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The Only Weekly Agricultural, Horticultural, and Live Stock Journal in the State.

DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1916





VOL. CXLVH. No. 17

Whole Number 3911





HERE are two schools of thought

associated with the modern coun-

try life movement. The adher-



ents of one school contend that the

problem is entirely one of economics.

.They say to us, “Make the farm pay

and the problem will solve itself.” In

short, they believe that people will not

be eager to leave the country if the

farm makes a profit. All other things

will be added when profits are certain.



The other school of thought con-

tends that the problem is as much so-

cial as it is economic. They tell us

that wealthy farmers are the first to

leave the country for the city. They

add also that those who have made the

most money from farming have not

been good conservators; they have not

always left the farm in such condition

that it could be used profitably by the

next generation. Their final claim is

for a richer and fuller social life in the

country so that contentment will fol-

low as a natural sequence.



Neither of these extreme viewpoints

appears to be correct. We must all

admit that farming must be made prof-





itable, but those of us who have work- ‘





ed in the country must know also that

mere wealth will not build up a perma-

nent and contented rural population.

Men do not live by bread alone. Men

and women demand normal social con-

tacts. A social worker once took a de-

pendent woman from the slums of the

city of New York and provided for her

a home in the country. About a month

later the same social worker visited

the same slum district. Great was her

surprise when she found her woman

back in the filth of the tenement.

When asked why she had not remain-

ed in the country, the woman replied,

“Folks is better than stumps.” This

woman craved for human fellowship.



There have been suggested numer-

ous methods for awakening and utiliz-

ing the social instincts which receive

so little exercise in the country. This

article is a suggestion for those lead-

ers who wish to become a part in such

a program.



The Old Testament contains some

splendid agricultural advice for it was

written and read by a rural people.

Like all other great and permanent re-

ligious expressions, it came out of the

life of a people who lived in the open.

None of its advice is more pointed for

the present purpose than that quoted

at the head of this article. This is a

command to play. It calls the people





to a week’s vacation following the har- .





vest. How far these old pastoral au-

thors anticipated our civilizationl.

Modern cities are just now beginning

to demand that people play, and many

of us have not yet appreciated the deep

significance of play.



Man is only at his best when he

plays. It is then that he lives his ele-

mental self. Stripped of the superficial

mannerisms, tricks and habits of work

and business, man expresses his real

self in the game. Here there are rules

to be obeyed. Here is group action.

The individual must sacrifice himself

for the team. The body works in bar-

mony with the mind. And, what is

best of all the spirit soars above the

petty cares and jealousies of the com-





,mon day.





There are four distinct results oi.’





 





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Rural Recreation





By E. C. LINDEMANN,

State Leader Michigan Boys’ and Girls’ Clubs





 





 





 





“Thou shalt observe the feast of tabernacles seven days, after

_ thou hast gathered in thy corn and thy wine.



Knd thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou and thy son, and thy

daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, and the Levite,

the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within

thy gates."—Deut.>16: 13 and 14.





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





 





What Shall we Play? It’s a Crime to Have People Gather and then not be

Prepared to give them a Wholesome and Invigorating Experience.





 





 





 





A Group of Country People got together with a Group of City People to Clean

up the Grounds for the County Tuberculosis Sanitarium. The noon hour

was given over to a picnic lunch and to old—fashioned games. They un-

derstood each other better after that day.





 





Boys Learning to Tle Useful Knots. Rope-tieing Contests for Boys are Be-

coming Popular in the Country.





 





     

 

 





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properly organized play. It increases



the efficiency of the body. This is a

physical result. It causes the mind to

react quickly. This is an intellectual

result. It trains in group action. This

is a social result. All of these combine

to achieve the final result which is

nobler character. To play fair, to obey

the rules of the game, to take defeat

gracefully, to- follow a leader, to work

for the good of the whole rather than

for your individual self—these are all

traits of a character which are devel—

oped naturally in normal play life.



The eternal question comes now,

“What shall we play?” How often

have I heard from the lips of little

girls and little boys, from young men

and young women gathered for a pic—

nic or for some other purpose. Any-

one who has lived in the country ap-

preciates the dearth of “things to do.”

No one seems to know what to do and

no one is willing to take the lead. For

the past year I have been making an

attempt to determine how many games

country boys and girls knew how to

play and my conclusion thus far is

that the average country boy or girl

knows from one to three games. There

are at least one hundred games that

lend themselves admirably to country

conditions.



What is a Good Game?



All games are not good. Just as mere

exercise is not play, so all game activ-

ities are not constructive. There are

a few characteristics which every good

game should possess.



A good game should first of all be

safe. This does not mean that the

game shall not be rough. For example,

football is a much safer game than

some others that are .played more fre-

quently. Basketball is an example of

an unsafe game. It leaves no time for

normal heart action and hence is dan-

gerous. Girls should never play has-

ketball according to college rules.



A good game is one which can be

played by small numbers as well as

large numbers. The game which the

children of the little one-room country

school learn to play must also be used

at the township or the countypicnic.

It must be a game which can be adap-

ted to small numbers and to large

numbers.



A good game will be played by old

as well as young. It is "not only the

children who need the tonic of play.

Grown—ups would profit immeasurably

if they could but remember how to

play. There are many games which

old can play as well as young.



A good game is one which usually

requires a small amount of equipment.

The smaller the amount of equipment

the greater is the extent to which the

players use 'their own bodies and

minds. It is not necessary to have a

gymnasium and expensive parapher-

nalia for the purpose of starting a com-

munity play movement. The non-

equipment games are usually more per-

manent and more popular.



A game which combines all of the

above requirements is volley ball. This

requires only a 65 cent ball and a net.

In place of the net a rope may be used.

It can be played by four or forty. Old '

enjoy it as well as young. A list of

twelve good group games follows:



(Continued on page 375).
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DETROIT, OCTOBER 21. 1916

CURRENT COMMENT.





 





 





 





 





 





In addition to the two

amendments published

and commented upon

in the issue of last

week, two others will be before the

electors of this state for rejection or

approval at the coming November cloc-

tion. One of these is a promised

amendment to Section 30 of Article V

of the constitution to read as follows:



“Section 30. The legislature shall

pass no local or special act in any case

where a general act can be made ap-

plicable, and whether a general act

can be made applicable shall be a ju-

dicial question. No local or special

act, (excepting acts repealing local or

special acts in effect January 1, nine-

teen hundred nine and receiving a two-

thjrds vote of the legislature), shall

take effect until approved by a mailer-

ity of the electors voting thereon m

the district to be affected.”



The clause enclosed in brackets is

the language added to the section by

this amendment. Its effect if adopted

will be to permit the repeal of local or

special acts passed before the present

constitutional provision forbidding

them was adopted without submitting

the question of such repeal to the elec-

tors of the district affected. The fact

that a two-thirds vote of the Inc-hers

of the legislature is required for» such

repeal appears to be a sufficient safe-

guard of the public interest in this

matter. The intent. and purpose 0!

this amendment is so plain as to re-

quire no further comment.



The fourth and last of the mend-

ments to be submitted at the coming

election is a proposed amendment to

Article XII of the constitution by ad-

ding a new section thereto to be known

as Section 10' and to read as follows:



‘Section 10. The legislature shall

provide by general law for the incor-

poration and regulation of fraternal

benefit societies, which societies are

defined as .any corporation Without

capital stock.organized and carried on

solely for the mutual benefit of its

members and their beneficiaries and

not for profit, and which shall make

provision for the payment of death

benefits. Every such society may pro-

vide for the payment of benefits in

case of temporary or permanent phy-

sical disability, either as the result of

disease, accident or old age, and for





Constitutional

Amendments.





' the payment of last sickness and fun-





eral benefits. Any such society may

at its option have a lodge system, with

ritualistic form of work but neither

such lodge system nor ritualistic form

of work shall be compulsory.



The legislature shall also provide by

general law, the terms and conditions

upon which fraternal benefit societies

organized under the laws of another

state may do business within this state.



No fraternal benefit society, except-

ing those now exempted under section

29 of act 169 of the public acts of the

State of Michigan of 1913, shall be au-

thorized to incorporate or do business

i: this state, unless it shall have in its



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(a) .A representative or democratic

form of self-government with a pro.

vision 'for the recall of its officers by a.





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cent of the mmbaship;



(1») Provisions authorizing the ini-

tiation of, or a referendum upon. any

Ivy-lav, upon a petition oi ten per cent

of the membership, the. same to be de-

cidedbyamajuityvoteolthemem—

hers voting;



to) Provisions requiring its officers,

ppm demandlof five or more of its sub

ordinate organizations, to furnish to

such subordinate organizations a mail—

big list of Michigan members for use

in the exercise of the initiative, refer-

endum. or recall; Provided, that it shall

be a misdemeanor and punishable by

imprisonment in the county jail not to

exceed ninety days for any person to

make use of such mailing list for any

other. purpose than, hereinabove stated.



No law shall be valid—-



(1) Which requires a valuation or in-

ventory of any fraternal benefit soci-

ety upon any basis which will show

such society to be insolvent when its

assets exceed its accrued liabilities, or

which shall require the collect“ oi

assessments for death benefits in ex.-

cess of the actual mortuary cost per

one thousand dollars ($1,000) insur-

ance in force of the tmlargest legal

reserve life insurance companies at

the United States of America of fifty

years’ experience; Provided, that any

society having a mortality higher than

the average mortality of the legal re-

serve companies aforesaid, may be re-

quired to c assessments on the

basis of its actual average death rate

experience for the previous five years;





or



(2) Which denies any fraternal ben-

efit society the right to expend its

funds other than mortuary funds, for

the circulating of petitions or other-

wise promulgating laws and constitu-

tional a . ts for its own protec-

tion; Provided, that no such funds

may be used for corrupt purposes.



laws of this state governing

fratanal benefit societies are not in-

validated except so far as: inconsistent

with this sectim.



Any fraternal benefit society author-

ized to do business in this state on the

taking cficct of this 11, may

continue to do such business only until

the next meeting of its. general or stu-

prcne hotly unless its. laws. shall com-

ply in all respects with the provisions

of this. amendment. Societies '

under the laws od‘ another state, not

exempt, under section 2.9 of act 1% all

the public acts d the state oli‘ Michi—





 





thhstatebycmplyiingwith the pro.-

visins of this amendment as to their

business in this state; Provided, that

if any such society shall fail so to

comply, any five hundred or more

members at such society shall be en-

titled, upon application, to incorporate

and do business under the laws of this

state, as a fraternal benefit society.”





his proposed amndment is almost

identical to one submitted two years

ago which failed of approval at the

election. Like the proposed amend

ment two years ago this was submits

ted by petition of certain: fraternal in-

surance interests not satisfied with the

Win-kings d! the present fraternal tn-

sunncc III which was written on the

statute hooks in 1913.



Regardless of the merits of this pro-

posed amendment, we see the same-

valid objection to its adoption which

we cited at the time of its first submis-

sion two years ago, i. e., it seeks to

incorporate into the fundamental law

of the state provisions, which are more

properly a subject for legislative con-

sideration than for constitutional dec-

laration. It seeks to amend the article

of our state constitution relating to

corporations by the addition of a sec-

tion which is almost if not quite as

voluminous as the entire article as it

now stands, and instead of simply de-

fining the limitations within which the

legislature may act regarding this

question it defines the course which

the legislature must take and writes a

new law with regard to the conduct of

fraternal insurance societies framed by

interested partisans in the matter, re-

gardless of its expediency as determin-

ed by impartial investigation such as

should be given it by a. legislative body.



Those who initiated this proposed

amendment have had opportunity to

present their case to one legislature

since the enactment of the present fra-

ternal insurance law and, within a few

months will have opportunity to pre-

sent it to another. It is to be presumed

that their contention would receive im-

partial consideration at the bands of

the legislature, failing which they





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initiate legislation on; this-substantial

mannered to mom this pro

posed constitutional amendment.





In a recent circular i9

Bear: Market sued to members of the

Conditions. Michigan Bc‘an Gmers’

Association, President

Cook, of that organization, quotes

trade communications from two large

wholesale distributors of been: to Show

that market conditions warrant the

minimum price scale fixed by the grow:

ers’ organization, which is $5 per bush

e1 for October. He also states that or-

rangements have been made with two

large responsible establishments for

storage and an advance or! 75 per cent

or the estimated value at beans, sothat

growers who may not be so situated

as to hold their beans for later market-

ing may be able to realize cash from

them for present needs without dump-

ing them on the market at out prices.

Every power should, however, make

an cflat to finance his own share of

the controlled or gradual marketing of

the crop which is imperative ifi the

growers are to make up for this short

crop by getting an increased percent-

age of the consumer’s dollar, which

would otherwise be more fully, absorb

ed by the nan-producing speculator.





 

 





 

 





HAPPENFNGS OF THE WEEK.





 





The European Wan—Along a front

extending fifity miles the Italians am

Austrians are now fighting for the im-

portant Austrian seaport of Trieste.

This has been a. chief objective at: the

Italian forces since they entered the

war on the side of the Allies. Another

object of the increased activity at this

time is undoubtedly to prevent the

withdrawal of Austrian tomes fran

the Italian front to assist in the subju-

gation of the Rmmanians who are now

being hard pressed from both north

and swth by the central mm. The

Italians have already captured new po-

sitions which increase. their advantag-

ea——Althomlr the Romanians made

an appeal to th- enter-to last week for

assistance to reveal the Male ar-





in miles over-running. their country. they





have simce gained victories slug the

Mute river. I: Transylvania, how-

ever, the Rwandan form continue

to [am back More the AustroGer—

mans—In Macedonia, Serbian. troops

have made a further advance along the

left bank of the C’cvna- river; while the

French have cut the railway line south

of Seres.—-—It is stated that the action

of the Allies: in demanding that the





' ready carried «it

by Greeks against the Allied fleet- The

plan was to have been «Elected with

the aid of German “Marines operat-

ing in the mum—0n the

westmlhedhfllothefirmhave

«mm German trenches. m the

Mural region, and the near Gende-

court. TheFrmhsoItholtheSomme

have also extended their front and cap-

tured a considerable number of pris-

oners.



What is believed to be an important

advance toward an understanding of

the method of transmission at the in-

fantile paralysis germ was annomed

from the Johns Hopkins Hospital at

Baltimore where it has been discover-

ed that rabbits contracted the disease

through germs taken into the system

by the mouth.



As a result of closing the saloons in

Detroit on Sunday, the police depart-

ment reports that only 12 arrests were

made as compared with 6'1 on the pre—

vious Sunday when the city was “wide,

open.”



Owing to the growing scarcity of

wood suitable for making paper pulp.

the forest products laboratory at Madi-

son, Wisconsin, has just completed a

study of methods of barking, chipping.

screening and ballng of chips. Tests

show that certain western woods are

admirably adapated for pulp manufac-

ture and it is hoped to secure some lit-

tle relief by shipping train loads of

these products to the paper mills in

the eastern states. In Wisconsin alone

it requires 390.000 cords of wood an-

nually to supply the paper mills.





 





MICHIGAN POTATO GROWERS' AN-

NUAL CONVENTION.





 





The annual convention and show of

the Michigan State Potato Association

will be held at Escanaba, Mich, on

Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, No-

vember 1-2-3, 1916. The printed pro-

gram and premium list is now ready





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the State Potato Association,

Best Loom Mich. ,

Muslim arcofleredinthe

various classes in addition to gold med-

als, silver cups, merchandise prices,

etc. Attention is filled to the import-

ance of field selection to secure high

class stock for exhibiting in the state

potato show. Potato growers from all

sections. of the state will be well I

by attending this W as m

who attended the annual convention

fiftwye‘ar at Grand Rapids can well





 





STATEMENT OFTHE OWNERSHIP

"a”. M."

m" or com v. mi

AUGUST 21, 1912.





of The Michigan Farmer, published}

Yieeklywm at Detroit, link,‘ to: October' ‘

State of Michigan,

County at Wayne,



More no a Notary Public in and

for the State and county aforesaid.

personally appeared, E. H. Houghton,

who, having been duly sworn according

tolaw,depomsndsaysthatheism

Business- Manager of the Michigan:

Farmer, and that. the Wing is to

the best or his knowledge and belief,

a true statement of the Ownerski ,.

W (and if. a daily , the

circulation), etc, of the aforesaid pubs

Iication for the date shown in. the

above caption, required by the Act of

August 24, 1932, embodied in section

4.4;, Postal Laws and Regulations,

Right“ on the reverse at this form, to

WI 2. ».



I. That the names and addresses

the publisher; editor, managing can;

and busme‘ so manager are:



We}; Lawrence Publishing Cm.





Detroit Mich.

R. Waterbury, Detroit.





Editor, 1'.

Mich.

Managing Edison; M. J. Lawrence.

Washington, D. C.

Business M r, E. ll. Houghton.

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Grosse Pointe,



2. That the mm are:

names: and addresses of infirm!

owners, on. if a corporation, give it...

t if]: ldert'he m; I maladies?“ a

s cc 0' s 0 or ‘ g per

amt? more of the total anoint of

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M. l. lawman, W ‘ D. G.

M. L. Lawrence, Cleveland, bin.

1". '1". Lawrence, New York City.



Bu H. Hang-Mon, Grease Potato,

F. H. Nance, Montana, Ohio.

Neff Laing, Philadelphia, Pa.

E. 1). Pope, Cleveland, Ohio.



Neale J. Lawrence, Clevehnd, om



(linens Sav. 8: '1‘- Co, Cleveland,

Ohio, Trustee under the will of M. W.

Lawrence, (Beneficiaries, Nellie J

Lawrence, Mary Lawrence and Mont

nor Lawrence).



Nellie J. lawmce, Quardian, Cleve»

land. Ohio. Guardian of Gains, J. Law

reuse.



Mrs. G. B. Rogers, Cleveland, Ola-h



Lillian Cotton, Chi/clam. Mia.



R. M. men-mun, Cleveland. Ohio.



6‘. 1.. Hudson. Detroit, Mich.



J: F. Cunnmgham, Lakewood. Ohio.



3. That the hem bondholders,

Weiss, and other security holders

owning or belching bonds. mortgages.

or other securities are: (If there are.

110138, so. state).





one.



4. That the two paragraphs next

above, giving the names of the owners,

stockho ders, and security‘sltiolders, it

any, contain not only the ' of stock

holders and: security holders: as they

appear upon the books of the company

but also, in cases where the stock

holder or security holder appears upon

the books of the company as trustee

or in any other fiduciary relation, the

name of the person or corporation £01?

whom such trustee is acting, is given ;.

also that the said two paragraphs con‘

tain statements 9 bracing afllant’s full

knowledge and b ' f as the circum-

stances and conditions under which

stockholders and security holders who

do not appear upon the books of the

company- as trustees, hold stock and

securities. in a capacity other than that

of a bona fide owner; and this amant

has no reason to believe that any oth-

er person, association, or cor oration

has any interest direct or in irect in

the said stock, bonds, or other secure

ties than as so stated by him.



5. That the. average number of cop-

ies of this publication sold or di’Stl‘lb'.





uted, through the mails or otherwise,





to paid subscribers» during the six

months preceding the date shown

above is. (This information is requiru

ed from 6.8.11, publications only).

E. H. HOUGHTON.

Business Manager.

Sworn to and subscribed before me

. CLARENCE El HAMLIN.

this Fifth Day of October, 1916.





{M commission expires October 12,.

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MO“? .
(Continued from first page).

. Head and tail tag.



Dodge ball.



‘All-up relay.



Horse and rider.



Over-head relay.



