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The Only Weely Agricultur:l, Horticultural and Live Stock Jo'urnal in the State.

DETROIT, MICH.. SATURDAY. OCT. 23. 1909.





VOL. CXXXIII. No. [7.

Whole Number 3474.





FARM NOTES.





 





A Problem In Tillage.





The writer has encountered a problem

in tillage'which does not seem to be easy

of solution, but which, if it can be solved

correctly, would add not a littleito the

future profit from our farming operations.

The rearrangement of some of our fields

involved the removal of a fence which

had occupied the same position for many

years. For something over ten years this

has been an ordinary wire fence, preVious

to which time it was a rail fence'of the

straight type. Our potato field extended

over the site Of this old fence for several

acres on each side, and it was a matter

of no little surprise to us to find that an

acre of potatoes measured from about

two rods on either side of this fence row

yielded fully 100 bushels more than any

other acre in the field. The yield for the

balance of the field was only fair, ranging

from 125 to 135 bushels per acre, 'while

this aCIe yielded 234 bushels. Now, this

increased yield could not have resulted

from the better condition of the soil on

the unused fence row, which was not

more than six feet in width, and on

which the yield was not noticeably bet-

ter than for some distance on either side

of this strip, altho the vines were a little

better color and a little more luxuriant

there on account of the higher nitrogen

content of the soil which had not been

plowed for many years. The stand of

potatoes was .no better on this acre than

upon any other acre in the field and the

fertilization and cultivation was, of

course, the same, so the question of what

caused this markedlncrease in yield on

this acre of ground remains unanswered

so far as this year’s handling of the soil

is concerned. Nor does it seem easy to

answer it in the light of the previous

handling of the soil. Both fields had been

pastured some in past years, but the

'wire fence did not afford a protection

for stook that would cause them to lie

next to it and thus help us in our solu-

tion. There were no shade trees along

the line of the fence which would favor

such an enrichment of the soil.





From these facts it would appear that

this difference in the yield of potatoes

was due to the difference in tillage which

the land next to this fence had received

in previous years as compared with that

in the body of the field on either side.

The extra firming down and stirring of

the soil caused by the frequent turning

at the end in preparing for and culti-

vating preceding crops must have had a

lasting beneficial effect on this strip of

land, but this does not solve the problem,

the question remaining as to whether

that effect was a chemical or purely phy-

sical one. Personally, the writer is in-

clined to the latter theory, believing that

the extra firming down of the lower

strata of soil and the better fining of the





surface soil caused by this extra cultiva-

tion, together with the increased amount

of humus turned down because of the

weeds which always grow more plentifully

next to .the fence where cross cultivation

is imp_ossible,' has~improved the mechan—

ical condition of this soil toan' extent

which has .made it more retentive of

moisture in,a dry season like the present

one. and has thus stimulated this better

yield of potatoes. This seems to be the





humus as well as by thoro cultivation, to

the end that we may be more independent

of weather conditions in the production of

profitable crops. The maintenance of a

a good mechanical condition of the soil

is, we believe, of greater importance

than is generally appreciated by the av-

erage farmer. In the results obtained

on his model farm in Pennsylvania, Mr.

Deitrich demonstrated the fact that a.

desirable independence of weather con-





 





 





 





 





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An Ohio Farm Elevator (see description on Page 326).





only reasonable explanation of the propo-

sition, since the soil, on the balance of

the field was in good condition and well

fertilized,

conditions would have produced a much

heavier crop than was secured. But ap-

parently this strip of land was in con-

dition to be more independent of weather

conditions than was the balance of the

field, Since we believe there was plenty of

available plant food in the soil on the

balance of the field to have produced

just as good a crop as was secured on

this portion of it_



If this conclusion is a correct one it

demonstrates the cumulative effect of

good farming, and proves that good prep-

aration for any crop and good cultiva-

tion thruout the season, if it is a culti-

vated,crop may pay out in the future

crops grown on the same land as well as

in the better yield which may be secured

from the curent year’s crop. It also

demonstrates the fact that it pays to

keep the soil in a good mechanical con—

dtiion by keeping it well supplied with

vegetable matter for the production of





and under favorable weather.





ditions in the production of maximum





'crops may be secured by the liberal and





continued application of stable manure,

while Mr, Clark, of Connecticut, has dem-

osntrated in an equally forcible manner

the benefits to be derived from the thoro

tillage of the soil by frequent and long

continued workings in preparation for a

crop. Many others have demonstrated

the same things time and again in a more

or less unconscious manner, but these

cases are mentioned because of the pub-

licity which they have gained thru the

unusual nature of the results secured

by these two gentlemen.



If better tillage and the plowing down

of a little more vegetable matter will

cause such an increased yield as that

noted above, it will certainly pay us to

provide these conditions. This increased

yield would be practically all profit, since

the increased expense of handling the

crop would be trifling. Thus a little at—

tention paid to the mechanical condition

of our soil may mean the difference be-

tween a liberal profit and an actual loss

in our future farming operations, and





'it will gradually die out or





CENTS A YEA

“.50 THREE YEARS





thus prove a. more profitable investment

than any other that we could make.





Alfalfa on Sandy Land.



Can alfalfa be successfully grown on

sandy land, where the water level is from

10 to 15 feet below the surface? If so,

what time of the year should it be sown,

and should it be sown with a nurse crop

or not?



Newaygo 90. G. W. HARRINGTON-



As has before been stated in these col-

umns, alfalfa does not seem to be par-

ticular as to soil formations and will grow

on almost any kind of soil, so long as it

is well drained to a reasonable depth.

Ten to 15 feet to the water level should

be sufficient to afford ample drainage on

a sandy soil. But it is essential that the

soil be in a good state of fertility for the

starting of the alfalfa plants, as they

are tender when small and require good

conditions in which to develop and make

a stand. The .real trouble in getting a

stand of alfalfa. however, appears to be

due to the absenCe of the nitrifying bac-

tcriar peculiar to the plant. Where these

liucicria are not in the. soil the alfalfa

will not amount to much. It will live

over the first winter but will not make

much of a growth the following year, and

be choked

out by the weeds. But where there is

good inoculation of the soil with the

proper bacteria, the plants will thrive

from the start, will make a good growth

and have a good color and will prove

hardy and enduring instead of puny and

weak, as is the case where there is poor

inoculation of the soil. It is a peculiar

fact that in some sections of the state

this bacteria appears to be. present in the

soil and that there is little trouble in

getting a stand of alfalfa the first time

it is tried. In other cases. however, the

first sowing of alfalfa will prove nearly

or quite a failure on account of this lack

of proper inoculation, while succeeding

sowings on the same ground will prove

successful because of the natural increase

in the bacteria peculiar to this plant

which will take place thru natural inocu—

lation. Artificial inoeulution is sometimes

resorted to, but is not always successful,

probably because the soil is not in a

proper condition for an acceptable habi-

tation for this bacteria. Lime is some-

times applied freely to land that is in—

tended for alfalfa for the purpose of

correcting any tendency to acidity, since

the bacteria will not multiply in an acid

soil.



As before noted there does not seem

to be any best time for the sowing of

alfalfa in Michigan. A majority of the

successful growers with whose methods

the writer is acquainted seem ,to favor

sowing in June on a well prepared seed

hcd without a nurse crop. Others believe

it better to continue the cultivation of the

alfalfa ground until some time in Au-

gust before thc seed is sown on account





 





 





 





 





 





Scene Showing a Part of the Array of Aut0m0biles in which Patrons of the Clinton County Fair Came to the GrOunds.
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of the greater freedom from weeds which

will be secured by ,that method, while

still others w0uld sow comparatively early

in the spring. Probably the best rule to

follow isto sow when the soil is in a fit

condition-wand when the weather is fav-

orable for' the quick germination of the

seed and ‘the rapid growth of the young

plants. While some grewers have been

successful in getting good stands of al-

falfa when it was seeded in a grain

crbp, it seems to be pretty well estab-

lished that it is better to sow without a

nurse crop, since a good even thick stand

is essential to the best success with the

crop. ,



Does It Pay to Sow Salt?





What is you opinion about sowing salt

and how much would you advise sowing

to the acre and what time of the year

would be the proper time, in your judg-

ment, and would it be worth $5 per ton?



St. Joseph Co. R. J. FENNER.





Salt is not in itself a fertilizer and as

a rule no increase in the yield of crops

has been noted where it has been used

at the experiment stations. There seems,

however, to be exceptions to this, as to

most general rules that may be laid down.

For some special crops salt is generally

recognized as a valuable stimulant, as

asparagus, altho some of the best au—

thorities affirm that the beneficial effect

of the salt is principally in its effective-

ness in keeping down the weeds, which

do not grow as well where it is present

'in any considerable proportion as does

the asparagus. However, salt appears

to have some beneficial effects upon cer-

tain other crops under some conditions.

At the Canada. experimental farms the

application of 300 lbs. of salt per acre

gave better results with barley than the

application of any combination of ferti-

lizers, the trials extending over 12 years.



The effect of salt upon plants is de-

scribed by scientists as a physical one,

in that it retards the evaporation of

moisture from the surface of the leaves.

This effect is so marked that where the

absorption of saline solution reaches one-

half of one per cent, the roots of the

plant will absorb no moisture from the





:soil, no matter how plentiful it may be,

and the plant dies from drouth in the

midst of an abundance of water. A good





many farmers staunchly affirm that they

can see a. beneficial effect from the appli-

cation of salt, both in the crop to which

it is applied and in the better stand of

clover that is secured on the land to

which it is applied. The writer has tried

it a few times, but has never noted any

benefit from its use on his soil. Others

contend that it is helpful in checking

the ravages of cutworms and other insect

pests which infest the soil. The testi-

mony on this point is rather more con-

vincing than that generally advanced to

prove the bcncfit to the crops from an

application of salt. This is one of the

agricultural problcms which will not stay

settled. and about the only way for one

to settle it satisfactorily to himsclf is to

try it out on his own soil, using from 200

to 300 lbs. pcr acre on a limilcd area

and making careful comparisons with the

balance of the ficld upon which no salt

has been used.

Crops For the Barn Lot.



I have about an acre of barn yard on

which the stock has run for several years.

Would it be advisable to plow it this fall

and plant to potatoes next spring? If

not please state in your valuable paper

what crop you think it would be best to

mil/Eskimo C0. s. J. SMITH.



How this barn lot should be handled

depends not a little upon the character

of the soil. If it is of a sandy naturc it

should grow good potatoes, but in this

case it would be as well to plow early in

the spring. If a heavier soil it might be

well to plow this fall, but in this case it

should be worked up deeply before the

potatoes are planted. A good many farm-

ers find a profitable use for yards of this

kind in the growing of root crops, such

as mangels, to be fed to the live stock

the following winter. I‘Vhere a root crop

is to be grown on the farm for this pur-

pose the small barn lot is a good place

to grow it for the reason that it is likely

to be rich in plant food and produce a

good crop, and the roots will be close to

the place where they are to be stored

for winter use, which is quite an item in

harvesting this kind of a crop.





 





 





Ll LLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.





 





Alfalfa which I sowed after the middle

of August, came up nicely and I have a

good stand. Almost all over the field

the alfalfa is thick. On a portion of this

field I seeded with other grasses and I

have a good stand of those. The alfalfa

is not far enough along yet to note

whether the inoculation of a portion of it

did any good or not. In fact, we cannot

tell yet whether the fertilizer, or the top





dressing of stable manure, or the lime,

has done very much good. This will de-

velop more next ” summer, because the

plants are so young yet that yen cannot

'tell whether they are responding to this

sort of treatment or not. One thing I

do know, and that is that there was lots

of pig weed seed in the stable manure

which was applied and it has come up

thick nearly all over the field. But this

will do little or no damage this fall be-

cause the first freeze that comes will kill

the weeds and that will be the end of

them. Had it been in the spring, the

field would certainly have to be clipped

with the mowing machine or the pig

weeds would smother the alfalfa and all

the other grass out, because they are

very thick and thrifty in some portions

of the field,



I have in mind now to seed another

field to alfalfa next spring. Part of it

I shall seed early without any nurse crop

at all, and the other by using a thin

sowing of cats as a nurse crop. Just

lately I visited Dr. Kletche's farm near

Milwaukee, Wis, and saw there 3. won-

derful catch of alfalfa sown early in June.

It is a beautiful sight. My enthusiasm

about alfalfa is increasing every day.



COLON C. LILLm.





AN OHIO FARM ELEVATOR.





 





The first page illustration Shows an

elevator built on a 500-acre Ohio farm.

It was built some ten years ago and has

been a source of pride and satisfaction

to the owner ever since.

foot driveway, with two corn cribs 6 ft.

in width on each side. It is 24x36 ft. on

the ground and high enough to hold 10,000

bushels of grain above the driveway. In

it is a corn sheller, a mill for making

corn meal and other ground feed, and a.

mill for grinding corn, cob and all, tho

such a structure is far from being prac-

ticable for the average farmer, it is

mighty nice if one can afford it. The

16 H. P. engine is also used for sawing

wood, and other jobs.



Ohio. CLYDE A. WAUGH.





FAILURE WITH THE CLOVER CROP.





 





For the past three seasons getting a

"catch” of clover has been fraught with

difficulties and the present season has

turned out to be rather worse than the

preceding two. A year ago I sowed one

l‘ushel of seed, which cost me $13, and

this season I harvested less than a ton

of hay from the field. The light crop was

not owing entirely to the poor catch of

last season, as both the lack of protecting

snow during the winter and the drouth

that set in early in May, were factors

which played a very important part in the

matter.



A year ago the seeding was with cats

and peas. This year I concluded to try

seeding with no nurse crop, so called.

The ground was worked up early in the

season and seed sown in early June, sev-

eral workings being given in the mean-

time, tho conditions as to moisture were

by no means ideal. What has been the

outcome? Well, there is a much better

stand and larger growth of the clover

than at this time last season, but the

plants are thin and weak in places.

There is a chance yet that the rains may

come so as to promote a better growth

during the fall. Over a good deal of this

piece of ground pigeon grass or foxtail

came up thickly. We run over it with

a mower just as this and the other weeds

were heading. It was so dry at the time

that even the weeds were willing during

the heat of the day, and the weeds did

not have sufficient growth to stand up

before the machine. The cutter ran right

over much of the foxtail. More came on

afterward so that at the present time the

field is not beautiful to look upon in the

lcast. I am expecting tho. that this weed

growth will perform a good service the

coming winter in holding the snow. For

two or more winters back fields that have

had no verdure or windbreak to protect

them have been swept practically clear

of snow, so this weed growth may yet do

me a good turn. Vtht the outcome may

be next haying season, time alone can

show. »



To us the outlook is not promising.

Having failed so many times with our

clover seeding I have concluded to resort

to timothy. I shall sow timothy this

fr-‘l with rye and next spring alsike

and June clover. If, as we expect to do,

the rye is out just as the heads begin

to appear, (to be used as a summer mulch

for our strawberries). the grass plants

will have a much better showing than

if the grain were allowed to ripen.



Timothy harder on the land! Yes, I

suppose it is, but no harder than the

absence of hay is on our pocket book.





It has a 12-'





It goes'hurd simmering grain to paint





to $17 per ton for Shanta feed our stock

while we are trying to induce the clover

plant to grow... But I am not writing





this in a fault-flinding spirit: There are





others who have fared worse still. The

man who can not smile when nature

seems to frown has not yet learned a

most valuable lesson. -





Emmet Co. M. N. EDGERTON.





 





HEATING THE FARM HOME.





 





‘In the pioneer days the cabins were

heated in the pioneer way. The great

open fireplaces stood invitingiy in every

home. There is a. certain peculiar charm

about a blazing fire which one cannot

gain any other way. There is nothing

like toasting one’s self before an open

fireplace upon a cold and stormy night.

We like them, but they do not fill the

bill any more. The twentieth century

farmer demands twentieth century ac--

commodations. The pioneer had the best

that was to be secured at that time, but

we of a later generation often content

ourselves with what is but little better

than a settler’s heating system.



At least eighty per cent of the agricul-

tural population of this country heat their

homes with wood-burning stoves. Usu-

ally one cook stove or range heats the

kitchen and does the cooking, while an-

other heats the sitting room. In that

manner thousands of farmers make them-

selves comfortable during the winter.

However, in a majority of these homes,

those two rooms are the only ones heated

in the building and as a result the family

lives in the kitchen, and the parlor and

some other rooms take an enforced va-

cation.



However, a wood-stove is,' at best,

rather dirty and quite inconvenient to

operate. One cannot bring an armfull of

wood into the house without bringing a

little dirt with it and as every little bit

added to what you have got makes just a

little bit more, the burning of wood brings

a great deal of dirt into the residence.

That means more work for the house-

wife, as the dust and bark track up

pretty badly. Another difficulty is hold-

ing fire over night. One must have some

mighty large chunks if he does it suc-

cessfully. Furthermore, during the day,

the stove must be filled several times,

and whenever it is done something else

must be put off. Wood still possesses the

very great advantage of being cheap in

many localities. Yet in many other places

it is exceedingly scarce and, as a con-

sequence, is proportionately expensive.

Yet, very little will be used for fuelten

years hence, and out agricultural popu-

lation will have to look elsewhere for

fuel.



‘The hard-coal burner is a step in ad-

vance, and quite a step. The anthracite

is rather clean when one compares it

with wood, indeed it might be called

“concentrated heat," having a great many

heat units in a small volume of the fuel.

The base-burner can be shut up and it

will burn fourteen hours or more without

replenishing. A bucket of coal twice a

day meets the requirements and will

often heat two or even three rooms in the

coldest of weather. By making an open-

ing in the floor of an upstairs room and

putting a register in it just above the

stove, the upstairs room can be kept at

an even temperature.



Yet, pro-eminent above all these stands

the hot water and steam heat. No dirt,

no smoke, no dust, indeed. no nothing.

It is the acme of heating comfort. The

radiators take the minimum of space, and

even then, can be placed in out of the

way places. The boiler is easily and

quickly attended to, and, after it is once

installed, costs no more to operate than

a hot-air furnace. The greatest and

only objection is the cost of installation.

One must pay the fiddler.



But a method which combines economy

and practicability is the hot—air furnace.

It does not cost so much to install and is

within the reach of thousands. Every

room in the house warm, no carrying in

of wood or coal, no space taken up by

stoves, no dirt to be tracked about, it

being in the basement. To use the words

of the youngster, “Gee, ain’t it nice?”



Too many farmers think these modern

improvements out of their reach. So

many skimp and save while the children

are young, and then spend a great deal

of it on a new house about the time the

children leave home. Then two old peo-

ple live alone in a great empty house.

How much better it is all around to

have those advantages before the children

do grow up, so that they may be mutu-

ally appreciated. The ‘modern farmer

has electric lights, separators, gasoline

engines and the like, yet it’s a business

proposition to have them. You will never





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regret the expense ‘of agood heating .'





plant in War home. The day is. coining.

or is here, when modern homes will not

be considered extravagances. It is like

the man who declared that‘ he would

”administer Ipart of his own estate."

Ohio. CLrnn A. Wauon.





 





INFLUENCE OF THE AUTOMOBILE

ON “BACK TO THE FARM

MOVEMENT."





 





Mr. J. J. Hill’s address before the

meeting of the Bankers' Association of

Chicago, is most refreshing and gives

the ordinary business man considerably

more confidence in‘ the mental grasp of

those who control our financial affairs

than is usually derived from contact with

that class.



There is one point, however, in regard

to which Mr. Hill seems to be misin-

formed, namely, the favorable influence

c-f the automobile upon the very condi—

tions which he would like to bring about,

namely, an increase of agricultural as

compared with urban population. _



We wonder if he recognizes the extent

to which the individual farmer is begin-

ning to specialize in‘ the apparatus which

he employs on his farm. No small num-

ber of agricultural implements now used

bythe farmer have their functions so

combined with those of other implements

which have heretofore been of general

application, as to supersede the latter,

and, consequently, materially specialize

the type of apparatus and vehicles which

he uses for other purposes.



The advent of the automobile, while not

directly responsible for it, has tended to

facilitate this process.



The automobile makes the quarter-sec—

tion farmers near neighbors and develops

a sense of community in agricultural dis-

tricts which was utterly impossible with

the former methods of transportation. It

makes the farmer’s life and surroundings

much more liberal, and under many con-

ditions, far more attractive even to the

young people than the life of the city.



The broad principle underlying this is,

of course, equally applicable to any

sparsely populated territory irrespective

of the cause of that sparseness. We ven-

ture the opinion that if the dissection

of the census of 1920 is such as to





reveal it, it will be found that the

migration during the preceding dec-

ade will have been from the city to





decade will have been from the city to

the country, at least in a large part of

the United States. We are not so sure

that the census of 1910 might not already

reveal a tendency of this kind, provided

the concentration of immigration in cities

does not entirely obscure the question.



Mr. Hill should recognize the automo-

bile, not as a disadvantage to the agri~

culturist, but as one of the most potent

factors co-operating with his own splendid

efforts and accomplishments toward ag-

ricultural development.





Indiana. HAYDEN EAMES.





 





FREE DEAFNESS CURE.



A remarkable offer by one of the lead-

ing ear specialists in this country, who will

send two months' medicine free to prove

his ability to cure Deafness, Head Noises

and Catarrh. Address Dr. G. M. Brana-

man, 102 East 12th St., Kansas City, Mo.





New Engine CataIOQue.





Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, 111..

have issued a new and very interesting

catalogue on their small engines from

1 to 12 H_ P., in which they describe

for the first time their new 1 H. P. en—

gine, “Jack Junior." This is a practical

durable four-cycle engine, water cooled,

made to meet the demand for a. small

reliable engine for running light machin-

ery. The catalogue describes in detail

the principles of operation and construc-

tion of their gasoline engines and is full

of engineering suggestions, stated in plain

language for the benefit of the general

public. Send for a copy of the catalogue,

N0. 80 D, mentioning this publication.





 





Pulling Stumps.



Around this time the farmer with a

stumpy field can put in some mighty

profitable days pulling out the stumps.

There are such efficient and inexpensive

devices for clearing fields now that there

is no excuse for suffering the loss that

a stumpy field represents. You will be

interested in reading the catalogue and

other printed matter which the Hercules

Mfg. Co., Dept. P. Centerville, Iowa, will

be glad to send you upon receipt of a

postal from you. They will send you dia-

gram, showing the relative strength of

ell-steel.construction as against other

metals. And they have a special propo-

sition to make to first buyers in each

locality where they have no agent. Write

them a postal at once to be sure of get-

ting their offer.





 





Intestinal Worms

In horses. sheep, cattle and hogs. A sure

remedy is Cooper’s Tablets. They act

quickly and are easily given. William

Cooper & Nephews, Chicago, can supply‘

you.





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OCTOBER 23, 1909.

GROWING HAv FOR MARKET.





 





It may sound against all the rules for

maintaining soil fertility when I say that

hay is a good crop to raise on the farm

and sell as a cash crop, but on some

farms and under certain conditions I

think that a. dairyman is justified in de-

pending upon hay as a cash cron-



When we grow hay for market and set

aside a certain portion of our farm for

this crop, we reduce the amount of labor

required during the year. On most

farms there' are some fields that cannot

be made to fit into the general rotation

of crops and for various other reasons

they are better adapted to growing hay

than to grow the several crops that are

grown to furnish food for the dairy herd.

Another matter is that when we set

aside a certain portion of the farm for

the hay crop the other portion of the

farm may be more liberally fertilized and

better cultivated, thereby making the

same amount of cattle food from a smal-

ler acreage, as we do when the whole

farm is worked less intensely, leaving

the whole value of the hay crop as a.

clear gain over the old method.



In this country the higher market value

of timothy 'hay over hay of a protein-

aceous nature makes the growing of hay

to feed out to livestock on the farm and

the business of growing hay for market

entirely different propositions. It is al-

ways desirable for us to grow bay of

a proteinaceous nature to feed to live

stock, yet the demands of the city mar-

kets call for clear timothy and we must

meet these demands if we make the most

profit from the business.



This discrepancy between the compara-

tive feeding and selling value of timothy

and clover hay in our markets is a diffi-

cult matter for the average farmer to un-

derstand but it is nevertheless the condi-

tion that we confront when seling hay.

When the market wants clear timothy

hay it is the kind we must produce if we

make the most from the business. I do

not want to induce any farmer to discon-

tinue growing clover hay and go to grow-

ing timothy, but I am telling it rather

to show that the market demands must

be met regardless of the actual feeding

value of the hay,



When seeding the ground with timothy

better results will come from seeding

without a nurse or robber crop. This

also applies to common practice of sow-

ing mixed clover and timothy seed and

waiting until the grain and clover have

held the timothy in check for two or

more years and then expecting it to come

on and make large crops. Is it any won-

der that the average yield of timothy is

so small when we stop and consider the

methods we employ in getting it started.

\Ve have been trying to smother it out

with grain and clover for the first two

years and doing our level best to kill it

out. It is a wonder that we grow as good

crops of timothy as we do, considering

the conditions under which we have been

growing it.



When a portion of the farm is selected

for growing market hay it should be

plowed early in the summer and worked

thoroly until along about the middle of

August when it may be seeded with tim-

othy and about 600 pounds of acid phos—

phate and 100 pounds of sulphate of pot-

ash drilled into the soil about three inches

deep. The reason why I advise this large

application of fertilizers at ‘the time of

seeding is because it is impossible to get

the plant food down where the roots may

feed upon it when applied after- seeding

the field. It is a waste of time and

money to apply potash and phosphoric

acid to the surface of the soil where it

will become fixed and attract the roots

of the grass to the surface instead Of

down in the soil where they belong.



Only the best timothy should be used

and it can best be applied with a wheel-

barrow seeder. The field should be rolled

and gone over with a smoothing harrow

with the teeth set well aslant. When the

grass first starts in the spring nitrate

of soda may be applied broadcast with

excellent results. About 150 pounds to

the acre is a reasonable amount. In

growing market hay I have supposed

that the dairy farmer has practically

withdrawn that particular portion of the

farm from the regular rotation and that

the manure would be applied to that por-

tion of the farm from the regular rota-

tion and that the manure would be ap-

plied to that portion of the farm that

was being cultivated more intensely. For

that reason I am advocating the applica-

tion of chemical plant foods to the hay

land. If plenty of good stable manure

was being made to top dress the newly

seeded grass lands it would not be neces-

sary to use the nitrate of soda, but, in

horse markets of the country it is essen-

growing hay good results will come from





THE MICHIGAN FARMER.





the use of potash and acid phosphates on

nine tenths of the dairy farms in the

country, either applied direct to the soil

or used as floats in the manure.



I have seen four tons of good timothy

hay grown on an acre when the methods

I have outlined were strictly adhered to,





but when four tons of timothy are grown .





on an acre it will not grade as prime hay.

Prime timothy will not usually exceed one

to one and one-half tons to the acre, so

it will be found more profitable to grow

one grade cheaper hay and more to the

Few markets of the country will





acre.

pay the price demanded for prime

timothy. W. MILTON KELLY.





 





THE BEST KIND OF DRAIN TILE.





 





In your last issue of The Farmer, Mr.

Lillie discusses, in answer to a query,

the soft and hard glazed drain tile,

wherein he asserts the water enters the

tile only at the joints, and from the na-

ture of the two varieties preference is

given the glazed product. In part only,

can I agree with him, as the ordinary tile

as found in our rural yards, is sufficiently

porous to freely permit the water to

enter, and if laid below the frost line

cannot but do the more effectual work,

using, as he suggested, hard tile at the

outlet.



But Mr. Lillie, why discuss the clay

product from any standpoint? Where

we have a better one at our doors in the

shape of a concrete one? I cannot readily

accept any argument offered by the man-

ufacturers of a clay tile that may not

be easily met by the concrete article.



I am deeply interested in tile drainage

and surely the past spring has amply

demonstrated the necessity for the

prompt removal of our surplus rainfall

and, while I am aware Mr. Lillie has fre-

(,uently gone over this whole question, I

shall again ask him to compare.these

three makes of tile, as regarding their

utility for absorption, lasting qualities,

results of freezing, and the cost of man-

ufacturing,



In conversation with a farmer who had

a small machine manufactured here in

the state, I was informed that his 4-inch

concrete tile did not cost him to exceed

$10 per 1,000. His tile were nice, had a

good ring, with every indication Of de—

livering the goods, and if price is of any

consideration, the sooner these points are

more thoroly understood, the better for

those who sorely need them.



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U. s. Separators Win Grand Prize at the

Seattle Exposition.





It will not surprise any one who has

used a United States Cream Separator to

learn that this separator was awarded the

Grand Prize, the highest possible award,

at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

at Seattle, Wash. The award made by

expert judges confirms the testimony of

dairymen and farmers thruout the coun-

try, who have put this sterling separator

to the test day after day on the farm.

It is interesting to note that the United

States Separators exhibited at the Seattle

Exposition were ordinary stock separa-

tors. NO extra finish was put on them.

They were all ready to go to work sepa-

rating milk, and in fact, they will be sold

and at work before this article is read.

The Vermont Farm Machine Co. has

claimed for its United States Separators

that they are exceptionally easy running,

easy cleaning and long lived, and possess

the highest degree of skimming perfec-

tion. The award of grand prize bears

out these assertions. The farmer who

does not own a cream separator and who

intends buying one is naturally interested

in what others think of the merits of the

various makes of separators. He depends

on the testimony of actual users, and ex-

pert judges. The United States Separator

is fortunate in having so many loyal users

of its machines, who never miss an op-

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The Kind of Paeders to Buy.



With the feeding season close at hand

the farmer who contemplates doing any

feeding for the market during the coming

winter should be considering what kind

and description of stock will afford him

the best chance for a profit in the tran-

saction. With all kinds of feedstui‘fs at a

high price, the feeding business is one of

close margins, particularly for the farmer

who has to purchase a portion of the

grain or forage for the fattening stock,

and for these it is particularly important

that the selection made be a wise one and

that the stock be purchased well within

their conservative value.



It has been well said that the feeder

sells his stock the day he buys them. In

other words it is certain that the feeder

. who would get a high price for the fin-

ished product must purchase a kind and

type of stock that. when finished, will

command the top of the market. In order

to do this successfully he must not only

be a market student, so that he knows

what the market is likely to want and its

approixmate relation in value to the

Cheaper grades of market stock, but he

must be a good judge of the individual

capabilities of the animals which he pur-

chases, and of their adaptability to his

particular needs. But just the other

day the writer heard of an amateur lamb

feeder who had purchased some 70 lb.

lambs for winter feeding, stating that it

wah his intention to carry them until well

toward spring before marketing them.

When it was brot to his attention that

the market would be likely to discrimi-

nate against lambs of the weght which

these would reach if well fed until the

time he mentioned as desiring to sell them

it seemed to be a new idea to him, and

he stated that he would try and buy

lambs of lighter weight in selccling the

balance necessary to fill his stables.



Now this man had neglected one of the

first considerations to which he should

have given his attentions in preparing for

a lamb feeding campaign. So with the

average farmer who has not been accus-

tomed to feeding live stock on a com-

mercial scale. Quite often his mistake

will be in buying feeders of the wrong

type simply because they can be pur-

chased for less money than the good kinds

bring on the market. This is especially

apt to be true with regard to the ama-

teur cattle feeder, and after putting ex-

pensive feed into them, in anticipation of

getting the top of the market for his

product, this kind of feeder is apt to

have a rude awakening when the time

comes to sell his stock, for the reason

that no matter how fat the animals may

be, they are tot of a type and weight

which is demanded at top figures in the

open market. However, the greatest

profit is not always in the feeding of

market toppers, and where stock of a

slightly less desirable type can be picked

up at a considerably lower figure than is

demanded for prime feeders, this kind

will often give the feeder the better

returns.



This. of course. is not telling the reader

what kind of stock to buy for feeding

purposes, but such advice is at once im-

praciimble and impossible. Very much

depends upon the local conditions which

surround the problem, the feeds at the

disposal of the feeder, the market in

which he must sell his product. his skill

as a feeder and the kind of labor upon

which he must depend if he does not do





the feeding himself. the buildings and

their equipment in which the feeding

must be done, etc., all enter into the

rrobloin us factors in the proper deter-





mination of the kind of live stock to feed

for best results upon the average farm.

it may be lambs or a cheaper grade of

sheep; it may be cattle of the baby becf

type which is now so popular but which

takes so much skill to produce, or the

many other grades ranging down to the

kind the local butchers need for home

consumption; it may be horses of the

draft type, or the general purpose kind

which will be needed on the farms of the

community, or it may be hogs where the

supply of available grain is greater than

that of roughage or where other condi-

tions favor the feeding of this class of

stock. But whatever the class or type

of stock selected for winter feeding, that

selection should be made the subject of

careful deliberation on the part of the

feeder, to the end that the purchase may

be well‘suited to the purpose for which it

is intended.



Then the method of purchasing, wheth—





er at home or in the large jnarkets, is

another subject for deliberation. In sec-

tions where the “right kind of‘ feeders

can be secured in the community where

the feeding is to be, done that course is,

of course, the cheapest and best, since

it will eliminate the cost of transporta-

tion and other expense incident to pur-

chasing in a distant market. But in

case a sutable selection cannot be made

in the home market it is undoubtedly best

to resort to some market where it can

be made. It is! important that the feed-

ers be of uniform quality and type—just

as important as it is that they should be

of a type suited to the purpose for which

they are intended. If not of a uniformity

which will favor uniform individual de-

velopment they will not finish uniformly

so as to go at a uniform price when sold,

and where there is Sorting for quality

by the purchaser there is always a loss

to the feeder which he need not have

suffered‘if the feeders had been properly

selected at the outset. For this reason

too much care cannot be used in the se-

lection of the feeders for the coming

feeding campaign, and the man who gives

this department of the business the most

careful attention is likely to be the man

who makes the largest profit from the

feeding venture the coming winter.



