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The Only Weekly Agricultural, Horticultural, and Live Stock Journal in the State.
DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1916

50 CENTS A YEAR
12 FOR 5 YEARS

(lo-Operative Land Clearing Associations
' By I. B. MCMURTRY

ICHIGAN farmers stand well to
M the front in‘ the successful or-

ganization of various co-opera-
tive enterprises. Michigan boasts the
oldest cow—testing association in Am-
erica. Some of the most successful
fruit and produce exchanges in the
country are now operating on Michi-
gan soil and their trade-mark brands
are recognized in all the leading mar-
kets. They stand for an honest pack
and quality par excellence.

In some lines, however, Michigan
farmers are not fully aware of the ad-
vantages of co-operative work. Our
friends over in Wisconsin have taken
the lead in the matter of working to-
gether to clean stump land.

Michigan today has some 5,000,000
acres of cut-over lands. Of that about
3,000,000 acres are fair or better farm
land. As nearly as I can get at the
figures, about 30,000 acres are being
cleared annually. At that rate it will
be 100 years before the last acres of
stumps are uprooted. Any means that
will aid the farmers to speed up the
clearing of the last field and building
the last stump bonfire should be wel-
comed with outstretched arms.

Michigan will not come into her
own as a farming state until the vast
areas of cut-over lands in the newer
portions are prepared for the riding
plow, the potato digger, the binder and
the tractor.

While some 30,000 acres are being
cleared annually most of the work is
done with the expenditure of too much
man power. The cost is too great.
How can the cost be reduced?

Let me tell you what Wisconsin is
doing. From May 8 to June 17 last
spring, a “Land Clearing Special”
train was run by the Wisconsin Agri-
cultural College through much of the
upper portion of the state. The pur-
pose of the work was to show just

what stump pullers, stump pilers and
dynamite would do when used togeth-
er, and to encourage greater co-opera-
tive activity in clearing lands. It was
a co-operative venture managed by the
college and aided by the railroads over
whose lines it went, four leading
stump puller and piler makers and one
of the big explosive manufacturers.
The demonstrations were attended by
very large and enthusiastic crowds.
There were some 8,000 actual owners
of stump land present at the demon-
s rations. Many farmers drove twen-
ty-five miles by team and as high as
90 by auto. Several walked 17 to 25
miles to visit the work.

“Others than farmers,” said Direc-
tor Livingston, “were greatly interest-
ed in this work. Commercial clubs
sent delegations in from parts of W'is-
consin, Minnesota and Michigan to re-
port on the work. Real estate men
were very much interested and came
from widely differing parts to view
demonstrations. Ofliicials of lumber
and logging companies who have great

areas of cut-over lands were present.
Railroads sent their agents to study
the method of operating with a View
to running one over their own lines.”

One of the most striking features of
the work was the performance of a
power stump piler. Two men and a
team could pile stumps and burn them
as fast as four teams could drag
them in.

'It was found that dynamite could
generally be used to great advantage
in splitting the big stumps before they
were pulled.

These demonstrations showed very
clearly the great advantage to be gain-
ed by farmers working together in
clearing land. It is a big job—one re-
quiring lots of power, in the form of
pullers, piler, horses and dynamite. N0
farmer, singlethanded, can do the work
most economically. If one thing more
than another was driven home by
these co-operative demonstrations, 'it
was the idea that economical land
clearing can be done only by the use
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and horse power for a given amount
of man power. In short, the heavy
pullers and pilers, dynamite, team and
man power must be so arranged that
each will do its part with the smallest
possible waste of energy.

Wisconsin farmers are banding to-
gether in groups for the buying of ma--
chines, etc, and will then work togeth-
er to handle the work. For example,
say 12 farmers who have more or less
stump land go together to form a co-
operative land clearing association.
They may or may not incorporate.
They will determine just what ma-
chines they will buy. The list, would
probably run, two good stump pullers,
one piler and a ton or more of dyna-
mite purchased for the first year’s
work.

Suppose that each man has five to
ten acres of stumps to be removed per
year for several years. The 12 men
work together—one as the manager
or boss, one as handler of the dyna~
mite, and so on, each man having his
work, at which he becomes something
of an expert.

The book—keeping would be compar-
atively simple, but it should be done
with accuracy and every member
should be given credit at so much per
hour for all work performed by him.-
self, team, etc.

It would require only two or three'
days for the association to clear up
each of the ten acre fields. What a.
wonderful difference would come over
each of these 12 farms within a few
years! How much greater the incen-
tive to do a difficult task when one has
improved equipment and skilled help
for its accomplishment! The increas-
ed yields, to say nothing of the in-
crease in the value of the land, would
very soon pay for all of the equipment
and work.

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CURRENT COMMENT.

 

At the election to be
Constitutional held on Tuesday, No-
Amendments. vember 7, there will be

submitted to the elec-
tors of the state four proposed amend-
ments to the state constitution. In ac-
cordance with our usual custom, we
shall publish the text of these propos-
ed amendments in our columns prior
to the date of the election, together
with an explanation of their import
and the results which would be likely
to follow their adoption by the elec-
tors of the state.

Two of these constitutional amend-
ments which have undoubtedly arous-
ed great interest among all classes of
people of the state are the two amend-
ments relating to the manufacture and
sale of intoxicating liquors. One of
these amendments generally referred
to as the “dry" amendment seeks to
add a new section to Article 16 of the
constitution to be known as Section 11
and to read as follows:

“Section 11. The manufacture, sale,
keeping for sale, giving away, barter-
ing or furnishing of any vinous, malt,
brewed, fermented, spirituous or in-
toxicating liquors, except for medici-
nal, mechanical, chemical, scientific or
sacramental purposes shall be after
April 30, 1918, prohibited in the state
forever. The legislature shall by law
provide regulations for the sale of
such liquors for medicinal, mechanical,
chemical, scientific and sacramental
purposes.”

The effect of this proposed amend-
ment 11' adopted will be to prohibit in
this state the manufacture and sale of
intoxicating liquors, except for the pur-
poses mentioned in the amendment.
The intent and practical effect of this
proposed amendment. are plain, and
will be. fully understood by every voter.

The other proposed amendment,
which shares with the one already not-
ed in the matter of public interest, is
called by its sponsors the “Home Rule”
amendment, but among well informed
people is more ordinarily designated
as the “wet” amendment. This propos-
ed amendment seeks to amend Article
8 of the constitution by adding a new
section thereto to be known as Sec-
tion 30 and to read as follows:

“Section 30. Every incorporated
city, every incorporated village and ev-
ery organized township (meaning
thereby all that part of a township. out-
side the limits of an incorporated city
or village located partly or wholly
therein) shall each have the right to
determine by a majority vote of the
electors thereof". whether or not there
shall be prohibited therein the manu~
facture and sale of malt, brewed, fer-
mented, vinous, distilled or intoxicat-
ing liquors.

Appropriate legislation shall _‘M
enacted to enforce and make effective
the provisions of this section and, un-
til such legislation is enacted, existing
local option and regulatory laws on
this subject shall continue in force;
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tinue in force after January ‘1, 1919.”

The effect of this proposed amend-
ment if adopted willbe to provide that
every incorporated city and village and
organized township shall each have the
right to determine whether or not
there shall be prohibited therein the
manufacture and. sale of intoxicating
liquors after enabling legislation is
enacted by the legislature in conform-
ity with the amendment. In” addition
to this provision, the last clause of the
amendment would in effect repeal all
existing laws inconsistent with the
provisions of this section on January
1, 1919. The plain meaning of this pro-
vision would seem to be that the pres
out local option law would be auto-
matically repealed on the first of Jan-
uary, 1919, after which liquors could
be sold in present “dry” territory un-
der the same regulatory laws which
prevail in other sections of the State,
and that in order to exclude the sale of
liquor from such territory, it would be
necessary to raise the issue and secure
a majority vote against permitting
such sale in every city, village and
township within that territory.

While these two - proposed amend»
ments above mentioned are exactly op-
posite in their intent and proposed ef.
fect, inasmuch as they seek to amend
two separate articles of the constitu-
tion there is a possibility that both
might be adopted at the coming elec-
tion. It is, of course, impossible to
predict with accuracy how the courts
might construe these two conflicting
provisions in such an emergency. The
apparent result would seem to be that
the whole state would be “dry” from
April 30, 1918, to January 1, 1919, af-
ter which the situation would appear
extremely uncertain to the most stu-
dious layman. This contingency is,
however, unlikely if the rank and file
of voters are fully informed upon the
import of. the two amendments.

This situation is a} natural result of
the opportunity afforded to permit the
submission of constitutional amend-
ments by initiative. In this case two
separate amendments have been pro-
posed on the same general issue, the
one seeking to settle the liquor ques-
tion by prohibition in Michigan, the
other seeking under cover of the term
“Home Rule” to enable the practical
nullification of the local option vote in
present dry territory by permitting the
sale of liquor in a lesser municipality
within a county upon a majority vote
of its citizens.

In thus commenting upon these im«
portant constiutional amendments we
have sought only to clarify the issues
involved rather than to influence the
action of any voter. The two other pro-
posed amendments will be commented
upon in a future issue.

The extent of road

The Good Roads improvement work

Movement. in the United States

is hardly apprecated

by the average citizen. Some statistics

recently released by the office of Pub-

lic Roads and Rural Engineering of

the United States Department of Agri-

culture are interesting in this connec-
tion.

The total length of public roads outr
side of towns and cities is about 2,452,-
000 miles, of which 277,000 miles, or
11.3 per cent, were improved on Jan-
uary 1, 1915. The mileage of improv-
ed roads has increased at the rate of
about 16,000 miles a year, of which in
crease about one-half is made under
the supervision of state highway de‘
partments. The expenditure in road
and bridge work in the United States
has increased more than 250 per cent
since 1904, in which year'it was ap-
proximately $80,000,000 as compared
with $282,000,000 in 1915. This expen-
diture represented an average of about

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828 per mile of rural roads in 1904 and _-

$109 per mile in 1915.

The increased traffic on the public
roads of the country which has been
responsible for the increase in. good
roads sentiment is very marked. It is

estimated thee-came is" ““7

matel one automobile muse for‘oaeh mm 11505561! . antacid: ”Point; ,
y > Four British ships and two, mm Is
There was ‘

mile of road in the country, and that
this traffic is greater than tramc of all
sorts twelve years ago.

. A call for the first
The Milk Produc- annual 'meeting of
ers' Meeting. the Michigan Milk
Producers’ Associa-
tion to be held at the Agricultural
Building, M. A. C., East Lansing, on
Tuesday, October 17, at 10:30 a. m.,
appears in another column of this is-
sue.
complished through this organization
since its inception is sufficient to en-
list the sympathy and co-operatlon of
the dairymen of all sections of the
state.

In many sections of the state local
dairymens’ organizations have been
formed and will send delegates to this
meeting. Wherever such organiatlons
have not been formed prominent dairy-
men would do well to attend this meet-
ing with a view of familiariing them-
selves wlth the objects and aims as
well as the work already actually ac-
complished by this organiation, work-
ing in conjunction with local milk pro-
ducers organiations throughout the
state. It is important that a represen-
tative gathering of the dairymen from
all sections of the state characterize
this meeting, to the end that the fu-
ture campaign of the state organiza-
tion of milk producers may have be
hind it the solid backing of Michigan
dairymen.

Reports from various
counties in which coun-
ty and, district fairs
have been held this year indicate that
the attendance has been good and the
character of the exhibits above the av-
erage in most cases. An increased in‘
terest in the county agricultural fair
is a matter for congratulation to the
farmers of Michigan. No man can at-
tend an agricultural exhibit of any
kind without broadening his viewpoint
materially and in most cases he will
pick up ideas which will be of value to
him in his succeeding season’s cam-
paign.

We regret that space is not avail-
able for the publication of detailed re-
ports of each and every county fair
held in the state, to the end that in-
terest in these events might be furth-
er stimulated, but since interest in
each of these fairs is more or less lo-
cal in nature, this course is impracti-
cal. We cannot, however, let the sea-
son pass without congratulating the
officers and directors of each of these
successful fair associations ,upon- the
success of their season’s activities and
bespeaking for them the loyal aid and
co-operation of the farmers in their re-
spective localities in their future
efforts.

County Fairs.

It has been many
years since the con-
sumer’s dollar would
purchase so little in
the way of foodstuffs as at the present
time. And with prices for all food-

The Consumer’s
Dollar.

stuffs high, the percentage of that dol-l

lar which sticks in the trade channels
between consumers and farmers is
likely to increase, unless conservative
marketing is practiced by producers all
along the line. Michigan’s two great
staple cash crops, beans and potatoes,
are away below normal in yield, but
will be fully up to normal income pro.
duction for the farmers of the state if
the growers secure their fair percent-
age of the consumer’s dollar. This they
can accomplish by withholding their
products from the market whenever
flush shipments force prices down to
the advantage of speculators. The sell
ing end of the farmer’s business is al-
ways important, but it is doubly im-
portant under present conditions. \

 

HAPPENINGS OF THE WEEK.

 

Foreign. .
The European Wan—Developments
in the great struggle in Europe were
brought near ,to the people of the Uni:

The work which has been ac- th

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were soul; :on October 8.
only one anger boat among the
victims. ions to the attacks a
submarine slipped into Newport har~
bor Sunday morning and communicat~
ed with Admiral Knight, commanding
the United States nav station at that
pomt. The craft left t co hours later.
shortly after which the first boats were
attacked. So far as reported, no lives
were lost in the destruction of the vet
sels.-—The Germans have recaptured
Kronstadt m the southwestern part of
Transylvania, and it is reported that

  

e Roumanians are falling back all
along this~llne.—Nothing of 'import-
ance is reported farther to the north
on the Russian front. To the south
Russian troops are being moved into
southeastern Roumania to assist the
natives in driving out the Teutonic al-
lies from the province of Dobrudja.—-—-
Armies in the Causasus region have
been active the past week but no
changes of front are reported. It is
declared through Petrograd that large
numbers of Turkish troops are desert-
ing their military leaders—The Serbi—
ans on the Macedonian front are tight-
ing hard to gain commanding positions
outside of Monastir. They are gradu-
ally closing in upon that important
railway center.—The Anglo-French at-
tack at Somme on the seventh netted
the Allies an advance of 600 to 1,000
yards which they were able to hold.
As a result of the repulse of a new
effort on the following day by the Al-
hes, there has been no additional
changes of front since the important
drive record last week. There is
nothing said of activity in the Italian

war zone.
National.

The winning teams in the American
and National baseball leagues were
the Boston Red Sox and the Brooklyn
Dodgers respectively. In the opening
game of the world series the Boston
team won by a score of 6-5 before an
audience of 40,000 fans.

In the ramarlkable series of even
gelistic services being held in the
large tabernacle in Detroit under the
leadership of the famous evangelist,
“Billy” Sunday, over 9,000 converts
are reported for the first four weeks’
servrces.

United States District Attorney Kin.-
nane, for eastern Michigan, has secur-
ed authority from the federal govern-
ment to conduct a supervision of the
November election in Detroit. Irregu-
larities in counting the vote at the re.-
cent primaries held in Michigan’s me-
tropolis is undoubtedly responsible for
this tmovement by the federal govern-
men

The publishers of Tonia county met
recently to discuss methods of forti-
fying themselves against the greatly
increased cost of print paper. Con:
certed action has also been taken by
publishers in other counties of the
state, and it is predicted that within a
year not a weekly local paper printed
in Michigan will be sold for less than
$1.50 a year. To continue selling sub-
scriptions at the old rates would force
many of these local. papers out of bus-
iness. The following Michigan pub~
lishers have already raised their sub-
scription rates: Zeeland Record;
Boyne City Citizen; Belding Banner;
Casnovia Herald; Freeport Herald;
Portland Review; Benton Harbor
News-Palladium; Arenac County Inde-
pendent; Hastings Banner; Hastings
Journal-Herald; Middleville Sun;
Nashville News; Woodland News;
Charlotte Tribune; Otisville Star;
Buckley Enterprise; Marion Dispatch;
Saline Observer; Charlotte Republi-
can; Lake Odessa WaveTimes; Prove-
mont Courier; Leslie Local-Republi-
can; Lawrence Times. These have cut
down the size: Coopersville Sun:
Crystal Mail; Sterling Gazette; Mid-
dleton Record; Hastings Banner; Man-
istee News-Advocate; Marquette Jour-
nal; 800 News. . Advertising prices
have been advanced by the Three Riv-
ers Commercial and the Belding News.
The following have merged to reduce
costs: Owosso Argus
Press-American; St. Joseph Press and
St. Joseph Herald; Muskegon Chorni—
cle and Muskegon Morning News; Kal~
amazoo Gazette and Kalamazoo Tele-
graph; Battle Creek Moon and Battle
Creek News.

By proclamation President Wilson
has set aside October 21 and 22 as Ar-
menian and Syrian Relief Days upon
which dates the people of the United
States are requested to make such
contributions as they feel disposed for
the aid of these stricken people. Of
the 2,000,000,1rmeuians, 500,000 have
already perished, and it is said that
the Syrians in the Lebanon region
have suffered to'even a greater extent
than have the Aremniant. Charles R.
Crane, 70 Fifth Avenue, New York
City, is treasurer of the American

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and Owosso .

. Committee on Arminean' and Syrian
ted States im the past few days bythe Rolled. . . . .

 

  

 
   
 
   
   
  
  

 

 
   
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


  
 
  
 

 

  

I ”'1‘ has been calculated fronts-the ’re-

the United States that the average

gross income of those operating farms

~ in this country is a little less than $700

per annum. This can in no way be

thought of as profit if we consider, for

l a moment, the enormous expenditure

‘ ’ of capital and labor that is lavished
upon the farms of the United States.

The size of the average farm in this
country was, in 1910, about 138 acres.
7 The average value of this land per
farm as given in the census of that
year was $2,070. The value of all
farm property on the average farm
was, including land and buildings;
$6,444. Interest on the value of the
.. land, figured at the low rate of five
per cent amounts to $103.50 for the
year. Interest on the value of .the
equipment of the farm will have to be
figured at a higher rate, for it would
be necessary to pay more for the use
of money when the personal property
was offered for security. Figuring this
at seven per cent, we find that it
amounts to $306.18. Thus the interest
on the capital invested in the average
farm alone amounts to $409.68 which,
taken from the average gross income,
leaves about $290 to pay for the labor,
to keep in repair the buildings and
fences, and to replace or make good
the wear and tear on the equipment.
What is there of profit to be found in
the pursuit of an industry that offers
such inducements?
But the fact remains that many
farmers are making, not only a good
living, but a profit as well, and at the

and year.

a distance.

The Advantage in Good Draining.

enough.

in its production.

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I said that the crop may be large
But the average yield per
acre, of any crop for any considerable
extent of territory, compared with the
yield produced by any one energetic
farmer who understands his business
will soon convince any unprejudiced
observer that the yield is not so good
as it should be; nor so large as it can
be made if good management is used
More and more it
is becoming evident that the man who
would go onto a farm and wring from
the soil the return justified by his ex-

 
  

 

1.... .. .... W...Maw...‘.vlTrainiing Farm Managers
By J. H. HULETT

thousand miles of the spot grocers are
selling the same grade of product to
the consumer for 20 cents per pound.
It is time that the farmer looked about
to see what has given the added value
to the crop which he has produced.
These figures may seem entirely out
of proportion, and they are; but the
foregoing is a statement of cold facts.
The tomatoes were sold from a store
in Lumberton, New Mexico, and the
' canning factory was located at Marion,
Indiana, the transactions taking place
on the same day of the same month
There is something wrong
in the management when the products
gain so much on being moved so short
The crop itself may be
large enough, the quality may be of
the best, but the returns in the shape
of income are not what they should be.

had been educated away from

farm.

into other channels.

away to the other occupations.

nied for generations.

essary for the well-being of all.

 

same time dwelling in the most health-

 

ful surroundings and rearing a family
amid an environment, the value of
which cannot be figured in dollars and
cents. These figures are not accurate.
They are based upon the replies given
to the man taking the census, on his
visits to the farmer or to the farmer’s
wife, at a time when they are unable
to answer with any degree of accuracy
the questions asked. I will venture
the assertion that 95 per cent of the

“ farmers throughout the country do not
know what their income was last year.
They do not know how many eggs
they sold nor how many eggs the hens
laid in the last year. Most of the
answers are pure guesses.

The Importance of Good Management.

While it is a fact that the figures
above quoted are not high enough for
the returns of the average farm, it is
also true that these same returns were
not so large as they should have been.
The reason for this, or at least one of
the most potent reasons that the re-
turns are not much higher and better,
is the sort of management, or should
I say the lack of management, on the
average farm. There may be, at times,
a lack of income on account of the
drouth, of frost, or of some other un-
controllable agent which causes great
reduction in the income. The fact
stands, nevertheless, that the most
potent cause of the smallness of the
income is the lack of the skillful hand-
ling of the problems with which the
average farmer is continually con-
fronted.

Let us consider one specific incident.
The farmers in one Michigan commu-
nity had been for years trying to get
a good catch of alfalfa. They had
spent thousands of dollars and years
of time only to get a thin stand or no
catch at all, the thin stand soon suc-
cumbing to the ravages of blue grass.
Then along came a man from the ag-
} ricultural college. He tested the soil
I. for acids. He said, “Your soil is acid.
-) Alfalfa will not thrive until you have
i

The Farmer’s Auto Should be Kept in

penditure of labor and capital invest-
ed, must be a man trained for this spe—
cial calling. That just anyone can at-
tain real success in farming is one of
the greatest mistakes which the peo-
ple of this country have ever made.

A careful perusal of the reports of
the investigations, into the conditions
existing in our rural schools will con—
vince an unprejudiced mind what Some
of the reasons are that the farms are
not producing more crops; why the
farmers are not able to tell how many
bushels of grain they raised last year;
why they are not studying the meth-
ods of better marketing of their crops.
Therein the careful observer will note
many reasons why farmers are not
managing their farms to their own bet-
terment, and to the advantage of their
respective communities.

Not very long ago I heard a profes-
sor of agriculture in one of our leading
colleges in this line, tell of this inci-
dent. He was chosen to deliver the
commencement address to the gradu-
ating class of a sister college. He ask-
ed, for his own information, how many
of this class of nearly two hundred
students had come from the open coun-
try. About all of them had, or to be
more exact, about 96 per cent of them
had come from the farms, or from
communities closely connected with
farms. How many were going back to

 

 

brought this soil to a neutral condi-
tion.” And behold, those who followed
his advice and corrected this unfavor-
able soil condition by an application
of lime or marl now have afine'stand
of this great forage crop.

Then, too, the farmer does not get
as large a return from his farm as he
should because he does not know how
to market his produce. While farmers
are selling tomatoes to the canning
factories for $10 per ton, within a

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a Detached Garage, Preferably of a

Fire Resisting Type.

get out of finding the least common
multiple of five or six numbers, each
composed of six or eight figures. Nor
do they find much of the real life in
reducing great, long fractions to their
lowest terms.

A Better Rural School Training.

Not long ago I heard this definition
for education: A consciousness of
power. I think it the very best defi-
nition I have ever heard for that word.
If we really educate the boy and girl
in the rural school, we will give to
them the consciousness of the power,
we will make them conscious of the
qualities inherent in them. One power
that the rural pupil has is to grow
crops that pay. He can do it, but at
the present time he is not trained to
do it in the rural school.

The time is coming, I may never see
it, nor you, but I shall do all in my
power to hasten the day when every
rural school will have a farm of its
own. When that farm will be cultivat-
ed intelligently. When the proceeds
of that farm will be used towards the
support of its particular school.

There should be served at every
rural school a mid—day meal cooked at
the school and eaten by the pupils and
the teachers. On the table should be
vegetables from the school garden,
fruitsfrom the school orchard, provid-
ed the school is situated where fruit

the open country? Just three. The
balance were going into other callings.
They‘ were to become engineers, pro-
fessors, builders, anything but farm—
ers because in the rural schools they
the

And the schools are not alone to
blame that they take the best blood
found on the farm and train it away
They are not the
only cause for the existing conditions.
The sentiment found on the farm to-
wards its own environment is far more
potent in getting the boys and girls
The
farmer himself, realizes that he is not
getting the return he should from the
farm and this makes him discontented
With his surroundings and he longs to
get away, at least that his ,children
may get away where they can enjoy
the privileges which he has been de-

Too long, the schools, and more es
pecially the rural schools, have been
conducted with the ideal constantly
held up before them that they must fit
the boys and girls for higher institu-
tions of learning instead of training
these boys and girls for real life, or
what would be still better, becoming
a part of a real life wherein each took
some real vital part and each was nec-
Not
much of a real life does a boy or a girl

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can be. grown, And there are few
places where it cannot be grown.
There should be milk from the school
dairy, and eggs and honey and all the
little delicacies which are so pleasing
to the palate; all these should be pro-
duced on the school-farm and used at
the school. In short, the school should
demonstrate what the farmer should
eat as well as what he should grow on
his farm. ‘

The rural teacher should be a train-
ed farmer. He is the most important
element of the school. His is the re-
sponsibility. He should have a house
at the school and live there. He will
make the school a success or a failure.
So, let him live beside his work. He
should have a training as a practical
farmer but it is not essential that he
be‘a kid-gloved professor of agricul-
ture.

The rural school should be in ses-
sion throughout the whole year. No-
where outside the school can we find
any profession or vocation or calling
or occupation which has some set time
when it is forced to take a vacation.
Schools close in June and open in Sep-
tember because it is a tradition that
this is the proper time for such pro-
ceedings. Of all the idiotic traditions
handed down from generation to gen-
eration, this is the extreme limit. The
individual may be in need of a vaca-
tion but not because it is June nor be
cause it is September. Medicine, law,
commerce, mining, manufacturing,
farming, none of them takes an en-
forced vacation at certain stated pe-
riods. There is no just reason why
the school should be an exception to
this general rule. One can readily see
that there are many reasons why the
farm should be continued throughout
the whole year. The rural school
should go on in like manner with the
farm.

 

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I would like to do some tile draining
and would like some information
about it. Can tile be laid uniform bet-
ter and cheaper with machine than b
hand? They charge about 30 to 35
cents per rod here according to depth.
Soil is clay. I would like to tile drain
my orchard. Will roots of trees clog

tile?

Bay Co. C. K.

I just recently saw a big power
ditching machine in operation in Isa-
bella county. It dug the ditch just
about as fast as one man could nicely
place the tile. One man operated the
machine and kept the grade. Another
laid the tile. That is the way to ditch.
It is better than ditching by hand. I
saw one place where a ditching ma:
chine had operated right through a
swamp and there was plenty of logs,
etc., in the way. Some of them had to
be cut off, of course, and once in a.
while a stone is in the way. These.
must be removed. But they must be
removed when ditching by hand.

These machines have caterpillar
wheels and can be operated in wet
ground, or almost anywhere one can
ditch by hand. It is a wonderful ma-
chine. To think that I tiled my whole
farm by hand, in the mud day after
day, and now we have a machine that
will do this work so successfully,
makes me almost wish we had the
work to do over again. I would rec-
ommend that you use a ditching ma-
chine. Don’t try to do it by hand.

COLON C. LILLIE.

 

The success with tile drains in an
orchard seems to depend upon soil
conditions. In cases where there is a
hardpan below the subsoil and the tile
is laid below this, tile drains have
been in operation through orchards
for twenty years without any interfer-
ence ,with the tile. In other places
where the roots can penetrate the soil
easily they have been very trouble-
some. Some orchardists recommend
wrapping the joints of tile with tar pa-
per where tile drainage is necessary
in an orchard. Natural drainage is
much better than artificial drainage'
for orchard sites—Eds.

  
  
   
   
       
     
   
 
 
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
   
  
    
   
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
   
  
   
    
  
   
   
   
   
    
 
    
 
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
  
     
  
  
   
  
 
 
 
 
    
 
 
  
   
   
 
   
     
 
   
 
   
     
   
   
  
   
   
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
   
   
   
    
   
  
  
   
        
     
         
 
     
    


 
  

 

 

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Early Hog Pasture.

_ I have a field of six acres of oat
stubble, land quite rolling, with some
hard clay spots I wish to use as a
hog pasture. at should I plant it:
to for an early pasture and when
should the planting be done, and how
much seed per acre?

Berrien Co. J. C. ,

Sown earlier in the season rye and
vetch would make the best early hog
pasture, but would not last through
the summer. Probably peas, oats and
rape would make the best spring sown
combination it the whole field is to be
sown to the same crop. In case this
combination is used sow about one and

’ a half: bushels per acre of each of the

grains and about five pounds of dwarf
Essex rape seed per acre. Soy beans

are used with good satisfaction for

this purpose in some sections. If the
best permanent results are desired the
field should be prepared and seeded to
alfalfa, which is the best available
forage plant for hog pasture. Until
this can be done better results will’be
secured by dividing the field and sow—
ing it to a succession of crops, using
rye on the portion first pastured, peas
on the, next section and rape on the
third. In this case more peas should
be sown per acre. The section sown
to rye could then be seeded for pas-
ture the following spring.

LlLLlE FARMSTEAD NOTES.

 

Frost killed the leaves on the sweet;
corn on the night of September 25.
One field was sufliciently mature so
we could pick what ears there were
and sell them to the canning factory.
The other field was not mature
enough and it. can not now develop
without any live leaves, so this must
all go into the silo. The field harvest-
ed yielded about onefourth of a crop.
only 22 tons on 23 acres. 1 will be
glad when this year is over with, and
I will be pleased when those sweet
corn stalks are in the silo and the
swamp of weeds plowed down out of
sight. This field is one of the most
fertile on the farm, good enough un-
der good conditions to produce 100
bushels of corn per acre. A good crop
of sweet corn is about four tons per
acre and we got this year about one
ton. Well. the only thing to do is to
forget it and try again next year. If
we only had a good growth of stalks
it would not be so bad but now I am
afraid we will be short of silage. But
we will have to scrimp the cows a lit-
tle on silage and feed more hay. We
have plenty of hay. Some years it is
the other way. Short of hay and long
on silage.

We have, however, several things to
be thankful for, even during this ab-
normal year.~ The best third cutting

, of alfalfa we ever had, and we got; it

in the barn in prime condition. A very
observing neighbor says it is the nic-
est alfalfa hay he ever saw. It; is in-
deed-prime bay. The cows eat every
bit; of it clean. They don’t leave even
a small portion. Again, we have the
best fall pasture I ever saw. Nothing
like it so far as I can recollect. There
is plenty of feed to last the young
stock and sheep until snow comes. Be—
sides, the field of rape, ten acres, is so
far ahead of what few hogs we have
left, (I have sold the most of the
spring litter at; 9%0), and our few
lambs, that we will turn the cows in
and save a little silage. Again, we
have the best 60 acres of new seeding
clover that‘I think we ever had. Again
we have 60 acres of new sown Wheat
that looks the best this second day of
October that; we ever had wheat look
at this time of year. But I can’t brag
any more. The other crops this year

hay, which was the best ever.

Our potatoes which were planted in
July are still green and growing. The
frost did not even touch them. We

 

will have potatoes yet.

were a failure, except, of course, the.