I Over and under relay.



Playground base ball.



Zig—zag relay.



Right-face tag.



Indian basket ball.



Japanese crab race.



Beater-goes-round.



It is a good plan to master about

twelve games. Teach them so that

every child will know how to conduct

the game if necessary. There are a

number of other suggestions which

should accompany instructions to play

leaders. In the rural community play

should be for all. The command giv-

en to the people of the Old Testament

was to include all members of the fam-

ily, the hired help and even the strang-

ers within the gate. That is still good

advice in the twentieth century. Rural

recreation should be of the people. for

the people and by the people.



- Recreation alone cannot, of course,





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





All Up!

do everything to save the best young

people for the country but it will be a

big factor. There is more danger in





child idleness than in child labor, but

play is a natural, wholesome and nec-

essary part of the life of every child.

Deny this right and someone will pay

the penalty.





 





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Storing Seed Corn





HERE are two factors which in-

fluence the vitality of seed corn,

and therefore the next year’s



stand, and these are proper selection

and proper storage. Both are of equal-

ly great importance, and both must go

together in order that maximum yields

may be obtained. A large amount of





 





 





 





“All Work and no Play" may or may

not make Jack a dull boy, but it is

quite certain to make him want to

leave the farm.





 





good seed corn is saved each year by

the farmers. of Michigan and after-

ward ruined by improper storage. Seed

corn is most liable to injury during

the first six weeks after it is stored,

and therefore it should receive the

best of care during this critical period.

Corn, no matter what its stage of ma-

turity, contains an excessive amount

of moisture, and the problem is to get

this moisture from the grain and the

cob without injuring the vitality of the

grain. Under certain conditions, the

outside of the ear may dry- out rapidly

and become dry and hard, while the

cob, which loses its moisture more

slowly still contains a high per cent of

moisture.“ It is this condition which

indirectly causes a decrease in the vi-

tality of the corn by increasing the

chances for molding, sprouting and

freezing. ' ’ '-

. As soon as the seed corn has been

husked, it should be hung up in a fairly





 





warm, dry, well ventilated place, in

such a way that the ears will not touch

one another. If two ears of corn touch

each other, mold may begin to grow

and so injure the vitality of the corn.

If hung in an artificially heated room

the heat should be given at all times.

Otherwise, the moisture given off by

the corn remains in the air of the room

and the drying out process will be re-

tarded. Then, if the heat is applied

too strongly at first, the vitality may

also be injured. Therefore seed corn

that has just been harvested really

needs but one thing. It must have a

free circulation of air at ordinary tem-

peratures. Each ear must have access

to a. complete circulation of air in or-

der that its excess moisture may evap-

orate rapidly enough to prevent the

growth of molds and injury to the

grain.



There are a number of good methods

of storing seed corn. In general, select

a method which does not allow the

ears to touch one another, one that is

cheap, one that takes up the smallest

amount of space, and one that is the

most handy to hold the ears for germi—

nation tests. There are several meth-

ods that should not be used; as tying

up by the husks, hanging in a crate

from the ceiling, or piling up in a heap

near a stove pipe. There are bound to

be some of the kernels injured by such

methods. So, in selecting the method

of storage, select one that will furnish

nearly ideal conditions for rapid and

thorough drying out of the ears.



Unless the threshing was done early

in the season, and the grain has had

time to cool off after the sweating

process, do not hang the seed corn ov-

er the grain in the bins of the granary.

Besides, the granary does not usually

have ventilation enough for the drying

out of seed corn before the cold weath-

er comes on. 'Neither should the corn

be, stored in the attic over the living-

room, unless you can get a free circu-

lation of air through it. But, after the

corn is dry an attic makes an ideal

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drying out are In closed sheds, which

are well ventilated. over the drives in

corn cribs and In specially bulltseed

houses. Never hang over animals or

out of doors In the sun or rain.



Even after the excessive moisture

has been dried out of the corn, it is

still very important that it be kept in

a dry place, away from freezing tem-

peratures. Not only does freezing for

a short time injure the corn, but also

excessive moisture when not attended

with low temperatures, also weakens

the vitality. Therefore, the place

where the corn is to be stored for the

winter should be dry as well as warm,

for if the air is full of m0lsture, the

dry corn will absorb this water from

the air and the vitality is liable to be

greatly injured. The following data

from an experiment here in Iowa

shows this fact to be true. Dry corn

was stored for the winter in a number

of common places of storage. That

which was stored in a dry attic germi-

nated 93 per cent, while that which

was stored in a. damp basement away

from freezing temperatures germinat-

ed only 40 per cent. In this experi-

ment, this one factor. decreased the

vitality of the corn over 50 per cent. If

freezing temperatures had. been pres-

ent, the vitality would have probably

been further injured, for from another

experiment conducted in Iowa. we find

the following: The vitality of corn

containing 22 to 31 per cent of mois-

ture was injured from 20 to 80 per cent

by freezing from five to eight hours.





From the above facts we can easily

see that the following precautions

should be taken in the storage of seed

corn:



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LILLIE FARMSTEAD NOTES.





 





Splendid weather to do farm work.

Beans are going into the barns and

stacks all over the state in fine shape.

In many sections there is insufficient

rain for wheat and it is too hot for

this plant. But it is doing well in most

places. There is some danger of Hes-

sian fly if hot, dry weather continues.





The engine broke down or we would

have had the corn all in the silo; how-

ever, the silo would not have been full.

One day more will probably complete

this job. Then we only have the pota-

toes to dig and not until it freezes.

They are doing fine at the present writ-

ing, (Oct. 9), and we will have well

developed starch in them if we can

get two weeks more warm weather.





Besides the potatoes to harvest, all

we have to do this fall is to plow 85

acres, and we have a tractor and three

three-horse teams to do the job. It

would seem that we ought to get all

the work done that we have planned.

But it may get too wet or it may freeze

up early. If we can get the plowing

done we will have no plowing to do

next spring, and ought to get the crops

in on time.



It is wonderful how the alfalfa

grows. The fourth crop is now six

inches high and looks as fine as ever.





Maklng the Price.





Some bean jobbers claim that the

farmers are making a. mistake in ask-

ing $5.00 for their beans. The argu-

ment is that beans from other states

will come into our market and affect

the price. Also that other states will

go to growing beans and permanently

take the market from the Michigan

grower. This may be true for a time.

High prices always stimulate produc-

tion, not only with the farmer’s pro-

ducts but with all others. But this will

not affect the bean market as it will

the wheat market,’because beans can

not be successfully grOWn over so wide

an area as wheat. In fact, the area





 





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slum. Thebes} phonic} the early





worry so much from this cause as the

jobber would have him think. I under-

stand Ohio and Indiana farmers will

try been growing next year, also other

localities. This may affect the market

for a year or so, but I do not expect

that beans will prove a success in.

those localities. The seasons are too

dry and hot. They can grow soy beans

but the Michigan pea bean will not

grow as well any considerable distance

south as they do in Michigan.





There is a shortage in the bean crop

and why should. the farmer not hold

them for a. good price? Of course, the

jobbers would like to have the farmer

sell cheap and as soon as possible, so

he (the jobber) could get control of

the crop. If he did would he think

about the effect on the production of

beans next year or the year after? Not

on your life! He would hold" the crop

for just as big a price as he thought

the consumer would pay. Why should

the farmer not do the same thing?

Hasn’t he the same right? Is it not

good business to doso? Is it squeez-

ing the bean jobber to be sure, but

would he show any mercy to the farm-

er or the consumer if he had the crop

under his control? He never did and I

doubt if he ever will.





Price Should be Based on Cost of

Production.





I think the farmer is doing just what

he should do in fixing the price based

on the crop, and he should go much

farther and fix the price, not only on

beans but on other crops, basing the

price on cost of production and on the

crop. Then he should go farther still

and limit the crop so there would not

be an overproduction and he be com-

pelled to sell for less than cost. ‘ Why

not? The manufacturers get together

and limit production. The coal barons

don’t intend to mine more coal than

will be consumed and force the price

down. It is not good business. The

farmer has never done much of this

kind of business, but he must in the

future or he will work for nothing and

board himself, just as he has been do-

ing on many crops right along.



What is the use of growing so many

potatoes next year that they will be

worth only 15 cents per bushel? ‘The

potato crop can easily be overdone.

Limit the acreage by common consent.

Grow sugar beets in place of potatoes.

We want more sugar. The world wants

more sugar. We can produce it at a

profit for less than the price today.

Let some of the land rest rather than

produce at a loss. I don’t mean to

grow poor crops. There is no money

in a poor crop for anyoue, but limit

the acreage and fix the price at a rea-

sonable figure above the ayerage cost.

If this should prevent the jabber from

making such large profits it can’t be

helped. He can make uniform profits,

which will be better than making no

profits some of the time and excessive

profits at other times. This policy

would do away with “corners” and the

like, and give the producer, the farmer,

a square deal. But if this condition of

things ever comes about the farmer

must do it for himself. Nobody will

ever do it for him. I say, good for the

Bean Growers’ Association, also fer

the Milk Producers’ Association. They

are doing the right thing.



COLON C. LILLIE.





 





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insect pests. Copies of the regulations

governing such importation and any

additional information relating thereto

may be obtained from the Federal

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.fll.
UST. now is an excellent time to good prices, for home consumption.

take a cursory glance at the work Success and failure mark the work of

of reclaiming apple orchards in reclamation of apple orchards, as is

this section. Broadly speaking, it is a the case in every other undertaking.

half dozen years since this task was The dividing line is sharply marked.

first undertaken. Interest in the work Thoroughness, business methods, unre-

was first aroused by a speaker at a laxed vigilance—these have spelled

farmers’ institute held in the writer’s success. Half-way measures, haphaz-

section. .At that time, many farmers ard methods, unwarranted expendi-

were skeptical in regard to the suc— tures—these have spelled failure.

cess ori'value of the project. Most of. Apples Scarce in Farming Communi-

the 01d apple orchards which then ' ties.

thickly dotted this part of Michigan, This, then, is the picture after a half

were yet alive, but considered practi- doZen years. / Old apple orchards by

cally worthless for commercial purpos- the score, dead and cut down, their

es. Scale had already gone far with places taken by fields of grain or vege-

its ravages in many of these orchards, tables. Scores of remnants of once

but for the most part, the pest was un- vigorous and thriving aggregations of

recognized by local orchard owners. It trees, the result of reclamation meth-

was apparent that the trees were dy- ods applied too late or too carelessly.

ing and that the quality of the fruit A few healthy, vigorous, reclaimed or-

was deteriorating year by year. Little chards that are yielding excellent re-

or no inquiry was made into the cause. turns to their owners. And now and

Many farmers used what apples they then, a new orchard springing from the

needed for home consumption, and the wreck of the old. Under these condi-

remainder were left to rot in the or- tions, apples in this section will not be

chards. over-abundant for years to come. The

The Improved Conditions. man who possesses a flourishing or-

In striking contrast to this picture, chard has something he can count on

stands the one which maybe seen to- with reasonable certainty, as a produc‘

day. These old orchards have disap- er of good financial results.

peared by the wholesale, throughout Hillsdale Co. J. A. KAISER.

entire neighborhood. Ignorance no

longer exists anywhere, in regard to

scale and its destructive work. Skep-

ticism as to the practicability and va1-‘ If proper sanitary measures are tak-

ue of reclaiming old apple orchards, en during the autumn and early win-

has at last died out, before a few splen- ter, much may be done to rid the or-

did successes. This skepticism Was chard of diseases, insect enemies and

hard to dispel in seme quarters, due to other troubles which will go far to-

inadequate spraying methods which wards securing better crops.

were in the main, unsuccessful. In While this is'not the season for gen-

these cases, some of the trees contin— eral orchard pruning, it is the time

ued to die, and the quality of the fruit when the grower should go through

was not greatly enhanced. It has tak- the orchard and remove all dead, dis-

en these half dozen years and some eased or broken limbs. Ragged wounds

thorough work along the line of spray- leave openings for various Cankers and

ing and pruning to convince everybody other diseases to get in. Broken

that the reclaiming of these orchards branches should be pruned back with

is a. commercial success. a smooth wound. to a living side branch.

A Good Comparison. Dead trees should be removed from

In considering this phase of the sub- the orchard. Branches which have

ject, perhaps the most striking single died from canker or other diseases

proof of the adequacy of thorough should be pruned to healthy tissue.

spraying for scale, was exhibited in All cull apples should be gotten out

Branch county. This was an orchard of the orchard. Those which are suit

that had been for years, commercially able may be used for cider, vinegar, or

valuable. The owner was quick to evaporating purposes. Those not suit-

grasp the scale situation, and to take able for such use may best be fed to

steps to save his trees. The work was hogs pastured in the orchard. Any

left to hired help to perform. When worthless, decayed apples clinging to

about half the trees had been thor- the trees should be taken off and re-

oughly sprayed, something happened fuse fruit not otherwise disposed of,

to the outfit. Business was rushing on removed. These refuse apples contain

the farm, and instead of repairing the insects such as codling moth and usu-

outfit and completing the job, it was ally the germs of disease such as bitter

abandoned. The next season, a strik- rot, scab, etc. Removing them from

ing spectacle greeted the eyes of the the orchard goes a long way toward

passers-by. There stood the trees, preventing a spread of these diseases

those that had been sprayed, alive and next year. Young trees should have

green, and those that had been neg— their trunks wrapped to protect from

lected, dead to the last tree. This con- mice, rabbits, and to some degree, from

vincing proof of the effectiveness of borers. Perhaps the most economical

spraying, might still be seen, during wrapper is the veneer wooden wrapper

the summer just passed, and may still which is a thin slice of wood of the

be seen if the dead trees have not yet character of which berry boxes are

been removed. In the locality in which .made. Wrappers 15 inches long, eight

this orchard is located, almost no ap- inches wide can be very cheaply se-

ple orchards of any age can be found. cured. They should be fastened loose-

Winter apples for home consumption 1y around the trunk with a wire attach-

are purchased eagerly by the farmers, ed to the edge of the wrapper. If not

at prices they would not have believed thus attached, the wire ring may slip,

possible before their own orchards down and eventually girdle the tree.I

ceased to exist. Approximately one inch of space should

In the writer’s section, there are sev- be allowed between the wrapper and

eral excellent examples of successful trunk of the tree to give aeration and

pruning and spraying. The old or- prevent injury to the bark. Wooden

chards in these cases, have really been wrappers are perhaps the most eco-





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successes. They constitute practically more expensive, is screen wire such as

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N breeding the different kinds of Another mistake many are prone to

stock on the farm, after the fe— make in endeavoring to upgrade is

males have been secured, then the changing breeds“ They select a sire



task of selecting sires should receive from one breed and get good results

attention and one's best judgment us- and then take a sire from another “to

ed. I am aware, from the many mis- make the cross," as they call it, and

takes made and repeated, that the im- continue to change several times get-

portance of knowing the kind of sires ting something which they call “well

that will give the best results, is not bred” because it carries blood selected

fully appreciated. Too many are sat- from many breeds. Often the ridicu-

isfied with almost anything that is a lens practice is followed by crossing

male of the kind that can bring about beef breeds of cattle with sires from

an increase. I have noticed this fact dairy breeds, saying that they are go-

many times, and that, too, among those ing to combine the two or “split the

who have had opportunities for observ- difference," which they do and get

ing the great differences between the something inferior to both breeds.

stock from a well-bred sire of some If one begins with one breed and se-

weil-known breed, and that from a sire cures sires from the same breed for

that carries no ancestral blood lines several generations, something definite

except what has come to him through can be done and improvements made.

'a course of haphazard, or catch by Some excellent results have been ob-

chance breeding. The indiiference tained by following this method, both

manifested sometimes, is enough to in upgrading the beef and dairy cattle.

excite our wonder. It often shows a Prepotent Sires.



lack of appreciation of the kind of The habit of calling some remark-

stock which will yield a profit over and able sires “prepotent” has become fix-

above the COSt of producing, and that ed with some until they use it more

WhiCh Will not pay the BXPBDSB and than the results will warrant. An im-

' trouble incurred in breeding and rais- pressive sire would be a, better term

ing. for common use. A sire that impresses



The general farmers are 110$ alto- his superior form and superior charac-



gether to blame in this matter of the teristics on his progeny is a desirable

importance of selecting the right kind one. As a general rule a desirable sire

of sires. Often those who talk and can be selected by his conformation.

write about the subject refer to the In the first place an impressive sire

matter in general terms, which are not is well sexed; in other words, he is

easily understood by the average mam decidedly masculine and has no semi-

and do not give definite instruction in feminine characteristics about him.

plain and Simple terms. The man W110 Whether a, stallion, bull, buck or boar,

can interpret the meaning Of the high- there is no indication of a “ewe neck”

sounding terms used by some of the about him. Every feature indicates

profound scientific writers, can have that he is a male. There is a majestic

the consolation of being a benefactor. carriage. With the stallion and ram

The Sire Half the Herd. there is elasticity in the step. There

The general writer will say that the is an air of boldness and courage in all

sire is half the herd. The statement desirable sires. Resolution and endur-

is true as far as the blood entering in- ance as manifested by a deep and

to the increase or progeny is concern- firmly set underjaw is present. This

ed, but if the ancestral line or breed- rule holds good With all sires as the





   

   

   

 





 





   

   

   

   

 

   

   

   

   

 





 

 





   

   

 





 





 





 





 

 





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ing is not such as will influence the re- arched neck and deep jaw goes With

suits of the crosses as much as the fe- a. large cerebellum, large heart and oth-

males composing the herd, then he er vital organs. Great vitality mustbe

comes short of being one-half of the possessed 01' it cannot be transmitted.

herd. If, on the other hand, the sire In addition t0 great Vitality he should

is superior in breeding or ancestral be a high tYPe 0f the breed WhiCh he

influences, then he represents not only represents.



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SINCE the chief value of a. cream separator lies

in its capacity for close skimming in actual

work, the following letter from a man many of you





know will make interesting reading:

Cedar Falls. Iowa. March 27. 1916

"Mr. H. A Jetmor





General Agent. Internwiafglalmelster Company of America.

‘ ar a s owa

Dear Sir: I thought ou would 'be interested in the results of cream

separator testing in the enson Cow Testing Assocmtion, Our separa-

tors are tested every time the her tester comes. . This practice has

saved us a great deal of money. as Jt_shows up anything wrong With the

separator. argld it enables prospfictivleagauyergkpfnsg'xrasarators to Judge

r e w ic se ara ors are 1e c nes 1m . _



accpNaathgve a verypfine lot of separators throughout the Assocmtion.

bud there “bathe kind that absolutely has proved superior to the rest.



:1 that is t e rimrose. '

a The skimmed mill from one of theseseparabors has never contained

more than 1/100th of 1 per cent fat, and as a rulejess than half of that.

and none of that make of se aratorhas vercontamed more than 3/100ths

of one per cent. and thaton y once and tor lack of s eed. This is a show-



ing not approached by any other kind. . . eder Pedersen. _

' Pres.. Iowa Federation of Cow Testing Associations.



Sec" Benson Cow TestingAssocuition.





What is said above of tlloPriu-ose applies equally well to the

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half in influence on the progeny.





ed ancestors which were connected

with them through their improved sire.



