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VOL. cxtvu. No. 23

Whole Number 3917





Making Crc





HE past few months have



brought to the farm reading ta-



ble paper after paper containing

discussions of rural credit, lower rates

of interest for farmers, and CO operat-

ive borrowing organizations. We have

been informed that a great step for

the bettering of rural conditions has

been taken by the government in es-

tablishing a Rural Farm Loan Board,

and this is undoubtedly true. Credit

is much like a real sharp axe. A fine

tool in the hands of a man who under-

stands its use but. one which many

men have maimed themselves for life,

upon. And again, like the axe, to do

its best, credit must be kept keen by

personal promptness, honor and sys-

tem in business.



Great changes have come in the

management of farms in the past few

years. Machine after machine has

found its way into the farm yard to

make more efficient, speedy and easy

the work of the owner. Every piece of

farm equipment is capital just as truly

as if it were money. In order to have

a good cream separator the sum of

perhaps $75 must be given in exchange

for it. Both are capital. The money

represents the difference between the

production of the farm and what it has

consumed. It may be the amount that

was left from the wheat crop after the

threshing bill had been paid and the

winter’s flour supply provided for.

When it is given to the hardware man

for this labor-saving device, that ma-

chine still stands for a part of the

whole

of the farm.



The Farmer Becomes a Capitalist.



Years ago land represented very lit-

tle outlay of money. By homesteading

it was obtained free or for a very small

sum. Practically all that was produc-

ed on that land was consumed by the

family and the live stock. But as trad-

ers came into this newly settled land

and erected stores and mills, the farm-

er took part of his products and ex-

changed -them for shoes, clothes and

food, or for money with which he

bought these necessities. Still he had

not become a capitalist for everything

that he purchased was to be consum-

ed. Presently useful tools, that the

land owner needed, were placed on

sale and he bought them. He either

got a little more from his land or

skimped at home on the consumption

end. Everyone knows how rapidly

farm inventions have been placed on

the market, how they have enabled

the farmer to produce much more than

the farm uses up until today the yearly

inventory of tools and equipment

ranges from $100 to several thousands.

This is capital.



The farmer today is a land owner

and a capitalist. If he needs a. new

spade he must either pay a dollar for

it, or, if he does not have the dollar,

go without the spade or borrow the

necessary funds. The same is true

with a farm tractor. So there appears

to be two ways of getting capital. The

first is safe but slow. That is to ac-

cumulate every dollar necessary for a

mowing machine before buying it. The





production-ahove-consumption .





DETROIT, MICH., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1916





 





By ASHLEY M. BERRIDGE





other is to borrow the money, have the

use of the mower and make it earn

back the purchase price and the inter-

est required for the loan.



Borrow Only for Productive Invest-



ments.



As many people know, to their sor—

row, all debts must be paid with a cer-

tainty. It is easy to spend the bor-

rowed money but when it is gone the

date of repayment usually comes pret-

ty fast. There is just one way that it

can be done without worrying and that

is when the money is spent for some-





 





should keep in .mind and follow rather





strictly.

General Rules for Borrowers.

Rule 1. Analyze the purpose for





which you are going to borrow. Ask

the question, “will it return more than

enough to pay the debt and the inter-

est?” If it will, little hesitation is

necessary. If it won’t, one of these

three things will happen. The borrow-

er must take the money from some

other source to pay the debt when

due. This violates the basic principle

of business, and a rule that more farm-





 





 





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thing that will bring lt back by the day

of reckoning. Borrowing for a produc-

tive enterprise can be good business.

The man who gives his note for $100

so that he can buy some fertilizer and,

thereby, gets an increased yield of

wheat worth $125, would ordinarily be

called a good business man, especially

if his loan didn’t come due until aftel

the wheat was threshed. If his land

however, could not respond with that

particular fertilizer and he only got a

$50 increase the dangers of borrowing

begin to show themselves.



There are several general rules that

the farmer who is going to borrow





ers should pay attention to, that a pro-

ject should pay its own way.



Or he must renew the note. This is

asking a favor of the lender and one

that he cannot, be compelled to grant

Much embarrassment, hard feelings

and even loss is~ prevented when men

conduct their business affairs so that

they don’t have to ask such favors of

each other.



Everyone knows what will happen

when neither of these conditions can

be met. He will be sold out.



Rule 2. The contract should call for

the repayment of the principal at the

most cenvenient time. Very often the





50 CENTS A YEAR

82 FOR 5 YEARS





it a Real Farm Resource





borrower thinks more about the rate

of interest than he does concerning

the principal. If he borrows $100 for

a year at. seven per cent he will have

to pay back $107. Were the rate at

five per cent, only $105 will be requir-

ed. The grand difference is $2.00. Un-

doubtedly worth

factor is the $100. A man should spend

more energy arranging for the way he

is going to pay back the $100 than to

the saving of $1.00 or $2.00 or $3.00. If

the farmer who borrowed the $100

for fertilizer could get the loan at five

per cent, on the condition it be paid in

six months, before the wheat was har-

vested, he would be the loser, when he

might have had it. at seven per cent

for ten months, thereby making the

wheat crop itself pay the debt and in-

terest. Always arrange, if possible,

the time of payment. so that it can

be met.



Rule 3. On the other hand, don’t

lengthen the loan period so that it

goes beyond the productive life of the

improvement for which it is borrowed

The extra interest required must be

paid after production has ceased and

is a dead loss. A man who borrows

$75 to purchase a cow might wisely

have the note extend over four years,

but if he made it payable in 1-5 years

the source of income for the payment,

would have reached the butcher's block

and been eaten long before. As a gen-





eral thing the productive life of the.





improvement and the length of the

debt should have a close relationship.

A loan for the purchase of a corn-

binder should not be for more than 10

years as the binder will be worn out

by that time



Amortization.



Rule 4. Provide, if possible, for-the

reduction of the principal in some way

during the period of the loan. Every

man knows how much easier it is to

pay for anything on the installment

plan than it is to furnish the entire

amount of money at one time. This

has been used by many great sales

houses in their cash down and weekly

or monthly payments. In the same

way a debt that can be paid off in in-

stallments takes care of itself rather

easily. One method is by an agree-

ment whereby on every interest date

a part of the principal may be repaid.

The other is by a definite rate of con-

traction, like the system of compound

interest turned wrong side out, called

amortization. The possibilities for

making money with compound interest

are wonderful. Just as wonderful, for

the borrower, is the process of amorti-

zation. One of the strong features of

the new Rural Credits Law is this very

same process of loan repayment.



The following table shows how the

loan of $1000 for a period of 16 years

would be paid by annual payments of

$100 so that the entire principal and

the interest would be paid up with the

last payment. The interest upon $1000

for 16 years at six per cent interest

would amount to $960, While through

the amortization plan only $573.10 is

paid.



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CURRENT COMMENT.





 





. . ; Occasional sugges-

The Threatened tions of the desira-

Embargo. bility of placing an





embargo on the ex-

portation of foodstuffs from this coun-

try have emanated from many sources

during recent months. Until recently

such suggestions have not been taken

at all seriously by American farmers.

lecent developments, however, seem

t0 indicate that it may be necessary

101‘ farmers to give special attention to

this proposition in the comparatively

near future. A prominent majority

member of Congress has announced

his intention of introducing a bill pro-

viding for such an embargo early dur-

ing the coming session of Congress,

which opens December 4.



The American Federation of Labor

is reported to have recently declared

in favor of such an embargo until such

time as foodstuffs sell in this country

at a more normal level. Through its

Department of Justice the government

has been investigating prices of food-

rlllffS and other commodities in vari-

ous commercial centers of the country

during recent weeks. The attitude of

the administration on this question

has not yet been made public, but an

announcement recently accredited to

the State Department to the effect

that it considers this wholly a domes-

tic problem would seem to indicate

that the question of neutrality would

not be urged by the government as an

obstacle to the placing of such an em-

bargo by Congress.



While it does not seem possible that

a representative body like Congress

could under existing conditions give

serious consideration to a proposition

of this kind, yet the hurried passage of

the Adamson law at the close of the

last session of that body shows the

power that labor organizations of the

country wield in the matter of influ-

encing legislation. The alleged atti-

tude of the Federation of Labor. on

this question seems poorly considered

and ill advised. Conditions of employ-

ment are better and wages for all

classes higher than ever before in the

history of our country. There is no

general condition of unemployment

and no bread lines in our large cities.



Laboring men of this country for

many years enjoyed the benefits of a

protective tariff on products of their

labor, while American farmers were

obliged to sell their products in the

markets of the world and at world

price levels. Only on few commodities,

and then mostly under unusual condi-

tions which limited production along

certain lines, did the farmers of the

country reap a direct benefit from this

policy. It did, however, help create a

better domestic market for many of

their products. Now that world price

levels for foodstuffs have advanced,





 





 

 





uslly unfavorable ='. season ' iv





with eel-cane





hick

limited production, it appears that or-;

ganizedg labor favors the placing of an

embargo to force producers to take a

low price for their short crop. This is

almost parallel to the fabled “killing

of the goose that laid the golden egg.”



Farmers constitute the largest single

class of purchasers of manufactured

products in this country. Their money

goes more generally and more quickly

into circulation through the purchase

of manufactured products, including

equipment of all kinds for their farms

and homes, than does the surplus ac-

cumulated by any other class of peo-

ple. There is a close relationship be,-

tween the prosperity of the farmers of

the country and the prosperity of the

country’s business as a whole, which

is generally recognized by business

men and financiers, and any curtail-

ment of their prosperity will be quick-

ly felt by the country when the busi-

ness incident to the war drops off, as it

is bound to do in the not distant

future.



An embargo on foodstuffs would be

justified only in case of military nec-

essity or to avert serious suffering and

famine among our people. Happily,

neither of these conditions exist at the

present time, and the farmers of the

country will demand the same right to

sell their products in the markets of

the world that has been accorded to

manufacturers, on the ground that its

curtailment would constitute a viola-

tion of our neutrality.



Should this movement develop seri-



ous proportions, it will be necessary

for the farmers of the country to make

a strong presentation of their claims

through their representatives in Con-

gress. Already the National Grange

has taken the lead in a statement is-

sued last week. Farmers’ organiza-

tions everywhere should take early ac-

.tion upon this proposition, in order

that their influence may be felt in

Congress at an early date.

A recent advice

states that on ac-

count of the high

price of other farm products and the

scarcity of foreign labor, the growers

of 1,200 acres of sugar beets in Eaton

county have signed an agreement not

to grow beets for less than $8 a ton

for the season of 1917. These growers

have asked the co-operation of all beet

growers in the state to secure the

price which they have fixed for their

product.



Inquiry as to the attitude of Michi-

gan’s largest users of sugar beets re-

veals the fact that the matter of price

and form of contract is still under con—

sideration by the officials of that com-

pany. Some growers have indicated

a preference for a sliding scale of

prices for sugar beets, depending upon

the market price of sugar. This is the

form of contract commonly used in

Ohio and used for several years by one

Michigan factory which is operated in

connection with factories in Ohio. This

contract for last year provided for a

base rate of $5.40 per net ton with pay-

ment to be made on the fifteenth of

the month following delivery of beets.

Under this contract, if the average

price of beet sugar exceeds $5.00 per

cwt., the sugar company, as additional

compensatmn, pays the grower, per

ton of beets delivered, the difference

between the average price of beet sug-z

ar per hundred weight and $5.00 per

hundred weight. This average price

is determined by average official New

York market quotations for the cen-

tral states’ territory during the months

of October, November, December and

January.



Final settlement is made on the con-

tract on the fifteenth of February. The

price which the grower receives under

this contract above the $5.40 base

price, cannot be determined until the

first of February, which in the mind of

some growers is an objectionable fea-

ture, while others favor this plan be-

cause of its equitable profit-sharing





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Sugar Beet Prices.





 

 





view of the prosperous season which

these concerns have enjoyed. While;

present prices for sugar are probably

more or less dependent for their con-

tinuance upon the duration of the Eu-

ropean war, yet sugar in common with

other foodstuffs is bound to continue

at a relatively high price for another

year at least.



Sugar beet growers are warranted in

insisting upon a higher price for their

product than they have formerly re-





ceived. On the other hand, the future.





prosperity of the sugar beet companies

depends upon an adequate supply of

raw material for the operation of their

factories, for which reason they will

be inclined to satisfy the Michigan

growers as to price and contract con-

ditions so far as they may be able. It

is to be hoped that the views of the

manufacturers and the growers may so

far coincide in the matter of price as

to avoid any curtailment of acreage

devoted to this special cash crop in

our state.





Notwithstanding the fact

that both mutton and wool

are selling at higher val-

ues than have prevailed

for many years, the textile manufac-

turers of the country have recently

taken a wholesome interest in the

sheep industry of the country, and

have sought by various means to stim-

ulate a more general interest in sheep

and wool production. As a means to

this end, a conference was held at Phil-

adelphia. last week composed of manu-

facturers, dealers, educators and pro-

ducers from thirty-two states of the

Union. >



The opinions advanced in these de-

liberations are interesting and will be

given such space as is available in a

future issue. “Briefly summarized the

recommendations include the conser-

vation of breeding flocks, increase in

the number of farm flocks, adequate

dog laws, encouragement of co-opera-

tive sale of wool and lambs, encourag-

ing the formation of boys’ and girls’

lamb clubs, proper publicity for the

benefit of the industry, etc. A com-

mittee was appointed by the confer-

ence to prepare a plan for the forma-

tion of a bureau for the development

of the sheep industry to be financed by

the wool and textile manufacturing

trades and participated in by those in-

terested in the wholesome develop-

ment of the sheep industry.





Our Sheep

Industry.





MICHIGAN FARMERS’ INSTITUTES.





 





County Institutes.



Ogemaw 00., West Branch, Dec. 5-6 ;

Roscommon 00., Roscommon, Dec. 7-8;

Crawford Co., Grayling, Dec. 8-9; Che-

boygan Co., Wolverine, Dec. 11-12;





Montmorency 00., Atlanta, Dec. 13;





Emmet Co., Harbor Springs, Dec. 13-

14; Otsego Co., Elmira, Dec. 15-16;

Wexford Co., Manton, Dec. 18-19; Mis-

saukee Co., McBain, Dec. 20-21; Tri-

County Institute, Cadillac, Dec. 21-22;

Lake 00., Chase, Dec. 22-23.



One-Day institutes.



Osceola County.—Evart, Dec. 4;

Marion, Dec. 5; Dighton, Dec. 6; Tus-

tin, Dec. 7; Leroy, Dec. 8; Reed City,

Dec. 9. , .



Gladwin Co.———Wagarville, Dec. 5;

Sage Township, Dec. 6; Grout Town-

ship, Dec. 7; Dale, Dec. 8; Billings,

Dec. 9; Sherman Township, Dec. 11.



Otsego County.—Gaylord, Dec. 9.



Emmet County—Bear Creek Town-

ship, Dec. 6; Epsilon, Dec. 7; Brutus,

Dec. 8; Leverings, Dec. 9; EaSt Bliss,

Dec. 11; Island View, Dec. 12.



Antrim County.-—Mancelona, Dec.

.13; Grass Lake Grange Hall, Dec. 14;

Forest Home Grange Hall, Dec. 15;

Bay View Grange Hall, Dec. 16.



Montmorency County.— Lewiston,

Dec. 11; Big Rock, Dec. 12; Hillman,

Dec. 12. .



Oceana County.——Benona Center,

Dec. 11; Cranston, Dec. 12; New Era,

Dec. 13; Blooming Valley, Dec. 14;

Mears, Dec. 15; Walkerville, Dec. 16.



Isabella County—Blanchard. Dec.





13-14; Weidman, Dec. ' 15; Brinton,

Dec. 16. , '



Missaukee County.~—Vogel Center,

Dec. 18; Falmouth, Dec. 19; Homes-





town, Dec. 22; Lake City, Dec. 23.

Lake County—Baldwin, Dec.

Sauble, Dec. 20; Luther, Dec. 21."





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‘ era ‘ adin’g».Wost ou-

mania' fromthe north and west, {fave

effected a junction with forces advanc-

ing from the south across the Danube

River. Already Von Mackensen's ad—

vance has reached Alexandria which

'18 47 miles from Bucharest, the cap-

itol of Roumanla. War experts think

the junction seals the’ fate of the cap-

itol city. The .Rou‘manians, however,

are holding fast to the line of the Alt

river across the western part-«Heavy

artillery fire in several sectors of the

Russian front is reported. Berlin also

states that Russian detachments ad-

vancing in the Krashin and Styr dis

tricts have been checked—Little has

occurred in Macedonia except that an

attack on a height near Monastir was

successfully repulsed Sunday by the

Serbians.-—-Early this week everything

was quiet in northern France except a

surprise attack by the Germans near

Moisons-Champagne, but which was

beaten off. British forces also repelled

an attacking party north of Andre and

one east of Beaumont-Hamel—Accorar





 





ing to the War study society of Copen-





hagen, the vital tell of the present war

for the first 28 months shows 5,403,417

dead, 13,119,51 wounded and 3,935,983

invalids.~—In behalf of France, England

and Russia the Greek government has

been warned that these countries can-

not remain indifferent to the prosecu-

tions of adherents to the Venizelos

cause and that these nations purpose

to see that his followers enjoy all the

rights conferred upon them by law.

Venizelos is at the head of a move-

ment. giving support to the Allies,

while the former g0vernment is believ-

ed to be leaning somewhat toward the

central powers.



Early this week it was reported that

Chihuahua, the capitol of the Mexican

state by the same name, had fallen in»

to the hands of Gen. Villa and his fol-

lowers after battling three days and

nights to drive out Carranza’s army

under Gen. Trevino. Villa is reported

to have had about 8,000 men and the

defenders had probably a few hundred

less than this number. Comparatively

few of the residents were unable to

escape, and following the entrance of

Villa’s troops many of the inhabitants

were massacreed by the invaders and

property was burned.



Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria-

Hungary died last week at the age of

86. His reignr-over the dual nation

for a continuous term of 68 years is

probably the longest recorded in his-

tory. Archduke Charles Francis Jos-

eph becomes successor to the throne of

his father.



The German press is criticizing bit-

terly the attitude of American manu-

facturers in giving the tremendous

help they have to the entente allies. It

is stated that fully one-half the mate-

rials used by Germany’s enemies is

made in America.



That the movements of earth in the

channel of the Panama Canal will ulti-

mately be overcome, is the opinion of

General Goethels, governor of the Pan—

ama Canal zone, as given in his annual

report just made public by the war de-

partment.



Germany and France have complet-

ed negotiations for the exchange of

20,000 civilians, mostly old men, wom-

en and children. It is expected that

the exchange will be completed before

Christmas.



A special session of the German

Reichstag is convened this week to

place upon the statute books an act

marshalling the Whole manhood and

strength of Germany. This act will

probably mean the leveling of all bar-

riers of rank in the empire.



National.



Mrs. Inez Boissevain, of New York.

who had become the idol of American

suffrage adherents, died in Los An-

geles on November 26.



A warning has been sent out to all

vessels carrying goods to the entento

allies, to be on the lookout for German

submarines on the American coast.



Internal taxes of the federal govern-

ment set a new record during the last

fiscal year, the amount being $512,723,-

288, or about $97,000,000 more than for

the previous year.



James W. Gerard, American ambasr

sador to Germany, is in Washington

this week in conference with President

Wilson and the German ambassador

regarding war conditions in Europe.



The political complexion of the next

House of Representatives at Washing-

ton is still in doubt. Leaders of. both

the big political parties are claiming ,

majorities running from one to three.



President Wilcon is urging the Am-

erican-Mexican joint commission to

hasten its work and, if possible to do-

cide very soon upon a scheme for

handling the difficult. problems now

confronting the two countries. No pro-

diotions are made as to what the gov-

ernment intends doing in the event

that the commission fails to reach an

agreement.





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Farm - Buildings .



At the recent meeting of the New

York State Dairymen’s Association,

Prof. F. G. Kraege, of Wisconsin, ad-

dressed the convention on “Farm

Buildings. “He said: “Within the

month I v'iSited a GOO-acre New Eng-

land farm where $75,000 was invested

in buildings for dairying, and about



. $2,000 in a residence. On the other

hand, on another farm—a farm of 40

acres, I found a $5,000 residence and a

$1,000 barn. Neither is a paying prop-

osition.



The type of farming carried 'on will

determine the kind of buildings need-

ed, but the buildings should be in keep-

ing with the size and goodness of the

farm. Only about 15 per cent of the

capital invested in a farm plant should

be put into buildings. The barn should

not cost more than $50 for each ani-

mal kept in it and as much as $1,000

may be invested in the home for each

member of the, family.



Location and Arrangement.