 
 

There is much complaint in the beet
sections of the state over the hot that
the factories will make good money in
spite of a poor crop of beets, while the
farmer loses. Sugar is high in price
but beets are the same old price and
a poor crop. A mighty poor crop in
many sections. On most crops, if the
yield is poor, the price is high, and
this helps out. Like the bean crop
and the potato crop, this year. . Both
crops average very poor but the price
is high and it helps out. But on a con-
tract crop, like beets, the farmer sim-
ply gets it in the neck good and plenty,

. while the factory makes a good profit

from little work. The same is true of
canning factory crops. The price of
canned goods is much better this year
than it was last, yet the price to the
farmer is the same old price, based on
normal market conditions. It will be
hard work to get. farmers to grow
beets and canning factory crops next
year, because the farmer must: take all
the risk Factory men ought to share
this prosperity with the farmer, so the
farmer, thinks, and is this not; right?
Why should not; the price of these
crops be based on the market price of
the goods? If sugar is high, then pay
more far the beets, giving the farmer
a fair chance. If canned goods are
high, pay the farmer accordingly. And
if both these products are low, pay the
farmer accordingly. Why is this not:
right? What the factory man needs
is the cooperation of the farmer. That
is what makes his factory a success. I
was told that one sugar company had
filed Several hundred chattel mort-
gages just lately because the crop of
beets will not pay for the seed and
labor to grow them. The farmer
therefore has to mortgage his next
year’s crop owing to a poor crop, while
the factory makes as much, possibly.
as ever, because the price of sugar is
sky high. Some day the farmer will
take matters into their own hands, op-
erate their own sugar factories and
canneries, and be able to get more for
the crops when the market is high and
the crop poor. You smile, but they
will do this some day, if the factory
does not do the fair thing. The farmers
who grows the beets for a factory, if
they would unite and stand together,
could own their own factory and make
their own sugar. The combined wealth
of the farmers who grow the beets is
ample guarantee for this. All it wants
is to, have the farmers have faith
enough in themselves to do it.

I heard one of the most prominent
beet sugar men in the state say re
cently if he was to build a sugar fac‘
tory now he would sell the stock to
the farmers who would grow the beets
so as to get the cooperation of the
farmers. Their big profits would go
to the grower in a poor year and help
compensate them for a bad crop.

Farmers could own and operate their
own canning factories also; and keep
the profits themselves. The combined
wealth of any community of farmers
could easily finance a factory. They
are entitled to sufficient credit if they
want it. All they have to do is to
stand together. There are plenty of
farmers now of sufficient business ca-
pacity to handle such projects if their
neighbors would all back them in a
businesslike way. The time is get-
ting ripe in this. country for such work.
Let large business share the profits
with the funnel, the man who does
the work and takes all the risks. The
laboring man is organized and is com-
pelling the capitalist to share his prof-
its with him. Why not? This can all
be brought about without business
revolution. Let the factory begin now
to take the farmer into the business
with him. . Get his cooperation. It
will pay. Canon C. LILLIE.

 

“This is the first time we have ever
been sold out in September. i believe
it pays to advertise in the Michigan
Farmer. We have got good prices for
all our sheep.”—-M. F. Ganssley. Len-
non, Mich. . ‘ ‘

        

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I was very much interested in the
article under the head of “Humus and
Soil Fertility,” by I. H. W., of Branch
county, published in the Michigan
Farmer, September 23, and also the
one by H. W. Hulbert, on “Fall Plow-
ing,” published in the issue of Septem-
ber 30. Both articles were correct and
to the point. ‘

Having made the constituents and
requirements of different soils for crop
production a study for many years,
perhaps I might add a few facts of in-
terest. Turning under organic matter
as early as possible in the fall adds a.
three-fold value to the next crap.

First, it adds humus to the soil and
puts it in a condition to absorb and
conserve the moisture from the win-
ter’s snows and spring rains.

Second, it gives the organic matter
time to decay and furnish plant food
for the next crop.

The third and greatest advantage is
this: In all our clay loam soils there
is a vast abundance of potash in an
insoluble silicate, form and any organ-
ic matter turned under or buried With
it in the soil will tend to render it
soluble through the action of nitrify-
ing bacteria that in their final result
produce nitric acid, which not only
makes nitrates for plants’ use, but also
acts on the insoluble silicate of potash.
On‘ such soils the turning under of or.-
ganic matter will enable the grower to
get all the potash needed for the next
crop.

We suppose the farmers in the older
states have learned better than to rake
up and burn the organic matter off
their land. But down here in the
semi-arid region of Oklahoma, where
humus in the soil is about as import-
ant a factor in crop production as
plant food, many of the farmers still
persist in the old—time foolish practice
of raking and burning everything off
their land, little dreaming of how fast
they are robbing their soil of its fer-
tility. Only last week my attention
was attracted by a big cloud of smoke
arising from the lot at the rear of my
nearest neighbor’s barn. Upon inves-
tigation I learned that he was cleaning
out his barn and burning the manure
and litter, notwithstanding the fact
that he has ten acres of land adjoin-
ing the premises, which badly needs
the humus, if not the fertility, this
would have furnished for next year’s
crop. It is an old proverb that “every
cloud has a silver lining,” but I was
unable to see any silver lining to this
cloud of smoke going up from the
burning of so much valuable fertilizer.

Oklahoma. ‘ J. M. SMITH.

CO-OPERATIVE LAND CLEARING
ASSOCIATIONS.

 

(Continued from first page).

Of course, the range of possibilities
for such a land clearing association
as suggested is very wide. TWO or
three men might get together, and
work to advantage. A large number
might get together on buying equip-
ment and then work the equipment by
groups. Local conditions should deter-
mine the form of the organization.

As to capital to buy equipment, any
banker, when the proposition is ex-
plained to him will take the joint note
of the members of such an association
for the necessary money, or advantage
may soon be taken of the new federal
farm loan law for such a purpose.

 

At this season of the year many
farm operations are being closed up
for the year. With the finish of corn
harvest and potato digging the equip-
ment used for this work can be stor-
ed away for the winter. This is a good
time to get all the farm tools packed
away in the tool shed for winter. They
can now be put away in such order as
to make them convenient of access as
wanted next year. When doing this.

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‘ HE mushroom as a get~rich~quick allow it to become wet. Too much
proposition has been pretty well moisture has been the cause of failure
advertised and the average with many mushroom beds. Spray the

farmer will do well to fight shy of such bed lightly with a fine spray until the
projects as a means for making big mushrooms begin to appear then the
profits. However, there are pleasing bed will require a little more water.
possibilities in growing mushrooms for Never add too much, however. A
home consumption. While the aver- spraying once or twice a week is amp-
age farmer has little time for such 1y sufficient. Pick' the mushrooms as
things, this is something that requires often as a mess appears and this
but little attention. once the bed is should be done every other day any-
properly started. It is also true that way. Care in gathering is important.
mushrooms can be grown at a time of A good .bed may be ruined by careless
year when other work is the least handling. Take hold of the stem and
pressing. give it a gentle twist to remove it from
A good mushroom bed will continue the ground. Fill the holes caused by
to produce for five or six weeks after picking mushrooms. -
it begins to bear, and during this time New Hampshire. C. H. CHESLEY.
it will have yielded at least a pound ___'______ '
per square foot of surface. By devot- PESTS OF THE BERRY PATCH.
mg a corner of the cellar ten feet long
f f ‘ , m sh-
'fifmfufheeimiezfifiei‘lihfbe“..- Yes, the busy days or berry pics...
riched by about forty pounds of the are over—the last bush has been strip-
most nutritious kind of food. The life Fed, the his? 00"“ tacked on and the
of the bed and the amount of produc— last crate shipped. ~ _ ,
tion depends upon starting right and MW’ asthey see the tempting fruit
having a cellar of about the right tem- seem. to think that all we have to do
perature. It is possible to grow mush— to com money is to set the plants and

. . harvest the fruit. Th little realize
rooms in a temperature ranging from
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are obtained in from 55 to 58 degrees.
The cellar in which there is a furnace profitable.
can usually be partitioned off to meet First comes the strawberry With its
these conditions, while the one with‘ diseases and insect PBStS- It is often
out a heating plant can generally be SUbjeCt ‘0 blight WhiCh is injurious to
so banked and protected from cold bOth plant and fruit. It first shown
that it will grow good mushrooms. itself upon the leaves in reddish, pur-
Prepare a Compost. Die spots, which soon turn lighter col-
The first thing to do is to prepare ored and finally white. Upon these
the compost. This is done by using spots a spore is formed which spreads
four parts of fresh horse manure, well the disease during the summer while
mixed with straw, to one part of fresh in the fall and winter a form is pro-
clean soil. Be sure that the soil is duced which infects the new leaves
free from manure and in order to do the following spring. Thus the fruit
this, get the dirt from beneath clean is deprived or its nourishment and in
sods in an old field. This will assure some instances CFODS have been mm“
freedom from seeds of wild mush- ed. But if one starts a field with good
rooms and toadstools which may be healthy plants and sprays With B0!"
poisonous. The horse manure should deaux mixture there is generally but
be taken directly from the stable and little trouble. The worst insect pest
must be perfectly fresh. Mix this ma- is that nuisance 0f the farm, the cut-
terial thoroughly and allow it to be- worm, which is often very destructive
come composted for a month, forking as it eats Off the roots and crown in
it over every other day to keep it from feeding. The roots are often attacked
fermenting and badly heating. Protect also by the white grub and the straw-
the heap from rains by covering with berry root borer. The latter bores in-
frames or mix the material in an open to theerown and down through the
shed. When the compost is ready, pre- heart into the roots, usually killing
pare the bed in the cellar. This is the plant. The best remedy for this
done by putting down a layer and pest is to change the location of the
tamping it solidly, then another and bed often; not raising more than two
so on until the bed has been built up crops Without planting on new ground.
to a depth of 12 inches. This will re- The 935‘ Of the ”merry and blaCk‘
quire the putting down of about six berry are anthracnose and rust. The
layers of two inches in depth. It is insect pests are many, among WhiCh
important that the bed be made as are the tree cricket, the-red-necked
solid as possible before the spawn is agrilus and the raspberry saw fly' The
put in. crickets weaken the canes by making
Spawning the Bed. longitudinal punctures filled with
Use a thermometer to ascertain the eggs for several inches down the
temperature of the bed. At first it canes. These eggs are long and often
will register around 100 degrees but mistaken for grubs. The best and
this will gradually lower until it reach- surest way to get r “1 Of them isrio cut
es 85 or a little more. It is. then time and burn the canes containing them.
The saw-fly I have never seen; but it
in the form of bricks. These should is described asalight-green slug WhiCh
be broken up into pieces about two works on the under side 0f the leaf
inches square and forced down into and resembles it so closely that one
the bed at intervals. A stick or small has to look carefully to detect them.
trowel may be used to make the holes They cut irregular 110185 in the leaf,
after which the soil should be firmed often nearly “perforating it‘ Hellebore
back in place. Leave the bed perfectly or the arsenites are recommended as
smooth when the planting is conclud— remedies.
ed. It will not require frOm eight to When one stops to consider all the
ten days for the spawn to “run the numerous diseases and pests with
bed,” as the process is called. Per- which the fruit grower has to contend,
haps it is better to leave the bed alone it is not surprising that so many make
for at least two weeks, during which a failure of the business. “Eternal
time the so-called mycelium or thread vigilance is the price of success.” The

 

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like growth from the spores pene— one who masters all difficulties and
trates 511 parts of the bed. works understandingly reaps a rich re—

Care of the Producing Bed. ward, while the careless and conse-
When this is completed the bed quently discouraged one is ready to

must be “cased." This consists of coy. declare that there is no money in fruit.
ering it with an inch or two of good 00931113 CO-

J. M. WILLSON.
clean soil. Procure the soil from a .

clean spot in the field and see that it Because of the marked immunity of
is not of a heavy clayey texture. blackberries to crown gall, which may
Sandy loam is best fer the “casing.” be transmitted to fruit, trees, that crop
After this operation has been complet- should be preferred to raspberries for

 

 

 

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‘ Well-rotted manure is better than
fresh manure for gardens. It is also
cheaper than commercial fertilizers in
these war times when the supplies of
some fertilizers are cut off by the
blockade and the materials used in
making others are very high in price
because they are used in making ex-
plosives. Composted manure is as
good or better than the ordinary well-
rotted article and very much cheaper
because more can be saved and much
less is wasted by being washed away
or leaching into the soil while rotting.
It is a better balanced plant food and
does not produce so much leaf and
vine instead of the fruit or roots for
which most garden crops are grown.

Such a compost pile should be made
every year, not only for garden use,
but for use in potting house and green-
house plants. Directions for making
are as follows: Select a level, well-
drained spot as near the barn door as
possible, where the wash cannot go
through the pile and wash out the
plant food. Dig away three or four
inches of the looser surface soil over
a strip four feet wide and as long as
desired.

Fill the hole with well-rotted or com
posted manure and pile on top of this
alternate six-inch layers of fresh ma-
nure and weeds or sod, mixed with
some earth, until the pile is about
waist high. The weed seed will be
killed in the process if the heap is
properly handled, and an addition Of
such extra material as leaves and
straw increases the amount of com-
post obtained from a given amount of
manure. Whenvmany leaves are used,
add lime to make them decay more
quickly and sweeten the acid condi-
tion they produce. ‘

The whole pile should be covered
with a thin layer of earth to help ab-
sorb the ammonia and many other val-
uable plant foods which escape in the
vapor. Keep pile wet but not so well
soaked that water runs from it and
carries away the plant food. Fork ov-
er and rebuild the pile every six or
eight. weeks and cover it again with
earth. Composting should be complet-
ed in from six months to a year, de-
pending on the kind of material used
and whether lime and water have been
used to hasten decay.

From ten to fifteen tons of compost
should be added per acre, or a little
more than if undiluted manure had
been used. Lighter‘applications should
be for fruit and root crops, like beans,
tomatoes, potatoes and beets, than for
leaf crops like lettuce and cabbage
which can use a great deal of rich
food.

Mo. Ag. Col. J. S. GARDNER.

TROUBLE DEPARTM ENT.

 

The Hill System of Growing Straw-
_ berries.

What is the best method of raising
strawberries? I have-raised strawber-
ries off and on for several years in the
matted row system and I have been
bothered with lots of weeds. What I
want to know is how to raise them in
the hill system; if you can do as well
as you can in the matted row. I want
to put the plants as close together as
they will do well each way. How far
apart should the rows be and how far
apart should the plants be in the row?
I wish to know the variety that
will do the best in the hill. What will
be the best fertilizer to use to enrich
the ground for the berries? Would
wood ashes be a good fertilizer.
When is the best time to set plants,
spring or fall?

Ionia Co. W. D.

Either the hill system or the hedge
row system of growing strawberries-is
good on weedjr ground,.and also for
the production of fancy strawberries.

The distance apart for setting the
plants varies. In somesystems of hill
culture the plants are set about 12
inches apart each way, and having
them in beds of about four rows. Be-
tween these beds are alleyways about-
three feet wide which are for the con-
venience of the pickers/s In other cas-

  

es the plants are set 12 inches apart
in the row with the rows about 18
inches apart.

The principle of the hill system is
to cut off allwthe runners that the
plants made, so as to conserve the, en-
ergy of the plant for the making\~ of
fruit buds, and it has been found that
strawberry beds under this method of
culture Will remain productive for
quite a few years. In some cases an
individual plant has produced good
crops for eight or nine years.

The hedge row system is similar to
the hill system, except that the plants
are allowed to make runners enough
to fill the spaces between the plants
in the rows. The rows when complete
are just one plant in width. The best
varieties for these methods of straw-
berry culture are those which do not
make many runners. Such varieties
are usually producers of high quality,
fancy berries. Glen Mary is probably
the most popular variety for this pur-
pose. The Marshall would‘also do well
under this system, and on the lighter
soils the Uncle Jim or Dornan will
prove profitable.

The best way to fertilize the straw-
berry patch is to get the ground in
good tilth and fertility before the
plants are set. If the plants do not
start well in spring, one or two light
applications of nitrate of soda will do
much to stimulate plant growth. The
nitrate of soda must be put on early
in spring, otherwise it will stimulate
the plants at the expense of the fruit
bud formation.

As to the time for planting straw-
berry beds, there is no doubt as to the
value of spring planting, and on ac-
count of its superiority over fall plant-
ing, it is almost universally used.

Wood ashes will make a good fertil-
izer if not leached. It is also of value
on acid soils, on account of the lime it
contains. One difficulty in the use of
wood ashes is that the quality is so
variable that one does not know how
much real fertilizing value he is get—
ting out of it.

TREE-EATING INSECTS.

 

Uncle Sam, who is a guardian of
scenery in the national parks of the
country, has come face to face with
the fact that the lives of trees, which
are important .contributors to the
beauty of the federal reservations, are
in many localities seriously threatened
by insects. In order to be in a posi-
tion better to preserve the forest
growth he is planning to send rangers
from each of his national parks to
school to the bureau of entomology of
the Department of Agriculture, where
they will be instructed by an entomo—
logical ranger who is an expert in in-
sect control and prevention. The chief
insect enemy of coniferous trees, and
therefore 'the insect responsible for
the greatest damage in western fort
ests, is the bark beetle. This insect
bores under the bark of pines and in
two or three seasons kills the trees.
The bureau of entomology estimates
that the annual damage to forests by
the beetles equals that from forest
fires.

It is believed that when the students
return to their stations in the national
parks they will be sufficiently well
grounded in the work of forest insect
control to impart their knowledge to
others of the park employes. In this
way there can be built up a force of
entomological rangers to carry the
work on systematically through the
years.

At first it was believed that forests
in which bark beetles had secured a
foothold could be protected by cutting
out all infected lumber. But an im-
portant discovery was made that has
cheapened the procedure. It has been
found that when only a portion of the
infected trees are removed, so that
the density of the colonies is reduced
to a certain point, the natural enemies
of the insects make short work of
those remaining.

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HE above communication is

worthy of the most careful con-

sideration. The question of the
cost of producing milk is one upon
which milk producers of Michigan can-
not be too well informed. What they
desire is facts, and any discussion
which gives the average milk producer
a. better understanding of facts re-
garding the actual and necessary cost
of milk production will be profitable
to all concerned.

A review of the article mentioned
by Mr. Oliver, “Authentic Figures on
the Cost of Milk,” which was publish-
ed in the Michigan Farmer of Septem-
ber 30 will convince the reader that
the data published in Mr. Preston’s
article comes from reliable sources,
the cost figures in every case being of
an official nature taken from public
records which are available to the
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Razors at 40 cents while the supply
lasts, is now offered by the Michigan
Farmer.

The razors are made of the best
cutlery steel, five-eighth-inch blade,
and black handle. We will not say
just what these razors ordinarily re-
tail at, as prices on razors vary with
each dealer, but we have seen razors
no better sold at $1.25 and $1.50.

Every man who shaves ought to

have at least three razors as it is a
proven fact that giving a razor a rest
is beneficial to it, and here is your
opportunity to get a supply at very
‘ little cost. ‘
So, only while our present supply
- lasts the price is 40 cents each, post-
paid, or a half-dozen at $2.00, post-
paid. Address all orders to the Mich-
igan Farmer, Detroit, Mich.

 

 
 

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. log showing the sim-
mechanical superior-l of the
,. Blizzard. Also ask for booklet “ t Users
Boy" in which tumors tell about the Blizzard:
v : power required. olevetlnx ebllity. capacity. even out
silage. repair expense. etc. You probably have made up
your mind not to go through mother silo filling season
without a. cutter at your own. Perhaps you vents better
one. Begin investigating now. Write tor thou booklets.

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W Fem I“ Married. will gay to per month.

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Box 6., Crane Isle. R. F. 0., Hickman? roe

B. L. K. MlLKERS FOR - SALE

Having disposed of my dairy held I will sell 3 B. L. K.
Mllkers And completefequipment. Geo. A.True.Armads,llich.

 
      

by which these results are arrived at
are given in each case, so that the
dairyman can check up the various
items of cost for himself.

The “Figures” Don’t Lie.

Really, however, there is not such a
wide margin of difference between the
authentic figures to which Mr. Oliver
refers and the premises which he
takes as a basis of contrast with, and
criticism of the authentic figures. In
order that we may the better recon-
cile the two views of’this proposition,
let us then first briefly consider Mr.
Oliver’s hypothesis since his “figures”
have apparently been made with care
and are as unassailable from this point
as are the “authentic figures" with
which he desires to "have them recon-
ciled.

Mr. Oliver asserts that he well
knows that thousands of dairymen in
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illi-
nois, are doing a profitable'business in
making butter, and that his “authentic
figures” seem to indicate that these
butter makers must be producing milk
at about two cents per quart. How-
ever, Mr. Oliver does not submit any
authentic figures which conclusively
show that these thousands of dairy
farmers are making a profit from their
dairies. It must, of course, be granted
that they are making ends meet from
their farming operations else they
could not year after year continue in
the business, but it will not be difl‘icult
to convince the thinking dairyman
that on the basis given they are not
receiving adequate pay for their labor,
to say nothing of making a profit .on
their investment in the dairy depart-

 

ment of their business at the prices

given. ‘
Let us, for example, be liberal in

estimating the average product of a

‘ cow in the best of these dairies which

fall in the class mentioned by Mr. Oli-
ver. It will be conceded that 6,000
pounds of milk per annum would be a
liberal estimate, which at two cents
per quart would be worth only a little
more than $60. It will be conceded by
any careful dairyman that $60 will not
pay the feed bill for a 6,000-pound
dairy cow, even if the feeds are figr
ured at actual cost of production on
the farm, to say nothing of paying for

 

.the labor and' care of the cow or the

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‘ ‘ ’l‘h C t‘ f M'lk

In your issue of September 30 I see an article by C. F. Preston, giving
what claims to be “Authentic Figures.on the Cost of Milk,” in which, from
various sources, he establishes a price of about five cents per quart as be-
ing the real cost of producing milk of three per cent quality. As I figure it
out, it takes about 13 quarts of such milk to make one pound of butter,
and at five cents per quart, that butter would cost 65 cents, with some ov-
erhead expense for separation, churning, working, packing, and putting into
some kind of a container 101‘ shipping,

   

so, as I figure it, this overhead charge
with a. small drawback of the weight

of about one ounce of salt going into each pound of butter.

Now, if it actually costs 65 cents for the milk to produce one pound of
butter that' sells at from 30 cents to 35 cents per pound, I fail to see where
a profit comes in for the dairyman who produces and sells the butter.

I read a paper called “Hoard’s Dairyman,”
which the butter-producing business is claimed to be profitable in that state,
and that immense quantities of butter are made there. I get somewhat mire
ed up with these conflicting statements, for I well know that thousands of
dairymen in_ Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois, are doing a profitable
business in making butter, and my “authentic figures” seem to indicate that
these butter makers must be producing milk at about two cents per quart.

Perhaps Mr. Preston, or the Michigan Farmer can arise and explain this
matter, so that we all can clearly see Where my figures do not agree with
those “authentic” ones ?—W. H. OLIVER, Delta County.

published in Wisconsin, in

handling of her product, interest on
investment, overhead cost of operation
or other items which necessarily enter
into the conduct of a business of this
kind.

Mr. Oliver is not, however, quite fair
in his estimate as to the price at
which the class-of butter makers re-
ferred to must produce milk, since he
has neglected to figure the value of
the skim-milk. If we give the dairy
business every possible benefit and
figure this skim—milk at its actual feed
ing value under the most favorable of
conditions, which the Iowa Experi-
ment Station has determined to be 45
cents per hundred pounds, and also
figure the value of the buttermilk pro-
duced at the same approximate value,
we will have added approximately one
cent per quart to the gross income re-
ceived by this class of dairymen for
the milk produced on their farms.

A comparison of this revised figure
with the cost of milk as given in the
authentic figures ‘above referred to
where only the food cost per cow is
figured at the actual production cost
of the feeds will show them to be
quite parallel. In the New Jersey fig-
ures for instance, if all legitimate ov«
erhead charges are omitted, milk was
produced at an actual food cost per
cow, reckoning feeds at cost of produo
tion, of approximately two and a half
cents per quart. When the food costs
per cow was figured at the market
value of the feeds used, however, the
cost per quart of milk in this case rose
to approximately 3.2 cents per quart,
and when the legitimate overhead ex-
penses, including interest on invest-
ment, interest on and depreciation of
stock and equipment. cost of labor
properly chargeable to the dairy end
of the business and other items which
will be noted by referring to the arti-
cle, the actual cost or necessary sell-
ing price of the milk to make the dairy
a profitable factor in itself reached
4.98 cents per quart.

The Dairy Should Stand on its Own
Record.

In this consideration, the question
properly arises whether the dairy
should be considered as a means of
returning the cost of the feeds grown
upon the farm, thus limiting the pos-
sible benefits to be derived from the
business to the conservation of soil fer-
tility for the growing of other crops,
or whether the dairy business should
be considered as an independent fac-
tor of the farm to be placed upon a
profit paying basis in itself. Surely
any business farmer will concede that
the latter basis is the only acceptable
hypothesis. In that case the feeds
used in the dairy must be figured-at
the actual market value instead of at
the actual cost of production. The la‘
bor required in conducting the dairy
should be charged against it as a fac-
tor in the cost of producing the dairy
product. Likewise the interest on the
investment in the dairy herd and the
equipment incidental to its mainter
nance should be charged against the
dairying department of the farm busi-
ness. Some charge should also be
made for the factor of management,

since the carefully conducted dairy re< _

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“Ger 4, 1916.,

HE adoption of more careful

methods of handling milk and

cream and improved practices
in the making of farm butter will re-
duce rather than increase the trouble
incident to home.production of this
food, and will result in a'superior pro-
duct which can be sold more easily
and for a. better price than the aver-
age farm butter. Last year about thir-
ty million pounds of butter, much of
which originated on the farm, was
washed or renovated because it was of
such poor quality that it could not be
profitably offered on the regular butter
markets. ' -

Churn Cream Only.

Cream alone should be churned. It
may be skimmed as soon as it rises or
may be separated by a mechanical sep-
arator. The latter plan is the more
efficient, and though requiring a con-
siderable initial outlay often will be
profitable. The cream should be set
aside in a clean place by separate
milkings. A temperature of 50 degs.
F. or lower should be maintained until
from 12 to 18 hours before churning
time, when the various batches should
be stirred together well and brought
to a temperature of about 70 degs. F.
by placing the container in a bucket
of warm water. One of the first acts
of the farm housewife who decides to
adopt improved methods should be to
purchase a dairy thermometer. Tem-
peratures play an important part in'
the development of flavors in butter,
and always should be determined with
fair accuracy. After the cream is
mixed it should be kept at approxi-
mately 70 degs. F. until just before
churning time, when it should be re-
duced to about 58 degs. E, where this
is possible (or to such temperature
not above 65 degs. F. as to complete
the operation of churning within 25 or
30 minutes).

Churning.

The barrel type has been found by
dairy specialists to be one of the most
satisfactory churns. The dasher or
plunger type requires a somewhat
greater expenditure of labor. Earthen-
ware churns are especially undesira-
ble unless perfectly glazed, since if
pores are exposed they absorb milk
and cream which later decay. Churns
with mechanical devices inside them
are difficult to clean and sometimes
injure the body of the butter.

The churn should be scalded prepar-
atory to churning, but should be cool-
ed with water before the cream is
placed inside. The cream should be
poured in through a coarse strainer.
Every few minutes during the early
part of the churning gas should be al—
lowed to escape from the churn. If
the temperature is right the churning
should require about 25 or 30 minutes.
The process is completed when the
granules of butter are about the size
of large wheat kernels. The butter-
milk should then be drained off and
the butter granules repeatedly washed

with cold water while still in churn. other. you can get Splendid results by
The washings should be continued un- feeding gluten feed in place of cotton-
til all milk is removed. Under no cir- 598d meal.

cumstances should working be de-
pended on to remove surplus milk.

Working and Packing.

When the butter is free from all oats and feed bran in the place of the

milk it should be taken from the churn

with a paddle and placed on a worker. pods, and cornstalks the cows will eat
The hands should never touch the but- Without waste.

ter, both on account of sanitary rea-
sons and because the body warmth
may melt the fat. The working should
be done carefully to avoid making the.
butter greasy. Before the butter is
worked, fine salt should be added at
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effect of feeding phosphates directly
to cows, precipitated bone phosphate
was fed at the rate of one ounce per
day. No appreciable effect was ob9

ordinary waxed paper tears easily and
sticks. to the butter. The placing of
the wrapped prints in pasteboard box-
es is a desirable final step, as it pro-
tects the package, gives it a better
appearance, and permits the use of the
maker’s name or trade-mark as an ad-
vertisement.

After the butter-making operations
are completed the churn should be
rinsed carefully with warm water. It
should then be scrubbed with hot wa-
ter, cleansing powder and a fiber brush
and finally should be scalded and set
in a clean, sunny place to drain and
dry out—U. S. Dept. of Ag.

DAIRY PROBLEMS.

 

Ensiloing Frosted Corn.

I have a field of corn that is mostly
just past the stage of roasting ears,
some still in the milk, that is frosted.
Leaves will mostly wither, stalks do
not appear injured. Will it be better
to put this in silo as soon as possible
or to leave it standing to secure more
mature ears from juices in root and

stalks?
Tuscola Co. L. L. W.

The sooner the corn is put in the
silo after being frosted, the better. If

, _ ‘ THE M I"CHI,G1A‘N' FARM-nu
Improving Farm Butter

 

put in at once most of the leaves can
be saved. There is no reason to be-
lieve that the frost has injured the
feeding value of the corn, only by stop-
ping its development. The corn can
not improve after the leaves are froz-
en. If it is not mature, of course,
when cut by the frost there is a loss
because the corn would have improv-
ed, but after being frozen it will not
improve and if left many of the leaves
will be lost. Put it in the silo just as
soon as you can. But put it in, even
if you have to wait some time, for the
stalks and ears will be good anyway,
and they contain most of the food
value. Don’t feel too bad if your corn
is frosted, for it will make good feed
if you have a silo and if you lose all
the leaves you have lost only a small
part of the plant by weight.

What Grain to Buy to Balance Ration.

What should I buy to make a bal-
anced ration for dairy cows? I have
first-class clover hay, corn fodder, and
bean pods, and for grain corn and
oats. I can buy cottonseed meal for
$1.80 per cwt; oil meal $2 per cwt.
and bran at $1.40 per cwt. Now which
would be the cheapest in food value
to go with my corn and oats?

Eaton Co. M. W.

Cottonseed meal is the cheapest to
buy to balance this ration. Two
pounds per day per cow and enough
corn and oatslto make one pound of
grain per day for every pound of but-
ter-fat produced in a week. Or feed
one pound of grain for every three
pounds of milk that tests 3.5 per cent
of fat or less, and one pound of grain
for every four pounds of milk that
tests about four per cent fat.

While cottonseed meal is very rich
in protein, and a pound of digestible
protein can be purchased in this feed
probably for less .money than in any

 

If you can sell your cats and buy
bran and make money by the exchange
and you probably can, then sell the

oats. Feed all the clover hay, bean

COLON C. LILLIE.
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The butter should be prepared for ity of the milk produced. Apparently
market in a rectangular mold since, this material had no effect on the
when in this shape the product is stimulation of the nervous system; if
more easily wrapped and handled and anything, it had a depressing effect.
is more pleasing to customers. Reg— The weight of cows receiving the pre-
ular parchment butter—wrapping paper cipitated bone ash showed a slight in-
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'SnaJ-Proof" 4-Buchlc
Arctic. made in both all-
rubb-r and in cloth tops.
While the all-rubbor coat-
a little moi-o, it mean
Lunch longer and to
cheaper in the and.