Several years ago my business led

me to travel in a community in which

there had been kept a Percheron stal-

lion of great merit as an individual and

as an improver of the horses in that

community. I noticed that some of

the good half-blood male colts had

been kept for breeding purposes. In

conversing with some of the patrons

of the young horses, the remark was

frequently made that such a horse was

sired by the “old horse” and they had

as soon use him because they could

get the services of the young horse for

one-half what was charged for the

“old horse.” In subsequent years these

patrons of the young horses were

heard to declare that the improve-

ments made by the pure-bred sires do

not last, but “soon run on ” If those

men had used good “horse sense” and

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I consider it my duty to mention a

mistake very often made by farmers

after they have ventured in the use of

- a pure-bred sire. After obtaining re-

markable results in improving their

stock they select one of their grades

for a sire and thereby lose much of the

benefits already secured. They over-

look the fact that there is a larger

‘ percentage of the inferior blood cours-

, mg in the veins of their animals pull-

ing backward toward the type of their

inferior ancestors than there is pulling

forward toward the type of the improv-





The fact should be kept in mind

that the sire fixes, in a great degree.

the external conformation of the pro-

geny. I will cite the mule as an exam-

ple . A stallion bred to a female ass

produces a miniature horse. ' A pure-

bred draft stallion makes a remark-

able improvement in the conformation

of the colt at the first cross. The

same is true when a pure—bred sire of

any kind is used on common stock.



It is very apparent that there are

great possibilities ahead if great care

and good judgment are used in the se-

lection of sires. It is worththe while

for every farmer who is a breeder of

live stock, and all are to a certain ex.

tent, to study the matter carefully and

become capable of discriminating be-

tween the good and the bad, the desir-

able and undesirable characteristics of

the animals on which we must depend

to not only maintain the stock kept on

the farms, but to improve it and make

it more profitable. The stock eon-

sumes the forage and grain crops on

the farm, and on the good quality of

the stock kept we must depend for

the profits on our farm operations. A

judicious selection of sires can be

made a means by Which better and

more satisfactory results in general

can be obtained.





A short time ago J. E. Storm, of

Iowa, appeared in the Chlcago stock

yards with two cartoons of cattle that

sold for $9.60 per 100. lbs. They re

turned a good profit, costing at the

start when put in only $7 per 100 lbs.

Mr. Storm said there, was a big mo

of young pigs in his part of the coun-

try, and e added that there was a the

corn crop that was out of the way or

the early hosts.
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Contagious abortion, which it is es-

timated is costing cattle owners $20,-

000,000 a year in dead calves and low-

ered milk production, the government

veterinarians say, is second in import-

ance only to tuberculosis in cattle, and

rapidly is coming to the front as the

most costly‘ and serious disease which

the dairy industry in the United States

has to combat. Reports from many

sections indicate that the disease is

spreading rapidly to all parts of the

country. Congress at its last session

recognized the seriousness of the dis-

ease by appropriating $50,000 to be

used by the department in studying the

scourge and developing methods for its

control.



Abortion in cattle, which prevents

the bearing of live calves and frequent-

ly causes cows to become sterile and

remain dry, is caused by the bacillus

abortus. This bacillus is carried from

animal to animal and from herd to

herd by infected bulls and cows and

may be spread in herds by infected

feed and water, or the discharges of

aborting animals.





and cattle lots.





emphasis on preventive





of "no internal drugs that will effect

quick and positive cures and state that

,serum treatment as yet is in an experi-

mental stage.



The department has in preparation





a Farmers’ Bulletin and circulars con- 'Niles, of Grand Ledge, called the meet-

ing to order for the consideration of

more serious affairs.

Prof. A. C. Anderson, who extended a





veying exact information designed to

encourage dairymen and cattle raisers

to apply these remedies and join with





mill, where you use good hay to begin

with.





The disease is con- in Clinton; Eaton and Ingham counties

trollable by isolation and antiseptic gathered on the Campus at the Agri-

treatment of infected animals and by cultural College, East Lansing, on the

disinfection and sanitation of barns afternoon of September 20.

The department vet- seventh annual basket picnic of the

erinarians, however, place the greatest Central Holstein Breeders’ Association

measures. and close to 350 members with their

Proper disinfection of bulls and cows families and friends were present.

will prevent its spread, and persistent Long tables were spread under the

antiseptic treatment of aborting cows trees on the campus where everybody

will overcome sterility and enable the ate luncheon at noon.





COWS to produce healthy calves. The tural College very generously supplied

government specialists, however, know the dessert for the luncheon in the

form of ice cream put up in a new

style, individual carton.

played popular

gathering.





ptainly so “if you have many young

calves, pigs and chickens to feed, for

these all like alfalfa meal mashes made

up with some milk.



,Other leguminOus hays may also be‘

ground in such a mill; the clover-s,

cowpea vines and peanut vines, so the

mill will soon pay for itself even

though alfalfa is not a sure crop in

your locality. The mill will also be

suitable for grinding low growth oats

cut with a header, to make chops; also

sorghum tops, kaffir corn unthreshed,

and other grain of like nature. By

grinding up your own alfalfa hay you

get a grade of meal richer in nutrition

than you are likely to buy from a mill-

er who uses the-sweepings of floors, as

this latter will be composed largely of

leaves and tiny stems, which are not

as nutritious as the larger stems,

where the alfalfa has been cut at the

proper time and properly cured. You

can prove this to be true yourself with-

in a very few weeks by the better and

slicker appearance of your cows and

calves fed upon meal from your own





Illinois. I. H. Morns.





 





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[ coop ALFALFA MEAL.





‘ ior quality, made from sweepings of which, at the present time, is that of.





the department and their state experi- cordial welcome to those present, in





"lent “aims in, 3‘ ,Campaig’} for the behalf of the College. President Ked—

“Pm? and.eradicatlon 0f thls threat. zie then gave a brief and interesting

ening infection. ’ address in which he displayed a knowl-

edge of dairying that fully qualifies

him to be enrolled among the ranks of



A chop mill is a necessity on every good dairy men, regardless 0f “.19 fact

dairy and stock farm where many that he is.the pres1dent of an institu-

dairy cows and steers are fed. With tion teaching many branches 0f learn-

the custom grinding which it should mg ‘0 both young men and “701199“-

be able to do, such a mill would soon President Kedzie presented a new idea

pay for itself. Also, in good alfalfa When he stated that the’dairy COW 18

county a mill for grinding alfalfa meal the gr eatest known Chemlf‘it because 0f

would'pay, for in feeding dairy cows, her ability to take feed, in which hu-

and especially young calves, alfalfa man chemists could find no trace of

meal is one of the most nutritious butter-fat, and convert it into this sub

foods in the roughage class which you stance for which man is totally unable

can buy. In fact, it stands, I believe, to manufacture a successful substitute.

at the head of the list, being richer in State Market Director James N. Mc-'

nutrition than any other forage crop. Bride spoke briefly on the work 0f the

Young calves learn to eat alfalfa meal Michigan Milk Producers’ Association.

in the form of a thin, warm mash He called attention to the fact that the

quicker than they learn to eat cured annual meeting 0f the Association





 





 





 





of skim-milk in the mash at first, grad— day, October 17, and urged all persons mean long lite.few repairs and sure dependability.





ually decreasing the amount of milk interested in the production of market

and increasing the warm water as they or condensery milk to be present.

learn to like the food. PreSident N. P. Hull, of the Michi-

Even if alfalfa is not suited to your gan Milk Producers’ Association, was

locality, and you have to buy the baled the closing speaker on the program.

hay from grain dealers it will still pay Mr. Hull was talking to his friends and

to have an alfalfa mill and grind your neighbors and he spoke With convinc-





meal you buy in the market is of infer- fronting the milk producer, chief of





floors or other light, trashy hay. After securing a price for milk that will ev-

it is ground its poor quality cannot be en equal the cost of production. Mr.

detected so well. The result is that Hull mentioned that the Michigan Milk

many dairymen and stock feeders are Producers’ Association is engaged in

buying very inferior alfalfa meal. At an attempt to induce dairymen to help

least there is always the' possibility themselves; to point out to them the

and likelihood of being defrauded if folly of continuing to produce a pro-

the miller is disposed to do so. The duct and selling it for less than cost;

local dealer is not to blame. The fault and to encourage them to join in a uni-

is with the miller who grinds it. For ted effort to secure a price that will

this reason it pays to buy good No. 1 pay. them a living profit.





most economical. efficient way to save all the Al

value of a corn crop is to husk the ears and make a

fodder of leaves and stalks. Appleton was the fin!





alfalfa hay, where you put a good deal would be held at the College on Tues- Engines-ml husker. Appletons made years ago are





than any husker of equal size. Appleton husks cleanest.

shells least;haa most efficient corn saver. Cuts orshreds

leaves and stalks while busking ‘ears. Fodder value

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I am sending you the result of a pig

feeding test I made this, summer. I

bought seven pigs six weeks old. These

pigs were not in good condition (but

were not stunted) as they only weigh-

ed 92 lbs. altogether.



I placed the pigs in a pen in the

barn. The pen was about 8x10 feet in

size. I kept them there 60 days,Iand

they gained 62 lbs. each during the 60

days. Then I removed them to a yard

about 4011100 feet in size. There was

a "small amount of grass in this yard

when I placed them in it. As the gar-

den was next to the pigs I intended to

pull weeds for green teed, but we had

such a dry, hot summer that even the

weeds did not do well, so practically

these pigs did not have any pasture

while they were on feed.



During the 130 days they were fed

they consumed 1,100 lbs. of ground



/ oats and shelled corn, about 20 per

cent oats; 105 bushels ot ears of corn

and 4,000 lbs. of skim-milk from the

creamery and they gained 1,218 lbs. It

took 3.31 lbs, of grain and 3.20 lbs. of

skim-milk to make one pound of gain.

These pigs made a daily gain of 1.33

lbs. each for the 130 days. As they

were only six weeks old when I com-,

menced to feed them I think this is a

big gain.



I sold these pigs the second of Octo-

ber for $10 per cwt. They weighed

1, 310 lbs. alive and dressed 1.006. They

brought me $131 and cost, counting

ear corn at 40 cents per bushel, oats

and ground feed at $1.50 per cwt., and

skim-milk at 20 cents per cwt, and

$17.50 the price I paid for the pigs,a

total of $84. At the above figures for

feed, the cost per hundred was $6. 30.



In comparison here is an item I took

from my books: “Sold five pigs, livei

weight 1,120 lbs., at $3.50, amounts to

$39.20. (Dated Aug, 5, 1898).”



Wayne Co. J. F. BARRY.





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 





 





HOW MUCH HAY FOR HORSES?





 





How many pounds of hay does an

average sized work horse require a

day? Also, how much for a cow that

gets about 40 lbs. of ensilage a day?

Is it advisable to feed a horse or cow

all the hay they can eat?



Kent Co. E. D.



‘A cow can consume more roughage

than a horse in proportion to live

weight, because the cow’s stomach is

much larger and because she remastio

cates this roughage at her leisure.



The horse has a comparatively small

stomach and should not be fed on

roughage entirely. The general rule is

one pound of hay per day for each 100

pounds of live weight, and in addition

one pound of grain per day for each

100 pounds of live weight. This is for

horses doing full work. It horses do





the roughage can be increased and the

grain diminished somewhat.



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inois, was on the Chicago market with

the tailend portion of his choice you:-

ling cattle he is preparing for the 111-

ternational Live Stock Exposition.

They consisted o1 Toms-bred Hem—

fonds. numbering 20 head, and aver-cg

lug in weight 974 lbs. They soul read

fly for $10.85 per 100 1115,

A short time ago a Chicago deal-

or sorted up a earloadi of fancy

Shorthorn stocker calves for J. T. Mey-

«8.0101110, the calves coming from

all parts of the yards and costing dit-

ienent prices the entree lot averaging

$8.25 per 1 lbs They

higher than the best :fleshy feeders

were selling for, but experienced cat-





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And that is all due to our factory economies,

worked out here by JohnW. Bate.



This efficiency engineer designed all our new

buildings. He equipped them with 2000 up-to-

date machines. The reasult is a model plant,

where our factory cost has been reduced one-half.

That is the reason for the Mitchell extra values.





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gasoline. Yet the high-grade

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T is an absolute injustice to expect



a state capitol to be stable and de-



pendable and be subject to such a

constitutional provision as the follow-

,,ing: “The seat of government for this

state shall be at Detroit, or at such

-, other place or places as may be pre-

scribed by law, until the year eighteen

hundred forty-seven, when it shall be

permanently located by the legis-

lature.” '



Could any capitol thus located be

other than fickle, .vacillating and a

habitual flirt? Even at the time she

made her appearance in Detroit, our

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ing smiled over her fan at “Detroit in-

fluence, much to the disgust of her

ardent suitors, the interior villages.

From that day there grew and strength-

ened a grim determination among the

prominent men of the state to remove

the capitol from Detroit to one of the

prosperous interior towns.



As the year 1847 drew near, when

the capitol was to be permanently lo-

cated by the legislature, the anti—De-





 





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troit feeling grew stronger and more





bitter and outspoken. It was even

darkly hinted that Detroit’s social set

dominated important legislation to an

extent that was‘menacing. It was in-

sinuated that a single “quail party”





had been known to change the opposi





ers of a measure to premoters of it.

The bill providing for the location of



the capitol was introduced January 6,



1847, and, after second reading, refer-





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





red to a committee of the whole and

from thence to a special committee.

The bill reported by this special com-.

mittee was the same as the bill event-

ually passed, except that the place of

location was left blank, and there was

a provision that the necessary build-

ings should be provided by the county

and given rent free to the state. The

committee was united as to the form

of the bill, but a chasm as deep as that

separating Lazarus from Dives yawned

between them when it came to decid-

ing as to the proper place for its lo-

cation. They scolded like fishwives

and even indulged in a few personali-





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the battle was on.

that the odor of sanctity hung. heavily





about Marshall, Calhoun County, and





that there the capitol should be. 0th-

ers urged, that Marshall was so far

smith as to be in dangerous proximity





. to southern slavery promoters. Mar-





shall declared that all to the north of

them was a tenantless, abandoned wil-

“Interior influence” flung at





poor man could become governor, if

the capitol should be retained at De-





. troit, because upon his munificent sal-





ary of fifteen hundred dollars per year,

he could not afford the frippery neces-

sary to a participation in the gay, gar-

ish life of Detroit’s voluptuous four

hundred; while on the other hand, if

the capitol was located at one of the

simpler interior villages, any poor but

ambitious man could brush up his beav-

er, shake the horse hairs from his best

homespun, tallow up his shoes and

make a brave showing at the capitol

city. The Detroiters allowed that the

Marshallites were “snails” and the

Marshallites said the Detroiters were

‘snippy.” The war waxed merry and

the disinterested onlookers laughed

gleefully. .



The bill had its ups and downs and

nearly every ‘village of the interior

had its name presented, among them

Lyons, Jackson, Battle Creek and Ba-

ton Rapids. _ At one time it was agreed

by a vote of thirty to thirty-eight to

insert “Lyons in the County of Ionia,”

but by a skillful bit of parliamentary

gerrymandering, Lyons was stricken

out and the bill was again before the

house. During the lengthy deadlock

there was no end of bantering and buf-

foonery among the delegates.



The situation was humorous indeed,

when it is realized that masterful

plays and manipulations were going

on before the face and eyes of an un-





 





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never! that the upheaving force thit

lifted the capitol from Detroit to Lan-

sing was a real estate deal in which

Detroit’s own citizens were largely in-

terested. Certain Detroiters owned ”a

tract of land in the vicinity of Corunna

and believing they had the necessary

strength to land the capitol at that

place, were as active as hornets in the

promotion of its removal from Detroit.

However, they reckoned without their

host. There were other parties equally

active for its removal, but they were

very quiet as to where it should go.

Their landed interests were all in Lan-

sing township. So while the name of





nearly every village and town in Gen?





tral Michigan had its name presented,

the real fight, in the still water below





the surface, was between Corunna and "





what is now Lansing. The Lansing

faction was divided among themselves

for a time, as a part of the promoters

owned land on one side of the school

section on which the capitol was event-

ually located, and the opposing faction

had land on the 'other side. However,

these opposing parties agreed among

themselves to the locating of the cap—

itol 0n the section between them, they

pulled together and were too strong

for the Detroit-Corunna crowd and se-

cured its location where it now is. By

working with New York parties who

had large landed holdings in the vicin-

ity of Lansing and who knew that the

locating of the capitol at that place

meant a fortune for them, they formed

a powerful lobby, who engaged in

booming the Lansing proposition.



It is stated that the proposal to fill

the blank with “in the township of

Lansing,” was cousidered a‘great joke

and no debate was had upon it, the

question being put at Once and carried,

even the Wayne delegation voting for

it. The joke proved to be on them, for



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Th3 FIOOd By ZONA GALE





(First installment last week).



She spoke up, like them little wom~

en do sometimes that you ain’t ever

looked upon as particularly special

when it comes to taking a stand.



“Why, yes,” she says. “They ain’t

a woman in the village that would

stand that kind of dealing, if they only

knew. And we,” she adds tranquil,

“could see to that.”



Silas give the date-word he was

making a. throw over on to the sugar

barrel and made a wild gesture with

a handful of toothpicks.



“Women,” he says, “dum women. If

it wasn’t for you women swarming ov-

er the world like different kinds of—

of—ofwnoxious insects, it would be a.

regular paradise.”



“Sure it would,” I says logical, “be-

cause there wouldn’t be a man in it to

mess it up.”



Silas had just opened his mouth to

reply, when all of a sudden, like a let-

ter in your box, somebody come and

stood in the doorway—a man, and call-

ed out something, short and sharp and

ending in “Come on——all of you,” and

disappeared out again, and we heard

him running down the street. Then

we say two-three more go running by

the door, and we heard some shouting.

And Silas, that must have guessed at

what they said, he started off behind

them, dragging on his sear-sucker coat

and holding his soft felt hat in his

mouth, it not seeming to occur to him

that he could set it on his head till he

was ready to use it.



“What’s the matter?" I says to Mis’

Holcomb. “They must be setting ex-

cited becaUSe nothing ever happens

here. They ain’t nothing else to get

excited over that I can think of."



Then we see more men come run'

ning, and their boots clumped down on





' the loose board walk with that special

clump and thud that boots gets to ’om,





when they’re running with bad news,

or hurrying for help.





 





 





“What is it?” I says, getting to the

door. And I see men begin to come

out of the stores and get in knots and

groups that you can tell mean trouble

of some kind, just as plain as you can

tell that some portraits of total strong

ers is the portraits of somebody that‘s

dead. They look dead. And them

groups looked trouble. And then I see

Timothy Toplady come tearing down

the road in his spring wagon, with his

horses’ check reins all dragging and.

him lashing out at ’em as he stood up

in the box. Then I run right out in

the road and yelled at him. '



“Timothy,” I says, “what’s the mat-

ter? What’s happened?”



He drew up his horses, and threw

out his hand, beckoning angular.



“Come on,” he says, “get in here——

get in quick. . . .” ,



Then he looked back over his shout

der and see Mis’ Merriman that had

come out to her gate with Mis’ Sykes,

and they was both out on the street,

looking, and he beckoned, wild, to

them; and they come running.



“Quick ” says Timothy. “The dam's

broke. They’ve just telephoned every-

body. The Flats’ll be flooded. Come

on and help them women load their

things. ”



I don’t remember any of us saying

a thing. We just clomb in over the

back-board of Timothy’s wagon, him

reaching down to help us, courteous,

and we set down on the bottom of the

wagon—Mis’ Holcomb and Mis’ Sykes.

them two enemies, and Mis’ Merrimau

and rue—and we headed for the Flats.