Again, too little attention has been

given to the location and arrangement

of farm buildings. Evidently the eco-

nomic value of both is not appreciated

by many farmers. Much time is wast—

ed in going to and from work where

the buildings are located far from the

center of the farm. Walking 600 feet

four times a day amounts to a distance

of more than 290 miles in a year. A

saving of 30 minutes a day by having

buildings centrally located amounts to

about 19 days of ten hours each in one





year.

Buildings





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'The stable has a concrete floor, hard





finished walls, and is kept as clean as

the good housekeeper keeps the house.

It would be an education for many

dairymen to visit the up-to-date sani-

tary barns. '



Many barns were built years ago,

and do not meet modern requirements.

It is sometimes more difficult to re-

model old buildings than to build new

ones, but the farmer should be pro-

gressive and be willing to make chang-

es when possible.





First get in-mind models of correct

barn construction,

barn on the same plans as far as prac-

ticable. Make use of gravity in hand-

ling hay and grain. Plan not to lift

them, but in unloading and feeding all

drops down.



Chutes should carry hay and grain

to feeding mangers, and si10s be plac-

ed close to end of mangers. If possible

use carriers to distribute it.



In ventilation, the King system

flues should regulate the intake to be

about the same as outlet. The outgoing

shaft to roof should be perfectly air-

tight.



The plank frame method of building

barns is best adapted to conditions

now, as it can be made as rigid as the

old Plan of large timbers. Large tim-

bers were weakened by cutting them

in framing. Space between silo and

barn can be utilized for grain bins,

also space under the bridge for roots.

The milk house need not be far from

the barn, if the stable is kept clean.



There is a question as to the health

of animals being affected by all stone

or concrete stables. Moisture and frost





 





Bungalow Built of Field and Beach Stones, by John Kistler, Mason County.





convenience in doing the farm work.

The barn should be at least 200 feet

from the house and placed where the

prevailing winds will not blow the

odors toward the house. It should be

constructed so as to provide for the

comfort and health of the live stock;

equipped and arranged so as to save

time and labor, and to be sanitary. It

should be located on a slight elevation

on well drained soil and should extend

north and south so as to permit the

greatest amount of sunlight to enter

the barn.



The home should be located on well-

drained soil, at least 200 feet from the

road, with a good outlook and attrac-

tive approach and setting. To admit

sunlight to every room it is best to

have the house face southeast. The

modern barn is planned so as to save

steps in doing the chores. It is just as

important to plan the home so as to

save the steps of the housekeeper.

Many miles are traveled daily, when

this is not done. It is just as neces-

sary to provide a carpet sweeper,

washing machine, bread mixer, kitchen

cabinet, etc., for the work in the home

as it is to provide a sulky plow, har-

vester, manure spreader, etc., for the

work on the farm. ‘



Sanitation.



Mr. Kraege described some of the

worst type of barns, unsanitary almost

beyond belief—dark, cold and filthy,

and said that it is a fact that a large

proportion of market milk comes from

such barns. ' .



The modern sanitary barn is plan-

ned to admit a maximum of sunshine.





 





go through thin walls. Air spaces in

the wall, and wood or 'paper linings

may make them comfortable and sani-

tary. Concrete is to be considered

with the present high price of lumber.

New York. W. H. JENKINS.

BEAUTY AND UTILITY FROM

WASTE PRODUCTS.





 





John Kistler, a country blacksmith

of Mason county, Michigan, is demon-

strating that beauty and utility can be

gotten out of mean things in the little

house which he is building on the pike

out of Ludington.



The walls, from foundation to eaves,

are of field and beach stones which

cost him nothing except the hauling.

They are just such field stones as are

so plentiful in many sections of Mich-

igan and other states. The beach

stones are from the shores of Lake

Michigan, three or four miles distant

from the Kistler farm. They are not

better than the field stones except that

some of them are polished by the ac-

tion of the water.



One hundred and fifty dollars paid

for all the cement used in the walls.

The stone was hauled in the winter

when labor is cheapest, and when

good-sized loads could be hauled with

sleds. . .



The inner wall is of hollow tile to

allow for air spaces. The kitchen is

finished in blue and white tile and the

building will be modern in every way

when completed. The total cost will

not be more than the cost of the cheap-

est kind of a frame house-L. G. P.





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MAKING CREDIT A REAL FARM

RESOURCE.





 





(Continued from first page).

Amount of loan ._ ................ $1,000

Length of term, years .......... 16

Rate of interest, per cent ...... 6





Annual payments .............. 100

(These figures apply proportionately

to a loan of any amount whatever).





 





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2 . . 100.00 57.60 42.40 917.60

3 . 100.00 55.06 44.94 872.66

4 . 100.00 52.36 47.64 825.02

5 . 100.00 49.50 50.50 774.52

6 . 100.00 46.47 03.53 720.99

7 . . 100.00 43.26 56.74 664.25

8 . . 100.00 39.85 60.15 604.10

9 .. 100.00 36.25 63.75 540.53

10 . 100.00 32.42 67.58 472.77

11 . 100.00 28.37 71.63 401.13

12 . 100.00 24.07 75.93 325.20

13 . 100.00 19.51 80.49 244.71

14 . 100.00 . 14.68 85.32 159.40

15 . 100.00 9.56 90.44 68.96

16 . 73.10 4.14 68.96 ......



1,573.10 573.10 1,000.00 . . . . . .





The Interest Rate.



Rple 5. Last, and perhaps least, im~

portant is the rate? of interest] This

depends usually upon the law of sup’

ply and demand. If the neighborhood

is one where borrowers are plentiful,

where little regard is paid to the afore-

mentioned rules, if notes are given for

consumption as well as production en-

terprises and the meeting of interest

payments is irregular, where requests

for renewals are frequent and people

have to be sold out, causing disagree-

able scenes t'or all concerned, their

rates will always be high. There the

loan shark will prey, not only maiming

his Victim but awaiting patiently the

chance to swallow him whole.



But where the community is made

up of men who may borrow heavily,

but wisely, who are prompt and syste-

matical in their banking and other

business relations, where litigation is

the exception rather than the rule,

there is, ordinarily, found quantities of

loanable cash, the rates of interest are

lower and better contracts can usually

be obtained. '





Credit a Resource which Should be

Properly Used. '



Many are the tears of joy that have

been shed at the “burning of the farm

mortgage;” yet would the owners of

that farm have gone without the home

so dear, for the sake of not having the

debt-burden to carry? Ofter young

men are advised by their parents, who

have been through such trials, to “nev-

er go in debt.” To follow this advice

would be like cutting a splendid crop

of hay with a scythe in the old, labor-

ious way, when a. sharpened mowing

machine stands in the barn, and two

ready horses are impatient to draw it.

If you don’t understand machinery, if

you don’t care to investigate, or have

not a careful planning disposition,

then by all means stick to the scythe.



Farming is becoming more and more

a business proposition. Especially is

this true for the young man, who must

have capital as well as land to make a

success. One of the greatest business

men of this country not long ago ad-

vised every young man to “go in debt.”

Remember some of these simple rules,

conform all your efforts and, habits of

life to ways of system and honor until

your name is “gilt-edged.” Then you

have developed a resource upon your

farm that should be used to bring

greater happiness and prosperity to

your family, the community you live in

and to yourself. That resource is

Credit.





DO NOT WAIT TOO LONG.





 





As it is but a short time before our

subscription price will advance to 75

cents a year, $1.75 for three years, and

$2.25 _for five years, would it not be a

good Idea for you to send in your order

now while the price is but 50 cents a

year, $1.00 for three years, and only

$1.50 for five years? There is quite a

savmg. Please do not forget to tell

your neighbor. ’





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The Perfecrion Smokeless

Heater is indispensable in the

home, no matter what heat—

ing facilities you have—the

bathroom is too cold for

- baby’sbath, the sewing room

is chilly, the living room is

not comfortable, the laundry,

the basement, the attic, all

have cold corners.



Get a Perfection Smokeless

Heater today. It burns ker-

osene. Cheap and always

available. Any good kero-

sene will give satisfaction,

but for best results use Per-

fection Oil.





No smoke—no dust-no

odor— no ashes. Just

plenty of sweet, warm air

that makes home, home.





Weighs 12 pounds, is only

25 inches high and 12 inches

in diameter. Finished in

highly polished steel or blue

enamel. Trimmings are

black Japan or nickel.



Easy to light-lift the drum

and touch a match. Regu-

late flame as desired. No

need to worry about flame

getting too high. Automatic

lock flame spreader prevents

that.



Can be carried about the

house easily—handle never

gets hot.



Perfectidn Smokeless Heater

varies in price from $4.00 to

$7.25 according to finish.

Look for triangle trade mark.





Sold by all reliable dealers.





Rayo Lamps give that soft,

mellow light which enables

you to read without eye

strain. Get one.





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the Dust can be applied so much faster (4 to In times) that frequent application can be mude

over hm areas at. critical times. assuring better protection.”



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OR various reasons large numbers

of farmers will wish to dispose of

their farm animals, tools, etc.,



during the coming winter and spring,

preparatory to throwing up the farm-

ing business. They will in emajorlty

of cases use the public auction in mak-

ing the disposition.



The farmer contemplating the auc-

tion sale should allow himself plenty

of time for preparing his property for

such an event. Naturally he will wish

his property to bring him as many dol-

lars as the particular circumstances in

his case will permit.



The owner, by careful study. can 8.]-

ways make alterations that will prove

beneficial, from a financial standpoint

to himself. He cannot possibly be too

careful in selecting the date for his





'salc, overhauling his machinery, his





large tools, his email tools, etc., fitting

the animals to be offered or arranging

the order in which the property will be

offered on day of sale.



There are tricks to all trades and

the public auction is no exception in

this respect. Studying the little insides

of the sale business therefore cannot

fail to benefit the inexperienced.



Selecting the Date.



This is largely a matter of fall and

spring market indications. If the fall

market for live stock is on the low

levels and the roughage. grain, and

vegetable market of a, nature corres-

ponding, it will prove more than prof-

itable for the owner to fit his live

stock with his available feed for the

spring sale, thus securing many addi-

tional dollars for his stock on the high-

er spring markets, when his surplus

grains, etc., will also bring more

money.



It is of importance that the spring

sale be held on a date previous to the

annual spring auction sale rush, so to

speak. Farmers find it necessary each

spring to purchase a certain number

of implements and articles, therefore

it is advisable to set the date of one’e

sale somewhat in advance of the ex-

pccted~ auction sale weeks and elimi-

nate the possibility of their having al-

ready purchased at other sales.



The farmer should allow himself

plenty of time for overhauling and re-

pair work. A new part here, a little

paint there, combined with a little

work with a. wrench will convert a

broken, almost unsalable tool into one

quite the opposite.



Advertising. .



This particular part of the advance

preparation cannot be overdone. The

owner of the property offered at pub-





crowd. Such crowd must be large, be-

cause a number of bidders afford com-

petition, which cannot but benefit the

owner financially. It is up to him,

therefore, to see that every man in his

township and in those surrounding re-

ceive information concerning his in-

tentions of holding the sale. “The more

the merrier,” is the proper spirit when

distributing advertising matter. The

dollars spent in the advertising cam~

paign cannot but prove large dividend

paying investments on sale day.



Having your intended auctioneer an-

nounce the date of your sale at all his

sales previous to your date will invar-

iably induce extra attendance. Brisk

and active bidding will be as much

desired by the auctioneer as will it by

the owner. Accordingly he will be glad

to arrange for such announcements.



' Hints for Sale Day.



Inbidding of property by the owner

is a step in the wrong direction. Noth-

ing can dampen the enthusiasm of the

auction crowd with such effectiveness

as will the knowledge that they must

bid against the owner.w_,Undoubtedly

it is always necessary for the owner

to bid in a few offerings and avoid

losses on the certain items. This can

be skillfully arranged for and suspicion

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so doing. However. persistence. in the





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SMITH





act will prove detrimental. It is quite

possible to save $5 on one offering by

bidding it in, and lose $100 on the com-

bined offerings as a result.





Much can be gained by manipulating

the order of the first offerings as to

gradually arouse buying enthusiasm in

the crowd. Satisfaction with the first

purchase will induce another attempt

on the part of the purchaser, bringing

with him the bid of a neighbor or two

until it becomes a case of "come in

boys, the water is fine," and the prop-

er auction sale spirit has been arous-

ed. The real importance of the co-op-

eration of the owner and auctioneer in

furnishing the right bargain at the

right time can be readily perceived.





The attitude of the owner when‘





questioned about certain points or

parts of his offerings is of considerable

importance. Straight, honest descrip‘

tions where desired will work to his

benefit. Honesty about the broken

corn-sheller, and honesty about the val-





uable horse is expected. Confidence in’





your description will bring forth the

high bids from your crowd.



On the other hand, had the owner

adroitly avoided the question about

the weak part in the corn-sheller and

perhaps got the $2 extra bid by so do-

ing, quite possibly he might be sus-

pected of avoiding explaining some-

thing when the horse is offered and

suffer a $20 loss in this case. '



Naturally, wishing to realize as near-

ly as possible the amount of money

from his sale that he has invested in

the preperty previous to the same, or

in its accumulation, it is to the own-

er’s advantage to carefully study and

perform this all-important preliminary

work.





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TRIMMING SHADE TREES.





 





 





The shade trees in the farmer's

yard and along the highway are a val;

uable asset in determining the real es-

tate value of a farm and these trees

should be given proper care. Limbs

that die should be removed without

mutilating the trunk of the tree and

limbs which touch within a few feet of

the ground should also be removed.

The height of the lower limbs can de-

pend upon the kind of traffic which

will pass beneath the trees.



In protecting shade trees it is well

to \guard against the posting of adver-

tising signs on their trunks. This is

a common practice in some sections of

the state and no farm was ever im-

proved by being decorated with gaudy

signs spiked on the finest of its trees.

Selling farms is not the business of

farmers, but there are few farmers

that do not like to haveyan occasional

offer for the place, just to prove to

them that it is still good enough to

keep. Fine trees, such as elms, oaks

and maples, lend an attractive appear-

ance to a farm home and they are

greatly appreciated by the mass of city

buyers who frequently invest in farim

and pay good prices.



Farmers possessing few shade trees

around the house can usually trans-

plant vigorous trees to their lawns

from neighboring woods, and these

will add to the attractive appearance





of a farm home, even though of small





size. Proper care of the shade trees



and an occasional trimming form some



of the duties of the business farmer.

Ingham Co. . R. G. Kmnv.





LONGEVITY OF CLOVER SEED.





 





I would like to know how long c10<

ver seed will retain its vitality when

stored under proper conditions.



Montcalm Co. M. B. C.





The length of time for which the

vitality, of any seed might be preserv~

ed by proper storage would naturally

depend upon the quality of the seed

when stored. The best estimates give





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NLIKE tree and bush fruits, the

strawberry plant does not hard-

en and ripen its tissues. On the



contrary its cellular growth remains'in

a succulent state throughout the win-

ter and spring months ready to resume

nature’s work, when awakened at the

call of spring. Neglect to properly pro-

tect these plants from the injurious

effects of alternate freezing and thaw-

ing of leaf and crown tissues must re-

sult in greater or less loss, depending

upon latitude; local conditions of the

weather; protection afforded by wind-

breaks, and the condition of soil

drainage.

Injury Freezing Causes.



There are two types of injury to

which freezing subjects strawberry

plants. First, there is injury brought

about when the soil is subjected to al-

ternate freezing and thawing which oc-

curs when nights are frosty‘and days

sunny. Freezing expands the soil

which exerts a lifting force on the

crown. As the lower part of the root

system is locked in frozen soil many

of the fibrous roots break under the

strain. This type of injury is most

noticeable on soils most subjected to

honeycombing. On such soils the

crowns of strawberry plants are fre-

quentlylifted an inch or more above

their original position, thereby, greatly

reducing their yielding capacity, if not

killing them outright.



Another type of injury takes. place

when leaf and crown are exposed to

the injurious action of alternating frost

and sunshine while roots are locked in

frozen soil. While in this state evap-

oration from leaf and crown tissue is

more or less great. But, while roots

are locked in frozen soil this loss can

not be replaced. Hence as a normal

per cent of moisture content can not

be maintained, plant tissue must shriv-

el, and, in extreme cases die. This

type of injury is not nearly so plainly

evidenced as is the other, hence the

grower is often deluded with the be-

lief that no harm is being done his

plants simply because there is no hon-

ey combing and heaving of the soil.

Strawberry plants need winter protec-

tion, no matter what may be the type

of soil, or how well drained.



The Best Mulch.



The best material to use is that best

suited to the purpose. It will not do

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1y. In fact, the more perfectly the ma-

terial admits air while excluding the

direct rays of' the sun, the better fit-

ted it is to the purpose. Coarse mate-

rials lie loose, admitting air freely,

hence such materials should be used

when obtainable. The most satisfac-

tory material I have used is marsh

hay. It is entirely free of weed seed

which is an important consideration;

but this material is not often obtain-

able. Corn fodder, when shredded, an-

swers the purpose admirably; but this

seems rather expensive. Of the mate-

rials employed for the purpose straw

is the one most commonly used. With

this material weed seed of many kinds

is often introduced, resulting in great

annoyance and much work to the grow-

er or an unsightly field as the case may

be. Much may be done to obviate this

difficulty by selecting straw that does

not contain a large per cent of weed

Small quantities of straw‘ may

be made nearly, if not quite, free from

foul seed by letting the poultry scratch

it over. '

. When to Mulch.



The material may be applied at the

approach of freezing weather. Its ap-

plication should not be delayed long

after freezing begins. If applied. on

unfrozen ground the covering should

used should be light. After the ground

is frozen a large quantity may be ap—

plied without danger of injuring the

plants, providing care is exercised in

loosening that directly over the plants

or removing a portion of it as soon as

growth begins in the spring, so that

the leaves may have free access to air

and light. For the purpose of protect-

ing the plants against excessive freez-

ing there is nothing that quite equals

snow. As a supplementary mulch it is

invaluable. For this reason windbreaks

should be made use of whenever it is

possible.



As a moisture conserver during frui-

tion the mulch renders valuable ser-

vice also. In case of a drouth a gener-

ous mulch may mean the difference be—

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fruit, and to the comfort of the pick-

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By EPHRAIM GREGORY





T is always a big job to get the

horses hardened to work when

spring opens up. No matter how

well you care for the horses during the

winter they are bound. to be soft, ow-

ing to the long period of idleness. But

on some farms the horses will be not

only soft but in such poor condition

that it will take a long itme to get

them back to a thrifty condition so

that they will be abw‘ to do. the " hard

work that is before them. This results

in much lost time just when time is

very valuable. The amount of time re-

quired to break in the horses will de

pend altogether upon how well they

are cared for during the winter. It

seems that since we have so much

spare time during the winter we

oughcato care for the horses well, and

the idle, horses in winter need more

attention than the working horses in

summer.

The Evil Effects of idleness.



In winter horses are idle a great

deal. This in itself is disastrous. Idle-

ness causes the animal to get out of

condition. The bodily organs become

inactive through idleness. Then the

horse loses vitality. He becomes life-

less, sluggish and has a poor appear-

ance generally. This is the first bad

sign. But, if he isn't cared for well it

is only the beginning of trouble.



The idle horses should have plenty

of exercise daily. They should be turn-

ed out in yard, paddock or field every

day—all day when the weather is fav-

orable, and for a short time at least

every day, even in rough weather. And

feed and water should be given regu—

larly each day. Lack of exercise and

irregular feeding are two of the main

causes of bowel troubles, a common





subject, and one we should try to avoid

since it brings on most other troubles.





Feeds and Feeding.



The kinds of feeding stuffs used con-

stitute another factor. Remember that

in Winter we feed largely on rough

feeds, such as straw, clover, fodder and

other cheap feeds which contain a

large amount of dry matter which is

“'8 say these things are

easily digested. This is true as to the

digestible portions of the feeds, but.

the large amount 01' fiber is not diges-

tible, and this is what, causes the iron-

ble. Here is where the method of feed-

ing may mean so much. Do not fed

too much. Give just enough and no

more. Even if you are feeding straw,

feed it sparingly. Make the horses

clean it all up in a short time. Never

feed so much that roughage will be left

over from one feeding time to another.

And feed some concentrated feed like

corn, oats and oil meal. Oil meal is

very valuable as a conditioner, because

it helps to keep the bowels active, and

it supplies protein in a cheap form.

Most of these rough feeds are serious-

ly lacking in this element-



The Stable.



On some farms the method of hous-

ing animals is very hard on them. If

barns admit drafts, are not well ven-

tilated and are allowed to fill up with

manure, horses cannot do well. Horses

should be comfortable, but they are

not so when exposed to icy drafts.