Two Feet Deep-
In Comfort

Put your trust for wear and com-
fort in Lambertville Rubber Footwear.
It is built layer upon layer of all new,
fresh rubber—thick and tough as a
mule’s hide. That means WEAR—
amazing long wear.

When you sink your feet in a pair
of Lambertville Arctics, Boots or
Shoes, it is just like planting them in
an upholstered chair. We take special
care on the outside to keep your feet
dry and on the inside to keep ’em
comfortable.

LAMBERTVIL

RUBBER FOOTWEARE

is made in four brands of various grades
at prices to suit all requirements.
“Snag-Proof,” illustrated here, has
seven thicknesses of pure Para rubber
ground into the heavy sail duck. Look
at the thick sole that resists Wear
and weather and makes you feel like
you’re walking on clouds. The other
three Lambertville brands are “Red-
skin,” made of durable red rub-
ber; “L” brand has a duck
vamp; “Lamco” is pure gum,
with heavy ribs. If you
don’t locate the Lambertville
dealer, write us and we
will see that you are sup-
plied. Send for booklet.

human/11.1.15 RUBBER COMPANY
hum-wine, N. J.

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The Shet

ARMERS, as a rule, regard the
Shetland pony as strictly a toy
for the children of the cities to

play with, but, as a matter of fact, the
farm children can get just as much
pleasure and a. great deal more useful
service out of one of these charming
little pets as city children can. Since
farming has advanced to the position
it holds as a. life work, most farmers
are desirous for their children to fit
themselves to stick to the soil instead
of rushing off to the cities where ev1-
ery branch of professional life is crowd-
ed and where hundreds drop back,
beaten in the race for wealth and posi-
tion, where one succeeds.

Conditions used to be different when
farming was a labor of hands; before
the invention of labor-saving machin-
ery and before education and science
stepped in to lighten the physical tasks
of the farmer and to place farming on
the same basis as any other business
requiring the best that is in a man to
make it succeed, execpt that the farm-
er and his family may be surrounded
by conditions favoring healthy and
long life in a degree which marks none
of the great business enterprises of
the city.

The vast number of sons and daugh-
ters of farmers who are taking the ag-
fircultural courses in our high schools
and attending our agricultural colleges
is proof that no longer does the aver-
age farmer feel it necessary to advise
the boys to adopt some other work be-
cause of the drudgery connected with
farm work; the drudgery no longer em

 

and“Pony‘
.ALLEN ’

many useful services he will enable
his youthful owner to perform will
more than pay his keep.
Breeding Ponies a Source of Profit.
But there is another phrase of the
Shetland on the farm, and-that is the
breeding phase. The Shetland, like
other breeds, is now raised on a blood
basis, the breed having a stud book

‘which has been founded long enough

so that there are certain strains of
blood, or combinations of strains, that
are more sought for breeding purposes
than others, just as highly productive
strains of blood are soughbt by breed
ers of our other breeds of domestic
live stock.

There is a good demand for register-
ed Shetlands and, as long as there are
children there always will be. A little
stallion and a few mares—even two or
three—may be made a good paying in-
vestment on almost any farm. They
do not require the close attention de-
manded by most other varieties of live
stock. They are very hardy; the ail-
ments which prove serious to horses
of the larger breeds do not affect them
in a. degree anything like they do the
larger horses and they live to a more
advanced age than their larger relax
tives, many of them living to be well
past thirty years old, the little mares
being seen frequently nursing foals
when well towards thirty. _

The Shetland of today, in this coun—
try, is vastly different from the im-
ported Shetland of a quarter of a cen-
tury ago. Owing to'the period of star-
vation the Island ponies underwent in

 

 

RACK FUR FEEDING HAY T0 Hons

Details of Construction of a Good

ists where education and scientific
methods have been taken advantage of.
Keep the Boys and Girls Contented.

The main thing now, in saving the
boys and girls to the farm is to get
them started right; to inculcate in
their minds a feeling of contentment
and a love for everything connected
with the farm. And right here is
where the Shetland pony may be made
a great factor in determining the fu-
ture of the boy or girl of the farm. The
companionship, the pleasure and the
service which a boy or girl will get
out of a. pony at an age when impres-
sions on the mind are most lasting
have an influence on the future of the
child which can hardly be over—esti-
mated.

It is during that period in the life of
the farm boy or girl, before the mind
becomes sufficiently developed to com-
prehend that work is a preliminary to
successful accomplishment that dis-
content creeps in and life seems a suc-
cessive round of dull, monotonous
days.

That state of mind does often not
occur when the boy or girl has the
companionship of a. faithful, loving,
willing pony. ‘Then there is something
to care for; something that appeals
to the affections; something that
arouses interest; something that con-
tributes to the little owner’s pleasure
and, best of all something that can be
used in any number of ways to turn
work into play.

A Shetland pony, too, does not mean
a great expense to begin with and, on
a farm the expense of keeping one is

 

hardly worth considering. Indeed, the

 

 

no saw or may

Rack for Feeding Hay to Hogs.

the winter time they developed into
sloopI-rumped, ewe-necked, cow-hooked
ponies. Here in this country under
generous feeding and a continued se-

lection of the best formed ponies for"

breeding purposes the type has under~
gone a. complete metamorphOSis and
many of the best specimens compare
favorably in conformation with the
best specimens of the light breeds of
the larger horses.

With this change in type the Shetland
has retained his lovable disposition
that makes him the ideal pony for the
young children. Viciousness seems to
be absolutely foreign to his nature, al-
though it must not be inferred that
abuse and ill treatment will not event-
ually cause one of the little fellows to
try to defend themselves. ‘ Naturally,
however, a Shetland is the very per-
sonification of good nature and except
in widely isolated cases, his lovable-
ness will protect him from the ill«
treatment that might change his dis-
position.

Breeding Shetlands on a small scale
is best done by permitting the stal-
lion and mares to run in the pasture
together, and it is preferable to have
the little mothers foal in the pasture
after the weather becomes warm, say
from May 011. Under such conditions
any trouble is seldom met with. The
foals should be weaned at about ther
same age as other colts, five months
being about right.

The Cash Returns.

Many boys, and not a few girls have
found raising Shetlands a source of
deep interest and considerable profit.
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‘ ing to the location ‘or their breeder,
the strains of bleed'WhichA they repre-
sent and the methods which are fol-
lowed in making them ready .for mar-
ket. Many breeders, especially those
who raise only two or three foals each
year, sell the colts soon after weaning

‘time. They.are quite in demand for

Christmas presents at that age and

where one is just breeding to sell for

children’s use, or making no preten-
tion of developing show qualities, that
is a good time to sell. Prices for Shet-
lands of that age in sections of the
country adjacent to cities will range
from $50 to $75 according to sex and
quality, filly foals always bringing

more than colt foals. 5

Ponies kept until two or three years
old and thoroughly broken for chil—
dren’s use bring from $125 to $200, ac-
cording to the quality of the pony.

These values are for just real good,

well-broken, well—mannered Shetlands.

Ponies in which action and other show

qualifications are highly developed

bring a great deal more money, but
that phase of the pony business is
properly that of the expert show man
and has no place when speaking of the
pony business as a side issue on the
farm or as a method of adding to the
attractiveness of the farm for boys or
girls.

Training Ponies a Child’s Job.

The task of breaking Shetlands to
drive or ride is not at all difficult, in
fact, it is really a child’s job and the

How TO HAVE GOOD COWS.

 

I do not claim to know how better
than anybody else. I wish I did.
There has been considerable talk
about raising more heifer calves for
the dairy. To accomplish this purpose
it is suggested that something should
be done by congress. The opinion is
becoming prevalent that congress can
do everything desirable—make money
plentiful for farmers, provide labor for
the unemployed, settle strikes, abolish
trusts, and lower the cost of living.

The fact is the people must depend .

mainly on themselves. They are the
architects of their own fortunes.
The Bob-veal Law.

Please pardon this prelude. There

was a bill before congress forbidding .;,.I\
under six '1

the shipment of calves
weeks old, unless accompanied by
their mothers, the object being to stop
the sale of bob-veal. The limit of six
weeks was wrong. Nobody refuses to
eat the flesh of calves four weeks old.
Forbidding the sale of bob-veal for
food is all right, but the shipment of
calves three days old‘ to be raised,
should not be prohibited. The writer
has bought calves three days old to
raise, and was glad to get them by
rail, or any other way.

We raised all our heifer calves until
they became milkers.
retained for our own dairy, the others
sold.

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averageboy or girl gets more enjoy-
ment out of learning their little pets
to go kindly in harness and under sad—
dle than they would get in almost any
other way. The absolute lack of any
vicious traits in Shetlands and the
love of companionship makes break-
ing them almost entirely a work of
learning them what is wanted of them
without doing anything to destroy the
confidence they have in their teacher.

There is in Oberlin College a girl
just completing her education who has
paid the expenses of her college course
from the money received for the foals
of a couple of Shetland mares and
there are many other similar instances
which could be mentioned showing the
practical value which can be made of
these little matrons on the farm.

It would hardly be just to claim that
every boy or girl born and raised on
the farm could be influenced to make
farming their life-work because of con-
ditions making life on the farm pleas-
ant during their early years, indeed,
that would not be desirable; but it is
beyond contradiction that many boys
and girls are driven to a hatred of the
farm and farm work, because of a fail-
ure to make life on the farm some-
thing more than around of routine
drudgery during the early period in
their lives when impressions formed
are hard to obliterate, who, under dif-
ferent surroundings, might have devel-
oped a love for the vocation they go
away from the farm with such a DI‘Or
nounced dislike for.

And among the several factors in
evading this lamentable outcome few
exert a more immediate or more pro-
nounced effect than ‘the loving, com-
.panionable, serviceable Shetland pony.,

had got one better than common, and
many not so good as that.

milkers by purchase. Pure—bred cows
of the dairy breeds are plentiful, but
the cows that fill the pail, whether na-
tive, or improved, are not for sale.
Their owners are wise and hold on to
them. A friend who followed dairying
in the state of New York for forty
years and kept 45 cows, said he had
bought all his cows, never raised any,
had his pick out of carlots, and never

Good Cows Hard to Get.

Dairy writers, and cow-testing asso-
ciations, are constantly saying: “You
are keeping cows at a loss. Weed out
the robber cows, and send them to the
butcher. Keep only the deep milkers.”
Talk is cheap. Where are all the good
cows we need for the dairies, to come
from?

One man recently wrote: “Dairy-
men throughout this section seem to
find it more profitable to veal their
heifer calves than to raise them and
risk the getting of only one good cow
out of three calves.” He is entirely
too liberal, or else considers a cow
good which his neighbors consider on-
ly ordinary, or common. I raised the
calves from ,the best cows I ever own.-
ed, and never got a cow equal to her
mother, and generally not more than
one out of three that was better than
common. Do you say the fault was in
the bull? I had a registered Holstein-
Friesian bull. This talk is rather dis-
couraging. but in my opinion the only
way to obtain good cows is to raise
them. To breed only from the best
and persevere in well doing. Breeding
only from the best constantly, is the
way the dairy breeds were established.

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$30. a hundred while the birds them-
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Game birds do not require the use of great
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‘ Despite the fact that dogs cause the
sheep industry serious losses it looks
as if the farm dog had come to stay.
That being the case it is good busi«
ness to buy a pure-bred dog as a dog
of good breeding will have inborn qual-
ities which can never be coaxed or
beaten into a mongrel cur. It is the
stray dog of no particular breed which
more often attacks the flock of sheep.
A well-bred dog is more easily trained
to stay at home, and they are cleaner
and more attractive in every way.

Probably the most popular dogs to-
day are the Scotch Collie and the Aire-
dale. The Collie has been the ideal
farm dog for many years. They are
strong fearless animals and excellent
for driving stock when properly train
ed. An untrained dog of any breed
should never be allowed around the
cows as they will cause confusion in
the herd and reduce the flow of milk.
A fine Collie can now be purchased for
a price as low as $5, although the spec-
imens of extra fine breeding often
bring prices of $50 to $100 and more.
Many farmers who are raising Collies
find them very profitable. The Aire-
dale has come into prominence in re-
cent years. They are a homely dog
and smaller than the Scotch Collie but
possess an unusual amount of intelli-
gence. They are reliable watch dogs
and especially desirable for watching
poultry. There are too many breeds
of dogs to make their discussion pos-
sible in this briel‘ article, but one point
might be emphasized. Buy a pure-bred
dog of a breed which is in general de-
mand, such as the Collie or the Aire-
dale, and they will give much better
service in every way and there will be
a greater demand for the pups.

Dogs will consume all kinds of table
scraps except fruit and salads, and
when the family is large there is little
expense for the dog’s feed. Potatoes
are good when fed with other scraps,
and rice is excellent. Feed plenty of
milk and some meat, but too much
meat must be avoided, especially in
hot weather. Bread and milk are safe
and healthy and the dog will thrive on
such a diet. Over-feeding must be
avoided but it is not difficult to keep
the farm dog in good condition if he is
given plenty of exercise which he will
usually take of his own accord, allow-
ed a clean place to sleep, and prevents
ed from leaving the home farm to in.
spect the neighbor’s premises or wan-
der with stray dogs.

The flea has always been considered
as belonging to a dog, but fleas are un-
necessary. They breed in dust and dirt
and not on clean dogs. In selecting a
dog for the farm it is best to purchase
a young dog and train it carefully to
watch the house at night, keep hawks
and crows away from the poultry yard
and drive strange dogs from the prem-
ises. A well trained dog has a. place
on a well managed farm but a worth-
less cur is an abomination.

Ingham C0. R. G. Kinny.

THE COST OF MILK.

 

(Continued from page 348).
quires the painstaking attention of the
owner who should be compensated for
the mental energy and time expended
in this direction.

When these charges, together with
such incidental expenses as are prop-
erly chargeable to this department of
the farm business are added to the ac-
tual feed cost per cow, the dairyman
will doubtless find that the authentic
figures published in the article above
mentioned and available from other
sources represent more nearly the ac-
tual cost and compensatory price of
his product than do Mr. Oliver’s fig-
ures as above presented.

In making comparisons of this kind,
allowance should also be made for the
slightly greater cost or milk produc-
tion in the east as compared with the
locations to which Mr. Oliver refers.
Feeds are more costly near large cen-
ters of consumption. Average land

' ' in the east than in the dairying soo- '
tions of the middle west, and other

items, including labor cast, would per-
haps be somewhat greater.

“Authentic Figures" for Michigan.

We have“, however, considerable au-
thentic data taken in our own statejby
representatives of the Michigan Agri-
cultural College in two different coun—
ties which are included in the follow-
ing table giving the authentic figures
on the cost of milk in ten different
demonstrations in the United States
which were conducted under state sup-
ervision:

Cost of Producing Milk In Ton Differ-
ent Ex eriments in United States.
Each un er State Supervision.

Lynderboro, N. H., cow-test assn” $1. 98
Massachusetts Exp. Station ....... 2.4
Storrs Agricultural Exp. Station,
Connecticut .................. 2.12
New Jersey Experiment Station. 1.94
Deleware Co.N, . Y., 1912 ........ .35
Deleware 00., N. Y., 1913 ........ 203
Kent 00., Michigan, 1914 ........ 1.67
Kent Co., Michigan, 1915.. ...... 1.58
Liiréiiégston 00., Michigan March,

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Average cost per 100 milk for ten
experiments ............... $1.97 1—5

It will be noted that Michigan costs
are somewhat lower than eastern
costs, largely for the reasons above cit-
ed. It will, however, be noted in these
demonstrations that in the case of the
last two demonstrations conducted in
Livingston county, Michigan, with 25
herds of high—class dairy cattle, the av-
erage cost of milk for the two months
was $1.84 per hundred, or approximate-
ly 3.7 cents per quart, while the aver-
age selling price was $1.48 per hun‘
dred, or less than three cents a quart.

In this discussion of market milk,
the butter—producing dairyman should
consider the fact that the cost of pro-
ducing market milk is quite materially
increased by the requirements of the
market in which the milk is sold,
which seek to insure a high class,
wholesome product produced under
the most wholesome and sanitary con-
ditions. Yet when every allowance is
made, the dairyman who sells his but-
ter-fat to the creamery or manufac-
tures butter on his own account has
not on the average, been receiving a
price for his product which would
make the dairy show a respectable
profit when considered as a separate
factor of the farm business. For this
reason every dairyman in Michigan
should identify himself with the Mich-
igan Milk Producers’ Association and
give his support to the campaign now
in progress to secure for the dairy-
men of the state a compensatory price
for their product.

ANNUAL MEETING OF MICHIGAN
MlLK PRODUCERS’ ASSN.

 

The first annual meeting of the
Michigan Milk Producers’ Association
will be held at the. Agricultural Build-
ing, M. A. 0., Tuesday, October 17,
commencing at 10:30 a. In. Mr. Kittle,
Manager of the Chicago Milk Produc-
ers’ Association, is expected to be pres-
ent to give an address.

We are now waging a great cam-
paign to raise the price being paid to
dairymen for their milk, and we need
the co-operation of every person in
Michigan to help us accomplish desir-
ed results. A rousing meeting the sev-
enteenth will do a great deal to prove
that the dairymen are in dead earnest
and that they purpose to stand to-
gether in their just effort to obtain a
price for their milk that will pay for
the cost of production.

We trust that you will let nothing
prevent your attending this meeting in
the interest of the great industry of

'N. P. HULL, Pres.
S. H. MUNSELL, Sec.

' dairying.

“I am sold out of Collie pups and

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week if possible. I will send new copy
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Agricultural Progress as Shown by School Children

By M. A. COBB

dred more acres of alfalfa in

Sauk county, Wisconsin, in 1914
than in 1913 and a 1,100 per cent in.—
crease in alfalfa acreage in one town-
ship of the county are some of the sig-
nificant results of an agricultural cen-
sus 0f the county taken by the school
children.

NINETY more silos and one hun-

Valuable because they have not only'

because the work has been done by
the country school children.

The children have gone out as full
fledged census takers under the direc-
tion of the teachers and the county
superintendent of schools, Mr. G'. W.
Daws, with the co-operation of the
College of Agriculture at Madison. The

fairs of the people and report that
there are 404 autos owned by the farm-
ers, 18 electric and 78 gas lighted
houses, 227 bath rooms, 270 kitchens
supplied with running water, and 635
homes supplied with pianos. Thus the
development of the rural section is
shown.

showed so high yields of crops and an
advancement of the people that the
real estate men placed a higher value
on the property. It is certainly worth
more to live in such a community.
But these children in Sauka county
have done more than take a census of
the region. They have made a map of
their school districts showing their
boundaries and located farm homes,

shown the progress of the county but census, or survey, as they call it, has That such information may raise the public buildings, creameries, mills,
also taken the census of other crops been taken for the past two years. value of the land is shown in a Mis‘ roads, river—in short, made a com—
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Signing Bill Giving Women Right to
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acres of alfalfa; 391 rented farms, and
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collected by a pupil in the District. What more effective means of teaching
geography, history, arithmetic and civics could be devised than the making
of a survey which intimately acquaints the child with his whole communlty?

data is true history and its preserva-
tion may prove to be of real value in
the future.

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vey that the township leading in the
good roads movement stands first in
rural organizations and also excels in
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111' 1-1.1'1115 REUINGER.
l‘d jes like 111 have my say
”Bout where 1 ud rather lay
T11 wait for Gabriel’s trumpet blast
When this, my stay on earth, is past.
I wouldn’t choose a graveyard bare
Where most of other folkses air;
Where spookey stones and solemn

p1nes .
Makes you shudder, Ugh, not fer mine.

I wouldn’t choose old ocean’s bed,
With bones beneath and sharks o’er

head;
Where crabs and fish could crawl and
swim
All round, and say, “Ah, look at him.”
No, there’s jest one place fer me,
That is, where i’d ruther be,
Hain’t no use 0’ hopin, tho’
Fer’ twould shock ’em all I know.

I'd ruther be in Jackson‘s wood

At the foot 0’ where the old oak stood.
I never saw the tree, but then

I love the stump there where its been.
How many happy hours I‘ve spent

O11 meditation stump; content

Jest tu laze and look around

On that sunny hillside's crown.

There in spring the flowers grow

Sometimes ’fore it’s clear of snow,

And birds sing sweetly all day long

And chipmunks chant their chirping
song.

In that leaning hickory tree

The squirrels play in highest glee;

There the hawk’s sky tower is,

Where they watch that swoop 0’ his.

Down below is Jackson’s pond,

A frog to every swaying wand,

And when they hit ’er/ up and play
And the Redwing’s song joins in
Adding to the merry din

Seems like no place e’ re was so gay.
Jest like we youngsters ust to play
On a spring vacation day.

Yes, that’s where I’d ruther be,

Under the stump of the old oak tree.

Let its roots reach round me, too

Jest like these uns ust to do.

Oh, Gabriel's horn will ring as clear

In Jackson’ 3 woods as anywhere

And I could sleep as peaceful, too,

E: the chipmunk sleeps the winter
through.

shown by the following experience of
a teacher:

“Teacher, what is the matter with
this tree, I found it while counting the
apple trees? The tree is dying.” The
eager boy thrust a branch into my
hands. Thanks to my previous train-
ing, I was able to recognize the trou-
ble at a glance.

“There are hundreds of insects suck~
ing the juices from the branch,” re-
plied the teacher.

“Where?” came a chorus of eager
voices. Then I told the story of the
San Jose scale, how it kills the trees
and finally how to stop it, etc.

“I am going home and tell Pa.” “I
am going home to see if our trees
have any ‘bugs’ on ’em," and the chil-
dren hurried out of the school-room—
thay had had a lesson they would nev-
er forget.

Dean Russel, of the University of
Wisconsin, says of this work: “Here-
in lies one of the great values to be
found in agriculture as a subject of
study in that it serves so well to unite
the school to its rural environment.
The teacher who can vitalize the cus-
tomary subjects of instruction, who
can render the abstract conceptions of
mathematics, history, and geography
into the concrete form of daily experi-
ence and knowledge is able to wield

an influence Over the lives of her pu-.

pils that will be abiding.”

STORING 0F ICE IN AUSTRIA.

 

Among the various methods of stor-
ing ice in the winter for use in sum-
mer is a very simple one mentioned
in an Austrian gazette, as practiced
quite commonly in that country. A
place is selected, protected toward the
west and north, if possible, by a build-
ing, or even under the shade of thick
trees, as it is from that quarter that
the ice is most exposed to atmospheric
influences. A spot with porous soil is
preferable; andlif that can not be had

a platform is to be erected over a shal- ‘

low pit, into which the melting water
can drain. The ice is to be piled up
in the form of a large cone, layer by
layer; first constructing a circular
wall of ice about twenty feet in diam-

eter, to serve as the base of the cone. ch

The interior of this circle is to be fill-

W
ice -wall with has broken into small

pieces. This whole stratum is then to
be wet with water, and allowed to
freeze into a solid mass. A second cir-
cle is then constructed, a little smaller
than the first, and the space within
filled up with pieces of ice, and water
poured on and allowed to freeze as-‘be-
fore; and this process is repeated until
a'truncated cone of about fifteen feet
in height is erected. The whole is to
be deluged again with water, and then
covered with a. stratum of straw which
is also to be wet and allowed to freeze,
thus forming a stiff covering. The en-

camvvbo grape.
A summer resort cat—Catskill Moun-
tains.
A cat that punishes culprits—capo.
nine- -tails.
Corn Guesser for the Harvest Party.
ese are nine varieties of corn:
A feminine variety—Cornelia.
A masculine variety—Cornelius
A fabulous animal—unicorn.
A sign of plenty—cornucopia.
Feund at one of the earth’s circles—a
Capricorn.
A sight-seeing variety—cornea.
Jack Homer’s favorite—corner.
A musical variety—comet.
.. More ornamental than useful—cor-

tire cone is to be covered then, to the nice

'depth of nine to fifteen inches, with a) .
layer of sod or moss, of which a sup-

ply' should be cut beforehand, ready to
be put on.

The earth should. be heaped up
around the base to a height of three or
four feet, as the melting generally

takes place from the bottom and from 1

the western side. When using the ice
it must be taken frOm the top, and the

opening filled up again with moss. It'

is well to have a roof so as to turn at
the rain water.
Indiana. ALONZO RICE.

AN INTELLIGENT HORSE.

 

I read with much interest Mr. Motes’
article in The Farmer regarding‘the
unusual intelligence often displayed by
birds and animals. I, too, have often
noted such displays of animal intelli—
gence and thinking power. One case
in particular I think is worth mention-
ing; that was an old horse whichbe-
longed to a neighbor of ours when I
was a boy.

I have seen this horse pick at the
latch of a gate with his teeth until he
succeeded in opening it. One time
when he and his mate were turned
loose on the road he stopped at our
pasture gate, which was a set of bars,
and taking the top bar in his teeth he
pulled it endwise until the opposite
end dropped onto the ground; this op-
eration he repeated until three or four
of the bars were down, and then he
marched triumphantly into pasture.

The most remarkable piece of intelli-
gence that I ever saw dismayed by an
animal was indulged in by this same
horse. It was during haying time. My
father had hired Mr. Potter and his
team, which included this horse. The
owner was driving the team on the
mower and had stopped at the end of
the field to go for a drink of water. I
noticed old Charley trying to get a
mouthful of hay, but he was reined up
too high. When he found that his ef-
forts were fruitless he began pawing
with his front foot, reaching out in evr
ery direction as far as he could. After
he had pulled together a good armful
in front of him he gathered it in his
front leg as a man would his arm and
in this manner he lifted it high enough
to eat from it.

I called the attention of the crew to
what the horse was doing, and one of
them remarked, “That horse knows as
much as some men," which was no
joke. G. F. DE LA MATER.

SEASONABLE GAMES.

 

BY LULU PARKER.
Cat Contest.

This cat contest was used in the in-
terval between more strenuous games
at a Halloween Party. Papers and pen-
cils were passed and the guest who
guessed the most “cats” was given a
little papermache candy-box cat from
the ten- cent store.

What cat had a bad accident—cab
astrophe.

Roman cats—Catacombs. _

The cat that the birds fear—cata-
pault.

A spiesr cat—catsup

A cat found in some churchyards—
cathedral.

Cats that chew their ends—cattle.

.The cat that can cook—caterer.

The cat that is‘ a society butterfly—-
caterpillar.

The cat that asks questions—cate-
mm.

A water cat—catfish.

The squirrel’s favOrite—acorn.

A COUNTRY PROPOSAL.

 

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You need’ent hang your pretty head,
’Cause I said I love’s you true.

And let your cheeks get rosy red
I mean it, ’es I do.

I’s going to buy a little farm
And build a bungalow

And then I’ll take you by the arm
Into my cottage new.

So lift your pretty eyes to mine
And do not be so shy

We’ll find a sand pile right away
And practice making pie.

_ AUTUMN.

 

BY ALONZO RICE.
A flock of geese along the lane,
That stir the dust to sudden storm:
Along the west the sign of rain,
A gust of wind from meadows warm.

These usher in the cheerless morn,
Accompanied by the sadder sounds
0f hunter winding far his horn
The echoes of the haying hounds.

Sunflowers fire their deadened flame,
And partridges begin to drum;

The crickets in the grass proclaim
The autumn of the year has come.

The fields of buckwheat for the bees,
Like ocean waves around the hill,

Unruflled by the faintest breeze,
Stretch far away serene and still.

Of ripened apples, few are left,
And to deceive; the hollow-billed
Woodpecker in a silent theft,
The pulpy core has deftly drilled

These fall untouched in silent noon.
And hidden in the russet grass,
Afford to swarming flies a boon,
Or vagrant wasps that chance to
pass.

From secret springs the river draws ‘
Its wealth to feed its failing source;

Refreshing all the seams and flaws.
Like burning lips along its course.

The water rats are at their task.
Each cuts his shelf with eager teeth,
The grass reveals the cunning mask
The swégnner wears that lives be-
nea

The woodwall sings, the lorn doves can

The trhilly pathway scarred with

acks,
Skirts russet meadows Onward to
Whebr: kgwallows sail with sunny
0 .

And there
throng
The gate“3 have passed the sweet kine

.. stand;
The clinging wisps of hav they chew,
wait the

where wains full-loaded

And ,mllkmaid’ s. pail and _

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It’s “brother” now and it’s “brother”
then,

And it’s “brother” another day,

And its’s “brother” whenever a loud
doom sounds

With a terrible toll to pay. . . .

But what of the silent do‘oms they bear

In an inoffensive way?

It's “brother” here and it’s “brother”
there,

And it’s “brother” once in a while,

And it’s “brother” whenever an hour
hangs black

On the face of the common dial. . .

But what of the days that stretch be-

tween
For the march of the rank and file?

DON’T know how well you know
I villages, but I hope you know any-

how one, because if you don’t
they’s things to life that you don’t
know yet. Nice things.

I was thinking of that the Monday
morning that all Friendship Village re-
members still. I was walking down
Daphne street pretty early, seeing ev-
erybody’s breakfast fire smoke coming
out of the kitchen chimney and hear-
ing everybody’s little boy splitting the
wood and whistling out in the chip
pile, and smelling everybody’s fried
mush and warmed-up potatoes and
griddle cakes come floating out sort of
homely and old-fashioned and comfort-
able, from the kitchen cook-stoves.

“Look at the Family,” I says to my-
self, “sitting down to breakfast, all up
and down the street.”

And when the engine-house clock
struck seven, and the whistle over to
the brick-yard blew little and peepy
and like it wasn’t sure it was seven

"but it thought so, and the big whistle
up to the round-house blew strong and
hoarse and like it knew it all and
could tell you more about the time of
day than you’d ever guessed if it want-
ed to, and the sun come shining down
like the pouring out of some new
thing that we’d never had before—I
couldn’t help drawing a long breath,
just because Now was Now.

Down the walk a little ways I met
Bitty Marshall. I wondered a little at
seeing him on the street way up our

 

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shoulder. And he went on up the
street, holding his hands heavy, and
kind of letting his feet fall instead of
setting them down, like men walk that
don't care, any more.

I understoOd what he meant when
he. said it wasn’t new. There was Joe
Betts that worked three years getting
his strawberry bed going, and when
he. begun selling from the wagon .in-
stead of taking to Silas Sykes at the
post office store, Silas got the council
that hes in’ to put up licenses, clear
over Joe’s head. And Ben Dole, he’d
got a little machine and begun making

cement blocks for folks’s barns, and ,

Timothy Toplady, that’s interested in
the cement works over to Red Barns,
got Zachariah Roper, that’s to the head

of the Red Barns plant, to come over j

and buy Ben Dole’s house and come
up on his, rent—two different times he
done that. It wasn’t new. But it all
kind of baffled me. It seemed so legal—
that I couldn’t put down my finger on
what was the matter. Of course when
a thing’s legal, and you’re anyways
patriotic, you are some put to it to
find a real good term to blame it with.
I walked along, thinking about it, and
feeling all baffled up as to What to do.