But where there are home grown feeds

sufficient to carry the feeding stock in

whole or in part there is no question that

the feeding of live stock is a profitable

investment, for aside from providing a

profitable market for hese feeds the

farmer who follows this‘method of sell-

ing them will be retaining a large part

of the fertility contained in them on the

farm for the benefit of the crops grown

on the land in succeeding years. Some

feeders make a. profit where everything

has to be purchased, and where the build-

ings and equipment will accommodate

some feeding stock it is generally good

policy to fill them to the limit of their

capacity, even if home-grown feeds are

not available. for if not a cent of profit

is realized other than that derived from

the valuable plant food applied to the land

in the form of the resulting stable ma-

nure, the feeder is generally well repaid

for the labor and investment involved.





OCEAN TRANSPORTATION OF LIVE

STOCK.





 





Previous to 1891 the losses of cattle at

sea were large, a fact which was due

principally to the improper construction

of ships that were engaged in the trade.

The ventilation was very bad, proper

facilities for feeding and watering were

wanting, space was badly overcrowded,

the ships were sometimes unseaworthy,

and the attendants were often inexpe-

rienced and worthless. The situation was

rendered worse by the constant cry of

the English press against the so—called

cruclties practiced in the ocean shipment

of cattle. ‘While these statements were

highly exaggerated, the conditions were

altogether so unsatisfactory that Con-

gress felt it necessary to take action, the

result of which was the passage of a law,

approved March 3, 1891, for the same

transportation and humane treatment of

export cattle from the United States to

fill'l'lg’ll countries.



The regulations which the secretary

of agriculture has issued, under the above

authority, provich for proper space for

the animals. They are now allowed to

be carried on any part of the vessel

where they will not iniereferc with the

proper management of the vessel or with

the ventilation and light. The manner

of carrying food and water is specified.

as well as the character of attendants

that are. employed to look after the cattle.

’l he whole interior fittings of the ship a”,

indeed, under the supervision of the dc-

partment.



As evidence of what the new law ac-

complishcd, the following figures show

the percentage of losses of cattle at sea





for the first ten years the new regula-



tions were in force:



Fiscal Per Fiscal Per

Year. Cent". Year. ' Cent.

1991 1.6 1896 0.32

1892 .875 1897 .57

1893 .47 1308 . 22

1394 .37 1899 .31

1,395 .62 1900 .19

Every precaution is taken under the



regulations to provide, not only safe



transportation, but to prevent disease

among the live stock. The forks, pails,





trofs and everything used in taking care

of the animals must be thoroly disin-

fected under government inspection after

each voyage. All the boards of the pens

must be washed with carbolic acid and

freshly whitewashed. The horses' blank-

ets and everything of that sort must be

fumigated with sulphur. When the boat





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is ready for the next load it is as clean‘

and fresh as the first cabin staterooms.

No matter .how many times the. boat has

been carrying cattle, her pens are meas-

ured carefully each trip, her ventilators

are examined, and every detail is gone

over as if the inspectors had never seen

'her before. The results Justify the pre-

cautions. It was not so very long ago

that England complained about the way

Argentine Republic was doing its cattle

shipping and advised the shippers down

there to take the United States as a

model. No country in the world handles

its cattle and horse shipping as well as

we do now. .



The question was asked recently of an

officer on a cattle steamer whether the

horses and cattle get frightened and

make much disturbance in rough weather.

"Bless you, no," he replied. “They've

got sea legs that would put an old salt

to shame. Occasionally a horse will lose

his balance, but a bullock is the greatest

balancer you ever saw. They are know-

ing brutes, too. You know We put them

four in a pen. TVell, you will never find

all four standing up or lying down at one

time. They figure the thing out and de-

cide how they’ll get the most room and

the most comfort. So two of them stand

up while two lie down. When they get

tired, they shift the watch. The horses

like to be talked to when there’s a big

sea on and things are pretty lively. They

always like certain men better than oth-

ers. So do the cattle. We have on man

who can do anything with them. Every

bullock and horse on the boat knows him

by the time we’ve been out two days.

He comes in handy when there's an ac-

cident.



“It’s mighty seldom that a serious ac-

cident happens nowadays. but once in

a while a horse or bullock does get thrown

and breaks a leg or does some bad dam-

age. We don’t carry a veterinarian. The

men know as much about ordinary cattle

and horse ailments as any ‘vet,’ and if

one of the brutes breaks his leg there's

nothing for it but to kill him. A veteri—

narian couldn’t do anything for him.”



Washington. D. C. G. E. M.





THE SOW AT FARROWING TIME.





 





With hogs at their present high price.

anything that will conduce to the welfare

of the sow and her litter so that the num-

ber of living pigs may be increased will

mean much. The number of pigs to a

large extent, is determined by the care

the sows receive at farrowing time, and

it will pay to give them a little extra

attention at this period.



The sow should by all means be sepa-

rated from the rest of the herd four or

five days before farrowing. She will then

become accustomed to her surroundings

and will be contented away from the rest

by farrowing time.



Nothing is more important than abso-

lute quietness about the sow at farrow—

ing time. If she possesses an excitable

temperament she will be more contented

if no disturbance is permitted.



Some advise being with the sows at





farrowing time and taking the pigs away‘





from them for a time. It will certainly

no no harm, especially in cold weather.



After farrowing it is best not to feed

the sow for at least twenty-four hours.

She may then be given a drink of water.

warmed, if in the winter, and a small

feed of cats. The drink can soon be

changed to thin slop and gradually raised

until she is getting rich slop. In the

same manner the feed may be gradually

changed until she is getting her normal

feed. Let all changes be gradual and

there will be little danger of the pigs

getting the scours.





Indiana. WM. PURDUE.





stick to the Good Old Horse Remedy.





It is a wise plan for all horse owners

to keep some well known, tried remedy

on the. stable shelf. Horse flesh is heir

to a good many ailments. Many of them

are trivial if treated promptly. Most of

them can be cured without the aid of a

veterinary surgeon if only the owner has

some, little knowledge of horses and the

remedy is at hand. There will be cuts

and sprains and lameness. an occasional

shoe boil or a curb or splint will develop;

there will be swellings. abnormal bony

growths, etc. These come unexpectedly

and surely, often without any apparent

cause. The sensible horse owner recog-

nizes the fact that something is liable to

happen at any time and prepares for the

emergency. The appearance of Kendall’s

Spavin Cure in our advertising columns

so often is intended to suggest, as It

should suggest, a right line of action.

Of course, a remedy of such universal

use has a universal sale, while it always

can be had at the drug store, readers of

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to buy it until there is need for it. Being

a standard remedy it ought to be ready

on the shelf at all times. Ask your drug-

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Having always read Mr. Lillie’s articles

in the Michigan Farmer with much inter-

est, and knowing that he is an authority

on the feeding of dairy cows I take the

liberty, as a new beginner, to ask _him a

few questions regarding the feeding of

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will probably give me about 30 tons of en-

silage, which I will commence feeding

after November 1. The corn when put

into the silo, was fully matured, perhaps

hardly ripe enough to shock, however,

and very heavily eared. I should judge,





had his corn been husked it would have‘





gone from 85 to 95 baskets per acre. I

have plenty of mixed hay (clover and

timothy). 18 acres of other corn, the

stalks of which I shall run thru the en-

silage cutter after husking, and bean pods

for roughage. For grains I have corn,

oats and rye. I wish to keep from six to

eight cows the year around and buy up

enough steers this fall to consume all the

ensilage by May 1, except enough to run

the cows thru August and September next

year, providing a drought should shorten

the pastures and necessitate the feeding

of same. The steers would be put on

feed November 15 and sold about May 1

to 15. Now what I would like to know is,

how many steers could I feed from the

above and what would be an economical

ration for the steers and for the cows

from the above feeds, with the supple-

mentation of cottonseed or oil meal, pro-

viding the home grown grains could be

sold and the commercial feed bot at a

profit, at the present market prices?

Barry Co. NEW BEGINNER.

A silo 12 feet in diameter .and 30 feet

high will hold about 80 tons. As one ani-

mal will eat about three tons of silage

from November 1 to May, or one-half ton

a month, you can feed in the neighbor‘





[hood of 25 animals on the silage from





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perimenting a little. Theoretically the

ration would not need it and I doubt if it

would pay to feed it. If I did not intend

to keep more than six or eight cows in

the summer, I do not believe I would try

to keep any of the corn silage over to

feed in August and September, because

with that number of cows you could

hardly feed it fast enough to keep it in

good condition. In the summer time you

ought to have twenty head of cattle eat-

ing out of a twelve foot silo in order to

keep it good from day to day.



I am of the opinion that it would pay

you better to sell the oats at present

prices, and also the rye and buy cotton

seed meal and oil meal to feed. In case

I did this, I would feed the dairy cows

about two pounds of cottonseed and two

pounds of oil meal per day, feeding one

grain at night and the other in the morn-

ing, and I would feed the steers just

about the same ration that I would the

milch cows giving milk. Here again, it

might pay to feed the steers some corn

meal toward the finishing period, but I

doubt then if it would pay.



COLON C. LILLIE.





FEEDING DRAFTERS AS A BUSINESS.





 





The accompanying cut shows a typical

draft horse finished for the market in

Wayne Co., Ohio. Many farmers of that

section make a business of buying- “feed—

ers” in the fall and finishing them for

market the following spring. This makes

a profitable method of marketing their

home-grown feeds, and the businessv'is

conducted on much the same basis as is





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One of a Load of Finished Drafters Ready for- Shipment in Wayne County, Ohio.





November 1 to May 1. Consequently, if

you only keep six or eight cows, then you





. can buy 15 to 18 steers and have plenty





of silage to last them, because they will

only eat 25 or 30 pounds a day, where

they have a good liberal ration of dry

fodder, as they should have in connection

with the corn silage. Now, as to grain,

1 would not feed the corn meal to the

cows. I think they get all the corn they

need in this corn silage if they are fed

liberally. For the fattening steers, it

might pay to feed some corn, yet ‘with

these. I presume it will pay you better

to feed your corn to work horses and hogs

and hens, than it will to any of the ani-

mals that you feed ensilnge. You can

grind the oats and rye together if you

‘wish to and feed about four or five pounds

of this per day and two pounds of cotton

seed meal. This will make you a good

ration for either cows or steers and I

am sure that they ought to do well upon

it. As you get toward the finishing period

it might be poliCy, as I said before, to add

some corn meal. You could tell by ex-





lamb feeding in Michigan. The buy-

ing of the feeders requires not a little

judgment, as the profit in the transac-

tion depends very largely upon the ability

of the purchaser to select a kind that

will make a finished product that com-

mands a good price and a ready market

when in a finished condition.





LIVE STOCK NOTES.





 





 





The Beef Producers’ Association of

America, which recently opened head-

quarters in Denver, has been making a

careful investigation into the conditions

affecting the beef production of the Uni-

ted States, and it announces a startling

shortage in the beef supply of the coun-

try. Secretary William S. Skinner asserts

that the country needs all the cattle now

in sight for its own use, and that even

with the exports cut out and imports

increased, there will still be a shortage

to meet the requirements of the growing

population of the country. He says:

“Our exports have decreased from 517.000

head in 1904 to an indicated 200,000 or less

this year. Our imports have increased

from 16,000 in 1904 to 92,000 in 1908, with

a prospect of a still greater increase dur-

ing-the coming year. Our markets thus





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FRESH IMPORTATIUN ARRIVED SEPT 8, 1909.





BLACK PERCHERIDNS

LLB ENGLISH HACKNEYS





These Horses are all Prize-Winners

from the leading shows in Europe; ages from two to four years old; terms to

suit the purchaser. Byron is located on the Toledo & Ann Arbor R. R., 44

miles north of Ann Arbor and seven miles south of Durand, immediate

connections off the Grand Trunk R. R.



Every horse guaranteed, and all at low prices.





CALKINS & AUGSBURY Props., BYRON, MICH.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





PRAIRIE STOCK FARM.

The leading Horse Importers in the State of Mioigan.





We have opened the eyes of all Michigan horsemen by our large exhibit at

the State Fair. In the previous issue of the Michigan Farmer they gave the

startling news of our wonderful success, not alone over our Michigan exhibitors

but over all exhibitors of the several States that were represented in competition.

We won every prize in the stallion and mare classes except the 4th prize in the





2.yeor-old stallion class. All of our horses are now at our barns ready for sale for less money than 9, g00d

horse can be bought elsewhere With I. guarantee that has stood the test for the past 33 years. Come and be

convinced. Terms to suit purchaser.





E. METZ Horse Importing 00., Niles, Mich.





 





 





When you are Writing to Advertisers

please Mention the Michigan Farmer
330 (35





-. far this year are showing a steady de-

crease in thenumber of cattle marketed

and an increase in the number of‘calves

going to slaughter, and this in the face of

steadily increasing prices which is un-

doubtedly encouraging, close marketing.

Secretary Wilson of the Department of





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





are startling when it is remembered that

our population is steadily increasing, and

under normal conditions we should be

able to show an increase of cattle in the

country and on the markets and for ex-

port.” .



The packers express great satisfaction

that Germany, owing to her new pure

food laws, will admit packing house pro-

ducts from the United States for the

first time in several years, as‘it means

millions of dollars added to the meat

export of this country.



Within a short time cash pork has sold

in the Chicago market well above $25 a

barrel, being the highest price seen since

1870. Away back in 1864, when war

prices prevailed and gold was at a big.

premium, pork sold as high as $44 a

barrel. The packers are expecting a

shortage of around 34 per cent in the hog

supply up to the close of this year and

of about 15 per cent from the first of

January to the first of May. Last year

the hog marketings in September were

the lightest in number for ten years, but

they were even less last month. In Oc—

tober and November last year the hog

recepits became larger than for the cor-

responding months in ten years back.

swine being lzurr :3 nurket in order to

save high-priced ‘1': this year con-

ditions are giro... 2,. different. the indica-

tions pointing: s “ti-rely to an abundance

of corn and lower prices. Some farmers

have used up all their corn. however,

and this is causing rattler large receipts

of pigs and underweight hogs from some

sections.



The packers now admit that there is a

great scarcity of pigs. as well as of ma-

ture hogs, and Michael Murphy, Cudahy's

Omaha manager. recently made the pre-

diction that the corn belt supply of hogs

would be 25 per cent smaller during the

next twelve months than that of the past

year. And ,now Charles Goepper,_ chief

buyer for the National Packing Company,

after a trip thru Iowa and Missouri, has

discovered a marked scarcity not only of

iogs. but also of the 1909 big crop. Ex-

tremely high prices for hogs and their

products seem to be assured for a long

time, and farmers who are so fortunate

as to own droves of healthy young hogs

can not make money faster than by taking

the very best care of them and market-

ing them when fully matured. Stock hogs

are hard to buy. and it is time to go into

breeding hogs for the market. the more

the better. Corn and hogs make, a com-

bination that it seems impossible to heat.

It seems hardly probable that prices for

hogs will go mllch higher. however, for

there must be some limit. and already the

consumption of fresh pork products has

been checked by their unusual dearness

in the retail markets everywhere, bring-

ing about a decline of 2 to 21/2 cents in

wholesale prices during the last few days.



Western range cattlemen are in clover,

with their cattle selling in the Chicago

stock yards at prices that net them prof-

its of $20 per head. Old timers recall

the time when range cows were sold in

the Chicago market for 2 per 100 lbs.,

and packers made half the purchase

money on the offal. Recently packers

lave been buying all the range cattle

they could gct hold of for the purpose

of storing away beef in their freezers

for consumption next winter. when cattle

will be much higher than now. Range

steers and cows have been marketed in

big numbers and have Shown up well in.





 

   

   





 





their average quality. the thin steersl

going largely for feeders.

A prominent live stock commission





firm, with a branch house at Sioux CitY.

Iowa. reports a very good corn crop in

the region about there. and it is believed

that the yield will be the largest ever

known. Unfortunately. there is a scarc-

ity of pigs, and farmers will hold and

mature most of them without much doubt.

The indications are that more cattle will

be fcd in that part of IO\\'2I than for some

timc. Heavy fccders have been in urgent

demand, and buyers plan to feed from

sixty to ninety days. their intention .be-

ing to have good corn~fml cattle ready to

market in December and January.





More sheep are reported in Texas than

a year ago, and flocks are doing well.

ruins having made a good growth of

grass. following thc dry spell all over

the range country in the Spring and into

the summer that kcpt shot-p too thin for

markclillg. Texas sheepmen are doing

well. and a strong demand exists every-

where for good 'hrceder ewes. which com-

mand high priccs on the ranges. Fccrler

lambs also sell very high, and Very few





. I will sell at Public Auction. at my form In Maple!





Agriculture, estimates is decline in the Grove township.Bu-ry 00.. c o

visible supply of cattle during the past '

two years of 2,100,000 head. These figures “98‘





 

 





   





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20 Reg. Hereford Battle

Some good young cows with calves st foot. others

safely bred. These calves are from my show bull





Keep On’s Ideal. by Keep On 26th: he by Imp. Keep



On. Cows are bred to him. and one good ones. Also



4 REGISTERED HEREFORD BULLSl



from 14 to 13 months old. good ones. sired by Keep



On'l Ideal. This stock Is In good condition and Is



very nicely bred. They will be sold regardless of

LOUIS NOR





rloeo.

g. O.-—Qulmby. MIch.. R. F. D. l. R. R. Station-—

Nashville. Mich. Citizens Phone—446. Lacey. Mich.





REGISTERED

B u





ULSTEIN, BULLS.





TO BE SOLD AT





AU CTI 0 N

:lhursday, not. 28, 1909.





at 1 o'clock. p. m.. st my form.6 miles south of

Grand Rapids. on South Division St. Teddy Pistol-tie

DeKol Paul No. 39010. has headed my herd of 30

cows for two years. He Is o fine 'bull ondb years

old. One bull 15 months old: 1 bull. 13 months old;

1 bull 10 months old: 1 bull. 6 months old: 1 bull. 4

months old: all well bred.

T. D. CUTLER. Prop.. Byron Center. Mlcb.





AUCTION SALE





OF REGISTERED





PEIIGIIEIIIIII HORSES





tMndncsday, luv. 10. ’09.





A! St. Johns. "loll.





4 Stallions and 11 Mans.





all ages. Brilliant blood pre-

dominates; also 2 Stand-

ard bred Stallions. three

and four years old: extra

. good ones. For description

- and breeding. address

WM. BIRD «I: SONS. St. Johns. MIcIlIxan.





DUNHAMS’ PERCHERONS





Renowned for nearly 50 years as the

best. Over 200 Percherons imported

the last year. Importation

arrived August Is! is the best

we have ever made. If you

want the best horses. horses

with bone. quality. size.

action. and best breeding.

stallions or mares; if you

want fair and liberal treat-

ment: if you want lowest prices consistent

with good merchandise. visit Oaklawn.

Catalog shows the Blue and the horses.





W. 8., I. B. & B. unham, Wayne ,llL

mom“ sinuous. 32.2413: infants."





cl, rmoonnblo prices. '1'. I. Southworth a San. 3.13, Allen. Ilich





BIL-EIS' IIIIIlC'I'OIY.

CATTLE.





 





 





 

 

 





 





 





 





 





 





. 'HioAN, 'FARMER





Ml buns. n ‘

NOV. 2‘; ’09 '





, Jason? BULL CALF to... Mar. 13. '09. 2nd calf





 





 





Roi-thorn Grown Jorgxo.





novcnorl- unlit. col-cw.





 





 





 





of ll helfor that gave and Ibo. of mIlk ln‘l year;





out calf u 2-year-old. lino Individual.





Tun:

MvnnAv-Wsrnnmn 00.. B. 6. Ann Arbor. Mich.





 





'LILLIE [FARMSTEAD JERSEYS





We have some splendid young bulls for sole. Some

of them are old enough for lorvlce. They are from

cows with records of 300 to 425 pounds of butter last

year. Write for descri tlon and prices.



COLON C. L IE. Coopcrovlllc. Mlcll.





MARS'I‘ON FARM—JERSEY CATTLE.





T. F. MARSTON. Bu! CI". Mlolfllan.





DAIRYBRED Shorthorn Buu Calves For Sols-

Also s few heifers. good notes as good so cssh~

(Citizens Telephone). J. B. Hummel. Mason. Mlch.





Shorlhoms for Sale





My herd of Imported and pure Scotch

" Shorthorns. 2 bulls. 9 cows, 4 heifers. and

8 calves. at a great bargain for the lot.





Shinevale Farm, Port Austin, Mich.





—Begl t d b ll cal f a! . A

llolSTlilNS s... 3.1: .3... .35: £3.55 5......

I. M. SHORMAN. Fowlervlllo. Mlcll.





TOP NOTCH HOLSTEINS.





Top Notch registered youngJIolsteln Bulls com-

bining In themselves the blood of cows which now

hold and have In the post held World’s Records for

milk and butter-fat at fair prices.



McPHERSON FARMS 00.. Howell. Mlcll.





IIOLSTEIII FIIIE§IJA§IS gféfiryne‘llil‘cea'é”.





Royal King. W . NES. Oak Grove. Mich.





BlllllllMIll 8100K FIRM.



JACKSON. mm [Holstein cattle.

Hus more Imported HolsteIn-Frleolun Cows

than any form In the Middle West. Registered

BULL CALVES of the most fashionable breeding. 80

line. registered. Duroc Jersey sows due to furrow soon.





SH EEP.





COTTSWOLD. Hampsnlre. and Southdown Rome

for sale from Grand Champion and Sweepstakes

Flock. 1909. of Kalamazoo. Detroit. New York. Ver-

mont, New Joncy. Tho Clover Blomm Form, Port Austin, Iich.





HAMPSHIRES‘fi.?'m“°°° ’37;

Ram Lambs. E. A. HARDY. Don. Mlcll.



. RAM LAMBS AND

HAMPSHIRE oovornl extra [cod

YEARLIHGS. All Roolotored.



C. D. WOODBURY. Lnnolnl, Michigan.





PRAIRIE CASTLE 30th 88!-





H. L. ANDREWS.

HAMPSHIRES Mendon. Mich.





NA'I'IIINAL ”ELAINE RAMS FOR SALE.





All stock registered. F. L. BROKAW. Eagle. Mich.

Pl 3 3 ”iii. Mildly“ 3

ROMEYN C. PARSONS. Grand Lcdco. Mlcll.

OXFORD RAMS & EWES :33: 3:33.13

prize-winning rams. for sale. Address either B. F.

Miller. Flint. Mlch.. or Geo. L. Spillane. Fllnt. Mich.





RAMS and EWES.

[mum] now“ .....w.....mm.

chhland. Mich.





OXFORD DOWNS fieliilmg‘m





sale. H. J. De GARMO. R. No.1. Clydc. MIch.





2 HEAD yeor old Reg. Oxford Roms; 85 Breeding

Ewes. took Champion Cup Detroit Folr. Prices

reasonable. J. J. England dc Son. Caro. MIch.





OXFORDS A few choice. heavy wooled. registered





toms for sale at reasonable prices.

C. B. ASHLEY. Oak Shade Form. Sand Lokc. Mich.





DELAINE RAMS—flé‘fihl‘ifignflfiglionfl'fl

Also so good own. 8. J. COWAN. Rockford. Mich.

' —A l h i f

llccllland Farm IIIIlIIlfl "“3303 3333?...2:

right. D. E. TURNER a SONS. Moshervllle. Mich.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





ABERDEEN-ANGUS.





Herd headed by UNDULATA BLACKBIRD

1T0 83838. one of the boot sons of PRINCE ITO

50008. and Grand Cnomplon Bull st the Dctrolt

and Grand Rapids Foln of 19m. 1908 Ind 1909. Herd

consists of Erica. Blockblrds. Prideo. etc.



WOODCO'I‘E STOCK FARM. Ionln. Mich.





AYRSMlES—A Dairy Breed of much merit.

Young stock for sale—also Berk.

shire Pigs. and ten vorletleo highbred Cockerels.

Eggs In season. Mich. School- for the Deaf. Flint.





 





 





 





 





large bunches have been contracted for

up to thc prcscnt timc. Rangemcn have

such an abundance of feed that they are

inclincd to carry ovcr their la'mbs until

next spring and get a high price for their:

fleet-cs.



Hogs are coming to market lighter in

weight than hcrctoforc, which is some—

thing unusual for this iimc of the year.

As :1 rule. hogs are heaviest in weight

during the month of Septcmbcr, but this

year prices have been so unusually high

that farmers in numerous instances are

failing to take sllfiicicnt time for properly

finishing off thcir holdings. If this state

of things continues much longer. an acute

shortage of prime heavy hogs is bound

to be the result. Already things are

tending in that direction. and choice

heavy hogs are bringing a good premium.



"The outlet for pigs in the Chicago

market has been muc’h smaller recently,

and increased supplies at times have met

with the, slowest demand of the season.

with prices ruling from 50 to 75 cents per

100. lbs. lower than the highest time a.

few weeks since. The recent receipts

of hogs have embraced large numbers of

'light mixed and grassy hogs. with an in-

creased showing of pigs, and the average

weight of the offerings of swine 'has un-

dergone a decided reduction.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

   

 





 





 

 

 





 





HOLSTEIN BULLS





Herd headed by Pontiac Atlas 2d. No. 36420. G. son

of Hengerveld De Kol. A few fine young fellow!

from 850 up.



We are otferlng a son of Pontiac ond one of our

prize cows for 0126. Ho Is 20 months old. We kept

hIm for show purposes and be wen lst and sweep-

stakes at Kalamazoo sndlMsrshall Fairs.



We believe there's no boiler clock in Michigan.



It will pay you to come 50 miles to see this stock,

and the test dslry stable In the state.





LONG BEABH FARM, Augusta, Mich.





On Show oCGuII lako. Bell has Ilclllud ileum.





FOR SALE—IMPROVED BLACK TOP

DELAINE MEEINO RAMS.



All stock registered. G. A. VINCENT. Rt. 2,



Vernon. Michigan. Union phono. Durand exg.





FOR SALE--Dorset and Cheviot Rams;





good ones. CEO. 0. WOODMAN. Bennlngton. Mich.





Registered Rambouillet Rams for Sale.

WILLARD HALL. R.:1. Martin. Mich.





FOR SALE—Registered Ramboulllets. 30

ewes and 42 ram lambs.



THOS. FLETCHER & SON. Chelsea. Mich.

EGIS’I‘ERED Del-Inc Merino Roms—Descendod





from Standard Model and A. '1‘. Gumbel-'9 Bing-

leoder. C. M. MANN. Rockford. Mlcblgsn.





B ed f I t d D l l

LORIMEH KIPP. .n’fepf'n‘fgnéfffifiih. (05:33:

shipped on approval. Rockford. Kent 00.. Mich.





HIGH-OLAS Merinos dz Delsines; ewes sheer





up to 24 lbs.. rams to 301bs.. lsrge

size. well covered. S. H. Sanders. Ashtabuls. Ohio.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





EG.RAMBOUILLETS—64 null, 200 ewes and lambs. Flock

foundod 1802, with 40 select cwu. All romo ulod imported

or from Imp. Ill-u and dams. .1. Q. A. COOK, Mal-rice, Mich.





REGISTER” Von Homoyer Rsmboulllst Bums

at Farmer’s PrIccs. Thou.

Wyckofl. Romboulllet. U.S.A.. Orchard Lake. Mloh.





 





 





”MEETS" .5...





Also three extra good bull calves.5 yearling button.

8 good young cows. Must be sold before winter.

L. E. CORNELL. Fnyotfo. Ohlo.





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H E R E F0 R DS: m??.l§."1i§.‘§.fi§$





Chino hogs. R. E. ALLEN. Pow Pow. Mich.





 





' bu choice rod-tend Bomboulllot

L08 cabin Fm Sheep of both ux for solo of former-'

ricu. Cltlsolu Phone Augusto. Chou. P. lie-tor. Aug-m. Mich.





 





IHAVE some choice Registered Bomboulllot

Rams and Ewoo for solo at formerl' prices.

Prize-winners. IRA B. BALDWIN. Noshvlllc.MIch.





250 HEAD OF SORT!!!) BREEDING



EWES. mostly all black

faces. Hove not been bred yet. Pflcc por hood.

J. B. GARDNER. Lock Box 437. God lloc. Mlch.





 





 





8 to 12 months old. best of blood.

Hereford BIIIIS Individual! right. wl-lu. or

com and soc. E. J. TAYLO Inmont. Mich.





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SIIIIISIIE SIIIMIIIIIES. :u‘ififig :25 935,32





old rams. Also owes bred to my Imp. stock run

“The Broom." H. C. Cromton. Metemoro. Mich.





SIIIIIIPSIIIIIE IlAlIS "m ‘“ 1...... “

, half price; five young



horses cheap. I om closlnz out oil my ltock.

J. . SLATER. Traverse City. Mich.

HROPSHIRE Bums. Also 0. I. C. swlno. lm-Ing

forrowlng elthor sex. not skin. and Imp. stock

ram for sole. E. E. Beech a30n. n.8, Brighton. Mich.





—Good ones from Imported



Shropshire Rams“. 0...... .0... l...



eight owes. While 8. Meode. R. No. 8. Holly. Mich.

tom 0 years old bred b



“WM “fills“ _. Brodburno. of Eng" ongopy.



Also yell-ling rams. W. E. Morrish. Flushing. Mich.





EBDENHEIM FARM .wIII



Shropshiros Me [ow 13110" on ma

Bhro shire yearling Roms. Mustbe closed out.

R BERT GROVES. B. D. No. 3. Pontiac. Mich.





ESIIIIOPSIIIIIE IIALI. “00K FAIIIJ





Will make special prices for thirty days. on ewes

from 1 to 3 years old. all bred to Imported Cooper.

and Monsell rams to lamb In Moron ond April. also

on very choice ewe lambs. this II to make room for an

Importation that Is going to orrlve this spring.



L. S. DURHAM & SONS. Concord. Mlchllnn.





 





 





 





 





 





'SIII'OIISIIII'C chrllnl RAMS and Ram





Lamb- of best wool mutton type.

George P. Andrews. Donsvlllo. Inghsm 00.. Mich.





SHBOPSHIRES. all uses. both sons. extra qual-

lty and breeding In lots to suit. Also o few largo.

robust Bomboulllet and Dololne rams. Will be priced

so on to move them quickly. Correspondence and

Inspection invited. C. LEMEN. Hamburg. Mlch.





DOGS.





BERKSHIRES





Boots for full service. bred sow for spring fol-row.

Spring pigs of best families. Guernsey Cattle. Plym-

outh Rocks. Pekln Ducks and M. B. Turkeys. HUPP

FARM. Birmingham. Mich" G. C. HUPP. Mgr.





LARGE ENGLISH BERKSHIHES.





Have a fine lot of spring pigs. both sexes. The type

for profitable pork production. Vigorous and strong

and of best blood lines. Satisfaction guaranteed.





r. A. BYWA'flill, Memphis, ma,

BEIIKSIIIIIESY01mg "W“ “'0‘“ In"Harmon Bate





Fair pine-winners, at moderate prices.

M. D. &,G. B. Johnson. R. No. 6. Plymouth. Mlch.





'BERKSHIRES as: "35'; Tr.





IltrIInl. C. S. BARTLETT. Pontiac. Mien.





IOIIITOI‘IEIII EIIIIWII BEIIKSIIIIIES.





CROFT FARM. Sldnavv. IVllch.





Two Boon, do for toll service. A tow Gills loft. Also o lino

' lotof foil pigs roody for weaning. lithe: cox or pairs

no.kln. A. A. “111mm, Dockcrvlllo, Iichlxon.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





Choice pigs of Moron and

Improved Chester“ Aprll furrow. either sex.

Also Holstein Cattle. a few cows and young bulls for

sole. W. 0. WILSON. Okemos. Mich. Both Phones





 





ADAMS BROS. Improved Chester Whites. Htch-

field, Mich.. won 125 premlums In ’09. Booklng

ordorl for bred IOWI;I)0II'I rowdy for service. Buff Bock, W.

OrplngtonJV. Leghorn cock'll. Slloxthorn bull: rcody for service.





A fin I t f l

IMPROVED liliESlEll MIIIIES. m. 3.3.3.3113:

rowed In March and April. Prlce 015. Satisfaction

guaranteed. Colon C. Lillie. Coopersvllle. Mich.





nunoc JERSEY SWINE. is ““3: ‘12:: ’3.-





for 15. J. H. BANGHABT. Lansing. Mich.





DUROC JERSEYS





CAREY U. EDMONDS. Hood-co. Mich.





unoo JERSEY boars for :oole: also snrop.

Home A: Rom Lambs and Shorthorn Bulls.

M. A. BBAY. onuos. (Inshom Co.) MICH.





DUBOC Jot-soy of also and uollty. 40 Boon may

for service. 60 now- at armors Prlcoo. Solis-

foctlcn Guoronteod. J. C. Bel-no]. Goldwater. MIob





My bird Is hooded

o. lo Co SWINE- “uh I KI’IDOBOD 0‘

Jackson Chief. the world's Chomplon sud Grand

Champion. the greatest 0. I. C. boar In the world.

He Is also grondson of Tutesy. the world’s Champlon

low. Pigs by him at live let live rice.



Ac Jo GORE)“. R. “.o 9. Ir. Mich.





9 ~50 HEAD of Flue S rln

0- '0 c SPIIS forSnle.eIthcrsex. meg.

strong stock. OTTO B. SCHULZE. Nashville. Mich.





F0 0. l. c. 3:13.30“de





furrow

wrlte John Borne: & Son. Grand Lodge. Mlcblgon.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





OR SALE—O. I. C’s—2 oxtro good boots. Some

choice pigs. Rose Comb Brown Logborns. April

hatch. standard bred. at prices that will move them.