They ’should have plenty of fresh air——

it’s cheapmbut they cannot get it.if

the barn isn’t well ventilated. And

manure injures the horse’s feet, skin

and general health. If there is no good

ventilating arrangement in your barn

open doors or windows on the leeward

side and make the windward side air

tight. Reverse the‘ order when the

wind changes. If the barn is not com.

fortable in the‘ coldest weather put

warm blankets on the horses.



The question of grooming should not

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If these hints are followed and the

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it will take only a short time to get

them hardened to work in the spring.

But if the horses are either allowed to

run down in condition, or are pamper-

ed up with rich. feeds until theyare

tee" fat, it will require much time and

extreme care to get them shaped up

for hard work when spring comes.





FEEDERS’ PROBLEMS.





 





Corn vs. Oats as Horse Feed.





What is the relative value of corn

and oats as feed for horses? ‘ Which

would be the cheapest to feed, car

com at 40c per basket or oats at 500

per bushel? ‘



Barry '00. J. A.





Various experiments have been made

to determine the relative value of corn

and oats for horses. While cats are

everywhere the most popular horse

feed and are considered to be the stan-

dard by which other feeds are meas‘

ured, yet point for point, particularly

when fed in connection with clover or

alfalfa hay or with other concentrates

to properly balance the ration, corn

has generally been shown to have

equal or superior feeding value as com-

pared with oats. This being true, cor-n

would be cheaper than cats at the pric-

es mentioned in this inquiry.



If the corn is to be fed in connection

with clover or alfalfa hay, a fairly well

balanced ration will be afforded, but if

it is to be fed with timothy hay as the

roughage, a little oil meal will be use-

ful in balancing the ration, and a little

bran or oats will give a desired degree

of bulk to the grain fed. A mixture of

these feeds is perhaps better than any

one used alone.



Estimating Roughage for Live Stock.



I would like your estimate on rough

feed for 1.9 head of stock as follows:

Three head of horses, average weight

1100 lbs. each; five milch cows, Dur-

ham type; two head of two-year-old

heifers; two long yearlings (steer and

heifer), four spring calves; two sum-

mer calves; one fall calf. I have the

following rough fed: Twelve tons of

June clover and timothy hay; three

tons of good bean fodder; seven acres

of medium corn fodder; two tons of

oat straw in barn; two tons of clover

seed straw. Then I have enough corn

and oats for grain for, horses and cows.

Would this be enough feed for the

afore named stock if I don't start feed-

ing until December and feed until April

15, and figure to have a couple of tons

of hay left for horses for spring work?

How does a. ton of oat straw compare

with a ton of meadow hay?



Osceola Co. L. E.



The best way to estimate the amount

of roughage for a given amount of live

stock is to figure the live stock in

terms of weight rather than the num-

ber of individuals, since it is easier to

estimate the feed requirements per one

thousand pounds than per head of dif-

ferent ages and weights.



Proceeding in that manner with the

live stock, enumerated in this inquiry,

using an arbitrary assumption of

weights rather than actual knowledge,

we would estimate the stock enumer—

ated to weigh a total of 15,000 pounds

for the purpose of computation. In

like manner reducing the total of the

roughage enumerated to approximate

weight without definite knowledge as

to the yield of corn fodder, we may

reasonably assume that the total sup-

ply of roughage Would be 20 tons, or

40,000 pounds.



Next reducing the length of the feed-

ing period for Which it is desired to

make this forage suffice, we find that

from the‘ first of December until the

middle of April there would be approx-

imately 135 days. Dividing'the total

amount of roughage available by the

number of days for which it is desired

to make it serve, we find that there

would be available an ’ average of ap-





proximately ; 300. pounds of roughage





 





 





1000 pounds of livéwvéright a};

character mentioned this would be an

ample roughage supply.» This amount

of roughage, w0uld yield 16 to 17

pounds of dry- matter per day per 1000

pounds of live weight of the animals

to be fed. -



Figuring on a light grain ration for

the horses and a liberal ration for the

cows and growing stock, this amount





not roughage should suffice for a longer





feeding period than is mentioned in

this inquiry, and under the ordinary

spring conditions it would be more ad-

visable to figure on feeding two to

four weeks longer, or until the grass

got well started, so as to make a good

supply of nutritious forage. ‘



Oat straw is very deficient in pro-

tein as compared with mixed hay, the

relative average content of this import-

ant-food element being as one to four

in the two feeds. .



The bean fodder, on the other hand.

is almost equal to good mixed hay in

feeding value. Clover chaff can be

utilized in small quantities to some ad.





vantage in connection with other feeds.





LIVE STOCK NEWS.





 





The unprecedentedly high prices

paid for corn in the markets of the

country tend to stimulate sales ,or

corn by the farmers, and at the same

time they tend to discourage large

feeding of corn to live stock on the

farms. From all directions word

comes that farmers are inclined to

take advantage of the high corn pric-

es rather than take any chances in

feeding the corn to stock. Cold, clear

weather has prevailed over the com

belt, and it. accelerates the marketing

of corn, although the movement con-

tinues to be checked more or less ser-

iously by the scarcity of cars. Owners

of hogs are keen about getting their

pigs and young hogs of light weight;

shipped to market as fast as possible.

in spite of the big premium offered for

well finished barrows carrying plenty

of weight, and the hogs arriving in

the Chicago stock yards are averag-

ing only 197 lbs., being the lightest,

average seen at any time since last

January. The average weight stood

at 213 lbs. one month ago, at 227 lbs.

two months ago and at 231 lbs. three

months ago. With such a showing, it

is inevitable that the local packers

and eastern shippers should pay a lib-

eral premium for all prime corn-fed

barrows carrying plenty of weight,

and these are the highest sellers all

the time, with prime light shipping

droves selling at a fast increasing dis-

count. Monday is the great day when

the Chicago market uSually receives

its biggest supply of hogs, and on a

recent Monday 52,487 hogs arrived.

causing a break in prices for the gen-

eral run, but prime heavy barrows

sold as firm as a rock, with a lively de-

mand. While hogs show a large de—

cline from prices paid at the highest

time of the present year, all descrip:

tions are far higher than in other

years, and the best lots are particu~

larly high. Provisions share inthe

boom in the raw material, the foreign

demand breaking all past records, and

pork has sold within a short time for

January delivery around $28 a barrel.

comparing with $16.65 a year ago, and

all other provisions Show similar au—

vances.



The season for marketing the range

flocks of lambs is drawing to its close.

and there are liberal receipts of range

feeding lambs, which meet with a live-

ly demand at firm prices, lots weighing

about 50 lbs. being the favorites with

buyers.



Because of the shortage of straw.

the shredding of cornstalks is partic-

ularly recommended by the Ohio State

University College of Agriculture.

Shredded stalks are easily handled and

make a good feed. In addition, the

refuse makes a good absorbent bed-

ding, which is in all respects the equal

of straw.



An Oklahoma stockman is feeding

500 head of cattle this winter, and

counts on having them fat and ready

for marketing 'by April. He thinks

they can be wintered for about $10 per

head, beginning with steers weighing

from 800 to 900 lbs. Silage costs him

not over$2.a ton, and he has good pas-

turage for the mid-winter months. He





owns a, silo built of concrete, with 3. ~-

Kafllr





capacity for holding 000 tons.

corn and cane are used for filling it.

There is no rush to buy stacker or

feeder cattle in the Chicago stock

yards, tthi bestt demand conferring 7%:

good 8 or: or s eers weigh in

to 900 lbs. and costing 11:51 $7.10 to

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the ani-’

‘mals to be fed. For animals of the
A Heifer’s First Calf.



I have seen the question discussed

as to the advisability of raising a heif-

er’s first calf. Some claim she will

be poor at the pail, others claim the

opposite. What is your Opinion?



Washtenaw Co. E. G. S



My observation is that a heiferfs

first calf is as likely to be excellent as

any, and I see no reason why this

should not be so. If the heifer is prop-

erly developed and properly cared for

the calf is always a bright, lively one

and develops rapidly. It may be small

when dropped, but it will make up for

this and is just as likely to make a

large animal as any calf she may drop

afterwards. An old man told me once

that he had taken considerable pains

to notice the effect of breeding two-

year-old fillies and his opinion was

that these colts were as likely as any

afterward produced. Also, they grew

into large horses, though they might

be small when dropped.





Effect of Silage on Health of Cows.





I have been told that by feeding a

cow silage for a term of five years it

will practically ruin a herd. Is this

true? Would like to have this ques-

tion answered by someone who has

had experience in feeding silage for a.

term of years.



Calhoun Co. B. O.





I have fed cows silage for more than

twenty years, and know positively that

they are not injured by it. As a mat-

ter of fact, they are greatly benefited

by it. I have now in my barn cows

whose anceStors for many generations

have been fed silage many years every

day in the year, and all of them have

been healthy and vigorous.



It is surprising that one has to an-

swer this question at this day and age

of the silo. You can get information

on this question in almost every neigh-

borhood in Michigan.



Possibly someone sometime has fed

rotten, moldy ensilage and gotten poor

results. They might get as bad results

from feeding rotten, moldy hay or any

other rotten food. Good silage im-

proves the health of cattle.





Ensiloing Shredded Cornstalks.





What would be your opinion of husk-

lng corn with shredder and putting the

cut or shredded stalks in the silo, _us-

ing plenty of water while silo is being





filled?



Tuscola Co. R. P. V.



This, in my Opinion, is the very best

way to handle cornstalks. There is

no other way that you can get so much

out of them. There will be less waste

this way and if plenty of water is used

so they will/pack down good in the

silo they will be very palatable and

readily eaten by the stock. But don’t

be afraid of getting on too much wa-

ter. These stalks will need a lot of

water to prevent mould, and make

them good.





Cows Losing Instead of Gaining.

Kindly fix up a balanced grain ration

out of the following grains at the giv-

en prices, for our herd of grade Hol-

steins. Fine white middlings at $32

per ton; good wheat bran $30 per.to_n;

gluten,'30 per cent, $32 per ton; distill-

ers’ grains, $32 per ton; brewers’

grains, $27 per ton; malt sprouts, $27

per ton; old process oil meal, $42 per

ton; 41 per cent cottonseed meal, $36

per ton; hominy, $37 per ton; malt

sugar grains $27 per ton. At present

we are feeding bran and gluten, 80

lbs. of bran to 100 lbs. of gluten. The

cows are losing instead of gaining. For

roughage we are feeding silage (with

lots of corn in it), about 50 lbs. a day:

alfalfa hay twice a day and mixed clo-

ver and timothy once a day.

Livingston C0. M..B.

You can’t. get maximum production

and keep cows looking well unless you

feed a liberal grain ration. At the

present high price of grain it may be

possible to make as great a profit by

feeding less grain and more roughage,

but this profit must come from a re-

duced yield and a less costly ration.

\I suggest that you feed either gluten

feed or distillers’ grains and hominy

for a grain ration. Mix them equal

parts by weight, and feed one pound of

grain for every four pounds of milk

produced; that is, if a cow produces 28





 





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pounds of milk per day feed her seven

pounds of grain; if she produces 40;

pounds, feed her 10 pounds of grain.





Vealing Calves Without Milk.



What feeds can I use to substitute

whole milk for veal calves. Whole

milk seems too high-priced to feed.



Lake Co. G. A. S.



It is quite a diflicult matter to fatten

a veal calf in any reasonable time

without new milk. Indeed, many think

the only way is to let the calf suckle

the cow, that you can not get first-

class veal by pail feeding. But suck-

ling the cow is so detrimental to the

cow that good dairymen feed the

calves and with very good success.

However, when you come to do away

with milk entirely, or even try to make

veal with skim—milk and grain, you are

up against a difficult proposition.



There is a prepared calf meal on the

market that is probably the best sub-

stitute for milk. It is good to grow

calves on but to fatten veal is quite

different. A good food can be obtained

by mixing many of our different grains

together, as oats, corn, barley, wheat

or bran and middlings, and then cook-

ing to a thin gruel. Calves will grow

on this but will not fatten when quite

young.



Cottonseed Meal Alone for Grain.



I have corn silage and mixed hay to

feed my dairy cows and calves. Can I

get a balanced ration by adding cot-

tonseed meal to the ensilage? If so,

what proportions? Also, what other

grain would be advantageous if propor-

tion of cottonseed meal is not suifi

cient? If I concluded to buy gluten,

which I believe has an analysis of 31

per cent protein and 10 per cent fat,



ow much of this With corn Silage per

cow would be required per day, with

hay. Kindly make me up a formula

for a balanced ration, using ensilage

and mixed hay as a base. Will ensi-

lage and hay alone fatten old cows for

the market? It seems they will not

eat enough for fattening purposes. A

neighbor tells me he fattened a cow

last winter on ensilage alone. If en-

silage and hay are sufficient, please

outline the best plan of feeding for

fattening purposes.



Livingston Co. E. W. L.



I would not advise feeding cotton-

seed meal alone as a grain ration. I

would prefer to use it in connection

with corn meal or hominy feed. But

cottonseed meal does not mix well

with other feeds. It is a very concen-

trated ration and one must be careful

not to feed too much. Therefore feed

the cottonseed meal by itself and know

just how much you are feeding. Don’t

feed over two pounds per day per cow.



I suggest that you feed oil meal or

distillers’ grain and hominy or ground

oats for grain.



It would be next to impossible to

fatten old cows on ensilage and hay.

They should have some grain. Young

animals would do better and might get

in saleable condition. It is always best

to feed all the ensilage and hay the

cows will eat up without waste.





Value of Dried Beet Pulp.





Is there any feeding value in dried

beet pulp, for milch cows, and also

how should it be fed?



Berrien Co. C. C. U.





While the chemical analysis does

not show dried beet pulp to be as val-

uable a food as corn, oats, barley,

etc., nevertheless it is a valuable food

to feed in connection with those grains,

especially if one does not have a suc-

culent food like corn silage or roots

of some kind. Dried beet pulp keeps

the animals in good condition and en-

ables them to get more good from the

other grains in addition to its own

food value.



Where one does not have silage or

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Itvis a. well-known and very true say-

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when given a dry but open shed with

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Every mature bull should have a

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ling a bull:



lion‘t underfeed him when young or

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for larger calves half a cupful. Make

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Have you heard it, lads and lassies,

ever heard on Christmas morn,



The strange and lovely legend of the

Gastonbury Thorn?



Tho yes or no should be your answer,

the story I’ll rehearse;



List! and I will reproduce it in this

home-made verse:



At the firesides of the cotters in old

England’s verdant land,



Down the years it has been handed by

tradition’s faithful hand.‘



It tells us that ’twas‘ Joseph of Arimar

thea he



Who planted it in Glastonbury—the

fair, enchanted tree;



After tragic death of Jesus and its

painful scenes were o’er,



He laid him in his own new tomb and

sailed for Britain’s shore.



Sauntering forth one day, ’tis said,





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The dlastonbury Thorn





By AUNT QUILLA





with walking staff in hand,



He idly thrust it in the ground, when

10! the magic wand



At once took root, and, leaving out,

upon the fol’wing night



(Which chanced to be on Christmas

eve) it bloomed divinely white;



Tho fitting spot or otherwise, we’re

told the mystic tree »



Sprang up and grew on very groun

where churchyard was to be;



And as the years went rolling on, it

ever marked the time,



By bursting into radiant bloom at bel-

fry’s midnight chime;





Punctual as





the star that rose and





smiled upon the sight,





Its buds would swell, and burst, and

bloom, in flowers divinely white.

And so, thru out the country side, the





custom yearly grew





For old and young to gather there, the





vision fair to view;





By starlight or by lantern light, as





chanced the case to be,





They met within the burial ground the





miracle to see;





But ah! the long long wars that came





and left the land forlorn,





Laid blighting hand on field and wood





Hill.“IitiillllllilillIlllllHll‘HHHlHHIHHHIHH“Hill!HHHIIWIHHHHIHIFftlllllliit'tlii,‘hitT .l7§l‘21?2t12i1tHHIHEIIHHiHHHEiNHiHHJ fli’!





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and e’en the churchyard Thorn.



Its day \‘as past; but still, ’tis said, its .

cuttings far and Wide, "



Thru England’s distant shires wou‘ld'

bloom at holy Christmas tide;



You are smiling lads and lassies, dear,

at the tradition old;



But pause! may not the legend still

some meaning for us hold?



For long years it has enshrined a good

man’s name, we see,



Who faced the proud Sanhedrin’s



scorn the Saviour’s friend to be;



Our deeds survive; they cannot die;

they thru the years descend;



Tho we may pass, they still live on to

good or evil end;



One kindly thot, one tender act, a

mem’ry may adorn;



This the message that we read in

Glastonbury's Thorn.





 





WORLD EVENTS IN PICTURES





 





Mrs. Boissevain, Noted Suffragette

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Mr. Edison's book tells you how your

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The satisfaction and economy of electric home-

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Little Johnny and St





(Adapted from the German)





By ANNA GIRMUS





ITTLE JOHNNY lived at number

two Broad street. And it was

the day before Christmas. It was



an awful long day. It seemed as if it

would never come to an end. You

know, the day before Christmas is al-

ways a long day.





'Johnny tried to play, but there was,





no fun in that. He looked out of the

window and soon got tired of that. He

didn't know what to do with himself.

But all things come to an end, even

the day before Christmas. At last the

light came out on the corner and John

ny knew that it was really Christmas

Eve.



Then his father came home and they

had supper. After that the front room

door was opened and there stood the

nicest Christmas tree, all full of candy

apples and oranges, and peaches, and

elephants, and bears, and horses, and

cows and birds, and real apples and

oranges, and popcorn and all sorts of

good things; and candles, red candles,

and blue ones, and yellow ones and

white ones, and they were all burning

as bright as could be.





And under the tree were books and

stockings and mittens. But Johnny

hardly looked at any of those things

for there stood a sled, a nice hand-

sled all painted red and green, with a

nice strong cord tied to it.





Johnny grabbed hold of the cord and

pulled the sled all over the house. “See

mamma, what Santa Claus brought me,

See papa, what I got,” he called to his

papa and mamma. And he was so hap-

py, because he had wanted a sled so

much.



At last it got late and Johnny had to

go to bed, but he held the cord in his

hand even after he got in bed.





Then he woke up and he was sick,

oh, so sick. And the doctor was there.

And his papa and mamma‘stood by the

bed, and his big sister Minnie, and

they all felt bad and cried. Even

Watch, the dog, looked sorry. Only

his little baby brother crowed and

laughed the same as ever.



And then little Johnny died. And he

went up, up, up through the clouds.

And he grew so tired, but he kept on

going up, up, up. At last he thought

that he couldn’t go another step. And

there through the clouds, right in front

of him, he saw something bright and

shiny and yellow. He knew at once

that it was the gates of Heaven, for

there stood St. Peter. He knew it was

St. Peter because he had seen pic-

tures of him. He knew him at once

for there was his bunch of keys.



“Am I at the right place?” he asked.

“Are those the gates of Heaven and is

this St. Peter?"



“These are the gates of Heaven and

I am St. Peter, but we'll have to see

about its being the right place.” The

old man said and he reached up on a

cloud and took down a big book and

began turning the pages.



“We must see about your prayers.

What is your name," he asked.



“Little Johnny, number two Broad

street,” Johnny answered.



St. Peter turned over a few pages.

“Here we are," he said. “Hum, usu-

ally the angel has recorded the prayer

all right, but here is the fourth of Sep-

tember and no prayer for that night.

What was the matter?”



“Why, that was my birthday, and I

had such a nice party and so many

presents, and such a good time, I for-

get,” said Johnny.



i‘Hum,” said St. Peter. “I should

think when one is happy they’d re-

member their prayers all the better.

But here’s the fifteenth of October, and

no prayer. What was the matter then ?”



Now it was strange how well John-

ny remembered. “I was naughty that

day and when father came he whipped

me, and I made up my: grind that I





s.





wouldn’t say my prayers until the oth-

ers were asleep, and then—"



"And then you went to sleep without

saying your prayers,” said St. Peter.



“Yes,” said Johnny.



“Hum,” said St. Peter. “And here is_

the twenty-fourth of December, the

eve before the Christ Child was born,

and no prayer, but maybe you didn‘t

even have a Christmas tree ‘2”





"Oh, yes, we did," said Johnny. “And

such a big one, St. Peter. You should

have seen it. It reached way up to

the ceiling, and full of candles and

good things. And see, St. Peter, what

I got," and little Johnny pulledup his

hand-sled, for he had kept right hold

of the cord all the way up.





“Hum,” said St. Peter. “That’s very

nice, but no prayer when you had such

nice things, and on the Eve when the

Blessed Christ Child was born,” and

St. Peter shook his head.