But I hadn’t gone ten steps when I ,—

thought of one thing I could do, to
clear up my own i’dees if for nothing
else. I turned around and called out
after Bitty.

“Oh, Bitty,” I says, “would you mind
letting Silas know I know?”

He threw out his hands a little, and
let ’em kind of set down side of him.”

“Why sure not,” he said, “but if you
are thinking of saying anything to him
—best spare the breath.”

“We’ll see about that,” I thought,
and I went on down Daphne street
with a determination sitting up in the
air just ahead of me, beginning to
crook its finger at me to come along.

In a minute I come past Mis’ Fire

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end 0’ town. He’d lately Opened a lit- depot the Ellsworth House, though the
tle grocery store down on the Flats, Ellsworth House has been burned six
for the folks that lived down there. years and it’s real kind of confusing to
Him and his wife lived overhead, with strangers that we try to direct. I re-
a lace curtain to one of the front win- member one traveling man that head-
dows—though they was tWO front win- ed right out towards the marsh and
dows to the room. “I’ve always hank- missed his train because some of us
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said to me when I went up to see her turned the corner by the Ellsworth
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together to buy ’em, it seems like trusting in it till he struck the swamp.
somethin’ always come and et it up— But you know how it is—you get to
medicine or school books or the chil- saying one thing, and you keep on ut-
dren’s shoes. So when we moved in tering it after the thing is dead and
here, I says I was goin’ to have one gone and another has come in its
lace curtain to one Window if I board place, and when somebody takes you
the other up!” And she had one to up on it, like as not you’ll tell him he
one window, and a green paper shade ain’t patriotic. It was the same with
to the other. ‘ the fire chief. Dead though he was,
“Well, Bitty,” I says, “who’s keep- we always give her his official title,
ing store today? Your wife?” because we’d got headed calling her
But he didn’t smile gay, like he us- that and hated to stop. She was out
ually does. He looked just regular. in her garden that morning, and I
“Neither of uS’ll be doing it very stood still when I caught sight of her
long. I’ve got to close down.” tulips. They looked like the earth had
“But I thought it was paying you broke open and let out a leak of
nice?” I says.
‘And so it was,” says Bitty, “till show so much at once.
Silas Sykes took a hand. He didn’t “Mis’ Merriman‘,” I says, “what tu-
have a mind to see me run no store lips! Or,” says I, flattering, “is it a
down there and take away his trade bonfire, with lumps in the flame?”
from the Flats. He began undersellin’ Mis’ Merriman Was bending over,
me—he’s been runnin’ everything off setting out her peony bulbs, with her
at cost till I can’t hold out no longer.” back to me. When I first spoke, she
“So that’s what Silas Sykes has been looked over her shoulder, and then she
slashin’ down everything for. from went right on setting them out, hard
prunes upwards,” I says. “I might of as she could dig. ‘,Glad you like some-
known. I might 0f known.” thing that belongs to me,” says she,
“My interest is comin’ (1116.” says her words kind of punched out in plac-
Bitty, movin’ on; “I’ve come 11D this es by the way she dug.
mornin’ to see about going back to Then I remembered. Land, I’d for-
work in the brick~yard-” got all about it. But at the last meet-
“Good land,” I says sorrowful. ing of the Friendship Married Ladies’

——and on the. School Board—and an don’t work for just cemetery any more,

elder thrown in.” but we got started calling it that twen-
Betty grinned a little then. _ ty years back, and on we go under
I“It ain’t new,” he says over his (Continued on page 358).

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THE LIFE-STORY

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CHARLES E. HUGHES

EGTN with the year 1905. Those were

dark days in New York State.
The “House of Mirth” was more popu-
lar than the Executive mansion at Al-
bany and the “Black Horse Cavalry” Were in the
saddle. The great insurance companies controlled
the State Insurance Department as a matter of
right, the gas companies controlled the
Gas Commisiso'u, the railroads controlled the Rail-
road Commission and the big public utility cor-
porations ran amuck as they pleased, while they
all combined to control the powers behind the

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sacred

Legislature.

These were the conditions when, by a happy
chance, there came quietly but suddenly into the
public life of the State the refreshing personality
of one of the least known but ablest attorneys of
his time, Charles E. Hughes.

Attacking the Gas l'lonopoly

A legislative committee went down to New York
City to investigate the gas companies.

They needed as their attorney and chief inves- ..

tigator some effective lawyer who was not en—
tangled with the far—reaching ramifications of the
Wall Street powers. Most of the great lawyers
were ineligible because they had followed the cus-
tun of the day in accepting “general retainers.”
Hughes, it seemed, never accepted such fees, a
personal rule of conscience against easy money
which had an unexpected reward.

The committee asked him to serve them. He
accepted reluctantly for he disliked notoriety, and
specified that he must have an absolutely free
hand. Little knowing what was to come, they
pledged themselves not to hamper him. Some of
them were sorry afterwards, for Hughes led them
at a tremendous pace into the innermost retreats
of high privilege, mastering the most intricate
arrays of figures and the most devious technical-
ities of the business with an intellectual grasp
that amazed and terrified his opponents.

The Fight for Honest Insurance

When the insurance investigation came along a
little later, Hughes was the logical man to con-
duct it. The whole world watched this fearless
stranger as he plucked the dignity and mystery
from towering figures in the financial and insur-
ance world, and revealed them as nothing more
than merry-makers with other people’s money.

Sinister influences tried to stop him; they jerk-
ed his coat tails. "Don't open up that bank ac-
count," they whispered. “That is wheretour party
campaign funds were kept.” Whereupon that par-1
ticular bank account became the special object of

his most searching attention.
I _

He put prominent Democrats on the stand first,
and it was expected that he would follow the
usual precedent of not disturbing the leaders of
his own party. But that ‘was not Hughes’ way.

The great Republican leaders got their turn in-

due time and were mercilessly exposed. You reap

the benefit of Hughes’ brilliant work in that inves-
tigation, every time you pay a life insurance
premium.

Secretly desiring to remove such a persistent
investigator, they nominated him for Mayor of
New York. He was not to be diverted from his
uncompleted task. He waved the nomination aside
and went on fearlessly and persistently until his
great work was done.

A New Kind of Governor

The next year his party, torn by factions, sought
a leader who would stand out above all factions
and assure victory. A convention that would have
preferred some one else, nominated him for Gov-
ernor without his lifting a finger to get the nomi-
nation. ’

Then followed those inspiring four years of his
Governorship, still remembered with a thrill by
every upward-looking citizen of the State.

Exit Bossism

The party leaders came to him with the names
of men whom they had selected to be his subor-
dinates. The appointments required the consent
of the Senate. They controlled the Senate. The
Governor thanked them dryly for their kindness
in doing his work for him—but he had already
selected satisfactory appointees and the names
would go to the Senate on the marrow. Patiently
they explained as to a child, that things were not
done that way in politics—that "the organization"

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down to defeat with all his colors flying, . for a
righteous cause. '

' Unafrald of Defeats

They did succeed in preventing. , for the time
being, the passage of his Direct Primary Bill, his
Massachusetts Ballot Bill and his Short Ballot
Amendment. He struggled hard for them, but he
left office with this part of his work still unaccom-
pllshed. But the issues that bore his name would
not die. Three years after he left office, both a
real direct primary law and an office group ballot
law were written into the statutes of the State,
while all parties vied with each other in profes-
sions of devotion to the Short Ballot rprinciple.

Yet there never was a time when Hughes could
not have forced through his program of reform
immediately by trading “patronage” for measures.
There were the State employees in' the Capitol, for
instance, the stalwart political henchmen of one
of Hughes’ bitterest foes. A wave of Hughes’
hand, the dismissal of one of these [job holders
with its implied threat toward, the rest, and his
opponent’s machine would have collapsed! Yet
Hughes would not stoop to such expedients, no
matter how tempting was the objectiVe. State
employees learned that their jobs were safe, if
they did their work, and unsafe if they didn’t.

End of uDeals”

Neither would Hughes make deals with the
legislators with bill for bill. If a champion of his
big measures slipped through an improper little
local bill, Hughes would veto it sharply. If a good
bill came along originating with a legislative arch-
enemy, Hughes would gladly sign it.

Taming the Utility Corporations

But to return to his record of achievements. His
first big fight revealed new methods—new the<
ories. He proposed the Public Service Commis-
sions law, a law with real teeth in it.

Most of the States have such laws now but it
was a new and radical thing in those days when
the public utility corporations were accustomed to
doing about as they pleased. The legislature soon
showed that it had no idea of taking the bill
seriously.

Hughes then undertook
one of his famous “apt
peals to the people.” He

less argument proceeded, they began to “realize ',
that here was a man who would cheerfully go ,3

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‘ There was another great battle over the law for

,Workmran’s Compensation for industrial accidents.
It was a fiew idea then and much harder to put
through than it would be today. This law, too,
had teeth in it—Hughes saw to that. It made the
employer in certain trades liable for the accidents
that happened to his employees, regardless of the
old doctrines of “assumption of risk” and “con-
tributory negligence,” so that injured employees
could recover damages without a law suit. It was
the pioneer compulsory law and formed the basis
for all such subsequent legislation in America.

Hughes acquired great strength with Labor by
this piece of work and by the rest of the fifty-six
labor laws that he helped to put through.

“He was a great governor,” said'the organ of
the State Federation of Labor, regretfully, when

. his term ended and credited to his brief four years

one-third of all New York's labor legislation!

The Big Race Track Gambling Fight

Then there was the fierce battle for ending race
track gambling. The great race tracks had be-
come huge living roulette wheels with their in-
evitable train of defalcations, suicides and demor-
alized lives. Hughes showed up these glittering
and picturesque affairs in their true and sordid
light, converted the State to his way of thinking
and jammed reform through in the face of pow-
erful and sinister Opposition.

General Interest Above Special Interests

When he ran for the Governorship the second
time, it was calculated that he had affronted no
less than fourteen great special interests any one
of which would have made an ordinary Governor
hold his hand for the sake of his political future.
But committing political suicide seemed a favorite
amusement with this fearless executive who put
his faith in the people and waited for them to
come slowly but surely rallying to his support.

How “His Soul Went Marching On”

So the name of Hughes became a thing to con-
jure with in New York politics for years after he
left the State to take his place on the Supreme
Court. To have been a “Hughes man” has been
an asset ever since. To say “Hughes favored this
measure” gave it standing. Republicans, Demo~
crats and Progressives have used the name of
Hughes to win support for men and measures.

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he gave, the new life and vitality which he inject-
ed into humdrum departments. He brought into
omce a great group of the strongest and most ex-
pert administrators that ever served the State,

He was keenly aware that passing a good law
was not enough if the enforcement of the law or
the realization of its beneflcent opportunities were
intrusted to partisan hacks or good-natured non-
entities.

Back in the Arena Today

The Hughes of those great days is back in the

arena today—back at the very moment when we ‘

need at Washington the strongest and ablest ex-
ecutive the nation can supply. One can under-
stand from his own record the impatience with
which he has been forced to watch the empty
rhetorical “triumphs” of the present administra--
tion, the endless catering to mere expediency, the
appointments of “deserving” politicians made for
the party’s sake at the country’s expense, the in
efficiency that is inevitable when trembling hands
hold the reins of government! Such things are
incompatible with Hughes' character. He is built
of sterner stuff!

Let’s Have a Great President!

 

It is easy to foresee what kind of executive he
will make! We have but to look back at what he
did when Governor!

His cabinet will be one of the strongest in the
Nation’s history. He will choose full-sized 'men,
who will serve the country in the same spirit he
serves it. Nor will he lack material. He has in
his party a far better array of experienced ability
from which to draw than his opponent can find
among his old~fashioned sectional-minded south-
ern Democrats.

We can see him in action, master of the hard
fact rather than the happy phrase. We can see
his fine passion for public service freshening the
whole Federal administration. We can see the
joyful satisfaction he will take in vetoing pork-
barrel appropriations and petty pension grabs!

vAnd we can see him when foreign ambassadors
come in and meet that straight unfearing look of
his and listen to a simple unvarnished statement

' of what is permissible and what is not!

These are days that demand true greatness at
Washington.

And Charles E. Hughes
is the man!

 

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to speak in various parts
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always on this one topic.
The State began to think
and then to talk. Hughes
did not call his opponents
bad names or impugn their
motives. But letters be-
gan to pour into Albany
a s k i n g representatives
where they stood. The op-
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that name, serene as a straight line—
at that last meeting I’d appointed Mis’
Timothy T0plady a committee of one
to go to the engine-house to get them
to leave us sell garbage pails at cost
in the front part; and it seems Mis’
Merriman had give out that she’d
ought to be the one to do it, along of

eleven years and more, and she might
have influence with ’em. I’d of known
that too, if I’d thought of it—but you
know how it is when they pitch on to
you to appoint a committee from the
chair? All your i’dees and your tact
and your memory and your sense
takes hold of hands and exits out of
you, and you’re left up there on the
platform, unoccupied by any of ’eml—
and ten to one you’ll appoint the wom-
an with the thing in her hat that first
attracts your attention. Mebbe it ain’t
that way with some, but I’ve noticed
how it is with me, and that day I’d
appointed Mis’ Toplady to that com-
mittee sole because she passed her
cough-drops just at that second and
my eye was drawed acrost to them
and to her. I’d never meant to slight
Mis’ Fire Chief and I felt nothing on
this earth but kindness to her, and yet
when I heard her speak so, all crispy
and chilly and uppish, about being
glad I liked something about her, all
to once my veins sort of run starch,
and my bones lay along in me like
they was meant for extra pokers, and
I flashed out back at her:

“Oh, yes, Mis’ Merriman~yohr tu-
lips is all right—” bringing my full
heft down on the word “tulips.”

And then I went on up the street
with something~something——inside of
me, or outside me, or mebber just with
me, looking at me, simple and grave

 

O l \ and direct and patient and—wounded
Pt!" big Stumps by hand again. And I felt kind of sick, along

up and down my chest. And the back
of my head begun to hurt. And I
breathed fast and Without no pleasure
in taking air. And I says to myself

' and the world and the Something
- ‘ ! Else:

“Oh, God, creator of heaven and
earth that’s still creatin’ ’em as fast as
we’ll get our meannesses out of the
way and let you go On—what made me
do that?”

And nothing told me what—not then.

Just then I see Mis’ Holcomb-that-
was Mame Bliss come out on their side
porch and hang out the canary. I
waved my hand acrost to her, and she
whips off her big apron and shakes it
at me, and I see she was feeling the
sunshine clear through her, just like
I’d been.

“Come on down with me whileI do
an errant,” I calls to her.

“My table ain’t cleared off yet,” says
she, decisive.

“Mine either,” I says back. “But
ain’t you just as fond of the sun in
heaven as you are of your own break-
fast dishes? Come on.”

So she took off her apron and run in
and put on a breastpin and come down
the walk, rolling down her sleeves,
and dabbing at her hair to make sure,
and we went down the street together.
And the first thing I done was to burst
out with/my thoughts all over her, and
I told her about Silas and about Bitty
Marshall and about how his little store
on the Flats was going to shut down.

“Well,” she says, “if that ain’t Silas
all over. If it ain’t Silas. I could un-
derstand his dried fruit sales, ’long to-
ward spring so—it’s easy to be reason-
onable about dried peaches when its

 

' most strawberry time. I could even

understand his sales on canned stuff
he’s had in the store till the labels is
all fly-specked. But when be begun to
cut on new potatoes and bananas and
Bermuda onions and them necessities,
I says to myself that he was goin’ to
get it back from somewheres. So it’s
out o’ Bitty Marshall’s pocket, is it?"

“And it‘s so legal, Mis’ Holcomb.” I
says, “it’s so bitterly legal. Silas ain’t

 

 
 

   

Lit,- aih’t. as it'the. mimosa after

her husband having been fire chief for -'

 

him and some more and—make‘tliem be.
fair to their little competitors, same as
courts is fallin' over themselves to get
the chance to do. This is nothin’ but
Silas—our leadin’ citizen.”

Mis’ Holcomb, she made her lips
both thin and tight.

“Let’s us go see Silas,” says she,
and I see my determination was crook-
ing its finger to her, same as to me.

Silas had gone down to the store,
we found, but Mis’ Sykes was just
coming out their gate with a plate of
hot Johnny cake to take up to Mis’
Merriman.

“Oh, Mis’ Sykes,” I says, “is your
night bloomin’ cereus goin’ to be out
tonight, do you know? I heard it was.”
The whole townxalways watches for
Mis’ Sykes’s night-blooming cereus to
bloom, and the night it comes out we
always drop in and set till quite late.

Mis’ Sykes never looked at Mis’ Hol-

comb.
‘ “Good morning, Calliope," says she.
“Yes, I think it will, Calliope. Won’t
you come in tonight, Calliope, and see
it?” says she.

I says I would; and when we went
on,

“What struck her,” I says puzzled,
“to spread my name on to what she
said like that, I wonder? I feel like
I’d been planted in that sentence of
hers in three hills.”

Then I see Mis’ Holcomb’s eyes was
full of tears.

“Mis’ Sykes was trying to slight
me,” she says. “She done that so’s to
kind of try to seem to leave me out.”

“Well,” I says, “I must say, she sort
of succeeded. But what for?”

“I give her potato bread receipt
away,” she says miserable, “and it
seems she didn’t expect it of me.”

“Is that it?” I says. Well, of
course we both know Mis’ Sykes ain’t
the one to ever forgive a thing like
that. I s’pose she’ll socially ostrich-
egg you—or whichever it is they say”.

“I s’pose she will,” says Mis’ Hol-
comb forlorn. “You know how Mis’
Sykes is. From now on, if I say, the
sky is blue, Mis’ Sykes’ll say no, it’s
pink.”

They was often them feuds in
Friendship Village—like this one, and
like Mis’ Merriman’s and my new one.
It hadn’t ought to be so in a village
family, but then sometimes it is. I
s’pose in cities its different—they al—
ways say it makes folks broader to
live in cities, and they prob’ly get to
know better. But it’s like that with us.

Well, of course the backbone had
dropped out of the morning for Mis’
Holcomb, and she" didn’t take no more
interest in going down street than she
would in darning——I mention darning
because I defy anybody to pick out
anything uninterestinger. Up to the
time I got to the post office hall store,
I was trying to persuade her to come
in with me to see Silas. .

“I’d best not go in,” she says. “You
know how one person’s quarrel is
catching in a family. And a potato
bread receipt is as good as anything

else to be loyal about.”

But I made her goin, even if she

shouldn’t say a. word, but just act con-
stituent-like.

Silas was alone in the store, stick-

ing dates on to a green paste—board to
make the word “Pure” to go over his
confectionery counter. He had his coat
off, and his hair had been brushed
with a wet brush that left the print of
the bristles, and his very back looked
busy:

“Hello, folks,” says he. “How’s

life?”

“Selfish as ever,” It says. “Ain’t

trade ?”

“Well," says Silas, “it’s every man

for himself and the devil take the
hindmost in most everything now, ain’t
it? ‘As the prophet said, ‘It beats all.’ ”

“It does that,” I says. “It beats ev-

erybody in the end. Funny they don’t
find it out. That’s why,” I adds ser-
ene, “we been so moved by your gem-
erous cost sales of stuff, Silas. What
you been doin’ that for anyway?" I,
corporationed himself in with nobody. put it~t0 him-

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
  

 

 


 

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“Why.” he says. ,, *‘ in:

table which some follrs‘ uses instead
of wit, “to push the store, of course. I
ain’t been doin' it for the fun of it.”

“Ain’t you now ?” I. says. “I thought
it was kind of a, game with you.” ‘

“What do you mean—game?” says
Silas, scowling.

“Cat and mouse,” I says brief. “You
the cat and Bitty Marshall the mouse.”

Silas stood up straight and just tow-
ered at me.

“What you been hearing now?” he
says, demandful.

“Well, " I answered him, “nothing
that surprised me very much. Only
that you've been underselling Bitty so
as to drive him out and keep the trade
of the Flats yourself.”

Silas never squinched.

“Well,” says he, “what' if I have?
Ain’t I got an right to protect my own
business?” ‘

I looked him square in the eye.
“No, ” I says, “not that way.”
Silas put back his head and laughed,"

“I guess,” he says, “you ain’t been

following very close the business 81- '

fairs of this country.”

“Following them was how I come to
understand about you,” I saysflsimple.
And I might have added, “And know-
ing about you, I can see how it is with
them."

For all of a sudden, I see how he
thought of these things, and for a min-
ute it et up my breath. It had always
seemed to me that men that done
things like this to other foiks's little
business was wicked men in general.

gal and grinned out at folks and said:
“Do your worst. You can’t stop up.”
But now I see, like a blast of light,
that it'was no such thing; but that
most of them was probably good hus-
bands and fathers, like Silas; industri-
ous, frugal, members of the common
councils, and of the school boards, el-
ders in the church, charitable, kindly,
and believing simply as the day that
what they was doing was for the good
of business.

“Well,” Silas was saying, “what you
going to do about it ?"

I looked back at Mame Holcomb
standing, nervous, over by the cran-
berry barrel:

“I’ve got this to do about it,” I says,

“and I know Mame Holcomb has, and »

between us we can get every woman
in Friendship Village to do the same—
unless it is your wife that can’t help
herself like lots of women can’t: [In
less you get your foot off Bitty’s neck,

 

every last one of us will quit buying
of you and go down to the Flats and
trade with Bitty. How about it,
Mame?”

(Continued next week).

TH E NEW CLOCK.

 

BY FLOY SCHOONMAKE'R. ARMSTRONG.
We have a new clock at "our house,
It takes the old one’s place,
But sister Bess and I can’t bear
Its great big quiet face.
It shows the hours and days and
months,
In figures—two round rows,
And yet it isn ’t smart enough
To tell us what it knows.

We like a clock that speaks right out
And says: “ ’Tis half-past eight
And if you do not hurry off
To school, you will be late!”
The old clock did. And every night
it called to us and said:
“My clears, when next I strike, you
two
Must march straight up to bed!”

The new clock never talks out loud,
Just ticks and looks so wise,

As if to say: “Speak low, my dears,
And learn to use your eyes.

I know, without the deal old clock
To call out every rule,

We’ll always go to bed too soon,
And always late to school.-

All that is purchasable in the capi-
tals of the world is not to be weighed
in comparison with the simple enjoy-
ment that may be crowded into one

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Save- That $48.70

    
        
       
       
       
       
       
   

196 pounds Lily White Flour costs ................................. $10.00

' 29 quarts milk _ ............................. 2. 32
58 yeast cakes “ ................................ .87

7 pounds sugar “ ............................... .56

7 pounds lard “ -_ ............................ 1.26

58 cups mashed potatoes “ ................................. .50
2,000 cubic feet gas for cooking “ ..- .......................... 1.60
29 quarts water “ ..........................................

     
     

5 pounds salt “ ................................. .05

Total cost of baking one barrel of Lily White
Flour into bread” $17 .16

This formula will produce 4,980 ounces or 383 13-ounce loaves of delicious home-
made bread.

You pay 6c each for a 13-ounce. loaf of baker’s bread, consequently 383 loaves of
the boughten article would cost you $22.98, or $5.82 more.

These 383 loaves homemade bread contain 29 quarts or 7%, gallons of sweet milk

worth at So a quart, $2.32. Most baker’s bread contains water.
By plannlng to bake your bread when the gas oven is being used for pastry

baking you will save $1.60 in gas, or at least divide the cost between bread and pastry.

People using wood or coal in cook-stove really have no extra heating expense.
The cost of milk and potatoes to the farmer or dairyman is much less than shown

above.
Homemade bread is better quality, better flavor, more healthful, more whole-
some, more nutritious, especially when baked from

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White flour baked at home added quality and nourishment considered, or

$48.70 PER YEAR PER AVERAGE FAMILY

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next door were neighbors, and they vain.” ,
would not speak to his papa and mam- The great age of the saying, “No Splced duff very hOt' ‘
ma, while they had friends who came man is a hero to his valet,” proves

ally jumped up excitedly.

ways off.”

Thinking it over later I wondered if
there could be a better definition of —-—-———————
the difference. Why it is that human PLUM DUFF AND SPICED DUFF, M Cl h I
beings can not live across the road FRUIT DUFF—AND DUFF. ore 0t n
from one another and continue to be ‘
friends seems hard to determine, but
certain it is that few of us have friends The
living near. Many a friendship has
been broken when the parties got near
enough to be “neighbors.” And who
can count those who have gone
down to destruction before the perils
of a camping party or a week spent in
the same cottage at the lake.

Two young women who have been
bosom friends for years went for a
lake trip together last summer. They
shared a stateroom together and were
gone in all ten days. They have not
spoken to each other since their re-
turn, but the things they have spoken
about each other would fill a large-
sized volume. One declares the other
is a “gourmand,” while the other ac-
cuses the one of every sin from untidi-
ness to thievery. They had been
friends for ten years before that fatal
trip. Now they are not even neighbors.

I suppose the trouble is that so few
of us can be hypocrites all the time.
When we only see a friend for two or
three hours once in a while we have
no trouble glossing over our faults and ses, allow to boil up again and add
making them think we’re perfection. generous tablespoonful of butter and
But when they get near enough to run salt to taste. This sauce is improved
in Of a morning before we “get warm- for some by the addition of lemon
ed up to our subject,” as the lecturer juice or vinegar.

says, murder is bound to out. They At the expiration of the twenty mim ,, ,,
find out then we are untidy or miserly, utes place the snowy mounds Of duff rel, possum and raccoon.

. to “live a long ways off.”
DEBORAH.

 

BY 0. H. WEEKS.
veriest novice in culinary

and quickly made.

quarter teaspoonful of salt, mixed not ness by their abbreviated length.
too stiff with sweet milk, one has the
nucleus of a score of delicious hot
puddings at the smallest possible cost
and a minimum of time. The dough,
when mixed, is put by spoonsful on a
buttered plate and steamed over boil-
ing water twenty minutes.

With the plain duff as given above
may be served a variety of sauces.
Foremost among them in excellence is
the following:

Molasses Saucez—Mix one-half cup
of sugar with one heaping teaspoonful
of flour, and add one cup of boiling
water. Let boil ten minutes, or till
clear, then add one-half cup of molas-

incessant borrowers and inveterate top of each and drop therein a half— on many smart garments.
forget-to-payers, and they want ‘30 teaspoonful of butter. Pour over all,

day we want to go out. And SO it goes. lasses sauce and Serve at once_
Friendship isn’t strong enough to

ally changes into a hard frost.

Many of us realize this inherent ten- steamed. Raisins, currants, cranber- worn during the summer.
dency in human nature to be jarred ries or preserved cherries may vary,
by too intimate a knowledge of our the mixture and with all may be serv— these, obviously. can not be Shirred.
friends’ daily life, and shy off from too ed the molasses sauce given, or the Instead there is a yoke and belt with
frequent visiting and too close con- following; , set-in pockets covered with large flaps.
tact. One woman of my acquaintance Snow Saucer—Rub to a cream one The skirt may be gathered onto the
sold her home three years ago and is small cup of vinegar and one large ta- yoke in the back, or set on plain, the
still looking for a place to live because blespoonful of butter, add beaten yolk former method being chosen by slight
every house she has selected so far of one egg and stir well. Set the bowl figures.- Of course, checks and plaids
turns. out to be in the same block, or containing sauce in basin of hot water do not have'a clear field. There is the
back to back, with that of someone tupon the stove; add tablespoonful of inevitable navy blue and black, green,
she knows well. hot water, stir well, add another table- brown, taupe, in short, all the stan-

“I will not live near any of my spoonful of hot water and stir. In a dard colors, .
friends,” declares this wise lady. “Ev- moment add the third tablespoonful of Every sort of fabric is utilized for
en if they didn’t wake up to my faults water and if thé sugar is .nOt entirely these separate skirts. You may have
my children would bother them or our dissolved leave bowl in the hot water your choice of plain taffeta, char-
chickens would scratch up their gap till the sauce is like a golden syrup, meuse, satin, velour, chuddah cloth,
den or their dog would run across our Remove from fire and pour into sauce- gabardine, whipcord, tweed, poplin and
front yard, and bang would go the boat. Add the stiffly beaten white of serge. Your pocketbook may be suit-
friendship. If I must have people near egg, laying it on top of the sauce. It ed; too, for in spite of soaring prices
me I want them to be someone I don’t may be stirredinto it before serving, there are still many bargains at $7.50
know so if I never have their friend- Spiced duff may be made by adding to be picked up, while for $5.00 there

  

“Yards and yards in width,” one
glowing advertisement describes its
coats, and when one sees them billow-
ing about the slim girls and women
who don them, one can believe the
“yards.” Separate coats are long and
full, the fuller the better, and in many
cases the fullness hangs absolutely un-
confined. Other models show belts,
some belted in the front only. others
in the back only, while still others are
belted in all the way round. Ribbed
cloths are favorites, Bolivia cloth, a
new ribbed goods, being first choice,
and wool velours second. Green is the
modish color, followed by brown, and
navy blue, which can never be escap-
ed, is still with us. Fur is as good as
ever for trimming, better if that could
be possible, and the smartest models
show collars and cuffs of mole, squir-
Square
or bad tempered early in the day, 01‘ 0n the serving dish. With fork in mum‘s and deep CUES are eSPeCIauy
selfish. And we find out that they are either hand gently make a cleft in the favored, though the roll collar 1s seen

Skirts, too, are full and flaring. A
leave the baby with us on the very the whole or a portion of the hot mo- popular model just now is of plaid,
checked or black silk, shirred at the
To the plain duff may be added ap- waist in lieu of a belt and with deep,
stand such nearness and a barely per— ple, or half an apple peeled and cored; shirred patch pockets. This is espe-
ceptible coolness arises which eventu— or half a peach may be buried in the ,cially modish in bright checks and
heart of each spoonful of dough and green plaids, black having been much

Cloth plaids are alSO shown, but

  

a half teaspoonful of ground cinna— ed enough to liberate part of their
mon, a dash of clove, and two table— juices and sprinkled generously with
spoonsful of chopped citron to the powdered sugar. Cream, plain or whip-
HE four-year-old was trying to ship I won’t miss it. I love friends, plain duff mixture. With this should ped, adds the finishing touch.
learn the difference in the mean- and I know the best way to keep them be served egg sauce. Cream one-half
ing of the words “friend” and is never to ask favors of them and not cup of butter and one cup of powdered ployed are many, and all are appetiz-
“neighbor.” There was a difference, let me know too well. ‘Familiarity sugar. Add beaten yolk, then the stiff— ing and sure to be called fer againand

he was quite sure, because the people breeds contempt,’ was not spoken in 1y beaten white 0f one egg’ and beat again.
all well. Flavor With vanilla. Serve

The combinations which may be em-

Last, _but not least, is.the rich, lus-
cious lemon duff. Mix well together

Buttered duff is delicious served one cup of sugar, one of water and one
most a hundred miles or so just to that this streak of human depravity With fruit sauces. Prepare 9.1““ duff. 0f molasses. Add one lemon, seeded
talk to them 15 minutes. He pondered has always been recognized by philos- When done remove to servrng dISh’ and sliced, and put to heat. When.boil—
the subject long and deeply, and fins- ophers. Sudden and violent friend- and over the whole pour one-half cup ing, add plain duff by spoonsful dime”
ships, much over-worked, are always of partly-melted butter. Over all pour ly to the boiling syrup, cover closely,
“Oh, I know the difference, now,” he short ones. Therefore, if you would any fruit sauc‘? liked; apple, cherry, and cook fifteen minutes. Each puffy
said. “Your neighbors live next door, keep your friends, don’t get too churn- cranberry’ raspberry, or peach. If mound W111 be covered With the sweet
but your friends have to live a long my and, as the small boy said, be sure peach, a sprinkling 0f cocoanut 15 an syrup. The duff and sauce should be
improvement. If strawberries are used served in the same dish, and very
they are best served cold, and crush— hot. ‘

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Coats and Skirts

HIS promises to be a season are serviceable skirts which came in
when the styles will be really last spring, but are near enough to
becoming. As one editorial writ- the fall stvle to satisfy the most par-
achievements may, at almost the first er points out, now that fabrics of all ticular.
trial, make good plain def. After that kinds have soared in COSt, garment
all is plain sailing; she has at her com- makers are putting more cloth into
mand a variety of toothsome desserts their models in order to have an ex-
for dinner 01“ lunch WhiCh are easily cuse to double their prices. Whether _
or not that is the reason, coats and and white check woolen dress that I
Using 0119 heaping 011D 0f flour, one skirts are much fuller, though the

teaSDOOHfUI 0f baking-powder, 0119' skirts even up the expense of the full- is just soiled. Could you advise me '

 

HOME QUERIES.