Satisfaction guaranteed. J. R. Inskcep. Holly. Mich.





Nov. 13 $5.1? 2: Public Sale liSi'i.l:'°".':.:f





Spell and Melpha. the Grand Chsm s. at Stat

Fair. Write for cstolog. B sve a few goers left a:

farmers’ prices. WM. WAFFLE. Goldwater. Mlch.





POLAND-CHINA BOARS—B'g' “ester“ type.





big bone. long bodies.

big litters. 810 up. Shropshire Bucks. lambs $10;

yearlings $15. J.C. BUTLER. Portland. Mich.





POLAND_CHINAS—Perlectlou strain. Choice





young boars ready for use.

Also sows. E. D. BishOp. B. 38. Lake Odessa. Mich.





POL‘IID'IIIIIII‘S L098 bodled. strong boned. spring





' pigs. both sex. at low prlces. Bond

for snap-shot photo. Robert Neve. Pierson. Mich.





POIand-Chinas- Nothing but spring





pigs. Let us have our

order now. WOOD do SONS Snllne. MISII.





P. c. BOARS?§.%’.2?.E.".M‘§§.‘MJ2





faction guaranteed. B. W. MILLS. Saline. Mich.





POLMIII-GIIIIIAS‘2.’L°‘3.~"%33§ 3331' "kl"..-

oung Saws bred; right prices. Write today.

W. Barnes do Son. Byron, (Shlswoosoe 00.) m





LARGE IMPROVED YORKSHIRES—Eg‘lg'mmg





vice. .18. Young lows bred to furrow next spring

. Fall pigs either sex 310. Sstlsfsctlon guaranteed.

you wont the most economical feeders possible.



(I your sows too Yorkshire boar. Yorkshlroo

one lure “age the most papulsr brood of the future





 





 





 





 





 





 





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CONDUCTED BY DR. W. C. FAIR,

, CLEVELAND, OHIO.



Advice thru this department is free to

our subscribers. Each communication

should state history and symptoms of the

case in full; also name and address of

writer. Initials only will be published.

Many queries are answered that apply to

the 'same ailments. If this column is

watched carefully you will probably find

the desired information in a reply that

has been made to some one else.





~‘ i I Eva-infirm}





Growtlh on Eye Ball.—My 3-year-old

colt has a small growth on eye ball which

I would like to have removed. During the

summer this eye was somewhat affected

with what I thot to be ophthalmia. E. A.

S., Kingsley, Mich.—Give 1/2 dr. iodide

potassium and 1 dr. Fowler’s solution at

a dose in feed three times a day.



Film on Eye—I have a Scotch Collie

pup that has an inflamed eye with film

growing over eye ball. J. M. B., Wald-

ron, Mich—Give 2 grs. iodide potassium

at a dose daily and apply 1 part nitrate

silver to 500 parts water to eye once a

day and blow a little calomel into eye

once a day.



Dropsy—Sprained Hip—I have a. mare

that has been lame in right hind leg for

the past two or three weeks; she is swol-

len under belly and 'has a. large lump be-

tween udder and hind leg, but her appe-

tite is good. W. C. J.—Give 1 dr. fluid

extract digitalis and 1/2 dr. ground nux

vomica at a dose in feed twice a day.

gpply iodine ointment to bunch once a



ay.



Dandruff—Uneven Teeth—My horse is

troubled with dandruff, mostly in mane

and tail, and I also have another horse

that passes whole grain. F. M., West

Branch, Mich—When you wash him add

1 oz. kerosene to every quart of soap

suds, and it will do no harm to add some

borax. His tail and mane should be

washed out twice a week. Also 'have his

teeth floated for he is not masticating his

food properly. ,.



Foreign Body in Mouth—Decayed

Tooth—Abnormal Tooth.——I have a cow

that will soon be fresh that does not ap-

pear to chew her cud properly for she

drops out a whole lot of feed out of her

mouth. J, H. R., Clyde, Mich—Examine

her mouth and you will perhaps find

some foreign body that is causing all the

trouble. After it is removed she will be

all right and if‘she has a diseased tooth

extract it.



Smoking—Have seen lots of good ad-

vice in your veterinary columns, but find

no parellel case to mine. The colt was

snagged in her hind foot some time ago,

but recovered; the wound healed but the

pastern and ankle is a little larger than

the other and I would like to have it

reduced. F. H., Allen, Mien—Apply

iodine ointment every two days and the

ankle will perhaps gradually reduce in

Size.



Indigestion.—My six—year-old horse is

seemingly out of condition, altho he has

a pretty fair appetite, his coat is rough

and thin and his new coat does not grow.

his sheath becomes very fowl; besides, I

have to drive him fast for several miles

before he will perspire; he appears to be

sleepy and has no life. What had I bet-

ter do for him? L. A., Lansing, Mich.—

Your horse does not digest his food prop-

erly and his liver is doubtless torpid.

Give him 20 grs. calomel three times a

week for two weeks. Also give 1 oz. bi-

carbonate soda, 2 drs. ground gentian and

1,5 dr. ground nux vomica at a dose in

feed two or three times a day.



Partial Loss of Power.——About ten

months ago I bot a fair looking mare

that is about 12 years old. from a horse

dealer; he claimed the mare was all right

in every way, but a week or ten days

after I bot her she laid down and was

unable to get up. Our local Vet. raised

her with a pulley and sling. She ap-

peared to be perfectly helpless so far as

getting up alone and whenever she lays

down we are obliged to help her up. I

have kept her on her feet nearly all the

time, but of course that makes her ner-

vous and restless. She has become very

much reduced in flesh and is still going

down, in fact, she is exceedingly thin,

but has a good appetite and digests her

food apparently all right. I would be

very thankful if you could tell me what

to do for her. N, Holton, Mich—A

chronic ailment of this kind should be

regarded as incurable; besides, an animal

that stands up constantly loses strength

rapidly. She no doubt suffers from func-

tional disease of the spinal cord and will

not get well. By giving her a tablespoon—

ful of the following compound powder

at a dose in feed three times a day she

may build up and improve: Powdered

nitrate potash, bicarbonate soda, ground

gentian and nux vomica.



Chronic Indigestion—Luxation of Stifle-

Stocking—I have a cow eight years old

that has always been a heavy milker but

kept in good flesh until last year, when

just before grass time she began to run

down. This cow seems to fill up with gas

and has grown quite thin. I also have an

awkward 3-year-old colt which we bot

last spring. One morning I discovered

that; he would not step on one foot but

dragged it when forced to move but drop-

ped down on stifle joint; our local Vet.

gave us liniment which we applied to stifle

and it helped him. He has had several

attacks since. Will he be all right when

matured? My dFiVing mare got tangled

in a wire fence; after that she stocked in

hind leg when standing but never showed

any lameness. What had I better do for

her? R. W., Ionia, Mich—Give your

cow ] oz. ground ginger. 1 oz. ground

gentian and 1 oz. bi—carbonate of soda at

a dose in feed two or three times a day.

You had better blister stifle with cerate

of cantharides every week or ten days‘

or you can Safely use any one of the

blisters that are regularly advertised in;

this paper. Give your other mare 1 dr.

powdered resin, 1A dr. ground nux‘vomica





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An Antrim county reader writes that

her husband will soon build a new poultry

house and she desires to furnish it with

trap nests. Having no knowledge of the

construction and cdst ‘of such nests, and

being unable to obtain them in local

dealers, she wants to know how he shall

go about it to secure them.



Various styles of the trap nest are

manufactured by the big poultry supply

firms, and illustrations and descriptions

of such nests may be secured by writing

the firms for catalogs and circulars.

However, since the most perfect trap nest

yet devised requires pretty close attention

on the part of an attendant, the patented

kind has little advantage over the home—

made affair. With this in mind, and con-

sidering the further fact that you have

never tried the trap nest, we believe

that you can make the experiment just

as easily and satisfactorily with a home—

made nest as with any other. After ope-

rating two or three such nests for a

short time you will be able to determine

whether or not the trap nest is practical

for you and whether you desire to equip

the house with them.



This precautionary suggestion should

not be taken to mean that it is expected

the nests will not prove practical. How-

ever, it must be admitted that the trap

nest is not practical for all poultrymen,

since the nest has not yet been designed

which will trap the hen, mark the egg

and hen, release the hen and set itself for

the next hen. Some one or more of these

things must be looked after by an at-

tendant and unless he is on hand to re-

lease the layers, or to reset the nests,

promptly, an unusually large number of

nests will be required. A very simple

home-made device for trapping the layer

was illustrated and described in this de-

partment about a year ago. Another trap

nest which has proven quite satisfactory

is that in use at the Maine experiment

station where so much has been accomp-

lished in the way of breeding up ZOO-egg

layers the past few years. The qualities

claimed for it are simplicity, cheapness

and reliability. The following description,

together with the two illustrations of the

nest, should make its construction clear:



The nest is a. box-like structure with-

out front end or cover, 13x28 in, and 16

in. deep, inside measure. The division

board is placed 12 in. from rear end and

the circular opening is 71/2 in. in diam-

eter. In the rear section the nest is

placed. The door at the front end of

the box consists of a light frame of 1x114"

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l-in. mesh. This door is 10 in. square,

thus leaving a space of 2 in. at bottom

and 1 in. at top, with a space at either

side to avoid friction. It is hinged at the

top and opens up into the box. The

hinges are placed on from; side of frame

in order to secure complete closing action.



The trap device consists of one piece

of stiff wire, 3-16 in, in diameter, 22 in.

long. This wire is so shaped that a sec-

tion of it 11 in. in length rests directly

across the opening in the division board,

being held in place by a cleat on each

side of the opening. These cleats are

fastened upon the division board in such

a manner as to permit the wire to move

up and down about 3 in. without much

friction. The next section of the Wire is

about 8 in. and is bent at right angles to

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so that the wire may turn easily. The”

remaining section of the» wire, which is

3 in. long, is bent toward the center of

the box, with an upward inclination, so

that it forms a. support for the door when

it is opened upward, the end of the wire

being turned over smoothly, forming a

shoulder for the door to rest upon.



As the hen passes in under the open

door and then thru the circular opening

to the nest, her back presses against the

horizontal wire and lifts it so that the

end supporting the door is released and

the door swings down and passes a wire

spring, near the bottom of the box, at

the entrance, which locks it and prevents

the hen from escaping, and others from

entering.



The double box with nest in rear is

necessary, as when a hen has laid and

desires to leave the nest, she steps out

into the front space and remains there,

generally trying to escape, until she is

released. With One section only she





Trap Nest—End and Top.





(Closed).





would be very likely to crush her egg

l‘y stepping upon it and learn the per-

nicious habit of egg-eating.



The boxes are placed four in a block

and slide in and out like drawers and

can be carried away for cleansing when

necessary. Four nests in a pen have ac—

commodated 20 hens, by the attendant

going thru the pens once an hour, or a

little oftener, during that part of the day

when the hens are the busiest. Earlier

and later in the day his visits have not

been so frequent: To remove a hen, the

nest is pulled part way out and as it has

no cover, she is readily lifted up, and the

number on her leg band is noted on the

record sheet, that is tacked up, close at

hand. After having been taken off a few

times they do not object to being han-

dled, the most of them remaining quiet,

apparently expecting to be picked up.





Before commencing the use of trap

nests, it was that that some hens might

be irritated by the trapping operation

and object to the noise incident to it.

The station reports say that none of the

fowls have appeared annoyed by it altho

\arious breeds have been admitted to the

nests, including Leghorns, Brahmas, VVy-

andottes and Plymouth Rocks. The time

required in caring for the trap nests is

not great and it is estimated that one

active person. devoting his entire time

to nests like these could care for 400 to

500 nests used by 2,000 to 2,500 hens.

To use the tnap nest in keeping egg

records the hens must all be numbered

on leg bands. These bands must be

watched carefully as they are likely to

be lost. In very careful record keeping

duplicate bands are used.





 





An inexpensive and at the same time

a warm single wall poultry house can

be constructed by simply making the

side walls and roof of matched timber,

thoroly seasoned, and covering both roof

and walls on the outside with prepared

roofing-paper. After this paper is fast-

ened on securely it should be given a

heavy coat of tar, covering the laps thor-

oly, and a little coarse sand or fine gravel

should be scattered on the roof. If care-

fully constructed, a house of this kind is

absolutely wind and water-proof and

will last a long time if given a fresh coat

of tar once every two years, or perhaps

it might be well to re-tar the roof an-

nually. If one has an old shed or build-





slde of the box. 11 in. above the floor, _ing of any kind, it can 'be easily made





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out rom all othera 4 or 2 horses

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MENTION THE MICHIGAN FARMER when

writing to advertisers.





‘TURNING OLD COMBS INTO CASH.





 





After a. season as unfavorable to the

production of high class honey as the

past has been it devolves upon the bee

owner to make the best possible use of

every portion of his product, and thus

prevent, if possible, his season’s opera-

tions netting him a loss. At the close

of such a season the provident apiarist

devotes his attention to securing all the

wax possible from his combs. In going

over the bees to determine whether they

are in condition to go into winter some

weak colonies are always found, making

necessary the uniting of two or more

such colonies into one strong one. This

process always leaves a quantity of comb

to be worked up. On farms where only

a few bees are kept the owners are often

careless about utilizing such combs and

the wide-awake bee man secures them

and thus materially increases his season’s

yield of wax. At the annual meeting of

the National Bee Keepers’ Association

at Detroit a year ago a thrifty Michigan

bee keeper told how he turned a disas-

trous season into a profitable one by

working up large quantities of comb

which be secured from neighbors who lost

their bees either from disease or because

of the severity of the winter.





Methods of Getting the Wax.



Most readers of this department under—

stand that there are several classes of

extractors, the most simple being the so-

(alled solar extractor which, as its name

indicates, requires the strong rays of the

sun for its operation and consequently

is most effectively used during the warm

months. Then there are the steam ex—

tractors and those employing pressure

under water at a temperature high

enough to melt the wax. As to the rela-

tive efficiency of these methods there is

difference of opinion. Lost your one of

the chemists of the Colorado cxpcrimcnt

station conducted a series of tcsts with

a vicw to throwing some light upon this

question. He found that thc efficiency

of the. solar extractor was considerably

increased by adding an extra pane of

gloss. This pane was placcd on the or-

dinary solui‘ extractor so as to leave a

ll/z-inch space bctween the two panes.





 





,Tliis had the effect of raising the tem-

3perature inside the extractor 17 degs.

lIlis tests led him to the conclusion that

while the solar extractor is a good cx-

tractor for the average bee keeper be-

cause of its convenience and the fact

that it requires little attention, it does

not got as much wax from the comb as

the steam extractor. He found that the

residue or slumgum resulting from the

rendering of old brood combs, which re-

mained uftcr using the solar extractor

could be worked over in thc stculn cx—

tractor and some wax obtained from it.

Other facts gleaned from this series of

tests are summarized as follows:



The steam wax extractor rcmovcs morc

dirt than the solar extractor. The steam

extractor will rcmove honcy from tho

comb, but the houcy is usually very dark.

In efficiency the steam extractor has an

advantage of from ten to twenty per

cent over the solar extractor.



The addition of an extra pane of glass

to the solar extractor i‘uiscd the inside

temperature an nvcrngc of 17 dcgrecs F.

The cflicicncy of the extractor was in-

creased on an average about scvcn per

cent.



The addition of a lamp to the solar

extractor ruiscd the cfficicncy of the ex-

tractor only about one per cent, and the

addition of a. lamp to the doublc glass

extractor did not inct‘cusc tho efficiency

of the extractor over 0.7 pcr ccnt.



Soaking the comb in wutcr bcforc us-

ing the solar extractor incrcuscd ihc yield

of wax, on an avcragc, about one per

cent, while lhc soaking of the comb in

dilute (5 per cent) sulfuric acid incrcascd

the yield about five per cent over that

not trcatcd.



Prcssure applicd to the comb undcr hot

water gives :1 larger per cent of wax

than when the comb is pi‘osScd in slcnm.

Heating with dilute sulfuric acid and

prcssing undcr water gave the best re-

sults.



For low grade comb, heating with dilute

sulfuric acid and pressing under hot

water, cxccls the single gloss solar wax

extractor by 35 per ccnt, the double gloss

solar wax extractor by about 32 per cent,

the various steam extractors by from 7

to 24 per cent. This would indicate that

the slumgum from 100 pounds of wax

treated by the ordinary solar wax ex-

tractor will retain from 34 to 36 pounds

of wax, which can be removed by heating

with dilute sulfuric acid and pressing

under hot water. With wax worth 250

per lb. it w0uld pay to buy old slumgum

and remove the wax by this method.





 





THE MICHIGAN ‘ FARMER.





The method of heating the wax, while

inclosed in a bag, with sulfuric acid, as

practiced by most refiners of wax, gives

good results.



Sulfuric acid seems to be better for

bleaching wax than either hydrochloric

acid, nitric acid, or. a mixture of potas-

sium bichromate and sulfuric acid. An

increase of sulfuric acid above five per

cent does not seem to improve the color

of the wax.



Common salt added to the water in

which the wax is boiled does not cause

the dirt to settle enough to show a

change in the color of the wax.



Excessive boiling seems to injure the

grain of the wax. The best results in

regard to the grain of the wax were ob-

tained by causing the wax to melt but

not to come to a boil.



Heating the wax while inclosed in a

cloth and squeezing after it has melted

gives a much better colored wax than

heating without the cloth. A fine canton

flannel cloth with the nap inside is better

than a coarse cloth. The nap seems to

hold the dirt that is in the wax. Remelt-

ing the wax incloscd in a cloth with two

per cent solution of sulphuric acid and

five per cent hydrogen peroxide improves

the color of the wax. Continued treat-

ment in the some way does not give cor-

responding improvement in the color.

After the third treatment there is not

any improvcmcnt in color and rather a

deterioration in the quality of the wax.



From the results of these expcriments

this investigator believes it host for the

average bee keeper to have a large solar

wax extractor, heatcd by some artificial

heat, by means of which most of the wax

in the lighter colored combs, cappings.

and burr combs m' .»be easily rendered.

The dark co )8 my also be treated in

this manner and the slumgum stored in

barrels until the bee keeper has time to

treat it with dilute sulphuric acid and

prcss undcr waicr. This method is quick

rnd efficient. If the wax has to be re-

fincd it can be done by heating, while

inclosed in a canton flannel sack, with a

solution containing five per cent of hy-

drogen pcroxidc and two to five per cent

of sulphuric acid. Both of thcse chemi-

cals can be hot at the ordinary drug

store. ’l‘hc common kind, commercial,

should be used.



PREPARING HlVES FOR OUTDOOR



WINTERING,





 





 





 





In packing hives for outdoor wintcring,

any good dry, loose material may be uscd,

such as wheat chaff. forest lcavcs, planer

shavings, or cxcclsior. The best packing

material is that which is loose enough to

allow air to penetrate it and carry off the

moisture of the bccs. Put ovcr this a

good tight cover to keep the. hives pct—

fcctly dry. “Vith singlc-wullcd hivcs the

moisture must be curricd off by :1 slow

upward currcnt of air, otherwise the, sides

and bottom board will bccomc saturated

compelling the colony to cndui‘c :1 con-

dition which is disastrous to its vitality.

Boos will stand a great dcgrcc of cold,

day or night, if thcy can have spells of

worming up. It is not so much tllc acyc—

i'ity of the cold, as its long continuance

that kills the bccs. I prcfcr outdoor win-

ici'ing in clmff—puckcd hives, as outdoor

boos nrc bcttcr able to stand thc spring

ucuthcr and to huvc an abundance of

young bccs by the first spring bloom.



MOdct‘n hivcs with good brood cham—

bcrs, cqual to ihc laying cupuciiy of tho

quccn, are considci'cd best for obtaining

surplus boncy. Such. 'l’lf)\\'0V(‘l‘, are not

ihc host for wintcring. as the stores are

usually insufficicnt. “'hcn ull breeding

is over for thc scuson. the central combs

arc oftcn doficicnt in storcs. How a

good. pruclicul fccdcr comcs into i‘cquisi-

lion. onc tbut cuu bo uscd during thc

cold nights of October, and that will work

succcssfully with thick syrup. Nothing

is gaincd by compclliug tbc boos to cvap-

crate a largo amount of wuicr so into in

the scuson. For lutc fccding l use about

one quart of wulcr to every ll lbs. of thc

lu-st gi‘unulutcd sugar. “'hcn curly fccd-

ing is practiccd, thin syrup may bc uscd,

but for latc fccding we nccd the syrup

vci'y thick—just thin enough so the bccs

can work it nicely.



New Jersey. F. G. HERMAN.





To Darkest Africa. Fuller &. Johnson

Ship Pump on Order from Cape Colony.

As an instance of the fame of Madison



industries and the,dcmand for their Olll~



put. a cubic orch' was rcccivcd the other

day by the Fuller & Johnson Manufactur-

ing Company, Madison, Wis, for a farm

pump gusolinc engine. The message came

from Cape Colony in the southernmost

part of Africa. The engine has been

shipped by way of East London, South



Africa. Quite a number of these engines



are now in operation in Mexico and



several have been shipped to points it.



South America. Write to them for a free



catalog.





(9) 333





Melancholy and

Mental BepresSion





 





Also Known as low Spirits and “The

Blues,” Are Almost Invariably

Caused By Indigestion and

Stomach Derangement.





Chronic melancholy is a symptom fre-

quently encountered in the victims of

dyspepsia, and indigestion. Defective

blood nutrition or anaemia appears to be

the physical state with which the great

majority of cases of melancholy and men—

tal depression are connected, and to

which all modes of treatment are directed.

Powerful and permanent and depressing

moral and mental emotions not as effec-

tively in arresting healthy digestion and

alimentation as the eating of injudicious

food, or the use of nourishment undcr

circumstances such as the respiration oi

impure air, or indulgence in intcmperotc

tendencies, which render proper assimila-

tion of food impossible.



But while depressing mental emotions

may cause disturbed digestion, on the

other hand, dyspepsia may, in turn, cause

mental depression, so that cause and

effect may be transposed. Melancholy or

“the blues” should not be regarded as a.

distinct and independcut affection. as it

is almost invariably traceable to and

dependent upon, some disorder of the

digestive system.



The victims of this distressing condi-

tion prcsvnt not only the usual symptoms

of indigestion or nervous dyspepsia, but

also a long train of symptoms of a pecu-

liarly melancholic and morbid character.

such as cxtrcme increase of nerve-sensi-

bility, palpitations, strange internal scn—

sntions, which simulate many other dis-

cascs, togctbcr with an exaggerated un-

casincss and anxiety chicfiy concerning

the hculih. They imagine they have all

the diseases known to Pathology, and are

grout pcssimists, pronc to look on the

dark Sidc of bio. Thcy arc casily annoyed

by small things, which if their health and

digestion were good, would never bother

them; and thcy fccl constantly irritable,

have dark forcbodings, and four the ap-

proach of some imuginzu‘y evil, impending

disaster or calamity



If thcy cxpcricncc. indigestion-pains in

the heart region, they think it is heart

disease; uncasincss in the chest moans

consumption, whilc tlu- various other fugi—

tive nclics nnd- puins distributed over the

systcm Hwy imuginc to be symptoms of

somc futul, organic discase.



Evcry ouc of those morbid symptoms

dcpcnd upon :1 disturbcd state of the

digestion, and for thc rcmoval and cure

of this condition, lllt'l‘(‘ is no bc’ticr rcm—

cdy in existence than Stuart's Dyspcpsia

’l‘ublcts. 'l‘hcy got right at tho seat of

tho troublc, curc the dyspcpsiu, and re—

move the cuusc. Every purticlc of food

in. the stomach is thoroughly and properly

digested, with tho result that the blood,

which owing to a long—continucd indigcs~

lion, mul-ubsorption, mal—nuirition and

n1ul-nssfmilution of food, is in :1 thin.

anaemic condition, is rapidly built up.

and improvcd in quality—41138 improve—

mcnt progi'cssing along with thc inci‘cusco

power of tho stomach to propcrly digcsi

its food through lbw aid—giving :md ton-

ing—up proportics of those pmw-rful lllllt,

digcstivc tublt-ls; so that the melancholic

and dcprcssiva symptoms disappcar along

with tho (lyspcpsiu.



Don‘t ullow yoursclf to be ovcrcomc

with “the blues," but sccurc :1 box oi

Stuui‘t’s Dyspt-psirt 'l‘ublcts at once from

your druggist for 50 ccnls, and bcgin tak-

ing thcm; also scnd us your name and

address for frcc snmplc package. Addrcss

F. A. Stuart C0., 150 Stuart Building.

Marshall, Mich.





$50 T0 $300 SAVED





Wears manufacturers. not merchants. Save dealers.

)ohbcrs and catalog house profit. 1‘“ save you from . I

850 to $300 on my High Grade Standard Gasoline

Engines from 2 to 22~H.—P.—Pricc direct to you

lower than dealers or jobbcrs have to pay for

similar engines in carload lots for spot cash. .

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Price and quality speak for themselves

and you are to be the sole judge.

Sell your poorest horse and buy a





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one small profit. Send to:



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Wm. Galloway Co.





045 Galloway Station

Waterloo, lows





 





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CONDUCTED BY COLON C. LILLIE.





 





SHALL WE BUY GRAIN.





 





A writer in the Michigan Farmer of

September 11, discusses the question of

cheaper milk production. In his article

he discourages the purchase of by-pro-

ducts such as linseed meal, gluten—meal,

malt sprouts, etc.. and very properly, in

our judgment, encourages better care and

preparation of ,the soil in order that a.

larger amount of dairy food may be

grown at home.



I have been thinking a good deal since

reading this article. There are many

people who believe with its author that

the purchase of protein dairy foods in

large quantities is a waste of money. I

cannot hope to throw much light upon

the question, but will simply state con-

ditions as they appear to me and“ leave

the reader to form his own conclusions.

The cow cannot make something out of

nothing. She can borrow from her own

body for a time in order to give a maxi-

mum flow of milk, but her owner must

pay the debt with interest in one way or

another. If we have more cows than we

can feed well from crops grown on our

own farms, we must buy feed or sell

cows. Which shall we do?



True, grain is high, but butter is

equally high and in the judgment of the

writer if it ever paid to buy grain and

feed it to a dairy cow, it will pay now.

In 1897 corn-meal could be bot for from

ten to twelve dollars per ton, and bran

at from twelve to fifteen dollars per ton.

Butter was then worth from ten to fifteen

cents per pound. Today, bran and corn

meal are worth from twenty-five to thirty

dollars per ton, a long price indeed, but

our creamery has just paid the patrons

thirty-two and seven-tenths cents per

pound for butter-fat delivered in August.

I think that butter—fat could have been

produced in 1897 at from nine to twelve

cents per pound but the margin of profit

would have been very small. On the

other hand, the cow that did not produce

butter—fat last August at less than

twenty cents per pound was an expen-

sive dairy machine. But even at that

cost she yielded her owners a profit of

twelve and seven—tenths cents per pound

upon the fat produced. Four or five years

ago we were wondering if the high price

of butter could last, considering the ever

increasing interest in the dairy business.

Dairy literature has been more, widely

read than ever before. Many dairy as-

sociations have been organized. Farm-

ers’ institutes. grunge meetings. and ag-

ricultural papers have vied with each

other in their efforts to do honor to the

old cow and notwithstanding all this,

the price of butter is higher today than it

has been for nearly a generation at this

time of the. year. How any man can

think for one minute of scrimping his

cows in the face of the market reports

is beyond my comprehension. Protein

in bran is expensive. In gluten meal it

can be hot for about Six cents per pound.

In linsccd meal it costs practically the

same. but in cotton-seed meal it can be

purchased for less than four cents per

pound. Cotton-seed meal, gluten meal,

and linseed meal have not risen greatly

in price in the last five years. If men

who keep cows will co—operate in the

purchase of these feeds, buying them in

carload lots, at the right time of the

year, they are not very expensive. In

fact. they are very cheap, considering

the high prices of dairy products, but we

infer from the article referred to above

that the author thinks the feeding of

these, by—products injurious to the calves.

Here, too, we must rely upon our own

experience and that of our neighbors. I

have traveled over a goodly portion of

Michigan and I know of no other com-

munity that so generally uses these feeds

as the one in which I live. We are all

small dalrymen but last year we used

about fifty tons of cottonseed meal alone.

“’e have fed gluten, linseed meal, and

cottonseed meal for years. We never

rasied better calves than we are raising

now nor more. of them in proportion.



If I can buy a. ton of any one of these

concentrates for thirty dollars and get

forty dollars worth of butter out of it

and keep the cows in good health it is a

good business proposition: but this is not

all of it. Much of the land in Michigan

is depleted by long continued cropping

is depleted by long continued cropping.

We must do something to restore the

humus and the elements of plant food

The man who

feeds out only what 'he. grows pays back

to the soil 'what he borrowed from it less

the amount sold in meats and dairy pro-





ducts.“ "l'rfiey'the legumes. I flown upon

the ram ~will store'iip some nitrogen but





‘there will be a continual loss of phos~





phoric acid and potash. We must m-

place the lost fertility by some method.

Now, if I can get not only forty dollars

worth oi’ butter for that ten of'conceu-

tunes but seventeen dollars' worth of

fertilizer as well, the prospect is still

more encouraging. Summing it all up,

there seems to me but one way and that

is to keep just as many cows as we can

raise roughage for. feed them a balance

ration, and every pound of it they need.

Oceana Co. W. F. TAYLOR.





REFITTING A cow STABLE.





 





In my cow stable I-have a level cement

floor with mangers and grain boxes

which I wish to replace with stanchions,

as With present arrangements it is nearly

impossible to keep the cows clean and

they also waste considerable hay by

throwing it out of the mangers. Now, I

would like to have some one tell me just

how to arrange this stable with stationary

stanchions. Would it be best to slope the

stanchions, and how much? And will it

be necessary to put in a platform to glvo

a drop behind the cows? I would also

like to know how to tell a cow’s age and

at what age is the ordinary cow consid-

ered unprofitable as a mliker?



Kalamazoo Co. L. W. BnAnronp.





I think it will be quite necessary, if

you put in stanchions on this level floor,

to build a platform for the cows to stand

on if you intend to keep them clean, be-

cause a gutter is absolutely necessary to

go with stanchions if you want to keep

the cows clean. It is a good plan to

slant the top of the stanchions back so

that when the cows stand up they can‘t

get quite so far ahead as when they are

eating out of the manger, or lying down.

It might be more economical, and I think

it would, to cut a trench thru this ce-

ment floor. This could be quite easdy

done by having a. good cold chisel and

cutting it thru and then working under

the floor and breaking off the cement

to this line, and put in a cement gutter.





 





 





 





those cows-at seven (at eight years of,

age. They were just coming to maturity,

and so the only rule to go by as to when

the cow should be turned off, is when

they stop producing at a profit. When

they no longer bring you in a profit then

get rid of them Just as soon as you can

but hang on to them as long as they do.





 





CAMEMBERT CHEESE PROBLEMS lN

THE UNITED STATES.





 





Attempts to establish the Camembert

cheese industry in the United States

have not been wholly successful. and it

appears that this is largely due to the

fact that climatic conditions are unfav;





.orable during the greater part of the





year in most of the regions where fac-

tories have'been located. It is believed,

however, that the climatic disadvantages

can be overcome by constructing factories

in such a manner as to provide proper

control of temperature, humidity. and

ventilation.



The demands of the process of ripening

of Camembert cheese are such that to

insure success both temperature and rela-

tive humidity must be kept within cer-

tain recognized limits. France is the

home of this cheese. Nature has fur-

nished the French factory a set of work.-

ing conditions which require only the

opening and closing of the windows, with

at times a moderate amOunt of artificial

heat. A comparison of meteorological

records of cities in northern France and

certain American cities in dairy regions

shows that in America mean tempera-

tures are either too high or too low for

Camembert cheese ripening except dur-

ing the months of September, October,

and November, while the mean relative

humidity is too low in nearly every month

of the year. San Francisco alone of the

American cities has studied climatic con-

ditions closely similar to those of northern

France. Factories built in the United

States for French conditions have actu-





 





 





 





The Unpretentlous but Sanitary Cement Block Building of the Perrinton Cheese

Factory, Gratiot County.





I believe this would be cheaper and more

practical than it would to build a platform

for the cows to stand upon. You could

refit this stable and use the model stall

without any gutter. Ex-Gov. Hoard’s

stable doesn’t have any gutter, and it is

not necessary with the model stall, altho

it is convenient sometimes for storing

the manure until it is hauled out. That,

however, is the only object of the gutter

with the model stall. It is simply a re-

ceptacle to receive the manure, lwz-ause

it does not aid very much in keeping the

cows clean.



I do not know as I can tell you how

to tell the age of a cow. The. only way

I know of is by the wrinkles on her horn,

and the modern way of dehorning cattle

has fixed it so that a man can't tell very

much about it. As a matter of fact, I

don’t care very much about the age of

a cow. She is young to me as long as

she gives profitable returns for the feed

which I give her. YOu want to know at

what age the ordinary cow is considered

unprofitable. Now I don’t think you can

tell anything about the profitableness of

a cow by her age. Of course. if you have

what we understand as dual purpose cows

and want to sell them for beef, it might

make some little difference, but a dairy

cow is good just as long as she brings

you in profitable returns. I know of a

cow that is giving milk that is over

thirty years old, and I know of several

that were along up in their teens and

were splendid cows, worth more than two

or three heifers at that time. Now a

man couldn’t afford to get rid of one of





ally produced fine results a few weeks

of each year and have experienced diffi-

culties and losses at other seasons. The

successful Camembert season in the east-

crn states is about six weeks, from Oc-

tober 15 to December 1.