“Well, if you forgot your prayers,

maybe you were a good boy the day

before Christmas?" St. Peter said.





Now Johnny would like to have said

yes to that. but at the gates of Heaven

one can’t say things that are not so.

“I—I was bad,” he said. “I kicked

Watch, our dog, when he was doing

nothing. And I called sister Minnie a

nasty old thing and told her she could

not ride 011 my sled if I got one. And

I stole a fried cake when mamma was

baking them. And it burned my mouth,

and mamma said I was punished

enough.”



"Well, if mamma said that you were

punished enough, maybe you were,”

said St. Peter. “If you were naughty,

maybe you gave someone something

on the day before that on which the

blessed Christ Child was born?"



“But, St. Peter," said Johnny..“there

is no one around us to give any-

thing to.”



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little Franko on the street just back of

you. He has everything he needs,ti

has he '2"



“Oh, no, St. Peter, you should see.

He hasn’t even stockings. He winds

old rags around his feet and sticks

them in his shoes. He’s awfully poor,”

said. Johnny.



“Hum,” said St. Peter. “And you

got some new ones? And how about

the beggar man on the corner?”



“Oh, I was going to give him a penny

when mamma sent me for the raisins,

but it was in my inside pocket and I

didn’t want to unbutton mycoat. It

was so cold,” said Johnny.



“Hum,” said St. Peter. “Forgot to

say your prayers on your birthday and

on the Eve of the day that the Christ

Child was born. And was naughty the

day before Christmas, and didn’t give

anyone anything. Hum, I guess this

isn't the place for you. But I’ll tell

you what I will do. I’ll send you back

to earth and give you another chance

so that when you ceme back here I

can let you in. But you’re awfully tir-

ed. Sit down on your sled,” and St.

Peter gave the sled a big shove, and

dow,n down it went, lickity skoot over

the clouds and bang it came down ker-

plump.



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mas morning and the ground outside

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He had jumped on the bed to wake

Johnny up.



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Sadie, a wholesome country girl

with limited social and intellectual op-

portunities, leaves the farm home in

Ohio and seeks her fortune in Buffalo,

where she finds employment in the

shipping department of a shirt factory.

The strength of many of the girls

working with Sadie was being overtax-

ed by the excessively long hours and

the stead application to their tasks.

Against t e strict enforcement of un-

just shop rules, and stem demands of

the corporation, our heroine courage-

ously protests, for which she is fined

by the foreman. 'Becoming convinced

that behind factory walls is no place

for‘a spirit like hers, she hopefully re-

signs herself to fate by pinning a letter

applying for an outdoor job, in the

pocket of a No. 44 shirt going to fill an

order from Arizona, but before she

could remove. the letter, the foreman

hastily gathers the shirt with others,

to satisfy a rush order, from where

she was unable to learn.



Along the Northeast arm of Deep-

water Lake, in Northern Canada, Stod-

dard, a young but capable engineer,

whose home was among the select of

New York City, and who had been en-

trusted by his company with the erec-

tion of great bridges on almost every

continent, paddles a loaded canoe car-

rying his city friend, Larry Living.

ston, who was suffering from poor

health, to an island far from communi-

cation with the outside world. Stod-

dard unloads, erects a tent, builds a

fire, and after they eat puts Larry to

bed. In hunting for matches he pulls

his finger against a pin in the pocket

of his shirt and discovers Sadie’s let-

ter. This he reads and after much re-

flection answers it. He leaves Larry

sleeping, and tortured with the thorns

and bruises received in a wild and dan-

gerous trip, he finally delivers his letr

ter to an Indian friend who posts it on

the train.





 





Reluctant at the thought of more

than two hours’ travel before he

reached his blankets. Stoddard went

slowly down to the landing and

launched the canoe. The longest way

around would be his homeward route.

Having conquered the portage once

he did not propose to give it a return

battle.



As he crossed the Island Bay and

headed toward the point of the penin-

sula, Stoddard’s mind was trying to

create a picture. The scene was a

room in a shirt-factory. He imagined

it cluttered, crowded and unattractive.

Persons .were running about nervously

and irritably. There were haggard

girls working at machines, limp as the

garments that passed through their

fingers. The air was hot and vitiated.



One of the girls in his picture was

No. 18, yet he could not clearly pick

her out. Sometimes she was dark,

sometimes fair; now she was plain of

face, and again she was pretty. But

she was always tired and wan, and

there was ever a look of yearning in





her eyes.

No. 18! She was not really a DQ-

son at all. She was merely a part of





a factory—a numbered part. Stoddard

had never thought of girls simply as

numbers. The Kittys and the Estelles

possessed personalities, however in-

consequential they might be; they had

the right to be known as individuals.

They ranked as human beings! But

No. 18—she was merely a mathemati-

cal item.





It was nearly three o’clock when he

landed at the island, and he knew in-

stantly by the brightly blazing fire

that Larry was awake. As his steel-

shod boots scraped on the rocks a

voice from the tent called sharply:



“Who's that?”



Stoddard laughed silently at the ap-

prehension in the tone.



“Stoddard!” he answered as he haul-

ed out the canoe.



“Where in blazes have ,you been?”

demanded Livingston, emerging into

the firelight. “I woke up and—and—”



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said Stoddard. -



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to you! Who’d find me? What would

I do?” _

“Why, you could just wait for





things to freeze up and walk ashore,

Larry. There's lots of grub.”



“But I say, Stod, it’s not fair! It’s—3’



“Tut, Larry: you’re interrupting

me,” chided Stoddard as he pushed his

way into the tent.



“Interrupting!

to do?”



“Sleep, son.”



But in Buffalo at that same hour

there was no slumber for Sadie Hicks.

In her nightgown, with her golden-

bronze hair hanging in two thick plaits

across her deep bosom, she sat on the

edge of her cot, staring half hypnotiz-

ed into the spitting point of gas-flame,

repining over her letter that went

astray—wondering, puzzling, schem-

ing. And through all the bemused tan-

gle there ran—felt rather than ex-

pressed—the call of the great out-

doors.





What have you got





CHAPTER V.

Sadie Gets a Letter.



The fifty-cent fine did not annoy

Sadie. She paid it on Saturday night

——or rather observed that it had been

accurately deducted from her envelope

—and the incident was dismissed from

her mind. But a new trouble had come

to dwell with her. The cutting-room

boss was responsible for it.



Sadie had never taken. any particu-

lar notice of him; he was merely a

colorless “medium.” It surprised her

therefore, when he devised an oppor-

tunity to talk to her at the noon hour.



Sadie was not unaware of her own

charms, for she was intelligent and

human. When the cutting-room boss

sat beside her on the bench where

she was eating her sandwich she sigh-

ed therefore, for she interpreted the

attention merely as the beginning of

another affair that would have to be

slain in its early youth.



She was indignant, too; for No. 26

was the girl who had always received

his attentions, and No. 26 was Sadie’s

friend. She had an astonished con-

tempt for his fickleness, as well as a

stout loyalty to the feather-brained lit-

tle brunette at the next table.



The cutting-room boss was indirect

and mysterious of speech, circumstan-

ces which explained Sadie’s puzzled

expression and the fact that she did

not clearly understand him for several

minutes. When she finally discerned

the point at which he was aiming in

wabbly fashion she was at first amus-

ed, then doubly resentful.



The cutting-room boss was not dis-

loyal to N0. 26; he was not “making

a play” for himself. He was an

emissary, an embassador, truly extra-

01'dinary—-and his credentials were

from the Shrimp!



When Sadie came to a realization of

this she made a slow and careful sur-

vey of the cutting-room boss, which is

a Woman’s preface to remarks that are

about to be made. He bore the scru-

tiny with what composure a man can

assume under such circumstances——

very little.



Even a man who is immaculately

correct in person and raiment, and

knows it, is not immune to the effects

of feminine eyes that coldly inspect,

review, and estimate; doubt of himself

is at once born in his mind. And the

cutting-room boss was not immaculate.



He shuffled his feet, coughed and

glanced about the. room, only to en-

counter the cold glare of No. 26. ‘



“You see, Ferguson’s all right,” he

went on hastily. “Only he’s quick

sometimes. He’sgot lots of worries

in this here department, and ’y can’t

blame him so much. He feels awful

bad, Sadie, about that fine.”



“Fine?” repeated Sadie, wrinkling



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“Well, he does fell had,” continued

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some extra time in your way maybe.

There’s going to be some rush work

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count after the gang rings.”



G‘So 9"



“Even Mame and I have em ” he

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Sadie did him the honor of another

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stowed a fleeting wink upon No. 26.

and said:



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plain talk, Mr. Schwartz.”



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swer.”



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“Ferguson.”

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“Might what?"



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a phonograph record for a shrimp.

Seems to me Id feel I was playin’ a

pretty punk tune, Mr. Schwartz. Ever

give it the once over from that angle?”





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said Swartz stiffly.

be not. But listen:

I don't think it's a man’s job to run

errands for a shrimp. I expect you

call yourself a man; I’ll take a chance





     





on it, anyhow. No, I’m not mad at

you; that ain’t worth while, Mr.

Schwartz. I’m just sorry—for the cut-





tin’ department. I got friends who

work there.



“Now, you can tell the Shrimpw

not as a message from me, because I

ain’t sendin’ messages to him thiough

thiid parties 01

can just advise him like a friend to

keep away from No. 18.

give him your opinion that things look

kinda bad; high winds prevailin’ from

the northeast, or something like that.



“You get the idea. Because, you

see, he‘s little and he ain’t as careful

as he might be, and he oughta have

somebody advise him. I don’t mind

if you tell him I’m heavy—footed and

clumsy sometimes, and I don’t always

look where I m goin’. Honest I’d feel



awful mean if I happened to step on

him, Mr. Schwartz.’



The cutting-room boss, red in the

cheeks, went back to his department.

Sadie finished her sandwich.



“What was he sayin’, Sade?” whis-

pered No.12 as the gong rang and the

packing of shirts began again.



“Just singin’ one of those light op-

era gems deary.”



No.12 did not pursue her inquiry.

When Sadie wanted to talk she talked;

when shé did not it was useless .to

urge her.



But the day was not over for Sadie.

It was destined to be marked on her

calendar in flaming red. And Give the

Shrimp credit for this.



He stopped at her table and said in

a low voice. “You insulted a friend

of mine, No.18.”





 





'Sadie cordially.





any other way —you





Just sort of





f‘Any. friend of yours is welcome to





' “I Won’t stand for it.”

- “Sure yen won’t. ”



“Friends of mine are entitled to be

treated respectful in my department.

Y’ understand?”



I‘No.”



“Well. you’ll understand it after

this!” he snarled. “I’ll make you!"



“You’re botherin’ me,” said Sadie.

“Interruptin’ my work. I’m here to

work and not to talk to friends of

yours. So long as I do what I’m paid

for you’ve got no- kick. Run, now!”



The Shrimp went away, but with an

idea in his mind that Sadie had un-

consciously planted. She was there to

work, was she? He intended to see

whether she did.



So the Shrimp spent the next hour

watching. There was something al-

most like a glitter in his eyes when

he next approached Sadie' 8 table.



“You only packed two boxes in the

last halfrhour," he announced for the

room to hear.





“Correct,” said Sadie.

for order-slips.” '



“Whadda you call those. ""



The Shrimp pointed to halfa dozen

sheets of paper that lay on the table.

Sadie looked down at them in sur-

prise, then back at her accuser.





“They weren’t there ten

ago,” she observed.



“They been there twenty minutes;

I seen them.”



“I think you just slipped them there

yourself, Ferguson," said Sadie.



“You mean to say



“That you put ’em there? Yes, I'll

say it. Now 1 get a good look at you.

I’ll bet on it.”



The Shrimp’s eyes narrowed. IIe

contemplated Sadie for





“Been waitin’





seconds





 





onds. Then he inhaled as large a.

breath as a thirty-four-inch chest will

accommodate.



“I’m tired of finin’ you,” he said

shrilly.



“Oh, don’t quit now, Ferguson.





You’re just goin’ good.”



“Get your hat!”



“Say it plain,” advised Sadie.



“You're fired.”



A beatific smile adorned Sadie‘s face.



“Honest?" she said eagerly



“Go ahead; you’re fired!" repeated

the Shrimp importantlx



Sadie clasped hei hands and iaughed.



“Really and truly fired?" she cried.

“Bounced? Discharged? Turned loose

on a cruel world?"



The Shrimp looked disappointed, but

he nodded. He never did understand

Sadie.



“Girls,” she exclaimed, turning to

the roomful, “my dream’s out! I'm

fired! It’s a Shame to make you jeal-

ous, but I can’t help it. Say, No. 21,

you’ re the prize dancer. Do some





steps for me; I don’t know how. Just '





think! Fired!”



Sadie started toward the locker-room

almost on a run. Her apron was al-

ready off, and she was patting a great

coil of bronze hair into place. Sud-

denly she stopped long enough to call

back:



“Shrimp, you’ re almost a friend of

mine!"



The departure of Sadie ’fiom the

packing department of the Challenge

Shirt Company partook of the dignity

of an event. If the room had been

under military discipline its occupants

could not have stood more rigidly at.

attention. Not a hand moved, not a

whisper sounded as she walked like a

queen toward the door that opened

into the hall. Even the Shrimp,'him-

self spellbound, forgot to fret because

the wheels of progress were momen-



.tarily halted.



Pausing at the threshhold, Sadie

turned and waived a last good-by.



“So-long, girls! Cheer up! Some

day you’re luck’ll come.”



Down the stairway that led past the

office went, not No. 18, but plain Sadie

Hicks. .



“I hope I did it dignified,” she mur.

muted with a little laugh. “Maybe I

made that laugh business a little .1011





several sec-‘
. . . 5

She halted at the office window and





., rapped on the glass with her time





clock key.



51’th this in, Mr. Halsey,”

she said. to the clerk who answered

her call.



“Leaving?”



“Uh-huh." ,



“I’m sorry,

trouble?"



“Oh, nothin’. Only I couldn’t wait

for the board of directors to act on

'my resignation.”



“You’ve been with us quite a while,

Sadie.”



‘ “That’s right; I’ve packed

shirts in my time.”



"‘11 there’s been any trouble I’d be

glad—” ,



“Sit-e. You’re all right, Mr. Hal-

sey. I know you'd do What you could.

But you couldn’t get me back there for

the general manager’s salary."



The clerk turned to a row of pigeon-

holes alongside the window and tossed

Sadie’s key into the box numbered

eighteen. Then something caught his

eye. He reached up and took out an

on velope.



"This for you?” he asked pushing it

across the counter.



Sadie picked it up for examination.

Then she blushed a deep red and

glanced at the clerk. He was smiling.



“Yes, it’s for me,” said Sadie, with

confusion in her voice. “But

you say anything to the girls, Mr. Hal-

sey! Please!”



“All right; I won’t. Only Sadie—”



The middle-aged clerk looked at her

with a kindly eye. “You're not going

to do anything foolish?”



Sadie thrust out her hand and gave





Sadie. What’s the





some





- him a steady grip.





“I know you mean that right, Mr.

Halsey. Thanks! No, I’m not goin’

to do anything foolish. Nothin’ like

that ever bothered‘me. Good-bye."



“Good-bye, Sadie. But wait a sec-

ond! I guess you've got a day’s pay

coming to you.”





“Give it to the Shrimp; buy him a she liked it.

even if he did not know it! Sadie smil-

ed faintly.





bouquet with it,” called back Sadie,

who was at the street door.

Outside, she paused to read the ad-

dress on the envelope—

No. 18,

Packing Department,

Challenge Shirt Company,





,. _ Buffalo, N. Y.



«he studied the postmark~Cana- might.

dian!



“So that’s where it went!” she

vii i spered. “Canada ! ”





she hesitated.



“No;

“I’ll wait till I get home.

joke; it's business."



\\'hereupon she thrust the envelope

into the bosom of her waist and start-

ed oil at a brisk walk. Sadie Was

different from many girls; she had her

own methods of self—discipline.





envelope and unfolded its contents. In

the upper corner of the first sheet she

read:

Deepwater Station,

Ontario, Canada.





She paused and glanced up, her eyes Then she went back to the letter again

to make sure of something. 'Yes, he

had said it:





half closed.



"Deepwater Station!” she repeated.

“Imopwater. That sounds good.” She

re: urned to her letter:





Dear Miss 18:



Why did you stick a pin in me? So

that I would not forget? If so, your

. lan succeeded.



nger.



“Ooh!” whispered Sadie.

mean to do that!





“It’s rather. awkward, just to know

a number; perhaps it you write again

you’ll send me your name. But use

no pins: .

mines—it’s Stoddard, with a John in

front, and the address is above.





III didn’t





I am not sure you meant this letter the bank’s closed DOW-

. me long to shOp.

“Died the mall 0‘ 801110 COW-Punching but r11 do the best I can. Then r11 get





my ticket. . There won’t be time to





for me; I have an idea that I inter-





gontleman. ' I’m not Mr. 44. i never

carried a .44 in my life. A .38 shoots





enough lead, and I rarely carry One of write.

those.





don’t 18'





a job.

“There ought to be jobs,” he said—1

jobs up there in Canada.

Her finger was under the flap 0f the must be a competent judge, for

envelope, about to tear it open, when lived thel‘e_





, scratch, just as the man who fractured

Seated on her bed in the seven-by- his skull





ten room, she deliberately opened the that he stubbed his toe as a starter.

You ought to see me now!





to you, Forty—Four, but I guess your

skull ain‘t fractured," she commented.





don’t fail to call on me.





a nod.

. ' can do something for me. He can get

I am still nursmg my me that outdoors job.





and Sadie went out.

turned she sat down to study a handful

of time-tables.





”1 begin by sending you there, Forty-Four,” she said resolutely.

“I’ll draw my money in the morning;





 





liken

think of .

not equally contented

Where did you ever get that bl?

healthy idea of yours, about outdoors

Surely not in the city where you live,

nor in‘the factory where you work!



“Did work!” corrected Sadie.



However, you managed to lay hold

of it, don’t lose it! It's right. Some

day you may have a good chance.

Take it Outdoors is the place that

needs people. There are toutew of us.

The city cheats.



“That’s it!” exclaimed Sadie. “He

knows. It does cheat!”



I haven't looked around up here yet

to see if there are any jobs for ' ls

who want to live outdoors. It cm

are none, there ought to be!

with the big idea should have her

chance. I’d be glad to hear more

about that ambition of yours. Will

you let me?



Up here there is nothing but out-

doors—big and genuine, and without

the trimmings. You’d like to see a





 





with. yours.





forest that never had a lumberman’s . .





axe laid on it, mountains that haven’t

been blasted, a lake you can drink

from, and all about you air that you

can fairly bite. At least, I get the idea

from your letter that you’d like it.



“Would 1!” she said softly.



Now, about that job. I promise not

to forget. Something may turn up; in

fact, I’ll try to turn it up. Meantime

please regard me as at your service.





Any time I can do anything for you.





don’t fail to call on me.



Sadie paused again and stared at the

white wall opposite.



"I wonder if this is the time,” she

mused.



I don’t like that number of yours-—

I shall think of you as Miss Out-

doors until you send me a better name.

Keep hoping; you’ll get there yet.



Sincerely,

JOHN S'rommnn.



Sadie was awed. It was hard to be-

lieve that such a letter could be writ-

ten—to her! Of course, he was not a

cowboy.



“He's educated,” she Whispered.





How well he seemed to understand! 3





She did not realize how plain she had

made her dream in the little note that

was pinned to a pocket. Perhaps he

was a “swell.”

lieve it. But he was a man, too; she

knew that. He had a good. plain name;

And he was a forty-four,





She went back to ‘the paragraph





about the outdoors where he lived and

read

ever see it, save within the walls of .

her imagination? He hinted that she





it again—hungrily. Would she





He promised to try to get her





Surely he -





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Canada was contained in John Stod-.

I’m excited now,” she said. dard’s letter, and she thirsted for little

This ain’t a more knowledge at this time.

a real outdoors; that was enough.



She glanced at her letter again, and i

noticed another paragraph, written on,

the back of one of the sheets: '





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It had g





P. S.—I have forgotten the pin





falling down-stairs forgot





“I don’t know just what happened





Sadie spent half an hour thinking.





Any time I can do anything for you





“He means that,” said Sadie, with

“Forty-fours don’t lie. And he





I will call!”

There was an hour before supper,

When she re-





“I’ll call just as soon as I can get





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It would seem as though the girl

ready to rush forward toward such a

battery of possibilities must be in the

frenzied condition of mind of a horse

in the midst of a fire—ready to jump

into the flames rather than to flee to

safety. .



But, what about the man, someone

asks! Does he, too, not run all these

risks and even others not enumerated?