 

Household Editor—I have a black

must clean before wearing, and would
like to wash it. It has no bad spots,

how to wash it best to keep from
shrinking?—Anxious.

Household Editor:———Has anyone a
fiecifiw for musk melon butter?—Mrs.

Thank you for the tomato recipe.
We received so many replies we could
not use all—Ed.

Household Editorz—To lay down
whole ripe tomatoes, make a brine of
salt and water strong enough to float
a small potato. Pick tomatoes with-
out a blemish and rather greenish,
very hard and firm. Lay these in jars
carefully immediately on picking, fill
jar with tomatoes then pour on the
bran to cover. Put cloth over toma-
toes, andplate or some other cover.
Freshen in cold water when wanted
for users-Mrs. L. E. S.

Household Editor:—-I have been a.
reader of the Michigan Farmer for a
number of years but have never writ-
ten. I enjoy your paper very much
and always find good helps.

I have lots of recipes and if I see
this, for laying down whole ripe to-
matoes, in print, may send more—A
Reader.

Mrs. L. E. S.’s recipe, almost the
same was already in type when this
arrived. Thank you, and come again.
—Ed. -

Household Editorz—In the last issue
of your paper, in the Home Queries
department, someone asked for a
recipe for laying down whole ripe- to-
matoes in a jar. I think I have the
recipe that is wanted. Take medium-
sized, smooth, ripe tomatoes and after
washing cut them through the middle,
then rub the cut surface with a mix-
ture of equal part of pepper, salt and
grated horseradish. Place the two
halves of each tomato carefully to-
gether and pack them closely in a jar,
putting a plate over them to hold them"
down, and put them in the cellar. The
juice of the tomatoes will make brine
enough to cover them. They will keep

a long time. When the brine is rinSr
ed off and the tomatoes sliced they
taste very much like fresh ones. I ’
hope this is the recipe W. F. B., Holly,
is looking for. If the address had been
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HOW I BECAME A FRUIT GROWER.

 

BY A. FREEMAN.

Many of the readers of the Michigan
Farmer will admit that the work on
the farm needs physical strength, and
that there is plenty of work. Also,
that help is scarce. Who would want
to see the crops going to waste, when
you know how much time, money and
work it had cost to get it asfar as the
harvest? As I never lived in the coun-

'try before I was married, I had' to

learn this all by observations'and ex:-
perience. Sometimes it was utterly
impossible to get competent help.
Therefore I had to lend a hand, and
then had to keep on with it, which was
all too much for my strength.

My health began to break down. As
country life was new to me I enjoyed
having a garden. Things tasted so
much better fresh from the garden.
At last I begged my husband to plant
a small bed of strawberries. I was so
hungry for small fruit, which neither
we or our neighbors had. We planted
six rows across the garden. Oh, the
joy to come out early in the morning
and pick those luscious berries for
breakfast. At that time I had them
on the table at all meals for three
weeks. Now everyone can stretch the
season to seven and eight weeks.

I had been very poorly in the spring,
but after being out every day, and al—
most the largest share of the day,
picking my berries, I gained in health.
From this little patch I sold berries to
all my neighbors who cared to buy, at
five cents per quart. Berries were
cheap in‘ our county, and still I sold
$25 dollars worth from this small piece
of ground, Which opened my eyes
some. -

Wheat was 60 cents per bushel and
only averaged 38 bushels per acre; so
why bother with it? We sent for cat-
alogues, subscribed for horticultural
papers, studied them all winter, plan-
ned, prepared, and then had the nur-
sery owner come to give his advice as
to the right condition of soil and loca-
tion, because we were ignorant. How
ignorant our experience told us; Our
adviser, too, made gross mistakes.

Many of the counties now have coun-
ty agents, rather “adviser,” who
should save the ones who ask their
opinion hundreds of dollars.

I grew well and strong, we pros-
pered on our small farm, and I enjoy-
ed my work so immensely that I be—
came a bore to those uninterested in
it. You come so close to nature, all
those wonderful—developments you wit-
ness, that you have no room in your
heart for enmity or pettiness. Nor
time for gossip, only love, love for
your work and for your plants.

I would be glad to help others to
commercial fruit growing with my 23
years of experience.

\ THRIFT HINTS.

 

BY MAUDE L. wnsrcor'r.

At the present time when the spirit
of thrift is abroad in the land, sugges—
tions that point the way to econom-
ical solutions of the housewife’s prob-
lems are peculiarly pertinent. The art
of saving is quite as important as the
art of making money and the woman
who has learned many useful little
“tricks” whereby to save the pennies
in the management of her home and
income is adding materially to the
family’s financial success. Here are
some practical hints for the enlight-
enment of the would-be-thrifty home
maker: .

Don’t discard faded, soiled or discol-
ored rugs or matting. Dye in any pre-
ferred shade will rejuvenate and pro-
long their periods of usefulness. First
beat, clean all spots with soap and wa-
ter or gasoline, then spread out flat on

tan ' or. orange for brown, light green"
on a green mg. The rug will. look
muddy if the» dye is too dark. It will
take several packages—prepared ac-
cording to accompanying directions,
for a medium-sized rug. This Precess
repeated once a year will keep the rug
fresh looking and attractive.

When eggs are cheap is the time
to preserve them for use in the winter.
Give each egg a coating of lard and
pack in jars of salt, small end down.
See that the eggs are fresh and have
the salt rather fine. Do not let them
touch each other. Keep in a cool,
dry place.

Children’s shoes will wear almost
twice as long if the soles are soaked
in linseed oil. Set the shoes in a pan
containing a very little oil, and allow
them to remain for several hours.
Wipe thoroughly before they are worn
so that they will not mark the floor.

Thrift consists largely in keeping
one’s possessions in good condition
and as long as possible.’ Household
articles rightly cared for will last just
twice as long as those carelessly treat-
ed. The cheaper grades of printed
linoleums and oilcloths do not wear so
well with hard usage; the pattern
wears off and the whole soon has a
faded appearance. This may be pre-
vented by giving it a coat of clear
varnish twice a year, thus keeping it
fresh and pretty and easy to mop. Hav-
ing furniture revarnished involves ex-
pense or hard work. Using a mixture
of two parts linseed oil to one of tun
pentine on the dust cloth will keep it
new in appearance indefinitely. Once

a week go over the whole, carefully‘

rubbing up every portion, with a soft
duster moistened thoroughly with this
mixture. Use a clean cloth, renewing
when much soiled, and not any old rag
or stocking leg that will leave lint on
the furniture. This manner of dusting
is really a gradual process of re-var—
nishing, and articles treated in this
way seldom need any other attention.

Plumbers’ bills are practically un-
known to the woman who knows some
thing of the system installed in her
house, or at least is familiar with the
common household remedies for froz-
en or clogged pipes._ To thaw out a.
pipe a lighted lantern placed beneath
it will gradually melt the ice. A prep-
aration of coarse salt and boiling wa-
ter is also most effective; pour a buck.
etful of water in which the salt has
been b'Oiled, slowly through the pipe.
The clogging of kitchen waste pipes
may be relieved by the following meth-
od: Purchase a small can of caustic
potash and turn it out over the drain
of the sink, allowing a small drip of
water from the faucet to flow through
it. Soft soap is formed by the combi—
nation of caustic potash and grease
which dissolves in water and washes
away.

Wool should not shrink if washed
properly. Use luke warm water for
washing and rinsing and pull into
shape when you have finished. The
best method is to make a suds pf a
good wool soap, add a little ammonia
and squeeze and rub gently with the
hands. Do not use a board. Rinse
through several waters until the last
is perfectly clear. Otherwise there is
danger of streaking. Dry where there
is no danger of freezing.

AFTER THE SUMMER TIME.

 

BY MARGARET ERSKINE.

The wild rose is a-noddin’,

An’ a swayin’ in th’ breeze,
An’ the Puff balls are a-scatterin’

Their soft down across the Leas,
An’ the song bird is a-singin’,

Fit to bust his little throat,
A-trillin' an’ a-hangin’,

On to his highest note.

An' the sun he is a-shinin',
Just as hard as he can go,

An’ the little stream's a-silvered
Where the fish dart to an’ fro.
An’ the bees they are a~hummin’,
Round the little Clover flowers,
As they sippin’ steal their honey,

For the long, drear winter hours.

 

  

 

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When you hang up the stockings on wash day
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that instead of your well-earned rest, you have an
evening’s darning ahead of you. There’s no need
of so much darning. Buy Durable Durham
HOSleI'y for the whole family, and on wash day
you’ll hang out a line of holeless hosiery.

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FOR MEN, WOMEN AND CHILDREN

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after every washing, and the tops can’t
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Our location, economical manufacturing con-
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For best wear. buy
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25-centMercerized
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Durham, N. C.

     
  
  
 
 
 
 
  
  

   

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Better Cake and Biscuits

In all recipes calling for baking
powder you will get better and finer
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The Milk Buyer Changes His Answer

0 back home, you farmer, and
get better cows.” For many
years that has been the encour-

aging answer given by the opulent
milk buyer to the necessitous appeals
of the producer for reasonable prices
for milk. And the farmer, like a little
lamb, has each time gone back home,
secured better cows, produced better
milk and sold it at the same old price,
while the spoiler has smilingly jump-
ed into his private car and traveled
back to headquarters, ordered a raise
in milk prices to his customers, and
through the influence and power of his
wealth has thoroughly entrenched
himself financially and, where .neces-
sary, politically, for whatever might
come.

better cows.” And when the farmer
had added better cows to his herd it
happened that his hired men came to
him and pictured how much better
conditions they would have to work
under, and the higher wages they
could get in the city, and that they
would go unless he raised their pay.
So they got the extra money that came
from the larger quantities of milk pro-
duced by the better cows, and more.
But the farmer soon saw that he could
not keep all of his help long for he
would have nothing to pay them so he
let a few of the men go to the city
While he and his wife and children put
in longer hours of labor to do the work
without pay that he might keep the
milk buyer supplied at the same old
price.

“Go back home, you farmer, and get
better cows.” And as the farmer did
so and kept down the cost of labor
through the gratuitious work of his
Wife and children, he found that all the
extra profit coming from the better
cows was consumed, and more, by the
advanced cost of feed. So he grew
more and better feeds, built silos and
balanced rations that every possible
saving might be affected in order to
keep the milk buyer supplied at the
same Old price.

“Go back home, you farmer, and get
better cows.” And again be complied.
Then one afternoon when he was very
busy out in the field, he was called to
the house to be told before his wife
and children by an inspector that he
would have to replace his wooden
floors with concrete, seal the stable
above the cows, rearrange the barns,
build a dairy house, etc., etc., or he
could no longer sell milk. And so the
already over-burdened farmer went to
the bank and secured a loan and made
the necessary changes and additions.
Then calling upon his own reserved
strength and that of his wife and chil-
dren for longer and harder hours of la-
bor and through planning the most
efficient rations that science and ex-
perience could compound, he still
found that the interest on the loan and
the depreciation of the property more
than offset the increased income from
the milk produced by the better cows.
And the farmer kept on selling the
milk to the buyer at the same old
price.

“Go back home, you farmer, and get
better cows.” And so the farmer re-
turned and again tested every animal
in his herd, weighed and reckoned the
cost of feed to each one and marked
the few that seemed to be least efli-
cient in the conversion of feed into
milk. These hevsold and then he went
out to find good ones to fill their plac-
es. After traveling a long way and
farmers whom he
thought might have good cows for
sale, he discovered that his neighbors
were all out looking for cows of the

 

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scarcity of good cows the price was
very high—so high, indeed, that none
could pay what was asked. These
neighbors, he soon learned, had suf:
fered the same humiliating and dis-
couraging experiences that he had
gone through, and as they talked over
the seemingly hopeless situation con-
fronting them, there suddenly shot
across this farmer’s mind from some-
where, a great light.

The light brightened the way, as it
were, and he saw more clearly than he
had ever seen before, and he wonder-
ed at himself in'amazement. Had he
all through the almost unendurable
experiences of past years never for a.
single moment thought of it? Had it
not once occurred to him that.the
well-groomed, high-headed, uncom-
promising, arbitrary representative of
the buyers’ fraternity could be mistak-
en as to just what the exact cost of
producing milk should be? Wherein
had this man living in a palatial home
on a highly restricted boulevard, a.
keener appreciation of the amount of

  

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erhead charges required for producing
milk than the man on the. Job? ‘

And the farmer stood up and the
neighbors saw that a great change had
come over him, and he said, “O, fools
that we are, neighbors! For these
many years we have been flim—flam-
med, bamboozled, cajoled, hooked,
fooled to the top of our bents! Prices
can be so low that the best cows of
the best herds we own cannot return
a profit.” Then his neighbors saw the
light and understood,

And the next time the man who had
repeatedly told the farmer to “Go back
home and get better cows,” came to
town he met the same farmer but a
different spirit. And there were five
hundred other spirits of the same kind
with the farmer, and in a chorus that
thundered like the voice of Thor, these
men addressed the visitor thus: “You
can have the milk we produce at such
a price and no less.”

And as the echo and the re-echo of
the reverberations died away the once
confident and uncompromising man
was overcome by the awful silence that
followed. After a cold sweat his mas-
sive frame shook as if a terrible ague
had gripped him, his face grew pale
and his lips quivered as he whispered,
“Gentlemen, (note the salutation), I’m
terribly sick—just send one of your
men to headquarters and they’ll do
what’s right by you.”

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Advertising Farm Products II.
By I. J..~MATTHEWS

HERE are some obstacles to di—

rect farmer to customer selling.

These will be here stated so
that farmers may avoid some of these
obstacles and make direct selling
more universal and more profitable.

Magazine advertising involves and
necessitates the mail-order method of
selling products and there is little
doubt but that this method, when per-
fected, will be more profitable for the
producer. It was thought that the par-
cel post law would make it possible
for the farmer to trade more direct
with the consumer but while it has
been possible in some cases, in gen-
eral, the measure has not brought
about the end desired.

Purchases must be made in larger
quantities before a, farm mail order
business can be made to bridge over
the breakage of a dozen eggs or the
spoiling of one or two pounds of dairy
butter in transit. A larger quantity
purchased at one time will be more
economical for the buyer, likewise
more economical for the producer. for,
lamentable as it may seem, the extra
cost of marketing by mail now is paid
by the producer. He must sell at
some figure near the market value in
order to compete with the retailers of
the city. .

There must also be definite quality
standards before the farmer can prof-
itably dispose of his products direct to
the consumer. When the customer
purchases eggs, he wants to know that
they are hens’ eggs and not robins’
eggs. This example is a little out of
the commonplace, yet eggs are no
more edible and suited for culinary
purposes than stones until it is known
what sort of eggs they are and how
fresh. The housewife should know
that when she orders A. No. 1 eggs
she will get a dozen strictly fresh eggs
weighing 28 ounces and with an ap-
proximate diameter of one and one«
half inches. These eggs might be eith-
er brown or .white. When the market
classes of farm products can be class-
ified with that degree of exactness,

-there will be more incentive for a. de-

mand on the part of consumers for
products direct ,from the soil.

Many people do business on the in-
stallment plan. The grocer usually
carries the househbldef’s bill and this
is paid at the end of the month when
the workman gets his wages. The
farmer is not equipped to handle this
sort of trade. Neither has he the cap-

ital nor the opportunity to get the
measure of the extent of the personal
credit he should grant to his respec-
tive customers. The C. O. D. system
now used in the mails is of no value
in selling farm products, except that it
gives a customer the use of his money
for a little longer time. When im
proved credit and C. O. D. ‘systems can
be devised, when the quality standards
of the various farm products have
been certainly settled upon, then the
consumers of the cities can profitably
deal with the farmer direct in the
event that the staples can be used in
large enough quantities. When these
reforms are brought about and they
will soon come, it will become almost
necessary for farmers to advertise
their wares. _

The fisherman seeks bass where
bass are known to abound. In the
same way, if the farmer has products
to sell, he must advertise in publica:
tions that are read by those likely to
want what he can supply. It would be
foolhardy for a breeder to advertise
stock for sale in a manufacturers
trade journal, he must advertise in pa-
pers read by farmers. The farm mag-
azines are the mediums through which
the world may know that the farm can
supply numbers of cows, horses, or
calves. In order to secure cumulative
effects, advertising should be carried
on for a period of time but there are
so few products that will be produced
through a long period of time that it
is well nigh impossible to recommend
this sort of advertising. It may be
well in passing to call attention to the
fact that a few farmers have made
use of this sort of publicity. I have in
mind a. case where a certain Holstein
breeder advertised the fact that a well
known hull was heading his herd'and
that in three years he would have fe-
males for sale sired by the famous in,
dividual. This was long time advertis-
ing and the kind that it would pay ev-
ery farmer to use.

It is impossible to discuss farm ad-
vertising without outlining some con-
structive policies and giving some ad-
vice to the producer. A young man
starting in the farming business ought
to make a survey of the field and
know thoroughly what he will produce.
It is sometimes impossible to know ex-
actly what will be for sale, but if he
starts in to breed Shorthorn cattle, he
will be able to do some constructive
and profitable advertising in the forty
years that he will likely be in the bus-'

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shire sheep for a similar period will
never enable the farmer to make very
much use of any except sporadic and
local advertisements. It is generally
agreed that the profits of publicity
come in cumulative effects, in the vol-
ume of sales rather, than through in-
creasing the selling price of the arti-
cle. So the young farmer should have
in mind a. major life business in not
more than two or three commodities.
Other farm products may also be pro-
duced in a minor way but these must
be disposed of locally while the spe:
cialties may be left to periodical ad-
vertising. For instance, the young
man starting out with Shorthorn cat—
tle, Berkshire hogs and Rhode Island
Red fowls will by constructive breed-
ing produce a class of stock in a few
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MICHIGAN FRUIT MARKET NOTES.

 

A total of 835 iced cars of peaches
were shipped out of Berrien county
during the week opening September
11 and the boat lines handled almost a
like quantity. '

The two canneries at Coloma, Ber-
rien county, are running full blast,
with upwards of. 100 people employed.
They are making big packs of toma-
toes, pears and peaches. Friday Bros.
have been bothered to get help and
have been running trucks to Benton

’ Harbor and Covert to fetch women to

work.

Grape growers of Paw Paw and Law-
ton held meetings September 19 and
20 with representatives of the M. A. C.
and the Michigan Bureau of Markets
and discussed better packing methods.
Cars of grapes that come up to stan-
dard will be certified by the state, a
diamond-shaped monogram having
been prepared for use, with the let-
ter M.

Luther Hall, owner of the famous
Northern Spy orchard on the state
road, four miles north of Ionia, has
prospects of harvesting a $10,000 crop
of apples this fall.

Bangor has been a busy fruit mar-
ket this fall, particularly around the
Fruit Growers’ Exchange where 20 of
the large growers sold their stuff. The
market opened at $1.25 for best peach-
es, but dropped after a while to $1 for
Elbertas and other varieties brought
less. Peaches were inclined to run
small in size. One sale is reported of
choice Spy. Russet and Greening ap-
ples at $2.75 per barrel, but most on-
chards'have sold around $2.40 per bar-
rel. Growers are reporting a scarcity
of help, with a dearth even of the Usual
hoboes. ‘

Peach shipments from orchards in
the vicinity of Hartford, ,Van Buren
county, have been around 175 cars,
while the two canning factories at
Hartford have utilized thousands of
bushels. Shipping stock has brought
90 cents to $1.35, while over—ripe fruit
has sold for less. On the whole, it has
been a fairly good year for growers.

The Scottville-Custer Fruit and Pro-
duce Exchange, composed of about 20
Mason county growers, handled about
2,000 cases of cherries this season,
which netted growers 80 to 90 cents
per crate. Peaches have been hand-
led in carlots to good advantage, fancy
stock bringing $1.25 and seconds $1
per bushel. The peaches were put
over graders at the Scottville ware
house.

New fruit orchards are developing
in the Hart and Shelby district, with
prospects of a return to the good old
days when 30 cars per day were ship-
ped from Shelby station alone.

While the peach crop in the Gas.
novia district, Muskegon county, - ' is
about one-quarter as large as last year
there are some peaches. Asa Humph-

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els. Dr. Herseyewill have four to five
thousand bushels and there are other
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GRAINS AND SEEDS.

. October 10, 1916.
Wheat—Although a sharp slump in
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to the sinking of ships off the Ameri-
can coast by German submarines, the
heavy buying by the Allies’ agents for
export quickly stopped the decline and
a large portion of the loss was recov-
ered before the close of the day’s ses-
sion; Practically all of the news is
bullish; the government crop report
shows a wheat yield of 607,566,000 bu.
for this country. This is 404,000,000
less than last year’s crop. The Amer«
ican visible supply has also been re-
duced to- 40,000,000 bushels greater
than a year ago. This reduction from
former weeks is due to the conserva-
tive selling by farmers. Then, too,
conditions in Argentine are very dis-
couraging to the bears and a poor
crop is promised there. One year ago
.No. 2 red wheat was quoted locally at
$112112 per busheL Last week’s De-
troit quotations were:

No. 2 N0. 1

Red. White. Dec.
Wednesday ..... 1.60%, 1.55% 1.64%,
Thursday ....... 1.61~ 1.56 1.65
Friday ......... 1.59 1.54 1.63
Saturday ....... 1.60 1.55 1.64
Monday .......1.571/2 1.52% 161%
Tuesday ........ 1591/2, 1541/2 1 63%

Chicago—December wheat $1.595/g;
May $1.585/8; July $1.34.

Corn—Trade in this cereal was in-
fiuenced by the weakness in wheat at
the opening this week, but the trade
rallied well from the low point and
closed with only a fraction of a cent
loss for the day. Cables from Argen-
tine indicate the corn crop in that
country to be seriously damaged. Ac.
cording to the government crop report,
United States farmers will produce
this year 2,717,932,000 bushels. This
is 300,000,000 bushels less than the
crop harvested last year. One year
ago No. 3 corn was quoted locally at
65%c per bushel. Last week’s Detroit
quotations were:

No.3 No.3

Wednesday 91

Oats.—The \volume of business in
this department has been comparative-
ly small with the trade dull and easy.
Prices suffered a fractional decline on
Monday through the weakness of
wheat and corn. A year ago standard
oats were quoted at 39c per bushel.
Last week’s Detroit quotations I\lIvergz

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Chicago—December oats 47%c per
bu; May 517780.

Rye.—Foreigners are buying this
cereal for export and the market is
firm with cash No. 2 quoted at $1.25
per bushel or '20 above last week’s
price.

Beans.———The Detroit Board of Trade
has advanced quotations on the local
market and the trade rules firm with
immediate delivery and prompt ship-
ment quoted at $5 per bushel and 00-
tober delivery at $4.95. These quota-
tions do not seem to be on a par with
prices as reported from up state points.
In Chicago the market is firm and
quiet with supplies light. Michigan
pea beans, hand-picked, are quoted
there at $6@6.25 per bushel and east-
ern red kidneys at $5.75.

Seeds—This market is active and
easy with prime red clover quoted. at
$9.65; alsike $10; alfalfa $9@10; tlm-
othy $2.40 per bushel.

    
    
   
 
  
   
   
    
   
    
   
 
  
   
     
     
   
   
     
    
  

FLOUR AND FEEDS.

 

Noun—Jobbing lots in one-eighth
paper sacks are selling on the Detroit
market per 196 lbs., as follows: Best
patent $8.40; seconds $8.20; straight
$8; spring patent $8.90; rye flour $7.40
per bbl.

Feed.——In~100-lb. sacks, jobbing lots
are: Bran $26.50; standard middlings

28; fine middlings $35; cracked corn
$36; coarse corn meal $30; corn and
cat chop $34 per ton.

Hay.———In carlots at Detroit: No. 1
timothy $14@15; standard timothy
$13.50@14; No. 2 timothy $12@13;
light mixed $13.50@14; No. 1 mixed

   

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the markets on Monday morning, due '

Misted. Yellow. @18

ing 30@3lc.

17c; No. 1 cured bulls
12c;
green 200; No. 1
do. green 170;
do. green 27c;
N0. 2 do. $5; No. 2 hides 10 and No. 2
kip and calf 1%c lower than above;
sheepskins, as to amount of wool 500
@$1.25 each.

the quotation for
Dairy butter is worth 260.
es at the mills are as follows:
33d wheat $1.51; rye $1.10; corn 90@
0;
wheat 900.
delivery, are
tatoes at outside buying stations are
around 90c and tubers on the city mar-
ket here
1.35.
live fowls are quoted at

was doing a smaller volume of busi-
ness than usual.
ful however,
maintained.
fair quantities at
bage $1.50@1.75;
tatoes $1.40@1.75;

fancy Snows being
price; pears 75c@$
cauliflower $2.25 per bu;
loose hay $18@20 per ton.

 

  

$11912; No: 1 er 11

S raw.i——Rye straw

lots. '

 

DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.

 

Butter.—-The market has advanced
in all grades of butter and is strong at
the adVanCe. Creamery extra 340; do.
firsts 32%c; dairy 27c; packing stock
25c per lb. ‘

Elgin.——Prices are 1/20 higher. Local
and export demand keeps the market
firm. Price based on sales is 341/20.

Chicago—Market lacked tone on ac-
count of prices which are 1&0 higher
than last week. Creamery extras are
quoted at 341/20; extra firsts 34c; firsts
321/2@331/20. ,

Eggs—The market is firm at an ad—
‘vance of 20 over last week. Firsts 330;
current receipts 300.

Chicago—A firm feeling exists with
prices slightly advanced. Storage
stock made the greatest advance.
Firsts 301/2 @310; ordinary ,rsts 281/2@
30c; at mark, cases included 22@291/2c
per dozen; firsts, storage paid 30@
301,50.

New York—Fresh gathered extra
fine 39@410; extra firsts 37@38c per
dozen; firsts 33@360.

Poultry—Large receipts have caus-
ed lower prices and a weak market.
Live broilers 18@181/20; No. 1 hens 17
@171/20; others 15@161/20; ducks 17c;
geese 13@14c; turkeys 24@25c.

 

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.

Apples.-—Market is firm and prices
unchanged. Barreled stock $3.50@4
or fancy; choice $2@2.75; No. 2, 50
@$1 per bushel. At Chicago a steady
feeling prevails for fancy stock which
sells for $2.50@4.75 per bbl; No. 2
stock $1.50@2.

Pears—Bartletts are steady at $1.50
@1.75 per bushel; other kinds $1@
1.25. At Chicago pears are in fair de-
mand and No. 1 Bartletts bring $5.50
@6.50 per bbl; Seckle $3@4.50; other
kinds $1.50@3; No. 2 all kinds $1.50
@1.75.

Grapes.——Delewares and Niagaras
sell for 14@15c per pony basket, and
Concords at 22@23c per 8-lb. basket.
At Chicago the market is steady with
prices slightly lower. Concords in 8-lb.
baskets (6@6% lbs. net) bring 18@
19c; Delewares 22@24c; Niagaras 15

 

c
Peaches—Peaches are easy and un-

Thursday .. ......... 90 9212 changed. AA, $1.25; A, $1; B, 500@

Friday ...... . ....... 90% 92% $1. .At Chicago Michigan Smocks are

Saturday ...... . ..... 901,4 921,4 selling at $1@1.25 per bu; one-fifth

Monday .............. 90 92 bushel Gold Drops 10@15c.

Tuesday ............ 90 92 Potatoes—At Detroit potatoes in car
Chicago.——December corn 770; May lots bring $1.40@1.50 for round and

78940. $1.25@1.35 for long. No Michigan po-

tatoes are quoted at Chicago but oth-
ers bring from $1@1.25 per bushel. At
Greenville the farmers
$1.10@1.12.

are getting

 

WOOL AND HIDES.

 

Wool—A considerable business was

transacted in the wool market last

Standard. White. week. Prices are firm to higher and
Wednesday . . . . . . . . . 511/2 501/2 the market is strong in every depart-
Thursday ----------- 511/2 501/2 ment. Fleeces are moving more freely
Friday - - . - . - - - - - 51% 50% with the quotations showing an ad-
Saturday ------------ 51% 50% vancing tendency. Michigan unwash-
Monday ------------- 1 50 ed delaines are quoted in Boston at 35
{Tuesday ............ 51 50 @360; do. combing 38@400; do. cloth«

Hides—No. 1 cured 190; No. 1 green
15c; do. green
kip 230; do.
cured murrain 190;
No. 1 cured calf 300;
No. 1 horsehides $6;

No. 1 cured veal

 

GRAND RAPIDS.

Fresh eggs still climb with 310 as
the week’s opening.
Grain pric-
No. 2

 

oats 45@500; barley 95c; buck-
White pea beans, October

quoted here at $4.25. Po-

sell in a small way at $1.25@
Cabbage is worth 900@$1.10;
14@15c.

 

DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.

 

Tuesday morning the eastern market

Buyers were plenti-
and prices are being well
Tomatoes were offered in
$1.50@2 per bu; cab~
lettuce 40@600; po-
apples 750@$2, the
sold at the latter
1.25; onions $1.50;
eggs 42@45c_;

I

‘1 @ . . g
. .$'8.50@9; .whe'at "
and oat straw $7.50@8 per ton in car-

Receipts today. .25,000
Same day 1915..27,121 17,958 20,277 b
Last week ...... 63,577 140,171 153,460

here last week reached 55,029 head.

better general demand for fat lots, and
prices were higher,
being followed by better prices on sub-
sequent days, with reaction on Thurs-
ay.
buyers during the first part of the
week, and the market was particularly
strong for choice heavy beeves, the
top sales being a dime higher than a
week earlier and within 15c of the
highest price of the year.
price, $11.35, was paid for 16
Illinois 1507-lb. steers and for 60 head
of fancy old-fashioned heavy Ohio
steers weighing
such heavies
times.
ed sold for
choice cattle taken at $10.80 and up-
ward, while a good class brought $10@
10.80, and medium to good steers sold
at -$8.75@9.95.
tle grass-fed killers brought $7@8.25,
with warmed-up steers going at $8.30
@870.
$9.50@11.25, and there was an active
and much higher market for butcher
stock, cows bringing $5.10@8.25 and
heifers $4
fancy yearling heifers purchased as
high as $10@10.25.
$4.55@5, canners
bulls at $4.50@8. Veal
tive at high prices,
$11@13, with heavy
$4.50@9. There was
trading in stockers and feeders at $5
32:55, with not much doing above

and prices shot downward with amaz-
ing rapidityflocal packers having the
situation well under control, as east-
ern shipping buying orders were on a
small scale.
ceding week the top price of hose was
$10.50, while on the following Monday
top was $102714
of $9.75 and a Wedne
Reactions took place
evident that hog prices had seen their

  

Buffalo. 7
' , October 9, 1916.
(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens.
New _ York Central "- Stock Yards,
' Buffalo, N Y.)