I remember, on the ride down there,

seeing the street get thick with folks

———in a minute theistreet was black.

with everybody, all hurrying toward

what was the matter, and all veering,

out and swarming into the road——

somehow, folks always flows over into

the road when anything happens. And

men and women kept coming out of

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back at them" so s" they couldn’t- under-

stand, but they come out and joined in

and run anyway. And over and over,

as he drove, Timothy k’ept shouting to

us how he had just been hitching up

when the news come, and how his

wagon was a new one and had ought

to be able to cart off five or six loads

at a trip.





“It can’t hurt Friendship' Village

proper,” I remember his Saying over

and over too, “that’s built high and

dry. But the whole Flats’ll be flooded

out of any resemblance to what they

have been before.”



“Friendship Village proper,” I says

over to myself, when we got to the top

of Elephant Hill that let us look over

the Pump pasture and away across

the Flats, lying idle and not really

counted in the town till it come to the

tax list. There was dozens of little

houses—the Marshalls and nthe Betts’s

and the Rickers’s and the Hennings

and the Doles and the Haskitts, and I

donno who all. All our washings was

done down there—or at least the wash-

ings was of them that didn’t do them

themselves. The garden truck of them

that didn’t have gardens, the home-

grown vegetables for Silas’s store, the

hired girls’ homes of them that had

hired girls, the rag man, the scissors

grinder, Lowry that canes chairs and

was always trying to sell us tomato

plants—you know how that part of a

town is populationed? And then there

Was a few that worked in Silas’s fac-

tory, and an outlaying milkman or two

le—and so on. “Friendship Village prop-

er,” I says over and looked down and

wondered why the Flats was improper

enough to be classed in—laying down

there in the morning sun, with nice,

neat little dooryards and nice, neat lit-

tle wreaths of smoke coming up out of

their chimneys—and the whole Mad

river loose and going to swirl down on

it and lap it up, exactly as hungry for

it as if it had been Friendship Village

“proper.”



They was running out of their little

houses, up towards us, coming with

whatever they had, with children, with

baskets between ’em, with little ani-

mals, with bed~quilts tied and filled

with stuff. Some few we see was busy

loading their things up on to the sec-

ond floor, but most of ’em didn’t have

any second floors, so they was either

running up the hill or getting a few

things on to the roof. It wasn’t a big





afraid of: any loss of life or of houses

being tipped over or like that. But we

knew there’d be two—three feet of wa-

ter over their ground floors by noon.



“Land, land,” says Mis’ Sykes, that’s

our best housekeeper, “and I s’pose

it’s so late lots of ’em had their spring

cleaning done.”



“I was thinkin’ of that,” says Mis’

Holcomb, her enemy.



“But then it being so late most of

’em has got their winter vegetables et

out of their sullars,” says Mis. Merri-

man, trying to hunt .out the bright

side.



“That’s true as fate, Mis’ Merriman,”

I remember I says, agreeing with her

fervent.



And us two pairs of feuds talked

about it, together, until we got down

into the Flats and begun helping ’em

load.



We filled up the wagon with what

they had ready, tied up and boxed up

and in baskets or thrown in loose, and

Timothy started back with the first

load, Mis’ Haskitt calling after him pit-

iful to be careful not to stomp on her

best black dress that she’d started off

with in her arms, and then trusted to

the wagon and gone back to get some

more. Timothy was going to take ’em

up to the top of Elephant Hill and

dump ’em there by appointment, and

come back for another load, everybody

sorting out their *own out of the pile

later, as best they could. While he

was gone we done things up for folks

like wild and I donno but like mad,

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President Wilson’s

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——'l‘o the Farmer—To the Chantry-To Humanity





Demands Your Support





E have never had a man in the White House who so



thoroughly represented ALL the people of this. country as



the man who is there today. Representing no interest of

special privilege, he has the interest of ALL at heart. He has

been steadily and steadfastly “on the jo ” for us. Even now when the

Republicans are doing all in their power to befo the issue. criticize and

misrepresent his actions, impugn his motives—he gone steadily on,giv—

ing his time to the duties of his office rather than campaigning for re-

election.





President Wilson does not ask for a vindication of his administration by

re—election to office: He does not ask for four more years for personal

satisfaction—but the country demands it, because the country needs h1m.





He stands on his record and his record is clean—a record of service—a

record of deeds, not words. S ace is too limited to give it in full but as an

illustration, look at this recor of service to you, the farmer. Then re-

member that the same keen insight into conditions—the same rare coura e

that has achieved this bettering of conditions for you—has guided e

administration’s legislation for the benefit of the whole country and

humanity. Here is the record:





President Wilson Has Maintained

Peace With Honor





No greater service was ever rendered to any country by any man in any time“ This alone

warrants your support of him. But this is_ not all. Outlie record of his administration‘s

service to you. see what has been accompllshed. In brief. here Is the record:





G—Thc Federal Aid Road Act will conduce

to the establishment of better highways

and better marketing.





7—The Federal Reserve Act benefits the

farmer by guaranteeing better bank-

ing. safeguarding the credit structure

of the country and preventing panics.

making larger provision for .loans

through national banks on farm mort—

gages and by giving farm paper a

maturity period of SIX months.





The Federal Farm Loan Act





I—lt was essential. however. that banking

machinery be devised which would

reach intimately into the rural districts.

that it should operate on terms suited to

the farmers’ needs. and should be under

sympathetic management. The need

was for machinery which would intro-

ducebusiness methods intofarm finance.

bring order out of chaos, reduce the cost

of handling farm loans. place upon the

market mortgages which would be a

sale investment for private funds. at

tract into agricultural operations a fair

share of the capital of the nation, and

lead to a reduction of interest. These

needs and these ideals have been met

by the enactment of the Federal Farm

Loan Act.





I ——Appreeiation of the importance of

agriculture has been shown_through

greatly and intelligently increased

appropriations for its support.



Z-Grcatly increased provision has been

made, through the enactment of the

(lo—operative Agricultural EatenSion

Act. for conveying agricultural informa-

tion to farmers.



3—’l‘hrough the Office of Markets and Rural

Organization. systematic provismu has,

for the first time. been made toward

the solution of problems in that import.

ant half of agriculture which concerns

distribution. marketing. rural finance

and rural organization. The appropria—

tions for this office. including those for

enforcing new laws designed to pro-

mote better marketing. have been in-

creased to $1,200,000.



4—The United States Grain Standards Act

will secure uniformity in the grading

of grain and enable the farmer to obtain

fairer prices for his product.



5—’1‘he United States Warehouse Act will

enable the Department. of Agriculture

to license bonded warehouses in various

states. It will lead to better storage

facilities for staple crops and make

possible the issuance of reliable ware-

house receipts which will be easily

negotiable.





So much for legislation. This is not. all. but it is enough to indicate what. has been accom-

plished. Now consider what just one recent act of Presxdent Wilson has done. for the farmer.





Preventing Nation-Wide Railroad

Strike Saved Millions!





Despite the perverted arguments of opposition spell binders and fact twisters. the cold

figures show that President Wilson's work in preventing a natiOiwade railroad strike sav-

ed tens of millions of dollars for the farmer, without inmstice to any class.





Take, the value. of the 1015 crop of apples, peaches and potatoes (comparatively perishable

crops). The 1016 figures will greatly exceed them. llad the strike lasted only a week. shi -

ments' would have been thrown off schedule for a. mouth or more-and at a 11111111111111.334

per cent. of these crops would have been ruined. In the State. of Washington. Oregon

California, Idaho, Montana, Utah. Colorado, Kansas and Missouri alone the value oi

3915 Apples, Peaches and Potato» was $32,875,380. A railroad Noun oi one

week would have mount a dead loss to FARMERS of at least $27,000,000.





The Republican Party buncoed and bamboozled the farmer—that Wall street and allied

interests might; be benefited. The Wilson administration has fought the farmer’s battles for

him. The 1915 value of farm crops and livestock products amounted to$10,500.000.000. as

against 39.300.000.000 in 10127-3. gain of 31.200.000.000, notwithstanding Republican predic-

tion that: Democratic administration would ruin the farmer and the prices of his products.





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“That was Ben Dole’s wife that Tim-

othy done that for,“ I says, to be sure

we meant the same thing. “Just as if

he hadn’t never. harmed her husband’s

cement plant.”



“I know,” says Mis’ Holcomb. “Don’t

that beat the very day to a. froth?"

and she went on emptying Mis’ Dole’s

bureau drawers into a bed-spread.



By the time the fourth load or so

had gone on, and the other wagons

that had come was working the same

way, the water was seeping along the

lower road, down past the wood-yard.

More than one as saying we’d ought

to begin to make tracks for the high

ground, because likely when it come,

it’d come with ‘a rush. And some of

us had stepped out'on the street and

was asking Silas, that you kind of turn

to in emergency, because he’s the only

one that don’t turn to anybody else,

whether we hadn’t better go, when

down the street we see a man come

tearing like mad.



“My land,” I says, “it’s Bitty Mar-

shall. He wasn’t home. And where’s

his wife? I ain’t laid eyes on her.”



None of us had seen her that morn-

ing. And us that stood together broke

into a run, and it was Silas and Mis’

Merriman and me that run together,

and rushed together up the stairs of

Bitty’s little grocery, to where he liv-

ed. and into the back room. And there

set Bessie Marshall in the back room,

putting her baby to sleep as tranquil

as the blue sky and not knowing a

word of what was going on, and by the

window was Bitty’s old mother, shell-

ing pop-corn. '



I never see anybody work like Silas

worked them next few minutes. If he’d

been a horse and a giant made one he

couldn’t have got more quick, neces-

sary things out of the way. And we

done What we could, and it wasn’t any

time at all till we was going down the

stairs carrying what few things they’d

most need for the next few days. And

when we stepped out in the street, the

water was an inch or more all over

where we stood, and when we’d got

six steps from the houseand Bitty had

gone ahead shouting to the wagon,

Bessie Marshall looked up at Silas

real pitiful.



“0h, Mr. Sykes,” she says, "there’s

a coop of little chickens and their

mother by the back door. Couldn’t we

take ’em ?”



“Sure,” says Silas, and when the

wagon come he made it wait for us,

and when the Marshalls and the baby





and me, he come running with the

coopful of little yellow scraps, and we

was the last wagon to leave the Flats

and to get up to Elephant Hill again.



“But, oh,” says Mis’ Merriman. “it



seems like us women could do such a

little bit of rescuing. Oh. when it’s a

flood or a fire or a runaway, I do most

question Providence as to. why we

wasn’t all born men.”



. You know how it is, when a great

big thing comes catastrophing down

on you, it just eats up the edges of the

thing you think. with, and leaves you

with nothing but the wish-bone of your

brain operating, kind of flabby. But

when we got up on top of Elephant

Hill, where was everybody—folks from

the Flats. and a good deal of what they

owned put into a pile, and the folks

from Friendship “proper” come to

watch—there was Mis’ Timothy Top-

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side of d

"e of it.





Bed and breakfast of course we can

manage among us. but the other two

meals is sure going to be'some of a.

trick. So be Silas would leave us have

post office hall free, we could order

the stuff sent in right there, and all

turn in and cook it.” , ,



"Oh, my,” says Mis’ Holcomb, soft,

to me, “he'll never do that. He’ll say

it’ll set a precedent, and what he does

for one he’ll have to do for all. It’s a.

real handy dodge.”



“Well,” says Mis’ Merriman, “leave

him set a precedent for himself for

floods. We won’t expect it off him

other.”



“I ain’t never yet seen him,” I says,

“carrying a. chicken coop without he

meant to sell chickens. Mebbe he’s

got a change of heart. Let’s ask him.”

I says, and adds low to Mis’ Toplady

that I’d asked Silas for so many things

that he wouldn’t give or do that I

could almost do it automatic, and PC]

as lives ask him again as not.



It wasn’t but a minute till him and

Timothy come by, each estimating how

fast the river would raise. And I spoke

up right then. ,



“Silas,” I says, “had you thought

how we’re going to feed these folks till

the water goes down ?”



I fully expected him to snarl out

something like he usually does‘, about

us women being frantic to assume re«

sponsibility. Instead of that he look-

ed down at us thoughtful:



“Well,” says he, “that’s just what

I’ve been studying. on some. And I

was thinking that if you women would

cook the stuff, us men would chip in

and buy the material. And wouldn’t it

be some easier to cook it all in one

place? I could let you have the post

office hall, if you say so.”



“IVhy, Silas,” I says, “Silas . . .”

And I couldn’t say another word. And

it was the rest of ’em let him know

that we’d do it. And when they’d

gone one,



“Do you think Timothy sensed

that?” says Mis’ Toplady, meditative.



“l donno,” says I, “but I can see to

it that he does.”



“I was only thinking,” says she,

“that we’ve got seven dozen fresh eggs

in the house, and we’re getting six

quarts of milk a day now . . .”



“I’ll recall ’em,” says I, “to his

mind.”



But when I’d run ahead and caught

up with ’em, and mentioned eggs and

milk suggestive, in them quantities,



“Sure,” says Timothy, “1 just been

telling Silas he could count on ’em.”



And that was a wonderful thing, for

we one and all knew Timothy Toplady

as one of them decanter men that the

glass stopper can’t hardly be got out.

But it wasn’t the most wonderful—for

Silas spoke up fervent—~ferventer than

I’d ever known him to speak:



“They can have anything we’ve got,





Calliope,” he says, “in our stores or

our homes. Make ’em know that,” he

says.





It didn’t take me one secunt to pull

Silas aside.



“Silas,” I says, “oh, Silas—is what

you just said true? Because if it’s true

——won’t you let Bitty keep his store?”



He looked down at me, frowning a

little. One of the little yellow chicks

in the coop got out between the bars

just then, and was just falling on its

nose when he caught— it—I s’pose bill

is more biologic, but it don’t sound so

dangerous~and he was tucking it back

in, gentle, with its mother, while he

answered me, testy: _



“Lord, Calliope,” he says, “a flood’s

a flood. Can’t. you keep things sep-

arate?”



“No, sir,” I says, “I can’t. Nor I

don’t believe the Lord can either.”



(Concluded next week).





We are learning that no one can see

all of truth, that our doubting neighbor

may be as honest as we are, that as

many causes tend to make men think

differently as alike, and we are also

learning that the main thing is to cast





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M: OUR “STATE cAPITOL.

(Continued from page 382). .



the bill was immediately sent to the

senate. Panic seized all the aspiring

villages and lobbying began in dead

earnest. Every tactic known to the

wary politician was resorted to in or-

der that the bill might be amended and

returned to the house for the usual

“killing off” but all to no avail. The

bill passed the senate, was presented

to the governor, who signed it, and it

became a. law.



Mr. Levi BishOp in his memoirs, says

that when the fact became known that

the capitol was really to be located at

Lansing, there went up from Detroit a

loud and prolonged wail to this import:

“What, shall we take the capitol from

a large and beautiful city and stick it

down in the mud on the banks of the

Grand River, amid choking miasma,

where the howl of wolves and the hiss-

ing of massasaugas and groans of bull-

frogs resound to the hammer of the

woodpecker and the solitary note of

the nightingale?" Mr. Bishop further

states that one disgusted member of-

fered a new section to the bill as fol-

lows: “The sum of one hundred dol-

lars is hereby appropriated out of the

five mill tax to erect guideboards to

direct members of the next legislature

to the seat of government in the state

of Michigan.”



A supplemental act provided for the

appointment by the governor of three

commissioners to select a site, and

Rev. F. C. Blades, of Detroit, an early

circuit rider of Genesee county, tells

of his meeting with one of these com-

missioners and of the driving of the

first stake for the capitol. Rev. Blades

states that his circuit took him into

‘Ingham county, and having learned

that the capitol of the state was to be

located somewhere in the wilds of

Lansing Township, and being directed

by one of the hands working at Page’s

Mill, he made his way to thesection

designated as the capitol site. The

spot was a beautiful knoll in a dense

wilderness and Rev. Blades thought it

a crime to mar the silence and destroy

so much natural beauty with a bab-

bling town. As he stood there, a man

emerged from the wilderness who

proved to be Mr. Glen, one of the com-

missioners for the location of the cap-

itol. The surprise was mutual. Mr.

Glen stated he was looking for a point





to locate his capitol, and Rev. Blades »





said‘he was looking for a congregation

to listen to the mellow music of his

voice. They both agreed that the pros-

pects were much better for finding Mr.

Glen’s point than Rev. Blades’ congre-

gation. However, Mr. Glen volunteered

to produce the congregation if Mr.

Blades would find and select the point,

which he did, and drove a stake on the

exact ground where our capitol now

stands. Mr. Glen kept his word by

calling together the Page Mill hands

and their families, to whom Mr. Blades

talked for half an hour, and this, in all

probability, was the first sermon ever

preached in the city of Lansing.



The naming of the capitol city was

attended with much hilarity. Among

the proposed titles were Bushbridge,

Thornbus

One consci nceless soul even proposed

naming it Pewan'ogowink. The bill as

it went before the house carried the

tuneful title of “Aloda,” and so it pass-

ed the house, but the matter-of-fact

senate changed it to Michigan and

Michigan it became.’ However, this

petulant and audacious youngster was

not satisfied with this unassuming

name and immediately set about to

change it. Like most ingrates who fly

in the face of providence and their

progenitors, it narrowly escaped the

calamity of being dubbed “Okema” be-

fore it was finally awarded the decent,

civilized name of Lansing, which it has

since retained.



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ing vine type is now quite passe, al-

though not altogether obsolete. It still

flourishes in some parts, where a wom-

an has not awakened to the fact that

helpless femininity is no'longer popu-

lar with either women or men. In-

deed, if our fathers and grandfathers

told the truth, I believe we would find

that this style never was popular with

men. I am firmly convinced that those

dear old gentlemen endured, rather

than enjoyed, the clinging vine and

sturdy oak style of living. Small won-

der that some of them as a sort of

compensation became despots. Better

this than to be smothered by the cling-

ing arms of the vine. '



However, as'I said, the clinging vine

is no longer popular, which is a. big

score in favor of suffrage. The women

who demanded equal rights were clev-

er enough to know that if they were

to be man’s. equals in civic privileges

they must Show themselves his equal

in every way. Hence has arisen the

independent woman, capable of stand-

ing squarely on her own feet and di-

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Most women we meet nowadays are of

this saner sort, though, as I said, there

still linger a. few specimens .of the old

school, women who rule by weakness.

It may be husband, it may be son, who

is the victim. But by the terrible ty-

ranny of weakness he is reduced to a.

vassal state, more pitiable than even

the antis picture poor man if women

should get the vote.



A man died recently in the prime of

life, but he was glad to die and every-

one who knew him well realized it.

There was much to live for, friends, a

good profession, a little fame, but——

there was the tyrant. In this case it

was his mother. All his life he had

been in bondage to her whims because

she chose to pose as helpless. Al-

though possessed of two good strong

legs and a normal brain this mother

would not go out alone. She must al-

ways be accompanied by her son. To

such an extreme did the moths: carry

her tyranny that she would not even

go shopping alone. The son had to let

business go when she felt like making

a tour of the stores and patiently trail

after her from ribbon counter to un-

derwear department, conscious mean-

while of the amused glances of shop-

pers who watched him helping match

samples.



Of course he never married. How

could he when his mother had to have

his help in everything? Someone had

to unbutton her shoes, she was too del-

icate to bend, someone must see that

her brushes and coxnbs and negligees

were laid out, and as there was no one

else who would do it, Hiram was the

victim.