There is reason to believe that the

Pacific Coast affords favorable climatic

conditions. Factories to succeed in the

eustcrn states must provide control of

temperature and relative humidity within

closer limits than those obtainable with

the French plans hitherto used. This

may be obtained by better insulation of

the rooms already built or by the con-

struction of new rooms which may be

partly or entirely below the surface of

the ground. In either case the building

must provide means for thoro but con-

trolled vcntilation sufficient to carry off

moisture as fast as required.



The progress of the work in spite of

the failurcs which have occurcd in the

past, gives good reason to believe that

a readjustment of methods to suit the

conditions will eventually bring perma—

nent success to the Camembert industry

in the United States. Camembert cheese—

making for the general market is a fac-

tory proposition, but a good grade of

Camembert may be made and ripened

upon the farm with comparatively simple

and inexpensive equipment. The difficulty

of making uniform cheeses, however, is

greater when working on a small scale,

and such cheesemaking on the farm can

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I have a cow thatgives starchy milk.

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cause and is there a remedg ,

Osceola Co. UBSCRIBER.

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no doubt but what he has a case of ropy

milk. Ropy milk is caused by the ropy

milk bacteria which has got onto the

udder of his cows and possibly into the

milk ducts of the teats. This is not a

serious proposition, and can be easily

remedied by washing the udders of the

COWS and all dairy utensils thoroly with a

5 per cent solution of carbolic acid. This

will destroy the bacteria. Cows that

have access to marshy pasture, or COWs

that run in wet pastures, especially in

the spring of the year when they are in-

clined to be muddy, and in muddy lanes

or barnyards, are apt to get this ropy

milk bacteria. Wash the dirt from the

udder of the cow and then wash the

udder with the 5 per cent solution of car-

bolic acid and also rinse the dairy uten-

sils, pails, strainers and cans and every-

thing that the milk touches, with a 5 per

cent solution of carbolic acid. If this is

done at once I think there will be no

further trouble. The cows’ udders and

teats should be washed with this solution

two or three days in succession.





BEET TOPS AND PULP FED T0 COWS

DO NOT IMPAIR MILK.





 





I 'wouldvlike to know whether or not

there is anything detrimental to health

in the use of milk from a cow that has

been fed on beet tops and beet pulp. For

my part I can’t see why it should be;

but there seems to be quite a little comu

plaint about the flavor and the smell of

milk from cows which have been fed this

way. Also, what is your opinion in re-

gard to feeding brewers’ grains?



Bay County. F. E. S.



Milk from cows fed beet tops is not

detrimental to health; but if the tops are

fed in excessive quantities, they give a

strong odor and taste to milk, which

makes it repulsive to taste, and thus un-

fit for food, but not injurious to rhealth.

Many other rank green foods will produce

like results, as rape, cabbage, turnips,

and even green immature corn and clover.



If the farmer is careful and feeds only

a small amount at first until the cows

become accustomed to the feed. and then

never feeds to excess, the difficulty rarely

.‘oecurs. The trouble. with many farmers

is that as soon as they have their beets

harvested, they turn their cows from a

dry, bare pasture into the beet field and

let them eat all they want. This injures

the cows and taints the milk.



Fresh brewers’ grain is good feed for

rows, if the same precaution is taken in

ieeding. Sometimes brewcrs’ grains fer—

ment exclusively bcfore they are fed,

and then they are abs<ilutely unwhole-

some and unfit for food. lirewers’ grains

are not fit for cow feed when in an ac-

tive state of fermentation and the sameo

can be said of any other food. As a mat-

ter of fact, we have a law which prohibits

the use of any food in an active state of

fermentation for milch'cows, that is, cows

giving milk that is offered for sale as a

food. SOme people have. tried to streich

this law so it would cover ensilage; but

it does not apply because, While ensilage

ferments slightly at first, the fermenta-

tion soon ceases as no air can get to it

and when it is fed it is not in a state of

fermentation at all.





MORE SILO QUESTIONS.





 





Answer thru the columns of the Mich-

igan Farmer, the following questions in

regard to a lath and plastered silo: 1,

How wide, long and thick should the

lath be? 2, Is an 8-foot silo practicable?

3, How high must the silo be to secure

good results? 4, How rich should the

plaster be? 5, How often will a silo have

to be replastered, and are hemlock 2x4‘s

good enough for studding? 6, Please tell

how to make the, circular sill, that is, how

long should the separate pieces of which

it is made he? 7, HOW do you secure air-

tight doors? 8, Does the acid of the

silage cause the plaster to come, off?



Allegan Co. C‘. HARRINGTON.





First. It does not matter so very much

about the Size or the length of the lath,

providing you can bend them around to

fit the studding. I know of a man who

built a lath and plastered silo a year

ago and lathcd it with common house

lath and plastered it arid he said it proved

satisfactory. My own silo that I have

just built and am just filling is lathed

with a patent board lath. This is simply

hemlock boards matched, grooved out

with a machine so that it will hold mor-

tar. These we could not spring at all

and had to cut them up into 16—inch

pieces and nail them on each studding.

That is the only way that we could get





 





them evenly on the studding. Now, ac-

cording to the evidence we have, ’you can

use a lath a quarter of an inch thick,

or you can use one an inch thick, it

doesn’t matter very much. I prefer to

use the three-quarter inch lath because

it would make a stiffer wall and less apt

to crack.



Second. Is an eight-foot silo prac-

tical? Earlier, I did not think it would

be, but I know of a party now who has

a six-foot silo. This is a stave silo made

to order, and put up in good shape and

he says it is entirely practical, the en-

silage keeps well'and he feeds a small

number of cows from it. Consequently,

I believe that an eight—foot silo, lath

and plastered the way you intimate would

be entirely" practical. .



Third. How high must the silo be to

secure good results? The higher the bet-

ter. It ought to be 25 or 30 feet high to

be practical. My new silo is 15 feet in

diameter and 50 feet high. There isn’t

any question but What height is the way

to get capacity in a silo. You don’t want

too big a feeding surface because the

ensilage will be apt to spoil, but you

can put it into the air just as high as

you can fill it.



Fourth. The mortar for plastering on

the inside should be made of clean,

sharp sand and cement mixed two parts

sand and one part cement.



Fifth. My old silo is not exactly a

lath and plastered silo; but it is a brick

lined silo and then plastered on the in-

side of the brick, which would be prac-

tically the same thing. This has now

been in use some eighteen years. Last

year the bottom tWelve feet of this I

replastered, because the cement began to





 





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get a little bit honeycombed by the ac-

tion of the acid of the ensilage, but this

is the first time it was ever replastered.



Sixth. Hemlock 2x4’s are what I used

in my silo and they hold. There is

strength enough because every lath on

the inside and every clapboard on thel

cutsidc acts as a hoop.



Seventh. \Vith regard to making the;

circular sill. I don't know as I can explain

it. Any carpenter can make you a pat-

tern. I had the carpenter make the pat—

tern and then took it down town to a

small circular saw and had the lumber

sawed out. -The pattern was about two

feet long and we sawed all the pieces the

same length because it would cut the

lumber to less waste. Then when you

put on the sill, of course you put it so

the pieces mls-match and nail them to—

gether. which makes them'strong.



Eighth. To secure air tight doors, we

leave the studding where the doorway

comes just a little farther apart than the

ciher studding so as to make the opening

large enough for a man to go thru hand-

ily. Then "we, lath and plaster and side

up on the outside at the bottom. up say

three feet. then put in a regular door

frame in between these studding and put

cleats on the inside of that on the same

principle as a window stop. Then make

a door out of matched lumber with tarred

paper between. doubling it, and make it

so that it will just fit into this opening

and jam against the stops in the door

frame or window frame, whatever you are

a mind to call it.



Ninth. The acid of the silage does after

a time injure the plaster. There isn’t

any question about that. It is a. good

plan the second ycar before you fill the

silo around the bottom where the ensio

lage has remained for the longest time,

to whitewash it with cement whitewash

before you fill. You can do that every

year and it will prevent the action of the

acid of the silage very materially. But

this action is very slow, indeed. A good

cement plaster will last a long time even

if it isn't whitewashed, but it, will be

preserved longer if it is whitewashed

every year or two. Then at the end of

fifteen or sixteen years, if it is necessary,

you can simply plaster over the old,

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MICHIGAN FARMER.





 





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From Novembcr 1 to April 1, many club

raisers make good wages by giving full

time to the work. They began by raising

small clubs.



We furnish sample Cypies, premium

books and other club raisers' supplies

free, scnt whcn askcd for.



Agents are privileged to offer free

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subscribers.



Write now for terms, etc.



THE MICHIGAN FARMER,

Detroit, Michigan.





 





CURRENT COMMENT.





 





 





The pure food agi-

tation has in rcccnt

years direclcd the

attention of the pub-

lic to the composition of the foodstuffs

which they have heretofore supposed

were entirely wholesome, but which they

have learned were eithcr unclean, impure

or adultcrated with injurious substances.

This agitation resulted in the enactment

of strict laws governing themanufactu-re

and sale of food products and now both

National and State departments keep a

careful watch of the food products that

are manufactured and sold within their

jurisdiction.



There is perhaps as great a need of

wholesome agitation for pure reading

matter in the home as there was for

1he agitation for pure food upon the

home table. This is the age of reading

matter. Much of the reading matter pub—

lished in journals of even fair repute is

hardly suitable for the farm family read~

ing table, for the reason that it is not

true to nature and does not teach the

young people the wholesome lessons which

should be imbibed by them. Tales of





Pure Food

vs. Pure Reading.





thrilling adventure may not in themselves

be harmful, provided they are true to

rature and carry with them a wholesome

lesson for the young mind,





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. Thégreat momma

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every member of the ram Is apt. to get“

into careless habits of reading. Instead

of a them -or fruitful, reading of one or

a few at most, there is a careless skim-

ming over of many. This habit is usu-

ally acquired by the older members of

the family and is almost certain to be

formed by the younger ones if, they are

given’the opportunity. Hence it is in-

cumbent upon the parents in every home

to make a careful selection ofthe-litera~

ture which is to find a. permanent place

upon their library table. The’young' peo-

ple should have free access to the read-

ing matter which is admitted to the home

and the parents should not consider for

a. moment that they have the right to

read literature of a. class that they should

not permit their children to also read.

\thther they think it or not, their own

choice in reading matter will greatly af-

fect the choice of the younger members

of the family. No book or periodical

should be allowed in the home which does

not help to build a staunch character

and inspire the reader with high ideals.



In selecting reading matter for the

young people, the parents are selecting

their companions, for reading is compan-

ionship in the truest sense of the word.

By choosing good mental companions for

them, whether the subject matter be fact

or fiction, we are taking insurance that

their steps in mental progress will be

upward rather than downward. We say

fact or fiction because the boy or girl

who has inclinations along any particular

line will, if given the opportunity, read

much of fact which will help to develop

their faculties and give them a. useful

bent in life. But the love of astory is

deeply implanted in the human breast.

\i’hat boy or girl ever lived that,did not

like a good story. The stories the young

people read should have a wholesome

moral, and should be carefully selected

with a particular view to the elevation as

well as the entertainment of the young

mind. -



Thus in selecting periodicals for the

home, more thotful care should be given

to the matter than is generally accorded

to it. A good periodical is in itself a

library superior to any that was available

to any home a few short years ago. The

periodicals which find a place on the farm

reading table should -be of the best, each

one the standard of excellence in its line,

and should be adapted to the use of every

member of the family. Too much care

cannot be taken in their selection, since

the selection of pure and wholesome read—

ing matter for the home is of even more

importance than the selection of pure

and wholesome food for home consump-

tion.





 





It is a fact no longer;



The Parcels Poet. disputed by any who

are familiar with 'the



situation that a very large percentage of

the people of the country are in favor

of a. more efficient parcels post, that will

place the postal service of the country

more nearly on a par with that min-

tained by the more advanced foreign

countries in this respect. But altho in

favor of such a movement, the people

are also more or less apathetic in regard

to it and their interest has not as yet

led to that general active support which

would secure the 'enactment of a law

looking toward such improvement at an

early date, for an arouse-d public senti-

ment in this regard would not be denied.

However, there are active forces at work

toward that end, and a vigorous cam-

paign is being waged by the Postal Pro-

gress League, with headquarters in New

Yory City to secure the early passage of

the Bennett Bill, which was introduced

in Congress at the recent special session.

This bill, which is very brief in its

text, provides for the reduction of the

rate now charged for merchandise or

fourth class matter to that now prevail-

ing for third class matter, or one cent

for each two ounces or fraction thereof,

with a provision for charging two cents

for all parcels up to four ounces and one

ccnt for each two ounces thereafter.

This bill also provides for a special parcel

post service between the houses on rural

free delivery routes, or between those

houses and the postoflice or postoffices

on the routes, the charge for delivering

such parcels of prescribed size and shape

being graduated from one to ten cents

each, with a proviso that the carrier shall

not be required to transport a. load of

over 500 lbs. The bill further provides

for the insurance by the government of

all unregistered mail matter up to $10 in

value for such actual loss or damage as

may be suffered thru the fault of the

postal service. The bill also further

provides for the insurance of all regis-

trede mail upon which the registry fee I!





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indemnityfio be; flied- withonpne your.

Without. doubt. the provisions 91 this

bill. the text of which will be given in

these columns ,at-flsome suitable time in

the future, will appeal to a'large per-

centage of our citizens, and especially to

patrons'of rural routes. to whomits pro,-

visions would be a. special convenience.

But an- active. rather .than a passive

interest is needed on the part of the

public if this advantage is to be soon

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HAPPENINGS OF ,THE WEEK.





 





Foreign.

While it seemed that Spain was well

on her way to recover from the drain

made upon the land by declaring war





against Morocco which started revolue,





tion at home when an attempt to raise

forces was made; the- official execution

of Professor Francisco Ferrer, the social—

ist. leader who has been a factor in the

present life of that country by getting





for the masses 3. more liberal education,





and laboring for the general uplift of the

common people, has stirred the land from

one end to the other. Demonstrations

have been held in practically every city

of importance and the revolutionists have

aroused from their temporary lethargy

after the recent disturbances at Barce-

lona and other centers, and are now daily

increasing their numbers and making de-

mands from the government. And not

only in Spain but the whole civilized

world has come forward to show sym-

pathy for the revolutionists and express-

ing profound disgust toward the officials

who must execute such men in order to

gain their ends of government. All over

France, Italy, England, Germany, and

in many of the larger cities of the United

States there were public gatherings Sun-

day where protests were made against

the act of the Spanish government.



It is now rumored that William E. Ma-

goon, former provincial governor of Cuba,

during the intervention of this country.

'will be called to China to take the post

that was a short time ago to have been

filled by Charles R, Crane, of Chicago,

who was, suddenly recalled by the secre-

tary of state as the minister was ready

to sail from San Francisco to Pekln. The

reason for this recall has not been made

plain to the public.



The inhabitants of Greece were some

time ago caused to believe that King

George had intentions of abdicating the

throne and the mutinous army at that

time named the Duke of Abruzzi as the

successor. Now there have been suspi-

cions of another similar intention by the

King since he is asking that his sons

resign from the army.



Tho the military league of Crete still

persist that the abdication of the King

of Greece will be necessary for the set-

tlement of Cretian affairs, it is antici-

pated that no trouble will again arise till





after the election of a new chamber of.





deputies. An attempt is now being made

to delay the elections that the powers

might act with regard to the island be-

fore another crisis is brot on by an es-

irangement in the legislative body.



The visit of the Japanese commission

to this country appears to be largely for

the purpose of introducing American

machinery into Japan where needed ma-

chinery and devices have not already

been introduced. Already purchases of

machinery used in lumbering, mining,

milling, agriculture, fruit-growing, fruit

preserving, and other industries have

been made.



A crater in east Java which had become

filled with water is reported to have

burst and allowed the water to flood the

country below, carrying everything before

it and drowning 600 persons.



Ali Mirza, the deposed czar of Persia,

is seeking a personal interview with Czar

Nicholas of’ Russia, while the latter is on

his way to Italy. The deposed ruler is

now in Odessa.



According to the newe that has reached

this country, the revolutionists in Guate-

mala are getting the upper hand of the

government and have proclaimed Estrada

president of the republic and appointed

Dr. Salvador Castrillo minister to V'Vash—

ington. The revolutionists have occupied

all the ports of importance to prevent the

escape from the country of President

Corinto. The rebels are now collecting

under Estrada at Rama.



Edgar W. Mix, who was the American

competitor in the Gordon Bennett cup

contest between dirigible balloons at Zur-

ich, Switzerland. a fortnight ago, has

been declared winner of the prize. The

decision was held in abeyance for some

days on account of the report that tne

American made a landing during his trip

to Russia.



Count de Lambert, using a V’Vright ma-

chine succcssfully, made a flight above

thc Eiffel tower in Paris, circling 1,300

feet above the streets of the city. He

started at Juvisy. a place thirteen miles

from the city. made the trip to town.

ascended to the record-breaking height

and returned, covering a distance esti—

mated at 31 miles in 49 minutes and 39





seconds. He received a great ovation

when he landed.

Diplomatic correspondence has been





started between the Minister of Spain to

Cuba and the latter government on ac-

count of the demonstrations recently

made in Havana and elsewhere on the is-

land against the action of the Spanish

authorities in executing Prof. Ferrer. .



It is feared that a heavy loss of life

resulted from a cyclone which swept over

Goaianda, a town of Bengal, near the

junction of the Ganges and Brahmaputra

rivers and destroyed all communication

with outside points.



National.



Err-Judge Wm. I. Buchannan. former

minister of the United States to Argen-

tine and Panama, and later special envoy

to Venezuela, died in London, Sunday,





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ernment to attend to many errands of

importance connected— with the South Am-

erican countries, and his work has re-

vived and kept the good feeling of the

nations to the south in many instances

where the conditions were very threaten-

ing. He was born in Ohio, moved to Iowa,

and later became a resident of Buffalo.



The town of Framingham, Mass. is

stirred by the appearance of two notes

calling for $50,000 against the munici-

pality, with no recordof what the in-

struments were given for.



The results of the election to determine

the character of government for the

municipality of Tacoma, Washington.

showed the people favorable to the com-

mission style by a vote of four to one.

The new charter provides that there shall

be a mayor, four counciimen and a con-

troller elected to run the government of

the city.



A gradual grading up of the militiamen

of the national guard has been going on

for the past six years since the Dick bill

was passed by Congress for the purpose,

and now arrangements are being made

by the war department to comply in full

with the requirements of the bill and

place all the companies of the guard upon

the basts of the regular army. This will

provide the troops thruout the country

with the latest equipment of war muni-

tions and will weed out all companies that

have been doing only ordinary work. The

department will be placed on a much bet-

ter basis by the change. . ,



The supreme court of the United States

has sustained the laws of Mississippi and

Tennessee which class dealings in futures

as gambling and out of the protection of

the courts, contracts being made upon

the consideration of futures where prop-

erty is not transferred being unlawful.



Porters on the Ann Arbor and Pere

Marquette trans running thru Livingston

county, were recently arrested and con-

victed by the circuit court of that juris-

diction for selling liquors 0n the trains .

While in dry territory.



Report has come to this government

that a pirate ship is endangering traffic

on the ocean about the Bahama Islands.

But recently a British vessel was ap-

proached and the crew of the alleged

pirate ship attempted to board the Eng-

lish vessel. but were prevented by warn-

ing that they would be‘fired u on. The

government at Washington as dis-

patched cutters to investigate.



The bulkheads have been removed from

the tubes in the tunnel under the Detroit

river at Detroit and now it is possible

for one to go from the American to the

Canadian side thru the subaqueous pas-

sage. The installation of the electrical

equipment will be the next work to be

performed.



After a very strenuous trip thru the

west and southwest. President Taft has

arrived at his brother’s ranch at Gregory,

Texas, where he will be entertained by

hunting Wildcats and other game that

abounds in that vicinity.



Important shipping interests are meet-

ing in Cincinnati this week to consider

the advances promised by the transpor-

tation companies in freight rates. It is

figured that the transportation companies

earnings are 453 per .cent larger than

they were in 1897. The shippers believe

that in the light of the increase there is

no argument that can impress the public

in favor of advancing the rates.



Commander Peary has revised his dec-

laration that he would not go before the

public until the controversy between him-

self and Dr. Cook was settled, and ex-

pects now to go upon the stage while

matters are being decided by the scien-

tific sooicties.





 





 





     





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REPORTS OF LOCAL FAIRS.





 





The Huron County Fair.





The 40th annual fair held under the

auspices of the Huron County Agricul-

tural Society was the most successful in

the history of the organization. Ideal

weather combined with complete prep-

aration for the. event and a liberal at—

exhibits left little to be desired. The

tendancc were conditions which contribu-

ted to its success. From twelve to fifteen

thousand people were present and the

cattle stalls contained some of the best

'herds in the state. The horticulture and

vegetable displays filled all available

space while the art and needle work and

culinary departments were very creditablc

and intcrcsting exhibits. The big halls

were filled with merchants, dealers, and

manufacturers' display, and the races

were the best ever seen on the track.

The automobile race created not a little

excitement, and was an appreciated

novelty.



The Clinton COunty Fair.





In spite of the bad weather the attend-

ance at the Clinton County Fair was

larger than last year. Viihile all the

buildings were well filled the strong fea-

ture was the exhibit of horses and cattle,

This section of the country has been

noted for good horses for a number of

years and the exhibit this year was un-

usually due. Supt. W. S. Bells has had

charge of this department for over ten

years and it is safe to say that he never

had as many nice horses under his charge

as this year.



About a year ago the society built

large new sheds for both horses and cattle

and they certainly were appreciated by

the exhibitors 'this year. The floral and

manufacturers’ hall is also a new build-

ing with a concrete floor. Other needed

new buildings will be built the coming





year.

The Fowlerviii-e Fair.





The 23rd annual fair. of the Fowlerville

Agricultural Societ was held at Fowler—

vllle, Mich, Oct. 53:8. The weather was

all that could'be desired. bringing out

the largest crowd each day ever seen on

the fair grounds- The management pro-

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ball games each day, horse races and

' other features. 'The' floral,~ fruit and

vegetable halls were well filled mm

choice specimens of each kind.



The strong feature of the exhibit was

the show of cattle in the new sheds pro-

vided by the society. This cOunty is the

home of the Holsteins and most of the

cattle shown were of this breed. while

the other breeds were 'Weli represented.



The people around Fowlerville are very

loyal to their fair and most of them at-

tend every day to meet their friends and

neighbors and renew old acquaintances.

In fact, many families hold reunions then,

and at noon time the grounds look as tho

a farmers’ picnic was being held. One

noticeable feature was that a great many

farmers came in automobiles.



W

GOOD ROADS FOR WEXFORD

COUNTY.





 





Wexford county is now splendidly

equipped to make a. proud record for itself

in the direction of road building. In ad-

dition to possession of the county road

system and having as members of our

county board men w‘ho are giving first—

class service, Wexford county now has a.

well organized county good roads assoeia-

tion. This latter organization was formed

in the city of Cadillac, Friday, October 2,

the following oflicers being chosen:

President, Darwin B. Kelley, Cadillac;

secretary, F. H. Meyer, Manton; first-

vice-president, Dr. E, V. Huntley; Man-

ton; second vice-president, R. D. Fred-

erick, Sherman; third vice-president, Wm.

Ball, Haring. The members of the ex-

ecutive committee are: Charles T. Mitch-

ell, Cadillac; Edward Brelim, Clam Lake;

A. B, Southwick, Wexford, together with

the first three officers. The finance com-

mittee are: C. R. Smith, H. R. Beaver,

and A. H. Webber, all of Cadillac. Henry

Ballou, Fred A. Diggins and F. H. Heyer

'Were named as a committee to prepare

and submit a form of constitution and

by-laws, to be acted upon at a later

meeting. It was also ordered that the

president appoint an advisory committee

consisting of one person from each town-

ship in the county. It was provided that

the next meeting of the association be

held in Cadillac on Monday, October 18,

at 2 o’clock.



The general discussions and individual

expressions at the meeting made it ap-

pear that Wexford county people are

fully awake to the value to all of them in

all sections, of roads that will be as good

as possible thruout the entire year.



A feature of the meeting was the stipu-

lation made by W. W. Mitchell, the Wex-

ford county millionaire philanthropist,

who will pay $300 for every mile of state

reward road built by the association dur-

ing the next three years. The improve-

ment to highways is not to be confined

to any particular section but will be dis-

tributed thruout the townships of the

county with a view to improving the

poorest roads, first. ‘



Wexford Co. E. A. N.





CROP AND MARKET NOTES.





 





 





Livingston 00., Oct. 11.—-Rain which

was needed very badly. came yesterday.

New seeding was drying up badly but

will now probably be saved if we ohave

a few weeks of warm weather. Corn

husking, which has not progressed very

rapidly on account of dry weather, will

now be pushed to completion. Bean

threshing now in prograss with the crop

averaging about 12 bu. per acre. - More

wheat sown this fall than usual owing

to the good yields this season and the

high prices. On account of the dry

weather not many pieces were sown be-

fore the latter part of September but it

is up now and looking good. Apples are

scarce and are selling at $1 per bu. from

farmers’ wagons. On account of the high

prices of dairy products this industry is

having a great boom. Good cows are

hard to find for sale. Those offered are

bringing from $65 to $100 per head. Pas-

tures are very short and farmers are

feeding their stock, realizing that it does

not pay to let them get thin even tho

feed is high.



Kent 00., Oct. Iii—Recent snow'flur-

ries greened up the wheat and rye nicely.

More or less husking has been going on

for two weeks but will now be switched

off for potato digging. Few late potatoes

have been dug to date; the work will be

quite general the coming week; the Vines

in many fields are yet green and the

”bark” is not well set on the tubers.

Those who have good cellars are all right.

'We have a stone potato house, built in a

clay bank that has never failed to keep

potatoes in any degree of ripeness. This

is a potato growing section, but where

we formerly got 200 bu. per acre we are

now getting no more than 100 bu. this





year and these are the banner yields. .





Butter, eggs and meat of all kinds scarce

and high in price.

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New Windmill Catalogue.





Fairbanks, Morse & Co., Chicago, 111.,

have just issued a new catalogue of wood

and steel windmills. The theory and de-

tails of construction are analyzed and

published completely for the first time

in this book. Pumping systems and the

new “Femco Underground Force Pump"

are described in detail. The technical

information and practical suggestions

contained in this book ought to be read

by all of those interested in windmill

pumping. Send for a copy of this cata-

logue, mentioning this publication.





 





What the 5A Trade Mark Means.



Probably the most widely known among

the hundreds which identify different

lines of horse goods is the 5A mark on

5A horse blankets. It stands for every-

thing that’s right in blankets—sue,

warmth. weight and long-wearing‘quality.

Many users of blankets will attest that

5A blankets outwear any other kind. It's

all in the quality of the material and

making, and there’s no question of either

in SA horse blankets. They’re the best

blanket value going and worth double

value to any man with a horse.





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Turnlps and Rutabagas.



There is no way of storing these vege-

tables to retain their full freshness and

crisp table quality equal to pit storage.

I prefer deep to shallow pits as the tem-

perature can be held more steady; but

high and dry locations must be chosen

to prevent flooding. Fine, moist earth

shoveled lightly and allowed to sift thru

the heap helps much in keeping them

fresh. When the pit is filled ready for

covering it is better to use a good supply

of straw and only dirt enough at first to

turn the water. Later on this covering

can be increased as the weather gets

colder and an extra covering of manure

may be added.



Regular root cellars or storage houses

will, of course, save all the extra labor

of pitting and this is by far the most

convenient way for stock feeding pur-

poses. Many, however, are not supplied

with these; and for such, pitting is the

only choice. The house cellar is not a

proper storage place for either of these;

for, like cabbage, they throw off very

strong and unpleasant odors. They can,

however, be kept thus in small quantities

without annOyance if the precaution is

taken to cover, them well with moist

garden soil or even sand. When trim-

ming them for storing instead of merely

clipping the tops, with a sharp knife,

rim out the entire germinating core. Rim

broad and deep enough to remove it all,

and they will throw off little, if any,

more odor than potatoes. For home use

this is much more convenient than going

to the root cellar or uncovering a pit in

cold weather.



Squash-es and Pumpkins.



With care in storing, there is very little

difficulty in keeping these, especially the

former, in good condition until spring:

and I have kept some varieties of the

genuine pie pumpkins until well into

March in just as nice condition as they

went into storage. Select those that are

well matured, and make sure that they

are gathered before being touched in the

least with frost. Store in a cool, dry

place as late as safety from freezing will

admit, then remove to a garret where

they will keep cool and dry; but always

safe from frost. Do not pile them but

set them on the floor and, better still,

separate them so that they do not touch.

In this way. well matured specimens can

be kept almost at will.



Wayne Co. J. E. MORSE.





APPLE AND GRAPE CROPS FOR 1909.





 





Apples.



The conditions of the past month as

seen by the correspondents of the gov-

ernment have not been favorable to the

interests of consumers of apples for the

figures of the bureau of statistics on the

crop shows it to be less promising than

a month ago by a half a point; then the

crop conditions were represented by the

figures 44.5 while on the first of October

the figures 43.0 stood as the decision of

the above mentioned correspondents. One

year ago from the same authority the

crop was marked by 48.4 while for the

last ten years an average of 54.1 has

been maintained. This shows the pres-

ent crop to be below normal. If the con—

sumption of the fruit remained steady

the price should be higher than a year

ago. but it is quite certain that people

are more particular now about getting a

fruit supply than in the past and for

this reason there should be a very firm

trade in this department of agricultural

products for this winter. The greatest

difference exists between the present

crop and the ten-year average in the

states to the north of the Ohio and east

of the Mississippi. Speaking of Michigan

in particular, her correspondents place

the crop on the same basis as the ten-

3ear average and 13 points above the

crop of a year ago. Last season we were

complaining that it was necessary for us

to get our apples from New York state

and elsewhere, when we had as good soil

and climate for the production of this

crop as can be found; but this season we

may have the chance to reciprocate for

the apples now being harvested in the

eastern state are placed by the corres-

pondents of that commonwealth 19 points

below the crop of 1908. It appears to

many that the campaign 'for better care

of orchards is having an effect and a

larger part of the crop will be graded

so as to go on the better markets; but it

must not be understood that the differ—

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THE MICHIGAN FARMER





measure of spraying and other benefits

as such a. comparison would be ludicrous

in the extreme. The benefits may be less

or more. Without the improved care that

the orchards are getting it is possible and

probable that the season’s harvest would

be a few points at least below where they

now stand. Whatever we may deduct

from the above in the way of encouraging

better culture it behooves those who

have apples that are fit to go on the

market, to see that they are properly

harvested, packed, and gotten to the

trade centers where they can be disposed

of, or to see that they are stored in good

shape for keeping thru the winter

months.



With grapes conditions are different.

The season‘s crop is marked 2.6 points

above that of a year ago and 2.9 points

above the ten-year average for the coun-

try. Unlike apples the grapes are better

in the section bounded by the Ohio river

on the south and the Missisippi on th

west, with the exception of the far wesi

where the crop averages much above the

normal. In Michigan the estimate is be-

low last year’s but above the normal

crop. The ten-year average for the state

is 76, for last year 90 and for this year

87. The Paw Paw district is reported to

be yielding an excellent crop and those





pie, would throw some rays of guiding

light that would be most acceptable to

willing learners in their several commu-

nities.



We greatly appreciate the .spirit which

prompts so many to feast on apples in

observing the anniversary and we espec-

ially admire the inspiration which moves

many to give apples to those having

none. The constitutions depending en-

tirely upon charities for support appre-

ciate the blessings of the day which brings

them their supplies of fruit for the winter

months.





Illinois. JAMES HANDLY.





THE ADMIRATION OF GOOD FRUITS.





 





At the opening session of the last meet-

ing of the American pomological society,

held at St. Catharines, Ont., Dean Bailey,

of Cornell University, of New York, ad-

dressed the audience upon the above sub-

ject, speaking in part as follows:



In physical perfectness cf form and

solidity and color, there is nothing in all

the world that exceeds a well-grown





fruit. Let it be in the palm of your hand.

Close your fingers slowly about it. -Feel

its firm or soft and modelled surface.

Put it against your cheek, and inhale

the fragrance.





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Load of Grapes Consisting of 500 8-lb. Baskets, Grown by B. M. Cuddeback, of

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growers who have lost money during the

past few years on account of rot and

other troubles are feeling more encour-

aged at the close of this year’s harvest.





 





 





NATIONAL APPLE DAY.





 





Agreeably to the practically unanimous

vote of the horticultural and fruit dealers’

societies of the United States. the third

Tuesday in October has been designated

annually and perpetually as National

Apple Day. The fifth anniversary of the

day is close at hand. During the few

years of observing the anniversary very

much good has been accomplished, altho

it is very apparent that the threshold

leading to the greatest possibilities in

satisfactory results, has not yet been

reached.



In View of the fact that the failure of

the apple crop in many parts of the coun-

try have been exceptionally frequent dur-

ing the past few years, there has ap-

peared an urgent necessity for due thot

and consideration to be given to existing

conditions on at least one day in the

year. The, force of a union of efforts all

over the country, should be most fruitful

in practical results. With a constantly

increasing acreage of orchards in the

(ountry there should not be a constantly

diminishing supply of the distinctively

American fruit.



The harvest of apples this year will

probably not exceed one-half the crop of

69,000,000 barrels gathered in '1896. From

the standpoint of increased acreage of

orchards the yield should be at least

twenty—five per cent greater. It is very

evident that a large majority of apple

growers either are too negligent in fol—

lowing a chosen vocation or are not

capable of controlling emergencies and

becoming masters of situations.