He certainly does, and his judgment

likewise, must either be sadly lacking

or he must be a man who has been

persistently repulsed by the women

who know him, for good and sufficient

reasons.



The following cases are not mythi-

cal and they show that illy-assorted

marriages between unknown people do





not lead to happiness





A marriage was arranged between





an old gentleman of property and an

elderly woman who had been left a

competence by her first husband. Each

one was shrewd enough to take means

of ascertaining the reality of the oth-

er’s worldly possessions.

ensued. after which the elderly bride

discovered her husband had deeded his

property all to his daughter 'just be-

fore marrying her, thinking to end his

days in comfort at .her expense.

crafty groom was promptly disillusion-





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which would have kept them in com-

fort for the rest of. their lives.



The marriage of a likely looking

young couple brought together through

correspondence led to a life of grave

unhappiness for the couple and their

two puny children. In point of pecu-

liarity the wife was a winner, while

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had come. She told him he need not.

wOrk any more, and yet she never fail-

ed to remind him that he was a pen-

sioner on her bount\y.



In still another case where a mar-

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white people, a colored baby was born

to them as the result of negro ances-

try on the side of one of the parents.

This reversion to type is not an un-

known thing by any manner of means.



Still another marriage with a corres-





pondence suitor seemed to be promis-





ing until the bride discovered her hus-

band was the victim of an offensive

physical disability from which he had

suffered since birth. '



Again the wife of an alcoholic hus~

band in due time became the mother

of a family of five children and only

one was strictly normal.



Someone may arise at this juncture

to point out that conditions if ill-mat-

ing, of faulty inheritance, of disap-

pointment, and disaster, are to be

found also among those who marry af-

ter a personal acquaintance. This, too,

is true. . g



In the present war times the govern-

.mcnt has pointed out that American

merchant ships seeking commercial

profit, by going through mined waters

which have been declared danger

zones, do so at their own risk. Acci-

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anywhere, but it is the part of wisdom

to keep to well-known and presumably

safe lanes and waterways.



The same applies to matrimony. No

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yet, if they have taken all due precau-

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suitability of the other, the chances

for a safe and prosperous voyage

through life is much greater than if

unknown waters are entered beneath

which all sorts of dangers may lurk.



Even if the correspondence is en-

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by having her letters found upon the

person of an individual of ill repute.

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ture date, that this very correspond-

ence will crop up a damaging bit of

testimony against him at some critical

moment.



A husband or a wife cannot be sati-

isfactorily sought as one would pro-

cure a pair of gloves or, a summer hat,

either by proxy or. by printers ink.

Matrimony is not a condition which

can be lightly cast off and forgotten.

It is too serious and too sacred a rela-

tion to enter into thoughtlessly, or

carelessly. _It is "until death do us

part,” and so the human equation can-

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Co-operative AssOciation of Creameries'

By W. B. LAWRENCE





O-OPERATION is a word but re- erate until April 1 of this year. It was

cently added to the vocabulary not until then that a manager and field

of the farmer. Neighborhood agent was employed. Since that time



strife was a prevailing condition in rur- the work of the association has been

a1 communities in former years which progressing but, because the venture

the broad-minded farmer of today is entirely new, somewhat slowly.

strives to avoid. How different from Nineteen co-operative creameries make

our boyhood recollections when we up the association during this, its first

looked on and possibly enjoyed the year of active existence. The expenses

neighborhood quarrel brought about by of the organization are met by a tax of





purchase of a township road machine. each creamery. This amount is very

Those were the good old days when ample to meet the salary and traveling

the village sage wisely shook his head expenses of the field agent and the

and said, “Farmers never can agree. other incidental expenses which natur-

They are too suspicious and jealous of ally arise. It shows the spirit of true

each other.” A generation back such co-operation when the larger cream-

an opinion was correct. Today, how- eries pay their proportionate amount

ever, farmers can and do agree even to into the treasury of the association

such an extent as to cause them to call and receive only the same amount of

on the bank deposit to put up some assistance from the field agent as do

hard earned cash for a neighborhood the smaller creameries,

investment.



The cooperative creamcry a score of

years ago was a notable example of

“the failure of farmers’ co-operative ef-

forts. It is true that many such cream-

eries organized in those days weather-

ed the storm but the majority of them

failed and that miserably. Again the

cynic said, “Farmers can not work to-

gether.” Present day students of co»-

operation among farmers understand

that the failure of such creameries

was not due to the entire absence of

the co-operative spirit among farmers

of that day, but to wrong organization,

poor management and a general lack

of knowledge of the creainery busi-

ness. In more recent years greater

care has been given the organization

of .farmers’ creameries, our dairy

schools have brought up the standard

of our creamery operators and better

management is provided because of

the increase in knowledge of the

crcainei'y business. Today our most

successful local creameries are strictly

cooperative, being farmer-owned and

farmer-managed.



The strongest competitor of the 10-

cal creamery today is the “centraliz-

er.” The centralized creamery is a

plant usually located in a city or a

town which has good railroad facili-

ties. The cream is shipped to these

plants for distances varying from ten

to more than a hundred miles. These

creanieries range in annual output

from a half million to several million

pounds of butter. A very high state

of efficiency exists in the “centralizer”

and constant effort: is being made to

improve methods so that still greater

efficiency may be developed. In addi-

tion to the individual efliciency' of

these large creameries men of great

vision have seen the. benefit of a na-

tional organization among such plants,

hence the American Butter Manufac-

turers’ Association has been in exist~

ence for several years. This associa-

tion employs a force of very highly

trained men whose duties are to work

original methods of creamery opera-‘

tion, to improve the quality of butter

made by the centralizers and to my

crease» efficiency in operation in every

particular. This organization surely . ——

represents co—operation of big business During the past few years much has

ventures and indicates the faith that been said about the percentage of

big broad-minded business men have moisture contained in new corn, and

But in our own state about the shrinkage of the new corn

we have men in charge of small cream- in the crib due to its large moiSture

The or- content when stored. Yet, this is com-





The possibilities of cooperative as-

sociations of creameries are unlimited

in case the organization is supported

by the right individual spirit. The

very fact that several creameries have

united for mutual benefit brings their

operators close together and progres-

sive ideas are transmitted from one to

the other which are very beneficial.

By such co-operation sufficient funds

can be obtained to pay the salary of a

competent field man at very small ex-

pense to the individual creamery. The

field man can visit the creameries at

more or less regular intervals and can

be had at time of emergency. He can

increase the efficiency of the various

plants by suggesting remedies for de—

fects which are evident to his trained

eye. He can show the buttermakers

in the various plants how to incorpor-

ate the proper percentages of salt and

moisture; he can bring the over-run of

each creamery up to what is desired;

he can suggest means for bettering the

sanitary conditions of the creameries;

he can assist the buttcrmakers with

various problems in creamery opera-

tion, such as pasteurization, starter

making, etc. As the manager of the

association he can gradually work up

a greater co-operative spirit among

those associated with the various

creanieries; he can organize units

where there is competition'between

creameries in his association and

thereby promote a better feeling as

well as reduce expense; he can assist

the creamerics with the buying of sup-

plies and thereby save large sums of

money. In fact, his duties are without

number. ‘



This article will not attempt to enu-

merate what has been accomplished

through the agency of the Co-operative

Association of Ci‘eanieries, N0. 1. This

much can be said, however. Far great-

er results have been obtained than

were even anticipated at the beginning

of the year. This" would indicate that

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tain excessive amounts of moisture.

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and is a non-profit corporation. The

membership fee is one hundred dollars

and the money derived from the mem-

berships will be used in the establish-

ment of a central packing house and

providing equipment for the same.





The object of the association will be to

more efficiently market the fruit pro-

ducts of its members. Instead of divi-

dends on shares of stocks, the mem-





bers will receive a larger share of the





consumer’s dollar. This is the third

fruit association formed in Berrien





country within six months.





As soon as standard associations are

scattered throughout the fruit belt of

Michigan an effort will be made to

combine the associations into a strong

federation which will outline a single

definite policy for. all the locals be-

longing to the federation. In this way,

it is believed, that the fruits will be

much more efficiently marketed than

is now the case. At the present time

there is a great waste because of the

competition between rival associations.

The new policy will call for co-opera'

tion among farmers so that they will

not compete one with another, and co-

operation between associations for the





same reason.





.A Good Percentage.





Mr. Frank DuBois, of the Cavanagn

Poultry Farms, Lansing, Mich, Who

has ‘been advertising poultry, writes

us: “From an advertisement appear-

ing in two issues of our paper, for





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epidemic that. comes along.

Worms are killing oi! hundreds of thousands of ho a 'or ear It

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Worms—Lung and Bronchial Worms. are stealing away the lives

. of an untold number of hogs every veer. They weaken the hogs—-

make them subiect to Cholera. scours, Thumps. Rheumatism

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ms (2 weeks from time I weighed them and they averaged 221 pounds per hog."

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had their backs turned up like a rainbow. In less than two weeks

I could not get to the trough to feed them. I do not know exactly

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see a great change in them.





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558 Rand McNally Bldg., Chicago.





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with any kind of slops. with the drinking water or dampened

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after that only once a week. 100 per cent strong.





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0 of kin. \Vrite for catalog and prices. registered ercheron Stallions and M

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cracker jacks b" Oakland Equal Jr. and a fine hunch h

sired by Illa Defender the hog that everybOd! 800' Wild ' type P



over, sold at in mm prices. H. 0. Swnrtz. Schoolcrsft. Hicll. lflfg. Feb. Sale. A few choice Spring bong [may to





Spring bo.nri::dtrlwll“ '

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10001h. prospect. Sired by Big Type King our 1M





reedhoar oil-rs. W Brewhakflrflm‘lnn. Flsie. Mich.

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Novelnber 28, 1916.

Wheat.—Monday’s wheat market

was a sensational affair. The bears

raided the trade and forced prices down

several cents. Later .n the day there

was a rally and about one—half of the

loss was recovered. Foreigners have

not been taking wheat as liberally as a

month ago, but there is a fairly gen-

eral belief that on all breaks agents or

European countries quietly secure all

the stock they can without making the

matter too public. Rains in Argentine

also aided the bears, as a protracted

drouth had reduced the. South Amer:-

can crop \outlook considerably below

normal. Cash wheat is dull and the

millers were not buying actively at the

opening session this week. The visible

supply shows a decrease of 702,000

bushels. One year ago No. 2 red wheat

was quoted locally at $1.13 per bushel.

Detroit. quotations last week were:

No.2 No 1

Red. White. May





\Vednesdav . .1.86 1.81 1.921;;

Thursday .......1841/2 1 {91/2 1..91

Friday ......... 1 831/2 1 781/2 190

Saturday ....... 1.811/2 1. 761/.) 1.88

Monday ......... 1.78 1.73 1.78%,

Tuesday ... . ...1 7.3 1.68 1.80%





Chicago—December wheat $1.671/2;

May $1.75; July $14435.



Germ—This cereal has suffered from

the reactions in wheat and larger re‘

ceipts from the corn belt. An early

announcement of restricted feeding op.



. erations has disturbed the demand for

corn somewhat, although the activity

of feeders for stock at the central mar-

kets last week has indicated that op-

erations may be larger than was ear-

lier expected. A year ago No. 3 corn

was quoted at 661/2c per bushel. Last

week’s Detroit quotations were:





No. 3 No. 3

Mixed Yellow.

Wednesday ............ 98 1.00

Thursday .............. 98 1.00

Friday ................ 98 1.00

Saturday .............. 98 1.00

Monday ............... 97 99

Tuesday ............... 96 98





Chicago.-—llecember corn 880; May

91130; July 90340.



Oats—There is a fairly .good de-

mand for this cereal. in some sec-

tions lack of adequate transportation

facilities prevents dealers from supply‘

ing fully the demands of their cus-

tomers. The trade, however, suffered

a reaction when wheat declined on

Monday. The visible supply increased

54,000 bushels last week. A year ago

standard oats were quoted at 42c per





bushel. Last week’s Detroit quota.

tions were:

No. 3



Standard. \Vhite.

Wednesday ............. 60 1/2 59 1A»,

Thursday ............... 60 1/2 59 1%;

Friday .................. 601/2 59 1/é

Saturday ................ 60 59

Monday ................. 59 1/2 58 1A2

Tuesday ................ 59 58





Chicago—December oats 52140 per

bu; May 56%c; July 520.



Rye.——This grain holds steady at last

week’s quotation, No. 2 rye being quot-

ed at $1.50 per bushel.



Beans.——This market is dull with the

meager supplies making liberal tran-

sactions impossible. The local quota-

tions are 100 below those of last week,

cash beans now being quoted at $6.40

per bushel. High prices are also ef-

fecting the Chicago market, although

prices there are unchanged. Michigan

pea beans, handpicked, are quoted at

$7@7.25; red kidneys $7.50.



Peas—Values are steady, with field

peas quoted at $3.75 per bushel.



Seeds—Prime red clover $10.70; al-

sike $10.50; timothy $2.55; alfalfa $9

@10.



Buckwheat.——$2.25@2.50 per cwt.





 





FLOUR AND FEEDS.





 





Noun—Jobbing lots in one-eighth

paper sacks are selling on the Detroit

market per 196 lbs, as follows: Best

patent $9.80; seconds $9.40; straight

$9.20; spring wheat $10.50; rye flour

$8.30.



Feed.—In 100-lb. sacks, jobbing lots

are: Bran $31; standard middlings

$31.50; fine middlings $35; cracked

corn $45; coarse corn meal $42; corn

and oat chop $39 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@13; No. 1 clover $10@12.

Straw—Rye straw $8.50@9; wheat





DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS.

Butter.—The market continues firm

.1: unchanged prices. The offerings





 





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(21th firsts 39c; dairy 30c; packing stock

- c. ‘ ' .

Chicago—An advance'of Had per

pound brought an easy feling becauSe

consumption is falling off on account

of 'high prices.

are quoted at 42c; extra firsts 41@

4114c; firsts 38@40c. ,



Elgin.—Prices advanced 20. The

present level of prices has caused a

lull in the market. The price based on

sales is 42c. _



Eggs—The market is firm with eggs

‘11 light supply. Firsts 40c; current

receipts 380.



Chicago—A steady feeling exists

with no change in prices. Offerings of

fresh stock are very light. Firsts

39@391/2c; ordinary firsts 37@380; at

mark, cases included 33@38l/2,C; firsts,

storage paid 360.



Poultry—Demand for chickens is

fair but receipts are of poor quality.

Geese are in good supply but turkeys

are in demand Live, spring chickens

161/2@17c; No. 1 hens 15@16c; others

10@14c; ducks 16@17c; geese 15@

151/20; turkeys 26@27c.



Chicago—The market is active with

turkeys in greatest demand. Liberal

offerings of all kinds were well taken

up. Good turkeys 27c; others 15@

18c; fowls general run. 13c; others 12

@15c; spring chickens 17c; ducks 160;

geese 141/é@15c.





FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.





 





Apples.——Market steady with prices

unchanged. Barreled stock $3.50@4

for fancy; choice $2.50@3.50; No. 2,

75c@$1 per bushel. At Chicago frade

continues good with greatest demand

for No 1 stock. Prices for good stock

are firmly held. Fancy stock sells for

$225E08®6 per bbl; No. 2 stock $1.75





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Potatoes—At Detroit potatoes are

steady with prices unchanged. Quot-

ed, carlots, in bulk, at $1.60@1.65;

sacks $1.65@1.75. At Chicago Michi-

gan white are quoted at $1.40@1.65 a

bushel; others $1.35@1.70. Market is

easier with prices lower. Buyers are

slow to take hold.





GRAND RAPIDS.





 





Eggs are firm and. high, readily

bringing 410 for fresh. Butter climb-

ed three cents last week and this week

goes two cents higher for creamery.

Not much No. 1 dairy butter is offered.

Oleo is advancing with butter. The

local potato market is around $1.75,

while at outside buying stations prices

are $1.40@1.50, and not much stock

offered. Quite a large percentage of

the potato crop has already left first

hands. Thanksgiving week prices on

live poultry are. quoted by the master

butchers' association as follows: Fowls

13@15c; young ducks 14@16c; young

turkeys 20@23c; geese 11c.





DETROIT EASTERN MARKET.





 





 





There was an active market Tues-

day morning, with the principal inter-

est centered in poultry. Turkeys,

dressed, were held at 35@40c per lb;

geese 20@24c; chickens 20@24c;

ducks 22@24c; live chickens $1.30@

1.50 per pair; roasting pigs 20@250 a

lb; pork 14c per lb; eggs 600 per doz;

apples 650@$2; potatoes $2 for the av-

erage run; loose hay $17@19 per ton.





 





LIVE STOCK MARKETS.





Buffalo.

November 27, 1916.

(Special Report of Dunning & Stevens,

New York Central Stock Yards,

Buffalo, N. Y.)



Receipts here today as follows: Cat-

tle 210 cars; hogs 100 d. d.; sheep 32

d. d.; calves 1200 head.



With 210 cars of cattle here today

the demand was strong for what ship-

ping cattle were here and the bulk of

them sold 15@25c higher. The. best

grades of butcher cattle were very

scarce and they sold 15@25c higher,

and the medium and common grades

10@15c higher. There was a strong

demand for canners and cutters and

the bulk of them landed around 40 a

1b., with the throwouts at 3 and 3140.

The good stockers and feeders sold

strong, but the common low-priced

kind were very slow. We look for a

liberal run of cattle next Monday and

a steady trade.



We had a rather light run of hogs

today, demand good from all sources,

with market quite a lot higher than

Saturday’s best time, especially on the

pigs and light yorkers. A few selected

hogs sold from $10.35@10.50, with the

bulk from $10@10.25'; pigs and lights

$8.75@9; roughs generally $9; stags

$7@8. Market active and everything

sold at the close, and looks like a fair

trade for the next few days.



With a light run of lambs today our

market opened active and 350 higher

than the close of last week. We look

for steady to shade higher prices the

balance of the week.





 





 





 





 





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cull to common $9@11.50;.,yearlings $8





@10; bucks $5.50@6.5_0;' ewes $7.50@‘“





7.75; cull sheep $4.50@6; wethers $8@

8.50; top veals $12.75@13; heavy $7@

9; common and light $8@11; grassers

$5@5.50. .





 





Chicago.



November 27, 1916.

Cattle. Hogs. Sheep.

Receipts today..20,000 52,000 27,000

Same day 1915..25,158 48,907 19,599

Last week ...... 88,584 258,873 92,049

Same wk 1915..45,128 196,222 83,008



The cattle market starts off this

week with a brisk demand and prices

15@25c higher, fat beeves of the bet-

ter class showing the most improve-

ment and choice steers selling at $12.25

@12.35. The main cause of the rise In

values is due to the outbreak of hoor-

and-mouth disease, or what is sup-

posed to be that malady, sick cattle

having arrived in the Kansas City mar

ket a few days ago. The Chicago stock

yard officials have forbidden bringing

any cattle here from Kansas, Nebras-

ka and Missouri, including cattle on

the way, and the federal government

has sent men to Kansas City to see

what the cattle reported sick are af-

flicted with. Hogs open a dime higher,

with an active trade at $8.70@10.25,

and the best pigs bringing $8.60. Hogs

marketed last week were the lightest

seen yet, their average weight being

only 193 lbs. Sheep and lambs are

selling -mostly at unchanged prices,

with no prime lambs offered.



Cattle receipts continued extremely.

large for still another week. Prices

declined except for choice offerings.

~Native beef steers sold largely at a

range of $7.50@10.50, with sales of the

choice to fancy heavy steers at $11@

12, while a good class sold at $9.85@

10.95, with a medium class going at $9

@980, fair killers at $7.75@8.95 and

sales down to $5@6 for thin little

steers on the canning order. Yearlings

were salable at $11@l2 for the best

class, good lots $10 and upward and or-

dinary yearlinvs $8 and over. There

was a remarkable revival of the stock-

er and feeder trade by Wednesday,

when much the largest number of the.

year changed ownership, prices ruling

from $5 for inferior little stockers up

to $7.90 for prime heavy feeders. A

very choice class of fleshy steers sold

at $7.50 and over. A lot of 750 to 850-

lb. poorly bred cattle went out for win-

ter roughing at a cost of $5.60@5.90.

The free. buying of cattle for feeding

districts would indicate that quite a

number of farmers will do some feed-

ing in spite of high—priced corn every-

where. Heifers sold at $4.75@9.85;

cows $5.10@8; cutters $4.35@5; can-

ners $3.50@4.30; bulls $4.50@7.25;

calves have had a big boom in prices,

with sales of light vealers at $11.25@

13 per 100 lbs., and sales were made

down to $4.75@9 for heavy lots. Prices

for cattle, except the' better class, de—

clined 25@35c on Saturday.