They lived four miles from Hiram’s

work, in an old house which took 15

tons of coal to heat and had a 50—foot

stretch of walk to clean of snow every

winter. Hiram wanted to take a small

flat down town near his office, but

mother could never bear to live in a.

building with so many people. who

might be all right or might not. There

would have been no furnace to care

for nor walks to clean, and work would

have been just ten minutes away for

Hiram instead of 60, but mother was

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Hiram was a social being and want-

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and Hiram had the house alone.



Mother’s weakness over-reached it-

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ed car, in a hard snowstorm. Next

morning he had a cold, the furnace fire

was out and the walks had to be clean-

ed. On the second the doctor said it

was pneumonia. and five days later

they took him out to Elmwood.



Friends wondered what mother

would ever do. Some prophesied that

she would follow Hiram in a month.

She didn’t. She moved downtown into

one of the detested apartment houses,

took three boarders, went to market

every morning at four o’clock in sum-

mer and six in winter, and harried the

hucksters into giving her rock-bottom

prices. She does all the work for her

enlarged family and shows none of the

symptoms of that delicate health she

enjoyed for years.



I could enumerate several wives who

have lived much the same sort of life.

While husband was living they were





unable to walk a. block, there must al-‘





ways be a carriage or taxi to take

them about. They were too weak to

bother about finances, so they simply

bought what they wanted, had it charg-

ed, and left the bills for husband to

untangle and settle, if he could, at the

end of the month. Every attempt on

his part to get them to co-operate was

squelched by a fainting fit or a week

in bed with nurses and doctors to pay

for, until finally the husband surrend-

ered to the tyranny of weakness and

became the patient slave.



But when time widowed these wom-

en, their weakness dropped off at the

funeral. When there was not a wage





earner to provide carriages they~ sud--





denly discovered they could walk for

miles. And their financial education

blossomed sufficiently for them to go

forth and earn their own living. In

fact, they showed a positively uncanny

knowledge of the purchasing power of

a dollar, and pinched each one until

the eagle screamed.



Many a man is living in bondage to-

day because he can not fight weakness,

real or assumed. A wife who would

demand submission and insist upon

getting it, he might defy. But he can

not stand up against tears and head-

aches, when reinforced by hysterics

and fainting spells. Even a look of

resignation brings him to his knees.

He is persuaded that his wife is deli-

cate, and needs unusual care and he

must humor her. Thus her weakness,

real or assumed, becomes her strength

and she rules absolutely.



And it is tyranny impossible to es-

cape from. Chafe against it as he may,

the idea that “we who are strong

ought to bear. the burdens of the

weak,” is so inbred that he never

thinks of rebelling. St. Paul really

should have written another verse set-

ting forth the duty of the weak to-

wards the strong. They certainly need

advise. DEBORAH.





HOW TO KEEP CANNAS, DAHLIAS

AND GLADIOLAS.





Cannas, dahlias and gladiolas are all

classed as tender perennials, that is,

plants that live and bloom year after

year but are not able to withstand the

cold winters. Freezing of the root or

bulb destroys them. These plants may

be allowed to grow until the first

heavy frost comes,‘ killing the crops.

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, For gladiolas it is not necessary to

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ployed who directed the marketing op.

erations in the morning hours of each

day and was manager of the skating

rink evenings. As most of the mar-

keting was done in the summer time

and most of the skating in the winter

this arrangement worked finely.



The project was a success. The gross

income for the first year was in round

figures $10,000. This amount not only

paid all expenses, but left a surplus

for improvements or dividends. A sec-

ond shed was erected as the number

of farmers and hucksters using the

market crowded the original building.

The market began performing a real

and desirable function, and it contin-

ues to do so. However, roller skating

is not as much of a fad as a few years

ago and the income from strictly mar-

keting operations is not enough to pay

expenses, make repairs and pay inter-

est on the investment. It may be that

it will prove best one of these days for

the city to buy the property to insure

that the market is maintained.



0n the morning when the above

view' was secured there were 75 rigs

at the market, including growers, huck-

sters, grocerymen and buyers who

came in autos. The growers with pro-





 





 





duce to sell numbered 35. They had





.ing satisfactorily.





 





 





y Owned Market is able to keep order,





and Conduct the Business with General Satisfaction.





course in the science and art of mar-

keting, his activity clearly proves that

he thoroughly comprehends the basic

principles of trade. He closely watch‘

es the dealings of all those on the mar-

ket and when he sees anything that

savers of sharp practices he invents a

way for bringing about fair play. He

watches the ped'dlers to see that they

do not buy up all there is of any one

commodity and corner the market. He‘





keeps an eye on the measures being ’





used to be sure that consumers are

not getting short measure; he pre-

serves the peace when there is a vio-

lent difference of opinion; he encourag-

es timid growers and suggests ways

by which they can increase their trade;

he strives diligently to promote mar-

keting. He studies outside conditions

and points out opportunities whereby

products that are a drug on the Bay

City market may beshipped to other

points where they are scarce. For in-

stance, when tomatoes were worth but

25 cents a bushel at Bay City he en-

couraged a buyer to take the entire

stock on the market and ship it to

Alpena where it was sold at 85 cents

a bushel. He encourages activity.



The wholesale produce dealers who

own the capital stock of the market

company have found it an advantage

to have the market near their section

of the city as they can buy on the

market each morning such produce as

they may need to complete the orders

they have from distant points to which

they are constantly shipping. All

things consideredythe market is work-

If the city owned

the property ordinances could be pass-

ed to accomplish those things which

are now accomplished by a high order

of tact.





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Mecosta 00., Oct. 13.—-Oats were

nearly a. normal crop. Clover seed

prospects are fairly good. Potatoes

about half a. crop while beans prob-

ably will average (iO per cent of 3. nor-

mal yield. Corn is light and there was

a fair cucumber crop. The usual

amount of fall grains were sown. But-

ter 286mm; 9. 3: 300; potatoes g1:

cattle 5e; bogs ; wheat 81.47@1. 2;

beans $4.75.



Cheboygan 66., Oct. 10.-Bean.s will

yield eight to ten bushels in this coun-

ty. Acreage of fall grains will be

above the average. The usual amount

of stool: is being fed. N0 clover seed

has been hulled yet. Buckwheat will

be about half a 0m? Apples 6% per

bushel; wheat $1.8 ; oats 500; navy

beans $6@7; potatoes $1.25: butter

tat 860; hogs 80100.



Oladwin 00., Oct. 7.mBeans are all

pulled, some late planted being hit

hard with frost. Silos are filled. Po-

tato crop is short. The outlook for

clover seed is good with the acreage

quite large. Due to the shortagebl

pasture, there is considerable live

stock for sale. Only a small acreage

of wheat was sown here on account of

the dry soil. The rye acreage. how-

ever. is above normal. Been thresh.

in: has not started. Beans are quot-

ed at 8 .60: Wheat 81.40; rye 31.08;

potatoes $1.40; hogs 9c; lambs 8o.



Livingston 60., Oct. 10.-«Owlng to

the dry weather, corn, potatoes and

beans will be light creps. Potatoes are

now being shipped in at $1.60 per bu.

Bean threshing has started and the

quality of the legume is high. The dry

season has cut down the acreage of

wheat sown. The shortage of the corn

crop will reduce the acreage of fall

crops. Wheat $1.50; beans $4.50; rye

$1.17; butter 320; eggs 28c; milk $1.90

Der cwt.



St. Clair 00., Oct. law—Wheat seed-

ing is practically completed and a large

acreage has been put in. Corn and

potatoes are both interior crops, farm-

ers being obliged to import potatoes

for their own use at 81.25 per bushel.

The bean acreage here was small, but

the uality of the crop is good. Clover

hulli g has not started. hort astur—

age and a scarcity of corn is orcing

farmers to sell live stock. Apples are

scarce, as is also the case with pears.

Wheat $1.45; oats 600: beans $4.50;

milk $1.45 percwt; butter—fat 82c; ap-

ples $1 per bushel.



Delta 60. Oct. 8.——vThe usual amount

of tall grains are being sown. Late

potatoes and corn have ripened in

good shape. Potatoes are a fair crop

on high land, but interior on the hate.

The yield of cabbage will be light and

fruits about half a crop. Potatoes $1

@115; apples 90c 31; cabbage So a

pound; hay $10@1 a, ton; eggs 35@

400; butter~lat 330.



Ohio.





Hancock 09.. Oct. 14.-—-—Corn yield

Will make a fair evera e. Potatoes

are poor. many carloa s are being

ship ed in with the price at about $1.5

per ushel. Clover seed is fair. The

usual acreage of fall grains bei out

in. Not as much feeding stock on and

as usual. Apples are scarce and beach-



pientitul. Wheat 81.48; butter-fat

3e: hogs $8.76 per cwt.

indium.



Devices 60., Oct. 18.~vCorn crop is

hotter than the average. Potatoes are

almost a. failure. There is a little clo-

ver seed and plenty of cowpeas. The

acreage of wheat and rye sown is large.

Feeding stock very scarce. There are

a few on es, no peaches and plenty of

pears. pples $1 per bushel: wheat

81-50; com, 600; pota‘ces $1.50: butter

fat 360;; plenty of feeding stufl for sale.



lllinoio. ‘



Marion CO» Oct. llanPotatoes are a.

light crop

beans nor clover seed. smaller

acreage of fall grams was sown than

usual. Not as much stock on hand for

leading purgoses as we usual have.

Peaches $1..5_@1..5.0,; wheat $1. 0;. old

cog; sec; new corn 750; potatoes

:1. 0: butter-fat 356' cattle ”@T. The

owners have lost some young cattle

firom blackleg.



Wisconsin.



Muslims. fie... Oct. lit—The yield at

. otatoes is below normal.

Clover see . promises. well. The usual

amount oil rye was sewn but scarcely

and wheat went in. Applee and other

fruits were poor. Wheat $1.20; rye

$1.132; oats. 45C; beans $5.; potatoes $1..



New Jersey.



Morris. Go... Get. lawman is a. very

good crop. Rotations are fair While

peaclies. amiss and: beams mom be-

low the average. Farm. [help is very

scarce. Seeding. has lust been finish.- .

ed. Buckwhth half a crop. Wheat ,





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GRAINS AND SEEDS.





October 17, 1916.



Wheat—Wheat priCes have fluctuat-

ed around last week’s basis. The trade

is in a position where prices respond

rapidly to any heavy buying or selling.

Liverpool reports that stocks and ship-

ments in transit are altogether inade-

quate to meet the expectant demands

of the British Isles and western Eu-

rope. The . Dutch government and

Great Britain are said to have purchas-

ed 1,250,000 bushels in America on

Monday. Other foreign purchases are

also reported, while millers in this

country are anxiously taking wheat on

every slight decline in the market. The

confidence of these experts in the fu—

ture strength of the trade should give

farmers courage -to hold their wheat

for sale only on an advancing market.

The United States visible supply show-

ed an increase of 1,066,000 bushels for

the past week. Argentine weather con-

ditions are very unfavorable to the de-

velopment of the wheat plant. One

year ago No. 2 red wheat was quoted

on the Detroit market at $1.171,é per





 





 





bushel. Last week’s prices were:

‘ No. 2 No. 1



Red. White. Dec.

Wednesday ..... 1.58 1.53 1.62

Thursday ........... .. . . . . . .

Friday ......... 1.58%; 1.53% 1.62

Saturday ....... 1.58 1.53 1.61

Monday ........ 1.58111, 1.53%, 1.6114

Tuesday ..... . 1.63% 1.58% 1.66%





Chicago—December wheat $1.631/2;

May $164974; July $1.401/3.



Corn—The improved corn prices of

last week are still prevailing, notwith-

standing the appearance of new corn

upon the market. Exporters are al~

ready seeking the grain, both at sea-

board points and in Chicago. The Uni-

ted States visible supply shows a de-

crease of 744,000 bushels. One year

ago No. 3 corn was quoted at 671/20 per

bushel. Last week’s Detroit quotations

were:





No. 3 No. 3



Mixed. Yellow.

Wednesday ......... 90 92

Thursday ........... . . . .

Friday . . . ........... 90% 921/.)

Saturday ............ 90 $4 92 1/2

Monday ............. 90 1,5 92 34

Tuesday ............ 1 93





9



Chicago—December corn 78140 per

bushel; May 79%0. ‘



Oats.——Oat values have declined. A

visible supply of 42,000,000 bushels is

reported to be an October record for

this grain. Foreigners are buying. The

local market is quiet and easy. The

United States visible supply shows an

increase of 1,666,000 bushels. Standard

oats a year ago were quoted at 42c a





bushel. Last week’s Detroit quota-

tions were:

No. 3



Standard. White.

Wednesday ......... 51 50

Thursday ........... . . . .

Friday .............. 50 lé 49 1,4

Saturday ............ 50 49

Monday . . ........... 49% 31/2





Tuesday ............ 50



Chicago.——December oats 4834c per

bushel; May 517/3c.



Rye—Rye was in active demand at

the opening this week with the price

up 20, cash No. 2 now being $1.27 per

bushel.



Beans—This trade is firm with tran-

sactions limited by reason of the scar-

city of offerings. The _local board of

trade quotes immediate and prompt

shipment at $5; October delivery at

$4.95. At Chicago there is a fair de-

mand and small supplies, with Michi-

gan pea beans, hand-picked, quoted at

$5.40; red kidneys $5.75.



Seeds—Trade is active and firm,

prime red clover $9.85; alsike $10; tim-

othy $2.40; alfalfa $9@10.





DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.





 





Butter.-—The market continues firm

with an advance of 1/20 for creamery

and 2@3c for lower grades. Creamery

extra 341/20; do. firsts 33c; dairy 30c;

packing stock 27c. '



Elgin.—The price is unchanged but

the feeling is easier and the tendency

toward lower prices. Prices, based on

sales, 341/20.



Chicago—The feeling is easy but

prices are unchanged. Lower prices

are looked for. Creamery extras are

quoted at 341/20; extra firsts 331/.»@

34c; firsts 32%@33c.



Eggs.——The tone continues firm at

unchanged prices. Firsts 33c; current

receipts 30c.



Chicago—The trade is a little slower

than last week but prices are unchang-

ed except for storage which is 1c lower.





,-Firsts 30%@31c; ordinary firsts 28%@





300; at mark, cases included 22@29%c





3 ‘per dozen; firsts, storage paid 29@





 

 

 





 





11.} . , .

. , ,e-niarke if? 1051:. ,

no, advances: except for hens and geese

Live broilers’18@18'1,éc; No. ;1 hen

171,4.@18c; others 16@17c; ducks 16@

17c; geese 14@15c; turkeys 24@25c.





FLOUR AND FEEDS.





   





 





 





 





Flour.——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

$11@12; No. 1 clover $10@11.



Straw—Rye straw $8.50@9; wheat

iantd oat straw $7.50@8 per ton in car-

0 s.





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





 





Apples.—Market is firm and prices

unchanged. Barreled stock $3.50@4

for 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. '



Grapes.—Niagaras sell for 160 per

pony basket; Concords at 21@22c per

8-lb. basket. At Chicago most of the

offerings are in bulk. The few baskets

that are coming sell at 23@24c per

8-lb. basket Concords; in ton lots Con-

cords sell for $50@55.



Potatoes.—At Detroit potatoes in car

lots bring $1.40@1.50 for round and

$1.25@1.35 for long. No Michigan po-

tatoes are quoted at Chicago but oth-

ers bring from $1.20@1.35 per bushel.





GRAND RAPIDS.





 





 





Potatoes are selling in a small way

here around $1.20, while the price at

buying stations outside is close to the

$1 mark, some stations reporting sales

at $1.05 last week. Dealers say that

these prices are too high and cannot

be maintained. Eggs are quoted at

320 and dairy butter stays at 260. No.

2 red wheat is quoted at $1.50 and

other grains remain unchanged. Hay

is worth $10@12.





DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.





With the exception of apples, prices

are holding firm on the Detroit Eastern

Market. As regards this fruit farmers

are marketing the inferior grades

which, with the large quantities of

bulk offerings coming in by rail tend

to keep prices down. Culls are selling

from 50@75c; No. 2, 75c@$1; fancy

stock of high quality brings as high as

$2; potatoes scarce at $1.50@1.75; cab-

bage $1.40@1.70; carrots 75c@$1.10;

onions $1.50@1.75; lettuce 500@$1;

celery 35c per large bunch; eggs about

430 per dozen; loose hay is moving

slowly at $17@19 per ton. '





LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Buffalo.

October 16, 1916.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

Buffalo, N. Y.)



Receipts here today as follows: Cat-

tle 240 cars; hogs 125 d. d.; sheep 50

d. d.; calves 1400 head.



With 240 cars of cattle here today,

the good shipping cattle were very

scarce, and also good butcher cattle,

which sold strong, but the medium and

common grades were very plentiful





 





 





and the trade was very slow on these @9 50





classes and the bulk of them sold at

about steady, but in some cases they

looked a shade easier. We look for a

liberal run of cattle next Monday and

a good trade on the best kinds, but a

slow trade on the medium grades.



We had another liberal supply of

hogs today, about 125 double decks, big

runs all over the west, and with a

weak feeling at all other marke 5 our

prices slumped 30 to 400 below atur~

day’s best time, owing chiefly to the

poor quality and an absence of hogs

carrying weight. Bulk of the sales

were around $9.90, with a few selected

decks up to $10.15, and the general

run of pigs $9. Roughs $9; stags $7

@8. About everything sold at the

close and prospects are no lower for

the next few days.



With a light run of lambs today our

market Opened active and 150 higher

than‘the close of last week, and we

look for steady .to strong prices the

balance of the week.



We quote: Best lambs $10.60@

10.75; cull to common.$9@10.25; 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@12.25;

heavy $8@9; common and light $10@

11.50; grassers $5.50@5.75.





Receipts ,té‘da 28,70

Same day 1915. . ,

Last -week. .. . . 71,320 148,364 111,809

Same wk~1915..59,590 94,874 69,904



This week opens with large live‘

stock receipts, with cattle largely ordi-

nary in quality and prices on‘ the doWn-

grade, the better class excepted. Hogs

started off much lower, with an early

$9.90 top, but later the demand Was so

much better that prices’ ruled higher,

the best bringing $10. Hogs received

last week averaged 213 lbs. About

half of the lamb receipts were reports

ed on the feeder order, and there was

a big demand, buyers being unusually

numerous. Prices were higher, with

choice feeding lambs bringing $9.90,

while choice killers brought $10.40.

Shipments from here last week aggre-

gated 53,419 sheep and lambs, ‘being

largely , feeders.





Cattle weakened during the latter.

part of last week, as is so often the

case after the packers get stocked up

earlier—in the week, and the previous

advance and activity gave place to a

slower trade and reduced prices. The

week as a whole was a good one for

sellers of fat cattle, with choice to

fanCy weighty steers selling at $11@

11.40 and a good showing of cattle of

that class on Wednesday. Steers en-

titled to be termed good sold at $10

and upward, with a medium class tak-

en at $9 and upward, while sales rang-

ed all the way down to $5@8.10 for

grassers, with short-fed lots purchased

at $8.15@8.95. A large share of the

steers crossed the scales at $8@11,

with a desirable class of yearling steers

going at $9.50 and upward, the best

yearlings selling up to $11@11.35.

Butcher stuff had a good outlet so far

as fat lots Were concerned, with cows

taken at $5.10@8 and heifers at $4.50

@9, and now and then sales took place

of a fancy little yearling heifer any-

where up to $10. Cutters brought $4.65

@5, canners $3.50@4.60 and bulls $4.50

@8. Calves were purchased at a low-

er scale of prices, with the common to

good heavy calves taken at $4.50@9

and light vealers selling at $10@11.75.