No business or pursuit of any character

is exempt from obstacles and opposing

forces, and it is obvious that a required

amount of ability, associated with com-

mon sense, is imperatively necessary to

reach success in any undertaking. While

unforeseen obstructions come' with dis-

astrous effect at times to all apple grow-

crs, it cannot be gainsaid that those giv-

ing the best attention to their work,

making the most intelligent application

of all available methods, reap the richest

rewards for their labors.



It has been anticipated that on every

anniversary of national apple day our

leading horticulturists, especially those

who are standing as teachers in the tem-





colors, and follow its stripes and mark

its dots. If an apple, trace the eye that

lies in a moul'ded basin. Note the stem,

how it stands firmly in its Cavity, and let





your imagination run back to the tree. ,





from which, when finally mature, it part-

ed freely. This apple is not the only

product of your labor, but it holds the

essence of the year and it is in itself

a thing of exquisite beauty.





like this.





I am convinced that we need much to





cultivate this appreciation of the phy-

sical perfectness of the fruits that We

grow. We cannot afford to lose this

note from our lives, for this may con-

tribute a good part of our satisfaction of

being in the world. The discriminating

appreciation that one applies to a picture

or a piece of sculpture may be equally

applied to any fruit that grows on the

commonest plant in our field. It is no

doubt a mark of a well-tempered mind

that it cannot understand the significance

of the forms in fruits and plants and

apply it in the work of the day.



I sometimes think that the rise of the

culinary arts is banishing this fine old

appreciation of fruits in their natural

form. There are so many ways of can-

ning and preserving and evaporating and

extracting the juices, so many disguises

and so much fabrication, that the fruit

is lost in the proeess. The tin can and

the bottle seem to have put an insuper-

able barrier between us and nature, and

it is difficult for us to get back to a good

munch of real apples under a tree or by

the fireside. The difficulty is all the

greater in our congested city life, where

orchards and trees are only a vacant

memory or stories told to the young.

and where the space in the larder is so

small that apples must be purchased by

the, quart. The eating of good apples out

of hand seems to be almost a lost art.

Only the most indestructible kinds, along

with leather-skinned oranges and with-

ered bananas, seem to be purchasable in

the market. The discriminating apple

cater in the old world sends to a grower

for samples of the kinds that he grows;





and after the inquirer has tested them»





in the family, and discussed them, he

orders his winter supply. The American

leaves the matter to the cook, and she

orders plain apples, and she gets them.



I wonder whether in time the perfec-

tion of fabrication will not reach such

a point that some fruits will be known





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on the package or On the bottli. " Every

process that removes us one step firm"

from the earth is a distifict 1°351t0‘th3

people, and yet We are rapidly coming

into the habit of taking things at second

hand. My objection to the wine of the

grape is not so much a question of ab-

stinence as a fact that I find no particular

satisfaction in the shape and texture or

a bottle. .



If one has a sensitive appreciation of

the beauty in form and 'color and model-

ing of the common fruits, he will find his

interest gradually extending to other

products. Less than one month ago I

visited Hood River Valley in company

with a rugged potato grower from the

Rooky Mountains. We were amazed at

the wonderful scenery, and capitvated by

the beauty of the fruits. In one orchard

the owner showed 11s with much satis-

faction a brace of apples of perfect form

and glowing colors. When the grower

had properly expounded the marvels of

Hood River apples, said to be the finest

in the world, my friend thrust his hand

into his pocket and pulled out a potato,

and said to tin man, “Why is not that

Just as handsome as a Hood River

apple?" And sure enough it was. For

twenty-five years this grower had been

raising and selecting the old Peach-blow

potato, until he has a form much more

perfect than the old Peach-blow ever

was, with a uniform delicate pink skin,

smooth surface, comely shape and med-

ium size, and with eyes very small and

scarcely sunken; and my Hood River

friend admitted that a potato as well as

an apple may be handsome and satisfy-

ing to the ‘hand and to the eye, and well

worth carrying in one’s pocket. But this

"was a high-bred potato and not one of

the common lot.



The episode of the potato allows me

still further to enforce my contention that

we lose the fruit and the vegetable in the

processes of cookery. The custoniary

practice of “washing" potatoes takes all

the individuality out of the product. and

‘ the result is only so much starch.

There is an important dietary side to

this. Cut a thin slice across a potato

and hold it to the light. Note the interior

indifferentiated mass, and then the thick

band of rind surrounding it. The potato

flavor and a lar e part of the nutriment

lies in this exterior. We slice this part

away and fry, boil or otherwise fuss up

the remainder. When we wash it, we go

still further and break down the potato

texture; and in the modern method we

squeeze and strain it till we eliminate

every part of the potato, leaving only a

pasty mass, which, in my estimation, is

not fit to eat. The potato should be

cooked with the skin on, and if it is

necessary to remove the outer skin, the

process should be performed after the

cooking. The only really toothsome part

ofthe potato Is the thick rind, and this

I always eat, when at home. We have

so sophisticated the potato in the modern

disguised cookery that we have practically

ruined it as an article of food, and we

have bred a race of people that sees noth-

ing to admire in a good and well—grown

potato tuber.



I now want to take an excursion from

the potato to the pumpkin. In all the range

of vegetable products I do not know

whether there is a more perfect example

of pleasing form, fine modelling, attrac-

tive texture and color than in a well-

grown and ripe field of pumpkins. Place

a pumpkin on the table; run your fingers

down its smooth grooves: trace the fur-

rows to the poles; take note of its form;

absorb its rich color; get the tang of its

odor; the roughness and ruggedness of

its leaves, the sharp-angled stem strongly

set, make a foil that a sculptor cannot

improve. Then wonder how this mar-

velous thing was born out of your garden

soil thru the medium of one small strand

of a succulent stem.



We all recognize the appeal of a bou-

quet of flowers, but a bouquet of fruits is

not inferior. We have given no attention

to arranging them, or any study of the

kinds that consort Well together, nor

have we any receptacles in which to

effectively display them. Yet, apples

and oranges and plums and grapes and

nuts, and good melons and cucumbers

and peppers and onions, may be arranged

into the most artistic and satisfying com-

binations.



The Admiration of Goad Fruit Trees.



I would feel that I had fallen short of

my obligation if I were to stop, with the

fruit of the tree and say our haste for

lawn trees of new kinds and from the

uttermost parts..we forget that a fruit

tree is ornamental and that it provides

acceptable shade. A full-grown apple

tree or pear tree is one of the most

individual and picturesque of trees. The





 





 





foliage is good, the blossoms as handsome

as those'of fancy imported things, the

fruits always interesting, and the tree is

reliable. The practice of planting apples

and pears and sweet cherries, and other'

fruit and nut trees, for roadside shade

and adornment is much to be commended

in certain places. I know of several

r'oadsides so planted, with wholly satis-

factory results,



But the point I wish specially to urge

in this connection is the value of many

kinds of fruit trees in real landscape

work. We think of these trees as single

specimens, but they may be used with

good result in mass planting, when it is

desired to produce a given effect in a

large area or in one division of a prop-

erty. I do not know that anyone has

worked out full plans for the combining

of fruit trees, nut and berry—bearing

plants into good treatments, but it is

much to be desired that this shall be

done. Any of you can picture a sweep

of countryside planted to these things

that would be not only novel and strik-

ing, but at the same time couformable

to the best traditions of artistic render-

ings.



I think it should be a fundamental pur-

pose in our educational plans to acquaint

the people with the common resources of

the country. If this is accepted, then we

cannot deprive our parks, highways and

school-grounds of the trees that bear the

staple fruits. It is worth while to have

an intellectual interest in a fruit tree. I

kn0w a fruit-grower who secures many

prizes for his apples and pears; when he

secures a blue ribbon. he ties it on the

tree that bore the fruit.





 





PROTECTING YOUR FRUIT TREES.





 





Altho it will be some time before the

fruit trees will be in danger from attacks

by rabbits and mice it is time that pro-

tection against the rodents be given con-

sideration since, if it is necessary to send

for protectors, by the time they are re-

ceived the danger will be with us. There

are many home-made remedies that are

effectual. The mounding of earth about

the base 'of the trunks is all that many

of the most advanced growers provide.

Others feel that the little extra cost of

protectors and the short time required to

put them on is not to be compared with

the insurance that their trees get there-

by. This, of course, may be influenced

by the number of the pests in the differ-

ent locations, as in some places the dan-

ger is not large and the mOunding would

be all that could be asked. while in other

localities where the animals are plentiful.

or the sources of food for them is small,

the danger is multiplied and the extra

precautions are required. Usually where

the protectors are used mounds are also

provided as the shedding of the water

away from the crown of the tree is ad-

vantageous. The temptation to use tars,

and oils on the bodies of the trees should

be discouraged unless the material has

been tried out and the person is aware

of what he is doing, for oils and tars

are often more detrimental to the trees

than the rabbits and mice, the sub-

stance penetrating to the growing

parts, killing the tissue and destroying

the trees. The writer has seen a young

orchard in which a large number of the,

trees ‘had been killed by the application

of a coal tar to the trunks of the trees.

There was no trouble from rabbits or

mice, to be sure, but the remedy did

many times the damage the animals could

have done.



THE RED CRANBERRY.



The cultivation of the cranberry vine

is only possible in certain localities, as

swampy land adjoining a stream or pond

is required. There are a few good bogs

in Michigan, but nearly all of our cran—

berries at the present time are raised in

the states of Massachusetts, New Jersey

and Wisconsin. On the strip of land

called Cape Cod nearly two-thirds of the

cranberry crop of the llnited States is

raised. Dotting all over the Cape and

the adjoining mainland, particularly near

the streams and ponds, are to be seen the

bogs and swamps covered with the cran-

berry vines. When the vines are in full

bearing the ground is completely covered

to a depth of three or four inches; and

down among the vines the berries lie,

half hidden 'by their tiny evergreen

leaves. During the autumn of the year

the cranberry bogs present a picturesque

and animated appearance as the cran-

berry pickers—~a merry group of men,

women and children~gatvher the harvest

of cranberries.



As we suggested before, water plays a

very important part in the raising of the

cranberry crop. Every bog has its stream,

pond or reservoir; and at intervals, banks





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of earth cross the bogs at right angles

to. this stream, in which sluice ways are

set, so that the ditches that divide each

section, like a chess board, can be filled,

or the whole bog turned into a lake. The

bogs are flooded ‘every winter to protect

the vines from frost. When the berries

are ripening in the autumn the thermo-

meter is carefully watched and if there

is any danger of frost the vines are im-

mediately submerged with water or partly

submerged, Not only is the water used

to protect the vines from frost, but it is

also used to protect them from the insect

pests to which they are particularly sub-

zect. On the appearance of the vine

worm in June the vines are covered long

enough with water to drown the pests.

Cranberry vines are set out in hills from

one to two feet apart, from which they

send lout runners, and in a year or two

the ground is covered with a thick green

carpet.



To pick the berries ‘by hand is rather

an expensive method, so machine-pickers

have been introduced into some of the

bogs, also the wooden and wire scoops.

but the hand-picked berries are usually

of a higher grade and for this reason

can command a better market. The ber-

ries are taken from the swamps to the

warehouses where they are run thru a

machine called a separator, that removes

the broken vines and part of the de-

cayed berries, from which they pass to

the screen where they are carefully sort-

ed by hand before they are put into the

crates and barrels ready for the market.

On the large swamps the berries are

picked before they are ripe, and are

stored in the warehouses for a few weeks

until the green color deepens to arbright

red; or perhaps they are shipped in car

loads while still green.





Ohio. M. M. WRIGHT.





 





THE DECAY OF CABBAGE IN

STORAGE.



The loss from decay of cabbage in win-

ter storage has increased to such an ex-

tent in some districts in the past few

years as frequently to make the. growing

of. this crop an almost unprofitable indus-

try. Of the thousands of tons stored

every fall to supply the markets in the

winter, from 10 to 15 per cent is lost an-

nually from decay. Soon after the cab-

bagc is put in the storage house many

of the outer leaves of the heads turn

black and become soft. In order to meet

the, requirements of the market it is nec-

cssnry to pull off several of the outer

leaves, thus reducing materially the size

of the head.



All three of the diseases causing loss

of cabbage in storage may originate in

the field. Black-rot, so far as known,

always results from infections in the

field. An examination should be. made of

all cabbages before storing, and heads

affected rejected. Cabbage. that has been

frozen in the field should either be al-

lowed to thaw and dry before, going into

the storage house or be rejected :llto-

gether, as frozen cabhugcs do not keep

well. The soft rots are less common in

the field, but when they occur are often

very destructive. Loaf—blight is quite

common in some fields, but is usually con-

fined to the outer leaves, which can be

removed before storing.



If a house has been used for one or

more seasons for storage purposes and

there has been any evidence of decay,

ii is a good plan, states L. 1.. llarter,

assistant pathologist of the department

of agriculture, to disinfect the interior

of the building in the fall before new

stock is put in. The, spores of many

fungi and bacteria can retain their vital-

ity for a long time. If they are left in a

house that has not been disinfected from

one season to the next", the newly stored

crop is exposed to infection. Spraying

the, walls, ceiling and benches with about

a half of 1 per cent solution of copper

sulphate or the application of a while-

wash alone, would be, cheap and practi-

cable. The application should be made

long enough before the. house is used for

storage to permit the wood to dry thoroly.



A large proportion of the, decay in

stored cabbage doubtless originates in

bruises due to rough handling. Whole

loads of cabbage have, been seen at the

storage house with scarcely a head not

bruised and torn from careless handling.

Cabbages should be given the same at-

tention that expert fruit packers give, to

apples. The heads should never be

thrown into the wagon when gathering

in the field or thrown from the wagon to

the bin when unloading, but always

passed from hand to hand. The most

important factors in the keeping of cab-

bage in storage, it is stated, are tempera-

ture and humidity. Water should not be

allowed to accumulate in drops on the

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Observeth Yourself in a Glass.





ID you ever stop to hold a mirror

D up to your character and study



the reflection? You are familiar

with every mark and curve of your face,

you have studied the lines of your form,

but what about the inner man or woman,

are you as familiar with the flaws and

defects, or do you overestimate the

beauty?



After reading the various letters in this

department on preserving the good dis-

position, temper and love of man and

woman, for that is what they really

mean, I wonder if the readers and writ-

ers of them all, have ever stopped to

carefully consider themselves before they

passed judgment.



We fret and fume at the treatment we

receive from our associates without ever

considering what our attitude and actions

do to influence them. We are unconscious

of the feeling and subtle atmosphere we

radiate to those about us. If we doubt

them, if we do not feel at ease with

them, and have no strong sympathy with

their likes and_dislikes, we unknowingly

impart to them that feeling, without ever

having to tell them in so many words.

Their inclinations toward us are there-

fore based, to a great extent, on what we





hold toward them. When first we meet

a man or woman, We feel instinctively

whether they like us, or are merely,in-

different, and to those in whom we recog-

nize a kindred feeling there is no re-

straint or reserve.



It is our duty to carefully study our

own little personalities and observe how

we influence these about us. Are we

careful to be courteous, to show consid-

eration for their opinions and ideas, or

do we impress them with the feeling, that

we think we know it all and that no one

else’s opinions amount to much. Do we

show by the little deeds that speak louder

than words, that we care to please and

honor them. Do we respect their wishes

and thots and invite their confidences?



But the greatest necessity of all, is

that of thinking right. Do not think ill

of those about you. Dispel any unkind

thots and cherish only that which is good.

If we do not dwell upon ourimagined ill

treatment, by others, it will cease to

annOy us, and we will find, by believing

the best of them, the mental suggestion

will eventually take effect and produce

the desired results in both your life and

theirs.



ELISABETH.

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A ROSARY 0F JOYS.





 





There are so many sorrows in our lives,—

Oh, let us take the little joys we find

And thread them like a rosary of pearls,

To count them o’er and keep them all



in mind.





A day of sunshine where we looked for

ram,

A sudden bird-song when the skies are





may:

The first frost-painted leaf that flutters





own,

The breeze that blows some vexing thot

away;





The sleep that bears us far from toil and

care,

And gives new strength to meet the

day’s demand,





And oh, above the rest, the faithful

friends

Who always love and always under~





stand.

Yea, life hath many sorrows for us all,

And hearts grow faint with long—con-

tinued ill;

But let us clasp our rosary of iovs

And hold them in our dear remembrance

still.





HALLOWE’EN FROLICS.

BY MAE Y. MAHAF‘FY.

The mystery and charm which have

long hovered about the night of October

31, All-Hallow Eve, gives the would-be





entertainer numerous opportunities to

provide unique amusements for her

guests. It goes without saying that the





sports will be presided over by one witch

or more, as may be planned. All the

guests may be requested to come in witch

array, or one person may assume that

role for the evening, preferably an older

party who will not be disappointed if

unable to mingle in all the various games

and frolics.



It is not a difiicult matter to dress up

as a witch, the loose robe should be of

black cambric, with ample sleeves. The

hat should be from flexible black card-

board, or, if another color is used, glue

black cambrie over it. It may be, orna-

mented with a huge spider web marked

on with white crayon, in the center of

which nestles an artificial spider. A few

wrinkles marked on the face with char-

(oal and deeply darkened eyes will help

to give the wearer of the costume a weird

appearance. The hair should be left

losely flowing if a woman assumes the

part, or raveled rope may be made into

a wig for a man.



If a black cat is attainable allow it to

accompany the witch, and to increase its

uncanny appearance a little phosphorus,

obtained from a drug store, may be rub-

bed on its fur. The witch should be pro-

vided with a broom, preferably of the old

fashioned variety.



This witch may perform various duties

during the evening, first meeting the

guests at the door and pointing with her

broom to the stairway or room where

wraps are to be left. Over the door of

this room a huge Jack—o—lantern should

be placed, while all about the, premises

these weird lights should be found in

every conceivable place, and of all sizes.

Later on the witch may assume her posi-

tion near a cauldron or kettle mounted

.on a tripod, under which fagots covered





with phosphorus, or a dish containing salt

and burning alcohol apparently keeps the

brew a stewing. This brew should be

nothing more or less than a molasses

candy syrup, which she ladles out to each

guest in turn in tiny cups of ice cold

water which they are previously provided

with. As the syrup strikes the icy water,

being poured rather slowly with various

strange and queer incantations by the

dispenser it naturally forms into odd and

frequently unusual shapes, and if by any

manner of conjecture these can be made

to assume an initial, that initial will

surely be that of the surname of the re-

cipient’s future mate. And with the

enveloping mystery which surrounds the

night there are sure to be numerous ini-

tials found, for who wants to remain for-

ever in that “state of single blessedness”

so often prated of.



Later this pretentious'lndividual may

distribute fortunes from a hallowed out

cabbage head carried as a dish. These

fortunes should be written beforehand on

slips of paper and encased in English

walnuts from which the meats have been

removed, the halves of the shells being

glued together again. Reading these for-

tunes aloud will add to the pleasure of

the company, particularly if a number

of them are of a comic. type. Almost any

one can frame a few of such doggerels

as the following, suitable for these oc-

easions:





“Be not down—hearted, your lover is true;

He’s been long in coming, but is about

due."





“Reside a river far away,

Your loved one longs for you today."





"Toil and trouble will pass away,

Joy and wealth will be yours some day."





“This very night your fate you‘ll see,

His name begins with the letter B.”





“A wedding ring in the distance gleams,

Insuring wcaUh and pleasant dreams.”





"A wise and witty maiden, with heart as

good as gold,



15 patiently waiting for you to tell the

story 01d.”





“Fame and fortune await you no doubt,

But all too late you will find out



That maidens are not all good and true,

But some are fickle and foolish, too.”



Another mode of telling one’s fortune

is to hang an embroidery hoop from the

chandelier or door caseing, and allow

each guest three trials at throwing a

small ball, marble or apple thru the

circle. If successful at the first attempt

it denotes an early engagement; if at

the second, a wedding Within three years,

but if not successful until the third trial

marriage will not come until late in life.

f one fails to put the ball thru the circle

in the three trials they are doomed to

maidenhood and bachelordom.



Still another test is that of the charmed

saucers. Three saucers are placed in a

row, one containing flour, denoting mod-

erate wealth; one corn meal, insuring

riches, and the other is left empty, desig-

nating poverty. The participants are

blindfolded in turn, the saucers changed

about each time, and each allowed to





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touch one of them to learn how much of

this world’s riches are to be his.



Such merry, old-fashioned games as

“hide-and-seek,” “hunt, the thimble,"

‘fblind-man’s buff,” “drop the handker-

chief,” etc., may be indulged in at inter-

vals, winding up at midnight with a hunt

for the Witch herself, who has to all ap-

pearances flown'away on her broom-stick,

but who in reality is hidden in some

near-by corner, ready to give a merry

chase to one who finds her, scattering as

she goes tiny packages containing souve-

nirs of the evening. These need not be

expensive, since all sorts of fitting gifts

are procurable for small sums in the

stores at this season of the year, or may

be made at home by nimble fingers. Lit-

tle stamp books may be cut from orange

colored paper, shaped to represent a.

pumpkin, with a Jack-o-lantern face

marked out on one side with ink. It

should be in the ‘form of a double pump-

kin, folded together along one side, with

several leaves of oiled paper between,

caught in this fold. A pen-wiper is made

by slashing a strip of soft leather or

Chamois into a fringe, and winding it on

one end of a lead pencil or other smooth

stick, broom-fashion. Tie in place with

narrow ribbon, continuing to wind the

same diagonally around the handle to the

opposite end. Other pen-wipers may be

made like the Witch’s hat, only on a

small scale, with several thicknesses of

felt or flannel under the brim. Artificial

snakes, toads, spiders, apple and orange

pin—cushions, brownie match boxes, etc.,

are all suggestions which may be carried

out in this list of gifts, if desired.



Refreshments for Hallowe’en need not

be of an elaborate character, but should

be substantial,, since the romping games

are usually the forerunners of a. good ap-

petite. Sandwiches, apple and nut salad,

pumpkin pie, coffee, cider, nuts, marsh-

mallows, and the inevitable fortune cake

with its ring, thimble, etc., will be ap-

propriate, whether passed around the

room, or served at table. If a table is

used it must, of course, be gaily deco-

rated in the usual trophies of this old-

time "cabbage night."





 





NEWSPAPER MADE OF DOUGH.





 





A newspaper which can be eaten after

the information it contains is absorbed,

thus affording nourishment for the body

as well as the mind, is being published

in Paris, and is called the Regal.

printed with an ink guaranteed non-

poisonous, on thin shets of dough.



Another freak newspaper, the Lumini-

aria, is published in Madrid. The ink

with which it is printed contains a small

percentage of phosphorus, so that the

letters are visible in the dark, and the

reader does not need to make a light to

enjoy its contents.



At two French seaside resorts news-

papers called lie Courier des Baigneurs

and La Naide are printed on waterproof

paper. so that the subscriber can take his

morning paper with him into the sea and

read it while taking his bath.



The climax of utility is reached in Nor-

way, where some of the newspapers use

so tough a quality of paper that it can be

cut into strips and twisted into service-

able rope when all the news is read.





BEAUTIFUL AND INEXPENSIVE

PLAQUES.





BY CARRIE E. HOUGHTON.





Many ladies in seeking wall decorations

have entirely overlooked an art that was

very popular a number of years ago, the

molding of plaques and other ornaments

from the ordinary plaster of Paris.



Very pretty molds are, at hand in orna-

mental dishes that have a border of a

deep design; the pictures to be mounted

in this manner are first cut out entirely





It is.





from all background and then wet with.

water and placed face down in the bot-9





tom of the dish you use for the mold;

then mix your plaster of Paris solution,

to the thickness of thick cream, and pour

upon this until the dish is entirely filled.



Vthn dry this becomes very white,

quite hard and durable, if the finer grades

of plaster Paris are used, such as can be

secured at drug stores; it will adhere

closely together in drying and make a.

much smoother surface than the common

grades.



If you desire to gild the plaque, as soon

as it is dry, apply a coat of shellac, then,

when this is dry, a very fine effect can

be produced with the ordinary bronze

powders, mixed very thin in Japan dryer,

instead of the usual “size” used. This

solution dries very quickly and produces

a much better luster, and a more perfect

imitation of genuine gold leaf work, than

can be produced by the usual method.





 





 





 





 





coronER 23. 1909.





A “NEWS NERVE

Broken by Coffee and Restored

by Postum.





A banker needs perfect control of the

nerves and a clear, quick, accurate brain.

A prominent banker of Chattanooga. tells

how he keeps himself in condition:



“Up to 17 years of age I was not

allowed to drink coffee, but as soon as I

got out into the world I began to use it

and grew very fond of it. For some years

I noticed no bad effects from its use, but

in time it began to affect me unfavorably.





 





My hands trembled, the muscles of my V





face twitched, my mental processes

see-med slow and in other ways my sys-

tem got out of order. These conditions

grew so bad at last that I had to give up

coffee altogether.



“My attention having been drawn to

Postum, I began its use on leaving off

the coffee, and it gives me pleasure to

testify to its value. I find it a. delicious

beverage; like it just as well as I did

coffee, and during the years that I have

used Postum I have been free from the

distressing symptoms that accompanied

the use of coffee. The nervousness has

entirely disappeared, and I am as steady

of hand as a boy of 25, though I am

more than 92 years old. I owe all this

to Postum.” “There's a Reason.” Read

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OCTOBER 23, 1909.

SHALL KISSING BE ABOLISHED?





 





BY E. E. R.



That kissing is unsanitary, in a. great

number of instances, none can deny.

That the agitation of hygiene and the

application of hygienic principles is hav-





v-ing the effect of awakening increased in-





terest along the line of more sanitary

living, is also a fact. That these princi-

pels demand the abolishment of kissing

may not be so far out of the way as may

“Ancient and honorable,"

sanctioned as it is by Holy writ, the

outward sign of affection, supposedly at

least. Neverthel ss. good health and pre-

vention of the pread of disease would

seem to deman that the practice should

be checked, if not altogether abandoned.

Between those whose affections are





.1 strongly intertwined, a certain sacredness





is connected with the act, and as such,

under circumstances wherein no actual

menace to health is involved, there can

be no harm. But where, as is often the

case, one of the participants is ill, pos-

sibly of an incurable disease, such a

menace exists, is a foregone conclusion.

Not very long ago the attention of the





‘ public was called to the dangers lurking





in many of our time-honored customs.

Among the things placed under ban were

the drinking cup and the towel used in

public places. The practice of permitting

a child to sleep with an aged person has

also been shown to be detrimental. The

suicidal practice of shutting fresh air out

of our homes, especially sleeping rooms,

is generally acknowledged to be essential

to health whereas, but a few years ago

hardly anybody paid any attention to this

most important subject. While possibly

not so vitally dangerous as some of these

practices, the kiss, under favorable cir-

cumstances actually may become a source

of contamination and disease.



Sensible parents now forbid the kissing

by admiring friends, which in former

years was forced upon infants, yet it is

nothing at all uncommon to see a babe

virtually smothered with caresses from

some one person whose personality the

little one, could it speak, would undoubt-

edly repulse.



The full beard inflicts torture upon

baby flesh albho it belong to the parent.

If a beard is laden with tobacco fumes,

the sitaution of the helpless creature is

still worse. How many times we have

seen the combination and the caress,

while the child struggled to free itself

from the infliction. Kissing a little child

ought to be strictly forbidden by the par-

ents, nor should they themselves trans-

gress the rule.



The habit of kissing promiscuously, up-

on any and all occasions, when woman

meets woman, is utterly senseless, and

void of meaning, and the sooner it 'be-

comes obsolete the better. Who will be

the‘ first to start the movement and run

the risk of being misunderstood by {her

women friends?



,,

MRS. C. U. C. WRITES AGAIN AND

SOME POINTED PARAGRAPHS

FROM OTHER LETTERS.





 





After reading the article by a "Mere

Man,” on the “Preserving” question, I

feel that I must speak again. I admit

the truth of a good many things he says,

and I’ll tell you right here, if I were a

man and had one of those “henpecking,

nagging wives,” I’d do somethingdes-

perate and do it quick. If there is any-

thing I despise it’s a fault—finding crank.



If you’ve got a husband that’s good

to you and appreciates your sweet appli-

cations, I say, pile it on, much as you

want to or think he can stand. But I

also say, that when a woman or man

feeds sugar, and the other reciprocates

with vinegar, it is about time to quit

wasting your time.



Now, “Mr. Mere Man," here is a little

story for you, (you have a false impres-

sion of Mrs. C. U. C., I assure you). A

young man and woman marry. She sees

no faults in 'him. She is extremely tender

hearted and, bearing that in mind, is

very careful to be considerate of other

people’s feelings. especially those of her





 





husband. She finally discovers he has

a high temper and when disagreements

arose and a storm threatened, she hast-

ened, always, to take the blame and

apologize just in order to have the white

flag flying, and I say that is where she

made a mistake. He soon got to think-

ing she was always Wrong, and never

that of offering an apology to her.



She always kept herself and house as

neat and tidy as their means and her

health would permit. Served the meals

on time and cooked them to the best of

her abuuy; took gbod care of the baby,

and very seldom took a “day off." There

came a time when the baby was so ill

as to require all the care the mother

could give it. The father's work, I admit,

was pressing. The mother was obliged

to ask him to perform a few tasks in

the house. He becomes angry at having

to leave his work, and roughly tells her

that he will hire a. nurse if she can get

nothing done.



At another time, after she had tried

very hard to do a certain thing and

failed, then asked 'him to help her, he

flew into a rage and told her she waited

for him to do everything. Notwithstand-

ing, she had always been perfectly willing

and ready to do anything he asked her

to do and help him in every way. Mr.

“Mere Man," put yourself in that wom-

an’s place. Don’t you think your supply

of sweetness would become exhausted?

That little woman is neither a nagger

nor a fault-finder and values peace and

happiness above everything else in the

world. An occasional pat on the back

and loving word would please her more

than any present he might give her, and

these little things would cost him nothing,



I think this is the secret of so much





 





trouble. So many men and women think

that as soon as the ceremony is performed

which makes them one, it is not neces-J

sary to make love any longer, and they,

begin to show their true colors, and

trouble begins.



If each would strive to keep up thei

part as they first began it, (and it ought

not to be hard to do if they really love

each other), the honeymoon would shine

forever in a clear sky and how many

'happy homes there would be.



Its the little things that count.

husband brot home “limburger cheese" in

the place of coffee, I would not find fault,

but I wish him to be as considerate of

me, if I make a mistake.



Why not organize an “anti fault-find-

ing association,” and see which sex af-

fords the majority of members?



Mrs. C. U. C.





 





 





I don’t believe a woman ever wrote the

first article on “Preserving a Husband."

Some man did it just to hear the women

blow. I am forty-two years old, and

have. as good a husband as they make

them, but am I to give myself the praise

for it? No. He was made before I got

him and I never tried to make him over.



Train the children right, teach them

some of the things they ought to know.

and there won’t be so many thotless hus—

bands and wives.



I quite agree with the article written

by “A Mere Man.” Let us hear from “C.

S." again, whether he or she.



Mrs. T. C. L.





 





I have been quite an interested reader

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Husband." In last, week's issue there

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I want to say a word in reply to him.

I wonder if he ever loses his temper in

‘her presence. or appears before her in

untidy apparel. Whether he, is as gal-

lant to the wife as he was to the sweet

heart.



I wonder if he has a, wife, and if he

pays her all the little, loving attentions

he did in their courting days? When a

boy or girl goes wrong they say, “If they

had the right kind of a mother, it would

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ID you ever stop to hold a mirror

D up to your character and study



the reflection? You are familiar

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you have studied the lines of your form,

but what about the inner man or woman,

are you as familiar with the flaws and

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beauty?



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carefully consider themselves before they

passed judgment.



We fret and fume at the treatment we

receive from our associates without ever

considering what our attitude and actions

do to influence them. We are unconscious

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radiate to those about us. If we doubt

them, if we do not feel at ease with

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their likes and.dislikcs, we unknowingly

impart to them that feeling, without ever

having to tell them in so many words.

Their inclinations toward us are there—

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It is our duty to carefully study our

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than words, that we cure to plivuuo und

honor them. Do We rospcci, their wishes

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A ROSARY OF JOYS.





There are so many sorrows in our lives,—~

Oh, let us take the little joys we find

And thread them like a rosary of pearls,

To c0unt them o’er and keep them all



in mind.





A day of sunshine where we lookcd for

rum,

A sudden bird-song when the skies are





gray;

The first frost-painted leaf that flutters





own,

The breeze that blows some vexing thot

away;





The sleep that bears us far from toil and

care,

And gives new strength to meet the

day’s deman ;

And oh. above the rest, the,

friends

Who always love and always under"

stand.

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And hearts grow faint with long-con—

tinued ill: .

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And hold them in our dcur rcmcmbrance

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HALLOWE’EN FROLICS.

BY MAE Y. MAHAFFY.



The mystery and charm which have

long hovorcd about the night of October

31, All-Hallow Eve, gives the Would—be,

entertainer numerous oppm'tunilics to

provide unique amusements for hcr

guests. It goes without saying that the

sports will bc prcsided over by one witch

or more, as may be planned. All the

guests may be requested to conic in witch

array, or one person may assumc that

role for the evening, prcfcrnbly on older

party who will not be diszimiointcd if

unable to mingle in all the various games

and frolics.



It is not a difficult matter to drch up

as a witch. the loose robe should be of

black cambric, with ample sleeves. The.

hat should be from flcxiblc black card—

board, or, if anothcr color is used, glue

black cambric over it. It may bc orna—

mcntcd with a huge spider web morkcd

on with white crayon, in the center of

which nestles an artificial spidcr. A few

wrinkles marked on the face with char-

(oal and deeply darkened cycs will help

to give the wcarcr of thc costumc a wcird

oppcarancc. The hair should be left

loscly flowing if n womzin tlSSllliit‘S the

part, or ravclod rope may be made into

a wig for a man.