Receipts here today as follows: Cat-
tle 220 cars; hogs 110 d. d.; sheep 40
d. d.; calves 1100 head.

With 220 cars of cattle today, our
trade was absolutely rotten, bulk of
the medium steers a quarter lower and
the common steers very hard to move
at any price, but there was a good de-
mand for the cow stuff and the bulk
of them sold steady. There was a
good call for the best grades of stock-
ers and feeders, but the common light
kind sold very mean. It has got to
the time of the year when we are
bound to have large runs and we can-
not expect any morerthan a steady
market next week. '

We had the largest run of hogs that
we have had for some time and the
quality was again very poor. Hogs
weighing 200 lbs. were very scarce and
this class sold but very little lower
than Saturday’s best time, while light
grades sold anywhere from 10@250
lower than Saturday’s average. The
bulk of the sales were around $9.60,
with a\few weighty kinds at $9.75@
9.85, one load at $10. Pigs and lights,
as to weight and quality, $9@9.25;
roughs generally $8.75. Entirely too
many light weight hogs here, which
caused the slump in prices. While we
look for a fair trade on anything car-
rying, a little weight, there is a poor
prospect for improvement on the light-
er kinds. Our advice would be to fol-
low no advances that we might have
in the next month or six weeks and
use caution‘in buying common and
light kinds, entirely too many of the
one kind coming to market.

With a light run of lambs today our
market opened active and about steady
with the close of last week, and we
look for steady to strong prices the
balance of the week.

,.We quote: B‘est lambs $10.50@
10.65; cull to common $9@10; year-
lings $7@9; bucks $5.50@6.50; ewes
$7.25@7.50; cull sheep $3.50@5.50:
wethers $7.75@8; top’veals $12.75@
13; heavy $8@9; common and light
$10.50@12; grassers $5.50@6.

 

Chicago.
October 9, 1916.
Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.
35,000 30,000

Same wk 1915..44,929 81,533 86,591
Hogs sold early this morning up to
$10, but declined about 50 later. Last

Keek’s hog receipts averaged but 211
s.
steady today,

in Weight. Cattle were mostly

being scarce.

but buyers held off.
Shipments of lambs and sheep from

Cattle started off last week with a

Monday’s advance

Eastern shippers were very fair

The top
head of

from 1715 to 1824 lbs.,
being novelties these
The bulk of the steers market-
$8@10.35, with the strictly

Fair to pretty good lit-

Fat yearlings were salable at t

.50@9.50, and a few head of e

Cutters sold at
$3.50@4.50 and
calves were ac-
sales ranging at
calves selling at
a fair amount of

at

Hogs were marketed freely last week

At the close of the me D

with a Tuesday top
day top $9.671/2.
ater, but it was

42,700,000 bushels;

mate 184,000,000 bushels;
last year (final estimate) 237,009,000
with buying centered in b
butcher stock and medium to good
steers, prime beeves
Prime range lambs were held as much
as 250 higher,

5,291,000 bushels;

mate 41,884,000 bushels,
last year (final estimate) 49,190,000 u.

13,900,000 bushels;
year (final estimate) 15,769,000 bu.

301,000,000 bushels;
year

4,398,000 tons; production
(final estimate) 3,458,000 tons.

4,080,000 barrels;
(final estimate) 3,150,000 barrels.

66,200,000; barrels
(final estimate) 76,670,000 barrels.

Corn, 85 and 77.
tatoes, 138 and 40. Hay, $10 and $12.20

90.90 per bushel.

Oats 44.5 and

and 48.80.

ton.

Eggs 28.1 and 22.30 per dozen.
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’ priSe was-.--expr”e‘ssed

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. is.
' by many: “stock-

' men who had been holding Onto their .

hogs under the impression‘ nth t- ulti-
mately prices would be much igher.
The packers have acted asa unit in
forcing the .market lower 'and have
been buying large supplies of hogs In
other markets and bringing them here
in order to aid in depressing values. A
large supply of hogs for winter pack-
ing is promised, and with old corn sell-
ing at 80 to 850 per bushel, stockmen
are not disposed'to hold hogs very
long. At the week’s close hogs sold at
$9.05@10.05, with pigs bringing $6.50
@925, while the heavy packing hogs
brought $9.05@9.70, light shippers $9.70
@990 and heavy shippers $9.75@10.

Lambs from the ranges of Idaho
Montana, Nevada, Utah, and Washing-
ton were received in much increased
numbers last week, and everything in
the live mutton and feeder lines sold
much lower than during the previous
week, with the best feeding lambs sell-
ing on Monday for $10 per 100 lbs.,
which was also t p for the best killers.
On subsequent days prime mutton
lambs sold at higher prices, and the
best yearlings and sheep sold better,
as did choice breeding ewes. Feeder
lamb trade centered strongly on
weights of less than 60 lbs. Closing
prices were: Lambs $7.75@10.40;
range feeding lambs $8.75@9.90; year-
lings $7.25@8.60; wethers $7@8.25;
ewes $3.50@7.25; breeding ewes $6.25
@10; bucks $4.75@6; feeding year-
lings brought $7.50@8.60 and feeding
wethers $6.50@7.35.

 

GOVERNMENT CROP REPORT.

 

Corn.———State.—October 1 forecast
47,300,000 bushels; production last
year (final estimate), 56,000,000 bu.

United States—October 1 forecast
2,720,000,000 bushels; production last
year (final estimate) 3,054,535,000 bu.

All Wheat—State.—Preliminary es-
timate 12,631,000 bushels; production
last year (final estimate) 20,448,000
bushels.

United States—Preliminary esti‘
mate 608,000,000 bushels; production
last year (final estimate) 1,011,505,000
bushels.

Oats.——State.—-Prel.iminary estimate
production last
year (final estimate) 64,260,000 bu.

United States.—-—Preliminary esti-
mate 1,230,000,000 bushels; production
last year (final estimate) 1,540,362,000
ushels.

Barley.-—-State. ~— Preliminary esti-

mate 1,980,000 bushels; production last
year (final estimate) 2,508,000 bushels.

United States—Preliminary esti—

production

ushels. .
Rye.—~State.—-Preliminary estimate
production last year
(final estimate) 6,045,000 bushels.
United States—Preliminary esti-
product'on

Buckwheat.———State.—October 1 fore-

cast 874,000 bushels; production last
year (final estimate) 870,000 bushels.

United States—«October 1 forecast
production last

Potatoes.——State.——October 1 fore-

cast 17,600,000. bushels; production last
year (final estimate) 20,945,000 bu.

United States—October 1 forecast
production last
(final estimate) 359,103,000 bu.

Hay.—State.—ePreliminary estimate
last year

United States.———Preliminary .esti~

mate 86,155,000 tons; production last
year (final estimate) 85,225,000 tons.

Apples.—State.——October 1 forecast
production last year

United States.

 

October 1 forecast
production last year

Peaches.——State.—Estimated produc-
ion 1916, 2,010,000 bushels; estimated

production 1915, 2,360,000 bushels.

 

United States. Estimated produc-

tion 1916, 36,911,000 bushels; estimat-

d production 1915, 63,460,000 bushels.
Beans—State. — Preliminary esti«

mate 3,730,000 bushels; production last
year (final estimate) 4,250,000 bushels.

United States (five states).——Prelimi—

nary estimate 9,900,000 bushels; pro-
duction last year (final estimate)
278,000 bushels.

10,-

Prices.
The first price given below is the

average on October 1 this year, and
the second the average on October 1
last year.

State.———Wheat, 139 and 990 per bu.

Oats, 45 and 34. Po-

er ton, Eggs, 27 and 230 a dozen.

United States—Wheat 136.3 and
Corn 82.3 and' 70.50.
34.50. Potatoes 112.0
Hay $10.36 and $10.39 per
Cotton 15.5 and 11.20 per pound.

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have not entpressed a desire for the.
latest markets. The late market edi-
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Wheat—The " estimated yield
wheat in the state is 15.76, in the south»
ern ocuntie‘s 15.94, in the central coun-
e northern counties 14.80

per peninsula 19.80 bush-
els per acre. The per cent of acreage

8T EDITION.- Apples $1; potatoes $1.500
. ‘ ' L75; wheat $1.45; corn 90c; oats 45c;
hay $8; beans $4.50@6; hogs $9.50@
cattle $5@6: dairy butter 300.
Washtenaw 00., Oct. 7.—Corn most-
ly put in silos and in some instances
the silos are not filled to their capa-
city. There is very little corn to husk.

 

 

DETROlT LIVE STOCK MARKET.

 

Thursday‘s Market. ,
October 12, 1916.
Cattle.

Receipts 2853. There was a good
run in all departments at the local
yards this week and barring northern.
shipments 003 the Pete Marquette, ev-
erything arrived in good season; . the
last P. M. train had to hold for Thurs-

day’s market.

The quality in the cattle divisionwas
again common, a large number of thin
Blockers being in the receipts that
were dull, although there was a good
active demand from the country for
this class with a little more flesh on
them. The general market was fairly
active at last week’s closing prices on
all grades. Milch cows and springers
of quality were fairly active but the
common grades were dull. The close
was steady and nearly everything was
sold as follows: Best heavy steers $8;
best handy weight butcher steers $6.75
67.50; mixed steers and heifers $6@
6.50; handy light butchers $5.25@5.75;
light butchers $4.75@5.25; best cows
$5.25@5.75; butcher cows $4.50@5;
common cows $4.25@4.75; canners
$3.50@4.25. best heavy bulls $5.50@6,
bologna bulls $5@5.50; stock bulls $4
@450; feeders $6@6.75; stockers $4.50
@635; milkers and springers $40@75.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. dr.
Co. 4 cows av 895 at $4.25, 2 do av 1040
at $5, 2 butchers av 780 at $6, 23 steers
av 1056 at $7, 6 do av 921 at $7.40 10
do av 993 at $7.40, 1 bull wgh 1346 at
$5.50, 1 do wgh 990 at $4.25, 16 butch-
ers av 607 at $4.75; to Thelan '& M. 2
feeders av 790 at $6, 3 stockers av 613
at $5.75, 10 do av 574 at $5.50; to Res-
nick 17 butchers av 668 at $5.25;; to
Bray & B. 11 cows av 927 at $4.25, 13
do av 875 at $4.35; to Sullivan P. Co.
1 bull wgh 850 at $4.75, 3 do av 897 at
$5.25, 2 do av 825 at $5, 4 cows av 1110
at $5.25, 4 do av 1000 at $5.35; to
Parker, W. £2 Co. 1 steer wgh 900 at
$7: to Nagle P. Co. 4 do av 1080 at $7,
2 do av 960 at $6.50, 1 do wgh 1070 at
$7.25 1 cow wgh 1200 at $5; to Fine-
man butchers av 723 at$5; to Goose

7 do av 521 at $4.50; to Struble 7
stockers av 674 at $5.50; to Parker, W.
& Co. 10 cows av 963 at $4.25, 1 bull
wgh 1090 at $5.25, 2 do av 1135 at
$5.50, 2 do av 860 at $5, 1 do wgh 1470
at $5.65, 3 cowsav 1100 at $4.35, 5 do
av 930 at $5.25; to Lowenstein 2 feed-
’ers av 870 at $5.75, 8 do av 987 at
$6.50; to Hertler 5 do, av 916 at $6.50,

13 do av 927 at $6.50.
Veal Calves.

Receipts 1188. The veal calf trade
opened up about steady with last week,
a few choice bringing $13, but as the
supply was large and a great number
were common and heavy the general
market on Thursday was about 500
lower. Best grades $12@12.50; medi-

ums $9@11; heavy $5@7.50.

Bishop, B. & H. sold Sullivan P. Co.
5 av 155 at $12, 17 av 140 at $11; to
Kull 12 av 145 at $11.75, 5 av 180 at
$13; to Thompson 8 av 180 at $12.25;
to Parker, W. & Co. 7 av 155 at $12, 19
av 145 at $12.25, 18 av 160 at $12, 10
av 140 at $12, 2 av 170 at $13, 46 av

140 at $11.75.

Erwin, S. 4’; J., sold Mich. B. Co. 4
av 130 at $12.50, 7 av 180 at $12.50, 7
av 150 at $12.50, 4 av 130 at $12.50; to

Goose 3 av 315 at $4.75.

Haley & M. sold Thompson 3 av 170

at $12.75.
Sheep and Lambs.

Receipts 8039. The quality in the
sheep and lamb division was generally
poor and on Wednesday the market
was about steady with last week but
on Thursday sheep dropped 25c and
lambs 10@15c, best lambs selling at
$10@10.15 and best sheep $6.25@6.50:
the close was dull at the decline as
follows: Best lambs $10@10.15; fair
lambs $9@9.50; light to common lambs
$6.50@8.50; fair to good sheep $6.25@
6.50; culls and common $3.50@4.

Saudel, S., B. & G. sold Nagle P. Co.
42 lambs av 73 at $9.85; to Bernard a
P. 40 sheep av 85 at $5.50, 38 do av
90 at $5.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 11 do av
95 at $5.50, 51 lambs av 65 at $9.50, 36
do av 75 at $9.75; to Young 24 do av
95 at $9.50; to Nagle P. Co. 21 sheep
av 120 at $7, 22 do av 115 at $6.75, 25
do av 125 at $6.75, 90 lambs av 81 at
$9, 35 do av 70 at $9.50; to Sullivan
P. 00. 89 do av 75 at $9.75, 59 do av
70 at $9.50. “

Hm

Receipts 13,404. The hog trade on
Thursday was about 25c higher than
on the same period a week ago or 5@
10¢ hi er than the close on Wednes-
ggyé5@9 $8.75@8.$l other grades

   

 

sown thisfall as compared with "last
Year is 88 in the state, 86 in the south
ern counties, 89 in the central counties,
91 in the northern counties and 95 in
the upper peninsula. The average date
of sowing wheat in the state and cen—
tral counties is September 23, in the
southern counties the 26th, in the
northern counties the 18th and in the
upggr peninsula the 16 h

Potatoes very poor, probably 25 per
Cloverseed is better
than a normal yield. Not quite the us-
ual acreage of fall grains sown, owing
to continued dry weather.
apples very good, peaches a fair yield.
Wheat $1.40; rye $1.15; potatoes $2;
milk $1.80; butter 360; eggs 30c.

cent of a crop.

Yield of

N .

Columbia 00., Oct. 5.-—There were
heavy frosts October 1 and 2. Corn is
only a fair crop. Early potatoes were
good but late ones a short crop. Beans
No wheat grown here,
but the usual large acreage of rye
sown. Apples 8. medium crop, pears a
fair crop, but few peaches.
per bbl; beans $6 per bu; eggs 45c;
There is a milk war; pro-
ducers are organized and prices are

wheat marketed by farmers in Septem-
ber is 218,728 bushels.
total number of bushels of wheat mar-
keted in the two months August-Sep-
tember is 2,500,000.

Rye—The per cent of acreage sown
this fall as compared with last year is
92 in the state, 90 in the southern and
central counties, 95 in the northern
counties and 99 in the upper peninsula. big

Barley.——Estimated
per acre in the state is 23.12, in the
southern counties 24.30, in the central
counties 22.64, in the northern counties
19.55 and in the upper peninsula 25.58

The estimated
badly rusted.

Apples $2

average yield Pennsylvania.

, Perry 00., Oct. 9.-——Corn cutting is
just beginning, and the crop will aver-
age about 60 bushels of ears per acre.
Potatoes are almost a failure and sell
at $1.50 per bushel.
raised here. Not much clover cut for
seed, but it seems well filled. There is
more land being sown to fall grain
than usual, and some seeding yet to be
Apples are not plentiful. Peach~
es about half an average crop, and
sold in the orchard for $1@1.75 per
Cattle being shipped in to be
fattened at $7.80 per cwt. Wheat $1.40;
oats 35c; rye 75c; corn 80c; eggs 320;
butter 28c; chickens 15c; veal valves

Only a few beans

Oats—The estimated average yield
per acre in the state is 28.96, in the
southern counties 31.05, in the central
counties 28.85, in the northern coun-
ties 24.25 and in the upper peninsula
32.53 bushels.

Corn—The estimated average yield
per acre in the state is 19.02, in the
southern counties 18.84, in the central
counties 18.88, in the northern coun-
ties 19.30 and in the upper peninsula
25.00 bushels.

     
 
   
    
  
 
   
  
  
  
 
  
  
   
   
      
      
 

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yield in the state is 40.64, in the south-
ern counties 29.05, in the central coun-
ties 39.15, in the northern
50.63 and in the upper peninsula 48.67
bushels per acre.

Beans—The estimated average yield
in the state is 7.48, in the southern
counties 6.88, in the central counties
8.25 and in the northern counties 7.74
bushels per acre.

Sugar Beets—The estimated aver
age yield in the state is 6.96, in south-
ern counties 6.79, in the central coun—
ties 6.72, in the northern counties 7.75
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Buckwheat.—-—The estimated average
yield in the state is 11.58, in the south‘
ern counties 10.83, in the central coun-
ties 10.81, in the northern counties
12.55 and in the upper peninsula 18.00
bushels per acre.

Owing to the unfavorable season
much of the acreage of corn, potatoes
and beans was a total failure and crop
correspondents quite generally claim
that fully 25 per cent of the estimated
acreage planted has not yet been har-

     
 
 
 
  
  
  
  
  

 

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Arenac 00.. Oct. 3.—Corn will be be
low the average yield, but no husking
Potatoes are nearly a fail-
ure; beans less than half a crop. Lots
of wheat being sown. Apples a. fairly
good crop; a few pears and no peach-
Apples 40@75c per bushel; wheat
potatoes $1.65;
$$865; butter-fat 32c; cattle $5;

Oct. 5.——Corn is badly
nd there is a considen

for free book.
tory price offer now.

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$1.41; beans

Branch 60.,
hurt by frost a
able amount of soft corn.
are almost a failure, and beans will
average five bushels per acre.
seed will yield about two bushels per
Some wheat yet to sow, as it
has been so dry that the ground could
There are not many
pt, owing to the high
age of cats and corn.
Apples are a fair crop in'well kept or-

Peaches and pears are light
Wheat $1.50; corn 850; oats
$2; butter 240; eggs 28c;

  
  
 

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43c; potatoes
butter-fat 34c.

Hillsdale 00.,
heavy rains about two weeks ago the
farmers have been busy preparing the
ground for wheat and rye, of which
the usual acreage will be sown. Corn
will average a light crop, though some
Corn husking has
just begun. Beans a light crop, aver-
aging probably seven or eight bushels
Clover-seed is a good crop,
about two bushels per acre. Good win-
ter apples will be rather scarce. Pears
and peaches have been fairly plentiful.
Wheat $1.45: rye $1.12;
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Milk and'Pnbé—lic Healt
.. BY FLOYD AW. ROBISON .

HE very great value of milk in classic investigations that the rela-
its relation to the public food ti’onship, which we now know to exist
supply is conceded. Its value in between bacteria and the souring phe-

relation to other animal food products nomenon in milk, was proven.
is not sufficiently known. Without Even at that time the evolution of
doubt much WOUId be gained from a lactic acid and the mode of its pI‘OdIICr
standpoint of economy by an incorpor‘ tion Was not- known. Much chemical
ation of ever increasing proportions of work, varied with its bacteriological
milk and its products into the daily reinforcement, has been performed in
menu. late years, as. a result of which We
Unquestionably the general health- now know that very few of the chemi-
fulness of the race would in a similar cal changes which take place in milk,
Way be augmented by the use of larger which increases or decreases its food
quantities of milk in daily food. value and which change its relation-
This brings us to the consideration Ship to public health, are the result of
of what are the relationships existing the activity of any one set 0f micro-
between the milk supply and public organisms. Souring changes, as well
health. The fact that municipal au- as other changes, vary in each differ-
thorities the world over are giving pri. ent milk, caused by the associative ac-
mary consideration to milk above all tion 0f the different micro-organisms
other food products is sufficient proof present. .
that it is conceded to be the item The Milk Distributor’s Reason for Pas-

which of all foods is most deserving teurizing Milk is to Keep it
of scrutiny. from Souring.
Milk an Ideal Medium for Germs. We have learned that the most de~

As we have observed from its com- sirable change which can take place
position, milk is ideal as a, food, Being in milk in its relation to public health
elaborated in the liquid phase and at as well as its relationship to public
the temperature of the animal body, food supply is the souring change. The
it is easy to conceive that from these activity of the organism which pro
facts taken together it must be an motes souring is the type of activity in
ideal medium for the growth of micro- milk which should be encouraged.
organisms and it is in this respect that Strangely enough, the organisms pro
milk bears its most intimate relation- moting the creation of lactic acid are
ship to the public health. the ones which have been most stren-

Raw milk is a living product. Aside “9‘15” fought in commerce. .The de-
from the fact that it contains an abun- sire apparently 0f commercxal mllk
dance of food material it differs from distributors {3 to get mllk upon the
many other animal food products in market and 1n.the hands of the con-
that it is not a passive food material. sumer before It turns sour. Conse-
It is an organized product with cellu- quently various expedients have been
15”. life which makes it in the raw resorted to to accomplish this result.
state exceedingly stimulating as hu- A number 0f years ago preservatives
man food. were used to prevent the growth of
. . . . sour milk organisms until the practice

Raw M'lk '8 a lemg FOOd' was stopped by municipal inspection

We know that pure milk contains laws. Since then pasteurization, or
living, activated cells; that it contains heating of milk, has been resorted to
active enzymes and ferments 0f dif‘ until it is quite common in the cities
ferent types, all Of WhiCh lend charac- of this country that pasteurization

ter to milk and are 0f great import- measures are enforced by law. The
ance in its relationship to human food. main thing accomplished by this is the
These facts suggest certain ideal meth- prolonging of the period in which milk
ods of handling the milk and along may be put upon the market in spite
of the fact that it is exceedingly doubt-
raw milk over pasteurized or heated ful if it removes appreciably the haz-
milk. In other words, raw milk has ard to public health, and likewise in
the characteristics of living milk and spite of the fact that it does admitted-
heated milk presents the same charac- 1y “appreciably lower the food proper-
teristics as other cooked animal food. ties of the milk itself.

We have observed likewise that the
cooking and preparation of some types
of foods are responsible for the de-vi-
talizing which has become so alarm-
ingly conspicuous in our national diet.
Laying aside, therefore, the very
close, ideal relationship existing be-
tween pure milk in the raw state and
adequate nutrition, it is the consider-
ation of milk in its relation to bacte‘
rial infection that commands our most
careful attention still: at the present
time.

One hesitatese to criticize severely
an ordinance requiring pasteurization
of milk. Theoretically it has little in
its favor but until we have adequate
inspection of milk, not only as it on-
ters the city but at the premises of the
dairymen, and adequate protection of
the product during its entire transpor—
tation to the consumer’s door, we are
inclined to concede an advantage in
the interests of safety on the side of
pasteurization.

 

The Sour Milk Germs.

It is not strange that the small cel-
lular organisms should find milk an
ideal medium for their life activities.
Probably the most common bacterial
change WhiCh occurs in milk is that some of the old ewes are also scouring
brought about through the activity of on the permanent pasture of mixed
the organism which produces lactic grasses. I therefore think it is the suc-
acid in the milk. The fact that milk culency Of the feed, rather than the
sours after standing for some time has plant itself that causes the trouble.
been known since milk was met used Any green, succulent food is liable to
as a food, but the reason for the pres- do this. The permanent pasture has
ence 0f the lactic acid in milk—just greened up since our rains and acts
Why souring takes place—has been the as fresh pastures does in the spring.

development of the researches of com- COLON c, LILLIE.

paratively recent years. The presence
of bacteria in milk was known as early ALWAYS SIGN YOUR NAME.
as 1850 but scientists at that time did
not think to connect the bacterial ac- Frequently inquiries are received
tivity which was known to exist in from subscribers who neglect to sign
milk with the phenomena of the sour- their name or give their postoffice ad-
ing of milk. Souring was a term which /dress. Such inquiries are not replied
indicated a progressive stage of de- to under our rules. To receive prompt
velopment in food products. Its be~ attention the' enquirer must sign his
havior was known generally but no in- name and give his pestofflce address.
quiry was made into it. It was not The name will not be published it re-

DOES RAPE SCOUR LAMBS?

I would be inclined to think that
rape was prone to produce scours with
lambs if it were not for the fact that

 

 

 

 

 

 

    
 

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home rule. _

be first improved."

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Our Mottoz—“The farmer is of more Associational Motto:
consequence than the farm, and should

 

 

  
  
    

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“The skillful hand with cultured
mind is the farmer's most valuable

 

STATE GRANGE OFFICERS.

 

Master——John C. Ketcham, Hastings.

Overseer—C. H. Bramble, Tecumseh.

Lecturer—Dora H. Stockman, Lan-

sing.

Secretary—Jennie Buell, Ann Arbor.

Treasurer—’Wank Coward. Bronson.

 

.A—G RANGE COMM UNITY CENTER.

 

asset."

 

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

 

FARMERS’ CLUB FAIRS.

The Riley-Olive Farmers’ Club held
their September meeting at Merle
Beach, September 22. 'The fair was

 

In the “Grange Forum” is an 'inter- well attended and exhibits fine. Prof.

esting account of the successful com-
munity Grange work now being car- b

Bibbins, of M. 'A. C., judge of grain
and vegetables, said he had found no
etter grains this year. Prof. Burgess,

ried on at Wixom. This work was in- judge of poultry, gave some good poul-
augurated by Berto A. Holden, who try points. Miss Brusselbach, teacher

has been prominent in Grange work

of domestic science, of Lansing high
school, gave good judgment on the lad-

throughout the state, and Rev. Fay ies’ exhibits. The Club gave them all

.Cilley, former pastOr of the Wixom

Baptist Church.

a rising vote of thanks. Dinner was
served at noon. Cliff Plowman and

The article from the “Forum” fol- Miss Dean furnished fine music. Pros-

lows:

“Of late years much has been said
about the needs of rural communities,
and all students of the subject agree
that the ‘Get-together’ idea is the so-
lution of the rural problems. Many

ecuting Attorney Fehling gave an ad‘
dress on “Community Spirit,” saying
the cultivation of community spirit
was needed to produce better things
for the" farmer. It will produce better
men and women and better citizens.
Better citizens will vote for the good
questions of the day, and they must

rural communities, and many semi: get out and vote and teach our citi-

rural (small villages), have been try-
ing to maintain two or three separate
and distinct churches, as many sep-

arate Sunday schools and aid societies,
etc. They try to maintain and support
several pastors and their families and
only half succeed. By co-operation
they could maintain one strong virile
church organization and employ the
most capable of pastors.

“While the ‘Get-together’ idea is be-

ing preached, and much is written
about it, a rural community at Wixom
has been putting these ideas into prac-
tice. Wixom has one church, the Meth-
odists, Baptists, Congregationalists,
Prebyterians and all other denomina-
tions worship under the same roof and
at the same altar. Their minister is
as liberal, and broad-minded as his
congregation. They have one Sunday
school with 190 members. They have
an organization for community better-
ment, a federated committee, and have
now bought and are operating a purely
co-operative store.

“Wixom has been placed on the map.
Hundreds of churches, hundreds of
Granges and rural communities are
discussing how Wixom does it. Ten
years ago not one farmer and not one
child in a thousand could have told
even in what county Wixom is located,
now a majority know of Wixom in
Oakland county.

“Who put Wixom on the'map? There
is a reason for all things. Things don’t
just happen. There are prime movers
back of all great movements. In this
case the credit is largely due to Rev.
Mr. Cilly, who until a recent date was
pastor of the Baptist church, and B. A.
Holden, Master of the Grange at Wix-
om. These men are the moving factors
-—they had a vision and the power of
leadership. Their good wives and fam-
ilies, and other men and women of the
community have also had a hand in
the work.

“What Wixom has done, other rural
communities can do. Let us all get
the Wixom spirit and the ‘Geh-togeth-
er’ idea.”-

 

AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.

 

The Feature of the gathering of the
Grangers of the county for the Shia-
wassee Pomona Grange at Laingsburg,
was the address of State Master J. C.
Ketcham, of Hastings, on “Organiza-
tion.” Mr. Ketcham, always an inter-
esting and entertaining speaker, was
at his best and gave many valuable
thoughts on the subject. He also found
time to urge support for state-wide pro~
hibition and condemned in strong
terms the attempt of the liquorites to
befog the issue with wet “home rule."
If his advice be followed every mem-
ber otthe Grange will work and, vote
to make Michigan dry_,and to defeat

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‘ and members of the Club sat down to

zens to respect our flag. Rev. 0. J.
Price, of Lansing, gave a short talk.
Prof. Burgess gave some fine piano se-
lections. Club voted to hold a fair
next year and to take our exhibits to
the county fair. The next three meet-
ings are: October, Mr. and Mrs. Aug-
ust Wott; November, Mrs. and Mrs.
C. T. Rockwell; December, Mrs. Edw.
Pike, at which meeting officers will be
elected for the ensuing yeah—Mrs.
Ella Blizzard. '

The Somerset Farmers’ Club held
their annual Club Fair for the Junior
agriculturists of the township of Som-
erset, Saturday, September 23, at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Lane.
There being no entries by the boys,
the girls carried off all the prizes. The
two classes were from 10 to 14 and 14
to 18 years in age. There was a fine
display of hand-made garments, each
exhibitor showing three garments. To
make’ it plain, there was machine
work, crocheted trimming, also em-
broidery, all of which showed remark-
able skill and talent with the needle.
These young girls were superintended
by the Mrs. Blanch and Ruth VVest-
cott. Miss Hollinger, domestic science
teacher of the A. H. S., was the judge
and awarded the first prize of the class
A, from 10 to 14 years, to Miss Rosene
Baker, 11 years; the second prize to
Miss Gladys Westcott, 12 years; third.
Miss Berenice Watkins. Class B, 14
to 16 years, first prize to Miss Lucetta
Randolph; second, Miss Aseneth Som-
ers, of the eight-weeks’ club. Miss
Lucile Stearns received first prize for
best ladies’ leather pocketbook, and
Miss Kathleen Smith received first
prize on poultry. After dinner the
meeting was called to order by the
president, Mrs. Jay Chandler, and all
joined in singing America. Prayer by
the Rev. E. Guenther, roll call and bus-
iness, after which an interesting pro-
gram followed, at the competilon of
which the Club adjourned to meet
with Mrs. Margaret Branch, Saturday,
October 28.——Mrs. Z. E. White, Cor.
Sec.

 

CLUB DISCUSSIONS.