Hogs were marketed liberally for

last week, but prices held up surpris-

ingly well. Heavy shipping barrows

were in strong demand, with compara-

tively few on sale. Prime lots sold as

high as $10.10. The eastern shippers

take fair numbers of the choicer hogs,

but their aggregate purchases are too

small to help the general market very

much. Hogs closed the week at $8.45

@1020, comparing with $8.50@10.05 a

week earlier, pigs selling at $6.25@

8.40. Heavy shipping hogs brought $10

@1020; light shipping hogs $9.30@

9.75 and light bacon hogs $8.45@9.25;

heavy packers brought $9.55@9.95.



Now that the range sheep shipping

season is over, the market must de—

pend upon supplies of natives and fed

westerns. Prices developed a great

deal of strength and underwent large

advances for desirable lambs, yearlings

and sheep. Prime lots sold at higher

prices than were ever paid before in

November. 'Very high prices have pre-

vailed for the few offerings of desir-

able feeders. Lambs advanced 50@

75c last week, with sales at $9@12.25





 





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,yearlings and sheep, yearlings selling

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ewes at $4@8, breeding ewes at $6.50

@9 and bucks at $5@6.50.



Horses were in moderate supply last

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horses, which sold mainly at $155@

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Wednesday's Market.



November 29, 1916.

Cattle.



Market slow at last

week’s prices. Best heavy steers $7.50

@825; best handy weight butcher

steers $6.50@7; mixed steers and heif-

ers $5.50@6.50; handy light butchers

$5.25@6; light butchers $4.50@5; best

cows $5.25@6; butcher cows $4.50@

5.25; common cows $4.25@4.50; can—

ners $3@4.25; best heavy bulls $5.50@

6.50; bologna bulls $5@5.50; stock

bulls $4@5; feeders $6@6.75; stockers

$5@6; milkers and sprmgers $40@90.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Goodgold 15

butchers av 638 at $5; to Bray S cows

av 846 at $4.25, 4 do av 1025 at $4.25,

6 do av 741 at $4; to Breitenbeck 2

steers av 1010 at $5.50, 25 do av 1012

at $6.50; to Prentiss 3 cow and bulls

av 1140 at $5.50, 2 feeders av 80:) at

$5.50.



Haley & M, sold Main P. Co. 1 cow

wgh 1510 at $6, 4 do av 1047 at $4.70;

to Hammond, S. & Co. 5 do av 888 at

$4.25; to Sutton 26 stockers av 555 at

$5.65, 2 do av 665 at $5.10; to Prentiss

4 do av 695 at $5.50, 3 heifers av‘933 at

$5.75, 1 cow wgh 1080 at $5; to Golden

2 steers av 950 at $5.75; to Bray 2

canners av 735 at $3.25, 2 do av 930 at

$4.25; to Mason B. Co. 2 bulls av 1160

at $6, 1 do wgh 1220 at $5.75.



Erwin, S. & J. sold Ray 8 feeders av

790 at $6; to Bresnahan 5 cows av

1034 at $4.35, 2 do av 890 at $4, 2 do av

1035 at $4.50; to Applebaum 2 butch-

ers av 490 at $4.50, 4 do av 745 at

$5.50; to Walk 3 do av 710 at $4.75,

14 feeders av 656 at $5.75; to Breiten-

beck 5 cows av 1022 at $5.25, 2 do av

1010 at $4.75 18 butchers av 677 at

$5.50; to Benfeldt 14 do av 734 at $5;

to Tarmosky 10 do av 758 at $5.



Sandel, S., B. & G. sold Bray 3 feed-

ers av 759 at $6.25; to Bresnahan 3

cows av 1140 at $4.60, 4 do av 1052 at

$4; to Mason B. Co. 2 do av 1050 at

$5.25, 5 butchers av 934 at $6.50, 2

bulls av 955 at $5.50, 1 do wgh 1520 at

$6, 4 butchers av 680 at $4.50, 6 do av

740 at $6; to Applebaum 14 do av 528

at $4.50; to Sutton 10 stockers av 620

at $4.50; to Costello 18 butchers av

574 at $4.50; to Bray 2 cows av 880 at

$4.25; to Knappen 5 stockers av 760 at

$5.40; to Hammond, S. & Co. 12

butchers av 706 at $4.40.



Veal Calves.



Receipts 282. Market steady. Best

$11.50@12.50; heavy $5@6.50.



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

15 av 150 at $12.50 7 av 145 at $12.50,

1 wgh 150 at $12.50, 1 wgh 140 at

$12.50, 4 av 140 at $12.25, 3 av 155 at

$12.50.



Erwin, S. & J. sold Thompson 2 av

150 at $12; to Mich. B. Co. 5 av 145 at

$11.25; to Gilbert 3 av 160 at $11.75,

21 av 115 at $11.75.



Sheep and Lambs.





Receipts 2330. Market strong to 150

higher. Best lambs $11.50@11.60; fair

lambs $10.50@11; light to common

lambs $6@8.50; yearlings $8.50@10;

fair to good sheep $6.50@7.50; culls

and common $4@4.50.



Bishop, B. & H. sold Nagle P. Co. 2

sheep av 130 at $7.25, 17 do av 95 at

$6, 44 lambs av 80 at $11.50, 26 do av

80 at $11.50, 16 do av 65 at $10.75, 92

do av 75 at $11.50,‘2 yearlings av 80 at

$8.50, 6 sheep av 95 at $6.25, 66 lambs

av 80 at $11.60; to Sullivan P. Co. 6

sheep av 90 at $5.50, 29 do av 125 at

$7.35, 52 do av 85 at $5.25; to Thomp-

son 6 lambs av 60 at $11.25, 12 do av

70 at $11.25, 68 do av 65 at $11.25; to

Hammond, S. & Co. 7 do av 95 at $10,

30 do av 65 at $11.25, 6 do av 85

at $11.50.



Haley & M. sold Nagle P. Co. 13

sheep av 130 at $7, 20 lambs av 80

at $11.25. .



Sandel, S., B. & G. soldaNagle P. Co.

34 lambs av 83 at $11.60, 12 do av 85

at $11.35, 6 sheep av 85 at $4, 2 do av

140 at $7, 28 do av 105 at $6.50; to

Sullivan P. Co. 20 sheep av 114 at $7;

to Nagie P. Go. 17 lambs av 85 at

$11.50, 38 do av 80 at $11.25, 15 sheep

av—125 at $7.25, 18 do av 95 at $6.25;

to Thompson 22 lambs av 55 at $10.90;

to Nagle P. Co. 48 do av 65 at $10.50.



Erwin, S. & J. sold Nagle P. Co. 131

lambs av 75 at $11.50, 11 do av 50 at

$9.50, 12 sheep av 100 at $6, 260 av

130 at $7, 4 do av 85 at $5.50 to Young

83 lambs av 75 at $11.25: to Costello

20 do av 50 at $9; to Nagle P. Go. 21

do av 65 at $11.25, 178 do av 78 at

$11.50; to Sullivan P. Co. 26 do av

85 at $11.60.



> " Hogs.





Receipts 4886. Pigs steady at $8.25

68.53éggl‘3kers and heavy 15@25c-10W-





Receipts 859.





   





 

 





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Stomach Staggers.-My eight-year

old mare took sick three weeks ago

and at times staggered as she walked.

One peculiar thing about her sickness

is that she seems. to be pretty well for

a few days and then is inclined to

stagger as bad as ever. J. N., South

Rockwood, Mich.—-Her bowels should

be kept open;

feeding her

roots or grass.

fluid extract nux vomica, two parts of

fluid extract cinchona, two parts fluid

extract gentian and five parts Fowler’s

solution, give her a tablespoonful at a

dose in feed or water three times a

day.



Swollen Sheath.—-—Have a gelding

whose sheath is inclined to swell;

washing him does not seem to reduce

this swelling. I have thought that he

needed a tonic as he is somewhat low

in condition. W. H., Rushton, Mich.—

Mix together one part fluid extract of

nux vomica and four parts Donovan’s

solution and give him a tablespoonful

at a dose in feed two or three times a

day. Also give him a tablespoonful of

acetate of potash daily for a few days

until his kidneys act free.





Garget—Indigestion.-I have a. cow

troubled with caked udder, but not a

bad case; furthermore, her appetite is

not good and she is losing flesh. Her

milk yield is irregular. W. B., Pinck-

ney, Mich—Apply one part iodine and

19 parts lard to blocked portion of ud-

der three times a week, and give her

1 oz. of ground gentian and a teaspoon-

ful of salt at a dose in feed twice as

day.



Cow Eats too Much.—-—I have a two-

year-old heifer which will freshen in

January; all summer she pastured in

woods and underbrush. Now she runs

in clover and June‘grass. Since turn-

ing her in this pasture she seems to

scour, is comfortable when standing

up, but when down in barn groans as

if in pain. She is in apparently good

health. C. E. C., Traverse City, Mich.

~I am inclined to believe that this

pregnant young cow overeats and

when stuffed full, is uncomfortable, es-

pecially when lying down. Stint her

supply of damp clover.





Weak Cat—We have a cat eight

years old that has sick spells which

last about 48 hours. When sick he re-

fuses to eat. Great weakness seems

to follow each of these attacks, he

breathes fast and is very drowsy. He

is a great rat hunter, therefore I would

like to have him cured. E. W. L., Taw-

as City, Mich.——Give your cat a table-

spoonful of castor oil once a week.

Change feed, also give 2, drops of tinc~

ture nux vomica and 1/5, gr. of quinine

three times a day.





Thin Cow—We have a cow that had '





cow-pox last summer; since then she

has not thrived and is thin. Perhaps

she eats plenty of feed, but does not

give as much milk as she should and I

would like to know what to do for her.

H. H. G., Ganges, Mich—A complete

change of feed is perhaps all that is

required. Mix together equal parts of

bicarbonate soda, ginger, gentian, pow-

dered charcoal and give her two table-

spoonfuls at a dose in feed three times

a day. Also give her a teaspoonrul of

salt night and morning.



Surfeit—Clinging Afterbirth.~—Have

an old horse that has an eruption on

body, causing considerable itchiness. I

also have a cow that calved November

7, which has not yet cleaned. S. J.,

Bronson, Mich—Give your horse a des-

sertspoonful of Donovan’s solution of

arsenic at a dose three times a day.

Groom him well once or twice a day

and wet itchy parts with one part coal

tar disinfectant and 30 parts of water.

Dissolve 1 dr. of permanganate of pot-

ash in five quarts of tepid water and

wash out vagina daily. Perhaps before

this communication reaches you, the

afterbirth will have come away. Give

her 20 grs. of quinine at a dose three

times a day.





Worms—l have a sow and ten pigs

that are about seven weeks old, eight

of them are doing well, the other two

choke and do not thrive. When they

commence to eat they appear to choke

and strangle, then appear to become





’Odiscouraged and refuse to eat any





more food. They seem to eat corn bet-

ter than middlings and I might add

that they have a nice warm place to

sleep. C. 8., Grand Ledge, Mich.—

Mix together equal parts of fluid ex-

tract of 'spigelia and fluid extract of

senna and give each of the two pigs 30

drops in two or three tablespoonfuls of

milk twice a day until tbev purge. Rub

throat with camphoratcl oil once a





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A liniment that not only heals and cures Human Flesh. but foryoars the accepted

Standard Veterinary remedy of the world.

I spent $500 doctor bills and finall tried Caustic Balsam. My arm is now as

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f A cow can not tell you when she in nick, but her

, milk yield is a very accurate indication of her con.

The fact is, thousands of cow: are allowed

to remain unprofitable or below their reasonable

standard of productivenees through their owner".

failure to act on the hint of the milk pail.

it off by simply calling her a “backward cow’k—oor-

not the trouble and reap the extra profit.





Kow-Kure is a medicine for cows that are “oi!

color.” It is in no sense a food, but it promptly acts

on the digestive organs and enables the cow to thrive

on her natural food. Its great curative powers ‘act on

the genital organs where many cow ailments origi-

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Bi‘ 1"” g. 0. lBoar‘s. Biig bouled Eusgy’ fellIows.

, I ecia extra on year in or oar owa

bred. E. J. Kriutliewson.g Burr Oak,‘ Mich.





For Sale Poland China: 81335331 ’1'“ 33;. Tilt:

P. D. Long, R. P. D. No. 8. Grand Rlpida, Mich.

Hampshire Swine. &Tw§$%$¥..m”s$hfin if:

lex both. FLOYD IMYERS. I‘LNO. 9, Deoaturfind.

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IAMPSHIRE H065 gifiixi‘gffilifl’riiri‘mi‘d‘gfifi

John W. Snyder. R. 4. St. Johns. Mich.

Halladays’ Hampshire Swine





‘Both sexes. all acoo. Prices reasons

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Ofiers. One yearling Hampshire ram at $50.00.

One yearling Southdown ram at $25.00. A few





 





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lambs at $25.00. Kinderhook. Michigan. ’

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m an“ Ohio flock of Merino. and Delainee good

also. oily fleeces, heavy IhOIl'Ol'I. to

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SOME POPULAR FOOD DRINKS.

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BY FLOYD W. ROBISON.





Chocolate and Cocoa.

Chocolate and cocoa are obtained or-

iginally from the same source. They

are manufactured from the bean of the

cacao tree, known scientifically as

theobroma cacao. The tree is rather

small with a trunk perhaps six or sev-

en inches in diameter and grows to a

height of 12 to 15 feet, and. is said to

grow under the best conditions in Bra-

zil, West Indies, and Mexico, and the

tropical American countries. The seeds

or beans grow in pods very much the

same as other forms of beans.





The brown color which they exhibit

when transported in commerce is due

to the drying which they undergo in

preparation for export. For the prep-

aration of chocolate or cocoa the seeds

themselves, or beans, are roasted,

when a paper-like shell something like

that which adheres to peanuts is loos-

ened, and removed. The portion which

is‘ used for the production of choco-

late and cocoa is what is known as

cocoa nibs, and for the preparation of

chocolate these nibs are very carefully

and finely crushed and moulded. The

cocoa nibs themselves are very soft

and almost butterlike in their consist-

ence although of course much firmer,

but they are so pliable that they can

be easily moulded into satisfactory

form.





Of a consequence the crushed cocoa

nibs lend themselves easily to mechan-

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out extra sweetening, while some. of

the so-called sweet chocolates are

sweetened and flavored with various

saccharine products.

Chocolate is Much Richer than Cocoa.

Chocolate is a much richer food pro-

duct than is cocoa because in choco-

late the fatty portion is retained,

whereas in cocoa a considerable quan-

tity of the fat, or cocoa butter, as it is

known, is removed, very lunch the

same as linseed oil is removed from

flaxseed and very much the same as

peanut oil is removed from peanuts.

That is, the crushed chocolate, or co~

coa nibs, is placed between plates

where it is heated and hydraulic pres-

sure is applied, which presses out the

liquified. fat, Or liquid cocoa butter,

which is then allowed to congeal and

is sold on the market as cocoa butter.

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of cocoa and its products.



I The roasted cocoa nibs vary very

lmuch in their taste and aroma from

the unroasted bean. The change which

takes place is somewhat analagous to

the change which takes place when

coffee beans are roasted. There is

ldeveloped an aromatic substance which

is considered by some to be very sim-

ilar to that of Vcaffeol in coffee, but of

course the essential difference in the

composition of the cocoa bean and that

of the coffee bean indicates clearly

that the aroma must be of an essen-

tially different character than is the

aroma of coffee. There are, however,

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ably not to the extent that it may be

.obtained from coffee. The essential

Iprinciple of cocoa is the bromine,

which bears a very close relationship

to the caffeine of coffee, which, in

turn, is related to Xanthine, one of

the meat bases; theobromine being

more closely related to Xanthine per

haps than is caffeine of coffee,

Cocoa and Chocolate Not as Popular

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lar products and many persons serve

cocoa for breakfast and at luncheon in-

stead of coffee. It. is not a product,

however, which so generally appeals

to the appetite of the American people

as does coffee, and while nearly every-

one enjoys a cup of cocoa now and

then, it does not seem to fit into the

everyday requirements of anywhere

near as many people as does coffee.





The food standards committee a few

years ago established a standard for

cocoa and chocolate. The standard for

chocolate provides that it shall not

contain less than 45 per cent of cocoa





fat; the standard for cocoa being more V,





elastic and similar in the various chem-

.ical constituents, except that it may

contain from 45 per cent fat down to

practically nothing, depending upon

the thoroughness of the removal of

the fat.





Good Cocoa Must be Very Finely

Ground.



The characteristic feature of cocoa

which has tended to popularize it with

consumers is the feature of its solu-

bility in water and you find certain

manufacturers advertising their pro-

duct as pure, soluble cocoa. As a mat-

ter of fact, not over one-fifth to one-

fourth of the product of pure cocoa is

soluble in water. The great feature

to be accomplished therefore is not

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cause of its exceeding fineness of di-

vision it will remain in suspension, or

a form of emulsion, which does not

subside for a considerable period of

time.



To accomplish the true solubility of

cocoa some manufacturers have treat-

ed _it with alkali, the effect of the air

kali being to form a sort of soap with

the fat and in this manner exert the

influence of soap upon the emulsion of

the other materials in the cocoa. The

product treated with alkali is darken

ed and in our judgment must be an in

ferior article of food. '





The principal forms of treatment of

cocoa which are abnormal are the ad-

dition of sugars and the treatment with

alkali to render it scluble. Cane sugar

is very frequently-added to produce a.

different type of sweetening than is

common to cocoa. In the preparation

of chocolates for confections, such as

milk chocolate, a certain percentage of

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ally, in addition, sweetened as well.

Cocoa is Quite Nourishing and with



Milk Makes a Refreshing,

Palatable Drink.





Cocoa is a valuable food drink. It

has many properties more or less in

common with coffee but contains a

higher percentage of fat, and not be-

ing made as clear as is coffee has une

doubtedly greater food properties than

does coffee. Also it is common in the

preparation of cocoa to use milk in the

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lack of real correlation in reasonable

arguments for and against coffee and

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Our Mottoz—“The farmer is of more

consequence than the farm, and should

be first improved.” 7

THE STORY OF A HOME-COMING.





(Continued from last week).



At the meeting was one man who

can raise apples. i presume there were

more, but this man proved it. He had

on exhibition one of the finest collec-

tions of winter fruit 1 have seen this

year. Yes, he sprays, and he sprays

thoroughly enough to get results.-



As lecturer of Keene Grange, Sister

Daniels is demonstrating what may be

done in this line with the right person

in the right place. Sister Daniels

knows what a good program is, and

she knows‘how to conduct the lectur-

er's hour in a way to accomplish re-

stults which are worth while. I am

saying this, not to. flatter the lecturer

of Keene Grange, but because we need

just this sort of work in every rural

community in Michigan.



May I say just a word more about

this home-coming? Perhaps after all,

the thing that will linger longest in

memory is the story of those brave

pioneers who, while they were build-

ing barns and heuses, while they were

clearing up their farms, and adding

little by little to their resources, did

not forget their community.



As we listened to the touching

words of appreciation. spoken in their

behalf. and thought of the discourage-

ments incident to all our lives, we

wished they might come back again

and know that they were not forgot-

ten, but that their labors were really

appreciated.



Another thing that impressed us was

the advantage to the Individual Grange

which the homecoming gives. A com-

mittee of workers were busy getting

reinstatements and looking for new

members. if every Grange could real-

ize the opportunity which such a meet.

ing affords there would be many home-

comings each year, and many Granges

whose membership is declining would

show a marked increase. Try out the

plan and see what it will do for your

Grange. W. F. TAYLOR.‘





THE FINANCES or THE MICHIGAN

STATE GRANGE.





 





There was a time when the State

Grange had no money. There was a

time when Bros. Horton and Strong

had to draw on their individual credit

to pay the expenses of State Grange

meetings and wait until dues came in.

My brother, R. H. Taylor, was a mem-

ber of the executive committee in

those days and! recall that on one oc~

casion he waited until a meeting of

the State Grange to collect his expen-

ses to meetings of the committee, be-

cause of the condition of the treasury.



~lt was not long, however, before Bro.





Horton, as Master of the State Grange,.





began to apply those principles of bus-

iness which have made him one of the

most successful farmers in Michigan.

Under the rapid increase in member-

ship due to his efforts, and largely

through the operation of our trade

contract system, which he had built

up, State Grange finances rapidly im-

proved until our surplus exceeded forty

thousand dollars. Each year saw our

surplus climbing, and many thought

we, were soon to have, too much





, money.





At that time all the fees paid by new

members went to the State‘Grange. i

think it was in December, 1903, that

Bro. Keyes introduced his resolution

to send but half the initiatory fee to

the State Grange. The resolution be-

came a by-law and subordinate Grang«

es retained half thefees for one year.