If a black cat is attainable allow it to

accompany the witch, and to increase its

uncanny appearance a little phosphorus,

obtained from a drug storc. may be rub—

bed on its fur. The witch should be pro—

vidcd with a broom, preferably of the Old

fashioned variety.



This witch may perform various duties

during the evening. first mcciing the

guests at the door and pointing with her

broom to the stairway or room where

wraps are to be left. Over the door of

this room a huge Jack—o-lantcrn should

be placed, while all about the premises

these weird lights should bc found in

every conceivable place, and of all sizes.

Later on the witch may assume hcr posi-

tion near a. cauldron or kettle mounted

on a tripod, under which fagots covered





faithful





with phosphorus, or ii. dish conmining null

and burning ulcohol nppnrontiy lumps tho

brcw u sicwing. 'l‘hin brcw Hhould bo

nothing more or lcsn than n inoiiuoicn

candy syrup, which she built-n out to ouch

ghost in turn in tiny cups of im- cold

watcr which tlu-y lll't' prcviouriiy provide-d

with. As iilt‘ syrup Hirilics the icy Willt‘l‘,

licing Dillli‘t'ti ruihi-r slowly with vnrloim

sirongc and duct-r incuninllonu by tho

dispcnscr it luiliirully i'ornin into odd nnd

frcilncnily unuHunl Hilitllt'H, illili if by our

mnnncr oi' conjcciurc tin-no cnu bo mode

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(‘iiliclil's l'liiiil'c lliltli‘. And Willi iliu

chi-loping mysicry which surroundn tho

night iln-rc uro sure to bo humorous ini-

iiilih‘ found, for who \\'iiiil.~i lo l‘i‘lililiil for».

our in that “shitt- ot‘ ninglo blcnrtcdiu-un"

so oftcn prulcd ol'.



Lutcr this prcicntlous'ini’llviilnnl muy

distrihutc i'ortuni-H from n luillowcd out

('iibbiigi- hcnd cui'i'icd llH ll dish. 'l‘liorio

forluncs should bc wrillcii ln-i'orcluind on

slipH oi' pupcr und cncnsi-d in i‘iliHiiHil

walnuts from which lhc mcntri litiyc bccn

rcntoycd, ihc liiilvcs of thc rahclls lit-lug

glucd iogclhcr iig‘uin. ilciiiiing' lhcuo for

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thc company, pui'llculurly If u uninbcr

(if illt‘ln 211w iil' ll i'iIIiiit‘ lyllt‘. :\illlilrli illlY

onc can t'rnmc n NW of such doggcrcln

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“lic not down-lictirlcd. your lover in li‘llt‘:

Ilc's bccn long in coming, but is nboni

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”Poll and troublc will puns nwuy.



Joy and \vculth will bc yours some day."

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That liizildclm urc not all good and itnc,

.llui sonic arc tlcltlc and foolish. too "



Anotlicr niodc of iciliug out"). t'ortnuo

is to hang on cmbroidci'y hoop from tho

chundclt’cr or door cuscinu, and alto“-

t‘llt‘il gin-st lhrcc ti'hils Ni throwing .-i

Milnll bull. morblc or upplc ilil'll tho

circlc. lf succcssfnl ill the ilrsi uttcmpt

it dcnotcs on curly cngugbincnt: it Hi

thc sccond, tl wcdding within llll‘i‘i‘ your»:

but if not succcssl‘ul until thc illihl trlol

nuirrizigc will not conic until lzitc in “to

if onc foils to put thc ball thru the cli'clo

in thc ihrcc trials thcy tire doomcd lo

muidcnhood and buchclordom.



Still zinotlicr icst is that of the clmrmcd

suuccrs. 'l‘hrcc szincci‘s arc. pluccd in :1

row, one containing ilour. dcnotlng mod“

t‘l‘zlli‘ wculth: onc corn meal. insuring

riches, and the other is left empty. dcslg.

noting poverty. The participants ul‘c

blindfolded in turn. the suiiccm cluing‘cd

about catch tlmc. and each allowed to





touch one of them to mm how much of

this world’s riches are to be his.



mum merry, olIlcfashitmea games as

“inldo-snd-smxk." ”hunt the thimble,"

"hlindwmsn's huff." “amp the handker-

chief,” «in, may he indulged in at inter-

vals, winding up at midnight with a hunt

for ”to Winch herself, who it!!! to all 8])-

poarunmm fiown away on her broom-stick,

but who in rivniiiy is hidden in some

nmr-hy normvr. ready to give a merry

(hum: to one who finds her, scattering as

the gum: tiny packages containing souve—

nirs of tho awning. 'i'bt'ms need not be

t-xntvnsivv, slow nil surly; of fitting gifts

are pin/rumble for small mung in the

Horus oi this shown: of the your, or may

luv Intiflt' oi hmm- by nimble fingers. Lit-

lib stomp book»: "lily lit! cut from orange

colored minor, show-d to represent a

pumpkin, with n, .lm-k-o-lnniv-rn face

lnoylwii om on low side with ink. It

should ‘bv in ilu- form of it. double, pump-

ltin, foidml together "long orw side, with

novurnt loot/"it ol’ oiled rmpor between,

mimht in this told. A pen-wiper is made

by sloshing n. strip of soft leather or

chmnoin into a fringe, and winding it on

“no cnd or it loud pencil or other smooth

riit'k. broom~i’:i~bion. 'l‘li- in place with

norrow ribbon, rontlnuim,r to wind the

nnino diagonally nround ibi- handle to the

opporiilo 4-nd, (lilo-r pcn-wlyn-rg may be

lnm‘iu lilo» llit' witch's but, only on a

mnnll smile, with now-ml thicknesses of

foil or ilnnncl until-r the brim, Artificial

rnniuvs. tom‘is, Hpii‘ir-rs, npplr- and orange

pin cushions, brownh- mutt-h boxes, etc.,

ni'o nil suggestions which may be carried

out in this list of gifts. if dcsircd.



itci’roitbmcnln for llnllowc’cn need not

iw of on t'illiitll‘liif' r-bnrnctr-r, but should

bu uulmtnniln.l,, ninco tho romping games

urn iminilly the forerunners of n good ap-

puiltc, Hundwichr-M, opph- and nut salad,

pumpkin pin, coffee, cidcr, nuts, marsh-

nmllown, nnd the inevitable fortune cake

with its ring, ihhnblo. old, will be. ap-

proprintc, whether pnsscd around the

ltliiill, or Nl'l'Vt'ti ni tnbiv. if n inblc is

llrit‘t'l it mind, of t'nill'i-lt'. lll' gully d900-

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Auotbcr trcnlt ncwupnpcr, tho Lumini-

nrln, is pnblinhcil in Madrid. The ink

with which It in prlutcd contains a small

pci'coutugo of phosphorus. so that the

hitter.» uro visible in the dark, and the

l‘tlltit'l‘ docs not lli‘t‘il to make n light to

ivuioy its conicnin.



Al two li‘rcncb sonsido rosortq news-

pupcru collcd lc (‘ourlcr dos lluigneurs

and Lu andc uro prinicd on \vutcrproof

pupcr, no iillll the subscriber can take his

morning popcr with him into tho soft and

i‘cnd it whllo inking his both.



The cllnuty of utility is rcachcd in Nor-

wuy, win‘i'c miliii‘ of tho ncwspnpcrs use

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BY E. E. R.





That kissing is unsanitary, in a great

number of instances, none can deny.

That the agitation of hygiene and the

application of hygienic principles is hav-

ing the effect of awakening increased in-

terest along the line of more sanitary

living, is also a fact. That these princi-

pels demand the abolishment of kissing

may not be so far out of the way as may

at first appear. “Ancient and honorable,"

sanctioned as it is by Holy writ, the

outward sign of affection, supposedly at

least. Nevertheless, good health and pre-

vention of the spread of disease would

seem to demand that the practice should

be checked, if not altogether abandoned.

Between those whose affections are

strongly intertwined, a. certain sacredness

is connected with the act, and as such,

under circumstances wherein no actual

menace to health is involved, there can

be no harm. But where, as is often the

case, one of the participants is ill, pos-

sibly of an incurable disease, such a

menace exists, is a foregone conclusion.



Not very long ago the attention of the

public was called to the dangers lurking

in many of our time-honored customs.

Among the things placed under ban were

the drinking cup and the towel used in

public places. The practice of permitting

a child to sleep with an aged person has

also been shown to be detrimental. The

suicidal practice of shutting fresh air out

of our homes, especially sleeping rooms,

is generally acknowledged to be essential

to health whereas, but a few years ago

hardly anybody paid any attention to this

most important subject. While possibly

not so vitally dangerous as some of these

practices, the kiss, under favorable cir-

cumstances actually may become a source

of contamination and disease.



Sensible parents now forbid the kissing

by admiring friends, which in former

years was forced upon infants, yet it is

nothing at all uncommon to see a babe

virtually smothered with caresses from

some one person whose personality the

little one, could it speak, would undoubt-

edly repulse.



The full beard inflicts torture upon

baby flesh albho it belong to the parent.

If a beard is laden with tobacco fumes,

the sitaution of the helpless creature is

still worse. How many times we have

seen the combination and the caress,

while the child struggled to free itself

from the infliction. Kissing a little child

ought to be strictly forbidden by the par-

ents, nor should they themselves trans-

gress the rule. ‘



The habit of kissing promiscuously, up-

on any and all occasions, when woman

meets woman, is utterly senseless, and

void of meaning, and the sooner it 'be-

comes obsolete the better. Who will be

the first to start the movement and run

the risk of being misunderstood by {her

women friends?



.,

MRS. C. U. C. WRITES AGAIN AND

SOME POINTED PARAGRAPHS

FROM OTHER LETTERS.





 





After reading the article by a “Mere

Man,” on the “Preserving” question, I

feel that I must speak again. I admit

the truth of a good many things he says,

and I’ll tell you right here, if I were a

man and had one of those “henpecking,

nagging wives,” I'd do something ,dcs-

perate and do it quick. If there is any-

thing I despise it’s a fault-finding crank.



If you’ve got a husband that’s good

to you and appreciates your sweet appli-

cations, I say, pile it on, much as you

want to or think he can stand. But I

also say, that when a woman or man

feeds sugar, and the other reciprocates

with vinegar, it is about time to quit

wasting your time.



Now, “Mr. Mere Man,” here is a little

story for you, (you have a false impres-

sion of Mrs. C. U. C., I assure you). A

young man and woman marry. She sees

no faults in -him. She is extremely tender

hearted and, bearing that in mind, is

very careful to be considerate of other

people’s feelings, especially those of her





 





husband. She finally discovers he has

a high temper and when disagreements

arose and a storm threatened, she hast-

ened, always, to take the blame and

apologize just in order to have the white

flag flying, and I say that is where she

made a mistake. He soon got to think—

ing she was always wrong, and never

thot of offering an apology to her.



She always kept herself and house as

neat and tidy as their means and her

health would permit. Served the meals

on time and cooked them to the best of

her ability, took good care of the baby,

and very seldom took a “day off.” There

came a time when the baby was so ill

as to require all the care the mother

could give it. The father's work, I admit,

was pressing. The mother was obliged

to ask him to perform a few tasks in

the house. He becomes angry at having

to leave his work, and roughly tells her

that he will hire a. nurse if she can get

nothing done.



At another time, after she had tried

very hard to do a certain thing and

failed, then asked ‘him to help her, he

flew into a rage and told her she waited

for him to do everything. Notwithstand-

ing, she had always been perfectly willing

and ready to do anything he asked her

to do and help him in every way. Mr.

“Mere Man," put yourself in that wom-

an’s place. Don’t you think your supply

of sweetness would become exhausted?

That little woman is neither a nagger





 





nor a fault-finder and values peace and

happiness above everything else in the

world. An occasional pat on the back

and loving word would please her more

than any present he might give her, and

these little things would cost him nothing,



I think this is the secret of so much





 





trouble. So many men and women think

that as soon as the ceremony is performed

which makes them one, it is not neces—j

sary to make love any longer, and theyi

begin to Show their true colors, and

trouble begins.



If each would strive to keep up the

part as they first began it, (and it ought

not to be hard to do if they really love

each other), the honeymoon would shine

forever in a clear sky and how many

'happy homes there would be.



Its the little things that count. If my

husband brot home “limburger cheese" in

the place of coffee, I would not find fault,

but I wish him to be as considerate of

me, if I make a mistake.



Why not organize an “anti fault-find-

ing association," and see which sex at-

fords the majority of members?



Mrs. C. U. C.





 





I don’t believe a woman ever wrote the

first article on “Preserving a Husband."

Some man did it just to hear the women

blow. I am forty-two years old, and

have as good a husband as they make,

them, but am I to give myself the praise

for it? No. He was made before I got

him and I never tried to make him over.



Train the children right, teach them

some of the things they ought to know.

and there won’t be so many thotless hus-

bands and wives.



I quite, agree with the article written

by “A Mere Man.” Let us hear from “C.

S.” again, whether he or she.



Mn. '1‘. C. L.





 





I have been quite an interested reader

of the articles about “Preserving the

Husband.” In last week's issue there

was an article written by a “More Man.”

I want to say a word in reply to him.

I wonder if he ever loses his temper in

'her presence. or appears before her in

untidy apparel. Whether he is as gal-

lant to the wife as he was to the sweet-

heart.



I wonder if he has a. wife, and if. he

pays her all the little, loving attentions

he did in their courting days? When a

hey or girl goes wrong they say, “If they

had the right kind of a mother, it would

have been different,” but how about the





 





 





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Wheat—The tone of the wheat market

has changed a. little the past week. Dur—

ing the.early part the bulls were favored

by firmness but on Tuesday there was

light for the bears and values started in

the downward direction. However, prices

have remained above the best figures of

the last period. The bullish confidence

is largely built upon the demand from

the millers and the conservative selling

of the farmers who have been in a p051-

tion this season to hold onto the crop.

But now that the flour deal shows a little

weakness and the farmers are beginning

to sell their holdings the bears are be-

coming confident that the premiums

which have been necessary to get wheat

for the milling demand, will soon fade

away and that the different grades Will

then go down. But it must not be under-

stood that the flouring business is at an

end, for the mills are running day and

night and most of them have orders book-

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will give the market a good backing for

some weeks, but the orders are not com—

ing as liberal as they were and the trade

is better caught up with the supply. It

is this feature that the bears are counting

on. The world’s movement of wheat .15

heavy. Russia has a good crop and in

some sections of the Danube district there

is plenty of wheat. England has a larger

crop than last year but the quality is

poor. New seeding in this country is

doing well. The price at this date for





1908 was $1 for No. 2 red. Quotations

for the week are:



No. 2 No. 1



Red. White. Dec. July.

Thursday . . . .1.25 1.24% 1.26 1.27

Friday .......1.27 1.26%, 1.28 1.29

Saturday ....1.25 1.25 1.26 1.27

Monday ......1.24 1.24 1.25 1.26%,

Tuesday ..... 1.23 1.23 1.2 1.2514

'Wednesday . .1.23 1.23 1.24 1.25%





Corn.—The influence of the wheat trade

has strengthened the corn deal in spite

of the fact that weather has favored the

securing of the crop. The receipt-s the

past week have not been large. .It is

probable that should a break occur in the

wheat market corn will go down in bar-

mony with that grain. The demand is

good and the visible supply shows an in-

crease of over a half million bushels. .In

1908 at this date No. 3 corn was selling

at 781/2c per bu. Quotations are:





No. 2 Yello4w

Thursda ....... 63 6

Friday y........ .......... 63M, 64%

Saturday ........ 631/, 641/2

Monday .......... ........ (i4 65

Tuesday . . . . . . ........ . 04 65

“Wednesday . . . . . .......... 64 65





Oats—The oat market has been tagging

.the other deals pretty much, the prices

fluctuating to suit the changes in wheat

and corn. But there appears to be a

tendency to lower values. The demand

is, howver, good and the visible supply

remains about where it was a week ago.

Last year at this date we were paying

50140 for No. 2 oats. Quotations for the





.1; re:



wee a Standard.

Thursday ............ .. 42

Friday ..................... 4214

Saturday ......................... 421/;

Monday .......................... 421/2

Tuesday .......................... 41

\Vednesday ....................... 42%,)



Beans—No transactions are being

made in this department. There is a

demand for the legumes. but the sellers





are not in a disposition to sell at the fig~

ures bid. The present crop is known to

be large the figures of different authori~

ties varying from 6.000.000 to 7,000,000

bu. for the. state; but the holders are of

the opinion that all of the surplus over

other years will be needed to make up

for the Shortage in the “hold-overs" from

last year. Cash beans were bid up five

cents on Tuesday. Primary elevators

report heavy receipts from the farmers,

and it appears that the crop is holding

up to the estimates that have been made.

Quotations are as follows:





Cash. Nov.

Thursday .................. $2.00 $1.95

Friday ... ................. . 2.00 1.95

Saturdav ................. .. 2.00 1.95

Mondav‘ .................... 2.00 1.95

Tuesday ................... 2.05 1.95

Wednesday ................ 2.05 1.95





Cl0verseed.—'l‘hi.q trade is active and

the market keeps firm with prices slowly

tending upward. The reports from the

[state do not revise former announcements

that the crop is short. Demand is good.

Quotations for the week are:





PrimegSpot. $02115. Algigkg.

'1‘ ..... R. a .. .

Fijiltirasgay.f.'.ifi.... $2.95 9.10 8.00

Saturday ......... 8.90 9.10 8.00

Mondnv‘ R95 9.15 8.0

'l‘ucsdav .......... 0.00 9.20 8.00

\Vednesday ....... 9.10 9.20 8.00

Rye.—A liberal advance was made in





rve values the past week and the market

is firm on the new basis. Cash N0, 1 is

quoted at 771/20 pcr bu.

Visible Supply of Grain.

This week. Last week.





“’11 eat . . . ............ 25,070,000 22,512,000

Corn ................. 3.493.000 2.017.000

Oats ................. 12,380,000 13,312,000

Rye .................. 576.000 512.000

Barley ................ - ..977.000 3,602,000

4 Flour. Feed, Provisions, Etc.

Flour.———Market strong, with prices





from 100030c above the figures of a week





ago. Quotations are as follows:



Clear ...................... .. .......$5.55

Straight ........... .. .............. $5.00

Patent Michigan . 5.90

Ordinary Patent ............... . 5.75





Hay and Straw.—-Trade is firm. Carlot

prices on track are? No. l timothy, new,

$135000”; No. 2 timothy. $120013: clover.

mixed, $120013; rve straw, $7007.50; wheat

and oat straw, $050007 per ton.



Feed—Market is off from $1003 per ton.





 





 





* Bran, $24





 





er ton'

fine middlngs, $29; cracked corn, $27;

coarse corn meal. ,$27;,, corn and cat chop,

$25 per ton. -



Potatoes.——Recelpts have not materially

increased in amount over those offered a

week ago and with the strong demand

pirces have remained steady.‘_Michlgan

goods "now quoted at. 55@60c per bu, .



Pravlslons.——Family pork, $25@26; mess

pork, $24.50; light short clear, $25; heavy

short clear, $25; pure‘ lard, 1394c; bacon,

18@19c; shoulders, 12%c; smoked hams,

15c; picnic hams, 12%c.



Dairy and Poultry Products.



Butter.——Prices for butter are steady

with those of a week ago. The supply is

reaching the market in fairly liberal

amounts, but none to plentiful to care

for the strong demand of the consumers.

Quotations are identical with last week's

and are: Extra creameries, 300 per lb;

firsts, do., 290; dairy, 23c; packing stock,

21%0 per lb. .



Eggs—No alteration in the prices paid

for fresh eggs. The market is active,

dealing out the fairly liberal receipts to

the calls from users. Fresh receipts

case count, cases included, are quoted at

24c per doz.



Poultry—A rather steady tone prevails

in this deal with prices for all except

hens and broilers unchanged, while these

have been advanced. Quotations are:

Hens, 12c; roosters. 9c; ducks, 12@13c;

geese, 9@10c; turkeys, 15@16c; broilers,

12c per lb.



Cheese.—LSteady. Michigan full cream,

15@16c; York state, 170; limburger, 161,40;

schweitzer, 20c; brick cream, 17¢ per lb.



Calves—Choice to fancy, 11c; ordinary,

9@10c per 1b.



Fruits and



Cabbage.——Steady. $1

per bbl. _



Tomatoes—Prices advancing as season

l(graylvs to a close. Now selling at $1 per



us el.





Vegetables.

Home-grown,





Onions.—-Domestic offerings, $2 per

bbl; Spanish, $1.40 per crate.



Pears.—Bart1etts, $1.75@2.25 per bu;

common, $1091.25.



Grapes—Delaware, 15c; Niagara, 120

per 4—lb. basket; Concord, 17@18c per

8-lb. basket. .



Appl-es.——Best grades, $2.50@3 per bbl;

common, $150092.



Peaches—Michigan grown range in





price from $1092 per bu, according to

grade.



Cranberries—Cape Cod berries selling

at $2.25@2.50 per bu.



Vegetables.—Beets, 50c per bu; carrots,





500 per bu; cauliflower, $1.25 per doz;

cucumbers, 25@30c per doz; eggplant,

75c per dozen; green beans. 75c per





bu; green onions, 1255c per doz; green

peppers. 75c per bu; lettuce. 40c, per hu;

mint, 250 per doz; parsley, 25@300 per

doz; radishes, 8@10c per doz; spinach, 600

per hamper; summer squash, 30c per box;

watercress, 25@300 per doz; wax beans,

750 per bu.





OTHER MARKETS.





Grand Rapids.





Local millers are paying $1.20 for wheat

this week, an advance of 4c over our last

quotations. Corn is a trifle weaker, be—

ing quoted at 64c. Tuesday morning’s

market was given up cliiefiy to potatoes

and apples. Some of the potatoes offered

are not real ripe. Prices ranged from

500060c for small lots. Best apples, largely

Spies and Baldwins, brot 650 by the load.

In dairy products, creamery butter is

up 1/2c. Dressed hogs are. higher than

last week. good hogs bringing 10%c.



Quotations follow:



Grain—“meat, $1.20; oats, 42c; corn,

G40; buckwheat, 650 per bu; rye, 64c.



Beans—Machine screened, $1.75,



Butter.—~Buying prices, Dairy, No. 1.

23@24c; creamery in tubs or prints, 30c

per 1b.



Eggs—Case count, 23c.



Apples.—450?65c; pears, 90c@$1.25;

qulnccs, $2 per bu; grapes, 11@120 per 8

lb. basket.



Vegetables—Potatoes, 50@60c; , toma-

toes. 35@40c per bu; cabbage, 30@40c doz;

cauliflower, $1.50@1.75 per doz; onions,

60c; beets, 40c per bu; carrots, 45c; tur-

nips, 35c; Hubbard squash, 1/2c lb.



Hogs—Dressed, 10@101,éc.



Live Poultry.—Fowls, 10@120: roosters,





 





70080; turkeys, 14@15c; spring chickens,

130M4c: spring ducks, 11@120; young





geese, 9@10c; young turkeys, 1600170.





New York.





Butter.-—Market is firm at improved

values. Western factory firsts, 231/z@25c;

creamery specials. 31%0332c.



Eggs—Firm and higher. Western firsts

to extras, 25@27%c; seconds, 23%@24%c

per doz.



Poultry—Dressed, dull: chickens lower.

Western chickens. 1303161/2c; fowls, 121/201)





151/20; turkeys, 180'r20c per lb. Live—

Wcak. Fowls, 15c; western chickens, 14c;





turkeys, 15c.



Potatoes—Market quite heavily stock-

ed, with trade slow and values very ir-

regular. State and Michigan in bulk, are

selling at $1.500171.87 per 180 lbs.



Grain—VVheat, No. 2 red, $1.21 per bu:

corn. No. 2, 691/gc for old; oats, mixed,

42%0043c for new.



Hay and Straw.—Market steadv at the





higher range of values established last

week. Small bales in large supply and

quiet. Hay. timothy, prime. large bales,





per 100 lb. $1: No. 3 a l. Raw/rm: shipping.





800D82léc: packing. 500F55c: clover and

clover mixed. 700T95c; straw. long rye,





800990c: short and tangled rye, 55@60c;

oat and wheat, 350B40c,





Chicago.

Wheat—No. 2 red, $1.22; December,

$1.04; lVlav, $1.05.

Porn—No. 2, 61006114c; December,

5854c: May, 61c.

Oats—No. 3 white, 39%0r41c; Decem-

ber. 395/,éc; May, 420.





Butter.~Prices higher, with medium

grades in best request and firm. Cream-

tries, 26017300; dairies. 2303280.



Eggs—Steady with prime firsts show-

ing lc gain over last week. Prime firsts,

25c: firsts. 23c; at mark, cases included,





18c per doz.

Hay and Straw—Market strong at

unchanged values.— Quotations: No. 1





GAN FARMER ~

timothy 311500215} No. '2, $13.50@14; Ne:





,‘coarse middling, $259

0. 1 mixed. .$12@13; No. 3 and No.‘





 

 





3, and



mixed, ‘$10.50@11.50; rye straw, $8.50

@950; oat straw, $6.50@7; Wheat straw,

$5.50@6. »





‘ St. Louis.



Grain—Wheat, No. 2 red, $1.27@1.29;

corn, No. 3 white, 62c; No. 3 yellow, 620;

oats, No. 2, 391760; rye, No, 2, 73c.



Hay—Timothy and clover—mixed dull

and easy under liberal receipts. High-

grade clover and alfalfa scarce and in

demand. Timothy, No._ 1, selling at $14@

1.5 per ton; No. 2, $12@13; No. 3, 9@10;

clover, No. 1, $14@16; No. 2, $13; clover

mixed, $12@13.50; alfalfa quotable at $17

@18 for No. 1 and $15@16 for No. 2.





 





Boston. ‘



WOOL—The amount of wool in the hands

of traders for selling is small, which pre-

cludes large transactions, and as the pro,-

duct is well picked up from over the

country those who want the raw material

know about the only plaCe they can get

it is from the hands of brokers. There are

heavy shipments of wool from the stores

here but these are on contracts closed

early. It indicates, however, that the

mills are finding an outlet for the manu-

factured. products and .thereby gives the

deal added firmness. The present con-

tracts are being made with small con-

cerns. Quotations are as follows: Ohio

and Pennsylvania fleeces: XX, 36@37c;

X, 34@35c; No. 1 washed, 40@41c; No, 2

washed, 400; half-blood combing, 37c; %-

blood combing, 37c: M-blood combing,

34@35c; delaine washed, 40@41c. Mich-

igan, Wisconsin and New York fleeces—

Fine unwashed, 25@260; 'delaine un-

31@32c; half-blood unwashed, 34010350;

three-eighths blood unwashed, 34@350;

quarter-blood, 33@34c..





Elgin.





Butter.-—Market firm at 300 per 1b.,

which is last week’s price. Sales for the

week amounted to 685,700 1bs., compared

with 687,500 lbs. for the previous week.





THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





 





 





Buffalo.

October 18, 1909.

(Special report by Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

East Buffalo, N. Y.)



Receipts of sale stock here today as

follows: Cattle, 210 loads, sheep and

lambs, 21,000 head; hogs, 19,200 head;

calves, 1,250.



The bulk of the receipts in the cattle

department today run to the common

grades. The best kinds sold at strong

last week’s prices while the common

grades were a shade lower. Cow and

heifer stuff sold from 150D25c lower. Good

feeding steers were strong and the com—





mon kinds about steady. Good fresh

cows and springs sold strong, others

barely steady. There is not much de-





mand at present for late springers.



We quote: Best export steers, $65000

7: best 1.200 to 1,300-lb. shipping steers,

$6006.25; best 1,100 to 1,200-lb. do, $55001)

35.75: medium 1,050 to 1,150-lb. steers,

$5005.15; light butcher steers, $4.40@4.60;

best fat cows, $4.25@4.50; fair to good do.,

332508350: trimmers, $2032.50: best fat

heifers, $4.75@5.25; fair to good do., $3.75

034; common do., $3.25@3.50; best feeding

steers. 800 to 900 lb. dehorned, $4.50@4.60;

700 to 750 lb, dehorned stockers. $375024;

600 to 650 lb. do.. $3.250D3.50: little com-





mon stockers. $3093.25; best bulls, $42502

4.50: bologna bulls, $3.40@3.60; stock

bulls, $3033.25: best fresh cows and





springers. $500360: fair to good do., $35@

45; common do.. $250230.



The hog market opened strong 1003150

lower on the mixed. mediums and york-

ers and from 20@25c lower on pigs. All

the early arrivals are pretty well cleaned

up but some of the late arrivals are going

over unsold. At the close the buyers are

bidding 50T10c lower than the opening.



We quote: Medium and heavy, $7.650?

7.80; mixed. 35765017775; best yorkers,

”55007.70; light yorkers. $7.30@7.40; pigs,

$7.25@7.30; roughs, $6.90@7; stags. $5@

6.25.



The lam-b market opened slow this

morning but closed more active and about

everything is sold.





We quote: Best lambs, $7.15@7.25; fair

to good. 2565000710; culls, $5.25@5.75:





skin culls. $4024.75; yearlings. 352503550:

wetlicrs. $475005; ewes. $4.25@4.50: cull

sheep, $20113; best calves, $9.25fl950: fair

to good do., $70179: heavy calves, $4095.





 





Chicago.

October 18, 1000.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheen.





Received today ..... 33.000 27.000 45,000

Same day last year..34.534 36.174 30.802

Received last week ..76,159 91.260 165.474

Same week last year.68.851 146,083 98,783



Cattle sold at a still wider range of

prices last week. the best being scarcer

and higher, while others were weak

and frequently lower. By Thursday the.

greater part of the sales showed reduc-

tions of about 25 cents for the week, with

a particularly unsatisfactory outlet for

steers selling below $7. Choice to fancy

shipping steers went at $8098.90. the top

figure showing still another high record,

while inferior grassy steers sold at $4025.

the bulk of the steers selling at 85.50077

7.00. Exporters were moderate buvers

at $7097.75 for steers weighing 1.275 to

1.400 lbs. and there was a fair local in-

quiry for cows and heifers at $32500550.

a few selling around $6006.50, while can—

ners and cutters sold fairly at $2003.20.

Bulls were taken at $250005. and calves

were purchased at $3009.75 per 100 lbs.

the best light vealers being scarce and

dear. Western range cattle comprised

a good share of the offerings, rangemen

hurrying up shipments owing- to the ap—

proach of bad weather. Range steers

were taken at $4.50@7.50 and cows and

heifers at $3025.25. feeder steers from

the range country being wanted at $401)

5.25. The general stocker and feeder trade

was active only for desirable offerings,

which were scarcer and 10017150, higher

largely. Stockers sold at $2.900zl4.60 and

feeders at $4.40@5.50 for ordinary to

prime, with few sales above $5.10. The

feeding proposition seems promising, pro-

vided good cattle are bought at a reason—





 





OCTQfiER.‘ 23. 1909. .





able price, for choice .beeves are- every-

where scarce and remarkably high, with

every reason for expecting a continuance

of .high prices. ‘



Today, Monday, cattle were in liberal

supply, the offerings embracing about

8.000 western rangers. The average quals

ity of the receipts was unusually poor,

and while lots selling at $8@8.90 were

steady in price, others were slow and

averaged 10@15c lower, rangers included.



Hogs had rallies at times in prices last

week, but the general trend of the mar-

ket was decidedly doanard, local pack-

ers taking advantage. of the absence of

a fair eastern shipping demand to force

hogs to a lower level. This was done in

the face of much smaller marketings than

a year ago, buyers holding back and al-

lowmg big supplies of swine to accumu-

late in sellers’ hands from day to day.

Provisions weakened with hogs, despite

their unusual scarcity, and it was com-

mon talk that the best hogs were likely

to drop to $7 before the decline stopped.

Farmers continued to market a great

many thin light-weight hogs, and these

had to go at a big discount. Chicago

packers received a good many hogs from

Milwaukee and St. Paul, while eastern

markets got a good many hogs from near

home, as well as from interior western

points. The average weight of last week’s

receipts was 226 lbs, compared with 228

lbs. 9. week earlier, 235 lbs. a few weeks

ago, 208 lbs. a year ago and 240 lbs. two

years ago. Today, Monday, hogs were

active at steady prices, sales ranging at

$6.95@7.85, the best light hogs bringing

$7.65. At the best time this year top

hogs brot $8.65.



Sheep and lambs were in unusually

heavy supply last week, and declines in

prices were inevitable. particularly for

the numerous thin flocks that made up a

large share of the offerings from day to

day. But the best lambs were higher

under limited supplies. and range feeder

lambs were in lively demand and steady.

with large sales at $6.25@6.75 per 100 lbs.

Feeders were the best customers and

competed with local packers. Trade to-

day, Monday, was animated, and prices

were steady for good lots and weak for

others, receipts being extremely large.

Lambs were salable at $4@7.25, ~wethers

at $435005. ewes at $2004.85, and yearlings

at $5.25@5.60. Breeding ewes sold at

$4096.25, and feeders wanted wet‘hers at

$3.90@4.50 and yearlings at $4.90@5.40.

The feeding proposition is generally re-

garded favorably, and breeders are Worth

the money.



Horses had to be good in quality to sell

satisfactorily last week, the poorer ones

being slow and weak in prices. Light

chunks for southern shipment were in

good demand at $70®125 per head, and

there was a good call for heavy drafters

of the better class at $2250D250, a few

selling up to $300. A commoner grade

of drafters sold at $140 and upward. while

loggers were wanted at $17000225, feeders

also being active at these figures. Driv-

ers were in fair demand at $150@300.

while farm chunks were very dull at

3314003175, being $15@25 lower than in

the spring. F.