Stockers and feeders were in fairly ac-

tive demand for shipment to the sur-

rounding country, prices covering a

wide range, with sales at $4.90@8 for

inferior to prime offerings. Western

range cattle arrived freely and had a.

good outlet, with steers selling at $6.50

@950. Looking ahead, it may be said

that general conditions strongly favor

owners of choice corn-fed cattle, as

the country’s supply of'these is unus-

ually small, but grass cattle will un-

doubtedly be plentiful for the remaind.

er of the season, with prices probably

comparatively low.



Hogs have experienced some rather

unexpected good advances recently,

the previous slump in prices having

caused a falling off at times in country

shipments to this and other markets;





   





 





and the opinion was expressed in some,





quarters that the lowest prices of the

season had been seen and that the

market will— be in better shape from

now on, although a return to the high

time of the year is not looked for. Last

year the highest, prices werepaid in

the week ending OctOber 16, when the

average price was $8.50 per cwt., and

by the third week of November the

average price was $6.40. Eastern

shippers continue to operate sparingly,

taking the choicer class of sWine, with

heavy hogs in growing demand. Late

in the week hogs became plentier, and

the week’s receipts were larger than a

week earlier. After the best hogs sold

at $10.35, there was a break that left

quotations on Saturday at $10@10.‘15

for the best butcher weights, while

rough heavy packers sold down to $9.25





Lambs of the best class were in es-





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that entries for the International close

on November-1. - ‘ ‘ V ‘





_A CORRECTION IN LIVE STOCK

WARDS.





An exhibitor at the State Fair has

called attention to an inaccuracy in the

official list of championship awards as

published in the Michigan Farmer. A

revised list of the championship awards

in the Guernsey cattle class as submit—

ted by the secretary of the State Fair

follows:



Senior champion bull, Village Farms,-

Grass Lake, Mich., on Walbridges Glen-

wood‘ Boy, 13823. Junior champion

bull, Village Farms, on Prides Hambro,

35933. Female senior champion, John

Ebels, Holland, Mich., on Imp. Lizetto

of Butternut Hill. Female junior cham-

pion, Village Farms on Village Daisy.

Bull grand champion, Village Farms on

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Thursday’s Market.

October 19, 1916.

Cattle.





Receipts 2973. In all departments at





' the local yards this week the receipts

‘were large and' the quality generally





on the common order. The weather

was bad and railroad service fair.



The cattle trade on Tuesday was 10

@150 lower than last week; on Wed-

nesday it was fully 25@35c lower on

everything but bulls and canner cows,

which held about steady and on Thurs-

day it was decidedly dull at the de

cline on everything. Quite a number

of stocker and feeder buyers were on

hand but they wanted them cheap. The

quality was very common, there being

only 23 headin the yards good enough

to bring over $7.60, which was the ex-

treme stock. Milch cows were also

dull and the quality generally common.

Prices averaged as follows: Best

heavy steers $7.50; best handy weight

butcher steers $6.25@7; mixed steers

and heifers $5.50@6.25; 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

$4.35@4.50; canners $3.50@4.25; best

heavy bulls $5.50@6; bologna bulls $5

@550; stock bulls $4@4.50; feeders

$6@6.50; stockers $4.50@6; milkers

and springers $40@75. ~

“Bishop, B. & H. sold Parker, W. &

Co. 7 cows av 880 at $4.25, 15 canners

av 798 at $4.10, 6 do av 933 at $4.10,





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988 at $4.15; to Applebaum 7 butchers

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to Garber' 3 cows av 1066 at $4.60, 2

do av 1060 at $5.60; to Watts 15 butch-

ers av 933 at $6.75; to Mason B. Co.

2 steers av 1125 at $7.25; to Kull 4

butchers av 862 at $5.25; to Mason B.

(‘0. 14 do av 927 at $6.50, 18 do av 663

at $5; to Rattkowsky 4 cows av 795 at

$5; to Resnick 16 butchers av 832 at

$5.25, 2 cows av 1085 at $5; to Golden

10 butchers av 892 at $5.25; to Thomp«

son 19 steers av 1020 at $7.55, 3 cows

av 1200 at $5.25, 5 butchers av 916 at

$6.65, 2 cows av 1035 at $4.75; to Nagle

P. CO. 23 steers av 1106 at $7.60; to

Parker. W. & Co. 3 cows av 1057 at

$4.25,, 4 do av 910 at $4.20, 5 do av 986

at $4.25, 2 bulls “av 1015 at $5.25, 22

butchers av 800 at $5; to Hammond, S.

8:. C0. 6 cows av 908 at $4, 12 do av

900 at $4, 16 do av 930 at $4.25; to

Sullivan P. Co. 4 do av 965 at $4.75, 4

do av 875 at $5.75; to Cooper 21 feed—

ers av 844 at $6.25; to Bordine 10 do

av 916 at $6.50; to Newton B. Co. 5

cows av 1080 at $4.90, 3 steers av 1100

at $7.10, 4 butchers av 917 at $5.85;

to Rattkowsky 7 cows av 1130 at $5.15.

Veal Calves.





Receipts 1180. The veial calf trade

was dull and fully $1 lower than they

were a week ago and in some cases ev-

en lower. Heavy and common grades

were extremely dull at $4.50@6.50, the

bulk of the good ones bringing $10@

11 with an occasional extra fancy one

at $11.25@11.50. The close was very

dull at the decline.



Sande], S., B. & G. sold Kull 1 wgh

140 at $12.50, 2 av 140 at $11.50, 2

av 150 at $11.50; tovRattkowsky 4 av

150 at $8, 4 av- 215 at $9.25; to Mich. B.

(‘0. 8 av 150 at $11.75, 8 av 140 at $12;

to Nagle P. Co. 1 wgh 160 at $12.25, 12

av 150 at $11.75, 1 wgh 140 at $11.75, 5

av 150 at $11.50.



Sheep and Lambs.



Receipts 10,400. The run of sheep

and lambs was large and the quality

fair. Early in the week a few choice

lambs brought $10.15 but on Wednes-

day the bulk of the choice went at $10

and sheep ruled' about 15@25c lower,

the very best selling at $6.50. The

close was fairly active as follows: Best

lambs $10; fair lambs $9@9.75; light

to common lambs $6.50@8.50; fair to

good sheep $6@6.50; culls and com-

mon $4@5.



Erwin, S. & J. sold Sullivan P. Co. 80

lambs av 75 at $9.75; to Nagle P. Co.

13 av 85 at $9.50, 4 sheep av 95 at

$5.50; Mich. B. Co. 160 lambs av 80 at

$10, 35 do av 60 at $8.50.



Haley & M. sold Parker, W. & Co. 76

lambs av 80 at $10.15, 3 sheep av 100

at $6; to Thompson 32 lambs av 55 at

$8.50; to Nagle P. Co. 140 do av 75 at

$9.60, 31 do av 70 at $9.50, 83 do av 75

at $9.85.



Hogs.





Receipts 13,800. In the hog depart-

ment the trade on Wednesday and

,Thursday was active at an advance of





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cow that gives bloody milk, as I have

a two-year-old heifer which came fresh

last spring but commenced giving

bloody milk some three weeks ago.

The .first part of the milk taken from

udder seems to be free from blood, but’

after she is half milked I frequentIy

notice a red streak in it and becoming

nearly clear blood at last. J. S., San-

dusky, 'Mich.-—Cow of this kind that

gives bloody milk has generally in.

jured her udder in some manner and

if you keep her in stable, bed her well

and milk her cautiously. Rough milk-

ing and bruising udder is the common

exciting causes of them giving bloody

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Diseased ,Molar Tooth.——I have a.

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comes from the right nostril, but the

left'is clean. This is a chronic trouble

and I would like to know how to cure

him. E. A., Swartz Creek, Mich.-——It‘

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perhaps find the fourth molar tooth

diseased which, when extracted your

horse will gradually get better. Give

1 dr. of ground sulphate of iron at a

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or four pints of clean boiled water and

wash out nostril cautiously twice a



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Forage Poisoning—Recently I have

lost two or three sheep, but they did

not appear to show many symptoms of

sickness, but would lay down on the

hot ground in the hot sun and die.

When I turned them over to bury them

a’ greenish fluid oozed from the mouth

which had a very offensive odor.

These sheep were running on new’

ground pasture and there was plenty

of clear swamp water, I thought per-

haps that the water they drank might

be causing their sickness, and I offer-

ed them fresh well water to drink, but

they refused it. These sheep are in

fair condition and seem to be well

filled every day. G. B., Sand Lake,

Mich.——Doubt1ess the quality of food

or water that your sheep eat or drink

is causing their death. If it is possis

ble to remove the cause, you will per-

haps be able to prevent any further

trouble. However, it is possible that

they die the result of 'heat prostra-

tion, or acute indigestion. As soon as

you discover another sick one remove

it to a cool shaded place and give 2

ozs. of hot black coffee every four

hours. Also give 15 grs. hyposulphite

of soda at a dose two or three times a

day. Change their food and water

supply.



Periodic Ophthalmia.—Every weekI

read the veterinary department and

paste the veterinary column in my

scrap book .for future reference. I

have a black mare about eight years

old, good worker and healthy, but she

is troubled with sore eyes. A portion

of the time both eyes are affected and

covered with a white coating, but later

on her eyes partially clear and remain

well for a few weeks until she has an-

other attack. I have tried several eye

remedies which are recommended for

moon blindness, but none of them

have helped her. J. S. C., Cutcheon,

Mich—Your mare is incurable and the

very best you can do is perhaps to

postpone loss of vision. Kindly under-

stand it is an easy matter to make her

worse by applying irritating eye wash

es, working her into a heated state,

keeping her in a filthy stable or sub«

Jecting her to bright light, or feeding

her high on stimulating food. Dissolve

40 grs. of boric acid, 40 grs. of borate

of soda in a quarter of a pint of clean

boiled water and apply to eyes only

when they are sore, twice a day. Give

her 2 drs. of Donovan’s solution of ar-

senic at a dose three times a day.



Indigestion—I have a Jersey cow

that came fresh two days ago, she is

in good condition, seems to be all right

in every particular, but she is only giv-

ing about a teacupful of milk at a

milking. This is her third calf; she

has no apparent udder trouble and is

running in good clover pasture. H. L.

F., Mt. Pleasant, Mich—It is possible

that your cow is not digesting and as

similating food properly, or her udder

is semi-functionless. Hand-rubbing her

udder two or three times a day, milk-

ing her three or four times daily and

giving her 1 oz. of ecoking soda, 1 oz.

of powdered charcoal and 1 oz. ground

gentian at a dose in feed twice a day

will perhaps help her. If she is disin-

clined to take exercise she should be

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0R general food purposes the type



of fermentation which is prefer-



red in milk is what is known as

lactic acid fermentation, that fermen-

tation which develops the souring of

milk. It is well to remember that prac-

tically all bacterial fermentations are

the result of. the growth and activity

of micro-organisms which get into the

milk after it has been removed from

the udder of the cow. Milk as it is

contained in the udder of the 'cow is

practically sterile ,and if the first few

streams of milk are rejected, the sub-

sequent milk will be found to be al-

most entirely free from any germs

whatsoever. If, therefore, after a pe-

riod of time this milk finally turns sour

it is to be conceded at once that this

souring is caused by the entrance of

germs of the lactic acid type which

have gotten into the milk after it was

removed from the udder of the cow.





The Souring Change the Most Desir-

able Change.



We say the. souringchange is the

change which is most desired. By this

we mean that in considering milk from

its standpoint of a beverage it is desir-

ed that the-se so-called friendly bacte-

ria should have the ascendency in the

fermentations which occur in the milk.

There is a very decided associative ac

tion of bacteria in milk. Many differ.

ent types which find entrance into the

milk exert their influence upon the

product just exactly as we may expect

many forces drawing in different direc-

tions to exert their effort in composite

upon the object.



However, the fermentation which

dominates the milk finally, is the type

of fermentation which, because of the

abundance and virility of the organ-

isms present, gets control of the milk

at the start. So we say that milk turns

sour and is therefore unfit for food. We

mean by this that because it is sour it

is no longer acceptable as a liquid food

and we do not mean thatAits value for

all food purposes is destroyed simply

because it has become sour.





Souring is an Index of Care in Produc«

tion and Marketing.



Practically speaking, the souring of

milk, if it occurs within a short period

of time, is one of our best indicators

that sufficient care was not taken in

the handling of the milk from the time

of milking. Knowing that the organ-

isms which promote souring must have

entered the milk after its delivery from

the udder of the cow we may easily ap-

preciate that if lactic organisms can

get into the milk other organisms have

exactly the same opportunity. Conse‘

quently when souring occurs quickly

we know that these opportunities for

contamination of the milk have been

very great, and we may therefore ex-

pect to find not only an abundance of

various types of bacteria present but

we may also expect to find actual solid

material which has gotten into the

milk. So we say that the souring of

milk is a fairly good index of the gen-

eral quality of that milk as far as

cleanliness is concerned.





It is Necessary to Control the Kind

' of Fermentation.



‘Now in the manufacture of butter

these points have been very clearly

seen, for unless the, bacteria which

caused souring greatly predominate in

the milk, by the time they have repro-

duced themselves sufficiently to fully

ripen the milk, there will be found

abundant evidence of the activity of

other types of organisms as well.

Many of these other types of organ-

isms are types which produce very un-

desirable conditions indeed. Some .of

them produce bitter flavors; some pro-

duce slimy and ropy conditions; and

some are pigmented, which cause ab-

normal colors, all of which associated

together are apt to have very undesir-

able effects upon the quality, and par-

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What Pasteurization Accomplishea.

In the manufacture of butter it has

been discovered that it is almost im-

perative that the type of fermentation

going on in milk should be very rigidly

controlled. This would not be neces-

sary if the milk were produced with

great precaution in regard to cleanli-

ness, but in average milk in which the

bacterial flora is an exceedingly mis-

cellaneous one it is almost impossible

to develop a desirable fermentation

without resorting to some special ex-

pedient. The expedient most com-

monly used in creameries therefore is

the effect of pasteurization or sterili-





zation of the milk. Careful pasteuri- .





zation of the milk destroys a very large

proportion of the miscellaneous bacte-

ria present. The. milk is therefore left

in a rather inactive condition as far

as bacterial life is concerned. The next

step following pasteurization therefore

is the addition of a good active culture

of the lactic acid organism. This bac-

teria being introduced into a practi-

cally sterile media now has the oppor«

tunity of continuing its life work unin-

terruptedly and unaffected by the ac-

tivity of other types of germs. Con-

sequently .the fermentation proceeds

along a single line and the end pro-

ducts of the activity of the lactic acid

organisms, that is, the production of

lactic acid particularly, develops a very

desirable ripening of the milk. The

flavor is clean and, desirable and leaves

in the butter 3. fresh, clean taste with

no opportunity for the development of

evil flavors or odors.



Most Creameries Know too Little



About Pasteurization.



A good deal of the milk produced in

the larger creameries now is pasteuriz-

ed and a culture added before making

into butter. Unfortunately compara-

tively few creameries seem to know

what pasteurization really means and

much of the so-called pasteurization is

pasteurization in name only. Many

creameries who deliver milk into the

retail milk supply say their product is

pasteurized, when as a matter of fact

it is pasteurized in name only and

there‘are no really effective safeguards

that the public may feel sure that the

milk is sufficiently and safely pasteu-

rized. ,



One of our main objections to pas-

teurization of milk as compulsory in

cities is that a city really has no right,

in our judgment, to compel pasteuriza-





tion of milk and thus give the consum- ‘





ers the assurance of safety which pas-

teurization is supposed to give unless

they have adequate inspection means

at their command to compel effective

pasteurization, pasteurization that real-

ly pasteurizes.



This is one of the lines in which

science—bacteriology and chemistry——

has been able to make of decidedly

commercial importance, for pasteuriza-

tion effectively carried out will not

only safeguard the public from a stand-

point of disease due to milk, but it also

constitutes a decided commercial sav-

ing to the producers and distributors.





Paul Shinn, of Chicago, who visited

South Charleston, Ohio, recently, said

there are fewer cattle on feed than for

many years.





John P. Honeycutt, of Illinois, wide

ly known as a singularly successful

grower of early maturing corn, was

showing his friends in the Chicago

Stock Yards the other day fine ears of

his Honeycutt Red Dent corn which .he

raised this season. Planted on the

tenth day of June, it was gathered jusr

96 days later in complete maturity, the

early frost failing to work any damage.





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had a good demand at unchanged pric-





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Inferior horses were slow at $50@75,





with drivers salable at $100@200, wag-.





oners and expressers at $160@200 and

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HE last census showed that there

, were in 1910, 2,906,525 ducks in

the United States, valued at $1,-

567,164, a decrease in number of near-

ly 40 per cent as compared with 1900.

Ducks were reported on only 7.9 per

cent of the farms in thecountry and

are most numerous in the following

states, arranged according to their pro

duction: Iowa, Illinois, New York,

Pennsylvania, Missouri, Tennessee, In-

diana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas,

and Ohio, the number ranging from

about 225,000 in Iowa to 106,000 in

Ohio. New York is the only one of

these states which shows an increase

in the number of ducks, while all the

others show a marked decrease. Long

Island, N. Y., contains a number of

large commercial duck farms which

apparently are quite successful. Mich-

igan is not prominent in the produc-

tion of ducks, being about twentieth in

the list of states. The decrease in this

state is large, dropping from 191,863 in

1900, to 54,723 in 1910.





intensive Duck Farming Profitable.





Intensive duck farming on a large

scale has been more successful than in-

tensive chicken raising, since Pekin

ducks, especially, stand confinement

well, are more easily brooded and are

less subject to disease than chickens.

The demand for table ducks at good

prices is largely limited to the large

cities and is not nearly as general as is

the demand for chickens or fowls. The

demand, however, appears to be grad-

ually increasing, but this lack of wide

market materially influences the estab~

lishment and growth of duck. farms.

The market conditions should be stud-

ied carefully before a large investment

is made in ducks. A prejudice against

duck flesh and eggs exists in many

places, caused probablyby eating the

common or “puddle" duck, which has

been allowed to roam in places where

filthy conditions existed.





Ducks on the General Farm.





Ducks can be raised with success

and at a profit on general farms, says

Alfred R. Lee, a poultry specialist of

the Department of Agriculture, but

they do not appear to be as well adap-

ted as a. source of income to average

farm conditions as fowls, although they

serve to add variety, both of meat and

of eggs, for the farmer’s table. If the

demand for ducks, and especially for

duck eggs, increases, breeds of ducks

which are good layers should be profit-

able on farms, particularly where there

is good pasture land containing a

stream or any running water. Farm—





,ers rarely give the necessary care to





their ducklings, either in feeding or in

marketing, to be able to cater to the

trade in fancy green ducks.





The Essentials of a Good Location.





Duck farms» are usually located on

light, sandy soil, generally on sloping

land, where the droppings will leach

freely into the soil, so that the land

keeps sweet and clean. The farm

should have good shipping facilities to

aid both in shipping products and in

buying supplies. The arrangement of

the buildings should be planned to

economize labor and allow for future

increase of the equipment. The incu-

bator cellar should be convenient to

the brooder house, the brooder house

to the growing house and pens, and

these buildings to the killing house.

The pens in the houses, the outside

yards, and the arrangement of the

buildings should be planned so that

the ducks may be easily driven from

house to house if desired. The feed

room or house should be centrally lo-

cated. Convenient watering arrange-

ments are essential where large num-

bers of ducks are kept, as they require

a large amount of drinking water.