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invested fund. As I have said, there

were some people who thought we





were going to have too much money '





in the near future. They argued that

we should use this money for various

purposes designed, in their judgment,

to strengthen the Order. They said

that large sums of money hoarded up

had a tendency to extravagance, and

lastly they asked us, "What are you

piling up this fund for anyway?”



Had they gotten control at that time,

I do not think it would .have been pil-

ed up for long. It is one of the pieces

of good fortune in our history that we

have had men in the master’s chair

following Bro. Horton who understood

the importance of keeping our surplus

and adding to it if possible.



But little indeed, have either of them

been able to add, and now the question

comes, “Why can we not now increase

our intrested fund? Where does our

money go ?” I personally know that it

has been the dream of Worthy Master

Ketcham to increase our invested fund

to fifty thousand dollars, but it won’t

go up. I want to tell the readers of

The Farmer in this article some of the

reasons why our invested fund does

not grow.



I remember just where I sat in the

Masonic Temple at Lansing, when the

resolution came in, to allow Subordi-

nate Granges to retail all the fees paid

by new members.



I recall that Bro. Horton said during

the discussion that followed, that the

expenses of the State Grange meeting

that year would amount to three thou-

sand dollars. Today it requires nearly

eight thousand dollars to pay .for one

meeting of the State Grange. With

fees from new members no longer paid

to State Grange, the remaining sources

of revenue are twenty-four cents a

member annually, of which five cents

must be paid to the National Grange,

and the small percentage upon sales

through Grange contracts. True, a lit-

tle money results from the sale of

Grange supplies, but only a little. But

while our resources of revenue have

grown less the need of more money

has become very evident. As the Or‘

der grows in influence new opportuni-

ties for service are constantly appear

ing. Thus, in the campaign for equal

suffrage the Grange gave a thousand

dollars. In the present dry campaign

we gave five hundred dollars, and have

spent a good deal more in work done

to this end by the executive commit-

tee. Two years ago under the instruc-

tions from the State Grange we made

an attempt to initiate the measures

providing for the Torrens System and

the Tonnage Tax. This work cost the

State Grange a thousand dollars or

nearly that, and the present effort in

the same direction will cost more than

half that sum. -*



At its last meeting in Saginaw the

State Grange voted to pay Pomona

delegates mileage and per diem. Pren-

vious to that date, it ’had been the

practice for Pomonas to pay the ex-

penses of their delegates, or go with-

out representation except in cases

where delegates paid their own ex-

penses. W. F. TAYLOR.



(To be continued). '





STATE GRANGE MEETlNG.





Michigan State Grange will convene

in The Auditorium, Lansing, Tuesday,

December 12, at 10:00 a.‘ m., to con-

tinue in session through Friday, De-

cember 15.



Hotel Wentworth will be headquar-

ters. with accommodations for 350 peo-

ple. Rooms are $2.50 per day with

bath and two in room; or $2.00 per

day, without bath, two in room. Sin-

gle beds, more than one in room, $1.00

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rooms at $1.00. per person, two In a





room. Accommodations in private

homes at reasonable rates are being

provided through a local committee.

Circular information will be sent to





delegates and all others who applv to -





the Secretary of Stete Grange, or the

Chairman at Local Arrangements for

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The following is the complete pro-

gram of the Twenty-fourth Annual

Meeting of the Michigan State Asso-

ciation of Farmers’ Clubs, to be held

in the Senate Chamber of the Capitol

Building at Lansing, Mich, during the

first week of December:





Tuesday, December 5, 10:00 A. M.



Payment of dues.



Presenting credentials.



Appointment of committees.



Presentation of resolutions.



1:00 P. M.



Invocation.



Music—Grass Lake Quartette.



Report of Associational Secretary

Mrs. Joseph S. Brown, Howell.



Reading—Mrs. Clay Gordon, Conway

and Handy Clubs.



“The Farmers’ Club and the Rural

Church,” C. W. Ballou, St. Johns.



Music-—Grass Lake Quartette. ‘



“The Milk Situation,” R. C. Reed,

Howell.



Discussion—led by H. F. Probert,

Jackson county.



Tuesday Evening.

- Banquet at First Baptist Church.



President’s address.



Round table.



M. A. C. Orchestra.



Wednesday December 6, 9:00 A. M.



“Club Methods,” Mrs. T. A. Johnson,

Salem Club.



Thirty minutes’ discussion by dele-

gates.



“Benefits of State Association,“ I. R.

Waterbury, Detroit.



Music—M. A. C. Orchestra.



Reading—Mre. R. E. Moore, Belle~

vue. ,



Address. “County Agent’s Work.” D.

L. Hagerman, Grand Haven.



10:00 A. M.



Reports of Committees: Temper-

ance, Honorary. Members, Club Exten‘

sion, Good of Order, Credentials, Na-

tional Affairs, State Affairs, Miscellan‘

eous Affairs.



11:00 A. M.



Election of officers.



1:00 P. M.



Music—«M. A. C. Orchestra.



Invocation.



Address, “Where Are we Heading

For?” A. C. Rowlader, Shepherd.



“Income Tax for State Purposes,”

J. N. McBride, Burton.



“Fruit Raising in United States."

Prof. Eustace, M. A. C.



Vocal selection—Mrs. Fred, J. Bea-

man, Summit Farmers’ Club.



“Farm Loan Law,” Prof. W. O. Hed-

rick, M. A. C.



Report of committees.



7-30 P





Music—M. A. C. Orchestra.



Reading—Miss Pauline Kennedy.



Address, “Agriculture in Our Public

Schools,” Prof. W. H. French, M. A. 0.



Vocal selection—Mrs. Fred J. Bea.-

man Summit Farmers’ Club.



Address, Dean Eugene Davenport, U.

of Ill.



Treasurer’s report.



Thursday, December 7.



State market conference.



Resolutions written and delivered to

the proper committees. All topics are

open for discussion.





 





CLUB DISCUSSIONS.





Favor Co-operation.~—At the recent

meeting of the Marion Farmers’ Club,

of Livingston county, held at the home

of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hoagland, A. R.

Eastman read a carefully prepared pa-

per on “Problems we Have to Solve."

Mr. Eastman strongly presented the

necessity of co-OpOration, that hardly

any farmer receives five per cent in-

terest on his investment, also that he

sells his products for much less than

he pays for his necessities. “Farm

Marketing” was responded to by W.

McDowell. He" pointed out the farm-

er‘s lack of system in selling, and re-

ferred to an actual transaction he wit

nessed in Detroit of a commission

man taking advantage of parties who

had shipped onions into the city un-

sold and were standing in the railroad

yards. Mr. I. Hart in discussing this

subject, claimed that farmers must

adopt a more direct selling plan as the

middleman was getting too big a por-

tion of the retail price. “The Milk Sit-

uation in Michigan,” by Field Secrev

tary R. C. Reed, was a subject that all

were very much interested in. Mr.

Reed took up, step by step, what the

milk producers. .through their officers

have done what opposition they have

had. and he success so far attained.

Without the cooperation of the milk

producers it is very plain we would

not have received any important in-

crease in, the price of milk.





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It’s a conditioner which builds up the hen's

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amost beneficmi effect on the egg organs.

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POULTRY.

Parks 200 e g strain.

Barred ROCKS Cockerels 8for sale.

Circular Free. Fred Astlinz. Cons tantine. Mich.

Oockerels, Cocks and Hens. Four

Barred R0 Rullets layed 950 eggs in one year.

W. O. Oofl’man. . 8, Benton Harbor, Michigan.





Barred Plymouth Rock S%%‘fie’§a'iio £3.32!





two for $5.00. A. Barnum. Union City, Michigan.





 





Barred Bock liockcrels Iglgabfifigggoggsgfig

Price $2 and $3. Write H. J. Siginner. McMillan,Mich.

Barred Rock Cuckerels For sale. Parks 200





egg strain.$l. $1.50,

32 each. FRANK HUG, Sn, Conklin, Mich.





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Breeding Coclrerels

White, Bufi, Leghorns R. I. Reds. Prices reasonable.

Bunnybrook Pou.try Farms, Hillsdale. Michigan.





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FEHHIS WHITE LEGHORNS





Best Winter In ers. 5000 pullets,

hens and brec ing males at lOW

prices. Trapnested to lay 200 eggs

' or more. Shipped C. O.D. and on

approval, Chicks and Eggs. Catalog explains

all. Send postal.

Geo. B. Ferris, 934 llnlon, Grand Rapids, Mlch.

' Purelred S.O.B ll“ L

FOR SALE and white Plymoutgi ltogfiggzfig





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{sow sr’s Butt Books: to :5. he... $1,503.?





White Holland Turkeys. youn toms So; he .

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Hartford. Mich. R. 3.

FOR SALE: Turkeys. or rices

address Obas. A. Beatty, Milford, Mich.. No.2.





GET YOUR ORDER IN EARLY Fill!





Oockerels from Cousins Northern King Strain Barred

Rocks. Write DaVld W. cousins, North Port, Mich.





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Fine Ferris and Morse birds. Feb. hatch d k 1

31,50; Apt. $1.25- J une_75c. Pallets 81.50. ylfarl‘igfg Eben:

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' White Orpingtnns. Winners again

Pln‘ ci‘fl, 8' c- at. the Store Fair. Youn and old

stock for sale. Buv the best. MRS. 'ILLIS

ROUGH. Pine Crest Farm, Royal Oak, Michigan.





Rose Comb Silver Laced \Vyandott .

PurebrOd erels. Good stock. Order curly Priiepgzfikh

$1.00. Mrs. Jacob Sneary, Carson City, Michigan

RHODE ISLAND REDS and PLYMOUTH ROCKS.

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

fieight 5“};01310 lbs.ri T 15kfor 81.00: , ; , $6,

ammo ronze ‘om ur eys. to 88lbs. di

to age 36 to $23. 10 eggs 83. A. E. Cranium, Vzggngic-lfi





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list. Interlakes Farm, Rm: 39.





Dark red

birds that

Write for price

Lawrence, Michigan.





' R. 1'. Red cockerels for sale.

“03. and Singit callib Fine stock. prices reason-

able. 0. E. Hawiey. Ludington, Mich.





 





Cockerels.





Rose Comb Brown [cotton 1...... and

vigorous, $1 and $1.50. tD.Elon Spotts, Hillsdale.l\lich.





$6 ii. WHITE lEGHUllll PULLETS Hill SALE.





9 are ofl’eringZOO S. 0. White Leghorn pullets. May

These birds

are a. bargain at the price offered but we needs ace

and will sacrifice. References given if desired. rite

rentel Bret-1., P.O. 80x62}, East Lansing, vMich.





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which de’vitalize the hens is also im-,





The mash is; of course less expen-

sive than the grain feed and it is nec-

essary that the hens consume a large

’ amount of the egg making elements in

the mash in order to produce enough

eggs to make the cost per egg low

enough to show a profit. Every poul-

tryman soon develops the ration that

he likes best after considering the ra-

tions used by other breeders. The cost

of different feeds on the local market

may have an influence on the making

of the mash but in no case will it be

economical to leave out necessary in-

.gredients in order to reduce the cost

of filling the mash hoppers. It might

be mentioned that a well constructed

hopper containing a balanced ration is

one of the first factors in keeping hens

in a laying conditoin. There is a. ten-

dency to simplify the mash and not in-

clude so many ingredients as in the

past. SOme rations I have studied

would almost take a professor of chem-

istry to mix and no local market in

the state would ever be able to supply

all of the miscellaneous products nec-

essary to make» the mixture. Several

popular egg meshes are given below:





 





 





The poultry keeper can obtain a

great deal of valuable information on

poultry rations by studying the farm-

ers’ bulletins on the subject, which

may be obtained free from either the

state experiment stations or the Uni-

ted States Department of Agriculture.

This information in combination with

a. knowledge of the prices of local pro.

ducts will enable the farmer to work

out an economical egg ration. On the

market there are many prepared ra-

tions which are composed of first-class

grain and other materials necessary to

the economical production of eggs. In

talking with one practical breeder he

said that these mixtures were first-

class and the hens liked them but they

were slightly more expensive than buy-

ing the materials and making the egg

mash at home. The farmer with a

small flock as a side line who has lit-

tle time for working with the poultry

can produce eggs more economically

by purchasing mixed rations than he

can by carelessly feeding the flock and

trusting to luck to obtain a few eggs.





Other Factors in Egg Production.





Feeding is not all there is to the

production of eggs. Quality hens are

necessary. The hen that produces

from 150 to 200 eggs per year will pro-

duce them at less cost per egg than

the hen under the same care which

produces around fifty or sixty eggs per

year. A vigorous culling of the flock

is necessary over a periodof many

years to bring the average egg pro-

duction of a farm flock to the point

where it ought to be. Trap-nesting is

the only sure method of selecting the

high producers for the breeding pens.

If time does not permit trap-nesting

on the farm the breeder can greatly

improve his flock averages in egg pro-

duction by purchasing males from the

farms where this method of selection

is practiced. The general health of

the flock must be maintained by thor-

ough methods of sanitation in, the poul-

try houses and houses properly located

and free from dampness and draughts

are necessary. The control of pests





 





 





portant and there is no money in feed-





 





 





breedora.Cavanagh oultryFarm.Lansing,Mich.R.3





(Add. Poultry Ads on Next Page).





ing balanced rations to hens pestered





f Economical '7 Egg Produ





(Continued from last week).





Parts by Wt.

Wheat middlings ............... 2

Wheat bran ....... .......... 1

Corn meal ..................... 2

Beef scrap ..................... 2

Alfalfa meal ................... 1

Bran ........................... 51/2

Corn meal ..................... 351;»

Middlings ......................

Beef scrap ..................... 2%,

Oil meal ....................... 1

Shorts . ........................ 6

Corn meal ..................... 6

Beef scrap ..................... 5

Bran ........................... 3

Alfalfa meal ................... 1





ed on





with lice and mites. The bugs will do

all the egg laying and they will hatch

up a lot of trouble for the poultryman.



With the present price of grain it is

difficult to find any “cheap method” of

producing eggs. However, eggs are

worth money in this year of high pric-

es and it is possible to make a profit

from the farm flock. It is poor econ-

omy to starve the hens, but it is good

economy to feed right and insure

enough eggs to pay for the high-priced





_ feed and leave a. fair profit for the





work of caring for the flock.

Ingham Co. R. G. KIRBY.





 





TH E CHRISTMAS GOOSE.





There is a. growing demand in all

large cities for well fatténed young

geese during the Christmas holidays,

and these should now be penned and

well fed for a few weeks to prepare

them for market.



Fattening geese should be penned

out of~ sight and hearing of other

geese. Feeding pens must be kept

clean. An abundance of fresh water

should always be provided. A frame

of slate over the trough helps to keep

the water clean. A trough of sharp

grit is one of the essentials for fatten-

ing geese. A liberal bedding of cut

straw, or chaff from the barn floor

makes the birds more comfortable and

keeps their feathers clean and dry.

They lose interest in life if their pen

is too dark.



They seem to fatten better when

their corn or oats is cooked or scald-

ed. And we are careful not to feed

enough grain to spoil their appetite

for green food. From 15 to 20 per

cent of the bulk of the ration should

be composed of green stuff. Cabbage

or any of the ordinary vegetables will

furnish the green food. A good fatten-

ing food is corn meal and middlings

equal parts, with a little beef scraps

added.



Geese that have been fed some grain

during the autumn months will require

less feed and time for fattening.



These fowls may be taken off good

pasture and put on the market, yet

the weight is increased by the addi-

tion of grain. Besides, the flavor of

their meat is improved by the fatten-

ing process. The Jewish housewife

wants fat birds to get the goose grease

to use in the household. The religion

of the Jews forbids the use of lard.

They are specially fond of geese which

they dress in their peculiar manner.

Why should goose meat be chiefly in



use among the Hebrew population? It

makes good eating . when properly

cooked. We like Toulouse because of

their size but the Embden dresses an

attractive carcass free from dark pin

feathers.





Indiana. FRANCES “700D.





 





WATERGLASS FOR EGG PRESERV-

z‘ iNG.





Can you give me the formula for pre.

serving eggs in silicate, or waterglass?

Ionia. Co. G. J. D.



The following formula in which wa-

terglass or sodium silicate is used is-

the best for preserving eggs: One part

of waterglass to nine parts of boiled

spring water.



The eggs should be placed in astone

crock until the crock is nearly full and

the waterglass solution poured in until

there is at least two inches of the

liquid over the top layer of eggs. Only

fresh, clean eggs should be used. If

thoroughly done this method is ver

reliable for preserving eggs. '





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Golden'sndWhneWyehdottes. Choice ~





cocks ' 'ssonabl lit . si .

£3355”... si*..2°......:.sr..i .53....





“it. Wale from fine stock until. 1

on. end 5. each. Farm raised.

2mm siliiv'rn. ”Ann Arbor. Michigan.





tte cocks and ooclrerels snow white from

“ll". w’lingdgtock and A 1 layers. 32. $3. ends.) ouch.

DAVID BA . 202 Forest Ave.. Ypsilanti. Michigan.





Mammoth Bronze Turkeys. lid: 33%:





Mrs. S. McKinley. New Hudson. Michigan.





will. Isllssl laden. 1m and flammable:





. before the mid: end get choice

gwflmfiyvllglrecomb. Byron Center. Mich.





’Wll'l'li CIINA SANDERS I‘OI SALE. 33





. 0. Brown imrn hens. 81.50 each.

filia'clfil'ulln pens. .1. amide“. Mich.





BREEDERS’ DIRECTORY.





Chenge 0! Cop or Cancellations must reach us

Ten Daysy before date of publication.





We Offer a Few Special Bargains





In S C White Leghorn cockerels, Ram-

bouillet 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.

CATTLE.





Aberdeen l’ngus Bulls For Sale





nheed of choice onng bulls old enou for service.

All eons of Bleak ilonnrch 3rd. Grand hampicn Bull

Michigan Stete lslr 19M ”15 and 1916. Black Monsrc

rd hse been sold to . ll. Scripps. ‘Wildwood Farms.

tor the record price of the Blood in Michigan. 31%.

U. LClsrk. Hunters Creek. Mir-ii. Sidney Smith, Mgr.





ABERDEEN-ANGUS





Inlls by BLACK CALI TY ITO. sire. First prize.

lreeders and Call! erds Mich. Stale Fair 1916. “e

elso won first on Exhibitors Herd. Jr. Chnmpion Bull.

Jr. Champion Female and Grand Champion Cow. Also

breeders of Percheron. Ha. kney sud huddle Horses.

WOODCOTE STOCK FARM. IONIA MICH.





‘n‘smaE:—~One of the foremost dnir breeds 'll‘he



Whironxecofiomicsliiilk rc scars. Elaine

(o l . to eg orn coo are I' uroo ersey

«is. inchin- School for the Dost. 'l'lintJdichiaan.





Guernsey Bulls





FOR SALE

e Choice Registered Guernsey Bulls





(l) Halcyon Sequel—4 were old Gov. Cheiie and

Meeker S no! breeding. ell his grandsires on his sire

end dsrn £31, for the back four generations are in the

Advance Record. He is- art on Gran Champion at the

West Michi an State Fair 1916 and Northeastern btate

'slr 1910. is dni liters. lot and Grand Champion at

the above Pairs 19 6. His daughters. lst Senior and

Junior Heifers at Michigan State Fair 1916. His get

In at Northeastern State Fair 1916. I grantee h'm

e sure breeder. Sellinz him as l 0 not inbreed.

fries 83W“). ’



i2) Avondule Franc—2 years old Masher Sequel



reading. His sire and damJigth imported. A very

handsome bull, 1st prize 2 our old at Northeastern

Itste Feir 1916 is the sire o Avondsle Biiou Franc lst

prise st Michigan State Fair 1916. Price 8200.00



l3) Avondele Rose King—11 months old. Gov. Chene

end Masher! Sequel breeding, A articuisrly fine and

well bred bull was first senior ull Calf at North-

eastern State Fair 1916. Price 31%.“). .



(ll Avondsle Indonesia—6 months old. Sired by

Halcyon





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uel. dam imported. A line marked richly

bred bull. ever shown. Price $100.00.



:3) Boeing Boy of Avondsle~6 months old. Sired

b Bonn oys of Riverdale. Grandson of Beauty

[Yogic I It. .144 lbs. milk . be. cream and the

dam of 4 A. ll. dnufhters. blink—Queen of Han-ire

-sired by Dairyme <l‘s Choice of Pinehurst: Ful

brother to Dsirymaid of Pinehurst. A. B. 11% lbs.

ails. 910.67 lbs. fst. Price 3mm. .



l6) Deli-y y of Avondslc —3 months old. Hired by

Bonny Boy. some sire as No. 5. um Queen Marie of

Fgwton—dsughter Queen of Hernton as No. 5, Price



in). .