LIVE STOCK NOTES.





There has been a marked improvement

in recent weeks in the demand for high-

grade milch cows in the Chicago market,

and prices have undergone sharp ad-

vances for the best offerings. Milk. cream

and butter are all selling at advanced

prices, the retail price of the best cream-

ery butter in the Chicago market selling

at 35 cents, which is an unusually high

figure for this season of the year. At

ruling advanced prices for dairy products

it is still profitable for farmers to keep

milch cows, despite the advance in all

kinds of feed, and few owners of choice

Holsteins. Jerseys, Guernseys, Ayshires

and Durhams are disposed to sell their

cows. Milkers and springers are sold at

an extremely wide range of prices. for

their grading differs widely, and while

an inferior cow can be purchased around

$25, better ones sell all the way up to

$500265, and even higher, a consignment

having been hot in the Chicago market

recently for $85 per head.



This has been a memorable season for

owners of prime fat cattle, which have.

been marketed so sparingly that sellers

were in a position to ask and receive the

highest prices recorded in years. Matured

corn-fed beeves have sold in the Chicago

market at $8.500DR.80 per 100 lbs.. while

prime dehorned 1,491—11). steers fed on

grass on the Montana range sold recently

for $7.50, breaking all past high records.

It is well for owners of fat cattle to keep

them headed for the market, as the rul-

ing high prices are well worth taking.

but promising conditions are such that

cattle lacking flesh should be held back

until forced in by stormy weather. Mar-

keting partly fattened cattle as long as

they are doing well and gaining fat is

likely to prove a serious error. Steers

have been selling in the Chicago market

$4.80 per 100 lbs. apart recently, and all

good steers have sold above $7. Cattle

that are choice in quality cannot be pur—

chased below $8, and even these are not

fancy. In numerous instances of late

buyers have stated that steers costing

them $8 and upward, were actually

cheaper relativelv than steers that cost

them $1 less. There will always be a

class of beef-eaters who are able and

ready to pay for the very best that can

be had, regardless of price. and just now





 





there is too limited a supply of prime

heeéres to meet the requirements of the

ra e.





The western packers have slaughtered



14.065.000 hogs since March 1, a. decrease

of 1.690.000 bogs compared with a year

ago. In recent weeks operations have

increased steadily, but they have still

been much smaller than a year ago. EX-

portations of provisions are checked by

their dearness. and aggregated but 13.-

429.000 lbs. last week. compared With

20,127,000 lbs. 2. year ago.

. The_Chicago receipts of hogs have been

including an unusually large percentage

of plain light mixed offerings. and a few

days ago a single commission firm re-

ceived a train of eighteen car loads of

inferior light hogs shipped from Mil-

waukee.





 

     





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Thursday’s Market.





October 21, 1909.

Cattle.



Receipts, 1,245. Market dull at last

week's prices on butchers’ grades. Cow

stuff 10@15c lower; stockers and feeders

steady.



We quote: Dry-fed steers, $5; steers

and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200,} $4.50@4.65;

steers and heifers, 800 to 1,000, $4@4.25;

grass steers and heifers that are fat, 800

to 1,000, $4@4.25; grass steers and heifers

that are fat, 500 to 700, $3‘.25@3.50;' choice

fat cows, $3.75; good fat cows, $3.50@

3.60; common cows, $2.50 , canners,

$1.75@2; choice 'heavy bulls, $3.50@3.90;

fair to good bolognas, bulls, $3.25@3.35;

stock bu ls, $2.85@3; choice feeding steers,

800 to 1,000, $4@4.40; fair feeding steers,

800 to 1,000, $3.50@3.75; choice stockers,

500 to 700, $3.50@3.75; fair stockers, 500

to 700, $3.25@3.35; stock heifers, $2.75@3;

milkers, large, young, medium age, $40@

60; common milkers, $25@35.



Roe Com. Co. sold Regan 2 heifers av

585 at $3.50; to Cooke 16 butchers av 642

at $3.75; to Rattkowsky 6 do av 741 at $3;

to Bresnahan 9 cows av 860 at $2.25; to

Rattkowsk 5 butchers av 460 at $3, 3 do

av 570 at 3.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 3 cows

av 1,113 at $3, 4 do av 950 at $2.50; to

Austin 5 stockers av 410 at $3; to Mich.

B. Co. 22 steers av 980 at $4.85.



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

Co. 2 heifers av 425 at $3.40; to Randall

& B. 29 feeders av 757 at $3.75; to Hunn

16 do av 738 at $3.65, 5 do av 840 at

$3.85; to Lamb 6 stockers av 631 at $3.75;

to Brown 10 do av 485 at $3.50, 7 do av

510 at $3.40; to Goose 22 cows and bulls

av 965 at $2.75; to Breitenbach Bros. 2

steers av 810 at $3.75; to Austin 11 stock-

ers av 420 at $3; to Bresnahan Jr., 6 do

av 560 at $3.10; to Regan 15 butchers av

500 at $3.30; to Kamman 11 do av 600 at

$2.80; to Hupp 10 do av 557 at $3.50; to

Hunn 4 heifers av 790 at $3.75; to Ratt-

kowsky 5 cows av 1,074 at $3.85, 2 do av

855 at $3; to Thompson Bros. 6 butchers

av 1,033 at $3.25, 3 cows av 953 at $2.50;

to Hammond, S. & Co. 11 butchers av

760 at $3.75, 17 do av 870 at $4; to Mich.

B. Co. 30 do av 880 at $3.60; to Sullivan

P. Co, 3 heifers av 700 at $3.50, 6 cows

av 1,016 at $3, 2 do av 910 at $2.50; to

Austin 5 stockers av 410 at $3; to Bres-



.. nahan 2 canners av 850 at $2, 2 do av

1.115 at $2.25; to Mich. B. Co. 6 steers

av 930 at $4.50, 6 do av 940 at $4.75; to

Hammond, S. & Co. 2 bulls av 1,550 at

$3.90; to Regan 9 butchers av 644 at $3.50;

to Lacault 8 do av 746 at $3.45; to Erban

13 do av 515 at $3.15; to Brown 3 stockers

av 660 at $3.60; to Hammond, S. & Co.

1 bull weighing 1,600 at $3.90.



Spicer, M. & R. sold Kull 20 steers av

. 930 at $4.25; to Hammond, S. & Co. 28

do av 823 at $4.20, 6 do av 933 at $4.20,

2 cows av 960 at $3.35, 1 bull weighing

1,020 at $3.35, 2 do av 1,055 at $3.50, 1

heifer weighing 800 at $3.75, 13 butchers

am 863 at $4, 10 do av 854 at $4; to Bres-

nahan 22 do av 570 at $3.40, 3 cows av

820 at $2.40, 2 do av 825 at $2, 3 do av

883 at $2, 3 do av 880 at $3; to Regan 7

butchers av 507 at $3.25: to Mich. B. Co.

34 do av 744 at $3.90, 5 do av 860 at $3.90;

to Ink 30 stockers av 643 at $3.65, 7 do

av 661 at $3.75.



tRso3senhan sold Bondine 2 cows av 1,135

a .



Haley sold same 2 do av 965 at $2.75, 2

do av 1.065 at $3.25.



Johnson sold Lowensteln 21 stockers av

626 at $4, 1 do weighing 620 at $3.80, 1

bull weighing 700 at $3.50.

$321318}, sold Haley 12 steers av 680 at



Sgéne sold Rattkowsky 3 cows av 980

at .



Johnson sold Bresnahan 5 heifers av

560 at $3.50.



Haley sold Lingeman 6 heifers av 700

at $3.75, 10 steers av 820 at 4.



Allen sold same 4 steers av 1,000 at $5.



Haley sold Hammond, S. & Co. 1 oxen

weighing 1,330 at $3.50, 2 bulls av 1,340

at $3.85, 1 do weighing 440 at $3.



Haley sold Schlischer 19 butchers av

485 at $3.10, 23 do av 6.44 at $3.60.



Allen sold Mich. B. Co. 16 butchers av





793 at $4.

Veal Calves.



Receipts, 353. Good grades steady,

common 25c lower than last week. Best,

$8@8.60; others, $3.50@7.50; milch cows

and springers steady.



Bishon, B. & H. sold Mich. B. Co. 18

av 150 at $8.50: to Hammond, S. & Co.

3 av 145 at $8.25. 3 av 165 at $8.25. 2 av

155 at $7.75: to Stoker 1 weighing 120 at

$6, 2 av 180 at $5.50: to Sullivan P. Co.

7 av 150 at $8.50; to Goose 5 av 325 at

$4.50; to Newton B. Co. 2 av 115 at $6,

32 av 150 at $8: to Fitzpatrick Bros. 5 av

1043? $6.50, 15 av 140 at $8, 3 av 100

at .



Spicer, M. & R, sold Hammond, S. &

Co. 14 av 280 at $5; to Sullivan P. Co. 1

weighing 140 at $8.50, 3 av 140 at $7.75,

2 av 150 at $7.25: to Mich. B. Co. 9 av

145 at $8, 1 weighing 180 at $6.



Roe Com. Co. sold Mich. B. Co. 1

weighing 130 at $8.50. 1 weighing 170 at

$5.50: to Rattkowsky 13 av 140 at $7.50.



Wagner sold Newton B. Co. 2 av 120





at $8.

Bennett & S. sold same 9 av 160 at

$8 25





Snyder sold same 16 av 150 at $7.50.

Johnson sold. Sullivan P. Co. 3 av 150

at $8.50.

Bergin & W. snld same, 4 av 150 at $8.

& W. sold Hammond, S. & Co.





Sharp

30 av 125 at $7.10.





 





 





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Duelle sold surnstlne 3 av 1725 at $5.





11 av 150.3t $8.50





.Adazz‘is sold same 6 av 155 at.$8.60.



Jedele sold same 5 av 150 at $8.



Sheep and Lambs;



Receipts, 2,208. Market opened steady

at last Thursday’s prices; will close lower.



Best lambs, $6.25@6.60; fair to good

lambs, $5.50@6;)ligbt tocommon lambs,

$4.50@5; fair to good sheep, $3.50@4.25;

culls and commOn, $2@2.50.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Mich. B. Co. 11

lambs av 68 at $6, 17 sheep av 110 at

$2.50; to Hammond, S. & Co. 26 mixed

av 75 at $4.50; to Friedman 20 lambs av

45 at $4.75; to Stoker 7 do av 40 at $4.50;

to Newton B. Co. 57 do av 80 at $6.25; to

Stocker 26 do av 75 at $4.50; to Lesser

& Co. 85 feeders av 63 at $6.15, 48 do av

55 at $6; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 28 lambs

av 80 at $6.35; to Lesser & Co. 28 do av

75 at $6.15; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 66 sheep

av 90 at $2.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 13 lambs

av 70 at $6, 9 do av 75 at $6.25; to Fitz-

patrick Bros. 7 sheep av 100 at $3; to

Lesser & Co. 51 lambs av 65 at $6.15.



Spicer, M. 8; R. sold Eschrlch 49 lambs

av 48 at $4; to Fitzpatrick Bros. 27 lambs

av 90 at $6.50; to Mich. B. Co. 7 do av





60 at $5.50, 2 sheep av 100 at $3.50; to'





Thompson Bros. 17 do av 120 at $3.50, 2

do av 170 at $3. _

27 lambs av 85 at $6.25, 7 sheep av 63

at $3.75.



Jedele sold same 31 do av 90' at $3.40.

. Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan P. Co.

lambs av 60 at $5.25, 33 do av 60 at $5.25;

to Eschrlch 14 do av 55 at $5.50; to Mich.

B. Co. 30 do av 70 at $6, 11 sheep av 80

at $4, 26 do av 90 at $3.25, 23 do av 90





at $3.50; to Bement & Co. 50 lambs av 62





at $6.25; to Eschrlch 14 sheep av 100 at

$2.50; to Bement & Co. 58 lambs av 75

at $6.35; to Young 53 do av 77 at $6.25.



Wagner sold Newton B. Co. 31 lambs

av 65 at $5.50. ,



Haley sold same50 do av 68 at $6, 41

do av 73 at $4.50.



Same sold Walworth 149 lambs av 75

at $6.25.



Heeney sold Thompson 11 lambs av 70

at $5.75, 10 sheep av 106 at $3.



Kalaher sold Young 31 lambs av 75

at $6.25. ‘



Adams sold Bement & Co. 30 lambs av





80 at $6.60.





Hogs.



Receipts, 3,139. Market steady at last

Thursday’s prices.



Range of prices: ,

ers, $7.30@7.50; pigs, $7;

$7.25; stags, % off.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co.

198 av 175 at $7.40, 65 av 150 at $7.25, 393

av 160 at $7.35, 445 av 180 at $7.45, 489

av 190 at $7.50.



Roe Com. Co. sold Hammond, S. & Co.

111 av 150 at $7.25.



Spicer, M. & R. sold same 252 av 200

at $7.60, 34 av 190 at $7.55, 256 av 180

at $7.50, 57 av 140 at $7.40.



Roe Com, Co. sold Sullivan 108 av 150

at $7.15, 240 av 180 at $7.50, 92 av 115

at £7.10, 126 av 130 at $7.25, 38 av 110

at 7. ‘





Light to good butch-

light yorkers,





 





Friday's Market.

October 15, 1909.

Cattle.





The market in the cattle department

at the Michigan Central stock yards Fri-

day was about the same as on Thursday,

practically everything being cleaned up

by noon at steady prices.



Dry-fed steers and heifers, $5@5.25;

steers and heifers, 1,000 to 1,200, $4.50@

4.75; steers and heifers, 800 to 1,000, $4@

4.15; grass steers and heifers that are fat,

800 to 1,000, $4504.15; grass teers and heif-

ers that are fat, 500 to 700, $3.25@3.60;

choice fat cows, $3.75@4; good fat cows,

$3.50: common cows, $250693; canners,

31.756132; choice heavy bulls, 8535062385;

fair to good bolognas, bulls, $3.25@3.50;

stock bulls, $3; choice feeding steers, 800

to 1,000, $4@4.40; fair feeding steers. 800

to 1,000, $3.50(rb3.75; choice stockers, 500 to

700, $3.50@3.75; fair stocke'rs, 500 to 700,

$3.25@3.50; stock heifers, $3; milker-s,

large, young, medium age, $40@60; com-

mon milkers, $256035.



Spicer, M. & R. sold Hammond, S. &

Co. 3 bulls av 1,313 at $3.75, 2 cows av

1,120 at $3.25, 16 steers and heifers, av

831 at $4.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Mich. B. Co. 15

butchers av 782 at $3.50, 1 cow weighing

873 at $3.25, 1 do weighing 830 at $2.25.



Same sold Kull '5 steers av 963 at

$4.60, 2 do av 950 at $4.25.



Same. sold Brown 3 feeders av 806 at

$3.75, 13 stockers av 680 at $3 65



Same sold Schlischer 10 butchers av

665 at $3.25. 1 cow weighing 940 at $2.55.



Same sold Sullivan 1 cow weighing 750

at $2.25, 1 do weighing 860 at $3, 3 steers

av 1,083 at $5. 2 heifers av 805 at $3.60,

3]? steers av 905 at $4.60, 13 do av 1,032 at

4.50.



Spicer, M. & R. sold same 1 canner

weighing 890 at $2, 1 cow weighing 800

at $3.75.



Veal Calves.



The veal calf trade, quality considered,

was about steady with Thursday, altho

there was nothing on sale good enough

to bring over $8 a hundred.



Best grades. $7.75@8: others, $40M.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Young 1 weighing

100 at $7, 1 weighing 140 at 8.



Sp’izcer, M. & R. sold same 6 av 150





t . .

Bishop, B. & H. sold same 16 av 135

at $8, 2 av 110 at $6. 1 weighing: 100 at

$5, 6 av 155 at $7.40, 11 av 130 at $7.

Lucke sold Parker, W. & Co.





135 at $8.

Bishop. B. & H. sold Mich. R. Co. 4

at $7.50, 1





a





4av





av 130 at $8.



Haley sold Kull 4 av 120

Weighing 300 at $3.



Roe Com. Co. sold Sullivan ‘P. Co. 1

weighing 150 at $7, 1 weighing 240 at $4.

Sheep and Lambs.



-The sheep and lamb trade was steady,

but the quality was not so good and the



to% price was $6.50.



est lambs. $6.50: fair to good lambs.

$5606.25; light to common lambs. $449

4.75: yearlings, 84.25695; fair to good sheep

$375024: culls and common. 32.50623.



Spicer, M.- Kr R. sold Sullivan P. Co.

7 sheep av 100 at $2.25, 3 lambs av 85

at $6.





   





Roe Com. Co. sold same 99 lambs av 65

at $5.65. 26 do av 70 at $5. ’



Bishop, B. & H. sold Youngs 29 lambs

av 70 at $6.25.



Warren Sold same 12 do av 55 at $5.10,

18 do av 80 at $6.50.



Bishop, B. & H. sold same 1 buck

weighing 170 at $3, 2 sheep av 100 at

$2.5 , 5 do av 125 at $3.75, 15 lambs av

70 at $6.40, 27 sheep av 90 at $3.25.



Haley sold Breitenbach 30 lambs av 70

at $6, 5 do av 73 at $5.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. & Co.

19 lambs av 55 at $5. 37 do av 63 at $5.50.



Lucke. sold same 72 do av 68 at $6.25,

29 sheep av 95 at $3.50.



Hogs.



The h0g market was steady with Thurs-

day, the tops bringing $7.50. .



Light to good butchers, $7.25@7.50; pigs,

36.75%)710; light yorkers, $7@7.40; Stags





1’s o .



Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker 300 av 155

at $7.40, 24 av 150 at $7.35, 298 av 180

at $7.50.



Same sold Sullivan 46 pigs av 110 at $7,

64 hogs av 140 at $7.25.





 





In Texas, New Mexico and other south-

western sections of the country owners of

flocks of lambs are not disposed to sell

them to feeders, preferring to leave them

on the range, pasturage being good.

Wool is unusually high, and flockmasters

are disposed to fatten their lambs, par—

ticularly as the “crop" of spring lambs

was smaller than was at first reported.

Idaho ranges have been marketing ex-

tremely large supplies of lambs, and re-

cent shipments have included a liberal

percentage «of feeders, giving sheepmen

in feeding districts a fine opportunitvto

stock up. The lamb feeding proposition

seems a promising one this season, most

of the professional feeders havcing re-

tired from the field, owing to the dearness

of screenings. corn, alfalfa and other

feed. It is important. however. that those

who prepare mutton for the market should

furnish a first—class article, for the. public

is very exacting and refuses to accept

anything- except choice mutton. and a

great deal of money has been lost in re—

cent years by marketing thin and half-fat

flocks.





 





VETERINARY.

(Continued from page 331).

and 1,5 oz. ground ginger at a dose-in

fced three times a day. After exerCIsmg

your mare apply cotton and a bandage

over it, leaving the bandage on for a few

hours.



Fresh Cow Gives Too Little Milk.—

I have a cow that recently dropped her

second calf, but she failed to make any

bag before fresllening and did not give

any milk. I have been trying to bring

her to her milk, but have been unable to

get from her more than six pounds a day.

She seems to be in perfect health and

had been well fed before fl'csllcning; she

carried her calf the full time. Now what

can be done, for her? J. M. B., Reaman,

Mich—Feed your cow plenty of milk pro-

ducing food and milk her clean. Also

hand rub udder ten or fifteen .lnlnutes at

a time night and morning after you have

finished milking her, is about all you can

do to induce her to give more milk.



Stomach Vertigo—I have a Six-year-

old mare that has bad spells; when eat-u

ing and acting as well as any horse she

suddenly backs up, pulls a little on the

halter and falls down. She soon gets up

again and some time later commences to

eat again as tho nothing had happened.

I am inclined to believe she is best of

when working and I forgot to mention

she is in foal. Can she be cured? J. H.

H., Plainwell, Mich—A change of feed

will perhaps help your mare; give her

20 grs. calomel at a dose in feed thce

a week for three weeks. also give a table-

spoonful nitrate of potash and a teaspoon-

ful of bromide of potash at a dose in soft

feed once a day.



Weak Hind T.cg-—Curb.—I have a more

that is troubled with a weak hind leg:

imagine so on account of her lmprovmg

with rest. She had a colt last May which

done well; her stifle appeared weak and

I blistered it which, I thot. made her

some better. I also havo a horse troubled

with a curb. L. W. F., Eaton Rapids,

Mich—Apply ccrate of canthurides and

red iodide mercury ointment. to stifle :ll-

ternatelv every week. Also blister curb

with red iodide mercury ointmcnt.



Bonn-My chickens are troubled with a

swelling and discharge frmn head which

they seem to have never been free from

for the past two years. C. W. B., Rice

Creek. Mich—Your chickens suffer from

chronic roup and are doubtless incurable.

You should kill them, disinfect and clean

up your premises and some time later

buy some Well chickens.



Indigestion—Abdominal Abscess—T have

a horse that had a bad attack of indigcs-

tion some four months: ago. Our local

Vet. punctured her. a short time later an

abscess formed which has discharged ever

since. I should like vcry much to know

how to cure a case of this kind. A, H.,

G.. Ortonvillc, Mich.—~“7hen it is ncccs-g

sary to puncture a horse for flatulence.

thc skin should be cleaned thoroly, also

the instruments boiled for a few minutes,

or dipped in a solution of carbolic acid.

1 to 30. When an abscess forms it is

gcnernllv necessary to cut thru the ab—

dominal muscles making a drainage:

therefore. 1’ would suggest that you open

the. parts freely. giving the abscess per-

fect drainage and if possible to scrape the

wall of abscess. Inject :1 small ounntity

of one part peroxide—hvdrogen and t‘hrcc

parts water very slowly. then apply one

part carbolic acid and fifty parts water

two or three times a day.



Infectious Abortion in Cows—I have a

herd of four old cows, three bred to

calve in January and one in May. three

bred to calve the last of April. In De-

cember one cow fell and hurt herself,

which caused her to lose her calf. The

first of January another cow lost her calf

at about five months, .two cows went

month





full time, two others calved one

too soon. Another cow calved 31/2 months

too early. Would you consider all the.





cases the result of accident or is it a

disease? Will it be safe to turn these





 





cows on pasture that will be used for

pasturing other cards next year and had

l..better turn in well cows with mine?

. M., Hudson, Mich—I hardly believe

that all your COWS which have calved too

soon were hurt. You had better treat

your COWS for infectious abortion and

use the remedies which I have repeatedly

given in this paper. Keep the diseased

and healthy apart and give each cow 1

dr. carbolic acid at a dose in feed daily,

1_ a, dr. in a pint of water mixed in feed

night and morning for a week.





Stifle ISameness.-—I have a young cow

that is lame in hind leg, and appears to

have a great deal of trouble setting the

foot forward; she seems very bad some

times getting better quickly, moving

about fairly well, then taking lame just:

as suddenly; what ails her? A. P. Vii,

Tipton, Mich—Your cow is lame in stifle.

Put one part powdered cantharides, one

part red iodide mercury, six parts lard

0n stifle once a week.



Sprained Tendons.—-I have a 5-year-old

mare that sprained the cords between

hook and fetlock. Have applied a blister,

but she does not seem to improve. She

is very lame. What had I better do for

her? E. L.. Redford, Mich.~—First of

all, it is very important that you give

your mare absolute rest. The more that

she is obliged to move about and put her

weight on the injured leg the longer she

will be in recovering. You had better

blister tendons with cerate of cantharides

——or you can safely apply any one of the,

blisters that are regularly advertised in

this paper.



Acidity of Stomach—I have been

watching your paper for several weeks

trying to find out what ails my cows.

Since early last spring they have been

chewing wood and at times I have seen

them chewing bones which the dog car-

ried into the barn yard. They are ap-

parently well and thrifty. I don’t know

whether it is a habit or a disease and

should like to know thru the veterinary

department of your valuable paper what

to do for them. A. 'l‘, E., Flint, Micll.~

Your cows suffer from acidity of the.

stomach, a condition which is not unusual

in cattle. One of the best remedies for

such an ailment is bicarbonate soda——

give not less than 1 oz. at a dose with

1 oz. of ground ginger and 1 oz. of pow-

deried charcoal in feed two or three times



ay.



Indigestion—I have a valuable Jersey

cow that came fresh November, 1908.

Cave milk all last winter and went to

pasture in good condition. Last June

she began to fall off in milk supply and

run down and has not done well since.

She appears to have no appetite for either

food or water. I gave hcl- little strips of

suit pork and thot it helped her. She

came fresh 3. short time ago, but is not

doing well. W. S. J., Chase, Mich—Your

cow is very much out of condition; she

is not digesting her food properly; besides

her liver is torpid. Give her 20 grs. cal-

omel at a dose three times a week for

two weeks; this will stimulate her liver

into action. Also give 1 oz. ground gen-

tinn, 1 oz. ground ginger. 1 dr. ground

nux vomica and 4 tablespoonfuls of pow-

dered wood charcoal at a dose in feed

or as a drench in a quart or two of tepid

water three times a day. If her bowels

do not move freely give 1/2 lb. doses of

sulfate magnesia as a drench night and

morning until the bowels move freely.

Vegetables should be fed to her with the

dry feed.



Eczema—I have been a reader of the

Michigan Farmer for a great many years

and have received valuable information

from its veterinary column. Have been

watching for the past two or three weeks

to sec if I could gct information regarding

a skin ailment ill hol'Hcg for I have a

12-year-old mare that is out of condition.

She has a sort of skin (lisezlse which acts

very much like itch. She rubs on every-

thlng she can get near and her skin is

covered with little scabs. These sores

appear to be mostly in parts that she can

reach with her mouth. Her appetite is

good, but she is thin and her coat is

rough and dry. She sweats easily. I am

feeding a good quality of hay, with corn

on cob. She is not doing much work and

should look better judging from the care

and feed she gets. F. G., East Jordan.

Mich.——Y0ur mare suffers from eczema

and no doubt she is not digesting her food

properly. Give a tablespoonful of the fol—

.owmg compound powder at a dose in feed

three, times a day. Powdered sulfate

iron, gcnlilln. bicarbonate soda and char-

coal. Also give a teaspoonful of Dono—

van's solution and a teaspoonful of sulfur

at a dose in feed night and morning.

Also apply one part bichloride mercury

and 1,000 parts Wiltm‘ for a few days, theil

apply one part coal tar disinfectant and

thirty parts water daily until the itching

ceases. It is ilccdlI-ss for me to say that

she should be wushcd thoroly with soap

and water, adding some borax to the

water. A good thoro washing once a.

week will improve her skin.





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News-lice. 'loledo. Ohio ....................... 2 00 2 25



TrI-Weekly. (3 a Week.) 90

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Semi-Weekly. (9 a Week.) 75

Journal. Detroit. Mich. ................... 1 00 1 35

Weekly Newspaper: and Currant Comment.



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Commoner, Wm J. Bryan. Editor. 65



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BY JOHN E. DOLSEN.





Thru the wonderful land of the Long Ago,

When days were bright and boys were





men,

Nellie and I roved to and fro,

I was eleven and she was ten.





’Twas the holiest love of a child's pure

heart





We won and gave in happy play;

Willing to live no day apart,

Building in dreams our castles gay.





But the years rolled onward into the





pas .

We parted, pierced with grief and woe;

Beautiful Nell, I saw her last,

Half of a human life ago.





As I think of it now, it is strange to me;

We’re happy, both, tho sundered wide;

Nell, by the placid sundown sea,

I, at the eastern ocean’s side.





Does her innermost heart in its dreams

e’er see

The little. lad who loved her so?

Nellie is ever the same to me:

Child of the land of Long Ago.





A $UCCESSFUL FAILURE.





 





BY CLARA M. WALDRON.





The twins were plotting mischief. The

“Heavenly Twins," Uncle Tom had named

them when they were four years old, and,

in spite of their ten-year-old dignity, the

name still hung as had the characteris-

tics that caused it. Their unusual quiet-

ness all the morning had aroused the

suspicions of Sis, the eighteen-year-old

sister, who was usually the victim of their

pranks, and when they betook themselves

to their favorite sunny haunt behind the

wood-shed she had followed. Now she

stood just inside that building listening,

with a smile that boded no good for their

plans, for just as she had expected the

joke was intended for her.



Sis was to give a party that very night.

A real old-fashioned Halloween party

with all sorts of jolly sports and ghostly

customs which the big old-fashioned

house, with its rather lonely surround-

ings, was sure to make attractive. The

crowning event of the evening was to be

a fagot party of ghost stories in the

great shadowy hall, lighted only from the

fireplace. This was the opportunity which

the twins had chosen for their part in

the program.



"For,” as Jack was pointing out, “the



girls'll be scared stiff already and when

that ghost comes down the stairs they'll

just have fits. The ghost will be easy,”

he went on; “just a long stick with a

crosspiece for arms. Then we can swipe

a sheet out of the spare room closet to

cover it with, and that old phosphorus

skull Uncle Tom gave us will make 3.

jim dandy head."

‘ “But,” objected Jim, .whose imagina-

tion never could quite equal Jack’s, “I

don’t see how you’re going to make it

work."



“I’Ve got it all figured out and it has

got to work,” and the listening Sis thot

that if ingenuity counted it surely had

“got to.” For Jack’s plan, as he out—

line it, was this: While they were helping

Sis to extinguish the lights in the hall,

preparatory to the story telling, he was

going to fasten one end of a long cord

to a nail driven for that purpose, in the

wall opposite the end of the long straight

staircase. Then when the hall was dark-

ened he would slip up and fasten the

other end to the top of a cupboard at the

head of the stairs. Then at the auspicious

moment the ghost, by means of a hook

in 'his unfortunate head, was to slide

down this cord, steadied in his progress

by a string fastened to the junctures of

his arms and body. One end of the sheet

was to cover the head till the ghost

reached the foot of the stairs, then this

was to be pulled off by means of another

cord, thus revealing the grinning, phos-

phorus lighted skull to the party in the

hall.



As the twins contemplated the effect

upon the already shaken nerves of the

girls, they fell to hugging each other in

delight and even Sis, as she stole away,

shivered at the thot, tho the mischief in

her eyes equaled that of the twins.



That evening when the guests arrived

each one had a short interview with his

hostess and an extra spirit of hilarity

seemed to permeate the gathering as the

evening wore on.



At last came the moment for which the

twins had been impatiently waiting in

the dark upper hall. The cord had been

put up without apparently attracting the

least attention from the story tellers, the

ghost was in readiness and the party





below’was in a proper state of thrills





I 1 over an; unusually blood-curdiing story.





“All ready," whispered Jack, “let her





, go.” ' Carefully Jim slid the ghost to the





top of the stairs, then stepped back

farther into the darkness. Steadied by

the cord in Jack’s hand thesheeted fig;

ure slid slowly down the Stairs into the

dim light of the lower hall. The rustling

of the ghostly garments on the steps at-

tracted the attention of the merry-mak-

ers. There was an hysterical little cry

from one of the girls and then, in the

mid-st of what seemed to the twins hor-

rified silence, the apparition glided to

the foot of the stairs.



As he brot it to a stop, Jack gently

pulled the other string, drawing the cover

from the glowing skull. Instantly the

silence was broken, not, as they expected,

by terrified screams but by a storm of

applause and cries of “Bravo," “Good

for Jack and Jim,” “Hurrah for the

twins," while the whole party began a

sort of war dance around the object that

had been meant to terrify them. Too

angry for words the twins hauled the dis-

graced ghost back upstairs and, without

even unhooking it from the cord, went

disgustedly to bed, muttering something

about, “girls" and “sneaks" and “fair-

play."



Soon the party broke up, everyone de-

claring that they had had the best pos-

sible time, tho as several of the girls

said, “the ghost did frighten them even

if they 'were expecting him.” Sis echoed

their words as she stood in the deserted

hall, and her mother said, “I declare the

thing has even made me nervous. Some

way I wish your father had not been

obliged to stay away tonight, or else

that I could have sent that money to the

bank that Mr. Steele paid for the sheep

instead of having it there," and she

paused on her way upstairs to glance

uncertainly over her shoulder at the big

old—fashioned desk just inside the door

of the sitting room.



“Oh, don’t worry,

knOWs it is there.”



“No, I suppose not. Yet I didn’t like

the way that new hired man of Mr.

Steele’s took in everything that was said,

but it can’t be helped now; besides,”

with a glance at the clock, “it won’t be

long now till morning.”



Meanwhile the twins had gone silently

and disconsolately to bed. Jim was soon

slumbering peacefully, for nothing ever

troubled him long, but Jack lay for a

long time, staring into the darkness, list-

ening bitterly to the sounds of departure

below. By and by mother and Sis came

up stairs and then silence fell over the

house. Still he could not sleep, for some

way his disappointment seemed to choke

him. The ghost had been the darling

idea of his heart for weeks and it had

failed. The thot was maddening. Jim

wasn’t any comfort, for he was snoring

peacefully as if nothing had happened.

Nobody sympathized with him anyway.

He’d go 'see the ghost, that what he’d

do; there would be some satisfaction in

seeing how skeery he looked in the dark-

ness.



Softly he slipped out of bed, stole across

to the half-open door and into the hall.

Yes, there hung the ghost just as they

had left it, its form outlined sharply

against the darkness. It was so big and

white that Jack shivered a little himself,

but he wasn’t afraid of ghosts, particu-

larly when he had made them himself.