While ducks may be kept successfully

under very intensive conditions, it is

advisable! to allow considerable yard

space. Double yards, which may be 1'0!

fated and planted ‘to quick-growing

crops, such as oats, wheat, and rye,





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~. Duck Ponds.



It is advisable to have a pond or

stream for the breeding ducks, as they

usually give better fertility under

these conditions, although on some suc-

cessful duck farms the ducks are al-

ways kept on dry land. The young

ducks on some farms which have a

pond are not allowed to go into the wa-

ter except to bathe and clean their

feathers just before marketing. Other

growers, however, allow the green

ducks free access to ponds or streams

until they are marketed.





There are 11 standard breeds of





ducks which may be divided into three

classes: (I) the meat class, including

the Pekin, Aylesbury, Muscovy, Rouen,

Cayuga, Buff and Swedish; (2) the egg

class, which includes the Indian Run-

ner; and (3) the ornamental class,

composed of the Call, the Crested

White, and the Black East India. The

common "puddle” duck is kept on

many farms in the middle west, and

south and is generally of small size, a

poor layer and an undesirable type of

market duck. Excepting the Muscovy,

all of our economic breeds of ducks

are said to have originated from the

Mallard, or common wild ducks.





 





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I have a flock of old hens about a

year old and this spring they started a

new disease. They first start to limp

and then they won’t eat. After suffer-

ing from four weeks to three months

they finally die. I have opened them

and found their liver and intestines all

full of yellow chunks about the size of

a pea down to a pin head. I feed them

com twice a day all the year around,

and during the winter I feed them

green stuff and, wild buckwheat, rye,

oats and wheat boiled; during the sum-

mer they do not get this. They get

their fresh water every day, summer

and winter. All the setting hens are

most affected.



Osceola Co. SUBSCRIBER.



It is somewhat difficult to determine

exactly, from the written description,

the disease that is affecting your hens,

but we feel quite sure in saying that it

is tuberculosis which is a disease hav-

ing as a prominent symptom the char-

acteristic cheesy nodules on the liver

and intestines.



This disease more often attacks the

abdominal viscera than the lungs, in

fact, only about one out of five birds

are found to have lesions in the lungs.

As with human tuberculosis it is very

difficult to recognize the disease in. its

early stages and even the advanced

stages present variable symptoms.



Among the most prominent advanced

symptoms are emaciation, weakness,

lameness ”and ruffled feathers. The

comb will be pale and the eye bright,

and usually the appetite good. Often

there is diarrhea. The lameness is

caused by tubercular affection of the

joints. .



Post mortem symptoms give more

certain indications and the yellowish—

white cheesy nodules or tubercules on

the liver, intestines and liver are al-

most certain indications of the disease.



While the disease is a bacterial one

it is encouraged by unsanitary sur-

roundings and improper ventilation of

the coop. As with all bacterial diseas-

es vigorous hens which are kept under

sanitary surroundings, and in properly

ventilated coops, and are fed properly,

do not take the disease readily. The

trouble is spread by contact with dis-

eased birds and through the droppings.

It is not transmitted through the egg.



The trouble is practically incurable

as when it is advanced to the stage

where it can be diagnosed it is not af‘

fected by treatment. Under these cir‘

cumstances it would be advisable to

kill off the entire flock and thoroughly

disinfect the runs and corms, and then

start anew. If the coops are not ar‘

ranged so that there is ventilation

without draft they should be remodeled

as the damp, faul air which the chick

ens have to breathe is one of the chief

abuses of tuberculosis.





 

 





 

 

 





 





 





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ammo“: Bronze Tom Turkeys. 8 to 38 lbs. according

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RED COCKEIELS. Both Combs. diam





will improve the color of your flock. Write f0 rice

list. Interlakes' Farm, Box 39, Lawrence. Micrhggan.





Sing cmb ”I“. “laud Red Cockorels. Rich.

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reduced prices, balance of

s- 8- ”Mb“, E8 sson. Frecdoli very. 11.0. with?

Leghorn hen‘s .00, .lgian Hare Bucks $5.00 with

Pedigree. RIVERVI .W FARM, Vassar. Mich.





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EFarmers’ Clubs§





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OFFICERS OF TH E STATE ASSO~

CIATION OF FARMERS’ CLUBS.





President—R. J. Robb, Mason.



Vice-president—C. B. Scully, Almont.



Secretary and Treasurer—Mrs. J. .3.

3rown, Howell.



Directors—Alfred Allen, Mason; C.

T. Hainline, Alma; W. K. Crafts, Grass

Lake; Edward Burke, St. Johns; Mrs.

C. J. Reed, Spring Arbor; Roy E.

Moore, Bellevue.



Address all communications relative

to the organization of new Clubs to

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





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Associationai Motto:



“The skillful hand with cultured

mind is the farmer’s most valuable

asset.”





Associationai Sentiment:

“The Farmer: He garners from the

soil the primal wealth of nations.”





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





 





The October Meeting of the Howell

Farmers’ Club was held at Locust Hill

Farm with Mr. and Mrs. Howard Reed.

The first to appear on the main part

of the program was Mrs. Roy Latson

who read a selection entitled, “Market-

ing Farm Produce.” The substance of

this reading and the discussion upon it

was, that not all the blame for unsat-

isfactory results should be heaped up-

on the commission men, that the farm-

ers were partly to blame because of

the condition of their shipments when

reaching the city, in not being properly

graded, and that it was quite expen-

sive to hire such work done there;

while others were of the opinion that

the commission men were doing well

out of the business. Another sugges-

tion was that farmers should have

their private customers and ship direct

by parcel post. Miss Mary Howe read





a very timely and interesting article

upon the subject, “Is the Soil Wearing

Out?” This was a situation of German

methods applied to agriculture, also a

deploring of the fact that American

farmers had not reached that degree of

efficiency in their operations. The soil

is the asset of the nations and will pro-

duce abundantly when properly hand-

led. The discussion upon this subject





‘ was quite interesting, some believing

. that we were not yet prepared to ap-

. ply those methods, while another was





of the opinion that American citizens

were too heterogeneous to be organ-

ized into such a. solid mass; and anoth-

er said the American farmers were

slow to endorse the principle of 00-01)-

oration but that they would have to

learn it by degrees, the same as a child

creeps before he learns to walk. After

a short recess the attention of the Club

was given to the question box which

contained ten questions, which were

discussed with interest. The program

included a number of good musical and

literary numbers. The president ap-

pointed the regular committees and

the Club adjourned to meet ,with Mr.

and Mrs. Wm. Joy, Thursday, Novem-

ber 2.‘Mrs. R. R. Smith, Cor. See.





The September meeting of the Con-

way Union Farmers’ Club was held at





‘the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Stow.





The first question was, “Which is the

most satisfactory insurance company

for the average farmer, and how much

insurance should he carry?” H. C.

Benjamin would recommend a com-

pany which insures only buildings that

are rodded, none under $200 value.





 





   

   

 





 





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' ROUGH OMTS Don’t Die in the House.



Unbeatable Exte r. End: Prairie Dogo,Go here,



i Ground Hog-s. Chi munks, Weasels. 8 uirrels, we.

- . . Hawks, etc. The St guise: StandusIEixte‘r-ain‘s‘ggr

Dru n ores. eonomy x a . .

gull 12.50. Earnings World Over Used by U. 8. Gov’t.

min on late lever Falls. Refuse ALL Substitutes.





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Good thing to take inventory of house-

hold goods. Discussion led by J. B.

Fuller. Insure good buildings, rodded;

have inspector test rods as to the prop-





. er rodding; company that insures. only





good buildings best company to insure





vwith; not wise to carry too large an





insurance. Glenn Burkhart thought

one ought to carry all the insurance

possible. G. L. Adams thought men

must investigate mutual companies be-

fore entering. Everything. must be

specified on policy and in building in

which it is insured. “The Modern

Housewife.’ Mrs. Ora Holmes said the

modern housewife has many new con-

veniences, and by proper arrangement

of these in her home a greater part of

the drudgery of housework is done

away with. Among such labor-saving

articles Mrs. Holmes mentioned the

power washer, electric iron, gasoline

and kerosene stove. fireless. cooker,





 





 





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vacuum sweeper, dustless clusters, etc.





.—Francis Stowe, Cor. Sec.





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Our Motto:——“The farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should

be first improved."





 





STATE GRANGE OFFICERS.





 





Master—John C. Ketcham, Hastings:

Overseer—C. H. Bramble, Tecumseh.

Lecturer—Dora H. Stockman, Lan-

sing. ‘

Secretary—Jennie Buell, Ann Arbor.

Treasurer—Frank Coward, Bronson.

Executive Committee—C. S. Bart-

lett, Pontiac; Geo. B. Horton, Fruit

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

F. Taylor, Shelby; Wm. H. Welsh,

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

dale; Burr Lincoln, Harbor Beach.





AMONG THE LIVE GRANGES.





 





The Annual Convention of Granges

of Allegan county met in the Allegan

Grange Hall, Tuesday forenoon, Oct.

3, for the election of six delegates to

the Michigan State Grange meeting in

Lansing, December 12. The meeting

was called to order by D.'G. Clack,

master of Allegan County Grange.

Delegates were present from twelve of

the seventeen Granges in the county.

The county was divided into three dis-

tricts. The delegates from each dis-

trict then proceeded to elect state del-

egates from their respective districts

as follows: Eastern district, Mr. and

Mrs. McVean, of Gunplain Grange. Cen-

tral district, Mr. and Mrs. John White,

of Allegan Grange. Western district,

Mr. Johnson and sister, Clyde Grange.

The convention unanimously adopted a

resolution in favor of state-wide pro-

hibition, and instructed the secretary

of the convention to furnish a copy of

the resolution to each of the Allegan

papers for publication.





Delegates to the State Grange con-

vention to be held in Lansing Decem-

ber 12 were chosen Tuesday by Kent

county Grange No. 18 as follows: First

district, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Brewer, of

Carlisle Grange; second district, Mr.

and Mrs. Chas. Ammerman, Rockford

Grange; third district, Mr. and Mrs.

Allen S. Bennett, Vergennes Grange;

fourth district, Mr. and Mrs. Gardner,

Wolven, Courtland Grange. Delegates

{rpm Pomona Grange will be elected

a er.





John C. Ketcham, master of State

Grange, was the principal speaker at

the joint meeting of Pomona and

Evans Grange to be held October 13.

A program of entertainment and dis-

cussions will occupy the day. Some of

the speakers were Mrs. Mary E. Bod-

well, Rev. Judson P. Durham, of Kent

City, H. G. Smith, county agriculturist,

and Evans Beckwith of Sparta.





County Adviser A. Bentall gave an

interesting address at an open meet-

ing of the Grange Saturday night, Sep-

tember 23. He advocated the use of

lime, soy. beans, plowing down green

crops to help add humus to the soil.

Mr. Bentall is very enthusiastic in his

work and gave a lot of good advice

which we trust will be given a trial.



Mecosta County Pomona Grange

held its annual meeting at Big Rapids,

October 3. The meeting was called at

10:30. The subordinate Granges of the

county were well represented, 28 del-

egates being present. Bro. Corbett, of

Capital Grange, near Lansing, was in-

troduced. Being one of the leaders of

the dry campaign, he gave the Grange

a very cordial invitation to attend a

meeting and free banquet given by the

ladies of the First Methodist church,

in the basement at 11:30. The Grange

accepted the invitation and marched

in a body to the church, where they

did ample justice to the fine dinner,

and will long remember the ladies that

so cheerfully served it. The meeting

was both pleasant and instructive. The

Grange was called to order again at

2:00 p; m. Delegates were then elect-

ed to be sent to the Michigan State

Grange to be held in Lansing in De-

cember. Mr. and Mrs. John Kotke

from the northern district; Mr. and

Mrs. Allen Edgerly from the southern

district; Mr. Hyatt and Miss Waldron

as Pomona delegates. The following

officers were elected for the coming

year: Master, John Kotke; overseer,

Loyd Lardner; lecturer, Mrs. V. R.

Wilson; steward, E. Schoellkopf; asst.

steward, Eugene Lardner; lady asst.

steward, Mrs. Eugene Lardner; chap:

lain, Mrs. John Kotke; secretary and

treasurer, Clarence Rood; gatekeeper,

Fred Sherman. Many interesting dis-

cussiOns came up and some fine selec-

tions of music were given, and one

more pleasant day was closed in P0-





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Waterproof

As sure as you find rain and leaky

boats, so sure you need shells that you

know won’t soak nor s'well. ‘

By one of three easy tests with free

sam le shells you can prove thatThe

Blac Shells are waterproof.





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Smokeless and Black Powder.





For the three free shells and a booklet de-

scribing how to make the waterproofing and

other tests, just do- as follows: On the mar-

gin of this advertisement write your name l

and address, also that of your ammunition l

dealer, tear it out and send it to us. We will

send you an order on your dealer for sheila

from his stock and for booklet of directions.





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For ingfsdztliiln; iild Perleotly Sale

healing, and for all Old and

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Exterior Conga", Boil; '0'

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who buy it that it does .

oft contain I satiric Spralns

o poisonous so 3 use -

and therefore no harm Shams

can result from it: u- Lumbago

‘ ternal use. Persistent, .

thorouolhuso will. cure Diphtheria

many o or room

ailments and it can he so" “('9'

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REMOVE: THE SOREIESS--STRENGTHENS MUSCLES





Cornhill. Tenn—"Ono bottle Cauetle Bela-In did

my rheumatism more good than $120.00 pond in

doctor'sblils." OTTO A. BEYEIL



Price 31.80 per bottle. Sold by drugglsts, or sent

b no express prepaid. Write for Booklet R

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REBUILT and SECOND-HAND ENGINES. every

standard make. that have been taken in trade

for New Port Huron Machines. Many sizes and

kin ls give YOU 3. large assortment to select from.

Prit 9 according to quality—ever one a. g

bargain. For Ilulling Clover. T reshlng. run-

ning Ensilage Cutters.GrindingFecd.Sawing Stove

Wood, HEATING. and for COOKING FEED,the

arejust what YOU NEED. Use ANY KIND 0

FUEL. Also have Rebuilt and Second-Hand

Grain Threshers, Corn Huskers and Shellers.

Clover Hullers. .Silo Fillers and Portable Sow

Mills. If YOU don’t want to invest in a new

machine here is YOUR OPPORTUNITY to get a

good one at small cost. They’re all fixed up right



not given a lick and a. promise.) Ask for our

REBUILT machinery list. sent FREE.





Port Huron Engine & Thresher lie.





Port Huron, Michigan._





Raw Furs'





We pay hi best prices for raw furs

remit prom ty and pay all express and

ostage. e give you an absolutely

Pair sort. Write today for price list.

Miller 8- Flneborg





25 Joliereen Ave" Detroit, Mich.





 





pent. D.





When Writing to Advertisers Please

Mention The Michigan Farmer.
obsess V V ' of Wm I ' must mm:

' Tegliggyys’bslore date publication: ,

CATTLE.





We Offer a Few Speual Bargains

In S.'C. White Leghorn cockerels, Ram-

boulllet rams, Hampshire pigs (either

sex) and Holstein bulls. A good chance

for a small investment to reap the bene-

fit of a large expenditure of capital and,

years of expert breeding.



Flanders Farm, Orchard Lake, Mich.





Aberdeen Angus Bulls For $an





1 end of choice oung bulls oldenough for service.

é sof Black onarch 3rd. Grand Champion Bull

Aombn State Fair 1914 1915 and 1916. Black Monarch

been sold to W. E. Scrip s. Wildwood Farms.



in Michigan, 81200.





record rice of the Bree

p Sidney Smith. Mgr.





3

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5?. Is. 61.14:. Hunters Creek, Mich.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS





HERD ESTABLISHED IN 190





0.

AN - ERICAS and BLACKBIRDS will}.

breeders of Percheron. Hackney and Sad e





OTE STOCK FARM. Ionia. Mich.





"M'nEs—One of the foremost dair breeds. The

most economical milk fro ucers. Calves

for sale. White Leghorn cockere s; Duroc Jersey

swine. Michigan School for the Deaf. FlintJdichigan.





YRSHIRES for sale. two registered cows seven and

lght years old, two heifer calves 9 mont s old.





Che if taken at once. This ad will not appears ain.

H. I?) GRAY. 1508 Western Ave., Toledo. Ohio.

es. Guernsey Bulls. serviceable age. great grand

ns efGov. Chenc. also grade Guernsey and Jersey heifers

0 via old $20 each. Avondaie Stock Farm. Wayne. Mich

of service age and calves from



(Emmy Bulls choice. Adv. reg. breeding.



T. V. HICKS. Route I. Battle Ceeelr. 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 tiic 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

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

guarantee them to be free from contagious dis-

eases and to be satisfactory in every way or

iiti‘oney refunded. Write and let us tell you about

t sin.





CAMPBELL 8 ANGEVINE,

Coldwater, Michigan.





0 U E R N 8 BY —nneis'rlann





BULL OALYIS

Containin blood of world chain ions. ,

HICKS' OUER SEY FARM. Saginaw. . 8.. Mich.





C uernseys—Yearling Gr. Son. Pauline Spolswood. 746 lbs. fat.

‘lalso May Rose Hoiferjust freshen, with heifer calf. you can

J. M. Williams. North Adams. Mich.





mm them both—cheap.

m SALE Registered Guernsey Bull. 4 year old

alsos yearling: the best yet. Cheap.





John Ebels, Holland. 1t. 10, ox 129. Michigan.





UERNSEYS: Bred heifers mature cows. bull calves'

From a lon line of Adv. Regivancestors with large

record. G. X WIGENT. atervliet, Michigan





0 for serVice, and bull calvel from ad-

vanced registered cows. L. J. Byers. Goldwater. Mich.





CLUNY STOCK

Farm Holsteins





JUST TH REE yearling sons of Crown



Pontiac Korndyke. No. 48.712. whose first ten test



ed daughters to freshen produced at an average



a of 2 yrs. 4mos. 20 days; Butter. 21.215 lbs..



M lk 398.1 lbs.



No. I. Dam’s 7 day record: Butter 29521 “33..

Milk. 667.9 lbs.



No. a. Dani‘s, 7 day record: Butter. 24.6201bs..

Milk. 50.431bs., at 4 yrs. 7 mm. 11 days.



No. 3. Dani‘s 7 day record: Butter, 25.3861bs..

Mi





1:“. sale. Registered Guernsey Bulls old enough





448.7 lbs. No.3 is thegranddam oth.2.

These young sires combine heayy Milk and Butter

production with size and quality. 1 are light

in color and splendidly marked. Come and see

them or write for pedigrees and prices.





R. B. McPherson, . Howell, Michigan





Do You Want A Ball?





Ready For Service. .

From a grand daughter a! The lilac ot the

“tines. Sired by a bull the in more than a half

panther to the Champion Romain Cow of the

Wot“. and whose dam is all”). 0“,“ r





of “Mac Aggie Korndrhowho ha.

d tors than any other living bull.





writ. for pedigree.





EDWIN S. LEWIS, Marshall, Mich.





MSTEIN BULLS FOR SALE





3 cl them 1 year old in Nov. By 31 lb. sire. Dams

above 21 lbs. as heifers. Price $100. Younger bulls

by son of Johanna McKinley Segis $50. up.

, fllSS‘VELDT FARMS. Jenison, Michigan.





3"”. bull for sale, 2 years old. b a son of King of

Ferd





 





nose lb.

If you do

the Pontiacs. Dam sold for $1 in Detroit sale.