 

The Salem Farmers’ Club held its
September meeting at the pleasant
farm home and grounds of Mr. and
Mrs. Wm. Geigue. About 75 guests

a most bountiful dinner. As many old
friends were. present the reunion and
the social hour were much enjoyed,
out‘of‘door sports being much in favor
with the gentlemen. The Club was
called to order by President Thompson
and a good program given. Miss
Geiger and Mrs. Johnson furnish-
ed music, which was much enjoyed.
Miss Tena Bovee gave a practical
number on “Hoeing Between the
Rows," and Mrs. W. Burns a humorous
recitation entitled, “Hannibal Hawk-
ins’ Wedding.” Deforest Thompson
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CCORDING to reports from‘poul- .
try dealers in different sections

are selling off practically all of their round.
poultry.

sons for this: Grain prices are high exclusively, giving a Warm mash one
and poultry prices are higher.

    
  
 

while others doubtless feel that they salt and powdered charcoal, which w
cannot afford to ignore the opportunity think are required by all poultry.

to sell fowls at such unheard of high
prices.

While there is some sound logic 'in
this argument, we should stop and con-
sider the after-effects of this policy.
Selling off the hens and pullets is
bound to reduce the winter and spring
egg supply. The number of eggs now ing used.
in storage is said to be less than the
average at this date. What the effect
of this will be on prices, a few months
hence, can easily be imagined. A de-
cided shortage in all kinds of poultry
products next season is confidently ex-
pected. Therefore, it looks now as if
it might be well worth while for those
who still possess a good flock of lay—
ers, to think the matter over, seri‘
ously, before yielding to the tempta-
'tion to sell.

Keep All Promising Chickens. curs in late fall and early winter.
Look over your poultry and cull out course, it costs a lot more to prod
every undesirable bird, retaining all of eggs at this time than in the sp
the young hens that are known to be and it is true that eggs must sell

good layers and all of the promising, more money than at the natural sea
thrifty looking pullets.

Hens Won’t Lay

During the hot summer months
lice propa ate and take ossessmn
of the pou%try house. our hens
are moulting now and to w new
feathers saps all of their Vitality.
If you allow your hens to be pes-
tered with lihce during the nggutfllté
in erio ey are sure 0 .
wfihpyoudat the egg _basket this
winter. Now is the time to make
sure your hens are free from lice.
Get a package of

DP. Hess
Instant Louse Killer

S rinkle it in the nests and on the
fowls. Add a little to the dust bath oc-
casionally during the‘ (all and wmter.
then your hens Will be lice-tree. con-
tented and winter layers. It also kills lice
on horses. cattle. co ts and calves. Sold
in sifting-top cans. GUARANTEED.

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Alhland Ohio

Sprouted oats give best results,

 

cording to variety of "fowls.

ANNA W. GALLIGHER.

 

PLANNING FOR WINTER EGGS.

 

early fall.

  
 

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and farmer-agents can
secure exceptional op-

portunity to represent

as in unoccupied territory. Easy sales and
00d profits assured on Blue Hen Mammoth
cubators, Blue Hen Lamp Incubators and the

Blue Hen
Colony Broader

—better than ever with the
1917 additions and im-

summer, now is the time to put the

 

possible, get the poultry into the hous- proper attention.
es without being caught.
done by using some grain and a good but she will not in the fall and winter
deal of patience. If the pullets refuse Dispose of the Culls.

to go in the house after being “towed”

    
 
   
   
  
  

confined for a few days. Of course, it 1y,

 

provements. Yet sold must be the same house where they they are sold off. The Plymouth Rocks

at the same low Will be kept during the coming winter, and Wyandottes, under heavy feeding,
price, possible else the work of: training would all get rather fat at this time.
onlybyincreased count for nothing. them are disposed of as early as July tion.
data“? and {ll/3861‘ We Beware Of over-crowding; no flOCk and August, but it has been our expe—

pl‘O 110 1011. THE Mississwel R

of hens will do their best in cramped rience that these birds
quarters. It is not advisable to keep up to the middle of September.
young pullets and hens together, if
the latter are abusive. Pullets are al-
ways timid.

Give the fowls plenty of floor space.
We have a scratching shed attached
to each and every poultry house on
the premises (intended for chickens), the lives of successful poultry
and yet we aim to give the fowls room breeders, it is not uncommon for
to exercise, as much as possible, in the articles to say, “He began with
[the roosting quarters, by having all of Leghorns but after breeding them for
the roosts on a level at one end of several years, sold all of the original
[each house, and dropping-boards un- stock and purchased Barred Rocks,
lder the roosts. These boards form a later he discarded these for White
isolid floor beneath, so that none of the Rocks and he has now been breeding
imanure can get Onto the floor proper. this variety with great success for fif-
IThe roosts are about fifteen inches teen years.” Possibly the breeder may
near you and guaranteed satisfac- fabove these boards. The latter are have started with some other breed
tory. 3‘; :easily cleaned. This gives the fowls but the story reads somewhat the
Sears, ROCbUCk and C0» Chicago. f a chance to scratch'among clean litter. same. The poultry breeder who has

' " ~~ - Keep the Hens Busy. attained great success with a variety

We gather large quantities of dry of fowls did not necessarily start in
leaves every autumn. These make the with one breed and stick to it regard-
best scratch material we have ever less of his preferences for all time.
used. They contain no dust and be- An article of this kind might be tak-
ing free of weed seeds they make an en as meaning that frequent breed
excellent fertilizer or'mulch for flower changes are all right. This is not so.
beds or small fruits. It is no task at It costs money to- change breeds of
all to keep the hens busy when there poultry the same as it costs money to
is plenty of litter to dig in. The leaves change any kind of business, but no
should be anywhere from six inches to man is at fault if he makes a change
a foot deep all over the floors. We after proving to his own satisfaction
scatter some small grain, such as that he is on the wrong track. Free
wheat or kaffir, among the litter and quently the beginner starts out with
{:74 stir it up a little so it will not be too a great deal of enthusiasm for one
l l J” l i KIA if ' ‘ easily found. We like to do this work breed. For some reason that is unex-

' With at night after the hens'are on the plainable the results are not all he ex-
E m E“ roost. Then, as soon as it is clear pected. This may result in selling the
I, ' (it. enough in the morning, the hens are fowls or in keeping them in a half-
”a2%?V‘ifii’égh’fi‘t‘kt‘fgi’soss‘t‘y'ifié{eminent at work. This gives them an appetite. hearted manner though no profit. is

.,7":3?fi?3}s‘¥?ihfifi’sfig¥3iwfghalcurPAID Feed a Variety. made and continued careful breeding
7 AllheavyDoUBLE GALVANIZED wmis. 13c If not enough grain is used to sat- is neglected. Breeders of this kind
“3 {’figfifi‘gwflfifiggzfifiifl’gf“m“ isfy the hens (and we like to give do injury to the poultry business by

Dept. 49 - - clovolandmhlo them plenty) we throw down a sheaf turning out poor birds and seemingly
of wheat or rye. By the way, if no proving to the world that pure-bred

for our special sell-.1
ing proposition.

Watson Mfg. Co.‘

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POULTRY JOURNAL - ~ .
10 Practical Snappy, Instructive_YOUR other litter is available, the straw from . ’
B frfiipEIli. vii? Elfiiybr‘i?§§r:h3§1<idlghaii unthreshed grain prov1des a good tically no better than the many-colqr- very effective.
it. 500 a year. 3 mo. 10¢. Agents scratch material. There is no better ed scrubs.
, £1329. Big 4 Poultry Journal, Desk
0880.

way to feed grain than unthreshed. It ‘is possible that the beginner de«

e

We give the poultry all the good er. ‘
of the country, many farmers buttermilk they can drink, the year frequently and any one that becomes‘

Also, plenty of pure water. excessively fat is taken off. The poul-
There are at least two rea- Last winter we fed whole grain almost tryman who has a chance to sell such

We provide green food all winter.

If the fowls son for laying, but the t0p prices that
have been roosting out-door during the usually prevail at Thanksgiving are

The hen will lay thing like the following:,
This can be without much coddling in the spring pounds;

Wekeep a careful watch of the old
in a few times, they should be kept hens and cull them down pretty close-

As they stop laying in the fall,

As feed is given.

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birds that have had but a. short vaca-
tion and that during the hottest ‘weathe
However, we look over the flock

e birds to a retail trade. will find it pays

. Some a week for variety; also, for the pur- to dress the fat hens at home and get
of thes'e people believe they cannot af- pose of giving a basis of salt and pow.- all the profit.
ford to feed such high—priced grain, pose of providing a means 0f feeding considerable numbers of the birds are

Later in the fall, when

e removed, they are sold alive to the
city dealer. By culling the old hens
in this way, we get the flock down to

but winter size by the latter part of Sep-
raw cabbage will answer very well. At tember.
night we feed whole corn, allowing a birds is
quart for each eight or ten hens, ac-

A good-sized flock of old
wintered over each season.
They are usually one year old hens

In very and are selected for laying qualities
cold weather it is warmed before be- and because they appear to be of

strong vitality. Such birds are used
for breeders and at the same time
they are usually good profit producers
as layers. The hens that have a short

The birds that are to give us our vacation in August, then moult and get
winter eggs should be selected in the their new coats quickly, are the ones
This allows for time to that make winterlayers.

groom them, as the trainer does his
horse for a race, and get them settled
down to business when eggs are high able extent, depend upon the pullets
If every poultry keeper for winter layers.
would do this, there would not be the out fairly early and are kept growing
usual period of high prices that 00- by good care right from the start. We
Of do not believe a stunted bird will ever
uce amount to much. Pullets are placed in
ring winter quarters early.

Care of the Pullets. '
Of course, we must, to a consider:—

These are hatched

This does not

for mean that they are shut into restrict-

- ed pens but they are givefi the right
conditions at night and allowed plenty
of liberty during the day.’ On cold

partly caused by the fact that only a stormy days the birds are better off in
houses in proper shape for winter. If comparatively few give their birds the the house.

We feed a ration some-
Corn, 100
wheat, 100 pounds; cats, 50
. pounds. A dry mash at the rate of
five pounds of bran, five pounds of
shorts, three and a half pounds beef
scrap. Oyster shells, charcoal and grit
are kept where the» birds can get them.
Early in the fall, when insects are
plentiful, the beef scrap is cut down

Some of but later this is about the right propor-

After the grasses are killed by
frost, ground alfalfa is added to the

often lay well mash, or some— other form of green

C. H. CIIESLEY.
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ner’s Breed

scribed above is in reality the right
kind of a man to make a success with
poultry. If he had owned Barred
Rocks and changed to Leghorns he
might have liked Mediterranean fowls
better, or if he disliked the smaller
breeds he might have changed to a
general purpose fowl and enjoyed a
great deal of success in the business.
There are some men who do not like
the ordinary utility breeds and they
have great success with such breeds
as the Campines, Lakenvelders, and
Houdans. Breeds of that type are at-
tractive to many men who would‘not
care to worry about Plymouth Rocks
or Leghorns.

The summing up of the situation
proves that a man is not always a fail-
ure in the poultry business because
his results with some certain breed
have been medium to poor. It some-
times pays to change. If you have to
change too much it probably means
that you do not really like the chicken
\business but a few switches may put
you on the right track. As the life
history of many of the leading poultry
breeders and fanciers indicates, they
did not find their “best breed” with
one try, but they stayed with the busi-
ness and usually began to succeed with
the second or third venture.

Ingham Co. R. G. KIRBY.

FEEDING SILAGE TO POULTRY.

 

As a cheap succulent feed in winter
for laying hens, we have found silage

p6ultry are not much good and prac- made from mature corn and soy beans

While no record was
kept of the actual increase in the num-
ber of eggs obtained over a no-silage

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having been grown 'With the corn there

was a large‘proportion of the former:

The value of such silage for laying
hens has been appreciated by a num-
ber, of_farmers who grow the Soy
beans with the corn-for silage for feed-
ing cattle and sheep. A basket full
thrown into the boxes twice a day will
be eaten by the hens in a brief time in
cold weather.

One poultryman who raises over
two thousand chickens a year, both
for show purposes and to supply a re-
tail trade, built a ten—foot sue to fur-
nish succulent feed to the chickens
during the cold months. By keeping
a half-dozen milk cows he is able to
feed enough of the silage each day
during the warmer months ‘to keep it
from spoiling. He has found it a very
economical feed, especially when his
twenty acres of hills does not furnish
much root crops in dry summers.
When fed in combination with milk
and ground corn it makes a good ra-
tion for fattening fall~raised chickens
for the winter market.

The addition of soy beans to the
corn, that is, ensiloed together, pro-
vides silage .rich in protein and there-
fore makes it very nutritious. When
the corn is ensiloed in the mature
stage, just when it is glaied, poultry
will consume almost all of it.

The poultryman recommends that it
be fed twice a day in such quantities
that the most of it will be eaten with-
in an hour after feeding. It should not
be allowed to lie in the pens or lots as
it will soon sour andmold. If the sil-
age is fed in a self-feeder of narrow
dimensions in warm weather it will
not ferment as quickly as when it is
strewn out in boxes and it will be
much easier to keep the pens clean
and free of undesirable odors. Better
results will be had by feeding the sil-
age separate from other feeds.

Indiana. J. L. Jus'ricn.

 

RESULTS OF CAREFUL BREEDING.

 

Careful breeding is a good founda-
tion upon which to build successful egg
production. The poultry department
at Purdue University has been keep-
ing careful records of their Single
Comb White Leghorns during the past
five years, and by using pedigrees in
selecting the breeders, some good lay-
ers have been produced.

In the first four years of the work
only two Leghorns produced 200 or
more eggs in one year. 'In 1915 a doz-
en pullets have exceeded the 200 egg
mark by October 1. This good produc-
tion is thought to be due to careful
mating. Many people fear the term
“inbreeding,” believing that the breed-
ing of close relationship will surely
prove detrimental to the flock. Line
breeding, commonly known as careful
inbreeding, has been the source of
much good results in breeding. Only
by it can blood lines be concentrated
or the characteristics of the parent
exist in the offspring in percentage
greater than one-half.

The trap nest is the only sure means
of measuring a hen’s egg production.
Continued trapnesting for more than
one year will often bring surprises.
Following are two examples of the val«
ue of line breeding and the use of the
trap nest. -

Hen No. 1416 laid only 49 eggs as a the ordinary grain mixture.

pullet, but in the following four years
laid 174, 149, 147, 167 eggs.

years of life.
1015 produced No. 3001, that has laid
211 eggs.
1015 produced four
were laying by September 15.

his dam, No. 1416.

 

.. , “m a. ,- fa egin‘favor remained;- puuets with afpredo’mif
of he silage even fwhe'n {331d 5111‘ ‘ "oder- nance‘of her blood. ‘

In 1912 mortality was high in‘the pens receiv-
she was mated to her son, No. 1015, ing the oil meal and the cottonseed
and produced No. 720, who laid 106. meal. .
131 and 210 eggs in her first three ently broke down under the strain of
This hen mated back to the highly concentrated rations.

This pullet mated back to lets each were fed alike except as to
daughters that succulent feeds.
Male commercial product,
No. 1015 contained .halt the blood of lets; pen 2, dried beet pulp; pen 3,
No. 720 had three- mangel beets; pen 4, sprouted oats:
fourths; No. 3001 had five-eighths, and pen 5, no succulents of any kind. The
the pullets nine-sixteenths of, the blood total egg productigp for the year was
of No. 1416. Thus four generations af— 4,432, 4,60fifl4 6317, and 4,239 for'
ter the hen was first mated there ex- the respective? an

  

 

 

Another interesting mating is, with,
the famous hen, Miss Purdue. ThisI
bird laid 224 eggs as a pullet and 219
eggs a year old hen. Her number was
272. Mated to Male No. 2154 she pro»
duced Male N o. 572. This male mated
back to No. 272 produced pullet No.
3019 who has laid 202 eggs. This hen
mated back to No. 572 produced a pul-
let that was laying by September 15,
1915. This means that the pullets
hatched in 1915 are flve-eighths of the
blood of Miss Purdue. ,Other pullets
from Miss Purdue’s blood that are lay-
ing well in 1915 are No. 3015 with 209
eggs, No. 3013 with 211 eggs.

Pedigree breeding with poultry is as
practical as with cattle, and is the
only sure means of breeding up high
egg production.

CAUSES OF poon RESULTS wm-I'
POULTRY.

 

People are complaining of the high
price of eggs at this time of the year,
and in my opinion there are two pot-
ent reasons for their scarcity. One is
the fact that many poultry raisers do
not provide them proper food, but sup-
pose that hens can pick up what is
needed.

Now no farmer would think of us-
ing his cows that way. He would see
that they had regular feed and plenty
of it. On farms where there are grain
fields near, the hens may pick up What
they need, but in villages and on many .
farms there is no such source and
they should be had every day a grain
feed.

Then another cause of non—laying is
the little mites which infest most all
hen houses and frequently drive the
hens to trees and on fences.

To properly appreciate the torture

 

  

Help Your Moltingéiens
They Will Pabeu ack.

Hens can’t lay when melting; they are too busy making
feathers. And at this critical time they are in danger of ‘
contracting disease because of weather changes, lack of
plumage and weakened condition.

Help them now. Quick action is needed. They will pay

you back in dollars and cents. _
For a positive, quick-acting Poultry Tonic and Conditioner

filiatts Paultry Regulator

the poultryrnan’s favorite for nearly 50 years. A scientific
combination which supplies those needed tonics, appetizers,
digestives and laxatives lacking in the usual poultry ration.
Costing but one cent a hen per month, it puts vim and
vigor into weakened melting hens, carries them quickly and
safely through this dangerous period, gets them to laying
without loss of time.
cause of its beneficial action upon the organs of egg-
production, it will speed up your pullets, too. One egg now
is worth three next spring, so use Pratts Poultry Regulator
and get eggs now.

Pratts Roup Remedy

will help a lot, too. Used in stormy, cold weather as a preventive, it
will keep the flock free from troublesome colds, roup and similar
disorders. If these troubles have already appeared, Pratts Roup
Remedy will save the birds. Roupy hens will not lay, and Will

give the disease to the rest of the flock. ‘5

   
     
 
   
 
 
 
 
 

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with Pratt: Preparations under our square-deal guaran-
tee—“ Your money back if YOU are not catisfied”--
the guarantee that has stood for nearly 50 years.

Q W rile for 64 page Poultry Book—FREE.
PRATT FOOD COMPANY
\Philadelphia Chicago Toronto '

 

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of these little pests, every person
should allow themselves to be covered
with them once in a life time at least,
and stand it for an hour.
These mites are small and when
empty of blood are greyish in color,
but when gorged with blood appear
red and are then called red mites.
They hide in crevices and behind pa-
per pasted on walls or under any small
obstruction. Kerosene oil or kerosene
emulsion will kill them, but the best
remedy I have found is the common
lime-sulphur used to spray fruit trees,
using one part of it to 25 of water, and
spray the coops thoroughly, getting in-
to the bottoms of nest boxes and on

 

 

‘ FOR SALE' 200White Leghorn liens at :1

I each. 100 May hatched pulleta

at 750 each. Also dis losing of our Barred Rocksfil)

hens and 3males). This engood chance tosocuresome

£50m] foundation stock. Strain has been line bred for
years.eheavy layers and prize winners.

'Oavnnagh Poultry Farm, -

LET us TAN
voun HIDE. '

Cattle or Horse hide. Calf, Dog, Deer
orwy kind of skin with hair or (ur on.
We ton and finish them right: make
them into coats (for men and women),
robes. rugs or gloves when ordered.

it our fur goods will cost on less than
to buy them. and be worth more. Our
Illustrated catalog gives a. lot. of iu~
formation which every stock raiser \'
should have, but we neversend out this
valuable book except upon request.

It tells how to take 0!! and care for
hides: how and when we pay the lrolghl
both ways aabout our safe dyeing pro-
cess which is a. tremendous advantage
to the customer. especially on horse
M40. and call skin-a about the fur
goods and game trophies We sell, taxi.
dermy, etc. If you want a. copy send us
your correct address.

The Crosby Frisian Fur Company.
571 lycll Ave" Rochester. N. Y.

Lansing. Michigan.

FO’R SALE Purebred S. O. Buff Leghorns
and white Plymouth Rock cock-
erels. Kletzlen 8c Webster, Bath, Mich.

    
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
 

 

 

s Prices reduced one
FOWlOI'S Bl!" "OCR: :lmlf, balance of seal-9‘
on. Utility eggs $.75 for 1.5. $1. 50 for 30. $2 for 50. $3.50
for 100. R. B. F0 WLEH. Hartford. Mich.

' White Orpln tons. Winnema ain
PM. chSl, 8- c- at thel-ltnto 'air. Young an old
MRS. WILLIS

stock for sale. Billy the best.
arm, RoyalOak, Michigan.

HOUGH, Pine Crest

 

RHODE ISLAND REDS and PLYMOU TH ROCKS.

Males 5 to 121m. according to a 632 to 36-. P. R. hens
weight 5 to 10 lbs., eggs 15 for $100; 100. 85: 1‘1). 86.
Mammoth Bronze Tom Turkeys. 8 to 38 lbs. according
to age 96 to 825, 10 eggs 33 A. E. Cramtou. Vassar. Mich.

 

perches, side walls and even roofs. In

 

RED COCKEIELS. Boll] Combs. $551???

 

fact, do not leave an inch of surface
untouched. .

One can use a compressed air pota-
to sprayer, but where one has an or-
chard sprayer, he can take off the ex-
tension rod, put the nozzle on the end
of hose and with good pressure spray
the coop nicely.

The hose will allow it to be carried
to all parts. Repeat every three weeks
during hot weather E. H. ALLYN.

 

will improve the color of your flock. Write for price
list. Interlakos Farm. Box 39, Lawrence, Michigan.

Sin la climb Rhoda lsland R0“ 00.1.9.9]... 3““
11:15le BUELL. Ann Arloolr),a rhiuiii “$113333;

SABO

SURE CATCH TRAP
for skunk. coon. I-
sum, fox, ground 03,
rabbit, etc.

(3 . . .
beggetggenfrggmg . g i “angling 5,3 8.123;“rflig’fi‘fi‘i‘ptg“refills.
either for amateur or rofessional tra ers. This e - 0m ens ‘ J P 5 an 1 ' "re m" 8 “'00 w'th
trap is designed to be pliiced in the animia s'bu rrow; P8518196“ BIVERVILW 1‘ ARM‘ Vassar, MiCh'
it reguires no bait. and is positively sure catch first
trip in or out; no chance for escape; it catches him SILVER GOLDEN AND WHITE WYANDOTTES
overthe bod y; no dsn er to hunters, dogs or cattle.

Ask your hardware Baler for one. f he has not.
not them write us for free booklet which explains
the SABO SURE CATCH TRAP

 

Eggs from all mattings. 1.50 er L5, 82.50 r 30 ntll
July let. 0. W. Browning, R. 5, l'ortland,pfiich.u

 

poi—1.”). $1 per 50, 5: per 1

 

 

FOWL FEEDING EXPERIMENTS.

DAVID AY, 202F0reu:k.~e.. Ypsilanti,Michigan.

POULTRY. HITE WYANDOTTES. Eggs $1.50 per 15. 82.50

 

In a test by the Pennsylvania Sta- 0

Barred Rocks

per 30. 87.00 per 100 From choice took.
Pa rks 200 egfg strain. A. FRANKLIN SM 1TH. Ann Arbor. ltdlchlgan.
Cockerels or sale.

 

tion live pens of White Leghorn pul-

lets were fed alike except as to the BREH’ING COCKEIELS l Bfillgftgilacgrml
protein feeds allowed. Pen 1 received gomni'i‘éwméemus. Black. .Prices reasonable.
meat scrap, or animal protein, and 8“““yb‘°°kp°“”” ““1"“
Barred Rock Cookerels, (locks and Hens.
W. O. Ooflman,

meal, and cottonseed meal, respective- GET YOUR 0RD“! IN EARLY Fol

Cookerels from Cousins Northern King Strain Barred FCX "Quad: 0' a“ .233, Skunk and Rabbit (1088-
W. I. LICKY.

pens 2, 3, 4 and 5, 33. per cent of soy-
bean meal, gluten meal, linseed oil

ly, in a dry mash. All pens received
It was
observed that during the first year the

”I'll l..gllo"ls Exculsively.
price. Dr. William A. Smith, Petersburg, Michigan

J'OHN'S Blngefiutil‘ul Barred Rocks are all hen-
v -, ' - ' ' ' h
A number or the birds appar— on approval. Clic‘ii'lgrsl.‘l;ilildtg(m “no”. “‘1‘“.er “Jo”

“9'11"" F... ......... “mm“- ”L“: White China Geese & M. Pekln Bucks

CLAUDIA BETTS. Hillsdnle. Mich.

Reds B 1- ed R ks
' ' °° D008
Hillsdsle, Michigan.

Four
finilets luyed 900 eggs in one year.
. 3, Benton Harbor, Michigan.

 

COONJ SKUNK.

Broke to un and field. and gunranteed.Fox,coon & rnh~

bit houn pups, from the best of stock—~85“) each.
tamp for photos. H. l. Lytle. Frederickrburg.0lllo.

cks. Write David w. cousins, North Port. Mich. 5°” lggfggmgzcgggv-
I
Now is the time to buy
ure bred stock at a big reduction in com. PurishSulliledehite or Tricolor.
urs ee ers. , ' ‘-.
watchful. beautiful. CglgflEflldgdfeB'

Parents [late
Intelli ent.
Climax, Ditch.

hatched, de

 

0:. John Northon, Clare. Mich.

perms

 

Five pens of 50 White Leghorn pul-

Pen 1 received a
succulent tab-

 

 

approvd’l. Chicks and Eggs. Catalog explains

FElllllS WHITE LEGHOBNS 3°00 FERRETS FOR SALE

Price list free. C. J. DIMICK. Rochester. Ohio.
Best winter layers. 5000 pullets.

h
saintssstaszrgsis: 2,000 Ferrets “a...“
01' more. Shipped C. O. D. and on ma led tree. N. E: KNAPP, Rochester. Ohio.

 

 

 

all. Bend postal. Ferrets For Sale. Fine Stock. 0““ 8‘“
Goo. B. Ferris, 934 Union, Brand Kampala“. Write at once. 0. M. Ssokott. Dept. limifimiifif

 

 

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fills and Brown F Prm' '
'9 ””4 9' 0- W- c. n. umuuv. “uh Furlfi-tl’iondorll‘ém

. 250 K:
Fur sale Iovenlrn aggllixckhglg
from s No. 1 laying When Writing to Advertisers Please
strain
Geo. W, - . ~ 0

- sumo... men. Mention The Michigan Farmer,

 

Slbo Trap Mtg.Co.. 3126 w. 25th, Cleveland,0. While WKandofie 00"“ 5‘ 0"°k**1‘*‘15- FER“ Huff. $3.

 

         
  

   
  
    
 
 
   
    
   
  
   
  
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
  
   
   
   
    
   
   
   
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
  
  
   
    
   
   
 

      
  

  
  

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Change of Copy or Cancellations must reach us
. Ten Days before date of publication.

CATTLE.

ABERDEEN-ANGUS

HERD ESTABLISHED IN 1900.
TBOJAN-ERICAS and BLACKBIRDS only.

 

Also breeders of Percheron. Hackney and Saddle .

ones.
WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. Mich.

ABERDEEN ANGUS

We have a choice lot of Bull Calves. that are 6to 12
months old and another crop coming. I will be
pleased to have you visit our farm. where we have a

1: show every day; we will also have a show herd
at the Michigan State Fair. U. L. .
Hunters Creek. Mich. SIDNEY SMITH, Manager.

‘fllsmnEs—One of the foremost dair breeds. The

most economical milk ro uoers. Calves
(or sale. White Leghorn cockere s; Duroo Jersey
owine. Michigan School for the Deaf. Flint.Michigan.

 

 

 

eg. Guernsey Bulls. serviceable age. great grand
ons of Gov. Cherie. also grade Guernsey and Jersey heifers
0 wks old 520 each. Avondale Stock Farm. Wayne. Mich

of service a and calves from
Guernsey BUIIS choice. Adv. reg. breeding.

T. V. HICKS, Route 1. Battle Ceeek. Mich.

 

MILO D. CAMPBELL CHAS. J. ANGEVINE

BEACH FARM
GUERNSEYS

Average yearly production 422.3 lbs. of fat. three
fourths of them making their records as two year
olds. By the use of a pure bred sire. a big im-
provement can soon be attained if the right
selection is made. The breeding of the Beach
in Herd is as good as can be found. and we
guarantee them to be free from contagious dis-
eases and to be satisfactory in every way) or
aoney refunded. Write and let us tell you a out
cm.

CAMPBELL 8 ANGEVINE,

Coldwater, Michigan.

G U E R N S EYSE‘h’ighliEivhg
Containin blood of world cham ion .
nicxs' ousnafsar FARM. Saginaw. 3v. 8.. Mich.

Guernseys—Yearling Gr. Son. Pauline Spotswood, 748 lbs. fat.
Also May Rose Heifcrjust fi-eshcii. with heifer calf. you can
own them both—cheap. J. M. Williams. North Adams. Mich.

[on SALE Registered Guernsey Bull, 4 year old
also 3 yearlinfis the best yet. Cheap.
John Ehels. Holland, it. 10, ox 129, Michigan.

UEliNSEYS: Bred heifers. mature cows. bull calves.
From a long line (if Adv. Reg. ancestors with large
record. G. A. WIGENT. Watervliet. Michigan.

 

 

 

 

 

FOR SALE: Guernse7y bull. 2years old. gentle and

kind. re istered 284 7; Avondale Se ucl Holcyon
sequel (megs- ). Serena of Pittsfleld (wash). (5. H. Eich.
Owner. 240 North Menard Avenue. Chicago. Illinms.

FOR SALE- Two Registered Guernsey Bulls.
' One, 3yrs. and one 15 months old.
Good breeding; excellent individuals. Big value for

prices asked. Write G. W. Blair. Mishawaka. Ind.

Do You Want A Bull?

Ready For Service.

From a grand daughter of The King of the
Pontiacs. Bired by a bull that is more than a half

he
World. and whose dam is a 30 lb. 6% 5 fat daughter
of Pontiac Aggie Korndyke who has more lb.
daughters than any other living bull. If you do
write for pedigree.

EDWIN S. LEWIS, Marshall, Mich.

 

 

Son of ' King cf the Pontiac.“ {and

Segis one of the 4 Best Daughters of ‘Ki

King of the Pontiac Segis, Born May 16, 1915 at the Head of Our Herd

A Few Specials for October and Novemb
to Fit Most Any Pocket-book

Maplecrest DeKol Ogden No. 94162—Born A
Hengerveld DeKol Butterb
Daughter of Pontiac Aggie Korndyke.

2. Nye Pontiac Burke—Born Nov.
Oakland Lady (a 29 lb. cow).

Four Bull Calves—well bred and well marked.

Three Hampshire Gilts (bred).

Five Rambouillet Rains from the well known Thomas Wyckoff flock.
About seventy—five S. C. White Leghorn Cockerels.

Positively Guaranteed as Represented.

FLANDERS FARMS, Orchard Lake, Michigan.