Come and look them over. No culls, but the choice





from a clean herd.

Avendele Stock Form. Weyne. Michigan.





of service and cslves from

Guernsey Bun. choice. A v. reg. breeding.

T. V. HICKS. Route 1. Bettie Ceeek. Mich.





 





 





 





 

 

 





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else-git les- breeders who gppieelutc‘tge best. '

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

dlsl invitation is extended to visit the lam and inspect the stock. If you wish one of the best

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





Brookw__ater Farm, Swine Dept., Ann Arbor, Mich.





 

 

 

 





 

 





 

 





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and Individuality good





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Hampshire





herd, or to win in the strange-stat competition.

l can also supply bred sowa, or spring gilts,

in pairs and‘trlos. not akin.





Bull Calves





From A. R.O. Dams that aver e four



fier cent fat, Sired by “Ma .ecrest

orndyke Hengerveld," whose ire and



Dam’s Sire, are the two ’





Greatest Bulls in the World





Having more high testing yearly record Daugh-

ters than any three other Bulls. and his Dsm's

Sire has more thirty pound Daughters than any

ther Bull. ' We also have a few Calves Sired by





G 8 B Sogls Ulrica Pledge 108790





e promising young Sire. backed by a strong com-

bigzflorfi of blood lines. and also a Calf Sired by

a n o





The Fifty Thousand Dollar Bull





and from one of our best Cows. write us for par—

ticulars in regard to these Calves. and our





BERKSlllRES





that won more premiums at the Fairs this season

than any other llt'l‘il in the State. Our prices are

right so is the stock. which will be sold to good

responsible parties on six months credit.





SWIGARTDALE FARM,





Petersburg, Mich.





Cluny Stock Farm





loo—Registered Holsteim—loo

Bulls for sale, of ages from a few weeks to 14

months. from 30—“). sires and choice A. R. 0.

dams Have some special bargains for quick

:ale (“omc and see them or write for pedigrees

and prices.





R. Bruce McPherson, Howell, Michigan





Do You Want A Bull?





Ready For Service.





From a grand daughter of The [Ling of the

Pontlncs. Hired by s bull that is more then s belt

brother to the Champion Holstein Cow of the

World. and whose dsm is s. so lb. 6% 9 1st ds tee

of Pontiac Aggie Borndyltqwho has more b.

daughters then any other [lung bull. If you do

write for pedigree.





EDWIN S. LEWIS. Marshall, Mich.

Extra Good Registered





Holstein Cows





F O R S A L E

From $125.00 to $200.00. .

Send for list or look them over.





Bigelow’e Holstein Farms,

BREEDSVILLE, - - MICHIGAN





 





 





 





“T0 P N OTC ll ” llolsleiiis





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

ducing females. il-llil use of superior si s bree ng

herd of wonderful quail? has been eats lish We

are selling young builso this”! 0? NOTCH"qunlity.

of serviceable age. at moderate rices. formetio

pedigrees. etc. on application. b cPKEBSON FARM

00.. Howell, Michigan.





so lb bnii for sale. 2 yous old. b s son of King of

. the Pontiacs. Dem sold for 81 in Detroit IllO.

Ferd. J. Lnnge. Sebo'alng. Mich.





 





 





F Re stared Guernsey Cattle.



or sale An Berkshire swine thebest



yet. John Ebola. Holland. B. 10. Michigan.

—IIGIBTIEED





G U ER N 8 BY BULL CALVEB





Conteinin blood of World champions.

HlCKS’ curinrl‘ssv FARM. Saginaw. .s.. Mich‘





 





("1 (TERNBEYB: Bred heifers mature cows. bull calves

,1me a 10 line of Adv. “ancestors with large

record. G. . WIGENT. stervliet. Michigan





MILO D. CAMPBELL CHAS. J. ANGEVINE





BEACH FARM

GUERNSEYS





Average yearly production 4223 lbs. of hit. three

fourths of them making their records as two year

"olds. By the use of a pure bred site. 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 evéry way or

aoney refunded. Write and let us tell you about

em.





CAMPBELL (i ANGEVINE,





Coldweter. Michigan.





uemseiIs-Z line yearling heifers toresle. bred to

1 May Rose Bull —they are beenties—you cen buy

them right. J. M. WILLIAMS. North Aduns. Mich.





At farmers rices. i Gnome

For sale: bulls old ensue]: brls’eeglmmm advent)!

ed registered cows. 1.. J. Byers. Cgldwater. Mich.





of so high grade Gucrnse‘

Am. sale” heifers and calves. also Reim‘ll';

end A. B. Guernsey cows on farm near Brunswick,





31.0 . Thursduv. Dec-.7. 10mm. Hi h .l G

e Specielty. Alfred Anderson, Ho todnfiicliemwy'





 





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28.58 lbe.mllk 619.4. Yearly record lit 2% yrs butter l





HOLSTIENS





Herd No.1, Fire cows, one two year old bull.



Herd No. 2. Eire curling heifers. one yearling bull.

Herd No. 3. Five eifer calves and one bull.



Bulls read for service and Kto eight months old bulls

Prices wil please you. If interest write as soon as

you road this. L. E. CONNELL. Fayette, Ohio.





 





Holstein F riceran Cattle

A. R. O. herd tuberculin tested, headed

by grandson of King Segis Pontiac.

PEACELAND STOCK FARM, Three Rivers, Mich.





Chas. Peters. Herdsuisn. C. L. Brody. Owner. Port Huron





I am altering a few extra choice April boars. that carry the blood of some of the greatest

champions of the breed. They are large, well marked, and good enough in type, to head any





t me hear from you, if you are in the market.





GEORGE E. STAR R.





 





Herd ~Boars





They are priced at $30.00 each.

that. will please a critical buyer. Also fall pigs,





. Grass Lake, Mich.





lieu. llolsleln Bulls it??.i.£‘i€.3‘3.fil‘i§££msi2

each. Dewe C. Pierson Hndle Michi In.





$40 Buys Registered enemas:





dnms averaged 5 lb. butter in seven days. first check





 





 





getshim. liiverview Fem ssser. Mich" Route 2.

Buys ten hi h grade unto istered Holstein-

3500 Friesian heifers. Three mifiing. threefresh





soonptliers younger. All light in color. B. B. ResveyAkrornlich





-—The Truth



You maybe "Gilded against



the Jersey because you don't

know her. Look baup. She's

the Money Cow.



Get This Book—s history of

the breed and full of very inter.

“ esting tests end facts. It pm

This conclusively that for pure iry type, won.

3 I: pray iiclicn. richness of milk. long



0° life and sdsptability to feeds end climates

-~ell these combined—she stands way

abovedhem all. This book "About 2

site ' is free. Get your copy now. on

it mighty reading.





The American JerseyCattle Club

8‘5 West 23rd Street. New York City





 





 





Lillie Farmstead Jerse Cattle. Bull cslves from B

_of M. Cows. else he fer calves and several bred

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





from high-producing dams.with

1930180030" 3", testing Asso. socords. also on

semi-odious] test. 0. B. Wehner. B. I. Allegs’n. Mich





Ma le Lane R. of M. JERSEY HERD offers forssle.

ll tuberculin tested bulls. bull mix on and

heifer calves carrying the blood of the greatest pro.

ducers of the breed. IRVIN FOX. Allegnn. Mich





Maple Hill Farm Rogisimd Jenny BailliiorSale

Both sexes. The kind that pay at the all.

J. R. Worthington. R. No. 7. Lansing. icliigan





The Wildwood Farm





Jerse Cattle. Modest Blood. We have Bulls for sale

from e star of Me 1: cows of good type. Write your

vents. vin Balden. Cnpsc. Michigan.





J ERSEYS FOR SALE 333?“???





service from R. of 11. snoostors. Meedowland Farm.

Waterman it Waterman. Packard Boed,Ann Arbor. Mich.





Long ism Farm lists. Jsmy hills 2.2.4.1693;

For. B. of M. reco of dam 7881be. butter in one

year. Moderate prices. 0. 8. Bassett. Kalamszoo. Mich.





Hill SlLE BEGISIEBED JERSEY BULLS





Read for service. Write ' t...

dunno PihKER. R. D. No. 4, yi’i‘gv‘éfif‘zlnchigan





BIDWELL SHORTHORNS





F01 “Bee! and Milk"

Registered l) u l l s,

Scotch - to wed mans,

reds and “'fi tefor sale.

Farm at N.Y.(). Depot:

also D. '1‘. & I. R'y.



Addissie.l.8chndsllu.

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been; A. fmfimo; R. i..De_cker:i is, _ . .





 





BERISHIBE'bcsrs 120nlb. Gilts14c tors short time.

Ie'mmoth Bronze Turkeys. Chose Stock Farm. MsrletleJiichJ l.





Boers. seryicesble use, best blood

BIIKShiIBS. treasure?- “earth's:





DUROG JERSEYS





A choice lot or .pgin 1 . both sex. pairs and tries.

not skin. Prices reg-33bit). Bend for pedigrees.

7K8 JENNINO'S FARMS. R. 1’, DJ. Bailey, Mlcls_





Heavy Boned Burnt Jersal Bears





March and Apr. furrow. weighing 200 250 pounds

will be sold as cheap as any man can sell first class

stock. M. A. BRAY. Okemos, (Inghsm Co.) Mich.





' ' M l . 00d 1' Dec.



1.“. KEEIEY! El". ”loll- segn'agefflregilleegoglfiuroo

Swine. D. 1!. .t T. local from Monroe or Toledo. chnaystup,

Two June 1915 l2 A ril 1910



lam Jim! liars mm. mm...“ “0...": 5....»

snteesatisteotlon..l.a. Banghcrt.Esst musing. ich.





 





 





 





 





Duroc Jerseys, choice breedin s ring i

F0! 3.“, either sex. Prices r? p. pgs

John McNicoll. Station A. R. 4. Bay City, Mich





 





Jerseys Big Ty 8 Boats with brooding and

our“ individuality that is hard to heat. bred from

prize winnin stock. gripes reasonable, saith-faction

gumnteed. . J. DR DI. RJ. Monroe Michiga-





 





UBOC Jerseys. Spring hours from the most noted sires

of the breed. Jo Orion 1i. Perfect Top 001.. Oakland Ohio

and. Principle lV & Model l'ul. Newton Bernhert. St..lolms.lich.





 





Fall yearlings. hours and gilts, wei ht‘m) lb.

um” to $35. Some good Fp ring stuff at gafim'eight

175 lb. H. (Sr. KEESLER. (lamaopOIl-‘i. Michigan-





.

Chorce Du roc Boar

Cheap if taken at once. RE. Engerd Son. Howell.Mich.

and Dclaine Rams of chore breed.

nuroc soars ing at reasonable prices.

Carey U. Edmonds. Hastings. Mich.





 





Defender: Cherry King; Kins 'l‘le-ol;

nuroc leafs: Hoosier families. All ages, all weighw;





Plenty 0! bone. Oslo. Dobson, Quincy. Mich.





A fine lot of spring boars



Duroc soars! bred l‘llzlit and priced

right. W. C. TAYLOR, Illilan, Michigan.



Jersey Spring hours with the best of breed-



Duroc ing and indhiduzilily: also ii fer. choice



spring gilts. E. D. Heydenberk. Wayland. Mich.





Duroc Stock Bu :4. Cheap for

For Sale a... ”muffin”...

E. J. ALDRICH. Tekonshzl. l‘llk’ll. ii. 1. Bell Phone.

DUROC Jersey: Choirel' bred fail pigs. either sex





315. Reg. and Del. zinyw ere in tin: sizitc.Blgbon(-d

lusty fellows. J. Robert Hicks, St. .1 ohms. Michigan





 





 





 





 





 





A nice bunch of gills. bi'ml or opt-n

llllfOI .lOl‘SIyS some good fit‘l‘vll‘Pallll‘ lmz. In. Also fell

pigs. Wm. “'. Kennedy, Urns-s Lake. Michigan.





 





I BI? Type Bears:



, ready or serviie Bred Gilts~FMl

'0. l. c S Pigs. Registered in buyers name,

shipped O. 0.1). 'i‘iiws very lemon,

' able. J.Cu|‘l Jewett, lllae‘nn. nlltll‘





. 20 gilts ductofarrow

OI '- c I sw' N E' the last of Mbl'Cll and

for part of April. Will he so id at knock-down price.

Have also full pigs.“ rite llii‘ y our wants. Satisfaction

guannteed. A. J. GURDI‘IN. 1.. No. 3,1)orr, Mich,





O I C Serviceublu liners shipped C. O. l).

- e 0 Registered in purchaser's name.

H. W. MANN. - - — Dansvi‘ie. Mich,





 





 





 





Raise Chester Whites 0

Like This





the original big producers





 





HAVE started thousands of breeders on the road to

success. I can help you. ll want toplace ‘1”3” from

‘mt 6781'! comm where

genteel b these line only develo rs-rcerlgifigl‘ marks “re-p;

months old Write for my plan— ' More Money from age.

0. 8. BENJAMIN, R, F, D, 10. Portland, Elohim





 





 





 





 





Albion Stampm Box I. Tecumseh. Mich.





Shortliom Callie oi both Sex lor Sale





W. W. KNAPP. Howell. chhigan.





llllll lllEll Efifi'ilifiéfilfi' mittens." .

J. B. HUMMELL. an. “1 HIGH.





:h. "I AND POLLED DURHAM. ’01 MI...

’ om Have red roan and white. luvs over I“

hand in herd. C. Carlson. Leroy. Mich.





--D iry or beei‘ bred. in“ steel

Slifl‘lhflms "3. for sale st farmers prise”. W. Dr...”





Secy. Cent. lick. Shorthorn Irecdm' Assn” leIrlde. lie.





 





 





 





"1H Sliortl-orns, man 3 year old. Bet,“ UM M

l "2 bull 3%. You .bnlls sud heifers.

DAVIDSON 5c HALL. T CUMSEH. MICHIGAN.





SHURTHORNS FOR SALE





8 Bulls, also females. W. B. McQu illan. Howell, Mich





 





 





HIGHIGAI HOLSTEINS





4 to 12’M0‘." World record sire. High

testing dams~from 899 up to $299. Let

us send you one on trial. You should

not buy until you get our book.





' Long Beach Farm,

AUGUSTA, (Kalamazoo Co.) MIOH.





Holstein Bulls





lto9months old. Dam's A. B. 0. . Our herd site i.

Johan-is McKinley Segis 3d. 7 nearest Dams ever-

sge 27.2. BLISSVELD‘I‘ FARMS, Jcnleon. Mich.





Holstein Calves. 10 heifers. end 2bulls IS-Eths pure





5 Weeks old, beautifully msrkedjfilm ea

(or shipment enywhsre. wood Firm. Ill “CL‘GTWis





l I Y

Mimi “slim:- aofi’tlzt’lmm". seem





 





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gnsrsnteed. W. B. Jones and J. F.Lutz. Cohortsh. Mich.





OR Sale-Jug. Short Horn Bulls by Msxwaiton

Monarch 2nd.s son ofAvondsle. from 11 to 13 mot-Lold

John Schmidt, Reed City. R. No. 5.. Michigan.





shlfllllflli Fll’ slli- zillliil’gg‘ldow‘lor Bfigk‘é‘llg.’

Write w. J. BELL. nose CITY. MIC GAN.





50 Herefords fifidfi"





EARL C. MCCARTY. and Are. Mlchi‘nn





Catlin? For Sale





Long; feeders s ingeosllls’yesfilgng muff! fAlso

can 0' you any mun 1' . nn ’0

000 to 1200 lbs. Issac Bhustum. mimeidflzv‘ia. it’ll?





NS ofGrsnd Champion mule Mich. State Fsir





1916 his 5 dams are so 60 lb. Butter '1 d . .

R. 0 Denis. rice right. John A. Rinke,Wurren?fiioli.





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Durocs and Victories





Heavy bone. lengthy Spri Bears and Gil

winners sired by one of tll‘egbest us of tlgfaolghgrli)?





 





so. nonsmms: Herd headed by Albina Bonte

B tte Dem's record at 6 yrs. butter





 





302 lbs. milk 13522 lbs.W. u, READER. Howell, Mich

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fender d: other noted strains. I. ’l‘. STORY. Lowell. Mich.





The Very Finest Berkshire Pi's Cheap





C. 8. BARTLETT. Propr. Pontiac. Mlchigsn





 





EESTEE WHITE Merci: pigs either sex. lBooking orders for

Sept. 1 pigs. 2 your old sow tin-rowed 9 pigs Sept. 5. Herd

boar is 2 yr. Old. Ship 0.0.1). W. A .Sneni'y.liltJ’lelisnntJlicthJ,





CHESIER llllFllEs 8°” “£3.23?fili..l’.ill‘1l‘..‘:"”“f"





. W. ALEXAND ER. Vassar. Mich.





 

 





 

 

 





 

 

 





 

 





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l'l lock For Sale-Ill Ago 0:

‘ Margarine. Mailed. i‘ ll tiny: lei ' I

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Grand Ledge. Mil-h





 





o I 0 end Chester White Swim}. all ages. A few

- - . service Boers end 0 en ilts. inn far‘l pigs

either sex. sired by Crendells on or. (irzind Champ—

ion at Ohio State Fair. schmlmafltf‘l‘ll’t‘i'llilllllllillluf

champions and hi host prii-c lli‘al' of the ln-m-d and

others. Get a sow red to Glillau'm l‘Tdd Grand Uliuui-

piou Mo. State fair. we are book i ng ordersvte had the;

undefeated breeders ago herd at six slate fairs. Get‘

our catalogue. buy the best it pays. w e lmvr them. We ship on

approval. Rolling Vieu Stock Farm. (‘sss City. Mich. R. 2





O. I. C. Stock all Sold

JULIAN P. CLAXTON. Ewart: Creek. ”00h:

o. L BIChoice 8 ring gilts not bred and sprin boars.





Onto! rizewinnlng stock. Vi'rite or low

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





 





 





0 | c Ewine and Reg. Holsteins. tewbour ‘plgs o!

' 0 0 Msv furrow et a reasonable rice.qunl ty con-

sidered. ELMER E. SMITH. Red lord, Michigan.





0 I 0’5 4 last fall boars big urowthy

. ’ ° 0 once, also last spring pigs

either sex not skin. Fsrm 36 mile West of ( epot.

Otto B. échulze. - — Nashville. Michigan





0. l. C. & Chester While





Strictly Big Tyfi.A ril boers large enough for ser-

risen also have ey ours. that are good once. (‘an

furnish in pairs not akin. He ve been breeding theblg

tvpe for 15 years. The kind that fill the rk barrel.

Newman's Stock Ferm. Mariette. mlrh. R. l.





0 I (:05 14ohoice young boars ready for service.

Q I 0





28mm to furrow in Oct. and open lzilta.

Cloverleaf Stock Farm. Monroe Mich. R. NA. I.





Breeders' Directory—Continued on page 541





 





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It Contains Chapters on





How to Have Healthy Hogs.



How to Avoid Losses at Farrowing Time.

Howato Save Your Lambs.



How to Feed and Care for Sheep.





 





 





 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

   

 

   

   

   





 

   

   

 





 





   

   

   

 





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”GS‘lmyel’ \ oondlhoner did ifégfierfig‘r 3:7 :fiep. They. did





not look good at the beginning of the

winter, but now they are looking fine."

R. J. MOFFETT, Holland, Minn.





Great for All Stock





“I have seen good results from feed-

ing SAL-VET, as my horses are now

‘ ' getting fat and sleek, m spite of the

fact that I’m working them hard. I



was greatly surprised to see a lot of

worms 4 inches long com-



ing away from my little

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P. L. KIRK.

Axtell, Kansas.





 

 

 

 

 

   





 

 

 





 





has saved farmers millions of dollars. It successfully rids stock of worms, aids diges-

tion, makes stock thrive better, prevents dangerous diseases—saves feed—saves you

money. It has rightly been called the “salvation of the. stock busmess in America.” I





The cheapest and Best Stock Remedy





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93. ‘ four pounds is 60 days’ treatment for each horse, mule or head of cattle. Fill out /

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10 lb. pkg ................

20 lb. pkg ................ 1 25

40 lb. pkg ............... 2 25

100 lb. pkg ................ 5 00

200 lb. pkg ................ 9.

300 lb. pkg ................ 13.00

lbs .................... 21.12





Dealers sell Sal-Vet at above

rices but in the far .West and

uth they charge a little more

on account of the extra freight

charges.





IEIEI SOLD ll Blllll

only in k es of above sizes

—uever m$35330:- by the pound.