. J. Lange. Sebewaing. Mich.

“I 0 ” '



.. (l P N. TC ll llolslelns

By‘ careful retention. for many years. of largest? ro-

saemsss smarter” “m :r “a“



owo u _aseenesa se. e

are eel ing'young- 1:11:th W10? W“ .

at serv 088.le anal. moderate W blow

p rees.etc.. on

00.. Howell. ' ,



Herd No.1. Five cows. one two year 01d bull.



Herd No. 2. Eive yearling heifers. one yearling bull.

Herd No. 3 Five Heifer calves and one bull.



Bulls read for service and 6 to eight months oldbulls

Prices will lease icon.



you read th’l ., . E. CONNELL, Fayette. Ohio.





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' Th; Howell Sales





If interested. write as soon as-





 





 





. 530-; if AWE-ssh



,_ . 3rd. Annual Sale ' .



At Sale Pavilion on the Fair Grounds at Howell, Mich.

OCTOBER 24th., 1916.





I 100 Head ntllegisiered Holsteins





The consignment to this sale come from the representative herds of Livingston County. The

offerings will consist almoat exclusively of females of good ages. Amon them is a daughter of a

301b four yr. old that sold in the Detroit Sale for $1100. Many of the females have ed A. R. 0.

records orai'e from good A. R. O. dams and are bred to bulls from high record dams. ‘he bulls are

from dams with records up to 28% lbs. and from 30110. sires. A good chance to get foundation stock.

All stock over six months of age tuberculin tested. Remember 1-. 9 date. Catalog Oct. 10th.





KELLEY a MACK, aucrioussns ,

JAY B. TOOLEY, SEC.





28 Head Registered. and High Grade Holstien Friesian cam:





To be sold at





Public Auction, October 31, 1916





efemales. 1 yearling registeredbuil. a grandson of the





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'This he'd cattle consists of 28 mire lK-sd and



"King of the ntiacs' n one reg tere ball on . The females are of good breedin and excellent milk-

in ualities. All farm molelonts. including?“ 8h. 9. B?Ollne engine and one Wil'der Whirlwind No.D

8i 0 iller. le starts at 10 a. In. Sale w ii held at the are: located 5 miles North of Monroe. Monroe

00.. Mich.. on t. lonmeind Toledo Electric ha One mile East or Stoney rook stop. This 102 acre

Dairy Farm for sale. - . VIVIAN. fl. . N0. 4, Monroe. Mic .





 





Duroc Jersey Herd Bears





Special Offering of High Olaas l'all Boar Pigs, Breedhs and Individuality good

enough for traders who appreciate e best.



Also some good farmer’s boars. This is the best lot of fall pigs we have ever had to offer. A cor-



dial invitation is extended to visit the farm and inspect the stock. I! you wish one of the best



young Jersey bulls in Michigan we have him for sale. For further particulars. address.





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





llEElSl'EIED Efiil'iiit'fi‘éi'fi' 53%: fifi‘ifig’igr‘llt

Vice. 3. .REAVEY, AKRON. Ml HIGAN.





" I L R. of M. JERSEY HERD offers for sale.

I” an, tuberculin tested cows. heifers. bulls,

and bull calves backed by several generations of R,

of M. breeding. IRVIN FOX. Allegan. Kiehigan,





llElilSlEllEll .lEllSEl BULL! Fllll SALE





 





HOICE HOLSTEIN BULLS—all from A.R.O.dams

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





2-yfk-old jiliatoililnisgegt year's accord 5f over 15.29]? lbs.

mi ,over a. u errecor inma urec ass. . erry

Creek StockFarm. M.E. Parmelle, Prop., Hilliardsmich. gxgeargfns‘g). 3 33'3”?““vvcr'ilzelvglfgfifiéo 10 months





Howell, ' Michigan.





 





SMITH - PARKER, R. D. No. 4.





Hill Fans llsglsimd lsmy hills for his





Maple

Both sexes. The kind that a at the all.

J. B. Worthington. B. No. 7. a’nsing. iohigan





“ The Wildwood Farm





.tTei-se Cattle. hga'estthlood.tllVe laave Bow for sale



rosn e is etc on cowso oo ty . rit ‘



wants. ilvin Balden. (lapse. muffin. (”our

istered Jersey bull





FOR SALE: 933m ec.%th.m5. Dam





a 700 lb. a year butter cow. moderate price. easy terms.

C. S. Basset: Kalamasoo. Mich.





BIDWELL SHORTHORN S





 





n Holstein Bull Calf. 2 nearest dams average 901b

.E-inilk per daly Pontiac Korndyke and Hengerveld

De 0] breeding. rices right. John A. Riuke.Warren.Mich





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

5 weeks old. beautifully marked.820.00 each. crated

Edgewood Farm.wh ikwater.Wis





 





ior shipment anywhere.





Holstein FrieSian. Cattle

A. R. O. herd tuberculin tested, headed

b grandson of KiifiSe is Pontiac.



P CELAND STOCKF Ii, es Rivers, Mich.





Chas. Peters. Herdsman. C. L. Brody, Owner. Port Huron

Holstein





01m $25 ill-ZilVl-Illill: alld§§$° 7-8 white.





15-16 pure bred. Sire 51b. butter bull. Dam extra

good cow. 7-8 pure. HOUGEMONT mums. Detroit.





 





 





 





 

 

 

 





 





 





' ‘ You b H read for service. Fe " '2

llsglslmd llolslslns. midfield... ’Satisfaction R ' I?“ 'd" M)":

guaranteed. W. B. J ones and J. F.Lutz, Cohoctsh. Mich. 30$ng .3. db :0“:



reds and wgl’t: for sale:

Farm at N.Y.O. Depot;

MIOHIEAN Hill. T S ............,.

' _ Addrsssl.l.8stndsrlisr.

4 to 12 Mo. World record Sire. High siswsusrocssm





 





Albion Stamp 352870 Box 3. Tecumseh. chh.





testing dams—from 899 up to 8299. Let

us send you one on trial. You should

not buy until you get our book.





Long leach Farm,





 





'Sllorillorn Callie oi bell Sex ior Sale





W. W. KNAPP. How-ll. mom





 





 





AUGUSTA, (Kalamazoo Co.) HIGH. “I“ “Ell 23:32:33 bfifizgnmgw

J. B. nunnELL. mason MICHIGAN.





 





EXTRA GOOD

Holstein Bulls For Sale





I have same from A. R. O. dams withrecords of

from 16 to 22 lbs. with the best milk producing

blood in them that can be had. These are from 4

to 7 months old and I will make a cheap price to

move them. Also have a law females for sale.





AND POLLED DURHAMS FOR SALE.

line no ram and white. nave over i

C. Carlson. Leroy. Mich.





Stardom-3"“? or beef bred. lusting stool all

ages or sale at farmers prises. C. w. Cruln

MM]!





See]. Gene. Itch. Wort Assn" loll-ids. Dish





Stallion





head in herd.





Let me know what you want. . . Shorthorn

s. roan 3 year old. Bates bred herd-

Bs'gelw’e Helm Farms "luv?! ll 8250. Y .lwrlls and half

BREEDSVILLE, _ _ MICHIGAN DA N & HALL. CUMSEH. MICEEI'IGAN.





 





 





Albina lento





SHORTHURNS FOR SALE





REG. EOLSTEINS: Herd hearbd b

8 Bulls. also females. W. B. McQuiilan, Howell, Mich





Butter Boy No. 93126. Dani's reco atll yrs. bitter

23.53 lbs. milk 619.4. Yearly record at 2% yrs butter

am lbs. milk Wimw. B. READER. Howell. Mich.





Bull Calves





From A. R. 0. Dana. Sired by “Maples-ire“ Korndyke

Hengerveld," who-e Dam. "Ma ecrest Pontiac Flora

W." isone of the [our _1 pound daughters of





 





OR Sale—Reg. Short Horii Bulls by Maxwalton

Monarch 2nd.a son of Avondale. from 1 to 13 mos.old

Jols- Sclsnssdt. Reed City. I. e. .. chic-is.





Y i . d .

sum Far as. .mtlgletmlo. gage"





 





 





“WAngtfifegggh‘gthese Calves. and our. Write W. J. BELL. ROSE CITY. MIOH

Berkshires lilaradale Milking Shorlhorns fllgeglfiéfilliimgi





And we will quote prices that will move them.





Swigartdale Farm, Petersburg, Mich.

' is: lit i

533.: all his n





ntiacfistteffioy.

Delol out of 25.97 in. dam.

binding. madame. safe arrisvnl



Mpedigree. Hobart W. Fay.

Two registered





M ”P. 0 yearling Holstein





2511).butter bull. out of excellent A. R. 0.

Detroit, Mich.





NOTICE: You can buy ofi us fies 835 a'flne Registered ,

Holstien bull calf. welT bred. M whiter. also one

readé for serum. 90% white. Cheap. Write



W. . HendeeS: Son. Pinckney, Mich.





grit-es for quick ea c finest edigree. $125.00 to $150.00.

. W. Johnson andéon ester 00., Mich.





100 head Shorthorn feeder steers '

For sale-years old. nearly all dehorn‘ed. Al -

native cattle. George Hinchman, Hastings: Mich.





 





yearling heifer. Dam. 2125.80 lb.

' .feur-yeaa-oidgrenddaughter

ire, a grand-en d Hengerveld

Nice individual. best ‘of

nseed.erte

Michigan.





H005.





our Berkshires





Have just arrived home from the Fairs,

where we Won twelve champion s,thirty-

one firsts, twenty-seven seconds, five

,thirds and two fourths, a total of seven-





 





l



lxcspfl

heifers bry

Cows. $1.10 each. Rougemont Farms,





 





 





12 Bull Calve!





 





flfifiofiFORmewwu’mQW-mwpmim- 1 .

. Some of The Winners

Closing Out Sale of , Are for sale





and we also have plenty of others, con-





Jersay cattle and lllll'llll Hogs sisting of afew choice fall boars and





At CBSSOPOLIS, Mich., on Oct. 24, 1916, guts and Spring pigs of both sexes.





twin-ii Jersey Cattle. large producingcows, . The!



. - » are Priced to Bell

gm!” “I WEI Bully fkmggzdbreed? “weanedthe room tor. loll litters- -.

. mmfl CATALOGUE ‘ ‘ ‘

F. A. Lamb & Son, CassopoHs.Mlcfro "





 





of best breeding.of various ages.either



Berksnn‘es sex, all registered stock, no akin.



fiecial reduced price. Write your wants quick.

itchell's LakesideFai-ms. 11.2. B oomingdale. Mich.





The Very Finest Berkshire Pigs Cheap





Lillie Farmstead Jersey Cattle. Bull calves from l!

of M. Cows. also heifer calves and several bred

heifers for sale. Colon O. Lillie. Coopersville. Mich.



from high-producing dams.with





Jim, Bull: hr 3". mun , records. also on





. aho 1915. Then we’

in (glass at ou‘xCity,





m. Pmm





 

 

 

 





 





«W:





Berkshire Boar's ling!





u: .53“- ll“ feral. “

w owe. soa r res y

com a. figurine. . a. LDseflgvillo. ism.





Bdnfii‘l‘lfiSKM'nf‘". *wa ......





or vice. [so

open its. C see Stock Farm. . millage. Mich.





OYALTON Bred Berkshires; Fine lot of Softening



pigs, both sexes. Will ship whenfi weeks d, wi

registry papers, for 87. l sired by Paramount Batis-

faction guaranteed. D. F. Valentine .Supt. Temprrlnce.lich.





DUROC JERSEYS





A choice lot of spring pigs, both sex. pairs and tries

not akin. Prices reasonable. Send for pedigrees:





THE JENNINO'S FARMS, R. F. DJ. Bailey. Mich;





HI. KEEIEY, em, Mich 1...... “metals.





- service. breeder

Swine. D. M. & T. local from Monroe or Toledo. Kasey Mop.





D3300 Jersey 8 ecial. Pl 3 8 wks. old $126103. ‘1' 6

or $35. no kin. lileg. and 61. anywhere l at l

next 10 days. J. Robert Hicks. St. Johns. in Mill

Two June 1915; 12 Apr “5.

lluroc Jersey loan Write for a...“ tion. “a:

antes satisfaction. J .H. Banghart. East ansiIg.

Duroc Jerse s. Some gear-ling at Spring baa

enough to ead your erd. Willseil Eure a rrri

King 671 5. Ask about him. W. C. Taylor. Milen. Oh.

F0, 8". Duroo Jerseys. choice breeding sprint fl’





, either sex. Prices right.

John McNicoll. Station A, 3.4. Bay CHLHIOI.





nunoc JERSEYS: lgm‘éasfinnaglfifi

for service.Wm. W. Kennedy. R.‘ .. Grass ,





fth l o

Duroc Jersey Boers ° bi; b333,! 3““

E. D. Heydenberk. Wayland. m





Jerse sllig Ty 9 Bears with breedi rand

lluroc individuality that is hard to beastly?

I





 





 





prize winning stock. rices reasonable. eat I

guaranteed. F. J. DR DT. Kl. Monroe.





Stock he s. 8 ring gilts. tri

Duroc August igs. pPercheron 8mm

E. J. ALDRICH. Tekonsha. Mich. R. 1. Bel e.





' Combined. size. quality. I!

llobson 3 Burns: 11... boa... . a... toga-33%

sows for sale. Oslo. L. Dob-on, uincy. lcl less.





UROC Jerseys. Spring boars from the most noted sires

of the breed. Jo Orion II. Perfect Top 001., Oaklandalio

ChieLPrinciple IV 85 Model Psi.Newton Barnhart.St-Johnl,ll¢h.





2





 





 





Boa uroc Jersey Red Registered. 6 monthsdd.

ready or service. $25 each. Start a good Sire fo





 





herd. Jose Lake Fruit Farm. South Branch, 10h.

Fall y rlings, boars and gilts, lwei t m lb.



llllfllfl m to 3%. 80 e 00d spring stufi atfi wsl C



175 lb. H. G. KEEg‘ i. i, Cassopolis, Miohlfll’h





 





If you want fall

don't forget to writes





Durac Jerseys

Shepherd, Mlclflun.





I. C. S'I‘AHLIAN,

| Big Type Bears:

ready r service Bred Gilis‘fill





._.___._.

s

l o' l' c . I Pigs. Registered in buyer! name.





 





 





 





 





shipped C. 0. D. Prices very

I able. J.0arl Jewett. Mason. '

~A nice lot of s ring pi . ll

0' I c. 3"” your wants. Blhadow flow“

Farm, Holland, Michigan. R. B. No. 6.

O l C Bellivioiesitibledlloars 81111“)de 0.0. 0.!

' - D on ere in urc aser' 11

II. W. MANN, - - - p Dansvil’o,





 





Raise Chester Whites ‘1





a). ‘_1Like'.i‘his _

a . / ‘ ($595?“ buy producers





,





I!’ EA





HAVE started thousands of breeders on tires-m .

suceeu. as: help yen. [want to Place onfi

w ammmsnmsr a;

months Write for my plan— ‘ More Money fro“

G. I. m1”. R_F, D_ 10' Portland. I”





 





 





 





CHEF!!! WHITE larch pigs either sex. [Booking Men for

Sept. 1 pigs. 2 year old sow farrowcd 9 pigs Se“. 5. fir!

boar isZyr. old. Ship 0.0.1). W.A .Sncarlet.Pleasanfifliehsllc





”Emu mtis Some splendid March hmfinl





sale also fall pin.

1'. w. ALEXAND ha. Vassar. a“.





J'





 





   

 





l , . ~ , "5‘

ll: ,, «V Idl'lfi I s s Sill“. . ‘

ill Sleek For Sale—Ill Ages



"I ' lisllsrsllsmlslssas



l" '



s





   





Inghlside farm'-

Cflnd Ledge. Mich.





figmllirge has 0. l. c. and Cheslsr Vllllis





or. and Apr. farrow sired b the MM

Martin t state. School Master,5270’l w o w‘ofl Mr.

champions. defe ted more champions than any ‘ a!

show 1915. Abo’ ‘d, sire to our undefeated b! I.

{31mg herd at 7 state fairs. Allen junior clfiijfilnfll‘ a:

is. State fair 1914, and Captain Jim 331 ,

months boar and Junior chain ion at every '3

ve Le our model

wa, 1914. Get our on

Register Free; Guarantee safl





its ree. e





$33!“?!va s'rocx FARM. Cass city. ages.





9 Spring boars ready for service. i '

o. '0 c 3 good ones. Satisfaction G r ' , g

A. R. GRAHAM. Flint. ‘0 girl.





0. l. C. Stock all Sold

____________§_m





JULIAN P. CLAX’I‘ON. Swnrtz Cree ,

0.. I. c. SWINE: lif'i‘fblifi‘iéll’fimll

is With a choice air or trio. not skin. or sent. due

0 farrow about epteniber first.

A. J. GOBDEN. B. No. 2. Don, . High.





0 I 6 Choice 8 ring giltsnot bred and spasm”.

' ' I Out of rize winning stock. Write low

prices. A. V. HATT, Grass Lake, Mich.

Swine and Reg. Holsteins, few boa)- 11%|

0 Diligence! at a reasonable rice.qus icon“

In E. SMITH. Red owl. MW





as e!

. '3



0'. I. (3. H06 3

Fine April ‘Gilts and Malgp. , P re no relation. At.

bargain if’tall'en at once. . R. a7. Three mm mas.





o. I. (:95. 4 last fall boars big growthy





ones. also last sprin pi

either sex. not akin. Farm lfi mile West of gepo

Otto B. Schulze.





Nashville. Ilchlm





.0..l.

sidersd’.





 





 





 





semiomoial test. 0. B. Wellner. B. 6. Allegan. Mich 0.8. BARTLETT. Propr. Pontiac. Michigan





 





Breeders’ Directory—Continued on page 389 _
‘1. When it comes to pulling long

hard hills with twisting, turning

country roads—-





(I. When it 'comes down to real

work, day in and day out, month

after month, year after year——





11 The Willys-Knight is the one

type of motor that can stand up

and deliver—never weakening

but getting stronger all the time.





‘I. It’s the sleeve-valve motor—the

Willys-Knight motor—— a whale

for work—and always at it.





‘I. Carbon doesn’t hurt it—valves

can’t get out of adjustment—so

you say good-bye to the two chief

causes of motor layups, when

you get a Willys-Knight.





‘I. It will pile up thousands upon

thousands of miles more running

than you can get out of any other

type of motor.





‘L And the last miles will be better

than the first.





‘I. The motor almost never needs

go to the shop— »





S leeve-Valve M otor





 





(I. That’s a vital advantage .to the





man who doesn’t live on a paved

street next door to the garage;





‘1. Besides all the tremendous ad-

vantages of the Willys—Knight

motor for everyday work in any

kind of weather on every kind of

road, the WillyS—Knight has

everything else you could ask in

a strictly up-to-date motor car.





‘L Style—beauty—

‘I. Comfort—conveniences.





‘I. Is there any doubt in your mind

about what car belongs on the

farm? There’s only one answer—





fl. It’s the Willys- -Knight——the beau:-

tiful car with the work-motor.





‘L See the Overland dealer—he’ 11

show you the simple mechanical

reasons for the greater power,

durability and economy of . the

.Willys-Knight motor.





11. Get right down to business with

him—go to the bottom of this

motor question—get a Willys-

Knight and know the satisfaction

no other motor car can give you.





Catalogue on request. Please address Department 4433 7





The Willys -‘ Overland Company, Toledo, Ohio





“Made In U. S. A.”





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