 

 

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uni...-
ng Segis

pril 13, 1912, sired by Friend
oy 29303; Dam Maplecrest Pontiac Ogden DeKol,

 

The Howell Sales Co., of L

_ nnuaIWSale
At Sale Pavilion on the Fair Grounds at Howell, Mich.

. OCTOBER 24th., 1916.

100 Head of Registered Holsteins

The consignment to this sale come from the representative herds of Livingston County. The
Among them is a daughter of a
the females have good A. R. O.
A. R. 0. dams and are bred to bulls from high record dams. The bulls are
and from 30 lb. sires. A good chanc
ulin tested. Remember the date. Catalog Oct. 10th.

KELLEY & MACK, AUCTIONEERS

 

offerings will consist almost exclusiv
30 lb four yr. old that sold in the De
records or are from good
from dams with records up to 28% lbs.
All stock over six months of age tuberc

ely of females ofgood ages.
troit Sale for $1100. Many of

JAY B. TOOLEY, SEC.

irvingston County,

\

e to get foundation stock.

 

Purebred Registered
H O L S T E I N
C AT T L E

One of the greatest Investigations among
dair breeds was made by experts of the Wiscon.
sin Experiment Station. Prof. F. W. Well states
that the “Holstein Cows produced considerably
more milk solids and fat than the cows of other
breeds (19.5 per cent more butterfat than the
Guernseys and 38 per cent more than the Jerseys).
and they also give larger net returns for feed con-
sumed.’ ‘ In all dairy breed competitions where
Holsteins entered have been representative. they
have produced a greater net refit for butter than
any other breed entered. T ere s. big money in
the big “Black and White" Holsteins.

Sand for FREE Illustrated Descriptive Booklets

The Holstein-Friesisn Associslion oi Amsrics.
P. L. chghmn. Scc'y.. 30! I‘d. IrlIIICIIOI'O. VI‘

IIOLSTEIN BULLS FOR SALE

8 of them 1 year old in Nov. By 31 lb. sire. Dams

above 21 lbs. as heiffrs. Plrices$100. {$11188}. bulls
f h licKine eis .u.

bfiigggvllinglr‘lgaARMS, y chlson, Mighigsn

 

 

 

 

3“ lb bull for sale. 2 years old. by a son of King of
0 the Pontiacs. Dam sold for $1000 in Detroit sale.
l‘erd. J. Lange. Sobewaing. Mich.

“i'I'0 P N OTC II ” Holsteins

By careful retention. for many years.'of largest! ro-

ducing females. and use of superior sires. a bree ing

herd of wonderful quailt has been established. We

are selling young bullso this“'.l OP NOTCH"quality.

of serviceable age. at moderate rices. Information

wigreesmtc” on application. cPHERSON FARMS
.. Howell. Michigan.

. . h .
IEEISIEIIEII 11333313313 alghtebx: digging: 1225
vice. a. K. REAVEY. AKRON. MidHiGAN.

HOLSTIENSP

leg §o.%, FFi‘ve cows, lcine gwpf year old bullli bull
e o. ive ear ng e ers one ear .
Herd No. 3. Five eifer calves and'one byulL n8
ulls ready for service and 6 to ei ht months oldbulls
ces will pleasei'on. If interes ed, write as soon as
you read this. . E. CONNELL. Fayette, Ohio.

GHOIOE HOLSTEIN BULLS—all from A.R.0.dams
Entire herd on Semi of. test for yearly work. Jr.
S-yrnold Just finished year's record of over 15.(X)O lbs.
I: l overIOOOlbs. butter record in mature class.Cherry

 

PUBLIC AUCTION

and quit farming.
This herd of cattle consists of 66 purebred and

in Oakland county.

70 Head Registered and High Grade Holstein-
Friesian Cattle to be sold at

, OCTOBER 25. 1916

gexpired it will be necessary for me to sell my herd of Holstein-Friesiaii cattle

The 66 females to be sold are mostly young animals of which 12 are less than six months of age.

CARL VICK, Owner

ROCHESTER, MICHIGAN

grade females. one registered bull and three bull
The milking females have been carefully selected for their milk—producing ability. Several
rebred females are closely related to the leading families of the Holstein breed.

SALE STARTS AT 10 A. M.

Sale will be held at the farm. located on the Romeo-Almont branch of the D. 1'. R. electric line.

one-andone-half miles east of Rochester, Ask for Stony Creek stop, located at

 

Holstein F rieSian Cattle
A. R. 0. herd tuberculin tested, headed
by grandson of King Se is Pontiac.
PEACELAND STOCK FARM, hree Rivers, Mich.

C. L. Brody. Owner. Port Huron

0N” $25 DELIVERED

15-16 pure bred. Sire. 25 lb. b
good cow. 7-8 pure. ROUGEMONT FARMS.

Bcgisiersd Holsioim.

Chas. Peters. Herdsman.

e Handsome Holstein
0 bull calf, D'LB white.

Young bull ready for service.
30 lb. breeding. Satisfaction
guaranteed. W. B. Jones and J. F. Lutz. Cohoctsh. Mich.

MIGHIGAN HOLSTEINS

 

Butter Boy No. 93121. Dam's recor
rs
802 lbs. milk 18622 lbs. W. B. READER, Howell, Mich

REG. HOLSTEINS: Herd headed bx Albina Bonte
' at 6 yrs. butter
28.58 lbs. milk 619.4. Yearly record at 25‘ y , butter

 

Bull Calves

From A. R. O. Dams. Sired by “Maplecrest Komdyke
Hengerveld." whose Dam. “Ma lecrest Pontiac Flora
artog." is one of the four 1 pound daughters of

“Pontiac Aaggie Korndyke.”
Write us about these Calves, and our.

Berkshires

And we will quote prices that will move them,

   

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

 

Vertigo—Have a calf three weeks
old that has sick spells, causing the
muscles of body to jerk, and I might
add that all four legs seem to be af-
' fected. Whatever this sickness is, it
seems to produce a cramped condition
of the muscles, then he falls down. He
was all right until he was a week old.

8., Fenwick, Mich—Give your calf
2 ozs. of castor oil or the same quan~
tity of epsom salts every 12 hours un-
til his bowels move freely, then give
him 10 grs. doses of potassium bro-
mide two or three times a day.

Suppurating Foot—My nine-year-
mare cut her foot on barb wire, mak-
ing a. wound below the fetlock; since
then foot and leg has suppurated in
several places. Now I am at a loss
to know what to do. She has had the
attention of two different Vets, but
they fail to effect a cure. J. C. H.,
Bloomingdale, Mich—Give your mare
1 dr. of fluid extract nux vomica, 2 drs.
fluid extract cinchona and 2 drs. of
fluid extract gentian at a dose twice a
day. Dissolve 1 oz. iodoform and 2
ozs. of boric acid in one-half gallon of
water and wet sores two or three
times a day.

er, at Prices Abscess—Fistula.—My eight-year-old

mare ran down in flesh last fall, show-
ed lameness in right hind leg, bunch
finally broke open in two places on
the outside and has discharged pus
ever since. The abscess broke on the
inside first, then wound healed, bunch

28, 1911, Sire Pontiac Burke; Darn Queen formed- on outside and opened and is

now running. She is not lame and is
able to work. I am told her liver is
sluggish, but I have been unable to
cure her. J. E. H., Fenwick, Mich.—
Mix together one part fluid extract of
nux vomica, three parts tincture cin-
chona (Comp), and three parts tinc—
ture gentian compound. Give her a
tablespoonful at a dose three times a
day. Apply one part iodoform and
four parts boric acid and force some
of this powder to bottom of cavity
once a day.

Iinpure Blood—Worms.—l have been
a reader of the Michigan Farmer for
many years and am always interested
in the veterinary column, but failing
to finda parallel case to mine I would
like to know what to do for a horse
that is troubled with a whole lot or
small boils on shoulder. Have a dog
that seems to be bothered with worms.
G. G W., Cedar Springs, Mich.—
Sponge off sores with one part bichlor~
ide of mercury and 1000 parts water
twice a day. Give him a dessertspoon-
ful of Donovan’s solution of arsenic at
a dose in feed or water two or three
times a day. He should be well groom-
ed twice a day kept in a clean, well
ventilated stable or turned out to
grass. For every pound that your dog
weighs, give him 1% grs. of powdered
areca, nut in a tablespoonful or two of
milk at a dose three times a week for
two weeks, unless you believe that the
first dose or two produced the desired
effect.

Partial Paralysis—I have an old
high-lifed horse who has for the last
two months seemingly lost part of the
control of his hind quarters. Occasion-
ally he has pain, causing him to act as
if he had colic, except that he merely
lies down and pants for a time, then
gets over it. He sways on his hind
legs when walking, swinging perhaps
a little more to the left side and is un-
able to travel fast. G. M., Charlevoix,
Mich—Your horse suffers from a spe-
cies of locomotar ataxia and his recov-
ery is quite doubtful. Results obtain-
ed by giving drugs in this kind of a.
case is decidedly uncertain; however,
you had better give him 1 dr. doses of
fluid extract of nux vomica, and 30- .
doses of potassium iodide three times
a day. Also, a tablespoonful of FOWr
ler’s solution at a dose night and
morning.

Infected Joints—I have a colt two

 

 

 

_ months old with bunch on stifle which

 

 

Swigartdale Farm, Petersburg, Mich.

 

 

. World record sire.
testing dams—from 899 up to 8299.
us send you one on trial.
not buy until you get our book.

Long leach Farm,
AUGUSTA, (Kalamazoo Co.) MIOH.

EXTRA coop
Holstein Bulls For Sale

I have some from A. R. O. dams with records of

 

 

St okF m. HE. P ll . P . Hm. d . . from 16 to 22 lbs. wi

HosteinaBull Calf “2:21;“ 1do I" I 1:30:15 b10043 in them thfltc
I'E . ams average to 7 months old and
Do

vmilk per day Pontiac Korndyke and Hengerveld

ol breedin .Prices ri ht. John A. Rinks.Wsn-en.Mich {23:13] 3113136.; what y

Holstein Farms,

olstein Calves, 10 heifers. and 2b ll 15-16ths
H! weeks old. beautifully markedfi‘amlo each. 033:1

th the best milk producing

will make a cheap
ave a few females or sale.

 

Bi
lss shipment anywhere. wood FarinJVh itswsior,Wis I BREEDE

' ' yearlin heifer. Dam a25.H)lb.
“CgISICI‘d IIOISIOIII J'r, four-gear-old granddaughter
Of ontiac ButterBoy. Sire. a randson of Hengerveld
DeKol out of %.97 lb. dam. N ce individual. best of
breeding. 8150 delivered. safe arrival guaranteed.Write
for pedigree. Hobart W. Fay. Mason. Michigan.

H E R E F O R D 1’8“}52H2i1fh1r 8333:

ALLEN 81108.. A PAW. MICH.

 

 

LIIIE.£.Bm't..dI ’.El..lyf Cam’s. no]; salve: fire: I;
. owl. 0 01' 03 Vol an 8070 I To
heif‘hrs for sale. I’c'fficn o. Lillie. Coopersville. Mich.

from high-predocin dsms.with

Jim Builder his a... i... m... .. .1... ..

maniacal rm. 0. s. ng‘iner. a. s. Allegan. Mich

. f M. JERSEY HERD odors to sale,

a?" [IIIO Fubgrculin tested cows. heifers, 1hulls.
an

bull lves backed b several generations of R,
of M. breeding. mer iiox. Allegan. moms-an.

Jerseys Far Sale 55.3.3

ready for service and cows and heifers soon to freshen.

 

Meadowlsnd Farm. Waterman. Waterman. Ann Arbor, Mich;

  

is causing lameness. Within a. few
days it showed lameness in fore leg
and I applied a blister which fails to
give relief. W.,L., Munith, Mich.—
Apply equal parts of tincture iodine
and camphorated oil to bunches three
times a week.

Imperfect Mastication of Food—I
have a calf about three months old,
she eats grass, but she lies down to
chew her cud; she swallows it and
when it c0mes back about half of it
drops out of her mouth. After that she
seems to be very hungrv. .We feed
her milk three times a day. Isthere
any help for her? T. E. S., Alanson,
Mich—I am inclined to believe that
your calf/Will be all right as soon as, it
eats more roughage. However, you
had better examine its mouth for there
may be aesmall foreign body lodged

 

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‘ DETROIT ' ._ SALE

 

' 79 HEAD
October 23, 1916 >

A Sale Truly Remarkable From Standpoint oi Individuality and Breeding

 

Thistleton Christmas Hengerveld. She is a fine tvpe
of the daughters of Johan He veld Lad. She
Ins record of 25.83 lbs. butter 7 syn. mllk593.6 lbs:
so doys. 102.59 lbs. butter. $41.8 lbs. milk. Bounsho
end her son by the 35 1b. bull are in the sale. The
2 nearest dams of her son will average ”tubs. She
is how bred to the 35 lb. bull.

 

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Louise Van Beers DeKol is a good example of the
daughters of Johan Hengerveld Lori. Her dam is-
20.02 lb. granddaughter of Sarcastic Lad. At 33
months this heifer made 18.87 lbs. butter from 350.8
lbs. milk. She is 0061035 lb. bull. When this
pictuurl'e was token she had been in milk for ii
men s.

  

 

 

 

Slate Fair Grounds, Detroit, lich.

The stock in this sale represents the cream of the herds of these
two cons? ' no who because of stress of other business, find it
necessary 0 tame their live stock efforts.

No old cows, three testers or otherwise blemished cows are to
be offered, nor the real young calves. All animals will be strai ht
and right and all over six months of age are tuberculin tested gby
State pproved Veterinarian.

This is without doubt the finest lot
offered at Public Sale.

.36 Daughter. and 20 Granddaughtors of

Johan Hongorvold Lad
This bull lsone ofthc best sons of Hengerveld DeKol. and his dam was the won-
derfully fine imported cow Uilkje (25.34 lbs. butter from 661.6 lbs. milk record
mode year! ago before the day of high records). Prob lbl)’ never again will so
many granddaughters of Hengerveld De Kol be found in one sale. The daughters
of Johan Hengerveld Lad are fine individuals and bi producers. 250th 54 A. R. 0.
Whats have heifer records of from 20 to 31 lbs. 0 butter in 7 days.

25 Daughters of Ypsiland Sir Pontiac Do Kol

This bull sired by a son ofSir Korndyke Manor DeKol is from that wonderful
row Pontiac De Nijlander—35.“ lbs. butter from 750.2 lbs. milk in sevon days at 5
years. 32.73 at! years. 30.01nt 3 years. the only m1b.3 your old who has passed the
30 lb. mark at her next two succeeding lactation periods.

The daughters of this bull show wonderful promise.

25 Daughters of Sir Lieuwkio Korndyke
Kate DoKol

This is a 301i). bull his dam being the 30 lb. cow Licuwkjc Pauline DcKol Wayne
who also has a 30 lb. daughter and a 30 lb. granddaughter.

The sire. of this bull is Sir Woodcrest Korndyke Kate DeKol. who has about a.
score of A. R. 0. daughters. ‘% of them havi records from 20 to over 36 lbs. The
daughters of Sir Lieuwkje Korndyke Kate De 'ol are just coming in milk and four
already have A. R. 0. records averaging over 151m. butter at an average age 6f
twenty three months.

This bull is full hrotherto the 36 lb. cow Lieuwkje Lynteld Pleasant Valley
Kate (twieefllb. cow).

The balance of the animals in the sale. some 1.5 or 20 bend comprise some excep—
tionally lino animals including a daughter of King Walker.aud several sired by sons
of KingSegiS. Paul Beets DcKol. Johan Hengerveld Lad and other line sires.

No Breeder Can Afford To Miss This Sale

Sale Under Management of

Liverpool Sale & Pedigree Co., Inc.,

LIVERPOOL, NEW YORK.

of Michigan Cattle ' ever

  

w. E. FELLOWS
26 HEAD

October 23, 1916

  

    

   
    
   
     
 

Lillie Green Hengerveld is not in the sale herself
but she is well represented by 2 daughters and two
granddaughters. Sheds a good example of the pe
of foundation cows of the Burroughs herd. She s
a. 5 ear old record of 27 lbs. butter from 644.6 milk.
while at 33 months she mule 25.021hs. butter from
462.1 lbs. milk a state record when made. Lillie Green
Hengetveld is a daughter of Judge ll cugcrveld Do
Kol.

 
   
  
  
   
  
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
  
  
  
 

Burtondale Lady l’ietertje is a sample of the 1%)
daughters of the Fellows herd sire Sir Lieuwluc
Korndyke Kate Deliol who is from the 2.0 lb. cow
Licuwkjc Pauline DeKol Wayne and full ln'othcrto
the twice 32 lb. cow Lieuwkje Lynfeld Pleasant
Valley Kate(36 lbs). She has 2124 months record of
15.25 milking nlmost50 lbs. per day.

 
  
  

  

 

 

Having decided to go out of the Dairy Business
I will Sell at
l’ubllo Mellon, Octlli. 1916, all o’clock sharp
My enllnurl or reglslm! m M minim Elihu
Consisting of twenty head of milch
cows and seven heifers. Average Herd
Test 595. This herd has been bred up
from year to year until it has become
one of the most roductive in the State.
A heifer Lady E 'th of Hillside from this
herd won the world's recordfor produc-
ing the greatest amount of butter fat in
one year. Farm three miles south and
one and one quarter miles east ofSouth
Lfyon and two and one half miles West
0 Salem. Auctioneer F. J. Boyle,
Prop. H. S. Munn.

llElilSlElEll JEllSEl BULLS Fllll SALE

1 yearling. and Bull calves from 8 to 10 months
old. In 3 cows. Write your wants.
SMITH- PARKER, R. D. No.4, Howell, Michigan.

 

 

Maple Ill Farm Registered Jersey Sallie for Sale
Both sexes. The kind that pay at the pail.

J. R. Worthington, R. No. 7. Lansing. Michigan.

 

 

BIDWELL SHORTHORN S

For “Beef and Milk"
Registered b u] l s.
Scotch - togped ronns,
reds and w rte for sale.
Farm at N.Y.C. Depot;
also D. T. dz I. R'y.
Address ll .I.Sclmdcr Mgr.

mourn. STOCK FARM _
k I. Munch. Mich.

 
  

 

 

Albion stomp 35m

 

snowmne anemia-sue

“A”. M “lam.

J. a. ammrsliifi “mow.
Silent-n

AND POLIED ’ m NR SALE.
Have rod coon at!
head in % Have over I“

C. Cuba, Leroy. Mich.

 

Duroc Jersey Herd Boars

Special Offering of High Gloss NI Boar Pisa.
enough for broader. who a’pmht. the but.

Also some good farmer's boars. This is the best lot of toll pigs we have ever ind to aim. A. cor-

dial invitation is extended to visit the farm andinspect the stock. If you wish one of the best

young Jersey bulls in Michigan we have him for sale. For further particulars. address.

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

 

Breeding and norm-unity good

SHORTHORNS FOR SALE

8 Balls. also females. W. B. McQuillnn. Howell, Mich

 

 

Brod cows.

‘* Young bulls 3100.
I nick sale.
GAN.

and heifers “59 for
Write W. J. BELL,

ROSE CITY. MIG
Durham Bull Calves read to ship. Recorded
Padded in your me. Also Mule M. good ones. get
prices. Frank Bartlett. Dryden, Michigan."

 

 

 

H003.

 

special reduced price. Write your wants quick.
Mitchell's Lakeside Farms. R.2, Bloomingdale, Mich.

The Very Finest Berkshire Pigs Cheap

C. S. BARTLETT. Propr. male. Muffin

0ur Berkshires

Have just arrived home from the Fairs,
where we won twelve champions,thirty-
one firsts, twenty-seven seconds, five
thirds and two fourths, a total ofseven-
ty-seven premiums.

fiome of The Winners

 

 

not skin.

 

Dunoc JERSEYS

A choice lot of spring pigs. both sex. pairs and trial.
Prices reasonable. Send for 904581...

m .‘llflfllNfl'S FARMS. I. F. D. l. m. m,

 

l.W. KEEllEl, Erie, Mich

Swine. D. M. do T. local from Ionroe or Toledo. Rooney Stop.

Males. good ones for Dec.

. service. Breeder of Duroc

 

for 335. no kin.
nut 10 days.

UBOC Jersey 8‘56

in}. Figs 8 wins. old 312031011. Trio
93. and Del. onywhoro instato for
J. Robert Hicks. . J

M ichigan.

 

Duroc lmey Boar:

antes satisfaction. J. H. Banghart. East

Two June 1915; 1?. April 1916.
Write for desr-ri

tion. 1 guar-
nnsing. Mich.

 

uroc Jerse .

Some yearling .& Spring boars good

 

CHERRY LAWN

on Solo—Bea. 35°“ 3 B b , . on to old your herd. Will cell Eureka Cherry
FMomhzniosonofrlvoglri‘nle,§g;1yltfiggogtr)(lld King 671 . Ask about him. W. 0. Taylor, Milnn,Mich.
lob- Schmidt. Rood . . 5.. Michigan.

—Fell and spring p1 neither 3 .fr
Duroc Jersey: clergyman... s“ o ”1:11”:me

an. shopimd.‘ uranium.

 

For his

John'rucmmn

Duroc Jerseys. choice breeding spring pm
either sex. '
. Station A. B. 4

Prices right.
. Bay City. Etch

 

D UROC Jerseys. Apr. pig- oithor sex. boon ready for
. service and a few bred sows for So t. and Oct. Some
Holstein cows breed for full. E. H.

orriaJlon roe. Mich.

 

seen anywhere.

fined inapen.

F OR SALE

of best breeding.of various ages either gi‘ stored Jen. . ‘
. . , . y Dnroc boars. old enough [croon-
BePkSllll'ES sex, all registered stock. no 3km, vico. one are from 3 seven hundred pound sow and

from a litter of ten endure as good usany l have over
Each one is good enough to show at
anyH’rnr and good enough tollcnd any herd. They are
in line condition and active, never having been con-
Prico.” taken at once, twenty dollars
each; if crotcd. two dollars extra. Delivery to express
or freight station free.
A. T. “rm.

OTSEGO. MICHIGAN.

 

llllllllll JERSEYS:

A nice bum-h ofSpr-iug Gilts, also

3 good Sprin
for service.Wm. W. Kennedy, R.’ .. Gris- Lake, Mich.

Boar: old enough

 

fellows

M. A. BRAY, OKEMOS,

Duroc Jersey Boats of the large. smooth
E. D. Heydenberk.

For sa‘e WJemey Boar-n, big henv boned

big boned ty 9.
Wayland. lichlpgan.

. Spring and Frill i

(Innham Co.) :_ ich.

 

 

d also‘h';o '01.- 3.0:.thers,
an we ve p on 0 con-
sisting of a few choice fall hours and
gilts and spring pigs of both sexes.

They are Prlood to Sol!

 

 

mRKSHIRE SOW and yearlingslitbmdto furrow
rly in Se tember. Boers read for service. Also
Qon gilts. 0 use Stock Farm, R. Marlette, Mich.

 

mannteed.

nuroc Jerseys Big Ty e lloars with breeding and
indwiduality t at is hard to heat, bred from
prize winnln stock. prices reasonable. satisfaction
. J. DRODT. RJ. Monroe. Mlchlg“

 

Duroc 8‘23“???
Ir. J. amnion. Mum Mich. 3.1. 3011th
llhllr‘ 'u'“ combined. nine. witnhmodh 'oc.

Spging gilts,

tried flows.
ercheron Stud Colts.

 

 

 

  
 

. E M , boon
aswe needthemomforfalllrtters. moor-uh oasioém”':q. 3'33?
Swlgartdale Fun. feta-shy. Inch. l B' T B
I 0 0‘ rs.
“shire Boar-Ind ’31:: gating? large ‘0. I. cg“ {Doggy {g serXcIe’ Br'c‘ad Gigs—Eh"
to “an. A. 1. PA 6&0. B. 1:11th , Inch. ~J chipped 0.0. D. Prices very reason:
L able. J. Curl Jarrett. Mason. Mich. >

 

Write

' -A nice lot of s ring i ‘ .
o' I c. smn. your wants. ' hfeadowpflew Stock
Farm. Holland. Michigan. No. 5.

R. R.

 

~ WALTON Bred Berkshires. Extraordinary ofi'er.
Shodhnmsmmha‘hwfiwwrm Rand “auditor union and ' both 0 I c Services“. Bonn obi 0. 0. D.
...,. m... sum m a... We...“ moms momenta a. 5.31an We "a...“ “sears.
l

 

"u“:g Shortborns. roam 3. your old. Bates bred hem

1' of various ages, either sex open orbre
lu'k3hlrn- prolific strains, Registered. at modern&

SHESlEll UllllES

l‘. W.

 

 

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DAY 0N and}; “PE cu‘ir'sri‘r'i. di‘iiiiiiosn. J

 
 
 

  

price. Elmhurst Stock-Form. .Alrnont; Michigan-g ~

Sowshred for Septfziirrow. spring

Kifioiila

airs not 11.
DER. Vassar. Mich.

     

§ , Like This
,~ tie original big prod uceri

 

   

HAVE startedthousanrhof breeders on firemdto

  

success. I can help you. I want to Place one from
‘ where am not

I!!! tedb 11: a fi "only vdo d f lurk {ep-
roaen e no a e era—res y or a SIX
“8 diagme fu- n: pip—E More Money mange."

I}. 8. BENJAMIN, R_ F_ D_ 10, Portland. Etchigan

  

 

 

CHESTER WHITE March pigs either sex. “looking orders for
JSt-pt. 1 pigs. 2 your old sow tnrrowcd ll pigs Sept. 5. Herd
hour is 2 yr. old. Ship (3.0.1). W.A .Sncm'let. l’lensontJliiclLRA.

 

HESTER Whites: Spigs include 1st. & ~ltli. boar, lst. &3rd.
sows: llt. us breeders voung herd at. State Flir. 140 for
all. NEWTON BARNHARTJ St. Johns. lch.

 

 

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131 ,or
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Irlghnldo Form .
Grand Ledge, Mich.

400 Big Type 0. l1. ll. and Chester While Pig:

From Feb. Mar. an Apr. furrow sired h the five best
boars in the state. School M aster 52707 W 10 won more
champions. defeated more champions than any hour
show 191:3. Abo 2nd. sire to our undefeated breeders
young herd at 7 state fairs. Allen junior champion at
Wis. State fair 1914, and Captain Jim 83161. under 6
months boar and Junior champion at every state fair
show 1915. Then we have Le Doux model first
in class at Rioux City. Iowa. 1914-
its free. We
in every way.
ROLLING VIEW STOCK FARM. Cass City. Mich,

’ Spring hours ready for service. Gilts
0‘ I. c 8 goodoneo. Sntisfactlon Gnoumteed.
A. R. GRAHAII. Flint. .lohlxan.

O. I. C. Stock all Sold
JULIAN P. CLAIM. Quartz Cred. Itch.
.0. I. C. SWINE: 3."1‘?“i?.§f ‘fitmé‘a‘fi
wichuchoioo torn-lo. not skimmed“. due

ton-ow about :- t.
A. J.GORDEN. B. No. 2, Dorr. Mich.

o I 9 halo. Gilt: bred for fall Farrow and Spring
0 - I ' 5. Prime Vl'inninzfltock. Writ. (or low
”a. L. . HATT. Grass Lake, Michigan.

 

ct our cat gue.
ogistor Free; Guarantee notification

 

 

 

 

a ‘ c grille and Reg. Holsteins. few bounvi'a of
' 1 ' a furrow atareasonahle price,qua tycoo-
fllderod. EL ER E. SMITH. Redford. chhignn.

so!

a". 0’3. X21330 fbosrs; bred sowsnnd July 1,

in
. Alt uality at reasonable
Write me. E. F, BAKER. Choyboygan. -

- O. l. C. H008

Fine And our: and Males. hinnorelnlon. 1t a
bargain if taken at once. J. R. Way. Three Rivers. Mich.

088.

 

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Here’s the Secret

DOUBTLESS YOU’VE WONDERED—knowing as
you do, how absolutely dependable are Reo cars——
how free from troubles and how low in upkeep cost:

YOU’VE WONDERED wherein lay the secret of that
reliability that is Reo.

WELL, WE’LL TELL YOU. And then you’ll wonder
at its ridiculous simplicity.

YOU READ, IN THE ADS, how this engineer or that
inventor has revolutionized the science of engineering
and produced a wonder-working car.

,YOU READ THAT every year—only this year it’s
another engineer. That revolutionary stunt of last
year has been forgotten.

IT WAS AS IMPOTEN T as a South American revolu-
tion—it didn’t!

SO THE SECRET ISN’T to be found in any such feat
or invention.

REO PERFORMANCE—reliability, dependability,
uniformity of performance of all Reos, of whatever
model or price—is the result of the taking of infinite
pains in the designing, the making and the inspection
of the Reo product.

IT’S THE LITTLE THINGS that count—not the big
ones.

AN YONE—A BOY EVEN—can make a motor that
will be “different.” Or an axle, a transmission or a
set of springs that might impress the tyro as new and
wonderful.

BUT TO MAKE ANY of these vital units better—that
is the task—that should be the aim. It has always
been the Rec aim.

INFINITE CARE in the fabrication and then in the
inspection, and finally in the testing of the aSSembled
whole—that is the secret of Reo success in making,
not the most but the best, automobiles.

IF THERE ARE 2000 PARTS in a motor car; and if
there’s an average of four machining operations on a
part—~that’s 8000 chances for something to go wrong!

 

 

 

  

of Reo Reliability

AND ONE DEFECTIVE PART—one, however small
or seemingly insignificant—that does not fit absolutely,
and you’d have a car that would be less than a Reo
in performance—more than a Reo in cost of upkeep.

INFINITE PAIN S, WE SAID: Perhaps that’s too big
a term. But if you could know how great is the task—
how unremitting the care—to guard against even one
little error creeping into any one of these 8000 places—
you’d grant us the word “infinite.”

“THOSE PESKY LITTLE TROUBLES that are
always happening with other cars, are unknown to the
Rec owner,” says one Reo dealer, “and that’s why the
demand for Reos is so great.”

WHEN YOU STOP TO THINK about it, the troubles
you’ve had with other cars were not big troubles.
Your motor didn’t drop out of your car or your trans-
mission strip or your frame break in two.

IT WAS THE LITTLE THINGS that pestered your
motoring life—parts shaking loose or getting out of
adjustment. Dust in bearings—oil leaks—every-
where. Squeaks and creaks and rattles.

ALWAYS THE DREAD WHEN STARTING out'that
you might not return. Always the fear when in a
hurry that some pesky little trouble resulting from
some pesky little defect, of which you were cognizant,
might delay you. Wasn’t there?

WELL THEREIN LIES the big difference'between Reos
and other cars—the big difference is in attention to the
little things.

IT IS NOT UNCOMMON—in fact—it is ‘the rule—for

a new Reo owner to drive his car thousands of miles——
a year, two years—without even seeing the inside of a
garage or lifting the bonnet to make an adjustment or
repair.

HONOR AND FAITH and a Good Intent—these and
the attention to little things they dictate—result in
Reo Reliability as it is known the world over, “The
Gold Standard of Values” in automobiles and motor
trucks.

REO MOTOR CAR COMPANY
LANSING, MICHIGAN

 

 

 

 

 

 

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