To really show himself that he wasn't

afraid he went up close and put his hand

on the sheet. At the touch the figure

swayed a little way down the cord. It

moved so easily and silently that the

impulse came to send it down once more,

just to see how it did go. He arranged

the sheet over the head, straightened the

strings so they would run smoothly thru

his fingers and then steadied the ghost

carefully to the head of the stairs.





So absorbed was he that- he did not

notice the strip of dim light that issued

from the sitting room door below him

nor hear the muffled grating sound that

came from the same source. Equally

absorbed were the two dark figures bend-

ing over the big desk in the room below.

“It’s most thru,” muttered one, lifting

his file for a moment; “shove that light

farther this way.”



“Sh! don’t talk so loud,” whispered the

other as he shifted the position of the

dark lantern.



“Bah, there’s no one to hear but a

woman and some kids; besides, we’ve got

to hustle up this job to get away with

the swag before morning.” With an im—

p'atient gesture he was turning to work

again when the other clutched his arm

and said, “What was that?”



“Nothing but the wind. you fool," yet

both turned toward the hall as they heard





mother. No one





 

 





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again that soft rustling sound. For a.

moment there was a breathless silence,

broken only by that soft, mysterious

sound, then with a smothered oath the

man nearest the door shrank back, for

from the dim regions above a tall white

figure appeared gliding slowly and ma-

jestically along the dark staircase. It

came without pause or hesitation, with

an unearthly calm that struck terror to

their hearts. To the crouching pair it

seemed an eternity before it reached the

foot of the long stairway. There it

stopped and swaying slightly, half turned

toward the door. Then as if brushed

aside by a. ghostly hand the upper part

of the drapery‘fell back disolosing a hid-

eous, grinning skull that glea-med with

an uncanny radiance in the dim light.



Then the silence was broken by two

terrified yells; there was a wild scramble

in the darkness, 3. crash of window glass,

a sound of running on the lawn outside

and then again silence.



When the startled family, reassured by

Jack's rather incoherent explanation of

the ghost’s presence at the foot of the

stairs, and emboldened by the silence

below, ventured to explore the sitting

room they found it in a state of great

confusion. Chairs were overthrown, one

of the curtains was badly torn and not

a single pane of glass remained in the

window thru which the intruders had es-

caped. The dark lantern and file on the

desk showed plainly the character of the

visitors, and as the lock had been filed

almost thru it was clear that Jack’s

ghost had arrived none too soon.



The next morning it was found that

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BY ISAAC MOTE S.





I never could like Job Johnson, a hawk-

faced fellow whom father gave permis-

sion to trap wild animals along the creek

which ran past our farm. True, he never

did me aliy harm, but he always wore a

rusty fur coat and coon skin cap and had

a bundle of steel traps or a dead animal

forever dangling from his shoulder. He

made a business of catching these wild

animals, which he killed and skinned,

then sold their hides. I could not un-

derstand why he wanted to catch inno-

cent foxes and cunning minks and weas-

els, instead of doing honest work on the

farm. I didn’t object to his catching

skunks and oposstpnss. but couldn't see

how an innocent looking fox or marten

could be a chicken thief, tho father said

they were, and he was glad to have Job

trap on his land.



I often found Job’s traps set in the

cunningest places, sometimes with wild

animals in them, tugging at the chain.

Sometimes the unfortunate creatures

would be curled up on the ground beside

the trap, having given up trying to get

loose. If it were a Skunk I didn’t feel

sorry for it, and almost forgave Job what

I considered his mean, lazy nature, but

I couldn’t imagine Why he wanted to

catch and kill an innocent fox, or marten,

or weasel, with its fine, soft fur and

small twinkling eyes, like bright—colored

bullets popping almost out of its head.



I was often tempted to release one of

these animals when I found it caught in

one of Job's traps, and would probably

have done so if I hadn’t been afraid of

it. But father had cautioned me never

to bother the traps, and of course I

wanted to obey him, even if I did feel

sorry for the poor creatures. Father

laughed at me for sympathizing with

these animals, saying a fox killed more

chickens than a skunk. but I couldn’t

help feeling sorry anyway, and when I

found them caught and looking at me so

pitifully out of their bright bullet eyes

I couldn‘t help wanting to let them loose.

And I did release just one of these ani-

mals once, in the queerest way.



I was out in the woods hunting one

spring day and had sat down upon a log

to rest. “’hile sitting perfectly still,

somewhat hidden by bushes, I heard the

soft jingle of a chain. Looking around

carefully I saw a little sharp—nosed, red—

dish-brown animal coming up the hillside

somewhat towards me, and knew that it

was a fox. It walked slowly, and as it

got nearer, and I looked more intently,

I saw that it dragged a small steel trap

which held it by the hind foot. Quick as

a flash I knew that this fox had been

caught in one of Job Johnson’s aps.

The trap had been chained to a piece of

wood. so that the animal when caught

couldn't pull it far without becoming

tired out and being forced to lie down and

rest. \Vhen the traps were chained to a

solid stake driven into the ground the

animals sometimes jerked out, or pulled

a foot off, or gnawed it off, and got

away. The fox was coming diagonally

along the hillside, somewhat near me,

but moved slowly, as it had to walk 011

three legs.



I hope I shall never see a more pitiful

sight than that fox making its way pain-

fully up the hillside, limping along with

its hind foot in the trap. dragging a piece

of wood at the end of the chain. It was

so intent upon getting away that it didn’t

see me, and, the wind being in my favor,

it was not aware of my presence. I could

easily have killed it with my rifle, but

nothing could have been farther from

my mind than the thot of killing the fox.



Before I realized what I was doing I

had stepped out of my place of hiding and

started toward the animal. “'hcn it saw

me it gave one spasmodic, frantic tug

on the chain, then simply lay down on

the ground and whincd pitcously. Even

when I went up to it and stood over it

it still cowered at my feet, its head

against the ground, as if it realized it

was entirely at my mercy.



I got down on my knees and made an

examination. I found that the animal

was caught by three toes on its left hind

foot, so its leg was not broken. as I had

feared. I gently rubbed its injured foot

and the lower part of its leg, which were

considerably swollen, and the fox did not

show any inclination to run or to jerk on

the chain or to bite me, but only cow-

ered lower on the ground.



After rubbing the fox’s leg a half min-





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me ’ MICHIGAN smash.





that poor fox toiling painfully up the.





ute I very gently put my knee on the

spring and pushed it down, releasing the

animal’s foot, keeping hold of its paw as

I did so, and drew its foot out of the trap.

Then I stroked it gently for a moment

where the jaws had pinched it, while

creature actually rubbed its

head against my knee; then putting its

foot down I gave it a gentle push to let

it know it was free, when like a brown

streak it was gone up the hill, barking

ecstatically, and looking back as if half

in mind not to leave me after all. Then

it disappeared over the brow of the hill,

its brown tail waving in the air.



I started on thru the woods, thinking

about what I had done, and wondering if

I was really justified in liberating the

fox. But I couldn’t find it in my heart to

regret my act, and believe I should have

done the same, even had I known that

the fox would visit our hen roost that

very night. I had followed the instincts

of my nature, and I do not believe any

boy with a heart in him could have seen





hillside, dragging that cruel trap, without

doing as I did.



Then the thot'came to me that'Job

would likely visit his traps that morning,

and might even now be on the track of

this fox, so I started on my way more

hurriedly. Looking in thedirection from

which the fox had come, sure enough,

there came Job thru the woods, but quite

a distance away from me when I first saw

him, his eyes bent upon the ground, fol-

lowing the track of the fox and drag.

"You may be sure I got away from there

quickly, before the old trapper saw me,

and I do not know to this day what he

thot when he found the empty trap and

saw the tracks of a boy around the place.

He never said anything to me about the

matter, so I don’t suppose he suspect-

ed me.



I was almost afraid to let father know

what I'had done, but I told mother, and

she told him a few days afterwards, and





he only laughed.

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By Mildred M. North.





 





VYith steps that were slow and feeble an old man crossed the street.

'I hen stood while the crowds went past him with eager hurrying feet.

He stood With gaze uplifted to where a sign-board hung—





 





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that‘s all,” the glittering lie in golden sunshine swung.





All? Ah! the woes and heartaches that follow in its train;



'I he hopes that are wrecked and blasted. the souls that are lost for gain;

rI‘he lives whose joy is shattered, the hearts that break with dread;



The homes where little children must cry in vain for bread!





The old man’s eyes were sunken, his face was grave and sad,



B_Ut his smile, If they COuld see it. must have made the angels glad.



He watched, as the crowds went past him, how 0ft that door swung wide,

And how many feet, from the hurrying throng, that sign had turned aside.





There were some in the prime of manhood. there were some whom age made leW

[here were some in youth's fair morning—he watched them come and g0. ,

from Within came the clink of glasses and the words of a boisterous song,

And the faint far sound of a careless laugh by the wind was borne along.





His face grew white and haggard, his eyes with tears were dim,

And many a one in passing turned back to look at h'im.



173V the ‘old man's side had halted a young man, tall and strong,

anertain, and half-unwilling, he halted ’twixt right and wrong.





His hand on the door he waited, seemed doubting what to do,



\"\hcn he heard a step behind him, half-turned as if to go.



’lhen‘a thin hand touched his coatsleeve, a low voice reached his ear

Don t go, my boy, it's hell in there, and Heaven’s away from here.”





\Vvith a growl he turned, but softened at sight of the gentle face,

filth its crown of snow white hair and its smile of tender grace.

I m not so bad,” he answered; “a social glass, you know,



I never fall like some men, I know how far to go.”





“Say, young man, have you a sweetheart whom you hope to make your wife?

Did she ever tell you that she loved you more than life? ‘



Do you love her? Did you promise you’d be kind and true,



Declaring that if you lost her earth wouldn't hold much for you?





“\Vell, I had, too—and a sweeter, God ne'er let live on earth,

One of his pure true women—~no man can tell their worth?



I loved her, and one May morning, while bluebirds sang outside,

The parson came to her father‘s house and gave to me‘my bride.





“Then off on our wedding journey—just across the fields of green

To a little sunny cottage whose roof could just be seen



From her mother's kitchen window; a place with roses gay,



And where wrens and robins loved to come and sing all'day.





“\Ve were happy, 0, so happy! that dear sweet wife and I,

The (lays sped all too quickly, as happy days will fly;





I thot she couldn’t be better, she thot Inc the best.





Alas!





I had one serious failing. I loved a social glass.





“1 was very careful, mind you, I never Went too far.



And in our happy home-life there was naught our joy to mar.

A year passed by, then another, and into our little home



A tiny girl. with curls of gold and big blue eyes, had come.





“She grew to a winsome lassie, so merry, bright and sweet;



The sound that to me was dearest was the patter of little feet



As at night she came to meet me, when home from my work I came

\V‘ith arms outstretched and baby lips just learning to lisp my name. ’





“One evening when she was sleeping—would to God I might forget!

I rode away to the village where several friends I met.



The bar-room lights enticed us, we stopped for a social glass,

And songs and drinks and stories made hours quickly pass.





“It was two when I started homeward—J had never stayed so late.

Shame-faced I hastened onward and Opened the little gate,



A bright light burned in the bedroom, I heard a faint low moan

Then a baby‘s cry. and at once my heart seemed turned to stone.





“My wife was holding ‘baby.’





‘0, .Iohn!’ she cried, ‘You've come!





The hours have seemed like ages; why didn’t you come home?’

One glance at the baby’s features and the white face of my wife

And I knew that thru the darkness I must ride for my baby‘s life.





“One kiss for each of my treasures and then away I sped

To where my ilcctest mustang was standing in the shed.

Quickly I placed the saddle with trembling heart and hand.

And then like the wind we started—he seemed to understand.





“ ‘Fastcr.’ I cried, ‘0, faster!’ and as we went I prayed



That (lod would forgive my sinning and save that little lnaid,



I found the doctor’s office, he hastened back with mob



Strange how one mile can seem like ten. and an hour an eternity.





“As be bent above my darling I watched his face with dread.

I‘Vhile fears I dared not utter came, ti‘ooping thru my hcad.

At last he turnedAI held my breath-die slowly shook his hcad~~





Three hours ago I might have helped; I can not now,’





“ ‘Three hours ago!’





he said.





Three hours ago I sat in the grog shop there.





I groaned aloud for my doom seemed greater than I could bear.

And the little face grew whiter, the fluttering breath grew still,

As back with God in Heaven she went her place to fill.





“I had killed her





 





and I knew it—my precious little lass.





And there I vowed. henceforth there should be no ‘social glass.’

My wife. dear girl. God bless her, had never a word of blame,

But I knew that I was guilty—I could hardly bear my shame.





“Her hair is getting silvered. our lives are almost done.



And all these years I’ve kept the pledge I made by my little one.



There’s a tiny mound in the churchyard that’s scarcely three feet long—i

It helps me to remember, it helps me to be strong.





“We have boys who are strong and manly. and good true-hearted girls,

But with them all we misg her. our baby with golden curls,



Seeing her as She would be. each year as the seasons pass.



My baby’s life was the price I paid—the price of a social glass!"





 





OCTOBER 23, 1909.





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Put two and one-half ounces of pure

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the Granulated Sugar Syrup. Take a tea-

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Keep well corked and it will never spoil.



The effectiveness of this simple home-

made article is surprising. It usually

stops a deep-seated cough in twenty-fem-

hours. It is also excellent for colds,

whooping coughs, pains in the chest,

bronchial troubles and similar ailments.



Use the real Pinex in making it, how—

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trated compound of Norway White Pine

Extract, and it is far superior to the nu-

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If your druggist does not have it, he can

get it for you without trouble.



The proportion above suggested makes

a full pint of the best cold and cough

remedy. The taste is so pleasant that

children take it willingly. The total cost

is about 54 cents.



Strained honey can be used 'lnstead of

the syrup, and makes a very fine honey

and pine tar cough syrup.





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OFFICERS OF THE STATE ASSOCIA-

TION OF FARMERS CLUBS.

President—A. L. Chandler OWOsso.

Vice-President-Mrs. Clara: L. French,

Pom eli.



Segretary-éltirs.‘ W. L. Cheney, Mason.



Treasurer—D. . Hanna, Caro.



Corresponding Secretary—Clayton Cook,

O‘B‘iii‘c’tm—n. M. Beckwith, Hewell; D.

M. Garner, Davisburg; T. B. Halladay,

Norvell; E. C. Hallock, Almont; B. A.

Holden, Wixom; Wm. H. Marks, Fair

Haven.



Address all correspondence relative to

the organization of new Clubs to Mrs. W.

L. Cheney, Mason, Mich.





Associational Motto.

The skillful hand, with cultured mind,

is the farmer’s most valuable asset.





 





 





Associational Sentiment.—

The farmer; he garners from the soil

the primal wealth of nations.





 





FARMERS’ CLUB FAIRS.





 





Washington Center Club.



The annual fair of the Washington

.Center Farmers’ Club was held at “Run

Side,” the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. N.

Curren, Oct. 14. This fair has become

one of the events of the season and this

year was a. particularly interesting one.

Early in the day the crowd commenced

to arrive and was greeted by “Old Glory”

flying from aflag staff on Floral Hall. Also

by a. large banner stretched across the

driveway, bearing the inscription, "Wel-

come to the Club Fair." Inside the hall





was gaily decorated with flags and flow-

ers. The exhibit was a fine one in every





particular and consisted in part of fruit,

grain, vegetables, canned goods and fancy

work. J. Kochensparger made a fine dis-

play of corn, arranged in- a novel and

pleasing manner. There were 48 varieties

of apples shown and a. fine display of

pears, grapes, quinces and peaches. Mrs.

George Griffith showed some hand-made

rugs which deserve special mention.

Many beautiful specimens of fancy work

were shown and the display of vegetables

was very good. Mr. Hartman had a fine

exhibit of poultry, while Joseph and Cliff

Williams’ Shetland Ponies attracted much

attention and were certainly fine speci-

mens. After a. bountiful chicken-pie din-

ner the hall was closed while the judges

awarded the premiums, and a short pro-_

gram was given. Mrs. D. S. Morrison

gave a. very pleasing recitation, the young

people oflered a number of musical selec-

tions, both vocal and instrumental, and

the second number of the club paper, the

“Rural Gritt,” was read. It contained

various articles, both grave and gay,

original poetry and interesting local items

furnished by its correspondents. At its

conclusion the hall was thrown open and

the successful exhibitors displayed the

much coveted blue ribbons, and presented

friends with gifts of fruit or choice vege-

vegctables, exchanged varieties with

neighbors, etc., making the closing hour

ofAthe fair one of the most pleasant of

the day.—Mrs. O. J. Campbell, Cor. Sec.



North Shade Club, of lonla County.



The North Shade Club Fair was held

at Lafe Howell’s, Oct. 1, and was attend-

cd by about 65 people. The day was one

of nature’s best and the people came With

well filled baskets until a late dinner

hour, then a sumptuous dinner was served

to about 40. Vice-President Daniel Spiece

called the meeting to order and all joined

in singing “Gathering in the Sheaves."

Roll call by the secretary was responded

to, after which Mrs. F. W. Shong read a.

well prepared paper on ”Necessary Fur-

nishing of the Home.” Mrs. Shong thinks

that the kitchen should be well furnished,

for there is where the housewife spends

most of her time. To enjoy a well fur-

nished home, joy and happiness are es-

sential. J. M. Smith entertained the club

with a solo. Rosabel Spiece gave a select

reading and Vinnie Cushman some music.

Mr. Howell rendered several fine selec-

tions on the phonograph, and the meeting

closed with “America.”



The president appointed E. C. Dolbson,

Mr. Hill and Mrs. Wm. Mertz as Judges

and they awarded the prizes. There were

75 exhibits and many won first prize. The

exhibits of fruit, Vegetables and D1609

work were especially fine.





 





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





 





Take an Interest in Alfalfa—The Salem

Farmers’ Club held its September Rally

Meeting at the beautiful farm home of

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Soults. A large

number were present and all enjoyed the

day, The program opened with musical

selections, followed by the secretary‘s

report by Mrs. M. Atchinson. Select

readings entitled, “Mental Suggestion.

by Mrs. G, H. Thompson, and “ Why do

our Girls Leave our Homes when they are

Needed There?” by Mrs. Rena Donovan,

were well received. After other numbers

a talk was given by Rev. J. H. Bettes,

cxpressing his pleasure in meeting with

the club once more. as he has many

times during the past three years. Mr.

Bettes has been a very helpful and faith-

ful member of the club and the club is

sorrv to know he is going to. remove to

South Lyon; but he has promised to still

meet with the club as often as possible

and we shall always be glad to se_e him.

W B. Thompson then spoke of 1115 suc-

cess in raising alfalfa; he also recom-

-mended {all plowingwfoaiggaly (1:2:5- E T



n 1c .— . . .

Wiggle: ggvga very interesting talk on

early days and said he came to Michigan





 





in ’35. They built their house among the

timber, and after underbrushing, planted

corn between the trees securing quite a

good crop. They often went to Detroit

with an ox team, the journey taking four

days. He spoke of the great difference

which time has wrought; the country is

now covered with railroads, telephones,

telepgraphs, street cars and automobiles.

All enjoyed his talk. Mr. H. Knapp. of

Owosso, formerly a resident here, then

addressed the club. He spoke of his

boyhood among these ”friends and his

pleasure in meeting them again. Mrs.

Court, of Dakota, also spoke a. few pleas-

ant words to the club. A vote of thanks

was tendered Mr. and Mrs. Shoults for

their pleasant entertainment. The next

meeting will be held with Mr. and Mrs.

A. C. Curtis. Subject for discussion,

“The Successes of the Past Year.”





The Farmer as a Business Mam—The

Ingham Co, Farmers' Club met in October

at Pleasant Hill with Mr. and Mrs. J. S.

Coy. The meeting was one of unusual

interest and the good weather for secur-

ing crops prevented some of the members

attending, yet those who did go felt it

was good to be there. President Ives

called the meeting to order on time and

Miss Laura Young gave a recitation,

“Barbara Fritchie," which brot forth

memories of the south from the president.

Alfred Allen, the county clerk, was pres-

ent and gave a. short paper upon “The

Farmer as a Business Man." In part,

he said: “Too many farmers do business

in a haphazard‘manner and occasionally

unusual results would be produced. Farm

records seem to be the exception, and, in

short, the methods pursued on the ordi-

nary farm would bankrupt the business

man. The Babcock test and the scales

haVe helped many a. farmer to have the

balance on the right side of the ledger.

He spoke of one instance where a farmer

had all his cows tested and what be

supposed was his best cow proved to be

poorest as regards butter-fat. What

business man would stand for wasting

the by-products of his business like the

western farmer who burns his straw

stacks? It does not pay to neglect little

things, and many little economies will

make a great difference. Enough is wast-

ed upon some farms to support a family,

yet nature is generous and the outlook

is hopeful. R, J. Bullen opened the dis-

cussion and said it would not be surpris-

ing for America. to import wheat instead

of exporting it, if farmers did not feed

the land better and increase the yield per





acre. Selling hay from the farm is like

using the capital. According to an ex-

periment carefully conducted, feeding





cattle cost eight dollars per cwt. to pro-

duce and while finished steers were now

selling for that. Dairying would help

the average farmer. Capt. Stoner. of

Lansing, was present and spoke of having

taken the census in Lansing township

and found only one farmer who kept

books and could answer the questions in-

telligently. The others 'had to guess at it

or he answered for them by comparison.

Messrs. Crittenden, Shaw, Taylor, Bush,

Russell, Jenkins, Chapin and others had

their say, some of the points emphasized

being—farmers do not sell when the crop

is ready to sell, while the busineSS man

is alert and always ready to sell, and

selling hay year after year is taking too

much capital from the business. Feed it

to stock and feed your land. Give pat-

ronage to the new creamery and it will

help your bank account more than selling

hay.



Reading Matter in the Home.——Mrs. H

Wilson had a carefully prepared paper

that all ought to have heard. She spoke

especially of the influence upon the child.

The law requires it to go to school where

the teacher and board of education say

what it shall study, while the home largely

gives the moral influence. Years ago,

before there was as many books as now,

one read what happened to come his way,

and she attributed her interest in mls-

sions to a missionary magazine that came

to her when a young girl. She vividly

portrayed the influence of the home upon

the plastic mind of the child and where

the desire for wholesome reading was

formed it would stay by. The discussion

'was informal and Mesdames Gardner,

Young, Taylor and Robb added their tes-

timony to the paper. The next meeting

will be Woman’s Day, with the chicken

pie dinner, and the committee in charge

report the program well under way. Ad—

journed to meet the second Saturday of

November with Mr. and Mrs. J. W.

Chapin, at Eden.



Each Meeting Better Than the Last.—

The Hartland Farm‘ers’ Club, of Living-

ston county, met at the pleasant home of

Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Youngs. Saturday,

Oct. 2. The meeting was well attended,

over 80 being present. To say that the

meeting exceeded in interest all other

previous meetings would not be casting

any slur on the other meetings as each

one has made, a new record for itself in

the matter of interest and number in at-

tendance. President Heman Clark called

the meeting to order after a sumptuous

dinner such as farmers’ wives alone know

how to serve, and the regular order of

business was gone over. A committee

was appointed to see about buying folding

chairs and boards. Mr. and Mrs. Youngs’

friends of the host and hostess, who live

near Fenton, were present and gave the

club some valuable suggestions. The pro-

gram was both interesting and well rend-

ered. The club. thanks to the energy

and enterprise of its president and those

asosclated with him in the organizing

of the club, has grown to be one of the

largest clubs of the state and is happy in

having among its members such families

as Joseph Burgess who, with the help of

Sardis Campbell, with his magic drum

sticks, Will Wakeman, with his baritone

'horn, and George Arthur. cornetist, make

up the Burgess orchestra. Besides this

musical talent we have the Whitehead

Sisters and Hazel Kirk. Mrs, Lola Bullard

and many others to help with recitations.

so our meetings never lack for material

to furnish an interesting program. The

next meeting of the club will be held at

the pleasant 'home of Joseph Burgess on

the first Saturday in November.





 





 





i , THE MICHIGAN'} FARMER.





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GRANGE i





Our Motto—“The Farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should be

first improved.”





 





 





 





THE OCTOBER PROGRAMS.





Suggestions for Second Meeting.



If one pulls up a weed, he must quickly

fill the hole with some other plant, or

nature will tuck another weed into it.—

L. H. Bailey.



Fruit Growing—1.

cation and climate.



A funny story and select readings, by

one or more young men.





General outlook, lo-





Instrumental music, by Grange or-

chestra.



Cookery—l. Hints on why and how to

work.





Humorous reading, “An Old Recipe,”

by a. young matron.

‘ Roll call, responded to by answering

“Where have I been? What have I





seen?"





THE LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE.





 





If Mary says, “Come. let us go to

Grange,” John follows the line of least

resistance when he replies, “Oh, it’s goin’

to rain,” “Roads are too rough,” “There

won't be anybody there,” or, “I don‘t feel

like it.” ,



The same line is also followed by oth-

ers, by:



Failing to plan ahead so as to be able

to attend Grange regularly.



Getting so interested or so avaricious

in work as to forget to stop an hour early

and go to the meeting in comfort and on

time.



Sitting around, “just talking," when at-

tendance is light, instead of calling to

order and at least making the talk profit-

able, thus placing the Grange on record

as observing its dates,



Opening “without form" because the

regular officers are absent, instead of

dividing up the parts and making the

Grange qualified to meet emergencies

with credit.



Obligating candidates, instead of get-

ting the practice in initiator;- exercises

and giving new members a good impres-

sion of the society they are joining.



Letting the work shift along without

emblems and paraphernalia to exemplify

its details and finer meanings.



Neglecting to collect fresh grains and

grasses for decorations in degree work

and to make Ceres’ station the most at-

tractive point in the hall.



Not taking thot to pick a handful of

flowers, bright leaves, or a plate of fruit

with which to add to the attractiveness

of the place of mccting and later to send

to the sick or absent.



Failing to carry to the meeting some

object of interest—a picture, or model,

or article of convenience, or plant, or

anything that can be taken to illustrate

the topic under discussion for the day.



Taking no notice of ubscncc of officers

or members detained by sit-kncss or ex-

treme conditions, but allowing them to

infer that their prcscncc is not missed.



Getting up and talking to “kill time,”

when a little more mental activity or

previous preparation would really produce

something worth while.



Taking more than one’s fair share in

the discussions when, perhaps the walls

are lined with people who, by a tactful

question or word of encourngcmcnt from

the proficient, might be induccd to make

a “maiden effort” or gain :1 little more

power in expressing themselves.



Letting the program hour go by default

altogether, ruthcr than cxerting ouc‘s

self to quietly volunteer to llll' lccturcr

that you are willing to read, sing, rccite

or start a discussion.



Shaking your hczu'l whcn roll is called.



Sitting by while a bashful or slightly

educated person makes :1 hruvc uttcmpt

on a program, and giving no word of ap-

preciation afterward.



Going to Grunge with your home cares

and work-wearincss rcady to bc. tappcd

by every greeting of other members, in-

stead of throwing them into the back-

ground of your {hot and exerting yourself

to make it a happy occasion for others.



Etcetera, etcetera, etcctera.



' JENNIE BUELL.





ANOTHER BIG U. P. POMONA.





After attending an cnthusinstic meeting

of the Menominee County Pomona Grange

at Stephenson, I wcnt to Chutham, Alger

county, Where State Deputy John W'Iltie

had assembled the patrons to organize a

Pomona. Five subordinate Granges werc

represented. One brother came a distance

of one hundred miles and the round trip

consumed three days. The Pomona was

organized with 54 members and the fol-

lowing officers were chosen: Master, Leo

Geismar; overseer, Woodherry Walls: lec-

turer, Elizabeth Knox; steward, Peter

Wathey' ass" steward, Alex. Charter;





 





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lady ass't steward, Hulda Johnson; chap-E

lain, Mrs. A. Johnson; treasurer, Chas. A.

Gograu; secretary, Ellen Anderson; gate

keeper, Andrew Johnson; Ceres, Mrs. H.

Chartler; Pomona, Mrs. J. J. Connors;

Flora, Leona Geismar.



Delegates were elected to attend the

State Grange meeting at Traverse City.

There was plenty of enthusiasm thruout

the day and evening. Dinner and suppe:

were served in typical Grange style and

I could not see but what each one did

his part as well as they do in the older

counties of the state.



The Alger County Pomona seems to

have a bright future. The people are

much interested. Its members are in-

telligent and competent. They are there

to stay, for their soil is very fertile and

they have a country of much promise.



On Tuesday, Oct. 5, I attended the

Delta county convention at Escanaba.

Eighteen of the nineteen Granges were

represented and strong Grange meetings

were held in the afternoon and evening.

Granges were reported generally pros.

perous. The Pomona has a lecturer who

is wide awake and up to date. One

Grange is already building a hall and

more will soon follow the example. The

indications are that Delta 'will soon be

0:th of the strong Grange counties of the

s a e.



When Brother Wilde shall have finished

his work at the end of this month he will

have nearly 60 Granges to his credit this

year in the Upper Peninsula. He has

done the work conscientiously, thoroly

and well. To him belongs the reward of

faithful servant of the order. Thru his

efforts, 1,000 members have been added

to the order in Delta county alone. The

Upper Peninsula will have 56 votes in the

State Grange this year. '



W. F. TAYLOR.





 





Marquette County Pomona. 1





Marquette County Granges met with

Skandia Grange and held their county

convention, also organizing at Pomona

Grange, Wednesday, Oct. 13. The follow-

ing Pomona officers were elected: Mas-

ter, H. H. Currie; overseer, J. J. McCar-

thy; lecturer, Wm. J. Kidder; steward,

Clifford Bordeau; ass't steward, Frank

Carrier; lady ass’t steward, 'l‘illie Jolm~

son; chaplain, Huldah E, Kidder; treas-

urer, Albert H. Peterson; secretary, Geo.

Roberts; gate keeper, Alfred Erickson;

Ceres, Emma Kughn; Pomona, Katherine

Fogerberg; Flora, Alma Johnson. State

Deputy W'ilde, who organized the Pomo-

na, instructed and drilled the members

in the secret work of the order and closed

the cvcm'ng session with an address on

“The Purpose of the Grange." This

makes six Pomonas and 59 Subordinate

Granges Deputy “'ilde has organized in

ten months.





 





AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.



Cherry Creek Grange.—Deputy Wilde

organized a Grange in the Cherry Creek

settlement, C‘horolay township, Marquette

Co., Saturday evening, Oct. 2, with the

following officers: Master, Earnest Dell,

overseer, Clinton King; lecturer, Eva.

King; steward, Albert Gentz; ass’t stew

ard, Chas. Briggs; lady ass’t steward,

Mrs. W. Briggs; chaplain, Edward Ron-

erts; treasurer, August Gentz; secretary,

Clifford Bordeau; gate keeper, H. Zint-

man; Ceres, Eva Dell; Pomona, Mrs. A.

Gentz; Flora, Mrs. M. Zintman,



Successful Grange Fair.—-LeR0y Grange

of Osceola county, recently held its an—

nual fair in LeRoy. The fair in all par-

ticulars eclipsed those of former years.

Especially was this true of the display

of fruits and vegetables which were con«

ceded to be far superior to former dis-

plays. A large attendance was present,

the gate rcccipts assuming liberal propor-

tions. \chford Grange will hold a sim-

ilar fair the last week in October. E. A,

Nowack.



Cornell Grange—Deputy Wilde organ-

izcd a Grange at Cornell, in Cornell town—

ship, llcllu Co., with the following om-

ccl's: Master, J. D. Colburn; overseer,

Fred Holm; lecturer, Chester Wilson;

steward, Moses La Plant; ass‘t steward,

Joseph La Bine; lady ass’t steward, Lon

tie La Plant; chaplain, Mrs. J. D. Col-

burn; trcnsul‘cr, J. A. Thompson; secre-

tary. Chris Thompson; gate kccpcr, Noel

Dcloria; Ceres, Julia Delorin; Pomona,





 





Mrs. .l. A, Thompson; Flora, Mrs. 1“.

Holm. .



Ogemaw Pomona has been reorganized

recently on thoroly new lincs and with





new officers. The former organization,

not having hold a rcgulur meeting for





some considcrable time, was declared

dormant by Deputy .l. \V. Jackson, at an

initial meeting, and three officcrs elected.

011 ()('l. l, a sccond mccliug was held at,





W'est Branch and the reorganization fur—;





ther pcrfcctwl. The following officers

hnvc bccn clcctcd: Master. \Vesley

Chasc: ovcrsccr, Robt. Horscll; steward,

Charlcs Anti]; lccturcr, John Diebold;

uss't steward. S. ’l‘. llluir; chaplain, Jos.

Scheele; trcasurcr, L. F. Smith; secre-





tary, Mrs, Amelia Pcck. A locating com-‘

mittee was appointed to arrange. dates





and plnccs of mccting for the coming

year, with the rcsult tllnt'unnouncemcnt

was made of a Januury meeting to be

llchl probably will] Prescott VGrange.





Master \Vcslcy Chusc and Mrs. S. ’1‘. Blair;

were elected dclcgulcs to State Grange.





 





COMING EVENTS.



National Grange, Forty-third Annual

Session, at: Des Moines, 121., Nov. 10—19.



Michigan State Grange, Thirty-seventh

Annual Session, at Traverse City, Dec-

cmbcr l~l—l7.



Pomona Meetings.



W'cstern (Ottawa Co.) with Georgetown

Grunge, Friday, Oct. 22. '



Lapeer Co., with Mayfield Grange, at

anecr, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29 and

30. Saturday’s session will be “Young

People’s Pomona."



Kent 00., with Paris Grange, VVednes-|

day, Oct. 27. Miss Ida Chittenden, state

speaker. ,



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Granges. at Vienna Grange hall in Clio,‘

Friday, Oct. 29. l
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