefulness of the

school and of the Farmers’ Club. She





 





 

 





 





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can see to it that the church sewing

society is not a place for retailing

neighborhood scandal, and she can ser-

iously try to make the Sunday school

what the Master would wish. Other

fields of usefulness might be the or-

ganization of speaking contests, spell—

ing contests, parliamentary contests,

cooking contests, and sewing evenings

for girls, social evenings, debating

clubs, fairs, and introducing good

books wherever needed ,also visiting

the school. Our own Bedford Town-

ship Mothers’ Club was the mother of

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ladies claim the credit of its organi-





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